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Episode 13 - Island Police Confirm Dan Can't Drive & Alfie Upsets The Homeless · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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This is the Treehouse podcast, and it is episode thirteen. I'm Daniel Malley.
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Also in the Treehouse is of course Alfie Coy and new new addition to
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their Treehouse, at least to the podcast. But he's actually in what radio
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terms we referred to as an old ask retread is Trey Trendholme, because uh,
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Tray was on the radio show up until when did you leave? Trey
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was at twenty twelve or twenty thirteen. End of twenty twelve. Uh Trey
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left the show, and and if we're being honest, uh Russ wasn't the
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same after that. So I guess if anyone was looking to blame anybody for
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his decline, it would be to you trade. That's true, That's what
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That's what management said for many years they did because you know, you know,
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they weren't about to take any responsibility. They're really quick to be like,
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oh, let's blame somebody else. Hey, let's blame Tray. He's
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not here. Who can't defend themselves? Trey? It was Tray the guy.
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It's not in the building. I can't hear my voice. That is
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under zero contractual obligations, right, So we were obviously off the air for
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a long time, Tray for much longer, but I'm glad you're back.
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This is episode thirteen, which at first, you know, it's like people
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are superstitious about the number thirteen. We're not that superstitious here. I don't
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think, are you gonna every episode? Dan, We'll eventually stop. But
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I just wanted to include it here because I wanted to wedge in some superstition
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Thingum well, I guess that makes sense, yeah, under the guise of
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conversation. So yeah, So this is episode thirteen. And you know,
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we've been off the radio now for a while, like I said, Trey
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for longer. But now we're back. We're doing this, we're enjoying it.
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We're having fun and and big things are actually happening, you know for
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the show, which is great. And I'm loving this. I'm loving this
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for all of us. But I did notice it was, like i'd say,
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about a month ago. I don't know if you guys are aware,
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but I've I've worn't a chain around my neck since my early twenties, so
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let's say like like twenty years, I've had this chain around my neck.
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I think I got it at James Avery. I don't even know if the
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location is still there. It's at as a Lincoln Center in North Arlington.
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It's kind of by where the Hooters is. There's a James Avery there.
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And I got this this silver chain and it's got a four leaf clover on
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it. I got that when I was like twenty two, twenty three,
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and I've had some pretty good luck over the years wearing it. Is because
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when just watched like Moondock Saints and you're like, man, I need something
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irish, vaguely like catholic e And it was the analysis, Alphie, were
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you planning on getting the very toss and equitoss across your knuckles. I'm gonna
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put my hands behind my back for this year. I'm every boy. A
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couple of times before I popped some dude in the back of the head.
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No, but in all seriousness, I got that necklace, and you know
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it's I didn't know if it really I just liked it, and I wasn't
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sure if it had actual luck. But I've had some good fortune in the
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last twenty years. Not entirely good, but mostly good. I didn't say
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we had a lot of crap. Yeah, but I think part of the
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reason why that might be is I took my necklace off for a while.
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Oh yeah, yeah, And so about a month ago I put it back
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on and some good things started happening. One are the first things that happened
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when I put this necklace back on was we got Rodney Anderson back on the
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show. Why did you take it off in the first place? You don't
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want the sun time? I no, I mean, I honestly don't know.
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It was, Oh you know what it was. It was something really
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dumb and petty. When I get out of the shower and I take the
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towel and running across my chest, it would occasionally I don't understand what you're
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saying. Can you say it again? But like slower and like a little
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more. Please, Good job out, But you're totally cracked up, Tray
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and yourself. When I get out of the shower and I'm drying on what,
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I'm all soaking wet like an otter. At some point, we really
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are going to have to implement a video function on this show because people need
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to see trays face. We do need to. We We've discussed video at
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some point, and like many things, it's probably coming down the pipeline eventually.
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Still a work in progress. We're just happy to get the audio on.
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So anyways, I'm drying off my otter like chest my necklace. My
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necklace would sometimes get snagged in the towel, so I got tired of it
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and I took the necklace off, and then we got fired. I'm sorry,
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lad, Oh is this your doing? Dan? No, it actually
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is and I actually I actually took it off after we got laid off.
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Okay, I was about to blame you. That is the god's honest truth.
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I was about to blame you for only having audio books is my listening
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option for the past six months. No, that was definitely not my fault.
