It's FRIIIDAY! #11: Rumble in the Treehouse

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Mho, time to leave your worries
outside and join me. Daniel Malley,

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Trey Trenholm and Raz Sharma right here
in the treehouse. It is red which

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by the way, guys, if
you ever feel like turning it, turning

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that into a chorus type thing instead, I'm all for it. We can

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harmonize it. It just makes it
just makes me giggle every time you do

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it, so I don't think i'd
be able to participate because I'll be laughing.

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But you feel like it's it's my
bit, not yours, like it's

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kind of your thing, and it's
it's quite adorable. It does make me

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laugh every time. I'd try to
be uh, I try to give the

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people what they want. And that's
one of those odd things that you don't

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expect someone to latch onto like I
think I did it like twice when we

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were on the radio, and then
when I didn't do it one Friday,

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people were messaging and going, Hey, what's wrong, why didn't dancing Friday?

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Oh okay, that's what it is. Really, I like that thing.

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I was just me being dumb,
like, okay, I'll do it

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if you like it. I find
it. I find it whimsical. Well,

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if we are nothing else here in
the treehouse, whimsical is a good

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describer. Normally it's stupid, but
I like whimsical. It sounds more positive.

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Yeah, it hurts my feelings less
you're whimsical, I'm contrarian, and

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then then what would raj be?
I I don't know. But we're just

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adding dwarves now to the the seven
doors we got sleeping. I think you

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had it right with dwarves. I
feel like we're coming up with our own

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categories of dungeons and dragons, but
just really really stupid. You know,

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it's like, what are you?
I'm a level I'm a level six whimsical

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and Tray Tray is a what a
level nine contrarian master? A master contrarian?

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Which is weird that you bring that
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making quite the comeback. I didn't
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Thanks. I think doing very large
part to stranger things, Dungeons and

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Dragons has turned into more of a
mainstream thing than I think it's ever been.

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Yeah, I mean it's still I
mean you, I mean you have

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to understand that you are just a
nerd, Like that's the fact like if

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you're if you're playing it, because
nerd culture has has kind of gone mainstream.

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Yeah, you're talking about shows like
Stranger Things because it's about you know,

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these outcast kids, they're the nerds
to play dungeons and dragons. But

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then that became the hottest television show
on the planet. You have The Big

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Bang Theory centered around nerd culture.
Yeah, and it took a few years

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but eventually became the number one comedy
on television. Yeah, that stole my

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name, Big Bang Theory. Yeah, raj oh, yes, I yeah,

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I actually thought about that last night
because in our new place here on

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Saint John, we actually have cable
for the first time and I don't know

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how many years, and so we
actually turned on TBS and watched a little

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bit of Big Big Bang Theory.
It's a really terrible show. It's a

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really really Oh you're about to You're
about to see Trey's Outer Contrarian. It's

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so it's so badly written that it's
it's painful. I well, I have

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I've seen it on accident, and
I'm so glad. It's just so bad.

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I disagree. I think it was
incredibly well written and well so no,

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it's so bad. It's it just
it was on for twelve seasons.

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Yeah, this is like one of
those things that like when I say,

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like I don't like Metallica, Okay, well that's just dumb. But I

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know they're doesn't make sense, so
I don't say they suck. I just

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they're just not my cup of tea. Young brother, I know that's that's

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a hill I will die with you
on, not the Metallica thing. It's

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Metallica is one of the best ever. And how dare you but the hill

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I will die on you with is
the just because you don't like something doesn't

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mean it sucks. It just means
exactly that it's just not your cup of

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tea. And it's very difficult to
claim something sucks when the thing you're saying

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sucks is wildly successful. No,
it's it's it's what we call in La

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So how TV shows work. It's
called selling soap to the Midwest. That's

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what it is. Is it's you
you try to sell. That's all TV

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is, is just selling advertising.
And for the Midwest, like that's like,

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oh my god, look at these
nerds and look at that Indian feller

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Like that, I get okay,
but like Trey is educated and it has

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been around a variety of people,
same as am I, and I too

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am a fan of the Big Bang
theory. Rug it's just so, it's

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just so, And I feel like, how many wait, hang on,

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hang on, wait like, yeah, you said you watched an episode by

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accident. I didn't watch an episode
by hold on. Let me, let

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me, let me back up.
I've seen snippets of multiple episodes because I'll

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leave the TV on and I think
Friends is on before it uh and now

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so I think it goes Friends,
Big Bang Theory and then modern. How

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many episodes have you actually sat down
and watched? I watched in my hotel

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room a couple of months ago.
I watched one full episode and I was

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miserable because the it's just it's just
it's a set up punch. It's set

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up punch. That's all it is. It's a sitcom. That's what it's

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supposed to be. It's supposed to
be twenty two minutes of setup and punch.

