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It is time to leave your worries outside and join me. Dan ol Mackley,
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Trade Trendholm Raj Sharma inside the Treehouse today for day one of Treehouse Gone
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Wild. It is spring break in the Treehouse and to celebrate, instead of
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taking the week off, We're gonna work more, damn it. So five
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days a week, extra shows all week, and to kick off Treehouse Gone
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Wild, a special guest who has got to be one of the wildest men
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I have ever known. Consumer reporter extraordinaiy from katiefw Fox four, the one
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and only Steve Novillo. Yeah, yeah, how are you doing great?
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How you been Steve? It's been a minute. I'm good. I'm good
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a little. You know, I'm working kind of crazy schedule right now.
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Shannon Murray just had a baby, so I'm sitting in her chair for I
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guess the next twelve weeks. Oh so she's taking the full of maternity leave.
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Oh for sure, for sure. We actually, I would say Fox
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has a very generous maternity and paternity leave program and she absolutely should take the
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time. So yeah, I started sitting in last Thursday, so this was
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my first full week. So, oh good, I got to hang out.
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Hannah we catch up. So it's nice, which is a lot of
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men's dreams, not yours, but a lot of men's dreams. Fuddy like,
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well, both pictures and you know a lot of men will chime and
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and be like, you're so lucky, dude. Yeah, but what time
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did you wake up to be sitting next to Hannah bit exactly two am?
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Two am? So wow, you're filling in for Shannon Murray on the pre
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Good Day Show. Yeah. So I'm on the four to six, the
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four to six. Yeah, and you're having to do that for the entire
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twelve weeks or are they gonna rotate some others? Well, I'm off for
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spring break and then I think they're going to rotate in maybe some other you
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know, folks, I've got you know, I mean, I've got my
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regular job. And then we kind of talked a couple of months ago.
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We were testing a new show which we're about to announce. His Guy has
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gotten picked up and is going to start as a spring and summer series twice
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a week, and then we're gonna go to five nights a week in the
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fall. So I'm working on that. That's outstanding. So I want to
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get to the new show here in just a second. But for the moment,
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I'm very curious, and I know Trey is as well, because he
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and I did morning radio for a little over a year and it's never left
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our bones. Our bones still hurt and make noises from that schedule and you're
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now having to live it for a while. Who'd you piss off? It
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is a great honor people who don't know, well, you read, he's
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a bro. He's got to memorize. They sent the email, here's what
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you say, and he immediately you tried to make sure there actually is a
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rotation list. I think you may have reminded him. He's like, oh,
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man, I should probably check on that. It's really not Honestly,
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it's not that bad. And again, Hannah and I have have a lot
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of fun because we do sit there kind of catching up a lot, to
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the point where Evan yelled at us on the air the other day because we
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were making too much noise during this weather report. Little Andrews got mad at
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you. He did, he did, and he called us out. I
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was telling her a story about something and there was something that was really funny,
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and she did laugh louder than it was appropriate. And in the middle
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of his weather segment, he stopped and scolded on something. Oh my god,
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you know what it is. He's jealous. He's jealous probably because he's
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never made Hannah laugh that hard, and he was mad at you. I
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mean you said it. I didn't, Steve. I'm happy to be your
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mouthpiece. I'll say all the things that that you want to sell. I
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got nothing to lose. And he got quite real fast. I was going
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to make a joke about you offering to be my mouthpiece since this is we
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were all thinking it. I mean, seen your peak of fitness. So
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how how hard do you spring break? Steve? Well, you know we're
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we're about to find out. So what is it, Trey? Now?
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As I say, is your ship circling through the US Virgin Islands? So
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uh no, So otherwise Dana would come over and uh for dinner. Eh.
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Where we're going out Galveston. It's a like a a Cosamel Costa Maya,
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Honduras kind of situation. I think there's a couple of days at sea
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in there. We're eating up the whole week. So I've actually never been
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on a cruise during spring. So we took the kids on the first cruise
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last year, they had a really good time. We just did five days.
