Hawaii Honors Monk Seal Hero + Is Stevie Wonder Really Blind? | Funny News Podcast

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on air. It is time you believe your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Maley along with Trade Trendholme and Rebecca Black coming up on the show today. Florida is crazy, but Utah is making a run at it in its own way. Aren't they always. I feel like this Utah thing seems like it's it's a newer development.

0:42 No, it's I think it just Utah has always been crazy. It's just it gets more pr these days. Okay, So with social media, I means for that, there's something blame. Yeah, we'll get into that. Before the The Mormon cults in and of themselves are batshit, absolutely, and they've that's been going on for yeah decades. Yeah, I mean you can go back to I mean, there's one documentary about the shootings. You know, they blood feud between like two brothers who were you know, both wanted to be the prophet and the slaughter and killing and exile to Mexico and it's.

1:28 And then we gave them a reality show on TLC. Well, there was one, uh one Netflix documentary about this woman who basically turned herself into a prophet. And then there was this other Utah family that had their own YouTube channel with like, you know, quarter million subscribers about parenting and everything else. And then the wife is you know, the prophet tells the husband, oh, you need to just you know, stay away, and it's like. What are you and the wife doing? What do you do with the kids. It turns out like one of the kids finally escaped and had infections and wounds. And just so Utah coming from Florida's title that is coming up.

2:15 Today great place to live, beautiful, gorgeous, gorgeous. It's beautiful, Like Trey said, it's a beautiful area, especially if you're a wandering, abused child looking for it. In a head to head battle, no one saw coming Sidney Sweeney versus only fans models. But I think it's. Important that we uh start with some of the biggest news that continues to come out of Hawaii. On yesterday's show, we talked about the jackass throwing the rocks at the endangered Hawaiian monk seal in Hawaii. Rightfully, so, his name is Igor something, thirty seven year old douchebag from Seattle and then the beatdown he got from an environmental activist immediately after. So there's a little more to that story.

3:15 Part two to the Hawaiian monk seal beat down, and that is from a local Hawaiian official recognizing the environmental activists' efforts to protect what is Hawaii's. Video of the monk seal that almost got hit by the rock from the tourists who threw it. If you didn't here it is again. And we've all seen, or some of us have seen environmental activists. I like to call him who took matters into his own hands to educate what might happen if you mess with our land or the animals. And our attorney over here wants to make it clear we don't condone violence.

3:57 And I love as the video hands over to the Hawaiian attorney with the text underneath it saying we don't condone violence. But the face on this attorney clearly loves it. She's not condoning it from a legal perspective, from a human and Hawaiian perspective, she's here for it, here for all of it, because she's not the only one in that room. I mean, I feel all of us here inside the treehouse can also agree that while I go through rocks, he caught hands and we all applaud his efforts. The environmental activists. And in the Venn diagram of things, there are very few things where if you put Texas and Hawaii together, they're going to intersect.

4:43 This is going to be the one. We're right here with you. We're in the circle, We're in the crossover. Yeah. So like in you know, because like in Texas we have our Gonzales canon, you know, come and take it. In Hawaii it's the Monk seal. You know. I think if you have someone saw you actually do you know, abusing an animal here that I'd like to think that. Yes, hell, I'd like to hear you just get shot. Mm hmm. It'll it'll at least a goo'll beat down, Yeah, at the flat a little pistol whipping. You are the worst kind of human if you're picking on something that is completely defenseless. Yeah, especially when the douchebag in question who's throwing rocks at this sealed was recorded in the video saying I don't care, I'm rich, find me with whatever you want.

5:36 So they kind of are going to do that in a let me, let me uh so, he faces fines of up to fifty thousand dollars and potential criminal charges carrying up to five years in prison. I for one feel, yes, please throw the book at him. Same but I'm vengeful. I don't think that goes quiet far enough, especially when he's already admit there's video evidence of him doing this. He has not denied doing it. In fact, he basically said I did it. Find me whatever you want. I'm rich, okay. I have a number of ideas. The first of which is, all right, money bags, the first part of your punishment will be, because you are so wealthy, is to establish and pay for a college scholarship, an annual college scholarship for local students to go to college to study marine biology with a specific emphasis on the protection and research of the Hawaiian monk seal.

