Should You LIE to Your Wife to Protect Your Buddy? | The Treehouse Show
Should you lie to your wife to protect your buddy? And more importantly… does the Bro Code outrank the Husband Code?
We start today’s Treehouse Show with a Reddit marriage dilemma that went sideways FAST. A husband tells his wife that he went to a strip club with his friend. She accidentally lets that information slip to the friend’s wife — and now that couple is apparently headed for divorce.
So who screwed up? Should the husband have kept his mouth shut? Was his wife wrong for telling? Or if a trip to the strip club can end your marriage, was the marriage already in trouble?
Then it’s Celebrity Birthdays, featuring some nepo babies who prove that having famous parents doesn’t mean you can’t also have serious talent. Plus, we have to ask: what is going on with Gen X sex symbols suddenly showing up on OnlyFans?
Finally, we get into the important issues facing society: Is there something disturbing about people roughing up sex dolls? And because no Treehouse Show would be complete without him… Florida Man went skinny-dipping.
Marriage, Bro Code, strip clubs, OnlyFans, sex dolls and Florida Man. Just another perfectly normal day inside The Treehouse Show.
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1:45 Okay, here we go. Should the husband have told his wife about the strip club? Before I give you any context or details... Just based on the singular question, Trey, should the husband have told the wife about the strip club? If you have to ask, probably not. Well said. Very well said. I'm going to hold off on my response on the question for now. Because This context gets real convoluted real fast.
2:31 So I'm going to give you just the brief first part of this, okay? Am I the a-hole for confirming to my friend that her husband... Okay, so the person writing this is a female, all right? She says, am I the a-hole for confirming to my friend that her husband went to a strip club after my husband told me. About it privately? Okay? Okay. All right. Now, now that I've added a little bit of context to this. So let's let's make it personal. You, Trey, are married. I know it's a wild fantasy. And you and me go to a strip club for a bachelor party weekend. And I tell you, dude, don't say anything because my wife wouldn't like it. And then you go home and tell your wife, yeah, we went to a strip club. Oh, and Dan's not supposed to wasn't supposed to be there. So don't tell Tara.
3:26 Would you have told your wife what we did? That's a tough one because I wouldn't want to lie to her. And I'm just going off my, let's say, last relationship where it wouldn't have been I don't think that would have been an issue. I mean, going to a strip club certainly isn't an issue with me, but... If she asked, I probably wouldn't have lied, but maybe I wouldn't divulge. Fair.
4:06 So... An omission type of lie? Not a full lie, but just, you know. Yeah, I mean... I don't know. Yeah, I probably would tell her just because I wouldn't... But... It would also be, so if I knew my friend would be in trouble, yeah, it would come with a deal of, okay, you cannot tell his wife. We never had this discussion. If she asked, you know, you have no knowledge of this whatsoever. So I don't know how everyone else's relationships work, but I try to default to common sense and, and, sometimes worst case scenario. What I mean is, if I tell a buddy something and he's married, I'm automatically assuming he will tell his wife.
5:04 I just am. That's just how my brain works, the way I view a marriage, is I'm just going to assume that me telling Fred, Fred will tell Jane. Just period. I'm just assuming it outright. And so because of that, if there's something that I don't want someone else down, down the line to know, and it's connected by Jane, Fred's wife, then I'm just not going to tell Fred. Cause I'm assuming he will tell her because whether by coercion, fear, or just outright relationship, openness and honesty, I assume she's going to find out whatever's inside his head. Yeah.
5:52 I mean, I've, If this gets so complicated, because if it's going to cause, if going to a strip club is going to cause that much friction in your marriage, there is obviously something else going on. And if it's your buddy, then, because chances are, if it's going to a strip club is an issue, like you're, you're doing it too much or something has happened that has made your wife uncomfortable. Now there are a few, there, there are couples where that's just off limits period, the end.
6:37 But for the most part, people I know, I don't think their wives would have like, if their relationship is solid, I don't think their wife's going to have a really big, you know, especially at our age now, 20 years ago, you know, maybe something different. Um, but that's just, if that one thing is really going to get your buddy in trouble, your buddy's probably fucking up. Yeah. Your buddy's already in trouble. Yeah. For any number of other things. So here she says, uh, so basically everyone's in their thirties. She says, my husband and I are close friends with another married couple, Sarah and Mike. We've known them for a couple of years.
