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EPISODE 26 - A Near Death Experience and The Scoliosis Test w/ Raj Sharma · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome into the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm, and because
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of a little uh casting shuffle, we are joined in the Treehouse today by
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actor, comedian and friend, longtime friend of the show and the Treehouse,
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Raj Charma. Hello, Raj, Hi, buddies, what's going on?
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Oh? You know, just three card monte with heads. Yeah, I
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see that. It is. It is. It's been too long, but
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it is uh great to see you and talk to you, Raj. Yeah.
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And um, are you guys both wearing the same color, by the
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way, or did we plan this out? It's the No, it wasn't
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a plan, but I guess Tray and I SYNCD up and it kind of
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works out because it actually is uh. Even though we don't do video on
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the show, we use it during the show to look and talk to one
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another. Maybe maybe one day we'll throw some video around. It looked like
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you guys sort of like a like a like a best Buy competitor and like
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this is the break. They're like, okay, let's get let's let's get
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a show out. Let's do this real quick before we gotta But instead of
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blue shirts, we're gonna go with purple, purple. But it actually is
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kind of fitting into our personalities because I'd say traditionally, Tray is a little
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more a little more proper and traditional. I'm a little more laid back.
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So I've got a T shirt that's purple and Trays purple. Oh that's a
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polo Oh of course, of course. But to Tray's credit, he's much
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more relaxed now. I think in what has happened is since he got out
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of the corporate world, and maybe it's also related to him being sober now
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for but six seven years, Trey, yeah, almost seven. Trey's uniform
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used to be button up shirt, jeans and his boots. Now Tray is
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so relaxed now that he doesn't drink or work in the corporate world anymore,
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which are probably somewhat related. Now he's polo U khaki shorts and some on
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running sneaks. Oh that's nice. Do you look like you could like you
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could from the waist up, you dress like you could be deposed? Uh,
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and then and then and then in your whole out it's like, hey,
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if golf breaks out, I'm ready to go. Sadly, this is
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a sad truth. It was last summer. So it's almost a year that
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I actually started wearing T shirts. Other than that, for twenty plus years,
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no one had ever seen me in anything but a college. So was
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it like so like okay, so when you would go home, like would
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you like close the blinds, like turn on some like really sexy music and
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throw a T shirt on and just like like like just stare at yourself like
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this is what this is the real meat, that exotic, it's a It's
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just it's a strange quirk I picked up from my dad. My dad out
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in public always had a collar shirt on and I and honestly, I just
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got tired during the summer it's so damn hot. I was like, I
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wanted to breatheable shirt. Finally, I was like, screw it, I'll
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just start wearing T shirts. I was like, these are comfy. So
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you've been so you've been seventy since you're a kid. I just need something
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breathable. And it's weird too, because I have now seen Trey at the
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three different stages of his fashion life. So stage one, back when he
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worked in real estate, was a really nice suit because a lot of the
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real estate that Trey did when he was in real estate in Dallas. Four
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Worth was pretty specific. It was high end real estate, and a lot
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of it was in you know, Highland Park, University Park. And you
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can't walk in there like looking like you just you know, rolled out of
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the Dart bus station. You've got to look the part. So Trey war
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suits, and even when he started in radio, he would do real estate
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some then he'd come to radio and he'd still be wearing a suit and tie.
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Then he stopped doing real estate, did radio only. That's when phase
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two of Trey's fashion life began. That was the button down shirt, the
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jeans, and the cowboy boots. Then he left radio, stopped drinking again,
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probably related and because he didn't need to anymore, and started working in
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the bar businesses like okay, well, you know, cowboy boots not the
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most comfortable service industry shoes. So now Trey's running a hugely successful not anymore
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because he quit. But then he started running a hugely successful Dallas night spot,
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and he went more relaxed. He went polo with he shorts and comfy
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running shoes. Yeah, the sad thing that really precipitated me not wearing boots
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anymore. It's just I've hit an age and for some reason, all of
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a sudden, my feet started killing me. I'm like, screw that is
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old. Are you old enough to know that Doctor Shouls doesn't do insults for
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cowboy boots? Yeah, it's like, I just need something breathable and art
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support. I'm like, good, my god, I tell you right now,
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this is how it happened. Travis probably scrolling through Instagram hoping to find
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the one ad that was a collaboration between Luke Casey and Doctor Sholes, but
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it never happened. I think we're onto a this is one perish. I'm
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gonna find them. I'm gonna find them, and I'm gonna have these shoes.
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I'm gonna have boots made for you with with art support and oddly breathable.
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I don't know, I'm gonna find a breathable like it'll be air wicking
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ostrich. I hear the EMU doesn't sweat. I don't know a truth about.
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One of the weirdest things is that, you know, in my mid
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forties, my feet grew a size and I think it was because my arch
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is kind of collapsed. And okay, easy berry bonds unless you were on
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a massive amount of the stairs, Like and my hat size, I have
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gone from a ten and a half to eleven to eleven and a half.
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Did you hear that? Ladies drend home coming on strong in middle age?
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You might want to go see a doctor about this. I think a doctor
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would want to see him about this. You know, it's weird. My
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hands and feet just keep growing, like you might want to see there might
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be a side effect from all the yeager you've no longer drink. Honestly,
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are you getting nutrients back in your body? That might actually be a part
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of it. Yeah. All of a sudden I showed looking down at my
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you know, shoes, and so glad sudden my big toe started rubbing through
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and sticking out, and I'm like, what the hell you like the Incredible
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Hulk like when he changes. Yeah, most people seem middle aged and getting
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over the hill as you know, going downhill or his trays like he's just
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coming into his own finally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean,
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I don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of arts support, but I
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have a feeling like you you wait, like you wake up in the morning
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to yell at people about your lawn. That's what like, but you're ready
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to chase somebody down that threw something on your lawn, Like that's where the
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shoes come in. You have a breathable shirt because it's hot in the summer.
