Waffle House Divorce | Tuesday 03.24.26

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com slash at Treehouse on air. It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse on Daniel Mallley along with Trey Trenholm. Coming up on today's show, We've got everything you need to know about Alpine divorce. Also a FEMA official's wild story on how he got to a waffle house. And we will start today with our backyard of Arlington, Texas.

0:47 Trey and I are both from the DFW area. Arlington is where I spent my high school years and that's where. Over the weekend, a twenty one year old man was arrested in charged with murdering his grandmother after an argument over his allowance. Yeah, kind of takes a second for the layers to hit you. Ron TREELV Jackson has been charged with one count of murder after shooting and killing his grandmother over an argument over an argument about his allowance.

1:28 Officers responded to an apartment complex on carriage House Circle around four forty pm Friday. Carriage House Circle sounded familiar to me, so I decided to look it up and the location tracks for the incident The apartments along Lamar Boulevard and North Arlington are not known for being the best. I would know because I lived near them. I also lived in what I believe to be the worst apartment complexes in Arlington, which is further south, farther south off of Cooper and in between park Row and Pioneer. There's a little spot in there, just off of Cooper, in between Pioneer and park Row, where in the first three months living there, there were two shootings. Okay, so I know my criminal element apartments when it comes to Arlington anyway.

2:28 Police responded four to forty in the afternoon on Friday after a family member found a sixty eight year old woman unresponsive on her patio. It's discovered she'd been shot, detective said the woman and Ron Trell, the grandson, had gotten into a heated argument which led to the loss of his allowance money. Sounds like she was right, whatever it was. He actually admitted to shooting grandma inside the apartment Friday morning and dragging her to the patio, and then he was booked into Arlington Jail. This has come up a couple of times of the last couple of weeks. Inside the Treehouse that is what sort of credibility you may have inside jail slash prison walls based on the crime that got you there. Last week there was a story about a guy who was caught cheating at fishing and how that's going to be an interesting conversation to have with a cell made as to why you're in here.

3:32 And now we have a new submission with this guy having to tell people that he shot his grandma because she cut him off. Yeah, and who was twenty one? Uh huh, you're twenty one. You're still getting an allowance from Nana. You kill Nana. I have to think you are going to be just a hair above child molesters in prison. Yeah, and rightfully so, because you know a lot of the guys in there gonna be like, you killed your grandma. Yeah, and not only that, but you just killed your source of income. I mean most people, I would say, if there's one person in your fan of your family members that most people have at least some positive feeling about, it would be Nana. Oh yeah, so yeah, I And I mean that's just I what do you do with that? I mean, you're twenty one, You're still freeloading off Nana and then you shoot.

4:49 Nana and we don't know where he lived. It's very possible he lived with Nana. I bet he did. Yeah, that's my assumption. And you can't get a job or anything else, you I yeah, that one. You just gotta You just need to go away for life. It is I mean, it's it's it's so sad, but it's also just extremely pathetic. You shut your nana over your allowance. You big bad you big bad man. He is going to get absolutely manhandled in prison, probably because he.

5:31 Didn't he didn't clean his room or take out the trash or do you know some something really simple. Uh huh uh. Yeah, that one, I I'll and and then shot her and then moved her to the patio. I guess maybe he was uh maybe in the lobby of the video game he was playing and didn't want to stop. I don't know. It doesn't mention anything in the story about what happened between him shooting her and moving her to the patio. It doesn't say why he did it. It just said that's what he did. Lisa Jackson shot his grandmother inside an apartment on Carriage House Circle on Friday for dragging her body to the porch.

6:16 I maybe he was gonna say that, I don't even know, like. Aaronon bullet, Yeah, got astray on the patio. Yeah, I mean yeah, there's just some uh fine, fine, fine decision making that went on. Uh that. That's a level of entitlement you can't even really wrap your mind around. Uh huh. The the level of entitlement meeting sheer stupidity at an intersection in North Arlington, and I just I saw that and it was weird too, because the guy's mugshot does not match the crime. So I'm going to show you this guy's face. He's got the lean back thing going on, like he's some sort of a hardened criminal like Al Capones. Got nothing on me.

7:10 Mm hmm. And then when you put next to it, shot and killed nana, Like. This is. All kinds of sad. To balance this out, though, and I think it's very important we do that. So on the heels of a twenty one year old man shooting and killing his grandmother over an argument about his allowance, I would like to share with you a story from the opposite side of the spectrum, and that is thirteen year old Texas student Landry maybry Sold his pig for a world record setting five hundred five thousand dollars at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo just the other day.

