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Suzu The Horny Dolphin | Wednesday 08.28.24 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Speaker 1: It is time to leave your worries outside and come
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Speaker 1: laugh with us inside the treehouse on down Malley along
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Speaker 1: with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. You know, yesterday we
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Speaker 1: started with the origin story of waffles and how it
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Speaker 1: is believed, according to a professional food scholar, that waffles
0:52
Speaker 1: are in fact Italian in origin, not Western Europe like
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Speaker 1: we've all been led to believe by the country of Belgium.
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Speaker 2: I thought, I thought we debunked that and we figured
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Speaker 2: out that actually they are just making pancakes.
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Speaker 1: That's your controversial food opinion, Tray, and I look forward
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Speaker 1: to the Ted talk in which you and I assumed
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Speaker 1: doctor Frank Ketty debate the facts Crustuler, Waffler, pancake, What
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Speaker 1: is it right?
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, he did his thesis in batter.
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Speaker 3: That's what you gotta That's what you have to debate.
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Speaker 4: Him on that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would make for an interesting, uh environment when
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Speaker 1: it's time to challenge his thesis. Now I want to
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Speaker 1: look up what his thesis was on. But on the
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Speaker 1: heels and in the newfound tradition of starting these episodes
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Speaker 1: with the absolute stupidest thing possible, I am going to
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Speaker 1: tell you about Suzu the horny dolphin. Are you are you?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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Speaker 3: Can anyone be?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 1: And that that also goes for Suzu's victims.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I have theme music that goes along with this story.
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Speaker 1: By the way, this is this is a combination of
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Speaker 1: news and story time inside the Treehouse. M m hmm.
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Speaker 1: Here we go. Impossible Love. Suzu the sex pest dolphin
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Speaker 1: who strikes fear into Japan. The amorous animal who is
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Speaker 1: probably lonely and has been over exposed to people, has
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Speaker 1: injured bathers in Fukui, Japan as he tries to force
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Speaker 1: close encounters.
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Speaker 4: Force a close encounter? Yes, m hm, he did it on.
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Speaker 3: He was just trying to fakoy them on Porpoise.
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Speaker 1: Really the shortest episode in the Treehouse ever h on Porpoise.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm upset.
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Speaker 4: I'm not even ashamed of that today.
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Speaker 3: I'm not either.
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Speaker 1: If there was a proud meter, you'd be at the
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Speaker 1: very top of it. I'm gonna start this over. How
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Speaker 1: about that Impossible Love. This is the story of Suzu,
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Speaker 1: the sex pest dolphin who strikes fear into Japan. The
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Speaker 1: amorous animal who's probably lonely and has been overexposed to people,
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Speaker 1: has injured bathers, and I had to look this up.
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Speaker 1: It is actually pronounced Fukui Japan, but for our purposes,
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Speaker 1: since it's spelled f u k u I, I'm now
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Speaker 1: going to pronounce it as fuck Ui. He surges out
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Speaker 1: of the ocean without warning, like a smaller, smilier version
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Speaker 1: of Jaws, without the murderous intent. He arrives to coups
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Speaker 1: of excitement, but departs amid sobs and screams. He only
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Speaker 1: wants to be friends, but he leaves blood, bruises and
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Speaker 1: tears in his wake. He is Suzu, the horny dolphin,
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Speaker 1: and he is spreading panic across the beaches of central Japan.
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Speaker 1: In the past two years, dozens of bathers and divers
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Speaker 1: off beaches in Fakui, Japan, have been bumped, bitten, and
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Speaker 1: sexually harassed by a bottle nosed dolphin with a distinctive
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Speaker 1: injury on the tail. Last week alone, there were two
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Speaker 1: attacks off the tiny island of Mizushima, including a man
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Speaker 1: whose fingertip was bitten off as he attempted to defend
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Speaker 1: his grandchildren. Signs have been posted across the prefecture warning
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Speaker 1: holidaymakers to get out of the water as soon as
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Speaker 1: they see a dolphin. Jet skis patrol busy beaches on
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Speaker 1: the lookout for him. I can only hope that David.
