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There is controversy that has brewed in
North Texas. I am specifically discussing

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the Sherman Independent School District. Okay, it is never good in my experience,

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it is never good for a Texas
school district to make national news.

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I don't think a Texas school district
has ever made national news for something good.

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The old maybe when they do those
solar powered race things at Texas Motor

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Speedway, but I'm not even sure
that makes national news. Local news.

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Yes, it's where the kids have
like an engineering program and they go and

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make like these solar cars and they
see how many times it can go around

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the track at TMS. I've never
heard of that. Okay, so then

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that's definitely not national stuff. But
then again, you went to Mesquite schools

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rash that that is true. I
think that was reserved for like I think

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like the south Lake kids. Yeah
for sure, yeah, like now south

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Lake has made national news, but
it definitely was not for the engineering students.

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Mosquite just discovered fire. So that's
it said it was a national national

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scandal or something happened with the national
I just saw the first thing. I

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think when you say that in North
Texas, I was like, did Randy

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Travis show up naked and drunk in
a church? Again? Look what happened?

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Uh? You know what though,
if he did, right now he

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has he has the excuse on his
side. Yeah. When you have when

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you have a stroke of that magnitude, you can do anything you want because

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they go, well, it's always
Randy Travis stroke. No, I'll set

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them up tree, you knock them
down. No, you really can't.

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Uh that I could that. We're
gonna see him on the news tomorrows.

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Like Mall said, I can do
it podcast that I get away with anything

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I want because I had a massive
stroke. Ignorance is not a defense of

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breaking the law. I've learned that
from a rock and roll attorney, Evert

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Newton. Yeah, or unless you're
a super wealthy, then sometimes I can

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actually work in your favor. I
didn't know money laundering and tax evasion,

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and you know insider training was illegal. There is controversy in North Texas.

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If you guys heard about what's going
on in Sherman No perfect, Well,

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a transgender Texas student was kicked out
of the lead role of his high school

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musical after the principal introduced a new
gender casting policy. Yes, I did

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read about this, So the short
version, in addition to what I just

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said, the trans student has been
kicked out of the lead role of the

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high school production of Oklahoma over a
gender policy. You know this. This,

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This is where I go back to
saying it's never a good thing when

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a Texas or really any school district
goes national. The good stuff stays local,

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the bad stuff goes national, and
in this case, it may end

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up going international because news is international
these days. But Max high Tower,

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as senior at Sherman High School,
learned just last month that he landed the

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starring male role in the school's production
of Oklahoma. But the seventeen year old's

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excitement did not last long. Max's
father, Phillip says to NBC five,

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I'm not an activist. I'm not
highly political. I have both liberal and

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conservative beliefs. I'm just a dad
that wants to fight for his kid.

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Two weeks after Max was cast his
family was notified by the school's principle of

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a new policy about casting by gender, and High Tower, as well as

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other students, lost their roles in
the production. Philip the dad said,

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and he said, we're instituting a
new policy where only males can play males

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and only females can play females.
The Sherman isd said the performance of Oklahoma

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will be under review and has been
postponed to January of next year. The

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district set in a statement there is
no policy on how students are assigned to

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roles, although it sounds like there
is, so go figure. The district

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explained that the production was under review
because it contained mature adult themes, profane

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language, and sexual content. Unfortunately, all aspects of the production need to

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be reviewed, including content, stage, production, and props casting as well

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to ensure that the production is appropriate
for the high school stage. They're doing

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Oklahoma. Yeah, yes, I'm
trying to think of what's inappropriate in the

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musical Okla. The whole thing it
sucks. That's not right, Trey,

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remember the last episode. It's not
necessarily that something sucks. It's just not

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your cup of tea, just because
it's your homeland. Just because it's your

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homeland. But let's not. No, don't you dare. Don't you dare

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force that on me, Trey.
I can't help where I was born.

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I can help where I live,
and I have clearly rectified that. Yeah,

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but you also said St. Thomas, sorry St. John Now Trey,

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not Tulsa. When my mom took
me when my parents divorced when I

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was nine and we moved from northeastern
Oklahoma to Dallas. At first, I

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was very upset, and after a
few years I was still upset because I

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miss my dad. But then I
realized this is way better. Texas was

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way better than Oklahoma. Oklahoma,
especially the part where I lived for a

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short period of time. The fact
that someone made a musical out of the

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state is probably the most shocking thing. But you know, it's been almost

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one hundred years since the play that
the musical was inspired by came out.

