Episode 39: Monkeys with Jobs

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You are in the treehouse. Time
to leave your rories outside and join us

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in the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley
along with Trey Trenholme. And because he

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just can't get enough of us,
or we just can't get enough of him,

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I'm not sure which, but let's
not fight it. Actor, comedian,

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and most importantly friend raj Arma,
Hey, raj Hey, Well it's

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a it's just can be now,
I can't. I don't know if the

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union will let me say after oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, the yeah.

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The whole SAG thing makes things a
little hairy as far as what you

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can and cannot do. I know
that I saw over the weekend with the

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Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild
both being on strike at the same time,

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I saw that SAG had said,
Okay, here's here's a list of

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things that actors you know, cannot
do, and there was some describe and

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see in there about you know,
can you do certain things like podcasting,

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and really that basically came out.
It was where I saw it was there

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was an article from Variety that listed
all these things that the SAG actors cannot

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do, and it included podcasting,
which was kind of nice. To be

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included. You're like, hey,
we made it to the big time.

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You do know what I thought was
interesting on that Variety list though it's nowhere

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on there did it say that that
they couldn't do radio appearances. So that's

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how much radio gets disrespected in the
industry. It's like, now, do

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all the radio you want. We
don't. We don't give a damn about

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that. But podcasting, no,
no, no, no, you shouldn't

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be doing that. But I think
it's your You can't do your own podcast

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that's monetized, right like you can
like I can be on this show,

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I just can't have mine. See, therein lies a couple of the discrepancies

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because Variety said, Okay, here's
all these things actors can't do, and

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the obvious stuff was there, like
you can't shoot a movie, you can't

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shoot a TV show, you can't
do a public appearance type stuff, and

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when it mentioned podcastings. But then
Sean Gunn, who is James Gunn's brother.

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James Gunn's the director of the Gardens
of the Galaxy movies, their most

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recent suit Squad, and he's also
the new co head of DC and he's

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doing the new Superman movie Anyway,
his brother Sean, who's done a lot

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all the movies with him, over
the weekend was like, this story's misleading.

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It's not that you can't do these
things. You just can't promote any

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projects that we're striking on basically.
So it's like you can you can do

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a podcast just to do a podcast, but you can't promote anything for it.

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Okay, so they revise that list. Yeah, so like you could

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have someone who's who's in the Oppenheimer
movie? Matt Is Matt Damon in it?

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Yeah, Matt Damon's in it,
all right, so you could have

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Matt damon On. You just can't
ask him about Oppenheimer. He's not going

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to promote Oppenheimer. But right,
you know, or if you wanted to

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have if you wanted to have the
Rock on your show. He couldn't necessarily

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promote any of his movies. Well, it might be a little harrier because

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he is also an executive producer.
As an actor, he wouldn't be able

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to promote a film like Fast in
the Furious, but he could promote his

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tequila. But he can promote TV
shows that are currently wrapped or movies that

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are rapped. I don't think they're
supposed to do any promotion. Maybe we

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should ask somebody. Yeah, but
even then, see, even even some

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of the people are confused. As
far as our our buddy, dear friend

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h tone Bell is on a new
uh Netflix show called Survival of the Thickest

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and it's great. Um, I've
been watching it, uh and it's fantastic.

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And he's but he's like, just
because we're on strite doesn't mean you

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can't watch TV. So I think
he promoted it that way, like,

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hey, just it's over, you
can watch stuff that we're on. We

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just can't. I guess it can't
um actively go out and pitch a show.

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That's I think, because I think
they're going into a season two.

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So that's what I thought. That's
what I kind of gleaned from it,

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is he can't you can talk about
pass projects that you've already done. I

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just don't think you can go,
Hey, I'm in the upcoming Fast and

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Furious fifty one. U So rocks
revenge, the Rocks revenge. Um.

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Yeah, And then and that's what
every tequila hangover who should be called it

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is just the Rocks revenge. That's
actually what Taramana stands for. The Rocks

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Revenge. Uh, and so that's
that's that's it is. It is kind

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of a confusing thing. So you
saw the initial story, what what actors

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can and can't do. The obvious
stuff is it's like, okay, well,

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if you're at the middle of our
project, boom you bounced because I

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saw I think, um a number
of actors bounced in the middle of things

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that they were doing. Like Carl
Urban, who has been in tons of

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things. I think he was I'm
not sure what he was currently shooting,

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but he's one of the main one
of the main guys in The Boys.

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He plays Butcher and the Boys,
And I saw a thing of him getting

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on a plane and like joining my
brothers and sisters and done shooting, goes

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round strike. Um. I heard
there were a couple of people promoting a

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movie like at a at a premiere. It might have been for Oppenheimer,

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like it was Blunt, Matt Damon
and Gillian Murphy, and right in the

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middle of it, they got word
that sag was on strike. So they

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all they all left their promotional stuff
like we're in the middle of it.

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They're like, no, we're done. They were, Yeah, they were

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at the London premiere, like on
the red carpet call came in and they

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all just got in their cars and
left and then just smoke and they were

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out. Um. Meanwhile, then
you had the Sean Gunn come out and

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say, Okay, we can we
can do these things, but we just

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can't. We can do some things, but we just can't promote certain things.

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And then I saw another thing.
I think it was a Yesterday and

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this made sense. It goes to
what you were saying, Raj about what

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tone Bell had said it because he
has this new episode or this new show

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on Netflix, so he's not allowed
to promote it as a card carrying SAG

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member. But someone else had posted
similarly, don't boycott things in support of

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the actors and the workers trying to
you know, you know, get what's

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fair. Um, instead keep watching
these things. So the numbers still show

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how important it is to have actual
creators as opposed to artificial intelligence or whatever

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and all this stuff. So it's
it's kind of confusing. It's like it

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depends on which side you fall on. It's like, well, do you

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do you you know, want to
support the actors by boycotting or Something's like

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no, keep watching their stuff.
They're just not going to promote things that

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put that line the pockets of the
people you know that are oppressing them.

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Yes, and apparently my uh my
um Netflix suggestions are are well received,

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so um such as but just one
person, I believe it's uh, your

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your step mom. Oh that's right, So Trey, you do you do?

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You have you met my stepmom Carol? She and my dad came to

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town years and years ago, and
of course I took them to the Loon

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to eat dinner once. Yeah,
and I met her, like I've met

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her one or two times yet.
So just want the Loon had food.

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Oh, the Loon had an amazing
food. It wasn't really known for its

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food, by the way, Yeah
it was, well, it was the

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drink. The drinks are what got
you in the door, and then the

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food is what kept you coming back
for more. No, it was still

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the strong drinks. It just happened
to be that the food was also really

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damn good. Okay, So anyway, so Trey, I don't think I've

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told you this, but I told
Raj very recently. Uh My stepmom Carol

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is a massive fan of the podcast. She loves it, and uh on

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the on a previous episode with Raj
where we talked about the American Gladiators documentary,

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Yes, which I've watched since So
it was my stepmom. She sent

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me a text. He's like,
She's like, oh my god, I

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love that. I love that American
Gladiators documentary. Tell Raj thinks for the

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recommendation. So I would like to
recommend you a survival of the Thickest.

