Aug. 19, 2026

Who’s REALLY Behind Texas’ THC Crackdown? | The Treehouse Show

Who’s REALLY Behind Texas’ THC Crackdown? | The Treehouse Show

Texas just got a whole lot tougher on THC — but who’s really behind the crackdown? Today on The Treehouse Show, Trey and Dan dig into Texas’ harsh new rules targeting hemp-derived THC products. Why is the state coming down so hard on THC? Who has...

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Texas just got a whole lot tougher on THC — but who’s really behind the crackdown?

Today on The Treehouse Show, Trey and Dan dig into Texas’ harsh new rules targeting hemp-derived THC products. Why is the state coming down so hard on THC? Who has been pushing for tougher restrictions? And could the alcohol industry have something to do with it? The answer might surprise you.

Then we move into Celebrity Birthdays, where things go off the rails as usual.We celebrate the birthday of the man behind Jar Jar Binks, which naturally sends us back into the Star Wars universe.

Then John Stamos somehow leads us into a discussion about female artists who have turned breakups, heartbreak and terrible ex-boyfriends into massively successful albums. No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom is the all time greatest in this catagory.

And finally, it’s Bill Clinton’s birthday, which leads to a much bigger question:Is Bill Clinton the greatest U.S. president of the last 60 years?

Trey thinks he might be.

Texas THC laws, weed politics, Star Wars, breakup albums, Bill Clinton and presidential rankings — just another perfectly normal day inside The Treehouse Show.

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It is time to leave your worries outside. Been laugh

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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Melley along with

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Trey Trenholm, Texas has gone backwards on THC. Trey helped

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me I remember my dance steps properly. The two step

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is sort of like one step to the left and

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like two to the right. No, it's one step sort

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of forward to back.

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To two forward. Well, it depends. The two step is

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a waltz. Basically, it's a two steps forward, one step side.

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It's like shuffle left left right, left left right.

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Sort of a sort of a toygy waltz.

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It's just a waltz.

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It's just yeah, but with some country toying on it.

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Yeah.

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Well, the New Texas two step is one forward and

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two back, especially when it comes to laws concerning THC.

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Because that's exactly what happened in Texas just a couple

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of weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, our dear

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Governor Greg Abbott, And I don't know exactly how he

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did this. This is where I need your political and

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government knowledge, okay, because you were you were poly sci

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major at UT.

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Right government at UT. But yes, same thing, okay.

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So how is it that our fair governor is able

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to enact this new THC band across the entire state

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seemingly single handedly? And when I say that, it's not

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like he was the only one that did it. But

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I don't know anyone in the state of Texas, you know, voters,

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the electorate, the citizens that were that wanted this. I

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don't know anyone that was asking for it. And now

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we've got this huge, new dangerous THC law.

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I believe this is so in the regular session, they

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the legislature passed something, he actually vetoed it. Then when

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they went back in special session, they passed this form

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and it was enacted and then set for whenever it

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came to August first July thirty first, whenever it started. Yeah,

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I don't think he unilaterally just passed a law.

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But and and that's where I maybe need some clear

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occasion because at the very least from those of us

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that you know, from the citizenry of Texas, I don't

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know anyone that was clamoring for this. Look like, I'm

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all for you know, quote unquote law and order. If

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you do bad, you should go to jail kind of stuff.

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I'm not saying that's not the case. But when it

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comes to THC and things, they're basically turning there. Like

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on July thirtieth, whatever gummies you had that were just

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for recreational or therapeutic purposes the next day turned into

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category one felonies carrying massive amounts of jail time. And

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it's kind of scary how we can go so quickly,

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almost in the blink of an eye, to Texas kind

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of being okay with a little bit of THC to

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having one of the st THC laws in the country.

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Well number one, if you look at the overall law,

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you have to understand who was behind this. And the

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biggest driving force behind this new law was the medical

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marijuana community. They spent you know, when they Texas past

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medical marijuana, a lot of these you know outfits spent

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a lot of money getting their business aligned with the law,

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medical people, prescriptions, everything else. And then all of a sudden,

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Delta eight and Delta nine came around, which totally skirted

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the need for medical marijuana because you could go into

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any headshop, you know, vape shop, whatever and buy the stuff.

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So and that, you know, that's part why they they're

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they're trying to crack down on it so so hard.