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I get it, buddy. I mean it's your fashion and whatever makes
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you, whatever makes you happy, and those are life goals. Like twenty
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years from now, then I want to sit on a porch and chase people
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off my lawn. Twenty years from now? Are you just dressing early for
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the part? I can't talk. I've got three chains on for no reason.
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I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure why that is. I
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don't know if it's just I don't know why that is. What you just
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you just need the jewelry you need. You need to bling someone to be
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like are you worried about being lost in the dark. Yeah, well it's
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a superstition, so it's good luck charms. And but like Dan's always been
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like I think your wedding I think was the most dressed up I ever saw
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you. M yeah, that sounds by right. And outside of that,
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outside of that, like your T shirt collection must rival most people like I.
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If you if you ever want to, if you ever feel like you
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know, t shirting it there, Trey, talk to that guy right there.
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No, no, no, Raj is correct, Tray, I know
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the right brands. I know the right brands and softness and hug you in
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all the right places. He's not giving you like the low quality Gilden my
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friend. No, no, no, that's a Haynes with the tag less
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thing on the bat. That's what we're brushed cotton. That's a he's a
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brush cotton kind of guy. Uh poll tribelend. Oh okay, well now
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you're getting sexy. I didn't know what kind of show this was. Apparently
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it's about fashion all of a sudden ironic because the guy that just left would
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have loved the fashion discussion. Hi, Elfie should have stuck around the thing
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with Trey. I think what happened with your feet is maybe it was your
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boots or the wrong size, Like maybe you were your boots were too tight
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because you were wearing boots. There were ten and a half. You stopped
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wearing boots and then your feet got to relax to a normal size. Maybe
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that was it. Oh, but that could be it actually, because I
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mean that's a different fit, right, and depending on the width of your
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flight. For some people I know that. I like, i'd for Tony
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brothers that couldn't wear boots because they're too wide. Yeah, there's big guys,
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so they couldn't. So it could actually be that you were just hobbling
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yourself for like an ancient Chinese woman, except with col bindings binding your feet
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and that's that. But that's for a very specific, very specific look here
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in in Dallas and and Trey actually with with the boots that he wore.
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They were the tapered toe, so they were kind of sharp at the end,
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as opposed to like that squared off toe that got popular for a little
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while. Yeah, I had I still have the areas that are the square
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toes because they can't do that. Like that just looks painful. It's yeah,
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good. A good pair of boots are one of the most comfortable things
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you can wear. I just I've got to an age I just couldn't be
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on. You know, when you're on your feet twelve hours a day.
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I have you come to tiresome? Have you wound your pocket watch today?
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I don't know what is that? Like? I'm just waiting for you to
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spit into a spatoon at some point, like you know what a good pair
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of boots. Puh, I could dip in years ago? You were really,
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Oh, yeah, I quit. I have. Actually I quit dipping
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about six months before I quit drinking. And it was the harder of the
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two. Really, Yeah, because I haven't had a I haven't had a
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cigarette in a year. Good for you, that's awesome, congratulations. Yeah.
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The I got I got sick in July, and that's so that's where
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a lot of the so like the feather is that I have there, that's
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the yeah. So that's the the feather is the uh like, the spiritual
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like it's supposed to represent in Native American culture is the great one, the
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all knowing, and it's it's connection to us. Okay, that makes more
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sense because from what I remember, you didn't smoke American spirits. I did.
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That was what I smoked at the end, was it really? Okay?
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American spirit yellows man, That's what I was going with. And then
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I had the evil eye thing. And then I have the doorg of the
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Goddess the Protector because I got sick in July and uh I had to go.
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It was in the hospital, so technically, uh I was dead what
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yeah, Uh, technically, I mean I was still talking, but uh
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they couldn't like I broke the record for the lowest blood pH uh at that
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hospital or I'm probably ever I went to the hospital was on July third.
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I was going to Kaboomtown and uh getting things ready, getting you know,
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uh launch hairs and coolers filled, and had a hot dog and I had
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a bud light and I was like, man, that bud light's not sitting
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that hot dog. I'm not. It was just feeling nauseous. Did the
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bud light make you feel funny? Like not quite? You like maybe need
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to be somebody else I was. I was drinking with kid Rock and uh,
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we're getting as ak loaded and uh but no, I just wasn't feeling
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well and I was like, I think I'm gonna throw this up and it
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did and it was like all like it was a couple and a half of
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blood. Oh yeah, So I went to the paramedics take me to because
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I couldn't. I couldn't walk, Like within the hour, I couldn't,
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like couldn't didn't have any energy to walk. Is that because you were going
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you know, full fourth of July and you were wearing like Tray's cowboy boots
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and khaki shorts. I know boots and shorts. I was a hot bitch
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that day. Uh No went to the hospital and they're like, um,
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they was wild. They so things have changed. So things are changed now.
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So I get into the r and this, uh, this young man
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comes to the door. I'm forty seven now and this kid comes to the
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door and he looks nine, but he's got He's got the uniform on right,
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he's got and I can see I can see where it says MD at
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the end of his name. And he goes, swear, do you this
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is noble? Uh? He goes, so bro, I went, oh,
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we're gonna start this Ah no, no, no, no, no,
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no, he goes. He goes, I'm Jake, And I'm like,
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did you run my card? Did anybody my insurance car? Did anybody
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run this? And he's like uh. And he gets all the blood work
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and they're taking a lot of blood. And this is the weird part is
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in their chaos because there's so much happening. They were taking a lot of
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blood, but they weren't putting any back. So I started to hyperventilate.
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So in my room, Uh comes three very sweet short Filipino ladies. Do
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you need anything? Can I get you into them? I'm like, blood
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would be great, because like my blood, my blood pressures going through the
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roof, my heart rate is through the roof. And uh. They finally
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get me on some some stuff for nausea, and they gave me some anxiety.
