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A Meth Bank? | Tuesday December 09, 2025 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at
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  Speaker 2: It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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  Speaker 2: with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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  Speaker 2: Trey Trendholm.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of today, we will start with how to spot
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  Speaker 2: an arsonist. A woman was arrested for stabbing a fire
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  Speaker 2: hose while Dallas firefighters battled flames. It's not the traditional
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  Speaker 2: way to spot an arsenist, but it is the new
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  Speaker 2: version and I think it well. If I may beat
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  Speaker 2: a pun it holds water.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The woman is facing criminal mischief charges yes, and
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  Speaker 2: first degree arson according to Dallas Fire Rescue, who got
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  Speaker 2: more than they bargained for when they responded to this fire.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas police arrested a woman early Friday morning for stabbing
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  Speaker 2: a fire hose while Dallas firefighters were responding to a
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  Speaker 2: house fire. The blade started just before one am, when
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  Speaker 2: all good house fires get started at a house on
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  Speaker 2: Prosperity Avenue in South Dallas. And that will never not
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  Speaker 2: be ironic to me. Prosperity Avenue the name Prosperity Avenue
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  Speaker 2: in South Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators determined that someone used an unknown heat source to
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  Speaker 2: ignite combustibles in a corner room in the front of
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  Speaker 2: the house. The fire was declared extinguished at one thirty
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  Speaker 2: five am. While Dallas Fire Rescue was extinguishing the fire,
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  Speaker 2: Jemishia Denise Murphy, a thirty seven year old woman from Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: allegedly took a knife to one of the fire hoses
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  Speaker 2: in an attempt to prevent their efforts. She's also believed
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  Speaker 2: to have started the fire. That's some excellent investigative work
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  Speaker 2: right there. That's according to multiple people on scene who
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  Speaker 2: witnessed her admitting to setting the fire as she stabbed
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  Speaker 2: the fire hose. That's got to be one of the
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  Speaker 2: most entertaining admissions of guilt I have ever heard. I
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  Speaker 2: did it, and I'm currently doing it more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's h and you know, pardon the pun, but
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  Speaker 1: I believe the prosecution will be able to poke holes
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  Speaker 1: in the defense whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. You one up my terrible pun
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  Speaker 2: from earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She was later placed under arrest at the scene and
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  Speaker 2: charged with criminal mischief. A charge of first degree arson
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  Speaker 2: will be added to that. According to Dallas Fire Rescue.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man, that's one of those times where if you're
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  Speaker 2: you're the firefighters, you're like, come on, really. Also, there's
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  Speaker 2: no mention about the owner of the house why she
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  Speaker 2: started the fire, if anyone inside the house was injured
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  Speaker 2: or not, because clearly she had a reason to do this,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm assuming it's because there's you know, she's a
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  Speaker 2: jilted lover and there's some man inside that house that
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  Speaker 2: she is really pissed at.
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  Speaker 1: That are insurance fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, she is really mad at that house or
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  Speaker 2: somebody in it. Something happened, Like, even if it's for
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  Speaker 2: the insurance claim, I don't think in an insurance fraud situation,
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  Speaker 2: you stab the fire hose while the firefighters are battling
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  Speaker 2: the flames while screaming I did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would at least think, you know, because from
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  Speaker 1: what I read, she stabbed the hose multiple times and
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  Speaker 1: different spots. Uh, you know, if you're gonna do that,
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  Speaker 1: you would think, you know, just one good cut and
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. But evidently that was
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  Speaker 1: not her plan. No.
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  Speaker 2: No, she turned that hose into Swiss cheese. And you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's a sneakier way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: If nothing else, like wander around to the back of
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  Speaker 2: the truck where the hose is coming off, just go
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  Speaker 2: a little and just poke poke it there, or perhaps
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  Speaker 2: if it's plugged into it, you know, the fire hydrant
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  Speaker 2: in front of the house, if there was one. For
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  Speaker 2: all we know, she had knocked out over before they
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  Speaker 2: even got there. Who knows what she did before they
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  Speaker 2: got there, but some more conspicuous place to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sabotage the firefighting efforts on the on the house fire
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  Speaker 2: that you started. On the other hand, there is one
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  Speaker 2: other aspect to this. We have not considered one other possibility.