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So people have to go to the medical marijuana dispensaries

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in Texas to get this stuff because it's not you

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can't bring it in from Colorado, Oklahoma, wherever. You know,

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then you get into federal deal off. You're now transporting

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across state lines. And that's the biggest The biggest thing

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they're going after in the gummies are the Delta and

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Delta nine, the THHC gummies.

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It's fascinating to me that you say that it was

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the medical marijuana arm that was behind this, because most

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of us have learned in recent years that whenever anti

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marijuana sentiment grows, it's usually at the behest of the

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quote unquote package industry. Which is the liquor stores and

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the beer and alcoholic beverage industry because they some reason

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take hits on sales when marijuana is legalized. But in

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this case, it's actually the medical marijuana.

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Soon I think it's the alcohol industry and it's not.

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It's it's kind of like, you know, who's the biggest

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opponent of Texas legalizing gambling?

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I honestly at this point don't know. Las Vegas, Okay, gotcha?

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And Oklahoma? Now, uh, you know who are their biggest

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feeder markets Texas? Yeah?

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Yeah, I will say that the package industry does still

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have plenty to say on this. It's not just the

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medical marijuana because I saw just a few days ago

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the guy that either runs or started Total Wine is

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a big donor to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick h and

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has contributed to his campaign. So I mean, it's it. Oh,

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the liquor industry is still involved in it, probably, but

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it makes But but I hadn't thought about the fact

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that the medical marijuana side was, you know, so heavily in.

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Don't let it confuse that's something because someone owns you know,

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I mean, and I think Dan Patrick's a twat, so

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you know, don't confuse just because someone owns total Wine

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that they're contributing to Dan Patrick just because of his

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heart on for medical marijuana, I mean our first from

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marijuana in general, he's against all of it.

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There is a jump to conclusions, but the involvement does

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raise the question of it, you.

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Know, drinking habits. The alcohol industry is taking a hit

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right now just because everyone forget, alcohol was the one

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business during the pandemic that boomed. It's one of the

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very few I shouldn't say what, but very few businesses

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that really thrived in the pandemic because everyone stayed home

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and drank. I mean, Bars suffered for two then you know,

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twenty twenty two was for the most part of magical

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year in Bars. I was ran one of the few

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that actually grew in twenty in twenty one. But uh,

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in general, and now alcohol industries, you know, and as

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businesses in America do all the time. Everyone was like,

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oh my god, and they it's like Republic National just

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went bankrupt. I just followed for bankruptcy, which is one

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of the largest distributors in the country. Why they did

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things like and there's there's a Texaswissney called balcons Now,

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I'm gonna say this, it's a ship product judging, and

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and you know, go back and look who endorsed them skimmed.

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Yeah. You know why though, right, because it's a ship product. Well,

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at one point Ben's brother was the head of marketing.

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Oh well, you know, well, good marketing only goes so

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far and you have a shit product.

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And then when he didn't work there anymore, somehow that

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endorsement went away. Yeah, that's that's just what I've heard.

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I don't know that for sure, fair enough, but yeah,

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I think they paid like one hundred million dollars or

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something for Balconas, and it's like, oh, they threw all

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this money at Texas whiskey. For the most part, Texas

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whiskey has been crap. And even bigger problem is is

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they come on the market and they want to be

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at a price point that's higher than let's say, Crown Royal.

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Long established heritage brand.

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Yes, and people forget it's like Tito's. Yeah, Tito's sells

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for about I don't know, probably thirty dollars for a

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one point seventy five now. But when I was in

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college at UT in the nineties, Tito himself slept his

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vodka from bars to bar on Sixth Street at six

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dollars a y, just trying to get into being the

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house vodka. And that's how he started it. And now

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he can turn down. I think the last time I

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saw him was he turned down like twelve billion dollars.

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Tito's is one of the great stories as far as

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like how marketing and certain things can help a product.

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How marketing and Texas branding, because if if everyone's going

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to be honest, Tito's is not a great vodka.

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No, it's it's not bad.

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It's middle of the road, great marketing.

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There's a lot to unpack there about everything you just covered,

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and I want to dig into a lot of it.

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First of which is from a personal standpoint on the

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Tito's side of things, if you're buying a handle of

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Tito's from around thirty bucks in Texas, you're getting a

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really good deal. Where I am currently in the state

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of Oregon and where I bought some in Washington State

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as we were driving from Seattle down to Portland. On

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where you go, it might be in the thirties or

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the low forties. In the US Virgin Islands. Tito's is

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a top shelf vodka I mean to buy a handle

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of that is in the forties. Meanwhile, Stolich Nayah same

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size is going to be in the twenties.