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It's a great it's great, a
great show in our buddy Tone is on

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it. I still need to watch
uh Drink Masters where Tone is the host.

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Yes, Yes, that's it's really
nice too. So the sag stuff

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going on, it's striking and and
and I'm glad that you were able to

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still do The Rock, Raje.
I'm still glad you were able to still

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do the show. Um, I'm
I'll for you know, if they're if

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they're replacing, you know, if
if the Rock is on strike, I'll

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cross the line. I'll cross all
of it. I'll take all of his

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movies, I'll take all of his
I'll take all of his Tikia mind,

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whatever you need me to do.
It's not so much scatchy as it is

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is more like a proxy. Yeah, it's the Rock the raj. We'll

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figure it out. Well, yeah, do what he was going to make?

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Oh kidding, isn't this the wildest
time in the world that we're living

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And he's the highest paid actor in
Hollywood. I've been making that up.

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He is the most. I will
say his acting has gotten much better over

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the twenty plus years he's been doing
it. Yeah, I you know what,

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it's it's my new back to the
future. Anytime Central Intelligence is on

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with him and Kevin Hart, I
have to watch it. It's so good.

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I have seen it. I will
admit I watched it and I liked

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it. It was good, and
maybe it was something special about seeing the

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Rock and George I don't know.
Just the sheer size of him next to

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Kevin is hilarious to me. I'm
still surprised that they were not picked to

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do and maybe they did. At
one point they were talked about doing a

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Twins reboot with the two of them. They did, Yeah, they did.

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I think I think they The Rock
has to executive produce everything now,

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Oh yeah, I think they couldn't
get the rights to do it where he

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could be I think he would just
be the actor, just be an actor

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in it, and oh, I
see, that's what the hiccup was.

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So I understand. I guess some
people give him flak for that. I

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don't know why. To me,
it's the same thing in the music industry.

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It's like who was it um uh
in in on the rap side of

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things in the industry, where they
were like own your master's own your master's

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own your masters, and that's something
that's a huge thing in the music industry.

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But as far as owning your owning
your own music, because what happens

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is these recording labels will sign an
artist and they're going to own what you

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produce, and that's sort of the
standard initial thing. It's a massive thing.

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It's a huge undertaking for an artist
to acquire the rights to their own

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stuff. And so to me,
in movies, it's a similar thing.

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If you find yourself in a position
to have your own production company and executive

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produce your own projects, putting yourself
in it, then you're double dipping,

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which is what you should do.
You should be on the controlling side and

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your creative side if you want to
end if you're able. Yeah, I

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think a lot of people don't realize. Before she passed away a Finnish shakorp

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got Tupac masters because Suge Knight owned
them. So when and here's the craziest

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part about that is Tupac didn't even
know that he didn't own his own stuff.

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So she found out after he passed
that money stopped a minute he passed,

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the money stopped coming to his estate. It all started going to Sugu

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Night, uh, And that's when
they found out he didn't own. So

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when you saw, you know,
sug standing behind Tupaca, like when in

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Tupac's got all one hundred dollar bills
and look like that. The car was

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in Sugar's name, the house was
in Sugar's name, everything was in Sugu

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Knight's name. And Tupac didn't even
know. Yeah, because he is funneling

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money to him. He was like, here's yeah, done that to doctor

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Dre too. I believe he had
all his masters too. But you know

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the funny thing about that. Do
you remember when Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney

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did Dandy. You know the story, so I don't think so, all

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right, Michael Jackson is young at
the time and he is talking to Paul

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McCartney about you know, obviously Paul
McCartney's one of the few people who could

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ever understand the fame that Michael Jackson
experience, and so Paul McCartney gave him

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advice. He's like, you know, one of the great investments you can

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make is is by the masters you
know of of artists, and you own

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the rights to those songs for forever. Do whatever you want with him.

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So they got done, and Michael
Jackson goes and buys the Beatles cat Beatles

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Catalog. Paul McCartney never spoke to
him again. Yeah, So that he

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was. He was. They were
talking about publishing rights, like exactly what

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Trey said, and he's like,
there's uh an auction coming up where the

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Beatles catalog and Paul's like, I'm
I'm gonna I'm gonna buy him. He's

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like, oh, okay, sounds
good. Any outbid Paul McCartney. That

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is that is that is one hell
of a flex to be able to have

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not only the money, but ironically
enough with Michael Jackson, the balls to

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to say I'm gonna take this information
you've given me and I'm not only going

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to run with it, I'm going
to lap you with it, and I'm

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gonna buy your stuff and every time
you sing, you pay me. And

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that also makes me wonder what the
other four Jacksons are like how much is

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he worth? The other guys are
like, how are we not? How

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did we not get any of this? And that's how you end up having

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a fantasy land on your property at
your house? Yeah, who is a

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who is the first? They said
Eddie Murphy the first time he went and

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uh, he sitting in the living
room and apparently a couple of giraffe walked

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by. He didn't know that there
was like like there was like a wildlife

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preserve. Was that his inspiration for
writing coming to America? I don't know,

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because that's that's that's one of like
the opening scene in the film is

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when it's James Earl Jones and Eddie
Murphy walking through the yard of their you

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know, their their kingdom or whatever
that makes sense now and the elephant walks

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by and Eddie Murphy just casually goes
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sense. But he was just he
does this great interview about it. What

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he's just sitting in the living room
waiting for like Michael doesn't open the door,

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right, so you because people bring
him in the monkey Butler does of

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course Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles. No,
actually, you know, it wouldn't be

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Bubbles because Bubbles was like, what's
Michael Jackson's personal monkey friend? So I

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guess Bubbles. I guess he'd have
a separate monkey. Butler like like Bubbles

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uncle or something like Bubbles is down
on his luck uncle recovering or something,

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he needed a job. It's it's
it's Germaine's Monkey. Yeah, and he's

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sitting in there. It's like,
you know, you have like I don't.

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I don't know why I felt the
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you know, there there was a
couple of drafts just walk by and he's

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like, yeah, I know,
like that was like it was just a

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Tuesday. It's like, I'm just
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it's gonna be the you know,
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gonna be you know, you know, two you know, cassowaries or ostriches.

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And basically Michael Jackson had enough money
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but all the animals in it.
It's MJ's arc. Yeah, So I

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mean it's one thing. It's one
thing to have. Uh. It's one

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thing to be able to say,
oh, I'm so rich, I've got

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you money. It's another thing to
say I've got God money. Yeah,

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yeah, that's uh. Yeah.
I want, I want, I want

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monkey Butler money. That's I just
want. I'm buying. I'm buying my

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lottery tickets. You don't want to
buy two. You just want one.

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I just don't want one monkey Butler. That's it. And I just want

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you to get so used to it
that when he doesn't open the door,

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you're like, what the monkey butler
is? There's this day all like,

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what's I just kind of figured he
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I like I like the idea of
not being so greedy that you need,

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you know, an entire zoo in
your home. You just want the one

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monkey butler. I think for me, though, I don't. I don't

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want to be so bougie as to
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for the house. But I feel
like I would be bougie enough to,

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you know, to have the few
money to where I have a really cool

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yacht, but I have a monkey
captain. You're listening to the Treehouse.

