Dec. 31, 2025

Our Favorite Things Part 2 | December 31, 2025

Our Favorite Things Part 2 | December 31, 2025
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Today's show includes some of Dan's favorite bits and segments from 2025: Whack-a-Pope, The Texas Ball Peen Hammer, and Roman Globetrotters. Listen and laugh, and we'll see you next year inside the Treehouse!

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Hi, it's Daniel Mallee. We'll see you next week for

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all new shows in an all new year. In the meantime,

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these are a few of my favorite things from the

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Treehouse Show in twenty twenty five. It is time you'll

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leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse.

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I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.

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Today is Thursday, April twenty fourth, two thousand, twenty five. Trey,

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If you don't mind, I'd like to quote you from

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earlier this week, just when you thought it was going

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to be a boring week, the.

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Pope dies, you can get a conclave.

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Am gonna skirt it up? Yeah, just when you think

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it's going to be a boring week, we get a conclave. Well,

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I forgot that. There's you know, there's the eventual conclave,

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which is uh, it's all the cardinals of the Catholic

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Church all come together into one room. They get locked

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inside of it and they have to decide on who

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the new Pope is going to be. But before and

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then we all start watching Chimney smoke like crazy. But

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before all that happens, I forgot about all the other

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traditions that take place. Where where did it go here?

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It is? Yeah, there's.

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There's a lot of ancient traditions that really seemed to

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be redundant at this point because of modern technology, but they.

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Still do them. For example, with the death of Pope Francis,

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we're learning about the selection of a new pope, but

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there are also some very interesting things they do with

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the dead pope. Historic rites and rituals are performed after

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the death of a pope, including three blows to the

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head with a silver hammer. Well they say it's supposed

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to be three gentle taps on the forehead, but the

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silver hammer part is accurate. And I know what you're thinking.

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Are they checking to see if anyone's home?

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Is this some.

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Really weird Catholic version of a werewolf test? It's actually

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the former. They're making sure he's dead. Look, I like traditions,

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you know, I like routine, but I think that's one

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that you know, like, like you said, Trey, technology exists

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that you can find out if there's anyone still at

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home inside the pope. You don't need to use the

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silver hammer method, although it is very entertaining.

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Well it also it also the other interesting thing about

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it is when they're doing that, they use his first

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name now, so he's been going by Pope Francis for

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it since eleven years.

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So now they go pack or right in there, Frank, Frank,

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you in there, Frank?

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What if you're a what if you're a really heavy

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sleeper and the three taps don't work?

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Well, that's when you you know, the strength test at

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the arcade or or at the state fair with the

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really big hammer. Frank in there? Hey, look, high score,

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I get a free turkey leg.

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Frank.

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Wake up, there's a making lady in here.

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But what if he did?

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He's like, how long have how long have I been out?

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What I miss?

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No? You're right, yeah, they actually uh, they tap him

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on the head. Certain rights and rituals follow the death

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of a pope, including tapping his forehead with a silver hammer.

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It is the carme lingo's duty to perform the right,

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administering three gentle taps on the pope's forehead and calling

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him by his first name. It's the traditional way of

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making sure a pope has died. Thanks, thank you, thank

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you Catholicism for keeping certain traditions alive. Did they air

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that by the way have they done that test or

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is that the last thing they do before they take

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it out of lying in the state.

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pontiff dies in his quarters and so it's it's all

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done while he's in his bed.

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And behind closed doors. Like closed doors. I want to

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watch that, the breaking of the seal, the.

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I want to see the tapping of the pope. Carry

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that live on cable news.

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They got a crush his ring, the ring that he

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the papal ring that he They.

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Have to break it, of course, you just have to

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break it then melted down to a new one.

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But this pope.

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Typically those are gold rings. This one shows sterling silver,

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which a may prove harder to break.

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But uh, which also served as another test that he

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was in fact not a werewolf.

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Yes, but all these all these things happened for a reason,

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Like the tapping of the head. That had to happen

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for a reason, like they thought someone was dead.

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There was one time some dude woke up. They're like, okay, yeah, yeah,

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you got to start tapping these guys.

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You know.

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They're like they're putting the holy water on him and

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it gets splashed in the fen and it's like, hey,

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what's going on?

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We thought you were dead?

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Oh, isn't that the old uh? The old grave uh?

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Like the old grave worker type thing and where a

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body gets buried and then they tie a string or

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something somewhere in the hole and then there's a bell

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that sits on top of the grave for just in

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case they wake up after being buried and be like

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little hell please.

