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Corporate PR Stunts, Bad Decisions & Saying Goodbye to Dolly Parton and Tim Curry · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 2: here in just a little bit. Coming up inside the
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  Speaker 2: Treehouse today. We will say goodbye and honor the icon
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  Speaker 2: that is Dolly Parton. We will also possibly get to
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  Speaker 2: And even more things we could possibly get to, depending
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  Speaker 2: on how long all those things take. But we are
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  Speaker 2: going to start today with corporate apologies, because there were
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  Speaker 2: two big ones this week. that we want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: The first of which is the ad that Callaway and
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  Speaker 2: Good Good put out and got immediate backlash for. Callaway
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  Speaker 2: is the golf company. They make golf clubs and clothing
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  Speaker 2: and things. And Good Good is, I hadn't really heard
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  Speaker 2: of it until this story. Is it a golf clothing company, Trey?
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  Speaker 1: To my knowledge, yeah, it's a fairly new one.
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  Speaker 2: The ad that went viral this week because of the
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  Speaker 2: backlash showed, let me make sure I get this correct,
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  Speaker 2: because it showed the CEO of GoodGood pushing over female
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  Speaker 2: golfer Alexis Mastowski after she attempted to use his new
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  Speaker 2: Callaway driver. And then he stands over her and warns
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  Speaker 2: her not to touch her. his driver. So in case
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  Speaker 2: you haven't seen the ad because of the backlash, they've
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  Speaker 2: pulled it from all the platforms.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to show it to you now, in
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  Speaker 2: case you have not seen it. This is the violence
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  Speaker 2: in question when it comes to the Callaway Good Good
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  Speaker 2: Golf ad, Violence Against Women. Shows the driver. Shows a
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  Speaker 2: woman going near the bag with a hand to grab it.
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  Speaker 2: The man runs at her, knocks her over like a
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  Speaker 2: blindsided linebacker. Do not touch my new driver. And that's
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  Speaker 2: pretty much the end of the ad because then they
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  Speaker 2: go on and just kind of play some golf and
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  Speaker 2: then there's some text. So you get the idea there.
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  Speaker 2: So woman reaches for man's driver. He runs over, blindsides her,
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  Speaker 2: knocks her to the ground. don't touch my driver and
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  Speaker 2: immediate backlash. It's not good. This is one of those
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  Speaker 2: things where just a little bit of foresight could have
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  Speaker 2: told you that there's going to be some people that
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  Speaker 2: don't like this.
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  Speaker 1: Can't define a woman, but we're going to have outrage
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  Speaker 1: over a woman getting paid to make believe knocked over.
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  Speaker 1: Got it.
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  Speaker 2: Is that really a thing? I think that's a blown
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  Speaker 2: up thing. not define a woman. People know a woman is.
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  Speaker 1: Really, Dan?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. A human born with a vagina. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: And then if they say later on that they're not,
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  Speaker 2: then fine. Call him Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 2: I've settled the whole debate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have some people that you really need
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  Speaker 1: to talk to. Because the head of the WNBA can't
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Those are adults. They can say whatever they want about
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  Speaker 2: their own bodies. I don't care. If I want to
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  Speaker 2: call myself a hobbit living in the Shire and that's
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  Speaker 2: how I live out my life, then by God, respect it.
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  Speaker 2: The way I look at it is this.
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  Speaker 1: Adults, you're absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Daniel. I prefer you call me Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Don't call me Danny. And Trey... Jerry, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: always respected that, and I appreciate it. To me, it's
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  Speaker 2: the same damn thing. I know it's not, but it's
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  Speaker 2: the same thing as far as your response to it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Your response to it, it's the same thing. Physically, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's different, but your response to it is the same.
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  Speaker 2: If I identify as a monkey fairy, then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: please respect that. Is that really any skin off your ass? No.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you know, for adults, I couldn't agree with you more.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot the woman who said that, but if you
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  Speaker 1: want to identify a lamp, I'll shove a bubble up
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  Speaker 1: your ass.
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  Speaker 2: Great. As long as there's consent, by God, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to town. Sure. So that's why I say, to me,
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  Speaker 2: that whole argument is dumb. Like when people say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to define a woman. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: here we go. Like to me, that's like Senate confirming theatrics.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, Dan, it's not because, you know, people say
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  Speaker 1: just because you're born with a vagina, that doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: you a woman. Just because you're born with testicles, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make you a man. Just because you have XX
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  Speaker 1: or XY, that doesn't define you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why some people have such a difficult
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  Speaker 2: time answering that question. Biologically, it does. What you identify
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  Speaker 2: as or what you physically change later is a different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because then it blows up the whole argument. To answer
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  Speaker 1: the question, you lose the argument if you're one side.
