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Welcome not only to inside the treehouse, but welcome to a brand new year,

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New Year, New stupid, all
coming at you from inside this stupid

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little treehouse. So welcome to the
very first, not only episode of the

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new year, but the very first
Friday of twenty twenty four. You've made

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it. Yeah, I have a
question though, is it really is it

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new year, new stupid or is
it new year, same stupid. See

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I struggled with that when I made
the posts, and I wasn't sure because

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I've I've gone both ways on what
to say, not the other thing,

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because I played with the idea before, like when we first launched the podcast,

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it was, hey, it's kind
of a new show, but it's

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not. Is it the same stupid? Is it new stupid? I would

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how how how do you position it? How do you sell it? And

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I just I just I went with
new Year, new stupid because I wanted

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to use the word new twice stupid
two point zero. Damn, I should

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have gone with that. I' when
to write that down. I'll make a

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note for next year stupid three point
Oh. Yeah, we're always updating the

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stupid. Oh you got to keep
the stupid fresh. We learned a lot

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from the Duncan Man in the eighties. Got to wake up right and early,

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and you got to make the stupid
Yeah, I got to keep people

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happy. But it's interesting because we
took a couple of weeks off physically from

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doing the show. Listener wise,
it was really only about a actually not

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even a week, because we released
episodes on our normal schedule all the way

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up to and including the very first
day of the year, which was of

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course Monday, the first. But
we were able to take a little time

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off, and in that time we
have now figured out that taking time off

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if you're a megalomaniac CEO, time
off for your employees can be bad,

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as we learned, like maybe Scrooge
was right. Maybe he was looking out

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for crotch It crack It. What
was his damn name, Bob crach You

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don't know either, Bob Cratchit,
Bob Cratchit. Maybe he was looking out

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for Bob Cratchitt's best interest. Yeah, because we managed over these two weeks

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over the holidays, we are limping
into twenty twenty four a shell of the

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men we once were. Because Raj
got into a car accident, not his

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fault, but still had happened,
and you're still reeling from the effects of

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that car wreck. Drey managed to
suck up the flu at some point over

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the holidays, And I mean,
for the most part, I'm okay,

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but you two are really really if
I can be so frank in the shit,

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Yeah, I like to think of
us because I didn't know you had

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the flu. And I don't trail
and think you knew I had a car

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wreck, because I think we talked
about it before, but I didn't know

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you had the flu. And I
was thinking to myself, like, you

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know, we really didn't talk to
each other very much during these couple weeks

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off that we had, and then
it just reminded me of like we're very

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much like if this was a band, we're very motley crew, Like we

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don't talk to each other at all
until it's time for the ship. We

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get our fill of each other when
we're in here. Outside of that and

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we scattered, we go and do
things and experience things, and then it's

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very much like Listener. Then you
come back in the treehouse and you share

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those experiences with one another because we
weren't there for those things in between.

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Yeah, I did, I did
get in the car. It was very

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nice. A couple of people,
a couple of the listeners reached out to

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see how I was doing over the
break unlike youtubeh about that, Oh,

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Roger, let me. I'll give
you a really a cliff notes version of

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my holidays. Okay, Chris.
Christmas night, I spent in the e

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r with my mom who had COVID
and she was in the hospital all the

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way through Sunday New Year's Eve.
Wow. And then on Sunday New Year's

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Eve. Actually it's I started feeling
it Saturday night, but then on Sunday,

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I by the time, by the
time the ball dropped, I had

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one hundred and two fever. No, that's and yesterday it was the first

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day I had fever for basically seventy
two hours. And then yesterday finally it

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broke and h But so yeah,
that was that was my my luxurious uh,

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you know, holiday vacation. But
but you didn't have to go into

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the did you have to work?
I went into work on on Christmas or

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on New Year's Eve because obviously it's
a big night. And and it was

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by the time that was the worst. Pat It's the worst flu I've ever

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had and and the body aches is
what made it. I mean, there

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was a point where I was like, my toenails hurt. Wow, But

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I started my kidneys were hurting,
and I was like okay, I like

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I'm I'm useless. I felt so
bad and I'll work through a lot.

