Aug. 29, 2024

The Stupidest City in North Texas | Thursday 8-29-24

The Stupidest City in North Texas | Thursday 8-29-24

The City of Dallas is showing how badly it needs a new city manager. Copper thieves are targeting power lines. A college town offers to help police catch cases of beer after truck spill. Yeah, there's a lot of stupid in this episode.

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The City of Dallas is showing how badly it needs a new city manager. Copper thieves are targeting power lines. A college town offers to help police catch cases of beer after truck spill. Yeah, there's a lot of stupid in this episode.

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That’s not Dallas. Draft to recruit a new city manager shows wrong skyline (dallasnews.com)

Brazen copper thieves target Garland power lines | FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth (fox4news.com)

Police flooded with offers to ‘help’ after truck spills cases of beer in college town (wabi.tv)


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The Treehouse is a daily DFW based comedy podcast about all things stupid. Leave your worries outside and join Dan O'Malley, Trey Trenholm, Raj Sharma, and their guests for laughs about current events, stupid news, and the comedy that is their lives. If it's stupid, it's in here.

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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with

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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharman, winding down on week two

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of our shift to five days a week inside the Treehouse.

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I don't love by you, but I sure him enjoying it.

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Yeah, and thanks.

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For the enthusiasm of tray And I'm especially excited anytime

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we get to start a show with something so abjectly stupid,

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it actually makes me wait to present you guys with

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something else stupid. So it's like a heavyweight fight of stupid,

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kind of like Jake Paul just shadow boxing, and that

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is this. So I don't know if it's going to

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happen today or if it's going to happen tomorrow. Today

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being Thursday, August twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. So I

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don't know if the big stupid thing I had planned

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for today is going to happen today or if it's

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going to happen tomorrow. The reason why we have to

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push it just a bit is because something so stupid

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is because something stupid or pushed it down the list,

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and that is the city of Dallas. It's kind of

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like how the bat like signals batman if there's a

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stupid light. The City of Dallas comes a running. I

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say that because a city of Dallas is paying an

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agency to help them find a new city manager, and

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one of the ways in which they decided to advertise

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the position is through a handy dandy brochure. And on

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this eight page brochure for the city manager position, they

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made sure to include not a photo of the skyline

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of Dallas, No, they used Houston's. So the City of

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Dallas and its infinite stupidity, has paid an agency one

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hundred and thirty four thousand dollars to find a new

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city manager. And one of the tools they were us

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using to find this new city manager is a brochure.

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And on the cover of this brochure is a photo

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of the skyline of Houston, not Dallas.

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Maybe that was just they were just appealing to the

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first forty eight people that watch that show. Because when

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when you sometimes you get lucky and you get that

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back to back, like the same episode, it'd be like Dallas, Texas,

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and then right after that it's like Harris County. So

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sometimes it's just a I hate to say it bleed through.

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Maybe that's what it was.

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Well, I look at it as the possibility that this

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is just a really good example of how badly Dallas

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needs a new city manager. They can't even get the

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skyline on the brochure.

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Right in twenty twenty four, we're still doing brochures. Yeah,

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because because seriously, you're talking about a tiny, tiny sliver

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of of people that are qualified to be city manager

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and and and where the city manager basically runs the city. Yes,

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I would venture to say there's probably twenty people that

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are really qualified to do it.

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Yeah, I could do it, you think so? Yeah?

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H I could do it. I mean I've I've I've

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worked in restaurants. How hard could it be? I mean

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about the right eyeline on the brochure.

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Imagine a city council made up of servers and bartenders.

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Oh, I have. It would work so much, It would

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be so much more efficient.

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I for one, would be on board with compensating city

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and ye hang on, let me think about this. Yeah,

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I think it's fair to pay city council members through

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tips and the minimum wage.

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Yeah, two thirteen an hour plus tips.

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M h.

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I think that's right. You'll see a lot of work

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get done.

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Yeah, that right there would save a lot of money.

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Yeah. See, look what I've started. Look at this as

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your new city manager. Look what I started. Now we're now,

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we're we're we're working on tips. Now I like it. Things.

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So, Raj, you think you could do the city manager

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position for Dallas?

