June 11, 2025

It's The Great Giant Pencil Dan O'Malley | Wednesday June 11, 2025

It's The Great Giant Pencil Dan O'Malley | Wednesday June 11, 2025
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We start off today's show with one of our favorite subjects, Gen Z and how they're screwing up everything. This time, how they have no ability for conflict resolution. Next, we learn about a Door Dash driver who went the extra mile (on the tarmac), Airline screwups, your Costco card is not a Real ID, and a place for Giant Pencil lovers. But first, Birthdays!

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College Students Are Using ‘No Contact Orders’ to Block Each Other in Real Life

Lost DoorDash driver ends up on the tarmac at O’Hare Airport | CNN

American Airlines sent a plane from the US to Italy that was too big for its destination airport and wasn't allowed to land
No, you can't use your Costco card as Real ID at the airport, TSA says - CBS News

Minneapolis community to gather for annual giant pencil sharpening | AP News

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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with

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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Today is Wednesday, June eleventh,

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two thy twenty five. Gen Z is at it again. Everyone,

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brace yourselves. College students are using no contact orders to

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block each other in real life. The notice of no

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contact order landed in May's inbox February fifteenth, twenty twenty two.

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It was stern and lawyerly and contained a bulleted list

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of prohibited behaviors between May, then a two Lane freshman,

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and her former roommate. No approaching each other at any time,

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no communicating through third parties, no social media interactions whatsoever.

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The directive, which came from two Lane's Division of Student Affairs,

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was based on the right of every two Lane community

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member to avoid contact with another community member if such

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contact may be harmful or detrimental. Though the measure was

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reportedly nondisciplinary, it ended on an ominous note a violation

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of disorder could result in an immediate interim suspension and

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against conduct charges to you. Okay, May thought a no

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contact order. The campus version of a restraining order was

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for cases of sexual misconduct. Could she be in serious trouble?

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Mat requested the order? Had their disagreement?

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Are they still roommates? Because that I think everybody violates

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that order then form a roommate.

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Okay, but again it's this is they don't know what

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to do with conflict in real life. Yeah, they it

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absolutely it. It makes them just fall apart because oh no, no,

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my my ex or daughter when she went to a

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charter school here, you couldn't.

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You couldn't. There was no bullying, there was no conflict whatever.

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Everything's recorded and if somebody said something disparaging to another student,

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they were taken into another room h and a student

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mediator and a teacher were in the room and they

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had to talk it out before they could go back

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to wherever they were going. And they would have to

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resolve like why did you say that, what's going on

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at home? Why would you say? Why would you isolate

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this person? Like? And that that was how they kind

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of that was their conflict resolution. They didn't do it themselves.

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There were people that intervened, and so now you're off

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in college and there's nobody there and you have to

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do it Yourself's and they can't. That's exactly what you're saying.

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They can't. They can't do it because there's nobody there

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to help. I would like a no contact order with

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all of gen Z. Where do I file? Because I

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would like to not have any contact with any of them?

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Ever, I was hoping this no contact order was something

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you could put in your door dash. So not only

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do I get a cheeseburger, but also they tell my roommate,

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I don't want to talk to you anymore.

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You might be onto something. He used to be called

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a process server, but now we'll just give it an

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app and a fun name. We'll just have to find

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a really cool name for it, and all the gen

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Z kids will love it. And yeah, you can just

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show up and hand somebody papers. The race is why.

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Like so.

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Some of the bigger restaurants company now they have an

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HR department, which, if you've ever worked in a restaurant,

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the concept of an HR department is mind boggling because

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especially I mean just the kitchen staff alone, that that

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that is not a HR friendly PC place to be. Yes,

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and they literally if if this happened to a friend

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of mine and she is jen, she's on the kind

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of the borderline between gen X and millennial. But you

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can't even you know, you have to have someone with

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you to go, hey, you've been late five days in

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a row. We need you to correct that problem because

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if not, then you're gonna they're gonna go to HR

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and go, well they were mean to me.

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Yeah, hostal work environment, uh huh.

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And then when the gen Z people are becoming managers,

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they're completely ineffective because then they have to go and

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have these conversations and they don't. They don't know what

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to do. They've never had real where we used to

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just get in a fight. They don't have that. If

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it's if if they're face to face, they don't know

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what to do.

