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Split the Bill or Pay Your Share? When Is It Fair—and When Are You Just Cheap? | The Treehouse Show · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Speaker 2: grow the Treehouse show. Let's start today with to Split
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Speaker 2: or Not to Split?
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Speaker 3: Trey.
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Speaker 1: So, I recently had an experience, as everyone knows, are
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Speaker 1: those new. I am a recovering alcoholic. I don't drink,
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Speaker 1: have been. So this is a just mind blowing thing.
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Speaker 1: Of next Monday, it'll be a decade.
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Speaker 3: Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it that I'm still trying to wrap my
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Speaker 1: mind around that one.
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Speaker 2: Basically as basically a fifth wait of your life has
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Speaker 2: now been alcohol free. Well, I guess, I guess in
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Speaker 2: your early your early days, like when you were seeing
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Speaker 2: when you were like a toddler and it well I
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Speaker 2: can't say teenager probably, but let's say a quarter of
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Speaker 2: your life has been alcohol free. Oh you're gonna do
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Speaker 2: the math, aren't you.
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Speaker 1: No, that's true. And yeah, that being said, so go
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Speaker 1: out to dinner whatever, I don't drink. So I had
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Speaker 1: an experience where I went to a birthday dinner, and
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Speaker 1: which I'm normally fine with, but at a certain point,
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Speaker 1: if I know the players involved, I am not one
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Speaker 1: and Dan you can testify this. I am not cheap.
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Speaker 1: I am not someone who's you know, I'm gonna pull anything.
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Speaker 1: But also I'm not gonna piss away my money paying
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Speaker 1: for everyone else's drinking. So I went to a birthday party,
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Speaker 1: I knew the players involved, and I had a feeling
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Speaker 1: bottles of wines are going to be order and everything else.
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Speaker 1: So I and I, as I have done for a while,
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Speaker 1: I discreetly pulled the waiter aside server and I go, listen,
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Speaker 1: I go, I need you to keep me on a
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Speaker 1: separate check so that way, like, I'm more than happy
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Speaker 1: to pay. I'm happy to contribute to to the birthday
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Speaker 1: person's festivities. But what I'm not willing to do is pay.
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Speaker 1: You know. And now, if everyone was just gonna have
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Speaker 1: a drink or whatever, yeah, okay, I'm not gonna really
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Speaker 1: split hairs. But I knew this group, and you know,
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Speaker 1: by the time it's all said and done, they've spent
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Speaker 1: over one thousand dollars on wine and drinks and everything else.
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Speaker 1: Because there are some players involved that have done very
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Speaker 1: well in their life. So it comes time to split
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Speaker 1: up the bill. And then you're like, well, hey, everyone,
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Speaker 1: what is divided up by ten? I'm like, no, I go,
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Speaker 1: I kept my check check separate go, so I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: take care of that. And I go, you know, here's
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Speaker 1: some money for to cover the birthday person's bill. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, come on, you know, they're like,
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Speaker 1: don't be that way, just just make it easy. I
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Speaker 1: go It's perfectly easy to go divide by nine instead
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Speaker 1: of ten, just because you know. I mean, if you
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Speaker 1: need to bust out a calculator, knock yourself out. But no,
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Speaker 1: I am not paying y'all all. You know you had
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Speaker 1: like four bottles of wine.
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Speaker 3: M h.
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Speaker 1: I did not, you know, partake in any of that,
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Speaker 1: and I don't feel I need to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: A couple of the people who I knew know me
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Speaker 1: better than others, were okay, fine, other kept giving me
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Speaker 1: dirty looks like I was being the party pooper because
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Speaker 1: they were having to pay more. And I'm like, man,
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Speaker 1: why would I pay for y'all's excessive drinking. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate if over ten years ago, hey, I would
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Speaker 1: have been right there with you, But.
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Speaker 3: That made me doing laps around you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the fact that you know and like I said,
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Speaker 1: excessive ordering everything else, which is fine. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: I I tipped my server very well, like about a
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Speaker 1: forty percent tip, paid for mine, threw in some cash
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Speaker 1: for you know, I even I specifically brought cash so
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Speaker 1: just I knew, I go, hey, here there's my portion
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Speaker 1: to cover the birthday person's meal and their night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I.
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Speaker 1: Don't feel like and I mean, and especially ten years
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Speaker 1: into this, I don't feel bad at all. But I
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Speaker 1: found it funny that some people thought I was being
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Speaker 1: cheap are a pain in the ass because I wasn't
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Speaker 1: going to pay for everyone's drinking. And it's not like
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Speaker 1: I I made it difficult. I said, I had my
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Speaker 1: check separate and you know, I mean my check was
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Speaker 1: a quarter of what they ended up divving up. I
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Speaker 1: mean it was. It's amazing how you money, you say,
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Speaker 1: when you don't drink and you go out. Oh, it's like.
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Speaker 1: There was another night I went to Hobby Ears, which
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Speaker 1: you've been there, you know, this fantastic uh Mexican place
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Speaker 1: in Dallas, like Mexico City food.
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Speaker 3: Love it.
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Speaker 1: And this was it had been my first time. This
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Speaker 1: was actually a couple of years ago, and my first
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Speaker 1: time at hobby years post sobriety or post drinking whatever.
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Speaker 1: And I was shocked because I you know, it was
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Speaker 1: I was on a date. Oh yeah, we had an
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Speaker 1: appetizer entrees and I think the check was like ninety bucks.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh wait, how this happened? Oh.
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Speaker 2: Javier's is one of the best restaurants in Dallas, and
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Speaker 2: it's super reasonably priced.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh wow, it's not that bad. Oh
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Speaker 1: that's right, because I'm not knocking back fifteen dollars marker.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, that helps. That's without a doubt.
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Speaker 2: I am always fascinated by these split Czech scenarios and
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Speaker 2: yours and yours has an additional layer to it, right,
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Speaker 2: because your story, your situation, and this split the chech
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Speaker 2: birthday scenario is already complicated because you've got different socioeconomic factors. Right,
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Speaker 2: You've got some people that have done really well for themselves,
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Speaker 2: and then you've got other people that you know don't
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Speaker 2: have that same amount of money, right, and then you
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Speaker 2: may even have some people at the table that have
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Speaker 2: even less than that. So it really complicates it just
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Speaker 2: from a financial point.
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Speaker 1: I assure you I was the poorest person at the table.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to be delicate about it, but I
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Speaker 2: kind of figure you don't need partly because you spent
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Speaker 2: so much on drinking over your life.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean that's.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I ruined myself financially and professionally being an alcoholic.