7:56 The high price was achieved through competitive bidding from donors supporting youth agriculture. Is setting a new record for the event. So you got a twenty one year old killing nana for lack of allowance. Meanwhile, a thirteen year old future farmer is selling a half million dollar pig in Houston, Texas. I think, I mean, and they do every year. It's like they set a record every year. But I think the kid who sold a steer at the Houston Livestock Stocking Rodeo for one and. A half million was that this year or last year? Goes this year? Okay? Yeah, because they seem to be setting new records each year. Yeah, of course. It makes worldwide headlines every year.

8:39 And it's it's it's a charity. Like it's not they're not paying that much for the actual animal, but they, you know, big wigs love to you know, set records and spend money and it's for a good cause. It goes for I believe it. It goes for scholarships, college scholarships and stuff it does. And look, and I'm just really glad that these prices aren't set to the actual market prices for bacon and beef, oh yeah, because otherwise, man, we'd all be. I mean, yeah, beef has enough problems as is. But yeah, I mean, you got you got teenagers selling livestock for six and seven figures, also known as agricultural money laundering.

9:27 And and that's you know, that's a lot of work that went up to that point of those animals going up for auction. I mean, those kids are up every day dealing with those animals. And it is if you've ever if you've never worked on a you know, been on a ranch or farm or whatever, it's hard work. So it's very hard work. There are no days off, no at all. Dairy farmers is absolutely twenty four to seven. Those cow have to be melt twice a day every day, whether you like it or not. That's right. And and in the case of this thirteen year old selling his prize pig for half a million dollars, clearly he didn't have time to see Charlotte's Web. Because here's the other thing that people don't realize. When you sell an animal for that amount of money. They don't go live on a happy farm. They're going straight to the you know.

10:27 No, that's not true. It's not that that Wilbur's not gonna end up as bacon. Wilbur may end up as bacon, but he will father a lot of children before then. Oh so he'll die happy then, Okay, Yeah, I'm all right with that. You know. Typically, I mean they're bidding these because I mean they're they're good animals. And but they'll go and they'll be you know, they will go forth and multiply so and and kill more. Oh yeah, and create more six and seven, your more six and seven and figure livestock and can you imagine the can you imagine the pork belly? Oh my god, I'm saying all this. And I did watch Charlotte's Web a bunch as a kid. I think if you sell a pig for half a million dollars at the stock show, you really should have even if it's fake. The spider web in the corner that says some pig. And I feel like, if you don't, you have fatal You're listening to the tree House. Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. Eight three three COOKDFW is the phone number you will need to schedule your free roof inspection and property review. Courtesy of Daniel Cooking COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration eight three three cookdf W. To get that scheduled,

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14:23 Have you heard of alpine divorce? I have not. I want you to contain yourself, Trey, because I have a feeling. I know what your reaction is going to beat it is, and I just want you to try to You know, an alpine divorce is when a man takes his female significant other for a hike in the woods and leaves her there. I really thought you'd be belly laughing at this point, because on the surface it sounds kind of funny, but when you dig into it, it's really a Even though I'm laughing, I know I here it is.

15:11 I'm trying to think about it because if I were to break up with someone that badly, I don't want to even think about going camping with them or you do that and what happens if something happens to them. Therein lies the unsettling and troubling part of this quote unquote breakup trend. I've seen this a bunch over the last week, and I couldn't wait for us to talk about it here inside the Treehouse. Alpine divorce, the terrifying hiking trend is leaving women everywhere horrified, and because it's gaining more momentum, more virality, more and more women are coming forward cheering their own experiences, including this one where it's a photo of just a barren trail in some rocks and stuff with a caption POV. You go on a hike with him in the mountains, but he leaves you alone by yourself, and you realize he never liked you to begin with. My boyfriend did this to me.

16:19 I found another hiker to show me how to get back. Then I went home and blocked his number. Another one. My friend got abandoned by her partner on a trail, and she goes hiking consistently now in her own weather dog, in hopes of being there for any women who have the same thing happened to them. You're strong, And then there's a name for this Alpine divorce. This happens frequently enough that there's a support group for it. And then this one, which is really awkward if you're on the receiving end. My dad did it. My dad did this to my mom and I took us on a hunting trip and left us three feet of snow in three feet up snow. We had no idea where we were, but we were able to get out after hours of walking.

17:05 So scary. My heart goes out to people who've experienced this so cruel. Okay, my first question here is are they saying this is all premeditated or have they been acting just been such a pain in the ass the guys just got fed up and left. I think it's a combination of the two. I mean, I can't really imagine either one, but I can certainly understand where if she's just been you know, just riding your ass like for hours that you're just like, I can't do this anymore and you just you know, leave, it's still I would be so as much as I can think of some excess where this there would be some great satisfaction out of this, But I the the fear of this something happening to them and you being at fault would override any pleasure derived from it.