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This time we're doing eight days. But I've never been on a ship
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during spring break, and I'm you know, I was thinking, oh my
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gosh, there's gonna be a lot of kids. And then I was reading
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some people on these chat groups. I guess last couple of weeks ago was
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like the New England schools had their spring break and all of the ships out
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of Galveston were like flooded with drunk college kids. And I was like,
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Oh, that didn't even cross my mind that that might happen. So I'm
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not sure what's going on there. We'll see. I do find it interesting
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that you managed to take one of the longer cruises available through the Caribbean that
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managed to get nowhere near where I live. I think there's, like I
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said, there's like I mean, I think that there may be like back
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to back sea days honestly to get to where we need to go. Uh
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So, you know, And we also, like during the during the vacation,
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we were talking about booking you know, excursions and stuff, and my
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husband was like, Oh, they look at this. We can go see
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the Mayan ruins and it's like eight hour tour of the Mayan Ruins. I
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was like, are you out of your damn mind, Like, we are
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not bringing a five year old and a seven year old on an eight hour
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tour of anything, Like I'm thinking like ninety minute glass bottom boat and we're
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back that kind of thing the last time. You know when when we took
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them last June, I think it was it was actually we took them on
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a submarine and it was the day of that submarine tragedy, and we had
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no idea because we were unplugged, and we posted pictures to like our family
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like portal and my mom was like, you took the kids on a submarine?
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Do you have no idea? What's going on in the world? Work
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in the news? Well, here's the thing. You're smart, you're consumer
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reporter and have been for many, many years. So I'm certain that you
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did your research and did not go with the submersible. That was sort of
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questionable on this on the our our submarine was was not attached with a joystick
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and an extension cord. This was you know, that's probably and probably not
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trying to go you know, a couple of miles deep. Yeah, we
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weren't we weren't going down that far. Yeah, and it was. I'm
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sure it was like I had an actual pilot and not an Xbox controller exactly.
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So, yeah, you mentioned drunken spring breakers on cruise ships and everything,
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and I've I've been seeing over the last week how uh cities are either
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preparing for the onslaught of spring breakers or in some cases, like Miami is
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one of them. Yeah, they're actively doing things trying to find legal ways
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to repel the spring breakers, like like charging out the ass for parking and
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uber surge pricing hotels and things Jackie rates up so much that these kids can't
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afford it on daddy's credit card type of stuff. And it leads me to
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the question, is spring Break as we all knew it is? You know,
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younger folk over you know, I it's interesting and it's interesting that you
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bring up Miami because Miami Beach specifically, and you know South Beach and you
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know, I mean that's kind of the birthplace of you know, spring Break,
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And when you look at there's a real kind of struggle there because while
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the people who run the cities are like, yeah, we got to throttle
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back here, the people who depend on that income from the influx of spring
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breakers. Are not very thrilled with the idea of you know, and I
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forget if this was all Miami or not, but like, no more open
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containers, curfews, no parking, no you know, no public you know
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whatever. Nation, it's just no fun anymore. What's the world coming to?
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So yeah, I I don't know. But then again, if you've
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got you know, ten thousand kids that show up, I mean, how
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are you possibly going to police that? I thought a lot of that.
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I think a lot of the big spring break had in recent years, especially
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like you remember seeing videos over the last couple of years, and some of
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them from Miami. You've got shootings and things, You've got childs going wild
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tray, What were you going to say? I thought a lot of Like
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I mean, when we were in college whatever, you know, it was,
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Daytona was still a big spring break. Yeah, Yeah, Panama City
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Beach, Yeah, Panama City Desk and uh you know those plays. And
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I feel like all those have kind of even Padre Island, all those have
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kind of mellowed out over the years. Like you don't see the big oh
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at least I don't see the big influx of kids like you used to.
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And maybe that's just because it's more global and everyone kind of spreads out.
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Yeah, I you know, it's funny. Our nieces definitely had more of
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a spring break experience. I didn't really have that, certainly, not as
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a young kid. And then even in college, like I think my buddies
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and I like hopped in the car and drove to Boston like one year,
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like we you know, I don't think that's more of like a southern thing
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that you would go to you know, Padre or to you know, Destin
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or Daytona or whatnot. So I, you know, like our niece,
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I think that they did, like you know, tend to a room in
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you know, wherever, you know, just to try and save on on
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expenses. But oh yeah, yeah, that that was That was the spring
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break era of stackingham deep and hornh them cheap, which I believe is your
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tagline for your mouthpiece service. That's Steve. No, you don't get on
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TV. Yeah, you get in the tree. That's all right, that's
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fun yellow right there. I went to Padre when I was in college.
