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EPISODE 35: Radio Fires the Best People with Rebekah Black · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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All right, you are in the Treehouse. Used to be a funny radio
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show, now a funny podcast. Mostly I'm Dan O'Malley along with Trey Trenholme
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and someone that knows a thing or two about funny radio and funny podcasts.
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Her Treehouse debut for the very first time in the confines of this crazy space.
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So she's very, very brave or very stupid. We'll find out.
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It is the great Rebecca Black formerly of ninety eight point seven K Love.
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Yes, Hello, Hello, thank you for having me. You're welcome.
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I think let's see if you're still grateful and you know, you know about
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forty minutes from now. Oh, I'm fully prepared. I'm not worried about
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you too. Those are famous last word for back. It's very fortunate that
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this is remote. Yes, I get that's probably true. Nobody will get
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hit, so that's a good thing. Yeah, I do say though,
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I never underestimate a woman's ability to strike. I don't care from what distance
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it can happen. That's a good point. I will find you if I
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need to hunt you down, you know those things, those kinds of things.
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So I really am glad to have you on the show because we had
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a member of the show leave, and it's like, well, we need
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to kind of turn this into let's take advantage of this and let's let's have
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some people on that we know that listeners know, but let's also, you
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know, take the opportunity to try to get to know some people that we
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don't know but maybe just know of and in that category or you're the first
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one, Rebecca, I feel honored. Then, thank you very much.
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Unfortunately I did have to say formerly of kay Love. But you're obviously not
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alone train I've been fired planting round a little bit. So how long How
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long ago was it that? How long ago was it that that you were
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blown out at Kay Love? It will be a year in August, which
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I can't believe, like time has flown. I can't believe it's already been
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a year. It's like unbelievable to me. I know the for me,
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September will be will be one year, and it seems weird that that's also
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coming up on one year. But one year one year, remob are you
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going to celebrate I kind of already did. I moved to the Caribbean.
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That means that's a good celebration. I can't. Unfortunately, uh my company
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hadn't pay me enough to be able to move to the Caribbean. Well does
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that count? No, Yeah, absolutely it was. I think we had
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planned for a long time and this, the timing of it kind of worked
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out, so we decided, yeah, we'll go ahead on that. Yeah,
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we'll just we'll just take advantage of the situation that we've already kind of
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set ourselves up, and we'll just we'll go ahead and pull the trigger.
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So how long How long was it that you worked at Kay Love. I
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was there on the morning show for sixteen years. Damn. Oh, yeah,
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long time. Sixteen years. I literally like graduated college, I moved
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to LA for a hot second, did radio out there, like production type
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stuff. Came back to Dallas and lucked into a job on the morning show,
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and I never left. I always was told, you ever get offered
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a morning show job, take it. That's what I did. And that
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first ten years younger. Oh I'm ten years younger after I left. Yeah,
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that's yeah, there's a few grays up in here, but yes,
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I definitely the way of the world was lifted off my shoulders, even after
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getting fired. As much as I love it, it is a hard business
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to be in, especially for women. Yes, I was like, I
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don't know if y'all agree with that or not, but absolutely it was like
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I always felt like I was just clawing my way up all the time.
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That first morning show that that brought you on? What morning show was that?
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So here in Dallas it was Jody Deane in the morning team and it
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was Jody Dean, Mitch car, Jonathan Hay Bernie mac, Kathy Jones,
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Tammy Edwards, and me. There were said ben of us. I think
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I know five of them. Yeah. So I worked with Mitch Car at
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Kveil and Car. One of the absolute best of voices I've ever heard.
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That man. That man, if it wasn't James Earl Jones doing the voice
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of Vader, it should have been Mitch Carr. You know, he's the
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voice of Speak and Spell, right, I did not know that. I
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did not know that, you know, the Speakin Spell game that we all
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had when we were kids. So he did a one time recording for it,
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was paid a lump sum of of money, and then now today is
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still the voice of Speaking Spell and gets zero residuals from that zero zero.
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And sometimes you really do need an agent. A right fun fact there,
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Mitch Carr voices speaking spell Mitch card took a huge whiff on that play school
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device there, Yes, and he will tell you that exactly that. So,
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so Mitch Carr, I knew it. He and I worked together at
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Cavey. He probably doesn't remembered. I was a lowly board up slash promotions
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assistant at that time, and then he So the other names you mentioned,
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Jody Dean Trey, and I've met Jody a handful of times. We had
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him on the show back in the day when we were at CBS. He
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and him and Russ had like this weird like hate but also respect for one
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another. It was such a weird, weird vibe between those two very much.
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So it was because I was I feel like there was a crossover with
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Russ Martin one year that I was at EBS at the time, and I
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remember being at the holiday party and Russ's band was playing, and I was
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like, Oh my God, like, how what's gonna go down? Because
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I knew the whole beef story behind with Rutt on Russ's end, and then
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now with Jody being together on stage, and I thought there was going to
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be some drama and then they were like, we're cool, shake it off.
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I think we were even thinking the same thing. Yeah, even we
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didn't really know what might happen. Right, You've heard all these stories for
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like a million years and DFW Radio about these two dudes who have been like
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at each other's throats and competitors the entire time. So of course you think
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there's gonna be like some fireworks. I'm thinking it's gonna be like, I
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don't know, they're gonna brawl out in the alley, and then there was
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nothing. It was so anti climactic. Well it needed to be anti climactic
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because if there was a brawl, it would have been very short and Russ
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would have been dead long before he actually was. Yet, say, would
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have whipped his ass. I agreed completely, like Jody would have had that
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hands down. And believe me, Russ knew that. Yeah, he knew
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it. He knew it better. Yeah, what are the other names you
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mentioned? Wasn't there a palpable tension between Jonathan Hayes and Jody so they much?
