May 19, 2026

Monk Seal Defense Goes Horribly Wrong + Dallas Wants to Save Whales? | Funny News Podcast

Monk Seal Defense Goes Horribly Wrong + Dallas Wants to Save Whales? | Funny News Podcast
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The Treehouse Show is back with one of the worst defense attorney arguments we’ve ever heard: apparently the guy accused of throwing a rock at a monk seal was “trying to save the turtles.” Sure. Totally normal behavior.

From there, things spiral into classic Treehouse chaos as we break down why Dallas is suddenly trying to save whales, celebrity birthdays that somehow turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions, and a new report claiming high school drinking is at an all-time low.

Plus:

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It is time I believe your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with

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Trey Trenholm. Coming up on today's show. The Whaling Wall

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has us in tears. The Whaling Wall has some of

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us in tears. I have found a rebound for Trey.

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This may also lead to tears.

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But first inside the Treehouse today and to start us

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off this week, demand that went megaviral just last week

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for throwing rocks in Hawaii at an endangered monk seal.

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Azar Fond.

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Oh boy.

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Yeah.

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The man seeing throwing a rock toward an endangered Hawaiian

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monk seal had a good reason for it, According to

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his defense attorney, who released this statement a few days ago,

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one of the.

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Resoundingly clear with the public. He never intended to enter

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the monk seal.

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Trey correct me if I'm wrong, But if I'm throwing

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a rock at something, my goal is to injure it.

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If you're getting as close as he did to hitting it. Yes,

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and mind you that this monk seal was in a

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cordoned off space because she had just given birth.

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Well, let's let the court of public opinion roll just

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a little bit more. Let's hear out this attorney for

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one of the most hated in on the planet.

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I want to be resoundingly clear with the public. He

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never intended to enter the monk seal.

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In fact, I love as he says that the news

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station shows footage of him throwing the rock at the seal.

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He's been to Hawaii a few times. He was unaware

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that we had seals here. He does have an affection

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for turtles, as does his wife, and as our understanding,

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there were turtles in the area where he was in

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the water he saw the monk seal. I think his

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intent was to scare the seal away from the turtles.

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We were waiting for a video that we can use

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to illustrate what he saw at the time before he

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went and pick up a rock and through it.

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Oh my god.

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See, Trey Igor had a great reason for throwing rocks

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at that endangered monk seal. He was trying to protect

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the turtles that you don't see in the video. And

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the attorney says, we're hoping to find another video that.

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Will support that claim good luck.

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How did he know he wasn't going to hit a turtle.

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That's an excellent point because if you felt the need

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to intervene to save the turtles from that mean, nasty seal,

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then you would think the seal was really close to

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the turtle, which means you're throwing the rock in the vicinity.

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Of the turtle.

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Do seals eat turtles?

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I don't know. I know they eat fish.

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Yeah, I'm going to do a live I'm gonna go

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to Gary on this. Gary is what I've named my

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chat GPT. Do seals eat turtles? Keep in mind, this

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is gonna completely throw off my algorithm with my chat GPT.

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He's gonna think I've lost it. I'm drunk or on

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drugs or somebody else.

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You start a new session for those those questions.

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Oh yeah, this is this is a completely new branch.

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Do seals eat turtles? Yes, some seals do eat turtles,

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but it's not very common. Seals are carnivorous and have

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a pretty flexible diet depending on the species and where

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they live. Most of the time, they prefer easier, more

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abundant prey like fish, squid, crustaceans. However, larger or more

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opportunistic species like the leopard seal are known to eat

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a wide range of animals.

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Yeah, I just don't see I mean, if a seal

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is really hungry, then I see them, you know, trying

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to mess with a turtle. But it's like most most

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things don't eat the turtles because they're kind of a

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pain in the ast eat.

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Yeah, they have that big protective shell.

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They are a real pain.

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I have seen one video of a shark eating a turtle,

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and it was because I believe the turtle was already

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dead and or injured by run into a boat propeller,

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so it was basically easy pickens for the shark. Yeah,

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it's that that's not an ideal meal for any creature

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on this planet.

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Turtle.

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I'm sorry for the pun, but I have to say

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it because I can't think of a better way. In

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the moment, this attorney is saying that I Gore had

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a good reason to throw the rocks at the seal,

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and that was to protect the turtles.

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Does that argument hold water?

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Yeah, I don't think so. I think.

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A if you are going to say that you knew

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there were turtles in the water but not seals and

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b well.

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He was saying that he didn't know Hawaii had seals

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in general. When he saw the seal in front of him,

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then he knew that they were there. Even though he's

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been to Hawaii like three times, he's claiming he didn't

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know that Hawaii had seals.

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I believe most Pacific Coast Pacific Ocean places have seals.

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I have not studied it immensely, but if memory serves

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that that's.

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They're fairly common in the Pacific.

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Is where they go.

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This guy has been to Hawaii a few times, according

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to his attorney, and didn't know there were seals. I

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I know comparison is not always fair, but I'm going

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to do it in this case because it illustrates my point.

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I have never been to Hawaii, and I know Hawaii

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has seals. I don't know how you can go to

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Hawaii and not know that they got seals. So I

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don't buy it, mister attorney.

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Man, this is one of those things where God blessed

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defense attorneys that they have to you know, they get

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paid a lot of money to do this kind of crap.

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But I just feel like, either the guy is so

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egotistical that he's gonna try to beat this because really,

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it seems like the smartest thing to do would just

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be a mia culpa, say I screwed.

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Up, I'm sorry.

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Here, let me stroke a check for you know, fifty

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grand to the Save the Seals, and you probably would

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be a lot better off than this dumbass line of defense.

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Yeah, at least then it has a chance of going away.