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But I was at a point I
was like I can't do this, and

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I literally I left. I think
I probably left work. I got there

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five, left at eight and uh
yeah, you know, ringing the New

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Year, just praying for death,
happy, happy New y. I hear

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that story on CNN's New Year's Eve
thing. I saw. I saw some

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sort of clip of John Mayer in
a bar with a bunch of cats with

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Anderson Cooper and and Andy Cohen,
But I did I don't remember anyone on

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New Year's Rock and Eve or CNN's
whatever woke New Year's whatever it was,

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No one said. No one rang
in the New Year going like you know

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how I'd like to start this year
dead dead? Yeah, well that songs.

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But did you did you have the
advantageous side of of getting ripped after

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the flu, like you lost some
weight, coughing, strengthen the core,

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like you look in the mirror like, hey man, you know it's time

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to take some boudoir photos. You
took it a little too far. Yeah.

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Uh so you're saying you didn't think
of Trey and and and fishnets.

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Now I do and I can't see
that. Yeah good, because I want

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to make sure it's I'm not the
only one having to visualize that. But

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it's but all his lingerie is still
in burnt orange. So that's the He

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may be naughty, but he still
has school spirit. That's That's one of

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those how bad I felt, How
bad I felt. I didn't watch I

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really didn't watch the game on Monday
night. Oh it was game. It

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was good. It was I know
they lost, but it was I went

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and watched it with some friends,
and uh, it was very sweet.

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My buddy is a ut alum and
hit his daughter with him. His daughter's

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at eight or nine years old.
And it was forty seven seconds left,

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and it was it was a rap, and uh we were starting to close

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out and everything, and she's got
her UT hat on and she's got her

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UT shirt on. She's like,
there's still forty seconds. This is a

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little girl. She goes forty seven
seconds left a lot of football, and

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I was like, yeah, okay, you know, yeah, you could

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have told me this story and not
told me her age, and I would

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have told you tell me that's a
young Longhorn fan without telling me it's a

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young Longhorn. Tray knows Trey as
a long horned fan and a cowboy fan.

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Is very close with disappointment, and
she's so young, she's not there

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yet, but she'll get there.
Yeah, yeah, I remember those idealistic

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younger years where you know, you
thought it can happen, but they're not

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going to break the dark. But
they got the ball back with forty six

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seconds left to go, and she
goes, she goes, Daddy see and

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then we all sat back down like
we were just schooled by a child.

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And people that had left the bar, and you could see people in the

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parking like that left. It was
a sidecar social people. You could see

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people like turn turn around in the
parking lot and just just park however,

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just like it just didn't even make
sense, like parking at angles and come

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running back in to watch they did
lose, which is you know, but

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what they did, but with a
differently thrown ball or you know, whatever

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the situation was. I mean,
it was it was very close. They

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had a chance to actually pull that
out. They did, and it was

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like it was like a little Christmas
miracle or a New Year's miracle. It's

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just like there's still time left and
you're like, no, there's not.

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And then like and you she's got
the ball back, and we all sat

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down and just looked at this child
like, oh, she'll she'll now see

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what disappointment looks like. She has
forty seven seconds to feel disappointed, which

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kind of gives me back to uh
to uh Scrooge and Bob Cratchit. And

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she's basically the tiny Tim of this
story. Just at the end of at

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the end of the book, you
know, top, you know, tiny

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Tim's like and God bless us everyone
because he got to live because Scrooge,

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you know, basically, yeah,
turned his life around, whereas eventually this

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little girl's kind of come to understand
what real life and disappointment are. So

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maybe again we're back to maybe Scrooge
had a point with you know, kind

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of limiting expectations so you don't get
too hopeful. Yeah see, that's that

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was the terminology. It wasn't around
when that book was written, right,

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So maybe Scrooge wasn't Scrooge. He
was just like, like you're saying,

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manage the expectations. That actually does
speak to the CEO corporate life culture.

