July 22, 2026

Jimothy the Raccoon, Massage Magic & The Pettiest Date Invoice Ever

Jimothy the Raccoon, Massage Magic & The Pettiest Date Invoice Ever

The internet has a new obsession... Jimothy the Raccoon. 🦝 Naturally, The Treehouse Show has opinions. This episode starts with America's latest viral animal sensation before Dan introduces us to a legendary massage therapist in Michigan whose online...

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The internet has a new obsession... Jimothy the Raccoon. 🦝 Naturally, The Treehouse Show has opinions.

This episode starts with America's latest viral animal sensation before Dan introduces us to a legendary massage therapist in Michigan whose online reviews are so over-the-top they sound completely made up. Is Lovell the greatest masseuse alive?

We also celebrate celebrity birthdays with a deep dive into legendary actors who became forever associated with a single iconic role. From Sir Alec Guinness and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Willem Dafoe's incredible career, we explore how Hollywood can overshadow even the most decorated performers. Plus, we uncover the fun friendship between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and the hidden Easter eggs they secretly placed in each other's movies.

Finally, Reddit delivers another relationship disaster. A man asks the internet whether he's wrong for sending a woman a bill for all the meals and gifts he bought after she decided not to continue dating him. Petty? Fair? Or completely ridiculous?

If you enjoy funny news, viral internet stories, Reddit relationship drama, pop culture, movies, and two friends making fun of the world's weirdest headlines, you've found your people.

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reimbursement request to your date?

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I've seen more. I have seen.

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I just just jaw dropping.

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I think jaw dropping is a there's a perfect description

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of it. So we will touch on that today and

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we will also run our fingers across the delicate grass

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of FIFA's turf war that is happening in New Jersey.

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war in New Jersey. But it's twenty twenty six and

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Let's also entertaining about that story is and You really

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have to be a certain age now to get this reference.

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But it'll be the first time they're digging up a

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football stadium the turf in New Jersey or New York

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and they're not looking for Jimmy Hoffa.

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But imagine if they found him in Oh yeah, imagine

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their surprise. Oh god. All right, we have to start

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with mythical creatures. There's a pair of them that we

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need to discuss. One you may not be aware of,

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the other you might. So you've heard of hot Girls summer, right, Yeah,

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we are now in the middle of Jimothy Summer. This

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is my new obsession from last week all through the

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weekend up to today. I am obsessed with the short

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spine syndrome raccoon from Seattle, nicknamed Jimothy. I have seen

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so many deformed raccoon videos over the last handful of days.

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And you know what, my life is better for it.

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And I think a lot of people feel the same.

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And this year has started out very interesting when it

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comes to weird animal stories. We had punched the monkey

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as a viral sensation, the little monkey in Japan. Oh

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that was that was making friends.

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Well he got orphaned and you know, yeah, that that

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was That was easy Pickens.

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It really was. That was that was really easy Pickens.

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He's carrying around his little his little monkey plush toy

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that he hunts when he's sad that they.

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Gave him because no one would hug him and he

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needed something. I mean, if you're a zoo and you

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have an orphan baby, that's really cute, that's social media gold.

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That is that is market take advantage. You're gonna sell

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some tickets. Baby. Uh So, yeah, punch the Monkey wasn't

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was viral sensation earlier this year, and now for this

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summer we get Jimothy.

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So I have.

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I love how we're not real quick. I love how

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we're not even five minutes in and you're already like

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burying your face in your hands like the camp. I just,

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uh no, it's not that.

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It's because when this story first started out, I want

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to say, late last week, it was the clickbait of

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oh my gosh, they found this mystery creature. I took

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one look at the video and was like, that's a

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deformed raccoon.

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Yeah, I'm right there with you. When I first saw

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like the little like the headline saying like, oh what

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is this chup of cabra chup of cabra spotted in Seattle,

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and like, well, I'm gonna be in Seattle soon, so

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I'd like to see this. And I look at it

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same as you. I'm like, that's not a chup of cabra.

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That's just a half a raccoon.

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It's a hunchback raccoon.

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I mean, it's it's quasi coon.

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I started I I'm actually trying to cleanse myself and

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break away from too much social media and scrolling, so

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I have not delved into this one. I've seen a

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few videos, and obviously his paws are all funky, and

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I saw him like falling off a fence and then

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getting back up, and obviously obviously someone has adopted him

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and takes good care of him.

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It seems like, yeah, So what I have gathered over

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the last handful of days is so someone got video

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of this deformed raccoon in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, which,

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by the way, is the exact neighborhood we will be

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staying in again when we visit Seattle, uh in the

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very near future.