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Speaker 2: So and and you also have a number of friends
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Speaker 2: in various walks of life, and so it's so at
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Speaker 2: your table, you probably had three d different levels of
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Speaker 2: financial uh situations. You probably had people that are millionaires,
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Speaker 2: You probably had some people that are just.
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Speaker 3: You know, comfy, and then there's you.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's not like you're holding up a cardboard
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Speaker 2: sign that says, you know, will work for food or anything.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, you're not forget the alcohol thing just
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Speaker 2: for for a moment. You're you're not going to be
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Speaker 2: throwing back the stuff that they're doing just from a
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Speaker 2: financial standpoint, even if you were drinking, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you're going to be ordering, you know, a five
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars bottle of wine. So that's one aspect which
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Speaker 2: that can get complicated enough when you're at a friends
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Speaker 2: group setting and you're out because even because me, even
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Speaker 2: as someone who drinks, I don't want to pay for
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Speaker 2: someone's one hundred and fifty dollars bottle of wine that
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Speaker 2: they ordered. And I'm not gonna drink like if I'm
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Speaker 2: if I'm having a you know, if I'm having what
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Speaker 2: I'm having and I have two of those, let's say
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Speaker 2: let's say I get two top shelf martine they're fifteen
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Speaker 2: sixteen bucks. Okay, that's thirty bucks that I've spent and
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Speaker 2: you are buying one hundred and fifty dollars bottle of wine.
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Speaker 3: I'm not splitting that check with you.
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Speaker 2: And then your situation is that additional layer of you
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Speaker 2: don't drink at all, so you're really not going to
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Speaker 2: split that check.
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Speaker 3: And I don't blame you. I'll tell you right now.
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Speaker 2: If you me and my wife went out to eat,
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Speaker 2: let's say, to Hoviers, and obviously she and I are
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Speaker 2: going to have a margarita or two, you're not. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to expect you to split that bill evenly.
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Speaker 2: You know why, because I think about these things, and
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Speaker 2: I'm considerate. I think about other people as opposed to
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Speaker 2: just myself and my you know.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, if it had been just everyone had
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Speaker 1: a round of drinks, I would have just said, fine,
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Speaker 1: you know, and just yeah, here, I'll pay whatever, you know,
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Speaker 1: divide it by ten here, Okay, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: quibble over what ends up being fifteen twenty bucks. I
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Speaker 1: am gonna quibble over what's gonna be a couple hundred dollars.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you shouldn't feel bad about that.
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Speaker 2: And that's the thing that bugs me about this situation is,
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Speaker 2: like you said, you had some people that are like okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I get it, and then you had other people that
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Speaker 2: are shooting, that are shooting you the dirty looks from
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Speaker 2: across the table like you're some sort of a problem,
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Speaker 2: when they don't realize that they are the problem.
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Speaker 1: Well, so listen, I hate There are people that I
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Speaker 1: quit going to dinner with because they would sit there,
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Speaker 1: they would take a check and then like bust out
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Speaker 1: the calculator and oh well I didn't really have any
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Speaker 1: of that appetizer. So I'm not gonna it.
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Speaker 3: Ain't like that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not cheap like I am with. I hate cheap people.
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Speaker 1: You know, I go to dinner with somebody and they
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Speaker 1: want to divide up the check like that and then
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Speaker 1: they tip, like crap, I will not go to dinner
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Speaker 1: with them. That's not the case. The case is, I
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Speaker 1: just don't feel compelled to drink, you know, to pay
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Speaker 1: for your excessive drinking. And you know, especially when like
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Speaker 1: I said, you're talking about, yeah, they easily had a
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars worth of alcohol, which a nice place, and
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Speaker 1: like I said, ten people, is that really that much? No,
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Speaker 1: But I'm not going to pay an extra hundred bucks
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Speaker 1: just you know, to make their life easier or feel it.
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Speaker 1: And I am at an age now where it's like
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Speaker 1: I have come to grips with my shortcomings as far
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Speaker 1: as my professional and my status status in life, so
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Speaker 1: I don't feel compelled to big time and you know go,
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Speaker 1: oh well, yeah, okay, I'll do that too. No, yeah,
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Speaker 1: especially a couple of them, like you pick this up,
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Speaker 1: You've got no problem. But I think about rich people
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Speaker 1: is that they're oftentimes the cheapest.
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Speaker 3: The great ironies in life, they really really are.
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Speaker 1: That's they kept their money. You know, they got a
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Speaker 1: lot of money for a reason, and part of it
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Speaker 1: is they don't spend it very easily.
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Speaker 3: And they also don't like sharing it.
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Speaker 2: No, because that is also one of the one of
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Speaker 2: the truths that happen in life is when you're poor,
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Speaker 2: you're the most giving that there is.
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Speaker 3: When you're poor, you're.
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Speaker 2: Thinking, man, if I had twenty million dollars, I would
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Speaker 2: give it to this and I would do that. If
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Speaker 2: I had elon musk money, I would do this with it.
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Speaker 2: I would do that with it. But it's interesting once
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Speaker 2: you start making more money that then all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden you're like man, this is nice. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: hang on to this as long as I can, especially
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Speaker 2: if you think it may not last. So, yeah, the
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Speaker 2: whole money situation is a big enough wrinkle. Then throwing
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Speaker 2: on top of it that you know, they're drinking a
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Speaker 2: lot and you're just sitting over in the corner not drinking.
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Speaker 3: So it's a completely new layer to it.
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Speaker 1: And it's not and my unwillingness to pay for their
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Speaker 1: drinking has nothing again to do with I'm sober and
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Speaker 1: they're drinking. And it's not like a refusal to pay
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Speaker 1: for alcohol or some moral thing. It's just, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't partake in this, so I'm not paying for
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Speaker 1: it to you know, to the tune of a couple
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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. I got better things to do with
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Speaker 1: a couple of hundred bucks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still a financial thing. And it's not like
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Speaker 2: as someone who's been sober for ten years, next Monday again, congratulations.
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Speaker 2: And I know this personally, it's not like you're over
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Speaker 2: there looking at everyone judging. You're not over there like
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Speaker 2: just shaking your head like, oh their order, you really, Dan,
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Speaker 2: you're getting another round. None of that ever happens. You're
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Speaker 2: not being like a jerk about it. You're not, you know,
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Speaker 2: being pushy with the sobriety or anything on anybody else.
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Speaker 3: So to me, you were very.
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Speaker 2: Very perfectly pleasant social guest. And it and and look
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Speaker 2: and this is I'm trying to think gathering my thoughts here.