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They thought I was having a panic attack, and I'm like, nope,
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just you're taking all of my blood. You're not. You're not You're
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not giving me any back, or even if you were having a panic attack,
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that was as a result of them taking all of your blood. And
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night gets I mean like it was like it was like tubes this long and
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like that. That's like the kind of stuff that they would they would draw
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blood out of a cow exactly, and they do like eight of them all
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at once, and I was like, and I mean I was poured it
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up like that. I had eight total uh ports um for IVS and stuff.
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But at one point, my girlfriends says, next Philipps like, I'm
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feeling a lot better. I still can't catch my breath, but I have
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a very serious question and you cannot lie to me. He goes, Okay,
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what's going on? I was like, you have to tell me the
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one hundred percent truth. And I was like yeah, and I just look
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over at the Filipino ladies and that point I go, you can see them
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too, right, because my fear was like that's who is coming to get
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me? And like my fear was like being taken to heaven by three angry
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Filipino ladies. Like does the whole time do you have your charger? Do
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you have your charger? They have it. I'm like, ah, yes,
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I have my charger. Please leave me alone. But then Jake comes
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back in and he you know the rolling stool with the no bat. Yes,
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he gets on it and he rolls up and he grabs me by.
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Well, hang on what he says he gets on it? Did he do
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it like I imagine a doctor of his age doing it, like with both
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feet on the stool like surfing in or did he actually butt on? He
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walked? It was seamless. He walked and as he walked he sat and
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roll Wait, don't don't get ahead of yourself. Their new balance. So
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uh, he grabs me by like mafia style, like grabs my hands and
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he goes bro and I go, hmm. He goes you are a hot
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mess, and I go all right, and he goes but it's nothing Jake
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can't fixed, and then used me, I swear to you, used me
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to push off and then spun in the stool and then walked out. And
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I was like, that is that's Jake. Everybody, I'm gonna I'm definitely
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going to die. Jake will kill me today. But yeah, we get
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up to I was in the ICU and uh, I had I've been taking
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some medication and some of it was over the counter, UH for acid reflux,
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and apparently do not take prilosec if you have acid reflux because it is
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very dangerous. If you look on the back of the thing, it says
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can mask the symptoms of a heart attack. But I was getting because I
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was taking it. I was also getting and also my diet was garbage and
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smoking and fast food and drinking and all of that stuff led to me like
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really really tiny ulcers about that big, but about one hundred of them.
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We're lining my stomach and it caused this thing called h pylori, which then
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turned into pancrea titus. But when they they walked in and again it's like
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vegas. So there's no clocks, so you don't know how long you've been
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there, and that way they can really run up your bill. I just
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got doubling down. Uh but uh, this this very sweet nurse came in
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and she looks at my girlfriend. She goes, okay, how's he doing?
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And she's like fine, Like okay, how are you? I was
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like, Hi, can tell me your name? I was like, yeah,
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gave her my name, David Bird social Security. So do you know
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where you are? It was like hospital because do you know which one?
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Presbyterian plane? She goes, okay, and how long have you been in
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a coma? And I just look at my girlfriend and go how long have
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we been here? And apparently the guy who was next to me was in
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a coma and intubated and his pH was was higher than mine, and so
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they couldn't imagine how I was still coherent. And so the name of my
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the new special that I'm working on for stand up is called not Compatible for
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Life because on my chart it said pH of six point nine or below not
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compatible for life, and your boy was a five. Oh man. Yeah,
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So they're like, we don't know how you're alive. And I was
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like, cool, let's get to fix in me. Let let's let the
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wonderment wear off and let's let the medicine start going. But at the end
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of it, they were like, you know you're you're if you're ready to
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go. And I didn't realize just being in bad for almost five days,
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I didn't realize how much weight I'd lost. I went in at one seventy
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four and I came out at one thirty four. Jesus j Yeah. So
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I I go to this big six foot eight uh black nurse came in and
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he's like, uh, you might want to get some might want to tell
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your girl to bring you some clothes. And I was like I'm good.
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He goes all right say it was like all right, and then I was
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like all right. He's like going to help you to the wheelchair. I
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was like, no, I got He goes okay, and I stand up
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and my pants fall off, and he goes, you want me to call
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her. I was like, yeah, that'd be it would be good,
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and I just kind of helped, like he pulled up my pants and just
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kind of held onto him. He's like, try to tell you. I
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was like, yeah, you did. He's like, you need some help
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to the wheelchair and I go nope. I took two steps and I looked
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at him and goes, I got you basically picked me up and put me
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in the wheelchairs, like uh anything else. I was like, I think
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I can make my way to the to the car, and he goes,
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really, you're right, You're right, You're good. So I was sweatpants
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for for two and a half weeks. But now, so I say,
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quit drinking for seven eight months. I had to go do a low fat,
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low sugar diet, no smoking, um, and I just kind of
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kept it up. I mean, I put the I put weight back on,
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so I'm back at the one seventy one mark, but in the gym
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and uh and and doing all the all the stuff. But I told the
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doctors what do I need to do to never see you again? It's like,
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can you quit drinking for the next three months? So I was like,
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you got it? He goes, can you quit smoking forever? And
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I was like yes, And I'm like in my head, I'm like,
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Okay, that's kind of a tough one. But eight nurse walks in and
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goes, really you know you're gonna quit. I'm like you, I'll do
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anything you tell me to do Sir picked me up, but no, I
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was so that I know that he said he quit dipping, and that's that
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was harder than so. I don't know what was in the i VS.
