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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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Tredy Trenholm, and today we are very happy and excited
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to present our special guest inside the Treehouse today, actor, comedian,
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host and friend of the Treehouse, mister tone Bell. He's back.
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I love that you're busy, but it does make scheduling
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our visits a little more difficult than it used to be.
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You just dropping by my office at the radio station.
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Now we've got to get our schedules aligned. We got
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to make sure everything's synced up. So I am very
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very happy that you are busy, because if you're busy,
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that means you're making a living, living the dream.
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Yeah. Man, it's always nice to have something to do.
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You know.
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It's like if there are times when you don't want
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to be busy, but I don't want to be in
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lack of work, So that's like that balancing act you
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gotta do. I mean, I'd love to have like at
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least four or five days to just recoup from just
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I was just doing south By. So I would love
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to have a couple of days and then, but you can't.
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You got to take it strike while the iron's hot.
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Yeah, I can imagine that in the acting field, in
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the realm of it that you do it, there is
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no rest for the wicked. I mean, I would imagine,
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and I know you're doing this, which is I'd rather
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just go until I can't go anymore, as opposed to
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running the risk of saying, you know, I'm a little tired,
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I'm going to pass on this project.
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I'm gonna take a break.
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Yeah, you're not Matthew McConaughey.
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By any means.
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And because I don't know how many people realize that,
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Like matth I was reading something about that a handful
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of months ago where McConaughey, another fellow you know Texas actor, Yeah, uh,
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took took a break in the middle of him at
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the peak of his rom com craze because he wanted
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to rebrand. He was tired of doing that stuff. And
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it was like close to two years I think, he said,
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without booking anything and him passing on all these big projects. Thankfully,
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he had banked up the least enough money where he
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could survive it. But I remember in an interview he
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said it got close to where he was starting to
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look into all right, maybe I'll go teach at ut
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or something.
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Yeah, I mean it is. It is one of those. Uh.
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I was just up for a job. Maybe two weeks ago.
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I just filming the job that I've been doing the
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last few years on Netflix and got offered to come
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in for not the offer of the role, but like
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producer session straight out, and I would have had to
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leave like a week after they you know, I read
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for it, and I was like, I would love to
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do this job. But if I get it, great, If
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I don't, great, at least at least I'm still being
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talked about, like nobody's forgotten about me yet.
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But but part of it was like, thank goodness I
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didn't get this job. It had been great. Yeah, but
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I mean I could use a little bit of time off.
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So is that you just.
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You just got done filming the season three of Survival
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of the Thickest correct. Yeah, by the way, you're fantastic
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in that.
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Oh thank you. Yeah.
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I find out that Trey is not just saying that
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because you're here. Trey has told me that weeks ago
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and it wasn't even during the show, so I know
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he really meant it.
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Oh, Man, appreciate that. I was.
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I was blown away, like that's it's a great show. Yeah, yeah,
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great writing. But yeah, you're fantastic on it.
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Man.
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I do think this is probably gonna be I mean,
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this is our last season, like said and done after
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this season. But this feels like when I think when
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I got a couple of projects coming out after around
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the same time as this is coming out, and and
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I think I'm hitting a different speed right now, which
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is which is nice, so a little more mature I
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think performance wise, I kind of just stopped taking notes
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on some stuff and go, this is how I'm gonna
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portray this character now.
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So either either you like.
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This or you don't, but this is what I'm doing,
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and I think it worked out real well.
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That's awesome.
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It's got to be a great feeling too, creatively.
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Are you at the point yet in your career and
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now you know a third season of Survival of the
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Thickest is obviously got to be a great feeling one
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just to be working as an actor, but too to
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be able to get and know that you're going to
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go into the final season of something and be able
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to hopefully, you know, tie a bow on it and
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you know, complete the whole thing. How satisfying is that
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to be able to do, especially in the landscape of
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today's entertainment where you may not you may not get
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a season two at all.
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I mean it's I can't Yeah, I mean it's it's
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bittersweet in that it was nice going going back to
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something every year, right, and going like, Okay, I've got
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I got eight months and now I got to go
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do this four months there. And I think it would
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have been easier had I still been living in an
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apartment and being single.
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Mm.
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Being a homeowner with a wife is a little more
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like I got to leave this whole thing that, you know,
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it'd been nice if something goes wrong and somebody's gonna
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fix it while I'm going who also has keys?
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Right?
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But now this is different? But yeah, I mean it's
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it's yeah, getting a chance of like kind of the
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arcs of the kres in this world that we put together.
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Yeah, it's nice to put a bowl on that.
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What's bittersweet is like, man, had this been you know,
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fifteen years ago, this would have been three or four
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seasons on twenty two episodes a season, and I'd have
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been like, oh man, I can take off two years
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and start a family.
