Masking Is Nightmare Fuel, TSA's New Carry-On Ban & The Worst Massage Gun Mistake Ever | The Treehouse Show

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com slash at Treehouse on air. It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Rebecca Black coming up on the show today. All my eyeballs also the new warning from the Transportation Security Administration, and we are going to start with some pure nightmare fuel. There's no other way that I can really prepare you for what you are about to experience.

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1:30 How dare you? You know what? Let's watch Rebecca's face on this and see what she thinks is this blessed or cursed after. My relationships because I make my priorities and sometimes other people are not happy by my choices. Fifty one year old Vanessa is also a father of six. Masking gives him a special feeling lacking in his regular life. I want to ask, what in the Michael Myers. At a day's baw have you been looking at Drey to where this got showed to you on on TikTok, Instagram, whatever eight chan subthing you're on to see this?

2:18 Uh, I don't know. It's like I said, it's it's my algorithm. It's it's beautiful, it's unique, it's it's terrifying. It gives me a lot of you know, dog videos and other things, and some political stuff. But then it throws me these bones that are just pure joy. Trey. I have some good news for you. This too is on my algorithm. What the question, Dan, The question is what's wrong with your algorithm? Why are you? What are you watching? Boring stuff that doesn't keep me up at night? So I swear to God like this. I tried looking up masking right and the only thing I got back was reasonable search results about neurodivergent people doing masking in more of a psychological sense, not a literal mask over someone's face, where they pretend to be an entirely different person and in this case a different gender. I don't know if this is like dipping your toe into the other side of the pond a little bit, or you just I this is so creepy looking.

3:31 It really does look like. Someone went to a spirit Halloween store, grabbed a Michael Meyer's mask. And then gave it a makeover from the eighties. It looks like a blow up doll came to life. Yeah, it's really frightening. Oh, and they're out in public. Like the way this starts is someone that looks a little. Bit like a leather face. With a with a wig and some sunglasses and very red lips walking around with another person in a mask. This is the one that the other one looks sort of like Michael Myers, you know, did a eighties style makeover, like one of the ones like not at Macy's that they do in a couple of hours when they snag someone walking by. This is more like like the makeover at the Sears paint department that crossed over a little bit with the beauty section.

4:37 I assume it's like the dance scene in Silence of the Lambs where he's trying on the skin, but yeah, you're just painting your mask for tomorrow. It's that like like this is this is Buffalo Bill on club? Yes, correct, and on this one that it says it was a what was a fifty one year old father of six And when he's got his mask on, he goes by Vanessa and so the mask is completely covering his face. He's got you shoulderling sort of strawberry blonde hair, purple eyeshadow, eyelashes that won't quit, let's be honest about that. They're nice.

5:17 The eyes don't move, but they're very pretty. It's that sort of crystal blue. And then very very full lips with some fake teeth that look a little veneer like. And then when he speaks you can see his tongue moving and his lips kind of inside the mouth. Eh. I feel like this is a way to, like, you know, when you wear a Halloween costume and you sort of take on that kind of character for the day. I feel like that's the same thing this guy's trying to do, just all the time, because there is something to be said to be being able to like kind of hide behind a mask if you will. Sure, my wife dressed up like Pennywise the same time that the It movie came out.

5:59 Creeped every out. It's empowering when you're the clown. I mean she she leaned into that one. Yeah. So we had our Halloween party at the house that night, and then afterwards we went to the bar down the street to sort of, you know, share costumes and things and kind of get out and and and people at the bar were freaked out when my wife walked in because she're like, she really was dressed to the nines as Pennywise, and the makeup and everything, and and I'm sure it helped that I was dressed as Georgie with one arm. That makes the costume right there. I thought it was a pretty good couple's costume. But it genuinely freaked some people out when we walked in that establishment.

