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Trey is Depressed | Treehouse Plus 24 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Welcome inside the treehouse, but this is treehouse US, which means you are
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  deeper inside the treehouse. Thank you for your five dollars. We appreciate it.
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  Normally the treehouse is full of stupid. But I think we've we've been
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  presented with a challenge today and I feel good about it. The challenge is,
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  can we make Tray feel better? Can we take an almost fifty year
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  old AA RP carrying man, single man suffering from anxiety, depression and a
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  general malaise, if you will, can we make him feel better? Tray?
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  I think it's important that we start this episode with me asking the age
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  old question. Okay, no, but you did just make me laugh though,
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  because you know I when you did the tray you know aa arp,
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  I'm like, and I guess the tray aa a a ARP. I was
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  gonna say, it's the same thing. When we're on the same page,
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  I was gonna say the same thing was I thought you were just putting it
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  out there off the jump it's like tray aa And I was like, okay,
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  well that was a weird way to start it. And then you hit
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  the RP and I'm like, okay, he didn't say the other part and
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  then traded it for us, Like you know one of those doctors that have
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  a bunch of letters after their names. It's just an abbreviation for fuck up
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  and old. Yeah. I think if if I if I went to your
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  office building and I'm walking into Trey Trenholm, Comma A A A A A
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  r P. Yeah, I'm gonna look around to see if there's a different
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  door, Maybe someone with with a few less letters, Maybe something with like
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  a with a a picture of a of a sunny sky in the ceiling tile,
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  just anything other than A A A A A r P after Trey Trenholm.
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  So Alcoholics Anonymous Association of Retired People and Anxiety. Yeah, yeah,
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  I I just figure there's somebody that's in A A and A ar P,
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  Like that's the guy I want to advice from. I thought, I thought
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  the thing that was gonna make Trey feel better is the fact that he is
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  in a ARP. Therefore he's got the discounts to look forward to. It's
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  what keeps him going, gets those early birds specials, that really gets him
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  out of bed in the morning. I'm telling you, it's uh, I
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  want to I want somebody that's an AA and AARP to be like, hey,
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  here's the deal man. Don't don't over drink this, but if you
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  do, here's the best place to sleep. This is the best bar bathroom
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  to sleep it. Hey, I would say wedding for the AARP member.
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  The best prescription drug plan I've I've had, Like, yeah, it's a
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  it's better than anything. So if you want cheaper prescription drugs, it's like
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  automatic twenty percent off. Yeah. But I mean, like I had,
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  like it's like gold gold r X or whatever. I had the same thing.
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  Yeah, and uh, it wasn't bad, but the art things better.
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  Yeah. I think it's twenty percent off of like the lowest price they
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  can get on like good RX. And then they not another twenty percent.
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  It's fantastic. And then and you know, I knew it was I knew
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  I was getting old. Like I've said this before. I was. I
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  saw the magazine and Luke Perry was on it. Uh, and I was
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  like, yeah, making AARP cool. Yeah, I was like, we
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  I'm old. Buddy Dylan's on the cover of AARB magazine. Yeah, but
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  funny funny interestingly enough, Brandon's not I know, and Andre could have been
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  on it when she started the show. Yeah, I think she was an
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  ARP member as she was playing a high school student. I think you're right.
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  She was four years younger than the Walsh dad. I mean, but
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  yeah, well that is one positive with our generation is we're fucking agent better
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  than that's trade. Fifty years old. He was Wilford Brimley and flow from
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  Alice. It really is an interesting time to be alive. Uh and and
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  and because of that, like I said, and I'm serious when I say,
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  I want to see if there's something we can do to make you feel
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  better. And I don't know if that's even possible. Maybe just talking about
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  some stuff, will you know, will just ease your conscience or your your
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  your physical self. I don't. I don't know because for those of you,
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  because I don't know how it works, Like how does it work?
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  Like what is your brain telling you? Like I don't. I have anxiety,
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  so I know my brain tells me I'm dying. That's what that does.
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  Depression, I don't know how that works. I'll start with this.
