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It's FRIIIDAY! #14: Ready to Gamble? · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Congratulations, you have made it. It's a Fried day. It's time to
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leave your worries outside. Take all the stresses from the week, throw them
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in the trash, and hang out with your buddies, Me, Daniel Maley,
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Trade Trenholm, and Raj Sharma inside the treehouse. Oh man, it
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has been a big week in Dallas Fort Worth, not just for us as
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sports fans, as basketball fans, but also just you know, fans of
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people that do mostly good things. And I'm pretty sure the only person that
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couldn't be happier in Dallas for Worth is Mark Cuban. He is, you
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know, I've you can write books on being the greatest negotiator or whatever it
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is that you say about yourself, But when someone actually does it and seemingly
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negotiates a deal to not only make three and a half billion dollars but still
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maintain operational control of the Mavericks franchise, I mean yeah, I mean well
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time. Because the lady that he's selling the team to is no idiot.
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I mean, she's worth like thirty six billion dollars, so that usually doesn't
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happen by accident. And even if she is a moron, she's got plenty
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of people around her that or not, they managed to get this thing done
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and it's one of those that we didn't even hear about it until it was
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done, and it kind of kind of shocked everybody. Yeah, but the
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person that he's selling it to is also nine hundred years old, so I'm
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pretty sure she just wants to amass all the wealth. And so when he
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came with the deal, like hey, or maybe she didn't turn her hearing
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aid on, I don't know what it was, but maybe he tricked her
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and was like, hey, listen, I'm gonna give I want you to
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give me three and a half million dollars and she's like, okay, that's
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a drop in the bucket for me. And then I'm also going to remain,
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you know, keep control of basketball operations if that's okay with you.
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And she's like what and she's like He's like, yes, sign here and
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yeah. Because she doesn't want to be there, there's no way you don't
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know that she might be she might be an MFFL. I don't what does
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that stand for? Wife? Huh? How have you lived in Dallas the
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last fifteen years? I don't know that. I don't know what that's say
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it again, m F f L. I've seen it everywhere, T shirts,
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banners. I don't. I don't hang out where you hang out.
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I don't know, Like, wait, what does it stand for? Mavericks
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over this? It has been all over this city. Oh yeah, I
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know that, Okay. I didn't know they they'd shortened Mavericks fan for life.
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I didn't know they'd made it a thing. Got uh, I don't.
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I'm pretty sure she invented basketball. That's who he's selling it to.
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The original was her. She was It was actually her, not James Nasmith
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exactly. She's yeah, but you know it was back then, like women
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weren't allowed to get credit for anything. So he was like, hey,
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show me where where to put this little ring in the ball, and like,
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this is a game I play on the farm. And he's like,
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we're going to make this mainstream. And now she's taking it back in twenty
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twenty three, and good on him, man, he's he's one of the
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luckiest people world. Broadcast dot Com we all remember that when he started that
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and then sold it, and Time magazine called it the three billion dollar mistake
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because they they did nothing with broadcast dot Com like it just went nowhere,
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like uh, and then I was that was how it was. Yeah,
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And not only was he brilliant and he sold it, but then he the
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minute he could, he dumped all the Yahoo stock and took the cash.
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Yeah, that's exactly what it was. And that's why Time magazine said,
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Yeah, yeah, who makes a three billion dollar mistake? I think it
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was the cover at one point, And good on him. I have a
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buddy of mine who worked for him when they first started out and was paid
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very little and was told, I'm going to give you stock options and trust
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me, one day it'll pay off. And my buddy stayed there, and
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he stayed there, and he stayed there, and he was going broke.
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He was bartending at night and working at broadcasts dot Com during the day.
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And then one day they sold and he retired the next day. So good
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for him. Yeah, very good for him, and I'm glad it's interesting
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too. I don't know if you guys read this, but he's also looking
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for his replacement on Shark Tank, so he's getting done with the Mavericks and
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he's getting done with Shark Tank. So I think he just wants to know
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and because of those two things. All the rumors were just on fire as
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to the reasons why all of a sudden he's selling the MAVs, why he's
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stepping down from Shark Tank. And instead of people paying attention to what he's
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been saying in recent history about wanting to bring a resortant casino along with a
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new arena for the Mavericks to Dallas, they're all thinking, oh, he's
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running for president. Or my favorite was someone on Twitter head post Wage actually
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runs an FFL account saying, oh, he's broke. The third conspiracy is
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and you have to go back and remember when the NBA was stripping Donald Sterling
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of his team, Cuban was like, do we really want to go this
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far? And yeah, and then the MAVs had their whole blow up of
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you know, is really a bad culture there. And so now you know,
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there are other people who are thinking, he's, you know, doing
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this because something's about to come out that he was gonna lose the team and
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so he's divesting himself. Yeah. My first guess was, like, my
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first thought wasn't I just from movies. I'm like, he's dying, He's
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like he's gonna just he's just gonna give all his wealth away, And then
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I thought what would Raj do? And I'm like, uh, I'm tired
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of working. Uh, you're just You're giving me three billion dollars and I
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can f off. Now, all right, I'll see you guys later.