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Visit us online that Treehouse on air
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the outfit. It's so much better. It's so much better than a butler's

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outfit. You got the little hat. I mean, come on, it

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would have changed Gilligan's Island. Let's
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three Cook DFW. I'll admit it
rode. As soon as you mentioned monkey

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butler, I started thinking about different
occupations for the monkeys and what I would

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what I would want, and I
was like, oh as soon as I

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got as soon as I got the
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the captain's hat and at the helm
of the load, I was like,

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oh, yeah, yeah, I'm
gonna I'm gonna stick this in there like

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I wanted to, Like, I
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I want it to be so so
normal that he's at the helm of the

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yacht, but we don't that.
Nobody even as we walk by, We're

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just like Glenn and just keep walking
like that. Nobody's calling. You would

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name the assuming that you would name
the monkey Glen, but it was like

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Glenn, how are and just keep
walking and yeah, no, that makes

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it. It's it's sort of like
it's sort of like giving a dog,

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like a like a human name,
like like you call your dog Bob,

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or in this case, you call
the monkey, you know, Glenn,

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but you gotta keep him. I
got a better one. I'm gonna call

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him, gonna call the monkey,
uh Captain Ron. So that way when

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I go past, when I when
I go through and see him at the

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helm, I can, I can, I can salute him and say Captain

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Ron. He salutes him back.
It's the greatest. And that's how you

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know somebody's new to the yacht because
when they're like, hey, do you

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know there's a monkey, like,
uh, yeah, that's Ron. Yeah,

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what are you talk about? That
would be that would be the ship's

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orientation for any guests. Like let's
say that even though they're five billion dollars

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in debt, iHeart. Let's say
on a Wild Hair wants to rent a

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yacht for the week to go to
France and promote a dumb podcast. I'd

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be more than happy to rent them
my yacht that they can take, But

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I'm not going to give them the
heads up about the monkey captain. I'm

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just simply going to refer to the
captain in the paperwork as his respected title

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and name, which would be Captain
Ron. So that way, when Bob

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Pittman or Rich Brestler, the CEO
and CEOO of iHeart, walk onto the

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bridge, all they see is Captain
Ron and they're obviously expecting a human because,

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let's base it, they're full of
stereotypes. Instead, instead they get

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they get a chimpanzee wearing a captain's
hat and no pants, and he's standing

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there at the helm waiting, like
waiting for the salute, because we're not

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going anywhere until you recognize the rank. Well, at least they build identify.

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I guess you know monkeys see an
iceberg and just get a big smile

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on his face. You're used to
this, aren't you. Yeah? Absolutely

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yeah. If there's something I heart, executives are used to its heading straight

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for icebergs this is the best episode
of Life Below Deck ever. How awesome

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would that be? Because, first
of all, I've never seen that show.

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I hate that show, but I've
never seen it. I have no

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interest in it whatsoever. But if
they were to do a surprise switchero and

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all the all the Life below Deck
cast members were replaced with monkeys, I

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would watch that. Just imagine the
unsuspecting guests, like, what happened to

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the what happened to the hot crew? Where's everybody? I'm here to meet

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Ron? Meanwhile, it's it's the
chimpanzee in the corner is blowing up inflatables,

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getting the scooby and the snorkel gear
ready, Captain Ron, keeping everybody

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in shape? U I would?
I would? Yeah? I want,

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I want now, I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket for

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you. And I think tonight's just
nine hundred million dollars? Is that what

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it's up to the powerball Jesus?
Yeah, so I need to play that.

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Yeah, and we usually all play. If one of us wins,

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we have to we have to employ
the monkeys. If one of us wins,

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the nine million dollars will do a
quick pact right now, if one

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of us wins the nine hundred million
dollars, we then uh fund the other

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two people on the show right now, So that way everyone's comfy and you

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know, whoever wins still gets the
most money, obviously, but at least

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at least the other two are comfy
to where then we can just do whatever

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the hell we want. And if
we want to do a podcast where the

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hell of it we can, or
if we don't want to, we don't

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have to. But if we want
to do it, you know from our

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new yacht with with the Monkey Crew, we could we could totally, we

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could totally do that too, And
I just want to if I could throw

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in, like every week on the
podcast, Captain Ron has to be a

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guest, even though he doesn't say
anything, doesn't have to just him what

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does he do? You'll see that's
what he Hey, you know, you

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got a really good punchline. If
all of a sudden, Captain Ron starts

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laughing, yeah, it's a great
Sphie starts talking, Oh oh god,

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I just imagine your punchline is so
good that Captain Ron starts belly laughing like

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crazy. But then he's so uncontrollable. He starts throwing his own shit around

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the room. That's a good episode. That's when the music starts playing.

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That's when that's the hard out and
end of show and clean up crew which

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we will not give charged. Can
I quickly plug my August fourth and fifth

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shows? Oh yeah, absolutely,
I saw I saw you post that,

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uh just the other day on Instagram, that you've got a whole tour that

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you're getting started up. Yes,
it's very cool. The whole of viral

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thing is really kind of cool.
So going virals is it's before getting paid.

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Yeah, it's like people are sending
me free stuff, which is kind

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of cool. Um, uh,
socks, I got socks coming. I

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have a candy company that's sending me
a whole gift. I'm like, you

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haven't seen my act, Like I
don't know what you're basing this swag off

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of, but thank you. Um
and then yeah, so I got starting

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August fourth and fifth at the Dallas
Comedy Club. Tickets are already like,

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tickets are already selling. Like there's
a singles group that's make that's making it

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a vent out of it. Uh, so get your tickets now before because

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there's fifteen hundred people in this singles
group. Nice, So you're doing stand

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up slash matchmaking now, uh,
you know the Indian of me that wants

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to arrange the matter just you just
can't help it. I can't help.

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But I want I want everybody to
to be married to and to watch my

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stand up. But yeah, we
got uh August uh in in in Texas,

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August fourth and fifth, Innlyst,
the sixteenth in Houston, the twentieth

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in San Antonio. And then I
posted this thing. I'm like, hey,

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does you know tell me what cities
to come to because my agent was

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like, ask your Instagram followers like
where they want to see a performer.

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We'll just do this whole September October
fall tour. And the response is cool,

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man. I got a couple of
people from like, uh Barcelona like

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okay, that's weird. That's weird, but okay. And then somebody's like,

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hey, how about um Brazil.
I'm like, I don't know if

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my I don't know if there's Indian
people in Brazil. I don't know how

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it works. I don't know if
we're in novelty, but I will come

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and then yeah, and then offers
started coming in I just looked at the

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I just looked to my phone when
we just went to a little break and

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some some more offers coming in for
and it's really cool. It's based off

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on Instagram, and uh, it's
weird. I'm not gonna lie. I'm

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enjoying it. You should. I'm
enjoying it. It's just super like,

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hey, can we send you candy? And I'm like, yeah, do

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you think I'm gonna eat it?
No? I remember years ago I was

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working with Brian Reagan and he uh
as church groups that come out because he's

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one hundred percent clean comic and he's
brilliant. Yes, all these church groups

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come in and they bring in these
sweet old ladies will bring in like pupcakes

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and cookies and you Karen all the
stuff, and I just remember being I

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was only there's the last time he
did the improv. He went to theaters

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after this. But we I walk
in to the back and he's standing there.