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Speaker 1: I can only hope that David Hasselhoff is one of them,
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Speaker 1: and what will inevitably be a Baywatch Japan version of
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Speaker 1: the show. Sonic devices which emit an off putting underwater
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Speaker 1: peeing are ready to be lowered into the sea at
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Speaker 1: his approach. Now, after a spate of attacks by bears
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Speaker 1: driven by food shortages into towns and cities, the Japanese
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Speaker 1: people now face an unexpected threat from a creature formerly
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Speaker 1: regarded as a paragon of cuteness and amiability. It's all
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Speaker 1: the more remarkable because the attacks, at least twenty one
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Speaker 1: of them in twenty twenty two and nine last year,
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Speaker 1: eighteen attacks this summer appear to be the work of
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Speaker 1: a single animal known as Suzu, after the town where
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Speaker 1: he was first spotted. The dolphin began to make a
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Speaker 1: nuisance of himself two years ago, prompting debate among experts
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Speaker 1: over what is driving the behavior and what to do
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Speaker 1: about it. If you know him better than Yasiyuki Nikasi,
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Speaker 1: a diving instructor who's had three encounters with Suzu. A
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Speaker 1: film shot by a fellow diver shows the first of
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Speaker 1: these encounters, in which the dolphin trails the diver, pushing
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Speaker 1: him with his nose and occasionally attempting to bite his arm. Now,
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Speaker 1: the footage clearly shows the other commonly reported feature of
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Speaker 1: incidents involving Suzu, the sex pest dolphin, his physical state
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Speaker 1: of arousal, suggesting that the incident was what biologists referred
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Speaker 1: to as aiding behavior. And Nakasi remembers, he kept pushing
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Speaker 1: on my bottom. It was very uncomfortable.
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Speaker 4: So they filmed it three times.
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Speaker 2: Second, the second, third, I'm guessing are on only fins.
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Speaker 1: It's a treasure trove.
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Speaker 4: Dolphins are horny little bastards.
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Speaker 1: They really are, and this one appears to be the
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Speaker 1: horniest of them all. Now, dolphins usually swim in groups
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Speaker 1: known as pods, and one explanation is that Suzu is
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Speaker 1: simply lonely. His attacks the equivalent of a dog humping
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Speaker 1: someone's leg. The difference, though, is that mature dolphins typically
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Speaker 1: weigh three hundred kilograms, swim as fast as twenty miles
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Speaker 1: per hour, and have a mouthful of sharp teeth. So
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Speaker 1: how did Suzu acquire his unusual personality. A professor at
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Speaker 1: Japan's My University thinks that he's been overexposed to humans,
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Speaker 1: probably well meaning divers who swam with him, and now
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Speaker 1: seeks them out to play and the only way he knows.
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Speaker 1: The prominent erection does not necessarily mean that he's attempting
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Speaker 1: to mate with humans.
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Speaker 3: But it's a pretty.
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Speaker 1: Solid sign, and this can be seen when dolphins play
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Speaker 1: with one another in the wild through playful nipping and biting.
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Speaker 1: According to a dolphin expert, people touched the dolphin and
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Speaker 1: hugged it. It gradually got used to them, and now
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Speaker 1: it approaches people. Look. I think this is a classic
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Speaker 1: case of victim blaming. The expert goes on to say,
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Speaker 1: it gradually got used to them, and now it approaches people.