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Thing is the late eighteen hundreds when
Dickens, the time period of which,

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like Dickens is writing about a Christmas
Carol, Scrooge is awful. No you

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can't have more time off. No
you can't have PTO. No we're not

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going to pay for your sick child's
surgery to save their life. That was

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horrific stuff back then, and it
stood out. That's why it was such

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a opinion and popular story, whereas
by today's standards, man that's every day

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at a fortune five hundred. Yeah, he was ahead of his time.

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When you start, you get ten
days of PTO, that's it. You

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only get five sick days, and
no, those don't roll over year to

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year. And no insurance we're going
to give you is not going to save

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your sick kid. So just you
know, still work and give me your

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whole life. Yeah, and you
know what, sometimes you just got to

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eat soup. Happy New Year.
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Daniel. It's new year, it's
twenty twenty four. But you and I

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are business owners. There's not a
whole lot of holiday downtime and ramp up

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for January? Is there downtime?
Downtime? I don't know what that word

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means. Is that something I have
not heard of yet? That sounds like

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a foreign language almost dan it kind
of is. And you know this,

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You know, you've been a business
owner for years now, so the idea

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of downtime is practically non existent.
But that also means you're there for your

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customers whenever they need you. And
you know what, we really do enjoy

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being there. You know, I
never like to hear a bad phone call

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or somebody's house has a leak or
something's going on, but you know,

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it does make me have a good
feeling when we're able to get out there

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and help somebody, and you see
the relief on their face after something's been

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taken care of that they don't have
to worry about that that's it. So

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yeah, this year, we were
out there all the way up until New

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Year's, New Year's Day, you
know, off and on and New Year's

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Eve morning in the afternoon, and
so that's the part of it. So

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but that's what we do and that's
why we enjoy doing it, and we're

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glad that you're there providing that service
for the Treehouse listeners and everyone in North

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Texas. So you want that free
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plug those holes. The number again
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visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com. Like Cindy said, welcome back inside

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the Treehouse. Time leave your warriors
outside hang out with us in a brand

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new year, twenty twenty four and
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tonight weekend. Uh, let me
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than your island interweb. That is
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I did see also that they have
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nights at eight thirty. Yeah,
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Club. That's where if you want
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actually hold audience members up on the
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that's an additional thing they do there
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didn't know that. I was like, I was walking in one day,

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I was like, man, this
is this crowd is solid for this next

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show, and I didn't see that
the line for the other show, which

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was almost sold out as well.
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one side and I'm walking up.
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they're like, no, we're here
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on stage and people and that interactive
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I would be mortified to try to
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it. And don't they. They
do like improv classes there too, don't

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they. Yeah? They, I
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I thought, anybody that thinks that, you know, hey, my kid's

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super funny, I would take They
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so you can take your kid in
and give you know, see if your

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kid's the next Chappelle who started at
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if I'm correct, they might not
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that I know they've got it.
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night at eight thirty, so I
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unquote like regular headliner. Yeah,
they are remitt for this weekend. Yeah,

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they are remodeling right now. So
it is still open, still doing

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the stand up, still doing their
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the side room because they're adding,
because they sell out so fast, they're

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adding another fifty seats to the showroom. So that's awesome. I'm currently under

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construction. You can still go in
the patios of the barsel there, the

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side room still there with all the
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So just go check them out.
And you didn' give them a call.

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It's two and four eight one four
nineteen eighty. It's two and four eight

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one four nineteen eighty and even get
their schedule for the week. Very cool.