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Speaker 2: I've been in this scenario as well. There was one time,
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Speaker 2: way way back. I mean, this is back when even Trey,
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Speaker 2: you and I I'm not even sure if you and
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Speaker 2: I had really even met yet. This would have been
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Speaker 2: two thousand and two or three maybe. So my cousin Josh,
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Speaker 2: My cousin Josh's two years older than I am. So
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Speaker 2: he is getting married, right, this is back in the
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Speaker 2: early two thousands. He's getting married. He invites me on
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Speaker 2: his on his bachelor party trip. His bachelor party trip
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Speaker 2: is happening in Austin. I'm like cool, sounds like fun.
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Speaker 3: So I go.
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Speaker 2: And we're on a pontomboat on Lake Travis for the
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Speaker 2: for the day, and then that night we're supposed to
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Speaker 2: go to dinner and then go to you know, to
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Speaker 2: the Yellow Rose. We're doing it up, you know, for
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Speaker 2: an Austin bachelor party. Early two thousands.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a twenty something Austin bachelor party.
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Speaker 2: And keep in mind, in two thousand and two, two
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Speaker 2: thousand and three, this guy's twenty one, twenty two, so
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Speaker 2: and these guys are all a couple of years older.
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Speaker 3: So I mean, yeah, it's we're all in our twenties.
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Speaker 3: Is all going to be ugly.
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Speaker 2: And I was the ugly guy because not because I
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Speaker 2: had had so much to drink, but because I don't
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Speaker 2: do well with motion sickness.
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Speaker 3: So this is what happened. We go to the lake.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I drink, I have some beers, but even in
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Speaker 2: my early twenties, I had already built up a tolerance
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Speaker 2: enough to know that I know what my limits are,
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Speaker 2: and I know that there's other plans later in the day.
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Speaker 2: Point is we're on the lake all day and I'm
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Speaker 2: a little nauseous from the boat. Then we get in
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Speaker 2: the car to drive back to town, and you're familiar
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Speaker 2: with Lake Travis enough to know that's kind of a
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Speaker 2: windy road. And I got real car sick, real fast,
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Speaker 2: so much so that I had to hang my head
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Speaker 2: out the window and puke it all up.
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Speaker 3: So I was not feeling good.
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Speaker 2: Get back to the hotel, crash for like four hours,
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Speaker 2: wake up and I just feel like ass. But I
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Speaker 2: have to rally because it's my cousin's bachelor party, right.
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Speaker 2: So we go out to dinner to a Mexican place
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Speaker 2: and I eat.
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 2: I ordered some food of some kind, but it wasn't
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Speaker 2: much and I ordered no booz.
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Speaker 3: I felt terrible.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the twelve other guys at the table are all
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Speaker 2: ordering top shelf Margarita's. Those guys at this point in
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Speaker 2: their life because they all went through Jesuit and you know,
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Speaker 2: Bishop Lynch and stuff, they've all got good jobs already.
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Speaker 2: I was still starting out in a radio career, so
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Speaker 2: I was super poor, like you on your birthday dinner
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Speaker 2: outing the other day.
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Speaker 3: I when the.
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Speaker 2: Check came, I was not about to pay for everybody's
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Speaker 2: four and five hop shelf Margarita's each when I had
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Speaker 2: a tostada, and.
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Speaker 3: I didn't care when that check came.
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Speaker 2: And I have still where I was sitting at the
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Speaker 2: opposite end of the table and this one guy was like, Hey, Dan,
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Speaker 2: where's yours blah blah blah, And I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's in there. He's like, but we need like sixty
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Speaker 2: or seventy bucks out of you. I'm like, no, I
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Speaker 2: threw in my twelve, Like, but we're splitting the check.
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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I threw in mine, and I
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Speaker 2: covered my cousin's stuff. I didn't have a sixteen dollars
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Speaker 2: margarita in two thousand and two, let alone five of them.
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Speaker 2: I'm not paying for that same thing as you. I
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Speaker 2: got the dirty looks the rest of the night. Everyone
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Speaker 2: just thought I was a cheap skater or whatever. And
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Speaker 2: it's like, I don't care. And it was amazing to
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Speaker 2: me that they couldn't understand I'm not paying for something
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Speaker 2: beyond what is reasonable.
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Speaker 3: On so many levels.
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Speaker 2: And I don't understand the mentality of people that don't
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Speaker 2: understand that. How do you not grasp that you're doing
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Speaker 2: the math on the check? You see on the bill,
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Speaker 2: I pointed out, I'm like, this is what I had.
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Speaker 2: I had this thing right there and that's it. Now
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Speaker 2: look at all of your stuff. How does how does
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Speaker 2: that compute in your mind?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I don't get it.
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Speaker 1: And that's you go. You know, hey, the birthday boy,
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Speaker 1: you know, bachelor, go, he had this. Here's my share
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Speaker 1: of this, plus mine I've contributed. You know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: paying for your excessive drinking. Uh and especially and one
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Speaker 1: of the things I do even to avoid that is
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Speaker 1: I will always pull the server aside and say, hey,
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20:53
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Speaker 2: All right, today is Wednesday, August twelfth, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. There are some good
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Speaker 2: ones today, Trey, and a lot of them. Are you
23:30
Speaker 2: ready buckle up for birthdays? Olympic women's rugby medalist Iona
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Speaker 2: mar Is thirty ilanamar Ilonamar.
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Speaker 3: I think that's it.
23:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the one that we all sort of,
23:50
Speaker 2: I don't know, necessarily fell in love with, but captivated
23:52
Speaker 2: the captivated America's attention, and all of a sudden we
23:56
Speaker 2: all knew about women's rugby A because they were badass
23:59
Speaker 2: and be because she is the badass of the badasses
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Speaker 2: on that team.
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Speaker 3: She is thirty today.
24:07
Speaker 2: Just running hose over left and right, and that's not
24:12
Speaker 2: a sexist thing to say hose. I would have said
24:14
Speaker 2: I said that about Herschel Walker and Earl Campbell in
24:16
Speaker 2: their days they also ran over hose so that I
24:19
Speaker 2: mean that as a non gender based hoe situation.
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Speaker 1: Don't.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't, actually I do, but the punchline was
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Speaker 2: too easy.
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Speaker 3: But no, I don't, I do.
24:37
Speaker 2: But no, let's see. So a happy birthday to her.
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Speaker 2: She is thirty today. Pete Sampres from the Tennis World
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Speaker 2: is fifty five. Pete Sampres did something to me back
24:48
Speaker 2: in the nineties that I thought was impossible.
24:50
Speaker 3: He made me love tennis.
24:52
Speaker 2: Between him and Andrea Agassy, I was glued to tennis
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Speaker 2: for like a year.
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Speaker 3: I loved it.
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Speaker 1: I yeah, I I loved that era of tennis. Sampress
25:08
Speaker 1: was so good, and I mean up until Rafa came along.
