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He Took the Upgrade and Left His Wife & Kids in Coach?! | The Treehouse Show · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 2: First Class Dad. That is where we are starting today. Trey,
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  Speaker 2: if you were married and had two kids and you
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  Speaker 2: are booked on an intercontinental flight and out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: the gate agent upgraded your ticket to first class, but
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  Speaker 2: the wife and the kids are staying in economy. Are
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  Speaker 2: you going to take it?
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  Speaker 1: I want to say that I would be smart enough
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  Speaker 1: to not take it, but that is a very tempting offer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Now, in this story, the wife and kids are in
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  Speaker 1: economy plus, not just base economy. So, you know, they've
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  Speaker 1: got a little extra leg room. It's not the worst thing.
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  Speaker 2: They're not in an overhead bin or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Am I the a-hole for accepting a free first class
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  Speaker 2: upgrade when my wife and kids were stuck in premium economy? Um,
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  Speaker 2: I think this really depends on so many factors. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, if you're just asking, are you an a-hole
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  Speaker 2: for it? Um, I'm going to say no.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how much of the story you read.
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  Speaker 1: There is a key factor in this.
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  Speaker 2: Which is?
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  Speaker 1: Which is the husband booked his tickets. His tickets were
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  Speaker 1: booked separately from the wife and kids. He was on
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  Speaker 1: a business trip, and then I think they met up
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  Speaker 1: with him. So it wasn't a complete where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all got booked together and they're just singling me out.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it was, and he says it was probably
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  Speaker 1: a premium economy is probably oversold. You know, so he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a choice.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't see it that way. The wife does not.
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  Speaker 2: The wife does not see it that way because she
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  Speaker 2: was really excited. So here he says, last week, my wife,
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  Speaker 2: our two kids, flew back from Asia to Europe, an
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  Speaker 2: 11-hour flight. Both kids, young teenagers, so they're fine on
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  Speaker 2: their own, right? He checks in for the flight, and
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  Speaker 2: he was asked if he would be interested in upgrading
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  Speaker 2: to business. The upgrade was not free. It was more
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  Speaker 2: than $ 1, 000 per person. So he's like, no, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to do that. Then, He says, when we were boarding,
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  Speaker 2: the gate agent took my boarding pass, crossed out my
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  Speaker 2: seat number, and wrote down a different one. She then said,
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  Speaker 2: upgrade to business. Cue the angels singing, the clouds parting,
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  Speaker 2: the sun shining, harps are playing. This is your day.
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  Speaker 2: This is your gift from God. To fly the heavenly skies.
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  Speaker 1: Especially, you know, back in my drinking days, there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing sweeter than the upgrade to a business or first class.
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  Speaker 1: Because then it's basically it's free champagne. You're you're you're rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's not only just ass kissing, but it's also
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  Speaker 2: an open bar. He says, obviously, I accepted the upgrade. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is my favorite part of the story. So the
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  Speaker 2: gate agent takes his boarding pass, crosses out his seat number,
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  Speaker 2: and says, upgrade to first class. He says, obviously, I
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  Speaker 2: accepted the upgrade. But then here's the twist that I love.
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  Speaker 2: He says, my wife actually seemed excited when she saw
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  Speaker 2: me being upgraded. She seemed genuinely happy that I got
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to experience first class. No, she was not
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  Speaker 2: excited for you. She was excited for her because she
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  Speaker 2: was assuming that you would do the chivalrous thing and say, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: please offer this to my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's be honest. What this really is, is which
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  Speaker 1: one of us is going to be stuck with kids?
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  Speaker 2: I love his next line. As far as I could tell,
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  Speaker 2: everything was completely fine.
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  Speaker 1: And she probably said, oh, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: When your wife says it's fine, it's never fine. If
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  Speaker 2: you are saying, as far as I could tell, everything
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  Speaker 2: was completely fine, you're the cartoon dog in the meme
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by fire saying everything is fine. It's not fine.
