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Episode 64: F*ck You ERCOT, Part 2 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. It is time to leave your worries outside and join
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me. Daniel Malley, Trade Trendholm and newly inducted Treehouse law enforcement Officer Raj
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Sharma. Yeah, when you fight crime in this Treehouse, you get recognized.
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Thank you. You know, I didn't use the word hero, and
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I don't think I did either, neither did the cops. But I will
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tell you, but they said thanks for the help. So if you haven't
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heard it yet, do us a do yourself a favor, go to patreon
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dot com slash Treehouse on air. You can hear all about how our hero
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Raj or from here on to be known as the Bollywood Batman, stop the
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crime dead in its tracks. And when the criminals said, who are you,
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Raj said, what's up? I'm brown man. I'm just a guy
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on a phone talking to the police telling them, can you please come and
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stop this guy from from from doing all the bad stuff that he's doing.
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So maybe it was maybe it was all those Bollywood hero movies that you've been
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posting on Instagram. So it got into you, It got into your veins,
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into your soul, and so when you saw this man doing bad,
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you like the Indian Hulk tore all your clothing and saved the day. Wait,
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I'd like to contribute it to this show and how much we you know,
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we admire and do things for police and fire and how they respond in
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kindness to us and how much they do for us. And I was like,
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you know what, this would be one of those things where I have
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a new growing up. You know, you know, as a personal calor,
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I've been stopped a lot for no reason and all that stuff, So
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you have a distrust of police and this show has can of change that for
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me. And so I was like, you know what, I'm gonna call
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these people and I didn't want to. Like in my head, I'm like
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they're gonna pull up and like they're gonna arrest me, like throw me on
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the ground. I'm like I'm the one calling. I'm on the right.
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But yeah, I think it's a I years ago, I probably would have
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let it go. Like, you know, there's insurance on these things,
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and there's that, and there's this not always not on those things. Did
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you do a snazzy little dance number though, and and any point in this
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which is weird, we did, and the cops knew the routine, which
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was very strange. So it turns out the Bollywood films are accurate to life.
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Had we had the whole the whole end of slum Dog Millionaire. We
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just did it right there on Trinity Bills, kids crawling out of the crapper
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knowing the entire routine. It was really weird. I'm like, you guys
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know this too, and they're like, how'd you know? I was like,
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let's get this going. And the criminal doing the same dance was the
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handcuffs. It was very sweet. It was a nice sendoff for found his
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new found home in jail. Well. I wonder though, I wonder if
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in jail and eventually prison where it sounds like he's going to end up.
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Yes, the winter storm back in twenty twenty one, a lot of the
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people that did not lose power, it was because they were on the same
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grids as hospitals, police stations, fire houses. So that means if you're
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in jail, you're probably gonna have heat correct, whereas the rest of US
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law abiding citizens froze our asses off thanks to Rkott And as if things couldn't
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get worse for the public relations nightmare that is Erkott, the Electric Reliability Council
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of Texas the most ill formed entity in the entire state. Do you think
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they when they say that out loud, to actually say out the acronym,
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they just giggle reliability? I think they do. And then I think right
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after that in a meeting when everyone laughed, hr Sonata memo said, you
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can't use the R word anymore. That's now off the table. Don't use
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it, just go like, you know, Electric Council of Texas. Hey,
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you gotta give them credit. They put the lie in reliability. Well,
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said raj And had you said that in like twenty twenty five minutes,
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we wait have ended the show on that. But as it is, we
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have a little bit. But you'll forget I'll say it again, that's true.
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Yeah, usually as a call back at the end of the show.
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So like, if you're listening right now, in like twenty ish minutes,
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skip ahead, Rajh's going to say something very similar and it's gonna still be
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hysterical, and then we're going to end the show and everyone's going to be
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happy on a Monday. But you're not wrong, Urkott. I remember seeing
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the news story, you know, maybe a month or two ago that Urkott
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said, hey, when you know, kind of like Ned Stark In almost
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said Lord of the Flies in Game of Thrones. Kind of like the Starks
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and Game of Thrones. He's up there saying brace yourselves, winter is coming,
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and Urkott says, we're ready and h Then the most recent headline,
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which might be one of my favorites ever, Yeah, Urkott cancels program to
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boost power reserves ahead of potentially precarious winter. I'm going to rephrase that slightly
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shorter. Rkott cancels planning. Yeah. Yes, uh. And the logic
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behind this is it is not winter hasn't shown up yet, and so they're
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like, hey, everything's good. I'm like you do there, there's another
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year coming. Maybe maybe that's the new R that they've redefined in kut so
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instead of reliability, which they're obviously not allowed to use, at least not
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with us in the public. Maybe it's I lost my train of thought.