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  Speaker 2: There might have been a spider, fair you know, and
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  Speaker 2: she was not about to let that. She was not
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  Speaker 2: about to let that house or any spiders escape it.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore she poked all the holes in the fire hose.
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  Speaker 1: One spider, I'll say, a little excessive, but if there
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  Speaker 1: are multiple spiders, yeah, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Like you saw the movie Arachnophobia, right, yes, yeah, great
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  Speaker 2: movie by the way, mm hmm, terrible movie for ten
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  Speaker 2: year old me to see, especially at the Costelindo Theater.
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  Speaker 2: May at rest in peace with my good friend Eric.
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  Speaker 2: At the time, we played soccer together and even though
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  Speaker 2: there was no one else in the theater there was,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was mostly empty. We still sat like
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  Speaker 2: at the in the front row, which was another horrible
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  Speaker 2: mistake because then it actually felt like the spiders were
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  Speaker 2: jumping on you, because there were quite a few of
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  Speaker 2: the jump scares, or the spiders jumped like at the
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  Speaker 2: camera lens. Yeah, mistakes were made that day. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do right now. I've got a lamp next to me
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  Speaker 2: with a little poll string to turn it off and
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  Speaker 2: on see watch huh. Yeah. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: remember this in the movie Iraq Noophobia, But in the movie,
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  Speaker 2: like an old lady sticks her hand under the lamp
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  Speaker 2: chain and spider drops down, bites and kills her. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every time I pull a pole chain on a lamp,
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  Speaker 2: I think of that movie. Every time I go into
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  Speaker 2: a barn, I look up to make sure there's no
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  Speaker 2: freakishly large spider web sprawled across the top, along with
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  Speaker 2: some people rolled up in there. Every single time I
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  Speaker 2: pick up a thing of bananas at the store, I
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  Speaker 2: check them for spiders, all because of the movie Iraq Noophobia.
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  Speaker 2: Every single time I get I can go on. Every
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  Speaker 2: single time I put on some slippers. I checked the
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  Speaker 2: slippers to make sure there's no deadly spider hiding in
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  Speaker 2: the toe to get me like it got that old man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never really thought about it, but that would
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  Speaker 1: have been a hell of a movie for.
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  Speaker 2: Three D, outstanding, imax, holy.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think. I wonder if it with technology today,
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  Speaker 1: they can go back and you know, make it into
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  Speaker 1: a three D film, because that that that would just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely scare the crap out of you.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it would. That would uh. And here's the thing
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't want anyone to remake it. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's already a classic. It's a wonderful film. It's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, it's as perfect as it needs to be.
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  Speaker 2: But in order to get that full three D effect,
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  Speaker 2: if we had to redo it, I'd be okay, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you remake it as closely as possible to
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  Speaker 2: the original, and that includes bringing John Goodman back and
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Daniels to reprise their roles.
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  Speaker 1: So you want a sequel, No, I mean maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, sequels have broken our hearts left and right.
