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Adopted Land | It's FRIDAY! #43 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the treehouse.
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On a Fridday, June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. I'm Daniel
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Malley along with Trey Trendholm and Raj Sharma. I have tried gentlemen over the
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past. I guess week since I told you about one of my first major
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head injuries as a child when I read head when I ran headfirst into a
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piece of playground equipment, right, and that piece of playground equipment that I
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described to you in detail because ironically I remember it was a lightwood blacquered finish
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box, right, and it was just sitting straight in the middle of the
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ground, and on two sides it had wooden bars kind of like a jail
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from bottom to top, and then on the other two sides it was just
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complete straight through open and my game was to run through the open side.
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I think it was like a race or something with someone I don't know,
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and I ran all the way trying to run through it like I've done in
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the past, and didn't realize I had grown since the last time I played,
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and smacked myself straight into the two by six going across it right So
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I have tried over the last week to no avail to find a photo of
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this playground equipment to show you guys. I can't find it. I have
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searched on Google, I've searched on being I think I even dug up Licos
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to see nineteen eighties playground equipment image searches, and I cannot find an example
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of this piece of playground equipment. But the way you describe it, I
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don't understand the play part of it. It just sounds like somebody built a
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box. Like what would you do with it? Because I think jail bars
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on both sides and then opening on the other two sides. Yeah, what
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does that do? Well? I think I think it's a piece for using
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your imagination, your play creativity. I really don't know. I mean that
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was the beauty of all of us with our age when we were kids.
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We found ways to play with things, even if they weren't necessarily toys,
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we'd still find a way to integrate them into our playtime. Yeah. But
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I think this was like maybe a low underfunded school and they were like,
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hey, we need some sort of playground thing, like somebody's dad's Like I
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got some wood of the land of misfit toys. Maybe that's what it was.
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Maybe that really is what it was. My recess in pre kindergarten was
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the land of misfit toys. Did the adopted kids have a special playground?
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Since we didn't have real parents, we couldn't have real playground equipment. You
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had a good playground equipment nobody else wanted. No, Sorry, the good
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kids, the uh, the a k C Registered children get the good playground
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with the monkey bars and the swing set. Yeah. Uh and the merry
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go round thing. No, no, no. And for you adopted kids,
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you don't get that good stuff. You go over there and get the
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reject pile. Yeah. I'm just saying, if you were handed off in
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the parking lot of a Walmart, that's kind of the best toy you're gonna
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get. No, beggars can't be choosers. You just live with what you
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get. Look a curb, it's like Christmas for adopted Maybe one day I'll
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be able to get the lines that go with the entire parking spot. Life
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was tough as an adopted kid. I never thought about that. Maybe I
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was in the school for the uh, the lonely and adopted. Yes,
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it's right next to Hogwarts, like except we don't get told about the secret
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passageway. There's nothing magical. It's just a sad place. We just run
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into the brick wall because it's what was painted over like looney tunes. See
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you you you you normal kids. You don't know how good you had it.
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Yeah, we had monkey barns and the little little little horses and race
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corners with the springs on it that you could with the swing sets. And
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yeah. See the only way I got to ride in those fun cars was
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in front of the walmart and you had to throw a corter into it.
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Oh, I had to pay for it. You got to ride that for
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free. And the good, the good hot metal slide, the hot metal
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side is my favorite. No, we had that. Even you guys got
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that. Okay, well, even even we had the hot metal slide.
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You kids were the ones that got the good, new plastic slides that didn't
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give you third degree burns across your har No, no, no, we
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didn't that. That didn't change until at least in my elementary school. I
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remember this like I believe it was the late nineties, is when I was
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jogging by uh. I think I just come back from school or whatever,
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and I was from from college and I was jogging by and I was like,
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what the F is this? And I went back into the playground.
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It was like evening, and I was like, this is amazing. And
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they still had gravel. They still had that, so they still there was
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still a potential for injury. Was it actual gravel or was it the soft
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pea river rock like, no, the river rock gravel. No, no,
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no, this was like like construction side gravel. Okay, good,
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because the gravel I grew up on, including the gravel driveway that I had,
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and that was what my dad taught me to ride a bike on,
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was jagged limestone quarry style. You know, there's a legitimate possibility of when
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you fall off this bike, you may never walk again type of ground.
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Yeah. Yeah, the good old fashioned kind of like there's probably still like
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quartz or limestone stuck in our body somewhere, Oh, no doubt. Absolutely.
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And that's the kind of thing, whether it was the gravel road we
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learned to ride a bike on or the rusty, sun scorched playground equipment.
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Not only did those things build character in us, also a large amount of
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scar tissue. Yes, you know, they say that the bone you break
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becomes the strongest bone in your body because of the calcification. So yeah,
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But then I went by I think another ten years later, and that's when
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they had replaced the gravel with the rubber all weather mats that went everywhere.
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So I mean like you could literally jump up in the air and fall flat
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on your face and it was like like landing on a cloud. And I
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was like the ground hugs you as you face the plat, I mean,
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you know, And I was like, oh, these kids are about to
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be bitches, like I thought about about two thousand and eight I called it.
