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Episode 16 - Trey Is A Good Son And Dan Is A Literal Devil Child · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome into the Treehouse once again. I'm Dan O'Malley, joined of course by
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Alfie Cole. Say hello, Alfhie Hello, And I'm wondering in what type
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of mood our dear dear friend and also a member at the Treehouse, Trey
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Trendhold, is in. How are you feeling today, Tree? I'm all
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right, even even though with the chore that you had to do earlier today.
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Yeah, you got a change the sheets, just like the one day
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of the year that they we're supposed to change your seats. No, I
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do that twice here. I'm actually pretty good. I do that about every
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three to four weeks. Yeah, that's that's too many. Come on,
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what's happening in your bed that you changed them that often. I have a
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cleaning lady that comes by about once every three to four weeks, and yusually
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judgment or you're just letting her do it. Um its just having her come
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in makes me feel like I need to, you know, not look gross.
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And so I just changed my seats right now. I get it.
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You you stripped the bed, throw them in the wash room and then let
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her do the rest of it. Yeah, pretty much, I get it.
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So it wasn't your cleaning lady that came today? What is it that
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that you got to do today you had the privilege of doing. Please share
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with Alphie the excitement that that that you incurred today. I see your eyes
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searching your brain, like I didn't do anything fun today? What did you
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do before the show? Trey? Uh? What are you talking about?
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Why are you growing Trey so hard? Dan? I got Well, I
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think I think I've actually screwed up. I think I realized that I thought
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today was one day, and I think what I'm asking Trey about actually happens
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tomorrow. Oh oh, there's something brooding tomorrow. Are you to take my
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mom to the doctor? Yeah, that's it? No, Yeah, those
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are fun days. Is she pregnant? Oh god, no, are you
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gonna do that? What I mean? I don't know exactly how old she
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is. You know, people are having babies, you know, much later
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in life. She's seventy eight, so I think we're No. It's it's,
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you know, one of those things that if you're lucky enough and I
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use that term loosely to still have your parents and live close to them,
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you'll end up taking them to a lot of doctor's appointments as they get older.
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And this is exactly the reason why I feel like, if you're going
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to have kids, you need to have at least two, because then that
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way one ends up being stuck with the parents and the other one gets to
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go live a life of enjoyment. There are very few times in my life
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where I have wished for a sibling, but and taking care of my mother,
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man, it would be nice to have someone to go just take this
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for one day, give me a break. Try you only child? Yes?
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Have you ever been accused of having only child syndrome? Uh? Yeah?
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What does that entail? Exactly? Because I've heard of it, and
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I'll like yell at at friends that are only only children just to yeah,
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I'm curious. I've heard of only child syndrome home. But I don't know.
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I'll scream it at somebody just to make them, you know, just
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to have something over them. But I have no freaking clue what it is.
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One of my friends does something dumb, only child syndrome, or if
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they're doing something I don't agree with, only child syndrome, you know,
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I think that's one of those things. A lot of it is. You
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know, you're used to just not having to share, not having to do
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anything, just so you're selfish, self centered. Um, you know,
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I think it's worse in kids, because you know, I it's like,
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I look back at my childhood and I was, Yeah, between that and
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drinking is horribly immature. And a lot of that is being an only child
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and you don't have any any example of what you're really supposed to do.
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I guess so, well, isn't that the same problem for like the lead
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kid. It's just the lead kid then to deal with each subsequent child being
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treated better than they were, well there, And I think lies the difference
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because if you're the oldest child, then you know, you have to you
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have to come to have to come to grips with the fact that you're no
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longer the favorite and that life is going to be challenging for you. And
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I think that prepares you, you know, for the future ahead, whereas
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if you're the only child like Trey, then it could go. It could
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really it's sort of fifty fifty. You could get someone, you could get
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parents who really prepare you for the future and are hard on you, or
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you're just spoiled because you're the only kid they had. And the friends I
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The kids that really get screwed are the middle kids. If you have more
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than two, because firstborn's firstborn, they're going to get some and then the
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last one is the baby, and then the ones in the middle they just
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kind of get lost in the shovel. But this is why I think it's
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so important that that that again, and if you're gonna have kids, you
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need to have more than one that way. And I think this happens quite
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a lot. Um. It's happened in my family, and I'm not sure
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exactly alpha you tell me if this has happened in yours. So in my
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family, it's my sister who takes care of my mom. Luckily, she
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doesn't need a whole lot of taken care of because she's she's pretty dark and
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self sufficient. The good news is she's had enough surgeries on major joints now
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that she's you know, almost wolverine, so she's getting around pretty good.
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Whereas me, I'm off doing my own thing because my sister has basically shouldered
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the mama responsibility. Yeah, I don't know, you've got you've got multiple
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siblings. I do have multiple siblings, And are you the one that's entrusted
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with taking care of Mama, or is one of the other siblings is stepping
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up. No, we've all we've all shouldered responsibility from time to time.
