White House Dinner Chaos + Tornado Madness + Mike Vrabel PR Fail | Funny News Podcast
Welcome back to The Treehouse Show, the comedy podcast breaking down the wildest news, viral moments, and ridiculous real-life stories you won’t believe actually happened.
In today’s episode, we dive into one of the strangest reactions to chaos you’ll ever hear—when a man at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner stayed completely unbothered during a shooting scare… and kept eating his salad. Seriously. We break down the moment, why it went viral, and how The Daily Show is missing out on comedy gold.
We also head to Enid, where recent tornado warnings had people doing the exact opposite of what you’re supposed to do in severe weather. Instead of taking cover, some decided to film, watch, and basically tempt fate. We talk about tornado safety, viral storm-chasing culture, and why common sense seems optional. Plus, it wouldn’t be The Treehouse Show without some pop culture:
- Celebrity birthdays, including Daniel Day-Lewis and his legendary performance in The Last of the Mohicans
- Why casting decisions can make or break a TV show
- And the latest NFL drama involving Mike Vrabel… and a very questionable airport gift shop sweater that turned into a PR headache
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0:00 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 Pa t r e o in dot com slash Treehouse on Air. It is time leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. Daniel Malley along with Tredy Trentholm coming up on today's show. Dinosaurs just can't seem to catch your break. Sorry, I'm just kind of stuck on that. Yeah, dinosaurs can't seem to catch your break. Also, how sorry is Mike Vrabel? And we are going to start today with a revisit of something we touched on yesterday. So in everything that happened with the White House Correspondence dinner on Saturday night, one of the things that Trey was not aware of yesterday that I had the pleasure of breaking to him personally was the man sitting at his
1:30 table eating his first course of the meal after the shots been fired, after the dais had been cleared of the President, the vice president, the cabinet, and only thing left our security personnel. This man would not be deterred. He wanted his food. And I was so happy that you didn't see you, Trey, So I got to break that lovely piece of White House Correspondents Dinner information with you. But I wanted to make sure you got a chance to see it as well, so that way you know I'm not making it up and that it wasn't staged. So here he is the salad man eating at the White House Correspondence dinner after shots were fired, and everyone is on the ground around him. You see him on the lower left there. Most people are kind of sitting around like, okay, what do we do? What do we do?
2:27 This guy's just chomming down on his first course. You can see the security personnel on the stage. Everyone's very concerned and he's just like, whatever, first course, baby. So now you know it's true. Also, the man who went viral at the White House Correspondence dinner has been identified and he is speaking out about your deal. If you had to guess who or what this man is, what would it be if you don't already know.
3:12 So I saw the guy's picture just briefly and I was like, oh, that's Lewis. Black, and honestly that would track yeah. Everything about it. I was like, Okay, yeah, that totally makes sense. And I still I don't really know who the guy is. I saw the reason why he said, and which as someone who's back has been hurting for days, I totally understand. I I can't blame the guy in his logic. So the man, the man who went viral at the White House Correspondence Center for chowling down on his salad in the aftermath of an after in the aftermath of an assassination attempt. His name is Michael Glance. He is a senior agent Creative Artists Agency, one of the biggest agencies in America slash Hollywood. And someone caught up with him and got his take and his reasoning why he did or did not do what most people would have expected someone to do in a shooting incident. Michael Lance, can't of you know him?
4:23 He was the guy eating the salad and people are under the table. Michael, what was going on there? You weren't nerved. Wondered, who is in New York? He didn't scare me at all. I just I didn't want to miss the show. Didn't want to miss the show. Look, most people are worried about their lives and what could be a mass shooting, mass casualty event, and he thinks he's at dinner theater. If you ever want to see a person, a situation, a reasoning that is so INDI of getting up there in years where you just hit that. I don't give up f stage.
