Latest / The Treehouse Show Podcast / Ding Dong Dead in a Ditch | Friday September 5, 2025
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- 0:25Speaker 1: It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
- 0:29Speaker 1: with us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with
- 0:33Speaker 1: Trey trend Home and Raj Sharma. Jerry Caldwell will be
- 0:36Speaker 1: on his way shortly so we can celebrate today. Today
- 0:41Speaker 1: is free Day, September fifth, twenty twenty five. Welcome to
- 0:48Speaker 1: the end of your week. Hopefully not the end of
- 0:51Speaker 1: your rope. You've heard of ding dong ditch, but the
- 0:57Speaker 1: newest TikTok trend is more like ding dong dead as
- 1:02Speaker 1: a one eleven year old in Houston recently found out,
- 1:05Speaker 1: as one kid in Frisco almost found out, and numerous
- 1:10Speaker 1: children across the nation are also fafoing. I am, of course,
- 1:16Speaker 1: speaking about the eleven year old in Houston who died
- 1:20Speaker 1: after a late night ding Dong ditch prank turned deadly.
- 1:23Speaker 1: According to Houston Police, he and his friends were ringing
- 1:26Speaker 1: doorbells and running away last Saturday night when someone came
- 1:30Speaker 1: out of a home in East Houston and opened fire
- 1:33Speaker 1: at the kids running down the street. The boy was
- 1:36Speaker 1: struck in the back and rushed to the hospital, where
- 1:38Speaker 1: he died on Sunday. A man at the home was
- 1:40Speaker 1: detained and questioned by homicide detectives, but later released as
- 1:44Speaker 1: the investigation continued. And again, this is not the first
- 1:47Speaker 1: time the prank has ended in tragedy. In recent years,
- 1:50Speaker 1: multiple people across the United States have been killed after
- 1:53Speaker 1: playing Ding Dong Ditch, including a group of teens in
- 1:56Speaker 1: California and a teenager in Virginia filming a TikTok. It
- 2:00Speaker 1: started as a childhood brank has now become another cautionary
- 2:03Speaker 1: tale with a heartbreaking ending. And it's interesting that they
- 2:07Speaker 1: use the phrase cautionary tale because while we're not ones
- 2:11Speaker 1: to gloat, we told you so. We reported on this
- 2:15Speaker 1: new TikTok trend just a few weeks ago, and we said,
- 2:19Speaker 1: it's kind of happen in Texas and someone's going get
- 2:21Speaker 1: shot here. We are here, we are.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I thought you couldn't shoot someone running away.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You can't, so you're not supposed to. So actually, let's
- 2:33Speaker 1: rephrase because in this situation, especially, words matter. You can
- 2:38Speaker 1: shoot anybody for any reason. That's true, because can has
- 2:42Speaker 1: to do with the ability of the legality of it.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Though that's where things get interesting. There is an update
- 2:48Speaker 1: to this story because I'm with you. The whole idea
- 2:51Speaker 1: of the castle doctrine protecting your home and all that.
- 2:54Speaker 1: If someone tringing the doorbell and running away, they're not
- 2:56Speaker 1: running off with any items or anything that you're aware,
- 2:58Speaker 1: They're just running away. So they posed an immediate threat,
- 3:02Speaker 1: which penns for, which tends to lead to an actual investigation.
- 3:06Speaker 1: And that's what happened here, because the newest update to
- 3:09Speaker 1: this story just a little while ago was that the
- 3:13Speaker 1: Houston man accused of shooting and killing an eleven year old.
- 3:17Speaker 1: His bond has now been set at one million dollars. Okay, yeah,
- 3:22Speaker 1: he was arrested at a hotel in Laporte, about twenty
- 3:25Speaker 1: miles from home, with a large amount of clothing.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Running for the border.
- 3:31Speaker 1: So he knew he knew he had done wrong. And
- 3:36Speaker 1: this is the reason why I'm surprised they didn't arrest
- 3:39Speaker 1: him right away. Now, if it was a situation where
- 3:44Speaker 1: people broke into the home and he shot and killed them,
- 3:47Speaker 1: he would not have been arrested at that much because
- 3:48Speaker 1: at that point the Evans would have supported this. Looks
- 3:51Speaker 1: pretty clear that this was a self defense castle doctor
- 3:54Speaker 1: and type of situation. But since that wasn't, he was
- 3:57Speaker 1: clearly making a run for the border. His defense team
- 4:03Speaker 1: said he was at the hotel because of the media
- 4:05Speaker 1: presence around his house, and the hotel was a few
- 4:08Speaker 1: miles away from the college where he was enrolled. The
- 4:11Speaker 1: authority said we don't believe you and took him in anyway.
- 4:15Speaker 1: So there you have it, Ding Dong dead in Texas.
- 4:18Speaker 2: But even if somebody's stealing from you and they're running away,
- 4:22Speaker 2: you can't shoot them in the back.