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But with this strategy, you just added fuel to the fire.

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Clearly he's beside himself with.

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If the rock don't hit, he must have quit.

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Illustrate what he saw at the time before he went

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and picked up a rock and threw it. Clearly he's

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beside himself with regret.

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Okay, that's a horrible thing for an attorney to say.

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Clearly he's beside himself with regret. How was that clear

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to anybody, because the one comment we heard out of

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him was from the initial video of him saying I'm rich,

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I don't care to find me.

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Yeah, he's the sight of himself because he is now

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one of the most hated people on the face of

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the earth.

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When he's he's he is awash with regret because he

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realizes he's not that rich. He thought he had money

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until he until he got himself into depths of trouble

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of which there are no return and and he doesn't

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have the level of money to buy his way out of.

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This well, and.

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He doesn't have one of those names that is just

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gonna fly under the radar, and you people are going

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to see it and go, oh, you know that's oh

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Jack Smith, Sure.

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Yeah, Noor instead.

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According to a criminal complaint, Igor Maclayovich Litvchuk of Coming

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in Washington was filmed on May fifth, twenty twenty six,

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walking along the shoreline in Lahena of Maui while following

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the movements of a Hawaiian monks. Heal name Laney gained

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widespread attention after a witness posted video footage online and

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it went viral. Yeah, I mean Igor, I call him

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Igor or whatever, Nick Kaloivich lit Vinchuk, I gore at mL.

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Mega loser.

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I mean obviously Eastern European heritage of some sorts. But

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I even I think they probably think he's an asshole.

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Yeah, they probably saw his fun and like, see, this

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is why we were glad he left.

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I mean again, this is one of those things thirty

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years ago, if someone had their beta cam out there

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and was recording you.

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Chances are you're set.

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But yeah, you're just an a hole on someone's family videos.

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Yeah, but internet lives forever.

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Internet lives forever, and smartphone video is forever. Look, we're

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not typically known as environmental activists inside the treehouse, but

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we are animal lovers.

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Well, I isn't the term clubbing a baby seal just

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universally known as you're just being an ass?

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Yeah, that is sort of the equation. That's sort of

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the metaphor, that's sort of the standard, that's that's the

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standard equation of how much of an a hole are you?

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Are you someone willing to club a baby seal? And

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this guy seems like he is. But this is not

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the biggest environmental story. Well, okay, it probably is the

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biggest environmental story at least over the last.

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Week or two.

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But locally in our beloved Dallas Fort Worth, there is

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another environmental issue that has been painted over in downtown Dallas.

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A well known downtown Dallas mural created by marine life

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artist Wiland, was painted over as part of a new

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project tied to the twenty twenty six feef of World Cup,

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sparking backlash from the artist and some residents.

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Who say a piece of the city's history is disappearing.

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I thought they just they taped, they covered it up,

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and then they painted over it.

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Yeah, they painted over it, but not.

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Really painted over it.

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It's just, oh, they taped it and painted on the

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tape so they can peel it off later.

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Yes, I don't know.

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The mural, known as Whaling Wall eighty two, has covered

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the side of the former Texas Utilities building facing ackerd

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Street for nearly thirty years. Full disclosure. I remember driving

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into downtown Dallas after that thing was painted and a

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number of times thinking why did we put wales on

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the side of the building. It seems we're we don't

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have them here. I didn't understand it, but I didn't

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know anything about it at the time, and I still

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know very little. But that was the extent of my

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knowledge on the Whaling Wall of Downtown. It was something

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that I saw, I was familiar with it. I didn't

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know why it was there in the first place, but

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I just knew it existed. Last week, Cruise began covering

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portions of the mural with new artwork connected to the

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upcoming World Cup. Dallas resident Ed Smith said I couldn't

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believe it because I've always been a big fan of

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this will wowl. He said, I'm just heartbroken. That's why

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I had to come down here and take a photograph,

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just to make it believable to me. Wyland, who created

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the mural, said he was never contacted before work began.

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He says, we have lots of walls and you're gonna

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paint over mine. The artist said he first learned about

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the changes after someone sent him a photo of the

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work underway. Wyland called the decision really disrespectful on every level.

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And FIFA and the City of Dallas came out or no,

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FIFA came out and said, uh we we talked to

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we talked to the artists, we talked to Dallas about this,

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and you know, everything's fine.

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And the artist is like, uh uh no, they didn't.

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And Fox four caught up with him and he reiterated

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that by saying, no, they didn't.

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They had all these walls. There's so many great walls

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to paint. Uh pick a wall that's not part of

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Dallas's public art, you know history.

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They said that they contacted us. They did not. They

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did not contact me. That's a lie with a capital L.

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They picked the wrong artists. I can tell you that

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I'm going to go after them, and I'm going to

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go out after from hard. I'm going to ask the

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community of Dallas stay with me, because we're gonna protect

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the other works of art in Dallas.

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I mean, my god.

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So it seems like Dallas has its own punisher and

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it comes in the form of a whale skeleton, and

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he's coming for you.

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FIFA and Dallas, I mean, I guess they didn't. I

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thought they had protect to that.

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So yeah, I mean, yeah, the story I have here

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mentions nothing about artwork being protected, which honestly.

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Would have been a good idea.

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You know what, we'd like to maintain this piece of

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art that was donated to the city years ago. So

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we're just gonna we're just gonna, you know, cautiously tape

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over it, paint something else over it in the meantime,

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or you know what, hang a banner over it, if

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it's really that necessary to put something FIFA related on

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that wall, but something so that way, when FIFA goes away,

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you still got your whales.