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That still goes to UH to a corporate radio structure called radio structure or
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was it? Was it some decision makers that I don't know that everyone agreed
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with. You know what, you can't argue with the ratings. You can't
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argue with what What did I say? Anyways, it's episode thirteen. I've
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got my good luck necklace back on. Even though I try to say many
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times over the years, I'm really not that superstitious, but it turns out
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in my actions I think I actually am. And one of the reasons I
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put my necklace back on. Was not because we got laid off that,
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like I said, that happened when I had the necklace on. That was
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not our vault. In the time that we were off the air, Not
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everything that happened was good, although there was a lot of good. I
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know that there was a severe slowdown of people around us dying once we were
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off the air. That seemed to help. I think there was a slowdown
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and people we know going to jail, although there might have been a recent
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uptick and that I'm not really sure. It's hard to keep up at this
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point, but there was. There was a couple of not great things that
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happened in the time that we were no longer on the radio and before or
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before we got back to doing the show in the current podcast form. And
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one of those things bad that happened was I got into a car wreck.
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And right, yeah, I'm fine. It wasn't anything, no, no,
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no, I'm all I got. I've got all my appendages. There's
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everything works at least as good as it did before. I mean, I've
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still got brain issues and back problems, but I had those before the car
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wreck. And the thing was, though, it's like It wasn't really a
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bad car wreck. It was just one of those things that my my vehicle
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doesn't look as good as it used to, and that's annoying. And I
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was hoping I could make it a lot longer, having moved to a new
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place, and have my car look good for a while, because a lot
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of the vehicles here do not look good. They're what's referred to as island
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cars. They look like something that someone was able to jump start and take
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out of a junk yard. Why because the driving here, the driving here
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is kind of like the Wild West. It's there are I mean, there
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are supposedly traffic laws, but no one follows any of them. I mean
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they're they're at best at best light suggestions. What do they not have police?
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Nobody they do. But there are a lot of the times the ones
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running around running into people, not all of them, because I got to
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meet one after this wreck. So let me give you the scenario, which,
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by the way, reck not my fault. Will be the judge of
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that. Damn it was not my fault, and I'm sticking to that.
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So here's what. So says mere exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah,
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it says me, and I'm I'm I'm good. Incredible. So here's what
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happened. And and Trey got to witness some of this when he was here,
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you know, a short while ago. When you're when you're on the
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United States Virgin Islands, you drive on the left side of the road.
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Okay, that's stupid, is this America or what it is? But they
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they have their own way of doing things here, and one of those things
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is driving on the left side of the road. That's it's all that was
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always been. So that causes problems, So keep that in mind. So
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I'm in the left lane doing the thing. I'm going up a very steep
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hill basically a mountain, uh huh. And there is a cab, one
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of those open air Safari cabs, in front of me, and he decides
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we get to this haun. Is this like a party like a party bust
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thingy or you say open air like, yeah, it's basically it's a truck.
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It's exactly, it's a party pickup. It's a it's a pickup.
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And the bed of the truck has a welded bench, seats and a roof.
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Okay, yeah, so the tourists, the cruise ship people can climb
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into the bed of this truck, like it's just like their own benches.
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They got public drinking in the Virgin Islands. Oh yeah, they do,
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like they don't care. No, they it's actually they they were doing to
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go drinks well before COVID. But like, is it like New Orleans.
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We can just walk around with yep, just who No one gives a damn.
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There's no brown paper sacks or nothing. No really, nope and no,
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no one seems to really care if you want to partake in some marijuana.
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Yeah, well right out in the parking lot. That shocked me.
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I went to Saint Louis a few years back. That is not part of
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the Virgin Islands. Alphie don't know. I was think in front of it
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points Tulsa, shut up tray. My point is, is it anytime you
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go to somewhere where it has different weed laws, it's kind of a shock
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to the system. Like I was leaving like the Saint Louis Airport. I
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don't know what the hell it is, but I walked outside and there's some
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dude smoking a joint and he's thirty feet away from a cop. And I
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think this was right after Missouri or Saint Louis had like legalized weed, and
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it hadn't the law hadn't gone into effect, Like the law was supposed to
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go into effect September one. This was like August third or something like that.
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But nobody gave a damn. So like they they heard about the news,
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but they didn't read all the way down to the article where it said
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law takes effect September first. They're like, hey, that's as we can
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do it now exactly. But I honestly love the freedom of laws like that,
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like the open container laws or you know, public drinking. I'm smoking,
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well you get what I'm saying. I went to Baton Rouge one time
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and they have the Daciri places that where all the daciries are named after,
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like jet fuels you got like octane three thousand or something like that. They
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drive through daccuirie huts. Yes, I went to one that you buy the
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dacciri and I think they maybe like put that. They don't even put the
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tape over the top of the straw hole. They just put a straw in,
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but leave the top, like leave the paper top on the straw like
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it's starbought to be covered. But I asked. I go, so,
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what's the deal. I can just you know, drink this out in public.