5:07 This is it, This is absolutely it. Michael Lance, any of you know him. He was the guy eating the salad and people are under the table. Michael, what was going on there? You weren't nervous? I don't know. I wondered, who raised in New York. He didn't scare me at all. I just I didn't want to. Miss the show. So I figured everybody's down on the floor. Two other reasons I wouldn't do it. One I have a bad back. I couldn't get down with the okay. Two I'm a niche free There's no way I'm putting my journey people, So it. Wasn't gonna happen. I was watching the shoot, said I didn't like the plan, so good to be with you, thanks so much, bland and safe and everyone else bad back, and he didn't want to mess up his tucks, and he also didn't want to miss the show. I'm with you, Trey. I get the bad back thing, because if you're really going through it, if you're having a bad spat with your spine, you know that if you hit the floor, you may not ever get back up. So I get that. I understand not wanting to mess up your tucks. But at the same time, I would have been real curious to see if a shooter had gotten into that room what that guy's reaction would have been then, Because he's tough eating his salad, saying I didn't want to miss the show when everything's fine, But if someone actually came in there with a gun, I feel like he probably would
6:40 have reacted a little bit differently. On the other hand, he might have sat there eating his salad just daring him to be like, shoot me, I don't care. You know, if the guy had had had breached the inner security and gotten in the room, I yeah, I think that would be totally different. But uh, if you really want to sit down and logically reason it out. That guy's reaction is really more plausible because he knows there's you know, an outer perimeter, a middle perimeter, and the chances of that guy actually getting in that room are pretty slim. Very slim. And if I if I read this properly, I think the security area that he was trying to get through was on a completely different level, a completely different floor of the hotel than where the dinner was actually being held. I read that in one spot. I'm not sure if that was accurate or not, but still nowhere near it. And I get sitting there wanting to watch stuff. I'm a lookie lou, I'm a nosy Nelly.
7:44 I want to watch stuff too. When there's a tornado outside, I am going outside to look at it. If it gets really close, then I'm gonna, you know, do the responsible thing and take cover. But if I know it's not that far away, I'm gonna. If I know it's far enough away, I'll go out and side and watch. I will watch a train wreck. I will watch bad stuff happen. I understand this man. This I am this man. Oh yeah, I totally understand the guy. And like I said, when I first saw this, picture. I really thought a Lewis Black monologue was coming along, and I was here for it. The Daily Show has an opportunity to do something really awesome here, and it's just nothing but Lewis Black screaming and I'm too fresh, smoking a cigarette, drinking a Scotch, eating a salad, wishing he could get the wishing he just wishing for his entree.
8:41 Yeah, it's like I paid for a show. I want to see a show. Yeah. I mean, we didn't even get to The Mentalist, which, by the way, when I first heard that the White House Correspondence Dinner was having a mentalist instead of, you know, the traditional comedian role, actually thought initially it was the actor from The Mentalist, not an actual mentalist. I just I just write it wrong, And I just thought, oh, that guy must have fallen on hard times. But no, like an actual mentalist. And through all this he didn't get his stage time. I still have no idea who he is. I saw some clips of the guy. Holy crap, you.
9:22 Know, I I you always go okay. If I saw one interview, he wasn't even in the same studio. I mean it was a remote interview with Brett Behar, who you know, is fairly straight laced guy to say this. Is good as say, just a ball of energy. And the shocked look on Brett Behar's face when the guy figured out, you know, like had it written down. I think it was just like his first girlfriend or something. I mean, it was. It was bizarre. I'm always I'm always skeptical and fascinated by those guys.
10:03 I am too, and I want to point this out. I realized that a big reason why the White House didn't want a quote unquote traditional comedian hosting is because most of them are not fans of the administration and Trump doesn't like being made fun of. I think we all can see that. But now hearing it, how good this mentalist is. I'm not sure if that was the right choice. I don't know if I want a guy who knows Brett Bear's girl first girlfriend's name in a room with that is loaded with national secrets. Fair enough, that might have been. Like, oh, we're not gonna have you know, Kimmel or Colbert, any of those left wing, unfunny nut jobs. Instead, we're gonna get a guy in a room that can read all of our nuclear coded minds.
