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Episode 66: The Von Erichs are Back! · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. Time to leave your worries outside. Join me Daniel
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Malley, Trade Trenholm and Raj Sharma as we set out on our adventure to
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make your day just a little bit better. It's a good thing about this
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show, and this is something I truly believe. No matter if you're having
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a crap day or even a great day, coming inside this treehouse for just
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a little while, we'll still make that day better. And if you don't
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believe, just ask the Christmas tree that just turned on as I said that.
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That was amazing. I was like, am I seeing that? Because
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I'm like, I'm just drinking water, but that was incredible. I think
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we should take that as a as a sure sign that Jesus approves of what
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I just said. Yeah, it's either that or the scorpion walk buying clipped
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the plug and it's like Merry Christmas and then it's coming towards you as we
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speak. That also is possible. Yeah, I mean it's I mean,
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they do have those pinchures. They can probably grab boards and plug them in,
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unplug them type of stuff. So if you're curious as to what Raj
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is talking about and any sort of an adventure that I may or may not
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have had with a scorpion. Then that is your clue to join the Treehouse
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Plus program, where, for a mere five dollars a month on patreon dot
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com slash treehouse on area, you can hear about my misadventure where I go
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mano a mano with a scorpion. M as much as I'd love to,
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you know, it involved a Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movie Commando's Style preparation scene
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where I'm smearing the black across my forearms and my face and I'm getting ready
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to take on an entire army. It's not nearly that cool, but we
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can all. We can all dream. Yeah, hopefully it was Mono a
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mono, because if it was Monoa female and she was pregnant, then you
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got a bunch of little scorpions running around there. They are probably under the
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tile. Oh Jesus, what are baby scorpions called? Because I know spider
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like spider babies are spider lings that I know. I don't know if it's
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scorpion lings or or I think that I think the term is an assholes.
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It is possible. I don't know. I didn't I didn't take the time
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to ask, you know, like, hey, what are your children called?
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But I think it's safe to say that most offspring of most species at
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some point or another has been referred to as asshole. Certain certainly human,
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but on the superhero side of my brain, Like I imagine when you sprayed
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it with the stuff and then you left it outside, the chemicals combined with
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the sun and the air of the islands has turned it into one giant fing
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scorpion that knows where you live. Are you trying to say that the scorpion
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that I had the encounter with may have joined with four other scorpions to create
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a scorpion Voltron? Correct? That is both terrifying and awesome. It gets
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me right in estalgia? Yeah, like that's where he plants this thing yet,
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is right? Noia? Yeah? God, I love that show Growing
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Up Voltron so bad. And then there what was the other one that was
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with the guy who would like had the little thing and then he would become
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like he would be huge and silver he had the little that wasn't Voltron?
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That was Yeah, that was the one with the animals that all turned into
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one was what was the Vultron? Was the ships? Well? There was
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that I thought you were talking about. Was it Gungan? No? What
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was the one when he had the little the little clicker thing. It was
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like a little Japanese guy and then he would be huge and like in a
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silver suit with the nobody. I have to love this up. Now you
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guys carry on Voltrons the species of jar jar binks. That's terrible. Yeah,
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I know it's on the It's on the tip of my tongue. Yeah.
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Voltron was all the Yeah, Vultron is all the animals, the tigers
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or the jaguars or whatever they were. They would form him vultron beast king.
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What was the one you're saying it was a vultron beast king? Yes,
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mm hmm, yeah, well if you can see it, yeah,
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Jesus Christ being sucks. Yes? Is that is that what you have to
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use on the island? Is bing? That's what it's just. It's it's
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my stupid computer's like first thing that it goes to. Gundam. That's what
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Gundam, that's what it's called. Does that not ring a bell to yaj
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No? It was hold on, I'll find it. I'm guessing Trey,
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you're just completely in the dark. On this and wondering what sort of nerd
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anime thing we're talking about. I vaguely remember Voltron. Uh uh, I
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remember G fours. Yeah, that was where they had the little planes I
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think, and then they formed the big one. I don't know. Teamwork
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was a big was a big theme running throughout the eighties. It's like,
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Okay, we're all gonna come together as one kind of power rangers. Did
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I think they did that as well. They became one big power ranger.