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She goes, Now, I go, I thought they had you know,
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public drinking laws here and easy, and she goes, nuts, that's
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New Orleans. This is baton rouge. I go, well, what do
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I do with this alcohol in my car? And she goes, don't get
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pulled over. That is sage. That is sage advice, like I don't
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care what I don't care what city or state you're in. That's just good
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advice wherever you are. If I'm a cop, I'm sitting right outside that
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dakery shop and just racking up bills. You know, look, if if,
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if, if your particular municipality was constitutionally able to work on a commission
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system, then yeah, I would do the same thing. And they're not.
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So they don't. They said, if you're in Louisiana, that's the
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least of your problems. If you're a police officer, God, no kidding,
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But what was you drinking during this wreck? Dan? No, I
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was not, and again was not my fault. So not only was I
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sober, not my fault. So here's what happened. Driving on the left
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side of the road. There's a Safari cab in front of me right,
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and as I'm pulling up the mountain, we're on the main road right and
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there's a t intersection, so another road is coming from my left into our
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road. Okay, okay, So as I'm approaching this intersection, the cab
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in front of me stops just past that road and starts reversing at me.
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So then I do, what's that on a mountain? Yes, And so
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as he starts reversing, I hit the brakes and I try honking my horn,
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and that didn't seem to work because he keeps coming. So then I
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check, I put in reverse. I check my mirror, and the car
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behind me is well behind me. So I start reversing because I don't want
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this guy to run into to the front of my vehicle, right huh.
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And when I do that, another car coming from the ongoing the oncoming traffic
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turned behind me down that road to my left. Got it, okay,
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So someone turned from my right behind my vehicle to my left. I stopped
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because I saw him, and then after that car was gone, I started
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reversing again, and that's when I ran into the yellow jeep that was apparently
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following right behind that little black Honda that had just passed behind me. So
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how did you notice the black Honda but not the giant, bright yellow jeep
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because it was pulling into my blind spot because I'm checking my left mirror,
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watching the black Honda leave from behind my vehicle so I can continue reversing.
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And as that was happening, he was pulling around to my right, my
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back right bumper. So you were using your mirrors. Yeah, So he
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basically drove. He drove right into my blind spot, and I ran and
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my back right end ran into his front right fender. Your back right end
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did not run into his fender. You Dan ran into his fender? Yeah,
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because he turned behind me when it was unsafe to do so, Well,
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you were you weren't look you were going in reverse on a route.
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Yeah, you weren't looking with yours. There was a cab in front of
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me reversing, and I was trying to avoid a collision. Sure do.
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Seemed to be a lot of Well, it's this and because of this,
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and because of that, there's one common factor here. It's Dan. The
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common factor was the cab was reversing and it shouldn't been. Yeah, you
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were too close to the cab. You didn't have enough space? No,
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no, no, I had plenty of room until the cab started reversing.
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Did the cab get into wreckt No, it had enough space because I backed
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up out of its way. Ye, your back shouldn't have you backed up
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somewhere where you weren't looking. You need to be looking out the rear window.
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You turn around, you put your arm over the passenger seat, and
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he's got look back. Anything back there? Any any yellow jeeps back there?
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Now? I was knocking to my left. I was looking to my
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left. The car left from behind me, so I continued to my reverse
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and that's when the guy hit me. So you know it's illegal to reverse
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on a street like that, which, yeah, yeah, the jeep or
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the party bus or whatever, they were illegal in doing it, But that
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doesn't mean that you now have the right to do the same thing. Right.
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So what I was supposed to do, and I found this out from
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the lovely police officer that showed up to write up the report, was that
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I was supposed to just let the cab run into me. Yes, So,
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so what had happened was the guy that I hit in this bright yellow
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jeep. Turns out he was actually gone his way to the airport, and
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before the airport, he was going to drop off his rental jeep. Oh
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rental. Yeah, so it gets worse. What did he get insurance?
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Actually doesn't matter because it's it's your fault, not my fault. It's the
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CAB's fault. So anyway, so we pull over and my back right tail
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light is busted out. I've got a little bit of damage, and I'm
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I'm pissed. And his car, which isn't even his cars damaged barely.
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It's got like scratch like on the on the running board and like a black
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smudge on the door. It's it's it's almost nothing. Why are you trying
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to minimize damage? What? Why are you trying to minimize this poor jeep's
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damage because it was minimal. So he then turns out he's an attorney,
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so he immediately calls the rental place and they tell him you have to call
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the police, follow report, blah blah blah. Now we get to sit
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in the side of the road right for the cop to show up. God
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knows what the cops are doing right now. I'm gonna be smoking weed in
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the parking lot and now I've just pulled them out of, you know,
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their enjoyment time. So the cop shows up, goes through the entire thing
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and says, yeah, okay, I heard everything heard, you know,
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all the accounts and blah blah blah. So it's your fault. You're not
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supposed to reverse on a road, blah blah blahs. Like what about the
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calves. He's like, well, the cave's not here. Yeah. Ultimately,
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I'm with the cop and fine, I'm like, well, this guy
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turned behind me when it wasn't safe to do. So she's like, you
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shouldn't have been backing up. I'm like, come on, this is not
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my fault. Come on, doesn't hold up in a court of law.