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  Uh. I vividly remember my first episode of depression. I was ten years
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  old. I was in fifth grade at the sitting in the back of the
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  classroom. I couldn't verbalize now, but I bet I called it, you
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  know, later on, I call it the overwhelming wave of sadness. And
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  you said no, I said later on, later when I could, when
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  I could articulate it. Oh yeah, I just imagine the note home to
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  your mom from the teacher is very eloquent, also sad. There's a little
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  he's a little dark, but he's got a great vocabulary. He's gonna be
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  a gifted writer, terrible drunk, gifted writer. But are all gifted writers
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  terrible drugs like that. That's Stephen King drunk hit by a car. So
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  that's a special talent. H And So I say this, and and and
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  it's not part of it is childhood influences and everything else, but and and
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  this sounds really dramatic to say, and and it, but it's it is
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  the truth, which is I doubt there has been a day that has gone
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  by since I was ten years old that I did not think of either killing
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  myself or just my demise. Really every day every day. Wow, Okay,
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  And over the last couple of weeks, it's just it's gotten bad.
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  Okay, yeah, I Yeah. My heart goes out to you because I
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  don't know how. That's one of those things where you friends and family,
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  kid doing anything about it, right, I mean like even words of wisdom
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  or reassurance or none of that would work. Right. That's so if it
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  did, then this wouldn't be the problem that it is in the world.
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  You know, it doesn't hurt. Yeah, to try no listen, it
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  was I can. I confided this and Dan, you know, with Dan
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  yesterday, and it's the first person I had I had vocalize it, to
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  verbalize it, whatever you want to say, and and and it was it
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  was helpful. It's it probably has started with I feel like Roy Firestone on
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  ESPN, I was wondering, who's break attention? Because sorry, I got
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  it. I got it. What a great reference. Thank you, You're
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  welcome. That's why we do this. And I'd like to go ahead check
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  off the box that it would that this is at least help me, or
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  actually, maybe I shouldn't check the box that it's helping. I should check
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  the box Underneathan says, well, it's not hurting. So yeah, it
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  probably started a couple of weeks ago when i've i've I've started noticing, you
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  know, uh days he's getting older. Yeah, h and m h it's
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  yeah, I'm sorry, it's okay. Is it a combination of things or
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  it was like the thinking about one of the biggest things that that hit me
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  is daisies old. I said, my mom's old, My mom's old.
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  Oh the family I got. Yeah, Well, if I can be so
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  bold, that's not the only family. Yeah, I'm younger than you,
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  so the odds are in my favor that I'll be around long after you're gone.
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  How is that reassuring? That's great for you. No, it's reassuring
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  me because because about his demise has me thinking about Trade's demise, and it
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  also has to be thinking about my demise. Moment, that was very complimentary.
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  You should never be a therapist. Yeah, there's a reason why there
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  are no letters. So long after you i'm no longer by client, I'll
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  still be here. I'll still be charging you. Uh No, And in
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  in somewhat seriousness, I mean that, Yeah, I realized that's that's your
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  only family on paper, But there are there are other family members in your
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  life, and that's not always an apparent thing. It's not always every day
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  type of thing. Yeah, because I'm twenty two hundred miles away. It's
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  not like I can, you know, jump through your front door with a
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  battering ram and give you a hug that you reluctantly accept. I can,
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  Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to kick in your door. I'm
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  assuming you live in a white neighborhood. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna poltelykno,
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  he's he's he's yeah, he's he's he's white adjacent. Okay, don't
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  worry. We know plenty of police officers that will help you kick in Trey's
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  door. Yes, I want I want their help. I don't want them
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  to show up as I'm doing it. So anyway, everyone's getting old year
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  old dog is all yeah, and it's just it it just I think that
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  is what just started. And and sometimes it is just one of those things
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  that it it starts small and then it just snowballs and then it's it's just
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  uh and you know, honestly, then it just it's like everything and and
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  so then that leads to wow, I've made really bad decisions in my life,
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  and I'm you know, it just just all of a sudden and it's
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  like fuck y, and you know, and then that's what it's like and
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  then it just starts of you know, ah, the real morose just of
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  you know, it's probably a very sound and logical thing that you know at
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  the very latest, you know, seventy five that I just killed myself because
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  I'm I'm gonna be alone and uh, I figure I have like one more
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  round of dogs left, and then I don't. I then I started thinking
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  about the anxiety of you know, what age do you start waking up if
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  you're alone, and then you you know, you worry that something could happen,
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  and then you're gonna you know, no one's gonna find you for days.