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Yeah? What do you gotta do?

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All right?

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Lights on, let's find out. Let's scroll down in the

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brochure below the photo of Houston into the essential functions

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of the position of city manager for Dallas. Uh, let's

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see here. Can you yep? Okay? Can you direct and

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coordinate the administration of city government in accordance with policies

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and priorities determined by the mayor and City Council?

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Sure?

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Okay. Can you supervise, through deputy and assistant city managers

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and lower level executives, the activities, operations programs of diverse

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city departments.

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So basically that said, can you delegate authority? Yes, that's

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also another way of going. Can you be lazy and

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still keep your job?

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Okay, Yeah, it's government work.

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I can do that.

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Can you supervise, through the Chief Financial Officer the preparation

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and presentation of the city's annual billion dollar budget.

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Yeah, that means. What that's saying is I literally have

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no control over what happens with the money at all.

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And since you're supervising through the CFO the preparation and

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presentation of the city's budget, you're just taking credit for

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someone else's work.

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Oh yeah, definitely, Okay, you can do that.

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Can you coordinate activities with the mayor and City Council

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to provide systemic efforts in serving the residents so.

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Like a bake sale?

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Yes, okay. Can you implement mayor and city count to

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policies and long and short range plans for city government

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to improve efficiency of operations and number and kind of

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services provided to citizens?

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Can I put the right skyline on the right brochure? Yes?

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Can you represent the City of Dallas at conferences at

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the local, state, and national.

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Level, Oh, you bet your ass.

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And finally, can you cultivate cooperative partnerships with other public

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and private organizations to access resources and improve the efficiency

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of service delivery?

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That means, uh, can I take bribes and give them

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a lug up? Yep, couldn't do that.

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Gotta be careful though, because Dallas County commissioner's courts got

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their hands pretty deep in that pocket. So you got

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to make sure, you know, I.

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Got grease a lot of wheels.

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Yeah, you got to make sure you increase the right

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poems there.

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Yeah, I can, I can. This sounds this sounds like

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this job was made for me.

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It's kind of a dream job, right, Yeah.

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What does it pay.

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A lot?

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Oh?

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Okay, I forget how much TC Broadnax was making before

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he left. That was the city manager before that left

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to go to Austin.

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I always wonder what he did after magnum p I.

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Uh, he did Magnum p I, then ran the city

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of Dallas, and now he's running the city of Austin.

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Yeah, oh that's that's that's turning out really well. I hear.

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Well. I mean it beats the hell out of the

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you know, the autograph circuit. And at least as a

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city manager he can still fly around in a helicopter.

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He flies himself, so he can pay himself twice there

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you go. Okay, And what's his last name, TC.

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What broad Knacks?

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Yeah, oh what they said brought Snacks. I was like,

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that's a great name.

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Well, that's another aspect of the position. That they would

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expect you to do, because when you go to city

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council meetings, you're expected to bring snacks.

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What is the pay? How much does the city manager make?

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Do we have a ballpark? Like half a mill?

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It's it's six figures, I know that. I'm not sure

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if it's quite half a mill. It's going to be in.

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That around three I'm I'm out.

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Oh is that is that not enough for you?

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I mean three twenty five before bribes. I think I

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can make it to half a mil. I think I

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can do that.

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I think you can squeak by.

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I'm looking out for the three of us. Dan, It's

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not just I'm not. It's okay. Now, I'll be the face,

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but like you will be the decision makers. Like when hey,

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so and so wants to pay us X amount of money,

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should we take it? And they will be like, no,

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ask so and so if they want to give us

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a little bit more over here, and we'll do that.

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I'll see. And then and then Tray slides in and

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gives them drinks and we get them all little loosey goosey,

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and then we get a little more money. You gotta

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think long term.

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Yeah, this actually does sound exactly like government.

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Work and only one of us will go to prison.

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Well, now it sounds like radio lucky. If you're you,

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we have experience in both.

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You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse

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on Air dot com.