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Really, oh yeah, equally. Yeah, yeah, that's what That's what
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good children do, like me and try. It's not like you, horrible
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Dan. Now, I've kind of done the thing that I had another friend
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of mine do. So he doesn't live near home like me, and his
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sister helps take care of his parents, but he'll occasionally help them out financially,
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which I've also done for my mom. So that's kind of it's a
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different cross to bear, but you know, it's the situation has a tendency
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to work itself out. But I give you credit, Alfhie having a family
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that if all the siblings want to equally share the responsibility, I guess good
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on you. Is that what you tell your therapist? He said, well,
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well, you know, I just live so far away, and but
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I help out financially. I send, I send um, I send coupons
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their way. Well, go ahead, Tray, don't don't let Alphie guilt
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you into that. You're in a wonderful situation. Enjoy it, embrace it,
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absolutely love it. Trey dogpile. You can guilt him jealous. I
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can't see albe alb You're you're obviously your family and your siblings. Y'all are
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kind of the unicorn because I can tell you this and this is you know,
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I'm just being older and parents are older. Most people you know that
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have siblings, there's always one that gets stuck with doing the majority of work.
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I don't have a choice. It's either me or you know, locker
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in a closet. Yeah, to tell her to wheel or ass over to
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the store. I've seen people doing that on the streets all the time.
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It's like they got the they're in the wheelchair and they they pull up the
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little foot pedals that that you rest your feet on, and then they just
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use their little feet to walk down the street. And I'm always wondering,
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It's like, Okay, where are you going? Do you know where you're
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going? It's either CVS or maybe you're trying to roll to the doctor or
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something. No. I've I've asked one of those people one time where they're
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going and she said, well, my son, Dan O'Malley won't take me
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to the Kroger to just just to get you know cereal oatmeal, it's called
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mom. They have technology now to bring the groceries to you. You don't
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need me. Oh have you have you ever tried to eat? Have you
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ever tried to talk your parents through using an app? No? And this
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is the great thing about having my sister be the responsible one for you know,
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everything in that house for my mom. That's her problem. She's the
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one that's got to explain grubhub and door dash to mama. Yeah, it's
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it's that is when I moved my my mom's husband died tragically August of twenty
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twenty, and I had to move her back to Dallas. And when I
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did, and I it's like, Okay, I'm gonna set you up on
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all these different apps. So really, anything you want you can get.
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It's it's it's it's literally at your fingertips. Yes, yes, I mean
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and this is a woman who has an iPhone and iPad, a computer,
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everything, And I mean I'm uber each wait oh wait, is she an
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old lady or is she a Toddler's get the same goal. It's the line
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between those two are very very very thin. I mean, it is it's
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a joke. You hear it. You know, the older you get,
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you know, at a certain point, you turned back into a child a
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man. That's it is so true, because but sometimes I just want mom
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to be quiet at Applebee's. Oh god, um, I mean so I
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set her up Drubbub, Uber Eats, Kroger, Walmart, Chewy, pet
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Smart, Charity, had Amazon. And you know how many times she's used
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anything except Walmart? How many? None? Well? I think I know
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why it is because she there's the biggest app that's on her phone or iPad.
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It's the one that simply says Trey that's yes. I finally figured out
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about a month ago. I forgot what was going on. But it was
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just because she gave me this callie, I don't have anything to eat them,
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I'm gonna starve, Mike. I just order something. You can do
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it, and you know, and she'sa I need you to do it.
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Nope, I'm not doing it. And amazingly, you know, push came
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to shove hunger. Being a great motivator, she ended up having to do
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it. Now Ever, since then, I can't get her to replicate it
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because then she's like, oh, I just don't remember what I did.
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Can you order it for me? Sure, man, you are such a
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pushover. That's yeah's abuse your parents like Dan once you too. Come on,
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all the cool kids like Dan are abusing their parents. It's not all
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right. If it was abuse, turnabouts fair play. Second of all,
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it's not abuse. It's tough love, which I got a lot of growing
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up. It was hey, you go figured out. Well, guess what
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now it's your turn to figure it out. Yeah, I wish I could
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due to my mother, what my you know what she did to me?
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And yeah, that's one of the things I could. Yeah, all the
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time is when she's like, you don't call, you don't do anything.
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You remember, you're the one who told me to entertain myself and I learned
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how to. That means I don't need you. That's why I don't call.
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Congratulations, your parenting worked. That's good. That's really good. You
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take the things that she instilled in you and you're throw them back in her
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face. This is your fault. I'm this way because of you. Either
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one of you guys still got doctor Thornton's phone number. I believe I do.
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You should share it with everyone, not not listeners, but amongst yourselves.
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Why you think we need therapy? Because of our parents. I mean,
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we do, but it just feels weird to hear somebody else say it.
