Freak Bowling Accident, Child-Free Wedding Drama & Winona Ryder

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0:57 It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the tree house. I'm Dan O'Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Jerry Caldwell. Lots to get to today at the end of our regular broadcasting week inside the tree house birthdays. Of course it will be happening today. The Florida mom of the year. And you know, she's going to have some stiff competition and the story of how one man lost his pants, uh, Time permitting, we'll get to all that inside the treehouse today and more. And part of the more is this. A new and a dumb way to die. The human existence has been going on for many, many years. Some think only like 6,000 years.

1:48 Some people think like 6 million. Wherever you fall on that spectrum, Humans have found some really interesting and creative ways to die. This is one, despite all those years of existence, I did not see coming. A bride-to-be died after being crushed in a bowling alley pin-setting machine. This is some Final Destination stuff. Wow. Yeah. Is it sad that I can just see her kind of hanging there from it at. The end of the. Allie? In the wedding dress? Maybe. Well, it said bride-to-be, so... Bride-to-be, bride-to-be. Okay, okay.

2:33 What a horrible processional. Who gives this man to this. Oh! That's bad. That's a bad handoff. Let's see here. Maliki Yeater? That's an interesting last name. worked at a children's entertainment center, was attempting to fix an issue with the machine when the incident occurred. A bride-to-be died after being crushed by a pin-setting machine in a bowling alley. Maliki Yider, a 28-year-old employee of a children's entertainment center in Korum, Turkey.

3:14 This is in a Turkish bowling alley. That sounds like something interesting. Right. She was attempting to fix a mechanical malfunction with the machine when the incident occurred Wednesday, October 21st. She was suddenly struck by the machine, which automatically gathers and resets the bowling pins, and she was rushed to a hospital for the outlets. She was discharged after the initial treatment, but she was later rushed back to the hospital by family members after falling ill at home. A subsequent examination revealed the crushing force of the pin setting machine had ruptured her liver, causing internal bleeding. She later died at the hospital from her injuries. She had just gotten engaged three months ago. She was killed by a pin setting machine at a bowling alley. I mean, that poor groom to be.

4:08 Hope he had a spare. God damn it, Trey. Thank you. You know it's going to be a good show when that's how we start. For the record, that was wrong, Trey. It was mean-spirited. And I thank you. We can get away with that joke here because if one of us was to die in a pin-setting machine, one of you assholes better make that same fucking joke. Oh, yeah. At my expense, I fully endorse it.

4:50 I'd figure out a strike joke for that. Yeah, that just. You feel like this is one of those... There's got to be a... It's like a double Darwin story on this, because A, I've never heard of this happening before, so you've got to feel like there was a step missed maybe turning the machine off. Yes, so what you're doing is kind of like when it comes time to change the blade on your circular saw or something, you make sure it's off, right? So I take it extra steps because I am absolutely terrified of blending my hand in a blender or tearing it off or sawing through it with a saw. So not only do I make sure it's off, the battery is out of it. If it's an electrical one, I make sure it's not only unplugged, but that plug is not 10 feet off. To the nearest electrical outlet. I don't want it on carpet in case someone's feet shuffle and accidentally touch it. I don't want an electric power tool anywhere near electricity if I'm messing with its blade and trying to change things. Same thing with a blender. If I have to get my hand in there or something, I may take that thing into the middle of the living room where there's no electrical outlet anywhere near it.

6:16 I hate sticking my hand down the disposal. I do too. There used to be that thing where you'd lean over and put your hand by the switch just to make sure that nobody touched it until one day I thought I might be the one that touches it so now you're in this conundrum. I'm with you. I gotta fish stuff out of it all the time too. It scares me. Weird things, I know. But Now it doesn't sound so weird when your girl gets killed because of the pin setting machine in a Turkish bowling alley. Now I don't feel so weird about being very careful with the disposal. Because at least that thing's got a blade and you can understand someone hurting themselves very gravely with it. Pin setting machine is not one of those that you look at and think, I bet that could kill somebody. Because that arm that comes down and pulls the pins, it doesn't seem that strong to be able to.