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If I want to build a casino, I might just do that. Want
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to build a new arena, Sure, I'll get around to that one day,
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you know what I mean. But he's still young, young enough to
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where he can just sit around and enjoy his money. I'm not saying that
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I don't know what he does. I'm not saying that he doesn't. I'm
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just saying, you know what, let's step away from oh, the ownership
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side of the team and basketball operations and the draft and all that. I'll
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I'll help out with that, because that lady, I believe still reads in
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hieroglyphics. I don't know she you know, she's not that old Latin.
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Have you seen the language? May be dead, but she's still kicking.
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Yeah. The Dallas Maverick's, one of the most valuable sports franchises in the
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world, are set to undergo a major change in ownership. Owner Mark Cuban
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confirmed NBC five his plans to sell a majority stake in the team to billionaire
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Miriam Adelson and her family for three and a half billion dollars. The deal
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could shake up the professional basketball world and have far reaching implications for the sport.
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Cuban would maintain operational control even though the Addlesons would own a greater than
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fifty percent steak in the team. The news comes days after Mark Cuban,
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who's sixty five, revealed that after being on ABC Shark Tink for over ten
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years, the sixteenth season will be his last. Also, Mark Cuban confirmed
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the NBC five that a possible agreement between Mark Cuban and the Las Vegas Sands
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Corporations in the works, which would merge their interests to create a Dallas resort,
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casino, and arena. However, that deal is still penning approval by
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the NBA Board of Governors, and the plan is to proceed with the project
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if gambling is legalized in Texas, and that is a big if, big
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big if, because there are two things that's at the state of Texas has
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not legalized yet that I'm still stunned that it hasn't. That is weed and
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gambling. You're stunned. Really, Yes, when Oklahoma, yes, is
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ahead of Texas on anything that should be troubling. But when Oklahoma managed to
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pass its weed stuff, all of us in Texas are thinking, really they
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got over it. But Texas still can't unclench. We can't. We can't
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serve out. You can't buy alcohol on a Sunday because Jesus doesn't like it.
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That's that's where we are, like, we let's start out there before
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we before we get before we start getting our hopes up for weed and casinos.
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God forbid you combine the two. Let's let's see if we can get
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some Let's see if we can get whiskey on Sunday. And this is how
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I love. This is just tell you about Texas. The sometimes the Cowboys
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play at noon on a Sunday, that's TV time, which means stadium opens
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at ten or nine forty five or whatever it is. And you're not supposed
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to buy alcohol. You can't buy beer or wine or whatever until eleven.
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And Jerry Jones just went to the State of Texas was like, I'd like
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to start serving everything early. They're like, amen, done, But you
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can't go across the street to the Walmart and buy it right, correct,
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But Jerry says, so like the Cowboys need you to be drunk to watch
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the game, and Jesus is okay with that. So that's there's always been
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a loophole on that of on Sundays, if you're serving food, you could
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start serving if you're if you're a restaurant, bar restaurant, which is what
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the stadium is. Uh, I think after ten it's a yeah, the
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stadium. The stadium is a bar restaurant. Mm hmm, I think I
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think on it's LLC. Yeah, I mean Cowboys, bart and grill.
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I mean, hey, you go to the t ABC reports, it reports
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like American Airlines, like all those places they are they are their own entities
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as far as you know, liquor sales. Wow, okay, uh yeah,
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but that's still pretty amazing that he just got them to change the hours
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because uh, Jesus isn't looking. Maybe he's sleep. Hey there's joelse you're
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speaking of in the way. Yeah, I I forgot what we were talking
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about. It just not because it's not the dog. That's how stunned you
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are that that Cowboys stadium in Arlington is Yeah, I can't really a huge
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freaking TGI Fridays. Yeah, and so if we can't, if we can,
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Like that was the thing that I loved about l A. I remember
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the first time I moved to Los Angeles, I went to the seven to
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eleven that was right across the street from my house just to grab some quick
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things instead of driving all the way over wherever. And I walked in and
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I saw a guy holding a bobbly Jaeger and I was like, he's gonna
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get kicked out of here, Like what's happening? And then I started looking
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around. I'm like, Oh, we're not in Texas. We're in the
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land of Heathens, yes, and the Devil. And I was like,
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this is amazing. And when I found out like Albertson's and like the their
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version of h B or whatever all have their own distilleries. So they have
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their own version, like you can go and buy a handle of vodka for
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like six bucks in LA back then, and I was like I would come
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back and I just got used to it. I'd come back here and I'm
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like, hey, let's go grab you know, a bottle of whiskey or
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whatever. They're like, oh, what's ten I was like, what is
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that or it's nine And I was like, what does that have to do
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with anything, Like, well, you can't buy that here anymore. I
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was like, oh, we're still there. Weed will never happen. Weed
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will never happen. It'll we already they did it. That medical is legal
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now and you know, give it bright two four years. The more interesting
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part of this is the biggest lobby against Texas having a casino has always been
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Vegas, because we are the number one feeter of Vegas and the fact that
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the Sanes Corporation is going into business Vegas must know they're going to have to
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acquiesce, and so instead of fight it, they're going to be on the
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forefront and start building them. I just love it, and that's the way
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I see it. I think that I think that's the smart play instead of
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saying no, we want you to come here to spend your money, just
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go to the people and give them some of it, but still make Vegas
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a kick ass destination you can. This is one of those great examples of
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as a casino you can have your cake and eat it too. In Dallas.