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And I would argue that Stolei is a better vodka, and.

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I'm gonna fight.

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I will, I will. I have said this for decades.

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The best vodka for the money is Monopolova.

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That's what I've been, That's what I've had right now

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the last couple of.

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Weeks, Manapulova for the money. That's vodka there is now.

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Because I know someone somewhere listening right now is screaming

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at their phone or on Patreon or on YouTuber something,

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and they're going like, whoa, whoa, whoa, How does Trey

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know he just posted he's ten years sober? How does

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Trey know what what Tito's tastes like? Or Valconas.

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Valcontas actually had I believe it come out right before

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I actually quit drinking. How do I how do I know? So?

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Over my career in the bar business, I'll conservatively say

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I oversaw fifty million dollars in liquor sales, and over

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that time, huh, conservatively conservatively.

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And.

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I've known people with very good palettes, people that have

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taken courses that you know, there are courses like that

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make you where you're and wine for liquor and everything else,

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and I trust their opinion. Now, I drank plenty of Tito's.

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Tito's is not new, don't don't. Like I said, Tito's

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was around in the nineties.

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And you were too, and you were in college.

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I was a budding alcoholic.

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You and Tito's crossbats at the perfect time.

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Yeah, uh you know. Let's I mean, flavored vodkas were

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just getting popular as I quit drinking. Deep Eddie the

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one of the last things boy and man didn't get

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me a trial. I mean Deep Eddy Sweet Tea vodka

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came out right about probably a year before I quit drinking,

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and man, I.

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Had I think that may have pushed you over the edge.

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Oh man, I will say this. You know you take

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that on the rock splash of water with a lemon, man,

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you can you can get in some trouble with that stuff, well.

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All day, all day. But yeah, that's that's one of

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the things I wanted to mention there. As far as

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everything you had mentioned that I wanted to unpack in there.

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Yeah, I'll tell you with the Balconis, multiple bars I

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had we because of a liquor wrap or something, I

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would get a bottle of Balcona's It's set. It would

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set there for two years. Damn. So you finally I

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I I basically to finally get rid of it. I

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think I priced it at four dollars and I still

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had trouble getting rid of it.

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Jesus Christ. And then the other thing I wanted to

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mention that you mentioned earlier is like back to the

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Balconas saying you said Texas whiskey for the most part

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is crap. Now when you say Texas whiskey, you mean

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whiskey from Texas. The differentiator in there might be TX Whiskey,

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which is I think bottled in Fort Worth, TX.

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they first started, at a fairly reasonable price point.

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I liked it. I haven't had it in quite a while,

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so that's so I say light. But when I would

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have it years ago, I I liked it, especially for

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the price mhm h, and especially compared to Balconis, because

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I remember having both in the studio at one point

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and going like, oh, give me that t X over

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the balconas, so you know.

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But yeah, t X whiskey, I always get a Tips

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whiskey was fine, and they're bourbon. But Bourbon's technically I

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think supposed to still come from Kentucky. Uh but uh

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but no, I t X nice little cinnamon twist, a

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little oh hints of cinnamon in there. It was solid.

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But but and it's not. I shouldn't. I'm not just

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trying to bag on the bourbon. Bourbon exploded after the pandemic,

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and I mean prices were through went through the roof,

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and then now you know, they're slowly starting to come

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back down. Like, eh, Taylor, really they make some great bourbons,

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great whiskeys, but you know what once was forty dollars

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a bottle, then all of a sudden is eighty dollars

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a bottle. Well it's not that great anymore. And you know,

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it's just it's like everything does in our you know,

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boom and bus cycle. We don't as a country, we

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don't know moderation really well. And so that's how it

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how it go.

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So let's go back to the bust side of the

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beginnings of this conversation, and that was the THC law

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in Texas and that changed. So in Texas, here's how

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much prison time possessing THC gummies can now get you

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in Texas. Okay, less than a gram, so basically one

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gummy can get you one hundred and eighty days up

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to two years. One too, under four grams, basically two

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gummies two to ten years. And then the range goes

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up from there four grams to less than four hundred grams,

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so like a handful of gummies two to twenty years,

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and then over four hundred grams of gummies to me

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because I'm not the marijuana person. Roughly the amount of

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a bag of Harrowbo gummy bears but loaded with THC

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will get you five to ninety nine years or life,

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as if there's a difference between ninety nine years and life.

