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Things You Shouldn't Pick Up | Episode #104 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the tree
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House. I'm Dan O'Malley, along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Coming
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up on today's Pick Show, we have a special announcement about the Treehouse Pool
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party that is coming up at the end of the month. We're also going
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to be debuting a new game. I use the term game very loosely here.
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We'll be debuting Versus. It is the terrifying new game from the Treehouse.
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It was born in the previous episode and it comes into its own in
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this one. That'll be very interesting debuting Verses today in the Treehouse. But
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first I need to tell you about something that happened recently. It actually happened
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a few days ago. I need to tell you about the explosion that happened
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in our home. But do you yes? I shared just about everything with
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you guys, and I'm sure as hell not about to start stopping telling you
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guys major life events that happened to me. You guys, by the way,
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are welcome to share those same life events like Trey did in the previous
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episode where he told us about his most successful recent romantic relationship with the woman
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he had to remove from his bar walker three blocks to a different bar are
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uh And it was a thing of beauty and we appreciated that. And I
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want to make sure I mentioned that again, Trey. I appreciate you sharing
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with us. Have you started looking up real estate and by Sean, because
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you know there's more than just her. I'm just saying, if you want
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to be crazy adjacent, No, it's like, you know, we had
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a full we had a full romance in three blocks. I mean, love
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hate, you know, just crazy tears laughing. You're the greatest. You're
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an ass. Just you can't talk. Mean it just it completed me.
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It it satiated my need for a relationship for the rest of this year.
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You're like the Olympics. You're good for a few more years. Team wins
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again. I think that might be the first time. It's the first time
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they're taking home the gold. Yeah, Trey took home the flag bearer.
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Well, actually didn't take her home. He just took her from one bar
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to the next. Uh. No, So I need to tell you guys
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about the explosion that happened in our home recently. Here's what happened. Okay,
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I was actually recording commercials with Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing last week, right,
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and as i'm I record in the same fashion that we record here.
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It's virtual. You know. She's in you know, Garland and I'm here
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in the Islands. And so we're in the middle of recording one of one
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of the commercials for Brooks Plumbing, and off to my right, I hear
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a pop and not like bubble wrap pop, but not quite a you know,
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C four pipe bomb explosion, but a good healthy pop to wear back
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into the left. And I try to ignore it because I'm a professional.
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It's like, okay, I'm gonna power through, ignore it and just get
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the spot recorded with Jaqueline. And then about ten seconds later, one of
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the most horrific smells that has ever entered my nostrils assaulted me. And at
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that point I look over towards the kitchen where Tera is doing something, and
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she's looking back at me like white eyed, not quite in hysterics, but
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something bad has clearly happened. So at that point I wrap up the commercial
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with Jacqueline, and then i'd tell Jacqueline, give me five minutes and find
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out what's going on. I go over and there was a small egg explosion
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in the kitchen, a small, severely rotten egg explosion. And when I
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say severely rotten, I don't even think this qualifies as rotten. This is
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something worse. This is something that should only really pop up on a questionable
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sci fi movie on the sci Fi Channel at like three a before the vaginal
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mesh infomercials, you know. So the backstory. The backstory here is since
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we no longer have chickens because we're on Saint John not Saint Thomas, Tara's
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been feeding this little family of chickens. It's a mama hen and five chicks.
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The other day, in this yard outside of our building, I found
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an egg. And it's a yard we walked through every day. So hey,
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look, I'm assuming this is a fresh egg. I bring it inside,
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and a couple of days later is when Tara decides, all right,
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we're gonna cook this egg. I mean, you think about it, free
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range organic. I'm assuming you can't get any more free range chicken egg than
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dropped in the middle of a field next to your apartment building from a wild
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chicken. Okay, at this point, I would like to tell you,
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guys, if you ever come across a and the egg in a field.
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Leave it, don't touch it, don't pick it up, don't bring it
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inside. Definitely, do not have any intention of cooking said egg. Yeah,
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I don't think, as much as my curiosity sometimes gets the best of
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me, I would never think to pick up field egg. Yeah, especially
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the one that's been in the sunshine. And that's exactly right. Well,
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I had to learn that lesson the hard way. YouTube jerks. The sun
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cooked it before you did, and then we waited about three days to crack
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it open. So wait here here it gets better because yeah, well not
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for Terah, because she was the one that decided to try to cook it.
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She goes to crack the egg to then put it in the pan.
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So when it does the you know the click when she smashes it on the
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counter, she tries to break the egg on the counter, and on like
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the second or third tap, it explodes like it doesn't just like do like
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a tiny crack and splinter like a typical egg. No, it explodes.