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But then go watch Friends, and
then you'll see how a sitcom should

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be written. And you know what
the thing is, Raj is there are

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people in this world that that would
say your opinion of friends is bad because

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they think. And so that's the
whole thing. It's like, you can

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be wildly successful and you can still
have detractors no matter what. Yeah,

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at the end of the day,
like you said, like unfortunately, you

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painted yourself into that Hollywood quote unquote
elite credit category, which is you're just

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trying to sell soap to the Midwest. So the downside of that is you're

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already looking down on your potential audience, which is not helpful if as a

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creator. I don't care if it's
an online creator or Hollywood New York doing

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plays, stand up, whatever it
is. That was something Leno tapped into.

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He tapped into the Midwest uff and
that's why he was successful. And

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Letterman didn't really do that, but
he still found himself successful. And that

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was what was great about Late Night
at the time is you had an option

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either whichever whichever was your cup at
the at the time. But when it

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comes to television and movies whatever,
Yeah, yeah, you can have something

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that's meant to sort of, you
know, appeal to the general American.

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But The Big Bang Theory is one
of those shows that didn't the fact that

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it ever appealed to the to the
Midwest was kind of shocking because they were

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using words that were more than three
and four syllables, which by studio executive

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standards. I'm surprised that show even
made it to a third season. But

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I have seen Young Sheldon. I've
seen an episode of that, and that

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is better written than The Big Bang
Theory, which it's based off of.

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The thing is, though, I
think that's an unfair comparison because they're two

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vastly different styles of shows. They're
both I totally disagree with you in that

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a. I don't think Young Sheldon
was better written, but it also it's

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very similar in that if you like, if you liked it, because Jim

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Parsons narrates Young Sheldon, and I
didn't say I liked it. I just

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said it was better written. I
didn't say I liked it. He's just

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saying it's the better trash. Yeah, I'm just yeah, okay, I'll

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just say it's terrible to me.
Let's just say that that's more mature.

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That's more mature is to say if
you like Big Bang Theory, that's good

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for you. It's not my cup
of tea. Well, it's like you

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know, if you read or any
list about you know, people who classify

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the greatest sitcoms ever. I love
Lucy is always on there. I can't

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stand it. I think it's just
dumb and predictable. And yeah, uh,

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I think it was just because it
was great for its time. Uh.

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It's the same with like the Doors. The Doors hands down one of

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the most overrated bands in the history
of bands, outside of Nirvana, which

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was just terrible. Uh. And
and you and I there there is something

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you and I totally agree on hate
Nirvana. There we found in common ground.

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And I can't say on the Doors
either. And I agree with you

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if Jim Morrison's death is you know, and Jim Morrison made The Doors the

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Doors music just completely yes, I
mean, and I think that's where three

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of us and can gather around the
center of this here treehouse and all agree

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that none of us like the Doors. No, it's they were just I

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mean, like if you just lyrically, if you look at what they were

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doing, nobody was doing it at
that time, right, But it doesn't

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hold up, Like Nirvana's lyrics are
garbage, Like if you just look up

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smells like teen Spirit, just look
up the lyrics and you'll be ashamed of

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yourself if you actually liked that song. You look at them. It's just

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the ramblings of a heroin addict.
That's all it was. But it sounded

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good and we ate it was.
And then and then you listen to Dave

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Grohl talk about that specific song,
and then go listen to the Gap Band.

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Is where he got the drums from
for for that entire album? Yeah,

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it is from the Gap Band,
which is hilarious because you're just glad

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that we were able to find common
ground and that the love or hate over

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the Big Bang Theory did not fracture
our show. It did not, but

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you know, it is pioneering for
its time, like uh, you know

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people like but also people didn't have
options. That's the other that I think

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you have to give shows in the
modern age that are successful like The Big

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Bang Theory a lot of credit in
that. You know, I love Lucy

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and all that, there were three
stations like you, you had no options.

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Now you've got hundreds of options.
In the fact you have a run

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like that, it's important, But
I mean you're also following the same the

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same formula as Friends, right,
because every show kind of did that.

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Like, if you look at Scrubs, you have six people that are friends,

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and then there's romantic spinoffs of that. Right, So the same plot

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for Big Bang Theory is there six
people and then there's a little romantic spinoffs

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of it. So they're just following
that. It's what Hollywood does. It's

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basically like, if that show is
successful, we'll make another one of those

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and everything. You would you agree
that Friends of a copy? Would you

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agree that Friends is a copy of
Living Single? Yes? Okay one percent?