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So you know, on July thirtieth, whatever gummies you had

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were cool, and the next day they're felonise. That was

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pretty lard.

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Mind you. You also have to have the whatever county

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you're in, the local DA agreed to. Like, I don't

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think Dallas is going out of their way to prosecute anyone. Now,

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Colin County probably will.

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Oh yeah, yep, they will, and It's interesting too because

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I managed I was like, Okay, does this now make

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Texas the strictest THCHC law in the country, And it

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actually does not. That esteem goes to Idaho, and I

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believe it was uh Nebraska. Yeah, Idaho and Nebraska actually

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have stricter THC laws on the books than Texas, although

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Texas is, you know, right up there with them. And

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we had mentioned the medical use in Texas and how

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medical the medical marijuana industry is what is sort of pushing.

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They were one of the big driving forces.

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Yeah, so it's interesting to mention that even though and

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this to me, I think is one of the most

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fascinating things about it is you've got the medical side

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pushing for this despite the fact it's not like Texas

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has a free wheeling medical marijuana situation itself. It's not

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like California where you can just get some rando writing

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you a script and you go into a dispensary and

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you're walking out. Texas is still really strict even on

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its medical side. Texas operates the restrictive Compassionate Use Program,

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which allows registered physicians to prescribe low THHC cannabis for

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specific qualifying conditions, So it's a high bar to reach.

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Even for medical marijuana use in Texas. It's better than

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it used to be, but it's it's not like it

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was like I'm sad, Okay, here's a you know, well, no.

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Even Oklahoma is pretty easy. I mean you have a

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a doctor and a dispensary, like, oh yeah, you've got

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so and so sure, which I don't know that the

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problem is from my understanding is that the medical marijuana

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I fits, they had to jump through a lot of

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hoops and pay a lot of money to get to

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get their certification to be you know, under the compact

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whatever it's called. And then all of a sudden, I said,

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then you no one needed them because you could go

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to your local vape shop and buy Delta Delta nine

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gummies and and that's why so much of this is

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on focused on the gummies and not on actual marijuana,

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Like yeah, that you smoke is because that's where the

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Delta and Delta nine thrived. And it listen, I I

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have some pothead friends that they freaked out, still are

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freaking out just because they're like, well, how do I

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know that you know, what I've got doesn't have you know,

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delta delta nine in it and I'm gonna, you know,

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get sent away to prison. I'm like, you're probably okay,

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but but it is.

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It's and don't get pulled over. Ten and two, brother,

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ten and two you think to draw any attention to

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the fact that you may have some fun gummies.

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And listen, you know, I mean we could. Greg Abbott

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has turned in. I mean, I know a lot of

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people don't like him, but he is disappointing more and

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more people as time goes on. Uh, some of the

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stuff he has let happen and the things that he

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was quietly for, you know, then he's like, oh no,

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you know is mind boggling. And that he'll win another

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term as equally mind boggling. And it goes to show

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that biggest Democrats can't come up with a effing candidate.

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I mean, if they could go dig up Anne Richards, God,

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she would win. She would could win the presidency.

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Amen, brother. I think about that. I keep thinking about

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the fact that it even though it was a long

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time ago to people in age bracket, nothing feels like

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forever ago, But it was a mere thirty years ago

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that we had the last democratic governor of Texas. And

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when you think back to Anne Richards, she doesn't exactly scream,

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you know, blue blood, bleeding heart liberal, but I mean

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she was a you know, a good ass Texas woman

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and she led the state and she did really well.

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The sad thing is a liberal Democrat thirty years ago

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is a middle of the road conservative today.

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But it's amazing the extremes we have reached. Those of

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us that kind of hang out in the middle at

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times are like, why are you guys way over there?

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What the hell happened?

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But Anne Richards was funny. She she knew how to

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play politics. I mean, she's why we have the lottery

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because she knew, you know, let him do the whole provision.

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You know that for a long time there were places

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in East Texas where let's say you had a convenience store,

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well you had a secret window in the back is

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where you sold the lottery tickets. None of the church

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folks will see you buying them. The same thing with liquor.

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Yeah. No, I really wish someone could dig up An

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Richards and put her back in the game because.

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She funny, and she got she was funny.

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She she she would spank the current governor Lieutenant governor

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of Texas. I mean I don't mean that verbally in

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a debate. I mean during a debate, she might actually

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grab grab Greg Abbot out of his chair and put

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him over her lap in spanks ass. Same with Dan Patrick.