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They probably very much had a relationship like Russ and Jody did. It
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was like best friends one day, hate each other the next man. Um.
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But towards the end, Jonathan has sense passed away, and I think
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towards the end they made up and you know, rekindled all their original friendships
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from way back in the day and stuff like that. So I'm glad they
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did because I remember meeting Jonathan a few times and he was he was he
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was very cool. That was one of those guys who always had a story
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for something. Um act oh man, absolutely, yeah, I'm like prest
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and peace Jonathan. I was like super nice guy. Um. But yeah,
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they definitely had their on again, off again romance situation happening. I
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remember getting some emails from Jonathan and yeah, it was always when when when
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their bromance was not same here and he had choice words about Jody's same here.
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It's I guess like it's I don't know what it was. It was
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almost like like right, Russ and Jonathan or our show and Jonathan never dated
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or anything, but it's almost like it's almost like we did, because then
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he went on to date Jody Dean and then when he would piss him off,
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then he'd come back crawling back. Does guess what Judie did? Yeah,
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that sounds that is so Jonathan like to a t like, nailed it.
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I heard when you said you did mornings for sixteen years. I was
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I was like, wow, I'm impressed. Uh. Trey, on the
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other hand, he's impressed, but the noise he made was, oh my
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god, how did how did you? How did you survive? Because I
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think we did mornings when we when Trey and I did mornings with Russ when
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we got on the Eagle in twenty ten, we started on mornings and we
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did it for a little over a year, and we hated every single second
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of it. And I think it showed in the ratings because when we first
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started, ratings were great, like, oh my god, the show's back,
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This is awesome. And then like two three months later, we're all
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bitching about how early it is and how drunk we still are from the night
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before, and how miserable we are. And turns out no one wants to
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hear that in the morning. No, no, So they have nured everybody
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else's miserable too. They need something to take their minds off of the misery
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that they're about to head into exactly, but none of us could muster that
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at that Yeah, No, I don't know I honestly, I look back
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and I'm like, I really don't know how I did it. But I
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was like, at the end of the day, this is still what I
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love. I love giving my opinion, I love talking to people, I
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love making This weird fan friendship thing happened. I just at the end of
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the day, that's really what it boiled down to. So you, when
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you love what you do, you will put up with unmentionable things to do
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to continue doing it. I just I just I just felt that deep deep
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in my chest everything everything you just said, like, you will put up
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with unspeakable things. Oh yeah, you will. Really Well his name was
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Russ. Yeah. The thing we dealt with, it was actually very speakable.
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Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Especially well, it's probably a little bit
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easier to talk about him now that he's gone, right, you know what,
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I said the same things when he was alive. So I feel good
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about that, as you know, as I was able to tell him,
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I was like near the end, near the end for him before he eventually
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just stopped showing up all together. Like for a while, he would show
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up about two thirds of the time, and then it just ended up like
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eight months before he passed away. He just never showed up again. Wow,
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which anyone on the show at that time, we weren't surprised. Other
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people acted surprised, even though we told him it was going to happen,
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but they didn't listen. So whatever. There's so much stuff you put up
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with in radio, and now you've made the transition. You met you started
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the transition a long time ago over into digital by doing the podcast Haunted af
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Yeah, that's right. We started as gosh, it's been almost no actually,
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it's been four years since we started Haunted DAYF and we've had like a
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lot of really good success with it. And I'm so happy that I have
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that outlet because you know, once you get fired from radio, you literally
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your whole world shatters. Like my ego was just shattered, and I didn't
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know what to do with myself and I found myself like nobody understands what I'm
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going through. I'm like, you don't understand. I don't have this like
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creative outlet to talk to and all that kind of stuff. Thank God for
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the podcast because I'm like at his really probably what has saved me, like
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pulled me out of the depths of like you're sad radio depression. And of
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course I don't know how I don't know how great a distance we're telling ghost
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stories and bigfoot stories and alien stories and some of that stuff can really get
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in your head. But it worked for me. I'll tell you this,
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and this is funny. The first time Russ and I had a break up,
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which was two thousand and three, there was a guy and his name
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was Gary and I cannot think of his last name, but a longtime radio
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guy who had gotten into concert promotions. Day after I left, he picked
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up his phone and called me and he said, he goes. I know
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it doesn't feel like it now, he goes, but there is life after
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radio. And that was a very prophetic thing to say. I'm still not
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there. Well, I'm still not You've never you really have never stopped doing
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radio exactly. There's waves though, right like yeah, it's feeling great about
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life. And then then like, oh, i'll tell you what ripped the
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like rug out from under me. One day is like I'm at work and
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I work for a podcast company, so there are people that like come through
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that no know who you are or whatever, and somebody recognized me and it
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was like bam, gut punch, because now I have to tell them,
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yeah, well I'm fired. Yeah, I record podcasts for other people.
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Now, dude, I'm right there with you. That's that's starting up the
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podcast. Like you said, it helps you get that creative outlet and you
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really and you you you get to try to at least utilize some skills that
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you've amassed over a long career. Right, But you start thinking, well,
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if I end up as a greeter at Walmart, it's only a matter
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of time before someone says, hey, aren't you And then yeah, I've
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just been punched right in all the guts. Yes, you feel like you're
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supposed to have a certain job because otherwise people will look at you differently because
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you don't have that job anymore. Who was the guy, Oh, it
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was the actor, the guy that was in the Cosby Show. He was
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one of the daughter's husbands. And then one day he gets a photo snapped
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of him working at Trader Joe's and everyone's like, hey, aren't you the
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guy from Cosby Show? And he's like, oh, I don't think anyone
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wants to be that. No, of course not. You Like you're you
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know, you're flying high, right, You're at the height of your career
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and then all of a sudden, everything gets ripped out from under you,
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and people just expect for you to be able to pick up and go somewhere
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else. And I'm like, in Dallas radio, it's not that easy.