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  See, that's in my anxiety. That's when I that's my that's in
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  my panic attacks. That's and then I think by myself, yeah that was
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  my panic attacks. I'm like, they're gonna find me here. And then
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  it was just crazy. I mean, crazy shit starts going through your head
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  like I wouldn't and this is no bullshit. When I was telling them because
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  that I would get them back to back, so I had that the rare
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  uh this is before I started therapy, like I would get them because they
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  last about twenty minutes, so I'd get them for twenty minutes and it would
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  stop for about four minutes and I'm like, oh my attack, okay,
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  yeah, and then it would start again and it would be all day long.
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  So I would dress and I don't know if you've done this before,
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  I would dress like if they find me, this is what I want to
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  wear. What was like, are we talking like a suit or I just
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  want to I just just know I I don't want to Jolas and I was
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  like eight, I don't know if he just wanted to be comfortable. No,
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  I just I would have like a nice you know, if I was
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  living in California, it's a nice T shirt. And I would have my
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  favorite blanket and I would have my jeans, I have my shoes on.
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  Like this is like just because I'm I'm by myself and I'm in l A
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  right, so everybody I know is here in Dallas, so you're not going
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  to get to me in time. So I wanted to be like when they
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  get me, like, oh, he looks great. That's like what that's
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  in my head that I'm not even missing. I'm not even bullshiting in my
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  head. I want to that's a good look. He's dressed well. As
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  they're taking me out of the thing. So that happens to me. It's
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  like, you know, I when when I was living by myself, I'm
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  like, well that I don't I'm not gonna be able to call anybody,
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  right because I'm I'm dead, So uh yeah, even dead I would be
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  okay with. It's the what if you have a stroke and you can't move
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  and you're stuck in bed for three days? That is the anxiety that just
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  absolutely, you know, tears me up. Yeah, mine is uh yeah,
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  mine's being dying alone? Was mine? Well, and that's you know
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  that again, and that goes to the greater thing of just being alone and
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  everything else. And so it's like yesterday, I'm like, I'm walking Daisy
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  and then all of a sudden, I am just sitting on the curb in
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  the middle of the street just sobbing and and and and really there's no catalyst
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  or anything else. And then I go to work and then I get an
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  anxiety attack and that lasts, you know, six hours, and I'm like,
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  my brain is actively trying to kill me. And then I'm pretty sure
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  that Meta is trying to kill me too, because for some reason, now
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  in my algorithm, every fucking video I see is a goddamn police dog's funeral.
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  Oh god, oh no, that's not right. Fucking Zuckerberg, man,
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  jesus, did you post something somewhere like saying that meta or Facebook and
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  Instagram are horrible? Did you? Did you say it out loud and your
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  microphone picked it up. You can't say it out loud. You can't say
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  it. We're all actually screwed. Now at this point, I'm probably gonna
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  start getting him now. Yeah, that's a. Yeah, that's a.
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  So there is there is a fix for that trade. What you have to
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  do is you have to seek out opposite content porn. Yeah. So if
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  you're getting too many police dog funeral stuff, which is let me go to
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  pornhub, gut wrenching. You don't even need to go to pornhub, which
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  is very difficult to do still in Texas, I think. So what you
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  do is instead just go to your Instagram search and just just type in you
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  know, uh, big ass titties, yeah, and just see what comes
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  up and then click on some and then that way the algorithm thinks, oh,
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  this is what he's looking for. Or it doesn't even have to be
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  that. It can be cooking videos, just something besides the really sad stuff.
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  I get a lot of Gordon Ramsey videos in between the dog funeral videos.