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And guess what, they'd probably have to just kind of

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take it because she's gonna remind them of their meme ball.

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Yeah. I mean, but she got so for good and bad,

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She got so much done, And yeah, I think the

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Hey people would be she was just she was a

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little bit too early for the national platform. But I

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think today people would absolutely fall in love with her.

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Maybe that's what we need to do when you start

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unearthing some Ann Richard's clips and be like, ah, here

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Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. Oh man, I hate

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it when I go to birthdays and I get excited

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about one and then I see that they're dead. Nate

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Dogg today is his birthday. But apparently he died in

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twenty eleven.

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I'm not saying years ago.

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I've totally forgotten it. I mean, it was fifteen years

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ago that he that he died, So I guess maybe

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I'm sure I knew it at the time, but I

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didn't stay in my brain. So oh no, RIFP date

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dog regulators mount up and but not really anyway, he

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would have been fifty seven, one of the defining voices

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of West Coast hip hop. Yeah, that song is still

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still one of my favorites from back in the day.

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Oh that's I mean, that is a classic.

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That's an old timer, especially especially when I think they

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used it on the Young Guns two soundtrack. Or is

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that where he actually got the line? That's where line

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was from the first Young Guns because it was Charlie Sheen.

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I think that had the line in the first one,

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which is Regulator's mount up.

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Well, I still I think that was even that was

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after Young So Young the Young Gun. What was the

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difference between the the first one was Young Gun and

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the second.

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One was Young Young Guns too? Okay, yeah, because that

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the official titles were Young Guns one and Young Guns two.

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Back in the Saddle Okay, I'm making that up. That

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wasn't the full title.

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Regulate Regulars came out after both of those, but yeah,

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that yeah, he sampled the SoundBite and I think is

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he the one I want to say, Snoop Dogg like

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bailed him out of jail to come to a concert or.

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Oh, maybe I'd have to look that one up. Other

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birthdays today. From the opposite side of the music spectrum,

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Leanne Walmack is sixty. She is still alive. Grammy winning

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country singer best known for I Hope You Dance and

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Johnny High's Country Review in Arlington. Yes, she look it up.

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She was part of Johnny High's Country Review back in

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the day.

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As I don't even know what that is.

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I didn't either, but my ex Carrie when I don't

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if I was still in if we were still in

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high school. But it was at like the downtown Arlington theaters.

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I don't even know if that's still there, but I

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think it was like Johnny Heyights' theaters. Anyway, it's it's

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fuzzy memory stuff. I mean, this is over thirty. This

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is like thirty years ago, right. Apparently Leanne Womack was

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part of his show when she was a little girl

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because she was an amazing still is, as far as

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I know, an amazing singer as an adult. If you're

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00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.799
an amazing singer as an adult, you probably were an

460
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:34.880
amazing singer as a kid, and you get you get

461
00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:39.000
discovered pretty quickly. But I remember we went to this

462
00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.640
show with her parents and like grandparents I think as well,

463
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.240
in Arlington at this theater, and it was Johnny High's

464
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:49.240
like Country Review, and it was known, really well known

465
00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:51.359
in the area, I guess, except that I hadn't heard

466
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:56.400
of it, and then it was like its prominence was

467
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.119
raised a little bit by the you know, celebrity of

468
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:00.079
one Leanne.

469
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:03.000
Learn.

470
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.799
There you go. Yeah, uh, I'm ed best is fifty three.

471
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:13.200
This is a guy that I feel bad for ish.

472
00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:15.599
He is the actor and voice behind jar Jar Binks

473
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:20.960
in the Star Wars prequels. I say I feel I

474
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:24.119
say I feel bad ish for him because jar Jar

475
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:28.119
Binks is one of the most maligned characters in cinema history,

476
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:33.440
and in his defense, he did I'm sure exactly what

477
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.279
George Lucas wanted him to do. I mean, he owned

478
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:41.000
that role. He was really good at performing this outlandish, silly,

479
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:48.839
amphibious character in the Star Wars universe, and most of

480
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.519
us hated it. So I kind of feel bad for

481
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.359
the guy. But he was still in Star Wars, which

482
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:56.079
is not, you know, the worst thing in life.

483
00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:59.960
Yeah, I mean, I think Jarjar was in all three

484
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.519
of the prequels, wasn't.

