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Why Does Dating Suck So Much Now? | First Date Disasters, Reddit & Double DWIs

Why Does Dating Suck So Much Now? | First Date Disasters, Reddit & Double DWIs
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Is dating really as terrible as everyone says it is? According to Trey, the only single guy in The Treehouse, the answer is a resounding YES!

Today we kick things off with a viral video of a young woman describing an absolutely awful first date. That gets Dan and Trey wondering: Has dating always been this bad, or have dating apps, social media, and unrealistic expectations completely ruined it? And why does finding someone seem to get harder the older you get?

Then we head to Reddit, where someone has asked one of the most important questions in human history: What does eating a$$ taste like? As you might imagine, the responses are both horrifying and hilarious.

In celebrity birthdays, we remember when Emeril Lagasse was such a massive star that somebody actually thought giving him his own sitcom was a good idea. BAM!

And finally, we meet a man who managed to accomplish something that shouldn't even be possible: TWO DWIs in a single night. That's not just bad decision-making. That's dedication.

Bad dates, questionable Reddit questions, forgotten sitcoms, and spectacular stupidity. Just another day in The Treehouse with Dan and Trey!The Treehouse Show — funny news, pop culture, Reddit insanity, and the conversations you're probably not supposed to have out loud.

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real quick before I get into what one woman claims

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to be as the worst first date ever. Jerry, you're

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precluded from this because you're in a long-term relationship. I'm married,

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so I'm precluded. Trey, is it really that bad out there,

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the single scene, the dating world? Yes.

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Now, let me preface that. You're asking someone who's 52. Okay.

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Do I think it's that bad in your 20s and 30s? No,

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I don't.

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Because....

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And I've given this a lot of thought, while I

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think expectations are out of whack sometimes because of social media,

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but at the same time, when you're in your 20s

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and 30s, your dating pool is long, wide, and deep. Yeah.

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As you get older, and this is one of the

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things you really don't think about, and if I could

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go back and talk to myself and it's like, I

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want to spread this message. It's one of those things

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you don't think about, but then as you get older,

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being single really is sucks because that dating pool, it's

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shallower and shallower and it's full of, of throwbacks for

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both sexes. But, uh, which, you know, that leads to, uh,

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old bitter fish and, So do I.

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In reality, and this is one of those things people

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don't realize, and this generation, Gen Z, does not realize,

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dating was in a way harder. Back in the day,

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you didn't have cell phones. You had to actually write

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down numbers, hoped you wrote it down correctly. You had

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no idea if you were getting left, you know, a

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home number, a work number, whatever. And you couldn't text anyone.

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There was no, a lot of times you just, you

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left a message and you hoped they'd call back. Ghosting,

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you might go on a date with somebody and you'd

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literally never see them again.

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Ever.

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Ever.

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And you didn't have social media to know what they're

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up to. It was just a big question mark.

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The next time you saw them, it might have been

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on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

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Yeah. So, no, for Gen Z, I think Gen Z

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whines a little bit more about it than they're... They're

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a little in their feelings. But I will say this,

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and this comes from watching years of bars and interactions.

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Over the years, I think guys have become more gun-shy

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about taking their shot. And so I think there is

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a problem on that front. I think there's a lot

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of men, and I'm not precluding myself from this, That

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you have an inner battle of, I don't want to

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be alone, but I don't want to deal with the bullshit.

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And it's a struggle.

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So right now we're going through a correction phase on

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the guy side when it comes to asking women out.

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They were too strong with it, would go up and

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do and say certain things. that were not only too

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strong of an approach, but sometimes outright illegal, um, and deservedly.

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So there's been some correction on that. Now that also

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over corrects to a certain degree where now guys are

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afraid to even say hi to someone because they're afraid

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of in person and or online ridicule for having the

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gall to even say hi to someone. If that's someone

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thinks that they're too far above you or whatever.

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Um, Yeah, or they're beaten down by unreal expectations.

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So the reason why I asked Trey, is it really

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that bad out there in the single world, is because

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imagine you're a young, beautiful, 20-something woman.

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Is the dating world really that bad?

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Let's ask Vittoria Vega, who recently went viral for what

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she says. is the worst first date ever. Now, can

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you imagine looking like her and thinking you've got it hard?

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No.

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So I just had the worst first date of my life.

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I show up. He is stoned.

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He is high as a mother freaking kite.

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And we go into the bar.

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He is quiet.

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He's not talking.

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He's not talking. And then when he talks, he tells

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me that he pees in his sink. He tells me

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that he does not wash his hair with shampoo or conditioner.

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Then proceeds to keep staring at these gorgeous group of

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girls sitting next to us.

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Gorgeous.

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They're so beautiful.

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He is staring at them the entire time while I'm

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trying to talk to him. Oh, my gosh.

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I physically had to ask him if he was stoned.

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I had to ask him if he was even interested.

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I had to ask him if I was appalling to him.

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Those words actually had to come out of my mouth.

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We only had one drink.

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I swallowed my drink.

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And now I'm going to go grab some pizza.

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Because that was god awful.

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Now she's at the pizza place.

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I'm going to go, like, eat.

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My feelings right now. Did I mention that he leaned

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down and.

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Proceeded to ask me to smell his hair. He wanted

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me to smell his.

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Hair, his dirty hair.

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Shout out industry for making me feel better.

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So there you have it, Trey. I think it's, I

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think it's very important that you keep in mind.

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It's so important that you keep in mind that your

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competition out there is really, really bad.

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So here's the thing. And this is one of the

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cruel facts of life. I can no longer compete for that.

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I am too old. That is out of my league.

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You think she's out of your league when all you

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got to do is just show up and pay attention

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and don't stare at the girls at the table next

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to her?

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I'm probably older than her father.

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But buddy, you look good.

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I don't look that good. But here's the thing. Here's

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part of the reason why you look as good as

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you do for 52. It's because you don't have a

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daughter that looks like that. I guarantee you that if

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you were her daddy, like actual daddy, that.

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Dude looks rough.

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That dude looks beaten down like he's been rolled over

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in the ditch four or five times because, yeah, I

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think that may be one of your secrets and you

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don't even realize it. So to her, to her, if

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she were to see you. She may think you're 10

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years younger than her dad, even if he's 10 years

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younger than you.

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Here's one of the problems, and this is where dating

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is much harder today. It's counterintuitive, but before social media,

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before online dating, when you actually had to meet someone

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in person, you had to go up, you had to

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talk to them, break the ice, whatever, but you at

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least got a vibe one-on-one. Now you're going on someone's profile.

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But the worst part about it is as a guy,

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you are competing with the unreal expectations of what people

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put out on social media for their first dates, that

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they're going to these fancy restaurants that they're doing this,

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they're doing that, you know, it's like money's no object,

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everything else. And for, for most it is. And money

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is money.

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It's an object.

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It is.

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It's an obstacle. Yeah.

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Yeah. You know, you don't have $ 500 to go splurge

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on every date and everything else. Um, and, So I

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think that's one of the things where guys have gotten

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really gun shy is, you know, can't we just go have,

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you know, dinner and a drink and just call them casual,

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get to know one another and it not be a

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big production, a big show, everything else.

