Jan. 22, 2026

Which Is Worse? Insurance or Ercot | Thursday 01.22.26

Which Is Worse? Insurance or Ercot | Thursday 01.22.26
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We start off talking about a Fort Worth firefighter who had to fight to get his on-duty injuries covered by workers comp, a Florida boat captain who got a little greedy, and is ERCOT ready for the upcoming winter blast?

LINKS:

Florida Keys boat captain accused of selling kilos of cocaine found at sea

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-severely-burned-firefighter-injured-workers-compensation/287-fdaea618-7b6c-4b0a-aacd-9184f99a67a3

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/ercot-winter-weather-advisory-texas-power-grid-updates-dfw-forecast-dallas/287-aec36113-1b6d-4076-a77e-c1d82ba9fdbc?tbref=hp


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It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh

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

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Trey Trenholm, comedian Ron Sharman and Jerry Caldwell. And what

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I like to call a new example of an attractive nuisance.

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A Florida Keys boat captain has been accused of selling

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kilos of cocaine that he found at sea. So you

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know how this guy's gonna get wrung up for attempting

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to deal and sell kilos of cocaine. But what about

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those people that hurt themselves in a neighbor's pool, and

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instead of being prosecuted for trespass, they sue the homeowner

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for a having an attractive nuisance in their backyard. And

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when so, I'm just floating this. When you leave drugs

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floating in the Atlantic, in the Florida Keys in a

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boat cap that happens upon them, I mean, is it

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really his fault that he tries to sell them and

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make a few bucks. It's only fair.

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I think it's good you didn't purchase it to the

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intended distribute right is if well, I guess it's if

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you buy it and then try.

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To sell it.

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Now, I think the intended distribute is when you is

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when you try to sell it is when you try

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to distribute it. So, but I'm with you. I feel

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like in order for it to be a true, like

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decades long sentence type situation, I feel like you gotta,

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you know, be the guy that's handling it from source

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to distribution, as opposed to look what I've found? Would

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you like this? Yeah, I have this that I found?

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Would you like some? It's Is it a system or

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is it just opportunistic?

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If you just happen to find random cocaine floating in

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the ocean, who do you sue for the attractive nuisance?

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The government? Because if they weren't out there blowing ships

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up and making the drug dealers dump it overboard, then

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it wouldn't have been floating in the water in the

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first place. War on drugs has gotten o a hand.

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Nancy Ragan has to be stopped.

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Can the attorney use like the finders keeper's rule?

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I would thoroughly enjoy watching on court TV the finder's

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Keeper's defense, Except this guy didn't do that. It was

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finders sellers.

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Yeah, I think the problem with the finders keeper's defense

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is the other part of that, which is possession is

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two thirds of the law.

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Here is that or in this case of eight moll.

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Oh, it's a lot.

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I don't know. I don't know, but drug weights. I've

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never been a hard drug guy. I couldn't even tell

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you what the proper amount of marijuana is to smoke

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or to stick in a pike kind of a thing.

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So I have no idea even how much an eight

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ball is. I assume that it that it correlates to

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the size of an actual eight ball, Then why do

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they call it eight ball?

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Uh eight?

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Because it's it's an eighth of something. Yeah, I don't

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think I ever would have gotten there. I just assumed

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that it was like roughly the size of an eight ball.

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So whenever I heard someone talk about, oh, I got

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an eight ball of cocaine, It's like, that sounds like

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a lot of cocaine. It's the size of a billiard ball.

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And then I thought, well, if it's not that, then

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is that is an eight ball? Then eight servings. I

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have no idea, So it's an eighth of something. Jerry, Yeah,

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I'm looking that up.

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It's eight an ounce, Yeah, something like that.

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An eighth of an ounce. That doesn't sound cool. That

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sounds kind of weak. It's like an eight bles out

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again every time. I don't know when I hear I

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got a new bole that sounds like a lot. When

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you when it's an eighth of an ounce, it's like,

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that doesn't sit like a whole lot. I put more.

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I've put more weight protein powder in my bolt of

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Greek yogurt than you're doing bumps.

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Of I just I feel like this boat captain, the

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problem is he got greedy. He really he could have

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gone to Miami, found some you know, crypto bro and

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been like, hey, let me.