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So hey, then you go, you go find us a

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deformed raccoon. That's what we need.

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I am on a mission, mother, I am there for

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like five weeks. I am going to go on daily

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and nightly. Jimothy hunts for fun and and to possibly say, hey,

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would you like to come live in a treehouse, little fellow.

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We take good care of you. Tray's in need of

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a new panty dropper. The position's open. Ri Ip to Daisy.

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You you you start walking Jimothy up and down? Uh,

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up and down Limon Avenue. Oh my god, you're gonna

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need to take cover anyway. So Jimothy, there was a video,

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initial video someone snagged at this deformed little raccoon in Seattle,

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and it went viral because everyone was obsessed what is

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this thing? And then people like us or like, it's raccoon,

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It's why are you freaking out? It's not a monster.

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And then more layers to this story started to peel

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away like an adorable onion. After initial video of him

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goes viral, then some other videos popped up where other

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people in the neighborhood also had videos of this tiny,

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deformed raccoon. And at one point where Jimothy was born

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was in this house on this property next door to

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somebody who got what I believed to be are the

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first videos of baby Jimothy, and they were sharing the

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story about how they watched Jimithy grow up and how

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his mother and his siblings, because of his deformity, was

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limited in his mobility. They would help him. They would

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like pick him up and carry him, throw him on

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their backs and take him places and keep him from

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falling off the fence type stuff. And so they shared

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some of those videos, and of course those just fed

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right back into the virality of it. And then Jimothy

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is just in front of me everywhere I go, and

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again I'm okay with that. It's been a nice bright

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spot over the last handful of days. But he does

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suffer from a short spine syndrome. That is the official,

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you know, diagnosis or whatever. And he's not the only

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creature that has this. I saw another video I think

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it was was it a dog that had it as well,

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and kind of the same thing. It looks the same,

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it's just different creature, right. So, a rotund raccoon nicknamed

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Jimothy has become an unlikely local celebrity in the Ballard

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neighborhood of Seattle after videos of him roaming spread across media,

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which has inspired fan art, memes and plenty of questions

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about the unusually round creature and apparel. I saw just

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just two days ago someone selling an AI art generated

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T shirt of Jimothy. You know what, America baby cash in.

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It's great because it's not like you got to give

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Jimothy a cut of any of it. You can't trademarket.

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You know, an animal, you just run with it and

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just start making money. One social media video narrator asked,

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what am I looking at? Oh God? The confounding critter,

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spotted in various locations around Ballard, has become recognizable to

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residents because of its unusual shape. According to experts, the

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raccoon has short spine syndrome, described as a non fatal

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deformity that gives this signature odd look. At least one

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witness dubbed the animal Jimothy that quickly caught on among

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social media users. According to Keana Hall, when asked about

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the origin of the nickname, she said, me and my

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husband saw him and just like a Jimothy to us. Okay,

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I'm with you. I think of all the things I

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was most curious about, who came up with that name.

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Yeah, and you would hope there's a hidden meeting behind

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it that that is funny or.

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Deep, not just that's just what we come up with.

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Yeah. I mean it's like Timothy would be normal, so

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he's not normal. So I don't know Jimothy. Yeah, Okay.

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The thing I feel bad for is somewhere out there

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a kid is being born. Oh, and it's going to

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be named Jimothy along and he's going to be in

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the same class with Punch, and the teacher is just

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going to go, oh my god, here we are. So

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now the raccoon's appearance obviously fueled jokes online video also

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highlights the affection many people have developed for Jimothy. Social

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media users have shared illustrations digital artwork celebrating Jimothy, with

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posts reading in Jimothy, In Jimothy, we trust and protect

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Jimothy at all costs and one of my personal favorites,

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if Jimothy dies, we riot and I'll be right there

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on the front lines with you. And the thing is,

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he almost did. So the neighbor I told you about

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that got like the initial baby photos of him. Huh.

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I guess the property owner or whatever went in and

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cleared out. The property where Jimothy and his family lived

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is like some cedar trees. They cleared it out, and

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as they were clearing it out, and it was in

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the middle of the day when this equipment came in,

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So the raccoons and Jimothy's family they had to move

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in the middle of the day. It's obviously raccoon's daylight,

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not a typical thing. So this guy that live next

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to women saw him grow up, lost track of until

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the videos pop back up. So he's just they just

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relocated somewhere else in the neighborhood and he's just still

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running around now. He's a local celebrity.

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But you know, unfortunately, Jimothy will probably meet an early

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demise because his ability to escape a predator is very limited.

