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Episode 39: Monkeys with Jobs · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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You are in the treehouse. Time to leave your rories outside and join us
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in the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholme. And because he
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just can't get enough of us, or we just can't get enough of him,
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I'm not sure which, but let's not fight it. Actor, comedian,
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and most importantly friend raj Arma, Hey, raj Hey, Well it's
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a it's just can be now, I can't. I don't know if the
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union will let me say after oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the yeah.
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The whole SAG thing makes things a little hairy as far as what you
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can and cannot do. I know that I saw over the weekend with the
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Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild both being on strike at the same time,
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I saw that SAG had said, Okay, here's here's a list of
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things that actors you know, cannot do, and there was some describe and
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see in there about you know, can you do certain things like podcasting,
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and really that basically came out. It was where I saw it was there
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was an article from Variety that listed all these things that the SAG actors cannot
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do, and it included podcasting, which was kind of nice. To be
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included. You're like, hey, we made it to the big time.
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You do know what I thought was interesting on that Variety list though it's nowhere
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on there did it say that that they couldn't do radio appearances. So that's
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how much radio gets disrespected in the industry. It's like, now, do
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all the radio you want. We don't. We don't give a damn about
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that. But podcasting, no, no, no, no, you shouldn't
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be doing that. But I think it's your You can't do your own podcast
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that's monetized, right like you can like I can be on this show,
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I just can't have mine. See, therein lies a couple of the discrepancies
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because Variety said, Okay, here's all these things actors can't do, and
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the obvious stuff was there, like you can't shoot a movie, you can't
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shoot a TV show, you can't do a public appearance type stuff, and
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when it mentioned podcastings. But then Sean Gunn, who is James Gunn's brother.
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James Gunn's the director of the Gardens of the Galaxy movies, their most
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recent suit Squad, and he's also the new co head of DC and he's
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doing the new Superman movie Anyway, his brother Sean, who's done a lot
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all the movies with him, over the weekend was like, this story's misleading.
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It's not that you can't do these things. You just can't promote any
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projects that we're striking on basically. So it's like you can you can do
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a podcast just to do a podcast, but you can't promote anything for it.
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Okay, so they revise that list. Yeah, so like you could
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have someone who's who's in the Oppenheimer movie? Matt Is Matt Damon in it?
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Yeah, Matt Damon's in it, all right, so you could have
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Matt damon On. You just can't ask him about Oppenheimer. He's not going
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to promote Oppenheimer. But right, you know, or if you wanted to
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have if you wanted to have the Rock on your show. He couldn't necessarily
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promote any of his movies. Well, it might be a little harrier because
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he is also an executive producer. As an actor, he wouldn't be able
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to promote a film like Fast in the Furious, but he could promote his
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tequila. But he can promote TV shows that are currently wrapped or movies that
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are rapped. I don't think they're supposed to do any promotion. Maybe we
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should ask somebody. Yeah, but even then, see, even even some
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of the people are confused. As far as our our buddy, dear friend
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h tone Bell is on a new uh Netflix show called Survival of the Thickest
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and it's great. Um, I've been watching it, uh and it's fantastic.
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And he's but he's like, just because we're on strite doesn't mean you
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can't watch TV. So I think he promoted it that way, like,
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hey, just it's over, you can watch stuff that we're on. We
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just can't. I guess it can't um actively go out and pitch a show.
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That's I think, because I think they're going into a season two.
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So that's what I thought. That's what I kind of gleaned from it,
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is he can't you can talk about pass projects that you've already done. I
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just don't think you can go, Hey, I'm in the upcoming Fast and
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Furious fifty one. U So rocks revenge, the Rocks revenge. Um.
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Yeah, And then and that's what every tequila hangover who should be called it
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is just the Rocks revenge. That's actually what Taramana stands for. The Rocks
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Revenge. Uh, and so that's that's that's it is. It is kind
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of a confusing thing. So you saw the initial story, what what actors
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can and can't do. The obvious stuff is it's like, okay, well,
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if you're at the middle of our project, boom you bounced because I
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saw I think, um a number of actors bounced in the middle of things
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that they were doing. Like Carl Urban, who has been in tons of
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things. I think he was I'm not sure what he was currently shooting,
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but he's one of the main one of the main guys in The Boys.
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He plays Butcher and the Boys, And I saw a thing of him getting
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on a plane and like joining my brothers and sisters and done shooting, goes
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round strike. Um. I heard there were a couple of people promoting a
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movie like at a at a premiere. It might have been for Oppenheimer,
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like it was Blunt, Matt Damon and Gillian Murphy, and right in the
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middle of it, they got word that sag was on strike. So they
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all they all left their promotional stuff like we're in the middle of it.
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They're like, no, we're done. They were, Yeah, they were
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at the London premiere, like on the red carpet call came in and they
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all just got in their cars and left and then just smoke and they were
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out. Um. Meanwhile, then you had the Sean Gunn come out and
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say, Okay, we can we can do these things, but we just
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can't. We can do some things, but we just can't promote certain things.
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And then I saw another thing. I think it was a Yesterday and
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this made sense. It goes to what you were saying, Raj about what
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tone Bell had said it because he has this new episode or this new show
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on Netflix, so he's not allowed to promote it as a card carrying SAG
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member. But someone else had posted similarly, don't boycott things in support of
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the actors and the workers trying to you know, you know, get what's
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fair. Um, instead keep watching these things. So the numbers still show
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how important it is to have actual creators as opposed to artificial intelligence or whatever
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and all this stuff. So it's it's kind of confusing. It's like it
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depends on which side you fall on. It's like, well, do you
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do you you know, want to support the actors by boycotting or Something's like
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no, keep watching their stuff. They're just not going to promote things that
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put that line the pockets of the people you know that are oppressing them.
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Yes, and apparently my uh my um Netflix suggestions are are well received,
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so um such as but just one person, I believe it's uh, your
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your step mom. Oh that's right, So Trey, you do you do?
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You have you met my stepmom Carol? She and my dad came to
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town years and years ago, and of course I took them to the Loon
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to eat dinner once. Yeah, and I met her, like I've met
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her one or two times yet. So just want the Loon had food.