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Give you the deal of the century. Yeah, I'm with

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you because I will say this, with as many police

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officers as we know, Trey, and enough of those officers

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that we know have worked under cover, right, not a

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single one of them could go under cover as a

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crypto bro. They don't look the part at all and

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ain't gonna happen. So if you're trying to offload some

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found cocaine, selling it to a crypto bro is a

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great choice. Because I don't know a single cop I've

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never known a single cop that would ever come close

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to in a million years looking like a crypto bro. Homeless, Yes,

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a little on the tawdry side in someplace. Maybe they

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shouldn't be absolutely very good at blending into those situations,

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but not the not the crypto bro type. So yeah,

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that's a great idea, finding the closest crypto bro, which

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is somewhere in a penthouse in Miami, and that's that's

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your target. And eight ball is one eighth of an

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ounce or three point five grams. Three point five grams

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saw metric stuff. I'm so bad at it. How many

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cups is that?

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Three point five grams? How many cups isn't that?

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That's how my brain operates. I need to know cups

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and ounces like not not ounces by weight, but ounces

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by volume. This is this is the problem with the

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American system versus the metrics system. My brain can't translate

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these good.

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The first time you do hard drugs, you're gonna overdose.

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That's why we're doing a cup tonight. Yeah, OK, please

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three point fives?

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No, man, I mean seriously, I grew up in the

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era of what what's your bench bro? Not the uh,

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you know, the dainty you know, finger nail whatever. So

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I have a hard time wrapping my brain around an

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eighth of an ounce, being like, yeah, an eighth of

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announces around three quarters of a teaspoon.

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Doesn't.

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Again, obviously I've never tried it, so I don't know.

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My perspective is greatly askew. That just doesn't seem like

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that much. But then again, whenever I've seen it in

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film and television and on the a couple of occasions

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i've seen it in person, I guess it doesn't actually

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take that much to get you going.

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I mean, that depends on how far along you are

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in your cocaine career. But it's a journey, Jerry, we

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call it a journey. These days, we're all on a journey.

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This this guy was trying to make it a career.

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Everybody else is on a journey.

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A sixty five year old Florida Key's boat captain was

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arrested on Monday after deputies say he was selling kilos

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of drugs that he found at sea. Following an investigation

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led by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, deputy say they

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nabbed Bradford Todd Picarello and seized twenty three kilograms of cocaine,

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his thirty eight foot vessel, eight thousand dollars in cash,

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and a forty caliber handgun. All right, twenty three kilos

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of cocaine? How much is that it comes? Okay?

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I think it's a forty pounds.

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This is why I need to know the you know

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the formula. I need to know what you know?

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The comparison is, Yeah, it should be roughly if it's

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twenty three kilos, it should like forty five pounds.

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Ish, Okay, that sounds like a lot of cocaine. That

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is that's I mean, that's like a that's like an

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eight or nine year old. That is approximately one hundred

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and eighty four cups. Thank you, Jared. That's one hundred

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and eighty four cups of non fat Greek yogurt. To me,

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that's a lot.

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That's what they call Miami too.

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The investigation code. Yeah. The investigation ended Monday, when undercover

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Sheriff's Office Special Operations detectives purchased a kilo of cocaine

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from Picarella for ten thousand dollars and placed him under arrest.

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He was subsequent booked in the Monroe County Sheriff's Office

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on counts of trafficking cocaine, selling cocaine, and possessing cocaine.

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And since it's in the story that it was found

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at sea, I'm just guessing that was his story to

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the arresting authorities, saying, Okay, look, it's not that bad.

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I just found it floating and decided I would sell it.

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It's not like I picked it up directly from Venezuela.

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And you don't want the sharks to get a hold

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of it again.

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Yeah, that's right. He's doing us all a favor. He's

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keeping the beaches safe by making sure the sharks don't

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accidentally ingest the cocaine again like they've done in years past.

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And what do you do, Like, okay, let's say you

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find it. Do you show up at the police station

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and be like, hey, I found all of this cocaine

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and they don't arrest you either way?

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Mm hmm. I think so that's supposed to be how

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it should work. It's like, hey, it's kind of like

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finding a lost wall. You say like, hey, I found this,

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they don't arrest you for stealing the wallet. Wallet's are

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an illegal possess, all right, that's a solid point, Jerry

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think I think I'm just saying when the idea is,

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if you find something dangerous, you're supposed to be able

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to call the authorities, and they're not supposed to assume

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that you made it.

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I think if you call the coastguard at the point

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you find it, you're you're gonna be okay.

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So like, don't bring it on board. Maybe just call

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it in, just radio into the coastguard. Hey, here's my position.

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I see something floating, I'm just gonna hang out about

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twenty thirty yards away just so you can find it

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more easily. But I'm not touching it.

