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It's Friiiday! #19-Welcome to 2024 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome not only to inside the treehouse, but welcome to a brand new year,
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New Year, New stupid, all coming at you from inside this stupid
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little treehouse. So welcome to the very first, not only episode of the
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new year, but the very first Friday of twenty twenty four. You've made
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it. Yeah, I have a question though, is it really is it
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new year, new stupid or is it new year, same stupid. See
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I struggled with that when I made the posts, and I wasn't sure because
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I've I've gone both ways on what to say, not the other thing,
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because I played with the idea before, like when we first launched the podcast,
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it was, hey, it's kind of a new show, but it's
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not. Is it the same stupid? Is it new stupid? I would
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how how how do you position it? How do you sell it? And
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I just I just I went with new Year, new stupid because I wanted
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to use the word new twice stupid two point zero. Damn, I should
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have gone with that. I' when to write that down. I'll make a
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note for next year stupid three point Oh. Yeah, we're always updating the
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stupid. Oh you got to keep the stupid fresh. We learned a lot
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from the Duncan Man in the eighties. Got to wake up right and early,
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and you got to make the stupid Yeah, I got to keep people
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happy. But it's interesting because we took a couple of weeks off physically from
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doing the show. Listener wise, it was really only about a actually not
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even a week, because we released episodes on our normal schedule all the way
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up to and including the very first day of the year, which was of
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course Monday, the first. But we were able to take a little time
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off, and in that time we have now figured out that taking time off
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if you're a megalomaniac CEO, time off for your employees can be bad,
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as we learned, like maybe Scrooge was right. Maybe he was looking out
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for crotch It crack It. What was his damn name, Bob crach You
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don't know either, Bob Cratchit, Bob Cratchit. Maybe he was looking out
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for Bob Cratchitt's best interest. Yeah, because we managed over these two weeks
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over the holidays, we are limping into twenty twenty four a shell of the
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men we once were. Because Raj got into a car accident, not his
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fault, but still had happened, and you're still reeling from the effects of
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that car wreck. Drey managed to suck up the flu at some point over
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the holidays, And I mean, for the most part, I'm okay,
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but you two are really really if I can be so frank in the shit,
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Yeah, I like to think of us because I didn't know you had
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the flu. And I don't trail and think you knew I had a car
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wreck, because I think we talked about it before, but I didn't know
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you had the flu. And I was thinking to myself, like, you
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know, we really didn't talk to each other very much during these couple weeks
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off that we had, and then it just reminded me of like we're very
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much like if this was a band, we're very motley crew, Like we
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don't talk to each other at all until it's time for the ship. We
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get our fill of each other when we're in here. Outside of that and
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we scattered, we go and do things and experience things, and then it's
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very much like Listener. Then you come back in the treehouse and you share
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those experiences with one another because we weren't there for those things in between.
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Yeah, I did, I did get in the car. It was very
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nice. A couple of people, a couple of the listeners reached out to
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see how I was doing over the break unlike youtubeh about that, Oh,
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Roger, let me. I'll give you a really a cliff notes version of
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my holidays. Okay, Chris. Christmas night, I spent in the e
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r with my mom who had COVID and she was in the hospital all the
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way through Sunday New Year's Eve. Wow. And then on Sunday New Year's
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Eve. Actually it's I started feeling it Saturday night, but then on Sunday,
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I by the time, by the time the ball dropped, I had
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one hundred and two fever. No, that's and yesterday it was the first
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day I had fever for basically seventy two hours. And then yesterday finally it
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broke and h But so yeah, that was that was my my luxurious uh,
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you know, holiday vacation. But but you didn't have to go into
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the did you have to work? I went into work on on Christmas or
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on New Year's Eve because obviously it's a big night. And and it was
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by the time that was the worst. Pat It's the worst flu I've ever
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had and and the body aches is what made it. I mean, there
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was a point where I was like, my toenails hurt. Wow, But
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I started my kidneys were hurting, and I was like okay, I like
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I'm I'm useless. I felt so bad and I'll work through a lot.
