Nov. 4, 2024

Everybody is Trippin | Monday 11.04.24

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On today's show, we start off with a woman who survived getting struck by lightening, then why schools want to ban Crocs, moms tripping on shrooms, Ayahuasca, and a drunk woman stealing an ambulance. But first, Birthdays!

LINKS:

Crocs are banned at schools as Gen Alpha trips over them | Fortune

The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls | The Free Press

Woman steals New Orleans ambulance with EMTs, patient inside, NOPD says

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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with

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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma on a Monday, November fourth,

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twenty twenty four. Just a quick shameless plug on our part.

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If you'd like even more Treehouse, you can do that

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by going to treehouseonair dot com. And that includes special

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shows that we do just just for you the subscriber

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on Patreon. Sometimes I share really horrific things with Trey

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and Raj that I think is going to be fun,

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and then I regret, and that's what uh, that's what

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we did earlier. But now that we're in the regular show,

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regular programming, I'm going to share something with you both

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that I know you're going to love. It's twofold one.

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I'm debuting a new game inside the Treehouse called if

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You Laugh, You're Dead. Okay, I literally just you know, disfiguratively,

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and the thing I'm going to share with you to

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see if you win the game or not. Well, if

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I can speak frankly, it's shocking, okay, Okay, So here

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we go. This is the debut to you, Trey and

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to u Raj, okay of the new game inside the

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Treehouse called If You Laugh, You're Dead. This is a

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news report from a station I don't know, and honestly

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it doesn't really matter. Just enjoy the anchor trying to

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tell you about something unfortunate that happened to a woman.

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A Boise, Idaho woman is considered a medical miracle. Laura

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Estreman was struck by lightning nearly a month ago and

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she was considered officially dead. Thankfully, CPR from her mom

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revived her heart, but she laid in a coma for

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two weeks and then she divied all odds and woke up.

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Well, honestly, congratulations, I think, Raj, you've won the game.

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You're not laughing in Trey's smiling, and I think kind

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of uncertain about things.

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There was a problem with that tape. She doesn't really

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sound like that. She doesn't remember the accent.

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I am so sorry if.

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The lightning burned her legs, and we'll have all that

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story and hopefully get that tape fixed for you.

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That is that is one of the best slash worst

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timed uh VHS or beta max whatever this TV station

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was using times for it to skip that I've ever witnessed.

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Now here's I give him credit because he's not me,

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because I wouldn't have called it out.

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What would you have said?

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I was like, isn't isn't that amazing? What an amazing comeback?

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And I wouldn't. I wouldn't even make mention that it

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was the tape vault.

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It's just actually how she is.

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That's that's called lightning talk.

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Thank you for that report. We appreciate that. Clearly she's

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still struggling in her recovery process, but we have high

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hopes for her.

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Her brain works lightning fast, so she sometimes can't get

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it out as fast as she wants.

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To the other side of the reason there's that's shocking.

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The flip side to this is the reason I didn't laugh.

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I've seen this video a damned and they also did.

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They also did a report on her on like twenty twenty,

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back in the day when they didn't do all murder.

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Oh it was actually they covered other news.

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Stories back when it was Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs.

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Yes, but basically yeah.

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Friday Night Man who that was exciting times.

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What was Stone Phillips on? Oh he was DATELINEA where

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Dateline was all murder yeah, but no, it's really pretty

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incredible that she she managed to make a full recovery,

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like legitimately, like.

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Because the deck is clearly stacked against her. In case,

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it's the tape deck.

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And here's the crip. My my girlfriend's uncle who lives

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out in West Texas has been struck by lightning three times.

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What yeah, three times. I don't believe it either, but

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everybody is like, yeah, boys, yeah, but didn't I mean,

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nothing like that happened. I think he he just looked

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and sounded like that before the lightning strikes.

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And so he corrected him.

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Yeah, he's just made him a normal guy. He's an

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accountant now.

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He counts cards in vain. It's one of those few

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times you're getting struck by light and you really pay

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it off.

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He can see through the deck.

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He doesn't even have to.

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You ever seen somebody play blackjack blind? That's a weird time.