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Now, I also find it funny because I doubt a

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lot of people have really gone down there and admired

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the mural, and it's like a lot of times when

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houses get torn down, there's always a group of people who,

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you know, a lot of hand ringing going, oh my god,

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you're tearing down history and everything else. Like it was,

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it served its purpose. Now do I think they should

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have done that for something that's only going to be

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here for three weeks?

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No, that's stupid. Does City of Dallas like to do

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stupid things? Yes?

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Really surprised, very on brand for Dallas and FIFA. It

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was more than happy.

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I joined the phrase FIFA, you're gonna take their word

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for it. I mean their last World Cup, they in

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US slavery to build stadiums and they turned a blind

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eye to it. Like over five thousand people died in

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getting ready for that World Cup. So you're gonna take

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their world war it. Please google FIFA corruption and you know,

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go down that rabbit hole of what a fine, fine

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organization that is.

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Yeah, there are two f's in FIFA and neither one

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of them stand for fine.

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In a statement though organizers. So me back up just

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a little bit.

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Our buddies at Channel eight w FAA reached out to

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the City of Dallas and the City of Dallas immediately

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directed Channel eight to the North Texas FIFA World Cup

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Organizing Committee. Basically, City of Dallas said, U huh, we

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want none of this smoke. You go talk to them.

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So.

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In a statement, the organizers said, the mural currently being

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installed celebrates and builds excitement for the upcoming World Cup

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twenty twenty six. The project is being completed in partnership

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with the North Texas FWC Organizing Committee and State Asset Management,

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who owns the building. We recognize the cultural and historical

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significance of Robert Wyland's Whaling Wall eighty two. With great

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respect for Wiland's legacy, a portion of the original mural

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will remain preserved as a tribute to its lasting impact

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on the city. In other words, we gave you a corner.

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Shut up. Their statement goes on to say, we look

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forward to unveiling a new piece that crap craptures. Sorry,

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that was unintentional.

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We look forward to unveiling a new piece that captures

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this current historical moment and reflects the energy, unity, and

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global spirit surrounding the World Cup twenty twenty six.

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This summer. Five bucks. It's a cell phone ad.

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It will be sooner or later.

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I mean it's FIFA logo. Uh has has no one?

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No one at FIFA. Have they studied where soccer ranks

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amidst the U big sports in the United States.

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Okay, granted not very high, but they're clearly betting soccer

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ranks higher than whales. I mean, especially in North Texas

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where there are so many whales for us to enjoy.

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Should go chunk of rock at it.

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That's what basically, that's what FIFA did here.

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Yeah, you're right, I see your whaling wall and I

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throw rocks at it too.

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Dan along with Trey and Trey. My heart breaks for you, Bud.

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I know uh you've Tray, You've experienced heartbreak recently, recently

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found yourself suddenly single. But I have good news. I

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believe I have found a rebound for you. Okay, thank

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you for keeping an open mind. A woman has gone

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viral for posing with a fourteen foot alligator in her

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graduation photos. This is a cat Daily. She's been working

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at Gator Country Wildlife Rescue in Beaumont, Texas. She went

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viral after celebrating her graduation from McNeese State with a

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photo shoot alongside the alligators.

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That she cares for.

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The standout image shows her kissing a fourteen foot alligator

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as part of the shoot, captured by Laura Oglesby Photography.

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The massive gator is believed to be nearly one hundred

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years all, which is good news for you, Trey, because

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this chick's really this chick is clearly into older guys.

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He's been on Gator Country. He's been at Gator Country

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since nineteen eighty four, So one hundred year old gator

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posing with a recent college graduate Trey.

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I know that.

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You try to stay away from crazy women in your

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older age, but you know what for a rebound, I

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don't know if you'll find anyone crazier than a woman

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willing to do graduation photos with a fourteen foot, one

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hundred year old alligator.

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I mean, I you know that that is a very

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valid point.

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However, I mean, look at how happy that gator is

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to be in the photos with her.

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And the fact that she's in heels and you know,

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playing with the gator and there she's playing you know,

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got your tail.

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Yeah, I think you would enjoy her getting your tail.

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You know, maybe, but I am currently trying to make

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sense of the world after, you know, getting ghosted for

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no reason. This scenario, I would get ghosted because she

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got eight.

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So well, at least you least, at least it wouldn't

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be your fault.

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Well you know, at least they'd be you know, some closure.

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But yeah, there'd be some serious closure.

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Yeah, yeah, that that actually really would be in a

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serious ish light. If you send her a text while

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she's at work and you don't get an immediate response,

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I think that would raise some alarm bells.

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Yeah, there would definitely at some point need to be

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a uh some protocols set forth that you need to

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check in with me at these times just so I

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know you're alive, literally.

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And it's never going to be take tray to work

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a day.

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I know, no, I I that I just part of

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me would really like to go on one of those

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alligator hunts like in southern Louisiana.

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But still that is an animal that absolutely petrifies me because.

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The gator, not the woman.

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The gator got it women. Just yeah, that one just

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kind of scares me hot though.

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So here she is playing got your Tail with the gator.

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Who seems very happy about it.

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She looks happy, he looks happy that she's got his tail.

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I mean, I'm seriously we're witching about photoshopping your face

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into this.

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You know, if I had a young bond that you know,

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got my tail, I'd be like all right, yeah.

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And you might be okay if she turned you into

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a pair.

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Of boots, you know, eventually sure.

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On your crazy hot matrix, where does where does she fall?

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I mean she's up high scores all the way around,

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very hot and obviously very crazy.

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And it's in Texas. I'm just saying, like, this is

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Beaumont area. So if you're in the mood, you know,

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for love and a road trip, there you go.

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You ever been to Beaumont? Have not?

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There's a reason why they call it the Butthole of Texas,

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if not the whole United States.

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So you're saying she's into butt stuff.

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I said she's used to it.

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She's clearly not against it, all right.