- 4:25Speaker 1: That's where he gets kind of great because they're running
- 4:27Speaker 1: off with your stuff. There was one story that we
- 4:30Speaker 1: played the audio of relentlessly for a number of years
- 4:33Speaker 1: on the radio show. It was a story, I'm pretty
- 4:36Speaker 1: sure it was in Texas where you had a guy
- 4:38Speaker 1: who was actually kind of house sitting. So he was
- 4:42Speaker 1: next door to a house that got broken into. Okay,
- 4:46Speaker 1: he's next door and sees people leaving the house next
- 4:49Speaker 1: door while he's on nine one one, So he knows
- 4:53Speaker 1: people have broken into this house next door that he's
- 4:55Speaker 1: keeping an eye on for his neighbors, and then as
- 4:57Speaker 1: they're running down the street, he shoots them because he's like,
- 5:00Speaker 1: he's telling nine one one, they got a bag of loop.
- 5:02Speaker 1: They got a bag of loop. Nine to one one
- 5:03Speaker 1: says don't do anything. He says, I almost shoot him.
- 5:05Speaker 1: They got a bag of loop, and he shoots him,
- 5:08Speaker 1: and one of them died, and I think he struck
- 5:10Speaker 1: another one. The third was later arrested without knee injuries.
- 5:13Speaker 1: But if I remember correctly, Trey, that guy was no build, right,
- 5:19Speaker 1: so he didn't face any prosecution.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:23Speaker 3: I want to say it was like Georgetown or it
- 5:25Speaker 3: was somewhere around Austin.
- 5:26Speaker 2: I remember that.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was different because one it's Texas, and
- 5:32Speaker 1: two they had stolen items. Had it been a situation
- 5:36Speaker 1: where they had nothing and they were just running away,
- 5:41Speaker 1: then it could have been problematic for the guy. While
- 5:44Speaker 1: keeping in mind, there was a situation in Farmer's Branch
- 5:47Speaker 1: where a couple of kids were shot. One was killed
- 5:50Speaker 1: for stealing a third row seat out of a tahoe
- 5:53Speaker 1: that was parked in an apartment complex, and that guy,
- 5:56Speaker 1: who happened to be an off duty police officer chased
- 5:58Speaker 1: the kids and shot one of them, killed him, and
- 6:00Speaker 1: then now he's in jail. But again, I don't know
- 6:05Speaker 1: if they had any stolen items or not. I don't
- 6:09Speaker 1: think they did, but they stole the thund row seat,
- 6:12Speaker 1: so I don't know I don't know, that's what I'm saying.
- 6:15Speaker 1: I don't remember if they did, so I think my
- 6:18Speaker 1: assumption is that they didn't have anything on their person.
- 6:21Speaker 1: He was just shooting at them because he was mad
- 6:23Speaker 1: because they broke into his car trying to steal it. Okay, Yeah,
- 6:29Speaker 1: The point of the story is we, like we said
- 6:31Speaker 1: weeks ago, don't ding dong ditch in Texas. You're gonna
- 6:34Speaker 1: get shot. It's a horrible thing to say, but it's true. Now.
- 6:41Speaker 1: The other caveat to the story is that supposedly part
- 6:44Speaker 1: of the TikTok trend when you do this is you're
- 6:47Speaker 1: not just ringing the doorbell, you're actually kicking the front door.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And if that's true. If that's true, then that makes
- 6:54Speaker 1: it even more problematic because if you're kicking the door
- 6:59Speaker 1: and while your midkick get shot through the door, then
- 7:02Speaker 1: I think that the homeowner is going to be in
- 7:04Speaker 1: the right and you're going to be on the wrong,
- 7:06Speaker 1: because that then looks like you're trying to break in.
- 7:08Speaker 2: It's a terrible time to be a Jehovah's witness.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Because the other times we're so good.
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- 8:27Speaker 1: how to introduce this story multiple times today, and I
- 8:31Speaker 1: think I'm just going to try it this way. So
- 8:33Speaker 1: bear with me for just a moment as I get
- 8:36Speaker 1: through this headline. Okay, do let me get myself set
- 8:43Speaker 1: share screen and that all right? Hang in there, Here
- 8:47Speaker 1: we go. A Klingon living in Massachusetts has been arrested
- 8:52Speaker 1: for driving one hundred miles per hour after a chase
- 8:58Speaker 1: with New Hampshire troopers before crashing into a house. All
- 9:09Speaker 1: the worry about whether or not aliens are among us.
- 9:13Speaker 1: We can now cast aside all those conspiracy theories because
- 9:17Speaker 1: here we have irrefutable proof that aliens are among us
- 9:21Speaker 1: and they're driving around at erratic speeds away from state troopers.
- 9:25Speaker 6: That dude is the most something I have ever seen.
- 9:28Speaker 6: I don't know if it's if that's anger or for
- 9:31Speaker 6: I don't know what to call that.
- 9:33Speaker 2: I just my only question is when he goes in
- 9:37Speaker 2: to get a haircut, he is like, hey, can you
- 9:40Speaker 2: do you make it towards them? They see all of
- 9:42Speaker 2: my forehead.