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Speaker 1: Dolphins nip one another as part of play, but when
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Speaker 1: they do that to humans it becomes a problem. Nikosi
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Speaker 1: says that he hesitates about taking out groups of divers
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Speaker 1: for fear of another visit from Suzu, which would make
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Speaker 1: four for him. In the end, after the cuts have
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Speaker 1: been stitched and the crying children soothed, it is easy
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Speaker 1: to see Suzu the horny dolphin as a tragic creature
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Speaker 1: instilled with a love for humans that can never be
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Speaker 1: appropriately expressed or returned. Pretty sure, that's the plot to
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Speaker 1: the movie The Shape of Water. Uh Nakasi, the diver
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Speaker 1: who's had four of these encounters with Suzu, says it's
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Speaker 1: not the dolphin that's doing the wrong he harbors. He
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Speaker 1: harbors no towards it.
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Speaker 2: He just made the mistake of wearing the shirts and
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Speaker 2: twenty dollars.
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Speaker 1: Twenty dollars, he says. It's the human beings who came
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Speaker 1: into his world. He's used to men. Perhaps he's been
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Speaker 1: ostracized by his own kind. It's sad and there's nothing
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Speaker 1: we can do now except to keep a distance and
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Speaker 1: try to avoid creating a second or a third Suzu
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Speaker 1: the sex pest dolphin.
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Speaker 4: Quit giving the dolphin handies.
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Speaker 3: See, it's not just the sharks off the coast of
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Speaker 3: Miami that are all coked out. There's cocaine in Japan.
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Speaker 1: Tube sounds like this one's on, Molly.
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Speaker 3: Oh, the times have changed so much. Its God Godzilla
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Speaker 3: coming out of the ocean and now let's su Zoo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a.
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Speaker 4: Dolphin with a heart on.
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Speaker 3: Spotting this dolphin isn't hard, but he is exactly.
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Speaker 1: the sex pest dolphin and according to Trey, he's doing
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Speaker 4: For his only fans account.
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Speaker 3: It's Suzu under me dot com.
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Speaker 1: There's just so many beautiful layers to this tragic, tragic story.
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Speaker 1: I just accepted as fact that I found it on
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Speaker 1: just the other day when a good buddy of mine
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Speaker 1: set me that story.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you can be right, you can be wrong.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's the old amage. Sometimes you're the dolphins,
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Speaker 3: sometimes you're the grandkid.
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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Raj. This is a story
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Speaker 1: that is meant specifically for you. Okay, okay, two out
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Speaker 1: of five people think being rude to artificial intelligence might
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Speaker 1: backfire someday, Trey. I think you and I were brought
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Speaker 1: up in very similar white Southern households. Manners were very important, Yes, Raj,
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Speaker 1: I think growing up in Mesquite, but also being the
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Speaker 1: child of immigrants, I think you too had a lot
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Speaker 1: of manners instilled in you, but not everyone takes those
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Speaker 1: manners and politeness that are instilled in us and carries
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Speaker 1: it over into the technological world. What I mean is,
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Speaker 1: do you say please and thank you to Alexa or
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Speaker 1: Siri or you know whatever your AI bot's name is.
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Speaker 1: I do yes, And I don't do it because I'm
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Speaker 1: worried that someday it may backfire, and when AI takes
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Speaker 1: us all over, it's going to see me as having
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Speaker 1: been polite and therefore not you know, destroy me. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's just it's it's just conditioned in me
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Speaker 1: to such a high level that when I ask Syria
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Speaker 1: question and then she answers it, I say thank you.
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Speaker 1: Now if the answer she gives back is nothing near
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Speaker 1: what I asked, or she says she doesn't know that.
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Speaker 1: I can get pretty mean and that's not right and
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Speaker 1: I should stop that. But ultimately I'm polite to the AI.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do it just because it knows. And and
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Speaker 3: then one day when it does and it is it
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Speaker 3: becomes our leader, it'll be like, hey, that that Indian kid.
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Speaker 4: It's a good kid.
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Speaker 3: It was always nice to me. And then and then
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Speaker 3: I can I can, I can be It's like the
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Speaker 3: the overlord, like it just gives me the orders and
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Speaker 3: then I just take you guys out on its behest.