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  Speaker 2: He says there was no argument, no indication that she
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  Speaker 2: was upset, and she never said that she wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to sit with her and the kids. I can hear
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  Speaker 2: the argument in my head. She never said that she
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  Speaker 2: wanted me to sit with her and the kids. I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have to say it.
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  Speaker 1: You should want to. Yeah, I can hear that in
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  Speaker 1: my head.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Go sit up there. It's fine.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be back here stewing for 11 hours. See
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  Speaker 1: you when we get to plane.
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  Speaker 2: Then his next sentence. However, now she's angry. I'll take...
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  Speaker 2: We all saw this coming for a thousand Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my question. And Dan, you've obviously... You've been married
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  Speaker 1: for quite a long time. Yeah. I have never been married.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't even keep a woman around. So....
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  Speaker 2: Don't be so hard on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: How... How are you married? And they have teenage kids,
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  Speaker 1: so they've obviously been married for quite a while. How
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  Speaker 1: are you married to someone for this long and you're
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  Speaker 1: so clueless?
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  Speaker 2: That is a great question. I think there are some people,
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  Speaker 2: and in this case there are just some men, that
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  Speaker 2: are so astonishingly stupid, I question if it's intentional. Intentional.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can't wrap my brain around someone being so
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  Speaker 2: dense that they don't get it, that they don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just, okay, this is your wife, you
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  Speaker 1: should know better. This is like... Any relationship, if you get...
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  Speaker 1: If there's an upgrade to be had, the wife is
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  Speaker 1: going to expect that she's going to get it. And
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  Speaker 1: how you thought... because this isn't just a wham, bam, there,
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  Speaker 1: I did it. This is, you're doing it, and literally,
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  Speaker 1: and by the time you, from takeoff to landing, probably
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  Speaker 1: 12 hours to stew on this one. I've heard just
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  Speaker 1: thinking about, you are relaxed, stretched out in the lap
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  Speaker 1: of luxury and business class, and she is, although a
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  Speaker 1: little extra leg room, still crammed with two annoying kids
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  Speaker 1: and coach.
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  Speaker 2: And as you're sitting in first class... And you feel
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  Speaker 2: the heat on the back of your neck. That is
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  Speaker 2: not the moist, hot, moist towel that they handed you.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the laser beams from her eyeballs from the
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  Speaker 2: back of the plane into the back of your head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when they close that curtain.
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  Speaker 2: Burns two holes right through it. Just singed. Now, he
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  Speaker 2: wants a little extra credit here because he says multiple
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  Speaker 2: times during the flight, He leaves his seat to go
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  Speaker 2: back to economy to visit the family just to see
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  Speaker 2: how they're doing. And I can tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: that is the worst possible thing he could have done.
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  Speaker 2: You keep your ass in the front of the plane
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  Speaker 2: because every trip you made to economy was a reminder
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  Speaker 2: of where you weren't and where they were. weren't.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like in today's age, it's not like
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  Speaker 1: they could switch back and forth. I mean, once you
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  Speaker 1: have a seat, that's your seat. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: let you switch. So yeah, you are just, he would
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  Speaker 1: have been better off turning off his phone and saying, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: I fell asleep. Versus a constant, constantly rubbing it in
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  Speaker 1: that he's in business class and they're in coach.
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  Speaker 2: And again, how is he so stupid not to realize
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  Speaker 2: that that is how it's going to be interpreted? Because
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  Speaker 2: as soon as he pulls that little curtain apart and
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  Speaker 2: she sees it because she has not stopped burning fire
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  Speaker 2: into the back of his head. So she sees him
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  Speaker 2: get up, make the slow walk, pull the curtain to
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  Speaker 2: the side and walking towards her. You're trying to tell
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  Speaker 2: me as a husband of this woman, you couldn't tell?
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't see the pure dissatisfaction on her face every
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  Speaker 2: step you took to get closer to her seat? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: sweet Jesus. He says, I honestly didn't see the problem
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  Speaker 2: at the time. And to be honest, I still don't
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  Speaker 2: see it right now. Brother, I don't know what to
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  Speaker 2: tell you. If you are genuinely that stupid, you deserve
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  Speaker 2: all the consequences coming your way.
