Aug. 12, 2026

Split the Bill or Pay Your Share? When Is It Fair—and When Are You Just Cheap? | The Treehouse Show

Split the Bill or Pay Your Share? When Is It Fair—and When Are You Just Cheap? | The Treehouse Show
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When you go out to dinner with a big group, are you obligated to split the bill evenly—or should you only pay for what you actually ordered? And at what point does refusing to split the check make you look cheap?

That’s the debate kicking off this episode of The Treehouse Show.

Trey recently went to a birthday dinner with a large group and asked the server to put him on a separate tab. Why? The rest of the table was ordering bottles of wine, cocktails, and beer, while Trey wasn’t drinking. He still contributed toward the birthday person’s dinner and drinks, paid for everything he ordered himself, and tipped his server 40%.

Seems fair, right? Apparently not to everyone at the table.

So where’s the line? If one person orders a $20 meal while everyone else is ordering expensive drinks, appetizers, and entrées, should the entire bill still be divided evenly? Is asking for a separate check perfectly reasonable—or does it make you the cheap friend?

After settling absolutely nothing in that debate, we move on to Celebrity Birthdays, which somehow leads to a conversation about rehab, reports about Brad Pitt drinking again, and whether some TV shows noticeably changed their writing and messaging after COVID.

Then things get appropriately weird. We cover the story of a homeless man who allegedly managed to sneak onto a JetBlue flight, and we have an update on a story that refuses to go away: the man who says he has the world’s smallest penis.

Dinner etiquette, drinking, celebrities, airline security, questionable decisions, and penis news. Just another perfectly normal episode of The Treehouse Show.


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A tiny Wiener update. Oh very exciting. Uh, it's just

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I have all sorts of questions about that guy, and yeah,

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who America? Despite everything America is a very giving place.

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there's better things to do with your money. People.

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homeless people doing homelessly stuff, of course, and to Split

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grow the Treehouse show. Let's start today with to Split

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or Not to Split?

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Trey.

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So, I recently had an experience, as everyone knows, are

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those new. I am a recovering alcoholic. I don't drink,

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have been. So this is a just mind blowing thing.

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Of next Monday, it'll be a decade.

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Congratulations.

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I appreciate it that I'm still trying to wrap my

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mind around that one.

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Basically as basically a fifth wait of your life has

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now been alcohol free. Well, I guess, I guess in

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your early your early days, like when you were seeing

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when you were like a toddler and it well I

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can't say teenager probably, but let's say a quarter of

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your life has been alcohol free. Oh you're gonna do

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the math, aren't you.

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No, that's true. And yeah, that being said, so go

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out to dinner whatever, I don't drink. So I had

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an experience where I went to a birthday dinner, and

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which I'm normally fine with, but at a certain point,

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if I know the players involved, I am not one

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and Dan you can testify this. I am not cheap.

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I am not someone who's you know, I'm gonna pull anything.

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But also I'm not gonna piss away my money paying

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for everyone else's drinking. So I went to a birthday party,

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I knew the players involved, and I had a feeling

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bottles of wines are going to be order and everything else.

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So I and I, as I have done for a while,

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I discreetly pulled the waiter aside server and I go, listen,

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I go, I need you to keep me on a

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separate check so that way, like, I'm more than happy

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to pay. I'm happy to contribute to to the birthday

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person's festivities. But what I'm not willing to do is pay.

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You know. And now, if everyone was just gonna have

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a drink or whatever, yeah, okay, I'm not gonna really

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split hairs. But I knew this group, and you know,

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by the time it's all said and done, they've spent

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over one thousand dollars on wine and drinks and everything else.

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Because there are some players involved that have done very

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well in their life. So it comes time to split

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up the bill. And then you're like, well, hey, everyone,

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what is divided up by ten? I'm like, no, I go,

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I kept my check check separate go, so I'm gonna

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take care of that. And I go, you know, here's

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some money for to cover the birthday person's bill. Mm hmm.

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And they're like, oh, come on, you know, they're like,

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don't be that way, just just make it easy. I

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go It's perfectly easy to go divide by nine instead

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of ten, just because you know. I mean, if you

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need to bust out a calculator, knock yourself out. But no,

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I am not paying y'all all. You know you had

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like four bottles of wine.

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M h.

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I did not, you know, partake in any of that,

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and I don't feel I need to pay for it.

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A couple of the people who I knew know me

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better than others, were okay, fine, other kept giving me

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dirty looks like I was being the party pooper because

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they were having to pay more. And I'm like, man,

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why would I pay for y'all's excessive drinking. I mean,

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I appreciate if over ten years ago, hey, I would

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have been right there with you, But.

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That made me doing laps around you.

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Yeah, the fact that you know and like I said,

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excessive ordering everything else, which is fine. Like I said,

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I I tipped my server very well, like about a

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forty percent tip, paid for mine, threw in some cash

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for you know, I even I specifically brought cash so

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just I knew, I go, hey, here there's my portion

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to cover the birthday person's meal and their night.

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Yeah, but I.

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Don't feel like and I mean, and especially ten years

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into this, I don't feel bad at all. But I

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found it funny that some people thought I was being

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cheap are a pain in the ass because I wasn't

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going to pay for everyone's drinking. And it's not like

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I I made it difficult. I said, I had my

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check separate and you know, I mean my check was

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a quarter of what they ended up divving up. I

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mean it was. It's amazing how you money, you say,

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when you don't drink and you go out. Oh, it's like.

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There was another night I went to Hobby Ears, which

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you've been there, you know, this fantastic uh Mexican place

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in Dallas, like Mexico City food.

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Love it.

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And this was it had been my first time. This

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was actually a couple of years ago, and my first

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time at hobby years post sobriety or post drinking whatever.

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And I was shocked because I you know, it was

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I was on a date. Oh yeah, we had an

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appetizer entrees and I think the check was like ninety bucks.

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I was like, oh wait, how this happened? Oh.

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Javier's is one of the best restaurants in Dallas, and

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it's super reasonably priced.

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Yeah, it's like, oh wow, it's not that bad. Oh

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that's right, because I'm not knocking back fifteen dollars marker.

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Uh yeah, yeah, that helps. That's without a doubt.

