Episode 70: Arctic Blast 2024 (Avalanche of Stupid)

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Welcome inside the Treehouse along with me, Daniel Mallley, Trey Trenholm, Raj

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Sharma and you if you have made
it. I believe your worries outside or

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in today's case, more like,
leave all that cold crap outside and come

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inside the Treehouse. Yeah. Two
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to that plus show because Dan really
comes forward and it opens up about some

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things. Yeah, you know,
there's the trip to Seattle really changes life,

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change his life, and turns out
I was I was exposed to something.

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Yeah, yeah that I'm gonna have
a difficult time returning from Yes,

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and did not want to share with
his beautiful wife what what what he was

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exposed to because she loves it so
much. Well, I was trying to

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protect her rush We've barely had her
best interest in mind. That's how it

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starts, how it starts. Trust
me, you want to go listen to

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that episode because I think I'm actually
gonna go back and listen to it after

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this. Oh Jesus, anyway,
how how are you guys doing. I'd

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love to pretend and say, all
right, we're in the middle of it.

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It's Arctic Blast twenty twenty four and
we're all feeling the effects. But

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I have to be completely honest with
you guys. This is one of the

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this is one of the reasons why
we moved to an island in the sun

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is to get away from that nonsense. Twenty twenty one earned us burned us

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bad and uh, obviously it was
freezer burn and among the number of reasons

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why we wanted a change in scenery, that winter storm had had a big

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role to play, and the idea
of not having to go through another one

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of those is very, uh soothing
for us. But I'm not without empathy,

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are you guys? Cozy? How
are you feeling? Yeah, I

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got the heat on. It's it's
it's not not not planning to go.

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Uh. Anywhere we got the last
week, we went and actually prepared for

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it smart. We went and got
stuff that we would need, like in

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case things went awry like that,
like I did a couple of years ago.

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So we we've we've planned for it. We've got all this stuff.

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Uh, and then we got some
heat of blankets, so we're solids.

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Yeah, Drey, what about you? I'm doing okay. I've stocked up,

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got anything I might need and uh, you know, unfortunately I still

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have to go out, but uh, and it's it's miserable. But but

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Dan, I did I did feel
it for you because I did look at

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the forecast and you know, uh, you have that that big temperature gap,

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you know, swing of seventy six
eighty two all week, But it

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does look like it's it's You've got
a chance of rain almost all week.

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So I feel for you. Yeah, Saint John is is a real hell,

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especially this time of year. The
good thing you have going for you

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Trey, and I don't know Raja
if you're aware of this, but uh,

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Trey's dog Daisy, very famous Daisy. She is a three ish pound

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chihuahua. Here is something that anyone
that has ever had a chihuahua in their

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lives knows. The smaller they are, the more heat they generate. If

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Rkatt was smart, anytime they feel
like their generation is too low, they

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should just go plug into the nearest
chihuahua and you will see an entire neighborhood

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lit up with all the heat it
needs. This was true when we had

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Daphne, our four four and a
half pound space heating chihuahua. You put

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her under a blanket, you're sweating. Bella, our current chihuahua mix,

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who's like eight pounds, doesn't put
off the same amount of heat as Daphne

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did because she was smaller. It's
more concentrated, you know, but Bella

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still will put off a good amount
of heat, Trey, your Chihuahua Daisy

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would basically be like a radioactive isotope
heat source. Yes, she is.

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It is amazing that that small of
an animal can put off that much heat.

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But she will curl up against my
neck and I will be sweating in

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five minutes. Wow. So just
the Chihuahuas. I don't know if it

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happens with any other breed of dogs, because we've been we've had a number

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of dogs in our lives, Tara
and I have. We've also fostered many

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types of dogs, including ones that
are supposed to be, you know,

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cold weather dogs like we've we've fostered
a few, uh not Pekades, grant

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Great Pyrenees, very different dogs.
Those are the huge white dogs, you

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know, and you think if he, if that dog smothers you, you're

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gonna sweat and die. But no, they're actually it's very comfy and relaxing.