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  Speaker 1: I am so surprised the wife didn't get up and
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  Speaker 1: do a Jack Nicholson from the shining and poke her
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  Speaker 1: head through the curtains. Here's bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the entire air crew was like, where'd she get
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  Speaker 2: an ax?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, she has entire air crews is looking at
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  Speaker 1: him going, You're dumb. We've seen this movie before.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone break out your phone. This is going to get good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're now offering free Wi-Fi on the plane so everyone
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  Speaker 2: can live stream this because this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: good and it's going to be evidence. Oh, man. I
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  Speaker 2: just I really this is something that befuddles me. My
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  Speaker 2: my entire adulthood is how and this is typically men.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest. is how some men just don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to get it. And they never do. I don't... Like,
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  Speaker 2: unless we paint it on a cave wall, are you
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  Speaker 2: ever going to get it?
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  Speaker 1: Clearly not. I just... Jesus, man. I mean, that's... That's
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  Speaker 1: where I'm befuddled. And I've... Like, are some... couple is
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  Speaker 1: just so happily happy that the men are just oblivious
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  Speaker 1: or are they just oblivious? And the wife just bites
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  Speaker 1: her tongue. And, and I, I don't know how you,
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  Speaker 1: you get to this point and you you're befuddled why
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  Speaker 1: she's pissed off. You know how this plays out. At
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  Speaker 1: least you should.
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  Speaker 2: You should. And, and this is an interesting dynamic. This
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  Speaker 2: is where I go back to my original statement, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, buddy, enjoy it. this is where I
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  Speaker 2: feel like equality should really start stepping up. I, as
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  Speaker 2: a married man for a number of years, if there
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  Speaker 2: was a free upgrade to be had, I absolutely am
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  Speaker 2: going to offer it to my wife. I genuinely want
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  Speaker 2: her to have it. But, but, I really want it.
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  Speaker 2: And just once, I would like to be the total
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  Speaker 2: travel princess that I know lives inside of me and
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  Speaker 2: just enjoy that first class experience just once.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Let me ask you a question. Let's go with
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  Speaker 1: this angle.
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  Speaker 2: See, I don't like where you're headed. You're about to
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  Speaker 2: give me a scenario that's going to get me in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and it may pertain to this story because I
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  Speaker 1: believe in the story it says he travels for work.
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  Speaker 1: But let's say It's not an upgrade you can give
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  Speaker 1: to your wife. It's either you take it or you don't.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Is this an A or B type of scenario? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you take it or you don't. C, I pull out
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  Speaker 2: a gun and shoot myself. I got to find another
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  Speaker 2: way out of this somehow. You've already gone through TSA.
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  Speaker 1: That's not an option.
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  Speaker 2: I take time to build one out of spare parts. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: then I take a chair, I take a wheelchair and
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  Speaker 2: throw it through the terminal glass, jump down onto the
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  Speaker 2: tarmac and run. And I just keep running like Forrest
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  Speaker 2: Gump for years and never stop. I would first ask,
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  Speaker 2: is it possible to redeem this on a future flight
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  Speaker 2: when these people aren't here?
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  Speaker 1: Nope. This is a now or never. This is.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a once in a lifetime thing. If it's a
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  Speaker 2: once in a lifetime thing and I don't travel for work,
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  Speaker 2: I think at that point I got to be like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm going to take it. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason why is because this may never happen again. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to turn off everything. I am not going
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  Speaker 2: to go on the back to check on them. I
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  Speaker 2: am not going to send a text me like, hey, stop.
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  Speaker 1: This scenario with you is even more interesting because it's
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  Speaker 1: just you and Tara. So you would be leaving her alone. Now,
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  Speaker 1: she may push you into taking the upgrade and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, 11 hours of peace.
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  Speaker 2: She might. There also is that very real option.