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I mean it's every part, every
every table, every side table is

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covered in some sort of baked good
and I grab a cookie and I remember

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going to eat it and he slaps
the sh out of my hand like the

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cookie goes fly and I'm like,
oh my bad, h that's for you

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clearly, and he's like, no, you can eat it. Do you

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know who made it? I was
like no, He's like exactly, so

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I don't know what happened to him
in the past. But he had to

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look on his face like go for
it at your own risk. And I

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go, well, what do you
do with all this stuff? He goes,

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I'll show you, and he went
into the kitchen and he grabbed the

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industrial brash can and just kind of
shoveled it all into the trash. I

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was like, oh my god.
Really, He's like, no, I

402
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.440
have no idea who. It's very
sweet that they do that. I don't

403
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:02.839
know who's made it. That was
actually something we had to contend with quite

404
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.440
a bit doing doing the radio show, because people would bring us stuff all

405
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.720
the time, and that included food. They brought food a lot, which

406
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.559
was very very It was sweet.
It was there a few times where a

407
00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.759
food delivery did happen, but we
didn't typically eat it because we didn't know

408
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:22.920
who actually brought it. We may
not have known the person who made it

409
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.200
or brought it, so we trusted
food that came from people we trusted.

410
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:33.039
We trusted sealed the bottles of liquor, you know, because as long as

411
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.640
as long as that seals not broken, we'll trust that. Um. But

412
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.960
like homemade foods, we wouldn't we
wouldn't typically touch because we were we didn't

413
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:42.160
know who, we didn't know what
people put it in there. They may

414
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.880
think that they may think it's hysterical
to put some acid in these cookies or

415
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.359
something worse, just to hear what
their favorite show would sound like, you

416
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.200
know, you know, dripping on
acid during drive time. There's so much

417
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.359
about those years you don't remember,
but that I do. And I remember

418
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:02.279
there was tacos in the breakroom at
the time, and you would typically go

419
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:07.119
get like coffee or whatever it was. So I would every time I'd walk

420
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.640
in, I usually Cat would catch
you, like on the way into the

421
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:12.599
studio like that's what we'd kind of
meat in the hallway. You know,

422
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:15.759
you kind of were chuckling and you're
like, there's tacos in there if you

423
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.000
want them. And I was like, oh, okay, and it's late

424
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:21.279
and you know, starting out comic
and I'm like, you know what,

425
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:26.920
I can go for free food.
I just remember also was going, uh,

426
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:30.200
don't do that to him, and
I was like what And he's like,

427
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:30.799
man, we don't know who made
him, but they're there if you

428
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.200
want him. I'm like, you
left him in the breakroom, like you

429
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.400
literally went, somebody will eat it. It just kept walking at me.

430
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.359
It's true, someone would eat it. We really weren't. Weren't true who

431
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:42.519
would Who was gonna eat it?
It was probably gonna be a you know,

432
00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:48.000
starving board op. But and it's
not like it's not like I was

433
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.079
rolling in dough at that time,
but I I had just enough money.

434
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.480
Uh, And I was just like
I'm not gonna eat that. Yeah,

435
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.799
I just but you will. But
you did offer, which was hilarious.

436
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:04.680
You're like, we're not going to
eat it, Let's see what happens when

437
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.359
you do. And that's why you
don't trust people with the food they go

438
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:15.799
offer you. A valuable lessons learned. I thought we were just sharing,

439
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.359
like, oh, this is the
nicest radio show ever. They're like,

440
00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:22.160
hey, have dinner with us,
like late like late night supper with us.

441
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:24.759
You're just going, let's see if
he eats. That's exactly what it

442
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:28.359
was. I think I even had
it on my notes, like what will

443
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.720
rage eat the break room taco Let's
see if if you start tripping balls a

444
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.079
second segment, We're just gonna go
live, so fast forward like like ten,

445
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:44.240
twelve, fifteen years. We're at
iHeart Radio and the break room there's

446
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:53.039
uh some mystery tacos and burritos,
and and that's exactly what they were.

447
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.400
We didn't know where they were from, right and then, and we told

448
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:00.839
the story on the are a handful
of times and he absolutely hates it.

449
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.839
And I don't blame him because his
name has been forever tainted. So Jay

450
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.119
Shannon at the time, who was
a new program director at iHeartRadio, had

451
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:16.559
just taken over the Edge and he
goes into the breakroom one time, and

452
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:23.519
Alfie and the other guy or their
their cubicles were right there next to the

453
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:28.880
breakroom, and they witnessed Jay Shannon
come around the corner, go into the

454
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:36.279
breakroom and he sees these these random
burritos and tacos. There's no marking on

455
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:44.799
the rappers or anything. But he's
curious enough and apparently hungry enough that he

456
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:49.359
grabs one of those random burritos and
he takes it back to his office and

457
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.880
he eats it. What he thought
was in peace. But in reality,

458
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.279
to this day, he is still
known as Jay Shannon the random burrito Eater,

459
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:06.039
because we told that story on the
air that day, and at some

460
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:09.400
point, someone I don't know who
really wouldn't be had taken a photo of

461
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:14.480
him and random burrito and photos shopped
him and put him together and slapped all

462
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:20.559
these flyers up around the iHeart Studio
offices as Jay Shannon random Burrito scarfing down

463
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:25.400
a random burrito. And and and
that's how most listeners still know who Jay

464
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:31.079
Shannon is, because he's the random
burrito eater. That's wild. I've not

465
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:36.360
ever been I think that hungry.
I'm like, I don't know where it's

466
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:40.239
from, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
chance at burrito. There was there was

467
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:45.920
there was one person that there was
one person that I actually trusted to bring

468
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:50.840
food. Um. And this is
when I was working at the Fan with

469
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.280
Sean Salisbury in the afternoons. We
had to do lots of live remotes,

470
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.920
not as many as some of the
sports stations do, but because they'll why

471
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:07.400
the hell they ever make the musers
do a McDonald's remote on like a Wednesday

472
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.519
morning. I heard this once they
were doing a remote at McDonald's some random

473
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:16.039
McDonald's, and I think in the
mid Cities, their entire show live and

474
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.079
McDonald's. You're talking about one of
the one of the most successful shows in

475
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.360
the country and there and they're loving
them out to Mickey D's breakfast. Anyway,

476
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.719
John Salisbury and I were at Rangers
game for a live broadcast and the

477
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.079
Rangers. If you ever watched Rangers
games on TV, there was the Cookie

478
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.320
Lady. The Cookie Lady was this
very sweet lady. She made cookies almost

479
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.760
every game and she would bring them
to the broadcast team. So like Tom,

480
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.880
Tom Grieve and whoever else was in
the broadcast booth, they always got

481
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:52.360
cookies delivered from the Cookie Lady,
and I felt very much in the club.

