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Do They Still Make Herberts and Walters? | Wednesday 09.04.24 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It is time to leave your worries outside. Come laugh
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  Speaker 1: with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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  Speaker 1: Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma on a Wednesday, September fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Let's get stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh uh, what's what's your what's your sipping on? Their buddy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sometimes I forget you can see me. Uh
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  Speaker 1: it is my uh my Starbucks?
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  Speaker 3: What is that super venty?
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  Speaker 1: That's just the regular venti. There's there's a new one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's called trent trenty that's larger than the venti. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so thirty. Yes, you've you've you've cracked the coat on
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks sizes. So yeah, this is a venty U vanilla
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  Speaker 1: sugar free vanilla ice lattape. And uh and because it's
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  Speaker 1: chili here in Seattle. Uh, mine has the pumpkin topping
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  Speaker 1: because it feels like fall here.
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  Speaker 2: Mmmm, pumpkin.
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  Speaker 3: Never. I never uh never pegged you as a PSL
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  Speaker 3: type girl.
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  Speaker 1: If you could see, if you could see below my chest,
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  Speaker 1: you would see my knee high boots.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. He's a Korean cheerleader.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a I'm not a total basic PSL girl,
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  Speaker 1: because it's still you know, this is an iced beverage.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a pumpkin spice latte. It's a vanilla iced
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  Speaker 1: vanilla latte. Yes, but I like the pumpkin stuff on
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  Speaker 1: top because then it kind of seasons it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like I'm more like a PSL in girl
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  Speaker 1: in transition or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, when do you start? When do you start doing
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  Speaker 4: spoken word poetry? Can we come to you one of
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  Speaker 4: your come to one of your open mics?
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  Speaker 1: Yea, there once was a Dan from Nantucket.
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  Speaker 3: Did you post pictures on your Etsy account?
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  Speaker 2: What type of jewelry you make it?
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  Speaker 1: I have those charm bracelets, but the charms ice cell
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  Speaker 1: or the Stanley cups with the straws in the handle
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  Speaker 1: and on the Stanley cup it actually says PSL girl.
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  Speaker 4: How much does if you don't mind me asking, how
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  Speaker 4: much does one of those cost?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know because my wife bought it for me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, So here a basic bitch, raj.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the most basic of bitches. Not only am I
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  Speaker 1: drinking a Starbucks coffee while in Seattle mm hmm. We
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  Speaker 1: also have on the agenda to watch sleepless in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: while in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so this is what white people do. I've always wanted.
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  Speaker 3: Don't don't let us on this.
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  Speaker 2: Trades. Like some of us go to the gun range.
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  Speaker 1: And get and get our pumpkin spice lattes after his
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin spice lattes with the gunpowder topic.
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  Speaker 2: It smells like tastes like freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a Texas latte.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to know, like what the going rate
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  Speaker 4: for something. I've never purchased a beverage from a Starbucks,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't know. Is it like five six bucks?
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  Speaker 1: It's I guarantee you it's way more than it should be.
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  Speaker 1: But someone's got to pay for the CEO's super commute.
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  Speaker 3: Did you do you have that delivered?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I bet that's a minimum of a ten dollar coffee
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  Speaker 3: because it's.
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  Speaker 2: A minimum twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars an hour for the delivery driver. Yes, yes, so
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  Speaker 1: you made him twenty six dollars yeah right, yes, wow,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six dollars. I'm not paying him twenty six dollars
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  Speaker 1: an hour the company he delivers for. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: city of Seattle is weird and they like to charge
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  Speaker 1: they had like they like They like all the food
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  Speaker 1: delivery drivers to make at least twenty six dollars per hour.
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  Speaker 1: That's the minimum.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you probably just paid him like half just
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  Speaker 3: a half hour, so thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: Plus on top of what the coffee and is the
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  Speaker 4: is the pumpkin spice only available in the in the fall?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You didn't know that, right? Oh that's right. You've
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  Speaker 1: you never gone to Starbucks, you don't know. So I
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  Speaker 1: even posted on the at Treehouse on air, Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: I think Facebook as well. So pumpkin spice season, according
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  Speaker 1: to Starbucks, right, yes, starts in August. Oh yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: then a month after that is when actual fall hits
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  Speaker 1: for the calendar, you know, September twenty first or twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, and then you know, Texas fall doesn't
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  Speaker 1: kick in until you know, late Aanuary.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So pumpkin spice is only a fall thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, or a perceived fall thing, because look, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle right now and it feels like fall. So
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  Speaker 1: having a pumpkin spice drink it's kind of nice. I
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  Speaker 1: like it, but I'm eventually gonna, you know, in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I'll be back in Texas and then
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  Speaker 1: after that back home, you know, in the Virgin Islands,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not gonna feel like fault at all. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm getting in my fall.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Basic tendencies.