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And that's something that Hollywood sometimes needs
to realize. And this is where

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a lot of times you'll get like
the studio versus the actual creators. Is

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you get the formulas, and some
of the creators hate it, but also

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some of the creators you can be
like, it gives me a framework all

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ready to work from. You can
always go back, You can go back

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from storytelling basics and find some running
themes through everything, whether you know a

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TV sitcom, a TV drama,
or an audio podcast. Yeah, when

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I did when I did the when
I auditioned for the CBS Showcase and I

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ended up getting it, which was
amazing. It was a turning point in

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my professional career. Like I remember
sitting with some of the executives at CBS

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when Priyanka Chopra's Quantico came out,
and I remember them sitting around going before

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it came out, like talking about
it, like, let's see if this

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hits, because if it hits,
we need to find ours and them bringing

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in uh actresses and actress from India
during pilot season, Yeah, to try

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to knock off their version of I
think that's part of the reason why once

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you get set, you know,
even if it's just your big toe inside

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the Hollywood sphere, once you peek
behind that curtain and you see the Wizard,

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you're like, Okay, a lot
of this is really really terrible,

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and that's going to give you a
different perspective, Whereas like Tray and I

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haven't really done that, so we
can watch Big Bang Theory. And then

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while I recognize that they play into
a lot of stereotypes with their raja,

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they at least call it out.
Yeah. They'll say like they'll say the

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thing that was clearly racial, and
then they'll say, you can't say that

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because it was racial. So they
they operate kind of like on the fence,

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like they got the toe in the
Hollywood following the formula, but they're

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also they're also calling it out say
like hey, we're aware of this,

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but we're just trying to give the
people what they want, which is,

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at the end of the day,
entertainment. Yeah, and you're right,

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it is when you see behind when
you start seeing behind the curtain, like

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I when I first walked onto the
lot at Radford, CBS, and like

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I would still remember, I was
on the corner. I'm not even making

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this up. I was at the
corner of gun Smoke and Gilligan's Island.

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That's the streets. They've named the
streets after their show. So I'm standing

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on the corner of gun Smoke and
Gilligan's Island. I was like, this

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is hilarious, and like all of
it. It's just majestic and all the

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studios and all that. And then
when I started, you know, I

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was there for thirteen fourteen weeks doing
this CBS showcase, and I started seeing

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like behind the scenes stuff and how
this was getting done and how they were

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how incestuous it is like a Fox
show being filmed at the CBS lot because

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it's produced by CBS. But they
won't tell you that because the ratings war

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and all these networks are against each
other. They're not. That's completely false.

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They're producing shows on the same line. Then I started seeing how formulaic

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it was, and then hearing execs
go okay, so what are they doing?

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Okay, so we need to bring
in people from India because if that's

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a hit right now, we need
to do our version of it. And

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they were just throwing writers in a
room like just kind of something like that

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and make it the same. And
I was like, oh, there's no

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creativity behind this. So and that's
why at the end of the day,

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if you're the creator in the room, you're the writer, you're the director,

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you're the you know, whatever it
is. That's where it's Yet there's

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the realization you can either do it
completely independently, which is possible but it's

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extremely difficult, or you can play
a little bit of the game. Yeah,

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but then try to get enough power
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thing, and then the studios will
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then everything you just said is both
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That's the reason why we still get
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Kong movies and Godzilla movies. As
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we got to do it here.
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oh, so Hollywood's run out of
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they've done is they go, well, you sit over there, this works.

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This, This will make us a
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We don't know if that will so
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what we'll do. We'll do that
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far as you have thrown out two
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I would watch. I would watch
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and what'd you say, Jason versus
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you know Jason's gonna win, he
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love to see gun Smoke and Gilligan's
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Jason vo He's on Gilligan's island because
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the only person on the island.
Here you go, that's actually even better.

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It's uh, the new, the
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of the island is Jason Or are
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of Gunsmoke riding around on a horse
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now. So, Rodney, I'm
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the major reasons that people are doing
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Yeah, the number one reason and
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Financial experts Dave Ramsey Susie Orman will
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sitting there with that kind of debt
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number one reason get out of debt. Number two home improvements, Number three,

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to invest in your child's education.
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and I will throw a six one
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and all those things that you mentioned
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that. You got to give him
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jump into some birthdays here, but
Raj, you had an important question you

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were curious about about my new living
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was it furnished? Yes? Okay, because it's very common, it's

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very common in island locations. Because
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that the places, whether it's for
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lot of stuff furnished. Gotcha,
because I don't see you owning that mirror

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behind you. That's because that's that's
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This is a good time to plug our

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see the new place that I'm living
in. Most of which of this stuff

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is is not mine or Terra's,
Like, yeah, on the walls was

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here when we when we moved in. Yeah, like my mom would have

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that. My mom would have had
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own this house were about the same
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Oh yeah, you see that that
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corner entertainment center. Yeah, not
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ten fifteen years ago. Is the
is the is the painting over there on

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the wall? Is it on the
wall? Yeah? It's not ours?