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I am always fascinated by these split Czech scenarios and

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yours and yours has an additional layer to it, right,

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because your story, your situation, and this split the chech

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birthday scenario is already complicated because you've got different socioeconomic factors. Right,

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You've got some people that have done really well for themselves,

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and then you've got other people that you know don't

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have that same amount of money, right, and then you

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may even have some people at the table that have

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even less than that. So it really complicates it just

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from a financial point.

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I assure you I was the poorest person at the table.

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I was trying to be delicate about it, but I

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kind of figure you don't need partly because you spent

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so much on drinking over your life.

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So yeah, I mean that's.

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Yeah, No, I ruined myself financially and professionally being an alcoholic.

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So and and you also have a number of friends

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in various walks of life, and so it's so at

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your table, you probably had three d different levels of

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financial uh situations. You probably had people that are millionaires,

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You probably had some people that are just.

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You know, comfy, and then there's you.

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You know, it's not like you're holding up a cardboard

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sign that says, you know, will work for food or anything.

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But I mean, you're not forget the alcohol thing just

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for for a moment. You're you're not going to be

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throwing back the stuff that they're doing just from a

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financial standpoint, even if you were drinking, I don't know

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if you're going to be ordering, you know, a five

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hundred dollars bottle of wine. So that's one aspect which

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that can get complicated enough when you're at a friends

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group setting and you're out because even because me, even

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as someone who drinks, I don't want to pay for

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someone's one hundred and fifty dollars bottle of wine that

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they ordered. And I'm not gonna drink like if I'm

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if I'm having a you know, if I'm having what

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I'm having and I have two of those, let's say

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let's say I get two top shelf martine they're fifteen

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sixteen bucks. Okay, that's thirty bucks that I've spent and

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you are buying one hundred and fifty dollars bottle of wine.

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I'm not splitting that check with you.

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And then your situation is that additional layer of you

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don't drink at all, so you're really not going to

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split that check.

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And I don't blame you. I'll tell you right now.

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If you me and my wife went out to eat,

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let's say, to Hoviers, and obviously she and I are

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going to have a margarita or two, you're not. I'm

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not going to expect you to split that bill evenly.

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You know why, because I think about these things, and

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I'm considerate. I think about other people as opposed to

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just myself and my you know.

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Like I said, if it had been just everyone had

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a round of drinks, I would have just said, fine,

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you know, and just yeah, here, I'll pay whatever, you know,

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divide it by ten here, Okay, I'm not going to

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quibble over what ends up being fifteen twenty bucks. I

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am gonna quibble over what's gonna be a couple hundred dollars.

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Absolutely, and you shouldn't feel bad about that.

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And that's the thing that bugs me about this situation is,

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like you said, you had some people that are like okay, yeah,

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I get it, and then you had other people that

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are shooting, that are shooting you the dirty looks from

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across the table like you're some sort of a problem,

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when they don't realize that they are the problem.

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Well, so listen, I hate There are people that I

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quit going to dinner with because they would sit there,

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they would take a check and then like bust out

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the calculator and oh well I didn't really have any

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of that appetizer. So I'm not gonna it.

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Ain't like that.

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I'm not cheap like I am with. I hate cheap people.

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You know, I go to dinner with somebody and they

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want to divide up the check like that and then

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they tip, like crap, I will not go to dinner

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with them. That's not the case. The case is, I

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just don't feel compelled to drink, you know, to pay

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for your excessive drinking. And you know, especially when like

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I said, you're talking about, yeah, they easily had a

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thousand dollars worth of alcohol, which a nice place, and

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like I said, ten people, is that really that much? No,

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But I'm not going to pay an extra hundred bucks

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just you know, to make their life easier or feel it.

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And I am at an age now where it's like

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I have come to grips with my shortcomings as far

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as my professional and my status status in life, so

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I don't feel compelled to big time and you know go,

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oh well, yeah, okay, I'll do that too. No, yeah,

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especially a couple of them, like you pick this up,

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You've got no problem. But I think about rich people

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is that they're oftentimes the cheapest.

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The great ironies in life, they really really are.

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That's they kept their money. You know, they got a

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lot of money for a reason, and part of it

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is they don't spend it very easily.

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And they also don't like sharing it.

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No, because that is also one of the one of

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the truths that happen in life is when you're poor,

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you're the most giving that there is.

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When you're poor, you're.

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Thinking, man, if I had twenty million dollars, I would

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give it to this and I would do that. If

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I had elon musk money, I would do this with it.

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I would do that with it. But it's interesting once

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you start making more money that then all of a

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sudden you're like man, this is nice. I'm going to

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hang on to this as long as I can, especially

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if you think it may not last. So, yeah, the

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whole money situation is a big enough wrinkle. Then throwing

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on top of it that you know, they're drinking a

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lot and you're just sitting over in the corner not drinking.

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So it's a completely new layer to it.

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And it's not and my unwillingness to pay for their

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drinking has nothing again to do with I'm sober and

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they're drinking. And it's not like a refusal to pay

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for alcohol or some moral thing. It's just, you know,

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I didn't partake in this, so I'm not paying for

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it to you know, to the tune of a couple

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one hundred dollars. I got better things to do with

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a couple of hundred bucks.

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Yeah, it's still a financial thing. And it's not like

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as someone who's been sober for ten years, next Monday again, congratulations.

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And I know this personally, it's not like you're over

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there looking at everyone judging. You're not over there like

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just shaking your head like, oh their order, you really, Dan,

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you're getting another round. None of that ever happens. You're

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not being like a jerk about it. You're not, you know,

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being pushy with the sobriety or anything on anybody else.

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So to me, you were very.

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Very perfectly pleasant social guest. And it and and look

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and this is I'm trying to think gathering my thoughts here.

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I've been in this scenario as well. There was one time,

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way way back. I mean, this is back when even Trey,

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you and I I'm not even sure if you and

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I had really even met yet. This would have been

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two thousand and two or three maybe. So my cousin Josh,

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My cousin Josh's two years older than I am. So

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he is getting married, right, this is back in the

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early two thousands. He's getting married. He invites me on

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his on his bachelor party trip. His bachelor party trip

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is happening in Austin. I'm like cool, sounds like fun.

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So I go.