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It's just not I'm like, nobody's calling to say, hey, come come
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be on our show. Nobody that it doesn't happen like you guys the first
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Like, I'm like, hey, we want you to come hang out with
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us one day, and I'm like, I can't lie. It felt amazing.
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I was like, yeah, somebody wants my personality. You know,
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we need to do one of these days. We need to get together at
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a bar, preferably and Pray doesn't drink anymore, but I'll drink his.
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And we just need to spill all of our radio guts all over the bar,
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because I think that'd be a fun conversation to have. It would like,
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I really I would love to tell people about the day I got fired,
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like what the events that previously happened, But I'm not there yet.
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Oh it's easy for me, So maybe maybe this will be the place that
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I spill this story. Um, they took all of us out to the
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Ranger game the Sunday before sat in a sweet free food, free drinks.
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They had corporate people coming in shaking our hands and like telling us how awesome
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we were, and then they fired us the next day. God, that
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is that is so radio. It's it's like the bait and switch, like
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we're gonna take you to this nice, sweet party before we kill you off.
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Wow. That is that that is that is that is a truly special
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one. So, Rebecca, do you have I need to know if I'm
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weird on this. I don't have a physical list, but I do have
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a mental list of people that reached out after we got laid off. And
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I know who called, and I know who didn't call. Nope, I
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absolutely do, and I know who still has not bothered to call or anything.
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One hundred percent. Absolutely, there's a checklist, because I feel like
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there's a there should be a two day rule, like if you haven't called
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or reached out in those first two days, like you're dead to me.
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I feel like you're more hard than that. True. No, I don't
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like to think about it though. These are people that I had worked with
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for like sixteen years. So absolutely, I've got a list of who reached
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out and who didn't. I had somebody very flippantly reached out on social media
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like five days after the fact, and I was like, no, we're
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done, Like we are done. I thought we were friends, were done,
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So yeah, two days. I give it a two day situation here.
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You haven't reached out in two days? You got? That goes for
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fans too. Wow, you just really need the attention. I'm kidding.
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I'm kidding, but I do love the people who show up six months later
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and I'm like, I just tuned into Caleb. Where have y'all been?
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Where have I been? Where have you been? It's been six months?
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So speaking of catching up, I think I saw a photo on one of
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your social media. Are you working for Jeff Curley now, the guy that
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he used to do TV news in DFW? Yeah, I actually am.
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I'm I'm working at his podcast company, Real News pr Real News Communication Network,
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and I'm actually his personal producer right now. Oh wow, So I
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film and record and edit and post all of his shows on social media.
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I don't know if you can truly see and appreciate the look on Trey's face
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because he knows where I'm going. Because whenever Jeff Curley's name comes up,
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it's like where First of all, I feel like I need to say,
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I don't know where you're going with this, but I'm like, Jeff Curley
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is one of the nicest human beings, without a doubt. Oh here.
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He is an absolute sweetheart. He is an angel at surprising that his feet
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ever stay on the ground because you think the wings would make him float away.
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He is a wonderful man. He is unfortunately, the subject of one
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of the most unfortunate I know where you're going, one of the most unfortunate
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dildo photo bombings of all time. It's his claim to fame, as he
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likes to say, I mean, it's one of those things. That's why
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Trey Smiley because anytime Jeff Curley, Jeff Curley's name would come up on the
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show, we all knew what was about to happen, and I was gonna
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be Oh, we're gonna watch, We're gonna watch that video of Jeff Curley
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doing a live stand up on TV. And as they're emptying the house behind
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him, it was a drug house. Police are bringing out boxes of things
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and then one of the boxes is the world's largest dildo you have ever seen.
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Yes, I can honestly tell you, within the first two weeks of
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working with Jeff Curley, that video was very high talked about. Um.
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In fact, actually it is kind of funny because he had me re edit
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it with him doing commentary on it. Really yeah, and I was like,
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Okay, well, this is an interesting request. I never thought I
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would get this, you know, working in a corporate type nine to five
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environment, but here we are, and like I guess they probably were like,
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you're the radio girl, you can handle it. So I have seen
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that second yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you for clarifying. You appreciate
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that lightly so lightly saved me there. Uh yeah, So I've seen that
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video I don't know, probably a thousand times. Well I know Trey hasn't
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seen it a long time. So Trey, I'm gonna show this to you
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because it's Jenna Walsh. Yeah. A major drug sweep in Minnesota, Hugh.
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Details are being released, but we do know that they made one bust
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in Maplewood. That's where Jeff Curley is standing by right now. Jeff,
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what do you have going on for us? They're still inside search for evidence.
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I'm told six people have been arrested and charged with intent to possess and
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deliver cocaine. I'm told as much as forty four pounds of cocaine. As
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they said they're still inside. They used a bannering ramp to This is always
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amazing to me how it is he never sees it that the timing, the
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timing of the oh, the timing of that dong. The person I always
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wanted to talk to was the agent who did that, because you could tell
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they're waiting for the live shot. They cracked the door open. They look
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They're like, huh. If you slow it down, you can see the
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man with the box has a huge smirk on his side. Yeah, oh
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yeah, we now we we figured that out. We figured that out many
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many many years ago. One just by watching it, like you said,
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you could see the smile on that guy's face as he's carrying it out into
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the open. But we also now know enough police officers to know that that
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was absolutely intentional. I mean they weren't. They kind of in a weird
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way. They sort of warned Jeff prior to this moment. They were like,
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look where it's is an act of crime scene, Like you can't you're
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not supposed to be here filming or whatever, and they're like, well,
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it's the news, we're doing it anyway. And I think that it was
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like all right, well, if they're going to film anyway, then let's
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see what we can do with their camera shot. So they just yeah,
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they just they just look around the house and it's like there it is,
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like what can we confienscate that will be hilarious on television? And there you
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have it in all its glory. I just hope that it actually was a
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piece of evidence and it wasn't something that the swat team just carries around.