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I think, um, I think you're right. So I, I

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have no idea. I'm just as, this is pure conjecture

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on my part because I've been out of that game for,

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you know, uh, since.

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2009 and.

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Things have changed since then right because like when Tara

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and I went on our first date it was due

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in part to MySpace I mean we sort of met

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like we met in person first but MySpace helped facilitate

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a little bit of it that's how far back I

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go right so I would think in today's age you

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know how there's like this sort of yearning for nostalgia

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and in some cases like physical media like people want

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to have like They want to have a record. They

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want to have a CD or a cassette to touch

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the thing.

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And you're right. Instead of.

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The first interaction you have with someone who's on a

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profile who never met them, go old school. The first

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date doesn't have to be a massive production. It can

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just be, hey, let's just go meet for a drink

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or let's just go meet for a cup of coffee

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and just see if there's enough here to do a

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nicer first date type of thing. Like, basically, let's go

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old school. Let's slum it a little bit on the

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first date.

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Listen, this is, you know, I said this for years,

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is the Old Loon was the best first date spot

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ever because it didn't look like much. It was a

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dive bar, but strong drinks, but had great food. And

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so if you met a girl and if they turned

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up their nose at it, fine, get lost. if they

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stayed around and were like, I'll check it out, you

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realize it was a great spot. It was quiet. You

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could find a dark corner, talk, not be overwhelmed. It

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was perfect.

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Yeah, it really was.

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Again, and I think so much of this is social

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media has falsely shaped so many narratives. And one is

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that you've got to be, and I think this hits

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more for guys, that you've got to be this big

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time baller and be able to do all this expensive

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crap in order to go on a date.

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Yeah, because you're right.

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You're trying to jump over the bar of expectations that

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is set unrealistically high from the outset.

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Well, and listen, this was a principle for dating for

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years is, you don't want to shoot your shot as

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it were on the first date. If you go all

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out on the first date, then there's, it's nothing but

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downhill from there. Yeah.

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That's a, and that's a tough, that is a tough

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tone to set.

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Absolutely.

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Because ideally as a guy, when it's traditionally, that will

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be the one putting the bill for it. We want

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to know if it's worth going all out for that

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first big date.

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Yeah.

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I can't even, There's no way in hell I would

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go crazy on a first date with someone I've never

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even actually met in person.

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For me, I w I would rather go small, casual

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until you get to the point where you're really thinking, okay, I,

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you know, want to have the talk of, are we

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exclusive boyfriend, girlfriend type thing? That would be more of

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an occasion to go big.

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On a date.

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Sure.

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But, and again, and, and it's like we had that,

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that clip, uh, from the girl that got stood up

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that we played. I think it was on maybe Tuesday. Uh, I,

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I am willing to bet a lot of that is

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she's probably bashed guys before on their attempts to go

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out with her.

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I think the biggest aid in dating would be to

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keep it off of social media.

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Hmm.

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I think that would help everybody because people watching it,

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they see certain expectations. You putting it out there, you're

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watching it as well. You've got certain expectations. And there

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are certain things you may not even realize you're doing

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or noticing other people. If you take it offline a

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little bit and just make it what it's supposed to be,

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which is supposed to be trying to connect with a

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human on some sort of a human level, you should

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be able to talk to a person more easily than

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your phone.

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Listen, I went out with a girl, I know, I

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think we talked about it, that I actually followed on

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TikTok and I saw her out one day and I

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liked her. We had a nice time, but it played

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into my thought pattern about she's on social media all

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the time. She posts every day. And is that too much?

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While keeping in mind, it's fair game to talk about

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her on the Treehouse show all we want. Well, it's...

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I'm messing with you. It is a completely different thing.

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Because everyone airs all their... Not everyone, but so many

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people air all their business on social media.

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It's like, you realize you don't have to do that, right?

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It's just a thought.

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You can just keep it to yourself. If you had

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a bad time or a good time, just whatever. Just

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enjoy it.

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It's not like if You don't post about it. It

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didn't happen. But I think that's how a lot of

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people seem to approach it. It wasn't real unless I

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posted about it.

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You want to talk about this weird place. You want

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to talk about people. I am looked upon like damaged goods.

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And I'm not saying I'm not. But I am 52,

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never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic. People think just the

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fact I've never been married and don't have kids, there's

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something profoundly wrong with me.

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That is a tough hurdle to get over.

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Mackie posted something here that says, my buddy said that

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women have told him that it's a red flag that

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he doesn't have social media.

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And look, there are plenty of men out there that

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take that approach. Like, I've got friends of mine that

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are barely on social media. Like you're trying to hide something.

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It's called living in the moment.

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Listen, I just don't interact with it. Yeah, that's sad.

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There is a girl on TikTok, and she goes on

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dating apps as a guy and will do and say

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different things. And she's consistently shocked about how awful women are.

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One of the things that she posted, and it was hilarious.

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is that the guy in his bio said, I believe

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that a first date should be split 50-50. And the

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comments were just, you know, it's like, oh, you're cheap,

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you're a red flag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And so, yeah, that's one of the other things. And

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then women, and women are shocked. They meet these guys

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on online dating apps, and they're their bios, you know,

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make them sound like they are, you know, captains of

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industry and, and just the greatest thing ever. And, and

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they're not, and the, and the women are shocked, but

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yet they still like, you know, I was reading about

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one guy who is a welder. And if you know

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anything about welding right now, like you're making six figures

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as a welder blue collar, but you're, you're doing really

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well for yourself. And yeah. Yeah. but with data centers

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and everything else, you're, you're banking. And, but put that

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in his profile and, you know, and how he, it

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was just look, look down upon.

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Yeah.

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Expectations, expectations, expectations. They will ruin you. Oh God.

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Um, And even Linda in the chat says here, can

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Gen Z keep it offline nowadays? No. It's so rare

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that they do anything only offline.

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I've known some Gen Z kids.

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It really does feel like something wasn't real if they

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didn't post about it.

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Or there's this....

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It's like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when we

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were young, right? And we just always took that stuff

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as true. Then as we got older and saw Cribs

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on MTV, we realized that a lot of the celebrities

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on TV doing Cribs, that wasn't even their house. They

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were renting it for the show. And then we started

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realizing that a lot of this stuff is manufactured. It's

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fake just to make you look better than you are.

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And that's what has happened now with an entire generation.

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They've spent their entire lives online and on social media.

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So a lot of the stuff they put out there

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is just concocted or it's fake.

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So there's the pressure and the stress to keep up

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the illusion.

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It's fake or, you know, the truth of the matter

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is a lot of the quote unquote influencers who do well,

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they come from well-off families and they have the luxury

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of being able to throw all their time into being

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a social media star. And by the way, Linda, thank you.

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I saw your post that you said your husband's 20

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years older and I still have a chance. I appreciate

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that talk.

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So you're telling me there's a chance.

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Absolutely.