7:18 Pull a human into it. That's not the part that you have to worry about. Those pins are heavy, so the part that actually pushes them to... She learned nothing from Roy Munson. That part of the machine that puts them together in the triangle shape, that's the part that you get hooked in, because it's got to push them together like that, and then it comes down and it picks them up, and that's heavy mechanical stuff back there. Gotcha. The stuff you don't see that's covered up by the little shield. That's why it's always from the back. The people in the back are the ones that get their limbs and their hands removed, you know. And, and their hair caught. Has there been a final destination scene in a bowling alley? Cause it feels like there should be like, I get it in that back area.

8:03 It seems, it seems like a target rich environment for the final destination franchise where the, where the pin people have to go and fix things. Anything mechanical. Yeah. But the front part of the machine doesn't seem like it would be the part that would get you. But maybe that's, maybe that's my own misconception. Maybe she was in the back trying to do something and it just pulled her in. Or was she like underneath it? And then it just dropped on her. Maybe that. See, we have so many questions. If you die in a pin setting machine at a Turkish bowling alley, I don't know why it sounds funny to say a Turkish bowling alley, but we're going to have questions and we need answers. in America, I kind of feel like they'd be like, all right, when you know exactly what happened, shut down all the bowling alleys until we figure it out.

8:51 We also saw a kingpin in this country. So yes, we did. You can learn a lot for movies if you just pay attention. Um, and since it's Halloween week and final destination is in my opinion, one of the great horror franchises, uh, Trey, I forget. Have you seen any of them? Nope. Dude. Dude. Of all the genres, horror is probably my least favorite. You know what? Honestly, I'm with you. Horror is not my jam as far as movie genres, but I will say this. The Final Destination franchise, if you go into it in a certain mood, They can be really funny.

9:46 There's kind of a certain catharsis to it because, you know, a lot of us have that radar where we can see shenanigans coming down the pike. People are like, oh, you're overthinking and you're overwearing it. And it's like, this is weird. we don't drive behind trucks full of logs. This is why we, you know, it's. The same reason why every time I'm on I 30 and I see a forklift, I think of a John, was it LaBella or was it, or was it Rhodey that died? No, it was LaBella. I think of John LaBella that died on I-30 because a forklift on a flatbed coming the opposite direction somehow flew off and landed on his car and killed him.

10:28 I thought that was on the toll road. I think it was on I-30. Either way, if I'm on the road where I think it happened, I really notice it. But at any time, any time I see a forklift on a flatbed, I think of that guy. I think of that incident, and I think to myself, I'm getting as far away from that thing as I can. And you're right, Jerry, same thing. If I'm ever behind or anywhere near a log truck, I think of that scene in Final Destination and I get the hell out of the way. These are things, Trey, that you need to know. If anything, Final Destination as a movie franchise is the payoff that you never get with your high anxiety.

11:09 Yes. Because anxiety loves to throw irrational fears at you. All those irrational fears you have, all those intrusive thoughts you have, Final Destination makes them possible. Just what I need. Yeah. Right. Validation from Final Destination. It screwed up an entire generation in so many ways. You will not look at a tanning bed the same way. You will not look at barbed wire. Actually, you should always look at barbed wire that way. I always did. That guy had Sorry for the pun, but he had it coming. He should have known better. It'll change the way you look at roller coasters. But it really is.

11:55 It really is. Honest to God. If you go into it just sort of in a dark humor mood, you could laugh your ass off through the entire thing. Maybe one day. Please do it. Please do it. And like so many horror movies, the first one is the one that's you know, cause it set the bar and it sets, it sets the bar for the entire franchise. Right. So that first one is actually, it's creepy. It's suspenseful. It's scary. And then the, the movies that come after it's like, okay, how can this one top the previous one? Kind of like in the Friday, the 13th movies at a certain point, Jason Voorhees in the woods, cleaving people with a machete got boring. It's okay. What are the new and exciting ways you can kill somebody? And next thing you know, Jason takes Manhattan and he's punching heads off of kids that go down six stories into a dumpster and the lid closes.