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Let's get Daniel Cook into the Treehouse now. His number

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to call is A three three COOKDFW the website cookdfw

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dot com. It's kind of a combination of things in

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your business, Daniel, because it's COOKDFW, roofing and restoration, and

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included in that is remodeling. So you get some people

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calling you saying, hey, man, I would really love to

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do a new bathroom or redo my kitchen. What's what's

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the remodeling project that you're working on right now that

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you're into.

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Dan, I actually got one better in that, man. We're

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going to hit the trifecta. Are you ready?

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Yep?

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High winds may came through eighty miles an hour, knocked

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the guy's chimney off of his house from the wind

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being so piercing with the patio cover allowed rain for

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four hours to rain inside the huge gaping hole inside

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of his attic, which then, of course caused his sheet

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rock on the ceiling to fall in, which then caused

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his wooden floors to swell, which then caused all the

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sheet rock obviously to have problems. So now it's taken

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us a while. It's August. We had to get State

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Farm out there. They weren't able to get out there

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right away, so we tarped, prevented more moisture from building inside,

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the house cleaned up, got the water dried out, got

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to preventive measures to try to stop any more, you know,

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problems from this home. But then we have been discussing

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what the home actually needs with insurance now for almost

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three months. We just now got it cleared up that

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they agreed with us. Finally, after three visits with different adjusters,

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different desk people, we actually got the whole roof approved

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for replacement. His car part, his garage door that got

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ruined with some debris, his whole interior, his insulation in

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his attic needs to be replaced because it had a

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whole bunch of moisture and mildew on it probably is

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sheet rock. His wood were four repairs, all of his stuff,

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and then that in turn his wife, we're sitting at

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the dining room table, she goes you know what, this

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happens all the time. I haven't liked that tile in

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that thing. If we're already going over here to do

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this for how much more were to come over here?

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So now, unfortunately the husband doesn't like it, but they're

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getting a they're getting a house remodel and he's not

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ready for but he's getting one. And you know, the

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good news is, and there is a silver lining here,

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even though it's a traumatic event, they're getting a house

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remodel for pennies.

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On the dollar.

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And that's what Daniel Cook at Cook DFW Roofing and

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Restoration can do for you as well. Give the man

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a call eight three to three cook DFW the website

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cookdfw dot com.

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You're in the Treehouse listen us online treups on air

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dot com.

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This segment of the tree House is brought to you

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by COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration called Daniel Cook at eight

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three three cook DFW for your free roof inspection as

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well as to get yourself on the cook list eight

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three three cook DFW The website cookdfw dot com. What

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is it tray? You get a look on your face?

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I've also learned over the years, raj that when Trey

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responds by saying nothing that's gospel, you just take it

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as nothing and you move the f on going back

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to the City of Dallas trying to find a new

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city manager by posting by putting together a brochure from

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an agency and them using the city of Houston skyline

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instead of Dallas. The sad thing about this is how

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long it actually took for city count members to realize

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in a public meeting that this was, in fact not

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the city of Dallas that they were looking at in

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the brochure. NBC News coverage of the meeting showed the

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committee's less than enthusiastic reactions to the brochure. Unsurprisingly, their

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first concern regarded the cover photo because it was Houston,

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not Dallas, but it took a few minutes of discussion

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to identify what exactly was wrong with it. They didn't

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know immediately. District twelve council member Karen Mendelssohn said, I'm

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just gonna say, first off, I hate this photo. I

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don't think it's representative of Dallas. It's not because it's

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not Dallas, And she said, and I had to look

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at it for quite a few minutes before I realized

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it was actually the city. She would soon learn her

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instincts were correct. The featured skyline was in fact not Dallas,

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it was Houston. Jesse Marino from District Too said to

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this looks old and dated. Wow, we have one of

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the best skylines in the country, and I think we

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need to be able to highlight that.

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Yeah, that's it.

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Dallas actually has an incredibly distinctive skyline.

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And yeah, they didn't notice that right off the bat.

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It's just man, you would think they would. It seems

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pretty easy.

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But look for the just look for the green building

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though with the green k neeon. If you don't see

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that one, it's not it's not.