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Maybe all you got to do, Trey, is hear me

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out here. Just a little light stalking. And this is

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what I mean. That sounds controversial, but hear what I

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mean in application, okay? Let's go out to some place.

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and just wait for like someone like this young Victoria Vega,

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who's going to end up with some moron on a date.

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And you can just be the, the kind of cool,

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mysterious gray Fox that comes up and says like.

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Yeah, I want a cookie.

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Actually.

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Yeah.

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And you just open up a box of your snickerdoodles

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and she will be yours. I mean, because everything you

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said earlier about people saying you're a walking red flag.

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It's like, yeah, I get it.

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You're 52. You're single, never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic.

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I realize that is not a list of green flags

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by some people's standards.

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But once you put in there, but I like to bake.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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Although now that I hear all that out loud, they

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might think you are baking people.

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Yeah.

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I say go with it.

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Go out with a little box of cookies and you

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just wait for some pretty girl to be on a

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horrible date and then you say, I can't believe this

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guy is treating you so badly. Here, would you like

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one of my freshly baked cookies?

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Well, I may give it a shot.

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And make sure that you eat one in front of

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her so she knows that they're safe.

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They're not lazy. Puppy in the other hand.

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Yeah, take Lily with you, take your puppy and a

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box of cookies. No one will care about your red flags, Trey.

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Right.

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Because you're holding two green ones.

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That's a thought.

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You're right. It is a thought. Not necessarily a good one.

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Maybe not a good idea, but it is a thought.

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It is a way to go.

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Yeah, it'll either get you a date or possibly on

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the 11 o'clock news.

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It's a crapshoot.

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I do like Double AJ in the chat pointing this out.

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He says, it's keeping up with the Joneses, except now

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the Joneses can follow you everywhere.

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That's exactly what it is. There is good news, though, Trey,

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if you are single.

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Being single right now means you don't have to worry

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about catching STD diarrhea.

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What?

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Yeah.

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I would think being single would.

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Put me at a higher risk than being married for that.

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I don't know what it is, but anything STD, I'm

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going to assume.

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A bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea can spread through

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sexual contact, and drug-resistant strains are becoming more common in

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the United States.

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In the United States. It's called shigellosis.

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And shigella passes from person to person when tiny amounts

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of infected fecal matter reach the mouth, including during sex

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or through contaminated food and water. Symptoms include fever, stomach cramps,

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and sometimes bloody diarrhea. A CDC analysis found that extensively

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drug-resistant strains accounted for 8.5% of samples tested just as

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recently as 2023, which was up from zero in 2011.

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So, in other words, there's been a meteoric rise in.

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In STD diarrhea. It's known as shigellosis or the shigella.

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I swear. Can't even eat ass now. Just take it

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all away from us. All of it. You're dead on, Jerry.

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That's exactly what it is. What's the world coming to

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when you can't even eat ass without worrying about catching

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an STD?

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Actually, there was a Reddit thread that someone asked, what

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does it taste like to eat ass?

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I would imagine exactly like you expect.

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Well, as one person said, well, it shouldn't taste like anything.

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It shouldn't. That is correct.

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Yeah.

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If it tastes like something, um, then, uh, yeah. Then

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if it does taste like something, then it wasn't clean enough. Yeah.

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I do like what Linda says.

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First lettuce and blueberries. 2026 has been a rough year

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for the different ways to get unwanted diarrhea. Right. Oh, Yeah,

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I've never actually thought about that. What does it taste

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like to eat ass? Well, hopefully nothing. Yeah.

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If it tastes like something, you're doing it wrong.

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Then to the bathroom you both need to go. Or

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if you're doing it and you can taste what they.

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Had for dinner. Mmm, Burger King.

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Trey, how far down did you read in that thread?

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I mean, was that pretty much the resounding answer that

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it shouldn't taste like anything?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Unless you get lucky and you get like a fruit

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roll-up flavor. Even that has questions that come with it.

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Jesus. Jesus.

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Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration

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into the treehouse. 833-COOK-DFW is the phone number to get

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your free roof inspection and property review scheduled. The website, cookdfw.com.

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I'm going to say some scary words, Daniel. Super El Nino.

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And the effect that is going to have on weather,

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especially in the North Texas area.

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You know, you're right.

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We just are officially in going into the Super El Nino.

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The reason why is because it's warmer than a regular

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El Nino. And it does prelude that we will have

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a wetter, higher rain percentage than a normal year, or

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shall we say on El Nino. So there are some differences, speculations.

471
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Nothing is set in stone. This is not a guarantee

472
00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:53.910
that we're going to have a deluge of water. for

473
00:27:53.930 --> 00:27:55.950
the next year. I mean, that's just not what it means.

474
00:27:56.829 --> 00:28:00.539
Scientific data says, hey, we might have a wetter than normal.

475
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:01.799
We could have more storms.

476
00:28:02.779 --> 00:28:03.859
It could be just a lot of rain.

477
00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:05.440
We all need to go out and build arcs.

478
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:06.039
I don't know.

479
00:28:06.339 --> 00:28:08.740
But I mean, be prepared.

480
00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:11.339
The moral of the story is every day you live

481
00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:14.789
in North Texas, especially in North Texas, be prepared. Know

482
00:28:14.829 --> 00:28:17.210
how your home is sitting. Know how your roof looks.

483
00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:20.730
Know how your Windows are working. Know if your doors

484
00:28:20.789 --> 00:28:22.829
have holes in them. I mean, just know your home.

485
00:28:22.990 --> 00:28:24.109
Know your home. Call us out.

486
00:28:24.549 --> 00:28:25.369
We want to educate you.

487
00:28:25.849 --> 00:28:28.049
We will come around, walk you around, show you things

488
00:28:28.089 --> 00:28:29.549
that you should know, and then we can help you

489
00:28:29.609 --> 00:28:30.789
with getting them taken care of.

490
00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:33.519
And no pressure, all education.

491
00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:36.259
And Daniel and his fine team at Cook DFW will

492
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.920
take care of you, the homeowner, with very, very gentle hands.

493
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I know because I've been in them. 833-COOK-DFW. That sound bad?

494
00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:44.140
Sounded bad.

495
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:50.500
833-COOK-DFW. Get that scheduled today. the website cook dfw.com.

496
00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:52.920
All right.

497
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.039
Well, I tell you what, let's, uh, let's completely shift

498
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:56.519
gears into some birthdays.

499
00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:56.960
What do you say?

500
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:03.099
Today is Thursday, October 15th, 2026. Let's celebrate today.

501
00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:03.559
With some birthdays.

502
00:29:12.630 --> 00:29:14.589
I am drawing a blank on this girl. Trey, you

503
00:29:14.630 --> 00:29:21.940
may bust out your phone. Um, Grace Van Dien, V-A-N-D-I-E-N.

504
00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:31.630
She's 30 today, and she played Chrissy Cunningham on Stranger Things.