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Not Yeah, definitely not yours.
I see that. You see that black

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fan right there, Yeah, that's
mine. If you ever need a good

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air moving fan. Yeah. They're
not paying me to say this, although

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I'd love to, you know,
get a cut of the action Forornado,

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Vornado with a V for I see
like a vortex tornado. Yes, it's

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exactly what it is. Good job, good job, raj as opposed to

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what I thought it was initially was
very tornado somewhere my immigrants somewhere in the

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ether. My immigrant parents were laughing
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even we didn't think that, that
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you know, it's very tornado.
Yeah. I also feel like it's

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one of those things that my family, you know, would look at me

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and see this and hear me say
that and think, you know, we

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really should have just left him in
Oklahoma. It really is amazing the things

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we're living in is very much like
a treehouse. I'm not kidding. Yeah,

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but didn't they didn't they mix you
up? Wasn't there a mix up

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with the babies when it came time
for me to have the official adoption?

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Yeah? There was, Yeah,
Tray, do you remember this story?

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I think the last time I I
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story, you were drinking at the
time, so I don't mind telling it.

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Both your memories were screwed. I'll
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and it's taken me, you know, forty four years to become better at

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telling short stories. Was it?
Was it a drop off at a Walmart?

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than than this moment where you're you're
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I was switched back. So here's
what happened. So my parents were on

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the wait list for a baby.
They wanted to adopt a baby, and

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they've been on the wait list for
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to be matched up as closely genetically
possible as they could. At the time,

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that was the whole point of the
process, right, was I just

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saw that way. Yeah, so
that way in case you didn't want to

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tell the child he or she was
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he looked close enough. So that's
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they went to Oklahoma City. So
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I went into foster care and for
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they had to do it in Oklahoma
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mom drive Oklahoma City to come and
get me. Then they get the baby.

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They're driving back home to northern Oklahoma. My dad's looking at the polaroid

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of me and comparing it with this
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it's like, this ain't our kid. So they turn around, go back

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to the facility in Oklahoma City and
say, this ain't our kid. And

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at that point my dad got angrier
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My mother would still give him that
to this day. And so then

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they had to call the family that
had me. State of Oklahoma was initially

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saying you wanted a kid, you
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But my parents were insistently like,
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We didn't. We don't want just
whatever kid fell off, you know,

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fell out of the bin. We
want the one that we were supposed

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to get. So they contacted the
family that actually had me, and they

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had gone to a different part of
Oklahoma. And so then they decided to

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meet in the middle, somewhere between
Oklahoma and wherever this random family had me,

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and they had an official representative from
the state witnessed the exchange of babies

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in a Walmart parking lot. And
that's how I end up where I am

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today with you fine gentlemen. And
you know, somehow the greatest story was

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supposed to being lost forever in southwestern
Oklahoma. If you were ever going to

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tie in a story of your being
switched at birth, very Tornado and Oklahoma

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really just make it all to sync
up. Do you get nostalgic at Walmart

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parking lots like you like you?
Do you feel a sense of like this

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is home, Like why are you
loitering? I'm not loitering, I'm home.

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Do you ever find yourself like at
a Walmart Park, like like I

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don't want to go in just yet. You know what, No, because

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Walmarts just aren't just aren't like what
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Now it's all about deals and falling
prizes as opposed to switching babies.

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I mean, it's like if they're
there's just no more American story, uh

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than than yours. You know what, Then let's let's make let's make a

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movie out of it or something raj
because everyone complains in Hollywood there's no good

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ideas. We all are forced to
do this formulae at crap. So let's

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do uh, let's do a movie
about a lost white kid that gets saved.

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Oh wait, make them make the
parents Korean and you got to hit.

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Let's do some birthdays. Today is
Fred Day, November tenth, twenty

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three birthdays. Today, we've got
Mackenzie Foy is twenty four, the star

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of Black Beauty Remake and Disney's The
Nutcracker in the Four Realms. And even

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though that was a thing, she
was also Bella and Edward's daughter in the

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Twilight Movies. So that's Mackenzie Foy. She's twenty four today. Then we

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get Kieran ship Cup Kieran Chipka's twenty
five played Sabrina Spelman on the Netflix series

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to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She
was also and this is where I know

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her best, she was Sally Draper
on mad Men. Do you guys ever

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watch mad Men? No? That
was on my list of shows that I

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need to watch. It's a good
one, Tray. Not only is it

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a great show, but having since
you've worked in the advertising industry, having

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worked in you know, radio for
many, many years, there are things

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that will happen and things that are
said that you will you will feel immediately

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related to and also say ooh to
too soon, too soon? I did.

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I lied. I saw back to
back. I saw two episodes.

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It was great. I think they
filmed some of it here in Dallas.

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Really well, yeah, I think
if I'm correct, the first season,

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I think their office was filmed at
Southside Lamar. Interesting. I've to go

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and check that out see if that's
yeah. I believe that season one.

