Mother Of The Year? | Wednesday 03.04.26

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0:46 Thank you. All right, So, uh, we all don't know each other that well. We've been getting there, we've been working on it. So I don't know if you've ever been around Rebecca when Trey has shared with us his deep, deep insights on not just politics, but Louisiana politics. And what I mean by that is that, Trey, what is your impression or opinion of Louisiana politics on the whole. Louisiana and Chicago are the two dirtiest politics there are and it's corrupt, dirty, filthy. Yeah, well, this news story is going to reinforce that opinion and perhaps take it to a whole new level.

1:36 The disgraced former mayor of a Louisiana town I was caught by her son screwing his drunk friend at a booze fueled party. Who she a hot mom. According to a new report of this story that has been captivating me so far this week is that the disgraced mayor's son screamed at her after the drunken romp with his buddy, saying, you fed my best friend. According to additional reports, Jill Weaver, the best friend and former sister in law of ex d Ridder mayor Misty Roberts, told jurors she overheard the tense exchange between Roberts and her son after she was asked to come to the boozy party around eight pm on July twentieth, twenty twenty four.

2:33 He was saying Roberts f't his best friend. Weaver called the Beauregard Parish county God, I love the parish names in Louisiana. The Beauregard trial of the fight between the mom and HER's son, Roberts, was the most drunk she'd ever seen her, according to the TV outlet the former mayor's best He left the party around eleven o'clock and was asked to return by her own son around two am after Roberts accused him of taking a video of her allegedly sexually assaulting a drunk tea at a part. That got dramatically worse. Really did mean, I. Don't know which direction to follow right now. Welcome to Louisiana. It's nuts.

3:14 Then the teenagers showed their phones to the two adults to prove they didn't have videos of the incident. Weaver would eventually text her own son to lie till you die about the chaotic night, and admitted she spoke to Roberts about how to keep the kids from apporting the alleged assault that they witnessed two authorities. Man, this just gets nuttier and nuttier. A jerry saw an interview of the Sun, telling investigators he saw his mom. He saw his mom hooking up with his pal through a crack in the window. The small town mayor's daughter also testified she saw Roberts and the sixteen year olds on top of each other. Roberts resigned as the mayor of d Ritter, a town of ninety eight hundred, days before her twenty twenty four arrest. She faces two charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and in decent behavior with a juvenile.

4:02 She's played it not guilty, although if you read the headlines from the New York Post, it ain't looking good. Doesn't sound good either. Look, I know this is this is trite to say it, but I feel like it bears repeating. Is this happening more nowadays? Or are we just hearing about it more because of the rise of the internet and social media, Because I can only recall one alleged situation in high school where there may or may not have been some dalliance or dalliances with a teacher in students. But now it seems almost kind of like a like a pandemic or a new epandemic.

4:48 I think it's always been going on, Yeah, you think so, It just it seems worse. It just seems worse. I think it's like what you said, we keep hearing about it gets in the news daily now because we have twenty four to seven access to the internet and news cycles. And all that kind of stuff, is it? Maybe? And this is this is a this is a quick theory off the top of my head, just hearing you speak on it, Rebecca. Is it possible that when we were younger and this sort of stuff was going on, we just kept quiet about it because we thought it was cool. Yeah, and then as times have evolved, we've now learned that actually, not necessarily cool, kind of criminal and we should probably shine a light on it.

5:31 Not even kind of criminal. It is criminals. Six year old it is. But remind me to have Trey tell you about the time he lost his virginity sometime. I don't know if I want to know that story. You may not. I think that should be a story for another day, another day. Yeah, well, we'll break into that at another time. What easy end, No, it's I. It's been going on for ages now. I I will say this, I think, but when we were growing up, I think it was far more male teachers female students. Yep, right, And I think you now see and this is generally where it goes sideways, is because now a lot of times it's female teachers male students, and the male students can't keep their fucking mouth shut.

6:27 The bragging to think if I. The only one that thinks the whole idea of getting with a sixteen year old is insane, Like, what do they have to talk about? What is the common interest there? It's a sixteen year old idiot kid, there's nothing. I think the common interest. See, the common interest is staring at you right in the right in the face, repack. It is not about conversation, it's not about connecting over shared interests. It's about one thing and one thing only. Even that one thing is very, very gross to me. And I assume that means my brain is on the appropriate. Track of life. I would agree with that. On the railroad of life, you're on the right side of the tracks. It's woo woo woo. There you go. But I think I think Trey hit it. I think, and this is why I said kind of criminal because as a sixteen year old guy, the idea of hooking up with let's say, what you think to be is your hot twenty four year old teacher doesn't sound like a bad thing. It doesn't feel criminal if you're doing it.