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It looks like, yeah, what typically would go after a

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raccoon predator wise.

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H anything bigger? I mean, I'm sure it's like attle.

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You've got probably mountain lions.

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Uh mefed out homeless people might see Jimothy as a

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decent snack. That's probably his biggest challenge.

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An eagle.

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Oh yeah, yeah, bear, I do wonder if a bald

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eagle's flying over and sees Jimithy AND's like ooh, and

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then he gets closer and it's like ooh, Jimothy may

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live to be like a hundred because the predators are

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like that looks. It's kind of like when I see

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a funky looking chicken wing, or my wife sees a

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funky looking chicken wing and she's like here this one jeers.

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She doesn't want a slightly deformed which she's like that.

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You Unfortunately, I think though, to see Jimothy as a

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little ball of fat and uh or like a tay yeah.

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Oh you know what, I'm in the mood for some

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spicy raccoon nugs. Bam, there it is. Yeah yeah. So

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on the other side, it may actually be what does

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it meant? Because he does look like, you know, popcorn raccoon.

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So I have I've been happily distracted the last handful

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of days by Jimothy the deformed raccoon, which you know,

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for being honest, it's a better name than other names

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that you know, you could have called him tardy you

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know something, you know more deraged. Tory Corky was high

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on my list just because of the kid from you know,

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was It? Life goes on?

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That's why he doesn't have down syndrome.

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He's just like he's more like a Jerry's Kid type thing, you.

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Know what, You're right, Yeah, not Jerry from the Treehouse for.

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Now.

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For those of you who are too young to to

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know this, there used to be the Jerry Lewis telethon

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There's Kids. Was it Spina bitheta or it was something

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like that, and.

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Yeah, yes, one of Jerry Lewis's uh benefit again.

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And that is how you know you really have reached

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a certain age when you have references that you really

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know some people just of a certain age aren't gonna

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get because they they didn't experience the Jerry Lewis telethon,

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which and it was a telethon, it lasted the entire weekend.

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I mean by the Sunday, Jerry looked absolutely haggard.

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He looked it's worse than the kids he was raising

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money for. It's like the next like the next after

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that telephon's over. The next day the kids start one

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for him, just to see if they could keep him

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going for the one that they're going to do the

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following year. All right, so we're going to go. Now,

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I'm going to transition from uh my obsession, the mys

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the mythical creature of Jimothy into what appears to be

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a mythical creature. In the Brighton area of Michigan, where

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I am currently staying, there is a man here who

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is a massage therapist, and according to at least two reviewers,

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he is a unicorn in the massage community. His name

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is Lavelle, and I believe Lavelle is doing things to

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his clients that other massage therapists are not doing. I

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don't know exactly what that is, but I want you

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to listen to a couple of these reviews. Okay, so

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quick backstory. After the road trip from New York to Michigan,

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you know, like we're a little tied up, you know,

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our backs are little. So Tara was looking at massage

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places nearby, what's close, what has good reviews? And Lavelle

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popped up. Thankfully, she told me about him, as opposed

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to going to see him. First review number one, five stars.

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Lavelle is hands down the best massage therapist I've ever had.

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His strokes and techniques are spot on. I was melting

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with every stroke. The warm towels were a nice touch, too.

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I feel so relaxed. Review number two from Lily five stars.

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Lavelle's massage was so good I drove seventeen minutes in

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the wrong direction on my way home. This man is

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rocking some bodies in there. She goes on to say,

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deeply relaxing, professional, and exactly what my body needed. The

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space was clean, calm, and comfortable. I left feeling completely reset.

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Highly recommend from Lynn. So much I can say about

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Lavell the massage therapist, I'll start with, I've apparently been

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under a rock in Brighton, Michigan for the last eleven years.

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The deep tissue massage by Lavelle today had me so

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relaxed I could have cried. The man's hands have been

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touched by God. Only a higher power can yield results

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like this. UH amazing experience, the best massage I have

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ever had in my life. Without question, I will be

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back from Nicole. I have never rebooked with a massage

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therapist in my life until I met Lavelle. He is

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truly amazing at his craft and I will be back

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to see him on repeat. He gives the perfect amount

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of pressure in the exact right places, and I honestly

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think I had an out of body experience from Lavelle.

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Literally can't say enough good things from Rachel. I think

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Lavelle must be magical like a unicorn, because he gave

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me the best massage of my life. I never write reviews,

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but I needed to today because my massage was so

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utterly fantastic. See Levelle. You will not be disappointed. His

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massage is life changing, so needless, so needless to say.