25:16
Speaker 1: But he he played with such finesse that it was
25:19
Speaker 1: it was interesting to watch. But yeah, that was that
25:25
Speaker 1: was a very entertaining time.
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Speaker 2: The matches between him and Andrea Agassy were so much fun.
25:32
Speaker 2: I mean, Andre Agassy was a guy that was already
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Speaker 2: on the scene when Pete Sampras showed up, and they
25:38
Speaker 2: couldn't have been more opposite than each other. I mean,
25:41
Speaker 2: Andrea Agassy was loud and boy, I mean he wasn't
25:45
Speaker 2: like Jim McEnroe loud, but I mean like he was
25:48
Speaker 2: he had hair, and he had endorsements.
25:50
Speaker 3: He was like the rock star of tennis.
25:52
Speaker 2: And here comes Pete Samprass, who's sort of like the
25:55
Speaker 2: Kenny g but he's just smoking everybody.
25:59
Speaker 1: Agasy was like the boy of tennis when he first
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Speaker 1: came out. Yeah, the long hair, which no one had.
26:04
Speaker 1: You know, it had been a very clean cut sport
26:08
Speaker 1: as far as the way they dress, haircut, facial hair, everything. Yeah,
26:12
Speaker 1: he was very much the the rebel as it were.
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Speaker 3: Which is why I still remember.
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Speaker 2: One of his great endorsements was the Cannon Rebel m HM,
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Speaker 2: one of the great one of the great promotion collaborations.
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Speaker 3: But it was interesting. This is how much I was
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Speaker 3: into tennis back in the day.
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Speaker 2: I watched it so much, not just you know, with
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Speaker 2: Pete Sampers and Andrea Acacy, but even watching him with
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Speaker 2: the women's tennis with Steffi Graft because that was at
26:37
Speaker 2: the time when she was so freaking dominant. I even
26:41
Speaker 2: know that Pete Sampras was a phenomenal tennis player because
26:44
Speaker 2: he could beat you at your own game, and so
26:48
Speaker 2: he could be the guy hanging out on the baseline
26:50
Speaker 2: just smashing winners all day, or he could also do
26:54
Speaker 2: the serve and volley coming up to the net and
26:56
Speaker 2: play with that sort of touch and finesse. Most tennis
26:59
Speaker 2: players are only good at one or the other. He
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Speaker 2: was able. He was capable of kicking your ass either way.
27:07
Speaker 2: That's how much I was into tennis back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am shocked, though, I fully and maybe they're
27:16
Speaker 1: not of age yet to really but you really would
27:19
Speaker 1: have thought if there was ever an offspring that we're
27:21
Speaker 1: going to be great tennis players, it would be the
27:23
Speaker 1: Andre Agassi Stephanie Graff kids.
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Speaker 2: I remember the first thing I thought of when I
27:29
Speaker 2: heard that they hooked up. I was like, I don't
27:30
Speaker 2: know if this is for love or just for legacy,
27:34
Speaker 2: because my god, their kids, Oh Jesus, I have no
27:38
Speaker 2: idea what their kids do.
27:39
Speaker 3: I don't honestly, I don't even know if they have kids.
27:44
Speaker 1: Hang on.
27:45
Speaker 2: I will say this though, like, even as someone that
27:47
Speaker 2: doesn't have kids, and I don't think anyone should ever
27:50
Speaker 2: be forced to have kids based on some sort of
27:52
Speaker 2: societal expectation. I do have a little bit of hypocrisy
27:57
Speaker 2: running through me when it comes to truly get exceptional humans.
28:01
Speaker 2: When you've got an Andrea Agassy and a stepfie Graff
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Speaker 2: in a relationship. I kind of feel like they should
28:07
Speaker 2: have kids just because their genetics are so freakishly good
28:13
Speaker 2: that I want to see their offspring do stuff.
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Speaker 1: So that they had two kids and they said, uh,
28:20
Speaker 1: they did not push them to become tennis players, and
28:23
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they didn't because at this point they would
28:27
Speaker 1: be twenty five and twenty three years old.
28:29
Speaker 3: So that's that's old by tennis standards.
28:31
Speaker 1: Huh. That doesn't seem like a waste of genetics, though
28:35
Speaker 1: it does.
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Speaker 2: Right, It's such a hypocritical thing because again, even I
28:39
Speaker 2: think it's great that they didn't push their kids into tennis,
28:44
Speaker 2: but I kind of wish they had.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like I get it. But at the same time,
28:53
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like a waste of talent.
28:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting how that happens though, because look, I
29:01
Speaker 2: realized that.
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Speaker 1: But I also will say this, of all sports you
29:09
Speaker 1: read about tennis players, their lives are pretty miserable, like
29:13
Speaker 1: because they're generally singled out as talented in the I
29:18
Speaker 1: would say seven to nine year old range, and then
29:21
Speaker 1: that's their life because most of them they're teetering on
29:26
Speaker 1: becoming pro mid teens. Yeah, so I do understand that,
29:32
Speaker 1: especially stephie Groff, who was German.
29:37
Speaker 3: I think so.
29:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, and their training regiment, especially because part of that
29:43
Speaker 1: goes pre pre democracy and going back to the Cold War.
29:48
Speaker 1: What they did to kids for you know, they thought
29:51
Speaker 1: were athletes was even worse than anything Americans dreamed of.
29:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's just a tip of the uh,
29:59
Speaker 2: that's just a tip the iceberg.
30:00
Speaker 3: When it comes to birthdays.
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Speaker 2: George Hamilton is eighty seven Hollywood Icon and the Tanning King.
30:09
Speaker 2: Like we mentioned the Cannon Rebel camera collaboration as being
30:14
Speaker 2: phenomenal with the Tennis Rebel Andrea Agassy, I think one
30:18
Speaker 2: of the great advertising campaign collaborations was George Hamilton and
30:24
Speaker 2: Extra Chrispy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Bruce Greenwood is seventy. It's
30:33
Speaker 2: an actor. You may not know him by his name,
30:35
Speaker 2: but you know him by his face. He played He
30:38
Speaker 2: was in Star Trek as Captain or Admiral Pike. I
30:43
Speaker 2: believe The Resident thirteen days Gerald's game. Yeah, you see
30:49
Speaker 2: his face and you're like that guy. Yeah, he's been
30:51
Speaker 2: in tons of stuff.
30:52
Speaker 1: Did you ever watch The Resident?
30:54
Speaker 3: I did not.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating show.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
31:01
Speaker 2: He had a guest He had a guest turn on
31:03
Speaker 2: mad Men for a handful of episodes.
31:05
Speaker 1: He was really good in that the Resident starts it
31:07
Speaker 1: is and it's sadly it was a very good show.