6:40 Yeah. I can get on board with that. No, no, what would you do? Let him go to jail? I'm talking, Oh, well, excuse me, let him go to jail. I have a feeling the monk seal thing would be very similar to like being a child predator, and I'm a feeling some jail time will absolutely be. The worst nightmare of his life. Yeah. I don't object to your your scholarship idea, but let's not sell short on the on the prison time. No, no, no. I assumed that Dan's punishments were in addition to the prison sentence of five years. Yeah, that's why I said step one, money bags, like I'm I'm in full support of also going to prison. Yeah, I also want to exploit how wealthy you claim to be.

7:29 So let's take your bank account out for a spin. That seal was fenced in because she had just given birth. Oh that makes it even worse a seal. Yeah, and that makes this guy a bigger pos Yes, so let's go back to believe it's a state senator or the local Hawaiian official. Brendan Awa. We did make a letter of recommend recognition for mister Ambassador of Aloha. I know everybody's trying to keep him anonymous. The Ambassador of Alohas is the kid who's trying to help the suspect through that fence. And I do like how they are trying to keep the guy's identity anonymous.

8:22 Who was the defender of Hawaii. Another idea I had was there are a number of Hawaiian defenders that we could have line up to also help this man through a fence, the first of which would be Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yes, that's literally who I was thinking. Of, followed very closely by WWE's Roman Reigns, or honestly, at this point, even a buff Mark Zuckerberg will have a spot in line because he owns a good chunk of Hawaii. Just just a whole bunch of people in a line ready to show this guy the proper way to go through a fence.

9:04 In Hawaii, one after another. And here's something that is no surprise to me, and I don't think it's going to be a surprise to you Tred or you Rebecca, because we are all animal lovers here, and some of the people on this planet we hate the most are those that abuse animals, and unfortunately, we've all had experience with that, covering various stories in our broadcast careers. So I know that there are people out there that do not hold animals in the same regard that we do. And of course they are going to rear their ugly heads in these scenarios, and they're going to try to do it with an air of superiority. Right.

9:47 Here is one such example. On an account I saw a guy commented on a video of this Hawaiian seal beat down. I get it to come up here. The guy says on the comment, so it's okay to allow violence over some damn animal. The first response back to him, Yes. The next one is Patrick from SpongeBob, drioling like an idiot, also in support of yes. And this to me is a very stark reminder. It is an important lesson to learn.

10:29 Not everyone believes what you believe. Okay, what you may think is no big deal may in fact be the biggest deal to somebody else. So you may think it's not okay to have more violence because of a guy throwing rocks at a seal, whereas I believe, and Trey believes, I think, and Rebecca probably believes as well, that you should catch more hell for it because you are taking this violence to what is, in essence a defenseless animal. So it's again, this is one of those things I've been on for years that just because you may live by a certain standard doesn't require anybody else to live by that same standard. Just because you think it shouldn't be a big deal. To throw rocks at animals. I may think it's no big deal to drown you.

11:24 Yeah, if you harm children are animals for your own amusement. I mean I think you should just be put to death or at the very least in this day and age, I don't know why we can't find an island and just make a hell of a reality show of you know, if you win the competition and you survive, you're the only one standing, you'll get in a minimal security prison. I thank you for saying a minimal security person and not like freedom. Yeah, no, no, no, you don't get freedom, no matter or how how much you win. No, you're f in the scenario, matter what. And that was another thought I had. I love your idea, Trey, A similar idea I had at three am during my three am thoughts. This morning was after the establishment of the scholarship right, multiple annual Right, so there's going to be numbers of students, yes.