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Yeah. And there have been instances, I believe there was

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like one or two where the bell rung and then

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had to get this person out of the ground.

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Another ritual sees the destruction of a papal symbol known

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as the annulus piscatoris or episcatory ring. I feel like

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they should have renamed that, but whatever. The ring represents

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the first Pope, Saint Peter, who was a fisherman. Usually,

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the remnants of the destroyed ring are used to make

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a new one for a late pope's successor. This is

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just lord of the ring stuff.

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Now that's as precious.

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When the late Pope Francis assumed the papacy, is it papacy,

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papacy papacy In twenty thirteen, he opted for a ring

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made of gilded silver rather than the traditional ring of

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yellow gold. Just like you said, there tree, there you go.

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This right includes certain steps leading up to the rings

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being destroyed. See this is Lord of the Rings. I

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feel like this Pope's death is being directed by Peter Jackson.

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Be really interesting though, if the Pope gets to the

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gates and St. Peter's St. Peter's standing there with a

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big staff and says you shall not pass, and would

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he be shocked? Like really, not even me. The destruction

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symbolizes the end of a pope's rule, with the creation

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of a new ring representing a new pope, assuming the

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papacy the new ring to rule them all is my assumption.

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That's I mean, it's, you know, the the the person

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you want to be pope is the person who doesn't

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want to be pope. And but the problem is, I

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mean it's it's as much as they want to think

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it's a holy process. I mean, it's a bunch of

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you know, power hungry cardinals that all, you know, jockeying

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for position.

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To roomful of the dude swearing up down left right side.

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But I don't want to beat a pulp not at all.

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Or no, I don't know what to all.

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Right, one of you's got at least say yes, well,

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and that you've got to say all right, I'll do it.

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That That is the fascinating thing. The thing about Pope

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Francis is he came, like to the story, he was

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in the process of resigning when Benedict he wanted to

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be transferred back to it from Argentina.

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I believe m h.

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He wanted to be you know, basically demoted and not

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be a cardinal anymore, or basically go back to Argentina

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when Benedict was resigning, and Benedict was like.

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You know, you need to be pope and he didn't

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want it.

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See that tells me that the three taps to the

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forehead are not gentle taps. He knows he's going to

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get smacked in the head with a silver hammer three

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times and he doesn't want to have to endure that.

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I think it'll be dead. I don't think that's the

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It's just one of those like well, like you was saying,

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like some people that that's why they vote, that's why

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they vote because you don't have a choice. Then so

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if if it's a unanimous vote, then it's you, even

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if you don't want it.

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Even even if you're trying to take the Nazi way

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out and run to South America, the Catholic Church will

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find you. Uh. And you know what, maybe maybe the

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three smacks to the head with the silver hammer. Look,

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it clearly works. Maybe it's not only a tool to see.

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Maybe it's not only a test to see if you

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are in fact dead. But if you wake up after

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the first or second, then then you get two more,

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just to make sure the job is finished. Because we've

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already started up the smoke and the fire, and we're

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already printing out little pieces of paper for ballots.

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I mean, maybe we're overthinking it. Maybe they just like

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the game of.

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Whack a Pope, the best of the State Fair games.

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is Jerry, speaking of fun summer vacations. I don't know

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if you can find anyone that had more fun last

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week than this guy. A personal injury attorney, was arrested

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last week after police say he was downtown yelling at

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the top of his lungs without any clothes on. Is

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anyone else hoping this was Jim Adler or is it

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just me?

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I was gonna say he was waving around the Texas Hammer.

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That's the first thing I thought of.

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Man.

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I was like, oh, please tell me that Jim Adler

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went on vacation. This happened in Charleston, South Carolina. It

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was not Jim Adler. Instead, it was William Mullens McLeod Junior.

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He is a Charleston personal injury attorney. He was arrested

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after police say he was downtown yelling at the top

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of his lungs without any clothes on. He was charged

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with public disorderly conduct and booked at the Al Cannona

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Tention Center early in the morning. An incident report from

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Charleston Police states an officer was in the area when

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they observed McLeod walking along the battery screaming Wednesday morning.

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He was wearing all his underwear and shoes. During the incident,

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they confronted him and began and he began rambling incoherently.

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I'm still not so sure this is not Jim Adler.

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Half the time you can't understand what he's saying anyway,

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But you also have.

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To realize, like he was just an underwear and shoes.

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That means he took his shoes off to take his

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pants off and then put his shoes back on.

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I understand that, I too have to.

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Maybe wherever he was, that's just all he put on.

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He just reached over and grabbed his shoes.