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So we mentioned how you Trey are
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because you're still getting over having the
flu. Uh. I'll tell you guys

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more about me and Tara's Christmas trip
on Monday, but part of that story

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will also involve the flu, so
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day after you had just gotten into
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you were you were pretty banged up
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it was by banged up, I
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a broken hand, you had a
bandage on it and everything. But you

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were high because as you he was
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a major car wreck. So since
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about following up with people about how
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and using the show is the reason
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it, that I didn't really need
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news resolution for myself. How are
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was high on life number one because
I don't I don't do I don't do

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the pills. I don't I don't
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You and I are very similar in
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where we don't feel the need to
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just I don't know since I was
a kid, like why my mom took

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like stuff for her back and she
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and then stuff like all that stuff, and I would have watched like

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her take that stuff, and I'm
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that habit. So I don't take
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But when I was leaving, when
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and they bandaged my hand up,
which was really nice of them to

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do. I think it cost six
thousand dollars for them to give me an

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ace bandage. Yay. American Health
System. So they were like, you

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know the doctor wonderful, Uh doctor
Fletcher. She said, uh, you

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know, the first twenty four to
forty eight hours, you're going to start

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to experience muscle soreness and put and
you might find that, you know,

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something else is broken. So keep
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Next day, Uh yeah, bandaged
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Uh. Felt felt fine, was
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dogs and did my stuff. Went
to the grocery store and went watched some

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wrestling. Uh and uh up in
Oklahoma City. And I'm coming back the

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next day and I'm like, forty
eight hours, I'm like, you know

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what, she was right, A
little stiffness in knee, a little soreness

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in my neck, but that's about
it. And I was like, you

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know what if that's what if that's
the best the worst it's going to be,

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then so be it. Seventy two
hours later, however, wildly different

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story. I woke up out of
your leg. I felt like it.

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It felt like it. I woke
up and I don't curse anybody, you

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know, the lady ran the red
light, and you know, she admitted

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to it, and I stood up
and the pain in my knee and my

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ankle and my arm. I was
like, I hope this bitch dies of

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toenail cancer. Like, oh,
like, lady, Yeah, I hope

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her toenails appendix bursts and she can't, you know, like I'm trying to

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wish things that could never possibly actually
happen. But so this is actually a

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really interesting like cross section of the
show because you say, Raj, that

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you don't like to, you know, swear someone like that. Yeah,

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drop of it, especially especially if
it's warranted. Like if this same situation

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happened where this lady ran into Tray
despite any sort of of pain or injuries,

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Tray would have fallen out of his
vehicle and started throwing sea bombs so

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much so you would have thought it
was desert storm. You though, Raj,

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you want nothing to do with that. It's it's you know, you're

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very you're very you're very centered,
and and Nirvana esqud about it. Me.

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Yah, I'm kind of in the
middle. I will swear, I

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will swear at you. Bad's justified
enough otherwise, but I'm working on it.

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So that's me in the middle.
I'm trying not to do that.

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I'm trying to get closer to you, Raj. Meanwhile, Trey has basically

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embraced his darkness, and why why
wouldn't you. It's very cathartic when you

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know when someone says something stupid or
does something stupid to say that's really fucking

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stupid. And he's wearing like he's
got the black shirt. I'm like,

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as he's saying this, like I
can feel his innersith lord coming out.

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Yeah, the only thing we're missing
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But maybe that's because we don't see
his hands currently. That's not a

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ring light then that's but like my
first thoughts, no go ahead, no,

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no go ahead. My first thought
was I'm just waiting for him to

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be like, and we have to
go to break. You're at the Treehouse.

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That's beauty of the force, lightning
coming out of your fingers. His

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trade doesn't have to hit the actual
button with his finger. You're in the

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Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse
on air dot com. It's a new

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year. But let's get a familiar
face and voice into the treehouse. Now

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it's Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing. Give
them a call for Indy and all of

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those plumbing once and needs two,
one, four, three, six,

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eight, thirty eight, thirty eight
and Jacqueline. Since it is a new

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year, I'm curious, how was
the new year started for you and for

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Brooks Plumbing? I mean smooth sailing. We had a record breaking year.