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  Speaker 2: But there are some great ones, and we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: them on the show before, including the ones where you
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  Speaker 2: know the sequel was better than the movie that came
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  Speaker 2: out prior. I have such high hopes for Spaceball's too,
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  Speaker 2: that if that lands the way that Top Gun Maverick
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  Speaker 2: landed no pun intended there, then it might open the
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  Speaker 2: door for some other possibilities. But that's everything that Hollywood's
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  Speaker 2: doing these days, is like they're just rolling the dice,
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  Speaker 2: trying to, you know, hit the jackpot again. But I
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  Speaker 2: think you're right. When an Imax three D version of Arachnophobia, God,
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  Speaker 2: that would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Spaceballs, I have faith in just I have faith in
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  Speaker 1: mel Brooks that he would not be making this if
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  Speaker 1: he didn't think it was a worthy because, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's got an abe. I'm sure he knows this that
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  Speaker 1: there's a good chance this will be his last film.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's going to be one hundred when it releases.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, And I'm a fan of Josh gadd He's the
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  Speaker 2: one that believe wrote the script or at least worked
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  Speaker 2: on it with others. He's starring in it. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's I think his role is son of maug Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And I have a lot of I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of faith in him. Well, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: hope in him. We'll see if the how the faith
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  Speaker 2: goes when the movie actually comes out. But again, I
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  Speaker 2: love your idea of doing an Arachnophobia, you know, three
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  Speaker 2: D God, that would be good and John Golden. John
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  Speaker 2: Goodman is a treasure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He is a phenomenal actor that can play so many
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  Speaker 2: different styles of roles. But him as Delbert the not
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  Speaker 2: the Executioner, Exterminator, the exterminator, slash executioner whatever, he was
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  Speaker 2: so good in that, so good I I I occasionally
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  Speaker 2: ask our bug guy, our exterminator that comes to our house.
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  Speaker 2: He looks nothing like John Goodman. I think his name
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  Speaker 2: is Angel and I've asked him before if you've seen
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  Speaker 2: arachnophob and he's like, no, what is that? I'm like, God, damn,
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  Speaker 2: you're young. I said you should see it because there
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  Speaker 2: aren't any real Hollywood there are any really are any
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  Speaker 2: movies that Champion the Exterminator quite as well as Arachnophobia?
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  Speaker 1: Did? I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's basically either that or Steve's on in Saving Silverman
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  Speaker 2: when he gets face attacked by a wreck.
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  Speaker 1: I forget. Have you ever watched The Righteous Jim Stones?
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  Speaker 2: Not all of it, but we've seen some episodes.
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  Speaker 1: That's John Goodman. Is is a treasure mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: As a quick aside, So over the weekend, Tara and
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  Speaker 2: I watched Santa Claus, the movie you remember that, Tim Allen, No,
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  Speaker 2: that's the Santa Claus. No, this one is Santa Claus,
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  Speaker 2: the movie that came out in the eighties. I'm of
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  Speaker 2: course brain farting the names of the actors, like the
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  Speaker 2: guy that played Santa I forget his name, and then
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  Speaker 2: it also had what's his name?
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  Speaker 1: We played Arthur Dudley Moore.
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  Speaker 2: Dudley Moore, thank you. I don't know why I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to call it Dusty, and I know that's not
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  Speaker 2: it because I don't think there's ever been an English Dusty.
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  Speaker 2: But Dudley Moore as one of the elves, and John
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  Speaker 2: Lithgow as the bad guy, the head of BZ Toys,
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  Speaker 2: where they're at the Senate Subcommittee and they're breaking open
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  Speaker 2: his toys and one of them is a panda and
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  Speaker 2: outcomes sand and glass and nails stuffing in the panda.
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  Speaker 2: John John Lithgow is another one of those guys. He's
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  Speaker 2: such a phenomenal actor, can do so many different things.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth rewatching that movie. Just for him. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: uh so that made me think of it as far
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  Speaker 2: as actors that are, so I'll have to I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember that movie, but I just.
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  Speaker 2: It is a hardcore kids movie from the eighties. It's pure,
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  Speaker 2: it's pure Christmas type stuff. I almost shocked it's only
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  Speaker 2: got like sixty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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  Speaker 1: Well pretty much anything Dudley More I have always liked.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, oh yeah, yeah, so you got uh so
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  Speaker 2: Dudley Morris patch John Lithgow was busy with his glass
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  Speaker 2: and nails stuffed toys. David Huddleston is the actor that
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  Speaker 2: played Santa Claus. You'll recognize him, uh when you see him.