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Yeah, I mean I thought the
first production of Oklahoma was like musically was

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in the fifties. I mean it's
for film. Yes, it won an

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Oscar in nineteen fifty five for the
first movie adaptation of the musical Oklahoma.

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And because of this story, I
now know more about the musical production of

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Oklahoma than I ever wanted to know. But here we are. I learned

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it, and now I'm going to
force it upon you. Guys. Well,

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we're not really worried about that.
Dan. In about an hour,

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you'll forget it all. So it's
all good. While I remember it,

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I'm going to make you hear.
So. It was based on a play

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that came out in nineteen thirty one
In Oklahoma is a set in pre statehood

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Claire Moore, Oklahoma, and it
set in nineteen oh six, and then

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it eventually became a stage production in
the forties, and then a movie in

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the fifties which it won an Oscar
and countless stuff since then to where either

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you love it or as Trey says, it sucks because it's about Oklahoma.

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I guarantee you. Had it been
a musical about the Texas Longhorns, Trey

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would be marching up and down Main
Street Oklahoma's you could call it Texas and

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it still would suck. It's just
a crappy musical. I mean, and

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I am someone I grew up.
My grandmother loved the Dallas summer musicals.

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I grew up. I went to
I saw some great. Got to see

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You'll Brenner, Carol Channing. Anyway, Oklahoma is just a awful music.

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I mean, it's just sucks.
It's old and it sucks. What is

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your favorite musical? Trade favorite musical? Rent was good based on that answer,

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right, and I based on that
Based on the answer of Rent,

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I'm expecting the principle of this Sherman
school to come pluck you out of the

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treehouse and say you're not allowed to
be in here because of the stage production

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you just mentioned. Having grown up
not too far away from Sherman, that

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would not surprise me. I'm yeah, and it does it. Honestly,

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it doesn't surprise me that they're saying
they, you know, they need to

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review Oklahoma because it's you know,
racy and profane. Yeah, that's what

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I mean. That's what Sherman is
right next to Oklahoma. And let's also

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keep in mind, let's let's keep
an eye when they're saying, oh,

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well, this is under no,
no, no, I know what it

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is. This school district is covering
its ass. I have no doubts about

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that. The principal came in and
said, we're not having the trans kids

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playing opposite roles and further confirming these
you know, gender roles out of the

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norm blah blah blah stuff. He
wasn't going to have it happen on his

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watch, and the school district realizes, oh, you screwed up, But

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now we have to come up with
a legitimate excuse for your behavior. And

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that is no, no, no, no, no no. It's not

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that the principal didn't want the trans
kid, you know, playing curly in

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the in in the musical. Instead, the content of Oklahoma is, oh,

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we got to take a look at
this. It's it's it's it's pretty

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sketchy, you know, it's it's
I mean, I review the whole thing.

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It's I mean, it's practically born. I'm I will agree with Tree,

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that's it. For Sherman, that
would be a really racy musical like

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it's it's it's, I mean,
it is what it is like. They

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just need to what they should have
done, in my opinion, is asked

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the other actors if they're okay with
that person that person playing in that role,

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and if they're not comfortable, then
you cast somebody that is, or

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vice versa. But there are there
are so many problems with this particular story.

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Not the least of which is when
you're when everyone's worried about this,

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you know, uh, you know
trans kids, this, trans kids,

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that, trans people in general,
they're coming for your kids type of stuff.

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Oh yeah, that type of hysteria
has now gotten to the point where

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you can't have a high school student
play the role of an opposite gender in

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a school production, while keeping in
mind it is extremely commonplace for women to

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play Peter Pan in musicals. Yes, it doesn't mean that you're endorsing the

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gay lifestyle or that you're now flying
and wrapping yourself in a rainbow flag.

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Sometimes it might be just as simple
as we only had so many kids auditioned

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for this production, and because of
that sum a year, are going to

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have to cross dress. But you
know what, it's called acting. Yeah,

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but what like that's that happens in
all boys schools, is what?

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Yeah, they they'll they'll have a
male playing a female lead. So,

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and keep in mind it used to
be back in the day women weren't even

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allowed on stage. It was all
male performers, or as they called it,

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the good old days. I just, I just I don't understand and

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that and the trans issue is one
of the more complex issues, and and

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and I understand that that there are
legitimate concerns when it comes to athletics.

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I do understand that, yes,
yeah, why you muddy the water.