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I'm gonna blame you for that,
so I will take all that. I

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will take all that smoke. Yeah, I intend on having another record breaking

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year. And I want to ask
you if you've seen the meme, and

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it's all verbal, it's all just
words, and it just says new year,

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knew me, better ingredients, better
pizza, Papa John's. I have

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not seen that, but I think
that fits a lot of people's resid But

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I have lost weight already, so
the goal is to lose weight. So

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I'm getting tremmor and the boys are
getting heavier because we're feeding them. Well,

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oh that's awesome. Well you know
what, in that case, good

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for you. Your new year personally
is already off to a good start.

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It sounds like it's already off to
a great start for Brooks Plumbing me.

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However, any sort of resolution stuff. I've extended my holiday break to continue

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through the weekend. So to me, the first day of the New Year

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really isn't going to start until Monday, as opposed to what it actually was,

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which was last Monday, the first
I don't think that count. But

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you have an excuse. You're on
island time. You live in a whole

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different world, so you get to
make your own rules. That is true,

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and island time is a very real
thing. We're still waiting on,

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ironically enough, a plumber on Saint
Thomas to give us a call back to

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help our tenants with a propane issue. And that's been going on for like

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three days. So what I'm getting
at is, if you want a banger

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of a twenty twenty four, than
you need to open up a Brooks Plumbing

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branch here on the Islands, because
you will absolutely slay it. Well,

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you can fly Oliver and I out. He'll do the work and I'll just

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quality assurance. I'll be the QA
person on the site. I think that

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sounds like a wonderful plan. All
right, say we've already got new resolutions

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and objectives for the new year.
And if you have any plumbing wants and

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needs, obviously, Jacqueline will go
to the ends of the earth for you

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like she does for me, So
give her entertain at Brooks Plumbing a call

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Here You're in the street House,
visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com.

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This segment of the Treehouse brought to
you buy our friends at Brooks Plumbing give

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them a call for any and all
of those plumbing wants and needs. No

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job too big, no job too
small. I know it's trite to say

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it, but it actually is true, especially when it comes to plumbing.

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Brooks Plumbing will make sure you and
your pipes are taken care of. Give

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them a call two one, four, three six eight thirty eight, thirty

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eight or the website Brooks Plumbing Texas
dot com. I am not above a

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pipe plumbing pun or a literation for
that. I do like it. I

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appreciate it very much. It makes
Monday. So since this is the first

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Friday episode of the new year,
I think it's important that we include at

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least a couple of the things that
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And I am, of course talking
about birthdays. We have plenty of

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other stuff to catch you up on
that happened over the holidays, things that

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happen to us that be covering that
on Monday and next week as well,

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and just moving forward in general.
But you know, I didn't look up

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birthdays for nothing. So here we
go. Today is Friday, January fifth,

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twenty twenty four. It is time
to start getting used to changing that

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three to a four. My timeframe
on that is usually about six months,

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So sometime in June I'll finally get
accustomed to riding twenty twenty four. But

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until then, it's gonna be a
lot of scratching out threes and putting fours

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on there. But birthdays Today,
the first of the new year. Here

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in the Treouse Suki Waterhouse, she
turns thirty two today. She plays Karen

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Circo on Daisy Jones and the Six. She's also the Queen's sister Cicily of

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York on Stars's The White Princess.
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to be way too many fantasy shows
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first, you know, Lord of

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the Rings movies, and then they
went and did the Hobbit movies very shortly

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after that. Then you got Game
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there's oh, and then Amazon had
spent the most money on a television show

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ever for I think it was a
pre Hobbit type thing or a Pregame of

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Thrones type thing. This is what
I mean. It's so saturated. Now

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throw in all the new Zelda video
games. I can't keep up. Amazon

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did The Ring of Power, which
was a kind of prequel to The Hobbit

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and Lord of the Rings, and
HBO did what is it Dragging Something,

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which was the the prequel to Game
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you've also had three Star Wars movies
come out since then. Yeah, fantasy

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stuff is extremely saturated and it's weird, but I go ahead. Drey Rebel

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Moon on Netflix the Zack Snyder movie. Yeah, excellent movie. Interesting.