12:21 Yes, for years, years on years. Yes. Ideally generations is prison for a while and then maybe you know, put him in a raft and then just shove him out into the middle of this of the Pacific, off the coast of Hawaii and say good luck, sir, or please look this is this is a safe space for ideas. We have this notion about seals that they're sweet kind, but they're actually pretty mean. The other option is let him. Go, you know, put him in one of these where you see the pictures of there's like a thousand seals gathered.

13:02 Put him in the middle of that, yeah, swimming around in the ocean. Let's see if maybe they want to feed upon. Him and cover him in mackerel guts. What the most damage there right on his bubbles, No, no need for mackerel guts. Just about thirty well placed incisions in his skin. So he's just bleeding out in the ocean. So if anyone has any you know, thoughts about who the most sadistic individual is inside the tree house, I think you have an idea that I thought it was just like, oh yeah, yes, how about a nice swim, sir.

13:53 It is though it really doesn't. It drives me absolutely crazy, and this is a similar thing. And not to dredge something that's even worse, although that's technically what I'm doing. I remember being on the radio on sports radio when Michael Vick's situation was happening. Yeah, and there were countless people you know, ah, it's no big deal, blah blah blah about what he did, or even people you know saying, oh, he deserves a second chance. Just because you think that doesn't mean I do. And I think that's an important thing that most people can't seem to grasp just because you, in a comment on social media thinks that what this guy did isn't that bad or he didn't deserve to get his ass beat afterwards, It doesn't matter what you believe.

14:40 All that mattered in that moment was I gore the douchebag made a choice to do something, and somebody else made a choice to do something. It just happens that their two things are vastly different, even. If you don't believe in violence for violence or whatever. The dude in his video basically said, look what I'm doing, come at me, bro, which opened the invitation for whatever comes back on him. And if that was a massive beating by a Hawaiian local, so be it. You asked for it. That's actually interesting because like, I don't know if they're actually going to, you know, charge the environmental activist at all in this. They may have to by the level of law, at which point you can easily say, like, we request a jury trial of his local peers.

15:34 Yeah. Easy, But if they even really needed any sort of an actual defense. Go with Rebecca's where the guy is like, I don't care, you can't do it to me, and then it's like, you're right, and it does kind of open the door to the only thing I'm going to respond to is getting my ass beat people. And so what do you do? You beat his ass? YEP, I've not heard from the Igor guy at all. I don't know Trey or Rebecca if you've seen any statement or anything come out of his camp. What's he gonna say? Really, he has no defense here. He cannot win this situation, I don't think in any way, shape or form. But we're talking about a guy who, after he is told he's been recorded throwing rocks at an endangered animal, he says, I don't care. Find me. I'm rich, I can afford it. I would love to hear him say something else, because I'm sure he's got more to say, and I, for one, would like to open that for him, like.

16:32 Double down, please double down, Please double down. He's gonna double He's gonna double down. Because here's the thing. Even if he was to come out and say, you know what, I was wrong or done it, I'm not gonna believe it. No, not at all. No. So that's why I'm curious to see if he would in fact say something. The fact he hasn't. I am assuming he at least is has enough money that he's hired a good defense attorney who has told him shut the f upa that Nope, nope, don't talk. Shut up. Although it would be fitting if the environmental active has hit him so hard, I'm sorry, not hit him, because that didn't happen. Uh, you guided him through that fence in such a fashion that his mouth needs to be that his jaw needs to be wired shut.

17:23 Well. He all fell We saw it, right, he fell through the fence. You gotta be careful when you went and look. Look, it's tricky. Walking around with like rocks in Hawaii. I've been. It's hard. It's different when you go from sand to normal ground and there's a fence in the way. I mean, Hawaiian fences are just they're different than state side fences. Tricky. Yes, they'll punch you in the face repeatedly, and they really should come with some sort of warning. You're listening to the tree House. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com.