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What was it you said? Oh? No, I was They basically was
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like I think I think if I read it right, They're like, well,
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it hasn't been a rough winter yet, so we don't have to boost
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our reserves, right, which means the R in there now stands for uh
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reactionary. Yes, like like they should be EPCOT proactive, but they're not.
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They're cut, they're reactive, and that leaves a bunch of us frozen
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in our houses to starve and die in some cases. Yeah, I'm lucky
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in the when the first one happened, same grid as the hospital, and
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then when we moved to this place, same grid as two hospitals in a
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surgery center. So the full story on this is Urkott has actually sought mothballed
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and decommissioned power plants to fire up for the winter, but none of them
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were willing to reactivate. They basically called around to all these different energy companies
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and asked them, hey, will you turn this old plant on? And
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then those companies basically said yeah, if you pay us, And then Urkott
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said, well we don't, we don't really do that, and they and
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then the the energy provider said well we don't really do that either, So
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now they're just stuck. Yeah. I like how they had a plan but
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didn't check to see if the plan was the plan go ahead. Drey just
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didn't want to pay for the plan. Yeah, I guess. I guess.
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I guess they you know, got on you know, group on and
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thought maybe they could do something else. No, they actually thought that these
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energy companies, who are in the business of making money would actually volunteer.
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They're they're old plants and you know, pull the pull the cover off of
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it, blow off the dust bunnies, and flip it on just because Erkott
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asked nicely. And that's not how it typically works. R Coott is Oliver
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walking to the front with the ball asking for more porridge, and the energy
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company goes more and they say, uh, very well done with the Oliver
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twist reference man, thank you. I am occasionally cultured. Yeah that was,
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but now that I've but now that I've been mildly cultured, now I'm
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going to completely debase myself by comparing Rkott two to an act that I mentioned
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they should do in the summer. So I'm going to bring that back right
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now. So saying hey, we're ready for winter, they said the same
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thing in the summer or pre summer, they say we're ready for summer,
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and guess what they weren't. And at that time, what did I tell
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them, You guys need to go eat a bag of dicks. Why,
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because you're telling us to conserve and not use our air conditioning because we're sweating
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balls. No, you get it figured out. The more you tell us
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not to do something, the more we want to do the thing. Now
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they're telling us we're ready for winter. All right, Urcott, it's time
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to break out your bib because you're about to eat a whole bunch of dicks.
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I want you, I want you to be ready. It's gonna be
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like a crab boil. You're gonna throw a bunch of dicks in a pot
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with some seasoning and potatoes and some corn. Then you're gonna invite the neighborhood
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over for a backyard dick boil. You're gonna throw them all out onto the
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table on some newspaper and you're gonna dick through. I use that intentionally.
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And you're gonna eat the meat and you're gonna struck the head, and then
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the kids are gonna be in a dry pool playing with them before they get
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eaten. Wow, Okay, I mean there's I mean, very very vivid
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imagine was not an imagination. I want this to happen. I wanted to
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come to fruition. I want the entire Council of Urkot lined up at a
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dick table and eat them all every time they say we're ready. Yeah,
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okay, I just uh. All I did was I just turned the heat
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on and open all the windows. That's all I'm doing. Joke's on you,
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because across the street is the dick boil. Just all those essences just
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filling your nose coming across the street. And you know it, you know
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And so I know what teachers go through on many levels, and I
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understand when they snap, and I'm a little bit biased and when I say
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a little bit biased. I'm almost every single time going to side with the
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teacher. There are exceptions, don't get me wrong. There, Like any
14:30
profession, there are some bad ones and they do and say some things they
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shouldn't, But for the most part, underpaid, underappreciated, it's really a
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hilacious job. Yep. And after the COVID lockdowns. And I say this
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because at the time, I was living with my ex and her two children.
