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What Movie Universe Would You Live In? | Brain Tumor...Or Tapeworm? | The Treehouse Show

What Movie Universe Would You Live In? | Brain Tumor...Or Tapeworm? | The Treehouse Show
What Movie Universe Would You Live In? | Brain Tumor...Or Tapeworm? | The Treehouse Show
The Treehouse Show
What Movie Universe Would You Live In? | Brain Tumor...Or Tapeworm? | The Treehouse Show

If you could live in any movie franchise, which one would you choose? There's only one catch: you can't be the main character, and the franchise has to have at least two movies. Welcome to another episode of The Treehouse Show, where we tackle life's most important—and completely ridiculous—questions.

Before diving into today's weird news, Trey and Dan wonder what life was really like hundreds of years ago. Did everyone smell terrible? Was all the food painfully bland? These are the hard-hitting discussions you came for.

Then it's time for celebrity birthdays, where we debate whether Steven Tyler's use of Liv Tyler in Aerosmith music videos was a little creepy, whether Pamela Anderson really knew about the infamous tape, and a few other pop culture rabbit holes.

Later, the guys react to a DFW morning TV segment from WFAA about something every driver should know: Can you actually change a flat tire? You'll find out whether the hosts think it's still an essential life skill.

And finally... one of the wildest medical stories you'll hear this year. A man in Spain was convinced he had multiple brain tumors, only to discover the shocking truth: tapeworms.

If you enjoy funny news, bizarre true stories, pop culture debates, celebrity birthdays, and two friends arguing over completely unnecessary topics, you've found your new favorite podcast.In this episode:
• What movie franchise would you actually live in?
• Did people really smell that bad in the old days?
• Steven Tyler, Liv Tyler & Aerosmith discussion
• Pamela Anderson and the infamous tape
• Can you still change a tire?
• DFW's WFAA morning show reaction
• The unbelievable tapeworm brain diagnosis
• Celebrity birthdays
• Funny conversations and ridiculous opinions

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0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on air. It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm and a longhorn hat wearing Rebecca Black. It's because I didn't want to wear mega today. Nor should you have to. I never do so you know coming up on the show today, Brainworms, WFAA's Tire Changers, and Movie Life. That is all coming up today inside the Treehouse Show. If you like what you hear today, be sure to like, share, follow, especially the share part, share from your favorite listening platform, Send the show to a friend, or share it on social media, and together let's grow the Treehouse Show. Before we jump into a fun movie life question I have for you two, I want to point out that since you are both Longhorns, Rebecca you've got your longhorn lid on and Trey has his Longhorn halo above his noggin on the wall behind him.

1:26 Yesterday's show, we talked about the time when Trey road tripped as a Longhorn fan to Buckeye Land. Trey went to Ohio State to watch the Longhorns play, and it was not a fun experience for Trey dealing with the Ohio State fan. Texas won the game. That was good, Yeah, fans, that was the magic here. But was that six oh five oh five? That was the that was the national. Title championship year? Yeah, than's young man. Rebecca. Have you ever been to Buckeye Stadium? I have not. I have heard nothing but bad things, though, and I think Trey is one of the most that I've heard it from.

2:13 I mean, like even I mean, it's so bad there. I mean we because I think the of course you say, see it's like one hundred thousand people, but you know they stick the visitors in one end and you're even looking at the cops going, hey, can you help us out? And they're like no, Like, what do you want us to do? There's twenty of us, there's one hundred thousand of them. No, this is pretty much how it how it is. If you want to shoot you, I could hit you a couple of times with my baton, so at least that way, it looks like you're already getting it. So maybe the fans will leave you alone. Oh man, that is rough as a Texas fan. This is how I'm going to segue into the movie. Live question, Texas fans, if you had to, if you could only follow your team to visiting stadiums, which one? Which one would you go to? You can never go to a home game again.

3:13 You could only follow Texas to one road stadium per year. I realized that they rotate and it's not always the same. It's a hypothetical. So just you know, entertain me here. I feel like LSU would be a good option because at least there's a. Party, okay, and maybe the Tiger fans, you know, because it's all about laisse bon rule, and they're not going to be so angry and spinning on you like the Ohio State fans do. I mean, there might be angry and spitting, it's just you know, they're so drunk. Yeah, at least there's alcohol involved though, right, Like.