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But I was at a point I was like I can't do this, and
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I literally I left. I think I probably left work. I got there
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five, left at eight and uh yeah, you know, ringing the New
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Year, just praying for death, happy, happy New y. I hear
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that story on CNN's New Year's Eve thing. I saw. I saw some
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sort of clip of John Mayer in a bar with a bunch of cats with
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Anderson Cooper and and Andy Cohen, But I did I don't remember anyone on
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New Year's Rock and Eve or CNN's whatever woke New Year's whatever it was,
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No one said. No one rang in the New Year going like you know
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how I'd like to start this year dead dead? Yeah, well that songs.
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But did you did you have the advantageous side of of getting ripped after
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the flu, like you lost some weight, coughing, strengthen the core,
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like you look in the mirror like, hey man, you know it's time
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to take some boudoir photos. You took it a little too far. Yeah.
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Uh so you're saying you didn't think of Trey and and and fishnets.
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Now I do and I can't see that. Yeah good, because I want
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to make sure it's I'm not the only one having to visualize that. But
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it's but all his lingerie is still in burnt orange. So that's the He
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may be naughty, but he still has school spirit. That's That's one of
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those how bad I felt, How bad I felt. I didn't watch I
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really didn't watch the game on Monday night. Oh it was game. It
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was good. It was I know they lost, but it was I went
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and watched it with some friends, and uh, it was very sweet.
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My buddy is a ut alum and hit his daughter with him. His daughter's
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at eight or nine years old. And it was forty seven seconds left,
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and it was it was a rap, and uh we were starting to close
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out and everything, and she's got her UT hat on and she's got her
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UT shirt on. She's like, there's still forty seconds. This is a
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little girl. She goes forty seven seconds left a lot of football, and
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I was like, yeah, okay, you know, yeah, you could
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have told me this story and not told me her age, and I would
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have told you tell me that's a young Longhorn fan without telling me it's a
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young Longhorn. Tray knows Trey as a long horned fan and a cowboy fan.
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Is very close with disappointment, and she's so young, she's not there
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yet, but she'll get there. Yeah, yeah, I remember those idealistic
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younger years where you know, you thought it can happen, but they're not
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going to break the dark. But they got the ball back with forty six
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seconds left to go, and she goes, she goes, Daddy see and
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then we all sat back down like we were just schooled by a child.
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And people that had left the bar, and you could see people in the
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parking like that left. It was a sidecar social people. You could see
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people like turn turn around in the parking lot and just just park however,
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just like it just didn't even make sense, like parking at angles and come
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running back in to watch they did lose, which is you know, but
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what they did, but with a differently thrown ball or you know, whatever
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the situation was. I mean, it was it was very close. They
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had a chance to actually pull that out. They did, and it was
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like it was like a little Christmas miracle or a New Year's miracle. It's
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just like there's still time left and you're like, no, there's not.
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And then like and you she's got the ball back, and we all sat
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down and just looked at this child like, oh, she'll she'll now see
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what disappointment looks like. She has forty seven seconds to feel disappointed, which
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kind of gives me back to uh to uh Scrooge and Bob Cratchit. And
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she's basically the tiny Tim of this story. Just at the end of at
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the end of the book, you know, top, you know, tiny
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Tim's like and God bless us everyone because he got to live because Scrooge,
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you know, basically, yeah, turned his life around, whereas eventually this
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little girl's kind of come to understand what real life and disappointment are. So
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maybe again we're back to maybe Scrooge had a point with you know, kind
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of limiting expectations so you don't get too hopeful. Yeah see, that's that
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was the terminology. It wasn't around when that book was written, right,
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So maybe Scrooge wasn't Scrooge. He was just like, like you're saying,
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manage the expectations. That actually does speak to the CEO corporate life culture.