482
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.960
The first time Salisbury and I are
out and they're like a little remote

483
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.519
truck outside the stadium and she walks
by and she hands us cookies. I

484
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.159
was like, I feel like I've
I feel like I've kind of reached a

485
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.639
new pinnacle of my career. I've
now been offered a cookie from the Cookie

486
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.639
Lady. Her I trusted, and
I ate her cookies because that's a sweet

487
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.519
old lady. May she rest in
peace. I hope had nothing to do

488
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:19.559
with the cookies. But her cookies
I trusted, and I'm still here that

489
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:25.199
forbid she was poisoning her own cookies. I don't know what. I assume

490
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:30.400
natural causes. Okay, well,
I mean or there was another or there

491
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:32.880
was there was a cookie burrow that
wouldn't too elbow was way into the market.

492
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.039
I don't know. But the saddest
thing about the whole thing with the

493
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:42.679
radio station is, you know,
people will leave food in the break room

494
00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.800
and it would be you know,
like vultures and like Dan said, but

495
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:49.480
because it didn't have a label on
it, everyone you know, raised an

496
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:53.079
eyebrow. But you know, some
guy could have you know, crapped in

497
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:57.599
a tortilla, wrapped it and foil
and then gone and stolen a Chipotle bag

498
00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.679
and put it on the air,
and everyone been like, oh, hell

499
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:05.480
yeah, Chipotle, you throw a
little rice in there. And you may

500
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:13.000
not know the difference visually. If
you visually may not know the difference,

501
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:17.280
I would know. I say that
as a massive Chipotle fan. I've never

502
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.880
had it, so I I uh, I would I would, I would

503
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:30.800
be safe, I would not venture
into the I'll take your rage. I'll

504
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:34.760
take you so that way you're not
intimidated or overwhelmed by the experience. I'll

505
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.920
pass. It's just there's it's like
subway, but with for Mexican food.

506
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:39.960
Like I don't understand, Like I
don't understand that this is why, this

507
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:43.079
is why you need to go,
so so you can understand it. So

508
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.320
if you want to make fun of
it in the future, you at least

509
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.639
have you know, that's the thing. I never I never make fun of

510
00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.519
it. I've just I've never had
it just doesn't look like so you don't

511
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.039
like Taco Bell. No, No, I mean I grew up on Tacoo.

512
00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.880
Okay, but rage may look into
two people and he may be Indian

513
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.679
to a certain extent, but he's
an American from Mesquite. The man's the

514
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.000
man's the man. The man knows
Taco Bell. If you, uh,

515
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:12.239
if you told im, I can, I can almost guarantee this. If

516
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.440
you said to Indian people like tomorrow, uh, note just for one day,

517
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:22.760
no Indians in the US eat Taco
Bell. They'd close. That's that's

518
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.559
the only thing. Like when my
dad was vegetarian, so like that was

519
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.440
like that was his like when when
that opened, uh in Mesquite, when

520
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:35.719
there was a Taco Bell that opened, it was like but God had answered

521
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:40.559
his prayers. Uh. Like he
that was ever like his his thing was

522
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.000
u to to toast out his and
a bean burrito. And that guy was

523
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:50.400
like literally like in heaven. Uh. And he still felt like it was

524
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.880
God answering his prayers. After he
ate it hundred percent, he's like this

525
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:57.960
is so good because his own we'd
go to McDonald's as a kid, all

526
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.159
he could have was fries. Oh
yeah, that's it. And then not

527
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:08.039
even then McDonald started doing this so
for vegetarian, like I promise you it

528
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:12.480
was for Indians. They are the
only ones that can say they're I think

529
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:14.639
one of the only ones that can
say that there are French fries are gluten

530
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:20.639
free because there's no cross contamination because
they have dedicated friars for just they don't

531
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.519
they don't mix the nuggets in with
the fries. And when my dad found

532
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.480
out, like, oh my,
you can have the fries, it's not

533
00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:30.920
mixed in with the meat. It
was I remember like going to McDonald's get

534
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.559
fries and going to Taco Bell to
get a burrito, and like that man

535
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.880
was in fast food heaven. It
probably led to his claturable bypass, but

536
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:45.400
still was that was that still got
answering prayers or when he came through,

537
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.840
it's like, see, prayers have
been answered. Let's go to Taco Bell.

538
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.400
I'm like, I don't know if
you're supposed to do that again.

539
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.239
I don't know if that's so.
So here's here's what we're gonna do.

540
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.079
Because because I'm still in town,
like way haven't gone back to Saint Thomas

541
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:00.800
yep. So while I'm here,
I've already had way too much Chipotle because

542
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:05.440
I can get it quickly and healthy
for the most part. But I'm gonna

543
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.559
use that as a tease going into
our final segment today because I want to

544
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.400
take you to Chipotle because along with
Chipotle, there's been some other things that

545
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:19.039
I have missed that I've been taking
advantage of of of being back in back

546
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:23.440
home in Dallas. Okay, So
I'm I'm gonna take you, raj I

547
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.599
do you can take Do I have
to eat it? You know, you

548
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.079
don't have to do. You don't
have to. You can actually just sit

549
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:36.920
there and you can just watch me
eat slowly while they make contact. You

550
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.960
are listening to the Treehouse. So
I'm gonna line that treehouse on air dot

551
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:52.800
com. Time now to welcome into
the treehouse. Daniel Cook from Cook DFW

552
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:57.400
Roofing and Restoration the phone number eight
three three Cook DFW, the website Cook

553
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.000
dfw dot com. You know,
one of the most important services you offer,

554
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.800
Daniel, is a free roof inspection. It's amazing, one of the

555
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:08.280
most important services you offer you actually
give away for free. But that's because

556
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:12.719
with all the storms coming and going
as a homeowner, you don't really know

557
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:15.480
what shape your roof is in.
No, Dan, you're right, and

558
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.239
we get on some roofs and people
are shocked to find out the pictures that

559
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.239
we bring back down and show them. You know, did you know you

560
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.280
had this, or did you see
that the part of your chimney was coming

561
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:28.639
off, or did you know that
you had a boot that had, you

562
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:30.599
know, blown off of one of
your pipe jacks, and so all of

563
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:34.800
these things are critical to the integrity
of the roof, and people do not

564
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:38.960
take the chances to go up on
their own roof hopefully, and we need

565
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:42.559
and we don't want you to.
So that's why you need us to come

566
00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:44.800
out. We're gonna walk that roof. We're gonna get up there. We're

567
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.119
gonna give you some pictures, We're
gonna give you a report and show you

568
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:51.679
exactly what you need to have done
on your roof to protect your home because

569
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.280
you do not want to have a
leak in the middle of the night or

570
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:58.320
the next rain storm that comes through. And figure out why I wish I

571
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.639
had checked that roof before something like
this had happened, because I'm telling you,

572
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:04.920
these water damages are big. Use
that phone number to get ahold of

573
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:08.639
COOKEDFW Roofing and restoration and schedule that
free roof inspection for yourself right now.