31:11
Speaker 1: And then and I'm not saying this to be political
31:15
Speaker 1: or anything else. It's just a fact post COVID, a
31:20
Speaker 1: lot of riders got very woke and and what they did,
31:26
Speaker 1: and especially in medical stuff, and the show takes a
31:30
Speaker 1: dramatic turn, and it also loses some keep players because
31:35
Speaker 1: a couple of the people were like, Hey, family's too important.
31:38
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I want to be close to family,
31:40
Speaker 1: not doing this crap. Uh. But it's worth a watch,
31:47
Speaker 1: especially like the first three seasons.
31:53
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, so I can't speak to the
31:55
Speaker 2: quote unquote wolkeness of it. I will say, just like
31:59
Speaker 2: at a certain time, I think that word gets thrown
32:01
Speaker 2: around too much. But I will say absolutely Hollywood at
32:05
Speaker 2: different times. And it's in a phase right now where
32:09
Speaker 2: it gets real preachy. Even if I agree with some
32:13
Speaker 2: of the stuff they say. Even if I disagree with
32:15
Speaker 2: some of the stuff they say, sometimes I don't like
32:18
Speaker 2: being spoken down to.
32:20
Speaker 1: So I'll give you the greatest example in my that
32:23
Speaker 1: I can think of. There was a show called New
32:25
Speaker 1: Amsterdam Ryan Eggeld, and it started off. It was a
32:29
Speaker 1: fantastic show.
32:31
Speaker 2: Was this the one with Tyler Bean bearded guy from
32:36
Speaker 2: Tucker and Dale Versus Evil?
32:39
Speaker 3: I think it is? Let me.
32:47
Speaker 1: Yes, Tyler Leban, Yes, yeah.
32:49
Speaker 3: I wanted to watch that show because I'm a huge
32:51
Speaker 3: fan of Tucker and Dale Versus Evil. I love Tyler Bee,
32:53
Speaker 3: but I never did.
32:54
Speaker 1: And he starts off great, and then you know, towards
32:59
Speaker 1: the ladder part. I mean, like one of the storylines
33:02
Speaker 1: was a kid got a brain tumor because of racism,
33:07
Speaker 1: and I'm not making that up. So it just it went.
33:11
Speaker 1: It went sideways real fast after post COVID, all right,
33:17
Speaker 1: but it started off. I love Ryan Eggels. He was
33:20
Speaker 1: great in The Blacklist and phenomenal show. All right.
33:27
Speaker 3: Some mother birthdays if at.
33:28
Speaker 2: Nicole Brown fifty five, best known as Shirley on Community.
33:32
Speaker 2: She's also been in tons of game show talk show appearances.
33:38
Speaker 2: She was also the one in the elevator in Avengers
33:41
Speaker 2: Endgame with Tony Stark and Captain America. She's the one
33:47
Speaker 2: that recognizes Captain America and then rats him out to
33:49
Speaker 2: security and she says that there was this guy in
33:53
Speaker 2: a beat Nick in the elevator.
33:56
Speaker 3: She was so community. He was a big one, and
34:00
Speaker 3: then she was.
34:02
Speaker 2: She was also Dwight's co worker in the office when
34:05
Speaker 2: he when he worked at Staples.
34:07
Speaker 3: That's a pull for you. Peter Kraus.
34:09
Speaker 2: Peter Krause is sixty one, best known nowadays for his
34:13
Speaker 2: role in the TV show Nine to one one. Other
34:16
Speaker 2: people may remember him from Parenthood. I remember him first
34:20
Speaker 2: in Six Feet Under on HBO, but but he will
34:26
Speaker 2: forever in our hearts for me and Trey be one
34:30
Speaker 2: half of the legendary show that did not see enough
34:33
Speaker 2: light of day Sports Night.
34:35
Speaker 1: Yep.
34:36
Speaker 3: Love that show.
34:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, that show again. I feel like if Robert Gillem
34:46
Speaker 1: doesn't have a stroke and that is that show maybe
34:51
Speaker 1: survives another season or two. But phenomenal show.
34:57
Speaker 2: It was such a great show. It was Aaron Sore
35:00
Speaker 2: pre West Wing and ABC f' with that show so much.
35:08
Speaker 2: The executives just couldn't keep their hands off of it.
35:11
Speaker 2: And if you go back and watch that show, you
35:15
Speaker 2: can see it, you can hear it. It was a
35:19
Speaker 2: show that at one point had a laugh track because
35:21
Speaker 2: the executives thought it was too smart and therefore it
35:24
Speaker 2: needed it so that people watching it knew where to laugh.
35:28
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about.
35:30
Speaker 2: Just a classic example of media executives getting too much
35:35
Speaker 2: creative control over something and just almost ruining it.
35:40
Speaker 3: That's a great one.
35:43
Speaker 1: You're absolutely correct. And the other thing that made it
35:46
Speaker 1: so stupid, and it goes to one of those things
35:49
Speaker 1: that media executives do is that when they don't really
35:52
Speaker 1: understand something, they have a tendency to really jack with
35:57
Speaker 1: it or if they feel like they can't control it.
35:59
Speaker 1: One of the thing, and this is really hard to
36:01
Speaker 1: explain now, but at the time, late nineties, this is
36:08
Speaker 1: a show based on the boom of Sports Center. You know,
36:13
Speaker 1: Sports Center wasn't a thing even in the early nineties.
36:16
Speaker 1: But then you get Keith Oberman, Dan Patrick Berman, I mean,
36:21
Speaker 1: all these big personalities and Sports Center. I mean, it's
36:25
Speaker 1: it's nightly viewing you are not gonna miss, especially the
36:29
Speaker 1: Sunday night big show. You weren't missing that show, and
36:34
Speaker 1: if you did, you know, you knew it came on
36:35
Speaker 1: again at midnight and you were gonna watch it then.
36:39
Speaker 1: So you already had people just fascinated by this and thinking,
36:45
Speaker 1: and they wanted to watch the show just because they
36:47
Speaker 1: felt like maybe given a little insight into the what
36:49
Speaker 1: goes on behind the scenes. And yeah, they just could
36:55
Speaker 1: not help to just kept jacking with that show. And
37:00
Speaker 1: but in its premise and especially the first season, it
37:04
Speaker 1: was magical.
37:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, such a great show. Happy birthday. Peter Crusse sixty one.
37:13
Speaker 2: Casey Affleck is fifty one, baby brother of Ben, Academy
37:17
Speaker 2: Award winner for Manchester Manchester by the Sea. He was yes,
37:22
Speaker 2: also in Goodwill Hunting Ocean's eleven Gone Baby Gone, phenomenal
37:26
Speaker 2: actor in his own right. You know, there are just
37:28
Speaker 2: some parents that you gotta think they sit back and go,
37:32
Speaker 2: look at what I have created. The afflic parents got
37:36
Speaker 2: to feel that way. The Kelsey parents got to feel
37:39
Speaker 2: that way.