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And we're on a pontomboat on Lake Travis for the

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for the day, and then that night we're supposed to

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go to dinner and then go to you know, to

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the Yellow Rose. We're doing it up, you know, for

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an Austin bachelor party. Early two thousands.

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Yeah, a twenty something Austin bachelor party.

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And keep in mind, in two thousand and two, two

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thousand and three, this guy's twenty one, twenty two, so

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and these guys are all a couple of years older.

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So I mean, yeah, it's we're all in our twenties.

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Is all going to be ugly.

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And I was the ugly guy because not because I

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had had so much to drink, but because I don't

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do well with motion sickness.

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So this is what happened. We go to the lake.

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Yes, I drink, I have some beers, but even in

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my early twenties, I had already built up a tolerance

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enough to know that I know what my limits are,

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and I know that there's other plans later in the day.

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Point is we're on the lake all day and I'm

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a little nauseous from the boat. Then we get in

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the car to drive back to town, and you're familiar

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with Lake Travis enough to know that's kind of a

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windy road. And I got real car sick, real fast,

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so much so that I had to hang my head

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out the window and puke it all up.

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So I was not feeling good.

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Get back to the hotel, crash for like four hours,

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wake up and I just feel like ass. But I

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have to rally because it's my cousin's bachelor party, right.

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So we go out to dinner to a Mexican place

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and I eat.

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I think.

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I ordered some food of some kind, but it wasn't

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much and I ordered no booz.

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I felt terrible.

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Meanwhile, the twelve other guys at the table are all

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ordering top shelf Margarita's. Those guys at this point in

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their life because they all went through Jesuit and you know,

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Bishop Lynch and stuff, they've all got good jobs already.

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I was still starting out in a radio career, so

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I was super poor, like you on your birthday dinner

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outing the other day.

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I when the.

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Check came, I was not about to pay for everybody's

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four and five hop shelf Margarita's each when I had

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a tostada, and.

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I didn't care when that check came.

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And I have still where I was sitting at the

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opposite end of the table and this one guy was like, Hey, Dan,

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where's yours blah blah blah, And I was like, Oh,

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it's in there. He's like, but we need like sixty

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or seventy bucks out of you. I'm like, no, I

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threw in my twelve, Like, but we're splitting the check.

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I was like, yeah, I threw in mine, and I

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covered my cousin's stuff. I didn't have a sixteen dollars

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margarita in two thousand and two, let alone five of them.

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I'm not paying for that same thing as you. I

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got the dirty looks the rest of the night. Everyone

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just thought I was a cheap skater or whatever. And

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it's like, I don't care. And it was amazing to

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me that they couldn't understand I'm not paying for something

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beyond what is reasonable.

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On so many levels.

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And I don't understand the mentality of people that don't

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understand that. How do you not grasp that you're doing

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the math on the check? You see on the bill,

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I pointed out, I'm like, this is what I had.

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I had this thing right there and that's it. Now

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look at all of your stuff. How does how does

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that compute in your mind?

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Yeah?

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I don't get it.

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And that's you go. You know, hey, the birthday boy,

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you know, bachelor, go, he had this. Here's my share

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of this, plus mine I've contributed. You know, I'm not

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paying for your excessive drinking. Uh and especially and one

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of the things I do even to avoid that is

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I will always pull the server aside and say, hey,

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please put mine on a separate tab, so I don't

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it doesn't even get into this deal of oh, you know,

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we're just dividing this up. Knock yourself out. I'm not

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on your tab right, My my stuff is separate over here.

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And that's and that's a brilliant move on your part,

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you know, as the person that's a there by themselves

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and b you know you're not going to be having

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all that stuff. So it makes it really simple to

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tell just bring me mine.

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One ordeal of you know, exactly what you went through

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at a bachelor party of oh, hey we'll just all

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divide it up. No I'm not, I'm not doing that,

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and yeah then okay, Well it's just you know, it

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makes it so much easier for the server. I go,

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I go here, Server, come here. But then after that,

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I'm like, you know what, I'll make it even easier.

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I put myself on a separate check y'all gonna all

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All right, today is Wednesday, August twelfth, twenty twenty six.

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Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. There are some good

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ones today, Trey, and a lot of them. Are you

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ready buckle up for birthdays? Olympic women's rugby medalist Iona

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mar Is thirty ilanamar Ilonamar.

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I think that's it.

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Yeah, I know the one that we all sort of,

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I don't know, necessarily fell in love with, but captivated

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the captivated America's attention, and all of a sudden we

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all knew about women's rugby A because they were badass

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and be because she is the badass of the badasses

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on that team.

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She is thirty today.

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Just running hose over left and right, and that's not

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a sexist thing to say hose. I would have said

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I said that about Herschel Walker and Earl Campbell in

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their days they also ran over hose so that I

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mean that as a non gender based hoe situation.

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Don't.

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No, I don't, actually I do, but the punchline was

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too easy.

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But no, I don't, I do.

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But no, let's see. So a happy birthday to her.

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She is thirty today. Pete Sampres from the Tennis World

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is fifty five. Pete Sampres did something to me back

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in the nineties that I thought was impossible.

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He made me love tennis.

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Between him and Andrea Agassy, I was glued to tennis

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for like a year.

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I loved it.

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I yeah, I I loved that era of tennis. Sampress

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was so good, and I mean up until Rafa came along.

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But he he played with such finesse that it was

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it was interesting to watch. But yeah, that was that

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was a very entertaining time.

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The matches between him and Andrea Agassy were so much fun.

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I mean, Andre Agassy was a guy that was already

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on the scene when Pete Sampras showed up, and they

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couldn't have been more opposite than each other. I mean,

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Andrea Agassy was loud and boy, I mean he wasn't

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like Jim McEnroe loud, but I mean like he was

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he had hair, and he had endorsements.

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He was like the rock star of tennis.

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And here comes Pete Samprass, who's sort of like the

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Kenny g but he's just smoking everybody.

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Agasy was like the boy of tennis when he first

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came out. Yeah, the long hair, which no one had.

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You know, it had been a very clean cut sport

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as far as the way they dress, haircut, facial hair, everything. Yeah,

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he was very much the the rebel as it were.

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Which is why I still remember.

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One of his great endorsements was the Cannon Rebel m HM,

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one of the great one of the great promotion collaborations.