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Thing is the late eighteen hundreds when Dickens, the time period of which,
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like Dickens is writing about a Christmas Carol, Scrooge is awful. No you
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can't have more time off. No you can't have PTO. No we're not
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going to pay for your sick child's surgery to save their life. That was
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horrific stuff back then, and it stood out. That's why it was such
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a opinion and popular story, whereas by today's standards, man that's every day
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at a fortune five hundred. Yeah, he was ahead of his time.
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When you start, you get ten days of PTO, that's it. You
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only get five sick days, and no, those don't roll over year to
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year. And no insurance we're going to give you is not going to save
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your sick kid. So just you know, still work and give me your
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whole life. Yeah, and you know what, sometimes you just got to
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eat soup. Happy New Year. You're in the Treehouse. Visit us online
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Daniel. It's new year, it's twenty twenty four. But you and I
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are business owners. There's not a whole lot of holiday downtime and ramp up
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for January? Is there downtime? Downtime? I don't know what that word
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means. Is that something I have not heard of yet? That sounds like
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a foreign language almost dan it kind of is. And you know this,
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You know, you've been a business owner for years now, so the idea
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of downtime is practically non existent. But that also means you're there for your
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customers whenever they need you. And you know what, we really do enjoy
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being there. You know, I never like to hear a bad phone call
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or somebody's house has a leak or something's going on, but you know,
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it does make me have a good feeling when we're able to get out there
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and help somebody, and you see the relief on their face after something's been
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taken care of that they don't have to worry about that that's it. So
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yeah, this year, we were out there all the way up until New
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Year's, New Year's Day, you know, off and on and New Year's
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Eve morning in the afternoon, and so that's the part of it. So
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but that's what we do and that's why we enjoy doing it, and we're
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waiting for their website to load. You know who's at the Dallas Comedy Club
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tonight weekend. Uh, let me see, I can probably get it faster
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than your island interweb. That is that is very possible. Yeah. But
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I did see also that they have what's called Primetime Improv on Friday and Saturday
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nights at eight thirty. Yeah, they do interactive improv at the Dallas Comedy
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Club. That's where if you want to go to the improv show, they'll
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actually hold audience members up on the stage to take part in it. So
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that's an additional thing they do there at the Dallas Comedy Club. That's very
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cool and we're checking out. So yeah, yeah, if you go to
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the Primetime thing, get your tickets because it sells out every time. I
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didn't know that. I was like, I was walking in one day,
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I was like, man, this is this crowd is solid for this next
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show, and I didn't see that the line for the other show, which
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was almost sold out as well. From the stand up, it was on
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one side and I'm walking up. I'm like, this looks great, and
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they're like, no, we're here for the because people do get pulled up
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on stage and people and that interactive experience is what people seem to dig.
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I would be mortified to try to wing improv, but people seem to enjoy
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it. And don't they. They do like improv classes there too, don't
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they. Yeah? They, I mean they this one I saw, and
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I thought, anybody that thinks that, you know, hey, my kid's
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super funny, I would take They have a classes for eleven to seventeen,
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so you can take your kid in and give you know, see if your
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kid's the next Chappelle who started at fifteen years old. But I think,
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if I'm correct, they might not be having shows right now. I know
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that I know they've got it. The Primetime Improv is happening Friday and Saturday
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night at eight thirty, so I think that's taking the place of a quote
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unquote like regular headliner. Yeah, they are remitt for this weekend. Yeah,
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they are remodeling right now. So it is still open, still doing
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the stand up, still doing their improv stuff, but it's in the in
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the side room because they're adding, because they sell out so fast, they're
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adding another fifty seats to the showroom. So that's awesome. I'm currently under
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construction. You can still go in the patios of the barsel there, the
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So just go check them out. And you didn' give them a call.
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It's two and four eight one four nineteen eighty. It's two and four eight
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one four nineteen eighty and even get their schedule for the week. Very cool.