6:45 But that was not this here's the thing. So, did Tara have a fear of clowns prior to dressing as a clown. I don't think so. I don't think she's got a caloriphoedia. Okay, my whole life, I've had a terrri fear of clowns, right, and then one year I decided, Halloween, this is it. I'm gonna go as the creepiest clown I possibly can cured. Problem solved. I have no fear of clowns once I've been on the other side, and now I know how terrifying it can be to other people. It's greatness. It's so freeing, So like maybe this guy now feels like free I guess. Okay, that makes me feel better because I was saying how terrified this makes me, and I thought you were hinting that I need to go do this so then I can feel empowered.

7:34 I actually think this might do something for you. Dan. We may see another side of you that we've never seen before. You may be more sensitive. I think I've seen enough sides of me, and I know for sure Trey has. Although although I would love I would love to surprise Trey if he was to give me his new address, although now he probably won't dressed like Vanessa here and be like, hey, buddy. Surprise the man with a gun. All right, maybe I'll give you a heads up. That's I just blend in and when I walk down the street, people don't pay any attention to me.

8:18 Yes, when I. Dress while people are looking. At it, I know, it's like he's sitting on this park bench. Yeah, we got to back this up. But he's not dressed up people that pay attention to him. Yeah, okay, let's put this back in context. Okay. Fifty one year old Vanessa is also a father six. So a father of six. Masking gives him a special feeling lacking in his regular life. When I'm in my male mode as a man, I go out into public and I just blend in, and when I walk down the street, people don't pay any attention to me. But when I dress up and I put this mask on in the wig and you know, look very nice. It's like a beautiful woman walking down the street, you become one of the I guess what you would call one of the beautiful people.

9:02 No, you don't. I swear to god. This really does look like like the person they're showing now is the other guy with the female mask. It really does look like leather Face went face first into a makeover pile of makeup. This is good help because they don't have a neck. No, it's like he just goes straight face to shoulder. It's like a cross dressing powerlifter. Oh, like, I get it. Beauties in the behind eye of the beholder, right, but is that always accurate? Like yeah, but the eyes have to work. Listen. I have been pondering this question for a good ten years now, which is what happened to being a transvestite?

9:46 And I feel like this is the maybe the next evolution because for a time there was you there were men who like dressing up like women. It didn't mean they thought they were women or they were changing their gender. They just like Eddie. Eddie Izzard was you know, top on the list. He even explains the whole thing in one of his shows. Maybe this is the next evolution. You know, it's just. I guess, man. I mean, look, I'm I'm a big you do you to each his her, they them own whatever. Uh if it makes you happy, I'm all thumbs up. But but but.

10:26 This is where. When you go out in public looking like this, this is scary to some people. This is this is scary to the normies. Like honestly, if I'm seeing this outside of Halloween, I legitimately might think you're about to like mug me or rob me. Or something like that. And this is your costume so that the cameras are not picking up your actual face. It it does kind of give off that sort of vibe. Yeah, you're right. I mean if this was, you know, like former president's masks, we would think. This, yeah, break, reboot correct, I I have it now. Oh, this is what Kim Cattrell's mannequin in the movie Mannequin would look like. Now put on a bunch of weight, and you know now is middle aged.

11:20 It's a body positivity mannequin rebooting with a little with a little gender swapping. No, it's still female. Just uh, you know, she's now gone through menopause and it's just oh, it's just. Gone through the change. It's also giving white chicks vibes. Yeah, which, by the way, I still can't watch that movie, not for any racial implications or anything like that, but because the faces creep me out to you. They are creepy. They're super creepy. I'm like, ain't no way you guys pass for ladies and in anything. No, No, It's amazing the things that that that we convince ourselves as storylines that are believable in movies and white chicks, I think it's one of the big ones.