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But like I had no like issue, like like with the drinking, though
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I didn't want to smoke. The only thing that changed was sweets, like
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I and everybody's like, well, it's because you quite drinking. I'm like
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in the hospital, I was like, can I before, like just when
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I got in, I'm like, can I just have something sweet? And
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I don't know if it was whatever was in the i VS or whatever it
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was. Uh yeah, listen, first first day, everyone warned me,
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and I never I never liked sweets. First day and everyone it said,
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you know you're gonna just crave sweets. I'm like, no, there's no
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way. First day I quit drinking, I would have gutted somebody for a
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snickerdoodle. Uh yeah, that'll see that. I've had friends that that quit
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drinking there like that, but be careful. I'm like, okay, Like
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the only thing like I still liked like Dan and I will have the affinity
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for peanut butter, Like I still like peanut butter and I like chocolate,
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but I was never My thing was sweet, like a sweet So like,
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uh, I did sprite zero with a little a little great what is the
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stuff that you can pour in water, A little squeezeable stuff you know what
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I mean that it's like a hot to flavor your water. Yeah, the
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MEO stuff. Yeah that, so I would do that in like a sprite
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zero. Like to me, that was like, oh, this is greater
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than anything ever to have existed on this planet. Like that's kind of what
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I wanted. I don't know because based on the description, I'm going to
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try one to trace Nick or Doodles if he's willing to, you know.
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Yeah. But then but then it was like then somebody was like, hey,
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do you want to scoop ice cream with that? I'm like yeah,
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I'm not a big ice cream guy, but sure, And then how it
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took a bite. I'm like, I'm an ice cream guy. Like do
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you want to brownie with that? I'm like, of course I do.
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And then that was like I'm like okay, but like the weird thing is
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like drinking and the gym and the work like that stuff was like I haven't
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had a cigarette since but that was never like it never even crossed my mind
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that I had quit smoking. It was like months later I was like,
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oh, yeah, I haven't had one of those. So when you were
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talking about like it being hard, like I don't know what, Like,
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just find out what they were giving me, and for anybody that's having a
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hard time quitting smunk, whatever they were giving me outside of some weird lady
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trying to get me all ghacked out on fent and all, I'm like,
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just don't just find out what it is in that IV because it was like
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everybody says, that's the hardest thing to do, and I was like,
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yeah, just it smells good sometimes, but that's about it. But I
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the dipping thing, I don't I know guys that still like we'll quit drinking.
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I've quit drinking a dozen years. They still Openhagen still got to get
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that that fix. So good on you for doing that. But now you
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They're even calling us day in and day out asking how strong is your
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customer, how strong is the preapproval letter? And so we see that as
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well. Number three streamline homebuying process, meaning preapproval streamlines the homebuying process by
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reducing the time between binding your dream home and closing on your dream home.
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Number four, identify. It gives you identification of potential issues, meaning is
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your credit and good inline or do you need to pay off a debt?
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Do you have a medical bill, something that's hurting your credit. And last
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and fifth, confidence and peace of mind. Preapproval. You know, you
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know who we are as a lender. You know that you have the negotiation
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power and you're able to go out and find a home and close in as
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a little as ten to fifteen days. So it gives you just a purchasing
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power and it gives you peace of mind. Yeah, and I can actually
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speak to this from both ends of that spectrum. One, as a homeowner
25:47
trying to sell a property, I didn't entertain anyone really looking at their property,
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let alone entertaining any serious offers unless they were actually preapproved and gone through
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the entire process. And then as a buyer, I knew I had a
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leg up on other potential buyers because you had already prep preapproved me through the
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entire thing. So from whether you're selling a property or you're looking to buy
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one, the preapproval process is absolutely major. So give Rodney and his team
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be a funny radio show now occasionally funny podcast along with our actor friend comedian
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Raj Sharma, who we just learned thankfully did not die last year. Well
27:26
what if I was? And you're having a podcast. It's like the weirdest
27:27
podcast ever. All the people that are watching, like, who are they
27:30
talking to? He's an angel? Very very m Night Shamalani. It really
27:37
is, except I hope this is not. I hope this is not the
27:40
m Night Shamalan movie where you call it the happening where nothing actually happens.
27:45
Yeah, he's the guy's brilliant. I mean he's really good at going,
27:48
Hey, look at the remember that one movie I made? Yeah, what's
27:52
by this one? Yeah? Yeah, by this one? What happens?
27:56
Nothing? Thanks? And then he run he runs away from half a decade.
28:00
They're like they forget about him. And then he sells you The Lady
28:02
in the Water. You're like, what didn't we just buy? Like it's
28:06
he sold Lady in the Water. He sold the script to Sony for sixty
28:08
million dollars. Jesus, the script, Oh my god, the script and
28:15
the producing writes and yeah, the whole package. Okay, yeah, like
28:18
sixty million dollars. I'm like, well done, good for him, Good
28:22
for him, good job. I'm all about someone getting their bag when when
28:26
they can. Yeah. My whole thing is is I like people to have
28:32
earned what they've what they've attained. You know, I was supposed to would
28:34
yeah like nah, here you go. You know, you kind of suck,
28:37
but we're gonna give you a bunch of but that. But that's the
28:38
thing about Hollywood, Like if you stick around long enough, they're like,
28:41
oh, you're still here. Here's money. They'll just at some point like
28:45
they do that, They're like, here's just makes something and then if they
28:49
if it's good, they'll the other networks and other studios will will buy that
28:53
idea. There was something I'm trying to remember the name of the actor.
28:57
It's on the tip of my tongue. I look it up real quick,
29:00
so bear with me. Is it Chris Cooper? Yeah, it is.
29:04
It's Chris Cooper. So this, I think, is what you're talking about.
29:07
Roger is a good example of this. Chris Cooper's super generic name,
29:11
right, and you probably don't know who he is based on his name,
29:15
but he's now sort of this high end character actor in Hollywood. But he's
29:22
been in Hollywood forever. He's been in tons of stuff. I guess.
29:27
One of the first times I really recognized huh. So you just looked him
29:33
up, didn't you, tree h So when I first really started noticing him
29:37
setting outside of a random role was when he was in The Born, one
29:41
of the Born movies, the first Born movie, I think, and he
29:45
was sort of the bad guy. He was supposed to be Jason Bourne's handler.
29:48
He was it was the Bourne identity, and he was the bad guy
29:51
in that. Ever since then, he's been in all these amazing roles.