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But it was interesting. This is how much I was

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into tennis back in the day.

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I watched it so much, not just you know, with

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Pete Sampers and Andrea Acacy, but even watching him with

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the women's tennis with Steffi Graft because that was at

464
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.119
the time when she was so freaking dominant. I even

465
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.119
know that Pete Sampras was a phenomenal tennis player because

466
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:47.680
he could beat you at your own game, and so

467
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:50.920
he could be the guy hanging out on the baseline

468
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.480
just smashing winners all day, or he could also do

469
00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:56.720
the serve and volley coming up to the net and

470
00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:59.680
play with that sort of touch and finesse. Most tennis

471
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:02.240
players are only good at one or the other. He

472
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:05.279
was able. He was capable of kicking your ass either way.

473
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:09.039
That's how much I was into tennis back in the day.

474
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:16.160
Yeah, I am shocked, though, I fully and maybe they're

475
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.960
not of age yet to really but you really would

476
00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.039
have thought if there was ever an offspring that we're

477
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.160
going to be great tennis players, it would be the

478
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.240
Andre Agassi Stephanie Graff kids.

479
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:28.960
I remember the first thing I thought of when I

480
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:30.839
heard that they hooked up. I was like, I don't

481
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.559
know if this is for love or just for legacy,

482
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:38.240
because my god, their kids, Oh Jesus, I have no

483
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:39.319
idea what their kids do.

484
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:43.079
I don't honestly, I don't even know if they have kids.

485
00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:44.759
Hang on.

486
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.640
I will say this though, like, even as someone that

487
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:49.920
doesn't have kids, and I don't think anyone should ever

488
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.519
be forced to have kids based on some sort of

489
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.440
societal expectation. I do have a little bit of hypocrisy

490
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.960
running through me when it comes to truly get exceptional humans.

491
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.960
When you've got an Andrea Agassy and a stepfie Graff

492
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.599
in a relationship. I kind of feel like they should

493
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:12.200
have kids just because their genetics are so freakishly good

494
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:15.279
that I want to see their offspring do stuff.

495
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.039
So that they had two kids and they said, uh,

496
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.119
they did not push them to become tennis players, and

497
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.400
I'm guessing they didn't because at this point they would

498
00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:29.359
be twenty five and twenty three years old.

499
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.480
So that's that's old by tennis standards.

500
00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:35.559
Huh. That doesn't seem like a waste of genetics, though

501
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:36.359
it does.

502
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.920
Right, It's such a hypocritical thing because again, even I

503
00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:43.920
think it's great that they didn't push their kids into tennis,

504
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:45.880
but I kind of wish they had.

505
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:53.759
Yeah, like I get it. But at the same time,

506
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.400
I mean, it seems like a waste of talent.

507
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:01.079
Yeah, it's interesting how that happens though, because look, I

508
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:01.880
realized that.

509
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:09.519
But I also will say this, of all sports you

510
00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:12.799
read about tennis players, their lives are pretty miserable, like

511
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:18.359
because they're generally singled out as talented in the I

512
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:21.880
would say seven to nine year old range, and then

513
00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:26.759
that's their life because most of them they're teetering on

514
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:32.559
becoming pro mid teens. Yeah, so I do understand that,

515
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.599
especially stephie Groff, who was German.

516
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:38.160
I think so.

517
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:43.200
Yeah, and their training regiment, especially because part of that

518
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:47.640
goes pre pre democracy and going back to the Cold War.

519
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.599
What they did to kids for you know, they thought

520
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:54.599
were athletes was even worse than anything Americans dreamed of.

521
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.200
Yeah, all right, that's just a tip of the uh,

522
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:00.559
that's just a tip the iceberg.

523
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:01.599
When it comes to birthdays.

524
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:08.079
George Hamilton is eighty seven Hollywood Icon and the Tanning King.

525
00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:14.240
Like we mentioned the Cannon Rebel camera collaboration as being

526
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.119
phenomenal with the Tennis Rebel Andrea Agassy, I think one

527
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:24.119
of the great advertising campaign collaborations was George Hamilton and

528
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:33.519
Extra Chrispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Bruce Greenwood is seventy. It's

529
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:35.119
an actor. You may not know him by his name,

530
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:38.720
but you know him by his face. He played He

531
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:43.160
was in Star Trek as Captain or Admiral Pike. I

532
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:49.039
believe The Resident thirteen days Gerald's game. Yeah, you see

533
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:51.440
his face and you're like that guy. Yeah, he's been

534
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:52.319
in tons of stuff.

535
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:53.480
Did you ever watch The Resident?

536
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:54.799
I did not.

537
00:30:58.279 --> 00:30:59.119
Fascinating show.

538
00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:01.000
Uh.

539
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:03.119
He had a guest He had a guest turn on

540
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:04.960
mad Men for a handful of episodes.

541
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.039
He was really good in that the Resident starts it

542
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.160
is and it's sadly it was a very good show.

543
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.319
And then and I'm not saying this to be political

544
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:20.119
or anything else. It's just a fact post COVID, a

545
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:26.400
lot of riders got very woke and and what they did,

546
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:30.519
and especially in medical stuff, and the show takes a

547
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:35.160
dramatic turn, and it also loses some keep players because

548
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.359
a couple of the people were like, Hey, family's too important.

549
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:40.039
I don't. I don't. I want to be close to family,

550
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:46.960
not doing this crap. Uh. But it's worth a watch,

551
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.240
especially like the first three seasons.

552
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:55.200
I haven't seen it, so I can't speak to the

553
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:58.960
quote unquote wolkeness of it. I will say, just like

554
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.240
at a certain time, I think that word gets thrown

555
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.799
around too much. But I will say absolutely Hollywood at

556
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.960
different times. And it's in a phase right now where

557
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:13.319
it gets real preachy. Even if I agree with some

558
00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.680
of the stuff they say. Even if I disagree with

559
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:18.480
some of the stuff they say, sometimes I don't like

560
00:32:18.599 --> 00:32:19.799
being spoken down to.

561
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:23.039
So I'll give you the greatest example in my that

562
00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:25.160
I can think of. There was a show called New

563
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.319
Amsterdam Ryan Eggeld, and it started off. It was a

564
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:30.440
fantastic show.