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Yeah, I love the idea when you're saying that we do and there's
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like chartered flights out of here to go to Vegas. But I just love
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the idea that like Texas legalizes casinos and then you just show up in Vegas
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one day and just tumble weed going down the streets, like whereas everybody they
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all stayed in Texas. And I don't think that's gonna be the case.
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I still think people that leave Dallas to go to Vegas will still do it,
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yeah, because it's sort of like having like you'll have a really nice
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resort and casino in Dallas at some point in Houston maybe maybe Midland or Lubbock
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or Amarillo, you get like the Panhandle Resort or something, but you make
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them very nice, just not as kick ass as the stuff in Vegas,
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so you still have to draw. But then you can still make money hand
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over fist in Texas with a casino and that's you know, And I eventually
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I think it'll happen. But it's interesting to see Mark Cuban really be at
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the forefront and pushing for it. Yeah, I just love I love that
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he's he's always been a pioneer when he's to do that with just changing the
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culture inside the locker room of the Mavericks like he was giving them incentives and
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he was just like that we're talking about, like the dad with the belt.
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He would take those incentives away. So he had like I remember that
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every locker had like their own PlayStation or whatever. And if you, if
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you, if you didn't perform to his whatever, he would take your PlayStation
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away. That's so fantastic. It's like, what'd you do this week?
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Did you dunk? Did you dunk? Like no, It's like, give
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me the PlayStation, Give me the PlayStation. How many? How many threes
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did you hit? Just the one? What did I tell you three?
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Give me the give me the PlayStation. Let's go get out of here.
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Also, no hot water, only cold showers for you. No Russian models
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for you. Bad so yeah, huge news. Mark Cuban selling the Mavericks
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to an old lady and her family for lots of money because he he he
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bought the Mavericks originally for I believe the sum was two hundred and eighty five
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million dollars and now three and a half billion dollars in his pocket. Not
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a bad payday for him to go lead the charge to According to what he
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says, bring a resorting casino. And a new arena for the Mavericks to
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Dallas. Yeah, that's gonna be if it all, If it all happens,
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If it all and he's got, you know, the connections and all
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that to make it happen. If it does, that's gonna be great for
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the city. It's great for the state. Well, I think if you're
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in the gambling business and I'm I'm a Vegas casino, I'm less worried about
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a casino in Dallas. Then say if I was running the Indian casinos in
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Oklahoma, that's who's gonna get hit the hardest by a Dallas casino. Yeah,
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oh for sure, for sure. But I you know, is there
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enough I don't know. Is there enough traffic in Oklahoma? Dan, you
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live there, you can not since nineteen eighty eight. I'm just saying it,
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is there enough traffic in that state to keep those like the wind Stars
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and the Choctaza open. The wind Star and the Choctaw Durant, those would
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take hits, but their little satellite, like there's other casinos dotted around the
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state that are smaller, those will be fine because you still get the people
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and I've played blackjack with them, the people that are taking their paychecks and
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hoping to finally hit it big to where they can go live big in Tulsa
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like I do now. But I those you know wind Star right there at
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the casinos just on the other side of the border of Oklahoma, those are
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ones that are gonna have a bit of an issue when and if Dallas gets
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its own casino. Shreveport will have probably take the biggest hit because that's just
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accesspool. Yeah I didn't, I didn't think about that. But maybe they'll
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get entertainment that will bring people in, like like Vegas. Can you know
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that, maybe they'll make a deal like Vegas can keep like David Copperfield right
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at the MG and like maybe the Horseshoe can have seat freed without roy like
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whatever. Yeah, But the thing about it is you have to know it's
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Texas. It's there's not gonna be anything of Oh, we're gonna build it
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just less than Vegas. It's gonna be you know, how big, how
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flashy. You know, it won't surprise me. And like that sphere in
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Vegas is one of the coolest things you'll ever see. It will not surprise
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me in the next you know, twelve to eighteen months, all of a
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sudden, that's gonna be on the table of We're gonna get our a big,
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you know, big glass ball. Can we just stick it on top
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of Reunion Tower because that would actually make ours better than Vegas is Vegas is
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very cool, but I mean it's it's on the ground, and we already
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got a tower with a ball on it, so just repurpose it. And
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now our eyeballs in the sky looking like Saarron from the Hobbit movies. Or
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what if? What if we can get Big Text to put his hand up
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like that? And now we're talking sounds to me like Cuba needs to give
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us a call and we'll be happy to lend our expertise to the design team.