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  Speaker 2: And I wish they would answer it that way. It's
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  Speaker 2: not hard. I don't know why they make it more
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  Speaker 2: difficult than it needs to be. You're worried about a
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  Speaker 2: tiny fraction of the population and backlash. It's like just,
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  Speaker 2: you open the book, there it is. You're biological, you
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  Speaker 2: got this, you that. If you change it later, then asterisk, fine, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. Now let's move on and talk about
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  Speaker 2: whether or not the person that's being asked a question
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  Speaker 2: can actually sit on the Supreme Court or be elected
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  Speaker 2: to a public office. When confirmations for the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: they were asking that question of Justice Jackson during her confirmation.
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  Speaker 2: What's a woman? What's a woman? Everyone's asking, what's a woman?
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, can we just talk about the law
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  Speaker 2: and stuff? Just answer the question. It's not that hard. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: let's get back to the golf ad because I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I've settled the debate as far as we're concerned.
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  Speaker 2: You're born with that. You are that. And then if
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  Speaker 2: you change it later, you can knock yourself out.
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  Speaker 1: Common sense. You're absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: So when you knock a woman over for putting her
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  Speaker 2: hand on your driver in your golf bag, you should
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  Speaker 2: expect blowback for that. And the fact that you don't
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  Speaker 2: or you don't care, that's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Also, to me, the poor production value of the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of that commercial just kind of seems like that was
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  Speaker 3: an add-on. Like, somebody was like, oh, you know, it'd
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  Speaker 3: be funny if we just tacked on to the front
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  Speaker 3: of this commercial real quick. Oh, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: they had an idea for a commercial, and then they
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  Speaker 3: decided to do a bit at the beginning of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not even well done. It's... that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing about commercial. That's kind of besides the, the overall topic,
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  Speaker 2: but that's sort of the thing now these days is
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  Speaker 2: cheap production because then you can just run it on
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  Speaker 2: social media. You don't have to spend tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: or a million dollars to make a cinematic looking ad.
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  Speaker 2: You can shoot it on a shitty filter. Sorry for
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  Speaker 2: the language on your phone and then still go with it.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like all the Tang luck ads I
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  Speaker 2: see lately with AI dudes saying, bro, what do you
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  Speaker 2: do on your breaks? You just kind of accept it
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  Speaker 2: and move on. Uh, Jerry, you seem to understand, or
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  Speaker 2: at least on your side, you're like, yeah, that's not
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  Speaker 2: a good idea to knock a woman over for reaching
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  Speaker 2: for the driver. Trey, you seem to be a little
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  Speaker 2: more like, it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Would we be outraged if it was a guy?
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  Speaker 2: You should, because violence is always wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But I bet it wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the catch on that. And I understand what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying, because do you want equality or not? but
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  Speaker 2: but here's here's the rub on that they but they
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  Speaker 2: didn't shoot that they chose specifically to knock over a
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  Speaker 2: woman instead of a man why that choice.
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  Speaker 1: I thought women wanted to be equal i thought we.
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  Speaker 2: But why did the men choose let's do this bit
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  Speaker 2: let's not knock over a dude let's knock over a girl.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're talking still talking about it. That's why they
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  Speaker 1: chose it.
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  Speaker 2: You think it was intentional?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ultimate debates.
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  Speaker 1: That I have. I play golf. I didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: good good was.
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  Speaker 2: Noah Calloway was. Yeah, yeah. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ultimate debates I have in my brain, which is, and
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  Speaker 2: this is a struggle. Is it ignorance or malice? And
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  Speaker 2: I used to expect out of, interestingly enough, elected officials, CEOs,
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  Speaker 2: people that are supposed to be in power positions. I
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  Speaker 2: used to think they were all really, really smart. And
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  Speaker 2: then I got older and had to deal with some
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  Speaker 2: of them. And then I realized most of them have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what they're doing either. So I struggle with,
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  Speaker 2: was something like this intentional, which is very possible, or
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  Speaker 2: are they just stupid and narrow-sighted not to think that
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be pushback?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is a chasm between intentional and malicious.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: This is called Hanlon's Razor. Hanlon's Razor is never a
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  Speaker 3: tribute to malice, what can be easily explained away with stupidity.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I lived at iHeartRadio for the last five years.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree. I just totally disagree with that premise, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think it's stupidity. Again, everyone's still talking
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: The additional apologies that had to be issued because you
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  Speaker 2: got the initial apology that was corporate, you know, Callaway
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  Speaker 2: and good, good.
