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Creatures from the Moist Forest | Episode 74, Tuesday February 6, 2024 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. This is day two, Day two of five days
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in a row inside the Treehouse. This is the super stupid week inside the
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Treehouse. Welcome. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.
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My butterflies are still still there a little bit, but not as much as
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yesterday. But they're still there, still excited. So it's that combination of
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anxious and excited all at the same time. Trey, how are you feeling
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you good to go? Yeah, feeling good? Awesome? Raj, how
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about you? Solid? But just uh, I'm sorry a little distracted.
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Uh. You guys are following the Michigan trial, right the mom who's on
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trial by now for the school shooting thing. Uh No, I have not
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been following that. What's going on Her son was the Michigan school shooter.
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Who I might have to stop you there. This is a really sad thing
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I'm about to say, but it needs to be said. Which one is
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that? Uh, he's a fifteen year old that shot up to school?
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I believe it was. Again, I have to ask which one is that
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he's Uh, the kid's name is it's A Really, it's a it's a
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if this was a British TV show that you would That's what it was.
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Ethan Crumbly is his name? Oh okay, gotcha? Yeah. Yeah,
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so the Crumblies are on Sorry just just saying the Crumbley's are on trial,
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but the mom is on valve because she they were aware. I think Trey,
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you might know a little bit about this. I think something about his
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kid is the one where they gave him a nine millimeter but for like his
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birthday, but they were aware he had he had he was having mental issues.
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Yeah, he lived in crazy town. They lived in Pontiac, Michigan.
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Yeah, and for his birthday they decided to give him a They decided
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to give him a firearm four days before he shot up the school. How
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old is he or how old was he at the time? I should say
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I believe fifteen. Oh yeah, she's going to jail. Yeah yeah what
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uh? I mean that's the that was the birthday present. Yeah. You
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know what I got to say. If that kids seventeen or eighteen, then
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mama might skate. But at fifty team. Yeah, and you said that
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he it's known that he has mental health issues. Yeah. The only skating
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she's going to be doing is in prison. Yeah, they brought got him
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out of his mental health clinic a couple of times leading up to this,
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and then four days before the actual shooting was his birthday, and happy birthday,
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crazy kid, here's a pistol with bullets? Okay, hang on?
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Was was the handgun a birthday present or a you just got out of the
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nuthouse gift, you know what? Or are the parents cheap and they it's
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a little from column A little from column B. Only we're so proud of
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you for getting out of the nuthouse. But it's also your birthday. Here's
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here's you a pew pew. It's like if you were born on the twenty
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sixth of December. It's like, here's a Christmas present and your birthday president.
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Yeah. So yeah, you know, the most moms pack lunches for
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their kids. Yeah, this one was packing eat So thank you for picking
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up what I was throwing down. Good job. We were firing on all
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cylinders, all firing. This is all. This is all a really poor
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taste. Yeah. I just thought, like I don't I'm I'm an Indian
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kid. My parents' immigrants from India. Like nobody got who gives a kid
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a firearm, Like, who does this move? Like? I don't.
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I mean lots of parents do for fifteen year olds. Like I got a
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Superman cake once and I was like, and they had like an actual like
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figure eating like a little action figure of Superman on it. And I was
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like, oh my god, greatest day ever. This came with an action
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figure. Well that's the difference, Raj, between regular Mesquite kids and immigrant
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Mesquite kids. You got a Superman action figure, whereas other Mesquite kids got
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double action things. Yeah. I guess I don't know. That's weird to
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me. I don't know the answer to this question, but I have a
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really strong gut feeling on this. Okaya, Raj, are you ready?
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Yeah? I think I know someone that probably experienced this firearm gift type exchange
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from their parents. Trey. I. I did not receive a firearm as
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a gift. My dad had no faith in me to be trust me enough
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to do that. But but what he where he was brilliant, And because
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and I didn't want one, he had a excuse me, Oh yeah,
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clear that throat just like a clear out a dead round. Sorry, I
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said, clear out your throat the way you clear out a jam. He
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had a soft off Mossburg twelve gage. Oh yeah you did. And I
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don't know if you know anything about Mosburg's. They kicked like a mule sawt
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off shotgun. It even kicks worse. And I, you know, just
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thought that was the coolest thing ever. And so he didn't give me any
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instruction or anything. So first time I shot it, you know, I'm
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not I don't know how I'm holding it away from my shoulder. Oh no,
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oh yeah. He took me down here. We had a creek there
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and through and so you know, just shooting into the bank of the creek.