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  Speaker 2: And then Burgess merediths really plays a really old elf.
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  Speaker 2: This is not Burgess Meredith from Grumpy Old Men. This
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  Speaker 2: is not the Grumpy old Elf. Although now that I
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  Speaker 2: now that I'm thinking it, that might be a fun
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  Speaker 2: movie as well, but we can't have it because Burgess
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  Speaker 2: is long pasted. I did though, as he comes, it's
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  Speaker 2: been a while since we had seen Santa Claus the movies.
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  Speaker 2: So when this early, when the scene happens when Burgess mayored,
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  Speaker 2: this character comes out of this ancient elf. I just
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  Speaker 2: keep I can hear is him doing the really nasty
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  Speaker 2: jokes and rumpy old like that is not These are
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  Speaker 2: not jokes for a kids movie, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I would wat trumpy old elf though, Oh grumpy old elves.
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  Speaker 2: serious question to ask you for today. Are you a
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  Speaker 2: roller coaster guy?
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  Speaker 1: I love roller.
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  Speaker 4: Coasters and it's been something like I think I started
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  Speaker 4: in my little portion of my life when I was younger,
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  Speaker 4: I was scared of high speeds or turns or twisters
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. But as I've gotten older, probably
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  Speaker 4: from my teenage years all the way now I love
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  Speaker 4: roller coasters. I love the speed, I love the adrenaline
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  Speaker 4: that it gives you, the scaredness of it going upside down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love roller coasters.
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  Speaker 2: So then are you excited about the new roller coaster
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  Speaker 2: coming to six Flags in twenty twenty six, Tormento Rampaging Run.
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  Speaker 4: I would definitely be excited to see how it looks.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, because I heard this on the news that
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  Speaker 4: they were I think, tearing down another section of a ride.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what ride they're tearing down.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Shockwave that they took down, and
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  Speaker 2: this one's going to go in that.
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  Speaker 4: Spot, okay, I mean, and that was a I mean
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  Speaker 4: I remember as a kid driving by the highway always
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  Speaker 4: looking at Shockwave and watching the roller coaster going on
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  Speaker 4: as I was driving down the road, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: I was a passenger obviously, so I was always watching.
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  Speaker 1: It, going, oh, look at the fuck? You know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 4: They got to keep up dating fresher items all the time, right,
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  Speaker 4: because people get numb to the old rides, and I
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  Speaker 4: understand it. It's kind of nostalgic though to me, Like
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  Speaker 4: you know, that Shockwave was that was a cool I
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  Speaker 4: can't tell you how many times I rode that ride.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like we talked about it on the show.
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  Speaker 2: That was an iconic ride, not just for when you're
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  Speaker 2: at the park and you ride it, but it was
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  Speaker 2: iconic just as part of the skyline of six flags
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  Speaker 2: driving by on I thirty. It's one of the ones
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  Speaker 2: you saw every single time with the loops.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: This one's going to take its place, and it's also
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  Speaker 2: going to stand out because this is big. It's a
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and nine foot dive coaster that has you
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  Speaker 2: dangling over the edge and of course it pauses at
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  Speaker 2: the top so you get you know, good and freaked
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  Speaker 2: out before it drops you into oblivion. I'm glad you're excited.
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  Speaker 2: I will not be writing that thing though.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to the Sphere in Vegas?
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  Speaker 2: I have not.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what you're describing to me. They have that
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster.
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  Speaker 4: That hangs off the top of the Sphere yep, and
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  Speaker 4: it literally just rops and then it stops here before
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  Speaker 4: you obviously you fall Olivian.
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  Speaker 1: But that's sick. Sounds like exactly what this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, terrifying. And it's a great name. Tormento.
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  Speaker 1: Tormento, hear you, that's exactly.
