Episode 66: The Von Erichs are Back!

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. Time to
leave your worries outside. Join me Daniel

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Malley, Trade Trenholm and Raj Sharma
as we set out on our adventure to

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make your day just a little bit
better. It's a good thing about this

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show, and this is something I
truly believe. No matter if you're having

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a crap day or even a great
day, coming inside this treehouse for just

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a little while, we'll still make
that day better. And if you don't

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believe, just ask the Christmas tree
that just turned on as I said that.

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That was amazing. I was like, am I seeing that? Because

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I'm like, I'm just drinking water, but that was incredible. I think

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we should take that as a as
a sure sign that Jesus approves of what

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I just said. Yeah, it's
either that or the scorpion walk buying clipped

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the plug and it's like Merry Christmas
and then it's coming towards you as we

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speak. That also is possible.
Yeah, I mean it's I mean,

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they do have those pinchures. They
can probably grab boards and plug them in,

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unplug them type of stuff. So
if you're curious as to what Raj

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is talking about and any sort of
an adventure that I may or may not

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have had with a scorpion. Then
that is your clue to join the Treehouse

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Plus program, where, for a
mere five dollars a month on patreon dot

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com slash treehouse on area, you
can hear about my misadventure where I go

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mano a mano with a scorpion.
M as much as I'd love to,

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you know, it involved a Arnold
Schwarzenegger from the movie Commando's Style preparation scene

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where I'm smearing the black across my
forearms and my face and I'm getting ready

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to take on an entire army.
It's not nearly that cool, but we

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can all. We can all dream. Yeah, hopefully it was Mono a

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mono, because if it was Monoa
female and she was pregnant, then you

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got a bunch of little scorpions running
around there. They are probably under the

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tile. Oh Jesus, what are
baby scorpions called? Because I know spider

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like spider babies are spider lings that
I know. I don't know if it's

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scorpion lings or or I think that
I think the term is an assholes.

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It is possible. I don't know. I didn't I didn't take the time

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to ask, you know, like, hey, what are your children called?

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But I think it's safe to say
that most offspring of most species at

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some point or another has been referred
to as asshole. Certain certainly human,

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but on the superhero side of my
brain, Like I imagine when you sprayed

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it with the stuff and then you
left it outside, the chemicals combined with

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the sun and the air of the
islands has turned it into one giant fing

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scorpion that knows where you live.
Are you trying to say that the scorpion

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that I had the encounter with may
have joined with four other scorpions to create

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a scorpion Voltron? Correct? That
is both terrifying and awesome. It gets

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me right in estalgia? Yeah,
like that's where he plants this thing yet,

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is right? Noia? Yeah?
God, I love that show Growing

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Up Voltron so bad. And then
there what was the other one that was

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with the guy who would like had
the little thing and then he would become

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like he would be huge and silver
he had the little that wasn't Voltron?

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That was Yeah, that was the
one with the animals that all turned into

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one was what was the Vultron?
Was the ships? Well? There was

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that I thought you were talking about. Was it Gungan? No? What

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was the one when he had the
little the little clicker thing. It was

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like a little Japanese guy and then
he would be huge and like in a

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silver suit with the nobody. I
have to love this up. Now you

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guys carry on Voltrons the species of
jar jar binks. That's terrible. Yeah,

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I know it's on the It's on
the tip of my tongue. Yeah.

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Voltron was all the Yeah, Vultron
is all the animals, the tigers

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or the jaguars or whatever they were. They would form him vultron beast king.

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What was the one you're saying it
was a vultron beast king? Yes,

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mm hmm, yeah, well if
you can see it, yeah,

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Jesus Christ being sucks. Yes?
Is that is that what you have to

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use on the island? Is bing? That's what it's just. It's it's

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my stupid computer's like first thing that
it goes to. Gundam. That's what

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Gundam, that's what it's called.
Does that not ring a bell to yaj

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No? It was hold on,
I'll find it. I'm guessing Trey,

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you're just completely in the dark.
On this and wondering what sort of nerd

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anime thing we're talking about. I
vaguely remember Voltron. Uh uh, I

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remember G fours. Yeah, that
was where they had the little planes I

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think, and then they formed the
big one. I don't know. Teamwork

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was a big was a big theme
running throughout the eighties. It's like,

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Okay, we're all gonna come together
as one kind of power rangers. Did

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I think they did that as well. They became one big power ranger.

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I don't remember clearly. We're off
into an area where we're not very There's

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there's somebody listening that remembers what I'm
talking about. But he was like it

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was a dude, and when he
needed to fight off whatever he needed to

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fight off, he had a little
clicker thing and he would push down on

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it and he would turn in this
giant silver dude like with a helmet like.