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And if you didn't gain an enormous amount of respect for teachers after the
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COVID lockdown, and you were trying to teach your kids at home, then
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you're an idiot because that out, you know, it killed almost kills a
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lot of people, a lot of kids. So yeah, home schooling,
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not the COVID. Yeah, COVID was looking like a good option at a
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certain point, if like, if that's where like if I was in that
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situation and I and I got like three four kids staring back at me and
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they're expecting me to teach them some stuff like you go to school, yeah,
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or you know what you used to hear, I'm gonna go to school.
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I'd rather take my chances with with the VID. Yeah, my girlfriend
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all through college. She graduated and became a teacher, and I remember going
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to visit her in her class, and uh, they didn't They had to
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buy their own. And I don't know if this is still true, but
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they have to buy their own. Like if you want to do crafts or
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projects or stuff with the kids, you have to buy your own stuff.
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So, like all the crayons and all the the paper stuff that you got
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to buy, she had to buy all. So I ended up I was
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like, let me just do that, let me let me buy it.
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And I bought their stuff for the year, which was only a couple hundred
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bucks. But I'm like, you have to pay for this out of pocket
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and you're not getting paid that much. So, yes, they do have
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a tendency, and they drink a lot. I don't know if you've ever
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been with a group of teachers, but yeah, the drink a lot.
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Yeah, it's fantastic if you get a chance to drink with teachers or go
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to rehab pick the ladder. You know. It's like as a kid,
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you never wanted to go to like the parent teacher conferences that you had to
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go to and you had to sit outside while while your parents, and the
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teacher talked about you. But as an adult, Yeah, there's like a
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like an actual teacher's conference someplace. I got a hotel somewhere, and I
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don't even know if they're allowed in Vegas, because Vegas might be like no,
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no, no, no, Yeah, we can't how many teachers at
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once, But if you can't, that would be a party to go to
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because they are seem Yeah. I had a buddy mine who was a teacher.
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He used to teach at the juvenile detention center, so all the like
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really bad kids, they still have to go to school. And he's like,
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hey, man, come to my house. There's a party. And
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I was like, okay, this is going to be me and a bunch
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of teachers. And I went, wow, that sounds boring. And I
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walked into his house and I can't even make this up and it's burned into
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my brain. I walked in and there's a lady's standing there, Uh,
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sweater, no pants, shoes. That means she had taken her shoes off,
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to take her pants off and then put her shoes back on. Uh.
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And she has an industrial size of cess sized bottle of Jaeger. And
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I've never met this lady before I just opened the door and this is all
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I see. And she looks at me and she goes buckle the f up,
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and I was like, and I just remember slowly shutting the door and
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going back to my car. I'm like, I can't. I'm leaving,
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Like, really, I have to. I have to. I have to
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see what she means. I have to go in and experience that. I
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to see what she means by buckle the f up because ironically she can't buckle
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anything. She's not wearing any pants. Yeah, and then I called my
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buddy Richie the next day and I was like, how's the party goes,
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dude? I woke up in the tub and I was like, yep,
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that's why I left. And he was wearing her sweater. She was wearing
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his hats. So the other day. I don't know how viral this went,
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but it was definitely major in North Texas because nowadays, if a teacher
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snaps in a classroom, you're not just having students witness it, because nowadays
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the students all have their own phones, which means they can record, slash,
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live stream this stuff. So when teachers snap these days, it usually
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ends up online for everyone to witness as opposed to just the kids in the
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classroom. So this latest incident, and I haven't had a chance to completely
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verify this, so I'm going off of internet knowledge. Here and captioned,
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this is a teacher at Raulett High School and he just I don't know what
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preceded this. I don't know what's happened since I just know what happens in
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this moment where he absolutely loses his mind because and his word words, he's
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tired of being disrespected. I got it. What are you doing? So
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that's a chair he just kicked across the room? Mm hmmm. And I
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think in the beginning he actually mentioned something about, uh, you're making me
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bring hell fire on you, which if that's for a teacher, that's a
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hell of a catchphrase. M what are you doing? That's where he uh
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uh, you know, Bobby Knight like threw the chair across the court.
