Oct. 13, 2026

Stood Up, Scammed or Staged? Plus Jerry Jones at 84

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Would you expect a dating app to pay you back if your date stood you up? That's exactly what influencer Paige Davis wanted after her Bumble date never showed. But Dan and Trey have questions. Was she genuinely heartbroken, or did she just turn a bad date into a viral content opportunity?

Naturally, this leads to a completely unrelated conversation about alcoholism and what the guys believe is the ultimate test to determine if someone's an alcoholic.

In Celebrity Birthdays, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones turns 84, and we're wondering what his legacy will be. Three Super Bowl championships, decades of frustration, and millions of miserable Cowboys fans. Does Jerry actually thrive on their suffering?

And finally, we head to England, where a man learns a very important lesson about tiger enclosures: The fences and warning signs aren't just suggestions.

It's dating disasters, Cowboys misery, questionable life choices, and plenty of laughs on today's Treehouse Show with Dan and Trey!

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Trey Turnholm, who's still learning his buttons.

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After a while, it's got to sound really stupid to

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listeners of how that happens.

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Wrong, you hit the wrong button.

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Despite the fact the buttons on that road caster are

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And they're color-coded and everything else.

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It's just, when you go no look, because you think

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you got it this time.

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Yeah, yeah, you got cocky. You got cocky. All right, today,

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Inside the Treehouse show, a whole lot of unhinged. And

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speaking of unhinged, that is where we are starting today. Trey,

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have you ever been stood up on a date?

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Yes, I have.

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I'm sorry, man. Are you a pretty girl who's been

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stood up on a date?

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You know, I'm in my 20s, but now, no.

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So the reason I ask you this is because an

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influencer went viral Because she released an As It Happened

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video of her getting stood up on a date. And

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then it carried over into the next day where she's

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explaining and recapping the entirety of the situation where she

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goes out the night before. She vlogs it on TikTok

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and other social platforms. And the guy never shows up.

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She just absolutely got stood up on a date. And

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then she took it to a whole new level because...

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In her video where she talks about being stood up

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on a date, she wants the dating app to pay

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her back for the food and drinks that she spent

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while waiting on her date to show up. This is

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a fascinating story from so many angles, but let's hear

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from her first. What do you say? You want to

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do that?

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Yes, please.

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Now, I see her name is Paige Davis. She has

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a number of followers on the TikTok. She is something

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of a social media influencer. And you know what? She's

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a beautiful girl. And I'm sure that she has probably

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never been stood up before. So this may be her

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first time. That's what happens a lot with pretty people.

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They're very surprised if they get stood up. So here

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she is the next day. talking to her followers about

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what it was like being stood up on a date

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in Miami.

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Just say about the guy who stood me up last night.

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So I get there at like 845. I text the

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guy at like 853. I don't want to seem too eager.

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And he's like, OK, you know, I'm leaving the event.

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I'll be there in a little bit. It's 9.07 and

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he calls me and he's like, hey, I'm about a

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half a block away. I just wanted to let you

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know I'm like on my way. And I said, okay, great.

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I'll see you soon. And at 9.27, I text him

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and I'm like, hey, if you're not close, I'm going

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to go. Don't hear anything. 9.31, I decide to call him.

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I'm blocked. I just think that is the cruelest thing

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you could ever do to somebody. First of all, why

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would you call and say you're like on your way?

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To embarrass me more?

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Like if you're going to not show up, I would

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have already gotten the sense of that if you had

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just like not answered me when I said I was

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on my way. So while I'm sitting there, I have

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one cocktail, which if you know Miami prices, $ 25 shrimp cocktail.

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So another $ 25. I Ubered there like $ 18. I had

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to Uber back another $ 18. So all in, it was

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easily over a hundred dollars.

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For me to get.

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For her to get stood up. I want to back

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up a little bit because one cocktail, which that, that

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to me is like, you know, Miami. a two-staged situation

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that we're dealing with, right? Stage one, getting stood up

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is awful. And she said in a previous video that

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him continuing to text and let her know that he's

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on his way and still never showing up, she was like,

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that is some diabolical-ish. And she's not wrong about that.