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20:32 Ah, that's debatable. That is one of the great all time conspiracy theories. Please share, Rebecca, Oh, one of. My absolute favorites that Stevie Wonder is not actually blind and there is video evidence on YouTube of him catching a microphone. I do not think your sixth sense is that good. I have seen enough Ninja movies in my lifetime to know that it is possible from Hollywood to be able to catch things despite being blind. Okay, So number two evidence is he got on an elevator with Shaq. Shack has told this story and he was like, hey, Shaq, what's up. How would he know that Shaq is on the elevator when he gets on, Shaq had not spoken to the man.

21:18 Maybe someone whispered in his ear. There's Shaquille O'Neil is in the elevator. It could have been. I'm just saying, Shack all the story. Shaq can tell that story all he wants. I find fault in the believability of the story period, because I don't think Shaquille O'Neil can fit in a standard size elevator. I mean he might not. It was he crouched in the corner. We don't know. You'd have to be right. And look, I think, look, I am not a conspiracy theorist at all, but but the Stevie Wonder thing has legs. I think it's hysterical. I don't think it's true. I don't know, but time permitting, we may have a story later today that shows it is possible to get away with faking blindness for a period of time. The difference is though, with Stevie Wonder, no pun intended. The man's been in the public eye his entire life.

22:15 Right, so he started as a child, is what I'm hearing. So you're saying he's just really practiced. Yes, he's so good at it now it's like second nature. Oh man, I just are there any other examples you can think of? Because he caught a microphone one time, Shaquil O'Neil tells a story that Stevie Wonder walked onto an elevator knew he was there. I feel like there's more to it. I'm sure there are more. I would have to do some more research. It's been a minute since I've fallen down the Stevie Wonder not blind rabbit hole. I'll get back to you. Which, by the way, if Stevie Wonder was in fact blind, you would think he would fall in more holes. Has he fallen in one? Ever?

23:02 Like if they were real, he'd fall off the stage from time to time, and that hasn't happened yet exactly. He always knows where the edge of the stage is. Yeah, getting on getting off not a problem. Because he moves around so much on stage. He sits in a chair if I'm not mistaken, in front of a keyboard at the piano. Yeah, but what is impressed. I don't know if you know this or not that Stevie Wonder on a lot of his songs he's playing every instrument. Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, I didn't realize that either. I mean a lot of it. Yeah. He was one of the first artists that really used synthesized music. I knew you back God, but he is responsible for putting most of his tracks together.

23:47 Wow, I know that. I know that Prince was famous for playing at times all the instruments on at least one or two or three of his albums and like, you know what, I don't need studio musicians. I'll just play it all myself. Yeah, did what's trying to think what the song is? Uh? There's one song Prince did that the intro? What's the one is that when does cry the guitar intro? He's he was never able to replicate it. It was like he laid it down for that one. Ye know, Uh, that's why do it again? No, it was like it was like he was just out of his mind that day. Wow, I can't fathom that love. I can't either, Like I am so talented. I did something that could never be done again, even by me. Yeah. So has anyone been able to replicate it?

24:41 No? One really know? What is what are you doing that's that special that nobody else can replicate ever? Like you go back and watch, I mean everyone's seen it at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when he's that's they're celebrating George Harrison and they do the when my guitar gently weeps and and Prince, Yeah, he's with all these legendary guitarists and then he just goes on this riff that's just even the other guitarists are going, holy shit. I mean it is. If you haven't seen it, look it up on YouTube. It is one of the most spectacular things you will see.

25:21 All Right, I gotta look that up. One of my other favorite stupid conspiracies legitimate conspiracies, but that's one thing, but I prefer this stupid conspiracy. I thought Stevie Wonder was said he I don't think he was born blind, but that for a long time he could see kind of outlines of things. I think I've heard that too, Trey. Okay, like he could just see like blobs. I guess, yeah, so so so in the case of Shaquille O'Neil on the Elevator, Stevie Wonder walks onto an elevator and as he's walking on, he sees the outline have you seen mint q? And he knows it's black and therefore it must be Shaquill O'Neill. It's not like he's the only seventy plus black man on.

