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Why Does Dating Suck So Much Now? | First Date Disasters, Reddit & Double DWIs · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 2: real quick before I get into what one woman claims
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  Speaker 2: to be as the worst first date ever. Jerry, you're
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  Speaker 2: precluded from this because you're in a long-term relationship. I'm married,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm precluded. Trey, is it really that bad out there,
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  Speaker 2: the single scene, the dating world? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me preface that. You're asking someone who's 52. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do I think it's that bad in your 20s and 30s? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Because....
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  Speaker 1: And I've given this a lot of thought, while I
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  Speaker 1: think expectations are out of whack sometimes because of social media,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, when you're in your 20s
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  Speaker 1: and 30s, your dating pool is long, wide, and deep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As you get older, and this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: things you really don't think about, and if I could
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  Speaker 1: go back and talk to myself and it's like, I
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  Speaker 1: want to spread this message. It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: you don't think about, but then as you get older,
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  Speaker 1: being single really is sucks because that dating pool, it's
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  Speaker 1: shallower and shallower and it's full of, of throwbacks for
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  Speaker 1: both sexes. But, uh, which, you know, that leads to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: old bitter fish and, So do I.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, and this is one of those things people
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  Speaker 1: don't realize, and this generation, Gen Z, does not realize,
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  Speaker 1: dating was in a way harder. Back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have cell phones. You had to actually write
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  Speaker 1: down numbers, hoped you wrote it down correctly. You had
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  Speaker 1: no idea if you were getting left, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: home number, a work number, whatever. And you couldn't text anyone.
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  Speaker 1: There was no, a lot of times you just, you
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  Speaker 1: left a message and you hoped they'd call back. Ghosting,
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  Speaker 1: you might go on a date with somebody and you'd
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  Speaker 1: literally never see them again.
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  Speaker 3: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: Ever.
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  Speaker 1: And you didn't have social media to know what they're
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  Speaker 1: up to. It was just a big question mark.
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  Speaker 2: The next time you saw them, it might have been
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  Speaker 2: on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, no, for Gen Z, I think Gen Z
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  Speaker 1: whines a little bit more about it than they're... They're
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  Speaker 1: a little in their feelings. But I will say this,
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  Speaker 1: and this comes from watching years of bars and interactions.
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  Speaker 1: Over the years, I think guys have become more gun-shy
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  Speaker 1: about taking their shot. And so I think there is
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  Speaker 1: a problem on that front. I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of men, and I'm not precluding myself from this, That
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  Speaker 1: you have an inner battle of, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be alone, but I don't want to deal with the bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a struggle.
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  Speaker 2: So right now we're going through a correction phase on
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  Speaker 2: the guy side when it comes to asking women out.
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  Speaker 2: Because for a long time, guys were over the top.
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  Speaker 2: They were too strong with it, would go up and
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  Speaker 2: do and say certain things. that were not only too
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  Speaker 2: strong of an approach, but sometimes outright illegal, um, and deservedly.
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  Speaker 2: So there's been some correction on that. Now that also
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  Speaker 2: over corrects to a certain degree where now guys are
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  Speaker 2: afraid to even say hi to someone because they're afraid
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  Speaker 2: of in person and or online ridicule for having the
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  Speaker 2: gall to even say hi to someone. If that's someone
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  Speaker 2: thinks that they're too far above you or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Yeah, or they're beaten down by unreal expectations.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason why I asked Trey, is it really
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  Speaker 2: that bad out there in the single world, is because
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  Speaker 2: imagine you're a young, beautiful, 20-something woman.
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  Speaker 3: Is the dating world really that bad?
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  Speaker 2: Let's ask Vittoria Vega, who recently went viral for what
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  Speaker 2: she says. is the worst first date ever. Now, can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine looking like her and thinking you've got it hard?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: So I just had the worst first date of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I show up. He is stoned.
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  Speaker 4: He is high as a mother freaking kite.
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  Speaker 3: And we go into the bar.
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  Speaker 4: He is quiet.
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  Speaker 1: He's not talking.
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  Speaker 4: He's not talking. And then when he talks, he tells
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  Speaker 4: me that he pees in his sink. He tells me
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  Speaker 4: that he does not wash his hair with shampoo or conditioner.
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  Speaker 4: Then proceeds to keep staring at these gorgeous group of
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  Speaker 4: girls sitting next to us.
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  Speaker 3: Gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: They're so beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: He is staring at them the entire time while I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to talk to him. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: I physically had to ask him if he was stoned.
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  Speaker 4: I had to ask him if he was even interested.
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  Speaker 1: I had to ask him if I was appalling to him.
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  Speaker 3: Those words actually had to come out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 4: We only had one drink.
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  Speaker 3: I swallowed my drink.
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  Speaker 4: And now I'm going to go grab some pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Because that was god awful.
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  Speaker 3: Now she's at the pizza place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go, like, eat.
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  Speaker 4: My feelings right now. Did I mention that he leaned
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  Speaker 4: down and.