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So we mentioned how you Trey are kind of limping into the new year
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because you're still getting over having the flu. Uh. I'll tell you guys
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more about me and Tara's Christmas trip on Monday, but part of that story
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will also involve the flu, so I have to look forward to on Monday.
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And then Raj, last time we talked to you, it was the
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day after you had just gotten into that wreck, and so I'm curious because
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you were you were pretty banged up the next day. Yeah, I mean
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it was by banged up, I mean you had like the bank you had
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a broken hand, you had a bandage on it and everything. But you
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were high because as you he was on drugs, which you shouldn't after after
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a major car wreck. So since I'm a terrible friend and I'm really bad
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about following up with people about how they're feeling or buying gifts or buying gifts
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and using the show is the reason why I don't talk to people outside of
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it, that I didn't really need to work on that. Maybe that's a
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news resolution for myself. How are you feeling since the car wreck? I
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was high on life number one because I don't I don't do I don't do
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the pills. I don't I don't like them. I bust up my hands.
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You and I are very similar in the sense that we drink enough to
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where we don't feel the need to supplement other things into the mix. I
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just I don't know since I was a kid, like why my mom took
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like stuff for her back and she took no hyperprofen and then stuff to sleep,
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and then stuff like all that stuff, and I would have watched like
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her take that stuff, and I'm like, I just don't want to in
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that habit. So I don't take Advil for headaches like I'll sleep it off.
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But when I was leaving, when I was leaving the hospital that night,
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and they bandaged my hand up, which was really nice of them to
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do. I think it cost six thousand dollars for them to give me an
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ace bandage. Yay. American Health System. So they were like, you
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know the doctor wonderful, Uh doctor Fletcher. She said, uh, you
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know, the first twenty four to forty eight hours, you're going to start
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to experience muscle soreness and put and you might find that, you know,
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something else is broken. So keep the hand. You know where it is.
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Next day, Uh yeah, bandaged up hands, saw you guys.
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Uh. Felt felt fine, was walking around, went and walk my dogs.
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Had to again I couldn't use my left hand, but I'm walking my
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dogs and did my stuff. Went to the grocery store and went watched some
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wrestling. Uh and uh up in Oklahoma City. And I'm coming back the
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next day and I'm like, forty eight hours, I'm like, you know
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what, she was right, A little stiffness in knee, a little soreness
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in my neck, but that's about it. And I was like, you
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know what if that's what if that's the best the worst it's going to be,
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then so be it. Seventy two hours later, however, wildly different
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story. I woke up out of your leg. I felt like it.
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It felt like it. I woke up and I don't curse anybody, you
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know, the lady ran the red light, and you know, she admitted
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to it, and I stood up and the pain in my knee and my
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ankle and my arm. I was like, I hope this bitch dies of
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toenail cancer. Like, oh, like, lady, Yeah, I hope
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her toenails appendix bursts and she can't, you know, like I'm trying to
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wish things that could never possibly actually happen. But so this is actually a
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really interesting like cross section of the show because you say, Raj, that
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you don't like to, you know, swear someone like that. Yeah,
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No, Trey is the exact opposite. He will dog cush you at the
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drop of it, especially especially if it's warranted. Like if this same situation
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happened where this lady ran into Tray despite any sort of of pain or injuries,
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Tray would have fallen out of his vehicle and started throwing sea bombs so
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much so you would have thought it was desert storm. You though, Raj,
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you want nothing to do with that. It's it's you know, you're
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very you're very you're very centered, and and Nirvana esqud about it. Me.
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Yah, I'm kind of in the middle. I will swear, I
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will swear at you. Bad's justified enough otherwise, but I'm working on it.
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So that's me in the middle. I'm trying not to do that.
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I'm trying to get closer to you, Raj. Meanwhile, Trey has basically
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embraced his darkness, and why why wouldn't you. It's very cathartic when you
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know when someone says something stupid or does something stupid to say that's really fucking
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stupid. And he's wearing like he's got the black shirt. I'm like,
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as he's saying this, like I can feel his innersith lord coming out.
