March 24, 2026

Waffle House Divorce | Tuesday 03.24.26

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We start off today talking about a 21 year old Texas man who killed his grandmother because she didn't give him his allowance, then we go the opposite way and talk about the 13 year old who sold his pig for $505,000 at Houston Livestock and Rodeo. Then we discuss the new trent of Alpine Divorce and a FEMA official who says he was teleported...to a Waffle House.

LINKS:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/man-arrested-shooting-grandmother-after-argument-over-allowance-police-say
A 13-year-old Texan student, Landry Mabry, sold his Grand Champion pig for a record-setting $505,000 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

https://www.self.com/story/alpine-divorce-explained

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house

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Coming up on today's show, We've got everything you need

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to know about Alpine divorce. Also a FEMA official's wild

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story on how he got to a waffle house. And

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we will start today with our backyard of Arlington, Texas.

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Trey and I are both from the DFW area. Arlington

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is where I spent my high school years and that's where.

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Over the weekend, a twenty one year old man was

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arrested in charged with murdering his grandmother after an argument

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over his allowance. Yeah, kind of takes a second for

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the layers to hit you. Ron TREELV Jackson has been

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charged with one count of murder after shooting and killing

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his grandmother over an argument over an argument about his allowance.

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Officers responded to an apartment complex on carriage House Circle

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around four forty pm Friday. Carriage House Circle sounded familiar

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to me, so I decided to look it up and

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the location tracks for the incident The apartments along Lamar

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Boulevard and North Arlington are not known for being the best.

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I would know because I lived near them. I also

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lived in what I believe to be the worst apartment

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complexes in Arlington, which is further south, farther south off

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of Cooper and in between park Row and Pioneer. There's

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a little spot in there, just off of Cooper, in

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between Pioneer and park Row, where in the first three

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months living there, there were two shootings. Okay, so I

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know my criminal element apartments when it comes to Arlington anyway.

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Police responded four to forty in the afternoon on Friday

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after a family member found a sixty eight year old

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woman unresponsive on her patio. It's discovered she'd been shot,

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detective said the woman and Ron Trell, the grandson, had

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gotten into a heated argument which led to the loss

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of his allowance money. Sounds like she was right, whatever

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it was. He actually admitted to shooting grandma inside the

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apartment Friday morning and dragging her to the patio, and

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then he was booked into Arlington Jail. This has come

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up a couple of times of the last couple of weeks.

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Inside the Treehouse that is what sort of credibility you

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may have inside jail slash prison walls based on the

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crime that got you there. Last week there was a

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story about a guy who was caught cheating at fishing

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and how that's going to be an interesting conversation to

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have with a cell made as to why you're in here.

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And now we have a new submission with this guy

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having to tell people that he shot his grandma because

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she cut him off.

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Yeah, and who was twenty one? Uh huh, you're twenty one.

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You're still getting an allowance from Nana. You kill Nana.

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I have to think you are going to be just

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a hair above child molesters in prison.

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Yeah, and rightfully so, because you know a lot of

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the guys in there gonna be like, you killed your grandma. Yeah,

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and not only that, but you just killed your source

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of income.

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I mean most people, I would say, if there's one

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person in your fan of your family members that most

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people have at least some positive feeling about, it would

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be Nana. Oh yeah, so yeah, I And I mean

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that's just I what do you do with that? I mean,

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you're twenty one, You're still freeloading off Nana and then

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you shoot.

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Nana and we don't know where he lived. It's very

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possible he lived with Nana.

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I bet he did.

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Yeah, that's my assumption.

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And you can't get a job or anything else, you

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I yeah, that one. You just gotta You just need

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to go away for life.

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It is I mean, it's it's it's so sad, but

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it's also just extremely pathetic. You shut your nana over

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your allowance. You big bad you big bad man. He

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is going to get absolutely manhandled in prison, probably because he.

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Didn't he didn't clean his room or take out the

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trash or do you know some something really simple.

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Uh huh uh.

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Yeah, that one, I I'll and and then shot her

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and then moved her to the patio.

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I guess maybe he was uh maybe in the lobby

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of the video game he was playing and didn't want

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to stop. I don't know. It doesn't mention anything in

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the story about what happened between him shooting her and

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moving her to the patio. It doesn't say why he

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did it. It just said that's what he did. Lisa

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Jackson shot his grandmother inside an apartment on Carriage House

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Circle on Friday for dragging her body to the porch.

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I maybe he was gonna say that, I don't even know, like.

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Aaronon bullet, Yeah, got astray on the patio.

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Yeah, I mean yeah, there's just some uh fine, fine,

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fine decision making that went on.

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Uh that.

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That's a level of entitlement you can't even really wrap

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your mind around.

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Uh huh. The the level of entitlement meeting sheer stupidity

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at an intersection in North Arlington, and I just I

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saw that and it was weird too, because the guy's

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mugshot does not match the crime. So I'm going to

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show you this guy's face. He's got the lean back

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thing going on, like he's some sort of a hardened

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criminal like Al Capones. Got nothing on me.

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Mm hmm.

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And then when you put next to it, shot and

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killed nana, Like.