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  Speaker 1: Let me point something out.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: No apologies had to be issued. It is not going
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  Speaker 1: to affect Callaway sales one single bit. Go ask any
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  Speaker 1: of the golf scandals. Go ask Nike about Tiger Woods.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to affect golf one bit. You think
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  Speaker 1: any guy who plays golf gives a flying rat's ass
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  Speaker 1: about this? They don't.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right on the sales front. On the
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  Speaker 2: stock price this week, it did take a 2% hit.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be fine. But there is some financial backlash, at
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  Speaker 2: least initially. But, I mean, 2% is really, it's just like...
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  Speaker 2: So you had the... Go ahead, Jerry. I don't disagree with.
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  Speaker 3: Trey on the fact that the choice made it so
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  Speaker 3: that we're still talking about it. Because we still live
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  Speaker 3: in an age where any publicity is good publicity to
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  Speaker 3: a point.
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  Speaker 2: I just.
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  Speaker 3: There's a myriad of other ways that, that, that could
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  Speaker 3: have been done with a little more creativity as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to let's just blindside this woman and, you know, see
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  Speaker 3: what happens.
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  Speaker 2: The ultimate thing is, is it okay to do the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the violence against women thing to sell golf
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  Speaker 2: clubs and whether or not it's intentional. And the initial
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  Speaker 2: corporate apologies that happened. Then you've got... Let's also.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you, no one had ever heard of this
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  Speaker 1: female golfer before. Now they know her name. And she
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  Speaker 1: got paid for it. Throw that out there.
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  Speaker 2: You've got... Hang on, where did it go? Trying to
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: find it, trying to find it. The Callaway CEO statement.
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  Speaker 2: Based on what he says, do you think still that
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  Speaker 2: it was intentional that they knew that there would be
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  Speaker 2: blowback and then just didn't care? Okay, so here it is.
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  Speaker 2: The Callaway CEO, Chip Brewer, released a late night statement
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging that while Good Good produced the video, Callaway actively
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  Speaker 2: approved it. He says that approval should never have happened.
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  Speaker 2: Mistakes were made and we are taking the matter very seriously. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course, adding that, uh, they're unequivocally against
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence. So he's basically saying like, well, look, good,
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  Speaker 2: good produced it. Yeah, we approved it, but they did it.
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  Speaker 2: Change anything.
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  Speaker 1: We don't condone violence of any sort, especially against women.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it's a slippery slope. Uh, Because at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, it is a stupid bit on
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  Speaker 2: a commercial. And if you treat it as more than that,
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  Speaker 2: then it's almost like you're giving it too much power
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  Speaker 2: and you're really actually just giving it more attention than
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  Speaker 2: it probably needed. Because if you don't shine a light
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  Speaker 2: on certain things, then they don't see the light of day, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like with a fire. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: blow on it, it's not going to, you know, erupt
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  Speaker 2: into a huge huge thing so don't fan the flames
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  Speaker 2: basically if you if you see something that's and that's
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  Speaker 2: what i mean by a slippery slope it's like okay
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  Speaker 2: when you see something do you say something about it
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  Speaker 2: because it is bad or egregious or is it your
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  Speaker 2: own sensitivities in other words how like is it bad
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  Speaker 2: enough that it requires comment or you shining a light
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  Speaker 2: on is it that bad Or do you say nothing,
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  Speaker 2: and then perhaps that behavior continues, and then it just
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  Speaker 2: kind of exacerbates the overall problem?
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  Speaker 1: Well, again, you're acting like he then took the club
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  Speaker 1: and wailed on her.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, that might have made the ad really, really dark,
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  Speaker 2: but at a certain point, it would have made it
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  Speaker 2: really hysterical, if you want to go a super dark way.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, that's an overreaction.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is like someone's going to,
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  Speaker 1: even guys, I mean, no one's going to go sit
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  Speaker 1: there and, you know, knock someone over because they thought
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  Speaker 1: they were reaching for their driver. I mean, again, you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a business that plays to 1% of the population,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two. And Already, stock price is back almost to
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  Speaker 1: where it was. Again, we're talking about a golf company
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  Speaker 1: that no one had heard about. Callaway can issue all
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  Speaker 1: the statements, everything else. No one is not going to
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  Speaker 1: go buy a Callaway. If they want a Callaway club,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to go.
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  Speaker 3: Purchase something else. I can't buy this because that dude
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  Speaker 3: knocked that lady over.