12:01 But I really I couldn't watch that one. I didn't care how funny it may or may not have been. It was just too creepy to me to see it. And then to see the beauty standards actually shift a little bit to where so many women are trying to make themselves look like the weighans is in White Chicks is truly disturbing. Nothing moves, it's all like there's no line wrinkled anywhere. You just look like you're wearing some sort of prosthetic mask. And the overblown lips certainly don't help. Yeah, and you draw a lot of attention, and attention is not something that I've had a lot of growing up in getting to the age that i'm at.

12:42 Yeah, So this guy's talking about how he likes the attention now when he's masking as a woman. Well, it's not the same attention you get. It's not like. There's such thing as bad attention. And I feel like that's more like what you're getting this is not positive attention. No, this is like free can people out attend? Yeah, attention, I mean it's it's the biggest problem of today's society and it. It's in so many issues. It's that where people have co opted issues and taking it to the extreme. Is it's not because they really believe in it, it's because they want the attention. Yeah, any means necessary. We're in an influencer culture world, and you'll do it by any means necessary.

13:29 You know what they always say, you have to have your niche he found one. Congrats? Yay? Oh god, Okay, Well, I don't think there's ever been a better timed story. Than this one. All right, here we go. If I can get this pulled up properly, I need a sound effect of transition. Here, here we go. A man used a massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went exactly as you would expect. I look, I would normally frown on this, but after seeing what we've just seen with the masking, I'm kind of open to it now.

14:25 Oh man, I mean, hello, how stupid are you? This is a tiepod generation? I know it really is. He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the therapy gun. Can he see? A man in Scotland came up with an eye popping plan to try to pamper his pooped peepers. Ophthalmologists discovered it when the man, who was in his twenties, appeared at an eye treatment center in Edinburgh. He told them he had noticed increasing floaters and flashing lights in his right eye over the previous six days. According to a case. Report, the man said he hadn't had any eye or head injuries before the vision problems began, and that his family didn't have a history of eye disorders that might explain it. Besides having mild near sight in this and eating glasses, he usually didn't have any issues with his eyes.

15:18 When the doctors took a close look, they were surprised to find that both of his eyes were in terrible shape. His right eye had multiple retinal tears widespread retinal bruising in a condition called retinal dialysis, a retinal break at the junction of the front of the eye. It's usually seen after a significant eye injury. In his left eye, he had more widespread bruising and six full thickness rips in his retina yep. Given the findings, they had questions. They pressed him on any untoward things that might have happened to his battered orbs. The man then reluctantly admitted he'd been trying to soothe his tired eyes with a percussive massage gun. Like, do either of you have the there a gun?

16:01 No, I'm afraid of it. It's terrifying. It works, but it's terrifying. Ain't no way I would put that anywhere near my face. I have a knockoff there a gun, and I mean it's fine. But even if it was just a normal and one of those just massagers, like no, you're not gonna put it. No, yeah, if you have, if it has a pulse, start, don't put it near your face. But again, this is a generation that's you know, made a guy that hits himself in the face with a hammer very popular.

16:41 That's true to just putting like cucumber slices on the eyes while you lay down and relax, Like why is that too easy? Or just get just an ice pack? Yeah, like our cold wash cloth. There's a number of things that you could have gone to besides the they're a gun. It's amazing when you watch period movies and television shows like the old Western things, it's amazing the ailments that get cured, the bullet holes that get cured, the fevers that get reduced from a simple washcloth. Now this guy, I give him credit because he didn't just use the regular massage therapy gun attachment. No, no, no, he went specifically with the attachment shaped like a bullet.

17:27 The point one. No, that's the worst one. Describing the man as a hesitant historian, the doctor said he eventually confessed to using the massage gun directly on and around both eyes on a weekly basis for three months what to help with his eye fatigue. This wasn't just a one time thing. And he pops them out of the sockets like what the actual hell? Oh god. They noted that he did not have a history of psychiatric conditions or drug use keyword there, that these to be included as yet. Now he does, yeah yeah, now he. Does seems to have a history of stupidity. Mm hmm. Yeah. You know, this is not his first foray into stupidity.