- 9:44Speaker 1: I need you to accentuate my my frown lines.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Good job, keep the sides a little long and the
- 9:55Speaker 2: forehead fully exposed.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And maybe that's unfair me because in
- 9:59Speaker 1: human terms those would be considered frowned lines as they
- 10:02Speaker 1: make the V towards his nosebridge, But in Klingon terms
- 10:06Speaker 1: they might just be war lined.
- 10:08Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 10:10Speaker 1: They are a violent people.
- 10:12Speaker 2: And he's used to being on a spaceship soles.
- 10:16Speaker 1: So the gravity's really pulling that V sharper. So yeah.
- 10:22Speaker 1: A Klingon living in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts, has been arrested for
- 10:25Speaker 1: driving one hundred miles per hour after a chase with
- 10:28Speaker 1: New Hampshire troop after a chase with New Hampshire troopers
- 10:32Speaker 1: before crashing into a house. I don't know what the
- 10:39Speaker 1: formula relationship is between one hundred miles per hour and
- 10:45Speaker 1: warp speed, but I would think I would think it'd
- 10:49Speaker 1: be so low that this guy should not be crashing
- 10:51Speaker 1: into a house, unless, of course, he is clingonging while
- 10:55Speaker 1: under the influence of something.
- 10:58Speaker 6: Well, first of all, he is clearly a bling on
- 11:02Speaker 6: from the original series.
- 11:06Speaker 2: M hm, yeah, when they didn't have the special effects.
- 11:10Speaker 7: Right, the ones that were mixed with humans apparently.
- 11:14Speaker 3: And I.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Was waiting for one of you to nerd out on this.
- 11:19Speaker 7: Hey man, I'm your guy. Yeah.
- 11:22Speaker 6: And one hundred miles an hour, that's not even impulse.
- 11:25Speaker 6: That's somebody smacked a ship with a rock while the
- 11:27Speaker 6: engines weren't on.
- 11:28Speaker 1: That's so the story says that this is a man
- 11:34Speaker 1: from Massachusetts. We clearly know better, but he is facing
- 11:38Speaker 1: charges after being accused of driving more than one hundred
- 11:40Speaker 1: miles per hour after during a chase with New Hampshire
- 11:43Speaker 1: State Police Monday night, then crashing into a house in Manchester.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Police and fire rescue teams were sent to the house
- 11:51Speaker 1: for a report of a car crashing into it. When
- 11:53Speaker 1: they arrived, they found the driver of a Tesla spacelike vehicle,
- 11:58Speaker 1: Alan Pickett, thirty seven, of Tewkesbury, Massachusetts, Clingon, had driven
- 12:04Speaker 1: the vehicle into the front of the home, causing significant damage.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Manchester Fire personnel forced entry into the home for a
- 12:13Speaker 1: safety sweep and four dogs were located inside. They were
- 12:16Speaker 1: all fined. All the dogs were cool. They were probably
- 12:18Speaker 1: just a little annoyed. An investigation into the incident found
- 12:21Speaker 1: New Hampshire State Police encountered Picket the Klingon while he
- 12:25Speaker 1: was driving on I ninety three north at a high
- 12:27Speaker 1: rate of speed to chasing south that he ran into
- 12:28Speaker 1: a house. He was arrested on reckless conduct with a
- 12:31Speaker 1: deadly weapon and criminal mischief and he scheduled for arraignment
- 12:35Speaker 1: on Monday in Manchester District Court. I do know that
- 12:39Speaker 1: the Federation is going to be really pissed off.
- 12:42Speaker 7: So it was the Klingon High Council. Oh, they're gonna
- 12:44Speaker 7: get in that.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Ass, and Klingons have notoriously tight asses, that's right.
- 12:55Speaker 3: And go to want him for a Spaceball sequel because
- 12:59Speaker 3: white helmets were just fit perfectly with that hairline.
- 13:05Speaker 1: It really would. I mean, it's like that one guy
- 13:08Speaker 1: who had his mugshot. He was so good looking he
- 13:10Speaker 1: got a modeling contract out of it. This guy's mugshot
- 13:12Speaker 1: so terrible, he's going to end up in Spaceball's too.
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- 15:01Speaker 2: Today Forrest Gump thumbnails.
- 15:05Speaker 1: H I asked Trey, He's not kidding. I asked Trey
- 15:08Speaker 1: last night. I was like, Hey, how's it going with
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- 15:26Speaker 1: well done. Anyway, back to our regular dose of stupid.
- 15:32Speaker 1: It's very difficult to come off the heels of an
- 15:36Speaker 1: angry klingon running from New Hampshire State troopers, but here
- 15:39Speaker 1: we are. There is big news in the restaurant industry.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Hooters has announced plans to rebrand and promote a more
- 15:49Speaker 1: family friendly atmosphere in the wake of their bankruptcy. And
- 15:55Speaker 1: I really got to ask the question, if they take
- 15:59Speaker 1: away the boobs to become a more family friendly atmosphere,
- 16:04Speaker 1: will the outrage be the same as when Cracker Barrel
- 16:07Speaker 1: got rid of the old timer and his barrel.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Well, they brought the old timer and his barrel back
- 16:14Speaker 2: I think two days later because the backlash. So, yeah,
- 16:18Speaker 2: they can just leave those. They can just leave the
- 16:20Speaker 2: Hooters outfits on the hangar in the back.