10:53 Yeah, you had to think the CIA would have for the first time ever been. Like, really, you couldn't get Jeff Foxworthy bill Inghall, here's your sign. I was actually really surprised that they didn't go that round. It's like, and now hearing you describe how good this mentalist is, like, man, I have serious security concerns, not only at the event itself, but the choice and who was going to be the entertainment. Yeah, m oh man, but you touched on something and I don't know this little side note. Have you seen all the tornado videos that came out of like Enot, Oklahoma over the last week.
11:38 The videos I have not. I did hear about it. En At, Oklahoma, by the way, is the birthplace of my father, uh and it's where my great granny, my dad's grandmother. I remember going to eat it a couple of times as a kid, so I'm familiar ish with the area. So I think it was an EF four. Now you always have to be skeptical because I'm like, Okay, maybe it was AI and it's just a really good AI. But I saw so many of them. It's one thing if you're a storm chaser and you're in some kind of vehicle that's somewhat built to withstand a tornado like a red dodge. Yeah, but the amount of people. And I give them credit because at a certain point you have to say chicken and run away, and these people will get letting, you know, really, you know, getting right to the end where that tornado is right on them and they're filming away, just just thinking that thing's not gonna shift, like it's only a matter of time.
12:49 Yeah. Growing up in Tornado Alley, I've you and I have both had our share of tornado run ins. I still remember one. This was in Colorado Springs when I was a kid. My sister we were visiting my mom's parents and I was very little, and I remember this. We were at my sister and I were outside playing with the neighborhood kids and we look up in the sky and it's like funnel popping down. We're like, oh shit, run we run. And then I remember that I remember seeing it come down and running, and then I remember seeing my dad standing in the garage looking out the little square window of the garage door with his hands behind his back as just my dad's pose whenever he was just looking at things or pondering things, And so I remember that very very vividly, and then growing up in northeastern Oklahoma, I knew I knew when to run, I knew when to take cover, but I also knew when I could go outside and just enjoy the show.
13:48 And I did it when I moved to Texas as well, go outside. Like I was living at Cooper and Pioneer in central Arlington. This was like the year two something like that, two thousand and one maybe, and a tornado was basically going down I thirty in Arlington. I was far enough away. I went outside and I was like, hey, look you there. But I know that's far enough away. So there is that line you have to toe, which is okay looking and running. I did see a video. I don't know if it was en at Oklahoma or if it was a different place. It was a couple that got into their storm cellar with the dog in just the nick of time, and the video was from the home security camera. That's the reason why. So I mean it was they got in that storm cellar and within fifteen seconds the winds were, you know, tearing over the top of that cellar and hearing you say the EF four out of ENID. I think it was last week.
14:47 I saw a video of an EF five last year. I believe it was South Dakota. It was at night, it was a mile wide, and you mentioned how some of the didn't even look real and eat it same thing with this video. It was so perfect in its shape, in the way and the way the person was recording it and where they were. You could see how big it was to an extent, how round it was, you could see the clouds above and the shape of the turn it was, and because of the it was at night and the lightning flashes and you can see it is absolutely terrifying. And I'm watching it on my phone.
15:27 So yeah, it's amazing that people will get some of those and just really like I think if I went outside and saw that monster, I wouldn't stay outside videoing much. No, No, I'm not sticking around. I mean when I would like to think I've never been up close to a tornado, but I would like to think I have enough sense to yo take cover. Yeah, like you said, it's it's one thing if it's a mile or two away. It's another thing if it's uh, you know, a couple hundred yards. Yeah, the video I saw that one that they according to the videos in e F five from South Dakota.
16:10 Had I seen that one, I know they say don't run go inside interior home, go inside your home, interior room. Yeah, I would have a real hard time after seeing that tornado running inside and getting into coke closet. I'd have a real hard time running inside and hopping in a bathtub because seeing that thing, I don't know if that would even help. I would be so tempted to get in my car and just haul ass. That would be a real struggle. That's another thing is some of the videos you see cars just racing by, and I'm like, and I mean basically either going parallel or perpendicular with a tornado. If I see a tornado, I'm going in the opposite direction.