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Oh, the Loon had an amazing food. It wasn't really known for its
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food, by the way, Yeah it was, well, it was the
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drink. The drinks are what got you in the door, and then the
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food is what kept you coming back for more. No, it was still
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the strong drinks. It just happened to be that the food was also really
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damn good. Okay, So anyway, so Trey, I don't think I've
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told you this, but I told Raj very recently. Uh My stepmom Carol
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is a massive fan of the podcast. She loves it, and uh on
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the on a previous episode with Raj where we talked about the American Gladiators documentary,
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Yes, which I've watched since So it was my stepmom. She sent
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me a text. He's like, She's like, oh my god, I
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love that. I love that American Gladiators documentary. Tell Raj thinks for the
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recommendation. So I would like to recommend you a survival of the Thickest.
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It's a great it's great, a great show in our buddy Tone is on
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it. I still need to watch uh Drink Masters where Tone is the host.
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Yes, Yes, that's it's really nice too. So the sag stuff
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going on, it's striking and and and I'm glad that you were able to
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still do The Rock, Raje. I'm still glad you were able to still
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do the show. Um, I'm I'll for you know, if they're if
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they're replacing, you know, if if the Rock is on strike, I'll
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cross the line. I'll cross all of it. I'll take all of his
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movies, I'll take all of his I'll take all of his Tikia mind,
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whatever you need me to do. It's not so much scatchy as it is
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is more like a proxy. Yeah, it's the Rock the raj. We'll
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figure it out. Well, yeah, do what he was going to make?
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Oh kidding, isn't this the wildest time in the world that we're living
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And he's the highest paid actor in Hollywood. I've been making that up.
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He is the most. I will say his acting has gotten much better over
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the twenty plus years he's been doing it. Yeah, I you know what,
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it's it's my new back to the future. Anytime Central Intelligence is on
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with him and Kevin Hart, I have to watch it. It's so good.
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I have seen it. I will admit I watched it and I liked
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it. It was good, and maybe it was something special about seeing the
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Rock and George I don't know. Just the sheer size of him next to
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Kevin is hilarious to me. I'm still surprised that they were not picked to
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do and maybe they did. At one point they were talked about doing a
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Twins reboot with the two of them. They did, Yeah, they did.
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I think I think they The Rock has to executive produce everything now,
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Oh yeah, I think they couldn't get the rights to do it where he
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could be I think he would just be the actor, just be an actor
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in it, and oh, I see, that's what the hiccup was.
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So I understand. I guess some people give him flak for that. I
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don't know why. To me, it's the same thing in the music industry.
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It's like who was it um uh in in on the rap side of
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things in the industry, where they were like own your master's own your master's
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own your masters, and that's something that's a huge thing in the music industry.
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But as far as owning your owning your own music, because what happens
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is these recording labels will sign an artist and they're going to own what you
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produce, and that's sort of the standard initial thing. It's a massive thing.
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It's a huge undertaking for an artist to acquire the rights to their own
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stuff. And so to me, in movies, it's a similar thing.
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If you find yourself in a position to have your own production company and executive
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produce your own projects, putting yourself in it, then you're double dipping,
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which is what you should do. You should be on the controlling side and
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your creative side if you want to end if you're able. Yeah, I
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think a lot of people don't realize. Before she passed away a Finnish shakorp
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got Tupac masters because Suge Knight owned them. So when and here's the craziest
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part about that is Tupac didn't even know that he didn't own his own stuff.
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So she found out after he passed that money stopped a minute he passed,
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the money stopped coming to his estate. It all started going to Sugu
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Night, uh, And that's when they found out he didn't own. So
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when you saw, you know, sug standing behind Tupaca, like when in
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Tupac's got all one hundred dollar bills and look like that. The car was
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in Sugar's name, the house was in Sugar's name, everything was in Sugu
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Knight's name. And Tupac didn't even know. Yeah, because he is funneling
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money to him. He was like, here's yeah, done that to doctor
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Dre too. I believe he had all his masters too. But you know
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the funny thing about that. Do you remember when Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
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did Dandy. You know the story, so I don't think so, all
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right, Michael Jackson is young at the time and he is talking to Paul
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McCartney about you know, obviously Paul McCartney's one of the few people who could
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ever understand the fame that Michael Jackson experience, and so Paul McCartney gave him
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advice. He's like, you know, one of the great investments you can
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make is is by the masters you know of of artists, and you own
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the rights to those songs for forever. Do whatever you want with him.
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So they got done, and Michael Jackson goes and buys the Beatles cat Beatles
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Catalog. Paul McCartney never spoke to him again. Yeah, So that he
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was. He was. They were talking about publishing rights, like exactly what
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Trey said, and he's like, there's uh an auction coming up where the
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Beatles catalog and Paul's like, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna buy him. He's
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like, oh, okay, sounds good. Any outbid Paul McCartney. That
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is that is that is one hell of a flex to be able to have
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not only the money, but ironically enough with Michael Jackson, the balls to
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to say I'm gonna take this information you've given me and I'm not only going
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to run with it, I'm going to lap you with it, and I'm
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gonna buy your stuff and every time you sing, you pay me. And
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that also makes me wonder what the other four Jacksons are like how much is
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he worth? The other guys are like, how are we not? How
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did we not get any of this? And that's how you end up having
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a fantasy land on your property at your house? Yeah, who is a
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who is the first? They said Eddie Murphy the first time he went and
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uh, he sitting in the living room and apparently a couple of giraffe walked
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by. He didn't know that there was like like there was like a wildlife
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preserve. Was that his inspiration for writing coming to America? I don't know,
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because that's that's that's one of like the opening scene in the film is
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when it's James Earl Jones and Eddie Murphy walking through the yard of their you
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know, their their kingdom or whatever that makes sense now and the elephant walks
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by and Eddie Murphy just casually goes a little bub b. Yeah that makes
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sense. But he was just he does this great interview about it. What
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he's just sitting in the living room waiting for like Michael doesn't open the door,
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right, so you because people bring him in the monkey Butler does of
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course Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles. No, actually, you know, it wouldn't be
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Bubbles because Bubbles was like, what's Michael Jackson's personal monkey friend? So I
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guess Bubbles. I guess he'd have a separate monkey. Butler like like Bubbles
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uncle or something like Bubbles is down on his luck uncle recovering or something,
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he needed a job. It's it's it's Germaine's Monkey. Yeah, and he's
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sitting in there. It's like, you know, you have like I don't.