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I was like, these kids about to be bitches. And you know
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what's interesting. I have never set foot on some of these newer playgrounds because
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you know, I don't have kids. I'm not, you know, running
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out there and playing on playground equipment with kids. During COVID, I worked
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out when all the gyms were closed on a couple of pieces of playground equipment.
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But the one I went to didn't have some of the advancements. I
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think that this new stuff has, Like there's there's a there's a park not
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far from where we live here, and I walked across it the other day
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to throw something in the trash can and on that mat that you're talking about
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RAJ where the playground equipment sits on top of. For us, that whole
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section was the break your neck. You no longer walk if you hit this
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gravel correctly area. That's what we grew up with. Now it is,
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it's like this. It's green like grass, but it's soft and spongy.
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It feels like one of those like the soft spot to land at a trampoline
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park. I mean it's it's I had no I thought it was going to
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be harder. Now it was. It Like I stepped foot on it and
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I was like, I would like shoes made of this. Yeah, I
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was. I remember bouncing on it, like just walking and I was like,
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oh, this is nice. It's almost like the playground was built on
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a bed of crocs. Yeah. And I and I and I do this
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in my stand up where I'm talking when I talk about the playgrounds that we
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had, Like I don't know if you guys are aware. It started in
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California. I know that, and it's working its way across the country.
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It'll get here eventually. But like the swing sets in California. I have
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to be adult supervised. I don't know if you knew that. Like you
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have to like there's like a clipboard like signing thing, so like if you
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put your kid on the swing set, you gotta sign like, hey,
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I'm standing and all. So if any other kids are on there or come
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up while you're kids swinging, you're responsible to watch them as well. No,
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no, I will not be responsible for anybody else is idiot child?
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Yeah? Did y'all have the the metal spin thing that you know? Well?
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But yeah, kind of it was around. It's like the one with
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the horses and you go up and down and everything's okay. The horse is
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going up and down, mirrors and music. That's a carousel, but you
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try to go around. Was the metal spinny thing with the bars. I
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also called it the kids spinner? Yeah, the one you spin as fast
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as you can so you can watch Tim fly off and break his arm.
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Yeah, that's that's always a good one. We had a we had a
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scot that's who I mean. We were going and he did the thing where
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he was like starfish and like let go of the the bar and like just
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did the whole thing where he laid in the middle like I'm a star fish
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and and he flew the f off that thing and oh my god, was
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it hilarious till he landed and I'm like, that's broke, and uh,
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yeah, that that'll happen. Yeah. We got to sign his cast,
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so that was really cool. I you know, it was like it was
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like it was like a soldier coming back from war. Like he came back
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to school a week later, We're like, that's him. Like it was.
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He was like a legends, Like that's that's the Scott that everybody's been
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talking about. He got the right and he got the ride in the the
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ambulance. Yeah. Uh. And then like he didn't write the name,
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it was mesquite brother. He didn't write an ambulance. They called his folks.
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Somebody came up and picked him and took him to the hospital. Probably
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my mom was working at uh. And then they they gave him a white
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cast like that white off white so that people could sign it because you had
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you had color choices. Uh. In the in the early eighties, they
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were they were starting to spruce up the cast so you can get like blue
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or red or green. And most people didn't realize it. It was just
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whatever the cast company sent the plaster would would be that color, but he
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had the off white, so we all got to sign it and that was
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really cool. I mean, so on supervised kids with a lot of metal
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and gravel, what could go wrong? Yeah, I mean I didn't have
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a good recess if I didn't get my leg caught in the tire pit thing.
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So you had like whatever the thing was called, when you had the
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wooden platform on one side, and then the tires that were attached by chains
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that went down and then back up like a ramp to another wooden platform,
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and the game was to jump from one platform to the other. And if
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you didn't make it, then you ended up in the in the lava with
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the tires. And if I didn't get one leg caught and dangle upside down
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at one point, then I didn't have a successful recess. I'm pretty sure
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you were just playing in the salvage yard. I don't think. I don't
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think you had a playground. I think they just took the adopted kids to
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like a dump, the one where they encouraged you to pet the junkyard dog
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that was just the guy's name. Go ahead and junkyard dog we call I
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mean his name is Steve, but we called him dog. Uh. It
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was like, this is where we burn the tires, but before we do,
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why don't you guys play around on him? But we've already let the
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match. Use your best judgment when you think, when you think playtime is
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over, We're going to find out who the fastest adopted kid is. You're
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hula hoop fired dancer and uh or even chopsticks. I'm good at chopsticks,
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but I see other people struggle. Anything jump to your mind where you're like,
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oh, yeah, I'm great at that. What other people saw?
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I mean a couple things. I guess I stand out. If you ask
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Carrie, she always really gives me a lot of crap about my spelling.
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And I try to spell really well, but I guess sometimes easy words.