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It's a musical. Let the most
talented person. You know, Yes,

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that correct, that right there,
that right theratory you hit the nail on

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the head, because that was the
other angle of the story that bothers the

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hell out of me, which is
the hypocrisy with some of these outrage things.

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Uh, someone who probably believes that
affirmative action is bad, they they

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would say, let the person attending
university that's the most qualified. Let the

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person get the job who's the most
qualified, not because they're a minority or

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they're that. However, don't you
dare put that trans kid in the role

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of Curly in Oklahoma? That level
of hypocrisy, to me is mind blowing.

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You can believe everything you want to
believe, and I don't take beliefs

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away from anybody. You're allowed to
believe what you believe, but let's not

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do so in the face of common
sense. You know, Yeah, yeah,

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but they can't play a part.
Yes, but then and then what

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happens here now? And what people
don't understand with this day and age and

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social media and visibility and things like
that. Now you've put this kid out

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there, so now he's going to
get support from on one side of vision

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and then all the hate and grief
from the other side, and it's just

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gonna compound and just land on this
kid's head. And it's so unim That's

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why that right there is the reason
why the principle screwed up. I don't

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care what your beliefs are on trans
rights or anti trans rights. At the

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end of the day, this is
a major, not only pr issue,

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but possibly a constitutional issue that this
principle has has ripped the lid off of

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because you you gotta have more common
sense, you have to have more awareness.

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Thinking before you act is something schools
typically teach students. So it's really

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unfortunate when the administrators and the teachers
don't use it themselves, because common sense,

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for this principle would have said,
if I do this, yeah,

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X y Z will follow consequence.
You know, actions have consequences. And

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now it's a world of muck for
Sherman isd we and I mean and I

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do. I can assure you that
they're some part of this administrator's thought process

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was we're in Sherman, No one's
gonna you know, who's who's gonna gives

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it? Rats ask what goes on
up here? Not realize you know,

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which even twenty years ago is a
would be a legitimate thing because you know,

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only the Sherman Dennison news. Really
is that ever gonna come Sherman Dennison.

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And but now with you know,
social media, Internet and the you

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know most next to you know,
Gaza, probably the most controversial issue we

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face today, you're gonna get some
attention and it's unwanted. And not only

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that, but now you're promoting Oklahoma
and that's the worst damn part about it.

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Thank you, thank you for understanding
this, and thank you for being

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in the Treehouse. Nine is his
phone number, the website Rodney Anderson dot

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com. You know, I've seen
the news lately, Rodney. All the

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financial experts, the big names,
you know, it's the Dave Ramseys,

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the Susie Ormands. They're saying,
hey, you have got to get out

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of debt. That's what they're telling
people. But I want to go to

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my friend and my confidant, and
that's you, Rodney, So what do

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you think? Are they right?
They're absolutely one hundred percent right, because

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you have to ask yourself do you
like making the banks rich or would you

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rather you be rich? And so
many people are sitting there in credit card

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debt. Now student loans are getting
ready to start up DAN. So many

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people have also consolidated credit card debt
into other debt vehicles where they have large

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installment payments every single month. The
one thing that I know gets in people's

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way is debt, especially this high
interest rate credit card debt. The average

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rate right now in America twenty four
percent. Most people are above average in

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that area. We saw a client
last week. They had a thirty six

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percent medical card that they owed ten
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So we did a cash out,
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one payment, and now they have
one mortgage payment. That's it. Lastly,

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DAN, credit card debt is killing
people's credit scores. Literally, when

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you have credit card debt, when
it's maxed out, are you even close

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to being maxed out. The credit
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changed the algorithm, so there's some
bigger emphasis on credit card debt. Don't

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wait until it's too late. The
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clients calling us for cash out refinances
that we can't do their loans down because

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they've waited so long that their credit
scores have dropped and now they're not even

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eligible. Don't wait until it's too
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knows what he's talking about. He's
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This weekend at the Dallas Comedy Club
from the Tonight Show, The Late Show,

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and Super Troopers Too. It's Graham
K I'm at a weird age.

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Just turned thirty seven. I beat
Jesus. That's pretty good. Four years

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better at living than the Son of
God was, and that feels good.