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But chihuahua. Yeah, so what
it is, it's like they just

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maybe that's the reason they shake.
It's not because they're cold, it's because

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they're just releasing so much heat.
Yeah. So the white dogs are relaxed,

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and then the chihuahuas are working extra
hard to generate heat. I don't

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know if I like this. I
don't know if I like this road called

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metaphor that you're you're taking down this. I'm just saying, you're saying the

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white you know, the white dog, doesn't you know, what you expect

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him to do, doesn't do,
and then what you you know, you

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get, you get the chihuaha and
it does more than you expected. I

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feel like this dry have on metaphor
lane, that you're taking me down RAJ

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into a very bad dead end.
No, and I'm trying to and I'm

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and I'm going to cancel this uber. Oh so now I drive an uber

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because I'm the Indian guy on the
show. You know what, I was

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already, it was already in the
neighborhood of stereotypes. I'm not as well

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exploited for my own benefit. Yeah
that was beautiful, well played, my

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friend. If I had I would
tip it to myself. Yeah that's uh

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yeah, I have one hundred pound
boxer bulldog and uh he it's very interesting.

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He likes the heated blank like you
can't get him off the heated blanket.

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I'm like, that's what you're like, your size, you should be

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warm, like that's you're a big
dog, you would think, you would

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think. And he no. He
curls right up on the electric blanket and

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he is dead to the world,
like literally, like I got to check

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on him, like, I'm like, oh you did you did you get

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elextrocuted? What happened buddy? And
he just kind of looks up like I'm

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good. Like no food that is
that is just bliss that you were witnessing.

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Yeah, no, no treat,
go get him up. No food

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in the here and the food hit
the bowl, none of that gets him

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up. Just heated blake, And
so I have to turn it off.

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And then once it finally cools down, he's like, so, what's for

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lunch? So it turns out your
dog is a suck on the energy coming

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into your home. Yeah, absolutely, And so because of the Arctic blast,

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I saw it, you know last
week. You know, I have

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a you know, sort of a
a heart on for Urkot, not necessarily

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a good one. I'm always curious, before it's going to be really hot

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or it's going to be really cold, what's Urkot gonna say? Somebody asked,

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or even if nobody asks, they'll
release a statement. And this from

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CBS eleven. And I appreciate,
you know, quality journalism, right,

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something that has you know, is
not as common as it used to be,

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at least it seems, so I
appreciate when the news outlets really go

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the extra mile. So right before
the Arctic Blast twenty twenty four, hit

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Urkott wanted to make sure everyone knew
that it was ready. Urkott said it's

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prepared to handle potential record breaking electricity
demand related to the Arctic Blast hitting North

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Texas. Oh jesus Ah, you
kill me. Yeah, thank you,

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Goose. I would like to point
out that as I read that headline,

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that's the exact laugh I had in
my head was Goose from top Gun because

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I don't ever believe it. Yeah, yeah, Nor is there any reason

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why you would Nope, Because because
here's the problem when it comes to IRCOT

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all right, there's more than one, but this is one of the main

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issues at this moment. That is, even if they get it done properly,

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that's the bare minimum. That's that's
you doing your job. Was keeping

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everybody's power on? Did you keep
everybody's power on? You did your job,

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as opposed to they make it seem
like they just won the super Bowl

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every time they're quote unquote successful,
that the IRCT line of success is is

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really just the bare minimum. Yeah, the line of success is the grid

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didn't collapse. I just want to
know how that. Yeah, how'd that

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conference, like that meeting go when
they're like, hey, can we just

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do our job? And it was
like, you know what, Jenkins,

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that's a good idea. That's a
smart That's why you're the brains here.

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So we're just gonna do what we're
supposed to do. You're incredible. Make

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sure you make sure you make sure
you circulate that. And memo for everyone's

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got to read this. I was
driving on Thursday or Friday, and I

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remember coming off the tollway thinking,
I'm like, we're close to the hot

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I know we're on the same hosp
The grid is the hospital that's behind us.

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So I'm like, nothing, the
power's not going to go out.

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That was my first thought, not
like Urkot's gonna be great. It was

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like where are we as in reference
to this hospital? Yea, And that's

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when I was like, okay,
a little sigh of relief yeah as.

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An arctic blast heads toward North Texas, bringing with it below freezing temperatures.