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I think former bosses might require more therapy than parents. That almost seems
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like it goes without saying, Yeah, have you guys talked to a therapist
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about this a little bit? And well, it turns out we had a
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lot of others to get through before I could get to my messed up parental
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situation. M hmm, it's a murky waters. Do you have any other
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therapy sessions scheduled for the future? Me right now? No, I need
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I need to actually find a new therapist. Thornton can't do it here or
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you're your olds you're old therapist. Thornton's actually have a bad, bad choice
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for us. Not for other people, he's a great therapist, but for
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us he's a horrible, horrible choice because he can't be objective. But yeah,
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you can't call your old therapists and do like, you know, zoom
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sessions or whatever. Now I wish, I mean, I apparently she's limited.
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Her license is limited to the state of Texas, So if I'm not
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in Texas, then then she can't therapy me. Or that was just the
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excuse, she used, so she didn't have to talk to me anymore.
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That's true. Friends, is a therapist, and she she had to get
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licensed because she was licensed in another state, and they wouldn't even let her
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consider doing therapy until she went through the whole process again in Texas. Yeah,
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the good news is I found a really good lady on Twitter. What's
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her name? I'm not sharing that with you. It's it's it's it's my
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Twitter therapist. You get your own, Okay, I'm good. I don't
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I um. I looked outside social media for therapy. Oh you know,
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yours is in a Reddit forum. No, don't be ridiculous, it's a
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treehouse. Sweet Dan, O'Malley and Alfie cooy Alfie. I'm glad you finally
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made it into the treehouse and now you had kind of a rough road getting
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getting in here. Yeah, traffick was kind of asked getting home. Why
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why why why was traffic so bad other than the fact that that you were
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on you know, six thirty five because the rain because it rained there was
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there was like rain drops. Yeah, three drops on the road, and
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some things never change. It's too much for some people. It's too many
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drops. You gotta you gotta, you know, can't. You gotta hit
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the brakes because you don't want your car getting rained on. So you stop
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under an overpass and let the rain just kind of you know, rain on
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other people and if they if they hit you, they rearend you. Well,
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I mean that's the rain. Well, you blame it on the rain
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and be like, oh, it's the rain. Well. And and that
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new law it says you can only go twenty miles an hour when there's moisture
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coming from the sky. Really, that's a new law. Now I've missed
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that. Being so far away, you didn't know that, Yeah, I
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didn't. I missed that part of the legislature. I thought they were worried
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about CRT. Dude, there was a bunch of hail that came through like
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a week or two ago, and I think it was there were a couple
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of local police departments that had to wheat, don't stop under overpasses. All
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you're going to do is cause a wreck. Like, I understand, you're
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getting hailed on and it sucks, but stopping under an overpass is even stupider.
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They don't care. People do not care. They see it as it's
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either dangerous or I don't want my car looking looking like the back of somebody's
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legs. So what they do. They don't give a damn about anyone behind
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them or what's coming on with oncoming traffic. They're just selfish and they're concerned
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about themselves. Man. I get it. Driving in severe weather sucks.
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There have been times where I've been driving in such severe weather where the wind
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is just kicking so hard that I'm like, you know what, I've I've
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got to get out of this, and I'll pull over and I'll find like
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a gas station or something like that. But I'm not stopping on the highway.
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I'm not stopping in them, just the middle of the frigging road.
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Yeah, I think unfortunately, despite some valiant efforts on the part of you
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know, state and federal government, even local on occasion, you cannot legislate
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against stupidity or trying to force people to be considerate. That's just where you
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know, natural human just bless is going to win every single time. Yeah.
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I never understood wanting to, you know, be on the side of
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the road during a thunderstorm where everyone's already freaked out and driving like crap,
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and you're like, oh, well, yeah, let me just stop here
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so you have a stationary target instead of something moving. No, you're right,
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it's it's like the equivalent of stopping in the middle of the thunderdome and
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stepping outside the car for a stroll in the middle of it. Like,
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no, that's terrible. Idea. I will say there was a what was
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it like a month month and a half ago? Did I already tell you
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guys this about the catastrophic winds alert that we got? No, try,
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do you remember that? Did you get that? I vaguely remember a night
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that. Yeah, I don't. I don't think my alert came across as
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catastrophic. I think it was like extreme or something. But yes, I
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got like friends, like from Fox four, they just sent you an alert
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emoji with the cloud going cloud giving you a big middle finger, thanks Andrews.
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It was it was like a standard like you know, emergency alert thing
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that comes through on your phone and it said, you know, warning catastrophic
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winds. Seek shelter immediately, man, I went to the galleria. I
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was just like out for protection or to just shop. I was already out.
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I was already like out on the town or whatever, and like,
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I'm, you know, not gonna make it back home. And the closest
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thing I could think of with shelter is h the galleria. They got nice
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concrete garages, they got good sturdy buildings and stuff like that. I mean,
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yeah, sure that there's that one section that's you know, a glass
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roof. But that's what I was curious about. Yeah, that that held
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up, that held up, rather than that other then, other than that
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being the location of Twister two, what was that actually a thing? Oh?
