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1:30 For many even. You've taken me to and fro from Texas to someplace I didn't know because I didn't pay to get to the actual stop. Actually, for the record, I didn't attend for that to rhyme until like a poll them. It just kind of happened naturally, but in all seriousness, rest in peace the Spirit Airlines. On Saturday morning, Tara and I woke up to a most horrendous message from our beloved Spired Airlines. The day after booking a flight home to Dallas to come visit friends and family. Spirit Airlines confirmed our flight the next morning by saying, we regret to inform you that all Spared Airlines have been canceled.

2:24 Guests with previously confirmed Spirit tickets should not go to the airport. While we are not able to help rebook your flight on another airline. We will automatically issue refunds for any flights purchased through Spirit with a credit or debit card to the original form of payment, which tells me if somehow you gave Spirit Airlines cash, you ain't getting it back. For more information about the wind down process, please visit Spirit Restructuring dot com. If you would, tray give me a brief moment to infer with my accountant slash business partner slash manager slash assistant slash wife.

3:09 Have got refund yet? I didn't even finish the question. She's already looking at me, just laughing. She's like, nah, actually, I think that's probably the Spirit board of directors laughing. You'll get your refund eventually, we will. It's not immediate the way they set in the lovely message that they sent us, but yeah, we will supposedly allegedly get our refunds. Well, I forgot the number, but they obviously there's a lot of transactions they got canceled. Yeah, and one fails swoop Like, that's gotta be. In order to do that, someone's got to like basically turn everything off. I imagine there being some master switch somewhere at Spirit HQ that just says off and when it's time to stop being a company and everything, you just someone's got to go to that level and just pull it down like Obi Wan and Star Wars.

4:06 I just remember, imagine someone standing there in the office going, Okay, we're closed, but need some of you all to stick around and I'll process refunds and you watch them all file out. Yeah, yeah, we need your with some of you are strategic in that we need your assistant with the wind down process. It's gonna process right here. That kind of team attitude is gonna really, you know, look good. Well, so what was what was something you were really proud of at your previous job. I stayed behind to help with the wind down process at Spirit Airlines. That was no easy task and one of the things that we as customers, I say we as customers, just the traveling public, me specifically as a Spirit customer. I've been traveling with Spirit for a number of years, not because I'm cheap, but I am. But Trey, you and I have talked about this over the years. I kind of converted you over to Spirit Airlines a little bit because you realize it's better to be like royalty on Spirit Airlines than to be a surf in basic economy on American or Delta or Delta or any of the others, because you can get some places on spared airlines more comfortably when you buy the big front seat versus slammed in the back of the other you know, mainstream air carriers.

5:38 Yeah, for a lot of times, cheaper than what it would cost to be packed in like a sardine. You could fly Spirit and it basically the things that I absolutely hate about flying, which is crammed in and no leg room. You solved, yeah, But on most of those Spirit planes they only had one two rows available of those front seats, which means one, two, three, four, five, six, eight seats out of the entire plane. Where those big front seats so look good. Spared Airlines the business model wasn't intriguing one. It was. Look, it is a basic economy deal. The whole thing.

6:22 When you buy a ticket from Spared Airlines, we will get you there. The level of comfort you want on that flight is entirely up to you, and then you can buy those comforts and conveniences on top of the airfare. So like with Spared Airlines, all you were buying was the airfare. Oh you want to check a bag, that's going to cost you money. If you want headphones because you forgot some, we'll sell you some. If you want something to eat or drink, it's not free on this airline. You either bring it with you or you buy it. And once you approached it knowing that, it was totally fine. Yeah. I mean I remember there was one fight. I I it was from Dallas to Vegas and back, and if I was you know, you wanted to go just bare bones. I think round trip it was like one hundred and seventy bucks or something. I mean it was ridiculous.

7:19 And then uh but for like four hundred you could you know, fly like a king? And uh, I never I never had any problems with them. I I I like Spirit, so I it's a shame they wouldn't let them do that deal with Jet Blue. And uh, now you've I don't I don't know who knows what's gonna happen to him? Yeah, So on the business side of that was what happened. Do you know what happened with the Spirit jet Blue merger acquisition whatever it was? Thing? Did it? Did those talks just fall out on the on the two companies side or did they come to an agreement but the government said no, that would make you too big.