16:58 I Am not going to be in I'm gonna be doing everything to not cross that path or even get close to it. So I just I don't know if people have become also and you know this stuff, stupid stuff has always been going on. Now we just have a documentation of it with all the cameras around. Yeah, but I still, again, I would like to think when I see a tornado, I am going to make sure if I am in my car. I am going opposite direction. I am getting as far and as fast away from that as humanly possible, not sticking around for the cram.
17:38 Yeah, I'm not gonna be doing for the gram on that one. Yeah, unless, of course, that salad from the White House Correspondence dinners in front of me, because I'm really curious to try that. If it is that good. Yeah, if I'm in a tux and eating a salad, screw it. We're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse OnAir dot com. Let's get Daniel Cook from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration into the Treehouse eight three three Cook DFWS the phone number you will need to give him a call because Cook DFW is an outstanding home services company. But Daniel, what does that mean? What all do you do at COOKDFW.
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20:58 Today is Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday, April twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. Celebrate today with some birthdays on thumb. Helped me out. Jerry Seinfeld seventy two years old today, just talking about him recently The Seinfeld Show about whether or not it holds up to today's standards. I think for the most part it does. But I feel like that show changes a lot once you introduce you know, like easily accessible internet and cell technology, like I know Jerry had his cell phone, like the big brick thing if I remember right, but not like smartphone type stuff.
21:44 I think. I think one of the things where Seinfeld was very unique at the time was what I'll call the awkward situational humor. Yes, that it was groundbreaking for at the time, but then it has been since been replicated. And then like we were talking about Larry David, I mean Curby your enthusiasm push that to another level. Yeah. Yeah, After we talked about that, it's funny a Seinfeld episode came on and it's it's still funny that one of the things I really look at shows in the past shows I really like the two things that always stand out. Number one writing, excellent writing. Yeah, but number two casting you go back and go, there wasn't a better person for that role.
22:45 It's interesting you mention that, because when I think of casting, I always I always think of a show that I started to watch back in the day. This was I want to say, two thousand five two thousand and six era. I'd have to look it up on IMDb to be sure. There was a show called I believe. I believe it was called The Class and it was about it was sort of like a Friends esque type of a play that they were trying to do, and I think it may have actually been on NBC anyway, if I remember correctly, there was a show called The Class, and it did not last. It was I don't even think it got a full season right before it got yanked. But two big names came out of that show to end up being really big stars. One of them is Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who was the redhead guy on Modern Family. Turned out pretty good for him, I would say. And one of the other standouts on that show is a guy named John Bernfall, who we all know now as either Shane from The Walking Dead or probably more appropriately Punisher. It's just interesting to think about casting seeing these two guys on a sitcom styles show that was supposed to be sort of like high school reunion esau These are all like college friends or something, and they're just knowing those two guys and then seeing what they ended up becoming later on in their careers. It's like, that's pretty interesting.
24:13 It's just also weird to think about John Burenthal being in a sitcom. Yeah, yeah, that is, unless unless Marvel wants to take punish her in a whole new direction. Well, and some of the casting is really probably dumb luck. But you go back and it's at some of the really successful TV shows, and you go casting was impeccable. Friends, I'll be the greatest example of that. Uh I. I was one of the shows, and you know, Rest in Peace Rage he hated it, but my one of my favorite shows, Big Bang Theory.