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  Speaker 1: No one on the PGA is going to drop their
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  Speaker 1: Callaway sponsorship.
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  Speaker 2: So had he had he pushed her over, grabbed the
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  Speaker 2: driver and used it to send her long and straight
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  Speaker 2: down the fairway. See, I mean, there's there might be
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  Speaker 2: a way to go with that where you can make
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  Speaker 2: it kind of funny. And ultimately, look, is there is
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: there is there a twinge of sexism to it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't shoot it with a guy. They did
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  Speaker 2: it with a girl intentionally. And the reason why they
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: all probably mainly did it with the girl is because
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  Speaker 2: she's an influencer. She's a girl that plays golf, and
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  Speaker 2: that gets attention from guys that play golf.
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  Speaker 1: And gets her attention. Again, how many more people, if
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  Speaker 1: she's an influencer, I want to know what her follower
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  Speaker 1: account has done in the last week.
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  Speaker 2: I would also like to know what has she said
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably nothing. She's making bank. She got paid to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and again, she's probably had a huge increase in followers
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  Speaker 1: and exposure. Who in reality was harmed by this? Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: The comment section, that's who. Yeah. All right, now let's
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: jump into controversy number two. Target stepped in it Al
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  Speaker 2: Jolson style. Oh, boy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Manny. Oh, Jerry. Oh, good for you, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. If you said that on accident, wow.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was not on accident. I think he knows.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So here is the new offensive Halloween costume that Target
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  Speaker 2: is apologizing for. using a black child model for a
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: clown Halloween costume that when some saw it online, they
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  Speaker 2: thought that looks a lot like a kid in blackface.
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  Speaker 2: And Trey, based on your visual reaction right now, and
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  Speaker 2: based on Trey, based on Jerry's obvious knowledge of the story,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you guys see it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I have, who at target didn't see before
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  Speaker 1: this got put on their website, who saw this and went, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if we have gotten to the point that they
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: don't see racism and stuff like this, and this is,
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  Speaker 1: restricted to our generation that we see this as racist
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  Speaker 1: and they don't, maybe we have taken a step forward
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  Speaker 1: as society, but somebody over 40 had to look at
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  Speaker 1: this and go, oh, no, no, no. This is a
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  Speaker 1: bad idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. That is a rough one right there, let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: What is that supposed to be?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be like a clown. I don't know
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: if it's supposed to be like a freaky clown because
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the smile is so big and wide, kind of like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a joker. Whether it's supposed to be or not, it is. Yeah, well,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: it's scary for one reason versus another, I guess. Wow. I.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I am absolutely like, again, who didn't see someone from
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the photographer on who saw the, who, how many people
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: saw this and didn't say anything. And if I'm target,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I'm firing all of them.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: That whole department is getting cleaned out. Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, some of the crap with target and the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: boycotts and everything else is, uh, I won't even get into,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but Target has been under fire for a while now.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This wasn't the thing. They should have heightened sensitivity at
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this point.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Target pulled their clown Halloween costume after backlash and says,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: we got this wrong in an apology note. You think? Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: They removed the Halloween costume after it was criticized for
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: resembling blackface and racist minstrel show imagery. The franchise also
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: issued an apology on Monday, the 24th. The costume featured
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a black child model in a pose linked to Jim
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Crow era stereotype, sparking widespread backlash. Yeah. So they actually
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: posted in good corporate, you know, PR strategy here, an
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: apology from us. We removed an offensive Halloween costume that
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: should never have been part of our assortment. It is
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: no longer for sale as a company. We got this
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: wrong and we are deeply sorry. We know this is
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members, and partners.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Removing the costume is an important first step, and we
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: are looking closely at how this happened and what needs
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to change to ensure this won't happen again. In other words,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: like Trey said, anyone that saw this photograph before it
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: got published is getting effing fired.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Whoever's in the digital media department, heads, I'm sure,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: have rolled.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Tell me you didn't see Disney's Song of the South
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: without telling me you didn't see Disney's Song of the South.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: into the treehouse. 833-COOK-DFW is the phone number to get
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: your free roof inspection and property review scheduled. The website, cookdfw.com.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say some scary words, Daniel. Super El Nino.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And the effect that is going to have on weather,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: especially in the North Texas area. You know, you're right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: We just are officially in going into the Super El Nino.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: The reason why is because it's warmer than a regular
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: El Nino. And it does prelude that we will have