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I don't know why I felt the comple to tell him, like,
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you know, there there was a couple of drafts just walk by and he's
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like, yeah, I know, like that was like it was just a
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Tuesday. It's like, I'm just you know, you have draft money,
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Like, yeah, I'm aware it starts with two drafts and then and then
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it's gonna be the you know, the two apes, and then eventually it's
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gonna be you know, you know, two you know, cassowaries or ostriches.
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And basically Michael Jackson had enough money to not just buy the arc,
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but all the animals in it. It's MJ's arc. Yeah, So I
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mean it's one thing. It's one thing to have. Uh. It's one
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thing to be able to say, oh, I'm so rich, I've got
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you money. It's another thing to say I've got God money. Yeah,
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yeah, that's uh. Yeah. I want, I want, I want
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monkey Butler money. That's I just want. I'm buying. I'm buying my
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lottery tickets. You don't want to buy two. You just want one.
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I just don't want one monkey Butler. That's it. And I just want
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you to get so used to it that when he doesn't open the door,
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you're like, what the monkey butler is? There's this day all like,
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what's I just kind of figured he lived here. I like your thinking.
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I like I like the idea of not being so greedy that you need,
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you know, an entire zoo in your home. You just want the one
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monkey butler. I think for me, though, I don't. I don't
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want to be so bougie as to where I demand or hire a monkey butler
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for the house. But I feel like I would be bougie enough to,
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you know, to have the few money to where I have a really cool
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the outfit. It's so much better. It's so much better than a butler's
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outfit. You got the little hat. I mean, come on, it
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three Cook DFW. I'll admit it rode. As soon as you mentioned monkey
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butler, I started thinking about different occupations for the monkeys and what I would
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what I would want, and I was like, oh as soon as I
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got as soon as I got the picture in my head of the monkey wearing
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the captain's hat and at the helm of the load, I was like,
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oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick this in there like
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I wanted to, Like, I want that for you, right, and
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I want it to be so so normal that he's at the helm of the
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yacht, but we don't that. Nobody even as we walk by, We're
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just like Glenn and just keep walking like that. Nobody's calling. You would
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name the assuming that you would name the monkey Glen, but it was like
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Glenn, how are and just keep walking and yeah, no, that makes
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it. It's it's sort of like it's sort of like giving a dog,
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like a like a human name, like like you call your dog Bob,
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or in this case, you call the monkey, you know, Glenn,
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but you gotta keep him. I got a better one. I'm gonna call
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him, gonna call the monkey, uh Captain Ron. So that way when
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I go past, when I when I go through and see him at the
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helm, I can, I can, I can salute him and say Captain
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Ron. He salutes him back. It's the greatest. And that's how you
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know somebody's new to the yacht because when they're like, hey, do you
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know there's a monkey, like, uh, yeah, that's Ron. Yeah,
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what are you talk about? That would be that would be the ship's
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orientation for any guests. Like let's say that even though they're five billion dollars
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in debt, iHeart. Let's say on a Wild Hair wants to rent a
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yacht for the week to go to France and promote a dumb podcast. I'd
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be more than happy to rent them my yacht that they can take, But
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I'm not going to give them the heads up about the monkey captain. I'm
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just simply going to refer to the captain in the paperwork as his respected title
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and name, which would be Captain Ron. So that way, when Bob
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Pittman or Rich Brestler, the CEO and CEOO of iHeart, walk onto the
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bridge, all they see is Captain Ron and they're obviously expecting a human because,
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let's base it, they're full of stereotypes. Instead, instead they get
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they get a chimpanzee wearing a captain's hat and no pants, and he's standing
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there at the helm waiting, like waiting for the salute, because we're not
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going anywhere until you recognize the rank. Well, at least they build identify.
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I guess you know monkeys see an iceberg and just get a big smile
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on his face. You're used to this, aren't you. Yeah? Absolutely
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yeah. If there's something I heart, executives are used to its heading straight
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for icebergs this is the best episode of Life Below Deck ever. How awesome
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would that be? Because, first of all, I've never seen that show.
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I hate that show, but I've never seen it. I have no
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interest in it whatsoever. But if they were to do a surprise switchero and
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all the all the Life below Deck cast members were replaced with monkeys, I
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would watch that. Just imagine the unsuspecting guests, like, what happened to
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the what happened to the hot crew? Where's everybody? I'm here to meet
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Ron? Meanwhile, it's it's the chimpanzee in the corner is blowing up inflatables,
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getting the scooby and the snorkel gear ready, Captain Ron, keeping everybody
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in shape? U I would? I would? Yeah? I want,
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I want now, I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket for
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you. And I think tonight's just nine hundred million dollars? Is that what
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it's up to the powerball Jesus? Yeah, so I need to play that.
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Yeah, and we usually all play. If one of us wins,
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we have to we have to employ the monkeys. If one of us wins,
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the nine million dollars will do a quick pact right now, if one
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of us wins the nine hundred million dollars, we then uh fund the other
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two people on the show right now, So that way everyone's comfy and you
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know, whoever wins still gets the most money, obviously, but at least
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at least the other two are comfy to where then we can just do whatever
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the hell we want. And if we want to do a podcast where the
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hell of it we can, or if we don't want to, we don't
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have to. But if we want to do it, you know from our
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new yacht with with the Monkey Crew, we could we could totally, we
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could totally do that too, And I just want to if I could throw
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in, like every week on the podcast, Captain Ron has to be a
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guest, even though he doesn't say anything, doesn't have to just him what
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does he do? You'll see that's what he Hey, you know, you
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got a really good punchline. If all of a sudden, Captain Ron starts
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laughing, yeah, it's a great Sphie starts talking, Oh oh god,
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I just imagine your punchline is so good that Captain Ron starts belly laughing like
25:37
crazy. But then he's so uncontrollable. He starts throwing his own shit around
25:41
the room. That's a good episode. That's when the music starts playing.