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I can't remember the name of it, but that was dope. I

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love that thing anyway. Yeah,
for some reason, I have no idea

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the one that you're talking about.
If I saw it, i'd probably recognize

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it. Yeah. Yeah, if
somebody's listening and remember that, email me

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or whatever. Email the show I
feel like this has been like seven minutes,

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just absolutely wasted speaking of our age, but both in what we remember

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and what we don't. Yeah,
that actually is pretty accurate. It's like,

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hey, remember this thing when we
were kids that was really cool.

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It's like kinda but not really.
So some of us are going like,

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I know that thing that was cool, and then the rest of us are

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like, kinda, but I don't
remember it. You're right, that's the

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sweet spot of aging out of things. I remember something cool from my youth,

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but not very not very well.
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Thank you to them. So yeah,

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things, speaking of things making a
resurgence, obviously our memories are not one

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of them. But while it's still
fresh in Raj's brain. I saw that

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the other day. You got a
good look at the Von Erics because I

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guess you went to the eight w
Wrestling event the other day. Yeah,

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you know, it's weird. It's
one of those weird things how comedy works.

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And you get to be friends with
people you got to watch growing up.

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And so I'm friends with a lot
of these wrestlers and they were in

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town. So I hit him up
and I was like, Hey, let's

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come to the show. So we
went and it was also the big promo

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for it was the Von Erics return
to Dallas, and I was like,

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that's amazing. And it was Kevin
van Erk and his sons, Marshall and

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Ross that were coming back. And
they did a little promo at the thing.

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It was behind the you know,
it was behind the scenes. They

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just had him on the JumboTron.
But it was really cool to see them,

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you know, back in Dallas.
And at one point they get approached

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by another wrestler and they're like,
hey, help, you know, have

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this three three way match tonight.
So why don't you two guys his two

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sons, why don't you team up
with me and we'll wrestle these guys,

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and I was like, Oh,
this is gonna be great. And I

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didn't realize how much nostalgia was gonna
happen, right, and uh, I

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knew it was going to be the
first There's two segments. One's called Dynamite,

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one's called Rampage, and it was
Rampage and the first set of three

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wrestlers come out. I can't remember
there there's Jack Hagger and then I think

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it's Young Bucks that came out,
and then Stranglehold by Ted Newtan starts playing,

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which was Kevin's old music from back
in the day, and I literally

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got choked up. Oh, because
yeah, I grew up. I grew

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up watching them, right. So
we would go to this sportatorym like it

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was down like fifteen minutes from the
house. So we would go to the

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Sportatorium all the time. And was
there for the you know, David von

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Eeric memorial thing that they did at
Texas Stadium was in both years, and

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his sons came out, uh,
Marshall and Ross and it was just cool

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to see because it was Marshall I
think is the oldest, I believe,

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and Ross is the youngest. Could
it could be whatever, but uh,

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it was really nice, like he's
a big like Marshall's is a big dude,

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like he's David David Vonn And most
people don't realize it was like six

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seven six eight Jesus. Yeah,
it was a big fellow. Uh.

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And he came out like they came
out. It was. It was very

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reminiscent of like back in the day. Uh. And it was just really

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neat to see like that because just
the tragedy of that family and then to

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see them come back into the wrestling
fold it And they said this time I

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believe I thought I heard Irving,
Texas, but they used to be from

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Denton, Texas. How they were, Uh. Last I remember watching a

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documentary on them a couple of years
ago, and Kevin was living in Hawaii

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and basically had distanced himself from all
things wrestling, but I didn't, and

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that they did say show his two
sons were wrestling. I think they were

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like over in Japan or whatever.
And he was very like you could tell

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he wasn't thrilled about it, but
he also knew it was in their blood

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and there really wasn't a lot he
could do about it. Yeah, I

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know that they sold their house in
Hawaii, and I think that I think

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that there. I think they were
been signed with AW full time and that's

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gonna be amazing if that happens.
Well, honestly, the timing couldn't be

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better because they've got the movie coming
out soon called The Iron Claw starring Zach

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Effron and some other folks and I
when we were in town, Tara and

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I went and saw a movie and
they had the trailer for it before the

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you know, our main feature,
and the trailer looks phenomenal. Yes,

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they are like Oscar talk for Zach
Efron for I believe he's Kevin, but

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yeah, it's a it was.
Yeah the documentary that you talk, well,

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like they sold their house they're saying, I think either Denton, Texas

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or Irving, Texas. But they're
here now, and I thin get with

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AW. I thought it was the
same thing then, like it maybe just

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a part like to coincide with the
movie releasing on December twenty second, which

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even that would be great. But
I will say, like just watching them,

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like Marshall has he's got it,
like the thing that they had,

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Yeah, the thing that they have, that thing, whatever that thing is,

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Uh, he's got it. Based
on the movie trailer, it's it's

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abuse. He's got it. What's
called it's called it's called abuse fueled talent.