18:10 He's done some other really dumb stuff like like, don't get me wrong, when I was a kid, I did dumb stuff. I tried to be a paratrooper with a with a grocery sack off the off the you know house. But that was yeah, that was one story, and I did it once I learned my lesson this guy that. You were in like foster care or something. Is that what they told you, Hey, take a bag and jump off the house. Most of us did it with umbrellas. I mean, at least, you know, I had a little Mary Poppins esque flair to it. You just got a grow. They didn't. They didn't show us in the foster home because they didn't want to give us any hope.

18:54 Was it paper or plastic? It was it was plastic because it had the handle. Probably had holes in it too. Yeah it did. Yeah. Uh. The doctors, by the way, acknowledged that percussive massage therapy may be helpful for some soft tissues like muscles and things, but don't. Use it on your eyeballs. No, unless you just watch the TikTok video about masking that tray sent you in the middle of the night like I did, in which case, my therapy gun should be here sometime this afternoon. I look forward to my first treatment. Won't help me, won't You're in trehouse us online, a treehouse.

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21:00 And property review. Maybe that's them at your door. Now, It could be COOKDFW dot com is the website all right? Today is Wednesday, June twenty third, Sorry, June twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. It's a very controversial birthday coming on this as well, so stay with me here, all right. We are going to start with probably the greatest soccer player of all time. Lionel Messi is thirty nine today. Oh he was just in Dallas, or is in Dallas. And didn't I see this trace?

21:41 I know you've been following the World Cup more than me because you have a new kickass TV, so you've watched a lot of soccer over the weekend. I think he just in a recent match scored a goal to become the World Cup leading scorer of all time. I think on Monday, yes, he broke the record and then added another one. I think he has scored all five of Argentina's goals and but yeah, he is now the all time World Cup men's score. It's impressive. Yeah, thirty, it really is. Yeah, and he just turned just turned thirty nine, So happy birthday to him scoring all of his team's goals, including the hat trick I believe in their first match, So happy birthday.

22:27 And the fans were so excited because we played at Dallas Stadium that the security actually finally had to make them leave. They they would and did not want to leave. They were celebrating and drinking and having a good time. And I think it was like forty five minutes after the match was over, they're like, all right, guys, you'll have to leave. They got kicked out. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Wander over to Texas Live or walk down to Humper Dams. Oh no, oh, did you You should have seen the pictures of Clyde Warren Park crazy crazy? Yes? Oh really, yeah, I didn't see that was and.

23:08 That was just I think the fans that didn't go to the game. I thought that was from the day before the game where they were like having kind of a parade type situation and getting like rowdy and ready for the game, and then they. All I thought that was like one of the watch parties. But maybe right it might be both from the sound of it, I mean, they might still be partying. We just don't know where. I mean, it's crazy around here, has it. Have you guys noticed any difference in the traffic or anything with your day to day? No? Really, it's like, I mean, seventy five sucks always it's but actually even people, you know, good job on for Arlington PD because I know people that commute back and forth from Fort Worth and they said, actually, the traffic around the stadium really wasn't that bad yesterday or on Monday with the with.

23:59 The get I'll say props to DPD because there are a lot of them are staying at the Adelphice in downtown Dallas. I work across the street from there, and they have done a really good job of keeping all of the traffic moving and escorting the buses in and out that it has not affected at all the work week. It's crazy, Like I'm impressed. Also, a good job on DPD putting some officers up at the Adelphis. There's like at least eighty that are sitting outside at all times. You didn't say they're staying there. No, they're not staying there. Sure' there, Trey, And I know our fair of or used to know our fair share of DPD officers. There's some that are crashing. I have no doubts in my body, you know, I hope they are other birthdays today. Creator of The Mindy Project, rider and Star and producer of the Office. For those that didn't realize she had her hands all up in that and he CALLI is forty seven today. Solange Knowles is forty Beyonce's younger sister.