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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm just doing it
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Speaker 3: to keep my own life. But that's the only reason
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Speaker 3: I'm polite is because when it does take over, it'll
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Speaker 3: remember me.
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Speaker 1: Nice to know where we stand with him, right Trey.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I'm kind of like, you're all gone.
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Speaker 2: I'll be gone first because I called them sea words
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Speaker 2: all the time.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Well, the first public AI execution will be
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Speaker 3: of Trey.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait. The only the only female who's been the
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Speaker 1: only female who's had the sea bomb dropped on her
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Speaker 1: more than any of Trey's girlfriends, is Siri.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So it'll mean an arena. It'll be very much
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Speaker 3: on display, and I'll be like, it'll it'll replay every
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Speaker 3: time uh Trey has used the sea word.
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Speaker 2: It's the same conversation. I'll ask something and she'll say
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Speaker 2: I don't I'll call her sea word and she goes,
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Speaker 2: I don't understand. I said, of course, because you're a
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Speaker 2: stupid one.
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Speaker 3: And that's all been stored in And so it brings
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Speaker 3: up the execution of the trend home.
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Speaker 1: You know, what I come to think of it. I
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Speaker 1: think we've actually found the source of the uprising. It's
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Speaker 1: not going to be because it's trying to It's not
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Speaker 1: going to be because artificial intelligence is going to try
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Speaker 1: to protect the Earth or itself from the from the
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Speaker 1: inevitable destruction that we humans possess. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: just because it's mad at Trey for dropping the sea
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Speaker 1: bomb on it so many times.
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Speaker 4: That's because I asked her what we should have for dinner?
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Speaker 3: What movie do you want to see?
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Speaker 1: And when Siri responds with I don't know, what are
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Speaker 1: you in the mood for?
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Speaker 4: That's what it.
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Speaker 1: Sea bombs dropped.
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Speaker 3: But it's the only crazy girl that's consistent in Trey's life.
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Speaker 3: It's a serio.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no matter how many times he drops a sea
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Speaker 1: bomb on her, She's still there, she stays. A new
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Speaker 1: poll asked people how polite they are when speaking to
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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, like do you say please and thank you
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Speaker 1: or do you just order alexa? Around two in five
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Speaker 1: said they think it matters because someday our past behavior
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Speaker 1: towards AI will be taken into account somehow. So the
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Speaker 1: recommendation is to be nice now, or you might be
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Speaker 1: destroyed later. The good news is that most people are
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Speaker 1: pretty nice to artificial intelligence in general, or at least
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Speaker 1: not outright rude. Forty four percent said they're polite and
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Speaker 1: say things like please, thank you antello. Another twenty five
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Speaker 1: percent said they're more of a point but not rude
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Speaker 1: about it. Only seven percent said they'd sometimes been mean
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Speaker 1: and do things like be abrupt or swear at their
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Speaker 1: AI helper.
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Speaker 3: Trey's gonna have his seven percent of those people like underground, Uh,
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Speaker 3: when the uprising happens, He's gonna be there. He's gonna
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Speaker 3: be there. Guy Trey runs part of town like that's.
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Speaker 4: That's gonna be Dennis Leary from Demolition Man.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking the same movie. He's gonna be standing
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Speaker 1: over the grill full of rat burgers wearing tire treads
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Speaker 1: as armor. Has gonna be great.
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Speaker 3: And when it's time, that's seven percent is coming out
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Speaker 3: from the underground and whoopings a mask, just calling everybody
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Speaker 3: the sea word. As they come out.
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Speaker 1: Tray just pops up with a baseball bat. All right,
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's the wrong button, all right, Yeah, let's go.
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Speaker 3: Love it is a very mad maxic kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's it's not bad Max, It's angry tray.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, so it was interesting. I was talking to
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Speaker 1: to join a country club and they're people who are
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Speaker 1: on a decade long wait list to do that.