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Drop them a pin.

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What if he put an actual pin in the cocaine

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and some shot out and accidentally went into his nose

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as he inhaled.

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Well, he was just making sure it was pure. That's

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what this is.

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Coke great. I just want you guys to know I'm

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radioing in the good stuff. This isn't fake. I tried it.

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Yeah, I know, I think it'd be.

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Hey, guys, I want you to know I'm radioing the

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good stuff.

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I found some real big, real big.

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You gotta see it.

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Oh my god.

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Eight three three Cook DFW is the phone number you

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need to contact Daniel Cook from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration

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schedule that free roof inspection and property review. Speaking of

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the property review, Daniel, after you're done doing the roof inspection,

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you come down off the roof and you grab that

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homeowner and say, hey, let's take a little walk around

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your property and let me show you a few things

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I've noticed. What are some of the most common things

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that you see, but a homeowner doesn't.

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Majority of the time, when we walk around a home,

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especially a home that's getting that age between five and

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ten years old, we see a lot of calking seals

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coming loose. Flashings are starting to fail, the rubber seals

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around your doors, your garage door, all of those things

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and all changes based on the home. You know, some

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homes face south and west, and of course you get

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more beat down sun in the summertime, and that really

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affects those kind of things. Some homes face north, they

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don't get as much sunlight, so you start having the

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opposite effect with different things growing as far as organic

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matter and you know, you know, discoloration, and then we

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always see around the windows, the calking is shrinking. Irrigation

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sometimes will get affected as your home ages, the soil changes,

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and so does the way that the plot of land

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that your home rest on changes. So there's just so

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many things. Until you go out and really walk around

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your house and really take it a different perspective, it's

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hard to know all the things that be going on

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on your home. So we would love to do that

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There you go, all right, Big news out of Fort Worth.

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Caleb Halverson, Fort Worth firefighter, who was badly burned while

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responding to a house fire in September of twenty twenty five,

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will receive workers compensation for treatment for injuries he sustained

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while responding to that Fort Worth house fire. It only

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took a minor miracle to get it. And this is

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the kind of bullet that I just don't understand that

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happens with first responders. And of course, our DUP insurance

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system in this country, Sedgwick, which handles workers' compensation claims

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for the city of Fort Worth, allegedly initially denied the

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injured firefighters claimed, but then reversed that decision after public

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backlash to the decision. That's according to the Fort Worth

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Star Telegrams reporting. Caleb Halverson, Fortworth firefighter was badly burned

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while responding to a house fire September twenty twenty five.

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While fighting the fire, he became pinned under heavy roof

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debris and suffered second and third degree burns to his back, legs, hands,

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and faced. He also sustained a dislocated knee and other injuries.

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He was released from the burn unit at Parkland Hospital

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after undergoing several major surgeries. After multiple denials, the city

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of Fort Worth will now cover the cost of a

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machine to help him recover from triple knee ligament surgery

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and laser surgery to aid in the healing of his

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extensive burns. That's what he said in a Facebook post.

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In a statement, city Manager Jay Chappa said the delays

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were related to issues with the physician chosen by Halverson

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not being within the city's network of workers' compensation providers.

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How does that work well? According to that, he was

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supposed to choose certain providers in the city's health network

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and they said he didn't. Therefore that made a huge problems.

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The short version, it's probably not that he chose someone different.

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It's because Parkland probably isn't in Fort Wors network. Although

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but Parkland is one of the best burned trauma units

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in the country, and.

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This is where a fair amount of common sense should

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come into play. I understand that Dallas is not Fort Worth,

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so I understand the general thinking that Dallas is not

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in Fort Worth's medical network. However, if you are a

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fire fighter. It does make sense that you would have

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one of the most prestigious burn units in the world,

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which is forty miles away in your network. Jesus Christ,

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this is stupid, and this is stuff that people see

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and read and approve. Well, you know what, I made

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an assumption there. I'm assuming that they're reading through these things.

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Well, it's not even I am sure they probably did

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not think about firefighter.

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Parkland burn unit.

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And you know, although they should. You you would think

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it would be standard for especially for first responder policies

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of oh, hey, we'll make an exception, you know, to

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the nearest level one, you know, burn unit.

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And you know what, even if even if they don't

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read the stuff ahead of time, and then a situation

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like this, you know, just kind of layers up and

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the firefighter is taken to Parkland for treatment and recovery

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and everything. Maybe when that paperwork comes across, don't deny

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it because it's out of network, look at it for

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the sense that it makes and go, hey, you know what,

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this kind of makes sense. We should probably just approve this.