25:48
That's when that's the hard out and end of show and clean up crew which
26:00
we will not give charged. Can I quickly plug my August fourth and fifth
26:08
shows? Oh yeah, absolutely, I saw I saw you post that,
26:11
uh just the other day on Instagram, that you've got a whole tour that
26:15
you're getting started up. Yes, it's very cool. The whole of viral
26:18
thing is really kind of cool. So going virals is it's before getting paid.
26:26
Yeah, it's like people are sending me free stuff, which is kind
26:30
of cool. Um, uh, socks, I got socks coming. I
26:34
have a candy company that's sending me a whole gift. I'm like, you
26:38
haven't seen my act, Like I don't know what you're basing this swag off
26:42
of, but thank you. Um and then yeah, so I got starting
26:48
August fourth and fifth at the Dallas Comedy Club. Tickets are already like,
26:53
tickets are already selling. Like there's a singles group that's make that's making it
26:59
a vent out of it. Uh, so get your tickets now before because
27:03
there's fifteen hundred people in this singles group. Nice, So you're doing stand
27:08
up slash matchmaking now, uh, you know the Indian of me that wants
27:12
to arrange the matter just you just can't help it. I can't help.
27:19
But I want I want everybody to to be married to and to watch my
27:25
stand up. But yeah, we got uh August uh in in in Texas,
27:29
August fourth and fifth, Innlyst, the sixteenth in Houston, the twentieth
27:32
in San Antonio. And then I posted this thing. I'm like, hey,
27:34
does you know tell me what cities to come to because my agent was
27:37
like, ask your Instagram followers like where they want to see a performer.
27:41
We'll just do this whole September October fall tour. And the response is cool,
27:45
man. I got a couple of people from like, uh Barcelona like
27:49
okay, that's weird. That's weird, but okay. And then somebody's like,
27:55
hey, how about um Brazil. I'm like, I don't know if
28:00
my I don't know if there's Indian people in Brazil. I don't know how
28:03
it works. I don't know if we're in novelty, but I will come
28:08
and then yeah, and then offers started coming in I just looked at the
28:15
I just looked to my phone when we just went to a little break and
28:18
some some more offers coming in for and it's really cool. It's based off
28:22
on Instagram, and uh, it's weird. I'm not gonna lie. I'm
28:26
enjoying it. You should. I'm enjoying it. It's just super like,
28:30
hey, can we send you candy? And I'm like, yeah, do
28:32
you think I'm gonna eat it? No? I remember years ago I was
28:37
working with Brian Reagan and he uh as church groups that come out because he's
28:41
one hundred percent clean comic and he's brilliant. Yes, all these church groups
28:47
come in and they bring in these sweet old ladies will bring in like pupcakes
28:51
and cookies and you Karen all the stuff, and I just remember being I
28:56
was only there's the last time he did the improv. He went to theaters
28:59
after this. But we I walk in to the back and he's standing there.
29:04
I mean it's every part, every every table, every side table is
29:10
covered in some sort of baked good and I grab a cookie and I remember
29:15
going to eat it and he slaps the sh out of my hand like the
29:19
cookie goes fly and I'm like, oh my bad, h that's for you
29:23
clearly, and he's like, no, you can eat it. Do you
29:29
know who made it? I was like no, He's like exactly, so
29:33
I don't know what happened to him in the past. But he had to
29:37
look on his face like go for it at your own risk. And I
29:40
go, well, what do you do with all this stuff? He goes,
29:41
I'll show you, and he went into the kitchen and he grabbed the
29:45
industrial brash can and just kind of shoveled it all into the trash. I
29:52
was like, oh my god. Really, He's like, no, I
29:55
have no idea who. It's very sweet that they do that. I don't
29:59
know who's made it. That was actually something we had to contend with quite
30:02
a bit doing doing the radio show, because people would bring us stuff all
30:06
the time, and that included food. They brought food a lot, which
30:10
was very very It was sweet. It was there a few times where a
30:14
food delivery did happen, but we didn't typically eat it because we didn't know
30:19
who actually brought it. We may not have known the person who made it
30:22
or brought it, so we trusted food that came from people we trusted.
30:27
We trusted sealed the bottles of liquor, you know, because as long as
30:33
as long as that seals not broken, we'll trust that. Um. But
30:37
like homemade foods, we wouldn't we wouldn't typically touch because we were we didn't
30:41
know who, we didn't know what people put it in there. They may
30:42
think that they may think it's hysterical to put some acid in these cookies or
30:45
something worse, just to hear what their favorite show would sound like, you
30:49
know, you know, dripping on acid during drive time. There's so much
30:53
about those years you don't remember, but that I do. And I remember
30:57
there was tacos in the breakroom at the time, and you would typically go
31:02
get like coffee or whatever it was. So I would every time I'd walk
31:07
in, I usually Cat would catch you, like on the way into the
31:10
studio like that's what we'd kind of meat in the hallway. You know,
31:14
you kind of were chuckling and you're like, there's tacos in there if you
31:15
want them. And I was like, oh, okay, and it's late
31:18
and you know, starting out comic and I'm like, you know what,
31:21
I can go for free food. I just remember also was going, uh,
31:26
don't do that to him, and I was like what And he's like,
31:30
man, we don't know who made him, but they're there if you
31:30
want him. I'm like, you left him in the breakroom, like you
31:33
literally went, somebody will eat it. It just kept walking at me.
31:37
It's true, someone would eat it. We really weren't. Weren't true who
31:41
would Who was gonna eat it? It was probably gonna be a you know,
31:42
starving board op. But and it's not like it's not like I was
31:48
rolling in dough at that time, but I I had just enough money.
31:52
Uh, And I was just like I'm not gonna eat that. Yeah,
31:56
I just but you will. But you did offer, which was hilarious.