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You just walk inside and it's just a BUCkies still still pretty good.
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Big boy or a statue are on here somewhere. You're listening to the trees.
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This week at the Dallas Comedy Show, America's got talent. It's DJ
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Dinners. I love one when I'm in a public place and I do something
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amazing and somebody sees it, give it. You have like a random moment
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of greatness and there's witnesses doesn't even have to be anything vague, like you
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have you like a knock your hat off your head and you like catch it
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behind your bag. Somebody sees it like whatever. I was at an airport
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and I was going through security and they wouldn't let me take my water through
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very dangerous, and so I shrugged my water and then I was looking around
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for the nearest recycle bin. I found it was like fifteen feet away,
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and I was like, I'm going for it, and so I started aiming
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at There was no water left in this, you know, it required a
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lot of precision, very light, and then the actual bin just had a
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tiny little circle just big enough for a can or a bottle to go into
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a high degree of difficulty. But I'm like, I'm doing this, I'm
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going for it. I throw it, perfect rotation right in the hole just
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disappeared, and I mean they were like everybody in line saw the whole thing
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go down, and uh, you know, yeah, yeah, thank you,
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thank you. Mark. Yeah. I don't I don't want to make
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up a story and say they all started clapping or something, but they wanted
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to go on. What a rash that was eight years ago. I still
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Funny happens here. So on the heels of the massive news, Mark
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Cuban is selling the Mavericks but still gonna run things, and the possibility of
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him leading the charge to bringing gambling to the state of Texas. I think
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it's important that we do birthdays celebrate. Really, there's really no cool way
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to segue into birthdays. It's always gonna be stupid. But that's why we
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do it. You don't need to segue. It stands on its own.
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It's just it's what everyone's looking forward to, like a dirt statue or a
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Madonna's statue. Are they giving him one? Yep? Like is it going
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to be height relative to the dirt one like a foot lower. I haven't
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seen the drawing of it. I just saw that they announced that they're going
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to put one in front of aac of Madonna. Yeah this show. Does
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he get a different entrance compared to Dirks or are they gonna have like a
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little like a little monument area. I don't know. I just they announced
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it a couple of weeks ago that they were going to build Madonna a statue.
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I don't know if he's going to get a street and everything else or
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just a statue. Yeah, they should do Dirk, then they should do
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Madonna, and then they should do Jimmy Johnson, It'll just look like the
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Neandathal Tart Tart or whatever it is, the sports Evolution and Dallas, and
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it would actually be chronologically accurate because Jimmy got his Madonna then Dirk. Yeah,
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there you go. Actually works all right. Today is Fred Day,
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December first. We have made it to December, gentlemen. It's quite a
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feat Fred Day, December first birthdays today. Zoeak Kravitz is thirty five today,
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already thirty five. She was Catwoman in The Batman, not regular Batman
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or any other Batman's but The Batman, which I don't know if you guys
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saw that, but I really liked it. I did too. It was
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to me, it was it was going back to what the previous Batman movies
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did not focus on. That was a huge part of the comics and the
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TV show was that Batman is supposed to be the world's greatest detective and that's
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what The Batman focused on, in addition to the outright brutality, which was
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fun. Who's who's in that Robert Pattinson Zoe Kravitz as as Catwoman, which
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I thought was interesting. So in that movie, Robert Pattinson as the Batman,
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but she's just Catwoman, not the Catwoman. But it was really good.
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I also loved how they they really treated Pattens as Batman as very ominous
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and scary, and you heard like the heavy footsteps coming from the shadows and
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then he all of a sudden, he just appears and strikes fear into the
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criminals. Like that was cool. Gotcha. It's a good movie, Roger,
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I recommend it. I'll check it out. On the flip side,
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did you see Joker with the uh Joaquin Phoenix? I did? That was
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intense. Yeah, that was really good. And he's just he's just creepy
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enough to pull that off. Like that was that role was meant for.
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That role was meant for. And aren't they doing another one? I still
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haven't seen that one, but I heard it's just a little disturbing and dark.
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Huhh. And I think they're doing another one. Oh that's wild.
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Okay, Well I believe so, I believe they are. Yeah, wow,
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okay, that'd be I can't I can't wait to see that. That's
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that was an incredible movie. I I didn't think it was good because it
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looked kind of silly and I was like, Is it just Jauquin Phoenix just
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trying to be creepy? And then I watched it, I was like,
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oh no, no, mission accomplished. He did good. Welid I want,
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I do want to see him in Napoleon because I think that's just such
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an odd juxtaposition. I'm there for it. I mean, I'm sorry.
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It's it's Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott. It's a gladiator, you know,
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reunion type of thing. Yeah, Joaquin Phoenix's is turning into one of those
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actors that I'll see him in just about anything. Yeah, for sure.
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So Zoby Kravitz is thirty five today. In case you did not know,
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she is in fact the daughter of Lenny Kravitz. She was also in the
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Fantastic Beasts movies, and her mom is Lisa Bonnet from The Cosby Show.