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Urkat said it's prepared to handle potential
record breaking electricity demand. Jesus, you

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kill me. One good turned deserved
another. But for many across Texas,

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the cold front is blowing in flashbacks
to the February twenty twenty one power grid

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failure. During that historic storm,
much of the state lost power, in

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some cases for days. The outages
caused pipes to burst like mine, homes

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to flood like mine, and killed
more than two hundred people. In the

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three years since the storm, more
power plants have been winterized, natural gas

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producers have been put on lists to
ensure their power stays on yeah You list,

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and the overall electricity capacity in the
state has increased, But has it

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been enough. The CBS News Texas
I team asked experts on a scale of

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one to ten what their confidence level
is in the Texas power grid holding up

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in the next severe winter storm.
So experts on a scale of one to

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ten where asked what their confidence level
is in the Texas power grid. Thomas

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Overby, director of Texas A and
M Smart Grid Center, his confidence level

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is a nine. Meanwhile, Beth
Garza, former Independent or Cotton monitor,

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says her confidence level is a seven, and finally, Doug Lewin, author

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of Texas Energy and Power newsletter,
says his confidence level is a three and

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an eight. At the same time, he says an eight in confidence that

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the storm will not be as bad
as twenty twenty one, but only about

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a three in confidence that there would
not be any outages at all. Me

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however, my confidence meter runs on
a completely different scale when it comes to

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RKOT. Mine's on the letters scale, and my confidence level in Rkott being

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able to get us through this Arctic
blast is for me, I grade that

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as f you. At the same
time, who's this US white man?

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What do you mean? Yeah?
You have a you have a you have

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a bitch to you have a you
have a you have something a bitch about?

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Really on the on the island?
Yeah that now? Is that your

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Is that your thermal short sleeve shirt? You know what they're they're there are

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power grid issues here too. Sometimes
it's cloudy. Oh yeah, I know.

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Oh my god, sometimes you have
to wear pants. Thank you for

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have managed to maintain the relationship despite
some changes at the leadership level at Pause

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in the City, some of which
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this show knows a lot about as
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along so well. So once again, we talked to her a handful of

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times last year, and so she's
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the City, welcome back. Yeah, thank you having me. Oh it's

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our pleasure. So what's new at
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we wanted to kind of touch bas
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brief overview of what y'all helped us
do last year. Oh, you're giving

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us credit, please continue. You
know what we're gonna We're gonna give you

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like an a for half heard on
some of these now not results, but

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the effort. Yeah. See effort. Hey, if if our partnership mean

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is coming and having a beer and
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that's a good effort. It's been
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year we kind of talked about typically
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through our process to get them out
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twenty nine dogs rescue, fostered and
cared for in total. That's awesome to

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give you an idea. Just since
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been in my email about they have
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through today. Wow, that is
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typical yearly events we do, We
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and then last year we added Vermafest
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ninety one percent of everything raised went
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nine percent is just like admin and
things like that and bandwidth and such.

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I understand those. Yeah, I
get it. That's fantastic. And that's

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a number that a lot of charities
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And then there's there's you know,
charities out there that I'm not naming any

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names, but they'll operate to where
like ninety seven percent will not go to

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its intended purpose, but instead we'll
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to you know, take care of. So it hitting that ninety percent and

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above mark is is a huge accomplishment. So so good job. Yeah,

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and that's how like you can you
there are different websites you can and look

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up charities and they get graded on
that and and the very few that are

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above ninety percent, you know that
that is an exceptional mark. Yeah,

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we'll appreciate it. No, I
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It's one of those we're pretty proud
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organizations that make the number kind of
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to you know, see what their
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that's typically what happens when you have
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way that we're familiar with sort of
the backside of things of what of what

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Pause and the City does, is
our foundation that benefits you know, families

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of fallen police officers and firefighters in
North Texas operates in a very similar fashion,

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meaning it's all volunteer based. Some
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payroll of people that do things and
those and those can be important functions.