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Yeah, and that's what I was. I think it was

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Google that did the story on this, where like gen

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Z they're the worst employees because they don't they don't

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know what authority is. So like they look at their bosses,

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their buddy. I think I've talked about this before. It's like, hey,

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where are those you know we had a deadline. Where

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are those reports that I needed on Friday?

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Oh?

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You know, I didn't get to them because they don't Hey,

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it's my buddy, he's gonna be cool with it, like

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I was busy. And then when they get fired. The

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suicide rate that is going up for gen Z employees

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that when they get fired kill themselves because it's such

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a direct like they think that that attack was directly

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on them and not their behavior at work. It's them

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as a person, not like you didn't turn into reports,

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you're a terrible person, and they can't deal with that.

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They there was a study where they don't the concept

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of deadlines and like promptness. Being on time they think

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is a very fluid thing. They have no concept of

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hard deadlines.

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You cannot equate time with your gender identity at the

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same time, like one of these things needs to be concrete.

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Pick one. You can't be both. Look, you could be

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a dude but beyond time. You can say you're a girl,

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but beyond time, or you can never be on time

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and then you can be whatever you feel like that day.

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On the other side, Yeah, I'd like my pronouns to

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be I'm late, Like that's what it would be like,

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not on time, Like that's what my pronoun should be Like,

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that'd be fantastic. Jesus.

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Yeah, a no contact order through the school to then

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be delivered to the roommate.

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That is yeah wow. And I feel bad for the

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school because I mean they're relying on tuitions, they're relying

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on you know, enrollment, so they have to appeal and

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it's I'm sure it sucks for them, but they have

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to appease that rule where it's like, Okay, well they're

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gonna leave that, we'll lose that that revenue because I mean,

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at the end of the day, a college is still

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a business and they have to have people spending money.

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First off, tu Lane is a private school, and you know,

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if they fought, they are fostering that environment and it's

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gonna come back and bite them in the ass. They

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should be like that, that's not I mean, this is

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the whole problem of appeasement. This we got to this

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place in society because of appeasement. Instead of saying no, no,

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you you can't have it both ways. You have to

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do you pick one. You can't change, you can't you

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there there are some things you just you can't do.

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The word no, the word no, and you go, hey, no,

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we're not getting in the middle of y'all squabble, you know,

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because what happened, what happens when they you know, Tu

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Lanes right outside of New Orleans. I mean, so if

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they're on Bourbon Street at the same time, did someone

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violate the order? I mean, it's yeah, it's insane.

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I'm I'm fine if they want to do some new

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inventive ways for conflict resolution, because evidence suggests that just

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beating the crap out of the kids like we were

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didn't exactly have the result they were hoping. Now they've

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kind of overcorrected. But if you want to have the

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kids sit down and hammer it out verbally and emotionally

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while being directed by an adult expert, fine, But also

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while you're doing that, teach them how to do it

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for themselves as well as opposed to constantly relying on

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an adult in the room, because one of these days

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they're technically going to be adults like these college kids,

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and they're gonna have to live life on their own.

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See try. I think you're missing out on an opportunity here,

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and I need you to go to the guy that

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owns three coin and go to him in a new

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division for bare knuckle boxing. Like you have your heavyweights,

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your welter weights, your bantam weights, now you can have

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the no content students and how they resolve their dispute

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is get in the ring, fight it out.

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That's interesting.

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I like it. You know from two lane she has

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a you know, a zero to two record or whatever

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it is. She uh has a dispute with the challenger

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and then fight.

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Or there's just a job opportunity here for Trade to

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be gen Z's enforcer. He can just be for higher

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and he'll just handle your conflict resolution for you because

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Trade loves yelling at kids.

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is Wednesday, June eleventh, twenty twenty five. We don't typically

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focus on travel news or airline news, but I'm actually

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kind of reconsidering it because there's been some really dumb

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stuff happening in the skies lately and on the ground,

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and I'm going to share those with you right now.