7:38 No, this is you're literally you are literally spelling out the difference between girl brain and boy brain. Right now. Yeah, And I'm like, and this is kind of this weird, sort of stereotypical, like it's cool for the dudes to have sex, not cool for the chicks to have sex, type whatever. Right, a little bit, But here's the thing. If and I think, Rebecca, I think you're onto something and that there is a difference male teachers female students, it's always oh, the young, hot. Chic. Female teachers. I think it's the same demographic that you would see in the office place or anything else. Usually I would say mid thirties, probably mid thirties up, probably dysfunctional home life, not getting attention. And whereas if you were in a normal office space they might have an attraction and an affair with a co worker. They kind of are having an attraction affair with a co worker.

8:38 The problem is that coworkers underage. Yeah, so my thinking on this has shifted just a little bit in the last couple of minutes to this, Yes, there are predatory behaviors at play in some of these instances. However, in some of these instances, especially when it's you know, the female teacher and the male student who might be fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old, I think there can be a little bit of this train goes both ways. That was a bad time for upon my apologies, but I still feel it's accurate, and I want to throw this little wrinkle on top of it. If at sixteen years old I murdered somebody, i'd probably depending on the circumstances, get charged with murder. I'd be charged as an adult. But nowadays I might still be charged as an adult if I kill somebody as a sixteen year old. But if I have sex with my teacher, I'm treated like a minor and like, oh, you don't know what you were doing.

9:48 You know this happened, and this happened, even if let's just say I was like, God, no, I wanted this. Believe me, I wanted. I got the text and we were going back and forth and stuff. So basically, when I'm getting out in a very long witded way, is like, if its sixteen year old can be held liable as an adult in court for murder, why not accept responsibility for two way relationship. Because of the age difference, Because you're automatically still at sixteen, you have not formed, you have not completely developed, and you have someone who has who's engaging in what you know is an inappropriate relationship. But here's the thing I mean, and this is just, especially when you're talking about high school boys. You just want someone to play with it.

10:36 And if it's a teacher who will do it, yes, so be it. Hold on not to man explaining Rebecca. But he's not wrong about that. I'm not saying that he is. I want to go back to what Dan was talking about, and I don't disagree with your thought process on what you're saying. However, I think even. If the sixteen year old shows up in court and like, yes, I wanted this so bad, like I was fully participatory in it, I don't think that negates the wrong us on the teacher's end. Does that make sense? I think the teacher should still stand trial, still go to jail, still serve time, do punishment. I think that's fair. I think that is fair because they know the relationship is wrong. One from me, they do authority, one from a I think there's two problems at play from a legal standpoint. One is from an authority figure being a teacher and a student relationship, and the other is the age of consent and the age separation difference.

11:25 And then you know if this truly is love between the teacher and the sixteen year old, you're gonna marry Kay Laturnot and you're gonna go and serve your time in jail and then come back and get married to your high school sweetheart. When you're good and hard up. Use visit is online threehouse on air dot com. Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration into the treehouse eight three three. Cook DFW's the phone number.

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14:16 Yeah, aren't they trying to make Jessica the new name for Karen's. Yeah, there was so gen Z for some reason. Oh you know what I know the reason. Gen Z feels like renaming everything in the world that already exists and trying to make it quote unquote their discovery. Right now they're doing it with Karen. Ah. Okay, Karen is the you know, the viral label of let me see your manager, middle aged woman with the Karen haircut kind of thing, and now gen Z is redubbing it as Jessica, saying Jessica is the new Karen. As of early twenty twenty six, I only.

14:59 Know cool Jessa, so I'm confused by why that name. I don't think I know a Jessica currently. I know too, and they're both delightful. I've known a couple of good Karens, like actually named Karens. Yeah, yeah, so it's kind of unfair because you know, some of the Karens I've known have actually similar, you know, actually really really nice ladies. I don't right, but yeah, Jessica is used to describe entitled, often younger women who post long rants about minor inconveniences and insist on being right. Oh no, this might actually be a little bit of you, Rebecca.