3:53 It's not like you're gonna end up like in their gumbo or anything. Okay, So you're going to go Tiger Stadium, You're going to LSU Trey if you had to choose which visits stadium. I mean, LSU is not about Ole miss. The Grove is one big, big party. Yeah, I would say, I mean, now you're going to get into my biases of places I actually want to go see games. So Alabama, the Swamp and you know, Florida. Yeah, so those would be fun, absolutely all right. So now I'm going to segue that that Longhorn question, the college football question, into a conversation I've seen online for a couple of weeks, and I want to pose this question to you. If you had to live inside of a movie franchise, which movie franchise would you choose? Here are the stipulations. It has to be a movie franchise of at least two films, so it's not like a just a one off, one movie kind of a thing.

4:59 It's got to be a movie franchise. You're not a character in it, You're not like one of the main characters. You're just you and you're thrust into this world. Which movie franchise would you choose? And look, this is a question I have pondered over a couple of days and it has soothed my anxiety riddled, overthinking brain because my first thoughts are like, oh, I want to do this one, I want to do that one that I'm like, oh wait, no, I don't. So I'm curious, Trey, if you had to choose a movie franchise to live in, which would you choose.

5:45 Star Trek. Okay, that's actually pretty good, because yeah, no, Rebecca, what about you? I would choose Back to the Future. That's that's not bad. Which timeline does it matter? Yeah, well, you're not a main character. Okay, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, You're right. I would I'm gonna take the original eighties timeline okay, okay, from the move from the first movie, and then I'm gonna befriend and or fall in love with Marty Big Fly so that I can go on all of the escapades with him, like girlfriend Jennifer did. No. Yeah, I'm not a main character, but I'm gonna figure out how to become one.

6:31 You're gonna make that. You're gonna you're gonna make the leap from NPC to main to main character. Correct, You're like, you're like free guy. Correct. And then I guess if I don't, I still get to live in the eighties, which was like awesome. Nineteen eighty five would come on? Yeah, And look, I mean there's it's not like there's a ton of eighties movies franchises where it's like, oh, that would be fun, like if it's the one off thing, like if you want to live in sixteen Candles or Breakfast Club, fine, but that's those are one movie the eighties. It's like, it's like, you're gonna choose Rambo now. That I'm thinking about it. Technically, if I had chosen Back to the Future too, or they go into the future and trumps President, I'm already freaking there.

7:14 Yeah, he was based on that character. So my thinking with the Back of the Future thing was that was one of my first thoughts because I thought, you know what, as a non essential person in that world, that would probably be fairly safe. However, every screw up that Doc and Marty have has ripple effects through space and time. So because he kisses his mama in the first one, I may end up not existing, Like what happens when they screw up that timeline and the mall is no longer there and I was currently shopping at the buckle when it happened? Do I then get swallowed up in it?

7:56 So Back to the Future, while seemingly safe, still is fraud with trouble Star Trek I think is interesting, Tray, because most of the problems in Star Trek happened way far away from Earth. True, but if you're truly thrust into the Star Trek realm, then I'm assuming you're going to be because Trey, I mean, you're you're clearly captain material. You know, Gene Roddenberry had a very utopian, utopian view of the world when he created Star Trek. You it's a world where you know, money, you don't need money, and you could, you know, go on a starship and see the universe and the technologies you know, so far advanced.

8:42 So yeah, I mean that would be mine. So like I assume with this question though, that you have to be you don't get to just be a random person on Earth, like if you're in Star Trek, order like he's got to be on the ship because that's a part of the movie. Yeah, that kind of is. But I mean also a part of the part of the Star Trek realm is they go to Earth some too. So Star Trek may actually be one of the best answers to possibly give because you could still like live in Dallas and still be kind of cool with the Star Trek thing. Because it's not like there are very many Romulans dropping out of the sky and you know, on top of uptown. But I was actually wrong, Trey. As much as I think you are Captain material, you are you are Spock.

9:24 And that is partly because you've got the eyebrow. You've got that vulcan and eyebro sea there. Yep. But here's here's the trouble. I think a lot of people would would see this question and they would they would immediately say, I'm going to Star Wars. That's not a good idea. Star Wars is absolutely a catastrophic movie universe for normal people. You could just be hanging out having some coffee on alder On Invader just blows you up. Yep. You're not a jet, so you don't get the lightsaber, and if you do, you'd probably kill yourself with it, just like Luke almost did in the first one. Is he looked down the barrel of it.