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I think part of season one was
filmed here in Dallas. Zoe Deutsch is

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thirty today from Zombie Land to also
Vampire Academy, and she was also in

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a Dirty Grandpa. Her mom is
Leah Thompson from the Back to the Future

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movies. Oh wow. Okay,
So the other thing Hollywood, in addition

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to being formulaic when it comes to
the content of their TV shows and films,

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they're also pretty formulaic and their choice
of actors because they just keep going

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back to the same damn families.
Yes, it's called nepotism. It's true.

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Well, I also keep going back
to the same people. I mean,

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good God, who would have thought
Liam Neesan was going to be a

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action star? No, and but
you know he does Taken, and now

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he's done ten different movies, just
variants have Taken. Yeah, it's all

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and and and can we just be
honest with the first Taken was great?

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00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.359
The second one. The first Taken
was perfect. It was, yes,

404
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.759
perfect, And then I'm like by
this when the second one came out,

405
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.759
I'm like, stop vacationing and Azerbaijan
like, why are you going with?

406
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.920
Who's your travel agent? And it
was I think it was a work trip

407
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:37.400
for him. He's just an IT
consultant that just knows how to kick all

408
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.480
the ass, like and then and
then everything started being taken. Everything was

409
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:44.440
like Taken on a train, taken
in the snow, and then the new

410
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.240
one that just came out was like
taken with your kids in the car.

411
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:52.079
Like My favorite though, was taken
three when uh uh his ex wife's husband

412
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:57.559
slash daughter's father in law was taken
so hard they replaced him with different actors

413
00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:06.240
and then made him the bad guy
and take him three other birthdays. Today,

414
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:11.079
you've got Josh Peck. He is
thirty eight today played Josh Nichols on

415
00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:17.880
Nickelodeon's Drake, and Josh Lou Forigno
Junior is forty today plays Rocker on SWAT.

416
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.640
I didn't even know that Lou's kid
was an actor. Yeah, I

417
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.000
met. I met him once,
he was a dad or junior of dad.

418
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.880
I got him to sign one of
my incredible to Collected the comic books

419
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.240
as a kid, and I got
him to sign one of my Incredible Hulk

420
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:37.559
comic books. And he In the
last segment, Raj, where an't you

421
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.359
complaining about how Hollywood is so formula
leg that they named the Indian character on

422
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.960
The Big Bang Theory? Raj?
Yet here you are geeking out at Lou

423
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.440
Forigno getting your whole He was at
the same like he was in mesquite like

424
00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:53.480
trust me back in, like that's
a big deal. Like when we got

425
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.279
him at the skeet, that's what
I'm saying, Like, that's that's that's

426
00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:00.759
what we knew. Like I'm like, oh my god, fos at the

427
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:04.160
gym And that's when you knew your
world's It was like two ships in the

428
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:10.039
night passing, except you were on
your way up and he was on his

429
00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:14.319
way down. Yeah, and and
yeah. But he he like he was

430
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:18.000
at the same gym that was in
Mesquity, was called USA Fitness and Racquetball

431
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.119
Club. If you do it,
doesn't get more eighties than that. It

432
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.519
was a racquetball club. Uh,
And he was at like promoting something,

433
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.039
but they had him as as an
appearance, and he was just the biggest

434
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:36.960
human I've ever seen. I also
was like five four and sixty five pounds,

435
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.240
so anybody was a bigger human than
I've ever seen. Like yeah,

436
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.480
so basically you were so small and
he was so large he mistook you for

437
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:51.279
a bell. Yeah. I remember
distinctly saying his his calf, his calf

438
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.279
muscle was bigger than me. I
remember looking at his like he was just

439
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:56.960
wearing like a black tank top black
shorts, and I just remember looking at

440
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:01.000
his legs. I'm like, yeah, he he just like just slightly nudged

441
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:07.319
me with the toe. That's a
fatality. And I don't even think hate

442
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.039
crimes existed back then, so I
don't even think that's what. No,

443
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:12.319
at that time, this key police
would have shown up and been like,

444
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:17.240
clearly he got your toe. Yes, sorry about the Indian fullllle. They're

445
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:37.000
not normally allowed here. You know, he's here for the racketball. You're

446
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:46.440
listening to the Treehouse. Visit us
online that Treehouse on air dot com.

447
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:52.119
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448
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449
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Cook d f W. The website
cookdfw dot com. So, Daniel,

450
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.480
we were just talking on the show
a little bit about this. You know

451
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:07.880
how Hollywood sitcoms can be kind of
formulaic, you know, set up punchlines,

452
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.480
set up punchline, and you know, Raj and Trey and myself we

453
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.920
kind of got into it on sitcoms. We're you know, Trey and I

454
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.519
like Big Bang theory. Raj thinks
it's crap, even though he's very similar

455
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.160
to the raj on the show ironically, and the he liked Friends, which

456
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.519
a lot of people think is either
great or terrible. So where do you

457
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.599
stand? What's your what's your favorite
sitcom? What's your least favorite sitcom?