15:39 The right part is that what gave it away? What well? Karen targeted middle aged women. Jessica specifically targets millennials born in the eighties, a peak era for the name. I mean, yes, I will agree it was a peak era for the name. But the more you talk, the more I'm like, Okay, maybe Rebecca should be the new Karen. Rebecca. You know, I'll be honest with you. I'm a little biased when it comes to that because that's my mother's name. Okay, that's that wasn't a good thing. So like when people say, oh, someone's ow's a Karen, I usually think better than a Rebecca.

16:23 Is. Yeah, I mean my mom was kind of mean. Sometimes. I love my mom, but she knows, she knows she's tough. H You're a little different because you're Rebecca with a K. That kind of puts you in a different way. I like to think I'm special because of that. Uh tray Portray trying to talk over here. Who in the does gen Z think they are complaining about young women, ranting about the most minor of inconveniences. Have some prospection and look at yourself. Good Lord.

17:07 Again, they're just trying to steal everything that we created and pass it off as their own. They're not original in any way, shape or form. Like, we already did all of this, all the things that they are trying to bring back in style, we already did it. Yeah, you can, you can relabel it all you want. We know what it is. We know, we know the mid drift thing happened before you did it. We know the Jinkos were around before you did it. I just saw an ad the other day for god damn Jean shorts. If those come back from gym Z, you deserve all that smoke that you're gonna get. Oh, they brought back the mullet. They deserve it all. But there's there's a name for this that's been universal and timeless.

17:48 That's true. How dare you use that word? Do you understand? How do you not understand how completely powerful that is that body part is? Sir? Oh No, he does, he absolutely does, And. How delightful that body part is. You're lucky that we grace you with its presence sometimes. So don't you ever come at me with that word or anybody else for that matter. Oh, Rebecca, I got bad news. My favorite word Trey. Trey should have been born in Australia. Yeah, he was born. He was technically born in the wrong country or England. They love that word as well because like you put a y on it, which.

18:31 Is it's a word that can mean so much. It is so it is so useful. It turns on in more ways than what clear look at. He can't even talk. He likes this word. So it is. It's it because not only not only can you just it's like lighting a stick of dynamite and just dropping it and just scorching the earth. But it can be it can be playful, it can be you know, it can be insulting, but not into First of all, the biggest problem with the word is that it's been focused on women, where it's really it's a universal word. It's not just women. It's men can equally be stupid.

19:18 That's right, we can all be agreed. Yep, Trey, I need your be pier a second, so I just follow my fingers. I don't have my stuff with me here, so uh man, woman, something in between or something else altogether. Can all be dicks? Same thing can be said. All these people where all people, we can also all be so anyway, gen Z has dubbed Jessica the new Karen. Also, don't want to leave this out in case you get hit with a Brittany. The Jessica archetype is associated with I already mentioned that. Hang on. Some discussion suggests Britney could also fit, though Jessica has gained more traction as the primary successor. I think Britney would be more like crazy because of Britney spears antics.

20:03 So anyway, by the way, the name, in case you missed it, the name of the Louisiana former Louisiana mayor who has caught with her sixteen year old best friend. Her name is Jill, so doesn't fall into any of those. But that's a that's a whole. Other that's a whole other category. Thank you. That's where I was thinking, a different category, allgey. I think, yeah, like that's that's another topic for another day on where we're putting sex offenders versus Karen's. All right, Trey, can I borrow your beat again? Here? All right? Thank you? Okay, so speak speaking of Dix and did you see the anchor clash out of NBC Texoma this week in.

20:48 In our forecast. But something that is in the not so. Distant future that we can forecast is Midland. We don't have any rating forecast in the next few. Days, but in the next two guys, we have mid the radio. I just said a second ago, we have rained the fotunes right. Well, the day of the event. I have I'm not talking, I'm talking. Actually the range is coming forward. Kind of correct people, and just your job. I just don't know why you don't listen to me anyways, Okay, anyways radio days. I mean in her defense, for one second, he does look like a real.

21:32 Tray your favorite word. Oh, they both look like complete. I need your beat beginning tray. This is what happens when collide. Yeah, in Texo, God bless their like program director who is like, let's put these two a holes and put them against each other every single day. I think it's brilliant on the news part. Yes, but those two together, watch the sparks fly and watch the ratings fly. Also props to the sound guy for not muting their mics at some point. That's a sound guy that is seasoned. He's not he's not protecting anybody. He has one job and he's going to do it well. Audio good, sound, good, on done.