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I don't know. Okay, I saw something yet that it might be
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in the works, but I don't know if it was still happening since Bill
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Pullman died, or there's somehow going to kill him in the beginning. No,
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they they're making a Twister two, which I just like the way did
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I say Pullman is a Paxton? I always get those two guys names mixed
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up. Yeah, Paton, Yeah yeah. Pullmans still alive. Yes,
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But at the at the Galleria when I was leaving, Okay, during the
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storm, they shut like all the storm shutters, like the safety shutters and
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things like that, you know, keep thieves out or whatever when the mall's
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closed, and they didn't open him a back up until like the the severe
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thunderstorm warning or whatever had passed. And one of the exits on the galleria
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that I left nearby, there were some dudes like doing construction there. I
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was like, this is an odd ass time to be doing construction. And
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I go and I look, the wind had ripped one of the doors off
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the hinges, just straight up rip the door off. It had kicked the
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door open and then slammed it so hard that it popped off the hinges.
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And these guys were putting up plywood. So, Alfie, are your malwalking
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white New Balance shoes or did those work well on wet floors? Oh?
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I should get some of those. I have some of those. Those are
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pretty stylish, too, old man New Balance. Oh God, don't I
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think you really should get some of those malwaking old band shoes. Toast freaking
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New Balance shoes are in style, dude, Like dad shoes are one pent
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in style and they've been in style for a while. Yeah, but you're
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but I think I think you've mentioned this before, but only in the sense
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that if you're young enough to wear them, Ironically, I think the downside
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is you're old enough now where if you're wearing them, well, just think
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you're lame. I'm a dad. Yeah, I gotta work the tube socks
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too. H it's the white New Balance, the tube socks and the and
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the sweater vest. The one to blame for all that is Steve Jobs.
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That was straight up his freaking outfit. Oh it was because he had the
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black turtleneck jeans and the white New Balances. Yep, that's it. Yeah,
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But you know, when you're a billionaire, you can kind of pull
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it off. Well, I mean anyone can pull it off. In fact,
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honestly, most of the dudes that I know that have like insane money,
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they look schlubby like that. And I assume part of it's like a
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defense mechanism. I assume it's like rich guy camouflage. The one billionaire that
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we know, Dan, he just dressed normal. You know, I'm not
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talking about Cuban. Well, I guess he does the same thing too.
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But the other billionaire that we know, m he just dressed as absolutely plain
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as possible. Because if you're running around flashing you know, Gucci this and
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Versachi that, people are gonna start targeting you for cash. They're gonna be
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hitting up. Hey can I borrow twenty bucks? Can I buy your thirty
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thousand dollars? Hey I've got a small investment that I need you to look
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into. That kind of thing. They don't want that. Oh I know
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is I saw that news report about New Balance being back in style, and
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well, I don't wear New Balance. They were like, yeah, you
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know the shows or the shoes that have like, you know, the thick
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you know, heels at the end, you know, with extra cushion.
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And I looked down at my feet and I was like, well, damn,
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yeah, because I think the new Dad shoes are supposedly is it the
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hookahs? Is that what those are called? The really thick soled running shoes?
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Yes, ah, you got some of those train No, I'm a
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big fan of h It's called on running. Oh yeah, those are also
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super freaking popular. Yeah, they're super pretty and comfortable. Yeah on dash
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running dot com. One of my friends went and bought some of those the
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other day. I don't know that I like the soul because they look all
25:57
kind of weirdly segmented around the bottom. Are they super comfortable? Like really
26:00
really worth it? Though? They're the most comfortable shoes and my normal you
26:07
know, you run a bar restaurant, you're on your feet hours on end,
26:11
and they're by far and away. I mean, I think at this
26:12
point, I'm I found him about two years ago, and I I think
26:18
I've bought seven pairs. Dan, I'm hard on shoes, so I mean
26:22
three of them already toast but yeah, they're they're fantastic. So we've reached
26:30
the point in our lives where we're sharing orthotics. There's nothing wrong with that,
26:34
nothing wrong with being comfortable, Yeah, planning about the weather and saying
26:38
my feet hurt. Dude, I will say I think I was like in
26:41
my early twenties or whatever. My older sister took me to Dick Sporting Goods
26:49
to buy me like some good ass shoes. Because my older sister, she's
26:52
a physical therapist, and she'd look at me walk because you're overpronating. We
26:56
need to get that fixed. So she took me to Dick Sporting Goods to
26:59
buy some essentially orthotic shoes. And overpronating, isn't that mean like you're like
27:06
duck walking? It means that your arch has fallen, right, Okay.