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This is.

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All kinds of sad. To balance this out, though, and

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I think it's very important we do that. So on

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the heels of a twenty one year old man shooting

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and killing his grandmother over an argument about his allowance,

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I would like to share with you a story from

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the opposite side of the spectrum, and that is thirteen

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year old Texas student Landry maybry Sold his pig for

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a world record setting five hundred five thousand dollars at

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the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo just the other day.

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The high price was achieved through competitive bidding from donors

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supporting youth agriculture. Is setting a new record for the event.

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So you got a twenty one year old killing nana

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for lack of allowance. Meanwhile, a thirteen year old future

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farmer is selling a half million dollar pig in Houston, Texas.

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I think, I mean, and they do every year. It's

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like they set a record every year. But I think

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the kid who sold a steer at the Houston Livestock

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Stocking Rodeo for one and.

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A half million was that this year or last year?

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Goes this year?

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Okay? Yeah, because they seem to be setting new records

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each year. Yeah, of course. It makes worldwide headlines every year.

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And it's it's it's a charity. Like it's not they're

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not paying that much for the actual animal, but they,

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you know, big wigs love to you know, set records

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and spend money and it's for a good cause. It

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goes for I believe it. It goes for scholarships, college

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scholarships and stuff it does.

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And look, and I'm just really glad that these prices

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aren't set to the actual market prices for bacon and beef,

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oh yeah, because otherwise, man, we'd all be.

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I mean, yeah, beef has enough problems as is.

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But yeah, I mean, you got you got teenagers selling

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livestock for six and seven figures, also known as agricultural

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money laundering.

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And and that's you know, that's a lot of work

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that went up to that point of those animals going

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up for auction. I mean, those kids are up every

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day dealing with those animals. And it is if you've

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ever if you've never worked on a you know, been

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on a ranch or farm or whatever, it's hard work.

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So it's very hard work. There are no days off,

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no at all.

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Dairy farmers is absolutely twenty four to seven. Those cow

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have to be melt twice a day every day, whether

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you like it or not.

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That's right. And and in the case of this thirteen

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year old selling his prize pig for half a million dollars,

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clearly he didn't have time to see Charlotte's Web. Because

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here's the other thing that people don't realize. When you

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sell an animal for that amount of money. They don't

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go live on a happy farm. They're going straight to

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the you know.

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No, that's not true.

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It's not that that Wilbur's not gonna end up as bacon.

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Wilbur may end up as bacon, but he will father

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a lot of children before then.

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Oh so he'll die happy then, Okay, Yeah, I'm all

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right with that.

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You know. Typically, I mean they're bidding these because I

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mean they're they're good animals. And but they'll go and

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they'll be you know, they will go forth and multiply

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so and and kill more.

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Oh yeah, and create more six and seven, your more

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six and seven and figure livestock and can you imagine

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the can you imagine the pork belly? Oh my god,

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I'm saying all this. And I did watch Charlotte's Web

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a bunch as a kid. I think if you sell

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a pig for half a million dollars at the stock show,

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you really should have even if it's fake. The spider

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web in the corner that says some pig. And I

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start looking at these things. These could be a problem

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And they all do.

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I don't care what kind of home you have. They

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Can't say I have a home in Mesquite or Flower Mount.

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Every one of them is different. And that's why you

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Have you heard of alpine divorce? I have not. I

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want you to contain yourself, Trey, because I have a feeling.

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I know what your reaction is going to beat it is,

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and I just want you to try to You know,

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an alpine divorce is when a man takes his female

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significant other for a hike in the woods and leaves

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her there. I really thought you'd be belly laughing at

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this point, because on the surface it sounds kind of funny,

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but when you dig into it, it's really a Even

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though I'm laughing, I know I here it is.

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I'm trying to think about it because if I were

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to break up with someone that badly, I don't want

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to even think about going camping with them or you

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do that and what happens if something happens to them.

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Therein lies the unsettling and troubling part of this quote

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unquote breakup trend. I've seen this a bunch over the

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last week, and I couldn't wait for us to talk

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about it here inside the Treehouse. Alpine divorce, the terrifying

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hiking trend is leaving women everywhere horrified, and because it's

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gaining more momentum, more virality, more and more women are

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coming forward cheering their own experiences, including this one where

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it's a photo of just a barren trail in some

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rocks and stuff with a caption POV. You go on

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a hike with him in the mountains, but he leaves

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you alone by yourself, and you realize he never liked

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you to begin with. My boyfriend did this to me.

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I found another hiker to show me how to get back.

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Then I went home and blocked his number. Another one.

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My friend got abandoned by her partner on a trail,

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and she goes hiking consistently now in her own weather dog,

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in hopes of being there for any women who have

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the same thing happened to them. You're strong, And then

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there's a name for this Alpine divorce. This happens frequently

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enough that there's a support group for it. And then

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this one, which is really awkward if you're on the

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receiving end. My dad did it. My dad did this

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to my mom and I took us on a hunting

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trip and left us three feet of snow in three

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feet up snow. We had no idea where we were,

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but we were able to get out after hours of walking.