505
00:29:31.769 --> 00:29:38.289
Her character's unforgettable scene with Vecna became a viral sensation. Okay,

506
00:29:38.650 --> 00:29:41.240
Chrissy was the one at the beginning. of season four

507
00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:44.599
that Vecna folded up. She was the first victim, uh,

508
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:46.839
in four where she got folded up in Eddie's trailer.

509
00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:49.700
That's who that is. Okay. Took me a second.

510
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:51.650
I was like, which character is Chrissy Cunningham?

511
00:29:51.670 --> 00:29:52.650
It's like, Oh yeah, Chrissy. Okay.

512
00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:55.450
She was the cheerleader from season four. So she is

513
00:29:55.450 --> 00:30:00.519
30 years old today. Um, I think there are some

514
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.940
people that didn't love season four and season five kind

515
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.640
of has some of its controversies, but there is no

516
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.960
mistaking that everyone remembered her death at the beginning of

517
00:30:13.029 --> 00:30:15.750
season four of stranger things. When all of her bones

518
00:30:15.769 --> 00:30:18.089
start popping in her eyes, get sucked into the back

519
00:30:18.130 --> 00:30:18.549
of her head.

520
00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:20.369
That was a shocking death.

521
00:30:22.650 --> 00:30:26.089
I thought stranger things was one of the better, better

522
00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:27.589
done shows in the last 20 years.

523
00:30:29.970 --> 00:30:32.329
The more I've, I've gone back and I've watched it

524
00:30:33.450 --> 00:30:39.690
twice and I watched the season five twice and the

525
00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:44.339
finale was, I think it was a little long, not

526
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:45.779
a little long, but there were a number of things,

527
00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:49.279
you know, they were just, I think unnecessarily long, but

528
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:50.460
you know, if that's the worst.

529
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:56.559
Thing, then so be it. Um, but overall it was

530
00:30:56.619 --> 00:30:57.059
pretty good.

531
00:30:57.690 --> 00:31:00.650
It wasn't majorly controversial the way, you know, the end

532
00:31:00.750 --> 00:31:03.990
of a Sopranos was, or like, what was it? Lost

533
00:31:04.049 --> 00:31:06.710
that people were, were really mad about the, the finale

534
00:31:06.779 --> 00:31:07.970
on that or game of Thrones.

535
00:31:08.019 --> 00:31:08.380
Jesus.

536
00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:12.039
Well, one of the things that I, I, I just

537
00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:17.339
fully appreciated with stranger things. So many series, especially now

538
00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:23.599
a game of Thrones lost suits. The, the, the last

539
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:24.680
season is a money grab.

540
00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:25.720
Yeah.

541
00:31:26.569 --> 00:31:30.819
And Umbrella Academy was another one. You know, great shows.

542
00:31:30.859 --> 00:31:33.279
And then they just really crapped the bed on the

543
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.220
last season. And I thought the, is it the Duffer Brothers?

544
00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:38.859
Yeah. Yeah.

545
00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:40.660
I mean, I thought they did a really good job

546
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:43.000
with it. You're never going to make everyone happy, but

547
00:31:43.099 --> 00:31:45.579
all in all, I, you know, it's not like I

548
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:47.740
sat back and like, God, I can't believe I wasted

549
00:31:48.069 --> 00:31:48.809
eight hours on that.

550
00:31:50.829 --> 00:31:51.730
Yeah, that is very true.

551
00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:55.849
Like, you didn't immediately turn it off and go, God,

552
00:31:55.890 --> 00:31:58.329
that was just trash and just whatever.

553
00:32:00.369 --> 00:32:02.029
I had a few notes, but all in all, it

554
00:32:03.049 --> 00:32:04.369
was all right. It was.

555
00:32:04.430 --> 00:32:06.970
You could definitely tell that there was some issues, you know,

556
00:32:07.009 --> 00:32:10.319
in the writing as far as, you know, there was

557
00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:13.079
one of the Duffer brothers, I think, got a divorce.

558
00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:16.619
And she was somebody that was helping write the show.

559
00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:18.579
So when she left, you kind of felt the influence.

560
00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:20.339
Oh, I did not know that.

561
00:32:20.829 --> 00:32:26.170
Yeah, that'll definitely throw a wrench into your season finale

562
00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:28.170
is when your marriage is ending to one of the

563
00:32:28.190 --> 00:32:29.190
people you also work with.

564
00:32:29.549 --> 00:32:30.309
Another reason why.

565
00:32:30.529 --> 00:32:34.430
Don't mix the stuff. It might be a little different

566
00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:36.509
if it's a marriage kind of a thing, but still

567
00:32:36.549 --> 00:32:37.170
that seems like.

568
00:32:38.869 --> 00:32:39.210
I don't know.

569
00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:39.990
It is Hollywood.

570
00:32:40.009 --> 00:32:44.930
Things are weird there. I work with my wife on

571
00:32:45.009 --> 00:32:48.349
certain things, but it's a very clear thing. It's like,

572
00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:51.309
with her job, she's the boss. I tell her like,

573
00:32:51.329 --> 00:32:52.670
you just tell me what you need me to do.

574
00:32:52.690 --> 00:32:55.569
And then I'll just go do that thing. Shut up, Trey.

575
00:32:58.950 --> 00:33:04.390
I didn't even have to say anything. I, I, I,

576
00:33:04.470 --> 00:33:08.210
I pummeled myself, uh, other birthdays today.

577
00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:08.809
Let's see. Okay.

578
00:33:08.829 --> 00:33:11.250
So Grace Van Dean is 30 from stranger thing. She

579
00:33:11.269 --> 00:33:11.869
played Chrissy.

580
00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:14.750
Um, it's just weird. My, I.

581
00:33:16.589 --> 00:33:20.319
Don't know how often you guys use, uh, like ai

582
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.740
whether it's chat gpt or claude or whatever sometimes it

583
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:25.680
changes things and i don't know why it does it

584
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.900
like it changed up my birthday's list here and now

585
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:30.400
i'm getting a bunch of people in here i've never

586
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.299
even heard of uh although genuine i know i recognize

587
00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:39.230
genuine genuine's 56 got to get on that pony dominic

588
00:33:39.289 --> 00:33:45.109
west is 57 play jimmy mcnulty on the wire He

589
00:33:45.150 --> 00:33:48.269
was also the bad guy in 300. He was the

590
00:33:48.329 --> 00:33:51.269
one that got the gold pieces to sell out the Spartans.

591
00:33:54.210 --> 00:33:59.450
Eric Benet is 60. This says it's, oh, I'm thinking

592
00:33:59.470 --> 00:34:03.670
of a different guy. So Eric Benet is 60. He's

593
00:34:03.710 --> 00:34:05.930
an R & B singer known for Spend My Life

594
00:34:05.970 --> 00:34:10.409
With You and Sometimes I Cry. What's the actor's name?

595
00:34:10.449 --> 00:34:14.389
He was from ER, Eric. but he was also the

596
00:34:14.409 --> 00:34:14.929
soul glow.

597
00:34:15.769 --> 00:34:16.409
Eric LaSalle.

598
00:34:17.190 --> 00:34:19.789
He was also the soul glow guy from coming to America.