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  Speaker 4: Now, will you have a Will you have some sort
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  Speaker 4: of a cider at some point?
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  Speaker 2: I've never had one of those either.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that. We grew up on apple cider.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure they have it here because they have
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  Speaker 1: apples and stuff here, So maybe I'll have one of
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  Speaker 1: those before I leave.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, apple cider? Do you? Will you have s'mores?
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  Speaker 1: Not really a smores family?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I gotcha.
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  Speaker 4: I've only had them once and they're overrated.
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  Speaker 1: The testing the Textan in me would prefer to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, smoke or grill meat on a flame versus
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  Speaker 1: a sweet treat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Hindu in me would like for you
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  Speaker 4: to grill meat as well. S'mores are just a It's
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  Speaker 4: messy and I don't understand the appeal. It's gram crackers
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  Speaker 4: and chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Can't you that separately?
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  Speaker 1: You can, but you put them all together and people
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  Speaker 1: love it. It's a delicacy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, while I'm here, I'm getting in all my
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  Speaker 1: basic fall stuff, which reminds me there are two great
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  Speaker 1: indicators of the onslaught of fall in the holiday season.
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  Speaker 1: One is Starbucks releasing their Fall Pumpkin Spice menu drinks
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  Speaker 1: for the year. The other is the appearance of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Halloween stores. Yes, now, those those are some seriously
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  Speaker 1: tasty treats, especially for those of us that love Halloween
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  Speaker 1: and love decorating for Halloween. And there's an alternate name
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  Speaker 1: for the seasons, right, there's fall, there's Pumpkin spice season,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's something I refer to as Scare your
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  Speaker 1: Kid season, which would also be or Halloween, which they.
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  Speaker 3: Started selling Halloween decorations three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, someone's been to a Dollar Tree.
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  Speaker 1: Collar Tree Home Depot, Low's Spirit Halloween Stores. They start
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  Speaker 1: that stuff pretty early. And here's the thing, if you
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  Speaker 1: are serious about Halloween decorating, all the good stuff is
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  Speaker 1: gone in early September, so it's not like no one's
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  Speaker 1: buying this stuff and they're forcing it. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: that stuff comes out, you're going to get the new
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  Speaker 1: hot Halloween decorations.
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  Speaker 3: Hell, they've got to the point now we're two weeks
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  Speaker 3: before Halloween, they're pretty much putting up Thanksgiving stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I now have a lawn, so I might
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  Speaker 4: do I've seen what you guys used to do to
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  Speaker 4: the along with the skeletons and all that stuff and
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  Speaker 4: the zombie like hand coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I might do that now that I have a lawn. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Looksquite, you live in Mesquite and and you're a brown
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  Speaker 1: Indian man. So the neighborhood kids are probably already afraid
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  Speaker 1: of you because the color of your skin. So so
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  Speaker 1: why not why not enforce it or or reinforce it
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  Speaker 1: by participating not in Halloween or fall, but scare your
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  Speaker 1: kids season. And the fine folks at Spirit Halloween UH
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  Speaker 1: can help you do that. And here's a great example
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  Speaker 1: I saw the other day, and that is when you
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  Speaker 1: go to a Spirit Halloween store, they will have a
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  Speaker 1: number of their uh new animatronics on display so you
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  Speaker 1: can test them to see what they do. Okay, can
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  Speaker 1: you see this one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So there here we have a young boy at a
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Halloween store and he's about to step on the
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  Speaker 1: tester pad of a animatronic at a Spirit Halloween store,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks like a gooley old lady or man
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  Speaker 1: you know, scary looking. And then at a gravesite, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to hit the He's going to hit the pad
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  Speaker 1: with his foot and let's see what happens. And and
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  Speaker 1: as you watch this, imagine this is in your front yard. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not just the decoration, but the children in front of
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  Speaker 1: the decoration.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing springs forth from the gravestone and scares
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  Speaker 1: the child so much that the kid falls down on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Inside the Spirit Halloween's door.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it grows to about ten feet tall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it shoots up like the height of
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  Speaker 1: that Iranian volleyball player.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Iran also not cool. Man, that is
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  Speaker 2: not Uh that scared me.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I pooed a little. I'm just not I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: Uh not cool.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, let's let's enjoy this again. The new Scarier
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  Speaker 1: Kids season animatronic available from the Spirit Halloween Kid hits
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  Speaker 1: the pad, howling.