10:08 I think this applies to any of the like the Marvel movies too, because you never know where they're gonna be and what city or state they're gonna blow up. You just don't know. That's absolutely true, Like you could be like me, right now I'm visiting New York. And if I'm visiting New York, what happens if Loki just flies by and blows me up? You never really know, or if you know, I'm at a kid soccer game and and Thanos snaps and half the people are gone. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the worst. Star Wars is up there as well. And I don't know if you guys knew this, but you ever noticed how in Star Wars there's never any guardrails anywhere, Like all the platforms, all the walkways, there's just there's nothing to hang on to. It's just if you fall, you're gone. There's no Osha in the galaxy Far far Away and Dan no. You know, Star Wars is very anti Ada. It is not Andy capable. If you're in a wheelchair in Star Wars. That's just too f and bad. But that was actually intentional on the part of George Lucas. And the reason why was because he said he wanted there to always be this sense of danger or trouble throughout the galaxy, so that's why they didn't have guardrails. I just thought it was something silly, like maybe they just didn't make them that day because it would have cost more money on the model sets.

11:35 Kind of like the reason the Simpsons only have three fingers because it's cheaper and faster as opposed to five. But yeah, I mean Star Wars has got to be one of the worst universes to live in because you could just trip and fall and you're gone, let alone, you know, being subjected to the whims of the Sith. I also wouldn't want to live in the Matrix either. Oh, actually that actually that was probably more like real life. It really is. Yeah, it just depends on which pill you want to take. I keep forgetting that. We like we would just be regular people and not part of the cast. So like, I don't have to join Keanu in the basement somewhere and eat that disgusting rule business.

12:20 Thank you. You don't have to have your head shaped, you don't have to have a spike shoved into your brainstem and eat porridge. Right, I just say stupid and in the real world, so kind of like. Now, so we're good. Yeah, it's like, uh, in that first one where Joe Pantleiono's character went because he betrays everyone. His whole thing is I just want to go back, plug me back in and just make me rich and stuff. Yeah, so what's your what's yours? Dan? Thank you for asking, Trey. I am stuck between deciding the movie franchise that I would want to live in, either Toy Story or maybe Fifty Shades of Gray, because whatever happens to Anastasia Steel in Fifty Shades of Gray has no bearing on me. Whatever she and Christian that I'm aware of, unless unless I get kidnapped and brought into the Red Room against my will. The Fifty Shades of Gray universe is going to be pretty chill.

13:21 For me because it would be against your wills as Anastasia Christian Grey go in the room one day and it's just me and I've strapped myself in. I don't want to be a part of any franchise there that's so poorly written. It is literally the most poorly written movie book et cetera. It's such garbage. I actually I've read one of those books and it is it was hysterical. I was actually reading it on vacation. I'm next to a pool. I'm reading this book and I'm laughing at certain parts. It's great. We did a whole bit with it where me and my friend Kathy on the air would read excerpts from it and then we like, we made it extra dirty and would bleep things and it was hilarious.

14:12 We did that with Billy. We sort of did that with Billy the Kid, but in a different way. We would just bleep words that we would insert of with his commercial copy to make it sound like he was saying way worse stuff he would have wished he went. We given him fifty shades of gray copy to read. But yeah, it's yeah. So if you could live inside of a movie franchise, I think those are my answers. And I haven't even seen I don't think I've seen Toy Story three, four, and I definitely have not seen five. I have never seen any of the Toy Story none. All. They are so good. They really are Trey, I have read.

14:53 It's on my list. I'm very enjoyable. I just now I started giving Game of Thrones to try again. I'm I don't know where I was last time, but now I'm really enjoying it even I mean, I'm just in the first season. So I did the first season with my husband and then stopped and then picked it back up in the last however many episodes. Oh god, yeah, there. Was one good episode in that final season and then the rest is trashed. I don't know if that would be a better way to watch it or worse, But I will say this, what what's the last big thing that happened in Game of Thrones that you've seen, Trey?

15:37 I mean, I'm on, like, I just finished I think episode four. So all right, so you saw the kid get pushed out the tower. Yeah, he actually just woke up. Okay, I'm a little I'm a little envious of you because there are parts of Game of Thrones I absolutely love, which, if we're being honest, that's another movie universe I want nothing to do with. I mean, you can die at any given moment. No thank you or or the thing I will always say about any of the old you know movies that take place in yesteryear old times. Everyone has to smell so bad. That is the thing that I just read.