18:08 And you're right to think and feel that way, because there was a story that happened recently ish, like in the past couple of years, where a guy believe it was in Europe, did this to his girlfriend. They went for a hike and he just left her out there and she died, and he was charged not with murder but some type of European manslaughter or negligence or something. Surprisingly, and maybe it's a European thing. The sentence he got didn't seem to fit the crime, but I guess because he didn't do anything to her, he just left her, I guess they didn't see that as tantam out to murder or whatever. But I mean, these are serious consequences.

18:52 And I don't know if this was the origin story of it, but there is a literal story, a short story from an author I believe it was in the nineteenth century and I can't remember his name right now, but it's sort of the basis for the Alpine divorce. There's this couple. They're married, and they absolutely hate each other. The marriage is awful. The guy finally thinks, he's like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm just gonna we're gonna go for this beautiful hike. There's a cliff, and I'm gonna push her off this cliff and tell everyone she fell, and then he's rid of his problem. Right, Well, the problem is the wife figures out what he's up to and flips the script on him. So by the end, when he's trying to get up the nerve to push her off this cliff. Sorry about that, You're good. When he starts to get up the nerve trying to push her off this cliff, she knows what he's about to do.

19:49 So she's pacing back and forth, and he's like, what are you doing? And she's like, I know what your plan is. I've known what your plan is all along. In fact, at the hotel, I told two employees to come around this time, knowing it'd be around this time. We'd be here when you were be thinking about killing me. But I know you don't have the spine enough to do it. So she's like, I'm gonna jump, and then the people are gonna show up and they're gonna see me falling. And because I told them you were gonna kill me, even though I jump, you're gonna take the fall for murder, and that's exactly what happens in the story. It's one of those ultimate lessons though, because it's like a it's sort of like a careful what you wish for. He got rid of his wife, but now he's gonna end up going to jail for her murder.

20:36 And what a fine example of a woman's logic of instead of having the two guys kill him, that she's gonna kill herself just to show him a lesson. Mm hmm, anything to prove a point. Look, there are two types of people in this world, those that want to be happy and those that want to be right. I think we know which one she is. And just screaming I told you so to Lee end, I. Just all the way down now, I told you so. Yeah, I mean, and she is right. He can say about it. There's nothing he can do other than God, damn it.

21:19 Yeah, should have done it sooner, or maybe he should have got the two guys from the hotel to do it for him. But yeah, that's that was I've been doing a lot of interesting reading on the whole Alpine divorce thing over the last few days. That's just wow, guys, just just just go to Starbucks and break up. Or just ghost them, or just I don't I mean especially, it sounds like a lot of these are just dating. It's not even you know, you say Alpine divorce. You're thinking it's married couples that have been around each other for a while. But it sounds like a lot of this is just yeah, people don't want to deal with a breakup.

22:02 Yeah, good god. You know there was a time, believe it or not, where you had to do these things at least on the phone, if not face to face because texting wasn't a thing, you. Had to do it in person. Or if you really really really wanted to roll the dice, you send a letter. But look, and I think, I think there are certain things you can do in the early stages of a relationship, not to necessarily test each other, but to feel each other out to see if this is going to be a long term thing. Like compatibility. There are certain benchmarks you hit in a relationship to see is this going to work, you know, for the long haul. One of those things is when you travel together for the first time, and in this case, it might be going for a hike, because you might learn some things about each other that you don't in normal, every day circumstances. And then if things get so bad where you're where, you think the best possible solution is to just walk away and keep walking and lose her. Well, I mean, now you know, but it also might be criminal. Yeah, I mean, like ghosting is one thing if you do it in your normal daily routine, but if you take her to the wilderness and ghost her there, you might get arrested.

23:31 Yeah, and and might have unbelievable guilt the rest of your life. I mean, just leave her at a restaurant pull a Romo, yeah, yeah. Instead of an alpine divorce. Back in the day, Tony Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson by doing an ihop divorce. Yeah, so much easier and and and get a meal. Absolutely. Look, the man may have never won a Super Bowl ring, but he was a trendsetter. You're hitting the treouse.

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26:05 Okay, I why, I mean, that's that's where they teleported you. Yeah. Greg Phillips, who was picked to lead FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, said on a podcast recently teleporting is no fun, and apparently being teleported was against his will. The story as he tells it. On a January twenty twenty five podcast appearance, Phillips claimed that his car was lifted up while he was driving and transported forty miles away into a ditch near a church, and in another instance in the same episode, Phillips said he was teleported fifty miles away to a waffle house. He said, I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to waffle house and get waffle house, and I ended up at waffle house in Georgia, fifty miles away from where I was. He said. His friends asked him where are you and I said a waffle house and they responded, a waffle house where? And he replied, waffle house in Rome, Georgia, And they said that's not possible. You just left here a moment ago.