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I want to Padre twice they tell me, didn't doesn't doesn't San Marcus actually
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physically moved to Padre during the spring break. Yes, it does. I
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remember. I remember the first year very vividly. It's fun. The second
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year. There are pictures, I think somewhere you better hope not. No,
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I've seen them. I was having a great time someone holding onto those
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in like a black mail folder. I'm sure in case I ever mistakenly drunkenly
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run for office. Uh yeah, I think I think it's well established.
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Now your your history or even your recent history doesn't matter anymore about getting elected.
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Yes, yeah, I mean these. I mean right, like,
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when this next generation of people grow up and run for political office, I
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think it's gonna be like what, you don't have any you know, scandalous
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photos, but you know, yeah, I mean that there has to be
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like, there's gonna be like a there has to be the dick pick reveals
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for this generation when they when they start running for office, Like, can
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you just go ahead and show us so we can get it out of the
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way. Yeah, that actually makes sense. It's a lot quicker than than
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tracking down the college girlfriends or boyfriends and asking them about it and getting it
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secondhand. In this way, they this actually your right Stephen this way,
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only fans would be expected an expected part of your election fundraising. Yeah,
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that's what I come on. Yeah, well, because I think that that
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that you know, to got off in the tandem with this younger generation that
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people live in this world of like everything's temporary, nothing's forever, and you
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know, whereas a little bit older, the people that kind of grew up
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with the Internet as opposed to always just kind of being there still, you
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know, follow the you know, the rules of conduct, never you know,
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never your face and you're junk in the same photo. I mean,
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let's it's it's easy, easy math here one o one dumb stuff. Yeah.
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See, so like for me like Raj, I know, going to
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Texas State or I'm sorry, Southwest Texas State. That's when he went there.
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So he's beholden to the to the old name Trey at Ut. I
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know you guys had fun in during spring break. I did not. I
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I worked on the spring break working at a radio station. All the other
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kids on the promotions team would go do a spring break like skiing or the
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beach or whatever, and I worked sixty hours a week because I was like,
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hey, I'm gonna make rent and then some this month because I'm the
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only one left in town to work. You were, you were a dedicated
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mouthpiece. That's right, That is right, And I feel the need to
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update my resume and my LinkedIn to put dedicated mouthpiece for Steve Noviella, whoa
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like you know, we hadn't even finished the interviews. We are, what
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ten minutes in. But I'm curious though, Like you said, you went
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to Boston with some friends, and you think maybe the crazy spring break stuff
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was more of a south of the Mason Dixon thing, So you never ran
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off to the Jersey Shore during spring break or anything. No, you know
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what I didn't. I will say, like I do remember, Like I
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mean, when I was really young, spring break was like me and you
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know, Bob Barker and card Sharks and the Prices Light hanging out of the
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couch for a week while you know, my parents were at work. And
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then you know, as I was older, I remember like watching like MTV
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would do, like you know, three or three weeks of like coverage from
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spring break, and I was a little too young for it. And then
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suddenly I was a little too old for it. I don't really remember much
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of what happened in those middle years. I'm really glad you brought that up,
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because that is something that I feel like affected spring Break once MTV really
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stopped doing music altogether and they didn't have the spring Break specials for two or
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three weeks, like you said, because that was what got me through spring
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Break. Is like you'd wake up watch Prices, right, and then I'd
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flip on MTV and watch spring Break because I couldn't go, so I'd watch
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spring Break sort of live y Carrie's lingud Man. It looks like a lot
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of fun, and that's a where do they find all the water for these,
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you know contests? But once it's almost seemed like maybe it's coincided to
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where once MTV stopped doing it, then it changed or something. Yeah.
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Well, and when you look back at all of it, I mean they
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used to like, I mean, they would canty. It was like the
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days of like I mean, I think Carson Daly was down there, you
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know, back back then, and Daisy Fuentes and Tabath Sorn and you know
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that whole. I mean, even they would drag out Kurt Loder, who
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you know, probably was twenty nine at the time, but seemed to be
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one hundred, you know, but uh, you know, and and but
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it was. It was interesting because it was like watching a TV show of
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what you thought spring break was, and apparently it, you know, apparently
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was kind of kind of it was kind of reality TV before before that became
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the name of it. But what also like for our generation, because I
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mean there was it seems like there's so many eighties movies that had a spring
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break theme. I mean it was like, I think we grew up like,
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oh my god, that's supposed to be the most epic time of your
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life is spring break. And then honestly it's like, yeah, yeah,
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that's fun, but it's also just kind of a drunken shit show. Yeah,
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I'm the first Yeah, the first time I went down to pot I
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mean, it was it was that thing. It was the it was the
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everything you saw in the movies like the Wild. Like I was, you
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know, from a you know, immigrant Hindu household, you know, off
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to college and I'm at spring break and I was like, I can't believe
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you guys are doing this for plastic beads, Like this is me, this
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is fantastic. Like you you have a you set the bar solo. Well,
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done manuh, And it was that the second year we went like that.