29:55
He was in American Beauties and Sea Biscuits, all these Yeah, yeah you
30:00
see him. You like, I've had that guy. But for like twenty
30:02
years he was just there. And now all of a sudden, because he's
30:06
been around for so long, everyone's like, oh, let's get that role.
30:10
That's got to be Chris Cooper because he's fantastic. Well you didn't think
30:12
it's fantastic thirty years ago. But also like it is that thing where you're
30:18
like, he's been there long enough, he knows like he knows people that
30:22
are that have moved up the ranks. So it is like the but like
30:26
when people are like, Hollywood is not a meritocracy. Correct, Uh,
30:30
it's when people go, hey, that's my buddy. He's been around forever
30:33
and I'm here now let me let me, let me give him this part.
30:37
Yeah, this is this is for him because you know, we stuck
30:40
around long enough, or we did this, or we did ad like like
30:42
a wild because you'll Jason Priestley for the longest time. This is a great
30:48
story. But he was the he had two roommates and he was the working
30:51
actor. He was the It was a guy that the one roommate had a
30:55
car, and that guy would be the one that Jason would be like,
30:57
hey, listen, I'll introduce you to the casting directors or the producers,
31:02
but you have to drive me to the audition, and that roommates like,
31:04
cool man. I just appreciate all the help and thank you so much.
31:07
And they went to casting went to an audition for him, and he brought
31:11
this guy along because again that guy had the car. Jason does not get
31:17
the part. This guy does. And now you know, Brad Pitt.
31:22
It's amazing how that stuff works. It is amazing. Also like with the
31:26
like with the Chris Cooper guy, he's an older guy and the age thing
31:30
got me thinking, when you're old enough, you start sticking around long enough,
31:33
you have a history built up, you know people, you know certain
31:36
things, you can relate to certain things. And it actually, strangely enough,
31:40
this reminded me of something Trey posted recently on Trey was on your Instagram
31:45
story, so I don't know if it's still up. It was this lady
31:48
talking about being Oh I think I remember now. It was how gen x
31:56
with those because I think all of us are gen X right, we were
32:00
put We were really as a generation put through the ringer as far as various
32:04
things, especially things that weren't necessarily dangerous for us, but we still had
32:10
to go through it. Like and this is one of the things Trade posted,
32:15
was this lady talking about this sort of unfounded fear instilled in us as
32:19
children about scoliosis, because all three of ushre of an aged where at one
32:27
point in elementary school, it was they did the test when you have to
32:30
go into the nurse and you lined up outside the nurse's office your entire class,
32:35
and you you walk and then one at a time you go in.
32:38
You pull up your shirt or take it off, and then you bend over,
32:44
which just that description right there would get you on like a cancel list
32:52
immediately just right then. Yeah, but then the nurse would then touch you,
32:58
but they were looking to see if you had scoliosis, and most of
33:00
us really didn't understand what it was. And then they try to tell you,
33:04
oh, it's a curvature of the spine, and I'm like, why
33:07
am I bending over? And why do you have to do your finger?
33:08
It's like you would think as soon as you Honestly, you would think if
33:13
you have scoliosis, it's pretty obvious when you walk into the nurse's office,
33:15
if you're already been over or or you look like a question mark. I
33:22
had completely thank you so much for doing that, tray. I completely forgot
33:27
about that we had to do that. That's can. I never knew anybody
33:30
with scoliosis, have you? Yeah, I do know a couple of people
33:35
that have the spine curvature, but that's so with chiropractic and with traction,
33:38
Like there's a whole million there's a million things inversion chairs and all that stuff
33:43
that you can fix that curvature of your spine. But I forgot about that
33:46
test. That's hilarious because that doesn't even sound legal, Like no today,
33:53
Like there's no way that's a test Nowadays, you're gonna have to not only
33:57
send a permission slip home to be signed, but the teacher, I'm sorry,
34:00
your parent may also have to be present and bring an attorney. Yeah.
34:05
I two questions in my head, like what day of nursing school is
34:10
that They're like, all right, and now we teach about scolios. Everybody
34:15
index fingers up, let's get you got to get your vertebrate tracers warmed up.
34:22
Did you feel anything weird? Kick that kid out, he's a weird
34:27
one, just mart. Was there a gap in the bumps like that was?
34:35
It's like that was the that was the test? Like that was you
34:38
need to go see something, You need to see a specialist. What did
34:40
you do that? And the weird thing is, Roj you mentioned this and
34:46
going to a chiropractor. I've gone to chiropractors for years, worked in an
34:50
office, you know, before I started in radio, and they've all been
34:52
pretty consistent in saying, pretty much, everybody's got some degree of curvature or
34:58
the spine. It's just a matter of what degree. That doesn't necessarily mean
35:00
everybody has scoliosis, but you kind of do. It's just a matter of
35:06
how severe is it and does it actually need you know, aggressive treatment?
35:10
How bad of was there? Like my now that I'm thinking about it,
35:15
because that's the comic, I had forgotten about that test, so thank you.
35:17
Now I'm I'm also thinking about like the bomb drills, all that stuff,
35:22
but bomb drills, tornado drills. I mean, now there's school shooting
35:27
drills on top of it. It's almost like there's so many drills, how
35:29
do they have any time to be indoctrinated by one of My thing is like
35:35
what, like what was there an outbreak at some point of the scoliosis?
35:42
Like was there a lot of just scoliosis people walking around? They're like we
35:45
gotta we gotta test or they're gonna be everywhere like this fear Like like,
35:51
well, yeah, I'm just trying to think, like what's the fear of
35:53
that? Like you know your kid could be next? Like I tea.
35:59
I remember, and I had a doctor I was in college tell me I
36:01
had scoliosis and I was highly offended. I'm like I was checked for that
36:05
every year. And that's the problem with the scoliosis. They never really told
36:09
you in depth what it was, so we didn't really know. We're just
36:14
trusting this adult to put their hands on our bare body and like, okay,
36:16
well to test. Yeah. I think they just had to have something
36:20
for that school nurse to do, like at some point like hey man,
36:23
nobody knows what you really do here because it's like it was always the solution.