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My wife is not allowed to go see Levelle. Why

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I don't want I don't want someone touching her that good.

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That's not me. I want her. I look, if she's

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gonna be disappointed in a massage, I want it to

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be by me. Oh please.

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If you don't want her being touched as good as you,

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that rules out a lot of places. Hell McDonald's, you'd

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be afraid of Ronald Lavelle sounds sounds Why why don't you?

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Then?

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Why don't you book a massage with him?

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Well? You know what, I've actually thought about it? Uh

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for two reasons. One let me see for myself, because

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I know a good massage, and number two the first

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review that I read to you where they said five stars.

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His strokes and techniques are spot on melting with every stroke.

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That was from a dude named Eric. So maybe I

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go first to test the waters that are lavelle, and

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then if that's really that good, I just keep them

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to myself. Baby, you go get your own unicorn.

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July twenty second, twenty twenty six. Let's celebrate today with

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some birthdays. Co founder of the Eagles and the unmistakable

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voice behind classics like Hotel California, The Boys of Summer,

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and Dirty Laundry, Dallas's own Don Henley is seventy nine today.

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And I will always say, one of the few times

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that I say this about our previous experience with the

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radio show is one of the best interviews Russ ever

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gave and one of the hardest pre interviews I've ever

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had to do to tell Don Hill, Hey, he's gonna

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make fun of you a little bit, and if you're

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not okay with that, we'll call it off.

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One of those weird is this real moments that happened

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on a semi regular basis back in those days.

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And then in an interview, Russ Uh blabbed something about

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something a company had done that lost a major advertising

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for the station. Yeah, which any of us would have

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been fired for.

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In a heartbeat, like before the end of the show.

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They'd have been like, get out. Yeah, that company was

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none too pleased about that. And here's the thing. It

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wasn't all him. It was a good junk Don Hendley's vault,

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if I remember right, kind of. It wasn't a back

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and forth thing with that well.

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But it was Russ that said the name of the

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company and that a friend who had worked for him

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had like faxed him over a copy of the receipt.

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So oh, that's right. Okay, this is why we need

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each other for some of these men rebased things because

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some stuff I don't remember. Well, I don't remember a

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lot of stuff very well, but some stuff, like certain

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details are foggy. But I remember the company being pissed off,

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and I remember Don Henley being in the in the

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background of it. Anyway, Don Henley seventy nine today. Other

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birthdays today's actually some pretty interesting ones. Rehyse Efens is

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fifty nine. He is known for being the gross blonde

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guy that is Hugh Grant's roommate in Nodding Hill. He's

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also in the Amazing Spider Man House of the Dragon

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and Trey and I probably know him best as the

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kicker in the movie The Replacements, the one who uses

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cigarette smoke to judge the wind before he gets no.

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I He'll always be a notting Hill guy for me,

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more than anything else interesting.

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I look, I don't know if you're on The Replacements

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bandwagon the way I am.

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Oh, I hate the movie.

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Okay, that's right, your opposite man, whatever, you you just

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don't like fun stuff. The Replacements is a really, really,

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really fun sports movie.

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Because I have recently I have gone back and watched

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things that I have totally one eighty changed my opinion on.

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I am going to watch The Replacements again and give

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it another shot.

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What was it that you hated about it the first time?

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I just thought it was stupid.

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Besides that, I mean, give me more than that trade

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strokes here. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's kind of

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a silly movie. It's kind of a silly premise. But

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things like that have happened where you it felt it.

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Fell at the stupid level of like forty year old

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Virgin and Elf. For me, it was just over the

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top too much. I just I don't know why, it

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just it did not hit with me at all. But

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I am going to go back, although I you know,

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I have watched the other two movies since then, and

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I confirmed that I hate them. But I am going

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to give the replacements another shot and see if I

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change my mind.

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Just let go, just just sit there and just enjoy

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it for what it is, because I mean, this is

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a movie that's somewhat based in some realities. You know.

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It's NFL players and owners go on strike, sorry NFL,

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and then they bring in the scabs to play, and

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they get this team together, coached by Gene Hackman, the

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guy that's basically just channeling Tom Landry with the hat

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and stuff. And you bring in Shane Falco. Look he's

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look in made up terms. Shane Falco, the quarterback played

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by of course Keanu Reeves. A name like Shane Falco

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in books and movies and television is going to be

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one of two things, legendary sports person like a quarterback,

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or just an outright love making machine god type in

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some romance novel. Anyway, And actually I don't know if

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it was just a pr stunt kind of a thing.

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But the Baltimore Ravens were so impressed by what they

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saw out of Keanu Reeves doing his quarterback training and

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everything with the film. They actually invited him to training

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camp and he's like, damn good.