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Today is Tuesday, May nineteenth, twenty twenty six, also known

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as the Day that I Found a Rebound for trade.

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Birthdays today include Jojo siwa Is twenty three. I Leave

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a singer, actress, YouTuber maybe.

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Now once queer, now straight.

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Fluid.

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I guess, uh no, she she's from last I read,

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and I've she's one of those people.

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So I I think she's from the dance mom's thing.

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But don't I asked somebody, I'm like, what's the big deal?

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Like?

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Where did? Because she's she's always I say, have.

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Three moments in her life where she's gone quote unquote viral.

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One like she would tried to become a pop singer,

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and then then she was queer and some of her

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dance moves. I mean she was on her way to

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becoming the Corey Feldman of gen Z.

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And uh, I guess every generation has to have it's

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Corey Field.

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I mean some of her, whether or not.

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Yeah, I mean Harris just more more like convulsions.

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And then all of a sudden she and she was all,

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you know, radical hair, clothing, everything else. And then last

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time I saw her, she looked like a normal chick

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and she was getting married to a guy and that

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she just said she had been really confused from what

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I read. Well she, Hey, you know that that's you're

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entitled to change and everything else, and hey, get on.

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You absolutely make your own life. Man.

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Jojo Siwa born Joel Joni Siwa May nineteenth, two thousand

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and three is an American singer, dancer, actor, and media personality.

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Hey we have something in common with her. We are

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all media personalities. Rising from reality TV starting to global fame,

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She's built a multi billion view social media empire, a

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vast merchandising line, and a reputation of one of Generation

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disea's most visible entertainers. Career start Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition

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and Dance Moms. So Trey Eh Good on There. Debut

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single was boomerang went two times platinum and one billion

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views on YouTube. Notable works include The J Team in

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twenty twenty one, I assume that's for Jojoe and not

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something else, and then Dancing with the Stars, the first

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same sex pairing, and then something called Karma in twenty

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twenty four.

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There you go. Other birthdays today names that we are

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more familiar with.

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Pete Townsend is eighty one today, classic rock legend.

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Who I think so?

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I was this close to saying huh sorry, this is

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too easy?

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And this one.

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This is a fun birthday for a couple of reasons,

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one of which is that means I get to play

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a clip one of my most favorite clips from film ever.

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Grace Jones, model turned actress, is seventy eight.

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Years old today.

480
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Wow.

481
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:12.519
She was in Conan the Destroyer and I believe it

482
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:19.119
was nineteen eighty four opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. That movie was

483
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:24.279
the sequel to nineteen eighty two's Conan the Barbarian, and

484
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:27.319
in Conan the Barbarian lies one of my favorite movie

485
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.319
quotes of all time, and thus it gives me the

486
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:32.559
excuse to play it for you now if you are

487
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:33.440
not familiar with it.

488
00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.079
Or you have forgotten it. You're welcome.

489
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:43.759
This is Conan. Sorry, Conan the Barbarian. The best line

490
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:55.440
in the movie franchise. Hang on a second, I gotta

491
00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:55.960
back it up.

492
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.640
Here we go, Conan, what is best in life?

493
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.920
Crush your enemies, see them living before you, and they

494
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:05.440
had a lamentation of the women.

495
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:08.559
That is good?

496
00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:17.680
Chills man? What is good in life? To crush your

497
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:24.519
enemies and hear the lamentation of their women? What's wrong

498
00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:24.920
with you?

499
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.640
What do you mean? What's wrong with me?

500
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:28.720
That is?

501
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:29.440
That is? How?

502
00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:34.119
Is that not a motivational poster in every office anywhere?

503
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:39.799
So says the man who's seen the entire American Ninja series.

504
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:44.759
Yeah, no, it's not good, but I will and I

505
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.039
will say this. It doesn't have a line like that

506
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:47.319
in it.

507
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.440
I thought you were gonna like Grace Jones. I can't

508
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.759
even she had some funny line. There was a movie

509
00:29:53.759 --> 00:30:00.000
called Boomerang, uh that she had some great line.

510
00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:03.839
But yeah, I don't remember a lot of great dialogue

511
00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:05.839
and Conan movies.

512
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:11.599
Oh there isn't. I basically pulled the only one that exists.

513
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:17.759
Oan, What is best in life? Crush your enemies? See

514
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:20.519
them living before you, and they had a lamentation of

515
00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:24.079
the women. That is good.

516
00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:25.200
That is good.

517
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:27.680
I didn't know Gimley was in that.

518
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:30.119
I don't think that is Ghimli.

519
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.240
Well I know it's not, but it sure does look

520
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:32.759
like Gimley.

521
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:36.039
It really does. That's the first thing I thought too.

522
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.359
It looks like it's like test footage from the Lord

523
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:42.039
of the Rings.

524
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:45.079
Yeah, it's like you know, they were casting. They're like, hey,

525
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:50.640
remember that guy in Conan? Find him what is.

526
00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:51.240
Good in life?

527
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.319
So if I asked you, then, Trey, what is good

528
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.759
in life? What would your answer be? If not Conan

529
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:58.039
the Barbarians version.

530
00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:06.119
Uh, you know, I think that's a great question. I

531
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:07.279
I don't know the answer.

532
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.160
Maybe it's time you find your answer. Because Conan had.

533
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:22.559
His mm hm hm back at you. What what's the answer, Dan?

534
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:30.319
Oh, you couldn't tell. It's the question enemies to see

535
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.759
them driving before you have the lamentation of the.

536
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:38.720
I think you just did that all just so you

537
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:40.559
could do your shorts and your impression.

538
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:42.599
It really wasn't but it ended up nicely.