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You can't go your honor. Come on, it feels good though, it
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feels really good. I bet it does feel good. Dan shirking all that
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responsibility of yours. It's not shirking responsibility. This was not my fault.
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I was trying to avoid that vehicle hitting me, and in doing so,
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the guy that pulled behind me didn't wait to see if it was safe for
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him to make that turn. I see, I see he turns into a
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vehicle that may or may not have been illegally reversing on the road. You
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should have said that earlier. Now I see, Now, I see what
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the problem is. You can't accept blame for anything. You can't be wrong,
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Yes I can, I really can't. I admit I'm wrong all the
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time. That's my wife. Okay, are you wrong about this wreck?
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Nope? See I'm not wrong about this wreck. This is not my fault.
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Come on, look, this is not my fault. So so then
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I had two worries coming from this wreck, right and again thinking, am
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I is there a you know, some sort of superstition here going because I'm
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not wearing my necklace? And so the police officer comes to the conclusion it's
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my fault. So now I'm worried about my insurance going up. And now
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it's I hit a corporate rental thing. It's not a local company, it's
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a national change. I'm like, oh my god, now I've got to
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deal with these people. And I get a ticket, and I'm worried about
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that so real quick. So after like a month or so, I finally,
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after it takes a while for the wreck to get into the system,
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I get a call from the whoever handles this stuff Rex for the rental car
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company. They're like, look, it's really not that bad. If you
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want, we can just take care of it over the phone. I'm like,
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yes, please, can we do? That's like okay, that'll be
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about nine hundred dollars. I'm like, oh my god for a smudge.
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Yeah, it's the smudge and you your inability to accept responsibility for it.
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Remember when we got into the argument over who had right of way coming off
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of the tollway and Spring Valley, and yeah it was me. I had
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right away. You cut me off? No, then you flipped me off.
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I did, yes, But yeah, Trey, by the way,
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that's a true story. Yeah I did cut you off, and I did
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flip you off, but I still had right of way. In fact,
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we had a licensed peace officer, Captain Howard come on and say, yes,
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Alphie had right of way. Dan isn't the wrong. And still to
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this day, that was years ago and you still can't admit that you were
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wrong. I don't think I was. And honestly, do we really know
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that he's a licensed police officer or he's just a guy just running around calling
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himself captain to everybody? He got a gun, So I mean that's half
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of it, so do we. He gave me a hat that said police
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on it. I've had lots of people give me those point is anyway,
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the point is wrong. Was not my fault? Then this was not my
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fault. Now even though this this this wacky police officer who's apparently in charge
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of the traffic division. So you backed the blue until it's your fault.
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Yeah, pretty much, that's right. I thought the end the story was
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going to be that the foundation was now covering Saint Thomas. No, I'm
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not Russ. So so I was worried about how much, you know,
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the wreck was going to cost me one an insurance and then they gave me
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the cash option, which I took. So that's nine hundred dollars. But
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then I'm still worried about how much the fine is going to be. The
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fine or the citation that I got so insult to my car's injury. This
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police officer writes me a ticket for negligent driving. Yeah I would. Now
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I'm worried about how much is this fine going to be. It's not like
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I've got a huge amount of income right now. I'd really like not to
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be spending money on frivolous citations, Well, don't do frivolous tricks. Yeah,
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that's on you. How much was this to be for? I actually
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lost sleep over this because I was worried. It's like, how much is
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this going to be? Because there's signs around the island that says fine for
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littering one thousand dollars. That's if you throw, like, you know,
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a rapper on the ground. I'm not even sure what it's going to be
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if there's an actual traffic citation where you caused, you know, a physical
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damage to the property of somebody else. I lost sleepover this. I was
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seriously worried about how much this is going to be and I may not be
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able to eat for a couple of days. How much was it? Thirty
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one dollars? Shut the hell up, Dan, shut up? You're playing
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where you go? You're just angry about being woolware in the treehouse. Switt
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Dan O'Malley and Alfie koy. See, it wasn't all bad. Dad got
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to erect that. The citation is thirty one dollars. I mean that's kind
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of cool, all right. The number you're going to need right now to
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Of course, the website always works Rodney Anderson dot Com. Good afternoon,
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Rodney. How are you today, sir? I'm doing very well. Good
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more Good afternoon, Dan. So I'm curious about this. So I've moved
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away, so I'm not as in touch with the North Texas real estate market
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as I used to be. So I'm curious if someone is listening right now
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and they're like, you know what, I'd really like to jump into that
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market, and you know, and buy a house, what's something that they
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can expect right now with that real estate market? And of course, on
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top of it, what are the interest rates? Like, Yeah, let's
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talk through the real estate market real quick. A lot of houses are starting
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to come on the market. It's the spring selling season. So one thing
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that people need to know. There's still lack of inventory. But the number
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one day to look online at real estate is Thursdays. Seventy to eighty percent
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of all listening tip of market on Thursdays. But you have to know what
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you can qualify for, how much house can you buy, what's the best
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loan product, what's my payment's going to be? And make sure that you're
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fully create a proved because if you're up against one or two additional offers,
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are more sellers want to know are you for real? They want to make
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sure all your ducks in a row? And listing agents are callingists left and
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right to verify what do you have on your borrower? And when I can
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say, I've got everything on them. They've got excellent credit, excellent assets,
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excellent everything. All he needs a contract and I'm ready to close.