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We just I just kind of hung out and just drank. But because
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that whole that whole thing had worn off for me, I was like,
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Okay, now I've already seen it and it was just a repeat of what
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I saw the year before. And I was like, Okay, so this
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is just kind of every year. But I think I think Steve hit a
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very big point about there is a very tiny window as far as when you
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look at life as a whole where break really is. You're in your wheelhouse.
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Otherwise you are too young old and it happens really quick. That's true
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because the third year, when everybody else was going, I went up.
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I came up to Dallas and worked that week with my with my folks at
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their at their business. So I did that the last two years. So
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first two years went to spring read the last two years work. And I
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love how you you mentioned Steve with the MTV stuff and they rolling out all
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the VJs. You know, it's like for me watching it on TV for
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those couple of years and then like Raj and Trey, you're saying you do
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it a couple of times, like you watch a couple of MTV spring Breaks
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for a couple of years, like, Okay, now I get it.
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I've seen Daisy Fintis in in the bikini. I've seen Carson Daily really committed
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to still wearing dark colored clothing but now he's wearing shorts. Every every they
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needed more of a presentation though, whenever they would wheel out Kurt Loder because
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you know, that's the only time every year he actually saw the sun.
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But yeah, after Ricky Rackman the roll out too, you see a lot
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of sun either oh my god, uh or the you o MTV raps guys
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out on on the beach and stuff that. I mean that maybe it's like
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most things nowadays, everything's wrapped in nostalgia to make you feel good. But
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I don't necessarily want to see MTV spring Break rebooted for our generation now,
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because otherwise it's just going to be like Simon Rex interviewing Steve and his husband
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and their two kids on the cruise ship somewhere outside of on Duras, going
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like the buffet was a little lackluster. Well, you know, I mean,
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but but but if you look at that, there's really I think the
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need for that is gone, right, because at the time that was your
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only access to this inside look. And now you get on Instagram and everybody
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is, you know, posting about their experience, and you could, you
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know, you could check out you know what all different people are doing.
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Uh, you know, there's the idea. I mean because for a while
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there they had like like when the Real World started, and then then they
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would have Eric Nye and the cast of the Real World for the you know,
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for the week I'm you know, and now it's like, okay,
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well everybody just we you can access that content. You don't need to you
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don't need a TV show. What is on MTV? Now? What is
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this is? I'm gonna sound old right now. What is There's a lot
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of programming right like teen Mom and like my I think I watched like I
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think like My Super Sweet sixteen was on, but that's got to be ten
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years ago. Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of movies. Oh
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interesting, okay, because I know there's now MTV two is all music Now
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I thought there was a separate MTV like all me, Like, I I
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know both MTV and vah ones said they were launching stations that actually played music
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again. But yeah, I assumed that was MTV the ocho playing do people
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make music videos anymore? They do it. It's for it's for YouTube,
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okay, it's for the like artists YouTube channels, so you can go on.
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But they do. They do still make music videos for four snippets for
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social media and then for YouTube. Yeah, like I remember as a kid,
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like when the Michael Jackson Thriller, Oh yeah, I mean that was
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like every you could watch it every twelve minutes or whatever the you know,
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and then I had the making of you know, as long as it was
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in ten to the hour every hour and Kurt was giving you the news,
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you could you could tune in check out. Yeah, you could also try
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to uh you could also try to look into the crowd behind Michael Jackson in
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the Thriller video, all the dancers and see if you could pick out which
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of those zombies was Kurt Loader. Like Kurt Loader could dance. But like
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back then, it was, you know, product placement was the big thing.