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So scary. My heart goes out to people who've experienced

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this so cruel.

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Okay, my first question here is are they saying this

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is all premeditated or have they been acting just been

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such a pain in the ass the guys just got

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fed up and left.

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I think it's a combination of the two.

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I mean, I can't really imagine either one, but I

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can certainly understand where if she's just been you know,

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just riding your ass like for hours that you're just like,

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I can't do this anymore and you just you know, leave,

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it's still I would be so as much as I

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can think of some excess where this there would be

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some great satisfaction out of this, But I the the

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fear of this something happening to them and you being

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at fault would override any pleasure derived from it.

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And you're right to think and feel that way, because

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there was a story that happened recently ish, like in

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the past couple of years, where a guy believe it

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was in Europe, did this to his girlfriend. They went

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for a hike and he just left her out there

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and she died, and he was charged not with murder

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but some type of European manslaughter or negligence or something. Surprisingly,

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and maybe it's a European thing. The sentence he got

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didn't seem to fit the crime, but I guess because

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he didn't do anything to her, he just left her,

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I guess they didn't see that as tantam out to

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murder or whatever. But I mean, these are serious consequences.

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And I don't know if this was the origin story

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of it, but there is a literal story, a short

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story from an author I believe it was in the

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nineteenth century and I can't remember his name right now,

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but it's sort of the basis for the Alpine divorce.

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There's this couple. They're married, and they absolutely hate each other.

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The marriage is awful. The guy finally thinks, he's like,

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you know what I'm gonna do? I'm just gonna we're

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gonna go for this beautiful hike. There's a cliff, and

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I'm gonna push her off this cliff and tell everyone

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she fell, and then he's rid of his problem. Right, Well,

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the problem is the wife figures out what he's up

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to and flips the script on him. So by the end,

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when he's trying to get up the nerve to push

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her off this cliff. Sorry about that, You're good. When

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he starts to get up the nerve trying to push

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her off this cliff, she knows what he's about to do.

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So she's pacing back and forth, and he's like, what

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are you doing? And she's like, I know what your

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plan is. I've known what your plan is all along.

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In fact, at the hotel, I told two employees to

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come around this time, knowing it'd be around this time.

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We'd be here when you were be thinking about killing me.

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But I know you don't have the spine enough to

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do it. So she's like, I'm gonna jump, and then

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the people are gonna show up and they're gonna see

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me falling. And because I told them you were gonna

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kill me, even though I jump, you're gonna take the

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fall for murder, and that's exactly what happens in the story.

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It's one of those ultimate lessons though, because it's like

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a it's sort of like a careful what you wish for.

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He got rid of his wife, but now he's gonna

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end up going to jail for her murder.

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And what a fine example of a woman's logic of

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instead of having the two guys kill him, that she's

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gonna kill herself just to show him a lesson.

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Mm hmm, anything to prove a point. Look, there are

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two types of people in this world, those that want

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to be happy and those that want to be right.

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I think we know which one she is.

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And just screaming I told you so to Lee end, I.

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Just all the way down now, I told you so. Yeah,

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I mean, and she is right. He can say about it.

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There's nothing he can do other than God, damn it.

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Yeah, should have done it sooner, or maybe he should

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have got the two guys from the hotel to do

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it for him.

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But yeah, that's that was I've been doing a lot

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of interesting reading on the whole Alpine divorce thing over

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the last few days. That's just wow, guys, just just

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just go to Starbucks and break up.

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Or just ghost them, or just I don't I mean especially,

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it sounds like a lot of these are just dating.

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It's not even you know, you say Alpine divorce. You're

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thinking it's married couples that have been around each other

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for a while. But it sounds like a lot of

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this is just yeah, people don't want to deal with

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a breakup.

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Yeah, good god.

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You know there was a time, believe it or not,

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where you had to do these things at least on

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the phone, if not face to face because texting wasn't

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a thing, you.

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Had to do it in person. Or if you really

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really really wanted to roll the dice, you send a letter.

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But look, and I think, I think there are certain

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things you can do in the early stages of a relationship,

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not to necessarily test each other, but to feel each

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other out to see if this is going to be

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a long term thing. Like compatibility. There are certain benchmarks

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you hit in a relationship to see is this going

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to work, you know, for the long haul. One of

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those things is when you travel together for the first time,

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and in this case, it might be going for a hike,

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because you might learn some things about each other that

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you don't in normal, every day circumstances. And then if

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things get so bad where you're where, you think the

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best possible solution is to just walk away and keep

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walking and lose her. Well, I mean, now you know,

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but it also might be criminal. Yeah, I mean, like

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ghosting is one thing if you do it in your

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normal daily routine, but if you take her to the

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wilderness and ghost her there, you might get arrested.

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Yeah, and and might have unbelievable guilt the rest of

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your life. I mean, just leave her at a restaurant

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pull a Romo, yeah, yeah.

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Instead of an alpine divorce. Back in the day, Tony

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Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson by doing an ihop divorce.

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Yeah, so much easier and and and get a meal.

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Absolutely. Look, the man may have never won a Super

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Bowl ring, but he was a trendsetter. You're hitting the treouse.

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