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This is better and better. Not only am I surprised that you still
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have an arm, but your dad was so brilliant that he took you down
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to the creek so in case there was blood, he could throw you in
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the water immediately, so your mom would be none the wiser. Yeah,
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this is the whitest story. Oh yeah, no, he took me out
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there, gotta you know, good distance. It's like, all right,
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there you go, put one shell in it, so you know there was
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not gonna be any problems. Yeah, pulled the trigger. That thing kicked
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back. It knocked me ten feet back. Oh, I literally, and
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I was probably I don't know, I was probably about fifteen, and uh,
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I cried, Oh lord, I scared me and I cried. So
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it's interesting, Raj. So what happened to Trey was I initially was thinking
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that he would he would have had the right of passage that so many sons
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had with their fathers, and that was the gifting of a firearm. Instead,
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it was the other version of a right of passage between father and son,
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and that was the firearm joke. Yeah, where I'm not giving this
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to you, but I'm going to use you as my own live version of
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jackass. Take this soot off twelve gage and go shoot it out the creek
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and I'm going to stand behind you about twenty thirty yards and laugh my old
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ass off and a very good lesson. And guns do a lot of damage,
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so as fun as they look on TV. Yeah, Raj, you've
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ever heard the term, uh, spray and pray? Yes, it is
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that with the the isn't that mostly with machine guns? Like it just kind
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of yeah, yeah, typically that's what you'd use in terms of in reference
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to an automatic weapon. You're just holding down the trigger and you're just moving
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left to right, spraying and praying, letting, letting the thing do what's
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worth. You're not even aiming, hence the praying with a sowd Off twelve
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gage. You're spraying, but you don't have to pray because it's gonna hit
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it and it's and it's going to be ugly. So when you when you
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actually fired, when you actually fired the the the joke from your father.
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Did you actually have it up near your shoulder or did you go or did
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you go rambo style? And did you shoot it from the hip or rifleman
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style? Shoot it from the hip? No, No, no, I
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I I had it up like you know you should as far as up where
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it had I just pushed it back it would have been against my shoulder,
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but no, it was facing forward to get maximum thrust back into my shoulder
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where yeah, it felt like it broke it. And so at no point
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did he go, that's not how you do that. No, he wanted,
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he wanted, he knew what was going to happen. He wanted.
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He wanted to break me of any desires I had at the time to have
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a gun other than you know, I had a twenty two and a four
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ten that you know, to go shoot snakes with. But my dad was
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not a big gun for I mean, he had that gun for protection,
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he wouldn't hunt or anything like that. And so he just really wanted to
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break me of and he teach me a lesson about guns and it worked.
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He wanted he wanted to scare the curiosity out of you that he knew that
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you would have. Ye, it's similar to sort of like Trey when your
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dad taught you to swim. Was his method, like so many other dads,
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just are you in and see if you make it? Yeah? Oh
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okay? Is there another way? According to psychiatrists, yes, I had
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the opposite situation. So I was in a very white fraternity in college and
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they were all hunters. They were all from various parts of southeast and West
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Texas. And they went to the gun range one day and I went with
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and I had never fired a gun before, and I got to do the
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same thing I had. There was a twenty two, there was an chi
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and K I believe it was a forty four, and then there was a
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desert eagle. Oh yeah yeah. And so the first time I shot the
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H and K. That was my first time at the target at the target
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thing that's in the back at the end of the range, not the closes
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range. It was an outdoor range, so there was like the targets and
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then like the big hill of sand. So if you miss, and I
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fired it three times, and not to brag, I didn't know this was
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a thing. But you could cover it with a quarter. My three shots
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and really at what distance I don't remember it was so probably I have no
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idea. It's those outdoor ranges. I don't know how far they go,
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but you could cover it with a quarter. And my buddy Richie, my
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turning brother, goes give me the gun, and he goes, you don't
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need to own a firearm. And I said why He goes, the joy
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on your face right now, tells me you don't need this because Okay,
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So I want to make sure that I want to make sure that I understand
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all of this properly in context. Okay, yeah, So I'm trying to
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think of your very first form, the very first time you fired a handgun.
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It's not just a pea shooter. It's a forty four. It's a
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forty h and K forty four. It's a forty four and three shots,
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and your grouping was so good it could be covered with a quarter at distance.
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Yes, And I didn't know that was a thing, And and you
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derived much pleasure from this, so much so that all there was three of
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us. It was me, Richie, Bobby, and Hank, all three
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turny brothers, and they all were like, you need to sit out now,
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like, no more you ever owning a gun, because so it turns
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you are the Indian deadpool. No, but here's here's when I and then
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they were right, that was that was a beginner's luck fluke thing. Because
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Richie then gives me the Desert Eagle, and I do remember this very vividly.