12:57 And I wonder why I never saw that movie. Some of them are really funny. That's what I'm saying. I think that's just bad. That is. Yeah, it's synonymous. Sure. I did recently find this out. So you know how Tara's not big into movies? Mm-hmm. And I told her long ago I would never force any movies on her. So she recently told me that she had never seen any of the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween movies, all the classic franchises that we know. Even if we didn't see the movies, we know who Freddy Krueger is, right?

13:43 Mm-hmm. We know who Jason Voorhees is, Michael Myers, Chucky. She got Freddie, Michael, and Jason all mixed up because she couldn't identify who was whom. That's how in the dark she was when it comes to the horror franchises. So she told me this week, she's like, all right, I'll watch one. And I lit up. I'm like, yes, this is awesome. Because whenever my wife gives in and says, all right, I'll allow you to make me watch a movie. So then I got excited. I was like, Oh my God, which one, which one am I going to make her watch? This is exciting.

14:24 What'd you decide? Well, before I tell you, I want to ask you guys this, put it on you. If you guys are in my position and your lady says you can choose one of the horror franchises for me to see, which one would you choose? My favorite is, uh, The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. So that would be mine. Would it be the first one or one of the other movies? Absolutely the first one. Okay. Trey, what about you? Actually, have you seen any of them? So I've seen the first one or two of the Friday the 13th. Okay. I don't know that I've ever watched Halloween all the way through. I've seen all of the original movies. Nightmare on Elm Street. And that's. That's I would go with Nightmare on Elm Street, too, if that was the scariest to me.

15:26 I agree, and that's what I that's what I went with. I said, if you if you can only choose one of them. The original Nightmare on Elm Street, I think, is the one you got to go with. I think that one fucked with me the worst because it's in that you're in a dream state and everything else. So that. Yeah, I would go with with that one. Yeah. I can't wait to see her face when Freddie's glove comes up out of the bathwater. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Or when it pulls Johnny Depp into the mattress. Uh-huh. His first movie appearance. Yeah, that's right. And in his next movie where he plays Ebenezer Scrooge in what looks like a Tim Burton movie. It's not. It's another guy.

16:07 But in the trailer, in this new Ebenezer movie, Johnny Depp gets pulled into the bed a la Nightmare on Elm Street. Uh-huh. So it's like a little Easter egg for those that have followed Mr. Depp's career throughout the ages. Although it would have been really fucking funny if the ghost of Christmas passed shit on his bed. Maybe they have both in the movie. I don't know. One can hope. So I'm going to have an exciting weekend when Tara sees for the very first time Nightmare on Elm Street. I'm excited. What was one I was thinking of the other day as well? Phantasm. Phantasm was good. I remember that was Everett's favorite. Child's Play was pretty scary for the time because you talk about a quintessential 80s thing being turned into a horror movie. I mean, the Chucky doll was a real kid's toy. My little buddy. It was the My Little Buddy, and the movie was based on that, but in the movie they called it The Good Guy. Perfect. We had a weird relationship with dolls as kids, and then all of our parents who were filmmakers turned those toys into demonic creatures that terrorized us.

17:32 That explains a lot about our generation, doesn't it? The only thing that was missing was a Teddy Ruxpin that goes crazy and starts killing people. All right. Jerry, are you keeping an eye on the chat with our Ultimate Treehouse subscribers? I forgot to take a look, because I imagine Double AJ and some others probably have some thoughts on all of this stuff. I am. Oh, yeah. That was a movie I was thinking about. Linda Kemper talked about the Freddy vs. Jason movie. That one's so much fun. I mean, the movie overall is not very good, and to me, I feel like they could have done more with it. But, man, when Jason... Okay, look, Jason's killed a lot of people in his time. But I felt genuinely bad for this one dude. He just had sex, so he thought he was feeling pretty good, right? And then Jason comes in and then drives the machete through him and all the way through the mattress. He's dead, right? Insult to literal injury.