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Other birthdays today Tyler Joseph, lead singer of twenty one Pilots. He is
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thirty five today. Deshaun Jackson is thirty seven. We've got and I just
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remember him as an Eagle, how much I hated him as an eagle.
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It's like he's one of those guys that has one of those punishable faces you
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just look at him, and he's just cocky as hell and he's good and
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you hate it. I loved him on my fantasy team. I'm sure that
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that was always a solid move for Fantasy. Lincoln Park guitarist Brad Delson turns
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forty six. I mentioned the Hobbit Movies earlier. The young Dwarf Feeley in
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the Hobbit Movies name is Dean O'Gorman. He's forty seven today. Comedian Sarah
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Silverman is fifty three. Nest Carbonell is fifty six. I mentioned The Dark
27:18
Knight earlier. He was actually the mayor of Gotham City in the Dark Knight.
27:25
He was also, if I remember correctly, he was on news radio
27:29
back in the day with Joe Roses. Also celebrating birthdays today, bet Middler,
27:37
who was forced upon me from an early age by my mother, is
27:41
seventy eight today. My mom loves Bette Middler loves her albums. I remember
27:49
watching Beaches with my mother on more than one occasion. Oh okay, that's
27:56
the reason, Raj, I will watch some real dumb other stuff is because
28:00
I was subjected to hardcore mom movies as a child. Right and then,
28:07
okay, now that makes sense to me because you've never prefaced this before.
28:11
And then also, therapy wasn't like big back then. So yeah, I
28:15
found my therapy in bad karate and ninja movies. Gotcha. It's because of
28:21
Beaches that I have seen every single American Ninja movie. Right, Michael Dudakoff,
28:26
the star of those films, Oh, my lord, is deep in
28:30
my psyche, especially especially when he came back to the franchise in American Ninja
28:36
four. Right, Okay, then that's that's that should be a syndrome,
28:41
like a Dudokoff syndrome. It does sound like a bit of a syndrome,
28:45
and I'm probably the first person with it. You should probably cut up my
28:48
brain and study me. Maybe that's that. Maybe that's what all the the
28:52
memory loss is is from all the Duda coughing. He better appreciated, though.
28:59
I'm pretty sure he's got a decent apartment out of me alone, like
29:03
at least a really nice one bedroom. Do you think he gets ready because
29:08
of the name. Do you think he gets ready and looks in the mirror
29:11
and goes and then that's then he licks his fingers and does the eyebrow thing
29:17
spread. He's probably the one that originated that he just gets done banging a
29:22
chickens like you just got cough? Am I the only one that's ever seen
29:30
any of those movies? They are they are spectacularly terrible. They are bad.
29:37
Yeah, I remember the TV show. I don't know if it was
29:40
called American Ninja or just Ninja or but I don't remember the movies. Oh
29:45
no, this is what I'm This is what I'm glad I have immigrant parents.
29:52
There was no there's no do to coughing or middle middlering. There's no
29:56
middlering coffs. You also get a healthy dose of Shirley McLain. Oh yeah,
30:03
mm hmm definitely. No, well we didn't in terms of endearment.
30:08
Oh yeah, Home God, the Officer and a gentleman m Postcards from the
30:14
Edge, Steal Magnolia's. I will say is that that's the exception. That
30:18
movie is awesome. That that that right there, Steal Magnolia is still Magnolia's
30:23
is the movie version of Golden Girls. That right there is where young me
30:29
bonds with my grandmother Steeal Magnolia's and and the and the Bloody Armadilla Cake with
30:37
Tom Scarett Dolly Parton Olympia Ducucus. That's how I know that movie. And
30:42
then obviously a very young uh Julia Roberts. But and then also I remember
30:47
watching Golden Girls and Unsolved Mysteries with my grandmother. But it wasn't a two
30:52
way street. She wouldn't watch bay Watch with me. Golden Girls was a
30:56
funny show. I have known it, watched it. Yeah, it really
30:59
is. And it's one of those shows again you can't put on TV today,
31:02
which is very unfortunate because it's so good. Uh but yeah, so
31:07
it's uh so you got Scaret, Dolly Parton, dicaccas, and that's the
31:12
syndrome, the doccas toward Dan. You know, he forgets a lot.
31:18
You know, it's acca he's so young. He looked so healthy that this
31:37
is why there's parental advisories. Visit us Onlinehouse on Air dot com. Let's
31:57
get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration into the treehouse. Now give
32:01
them a coffee or free roof inspection eight three three cook DFW or the website
32:07
cookdfw dot com. So Daniel coming up in the show, I'm going to
32:10
tell the guys about a news story that we found twenty five hundred syringes of
32:17
a dangerous vaginal tightening gel were confiscated at an airport in Minneapolis. I'm not
32:25
going to necessarily ask you to comment on that specifically, but I am curious.
