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Football #6: Winning is Good · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Welcome to the Treehouse Football Podcast Numero six. Numero six. We have made
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  it into the sixth episode of the Treehouse Football Podcast. Along with the Cowboys.
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  We have moved into the bye week on a high as opposed to a
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  lowly, lowly low. The Cowboys actually took care of business on the road
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  in Los Angeles on Monday Night. They managed to not embarrass themselves on national
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  television and back to back weeks, So yay for this. It was uh
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  when when the first score was was that that quick? I was like,
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  we're were doomed. That was my first thought. I was like, you
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  know what, let's just let's just grab a beer and some wings and let's
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  not I'll just check my phone. I'll just check my Instagram. And then
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  I was like, oh, this is this is actually an interesting game and
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  it's uh, it was. It was fun to watch. I will say
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  that it was. It was an entertaining game, mainly because, if we're
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  being honest, the Cowboys won, But from just a general standpoint, it
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  was an entertaining game if you had if you had no skin in the game,
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  you're entertained by Monday Night football. This week Cowboys versus Chargers Yeah,
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  it was really good. I mean that on top of that, that stadium
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  is just incredible. Uh and it really, it really is, like that
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  stadium is incredible, but uh, overall entertainment value, it was really good.
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  Like again, like you said, I was at this this wing joint
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  and there were a couple of people there that were you know, Broncos fans
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  and Redskins for whatever. Uh, but everybody thoroughly entertained. So uh yeah
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  it was I was, I was a fan. Uh. Uh. It
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  was good to finally watch that going into the bye week with that little bit
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  of momentum going in. Uh. And uh, it's nice that they are
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  off on my birthday. So uh isn't that a lovely gift for you Raj
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  from the Dallas Cowboys. Is there's absolutely zero chance of them disappointing you on
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  your birthday? Well, yes, Uh, one of my buddies plays for
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  the Cowboys and so he's coming to my birthday show. So if he doesn't
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  show, then the Cowboys will have disappointed me. Again, well at least
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  at least not on the field, That's true, is my main thing?
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  Look like Cowboys players will disappoint you, you know, left and right.
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  Yeah, all of them. Some some will be amazing. Yeah, he
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  showed, he shows he's very very good about it. Uh and uh he's
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  he's always uh. All we went to the same high school like many years
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  apart, and we both played, well, he played and I was on
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  I was on a team that was you wore the uniform and had some good
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  seats to watch. Yeah, I mean I think my nickname, uh freshman
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  year was Ajax and then Irish second year because my uniform never got dirty.
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  Oh okay, all right, yeah it was always clean. So I was
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  trying to figure out the Irish angle Irish spring. Yeah, gotcha. Yeah.
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  So surprised they didn't just call you. What was it? Was it
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  Snuggle the bear? Well, well that was I think that would have been
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  racist back then. I'm like, what the brown kid is really the bear?
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  Snuggle Snuggle was like a cream colored bear. Yeah, but yeah,
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  so he will he will be. Uh if they called you Sharman, then
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  I could see they did that too. Oh yeah, it was don't squeeze
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  the Sharma and yeah, I know, I'm I'm I'm letting too much out,
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  but this is that was there's almost okay, Sharman Strang I'm gonna have
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  to handle everything that you release. Yeah, But going back to the Cowboys,
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  very very excited for the potential that this momentum has going in after the
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  bye week, I think they looked good. They looked like they were healthy
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  and refreshed as opposed to what they look like against the forty nine Ers.
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  They looked like they did respond very well after an embarrassing defeat on Sunday Night
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  Football at the hands of the forty nine Ers, And it was amazing how
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  the Cowboys and the forty nine Ers responded very differently after that game. Forty
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  nine Ers blow out the Cowboys on Sunday Night and then firmly planting their forty
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  nine er boots on our Cowboys necks, and then the forty nine Ers follow
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  it up with losing the Cleveland and the Cowboys, on the other hand,
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  they followed up an embarrassing loss on Sunday Night Football to the forty nine Ers
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  by actually going staying on the road. Yeah, in Los Angeles, beating
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  the Chargers at so Far at Sofi Stadium. Yes, And I thought the
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  Browns victory was fantastic. I the one time you don't want to be the
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  kicker. You know what funny story about the kicker? Yeah? Did you
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  see the pregame photo of him? No, well it's funny to us.