18:35 Jason then takes the mattress with him in it with the machete through it and then folds him up like a fucking taco. Sorry, I'm swearing a lot today. But it's like, really? All right. You were sort of a mysterious murderer thing, but now you're just being a dick. I'm still waiting for the sequel when they put Michael Myers in there. You know, you could just keep building on it. Then you throw in Chucky, you know, then it's just like celebrity death match. But it's all the horror franchise people. Is Robert England Freddy in that movie? Yes yeah that was before they sort of rebooted the franchise with uh i almost said robert earl keen but that's not him uh jackie lee haley the kid from bad news bears grew up and got older and he ended up taking on um freddie krueger i think that may be right Oh, that would have been good. Mackie in the chat says, I really wish they would have made Freddy versus Jason versus Ash from Evil Dead oh yeah honestly you put you put Bruce Campbell as Ash from Evil Dead into anything and I'll watch it I think you could actually make an argument you throw you throw that character into any movie it'll make it instantly better like just imagine nodding hill with julia roberts hugh

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22:20 Sure. All right. Today is Thursday, October 29th, 2026. Obviously, it's Halloween week and it's on my mind. Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. The Dallas Stars' Miko Rentonen is 30 today. He is from Finland, and he is doing quite well at the early stages of this Dallas Stars season. Good job, Miko. Tove Lowe is 39. Swedish songwriter behind Habits and Talking Body. Tove. Tove Lowe, thank you. Is that a guy or a girl?

23:05 Or is it somewhere in between that I'm not supposed to ask? It's a girl. Okay. I thought it was, but I wasn't sure. Because here's the problem. With our age group, I see Tove low. My eyes see Tone low. Tone low. Yeah. It's like that is not the same person at all. Oh, Andy Dalton, Texas' own, is 39. 39. Former Dallas Cowboy and Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and TCU Horned Frog. I think he's still in the league somewhere. Yeah, you know what? He might be. I forget who he's with, but I think you're right. I think he's a backup still somewhere. Once again, can we just say just a quick appreciation moment for the greatest job in sports, backup quarterback in the NFL. You made so much money and really have to do very little physical work Mentally, you've got to be sharp, but otherwise, it's a good gig.

24:04 Yeah, especially, I mean, he tried to be a starter for a while. And he was. He was Cincinnati's number one for many, many years. He was Dallas' number one. Well, he was the backup, but then he was number one because I guess it was Dak that got hurt. Yeah. He was with the Atlanta Falcons. Okay, gotcha. And real quick, this doesn't get said very often because it doesn't happen very often, but as a redhead, Andy Dalton has some good hair. Yeah. Like, like redhead guys don't typically get good hair. Like there was a, a redheaded family that I rode the school bus with back in like back in middle school. And they all had like the curly red hair and on guys and, and the girls that just, it's just the Annie look is not good.

24:50 Right now. I can only think of two good hair redheads. One is Andy Dalton. The other is Sadie sink from, um, Stranger Things slash the new Spider-Man movie. Ben Foster is 46. You may not know him by his name because it's very just normal. You know him by his face, though. He's a very fine character actor. He was in Hell or High Water, 310 to Yuma, Alpha Dog, and Lone Survivor. He was Axe in Lone Survivor, if you've seen that as many times as I have. He was the blonde survivor. guy um let's see michael sure is 51 he's creator of the good place and brooklyn 99 co-creator of parks and rec and a writer producer on the office.

25:36 So he's done good for himself yeah. R.a dickie is 52 today former major league knuckleballer 2012 national league cy young award winner doing what very few do and have ever done, which is be a professional Major League Baseball knuckleballer. I'm surprised he's 52. That sounds old for him. That's the other good thing, though, man. If you're a knuckleball. Pitcher in the pros, you can have a long career because you're not overthrowing ever. I think Charlie Huff was 65 when he finally retired.

26:18 I think, I think Charlie Hoff was so old when he retired. It wasn't because he couldn't throw the ball anymore. It's because he just wanted to collect social security. Yeah. Yeah. Screwing up his Medicare. It really was. I can't think of any other time, but I think you may be right. He may have been the only major league baseball player to retire and actually be able to be of age to start collecting social. And some, and the fact, that his ugly ass is somehow genetically linked to Derek and Julianne Hough is just beyond me. That may be the most mind-boggling fact of the whole Hough family. Yeah. I mean, those two kids, those are some good-looking kids.