36:28
I remember there's like a couple of times I went in I was like
36:30
I'm not feeling take a nap. I'm like, all right that I don't
36:35
know if you have. Is there anything in the first aid kit except for
36:37
like a blow up pillow, like I don't know what, like like a
36:42
blankie and a pillow like that in your first aid kid, because that's all
36:45
she ever told us to do is take a nap. In addition to that
36:47
first Aid kid having the blankie and the pillow, there was also a card
36:52
with very specific instructions on how to administer an immediate scoliosis test because maybe the
36:59
source of you're not feeling well was your curvature of the spine. But you're
37:04
right. When when Trey It boasted this, it got my wheels turning.
37:07
It's just like yeah, like I had forgotten about that too. It was
37:09
it was something that we just did all the time. You did it every
37:14
year. I think it was at the beginning of the school year. It
37:16
was like, okay, you get your class schedule and then and you find
37:20
your classes, you meet your teachers, and then you go to the nurse
37:22
you get your scoliosis test. Um. But it also go ahead Russian.
37:28
Did anybody question when it stopped? Like like they don't do that anymore?
37:32
So like yeah, I don't think they do it anymore. Yeah, how
37:36
did that? Like? How did that? That's what I was like,
37:37
how did that? What meeting is that? I was like, Oh,
37:39
what about scoliosis? I've been I've been running my finger up and down backs
37:44
for thirty five years, haven't found one. Like, I think we're good.
37:49
We can stop with this test now. It's just getting Now I'm just
37:52
a creepy dude in a in a cubby that just goes, thank you for
37:54
coming back, thank you for going like that's that's all you're doing at that
37:59
point. That also reminds me I come across this someone had posted the other
38:04
day. Uh if if you if you did any of these things growing up,
38:09
then you're old and and and it's not some of these things. It's
38:15
any one of these things, right, And I'm curious. I'm curious to
38:20
see if you check off as many as I did using a pencil to rewind
38:25
a cassette tape. Oh yeah, yeah, Trey, I'm sure you've done
38:29
that. Oh yeah. Hearing someone yell, get off the internet. I
38:32
need to use the phone. Yeah. Now this is this is a much
38:38
older one. Cars that needed two different keys, one to unlock the door
38:43
and a different key that actually started the engine. Yeah, and the one
38:46
that unlocked the door also unlocked the glove box. Yes, typically the door
38:52
key was round and the ignition key. Yeah. When everyone's favorite treat was
38:59
push up ops, but that's basically yeah, I was thinking about that day.
39:01
A push up pop is basically just ice cream that you're eating out of
39:05
a toilet paper roll. Yes, yeah, I was actually because uh,
39:09
somebody I posted the thing about it's called on my Uh it's another joke that's
39:15
gone viral on on my Instagram or the graham Is the kids call it,
39:20
uh is I call it a chicken curry incident. It happened to me one
39:23
husand the third grade. My mom, I would take my lunch or I
39:28
would get lunch at school, but depending on what the lunch was that day,
39:30
because we growing up didn't eat beef in the household. Uh, And
39:35
so if there was like burgers that day, my mom would send me with
39:37
lunch. And it was usually peanut butter and jelly, maybe a banana,
39:40
some grapes or you know, apple slices or whatever in this day, normal
39:45
stuff that that kids and mysquit would eat until this day and then Uh,
39:50
I grabbed. I had had a dukes. I had to remember the metal
39:52
lunch boxes that were themed, So I had had dukes of Hazard and uh,
39:59
did you have with the General Lee on the front and then the Duke
40:02
brothers and Daisy and then Boss Hog on the inside and the thermis that came
40:06
with it? Yeah, yeah, I have to have themis yeah. So
40:08
I grab it, didn't even checked it, didn't even ask my mom what's
40:13
in it, just automatic, I know there's gonna be a sandwich. I
40:15
get to lunch and I opened it up and there's white long grain Boss munthey
40:21
rice and I was like, oh my god, what's in the thermish?
40:25
And I cracked the thermis halfway open, and everybody in that cafeteria got angry
40:30
because my mom thought that day was the perfect day for chicken curry and rice.
40:35
Uh. But somebody was like, you know, I don't get to
40:39
I didn't get to trade lunches. I'm like neither did. I Like,
40:44
like, you know, everybody else had snack cakes and I was like yes,
40:46
like twinkies pop like that came up on my feet. Somebody's like,
40:50
remember trading for twinkies. I was like, no, because my mother was
40:53
a nurse, so that she was trying to be as healthy as possible.
40:58
So if it was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it was definitely coming
41:01
with like two fruits and like some sort of vets. It would be broccoli,
41:06
and then there would be either an orange or banana or grapes and some
41:08
some form of There was nothing like there was nobody that I'm trading a little
41:14
Debbie Star crunch that popped up on the feed too. Yeah. Yeah,
41:17
because if if you and Trey were in the same elementary school, there's no
41:22
way he was going to give up his snack back for your chicken curry.
41:25
Yeah, exactly right. So, and so somebody was like, but did
41:29
you get the quarter for milk? And I'm like, how was it?
41:32
How was it? In third grade the milk was a quarter, And then
41:36
in ninth grade it was too, like where was the inflation? The price
41:39
of milk never went up? It turns out it was even back then.
41:43
It was all about greed all along from the milk industry. Yeah, but
41:46
then somebody's like, well, somebody was like, well I would drink from
41:50
the water fountain, uh, and then use that quarter to get the push
41:53
up pop and I was like, oh my god, it's the orange the
41:58
little push up pop. Yeah, we had my elementary school, I will
42:01
say this for Mesquite name brand still had the actual push up not the not
42:07
the clear toilet paper roll but the plain white one. But this one had
42:09
to light the polka dots on it and said push up pop on the side.