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  Speaker 3: Oh raj Please please please get one for your front
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  Speaker 3: yard and just put a go pro camera on it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, uh, and we'll start, we'll start accepting donations from
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  Speaker 4: my bail will win.
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  Speaker 2: It's mesquite they'll kill me.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah that's also yeah, why why what that's just
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  Speaker 4: not that's not it Isn't it supposed to be like
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  Speaker 4: candy in like the in fun costumes.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's about scaring people's kids. I have a great
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  Speaker 1: example of that. This is a RAJ you brought up
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  Speaker 1: with my yard. What Tera and I used to do
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  Speaker 1: in our front yard at our house open and we
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  Speaker 1: actually Trey. You mentioned that Raj should get this new
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  Speaker 1: animatronic and put a GoPro on it. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we did with our front yard. We decorated it like
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  Speaker 1: crazy for Halloween. And then we have our security cameras
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  Speaker 1: out front for security purposes, but also on the off
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  Speaker 1: chance that you scare a kid so good you want
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  Speaker 1: to share it on your podcast years later.
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  Speaker 2: I soap.
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  Speaker 1: Why here we go? So here you've got the camera,
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  Speaker 1: you see the scene. You see our front yard. You've
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  Speaker 1: got skeletons there, You've got witch brooms on either side
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  Speaker 1: of the walkway leading up to the front door. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can see, and this is really just the early
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  Speaker 1: stages of decorating. You can see some other skeletons in
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  Speaker 1: the yard, some gravestones and things. And here comes an
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  Speaker 1: unsuspecting child with his mom and baby brother up to
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  Speaker 1: our house on Halloween circa twenty sixteen. So the family's
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  Speaker 1: walking up. You got two little boys. One's a police
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  Speaker 1: one's a police officer with his little pumpkin bucket. And
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  Speaker 1: what they don't know is that we have motions since
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  Speaker 1: her decoration that goes off when you step in front
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  Speaker 1: of it. The child stepping up, he's scared. He's looking
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  Speaker 1: at mom because he's scared of all the Skeletons's a
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  Speaker 1: scary house and he's probably I don't know, five four.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, poor fellow.
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  Speaker 1: He's hesitant to walk up. They should be, but Mom's
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  Speaker 1: in on it. Mom's like, no, no, no, go to the
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  Speaker 1: front door, ask for a kind He's like okay, and
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  Speaker 1: then and then he rocks in front of the skeleton
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  Speaker 1: with the motion sensor that starts laughing. He gets scared
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  Speaker 1: and runs back to Mommy at the at the street.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he's gonna make a terrible cop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, first time of danger and he runs away. Make
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  Speaker 1: a great politician.
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  Speaker 2: Now, mad.
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  Speaker 1: that you're hesitant to put scary Halloween decorations in your
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  Speaker 1: front yard. But there are you know, people say there
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  Speaker 1: I say, hmm, it's so much sweeter to scare those children.
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  Speaker 4: I can like I'll do the like the the the
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  Speaker 4: skeleton hand thing, and like the dry ice like I'll
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  Speaker 4: do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 4: But to scare the poor kid, he's gonna he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: when he starts murdering, he's gonna he's gonna say in
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  Speaker 4: his book, he's gonna be like and then there was
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  Speaker 4: that one time I went up to that door and
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  Speaker 4: then the skeleton made me pee myself and that's when
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  Speaker 4: the murdering started. So you're actively helping serial killers to
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  Speaker 4: to grow, to cultivate that serial killer mentality.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a stretch.