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  Okay, yeah, you have to be careful because that's a The Gordon
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  Ramsey thing is a double edged sword. On one hand, it could be
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  fun and funny to watch him scream at people, uh for feeding him dog
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  food. The downside is there's also the thing where people will send him ugly
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  photos or photos of ugly food that then he criticizes. And some of those
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  plates of food are so sad they may want you. They look like depression
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  on a paper plate. I like that. That may not help them.
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  I like the guy who they take the fast food too, and they're like,
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  can you make something gourmet out of this? Wait? Which one that?
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  So there's the New York deli guy or the Asian guy, the master
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  chef, the Iron Chef. I can't think of his name, or deli
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  guy, okay, because they also do that he was I think he was
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  the original Iron chef. And I'm drawing a blank on his name. And
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  he's amazing and his from only the strong. No, he's the chairman in
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  my back and he does that same thing. The guy, will you know
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  his kid will bring him like Chick fil A, and all of a sudden,
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  yeah, thirty minutes later, you have this amazing five star meal and
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  he's deep breaded the chicken and he's done. That's exactly what it always takes
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  the Chick fil A off of it. What I'd like to see that guy
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  do is take a plate full of tray, hand it to the chef and
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  say, makes up the gourmet out of this bier ship. I did h
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  when I can you just make a sandwich? Can you just make something that
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  Panera would be happy to have on the menu. I'm just edible. I
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  was tying these du when I went to my therapist, and I was,
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  you know, it's harder to tell somebody like that's what your thoughts are,
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  even though even though that's you know what I mean, even though they're a
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  therapist and their license to listen to your ship. I did have my She
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  was great, she was still as a dear friend. But when I was
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  like, you know, I'm just worried about, you know, how they're
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  gonna find me and all that, and she goes, and I couldn't dispute
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  that she goes, what do you care? You'll be dead? And I
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  go, yeah, but okay, yep, no, let's she fucking nailed
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  it. Yeah, I mean like I can't do anything after the fact.
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  That's like, that's true. And so that started to help the mindset for
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  me. I'm like, Okay, fuck it, it's gonna happen, and
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  uh yeah, I look good and I'm just gonna be right here and then
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  that's it. That's it. And that's where I would say the where depression
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  the problem is is yeah, and then your depression kicks in and said,
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  fuck it, let's do it now, let's do it now. Yeah,
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  I got it. That's what that's the difference, right, Yeah, Okay,
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  that makes it. I mean you I don't understand tright you AA depression,
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  anxiety. I don't know how you were not a comic or a novelist.
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  I don't know how you. Tray went way worse. He did radio
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  for about fifteen years. Yeah, entertainment. Okay, you're in entertainment for
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  fifteen years. There you go. Being in radio RAJ at the level at
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  which we were is very much like being a stand up comic and a novelist
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  at the same time. Yeah, okay, then that's perfect. That makes
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  sense. Now, like I'm just trying to get the uh, the understanding
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  of the trend home. It makes so like, now you make so much
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  sense to me, Like now I do want to come over and just give
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  you a hug because now this makes so much more fucking sense. I'm like,
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  I would see you like i would see you out and about and very
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  well put together, and I'm like, that guy's got his ship together and
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  everything, Like I would see it uptown Pub. You come in like to
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  get some I think you guys trade it off like napkins and fucking footh surface
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  stuff all the time. And so i'd see you there and he's i mean,
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  always dressed really well, and I'm like, you know, got the
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  g he's a GM here and he's got you know, when he had when
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  you had drove all this stuff. And I'm like, man, that guy's
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  got his ship together. And now I know you're a total fuck up.
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  This is fantastic. Now we're gonna get along so much better. This is
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  a mutual understanding, uh, mutual anxiety and mental mental health issues. It
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  is it is a point of bonding for me. I would see trade uptown
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  Pub and I'm like, this dude is knocking white privilege out the park.
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  And he is killing the white privilege Gaate like he just and that's the thing.
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  And then that's where you were wrong. It's it is actually self medicating.