32:00
You're like, we're not going to eat it, Let's see what happens when
32:04
you do. And that's why you don't trust people with the food they go
32:08
offer you. A valuable lessons learned. I thought we were just sharing,
32:15
like, oh, this is the nicest radio show ever. They're like,
32:17
hey, have dinner with us, like late like late night supper with us.
32:22
You're just going, let's see if he eats. That's exactly what it
32:24
was. I think I even had it on my notes, like what will
32:28
rage eat the break room taco Let's see if if you start tripping balls a
32:31
second segment, We're just gonna go live, so fast forward like like ten,
32:37
twelve, fifteen years. We're at iHeart Radio and the break room there's
32:44
uh some mystery tacos and burritos, and and that's exactly what they were.
32:55
We didn't know where they were from, right and then, and we told
32:59
the story on the are a handful of times and he absolutely hates it.
33:00
And I don't blame him because his name has been forever tainted. So Jay
33:04
Shannon at the time, who was a new program director at iHeartRadio, had
33:08
just taken over the Edge and he goes into the breakroom one time, and
33:20
Alfie and the other guy or their their cubicles were right there next to the
33:23
breakroom, and they witnessed Jay Shannon come around the corner, go into the
33:28
breakroom and he sees these these random burritos and tacos. There's no marking on
33:36
the rappers or anything. But he's curious enough and apparently hungry enough that he
33:44
grabs one of those random burritos and he takes it back to his office and
33:49
he eats it. What he thought was in peace. But in reality,
33:53
to this day, he is still known as Jay Shannon the random burrito Eater,
34:00
because we told that story on the air that day, and at some
34:06
point, someone I don't know who really wouldn't be had taken a photo of
34:09
him and random burrito and photos shopped him and put him together and slapped all
34:14
these flyers up around the iHeart Studio offices as Jay Shannon random Burrito scarfing down
34:20
a random burrito. And and and that's how most listeners still know who Jay
34:25
Shannon is, because he's the random burrito eater. That's wild. I've not
34:31
ever been I think that hungry. I'm like, I don't know where it's
34:36
from, but I'm gonna I'm gonna chance at burrito. There was there was
34:40
there was one person that there was one person that I actually trusted to bring
34:45
food. Um. And this is when I was working at the Fan with
34:50
Sean Salisbury in the afternoons. We had to do lots of live remotes,
34:54
not as many as some of the sports stations do, but because they'll why
35:00
the hell they ever make the musers do a McDonald's remote on like a Wednesday
35:07
morning. I heard this once they were doing a remote at McDonald's some random
35:10
McDonald's, and I think in the mid Cities, their entire show live and
35:16
McDonald's. You're talking about one of the one of the most successful shows in
35:21
the country and there and they're loving them out to Mickey D's breakfast. Anyway,
35:27
John Salisbury and I were at Rangers game for a live broadcast and the
35:30
Rangers. If you ever watched Rangers games on TV, there was the Cookie
35:35
Lady. The Cookie Lady was this very sweet lady. She made cookies almost
35:38
every game and she would bring them to the broadcast team. So like Tom,
35:43
Tom Grieve and whoever else was in the broadcast booth, they always got
35:45
cookies delivered from the Cookie Lady, and I felt very much in the club.
35:52
The first time Salisbury and I are out and they're like a little remote
35:55
truck outside the stadium and she walks by and she hands us cookies. I
36:00
was like, I feel like I've I feel like I've kind of reached a
36:04
new pinnacle of my career. I've now been offered a cookie from the Cookie
36:07
Lady. Her I trusted, and I ate her cookies because that's a sweet
36:10
old lady. May she rest in peace. I hope had nothing to do
36:14
with the cookies. But her cookies I trusted, and I'm still here that
36:19
forbid she was poisoning her own cookies. I don't know what. I assume
36:25
natural causes. Okay, well, I mean or there was another or there
36:30
was there was a cookie burrow that wouldn't too elbow was way into the market.
36:32
I don't know. But the saddest thing about the whole thing with the
36:37
radio station is, you know, people will leave food in the break room
36:42
and it would be you know, like vultures and like Dan said, but
36:45
because it didn't have a label on it, everyone you know, raised an
36:49
eyebrow. But you know, some guy could have you know, crapped in
36:53
a tortilla, wrapped it and foil and then gone and stolen a Chipotle bag
36:57
and put it on the air, and everyone been like, oh, hell
36:59
yeah, Chipotle, you throw a little rice in there. And you may
37:05
not know the difference visually. If you visually may not know the difference,
37:13
I would know. I say that as a massive Chipotle fan. I've never
37:17
had it, so I I uh, I would I would, I would
37:22
be safe, I would not venture into the I'll take your rage. I'll
37:30
take you so that way you're not intimidated or overwhelmed by the experience. I'll
37:34
pass. It's just there's it's like subway, but with for Mexican food.
37:37
Like I don't understand, Like I don't understand that this is why, this
37:40
is why you need to go, so so you can understand it. So
37:43
if you want to make fun of it in the future, you at least
37:45
have you know, that's the thing. I never I never make fun of
37:47
it. I've just I've never had it just doesn't look like so you don't
37:52
like Taco Bell. No, No, I mean I grew up on Tacoo.