574
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:15.280
Eight three three cook DFW eight three
three cook DFW or cookedfw dot com is

575
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:22.039
online a treehouse fire dot com.
And now let's get Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing

576
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.519
into the treehouse. The phone number
two one four three six eight thirty eight

577
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:30.880
thirty eight the website Rooks Plumbing Texas
dot com. So, Jacqueline, one

578
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:35.400
of the things that we hate in
the treehouse is gimmicks, whatever it is

579
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.920
that contractors try to use to sucker
people. And that's not something you do

580
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:43.280
at Brooks Plumbing. Yeah, definitely
not. And honestly, I'm a homeowner

581
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:47.239
and I am balling on a budget. You know, life is expensive right

582
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.239
now, and so I believe that
being an educated consumer is one of the

583
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.119
best things you can do for yourself. And what I always tell my friends

584
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:58.000
in my family is that at a
certain point, you are just paying for

585
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:02.000
a brand name, not necessarily a
higher quality product. So let me give

586
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:07.159
you an example. I'll have people
call me all the time and they'll say,

587
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.320
I just called XYZ Plumbing and asked
for a quote to get a fifty

588
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.800
gallon water heater installed, and they
said they had to come out and look

589
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.079
at it to give me a quote. That's true, but it's not true.

590
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.199
You know, if you have a
fifty gallon gas water heater, I

591
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.960
can pretty much tell you exactly to
the penny what it's going to cost for

592
00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:30.840
me to furnish and install a new
one for you, barring any unseen obstacles

593
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:34.920
like maybe you have a really old
house and you have an asbestos vent and

594
00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.320
we need to take that out and
put you in a new one. But

595
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:42.400
most plumbing companies should and are able
to flat rate price stuff for you.

596
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.320
Now here's the catch that goes with
that. Sometimes as consumers we get really

597
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:49.599
tied up because we're familiar with a
brand name. Like, if you think

598
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.280
about a water heater, you can
probably name one brand off the top of

599
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.679
your head. But sometimes things happen
and your contractor is going to say,

600
00:43:57.079 --> 00:43:59.519
yeah, it's a brand that's been
around a really long time, but I'm

601
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.400
suggesting you go with ABC. So, for example, my favorite brand of

602
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.440
water heater is actually called Bradford White, which most people haven't heard of.

603
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.280
And I know there's plumbers that listen
to this podcast that don't don't work for

604
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.360
me because they've they've talked to come
and talk to me about it. Shout

605
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.039
out to my friends at Riddelle Plumbing. But if I want to put it

606
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:19.519
in my house, and I want
to put it in my rental houses,

607
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.280
and I trust it to operate properly
and not flood my house or explode,

608
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:28.000
then I'm not going to put something
bad in your house. So if we

609
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.760
are trying to steer you away for
a specific from a specific brand, and

610
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.559
I'm delicately dancing around a name,
because there's one very well known brand water

611
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:39.159
heater that since about twenty twenty,
has had a lot of recalls on it

612
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:44.599
and they haven't advertised it not the
way that they should, and a lot

613
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:46.760
of plumbers have stopped putting those in. You might ask for it, and

614
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.840
we'll just outright saying no, because
we know we'll be back within a year

615
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:54.000
and we know exactly what problem you're
going to have. So if somebody's not

616
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:58.679
willing to quote you up front,
at least a ballpark, they want to

617
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:00.960
come to your house. They want
to upsell you something, and they've got

618
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:05.039
to see what they can upsell you. The other thing is is that if

619
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.840
your license contractor says, please,
don't make me put this in your house,

620
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:12.039
here's why they're telling you. For
a reason. They don't want to

621
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.119
come back and have a problem at
your house. They want you to get

622
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:20.760
the good quality thing the first time
and not experience any problems. So I

623
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.679
know that this was a dramatica a
dramatica advertisement for me today. But don't

624
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:28.440
let people trick you by telling you
they can't quote you. Some things you

625
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:30.679
can't. But a garbage disposal is
a garbage disposal. Your is not magical.

626
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.199
It's either a half horse power or
three quarters horse power. You don't

627
00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:37.239
have like an eighty horse power garbage
disposal. We can quote it for you.

628
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:40.199
Don't let people give you the runaround. Exactly that, don't let people

629
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:43.440
give you the run around. You
want to contract or in your home,

630
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:46.320
a company that you can trust.
I love being able to ask the contractor

631
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:51.440
what would you do if this was
your house? What would you put in

632
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:55.119
here? And I love that recommendation, and that's why I love Brooks Plumbing.

633
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Here in the treehouse, give them
a call two one four three six

634
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eight thirty eight thirty eight or Brooks
Plumbing Texas dot com. We're listening to

635
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the Treehouse. Visit us online that
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636
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the Treehouse is brought to you by
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637
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dot com. Their phone number two
one four three six eight thirty eight thirty

638
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eight. That's two one four three
six eight thirty eight thirty eight. For

639
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any and all of your plumbing once
and needs, call our friends at Brooks

640
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Plumbing website again Brooks Plumbing Texas dot
com. Um so raging, So I

641
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:49.679
want to I want to take you
to Chipotle, but I'm not gonna make

642
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:54.039
you eat. Okay, but being
it's weird, so so living on St.

643
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:59.480
Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
Living really anywhere where you've moved away

644
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.920
from home, and you know I
lived in Dallas, I should be more

645
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:07.119
accurate, I lived in Dallas Fort
Worth because I really did live all around

646
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.599
DFW at various points in my life, Dallas County, Tarrant County, Collin

647
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.519
County, all of it. Um. I mean, I mean I lived

648
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:22.320
there for like thirty years, over
thirty years, and so moving away was

649
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:28.360
an interesting set of circumstance. It
was an interesting set of circumstance challenges all

650
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:32.199
those things. Excuse me, I'm
burpingum, But when you moved to an

651
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:37.159
island, you then have to reor
not readjust you have to adjust to that

652
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:43.159
lifestyle because you're on an island.
Literally you can't get everything that you're used

653
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:52.440
to getting back in the States,
whether it's groceries or you know, anything,

654
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:55.440
Like I can't just I can't just
go to the grocery store and automatically

655
00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:59.480
get the exact thing I'm looking for
because I may go to the grocery store

656
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.079
and it may not come in come
in on the boat that day, I

657
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:07.519
may not be able to find.
Yeah, on an island, when when

658
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:10.840
you go to the grocery store.
You're not going to the store. You're

659
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:15.599
going to the grocery stores because you
have to hit two or three different places

660
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.119
sometimes to find everything on your list, because one place may be out of

661
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:23.840
it, the next place may have
it, and that place may not have

662
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:27.519
the thing that the other place has. So now it's kind of like a

663
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.559
half a day thing. So coming
back to coming back to DFW for you

664
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:38.119
know, a month has been really
good in some ways, but also bad

665
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:42.239
because when you move away, there's
things. Okay, there's things I miss,

666
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.320
there's things I don't miss. One
of the things I that I immediately

667
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:52.159
did not miss is all the highways. It's all like like there's there's there's

668
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:57.280
nothing scenic about North Texas. Like
hill Country has hill country. It's kind

669
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.360
of nice, right, I mean
it's hill country. It's got hills.