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Yeah, the only thing we're missing is the lightning shooting out of his fingertips.
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But maybe that's because we don't see his hands currently. That's not a
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ring light then that's but like my first thoughts, no go ahead, no,
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no go ahead. My first thought was I'm just waiting for him to
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be like, and we have to go to break. You're at the Treehouse.
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That's beauty of the force, lightning coming out of your fingers. His
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trade doesn't have to hit the actual button with his finger. You're in the
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year. But let's get a familiar face and voice into the treehouse. Now
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year, I'm curious, how was the new year started for you and for
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Brooks Plumbing? I mean smooth sailing. We had a record breaking year.
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I'm gonna blame you for that, so I will take all that. I
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will take all that smoke. Yeah, I intend on having another record breaking
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year. And I want to ask you if you've seen the meme, and
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it's all verbal, it's all just words, and it just says new year,
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knew me, better ingredients, better pizza, Papa John's. I have
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not seen that, but I think that fits a lot of people's resid But
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I have lost weight already, so the goal is to lose weight. So
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I'm getting tremmor and the boys are getting heavier because we're feeding them. Well,
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oh that's awesome. Well you know what, in that case, good
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for you. Your new year personally is already off to a good start.
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It sounds like it's already off to a great start for Brooks Plumbing me.
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However, any sort of resolution stuff. I've extended my holiday break to continue
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through the weekend. So to me, the first day of the New Year
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really isn't going to start until Monday, as opposed to what it actually was,
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which was last Monday, the first I don't think that count. But
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you have an excuse. You're on island time. You live in a whole
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different world, so you get to make your own rules. That is true,
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and island time is a very real thing. We're still waiting on,
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ironically enough, a plumber on Saint Thomas to give us a call back to
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sounds like a wonderful plan. All right, say we've already got new resolutions
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appreciate it very much. It makes Monday. So since this is the first
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Friday episode of the new year, I think it's important that we include at
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least a couple of the things that people are accustomed to hearing on Friday episodes.
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And I am, of course talking about birthdays. We have plenty of
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other stuff to catch you up on that happened over the holidays, things that
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happen to us that be covering that on Monday and next week as well,
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and just moving forward in general. But you know, I didn't look up
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birthdays for nothing. So here we go. Today is Friday, January fifth,
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twenty twenty four. It is time to start getting used to changing that
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three to a four. My timeframe on that is usually about six months,
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So sometime in June I'll finally get accustomed to riding twenty twenty four. But
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until then, it's gonna be a lot of scratching out threes and putting fours
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on there. But birthdays Today, the first of the new year. Here
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in the Treouse Suki Waterhouse, she turns thirty two today. She plays Karen
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Circo on Daisy Jones and the Six. She's also the Queen's sister Cicily of
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York on Stars's The White Princess. And that just reminds me that there seemed
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to be way too many fantasy shows and movies to keep track of these days.
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And I mean, you had the first, you know, Lord of
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the Rings movies, and then they went and did the Hobbit movies very shortly
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after that. Then you got Game of Thrones, and then I feel like
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there's oh, and then Amazon had spent the most money on a television show
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ever for I think it was a pre Hobbit type thing or a Pregame of
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Thrones type thing. This is what I mean. It's so saturated. Now
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throw in all the new Zelda video games. I can't keep up. Amazon
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did The Ring of Power, which was a kind of prequel to The Hobbit
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and Lord of the Rings, and HBO did what is it Dragging Something,
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which was the the prequel to Game of Thrones. Yeah, right, and
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you've also had three Star Wars movies come out since then. Yeah, fantasy
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stuff is extremely saturated and it's weird, but I go ahead. Drey Rebel
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Moon on Netflix the Zack Snyder movie. Yeah, excellent movie. Interesting.