27:14
And she took me to go get some frigging, like I said, medicinal
27:18
shoes or some crap some la spirits. No, no, no, we
27:22
got some new balance and they were expensive as hell, like yeah, because
27:27
most people that buy them need insurance to help cover their cost. Man,
27:32
Like I'm used to like sixty seventy dollars, eighty dollars, like pair of
27:34
Vans or something like that, which is probably why I have fallen arches.
27:38
But these new Balance shoes that we got, they were the Steve Jobs looking
27:45
gray and white arch support shoes. They were I think like one fifty one
27:51
sixty or something like that. Yeah, that's mainly because Medicare covers so much
27:56
of the cost. They were most effing comfortable shoes I've ever worn. I
28:03
were you mad about it a little bit? I would have been asked.
28:04
I was so, My god, I look lame, but I'm also just
28:07
really comfortable when I wore through them. I went back to Dick's Sporting Goods
28:12
and they didn't sell them there anymore, at least not that particular model like
28:17
I I had here. I was thinking that that that the only the only
28:19
line in the sand Dix ever drew was about a R fifteens. No,
28:23
no, no, they we do not sell guns, at least not they're
28:26
really you're like cool looking ones. And no more of those gray lame shoes.
28:32
The shoes they had, man, they were they just weren't the same.
28:37
I try them on and I'm like, this didn't have the support I
28:38
need. I need, I need to feel loved from my shoes are you
28:45
still on the lookout for for a new old man shoes? No, I
28:48
uh no, No, it's even worse. It's even worse. I don't
28:56
even want to say. You don't want to say, oh, did you
28:57
find a cash on Craigslist along the colonoscopy thing? Oh, it's even worse.
29:02
Um, my physical therapist, like when I jacked up my name,
29:07
my physical therapist wrecked it. Excuse me, you and your stupid coon hoscopy
29:11
talk. My physical therapist recommended that I get insuls. So now I buy
29:18
like the hardcore, frigging, stiff as hell running insoles from Amazon or like
29:26
you know, run On or whatever running stores there are, and those help
29:30
out quite a bit. The nice thing about that is I can put them
29:32
in any shoes. I'm just when you buy them either story, do you
29:42
wear disguise so no one knows who you are? Or do you just buy
29:45
them on lines? No? No, no, no, I'm wearing wearing
29:49
a scheme mask. This is not a robbery. I just need to buy
29:55
some insuls. I have cash, don't worry. I don't want any credit.
29:59
CA are just so seated with this. You don't want a digital trail?
30:04
Yeah, exactly. I buy mine online so I can go. I
30:10
didn't know. They just sent me the but they're really comfortable. Well,
30:14
I've already got them. I better just keep them in were them and order
30:17
some more pairs. The person stealing my identity seems to really know what I
30:21
need. I'm just gonna go with it. How did we get off on
30:26
this? Uh? Storms? Oh, mall walking? Yeah, yeah,
30:32
mall walking? Yeah, because they were bad storms and you went for shelter
30:36
at the galleria, the one place to one mall in North Texas. I
30:38
would probably avoid because the whole roof is made a glass. It was great.
30:41
Well, you like everyone in there. We were just perfectly fine in
30:45
there. Lots of thunderstorms, lots of wind, except for that one door.
30:49
That one door by Banana Republic got ripped off. But I mean,
30:52
heck, I was walking by the Antians on the top floor, right underneath
30:56
the grat the glass ceiling. It's fine, perfectly safe. Does that help
31:00
with the Mallwalking Association's pace? Does everyone go a little bit faster in the
31:03
face of danger? You bet your asside. You're leaving all the old people
31:08
behind. The sucky thing about that night, dude, is like some stores
31:12
started shutting down early, And I'm like, why where are you gonna go?
31:17
There's storms outside? Why would you shut down early when you close like
31:22
they were shutting down like a six thirty seven or something like that, when
31:25
they actually close at eight or nine, what's the point of that. There's
31:30
hyperwind outside? Stay puts, you're safe. Well, but they know all
31:36
the maltwalkers, you know, I'm sure they take a brisk pace at about
31:38
three o'clock because they have to have dinner at four thirty and then and then
31:41
they're also worried about and they're also worried about the storms because then you know,
31:45
the mall's full of mallwalkers. They may take advantage and start looting the
31:49
place. I'm trying to decide if I would be ethical and that sort of
31:59
situation. And well, if you have the opportunity to stock up on more
32:05
mall walking shoes or pretzels, Your Honor, I don't know how these build
32:09
a Bear gift cards ended up. By the way, if you look under
32:14
your gown, there's about four or five Centabuoni gift cards in there, Your
32:19
Honor, I came with all these Aldo shoes. Hey wait, I have
32:23
some alldoes. Do you want some too? If there's a storm and I
32:25
gotta an opportunity to do a little light looting. Yeah, I think light
32:31
looting keeps it as a misdemeanor. Well, I mean, I was just
32:35
I was keeping it safe for the authorities when when they came back to get
32:42
there. Oh I see, so you you looted to keep looters from looting,
32:47
exactly, exactly, So it's crime to prevent other crimes, yes,
32:53
which I think was the defense of that one cop that got caught doing that
32:57
at a home depot. Yeah, you're you're you're right up there with Batman.