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The next question they always ask how fast can you close? And when I
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say ten to fifteen days ago? Whoa, that's magic to our ears because
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a lot of lenders must lenders are forty five to sixty days. Wow.
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And then again, those interest rates, you know, they've they've been going
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up. Obviously, there's been a lot of news about that recently. But
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that shouldn't, you know, dissuade someone from actually exploring finally buying that house.
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House with Dan O'Malley and Alfie Cord. Help he say it again? Oh
26:10
you said? A homeless guy yelled at you. Yeah, he started yelling
26:14
at me. Good, what did you do? You think everything's my fault?
26:17
So what did you do to deserve getting yelled at by a homeless man?
26:19
I? Okay. So I am sitting at a left turn light right,
26:26
trying to turn trying to turn left, got the arrow. I'm waiting
26:30
on right, and there's about three four cars in front of me, and
26:33
I know this intersection. I know that the sometimes a left turn light can
26:37
be very finicky. Bearn where you cut me off and flip me off?
26:41
I did cut you off, and I did flip you off because you deserved
26:45
it and you were wrong and I had right of way. Anyway, I'm
26:49
waiting for this light to turn green, and there's a homeless guy at the
26:53
front end of this line of cars talking to the person in the very front
27:00
and the person in the front car the lead car is not like giving them
27:03
any casts They're just chit chatting, and all of a sudden, the light
27:07
turns green and wait to beat away from the wrap up their conversation and get
27:11
going. I'm not a dick about this. Nothing happens, nobody's moving.
27:18
Wait another beat, still not moving, and I realize, Hey, there
27:22
is now no longer enough time for everybody in this line of cars to get
27:25
through. I honk, and I'm not a you. You tell them how
27:30
bad they are. Well, I'm not a butthole about it. I just
27:33
honk. And now wait, was it just a beep or did you lay
27:40
on the horn? Neither? It wasn't like an excuse me honk. It
27:45
was also not a good hello of the way honk. It was a come
27:48
on, let's go. It was a pop pop pop that's it? So
27:53
a one two three yeah. See this goes back to something I've said.
27:56
I've said before. This is why we need to have options on the honk,
28:02
because you wanted to be able to convey the thing you're trying to say,
28:07
but through your car horn, Like if it needs to be hey,
28:10
meat, meat, let's go, or a how dare you do that?
28:12
It needs to be a big scary train horn type of thing like there needs
28:15
to be a range of car horns so people can know what we mean when
28:18
we use it, like a please take the spot in front of me?
28:22
Honk, is this a little? That's it? But that's an f you
28:29
and your entire family and eat trash and die. Yeah, So which one
28:36
did you do? Yes? I forgot he had that, So this homeless
28:48
guy, that's actually what I need. All right, Trey, come back,
28:52
come back, come back to town. And then I need you to
28:53
be my car horn. I just stall that around with your new mixer,
28:57
but I want it to that with me and go drive around. I start
29:02
honking. The guy in the lead car starts moving and cars start getting through
29:07
the left turn intersection while we still got the green arrow. Well, I
29:11
come to the front and the arrow is now yellow and has been yellow for
29:15
maybe half a second or so. It's it's enough to where I probably should
29:19
be stopping. But you bet your ass I gunned it through it because so
29:23
you you too are a dangerous driver, as you've labeled me. No,
29:30
I'm not a dangerous driver. It was definitely issues. I did not have
29:37
any road rage issues. I simply wanted to remove myself from any potential dangerous
29:42
situation because as I approached the intersection, the homeless guy started screaming at me,
29:49
yelling and flipping me off, And I didn't know if he was going
29:52
to throw a bottle at me or something like that. And I don't want
29:55
to be in that sort of situation, so I did the most prudent thing
29:59
avail, which was to drive quickly through the intersection remove myself from any potential
30:06
conflict. So could you tell what he was yelling at you? Yeah,
30:10
fu you piece of trash blah blah blah blah something something like. I don't
30:12
know. Okay, but but why why was he yelling at you? Like,
30:18
like, like what's the context? What was he mad at you for?