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I don't remember clearly. We're off into an area where we're not very There's
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there's somebody listening that remembers what I'm talking about. But he was like it
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was a dude, and when he needed to fight off whatever he needed to
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fight off, he had a little clicker thing and he would push down on
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it and he would turn in this giant silver dude like with a helmet like.
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I can't remember the name of it, but that was dope. I
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love that thing anyway. Yeah, for some reason, I have no idea
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the one that you're talking about. If I saw it, i'd probably recognize
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it. Yeah. Yeah, if somebody's listening and remember that, email me
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or whatever. Email the show I feel like this has been like seven minutes,
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just absolutely wasted speaking of our age, but both in what we remember
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and what we don't. Yeah, that actually is pretty accurate. It's like,
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hey, remember this thing when we were kids that was really cool.
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It's like kinda but not really. So some of us are going like,
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I know that thing that was cool, and then the rest of us are
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like, kinda, but I don't remember it. You're right, that's the
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sweet spot of aging out of things. I remember something cool from my youth,
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but not very not very well. This segment of the Treehouse maybe not
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things, speaking of things making a resurgence, obviously our memories are not one
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of them. But while it's still fresh in Raj's brain. I saw that
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the other day. You got a good look at the Von Erics because I
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guess you went to the eight w Wrestling event the other day. Yeah,
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you know, it's weird. It's one of those weird things how comedy works.
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And you get to be friends with people you got to watch growing up.
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And so I'm friends with a lot of these wrestlers and they were in
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town. So I hit him up and I was like, Hey, let's
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come to the show. So we went and it was also the big promo
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for it was the Von Erics return to Dallas, and I was like,
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that's amazing. And it was Kevin van Erk and his sons, Marshall and
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Ross that were coming back. And they did a little promo at the thing.
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It was behind the you know, it was behind the scenes. They
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just had him on the JumboTron. But it was really cool to see them,
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you know, back in Dallas. And at one point they get approached
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by another wrestler and they're like, hey, help, you know, have
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this three three way match tonight. So why don't you two guys his two
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sons, why don't you team up with me and we'll wrestle these guys,
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and I was like, Oh, this is gonna be great. And I
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didn't realize how much nostalgia was gonna happen, right, and uh, I
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knew it was going to be the first There's two segments. One's called Dynamite,
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one's called Rampage, and it was Rampage and the first set of three
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wrestlers come out. I can't remember there there's Jack Hagger and then I think
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it's Young Bucks that came out, and then Stranglehold by Ted Newtan starts playing,
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which was Kevin's old music from back in the day, and I literally
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got choked up. Oh, because yeah, I grew up. I grew
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up watching them, right. So we would go to this sportatorym like it
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was down like fifteen minutes from the house. So we would go to the
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Sportatorium all the time. And was there for the you know, David von
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Eeric memorial thing that they did at Texas Stadium was in both years, and
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his sons came out, uh, Marshall and Ross and it was just cool
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to see because it was Marshall I think is the oldest, I believe,
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and Ross is the youngest. Could it could be whatever, but uh,
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it was really nice, like he's a big like Marshall's is a big dude,
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like he's David David Vonn And most people don't realize it was like six
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seven six eight Jesus. Yeah, it was a big fellow. Uh.
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And he came out like they came out. It was. It was very
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reminiscent of like back in the day. Uh. And it was just really
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neat to see like that because just the tragedy of that family and then to
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see them come back into the wrestling fold it And they said this time I
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believe I thought I heard Irving, Texas, but they used to be from
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Denton, Texas. How they were, Uh. Last I remember watching a
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documentary on them a couple of years ago, and Kevin was living in Hawaii
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and basically had distanced himself from all things wrestling, but I didn't, and
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that they did say show his two sons were wrestling. I think they were
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like over in Japan or whatever. And he was very like you could tell
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he wasn't thrilled about it, but he also knew it was in their blood
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and there really wasn't a lot he could do about it. Yeah, I
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know that they sold their house in Hawaii, and I think that I think
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that there. I think they were been signed with AW full time and that's
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gonna be amazing if that happens. Well, honestly, the timing couldn't be
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better because they've got the movie coming out soon called The Iron Claw starring Zach
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Effron and some other folks and I when we were in town, Tara and
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I went and saw a movie and they had the trailer for it before the
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you know, our main feature, and the trailer looks phenomenal. Yes,
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they are like Oscar talk for Zach Efron for I believe he's Kevin, but
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yeah, it's a it was. Yeah the documentary that you talk, well,
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like they sold their house they're saying, I think either Denton, Texas
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or Irving, Texas. But they're here now, and I thin get with
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AW. I thought it was the same thing then, like it maybe just
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a part like to coincide with the movie releasing on December twenty second, which
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even that would be great. But I will say, like just watching them,
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like Marshall has he's got it, like the thing that they had,
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Yeah, the thing that they have, that thing, whatever that thing is,
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Uh, he's got it. Based on the movie trailer, it's it's
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abuse. He's got it. What's called it's called it's called abuse fueled talent.