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Be better than the Son of God
at living. And if you're religious and

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you're feeling weird about that, don't
worry. It's just math, just mathematically

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speaking. I'm better than your Lord
and Savior at living. You know,

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I'm better at living than him.
And also he spoke for free, so

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it's another win for me. I
think I'm pretty sure you guys all pay

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to get in here. So that's
Graham K this Friday and Saturday, November

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seventeenth and eighteenth at the Dallas Comedy
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happens here because it is online at
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the Treehouse. Visit us online at
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of the Treehouse is brought to you
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free roof inspection called Daniel Cook at
eight three three Cook d FW. That's

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eight three three cook DFW the website
cookdfw dot com. Trey, you were

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telling me before we got started to
you said, you're having a bit of

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a back issue. Man, I
can relate to that. What's going on?

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Oh yeah, my psiatica is just
kicking it. Uh it's Roger.

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No, Okay, I'm glad you. I'm glad you haven't because one,

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I'm glad you haven't, and two, I know typically when someone hears someone

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like Trey or myself, because I
too have had a sciatic issue Trey,

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when someone like us says my sciatica
is acting up, I think a lot

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of people see that and kind of
dismiss it, like okay, But when

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you know, when you've experienced it, then your empathy and sympathy goes through

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their Rooks. Yeah, I kind
of got a lucky feel for you.

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I got kind of lucky early on
in that sense. It was years ago,

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and I think it was nineteen ninety
four. I was in Speaking of

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Oklahoma. I wasn't doing musical,
but I was in theater at Richland I'll

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give you the U and they were
replacing the velvet curtains and they bundled them

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up and I didn't realize just how
heavy they were because they were the folding

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theater curtains. Yeah, and I
and I just remember they're like, hey,

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we got it. I was a
they called it a production assistant,

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but I was just basically making four
dollars an hour, four dollars and twenty

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five cents an hour, and I
thought I was a millionaire. Uh,

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just working hours a week at the
junior college. So I just went over

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and I saw I saw like two
guys. They were a little bit smaller,

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but they were two people picking these
curtains up. And I was like,

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I got this. And I bent
over it and just not from the

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legs, just straight with my back
and locked it up pretty bad. And

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so I started doing chiropractic then.
And then I had an incident in college

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where I the tailbone is where your
cocksis, was running and I was on

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grass and didn't realize there was a
pothole, so I went straight leg into

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a pothole and then my my cock
sicks shifted. So from the I had

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to go back to chiropractical and after
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still do it, like once a
month or once every two months. I'll

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go and see a chiropractor and get
adjusted. Pray. Have you ever had

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your cocksix adjusted? I've had adjustments. I don't know if they've really focused

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on my cocksis or not. I
don't do it in Sherman. Know that

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you will. You'll be flogged for
that. In Sherman, you're a having

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worked in a chiropractic clinic for for
a few years. In my younger life,

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I've I've had my coxic cosix adjusted. I've also had my pubic bone

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adjusted. That was That was a
surprise. I didn't know it could adjust.

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I didn't either, and then I
found out, Yeah, so trainata,

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what what? What brought it on? I have no idea. I

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woke up yesterday and it's one of
those that I the minute I tried,

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I, you know, set up
from bed, it just all of a

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sudden. You know, there's just
a burning sensation that starts in your ass

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and it just goes down your leg. Usually it's my right leg, today's

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the left leg. I just called
that Friday night. The difference is ras

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you're happy about it. Trade was
upset. Some people call that prison No

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one person probably doesn't. I laughed. I laughed because I heard that's what.

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Yeah, so it's just is it
in a night terror thing or is

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it a heredity? My both my
parents had bad backs and fusions, and

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between that football and like my neck, I will have to have either a

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fusion or disreplacement. And that's from
football and uh and headbutting things. Right,

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let's back up for a second.
I get the football. I understand

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that you just randomly head butt things. Yeah, define Well, in more

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than a couple occasions, been in
fights where I've had butted people. We

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had a bid in the studio way
back in the day where we had a

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frying pan in there that I would
hit myself in the head with the head

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with a frying pan. Well we
all did. Rise. Don't act like,

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don't act like you wouldn't have hidden
there, Yeah I wouldn't. I

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just did it with greater gusto and
really was the most prolific headPan smasher,

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which led led to my you know, the orthopedic looking at my x rays

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going wow, you must have been
in a really bad car wreck. I'm

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like, no, no, it
is on a really stupid radio show.