42:13
And did you get the ever get the one that you push and it's
42:15
kind of slides over and it's just for the whole day. No, I
42:19
guess I didn't get the name brand one. Instead, I got like whatever,
42:22
the Kirkland brand toilet paper roll version. Yeah, we had. We
42:25
had the actual and then sometimes you'd push up on it and it just it
42:29
would just go wonky and there was no there's no refunds. Back then you
42:32
figured out how to you just unravel the toilet paper roll. It is kind
42:36
of eight what was there. But yeah, that's the push up pop,
42:39
Twinkies and star crunches, the other things that if you've done any one of
42:44
these, let alone multiples, you're old printing out your directions for a map
42:47
quest. Yeah, I think we're all old enough to know even before that,
42:52
where like my grandmother actually had the old spiral map thing that she kept
42:57
in the back of the car. It was called a map Scoll mapsco exactly.
43:00
She had that. I remember doing that, having a notebook where he
43:04
kept track of all your friends phone numbers. If you watched a movie,
43:07
you had to switch to channel three. That was back before TVs had different
43:10
input options. If you ever accidentally burned yourself with a cigarette with a car
43:15
cigarette lighter, oh yeah, finding out which movies were at the local theater
43:22
by checking the newspaper, or if you called movie phone. Uh, that
43:25
guy I feel so bad for because he was he was he was he was
43:30
the man like that guy just I mean for however long that was. He
43:35
had his window, just his job security and the amount of was like hi
43:38
and welcome to movie phone. That Yeah, wasn't that Shadow Stevens. No,
43:45
that was not. You would think so he was too busy with the
43:47
Hollywood Squares. But I'm pretty sure they had a pretty intense rivalry though.
43:53
Yeah. Fine, I just like his career in Double Craps, his lost
43:57
movie phone in Hollywood Square, Jim J. Bullock had a better career than
44:04
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caught up much on what you've been up to. I saw you post the
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other day. Did you get Are you on another show that's on Amazon?
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Now? What's the deal? Oh? No? So I did a travel
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show for Amazon that was really really cool. It was probably the most fun,
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uh, I've had in a very long time. But it was on
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Amazon and you had to buy the episodes to watch them. I'm on episodes
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two and six. It's called Destination Unknown with a J. Yeah, with
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a J, like like destination but jay because all comics. Uh, And
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we're in India and it's my buddy Virdas, who is a great comic.
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He's blown up. He's all over the world now. And so is that
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the guy that I saw? I know, i've seen him in places.
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How do you spell his name? Vr uh? Last name is Das,
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whole name is six letters, got it. Yeah, he's seen him.
49:51
He was in a handful of things. It was on the H. He
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was on the H. It was only one season, but it was a
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show called Whiskey Tango. That's that's the one where I first record NS.
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I watched that yeah with with Scott fall. It was a great show.
50:02
I just think that the budget was like there, it was filmed in Prague.
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The I think the whole thing high tum. It was filmed in Prague,
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and so like the first episode, I know their budget was thirteen million
50:15
dollars for the first episode. And so that's a very fast way for network
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to go and thank you, thank you. We'll be in touch, like
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like, but we have the whole we have the whole season in the camp.
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I'm like, well, we'll still be in touch. But I did
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the show with him, and it's really cool. But now it's on Amazon
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Prime or sorry on Amazon Video, so you can just go look it up.
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You don't have to pay for the per episode. You can just go
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and watch. So I'm for free even though you gotta pay like a hundred
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something. About a year now, I think it's gone up. But yeah,
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okay, so that's yeah. I was watching the trailer and I was
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like, I haven't watched this. I feel like a jerk. Yeah.
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So we did two cities. It was two opposing climates. So the first
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city was a place called Jodpoor in Rajasthan, India. So it's the desert.
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So we did like camel racing and uh, that was that was the
51:05
most horrific thing I've ever done, because it was were saying something because because
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while you were not technically paid for for most of it, you've done radio,
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I know, Uh, very true. Uh, and uh there was
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we did camel racing when we got to the desert. Uh, at eleven
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am, it was one hundred and see if I get this right, it
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was one hundred and seventeen. It was one hundred and twelve in the shade
51:31
when we started filming, it went up to one hundred and twenty. And
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then one of the people that was I think it was doctor. Somebody was
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like, well, flesh starts cooking at one hundred and twenty seven degrees,
51:44
just to let you guys know. And like every now and again, somebody
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will come up like, hey man, you do a joke about football,
52:02
and I'm like, should have told you it was him, and then they
52:06
just walk away. So yeah, so that'll get for you. It's very
52:08
well deserved. I mean, thanks, after twenty one years, I'm an
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overnight success. And you know what's more fitting about all that? Almost the
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entirety of what you and Trey discussed in that time, and the secret to
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going viral on Instagram is lost forever because the power flashed here and I heard
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none of it therefore recorded there. Oh my goodness, look at that.
52:31
But now now we're gonna have to do something with scoliosis because I forgot about
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that. Thank you so much for the next when it goes viral, I'll
52:39
credit Trey for that, because who would have remembered that the scoliosis test.
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Oh my god, that's so wild. I still think highly illegal. I
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don't think that was I think that was there was some deal made by some
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Oh well, but you just mentioned just now you just mentioned things that it
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might have been highly illegal that we you know, did growing up as kids
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or were done to us that were the norm at the time. Twenty first
53:05
century playgrounds on especially like at elementary schools. You know, they have like
53:10
soft pellets or something that's around that basically at a hamster would live on,
53:15
but now they have children on it. Everything's you know, candy coated plastic
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and soft. There's no sharp edges. Everything's round it. There's no metal,
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there's no wood. When we grew up, I mean, it was
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rocks. So when you flew out of the swing and you landed on your
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knees, you had rocks in your knees for weeks. Yeah, that was
53:37
their solution to come. I mean, the only way you knew if you
53:39
truly got everything out of recess that day is if you came back dirtied and
53:44
bloodied. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you guys know this,
53:49
and maybe it's still in LA thing, but it is kind of moving
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across the country. Is you can't be on so the few playgrounds that still
53:57
have swing sets. I don't know if you know as much blow your minds.