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That truly is messed up. Like, if you're just standing

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somebody up, just tell them, I'm not going to make it.

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You don't even have to say more than that. If

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you're planning on not talking to them ever again, it

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doesn't really matter what you say. Even though it's also atrocious,

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just not responding and ghosting them in that scenario would

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probably be better than continuing the con that says, oh,

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I'm on my way, I'm down the street, I'm around

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the corner, when you're never going to show up.

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Yeah, that's where I.

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Don't understand of What the guys, I feel like there's

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a vendetta. There's a backstory here somehow, some way, because

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you're absolutely correct. You know, if you make plans and

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you just don't call, don't anything, that's one thing. But

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to say you're a block away and clearly you had

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no intent of showing up, that's like taking extra effort.

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Um, I think you may have nailed it.

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It makes me wonder, uh, going back and if you

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went over back with the, over this girl's post, if

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she wronged a friend of his, or if she has

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done something or here's the other thing. And kind of

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went through this, uh, and it took a girl out

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a couple of weeks ago that post a lot on

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social media, on TikTok. And a lot of it, let's

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face it, girls can do, I'll call them thirst trap

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videos for lack of a better term. And they get

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a lot of followers. I mean, guys see boobs and

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a pretty face and they're probably going to follow. And

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they don't even, girls don't even really have to come

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up with great content. They can just film themselves with

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some music and, and some, you know, actual verbiage on

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the screen, some text and, you know, they'll get tons of,

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of likes and follows.

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Just a little bit of cleavage. That's all it takes.

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We are a simple, simple species.

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So because this girl, I like, honestly, far calmer and

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better than I, I granted, I don't have a great

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impression of Miami.

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But calmer and, and, and far more on less unhinged.

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I don't know if that's the right term or not

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for a Miami influencer.

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They got stood up than I would expect.

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Um, and it does. I, and I'm surprised she isn't

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asking for, uh, whoever the, I don't know which service

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she was on, what app that they didn't cover her,

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you know, getting ready expenses too.

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But yeah, it, We'll get into that. That's some of

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the phase two of this. But I think you nailed

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it when you said, considering, could this have been intentional?

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And she hinted at it, thinking she was being extreme

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by saying, going through all this and telling me you're

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around the corner multiple times and not showing up is

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some diabolical essence. So she said it, but I don't

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think she fully realized it as an actual possibility. Trey,

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you said it might actually be an actual possibility because

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if you are drawing someone out that much, saying I'm

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around the corner, around the corner, I'll be right there, blah, blah, blah.

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It does feel intentional. And you're right. Maybe there is

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some sort of backstory here that she's not considering that

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it's a guy that maybe she stood up before. Now

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he's got a fake profile and engaged her. It's a

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friend of a guy that she had a problem with,

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or it's maybe a guy friend of a girlfriend or

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some other, some other way that, you know, she has

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wronged somebody and this is how they got her back.

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Yeah. Or I would love to know if she's stood

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up a guy before.

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Right. So now let's jump into phase two here with

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the young lady where she starts demanding reimbursement for her

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night's activities for being stood up.

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I decide to call him. um i'm blocked i i

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just think that is the cruelest thing you could ever

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do to somebody first of all why would you call

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and say you're like on your way yeah okay to

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embarrass me more like if you're gonna not show up

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maybe i would have already gotten the sense of that

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if you had just like not answered me when I

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said I was on my way. So while I'm sitting here,

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I have one cocktail, which if you know Miami prices,

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$ 25 shrimp cocktail, so another $ 25. I Ubered there, like $ 18.

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I had to Uber back, another $ 18. So all in,

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it was easily over $ 100 for me to get stood.

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So Bumble, can you pay me that $ 100 that I'm owed?

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Because you have trash men on your apps who leave

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women and stand them up. Much more jovial and like

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making fun of it today. Last night I was really upset.

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And I was crying. Not even so much just that

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one guy. It's just, this is so exhausting. I am

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doing so much at all times trying to find somebody.

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And I just felt as if like, this is just

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too much. Just the idea that you call someone and say, hey,

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I'm on my way confirming the plans. Then you don't

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show up and then you block them. That to me

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is just the cruelest, most inhumane thing you could do

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to somebody. I have no words. I'm like trying not

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to cry right now.