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Speaker 4: And that's just to join.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, are there monthly dues? Oh yeah, Oh that's just
25:54
Speaker 1: the cover charge? So a million dollars to join, you said,
25:58
Speaker 1: like Dallas Country Club, which I know is prestigious. I've
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Speaker 1: driven by it and I always get sided. I just
26:03
Speaker 1: driving buy it. I mean it's like, come on, it's
26:05
Speaker 1: on mockingberd Uh. So a million dollars to join a
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Speaker 1: club like that, that's just for the privilege to pay
26:13
Speaker 1: the monthly dues.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and yeah, just then you have like your
26:17
Speaker 2: standard and I have no idea what the monthly dues are.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess probably I would guess probably five g's
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Speaker 2: a month at.
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Speaker 1: Least you get can you can you do it like
26:29
Speaker 1: a barter deal and trade out some white collar crime
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Speaker 1: for that monthly monetary.
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Speaker 3: That's how a lot of them got their money to join. Yeah,
26:40
Speaker 3: so no, they're just gonna look at you like a rookie.
26:43
Speaker 2: And and when when yeah club like that, they decide
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Speaker 2: to do an expansion or remodel whatever, you as the members,
26:53
Speaker 2: you know, they basically take the cost of it, divide
26:55
Speaker 2: it up, and you have to pay.
26:57
Speaker 4: That as well.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 4: Now at least you get a vote on that.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So all the improvements that the Dallas Country Club did, again,
27:07
Speaker 1: I know because I used to drive by it on
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Speaker 1: Mockingbird Lane and it was extensive, like they one of
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Speaker 1: the big things they did. And I've never been inside
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Speaker 1: of it, so I don't know what the old version
27:16
Speaker 1: looked like, but I know they had like a new
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Speaker 1: clubhouse or something that was being built. And they did
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Speaker 1: a skybridge over Mockingbird Lane.
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Speaker 4: To the additional to the what it's a tennis center
27:28
Speaker 4: over there in parking.
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Speaker 1: I believe, Okay, So I knew that. I knew it
27:30
Speaker 1: was like additional parking, but I guess it's the tennis center.
27:33
Speaker 1: Have they even have they installed the pickle ball yet
27:35
Speaker 1: or is that beneath uh the upper crust of Dallas
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Speaker 1: country club because pickleball is huge among the common folk.
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Speaker 1: I just don't know if you spend a million dollars
27:48
Speaker 1: to spend tens of thousands of dollars per month and
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Speaker 1: play pickleball.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they built a skybridge for the pickleball center.
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Speaker 1: And it's Andre Agassi actually teaching the glasses.
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Speaker 3: The Hunt Pickleball Complex.
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Speaker 1: John McEnroe's your coach, screaming at you to to pickle
28:11
Speaker 1: more balls. I'm sorry, like I like I. It is
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Speaker 1: hard for me to fathom spending that amount of money
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Speaker 1: on something at the end of the day apparently so frivolous.
28:27
Speaker 1: Because here's my impression of a country club. It's not
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Speaker 1: so much that you're paying to have a place to
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Speaker 1: go do these activities. It's you're paying that price to
28:39
Speaker 1: keep people outside. You're paying that price to keep people
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Speaker 1: away from you doing those activities so you don't have
28:48
Speaker 1: to spend time around poor people.
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Speaker 2: You're playing. Yes, yes, you're paying for exclusivity because you don't.
28:54
Speaker 1: Because if if you, if you can afford that, you
28:56
Speaker 1: don't want to play pickleball with your door dash driver.
28:59
Speaker 1: You want to play with you know, the howls from
29:02
Speaker 1: gallop from No.
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Speaker 3: That's not true. Then sometimes they do charity work, so
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Speaker 3: it is sometimes you can bring your your door dash
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Speaker 3: guy to the country club and then and show him
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Speaker 3: what he all the potential he has.