22:24 If you are, you know, stuck in Texoma TV, you're you're looking for any angle to get out of there, because chances are you're stuck in like Sherman Dennison love the area. But you know, if you're, if you're if you're a TV person, that's not yo, You're you're you're trying to get out of there. That's yeah, that's what they that's what that's what's called a springboard market. It's a smaller market near a major market. You go to that market so then you can springboard hopefully into the large market nearby. And there was there was an anchor, a Dallas anchor that had to basically like go down to the miners there because he had done something. And I can't remember who it was.

23:08 I believe it was Scott Chusner from NBC Meteorologists, almost positive Scott Sam's I don't even know. Sometimes they just like contract his future something. And then he went and he was doing weather in Texama. He just did it there for a while. I don't remember if what sort of dispute there was. I don't think there was necessarily any controversy. But that's just one guy. I remember, like who went quote unquote backwards by going from Dallas to Sherman Dennison as opposed to what's typically the opposite, and it's going up. Oh, what an ego blowed. I have to go backward if you're in Dallas and then you have to go to like Sherman. Ooh, it's an ego blow. But you know what got you gotta pay the bills as a as as a meteorologist.

23:55 You only got so many options. That's so true. I do hope, though weirdly, that their little viral clip here has skyrocketed. One of them into a new position. Not yet, I mean I said, I hope, yeah, yeah, Look, the week's not over. It still could happen. Or was anybody even watching it? Like nobody actually saw it maybe. Maybe not on TV, but everybody's been watching it online. I mean, I just played for he was out of the Houston Chronicle. Oh wow, okay, so then okay, it's on its way up. I mean, honestly, if you're a news director, you don't want to import pain in the ass because you know they're going to turn into a pain in the ass once they reach a major market.

24:37 Oh for sure, that's true, and looks sometimes you're just going to be paired with people that you don't get along with, and in this case, you got two people who clearly don't listen to one another. Well, I mean, that's exactly what happened. That was like, I mean, and obviously these are major market figures. But remember it was John McKay and Dale Hansen who got into it one day. That was good. John McKay blew the lead right on. I don't was it Cowboys or Super Bowl? I can't even remember, or Rangers or something, but yeah, yeah, then and I can't pull it up right now off the fly, but it was McKay says that as if doing the teas and then and then Dale Hansen's left hanging just like, well, why don't you do this story?

25:22 John? Yeah? I mean, and Dale Hansen was a six six hunt. You're in the Treehouse. Visit us online a Treehouse on Air dot com. Want more Treehouse? Check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on Air.

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27:00 You should look it up. It made me laugh. I had to watch it like three times, so enjoy. If you look it up anyway. I guess I'll catch y'all later. Thank you Jac. On our Treehouse talk back line. If you would like to leave us a message, you can do that Treehouse on air dot com. Click on the microphone on the lower right hand corner and leave us a message and we'll get it here inside the tree house and may even share it on the show. I found the clip. Yaying like, no, you were way off, all right.

27:40 What is his name? It means loop. There's a lion. Oh my god. The guy's scream laughing is god for the comedian and his co host on the show going you you cannot be serious with this. All right? What does it mean? It means loop, there's a lion. Oh my god, joking, not what that means. That is not what that means. That's exactly what it means. Look, there's a lion. Oh my god, there's a lion.

28:21 Oh my god, a lion. I wasn't prepared for this in today's show. And the thing that always, the thing that always gets me with these clips, whether it's on another podcast like this or especially like in TV studios like we were doing with the anchor clash before, is when you hear the floor personnel laughing off camera and oh my god, I love that. Oh god. This is like. I saw this clip and I laughed by myself. I was laying in bed scrolling and came across this clip, watched and was dying laughing alone, which is, you know, it's funny. If you're laughing alone. Yeah, this is why gets me in trouble when my wife rolls over to go to sleep and I'm still scrolling and I come across this and start shaking the bed because I'm trying to hold the laughter in but I got really big lungs and it's impossible. And yeah, so this this rating joking what that means.

29:16 That is not what that means. That's exactly what it means. Look, there's a lion. Oh my god, there's a lion. Oh my god. The second there's a lion. I don't know why. The second one is so much funnier. And I'm like, here, we've been watching this movie for a million years and thought that this was some prolific song, right, bringing the worlds together, And all it is is, hey, look there's a lion. Yeah, and it's so so stupid. All we had to do was watch the close captioning of the film, and I'm assuming it says it there in the lyrics and it's trans I don't know, because I've never watched The Lion King. Uh, you know it. I've never watched I've seen the movie plenty, I've never watched The Lion King.