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But Pause in the City and the
Listeners Foundation operate very similarly in that it's

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all volunteer and over ninety ninety five
percent whatever the exact number is for our

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side, I'd be like ninety seven
percent for the foundation goes to its intended

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purpose and the rest is like the
like you said, it's like you know,

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website hosting and such and taxes,
and the more your charity grows,

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the more difficult it is to keep
that number. I mean, it sounds

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counterintuitive, but the more money you
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you have more admin expenses and everything
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keep that number above ninety, it
shows that, you know, Pausing the

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City is a very well run organization. And I know I can tell Kaitlyn

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you don't want to take all the
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you're going to have to just deal
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Kaylen Naymi. No, no,
we have. We have a fantastic group

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of people, and that the admin
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feedback from people who have been on
our website and you know, whether they're

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fostering adopting, you're just going to
donate, and we're kind of seeing that

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back into some of the technical side
of things, just to make it more

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user friendly. We don't want it
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try to foster a dog. Yeah, so that's a great I think,

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make that use differently for more use
differently. So that's one thing a lot

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of people forget about is especially with
the rescue group like yours, like Pause

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in the City, it's all volunteer. There's no brick and mortar building,

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it's all fostered based, so it's
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to be adopted. So that's where
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fantastic. If you want to find
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know, dog rescue, like Pause
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to be where you have to just
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dog. You can also donate money, but you can also open your home

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up to foster these dogs until they
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thing. Absolutely. If you're interested
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go to just send us an email
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or you can email me. I
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person depending on how you want to
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just my first name, kaylin Ka
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sailor. Is there any At one
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pausing the city about eventually trying to
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is that still something y'all are thinking
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we're just going to keep with just
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that's still being discussed. You know, it is something that if we decide

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to go that way, you know, the the things we have sid in

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place as far as like our major
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where that takes more money away from
like the medical bills and stuff.

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more medically acute to get them on
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but you know, there's a little
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if you want, we're we're all
familiar with some real estate off the toll

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a dog shelter. I think I might

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know what you're talking about as far
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twenty twenty three, you guys obviously
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dogs adopted, fostering. And you
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you do every year, and I
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those coming up pretty soon. So
what's on the what's on the calendar for

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pausing the city right now? Yeah, so the most sorry, the closest

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event we have coming up is in
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from that. But the lovely folks
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graciually graciously opened up their space for
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you that information so that you can
chat about that, so we can get

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that out there before the event passes. But if you want to go and

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you know, meet a couple of
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money, pick up some some goodies
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or dog toys or something available,
pop in and say hi, our biggest

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well what used to be the biggest
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that in the most loving way possible
because we actually have an event last year

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that was new. I'll go into
that second. But March ninth, we're

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holding Martinis and Martini's, poor mutts, and that's going to be a candle

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room. Yeah, is from seven
to ten o'clock. If you've never joined

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us, it's it's a lot of
fun. You know. You can purchase

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a table or a single ticket and
you come in. There's a DJ,

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there's a lot of great people.
There's a wine raffle, there's you know,

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there's there's all sorts of things.
There's gifts for botox, stars,

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tickets like you name it. Somebody
has donated something really cool for you to

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go in and bid on. And
that's you said March ninth. That is

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March ninth, the candle Room.
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and I went once and it was
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masquerade themed So I don't know if
they're always that way, but I will

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say this, that was the most
handsome Mark Verma ever looked, was with

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a mask. And it's worth the
It's worth the price of the ticket just

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to watch dogs drink Martini's. It's
fantastic, especially when they stick the deuke

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claw out to be fancy. I'm
telling you, they get fed up.

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Where people stick out their pinkies when
they're drinking a cocktail. All right,

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I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna
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want to take a look at that. That's going to give you some good

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conversation, all right. And then
as far as our event, that has

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overtaken that spot as far as being
our largest fundraiser of the year. Last

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year, we had one of Mar's
friends come forward and he said, Hey,

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Mark loved rock music. Let's do
something music based. Let's get you

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know, a big thing together.
So we introduced Verma Fest last year in

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memory of Mark Verma, former president
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passed away. Yeah, it was
July of two years ago, I believe,

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details. It's going to be in

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April. There's still deciding between two
weekends to choose from. We do have

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somebody who has a volunteered to be
headliner. We're just trying to work out

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the details. Unfortunately I can't tell
you who it is, but it is

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a really big Dallas based band that
I think pretty much everybody's heard of,

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if not, Oh, the mystery. So sorry. I've got all these