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Well, they have a lot in coming with the Jackson Fife. So
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well, if you think about all those quot unquote great families, there's uh,
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there's always that. There's always almost always the dad. It's almost always
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it. Sometimes it might be a mom, but just almost always a dad
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who's pushing the family. Whether it's like the Venus and Serena Williams, whether
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it's and their dad or Tiger Woods's dad, Yes, von Eric's dad,
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the Jackson family, I mean, Jesus Kennedy's, I mean, all these
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great families, the Kennedy's, that's that's a nice one. Yeah, I
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know, I just just never put them in the like, I just can't
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see the Kennedy's whooping the same ass as like Joe Sins of the Father.
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Well, clearly you've never gone to any uh prep school New England prep school
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backyard wrestling events, maybe more accurately would be h New England prep school pe
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nuckle battles. Yeah, that's what that's why I see. It's like I
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don't understand, like Uh, you know, no caveat for you today.
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Son. It's like, oh I hate you Dad, and Joe Jackson is
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like hitting a kid with a bass guitar. They messed up the words to
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a song. That's a different kind of abuse. But yeah, I mean
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that that's that whole family and it's just the you know that the tragic but
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he's the kids got it. And then Ross, who's the other one,
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wants it like he he wants like he wants. He's got the he's got
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the size and the skill, but it's the charisma that comes with it,
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like it's the yeah, like he like your I immediately went to Marshall van
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Eric and he was he put on a they both all put on a great
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show. And at the end, like there was a there was a little
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uh tom foolery and shenanigans that happened at the end and that forced our men,
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Kevin van Eric to come out at the end. Uh and uh they
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all three administered the vicious claw. Uh and that was yeah, that was
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just like the cool you mentioned getting chills earlier. Hearing you say that all
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three administered that the iron claw actually got a chill. Yeah, yeah,
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does Marshall have you you say the it factor, like of the van Eric
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Carrey was the only one that really had the it factor as far as translating
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into national stardom. Yes, he was the only one that was ever even
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for w CCW. Who's the only one that was the heavyweight champion out of
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all the brothers And uh, he he's got it. He's got He's got
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David's height, so he's like six, Like he's taller than his dad.
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So he's like six six ish, blonde hair, big, super athletic.
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Russell's barefoot like his uh, like his old man. Uh. And at
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one point there was a great if you knew you knew, Like there was
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a little tribute kind of thing to all the brothers. Right, So at
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one point Marshall does the flying clothesline into the corner, which was Kevin's move.
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Uh. And he's fighting somebody else in the ring and he does the
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discus punch, which was Carrie's closing move. Uh. And then at the
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end they do the claw, which David was known to was after Fritz.