539
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:51.039
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00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:54.960
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570
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back inside the Treehouse with just to be a little

571
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.400
bit of news and what can easily be described as

572
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:50.519
one of my worst nightmares, six Flags Over Texas suffered

573
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:54.400
a power outage over the weekend due to an internal

574
00:33:54.519 --> 00:34:01.200
technical issue on the Titan roller coaster. Riders stuck on

575
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:04.440
the Titan had to walk back down the tracks to

576
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.800
return to solid ground. And in watching the video that

577
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:13.119
a witness took and submitted to local media outlets like

578
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:17.000
our friends at Fox four, you see these riders walking

579
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.280
down the side of the track on the Titan, just

580
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.639
holding a rail. There's no harness, it's just people hanging

581
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:27.599
on to the rails, and there's a guy in a

582
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:32.119
hard hat and a neon vest gently guiding them down.

583
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:34.320
But he also looks all of seventeen.

584
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.079
What looks like you have some people who are understandably

585
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.800
afraid of heights and they're hanging on for dear life.

586
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:45.719
And it does look windy, but the railing is a

587
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:48.480
good four feet high, and I mean some people are

588
00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:51.559
just casually walking down. Other people you know are hanging

589
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:56.039
on for dear life. But it doesn't seem that traumatic.

590
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.800
You don't know tre that's because you don't know.

591
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:07.239
The crippling fear of being afraid of heights like this,

592
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:11.920
especially because there are so many things wrong with it,

593
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.360
just from me as someone who's afraid of heights, which

594
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.159
is still an odd thing because I didn't really used

595
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:18.679
to be until I got older. I used to love

596
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:20.800
roller coasters. Now you will never see me on another

597
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:22.639
roller coaster for as long as I live. If you

598
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.920
see me on a roller coaster, it is against my will.

599
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.840
That is a call for help. You call the FBI,

600
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.519
you call the local police, find but I mean I

601
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:38.800
want you calling everybody CIA, even the initials of places

602
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:40.599
you never heard of, call them all to get me

603
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:41.079
off there.

604
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.199
If something ever happens, like you have a stroke or something,

605
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.320
I'm putting you on the front seat of a roller coaster.

606
00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:49.239
How dare.

607
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:52.280
Look?

608
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.840
I want to be mad, but that's also really funny.

609
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:02.400
Just I'm so angry, but you can't tell because I'm

610
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.639
just drooling out of the paralyzed side of my stroke face.

611
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:10.119
Why you gotta put me up the.

612
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:12.719
Front man, because that's the worst.

613
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:16.880
Oh God, you're awful.

614
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.360
I'll tell your arm to mind so we can go.

615
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:24.800
You're gonna weaken it bernies me on top of the titan.

616
00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:28.920
And the worst thing is if we actually get stuck,

617
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.400
then you're gonna dangle me with our attached arms over

618
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:34.920
that railing. So this is one of the other issues

619
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.440
I have with this whole thing. When you see it

620
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:39.360
is like you said, you got people going down the

621
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:40.639
stairs holding the railing.

622
00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:43.679
There's only one railing on one side.

623
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:44.840
Mm hmm.

624
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.639
Luckily the wind is going in the direction to the railing.

625
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:54.119
Imagine if the wind was going the opposite direction, you

626
00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:57.280
would want that, you would want like another railing on

627
00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.119
the other side to kind of bookend you in. But

628
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:05.840
that's not what this has. I have had actual nightmares

629
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.000
about this type of scenario.

630
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:09.880
I mean, it's first of all, you can see it's

631
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:10.880
a wide platform.

632
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:11.559
It's not like.

633
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:22.559
It's three hundred plus feet in the air. Okay, that's

634
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:27.519
high trey. That's really really high. And I joined some

635
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.119
of the people who had some interesting comments on Fox

636
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:33.199
four's Instagram where I stole this from saying things like

637
00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:37.639
I wouldn't trust Jesus to guide me down those stairs.

638
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:45.039
Why do you need guiding downstairs? You are stuck up high.

639
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.800
You have seen to probably have two choices, and actually,

640
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.159
I'm gonna guess sitting in the car and waiting wasn't

641
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:54.119
one of them. So you just again, it's not like

642
00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.920
this is some scene out of Indiana Jones where you're

643
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:03.480
traversing some narrow bridge, you know, swing between cliffs. You're

644
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.920
on a sturdy walkway. You're just walking down at a decline.

645
00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:17.400
It's terrifying. I saw one lady actually post. He's like,

646
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:18.559
you couldn't get me off there?

647
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:18.880
She said.

648
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:20.679
The only way you would get me off that roller

649
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:24.239
coaster track would be if you she said, to get

650
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:25.880
me off these tracks, you need to pick me up

651
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.760
with a helicopter, which I thought was really asinine because

652
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.039
I was like, how do you think they're gonna get

653
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:31.639
you on the helicopter from those tracks?

654
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:32.639
That's actually way worse.

655
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.239
Well number one, I mean, so kudos to you. If

656
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:41.880
you're that afraid of heights, you should not be on

657
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:42.559
a roller coaster.

658
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:46.199
Because although this is one of those things that.

659
00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:52.199
If statistically is an anomaly, I would say, you're probably

660
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.639
in less than one percent chance this is gonna happen

661
00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.400
to you, but it is a possibility.

662
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:03.039
This is like the second time this has happened in

663
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.119
two weeks that we.

664
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:11.559
Know of, and but not that other one was not

665
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:13.559
at six Flags over Texas, that was somewhere else.

666
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:14.239
That is true.

667
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.679
Again, how many times those things run a day? If

668
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.440
you average it all out, it's a very low probability.

669
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.000
But you bring up the most solid point of all,

670
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.960
which is I'm a big look I am. The solid

671
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:31.880
point is if you're afraid of heights and you don't

672
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.000
want to do this, then don't ride the roller coaster.