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This guy showed up Bobby Knight because he saw the chair, kicked that bitch
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across the room, and then he went over to it, picked it up,
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slammed it back down on the ground again, and we all realized,
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in the teacher's mind, he wants that to be the kid, but it
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can only be the chair type of ship. I'm proud of it. God
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damn almost don't very nicely told you what to do. I had to touch
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you, got damn it. You won't even it. Now. What's bad
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about this is you have some kids that are uh just you have two.
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You have two kinds of kids in that classroom, ones that are witnessing,
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that are kind of shocked and like, oh my god, what do we
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do? Don't move? And then there's the kid who's laughing at the whole
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thing. He just thinks the whole thing is hysterical. And that kid is
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next to the kid that this teacher's screaming at. Nice told you what to
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do. I had to touch you, got it. You won't even trust
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it to anything else to me, don't come across you know. It's serious.
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When when there are two things that get thrown out, one is dude,
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there was no dude here, this this was not a dude situation.
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The other is when you throw goddamn in the middle of stuff where it doesn't
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normally fit. And that's what he does. Here there and here. Listen
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to this again. Enough is a goddamn enough, Yeah, yeah, ray,
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I'm curious, is the video to this. I saw a clip,
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I didn't hear the audio. Is it is this guy? And then is
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there another adult kind of holding him back? No, this is this is
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a free arrange teacher, okay, which which for the students, you got
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to keep in mind. If he's like it starts with a chair, don't
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push him. That's where the kid who's laughing doesn't understand what could happen because
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you keep laughing at the event and you may become the chair. It could
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escalate in the blink of an eye. Yeah, that's because there is there
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is something that the newer generations. There is a concept that they do not
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understand. And I say this and it's work, school, everything. And
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it's a principle we learned because we didn't want to get our asses whipped.
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And the principle is fly below the radar. So yeah, not only not
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only does it occasionally work as a program director of the Eagle, but it
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is also sage advice for school survivability. Yes, and this is also one
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of those things where if you ever in your life have wondered, man,
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I wonder what Samuel L. Jackson would be like as a teacher. This
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is this is that, this is his this was his Snakes on a Plane,
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Like, yeah, this is the teacher snakes on a plane. But
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the next step is this is gonna be Sam. Sam Jackson's like next Oscar,
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right because now he's got to play this guy and it's gonna be great.
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I'm gonna be lined up to see it opening night. The name of
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that movie. He's had a goddamn noth but it really does. It goes
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back to saying teachers are not appreciated for how difficult of a job they have.
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And that's true. I don't care where you are, whether it's role
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at high school or South central LA. The job is hard. You're Dan,
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I believe I sent you this news article in the UH and and this
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can't be a surprise as to what state it is. There's one state where
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teachers are just saying screw it and they're leaving the state. And he goes,
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wow, Okay, so you said there was no surprise as to where
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it was. So I'm gonna go out on a limb with this show.
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And so is it our favorite state? Florida? Absolutely? Congratulations, ding
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ding ding ding ding. They're just leaving they're just like, well, we're
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done teaching basically. Yeah, They're like, we're leaving. There's there's there's
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greener pastures elsewhere. Yeah. This guy's like this guy's got kicking a chair
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and they're like kicking counties looking good to Florida teachers. Oh god, that's
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that's a frightening thought, the education mecca of the United States, because i
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mean, like, like like Davy Crockett said, you may all go to
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Hell, and I'm going to Texas. Florida teachers are saying we're going to
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into the height of the holiday season. We've got Thanksgiving behind us, We've
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got things, We've got Thanksgiving behind us, we have Christmas and New Year's
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coming up. Some curious, what's your favorite part of the holiday season?
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What's definitely changed over the years when you're a parent. My two girls are
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much older now, twenty three and seventeen, but obviously in the younger days,
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it was always fun watching them get up and wake up and have all
25:51
that excitement in their face to go see the presence that morning and to see
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what's happened, and still believing in Santa Claus, and so that was the
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deal. Now as you get older, now it becomes where we like to
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get with our friends and other family members, and I think, honestly,
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the favorite time is the white Christmas gifts because you never know what the hell,
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oh excuse me, sorry, what the heck you can find in some
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of those white Christmas gifts. Okay, I've seen like s and m mask
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and body suits come out. I've seen like specialty shot glasses, adult toys,
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you know, all these weird apparatuses, and it's like, you know,
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that's some of the best fun ever is watching all these most innocent people
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about that, please? I'm still I know that if I was there,
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I know what I would have. I would have a T shirt or a
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about a couple of things. One, how did you like your trip?