16:22 I absolutely cannot get past the same thing with. Like a Western too, because you know how nasty you have to be in one of those dusty ass towns. No anything before you know, probably the nineteen thirties. Yeah, I want I want none of that. I want nothing from like the Middle Ages, Brave Heart, you want to talk about stinky, oh my god, and those and those guys weren't even wearing underwear. I mean, so that's just all ass and hair. And no and that smell and basically no seasoning. No salt and pepperk not a thing yet. Salt. Okay, that was more for that was more for preserving things.

17:05 Yes, for sure, but uh no. There's not the Yeah, I think in order to survive the Brave Heart world, I'd have to be snorting salt so I couldn't smell anything. Yeah, Middle Age is absolutely not anything without running water. We want plumbing, people, No one. Wants to toilet paper, Yes, I love it. No one wants if no one wants to go back, it's like, don't get me wrong, like the Romans had plumbing, which was great, but they were still using like some weird sponge on the end of a stick to wipe each other. That's just no fun for anybody.

17:48 And that's like a sharing situation, I think, right. Yeah, well that gets us back to the red room. In my universe. Always comes back to you in a strap that. At least you two will be safe. You're in the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com. Do you feel restless and anxious? Feel like something's missing in your life? Maybe you just need a little more Treehouse in it. Go to patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air and check out all the bonus features of subscription offers, including bonus shows, behind the scenes content, special subscriber only live shows, and so much more. That's Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air. That's p A t R e o in dot com slash Treehouse on Air.

18:44 You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com. This segment of the Treehouse Excuse Me is brought to you by Cookdfwroofing and Restoration to get your free roof inspection and property review three three cook DFW. That's eight three three Cook DFW. Get that schedule today or the website cookdfw dot com. The other day, Rebecca finally finally said, Okay, I'm gonna call him because Hubbs said we got to fix that roof and we got to fix that hole in the roof. Yeah, did you call them? Uh? That is on my list today. God curious, like I nobody really is.

19:24 I swear, I swear like we're those neighbors right now. We are the neighbors that literally have like the foam insulation squirted up there filled in the hole. And my husband's like, I don't know, call people. I swear I'm calling them today. So you're telling me that you put fix a flat in the hole in your roof. Yes, and it's worked for two years. You know what. Look, I'm not going to judge you too harshly on that because I've used I've used flex seal on my roof a couple of times. You gotta do what you gotta do. Man, you do. However, I don't live anywhere near COOKDFW Roofing and Restorations operating area. I lived twenty two hundred miles away from them. Otherwise I would say, Dan, you'll get your ass on my roof.

20:19 Uh. Before we sold our house in Dallas, he had been on my roof because I used him. I called him. You, on the other hand, you're putting fix and flat in a hole in your roof when you could just call the man. I know it wasn't always like this. We had roofers come out, but they were like insistent on replacing the entire roof, which it does not need because it's brand new, right, I just need the hole fixed. So here we are two years later, and I finally found some people who will just fix the hole, thank you very much. Yeah, they're not going to force you to put a new roof on it, I know, thank you. However, however, if you need one, they're going to tell you, hey, hmmm.

21:00 The way I've always judged these things is and Trey and I have a similar approach. And when we go to the vet, and you probably do too as a fellow animal lover, which is when you're kind of in that position I'm not really sure what to do. You would then lean towards the vet and be like, if this was your animal, what would you do? If so, like when Daniel Cook comes to the house and be like, if this was your house, what would you do? It's like I would do this or I would do that. So once you find someone you trust enough, that's a beautiful thing. Yes, exactly. So if you ask, if he tells you you need a new roof, you do. He's not going to force you to do it. No, I know. I trust him though. I trust you guys because you know that. So there's a difference. We had so many just people trying to get it was a cash grab.

21:46 Yeah, yeah, well eight three three Cooke DFW. Would you just call the man I am. I'm calling him. I texted you on Saturday about name who I'm supposed. To talk to you. Uh huh uh huh, And. I'm gonna do it today today. You sound like me talking to my wife. I'm gonna call him today. I swear to God, I'm not trying. It's on the agenda. I so where COOKDFW dot com? Okay, today is not Saturday. The day that I gave you that number. Today is Wednesday, July first, twenty twenty six, which means technically you asked me last month for their number. I know, and it's now a new month. Wednesday, July first, twenty twenty six.