8:05 There was a lot of government opposition to it. But then there was supposedly from the federal government a five hundred million dollar bailout something package that eventually didn't go through. Well, it was a five hundred million bailout for ninety percent of the company, gotcha. But the financial experts had a liquidation number attached to spared airlines of like one point three billion, So like like the math didn't math or something? No, it was I mean, you know, Trump did the Intel bailout and which I think we got ten percent of the company, and everything I've read has been a good deal. Yeah, I mean it was a bet. It was a good deal for the government. It wasn't a good deal for Spirit, but it would have kept them and I think there was a way for them to buy buy the government out of that position. Yeah, but you know, it's it would have kept them flying. But no, it was definitely a deal that worked better for the government.

9:13 Was that the same thing that Obama did with the car manufacturers like with Ford and did a government buy out and that was the too big to fail kind of a thing. And then the government actually similar to the Intel thing, it's money back or. The government got No, that was a bailout. I thought they ended up. I thought we as a country came out like even or ahead on the deal in the end. But whatever the case is. I'm always fascinated when when some people say, oh, the government needs to do something versus the government should not do something, Like I remember thinking back then, I was like, look, if a car manufacturer needs to go under, that's kind of their fault. Why are we bailing it out. I also kind of feel the same way you know, initially about other things, it's like, why are we bailing out all these you know, corporations and we can't even give money to people. So I feel conflicted about some of that stuff. When it comes to the airline thing there, Look, there's only so many Intel type companies, there's only so many car manufacturers in America, and I feel like spirit there's enough airlines out there to where, you know, the US Government's like, well there's other airlines I can pick up this slack. So it's we're not going to bail it out at the level that maybe Spirits board of directors would have wanted.

10:33 Yeah, I mean it's I don't remember. The auto bailout was interesting because they were kind of a a casualty of the banking collapse. Yeah. And but you look at it now, you look at ultimately how it all shook out. I mean, what do we lose Oldsmobile, Pontiac sob Hummer, I mean nothing, nothing where you go, Oh my god? How did How are we we still haven't recovered? Yeah, I think we're all okay without seeing any more Aztecs on the road. Yeah, I And I remember I remember some of the senators were like well, if you let you know, Jet Blue and Spirit merge, you know, there's no no longer going to be discount fairs. They're gonna, you know, have a monopoly on that low end market. It's like, oh okay, wow, that's a monopoly. Most people want is on the cheap the cheap end.

11:34 Yeah, you know what I want. I want the monopoly on the great value brand of air And let's be honest, for the most part, people that were flying Spirit Airlines didn't want to be. Agreed. Yeah, it was like it was a flight out of necessity. That's like they had to go for somebody's funeral. It was something they had to do and really didn't want to spend any money on it. Kind of a thing. Yeah. Yeah, No, I don't think anyone flies Jet Blue or Spirit or whatever the other discount. I don't think anyone wants to. I I probably was one of the few people that actually wanted to fly Spirit. I mean it was it was a choice. I could have flown something else. I like I said, I enjoyed Spirit. But yeah, that's unless unless you're flying unless you're flying first class or business class, you're you're just looking for the best deal.

12:41 Yeah, just get me there, right, just get me there at some reasonable amount of comfort. And airlines really push it on on those on those economy seats as far as comfort goes. They really try to funnel you into spending more money on the on the seat with slightly more padding or slight like an extra two inches of leg room. And it's. It really is interesting, like for the most part, people that fly anywhere don't really want to have to do it, but it's it's just so much quicker than driving. It's almost a necessity. So if you're flying on any sort of a budget, you're not going to enjoy the flight.

13:26 That's why I think it's still funny when people be like, how was your flight? I was in basic economy, How do you think my flight was? I got here, I got here in one piece, so it was a success. Now if all of us, all of us, I think would love to fly Emirates someday, Yeah, I mean that is the krem de la creme you like, and first class Emirates where you get your own cabin kind of a thing. Most of us are not ever going to live that dream. That's the only flight I would enjoy if I get somewhere, and I did not fly first class Emirates with my own cabin. I did not enjoy the flight. I'm just happy that I got here in one piece. And now that Spirit has gone under, we have one less option to get us there in one piece.