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I sometimes flip flop letters and it's it's just something small, and I catch
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myself and thank Goodness for spell check now and everything. So it doesn't make
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during that break, I took a moment to draw the concussion box that I
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played with back in pre kindergarten slash kindergarten, because again I searched for it
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online couldn't find an example of this. This is as best as I can
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do. So right there is like a little my version of a see saw,
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and that's kind of the box. So that's the bars on one side,
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that's the open thing there, and then there would be another open side
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over there and then more bars on this side. So obviously, at least
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I was smart enough not to try to run through the bar side because I
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knew I wasn't going to fit between the bars. I was that was impossible.
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But I tried to run through this opening out through the other way,
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but I missed, and that's where I hit my head right there on that
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two by six. That's a that's a jail cell, Dan, Yeah,
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no, Trey. A jail cell is where they put criminals. This is
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an adopted kids c Yeah, this is an adopted kid because there's hope on
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the other side. Yeah, Trey. This was from uh, this was
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from Fisher Price. It was my first kennel, and I didn't know how
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to draw one of those little water spouts like like you give gerbils that just
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looks like like at every Van Dam movie where they house the POWs like that,
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that's what it looks like. They just you know what, Maybe that's
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what this was. Maybe this was maybe this plate. Maybe this piece of
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playground equipment was a piece of the set that they took from the Chuck Norris
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movie Missing an Action. Yes, that's what it is, or it's they
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actually have the dogs from the Salva jard sleep at night, like that's where
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they go where you're air quote teachers? Were they in white lab coats with
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nap with with with clipboards taking notes on the other side of it? Did
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you refer to your teachers as doctor so and so? Time to think of
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it. I do remember a couple of those. We were just told that
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they were they were supervising. Do you remember what your student number was?
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I'm pretty sure that's why you don't remember anything. They just wiped your memory
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solid. We didn't know about these experience. All I know is we all
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to this day Miss eleven. You think about her every day and hope she's
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fine and comes back to father. Did you guys all have special underwear?
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Dan was in a cult. I don't know if you can see this,
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but so my number was I wasn't good enough to have on the plus side
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of things like eleven. So you can see that my tattoo is negative to
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poor, poor, poor day. That's why he was always the big pencil
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kid. Yeah, we just had and I used to make fun of mesquite
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for our playground. But wherever you were, whatever outdoor lab. They had
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no remember it was indoor, and I think they were the game. Yeah,
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that's right, I forgot you were. They couldn't take a chance on
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defenses because then they got to bring those pesky callers back out buzz every time
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you get near the fence. Yeah, it was watching Arnold Swarzenegger's The Running
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Man was pretty triggering for me. I still remember the other Danny. There
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used to be two of us. Oh God, I love Fridays. So
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last episode we discussed the viral sensation known as Haktua Girl. And what was
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fascinating about this to me looking back on it, is that Trey introduced her
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to you and me, Raj. You and I had no idea when we
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went in to record the previous episode of the Treehouse who Hawktua Girl was,
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let alone, what Hawktua itself was. Yeah, we knew what that was,
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we just didn't know it by that particular name. And so Trey introduced
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Hawktua Girl to us, and I learned later that night, as I'm doom
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scrolling in bed, I was only two thumb swipes away on ex Twitter Twitter
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X whatever it is or Twitter triple X. Now, I was only two
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thumb swipes away from seeing it. So I was right. I was really
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really close to it. I was right on the edge. And then,
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like I said, Trey, you introduced a hawk to a girl to us.
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And I think before we get into now exploring the legend of Hawktua over
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the past handful of days, we should probably revisit the original video of the
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Hawkta girl and her friend being interviewed by YouTube guys Tim and Dee or something
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like that. And they were the ones that were walking around Nashville doing man
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on the street stuff and they were discussing. They were interviewing attractive girls and
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asking them provocative questions. And about eight minutes into their video, Uh,
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they came across, uh, these two white girls, and they interviewed them.
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This is for her. What you want to answer this? You got
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what's one move in bed that makes the man go crazy every time you give
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him that hawk dude spent all that night. I don't get you. I
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think you gotta demonstrate hawk dudes. So there you have, uh, and
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the legend and the legend of Hawk Toua was born. Yeah, there are
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some other, you know, questions she answered that are equally as dirty.
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Oh really, Yeah, Yeah, the full video is entertaining and I and
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you know, we can play more of it, but that's you know.
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You go to the Tim and D YouTube channel, you can see the whole
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video, including like this spitting. This is not the first time that the
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spinning thing was brought up on this particular episode, Like three or four minutes
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prior, there was a couple other girls talking about hey, spin on me,
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But this was the viral sensation they picked up on Hoctua And just like
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the thing that she's spitting on, her legend has grown since this has gone
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viral and she's become now a public viral sensation. Yeah, it's amazing in
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this day and age, how forty five seconds can ruin your life because now
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everybody they have they found out who she is and her name is Haley Welsh.