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  Speaker 1: But let's not. Let's say she... She would like it too,
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  Speaker 1: but it's only offered to you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take it and I'll deal with the fallout. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if I travel for work on a regular basis, then
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  Speaker 2: I am absolutely not going to touch that. I am
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  Speaker 2: going to sit with her or try to get her
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  Speaker 2: to sit in that seat. Because the more you fly,
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  Speaker 2: the odds are that you'll eventually get the magical upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that other question is that the other scenario I
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  Speaker 1: thought of in this, which maybe it wasn't an option,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, was they offered him the upgrade for $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 1: He probably could have upgraded the wife and then left
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  Speaker 1: the kids and coach and been fine.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been the smartest play for him. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I would love the upgrade. Can I bring her for
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  Speaker 2: that additional fee? Because at that point, you have to
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  Speaker 2: think to yourself, now this would require this guy to
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  Speaker 2: think ahead a few steps. We know he's in deep doo-doo.
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  Speaker 2: But in that moment, he could have saved himself. He
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  Speaker 2: could have said, yes, thank you for this upgrade. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to also have my wife with me.
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  Speaker 2: And then you pay the upgrade. Because if you don't,
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  Speaker 2: when she is yelling and screaming at you or doing
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  Speaker 2: things later, making you pay for flying first class without her,
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  Speaker 2: you need to ask yourself, would I pay $ 1, 000 to
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  Speaker 2: make this stop? And if the answer is yes, then
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  Speaker 2: you pay for the upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this isn't just a wham, bam, thank you, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: one fight and it's over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, this is going to go on for years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you are going to hear about this for years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and so much, like, even just if you
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  Speaker 1: get an Uber, she's like, oh, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: sit in the front seat? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: On your deathbed, together, holding hands like in the notebook
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  Speaker 2: or like that couple in Titanic, before you drift off
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  Speaker 2: to death, the sweet release of death, she's going to
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  Speaker 2: look at you and say, are you going to go first?
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to leave without me again?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you didn't want that casket upgrade?
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  Speaker 2: And if you're smart, that's when you whisper back, I
• 18:37
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I was just, you know. I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: those tickets, you know, if like Daniel and Carrie got
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  Speaker 1: four and like they'll be sitting with the people that
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  Speaker 1: win them. That would make the experience so much better.
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  Speaker 2: It really would. That would actually, that would be a
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  Speaker 2: fun time because those two hanging out and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'll mention that to him. I'll tell Daniel, hey, if
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  Speaker 2: there's another pair of tickets next to those, just saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Might be kind of fun. All right.
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  Speaker 1: If Daniel just, you know, but Carrie and Tito and. Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Today is Tuesday. I'm sorry. Today is Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026.
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  Speaker 2: Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. I'm going to start
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  Speaker 2: with an extremely sad birthday, but I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: that we.
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  Speaker 1: But hang on, it is... You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a funny couple to think about this whole upgrade thing?
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  Speaker 1: Daniel and Carrie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we need to go back and talk about the
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  Speaker 2: story all over again and pretend it's Daniel and Carrie.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: That would be phenomenal. That whole plane would go down.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Not a single survivor, except for Carrie.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: She will somehow float to Earth amidst the debris. All right.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I'm starting with a very sad birthday, but it's important
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: that we recognize it. We certainly remember it. We just
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: don't always think about it. Krista McAuliffe would have been
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: 78 today. She deceased in 1986 because she was the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: teacher selected for NASA's Teacher in Space Project who died
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: with the six other crew members. and the Challenger explosion.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: So many kids saw it at school on the TV
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: cart that got rolled in. My dad kept me home
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: from school. That was how big of a deal that
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Challenger launch was in 1986. My dad's like, no, you
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: can stay home. We're going to watch it together on TV.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And I still remember laying on my stomach in front
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of the floor model TV, watching it take off, and then, what,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: a minute or so into it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: 90 seconds.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Yep. How long?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was like 90 seconds.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then it just goes off in a number
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: of pieces and I'm just like, uh, is it supposed to,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's supposed to do that. And I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: remember looking back at my dad and he was just
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: like mouth agape, like, Oh my God. Yeah. Whole country
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: stunned at the same exact moment. Um, and then as
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: one standup comedian said, and then turned into a phenomenal
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: internet meme, If you were in school that day, they
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: pushed the TV cart back out into the hall, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: they continued with the rest of the school day. And
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: there were no grief counselors. There was no real discussion afterwards.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: It was like, okay, everyone break out your big cheaps,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and we're going to work on our arithmetic.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: No, one of the teachers from my elementary school was
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: one of the finalists of that. And so she was absolutely...