14:20 And on the back end of this, not only does it affect a bunch of customers, this also affects thousands of employees. Because most of us are selfish, we think about, oh, you know, my flight got canceled them blah blah blah blah. Also a lot of people found out in a very rough way that they were unemployed. And some of those people who had a lot of responsibility in their hands at the moment they found out, they just got fired. Seventeen thousand, I think is the number of people that are, you know, out of work. Uh. One of the smart, more most touching things I saw and Bravo to Southwest. One captain was on his it was going to be his lafe last flight wherever he had it. He had landed somewhere. They killed Spirit, so he ended up flying on Southwest back home to I think it was Baltimore or something, and the Southwest captain learned about it and so they gave him all the honors with the fire engines in the water fountain and had the crew there plotting him. But he was still he was like, yeah, he was a little choked up by it because he said, I forgot he had been with Spirit for a long time. It's like, man, that sucks.

15:37 Well, it's it does suck. And I think I saw somewhere in one of the stories that it said Spirit Airlines had been in business for forty. Years thirty four. That is what I think I saw. I mean, in I would have been shocked if you said twenty I would have guessed around twenty years. But I mean some of these airlines start out in one in one place, more regional than they grow and acquire and get bigger. But as far as the national stage, I only really recall Spirit, you know, for like twenty ish years. Yeah, that's but they also all those local especially if you remember going back to the nineties and early teeth, there were a bunch of small of the discount operators that all it like they merged. I mean, there was valueset at one point and uh so, oh yeah, I don't know, I don't know if Spirit was called something else but yeah, I was actually I'm with you. I was surprised that they had been around that long.

16:41 This is interesting on AP news. Spirit Airlines, an impush upstart that shook the industry where it's irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday it had gone out of business after thirty four years. Yeah, so interesting to me. Not exactly the word you want to have thrown at you as a business impish. Well, and I think at this point Spirit was a little bit of a victim of their own model in that when they needed to really raise fears because of fuel costs and other things, they found out there's only a certain amount people will pay and then people will go choose another airline if it's not a big discount.

17:37 Yeah, it is interesting how that worked out because and I don't know what that number was, like what percentage of or what the actual fair you know, price was kind of a thing. But there was sort of that fine line whereas it was like, Okay, how much is this going to cost me versus how much I think I can get there on this, you know, the same day, on a different airline that might have other perchs like Okay, and it's like you and I would do we do the Spirit math? All right? If I take the big front seat on Spirit Airlines versus the economy seat on Delta, what's the price difference going to be?

18:18 Like? If it's equal, I'm taking the big seat on Spirit. Mine was always the Southwest comparison because for me where I live, going to love Field and hopping on a Southwest jet is far easier than going out to DFW. Yeah, so there had to be enough of a discount with Spirit. And it didn't actually say I mean enough, not a ton, but I would say compared to Southwest, they generally needed to be seventy five to one hundred dollars cheaper. Okay, that makes about That makes sense. I wanted I haven't not had a chance to hear it yet, but I wanted to play it and hopefully it holds up.

19:03 This is from a Spirit Airlines crew member giving an emotional speech on what I believe was like the second to last flight that Spirit had to land. We get this to work here, A lot. Of crazy stuff has happened, but it's funny. As we sit here, I'll speak for myself. I don't remember any of the bad times, just the good ones. So Spirit, I believe it or not, started. Flying in nineteen eighty three. I think it was called Charter Air at the time, and in.

19:43 Nineteen ninety two. It changed his name to Spirit. So we've been in the air since nineteen eighty three. What is that? Forty three years? And unfortunately that's over. I would like to point out that if I was on this flight and the pilot gets on talking about how he's just been fired and I can hear tears in his voice, I'm not feeling too good about my odds. All right, it was that the pilot or the flight attendant. I'm pretty sure it was a flight attendant. I'm just saying that I hope this is a flight attendant, because if this is the pilot, there's one last fee that I'll be happy to give Spirit, and that's the please let me land fee.

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23:13 Seeing good to Miles celebrates the Battle of Pueblo that Mexico won over and that's and this is the day they celebrate that particular victory. Why did you muffle out France? I always forget if it was France or Spain or I thought it was France. I always forget. I think it's France, but I'm not sure. I'm like, so France, Yes, thank you. Now, let's celebrate today with birthdays. Celebrating a birthday today at the age of thirty eight, one of the modern era's great singers, Adele Adele is thirty eight years old today. Also from this generation of singers, although a huge pos Chris Brown is thirty seven. I say all that, but people keep giving him more and more chances. Oh, beat the ever living piss out of your girlfriend Ranna back in the early to like the early two thousands, whatever it was, and then people are like, oh, you know, I should give him another chance, and so some people did, and then something else happened, or maybe it was the trial or whatever else happened. You see all the photos of her and everything he did to her, and then it happens all again. I don't know if anyone's been canceled as many times as Chris Brown has, but he keeps coming back like a musical cockroach.