599
00:34:19.829 --> 00:34:21.710
That's I saw the name. That's who I thought of.

600
00:34:24.530 --> 00:34:28.219
Emeril Lagasse. The bam chef is 67 today.

601
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:31.239
God, he looks old.

602
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:32.559
I don't know.

603
00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:35.019
He really does. I don't know if people remember.

604
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.119
I do.

605
00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:38.829
How big he got.

606
00:34:38.849 --> 00:34:39.829
Oh, yeah.

607
00:34:39.869 --> 00:34:43.820
I mean, not not just cooking show. Emeril was so big,

608
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:45.960
he had a sitcom.

609
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:50.639
Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. I mean, I

610
00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:53.570
don't remember how many. Yeah, I don't think it lasted

611
00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:55.090
more than a couple episodes.

612
00:34:55.710 --> 00:34:59.389
But I remember thinking, they gave this guy a sitcom

613
00:34:59.869 --> 00:35:02.909
based on being a chef and then a TV chef.

614
00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:07.489
It's crazy to think about now, just giving someone a

615
00:35:07.510 --> 00:35:09.659
sitcom based on no acting ability whatsoever.

616
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.000
But, you know, bam.

617
00:35:13.090 --> 00:35:13.230
Yeah.

618
00:35:13.269 --> 00:35:16.110
It's funny. You mentioned handing out sitcoms because I was

619
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:20.190
listening to Chuck Lorre was on Joe Rogan and talking

620
00:35:20.230 --> 00:35:26.889
about how sitcoms, you know, 20 years ago, even 10

621
00:35:26.889 --> 00:35:30.530
years ago were great. And now you don't see, you

622
00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:35.340
really don't see sitcoms anymore. They've become, and they were

623
00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:38.480
talking about how a lot of it with everything from

624
00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:42.849
the late teens, COVID, everything else has It's like people

625
00:35:43.190 --> 00:35:47.230
feel almost, it's like a guilty pleasure to laugh. And

626
00:35:47.250 --> 00:35:49.710
that everything has to be serious and meaning and everything else.

627
00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:51.010
And you just can't have stupid.

628
00:35:52.090 --> 00:35:52.309
Yeah.

629
00:35:53.070 --> 00:35:55.630
It's jokes are okay. It's okay to let go for

630
00:35:55.650 --> 00:36:01.260
a little bit. It's why we do this show. And

631
00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:03.380
it's interesting that, that some people like on the TV

632
00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:06.699
side of things, those things aren't as popular as they

633
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:08.800
used to be like the sitcom, because it used to

634
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:13.030
be the sitcoms. That was, I mean, I mean, think

635
00:36:13.050 --> 00:36:15.190
of all the classic shows we grew up with which

636
00:36:15.630 --> 00:36:18.090
owned the ratings. And then you might have one or

637
00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:21.750
two drama shows that might be in the mix. Let's

638
00:36:21.769 --> 00:36:23.570
just think back to something we all can remember, like

639
00:36:23.590 --> 00:36:28.900
the 90s. The 80s into the 90s was a beautiful

640
00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:33.019
heyday of sitcoms. You had great sitcoms. and then a

641
00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:35.800
couple of drama shows, and they were almost all really,

642
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:36.239
really good.

643
00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.099
But you're right.

644
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.110
Nowadays, it's like no sitcoms, and it's all scary, freaky

645
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.670
drama stuff, and some of it's just really just movies,

646
00:36:44.989 --> 00:36:45.829
but are on TV.

647
00:36:46.349 --> 00:36:52.789
Listen, I'll make an argument that the most viewed lineup

648
00:36:54.630 --> 00:36:58.070
was Thursday nights on NBC, and the mid-late 90s through

649
00:36:58.090 --> 00:37:06.449
the mid-2000s, because you had Friends, Cheers, I forgot all

650
00:37:06.469 --> 00:37:08.070
the other, but then you had ER.

651
00:37:08.230 --> 00:37:09.530
Also Frasier and ER.

652
00:37:09.550 --> 00:37:13.829
Frasier, yeah. But you had sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, drama.

653
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:20.699
And it was, they owned Thursday nights. You couldn't, the

654
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.559
other networks couldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole.

655
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.960
No, because I remember at one point on Thursday nights,

656
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.059
you would start with Friends at 7, and then 7.30

657
00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:30.920
might be like something else.

658
00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:31.579
I can't, like.

659
00:37:33.130 --> 00:37:34.650
I'm kind of drawing a blank there, but then like

660
00:37:34.750 --> 00:37:39.440
eight o'clock, Frasier maybe, and then 8.30 something else, and

661
00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:44.519
then ER. That's three hours of programming from seven to 10,

662
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:45.219
you were locked in.

663
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.909
I was in college for a lot of that, and

664
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.929
we literally, people would come over and we would cook out,

665
00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:56.030
but starting at seven o'clock, seven to 10, we were

666
00:37:56.090 --> 00:37:59.969
all eating and drinking and watching TV because it was

667
00:38:00.269 --> 00:38:04.739
literally must-see TV. Yeah. And it's not like you could

668
00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:08.860
tape it. Well, you probably could if you knew how

669
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.300
to operate a VCR, but it wasn't like it's on

670
00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.679
demand or anything else. So if you didn't see what happened,

671
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:16.739
chances are you weren't going to be able to see

672
00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.179
it until the summer reruns.

673
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:22.280
Right. They called that block the must-see TV.

674
00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:23.179
Yep.

675
00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:28.760
It says here NBC schedule in the mid-90s during the

676
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.360
peak of all of that was mad about you or friends,

677
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:38.730
depending upon your region. Wings, Seinfeld, Frasier, or Mad About You,

678
00:38:39.110 --> 00:38:41.349
and then ER or Law & Order.

679
00:38:42.030 --> 00:38:43.510
Seinfeld. That was the other.

680
00:38:43.570 --> 00:38:44.849
Yeah.

681
00:38:45.869 --> 00:38:46.230
I mean.

682
00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:48.130
You can't.

683
00:38:48.429 --> 00:38:51.730
Networks are paying billions of dollars to get one of

684
00:38:51.809 --> 00:38:53.630
those shows on their streaming platform.

685
00:38:53.690 --> 00:38:55.969
And on NBC on Thursday nights, they had them all.

686
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:02.280
A couple other birthdays I want to mention. I almost

687
00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:05.019
missed this one. Uh, it was a couple in here.

688
00:39:05.139 --> 00:39:05.320
Okay.

689
00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:08.539
Paul Walter Hauser is 40. This is a guy who's

690
00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:12.849
kind of up and coming. Um, he was, he played

691
00:39:12.949 --> 00:39:19.329
Richard Jewell. The, uh, the guy who was the FBI bomber.

692
00:39:19.989 --> 00:39:22.530
Yeah. Uh, he, yep.

693
00:39:22.590 --> 00:39:26.469
He was also in I Tanya Blackbird and Cobra Kai.