30:13 With the close captions on or the subtitles, so I don't know if it actually translates that language into the English so we can see it's a lion. Because if I had, I've been like, wait a minute, really that seems kind of wheat. Didn't that song win like oscars? Yeah? I think the soundtrack did the movie one oscars uh? And I think I'm with you, Rebecca as far as the uh the second there's a it is a lion. It's like you get you get the initial holding up of Simba like it's a lion, Oh my god, and then the crowd repeats it that says, yes, it is a lion. It's the confirmation of the crowd that seems so stupid, as if to be like, yes, yes, it is a lion.

30:58 Yeah you're obviously. I don't think there was any question about it, but sure, okay, yeah. Oh my god, there's a liar. God those whole time was like this beautiful, majestic. Oh god, I need more of Godfrey's laugh in my life. That is right, infectious.

31:40 I love it, And I wonder if they ever really they did are they just were like, hey, we need you to come up with some you know African tribal you know, song chant, you know, to the beginning of the movie. And they listened to it like, oh my god, that sounds great, and they never even asked. The probably why would you ask? Yeah, I think you're right. I think maybe what they did was this might be a case where and I've never written a song, so I have no idea what the process is, Like, I don't know if it's standard to write the melody first, then do lyrics, or if you do lyrics and then do a melody to go with it. In this case, this feels like they have the melody nailed, like I've got it, I've got the notes.

32:22 This is going to be huge and powerful and majestic like this said they're in the clip. And then they went to the lyricists and said, Okay, we need something that fits with this many beats and this many notes. What do you got, Uh, there's a lion. We'll take it. It's just another language. The white people won't know, the Americans won't know. Totally cool, we'll go with it. And it worked. What do we even know what language? It is? Some kind of African? Right? Yeah? Do the Africans make fun of this? Do people in Africa watch this movie and be like, that is the worst song on the planet. They should, right, they need it, Like there's a lie.

33:06 Like if I if I was in the theater and I was them and it's yeah my language, and I hear it, like there's a lot that didn't need to be said. We can see it, Like I would have absolutely thought differently about the entire film if I had heard it that way. Right, because that's the first song in the movie. It sets the tone for the entire thing. You literally think. It's this, it's gonna be this beautiful, amazing whatever from here on out, and the movie's great. And now the movie is kind of ruined. It's kind of dumb because it's like you're expecting it to hold Simba up and be saying something like this is our salvation, yeah, and instead it's a lion. It's like, I know that it's called lion King. There's no secret here.

33:49 Well, especially the beginning, it's it's the other animals gathering, and you know it makes sense that they'd be going, look, there's a lion. Oh my god. Yeah, that's the last thing they're going to see. Yeah, it should be there's. A lion right. Around celebrating this. Let's get the fuck out of. Here, whole different movie. It changes the whole town. It really does. I mean you really think about it. All these other animals kind of deserve to be eaten because they're like, yay, more carnivores, right, circle of life. We're so lucky. Oh, it's just a dinner party. He invited them to the feast.

34:33 Yeah, it makes it doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you look at it that way. So I guess the lesson here is don't ever don't ever watch with the close captions on. It'll just ruin stuff, or just change the movie titled to Holy shit, it's a lion one more time? Yeah, singing like no, yeah, you were way off. Sounds good, doesn't it amazing? It's beautiful? What does it mean? It means, Look there's a lion.

35:16 Oh my god, what that means. That is not what that means. That's exactly what it means. Look there's a lion. Oh my god. Look there's a liar. Oh my god, it's a lion. Just in case you're sure the first time he said it's a lion, repeat, we. Gotta follow it up. With me. Yep, it sure is. It's a lion, everybody clear Lion verse. Two, still a lion. Look that guy has a gun.

35:59 Oh my god, it's a gun. Why is that so freaking funny? And I just love the other guy who's in complete and utter shock that this song is only it's a lion's. He's all of us being brought ironically into the light. For all things Treehouse. Look it's a treehouse. Oh my god, that's usually my thought for all things treehouse. Treehouse on Air dot com. You can also give us a follow on social media at Treehouse on Air. For me, it's at the Daniel Maley Portray it's at Tree Turnholme one.

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