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Well, they have a lot in
coming with the Jackson Fife. So

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well, if you think about all
those quot unquote great families, there's uh,

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there's always that. There's always almost
always the dad. It's almost always

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it. Sometimes it might be a
mom, but just almost always a dad

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who's pushing the family. Whether it's
like the Venus and Serena Williams, whether

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it's and their dad or Tiger Woods's
dad, Yes, von Eric's dad,

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the Jackson family, I mean,
Jesus Kennedy's, I mean, all these

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great families, the Kennedy's, that's
that's a nice one. Yeah, I

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know, I just just never put
them in the like, I just can't

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see the Kennedy's whooping the same ass
as like Joe Sins of the Father.

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Well, clearly you've never gone to
any uh prep school New England prep school

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backyard wrestling events, maybe more accurately
would be h New England prep school pe

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nuckle battles. Yeah, that's what
that's why I see. It's like I

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don't understand, like Uh, you
know, no caveat for you today.

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Son. It's like, oh I
hate you Dad, and Joe Jackson is

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like hitting a kid with a bass
guitar. They messed up the words to

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a song. That's a different kind
of abuse. But yeah, I mean

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that that's that whole family and it's
just the you know that the tragic but

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he's the kids got it. And
then Ross, who's the other one,

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wants it like he he wants like
he wants. He's got the he's got

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the size and the skill, but
it's the charisma that comes with it,

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like it's the yeah, like he
like your I immediately went to Marshall van

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Eric and he was he put on
a they both all put on a great

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show. And at the end,
like there was a there was a little

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uh tom foolery and shenanigans that happened
at the end and that forced our men,

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Kevin van Eric to come out at
the end. Uh and uh they

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all three administered the vicious claw.
Uh and that was yeah, that was

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just like the cool you mentioned getting
chills earlier. Hearing you say that all

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three administered that the iron claw actually
got a chill. Yeah, yeah,

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does Marshall have you you say the
it factor, like of the van Eric

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Carrey was the only one that really
had the it factor as far as translating

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into national stardom. Yes, he
was the only one that was ever even

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for w CCW. Who's the only
one that was the heavyweight champion out of

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all the brothers And uh, he
he's got it. He's got He's got

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David's height, so he's like six, Like he's taller than his dad.

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So he's like six six ish,
blonde hair, big, super athletic.

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Russell's barefoot like his uh, like
his old man. Uh. And at

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one point there was a great if
you knew you knew, Like there was

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a little tribute kind of thing to
all the brothers. Right, So at

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one point Marshall does the flying clothesline
into the corner, which was Kevin's move.

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Uh. And he's fighting somebody else
in the ring and he does the

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discus punch, which was Carrie's closing
move. Uh. And then at the

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end they do the claw, which
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David was the first one to do
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kind of an homage like if you
knew was that? And like I again

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right there, I got choked up
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man, that was awesome to watch, and I felt really bad because you

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know, it's a generational thing because
when they announced them one air, it's

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like half the audience went bananas,
and I remember the other half. I

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could hear the kids around us going
like, who's that And it's just because

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you know, they've been gone for
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for Kevin, everybody else is dead. So it is one of those things

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that I hope that this generation,
like his two kids, bring that like

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popularity of what they contributed to this
sport because you know, say what you

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want to say, but that guy, I mean WCCW out of Dallas,

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out of the Sportatorium, that Dungee
Little whatever it was, was global,

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like they went like worldwide. So
but yeah, it was just super cool

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to see that. I don't know
if they'll ever do it again. I

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haven't seen them on any other lineups. They're gonna be in Oklahoma City next

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week, so I might go watch
that one, but uh, the Vonns

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aren't listed on that one. You
know. The thing it really just cracked

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me up about the old WCCW and
this supportatorium. Is you want to talk

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about something that you could not do
today because it played on every yeah,

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every racial stereotype. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah it was.

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Uh And if you go back and
watch the old footage, like just people

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like chain smoking while people are trying
to like people are trying to wrestle,

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they're just like throwing beer on people
and then ordering another one. There's like

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a guy who's just coming through with
like a milk crate full of styrofoam cup

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beers, and people like the smoking, and then like the von Aras would

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come to the ring that women would
like make out with them, Like I

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think it's not Mark Lance, but
Kevin man Kevin David Manning was the old

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referee, and they uh interviewed him
and he's like, I haven't. He's

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like they had more sex walking to
the ring than I've ever had in my

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life. I'm also surprised back in
those days, and maybe they did,

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but I just didn't see it that
they didn't actually use the lit cigarettes in

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the ring, like like put it
out in somebody's eyeball or something. Yeah,

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that's it, so okay, So
that's a different Like I don't understand

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even the even the planning of wrestling. What do you have to because you

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know, I asked these guys,
you know, wrestling's fake. I'm like,

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okay, well you you take a
barbed wire back to the face and

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you tell me if it's a make
or not. Like they just know they're

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going to do it. And I've
sat there before and I've talked to these

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guys and I'm like, so,
what what's it like. It's like,

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oh, yeah, we just meet
up in the afternoon, we go over

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the match and I'm like, okay, so you're like, hey, so

