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It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh with
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us inside the tree bus. I'm Daniel Mallley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and our very own Jerry Caldwell. On Monday,
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January thirteenth, twenty twenty five. Look, I realized there are
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a lot of really bad things going on right now.
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You know, the winter storm just hit a good chunk
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of the United States. Wildfires are going crazy in southern California.
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But that's not all.
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There's something else we have to be worried about. There's
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a Cereal butt slapper in Denver. You know, just when
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you think things can't get any worse, Cereal butt slapper
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in Denver. Police are asking the public to help identify him.
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A woman in the Denver suburb of Lakewood I've been there,
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was out jogging on New Year's Day when he drove
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up behind her on an e bike and slapped her butt.
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I don't know why. That seems to make it worse.
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The fact that he's on an electrical bike kind of
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a thing.
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That just seems to make it worse. The whole thing's bad.
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If he's caught, he's going to face charges that may
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include sexual assault, rightfully so, but still it's a funny headline.
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Horrible thing, funny headline, but somehow it makes it more
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insulting that he's on an electrical bike as supposed like
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like if it's a Harley, Okay, that makes sense.
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So give us your your vehicles that you would you
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would deem it acceptable.
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Oh it's all vehicles are unacceptable. There are just some
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that make it worse.
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Which which ones to make it better?
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Like like a bicycle or Harley a skateboard?
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Uh no, no, I no, I wouldn't think getting your
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ass slab by somebody riding by on a skateboard would be.
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Again, they're all bad.
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Whatever mode of transportation someone uses to do a drive
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by butt slap, they're all bad. I do think there
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are degrees. There are varying degrees of worse, and I
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do think getting drive by butt slap by someone on
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an e bike is worse than if it happened from someone,
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say on a hog on a on a Harley Davidson.
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I don't know why. I don't know why. If I'm
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going to be slapped on the butt by by a
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passer by, I'd rather it be someone driving a manly
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Harley Davidson than a than a hippie e bike. But
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I've really kind of dug myself into a hole and
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backed myself into a corner here, and it's written all
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over Trey's face how happy he is about that. I
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don't know what to do about it, but I still.
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Feel that way despite my embarrassment, and I'm gonna, you
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know what, I'm just gonna lean into it. Skateboard I
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would not be happy with if someone was on roller
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skates and rolled by and on the butt. I'm I'm
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not sure where I fall on that one. If that
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would be more complimentary or more a salty.
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I would think something that was capable of going faster
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would be more salty. You know, if you're on an
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e biker going buying his smack, you know, or skates,
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skateboard whatever, you're on a Harley, Yeah, I think everybode
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that cooler.
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It's like, you know, it's.
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Like if you're gonna get if you're gonna get slapped
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on the butt by somebody, It's like, would you rather
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be by a Hell's Angel or by a thong wearing
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neon clad individual in Malibu?
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So? Is this is this some role playing deal? Like
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where you know Tara dresses in leather before she pegs you.
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Oh my god, get off the pegging. It never happened.
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That's your job.
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I've known you for twenty years and this is how
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you're all right.
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Put yourself in the shoes of a jogger, okay, and
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you're jogging and you're minding your own business. You're exercising,
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maybe listening to the treehouse while you run around town
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and get your exercise in, get your steps in, and
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then out of nowhere someone comes along on a vehicle
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of some sort and smacks you on the ass. It's bad, right,
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it's bad. But uh, would it somehow make it less
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bad on a certain vehicle for you?
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No? Uhhems. This seems to be you're you're you're laying
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No no, no, no, no no.
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There's no backing out of an answer to my question.
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You have to answer it.
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It's all bad, Dan, Jerry, what about you?
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You don't.
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I'm still stuck on the thing with the inertia. If
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it's a vehicle that's going faster, more powerful, and you
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get smacked somebody on a Harley going forty as opposed
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to somebody riding by on a bike and say fifteen
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miles an hour on skates. I would definitely say that
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that Harley would be worse.
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But it's all bad Dan.
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Dan, our assless chaps involved in this scenario with you.
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No, this is this is purely a hypothetically. Quit dressing
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me up.
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Sorry, Tray, I've done it a thousand times.
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Dressed Anne up.
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Yeah, I used to sit behind him all the time.
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You never dressed me. Stop Stop making things.
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Up with what went on in the office after I left.
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A lot of things, Dray, most of which I can't
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talk about.
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the major social media platforms. That's at Treehouse on Air,
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and that includes TikTok while it's still around.
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Not sure how much longer that will actually last, but
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we'll see. We're watching it.
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We're keeping an eye on it, not from a journalistic
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standpoint but mainly from a self promotional point of view.
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So we'll let you know, but yes, I am Dan
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along with Trey Jerry back inside the treehouse. Now real
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quick on the TikTok thing tray, since you're a TikTok expert.
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Last thing I saw was that TikTok announced that they're
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planning on ceasing operations in the United States. On January nineteenth,
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the Supreme Court was supposed to hear something, but not
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sure if it was ever if it was actually going
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to do that or kick it back and say now
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we're not going to I know one of the guys
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from Shark Tank said he was.
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In talks to try to buy it with somebody else.