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David was the first one to do it. Uh. And so it was
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kind of an homage like if you knew was that? And like I again
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right there, I got choked up again. I was like, ah,
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man, that was awesome to watch, and I felt really bad because you
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know, it's a generational thing because when they announced them one air, it's
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like half the audience went bananas, and I remember the other half. I
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could hear the kids around us going like, who's that And it's just because
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you know, they've been gone for so long and all the I mean except
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for Kevin, everybody else is dead. So it is one of those things
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that I hope that this generation, like his two kids, bring that like
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popularity of what they contributed to this sport because you know, say what you
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want to say, but that guy, I mean WCCW out of Dallas,
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out of the Sportatorium, that Dungee Little whatever it was, was global,
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like they went like worldwide. So but yeah, it was just super cool
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to see that. I don't know if they'll ever do it again. I
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haven't seen them on any other lineups. They're gonna be in Oklahoma City next
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week, so I might go watch that one, but uh, the Vonns
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aren't listed on that one. You know. The thing it really just cracked
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me up about the old WCCW and this supportatorium. Is you want to talk
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about something that you could not do today because it played on every yeah,
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every racial stereotype. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
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Uh And if you go back and watch the old footage, like just people
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like chain smoking while people are trying to like people are trying to wrestle,
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they're just like throwing beer on people and then ordering another one. There's like
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a guy who's just coming through with like a milk crate full of styrofoam cup
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beers, and people like the smoking, and then like the von Aras would
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come to the ring that women would like make out with them, Like I
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think it's not Mark Lance, but Kevin man Kevin David Manning was the old
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referee, and they uh interviewed him and he's like, I haven't. He's
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like they had more sex walking to the ring than I've ever had in my
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life. I'm also surprised back in those days, and maybe they did,
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but I just didn't see it that they didn't actually use the lit cigarettes in
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the ring, like like put it out in somebody's eyeball or something. Yeah,
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that's it, so okay, So that's a different Like I don't understand
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even the even the planning of wrestling. What do you have to because you
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know, I asked these guys, you know, wrestling's fake. I'm like,
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okay, well you you take a barbed wire back to the face and
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you tell me if it's a make or not. Like they just know they're
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going to do it. And I've sat there before and I've talked to these
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guys and I'm like, so, what what's it like. It's like,
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oh, yeah, we just meet up in the afternoon, we go over
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the match and I'm like, okay, so you're like, hey, so
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I'm going to kick you in the nuts at some point, and they're like,
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yeah, sounds good. And then I'm gonna stab you in the head
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with a fork. It's like, all right, sounds good. All right,
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lunch, like how do you do? Like what what? Like what
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is the like It's like, right now, that's not typical office place water
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cooler. Yeah, I'm sure there were people going, hey, so why
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don't you do this? Like why don't you grab the guy's cigarette and then
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you know, just jab it in my forehead And then somebody had to go,
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okay, guys, we can't go that far, like you just got
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you stick to the barbed wire and setting them on fire. But we can't
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actually just put a cigarette butt out on somebody and don't forget you know that
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one of their big is they carried razor blades on it and then cut themselves.
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Yeah, yeah, you go. A lot of the old wrestlers,
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their foreheads they're just it's it looks like a UFC fighter's ear. I mean,
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they're just scar tissue. Yeah. Yeah. Well I was at uh.
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I was a match here for a WU a year and a half ago,
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and my buddy Lance Archer was fighting John Moxley and it was a barb
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wire match and there was barboire everywhere and again when I bring up the fork,
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at some point a fork just came out of John Moxley's but he started
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stabbing my buddy in the head. So I asked him the next day,
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Wait, he pulled out of his boot, right, Yeah, pulled a
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fork. Okay, for a second, I thought you said, okay,
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no, that would be hilarious. But also don't say that now because somebody's
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gonna hear this and go to somebody in the a's like, pull out of
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your butt, and they're like, sounds good, but out of his boot
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and started and I asked Lance. I was like, how did that conversation
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start? He just goes, Moxley walked in as I was lacing on my
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boots and goes, I'm going to use this, and Lence goes all right,
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and then he just walked out like he didn't say how, he didn't
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say what he was gonna do. It didn't sound like he was asking permission.
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He just says, I'm going to use this, yeah, and uh.