- 16:23Speaker 4: I know.
- 16:24Speaker 1: So Cracker Barrel got backlash, will Hooters get booblash? Oh?
- 16:29Speaker 2: I'm sure. But then there's like Twin Peaks, there's a
- 16:32Speaker 2: lot of there's a lot of restaurants out there, so
- 16:37Speaker 2: if they wanted to, I mean, who went there for
- 16:41Speaker 2: the food? I actually.
- 16:46Speaker 1: And the fried pickles are excellent, the the the wings
- 16:50Speaker 1: are good. The dropping the zip block bag of ice
- 16:56Speaker 1: into the picture of beer, while simple, was very effective
- 16:59Speaker 1: that very few their establishments did.
- 17:03Speaker 3: The only reason I don't think that the backlash will
- 17:06Speaker 3: be that extreme is because half the guys that go
- 17:10Speaker 3: there are going there without their wife's permissions or knowledge.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
- 17:16Speaker 2: It's the Baptist trip club.
- 17:19Speaker 1: It's the deal. It's the deal that the adult dad
- 17:23Speaker 1: makes with his pre pubescent son for his eleventh birthday.
- 17:28Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna go here, but we don't tell mom.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Yeah, but they claim to be family friendly, then who's
- 17:35Speaker 2: taking a family in there? Like?
- 17:38Speaker 3: Well, I also think I mean, when Hooters opened thirty
- 17:44Speaker 3: five years ago, whatever it was, it was, it was
- 17:47Speaker 3: riskue and everything and and it pushed an envelope. Now
- 17:53Speaker 3: it's just very run of the mill. I mean, there's
- 17:55Speaker 3: nothing scandalous there. I mean, didn't Twin Peaks is far
- 18:01Speaker 3: more scanty Twin.
- 18:03Speaker 1: Peaks tilted killed. And then there's some other places. I
- 18:09Speaker 1: forget the name of it. There's one in Frisco, but
- 18:12Speaker 1: it's one where they basically they're just running around in
- 18:15Speaker 1: tank tops and thongs as as and masquerade as a
- 18:19Speaker 1: sports bar and knock thank you, knockout for me.
- 18:23Speaker 7: Actually there's one.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, I'm a big believer in you do
- 18:28Speaker 1: you And if you want to go there and have
- 18:31Speaker 1: some fried pickles, go for it. I though, while being
- 18:36Speaker 1: a red blooded American man, I don't want your bee
- 18:40Speaker 1: hole that close to my fried pickles, So I like
- 18:45Speaker 1: a little more coverage. But again that's just me. That's
- 18:47Speaker 1: more of a sanitary thing. But you're right, Tree, It's
- 18:50Speaker 1: like Hooters just kind of got Hooters got caught in
- 18:52Speaker 1: the middle. They got caught in the middle between say,
- 18:54Speaker 1: wing Stop and which was on an actual family side
- 18:58Speaker 1: of Wings versus hilted Kill twin Peaks, which was more
- 19:02Speaker 1: risky than Hooters. So it's kind of caught in no
- 19:07Speaker 1: owl land.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Didn't they have a male version? Two?
- 19:11Speaker 7: They did?
- 19:13Speaker 6: Well, okay, they kind of. I don't know if it
- 19:15Speaker 6: was ever actually going to be a thing.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Oh they didn't open.
- 19:20Speaker 1: That's actually what it was called. Things very close. Actually,
- 19:25Speaker 1: I think there is a I think there is a place,
- 19:27Speaker 1: if not currently used to be. Was it tally Whackers
- 19:30Speaker 1: on Cedar Hill?
- 19:32Speaker 3: It was on Lemon Avenue and it lived lasted about
- 19:34Speaker 3: a year.
- 19:35Speaker 7: Yeah, that's it.
- 19:39Speaker 3: You got a lot of press in the beginning and
- 19:43Speaker 3: then three months later dead.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Just kind of went flaccid.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Yeah, well see Hooters sells wings. Did tally Whackers specialize
- 19:54Speaker 1: in hot dogs? Yes, just making sure I thought it did.
- 19:57Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure.
- 20:01Speaker 3: But them, thankfully for most guys, the women, you know,
- 20:05Speaker 3: really got tired of the big ones.
- 20:10Speaker 2: The bun length ones had to go.
- 20:14Speaker 6: You only take those foot longs so so much, just
- 20:17Speaker 6: SUPs for so long.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:20Speaker 1: So there's there's one guy who's been with the Hooters
- 20:23Speaker 1: as a franchisee for many many years. He's trying to
- 20:26Speaker 1: take over the company and steer it into this more
- 20:29Speaker 1: of a family friendly realm. Apparently Hooters in recent years
- 20:33Speaker 1: has tried to go a little more towards the scantily clad.