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Yeah, this is one of those interesting things. Do you

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remember how bad the play was during the NFL strike?

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Oh?

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Yeah, it was god awful. I mean, oh, it is terrible.

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That's why I said it's loosely based.

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Well, I mean, it was just I mean, there were

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a few players that from the strike that made it

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into the NFL, but for the most part, god, it

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was bad. Yeah, and that is why you know, now

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it'll be forty years next year you've never seen another

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strike because even everyone knows that will not go over well.

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Yeah, the drop off is going to be too severe.

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So yeah, I mean, the people in that cast. On

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the replacements, you've got Gene Hacken who as the coach,

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Keanu Reeves as the quarterback, Jon Favreau as the unhinged

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middle linebacker who's also a police officer. Opposite. I don't

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know the actor's name, but the guy that they got

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out of prison to play strong safety Yet Orlando Jones

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playing wide receiver Reese Eifen's the kicker who used the

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cigarette smoke to judge the wind. I love that movie

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and I'm proud of it. Other birthdays today. David Spade

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sixty two, former Saturday Night Live cast member, then of

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course star of films like Tommy Boy, Joe Dirt, Just

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Shoot Me and one of me and Trey's personal favorites.

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One of the greatest movies, one of the greatest underrated

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movies of all time.

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PCU Oh.

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He was such a good, sniveling, preppy snot kid in

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that movie. We got not only also also Real Quick

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co starring Jon Favreau from The Replacements Jon Favreau.

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That movie is so good and and it ironically it

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hits so hard today and it is a shame that

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they have not figured out the streaming rights on that.

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Yeah, because there are two movies that when you watch

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them that are old, like twenty twenty five years old

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at this point, that when you watch them they feel

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almost like a documentary type dramatization. One is, of course, Idiocracy.

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Everyone points to that one. The other one, though, is PCU.

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Oh, And I mean, what what was they were lampooning

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in an outlandish way. With some of the protests and

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everything else has come to fruition.

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It really has. Like in that movie, all the all

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the different kids are protesting all these different things, all

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these different causes, and they we're actually having them now.

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It's great. Danny Glover is eighty today, sadly still still

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too old for this stuff.

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Wait, he just announced he has Alzheimer's.

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Yeah, starred the Lethal Weapon films, of course, also in

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the Color Purple Angels in the Outfield. Danny Glover eighty today.

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Willem Dafoe four time Oscar nominee. How was he not

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one one? Willem Dafoe seventy one, one of.

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In my opinion, one of the under rated actors of

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our time.

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And he shouldn't be. It's a tragedy that he's underrated anything.

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Because look that last Spider Man movie that came out

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00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.519
where you had the three Spider Man all in the

461
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:51.160
same movie. Willem Dafoe still stole the shows as the

462
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:57.160
brought back to life Green Goblin. He is so so good.

463
00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:01.559
He just plays such a unique He's just so unique

464
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:07.240
in his acting and in his delivery that I there's

465
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.519
very few things that I've ever seen him and that I.

466
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:10.240
Have not enjoyed.

467
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:13.599
Yeah, some of the ones he's known for the best

468
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.720
for his Oscar nominations Platoon. I think this here says

469
00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:21.400
he was Oscar nominated for Spider Man The Lighthouse, that

470
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:27.359
was opposite Robert Pattinson. Poor Things. Tara and I watched

471
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.319
that a couple of years ago. Loved that movie. Very weird,

472
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:36.119
but love that movie. Actually, No, I think it's just

473
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:37.680
I think on the prep service here it's like he's

474
00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.680
been nominated for an Oscar four times, but that he's

475
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:45.279
known for some of these in Platoon, wo god, that movie,

476
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:50.839
My God. And one more I'll throw at you. Legendary

477
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:57.039
British actor known for Superman, The Limey Queen of the Desert,

478
00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:02.599
Terrence Stamp is eighty eight today Origeneral General Zod at

479
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:04.559
least as far as at least as far as the

480
00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:09.119
movie's okay, Terrence stamp eighty eight.

481
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:15.920
And that's one of those guys I know, Uh, I

482
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:17.559
know he's been in a lot of things that had

483
00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:20.400
a very acclaimed actor, but that General Zod is you know,

484
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:22.480
you could list them on you go General Oh, okay,

485
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:25.960
I mean it's like like Alex Guinnis was was a

486
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:31.319
a knighted actor. I mean he he was fantastic. Yeah,

487
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:33.480
you could lift off, list off a bunch of a

488
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:35.880
bunch of things. Then you go obi wan. Oh okay,

489
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:36.759
got it.