27:26 But it was possible. It was real, And he warned about the dangers of teleportation. Greg said, teleporting is no fun. You know what's happening, but you can't do anything about it, and so you just go. You just go at the ride, and wow, what just an incredible adventure it all was. I don't know if anyone's ever said that when they've ended up at waffle house, but maybe on occasion. Chris Fugot or Fugate not sure which, who led FEMA under Obama once that waffle house can't provide insight into the level of seriousness of disasters. And he's not wrong. There is the waffle House Index, whether or not they're closed.

28:12 So anyway, Greg Phillips, who is a Trump administration official pick to lead the Office of Response and Recovery for FEMA, claims to have been teleported not once, but twice. One time, though, was to a waffle house. Let's take for a moment the possibility. What if it's real. What if he was teleported? I mean, if we have the secret technology to deconstruct somebody to their atomic core and then reconstruct them at another location. Cool.

28:52 Well, to be honest with you, teleportation wouldn't be the first instance of deconstructing a person to their atomic core. That's usually what happens when you've had too many smothered and covered ash browns at waffle house. Well, I feel like this guy sounds like he went on a bender and then his boys dropped him off someplace like what we. No way, that's amazing. You teleported? He thinks, he thinks he teleported. He still don't, so that's a possibility. So there's let's go through the possibilities. One, he really he okay, well, in his mind, he really is convinced he was teleported. Okay, So let's break down the possibilities. Sure, maybe it's possible someone teleported him. Number two, his boys are jacking with him, drugged him, or he did it himself. Whatever passed out woke up a waffle house because that's where they dropped him.

29:54 And the third is and I think this is also possible and very likely this dude's got dementia and doesn't know it. Because this is why silver alerts get issued, because someone disappears into the night and they end up god knows where and had no recollection of it whatsoever. So in their mind they think, oh my god, I may have teleported. Well, you just got dementia. Or maybe he has started a new trend we didn't know about called the waffle house divorce. That doesn't sound so bad. I mean, you know, there are worse places to be dumped.

30:35 You know. Now, if it's at Friday night at two am, it might be a little scary, but otherwise, you know, not a bad deal. I know. Look, it makes sense if if you're out and about someplace and your significant others decided to give you the luxurious option alpine divorce or a waffle house divorce, which one are you going to take? Probably the waffle house because at least you get some food out of it, and you know, people. I why, what's. Wrong with people? What's wrong?

31:16 Just there are too many people saying they're inside thoughts out loud. You're absolutely one correct, and there's too many people who will validate your your craziness. Because somewhere he's telling this story I have I was telephorted to a waffle house, and somewhere someone's going like, yeah, me too, that. Happened to me. Yeah. I mean, it's instead of saying are you sure you know? Or are we just deflecting the fact that maybe you had one too many and you're you're irritating drunk and your friends just got tired of you.

32:02 Yeah. See, that's the difference between the podcast. He went on to share this story and our show, because on our show, if he says, oh, I got teleported to a waffle house, you and I are going to ask some very serious, pointed questions about that. On the show, he went on, instead of them saying, you're full of it, this happened, this happened, this happened, they responded with, tell me more. And here's another one. If you got teleported to a waffle house. I'm assuming he just showed up inside the waffle house. Wouldn't someone have been quite surprised that out of nowhere someone's at the table.

32:46 I don't know. That's where the waffle The enigma of the waffle house employee comes into play, because they've seen things that you and I could only dream of. So if someone suddenly just appeared at a table, they may think nothing of it. They may be like anything. I mean, I suppose, I just. Like maybe some waffle house employees know they're on the back end of a worm whole somewhere and they just they pea. Sometimes dragglers show up as long as they don't run out on their check. But I guess they don't care. I mean, wouldn't that be just just cosmic irony that waffle houses are actually undercover wormholes because you need a solid breakfast before you you transverse space time? Yeah?

33:36 You do? You do? You really? You really? It makes sense you don't want to do that on an empty stomach. Oh, especially if your plan is to dine and teleport, which, let's be honest, that would be kind of cool. Yeah, I mean, maybe that's where that scene from Spaceballs comes from. Is you know Aliens can really just show up at the diner. And kick dance across the table. That's the unit, the universal constant in this world, in our universe and all the dimensions. Waffle house. Amen, that's what's going to goodnight us. I'm assuming that's the twist ending in Project Hill Mary, the news space movie with Right Gossling. It's gonna end with him in Aliens at a waffle house.

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