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We mentioned earlier how gen z is doing no contact

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orders at colleges, so they can, you know, separate from

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their roommate through paperwork through the school. I thought it

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was something that they could just do with the door

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Dash delivery. That's not right. But door Dash and Chicago's

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O'Hair Airport kind of collided the other day. We'll not collided,

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but they're in the same space at the same time.

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They're not supposed to. A lost door Dash driver ended

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up on the tarmac at Chicago's o Hair Airport. And

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when I mean i'm the tarmac, I don't mean like

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just kind of wandering around on the fringes like the

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bus and speed No, I mean like pulling up in

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the lanes next to delta jets being loaded for flight.

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Just like did anybody order a taco?

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I would love at that moment somebody's like, yep, right here,

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thank you so much. Bonus, these guys are great. We

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want to talk about.

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I mean, hell, in some places you can't get the

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door Dash drivers show up. So I mean at least

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this person's going all out, going right through the airport

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trying to try and deliver that bag of food.

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I'm not even sure which where to go. I mean,

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obviously the airport. How have we gotten that lax of

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security that you know, anyone can just drive on the tarmac.

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And then, on the other hand, if you're the door

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dash driver, don't you think a runway is a bad

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place to be.

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Yeah, there's a whole lot of stupid going on in

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this story.

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I just like he pulls up to the gate, like

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the security guards. There's like, I have a delivery, and

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that guy goes, yeah, Terminal three.

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All that stupidity aside, because Tray, You're right, it's a

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massive security concern that a door dash driver was able

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the busiest airports in the world. It's also stunningly stupid

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how the driver didn't stop to think that, you know,

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this doesn't seem right. This is not a normal door

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dash delivery. All that being said, I've been on the

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raw end of Google Maps on bake cation. A handful

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of years ago. My wife and I were on the

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I guess.

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Bless you, Bless you again, bless you.

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Anyway, So we're trying to return our rental car to

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the to the avas at the Saint Croix Airport, and

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us directions to the airport right to drop off the car.

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Technically the directions worked. It got us to the airport.

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The problem is it got us on the north side

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of the airport, next to the tarmac, not anywhere near

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the terminals or the avs.

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Google Maps may not be exact and that happens. I

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I feel quite sure Chicago's pretty well mapped out.

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Yeah, But you know how, like in those apps, like

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gang violence and Chicago Chicago rerouting was like, all right,

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you're gonna have to go through the airport.

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There's just no other way. Sorry.

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We calculated all the possible routes.

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This is the only one, and we're still not sure.

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But it actually catch a flight out of Chicago.

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Treehouse Show. I'm Dan, He's trade. That's Raj just talking

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about the door Dash delivery driver that got lost trying

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to deliver a bag of food. And by lost, I

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mean I guess he was routed. Like whatever the app

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was that was giving him directions to the delivery, the

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app gave him directions right through the Chicago O'Hare airport.

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You're right, there are stipulations you can put in there

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as far as delivery notes and things. So Rogers, I

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think you.

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Like, you know, you want to. I'm sure the app

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was like, okay, here you're where you're delivering this to

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It's like the South side of Chicago. It's like, Okay,

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here's what you need to do. Uh, you're gonna take

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this exit. You're going to go straight onto the tarmac.

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You're going to get on that flight, and when it's

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over kind of where you think it's supposed to be,

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throw that pizza out the window. Hopefully it just Landswerber

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needs to go deep dish.

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I mean, if they if they put in there, I

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only want to take the safest, you know, route available.

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That may be the only option.

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Yeah.

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It also brings up a solid argument for drone delivery.

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If you told that out of a plane, then the

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next line is door desh driver kill someone with dominoes.

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Uh.

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Well, not to be outdone, there is an even dumber

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airline story. All right, here we go. American Airlines sent

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a plane from the United States to Italy that was

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too big for its destination airport, so it wasn't even

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allowed to land. Uh planning, My god.

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I don't know how that happens. How does that? What's

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the refund policy on that?

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Well, the flight goes to go to Naples, but the

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plane that they sent was too big to land at

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Naples Airport, so they had to change course to Rome.

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Oh god, Okay.

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Now I've never been to Italy. I don't know how

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far apart those two cities actually are, but I do

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know there's a big difference between a plane landing in

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Houston versus Amarillo.