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I'm going to kick you in the
nuts at some point, and they're like,

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yeah, sounds good. And then
I'm gonna stab you in the head

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with a fork. It's like,
all right, sounds good. All right,

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lunch, like how do you do? Like what what? Like what

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is the like It's like, right
now, that's not typical office place water

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cooler. Yeah, I'm sure there
were people going, hey, so why

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don't you do this? Like why
don't you grab the guy's cigarette and then

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you know, just jab it in
my forehead And then somebody had to go,

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okay, guys, we can't go
that far, like you just got

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you stick to the barbed wire and
setting them on fire. But we can't

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actually just put a cigarette butt out
on somebody and don't forget you know that

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one of their big is they carried
razor blades on it and then cut themselves.

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Yeah, yeah, you go.
A lot of the old wrestlers,

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their foreheads they're just it's it looks
like a UFC fighter's ear. I mean,

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they're just scar tissue. Yeah.
Yeah. Well I was at uh.

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I was a match here for a
WU a year and a half ago,

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and my buddy Lance Archer was fighting
John Moxley and it was a barb

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wire match and there was barboire everywhere
and again when I bring up the fork,

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at some point a fork just came
out of John Moxley's but he started

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stabbing my buddy in the head.
So I asked him the next day,

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Wait, he pulled out of his
boot, right, Yeah, pulled a

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fork. Okay, for a second, I thought you said, okay,

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no, that would be hilarious.
But also don't say that now because somebody's

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gonna hear this and go to somebody
in the a's like, pull out of

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your butt, and they're like,
sounds good, but out of his boot

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and started and I asked Lance.
I was like, how did that conversation

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start? He just goes, Moxley
walked in as I was lacing on my

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boots and goes, I'm going to
use this, and Lence goes all right,

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and then he just walked out like
he didn't say how, he didn't

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say what he was gonna do.
It didn't sound like he was asking permission.

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He just says, I'm going to
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And the best part is that we
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talking and I forget people don't know
what it. So he's done the same

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thing where he's cut himself repeatedly,
and then there's just fork. I mean

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just you can see where he's been
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fork and we're ordering sushi and the
guy who's taking our order just keeps staring

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at his head and I go,
uh, and because we were laughing and

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cutting up and whatever, and I
just looked at him and go, hey,

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man, you're bleeding from one of
the fork stabs and the gun and

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I said it out loud and the
guy just kind of looks at me,

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like, what did you guys get
into before you guys got the bluefish at

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the galleria. You should have you
should have gone. That's why I were

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eating sushi because they can't trust him
with forks stick on the meal. You're

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you were a Nick kid, you
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you were supervised, absolutely or not. No, that kid was alone with

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It is not lost on me that
our Treehouse resident wrestling expert is a first

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generation Indian immigrant Hindu from Gonna.
Yeah, my mom were the backstory to

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it real fast before I share my
joy because I found something and my mom

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worked the er overnight at Mesqie Community
Hospital. So instead of taking whenever the

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wrestlers got injured at this pontorium,
instead of taking them to Baylor which was

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right across the street. All the
fans would show up for Baylor, assuming

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they would be there, they would
take them to Mesquite Community. So my

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mom bandaged all these guys up.
So she was literally known as the mean

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Indian Lady because she was how was
she had got a character at the sportatorium

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making making appearances, she would have
been she would have been so mad.

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She would have she would have beat
everybody with the shoe. There would have

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been nothing fake or planned about that. She would have whooped everybody's ass with

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her shoe, all five foot three. And I remember it was Again it

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sounds weird, but Roddy Roddy Piper
started doing stand up in LA at the

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same time I had moved, and
so we would be at the comedy store

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and we got to be friends,
and I was just like, hey,

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you came through and did that circuit
and like, yeah, did you ever

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know you got hurt and you had
to go? Do you ever go to

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Mesquite Community Hospital? He's like,
yeah, A couple of times. Normally

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I would go to Baylor, and
he liked it because he would sign autographs

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on the way and like his head's
bleeding and he's just signing autographs looks cool.

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Did you ever meet the because I've
known a couple of wrestlers that were

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like the mean Indian lady and He's
like, yes, she hated us,

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and I was like, yeah,
that's my mom, so Yeahanna. Her

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favorite was David Vonnier. He was
the most polite Dan. I would like

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to point out, though, in
your intro of you know that our wrestling

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expert is first generation Indian Hindu,
you know, and all that makes it

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sound you know, and then you
said from Mesquite, which then you go,

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yeah, okay, well of course
he would be at wrestling expert.