- 20:37Speaker 1: Uh so the somehow the I guess the tank tops
- 20:41Speaker 1: got a little bit shorter and I don't think you
- 20:42Speaker 1: can get any tighter, uh and the shorts got a
- 20:46Speaker 1: little bit narrower. But now they're saying they're basically going
- 20:50Speaker 1: to go back to the original dress of the eighties,
- 20:53Speaker 1: which was just the standard you know, orange shorts and
- 20:58Speaker 1: the tank top, and let that be yet and then
- 21:01Speaker 1: do some other things to welcome with open arms, more
- 21:03Speaker 1: family friendly stuff.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Yes, that'll make it more family friendly out.
- 21:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's being called a rehooterization.
- 21:19Speaker 2: Oh I've done that a few times. Yeah, I just
- 21:26Speaker 2: call it a new relationship.
- 21:27Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the new orientation period.
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- 22:26Speaker 1: making headlines five years later. In case you're wondering this, yes,
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- 22:38Speaker 3: Uh.
- 22:38Speaker 1: A Saint Tammany Parish judge has ordered the return of
- 22:42Speaker 1: electronics belonging to an ex Roman Catholic priest who pleaded
- 22:46Speaker 1: guilty to obscenity for being caught having sex with not
- 22:51Speaker 1: one but two dominatrices atop a Pearl River church alter
- 22:58Speaker 1: while still belonging to the clergy. In twenty twenty, however,
- 23:03Speaker 1: the judge told authorities to erase all the data from
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- 23:11Speaker 1: taken of the tryst from becoming public. My god, how
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- 23:20Speaker 1: centering on Travis Clark, as well as dominatrices whose professional
- 23:26Speaker 1: names are Empress Ming and Lady Vai, also known as Satanatrix.
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- 23:48Speaker 6: She is clearly not a beginner level no dominatrix and.
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- 23:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he wanted to be part of the
- 23:59Speaker 2: Ming dynasty.
- 24:00Speaker 7: Uh.
- 24:01Speaker 2: And then he also brings truth to the Devil's in
- 24:04Speaker 2: the details, like.
- 24:08Speaker 1: It sounds like he brought it and apparently they apparently
- 24:11Speaker 1: they all brought it so well that the judge is like,
- 24:14Speaker 1: we got to destroy this evidence now because if we
- 24:16Speaker 1: can't let this stuff out.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a I'm glad. I'm glad it was
- 24:23Speaker 2: with two dominatrix. That's That's all I can say about
- 24:27Speaker 2: the Catholic Church.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 24:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Even Trey when he emailed me the stories like look
- 24:33Speaker 1: at least everyone was consenting and we're adults. So yeah.
- 24:38Speaker 1: So but on one hand, you like when you when
- 24:41Speaker 1: you tell the Catholic Church do better, they technically did.
- 24:47Speaker 2: And on the other hand, a paddle uh yeah uh.
- 24:56Speaker 1: The attorneys uh. The attorney for the priests said that
- 25:01Speaker 1: the judge on August fourth signed an order authorizing law
- 25:04Speaker 1: enforcement to return cell phones, tablets, computers, gaming consoles, flash
- 25:08Speaker 1: drives and memory cards that they had seized while the
- 25:12Speaker 1: investigation was ongoing. It's out of precaution. They basically said.
- 25:19Speaker 1: They don't believe that there's a whole lot left on there,
- 25:22Speaker 1: but they're just basically just making sure. I want to
- 25:25Speaker 1: make sure that all this stuff has been wiped clean.
- 25:28Speaker 1: One of the attorneys ated he does not believe the
- 25:30Speaker 1: dominatri sees who ultimately pleaded guilty to misdemeanors have ever
- 25:33Speaker 1: sought the return of electronics seized from them during the case.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Yet if they ever did get them back, officials would
- 25:39Speaker 1: wipe those of all of their data as well. What
- 25:42Speaker 1: was the crime, well, the three so.
- 25:52Speaker 2: I mean before you know, sitting in the eyes of
- 25:54Speaker 2: the Lord.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Directly in front of the eyes. Uh So. The priest,
- 26:05Speaker 1: Impress Meing, and Satana Trix all fell under authority scrutiny
- 26:10Speaker 1: after a passer by peering through a window saw the
- 26:13Speaker 1: three filming themselves having sex on the sanctuary altar at
- 26:18Speaker 1: Saints Peter and Paul Church on September thirtieth, twenty twenty.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Police responded to the church after they were called by
- 26:25Speaker 1: the passerby, who took a cell phone video of what
- 26:28Speaker 1: he could see. Besides arresting the group, officers confiscated stage lights,
- 26:32Speaker 1: recording devices, and sex toys. My god, it was a
- 26:36Speaker 1: whole production going on inside that church. Wow.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Wow, that is one great midnight mass.
- 26:43Speaker 7: We'll talk about a side hustle.