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What I mean, you know, I didn't say they had to battery they
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had to use a battering ram to get in the door, right, That
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would sure break a couple of windows. But if they if they did have
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it like on standby, right, if they had to pull it out of
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the truck or something like that. I can understand that because they've probably gone
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into a million different places and it's like, let's take a token from each
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each house hold that we've been in, right, So that could have been
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a token from somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, very much, it could
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have been. Um. I just hope that they never stuck it up on
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the rearview mirror. Oh lord, I feel like that would like ruin your
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alignment on your vehicle. I'm glad you said vehicle. Yeah, I tried
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24:18
stupid, We're still not sure, Rebecca black both, is there anything about
24:23
radio? Is there anything about radio that you miss, Rebecca or have you
24:29
pretty much just said, you know what, I did a Viking funeral on
24:30
that thing, and I am I am, I am good. I've left
24:33
radio behind. Oh, and I think I miss everything about it. I
24:37
really do am miss giving my opinions on like people's relationships and how to raise
24:44
children and all that kind of stuff. I have found it in a typical
24:48
nine to five setting situation, as people are not so receptive to your opinions
24:55
like they are on radio. If that makes any sense, it does.
24:59
I can't just volunteer opinions around work. Everybody's like shut up. I know.
25:03
It's like instead of people talking about you at the water cooler, now
25:07
you are at the water cooler and all of a sudden, now you're kind
25:08
of annoying. Yeah exactly. They're like, oh my god. Like I
25:12
have one of my friends he's like, you always have like a hard opinion
25:17
on everything, And I was like, yeah, because I was in radio,
25:19
you have to. It got pounded into you over a long career.
25:22
It's like you better have something to say, and it better be memorable.
25:26
Yeah. So, now if we're sitting at the water cooler and somebody's like
25:29
mayonnaise, I'm like, yes, delicious, ball in right, like,
25:33
and nobody cares about that, And people are looking at you. Why she's
25:37
so emphatic about that. They're just I mean, and they're like you say
25:41
that, And then I pop up out of nowhere and and Miraca whip sucks
25:47
right, Oh it's sweet? Why would you want sweet stuff? When you're
25:48
sand which it's disgusting. See, you gotta have a hard opinion about everything.
25:53
So I'm glad that you brought that up, especially when it comes to
25:56
relationships because in a previous in a previous show, Trey and I were talking
26:02
about this with our with our friend and comedian rash Arma. I had heard
26:06
about this thing called a yes weekend, and Trey and Raj are vehemently opposed
26:11
to this. I, however, think it's a brilliant idea. The yes
26:15
weekend is you take with your significant other. You take turns, whether it's
26:22
every other week or once a month, whatever it is, you set up,
26:26
whatever your parameters are, right, you take turns deciding everything you're going
26:30
to do for the weekend, where to eat, where to go, activities,
26:34
all that stuff, and that's left up to that one person. And
26:37
then the next person that you know you take turns basically, and they think
26:42
that's terrible because you're gonna end up, you know, on our side,
26:45
we're gonna end up doing a bunch of things that we hate. It's like,
26:48
well, yeah, but I just like taking the decision making out of
26:52
it, because that's where my wife and I get hung up. On,
26:56
So I've got I'm gonna get. Probably all the ladies are gonna hate me
26:59
for this, But I think the yes weekend is the stupidest thing on the
27:02
planet. First of all, if you're having to do a yes weekend,
27:04
I'm like, your relationship is already in dire trouble just saying two. Let's
27:10
be honest, one of these yes weekends, only one is going to happen,
27:15
and it'll be the females, and I'll have my time and I'll get
27:18
all the yeses that I want, and then the dude is never going to
27:21
get a follow up. Fact that's going to happen. So if he was
27:23
to come to you the next weekend, if your husband comes you the next
27:26
weekend said all right, it's my turn, you're gonna be like, hell
27:29
no, Yeah, I'd be like, oh, I'm too tired. Oh
27:32
can we push it to another month, another day, another week, whatever.
27:36
I would absolutely be brushing that thing off. Plus, I'm like,
27:38
don't you want your spouse to say yes to something because they want to?
27:42
But hang on, Dan's not really I think he's kind of skimming around the
27:48
truth here. The truth of matter is Dan's just looking for a weekend,
27:51
where his weekend he can just say I'm gonna play Call of Duty, do
27:55
whatever you want? All right. First of all, shut up track,
27:59
Yeah, I get, I get the Second of all, it's less take
28:03
advantage of this. Second of all, it's less about the video game thing.
28:06
It's more about I would just like to be able to say, let's
28:08
do this for dinner, and then there's and then that's it, because usually
28:12
like when I, when I say okay, let's go here, and then
28:15
it usually ends up being said, well, I don't really want to come
28:18
here, it's like, well, damn it, so you decide. So
28:21
but if I, if I say that I'm open to anything, that actually
28:23
makes it worse, because now every options on the table, and that makes
28:26
it worse. Yeah. So here's the thing, ladies know what we don't
28:30
want. So you need to keep throwing out ideas. You throw out one
28:34
restaurant, we're gonna shoot it down, throw out another one, shoot it
28:37
down. Eventually you'll get to one that sounds good to us. Yeah,
28:40
but why why can't you just say on the front end, I don't want
28:42
pizza Chinese? And because nine times out of ten I don't realize that I
28:48
don't want it until you say it. It makes me nauseous, but I
28:56
get it. It makes my head sped, but yeah, I understand.