24:44 I don't did he ever really get canceled, because I. Just did at one point, but yeah, he bounced right back. He was in town. I think last year in concert. I believe he played at and T and it was a you know, sellout, so you know whatever. Uh, No, that one did not stick to him. I feel like being canceled is one of those things that only happens online. Uh. In order to truly be canceled, there have to be real world implications, real world consequences for something that you have done or said, right, because you can have you know, the keyboard commando say how dare you say? Or having done this, canceled, You're done, You're through your fire, blah blah blah blah blah.

25:36 But that doesn't. Necessarily mean anything happens. I mean lots of people have said really terrible things and people said, oh, this person can't survive this, and then they do despite all common sense being thrown out the window or because of it. So I'm always fascinated when this happens, where it's people get really really mad and then it like just goes away, or they released a new album, or maybe just not that many people cared in the first place. I you know, I think that's part of it, and I think a lot of it is how it's handled.

26:20 If I remember correctly, at the after the the Rihanna thing, Chris Brown kind of disappeared for a little bit, And but I've never I I I've never been a big Chris Brown frian. I know a couple of his songs, but he has a fairly diehard fan base and from everything he is incredibly talented. Some people, I think there is just a tendency to look the other way. Uh. I mean, Michael Jackson always is the one that will always come to mind first and foremost. I mean, although he was never convicted of anything, there were certainly a lot of allegations and a lot of questionable behavior.

27:05 Yeah, in the case of Chris Brown, you know, there there was evidence, we saw it. Yeah, And I think for a lot of people, it just kind of boils down to, well, he didn't do it to me, or didn't say it to me, or this didn't affect me in any way, So what do I care? It is what it is. And I think that's kind of the attitude for a lot of people. I Well, I think I think musicians can weather it better than most because if you have a r. Kelly is always my best example, I mean, yeah, despicable, horrible person. But if ignition comes on man, I'm tapping my toe. I'm not changing it. Yeah, it's still a good song.

27:46 Yeah, you know, it's so I think. I think musicians more people have the ability to separate the art from the artist. Yeah. I'm not buying any of his stuff now, but I will enjoy ignition when I hear it. Other birthdays Today, to Panga turns forty five, So hit us right in the old heart. Danielle Fischel best noticed to Panga from Boy Meets World turns forty five years old? That's that hits you in the heart, doesn't hit you in the heart of all? Well, I guess you were too old to ever have watched Boy Meets World. I actually feel like I was a little old for that show. I watched a couple episodes here and there, but to me, that's more of a millennial show.

28:39 Yeah, but I know who she was hot. I remember those puffy lips, and she still looks good. It's all. Was she on Dancing with the Stars? Maybe she might have been. And I think she may have a podcast as well. And then you have the reboot slash spin off show of Boy Meets World. Was Girl meets World, that's where they grew up and had a daughter, and then that was sort of like the the New show that was on for at least a little while. But yeah, I think you're out. I think she was on Dance with the Stars and finally turning forty three today. How weird is this? In your brain? To Penga is forty five, Superman Henry cavill is forty three, That to me seems weird. I guess I can't reconcile that for some reason.

29:35 How long ago did that his first Superman movie come out? The early twenty teens. I'm guessing yes, maybe like an nine to twenty ten range. It's been a while, and he only did what too. He had Man of Steel and then they went into the Justice League. That's part of what I didn't like about those DC movies around that time is they all just felt so rushed because they were trying to keep up with Marvel, and because they rushed them, the stories. Weren't very good. Twenty thirteen, that's when Man of Steel came out, got it well, and at that point they were so behind Marvel it wasn't even funny.