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Your neck is shows it, you
know, looks like what would happen if

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you were in a high impact collision
the way and it's like, yeah,

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no, just a lot of low
impact. I had a similar experience at

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a chiropractor and they looked at my
X ray and they said, man,

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what have you been carrying? Jesus
wow. And though it was a radio

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show, I was for about five
years. Yeah, in that weight got

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a lot bigger, increased over time, that is for sure. This is

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solving so many mysteries for me.
Why Dan's so forgetful. You've left out

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the fact that you would smash yourself
in the head with a frying pan.

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Yeah. So when I went to
that neurologist on the referral appointment, did

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you save that a heavy before the
heavy battery of tests? I did not

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mention the multiple hits to the head
with the frying pan. I mainly focused

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on traditional head injuries football, the
occasional baseball thing. There's a couple of

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times as a kid, I just
run into things head first, you know,

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normal stuff, and I absolutely purposely
left off. You know. There

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was for about six or seven months
there it was almost a daily thing.

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We'd hit ourselves in the forehead with
frying pans, Like right, Like,

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were you the kid with a big
pencil. Were you the kid that had

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the big jumbo pencil that you had
to write with? Because you said as

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a kid running head first into things
that we had that kid too, his

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name was Billy, and he had
his name on his belt and I and

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I don't think that was for anything
other than he didn't know that that there's

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another belt like he had to Billy
had to put Billy's belt on and he

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was having his name on his belt. Wasn't an achievement like he had won

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the rodeo? Is like it was
so he knew it was his. So

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how big big pencil? My grandmother
took me sometimes she drove the bus.

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Now it was a Lincoln Town card
on the on the on the event,

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on the on the occasions that I
rode the bus. It was of normal

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size. But let's get back to
the to the pencil size that you mentioned.

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Would you say, were you the
kid that had the big pencil?

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What do you like? How big
of the pencil or the big jumbo pencil

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for the kid that you know,
Billy one that was roughly the same size

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as John Holmes crank. Yes,
basically, you know, I'd love to

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say I'd love to say I didn't
have one of those, but because I

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know the exact ex scize and circumference
of the pencil compared to a legendary male

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porn star's genitalia, Yeah I did. I had the big This is making

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so much sense now, hang on, hang on, hang on, it

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gets better. Not only did I
have the big red pencil, ye,

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it also had my name as if, as if by chance there'd be some

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other kid in the class that also
had a pencil of unusual size to get

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them crossed up, my parents made
sure to put Danny on mine. This

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makes so much sense now. So
when you listen to this, go back

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and listen to the plus episode,
and all of this will make sense.

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This is why you're that you were
that they knew that when you were a

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kid, like they knew this,
Uh, they knew how this was gonna

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turn out. Or perhaps ra perhaps
my parents were thinking, it is possible

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that a coven of vampires may descend
upon the kindergarten, and it's gonna be

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our little Danny that's going to defend
the classroom with his big pencil with his

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name on it. You not only
is it, not only is it used

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for solving arithmetic and writing your name
and learning cursive. But it's also really

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good at murdering the curse, the
damned, the vampires. Maybe did you

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ever ever sent a note home?
Like, Hey, everybody else in class

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has a pencil. Why does Dan
have a steak? Keep in mind,

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is it is it day in or
Danny? What are we talking about right

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now? Like Bill, keep in
mind where I went to kindergarten was Oklahoma,

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So let us going to school and
having a Bible and a cursive FIXI

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in your backpack was going to be
pretty run of the mill because sometimes you

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gotta shoot your lunch. Not today, Satan, Not today. You were

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listening to the Treehouse visit us online
that Treehouse on air dot com. Yeah,

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when it came time to you know, make trades at lunch, no

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one wanted my squirrel meat sandwhich a
three three cook DFW. That is the

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phone number to reach Daniel Cook and
Cook DFW. Roofing and Restoration for your

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free roof inspection. And also if
there's been a storm, you know you

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want to check to see if that
roof survived it there's any damage. If

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it's major damage, you'll know in
which case you definitely should be calling Daniel

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Cook at E three to three Cook
DFW. Daniel was curious about this.

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I don't know if it's an age
thing for some people, but for me,

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I've never been a birthday guy.
I had my birthday recently and people

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keep bringing it up and throwing it
in my face. But even fro when

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I was one year old, everyone
started singing happy birthday, Like that's not

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for me. I started screaming and
crying, throwing a tantrum. I hate

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the cake. That's a different thing. But you know, being sung to

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is not my thing. What about
you? Where do you fall on your

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birthday? Are you like birthday month
guy? Or you just go away?