565
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:36.359
Was this the one with Tyler Bean bearded guy from

566
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.839
Tucker and Dale Versus Evil?

567
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:42.079
I think it is? Let me.

568
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:49.680
Yes, Tyler Leban, Yes, yeah.

569
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:51.319
I wanted to watch that show because I'm a huge

570
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.599
fan of Tucker and Dale Versus Evil. I love Tyler Bee,

571
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:54.160
but I never did.

572
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:59.599
And he starts off great, and then you know, towards

573
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:02.759
the ladder part. I mean, like one of the storylines

574
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:06.200
was a kid got a brain tumor because of racism,

575
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:11.240
and I'm not making that up. So it just it went.

576
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:15.559
It went sideways real fast after post COVID, all right,

577
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.319
but it started off. I love Ryan Eggels. He was

578
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:27.839
great in The Blacklist and phenomenal show. All right.

579
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.839
Some mother birthdays if at.

580
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:32.079
Nicole Brown fifty five, best known as Shirley on Community.

581
00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.359
She's also been in tons of game show talk show appearances.

582
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:41.079
She was also the one in the elevator in Avengers

583
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:47.039
Endgame with Tony Stark and Captain America. She's the one

584
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:49.880
that recognizes Captain America and then rats him out to

585
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.079
security and she says that there was this guy in

586
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:54.359
a beat Nick in the elevator.

587
00:33:56.039 --> 00:34:00.799
She was so community. He was a big one, and

588
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.359
then she was.

589
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:05.920
She was also Dwight's co worker in the office when

590
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.440
he when he worked at Staples.

591
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.480
That's a pull for you. Peter Kraus.

592
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:13.159
Peter Krause is sixty one, best known nowadays for his

593
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.440
role in the TV show Nine to one one. Other

594
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:20.280
people may remember him from Parenthood. I remember him first

595
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:26.400
in Six Feet Under on HBO, but but he will

596
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:30.000
forever in our hearts for me and Trey be one

597
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.960
half of the legendary show that did not see enough

598
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:34.760
light of day Sports Night.

599
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:35.280
Yep.

600
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:37.599
Love that show.

601
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:46.840
Yeah, that show again. I feel like if Robert Gillem

602
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:51.000
doesn't have a stroke and that is that show maybe

603
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:56.400
survives another season or two. But phenomenal show.

604
00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:59.880
It was such a great show. It was Aaron Sore

605
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:07.880
pre West Wing and ABC f' with that show so much.

606
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:11.559
The executives just couldn't keep their hands off of it.

607
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:15.000
And if you go back and watch that show, you

608
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.400
can see it, you can hear it. It was a

609
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.800
show that at one point had a laugh track because

610
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.400
the executives thought it was too smart and therefore it

611
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:27.719
needed it so that people watching it knew where to laugh.

612
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.519
I mean, you talk about.

613
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.360
Just a classic example of media executives getting too much

614
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:40.599
creative control over something and just almost ruining it.

615
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:42.920
That's a great one.

616
00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.719
You're absolutely correct. And the other thing that made it

617
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.119
so stupid, and it goes to one of those things

618
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:52.440
that media executives do is that when they don't really

619
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:56.960
understand something, they have a tendency to really jack with

620
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:58.840
it or if they feel like they can't control it.

621
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.599
One of the thing, and this is really hard to

622
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:08.400
explain now, but at the time, late nineties, this is

623
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.159
a show based on the boom of Sports Center. You know,

624
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.239
Sports Center wasn't a thing even in the early nineties.

625
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:20.599
But then you get Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick Berman, I mean,

626
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:25.360
all these big personalities and Sports Center. I mean, it's

627
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:29.599
it's nightly viewing you are not gonna miss, especially the

628
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:33.960
Sunday night big show. You weren't missing that show, and

629
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:35.639
if you did, you know, you knew it came on

630
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.880
again at midnight and you were gonna watch it then.

631
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:44.679
So you already had people just fascinated by this and thinking,

632
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.159
and they wanted to watch the show just because they

633
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:49.760
felt like maybe given a little insight into the what

634
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:55.159
goes on behind the scenes. And yeah, they just could

635
00:36:55.159 --> 00:37:00.480
not help to just kept jacking with that show. And

636
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:04.760
but in its premise and especially the first season, it

637
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:05.599
was magical.

638
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:11.000
Yeah, such a great show. Happy birthday. Peter Crusse sixty one.

639
00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:17.199
Casey Affleck is fifty one, baby brother of Ben, Academy

640
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:21.920
Award winner for Manchester Manchester by the Sea. He was yes,

641
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:26.639
also in Goodwill Hunting Ocean's eleven Gone Baby Gone, phenomenal

642
00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:28.760
actor in his own right. You know, there are just

643
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.760
some parents that you gotta think they sit back and go,

644
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:36.000
look at what I have created. The afflic parents got

645
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.159
to feel that way. The Kelsey parents got to feel

646
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:39.599
that way.

647
00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:44.920
I feel like the Affleck parents. I think Ben has

648
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:48.000
you know, made them. Ben's been a little bit of

649
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:51.000
a roller coaster. Ironically, Casey seems to be the more

650
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.000
straight and narrow one these days.

651
00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.920
Ish, but he even had like some like issues early

652
00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:58.559
Ocean type stuff as well.

653
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:00.480
So I mean, look at look.

654
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.159
They have contributed mightily to the creative industry and to

655
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:07.239
Hollywood in general. So as parents, you got to think, yeah,

656
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.039
look at what we did. And then also they got

657
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:12.239
to sit back and think, and they also keep us

658
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:12.920
on our toes.

659
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.079
Yeah. Side note, I saw a story I think it

660
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:20.400
was yesterday that Brad Pitt announced that he was drinking

661
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.320
again after seven years of sobriety.

662
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:25.480
Thank you for bringing that up, because since you were

663
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:29.159
on the cusp of ten years of sobriety. I meant

664
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:32.800
to bring that up at some point this week. It's

665
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:35.159
such a weird thing in Hollywood now or just in

666
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:39.719
society when on one end you say I am no

667
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.039
longer drinking, and now we're getting the backside of it

668
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.880
where someone says and comes out and says, I am

669
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.079
back to drinking now.

670
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:48.960
What the hell?