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  Yeah, but you know this is he wasn't drinking. He just would
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  come in like they would, you know, hey, we ran out of
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  this over there, can we grab this real quick? Or or he would
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  bring something to them that they'd run out of. It was mostly kitchen stuff,
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  but he'd walk in and he's, you know, dressed really well.
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  You got the I would see like slacks and button down and all the all
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  that jazz, and I was like, come in and they didn't. He
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  didn't have to say a word. They knew who he was. There was
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  the ship. He would stop and talk to me, make a little small
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  talk, and then he was off doing the gym thing. And I'm like,
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  that dude has it together. And today I've made a new a closer
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  friend in Trey. We we've turned a new leaf. You are just a
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  raging, fucking mess and this is great. Uh So why Embraceyly, We're
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  gonna be such good friends. Now we'll go to ball games and cry together.
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  I'm assuming you're in Kansas City watching a Royals game, Like yeah,
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  oh yeah, and that was the fun, like the fact that you said
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  that. When I went to do Kansas City last week to perform, they
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  had me do Fox Morning TV or whatever, yep, and it was Opening
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  Day and they're like, are you gonna join us at the Royals game?
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  And on their TV, I went, well, you guys are gonna lose.
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  I go, I'm from this pesky place where we just won the World
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  Series, so we got to work on your PR skills when you go to
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  They laughed and they went, oh, but it's true. They all agreed,
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  like, but opening day is fun. I'm like, yeah, you'll
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  be a dollar hot dogs tomorrow. Yeah. Everybody's full of everybody's full of
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  hope on opening Day. Yeah. But no, like they'll see trying in
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  the stands, like did your team lose? Like, no, we we
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  won, then why are you crying? It's what we do. I feel
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  like I feel like there's a Bosom Buddies reboot in here, but instead of
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  it being in an apartment building that's only for women, it's had some sort
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  of mental health crisis center that's not bad, Like this could be we need
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  to write this down like two buddies out of work looking for somewhere to live
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  for free, pretend to be and our friend ton Bell will be your doctor.
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  There you go. We're gonna pitch this idea to Tone. I think
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  we should. That's uh, let's at least let's at least make some money
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  off you guys depression. Yeah, I mean we'll be you'll spend it because
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  you'll still be alive when we're dead. Apparently, Why do you think I
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  have such a good mood about it? All of a sudden, we're gonna
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  get we're gonna get some email notifications from about legal zoom of your will is
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  ready. Yeah, I learned a lot from the last really depressed person that
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  didn't live very long and didn't didn't leave me any any of their stuff.
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  Oh yeah, so I'm playing it ahead. No, yeah, that's uh.
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  Yeah. You guys have training then, mostly r on the job,
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  on the job training. Yeah, the I I do keep thinking about this
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  though, Trey you're telling us, or Roj you're telling us about which one
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  of you told U about the chef that takes the crap food and makes it
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  gourmet? Me? Okay, he knew the he knew the name of the
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  guy. Yeah, so you telling us about the gourmet chef that's handed fast
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  food and has to turn something gourmet out of it. And then we say,
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  okay, well, if this chef is handed a plate of Trey Trendholm,
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  what can he do with this pile to make it gourmet? And the
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  first thought in my head was, I swear to God he would turn Trey
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  into an Italian grinder, because Trey said, I just want to be just
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  just just just make me a sandwich, make me into a sandwich. Yeah,
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  so we need we need to start our own restaurant, and we have
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  to name things after our our our mental health status. So we'll have Trey's
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  sick grinder. People think that it's just sick. We call it something else
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  grinder. No, we get essential a sandwich tray. Yeah, you know
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  they you know they love right Trey. Don't you want to be in everybody's
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  mouth? And Dan, this is why you're a master chef, as you've
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  taken two heaping piles of neurotic ship and made it funny what I do?
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  Gentlemen, So were you fixed? I'm okay right now, I'll take that.
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  There you go We're Here for You byde at Is Treehouse plus episode twenty
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  four. I feel like at this point tra should give us five dollars for
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  I'll send you a Venbrol request. Episode ninety one of the tree House is
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  coming up next. Can we recover from all the tears in this episode of
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  the Treehouse. Let's find out in the next episode.