37:41
Speaker 1: I feel like the Affleck parents. I think Ben has
37:45
Speaker 1: you know, made them. Ben's been a little bit of
37:48
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. Ironically, Casey seems to be the more
37:51
Speaker 1: straight and narrow one these days.
37:53
Speaker 2: Ish, but he even had like some like issues early
37:56
Speaker 2: Ocean type stuff as well.
37:58
Speaker 3: So I mean, look at look.
38:00
Speaker 2: They have contributed mightily to the creative industry and to
38:04
Speaker 2: Hollywood in general. So as parents, you got to think, yeah,
38:07
Speaker 2: look at what we did. And then also they got
38:10
Speaker 2: to sit back and think, and they also keep us
38:12
Speaker 2: on our toes.
38:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Side note, I saw a story I think it
38:17
Speaker 1: was yesterday that Brad Pitt announced that he was drinking
38:20
Speaker 1: again after seven years of sobriety.
38:23
Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing that up, because since you were
38:25
Speaker 2: on the cusp of ten years of sobriety. I meant
38:29
Speaker 2: to bring that up at some point this week. It's
38:32
Speaker 2: such a weird thing in Hollywood now or just in
38:35
Speaker 2: society when on one end you say I am no
38:39
Speaker 2: longer drinking, and now we're getting the backside of it
38:43
Speaker 2: where someone says and comes out and says, I am
38:45
Speaker 2: back to drinking now.
38:48
Speaker 3: What the hell?
38:49
Speaker 1: You'd be amazed it. Actually, your chances of sobriety decrease
38:55
Speaker 1: every year because so many people get the thought of
39:00
Speaker 1: I can control it now, and maybe you can't. Maybe
39:05
Speaker 1: you can't. Generally you can't, and and it's generally when
39:09
Speaker 1: people in AA they call it when you start drinking
39:11
Speaker 1: again or using you called you've gone out, and it's
39:16
Speaker 1: typically a horrible experience because you don't have the same
39:19
Speaker 1: tolerance or anything else, and it ends up gets very bad,
39:23
Speaker 1: very quick. And I just find I found it fascinating that,
39:29
Speaker 1: especially after all the crap he's going through with his family,
39:32
Speaker 1: of all the kids, you know, dropping his name and
39:34
Speaker 1: everything else, why would you decide that drinking is a
39:39
Speaker 1: good course of action, Especially you've read some stories where
39:42
Speaker 1: people were, you know, found him fairly unbearable in his
39:46
Speaker 1: drinking days. So yeah, it's it's it's a fascinating phenomenon,
39:53
Speaker 1: and it happens far more than you would think people
39:56
Speaker 1: with I mean twenty plus years, all of a sudden
40:00
Speaker 1: and they show back up in AA and you know
40:02
Speaker 1: they're getting a desire chip, which is, you know, like
40:04
Speaker 1: the first thing you get. It's you know, you want
40:06
Speaker 1: to stay sober for twenty four hours and like, holy crap,
40:10
Speaker 1: which I one of the things that keeps me sober
40:13
Speaker 1: is I didn't have the money to go to rehab
40:16
Speaker 1: or treatment or anything else. I had to do it
40:19
Speaker 1: by you know, taking warm vodka shots to wean myself off.
40:24
Speaker 1: But I still I've first forty five days, I'm sweating
40:29
Speaker 1: through sheets at night shaking. I mean, it was a
40:33
Speaker 1: miserable experience, so miserable that I never want to do
40:36
Speaker 1: it again. You rod Dog did, Oh yeah, I didn't.
40:40
Speaker 3: Celebrities.
40:41
Speaker 2: Celebrities get like vacation retreats and things to clean up
40:45
Speaker 2: and stuff.
40:45
Speaker 1: Now, my friend Amy Newman, that you know quite well
40:49
Speaker 1: and who is responsible for my sobriety. She and I
40:52
Speaker 1: have always joked that if either one of us wins
40:56
Speaker 1: the lottery, we're going to rehab, not because because we
41:00
Speaker 1: need it, but because we feel like we got cheeted
41:03
Speaker 1: on the front end of sobriety, and you know, we
41:05
Speaker 1: want to spend you know, sixty ninety days finding ourselves
41:08
Speaker 1: and doing yoga and eating you know, you know, all
41:13
Speaker 1: natural organic food and smoothies and massages and all the
41:17
Speaker 1: stuff that you get with these really nice.
41:19
Speaker 2: Rehabs, and you can really enjoy them on this and
41:23
Speaker 2: you'd be able to really enjoy them because you've already
41:25
Speaker 2: got the alcohol kicked.
41:27
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't have to go through any of
41:28
Speaker 1: the of the withdrawals or anything. It's just it's it's
41:31
Speaker 1: a sixty day spa retreat me. That's how I want
41:36
Speaker 1: to find myself.
41:39
Speaker 3: Look, you've already kicked the booze.
41:41
Speaker 2: What's wrong with also doing a little eat prey love
41:43
Speaker 2: for yourself? For two three months. Yeah, and at least
41:46
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Speaker 1: And I'll give this a tease because during that break
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Speaker 1: tomorrow that is absolutely just every time when I read
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Speaker 1: the story, I laughed and you can. You can't make
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Speaker 3: Two, yeah, she doubled up. Baby.
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Speaker 3: All right, so that's tomorrow. Uh so great tease, thanking Trey.
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Speaker 2: Now, before we get to the tiny Wiener update, No, Tray,
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Speaker 2: that's not my new blog. Uh, we need to talk
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Speaker 2: about the man in Florida. Of course, a man was
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Speaker 2: caught sleeping in a jet Blue plane lavatory. Now, the
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Speaker 2: headline threw me off at first, because I was like,
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Speaker 2: what do you mean?
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Speaker 3: Caught?
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Speaker 2: Like some guy was on a flight and he fell
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Speaker 2: asleep in the bathroom for some reason, maybe because he
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Speaker 2: had too much first clash him, I don't know. Maybe
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Speaker 2: he took a pill to take the edge off of
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Speaker 2: flying and he passed out in the bathroom during a flight.
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Speaker 2: That's more found in the bathroom or discovered asleep in
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Speaker 2: the bathroom. But then I started reading more of the
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Speaker 2: story than I realized, Oh, no, he was actually caught
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Speaker 2: because it wasn't the scenario I assumed it was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the headline is misleading on this one. This one
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Speaker 1: really makes you number one go. Airport security still has
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Speaker 1: some problems, Yes.