7:19 Sarah has become a close friend of mine independently of our husband's About a month ago, my husband and Mike went on a bachelor party trip. Some of the guys went to a strip club. My husband told me afterward. I didn't care that he went, but he also told me Mike went and specifically did not want Sarah to know because. She would be upset. I never told Sarah. Recently, we learned Sarah and Mike were having marital problems, but I had no idea how serious they were or what they were about. Before I saw her, my husband asked me that if the strip club was what she was upset about to downplay what happened on the trip. I interpreted that as, Don't volunteer information or make it into a bigger deal. He apparently meant that I should not confirm Mike was there at all. When I saw Sarah, she told me they've actually been separated for over a month.
8:01 A major issue in their marriage is Mike repeatedly lying to her about things involving other women and going to strip clubs. During the conversation, she said, and the guys went to a strip club on the bachelor trip, right? I said, yes. Based on how she asked, I genuinely thought she already knew. Turns out she strongly suspected it, but didn't know for sure, so I ended up accidentally confirming it. My husband is now extremely upset. He feels he trusted me with information privately, and I broke that trust. He thinks I should have said, I don't know, or otherwise not answered, and now feels like we've inserted ourselves into their marriage problems. I understand why he's upset. I genuinely regret being the person who confirmed it. If I'd realized. She didn't know, I probably would have said, something you need to talk to Mike about.
8:43 Where I'm struggling is that Sarah's also my close friend, I had kept this information to myself for a month, but now I'm sitting across from her while she told me her marriage may be ending largely because her husband was repeatedly lied about this exact behavior. I understand keeping something from my husband told me privately to myself, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea that doing so means I'm obligated to actively lie to my friend when she directly asked me a question. Now that you have all the context, do you change the answer to your question at all about whether or not you as the husband should tell your wife that you and the boys went to the strip club? No, because... The truth of the matter is, your buddy is already on thin ice, and this is one of those points where, and I say this now with the wisdom of 52 years on this earth, 20 years ago as an alcoholic, probably would have been in Mike's shoes, of if it's that, if your marriage is on the line, you probably shouldn't have gone on the bachelor party trip, period.
9:45 And And you can't be mad at the wife because that's her friend. You can't ask her Cause then if she lies and the, what the other, her friend finds out, then you just ruin their friendship too. And that's not really fair. It's like at the end of the day, Mike's the F up. Bingo. That's my answer. That was my answer. You know, like almost 10 minutes ago. And it's my answer now. So if you, the husband, should you tell your wife that you and the guys went to the bachelor party? Yeah. Whether you say it or not, I don't care. This is all Mike's problem. This is all the root problem is Mike. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
10:26 Dan, hit pause. Look, you can have this consternation about whether or not you should tell your wife about something that you did, but at the end of the day, you, the husband, and your wife, you're now in the middle, both of you, right? It's because of something Mike did, and then he wanted you to keep the information away from his wife, On the other side of it. So you're being bookended by a relationship drama that you. Didn't ask for. Well, at the end of the day, this is all Mike's fault. Because he doesn't want anything getting back to his wife. If you don't want anything getting back to your wife, don't do the thing.
11:07 Bros before hoes ends when you say I do. That is absolute facts. And it sounds like, and again, I say this, I've had I ever been, have been married in my late twenties, early thirties, I probably would have been Mike. Uh, but you know, Mike still sounds like it wants to be single and, uh, he's about to be. So there's just. Yeah. Good, good news, Mike. Yeah. You want to live a single's life. You're about to get it. Yeah. You, you want to hang out at strip clubs. Well, guess what? You're about to be, have all your nights free and you'll soon find out that, uh, All your friends are going to be like, yeah, I can't do that crap anymore.
11:55 Not going to happen. And then you're going to be that guy at the strip club. If you keep it up. I never. We've all had friends who love strip clubs. I was never that guy. I had some fun nights in strip clubs, but I never had. Like this burning desire to just night after night, go to. A strip club. I, I am with you. I've, I've never understood that mentality. I mean, there's a deep seated issue there where you're just looking for acceptance or something.
12:37 I'm not a shrink. I don't know, but. My official assessment is if you're at a strip club every single night, there's something going on. Yeah. Internally in you that you need to seek help for. I mean, unless, unless, Unless. Now, if you're a billionaire and you're pulling, you know, you just want to have one night stands with strippers. Okay, I understand. Yeah, if you're pulling a Roman orgy with the whole club. Yeah, that's you. Yeah, you go for it, buddy. I feel that. If you want to move the entire strip club to your yacht for the weekend, and you can make that happen financially, then I get it.