29:00
I hurry. I just need you to list off a string of restaurants and
29:03
I can tell you which ones I don't want. I wonder if it would
29:07
help if if this is where you could use artificial intelligence to your advantage.
29:11
So what you do is you bring up an AI bought and it's a feale
29:15
voice, and then we then would put in there the suggestions of places and
29:22
see if you say yes or no to the female AI bought. That actually
29:26
might work. I think that's a solid plan. You should definitely try that
29:30
on your next Yes weekend. The other aspect of that is I feel like
29:36
once the dude gets his yes weekend, he's going to ask for things that
29:40
we already know are off the table anal yeah, thank you you said it,
29:45
not me, or weird stuff like that. Like I just I think
29:48
it's a disaster waiting to happen. And that's why I get That's why I
29:53
get it when you say it's like you know you'll get yours, but then
29:56
when it comes time for your husband's weekend, you're going to be like absolutely
30:00
all know, like, oh I don't feel good, my head hurts.
30:02
We have to push us to another day. Sorry, So I do know
30:07
now now I know how you feel on the yes weekend. So I'm going
30:08
to let that go on from my personal life. But I did see I've
30:14
noticed that we had this conversation with our old producer Jerry, who still works
30:18
at iHeart. One of the last things we were able to do before we
30:21
left iHeart was able to get him hired back, and then and then like
30:26
a week later, we got shown the door. And so we were talking
30:29
to him a couple of weeks ago, and we have this road show that
30:32
is coming up Friday, July seventh at Daddy Rabbits Pub in Lewisville from five
30:36
to seven, so be there, and he couldn't make it. Jerry couldn't
30:38
go because he still has a radio job, which means he gets vacation time.
30:41
So he's taken a vacation. But you just came back from vacation too,
30:45
Yeah, I did. I think you You you people in your jobs
30:48
just show up and start saying, Oh, I'm going on vacation. Is
30:55
that bad? No, it's good. I'm actually happy you get paid for
30:57
vacations you're supposed to supposed to except when I got it, and I got
31:02
when I got cleaned out, I still had like a week and a half
31:03
left that I didn't get to collect on. I will say that was my
31:07
problem as well. I had four weeks left and I had I hadn't taken
31:11
any of them yet, nor did I get paid for them. I also
31:15
had, if I remember correctly, I had like thirty three sick days,
31:22
you know, all told, and I got I got no competition for any
31:25
of those, right, they don't have to give you that. Apparently that's
31:29
not a thing. It's like, well, yes it was in your contract,
31:30
but we don't actually have to give you that. Yeah, it would
31:34
have been nice, but instead I got a three month vacation of sitting around
31:38
the house trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life.
31:41
That sounds about right. Yeah, I did notice. I did notice
31:45
on Twitter real quick. What are your your social channels? Oh, you
31:51
can find me pretty much everywhere. At haunt it's Haunted Rebecca and it's I
31:53
saw my name weird r eb e kah so Haunted Rebecca. My podcast was
31:59
Haunted af So tieing that in now, absolutely you were. I saw on
32:02
Twitter that you said something along the lines of, how is people at the
32:07
Airport not a thing? Yeah? Okay, do you guys remember the website
32:10
people of Walmart? Definitely people of Walmart dot com. It was like mind
32:15
blowing when it first hit the internet. We were all obsessed with it,
32:17
still are. Actually, I was like, how is people of airport dot
32:22
com not a thing? Because People at the Airport is an amazing watch.
32:28
Like I could sit at an airport probably all day and just pick apart people
32:32
like nobody's business. It really is fascinating, especially when depending on what time
32:38
you're at the airport. So most recently the times that I've flown, it's
32:45
been at least one flight has been really early in the morning. So there's
32:49
a group of people that are all getting there at the same time for the
32:51
early ass flight, and we're all still half asleep. We were excited about
32:54
where we're going, we just don't feel like getting there. But then there's
32:59
all al least like two or three people that look like they have been living
33:02
at the airport for days, and they're the ones that are asleep on a
33:07
sleep on top of like a USB charging chair table thing, and just they
33:12
just look miserable. You just can't. They probably are waiting on their Spirit
33:16
Airline flight to take off and it's been twelve days past due. I thought
33:20
you were going to say they were just waiting for their Spirit to pass that
33:24
too, but like you know, when we got to the airport. So
33:29
it's a very different situation when you are headed out on a trip, because
33:31
everybody's happy, everybody's excited, everybody's got like on level ten. And on
33:37
the other end of things, when you're coming home on a trip, everybody
33:39
is sad and depressed and not looking their best. Right. So we roll
33:45
up to the airport and we're in line and we're waiting, and there's i
33:47
mean a full blown beach version of Kenny Chesney cowboy hat, puka shell,
33:53
necklace, cut off arm sleeves, cut off shorts or shorts. And I'm
33:58
like, man, this dude is about to live his best life on the
34:00
beach with his toes in the sand. Yeah, he's basically gonna take every
34:05
single one of those songs, have them on repeat while he's at the beach
34:09
and he's just doing a twenty four seven exactly and then then you go to
34:14
the extreme opposite and people coming home from vacation and they they're clearly hungover.