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  Speaker 4: Proceeded to ask me to smell his hair. He wanted
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  Speaker 4: me to smell his.
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  Speaker 3: Hair, his dirty hair.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out industry for making me feel better.
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  Speaker 3: So there you have it, Trey. I think it's, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's very important that you keep in mind.
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  Speaker 2: It's so important that you keep in mind that your
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  Speaker 2: competition out there is really, really bad.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. And this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: cruel facts of life. I can no longer compete for that.
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  Speaker 1: I am too old. That is out of my league.
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  Speaker 2: You think she's out of your league when all you
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  Speaker 2: got to do is just show up and pay attention
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  Speaker 2: and don't stare at the girls at the table next
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  Speaker 2: to her?
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably older than her father.
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  Speaker 3: But buddy, you look good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't look that good. But here's the thing. Here's
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  Speaker 2: part of the reason why you look as good as
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  Speaker 2: you do for 52. It's because you don't have a
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  Speaker 2: daughter that looks like that. I guarantee you that if
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  Speaker 2: you were her daddy, like actual daddy, that.
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  Speaker 3: Dude looks rough.
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  Speaker 2: That dude looks beaten down like he's been rolled over
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  Speaker 2: in the ditch four or five times because, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think that may be one of your secrets and you
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  Speaker 2: don't even realize it. So to her, to her, if
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  Speaker 2: she were to see you. She may think you're 10
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  Speaker 2: years younger than her dad, even if he's 10 years
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  Speaker 2: younger than you.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one of the problems, and this is where dating
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  Speaker 1: is much harder today. It's counterintuitive, but before social media,
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  Speaker 1: before online dating, when you actually had to meet someone
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  Speaker 1: in person, you had to go up, you had to
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  Speaker 1: talk to them, break the ice, whatever, but you at
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  Speaker 1: least got a vibe one-on-one. Now you're going on someone's profile.
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  Speaker 1: But the worst part about it is as a guy,
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  Speaker 1: you are competing with the unreal expectations of what people
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  Speaker 1: put out on social media for their first dates, that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to these fancy restaurants that they're doing this,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing that, you know, it's like money's no object,
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  Speaker 1: everything else. And for, for most it is. And money
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  Speaker 1: is money.
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  Speaker 3: It's an object.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's an obstacle. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, you don't have $ 500 to go splurge
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  Speaker 1: on every date and everything else. Um, and, So I
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  Speaker 1: think that's one of the things where guys have gotten
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  Speaker 1: really gun shy is, you know, can't we just go have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dinner and a drink and just call them casual,
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  Speaker 1: get to know one another and it not be a
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  Speaker 1: big production, a big show, everything else.
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  Speaker 2: I think, um, I think you're right. So I, I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea. I'm just as, this is pure conjecture
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  Speaker 2: on my part because I've been out of that game for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, since.
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  Speaker 3: 2009 and.
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  Speaker 2: Things have changed since then right because like when Tara
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  Speaker 2: and I went on our first date it was due
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  Speaker 2: in part to MySpace I mean we sort of met
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  Speaker 2: like we met in person first but MySpace helped facilitate
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of it that's how far back I
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  Speaker 2: go right so I would think in today's age you
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  Speaker 2: know how there's like this sort of yearning for nostalgia
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  Speaker 2: and in some cases like physical media like people want
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  Speaker 2: to have like They want to have a record. They
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  Speaker 2: want to have a CD or a cassette to touch
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  Speaker 2: the thing.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right. Instead of.
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  Speaker 2: The first interaction you have with someone who's on a
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  Speaker 2: profile who never met them, go old school. The first
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  Speaker 2: date doesn't have to be a massive production. It can
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  Speaker 2: just be, hey, let's just go meet for a drink
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  Speaker 2: or let's just go meet for a cup of coffee
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  Speaker 2: and just see if there's enough here to do a
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  Speaker 2: nicer first date type of thing. Like, basically, let's go
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  Speaker 2: old school. Let's slum it a little bit on the
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  Speaker 2: first date.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, this is, you know, I said this for years,
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  Speaker 1: is the Old Loon was the best first date spot
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  Speaker 1: ever because it didn't look like much. It was a
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  Speaker 1: dive bar, but strong drinks, but had great food. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you met a girl and if they turned
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  Speaker 1: up their nose at it, fine, get lost. if they
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  Speaker 1: stayed around and were like, I'll check it out, you
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  Speaker 1: realize it was a great spot. It was quiet. You
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  Speaker 1: could find a dark corner, talk, not be overwhelmed. It
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  Speaker 1: was perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was.