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So PEPSI signed Madonna and PEPSI signed you know, Michael Jackson, so
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it was like, you know, PEPSI presents the new Madonna video and it
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was I think it was I can't remember the name of the song, but
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the one in the church and it was the Black Jesus and that was the
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big controversy. And then didn't Michael kind of ruin that too when his hair
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cut on fire brought to you by PEPSI didn't know. I feel like that
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made it even like you know more. I mean, that was like such
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a moment for you know, for him, he was Taylor Swift of his
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time. I mean, I'm tellious one last very important question for you,
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Steve, before we let you out of here for your spring break. When
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you take a week off when you're on vacation, do you still wear a
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tie? Is it something you feel like you have to do every day or
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you like But I'm not wearing a tie until I go back to the TV
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station. Tie but no shirt and no pants. No pants coming up in
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my Only Dan's video, Steve's going to show me how to tie a tie.
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I am genuinely curious about that, Steve, because I commented on a
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photo that you did the other day on Instagram. Because I don't know it's
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TV guys, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the practice,
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but your your tie knots are always perfect. You got the dimple right in
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the middle, plus you got the little dimple and the tie. I mean
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it really is, it really is. Well, when you tie a tie,
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do you intentionally or do you just like hope for the best and what
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happens happens? Do you go full windsor or half windsor I go It depends
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on the shirt collar, So like, whichever the bigger one is, I'll
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go for that. If the shirt collar is wider, half wins. Okay,
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So that doesn't even make any sense. I mean it does occasionally I
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do it really well and I'm like, oh, yeah, now I just
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need to maintain this shape. Maybe I throw it in the freezer so it
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doesn't even move again. But any any hack, any trick, any tip
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is fine. Now, No, it's got to be intentional. Actually,
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and this is not I actually have it happened to have a tie right here.
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But when you tie it and you kind of go through for the final
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you know loop, you have to with your finger press in and then pinch
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so that your intention see that even look at my speach, that you're intentionally
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creating a dimple that then gets you know, locked in when you pull down
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because the tie becomes ti. Okay, so are you using your index finger
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for finger to dimple and then middle and thumb to pinch? So how do
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you tie the tie? Yeah? Exactly, I am so shaped. I
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remember from high school. I can hear Evan Andrews yelling at me from the
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weather version of the studio. Now, well, thank you for the tip.
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I actually really do appreciate that. I didn't know that. Man.
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I don't know if Trey's upset because when he did high end real estate,
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he wore suits all the time. But yours, your ties and your dimples
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are the ones I remember the most. Thank you. Thank you. And
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Baron James, who used to work for us UH forever ago. He was
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Clarice's co anchor when I first cat. He loved a really bit, like
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an obscenely big knot. And the way that he did that was he would
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tie his ties, but they would be just long enough to eclipse the jacket
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and then that's why they were so thick. So he had these really giant
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knots. But then if he took his coat off, his tie was like
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three inches long. See I've wondered that because I thought about how does that
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work? Because you either have to buy extremely long ties. And I've had
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this thought when Michael Irvin was on ESPN a lot and the big knot was
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in fashion and it really looked like two fists in front of his throat,
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and I had that. I wondered, is the rest of the tie somewhere
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like in his chest? It's just long enough can tuck into the coat,
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so that opt that must be it. Otherwise you're buying ties from you know,
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Shaquille O'Neil's tailor. Yeah, So for the tie, the fingers,
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the dumple, the thumb, the middle finger, pinch, pull, push,
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got it? Okay? Yep. As a man of the claw,
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I perform weddings here as my side hustle, and I like to make sure
25:06
that my tie looks good because I'm going to be in these people's photos.
25:08
I'm going to make sure that my dimple's not you know, that is ahead?
25:12
I'm sorry? Is that a side hustle? Or for you? Is
25:15
that indentured servitude? What do you mean indentured servitude? Aren't you technically working
25:22
for your wife? No one, no one likes to talk to you,
25:26
Trey. Are you not which that ministry? Did you get ordained with Yes,
25:33
Universal Life Church all the way back. I believe in like two thousand
25:37
and four or something. So I've I've been I've been around a long time.
25:41
So if if you and Doug ever want to renew your vows, I
25:45
got you. Well, I I too, am a fellow Universal Life minister.
25:49
Look at that. Although I don't know, can you do yourself?