- 26:45Speaker 1: That's I mean, just imagine the attendants for that candlelight
- 26:50Speaker 1: vigil be used like that.
- 27:01Speaker 2: That's what you've had. That's when you've had too much
- 27:03Speaker 2: blood of Christ. It's some more wafers that soak it
- 27:13Speaker 2: all up.
- 27:17Speaker 1: The women, the women who traveled to Pearl River from
- 27:20Speaker 1: out of state pleaded guilty that same year to institutional vandalism,
- 27:25Speaker 1: and like Clark, they were sentenced to probation.
- 27:30Speaker 3: I mean, okay, he couldn't find one in Louisiana. Dominatrix
- 27:38Speaker 3: in Louisiana.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Look, I'm sure they exist. But if you have very
- 27:42Speaker 1: specific tastes like an impress mean and a dominatrix that
- 27:46Speaker 1: goes by the name Satana, tricks that may not be
- 27:50Speaker 1: in your backyard. You may have to, you know, go,
- 27:52Speaker 1: you may have to make a run for the border.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Could have been more creative. At least, you know, one
- 27:58Speaker 3: of them be called Mother Superior.
- 28:05Speaker 1: That family stuff is hot.
- 28:06Speaker 2: Mouth. Yeah, she's a step none.
- 28:14Speaker 1: And you thought the glass was stained before. Oh, look
- 28:26Speaker 1: at that. I'm doing a Pope wave.
- 28:35Speaker 8: You're in the tree House.
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- 28:45Speaker 8: Mm hmmmm hm, You're in the tree House.
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- 29:22Speaker 1: Today is fred Day, September fifth, twenty twenty five. Let's
- 29:28Speaker 1: celebrate today with some birthdays. All Right, he's no longer alive,
- 29:40Speaker 1: but it is very worth mentioning to me as one
- 29:43Speaker 1: of my favorite singers of all time from one of
- 29:46Speaker 1: my favorite bands of all time. He may have passed
- 29:51Speaker 1: away all the way back in nineteen ninety one from AIDS. However,
- 29:56Speaker 1: today is Freddie Mercury's birthday, and I wish him a
- 29:59Speaker 1: very happy birthday. They wherever he may be celebrating in
- 30:04Speaker 1: whatever way, whether it's a bunch or a bunch of cats.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Either way he seems to he'll probably be enjoying himself. Yes,
- 30:15Speaker 1: happy birthday to one of the greatest rock and roll
- 30:18Speaker 1: singers of all time.
- 30:19Speaker 2: And Freddy Mercury and Indian.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Yes, also also a little Indian.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Really Yep he is Indian? Was his name?
- 30:32Speaker 7: Really? Okay?
- 30:34Speaker 1: That's cool because for Rouke just doesn't roll out the
- 30:38Speaker 1: tongue the way that Freddie Mercury does.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he did.
- 30:51Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead and make a notation there for
- 30:53Speaker 1: that promo.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Ready you need to leave now trade That was the
- 31:01Speaker 2: line of the day. I think you're done, Go ahead,
- 31:05Speaker 2: make a snack.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Just like whoever's on Feruke's tongue is also done. All that.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Is f A r o o q.
- 31:18Speaker 1: What f A r o o q?
- 31:21Speaker 2: Yes, and then Bulsara's b u l s A r A.
- 31:28Speaker 1: It's like, I'm a white guy and I just the
- 31:32Speaker 1: irony is not lost on me that I need help
- 31:35Speaker 1: spelling an Indian person's name.
- 31:37Speaker 2: And he went to school. He went to boarding school,
- 31:39Speaker 2: and his nickname was Bucky because of his buck teeth.
- 31:44Speaker 2: That's how cool kids were back then.
- 31:49Speaker 1: And then later one of the greatest trust stops in
- 31:52Speaker 1: the nation. Jokes to be had there where.
- 31:58Speaker 2: Incidentally, we're Fred meant a lot of his boyfriend.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Look, if you can find inspiration in the strangest of places,
- 32:09Speaker 1: you just gotta look, just gotta look really really hard.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Any beaber nuggets? That's all I gotstaid.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Other birthdays today, actual birthdays today. Let's see here. Skander
- 32:29Speaker 1: Keynes is thirty four. He played Edmund in the Chronicles
- 32:33Speaker 1: of Narnia movies. Kat Graham is thirty six, playing Bonnie
- 32:36Speaker 1: on The Vampire Diaries. Annabel Wallace is forty one. She
- 32:41Speaker 1: played Jenny in the Tom Cruise Mummy movie. She was
- 32:45Speaker 1: also the pregnant mom Mia in Annabelle so Annabel Wallace
- 32:49Speaker 1: was in the movie Annabelle but Plato woman named mea
- 32:53Speaker 1: so Go figure. Rose McGowan turns fifty two, dueezl Zappa
- 32:57Speaker 1: fifty six from Rage Against the Machine and Audio Slave.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Brad Wilke is fifty seven and one of the greatest
- 33:04Speaker 1: actors of all time. Michael Keaton is seventy four years
- 33:09Speaker 1: old today, known for such later known for such legendary
- 33:14Speaker 1: roles as Beetlejuice, Batman and the Tim Burton Batman movies, Vulture,
- 33:19Speaker 1: in Spider Man Homecoming, Multiplicity, Gung Ho h, and Good.