22:34 Birthdays today. It's a decent day for some birthdays we got. We got some decent ones. A nine time nine times, nine times, nine time Olympic gold medalist and one of the greatest track and field athletes ever, Carl Lewis sixty five today. Best national anthem of all time that it keeps on giving. Okay, I asked you guys earlier hypothetical. So I'm going to ask you a very real question now. Whose National Anthem performance was worse, Carl Lewis or Roseanne Barr Rebecca.

23:16 I'm going to I'll go to you first on this one. You know what, I actually might have to give it to Roseanne because I think she was trying to be legitimately funny in that moment and it failed so epically bad. I think Carl was really given. In this all. So that's always worse. Purpose feel or your reasoning is the reason why I give it opposite answer to me, Carl Lewis's was worse because he was trying to be good. Roseanne Barr was trying to be bad and it was. And let's be honest, He's black and you expected him to at least care be able to, you know, carry some sort of rhythm and a note, and he were ailed all the way around. So I think his is worse because expectations were I had no expectations of Roseanne Bar.

24:11 I had a certain amount of expectations for Carl. Yeah, no, you're right about that. I was all I was all aboard the stereotype train on that one, and I think most of us were because it's a really fast black man. Surely he's going to be able to sing as well. Well. No, we all learned a valuable lesson that day. All right. Other birthdays today, Carl Lewis sixty five, which real quick. That was one of the first times I had heard about steroids, not with him, but because of Canadian and Joe said Ben Harper, that's a different guy. Ben Johnson, who beat Carl Lewis, was at the eighty eight or the ninety two Olympics tray, I think it was eighty. I think it was eighty eight.

24:53 It was one of those. He was ninety actually, okay, and everyone was stunned that this Canadian beat Carl Lewis. And then we find out, oh, he was using steroids. That was one of the first times I had heard about it and saw it in action. I was like, oh, okay, that's the only reason Carl Lewis lost. Other birthdays today, Blondie's front lady Debbie Harry eighty one. I don't know if it's because I do afternoons on the X in Brownwood. I think I have not necessarily a new found appreciation. I just have a found appreciation for Blondie. I didn't realize how much I like some of their music until I started listening to more of it, Like I really like Blondie. So Happy Birthday, Debbie. The opposite of Blondie.

25:38 Missy Elliott is fifty five, although she may have been blonde at some point, just vastly different type of music, but still solid front lady Missy Elliott fifty five. Liv Tyler is forty nine. Speaking of movie franchises from Yonder Times slash Middle Earth, therefore know they all probably smell really bad, although I will say the Elves seem like they would probably smell just fine. And that's that's what she was. And Lord of the Rings starred the Lord of the Rings trilogy and daughter of Stephen Tyler, one of the most to this day, one of the most awkward father daughter relationships in modern history. And I don't even think she knew Stephen Tyler was her dad till much later in life. I don't know if he knew she was his daughter till she was much older. But once they connected, he was like, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put you as a sexy girl in one of my videos. The video was Crazy by Aerosmith.

26:43 It was her and Alicia Silverstone, and I still, first of all, as a teenage boy when that when that video came out, two thumbs up. But as a normal thinking human, I thought, this seems weird. Why why as a dad, would did you put your daughter on a stripper poll in the video? That just seems really. A lot of weird things happened in the music industry and in Hollywood that wouldn't fly outside of that realm. She was also illegal, she was already a model, and yeah, I mean I would say that helped launch her career.

27:23 Oh, it absolutely did. It was great for her. I'm sure the other guys in the band were like, you sure about this, Stevid, because we're all gonna look. But maybe it's because at least he's Silverstone balanced it out. I don't know. But it's also I love the song. I think she's a phenomenal actress. Liv Tyler forty nine, like the rest of the cast of Lord of the Rings, the core cast living off one hell of a payday. Heck yeah, Pamela Anderson is fifty nine, now that is an interesting career. Are of the movie snap Dragon is fifty nine. I thought you were going to say barbed wire.

28:06 I also saw that I also too, dude. Yeah, it was. It was very campy, and I think it was very on par for what it was trying to be or whatever it was. Yeah, oh it was. It was. It was pertly bad. We're gonna totally just gloss over a sex tape. No, No, we're just talking about the the you know, the intended stuff, Like the stuff was not her. Fault, so we can't even talk. You can't try to be like bringing that into the conversation. Tray not her fault. It was stolen out of her private stash. Yeah, same same way Kim Kim Kardashian and Ray J's video. Just now. I'm pretty sure Chris Jenner to absolutely, I did not.