485
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.119
He mm hmm.

486
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:04.839
I mean, so yeah, I don't. I don't feel too

487
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.720
terribly bad for him. And again I I I maintain this,

488
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:12.319
and I catch a lot of crap for it, but uh,

489
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:17.160
if you go back and watch the first three after

490
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:22.240
you've watched the last three, first three, ain't that bad?

491
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:25.680
Haanda Menace, banda Menace was not near as bad as

492
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:30.440
people thought after the crap of the last three, So

493
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:32.079
perspective is everything.

494
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:35.400
I also love the fan theory that came out of

495
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:40.279
the prequels in regards to jar Jar binks and that

496
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:46.480
jar Jar was not this amphibious simpleton uh from the

497
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:52.039
no whatever planet, but in fact he was Darth jar Jar.

498
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:55.240
I've never seen that one.

499
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.920
It's a solid one, dude. Look that up or look

500
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:00.599
that up. It's like, I don't know if it's actually

501
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:03.599
Darth jar Jar or dark jar Jar. But basically the

502
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:07.599
fan theory of uh, it's one of the great tricks

503
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:11.319
of the Sith is that they were able to infiltrate

504
00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:17.920
this whole thing with an idiot character being played by

505
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.480
a Sith lord. Okay, I mean the first time I

506
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.640
saw an artist rendering of a Sith jar Jar, I

507
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.799
think I spit God knows what I was drinking right

508
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:31.759
out of my whole face.

509
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:34.079
I will have to look that one up.

510
00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:38.119
Well, Gerald McCraney, who has come up a couple of

511
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.440
times recently here inside the Treehouse is seventy nine today.

512
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:46.960
How did we did? We talked about him? Is it

513
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.279
Major Dad that we were somehow talked about? A while back?

514
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.640
We talked about Major Dad? And I don't remember exactly

515
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:56.039
how Major Dad came up, but I do remember. I

516
00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.799
think it was Meshach Taylor's birthday a couple of weeks ago,

517
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.680
which got us talking about designing women, which got us

518
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.039
talking about Delta Burke, and Delta Burke was married to

519
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.359
Gerald McCraney.

520
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.559
I feel like you're right, but I also feel like

521
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:15.400
somehow eighties ninety sitcoms came up in Major Dad.

522
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.559
Because it was two separate conversations.

523
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:19.039
Yeah, yeah, I think you had said you had Well,

524
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.359
I'd never watched Major Dad. It was kind of outside

525
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:23.119
of my wheelhouse.

526
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:29.119
Peter Gallagher is seventy one, best known for projects like

527
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:33.519
The OC While You Were Sleeping American Beauty. He's the

528
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:37.559
actor with those really big, black, bushy eyebrows.

529
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:39.000
I'm pretty sure I know.

530
00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:45.240
Kevin Dylan is sixty one, best known as Johnny Drama

531
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.880
on Entourage. Also the younger brother of Matt Dillon, Kira Sedgwick,

532
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.519
the Emmy winning star of the Closer Singles, and Brooklyn

533
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:55.960
ninety nine is sixty one. She's also married to one

534
00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:59.079
Kevin Bacon, so when she plays six degrees at Kevin Bacon,

535
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:04.200
she's always on top. Matthew Perry would have been fifty seven.

536
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:10.400
Didn't His drug dealer just gets sentenced a while back.

537
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.559
To anyone that had a finger in any of his

538
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:19.480
stuff all going to prison, the dealer, his doctor, his assistant,

539
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:22.760
I mean everyone they followed the chain of pills that

540
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:26.559
he died from. Anyone that came in near contact with

541
00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:27.920
those pills is going to prison.

542
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:29.679
What they call the ketamine Queen.

543
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:37.280
Yeah. John Stamos is sixty three and still looking damn good.

544
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:41.239
You know, it's funny. I didn't think they got along,

545
00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:43.599
and then I saw a TikTok the other day of him,

546
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:52.079
Dave Cooyer, Candice Beret.

547
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.599
Now I know what was Cameron?

548
00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:02.199
Cameron? And is it Jodie Sweeten. I didn't think they

549
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.920
really spoke, but they were doing a TikTok together, and I.

550
00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:07.400
Was like, well, well that's fun to know. Good for them.

551
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:11.400
Uh yeah, I'm pretty sure it's If you see Dave

552
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:14.480
Coolier doing a TikTok with Atlantis Moors set, then send

553
00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.079
me that one.