671
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:55.599
You'd be amazed it. Actually, your chances of sobriety decrease

672
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:59.599
every year because so many people get the thought of

673
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:05.000
I can control it now, and maybe you can't. Maybe

674
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.239
you can't. Generally you can't, and and it's generally when

675
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.800
people in AA they call it when you start drinking

676
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:16.400
again or using you called you've gone out, and it's

677
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:19.199
typically a horrible experience because you don't have the same

678
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:23.440
tolerance or anything else, and it ends up gets very bad,

679
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:27.760
very quick. And I just find I found it fascinating that,

680
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:32.159
especially after all the crap he's going through with his family,

681
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.199
of all the kids, you know, dropping his name and

682
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:39.679
everything else, why would you decide that drinking is a

683
00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:42.719
good course of action, Especially you've read some stories where

684
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:46.679
people were, you know, found him fairly unbearable in his

685
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:51.840
drinking days. So yeah, it's it's it's a fascinating phenomenon,

686
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:56.519
and it happens far more than you would think people

687
00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.920
with I mean twenty plus years, all of a sudden

688
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.159
and they show back up in AA and you know

689
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.119
they're getting a desire chip, which is, you know, like

690
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.159
the first thing you get. It's you know, you want

691
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:10.280
to stay sober for twenty four hours and like, holy crap,

692
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:13.039
which I one of the things that keeps me sober

693
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:16.400
is I didn't have the money to go to rehab

694
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:19.679
or treatment or anything else. I had to do it

695
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:24.119
by you know, taking warm vodka shots to wean myself off.

696
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:29.119
But I still I've first forty five days, I'm sweating

697
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:33.400
through sheets at night shaking. I mean, it was a

698
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:36.400
miserable experience, so miserable that I never want to do

699
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:40.760
it again. You rod Dog did, Oh yeah, I didn't.

700
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:41.360
Celebrities.

701
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:45.039
Celebrities get like vacation retreats and things to clean up

702
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:45.639
and stuff.

703
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:49.519
Now, my friend Amy Newman, that you know quite well

704
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.719
and who is responsible for my sobriety. She and I

705
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:56.199
have always joked that if either one of us wins

706
00:40:56.199 --> 00:41:00.360
the lottery, we're going to rehab, not because because we

707
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:02.880
need it, but because we feel like we got cheeted

708
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:05.280
on the front end of sobriety, and you know, we

709
00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:08.639
want to spend you know, sixty ninety days finding ourselves

710
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.400
and doing yoga and eating you know, you know, all

711
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.239
natural organic food and smoothies and massages and all the

712
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:19.159
stuff that you get with these really nice.

713
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:23.280
Rehabs, and you can really enjoy them on this and

714
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:25.840
you'd be able to really enjoy them because you've already

715
00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:27.079
got the alcohol kicked.

716
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:28.760
Oh yeah, I don't have to go through any of

717
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.679
the of the withdrawals or anything. It's just it's it's

718
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:36.039
a sixty day spa retreat me. That's how I want

719
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:37.239
to find myself.

720
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:41.400
Look, you've already kicked the booze.

721
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.639
What's wrong with also doing a little eat prey love

722
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.639
for yourself? For two three months. Yeah, and at least

723
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:53.840
at least yours wouldn't be court ordered. This segment of

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00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:56.800
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And I'll give this a tease because during that break

738
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.280
we talked about a story that we're gonna say for

739
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:55.519
tomorrow that is absolutely just every time when I read

740
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:01.840
the story, I laughed and you can. You can't make

741
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:09.480
this ship up because if it was just one, you'd go, okay,

742
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:10.880
yeah mate, but the.

743
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:15.320
Two, yeah, she doubled up. Baby.

744
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.159
That is coming up tomorrow's episode, which you can be

745
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747
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.480
All right, so that's tomorrow. Uh so great tease, thanking Trey.

748
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:37.280
Now, before we get to the tiny Wiener update, No, Tray,

749
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:41.280
that's not my new blog. Uh, we need to talk

750
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:45.519
about the man in Florida. Of course, a man was

751
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.159
caught sleeping in a jet Blue plane lavatory. Now, the

752
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.840
headline threw me off at first, because I was like,

753
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:53.360
what do you mean?

754
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:54.119
Caught?

755
00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:56.199
Like some guy was on a flight and he fell

756
00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:58.480
asleep in the bathroom for some reason, maybe because he

757
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:01.199
had too much first clash him, I don't know. Maybe

758
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:04.000
he took a pill to take the edge off of

759
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:06.599
flying and he passed out in the bathroom during a flight.

760
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.559
That's more found in the bathroom or discovered asleep in

761
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:14.719
the bathroom. But then I started reading more of the

762
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:18.000
story than I realized, Oh, no, he was actually caught

763
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:20.960
because it wasn't the scenario I assumed it was.

764
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:26.920
Yeah, the headline is misleading on this one. This one

765
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:31.320
really makes you number one go. Airport security still has

766
00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:33.079
some problems, Yes.

767
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:33.280
It does.

768
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.719
A Florida man is facing felony charges after deputies say

769
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:41.960
he snuck onto a parked Jet Blue plane at Fort

770
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:47.039
Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and fell asleep in the plane's bathroom.

771
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:51.880
Thirty two year old Samuel Prescott Lackey climbed a perimeter fence,

772
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.320
entered a secured maintenance area, and boarded an airbus A

773
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.719
three twenty that was undergoing maintenance. Workers discovered him during

774
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.639
a routine inspection early on Sunday morning. Deputies say the

775
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:05.719
incident delayed aircraft operations and cost Jet Blue about twenty

776
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.239
four hundred bucks. He's been charged with burglary, criminal mischief,

777
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:13.039
and trespassing on critical infrastructure.

778
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:16.480
I mean the rest of this is basically homeless people

779
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:17.199
doing homeless shit.

780
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:23.239
Yeah, I mean it's you know what, like they you

781
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:25.480
know what, they really they really just want to clean

782
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:27.760
bathroom like the rest of us on a road trip or.

783
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:33.480
Just a place to sleep and out of the elements.

784
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:34.440
And but.

785
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:38.199
They're they're sneaky bastards they've.

786
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:44.840
Do don't ever underestimate homeless ingenuity.

787
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:49.320
Oh no, they're up there with with potheads as far as.