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: a wetter higher rain percentage than a normal year, or
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: shall we say on El Nino.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So there are some differences, speculations. Nothing is set in stone.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: This is not a guarantee that we're going to have
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: a deluge of water for the next year. I mean,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: that's just not what it means. Scientific data says, hey,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: we might have a wetter than normal.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: We could have more storms. It could be just a
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: lot of rain. We all need to go out and
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: build arcs. I don't know. But, I mean... Be prepared.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: The moral of the story is every day you live
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: in North Texas, especially in North Texas, be prepared. Know
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: how your home is sitting. Know how your roof looks.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Know how your windows are working. Know if your doors
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: have holes in them. I mean, just know your home.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Know your home.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Call us out.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: We want to educate you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: We will come around, walk you around, show you things
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: that you should know, and then we can help you
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: with getting them taken care of.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: And no pressure, all education. And Daniel and his fine
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: team at Cook DFW will take care of you, the homeowner.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: With very, very gentle hands. I know because I've been
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in them. 833-COOK-DFW. That sound bad? Sounded bad. 833-COOK-DFW. Get
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: that scheduled today. The website, cookdfw.com. All right, let's switch gears.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Let's jump into some birthdays. Today is Thursday, August 27th, 2026.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. And we'll do so
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: quickly because we want to get to our Dolly Parton tribute.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Aaron Paul is 47, best known as Jesse Pinkman on
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Breaking Bad. He's also a BoJack Horseman, and he's also
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: in Need for Speed. Yeah, Aaron Paul, 47 from Breaking Bad.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Paul Rubens. This is my annual mention of Paul Rubens. where,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: as most people remember him and love him as Pee-wee Herman,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: as I did as a child, because I was of
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: that age where Pee-wee's Playhouse was a big part of
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: my Saturday mornings.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: That explains a lot. What do you mean?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Take it for what it is. There is nothing wrong
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: with Pee-wee's Playhouse. There's not a huge leap to be
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: made as a kid in Pee-wee's Playhouse to an adult
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in this treehouse.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I just, there was no, there's nothing wrong with Pee-wee's Playhouse.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, the movie house, which became the Playhouse,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: that's a different thing. After that, though, as an adult,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I got older, and then he did the Buffy the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Vampire Slayer movie opposite, why do I always brain fart
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: her name right here?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Sarah Michelle Gellar?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: That was the TV series.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, Christy Swanson.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Christy Swanson, thank you. Then when he plays a vampire
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: in Christy Swanson's movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: this is why I love mentioning Paul Reuben's birthday. Even
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: though he's passed away, I love mentioning his birthday because
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: it gives me an excuse to bring up what I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: think is one of the best and silliest death scenes
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: in movie history. If you have not seen Buffy the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Vampire Slayer, the movie starring Christy Swanson, It also stars
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Luke Perry, and Paul Reubens is in there as one
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: of the vampires. And if I remember correctly, a little
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: guy by the name of Rutger Hauer plays Dracula. So
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Paul Reubens is killed.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I believe that was fairly controversial, because I believe that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: was his first role after Theater Incident.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: It was. It was a great comeback.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It's the first one. Really, I think that's one of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the first ones I can remember in my lifetime of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: big PR rehabs that all of a sudden he was
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: loved again. Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: It took a little while, but yeah. So when his
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: first project back was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and he
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: was unrecognizable because we just remembered him as Pee Wee Herman.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: In this, he's got a beard, super long hair, looks
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: nothing like Pee Wee. He's not wearing a red bow
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: tie and a gray suit, but he gets killed, stake
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: in the heart, and he's not immediately dead. He draws
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: out the death scene so beautifully. It's one of my
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: favorite things in cinema because it takes you on a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: huge journey because he gets the stake in the heart.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, okay, he's dead. And then he's like,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: then he's not dead. And then he takes you on
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: this emotional journey through his death that you almost start
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to feel sorry for him. And then it's just uncontrollable
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: laughter about how ridiculous it is. To me, the only,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: to me, I don't know this to be true, but
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the non-death scene in Deadpool 2 where Ryan Reynolds as
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Deadpool blows up like him dying in Deadpool 2, I
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: think is an homage to Paul Reuben's death in Buffy
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the Vampire Slayer because he just won't die. Anyway, happy birthday.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: When you take your jaunt to the coast, you'll have time.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: You can practice.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is true. From Scrubs, Sarah Chalk is 50.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Shut up. Chandra Wilson is 57. She is Dr. Miranda