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It was just so mean.

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Oh, then she ends it with a caption of text.

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So many women have been stood up. I've received dozens

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of messages relating. It's far too common. Men, since Wynn

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is wasting a woman's time by asking her out, then

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leaving her sitting there alone, wondering what the hell happened,

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an acceptable way to say you're not interested. I genuinely

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love some feedback from men on this.

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Okay.

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We'll be happy to supply you with some male feedback here.

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Quit thinking you're so goddamn special. You are not the

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only person that's ever been stood up. Women are not

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the only sex that have been stood up. It happens

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to men every single goddamn day as well. I am

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tired of everyone acting like they're the most important or

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infringed upon, persecuted subset of humanity. You're not. There are

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some people that are unfairly discriminated against. Absolutely. But women,

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you do not own it. It happens both freaking ways.

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It is not an all men problem and quit acting

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like women have never stood up men before either. That's

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the stuff I can't stand. It's the hypocrisy. There's a

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kernel of male feedback. Trey, your turn.

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Well, first of all, I have very little sympathy for

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attractive women and their plight.

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Pretty privilege is a thing.

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Yeah, much like probably other people don't have much sympathy

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for us as white men.

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Yeah.

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I understand that she's upset, but A, Bumble's response has

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to be, you swiped right on him. We didn't force

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you to match with him. And we could put, oh, hey,

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you can't do this stuff on Bumble. That doesn't mean

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it's not going to happen. And you can go create

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another profile and whatever. Yeah, I just, I'll be curious

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about this one and see if there's, if something doesn't

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come out where there's more to the story. Because also

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at the same time, we could also be in a

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situation that she's completely made this all up.

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Thank you. That was phase three for me. We have

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no evidence whatsoever that this even actually happened. This could

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be entirely made up for the intended purpose that we

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are doing right now. She gets attention, millions of views,

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tons of followers, sympathy, clout, all of it. And we

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have no proof of any of it. She's just talking,

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saying this is what happened. This is supposedly how much

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I spent. There are text messages that she showed on

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a screen, but you can do that between yourself and

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your own phone number.

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Yeah.

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I mean, hell, they're apps.

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You can get fake text messages.

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Yeah, I mean, I can create a fake text chain

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right now in Canva, and it's not hard. So we

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have no actual evidence that this is even true.

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Yeah, no.

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And here's the other thing that actually it's... For me,

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the saddest part of this story.

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Dallas is about the same price as Miami now.

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Prices are out of control, man.

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Has that shocked you since you've been in town?

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No, because I... For the most part, I live on

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an island in the Caribbean where everything's really goddamn expensive.

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Well, you live on an island in a high-end tourist area. I.

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You expect prices to be high there.

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I mean, it's, it's a resort. I don't, yeah, I

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don't complain about it. I do compare it because it

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is crazy how like a tub of my yogurt costs

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50% more here or more there than it does here.

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But that's just accepted. It's kind of like a California

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real estate prices. Same thing. I'm not surprised by it.

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I kind of expected it.

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Well, and that's one thing, obviously it takes more to

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get stuff to an Island. Um, but, just going out

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drink prices, everything it's, I mean, Miami still may be

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a little bit more expensive, but it used to be

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where you would see that and you'd be like, Oh

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my God, I can get a drink and a shrimp

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cocktail for.

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$ 25 total. And now you're like, yeah, that's probably about

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what it would cost here.

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Yeah. The, so the good news is like when my

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wife and I go out, we're typically just like, if

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we get a cocktail, it is usually like a well

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vodka soda. I mean, we're not, we're not, balling. We're

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not bougie like that. Now, if we go out and

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that's going to be seven, eight bucks in Dallas, depending

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on the bar, that's already a pretty steep increase. We're

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talking about a well drink, seven, eight bucks. Some places

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you might find six and may have a daytime special

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for a little bit less. Trey, with your facial reactions,

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I can't tell if I'm under or over the price

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for a well button.

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Most places now, especially if you go into Uptown or

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anywhere else, you're going to be looking at 10 to

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$ 12 for a well.