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That's why I had to make sure
to include it, because all the things

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preceding it don't add up. Once
you say from Mesquite, then everyone's like,

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ah, now I get it.
It makes sense. What that shows

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you is the power of Mesquite and
and and the pull and the influence it

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can have on on many a young
children. My first job, my first

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job was at the Mesquite Rodeo.
It was my first job. It sounds

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like at least like concessions. I
was your I don't know about the wrestling

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expert, but you two my friends. I don't like to brag about certain

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things. But you guys are staring
at the four time uh number one Freedo

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pie salesman at the Mesquite Rodeo four
weeks in a row. Your boy here

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sold the most Freedo pies out of
anybody in concessions? Did that really take

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skill? Selling Freedo pie at the
rodeo and Mesquite? How hard it is

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to sell week old chili? Yes, it was the same chili from the

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like if we don't if we didn't
finish it, we just put it in

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the vat and into the freezer.
I just assumed it was the like the

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meat in the chili was from the
bowl that didn't do so well the week

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before. I wouldn't be surprised or
the rider, Look I would, I

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wouldn't be Uh yeah, I wouldn't
be surprised at all. Yeah, it

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was. It was great. I
sold the popcorn when we would sell,

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our manager will go if they come
back and just give them their money,

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I'm like, is it that bad? They're like, you don't want to

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eat it? Like it was just
there. However long the season, Like

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they popped that popcorn once and then
however long the season went. Is how

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long those boxes stayed up there,
and then the next year is when they

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would same same cheese. Like they
if we didn't finish the nacho chase,

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they poured it right back in the
container, back in the freezer. Uh.

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And then it was the next week
you had to set it out the

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thaw and then you put it in
the chafing dish and let it bubble.

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Uh. Yeah, but four weeks
in a row, and I got to

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really help that. They've made improvements
since then as well, But I will

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I will tell you. They did
give me a twenty five dollars gift card

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to Don Gay's Steakhouse. Let me
tell you. Yeah, let me tell

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you what that bought you back then. Uh, not a goddamn thing.

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I didn't get you anything, like
nothing. I think I got a glass

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of water. But I did get
to be dumb Gay, which was hilarious

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because that was the first time I
was taller than anybody. Does that say,

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he's like II five Yeah, if
that, I will be five to

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five with his cowboy boots on.
So you take off the three in cheels.

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He's like, it's like Prince was
he five to one or was he

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four ten? Like, let's be
honest. Prince was technically a little person.

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He technically was like he wore six
in cheals and don gay like you

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doing a great job selling free pass. I was like, is this what

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opportunity is? Free? There's no
photo. I don't know what we're doing.

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Did word get back to you?
I know what it was? Or

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it was like to boost morale?
And I was just like, I'm taller

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than this fellow, all right.
I felt like I was like, there's

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hope for me in the NFL yet
if he's a champion ball rider, I'm

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playing for the Cowboys. He gave
me hope in a twenty five dollars gift

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card. That's what I. Oh
God. But to go back to the

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beginning of the segment, at the
beginning of the first segment, when I

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was talking about like giant dude,
silver guy with the helmet, Yeah found

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him. Uh it was. His
name is Kiodi Hero, which translates in

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Japanese to giant Hero, or as
we called him here, Ultraman. Oh.

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I remember, okay, Yeah,
I remember Ultraman Yeah. Yeah.

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That was the joint man. That
was the coolest thing back then. He

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had the little thing that you click
and then he would turn into that guy

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and I'm like, yeah, I
found him. So just a sense of

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accomplishment. Congratulations, Raj, You've
taken learned how to search the internet for

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something that you were trying to find
out. Do you know how hard it

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is when you just type in Japanese
silver man, There's a lot of things

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that pop up. It's a very
brave search term that. Yeah, now

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I have to clear out there in
your history. Yeah, I'm not gonna

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clear my history. I don't want
to die with that. Like, what

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was he looking at? Some weird
stuff? What was the last thing he

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looked for? Oh, I got
it. Just start with Japanese and you're

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you know already it's like it's weird
stuff, giant and silver Japanese. This

403
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:40.160
guy was drinking. But yeah,
I'm glad I found that. Well,

404
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:44.960
I'm glad that you can now rest
easy. How about that? Yes,

405
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.160
Ultra Man. Now I have to
go back and watch episodes. That's how

406
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.359
my brain works. Now. I
have to watch at least a couple episodes

407
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:55.440
after we get done. I'm I'm
I'm really hesitant to go back and watch

408
00:29:55.519 --> 00:30:00.400
things from my youth that I haven't
seen in a really long time because I'm

409
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.799
afraid they won't hold up because I've
done that before and I ended up disappointed.

410
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.599
I mentioned it before, you know, Dukes of Hazzard is one of

411
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:14.079
those classic examples where I loved that
show as a kid, and then they

412
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:18.839
started re airing episodes of it on
CMT back in the you know, like

413
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.400
I don't know, like fifteen twenty
years ago, and I watched a couple

414
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.160
of episodes, thinking like, oh, this is great. I'm gonna watch

415
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.279
this. You know this this is
before you know, all the tea,

416
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:32.119
all the different streaming services and stuff, and it's like, I'm gonna go

417
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.160
back and rewatch this. This is
gonna be awesome. And Roscoe and Boss

418
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.880
Hog and the Duke Boys and even
Coy and Vance during the contract dispute,

419
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.480
It's gonna be awesome. You get
Daisy and the Jeep and I go back

420
00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:48.799
and I watched like five minutes into
an episode, and I am appalled,

421
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.000
like this is awful. How did
this ever make television in the first place.