26:07 The Pretty sure, Stevie. First of all, he always has someone with him, and so I'm pretty sure there was someone going, hey, about to get in the elevator with Shack. It's possible. I'm just telling you what Shaq said. You can look it up on YouTube as well. Yeah, I also heard I also heard Shaquil O'Neil and some clip say something like blah blah blah no cap. So I mean, I. Just have a problem with with middle aged us is trying to sound like the kids. It just it doesn't work. Oh. I love Shack. I think if I met him in real life, we would become instant best friends. It's a whole weird scenario that I've had for a long time. I believe that actually now that he lives in Doubt in like the Dallas area, from time to time, I'm like, oh, come on, one day, I'm going to see you. It'll happen, Yeah, and our relationships is going to blossom and take off.

26:52 And then I'm going to get to try on his clothes in his closet. That is such a specific, fantasy, specific that I think I need to warn Shack. It might be a little stockery, but think how fun it would be to try on all his giant clothes. I would feel so small and skinny. He went to brunch at a place years ago, and his order was two dozen eggs, oh man, two pounds of bacon, and I think it was two gallons of apple juice. Yo, man's gotta eat. He's just laying the groundwork to have bigger clothes. So when he comes home someday and Rebecca's in his closet wearing his stuff, and that's how they're gonna meet, Let's be honest, she'll feel super tiny and happy. One of my other stupid conspiracies that I don't necessarily believe but I love because it's so stupid is that Pitbull and Kenny Chesney are the same person because you've never seen them in the same place at the same time.

28:06 That's a good one. I haven't heard that one. They look eerily the same. I also like the Garth Brooks murder one. That's a good one. Mm hmm, that's a lot of fun. Yeap, like Trey's looking at me with the pit Bull and Kenny Chesney thing. Sid go look at a side by side photo tray sides. Being small and bald. They look nothing alike. Yeah they do. No. I also feel like there's a third member of this conspiracy. Uh. Todd Frost is our former assistant program director at lone Star ninety two five and ninety seven to one the Eagle. He also is a tiny bald man. He could sort of pass for Pitbull Kenny Chesney, but also the bald dancing guy from the six Flex commercials, all four of them same guy.

28:59 I feel like that guy. It's like, you know, fast forward thirty years for pit Bull or somebody. Yeah, I just like it be hysterical if the dancing bald man at six Flags actually was pit bull er Kenny Chesney. But if you'll ever get Kenny Chesney to go on stage and call himself mister Worldwide, then I'll give you. Some you know, creed over that. Don't tempt me. As you have run into him. I have run into him almost almost literally on stairs once I. Went and saw his So I saw the Kenny Chesney at the Sphere in Vegas, and which if you've never been, go. I want to go so bad.

29:40 Go see any concert. It is one of the most breathtaking experiences. But I literally I sent Dan because there's a whole he did this whole thing where the drone shots of all of Saint Thomas, Saint John and I. So I sent Dan and Tara like, well, no, I was like, you know, hey, this looks for me. He's like, yeah, that's where we were this. Yeah, because like trays that video and I'm looking at the video and I send back with an arrow marked up on it and be like, you know that photo of you that you use for your cover photo on Facebook, this is where it was taken. So you kind of saw yourself at the sphere in Kenny Jesse's video congradulation. Yeah. What a full circle moment there anyway.

30:20 Uh, Stevie Wonder is seventy six years old today, despite everything that has been said just based on the man's birthday, Is anyone else surprised by the fact that he's not older than seventy six. I figured he'd be at least in his eighties. I mean yeah, quite honestly, yes, because he was like old. When we were kids. Yeah, like he's always been old. Yeah, he's like a blind black singing a vagoda. Again. I will always go back to this point. Wilford Brimley, I think, was like flatine. Yeah, yeah, he was younger than Paul Rudd is now, and Paul Rudd, as we know, never ages or whatever.