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Just and not work to go. Money's fine.
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I'm looking for a job right now, right, I don't
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want to start it yet, but I'm looking.
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I am looking, so it is.
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It is a fascinating landscape. And that's and that's one
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of the most formal questions I wanted to ask you today.
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Because we're friends, we don't do standard interview type stuff,
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but I'm genuinely curious as a friend and as a
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show host, here, what is it like these days with
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all these platforms You have shows coming out the ass
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So on one hand, it's lots of opportunities for actors,
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But on the other hand, that's a lot of money
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being spent on these shows. And I'm sure that the
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money's tighter than it used to be, because, like you said,
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if this is fifteen years ago, Survival of the Thickest
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is going to probably get five six seasons on network
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TV and.
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You're going to be a millionaire.
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Whereas now, because everything's so thinned out, it almost seems
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like lots of opportunities, but still lots of struggle.
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I mean even when I started, there was still that
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time of you know, there weren't as many so if
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there weren't as you know, Netflix is starting to do
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its thing, NBC and the big networks still matter. Cables still,
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you know, FX and AMC are still creating hits, not
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that they don't, but it's your hit is very different
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package now and then Yeah, I mean the way I
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think my lawyer used to negotiate, being like, you know what,
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if you don't give him this quote, then he's walking away.
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And now I got to go just hold on now,
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I think I'm comfortable with that. Just stop negotiating, don't
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put it because there's something there's somebody else that is
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also good for.
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This part, you know what I mean.
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It's it's not that I don't think I'm perfect for it.
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There is someone else who can also pull this off, right.
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So, and and they might still be living in that
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one bedroom apartment single Yeah.
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Who like I mean he can, I mean I think
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that's I mean the job I just mentioned that. I'm
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glad I didn't go, but I would have done it
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is uh it would have been a local higher for
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la so I would have to fly myself out put
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myself up, which is fine because I can, but but
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also if they call go, you know what, we got
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to do a pickup scene on a Wednesday, but I
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flew back home. Now it screws their schedule up. Yeah,
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so I mean it makes sense to me and me.
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I do think they I do think they wanted me,
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though I do think it was mine if I if
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I were boots on the ground in la U.
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Yeah, the old, the old proximity thing might have may
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have caught up with you.
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For the stuff you see that you auditioned for every
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there that you get scripts for. I feel like the
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writing is the one thing, Like there's a finite amount
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of good writers, and now that it's getting watered down
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amongst all the platforms, Like do you see more crap?
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I don't know.
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I guess I only really watch what's kind of trendy.
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So if I don't hear about it, I'm really not watching,
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I guess. But also, like you said, I mean, I'll
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wait till you know it's eight episodes, I'll wait eight
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weeks and then when I have it, when I have
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a lull on like a Tuesday or Wednesday, me and
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a wife are knocking.
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Out all all eight So.
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That's just kind of how we get it done. And
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then after other than that, it's like, you know, cause
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I don't have weekend nights like that, so my weekend
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is Monday through Wednesday, so I don't I don't if
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I don't hear about it, I kind of don't know.
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And we rarely just kind of stumble into a show.
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But you you pass, you know, you can you know,
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any platform and start pass them and then go I
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didn't even know that I know her and that's the
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lead of the show, but I haven't heard about it
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or I know him. They're very talented, but I've heard
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nothing about it, which I mean, I make the joke
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on stage all the time. It's like, but I do
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make sure I press play just so the numbers are
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there for the actor that I know, And even if
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I'm not sitting right in front of the TV, I'm like,
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I want them to get there right. But you still
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have that battle of at least to me, I still
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have that battle of you know, not growing up with
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much so I don't have all the platforms yeah, I
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want to, but I can't justify going. Man, my electric
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bills four hundred bucks a month. I can't have ten apps.
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I go, sweet are. I don't care what your mother says,
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We're not. She has to get her own.
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You're not letting the mother in law piggyback off your peak.
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You don't have to pick.
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We're gonna have this one for six months and then
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we'll go back and switch up to this one for
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six month. Go, but we're not doing them all because
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we're not watching them all.
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Well, the good news is, I think you may not
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have to worry about that much longer because we've had
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this huge era of platform expansion wherever channel on cable
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eventually had an app to go watch more stuff, and
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then you had like three hundred channels on cable. Then
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you've got like one hundred possible you know, channel apps.
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Then those all started consolidating, and now they've started consolidating
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more because you start bundling all these apps, like you
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got Disney and the Hulu and the ESPN and then
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the Peacock and then they're all slowly eight three three
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COOKDFW is the phone number you will need to schedule
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your free roof Inspection and Property Review courtesy of Daniel
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To get that scheduled, we just had the State of
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a Union, the State of the Union address from the President.