422
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:57.480
It's like, my god, the
threshold for getting on TV in the

423
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:03.880
eighties was apparently so low. Yeah, that show just did not hold up.

424
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.160
So I'm very cautious to go back
and rewatch things to see if they

425
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.079
actually hold up, because yeah,
I mean I went back and I was

426
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.319
I was like, let me watch
Godzilla versus Mathra because I love that one.

427
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:15.400
That was one of my favorites.
And I'm like, oh, you

428
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.680
can see the wires, like you
can see the wires on god'sillas and flying

429
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.319
through the air. I'm like,
Okay, that's whatever, but yeah,

430
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:23.079
you can actually see a hole in
the suit of god'zilly. You can see

431
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:27.279
like the guy's toes sticking out,
yeah, where he has to breathe.

432
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.599
But yeah, go back, like, go watch hehaw. You want to

433
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.440
talk about something that doesn't hold up? Like that was a tough one.

434
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.759
I watched like two episodes and I
was like, wow, that's like really

435
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:45.680
sad, misogynistic, racist show.
Ye I was bad then. I think

436
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:52.240
that was kind of its formula.
I was a buck Owens and uh god,

437
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:56.799
well what was the lady with the
hat mini pearl, Mini pearl?

438
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.680
Yeah, I mean I was my
dad, my mom that Roy Clark,

439
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.440
that show Roy Clark Man. Absolutely, they love that show. Then I

440
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:06.319
was like, I was like,
I love the jokes when they would pop

441
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:07.960
up in the cornfield and tell Joe, I'm like, yeah, I want

442
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.279
to be a comic too. And
then I watched it, like literally,

443
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:14.799
I think we watched a couple of
episodes like maybe six months ago, and

444
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.680
I was like, oh, this
is terrible, Like I can't believe this

445
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:21.599
was on the or perhaps your friends
at the rodeo took you for a real

446
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.359
adventure into a into a cornfield and
you realize this is not what I thought

447
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:32.200
it was going to be. Is
this a stand up I want done?

448
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:38.400
Gay? Yeah? But it was. Uh, I worry about that too.

449
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:40.960
But you but then again, you'll
watch a Christmas Story every year,

450
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.200
and that's that's different because there there
has never been a gap. There hasn't

451
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.039
been like a twenty or thirty year
gap in that in that in those viewings

452
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:57.400
of a Christmas to you guys rented
it every year. Then it was always

453
00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:00.680
on TV. I don't think it
was always is on TV. It always

454
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.839
felt like it was. I mean
because I remember, you know, because

455
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.720
I think that movie when did it
first come out? Was it this?

456
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:10.599
It was early eighties when it first
came out, wasn't it? Yeah?

457
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.920
I mean, since I since the
inception of all the Turner networks, Yeah,

458
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:16.960
I believe it has been on the
air every year. Yeah, so

459
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:22.880
I never felt without when it came
to the when it came to a Christmas

460
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.599
story, I'm with you that that's
a bad movie. Yes, thank you,

461
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:35.480
thank you. That's why you've always
been my favorite. I do not

462
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.920
get people's love of that movie.
It's a terrible movie. I'm like,

463
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.160
even like when I watched them,
like my immigrant father could say, fragile

464
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.160
for gila, that's the dumb like, right, I mean, that was

465
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.319
just dumb right there. I was
like, And then I'm like, I

466
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.759
have known people that would look at
that box and they also would have said,

467
00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:00.279
fred Gila, it must be Italian. No, you don't. If

468
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:02.160
you did, that's who traded you
off in a Walmart parking lot. That's

469
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.319
why. That's what. That's who
you know. That's the only people I

470
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.800
could look. I looked saying that
they were not high quality individuals. To

471
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:19.840
understand. My dad was an English
tutor in India and he spelled tomorrow t

472
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.719
a marrow. And I'm like,
how many people did you mess up?

473
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.559
Like, how many people did you
mess up? And he could say fragile.

474
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.360
I'm like, come on, man, yeah, And then I'm like

475
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.679
with the bb gun. I'm like
a hope he murders the whole family,

476
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:34.800
and then he didn't. I'm like, let's go waste of a movie.

477
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:37.239
If you want to remake the movie, make it with a real make it

478
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:45.440
with today's weapons, like Jesus.
Now, that's a Christmas story to remember.

479
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:52.719
It's a it's a preecent war fever
dream type of thing s against the

480
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:59.280
backdrop of Christmas. Okay, see
now now we're talking with another movie we

481
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.840
have to write. So basically,
you just want die Hard but with a

482
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:20.960
kid, yes, or Scarf.
I was thinking Scarface with Santa f.