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Dallas or Reunion Tower, yeah, or the Pegasus, I mean,

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any of the things. But they actually So this all

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happened on an on the ad hoc Committee on Administrative Affairs,

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So it was five Dallas City Council members. They met

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with representatives of Baker Tilley, the agency putting together the

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package to lure a new city manager, which basically, maybe

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this is just a really creative campaign on the part

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of this agency to show how how badly Dallas needs

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a new city manager. So maybe they planned it this way.

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Okay, I like it, yeah, kind of pushing through, like hey,

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if you didn't notice that, the city manager would have

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I like it. I like a little passive aggressive. Oh yeah,

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I like this agency. As city manager, I will use them.

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Why didn't they just most you know, Fortune five hundred companies,

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Most cities would use a head hunting service.

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Hey, yeah, not the city of Dallas. They're gonna spend

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one hundred and thirty four thousand dollars on this agency

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to put together a brochure with the wrong city.

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You never underestimate the power of a brochure.

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Never underestimate the power of the City of Dallas to

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waste money. I present to you Exhibit B into evidence

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on wasting money in the City of Dallas. And that

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is the story of Jabbari the Gorilla, all the way

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back in March of two two thousand and four. This

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was a story of rage and bullets and mystery at

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the Dallas Zoo because in March of two thousand and four,

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Jabari the Gorilla somehow got out of his enclosure and

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for forty minutes terrorized zoo goers until he was taken

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down by a swat officer's bullet. Over the next three months,

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the city of Dallas spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

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on an investigation to find out how did Jabbari get out?

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And at the end of three months and hundreds of

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thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, you know what they

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found He took a running jump.

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I was going to say he had a key.

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I wasn't at the recommendation though, the higher fence and

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the recommendation.

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So that was a two It was a two pronged report.

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How did it happen, how to prevent it, how to

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have it?

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Yeah, the first prong got to find out how did

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Jabari get out? Well, they found out. They found out

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that he just took a running He got a running

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start is what they found out. And he jumped over

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his fence. That's okay, the how they got that part

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figured out. Then then the second part, as Trey mentioned,

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was okay, how do we prevent it? What make the

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make the make the fence higher, and give us our

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six hundred thousand dollars. It really was one of the

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great all time UH takes. And they did it, and

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it's like this is like a heist, but The beauty

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of stealing stuff from the city of Dallas is you

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don't have to do it under the cover of darkness.

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You don't have to do it with some sort of

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seed underbelly happenings and goings on. Now you can just do

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it the middle of the day and tell him I'll

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write your report, give me half a million dollars, and

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I'll all this stuff out for you, and then they

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pay you.

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It's also this was the Dallas Zoo, correct, that's Do

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you expect more in depth report from the Dallas Zoo.

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No, you're right, it actually it does track. I mean

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we're talking about a zoo that has a prominent statue

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out on you know, outside on I thirty five at

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the entrance of a giraffe. I don't know what it's doing.

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It looks like it's trying to lick the air. I

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just assume it's screaming for help.

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I have asked what the I have asked what the.

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Giraffe is doing, and what did it tell you it's.

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Supposed to be. How they eat leaves off of a

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tree is they stick their tongue out and they grab

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the leaf with their tongue and pull the Yeah, but

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there's no tree, right. See.

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That would make sense if there was a really tall

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tree next to that statue of the giraffe, or.

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An even taller giraffe or that too.

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But like a lot of things in that area of town,

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it seems to have gone missing mysteriously.

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Yeah, I don't expect for anything like I wouldn't expect

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like a big book, like a one hundred and fifty page,

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three hundred and fifty page report on what happened that day.

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I just I would expect a brochure, you know what.

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You'd never hear about problems like this coming out of

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the Fort Worth.

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Zoo, No or San Diego.

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Actually they called an expert from the San Diego Zoo

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into take part in this investigation into Jabbari's escape from

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the Dallas Zoo.

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And I see now in my head it's just the

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guy from San Diego Zoo, just like eating a frozen banana,

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go and got a running start and then he just

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walks off.

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That's probably a new a new dramatic series on ABC

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this fall zero or or they go the opposite direction,

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they go more slapstick, and it's just like a sitcom

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with Jack Hannah. I would watch this and it's just

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him just wrestling with gorillas.

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Uh yeah, so they So the end the result was

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higher fence. Did they build a higher fence?