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Not only does not only does he know which card

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is next or next in five hands, but he also

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can tell you how many electrons are in it.

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Favorite movie Powder, favorite cartoon character, Louis the lightning Bug.

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One more time because it makes me smile.

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The Idaho Woman is considered a medical miracle. Laura Estreman

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was struck by lightning nearly a month ago and she

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was considered officially dead. Thankfully, CPR from her mom revived

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her heart, but she laid in a coma for two

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weeks and then she defied all odds and woke up. Well,

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obviously there's a problem with that tape. She doesn't really

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sound like that. She doesn't remember the accent of the.

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I am so sorry to walk again.

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If the lightning we'll have more that story and hopefully

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get that tape fix for you.

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And when they cut away, what do you think happened?

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Like?

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How much do you think they were just dying?

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I think I think that studio floor was covered in

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pissed because you know that they played that clip at

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the station Christmas party at the end of the year.

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You know, it's like, let's go through all of our

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bloopers for the year. Here's Chris's he wins.

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I would like for the engineer to come in, like

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I did, fix the tape. That's that's it. That's that's

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the fixed version.

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I think there's an engineer. Oh oh, you chewed me

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issue in schools across this fine nation, and it's wreaking

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havoc in communities and in homes. I'm talking about kids

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who are tripping and falling over their own crocs, so

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schools are banning them over safety concerns.

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I thought I thought they were supposed to be like

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like the safety shoe, like you could wear them like

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in restaurants. I thought you could wear those because they

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were like the no slip soles is what the crocs had? Well,

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am I wrong? Or it's just all plastic shoe.

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They're supposed to be safe, They're supposed to be soft

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and cushiony.

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I know.

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I mean, I've got a pair of crocs myself. I

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use them for my yard. I don't wear them everywhere

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like gen Z or Gen Alpha does. And apparently it's

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Gen Alpha that is having the major issue with tripping

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and falling over their crocs.

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And and because I in my previous relationship I live

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with two small Gen Alpha kids, I can tell you

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what the problem is. Oh, you know, crocs come with

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a strap that you can you put your foot in

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and look it over the back of your heel.

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Gen Alpha. That is too much trouble, Like using that strap?

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Do they know it's there? Do they know what it's for?

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Yeah, okay, Yeah, it's like the whole new phenomenon. Like

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I've asked this to people before, like the slip in

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shoe now like sketchers, like tired of tying your laces.

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I'm like, who's who is? Like Like now you don't

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even have to bend down. I'm like, we're gonna get

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to the point it's like let the shoe come to you.

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Like I don't know, like what's coming next. Like I've

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never I've never had an issue with tying my shoes before.

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And one of the biggest problems in aging is lack

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of flexibility, not being able to bend down.

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And so you're just, yeah, you're making it work, hating it.

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Yeah.

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I would like to point out that while I don't

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have an issue with tying my shoes. I am a

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big fan of shoes that I don't have to tie

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the laces I had.

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You had a big pencil and ran head first a

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wood building. I'm glad you don't have to tie your

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shoe laces. But you're you're the reason velcrow was invented.

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I'm serious. Look, there are shoes. I own two pairs

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of shoes that are no I'm sorry, three pairs of

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shoes from a company called Tropic Feel. It's not an

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endorsement form. I just like the shoes because they have

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what they have called are named sprint laces where it's

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the it's just kind of a snug fit. It's stretchy,

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and you don't have to tie the shoes I have.

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I have three of those, and I have a pair

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of crocs. I only wear those, you know, for yardwork

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and stuff. Though I have, you know, some standards, so

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I can appreciate the no tie phenomenon. Also, the shoes

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I wear to the gym are under armor and they're

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they're called slip Speed, So it has a dial that

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you push on and then you turn it to tighten

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the laces instead of tying them. Also, it has a

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foldable heel in case you want to go from gym

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mode to relaxation mode and use it like a slipper.

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So none of your shoes have laces you actually have

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to tie.

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There are a few, and you don't wear them. They're

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they're in a box at the top of the closet.

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Yeah, did Tara get tired of tying your shoes for you?