27:01 Charlie Hough, the complete opposite. Yeah. You could not. I mean, if you could find one normal... If you could find one guy to just put a fedora, a striped shirt, and a knife glove hand and still look like Freddy Krueger... it would be Charlie Huff. Yep. You wouldn't even need to put him in the makeup chair. He's like, no, he's good. Just go out there and scare kids. Winona Ryder is 55 today. Speaking of things. And that's one of those interesting things, because remember, she was the one, she got almost blacklisted because of the whole shoplifting thing, right?

27:43 She, so. It's a weird thing that has happened with some of these 80s, 90s actors. When they were young, they did some bad stuff, and then they came out of it no problem. The ultimate example of this is Robert Downey Jr. But Winona Ryder is in that same club. Because you're right, Trey, I think people forgot about her whole shoplifting thing. Like, eh, whatever. But she was in her 20s. I feel like she was in her late... That wasn't just a teen thing. I think she was an adult. Yeah, I mean, she definitely was old enough to know better. Yeah. But yeah, that's almost been completely forgotten about, which is another reason that makes me sad about Paul Rubens, Pee Wee Herman.

28:24 Mm-hmm. Got such a raw deal with the adult theater thing, and if that happens today, there is barely any blowback. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I mean, Robert Downey Jr. was almost killed by a guy because he woke up in some girl's bed because he was so high on drugs. He had broken in and was asleep in some girl's bed. The guy almost killed him. Had that happened, we wouldn't necessarily have the same MCU we have today. Listen, I will always say this. I don't think his character in Less Than Zero was a stretch for him.

29:05 I think he was pulling on some serious experience there. Yeah. I think you're right. But props to Winona Ryder. She had her shoplifting phase and came out of it just fine. Scrolling down to see if there's any other good birthdays today. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, as well as Krusty the Clown, Grandpa Simpson, and a number of other Simpsons characters. He is 69. today. Now that is a good gig. Backup quarterback in the NFL and voice actor on The Simpsons. Two of the best jobs in the world.

29:48 Especially because, and I think he goes back to the Tracy Allman show. He does. He's one of the originals. Him and Julie Kavner. Yep. Yep. Those two and Harry Shearer, I think, were the original three. That was a throwaway skit on the Tracy Ullman show. That was just a time filler between skits. It was just a cartoon time filler. And it turned out to be the biggest thing to come out of the Tracy Ullman show. Yeah. I mean, that's just... I mean, that and... Oh, God. What's the Jason Sudeikis soccer show? I just drew a blank.

30:30 Oh, don't tell him. Don't tell him. Let's make him sweat. Do you feel restless and anxious? Feel like something's missing in your life? Maybe you just need a little more Treehouse in it. Go to patreon.com slash treehouseonair and check out all the bonus features a subscription offers, including bonus shows, behind-the-scenes content, special subscriber-only live shows, and so much more. That's patreon.com slash treehouseonair. That's p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash treehouseonair. Because this is one of those times I know the answer. Damn it. Damn it. This is one of the times where it's like, usually I'm the one that brain farts. So I want to, I want someone else to hang out in the barrel. You know, that, that was literally a promo when NBC got the premier league 20 years ago. And they somehow, you know, turn that into a huge show more seasons.

31:24 And I would not be surprised if they make a movie. I wouldn't be surprised. They make a fifth season. That too. Did you watch the four seasons? I haven't. I haven't even finished the third season. For some reason, we stopped watching the third season. So what I want to do is just go back to the beginning, start it over, and re-watch all of it, and go through and finish out this fourth season. I love that show. Love it. And one of my favorite scenes in a television show ever is the be curious, not judgmental scene when he's playing darts with the rich dude. Love it. I love that scene so much. It makes me so happy.

32:07 Be curious, not judgmental. Now I do wonder about that show though. If that doesn't premiere during COVID, is it as big? I know the easy answer is, I don't know, but I don't know. I mean, it's a great show, but I think it resonated so much during that time. It was sort of lightning in a bottle. It really was sort of lightning in a bottle. And you're right, Trey, I stepped all over you there. Times were kind of dark. We really didn't know what was happening. Everyone was mad and angry, and some people were afraid. It really was a perfect show at the perfect time.