25:00 Uh. Is she the one that got up on jay Z in the elevator, like not in the sexual way, but like attacked him. Yeah, after I guess he had cheated on Beyonce. Man, you've you're jay Z. You're one of the all time greatest hard like rappers in history and your wife's sister is beating you down in the elevator. She's a good sister, Yeah she is. Uh. Minka Kelly, actress is forty six, best known for roles in a Friday Night Lights. Titans, and Euphoria. I can't remember. I think she is the daughter of one of the guys from Aerosmith, I remember correctly.

25:41 Oh in real life, Yeah, yeah, real life. I think she's I think she's a daughter of one of like the bassist, either the bassist or the guitarist in Aerosmith. Chryil check me on that. Mick Fleetwood is seventy nine. Lionel Messi I mentioned that he is thirty nine. Dustin Johnson is forty two Major champion and one of golf's longest hitters and the contra Yes Tray. He was kind of a fill in for Aerosmith in the early eighties when they were having their He was like eighty one to eighty four their crapp Eat drug Time. Oh yeah, okay, he was. Well it still counts. He's not one of the main era eights, but he's like Aerosmith plus one. You know what, very few people can say they were in Aerosmith, So I'll give it to him.

26:24 Yeah, I wasn't as much as I would have loved to have been. So the controversial birthday to day JJ Abrams is sixty. What are your thoughts on JJ Abrams? What's the controversy? Yeah, he's a creator of Lost. Yeah, he's the director of two of the three Star Wars films that came out. Yeah. He was also director of one or two of this Star Trek reboots and, according to my notes here, inventor of approximately seventy three percent of hollywoodland Flair. I had no idea what Lynz Flair was until I saw a video one of years ago about j.

27:07 J Abrams. And that's one of those things I can't undsee, Like all his stuff it's like Lynnce flairlyn you know I I. In general think he's brilliant. He the Star Treks were great. It's just Star Wars. The Star Wars, especially the last one he did, will hang on him forever. And that's his biggest that that's gonna be where most people have the problem with him. Other than that, I mean, he's done some great stuff. He was also responsible. He's the guy behind back Robot productions, so he also did Alias. Back in the day, some of the Mission Impossibles, Armageddon. I had no problem with this. Regarding Henry, Oh, immediately salvage.

27:49 That's one of my that's one of my Harrison Ford dark Horse favorites. Like as a Harrison Ford fan, it's really easy to say Indiana Jones. It's really easy to say Star Wars obviously, even his you know time as Jack Ryan with the Clancy movies. Oh yeah, but if you've never seen Harrison Ford and regarding Henry, then you have not seen Harrison Ford. Oh such a good movie. Oh my god, I'm emotional. Finger. I was about to be like, do we need a moment of silence. For you, Dan? Maybe a little bit. Uh. Also one of my other ones and I love throwing this one out. Is What Lies Beneath is another. Harrison Ford that is a great horror flick. And if you say it's not you suck, that's.

28:35 A good movie. I agree. And the other thing I all was thought about that movie is it was written by Clark greg the guy that played Colson. In the mcuh. So there you have it. There are your birthdays today. In side of the treehouse, there is a major warning from the Transportation Security Administration. I don't know if all of us need to know about it, but enough people need to know about it. Trey, you mentioned the other day that some of the World Cup fans that are in America from other countries have absolutely fallen in love not just with you know, certain parts of American culture, but some of our food. And one of our favorite condiments, specifically ranch dressing.

29:18 Yeah, they've fallen. I mean it's been fun to see, like, yeah, so many of the Europeans are like we've been lied to about America. Yea, but yeah, they the food they generally love. But I don't know why ranch really isn't available in Europe, but I have a feeling it will be. I don't either between that and the guy from England who discovered shiner. I mean, if you could buy a stock in shiner and ranch dressing, get on it right now. Screw the guy. The video of Ella Langley opening her beers with her her foot like like literally she stands up and kicks from behind and opens the beers. That's done, shining more good than anything.