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It doesn't happen that often. It's probably gonna be okay,

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someone higher up might get mad that we approved it

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because it's gonna cost a lot of money. But at

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the end of the day, isn't that what insurance is.

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It's gambling and on this one you lost, so you

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got it. Just pisses me off. Also, this reversal to

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cover comes after Fort Worth City council member Charlie Lauersdorf

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called out the company and said he was declaring war

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in a Facebook post after the company had denied the

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first responders workers' compensation claims. He says, when a first

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responder gets hurt doing their job, the system should move

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heaven and Earth to take care of them and return

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them to the warrior athlete they were. Instead, I've heard

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of delays, denials, run arounds, paperwork, games, and bureaucratic a

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bolt that leaves injured firefighters and police officers fighting two battles,

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one on the job and one at home. After that,

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the city managers said that they will add a position

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to the city's HR department to serve as a case manager,

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specifically for first responders who suffer an injury at work. Again,

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that seems like something that they would have had already,

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because enough of that stuff happens. Fort Worth is a

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large enough city with enough police officers and firefighters that

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it would just make sense to have someone on the payroll.

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They kind of help with the process. M crazy thoughts

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on my end, I guess, then again, I'm not a

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bureaucrat city manager. Chapa also said, please know the city

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works consistently to get the best care possible for all

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of our injured employees. This employee included, while remaining compliant

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with Texas laws that govern workers compensation. And that is

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also true. As much as I'm dogging on the City

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of Fort Worth in this situation and the insurance companies centric,

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there are our rules and stipulations and laws when it

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comes to workmen's or workers compensation. So that's another prong

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of the approach is there may need to be something

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changed there.

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Oh absolutely needs to be worked from the reworked from

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the top down.

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And these are instances where they should do that as

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opposed to just treating it like a one off, having

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to wait until something bad happens, and then having to

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wait till more bad things happen before they actually do

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anything to accommodate this one bad situation.

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What if it had been multiple firefighters that it happened

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to you're gonna wait for that one.

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Yeah. It's just stuff like this that just drives me

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absolutely crazy, and it makes me wonder. It's like, why

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do we keep putting ourselves through this? Like, come on,

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just just fix it, fix it, fix it.

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But here, and I'll give you a counterpoint on this

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one though. Adding a position and a bureaucracy to handle

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this stuff just ultimately adds cost to the whole thing.

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It's the whole.

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Yeah, it does. And I tell you what, if whoever

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was in charge of doing these things on the front

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end would consider these things, if this person was already

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on payroll to help help it, then I'd be okay

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with it. And I'm a big fan of I'm with you, Trey.

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I like fiscal conservatism. I also feel like you can

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spend money in a way that would make sense. I'm

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pretty sure we could find money for that position by

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eliminating something else that's completely dumb and redundant.

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Just take a few dollars out of the big guy's paychecks.

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I said it.

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There you go, it's me. You can send me the emails.

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You have to narrow that down.

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Uh, which big guy are you talking about?

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I wasn't gonna ask it.

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Uh, you know, the shareholders, the see the sea the

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sea level positions, you know for the inine making. Yeah,

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sorry for yeah, it's seduick.

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Yeah.

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But what needs to happen and where this could be

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fixed is you have to go to the state and

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they rewrite the workers comp laws and put a clause

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in there for first responders.

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That changes the scope of things.

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That's what I like. The problem though, is getting the

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elected visuals to do something exactly, and in order for

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them to do something, you have to attach money to

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it or hooplah or outrage and some type of crisis. Ironically,

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you have to start a fire for a legislator to

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make any attempt at putting it out.

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I mean they, I mean, Dan, the Texas legislatures work

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so hard. I mean they worked six months out of

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two years. Fuck, what more do you want out of them?

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Just just a little more, just just like ten more minutes.

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I'd be a special session.

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Goddamn visit shoot me in the Facebook special sessions.

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I am so glad it's almost Friday. Uh speaking of

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almost Friday, m m mm hmmm. In news that will

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not make any Texan feel good, Urkott says the power

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grid is ready for the winter storm this weekend. I

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don't have a weep, do you?

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Urcott says they're ready.

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Believe it or not. Urkott says, the power grid is

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ready for the winter storm this weekend. Trey, I believe

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the fuck?

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Why only because it's only going to be like three days.