32:54 Mm-hmm. Two more. Richard Dreyfuss is 79. That is a Hollywood legend. Have you seen him lately? No. The last thing I heard out of him, it sounded like he was reprising his role in the American president as the Republican senator bad guy. And he actually sounded like the guy from the movie. But I think it was just him talking. He looks like the grumpy old man that you suspected he would. I mean, it's... I mean, he... Did you ever...

33:37 Did you see Mr. Holland's opus? Oh, yeah. Yeah, great movie. He's become grumpier and fatter. But... Okay, so I. Have seen him recently. Yeah. This really is one of Hollywood's legends. And it's a true testament to how you can be a phenomenal actor and a leading man without looking like a leading man in Hollywood, right? Because he doesn't, never had, and still never will. But that didn't stop him from starring in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jaws. And can we just take a brief moment to appreciate the greatness that is one of his other fine pieces of film work, and that is Opposite Bill Murray.

34:26 What about Bob? Not enough people know and love this movie that should. Watch it. If you have never seen What About Bob, then you don't know what it truly is to go sailing. Or to have OCD. Or the value of vacation time. Go see What About Bob. All right, I think that'll do it for us on birthdays today. Unless anyone has any last minute. Oh, sorry. Sorry, Mackie. Sorry, Mackie. You're right. Also, Richard Dreyfuss in one of the great 80s movies, Stakeout.

35:07 Opposite Emilio Estevez. And possibly, possibly one of Richard Dreyfuss' finest works of courage in film was opposite Rosie O'Donnell in Stakeout 2. Because you know he was like, what happened to my girlfriend in the first one? No. He was like, how much? Okay. Sure. That'll do it. That really will do it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Mackie. I appreciate that. Stakeout was a great movie. That would be a fun double feature night for Richard Dreyfuss' birthday. Stakeout. What about Bob? That's good.

35:54 All right, let's transition here. Let me see what sound effects I have. Oh, that's just a sad one. Hang on. It's been a while since I played with my Rodecaster. Nope. Nope. We'll use that. How about that? There we go. Am I the a-hole? My friend called me a bitch and a horrible friend over a wedding rule. Oh, boy. Yeah. Well, the next line makes it worse, Jerry. She says, please bear with me as this is a long post. And it's actually not that long. It's not that long? Okay. Oh, yeah, I see. It's not that bad. Okay, here she goes. Me, 27-year-old female, and my fiance, 32-year-old male, are getting married next year in the spring. Spring wedding. We sent out invites two weeks ago to friends and family. One rule we have for our wedding is that it will be child-free. Oh. Oh, hang on.

36:56 I need another sound effect here. That's the wrong one. Hang on. Although a fitting one. The one rule we have for our wedding is that it will be child-free. Why do I get goosebumps thinking about a child-free wedding? I was curious your insights on this. On a child-free wedding or this entire scenario? Well... the entirety of it, but also do you, do you get those like child-free weddings or. On a, not really on purpose. Sometimes it just happens if it's like just a two person elopement. Right. It's just like, I'll marry them on the beach. It's, it's the couple. And sometimes it'll be the couple and their best friends. So yeah, something like that may not have kids, but it's not like a huge event. That's child-free.

37:46 As you can tell, I'm all for a child-free wedding, especially if I'm attending it. Honestly, if I'm working it, it's fine too. But she says, we're going to have drinking games and other games that are not suitable for children. This actually sounds like me and Tara's wedding, which there were kids and it was fine. And she goes on to say, and not only that, my partner and I both agree that we feel children would be disruptive. So we came to the decision to keep it child free. One particular friend, there's always one I have, has two children, both under the age of seven. She sent me a long text, and to summarize, it basically said I knew her financial situation and that I know she can't afford a babysitter, and now she can't come to the wedding because of it being child-free. I was honestly shocked at first because of how entitled it sounded, so I replied.