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Yeah, they increased the fence by three feet and added

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a stronger shocking wire at the top.

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Oh, I didn't know there was shocking wires at the

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top to begin with.

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Well, there were, but he jumped over him the first time.

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It also said it was a mild shock. I'm not

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sure what a mild shock to a gorilla is.

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But.

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If memory serves They also they they weren't trimming the

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like the shrubbery around the electric fence, so it it

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was kind of grounded.

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That's right, hilarious.

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So that, yeah, keep keep branches away from electric fence.

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Was that the third pronc? Yeah, sub section of it's

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too prong, but subsection A also branches.

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Yeah, landscaping.

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Tell me that's not one of the stupidest things you've

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heard all week.

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Oh yeah, I was gone for this, like I think

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I was. I think I was already.

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What year was this?

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That was two thousand and four?

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Oh no, then I was here.

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Yeah, you were here for that, you were here for this.

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I don't so the City of Dallas is keeping up

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with its long held tradition of stupid, and it turns

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out that when it comes to being shocked by electricity

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and doing things stupid, the city of Garland does not

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want to be left out.

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City of Dallas is running them up with its stupidity,

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and as I mentioned, going into that break, the city

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of Garland is looking over and going, well, hey, we

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want some of that. So I don't know if you

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guys saw this the other day, but copper thieves are

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now targeting power lines. I don't know if copper thieves

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targeting power lines. I don't know if I've ever said

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five words in the same sentence together like that that

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added up to so much stupid in so few words.

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M hm.

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And I yes, Tray, I thought they had been doing

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that for years. We've read stories over the years of

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them frying themselves.

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For some reason I didn't remember. Maybe I went on

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a copper scavenger hunter shooting.

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Maybe it's you know, what's old is new again and

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they've forgotten a good ten fifteen years ago that.

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Yeah, vintage thievery.

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Yeah, no, you're right, Just these things are cyclical. I mean, look,

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we got fashion trends now. Things you know that were

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hip when we were in school are hip again. So

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you know, maybe you're right, Ray, Maybe it is it's

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thievery is also cyclical.

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I mean, and you know, stupid and cyclical.

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I mean, it's like mullets both have come back.

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Yeah, And it's.

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Funny you mentioned mullets because I think in this video

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report that we're about to watch from Channel eight, there

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might be a couple of mullets in here. So here

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we have from w FAA copper thieves running amok in Garland.

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There we begin today with the new warning thieves going

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to great lens to steal copper wire, not only impacting

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service to some neighborhoods, but putting their own lives at risk.

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You believe that tonight WFA.

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Yes, I can nathy.

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Heroin is powerful.

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Leave that tonight WFAS Teresa Woodard has a new plea

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from police that if you see something, say something.

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I'm gonna pause that briefly just to say I understand

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that the police want you to say something if you

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see something. But if I see a couple of dudes

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trying to steal a copper out of a power line,

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I'm gonna see it. I'm not gonna say anything. I'm

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just gonna pull up a lawn chair and watch.

478
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.839
If you see something, giggle, pull out.

479
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:38.559
Your phone and hit recording exactly because it's about to

480
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:39.039
get good.

481
00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:43.799
And these criminals, they don't care about anything other than themselves.

482
00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:47.799
Bold, brazen, that's one way to describe it, but it

483
00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:48.680
is dangerous.

484
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:51.559
They're showing this guy, he's just got a long pole

485
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.640
that looks to be metal and he's just pulling the

486
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.400
power line down off the pole.

487
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.000
How's the car moving?

488
00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:05.680
They don't care about anyone but themselves. Did you think

489
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:06.720
they were robin hood?

490
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:11.599
They're robbin from the hood.

491
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.279
You don't know their attentions.

492
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.279
They still copper and give it to the poor.

493
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.519
Yeah, there could be a sick child benefitting this.

494
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:28.400
They may have hearts of gold or teeth, even though

495
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:32.680
gold doesn't doesn't exactly you know, move electricity as good

496
00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:35.680
as copper does. But sound sound, sound waves really good

497
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:36.039
with gold.

498
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:42.920
Julie Deadly Garland Police shared these images of a sudden

499
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.880
surge in copper thieves, going, that's my favorite.