34:20
They haven't brushed their hair in what looks like days, no makeup or smeared
34:25
makeup, their clothes are all disheveled and wrinkled, and they're just like,
34:29
I just I've got to get home. It's it's it's one extreme to the
34:32
next. I'm telling you, the airport is the best people watching you will
34:36
ever see in life. And there's there's no better airport if you really want
34:40
to get down to it where you can see those extremes from a Friday to
34:45
a Sunday than the Vegas Airport. That is gosh, yes, Like everyone
34:50
comes and rolling in Friday hot, like done up, ready to just kill
34:53
it. And then by Sunday, you know if they can't even afford,
34:58
you know, a drink because they've lost everything, and they're just haggard and
35:05
just barely getting on a flight hoping to survive. Somehow. You get you
35:08
get roped into sitting next to the dude who's lost everything. He's got the
35:14
alcohol sweats and like you can literally smell alcohol just oozing out of his pores
35:19
before he gets onto this flight, I'm like, oh, and telling you
35:22
is there's no greater tragedy. It's amazing. I really that actually makes me
35:27
realize that may be why I really want to go to Vegas. Truth be
35:31
told, I've never been to Vegas. Wow. I just want to go
35:35
to the airport on Sunday and just watch people come home from Vegas. Yes,
35:39
like I kind of want. They would just sell tickets at the TSA
35:43
check and be like, look, I'm not going anywhere. I just want
35:45
to get it. I just want to like see people come off this plane
35:47
and just set up like a lawn chair and just enjoy the show. I
35:51
would pay for that. I would pay hell of money for that. Seriously,
35:54
and hold up the poster did you win? How did it go?
36:00
Well? I'm just gonna do post interviews off the plane, like as they're
36:01
getting off, like what happened? Buddy? You clearly lost it all?
36:07
Well, the thing about it and it's you could the last Southwest flight from
36:10
Vegas to love Field is the one. And even if if for the few
36:15
people that actually did do well, you're in such a sea of shame and
36:20
guilt and regret. Can't you can't brag about it. Either there might be
36:25
a mutiny and they just kill you out of frustration. But you know,
36:29
you're just like, oh my gosh, this is so sad. It is
36:32
sad. It's really sad. And when there's a plane full of sadness,
36:35
I want to be there to witness. I do love the thought of,
36:39
like if you actually did really well in Vegas and you want some money,
36:44
you had a great time, you saw every show you wanted to see,
36:46
maybe they comped your bottle service at the pool or something, and you get
36:51
on the plane when you have a huge smile and then you see everyone that
36:53
looks like they're on their way, you know, to death, and then
36:58
you immediately just go, I'm not happier, Like, don't wear it,
37:01
just try to fit in, like you just dishovel yourself a little bit,
37:05
like I didn't win anything while I was there. Yeah, because otherwise it's
37:07
going to be like a Lord of the Flies turned Vegas situation. They're gonna
37:10
tear you apart, yep, because because there's always the three or four people
37:15
that you can tell, you know, they contemplated selling a kidney to try
37:21
to they're looking down there, counting ribs and like do I need I might
37:29
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friend Rebecca formerly of k Love, currently of Haunted AF the podcast yep,
41:34
so you guys at on the podcast Haunted A. If you guys are on
41:37
a break right now, when is the show coming back? Because I'm I'm
41:39
Jones And for some new Haunted AF so well, we're currently doing Patreon right
41:44
now. It's five bucks a month or whatever it is. Um, that's
41:46
kind of where we're holding at this point. We're waiting to try to get
41:50
some sponsorships, but it looks like October is when we're going to be back
41:53
for a full season. Sounds like a good timing. Yeah, of course,
41:58
Well October is the spooky season, of course, and it's the best
42:00
season for hauntidy F for sure, So that was kind of the goal.
42:05
I guess, you know how it is. It's like you have to take
42:07
some time away to sort of figure out how to revamp and make it new
42:09
and make it better. And that's sort of what we're doing right now.
42:13
We're just sort of taking a break, trying to figure out where we go
42:15
from here. What is the premise behind hanaday F. I mean, is
42:21
it haunted houses, Haunted stories, haunted stories? So we we say,
42:24
real ghost stories told by real people. And it's when we first started it,
42:29
of course, the only people that were actually guests on our show were
42:32
people we knew and trusted right that had real ghost stories and real encounters with
42:37
paranormal activity and stuff like that. And then from there we opened it up
42:42
to like the audience for them to email us stories or send us audio,
42:46
or if it's a really good story and we think it deserves an interview,
42:49
will call and chat and have them tell the story to us personally. And
42:52
then from there it just kind of grew and grew and grew, and it's
42:55
branched out into this sort of thing of its own. But we do it's
43:00
not just ghost stories. By the way, we do Bigfoot stories. We
43:02
do alien stories. You have stories about our old program director, Don Davis.
43:09
I cannot say that we have gotten a Don Davis story yet. Well,
43:13
if you got Bigfoot stories, that means you've got Don Davis stories.
43:16
I like that. Okay, Well you'll have to share. If a if
43:20
a program director grunts in the woods, does it? Does it make a
43:22
sound if no one's around to hear it, that's fantastic. Yeah. He
43:29
I don't know if he really enjoyed all that much being referred to as Bigfoot
43:31
on the show. But it's you know, it's like, well, it's
43:35
kind of comes with looking like Harry from Harry and the Henderson. I was
43:37
going to say, was he like an actual Harry Dude? I don't know
43:42
how Harry he was. We made a lot of assumptions about the body hair,
43:45
but he is. He was a massive man. He was like twelve
43:49
feet tall. Yeah, okay, well and the only person that could compete
43:53
with him in stomping up and down the hallways was Trey and that was because
44:00
war cowboy boots in those days. Nice. Nice. So he was just
44:02
a big burly dude that was stomping all over the place like a sad sack
44:07
and begging us, begging us to read liners. Sorry, don that's that's
44:12
not what we do on this year, or begging us so like, please
44:15
tell us to promote something. He's not going to do it, man,
44:19
He's just not. No, it's not gonna happen. So the Haunt Today
44:22
f podcast you get you said earlier, you guys have been doing that for
44:25
like four years, right, yeah, we've done it for four years.