32:30
Are there any sort of roof tightening substances that you know we should be
32:36
aware of or is that just you know, fancy or is that just make
32:38
believe Dan? First of all, were the Kardashians flying with those I'm just
32:45
kidding, I don't I don't really want the flight, So I'm sure they
32:49
can fly with theirs on private with no issues. Private private, private,
32:52
private prob. Yeah, so that may have been their doctors or something trying
32:55
to get them somewhere. Roof tightening app or that's a good one. A
33:02
lot of roof mending products, a lot of ceilans tightening, now, yeah,
33:08
that's that reminds me of like the old parking lot stretchers when we were
33:13
in construction and parking lot used to get the rookies and tell them, Hey,
33:15
the parking lot needs to get stretched out for the cracks. We need
33:19
to go get rent one of those parking lot stretchers. And so they would
33:22
go to all the rental places and ask for the parking lot stretcher, and
33:29
every guy at sun Belt or Union Tool or anybody would keep on sending him
33:34
to the next person down the road. And that's when we'd finally have to
33:37
call the guy in about four hours tell him, hey, come on back,
33:40
man, and he'd be like in Fort Worth by now because they kept
33:45
sending him to the next place looking for the parking lot stretcher. But yeah,
33:50
it's hey, there's there's something in every field that you can get,
33:53
you know, your new guys on. But you know, you know,
33:58
I can't say there's gonna be any a tightening, you know, necessarily in
34:01
the roofing business, just doing it right the first time. Basically, that
34:07
would be the idea. You know, the every every item around your house
34:09
or business needs some maintenance and that's where we come in and we kind of
34:14
hopefully prevent anything major happening. And that's why those annual inspections and periodic you
34:19
know, repairs are going to be much better for you than the waiting down
34:22
the roads there's something worse to happen, or or using syringes of illegal substances.
34:28
So give Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration to call for that
34:32
free roof inspection eight three three cook DFW or the website again cookdfw dot com.
34:38
It's the Treehouse time Nott to welcome into the treehouse. Jaqueline from Brooks
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Plumbing the website Brooks Plumbingtexas dot com. The phone number that you will need
34:47
is two one four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight. That's two one
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four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight. And I say need because I
34:54
think a lot of people Jacqueline think about plumbing as a need. They call
34:59
you when they have our problem. But that doesn't always have to be the
35:01
case. House I bought in Dallas a couple of years ago, it didn't
35:05
have a disposal and I really really wanted one. That's when it dawned on
35:09
me. You don't have to wait for a major issue to call a plumber.
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You can call Brooks Plumbing for a fun reason, for like a fun
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we do. We do fun stuff, you know what For me as
35:23
a woman, for me, I want a pot filler over my stove.
35:25
That's my fun project. You need me to run a little bit extra water
35:30
line so your wife doesn't have to lift that heavy pot to make her pasta
35:35
every Sunday pasta sauce. You know, that's the fun project for me,
35:38
a woman. Get yourself a pot filler, men, I guess, get
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yourself a garbage disposal, and get rid of those tree branches. We're here
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for both. And when that tree branch gets stuck, call me for that
35:46
too. It's gonna be fun. That'st thing to keep in mind is with
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Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. You're in theod tree house, visit us online
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Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. I want to mention just over a week away
36:42
from the Treehouse Podcast Christmas road Show at Shakerton's Midtown which is across the street
36:50
from the Galleria in Dallas, Saturday, December ninth, four to seven pm,
36:54
we will do a live recording of this year show. So that'll be
36:58
fun and immediately afterwards the roasting of my chestnuts. It's gonna be uh,
37:08
it's gonna be good fun. How is Raj? Do you already have material
37:14
written down for the event? Or is this stuff that you've just been collecting
37:17
over our twenty year relationship that you're like, one of these days, I'm
37:22
going to convince this ity to get to let me roast him, and you're
37:23
just gonna unleash no. I I you know, when it comes to this,
37:28
I want to keep it concise and very because I could go on forever.