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And the best part is that we were at Bluefish having sushi and I'm
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talking and I forget people don't know what it. So he's done the same
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thing where he's cut himself repeatedly, and then there's just fork. I mean
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just you can see where he's been stabbed in the head multiple times of the
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fork and we're ordering sushi and the guy who's taking our order just keeps staring
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at his head and I go, uh, and because we were laughing and
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cutting up and whatever, and I just looked at him and go, hey,
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man, you're bleeding from one of the fork stabs and the gun and
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I said it out loud and the guy just kind of looks at me,
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like, what did you guys get into before you guys got the bluefish at
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the galleria. You should have you should have gone. That's why I were
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eating sushi because they can't trust him with forks stick on the meal. You're
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It is not lost on me that our Treehouse resident wrestling expert is a first
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generation Indian immigrant Hindu from Gonna. Yeah, my mom were the backstory to
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it real fast before I share my joy because I found something and my mom
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worked the er overnight at Mesqie Community Hospital. So instead of taking whenever the
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wrestlers got injured at this pontorium, instead of taking them to Baylor which was
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right across the street. All the fans would show up for Baylor, assuming
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they would be there, they would take them to Mesquite Community. So my
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mom bandaged all these guys up. So she was literally known as the mean
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Indian Lady because she was how was she had got a character at the sportatorium
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making making appearances, she would have been she would have been so mad.
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She would have she would have beat everybody with the shoe. There would have
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been nothing fake or planned about that. She would have whooped everybody's ass with
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her shoe, all five foot three. And I remember it was Again it
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sounds weird, but Roddy Roddy Piper started doing stand up in LA at the
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same time I had moved, and so we would be at the comedy store
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and we got to be friends, and I was just like, hey,
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you came through and did that circuit and like, yeah, did you ever
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know you got hurt and you had to go? Do you ever go to
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Mesquite Community Hospital? He's like, yeah, A couple of times. Normally
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I would go to Baylor, and he liked it because he would sign autographs
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on the way and like his head's bleeding and he's just signing autographs looks cool.
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Did you ever meet the because I've known a couple of wrestlers that were
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like the mean Indian lady and He's like, yes, she hated us,
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and I was like, yeah, that's my mom, so Yeahanna. Her
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favorite was David Vonnier. He was the most polite Dan. I would like
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to point out, though, in your intro of you know that our wrestling
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expert is first generation Indian Hindu, you know, and all that makes it
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sound you know, and then you said from Mesquite, which then you go,
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yeah, okay, well of course he would be at wrestling expert.
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That's why I had to make sure to include it, because all the things
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preceding it don't add up. Once you say from Mesquite, then everyone's like,
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ah, now I get it. It makes sense. What that shows
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you is the power of Mesquite and and and the pull and the influence it
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can have on on many a young children. My first job, my first
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job was at the Mesquite Rodeo. It was my first job. It sounds
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like at least like concessions. I was your I don't know about the wrestling
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expert, but you two my friends. I don't like to brag about certain
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things. But you guys are staring at the four time uh number one Freedo
25:36
pie salesman at the Mesquite Rodeo four weeks in a row. Your boy here
25:42
sold the most Freedo pies out of anybody in concessions? Did that really take
25:48
skill? Selling Freedo pie at the rodeo and Mesquite? How hard it is
25:52
to sell week old chili? Yes, it was the same chili from the
25:56
like if we don't if we didn't finish it, we just put it in
26:00
the vat and into the freezer. I just assumed it was the like the
26:03
meat in the chili was from the bowl that didn't do so well the week
26:06
before. I wouldn't be surprised or the rider, Look I would, I
26:10
wouldn't be Uh yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Yeah, it
26:17
was. It was great. I sold the popcorn when we would sell,
26:22
our manager will go if they come back and just give them their money,
26:23
I'm like, is it that bad? They're like, you don't want to
26:26
eat it? Like it was just there. However long the season, Like
26:29
they popped that popcorn once and then however long the season went. Is how
26:33
long those boxes stayed up there, and then the next year is when they
26:37
would same same cheese. Like they if we didn't finish the nacho chase,
26:41
they poured it right back in the container, back in the freezer. Uh.
26:45
And then it was the next week you had to set it out the
26:47
thaw and then you put it in the chafing dish and let it bubble.
26:51
Uh. Yeah, but four weeks in a row, and I got to
26:53
really help that. They've made improvements since then as well, But I will
27:00
I will tell you. They did give me a twenty five dollars gift card
27:03
to Don Gay's Steakhouse. Let me tell you. Yeah, let me tell
27:07
you what that bought you back then. Uh, not a goddamn thing.
27:11
I didn't get you anything, like nothing. I think I got a glass
27:15
of water. But I did get to be dumb Gay, which was hilarious
27:21
because that was the first time I was taller than anybody. Does that say,
27:23
he's like II five Yeah, if that, I will be five to
27:29
five with his cowboy boots on. So you take off the three in cheels.