24:57 H look real quick, just because you're dead doesn't mean you're right fair enough. But I go back and I've seen the casting on that. I mean Jim Parsons alone, that was a brilliant choice. Did you know that there was a different Pinny initially from Big Bang Theory. Yeah, I forgot who the original one was, but I think they had her for the pilot, and then they brought Katie Quoco win and they brought her in because she had done she had some really good Hollywood cred with eight rules for dating my teenage daughter and Big Bank Theory, Like, you're right, that was a phenomenal casting job. While the actor that played Wallowitz, I recognized him from an Aaron Sorkin show that was short lived called Sunset Strip. It was basically Aaron Sorkin who did the West Wing. It was his take on Saturday Night Live. He and he was the guy that played Wallowitz was one of the actors on this Saturday night variety show that was like Saturday Night Live. And he did a bunch of those a bunch of the impressions you saw in Big Bang Theory I saw on that show with Aaron Sorkin.
26:08 No, he's uh, and I'm I'm sim after I'm drawing a blank on his name. I'm in it's it's something Clig Klungberg, something like that Klingberg maybe. But also he was an old school Yes, that's right. Uh, but did you also know he's a like a concert pianist. What is with these other talents on on with the actors on The Big Bang Theory, Like Mayambiolica is an honest to god neuroscientist, and they built that into her character on the show so that that wasn't fabricated. A's like, no, that's what she is. Let's just make her that perfect. That's easy. I had no idea. He was a concert pianist. And when they first brought her in they didn't think it would They thought it was gonna be for a few episodes, and then it it turned out so well that they kept her on.
26:56 Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's fascinating when you hear about casting story with really successful shows and movies as well. Other birthdays today, Michelle Pfeiffer turned sixty eight. Wow, yep, andre Agassy is fifty six. It would be hard, it would really be hard to describe to people, especially if you look at him now that at one point he was the long haired rebel of tennis. If you go back and look, if you were to do a photo side by side of nineteen ninety three Andre Agassy and Tiger King Joe Exotic, they're gonna look like brothers. Yeah, I mean, the hairstyle is almost the same and both were rebels. Master p is fifty six as well. This doesn't get said enough. No Limit Soldiers song that came out like nineteen ninety seven, nineteen ninety eight.
27:57 I remember that very very well because that was a song that got voted by the class of ninety eight at Arlington Lamar High School as our senior song, but because we had a corrupt senior counsel, they said it was a tie with green Day's Good Riddance because that one sounded more like a class song kind of a thing. But for those of us that know, we know that it's Master P's No Limit Soldiers won the popular vote for our senior song. Did you have a senior song? Tree? Did your school have that? Well? You went, You went to high school in Leonard, Texas right.
28:38 My senior year I split between Leonard and Highland Park. Ooh man, So your senior song could have been she Thinks My Tractor Sexy or something by I don't know Jessica Simpson. I want to say the one for Leonard was the dance. Brooks. Yeah, and I don't I don't know that we had one at at Highland Park, but yeah, which I thought was And looking back, I'm not trying to do a joke here, it wasn't as bad of a choice as I looked at it at the time, but it just seemed very down and depressing.
29:25 I think back on it with my with our two senior songs, and to me, it's actually kind of fitting because in the nineties it made sense that you'd have like an alternative and a popular rap song at the same time at a school that was pretty demographically split. Yeah, I mean time of our life that that Hell, I think that'd still be a good you know, if you were going to pick a class song, that would still work you know at any age. Absolutely, and and and don't turn your nose up at No Limit Soldiers when you think about it being released into the real world of high school playing master Piece, No Limit Soldiers is a really good hype song.
30:06 Yeah, I it was very popular at the time. I don't ever think of I don't even think of Masterpiece being that talented as a rapper, but as an executive in his label he was quite impressive. And basketball did he put himself on the court with the Knicks. I don't remember that. I hope I don't have him crossed up with somebody else Anyways, other birthdays today, Uma Thurman is fifty six as well. I say, hm, Uma Thurman fifty six years old today. I'm not making this up. One percent of what I'm about to tell you was true. I subconsciously knew it was Zuma Thurman's birthday today and celebrated by having an inappropriate dream about her daughter, the.