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  Speaker 4: I no, Like, you know, like the little fans with
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  Speaker 4: the little blood, that's kind of fun, But poor kid.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just building a character. It's character building and it's
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  Speaker 1: the story and I'm sticking to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just feel bad for the kid.
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  Speaker 2: He was a he was all in his cop outfit
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  Speaker 2: on the pumpkin bucket thing adorable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but notice his little brother didn't give his brother's
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not going up there, you go, And then
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  Speaker 1: Mom's like pushing him, no, go go. So I'm building character.
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  Speaker 1: Mom is destroying trusting relationships and that's not my fault.
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  Speaker 1: That's on her.
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  Speaker 3: Roger, I think you're you're looking at this the wrong way.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's white people training. So when they get
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  Speaker 3: older and you know, the scary thing is actually they're
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  Speaker 3: They're like, oh, no, big deal, I can handle this.
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  Speaker 1: own decriminalization laws for drugs. And now for some reason,
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  Speaker 4: No, that's where I get my good weed. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh sure, I know what you meant. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: you know it passed by pretty much everyone, and supporters
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  Speaker 1: of decriminalization say treatment is more and more effective than jail.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: This new law establishes ways for treatment alternatives to criminal penalties.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: So Democrats made it illegal again, and the Republicans are like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: where's all the coke?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Wrong drugs? Guys? Okay, it needs to be the poor
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: people's drugs that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Get I just love that. I just love the idea
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of giving somebody on heroin and ticket, yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: And instructions, Hey go here and we'll get you sober.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Okay, Oh that's that's a fantastic idea.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Here's your ticket. Thanks. I'm gonna fall asleep over here
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: in the gutter.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I'll be sure to pay that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You know how much? Here what I can buy for
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We The sad thing is is you go to one
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of the one of the boardwalks, or you know, you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: go to some of the you go to some you know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: public event, and you got these same guys you're trying
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to pay their heroin tickets at Zoltar Machines.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Now that needs to be a YouTube click. I won't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: post it all answer. I'm just somebody just trying to pay.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And then and then if they get arrested because that
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: ticket went to a warrant because they didn't go to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: their proper place to pay, they could say, no, man,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I totally paid that. Uh. Zultar took it everything.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: The guy with the turbane got it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: M h.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: He took my money and gave me solid advice.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Also I dreamt that I was Tom Hanks for about
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: an hour and a half.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Or Chet Hanks for a month and a half.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I will admit, though, Trey, I've i've I did not
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: anticipate seeing a state that decriminalized drugs deciding, you know what,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: we should really recriminalize some of this stuff.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: And I have been all for you know, like the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: penalties from marijuana are silly. It's that. But yeah, when
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: you're talking about writing tickets for heroin, you probably swung
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: the pendulum just a little too far the other way.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I'm as liberal as it gets it even I'm like,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that's dumb.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know what, There aren't enough tickets for heroin.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Writing a ticket to just walk up to a guy
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and be like heroin bad.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure that you know the needle sticking in
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: his arm. The guy's pulling out his phone. Oh my
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: court dates, Here, my calendar.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Where's my tie?
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Oh it's around my arm.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I can't find my belt.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: That's around your foot.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: It's around you're junk because that's when you're shooting out now.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the j walkers are just going crazy.
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• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's already to Wednesday, and you went to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: chucktaw the other day? How did that go?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I did?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Are there that you're going to be splitting with the Treehouse?