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bands running through my running through my
mind, and I'm not saying them because

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I don't want to put undue expectations
on on some people. Because some people

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may be thinking up here, some
people may be thinking a little more down

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here, and I don't want to
I don't want to put any name out

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there because then I don't want anyone
thinking it's supposed to be this person or

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this band and it's not, and
then they get disappointed. Makes sense absolutely,

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because on one hand, a Dallas
based band that pretty much everyone would

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know what would be the Eagles,
Yeah, m hm, and then on

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on on, like the lower end
might be like, uh, you know,

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hardcore Vanilla Ice era. Oh please
let it see. That's why I

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didn't want to say any names,
because I didn't want to get anybody's hopes

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up. If you'd, like me, had tamper expectations. You're doing you're

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doing a hologram age for the rest
Marten Show bandh God, no, please

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please don't slum it that way.
No love here at the Treehouse are discussing

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possibly helping us with the event.
Obviously more of that later, but the

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irony of that tray would be though, is that Russ would still demand the

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same fee. So yeah, we
are going to do it. We can

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to help you with that event as
well. Be happy to happy to help

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Pause in the City. You know, any and every chance that we get,

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including promoting things here on the show. And speaking of promoting things here

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on the show, not just events, not just the accolades of a previous

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year, but we always like to
make sure we mention at least one one

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cute dog that's available for adoption at
Pausing the City. And I know you've

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got one. Okay, bear with
me because if you're seeing this on YouTube,

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I want you to be able to
see this dog. He is so

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cute. Oh she's got on her
phone. She's holding it up to our

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little cameras see him. Oh,
Mike, you gotta turn this can turn

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the turn it a little bit pugged
into too many things. I can kind

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of see it. Yeah, I
just have to. You have to turn

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your head too far. Yeah,
oh yeah, I'm sorry. But his

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name is Gavin. He is like
the cutest thing. He's about two years

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old. We suspect he's a Grusseles
Gryffon. Sorry Brussels gryffon mixed. That

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is that's a mouthful, it is. I'm actually glad you said that,

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because, uh, my old radio
partner had one of those at one point,

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and that was my first thought was
that looks kind of like a I'm

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with you. It's hard to say, a grustful business whatever, but a

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Brussels griffin, that's what I usually
calling it. But it kind of looks

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that way, but a little bit
shorter. So it's a mix. It's

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got a few different things in there, but very adorable. Yeah, he's

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he's super cute. He is in
the uh, the categorization of a small

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dog. If you're looking for a
dog that is friendly and super lovable or

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kind of independent, this is your
guy. And you said his name is

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Gavin? Yes? Does he?
Uh? Does? Does? Does a?

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Does he also run radio stations in
Dallas or is that just a coincidence?

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Does he have a proclivity for bad
mid day Not anymore? Tree,

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not anymore? He found he finally
found the cure. Yeah, make sure,

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maybe finally found a midday show.
That's number one. Congratulations Corey.

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Yeah, make sure make sure he's
also dewarmed. Uh, I mean obviously

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as always we we do that.
Thank you for giving me. And I

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was just talking about Gavin. I
wasn't even talking about this one. I

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was I thought you were talking about
the various midday shows that that we're dragon

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ass across carpet. That's what I
meant. We can never just do one

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thing around here, we and just
promote Pause in the City. We have

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to, you know, do other
nonsense mixed in. Well. So another

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word. So you got Gavin two
years old. He's a Brussels Griffon mix

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and he's currently in the foster program
at Pause in the City. How long

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have you guys had him? You
know, he was a part of that

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large intake we did right before the
third quarter. We we took in quite

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a few animals. We got a
few large donations and were able to go.

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We pulled like eight dogs and it
was I think it was September.

406
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So they've all gone through all the
checks and made sure they're healthy, gotten

407
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whatever medical treatment is necessary. But
he is he's really versatile. He is

408
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happy to like, if you work
from home, he will sit and hang

409
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out with you. Not a problem
if you don't work from home and he

410
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has to, you know, hang
out by himself. He is perfectly happy

411
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to do that. Yeah, it's
good to be flexible, Yeah it is.