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To the best of mine, to the best of my knowledge,

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my wife has never had to tie my shoes.

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Come here, big pencil Danny.

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Turns out my home marriage is. Turns out my marriage

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is just community service.

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Just find out later she's a home health nurse.

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We just let him think he's married to her.

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It's fine. We did a whole wedding and everything.

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It was either that or his teddy rucksman, so we

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figured this was healthier. Uh now not everyone, of course,

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is thrilled with schools banning crocs for safety concerns of

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children who keep tripping and falling over them. Enter in

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the mother's And this is one here who disagrees with

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her kids school banning crocs over safety concerns. Oh wait,

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hang on, I got to pull up my fader here.

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There is a condition in regards to like sandals and

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shoes with open backs, Crocs are somewhere in the middle.

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I guess it's up to interpretation. To say that it's

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a safety issue is kind of where he's saying that

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does not make sense. Nurses wear them, people in food

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service wear them.

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But it doesn't matter if the people in the restaurant industry,

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if the people in the medical industry were tripping and

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falling over them, then they wouldn't be wearing them. If

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your idiot kid can't stay upright in a pair of crocs,

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then probably they should have different types of shoes.

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Well, to Trey's point, they I've seen nurses wear them,

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I've seen the food industry with them. The strap is

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over the back of their heel, so that's why they

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don't trip and fall. Also, why aren't we selling these

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kids helmets, Like, let's do that if there if there's

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a if there's a if there's a market for these

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kids tripping and falling. You know what, we have the crockmet,

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the crop helmet. Uh, we'll make it a no tie.

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We'll figure out a way they don't have to tie

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the helmet onto their head or fasten it.

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It'll it'll be it'll be like our rebock pumps from

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the nineties. He just hits a button, you push a

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few times, and it titans on their head.

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Yeah. I think that's called h encephalitis.

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I think, and we have the spokesman for it. Look,

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this is what happens when you don't wear a helmet.

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I'm surprised they're not tripping over their crocks and then

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then their big pencils are going right into their jugular.

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kids that have trouble walking in their crocs to some

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of their moms who may be tripped balls. Maybe this

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is an explanation to why we have some children who

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can't walk properly. Maybe it's because their moms are on shrooms.

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There are middle class women who are tripping balls across America.

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Women are using hallucinogens to improve their marriages and mental health.

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Meet the Mushroom Mommies. This is from This is from

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the Free Press for Free People by Cat Rosenfield just

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a couple of weeks ago.

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Sounds room Mommies sound like they open for the Giggles

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or the Wiggles whatever it is.

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The Wiggles, yep, the Wiggles.

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Yeah yeah.

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The Mushroom Mommies show would definitely be one of those.

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It's got something for everyone, Yeah, some for the kids

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and then adult stuff as well.

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It's called Laser Floyd.

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Picture the platonic idea of the millennial woman, and you're

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probably thinking of someone like Rachel, a mushroom mommy. At

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forty two. She has enviably unblemished skin and a nose

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piercing nostril, not septum, in which she sports a delicate

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gold hoop. She's been married for nearly two decades. To

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start that over, she's been married for nearly two decades

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to her college sweetheart, with whom she has three kids

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under the age of thirteen. That's a lot. She worked

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for ten years in the healthcare industry before becoming a

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full time mom. She rides a peloton every morning, attends

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PTA meetings in the afternoons, and in her spare time

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knit's gorgeous understated sweaters that look for the kind of

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garment Gwyneth Paltrow would wear on a trip to the

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Scottish Highlands. But Rachel also has another hobby, one that

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makes her a bit different from the other moms in

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her Texas suburb, not that she talks about it with them.

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Once a month or so, after she and her husband

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put the kids to bed, Rachel texts her in laws,

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who live just down the street, to make sure they're

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home and available in the event of an emergency. And

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then Rachel takes a generous of magic mushrooms or sometimes

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in DMA, and there's really no other way to say this,

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She spends the next several hours tripping balls. She says,

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everything feels incredible, everything tastes incredible, all your sensory experiences

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are really intense. Sex is incredible as well, She says.