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Leave me alone? Guy, I
stop selling birthdays. I think I don't

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know twenty one, twenty yeah,
somewhere around there. So yeah, that

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actually makes sense. Trey even said
the last great birthday you get is twenty

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five because your insurance drops. And
he's not wrong. No, that's exactly

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a happening. So no, I
mean, you know, I turned fifty

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this year, and so it was
kind of a big deal. I didn't

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really care about the number, because
it's guys, you really don't care about

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the number. Anymore. If I
can get out of bed without snap,

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crackling and pop and break anything,
that's a successful day for me now.

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And then on top of that,
you know, I've been extremely blessed.

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I feel very very well overall.
So I don't really think of the numbers

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anymore. I know it hurts women, you know, mental about thinking about

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they're getting old. I don't think
men really care. As long as were

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able to function and have a good
life and do some stuff that we enjoy

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still, I think that's all it
matters. And so yeah, I mean,

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as long as you're still labeled to
swing a golf club without you know,

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doubling over in pain, and do
your job to a good enough ability

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to be able to afford to play
golf, you're you're having a good time.

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So I think that makes sense.
It's a perfect world right there.

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So and then you know, the
big thing is, I told my guys

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all the time, Hey, if
I can scale these roofs and I can

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get up here off these ladders and
jump around, then you can see that

407
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it can physically be done. Still
at fifty, y'all young bucks need to

408
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buck up, un let's get going. So that's exactly right. He can

409
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still get on the roof, so
can you, and he will be happy

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to jump on yours. Take a
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there's any damages from the previous storms, or see if it's ready for the

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419
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420
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a disposal and I really really wanted
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421
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422
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423
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do. We do fun stuff.
You know what for me as a woman,

425
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For me, I want a pot
filler over my stove. That's my

426
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fun project. You need me to
run a little bit extra water line so

427
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your wife doesn't have to lift that
heavy pot to make her pasta every Sunday

428
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pasta sauce. You know, that's
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disposal, and get rid of those
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431
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And when that tree branch gets stuck, call me for that too. It's

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gonna be fun. That's the thing
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you by our friends at Brooks Plumbing. Brooks Plumbing for any and all of

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Plumbing two one four, three six
eight thirty eight thirty eight the website Brooks

443
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Plumbing Texas dot com. I'm going
to uh have this final segment of episode

444
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:04.360
six one of the Treehouse podcast be
a Choose your own adventure, Trey,

445
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:16.840
And would you rather hear about the
misuse of sex dolls or or crazy ouder

446
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:22.920
attack? Oh? Man, that
is that is difficult? All right,

447
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:29.719
I understand it's crazy attack, yes, or misuse of sex dolls? Yeah,

448
00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.880
I choose choose, choose wisely because
we're only going to do one.

449
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:36.440
I'll do the other one on the
next podcast, but still, but for

450
00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:42.519
now, I'm gonna go outer attack, auto attack, Trey. I'm I'm

451
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.920
gonna I'm with Raj. I want
to go about you know, crazy otters?

452
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:53.559
Yeah, all right, crazy otters? It is. I have to

453
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:59.159
pull up my phone here because there's
audio that goes along with this story.

454
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:07.320
A state trooper in Montana was recently
awarded the Medal of Valor after rescuing a

455
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:14.000
woman who was being attacked by otters. Yes, I love this story already.

456
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:23.559
That's gonna be good and it's Montana, so yeah, yeah. Here

457
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.559
is the trooper who was awarded the
Medal of Valor after rescuing a woman who

458
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:36.079
was attacked by otters, describing the
events that ensued. Honestly, I had

459
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.599
never even heard of anybody getting attacked
by an honor before, so being familiar

460
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:42.480
with the area, I knew how
remote it was, and so I thought,

461
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:44.760
well, I could at least go
and help get them loaded in the

462
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:47.559
ambulance. Once we got up to
her, she was basically covered headstone and

463
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:52.199
blood, and then once life Flight
landed, they immediately got out and started

464
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.159
giving her care. And for me, it was just more of feeling empathetic

465
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:57.920
with the woman and wanting to get
her the help that she needed, and

466
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.880
she was in a situation that nobody
ever expect for her to be in.