38:34 I told her that I completely understood if she couldn't find a solution to the problem, but we would definitely miss her and could get together eventually to hang out as a way to fix the missed time. I also told her that I would be okay if her husband did not attend. Neither me or my fiancé are particularly close with him, so I thought, hey, Maybe that could work. We would miss him, too. Doesn't sound like it, but it would be OK. And he could stay home with the kids. She sent a message back. And this one I'm now going to paste. She says, I'm sorry, but are you being effing serious right now? You know, my financial situation, you know, for a fact, I can't even afford my groceries. I have to sell my effing food stamps to pay bills. You think I can seriously afford a babysitter? You're crazy if you think that I don't even want to come to your wedding. You inconsiderate bitch.

39:20 back to the regular message. I didn't even reply to this one because I was honestly just baffled. She sent that last one yesterday and it's been on red for 19 hours. Am I the a-hole? Am I being inconsiderate? Should I just pay for a babysitter? IDK. It's your wedding. You do what you want. Now, with that, there may be some comeuppance. There may be some fallout from it. You may be some people that don't appreciate or don't want you to do a certain thing. But at the end of the day, it's your wedding. You do what you want. And that's not just me. I mean, for the most part, that's what my wife tells her clients. Because a lot of times, wedding clients that my wife has will be like, oh, can we do this? Or is that kind of like, oh, you don't do that.

40:06 And Tara's like, don't worry about what other people think or whatever society says you're supposed to do. This is your wedding. You can do whatever you want. I had to say that a number of times when I was doing weddings because I did I did secular comedy weddings. And there's always people in the family that do not dig. It's just they don't want punchlines. They want, you know, praise. Right. And it's like you just got to you got to tell the bride and groom. It's like you guys wanted this. It's your day. And, you know, grandma, I'll get over it. And if need be, we can, we can have a punchline ceremony. Just tell me to not roast grandma.

40:51 But you also, you have to have, if you know your friend is having financial problems and you do that, you, you can't be surprised that there's going to be hurt feelings. Right. You're absolutely right about that. That's where it goes back to. You can do what you want, but don't be surprised if it pisses off some people. Yeah. And If you're doing well enough and it's important that your friend be there, then yeah, offer to pay for a babysitter. At the very least. But especially when you go, oh, and it's okay if your husband doesn't come too. Okay, that one. That line she should not have put in there. She didn't say it in the text that we don't care if he's there or not, but by the fact she said your husband can stay home with the kids, you very much implied that you don't care and don't want him there. It's like, yeah, that's... There's a whole lot wrong in that text message that that bride-to-be sent.

41:45 Yeah, I mean, I can see both sides, but I feel like the bride-to-be maybe lacks some self-awareness about the situation. Yep, yep, absolutely. This is where you need to be aware, and this is something I think that the younger generation doesn't have a lot of, and that is just general awareness. Because maybe this is some of the lack of socialization. Thank you. If you do something out of the norm, you're probably going to have people respond in a negative way. Some people might love it. Some people might hate it. Like there are people that decide not to do a big wedding at all and they just straight up elope or whether they do like a beach wedding in Cancun or they just go to the courthouse and do it.

42:31 That can be really insulting to some family members. Like some parents are genuinely hurt. If their kids just go elope and don't tell anybody, or they just go to the courthouse and do it. Because sometimes the family members want the party, the celebration, the whole thing. These are discussions you should have with your kids if they're important to you. If you're a dad and you really want to give your daughter away and do that daddy-daughter dance, you better tell her. Because through no fault of your own, maybe she has something else that she wants to do. That was a lesson I learned the hard way. My parents split up when I was nine. And when they split, my dad and my sister stayed in Oklahoma and my mom took me to Dallas. So my childhood started out quasi normal with a family unit as dysfunctional and abusive as it was. And then it fractured. And then there was a huge distance involved in all of it.