31:06 So the fact that Wilford Brimley looked as ancient as he did at forty nine is insane and fifty one yeah, you nowhere near the Wilford Brimley category. Tray. If they were to redo Cocoon with today's standards, old people would have to be in like their eighties or nineties have to be Yes, most of. The Golden Girls were in their early fifties. Dude, that one kills me. That one kills me because. Be Arthur looked old from the day she was born, I. Think, right like she was always gray headed. Yes. Yeah. Also, just because I don't want to go ahead, Drey, No. Be Arthur just she was like, looked like my grandmother.

31:50 I mean, it was just always. And there's one other birthday I want to mention today. Well it was a couple, but we're not going to get to all of them. But what I want to mention today, just because it's sort of pertinent, Robert Pattinson turns forty today. So this is a stretch, but hang with me for a moment. Okay. The other day we talked about Tracy Lord's Yes, Trey, I. Love how your prefaces. This is a stretch when we just got finished started with Stevie Wonder and ended with Kitty Chesney and the Islands. But okay, go ahead, hear me out. So Robert Pattinson is forty today. Last week we talked about Tracy Lord's and it was her birthday and what an amazing arc her career had because she started out as underage porn and did the almost unthinkable, which is crossing over into mainstream film out of porn. Very few other actors have been able to do that. What do you think is more difficult going from porn to mainstream or, in the case of Robert Pattinson, going from Twilight anything else.

32:58 Yes, Robert Pattinson, hands down, I'm with you. Going from sparkly vampire in three films. You would think would type cast you to the ends of the earth. But the man is resilient. He's so good. He's such a good actor that he's a phenomenal batman. When I first heard they had cast him at It, I was like, this is it. This it's trash. That franchise is cooked before it even gets started. And then I saw the first trailer and I thought, ooh s good batman. And I saw the movie and still think it. Yeah, phenomenal actor. Yeah, No, he's good. He's really good. I know and I liked him as Batman. I'm not I think probably one of the things that is after Twilight, I feel like he took a ten year hiatus.

33:45 Oh, he just did other stuff. He did stuff that like didn't really hit the mainstream. Like he's had a lot of really good films that kind of are under the radar. He did a I can't remember the name of the film, but he did a movie it might just be called The Lighthouse. It was something in or around the Lighthouse with Willem Defoe. I mean, that's which was amazing. The Mickey seventeen whatever it was. I haven't seen that yet, but just the clips that I've seen to that is great. He was phenomenal and tenant. There's a movie with Timothy Shalome I think, I think it's just called The King and Robert Pattinson plays the son of an of an enemy and they fight, and like Robert Pattinson plays the best jerk you have ever seen in most films. In that specific movie, he plays a Frenchman and he's just the worst. Dude's a good actor. But again, most importantly is the fact that he actually turned in a really good Batman.

34:47 No, I always question how he even got a role after Twilight, because I had friends that made me go and suffer through those movies and it was awful. They were all awful. It was like, did somebody and you a script yesterday and then you're expected to do do it today. It was so bad. And then having to act opposite Kristen Stewart or I. Hate her so much. I do not like her in anything. She just looks I don't know, I don't like her. So, Trey, you're not on board with Robert Pattinson in general or rob like you said you liked him as the Batman. I liked, and I actually I didn't. I mean, they weren't my favorite, but I didn't even mind the Twilight movies.

35:29 But I just I. Felt like he kind of dropped off, And obviously he didn't. But he wasn't in the in the spotlight like he was during the Twilight series, Oh for sure. But then again, I mean that is like the millennials, you know, love story, so he has a built in audience forever. And then I think it was also a story that was it? The story? Was it? Jennifer Lawrence have told the story about Robert Pattinson eating out of her trash. Yes, I think so. I think you're right. He came the Girls Night and then ended up eating food out of her trash. Yeah. It was on The Grand Norton Show. Jennifer Lawrence is on it. She's telling the story about Oh, she and Robert Pattins in her buds and he was out drinking and she's like, come on over, and he, you know, busting on girls Night, ends up eating food out of her trash.