13:21 Then absolutely go off. If your backyard looks like the scene out of Roadhouse.... While keeping in mind, as an outsider... I'll watch the movie. I'll watch the show. But at the end of the day, I wouldn't want that life. That's too much to keep up with. Yeah. Even, even if I had that amount of money, I'd be like, I can't do this every day. Like even I've got limits, but it sure. I mean, if you want to have a fun, just unhinged weekend, then fine. I get that. But yeah, no, at the end of the day, Mike caused all of this and, uh, It's a horrible position to be caught in the middle, and it's hard enough as one person. But if you're friends with other couples, and now you're stuck in the middle of this with your partner, and now you're both stuck in it, that's a horrible spot to be in. I had a similar situation to this years and years ago. My ex-girlfriend, her best friend, friend for years. My ex found out, I can't remember how that he had cheated, done something or something.
14:45 And I can't remember maybe a strip club was involved or not, whatever. The main point is she found out he had cheated. She asked me, do I tell her? And I'm like, man, I don't know. So we talked through all of the possibilities. Um, And the main thing I. Told her was, if you tell your friend that he cheated, you have to be prepared to never talk to her again. For a number of reasons. One, kill the messenger. Two, she decides not to believe you and listens to whatever thing he says. Friendship over. I mean, there's so many different reasons, but you have to be prepared. If you're going to tell her this, you may never talk to her again. So if you're willing to accept that, then tell her.
15:35 Well, and there's also, if there's time lapse between when you found out and when you tell her, then that becomes the whole issue too. That's where you need to lie. You need to say, Hey, I just heard this. I'm going to tell you about it right now. Um, But, yeah, and she ended. Up telling her. And it's funny. And it ruined the friendship. She ended up staying with the guy. Oh, that's, you know, always. And this is just a general rule. If you say anything bad about someone's partner or tell a secret or anything else, you have to be prepared to lose that friend because they very well may pick the partner over you. But it's funny, at 52 years of age, I just realized that someone I used to be friends with, he never brought his wife to anything, never introduced her, never ingratiated her in his social circles. And I just figured out why, because we all knew he was cheating. And I swear it's probably because she had no ties to any of his friends group that knew what he was doing.
16:56 Isolationism works really, really good. If you're trying to get away with stuff, it makes it a lot easier. They also ended up divorced. So I'm guessing she eventually found out. And that's the other thing to keep in mind. She will always find out. Yep. Let's get Daniel cook from cook DFW roofing and restoration, the tree house for your free roof inspection and property review. Call 833-COOK-DFW today to get that scheduled. 833-COOK-DFW. The website is cookdfw.com. Daniel, part of the roofing process is knowing about ventilation and how important that can be to the life of the roof. That's something you guys look at.
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20:43 acknowledges and says, look, yeah, I get it. I have advantages that other people don't. The good thing for her is she's actually really talented, which you better be. I don't begrudge any Nepo baby if they actually have the talent and do the work. And yeah, if you used your name to get in the door, more power to you. I'm not going to hate on that. I might be envious of it, but I'm not going to hate on it because you can't help what you're born into, right? You're like, look, there's a reason why Hollywood is a constant cycle of feeding it back into itself with probably one of the biggest nepotism engines.
21:29 In the world next to Saudi oil. And you get where all the children of these successful people also become successful for two reasons. One, they themselves are actually talented. Look, not every Baldwin brother is phenomenal, okay? And Dolly Parton has like 10 or 11 siblings that were not Dolly Parton, right? But when you are in a position where you're born into a family, like say a Gracie Abrams, your dad's JJ Abrams, you don't have to do certain things that other kids had to do when you're growing up. You are allowed.
22:09 because of financial freedom, to really pursue interests that some of us may not have been able to, right? Like some of us, you know, had piano lessons or certain things like that, but they can devote a whole lot of time to it if that kid is really, really into it and say, you know, it doesn't matter about anything else. You can do this and focus on it and focus on nothing else. You don't have to go get a job at Sonic slinging fries, right? You can focus on this. It's a lot easier to chase your dreams if you don't have to worry about rent surviving.
22:50 That's exactly what it is. It's like, I don't, I mean, two actresses that come to mind. Is it Maya Hawk? Phenomenal. Great actress. But I'm sure who her parents are, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke certainly have opened some doors for. On the other hand, and I cannot think of her name, but I think it's Bryan Cranston's daughter that was on, I think she's on the pit. She's phenomenal. And she uses a different name just to try to escape the Nepo baby thing. So I tip a hat to her because that's impressive.