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Yeah, but but people had plans, like you know, it's like,

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I know you guys wanted to celebrate your anniversary in Naples,

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But how about Germany? Have you seen Frankfurt's lovely this

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time of year?

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I mean, but but don't you think you would hope

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we're at a point where someone's filling out the flight data.

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You know, there's got to be a system and and

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I believe this one was a seven eight seven Dreamliner,

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And when they put seven eight seven in the type

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of plane, it goes, uh, you can't do that. And

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you know, like if I get the expiration dat on

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my credit card wrong on a thing, it kicks, it

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won't go through and it kicks me back. You would

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hope there's at least that minimum safeguard and somewhere in

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our our airline planning, because.

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Yeah, but the guy who goes was off that day,

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so why he wasn't able to physically make the noise when.

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You he was a DEI fire. I mean, we had

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the one gen Z kid that was supposed to be

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making their noises, but they got got caught up in

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the doge.

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No no Alexa, no Siri, no nothing. I mean, come on,

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there's gotta be some cisron place.

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All fired. Now you just have to guess how long

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is the runway. I think it could fit a seven

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eighty seven. Send them to Naples. Let's go and see

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what happens.

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I think the other part of that's awesome, besides the

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obvious part that the plane was too big to land

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at that spot, is this is a transatlantic flight. It

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took off from Philadelphia, was supposed to land in Naples.

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The flight wasn't notified they were too big to land

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in Naples until they were seventy miles away. They had

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hours to be told y'all too big.

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Well, I'm sure until they made contact with the tower

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at the Naples Airport. They're like, no, no, no, there's

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no way. Thanks, we don't we don't want to run

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right into this. You're gonna you're gonna run right into

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this vineyard. Oh we can't, we can't have we can't

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do that buddy uh Rome, maybe like let's just let's

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check out and see if that works.

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But yeah, can you imagine, like you have a big family.

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I know a buddy of mine just went and he's

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got like eighteen twenty people that were on this flight

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because it was big family reunion, like grandmother was turning

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like one hundred years old or something like that. Like

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everybody was like, can you imagine doing that? And like, yeah,

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see if you can get her to Rome. I know

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she's a hundred and she might die on the trip,

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but that's where we have to land. There's so many

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inconveniences though, just because they didn't check to see the

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link of the runway.

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All right, are you ready for this next one? Because

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this next story is even dumber than American Airline sending

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a plane that's too big to land at an airport

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in Italy.

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All right, here you go.

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H Are you guys familiar with the new real ID

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requirements to travel?

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Yes?

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Yes, yeah, on your on your ID, you got the

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gold star are and that's the mark of the real ID.

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You have to have that in order to fly these days. Well,

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some people may not have that ID yet, so they're

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scouring through their wallets trying to find some piece of

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identification that has a gold Star on it, and some people,

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to their absolute glee, found their Costco card. It's got

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their name, it's got their photo, and a gold star

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because they're gold Star members. The problem is that don't work,

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and this has happened so many times that the Transportation

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Security Administration had to release a statement to the public

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telling them stop trying to use your Costco card as

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a replacement for a real ID. It's not the same.

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In fact, TSA posted on Facebook that said travelers cannot

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use the Costco card to fly. They even said, we

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love hot dogs and rotisserie chickens as much as the

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next person, but please stop telling people their Costco card

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counts as a real ID, because it absolutely does not.

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I don't know, it's got your picture on it, name,

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date of birth.

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I mean the Costco the Costco store does tout the

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member benefits quite highly. Mm hmm yeah, I mean, just imagine,

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just imagine that benefit if you walk into Costco and say,

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not only can you get access to all these wonderful

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goods and items at phenomenal prices, but you can also

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use this Costco membership card at the airport. Sign me up.

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Yeah, I mean you have to show it to get

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into the Costco. I think it should be okay to

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get on the plane. I mean, that's as good as

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a passport. I mean, if you if you're asking me,

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I mean, I'm just saying.

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I think we found the problem. I think what happened

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is when American Airlines decided they were going to send

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that Boeing play that was too big to land in Naples.

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It's because they bought it at Costco and it was

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too big.

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They're buying dream Lenders in bulk.

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That's a box of fifty dream Lighters. Let's see if

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we can make him land that poor sample. Lady, you

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gotta need a bigger hair.