37:32
So as I was as I was making some dinner last night, I
37:39
had a few that hit me and I was like, let me write those
37:42
down and they'll be very quick and then there's uh. Then I immediately went,
37:46
oh, I can't leave Trey out of this. What and hit got
37:52
to two or three for trade depending on how much time you know, it
37:57
depends on what the laughs and such, engroans whatever, it's all the same,
38:01
it's all the same value. So and then I went in to Aaron
38:07
and I had one. I had a couple of I had one for for
38:10
Jerry. And so I'm still still waiting for all of it to hit me
38:14
for like everetten, maybe another one for Jerry and then well then I'll introduce
38:17
everybody and then everything after that should be a smooth sailing. So speaking of
38:22
which, Trey, are have you gotten any material down yet? Or I'll
38:25
ask the same question I asked Raj Or have you just been piling up material
38:30
for the twenty years we've known each other? Like, all right now I'm
38:32
gonna get his ass all, you know, joking aside, Dan, I
38:40
I don't like you, and I like we've worked in the same office for
38:45
years and and but I don't. I have a few zingers. But there's
38:51
you know, your robotic nature makes it somewhat difficult. That's a good angle
38:55
go with that. You can start with some along those lines, like,
39:00
you know, I could say many, many hurtful things, but I don't
39:02
know if it would affect your robot heart. Yeah, you could be like
39:07
I would say things that would mean about you, but then you would just
39:10
turn it off at the end of the night in reset, So it's okay,
39:15
or I'll just my heart will become sentient and then you know, murder
39:19
you alls the first living AI I am. I am actually oddly looking forward
39:27
to the roast thing because it's something we've never done, so it'll be fun
39:29
to do it. I'm looking forward to It'll be an additional thing to do
39:34
for people who come out to the show. And speaking of additional things,
39:37
we're going to have merch available there. We're going to have some things that'll
39:40
be available for you to order, which would be very cool. We'll have
39:44
a couple of giveaways, and we're also doing a toy drive benefiting the developmenty
39:50
developmentally challenged children of the Warren Center. So if what we're going to do
39:55
is I'll post on the Treehouse on air social media accounts, I'll post some
40:00
examples of some toys that that you can buy and bring to the road show
40:05
that will be donated to the to the kids of the Warren Center who have
40:08
special needs. Okay, because I was wondering what that would be. So
40:14
good. I'm glad you have that, and I'm sure there's other people out
40:15
there trying to figure out what that would be. So that's awesome. Basically,
40:20
a toy that would make you smarter would be good. Mhm. Okay,
40:24
so an etch a sketch. Maybe you just got really frustrated with etches
40:31
sketches, so maybe we shouldn't do that. Like the one time I actually,
40:37
I actually drew somewhat of a house, and my sister shook it up
40:40
and threw it across the room, so it was gone forever. That's me.
40:46
Oh my god, I only ever got stairs. That's all I ever.
40:51
That's all I ever got. I wasn't any good at anything. Your
40:52
toy was stairs. No, no, no, the on the edge of
40:54
sketch. I could do the I could do the stairs. Like, man,
41:00
your parents must have hated you go play on the stairs. Then you
41:07
don't know immigrant parents. It's like, can I have a toy? Like
41:09
this is we got a house, this is your toy. You go upstairs,
41:15
play on the banister, I used to. Yes, my favorite thing
41:20
was sliding down the stairs. That was something I did as well, because
41:22
whenever I go visit like a family member who had a two story house or
41:25
something like that, we would absolutely play with the stairs. Kids these days
41:30
are not even allowed up or down the stairs, probably because parents are too
41:32
worried they're going to fall down them. But that was the game we all
41:36
played as kid, which was I'm gonna fall down these stairs about twenty times,
41:39
and that's my game for the day, which also might explain why I
41:44
don't why I don't remember things, and also why I had that big pensil
41:47
in kindergarten. It really is all starting to make sense. It was going
41:53
to the house that was a kid a fantastic day for me because it really
42:00
is the culmination of my my life. And this year, you know,
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podcast and babysitting drunk people get to do it all in one. Don't you
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again, Welcome to Friday. Birthdays were fun and eventful and we learned a
42:59
lot about me. Now, let's learn a lot about the world in general
43:04
as we get into some really really really stupid news that Tray has found this
43:08
week. I mean really stupid, super stupid or it was an exceptional week
43:21
and yeah, so let's start in Florida, where all the stupid seems to
43:25
happen. A Florida woman was arrested after trying to eat counterfeit money during an
43:34
arrest for a Walmart scam. You just, okay, you know Florida is
43:43
is strong with the stupid. Here's the thing. But when you when you
43:45
preface it with Florida, I don't get stunned. If you would have just
43:51
read that headline and then we could have all guessed who to all guessed Florida.
43:54
But I'm like, who's dumb enough to do that? Was she in
43:55
Florida? And he'd be like, correct, I will run at it again.
44:05
Right, It's the magic of audio. A woman tried to eat counterfeit
44:12
cash during an arrest for a Walmart scam? Was this in Florida? Yes
44:17
it was, Yes, it was ra tell us more Dan all right,
44:29
fine, a Florida woman has found herself behind bars. Why did newsplaces do
44:34
that? Found herself behind bars? She's not. She didn't just wake up
44:37
there like she went to sleep at home in bed, woke up. Oh
44:39
my god, I'm in jail. She knew what she did to be there.
44:45
After allegedly using counterfeit bills at Walmart and then trying to eat the fake
44:49
money when being detained by police, Zipporah Abraham was arrested in charge with third
44:53
degree grand theft and uttering forged bills. After the incident that unfor hold that
45:00
a Walmart in North Miami Beach on Sunday uttering by the way with t's not
45:04
the d's. That would have been interesting that she'd been counterfeit dollars. A
45:15
Walmart lost prevention officer was notified that a customer later identified as her was trying
45:19
to use fake money to pay for items. When the Walmart employees looked at
45:22
the store surveillance footage, they realized this was not the first time she was
45:24
involved in an incident at that store. The off the The affidavit did not
45:30
go into further detail about her history with the store, but did say she
45:32
was an offender in the past and not to be outdone. Another woman stabbed
45:40
her boyfriend in the eye with a rabies needle. Do you, gentlemen,
45:45
want to guess why she stabbed her boyfriend in the eye with a Rabi's needle?