37:55
Okay, but rage may look into two people and he may be Indian
38:00
to a certain extent, but he's an American from Mesquite. The man's the
38:04
man's the man. The man knows Taco Bell. If you, uh,
38:07
if you told im, I can, I can almost guarantee this. If
38:12
you said to Indian people like tomorrow, uh, note just for one day,
38:16
no Indians in the US eat Taco Bell. They'd close. That's that's
38:22
the only thing. Like when my dad was vegetarian, so like that was
38:24
like that was his like when when that opened, uh in Mesquite, when
38:30
there was a Taco Bell that opened, it was like but God had answered
38:35
his prayers. Uh. Like he that was ever like his his thing was
38:40
u to to toast out his and a bean burrito. And that guy was
38:45
like literally like in heaven. Uh. And he still felt like it was
38:50
God answering his prayers. After he ate it hundred percent, he's like this
38:53
is so good because his own we'd go to McDonald's as a kid, all
38:58
he could have was fries. Oh yeah, that's it. And then not
39:01
even then McDonald started doing this so for vegetarian, like I promise you it
39:08
was for Indians. They are the only ones that can say they're I think
39:12
one of the only ones that can say that there are French fries are gluten
39:14
free because there's no cross contamination because they have dedicated friars for just they don't
39:20
they don't mix the nuggets in with the fries. And when my dad found
39:23
out, like, oh my, you can have the fries, it's not
39:25
mixed in with the meat. It was I remember like going to McDonald's get
39:30
fries and going to Taco Bell to get a burrito, and like that man
39:34
was in fast food heaven. It probably led to his claturable bypass, but
39:38
still was that was that still got answering prayers or when he came through,
39:45
it's like, see, prayers have been answered. Let's go to Taco Bell.
39:47
I'm like, I don't know if you're supposed to do that again.
39:50
I don't know if that's so. So here's here's what we're gonna do.
39:52
Because because I'm still in town, like way haven't gone back to Saint Thomas
39:55
yep. So while I'm here, I've already had way too much Chipotle because
40:00
I can get it quickly and healthy for the most part. But I'm gonna
40:05
use that as a tease going into our final segment today because I want to
40:08
take you to Chipotle because along with Chipotle, there's been some other things that
40:13
I have missed that I've been taking advantage of of of being back in back
40:19
home in Dallas. Okay, So I'm I'm gonna take you, raj I
40:23
do you can take Do I have to eat it? You know, you
40:28
don't have to do. You don't have to. You can actually just sit
40:30
there and you can just watch me eat slowly while they make contact. You
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into the treehouse. The phone number two one four three six eight thirty eight
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thirty eight the website Rooks Plumbing Texas dot com. So, Jacqueline, one
42:30
of the things that we hate in the treehouse is gimmicks, whatever it is
42:35
that contractors try to use to sucker people. And that's not something you do
42:38
at Brooks Plumbing. Yeah, definitely not. And honestly, I'm a homeowner
42:43
and I am balling on a budget. You know, life is expensive right
42:47
now, and so I believe that being an educated consumer is one of the
42:51
best things you can do for yourself. And what I always tell my friends
42:53
in my family is that at a certain point, you are just paying for
42:58
a brand name, not necessarily a higher quality product. So let me give
43:02
you an example. I'll have people call me all the time and they'll say,
43:07
I just called XYZ Plumbing and asked for a quote to get a fifty
43:10
gallon water heater installed, and they said they had to come out and look
43:14
at it to give me a quote. That's true, but it's not true.
43:19
You know, if you have a fifty gallon gas water heater, I
43:22
can pretty much tell you exactly to the penny what it's going to cost for
43:25
me to furnish and install a new one for you, barring any unseen obstacles
43:30
like maybe you have a really old house and you have an asbestos vent and
43:35
we need to take that out and put you in a new one. But
43:37
most plumbing companies should and are able to flat rate price stuff for you.
43:42
Now here's the catch that goes with that. Sometimes as consumers we get really
43:45
tied up because we're familiar with a brand name. Like, if you think
43:49
about a water heater, you can probably name one brand off the top of
43:52
your head. But sometimes things happen and your contractor is going to say,
43:57
yeah, it's a brand that's been around a really long time, but I'm
43:59
suggesting you go with ABC. So, for example, my favorite brand of
44:02
water heater is actually called Bradford White, which most people haven't heard of.
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And I know there's plumbers that listen to this podcast that don't don't work for
44:09
me because they've they've talked to come and talk to me about it. Shout
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out to my friends at Riddelle Plumbing. But if I want to put it
44:16
in my house, and I want to put it in my rental houses,
44:19
and I trust it to operate properly and not flood my house or explode,
44:23
then I'm not going to put something bad in your house. So if we
44:28
are trying to steer you away for a specific from a specific brand, and
44:30
I'm delicately dancing around a name, because there's one very well known brand water
44:35
heater that since about twenty twenty, has had a lot of recalls on it
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and they haven't advertised it not the way that they should, and a lot
44:44
of plumbers have stopped putting those in. You might ask for it, and
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we'll just outright saying no, because we know we'll be back within a year
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and we know exactly what problem you're going to have. So if somebody's not
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willing to quote you up front, at least a ballpark, they want to
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come to your house. They want to upsell you something, and they've got
45:01
to see what they can upsell you. The other thing is is that if
45:05
your license contractor says, please, don't make me put this in your house,
45:08
here's why they're telling you. For a reason. They don't want to
45:12
come back and have a problem at your house. They want you to get
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the good quality thing the first time and not experience any problems. So I
45:20
know that this was a dramatica a dramatica advertisement for me today. But don't
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It's either a half horse power or three quarters horse power. You don't
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have like an eighty horse power garbage disposal. We can quote it for you.
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Don't let people give you the runaround. Exactly that, don't let people
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Here in the treehouse, give them a call two one four three six
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46:39
Plumbing website again Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. Um so raging, So I
46:45
want to I want to take you to Chipotle, but I'm not gonna make
46:49
you eat. Okay, but being it's weird, so so living on St.