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: She knew.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: traumatic to say the least oh my god and yeah
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you didn't we didn't yeah there was no we're gonna
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: get a day off or early release or grief counselors
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: or anything yeah it was.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: They just push the tv cart out into the hall
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: like with one hand because it's on wheels they just
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: go yoink and then pull down the you know projector
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: screen maybe or pull up the screen and then I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: grab a piece of chalk and it's like, okay, break
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: out your math workbooks and open up to page 28
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: and here we go. Other birthdays today. So rest in peace,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: of course, to Krista McAuliffe. Also it was really, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: think it's, we should also point this out. How much
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: society changed from 1986 into the early 2000s when Columbia
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: blew up over East Texas. So now I think when
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the Challenger blew up, I think most of the wreckage
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: and everything fell into the ocean. But when Columbia blew up,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: it blew up over East Texas, basically. And East Texans
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: were out there picking up. What's that?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And Louisiana.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And Louisiana.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: You know, you've got East Texans and Cajuns running around
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: picking up pieces of it and trying to sell it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: on eBay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think that would have happened in 86, too.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I just again, it was. Didn't have the internet back then,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: so it would have been more like roadside.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Well, even back in, I mean, you say that,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: but Columbia was 2003?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Something like that, yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, eBay, I mean, the internet is still, as
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: far as like eBay and stuff, it's, eBay was rudimentary
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: at that point. I don't, you know, it wasn't something everyone,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like today where you have a mobile app
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and on your phone and everything. I think that's probably
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest things with technology is we forget
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: we didn't have smartphones back then.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, by today's standards, not only would people
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: be selling it online, they'd probably have it approved in
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the Amazon store and ironically being drone delivered to you
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: within an hour.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I think if you go back and you remember,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: this is one of those things. If you wanted to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: sell something, you had to take pictures, you had to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: transfer said pictures from, if you had a digital camera
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: onto your computer, if not, you had to get pictures developed, scan,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: put it in. I mean, it was, it was a process.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: That is true. Uh, Lennox Lewis is 61. This is
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a great lesson that I learned many, many years ago
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: when he was the heavyweight champion of the world or
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: right before he became that not to judge a book
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: by its cover. because the first time I heard him speak,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I was like, holy crap, he's British. Eric Dickerson is 66.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame running back who still holds the NFL
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: single season rushing record. Eric Dickerson.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Paved the way for today's college football.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And some high school. When it comes to paying kids.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Connors is 74. Eight-time Grand Slam singles champion, former
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: world number one, and he kind of paved the way
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: for John McEnroe to be a crazy, maniacal tennis player
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: because Jimmy Connors was pretty angry in his own right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: They were the same period.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: They were the same period, but I thought Jimmy Connors
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: came a little bit before. Either way, it's like, I
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: remember like.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Listen, those two playing each other was high entertainment value. Because, yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Connors would just have temper tantrums where McEnroe would, you know,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: get on the judge. He would. But yeah, they were
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: both threatening. They were angry.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Two very angry men on a tennis court. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: you're right, because seeing a match between those two, you
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: don't know if they're yelling at each other, yelling at