500
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.400
I went back this up just a haird So this

501
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:51.119
guy's on in an alleyway on a ladder up against

502
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.079
a power pole with a buddy helping him. You notice

503
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.200
the tool he has in his hand.

504
00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.279
Sudden serch.

505
00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.079
Is it just me or does that look like a

506
00:28:59.119 --> 00:28:59.680
hack saw.

507
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.720
That is a hacksaw. Wow. That is.

508
00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:08.960
Because of all the tools you could possibly use to

509
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:12.119
cut down a power line, let's pull out the old

510
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:13.480
trusty metal hacksaw.

511
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:16.799
I like how, I like how you think these guys

512
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:17.720
are using their brain.

513
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.799
I never said that. I never said they were using

514
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.880
their brains. I am wondering, though, how did they miss

515
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.720
all the Louis the Lightning Bug PSAs as kids.

516
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.720
Yes, you're assuming they came from good homes.

517
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:37.559
That stuff was on the Louis the Lightning Bug that

518
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.359
was every Saturday Sunday morning during kids programming. It would

519
00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:46.000
be like the Louis the Lightning Bug public service announcement

520
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.240
would come on in between segments of Sesame Street or

521
00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.119
The Muppet Show.

522
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.920
Yeah, or and this may be more to the point.

523
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.319
How did they not spend more time watching the bug

524
00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:57.440
zapper in the living room?

525
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:02.799
Maybe the that was the problem. That's where they got

526
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.480
the idea.

527
00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:07.599
Hard to watch TV when it's in the pawn shop, Dan.

528
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:13.240
You're watching it, you just can't hear all the important information.

529
00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:16.079
Because I guess you're right. If you're just watching the

530
00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:21.279
TV from outside, you don't hear all the important information

531
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:24.640
that Louis the lightning bug is sharing. He just looks

532
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:25.440
like he's at a rave.

533
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:28.160
He looks like he's stealing copper.

534
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.559
Urge in copper thieves going to great height.

535
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:36.480
I think this is my favorite, though. The guy that's

536
00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.920
actually sitting on power lines trying to get copper out

537
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:41.680
of the power lines.

538
00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:44.640
He's just channeling his inner squirrel.

539
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:51.359
Gonna be a crispy squirrel.

540
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.480
These cables at are twenty thirty feet above their head.

541
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.880
If they cut the wrong cable, they.

542
00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:59.839
Could likely doe to steal utility.

543
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:02.519
And they're doing it in broad daylight in front of

544
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.039
the public.

545
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:04.920
That's a Garland police officer.

546
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.119
That's a new wire up there, because this intersection got

547
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:10.480
hit just a couple of weeks ago. Police say it

548
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.400
was six o'clock on a Wednesday night when summer, and

549
00:31:13.599 --> 00:31:13.839
it just.

550
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:16.559
Sounds weird to say six o'clock on a Wednesday night,

551
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:19.279
as if the sun was down. I mean, at six

552
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:22.799
o'clock in summer North Texas, the sun it's still hot

553
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.920
as hell, it's super bright. So yeah, they are doing

554
00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:25.640
it in the middle of the day.

555
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.839
One parked a U haul trailer out here and blocked

556
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.400
the lane of traffic. They were loading that U haul

557
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:34.480
with the stolen copper cable from up there.

558
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:39.240
They got caught after a police pursuit. Stop stealing stuff

559
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:40.440
that doesn't belong to you.

560
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.559
Yes, yes, there she is. I was wondering.

561
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.920
Ah, you know, whenever you go into a neighborhood and

562
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.039
you see the sign that says neighborhood watch, Yeah, it's

563
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:55.160
this lady's it's this lady's silhouette that you see on

564
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:55.640
that sign.

565
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.440
Because stealing things that did belong to you it would

566
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:02.599
be rather fruitless.

567
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:11.720
I think that's just called hide and seek.

568
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:19.599
Maybe that's their logic. Well, you know, like the guys

569
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:23.400
that got arrested by Garland police when they stole that

570
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.519
power line cable with the copper in it, and they

571
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.599
tried telling those guys you can't do that. You stole that.