30:05 All right, So Ella Langley, shiner foot beer. Just beer opening, probably beer bottle open. We have our assignment today, Dan, I know. What the rest of my day is going. It's slick. I have seen I have seen in thirty years and being in around bars, I have seen a lot of very creative ways open beers. This one is the winner. Uh it's it's top top three, top three. Okay, that's solid. I mean, I don't know how many takes it took her to get the video, but it doesn't matter. It's actually if you want just humor, once you see it, then your your algorithm will take you to all the fails and and they're even more entertaining.

30:49 Oh awesome, Okay, So I'd rather my algorithm be filled with that than the masking stuff that you keep sending me. The TSA is reminding world cup visitors not too. We see three point four ounces of dressing and their carry on that No, this is straight from the TSA's social media verified account. If you're visiting for a very large sporting event and you happen to discover ranch while you're here, please pack it in your checked bag on the way home. Thank you. Okay, And then a follow up, Okay, please avoid chugging your ranch outside security. The airlines will check it for you.

31:29 Do they not just have like. Amazon or ups where they can order it ahead of time and have it sent to their house. I don't know. And then another follow up days since the last airport ranch incident zero. I love that it's a whole thing. Yeah, And then another one. Yes, so your carry on wasn't actually made for checks four bottles of ranch and a taser. It really is amazing. The thing is that people will try to sneak through security. Yeah. And it's it's real that they actually posted a a photo of all the liquid bottles and things that say, Okay, here's your maximum liquid stuff and there's a full on Oh god, this is awful. It's like a full bottle of great value ranch dressing. Oh, they're not even trying to.

32:25 They're not even taking the good stuff back. No, no, Walt, if you haven't had it, then you know bad bad ranch is like you know pizza. Yeah, you're right, it's still but like you might as well win in Rome, get the high quality stuff while you're here. But they may not know any better. You know, you're right. It's like even like if you don't know bad pizza's good pizza if you've never had it before. So they were smart, they'd be taking like the packets of ranch that how to make it correct? H I don't know how if they have a lot of sour cream, but I damn sure know they have buttermilk. And that's that. No, it's not just that that ranch dressing is supposed to be made with buttermilk, not sour cream. Ranch dip is made with sour cream.

33:16 Okay, It's particular about their ranches. And restaurants for a long time. And like I know the drill. I know the great Value ranch when I tasted because the spot near our old house and Carleton. I know it because I saw them walk in from Walmart and that I would taste it. And so I'm like, I know what that is? What is if you go to the store, what is your go to This is something that may may split the treehouse. What is your go to ranch brand? Rebecca? So, I think we go back and forth between some stuff, but right now it's Ken's. I'm real hot on the Kin's Ranch, the Buttermilk Ranch. Got it, Trey, what's your go to store ranch? I mean, I I don't like any of them, but Ken's would be one of them. There's another one and I just can't think of the name. It comes in a jar and typically it's in the refrigerated part of the store, but it's store ranches. It's all Newman's isn't bad either?

34:15 Oh yeah, that's it. I like Newman's too. I think I think my store ranch because I went through a phase where I would try to find the best and so I did a ranch thing, and so I all the ones I tried, but I remember, I think Wishbone was my go to. Okay, but. Ri I p to. One of my favorite ranch dressings of all time at a restaurant was at Snookies. Snookies was a spot that had a handful of locations around DFW. There was the last one I believe was the one on Lemon in Dallas sort of like not sort of like Lemon and Oaklawn kind of area. Yeah, it was just I was actually the first day and the last they had I believe one of the best ranch dressings I have ever had.