483
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:31.159
You're listening to The Treehouse. Visit
us online that Treehouse on air dot com.

484
00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:36.679
Let's get Daniel Cook into the Treehouse
now from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration.

485
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.280
Their phone number for your free roof
inspection eight three three COOKIDFW the website cookdfw

486
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.880
dot com. So Daniel, I
know, you go out to someone's house,

487
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.079
you do that free roof inspection,
let them know good, bad,

488
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.079
ugly with the roof, and you're
honest about it. You take photos and

489
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.320
explain everything. But if someone just
wants to kind of eyeball it themselves not

490
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.599
go on the roof, because I
know you don't recommend that that's your job.

491
00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:58.920
But if I'm just walking around the
outside of the house, what should

492
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.280
I be looking for to see if
there's possibly a problem. Things that a

493
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.440
homeowner might be able to see from
the ground would be miss missing shingles,

494
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:07.480
obviously, if you see some gaps
in the shingles, or if you see

495
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.719
some black underlayment, that means some
shingles had blown off. If you've seen

496
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:17.639
maybe some of the ventilation folded or
maybe you know, bent backwards or anything

497
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:23.480
like that. You also might see
around the perimeter you might see some of

498
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:28.800
the metal drip edge or flashings maybe
loose. But you know, from the

499
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.079
ground, it's it's hard to see
a lot of these homes here in North

500
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:34.760
Texas. And so, you know, the old days, the homes were

501
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.679
really easy to get up on.
They were just a four or five pitch

502
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.679
gable roof and jump. Everybody would
jump up there and fix their own roofs

503
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:43.039
or or look at it and see
when they had a problem. And now

504
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.079
these days you just can't do that. And so yeah, I still think

505
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.880
it's easier just to give us a
call. You know, it's no problem

506
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.599
for us to come out. We
take thirty or forty five minutes of our

507
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.920
time, you know, make an
assessment, take some pictures, like you

508
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.440
said. We just did that this
week. A guy off a royal lane

509
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.199
called us out, extremely heavy pitch
roof. He said, my neighbors have

510
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:06.320
been getting roos replaced, and I
don't I don't think I have any problems.

511
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:08.400
We jump up there and he had
one of his exhaust vents, the

512
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:12.440
cap of it completely was blown off, and so he just had a hole

513
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.639
in his exhaust and so water from
rain was just pouring down in that exhaust

514
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.320
vent. Yeah, no idea.
You couldn't see it from the ground.

515
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:21.199
So those are the kind of things
that we do. We're gonna make sure

516
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.039
your home is safe. And and
like we told him, you know,

517
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.719
you're fortunate, sir, you don't
have a lot of roof damage, but

518
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.760
you didn't need this done because it
was gonna cause you a lot of problems

519
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:30.840
down the road. So and that, and that to me is one of

520
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.760
the that's one of the key factors
right there, is to try to avoid

521
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.719
a major problem down the line.
Called Daniel Cook and his guys to come

522
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:40.840
out take a look at the house
now so you can avoid a major problem

523
00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:44.719
down the line. So give him
a call eight three three Cook DFW for

524
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:49.760
the free roof inspection eight three three
Cook DFW and cookdfw dot com. It's

525
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.079
the street house. Let's talk to
Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing right now in the

526
00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:55.880
treehouse. Their phone number for any
and all of you are plumbing once and

527
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.320
needs two one to four, three
six, eight thirty eight thirty eight.

528
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.880
The website Plumbing Texas dot com.
Jacqueline for someone that's that's currently in their

529
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.840
house, what are some good smart
upgrades they could make with their plumbing?

530
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:14.559
I think, I mean, I'm
trying to think about. I think the

531
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:16.760
number one thing that I can think
of right now would be a floodstop.

532
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:22.559
So, especially if your water heater
is located in your attic, the last

533
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.800
thing you want it to do is
burst and you come home and it's just

534
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:29.400
raining in your house. That have
had that happen to many many people,

535
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.119
And people are like, oh,
the solution is a tankless water heater.

536
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.280
Yeah, that's definitely an option,
but it's very very expensive. But for

537
00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:37.760
a couple hundred dollars, we can
put in a floodstop where there's a sensor

538
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.480
that sits underneath your your water heater
and if it detects any moisture, it

539
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.840
just shuts it off for you.
And what more could you ask for than

540
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:49.880
to have basically it's like water heater
AI, just to have a little robot

541
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.039
homie that's like not here today.
And in case it does, or you

542
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:55.000
want to prevent it from happening,
then you give Jaqueline from Brooks Plumbing a

543
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:59.440
call right now two one four three
six eight thirty eight thirty eight. Or

544
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:06.880
of course explaining Texas dot com.
You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us

545
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:14.000
online at Treehouse on Air dot com. This segment of the Treehouse is brought

546
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.800
to you by our friends at Brooks
Plumbing. Brooks Plumbing, the phone number

547
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.840
for any and all of your plumbing
wants and needs is two one four three

548
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.679
six eight thirty eight thirty eight.
That's two one four three six eight thirty

549
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:35.000
eight thirty eight. The website Brooks
Plumbing, Texas dot com. Speaking of

550
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:44.599
Christmas and various goings on with it, there was a story I so I

551
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:51.400
wanted to throw at you, gentlemen, if I can find the damn thing,

552
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.880
Uh there is. Don't get distracted, but this did happen in Florida.