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I can't do the fantasy thing, especially the Game of Thrones thing. Like
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one of my best friends a little person, and and Peter de Engliind is
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on that show where he's like the bad King and I'm like, really,
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like, my friend can't get anything off the top shelf. How are you
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ruling an entire people like I can't watch this show. It'll make sense.
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It does not trust me. It does actually watch the show. When you
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watch Game of Thrones. It's part of the story obviously that he's not a
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quote unquote normal sized individual, but that's something that his character deals with.
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It's part of, you know, what he said to deal with his entire
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life, and because of that people, you know, they underestimate him,
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and he still, you know, rises legitimately one of my best friends is
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a little person, and if I move his coke too far away, he's
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screwed. As far as getting is first quenched. I know what. I've
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been reading a lot of self help books recently, and that says more about
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you than it does about him. I do it all the time. In
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that case, it says a lot about you. I'm entertained, he's entertained.
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Come on, It's all fun and games until he bites your knee off.
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So anyway, an actress from one of those fantasy shows is celebrating your
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birthday today, sort of a fantasy show from Laguna Beach and the Hills on
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MTV. Kristin Cavalari is thirty seven. She was also married for a short
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while to former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler, and he's still unimpressed by it.
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Dead Mass is forty three today. January Jones, who I best know as
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Betty Draper on mad Men, she's forty six today. She was also Emma
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Frost in X Men First Class, and she was also on Last Man on
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Earth for a while. Although I didn't see that, so I'm not sure.
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Bradley Cooper probably one of the greatest actors of his generation. I would
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say he is forty nine today. He's been in some amazing films. A
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Star is Born, American Sniper. He was superb as Phil in the Hangover
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movies, and he was also absolutely wonderful as Rocket in the Guardians of the
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Galaxy slash Avengers movies. Loved him in that, and it didn't even sound
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like him in those Some people didn't even realize it was him for a while.
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So I say that he's a really fine actor Silver Linings Playbook. But
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then I saw a photo once and I see it every once in a while
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online where he did a stage play of the Elephant Man, and instead of
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you can look this up as I'm telling you guys this, you can do
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Bradley Cooper Elephant Man and click image. Instead of him going through prosthetics or
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stage makeup, whatever the case is, to make him look super disfigured as
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the Elephant Man is supposed to be in the story, he instead decides to
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go crazy physical acting and physically turn his body in ways to make himself appear
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deformed, when in reality to me, it just looks like Bradley Cooper making
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fun of very unpolitically correct, retarded person the way kids did when we were
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all kindergarteners. Because of that, it's one of those things I can't unsee.
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So I see Bradley Cooper all these things, and he's supposed to be
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really good looking, but I inevitably think of him chucking his arm into the
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side and their face to the side and just looking really really bad. Yeah,
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that's not cool, you know what I mean. The only thing he's
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missing, the only thing he's missing. And maybe he did it during the
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play. I don't know. I've only seen the still image is doing the
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handover the chest thing. That again is completely deplorable. Yeah, you know
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what was commonplace, you know, thirty years ago. Yeah, that's like,
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that's just not you know, that's when you know you're a star.
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When the director's like, shull, we told him that this is not cool,
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and I'm like, that's fucking Bradley Cooper exactly. You're doing great up
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there, doing great, great to curb totally. Yeah, you don't like
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hands at all. Yeah, we're not selling tickets to handicap people, are
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we? Because this is There's gonna be a lot of refor that's okay.
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He dates supermodels, he can do it, that's fine, Yeah, but
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they don't. So Happy birthday to Bradley Cooper. He is forty nine today.