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Yes, that's that's who she is, and we are pretty sure that's
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her name. Yes, this is what they this is what the internet is
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saying. But yeah, I think the enthusiasm in which she demonstrated the sound
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is what made her go viral because she she was very she was very entertained
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by her own answer. So well, that's what I love about the original
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video. Is the guy originally asked the brunette first, and and Haktua Haley
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had walked away, and then the brunette friends like, hey, hey,
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you need to ask this question again. And this is a girl, you
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need to ask this question. She brings her over. That's why she says,
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she'll give the answer that you're looking for. Yeah, so she's given
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It's that means she's told that to the brunette. She's explained like, hey,
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you gotta you gotta do this. If if you want to have your
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own shirts in, then NETSI store exactly. So Ever since this has become
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what it is, which is the new viral sensation, give give Hoctua Haley
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Welch all the credit in the world. She has done more to unify this
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country politically than any candidate across the nation could ever dream. Okay, a
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man, Yes, I know, we've got presidential debates are starting. You've
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got Trump versus Biden, and Kennedy is looking from the outside in. And
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I guarantee you, if she wanted to hawk to, a girl could flap
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her way in the middle of this debate and win in a matter of thirty
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seconds. Yes, which that's one meme I did not see. I did,
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however, see a ton of other ones over the next couple of days,
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and I decided to compile a couple of these for you guys in case
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you had missed some of them, because I thought these are some of my
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favorites. I want to share some of these with my buddies Raj and Trey.
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So this is a collection here, Like I said, some of my
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favorite Hawkta girl memes inside the treehouse. We will begin with the meme of
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Ben Affleck outside smoking a cigarette in his blue sweater with the caption Hawk to
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his Dad right now and probably forever. And I will follow that up with
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that. That was one of the first ones I saw. Then another one.
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Hang on a second, what is that tray, I've got a a
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political video of for Hawk toa okay okay uh after Ben Affleck as Hawk toa
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Dad, I've got the Iowa hawktas with the logo of the Hawks kidding.
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That's brilliant. I guess Gray hadn't seen that one. This would also work
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for any other for any other Hawk mascot, So if the Atlanta Hawks,
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I'm sure there's one for them. Yeah. If if the eagle was smart
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they would have done one, but I don't. I didn't look because I
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don't care. Also, staying with the sports theme, people got to printing
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their hawk Tua stuff pretty quickly, including hockey jerseys with Hawktua on the back
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and the number twenty four okay, hockey sweaters okay, and then the hawktucn
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from Street Fighters, which is which is another one of my favorites. Again,
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these are these are also of my favorites. And then uh and then
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Hawktua girl single handedly destroying Pride Month. So if you're unfamiliar with the school
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bus driving across the railroad tracks in front of a train meme, the bus
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is Pride Month and the train is Hoktua Girl demolishing it. Which, let's
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be honest, I'm I'm pretty sure the LGBTQ community, although mainly the male,
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I'm sure they've got a handle on on on the hawking thing. I
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don't think that's a streets only type of deal. Another one of my favorites
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is the Avenger Hawktuah spin on that thing movie poster Can She Save the Marvel
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Cinematic Universe? Along with Hawktua the Disney movie where it's cartoon Hawktua with her
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pet hawk on her shoulder. Ah, that's that's not right. It's gonna
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get worse. It's gonna be a musical, of course it is. And
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then one of my favorites also the hawk to a debit card, because you
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can get whatever image you want to put on a debit card. Yep.
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So he got three three photos of Hawk tour Girl spitting on it with you
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know her catch, raise and spit on that thing. And then we roll
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into the original Hawkta Girl Monica Clinton photo. I mean, you gotta give
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props to the ogs, right, I mean you have to. You have
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to. You got it, you gotta. You gotta give it up to
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You have to respect your elders. You have to respect those who came before
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you. And that will continue to come afterwards. You're listening to the Treehouse,
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visit us online that Treehouse on air dot com. I am saving the
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best for last though, my absolute favorite Hawk Tua thing that I've seen in
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the last few days, that'll be coming up later in the show. Stick.
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Let's get Jaqueline from Brooks Plumbing into the Treehouse now for any and all
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of your plumbing once and needs, give her and all of them. There
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a call two, one, fourth, three, six, eight thirty eight
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thirty eight. The website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. When I had my
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house in Dallas, Jacqueline, you came out a few times to help us
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with some issues, and your response time was phenomenal. And it wasn't just
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because it was me. It was because that's the kind of company you run.
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You go out of your way trying to help every client and try to
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get there as soon as you can. Well, I mean the reality of
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it is is that plumbing is unfortunately a need and not so much a want.
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Yes, you can want to remodel the bathroom and that's not pressing,
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but typically when it comes to service or leak investigations, et cetera, et
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cetera. If you've got to stoppage on the mainline and you don't know and
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you keep putting liquid or you know, waste into the drains, if it
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has nowhere to go, it will come back in the house and at that
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point in time, it's no longer a want, it's a need, and
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that sort of thing can't wait. When you have those emergencies, you have
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got to figure out how to manage the crew so that you can have the
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best response time that's right, and they'll show up and they'll do it quickly.