572
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:31.880
It's like, well, it's mine now, so it's not stealing

573
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.960
if it's mine.

574
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:35.920
I can't steal what belongs to me.

575
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.240
I think this is a new PSA campaign, steal your

576
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:40.960
own stuff.

577
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.319
I like the idea of stealing from yourself.

578
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.200
And if we're being honest, if there's any city in

579
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:58.519
North Texas where that PSA would actually get approval and

580
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.839
run everywhere. It's from Garland. The city of Garland welcomes

581
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:06.079
you and remind you to you know, only steal your own.

582
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:11.720
That's the Garland motto, stealing your own stuff.

583
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.240
I like it.

584
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:14.759
You know it's bad when people in Mosquito are like

585
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:15.880
that bitch is dumb.

586
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:24.319
Even sunny veils looking down on them.

587
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.720
Don't even get me started on Saxy.

588
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:34.960
Stealing stuff that doesn't belong to you.

589
00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:37.920
That woman and her infinite wisdom.

590
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.839
And must hear it again, stop stealing stuff that doesn't

591
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:43.519
belong to you.

592
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:45.720
This woman lives in northwest Dallas.

593
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:50.519
I just realized they actually blurred her face. Do they

594
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.960
think they're that they're trying to protect her? Are they

595
00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:55.680
trying to keep her anonymous? No?

596
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:02.440
I think the camera was embarrassed. The camera was trying

597
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.200
to blur itself, like I don't want to be here.

598
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:09.960
The cameras from Garland, I'm sorry. The cameras from Mesquite.

599
00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.840
I love the idea this is. That's such great old

600
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:18.119
white lady logic. Well, stop stealing stuff that doesn't belong

601
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:18.599
to you.

602
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:20.599
Yes, she expects it to work.

603
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:25.840
Oh that's so great.

604
00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:27.360
All right, let me finish.

605
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:32.159
Those stealing stuff that doesn't belong to you. This woman

606
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:35.719
lives in northwest Dallas. Her neighborhood's been hit. The thieves

607
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.679
are back multiple times. It's happened in Fort Worth, Arlington.

608
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.360
This video came from a man who lives in southern

609
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:47.039
Dallas's Redbird neighborhood. That's another suspect posing as a worker.

610
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.840
So I'm starting to think and posing as a worker,

611
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:53.880
meaning he's wearing a neon vest. I've seen those vests

612
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:56.400
at Walmart. Maybe we're at the point in time where

613
00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:01.000
we've got to start, you know, showing ID for those vests.

614
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:03.880
You have to put those in the section next to

615
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:05.519
the spray paints.

616
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:10.079
It's Walmart. I don't think you don't have to show

617
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:12.119
ID for a shotgun. I don't think they're not.

618
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.119
They put the baby formula in a locked box.

619
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:21.599
Yes, I understand that, but we're going back to shotgun.

620
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.800
You don't have to show an ID for a shotgun.

621
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:26.480
I'm pretty sure they're gonna give you. See if you

622
00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.920
just have the vest, and if they went into the

623
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:31.480
school supplying section and just got a clipboard and.

624
00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:33.920
No, oh yeah, I'm a firm believer and I've seen

625
00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:36.480
it with my own eyes. You can accomplish many things

626
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.079
with a clipboard, Yes you can.

627
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:41.599
Nobody thinks Nobody thinks ahead, like, hey, I've got the

628
00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:45.000
vest I have to steal copper. What would keep me

629
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.119
from looking like a suspect? Clipboard pencil pen behind the

630
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.880
ear m official.

631
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.239
Each crime leaves customers without internet and cost providers thousands

632
00:35:57.239 --> 00:35:57.719
of dollars.

633
00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:59.880
This is not one huge we're gonna holding on a

634
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.199
crime syndicate. This is individual people, community starts of crimes,

635
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:05.199
and they're doing it right in front of us.

636
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.599
Say it, lieutenant, say what you mean these This is

637
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.760
not some organized crime syndicate. These are individual idiots with

638
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.760
really big scissors, climbing power poles and trying to hit

639
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:17.320
a payday.