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So Supreme Court did hear arguments on Friday, and Kevin
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O'Leary Kevin o leary's actually been talking about buying TikTok
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for a while, but he says he's got capital together
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and so no one knows if TikTok is then you know,
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this is a negotiating deal of him saying, fine, we're
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gonna shut it or what's gonna happen. I'm I can't
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imagine they're gonna just shut it down when but I
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can't imagine they're going to really let this go through.
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I'm with you, there seems to be too much money
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involved for it to just go away entirely.
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But then we have our twa Attorney General of Texas,
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Ken Paxton, who also filed suit again TikTok on Friday
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for exposing minors to pornographic or I forgot what the
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word is of, you know content dude has that does it? No?
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Nothing pornographic, There's always innuendo. Actually, TikTok uh is actually
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stricter on that than probably Instagram.
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But Ken Paxton sure does love to sue.
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I think he's been one of the most active attorneys
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general I've ever heard of.
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Yeah, on both on as a as a plaintiff and
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a defendant.
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Really he really is. He really is the whole package,
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isn't it.
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Yeah, that's right. Is a legal jar nut.
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Like a juggernut.
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But yeah, so yeah, So I think that the deadline
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on that is the nineteenth, and I'm curious to see
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what happens there. But I did mention at the beginning
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to show all the bad things that are happening right now.
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The devastating wildfires have that have hit Los Angeles and
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other parts of southern California, I've been watching this stuff,
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you know, for the last close to a week now,
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and I saw that this could end up being the
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costliest natural disaster in United States history. Economic losses stemming
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from the fires in southern California could be fifty billion dollars.
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Insured losses from the event could exceed twenty billion dollars.
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I mean, it's it's it's massive, it's awful, it's terrible, and.
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But we're right now at a point in time though
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pretty much ever disaster is the costliest one, just as
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real estate and cost of goods keep going up, then
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it makes everything the costliest. But the wildfire in California
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is just devastating, I mean it.
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And one of the reasons that it is is partly
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because of the value of everything in that area. So
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I don't want it to get lost on people that
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A lot of the attention of the La wildfire is
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on Hollywood, the celebrities homes and things like that. James
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Woods lost his home, Mel Gibson has lost his home,
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a number of others. Steve Gutenberg is on TV trying
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to tell people to help to leave their keys in
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the car so they can move them for the fire fighters.
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Responding to fires. But there's also quote unquote regular people
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that are affected by this. This is not all Hollywood stuff.
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There are people in apartment homes and all these other
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things that are also getting demolished, devastated and reduced to
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literal ashes, and their lives are destroyed. So keep that
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in mind whenever you're looking at the fires. Don't get,
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you know, focused on one little aspect of it.
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That's a huge story.
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But part of the other thing that I've noticed about
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this is when you have a massive story like this
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on location, it's happening in an area, that means everyone's
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going to descend upon this area, and that includes TV people,
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the TV reporters, the anchors, especially when the anchor people
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leave their leave their anchor desk and now they're going
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to go on scene and embed themselves with the firefighters.
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And this is not a new thing. This has happened
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for decades. I remember watching the Gulf War and Dan
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Rather and Tom Brokaw pulling out what looked to be
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their fly fishing vests to go report on the war
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in Iraq. Well, I guess because they wanted to blend
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in with the hotel wall they were reporting from.
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Well, never forget the first Gulf War. Is what puts
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CNN on the map is Peter Rneck and Wolf Blitzer
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and I can't remember who the third person was, but
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it was their reporting from Baghdad like live as the
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bombs were starting to fall that all of a sudden
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CNN because then see all the networks are carrying CNN.
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That's really what I mean. It had been around for
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about ten years, but that's what launched CNN as a
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major news network.
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And it's fascinating to me to see all the news
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personalities that will descend upon an area of massive news proportions.
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And then they and then they had to dress the part.
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So you've because I remember like Dan Rather wearing like
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army fatigues at reporting from Vietnam, the fishing jackets because
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they were tan colored or sand colored from the Gulf War.
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And now because of the fires in Los Angeles, you
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have all these TV journalists dressing like firefighters, one of
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which is David Meir from ABC News. David Meir from
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ABC News, he does is it the nightly news on
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what's the late ABC?
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Whatever? He does World News tonight, World News Tonight. That's
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he is their chief News course, chief news guy.
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He is their main dude when it comes to reporting
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news on ABC and so much so that you got
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to make sure when you're there on location, you got
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to look the part, right, So David Mihir made sure
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to go to ABC News wardrobe and make sure he
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was able to acquire.
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His own firefighting fit. And this is silly for two reasons.
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One because he kind of looks like this is an
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absolute fire fighter's jacket that he is wearing on TV,
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and he's not anywhere near a fire most of the time.
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He's just got to look the part.
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So he's basically got to he's got a cosplay wildfire
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fighter on TV. That's how serious and important it is
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when you relay the information to people at home. But
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the thing is is those fire jackets are not very
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form fitting. They're kind of baggy, right, So David Muir
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on ABC News when he turns to show devastation behind
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him on TV doing a live report, the clothes pins
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on the back of his jacket were exposed. Because look,
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just because you're reporting on death and devastation in southern
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California with the wildfires, doesn't mean you can't still have
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that sexy v shape when you're on TV.
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Wow.
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And if you've ever seen David Muir, you you could