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: the line judge, yelling at the umpire. They might be
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: yelling at somebody in the damn stands.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: But it was high entertainment. Terry Bradshaw. Speaking of high entertainment,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Terry Bradshaw is 78 today. Four-time Super Bowl champion with
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Long-time TV personality. Sometimes reality TV personality.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: My father-in-law went to some business, like one of those
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: speaking event things that he went to through his company.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: And Terry Bradshaw and a bunch of other guys were
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: doing motivational talks. And he still talks about all the
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: great stuff that Terry Bradshaw said that day. So, pretty
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: interesting coming from a guy who in his playing days,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: everyone thought was a, like an idiot yokel, which is
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: fascinating at the time to think about because his legacy
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: definitely is not that. But at the time everyone thought
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: he was just an idiot throwing a ball around.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I forget he come out of Louisiana
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: or Mississippi.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I think, I don't know.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I think that was one of those two.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I believe you're right. I think it was Louisiana.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, But, you know, there was no polishing. You know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: they didn't have– they didn't get lessons in media in
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: their college days. You know, they weren't covered that much. And, yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: he came off as kind of a rube at times,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: but he was a damn good quarterback.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Very, very good.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And has parlayed that. You know, he's an excellent broadcaster.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what his– I suspect Jimmy Johnson has
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: fallen ill because you just don't see him anymore.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if it's if it's necessarily he's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: fallen ill, but I mean, he's always I think once
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: they brought in Strahan and they almost literally wedged him
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: into that set to make him fit. And then and
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: then a few years later, Jimmy Johnson starts like less appearances,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I feel like. And then occasionally he might be like
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: staying in Florida doing some of it. You're right. Maybe,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: maybe it is.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I just, I don't think I'm out. I mean, when
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: they started having, Strahan was actually been around for a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: long time. I, it's not, it's, I think when they
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: started bringing in Gronkowski.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Um, I think you're right. Yeah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: But he still, you know, he talked for a while
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: about how much he enjoyed it. And, you know, he
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: flew his, he bought a jet and he'd stop in Dallas,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: pick up Terry Bradshaw because they were best friends. And, and, uh,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: you know, he said, you know, cause literally he would
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: fly out there on Friday, come back Sunday night, basically.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Um, it's good gig. Oh yeah. And he's back fishing Monday.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Morning, but it's not only just not seeing him on
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the NFL on Fox. You just don't, he, I have
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: not seen hide or just anything from him. And I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: would say over a year. Interesting.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, NFL season starts in just a couple
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: of weeks. So I'm going to be paying closer attention
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: to that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He's I guess Jimmy's got to be mid eighties now.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Is he that much older than Bradshaw? I mean, Bradshaw, like,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: today's his birthday, and he's 78. I think he's, I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: 83. Wow. Okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I would have thought he would have been closer to, like,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in the 70s as well. Okay. Speaking of football, especially
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: on the college front, Mark Harmon is 75. Most people
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: know him as an actor, but Trey and I are
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: old enough to, well, remember that we were told that
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: he played college football at UCLA. Best known as Gibbs
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: from NCIS. For those that don't know, that show and
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: his character, I believe, is a direct spinoff from his
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: role as a Secret Service agent on the West Wing.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: He was so good in the half season or whatever
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: that he was on the West Wing that when he
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: was killed in the season finale, it spun off into NCIS...