28:49 Think Pam Anderson was involved with hers. She may not have been, but I think Tommy was. Because I'll tell you this right now. There's been potentially true. As far as I'm aware of, there has never been a celebrity sex tape leaked with a dude from Hollywood with a tiny wiener. So I think if I think if you're If you're Tommy Lee, You're like, oh, sorry, baby, the housekeeper stole it. No, I just think you wanted the world to know that, Hey, because you have a hot wife and b you got a huge crank. The drummer from Motley Crue was having trouble pulling chicks. Yeah, yeah, oh no, I'm not saying you so much. Hell, I just I just think he just wanted to show off.

29:32 They weren't touring at the time. He's like, you know, I'm just I'm feeling it. And finally celebrating his seventy fourth birthday, Original Saturday Night Live cast member code creator of Ghostbusters and an og Blues brother. Dan Ackroyd is seventy four, also the front pitch man for Crystal Skull Vodka. I think he has fallen ill has he? Yeah? No, I don't like to hear that. Well, So he was. He was not at the the fiftieth SNL reunion, and then there was a big tribute to Eddie Murphy and his daughter was showed up in his place. So he has not been seen in about a year.

30:26 That's very unfortunate. I think the last thing I saw him in was not movie wise. I think he was in if I remember correctly, the John Candy documentary. I think he was in that. I think that's the last thing I saw him do. That was I guess recent. But dan Ackroyd is an interesting guy. I think he's a phenomenal talent, interesting career. Like for a while he was just pitching the Crystal Skull vodka and he was going to radio stations left and right. We were all soaked it up, like, yeah, we're gonna talk to a ghostbuster today. He's like, first, I'm going to tell you about my vodka. Were like cool man that, we don't care. We will sit through the time, cheer feel to get to the Yeah.

31:10 He made a fortune off House of Blues. Oh yeah, I forgot he was like a main the main person for House of Blues. I totally forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah, the whole Blues brother thing it was. That was such a great that one that you know what, the Blues Brothers franchise would be an interesting one because they had two movies. Yeah they did. As long as you don't go to that mall, but at least you could go to some good concerts. Uh So, Happy birthday to dan akroid seventy four and one of my favorite Dan Akroyd movies, Great Outdoors. I love that movie. It's not just because I love that movie, it's also because I have lived part of that movie. Rebecca, Have I told you about my adventure with bats?

31:59 I don't think. Okay, so bats not bears? That's good? True? Yeah, so it could have been way worse. Yeah, But you remember in the scene in the Great Outdoors when a when a bat got in the cabin and I and John Candy wearing wicker trash baskets over their face, trash bags wrapped around them. They got brooms and mops, and they're going to battle with this bat. That was me about two years ago. There was a bat flying around in the side of our house and and Tara shrieked, woke up. She ran outside onto the under the balcony outside, closed the door and locked it behind her. And then it was me with a broom and a and a wicker trash can over my head, going toe to toe with a bat. There are very few movies I have actually lived out scenes of, and the Bat in the Great Outdoors is one of them.

32:52 It was very seal, and you lived to tell about it. And I lived to tell the tale. Oh fun night, those good times, Happy, Happy Birthday. Dan Acrod seventy four taught me how to fight a bat. Without that movie, I don't know if I would have known what to do. And the movies are trash, no learning experience. It was every other I mean every other movie that teaches you how to deal with the bat is you just got to wait for it to turn into Dracula and stab it in the heart with a steak. And I was glad I didn't have to do that.

33:33 He could have gone Ozzy. They're faster than you think. I'm pretty sure the one Ozzie got at had been sedated. That bat was already half gone misery. He may have already bitten ausy and just you know the blood. Who knows what was in there? I agree. You're in the tree House. Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. You're in the tree Listen us online at Treehouse on air dot com.