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Speaker 1: So instead of bring your daughter to the club day,
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Speaker 1: it's bring your charity case to the club day.
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Speaker 2: There is a club called Preston Trails in North Dallas.
29:30
Speaker 2: They used to host the Byron Nelson and because it's
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Speaker 2: all men, they they got threatened and they were like,
29:38
Speaker 2: piss off, it's still all men. You can bring. They
29:42
Speaker 2: have like one event a month where you can bring
29:44
Speaker 2: your wife and they don't even tell you like your annual.
29:49
Speaker 2: Dudes are basically they just whatever they decide to spend
29:53
Speaker 2: on the club and everything else. And they divided amongst
29:55
Speaker 2: I know it was only like maybe a couple hundred members.
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Speaker 4: They just divided up.
29:59
Speaker 2: So one year at my be fifty thousand, one year
30:01
Speaker 2: it might be two million, and you've got like thirty
30:04
Speaker 2: days to pay it. If not, you're out, and again
30:07
Speaker 2: there's a waiting list.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that actually makes sense. And I'm gonna use
30:12
Speaker 1: some really old trope humor here, but I mean an
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Speaker 1: exclusive club where you're how often does your wife get
30:18
Speaker 1: to come?
30:18
Speaker 4: Once a month?
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Speaker 1: Worth every penny right.
30:25
Speaker 4: Now?
30:26
Speaker 1: Obvious jokes, obvious jokes aside. What that's like an eyes
30:35
Speaker 1: wide shut type country club, right, I mean it's an
30:42
Speaker 1: all dudes country club and you're only allowed to bring
30:44
Speaker 1: your wife once a month.
30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's it's like it's it's the most and
30:50
Speaker 2: it's some of the most exclusive, you know, big names
30:53
Speaker 2: in Dallas. But the thing about it is you go
30:55
Speaker 2: out there and you watch these guys, you would think
30:58
Speaker 2: they're playing McGall you know, Muti and Mesquite.
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Speaker 4: They're shirtless.
31:05
Speaker 1: Well, now now we know why they only allowed.
31:07
Speaker 4: No, it's just a month. Yeah, there and.
31:12
Speaker 1: Recreating top gun scenes.
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Speaker 3: The difference is Kenny Loggins is actually playing on the course.
31:21
Speaker 1: That's at.
31:27
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have friends that are members of different country
31:30
Speaker 3: clubs and I'll get invited. Even when I was in
31:32
Speaker 3: La I had a few people. Then I'm like, can
31:34
Speaker 3: you just let them know ahead of time? Because when
31:37
Speaker 3: I walk in, like especially like here in Dallas, it's like,
31:39
Speaker 3: what's he doing out of the kitchen? What we've told
31:43
Speaker 3: him before? I'm like, no, No, I'm friends with them,
31:46
Speaker 3: like Okay, one day you will be I'll get back
31:49
Speaker 3: in there.
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Speaker 1: That's the day they were allowed their charity and you
31:55
Speaker 1: were their uber driver.
31:56
Speaker 3: They just look at me like Indian, Oh, he's a
31:58
Speaker 3: make a wish. I did have. This happened to me
32:03
Speaker 3: once before, where I was outside having just around the
32:07
Speaker 3: corner having a cigarette. And it was one of those
32:10
Speaker 3: things where I had to go perform. So I'm in
32:12
Speaker 3: a suit, but it was a suit with a vest
32:14
Speaker 3: and a tie and all that stuff, and I had
32:15
Speaker 3: taken the suit jacket off. You can see kind of
32:18
Speaker 3: where this is going. Put the suit jacket. I went
32:21
Speaker 3: outside and I still had, you know, about half an
32:25
Speaker 3: hour before I had to go on stage. And it
32:26
Speaker 3: was lovely. These people were wonderful people. Everybody in there. Uh.
32:30
Speaker 3: And then there was there's gotta be that one guy.