33:02
He was. He was just protecting the skill saws in his car.
33:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all know what I'm talking about. Right.
33:14
Yeah. There was also wasn't there supposedly an officer, and he may have
33:16
been cleared after the fact, but there was during a storm he was protecting
33:21
all the alcohol at a liquor store in his car. There's a joke there,
33:27
and I'm gonna leave it alone. Yeah. Please don't. I gotta
33:30
bleep that, please do. I got to bleep the last one you made
33:36
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38:28
Yeah. I'll be honest with you, Trey, I'm not sure if
38:30
I remembered you being a big Star Trek guy. Yeah. I think it
38:35
was just part of I mean, that was just in my wheelhouse growing up.
38:37
I mean I literally I saw every episode of Next Generation. My mom
38:44
was a massive fan of Star Trek The Next Generation. Wait, I should
38:47
probably amend that my mom was a huge, huge fan and extremely sexually attracted
38:54
to Patrick Stewart so by association, she watched that show religiously, and because
39:01
she watched it religiously, I watched a lot of them. I would never
39:04
consider myself like a huge Trek fan, but I'm definitely not on the hate
39:08
side. But so I watched the What's Up. She was a fan of
39:13
Patrick Stewart, Oh yeah, not Jonathan Frank's commander Will Riker. She liked
39:19
that. She likes bald British men apparently, which you know, came in
39:22
no surprise to my father, distinguished. No, it's if you were a
39:29
fan of the show, then the third season of Picard is just it's wonderful.
39:35
It's it's a great show. But if if you're a fan, it's
39:40
kind of like any TV show you ever watched, and you know, went
39:45
on for years and then it came to an end. This was like,
39:47
you know, because then they did that, then they did a couple of
39:50
movies, and this was like bringing they basically bring everyone back together, and
39:54
it just puts a nice little bow tie and it's like, all right,
39:58
you know, that's clearly that's it. They're done. Yeah, so this
40:00
movie just kind of sucked too. So well, I always had a hard
40:04
time buying into Patrick Stewart as an action star, Like, for whatever reason,
40:07
William Shatner on the original series, Yeah, I could see him punching
40:09
a green dude. But whenever they did with Patrick Stewart, it just wasn't
40:14
as convincing to me. I don't know why, but that was he wasn't
40:16
really more of the It wasn't you know Jonathan Frakes number one, the number
40:22
two, that was he was the muscle. Yeah, yeah, he did
40:29
more of the action stuff. And remarkably, they all looked fairly good.
40:34
I mean, but it's for card the first couple of seasons, like,
40:39
yeah, you have to have watched the first one for the third one to
40:42
make sense. Second one kind of stands alone. I would give the first
40:45
and second seasons a bee like it takes a while, Like especially the first
40:52
couple of episodes of the season one, he just kind of have to get
40:54
through it before it starts rolling. But uh, which is that? I
40:59
mean, I think that's the way with most shows these days. But watch
41:02
it if you're a fan, because the third season is it's it's wonderful.
41:07
It really you could not have asked for a better a better finale for all
41:13
of it. Then that's what I've That's what I've seen online in a number
41:15
of places. Is that that this final season or whatever of Pcard is that
41:20
is supposedly some of the best that they've done. I don't know. Yeah,
41:23
they gave everyone a a what's the word promotion, like they make a
41:31
card admiral now cards admiral uh, rub two finally becomes number one. Well
41:39
and then at the end, but yeah and then uh yeah LaForge has had
41:45
us some engineering and uh and data gets a heart. That was all.
41:52
Yeah, that that that was it. Really. Yes, I was making
41:55
a bad Wizard of Oz joke, but they actually did that. Yeah,
42:00
they gave him emotion. Yeah, that was a little generations I think.
42:05
Yeah, William sat where where William Shatner and uh and Picard get stuck in
42:10
some sort of like alternate universe or like alternate planet or some some weird thing.
42:15
It's like, yeah, that's what it is, a time loop.
42:20
See, I've I've watched some of these things and even at that time,
42:22
I'm like, oh, that's just yeah, part of that is Groundhog Day
42:28
on on a foreign planet. They really did kind of here. They asked
42:34
up a lot of stuff like, uh, first contacts, fun first contact,
42:37
Like like I said, it's hard to buy or like Dan said,
42:40
it's hard to buy Patrick Stewart as mister Mega muscles climbing around the engineering pipes
42:47
and stuff. Yeah, it was really difficult for me to buy into Patrick
42:51
Stewart running and jumping. But there's other parts of it they're awesome, like
42:53
when Warf pulls out that knife and goes assimilate this and he chops the borg's
42:58
arm off and all that stuff. Stuff all right, right, that is
43:00
that is a pretty good catch phrase. But uh, the last movie Nemesis,
43:08
that was pretty bad. Well. I think these are struggles that we
43:13
all have if there was a show that you were a fan of and then
43:15
what's old is new again. They're doing this with almost every successful show.