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 2: A Florida man is facing felony charges after deputies say
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Speaker 2: he snuck onto a parked Jet Blue plane at Fort
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Speaker 2: Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and fell asleep in the plane's bathroom.
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Speaker 2: Thirty two year old Samuel Prescott Lackey climbed a perimeter fence,
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Speaker 2: entered a secured maintenance area, and boarded an airbus A
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Speaker 2: three twenty that was undergoing maintenance. Workers discovered him during
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Speaker 2: a routine inspection early on Sunday morning. Deputies say the
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Speaker 2: incident delayed aircraft operations and cost Jet Blue about twenty
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Speaker 2: four hundred bucks. He's been charged with burglary, criminal mischief,
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Speaker 2: and trespassing on critical infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: I mean the rest of this is basically homeless people
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Speaker 1: doing homeless shit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's you know what, like they you
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Speaker 2: know what, they really they really just want to clean
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Speaker 2: bathroom like the rest of us on a road trip or.
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Speaker 1: Just a place to sleep and out of the elements.
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Speaker 2: And but.
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Speaker 1: They're they're sneaky bastards they've.
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Speaker 2: Do don't ever underestimate homeless ingenuity.
45:46
Speaker 1: Oh no, they're up there with with potheads as far as.
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Speaker 3: M the you know, the saying necessity is the mother
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Speaker 3: of invention.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh.
45:57
Speaker 2: It's absolutely true when it comes to potheads and homeless people.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes I've been diagram overlaps, but when you get
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Speaker 2: someone really desperate for something, they will find a way.
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Speaker 2: A homeless person that is trying to find a way
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Speaker 2: out of the elements to get some you know, peace
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Speaker 2: and quiet, a place to sleep. Jumping over a perimeter
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Speaker 2: fence at an international airport and finding your way into
46:21
Speaker 2: a park jet bathroom sounds pretty good. I mean, there's
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Speaker 2: layers of protection there that you don't have to worry about.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm traveling right now and we're in Portland, which has
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Speaker 2: a pretty fair amount of homeless people in the area
46:38
Speaker 2: we're staying. It is known as the Pearl District, so
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Speaker 2: it's not downtown, and there's another area of Portland called
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Speaker 2: Old Town where I guess I've been told there's more
46:46
Speaker 2: of the homeless shelters over there, so it's worse. But
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Speaker 2: where we are is you know, ten fifteen blocks or something,
46:52
Speaker 2: so it's close enough to where there is still a
46:55
Speaker 2: fair amount of homeless contingent around here, and it's amazing
46:59
Speaker 2: to see some of their ingenuity. If they don't have
47:03
Speaker 2: a tint. They collect umbrellas to kind of create their
47:07
Speaker 2: own little tinted dome, so it protects them from the elements. Also,
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Speaker 2: they're really really messy. Not all of them, but some
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Speaker 2: of them are really really messy, which is truly fascinating
47:20
Speaker 2: to me because to me, it's sort of like if
47:23
Speaker 2: you're inside your home and you're on your couch, it's
47:26
Speaker 2: not normal to be surrounded by your trash. Right, Some
47:30
Speaker 2: of these homeless people, especially one I call Pigpen, who
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Speaker 2: was hanging out by a bench outside the place where
47:35
Speaker 2: we're staying here for like two days, she just surrounded
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Speaker 2: by her own trash. Never picked it up, Like it's right,
47:48
Speaker 2: it's one thing if you're homeless. And she was a
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Speaker 2: horrific drunk because she was chugging margarita, like bottles of
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Speaker 2: like the like pre mixed margarita stuff.
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Speaker 3: Just surrounded by trash. When you wake up, just pick
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Speaker 3: that up.
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Speaker 1: I don't, Oh god, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Like, it's one thing to be sleeping on a bench
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Speaker 2: outside because you're homeless, but just to be but to
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Speaker 2: be messy on top of it.
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Speaker 1: Come on, let's see if I can find uh. If
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Speaker 1: you ever want to see uh Google, like Austin Homeless
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Speaker 1: Barton Creek.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, uh like at the Springs, Oh god, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean they they absolutely trashed just giant areas. Yeah, because
48:42
Speaker 1: of that thing. It's amazing. They'll pick up trash that
48:47
Speaker 1: they think is useful, but they do not throw it.
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Speaker 1: They will just leave it wherever when they have no
48:52
Speaker 1: use for it anymore. But yeah, that's a I mean.
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Speaker 1: And I have seen plenty of videos from the Pacific
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Speaker 1: Northwest Portland, a lot of them. Like I said, if
49:04
Speaker 1: you haven't seen them, the David Attenborough AI narrated like
49:10
Speaker 1: tweaker Safari I think is what they call it. Absolutely yeah,
49:15
Speaker 1: first class.
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Speaker 2: I've seen it with my own eyes without the Attenborough voiceover.
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Speaker 2: So I'd like to see some of that. And it's
49:24
Speaker 2: interesting because there's like this lady that I'm talking about
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Speaker 2: that you know, was sleeping on the I'm staring at
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Speaker 2: the bench right now.
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Speaker 3: I'm on the third floor. I can see it.
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Speaker 2: She's not there now, but she's since moved off. But
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Speaker 2: at one point there were like three different responses to
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Speaker 2: her that people would walk by and they'd be.
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Speaker 3: Worried about her or whatever.
49:44
Speaker 2: There was There's like a neighborhood response team in a
49:48
Speaker 2: van came and checked on her. Someone called nine to
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Speaker 2: one one one night, and I know that because I
49:53
Speaker 2: saw them looking at her.
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Speaker 3: They were on the phone. And then the fire department
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Speaker 3: showed up.
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Speaker 2: Fire department was there for like, I don't know, a
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Speaker 2: minute and a half, and I was like, man, that
50:01
Speaker 2: we can do uh. And then a third was like
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Speaker 2: a neighborhood patrol thing that checked on it. So, I
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Speaker 2: mean there's people checking on them and stuff.
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Speaker 3: So but and I'm.
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Speaker 1: Like, my heart I hate seeing homeless people, Like my
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Speaker 1: heart hurts for them, like I and especially I mean,
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Speaker 1: and this sounds bad, I know, but especially like if
50:31
Speaker 1: they have dogs, they have animals. I am even more
50:35
Speaker 1: Like before we had that last freeze in January, I
50:37
Speaker 1: went around and I tried to give little packages of
50:40
Speaker 1: some food and dog food to these people and hope
50:43
Speaker 1: they found a place to stay. Yeah, and we just
50:47
Speaker 1: as a society have done a horrible job. And a
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Speaker 1: lot of it is government, like Houston is actually doing
50:53
Speaker 1: a great job of homelessness. But they what they did
50:56
Speaker 1: is they quit paying all these external groups and they
50:58
Speaker 1: basically said, hey, we're going to have a city department
51:01
Speaker 1: and we're going to take care of this on our
51:02
Speaker 1: own and have done so quite effectively at about, you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty percent of the cost of everyone else.