554
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:17.159
Oh yeah, then Hell's Frozen over.

555
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.039
As Atlantis Morris Set skates over it.

556
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:29.679
Yeah. I mean there are there are two people that

557
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:35.320
I feel like had albums based on them, where like

558
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.320
Atlantis Moore Set, Jagged Little Pill is just for the

559
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:42.280
most part of Giant f You Today of Koya, I.

560
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:46.800
Think that is where we get the term scorched Earth well,

561
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.719
but also goes back to the Civil War. But as

562
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:54.679
far as musically scorched Earth set, that's far back even

563
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:55.159
before then.

564
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:59.360
Yeah. But the other one that I don't really goes

565
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.519
under the radar, and this was even worse because he

566
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:08.760
had to endure it still does. But Tragic Kingdom, the

567
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.599
No Doubt, that hit No Doubt album, that's all Gwen

568
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.400
Stefani's writing about the Tony guy that's the bass player,

569
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:19.639
that they were in a romanded relationship and then broke up.

570
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.039
I mean, that whole album is just a giant fuck you,

571
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:25.559
just everything.

572
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:28.199
That's got to be one of the most amazing conflicts

573
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:32.559
of interest I have ever seen, because because for him,

574
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:36.119
it's really a bittersweet thing because on one hand, this

575
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:39.920
is really important relationship in his life that turned south,

576
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:43.159
and that's bad enough, but then it's made worse by

577
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.199
the fact that it's with a bandmate. And then it's

578
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:46.960
made worse by the fact that it's with a bandmate

579
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:49.079
who's the front person for the band and the mega

580
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:51.480
star from the band. And then it's made worse by

581
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.599
the fact that while she's singing at you and not

582
00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:00.039
just about you, you're also making buckets of money on it,

583
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.599
so that he.

584
00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:04.360
Broke up with her. But yeah, that's got to be.

585
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.119
He was set for the rest of his life, because

586
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:10.320
this is back in the day when when that came out,

587
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:15.119
one hit album, you were set for life. And you know,

588
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:16.199
you look at that. I mean they just did a

589
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:18.559
residency at the Sphere. I mean they sold out every night.

590
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:24.719
Everything else, but yeah, that whole album is her morning grieving,

591
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:29.360
hating you, and you had to not only you, you

592
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:33.880
had to play it every night. I mean, there's the

593
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:38.119
one clip when when Fleetwood Mac did one of their

594
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.880
concerts and it's you know, Stevie Nicks, Oh god, whatever

595
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:46.760
song she wrote about Lindsay Buckingham, and everyone's like, oh

596
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.079
my god. You know, she's just scorching him. No one

597
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.360
remembers that he wrote a song about her thirty years prior.

598
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:56.719
They had a very political relationship. But yeah, that one's

599
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.800
totally one sided, with no doubt of Gwen Stefani penned

600
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.599
and a highre album just.

601
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:07.719
Effing you, just abacrating him. Yes, yes, and and and

602
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:09.960
then they have to go on tour to promote the album,

603
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:12.840
and she could just look at him and then meanwhile

604
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:18.840
he's like, every every strum of these strings goes right

605
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:26.280
to my bank. Hate me all you want. That's That's

606
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.800
one of those things where I've never met, no doubt.

607
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:31.800
I was at the Addison Improv at the same time

608
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:34.400
they were one night where they got ushered into the

609
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:39.519
back or whatever. But if I ever had the opportunity

610
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:41.559
to interview them, I don't think I could help it.

611
00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:43.440
I'd be like, so, what was that?

612
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:47.760
Like? How awkward was that?

613
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:50.440
Are we all good? Now?

614
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.599
Weird? When you were recording that and you start you

615
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:56.679
started reading the lyrics, what was that like?

616
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:59.920
What were your initial impressions? Let's talk about that.

617
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:08.559
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635
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I'm Danny's trepe. I don't normally do this, but there's

636
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.679
a few other birthdays. There is a few other birthdays

637
00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:12.960
that are so prominent we need to actually mention them.

638
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:14.719
Otherwise I'm going to feel like we've left too much

639
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:19.800
meat on the birthday bone. Before we touch on those,

640
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.400
we might have time to get into the flock camera misreads.

641
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:27.360
So I was checking out some of the comments on

642
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.320
our Patreon, some of our Patreon subscribers, some of our

643
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:33.639
treehouse plus subscribers were pointing out some of the issues

644
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:37.840
that have arisen from flock camera usage. Hopefully we'll get

645
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.199
time for that today. If not, we'll touch on it tomorrow.