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Bailey on Grey's Anatomy. Patrick J. Adams is 45, played
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Mike Ross on Suits. Interestingly enough, before we started the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: show today, in an interview, one of the guys from Suits,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: the main guy, Gabriel Macht, he was on a show
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: with an actual attorney, and an attorney was saying, just FYI,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Suits is one of the most accurate depictions of attorneys
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: in television.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: It is a great show. Uh, last season, but otherwise
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: fantastic show.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Co-founder and guitarist of Rush, Alex, Alex Lifeson is 73.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: As much as I've tried, I cannot like Rush.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I understand why people do. It's just, it's just not my,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: not my cup of tea. Uh, we mentioned him the
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: other day, bassist and songwriter for no doubt. Tony Canale
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: is 56 and the subject of one of no doubt's
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: most successful albums.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Look it on the chin from Gwen Stefani for an
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: entire tour. And for years since he is the ultimate
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: team player.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, he got, at least he got paid
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: for his heart. Actually, I think he dumped her. So
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: he just had to take the beating perpetually.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: And he took it right to the bank. So good
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: on him, ultimately. And Baseball Hall of Famer, 612 career
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: home runs and one of the oddball batting stances of
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: all time, Jim Tomey, 56. I don't remember his batting stance.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: It was kind of like Bagwell's. It was like a
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: really wide stance. It was one of those, like, Based
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: on his stance, he was inviting the up-and-in fastball, but
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: that was a trick because that's the one he wanted
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the most, and he would park it up in right field.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: The great Khali, 7'1, former WWE champion, is 54, and
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: another WWE Hall of Famer, the one and only Sergeant Slaughter,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: is 78. was one of my favorite G.I. Joe characters.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: You talk about weird transitions from, you know, like, from
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: sort of one thing to another in entertainment, like Tracy
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Lord's going from porn into mainstream, Sasha Gray doing the
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: same thing. Transitions like wrestling into movies and things is
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: almost common now. But going from wrestler to director Full-on G.I.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Joe character. That's one of those I don't know if
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: anyone ever saw coming. But I loved it. Who was
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: your favorite wrestler as a kid?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: As a kid, the Von Eriks would be, I guess
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: it was Kerry. Then Hogan. Then as an adult, it
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: was Stone Cold.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. I think for me, I think the one
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: that I got most excited about, there were two. Or
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: there were like three. All right, I'll force myself to
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: pick one. Jake the Snake was one of my favorites.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I loved whenever he came out because he brought the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: bag with him and we brought the snake out. Maybe
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it's because I don't like snakes and I don't want
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: one crawling on me. But it's like after you get
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: yourself knocked out in the ring and then he has
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: his snake basically hump you until the commercial break.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. I think probably as a kid, mine
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: was Roddy Roddy Piper.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: So many good ones, man. Until The Undertaker showed up.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: By the way, someone in the chat said Rush might
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: be Radiohead 1.0. No, Rush plays their hits.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Goddamn.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Ow.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Trade not wrong on that, by the way. That's fired.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Do you feel restless and anxious? Feel like something's missing
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: in your life? Maybe you just need a little more
• 33:22
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• 33:26
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• 33:30
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• 33:34
  Speaker 1: That's patreon.com slash treehouseonair. That's p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash treehouseonair.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: All right, let's do this. We need to say goodbye
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to an absolute icon. Dolly Parton passing away at the
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: age of 80. And we mentioned transcending things. Best known
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: as a country singer, but by the time she left
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: this world, it was as a human icon, not just
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: a entertainer, but also a mega philanthropist.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: And I mean, great actress.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Great actress.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Steel Magnolias will be all... One of my favorite movies.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: She makes it. The movie that's not getting any mentions
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: is Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Wonderful movie. But that's also awesome. Unclench, people. It's a
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: great show.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think they just don't want to.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Some people probably would still take offense to just the title.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The thing is, everything you said, and probably after Betty White,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: probably the most transcendent person. Like, everyone loved Dolly. No
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: one's ever really said anything bad about Dolly. There were
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: no scandals, no nothing. But what a businesswoman. And the thing,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the story I heard yesterday that I was just floored by,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: when she wrote I Will Always Love You, she wanted
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Elvis to sing it. And they were friends. They almost...