694
00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:29.750
He was like the heavier set Cobra Kai guy on the,

695
00:39:29.769 --> 00:39:32.630
on the TV series. He was also in the soccer

696
00:39:32.670 --> 00:39:39.139
movie with, um, um, Marky Mark that came out last year.

697
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:40.559
It was like a world cup.

698
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.260
Thing that he was in. And then he was also, God,

699
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.320
he's been in a lot of stuff recently. He was the,

700
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:51.440
he was, what's the movie? He was like the head

701
00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:55.440
of the mole people in, was it Quantumania or something? Anyway,

702
00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:57.199
he's done a lot of stuff. If you see his face,

703
00:39:57.219 --> 00:40:01.900
be like, oh, that guy. So Paul Walter Hauser is 40.

704
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:08.809
Vanessa Marcille is 58. She was Nick Cage's girlfriend in

705
00:40:08.849 --> 00:40:09.250
The Rock.

706
00:40:11.210 --> 00:40:11.989
Oh, okay.

707
00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:14.030
Yeah, see?

708
00:40:14.110 --> 00:40:16.369
She was also, at the time, she was a big

709
00:40:16.550 --> 00:40:18.610
soap opera star. I think she was on General Hospital.

710
00:40:20.099 --> 00:40:22.800
I watched that. The Rock was on the other day.

711
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.300
That still holds up.

712
00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:26.460
That movie's so freaking good.

713
00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:27.059
Yeah.

714
00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:33.110
Sorry, I was just venturing off into my brain, kind

715
00:40:33.139 --> 00:40:35.780
of watching it in my mind. It's just like, God,

716
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.550
The Rock is such a good movie. I have never

717
00:40:38.610 --> 00:40:38.909
seen it.

718
00:40:40.070 --> 00:40:40.329
What?

719
00:40:42.030 --> 00:40:42.269
Huh?

720
00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:47.250
Never seen it. You've never seen The Rock?

721
00:40:47.929 --> 00:40:48.050
Nope.

722
00:40:50.150 --> 00:40:51.110
I just got chills.

723
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:53.780
I'm dumbfounded.

724
00:40:56.579 --> 00:41:00.179
Jerry, it takes a lot to make me speechless and

725
00:41:00.219 --> 00:41:01.090
you almost did it.

726
00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:06.880
You should. Is there any reason why you haven't seen it?

727
00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:11.929
I never saw a preview that made it look interesting.

728
00:41:12.329 --> 00:41:14.190
I've heard a lot of people say good things about it, but.

729
00:41:15.630 --> 00:41:20.570
I mean, a Sean Connery is so. Freaking good. Like that's,

730
00:41:21.650 --> 00:41:24.199
and that was, and that was prime Nick, you know,

731
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:29.340
Nick cage. Uh, but Sean Connery at hair, like that,

732
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:31.179
that whole cast, it was just, it's so good.

733
00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:34.760
And I've recently gotten more of an appreciation for Nicholas cage.

734
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.349
I've always, I've always liked him, but I've really gotten

735
00:41:37.369 --> 00:41:40.429
appreciation for him here after a spider noir.

736
00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.869
Um, well, I think he, he, I mean, and he

737
00:41:43.889 --> 00:41:48.280
did it to himself. His career crapped the bed so hard,

738
00:41:48.579 --> 00:41:51.860
and he did such crap for a while that people

739
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.960
have forgotten that in the mid-late 90s, I mean, hell,

740
00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:57.849
going back to the late 80s with Raising Arizona, he

741
00:41:57.869 --> 00:41:59.409
was a bona fide star.

742
00:41:59.849 --> 00:42:00.610
Such a good movie.

743
00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:02.110
Yeah.

744
00:42:02.989 --> 00:42:03.769
Con Air.

745
00:42:05.650 --> 00:42:11.519
Dude made like $ 20 million for Con Air. Partly because

746
00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:18.449
The Rock was that good. Jerry, we have not done

747
00:42:18.489 --> 00:42:20.949
a live movie rewatch, partly because it's kind of hard

748
00:42:20.989 --> 00:42:25.250
to do it because of copyright and stuff, but I

749
00:42:25.289 --> 00:42:29.010
would love to watch you watch The Rock just to

750
00:42:29.090 --> 00:42:32.760
see if you enjoy it. I'll tell you right now, though,

751
00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:34.179
if you say you don't like it, I'll kill you.

752
00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:40.250
I would be shocked if you didn't like it.

753
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.699
No pressure. No pressure. If we want to do that,

754
00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:51.420
that's cool. I'll make sure to... No, just watch it.

755
00:42:52.179 --> 00:42:53.260
Put it in my watch list.

756
00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:56.929
Yeah, it's truly... It is.

757
00:42:58.809 --> 00:42:59.630
It is a good movie.

758
00:43:00.889 --> 00:43:02.789
That is an all-time guy flick.

759
00:43:03.309 --> 00:43:11.269
Yeah. And it's... Going back and watching it again, the chemistry,

760
00:43:11.789 --> 00:43:14.159
the way they played off each other between Sean Connery

761
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:15.019
and Nicolas Cage was.

762
00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:17.280
Was superb.

763
00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:25.349
We're here for you, Jerry. We'll form a little support group.

764
00:43:26.329 --> 00:43:28.889
And if need to, we'll tie you down clockwork orange style,

765
00:43:28.989 --> 00:43:31.190
put in the eye spreaders, and you will see the rock.

766
00:43:32.210 --> 00:43:34.190
What's amazing to me is not only how great of

767
00:43:34.230 --> 00:43:38.610
a movie that was, but it's one of the best

768
00:43:38.739 --> 00:43:42.739
lines in movie history that Sean Connery delivers.

769
00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:45.300
And you've never seen it in context, Jerry.

770
00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:47.199
Prom?

771
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:48.639
Uh-huh.

772
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.679
Yes, it is.

773
00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:56.019
Carla was the prom queen, and Carla is Vanessa Marcille,

774
00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:59.079
who is 58 today. Look at that full circle.

775
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:04.409
There you go. What do you have to do to

776
00:44:04.449 --> 00:44:05.989
get a double DWI?

777
00:44:10.010 --> 00:44:12.110
This is one of those stories that you would think

778
00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:17.449
is automatic Florida, and it actually is the opposite of Florida. Portsmouth,

779
00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:21.989
New Hampshire. A Portsmouth man was arrested twice in one

780
00:44:22.070 --> 00:44:25.710
night facing two DWI.

781
00:44:24.849 --> 00:44:26.010
Charges as a result.

782
00:44:27.550 --> 00:44:31.039
Tell me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire

783
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.000
without telling me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire.

784
00:44:35.340 --> 00:44:35.940
If you get a.

785
00:44:35.940 --> 00:44:39.079
DWI pretty much anywhere else, you're not going to be

786
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:41.239
in a car for at least a couple of days.

787
00:44:43.949 --> 00:44:46.929
If even less than six months. It's a Right.

788
00:44:46.949 --> 00:44:48.949
That's my first question. They just let him drive away

789
00:44:48.989 --> 00:44:50.730
after that? Or did he have to go home and

790
00:44:50.750 --> 00:44:52.090
acquire another vehicle?