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  So the kicker for the forty nine ers had his entire family in the stands
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  ready to watch him play in that game. Oh no, and then he
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  proceeded to push what could have been the game winning field goal just right of
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  the upright and managed to ruin his family's reunion. Wow, that would I
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  don't Let's see. I always wondered this because and you tell me, because
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  you probably have have had these moments. Unfortunately, is after a loss,
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  after some thing like that, like a monumental like a moment where you have
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  all your families there, all your friends, whatever it is, what do
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  you guys talk about after the game. So it's like, well, how's
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  the leg? Like, I don't know what you talk about. Luckily,
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  Raj, I'm a clutch performer. So whenever I had family, whenever I
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  had family in the stands, I won. All right, Okay, good
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  because here's like I remember my buddy Joe, who was a offensive lignement and
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  he was dating this cheerleader and he dedicated this game and we're I think we're
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  playing Island Park, which we're just not gonna win. It's just and he's
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  like, I'm dedicating this game to her. And I was like, what
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  a what a terrible idea, a buddy, and yeah, and I'm I'm
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  like, a okay, man, you play your heart out. And then
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  we took the ass whooping of a lifetime and I'm like, what do you
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  guys? You're I mean, what do you what do you talk about now?
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  Look, I dedicated that came to you, the one we lost,
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  Like what do you do? Like, that's a fight. That's why you
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  don't do that. I'm a big believer in setting yourself up for success,
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  so that means don't set yourself up for possible failure. Yeah, I mean
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  we walked out on the field and these were grown men that we were playing
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  against. I mean they hit full beards and mullets like the whole I mean,
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  I was like, why are we It looked like we were finding a
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  construction team like this all construction workers is what it looked like. And I'm
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  like, why are we playing against these adults? I don't understand what's happening.
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  And then we proceeded to get annihilated so same with the forty nine ers
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  kicker all his families there. Now you go to dinner, right, or
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  you go out to a bar or what like? What do you Honestly,
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  I don't have an answer for that. That's rough because I've never, luckily,
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  my family has been fragmented so much in my life that even when you
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  know, you know, sports things were happening, I never really had more
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  than two or three family members in the stands, So it really it really
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  wasn't too bad. I only had. I remember there was one time my
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  father and my grandfather drove to Arlington and watched me playing a baseball game at
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  Lamar and I went one for four and had a diving catch at third base,
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  so I had I had. I had a hit, and I had
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  a a pretty good, you know, a Sports center esque worthy play for
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  for a fourteen year old in high school. So I felt good about that.
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  Yeah, at the time that my dad came for senior night when I
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  was playing football at Arlington Lamar, we managed to go into triple was it
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  was it the game against Martin if it was the final game against Martin,
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  we won disc that night beat Martin in triple over time. Wow. I
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  didn't have a whole lot to do with that win, but you know,
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  I almost had a block punt and then I got to watch the game really
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  close. But at least we won. Yeah, and you know there were
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  other times, but yeah, I've never had more than two or three family
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  members in the stands. Honestly, I wouldn't want my entire family to come,
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  especially if I was the kicker, because that might happen. Yeah,
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  I really And this is where I respected my parents' honesty. It's my freshman
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  year, I played fifteen seconds. I think that was a tote maybe eight
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  seconds. I could I could be exaggerating the amount of time. But then
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  my my sophomore year, I actually played. I got to I got to
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  like the cheerleaders were decorating the locker. But my freshman year, I asked
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  my dad and it was the sweetest thing I've ever heard him say. I
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  said, Dad, why don't you ever come to my my football games?
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  It goes you don't play? You no good? And I was like,
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  Okay, that's h and that is just a that is ah well, that
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  is a like a like too much. Maybe no, No, I appreciate
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  it because I was like, that's why you're not there? I suck.
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  Okay, good. I thought I thought you might be busy with the new
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  company that you guys have started, you know, you know, your new
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  business, maybe stuff to do on a Thursday night. But no, it
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  was because I was terrible, So it was good. I was like,
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  all right, now I know why. And I never asked him again.
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  I never asked them to come to a game again. And I don't blame
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  you. I wouldn't either. My sophomore year when I actually played, He's
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  like, when you do something good, let me know. I'm like,
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  oh, well, we'll do so. Yeah, it was least, but
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  it was beautifully honest, like I'm like, I'm not coming, Like that's
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  what you could have just said that. But yeah, I always wanted to
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  know, like what the conversation was with with people when you lose, Like
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  I don't know how you so, how's so, how's your day been?
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  Like I don't know how you start. It's a little different, I think
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  depending on the position that you play, when you're the when you're the kicker,
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  like in the case of the forty nine ers kicker and he misses the
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  game winning field goal in front of his entire family and you know, a
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  TV audience and everything else. Yeah, I mean that's maybe you have a
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  different mentality as a kicker. But if you're you know, a position player,
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  yeah, you know you can after the game you can be like,
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  yeah, it's a tough loss, but you know, I I played pretty
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  well. We didn't lose because of me. The kicker can't say that.