788
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:55.800
M the you know, the saying necessity is the mother

789
00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:56.400
of invention.

790
00:45:56.639 --> 00:45:57.360
Uh huh.

791
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:00.639
It's absolutely true when it comes to potheads and homeless people.

792
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:04.320
And sometimes I've been diagram overlaps, but when you get

793
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.599
someone really desperate for something, they will find a way.

794
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:11.880
A homeless person that is trying to find a way

795
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:14.880
out of the elements to get some you know, peace

796
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:17.880
and quiet, a place to sleep. Jumping over a perimeter

797
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:21.079
fence at an international airport and finding your way into

798
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:26.480
a park jet bathroom sounds pretty good. I mean, there's

799
00:46:26.599 --> 00:46:29.559
layers of protection there that you don't have to worry about.

800
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:30.599
Now.

801
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:35.119
I'm traveling right now and we're in Portland, which has

802
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:38.159
a pretty fair amount of homeless people in the area

803
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.840
we're staying. It is known as the Pearl District, so

804
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:44.559
it's not downtown, and there's another area of Portland called

805
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:46.760
Old Town where I guess I've been told there's more

806
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:49.440
of the homeless shelters over there, so it's worse. But

807
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.840
where we are is you know, ten fifteen blocks or something,

808
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.360
so it's close enough to where there is still a

809
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:59.840
fair amount of homeless contingent around here, and it's amazing

810
00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:03.199
to see some of their ingenuity. If they don't have

811
00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:07.039
a tint. They collect umbrellas to kind of create their

812
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:14.360
own little tinted dome, so it protects them from the elements. Also,

813
00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:16.920
they're really really messy. Not all of them, but some

814
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.039
of them are really really messy, which is truly fascinating

815
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:23.039
to me because to me, it's sort of like if

816
00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:26.480
you're inside your home and you're on your couch, it's

817
00:47:26.519 --> 00:47:30.079
not normal to be surrounded by your trash. Right, Some

818
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:33.440
of these homeless people, especially one I call Pigpen, who

819
00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:35.840
was hanging out by a bench outside the place where

820
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:40.719
we're staying here for like two days, she just surrounded

821
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:47.559
by her own trash. Never picked it up, Like it's right,

822
00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:50.079
it's one thing if you're homeless. And she was a

823
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:53.760
horrific drunk because she was chugging margarita, like bottles of

824
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:55.840
like the like pre mixed margarita stuff.

825
00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:00.519
Just surrounded by trash. When you wake up, just pick

826
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:01.039
that up.

827
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:06.039
I don't, Oh god, I mean.

828
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:10.840
Like, it's one thing to be sleeping on a bench

829
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:13.039
outside because you're homeless, but just to be but to

830
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:14.239
be messy on top of it.

831
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:24.920
Come on, let's see if I can find uh. If

832
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:29.280
you ever want to see uh Google, like Austin Homeless

833
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:30.239
Barton Creek.

834
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:36.920
Oh no, uh like at the Springs, Oh god, I.

835
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:42.400
Mean they they absolutely trashed just giant areas. Yeah, because

836
00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:47.599
of that thing. It's amazing. They'll pick up trash that

837
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.199
they think is useful, but they do not throw it.

838
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.639
They will just leave it wherever when they have no

839
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:58.679
use for it anymore. But yeah, that's a I mean.

840
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:02.119
And I have seen plenty of videos from the Pacific

841
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:04.880
Northwest Portland, a lot of them. Like I said, if

842
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:10.079
you haven't seen them, the David Attenborough AI narrated like

843
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:14.440
tweaker Safari I think is what they call it. Absolutely yeah,

844
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:16.719
first class.

845
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:22.119
I've seen it with my own eyes without the Attenborough voiceover.

846
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.599
So I'd like to see some of that. And it's

847
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:27.679
interesting because there's like this lady that I'm talking about

848
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.880
that you know, was sleeping on the I'm staring at

849
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:30.639
the bench right now.

850
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:32.000
I'm on the third floor. I can see it.

851
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.320
She's not there now, but she's since moved off. But

852
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:41.800
at one point there were like three different responses to

853
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:43.480
her that people would walk by and they'd be.

854
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:44.400
Worried about her or whatever.

855
00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:48.400
There was There's like a neighborhood response team in a

856
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:50.559
van came and checked on her. Someone called nine to

857
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.599
one one one night, and I know that because I

858
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:54.760
saw them looking at her.

859
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.320
They were on the phone. And then the fire department

860
00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:57.800
showed up.

861
00:49:57.840 --> 00:49:59.679
Fire department was there for like, I don't know, a

862
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:01.119
minute and a half, and I was like, man, that

863
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:04.159
we can do uh. And then a third was like

864
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.719
a neighborhood patrol thing that checked on it. So, I

865
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.559
mean there's people checking on them and stuff.

866
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:12.320
So but and I'm.

867
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:18.920
Like, my heart I hate seeing homeless people, Like my

868
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:23.519
heart hurts for them, like I and especially I mean,

869
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:31.719
and this sounds bad, I know, but especially like if

870
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:34.400
they have dogs, they have animals. I am even more

871
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:37.679
Like before we had that last freeze in January, I

872
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.280
went around and I tried to give little packages of

873
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:43.239
some food and dog food to these people and hope

874
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:47.800
they found a place to stay. Yeah, and we just

875
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:50.519
as a society have done a horrible job. And a

876
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.400
lot of it is government, like Houston is actually doing

877
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:56.039
a great job of homelessness. But they what they did

878
00:50:56.119 --> 00:50:58.679
is they quit paying all these external groups and they

879
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.559
basically said, hey, we're going to have a city department

880
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:02.800
and we're going to take care of this on our

881
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.400
own and have done so quite effectively at about, you know,

882
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.519
twenty percent of the cost of everyone else.

883
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:11.440
Good on them.