23:30 If you got to this point and people really didn't know who you were. It really is. And then when I see that, It is sort of like an extra, oh, good on you. Like, I respect that even more. But I'm not going to begrudge someone because they were born into a really fortunate situation. That's just luck, right? Is it fair? Not entirely, but I can't control that. You know, look, I could have had it way worse. I mean, me specifically, because when I got adopted, I almost ended up in Southwestern Oklahoma and God knows where. And instead I got picked up and went to Northeastern Oklahoma, which sounds, it sounds odd to say it's so much better, but it was.
24:19 But yeah, I mean, you talk about how your life could be different in so many different ways instead of like just focusing on, Oh, this person has this and whatever. It's like, you'll drive yourself crazy if you keep comparing yourself to others and what you feel like you should have versus what they got. Yeah. I think a great saying is comparisons is the thief of joy. And that's absolutely true. Yep. Sorry to get so deep on it. Let's go back to birthdays. So anyway, Gracie Abrams, 27. Congratulations to her for being from JJ Abrams balls. Gloria Gaynor is 83. She is still surviving. Good for her. Julie Kavner, voice of Marge Simpson is 76. Now she's done a lot of other stuff in her career. She's been, not just a voiceover actress, but a regular, like in front of a camera actress, a lot in her career.
25:09 But I mean, she's made a healthy living playing Marge Simpson, just like all the voices of the Simpsons have. I think she's like, I mean, I think she started on the Tracy Ullman show as a character, you know, on the, which most people don't realize that's where the Simpsons started. It was like a skit comedy show. And yeah, that's certainly, man, that's been a good role for her. Yeah. That's a great gig, man. And is it because like people like Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, for the most part, have just done the Simpsons stuff while also occasionally doing some in in front of camera stuff. But then there's someone like a Hank Azaria who's done all over the place in front of in front of the camera and doing Simpsons voices. It's like the whole whole Simpsons cast, man. I just I give him a big thumbs up. I'm happy for him. It's one of the greatest gigs of all time.
26:00 Oh, yeah. And it won't stop. I can't blame him. Corbin Bernson is 72 from LA law from psych and one of the worst, best third baseman in major league history. Pretend in major league. How do you shortstop? Third base. He didn't have enough range to play short. Then Toby Jones is 60. He's from Infamous Detectorists and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was in the first Captain America, the first Avenger. He was the Red Skull's little assistant scientist guy, the short dude with the big forehead, Toby Jones.
26:47 He's one of those guys. He's a character actor. You look him up, you'd be like, oh, that guy got it. And Leslie Jones, comedian and former SNL cast member, 59. And now we're going to get to some really hardcore 90s birthdays. It's a weird day. And this is associated with some weird, weird movies. Shannon Elizabeth is 53, most famous for her role in American Pie, playing a topless Russian exchange student. Then she had a great turn as a poker player. And then she ended up on Dancing with the Stars. Well, I think before American Pie, she kind of was on Arliss as the Russian tennis player.
27:29 That's right. I forgot about that. And then I believe just recently started an OnlyFans. She did. She is part of the new sort of Gen X cougar corner of OnlyFans from, you know, actresses and celebrities past. It's like, I'm going to do OnlyFans now. Don't know what she's doing, what she's showing, but I'm sure she's living a fine life there on OnlyFans. If I was a hot chick, I would so do OnlyFans. Here you go, baby. Right there. All day. Here you go. 20 bucks. There you go. What they make. Yeah.
28:11 By the way, she was very nice in person. I was very excited to meet her back in the day. We're doing the radio show and she came in town. Can't remember what for. And she was very sweet. Very nice. I believe if I remember right, she's from Texas. She's from like the Waco area. And and of course, our old buddy and pal, R.I.P. Russ Martin. When we specifically told him she doesn't want to talk about the Dancing with the Stars drama, don't bring it up. If you bring it up, she'll leave. What's the first thing he brings up? That. And it wasn't because he was being some sort of rebellious shock jock. It's because he was so damn drunk. He was just that's the only thing he could remember to ask her about because that was the last thing he had heard. He hadn't done any research into anything she'd ever done. He never even asked her about American Pie.