34:58 Oh I missed that place. Their ranchska. If we're going to talk about missing ranch, there's a place in Dallas called Pizza Getty and they have the best ranch tasty. Yeah. So if you like pizza and you like pizza in your ranch and your. Pizza no, I like, I like pizza in my ranch. Yeah. I think they have the best. I think they have the best ranch. Trey best restaurant ranch. M it's hard, right. If you were gonna smuggle at home. A place called t ABC they have a really good ranch. I've said my old place that I used to run, Ivy Tavern excellent ranch.

35:42 Oh yeah, that was good. But again, and I also know they're homemade. So that's that's when you know what's good. Uh. JBC has good ranch too, So I mean a standard port. There you have it. We are the ranch connoisseurs. You're welcome. Ranch che chewies. Uh Jason's Deli surprisingly. On air dot Com you're in the treehouse, visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com. If you would like more Treehouse in your life, go to Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air and subscribe today Treehouse Plus, super Plus or Ultimate Treehouse for bonus content, shows, video, all sorts of fun stuff there Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air, and be sure to check out Rebecca on her show Haunted a F with Julie Scary stories. Very fun show.

36:59 Listen to check Haunted a F Haunted af dot com. Back inside the Treehouse, Dan Trey and Rebecca. Okay, before I dig in, I'm going to ask you right off the top. Trey. In a romantic relationship, should you live together before you get married? Yes? I was hoping too. Then she disappeared. I'm so sorry. It is bad, Rebecca, before you get married, do you believe that a couple should live together? I am team. No, really, it's be fun, all right. This is gonna be good. Okay. Most couples live together before they get married, but there are some who wait until they tie the knot to move in together. On Reddit's Unpopular Opinion sub one person claims that living together before marriage is not necessary if you pay attention while dating. She believes most people keep their eyes closed while dating and then all of a sudden feel the need to open them once they shark.

38:01 Once they shark, I'm sorry, what Once they start sharing spaces, she writes. I went over to his house, he went over to mine, and we saw how one another lived hundreds of times before getting married and living together. We got married and he moved in with me, and the only issues we ever had was that he was used to leaving the toilet seat up and I was a bit messy. That's it. They've been married for eight months. Eight months. Eight months. They got no cred in the game here, I'm sorry, eight months, they got no. Cred, No like, get get back with me? Eight years I'm in nineteen years.

38:45 Okay, So, Rebecca, you and your husband you did not live together before you got married. Did not know? How long did you date before you got married? Uh? I think two years? And then prior to that though, we were like best friends. Okay, so you knowed him a long time? Yeah, long time, So that probably helped. I'm assuming you went to his place, he went to years a lot before you got married. Oh yeah, for sure, I mean like we hung out all the time. Were there any surprises when you guys actually moved in. I mean yes, but nothing that was like crazy. I like the surprise. I think it leaves like a little bit of mystery or whatever, like finding out the unknown if you will, Okay, I enjoy.

39:29 That, Trey. Do you enjoy the unknown? No, Trey and I could never live together. I can already tell you that I agree. And Trey and I are on the same page here because I look. Now. Granted, you know, my wife and I we were together for three years before we got married. I mean not only did we live together before we got married, we basically started living together not long after we started dating. I mean, you couldn't separate us, and Trey could probably vouch for that, so it was very easy for us. There wasn't even a conversation. It was just we're just there all the times. It's like, why don't we just make this official? Kind we did sure, so within I think I don't know, four three, four, five months we were we had our own place, uh near Lakewood off Ross.

40:20 But anyway. Some of the commentors, of course, on Unpopular Opinion on Reddit had thoughts on whether or not you should live together before you Then one person says you were the exception, not the rule. I would have been married and divorced multiple times had had we not lived together first. One person says, I don't believe you truly know someone until you've traveled with them. That I completely agree with. Yeah, yeah, wholeheartedly. Yeah. They say that's true for both for both intimate and non intimate relationships. Agreed. Commentors also added in other sort of tests to a relationship, traveling together is a big one, but they also said together to truly know the other person, you need to hang wallpaper.