46:54
Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. Living really anywhere where you've moved away
46:59
from home, and you know I lived in Dallas, I should be more
47:02
accurate, I lived in Dallas Fort Worth because I really did live all around
47:07
DFW at various points in my life, Dallas County, Tarrant County, Collin
47:10
County, all of it. Um. I mean, I mean I lived
47:15
there for like thirty years, over thirty years, and so moving away was
47:22
an interesting set of circumstance. It was an interesting set of circumstance challenges all
47:28
those things. Excuse me, I'm burpingum, But when you moved to an
47:32
island, you then have to reor not readjust you have to adjust to that
47:37
lifestyle because you're on an island. Literally you can't get everything that you're used
47:43
to getting back in the States, whether it's groceries or you know, anything,
47:52
Like I can't just I can't just go to the grocery store and automatically
47:55
get the exact thing I'm looking for because I may go to the grocery store
47:59
and it may not come in come in on the boat that day, I
48:01
may not be able to find. Yeah, on an island, when when
48:07
you go to the grocery store. You're not going to the store. You're
48:10
going to the grocery stores because you have to hit two or three different places
48:15
sometimes to find everything on your list, because one place may be out of
48:21
it, the next place may have it, and that place may not have
48:24
the thing that the other place has. So now it's kind of like a
48:27
half a day thing. So coming back to coming back to DFW for you
48:31
know, a month has been really good in some ways, but also bad
48:38
because when you move away, there's things. Okay, there's things I miss,
48:42
there's things I don't miss. One of the things I that I immediately
48:45
did not miss is all the highways. It's all like like there's there's there's
48:52
nothing scenic about North Texas. Like hill Country has hill country. It's kind
48:57
of nice, right, I mean it's hill country. It's got hills.
49:00
Um uh, you know, the Texas coast has water. I mean Texas
49:04
has some really pretty vistas, right well, North Texas is basically a void
49:07
of vistas, with the exception of like the Cedar Hill area. Everything's just
49:10
kind of flat and everything's concrete. So I don't I don't miss that,
49:15
um but I do miss I do miss having all the food at my fingertips,
49:21
like because there's no Chipolt laying on on Saint Thomas. There's there's a
49:24
couple of Windy's, there's a couple of McDonald's, but they don't have all
49:28
the same things that those places have here in North Texas. Yeah. I
49:31
can't tell you how many times I've I've I've I've gone try to go through
49:35
like the Windy's drive through and and just try to get a grilled chicken sandwich
49:38
because the grilled chicken sandwich and Windis is actually pretty good. Um, but
49:42
they never have it. It's basically burger, no burger, they don't.
49:45
And then and they don't have the chili there either. Oh and I've never
49:50
had the Windy's chili. But it's a big seller. It's good. That
50:00
should be the slogan, but you have to say it with the shrug,
50:05
you know, it's like it's good. One of the surprising things. It's
50:07
actually pretty solid. Yeah, you wouldn't typically think that that a selling point
50:13
for any restaurant would be fast food chili. But but they have the because
50:16
the nuggets are solid. They've they've got those. Yep. They just don't
50:22
have a grilled chicken sandwich not on the island, so they have one in
50:24
Texas. You can get ones and like I said, it's pretty good,
50:27
but they don't have it in the island. Um. Other things. It's
50:30
like, I actually made a list because the other day I was I was
50:31
sitting around, was kind of bored. I was like, Okay, these
50:34
are things I miss about being in Texas and there are some things I don't
50:38
miss. Um. One of the I mentioned grocery stores when we when we
50:45
first got here and we the closest grocery store just happened to be a Whole
50:50
Foods. And it really didn't matter if it was an Albertson's, a Whole
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Foods and HB would have been awesome. Any grocery store here is amazing because
51:00
it's big, and it had everything I wanted and it was clean and bright.
51:06
Yeah, and it had everything I wanted in one store. So when
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we went to the grocery store, we grabbed a cart and we're like,
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look at all this stuff. It's like we've we've it's been almost a year
51:15
since we've been able to go to one grocery store and absolutely get everything on
51:20
our list in one place. And you're doing and you guys are clearly doing
51:24
well because you have Whole Foods money. So that's that's good. That's good.
51:29
That's well. Here's the other thing that here's the other thing that I
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well, no, that's the other thing I miss about about Texas living and
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State side living is things are cheaper here, even when you think they're not,
51:43
because things on an island are more expensive. So like, if I
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want to get like a like a big tall thing of egg whites on the
51:51
island, that will cost me ten or eleven dollars wow, for just egg
51:55
whites. Meanwhile at Whole Foods five bucks. Wow. Okay, Now some
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things are the same price. Like I can get a dozen eggs for basically
52:06
the same price on the island as I can in Texas. So it's weird
52:08
how different things will be priced higher and the same. There's no I know
52:15
why there's no grilled chicken salwich. Well, actually, you think it'd be
52:19
easy to do a grilled chicken sandwich and Trace smiling because he knows what I'm
52:22
gonna say here is because on the island there are chickens everywhere. You can
52:24
just grab a chicken, throw it on the grill. Honestly, of all
52:29
the things poultry, anything poultry related, I would not think would be a
52:31
shortage on the island because you drive around there, chickens everywhere. E much
52:37
just gotten lazy and didn't want to go kill the chicken or and that's what
52:42
it is right there. That's a thing called island time, which is like,
52:45
yeah, there's a chicken out there, but I don't feel like going
52:47
to get it and making it for you. So the grocery stores, I
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missed, grocery prices. I've missed. I've missed the internet. We have
52:55
internet there, it's just it's just not as fast. I was so excited
53:00
the first night that we were in our airbnb with the internet. You know
53:02
what I sent Trey Raje I sent him a cinema screen cap of the of
53:07
the speed test. I ran. I was like, look at this,
53:12
We're gonna do some serious podcasting. There's gonna be no lag whatsoever. That's
53:16
the most Indian thing I think you've ever done. I'd have to agree that's
53:22
I saved this list to go over it with you, Raj as opposed to
53:24
as opposed to going over it with Heather McKinney from from sinisterhood because I knew
53:29
you'd appreciate my speed test more. I also missed all the food, like
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being able to really get any damn piece of food, any restaurant or whatever
53:39
I wanted, because at same times, it's very limited and a lot of
53:44
the stuff we have on St. Thomas is limited because it's a lot of
53:46
it is tourist stuff. Okay, what is tourist food? Well, I
53:52
mean it's some of it's going to be like high end restaurants and things like
53:55
if you just live in a place and half the restaurants are fine dining,
54:00
like, well, that really limits my options. It's hilariously, you're like
54:05
Steak or Wendy's. That's have you been on that ship? Sometimes Rogers,
54:12
because that's pretty accurate. You guys want lobster or chili, or there's that
54:20
chicken that's right there crossing a row. You can have that. You can
54:23
just take it. Take that all you want. You should just take the
54:28
chicken through the drive through and be like, I'll be back in fifteen minutes
54:30
exactly. But one of the things I do not miss, and there's a
54:36
few things I don't miss, like I don't miss how like like I said,
54:38
I don't miss all the concrete. I don't miss the traffic. I
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don't miss how everything is flat. I don't I don't miss not being able
54:45
to look out my window and see the ocean every day. That is a
54:49
calming thing for me. That's one of the reasons why I wanted to live
54:52
there. Um. I also don't miss all the people because in my life
54:58
I have learned that if if there are people around and there's something good around,
55:04
the people will ruin that good thing. I have seen people ruin radio
55:07
stations. I have seen people ruin everything from entire radio stations to entire planets.