30:21
For killing his conversation with the dude in the lead car. I guess
30:25
I think he thought he was going to get money and he just needed a
30:29
few more minutes to close the deal. Okay, Look, dude, this
30:33
isn't this isn't boiler room. It's you either were they either hand you money
30:37
or they don't. You don't have to work the sale that hard. It
30:41
just a I don't know. Look, I feel for the homeless. I
30:47
have all the empathy in the world for them. I don't trust that everyone
30:51
out on every street corner is homeless. I think that a lot of them
30:53
are, you know, scam artists, just looking to make quick cash and
30:56
hop back in their Mercedes and drive home. Yeah, the one that's behind
31:00
the bush. Yes, oh, the sorry you reminded me of that lady,
31:07
the lady would green bike trade. Did you ever see the lady with
31:11
the green bike out by the iHeart Studios. No, there was a lady
31:17
who would set up at the corner of southbound on the tollway at Alpha,
31:23
and there's like a transmission tower there, like an electricity transmission tower, line
31:29
tower there, and some bushes right at that intersection. This lady would park
31:33
her green sport bike right behind the bushes, and not even like a real
31:41
quick When you say sport bike, do you mean sport bicycle like a mongoose
31:44
like a BMX type of thing, or do you mean like a like a
31:48
like a like a crot rocket, Yes, a crost rocket. She would
31:52
park it right behind this bush that oftentimes didn't have much foliage on it.
31:59
It was some time, just some branches, and you can clearly see this
32:01
non green bike or a motorcycle right behind it, and she's sitting there asking
32:07
for money, and I'm like, get the hell out of here, lady,
32:10
Like, at least have the decent seat up to park it behind a
32:14
bush, maybe a block away, and then walk through your spot, park
32:17
it behind a concrete wall or something like. She was so lazy that she
32:22
parked it within feet of her and you could see it through the bushes.
32:27
But the point is is, I don't like giving money to homeless because I
32:30
feel like that also contributes to the problem. I feel like there's good charities
32:34
around that you can donate to that will help with homeless outreach all that stuff,
32:37
Right, I don't want this guy also holding me back at an intersection
32:42
that I know has a short green arrow, So pardon me for honking my
32:47
horn a couple of times to get the jackass and the lead car to move
32:52
it. I'm not even mad at the homeless guy at this point. I'm
32:55
mad at the guy in the lead car who won't shut the f up and
32:59
move when he has a green light. So I will say you did the
33:01
smart thing by going ahead and pulling through that intersection, because I don't otherwise
33:07
this. Otherwise you're sitting there next to the homeless dude who's now cursing you
33:10
out. Yes, exactly, that's what I said. I just wanted to
33:13
remove myself from the situation that could have turned potentially any number of different ways.
33:20
It was the prudent thing in that moment, just to gun it.
33:23
Did you ever stop to think that maybe you could have made it better if
33:25
you just stopped and gave him some money. I don't got any cash.
33:29
I don't carry cash like Garan Teuf you tell it's it's cool I got Venmo.
33:34
Oh good. Has that happened to you too, because that the exact
33:37
thing has happened to me. That's happened I used to be back in the
33:39
good old days. That used to be my go too. I would tell
33:43
somebody, sorry, man, I don't have any cash, and typically it
33:45
was true. I didn't have any cash. I just always use my debit
33:49
card. That's happened one day. One day I go to the grocery store
33:53
and someone's hit me up for cash. I'm like, I don't have any
33:57
cash, and the guy's like, it's cool, I got Venmo. When
33:58
he holds up his iPhone, well, I don't leave me alone. That
34:04
has happened to me with girl Scouts and like girl Scouts selling cookies and boy
34:08
scouts selling like their popcorn or whatever. The girl Scouts, man, they
34:13
will get you because that same thing happened to me. There was at our
34:16
a sort of our home bar. It was Quinlan's and Carrollton and one of
34:22
one of the regular's nieces set up inside the bar. How brilliant on those
34:27
little girl's part. And she would hit you up as soon as you walked
34:30
inside. So we walked inside. It's like, Hi, I'd like to
34:31
buy some cookies. I'm a gonam sorry, and how many cash? And
34:34
she's like it's okay, we take venmo PayPal zel. There's a tidal load
34:38
place across the parking lot. She knew all of it. It was frightening.