673
00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:39.320
And that's why I'm not because the roller coaster can

674
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:41.559
be scary ish enough as it is, but at least

675
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:43.400
that's over in a couple of minutes. But if that

676
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:47.440
ride gets stuck and I have to walk down, that's

677
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.039
not the ride I paid for. Don't get me wrong.

678
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:57.559
It's a death defying thrill seeking adventure.

679
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:05.679
I mean, if it were if you got stuck on

680
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.920
the very apex of a roller coaster where you know

681
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:12.239
they initially they go at a high angle up and

682
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.360
then the steep angle up and a steep angle down.

683
00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:17.519
I can see where like, if you had to really

684
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.760
get down that steep angle, it would be very scary.

685
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.159
This is not this is a very gentle decline.

686
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:32.559
Three hundred feet in the air in a high high wind.

687
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:34.920
With a high a high railing.

688
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.719
If there was no railing, then I absolutely understand why

689
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:40.960
it would be pet absolutely be petrified.

690
00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:42.119
I would be petrified.

691
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:48.800
Shouldn't there be harnesses for these people for attached to

692
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:51.800
the railing in case they fall, slip, whatever they're.

693
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.840
They're you're worried that, like, okay, a railing high enough

694
00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:59.000
you would have to jump over to get flipped on.

695
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:02.920
I'm just saying you're not.

696
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:05.239
You're not hiking Everest.

697
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.679
No, I'm not.

698
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.199
I'm not hiking Everest, and I'm sure shit not hiking Titan.

699
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:13.639
I mean.

700
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:18.639
How I think you would probably delay things so badly

701
00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:21.800
because then you're counting on people to take their attention

702
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:25.039
off climbing down because you would ultimately have to take

703
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.199
your unclasped from one deal, do it to another, and

704
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.960
do that over and over again like you were mountain climbing.

705
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:35.159
I think that would probably screw things up worse.

706
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.639
It might it very well, it very yeah, it might

707
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:43.400
I'm just thinking that I would be so attached to

708
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:51.199
that railing. I oh god, Oh I might still be

709
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:52.960
up there if I was on this ride.

710
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.920
But you did. Yeah, earlier you brought up an interesting point.

711
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:00.000
What if the ride so here, It's like it would

712
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.119
just kind of going up the incline. It hadn't gone

713
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:05.320
over the apex or anything like you had said. So

714
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:09.079
getting out of the cart and then walking down not

715
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:14.480
a massive thing for most reasonable people. But just imagine

716
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.880
what if the ride got actually got stuck beyond the apex,

717
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:23.119
so like the tail of like the back seat of

718
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.679
the cars is just hanging over the edge of the

719
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:29.880
apex and you're below. I don't think they would allow

720
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:31.239
you to crawl out of it at that point.

721
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:34.639
No, you probably have to sit there. I mean, I

722
00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.119
want to say at some point, I don't even know

723
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.639
if the Shockwave is still there, but Shockwave is the

724
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.440
one that had the loop de loop, and I want

725
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.400
to say, at some point there's somebody got it got

726
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.840
stuck at the apex of the loop. You were now,

727
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:54.440
then you would have every right to be absolutely petrified

728
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.920
because gravity, gravity is you are playing got your nose

729
00:42:58.960 --> 00:42:59.800
with gravity.

730
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.119
Because I believe shockwave with the Loop de Loop.

731
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:04.559
That was the one right next to I thirty in Arlington, right,

732
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:08.440
So just imagine that got stuck. You want to know

733
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:12.559
how you would know driving by on I thirty that

734
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:17.079
I was stuck on that ride, you would hear the

735
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:21.039
screams of a woman, or at least what you thought

736
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.440
was a woman, coming from that coaster, also known as.

737
00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:28.400
The lamentation of the women.

738
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:43.199
Oh God, this story is a special one for you, trades.

739
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:44.159
That's two today for you.

740
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:51.800
Alcohol consumption among US high school seniors has hit historic lows.

741
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:58.360
The percentage of US high school seniors who have ever

742
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:02.440
tried alcohol has dropped her mind over the past fifty years,

743
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:06.840
reflecting one of the largest behavioral shifts in modern American adolescents.

744
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.760
According to the long running Monitoring the Future survey conducted

745
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.039
by the University of Michigan, the figure peaked at ninety

746
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:16.960
three percent in nineteen seventy nine. Ninety three percent of

747
00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:22.239
high school seniors in nineteen seventy nine had consumed alcohol on.

748
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.280
So and on perspective. In nineteen seventy nine, the drinking

749
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:27.960
age was eighteen.

750
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.840
By twenty twenty three, it had fallen to forty six

751
00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:37.800
percent less than half the original court. The decline tracks

752
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.079
of broader pullback across nearly every category of teenage risk behavior.

753
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:46.239
Marijuana use, cigarette smoking, sexual activity, drunk driving, and even

754
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:51.199
unsupervised socializing have all dropped over the same period. Researchers

755
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:55.239
have attributed the trend to a combination of strict stricter

756
00:44:55.360 --> 00:45:00.800
parental supervision, more time spent online and on phones, declining

757
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.800
face to face peer interaction, increased awareness of long term

758
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:06.480
health effects, and the rise of social media as a

759
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:14.360
substitute for traditional teenage gatherings. So alcohol consumption among US

760
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.440
high school seniors has dropped by basically half.

761
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:20.320
In forty years.