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wants and needs. In which case, I'm sure in some of those instances
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you could just spin on it and that might fix whatever is clogging up your
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pipes. But it doesn't always work that way, and when that happens acts
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when you need to call in the professionals at Brooks Plumbing. Of course,
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now I'm thinking that would make for an excellent plumbing company. Hawktua plumbing.
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Spin on the thing? Sure, unclugged your pug? Yeah? Clear?
30:48
All clogs? All right, let's quit messing around. Let's get into what's
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most important on a Friday, and that is, of course birthdays. Hip.
31:00
Because while I've got important news to tell you about a banshee killing,
31:03
a man, protests gone wild, double dipping surgeons, it's important that we
31:10
first get birthdays into our system. Birthdays today again. The day is day
31:18
June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. Birthdays today. Kelly Pickler, country
31:26
singer. She is thirty eight. She came in sixth place on American Idol,
31:30
and she won season sixteen of Dancing with the Stars. Yeah for her.
31:37
Also Rob Deerdick, skateboarding star of MTV's Robin Big. He is fifty
31:42
TESLA and SpaceX CEO worth at time of this recording two hundred and thirty ish
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billion dollars. Elon Musk is fifty three today. And I did notice that
31:56
over the last a handful of days, the place to go for all your
32:00
hawk Tua memes was absolutely Triple X Twitter, which is, you know,
32:09
since Elon basically lifted any parental controls, now they're going bring on the porn
32:15
bots whatever. But that's where that's where I saw all the good hawk to
32:17
of memes. That's where I've seen practically any good memes lately. Maybe it's
32:22
because I don't scroll Facebook enough, or maybe my Instagram algorithm is a little
32:27
too classy. Well, I think Instagram and and and Facebook will kick you
32:31
off if it's too elicit a content. Some of the people that are on
32:38
the Treehouse follow follow he list, Yeah, but I think it's a I
32:44
think that's why he kind of is capitalizing on the Well, they won't let
32:46
you show it there, I'll let you do it here. And maybe that
32:52
maybe that you know what it is. Maybe it's just kind of what I've
32:54
I've ignorantly done to tweak my own personal algorithm on the different platforms. Right,
33:02
So, like on the Treehouse Instagram page, I'll see certain stuff,
33:07
or on the feed, I'll see certain things. On my personal Instagram,
33:12
it might be slightly different. Same thing on Twitter, my personal Twitter versus
33:15
the show Twitter is a little bit different feeds. And on Facebook that's where
33:19
it's typically I'm still seeing mostly friends doing things. Instagram is a lot of
33:23
you know, some friends doing things, but also looking at the saliness that
33:27
Raj has posted recently. And then Twitter is where I go for like the
33:30
really jacked up, silly, like far out there stuff that I can't see
33:34
anywhere else. Okay, I don't know if your particular activities have made it
33:40
to our Your Facebook, your Instagram, your Twitter, your TikTok all seem
33:45
like different experiences. Maybe, like I said, maybe that's just what I've
33:46
done inadvertently. Yeah, I don't check the TikTok stuff, and I don't
33:52
use x that much, so it's kind of whatever my old stuff used to
33:58
show. But yeah, I can see what you're talking about. It's a
34:01
it varies depending on the platform. Gotcha? So elon musk is fifty three
34:07
today trade? Did you have something else? Oh? I was said,
34:09
I don't think I've corrupted my Twitter feed like I have everything else. So
34:13
we got still pretty much just like news and sports. That's so weird because
34:20
of all the platforms, my Twitter is the one that is absolutely the most
34:23
corrupted. See. It goes to show that the platform will show you what
34:30
you look at individually on each platform, which I'm glad for because I'm glad
34:37
that I don't see the same stuff on Instagram or anything else that I see
34:40
on Twitter. I like to go to Twitter because I know what I'm gonna
34:43
get. It's gonna be some weird shit. And it used to not be
34:46
that. I used to go there for breaking news and stuff. Now I
34:50
go there for the weird stuff. It's a nine month shift since he's taken
34:52
over. It's like, what's the grossest shit you can see? Twitter?
34:58
It used to be TikTok, who knew the Chinese would come out new classier
35:05
than he? One. Oh, let's see Denver Broncos legend and eventual Super
35:14
Bowl winning quarterback John Elway is sixty four. Uh, phenomenal actress and friend
35:21
of our friend. Tone Bell therefore is a friend of ours. Kathy Bates
35:25
is seventy six today and finally celebrating his ninety eighth birthday. Legendary filmmaker Bell
35:32
Brooks. Wow, we're talking about the man that gave us Young Frankenstein,
35:37
Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Part One, the Producers, and
35:42
of course one of my personal favorites of his Spaceball yep, which, if
35:50
you have not heard, it has been confirmed they are doing a space Ball's
35:53
the sequel. Wow. How bad. Does Rick morandas need work? Actually,
36:00
you know he quit He actually quit acting to take care of his kids
36:02
after his wife passed away. Was that what it was? Yeah? It
36:07
was everything for Rick moranis has been completely intentional. It wasn't that his career
36:12
bombed out or anything. It was quite the opposite. Like Trey said,
36:15
his wife passed away and he stepped away from it. I feel shitty.