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June eleventh. Excuse me, twenty twenty five. I'm just full

470
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.359
of the noises today. I'm sneezing, I'm burping. My god, look,

471
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:30.279
and I think I know why. I think it's what Trey,

472
00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:39.480
I see you over there? Mm hmm. Anyway, maybe my body's.

473
00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:45.359
What it's early remind you know, reminds me eily of somebody.

474
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:50.519
How dare you? You might want to go check see

475
00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.599
if you have a sinus in cash?

476
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.559
Speaking of how dare you?

477
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:55.480
Uh?

478
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:58.440
I know when you send me stories, Trey, sometimes what

479
00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:04.200
you're getting at Sometimes you're cute and subtle. Other Times

480
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:06.640
you're as subtle as a sledgehammer, or in this case,

481
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:11.599
you're about as subtle as a giant pencil. You know

482
00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:16.000
why I know that, because you're a giant for sending

483
00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:20.279
me this story. Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant

484
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:26.839
pencil every year? This is what happens. Okay, everyone, just

485
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:29.000
here's what I need you to do. Ignore Trey and

486
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:31.440
Raj for a moment. Just listen to me. Just pay attention.

487
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.799
This is what happens when you confide something to your friends.

488
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:40.759
This is what happens as a man. When you share

489
00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:44.240
something vulnerable with your buddies, they use it against you

490
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.160
to torment, bully.

491
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.920
I send it. I think it's a vacation destination for you,

492
00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:55.440
a pilgrimage if you will.

493
00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.359
To bully and torment under the guise of oh, this

494
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.000
is a good thing for you. That's called gas lighting.

495
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:02.920
That's what this is.

496
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.319
Anyway, Just so many dans in one spot.

497
00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:10.759
Look, when I was a little kid, I had a

498
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:16.000
big pencil that had my name on it. It's not

499
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:19.599
because I was confusing my big pencil with anybody else's

500
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:20.240
big pencil.

501
00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:22.240
I was the only kid that had the big pencil.

502
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:24.079
But they still wanted to make sure they knew it

503
00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:26.440
was mine, so they put Danny on it. Okay, there

504
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.480
you go. There was like some sort of gag gift.

505
00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:30.519
We got it at six Flags or something. No, you

506
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.119
don't get a time outrage.

507
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:36.519
Just saying you just said you set it up for me.

508
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.480
You were in class, you had a big pencil, nobody

509
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.359
else had one, but they still had to put your

510
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:42.079
name on it.

511
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:46.799
They didn't have to. They got to you were.

512
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:52.000
Losing the only pencil that only one person. Where does

513
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.839
my big pencil keep going? Nobody else has one put

514
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:58.519
his name on it. You'll find it.

515
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.279
Yeah. So in Trace, he's a story that a town

516
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.480
of Minneapolis sharpens a giant pencil every year. Of course

517
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:06.319
he's gonna send that straight to me and go he

518
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:07.200
look look what I got.

519
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.160
This will be fun today, giant age.

520
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:17.240
I know.

521
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:20.319
I'll admit though, as mad as I am, I'm genuinely curious.

522
00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:24.880
More than one thousand people gathered on Saturday in a

523
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:29.319
scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual, the sharpening of

524
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:36.720
a gigantic number two pencil, the twenty foot tall Jesus,

525
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.720
that's a big pencil. The twenty foot tall pencil was

526
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.880
sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree at the home

527
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:46.839
of John and Amy Higgins. The beloved tree was damaged

528
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.119
in the storm a few years ago when fierce winds

529
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:53.599
twisted off the crown. Neighbors mourned. A couple even wept.

530
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.319
It's probably my biological parent. But the Higginses saw it

531
00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:59.200
not so much as a loss, but as a chance

532
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.880
to give the tree New Life. The sharpening ceremony on

533
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.400
their front lawn has evolved into a community spectacle that

534
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.359
draws hundreds of people to the leafy neighborhood on the

535
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.480
Lake of the Isles, complete with music and pageantry. Some

536
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:15.240
people even dress as pencils or erasers. Two Swiss alporn

537
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:19.319
players provided part of this year's entertainment, Jesus Christ Stupid.