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And two, speaking of trips, I believe you're all the guys that work
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for Brooks Plumbing or having their fishing trip right. Yes, I am really
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happy that I went to the Caribbean and that I'm not on their boat because
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they're on Lake Texoma today and it's very nice out here. But they went
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very early. Boat took off early, and I got a phone call from
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a couple of them. We're pulling back in now and they're literally going to
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do some phallic measuring. They're going to lay out the fish and see who
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got the biggest fish, and then there's gonna be some sort of an awards
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ceremony and bragging rights. And my guys like to have fun, so I
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think they all threw in like ten dollars each and whoever got the biggest fish
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is going to take the pot home, and so they're having a really good
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time. But you could not. I don't like the cold. I'm definitely
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like a tropical person. Saint John of Tulsa is the most beautiful, one
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of the most beautiful places I've ever been. And I used to live in
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Hawaii for a very brief period of time, and I'm very happy to know
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that there's an eland that pretty half the distance from from home. So I'm
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sorry, I'll be around a lot. No no, please do. And
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one of the big takeaways from this conversation we're having is that you can know
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as a possible or current client of Brooks Plumbing. They they work hard and
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Plumbing Texas dot com. That's Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. I got that
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story that you sent. Trey pulled up the headline does its job. Teachers
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say they can't live and work in Florida anymore. They start with a teacher
30:21
named Philip bill Castro. He looked around his belongings piled with the storage unit.
30:26
Boxes of books, the mattress, clothes, and old instruments from his
30:29
past life as a musician were cluttered together. This is my entire life in
30:33
a ten x ten storage unit, he said, laughing. The Saint Petersburg
30:37
High School English teacher moved out of his apartment this summer after rent increased to
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more than half of his monthly pay, reluctant to leave the community. Cost
30:44
of living got out of control. And the schools suck. And when they
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say the schools, you know they mean the kids when they say the kids
31:00
and the schools. A lot of times just the parents, because the parents
31:04
can be way worse than the kids, because parents think their kids are little
31:07
angels, or they're aware, Like I joke about things on stage like this,
31:14
and I'm like, because I'll ask teachers, I'm like, and they're
31:18
reluctant to do it, but I have to remind them that they're in a
31:21
safe space. I'm like, so your teacher, yeah, well grade,
31:22
I'm like six. I'm like, who's your favorite student? Oh so,
31:26
And so immediately they have their favorite student, they go who's the worst and
31:29
they go, oh, I can't say, I go, I know,
31:30
but you want to, so say it. And immediately the name comes out,
31:33
and I go, are the parents nice and he's a dick? Or
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is it are they just all dicks? And nine times out of ten it's
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they're all dicks, Like the parents are the same way as the kid.
31:45
And then sometimes it's just you have one bad kid and he just ruins the
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whole class. The thing is, like, you hear about these problems here,
31:56
like in India, in Asia especially, like your teachers can beat in
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class, beat you, like still to my teachers get in class beat you,
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they did beat. It turns out, Trey, you and I went
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to U Mumbai is SD No. It's like here like like because corporal punishment
32:16
was around when when we were kids as well, So it's like if you
32:19
did something wrong, you went to the principal's office. And here's what it
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was. Oh no, it started with the teacher would put you in front
32:28
of the class and they had paddles. They would swatch you. Then I
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would get sent to the principal's office and then I would take a shot.
32:34
They would be then to the coach's office of football practice swat and home to
32:40
grab belt. And it was dad's turn, because you know what, belt
32:47
got to eat too, and that and that was growing up at a certain
32:57
time now and and and this is this is an interesting dynamic because there is
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now loads of research that psychologists and psychiatrists and social workers and experts and children
33:13
have come to say, don't do that because it's ultimately damaging to your children.