640
00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:20.320
I would love to see this crime syndicate. I would

641
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:25.400
love to. I would love to sit in on on

642
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.679
their crime meetings. Like there's a like it's the mafia,

643
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:34.320
Like there's like there's the dawn and the crime meeting. Yes,

644
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:35.880
they have to have meetings.

645
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.199
Is that is that across tray? Are there are those

646
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:41.159
meetings across the hall from your alcoholics anonymous.

647
00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:47.599
Meetings the copper syndicate. Do some people shift between meetings?

648
00:36:49.280 --> 00:37:04.880
The throne is a twenty year old lazy Boy.

649
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:13.599
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650
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651
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652
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657
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658
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659
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:48.440
all the things on different channels, whatever they're all, they're

660
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:51.840
all called. Basically, just be our friends, please, We're desperate.

661
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:53.880
We appreciate it. And share the show with a friend.

662
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That ultimately is what we're going for. Here's something you

663
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.320
really like, share with a friend. We appreciate that. And

664
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:04.599
now we got a chance to hear a little bit

665
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.199
of that. I believe it was lieutenant with the Garland

666
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:11.079
Police Department talking about how this is not an organized

667
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:15.519
crime syndicate going after the copper inside the power lines,

668
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:22.559
but works of individuals, Okay, And it's always great to

669
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:29.400
see when a community rallies around its police in the

670
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:33.480
name of public safety. And I cannot think of a

671
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:37.960
better example that I've seen of that recently than this

672
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:46.480
one in which in Oxford, Mississippi, the police were flooded

673
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:51.480
with offers to help after a truck spilled cases of

674
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.719
beer in the in the college town.

675
00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:59.119
Yep, that sounds about right.

676
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:03.239
Yeah, police flooded with offers of help after truck spills

677
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:05.920
cases of beer in college town. That college town, of course,

678
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:07.239
being Oxford, Mississippi.

679
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:11.760
I ever wonder when you heard a red back go,

680
00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.480
I went to Oxford, That's where That's where they went.

681
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:18.599
In the photos shared by the police department on Facebook,

682
00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:24.000
cases of Natural Light bud Light Corona, michelob Alter, and

683
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:29.920
Medello are seen covering the street and sidewalk. And the

684
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:36.000
police department knew that this would be an attraction because

685
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.480
they even mentioned in the Facebook post, no you cannot

686
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:40.559
help clean it up.

687
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.800
You know, every fraternity at Ole, miss was running.

688
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:51.840
And they all stopped at Natural Light.

689
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:58.000
Here's the thing, when when that truck spilled those cases

690
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:03.079
of beer, you're tray. All the fraternities didn't have to

691
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.199
read Facebook to see it. They didn't have to hear

692
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:11.800
about it through word of mouth. They felt it, they

693
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:18.239
felt the disturbance on the campus, and they immediately responded

694
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:21.360
with shovels and funnels.

695
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:28.480
Yeah, and you know, and.

696
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:32.599
You know, somewhere in one of those houses and one

697
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:36.679
of those dorms, there's an old miss kid who was

698
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.480
sitting there on his or her knees, paraying.

699
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:42.480
For beer.

700
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:49.639
And and look what happened. Beer showed up.

701
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.880
I was the I've seen people on their knees getting

702
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.679
a getting the beer, the beer bong, I've seen. I've

703
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.920
seen that. That That's that was probably happening in the

704
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.119
dorm room. And they went out of beer, and something

705
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.719
shook the earth, and I'm like, oh, there's more.

706
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:12.800
I sent a delivery.

707
00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:18.199
The kegs have risen.

708
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:25.480
Redneck Jesus, he's the only one I ever liked.

709
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:33.559
And isn't that the best?

710
00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:41.320
Jesus, he's the most fun terms water in the michelob.

711
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:46.639
Oh God, all right, thanks for hanging out with us

712
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:51.920
inside the Treehouse today. Don't forget Tomorrow is Red Day

713
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.920
inside the Treehouse with a special delivery out of beer

714
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.840
get your own or wait for you delivery truck to

715
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:08.159
uh Tumpolder, but a special nine call inside the treehouse tomorrow,

716
00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:09.199
See you there.

717
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:13.719
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718
00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:18.360
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