490
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:41.359
Yeah. See that's where like our parents might have looked

491
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:43.200
at us, like really, come on, like all these all

492
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:45.079
these people were known for these things. Now it's obi

493
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.160
wan dad. And if I if I read this right,

494
00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:55.119
like Alec Ginnis, like you said to play obi wan. Uh.

495
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.200
George Lucas kind of backed up the truck a little

496
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:58.720
bit to him, is like we need this guy, we

497
00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:02.359
need you. He saw it as like a silly space

498
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.759
soap opera thingy and he's like, I'll do it. But

499
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:09.319
he also demanded a percentage, I believe, of the box

500
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:13.839
office and he got it. So good play on Sir

501
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:14.920
Alec Guinness's part.

502
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.240
I saw something the other day speaking of George Lucas

503
00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:26.720
that in Et Spielberg threw in a Yoda figure somewhere

504
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:32.799
in there and in return in I was at the

505
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.359
Phantom Menace, I'm not sure one of the big Senate

506
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:38.440
scene there where you have all the different aliens in

507
00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:41.519
there that they panned through it and they go, there's

508
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.519
an et et species in there.

509
00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.680
I was like, Oh, I saw that the original the

510
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:48.960
first time. The first time I saw the movie was

511
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.440
in the theater, and uh, when that scene happens, I

512
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.279
just happened to be looking around, and it happened really fast.

513
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.160
So it was a little bit of questioning, did I

514
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:05.079
did I just see et in the Galactic Senate? And

515
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.480
so when I watched it again, that was one of

516
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:09.599
the things I made sure to look for because I

517
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:11.160
went back to the theater to see it again because

518
00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:13.640
I wanted to see the Lightsaber duel again, and also

519
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.079
because I wanted to see if I actually did see

520
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.240
a tiny et And yeah I did. I love that. Yeah.

521
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.400
I mean you talk about just a little but little

522
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:25.599
easter egg right in the middle of.

523
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:34.599
There, two brilliant minds who are responsible for some of

524
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.759
the greatest entertainment of our generations, basically just screwing with everybody.

525
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.759
You do this, I'll do this.

526
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:44.160
Yeah, they're having fun with each other. Huh, And we're

527
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:47.559
all just kind of along for the ride, sitting around

528
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.440
watching a movie about star Wars and lightsabers, and all

529
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:56.319
of a sudden, you're like The only thing better would

530
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:59.039
have been if the et in the Galactic Senate was

531
00:32:59.039 --> 00:32:59.880
actually eating some.

532
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:04.039
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533
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:17.440
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541
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All right, Uh back inside the Treehouse now, Dan and Trey.

542
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.519
Am I the a hole for not paying the bill?

543
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:57.880
The bill I received from a man after ending things

544
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:02.599
with him after two dates. You know, the idea of

545
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:08.400
being reimbursed for dates is so foreign to me, something

546
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:12.039
I never would have thought of in my single life.

547
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:16.920
But it's it's twenty twenty six, and you know what

548
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.840
men are doing things differently?

549
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:25.599
Well, I have seen two different aspects of this, you know.

550
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:29.239
The one thing I've seen is that women expecting a

551
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.280
man or sending a man a bill before the dates

552
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:33.000
even happened.

553
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:36.880
For reimburbursement for them getting ready for said date.

554
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:43.880
Oh God, which I would be like, okay, yeah, no

555
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:45.519
need to go on this date.

556
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:49.559
Yeah, I hope you can cancel that appointment and get

557
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:51.559
a deposit back because we're not going now.

558
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:56.320
And I don't understand the same.

559
00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:01.000
It's to me, this is like into a restaurant, eating

560
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:02.920
a meal and then wanting to send it back because

561
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:03.679
you didn't like it.

562
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.840
Yeah. Yeah, the idea. And I've seen some of those

563
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:12.840
as well, where it's you know, guys not getting what

564
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.920
they wanted on a date, so they send a Venmo

565
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.800
request or a Zell request saying, hey, pay me back

566
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:21.639
for your half of the meal or the evening whatever.

567
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:26.760
And then the flip side, women saying like, especially if

568
00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:29.639
they got blown off by the date or got no showed,

569
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.519
they send a bill and say, hey, you know, I

570
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:34.159
did all this to get ready for this date and

571
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:36.239
you didn't even show up, So send me some cares.

572
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.320
No.