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There was a bird that was on the target at one point. The
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birds, you know, flying around everywhere, purchase on the target that I'm
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aiming at, and I have the Desert Eagle, and he's like, you
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gotta lock your arms because of the kick and all that stuff. I didn't
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know that was the thing. So I locked my arms and I'm like,
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yeah, man, I'm gonna show these guys. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit
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dead center of the three shots that I just fired, and I blew the
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ship out of that bird. Just blew him up. Just uh there were
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his claws were still on the target. Oh my god, I just fired
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Desert eg only comes in two models, A forty four, and it was
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beautiful. I know that it was gold and it had an ivory handle,
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and I was like, wow, this is really cool. They weigh they
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weighed like six pounds. So not so not only are you the Indian Deadpool,
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but you're also the Indian Randy Johnson. There are now two men that
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that that are on record as having made birds disappear. Yeah, and then
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their own hands. And then the Hindu guilt settled in when I saw the
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explosion of the bird, because it was just instantaneous and it was just feathers
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and then the feet were still there. The clause was and I was like,
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I'm sorry, I I kind of feel badly for that bird. But
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the picture in my mind is just Chef's kissing and it's I feel like,
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I feel like we need an artist depiction. I'm going to see if I
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can commission our buddy Aaron Ariumpoor to draw this very momentous benchmark in your life,
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Raj. Yeah, and then that's the last time I ever fired a
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weapon because I was like, I felt so bad for killing the bird,
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like I can't, I can't let They're like, and that's when even Richie
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was like, hey, now you look sad. That's how you should feel
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something like that, because you had scared him so badly, like because you
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the brownskinned guy was a good shot, and so they were like, you
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don't need to do that anything. It has a fine line between the first
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was insane. So we started telling guys when you open the lid, take
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a step back and take a second. It was just not worth it.
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Yeah, I think. I think it's one of those things that if you're
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going to advise people, especially children, when you discover a snake or a
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Plumbing Texas dot com. Rajer, I thought it was actually pretty interesting how
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you mentioned after destroying that feathered creature living peace for me. Yes, it
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did on top of a gun range target, which, if we're being honest,
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kind of the bird's fault. They're not yours. That's that's that was
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their justification, like, hey, he shouldn't have been there, or it
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should have been there in the first place. Uh. And I was like,
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I still, like, I remember going to the convenience store afterwards,
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and I was like, I still feel really bad about the bird, as
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like I can on a pistol. I appreciate what you call it. You're
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a Hindu guilt. Hindu guilt, yes, so part of the Hindu belief
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system is reincarnation, right, Yes, So that's what I immediately got me
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thinking about my own problems, Like how many of us do we take someone
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that someone we take something that someone says and immediately make it about ourselves.
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So that's what I did. Yeah, you're worried about your destruction of a
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feathered of a peaceful feathered creature, Yes, possibly causing you to return in
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the next life as some sort of insect dung beetle. That's my fear,
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dung beetle. Okay, I'm glad. I'm glad to know where your head
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is on this because this this involves me now, because I think you guys
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have seen and I've told you about how uh we have a pest issue,
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not a major one, but on occasion we have seen we have seen some
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creepy Crawley's at our new house on Saint John that that we are renting,
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and and a couple of times there has been a scorpion in the house.
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The first time it was alive, and then I tried to kill it,
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put it in a cup outside and never saw it again. So for all
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I know, it's still out there, just really angry. No, I
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say it came back into shed. Yeah, that's the same one therein lies
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the second Yeah, and still pissed off. The second siding was a scorpion
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on my sleep shorts, the shorts that I sleep in very soft, very
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comfy, and I had just taken them off put them over the headboard while
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as I was changing clothes into my active wear shorts and I notice five minutes
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after changing clothes. There's a scorpion attached to my sleep shorts. Scoop it
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in a cup, take it outside, take it about a half mile down
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the road, and I try to fling it out of the fuzzies cup and
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instead of it flinging the way something with weight is supposed to, it instead
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kind of fluttered like a leaf to the ground, which led me to google
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do scorpions shed, and in fact they do, which brings up trace that
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this is the first scorpion I tried to kill. It came back, came
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inside. Shit, it's smaller scorpion exoskeleton and is now bigger, faster,
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stronger and waiting for me. Yeah, and it laid a bunch of eggs
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and yeah, which a big thank you for our treehouse insiders who sent me
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all sorts of photos and videos of of of mama scorpions shedding baby scorpions,
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because I'm familiar with that in the spider world, because I know that mama's
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you know, they got the spiders on their back or in the sack,
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and then if you squorsh them, then all the little spider lings run out
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right. Apparently it's since scorpions are also arachnid. It's very similar. And
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I now know that thanks to our Dickhead Treehouse insiders for sending me all these
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things. I mean, I love you guys. Thank you. So the
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other night on a walk, we're walking our Chiuaha Bella and where I live
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on Saint John. It's up on a place called Bordeaux Mountain. It's the
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highest point of Saint John in the US Virgin Islands. I'm not saying that
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to brag. I'm just saying just to give you the pink the picture.