36:19
I take that. Well done, Rick Moranas. But of all, if
36:22
you want a Netflix has a wonderful Gene Wilder documentary, and but it's got
36:28
a lot of milk. I mean, obviously mel Brooks had a huge part
36:30
of his career. So if you like mel Brooks, it's a yeah.
36:35
I was watching History of the World Part one the other day. That's one
36:37
of my fair Like The Last Supper is one of my favorite, like parts
36:40
of that where he's the waiter. So is everybody gonna have soup? Let
36:52
me just ask one more questions? Are we all on one check? I
37:00
really need to my list for films that I need to revisit. And Rewatch
37:06
is growing exponentially, and that's that's what I need to add to my list.
37:09
Comes down, He's like I bring you these fifteen and he drops one
37:14
of the ten commandments from the Lord. It's just so brilliant. Happy ninety
37:22
eighth birthday to mel Brooks. What a legend. Uh. And and you
37:27
can't bring up the fact that it's Melbrooks's birthday without mentioning Blazing Saddles, and
37:31
without then mentioning what you always have to say whenever you mentioned Blazing Saddles in
37:37
the twenty first century, which is you cannot make that movie today. It's
37:42
a sad, sad fact, but I just don't think you can unless you
37:46
alter the material enough to where it absolutely fits more in line with today's stuff.
37:52
Because you can't, then you cannot lean in as heavy on the racist
37:55
stuff that Blazing Saddles made fun of back then. And like you, you
38:00
know, it just doesn't work today. And let me ask this, it's
38:04
because I believe that stuff like this is cyclical, like it'll come back around
38:07
at some point. Do you think we'll get back to where we can do
38:10
stuff like this because that was just hilarious. I just don't know, I
38:19
really don't know, because it's like it's like history, right, the reason
38:22
you're taught history is so you don't repeat it in this case, though,
38:25
there are things that I would like to have never seen come back into style,
38:30
like tight rolling pants and hypercolor clothing. But fashion is definitely cyclical.
38:37
That stuff has come back around. So I've I don't know, you couldn't
38:40
make Tropic Thunder, which that was just twenty years ago. That's true.
38:44
I mean, I'll say this about Blazing Saddles, and it would have to
38:49
be uh, a non white person that made the movie, like mel Brooks,
38:53
you know, even as much as love. So if it's like Chae
39:00
Jordan, so Jordan Peele made Blazing Saddles, I think he could probably get
39:07
away with it. I think. So all right, let's put that into
39:12
the universe and let's see what happened. I don't think he would, That's
39:16
just that was just a I mean, you couldn't think about all in the
39:20
family. You couldn't make that. You can't do that today. The Jeffersons
39:22
you can't do today. No, I mean all of it. I mean,
39:24
just yeah, and no, I I agree, I agree, you
39:30
know, and I again, like I go, but like I posted something
39:34
today. It was on my Instagram and somebody immediately had to comment about so
39:38
I posted this. It's a commercial from Denmark about a guy who's drinking the
39:42
two boorg beer and as he takes there's a there's a very there's a lady
39:46
across having a coffee and she's just very like. She's dressed down and the
39:51
hair's in a ponytail, make up, no makeup, and as he keeps
39:53
drinking, she gets hotter. And I was like, this is what they
39:55
mean by beer goggles. And then somebody comments like, this is exactly what
39:59
we're talking about. Where this guy, this lady's minding her own business and
40:02
this guy is just doing this and I was like, dude, they're both
40:05
actors. They read the script. Nobody got harmed in the making of this
40:07
hilarious commercial. Relax. I don't think the younger generations understand satire. I
40:16
will agree with you, I will agree. That's why no comics want to
40:20
do colleges anymore. That's why we don't because they don't understand that the stories
40:24
that we tell, although based in fact, there's the punchlines, can be
40:29
a little exaggerated, or the story can be a little bit longer than it
40:31
actually was. And they think everything is literal and everything is factual, and
40:37
we are awful people, so pass I'll just keep telling jokes to everybody our
40:43
generation. That's probably the smart way to go anyway, because it's not like
40:47
that. It's not like those kids got any money to spend on tickets to
40:52
your show anyway. That's true. That is true, like the like but
40:55
the but then but then the flip side of this weird shit is is that
41:00
the hot Ta Girl can be viral and it's and it's every across the board
41:06
like well, look, it's like I said in a previous episode, these
41:08
things happen like a pendulum, right, So you might have some advancements in
41:13
some areas like mental health, but then you might evolve in other areas,
41:17
like say senses of humor. Yeah, so we've had advancements in mental health,
41:23
but the younger generations just just not as funny as we are. I
41:28
agree, And so that pendulum, it kind of swings back and forth.