670
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:02.960
Um uh, you know, the
Texas coast has water. I mean Texas

671
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.800
has some really pretty vistas, right
well, North Texas is basically a void

672
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:10.840
of vistas, with the exception of
like the Cedar Hill area. Everything's just

673
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.280
kind of flat and everything's concrete.
So I don't I don't miss that,

674
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:20.519
um but I do miss I do
miss having all the food at my fingertips,

675
00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:24.079
like because there's no Chipolt laying on
on Saint Thomas. There's there's a

676
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.079
couple of Windy's, there's a couple
of McDonald's, but they don't have all

677
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.559
the same things that those places have
here in North Texas. Yeah. I

678
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:35.320
can't tell you how many times I've
I've I've I've gone try to go through

679
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:38.320
like the Windy's drive through and and
just try to get a grilled chicken sandwich

680
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:42.840
because the grilled chicken sandwich and Windis
is actually pretty good. Um, but

681
00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:45.400
they never have it. It's basically
burger, no burger, they don't.

682
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:50.559
And then and they don't have the
chili there either. Oh and I've never

683
00:49:50.639 --> 00:50:00.039
had the Windy's chili. But it's
a big seller. It's good. That

684
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:04.880
should be the slogan, but you
have to say it with the shrug,

685
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.440
you know, it's like it's good. One of the surprising things. It's

686
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:13.079
actually pretty solid. Yeah, you
wouldn't typically think that that a selling point

687
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:16.400
for any restaurant would be fast food
chili. But but they have the because

688
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:21.960
the nuggets are solid. They've they've
got those. Yep. They just don't

689
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.519
have a grilled chicken sandwich not on
the island, so they have one in

690
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:27.639
Texas. You can get ones and
like I said, it's pretty good,

691
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.400
but they don't have it in the
island. Um. Other things. It's

692
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:31.639
like, I actually made a list
because the other day I was I was

693
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.599
sitting around, was kind of bored. I was like, Okay, these

694
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:38.679
are things I miss about being in
Texas and there are some things I don't

695
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:44.960
miss. Um. One of the
I mentioned grocery stores when we when we

696
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:50.480
first got here and we the closest
grocery store just happened to be a Whole

697
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.800
Foods. And it really didn't matter
if it was an Albertson's, a Whole

698
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:59.199
Foods and HB would have been awesome. Any grocery store here is amazing because

699
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:05.679
it's big, and it had everything
I wanted and it was clean and bright.

700
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.119
Yeah, and it had everything I
wanted in one store. So when

701
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:12.639
we went to the grocery store,
we grabbed a cart and we're like,

702
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.400
look at all this stuff. It's
like we've we've it's been almost a year

703
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:20.280
since we've been able to go to
one grocery store and absolutely get everything on

704
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.360
our list in one place. And
you're doing and you guys are clearly doing

705
00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:29.880
well because you have Whole Foods money. So that's that's good. That's good.

706
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:31.719
That's well. Here's the other thing
that here's the other thing that I

707
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.760
well, no, that's the other
thing I miss about about Texas living and

708
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:43.199
State side living is things are cheaper
here, even when you think they're not,

709
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.800
because things on an island are more
expensive. So like, if I

710
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:51.719
want to get like a like a
big tall thing of egg whites on the

711
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:55.480
island, that will cost me ten
or eleven dollars wow, for just egg

712
00:51:55.519 --> 00:52:01.239
whites. Meanwhile at Whole Foods five
bucks. Wow. Okay, Now some

713
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:06.039
things are the same price. Like
I can get a dozen eggs for basically

714
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:07.960
the same price on the island as
I can in Texas. So it's weird

715
00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:15.159
how different things will be priced higher
and the same. There's no I know

716
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:19.559
why there's no grilled chicken salwich.
Well, actually, you think it'd be

717
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:22.480
easy to do a grilled chicken sandwich
and Trace smiling because he knows what I'm

718
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:23.960
gonna say here is because on the
island there are chickens everywhere. You can

719
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:29.760
just grab a chicken, throw it
on the grill. Honestly, of all

720
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.679
the things poultry, anything poultry related, I would not think would be a

721
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:37.320
shortage on the island because you drive
around there, chickens everywhere. E much

722
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.960
just gotten lazy and didn't want to
go kill the chicken or and that's what

723
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.599
it is right there. That's a
thing called island time, which is like,

724
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.280
yeah, there's a chicken out there, but I don't feel like going

725
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:51.519
to get it and making it for
you. So the grocery stores, I

726
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:55.760
missed, grocery prices. I've missed. I've missed the internet. We have

727
00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:00.519
internet there, it's just it's just
not as fast. I was so excited

728
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.880
the first night that we were in
our airbnb with the internet. You know

729
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.239
what I sent Trey Raje I sent
him a cinema screen cap of the of

730
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:12.239
the speed test. I ran.
I was like, look at this,

731
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:16.159
We're gonna do some serious podcasting.
There's gonna be no lag whatsoever. That's

732
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:21.519
the most Indian thing I think you've
ever done. I'd have to agree that's

733
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:24.320
I saved this list to go over
it with you, Raj as opposed to

734
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:29.239
as opposed to going over it with
Heather McKinney from from sinisterhood because I knew

735
00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:37.000
you'd appreciate my speed test more.
I also missed all the food, like

736
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.800
being able to really get any damn
piece of food, any restaurant or whatever

737
00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:44.320
I wanted, because at same times, it's very limited and a lot of

738
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.039
the stuff we have on St.
Thomas is limited because it's a lot of

739
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:52.000
it is tourist stuff. Okay,
what is tourist food? Well, I

740
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:55.599
mean it's some of it's going to
be like high end restaurants and things like

741
00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:59.880
if you just live in a place
and half the restaurants are fine dining,

742
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:04.599
like, well, that really limits
my options. It's hilariously, you're like

743
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:12.159
Steak or Wendy's. That's have you
been on that ship? Sometimes Rogers,

744
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:19.920
because that's pretty accurate. You guys
want lobster or chili, or there's that

745
00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:22.920
chicken that's right there crossing a row. You can have that. You can

746
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:28.480
just take it. Take that all
you want. You should just take the

747
00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:30.320
chicken through the drive through and be
like, I'll be back in fifteen minutes

748
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:36.760
exactly. But one of the things
I do not miss, and there's a

749
00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:38.920
few things I don't miss, like
I don't miss how like like I said,

750
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.039
I don't miss all the concrete.
I don't miss the traffic. I

751
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.239
don't miss how everything is flat.
I don't I don't miss not being able

752
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.199
to look out my window and see
the ocean every day. That is a

753
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:52.000
calming thing for me. That's one
of the reasons why I wanted to live

754
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:58.320
there. Um. I also don't
miss all the people because in my life

755
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:02.840
I have learned that if if there
are people around and there's something good around,

756
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:07.000
the people will ruin that good thing. I have seen people ruin radio

757
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:15.320
stations. I have seen people ruin
everything from entire radio stations to entire planets.