762
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:25.280
I mean, I would I would love to see the

763
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.480
statistics on marijuana usage. I know it says it's dropped,

764
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:33.639
but I be willing to bet that, especially if you

765
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:38.440
go from the nineties to now, that marijuana usage amongst

766
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:45.239
teenagers has gone through the roof, or at least trying it. Yeah,

767
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:52.199
but honestly, at this point it might be easier. I mean,

768
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:56.039
they've gotten so much stricter with IDs. I mean, I mean, hell,

769
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.239
when I was a senior in high school, you know,

770
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.599
we went to this crappy flea market and Garland and

771
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.800
got really bad fake IDs, but they generally worked, and

772
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:06.360
if they didn't they got taken, you went and got

773
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:10.960
another one. Yeah, until you you know, unless you found

774
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:14.000
somebody that kind of looked like you. I was a

775
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.079
little bit older, and you could steal their ID if you.

776
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.079
Had an older brother or something. Yeah.

777
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:23.519
Yeah, you're right, because I had a fake ID when

778
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:28.559
I was like eighteen nineteen. It was so bad. First

779
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:31.239
of all, it wasn't even like a driver's license ID.

780
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:35.679
It wasn't even a state issue ID. This was a

781
00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:39.920
really bad Southwest Texas state fake ID that I'm not

782
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:42.519
even sure if it was actually printed off on anything.

783
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.360
It might have just been hand drawn by somebody. Wasn't

784
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:48.519
even laminated. I mean, it's when I think back on

785
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.159
this thing, I'm stunned that I ever even tried to.

786
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:58.559
Use it or that it worked. Sometimes it worked? What Yeah,

787
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:00.599
that's uh.

788
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:02.719
How I remember years ago there was a story there's

789
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.039
an SMU kid that was and this is right when

790
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:12.119
they had started putting like the holographs on IDs, so

791
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:16.400
this is probably late nineties, maybe early two thousands. But

792
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.480
he got he had and and they were paying like

793
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.559
a couple of grand for each I d I mean,

794
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:28.519
he he had an operation going, but you know, now

795
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.639
they change him up all the time and everything else.

796
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:33.400
But I also I think one of the bigger things

797
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.400
is it's like the night before Thanksgiving used to be

798
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:38.079
one of the biggest nights in the or really the

799
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:42.039
biggest night in bar business. And that's because everyone, so

800
00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.800
many people came into town and it was a big

801
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.440
get together. Well now they figured out because of social media,

802
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.480
people know what's going on in everyone's lives, it's not

803
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:56.559
there's no big catchup, and so that that has decreased

804
00:47:56.599 --> 00:47:58.559
the importance of that night dramatically.

805
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:01.880
Yeah, I think I think you're right. Think this is

806
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.960
kind of unexpected on our part as far as far

807
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.400
as as far as part of the reasons why alcohol

808
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:14.360
consumption is down among high school seniors. One because IDs

809
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:18.400
are really hard to fake these days. Uh, and two

810
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:26.920
social media they'd rather you know, they they you know.

811
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:30.000
It's it's like, I hate saying this phrase, but I

812
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:31.079
feel like it applies.

813
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:35.920
Kids today would rather share tiktoks than pictures.

814
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.400
Oh yeah, I mean that's I think.

815
00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:43.519
Then it gets into the secondary thing of they're more

816
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:45.960
used to being online than they are face to face

817
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.840
with people, which unfortunately that'll be a problem down the road.

818
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:50.519
Uh.

819
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:56.239
But and the other thing that when they talk about

820
00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:58.400
things that have really decreased is smoking. Well they've also

821
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:02.039
increased the age, you know, started enforcing the rule that

822
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:03.519
you had to be eighteen to buy cigarettes, and then

823
00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:04.360
now it's twenty one.

824
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:13.599
Yeah, cigarettes effing expensive. I was shocked. I was at

825
00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:15.880
a convenience store and I looked, and it's like eight

826
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.679
dollars a pack.

827
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.079
That is a lot, though, I will say in the

828
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.039
fifteen sixteen whatever, it is years you know, years since

829
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.400
I've you know, bought a pack of cigarettes that's actually

830
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:33.719
not as high as other goods and services in that

831
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:34.840
same period of time.

832
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:40.280
Well, there's always, as with everything, there is a threshold,

833
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.880
which because there's always been the knockoff cheap Yeah, there's

834
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:47.880
knockoff cheap everything, beer, cigarettes, whatever, And at a certain point,

835
00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:50.760
people will go to that cheap, you know, rather than

836
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.079
pay for what they want, actually want.

837
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.519
I did, yeah, back in my smoking days.

838
00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:59.760
I mean I started with camel lights, and then when

839
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.800
those got to a like five dollars a pack, I

840
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:03.000
was just like, all right, let me.

841
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:08.880
Try those darrels. So Now, I'm just wondering how much

842
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:10.880
how much how much is the carton for Durrell lights

843
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:14.960
these days, because when I was buying them, they were

844
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:18.039
like forty something buck like forty to forty two thirty

845
00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:21.320
no eight for the Durreals depending on where you got them,

846
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:22.519
upper thirties, lower forties.

847
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.679
I mean, we weren't drinking Mad Dog and Strawberry Hill

848
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:28.719
because it was premium stuff.

849
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.159
That's true. Okay, So that gets us back to the

850
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:32.840
alcohol story.

851
00:50:33.079 --> 00:50:34.440
This is the part that I that I'm I'm kind

852
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:36.239
of fascinated by that You've got an angle on this,

853
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.880
and I'm curious about so drinking among high school seniors

854
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:44.320
lower than it's been in fifty years. On one hand,

855
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.760
we feel like that gen Z and Jen Alpha is

856
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:51.559
not having some of the same experiences that are valuable,

857
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:55.400
even if some are destructive, the lesson learning type stuff

858
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.400
that previous generations have experienced like Gen X has have.