43:27 Right. So at most, I would see my dad twice a year. I might go in the summer for a week or two, and then I'd usually go for a week in between Christmas and New Year's. When it came time to buy a car, my mom did it like a year early. And we went to, I think it was Arlington, Moritz, and got a used S10 Blazer. And it wasn't long after that when I found out my dad was genuinely hurt because... he wanted that to be something that he and I did together. He wanted that to be a shared moment between us that he would take his son and, you know, do that first car purchase. God, I'm getting emotional thinking about it. And even to this day, I feel bad about that. Like, I feel like, I mean, I just didn't think about it and it's not really my fault because how was I supposed to know he was thinking about that? He never told me.

44:27 And also I had just turned like 15 and, The thought of getting a car on a Saturday, of course I was completely. Like, hell yeah, let's do this. I wasn't thinking about the fallout. Yeah, that's not your fault. I mean, that's something that either, or really the parents, they should have communicated between them, your mom and dad. Yeah. But that's one of those things that I told my dad later on. It's like, oh my God, dad, I had no idea. I felt, like I said, even to this day, I feel badly about it. Like I wish, like at one point I told him, I was like, if you want to buy me my second car, we can do that. This is what a complete C word. My mother was, is my first car. She presented like she had bought it for me. And I, and my dad kept his mouth shut for years, but then I found, come to find out later that he had actually bought it. Wow.

45:21 Yeah. And people wonder why you have such a complicated relationship with your mother. Well, no, no, no, no. It's pretty simple. She's on a shelf in my closet now. And ironically, it's the closest the two of you have ever been. Oh, that is so jacked up. All right. Speaking of things. Yeah. So you can do whatever you want in a wedding, but expect some people to be butthurt about it. That's the short. Let's do one more here. There is a manhunt underway in Tennessee after a convicted murderer escaped prison. Man, you can't kill a man. You can't keep him in. Damn.

46:06 Tennessee's having some issues. Yeah. ERCOT of prison systems. I mean. You really only got two jobs. I mean, yeah. Contain them or kill them. And you fail. You failed twice on the kill them. Yeah. In like the same season. Same night. I mean, Oh, is that what happened? Oh, maybe the guy took advantage of the botched execution of the lady in Tennessee. And then he took that as his Shawshank moment to escape. No, no. I'm saying, you know, they tried to kill her twice in that same night and they failed both times. Like that's, that's, that's a, It's like, you're trying to F that up.

46:49 Yeah, I'm pretty sure the head of prisons in Tennessee is going to get a phone call from the governor. Like, dude, come on. Yeah. Is it that hard? Clearly. Yeah. And can we talk about this real quick? I forgot her name, the lady that they attempted to execute twice in Tennessee. If you can't do it right twice, then she gets a pass. Oh, that's one instance. I'll agree with you. That's double jeopardy on death. Absolutely. Don't get me wrong. I am not, unlike a lot of people, I am not pro-life death penalty hypocrite.

47:32 I am absolutely for the death penalty. I'm a big fan of punishment. If you're that bad, kill it. Kill that thing. That being said, if the person survives two lethal injections... I'm not saying release her. She just wrought her remaining days alive, but still in prison. If you can't get it done right twice, then free pass. You tried. I'm right there with you. You gave it your Tennessee best. Yeah, you can't ever let her out, though, because that's what pissed off bitch. Oh, yeah. She's got more to be angry about now.

48:13 Mm-hmm. I'll tell you what, though, man. Davy Crockett really had it right. Go to Texas. It's what they should have done with this chicken on death row. Texas should just, like, just insource all of this stuff. If you're a state that has a death penalty, just, you know what? Outsource your people to Texas. We'll do it right. We got you. There's never been a botched execution in Texas. No? Uh-uh. You're right. Because worse come to worse, someone's going to come in with a shotgun. You ain't leaving this room, Jack. Old Sparky's still there somewhere.

48:54 That's right. Can you imagine pulling that thing out of storage and blowing on the plug and plugging it. In? Hitting the cap that goes on, knocking the dust off. Can you imagine being the death row guy watching that? Like, Oh God, no, please. Anything but that. Please don't make me be the first of old Sparky out of storage. Yeah. Oh man all right thank you for hanging out with us here inside the treehouse we appreciate you we appreciate all of you ultimate treehouse subscribers hanging out the chat diego mackie linda great seeing you guys as always we will see you next time right here inside the treehouse