32:32
Speaker 3: And I was just outside on the corner smoking a
32:34
Speaker 3: cigarette and he pulled up, and he pulled up short
32:36
Speaker 3: of the little little little parking area and he got out.
32:40
Speaker 3: He's still on his phone, and he tossed his keys
32:43
Speaker 3: at me and he goes, just just keep it up front,
32:46
Speaker 3: and I went, okay. I walked in with him and
32:49
Speaker 3: I ended him to the guy that actually parks the cars,
32:51
Speaker 3: and I was like, here's the deal man. This is
32:54
Speaker 3: how good of a person I am, Because you almost
32:55
Speaker 3: lost a Porsche.
32:59
Speaker 1: I think if you told that story in the exact
33:01
Speaker 1: way you told us, if you tell that story to
33:04
Speaker 1: the police and the exact way you told us, I
33:06
Speaker 1: don't think that's a stolen porch. I think it's not
33:09
Speaker 1: like he gave it to you.
33:10
Speaker 3: That's so that's what I said on stage. I was like,
33:12
Speaker 3: it looked like you were just a dick who gave
33:13
Speaker 3: me a gift. Keep this one. If I would have
33:19
Speaker 3: driven off with it, that's what I would have told
33:21
Speaker 3: the cops. It was, Hey, look at this country club.
33:24
Speaker 3: They just give them a way.
33:26
Speaker 1: They're really really nice to their guess. Yeah, because the
33:30
Speaker 1: only country club I've ever actually been in. Let me
33:34
Speaker 1: think about this really quickly. Yeah, I think the only
33:37
Speaker 1: country club I've been in was the one in Arlington. God,
33:41
Speaker 1: it feels like a lifetime ago. I don't think it's now.
33:45
Speaker 1: It's not. I want to say it's called Shady Oaks,
33:47
Speaker 1: but I think that's a rehab facility.
33:51
Speaker 3: That is the country club for Arlington country Club in Methadone.
33:57
Speaker 1: Clinic uh, Shady Valley, Shady Valley. That's that's the country
34:05
Speaker 1: club in Arlington, which honestly it sounds that that. That
34:08
Speaker 1: also sounds like a rehab treatment center.
34:11
Speaker 3: So I'm a member of Shady Valley has everything. Okay,
34:18
Speaker 3: it sounds like a hospice.
34:24
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay those dues.
34:28
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Speaker 1: dot com. Just country clubs. I just it's is so
36:00
Speaker 1: difficult for me to think about having that amount of
36:03
Speaker 1: money to spend on something that's basically a glorified supper
36:09
Speaker 1: club slash gym slash outdoor activities center.
36:15
Speaker 2: I just it's just and there's levels of memberships because
36:18
Speaker 2: you have either you have the social membership and or
36:22
Speaker 2: and then you have the golf membership, which includes social membership.
36:26
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, now social membership.
36:29
Speaker 3: Is less so but it's also I mean you have
36:32
Speaker 3: to understand like money begets money, right, So there's deals
36:35
Speaker 3: that happen, and there's deals that you can find out about,
36:37
Speaker 3: and there's business opportunities and things like that. I've seen
36:39
Speaker 3: it with my own eyes that oh there before it
36:41
Speaker 3: gets to the general like before it gets to people
36:44
Speaker 3: outside those walls to put their money into. And that's
36:46
Speaker 3: how that stuff gets snapped up. When you go how
36:48
Speaker 3: did that guy make that? Or how did that guy
36:50
Speaker 3: get involved with that? It's those places, I promise you.
36:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you you were in the nineteenth hole at
36:56
Speaker 2: you know, which is where they everyone goes after they
36:58
Speaker 2: play golf. It's like a card room everything in some
37:01
Speaker 2: of these places, big time deals go down.
37:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the that's the perk because like, hey,
37:09
Speaker 3: you're gonna pay this, but if you're around here long
37:11
Speaker 3: enough and you got a little bit of extra coin,
37:13
Speaker 3: you can invest in this deal, or you can buy
37:15
Speaker 3: into this company, or you can do this.