- 33:27Speaker 1: It was recently brought to my attention thanks to social media.
- 33:31Speaker 1: He plays the captain or the lieutenant in the movie
- 33:35Speaker 1: The Other Guys, which starred Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
- 33:41Speaker 1: And I've seen that movie and I liked it. But
- 33:43Speaker 1: I saw clip the other day that reminds me maybe
- 33:46Speaker 1: I need to go back and rewatch this film because
- 33:49Speaker 1: it's really good. It's one of the that they showed
- 33:52Speaker 1: like four or five scenes where Michael Keaton is yelling
- 33:56Speaker 1: at Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell as police officers, and
- 34:02Speaker 1: he always speaks in TLC lyrics but claims he doesn't
- 34:05Speaker 1: know who the group is, so he'll tell the guys
- 34:11Speaker 1: like stop chasing waterfalls and they're like, you don't hear that.
- 34:16Speaker 1: I need to put on my rewatch list The Other Guys.
- 34:18Speaker 1: But aside from that, Michael Keaton won Badass Actor seventy
- 34:22Speaker 1: four today.
- 34:23Speaker 2: He was a stand up comedian. Most people don't realize that,
- 34:27Speaker 2: and his real name is Michael Douglas.
- 34:29Speaker 1: Whoops, Okay, turns out Michael Douglas beat him to it.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Yes, so he got the Keaton from Buster Keaton.
- 34:39Speaker 3: Well, that'd be a about a movie that I'd be
- 34:41Speaker 3: curious how it holds up?
- 34:42Speaker 2: Is mister mom.
- 34:43Speaker 7: Oh, I was just thinking about that.
- 34:44Speaker 2: I was just thinking about the same thing.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Because I went back and watched a Fish called Wanda.
- 34:50Speaker 2: It holds up? Oh it's great.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good to know because that was on our
- 34:55Speaker 1: list that we talked about that. Collider put out the
- 34:59Speaker 1: top ten funniest movies over the last fifty years, and
- 35:02Speaker 1: Fish called Wanda was like number eight or number nine.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Yeah, but most people don't realize it was a stand
- 35:09Speaker 2: up comic at the Lack Factory. But yeah, he just
- 35:12Speaker 2: didn't hang out and so that's why he didn't get
- 35:14Speaker 2: put on. He did an interview. He's like, I wouldn't
- 35:16Speaker 2: hang out after shows, so I wouldn't like hang out
- 35:19Speaker 2: with the other comics, so I didn't get put on
- 35:21Speaker 2: other shows like around Town, so I would just do
- 35:24Speaker 2: my set and leave. And he's like, well, thank god
- 35:26Speaker 2: the acting thing worked out.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Oh it's done him just fine.
- 35:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's okay.
- 35:37Speaker 1: One of my favorite stories was when he was shooting
- 35:40Speaker 1: spider Man Homecoming with Tom Holland. He's playing Vulture, but
- 35:46Speaker 1: during their when they're really close up shooting scenes, he's
- 35:49Speaker 1: whispering to Tom Holland, I'm Batman.
- 35:58Speaker 7: I love that.
- 36:08Speaker 8: You're in the Treehouse.
- 36:10Speaker 5: Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com.
- 36:26Speaker 8: You're in the Treehouse.
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- 36:41Speaker 1: For all things Treehouse, go to Treehouse on Air dot com,
- 36:45Speaker 1: past shows, links, contact info, and for all that Treehouse
- 36:49Speaker 1: on Air dot com. Well done, Jerref. We're gonna have
- 37:20Speaker 1: to do a separate video featuring you doing that. All right,
- 37:23Speaker 1: let's actually I wanted to bring this up real quick
- 37:25Speaker 1: because it's not enough that we've already talked a little
- 37:27Speaker 1: bit about Michael Keaton and his seventy fourth birthday. Yeah,
- 37:31Speaker 1: we talked about how great of an actor he is
- 37:33Speaker 1: and so many great films that he's been in, But
- 37:36Speaker 1: let me also point out he was one of the
- 37:39Speaker 1: very few reasons to watch that abomination of a flash
- 37:44Speaker 1: movie that came out a few years ago. Seeing Michael
- 37:46Speaker 1: Keaton reprise his role as Batman in that movie made
- 37:52Speaker 1: that movie watchable. While on a plane.
- 37:59Speaker 2: I never saw it.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't need to, but I will say Michael
- 38:03Speaker 1: Keaton is one of the few redeeming things in that movie.
- 38:06Speaker 1: He's still good, He's still he still makes a good Batman.
- 38:10Speaker 2: I don't know how he didn't win the Oscar for
- 38:12Speaker 2: My Life.