758
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.679
Um. It is, it is. It has absolutely proven that in

759
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:22.280
our history we humans ruin everything we
get our hands on. Um. Yeah,

760
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:25.679
I think we uh. I think
as a society, we should have

761
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:35.480
known the end was near when Golden
Corral happened. And not just happened Rage,

762
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:40.559
but when Golden Corral yah went to
my hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,

763
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:46.800
where before they moved my dad and
stepmom lived forever. The level of excitement

764
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:52.440
in Bartlesville, Oklahoma when Golden Corral
came to town. Rage. I'm not

765
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.960
I'm not making this up. It
was the place to be on Friday and

766
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.960
Saturday nights. Their parking lot was
packed for date night. Hey, that

767
00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:04.880
was a treat. You know in
Leonard you got to go to bottom and

768
00:56:04.920 --> 00:56:08.000
go to the Golden Corral. That
was that was a big night. See.

769
00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:10.199
Now this is again, this is
really. This is really how you

770
00:56:10.239 --> 00:56:15.800
can tell that Trey really is is
part of the duality of man because having

771
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.960
lived part of his life in Highland
Park and other parts and Leonard, he

772
00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:24.639
really has that duality down because he
can appreciate the Golden Corral, but also

773
00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:29.719
knowing he probably went to his fifth
birthday at the old Warsaw. Yeah,

774
00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:31.920
I'm just wondering. I'm wondering if
you were wandering around Alberne's looking for the

775
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:38.639
chocolate fountain and and and albern A
just standing there's like, we don't have

776
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:45.320
that ear, but I find get
him a chocolate phone and yeah, I

777
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:52.440
know for my fifth birthday, I
distinctly remember because I got two champ chimpanzees.

778
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:55.320
Lu Luindina or at my fifth birthday
party? Do they meet belt?

779
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.400
Oh, that's just a horrible thing
to think about. It's just Golden Crawl

780
00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:05.400
just reminds me of another one of
our friends, Asher Alan, when they

781
00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:09.599
help, Uh they had they had
veterans on Veterans Day, veterans eat free.

782
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:16.440
In this joke was like, haven't
they've been through enough? That's still

783
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:22.800
that's still a winner. Uh yeah, so okay, so uh all the

784
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:27.360
food, all the groceries, you
don't miss the people, even though you

785
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.719
are surrounded by tourists constantly, not
constantly. So where we live on the

786
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.719
island as North. It's on the
north side of Saint Thomas. So we

787
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:37.719
don't get that many tourists on the
north side because cabs don't want to take

788
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:42.119
them on that side of the island
because it's more residential and there's also a

789
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:46.360
lot more hills and the cabbies don't
really like driving up steep hills very often.

790
00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:51.320
Um oh, gotcha, Okay,
but yeah, Rush, don't don't

791
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:54.960
think Dan is amongst the people.
He's on a hill. Oh he's got

792
00:57:55.039 --> 00:58:00.840
that. That's why he was the
first hills tray. The first place was

793
00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:08.599
The first place was Whole Foods,
like oh, saying it was the closest

794
00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:12.719
grocery store. That's why we went. Sure it wasn't some sort of a

795
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.079
weird flex I got to said,
hopefully, hopefully this is on my vision

796
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:22.599
board. I'm trying to I'm trying
to manifest that kind of money. Uh

797
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.159
So, interestingly, one of the
things I actually wrote down on my list

798
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:30.360
of things that I miss and don't
miss at the same time, Amazon,

799
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:36.760
so we can get Amazon. We
can get some things from Amazon delivered in

800
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:38.920
the island. That's where you have
to enter your address. Like let's say

801
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:44.039
there's a webcam I want, I
have to scroll through the different options to

802
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.320
see if I can find the one
that I want and a seller that will

803
00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:50.360
ship it to the islands, because
sometimes you may find something you want and

804
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:54.480
then it stops at you know,
Miami. Um oh wow. Okay,

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So when we knew we were coming
here, were like if we started making

806
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a list of things we wanted to
buy on Amazon to have delivered so then

807
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we could throw it in a suitcase
and take it back right. Problem is,

808
00:59:06.159 --> 00:59:08.239
it turns out Amazon's been hiring a
bunch of new drivers who apparently just

809
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don't give give a damn about their
job or where they leave packages. Because

810
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if you haven't done so, click
on like the share screen thing that I've

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got posted here because I'm gonna show
you a delivery that happened at our UPS

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store the other day, and I'm
curious if you can spot what is wrong

813
00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:30.880
about this picture so you can see
that trade. Do you see it?

814
00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:36.000
Yeah? I see it. The
thing is it's at the UPS store,

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not inside the UPS store, because
apparently when the delivery happened, it was

816
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outside of the business hours of the
UPS store. So the Amazon delivery guy

817
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:57.360
left the package outside the front door
of the UPS store. He did his

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00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:02.400
job and took the photo of confirming
delivery, thinking, ah ha, I

819
01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:06.519
have done my job. My work
here is done. I have left this

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01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:09.800
package at the location. Dude,
this is not a residence that has at

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a strip mall in Dallas. I
am stunned that I ever got that package.

822
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.079
Really, do you think there's people
going by going anonymous package out front

823
01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:24.320
outside of a store? Let me
pick that up. I would have assumed

824
01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:27.719
so, but I guess maybe not. I thought. You know, it's

825
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.960
like people will maybe maybe they think
that they're not going to bother stealing a

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package off the front porch of a
UPS store because maybe they think it's not

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a good item, because only good
items will make it to an actual front

828
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:43.159
porch of a house. So maybe
they see, like grabbing a package in

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front of the UPS store is like, well, clearly there's nothing good in

830
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:49.679
the air. They think that's that's
so preposterous and so stupid that that's got

831
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:52.920
to be a trap. No one's
gonna take that, or this is just

832
01:00:53.039 --> 01:01:00.480
how adorably white you guys are,
Like somebody would have clearly somebody would steal

833
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:02.920
it as a brown guy driving from
that strip mall. And if I saw

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01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:07.039
a package out, just a plain
brown package outside of a UP store,

835
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:14.719
I'm like, we need to leave. That's a good point. Yeah,

836
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that's someone's following instructions. Be sure
to follow all things Treehouse at Treehouse on

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01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:32.880
Air, Treehouse OnAir, dot com. And for me it's at the Daniel

838
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:36.639
Malley. For Trey it's at Trey
tren Home one, and for Rage it's

839
01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.679
at comedian Rage. Across all of
our socials, don't forget to take a

840
01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:45.920
look at Rage's tour starting in Texas
coming up next month August fourth and fifth

841
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.960
here in Dallas at the Dallas Comedy
Club in deep Ellham. It's fantastic from

842
01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:52.400
by, tickets are already selling.
I think it'll be sold out pretty soon,

843
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.599
so your tickets, follow, like, listen share, but most of

844
01:01:55.719 --> 01:02:01.320
all listen to the Treehouse were appre
We'll see you next time in the Treehouse. Yeah,