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Speaking of odd looking Marilyn Manson is fifty five and Vinnie Jones speaking of
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X Men movies. He played Juggernaut and X Men. The last stand he
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was also in was at Dead point two as a Juggernaut. He's fifty nine
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today. Clancy Brown sixty five. Character actor for many many years. He's
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the bad guy in the Highlander movie, the very first one, the Kreeger
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whatever it was. He was also the really awful prison guard in the Shawshank
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Redemption and a number of other things. Oh yeah, yeah. So he
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is sixty five today. And even though Trey hasn't had a drop of alcohol
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in over seven years, and he still appreciates a fine, fine bartender,
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not only because he has won some nights working in the service industry to slave
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away to keep this podcast on the air. Think you Tray, one of
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the finest bartenders ever is celebrating a birthday today, and I, of course
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mean the one and only Ted Lange from the love Boat. Yeah, nice,
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that's a yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah. What was the characters
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Isaac Isaac, that's right, yeah, or as most white people referred to
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me, you know, the black bartender on the love boat. That's what's
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Vinnie Jones, Well, Vinni Jones was a different one. Yeah. Yeah,
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Vinnie Jones is fifty nine Juggernaut. But then Ted Lane ted l seventy
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six today, good for him. But that's that's another actually classic example of
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the not so subtle racism of how when you go back and look at things
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in their time period. Yeah, because you guys know, I'm well on
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record as saying and same time period, the eighties, there was only one
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black guy in Top Gun and what was his call sign? Sundown? Yeah,
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and when it came time, like if you notice, he was the
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only one available to fly with Maverick when Goose died, as if he was
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just like what was he doing? He was just hanging out waiting for someone
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to die and then get called up. He was there the whole time she
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saw him in that first scene when they all get top nomb but then he's
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just not doing anything. So a white guy had to die for him to
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get in the in the cockpit even though it was still in the back seat.
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Similarly, on love Boat, there's all these professions on the ship that
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the black actor could have been cast in. Yeah, it wasn't the captain.
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Now, it wasn't. It wasn't as all this would have been funny.
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It wasn't the captain's daughter. It wasn't the entertainment. You want to
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be challenged as an actor. There you go, and it wasn't. It
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wasn't the ship's doctor. Instead, what role did the black guy play in
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the love boat service industry? He's serving all the drinks. He's the bartender.
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Yeah, he's the server. Yeah, that's exactly. I mean,
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it's It wasn't just the eighties, you guys, do remember us a pesky
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little show called a Er. I don't know if you remember that show.
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One of the biggest shows of the nineties. No Indian doctor for ten years,
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all white doctors. See their and lies the double edged sword that Hollywood
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has to deal with because on one hand, like in the nineties, it
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was a huge complaint also on NBC that Friends had the Friends had no dark
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people of colored friends. It was all white people, right, They did
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so er was like, well, if we put an Indian doctor in the
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show, is that just playing into a stereotype or are we actually dealing with
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reality. So they were kind of screwed either way. Had they started with
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an Indian doctor or four of them in the er people said, that's race.
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It's that you're playing into stereotypes. But then not having one also Jerseys.
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Yeah, and then so it used to be musty TV. I don't
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remember that. The NBC was musty TV. And then they got sued for
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not having people of color on the show on their shows, and so this
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was their middle finger to the people that were suing them. Is uh,
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they changed the slogan to more colorful. That's what NBC was known as.
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So really, I don't remember that slogan musty TV. Musty TV's more colorful.
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Why didn't they just change it to we got sued, We'll get some
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weight if you remember that. Gotta love Holly comment are Indians and podcastings.
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I want to make sure we're not falling into any stereotypes in the treehouse.
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There's a million people in India. I'm sure there's one or two of them
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out there. I just like that slogan NBC, we're working on it.
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Well, here are the treehouse. We've got ours, so no more searching
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for us. Thanks for hanging out with us on the first episode of the
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New Year. I hope it was plenty of stupid for you. I feel
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good and stupid, especially now. Be sure to check out what's in store
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the rest of the year and coming up on Monday inside the Treehouse. We
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will see you then, NBC, wasn't the Cosby's enough Slippery slow Man?
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Well done. They're like five of them.