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Okay, there are no street lamps on our road. When I say it's
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pitch black, I am not exaggerating. It is pitch black. You have
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to have a really good ass flashlight to see where you're going, otherwise you
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will trip over something and into the gut and roll down the mountain and die.
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So we're walking Bella. We've got our fifteen thousand lumens flashlight, and
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the flashlight is shining on the road on the ground to see where we're going.
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And that's when I see it. I see the scariest insect, the
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most frightening, beguiling, murderous beetle I have ever seen in my life.
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Wow. And it's not a normal sized beetle. Oh no, this is
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not a june bug. This is not a this is not even a roach.
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This isn't even one of those hissing cockroaches. This is hand to God
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as big as your hand. Fucking bug. Wow. Okay, this is
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the kind of bug that I had only seen, not just in movies,
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but the kind of bug that they show in movies when they're trying to depict
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life on other planets. Wow, this was a Star Wars style beetle.
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This was a beetle that Spock would have inspected meticulously on Star Trek. This
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is not a creature of this Earth, and it's on my road. M
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hm. So I did what I normally do in these situations, I go
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to the Internet for answers. And so what I did was I googled scary
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ass beetle. Mm hmm. I'm not making this up. I'm going to
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show you. See if you can see on my phone, you see the
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text there? Can you read that? It says on the Google search scary
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ass beetle? Right, yep, you know what you want to see?
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What the first The first image that popped up was Ringo Herbie you know,
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those are two really good answers. See why I tell you guys. You
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guys do much better on the fly. I would like to thank Trey and
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Raj for this impromptu version of wrong Answers Only, which will which we will
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be playing on a planned scale this week inside the Treehouse. Wrong Answers Only.
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But uh in this case the scary ass beetle. The first thing that
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pops up was in fact my scary ass beetle. So I'm not the only
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person who have ever googled this, let alone get the correct image response this,
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gentleman, is my scary ass beetle? Oh no, uh uh,
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that's not That's not a thing. Who's the person holding it? Is that?
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That's not? Okay, that's the Google search I thought. No,
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that is not my hand. No, that's I am not picking that thing
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up. I'm not going to be anywhere close enough to even touch it or
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smell it. I didn't like seeing it. Isn't if I'm isn't that the
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titan beetle? Is that what they're called the world's largest beetle? Not that
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is correct? That is, in fact the titan beetle. Underneath the heading
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of insects slash scary animals. This thing is truly terrifying. This is the
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spawn of Satan. It has to be because they're indigenous to Central America,
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I believe. So I don't know what it's doing. Well, they apparently
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know how to operate boats because they found their way here. I think that
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was found on SETI Alpha five. See this. This is the type of
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thing that NASA doesn't realize. This is the type of stuff that Hollywood has
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been trying to tell NASA and Tesla and Space explores the world over. Just
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because you find life on other planets doesn't mean it's the life you want to
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find, right, Because if it's this guy, yeah, my theory is
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you're a scorpion that you tried to murder, Like that's its cousin that lived
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in Central America. And he's like, hey man, this dick keeps trying
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to kill me. And the Titan beatle will like, hey, did you
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leave him a message? Like I put my skin on the shorts and he'd
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tried to kill that too, and he's like, I need you to come
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up here, and he's like, dude, deal, where do they walk
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at night? Yeah? And then I think you may be onto something rang
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and you said, you said Central America. Yeah, so so that means
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that this bug lives in places like Columbia, which which then, if you
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can follow my train of thought, means that not only is this beetle huge
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and terrifying, but it's also on cocaine. And now we have a sequel
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to cocaine bear. Yes, cocaine beetle, cocaine beetle, which was all
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because this this beetle. You know how like if you were to run over
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a june bug, it would just you know, squorsh it. Yeah,
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this is you could You could be in a Ford f three point fifty king
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ranch with a six inch lift glass pass running uh step rails all of it,
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and you run over this titan beetle. That's a that's a speed bump.