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  I just hope nobody in the family was like like when they went out afterwards,
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  just got drunk and like that kicker sucks my bad. Sorry, that's
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  well it would have been. It would have been interesting had your dad,
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  yes, then then the father also of this kicker, to which had dinner,
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  he would have said something on the lines I'm never coming to see you
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  play again. That would that would be interesting on so many different levels if
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  my dad was the father of that kicker, like, where's the other family
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  dead? Yeah, I would say a few hurdles would have to be would
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  have to be jumped in order for your father, Yes, may he rest
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  in peace. Yes, to be the father of the white kicker of the
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  forty nine ers. Yeah, and to watch a five and twenty pounds man
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  jump hurdles would be hilarious too. He's not going over. Maybe the Cowboys
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  could use him and running. Yeah, I uh, well that but fortunately
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  we did not have that luck, that misfortune. I'm sorry of being the
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  kicker. We we we did it, and I Trey, who's not with
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  us today. Yeah, we probably should have mentioned at the beginning of the
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  show today. I didn't think anybody was gonna wonder well, I just I
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  have a tendency to get kind of focused and yeah, binders on. So
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  but thank you for reminding me that we should have mentioned the show. Great.
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  We hope you feel better. Yeah, I know he's he's got really
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  bad sinuses happening right now. But he did text and he said, you
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  know, I don't trust the Cowboys. Uh in the fourth quarter, and
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  I just said, I'm telling you, it's going to be a defensive play
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  to stop the game. And uh, I think I missed it. I
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  think I went to the bathroom at this wing place and I came back out
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  I was like, oh, okay, well we won. Oh that's good.
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  I just missed that last That's just that's just how confident you are in
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  your uh you know, predictability. Yeah, you just you say, what's
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  going to happen? And then you don't need to watch it happen. Sort
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  of. It's like when iron Man hits that tiny missile against that tank,
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  he doesn't have to watch it. He knows it's going to blow up.
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  So you say, Cowboys defense is going to hold it down, and didn't
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  you go to the bathroom and then Stephan Gilmour makes a great interception in the
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  game. Basically, if you come back from the bathroom and go, what
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  did I miss, bitch? I did I did? I did call the
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  wrong player. I said it was going to be bland with the interception to
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  stop the game. Uh, you know, I know it's important. It's
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  important for your for your followers because you are at this point building work's cult
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  with your powers to not only injure Cowboys players, but to basically will victory
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  out. I like to believe I can do that. I like to believe
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  that. So it's important to show your followers that you're not perfect, right
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  right, okay, but that you are great. Yeah. It's like it's
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  like when when the whole Waco thing happened with David Koresh and I was like,
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  I think he's the same. I'm like, you know what, he
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  might he might have. If he's Jesus, he shouldn't wear glasses. I'm
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  just saying I don't. I don't know he should. He's probably have twenty
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  twenty vision. It's just I'm just saying, if you're my savior, at
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  least don't be near sighted. Like that's all. That's all I asked for.
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  But I did say, like, you know, he predicted that he
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  was the one. I'm all right, man, and when the thing went
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  on fire, I go, Man, if he walks out right now in
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  the middle of this fire, you guys are fucked. You're listening to the
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  Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. You're in the
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  Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. Welcome back to
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  the Treehouse Football Podcast number six. If we were still on the radio,
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  this would be where I would reset and say, in case you're just joining
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  us, our dear friend Trey Trenholm is feeling under the weather today. So
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  it's just me and Raj, yeah, casting and if you're there's no one
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  that's picking up the show in the middle unless you're just a freak. So
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  and we're both wearing we're wearing white today. I normally bust your chops with.
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  It's you and Trey that normally match. And so I think the universe
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  was like Trey is not feeling well, put on a white shirt, and
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  I felt it. I absolutely felt it. Wow. Yeah, because earlier
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  Rise I actually was. I was. I was wearing sort of a like
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  a like a pinkish, like a salmon colored shirt. I think you would
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  look good in salmon, and I changed. Interesting, it's not because once
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  again your powers. Yes, I am low through the universe to me twenty
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  two hundred miles away, and I said, no, no, no,
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  no, no, I need to put on a white shirt. Now,
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  Salmon wasn't mauve, you know, it might have been more of a MAV
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  now that I think about it. Yeah, it's an old shirt. It
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  may have started out sort of a sort of a salmon, but it's gone
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  more mauv now, I suppose. Yeah. This is when I realized,
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  like I didn't know, like I'm from that generation with Crayle only had sixteen
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  crayons. I'm from I'm the sixteen crayon kid, right. And I was
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  in Toronto. I was in the mall and I was my buddy was shopping
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  for a tie. We had to unfortunately attend a funeral and he forgot a
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  tie. And I had my hand on this how I know, Mauv.