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It's got a bunch of sulfur gas. A bunch of sulfur gas comes pouring
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out along with a mysterious green yogurt light consistency, liquidy, clumpy thing that
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is now oozing out of the egg at this point, I don't know that.
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When I'm recording the commercial with Jacqueline, I just smell the I heard
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the pop, and then I smelled the aftermath. And then when I saw
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Terra's face when I looked over, it was sheer horror. And we were
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picking up food yesterday and we were talking about it again because she's like,
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oh, don't forget. You need to tell the guys about the egg explosion.
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She looked up photos of what happened. She didn't take photo because she
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couldn't stand it, but she took She looked up photos on Google images of
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what it looks like. Right, I see both your hands up, hang
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on a second. Yes, And she was going to show it to me
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because she loves me and wants me to continue to be able to eat eggs.
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She said, you know what, I think it's better that you don't
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see this. Yes, is it an egg? That egg actually has had
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like a little chicken it and then it composed And yeah, uh maybe I
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don't. I don't know because you've ever raised chickens, you've you've got the
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egg that yeah, you all that I've seen. I've seen I've seen the
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egg where it has the you know, the partially formed you know, chickenside.
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But apparently what what popped out of this was just all green yogurt like
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ooze. So whatever was in there head turned. Yeah. It actually makes
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me think the zombie if the zombie apocalypse starts, it will have started it
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with that chicken egg. Yes, it was. Here's and this is just
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how my brain works. Like, you've been walking through this field. Do
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this is what Dan does? Uh? And for days and days and days
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feeding the hen and the baby never saw an egg. And then on like
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the fourth or fifth day're like, hey, let's turn that into an omelet.
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Uh, and the sun if it could talk, went Dan, I
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did that like four days ago. Uh, don't crack this egg and you
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got a decomposed fetus. Is what you smashed on your counter. I think
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what I think, what we opened up in the kitchen is something that will
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eventually have it's on Netflix documentary and will then be featured on our friends show
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Sinisterhood podcast. Yeah, so how was it? Did you smell? Huh?
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Smell no, God, No, we put that thing in the trash
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and took the trash out and then left the house. Did did you throw
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the pan out? No, we just cleaned them. I don't did it
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did the egg make it into the pan? Tara said it made it on
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us to debut our new game, Versus. This was born out of the
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previous episode where I asked you guys about would you rather m in a death
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match? You have to choose your opponent, and I asked you would you
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want that opponent to be a meth field attack squirrel or Gary Busey, And
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I think you both went Gary Busey. No, I think we both know
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yeah, because the myth has a chance of eating the squirrel's teeth. That's
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never gonna Eaty's teeth, That's right, Okay, So you both went with
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the met field attack squirrel. So I started ruminating about that since then,
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and I decided, you know, that sounds like a fun game we can
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play on the show. So would you like to play version of the official
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new version of Versus with me? Now? Yeah? Absolutely famous? Last
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word nothing, Pucy. We shall see, gentlemen, it's time to play
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versus. A hot topic on the show recently has been eighties playground equipment that
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we all grew up on playing and building up scar tissue and character and grit
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and various viruses and things, built up a solid immunity over the years.
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Right, So here's my question for you, through all the playground stuff we've
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been talking about recently in the treehouse, in a death match, I need
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you to choose your opponent. Would you rather take on a single ISIS fighter
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or an entire class of fourth graders from the eighties. Now, if you're
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I'm going to give you a moment to think about this. If you're wondering,
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why would I choose these seemingly very different entities, Here's why. Remember
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back in the early mid two thousands or so, when like Taliban and ISIS
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and they would release their terrorist training videos and all it really was was guys
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in black masks on the monkey bars one after another. Yes, didn't really
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intimidate any of us, did it, because we all that stuff we all
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did in like elementary school, and honestly looked cooler doing it. And they
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had sand to fall on in their video we had actual limestone gravel with glass
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and things. So that is why I am putting these two together in our
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first edition of Verses. So I'm going to ask you again the question.
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In a death match, you must choose your opponent. Would you rather take
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on a single ISIS fighter or an entire class of fourth grade from the eighties
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not current fourth graders? Because playgrounds are made out of hugs. That's not
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That's it, Trey. I will start with you can the fourth graders ask
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questions? Mmm? Ironically, that's a great question, Trey. I think
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it's important that in a death match that the individuals involved get to use all
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the tools at their disposal. So I'm going to say yes. I said,
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I'm gonna go with the ISIS fighter because you're afraid if I die,
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at least be peaceful. Be more peaceful. Twenty five fourth graders asking a
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bunch of questions? Yeah, no, interesting? Do they ask the questions
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simultaneously? And do they have a number of questions that they can ask before
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they have to stop? It's a death match, rag, anything's possible,
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so they can all at the same time just start shouting out questions. Sure,
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I'm gonna take the fourth graders because the Isis guy will kill himself the
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one time the suicide vest is in your Yeah, is in Miss Wisdom's homeroom.