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  Speaker 1: Again, and I think so much of this is social
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  Speaker 1: media has falsely shaped so many narratives. And one is
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to be, and I think this hits
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  Speaker 1: more for guys, that you've got to be this big
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  Speaker 1: time baller and be able to do all this expensive
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  Speaker 1: crap in order to go on a date.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to jump over the bar of expectations that
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  Speaker 2: is set unrealistically high from the outset.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and listen, this was a principle for dating for
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  Speaker 1: years is, you don't want to shoot your shot as
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  Speaker 1: it were on the first date. If you go all
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  Speaker 1: out on the first date, then there's, it's nothing but
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  Speaker 1: downhill from there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a, and that's a tough, that is a tough
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  Speaker 2: tone to set.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Because ideally as a guy, when it's traditionally, that will
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  Speaker 2: be the one putting the bill for it. We want
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  Speaker 2: to know if it's worth going all out for that
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  Speaker 2: first big date.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even, There's no way in hell I would
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  Speaker 2: go crazy on a first date with someone I've never
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  Speaker 2: even actually met in person.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I w I would rather go small, casual
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  Speaker 1: until you get to the point where you're really thinking, okay, I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, want to have the talk of, are we
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  Speaker 1: exclusive boyfriend, girlfriend type thing? That would be more of
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  Speaker 1: an occasion to go big.
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  Speaker 3: On a date.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But, and again, and, and it's like we had that,
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  Speaker 1: that clip, uh, from the girl that got stood up
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  Speaker 1: that we played. I think it was on maybe Tuesday. Uh, I,
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  Speaker 1: I am willing to bet a lot of that is
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  Speaker 1: she's probably bashed guys before on their attempts to go
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  Speaker 1: out with her.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest aid in dating would be to
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  Speaker 2: keep it off of social media.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I think that would help everybody because people watching it,
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  Speaker 2: they see certain expectations. You putting it out there, you're
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  Speaker 2: watching it as well. You've got certain expectations. And there
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  Speaker 2: are certain things you may not even realize you're doing
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  Speaker 2: or noticing other people. If you take it offline a
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  Speaker 2: little bit and just make it what it's supposed to be,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: which is supposed to be trying to connect with a
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  Speaker 2: human on some sort of a human level, you should
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  Speaker 2: be able to talk to a person more easily than
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  Speaker 2: your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I went out with a girl, I know, I
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  Speaker 1: think we talked about it, that I actually followed on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok and I saw her out one day and I
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  Speaker 1: liked her. We had a nice time, but it played
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  Speaker 1: into my thought pattern about she's on social media all
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the time. She posts every day. And is that too much?
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  Speaker 2: While keeping in mind, it's fair game to talk about
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  Speaker 2: her on the Treehouse show all we want. Well, it's...
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  Speaker 2: I'm messing with you. It is a completely different thing.
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  Speaker 2: Because everyone airs all their... Not everyone, but so many
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  Speaker 2: people air all their business on social media.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, you realize you don't have to do that, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's just a thought.
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  Speaker 3: You can just keep it to yourself. If you had
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  Speaker 3: a bad time or a good time, just whatever. Just
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  Speaker 3: enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like if You don't post about it. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen. But I think that's how a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people seem to approach it. It wasn't real unless I
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  Speaker 2: posted about it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk about this weird place. You want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about people. I am looked upon like damaged goods.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I'm not. But I am 52,
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  Speaker 1: never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic. People think just the
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  Speaker 1: fact I've never been married and don't have kids, there's
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  Speaker 1: something profoundly wrong with me.
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  Speaker 2: That is a tough hurdle to get over.
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  Speaker 6: Mackie posted something here that says, my buddy said that
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  Speaker 6: women have told him that it's a red flag that
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  Speaker 6: he doesn't have social media.
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  Speaker 2: And look, there are plenty of men out there that
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  Speaker 2: take that approach. Like, I've got friends of mine that
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  Speaker 2: are barely on social media. Like you're trying to hide something.
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  Speaker 2: It's called living in the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I just don't interact with it. Yeah, that's sad.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: There is a girl on TikTok, and she goes on
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  Speaker 1: dating apps as a guy and will do and say
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  Speaker 1: different things. And she's consistently shocked about how awful women are.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that she posted, and it was hilarious.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: is that the guy in his bio said, I believe
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that a first date should be split 50-50. And the
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  Speaker 1: comments were just, you know, it's like, oh, you're cheap,
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  Speaker 1: you're a red flag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, that's one of the other things. And
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  Speaker 1: then women, and women are shocked. They meet these guys
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  Speaker 1: on online dating apps, and they're their bios, you know,
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  Speaker 1: make them sound like they are, you know, captains of
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  Speaker 1: industry and, and just the greatest thing ever. And, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: they're not, and the, and the women are shocked, but
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: yet they still like, you know, I was reading about
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  Speaker 1: one guy who is a welder. And if you know
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: anything about welding right now, like you're making six figures
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: as a welder blue collar, but you're, you're doing really
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  Speaker 1: well for yourself. And yeah. Yeah. but with data centers
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  Speaker 1: and everything else, you're, you're banking. And, but put that
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  Speaker 1: in his profile and, you know, and how he, it
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  Speaker 1: was just look, look down upon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Expectations, expectations, expectations. They will ruin you. Oh God.