25:52
I don't know. Three three clergymen here, look at this? Do you
25:56
want to be ordained by three men? I mean, we can bless you
25:59
right now out about will make you a saint. Steve, have a wonderful
26:10
spring break. I intend to no phone for a week. That's gonna be
26:12
the best part. Oh yeah, that's awesome. Well that's that's that's gonna
26:17
be sad for Evan Andrews because he won't get those special photos from you.
26:22
I'll tell you what, give me his number, I'll send him. So
26:25
I have a great trip with the family, and thank you always for jumping
26:30
on with us. We appreciate it. Yes, let me know when you're
26:32
back in town. I want to have you on our on our show.
26:34
Yes, that's right. I'm sorry. I totally forgot to mention that the
26:37
free for all show that you guys did a few test runs of How's how
26:42
the test run go? What do you think I'm Mike Doocey with Free for
26:47
All? Come on, man's I have a poor memory, Steve. It's
26:51
well established. So the show actually was called for Real when we tested.
26:56
It is being rebranded. It's gonna be called Last Call with Steve Nobiello.
27:00
Well wow, oh, sqeeze, squeeze the name into the title. You
27:04
have to do? You do? You tell everyone to get the fuck out
27:07
at two am, like what I do. So if you need, if
27:15
you need a stage manager to make sure everyone's out at a proper time,
27:18
traise your guy. Yeah, we're definitely pre taping. There's no way I'm
27:22
up there. I think our time slot for the spring and summer is ten
27:25
or ten thirty, and then when we go to five nights a week in
27:27
the fall, it'll be eleven pm. Wowk yeah, late night nov Yellow.
27:32
I'm there, Yeah, unscripted. Enjoy, enjoy the trip, have
27:37
fun with the kiddos, have fun with the husband, and we'll see you
27:40
back in here soon. And obviously, next time I'm in Dallas, I'll
27:42
stalk you. So yeah, let me know good to see you guys.
27:45
See you Steve, always a good time Steven. All right, y'all,
27:51
have a great day. See you, budd You visit us online. I'm
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chance to ask Steve that I wish I had, but I know he was
31:53
antsy to leave us and go get on a cruise ship with his family,
31:59
not another cruising and that was We have to clarify something that we discussed in
32:07
a previous episode last week, and it had to do with Raj being right,
32:13
specifically, I'm your huckleberry, the line famous in the movie Tombstone.
32:21
Trey and I were under the impression that Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday had said
32:25
to Johnny Ringo before he killed him, I'm your huckleberry, to which Roz
32:30
told us no, no, no, no, no, that's not correct.
32:32
In fact, he is saying what Raj, I'm your huckle bearer,
32:37
which was it was the handles on the sides of coffins back in the eighteen
32:42
hundreds were called huckles. So he was basically saying, I'll be your pall
32:45
bearer. And that's what they called those men then, because I guess Paul
32:52
Bearer had not been created or invented yet, it was huckle bearer because of
32:54
the huckles on the caskets. Yes, okay, so this is the dangerous
33:00
territory that we find ourselves in. We start trying to educate ourselves inside the
33:06
stupid treehouse. Because then other experts have come forward, dear dear listeners of
33:15
the treehouse to say, not so fast, my friend, as if there
33:20
are a bunch of lead corsos running around with uh uh, doc Holiday,
33:22
you know, heads on to say Val Kilmer was right, Tombstone was right.
33:30
He does say I'm your huckle berry because number one, my finger here.
33:38
Number one, it was in the script. Val Kilmer has stated he
33:43
read it from the script. It was in the script I'm your huckleberry.
33:47
Then I will. Then I went further down the rabbit hole that that that
33:52
our dear dear listeners sent me into, and I found I found a video
33:55
online, which, of course, you know online video should always be trusted.