859
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.119
Do you think they're missing out on something here by

860
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:12.880
not underage drinking or as the almost ten year chip

861
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:16.000
holder from Alcoholics Anonymous, are you thinking like I think

862
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:17.440
it's best at they've not drinking.

863
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:23.239
So I'm always torn by it because, like right now

864
00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:25.480
there's a big deal of oh my god, alcohol sales

865
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:29.800
or they've tanked everything else, which comparatively they have, but

866
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:34.800
people are forgetting alcohol sales went through the roof during COVID,

867
00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:39.480
and so yes, there has.

868
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:41.320
Been and the fact the matter is.

869
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:47.559
The inflationary pressures that were started in twenty two twenty

870
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:51.119
three have not fully subsided. I mean, it's not like

871
00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:55.000
people rose and everyone is still like everyone raised their

872
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.400
prices to get their money back from being closed during COVID,

873
00:51:57.440 --> 00:51:59.119
and then prices haven't come back down.

874
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:01.199
Obviously.

875
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:04.800
I don't think anyone is truly hurting themselves if they're

876
00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:12.840
not drinking. It's there's really there's nothing good.

877
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:16.159
About it, and it is you're basically ingesting a poison.

878
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:19.760
Do I think it's part of your life lessons? Yeah?

879
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:23.119
Probably do. I think there's more going on.

880
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.920
I think I think there's a lot more lying that's

881
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:33.840
happening these days on these polls, because obviously what was

882
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.760
I think the the idea of anonymity has gone by

883
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:41.480
the wayside. I think I don't know if anyone really thinks,

884
00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:44.320
oh yeah, I can say something and be anonymous, can.

885
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.159
You not so much anymore?

886
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:48.039
I mean you can.

887
00:52:48.119 --> 00:52:49.639
You can try to get away with it by having

888
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.159
like a burner account on social media or something like that,

889
00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:55.039
and maybe it can't be traced back to you.

890
00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:57.920
But everything's at the end of the day, everything's traceable.

891
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:01.280
But we had more of a level of anonymity back

892
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:06.840
in the day because if you know, because certain things

893
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:10.000
we did didn't stay with us forever, because the Internet

894
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:11.280
wasn't forever back then.

895
00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:12.280
Oh my god.

896
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:16.360
I mean, if if there were video cameras around when

897
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:19.400
I was in college, I I I would have to

898
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:25.280
live on a remote island and because along with thousands

899
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:28.320
of others, because just of doing stupid stuff.

900
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:32.480
Yeah, if there were smartphones with video technology when you

901
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:34.199
and I were in high school in college, you and

902
00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:35.760
I would not have had the fun we did.

903
00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:40.159
Yeah, But gen Z is interesting in two aspects. Number One,

904
00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:43.199
I was talking to a guy who works at a

905
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:46.920
bar on Henderson Avenue in Dallas, who which is one

906
00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:51.840
of the hottest spots, and he was like, and he's

907
00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:53.679
more our age, and he's like, these kids do not

908
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:56.159
care about quality. They don't care.

909
00:53:56.440 --> 00:54:00.760
All they care about is that it's packed and it's instagrammable.

910
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:06.760
Or then there's the other flip side of that is

911
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:09.920
they're very bougie in their cocktail choices and they like

912
00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:11.920
their espresso martinis and everything else where.

913
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:15.480
We were happy with, you know, whatever boos.

914
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:17.840
If it had alcohol content, we were all over it.

915
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:21.840
We didn't care if it was multi colored, no colored,

916
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:23.920
we didn't care if it was in a trash can

917
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:25.039
or in a fancy bottle.

918
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:27.960
We're like, if it'll me up, I will drink it.

919
00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:31.239
But that now, I will say. I think that is

920
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:37.199
one thing they are less likely to just go I

921
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:46.480
want to get housed. Yet they do. I see they do.

922
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:52.800
It is still possible to throw up on an espresso martini.

923
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:56.039
Oh yeah, hard, But.

924
00:54:56.239 --> 00:55:00.280
Yeah, that's they drink. I mean, how old are and

925
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:01.519
you've first had an old fashion?

926
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.440
I think I was in my mid to late thirties exactly.

927
00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:13.159
I was in my thirties, and they drink stuff like

928
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.440
old fashions, and it's just.

929
00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:18.280
Different times.

930
00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.599
It is interesting how the younger generation is doing certain

931
00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:24.880
things to try to feel older, like not just drinking,

932
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:27.880
Like we wanted to feel older by doing things we

933
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:29.800
weren't supposed to do at a certain age, Like we

934
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:32.480
were drinking, we were smoking. Anything we could do to

935
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:36.480
mimic to feel like we were actually older. Gen Z

936
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.719
and Jenaffa are doing it at a different level. They're

937
00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:42.320
doing the same thing, but they're upping it by going like, well,

938
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:44.880
I'm just having a drink when I'm under age, isn't enough.

939
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:49.320
I need I need, I need a Manhattan, I need

940
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:50.679
something with some bitters in it.

941
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:53.960
I'm sophistical again, and I think a lot of it

942
00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:57.599
goes back to I want to look cool on social

943
00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:03.360
media because this is one of the things I will

944
00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:06.920
always maintain. And in my ten years of sobriety and

945
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:10.800
and looking back, alcohol tastes like ship.

946
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:18.800
I mean, it's not no no cap.

947
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:25.360
We that's I mean, bars still are still in existence

948
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:28.000
because they make the poison taste good, but it still tastes.

949
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:35.159
I also did see that gen Z is getting into

950
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:38.800
ky sacking, and to me, swear to God, and to me,

951
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:40.920
that's only seems like an idea you come up with

952
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:41.760
when you are drunk.

953
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:46.679
Oh, I know that wasn't even cool.

954
00:56:54.119 --> 00:57:00.559
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