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: had a deal, but Elvis wanted 50% of the rights
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to the song. And she told him to fuck off.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Like you do. Yeah. And you know, swing, swing your
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: hips somewhere else or there.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Hang on at the time. That's a, that's a ballsy
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: move because she was popular, but she wasn't Elvis. But then,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you know, it goes back. And then I think they
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: said after Whitney Houston and everything else, she made over
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million on the song. So, Good on her.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And as we're talking about the passing of Dolly Parton,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the philanthropy, like you mentioned, it's time and again donating
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: to numerous causes, local, national. I mean, it didn't matter.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: She was even a radio station owner in Tennessee. She
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: had a couple of radio stations that she owned.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: She was among the first to have a radio station
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: website in the 90s. That was not a common thing.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Radio's been real slow to embrace technology throughout the years
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: as far as new technology. But she saw the advantage
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: to it. She was one of the first station owners
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: in the country to have a website. Just really weird,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: interesting stuff like that. Eminem posted a heartfelt... note on
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: social media because after a performance, Dolly Parton sent him
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: a handwritten, uh, or sent him a letter that she
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: had signed and he, he posted it on social media
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and was like, she, she's like, I never met her.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I never had the opportunity to meet her, but she
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: sent me this amazing note. And he's like, you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm a rapper and I really wasn't into country music,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: but I still, I knew who Dolly Parton was. And
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: she took the time to send me this letter and
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: it was just amazing. I mean, you talk about, you know,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: genre crossing and all sorts of things. I mean, it's
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: amazing what a good human she was. And that's a
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: hell of a legacy.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: And the amount, and truly the sign of what a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: good human she was is so much of her giving
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: was never, she never sought publicity for anything else. It
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: was done quietly.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: You barely know about it. Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And, you know, just because she wanted to help people. Yeah.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: It really is amazing. She's a great, she's sort of
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: like two heads of a coin, right? Because on one hand,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: she's an entertainer, she's a performer, she even had her
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: own theme park called Dollywood. Right.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Quite popular.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, quite popular. But on the flip side, she was
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: also a quite philanthropist, like philanthropist, sending out money to
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: all these causes and people without seeking any attention for it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: So it's so weird to be able to do both.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: And Dan, just because it's So, you know what a
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: pussy you are. You know, one of the things that
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: kind of tip people off that she might have something
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: might have been wrong is they were opening a new
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: roller coaster at Dollywood and she missed because she usually
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: would ride the roller coasters when they opened up. So
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: she had bigger balls than you.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I have no doubts about that. I will I
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: will tip my hat to her sackage. And as as
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: as we're doing the show right now, we're looking in
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the chat and apparently the news alert just came in.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six has claimed another celebrity.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Tim Curry.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Tim Curry has passed away. Talk about that doesn't surprise me, though.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I saw him a picture of.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a hell of a that's a hell of
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: a life lived as well as an actor. You're talking
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: about a guy that has done a little bit of
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: everything in acting. He was the first Pennywise we ever
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: saw in Stephen King's It. He is Frank Converter.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: The demon on Tom Cruise's first movie.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Tim Curry will go down as the best looking devil
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: in movie history yes in the movie legend starring tom
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: legend yeah yeah that is the freakiest looking demon in
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: movie history and he played it's him in that stuff
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the big horns the muscles all that tim curry a
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: phenomenal actor and one of my favorite roles of his
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: even though it was probably just a whatever for him
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: was in home alone 2 as as the hotel manager
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: i loved him in home alone 2 and clue oh
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: god that's a that's a classic that may be his
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: best clue is a phenomenal movie so a heartfelt RIP
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: to Tim Curry and obviously to Dolly Parton, a huge
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: human icon gone at the age of 80. And I
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: know 2026 ain't done yet. And I think Bruce Willis
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: is not much longer. Apparently a bunch of his family
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: is given their, some of their official goodbyes based on
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: a report I saw the other day. That one's going
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: to hurt me too. Yep.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: He was just at his daughter's wedding, but I mean,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he had, His dementia is really bad.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Mentally, he's probably already gone. I don't know if there's
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: anything much left in there, but my feeling is that
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: 2026 will claim him before it's done. This year has
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: been absolutely brutal for the celebrity deaths, and it's not
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: going to get any easier. As my wife said yesterday
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: after hearing about the news of Dolly Parton, the older
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: we all get, the more personal some of these become
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: because we've grown up with and gotten older with a
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: number of these people.
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Ford will be the one that absolutely... Oh.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: That may demolish me. Yeah. The only good thing that
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I'll take out of an eventual Harrison Ford death is
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: that he is already so old. He's already been a
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: beautiful gift to me and my lifetime of entertainment. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: we're also talking about a guy that has skirted death
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: more than once just because flying.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: And generally stays stoned.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I'll be sad when he goes, but he'll be at
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: an age where I'll be like, man, we got a
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: lot out of that guy. So I'll be grateful and
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: not as sad, I guess, for that. Before we leave today,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: there are a few other stories that we need to
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: touch on here inside the treehouse. The first of which
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: is Let me do a professional intro here. We've all
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: heard that having unprotected sex is like playing Russian roulette, right?