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I broke even. I was happy about that. I did win,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I did get I was playing the Ultimate Texas holding
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: the table game, Oh nice, and I was very proud
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: of myself. I was sitting next to this Asian guy
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: who was just playing like five hundred dollars a hand
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: and killing it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And at one point he put like a like he
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: was feeling good, he was feeling himself.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I got you.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: He put like two thousand next to my forty bucks
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: and he lost and I got four kings. So I
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: ended up with several hundred dollars, but I generously donated
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: it back to my Native American brothers. But I would
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: not recommend going on Labor Day weekend. It's it's amazing
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: how many people I don't understand that Vegas. I get Vegas,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I get because you're loaded all the time. But to
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: show up in Oklahoma, uh, just so hammered.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: And they don't turn anybody away. I saw people driving
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: on the wrong side of the road and even then
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: like the cop just like like flagged him into the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: parking lot. I was like, oh, yeah, he's gonna get stopped,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and they just pulled him into a parking spot.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And I guess, as long as you're headed towards the casino,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it's okay. But if you're headed away from the casino,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that's probably when the pulley over.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I was really surprised how many people just showed like
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: didn't heed, they didn't need h I guess the idea
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: is like it's still near beer in Oklahoma.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: No, they actually went up to regular they did, and so.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I think people still think that. So they just get
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: plow housed.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Uh, people just get plowed.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I think Trey are eight years sober expert is right
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: on the one's.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: But they like the Choctaw has like there's a very
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: nice whiskey bar that's in there that like we had
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: a I think we had a little knob cree.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Old fashion.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I was really nice, like you can go and it
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: was it wasn't expensive. So I don't know why any're
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: just drinking.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Natty light in the car.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Well, the reason why is because and this is one
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of the big differences between you know, the Oklahoma casinos
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and every other casino on the damn planet, whether it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Shreveport or Vegas. In Shreveport, in Vegas, they'll just give
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you the booze, right, Yes, in Oklahoma, you gotta pay
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: for it. So what a lot of people do is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: they pre game or they they they pre gamble before
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: going to the casino. Yeah, and then they go into
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the Then they go into the casino and save money
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: by drinking before they get there, and then they can
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: spend their money on the game like and then maybe
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: while they're there they'll buy a couple of drinks. But yeah,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I mean in Vegas, they'll just bring you the drink
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to keep you seated at the table.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen that many, and I don't know how
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: they miss it, but a lot of flasks I did see.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That, Roger. Have you have you looked at a map
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: to see what's around Chalktaw like if you drew like
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: a sixty mile radius.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: No, I have not.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, you know, if you want an explanation to really understand,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I understand that Sherman is the biggest metropolis and in
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: that that geography.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I thought I thought it would be Dennison because apparently
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: it has a dam I.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Did not know that Denison is Sherman's little brother. Yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: there's a damn. That's that's you. You think that that's
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the sign of of of of of culture.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Dennison has Dennison Damn. I just thought it would be like,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you know, a tourist attraction.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You've never been to Dennison?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yea, No, Look look Durant uh or what's the what's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the city that windstars in? Trey Ard More? No, it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: off anyway. Whatever, So whether whether it's Windstar or Choctaw
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: in southern Oklahoma, it really is Las Vegas Light because
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you've got the you've got the casinos, and as we've
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: just informed Raj, there's also a very popular dam nearby.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: It's Reno Light.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: It's Reno adjacent. And do they have do they have
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the Ladies of the Night at the Choctaw?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Do we know that's that's that's ard More? Okay, sorry,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that's ard More kind of like the outskirts of Vegas.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Like it's it's outside the Vegas city limits. You have
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to travel out for its same thing in Oklahoma. If
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: you want that, you got to go to Ardmore. And
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: then you know the Grand Canyon. You know Vegas, you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: know it's easy to get to the Grand Canyon. Whereas
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the casinos in Oklahoma you just you just have random
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: ditches on the Red River border.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I mean honestly, you know, if you go to the
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: bar and you see a woman with all her teeth,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, if there's a chance she's a
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: working girl.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give her a ticket for heroin. Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if the same things applied, Like when
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: you're in Vegas, like you can always tell, like at
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: the hotels, you can see like the escorts at the bar.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if that happened. I don't know if
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: you could just tell by the flip flop, which if
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: she wearing crocs, she's a whore.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Jesus, Yeah, I don't know what. I don't know what
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the comparisons or the the equivalents are as far as
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Vegas to Oklahoma casinos, especially because going on a holiday
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: weekend is already crazy enough in my book, because it's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: so expensive to stay there. And that's one of the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: other big differences between the Oklahoma casinos and Vegas is
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Vegas you can go and get a hotel for thirty