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35:08 Sort of taught, but I've never had to do it. Okay, who taught you? Oddly enough, it was a volleyball coach from high school. We had a flat on the way to a volleyball tournament and he got out and then he's like, everybody else, get out, this is going to be. A teachable moment, and then showed us how to change a tire. That's a good coach, well done. Yeah yeah. So the good news is from the time that he showed you how to change that tire to today, not a whole lot has changed in tire changing technology. The biggest advancement is the wheel lock thing. You just got to make sure you got that wheel lock. So you can undo that one nutt and then you can take the whole thing off. Not everyone knows how to change a tire. Now. Look, we've talked before about, you know, if you were a parent, and what you would teach your kid and whatever, and certain basic things including car maintenance. If I really wanted to, I could learn and do my own oil change. I don't want to. It's is not a thing, but I have had to change many a tires in my life.

36:08 I think that's an essential skill. But not everyone gets taught at It's not their fault. If you had to think about Dallas Fort Worth TV people, how many of them do you think know how to change their own tire? None? Some might surprise you, some maybe not. I I'm a firm believer that Steve Noviella knows how to change a tire, and if not, I know his producer Slash photog Raoul absolutely does. And I kind of feel like Greg, the weather guy from Channel eight, I feel like he could change a tire.

36:49 Yeah, he definitely can't. Speaking of Channel eight, the other day, on their morning show, I guess Greg had the day off and they discussed changing tires because their traffic reporter miss Lopez confessed to everyone on the w FAA Morning show that she does not know how to change a tire. Sure knows, I can't change my own tire, so you could know. Really, you guys are so close to it. Wow. Wow, that w FAA anchor went hard on the traffic reporter. Also, did you guys know that the Capitol one Venture card guide uh is an anchor at Channel eight.

37:38 I'm waiting for him to tell me. What's like that? It looks just like him. Yeah, that is Matt Howardton. He is a w FAA anchor and he just couldn't help himself when the door opened to make fun of their tiny traffic report. No, sure knows, I can't change my own tire, so you could know. Really, you guys are so close to it. I'm sorry Greg was Greg's not here, so I have to. I have to you're taking it out. It is funny though, if you look at it, because the two anchors you got, Matt and the blonde, they're in chairs and then so seated. They're taller than she is, so I guess she is quite tiny. You're sorry there, we need im Sorry? You know how to change it? Tired?

38:36 Do you know how I'm the only one. I don't change them, but I do know I don't change them. That would be my response to, I don't do. It, but I know, I know how. In theory, I just I just I just smile. I just smile and let someone else come do it. For number that's on my on my phone that comes and does the thing. That reminds me, does it? I don't have my wallet right in front of me. Does the back of the Texas license? Does it still have the roadside assistance number on the back of it? The last I looked at, did I've used that before? It works? I can't remember if they come check on you on the toll way or not, But like, I remember the one time I called them one time. I think I was in a station vehicle. This is years and years ago, but I called the number on the back of my license for roadside assistance. It was off of like thirty five Mockingbird area, and yeah, they came and helped and got me back on my way. It was great. It was free, didn't have to pay triple A stuff or anything.

39:37 That's awesome. How do more people not know about this? I'm with you, It's one of those things, like I had heard about it, and then I tried it one time and the next thing, you know, I'm trying to tell everyone, Yeah, call that number on the back of your license. It's free. I mean, tax dollars are paying for it, but they're not taking your money right then and there. They just show up whenever they show up, and they help you. Luckily, when I called them, they happen to be down the road. They were there in like twenty minutes and I was back on back on the road within thirty. You know, if you're calling a five o'clock on a Friday, you might still be there, but they at least won't charge you for it.

40:19 Right. But I do love there's always there's always one person, and it's usually a girl that says, I know how, but I just don't. Oh, I mean. One, I don't. Change them, but I do know how. Maybe is it like I love that she says it, she delivers it in such an in such a way that it's it's it's a little demeaning. No, it totally is. She went into like, my daddy has paid for everything, and I'm going to flex that on you right now. Yeah, the Texas thing, they teach the ladies that they didn't teach me. This is New York, Like, I don't want to be murdered on the side of the road. Yeah that's yeah, my dad. So it's like, if you're going to have a car, to learn how the car hold on. That's why she doesn't know she's from New York. Nobody drives there.

41:05 Yeah, it's a geographic Yeah it's New York City. Did she just said in New York not New York City? I bet you a hundred bucks. She's from somewhere where they don't really drive around a whole lot. Like even where I'm staying right now, I'm outside the city. We don't even have a car right now because we don't need it because we can walk to everything. And then if we need to get to the train to get to the city, we can get an uber or something that'll, you know, get us there. But again, changing a tire, I think is an essential thing. The good news is like in the olden days, if we needed to learn how to change a tire and dad or Papa or mom wasn't there to show you, you had to crack open the owner's manual Love your Vehicle. Nowadays, you can just pull it up on YouTube, and it's so specific. It's not just how to change a tire, it's how to change a tire on a twenty eighteen Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited.