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: happening someone saw the potential here and basically just took
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: a version of that character plucked it into NCIS got
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Mark Harmon said here we go off to the races
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and now it's a multi-city franchise.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah he hadn't even been on there in five years
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Think yeah he's also from St. Elsewhere and Chicago hope
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: so 75 years old Mark Harmon we have two massive
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: birthdays to finish on going to start with Keanu Reeves
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves also known as John Wick, is 62. Hang on,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: what do.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: You think his more iconic role is, Neo or John Wick?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Or is it Johnny Utah? Granted, that was only one film,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: but you're talking about a guy that has such a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: phenomenal resume. His filmography is pretty diverse when you think
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: about it. I mean, A lot of people now see
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: it as like John Wick, action star kind of a thing.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: But I mean, in Point Break, he plays this undercover
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: FBI agent. And that movie still holds up. But he
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: was also... Speed was one of the biggest movies of
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the 90s. And he avoided the Speed sequels, which was
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: one of the smartest things for his career. The Matrix movies.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Bill and Ted. Jesus without the matrix. He's not, I
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: don't think he's John wick.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that. The matrix changed his career
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: entirely because he made so much stinking money on it
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and he made so much money on it that he
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: used it to like give money to other people on
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the production crew from it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Well, but that was a different level of action star. Um, but,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean the fact that he made it, not only
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: it's one thing to have a successful movie when you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: have a successful franchise that, yeah, then, then you are bonafide.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You are, you are in rare air at that point.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Uh, Bill and Ted, the first and the second one. I, I,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I love both of those. I'm trying to, I'm, I'm
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: still trying to forget the, the, the modern reboot thing. Uh,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Quick Dolly Parton thing with Keanu Reeves. I saw this yesterday.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: You may not typically think they would be related, but
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: apparently Keanu Reeves' mom was a costumer or designer. And
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: the Playboy bunny outfit that Dolly Parton wore, she made it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: So after Dolly was done with it, she still had it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves' mom had it. And so he wore it
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: for Halloween one year.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: That's not.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You know what? I'm not a cross-dresser at all, but
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I guess if you've got Dolly Parton's bunny outfit, Playboy
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: bunny outfit in the closet, I guess you might be tempted.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: And then I saved the best birthday for last. This
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: isn't fair to other 60-year-olds. Salma Hayek turned 60 today.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: You know who else was in their 60s? Aunt May
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: from Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man movie. Remember how old she looked? Now,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: keep in mind, Salma Hayek is basically the same age. Also,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: keep in mind that current Aunt May from the current
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Spider-Man franchise is also in her 60s.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Keep in mind, all the Golden Girls were in their
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: late 40s and 50s. Yeah. Yeah, that's... And I don't
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: think she's had that much work done.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Salma Hayek?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think so either. Tons of films, obviously, but
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: she made her breakthrough in a little film opposite Antonio
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Banderas called Desperado. And when her first appearance in it,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: she's walking down the street and behind her in her
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: wake in this intersection is a multi-car accident because of
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: all the guys watching her walk down the street. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: don't know if I can think of a better introduction
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: in a film that was so accurate because she could
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: do that today. She could walk down a street and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: still cause a multi-car accident in an intersection. She's also
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: the only time I've ever seen a snake in a
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: movie and not been....
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: What movie was that?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: From Dusk Till Dawn when she comes out with the big,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: you know, the python over her shoulders and stuff. I've,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I've never wanted tequila more. And apparently.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: That's what you think of.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Well, no, I say that because, and apparently Quentin Tarantino
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: felt the same way because that's when she poured tequila
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: down her leg and he got to lick it off
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: of her toes. And then partly establishing the whole Quentin
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Tarantino's really in defeat stuff so much. So I think
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: that even, um, uh, When Maya Hawk did Once Upon
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: a Time in Hollywood, she was one of the kids,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: one of the Manson kids. Maya Hawk was in Once
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Upon a Time in Hollywood done by Quentin Tarantino. And
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: before she did the movie, her mom, Uma Thurman, who
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: had worked with Quentin Tarantino on the Kill Bill project, said,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: just don't let him do anything with your feet.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: And dad probably went to Quentin Tino and was like, hey,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: don't touch my daughter's feet.