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Like that, that's the only building part he took out was just the
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teacher's lounge. Yeah, if you can have twenty five eight year olds simultaneously
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asking questions with no end and no response, like you don't even have to
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respond to their questions. They just keep asking questions, some of them over
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and over again, the same ones. Yeah, that guy is gonna that
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guy's gonna explode himself. I'm fascinated by by the fact that you both so
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Raj you chose the fourth graders, you chose the fourth graders, and Trey
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you went with the Isis fighter because you just have to assume, like he's
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just gonna he's just gonna, like the bomb has to go off and kill
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everybody. Look in my scenario, he just wants out. He didn't sign
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up for this kind of war. Well, congratulations, gentlemen, thank you
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for playing our very first official edition of Versus inside the Treehouse. Thank you
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very much. Yeah, and now we get to play the other new game.
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Will YouTube flag this portion of the show for copyright infringement. You're listening
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to the Treehouse visit goes online that treehouse on air. Let's get Jacqueline from
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Brooks Plumbing into the Treehouse now for Indy and all of your plumbing once and
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cook Dfwroofing Restoration about this. I wanted to throw this at you as well.
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What's more important the best contractor or the best deal. If Daniel thinks
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at all like me, I'm gonna guess what his answer is, which would
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be identical to mine. And there's an old saying that you can get a
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contractor that's fast, cheap and good or a high quality, and you can
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typically get two out of three, but you can't get all three at the
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same time. So you may be able to get it fast and cheap,
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but it won't be good. And you might be able to get it fast
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and good, but it won't be cheap, et cetera, et cetera.
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And I think that's really true. What's cool, in my opinion is that
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if you're working with a good contractor. If you're clear enough about what your
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needs are, they can make themselves what you need. Two one four three
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six eight thirty eight thirty eight. And again the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot
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com. You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com.
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This segment of the Treehouse is brought to you by Brooks Plumbing. For
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any and all of your plumbing wants and needs, call Jaqueline at Brooks Plumbing
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that phone number two one four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight. That's
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two one four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight. The website Brooks Plumbing
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Texas dot com. That's Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. All right, So,
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earlier in the show, I mentioned that we have a special announcement about
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the pool party coming up on Saturday, July twenty seventh at the Fraternal Order
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of Eagles on our Turo Drive in Dallas. That is Saturday the twenty seventh,
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from one to four pm, a live taping of the show. You
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can be present for that. In addition to the show and being able to
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jump in the pool. If you want three bars to order drinks, there's
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a grill to order, food, sand, volleyball pit, hang out in
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the shade, fans, all the fun stuff. We're going to have that
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afternoon with a special presentation of the Treehouse. Yes right, oh, I
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was just gonna say, I had someone message me And if you don't know
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where the Foe is, it is over in East Dallas White Rock Arboretum area.
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Yes, it is across the road from the Arboretum. You basically,
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if you're coming from thirty you would go was it Garland Road on the right
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time, the left side, Yeah, yeah, and Arboretum will be on
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your left. You turn right on you turn right and take it all the
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way down Google Maps. That's right there. Yeah, foie. So anyway,
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some additional things that we will have at the Treehouse pool party on Saturday,
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July twenty seven, from one to four pm. The Foe in Dallas
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is We're going to have some merch available, and this is special edition merch.
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This isn't just you know, Treehouse logo only type stuff. This is
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extremely special, limited edition, very kick ass merch, only available through the
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Treehouse. And the merch will include things like shirts. I believe cooozies have
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been ordered. We'll have some stickers and for the first time ever, some
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Treehouse hats, and again this is all going to be Oh see, this
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is why if you're not a subscriber on our Patreon channel patreon dot com slash
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Treehouse on air, you could see that Trey has the prototype of the Treehouse
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Pool party hat, and you would see it if you were a Patreon subscriber.
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Sharp look, yeah, lean in again, in a little bit more,
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Trey, it is a Yeah, that looks good. You did an
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outstanding job these are It's an excellent cap. It is a trucker cap summer
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colors. And the company that ordered these from is based in Florida and they
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wouldn't send the single prototype hat to me in the Virgin Island. So I
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had descended to Trey in Dallas to make sure that it was up up to
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par for us to sell at the Foe Pool party, and it got sent.