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  Speaker 2: on between Paramount and Netflix. I don't know why. I mean, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I do know. I don't know why I do. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very excited about this. This is fascinating. So we talked
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  Speaker 2: about the Netflix bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery on
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  Speaker 2: you and I talked about that in pretty good depth
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  Speaker 2: because it is interesting. It's a massive deal that can
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  Speaker 2: change the landscape of not just where and what you stream,
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  Speaker 2: but the entire entertainment industry. Okay, not to mention the
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  Speaker 2: political implications of it, because that deal would have to
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  Speaker 2: get through federal regulators. And part of the discussion we
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  Speaker 2: had on our Treehouse Plus episode about Netflix buying Warner
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  Speaker 2: Brothers Discovery is the fact that the Netflix bid beat
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  Speaker 2: out Paramount, which they just did their own merger deal
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  Speaker 2: Paramount Skydance thing, and that's run by the Ellison family,
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  Speaker 2: who are big Trump supporters. So it's a real interesting
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  Speaker 2: story across the board. And then it got better because
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  Speaker 2: Paramount has launched a hostile bid to acquire Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 2: Discovery after it lost. It's after the company lost to
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  Speaker 2: Netflix in a high stakes bidding war. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think is gonna happen here, Trey.
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  Speaker 1: Well A, you know, they came out over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: and said the Trump administration said they did not see
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  Speaker 1: this deal going through period. Uh So, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the more fascinating theories I heard was that Netflix really
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  Speaker 1: may not want Warner Brothers, but in the time it
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: takes to do this merger, he said, Netflix is the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: number one streamer streamer, Warner Brothers is number three, and
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they could basically sideline Warner Brothers for a year and
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: a half, two years during this merger and long enough
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to damage it and get you know, some new subscribers
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that would which I can't even fathom, but that it
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: may be just deploy kind of just to kill Warner Brothers.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a strategic move, not to actually take over
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the company, but to just neoter it for the time
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that it takes to go through federal you know, regulator approval,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: right and if it if it did pass it, then
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Netflix still gets a company that was their biggest competition
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: in essence. But if they don't, like you just said,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: they hamstring it for a year, year and a half,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: two years perhaps and then could take advantage in that
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: in that timeframe. It really is a fascinating thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it's fascinating because when you're doing those deals, it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: not like, let's say Netflix went through all the motions
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and then at the end of the day it got
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: turned down whatever You're still talking about probably three to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars spent in doing the deal. So
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it's obviously got to be worth a lot for them
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: if that's there, you know what they really want, if
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: they don't care if it goes through or not, if
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: it just it sidelines them long enough to get new subscribers.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's crazy. And then I mean, I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: haven't seen I haven't seen the term hostile takeover. It's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like the nineties.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of why it's exciting. I like, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: almost had to open up the newspaper. I turned on
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: my computer and went to a news site and the
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: first thing I see is Paramount launching a hostile bid
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to acquire Warner Brothers, and like, oh, this is getting good.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: We got a money fight now. And speaking of that,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Paramount said it would offer thirty dollars per share for
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the media conglomerate, which owns the Warner Brothers film studio,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the cable channel HBO, streaming service HBO Max, and a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: portfolio of cable brands. In a federal securities filing, Paramount
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: said the hostile bid will be backed in part by
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, as well as
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by Jared Kushner, President
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: trump son in law. So that could be one of
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the big reasons why those inside the Trump administration don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: necessarily think the Netflix bid will you know, be the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: win here, because well, it's the Ellisons and now you've
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: got Trump family on this other side, so that could
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you know, tilt the scales just a little bit. The
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: bid comes after Netflix agreed last week to buy a
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: large part of Warner Brothers discovery studio and streaming assets
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: for twenty seven point seventy five per share. Netflix's takeover
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: would not include the Warner owned cable channels, which include
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Singing In and TNT, So yeah, this is gonna be
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: This is gonna be interesting. Warner Brothers board of directors
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: already approved the deal with Netflix, but Paramounts moved to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: go directly to shareholders, a maneuver known in the business
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: world as a hostile bid, will push what has been
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: private negotiations into the public realm hmm, this will be