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Yeah, I think it's not gonna give. And if you notice,
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if you notice on this beetle, it has what appears to be antenna right
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on this big ass bug. That's not antenna. Those are antlers. Antlers
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I thought they were. I thought they had like the because the scorpion,
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I thought I had the pincers as well. Well. It has those two
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that's its mouth parts. The little mandibles that are terrifying. It has those
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and those are scary, and coming off of those are the loci style antlers.
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Right, so, and this is next to your house, now,
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like how far? How far into the walk did you get? Not far
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enough. I'm just wondering if it was trying to find your house, like
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if it was walking up, like, hey, do you know where the
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o'maleys are and you're like, oh, no, Titan Beetle, we sure
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don't, And he's like, cool, I'll just keep walking and see where
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you guys are at. So I don't know if, like tomorrow you wake
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up and there's him on your shorts. Yeah, it's funny that you mentioned
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that, Raj, because that's exactly what happened. And then it tried to
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sell you an eight ball. It did, and we bought it, and
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because we didn't want it, and because we didn't want it to know where
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we lived, we just kept walking. And since we had split an eight
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ball, we never stopped walking. I'm not even on the island anymore doing
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this show. I am actually, I am actually in Dallas. We never
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stopped walking. That's so good of a product that this Titan Beetle produces.
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He has got one customer and it's you, guys. But that's also to
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show you how committed we are to making sure this bug doesn't know where we
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actually you got. You got huge balls, buddy, because I don't know
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when you move like you've got scorpions and now you've got titan beetles at some
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Well, let me tell you about the bats. Okay, oh all right,
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because it's not all it's not all fun in the sun here, which
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that does exist, and Tray can attest he came here. He came here
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last year and enjoyed himself. But where we live, in the jungle ish
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area of the moist forest of Bordeaux Mountain on Saint John, there are different
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it's a different life up here. It's not just you know, the sun,
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the sand and the sea. It's these creatures, including bats. So
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in the in the little gap between the wood decking of the house and the
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galvanized roof. Okay, somehow, in the tiny gap between those two,
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a little family of bats lives so and they chirp at six am and six
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pm on the button. It's like you guys, like Tray, you went
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to college in Austin, raj You went to college at San Marcus. So
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you guys are very familiar with the bats and how like clockwork they will come
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out from underneath the Congress bridge. Right, Yep, same thing here.
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We have a tiny little coven of bats. They go whoa out into the
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jungle to eat mosquitos, which is great. That's why I like them.
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But they're very chirpy. And because they're chirpy, they wake us up at
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six am. At six am, they start chirping. And I don't even
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know how they do it because all my experiences with bats have been on TV
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and movies. Right, I wouldn't think that that little gap between the roof
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and the wood decking of the house would be enough for a bat to enjoy
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a home, but I guess it is. But it also brings me to
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the repulsion of said bats. So Tara got on Amazon and said, I'm
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going to get rid of these bats, and she found a device on Amazon
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that is supposed to repel the bats. Yeah. I believe it's like if
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you played Call of Duty. It looks like a field suppression mine. Uh,
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it's kind of round, kind of it looks like it looks like a
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like a device shaped like mount killiman jarro It's a plateau, if you will.
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So it's three different examples of what this thing looks like. I can't
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give you any better descriptions than those three. If you don't know, then
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look it up on Amazon. Bat repeller. And so she bought one and
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it came in the mail the other day and she deployed it, and instead
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of it repelling the bats, it seems to have emboldened them. Because have
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you ever seen the little video of bats upside down? So, like you
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know how bats hang out upside down? Well, have you ever seen the
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image the video of them flipped up so it looks like the upright? Yeah?
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Yeah, you can find it on YouTube. It's called hanging bats filmed
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upside down look like a goth night club. That's the greatest thing I've seen
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all day. That bat was doing an eight ball in the bathroom. So
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I believe this has found footage of our roof. We have instead of repelling
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the bats, we have turned it into a bat goth nightclub. Two shows
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per day, six pm and six am. Well, Daniel, if there
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was ever an animal that was going to continue to terrorize you, it's only
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fitting. Well fucking played, Thank you slow clap, sir. That's good
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stuff. That is. Oh man. Yeah, if this were an eighties
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movie, you just won the Girl and the eight ball. That's it.
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True eighties, true eighties field. All right, thanks for hanging out with
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us for day two inside the Treehouse of five days super Stupid Week in the
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Treehouse. We'll see you back here tomorrow for day three of super Stupid Week,
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right here in the treehouse. Fucking bats.