458
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.599
I'm kind of right there in the
middle. I enjoy watching several of them.

459
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:37.559
I think when you get those long
running episodes of sitcoms like Friends and

460
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:42.359
Seinfeld and Big Bang, some of
the episodes are great. You can tell

461
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.799
the writers were all on it together
that day, and then some of them

462
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:47.119
are just kind of like you can
tell they got into a room and go,

463
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:50.319
okay, we got to make five
episodes. What are we gonna do

464
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.359
here, guys, Let's hurry up. Let's let's just throw something on paper

465
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.359
and we'll see how it goes.
But I think every one of these long

466
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.880
running sitcoms have have really good content, and you can tell some seasons were

467
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:06.359
really written well, and you know
the actors were getting into it. You

468
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.119
can tell if you go back,
like Friends, we went to go see

469
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:16.000
the Friends promotional like trailer that came
through Dallas and had all real memorabilia and

470
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:20.760
everything and had their backstories of the
actors and all those kind of things,

471
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:22.639
And it was kind of fun because
you know, as they're going through real

472
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.559
life and they're still becoming these actors
on TV, and it just gives you

473
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:32.079
some insight of how those shows are
always changing and how the writers changed their

474
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:36.760
approach on the show based on where
the actors are in their life. So

475
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:39.920
it's a fascinating process. I love
watching, especially like a like a pilot,

476
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.639
and then if it's a show that
ends up being successful, looking back

477
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:47.480
at the pilot and seeing how different
that show started out. So it is

478
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:51.599
a very cool process to see.
So what's your favorite what's your favorite titcom

479
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.320
man? You know, Carrie forces
me to rewatch Friends like constantly, and

480
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.559
then Gray's Anatomy is another one of
those. But I don't think that falls

481
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:04.239
in their sick but some episodes,
some episodes are greats Anatomy are pretty laughable,

482
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.960
Yeah it is, But yeah,
I would say I don't know if

483
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.039
I had to pick one his Friends, I think Friends was just a really

484
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:14.000
well written doc. You know,
it just seems like it flew it flew

485
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.519
by, even though it's so many
seasons, but it kept you really in,

486
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:20.719
you know, wanting to see more
of the show. Well, I

487
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.800
know next time we're in town than
what we'll do is you, Me,

488
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:27.199
Carrie and my wife Tera will all
sit down because Tara is a huge friend's

489
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.440
nut, and we will just have
a marathon. In addition to that,

490
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.039
you can also get your roof inspected
for free by Daniel Cook and his very

491
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.559
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eight three three Cook DFW. That's eight

492
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:44.920
three three COOKDFW orcookdfw dot com.
It's the tree House. Let's get Jacqueline

493
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:46.480
from Brooks Plumbing into the tree House
now. Their phone number two one,

494
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:51.599
four three six eight thirty eight thirty
eight and the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot

495
00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:54.760
com. Jaqueline, I'm curious,
what is the most common problem that people

496
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:59.400
call you and hoping that you can
help them fix. I have a lot

497
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:02.000
of people that call me and they
like us so much and they want to

498
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.199
know, do you guys do hvac? Do you guys do electrical? And

499
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:07.360
we don't. You know, it
used to be back in the day there

500
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.320
were not a lot of companies that
did more than one trade. It's become

501
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.440
more so of a frequent thing circa
the late nineties, early two thousands.

502
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:21.760
But I'm like a walking little black
book of contractors. And so, like

503
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.800
I've always said, if I can't
do it, I know somebody who can.

504
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:27.280
Like, for example, we don't
do remodels, but I have a

505
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.519
company that does plumbing that I would
allow in, well, well, we'd

506
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.760
remodel my house. But I've got
a company that I would have in my

507
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.960
house if I needed to remodel.
I've got electricians that I trust that will

508
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:43.920
push you to the front of the
line in if you call them same day,

509
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.519
if you say I was your your
point of reference, you know,

510
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.760
I've got an HVAC company that I
trust. And it's because I'll tell you,

511
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:53.519
when you are a contractor, you're
ten times more critical of the other

512
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:57.920
contractors that you work with, because
you know, when you're getting a sales

513
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:00.159
pitch, you know when something is
over, you might not know why.