412
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He's he's kind of just chill.
You know. One of the things

413
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we've seen with the pandemic is dogs
have gotten really reliant on their owners being

414
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home because of work from home situations. So when you have one that is

415
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happy to be either or as far
as left at home or you know,

416
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being a company it all day,
it's it's kind of rare. I can

417
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tell you my dogs have gotten very, very cod abandoned. It is a

418
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post if you said it's two years
old. He's a post pandemic dog,

419
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so yeah, he knows it,
doesn't know that world. Yeah, yeah,

420
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he's a he's a pandemic puppy.
And I'm on the pause in the

421
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city website, pausing thecity dot org
under that where you can view available pets

422
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for adoption, and the photo of
him, the one that you actually showed

423
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us, is even cuter, you
know, where it's larger to see because

424
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he's got just enough of an underbite
to be really really cute. Yeah yeah,

425
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I'm I'm a sucker for the underwrite. He's he's super cute. You

426
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should definitely go check him out.
Not side notes. Like I said,

427
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he is great with kids. He
has not really been around other dogs.

428
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His demeanor, we we suspect that
he's going to be dog friendly. But

429
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if you do have a dog and
you're interested in having a meeting with Gavin,

430
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we're happy to help. You know, just let us know and we

431
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will. You know, we can
come to you or meet up at a

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park or something, have some sort
of controlled meat to make sure that is

433
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a great fit for everyone. But
like I said, we suspect he's going

434
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to be pretty dog friendly. Does
he sit to pete? You know what?

435
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Han't that was personal with him?
Sorry, that's more of a no,

436
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.760
that's that's not that's nothing with you. That's more making Trey and Raj

437
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:57.960
laugh. That was fantastic And I'm
also going to send that clip to Gavin

438
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at Odyssey so he can kind of
feel and you were, yeah, oh,

439
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:09.559
thanks would be great. Is oh
Man. He's a he's a big

440
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supporter of the rescue dog community.
Yeah, so I don't know an occasional

441
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.920
rescue show. It's Patty and Lease
strains. So I don't know about your

442
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Gavin, but I've seen our Gavin
on the leash. Yes, all right,

443
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Calen from Pausing the City, Thank
you so much for stepping in the

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treehouse with us. We appreciate seeing
you and hearing you, and we'll do

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more of this as this year goes
on, so we'll hear more about what's

446
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going on at Pausing the City,
all the great events and of course all

447
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the available dogs for adoption and ones
that you can foster, and if you

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want to donate as well, all
that great information. Pause in the City

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dot org. Thanks for hanging out
with us, and more importantly, thanks

450
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:59.639
for putting up with this. Kaylen, thanks for having me. More treehouse

451
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coming up that stay there, you're
listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online

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that Treehouse on air dot com.
All right, let's get Daniel Cook into

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the treehouse now from COOKDFW Roofing and
Restoration. I'm curious, Daniel. I

454
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know you're in your truck probably every
single day. Are you a good driver?

455
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And what is your opinion on roundabouts? Oh my gosh, what a

456
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:37.480
terrible subject. As you probably heard
my wife in the background, I did.

457
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She's not a fan. We've gone
to multiple areas of the country,

458
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like you know, we'd like to
travel, and every time we're driving and

459
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:51.440
we see one. That's the first
thing out of Carrie's mouth is something negative

460
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:54.000
about this roundabout. And I try
to explain to her how safe that is

461
00:36:54.079 --> 00:37:00.920
and how much of a better in
theory opportunity for reducing of res and in

462
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:07.000
traffic collisions and deaths, you know, and so, but she's definitely against

463
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.639
them. I don't have an opinion
in my case. I mean, if

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they if they help, if they're
scientific data that says these stop more accidents

465
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:16.119
and deaths on the road, then
hey, so be it. I'm not

466
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:22.000
I'm not the smartest man to tell
you that's not gonna work, but you

467
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.119
know, I could care less.
It is what it is. Let me

468
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:30.480
ask you this then, just based
on your own common sense and your first

469
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.840
impression of this headline. Okay,
California City to open fifteen million dollar turbo

470
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:43.000
roundabout at deadly intersection. Wow.
See, the first thing that popped through

471
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:50.159
my mind was Daytona five hundred.
The second thing in my mind was I'm

472
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.960
just picturing all these teslas and hybrid
cars going in a circle in California,

473
00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:01.639
trying to their their their mitigation software, trying to not hit each other because

474
00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:06.079
they have all their safety modes on, and then there's going to cause more

475
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.960
cars to break getting into that circle
of death. Yeah, I don't know.