34:43
Then you gotta drop the facade. Then you gotta be like, listen,
34:45
kid, I don't want your stupid stuff. Leave me alone. And
34:50
the parents get all bad. You talking about we talked about the other day
34:53
about the guy selling banana bread. Yes, oh yeah, So I told
35:00
them one day because they came in and they're, you know, like this
35:02
really isn't a good you know, in the bar, it's not really a
35:05
good spot to talk about, you know, your outreach for people with substance
35:07
abuse. But I told them, I said, if you really want to
35:10
make money, I said, set up here at two am, and you
35:14
will sell all the banana bread you have. Yeah you will. Yeah,
35:17
take a lesson from those people that like like sell tacos and the taco carts
35:21
or the hot dog carts or the barbecue trucks at two am outside of a
35:24
bar. Absolutely, you were gonna make bank, Like I don't want to
35:30
we'll do that. That seems like a really viable business option because there was
35:36
that one. Dude. Some people actually do it as a viable business option.
35:38
They'll they'll get like a little food truck or cart thing, and they'll
35:42
set up in a certain area strategically to capitalize on the bar clientele. Yeah.
35:47
The problem is, like like the people Tray are talking about, apparently
35:51
they only like to proselytize for Jesus during business hours, So they don't want
35:55
to come back at two am and sell banana bread that jes Is allegedly made
36:00
and also make you you know, switch religions or something. Yeah, they
36:04
don't want to do that at two am they want to do it during happy
36:06
hour, ironically, sell street tacos for Jesus, sell barbecue sandwiches for Jesus,
36:12
chop brisket sandwiches for the Lord. I think street tacos would be for
36:16
hay sous. That feels race like a little races, doesn't It feels it?
36:23
It feels like it just a little bit. Hey, look it's break
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time. Oh good Youorian Luke Tree House with Dan O'Malley and Alfie Cord.
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Youorian Luke Free House with Dan O'Malley and Alfie Cord. Yes, you absolutely
37:07
need to tell Alfie that story. Trey. I had totally I had totally
37:10
forgotten about that. So I was actually, I think this actually might be
37:16
worse slash better than than Alfie's homeless guy story. So I was at the
37:22
turning on the side street from Northwest Highway over there by half Price Books,
37:28
and there's a it looks like a homeless guy, but what's different is he
37:32
had a book that he was showing people. All Right, all right,
37:37
I'll buy it. I rolled down my window and I'm probably two cars back,
37:45
and I started talking to him like, hey, you know what are
37:46
you selling? Because oh you know I wrote this book. It's my life
37:50
story about how I, you know, got out of addiction and everything else
37:53
and through God. And you know hecause you want to buy it, you
37:58
want to donate, Okay, sure, yeah, you know what, you've
38:02
got something to offer. I'm not just giving, all right. I pull
38:07
out a ten dollar bill, I hand it to him, and he doesn't
38:10
give me the book. He keeps walking and the right light turns green,
38:14
and I got some a hole behind me, honking, and so I have
38:17
to go right. So, first of all, the a hole behind you
38:21
honking, that was clearly alfie. Yeah, so he took your ten dollars
38:25
and didn't give you the book. Nope, Sorry, you gotta go.
38:30
Sorry, traffic class not my fault, by I do like her. If
38:37
that sort of gets around the panhandling stuff, I'm not even sure if that's
38:40
still a thing in the city of Dallas like it was at one point.
38:44
Like panhandling is supposed to be illegal, not that they really did much to
38:45
enforce it. But instead of just begging for money, you got this guy
38:51
who's actually well, at least he says he's selling a book for all you
38:54
know, he went into half price books found something and just it's just making
38:59
it up. It's probably not even there's probably not even an actual story of
39:01
his in there. It's probably you know, the punishment for the hobbit.
39:05
Yeah. No, I think he went over like he had a little cardboard
39:08
box where it looked like he was pulling copies out. I think you're right.
39:12
He probably just went to half price books. But you know, ten
39:14
books for ten bucks? You oh, you know what. I know exactly
39:16
what he did. He didn't buy those ten books for ten bucks. He
39:19
walked into the area and I know that story well because I've done this where
39:22
you take all the books that you want to sell, and he just saw
39:25
the box sitting there that they hadn't gotten to yet, and he just took
39:29
the box and ran off. You didn't make a U turn and come back
39:34
and go, hey, I'm back from my book. Can I have it
39:36
now? Yeah? No, kidding. You should have turned around and got
39:37
in the book. That's where he's brilliant at that intersection, because then if
39:45
you're trying to do it, you turn, you're stopping right in the middle
39:46
of the Northwest Highway. Was it rush hour? I mean, is it
39:52
ever not? On Northwest Highway right there, but it was it was right
39:55
around lunch time, which is also an incredibly busy time. I've made a
40:00
wrong turn there trying to get somewhere, and that exact intersection making one wrong
40:06
turn, well, all I had to do was like make a U turn
40:07
and then take the other left or the other right or something like that.