514
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:06.440
But so that's what I get a
lot of. So because most anything that

515
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.920
you that you need plumbing, we
can handle, but we we don't go

516
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:14.320
beyond that. But I've got some
I've got a guy. You're the girl

517
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.280
that's always got a guy, and
you know that's actually that makes sense that

518
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:19.360
that's one of the most common things
that you get because if you've done a

519
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.280
really good job for someone, they're
going to be desperate for you to do

520
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.760
all the things. But obviously you
you focus on one and you do it

521
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:29.519
really well. But you have others
that you can recommend to people that carry

522
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:32.440
your stamp of approval. And you
have our stamp of approval. So give

523
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:36.079
Jacqueline and Brooks Plumbing a call for
any and all of your plumbing once and

524
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:38.480
needs two one four three six eight
thirty eight thirty eight and the website Brooks

525
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:47.639
Plumbing Texas dot com. You're listening
to the Treehouse visites online that Treehouse on

526
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:54.880
air dot com. This segment of
the Treehouse is brought to you by our

527
00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:00.360
dear friends at Brooks Plumbing. Brooks
Plumbing phone number two one four three six

528
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.320
eight thirty eight thirty eight two one
four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight,

529
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:14.039
the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. I go take a quick look

530
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:15.920
to see if there's any other birthdays
that we really need to know. My

531
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:19.800
god, it's a big birthday day, all right. We're gonna run through

532
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:23.559
these real quick. Here we Go. We left off with Lou Frigno Junior

533
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:30.679
as forty from the TV show Swat. I skipped over unfortunately Tarren Edgerton.

534
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.719
He is thirty five today. He
played Elton John in Rocketman. Yeah,

535
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.199
Robin in the most recent Robin Hood
remake with Jamie Fox, which I've not

536
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:44.440
seen but I wanted to. And
he's also eggsy in the Kingsman movies,

537
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.639
so good, The Kingsman for that
last one, Golden One of the King's

538
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:54.480
Men, The Kingsman the prequel.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he's

539
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.440
great. He's great in the Kingsman
movies. Yeah, they're They're really good.

540
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.400
He's one of those actors, I
shouldn't say one those actors. He's

541
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:06.119
one of those people that truly hit
the genetic lottery. Like there was a

542
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.039
there was a supermodel A handfully of
years ago. She gave a commencement speech,

543
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:15.400
so I think she was valedictorian at
her university or something, and and

544
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:19.760
she talked about people's you know,
stereotypes and stuff because she's gorgeous. But

545
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.039
the way she said it, it
wasn't like in an Aholish supermodel kind of

546
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.679
way. She's like, look,
I hit the genetic lottery. I know,

547
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:28.400
I'm I'm pretty, but I'm aware
of it. Yeah, Yet she

548
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.280
still had to bust her ass and
work against that stereotype to become valedictorian,

549
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:37.360
which I appreciated. Yeah. Taron
Edgerton is one of those people that has

550
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.280
hit a genetic lottery but has still
managed to put forth effort into it to

551
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.960
become the level of celebrity that he
is. What I mean by that is

552
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:51.480
that dude is unfairly good looking,
like he is a pretty man. Yeah.

553
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.400
He also has a beautiful singing voice. He actually, I don't know

554
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:59.760
if you guys have seen Seeing One
or Sing Two. It's the animated movies

555
00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.719
or animals, you know, the
team he plays the chimpanzee. He's got

556
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.920
a gorgeous singing voice. Yeah,
and and he's a good actor. If

557
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.119
you guys haven't seen it was on
Apple TV the movie called Tetris about Tetris.

558
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:15.519
He plays the main role in that, and he was he was really

559
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.639
good in that. It's one of
those guys. He was like, man,

560
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:24.000
that's that's just not fair. Yeah, I've been when I first when

561
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.800
I saw The First Kingdom in the
movie, I was like, who is

562
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.000
this guy? I didn't know who
he was. And then I saw the

563
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:35.320
second one and it and then I
saw the Elton John biopic and it was

564
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.079
just so great, and I'm like, this kid is he's got it,

565
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:42.480
Like there's there's people that got like
my buddy Matt Rife. Matt Rife is

566
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:45.840
like the new sensation in stand up
comedy. He's got it. Like he's

567
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:50.239
ridiculously good looking. I've known him
since he was seventeen. He's ridiculously good

568
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.039
looking. He's in you want to
hate him because he's so good looking.

569
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.840
Uh, and he's funny and he's
a good comic and then on top of

570
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.159
that the nicest guy. So there's
nothing to dislike about him. And I

571
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:01.880
I would hope that this guy is
the same way. I would hate to

572
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:07.039
meet this like Terran is that his
name ran Ran? Terran Ederton Yet Yeah,

573
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.159
I would like I would hate to
meet him and him being a hole

574
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:14.039
like I would that would that would
be disappointing because he just seems like it's

575
00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:17.280
all like he's got that whole package
put together. Like but you kind of

576
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.280
like a Tom Holland someone that seems
like, yeah, good looking, young,

577
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.840
very wealthy, talented, not only
is he a really good actor,

578
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:30.719
but he's he's a really good cross
dressing dancer, as as he showed on

579
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:36.280
the lip Sync Battle show. Yeah
that was a great show. But yeah

580
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.559
that's a good well. Happy birthday, and you forgot to mention your own

581
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:45.199
birthday was last week? Oh I
didn't forget. Is this a thing where

582
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.320
you don't mention that you have a
birthday? Pretty much? I'm not.