33:59
Where im and said back in the day of ye old England and knights
34:06
and things, they would put huckleberries on their lances to signify they're the champion
34:15
of the joust. And that is supposedly how it originated. And then and
34:22
then fast forward into southern gentlemanly times, that would have carried over with the
34:28
chivalry, the knighthood and everything, saying I'm your huckle bearer, I'm your
34:31
huckleberry. That's not a Frodian slip so much so. And this is where
34:37
the two pats intersect, right where Raj is both right and wrong, somewhere
34:44
in the middle of the teeniest tiniest venn diagram you've ever seen. You are
34:50
right, Raj. The men that carried the caskets were called huckle bearers,
34:57
but they also wore on their lapels typically huckle Berry's mm hmm. So there's
35:02
the intersection where you're both right and a little wrong. And ultimately, Val
35:10
Kilmer said huckleberry because he said, he said it, and it was in
35:14
the script, and the other thing I tried to do to verify this was
35:17
in my uh, you know, show brain, was I know how we
35:22
can settle this. Let me look up who wrote Tombstone and invite this person
35:30
onto the show to clear this up for us, even though we can see
35:34
the script online. Bad news, he's dead. That was That was Kevin
35:42
Jari. I think that's how you say his last name. A prolific Hollywood
35:45
writer. He wrote some other wonderful films. I don't need to go down
35:50
his entire list, but he's a he's a good writer. And I recognized
35:52
the name as soon as I saw it, So then I thought, okay,
35:55
fine, let me see about the director. Because the director is obviously
35:59
going to know about the script. We'll ask him. Turns out he's dead
36:04
too, and I, unfortunately I can't currently ask veil Val Kilmer. So
36:10
we're left with the internet sleuthing that I've done. Gotcha. I have to
36:17
know what what transpired between the two of you that left Dan so scarred that
36:25
Raj being right on such a trivial thing has led him two weeks of internet
36:31
research and sleuthing. He doesn't he doesn't like me being right. What what
36:37
what happened? Honestly, I better think of a good reason, really fucking
36:50
fast, otherwise that's gonna stick, and I'm gonna let it. Unfortunately,
37:00
I can't think of what so I find myself in a real predicament here.
37:05
Other thing for me to say it just doesn't feel good doesn't help my cause
37:14
how about this. I don't typically get to be right very often in my
37:16
life, So any opportunity that I can be right, I'm going to try
37:20
to reach for it. That's about as good as I can come up with
37:22
at the moment, because I have not dug down too decently. Here's why
37:25
it bothers me being right. Here's where I get petty. When you said
37:30
you looked, when you looked it up, what's your source? What did
37:32
you? Because I just looked it up too, So what's your what's your
37:36
source? Uh? There's a guy on YouTube? There was a guy on
37:39
YouTube. Oh yeah, is the next video where Bigfoot lives? That was
37:45
like that? That was the third one down. Don't be ridiculous, rug.
37:49
I very much realize and and accept the fact that, like most people
37:53
trying to find information that they want to find to support their argument, it's
38:00
very easy to do so online, whether it's accurate or not. But it
38:04
makes you feel good and and that's why you repeat it, and it also
38:07
makes you seem smart. But really reality, all you're doing is repeating stuff,
38:12
right, I did. I did various you know, internet searches as
38:15
much as you can. I mean, Wikipedia is a pretty solid source most
38:19
of the time. You just got to make sure that some of the you
38:22
know, the stuff that's in there, you know, is not someone just
38:24
having fun with a wiki page. But yeah, I mean you type into
38:30
the Google huckle Berry versus huckle Bearer, and next thing you know, you're
38:35
seeing videos pop up about nine to eleven conspiracies because the Internet thinks you're that
38:38
gullible or you want the truth see or you have that time on your hands.
38:51
People, I had about fifteen minutes, tray. That's about the time.
38:54
I'd like to say for the record that I devoted to it, even
38:57
though it was much more than that. Oh good, Okay, I didn't.
39:00
I didn't want to. I didn't want to my being right to consume
39:02
your weekend, I didn't want it to to. What I do with my
39:07
personal time is my business. No. But the context, the reason the
39:13
huckle bear thing comes up is because he says when he says, I'm your
39:16
huggle bear, and then he comes out of the shadow and he says,
39:21
why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
39:23
And it's that's where the context of I'm your huckle bear comes in. So
39:28
he might have been saying huckle berry before. I don't know, but that's
39:31
specific. It's and again when you go back to the thing like factually incorrect,
39:37
like he Doc Holliday was in court in Colorado when Johnny Ringo died,
39:42
so there was no way he ever actually shot Johnny Ringo. So well,
39:46
we know, Hollywood takes a lot of license with things. Yeah, they
39:50
took they took Johnny Ringo's actual suicide and made it Doc Holladay killing him.