31:00 Girl from the Stranger Things. Yes, Maya Hawk, Yeah, I really don't want to add more to it. It was just a weird thing. I woke up thinking, Huh. I really don't want to see Tara's arm just reach into the camera shot and just snatch you. So yeah, it's probably best you do. Just I would like to point out in this dream, I didn't do anything, but Maya's a little Also, one more birthday because it's one of my favorite actors of all time. Daniel day lewis sixty nine years old today, and if you have not seen one of his greatest roles, it kind of flies under the radar now because he's done somebody since then. Last of the Mohicans still a fantastic film.
31:50 That I watched that within the last year or so, and that movie is still just absolutely that ending scene with the old man Indian and just I drew a blank on his name, but just crushing everybody that will never ever ever get old. I'm getting chills right now thinking about it. I mean, you talk about just instant karma, revenge, all of it tied into one. Oh, you just killed my son. I'm you up and he did. Yeah, it's old man's strength. Yeah, is that's one thing you got to you gotta take into account. Old man's drink is a real thing.
32:37 Daniel day Lewis sixty nine years old today, Last of the Mohicans. Beautifully shot. It looks almost like a travel video for Upstate New York. Soundtrack was killer, The violence was wonderful, and it has the most polite threat in cinema history, where they're all in the fort as it's being on by the French, and they're all arguing about whether or not to let the militia members go home to their families. And you got the blonde a hole saying oh, that didn't happen, and Daniel da Lewis's character going yes it did. And then the blonde guy lies again, and that Daniel day Lewis does a double take and does the double take, which is key. He does that double take and then stares right into his soul and says, one of these days you and I are going to have a serious disagreement. I mean, that's right up there with Liam Neeson's I Will find you and kill you, except way more subtle, but one hundred percent the most polite threat you will ever hear, and he meant it.
33:38 Whow some good birthdays? Today? I watch that movie again, Last of the Mohicans. I can't tell you how many times I have seen the movie. And on top of that, when I'm just feeling it, I'll just watch the last fifteen to twenty minutes on YouTube or so oh yeah, oh god, just watching him just kind of slide down the face of that cliff lifeless. Oh god, it is so good if you haven't seen it, Yeah. Papa running through the trail, just slaughtering everyone. And the and adopted son mowing mowing the way all right, real quick? Would you rather? And Last of the Mohicans.
34:25 I'm brain fighting on this on his name as well, the final boss in Last Mohicans, it started with an M. I know, it's not uh Mo Mowgli. No, that's jungle Book. It's not Magua because that's the cute furry thing from Greenland's anyway, mogg that guy, right? Would you rather be the guy that gets killed like that? Or do you want to be the other uh native American who got face smacked by Dad's stick with the point on the end of it, you know what I'm talking about. When he's running by him and he like hockey cross checks him, but that spike on his wooden weapon hits that dude right in a mouth. Would you rather be that guy or the final guy that gets killed? Uh, sliding down the cliff with his shoulder beaten and ribs and all that.
35:20 I'll go over the final guy just it's a more epic scene if you're gonna go out. Honestly, for me, I'm going to say the same answer, but only because I just don't want to get hit in the mouth with that thing that looks really bad. Yeah, you're in the Treehouse. Listen is online a Treehouse on Air dot com. Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com slash at Treehouse on Air.
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36:44 Right now, the human embodiment of awkward is Mike Vrabel, head coach of the New England Patriots. It's not bad enough that he gets busted cheating on his wife with NFL reporter Diana Russini at an adults resort in said Don't Arizona. But over the weekend, Mike Vrabel took off to Salt Lake City mid NFL draft to buy his wife an apology present after the Diana Russini photo scandal. Now the media is taking a big leap and an assumption that what he bought at the Salt Lake International Airport was for his wife, But assumptions were made.