476
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.679
All kinds of just turbo things just
kind of went through my mind all

477
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.199
at one time. Yeah, that
is so cool, man. I think

478
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:21.679
everything you just said applies because there's
lots of things to consider. I also

479
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:25.360
think it's an additional bullet point for
us to include when we think about the

480
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:30.119
phrase, don't California by Texas.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't

481
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.159
know if we can handle a Texas
turbo roundabout. I don't even like that

482
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.000
name. How about this one.
You need to get somebody like kitchen A

483
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.599
to sponsor that roundabout, like the
kitchen A Turbo round Think about a blender.

484
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:44.119
I mean that'd be perfect. I
need to work for California. I

485
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:45.679
get people to pay for these kinds
of things. I mean, that's a

486
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:47.800
great idea. I'm ready to hire
you right now. Just somebody needs to

487
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:50.920
give me a bunch of money to
do it, all right, So give

488
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:52.519
give Daniel a cook. Speaking of
a bunch of money, you're not going

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to need it to give them a
call for that free roof inspection eight three

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Plumbing Texas dot com. Thanks again
to Calin from pausing the city for hopping

507
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.440
in a treehouse with us. Always
a pleasure for us. I'm not sure

508
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.880
if it's necessarily that way for her, but she I forget how it came

509
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.199
up. This was off the air. We uh mentioned something about pinky's out.

510
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.000
Oh, it had must it must
have had to do with Martiniz and

511
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:37.280
Mutts not being fancy and having your
pinkies out. Right before she left,

512
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:38.400
She's like, do you know the
origin of that? And I'm like,

513
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:46.320
no, just I assume it's aristocracy. I'm not sick still aristocracy, sure,

514
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:52.159
yeah, And uh She's like,
she's like, you need to look

515
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.679
up sort of the origin of you
know, the pinkies out stuff. I

516
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:59.960
was like, okay, well,
she's she's very sweet. Instead of way

517
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:00.920
for me to look it up for
myself, she wente and just sent it

518
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:07.079
to me. It was actually really
really helpful. So most of us associate

519
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:13.119
pinkies out while drinking something to be
fancy, to be Oh, we are

520
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.079
upper crust. We are bougie.
We are wealthy, we are we are

521
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:22.039
you know, we are the cool
kids because we're doing things for pinky's out.

522
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:31.599
Turns out not too much. Stiff. Pinkies were caused by venereal diseases

523
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:38.519
like syphilis hmmm, and ended up
being used. The pinkies out ended up

524
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:44.000
being used as a signal that it
was safe to court one another from one

525
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.039
individual to the other, meaning like, hey, you got syphiliss, I

526
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:52.719
got syphless nice and you can you
can joyfully hook up without worrying about infecting

527
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.480
someone else, and so instead you
can just pass it back and forth in

528
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:04.119
a nice syphilis party. Did you
stick your pinky out when you're like,

529
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:10.760
I got some wormy black cod.
I was gonna say, that's how you

530
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.320
would have known if your black cod
had your big black cod had worms.

531
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:22.400
Uh as if it had its fin
out. Uh Like no that that there

532
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:31.599
was. There was nothing fancy about
that. It felt much dirtier. I'm

533
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:40.039
sure it was plus uh plus I
mean, when you're holding your pinky up

534
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:54.480
next to a big black cod,
it's just yah, puts things in perspective

535
00:42:54.519 --> 00:43:08.800
for you. Yeah, just tuck
that thing back in there. Save myself

536
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:20.079
the embarrassment. You really got to
go back and listen to that plus number

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thirteen episode Patreon dot com slash Treehouse
on air. Oh what a day you

538
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:38.719
guys. Stay safe Arctic Class twenty
twenty four. If you feel like getting

539
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.239
away from it all, I know
a good spot you can feel warm for

540
00:43:42.280 --> 00:44:06.320
a while. I'm just saying,
and there's no cod here. Two names,