40:10
It added ten minutes to my drive. Ten minutes just to make one U
40:15
turn and go the other direction. I don't know, man, if if
40:21
if it was my ten bucks, and it's not just the ten dollars,
40:24
there's also the principle, you know, in play, I'm turning around and
40:30
I'm going to get my money, or at least get my book. I
40:36
thought about it, thought about coming back, but at the end of the
40:37
day, you know, I almost had to tip my hat. I was
40:39
like, you know, that's kind of next level homeless crap top ten years
40:45
years ago. Like I still remember the first time I saw a guy who
40:49
was who was begging for money, but his sign said need money for beer,
40:54
and I loved it because it was honest. Oh, there used to
40:59
be a guy right over here that had to sign it. The funny thing
41:01
he only had one leg but as signs that helped me get back on my
41:05
feet, and I would always give him a fi. It does work though.
41:08
I mean, look, look, we've all been we've all been scam
41:12
we've all had the you know, the person you know with a sob story
41:15
or one of my all time favorites is the guy that's saying, oh I
41:17
was I had to walk. He has the empty gas can as the prop
41:22
and he says, oh, I just ran out of gas up back up
41:24
the road a little bit. I just need a few bucks just to fill
41:27
up my can. Be like, so, then you try to and that
41:30
happens at a gas station, And that's one time that happened for the guy
41:34
made the mistake of asking me while I'm pumping gas at a gas station because
41:38
he doesn't actually need gas. He just wants money, right, He's supposed
41:43
to be asking that at like a drive through or somewhere else that doesn't actually
41:46
have gas readily available. So you don't do what I did, which is
41:52
you need some gas here, just give me your can. I'll put some
41:54
in there. Oh no, I was one of the money You're not even
41:58
good at this. The people that just say, hey, can I have
42:01
some cash without any sort of like additional bullcrap story. I respect that more
42:08
than I do anyone with any sob story or scam or anything like that.
42:15
There's but I do feel like a dumbass though contributing to let's say somebody's drug
42:24
problem or alcohol problem. There was one dude that hangs out outside of coffee
42:30
shop. But I go to quite a bit, and this coffee shop sells
42:35
tacos. They sell breakfast tacos, and somebody had bought him some breakfast tacos
42:38
because he had the to go box sitting right next to him with breakfast tacos.
42:43
And I walked by, and I've seen this guy a couple of times.
42:46
He knows what kind of car I'm in. I'm thinking better to have
42:51
his guy as an ally while I've got cash on me for the first time
42:53
in you know, months, So I give him five bucks and he disappears
43:00
and leaves the frigging breakfast tacos there, and like an hour or two later,
43:06
his spot where he normally sits, there's there's breakfast tacos covered in flies
43:12
and a mostly drinking forty And I'm just annoyed now because I'm like this guy
43:21
could have, you know, spend it on something else, go by haircut,
43:24
choose something. It's just the alcoholism, I think is what pissed me
43:29
off more than anything. Well, to me, it's not so much angering
43:32
as as it is just a really really sad, yeah, emotionally distressing story.
43:37
I mean, I don't that's one of the saddest stories I've heard in
43:39
a long time. Because every breakfast taco deserves to get eaten, and every
43:45
forty deserves to be finished. I mean, that's just it's so sad,
43:49
it's wasteful. Mhmm. Thank you guys. How many flies were on the
43:54
tacos? At least four? Completely out of the question them it was,
43:59
I would not eating it. There were at least four. One is too
44:01
many flies for me, Dan, for you. Yes, But I'm the
44:05
I'm the guy that likes to uh not waste anything because I remember, I'm
44:08
the guy that ate nine day old chicken out of my fridge and got sick.
44:15
I think I could. I could swat off a couple of flies off
44:16
at breakfast taco and define tell you what, next time I see him there
44:20
with his breakfast taco sitting in the sun all day, I'll ask I'll trade
44:24
him for the cash and I'll ship him to you. How about that.
44:30
I don't know if those will hold. No, you wouldn't care, You're
44:34
right, I wouldn't. I tell you, Like, you can put a
44:36
breakfast taco in front of my face right now, I'm like eating it just
44:40
annoys me. And at one point I told you about this, Dan,
44:44
I never told Trey. I used to carry around little bottles of like airplane
44:47
liquor, you know, like the little liquor bottles in my car. This
44:52
is part of like a emergency kit or something like that. I would throw
44:55
on like a little bottle of Irish whiskey or something like that, and emergency
45:00
alcohol kit. Yeah, in case you need, Like why didn't I think
45:05
of that. That's really unfortunate because up until this point right now, Trey
45:12
thought he had done everything there was to do with alcohol. Yeah, well
45:16
do you know what I mean? Though? In case you need like a
45:19
quick shot of liquid courage or something like that. You're going out to a
45:23
party and oh my god, that's that one chick that I've been you know,
45:25
meaning to talk to for a bit. Here, let me have a
45:28
quick shot and then you know, handle business. Or if you're really nervous
45:34
about getting pulled over by a cop see Dan. Thank you. Now you're
45:39
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