467
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:06.800
Little one herself. You never when
you when you're wandering Montana, you never

468
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:12.039
stop and think, mmmm that it
could be your day to be attacked by

469
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:16.079
marauding otters. All right, that's
the name of our band. Hang on

470
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.440
if you left it out that you
didn't say where this was from, not

471
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:29.400
because Montana is kind of a dead
giveaway. But is there any question in

472
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:39.440
anyone's mind that this is a white
lady, because you know exactly how I

473
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:45.559
look at that. If I say
it, it's racist, if you say

474
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:52.840
it, it's adorable. Look,
Trey and I are white. We don't

475
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.079
get these opportunities off and just let
us have this one. I have been

476
00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:01.360
to Montana. Trust me, it
was a white person. That's what I

477
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:07.920
said. Take out Montana. That's
a dead giveaway. Yeah, you could

478
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:09.599
put this in Florida. It's still
a white lady, like it doesn't matter.

479
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.840
Well, no, this is what
this is. It's like if you

480
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.199
die on Everest. You know it's
a white person. That's exactly right.

481
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.519
You're about a lady getting malled by
some wild animal. You know it was

482
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:22.480
a white lady and she was trying
to feed it. See there, that's

483
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.159
exactly See. I'm glad you said
it like that because if it would have

484
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:30.199
just been me, you like a
few of my other comic friends of color,

485
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.360
when if I would have been like, hey man, jel here about

486
00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:37.760
the lady got attacked by an otter. My buddy Laurent would go, huh,

487
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.079
white lady. I'd be like,
you're right, and we'd high five,

488
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.199
and then that would be that's the
end of the story. Like we

489
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.480
don't even need audio. Like.
Part of what you need to keep in

490
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:51.280
mind here is that it wasn't one
otter. It was a room. And

491
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:57.880
I looked it up. The correct
biological term for a group of otters is

492
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:04.079
called a romp. A romp.
She got wronged, all right, that

493
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:07.119
is and I and and there was
no doubt when when the lady who got

494
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:13.559
the Metal of Valor, the state
trooper that was also a white lady that

495
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:17.280
was talking, right, that's there
we correct. Yeah, that's how she

496
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:21.320
knew another white lady was in trouble. She was flailing about. It's like,

497
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:29.280
this is clearly this is the the
the unspoken thing of white ladies in

498
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:34.239
Montana, the deadly otter. Aren't
these the things that fall asleep holding each

499
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.800
other's hands, Like isn't that one? So they don't know why they fall

500
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.719
asleep holding each other's hands because they're
because they're cleansing each other of the white

501
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:50.920
lady that they have recently and there's
actually a place in Waco. I forget

502
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:52.960
the name of it off the top
of my head, but I've seen it

503
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.599
on Instagram. Uh, there's a
place in Waco that you can go and

504
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.599
stay. It's like a ranch type
of place. I know, you can

505
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:05.440
actually swim and or take a bath
with otters. Yes, they're they're known

506
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:09.559
to be very docile creachers. So
what was this bitch doing? Which which

507
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.519
what Trey had said, which you
know, this white lady had it coming.

508
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.000
Yeah, she she showed up with
the wrong food, is my guess.

509
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.360
These otters were like, bitch,
I will eat you. And they

510
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.199
all looked at each other and we
should then, and that's what that.

511
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:32.079
Then they proceeded to eat this lady. And just just the luck of this

512
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:37.679
lady, the misfortune of being eaten
by otters, but the luck that a

513
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.880
state trooper was driving by and recognized
because she says it, she goes and

514
00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.000
I realized at that moment there was
an OTTO attack, And I was like,

515
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:49.400
how many, Well that's you said. The trooper wasn't driving by,

516
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.679
It wasn't. I mean, this
was the call came in about a rock

517
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:59.119
of otters attacking someone in Montana and
this Montana State trooper answered the call,

518
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.599
she said, I must go help. No, she literally answered the call.

519
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.360
She was the only person working that
day, like when she When I

520
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:13.079
hear that and I in combined with
the story and we know she got the

521
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:17.840
Medal of Valor, my only thought
is who didn't get it? That's no,

522
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:22.880
You're right because I was thinking the
same thing based on what this state

523
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.159
trooper said. I'm gonna play this
again. Yes, I'm gonna let her

524
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:31.599
tell you in her own words how
it is she was or what she did.