43:20
They're rebooting it in some way. Like they're doing it with Frasier, they
43:23
did it with Will and Grace, They're they've done it with Full House,
43:27
They've done it with seemingly every show that was successful from our childhoods, and
43:30
they're they're making them do it all again. Um. The thing I'm struggling
43:35
with the most right now was kind of on the opposite end, which was
43:37
a show that started out really good that seems to have jumped the Baby Yoda
43:42
and yeah, I'm talking about Mandalorian. This last season seems I thought you
43:47
were gonna say this particular episode of this podcast, well that's coming. You
43:53
didn't you didn't like the third season of Mandalorian. I'm still I'm still trudging
43:59
three. I'm sorry, but for like flipping Baby Yoda, like I mean,
44:02
actual Baby Yoda when he flips, seems kind of silly because I someone
44:07
pointed out online and I can't unsee it that the flipping of Baby Yoda is
44:12
really them just throwing the doll around on set, and i'd I'm sorry,
44:15
It's just looks silly to me. So I haven't seen any of it.
44:19
I haven't seen any any of the h nothing like my Disney Disney Plus subscription
44:27
lapsed because I don't care or they didn't have a ton that was really interesting
44:30
me. And from what I've seen online, I'm not really interested in watching
44:37
it, which kind of sucks because that was kind of the pinnacle of Star
44:40
Wars stuff right now. It was it was sort of the really good thing
44:44
since Rogue one, but now it's kind of what happened. I saw Lizzo
44:49
was there and Jack Black for some reason. Yeah, I see. I
44:52
haven't gotten to that episode yet. I'm pretty sure that episode is next,
44:54
and I'm afraid of it. It looked really stupid from what I saw.
44:59
It looked right already been to me, it's been pretty stupid leading up to
45:02
the stupid episode, So I'm now I'm really worried what happened? I mean,
45:06
did they change directors or something like that or what. No, it's
45:09
still Favro and Feloni, but I think maybe they lost their I don't know,
45:15
drive lost their edge. I don't know. So I've so Alfhay,
45:19
you haven't seen any of The Mandalorian, like any of the three seasons.
45:22
No, I've seen the first two. But like when when Disney Plus when
45:25
the renewal came around this past November, I was like, am I good?
45:29
No, thanks? I liked season three of The Mandalorian. I the
45:36
biggest question is the way they left it is. You're like, well,
45:37
is that it? Or I think they've confirmed Morse coming. No, they
45:43
have a Fabro has already come out because that's basically his pet project, and
45:45
he's already said no seasons four has already been written and there's still money to
45:51
be made. Well yeah, well, and then I guess one of the
45:54
things I find kind of fascinating is, uh, I mean, Pedro Pascal
46:00
obviously had a wonderful first part of this year between the Last of Us and
46:04
The Mandalorian, and yeah, evidently there's problems with him coming back to do
46:08
season four of The Mandalorian. And I'm like, it's like James L.
46:13
Jones doing Darth the Voice. You don't see his face. It's like,
46:15
just have him voice the crap and you have someone else just walk around in
46:19
the costumes. What's this problem with coming back for just scheduling or just doesn't
46:23
want to do it anymore? Does he see season three? Is being like
46:28
this is not what I signed up for. Maybe I think he's just angling
46:31
for I mean, obviously his star is pretty high right now, so I'm
46:37
sure he's just because I know he signed a two season deal after the success
46:43
of season one, and I'm sure now he's like, you know, like
46:45
an NFL quarterback going, you're not paying me enough. He wants that Aaron
46:51
Rodgers money, I will say, and listen to my listen to my segue
46:55
here. This is a transition right out of a hall of fame. One
47:00
of the things I do like that they're doing in Star Wars almost anything,
47:02
is they're still staying true to the original films and turning trash cans into robots.
47:07
Oh, like the Gonk droid and he stomps around exactly, And that's
47:15
the way a lot of the droids are, like the ones that roll around,
47:17
or like the one you're talking about, Alfie, that was that's a
47:22
literal trash can that they just kind of turned in to make it look like
47:24
a robot exactly. So you remember, it was like a week or two
47:29
ago we talked about the robot dogs being deployed by the NYPD. Yeah huh.