573
00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:38.239
I mean I've seen it where women are like, no,

574
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.039
I fully expect they expect the guy to reimburse them

575
00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.599
for them getting ready for the date, you know, after

576
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:50.239
they've gone on the date, just that their presence alone

577
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:54.559
merits them getting reimbursed, and these are dates they went on.

578
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:58.599
I would actually maybe have a little bit of empathy

579
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:00.000
for a woman if she spent a bunch of money

580
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.039
to get ready for a date and the guy no

581
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:05.400
showed or blew or off. But no, these are these

582
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.920
are just they went on the date and literally they

583
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.880
started off like here, can you send me this?

584
00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.800
It's like pre date expenses.

585
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:25.159
You. Uh, I think, Look, I have no experience with

586
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.719
the financial transaction of dating the way some people are

587
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:38.039
treating it these days. But if you're already introducing this

588
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:43.280
type of stuff before you even gone on your first date, man,

589
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.679
that's that's that's just not enjoyable for anybody. Now it's

590
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.760
just a business transaction because at this point, uh, you're

591
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:54.159
just kind of telling me that this is not a

592
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:59.639
romantic thing anymore. This is now a transaction, and in

593
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.599
as action, I'm going to expect something.

594
00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:09.599
Well exactly, And it reminds me of this point of

595
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:15.280
especially as you get older at a certain point. Yeah,

596
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:18.480
if you want all that and you want me to

597
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:20.280
cough up money just for you to go on a date,

598
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.559
tell me why I'm not better off just going to

599
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.840
get an escort and having a guaranteed pleasurable night.

600
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:32.199
And the bill is just one bill, and I know

601
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.400
what I'm getting is guaranteed.

602
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:37.559
Yeah, you're asking me to cough up a bunch of

603
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.880
money just to start off the night with you, no

604
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.079
telling where it's going to end. And chances are if

605
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.480
you're hitting me with a bill, it's going in poorly.

606
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:51.320
You're probably not going to be nearly as delightful as Delilah.

607
00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:53.599
Yeah Jesus.

608
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:55.800
And these are things that people don't think about. And

609
00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.119
same thing with the guys. It's like, dude, it's such

610
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:03.440
a small well, it's a tiny I'm getting here to say,

611
00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:07.119
it's such a tiny person thing to be so butt

612
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.079
hurt after a date because she didn't like you or

613
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:12.800
something and it didn't go anywhere that you send a

614
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.199
you know, a bill like give me, give me money

615
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:17.079
for half of Petty, and it's petty.

616
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:18.079
I like Petty.

617
00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:21.559
At a certain point, I'm all for it, but then

618
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:22.360
it goes too far.

619
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:27.559
Yeah, Okay, So the lady writes this happened two days ago,

620
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:29.960
and I still can't stop thinking about how crazy it

621
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:32.400
is me. Thirty three female met a guy, thirty two

622
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:34.599
male on hinge went On a first date with him,

623
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.239
we went to an outdoor market that was happening downtown,

624
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:39.360
lots of shops and vendors, and he asked if I

625
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:41.719
wanted to get anything to eat or drink. I suggested

626
00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:44.079
ice cream, but he said too hot out where we

627
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:46.840
live right now, and after ordering mine, he offers to

628
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:50.239
pay without ordering anything for himself. I assumed he was

629
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.599
also getting something and then insisted on paying for my own,

630
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.159
but he refused. After this, went to a bar forer

631
00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:57.239
some Drinksquare ordered a drink, and then he proceeded to

632
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:00.519
order a pepsi. Again, I insisted on paying because my

633
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:03.559
drink was substantially more expensive than his, but he refused.

634
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.840
One week later, we go on another date, dinner his

635
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:09.440
suggestion to a burger restaurant. After we order, he tells

636
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:11.400
the waitress that he has a coupon for his birthday,

637
00:39:11.559 --> 00:39:15.199
so his meal's free. As the meal went on, I

638
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.920
knew that I was not going to want to continue

639
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.480
seeing him, so I had already decided I would be

640
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.000
paying for my own dinner, as I would feel guilty

641
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:25.280
having him pay for me when I was planning on

642
00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:27.199
breaking things off. While I was in the bathroom, He

643
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:29.400
flagged the waiter down paid for my meal before I

644
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:32.000
could get back to the table without discussing it first.

645
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:35.400
I didn't feel super comfortable telling him that I didn't

646
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.280
want to continue seeing him in person, so I waited

647
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:38.920
until I got home and didn't send him a text

648
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.119
telling him I just didn't feel a connection between us

649
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:43.000
and didn't want to continue to see him if I

650
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.719
didn't see it going anywhere. He then replies, thanking me

651
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.960
for telling him that, and asking me to send him

652
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:50.079
an E transfer for the total amount that he spent

653
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.679
on me during our two dates, stating that he is

654
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:56.599
a graduate student and every dollar counts. Am I the

655
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.920
a hole if I don't send the money.