28:59 That's how into the bottle he was. We had Shannon Elizabeth in the studio, and he never asked her. He never brought up American Pie. That's what alcoholism does, kids. Don't do it. Well, let's be honest. I mean, he was a jewel when it came to guests. Also that. Now take that and multiply it by a handle of Tito's in the morning. Yeah. Okay? And for anyone thinking I'm embellishing on that, I'm not. I saw the footage. Okay, now we're going to get to some weird 90s birthdays. Are you ready? Here we go.
29:40 Tom Everett Scott is 50. You know what? I'm going to save him. I'm going to save him. I'm going to go instead to Devin Sawa. Devin Sawa is 48 today. Best known for Final Destination. He was in the first couple of those movies. Final Destination changed. Your life, man. You watch those movies, you will no longer look around you I mean, that's one of those movies that affects you for a day or so afterwards because you start seeing things around you differently. Like, oh my God, is this piece of glass going to end up in my throat because a thumbtack fell and a butterfly wing happened in the next scene of Final Destination? I'm still shook on roller coasters because of Final Destination 3. I don't think I've ever seen those. Do it. They're really good. Start with the first one. Devin Sawa, 48 Today. Final Destination is one of the all-time great horror franchises.
30:26 Trust me on this. He was also in a little movie called Idle Hands. You remember that? He starred in because his hand was possessed. This is the kind of stuff that got made in the 90s. His hand got possessed and they made an entire 90s movie about it. I think this is where the age gap between us comes into play. You don't need to have seen the movie or even heard of the movie just to know that Hollywood back in the day made a movie about a possessed hand. Mainstream. Not silly. Not novelty. Like, no, this is a real thing. That's pretty weird.
31:06 And then it gets dark. Tom Everett Scott is 56. Actor probably best known for That Thing You Do. He also was in American Werewolf in Paris. Sort of the remake of the London one from back in the day. But he was also in a little movie called Dead Man on Campus, opposite Mark Paul Gosselaar. Zach from Saved by the Bell. Do you remember Dead Man on Campus? I do not. Came out in 1998, the year I graduated high school. College freshman Josh, played by Tom Everett Scott, and Cooper, Mark Paul Gosselaar, are more interested in hitting the bottle than in hitting the books, and their poor grades.
31:53 are set to get them kicked out of school. Their only hope of passing is to find a roommate who will kill himself. Why? Because there's an odd college code that states a suicide victim's roommates automatically get straight A's. So the entire movie is them trying to find a nut job to live with that they can then coerce into suicide So they get straight A's. That is some dark shit. Yeah, I missed that one.
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33:33 That's Patreon. Sorry, my lip. Patreon.com slash Treehouse on air to get more Treehouse in your life today. Bruised up sex dolls. It is a real thing. AI vaginas, customizable personalities, and fake bruises. The sex doll market is booming. But does it matter how the dolls are treated? Two weeks ago, two distressed citizens stumbled across what they assumed was the mangled corpse of a woman stuffed into a suitcase in a small town about three hours south of Sydney in Australia. They called the local police, who in turn issued a statement that a body in a suitcase had been found. The wider public waited somberly for Australia's tally of dead women to tick up by one.
34:21 But instead, a day later, after forensic analysis, it was determined that the woman in question wasn't a woman at all. It was that of a sex doll marked with fake bruises left to rot on a lonely dirt road. In Australia and in the UK and some other European countries, it is not illegal to own a sex doll unless it resembles a child. Given the doll's seemingly mature presentation, police investigations were called off. And the sex doll trade is flourishing. 2026 estimates global market value at $ 6. 6 billion, with a projection that it will more than double to over $ 13 billion by 2033. As the market booms and involves increasingly lifelike facsimiles of women, does how these dolls get treated matter?
35:09 No. Okay. A guy named Johan Fuss, who's the chair of forensic psychiatry and sex research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, told The Guardian that the disposability and desecration of the female form in these contexts cannot be viewed entirely in isolation from broader cultural hostilities toward women. It says, we currently lack robust longitudinal data to definitively prove whether such doll use is protective or conversely is a behavioral stepping stone that increases real world offending risk. So in other words, if you're bruising up your sex doll, does that mean you're going to bruise up a real person later? Or is bruising up your sex doll mean you're not going to bruise up a person later?
35:55 I mean, yeah, I would assume not, but I guess I can't see the other side of it where You might think that would lead to the real thing. I look at it this way. I feel like if you're going to bruise up the sex doll and then that leads to doing it to a person, I feel like you were going to get to a person eventually. Oh, absolutely. I can't. And I'm sure in this day and age where they've come up with an excuse for everything, someone will say, but I can't see how. a sex doll is a stepping stone to the real thing. I think it's more of a delay. I think it would be a delay.