44:28
We've again like we got to uh, we've done some really cool stuff with
44:31
it. We were actually on you know Chris Jericho, the wrestler. Yeah,
44:36
yeah, so he had us on his show. We did an entire
44:38
episode with him and it was so much fun and he's like the nicest guy.
44:43
Um, And then we got to be on the Kelly Clarkson Show.
44:45
So we've had like some we've had some really big successful moments. Um.
44:50
Like I said, we're just looking for that next jump, Like where do
44:52
we take it from here? And when you find that next big jump,
44:54
would you mind dragging us along too, because we're still babies at this of
45:00
course, we're still so young at this. We have no problem begging at
45:02
least I don't. I don't know. I don't want to speak portray we
45:06
don't have problem begging either, But I will tell you that is one thing
45:07
I really do love about the podcast community is everybody is so willing to help
45:13
each other out. It's been really great, Like we have met so many
45:16
people along the way that are like, oh, we love your podcast,
45:20
like maybe we can cross over stuff like that, um or the people that
45:23
they're everybody's willing to give advice on how to make things better, and it's
45:28
been just a really awesome experience. Yeah, we're starting to, uh,
45:31
we're on our end. We're starting to receive a little bit of that as
45:35
well. And and you know, being able to connect with you and Julie
45:39
from hunt to day is a big deal for us as well. One because
45:44
I don't want you to think I'm just blowing smoke up your ass or anything.
45:45
Because this part, the next part I'm going to say, is true.
45:47
I've respected what you and Julie have done, not just on the podcasting
45:52
side, but what you guys, you know we're able to do on the
45:53
radio side of things. I've always been sort of a student of the industry,
45:59
whichever industry I'm in, and there's only two at this point, it's
46:00
radio and podcasting, and you guys, you guys do it really well.
46:05
So good on you. Thank you. I appreciate that. That means,
46:08
that really does mean the world to us because it's just the two of us.
46:12
We literally don't have any other help, and I will and I'm like
46:16
a fourth of the two of us because Julie literally she just has taken it
46:22
all and run with it, doing like the social media website stuff like she's
46:24
she's phenomenal at what she does. And that's that's pretty much the boat that
46:29
Trey and Trey and I are in now, and so it's great being able
46:32
to have that extra resource and to help one another they're out. So with
46:37
all that being said, that's too much nice and normal stuff. Now let's
46:40
jump into something really stupid, because that's where we That's where we really,
46:44
you know, feel at home. It's our sweet spot. It is stupid
46:49
is our sweet spot. Thank you, Trey. So to that end,
46:52
I want to throw something at you, both Trey and Rebecca. Okay,
46:54
I've seen this on social media, probably for I don't know three four months.
47:00
I'm calling it the red pill blue Pill challenge. It's just an internet
47:02
meme and it just says red pill. It's got two hands. It got
47:07
a red pill in one hand and a blue pill in the other one,
47:09
and underneath red pill, it says, restart your life at six years of
47:14
age with all the knowledge you have now, or take the blue pill.
47:20
You get ten million dollars in cash. Which would you do? That's an
47:23
easy answer for me. I'm like, I want the easy answer, the
47:27
ten million in cash. Give it to me now. I can make that
47:30
last. Yes, I am absolutely with you. And my reasoning for it,
47:34
I think is I really want to try to dig deeper and think that
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there's more than this. But really I just kind of stopped because the thought
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of starting over at six years old with my brain, I don't want to
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have to do all that goddamn homework. No same I won't remember half the
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stuffs that I know now. I can't remember it from a day to day
47:52
basis. Why on earth do I think I can go back at six and
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remember? Definitely not, And I'd much rather. I'd much rather take that
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easy way to give me the ten million gas, because you're right, I
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can make ten million last I can turn it into something. I mean,
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in all honesty, I can let that sit in the bank and make like
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it'll make money on its own right. There's no thought there in that for
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me, like, which is what I need? That's what I need?
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No thought? What about you trend home? I would go with the red
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pill at a boy, of course. So you're just trying to prove it
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you're smarter than all of us. Well, no, it doesn't take much
48:24
time to prove that. It's I don't think you don't get to a point
48:34
of being a recovering alcoholic without a lot of regret. And so yeah,
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there, I if I could go back and just fix a lot of things
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and tell eighteen year old me, you know, don't uh so it's not
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so much I make you just want to live out the entire plot of quantum
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Leap. Well that and I honestly, especially knowing what I know now,
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I could make ten million dollars, I have no doubt about it. But
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I could make a lot better decisions along the way. Okay, better decisions
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are not but like, would you would really want to go back and undo
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all the weird, crazy things that you did because they've made you the person
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that you are today. I'm still stupid, so I know I'm gonna make
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a lot of mistakes, just you know, mainly uh when uh, probably
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in my mid twenties, when I started drinking every night. Then I'd be
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like, hey, stop it, and you know, yeah, but not
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for you to get to the to the mid twenties part where you're telling yourself
49:34
to stop it, you then have to do everything that you did from age
49:37
six two twenty five, which includes high school, middle school. You're gonna
49:43
have to hit puberty for a second time. Yeah, that's rough. You
49:49
have to do over again. And for me, I'm gonna have to do
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missus missus Chrysler's ap English class again and I don't want that. You know,
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school is easy. I've that smart. You see the puberty thing,
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that's awful. Nobody wants to read you that twice yeah, the only time,
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really, the only middle school was always just the Miserable Years. I
50:14
mean everyone's just so awkward and braces and everything else. But yeah, I
50:19
like to had the TV show The Wonder Years, when it absolutely should have
50:22
been called The Miserable Years. Absolutely because it's the worst time of your life.