- 38:14Speaker 1: I'm with you. I love that movie. That movie is
- 38:18Speaker 1: I think I've seen it three times and the only
- 38:21Speaker 1: reason I haven't seen it more is because it is
- 38:23Speaker 1: so hard to watch, because it's so good and it's
- 38:25Speaker 1: so emotional and it's so sad. But it is truly
- 38:28Speaker 1: a masterpiece.
- 38:29Speaker 7: I'm with you.
- 38:29Speaker 1: He should have won an Oscar for that. Mm hmmer,
- 38:36Speaker 1: I don't think he has. Jerry, did you see that
- 38:41Speaker 1: Flash movie?
- 38:44Speaker 7: I have not.
- 38:45Speaker 6: I have only watched the scenes with Michael Keaton's Batman.
- 38:50Speaker 6: I just I can't. I can't.
- 38:53Speaker 1: You've seen enough. Then as long as you've seen the
- 38:54Speaker 1: move the scenes with him in them, then you're good.
- 38:57Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, I premise. And it's the.
- 39:06Speaker 6: DCEU wanted to beat Marvel two their Multiverse thing, and
- 39:14Speaker 6: that was the whole thing about how their movies they
- 39:16Speaker 6: were just cramming so much together just to get there
- 39:18Speaker 6: so fast so that they could do their Avengers thing.
- 39:20Speaker 6: Which was the Justice League or super Friends whatever.
- 39:23Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem that Hollywood runs into sometimes, is
- 39:29Speaker 1: in a race to be first, you end up sucking.
- 39:34Speaker 1: Like there's something to be said about taking your time
- 39:36Speaker 1: and doing it the right way, and yeah, that just yeah.
- 39:42Speaker 6: Michael Keaton has won zero Oscars, but he was nominated
- 39:45Speaker 6: for Best Actor in twenty fourteen for Birdman.
- 39:49Speaker 7: For Birdman, yeap, which that's one I have not seen.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Really good, Yeah, okay, really really good.
- 39:59Speaker 1: He was also really good as Ray crock in The Founder,
- 40:02Speaker 1: which was based on the history of McDonald's. Yeah, so
- 40:06Speaker 1: bird Man, is that what's that about?
- 40:12Speaker 2: If I'm remember correctly, it's a it's a stage actor.
- 40:18Speaker 2: It's not years and years and years ago. It's really good.
- 40:21Speaker 2: He's he's a stage actor. But his character is what's
- 40:24Speaker 2: like the superhero characters, what's following him around like in
- 40:28Speaker 2: his head? Oh okay, i'd lose your guess.
- 40:32Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 40:32Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, but I think that's the base premise of
- 40:37Speaker 2: that movie.
- 40:38Speaker 7: But okay, so so.
- 40:39Speaker 1: It kind of makes sense to cast somebody in that.
- 40:44Speaker 7: Yeah, he he he.
- 40:45Speaker 6: He had found a lot of success as a superhero actor,
- 40:50Speaker 6: and his career has gone down, and I also think
- 40:52Speaker 6: there's a kind of a bit of dementia happening there.
- 40:57Speaker 6: And so he's trying to come up with this big
- 40:59Speaker 6: stage play that's gonna reinvigorate his career, and he's trying
- 41:01Speaker 6: to do all of it and he's being followed around
- 41:04Speaker 6: by his Birdman character.
- 41:07Speaker 7: Just got it.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I still.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Say he was really good in Hegan Thompson. He's mounting. Yeah,
- 41:20Speaker 2: but yeah, it's it's mounting an ambitious Broadway production that
- 41:22Speaker 2: he helps new life into his stagnant career. So that's
- 41:26Speaker 2: what it is. That's what's following him out.
- 41:27Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 41:28Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've if you've never watched it, google his
- 41:33Speaker 3: graduation speech. It's like he's getting a graduate some kind
- 41:36Speaker 3: of award at a graduation ceremony speech. It's about twenty
- 41:41Speaker 3: five seconds long and he just just remember there are
- 41:45Speaker 3: two words, you know, always no, always live by. I
- 41:48Speaker 3: won't bore you with a lot of details, just remember
- 41:50Speaker 3: these two words.
- 41:52Speaker 2: I'm Batman.
- 41:58Speaker 1: That is a that is a true commencement.
- 42:04Speaker 2: That's gonna be a bitch.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Though you really didn't get any recognition for being Batman,
- 42:07Speaker 3: but then you're nominated for Birdman.
- 42:13Speaker 1: I feel like that. Yeah, I feel like that's one
- 42:17Speaker 1: of those like hollywoods trying to force one on him
- 42:19Speaker 1: kind of a deal. It's like, we know he's great,
- 42:20Speaker 1: We're just trying to find something close enough that no
- 42:24Speaker 1: one's gonna complain that we gave him an oscar for
- 42:26Speaker 1: this film.
- 42:27Speaker 2: I'll get a Lifetime Achieving award.
- 42:30Speaker 3: Sure, that's Holly what apologizing for Val Kilmer.
- 42:38Speaker 1: Definitely one of those duel awards. For all things Treehouse,
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