27:32
He's like, it's like Prince was he five to one or was he
27:34
four ten? Like, let's be honest. Prince was technically a little person.
27:41
He technically was like he wore six in cheals and don gay like you
27:45
doing a great job selling free pass. I was like, is this what
27:48
opportunity is? Free? There's no photo. I don't know what we're doing.
27:51
Did word get back to you? I know what it was? Or
27:53
it was like to boost morale? And I was just like, I'm taller
27:56
than this fellow, all right. I felt like I was like, there's
28:00
hope for me in the NFL yet if he's a champion ball rider, I'm
28:03
playing for the Cowboys. He gave me hope in a twenty five dollars gift
28:08
card. That's what I. Oh God. But to go back to the
28:14
beginning of the segment, at the beginning of the first segment, when I
28:18
was talking about like giant dude, silver guy with the helmet, Yeah found
28:22
him. Uh it was. His name is Kiodi Hero, which translates in
28:30
Japanese to giant Hero, or as we called him here, Ultraman. Oh.
28:37
I remember, okay, Yeah, I remember Ultraman Yeah. Yeah.
28:40
That was the joint man. That was the coolest thing back then. He
28:41
had the little thing that you click and then he would turn into that guy
28:45
and I'm like, yeah, I found him. So just a sense of
28:48
accomplishment. Congratulations, Raj, You've taken learned how to search the internet for
28:55
something that you were trying to find out. Do you know how hard it
28:57
is when you just type in Japanese silver man, There's a lot of things
29:00
that pop up. It's a very brave search term that. Yeah, now
29:10
I have to clear out there in your history. Yeah, I'm not gonna
29:12
clear my history. I don't want to die with that. Like, what
29:15
was he looking at? Some weird stuff? What was the last thing he
29:18
looked for? Oh, I got it. Just start with Japanese and you're
29:23
you know already it's like it's weird stuff, giant and silver Japanese. This
29:33
guy was drinking. But yeah, I'm glad I found that. Well,
29:40
I'm glad that you can now rest easy. How about that? Yes,
29:45
Ultra Man. Now I have to go back and watch episodes. That's how
29:48
my brain works. Now. I have to watch at least a couple episodes
29:51
after we get done. I'm I'm I'm really hesitant to go back and watch
29:55
things from my youth that I haven't seen in a really long time because I'm
30:00
afraid they won't hold up because I've done that before and I ended up disappointed.
30:04
I mentioned it before, you know, Dukes of Hazzard is one of
30:07
those classic examples where I loved that show as a kid, and then they
30:14
started re airing episodes of it on CMT back in the you know, like
30:18
I don't know, like fifteen twenty years ago, and I watched a couple
30:22
of episodes, thinking like, oh, this is great. I'm gonna watch
30:26
this. You know this this is before you know, all the tea,
30:27
all the different streaming services and stuff, and it's like, I'm gonna go
30:32
back and rewatch this. This is gonna be awesome. And Roscoe and Boss
30:36
Hog and the Duke Boys and even Coy and Vance during the contract dispute,
30:40
It's gonna be awesome. You get Daisy and the Jeep and I go back
30:44
and I watched like five minutes into an episode, and I am appalled,
30:48
like this is awful. How did this ever make television in the first place.
30:53
It's like, my god, the threshold for getting on TV in the
30:57
eighties was apparently so low. Yeah, that show just did not hold up.
31:03
So I'm very cautious to go back and rewatch things to see if they
31:07
actually hold up, because yeah, I mean I went back and I was
31:10
I was like, let me watch Godzilla versus Mathra because I love that one.
31:12
That was one of my favorites. And I'm like, oh, you
31:15
can see the wires, like you can see the wires on god'sillas and flying
31:18
through the air. I'm like, Okay, that's whatever, but yeah,
31:21
you can actually see a hole in the suit of god'zilly. You can see
31:23
like the guy's toes sticking out, yeah, where he has to breathe.
31:29
But yeah, go back, like, go watch hehaw. You want to
31:32
talk about something that doesn't hold up? Like that was a tough one.