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Tray picked it up and yeah, it looks absolutely outstanding. So I'm
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excited. So if you're listening, you can't see it, but if you
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come to the event on Saturday, July twenty seventh, you'll be able to
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see and get your own Treehouse Pool Party hat, which is very awesome.
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The design, the logo, the artwork was actually designed by my wife based
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on a true story, based on a punchline. It really is that the
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hat is a combination of a few different things based on actual life experiences and
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a punchline that will not die and we don't want it to because it's a
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good one. So there you have it. There's your Treehouse merchantse for today
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inside the Treehouse So again, that's at the tree Housepital party at the Foe
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in Dallas, Saturday, July twenty seventh, the day after mister Trenholm's fiftieth
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birthday. Yeah, so I was going to wait to give you a present
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tray, but I figure, you know what, the hat will be your
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birthday present from from me in Terara. I appreciate it. I'm kidding.
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We'll figure something else out. But it really does look good. I'm actually
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very pleased with how that came out, you know, as I told you,
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like, I'm picky with caps. I don't wear them often because hey,
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I've got big seven and seven eighth melon head and Jesus. Yeah,
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so but these fit great. The Saint Tulsa logo is fantastic. You're given
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you're giving out all the secrets. Oh, I figured they could see it
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on the when I well, they can, but not the people listening.
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Okay, that's all right, we'll ignore that it actually works. It makes
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the tease even better. And honestly, like you, Trey, I'm I
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am extremely anal about a number of things, and my hats is near the
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top of the list. I am beyond picky when it comes to picking out
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a hat. So I'm very excited to uh get my own because I'll be
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wearing that as well, along with the shirts, the coozies, and the
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stickers, all available at the tree House Pool Party Saturday, July twenty seventh,
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one four pm at the Foe in Dallas. All Right, I feel
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good. Let's make this segment really worthwhile by doing something really stupid and right
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now, I don't know if I can think of anything more stupid than a
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man accused of breaking into a pet store and he was found by police sleeping
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with hamsters in his pants. Insert Richard Gear joke here, Yeah, that
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would be the obvious thing. An Ohio man is accused of breaking into several
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stores, which those of us in the Treehouse No means seven, including a
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pet store where he let various animals loose, but police said they found the
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man asleep in the store with the hamsters in his pants. Obviously not something
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that the police officers come across every day, but it certainly does make for
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an interesting sound bite when the news goes and speaks to, you know,
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the officers on the scene about what they found. You say it all the
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time, and we never know what to expect in our job. And one
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day you know you're you're running after a suspect. The next day you're running
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after affair or a bunny. Sometimes they're one of the same. I would
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think though, that the suspect with hamster and his with hamsters in his pants
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would be easier to catch. Do we know did he put the hamsters in
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his pants or did the hamsters? Did he pass out and the hamsters climbed
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in? Oh? That is a massively important question. Let me see if
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I can get you an answer on this. Hang with me one second.
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Uh. In Columbus, Ohio, police arrested a suspect who they believe broke
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into several businesses in the city West side, including a pet store where several
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animals were released. Officers responded. Just after three am, they were notified
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of a burglary alarm going off. Officers discovered that a restaurant was broken into.
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Detectives obtained video evidence showing a man with long hair wearing leopard print pajamas.
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It is unclear whether anything was taken from the restaurant. About one hundred
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yards away, officers found that the pet Land store was also broken into,
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and several animals were seen running around in the parking lot. Police recovered two
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dogs, multiple birds, a hamster, and at least two bunnies. Police
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Sergeant Joe Albert said officers were still searching for a couple of rabbits and birds
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and a ferret. While searching the area, police discovered the famous footwear store
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had been broken into. He said. Hiss believed the suspect is connected to
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the break ins at the three businesses. They said. The suspect, who
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was identified as Matthew Pancake, was found sleeping near the Big Lots on Roberts
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Road at four forty seven am. They arrested him and discovered there were four
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hamsters in his pants, so since he was no longer at the pet store,
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he was sleeping in front of the big lots. I'm going to assume
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that he stuffed the hamsters in his pants and then slept with them. That's
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yeah. When you said leopard print pajamas, I was gonna go with,
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yeah, you put him in there. He had a rough night at the
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bar, didn't get any action, went home. What can I do now?
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Yeah? But I bet in his mind he was thinking when he was
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going to retell the story to his buddies the next day, it was going
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to be like, yeah, so it was four girls when in reality hampster
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wheel on his taint. Yeah. Usually when guys are trying to turn,
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you know, trying to turn the mississ on, they tried the hell copter
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thing, not the hempster reel well holding up a little sign that says who
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wants to ride? You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse
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on air dot com. You're in the Treehouse, Visit us online at Treehouse
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on Air dot com. I wanted to also mention this, this is another
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fun announcement that we get to make inside the Treehouse on the heels of the
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fun and exciting merch that will be available at the Treehouse School Party at the
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Foe in Dallas Saturday, July July twenty seventh, from one to four pm.