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Junior haih sucks for literally everyone, and you would be willing to just
50:29
go back and do all of that over again. Yes, wow, Oh,
50:34
I forgot to mention to you. You're a better human than I.
50:36
No, it's not so much that, Rebecca. He just really is a
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glutton for punishment. You must be in order to be interested in that.
50:43
I was like, man, I got called fat so much from like fourth
50:45
grade to sixth grade. I would never want to endure that again. Same
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kids are mean. If you had the knowledge you don't now, you could
50:53
just absolutely you could twist that mean kids and you could make them cry.
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No, I was already really good at that. Anyway, when you're a
51:02
chubby kid, you have to learn how to self defense, and I would
51:06
cut people with my words. So that's probably why I made it in radio,
51:08
because I didn't have a problem with telling people what I really thought.
51:13
You know. I was very good at finding that one thing that somebody was
51:16
insecure about and then like twisting the knife. All right, I need an
51:21
example. Okay, so this actually I have one that's not even it's not
51:23
even fat related, but like I was not a cool kid. I wasn't
51:27
and I don't care I was. I was like, I'm not getting nobody's
51:30
telling me what to do. I'm doing my own thing. I'm going to
51:31
be my own person. And that's how I was. And I remember this
51:35
in like maybe six or seventh grade, and the cool kid was like,
51:38
ha ha, watch this. I'm gonna ask Rebecca Black out to the dance
51:45
or whatever it was our junior high middle school dance. And I'm like,
51:46
I'm knowing full well, like you're not going to pull one over on me,
51:50
Like I know you're doing this because it'll be hilarious when she says yes,
51:53
and then you'll be like yessum. And I remember him asking me,
52:00
and I was like, why would I want to go with you? And
52:02
so I like insult him first, turned him down, and he was like
52:07
damn. He walked away like that did not play out how I had it
52:10
playing out. He was such a little douche too, and I was like,
52:14
I knew. I knew That's what he wanted, was for me to
52:17
just be like, oh god, I cannot believe the hottest guy school asked
52:21
me out. And I was like, I don't play that way, No
52:22
thanks. How did he end up? That's a great question. I have
52:27
no idea, because my theory is how much I don't care. I have
52:30
no idea where any of those people are now today, and I don't care.
52:34
My assumption is is that he's probably not doing great, only because my
52:37
theory is if you peaked in high school, you can carry that into college
52:42
maybe, but it doesn't typically last. But if you peeked in middle school,
52:47
your life is probably a hot dumpster fire as by the time you're in
52:51
your twenties. I can't imagine it any other way. Honestly, I assume
52:54
he. I mean, he's probably married to some sad girl that puts up
52:59
with that kind of guard bitch. And you know, honestly, I really
53:01
haven't thought about that guy until we just mentioned that there is a guy.
53:07
I He was a year ahead of me. I went to school with and
53:10
in seventh and eighth grade he was the king of the hill. He was
53:15
like at that point, I mean I think he was. He was like
53:17
five eight five six five eight, And the problem is he literally peaked.
53:22
He never grew anymore anything else. But so he is fifty now and he's
53:29
still anytime you see him will want to talk about you know, high school.
53:37
You know, who do we keep up with? Who do we talk
53:38
to? You know, how's the high school football team doing? And he
53:42
will somehow mention you know something he did. It's like that's just a horrible
53:46
exist. So he's like he's like, he's like Al Bundy from Married with
53:49
Children, Right, he wants to talk about his his his his four touchdown
53:52
game. Right, Isn't that sad? That makes me sad? It does,
54:00
like you never moved on. It makes me sad on one hand,
54:02
But if I was, if I was ever on the receiving end of someone
54:07
like that, I can't help it. I have it. I have a
54:09
dark revenge streak in me, and I love it when people get there get
54:14
their comeuppance. So but isn't I mean, really the best revenge though,
54:19
is that like I went on and had a I've had a great life,
54:22
Like I've had a very successful career. You know, I'm not like,
54:27
I'm out here living my best life literally not giving two thoughts about that guy.
54:31
And I do wonder if sometimes maybe he thinks about, man, that
54:34
was really horrible of me to do that, and I'd be like, that's
54:37
all I need. I'm doing well. Yeah, No, you're right,
54:39
because that is something that's an adult I've I've come to embrace, which is
54:44
the whole The best revenge is living a great life. Yeah. Absolutely,
54:49
I'm like, why should I let someone else's like pain and suffering and misery
54:52
bring me down? Right, I'm not going to seek out to see what
54:55
happened to you. But if I happen to be watching Good Day and I
54:59
see that you went headlong into a dart train, I'm not gonna I'm not
55:02
gonna whatever. At least they don't have an answer as to how he ended
55:07
up. Like I said, I'm not even searching for an answer. I'm
55:13
just like, whatever, wherever you're at, good for you, buddy.
55:15
It sucks to be flat. Rebecca Black, thank you so much for hanging
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out with us in the treehouse today. Absolutely, thank you for inviting me.
55:25
I've had fun. If if if if if you would ever consider it.
55:31
The invitation is open. If you'd ever like to come back, Oh
55:35
yeah, absolutely anytime. Just holler if I'm available, I will come back.
55:37
Sure, and uh do us a favor and tell Jeff Curley we said,
55:42
hey, I totally will. I will absolutely all right, Rebecca Black,
55:46
thank you so much. Be sure to follow any and all things Treehouse
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see you next time in the Treehouse. See you