30:19 And that's what I mean, that's like all their stuff felt so hurried because they're trying to catch up. Like I realized this not long ago. It's so weird how people will pit different things against each other when they don't necessarily need to be. And when I say people, I mean fans. You've got the Snyder Verse bros. And the New DC James Gunn DC Bros. Or whatever slash Girls, and they're at odds. It's like, no, no, no, My Superman's Henry Caville, not this you know, Goodie two Shoes version that's out now, which is kind of the whole point of the new one. But anyway, the Snyder people that like the darker moody or stuff. I realized though, Zack Snyder is like the king of exposition when it comes to Hollywood directors. It is kind of frightening. And if you don't know what exposition is, that's when it's just outright explaining things in a movie, which is typically considered bad because in a movie you're supposed to just show it right. So if there's long if there's just long spots of explaining things in the middle of a movie, then that's kind of a sign of a bad film.

31:33 Snyder is really bad at this. Did you watch the what was it, the the one that was supposed to be like his take on a Star Wars deal, like the y the Moon something, the rain of the Moon, Moon rain or rape whatever. Yes, I watched. I watched the first one, which I like. The second one, and that that I'm trying to think i'd explain it because that one, at least it was the story was broken up into two or three parts. Yeah, so less of that of the exposition. But tedious would be the word I would use, but.

32:26 I think it was. I think it was the second one where they were building up towards this big battle on this moon where the evil Federation is coming to get their grain right, and the night before this big battle, all the all the heroes that have been collected to help out this farming community all have to tell their story of why it's so important that they're there. And it's supposed to be like a flashback thing, but all it is is just a bunch of explaining. I mean, it's like fifteen minutes of just explaining crap in this movie. I'm like, oh my god, this is awful, rebel, thank you. Uh. And then when I rewatched Man of Steel, there was another scene of it again where Zod is explaining his reasons for everything, and I'm like, oh my god, Snyder's the king of exposition, dude. Just people just explaining stuff now.

33:18 At least in Man of Steel what's his name? Who played Zod is so good at it you don't mind it as much. But anyway, that's my that's my tangent for the day. Happy Birthday. Henrykaville who Wants Who Wants famously said, uh, if you like or just ask her out, it works for me. Are you yeah? Thanks for the hot tip there, super hunk. All right, Trey, are you ready for the wildest story that I have seen all year? I don't mean headline, I don't mean punchline. I mean the wildest story I have seen all year. Yes, good, I'll tell you about it next. Inside the Treehouse. You are in the Treehouse.

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35:15 That's a big tease hit be with us. A glamorous JP Morgan Chase executive has been accused of turning a married male broker into her office sex slave, amid claims of viagra spiking and litany of obscene forced acts that made him cry. Okay, are we We're gonna at least throw out the caveat that this is completely not true. Not yet, Okay, I'm going to take you on a journey here on a story that sounds too wild to be true. A JP Morgan executive used her power to sexually harass and abuse a junior male employee. Drugging him, subjecting him to racial abuse, and threatening his career when he refused her advances. That's according to a lawsuit. Uh Lorna Hagini, an executive director in JP Morgan Chase's leveraged finance division, is accused of filing, or is accused in the filing, of coursing a married banker into non consensual and humiliating sex acts over months, despite his pleas for her to stop her the lawsuit, at one point, she is alleged to have removed her shirt, began fondling her breasts, and racially insulting the man's wife, remarking, I bet your

36:47 little Asian wife doesn't have these canons. The man didn't claim. She forcibly removed his pants and performed oral sex on him against his will. He continued to protest and began to cry. At this point of the LinkedIn post, the number of people clicking a ply would be through the roof. It's also claimed that the female executive allegedly admonished him for crying and scolded him for failing to achieve an erection, saying, stop effing crying. Actually, I got to beat here. Stoping crying, you're a king douchebag who thinks he's hot, but you can't even get your heart for me. What the is this?

37:29 She allegedly said during the second encounter, that was the first. I mean, that is setting a high bar. During the second encounter, she allegedly ordered him to suck her toes, pushed him to the ground, and sat on his face, berating him. When he was unable to sustain arousal, he says, I'm very uncomfortable. Please please, I'm begging you, but she allegedly laughed before making a racist remark that his genitals don't taste like curry. It is with a heavy heart that I report to you that this lawsuit has already been debunked, thrown out. It is all fabricated. I say that with a heavy heart because I was really hoping that when she said your wife doesn't have these cannons, I was really hoping that was a real quote from somebody.

38:32 I read this story and and it was all entertaining as hell until I saw, you know, they the lady's kid was then you know, having to I mean obviously getting just all sorts of horrible things said to him, and so bad, and the guy that did this like evidently like then, I mean he has since deleted all, like he knew what was going to happen, and he deleted all his social media everything, And yeah, this is the kind of crap that lives. Get ruined by, absolutely And so it turns out what so many people thought was going to be the story of the year was just made up. John Doe who John Doe who filed the suit. His actual name is Sharayu Raina, thirty five, according to this at the time.