646
00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:46.320
But the other important birthdays that I want to mention

647
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:54.159
for today, August nineteenth, twenty twenty six, Former President Bill

648
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:59.599
Clinton is eighty. I think it's always important to mention

649
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.800
one of the one of the alive presidents, especially when

650
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.360
we were talking about Ann Richards earlier in the heyday

651
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.400
of the nineties. In politics, I'm not even sure where

652
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.000
Bill Clinton would land on the political spectrum. If you

653
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:13.440
plucked him out of the nineties and drop him into today,

654
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:18.559
he might be mid middle Democrat. No, Bill, you go left, conservative, go.

655
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:26.760
You go look at Bill Clinton's policies and what Listen,

656
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:32.800
let me say this, Bill Clinton is the greatest president

657
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.880
of my lifetime. I say that as I generally am conservative,

658
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.679
but Bill Clinton greatest president of our lifetime. Part of

659
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:45.159
that is in ninety four when Contract with America New

660
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.400
Ginghriig came about. Bill Clinton was a pragmatic politician. And

661
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.480
you look at what those Congresses got done, what they

662
00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.199
did from everything from welfare reform to spend you know,

663
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:01.559
they actually adopted a deal that said for every dollar,

664
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.320
you know, you increase in spending, you need to cut

665
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.440
a dollar of spending, you know, and you actually had

666
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.119
surpluses in the late nineties, a booming economy, everything else.

667
00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:14.519
But you go look at it where Bill Clinton stands

668
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:18.360
on so many things. He would very much be conservative

669
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:26.920
in today's Yeah, and still he people forget, you know,

670
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:31.760
saxophone on our Sineo Hall. He he was cool. He

671
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:33.920
wasn't Obama cool, but he was cool.

672
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.719
Obama ran because Bill Clinton walked As far as the

673
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.000
cool factor, It's like he kind of opened that door

674
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.159
a little bit and that made it to where we

675
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:47.039
were like, wait a minute, our president can be kind

676
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.199
of cool all of a sudden, All right, I'm here

677
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:49.559
for it.

678
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:54.360
And then yeah, and again I've said this, I feel

679
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:57.280
like I said it recently of boy, would it be

680
00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:59.760
the would it be nice that the worst problems we

681
00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:01.880
have right now where the president got a BJ in

682
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:02.760
the Oval office.

683
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:05.639
You know what, I'm on my knees begging for those

684
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:13.719
days when that was the biggest controversy. Oh so h

685
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.159
old slick. Willie turns eighty today, Happy birthday of the

686
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:23.239
forty second president. By the way, which, by the way,

687
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.880
also reminds me of how great Phil Hartman was on

688
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:30.079
Saturday Night Live when he would play Bill Clinton. One

689
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.360
of my favorites was when because this was back when

690
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:36.519
SNL was also great, Like I Sweart of got everything

691
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:39.440
was better in the nineties. I still remember one of

692
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:42.559
the bits they did with Phil Hartman as President Clinton

693
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:46.159
on one of his jogs through Washington Z through Washington,

694
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:50.000
d C. And he stops out at McDonald's and keeps

695
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:52.840
talking to people while eating all their mcmuffins.

696
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:03.400
One of the all time, all time great pictures, and

697
00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:04.880
this just goes to show you is that no matter

698
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how how high you are in the world, you can

699
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be absolute crap. And that is This is after the

700
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Monica Lewinsky thing came out. And it is a picture

701
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of Hillary, Chelsea, Bill and the dog leaving Marine one

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and it's Hillary and Chelsea walking ahead. Then the dog

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then Bill, because that is that is his position. Yeah,

704
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you are the leader of the free world, but you

705
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are in the doghouse.

706
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It's a good thing you're president, buddy, because otherwise you're

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ass would be walking yeah on the Greyhound, not Marine one. O. God,

708
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those are the days. If you loved what you heard

709
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here today, you'd be sure to share it with a friend,

710
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Hit that chair button from your favorite listening platform, and

711
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together we can grow The Treehouse Show. The flock Camera

712
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Controversy extended version will be tomorrow along with Even though

713
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he's ten years sober, Trey occasionally has to tip his

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hat to some alcoholics out there. That's coming up tomorrow

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inside the Treehouse. We'll see you in there.