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  I had my hand on this sweater. I didn't realize I was touching as
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  well. I was just kind of leaning while he was doing his shopping.
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  And the salesperson comes up and goes, you would look amazing in MAUV,
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  and I was. I was like, please, God, don't be named
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  Mauv. Please don't let that be your name. Yeah, now I'm with
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  you. I mean I had, I had. I was also a sixteen
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  Crayola kid for a little while. Okay, eventually I was able to graduate
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  to the I believe it was the sixty four. Oh wow, Okay,
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  yeah, yeah, so I think that was when that was when my parents,
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  I like, went up a tax bracket. I guess. Yeah.
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  But as they always say, in anything, there's always somebody better. There's
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  always somebody, you know, more athletic, better looking. There's always somebody
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  richer than you, no matter if you're the richest person on the planet,
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  unless Elon Musk. So I had the sixty four crayon and then one day
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  you go to school, yep, and someone shows up with like, what
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  is it the one hundred and twenty eight. I don't know. I went
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  from sixteen to Matt pencils, like that's that's where ooh gotcha? Yeah.
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  Yeah. At some point someone shows up with basically the briefcase size Crayola thing.
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  Yeah, and they can They can create anything, and you just need
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  to lose count, and their vocabulary leaps exponentially because they now know all these
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  new colors that don't even sound like colors anymore, like love. Yeah,
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  I was lost at burnt Okra. I was like, I'm out, I'm
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  good. I don't need to And then they had the one with the I
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  wonder if they named it burnt Okra to try to deter us kids from eating
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  that crayon. My mom trust me burnt oprah many a time, and I'm
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  like, that's not what it looks like. Uh. But then you had
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  the one with the sharpener on the side, like you could sharpen your And
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  when I saw and I think, I think my buddy Scott had the sixty
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  four with the sharpener, and I was like, I don't know what his
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  family does for a living, but there, I bet they have all the
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  encyclopedias, like I bet all the encyclopedias they probably have. Uh, they
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  probably have, you know, the Merriam webs like any every possible dictionary they
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  have that, every possible uh encyclopedia they have that, even like the off
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  brand encyclopedias, like like was it Britannica was the main one. Yeah,
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  we had two of them. We had we had V and W. Yeah
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  you U two V, right and then W. We had those. Those
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  are the two the two we had. Yeah, I assumed that. I
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  assume the kids that had the creole as sharpener can like, I assume their
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  parents worked for NASA or something. Uh. But before before I forget Uh,
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  if you don't mind, I know, we don't do shout outs on
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  this show. It's been historical that we we don't do shout outs. But
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  I have to. I have to today. Okay, my my buddy and
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  dear dear friend, a e W Wrestling superstar. Uh, mister Lance Archer,
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  the murder Hawk Monster from Herne, Texas. Lance flew all the way
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  out to Sofi Stadium to cheer on yeah the Chargers. Oh yes, yeah,
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  he chose poorly. He was back the next morning, so I just
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  went out, watched the game, flew right back, and uh I was
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  up bright and early. Yeah, yeah, you know why, because everything
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  felt right in the world the Cowboys. The Cowboys won, the Rangers were
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  still undefeated in the playoffs. After you know, you know, come come
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  Tuesday morning and you've got the forty nine ers losing against the Browns, which
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  makes that loss against them seeing a little bit less. And the Eagles managed
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  to lose to the New York Jets the day before. Everything was beautiful Tuesday
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  morning. As a Cowboys fan, Yeah, I happened to be at the
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  one spot that everybody was excited about the Eagles. It was a little sports
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  bar over in Carrollton. I just stopped in to they have really really good
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  chicken tenders, and I stopped to get some tenders in and the Eagles were
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  a play in and the Eagles fans were there, and it was it was
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  the best chicken tender. I don't even know how to describe how good these
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  tenders were. Just listening to the Eagles fans watching their team lose to the
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  Jets. Well, it turns out if you really want delicious chicken tenders,
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  you got to dip them in the tiers of Eagles fans and just sop them
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  up. They are delicious with honey mustard. I'm texting, I'm gonna dip
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  it in some gravy. Oh, there you go. All right, Thanks
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  for hanging out with us here in the Treehouse Football Podcast number six. Hopefully
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  Trey will be back four Friday episode of the Treehouse which will drop tomorrow.
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  For all things Treehouse, follow us Treehouse on Air and the website Treehouse on
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  Air dot com. We will see you tomorrow in the Treehouse. See it se