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If you take MDMA with a partner, it feels almost

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like you can accomplish what you would in like five

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years of couples counseling in one night. In popular American culture,

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psychedelic drugs are probably best known as recreational substances, beloved

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by the sort of dreadlock sporting but tuly marinated camper

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van dweller who takes sound bats instead of actual bats

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and just wants to free his mind. Man that their

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use has sharply risen in the last decade or so.

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One study published in July twenty twenty four found that

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the percentage of adults aged thirty five to fifty who

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had used hallucinogens within the past year was seven times

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what it was just ten years ago. And that's not

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just hippies driving the trend.

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Yeah, I know, I know a lot of people that

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micro dose mushrooms. This isn't microdocing like she does it

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once a month and she does like full on. But yeah,

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I know a lot of people that microdose. And I've

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seen it at like dinners where they have like a

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little jar and they'll just reach in and take a

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little piece of mushroom, and I was like, what are

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you doing there, buddy?

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Just micros That's probably the only way you'd ever see

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me at a PTA meeting Like I was high and

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I just wandered into the wrong room.

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You know, clearly they learned from their parents that shardonay

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and coke wasn't the best way.

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Remember the good old days of house moms that you know,

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the housewives that just did meth. What happened those days?

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Well, I mean, Trey, you're actually onto something there because

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you know, wine and cocaine, you know, with a cigarette

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in the middle of all of it. All grew up

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a little off, so we're open to, uh, exploring different

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ways of living life or open to doing other things

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on a Friday night besides uh, you know a movie

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and popcorn thing.

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Yeah, for years, I I could tell you a couple

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of bars where you could see the you know, after

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tennis lessons, the chardonay and and a and a and

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a bump before picking the kids up to school.

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Yeah, a little Kendall Jackson, some Peruvian flake and some

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marble lights. Let's do it.

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Bonus. If they're a Virginia Slims.

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That's the soccer mom trifecta.

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And and they're they're they're not drinking Kindle Jackson.

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Okay, my bad, come on I'm in Mesquite, buddy.

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Yeah yeah, if it was meth then yeah, Kendall Jackson.

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And that's after and that's after doubling up with Bartles

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and Jane. And I'm not talking about the wine coolers.

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No, the wine is wine coolers is cracked.

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Look, it's an interesting thing. I think. The thing that

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I'm most surprised by by, you know, middle class women

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tripping balls on a Friday night is the fact that,

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in the case of this lady who lives in a

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Texas suburb, I need to see which one it is,

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is that she texts her in laws who live down

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the street, to say, Okay, just be aware we're about to,

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you know, eat some shrooms or take some mollie. They

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seem to be fine with it. And then they that's

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after they put the kids to bed. Wouldn't you just

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have the in laws come pick up the kids.

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No, See, that's leaving a paper trail for CPS. That's

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all custody.

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Dan.

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I'm just saying, I think, if you're gonna, if you're gonna,

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you know, do hard drugs, let the in laws take

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the kids for the night, and that way you have

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the whole house to do it it is that you

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want to do without the kids waking up, which they

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will in the middle of you tripping balls and wonder

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what has gotten.

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Into mommy trip and Daddy. That's who's got.

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Yeah, that's when you walk into your parents doing their

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first threesome. But the third partner is Molly.

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Yeah. And first of all, I don't think mushrooms are

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and I love how you aged yourself. I don't think

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mushrooms are hard drugs anymore.

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They are to me when you classify it as a hallucinogen,

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to me, that's a hard drug.

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Gotcha. I think you should try it. I think you

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should try the mushrooms and see what it does for you.

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I think those terrify me. Anything where my reality has

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completely changed I am I am terrified of I don't

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like not being in control, and I certainly don't like

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eating something that's going to alter my reality. And God

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knows what I'm gonna end up doing or saying or whatever.

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I have a feeling you're gonna be best friends with

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a goat man.

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And that's why I don't want to do. I don't

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want to be best friends with a goat man, no

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matter how cool he seems.

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I'm sure the goat Man of Hoffman County sounds cool

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when you're tripping, but not when you're sober.

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