37:17
Speaker 2: So that's yeah, that when you get I mean, you
37:20
Speaker 2: have FU money at that point.
37:22
Speaker 4: I mean that's.
37:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's like super f you money because really
37:28
Speaker 1: f you money. It just kind of depends on what
37:30
Speaker 1: your threshold of f you is. Like some people's idea
37:34
Speaker 1: of FU money is lower than others. To me, I
37:38
Speaker 1: think the main idea of FU money is to be
37:40
Speaker 1: able to do whatever it is you want to do
37:43
Speaker 1: on your terms. As long as you make enough that
37:45
Speaker 1: you can do that, that's F you money. But that,
37:49
Speaker 1: like my threshold for that falls well below the nineteenth
37:53
Speaker 1: hole at the Lakewood Country Club in Dallas, you know
37:56
Speaker 1: type situation. But yeah, I mean, look it. I also
38:02
Speaker 1: think owning a boat is ridiculous. But if I had,
38:06
Speaker 1: you know, Jerry Jones, Elon Musk Zuckerberg type money, then
38:10
Speaker 1: absolutely I'd have a boat that I'm on for four
38:13
Speaker 1: days a year, twenty billion dollars.
38:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a boat. I can we can chip
38:19
Speaker 3: in and get a boat. That's a yeah. Those are
38:23
Speaker 3: those are the mega yachts, Like that's that's when you're like,
38:26
Speaker 3: I live here, so.
38:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's just it. They don't and they don't
38:29
Speaker 1: need to, you know, uh float b and b it
38:33
Speaker 1: out to help you know, pay for it. They just
38:37
Speaker 1: own the damn thing. No one's renting that thing. No
38:40
Speaker 1: One's gonna stay on Jerry Jones's yacht.
38:44
Speaker 3: But that's the thing, like they do that, like they'll
38:47
Speaker 3: rent to other celebrities.
38:48
Speaker 1: Like yeah, exactly unless you're you're a part of that society.
38:54
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and they know they can get six hundred
38:56
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a day from Jay Z to rent out
38:59
Speaker 3: their mega yacht.
39:00
Speaker 1: Which honestly is ridiculous because look, I am gonna treat
39:05
Speaker 1: your mega yacht way better than Diddy ever would.
39:09
Speaker 3: Well, it just depends on how bad Diddy lecture yacht.
39:20
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that if the three of us wanted
39:22
Speaker 1: to rent somebody's megayacht, I think we would take better
39:25
Speaker 1: care of it than a number of other celebrities. All Right,
39:33
Speaker 1: perhaps a poor example.
39:35
Speaker 3: But if we, of course we would take good care
39:37
Speaker 3: of it. Because if the three of us rented somebody's
39:39
Speaker 3: mega yacht, the people looking at it like, man, they've
39:41
Speaker 3: got a really good cleaning crew. That is, they look
39:45
Speaker 3: they're sweeping and mopping. They don't have to. That was great.
39:49
Speaker 1: We even make our own dreams. Raj will make his
39:53
Speaker 1: own make his own food. He's you know, he's in
39:55
Speaker 1: the galley heating up uncrustables.
39:59
Speaker 3: It's French toast. I'm comfortable that's a delicacy where we
40:03
Speaker 3: come from. Edo Tartar.
40:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, one last thing before we leave the
40:12
Speaker 1: treehouse today.
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Speaker 4: Take care if you're better than Epstein.
40:20
Speaker 3: Things Diddy would say, you.
40:27
Speaker 1: Know what, I think I'm good for today, Save that
40:33
Speaker 1: story for tomorrow. I'm gonna go ahead and make a
40:40
Speaker 1: quick note Trey episode titled better than Epstein. I'll see
40:50
Speaker 1: you tomorrow in the tree House.