538
00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:25.200
The hosts commemorated a Minneapolis icon, the late music superstar Prince,

539
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:28.720
by handing out giant purple pencils on what would have

540
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.279
been his sixty seventh birthday. And I think it's time

541
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:33.759
that I take my pilgrimage.

542
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:43.799
I think he might be the Grand Puba again with

543
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:44.960
a big eraser hat.

544
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.200
He get, you get to wave to the crowd.

545
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.480
Rachel Hyman said she flew in from Chicago for the event,

546
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:07.480
probably with somebody's pizza. Dressed in a pencil costume. Rachel said,

547
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.839
some man is sharpening a pencil on his lawn and

548
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:12.119
this is what happens. Yeah, I'm going to be a

549
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:14.799
part of it. How can you not life is too short? Well,

550
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.599
you know what's not too short? That pencil because they

551
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.359
haven't over sharpened it just enough.

552
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.240
I mean, I think this is your your chance. You

553
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:27.359
would be the norm. And that's cheers. And you know,

554
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:29.440
the minute they saw you.

555
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.920
I am home and they've already got a spot set

556
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:34.400
up for me.

557
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.079
Uh huh. And it's got a big wooden house looking

558
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:39.599
thing that you can run headfirst into and that's what

559
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:40.640
kicks off the bread.

560
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.759
Your helmet's an eraser.

561
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.960
Other events are started with starting pistols. You know, this

562
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.680
one started with my forehead smashing against pieces of wood.

563
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.839
There's just a giant scantron at the end. Oh, it's

564
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:01.759
gonna be great.

565
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.000
Now.

566
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:05.759
In my version, it's a big chief tablet.

567
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:09.720
Did you have one of those?

568
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.960
Of course you have to have a big chief tablet

569
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:14.039
to go with your big pencil.

570
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:24.519
Yeah, what are you stro.

571
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:26.000
Had illegal patent matt pencils. I don't know what you

572
00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:37.480
guys did. That's the Asian starter kid. I wasn't taking notes,

573
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.160
I was taking depositions there, buddy.

574
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.440
All right, Well, the good news is I've got just

575
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.839
under a year to start planning my trip for next year.

576
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:50.400
Yes, I want to win the lottery so bad, so

577
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:53.559
we can do a live event from this thing. What

578
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:56.240
what is the name of it? Is there? Is there

579
00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:59.200
a name like the Great Pencil Sharpening. It's like the

580
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.039
pumpkin patch for the slow.

581
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.200
Kids, Raj. They're only slow because the pencil is so big.

582
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.000
The pencil waits too much.

583
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:25.559
Yeah, sometimes you got to use two hands. Great pencil Festival, you.

584
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:28.159
Know, Rajer. You got it wrong though. If you win

585
00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.840
the lottery, if I win the lottery, it's not we

586
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:36.440
need to build Dan a log cabin out of giant pencils.

587
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:39.119
Yes, your new vacation home.

588
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.000
Yeah, the problem is you two are you two are

589
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.719
big enough that what you'll do is you'll make the

590
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.320
threshold at the front door short, so I smack my

591
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.679
head on it every time I walk in.

592
00:34:50.239 --> 00:35:03.639
If you're not wearing your pencil helmet, yeah.

593
00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:02.320
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594
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595
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596
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597
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598
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599
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.800
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600
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:39.639
Treehouse Show. I'm Daniel Malley along with Tredy Trenholman, Raj Sharma.

601
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.480
Today is Wednesday, June eleventh, twenty twenty five. Let's celebrate

602
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:51.559
today with some birthdays. Caitlin Naked is twenty six today.

603
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:55.079
She played or plays Enid on The Walking Dead. I'm

604
00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:57.400
not sure, Honest to god, I'm not sure what versions

605
00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.679
of those shows are still on, just because I just

606
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.320
I tapped out so many years ago. It just seems

607
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:06.000
odd to me that the shows are even still going.

608
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.519
And at this point I kind of feel bad for

609
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:12.719
some of the actors on the show because I'm brain farting,

610
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:17.480
brain farting on her name. I think it's Cohen. The

611
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.840
actress that plays Maggie has been on the show since

612
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:26.760
that season one, right, yeah, season one. She's been on

613
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:28.519
the show since season one. I don't even know what

614
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.360
season they're on us. She's still on that damn show.