42:04 Yep. It will tell you that your specific year, make model, everything. It's right there. It might take you a little time to watch the video and then do it, but at least it's, you know, right there. The biggest thing is just making is trusting other people not to run you over as you do it. Yeah. Fact, and that's the scariest part. Especially if it's on the opposite side from where you've had to pull over, and it's like facing the. Street, that's the most dangerous. Obviously, that's where you're gonna die. Yeah, if you can yes over, get away, get off the highway like the shoulder is one thing. But if you can get all the way off that thing, maybe pull into a Chick fil A if it's not Sunday, because not only will they probably help you changing, you can also get some some you know, chicken nugs while you wait. That's that's my recommendation. Uh, Trey, I'm asking you this because it's very much a sexist question and also based on what Rebecca said before.

43:15 Dude, I was waiting for the sexiest part. Yeah, I got you. I got you. Did you ever? Do you have a personal record? Do you have a personal best on tire changing? No, I've Nascar. I don't know. Come on, I don't know why. But I had such a streak of bad luck with flat tires for a while that I actually kept time, and I think my fastest was like, I think thirteen minutes or something from the time I pulled over to the time I pulled out, which I was pretty impressed by. It was also because it was on the shoulder of I twenty and I was like, I better hurry. Yeah, but I don't know why I had such a streak of bad luck when it came to flat tires. I was like, all right, time.

44:00 Maybe you're a shitty driver. I am not. I think it might be more than Dallas Bros. Or trash riddle and scrubs and nails and everything else. I know. As a friend, I appreciate you having my back, Rebecca. But Trey is right inside the treehouse. We should dog pile on one another where we can. So this is where you need to back up Tray and be like, yeah, Dan, you're a terrible driver. I have to defend you. And my reasoning is because I also go through tires like a crazy person. You're a chick. We expect that. Oh no, there it is all right. Last thing, last thing, because I tease it and I just want to stick it in there because I just have to. Brain worms doctors thought a man had brain cancer, but they found live tapeworms instead.

44:52 Oh good, that's better. Give me the flat fluid filled cysts containing tapeworm larva were mistaken for metastatic cancer on a man in Spain. Wow, sixty years old. Doctors thought he had metastatic brain cancer, but then scans revealed tapeworm larva in his brain. How did they get there? Is that trickonosis? I believe it because tapeworm. Yeah. The patient, a lifelong resident of Castaillon, Spain, had not traveled to any regions where the disease is endemic. According to the case that was reported in the CDC's journal. The man had initially come to the hospital after suffering two weeks of progressive headaches and mild behavioral changes. CT scan showed multiple abnormal spots that looked like tumors that had spread from cancer elsewhere in the body, leading them to suspect brain cancer. However, whole body scans, a colonoscopy, and specialized imaging failed to identify cancer anywhere in the patient's body, which, if I can just say, if you're going to be that invasive in my body, on one hand, I'll be grateful you didn't find anything. On the other I'd be like, you couldn't have found something for all that penetrating. When doctors performed a more detailed MRI, they discovered several fluid filled

46:23 cysts in the brain, some of which contained the head of a tapeworm. A blood test confirmed the diagnosis of neurocystic carosis cysts cirrhosis. Yeah loo. He successfully recovered no complications other than the fact everyone knows that his brain was full of worms for a while. How do you go on living with that knowledge, like in all honesty, because that's what's creeping me out the most, is that there was worms crawling around up. In my head. Yeah. The authors of the study suggested that the patient may have gotten the infection after accidentally ingesting my chroscopic tapeworm eggs years before, so not only are they there, they're in there humping and making new ones.

47:11 Yeah, Dan, I have a question. I oh, no, what prize do you like to get when you get penetrated deeply? As you asked, like a happy meal? It's more like it's more like the crown that you get at Burger King. I hate that you asked it, and I also hated that I had an answer. I also have a second answer, which I know I'm going to regret if I'm at McDonald's. It's just playland for all things Treehouse Treehouse air dot com. Be sure to like, share, and follow on social media and subscribe on YouTube. The handles were both at Treehouse on Air. At Treehouse on Air again, that's good for social media and our YouTube channel.

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