55:15
Um. It is, it is. It has absolutely proven that in
55:17
our history we humans ruin everything we get our hands on. Um. Yeah,
55:22
I think we uh. I think as a society, we should have
55:25
known the end was near when Golden Corral happened. And not just happened Rage,
55:35
but when Golden Corral yah went to my hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
55:40
where before they moved my dad and stepmom lived forever. The level of excitement
55:46
in Bartlesville, Oklahoma when Golden Corral came to town. Rage. I'm not
55:52
I'm not making this up. It was the place to be on Friday and
55:57
Saturday nights. Their parking lot was packed for date night. Hey, that
56:01
was a treat. You know in Leonard you got to go to bottom and
56:04
go to the Golden Corral. That was that was a big night. See.
56:08
Now this is again, this is really. This is really how you
56:10
can tell that Trey really is is part of the duality of man because having
56:15
lived part of his life in Highland Park and other parts and Leonard, he
56:20
really has that duality down because he can appreciate the Golden Corral, but also
56:24
knowing he probably went to his fifth birthday at the old Warsaw. Yeah,
56:29
I'm just wondering. I'm wondering if you were wandering around Alberne's looking for the
56:32
chocolate fountain and and and albern A just standing there's like, we don't have
56:38
that ear, but I find get him a chocolate phone and yeah, I
56:45
know for my fifth birthday, I distinctly remember because I got two champ chimpanzees.
56:52
Lu Luindina or at my fifth birthday party? Do they meet belt?
56:57
Oh, that's just a horrible thing to think about. It's just Golden Crawl
57:01
just reminds me of another one of our friends, Asher Alan, when they
57:05
help, Uh they had they had veterans on Veterans Day, veterans eat free.
57:09
In this joke was like, haven't they've been through enough? That's still
57:16
that's still a winner. Uh yeah, so okay, so uh all the
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food, all the groceries, you don't miss the people, even though you
57:27
are surrounded by tourists constantly, not constantly. So where we live on the
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island as North. It's on the north side of Saint Thomas. So we
57:35
don't get that many tourists on the north side because cabs don't want to take
57:37
them on that side of the island because it's more residential and there's also a
57:42
lot more hills and the cabbies don't really like driving up steep hills very often.
57:46
Um oh, gotcha, Okay, but yeah, Rush, don't don't
57:51
think Dan is amongst the people. He's on a hill. Oh he's got
57:55
that. That's why he was the first hills tray. The first place was
58:01
The first place was Whole Foods, like oh, saying it was the closest
58:08
grocery store. That's why we went. Sure it wasn't some sort of a
58:12
weird flex I got to said, hopefully, hopefully this is on my vision
58:15
board. I'm trying to I'm trying to manifest that kind of money. Uh
58:22
So, interestingly, one of the things I actually wrote down on my list
58:25
of things that I miss and don't miss at the same time, Amazon,
58:31
so we can get Amazon. We can get some things from Amazon delivered in
58:36
the island. That's where you have to enter your address. Like let's say
58:39
there's a webcam I want, I have to scroll through the different options to
58:44
see if I can find the one that I want and a seller that will
58:46
ship it to the islands, because sometimes you may find something you want and
58:50
then it stops at you know, Miami. Um oh wow. Okay,
58:54
So when we knew we were coming here, were like if we started making
58:58
a list of things we wanted to buy on Amazon to have delivered so then
59:01
we could throw it in a suitcase and take it back right. Problem is,
59:06
it turns out Amazon's been hiring a bunch of new drivers who apparently just
59:08
don't give give a damn about their job or where they leave packages. Because
59:14
if you haven't done so, click on like the share screen thing that I've
59:16
got posted here because I'm gonna show you a delivery that happened at our UPS
59:21
store the other day, and I'm curious if you can spot what is wrong
59:27
about this picture so you can see that trade. Do you see it?
59:31
Yeah? I see it. The thing is it's at the UPS store,
59:38
not inside the UPS store, because apparently when the delivery happened, it was
59:44
outside of the business hours of the UPS store. So the Amazon delivery guy
59:50
left the package outside the front door of the UPS store. He did his
59:57
job and took the photo of confirming delivery, thinking, ah ha, I
1:00:02
have done my job. My work here is done. I have left this
1:00:06
package at the location. Dude, this is not a residence that has at
1:00:09
a strip mall in Dallas. I am stunned that I ever got that package.
1:00:15
Really, do you think there's people going by going anonymous package out front
1:00:21
outside of a store? Let me pick that up. I would have assumed
1:00:24
so, but I guess maybe not. I thought. You know, it's
1:00:27
like people will maybe maybe they think that they're not going to bother stealing a
1:00:31
package off the front porch of a UPS store because maybe they think it's not
1:00:36
a good item, because only good items will make it to an actual front
1:00:38
porch of a house. So maybe they see, like grabbing a package in
1:00:43
front of the UPS store is like, well, clearly there's nothing good in
1:00:45
the air. They think that's that's so preposterous and so stupid that that's got
1:00:49
to be a trap. No one's gonna take that, or this is just
1:00:53
how adorably white you guys are, Like somebody would have clearly somebody would steal
1:01:00
it as a brown guy driving from that strip mall. And if I saw
1:01:02
a package out, just a plain brown package outside of a UP store,
1:01:07
I'm like, we need to leave. That's a good point. Yeah,
1:01:14
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