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And I will say I am damaged because of a lot of the things
33:22
that happened to me as a child abuse wise. At the same time,
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I was also really well mannered. Yeah. So at a certain point,
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it's like, well, where do we find the balance? You know,
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It's like, Okay, you can deal with a little bit of childhood trauma
33:37
that will carry over into your adult years, but at the same time,
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I want you to sit down and shut up on occasion, Yeah, I
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mean, but that's also I mean, we also called abuse whatever. Like
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I was at was a department store last night getting some stuff for Christmas,
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and I watched this kid have an utter meltdown over the fact that they were
33:54
going to put him in a timeout when he got home, and I was
33:58
like, man, I would have old for a time out kid. I
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remember going to uh. I remember going to a kid's house one time and
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he got in trouble and his parents said, you go sit in the corner,
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you go time out, and I'm like, time out. Yeah,
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the only, the only reason, the only, my only reference to time
34:15
out was when my mom would tag in my dad. Yeah yeah. My
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mom would get winded and she was like, yeah, yeah, time out.
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And I hate to say this, but I'm going to say it because
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it's an old man phrase. But in my day, a time out wasn't
34:30
for the kids, it was for the it was for the adults. Yeah.
34:35
My dad's time out was he had to go smoke a Carlton and then
34:37
come back and finish the top turns out Carlton's and are not you know,
34:44
they're not just for enjoyment, they also give you energy. I'm gonna smoke
34:51
this rhythm gonna smoke your ass. Weird. It's a weird thing to say
34:54
that. Let me throw this out there if if you happen to be a
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teacher and you need to blow off some steam, I have the perfect time
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and place for you to do so in your own safe space, and that
35:08
is at our Treehouse Podcast Christmas road Show at Shaker Ten's on Saturday this Saturday,
35:15
December ninth, four to seven pm. So that means you can come
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hang out with us, have a good time, you can possibly enjoy the
35:24
roast of me, and that's after the actual taping of the show, and
35:30
some drinks will be had. There's food there, we'll have some merch scheduled
35:35
to appear. In addition to the three of us, will be Jerry Caldwell,
35:38
Everett Newton is kind of a maybe depending on his health. And then
35:43
also Anadhara is going to be there and where it is. She's going to
35:46
be partaking in some roasting, which I'm mildly afraid of because she can be
35:50
vicious like a drunk chihwaba when she wants to be. And so it's going
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to be a great time. So as a teacher can come bl off some
35:59
steam in your own safe space, so you can say and do pretty much
36:00
whatever you want. I think Shaker Tins may require you to wear pants,
36:04
but I'm not certain, So don't don't hold you know, don't hold it
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against me. Yeah, that's Saturday at Shaker Tins four to seven, and
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you can bring you can bring a toy for a special needs child that will
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have up that you can see the type of toys that they need at the
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Warren Center. Yeah. I was just saying, I think the whole ax
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ax throwing phenomenon was based on a teacher's idea. It's like, how do
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how do I kill my students without killing my students axe throwing? Because it's
36:31
the only thing I've ever seen where they serve alcohol and let you hold an
36:36
axe. Like I've never like that. I've never seen those two things go
36:40
well. But yeah, I think if I was the parent of a child
36:44
that brought home the permission slip for the school trip to go to the ax
36:46
throwing place, I'd be like, Okay, whatever happened to the Museum of
36:52
Natural History or you know, I'm ax. Yeah, it's I'm axe,
36:59
That's exactly I don't I don't know if third grade is appropriate to go to
37:04
the place called the chop house, I should be signing this. Some parents
37:13
are like, yeah, take your brother too. Here's my wife. What
37:22
happened to just losing them on the field trip. It's a another kid lost
37:36
to night at ten. It's a real pandemic. We got here and not
37:46
everyone knows this. But that's why they had to institute the policy of permission
37:51
slips, because it wasn't so much a permission slip to go on the trip.
37:53
It was a permission for the teachers to lose your child. Something's got
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to go in the back of a milk carton otherwise it's just a bunch of
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lights. Man. I'm glad it's glad it's ramping up to the Christmas season
38:15
because I'm a feeling by New Year's we're all gonna be in hell. Oh
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man, I love it. Inside the Treehouse mention it again. Shakerton's Saturday
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four to seven pm. Bring a new unwrapped toy for a disabled child or
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special needs. I should say some are disabled, some special needs. It
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kind of runs a gamut. Earth to age three and the roast of me
38:38
will have some fun there and a live taping of this yere treehouse so you
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can see all the hell inducing in person with alcohol in the treehouse. We'll
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see you there