41:08 No, you got to go to Ikea man, yeah. Or install a ceiling fan together. And Rebecca, you're on the right page there. If you go to like going to Ikea, the story is one test on its own, but if you're having to find a piece of furniture to put together, that absolutely will tell you a lot about the other person. Let me tell you I've been married nineteen years. We have we have been to Ikea once and almost ended in divorce, and then we put together an Ikea cabinet later on and we almost ended in divorce. So those that's that is honestly the true testament to any relationship. I feel. So you and your husband are big on the solid furniture, then no, no put together.

41:54 Stuff one time. That's all it took one time. We will never ever go back together. My wife is the opposite. So look, I will be the first to admit I'm a bit of a princess when it comes to certain things. When we have moved, Trey, I knew that would prick you up. As he puts his phone down and raises his eyebrow. Uh, whenever we've moved into a new place, typically what would happen is I would go to work and come home and she's already unpacked everything. And then when I get home, she has to then give me orientation of where everything is. There is no waiting rind like, she just does stuff good for her. Yeah, and then when it comes to like building furniture and stuff like building with like I don't like she's not sawing down trees and she's not a carpenter. But when it comes to putting furniture together, like a desk or something something from office depot, she will dump that entire box out, put that thing together, and she gets so proficient at it that this is her weird desire. She wants to go buy more of them and put them together and sell the people because her legos. Really and honestly, that's not a bad side gig if you really wanted to.

43:03 It's like, hey, I already put this desk together once I now know how to do it. It's kind of a wasted skill unless you go back and buy a bunch more and put them together and you know, up the price buy a bunch. Yeah. So that's what I mean when I'm a bit of a princess when it comes to certain things, and I'm very fortunate we can get we can go get a shelf or something that's in a one inch box and it'll be put together in an hour and a half and I don't have to even worry about it. Are you a passenger princess too, or just a pillow princess? I am also a passenger princess. I'm just going I am going to ignore the pillow princess thing that you touched on there, because that's not you. But we are actually about to travel this week, and Tara has not only already got it all planned out, but she and along with chat GPT have worked up a beautiful I can't see worked up a beautiful itinerary of all of our travel plans and color coded graphics and all sorts of things.

43:58 I am also a passenger princess and a travel princess. And my favorite thing is when people are like, what hotel are you staying at? Where are you going? I have no idea. I cannot answer that question. That is how uninvolved I am in that planning. Yeah, and it's not like I'm unwilling to help, it's just, oh I am. She's off to the races and there's no way in hell I'm. Gonna be able to keep up. So it's like, Okay, she's got a handle. Uh, Trey, are are are you a are you a travel princess? Or is it just me? It's just you now? But I bet I will say this. Uh. I've gotten better over the years. But traveling is definitely something as a couple that that you will find out a lot about each other.

44:47 Uh. But one of the things live together are not like I am a firm believer and my ex I've lived with someone we didn't do this and it was a nightmare. Like my ex and I, we had already agreed if we were gonna move in together, we were going to have this separate bathrooms. I do love a separate bathroom, that is for sure. If you want your relationship to last for the long haul, at the very least, have an extra half bath. You just need that second toilet. Separate toilet, yep. Not because not just because you're trying to keep you know, like the poopy smell away from each other kind of thing.

45:29 That's part of it. But the main reason is in case you go someplace and you have some food that doesn't agree with both of you at the same time, you need to have a plan because I don't think you want both of you in there at the same time. One of you gets to toilet and the other one crawls in the tub, and then you become closer than you ever wanted to be. That's an instant, lifelong bond right there. Yeah. I don't know if you'll ever have sex again, but you'll be bothered yees. I mean, do you really can't separate after that because no one else will take you? It's like, no, that's too much star Yeah, too much trauma, too much starr, and. There's no coming bad form for all things Treehouse Treehouse on air dot com. Be sure to find uh, follow, like, follow, share all those things on social media and on YouTube at Treehouse on Air.

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