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  Speaker 2: Um, And even Linda in the chat says here, can
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z keep it offline nowadays? No. It's so rare
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  Speaker 2: that they do anything only offline.
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  Speaker 3: I've known some Gen Z kids.
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  Speaker 2: It really does feel like something wasn't real if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't post about it.
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  Speaker 3: Or there's this....
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  Speaker 2: It's like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when we
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: were young, right? And we just always took that stuff
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  Speaker 2: as true. Then as we got older and saw Cribs
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: on MTV, we realized that a lot of the celebrities
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: on TV doing Cribs, that wasn't even their house. They
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: were renting it for the show. And then we started
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: realizing that a lot of this stuff is manufactured. It's
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: fake just to make you look better than you are.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what has happened now with an entire generation.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: They've spent their entire lives online and on social media.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: So a lot of the stuff they put out there
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is just concocted or it's fake.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: So there's the pressure and the stress to keep up
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the illusion.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: It's fake or, you know, the truth of the matter
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is a lot of the quote unquote influencers who do well,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: they come from well-off families and they have the luxury
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of being able to throw all their time into being
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a social media star. And by the way, Linda, thank you.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I saw your post that you said your husband's 20
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: years older and I still have a chance. I appreciate
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that talk.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So you're telling me there's a chance.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe all you got to do, Trey, is hear me
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: out here. Just a little light stalking. And this is
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: what I mean. That sounds controversial, but hear what I
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: mean in application, okay? Let's go out to some place.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: and just wait for like someone like this young Victoria Vega,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: who's going to end up with some moron on a date.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And you can just be the, the kind of cool,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: mysterious gray Fox that comes up and says like.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want a cookie.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Actually.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And you just open up a box of your snickerdoodles
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and she will be yours. I mean, because everything you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: said earlier about people saying you're a walking red flag.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, I get it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: You're 52. You're single, never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I realize that is not a list of green flags
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: by some people's standards.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: But once you put in there, but I like to bake.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Although now that I hear all that out loud, they
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: might think you are baking people.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: I say go with it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Go out with a little box of cookies and you
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: just wait for some pretty girl to be on a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: horrible date and then you say, I can't believe this
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: guy is treating you so badly. Here, would you like
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: one of my freshly baked cookies?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I may give it a shot.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And make sure that you eat one in front of
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: her so she knows that they're safe.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: They're not lazy. Puppy in the other hand.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, take Lily with you, take your puppy and a
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: box of cookies. No one will care about your red flags, Trey.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Because you're holding two green ones.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: That's a thought.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: You're right. It is a thought. Not necessarily a good one.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe not a good idea, but it is a thought.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: It is a way to go.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll either get you a date or possibly on
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: the 11 o'clock news.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: It's a crapshoot.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I do like Double AJ in the chat pointing this out.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: He says, it's keeping up with the Joneses, except now
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the Joneses can follow you everywhere.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is. There is good news, though, Trey,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: if you are single.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Being single right now means you don't have to worry
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: about catching STD diarrhea.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: What?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I would think being single would.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Put me at a higher risk than being married for that.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but anything STD, I'm
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: going to assume.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: A bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea can spread through
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: sexual contact, and drug-resistant strains are becoming more common in
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the United States.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: In the United States. It's called shigellosis.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And shigella passes from person to person when tiny amounts
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of infected fecal matter reach the mouth, including during sex
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: or through contaminated food and water. Symptoms include fever, stomach cramps,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: and sometimes bloody diarrhea. A CDC analysis found that extensively
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: drug-resistant strains accounted for 8.5% of samples tested just as
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: recently as 2023, which was up from zero in 2011.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So, in other words, there's been a meteoric rise in.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: In STD diarrhea. It's known as shigellosis or the shigella.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I swear. Can't even eat ass now. Just take it
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: all away from us. All of it. You're dead on, Jerry.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is. What's the world coming to
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: when you can't even eat ass without worrying about catching
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: an STD?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Actually, there was a Reddit thread that someone asked, what
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: does it taste like to eat ass?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I would imagine exactly like you expect.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Well, as one person said, well, it shouldn't taste like anything.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't. That is correct.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: If it tastes like something, um, then, uh, yeah. Then
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: if it does taste like something, then it wasn't clean enough. Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I do like what Linda says.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: First lettuce and blueberries. 2026 has been a rough year
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: for the different ways to get unwanted diarrhea. Right. Oh, Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I've never actually thought about that. What does it taste
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: like to eat ass? Well, hopefully nothing. Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: If it tastes like something, you're doing it wrong.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Then to the bathroom you both need to go. Or
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: if you're doing it and you can taste what they.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Had for dinner. Mmm, Burger King.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Trey, how far down did you read in that thread?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, was that pretty much the resounding answer that
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it shouldn't taste like anything?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Unless you get lucky and you get like a fruit
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: roll-up flavor. Even that has questions that come with it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Jesus. Jesus.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: into the treehouse. 833-COOK-DFW is the phone number to get
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: your free roof inspection and property review scheduled. The website, cookdfw.com.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say some scary words, Daniel. Super El Nino.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: And the effect that is going to have on weather,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: especially in the North Texas area.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: You know, you're right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: We just are officially in going into the Super El Nino.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: The reason why is because it's warmer than a regular
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: El Nino. And it does prelude that we will have
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: a wetter, higher rain percentage than a normal year, or
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: shall we say on El Nino. So there are some differences, speculations.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Nothing is set in stone. This is not a guarantee
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: that we're going to have a deluge of water. for
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: the next year. I mean, that's just not what it means.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Scientific data says, hey, we might have a wetter than normal.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We could have more storms.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: It could be just a lot of rain.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: We all need to go out and build arcs.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean, be prepared.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: The moral of the story is every day you live
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: in North Texas, especially in North Texas, be prepared. Know
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: how your home is sitting. Know how your roof looks.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Know how your Windows are working. Know if your doors
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: have holes in them. I mean, just know your home.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Know your home. Call us out.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: We want to educate you.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: We will come around, walk you around, show you things
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: that you should know, and then we can help you
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: with getting them taken care of.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: And no pressure, all education.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And Daniel and his fine team at Cook DFW will
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: take care of you, the homeowner, with very, very gentle hands.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I know because I've been in them. 833-COOK-DFW. That sound bad?