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I can't do the fantasy thing,
especially the Game of Thrones thing. Like

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one of my best friends a little
person, and and Peter de Engliind is

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on that show where he's like the
bad King and I'm like, really,

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like, my friend can't get anything
off the top shelf. How are you

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ruling an entire people like I can't
watch this show. It'll make sense.

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It does not trust me. It
does actually watch the show. When you

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watch Game of Thrones. It's part
of the story obviously that he's not a

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quote unquote normal sized individual, but
that's something that his character deals with.

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It's part of, you know,
what he said to deal with his entire

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life, and because of that people, you know, they underestimate him,

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and he still, you know,
rises legitimately one of my best friends is

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a little person, and if I
move his coke too far away, he's

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screwed. As far as getting is
first quenched. I know what. I've

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been reading a lot of self help
books recently, and that says more about

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you than it does about him.
I do it all the time. In

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that case, it says a lot
about you. I'm entertained, he's entertained.

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Come on, It's all fun and
games until he bites your knee off.

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So anyway, an actress from one
of those fantasy shows is celebrating your

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birthday today, sort of a fantasy
show from Laguna Beach and the Hills on

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MTV. Kristin Cavalari is thirty seven. She was also married for a short

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while to former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, and he's still unimpressed by it.

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Dead Mass is forty three today.
January Jones, who I best know as

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Betty Draper on mad Men, she's
forty six today. She was also Emma

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Frost in X Men First Class,
and she was also on Last Man on

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Earth for a while. Although I
didn't see that, so I'm not sure.

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Bradley Cooper probably one of the greatest
actors of his generation. I would

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say he is forty nine today.
He's been in some amazing films. A

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Star is Born, American Sniper.
He was superb as Phil in the Hangover

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movies, and he was also absolutely
wonderful as Rocket in the Guardians of the

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Galaxy slash Avengers movies. Loved him
in that, and it didn't even sound

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like him in those Some people didn't
even realize it was him for a while.

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So I say that he's a really
fine actor Silver Linings Playbook. But

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then I saw a photo once and
I see it every once in a while

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online where he did a stage play
of the Elephant Man, and instead of

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you can look this up as I'm
telling you guys this, you can do

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Bradley Cooper Elephant Man and click image. Instead of him going through prosthetics or

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stage makeup, whatever the case is, to make him look super disfigured as

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the Elephant Man is supposed to be
in the story, he instead decides to

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go crazy physical acting and physically turn
his body in ways to make himself appear

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deformed, when in reality to me, it just looks like Bradley Cooper making

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fun of very unpolitically correct, retarded
person the way kids did when we were

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all kindergarteners. Because of that,
it's one of those things I can't unsee.

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So I see Bradley Cooper all these
things, and he's supposed to be

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really good looking, but I inevitably
think of him chucking his arm into the

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side and their face to the side
and just looking really really bad. Yeah,

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that's not cool, you know what
I mean. The only thing he's

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missing, the only thing he's missing. And maybe he did it during the

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play. I don't know. I've
only seen the still image is doing the

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handover the chest thing. That again
is completely deplorable. Yeah, you know

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what was commonplace, you know,
thirty years ago. Yeah, that's like,

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that's just not you know, that's
when you know you're a star.

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When the director's like, shull,
we told him that this is not cool,

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and I'm like, that's fucking Bradley
Cooper exactly. You're doing great up

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there, doing great, great to
curb totally. Yeah, you don't like

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hands at all. Yeah, we're
not selling tickets to handicap people, are

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we? Because this is There's gonna
be a lot of refor that's okay.

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He dates supermodels, he can do
it, that's fine, Yeah, but

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they don't. So Happy birthday to
Bradley Cooper. He is forty nine today.