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Well, I'll tell you what, you know, who feels really

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really good about this whole situation, About this winter storm

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that is being forecast for Texas. Senator Ted Cruz was

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spotted on January twentieth on a plane heading to Laguna

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Beach as the state braces for a rare ice threat

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and Arctic cold front. Look where there's certain signs that,

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once you see them enough, you're like, Okay, we need

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to start paying attention to these things. One is tornado warnings,

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and two is Ted Cruz on a plane out of

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Texas and it's winter.

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He's like the pucks, a tunny fill of ice storms.

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He's like the ned stark of Texas. Winter is coming

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from the friscy flies out of the state. Look, I

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look at it this way. I appreciate this new warning

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system that Ted Cruse has provided us with. All you

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have to do is ask Google. Is Ted Cruz in

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Texas right now? Yes, things are fine. If he just left,

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shit's about to go sideways.

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Did he leave the dog again?

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Don't know. It wouldn't surprise me though, if Ted Cruz

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put that dog down just because it made him look bad. Trey,

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I know it hurts that he's your chopple ganger, So

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I know that just it's got a sting. Every time

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you see him, You're like, good damn him.

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Yeah, Normally when I see him, he's pandering to the camera.

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So That's what really irritates me more than anything else.

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And he's proven he can do that from in y

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zip code.

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That beard help like his beard is awful.

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Well, he did what a lot of guys do. He

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gained weight, and in order to try to hide the

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neck fat, he grew a neck beard. And while it

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works on some level, right because you grow the neck

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beard over the neck roll of fat and it does

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camouflage the flaps and the folds some right, It's true

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it does, I get it. But the beard works for

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him now. It was that awkward phase when he was

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growing it out over like a year and a half

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that it just didn't look right and I felt like

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they should have put him in the Biden Bunker until

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it grew in because I hated watching that transformation in public.

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It's like, dude, either just I can't stand the transformation process, Like,

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just go away until it's in, then come back. I

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don't like looking at it. It was weird. It's like Trey.

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Trey knows he can't grow a beard, so he just

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doesn't do it. He just shaves, and he also works

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out and takes care of himself so he keeps his

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sexy jaw line, which Ted Cruz could have done. If

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Ted Cruz was to see his better looking twin in Trey,

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he would recognize that with a diet of you know,

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eating well and exercising and not doing any sort of

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enjoyable substances, you too can look like a fifty something

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year old Greek god. But he hasn't chosen that route.

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He's choosing tacos in Laguna Beach. I would also love

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to see a hammered Ted Cruz. I think we do.

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This has got to be on film somewhere already. Uh uh. Anyway,

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are you guys ready for ice Pocalypse twenty six? Absolutely?

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As you take your head side to side into no fashion,

470
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:22.359
but you say yes, I got groceries coming, so we're

471
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:27.000
good today, Like are they coming before? Before the storm

472
00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:29.039
supposed to? You're gonna get the groceries delivered?

473
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:29.680
Yep?

474
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.680
All right? What did you get? What's on what's on

475
00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:33.319
your ice pocalypse grocery list?

476
00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:33.960
Uh?

477
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:42.000
Just you know, some chicken, some vegetables, sandwich, meat, bread, bottle, water.

478
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:44.599
Tight coke.

479
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.960
Okay, Trey, are you ready for this?

480
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:50.160
Yeah?

481
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.559
Yeah, got a couple of cases of water, got all

482
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:58.319
my lights and battery packs charged up. Uh, got some food.

483
00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:04.000
I'm gonna make some food just in case they can

484
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:04.759
eat regardless.

485
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:09.480
And do you have a brandy coming over to snuggle

486
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:12.839
up during Snowmageddon? Yes, had a boy.

487
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:16.359
Yeah it'll be interesting because not only is she coming over,

488
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.599
she's gonna bring her dog.

489
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:22.240
So that will be a uh uh that's a milestone.

490
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.839
Uh huh, It's gonna be interesting.

491
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:27.880
Thikes, meeting of the dogs.

492
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.920
It's not meeting of the dogs that I'm really worried about.

493
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.680
I mean, especially at this point, I mean at her

494
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.440
age days. He just didn't give two f's.