45:51
Because it was Thursday in Florida. No, it was Monday, and
45:59
it's because he was looking at other women. Yeah, once again, a
46:07
Florida woman has found herself behind bars. I'm not making that up. It's
46:09
in the lead of a different story. She knows why she's in jail.
46:14
She didn't go to sleep and wake up magically behind bars. You know,
46:19
it's Florida. There could have been a meth or bath salts bender, and
46:23
yes she did. All of a sudden, she woke up and she's like,
46:27
hell, how'd I get in jail? Because you ate bath salts.
46:30
You shouldn't be surprised if you eat bath salts. There's really two things that
46:34
are gonna happen to you. You're either gonna be dead because everyone thinks you're
46:37
a freaking Florida zombie or they arrest you and in which case you're behind bars.
46:44
The first time I was had an edible in La, I found myself
46:50
in my bedroom, but I'd eaten it in the kitchen, so I understand,
46:54
and I don't remember leaving the kitchen. So I found myself tucked in
47:00
bed, and that's what I was like, the force is strong with this
47:04
weed, Like, so I understand how some people can find themselves elsewhere.
47:10
I love the fact that this lady. I love how this lady is well
47:14
maybe she told maybe that was the arresting thing, which she's like, I
47:16
don't know how I got here. I was drunk and eating money. And
47:22
I love the lady. The fact that the lady who stabbed the guy in
47:25
the eye. He was like, no, I know why I'm here,
47:29
but how how does she know? Like he said, rabies? So she
47:36
gave the guy rabies in the eye. No, I think it was injections
47:43
for their dog, right, so it I don't think it had rabies in
47:47
it. It was more like a like the injection you get for having rabies.
47:52
Okay, so it is Florida. They may have needles with rabies in
47:58
them. Just so they they had a rabid dog at home. She might
48:02
have had a pet raccoon that she just you know, doused with a needle
48:06
and then shoved it in the guy's eye. That's it. That's that's it
48:08
right there. Florida has weaponized raccoons. Anyone surprised by that? Now,
48:15
if it was Indiana, we'd all be shocked. Yeah, but when we
48:19
start our country trio, it's going to be called weaponized raccoons and uh not
48:28
to be outdone. Twenty five hundred syringes of dangerous vaginal tightening gel was seized
48:35
at an airport. How is it dangerous? Can you overdose? Can you
48:52
can you? Is there too much tightening? Is that what's happening? I
48:59
mean, if it if it breaks it off, I mean, if if
49:08
you can use it to where it gets so tight you can rip a vault
49:13
door off of a vaulted a bang. I think I think it could be
49:17
seen as dangerous because you have you have to finish this story. You have
49:22
to, I need, you want more. You'd think of, you know,
49:27
like open a pickle jar, but then you know it's fighting against one
49:30
of the other the purpose. Maybe one of the few times and as a
49:37
man, you ask for her help to open up the pickle jar. Can
49:43
you get this? Maybe it's one of those airplane pickle jars. Like this
49:46
is gonna be exciting. Customs agents at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport
49:52
seized thousands of syringes of what they say is a dangerous and unapproved vaginal tightening
50:00
gel. There it is right there. It's unapproved, So I'm guessing the
50:05
FDA has not tested this properly. A release from US Customs and Border Protection
50:10
states the syringes were discovered in a shipment from Hong Kong that was bound for
50:15
a home during an inspection on November twentieth. Wow, it was going to
50:22
somebody's house. Yeah. The syringes were wrapped in pink packaging, appearing ready
50:27
for resale, with a brownish gel inside. Officials say the shipment was valued
50:30
at about nineteen thousand dollars, but was seized for violating the Federal Food,
50:36
Drug and Cosmetic Act. Oh how do they know the value of this stuff?
50:47
I just want to see the flyer they put out for the testing.
50:53
Ladies, are you loose? Would you like to not be loose anymore?
51:01
Would you like to strike fear in the packages of men. I'm just I'm
51:07
just saying the street value for I don't know how you do that. I
51:10
don't know how you figure out what I mean, for some minute, it
51:13
could be priceless. How do you put a monetary value on tightening to that
51:22
degree? I don't know. Is it like is it like the pain chart
51:27
when you're at the hospital, like the faces, like the amount of fayl
51:30
Like it's just joy, Like, tell me on a scale of one to
51:32
ten, how happy you are, and that's how that's how we judge the
51:37
value of this product. He hasn't stopped smiling. Ten thousand dollars. I
51:45
think the only way you really find out is you have to let it hit
51:47
the open market and let the market decide what the value is. Yeah,
51:52
I like, I like I was headed to one household who ordered that much
51:58
for? Like, what's going on there? Like? Did you get the
52:04
did you get the jels? Like? Yeah, you're gonna need more than
52:06
one? I got a I got a whole shipment. There's a pimp about
52:15
to revolutionize the game. I believe that'll do it. God, I love
52:34
this show. Thank you for hanging out with us on a Friday inside the
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52:52
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