31:36
I watched like two episodes and I was like, wow, that's like really
31:38
sad, misogynistic, racist show. Ye I was bad then. I think
31:45
that was kind of its formula. I was a buck Owens and uh god,
31:52
well what was the lady with the hat mini pearl, Mini pearl?
31:56
Yeah, I mean I was my dad, my mom that Roy Clark,
32:00
that show Roy Clark Man. Absolutely, they love that show. Then I
32:04
was like, I was like, I love the jokes when they would pop
32:06
up in the cornfield and tell Joe, I'm like, yeah, I want
32:08
to be a comic too. And then I watched it, like literally,
32:10
I think we watched a couple of episodes like maybe six months ago, and
32:14
I was like, oh, this is terrible, Like I can't believe this
32:17
was on the or perhaps your friends at the rodeo took you for a real
32:21
adventure into a into a cornfield and you realize this is not what I thought
32:24
it was going to be. Is this a stand up I want done?
32:32
Gay? Yeah? But it was. Uh, I worry about that too.
32:38
But you but then again, you'll watch a Christmas Story every year,
32:40
and that's that's different because there there has never been a gap. There hasn't
32:45
been like a twenty or thirty year gap in that in that in those viewings
32:50
of a Christmas to you guys rented it every year. Then it was always
32:57
on TV. I don't think it was always is on TV. It always
33:00
felt like it was. I mean because I remember, you know, because
33:04
I think that movie when did it first come out? Was it this?
33:08
It was early eighties when it first came out, wasn't it? Yeah?
33:10
I mean, since I since the inception of all the Turner networks, Yeah,
33:15
I believe it has been on the air every year. Yeah, so
33:17
I never felt without when it came to the when it came to a Christmas
33:22
story, I'm with you that that's a bad movie. Yes, thank you,
33:29
thank you. That's why you've always been my favorite. I do not
33:35
get people's love of that movie. It's a terrible movie. I'm like,
33:37
even like when I watched them, like my immigrant father could say, fragile
33:45
for gila, that's the dumb like, right, I mean, that was
33:47
just dumb right there. I was like, And then I'm like, I
33:51
have known people that would look at that box and they also would have said,
33:55
fred Gila, it must be Italian. No, you don't. If
34:00
you did, that's who traded you off in a Walmart parking lot. That's
34:02
why. That's what. That's who you know. That's the only people I
34:07
could look. I looked saying that they were not high quality individuals. To
34:10
understand. My dad was an English tutor in India and he spelled tomorrow t
34:20
a marrow. And I'm like, how many people did you mess up?
34:22
Like, how many people did you mess up? And he could say fragile.
34:27
I'm like, come on, man, yeah, And then I'm like
34:30
with the bb gun. I'm like a hope he murders the whole family,
34:31
and then he didn't. I'm like, let's go waste of a movie.
34:35
If you want to remake the movie, make it with a real make it
34:37
with today's weapons, like Jesus. Now, that's a Christmas story to remember.
34:46
It's a it's a preecent war fever dream type of thing s against the
34:52
backdrop of Christmas. Okay, see now now we're talking with another movie we
34:59
have to write. So basically, you just want die Hard but with a
35:01
kid, yes, or Scarf. I was thinking Scarface with Santa f.
35:22
You're listening to The Treehouse. Visit us online that Treehouse on air dot com.
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Their phone number for your free roof inspection eight three three COOKIDFW the website cookdfw
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35:43
you do that free roof inspection, let them know good, bad,
35:46
ugly with the roof, and you're honest about it. You take photos and
35:50
explain everything. But if someone just wants to kind of eyeball it themselves not
35:52
go on the roof, because I know you don't recommend that that's your job.
35:55
But if I'm just walking around the outside of the house, what should
35:58
I be looking for to see if there's possibly a problem. Things that a
36:01
homeowner might be able to see from the ground would be miss missing shingles,
36:05
obviously, if you see some gaps in the shingles, or if you see
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36:17
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36:23
the metal drip edge or flashings maybe loose. But you know, from the
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36:39
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36:43
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36:45
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36:50
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36:52
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36:54
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36:59
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37:02
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37:06
We jump up there and he had one of his exhaust vents, the
37:08
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37:12
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37:15
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37:17
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37:21
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37:23
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37:25
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37:29
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37:30
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37:34
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38:09
I think, I mean, I'm trying to think about. I think the
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And people are like, oh, the solution is a tankless water heater.