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a fun movie slash documentary in a couple of years.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's I mean, it's.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Just a question of which streaming service is gonna carry,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: it might tell you how good it's gonna be. H.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the movie Barbarians at the Gate. It
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was something HBO made James Garner. It was about the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: r GR R j R Nimbisco. It was Philip Morris Takeover.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think I ever saw that. I've heard of it,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: but I've never seen it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: A great movie, you know, especially just considering the time
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: of how something. I mean, I think it started. They
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: started the bid at and maybe they were buying R
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: j R. I don't remember, but whatever company they were buying,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I think they started like at seventy dollars a share
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and then they got into this big pissing contest where
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I think the final winning bid was like one hundred
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and twenty dollars a share.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And what and what was what were the companies involved?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: One of them was r GR R j R Nibisco,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and I want to say the other one was like
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Philip Morris. It was one of it was food and tobacco.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's SIGs and cookies. Man, as a as a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: former smoker, I can tell you those two do actually
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: go well together. I mean, milk and cookies ring supreme,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: but throw a little tar in there for after the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: milk and cookies, not not necessarily altogether.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's I can't see either one really going through.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I can see I guess I can see Paramount and warn.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I mean because.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Paramount I can I mean, because I didn't realize that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Jared Kushner was involved in this. But you throw in
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: all the Middle East ties that you know Trump has
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: in recent years, plus his son in law, that definitely
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: tilts the scales in the paramount bid direction. Not the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: not the least of which is the fact that it's
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the paramount bid is also for more money, which the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: shareholders will like it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Well, so is it because the Netflix big didn't include CNN.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: It did not, so it's a little bit different. But
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean that's another interesting twist as well.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You get to have a member of the Trump family
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: as an involved an invested owner of CNN, which is
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: one of Trump's most hated networks. Yeah, there are conflicts
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of interest all over this deal.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I mean, hey, the Saudi's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: in Middle East money that it's so pervasive that saying
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: like they're trying to wash their money left right and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: sideways from football to you know everything. But you know
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the other thing about this is is whenever it goes
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: through Trump, love him, hate him, whatever, he really has
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: one more year where he is relevant and then after
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the midterms next year he's a lame duck president. I mean,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it's I think it's gonna be. One of the things
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that Democrats are really going to have to figure out
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is what are they going to do because they've been
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: basically running on hatred and spy of Trump for ten
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: years now.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I don't with the conversation to go too far that direction,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: but I do feel like it bears saying that's if
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: he leaves quietly.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, he said, I you know, they they started that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: thing a while back, and he has never even indicated
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that he wants another term.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is really, he said. He's like, oh, that's
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: what the people want. I mean, god man, there was
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: there he said in interviews before we were like when
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: he's sitting in the Oval office and they're saying, he said, well,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I legally they say you can't. But but then but
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: then lots of people are telling me that they that
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I could, and that I can, and then maybe I will,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe I won't and then it's he Then he was
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: out of both sides, so he doesn't confirm nor deny,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: therefore leaving the door over.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Now he was asked and then he was like, no,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not. But he also he loves to torque the media.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, like I'll tell you what we'll find out
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: in a couple of years what actually happens, because we
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: really won't know until it actually gets.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It's not even possible. I mean, because you couldn't get
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a consolational amendment.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: He doesn't care that much about it. No, stop it,
• 27:19
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• 27:28
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• 27:30
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  Speaker 2: about this story that you sent Trey. Okay, so we
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  Speaker 2: might have time for both. We'll see. But at the
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  Speaker 2: very least, we need to talk about this story because
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  Speaker 2: this is a story of how running errands could land
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  Speaker 2: you in prison. An Ohio man sent meth to the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: bank using a drive through tube during an otherwise routine transaction,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: according to Sheriff's so Good in the Buckeye state of Ohio,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Jason Smith, forty six, was booked on drug related charges.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: The underlying incident, according to Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Occurred