583
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.639
I guess I'm not completely on record
on the Treehouse podcast at how I'm not

584
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.400
a birthday person, but I'm not
a birthday person for myself. I like

585
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.159
celebrating other people's birthdays. Trey.
I think at this point knows that I'm

586
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.079
not big on celebrating my birthday.
Raj. I've known you long enough you

587
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:06.880
should know that I'm not big on
celebrating my birthday. So that's why I'm

588
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:10.800
assuming you're bringing it up now is
to embarrass me. No, because I

589
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.199
was at I was I think I
was watching the game. Was it Sunday?

590
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:21.280
Yeah, I was watching the game
and your lovely wife posted a happy

591
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.079
birthday to you, and I did
not know that it was your birthday,

592
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:30.719
and so I did send you a
couple bucks to buy yourselves around, which,

593
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.119
by the way, thank you,
Roger. I really do appreciate that.

594
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.239
That is one thing about the twenty
first century that is awesome is that

595
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.920
you can give someone like me who
doesn't want anything for my birthday, yes,

596
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:49.880
an unsolicited birthday money thing through technology, and I can't reject it.

597
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.880
That's true, you cannot. The
best thing I can do is send you

598
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.119
back twenty bucks and then we're just
stuck in a twenty dollars infinity loop.

599
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.400
Yeah, we don't need to do
but yeah, and I know it was

600
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:02.159
your birthday. I felt like I
didn't know that you didn't. I'm not

601
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.039
a big birthday person. Everybody likes
to celebrate it for me, like it

602
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:10.360
is great. I always get like
the girlfriend, like this time I had

603
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:16.280
brownies, which I thought was ironic, but no kidding, Like Tara didn't

604
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bring me a plate of whities.
You're both a play of whities. And

605
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scientists have shared an update on the
Mexican three fingered alien corpses that they unveiled

606
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:40.440
recently. What what this is?
This is one of the most comical things

607
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:44.800
I've seen. So a handful of
months ago, you had the UFO hearings

608
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.360
that happened in the US, right, the whistleblower guy. We talked about

609
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.559
him, and everything seemed very legitimate, above board, like, hey,

610
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.079
there's some things happening. We're not
all really sure what's going on, but

611
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we're all kind of unified for once, kind of wondering what's happening, right,

612
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:04.719
And then Mexico took it for a
different spin. A team of scientists

613
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:09.280
returned to Mexico's parliament to declare the
three fingered Peruvian mummies unveiled in September as

614
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real, but refused to say whether
or not they were aliens. One doctor

615
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.679
claimed the specimens were a new species
that did not have lungs or ribs.

616
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:23.400
The specimens were reported to have been
found alongside at least one other in a

617
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:29.239
Peruvian algae mind, sparking a minor
diplomatic tiff in the process, given the

618
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:34.639
country's authorities were not made aware of
the discovery. However, a scientist across

619
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:38.480
the world, especially in Mexico,
were immediately skeptical and quick to dismiss the

620
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:45.159
claims of tiny alien corpses. Yeah, okay, they got to explain all

621
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:50.679
those pyramids over there in Mexico,
Peru, Machu pichi, it's onto something.

622
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:53.360
They don't think that these tiny aliens
are responsible for that. Those are

623
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:57.400
some really big structures that these little
guys I don't think would have been able

624
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.000
to do. You say they're onto
something or they're on some thing like there's

625
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:07.800
those are two different things there.
I agree with the latter, and I'm

626
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:12.079
you know again, I believe in
aliens and I believe in I believe that's

627
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.719
who did the pyramids. But very
valid point. But uh, they don't

628
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:22.199
have lungs or ribs. That's the
part that got me like scientifically, like

629
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.840
how do you oxygen? Eighth,
Well, there are plenty of creatures on

630
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.119
this planet that don't have lungs or
ribs and they live. They found them

631
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.039
in and and what does it say
a mine? An old algae mine.

632
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:37.360
So maybe they were under underwater creatures. Okay, I guess all right,

633
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.960
So they're not human humanoid? Well, they're humanoid because they they you know,

634
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:44.440
they have arms and legs and a
head and stuff, and fingers.

635
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:46.840
They had three and three three fingers. They're they're they're they're part of the

636
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:55.119
Simpson species. Are they're like early
rednecks. They didn't know how to fire

637
00:45:55.159 --> 00:46:12.920
off fireworks or they just play for
the New York Giants. It's not a

638
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:19.239
war movie. Don't count the three
just light it and throw it. Thanks

639
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:22.599
for hanging out with us inside the
Treehouse. Be sure to check out the

640
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641
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To subscribe, go to patreon dot
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642
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:35.679
also dropping that same day, episode
sixty one at the Treehouse Podcast. Thanks

643
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:37.039
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