41:31
Yeah, so you'll get some stuff that will advance in other things that will
41:36
you know, regress. Yeah. I hope that somebody just pushes the pendulum
41:38
far enough toward it, like like the thing you're expecting, like the conquistador
41:42
at the fair, like you're kind of expecting it, like when it gets
41:44
up that highlight flip over. Yeah, well that's kind of waiting for it.
41:46
So I'm hoping somebody pushes the pendulum far enough to where it goes around
41:51
and it re resets, because that would be kind of fun. That also
41:54
would also that ride really really awesome and dangerous because some people are well,
42:02
because some people are not going to have secured the bar across their lap properly.
42:07
Yes, there's gonna be the adopted kids that run into metal book wooden
42:10
boxes. Trust me, the adopted kids. We know how to hang on
42:14
to that metal bar. We learned from an early age. You're in therese
42:24
visit us online a Treehouse on Air dot com. You're in the Treehouse.
42:44
Visit us online, a Treehouse on Air dot com. Welcome back inside the
42:52
Treehouse. I've decided to uh hang on to my favorite Hawktua girl thing,
43:00
and I'm gonna save that for our plus episode. Save that for the plus
43:05
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43:10
slash Treehouse on Air. That will shift that video that I found I'm going
43:16
to shift into the best thing I've seen all week, because I think Trey
43:20
has something along the same lines that I want to see that's the best thing
43:23
he's seen all week. And then Raj, you can have one as well
43:28
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43:32
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44:01
me and Trey's favorite hawk two of things, and Raj you can have one
44:06
or something completely different, does not matter, but I'm saving it for that,
44:08
all right, Okay, Okay. Plus that means also I get to
44:13
a share some fun news stories that we found and I'm glad that we uh
44:22
we mentioned roller coasters just a few minutes ago, But this is another lesson
44:32
that we all can learn, not just in the story itself, but in
44:37
how not to write a headline. Okay, the headline I am referring to
44:45
is thirty eight year old man dies after being hit by Banshee at King's Island.
44:52
Okay, when I read that, my first thought was this head the
44:59
headline to be Banshees are real and they're killing people. Was it the roller
45:05
coaster ride the Banshee? I believe it is a roller coaster ride, because
45:07
if you're from this particular area of Ohio, or you've traveled to that area
45:12
enough to where it sounds like Raj may have for his stand up comedy,
45:15
you would know King's Island is a theme park with roller coasters, and the
45:20
Banshee is a roller coaster that killed a dude. Now it's how he was
45:25
killed by the Banshee roller coaster. That is the lesson that we all can
45:29
learn, okay, and that is if you drop your keys on a roller
45:32
coaster ride, do not sneak into a restricted area access and try to grab
45:42
your keys while sticking your head up into the oncoming path of said Banshee roller
45:47
coaster. Wow. See this headline originally read thirty eight year old man critically
45:58
injured after being hit by ban and she a King's Island. But since I
46:01
hit refresh. He has since passed, which is sad. But again,
46:07
when when when when the ride staff tells you they can't stop the ride and
46:13
you'll have to wait until the end of the day for them to turn it
46:15
off to where it's safe for anyone to retrieve your keys, listen to them
46:21
mm hmm, or do what I do and don't ride roller coasters also that
46:29
m hm, because they're stupid. And this is what happens. And here's
46:36
the thing. You will never, ever, in the history of ever see
46:39
a headline that says Rasharma dies after getting hit by Benshi roller coaster. Never
46:46
nor will you ever read rash Arma dies in tragic skiing accident. Nope,
46:52
ras Sharma dies in bungee accident. Nope, he owed somebody money. That's
46:55
what the headline should read, so they strapped him to auber band. No,
47:02
not gonna happen. You know what, I like Earth, never had
47:06
a problem with it. I don't know why were you always that way?
47:08
Raj like roller coaster averse, adventures sport averse because I love that stuff as
47:17
a kid. As a kid, Give me the roller coaster, give me
47:21
the water slide. When I lost weight and wasn't so fat that I got
47:23
stuck on it, which did happen one time I talked about this. I'm
47:30
gonna save that for another episode. But the older I got, the less
47:36
interested I was in roller coasters, and the more afraid of heights and fast
47:39
moving things that I could not control just did not seem attractive to me anymore.
47:44
Like water slides, like the enclosed ones, but like when when it
47:47
was whitewater or whatever it was across from six wives, when they had the
47:52
one that was just open and it was straight, that was like I think
47:54
it was called the tsunami before they changed it, but it was just straight
47:59
down, like six foot dropped straight down. I'm like, I don't I'm
48:01
giving you money. Why are you trying to kill me? I don't understand
48:06
the goal of our relationship, and so and again I've said this before,
48:09
I'll say it again. I've never had a problem with the earth. I
48:14
like what it does. It's solid, my feet are on all day long.
48:16
Hasn't ever let me out. You have a healthy respect for gravity.
48:20
I do because it is undefeated. Yes, Newton was onto something and I
48:30
haven't tested his theory since then. I'm like, you know, what that
48:32
guy when an apple hit him on the head, boom, got it.