36:36 I think it might be, and it might, look, it may not completely cure the source problem, but you're right, it might delay it. It might cause it to never happen in the first place. I'm not a forensic psychologist like that guy is who's talking about it. I'm just a common sense dork. And to me, I feel like I don't think that the doll will be the stepping stone. I feel like it's got a better chance at either delaying or curbing the behavior. At least carrying over to an actual human. Yeah. I mean, look, if you're spent on the doll, you're not going to be roaming around looking for a person.
37:18 Yeah, I just don't. At the same time, can we stop making these AI robots humanoid? Because, look, I'll yell at my Yuffie vacuum cleaner all goddamn day because it's a little flat disk. The other day I saw a humanoid robot. Some guy pushed it and then it decided to kick him back, which I thought was awesome. And now they're saying there's a problem with the robot. Well, I think there's a problem with the dude. I have a hard time not humanizing the humanoid robot because it looks person-ish. And so I have empathy for it when someone's pushing it around. I feel bad for the robot, even though I know the robot can't feel anything.
38:01 But I've also seen enough movies to think, well, that dude's going to die. Listen, there's a greater problem with AI robots becoming more lifelike. And that is the reproduction rate in a lot of first world countries has dropped to a point where it's literally not sustainable. I think South Korea is going to be the first one that really is going to put it to limits that they're within like three generations of not existing. Jesus. And some people surmise that AI robots are going to expedite that because it's especially with men. If you have something that's going to give them companionship and everything they need and none of the BS....
38:48 Then we'll die off happy. I'm not saying I do it, but I understand. Very well said. And last up today, what happens when a Florida man goes skinny dipping? Now, I remember back when Tara and I were about to buy our first house and we were saying. All right, we got to get a pool. And I remember very specifically, Trey, you saying you. Don't want a pool. I'm like, no, Trey, I really do. We really want a pool. And we did. We got a house, had a pool. Loved it. Loved that pool. There is something you have to keep in mind, though, when you have a pool. That is.
39:30 the attractive nuisance reality. I forget how long ago it happened, but basically some kid drowned in someone's pool. And it was because they snuck into it and they drowned in the pool and the family of the victim sued the homeowners because they didn't have proper protections in place for their pool because they said it was an attractive nuisance. Having the pool was enough to draw someone in to then drown in it. It became mandatory to have a fence around a pool. Yeah. So... That's BS for one. That's just stupid. But. It is what it is.
40:10 You can't change it. So as a homeowner, you have to keep that in mind. If you have a pool, someone may end up in it that you don't want there. And if you live in Florida, I now realize, because you ever watch House Hunters and you see different homes around the country and think, man, they look kind of weird. Whenever you would see House Hunters on TV, the Florida homes always had the glass domes and stuff over their pools. I think it was mainly to keep wildlife out, like gators and stuff. Mm-hmm. But now you think about it, it's also a good protection from Florida man. Because the ocean just isn't enough. It's not. Look, a lot of Florida men are in the interior of the peninsula. A 24-year-old Florida Keys man is facing charges after deputies say they found him naked in a private swimming pool in Marathon, Florida. They say Roshan Rakjan was reportedly walking naked in public before deputies located him trespassing on private property. Investigators say he was combative and deputies used a taser to take him into custody.
41:15 I want to see that body cam. Yeah. I'm sorry, man. A wet, naked Florida man getting tased? Hell yes. I need LiveLeak to come back now. I want to see that video. Okay. The incident did not end there. After being taken to the hospital, deputies say Jean bit a sheriff's deputy on the arm, sending the deputy for medical treatment. He now faces charges including battering on a law enforcement officer and criminal mischief. According to the sheriff's office, it's the second encounter involving him on the same day. Because earlier they responded to a business where he was reportedly acting strangely and was ordered to leave the property.
41:58 So they saw him earlier in the day and said, hey, get out. And he said, okay, fine. And he left. And then he ended up in someone's pool, butt-ass naked. And when they pulled him out, he bit a deputy. Meth? Bath salt? Do we have a toxicology yet? We don't have a toxicology report yet, but you know it's going to. Be a good one. Oh, you know it's a good concoction. It's not just one. It's got them all. It's the Florida cocktail right there. With a lime wedge. Maybe a maraschino cherry. A coca Libra. A florida iced tea it's just.
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