39:54
So it's a little bit of a little bit more of an artistic liberty than
39:59
than most most movies will take. You would think that you would think that
40:07
the remaining Ringos would have had something to say, Please God when God forbid
40:15
whenever Paul McCartney dies, if Ringo Star is still alive, that's the name
40:19
of his band, Remaining Ringo. Yeah, that's the that's the tribute band
40:27
for Ringo Star, Remaining Ringos. Yes, I don't know, it's it's
40:32
not a Beatles tribute band, that's a Ringo Star tribute band. And the
40:37
entire band is just four guys dressed as Ringo star, all playing the drums.
40:42
It's chaos. Yes, I don't know how how, I don't know
40:47
how vast of a family Johnny Ringo had, but I'm hoping, uh,
40:52
maybe we can find we can do like an ancestry something, and we can
40:57
find his his family members to clarify and verify that Doc Holliday did not actually
41:04
kill Ringo. Yeah. So not only did Tombstone take great license with historical
41:09
facts but also terms as we're now kind of left in this gray area of
41:16
huckle Berry versus huckle Bearer. And again, great irony in this is that
41:22
I can't call the writer of the film to ask him because he died.
41:25
Also can't ask the director because he's also dead. But can you can you
41:30
not look up the script online? Can you not look up? You can?
41:32
But that's but then we're looking at an image online which can be you
41:37
know, doctored and falsified in some way. Oh okay, okay, so
41:43
you're so you'll go down the rabbit hole of information. But when it comes
41:47
to reading the script that's online, that could be doctor Yeah, just because
41:52
you can see the flag on the moon doesn't mean the flags on the moon,
41:55
Raj, Hey you Trey. Oh no, I have a fear we're
42:06
going this way. But again going back to the irony in this, and
42:09
I would love to be able to ask the writer of tombstone, you know,
42:15
go straight to the source. Was it Huckleberry or huckle bearer? And
42:21
even if I had been, interestingly enough one of his huckle bearers at his
42:24
funeral, I would have still opened the casket a little bit and go,
42:28
hey, I got a quick question. I know you're embalmed in all,
42:32
but any chance you got a original script in there with you that I could
42:37
take a look at the bear him with the script and you take it out,
42:45
ah proof And I run to you, Raj, I run to you.
42:49
I have now robbed a man's grave to show you that you were wrong.
42:53
And that's how much I don't want you to be right. And again
42:57
I have not come up with a good answer in the last ten minutes since
43:00
Trey brought it up that the reason for me not wanting you to be right
43:04
might be steeped to racism. It ultimately just boils down to not wanting a
43:12
friend that I've had for like twenty years to be right about something when I
43:15
want to be right about it. I just hope with that guy's funeral,
43:21
whoever wrote it, when they in the the pamphlet, they just put instead
43:27
of you know, not huckle not Paul, just blank bear, just so
43:30
everyone could take a guess. Uh, that'd be a dick move. Although
43:37
he is one of the one of the few people that could actually have on
43:39
his tombstone I'm your Huckleberry, and he could actually own it because he wrote
43:44
it. So I have I have the script. And this is the part
43:53
where Johnny Ringo's drunk and he the IRPs are walking down the street. Doc
43:59
Holliday getting the shave, doing his his shave and he's threatening the brothers.
44:08
He said, you know, I want to fight you, and he's like,
44:10
sober up. There's no money in it. And he's like, don't
44:14
you guys have any Uh? Don't you guys want to play for blood?
44:17
And don Holiday says that's just my game and over the shoulder voiceover it says,
44:25
I'm your Huncleberry. So you are correct, Okay, I'm I'm I'm
44:34
what In the script it says, I'm your Huncleberry. So there are so
44:40
we're both We're at the we're both at the intersection of that Vin diagram.
44:44
We're both correct. Yes, we're both correct. I'm sorry. All I
44:51
heard was that I was right. Yeah, we're both correct. The Humcleberry
44:54
is in the script and huckle Bear is what they were called. But you
44:59
still have to figure out why it bothered you so much. Yeah, you
45:01
need some therapy on that one. I haven't really thought that since we did.
45:07
I haven't really. It's going to be a difficult conversation to have with
45:09
my therapist about it because she's black. Oh that's why she's never right.
45:25
Just kidding. Oh, but I do need therapy. Thanks for hanging out
45:30
with us inside the tree House. Coming up tomorrow, Day two of Treehouse
45:36
Gone Wild. Treehouse Gone Wild day too. It's spring break in the Treehouse.
45:39
Thanks for being with us. We'll see you back here tomorrow.