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We've got a new rule inside the Treehouse and that is five percent of
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all gross revenues that come into the Treehouse Podcast Network, we'll go into the
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Listener's Foundation. One of the most common questions we receive, whether it's email,
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social media, in person, it is typically is the foundation still going,
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Which honestly is a flattering and positive question because we haven't had to write
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a check in almost two years. There's been a couple instances where it was
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very close that a check was written, but some of the couple of those
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debts were not exactly in the line of duty, and we are limited to
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in the line duty deaths only when it comes to police officers and firefighters in
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DFW. But when people ask that question, the reason why they ask it
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right now is because we haven't, like I said, haven't had to write
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a check in almost two years. So that's a good thing. But we
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still raise money for the foundation. The foundation still has a good chunk of
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money in it to be used when needed. Unfortunately, it is. It's
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reality. It's going to be a win, not an iff. But we're
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ready to roll when we need to and to that in we want to make
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sure that we keep contributing to it. And so that's why five percent of
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all gross revenues that come into the Treehouse Podcast network will be donated into the
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Listeners Foundation. So there you have it. That's some good information for everyone
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to have. And if you want to advertise inside the show speaking of revenues
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coming into the show, you can do that. Just contact us Treehouse on
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Air at gmail dot com. We would love to work together, right Trey,
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Yeah, absolutely, because the more advertising dollars we can bring in,
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the more we can donate by into the foundation, and then maybe the more
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I can afford to fly back to Texas and do more in person events and
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not have to fly Spirit Airlines where they trap me in Fort Lauderdale. As
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it is, we take a week and get Let's finish today on something extra
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stupid, and I'd like to thank you Trey for finding this especially stupid story.
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A Provo Utah woman has become the fastest mermaid in the world at the
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mur Olympics. I did not know until you sent me the story trade that
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the mur Olympics were a thing that's I did not know that either until I
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ran across the story, but on a lot of of all the success of
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the hobby horse competitions. Oh yes, that's where the stickhorse people. Uh
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huh have you seen videos of that? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah
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for our old school listeners. Insert Dan Lewis joke here. A lot of
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young girls pretend to be a mermaid while swimming in a pool or in the
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ocean, But one provo Utah woman has made that dream come true and competed
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in the Olympics. Mia sim Is twenty two. She became the fastest mermaid
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in the world in May when she competed at the Swiss Olympics in Geneva,
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Switzerland. The Olympics have been around since twenty fifteen and the competition is held
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every two years. She's also been mermaiding. I need to reread that sentence
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because I need to make sure you get every nuance of this story. Okay,
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you ready. She's officially been mermaiding for ten years, which then begs
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the question, what have you been doing in your unofficial capacity? And who
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is the governing body that awards you the designation of official mermaid? Will that
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be the IOM or the the IMC. Maybe the International mer Olympics Committee.
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Yeah, the IMC, the International Olympics Committee, uh IMP for short.
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H. So she's been officially mermaiding for ten years, and she said the
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my Olympics have really boomed in the past five years. She says, this
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is elite athleticism you can get out of mermaids. Many mermaids will do pageants
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or events, but the my Olympics are solely designed to prove athleticism. You
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want to know what the five events are at the my Olympics, trade yes,
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please. Number one speed, the athletes race along the top of the
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water for fifty meters. Number two rescue, the mermaid has to do a
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twenty five meter submerged swim and rest you a dummy. Number three underwater posing.
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Each person dives down and poses for a photo and then has to swim
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away for the next person to take their spot. Our champion said she thinks
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this one is the hardest. Also figures the competitor has to perform three of
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ten mermaid figures. And finally, ecology, the athlete dives down and retrieves
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as much trash as possible in ninety seconds. So it's not only an athletic
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event. It also would check off your community service box. It's fascinating though,
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that the winner of the mer Olympics is from a a landlocked state that
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doesn't have an ocean. You know what, Tray, Sometimes the Disney films
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just right themselves. You can't be a mermaid. What's the girl's name?
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Mia? You can't be a mermaid? Miya. You live on a mountain.
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I'll show you. There's a song and dance number right there. Oh
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man, can't wait to see who they cast that role with. All Right,
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there you go. That's the Treehouse episode for today, number one oh
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four. Thanks for hanging out with us inside the Treehouse. For all things
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