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Speaker 3: Good on them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such an interesting thing with the homeless thing, because, yes,
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Speaker 2: homeless people can be very necessity, mother invention can the
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Speaker 2: ingenuity is really fascinating at times, the survivability and the
51:26
Speaker 2: things that they have to do to just sort of
51:28
Speaker 2: just live. And sometimes, like you, my heart goes out
51:31
Speaker 2: to the homeless. Sometimes it doesn't, because I've known people
51:34
Speaker 2: sometimes that have been homeless and it was basically their
51:37
Speaker 2: choice and certain choices they've made that led them there
51:41
Speaker 2: versus some homeless that and this is a common one
51:44
Speaker 2: I see is a schizophrenic type. I mean a lot
51:48
Speaker 2: of the homeless people I see are people walking around
51:50
Speaker 2: having conversations with themselves and it has nothing to do
51:53
Speaker 2: with anything they've done. It's just an affliction that they've
51:56
Speaker 2: got and it's and they're just kind of cast out.
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Speaker 1: I think. I think it still holds true that at
52:02
Speaker 1: least half of homeless people are bipolar schizophrenics that just
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Speaker 1: won't or take their medicine and they ended up kind
52:11
Speaker 1: of getting lost.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it this is and this is an interesting
52:16
Speaker 2: rub when it comes to the homeless, especially here in
52:19
Speaker 2: the Pacific Northwest. You can play a game which is
52:24
Speaker 2: homeless or hippie, because sometimes.
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Speaker 3: You can't really tell.
52:30
Speaker 2: And because there's some people that I assumed were not
52:34
Speaker 2: homeless just because they had a Patagonia backpack, but then
52:37
Speaker 2: I've seen them four or five times nosing through their
52:39
Speaker 2: trash and I'm like, oh, they actually are homeless. You
52:42
Speaker 2: will see someone sleeping on a park bench with their
52:45
Speaker 2: head resting on a north Face coat. I swear to god,
52:49
Speaker 2: I was taking the dog for a walk at the park.
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Speaker 3: This was this morning. This morning.
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Speaker 2: A guy's on the bench, lying down, got a coat
52:59
Speaker 2: over him, got a Blend make it over, and he's
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Speaker 2: got a couple of umbrellas.
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Speaker 3: He's surrounded by trash. He is scrolling things on his
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Speaker 3: Apple Watch. It's amazing to see. I saw a guy
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Speaker 3: at the same park last week.
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Speaker 2: Homeless, but he was scrolling social media on his phone.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing. So some of them, yeah, my heart goes
53:27
Speaker 3: out to him. Others I'm like, you just asshole, all right.
53:36
Speaker 2: Finally, the tiny Wiener updig Michael Phillips, the man who
53:40
Speaker 2: is self professed to be the man on earth with
53:43
Speaker 2: the tiniest penis micro penis at point three to eight inches.
53:47
Speaker 2: We followed his story a little bit over the last
53:50
Speaker 2: couple of years. He went public on television, online, He's
53:53
Speaker 2: talked to TMZ, He's talked to morning shows on television,
53:58
Speaker 2: and he finally turned that into a fundraiser to get
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Speaker 2: money for some type of an enlargement procedure for himself
54:10
Speaker 2: and now and that he has raised enough money for it.
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Speaker 2: He initially in his fundraisers said I need about six
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars for this enlargement procedure. He raised over twice
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Speaker 2: that amount, something like thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars, which, honestly,
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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, people throw money at really stupid
54:27
Speaker 2: stuff these days.
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Speaker 3: I thought he would have gotten a lot more money
54:31
Speaker 3: than that.
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Speaker 1: I would have thought anything until I read what he's
54:36
Speaker 1: having done. I would have assumed that a penis enlargement
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Speaker 1: procedure was far more expensive. I mean, a good boob
54:43
Speaker 1: job is going to run you, you know, probably twelve
54:45
Speaker 1: grand these days, so I expected it would be a
54:49
Speaker 1: lot more.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you, like, for six thousand dollars, what's he
54:54
Speaker 2: gonna get like, what's the procedure we talked before, you know,
54:58
Speaker 2: because short of a transplant, what can you really do
55:03
Speaker 2: for that affliction? Right, So Michael told TMZ his appointment
55:09
Speaker 2: is scheduled for August seventeenth with a doctor in Charlotte,
55:12
Speaker 2: North Carolina. This is where he'll get an injection of
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Speaker 2: semi permanent dermal filler, which will increase the girth of
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Speaker 2: his penis by about ten to thirty percent. In his case,
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Speaker 2: that's roughly point five to one point five inches, depending
55:31
Speaker 2: on the amount of product used.
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Speaker 3: So for six thousand dollars.
55:36
Speaker 2: He's gonna get an injection of some filler that will
55:41
Speaker 2: not increase his length, but his girth by half an inch,
55:46
Speaker 2: maybe up to one and a half inches.
55:48
Speaker 1: Which I'm so confused at this, I huh, I would
55:52
Speaker 1: have thought, being that, you know, the stat of being
55:56
Speaker 1: the world's smallest penis is point point three to eight inches.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he's got.
56:02
Speaker 1: And he and the story talks about that he's had
56:04
Speaker 1: doctors now tell him that he just needs to wear
56:05
Speaker 1: it depends because he has problems urinating. I I'm guessing
56:13
Speaker 1: because he can't find it or it's just can't. I
56:18
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, you would have thought he was
56:21
Speaker 1: gunning for some length, not with.
56:24
Speaker 3: I'm with you, man, when it's when? When? When? When? When?
56:27
Speaker 2: You so, let me get this straight. You can make
56:38
Speaker 2: it wider, but not longer. When you're down there, can
56:42
Speaker 2: you stretch it out a little bit of a procedure
56:46
Speaker 2: like just see what happens?
56:52
Speaker 1: You know, makes she just look down at your own
56:56
Speaker 1: and go, hey, good job, buddy.
56:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really does make you.
56:59
Speaker 2: It appreciate what you have no matter what it is,
57:02
Speaker 2: as long as it's not that I'm okay, I am okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's ah. I feel like here's the other thing.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna raise money, shoot for the stars, don't
57:20
Speaker 1: don't tell people at six thousand. I mean, I think
57:24
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the things that where he didn't
57:26
Speaker 1: raise a lot of money. He should have. You been saying, yeah,
57:30
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be a fifty thousand dollars procedure.
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Speaker 2: Well, clearly he's not a big picture guy.
57:43
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the little steps.
57:47
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