791
00:44:53.230 --> 00:44:57.400
So Michael Stiles, 25, was intoxicated when he crashed into

792
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.760
a parked police cruiser around 10.15 p.m.

793
00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:02.579
On Monday.

794
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:07.400
That's according to the Portsmouth Police Department. Then he was

795
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.960
reportedly arrested and charged with a DWI and reckless conduct.

796
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:15.710
Police say he was later released on a personal recognizance bail.

797
00:45:16.789 --> 00:45:20.429
Three hours later, police say they responded to a separate

798
00:45:20.530 --> 00:45:23.710
incident where Stiles was again driving a car under the

799
00:45:23.769 --> 00:45:27.179
influence after his release, and he was again charged with

800
00:45:27.219 --> 00:45:30.960
a DWI as a breach of bail misdemeanor. He's now

801
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:32.559
being held without bail.

802
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.079
That is, when you hear about cashless bail and stuff

803
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:42.369
like that, that is exactly what that stuff is. And

804
00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:45.570
the other thing is, typically in most places, If you

805
00:45:45.630 --> 00:45:48.130
are arrested for DWI, you are going to be held

806
00:45:48.210 --> 00:45:50.530
until they think the alcohol has gotten out of your

807
00:45:50.570 --> 00:45:53.039
system and you are no longer intoxicated.

808
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:53.980
Yeah.

809
00:45:54.860 --> 00:46:00.000
This one, I mean, that is a quick in and

810
00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:04.019
out in a jail. I mean, that's basically they fingerprinted you,

811
00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:06.000
processed you, and you are out the door.

812
00:46:06.619 --> 00:46:06.860
Mm-hmm.

813
00:46:07.710 --> 00:46:10.269
This sounds like a story that would have happened in

814
00:46:10.309 --> 00:46:12.730
like the 70s or the 80s where you get pulled

815
00:46:12.829 --> 00:46:15.480
over for a DWI or reckless driving and they're.

816
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.760
Like, all right, don't do that again. You good? Yeah,

817
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:18.139
I'm good.

818
00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:20.340
I promise, sir. Okay, we'll see you later. And then

819
00:46:20.380 --> 00:46:22.079
you actually do see him a few hours later because

820
00:46:22.099 --> 00:46:25.059
they get into another wreck. That doesn't sound like anything

821
00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:27.880
that would happen in 2026.

822
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:29.480
Well, 76? Sure.

823
00:46:31.619 --> 00:46:34.019
Think about what happens if this had been more serious

824
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:36.340
and he had hurt somebody on that second.

825
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:36.519
Oh, yeah.

826
00:46:38.269 --> 00:46:38.670
I forget.

827
00:46:39.329 --> 00:46:41.820
Did did I show you guys the video or have

828
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:44.840
you seen it? It was from WFAA, I think, in

829
00:46:44.860 --> 00:46:48.940
the early 80s where they were talking about the crackdown

830
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:53.139
on drinking while driving laws. So Texas didn't really have

831
00:46:53.179 --> 00:46:55.920
much of one. And then they were talking to drivers

832
00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:58.960
driving by saying, hey, what do you think about these

833
00:46:59.019 --> 00:47:02.099
new laws in Texas outlawing drinking while driving? And there's

834
00:47:02.139 --> 00:47:04.280
a guy in there is like, man, I don't like

835
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.989
it as he's taking a hit of Old Milwaukee or something.

836
00:47:08.010 --> 00:47:10.010
He's like, man, I get done with work. I want

837
00:47:10.030 --> 00:47:11.219
to have a couple of beers.

838
00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:12.010
I'm an adult.

839
00:47:12.139 --> 00:47:13.619
I should be able to have a couple of beers

840
00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:18.519
on the way home from work. Not anymore. Straight to

841
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:19.219
jail you go.

842
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:20.360
Mm-hmm.

843
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:21.139
No.

844
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.119
I believe he's smoking a cigarette in that clip, too.

845
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:26.679
He's multitasking.

846
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:30.059
Uh-huh. Yeah. All right, listen.

847
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.539
He's probably got a kid hanging out in the back windshield, too.

848
00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:39.869
Things you can't You can't accurately convey to younger generation

849
00:47:40.610 --> 00:47:46.250
of there was a time it was not– you did

850
00:47:46.309 --> 00:47:49.130
not have to wear a seatbelt. You could drive around

851
00:47:49.210 --> 00:47:53.719
with a drink. Parents smoked in the car and trying

852
00:47:53.739 --> 00:47:56.860
to understand that, hey, you would climb into the space

853
00:47:57.260 --> 00:48:00.679
where the back window slanted down between the back seat

854
00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:02.820
and the back window to get away from your parents

855
00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:04.699
whipping your ass. Yeah.

856
00:48:05.699 --> 00:48:09.400
All of that combined with, and the windows are all up.

857
00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:14.699
Yeah. Or old cars that had the smoking window.

858
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.519
The little vent.

859
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000
The little notch.

860
00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:25.139
And then if you really did misbehave and you hid

861
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.539
into that back windshield of the car, and then your

862
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:29.980
parents smoked, and what do they do?

863
00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:32.340
If you wedged your, yeah, they would hit the brakes.

864
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.369
Yes. but if you wedged yourself in there good enough

865
00:48:35.969 --> 00:48:40.050
and the brakes didn't dislodge you, did this ever happen

866
00:48:40.090 --> 00:48:43.190
to you? They would take the cigarette lighter, they'd push

867
00:48:43.250 --> 00:48:45.280
it in and then just go on down the road.

868
00:48:45.380 --> 00:48:47.059
And then when it popped back out, they'd pull it

869
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:47.840
and flick it at you.

870
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:51.500
No, not even.

871
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:51.590
Oh.

872
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:57.889
All right, Jerry, you're back up on the adoption process.

873
00:48:58.449 --> 00:49:01.960
Um, Just me? Okay.

874
00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:04.260
My dad just would pull over on the side of

875
00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:06.820
the road. I got my ass whipped on I-30 one time.

876
00:49:09.309 --> 00:49:14.690
While he was smoking and drinking. Ah, the good old

877
00:49:14.730 --> 00:49:16.869
days when we were raised with character.

878
00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:18.440
Mm-hmm.

879
00:49:19.019 --> 00:49:21.380
You're like 12 years old. Your dad's like holding you

880
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.179
by one foot.

881
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:23.440
Just smacking you on the side.

882
00:49:24.579 --> 00:49:28.130
So here's another little thing people don't realize. A lot

883
00:49:28.150 --> 00:49:29.590
of the older cars didn't have cup holders.

884
00:49:31.110 --> 00:49:33.150
Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't see a cup holder until

885
00:49:33.989 --> 00:49:34.139
the 90s.

886
00:49:34.130 --> 00:49:34.230
Mm-mm.