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Sounded bad.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: 833-COOK-DFW. Get that scheduled today. the website cook dfw.com.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, let's, uh, let's completely shift
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: gears into some birthdays.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: What do you say?
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Today is Thursday, October 15th, 2026. Let's celebrate today.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: With some birthdays.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I am drawing a blank on this girl. Trey, you
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: may bust out your phone. Um, Grace Van Dien, V-A-N-D-I-E-N.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: She's 30 today, and she played Chrissy Cunningham on Stranger Things.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Her character's unforgettable scene with Vecna became a viral sensation. Okay,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Chrissy was the one at the beginning. of season four
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that Vecna folded up. She was the first victim, uh,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: in four where she got folded up in Eddie's trailer.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: That's who that is. Okay. Took me a second.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I was like, which character is Chrissy Cunningham?
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: It's like, Oh yeah, Chrissy. Okay.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: She was the cheerleader from season four. So she is
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: 30 years old today. Um, I think there are some
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: people that didn't love season four and season five kind
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: of has some of its controversies, but there is no
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: mistaking that everyone remembered her death at the beginning of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: season four of stranger things. When all of her bones
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: start popping in her eyes, get sucked into the back
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: of her head.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: That was a shocking death.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I thought stranger things was one of the better, better
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: done shows in the last 20 years.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: The more I've, I've gone back and I've watched it
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: twice and I watched the season five twice and the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: finale was, I think it was a little long, not
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: a little long, but there were a number of things,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: you know, they were just, I think unnecessarily long, but
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: you know, if that's the worst.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Thing, then so be it. Um, but overall it was
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: pretty good.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: It wasn't majorly controversial the way, you know, the end
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: of a Sopranos was, or like, what was it? Lost
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: that people were, were really mad about the, the finale
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: on that or game of Thrones.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Jesus.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that I, I, I just
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: fully appreciated with stranger things. So many series, especially now
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a game of Thrones lost suits. The, the, the last
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: season is a money grab.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And Umbrella Academy was another one. You know, great shows.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And then they just really crapped the bed on the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: last season. And I thought the, is it the Duffer Brothers?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought they did a really good job
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: with it. You're never going to make everyone happy, but
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: all in all, I, you know, it's not like I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: sat back and like, God, I can't believe I wasted
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: eight hours on that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is very true.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Like, you didn't immediately turn it off and go, God,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: that was just trash and just whatever.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I had a few notes, but all in all, it
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: was all right. It was.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: You could definitely tell that there was some issues, you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: in the writing as far as, you know, there was
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: one of the Duffer brothers, I think, got a divorce.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: And she was somebody that was helping write the show.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: So when she left, you kind of felt the influence.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I did not know that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll definitely throw a wrench into your season finale
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: is when your marriage is ending to one of the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: people you also work with.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Another reason why.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Don't mix the stuff. It might be a little different
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: if it's a marriage kind of a thing, but still
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: that seems like.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: It is Hollywood.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Things are weird there. I work with my wife on
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: certain things, but it's a very clear thing. It's like,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: with her job, she's the boss. I tell her like,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: you just tell me what you need me to do.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: And then I'll just go do that thing. Shut up, Trey.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't even have to say anything. I, I, I,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I pummeled myself, uh, other birthdays today.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Let's see. Okay.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: So Grace Van Dean is 30 from stranger thing. She
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: played Chrissy.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Um, it's just weird. My, I.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Don't know how often you guys use, uh, like ai
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: whether it's chat gpt or claude or whatever sometimes it
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: changes things and i don't know why it does it
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: like it changed up my birthday's list here and now
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: i'm getting a bunch of people in here i've never
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: even heard of uh although genuine i know i recognize
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: genuine genuine's 56 got to get on that pony dominic
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: west is 57 play jimmy mcnulty on the wire He
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: was also the bad guy in 300. He was the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: one that got the gold pieces to sell out the Spartans.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Eric Benet is 60. This says it's, oh, I'm thinking
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: of a different guy. So Eric Benet is 60. He's
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: an R & B singer known for Spend My Life
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: With You and Sometimes I Cry. What's the actor's name?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: He was from ER, Eric. but he was also the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: soul glow.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Eric LaSalle.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: He was also the soul glow guy from coming to America.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: That's I saw the name. That's who I thought of.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Emeril Lagasse. The bam chef is 67 today.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: God, he looks old.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: He really does. I don't know if people remember.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: How big he got.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, not not just cooking show. Emeril was so big,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: he had a sitcom.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. I mean, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: don't remember how many. Yeah, I don't think it lasted