615
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:32.800
I kind of feel bad for she gets to watch

616
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:34.760
all these other people go off and do other things.

617
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.800
Like John Burnhal was out at like season three, I think,

618
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:41.960
and then now he's a major movie star. Andrew Lincoln

619
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.719
was so burned down and Walking Dead. I'm not even

620
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.000
sure what he's done since then, other than just count money.

621
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:49.239
Other actors on that show have gone on to do

622
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.480
other things. The guy, the old guy who played her

623
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.960
dad in the film. He was so sick of the

624
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.199
show at one point that he went off and got

625
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:00.679
a duy on a Georgia back road try to get

626
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.639
out of it by doing yoga.

627
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:06.039
Is there footage of this? Because I want to see.

628
00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:08.199
I need to double check. But my point is I

629
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.000
get I now understand why some people, some actors say

630
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:15.760
I'm tired of playing this role. I'm tired of doing

631
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:17.679
this thing. Time for me to move on and do

632
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:19.039
something else. I get that now.

633
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:21.199
I'm sure she got paid. I'm sure they threw a

634
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.039
they threw bags of money at her. And then her

635
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:28.000
syndication deals are going to be I mean through the roof.

636
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:31.159
She's going to make millions forever and ever and ever.

637
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:32.039
So I hope.

638
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:37.079
So yeah, I have seen zero episodes of any form

639
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:37.880
of The Walking Dead.

640
00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:39.440
High five Trey, me too.

641
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:41.440
The first season is really really good.

642
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:43.159
That's what everybody says.

643
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.599
The first few seasons. The first few seasons are really

644
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.440
really good, and then after a while you're like, yeah,

645
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.400
I think I'm done.

646
00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:53.719
Unless Woody Harrelson's in it. Zombie anything has just no

647
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:54.599
appeal to me.

648
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:56.880
Yeah, and I don't like when people got you got

649
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:58.679
to watch the first two seasons after that it sucks.

650
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:01.119
Why am I getting invested in two seasons worth of

651
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:03.400
a TV show if the rest of it's gonna suck?

652
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.280
I'm like, no, I'm good not watching it at all.

653
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.599
Oh but you're missing out No, apparently, according to you,

654
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:09.480
I'm not.

655
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.280
You bring up a great point, though, that is if

656
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:18.199
you know the ending is bad or at some point

657
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:21.239
the show is like the Walking Dead, there is no end,

658
00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:25.039
it just keeps going, but people tell you it gets

659
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:27.559
bad at a certain point, do you invest any time

660
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.400
at all? Because I've wondered this myself, like when it

661
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.039
comes to Game of Thrones. I was fully invested in

662
00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:34.840
Game of Thrones, and it took a handful of episode

663
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.159
for me to truly get into it before I realized, Okay, yeah,

664
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:39.719
I love this show. And then by the last season,

665
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:41.639
I was so mad at the last season the way

666
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:44.440
it ended, and it just felt rushed and just terrible

667
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.119
that it has me to where I don't even want

668
00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:49.440
to go back and watch it again. And if I

669
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:53.360
had never seen an episode knowing how angry everybody was

670
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:57.320
after the last season and the last episode, I think

671
00:38:57.360 --> 00:38:59.079
it would turn me off to not everyone to see

672
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:00.280
it like you raj uh.

673
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:04.000
That's what happened. Like I struggled to get through the

674
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.239
first season of Game of Thrones, and it was right

675
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.320
after the last season had had come out, and I'm

676
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:13.360
sure that did affect my decision of I don't want

677
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:15.800
to invest any more time in this because the first

678
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.480
season was like pulling teeth to get through.

679
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.880
And wasn't it like they did, Like half the actors

680
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:21.920
didn't even want to do the final episode because they

681
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.199
were that legitimately jaded from the show, like they that's

682
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.159
why they people said it felt rush like they had

683
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:29.400
to get people like we'll pay you.

684
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.840
It was the Riders. I mean everyone said the Riders

685
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:34.159
just phoned it in on that.