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And that's the other part too. My wife and I

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are dive bar aficionados. So when I order a well,

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when I, when I order a single tall well, vodka soda,

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and it's seven bucks, eight bucks, it's at a place

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like Lakewood landing. So it is a dive bar. Now,

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if I do go to a place in uptown or

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like Magnolia and Fort worth or something, it, yeah. At

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10 bucks, 11 bucks, 12. I'm sure. If we go

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out to a nice dinner and I get a, a

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fancy cocktail from the cocktail menu, I fully expect that

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to be in the mid to upper teens. I am

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not going now. Miami might be on a new level

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that she somehow got a tequila cocktail for 25 bucks.

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I'm like, Jesus. Hang on. Notice that.

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Well, which first of all, if you're drinking a reposado

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or a Neho, that that's actually par for the course.

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You're right.

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I didn't think about if she's doing a true top

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shelf type thing.

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Yeah.

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But also notice those prices include tipping. So that's about

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a $ 20 cocktail.

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Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. And I'm also the type

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that I'm not trying to do anything dumb when it

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comes to a cocktail. We're getting off in some of this,

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but still like I know people that would order a

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gray goose and soda. I'm not doing that because I'm

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I'm not going to taste the difference in the vodka

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when it's mixed with the soda. So if I'm doing

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a cocktail or some sort of mixed beverage, I don't

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need the top shelf stuff necessarily because I'm really not

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going to taste the difference.

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And I say this not only as a recovering alcoholic

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who drank a lot, but as someone who has run

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bars for a very long time, you have people who

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will tell you, oh, I can taste the difference.

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No, you can't.

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The only time you can taste the difference in a

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vodka is if you're in a martini, you know, something

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that is pretty straight up.

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But if you're mixing it with anything, you know, you

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can't tell the difference. Yeah.

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It's like people that will say like, oh, I need

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a Belvedere and soda or something. I'm like, man, just

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give me the well, as long as the well isn't Mohawk.

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Like there are some well-heard of Mohawk. Trey, I used

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to work with Russ Martin. And it got so bad

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for a while when he said he was low on

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provisions of vodka. We would send Jerry out to the

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liquor store because Russ didn't do everything for himself. And

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we would tell him, come back with the worst rot

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gut you can find. And one day he came back

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with a case of Mohawk vodka and told Russ that

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they were out of Tito's and everything else. Because we

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wanted to see how bad it was. He drank it.

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He drank all of it. And that was some bad stuff. Like,

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I tried it. Oh, I'm sure. Oh, and so on occasion,

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when I go to a bar and I say, yeah,

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just uh give me a vodka soda like well do

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you have a vodka presence or preference i'm like no

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just your well is fine if i see them pull

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up mohawk i'm like okay accept that.

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One i i like i've i've never heard of mohawk

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and i like i've run a lot of bars and

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ordered a lot of well vodka in my time uh

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and that's just.

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Huh that's bottom shelf Yeah. And behind the other stuff.

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And that's just sad that.

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A very... A wealthy man... That shows you alcoholism. Very

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wealthy man drinking just crap because he's too lazy to

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go get it himself.

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That's right.

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That was actually... I don't think I've ever told this story.

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One of the biggest fights Russ and I ever had.

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And what a.

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It led to the ultimate dismantling of our friendship. One

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of the things, he got so mad at me one night.

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It was a Saturday night.

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I was drunk.

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And he blew up my phone, called me, and was

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mad that I would not drive to Frisco from downtown

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Dallas drunk to bring him booze.

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Like, threatening my... And you know how he was threatening

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my job, everything.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm like, I can't drive. He's like, you'll be fine.

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No. So you think getting him a case of Mohawk

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vodka was bad? That he drank and that we did

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it at all and then he actually drank it? So

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then it was like, all right, he drank that. Now

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let's see if he'll drink the Mohawk gin.

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Oh, did he?

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Uh-huh.

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Oh, Jesus. And that's when I go, hey, he was

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a bigger alcoholic than me. That's right.

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That's how you knew it was a problem. I think

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I went into management's office and I said, you know

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how I told you before that we have a problem?

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They're like, yeah. I'm like, it's gotten worse. How? How?

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he's now drinking bottom shelf gin. And there was a little,

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