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: more than a couple episodes.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: But I remember thinking, they gave this guy a sitcom
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: based on being a chef and then a TV chef.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's crazy to think about now, just giving someone a
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: sitcom based on no acting ability whatsoever.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: But, you know, bam.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It's funny. You mentioned handing out sitcoms because I was
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: listening to Chuck Lorre was on Joe Rogan and talking
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: about how sitcoms, you know, 20 years ago, even 10
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: years ago were great. And now you don't see, you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: really don't see sitcoms anymore. They've become, and they were
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: talking about how a lot of it with everything from
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the late teens, COVID, everything else has It's like people
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: feel almost, it's like a guilty pleasure to laugh. And
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that everything has to be serious and meaning and everything else.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And you just can't have stupid.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: It's jokes are okay. It's okay to let go for
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit. It's why we do this show. And
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it's interesting that, that some people like on the TV
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: side of things, those things aren't as popular as they
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: used to be like the sitcom, because it used to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: be the sitcoms. That was, I mean, I mean, think
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: of all the classic shows we grew up with which
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: owned the ratings. And then you might have one or
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: two drama shows that might be in the mix. Let's
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: just think back to something we all can remember, like
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the 90s. The 80s into the 90s was a beautiful
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: heyday of sitcoms. You had great sitcoms. and then a
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: couple of drama shows, and they were almost all really,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: But you're right.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Nowadays, it's like no sitcoms, and it's all scary, freaky
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: drama stuff, and some of it's just really just movies,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: but are on TV.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'll make an argument that the most viewed lineup
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: was Thursday nights on NBC, and the mid-late 90s through
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the mid-2000s, because you had Friends, Cheers, I forgot all
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the other, but then you had ER.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Also Frasier and ER.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Frasier, yeah. But you had sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, drama.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: And it was, they owned Thursday nights. You couldn't, the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: other networks couldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: No, because I remember at one point on Thursday nights,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: you would start with Friends at 7, and then 7.30
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: might be like something else.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I can't, like.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of drawing a blank there, but then like
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock, Frasier maybe, and then 8.30 something else, and
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: then ER. That's three hours of programming from seven to 10,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: you were locked in.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I was in college for a lot of that, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: we literally, people would come over and we would cook out,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: but starting at seven o'clock, seven to 10, we were
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: all eating and drinking and watching TV because it was
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: literally must-see TV. Yeah. And it's not like you could
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: tape it. Well, you probably could if you knew how
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: to operate a VCR, but it wasn't like it's on
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: demand or anything else. So if you didn't see what happened,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: chances are you weren't going to be able to see
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it until the summer reruns.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Right. They called that block the must-see TV.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: It says here NBC schedule in the mid-90s during the
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: peak of all of that was mad about you or friends,
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: depending upon your region. Wings, Seinfeld, Frasier, or Mad About You,
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: and then ER or Law & Order.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Seinfeld. That was the other.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Networks are paying billions of dollars to get one of
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: those shows on their streaming platform.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: And on NBC on Thursday nights, they had them all.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: A couple other birthdays I want to mention. I almost
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: missed this one. Uh, it was a couple in here.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Paul Walter Hauser is 40. This is a guy who's
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: kind of up and coming. Um, he was, he played
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Richard Jewell. The, uh, the guy who was the FBI bomber.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, he, yep.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: He was also in I Tanya Blackbird and Cobra Kai.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: He was like the heavier set Cobra Kai guy on the,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: on the TV series. He was also in the soccer
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: movie with, um, um, Marky Mark that came out last year.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: It was like a world cup.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Thing that he was in. And then he was also, God,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: he's been in a lot of stuff recently. He was the,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: he was, what's the movie? He was like the head
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of the mole people in, was it Quantumania or something? Anyway,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: he's done a lot of stuff. If you see his face,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, that guy. So Paul Walter Hauser is 40.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Vanessa Marcille is 58. She was Nick Cage's girlfriend in
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: The Rock.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, see?
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: She was also, at the time, she was a big
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: soap opera star. I think she was on General Hospital.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I watched that. The Rock was on the other day.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: That still holds up.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: That movie's so freaking good.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I was just venturing off into my brain, kind
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: of watching it in my mind. It's just like, God,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: The Rock is such a good movie. I have never
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: seen it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: What?