686
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.599
Yeah, the creators of the show, they had gotten a

687
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.719
deal to make a Star Wars thing, and they were

688
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:44.639
so excited to get started on that that they completely

689
00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:47.679
mailed in the last season of Game of Thrones. And

690
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.000
because they jacked that last season of Game of Thrones,

691
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:53.519
that Star Wars deal went away.

692
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:57.360
Oh wow, they should have just done a crossover. That

693
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.840
would have been I would have watched that Game of Wookies.

694
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:08.239
That would be nice. I'm just saying, dragons fighting wookies.

695
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:11.039
A bunch of little a bunch of little Yoda hookers.

696
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.920
Yes see, now I'm invested in this show.

697
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:17.800
Come to think of it, there already is somewhat of

698
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.440
a crossover appeal between Game of Thrones and Star Wars.

699
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:23.079
Both shows have incest.

700
00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:27.239
Yes, and most of the people watching both shows also

701
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:29.000
live in basements, so there's that.

702
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:33.960
But the Game of Thrones incest, they were honest about it.

703
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:36.559
Star Wars tried to cover it up, be like no, no, no,

704
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:37.320
we knew the whole time.

705
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:42.880
No you didn't, Oh yeah, oh yeah the yeah, yeah, okay.

706
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.239
Game of Thrones owned its incest. Star Wars tried to

707
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:47.800
tried to play it off as not that was.

708
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.199
That's a weird way to describe that show. Yeah, Game

709
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:55.360
of Thrones, we're all about incest.

710
00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:58.400
Well, you know what, as bad as the last season

711
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:01.280
was of Game of Thrones, they did get one thing right.

712
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They torched Aaron Rodgers. I never saw he was an

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extra when I think it was one of the last

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episodes of that last season the Game of Thrones. There's

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an Aaron Rodgers very brief extra appearance. He's running because

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like the dragons, that uh Mama of dragons is unleashed

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on the city and it's killing all these innocent people.

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He was one of the innocent people running away from

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the dragons and he got torched by one of them.

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Interesting. I wonder if you knew he was on the

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show or that was just a really awesome Ayahuasca trip.

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Dragons.

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Treehouse Show. I'm Dan, He's trade. That's raj. Today is Wednesday,

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June eleventh, twenty twenty five.

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A day.

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There are a lot of these inside the Treehouse, but

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it's still got to call it out. A day that

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will live in infamy here inside the Treehouse because this

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is the day that I share with you. Trey and

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U Raj and you the Dear Sweet Treehouse show listener.

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One of the worst competitions I have ever seen in

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my life. You are watching the Seagulls Screeching competition that

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got held last week in Japan Belgium. Sixty contestants from

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fourteen different countries gathered in the town for a chance

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to be crowned the best seagull imitator at the fifth

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European Goal Screeching Championship. The competition aims to create a

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positive image of the essential coastal bird, which are often

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despised by the public for their intrusive behavior like this.

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Gotta say that's a pretty good one. But these are

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all people. Many of these people are dressed up as seagulls,

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and they're screeching quite loudly into a microphone too closely,

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if you ask me. Because I'm a radio professional and

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I understand, know and appreciate mike placement, these people do not.

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So they're screaming and screeching into microphones while dressed as seagulls,

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some of them in group form or in the case

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and this young lady, she has makeup to match the

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seagull costume that she's wearing.

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Some of them in groups, some of them buyork.

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I'm just waiting for how long. I'm just waiting to

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see how long it is before Trey recognizes that all

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these competitors are female.

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And these people look down on us. And this is

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when I said, this is the video they show and

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you're like, you don't believe we's a gateway drug. Here

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we go. This is what I think.

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It's understandable for them to look down on us. They

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think they're birds flying high above us. And I sure

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as hell I'm not going to tell them, Motherwy because

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at the end of the day, I just want him

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to shut up. Sweet Jesus. For all things Treehouse, go

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to Treehouseonair dot com. You can also find and follow

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us on social media. For the show, it's at Treehouse

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on Air. For me, it's at the Dan O'Malley. For Trey,

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it's at Trade Trenholme one, and forag it's at Comedian Raj.

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We'll see you back in here tomorrow. Inside the Treehouse

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