884
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:16.639
Yeah, it's such an interesting thing with the homeless thing, because, yes,

885
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:23.199
homeless people can be very necessity, mother invention can the

886
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.840
ingenuity is really fascinating at times, the survivability and the

887
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:28.119
things that they have to do to just sort of

888
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:31.760
just live. And sometimes, like you, my heart goes out

889
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:34.559
to the homeless. Sometimes it doesn't, because I've known people

890
00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.000
sometimes that have been homeless and it was basically their

891
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:40.519
choice and certain choices they've made that led them there

892
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:44.800
versus some homeless that and this is a common one

893
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:48.679
I see is a schizophrenic type. I mean a lot

894
00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:50.679
of the homeless people I see are people walking around

895
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:53.559
having conversations with themselves and it has nothing to do

896
00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:56.599
with anything they've done. It's just an affliction that they've

897
00:51:56.639 --> 00:51:58.840
got and it's and they're just kind of cast out.

898
00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:02.280
I think. I think it still holds true that at

899
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:06.400
least half of homeless people are bipolar schizophrenics that just

900
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:11.320
won't or take their medicine and they ended up kind

901
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:12.440
of getting lost.

902
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.760
Yeah, but it this is and this is an interesting

903
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:19.559
rub when it comes to the homeless, especially here in

904
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:23.920
the Pacific Northwest. You can play a game which is

905
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.440
homeless or hippie, because sometimes.

906
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:28.039
You can't really tell.

907
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:33.880
And because there's some people that I assumed were not

908
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:37.039
homeless just because they had a Patagonia backpack, but then

909
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.159
I've seen them four or five times nosing through their

910
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:42.760
trash and I'm like, oh, they actually are homeless. You

911
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.639
will see someone sleeping on a park bench with their

912
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:49.679
head resting on a north Face coat. I swear to god,

913
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:51.760
I was taking the dog for a walk at the park.

914
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:54.400
This was this morning. This morning.

915
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.079
A guy's on the bench, lying down, got a coat

916
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:00.719
over him, got a Blend make it over, and he's

917
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:01.760
got a couple of umbrellas.

918
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:06.440
He's surrounded by trash. He is scrolling things on his

919
00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:13.039
Apple Watch. It's amazing to see. I saw a guy

920
00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:15.199
at the same park last week.

921
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:21.119
Homeless, but he was scrolling social media on his phone.

922
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:27.840
It's amazing. So some of them, yeah, my heart goes

923
00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:36.159
out to him. Others I'm like, you just asshole, all right.

924
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:40.440
Finally, the tiny Wiener updig Michael Phillips, the man who

925
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:43.519
is self professed to be the man on earth with

926
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:47.079
the tiniest penis micro penis at point three to eight inches.

927
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:49.920
We followed his story a little bit over the last

928
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.920
couple of years. He went public on television, online, He's

929
00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:57.039
talked to TMZ, He's talked to morning shows on television,

930
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:03.719
and he finally turned that into a fundraiser to get

931
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:07.280
money for some type of an enlargement procedure for himself

932
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:14.039
and now and that he has raised enough money for it.

933
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.280
He initially in his fundraisers said I need about six

934
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:20.559
thousand dollars for this enlargement procedure. He raised over twice

935
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:25.880
that amount, something like thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars, which, honestly,

936
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:27.960
I thought, you know, people throw money at really stupid

937
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:28.760
stuff these days.

938
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.559
I thought he would have gotten a lot more money

939
00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:31.800
than that.

940
00:54:33.559 --> 00:54:36.119
I would have thought anything until I read what he's

941
00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:40.800
having done. I would have assumed that a penis enlargement

942
00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:43.760
procedure was far more expensive. I mean, a good boob

943
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:45.760
job is going to run you, you know, probably twelve

944
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.320
grand these days, so I expected it would be a

945
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:49.800
lot more.

946
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:54.719
I'm with you, like, for six thousand dollars, what's he

947
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:58.480
gonna get like, what's the procedure we talked before, you know,

948
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:03.679
because short of a transplant, what can you really do

949
00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:09.360
for that affliction? Right, So Michael told TMZ his appointment

950
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:12.320
is scheduled for August seventeenth with a doctor in Charlotte,

951
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:15.840
North Carolina. This is where he'll get an injection of

952
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:22.480
semi permanent dermal filler, which will increase the girth of

953
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:26.880
his penis by about ten to thirty percent. In his case,

954
00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:31.880
that's roughly point five to one point five inches, depending

955
00:55:31.880 --> 00:55:33.239
on the amount of product used.

956
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:36.880
So for six thousand dollars.

957
00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:41.679
He's gonna get an injection of some filler that will

958
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:46.039
not increase his length, but his girth by half an inch,

959
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:48.360
maybe up to one and a half inches.

960
00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:52.840
Which I'm so confused at this, I huh, I would

961
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:56.280
have thought, being that, you know, the stat of being

962
00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:59.360
the world's smallest penis is point point three to eight inches.

963
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:01.760
Yeah, that's what he's got.

964
00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:04.159
And he and the story talks about that he's had

965
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:05.880
doctors now tell him that he just needs to wear

966
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:13.679
it depends because he has problems urinating. I I'm guessing

967
00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:18.079
because he can't find it or it's just can't. I

968
00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:21.199
don't know, but yeah, you would have thought he was

969
00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:22.840
gunning for some length, not with.

970
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:27.559
I'm with you, man, when it's when? When? When? When? When?

971
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:38.480
You so, let me get this straight. You can make

972
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:42.639
it wider, but not longer. When you're down there, can

973
00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:45.039
you stretch it out a little bit of a procedure

974
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:50.000
like just see what happens?

975
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:56.239
You know, makes she just look down at your own

976
00:56:56.280 --> 00:56:57.840
and go, hey, good job, buddy.

977
00:56:58.400 --> 00:56:59.800
Yeah, it really does make you.

978
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.360
It appreciate what you have no matter what it is,

979
00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:07.320
as long as it's not that I'm okay, I am okay.

980
00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:14.159
Yeah, that's ah. I feel like here's the other thing.

981
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:20.119
If you're gonna raise money, shoot for the stars, don't

982
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.880
don't tell people at six thousand. I mean, I think

983
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:26.760
that's probably one of the things that where he didn't

984
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:29.920
raise a lot of money. He should have. You been saying, yeah,

985
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:33.280
you know it's gonna be a fifty thousand dollars procedure.

986
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:42.000
Well, clearly he's not a big picture guy.

987
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:50.599
Oh, it's the little steps.

988
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:49.440
Micro steps, micro steps, dribbles.

989
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:54.760
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