37:27 I believe he announced before the draft he was going to basically take a sabbatical to work on his marriage and seek counseling. It's probably a good idea. I think most people could use some therapy on some level, and some couples may need it. For you, know their relationship. But if you get busted on the national stage having an affair, and you decide on your way home to pick up an airport gift for your wife to say, I'm sorry, I'm not sure this gift is the gift I would choose. So what did Mike Vrabel get his wife to say, I'm sorry, I'm not I'm not kidding. I'm going to show you this. This is a photo that page six and The New York Post posted at Hip and Humble, an airport boutique, where Mike Rabel was seen purchasing a baby blue sweater and matching pants.
38:41 Let's break this down though, because we are talking about I believe he was an NFL player. Oh yeah, yeah, he won wings with the Patriots. A coach that I believe at one point said he would cut off his junk to win Super Bowl. And so. Let's not the fact that he even remembered to cat to pick up something. I think we have to give him some credit. I mean, Mike Rabel comes off as as a kind of a meathead if we're being honest, and uh, I mean, at this point, it was one thing that you got busted at that resort in Sedona when you and you both said both he and Diana Rassini said, oh, we were with friends, and everyone's like, well, can you name them? Uh No, But then you go back and there were pictures of them canodling going back to twenty twenty, and unfortunately, and I hate this for her, her husband and their child, but the fact that she had a child within a year after that the pictures from twenty twenty were taken and named the child Michael or that's part of his name, has certainly led to
40:12 a lot of speculation, which is very unfortunate. But I mean, clearly, this is one of those things. If the people had the pictures for this long, why it's like they were just sitting on him, just waiting. Could be and they may have submitted those photos before and the outlets are like, Eh, there's bigger stuff going on, really not that interested right now, So it may have just kind of just gone nowhere. But scandal breaks and someone has a light bulb moment and says this sounds familiar. I think I've seen this before, or someone's like, oh, I knew this all along. I saw these people at the bar and they'd go through their phone and be like, yeah, I did have photos of that.
40:58 Well, and obviously there were I have seen a couple of reports, one of whom I don't think we ever touched on the story. Last week, she was another NFL reporter who basically got fired for her tweet at Diana and Rossini saying we all knew this, that you know what you had been doing, and. And it makes us all look bad, all beingd female female journalists, female sports journalists. And basically implying that there was more. So yeah, it it certainly looks like I mean, and it's unfortunate because they're adults, they have relationships. And but then everyone looks at her reporting because she had, she had gained a lot of she came to the to rise as one of the top NFL reporters very fast, and then of course everyone now looks at it like, oh, we are you sleeping with everybody.
41:52 And that's the reason why that you had this meteoric rise. I will say this though, it's unfortunate anytime a relationship is on the rocks. But if I just got busted cheating on my wife, I don't think an airport I don't think an airport sweater is gonna get me out of the doghouse. I don't think an airport sweater is going to prompt forgiveness on the part of my wife. And we're also assuming we're also assuming it's for his wife. Mike Vrabel might be so stupid that he bought this sweater for Diana Russini. He's like, Hey, it looks like you've got a lot of free time on your hands and you got fired me. My job's fine, my relationship not so good. But you and I can we can still bump up uglies, right, I got you a sweater.
42:47 Well, let's also go that's also making an assumption that Diana Rossini was his only fling. Good point. No, you, in a situation like this, I think you have have to uh learn from the late great Kobe Bryant, and it needs. To be a diamond and it needs to be big, go big, like like the ring you get her has to be bigger than the one or ones you've won. That's how sorry you have to be. Yeah, a sweater is not gonna cut it unless it's covered in diamonds.
43:29 If it's a diamond encrusted sweater, maybe. It's got to be at least a five figure. Sorry. Yeah, because if you really, really really really want to make a Guappo smile, yeah, they need to have a plethora of diamonds. It's a sweater with a plethodent of diamonds. It's great for all things Treehouse, Treehouse on Air, dot Com. Give us a follow on social media as well at Treehouse on Air. For me, it's at the Daniel Mallley. For Trey, it is at Trey tren Holme One, Doug the show. We appreciate it. Send it to a friend and for everybody you know and help us grow the Treehouse show. Well, you will see you next time right here inside the tree. Any excuse to play that, I'm going to take