525
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:35.880
I'll let the state trooper tell you
in her own words what she did

526
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:42.039
that led to her receiving the Montana
Metal of Valor. Yes, honestly,

527
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.360
I'd never even heard of anybody getting
attacked by an honor before, so being

528
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.360
familiar with the area, I knew
how remote it was, and so I

529
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:50.840
thought, well, I could at
least go and help get them loaded in

530
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:53.679
ambulance. Once we got up to
her, she was basically covered headstone and

531
00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:58.360
blood, and then once life Flight
landed, they immediately got out and started

532
00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:00.440
giving her care. And for me, it was just more feeling empathetic to

533
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.320
the woman and wanting to get her
the help that she needed, and she

534
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:07.400
was in a situation that nobody ever
expected for her to be in. Little

535
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:12.679
one herself, so there, the
state Troopers says. What she did which

536
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.119
led to her receiving the Medal of
Valor from the State of Montana was help

537
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:22.280
load this blood soaked woman into an
ambulance and then let CareFlight do all the

538
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.480
heavy lifting. And she also showed
empathy for the lady for being the victim

539
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:35.039
of a romp of otters attacking her. I h how low is the bar

540
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:39.039
for issuing medals in the state of
Montana that you only had to show up

541
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.320
to get a medal. The last
recipient was the one who responded to the

542
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:53.039
Great Beaver massacre. And if we're
being honest, I thought, I thought,

543
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.480
I really thought that it was just
the Dallas Police Department that was having

544
00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:05.599
issues with their response time. I
want to know who made the call,

545
00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:08.639
Like who was called? Who was
watching some lady getting attacked by an otters?

546
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:12.599
Like, oh, it was it
was It was clearly it was clearly

547
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:20.800
the lead otter. He wanted to
make an example and show the world that

548
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.480
otters are not to be trifled with
in Montana. Yeah, I just,

549
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:27.360
uh, this is this is I'm
so glad I could. I don't know

550
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.679
what the sex doll story is,
but it's not better than this at all,

551
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:34.760
because I would never Oh, it
might be, It just might be.

552
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.920
But you'll have to tune into the
Friday episode of The Treehouse podcast that

553
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:44.920
will be out later this week on
Hint Hint Friday. But I also think

554
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:51.679
it's possible. I also think it's
possible that maybe these Otters have watched one

555
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:59.280
too many seasons of Yellowstone so that
they don't want outsiders coming into their land

556
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:01.960
doing whatever the hell it is that
they want to do, and they decide

557
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:06.079
they're going to take action and do
what they need to do as as a

558
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:10.599
family of Otters to protect their otter
ranch. Yeah, I like it.

559
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:17.119
I Uh, it was like the
what was those the not muskrat? What

560
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:22.119
was the thing that was on Discovery
for the longest time? Meerkat meerkats?

561
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:29.519
We have we have to have our
own version. Discovery Channel presents, uh,

562
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.599
the Gangs of the animal Gangs of
Montana, and then the Otters have

563
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:38.960
to be like they're they're the bloods
uh white ladies, or they're just their

564
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:45.559
crips, you know. Trunce run
through their hood like you just don't do

565
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:46.719
it. Like and she's like,
I'm gonna feed j'all and they're like,

566
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:52.840
we're gonna eat you. That's the
problem that a lot of people have,

567
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:55.960
is they they underestimate their opponent,
you know. And and and here's again

568
00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.840
how my mind works. Like everybody's
focusing on this lovely state trooper that won

569
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:06.000
the Medal of valor because I guess
nobody else they just had a medal to

570
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.920
give away. Uh. But there's
a lady somewhere in a hospital that's having

571
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:16.760
to explain to every nurse that changes
shifts why she's there. And she's gonna

572
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:21.159
be like, yep, I got
fed up by a bunch of otters and

573
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:28.320
people. Is it gonna be when
it's the day in the hospital where the

574
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:38.280
emotional support animals show up and the
nurse is holding good or you have PTSD

575
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:46.679
from one of the most adorable creatures
ever. The new headline is outer attack

576
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:57.840
victim leaps from hospital window and guess
and guess and guess which state troopers showed

577
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:12.239
up to answer that you medals?
Got two medals? All or no?

578
00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:20.400
They just give her the same Yeah, it turns out they only had one

579
00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.920
extra from the trophy place. Don't
forget Wes we mentioned here. You want

580
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:27.559
to hear about the sex doll stories, and you need to be here for

581
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.239
the Friday episode of the Treehouse podcast
coming out later this week. Before that,

582
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:36.360
you can enjoy the Treehouse Football podcast
that will drop on Thursday. We'll

583
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.280
see you next time, right here
in the Treehouse