36:22 He's so down to earth. I know, they're just like us, just. Like us, except I've never eaten out of the trash. So yeah, I'm so glad, I said. Yet, I'm so glad you said trash because you started off, you know, eating out Jennifer Lawrence, and I was like, Wow. All of a sudden, you're live on The Grand Norton Show. Watching online on air dot com. 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 dot com slash Treehouse on Air and check out all the bonus features of subscription offers, including bonus shows, behind the scenes content, special subscriber only live shows, and so much more. That's Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air. That's pat r eo in dot com slash Treehouse on Air.

37:28 You're in the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com. This segment of the Treehouse is brought to you by our Patreon. If you would like more Treehouse in your life, You've got three subscription levels to uh subscribe to Treehouse Plus, Super Plus and Ultimate Treehouse. Go to Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air today to subscribe to give more Treehouse in your life. Back inside the Treehouse, Dan Tree and Rebecca a few more minutes, Let's go to Utah, shall we. It's beautiful all times of year, but especially when you've got a Utah couple jailed for making an eleven year old sleep in a freezing garage to learn how to be homeless. And if I'm being honest, like they could have gone further.

38:17 Yeah, they could have eaten out Jennifer Lawrence's trash. That's gonna teach you some things about being homeless. A Taylorsville couple Taylorsville, Utah. A Taylorsville, Utah couple is behind bars after they allegedly sent their child to the garage in near freezing temperatures without a coat to learn how to be homeless. I'll be honest with you, I really still feel like they could have done more there, because most homeless people don't have a cozy garage to curl up in. Robert James McIntosh and Lucia Liney Macintosh, both forty six, have each been arrested on one count of intentional or knowing aggravated child abuse first degree. Melany be formally in charge, but according to documents, women contacted Taylorsville Police for a welfare check in her neighbor. She reported that the night before, her neighbor's eleven year old child came to her door and asked to use the bathroom.

39:11 Child victim allegedly told the neighbor they wanted to live with her and didn't want to go home because their parents locked them out of the house. While the child was at her house, the victim's mother showed up to bring the victim home. Later that night. The neighbor said she saw the eleven year old in the garage for several hours without a coat. After receiving the report, the police responded immediately for the welfare check. When they arrived, Alicia, the child's mother, answered the door and state of the eleven year old was in the garage and had been sent there as punishment. Police said, you're under arrest. You don't admit, deny, deny the ny lady, come on, Uh. This kind of goes back to like when we were all growing up. If a neighbor reported our parents were like, I think there's some child something going on over there.

39:52 Our parents probably would have been like, yeah, and tell the police. Here's what they did and here's why I'm doing that, and the police be like, cool, carry on, we'll see you later. But today's standards, everyone's taken a ride. There's going to be investigations there. But we were talking about it at the beginning of the show. Whenever this weird stuff happens, especially family stuff, it seems to be happening in Utah. Florida is the king of crazy. I don't think that will ever change. Florida's wild Utah has some other gear that is just. Weird. Mormon.

40:33 Okay, that's the common denominator there for the factor. The X factor is Mormon. Well, I mean, look, I mean most of what I know about the Mormon religion I learned watching South Park, and to be fair, yeah, pretty accurate with it. And so when you learn about it, it's like okay, really, but then you see all the monuments and the testaments built around their religions, like, okay, I get it. And there is a level of kind of like living in Highland Park, Dallas, it's you have to maintain a certain status, yap. Whenever you leave the house, you've got to look a certain way and blah blah blah. There's expectations in society and Utah seems to have a lot of it.