887
00:49:36.210 --> 00:49:38.010
That was one of the greatest things in sliced bread

888
00:49:38.050 --> 00:49:40.809
when something showed up. It was one cup holder in

889
00:49:40.829 --> 00:49:44.590
the console. That was the greatest thing ever. Yeah, so

890
00:49:44.949 --> 00:49:48.090
this is what it would look like. You would have

891
00:49:48.329 --> 00:49:50.789
in the left hand, this is the driver. So dad's driving, right?

892
00:49:50.809 --> 00:49:53.429
Because very rare mom drove, especially if dad was around,

893
00:49:53.550 --> 00:49:55.110
unless he had just drank so much and then they

894
00:49:55.130 --> 00:49:59.719
had to switch. So he's got the cigarette between the

895
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:03.099
index and the middle finger while holding the beer with

896
00:50:03.340 --> 00:50:04.380
the other two fingers.

897
00:50:04.619 --> 00:50:05.679
That's the left hand.

898
00:50:08.139 --> 00:50:12.159
The knee would be steering, and the other foot would

899
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:14.820
be on the gas or brake pedal, leaving the right

900
00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:20.010
hand free to reach and beat you while driving. That

901
00:50:20.139 --> 00:50:22.309
is what it was like to grow up in the 80s.

902
00:50:24.230 --> 00:50:25.630
I called it vacation elbow.

903
00:50:25.650 --> 00:50:33.869
It's like you'd be trying to hide in the back windshield.

904
00:50:34.269 --> 00:50:36.469
They'd slam on the brakes, and your dad just sticks

905
00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:40.380
his arm out, and they'd clothesline you with the people's

906
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:42.219
elbow as you fly to the front.

907
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:46.559
The other variation is they would get that extra six

908
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:48.300
inches on the arm, and they could just reach back

909
00:50:48.340 --> 00:50:50.380
and just smack wherever you were in the car, and

910
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.619
they would just find you.

911
00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:58.409
I think they designed cars purposely for that purpose was

912
00:50:58.429 --> 00:51:02.719
so that parents still had enough reach to reach the

913
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:05.400
kid in the back seat, so the car wasn't too long.

914
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:07.840
That was the difference.

915
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:11.179
Once the Suburban came along and the kid could hide

916
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:12.940
all the way in the back where the parent couldn't

917
00:51:12.980 --> 00:51:15.550
reach them, that's when all the kids got too soft.

918
00:51:18.030 --> 00:51:18.429
I don't know.

919
00:51:18.469 --> 00:51:20.650
There was quite a bit of distance between that front

920
00:51:20.670 --> 00:51:23.150
seat and the back in a 78 Oldsmobile.

921
00:51:25.510 --> 00:51:27.849
Well, see, that's why, to me, that was the grandparents' car.

922
00:51:27.889 --> 00:51:29.289
They could get away with it because it was very

923
00:51:29.349 --> 00:51:31.949
rare that they were going to get you. But it

924
00:51:31.989 --> 00:51:34.110
also meant you had more distance to travel when they

925
00:51:34.150 --> 00:51:35.829
hit the brakes and you flew to the front.

926
00:51:36.469 --> 00:51:41.159
There was that. Oh, man.

927
00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:44.800
I think it was cell phones because when cell phones

928
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.659
came out, then people could call in when you're watching

929
00:51:47.699 --> 00:51:49.460
someone with their child on the side of the road

930
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:51.099
and go, hey, there's child abuse.

931
00:51:53.139 --> 00:51:54.449
Back in the 70s, you drove by and it's like,

932
00:51:54.469 --> 00:52:00.820
I wonder what he did. stick your head out get

933
00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:01.840
him for me.

934
00:52:04.139 --> 00:52:06.420
You're right it really does take a village to beat

935
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:08.559
a child yeah.

936
00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:12.199
This is great.

937
00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:14.199
Marshall in the chat mom always used a fly swatter

938
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.750
handle on me from the front seat the metal handles See,

939
00:52:17.769 --> 00:52:19.829
that's the difference. When someone says I was beat with

940
00:52:19.869 --> 00:52:22.199
a fly swatter, the kids today would think, oh, my God,

941
00:52:22.219 --> 00:52:22.889
that's terrible.

942
00:52:23.219 --> 00:52:25.820
They hit you with the flappy part? No. They hit

943
00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:26.219
us with.

944
00:52:26.139 --> 00:52:34.659
The metal part. The flappy part would come off. Kids

945
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.989
today just don't know. Linda, the good old days of roadies.

946
00:52:39.230 --> 00:52:39.469
Mm-hmm.

947
00:52:39.909 --> 00:52:47.579
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And yet somehow we survived, and here we are.

948
00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.400
And not only that, but we all wax poetic about

949
00:52:51.420 --> 00:52:53.400
it and feel nostalgic about it in some way.

950
00:52:53.420 --> 00:52:56.929
I know, right? It's sort of a trauma bond. We

951
00:52:56.949 --> 00:52:58.409
all turned out just fine, didn't we?

952
00:52:59.010 --> 00:53:00.690
Yeah, did you ever have that time where you were

953
00:53:00.730 --> 00:53:02.809
hiding from your parents in the back windshield, and then

954
00:53:02.829 --> 00:53:04.389
you blinked, and all of a sudden you were in

955
00:53:04.409 --> 00:53:05.340
the front windshield?

956
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:10.360
Tangled up in the gap between the two seats in

957
00:53:10.380 --> 00:53:16.699
the front.

958
00:53:16.969 --> 00:53:23.929
When the front seat feels like a turnbuckle. And we

959
00:53:23.949 --> 00:53:26.349
could do that because you didn't have rear seat belts.

960
00:53:28.070 --> 00:53:29.969
Well, that's the only reason the parents had such reach.

961
00:53:30.010 --> 00:53:31.849
They didn't have front seat belts. Or if they did,

962
00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:32.789
they were just lap belts.

963
00:53:33.550 --> 00:53:34.909
You know.

964
00:53:36.670 --> 00:53:39.349
Seatbelts were a big inconvenience because they really restricted your

965
00:53:39.369 --> 00:53:39.949
range of motion.

966
00:53:43.889 --> 00:53:44.409
Let's go.

967
00:53:44.429 --> 00:53:50.730
I'll say what I think. Marshall talked about extension cords. Yes,

968
00:53:50.789 --> 00:53:52.710
they were. The other thing that was used to whip

969
00:53:53.409 --> 00:53:56.030
phone cords, the phone cords that went from the wall

970
00:53:56.110 --> 00:53:56.690
to the phone.

971
00:53:57.409 --> 00:53:57.590
Yep.

972
00:53:59.409 --> 00:54:02.639
Those are made differently today than they were back then.

973
00:54:02.659 --> 00:54:04.440
They don't even make them anymore.

974
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.409
And this is why, because so many kids were beat

975
00:54:07.429 --> 00:54:08.070
to death with them.

976
00:54:12.369 --> 00:54:14.760
The cord from the wall to the phone was too dangerous.

977
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:16.699
All right.

978
00:54:16.739 --> 00:54:18.659
Thanks for hanging out with us, guys. We will see

979
00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:22.159
you next week right here inside the treehouse.