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: forty to fifty bucks a night, whereas, especially on a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: holiday weekend, going to Chalktar or Windstar, it's hundreds of dollars.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: If you had to guess how much would it be.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: For the holiday. The last time I tried to do
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: that on a holiday weekend, staying at the Tower at
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: chalk Taw, I think was three to fifty a night.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: It's five ninety nine.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Oh man, inflation is really hitting those casinos hard.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Six hundred dollars. I'm like, can I just buy land.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Can I just open a casino? I'mind I mean Columbus
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: thought he was. That's why we're called Indians. That's why
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: they're called Indians.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And I think that right there, Raj, I think you've
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I think you've cracked another code. I think when you're
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: spending six hundred dollars per night for a room, yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: at the casino in Oklahoma, that's why the you know,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the ladies of the night you see are wearing crocs,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: because that's all I mean, everyone's spending on the money,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: all the money on the hotel rooms.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I was, and here's the sad thing. I was kind
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: of looking out for him. I'm like, I just want
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: to see if they if they dwell in this hotel
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know how the women of the night work
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: in Oklahoma.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know either, but I think, you know, some
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: cities have crack hors, and southern Oklahoma has crock hors.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Or lot lizards. I don't know that's what they're called.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I think that's what they're still called, right And.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: They all miss Craigslist.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I eat the good old days when horn was easy.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Listening to the Treehouse online, that treehouse dot Com you're in.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Business online at everyhouse on air dot com.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: So this is a natural segue talking about how Oklahoma
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: casinos and the surrounding area has comparisons to Vegas and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: its surrounding areas, whether it's nightlife or croc Ladies, dams, golf.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: The Grand Canyon, right, Grand Canyon is right there near
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I know that not only because I was
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: decent at geography as a kid, but I saw the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: third National Lampoons movie.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: And in reality, the north rim of the Crank Canyon
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: is close, reasonably close to Vegas. Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the rest of it's nowhere near Vegas, but the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: north rim sure. So one thing that Oklahoma is going
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to have to do if it wants to compete with
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Vegas or continue to compete with Vegas, is it's going
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to be able to u It's going to need to
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: lose a few hikers the way that Vegas and the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon does. And there's a recent example of this.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: A recently a backpacker who went on a solo hike
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: was found dead in the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, as he should be.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: The unnamed hiker was the fourteenth person to die in
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon National Park this.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Year, probably the third Carson.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: The fourth Noah, eleven Skylars.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Later, can we just say white people.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think you needed to. I think the names
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: were making it pretty obvious. I mean, this story did well.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Fourteen backpackers died, twenty five black people. Look on he fail.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I am really starting to notice this, even more so
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: because we're laughing about about the white people names. But
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it's true. Just watching the opening like some of the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: first college football games this past weekend, you're really starting
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to see it, like there's you know, look, we already
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: had a couple of Carsons. Now you know, we've had
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a few conners Is, and now you're right now we're
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: getting the Skylars that you know with two rs and
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: g h s and things like that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Braden Braxton.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And you have to be careful when you name your
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: your child these things, because you really set them up
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: either for you know, playing quarterback at Michigan or being
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: found dead at the Grand National Grand Canyon National Park.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Please tell the rest of the story. What happened. So
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: he was he was backpacking.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is actually a sixty year old solo hiking. Yes,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: he was found he was found dead near the Thunder
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: River Trail in the Grand Canyon National Park. The hiker,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: who had been traveling solo, was reported missing last Tuesday
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: after he failed to check in with a family member
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: while attempting the Thunder River Trail Deer Creek Loop. His
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: body was found Wednesday just before ten am, along with
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the route connecting the Lower Tapittz Camp and Deer Creek Camp.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: He's from North Carolina on a multi day solo backpacking trip.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Look there, there are certain things that you need to
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: do in pairs hiking and backpacking. Are up there.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Faces is making the whole time.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Years old. His name was Herbert.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: They're gonna make a movie called The Last Walter.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It'll make for a hell of a marker there on
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the trail as well. Here died the Last Walter.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: They just didn't follow the trail mix that's all. That's
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: all they had to do. This Turkey Turkey. They couldn't
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: find Walter. Oh, poor guy.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's actually how they did find him. But again
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I go back to there are certain things you need
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to do in a group setting, and and and this
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: is one of them. Don't don't do anything at any
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of the national parks by yourself.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Right, I just love like you'll never hear that story
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: and be like, sixty year old Siddan Patail was found
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: like that doesn't.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever I think whenever I see these news stories,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: there's no question that I'll have no problem being able
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to pronounce their name.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: In lieu of Flowers and quin Law.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, I think we may end up being the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: first show that gets canceled by white people.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It's a time.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Groundbreaking. All right, We'll see you tomorrow in the treehouse.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Mm hmmmmm