54:00
You have to have to be adult supervised. Now, so there's yeah,
54:04
so in la uh they'll have the swing set and then there's like a
54:07
little you know, they're like the little bathroom check in at Bucky's. Yeah,
54:12
like the checklists like hey, who cleaned it? And the guy signs
54:15
like you if like if you? And that's why I'm so glad I have
54:16
no children. I just because I just get a kick out of scene.
54:20
It's like if you it doesn't even have to be your kid. It just
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has to be kids swinging like a like an adult will have to go over
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and be like I'm standing here like I'm supervising this to make sure that they
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don't get hurt. See that's that to me, is is is a complete
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one eighty because you're saying, now you have to have adult supervision a Swedie,
54:40
to have a kid on a swing, an adult has to be watching
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you today. Hi kind of And I kind of understand that one though.
54:46
Yeah they're dude, because we were assassins as kids who look at it this
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way. So now it's it's standing up. It's a standard operating procedure.
54:54
You have to have adult supervision to have a kid on a swing. But
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when we grew up if we were on a swing set and there was an
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adult watching you. It wasn't a teacher, like that was the weirdo and
55:06
the bushes and you're and you're calling for the teacher's assistance because there's a weirdo
55:09
watching you swing. But let me ask you this, how many times did
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you yell jump to your friends when they were swinging it, like when they
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got to the highest part. How many times? That's well, it was,
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it was. It was almost fifty fifty. It was either jump or
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see if you can go all the way around. Oh, that was a
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good dud. Do the loop? Do the loop? And then they fall
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out, hit their head on the crossbar and all to the ground. They
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break every bone in their body and they still got up and you know,
55:37
and had a nap afterwards. Yeah, yeah they did. But that guy
55:39
could have also like like prior to that, this is how my brain works,
55:43
like prior to that, Like he's he's swinging, he's having the time
55:45
of his life, but it's like still good will hunting, like in his
55:47
head like he's solving, like he's figured out how to cure cancer. And
55:52
then we're like jump and he's like sweet and then he just sees the crossbar
55:55
and dings his head and then all the numbers get jumbled up, and now
55:58
he doesn't know how to cure anymore. But instead he's dyslexic. He's just
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he's just a dude that you said now just stands outside of an academy sports
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and outdoors in his letter, Jack, like, we could have made it
56:10
like that's that guy instead of being the world renowned doctor that he was going
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to be. Uh yeah, so I mean I understand that. And also
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then they can't you can't grade kids tests in red ink anymore. Yeah,
56:23
that's too aggressive. There was that, And then I actually saw I saw
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a photo and I don't even know if this was real. So this is
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a generational thing. So we're looking at the old man thing. It's like,
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oh, kids today, they you know, they play on soft playgrounds,
56:38
whereas you know, we had metal slides and chains and things on our
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playground equipment. Um an occasional broken glass. But then I looked someone had
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posted a photo of a I don't want to say it was like a turn
56:52
of the century or Great Depression Arab jungle gym that kids were playing on,
56:58
and oh my god, it looked like something that was almost like something out
57:01
of the medieval torture playground. And even I'm looking at those kids shouldn't be
57:07
playing on that, And that was supposedly like part of the Greatest Generation.
57:13
That's the stuff they played on. And then when they turned eighteen they went
57:15
and storm Normandy. That's but that's why, that's why, that's why they
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could do those things, right, is because that and I just wrote this
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the other day. Yeah, because they weren't playing, they were training.
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They were training, right, and like that's that's the reason they saw they
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signed up for war, Like there wasn't a draft. They're just like we're
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coming, right. They had to they had to take out their their version
57:40
of the anger that they had going down the hot metal slide whatever their version
57:45
was, like, we have to kill, like that's the only way to
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feed that anger is. It was like they had to kill like that and
57:52
no power steering. Now, that's how they built their upper body strength to
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go hand to hand, you know, in the trenches. Yeah. Yeah,
58:00
and that's why they like they drink like those guys drank whiskey and ate
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steak, because like you can't you can't turn two and a half ton Buick
58:07
with sober arms, you know what I mean, Like you have to you
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just have to be like blackout drunk with a steak dangling out of your mouth
58:15
to make a U turn into thirty five buick. And and I think that
58:20
was part of the reason why, like after after nine to eleven, you
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start to see all these terrorists training videos come out, and really all their
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training on was stuff that we did in like you know, fourth grade.
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Yeah, these are supposedly grown adult you know, a terrorist assassins training on
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the monkey bars. I'm like, man, I was doing that when I
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was six. I was like, like the monkey bars. Every time I
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see that video, I'm like, what are you guys training? Four?
58:45
Like, like do you think there's gonna be like every like like America is
58:50
just all obstacle court, Like it's all American Ninia Warrior, Like there's just
58:53
some abilities you can walk into, Like just why, I like, you
58:57
don't have to like do pull ups to get into that makes that that to
59:00
me is hilarious, Like it was basically the King of the Hill, Like
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what was that thing? Yeah, that was King of the Hill, Yeah
59:06
exactly, Yeah, that was the thing that some playgrounds had that like the
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big dome and you would like climb to the top or whatever dome of death.
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Yeah yeah, and so yeah, the Merry Go Round was not I
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mean, that's not conducive to child safety. I'm still I still get motion
59:21
sickness, and I blamed it round for it. I have to I have
59:25
to take dram I mean anytime I get on a boat, oh you just
59:30
see you just see the poor Like I was that kid where they like get
59:31
him on because I was just I was the one that flies off. So
59:36
I was I was the entertainment for everybody's like, if we spend this fast
59:38
enough, Rod is gonna go, Like he's gonna go. We don't know
59:43
which direction. You ever seen a brown man fly, Bobby, He's gonna
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