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Speaking of odd looking Marilyn Manson is
fifty five and Vinnie Jones speaking of

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X Men movies. He played Juggernaut
and X Men. The last stand he

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was also in was at Dead point
two as a Juggernaut. He's fifty nine

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today. Clancy Brown sixty five.
Character actor for many many years. He's

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the bad guy in the Highlander movie, the very first one, the Kreeger

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whatever it was. He was also
the really awful prison guard in the Shawshank

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Redemption and a number of other things. Oh yeah, yeah. So he

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is sixty five today. And even
though Trey hasn't had a drop of alcohol

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in over seven years, and he
still appreciates a fine, fine bartender,

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not only because he has won some
nights working in the service industry to slave

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away to keep this podcast on the
air. Think you Tray, one of

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the finest bartenders ever is celebrating a
birthday today, and I, of course

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mean the one and only Ted Lange
from the love Boat. Yeah, nice,

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that's a yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah. What was the characters

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Isaac Isaac, that's right, yeah, or as most white people referred to

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me, you know, the black
bartender on the love boat. That's what's

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Vinnie Jones, Well, Vinni Jones
was a different one. Yeah. Yeah,

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Vinnie Jones is fifty nine Juggernaut.
But then Ted Lane ted l seventy

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six today, good for him.
But that's that's another actually classic example of

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the not so subtle racism of how
when you go back and look at things

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in their time period. Yeah,
because you guys know, I'm well on

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record as saying and same time period, the eighties, there was only one

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black guy in Top Gun and what
was his call sign? Sundown? Yeah,

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and when it came time, like
if you notice, he was the

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only one available to fly with Maverick
when Goose died, as if he was

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just like what was he doing?
He was just hanging out waiting for someone

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to die and then get called up. He was there the whole time she

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saw him in that first scene when
they all get top nomb but then he's

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just not doing anything. So a
white guy had to die for him to

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get in the in the cockpit even
though it was still in the back seat.

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Similarly, on love Boat, there's
all these professions on the ship that

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the black actor could have been cast
in. Yeah, it wasn't the captain.

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Now, it wasn't. It wasn't
as all this would have been funny.

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It wasn't the captain's daughter. It
wasn't the entertainment. You want to

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be challenged as an actor. There
you go, and it wasn't. It

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wasn't the ship's doctor. Instead,
what role did the black guy play in

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the love boat service industry? He's
serving all the drinks. He's the bartender.

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Yeah, he's the server. Yeah, that's exactly. I mean,

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it's It wasn't just the eighties,
you guys, do remember us a pesky

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little show called a Er. I
don't know if you remember that show.

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One of the biggest shows of the
nineties. No Indian doctor for ten years,

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all white doctors. See their and
lies the double edged sword that Hollywood

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has to deal with because on one
hand, like in the nineties, it

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was a huge complaint also on NBC
that Friends had the Friends had no dark

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people of colored friends. It was
all white people, right, They did

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so er was like, well,
if we put an Indian doctor in the

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show, is that just playing into
a stereotype or are we actually dealing with

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reality. So they were kind of
screwed either way. Had they started with

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an Indian doctor or four of them
in the er people said, that's race.

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It's that you're playing into stereotypes.
But then not having one also Jerseys.

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Yeah, and then so it used
to be musty TV. I don't

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00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:13.480
remember that. The NBC was musty
TV. And then they got sued for

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not having people of color on the
show on their shows, and so this

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was their middle finger to the people
that were suing them. Is uh,

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they changed the slogan to more colorful. That's what NBC was known as.

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So really, I don't remember that
slogan musty TV. Musty TV's more colorful.

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Why didn't they just change it to
we got sued, We'll get some

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weight if you remember that. Gotta
love Holly comment are Indians and podcastings.

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I want to make sure we're not
falling into any stereotypes in the treehouse.

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There's a million people in India.
I'm sure there's one or two of them

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out there. I just like that
slogan NBC, we're working on it.

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Well, here are the treehouse.
We've got ours, so no more searching

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for us. Thanks for hanging out
with us on the first episode of the

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New Year. I hope it was
plenty of stupid for you. I feel

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good and stupid, especially now.
Be sure to check out what's in store

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the rest of the year and coming
up on Monday inside the Treehouse. We

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will see you then, NBC,
wasn't the Cosby's enough Slippery slow Man?

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Well done. They're like five of
them.