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: December third at a bank in Woodsfield, a small town
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: located one hundred and twenty miles due east of Columbus.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: On the day in question, a bank employees A bank
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: employee called deputies to report finding a crystal like substance
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: consistent with methamphetamine in a baggie that had a companied
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: a transaction sent through one of the bank's air tubes.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I wonder if there are any questions from the Sheriff's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: deputies to the bank teller about how you know what
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: meth looked like? And your answer and her answer better
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: have been breaking bad, otherwise she's gonna have a search
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: warrant on her hands. UH Subsequent testing determined the substance
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: in the small bag was in fact methamphetamine. Over the
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: course of the ensuing investigation, authorities determined the defendant had
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: inadvertently sent the package to the bank through the drive
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: through while completing an otherwise routine banking transaction. Look, if
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you can't look after your own drugs, then you don't
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: deserve to have them. It's that simple. I mean, being
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: arrested for it is insult the injury, obviously, but how
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: do you how do you How does the baggie of
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: meth somehow get mixed into the deposit slip? Maybe there
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: was cash. Look, I have not made a physical deposit
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: at a bank in a very long time, But if
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I have a baggie of something, I'm going to notice it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It's got a different feeling texture to cash and paper. Also, Also,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: when you hit the button and it goes away, it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: gonna make a very noticeable rattling sound, at which point
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I might go, oh, no, I just sent my meth.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know how
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: people did. Like maybe it was in his wallet and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: he grabbed some cash to deposit and oops, the baggy
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: went with it, you know, like some people leave their
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: IDs in there. That I get.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You're in a hurry, you think you've got the whole
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: clump of stuff and the IDs in there. But that's
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: something that's that's a feel of something that's supposed to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: be in the tube, A plastic baggie of anything. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: don't think is supposed to be in there. That just
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: it just seems so weird to me.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: We are we are there is one thing we are
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: kind of missing out on. This which is we are
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: applying trying to apply logic and reason to someone who
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: smokes meth.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: So you think perhaps he might have been a little
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: high while at the bank.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You know, I think that is possible.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that. I mean, I hate running
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: errands too, and I guess if I had drugs around
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: all the time, I guess that would be a way
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: to do them.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's not a drug that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: you really think of people, you know at a certain
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: point being that discreet about.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Although I will say, if you want to knock off
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: some things on your to do list for the weekend,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: smoking a little myth will probably get you through it
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: a lot faster. I mean, they're not going to be
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: able to understand any of your handwriting on that deposit
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: slip at the bank, but by god, you did it
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: after the defendant oh sorry. The man was located in
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: nearby Wayne Township by officers with the state's Department of
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Natural Resources. After he was detained, deputies were called and
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: what the use of a police dog. They recovered additional
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: suspected drugs and drug related items from his truck. He
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: was then transported to Monroe County jail, where I imagine
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: he's going to be for quite a while. I do
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to the Monroe County Sheriff
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Derek Norman. He said in a statement, illegal drugs don't
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: belong in bank drive throughs. Yeah, share for the year, right,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: there got a boy keeping our streets safe and our
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: press releases stern.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: And you know, maybe next time cash app.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go digital, bro. There is no possible way you're
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: going to inadvertently send your meth through cash app or
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: PayPal or Venmo. That's never going to happen. It'll stay
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: safely in your pocket or in your button, you know.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And and if people are buying it from you, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that's why you got this cash, you just have them
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: put you know, various reasons, you know, tickets, food, whatever,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: just make sure they don't go for meth.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: And you're yah. I think it makes a lot more
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: sense if you're going to deal drugs, whether you're buying, selling, whatever,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: do it digitally. It just makes more sense. You can
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: bump phones and then you can.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Do bots. Yeah, and depending on how well that goes,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you might be able to bump other things.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll be so excited to do it. If
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