47:35
Well, and apparently New York is expanding their robotics program from enforcement from
47:42
law enforcement now to trash collecting. Oh for real, Oh dude, Other
47:47
cities have these, like, um so they're part of the Santinentation Department,
47:52
I think so. Researchers at Cornell University recently deployed a pair of robotic trash
48:00
cans in New York to test how people would respond to them. Video of
48:05
the trash cans, which were equipped with three hundred and sixty degree cameras and
48:07
move on retrofitted hoverboards. Oh, they move that, they move. I
48:15
was I was under the impression that it was just a trash can and when
48:17
you put something in it, it goes, thank you very much and then
48:21
like makes a chewing sound or something like that, which they have. They
48:23
absolutely have that. In your honors. There's some European towns that have trash
48:30
cans that have like basically trash compactors built in and you put the stuff in
48:35
and it'll make like a funny noise. It'll make like a belotious thank you,
48:38
like to this is a little reward for throwing away your trash. You
48:42
get to see a stupid little, stupid, little chucky cheese style show.
48:45
You know. So basically everyone's stealing from Sesame Street. Yeah exactly. It's
48:52
yeah, yeah, and Star Wars all wrapped into one. But yeah,
48:59
So these these trash bots or you know, robot trash bins, whatever you
49:02
want to call them. They roll around on hoverboards and then they have the
49:07
cameras on them. They wanted to see how people react to the to the
49:09
trash cans, and they'll kind of follow people around so while on one hand
49:14
people responded to them pretty well, there were some of the UH people that
49:19
had interactions with these robotic trash cans that were apparently a little creeped out.
49:23
Um, but we made sure. And it's like, Okay, it's important
49:28
if I'm gonna bring something up on the show that you know, we thoroughly
49:30
vet it. It needs to be researched entirely. And it's like someone says,
49:34
a robots creeping me out, I need to find examples of it.
49:36
So I found some. Hello, I am robot trash bin. Talk dirty
49:42
to me. That's a hilarious cash phrase. Hey, not all, not
49:47
all robots are Oh god, are you no? I'm just thinking it's like,
49:55
not all, not all, not all trash kNs can be Dave Chappelle.
50:00
Sometimes they just they just feel like making a pun. There's plenty of
50:06
stinker puns that I could make right now that I'm going to refrain from doing,
50:08
dan because I'm better than that. That's okay, I'm not Hello,
50:15
I am robo trash bin. How about some ask for some trash. Trust
50:22
me, they get much harsher. See. This is this is the This
50:27
is like the European robot, the one that gives you a little reward.
50:31
I therefore, maybe the ones in New York City took inspiration from the euro
50:36
trash Maybe. So, I guess the trash cansdent what Trey U. The
50:43
trash cans identify as day them, so they're just hitting on anyone everyone,
50:46
and I think so Yeah, okay, Hello, I am robo trash bin.
50:53
Have you seen my girlfriend, robo recycle bitch. She's always revived,
50:59
exs refining. I don't know what that belief was. I like to point
51:07
out that Trey is choking on that joke. Yeah, I see you're laughing
51:14
now that Trust me, it's gonna get worse. Hello, I am robotrash
51:19
Ben. Don't laugh at me because I'm a robot. One day I could
51:22
become robo president, just like the one we have now. It communicates better
51:35
mhm, clear concise m But that's also a problem. Hello, I am
51:39
robot trash Bin. Have I told you how my parents met? It all
51:45
started with my mom being a c dumpster. Jesus, you can see now
51:52
why some people might be creeped out by a robot with that much of detail.
51:59
I don't know how to feel right now. What do you mean embarrassed
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or what do you mean embarrassed? Hello, I am robotrash Ben. Laugh
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all you want, But I have your careers in here. Yeah that's true.
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They had again robot. Hello, I am robotrash Bin. Are you
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a dirty girl? Yeah? You are? You're so dirty? I want
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you inside me. It's robot trash Ben just a perve. Is that what's
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going on? Look? People said they were creeped out by it. I
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mean okay, Well, I mean yeah, because it moves and it's on
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a hoverboard. That's a thing. Well that's asking people to crawl inside him.
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Yeah. Hello, I am robotrash Bin. Spit in my mouth,
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I mean, put your trash in here, please, Ben, spit in
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my mouth? Little Kinki Yeah dirty? Hello, I am robotrash Bin.
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Is this your positive pregnancy test? The baby bucket is around the corner.
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That's Dan O'Malley Dan at Dan O'Malley dot com. Alright, fine, I'll
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own it, Yeah, certainly won't Daniel. I am robo trash Bin.
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Hey, Trey, is this all that money you gave to your ex girlfriend?
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God? You can be a real prick sometimes, Dan, But it's
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not me, it's it's the trash Okay, Yeah, no, it really
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is the trash can, because how many, how many of these we have
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left one? Yeah, because this is really this is the trash can,
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especially after you hear this one. Hello, I am robo trash bin.
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Have you seen the ratings for ninety seven point one? You know? I
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wasn't sure this bit was worth it, but good bath right okay, and
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it was a great transition. They follow all things Treehouse at Treehouse on Air,
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