41:19 Well, you've got the devout Mormons that are the predominant group in Utah. You have the ones that are Mormon light that are on TV shows and things like that. The real Mormon housewives types. Yeah. But because if you're true to the Mormon you know, you don't drink, you don't smoke, you don't you have caffeine. And it's very patriarchal. And you know, it's almost like they have their own set of rules and laws and stuff like that they abide by.

42:01 They kind of do and like everything trade is laid out, all those all those parameters. It's like, man, that sounds like a really boring television joke because most of the Housewives shows are fueled on drugs and booze. Yeah well yeah, I mean it's they're all they all believe they're going to be the next you know it. A lot of the. Craziness centers on around people thinking they're gonna be the next prophet and declaring themselves so. And then a lot of times it's like two males and they're going to fight to the death of it's they do some bizarre stuff.

42:42 Thank you for the understatement of the week, Tray. I would also like to point out that I'm wary of anyone that claims to be or wants to be a prophet or profit adjacent and I don't need the most recent season of The Boys to help me come to that conclusion, although it has helped a lot. So Yeah, the idea of the profit type stuff and building control and societies around religion just just makes my skin crawl already. Like we all grew up in like the Robert Tilton era. Did we learn nothing from that? Yeah, they weren't declaring themselves profits, they were just no. But like I just remember like in the summertime, my brother and I would watch him on TV and he would like have people call in and he would pray over like the prayer requests that came in or whatever as healing of them. So it was like the beginning of that whole kind of movement, if you will. And I think as a kid, being skeptical has taught me to know that like odds are, this is not going to be a prophet of any kind.

43:46 It's like, uh, because I also grew up in the land of Oral Roberts. Yes, in northeastern Oklahoma. Then you had Jim and Tammy, Faye Baker, all those types. But yeah, they're just they're just there's some. Don't forget Jimmy Swaggered and. Thank you, thank you Jimmy Swagger. He's he's really one of the ultimates. That man could cry on a dime. That was a talent. But there seemed to be something in the water in Utah. It's a beautiful state, arguably the most beautiful in the United States, but something weird is there. And I guess you're right, maybe it's just all stemming from the Mormonism. Well, I mean, it's. Not to offend anyone, but by most theologians like it's a cult. Yeah, and because it involves a Third Testament of Jesus, almost everyone else.

44:39 Goes, yeah, no, it did happen. Uh. It was a bloody feud for for land and they ended up in Utah. There is safety in numbers. I'm guessing like, hey, if we all joined together in this one area, there's not well. It was no. They all they all wanted to be away from everyone because they were practicing polygamy and had a very own, their own, very interesting set of rules on how things should be done. So they went out west and found you to Utah, and they have their own I mean it's very wealthy, they have their own businesses, they're all. I mean, it's very encapsulated. I knew it was a weird religion when the seventh grade basketball team I was on was coached by a Mormon and his son who's also Mormon, was on the team, and they were like, hey, we have this league, the Church League. You want to come play, We need an extra player. I was like sure, And then I get there and the basketball courts covered in carpet. I was like, this is these people are weird. I knew things were odd right then and there, Rebecca. I know you need to go, but if I remember correctly here speaking of weird religious stuff, one other notable birthday I forgot to mention l Ron Hubbard. He would be one hundred and fifteen today, but he passed away in nineteen eighty six. Sodynetics, scientologist, Yes, scientology and dionetics can't make you immortal.

46:06 No, P. T. Barnum of religion. I really do sometimes enjoy this show. Stevie Wonder, Robert Pattinson, l Ron Hubbard and the Mormon religion all wrapped under one giant circus tint of a treehouse. I mean, and you know it's bad when the Mormons look at you and go, you're fucking weird. That'll do it. We will see you next time right here inside the Treehouse for all things Treehouse, Treehouse on air dot com. Give us all a follow on social at Haunted Rebecca at Trade Turnhome one Infamy. It's at the Down. See you next time right here