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Well, so is literally playing Russian roulette while having sex,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: because that's exactly what happened in Virginia. A 19-year-old Virginia
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Beach woman is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge after a
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: sexual encounter with a man, and he was fatally shot.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Her name is Ember Rose McSpadden. His name was Shane Brooks.
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  Speaker 2: This is not simply a gun accidentally going off in
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: the middle of, you know, some bad dramatics. According to
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: testimony at her preliminary hearing, she told investigators that she
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and Brooks were friends with benefits who incorporated guns and
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: knives into their rough sexual foreplay. On the night of
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: the shooting, investigators say he He handed her a handgun
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: containing one live round. She then pulled the trigger three
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: times while counting the clicks. She actually thought she could
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: determine when the live round would come up. She pulled
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: the trigger three times and was clearly wrong. A judge
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: nevertheless ruled there was enough evidence for involuntary manslaughter in
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to proceed to a grand jury. So that's what's happening now.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Her next scheduled court appearance is October 21st. Don't do that.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: She handed him the gun and he pulled the trigger
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: because Russian Roulette is.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: He handed her.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: And she pulled it three times and nothing happened. So
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: why is he dead?
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: No, it did.
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  Speaker 1: The third time.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: The third time was pretty definitive.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Was the charm, as it were.
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  Speaker 3: I see. So she pulled the trigger. Okay, that's not
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Russian Roulette. The rules are very clear.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I love how in the middle of a Russian roulette
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: bedroom antics thing, you're pulling out the rule book. I
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: bet you're so much fun to play Monopoly with. Oh, absolutely.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: You're right. The idea of Russian roulette is you take turns.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: You go back and forth. Well, in this one, it
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: was really, you know what? Actually, Jerry, they needed you.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: had you pulled out the rule book, he might still
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: be alive. One of them would definitely be still dead.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: But yes, then that's... She had something to do with it,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: so yeah.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the debate that I think has opened up
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: here with this story. Evidence is one thing, but... if
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: you load the gun and you hand it to her.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And you spin the chamber.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: And she shoots you dead, I mean, obviously there needs
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: to be some culpability on his part. Why is she,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you know, the one that's, you know, taking all the
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: legal hits here? She probably would have been taking the
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: same legal hit. He's dead. So you can't bring him
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: to court. I mean, I guess you could, but, um,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: If he.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Handed a gun with a bullet in it to a woman,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: he got everything he deserved.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: And that's my point, which is if that happened and
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: there's evidence to support it, then why is she even
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: in court at all?
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: They got to blame somebody.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I look at it this way. His comeuppance or his
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: consequences were immediate.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be a downfall. Yeah, that's true.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Hers are just a little more drawn out, unfortunately. But yeah, ultimately,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: if someone hands you a gun when you're hooking up,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: maybe don't do that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Ever. And finally, a man's fridge died. It's one of
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: the saddest stories I've heard all week.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Hang on here.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: We need to pour one out for this man's fridge.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: An Australian man named Craig went viral after sending a
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: dramatic text message to his wife when his 36-year-old garage
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: refrigerator finally stopped working. But brand new in 1990, it
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: ran until its compressor died in 2026. It outlasted, according
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: to his text message, it outlasted three trucks and two
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: marriages without needing a single repair. Estimated to have kept
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: around 10,000 beers cold over its lifetime. He even told
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: his family the appliance went out quiet like a cowboy.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: He even joked about giving his long-serving garage companion a
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: proper funeral. And honestly, I understand all of this. I
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: totally get it. His most loyal companion. The beer fridge.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: The beer fridge. Three trucks and two wives.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: That kind of puts it all in perspective.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: It really does. Trey's searching. I can see it. I've...
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Or you realize that your life is empty because you
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: don't have a garage.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you know, I've never had a beer fridge,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: and now I never will. And I never have two
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: wives either, so.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: You know what, though? Got one up on me.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, you don't have two ex-wives, so.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: It's not all bad. I just wanted one.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: One ex-wife or one wife?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I've got one. You're better off with a beer fridge. Also,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: the beer fridge won't ever ghost you. For all things Treehouse, treehouseonair.com.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: It'll just die. That's far easier.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: And you can salute it on the way out. And
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: you can call OPT services to haul it away for you. Right, Trey?
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: See what I did?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: A little plug there?
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: A little plug action?
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:05
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• 49:13
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