39:28 It's been a few days. This now is probably changed. He is a principal at Brigal Sagemont. I don't mean of like a school of me, like of a different financial place. He left JP Morgan and went straight into private equity. It went straight to private equity. The whole threatened his bonus premise of the lawsuit collapsed. The female executive at Chase reported to a completely different managing director than this douche. She had absolutely no say over his compensation. JP Morgan pulled phone records, reviewed emails, interviewed the entire team, and found nothing. Raina even refused to participate in his own investigation. A colleague described him as socially awkward. But someone who met the requirements to stay at the bank.

40:19 That is such a corporate bull thing that it absolutely it makes sense. I can't tell you how many times I've seen it, and I've seen this with my own eyes, to see people completely incompetent in the jobs that they have, or completely not caring about the results of the work that they do, that not only stay employed, sometimes get promoted. You wouldn't be talking about the radio business, would you. Oh, was it that obvious? The thing is, though those type of antics are not limited to the media industry. It's not limited to the industry.

41:01 This is this is part of what's wrong with corporate America. You have someone that is clearly a problem, but someone somewhere seems to think they have some redeeming quality, like at this one where they say, well, he meets the requirements to work here. Wow, good on, good on you. Before any lawsuit, this guy tried to negotiate a payout in the millions to leave the bank. Quietly. They didn't. They didn't go for that. He then filed the court filing. Then his lawyers retracted it for corrections and ultimately deleted it. But the Daily mail had already run the whole thing, and social media ran with the rest, so wild got wilder.

41:51 And the fact that this dude just completely made up all of this and in the process trashed an otherwise seemingly very nice corporate executive. And it's just and I would imagine, Uh, we'll get hit with a libel slander suit. Yeah, this is the Yeah, this will be the easiest defamation case in the history of US justice. And I can't imagine after it's all said and done that any bank is really gonna want him working for him. Like, I don't I don't know, I don't know if this is one of those things. I'm sure in the middle of the night, it's something that you know, he something happened, she pissed him off. But at a certain point he thought this was a great idea, But then really should have sat down and go let me think this through.

42:47 How does this play out? If and especially if because one thing that if you've worked in corporate America you certainly know is a lot of times they will pay just to make something go away. And if JP Morgan Chase looked at this and was like, uh huh, if you you're full of it. That probably is where it should have died. With him should have but it didn't. There is a positive plot twist here, but it is a stretch, so hear me out. I'm sure this female executive at Chase would love for this to go away completely, or at the very least have her memory wiped of it. There is a way to do this, but it's not easy.

43:42 A woman lost ten years of memories after she pooped with excessive force. I'm not saying this is a solution. I'm just saying it's an idea. A woman lost ten years of memories after she pooped with excessive force. This is why it's important you just let things happen naturally, don't force it. I have a tough time with this one. So did she, because if this were the case, I would be five. Is that how hard you strain? Sometimes? Sometimes I have. I have no regularity, so it's sometimes it's it's a it's a deal, But yeah, I I mean, and God knows, if if there was a if I could strain hard enough just to go back and forget twenty years of alcoholism, I would do it.

44:44 Your version of a Back to the Future reboot is really depressing. And yeah tell me about it. In a bizarre medical case that sounds almost unreal, a woman in Hong Kong reportedly around ten years of her memory following intense straining caused by severe constipation. Doctors believe the episode was linked to a rare condition known as transient global amnesia, which can be triggered by extreme physical strain that temporarily disrupts blood flow and oxygen to the brain. Although most of her long term memory returned after receiving medical care, the specific period surrounding the incident remains completely blank.

45:28 It's probably for the best. Medical experts warned that extreme physical exertion, even in unexpected situations, can occasionally affect brain function, highlighting how pushing the body too far can come with serious and unpredictable consequences. Don't do CrossFit when you're sitting on the toilet, basically, I just I can't fathom straining so hard to drop a deuce that you end up with amnesia. I I mean, I've seen stars, buddy. I think it's time to eat a little more fiber or maybe a stool softener something. Change the diet up just a little bit. Thank you for being here inside the Treehouse with us. If you enjoyed this, do us a solid.

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