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Never seen it. You've never seen The Rock?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I just got chills.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm dumbfounded.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Jerry, it takes a lot to make me speechless and
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: you almost did it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: You should. Is there any reason why you haven't seen it?
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: I never saw a preview that made it look interesting.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: I've heard a lot of people say good things about it, but.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, a Sean Connery is so. Freaking good. Like that's,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and that was, and that was prime Nick, you know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Nick cage. Uh, but Sean Connery at hair, like that,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: that whole cast, it was just, it's so good.
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: And I've recently gotten more of an appreciation for Nicholas cage.
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: I've always, I've always liked him, but I've really gotten
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: appreciation for him here after a spider noir.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Um, well, I think he, he, I mean, and he
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: did it to himself. His career crapped the bed so hard,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and he did such crap for a while that people
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: have forgotten that in the mid-late 90s, I mean, hell,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: going back to the late 80s with Raising Arizona, he
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: was a bona fide star.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Such a good movie.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Con Air.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Dude made like $ 20 million for Con Air. Partly because
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: The Rock was that good. Jerry, we have not done
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: a live movie rewatch, partly because it's kind of hard
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to do it because of copyright and stuff, but I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: would love to watch you watch The Rock just to
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: see if you enjoy it. I'll tell you right now, though,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: if you say you don't like it, I'll kill you.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I would be shocked if you didn't like it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: No pressure. No pressure. If we want to do that,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: that's cool. I'll make sure to... No, just watch it.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Put it in my watch list.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's truly... It is.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: It is a good movie.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: That is an all-time guy flick.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's... Going back and watching it again, the chemistry,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the way they played off each other between Sean Connery
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and Nicolas Cage was.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Was superb.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: We're here for you, Jerry. We'll form a little support group.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: And if need to, we'll tie you down clockwork orange style,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: put in the eye spreaders, and you will see the rock.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: What's amazing to me is not only how great of
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: a movie that was, but it's one of the best
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: lines in movie history that Sean Connery delivers.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: And you've never seen it in context, Jerry.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Prom?
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Carla was the prom queen, and Carla is Vanessa Marcille,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: who is 58 today. Look at that full circle.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: There you go. What do you have to do to
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: get a double DWI?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: This is one of those stories that you would think
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: is automatic Florida, and it actually is the opposite of Florida. Portsmouth,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: New Hampshire. A Portsmouth man was arrested twice in one
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: night facing two DWI.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Charges as a result.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Tell me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: without telling me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: If you get a.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: DWI pretty much anywhere else, you're not going to be
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: in a car for at least a couple of days.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: If even less than six months. It's a Right.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: That's my first question. They just let him drive away
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: after that? Or did he have to go home and
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: acquire another vehicle?
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: So Michael Stiles, 25, was intoxicated when he crashed into
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: a parked police cruiser around 10.15 p.m.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: On Monday.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: That's according to the Portsmouth Police Department. Then he was
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: reportedly arrested and charged with a DWI and reckless conduct.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Police say he was later released on a personal recognizance bail.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Three hours later, police say they responded to a separate
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: incident where Stiles was again driving a car under the
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: influence after his release, and he was again charged with
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: a DWI as a breach of bail misdemeanor. He's now
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: being held without bail.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: That is, when you hear about cashless bail and stuff
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: like that, that is exactly what that stuff is. And
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the other thing is, typically in most places, If you
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: are arrested for DWI, you are going to be held
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: until they think the alcohol has gotten out of your
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: system and you are no longer intoxicated.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: This one, I mean, that is a quick in and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: out in a jail. I mean, that's basically they fingerprinted you,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: processed you, and you are out the door.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: This sounds like a story that would have happened in
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: like the 70s or the 80s where you get pulled
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: over for a DWI or reckless driving and they're.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Like, all right, don't do that again. You good? Yeah,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I promise, sir. Okay, we'll see you later. And then
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: you actually do see him a few hours later because
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: they get into another wreck. That doesn't sound like anything
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: that would happen in 2026.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Well, 76? Sure.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Think about what happens if this had been more serious
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and he had hurt somebody on that second.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: I forget.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Did did I show you guys the video or have
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: you seen it? It was from WFAA, I think, in
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: the early 80s where they were talking about the crackdown
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: on drinking while driving laws. So Texas didn't really have
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: much of one. And then they were talking to drivers
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: driving by saying, hey, what do you think about these
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: new laws in Texas outlawing drinking while driving? And there's
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: a guy in there is like, man, I don't like
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: it as he's taking a hit of Old Milwaukee or something.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: He's like, man, I get done with work. I want
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: to have a couple of beers.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I'm an adult.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: I should be able to have a couple of beers
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: on the way home from work. Not anymore. Straight to
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: jail you go.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: No.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I believe he's smoking a cigarette in that clip, too.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: He's multitasking.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah. All right, listen.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: He's probably got a kid hanging out in the back windshield, too.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Things you can't You can't accurately convey to younger generation
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: of there was a time it was not– you did
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: not have to wear a seatbelt. You could drive around
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: with a drink. Parents smoked in the car and trying
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: to understand that, hey, you would climb into the space
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: where the back window slanted down between the back seat
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and the back window to get away from your parents
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: whipping your ass. Yeah.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: All of that combined with, and the windows are all up.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or old cars that had the smoking window.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: The little vent.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: The little notch.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: And then if you really did misbehave and you hid
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: into that back windshield of the car, and then your
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: parents smoked, and what do they do?