495
00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:43.440
It's the cat. Oh yeah, cats are always the X factor. Yeah,

496
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:46.160
it doesn't matter what scenario you are in, what the

497
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.119
situation is, does not matter. If you want to see

498
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:54.880
a situation get totally picked up, just throw a cat

499
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.039
right in the middle of it. Think of any situation,

500
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:03.039
any scenario that seems fine or that seems secure, drop

501
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:04.720
a cat in the middle of that and just see,

502
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.559
just see the excitement. Like I don't know why. Like

503
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:09.680
one of the things coming to mind is any sort

504
00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:12.880
of Seal Team six operation is going to be very controlled,

505
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:21.920
very rehearsed, very very you know good, right, Just imagine

506
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.960
if when they busted into Ben Ladden's compound, if there

507
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.359
was a cat dropped in the middle of it.

508
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.119
Well especially, I mean, and I've got a fat orange

509
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.079
tabby that has, for some reason has some PTSD issues

510
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.000
that make him just an absolute wild card. I mean,

511
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.640
one minute I'm petting him, the next minute he's drawing blood.

512
00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:40.759
And so yeah, it's gonna be.

513
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:45.640
Just, it's gonna be just are you listening, Yeah, are

514
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.079
you sure that cat isn't Al Qaeda and wasn't in

515
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:50.880
Ben Ladden's compound and was just sent over here as

516
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:53.680
part of the operation. Like after they kicked Ben Laden

517
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:55.960
into the ocean from the chopper, they're like, oh, I'm y'ao.

518
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:03.559
We'll take him back to Texas, Operation Chaos. We'll give

519
00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:05.640
it to Senator Cruz. Oh wait, that was Trey.

520
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.079
Honestly, they could have probably just dropped Julius into beIN

521
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.319
Lauden's compound and he would have gotten him just his

522
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:16.799
eyes out.

523
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:19.880
Yeah, Like, you don't need a flash bang, You just

524
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.880
need Julius to cut.

525
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:26.720
Kick open the doors on the floor. Bloody pulp. Okay,

526
00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:27.880
it's making biscuits in him.

527
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:34.880
And that's no joke because Julius does not understand retracting claws,

528
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.960
so when a lot of times when he's making biscuits,

529
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:37.960
it's full claws out.

530
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:45.880
Oh yeah, right on that soft underbelly. All right, so

531
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.880
you get away while he's doing it as arterial sprays.

532
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:56.920
Just love, love, loving every second of it. Yeah, all right,

533
00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:00.240
good well, I'm glad you guys are ready for What

534
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:00.559
about you?

535
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:03.400
Dan? Are you you bracing?

536
00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:05.559
What is he gonna get in the seventies? Now?

537
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:09.240
Hang on, let me check the forecast. I got to

538
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:13.240
check the forecast to see what we're expecting Friday into Saturday.

539
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:21.119
Ooh we have we have a chance of rain and.

540
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.279
A high of eighty Oh oh, chili.

541
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.480
Yeah, it's gonna be a chili one for us. The

542
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.200
weird thing is is that all the problems we had

543
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.359
in twenty twenty one with our home from the storm,

544
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:38.119
then from that winter storm we moved twenty two hundred

545
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:42.119
miles away. We've got a solar backup. We've got like

546
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:46.960
forty two solar panels and a liquid propane power generator

547
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:48.160
as the third backup.

548
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:53.240
I hope a hurricane hits you, just a random one

549
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:54.599
just out of nowhere.

550
00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:05.200
That's called a tornado, Raj, We're gonna be freezing to

551
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.279
death and you guys are gonna be on the beach.

552
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:11.039
No, it's supposed it's I've got a fifty percent chance

553
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:11.719
of rain, Raj.

554
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:16.519
I mean, oh sorry, Yeah, that'll probably happen. Yeah, that'll

555
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:19.920
probably happen in the morning. And and Jerry's right, all

556
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.360
I gotta do is just pull the cabanas shade over

557
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.400
a little bit more and that'll solve any sort of

558
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:25.159
rain problems.

559
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:28.880
I mean the I mean you look.

560
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.760
At the weather app and you look at Dan's weather,

561
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.840
I mean it is volatile. It ranges from highs of

562
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.400
eighty five to eighty six and lows to seventy five

563
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:41.719
to seventy six. I mean, I don't know how you

564
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:42.599
deal with that.

565
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.599
That's a that's a that's an eleven. Sometimes it's an eleven,

566
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:53.079
sometimes a twelve degree change in twenty five. By the way, Raj,

567
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.320
if you ever want to look up and download the

568
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:57.960
weather app here in the Virgin Islands, it's just two

569
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:04.480
big middle fingers and they just happen to be on

570
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:13.000
my hands. They kind of look like a v and

571
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:17.440
then yeah, for all things Treehouse Treehouse on air dot

572
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573
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