48:36
He figured it out. I'm good here. Never had an issue with the
48:38
Earth. Never like let's skydive. No, you're in somebody else's hood.
48:44
They like that. You say you've never had any issues with the Earth,
48:46
But I guarantee you there are a handful of people throughout time and throughout history
48:53
that have been swallowed by sinkholes by the Earth. That would beg to differ.
48:59
Yeah, But then and again that's kind of I mean, I can't
49:01
control that weird phenomenon. But like, if you're on a golf course,
49:05
there was one that happened where the guys got saved because his buddy last minute
49:08
reacted and caught his like held onto his club and pulled him out of a
49:13
sinkhole. First of all, that's a good buddy and he never has to
49:15
pay for drinks again. But also, you built a golf course and didn't
49:19
check to see if there was a potential for sinkhole. I'm just saying.
49:22
I'm just saying I haven't ever and knocked on the wood, I've never been
49:27
in a situation where sinkhole has happened. But they do terrify me because what
49:30
do you do? You just nothing you can do? Yeah, And while
49:35
while developers have run amuck over the years, I do applaud the fact that
49:39
they have not yet put a golf course in the middle of Yellowstone. You
49:47
said yet. I said yet, very intentionally, because you know, the
49:52
guys are on seven is going to be really tempting. It's a water speaking
50:00
of sinkholes. There's something do We all grow up with a a healthy fear
50:07
of quicksand only to find that really, yes, not only quicksand, but
50:10
thanks to the never ending story, a real fear of mud. Oh yeah,
50:15
that poor horse. Yeah, but quicksand is real, isn't y.
50:21
Yeah, yeah, it's just not as prevalent as we were made to believe
50:22
it was. Oh yeah, that was the one thing that right there.
50:27
That was our babysitter when we were kids. Today, kids can't go anywhere
50:30
without eyes on them at all times. Right, Our babysitter as kids was
50:35
well, don't go too far, there's quicksand out in them woods. Our
50:39
babysitter was fear. Yeah, yeah, I just didn't. Yeah, I'm
50:51
good with I don't skydive, I don't swim in the Ocean. I don't
50:53
roller coaster. Here's my favorite roller coaster moment. It's when the Titan first
51:00
opened at six Flags over Texas. Here in Dallas. My buddy Eric mccocha
51:04
and I are driving and we have to go about forty miles past six small
51:08
little town I can't remember. We had to go pick up some stuff and
51:12
he's like, the Titan opens today, and I'm like yeah, and he's
51:14
like, would you ever ride it? I was like nope. He goes,
51:15
I'll give you ten bucks. I was like no, he goes one
51:17
hundred. He said no. He goes, I'll give you one thousand dollars
51:22
if you ride the Titan with me, and I said no, and he
51:24
upped it to this. He goes ten grand. And now we're nearing six
51:30
Flags and there are helicopters everywhere, and I was like, huh, I
51:35
wonder what's going on. That's when the ride stalled at the very top at
51:38
this angle, so they had to get everybody off one by one and everybody
51:44
had to walk down and I was like, see, that will never happen
51:47
to me, not even for ten grand, because now you're up like this,
51:52
so all the blood flow is going to get really really complicated. So
51:55
who do you get off first? The guy's in the back or the guys
51:58
at the top? No, don't care, never gonna happen to me.
52:01
I know. The whole time in that story, I'm like, I would
52:05
as much as I don't like roller coasters anymore. And the last second to
52:07
last roller coaster I rode was the Titan on opening day. M M.
52:12
I would absolutely ride that thing for ten grand, But after hearing the rest
52:15
of the story, I'll up. Paul Harvey. I've seen video of the
52:22
roller coaster workers walking down those things. I couldn't do it. I would
52:25
just have to tell them, no, you're just gonna have to fix the
52:29
ride and slowly inch me down with my butt firmly planted in this chair.
52:32
I cannot walk down that thing. And the steps are like, I mean,
52:37
this is just I mean, you're I mean, it's just all it's
52:39
the same, it's the same angle all thinking about doing it, but yeah
52:44
no, And like like people walk across the Sydney Bridge like in Australia and
52:49
I'm like, no, why what are you doing? Will they strap you
52:52
in? Okay? Good, I don't need to be strapped into something.
52:55
What are we doing? Yeah, because at that point, the Titan becomes
52:59
the Dangler, and I'm gonna want a lot more than ten thousand dollars to
53:06
take that ride. Dan has flashbacks to the childhood I really really want I
53:16
really should not have gone on summer vacation to adopted Land. Also, which
53:29
twisted mffort came up with an amusement park like that. It's the saddest.
53:38
It's a small world ride. It's just one kid in a boat, aimlessly
53:45
floating, looking for parents. It's a sad world. My foster mom,
54:05
I want to ride the home. Oh the whack of Mole is actually just
54:14
called foster mom. Little kids popping out and hit him on the I like
54:22
it. I like this place. And Doctor is a place we should build.
54:24
Oh God help us all. Oh we'll see you next time. In Secretary