553
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:02.199
Okay, we need to just have
one segment that's all news stories from

554
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:07.280
Florida. I'm with you. You
can actually do an entire episode of that

555
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:15.760
weekly Florida man got agitated my neighborhood
Christmas parade, so we fired off several

556
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:22.639
gunshots. Yeah nice, damn your
cheer. See this is the Hallmark movie

557
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:30.960
that I think we all are craving. Yes, Like, let's have a

558
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:37.599
Hallmark movie where the big city girl
comes to the country town in Florida.

559
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:43.000
And that's the inciting incident of the
film is she returns home and sees and

560
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.519
sees her her old ex high school
boyfriend shooting at the kids doing the Christmas

561
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:52.480
parade in front of his house.
Let them find love with that starting point.

562
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:59.960
If you can make that work,
you'll have no obstacles in your relationship.

563
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:06.440
I'm probably not. A Florida man
was arrested after he allegedly fired off

564
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:10.679
several shots during a neighborhood Christmas parade
because he became agitated at what parade goers

565
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.960
were doing. That's according to Deputies
Douglas Moore, forty three was arrested and

566
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:21.440
charged with six counts have aggravated assault
with a firearm, reckless discharge of a

567
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:25.320
firearm, and using a firearm while
under the influence of alcohol after the incident

568
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:31.639
that unfolded this past Saturday. According
to an arrest David from the Clay County

569
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:37.360
Sheriff's Office, as the Middleburg Christmas
Parade was underway, deputies and SWAT team

570
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.760
members responded to the location along the
parade route after several gunshots were heard.

571
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:47.159
If you're curious, Middlebird is located
about thirty miles southwest of Jacksonville, not

572
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:55.239
far from where we were driving our
van full of stuff. So I've seen

573
00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:01.119
where this man lives. Yeah,
I'm not surprised. Yeah, I've I've

574
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:08.239
been to Jacksonville and it is a
yeah. It's it's on the water there.

575
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:10.559
It's got the pretty lights on the
buildings and stuff. But it's just

576
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.480
the stadium is beautiful. Yeah.
And then and then you leave that area

577
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:20.519
and within minutes it's like, oh, okay, well it's I mean,

578
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.840
it's one of those things that you
got to keep Yeah, I mean,

579
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:23.920
it's one of those things you got
to keep in mind when it comes to

580
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:29.639
you know, to to Florida in
general. It especially if you're flying over

581
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:35.039
it at a low enough altitude that's
Florida. You get a really good idea

582
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.719
of it. You see maybe a
really kind of cool looking city from the

583
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:43.800
air, but then you're reminded that
right outside the city is a swap.

584
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:51.000
Yeah, it's like this. It's
like the it's like the I would say

585
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:55.440
the governor Ron, it's like,
we're gonna give We're gonna we're gonna give

586
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.159
Jacksonville however much money this year for
whatever projects that they need to do.

587
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.760
How much they need a billion dollars? Cool, give all of it except

588
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.880
for three dollars to the rest of
the city, all of it to downtown,

589
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.840
and all of it to the upgrade
the upkeeping of the nice touristy parts.

590
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:14.800
And then everybody else gets a nickel. Like that's what everybody gets.

591
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.400
Just mail everybody a nickel. That's
all we gotta do. Uh. Yeah,

592
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:22.360
it's uh. And I just love
the idea. I hope because six

593
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.079
six counts of aggravated assault, that's
gonna be uh, that's gonna be a

594
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:30.559
long time in jail, and so
I hope that he's there long enough to

595
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:37.639
be in charge of the Charristmas parade
in jail. Pretty sure a parade in

596
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:40.639
jail is a very different parade than
the ones we're used to seeing on television.

597
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:45.159
Trust me, he'll be more than
agitated. I believe that's called a

598
00:43:45.239 --> 00:44:01.960
train. He's like, I'm the
kaboos. Look, Hey, I'm glad.

599
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:07.519
I saw you as a little engine
that could and did, and we'll

600
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:17.800
never forget. See, we managed
to find a happy ending in this very

601
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:27.960
sad story. It's a gift that
we're all blessed with and we share it

602
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:34.639
with you inside the tree Coming up
next time in the Treehouse, I believe

603
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.159
we've got a football show that'll be
on tap. Excited for that and of

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course the Fridday episode later on this
week, So stay right here inside the

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Treehouse all week long.