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: If you wedged your, yeah, they would hit the brakes.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. but if you wedged yourself in there good enough
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: and the brakes didn't dislodge you, did this ever happen
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: to you? They would take the cigarette lighter, they'd push
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: it in and then just go on down the road.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: And then when it popped back out, they'd pull it
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: and flick it at you.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: No, not even.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: All right, Jerry, you're back up on the adoption process.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Um, Just me? Okay.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: My dad just would pull over on the side of
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the road. I got my ass whipped on I-30 one time.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: While he was smoking and drinking. Ah, the good old
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: days when we were raised with character.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: You're like 12 years old. Your dad's like holding you
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: by one foot.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Just smacking you on the side.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So here's another little thing people don't realize. A lot
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: of the older cars didn't have cup holders.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't see a cup holder until
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: the 90s.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: Mm-mm.
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: That was one of the greatest things in sliced bread
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: when something showed up. It was one cup holder in
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: the console. That was the greatest thing ever. Yeah, so
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: this is what it would look like. You would have
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: in the left hand, this is the driver. So dad's driving, right?
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Because very rare mom drove, especially if dad was around,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: unless he had just drank so much and then they
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: had to switch. So he's got the cigarette between the
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: index and the middle finger while holding the beer with
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: the other two fingers.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: That's the left hand.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: The knee would be steering, and the other foot would
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: be on the gas or brake pedal, leaving the right
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: hand free to reach and beat you while driving. That
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: is what it was like to grow up in the 80s.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I called it vacation elbow.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: It's like you'd be trying to hide in the back windshield.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: They'd slam on the brakes, and your dad just sticks
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: his arm out, and they'd clothesline you with the people's
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: elbow as you fly to the front.
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: The other variation is they would get that extra six
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: inches on the arm, and they could just reach back
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: and just smack wherever you were in the car, and
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: they would just find you.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I think they designed cars purposely for that purpose was
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: so that parents still had enough reach to reach the
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: kid in the back seat, so the car wasn't too long.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: That was the difference.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Once the Suburban came along and the kid could hide
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: all the way in the back where the parent couldn't
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: reach them, that's when all the kids got too soft.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 51:18
  Speaker 6: There was quite a bit of distance between that front
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: seat and the back in a 78 Oldsmobile.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Well, see, that's why, to me, that was the grandparents' car.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: They could get away with it because it was very
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: rare that they were going to get you. But it
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: also meant you had more distance to travel when they
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: hit the brakes and you flew to the front.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: There was that. Oh, man.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I think it was cell phones because when cell phones
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: came out, then people could call in when you're watching
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: someone with their child on the side of the road
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: and go, hey, there's child abuse.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Back in the 70s, you drove by and it's like,
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: I wonder what he did. stick your head out get
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: him for me.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: You're right it really does take a village to beat
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: a child yeah.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: This is great.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Marshall in the chat mom always used a fly swatter
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: handle on me from the front seat the metal handles See,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: that's the difference. When someone says I was beat with
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: a fly swatter, the kids today would think, oh, my God,
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: that's terrible.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: They hit you with the flappy part? No. They hit
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: us with.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: The metal part. The flappy part would come off. Kids
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: today just don't know. Linda, the good old days of roadies.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And yet somehow we survived, and here we are.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: And not only that, but we all wax poetic about
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: it and feel nostalgic about it in some way.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: I know, right? It's sort of a trauma bond. We
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: all turned out just fine, didn't we?
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you ever have that time where you were
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: hiding from your parents in the back windshield, and then
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: you blinked, and all of a sudden you were in
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the front windshield?
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: Tangled up in the gap between the two seats in
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: the front.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: When the front seat feels like a turnbuckle. And we
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: could do that because you didn't have rear seat belts.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Well, that's the only reason the parents had such reach.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: They didn't have front seat belts. Or if they did,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: they were just lap belts.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Seatbelts were a big inconvenience because they really restricted your
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: range of motion.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I'll say what I think. Marshall talked about extension cords. Yes,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: they were. The other thing that was used to whip
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: phone cords, the phone cords that went from the wall
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: to the phone.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Those are made differently today than they were back then.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: They don't even make them anymore.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: And this is why, because so many kids were beat
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: to death with them.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: The cord from the wall to the phone was too dangerous.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging out with us, guys. We will see
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: you next week right here inside the treehouse.