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And yeah, you know, maybe he lives in one of

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the high rises there, and was like, you know what,

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I am hammered. I am I'm the Texas hammered, and

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I have to go for a walk right now, and

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I need to scream.

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And I can't do that in my house.

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I'm Jim Adler.

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Ohs, I got so drunk.

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I run out of my hotel wearing nothing but shoes

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and mondies. Now you know why they call me the

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Texas Hammer. I was actually on the run from a

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big truck. They saw me naked on top of a

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big truck and they said get off, and I said,

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I'm trying.

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I'm Jim Adler.

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Have you ever been hitting the head by a helicopter

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or is it just my wing? He's swinging round and

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round from the top of this truck.

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Hitting the head by a helicopter?

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Okay, have you ever been hitting the head but my hammer?

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Call me Jim Adler.

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I'll get you fifty million dollars in your pocket. Speaking

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of pockets, can I have your pants? I seem to

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Do you make fun of your son Bill and call

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him the ball peen hammer? How do you know his nickname?

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That's exactly what I call my boy. He's the ball

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peen hammer. It's just tiny and stupid. No one knows

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what to do with it, just like a ball peen hammer.

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That's my bully. He can't get his own job. He's

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got to be on the truck with me. He d moron.

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I that he would be a rubber mallet. Uh. He's

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got that little round head. Yeah, with the helmet.

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So he's a lawyer and slow.

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You know it's because every time he shoot one of

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Every time he's fallen off one hundred times. I don't

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He's never lead counsel, just more special counsel.

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All right, gentlemen, we haven't done this in a while,

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I'm going to read you, guys, a statement from a

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news story, and you tell me whether or not. Well,

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Inside the treehouse to day. Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious enormous

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shoes from an ancient Roman fort. Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious

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enormous shoes from an ancient Roman fort.

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Do you believe it or not?

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Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious enormous shoes from an ancient Roman fort.

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Do you believe it or not? I believe it? Okay, Jerry?

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Do you believe it or not?

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You know what, I'll take the other one.

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Okay, Jerry, you are wrong, raj you are correct. You

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must believe it. Archaeologists have in fact unearthed mysterious enormous

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shoes from an ancient Roman fort.

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Who hasn't shock Banged?

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I had no idea he was an immortal, of course.

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Is Researchers were shocked to discover a number of enormous

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leather shoes that are significantly larger than normal during recent

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digs in northern England, and they don't know why they're

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so big. The oversized shoes are from Magna, a Roman

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era fort along Hadrian's Wall which is a seventy three

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mile stone wall that delineated the northwest edge of the

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Roman Empire and was constructed starting in one twenty two CE.

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The Roman Army Museum states that the fort was in

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use from eighty five until one twenty two CE. Real quick,

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what does c E stand for?

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Common Era? Is that?

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Just?

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Is that woke initials for.

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After for eight basically yeah, and then BCE before common era?

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Yeah? Got it?

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Okay, anyway, I'm just curious. Eight enormous leather shoes, eight

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of them, each greater than eleven point eight inches long,

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have been discovered by archaeologists since May. Currently, about twenty

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five percent of all shoes discovered at the site so

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far are extra large specimens. While investigating a defensive ditch

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where Roman troops were also known to poop, researchers found

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the first enormous shoe. According to Christina Kilgrove of Live Science,

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the sole of that shoe measured twelve point six inches,

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or about the same length as a men's fourteen in

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the United States. After continuing their excavation, archaeologists discovered thirty

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three more pairs of shoes in various sizes, some of

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which seem to have been designed for young people. They

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even discovered a shoe that is twelve point eight inches long.

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The soles are all composed of thinctionates of cowhide leather

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that are secured by iron hobneys. Because to the low

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oxygen content of the local soil, the shoes have remained

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intact for almost two thousand years. Now, why some of

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these shoes are so big is a mystery to researchers.

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My question to you is is there something super mysterious

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going on or did the Roman Army have a special

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clown regiment.

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Or they just got to keep digging and fund of basketball.

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Eventually the court it was the Roman Globetrotters. I'd watch

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them every day with metal Lark Aurelius.

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Always battling the Jews, the little white guys that just

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couldn't keep up.

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That's their Washington general.

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I didn't know the Romans at a basketball team.

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That's pretty awesome.

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Good for that, yeah, and and and and the Starter

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League because they had shoes for younger kids too.

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It's good to know that a development league, ye summer league. Man,

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what what couldn't the Romans do.

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Keep that bitch from burning down? That's what they couldn't

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move well.

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You can't win them all. Sometimes the little generals get you.

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