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eight thirty eight. The website Brooks Plumbing, Texas dot com. Speaking of
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Christmas and various goings on with it, there was a story I so I
39:44
wanted to throw at you, gentlemen, if I can find the damn thing,
39:52
Uh there is. Don't get distracted, but this did happen in Florida.
39:57
Okay, we need to just have one segment that's all news stories from
40:02
Florida. I'm with you. You can actually do an entire episode of that
40:07
weekly Florida man got agitated my neighborhood Christmas parade, so we fired off several
40:15
gunshots. Yeah nice, damn your cheer. See this is the Hallmark movie
40:22
that I think we all are craving. Yes, Like, let's have a
40:31
Hallmark movie where the big city girl comes to the country town in Florida.
40:37
And that's the inciting incident of the film is she returns home and sees and
40:43
sees her her old ex high school boyfriend shooting at the kids doing the Christmas
40:46
parade in front of his house. Let them find love with that starting point.
40:54
If you can make that work, you'll have no obstacles in your relationship.
41:00
I'm probably not. A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly fired off
41:06
several shots during a neighborhood Christmas parade because he became agitated at what parade goers
41:10
were doing. That's according to Deputies Douglas Moore, forty three was arrested and
41:15
charged with six counts have aggravated assault with a firearm, reckless discharge of a
41:21
firearm, and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol after the incident
41:25
that unfolded this past Saturday. According to an arrest David from the Clay County
41:31
Sheriff's Office, as the Middleburg Christmas Parade was underway, deputies and SWAT team
41:37
members responded to the location along the parade route after several gunshots were heard.
41:42
If you're curious, Middlebird is located about thirty miles southwest of Jacksonville, not
41:47
far from where we were driving our van full of stuff. So I've seen
41:55
where this man lives. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah, I've I've
42:01
been to Jacksonville and it is a yeah. It's it's on the water there.
42:08
It's got the pretty lights on the buildings and stuff. But it's just
42:10
the stadium is beautiful. Yeah. And then and then you leave that area
42:15
and within minutes it's like, oh, okay, well it's I mean,
42:20
it's one of those things that you got to keep Yeah, I mean,
42:22
it's one of those things you got to keep in mind when it comes to
42:24
you know, to to Florida in general. It especially if you're flying over
42:29
it at a low enough altitude that's Florida. You get a really good idea
42:35
of it. You see maybe a really kind of cool looking city from the
42:37
air, but then you're reminded that right outside the city is a swap.
42:45
Yeah, it's like this. It's like the it's like the I would say
42:51
the governor Ron, it's like, we're gonna give We're gonna we're gonna give
42:55
Jacksonville however much money this year for whatever projects that they need to do.
43:00
How much they need a billion dollars? Cool, give all of it except
43:04
for three dollars to the rest of the city, all of it to downtown,
43:07
and all of it to the upgrade the upkeeping of the nice touristy parts.
43:10
And then everybody else gets a nickel. Like that's what everybody gets.
43:15
Just mail everybody a nickel. That's all we gotta do. Uh. Yeah,
43:20
it's uh. And I just love the idea. I hope because six
43:22
six counts of aggravated assault, that's gonna be uh, that's gonna be a
43:27
long time in jail, and so I hope that he's there long enough to
43:30
be in charge of the Charristmas parade in jail. Pretty sure a parade in
43:37
jail is a very different parade than the ones we're used to seeing on television.
43:40
Trust me, he'll be more than agitated. I believe that's called a
43:45
train. He's like, I'm the kaboos. Look, Hey, I'm glad.
44:02
I saw you as a little engine that could and did, and we'll
44:07
never forget. See, we managed to find a happy ending in this very
44:17
sad story. It's a gift that we're all blessed with and we share it
44:28
with you inside the tree Coming up next time in the Treehouse, I believe
44:34
we've got a football show that'll be on tap. Excited for that and of
44:37
course the Fridday episode later on this week, So stay right here inside the
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Treehouse all week long.