656
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:07.199
No, absolutely not, because if he insisted on paying.

657
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.280
Yeah, first of all, a coupon on a date, come on, man,

658
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:17.880
I mean, if you're out with your buddies, you're by yourself, yeah,

659
00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:21.000
go for it. But on a date, especially a first

660
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:22.599
couple of dates. I mean, it's one thing if if

661
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.559
it's you've been together for a long time, but in

662
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:30.360
the in the courting stage, don't use a coupon ever, ever, ever, ever.

663
00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:36.719
But unless unless it is something that is so important

664
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:41.320
to you like you are just frugal by nature, right,

665
00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:44.119
and it's so important to save some money. It's sort

666
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:45.960
of like your test on a date. Be like, I'm

667
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.039
gonna throw down this coupon. If she's got a problem

668
00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:49.559
with it, then she's not the woman for me.

669
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:51.599
It would be one thing if it's like a coupon

670
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:56.039
for a helicopter ride around the city or something like that.

671
00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:57.480
But for a burger.

672
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:00.960
Yeah, I'm with you there for the restaurant like that,

673
00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:05.440
like if if you if, dude, if you can get

674
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.599
a free app coupon at Albernez or something, yeah, throw

675
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.360
that down. But not not at like village burger bar.

676
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.280
Right, I mean no, If you're going bowling and you

677
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:19.599
have a coupon for buy one game, get one.

678
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.679
Free, sure, hang on, honey, I got this, throw down

679
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.760
the coupon free shoes.

680
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:32.639
But yeah, for a burger at a restaurant, eh, that's

681
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.039
for your birthday?

682
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:40.559
Yeah.

683
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.960
Oh Now, if you're doing it just to sort of

684
00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:47.599
troll on the date or something, okay, that's one thing.

685
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:50.159
But yeah, genuinely saying hey, I spend all this money

686
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:55.639
on you when you insisted on spending it, that's your fault, dude, like,

687
00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:58.079
this one's so clear cut. I'm surprised that she went

688
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.320
online to ask input from strangers, because this one doesn't

689
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:04.639
seem like you would need a whole lot of input

690
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:06.880
from people you don't know. This one seems like a

691
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.360
slam dunk. You are not the able, but the dude

692
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:09.960
certainly is.

693
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:14.039
No, especially if if she went to the bathroom and

694
00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:18.679
he flagged down the server and paid him because he

695
00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:22.679
clearly wanted to kind of be big time. Yeah, no,

696
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.480
that's it's all on you, dude, and you deserve nothing.

697
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:33.400
You get nothing. Honestly, that's exactly the same thing that

698
00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:36.480
happened to me yesterday. We went to dinner with Tara's

699
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:40.000
dad and his girlfriend and my father in law snuck

700
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:42.519
off to the bathroom and snagged the bill before we

701
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.159
could even fight over it. And this is for pizza.

702
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.400
Clearly he wanted to pay for it. And you know what,

703
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.159
at a certain point, it's not it's like, oh, no,

704
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.280
you shouldn't have done that, Let me pay for it. Well,

705
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.719
you already paid for it. It's like, oh, he's already

706
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.320
done it. There's nothing I could do about it. So

707
00:42:57.760 --> 00:42:59.119
at the end of the day, I just kind of

708
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:00.679
tipped my hat to him and say, you know what,

709
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:02.880
well played, good job, you know what? That was something

710
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:04.840
and thank you something.

711
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.679
I actually, every once in a while Brandy would be like, hey,

712
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:11.719
let me pay for this. It was nice and I

713
00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:17.599
am like, okay, sure, but that's in a relationship. But

714
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:22.840
like I said, first, first couple of dates, you know,

715
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:26.199
especially in this day and age, you know you're buying

716
00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:30.199
a lottery ticket and there's a good chance it's not

717
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:33.039
going to get any return, so just eat it and

718
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:33.400
move on.

719
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:36.760
That's also the sign of a good date.

720
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:40.599
Eat it and move on.

721
00:43:41.079 --> 00:44:08.239
Uh huh, cheese, Actually.

722
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:01.760
That would if there was cheese, eat it and move

723
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:05.000
on would would be the appropriate move a good date.

724
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.199
I guess you're gonna eat, eat it and stick around.

725
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.199
That is true. Yeah, you might spit it out then

726
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.400
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