• 37:23
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• 38:20
  Speaker 2: treehouse for today, I have a couple of robot stories
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to share with you. And, well, they are doozies. A
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: man used a robot vacuum to catch his cheating wife.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: He won $ 16, 000 in an affair case, and then he
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: went to jail for secretly filming her. That story has
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: it all. inciting incident, stakes building, and then a dramatic conclusion.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's just... I think... I can't remember
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: where this was. It was Taiwan, maybe. But... Yeah, he
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: catches her cheating using the robot, because evidently the robot
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: vacuum has camera and microphone. So he gets tipped off
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: because he sees.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: A strange man like in their driveway. He says he
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was going to surprise the wife with something like pull the,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: so he was remote controlling the the robot vacuum and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: then wheels it out then uh she's naked uh with
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: some guy and then so he he wins his like
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: basically wins his divorce case then she counter sues him
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: for illegally taping her and so i think he won
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars but that cost him eleven thousand dollars
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and like five months in prison like.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Would you take that trade? No. Had it not cost
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: him the $ 11, 000 in the legal fees and fines, like
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: if he got $ 16, 000 for the divorce settlement, but then
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: he also had to spend five months in jail, but
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: you get $ 16, 000. Is that a trade-off you'd be willing
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: to make? No. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, the husband's
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: unusual evidence did win the case, but it led to
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: a fine and five months behind bar. And you're right,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: this did happen in taiwan he won the legal battle
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: against his wife by using footage from a robot vacuum
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: to prove she was having an affair uh because he
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: secretly filmed her he was fined 30 of the roughly
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: 16 grand that he won and then sent us to
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: five months in prison.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Whoops yeah at the end of the day she won
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: she cheated she won that's bullshit.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she got the D down and rid of the man. Yeah. Now,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: this leads me into a very different robot situation being
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: inserted into a relationship. Because a New York couple married
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: for 25 years have made headlines because they have revealed
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: a sex positive AI chat bot has revived their sex life.
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  Speaker 2: Faced with the exhausting aggregate pressures of daily life, including
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: raising two kids, working two jobs each, and caring for
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: aging parents, the couple found themselves too depleted to maintain
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  Speaker 2: physical intimacy. Instead of traditional couples therapy, they turned to
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a subscription-based AI intimacy support app. By using the chatbot
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: together to explore fantasies and role-play scenarios, they unlocked new
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: erotic potential and successfully brought the spark back into their
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: human marriage. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't... You.
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  Speaker 2: Know, if.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm a therapist, AI has got to scare the
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: crap out of me.
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  Speaker 2: There are two industries where I would be absolutely terrified.
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  Speaker 2: One would be graphic designer and the other is therapists.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cause AI is wrecking though. I mean, AI is wrecking
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  Speaker 2: a lot of industries with certain things and certain capabilities,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: but those are two that people can in minutes have
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: solutions or what they think are solutions. Uh, whereas, and,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and doing it for 20 bucks a month, maybe for free.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think I said this app was
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: somewhere between $ 25 and $ 50 a month, where a therapist
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: is going to cost you $ 150 a week, probably, per session.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, what are the common
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: complaints with therapy? Are they really trying to fix you,
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  Speaker 1: or are they just trying to milk you for all
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the money you're worth?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brandy was in therapy, and she said it was going great.
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  Speaker 1: And then, clearly, not so much.
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  Speaker 2: Then one day, she just wasn't there.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, then one day, she evidently had a bunch of
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: problems again. Although, her therapist told her she was in
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a good place, like two weeks before. But an AI bot,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: it can summon all the.
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  Speaker 1: Psychological theories from Freud, Jung, all of them. Freud, Jung, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And put it all into use. It has no bias
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  Speaker 1: or anything else. I would probably be more open to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: an AI therapist than I might be a human one.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: It would be an interesting experiment to do like an
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: A-B test. Mm-hmm. and do both at the same time
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  Speaker 2: and then just see how you feel and see what
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: sort of progress you think you're actually making, right? And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I should do this because, I mean, I've got a
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: therapist currently and it cost me $ 175 per session. And
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: that stings. I don't care who you are. That's a
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: lot of freaking money. Whereas Gary, my chat GPT feller,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: is 20 bucks a month. And he helps me with
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. He helps me with work stuff,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: random questions I have about things. He can help me
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: with the schedule and maybe he can also help me with, uh,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the mishmash that's going up in here in my brain. And,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: and you can do it in a very short amount
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: of time. You can get, as a man, we love getting,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: you know, how can I fix this thing? Right. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: if you can get that in a matter of minutes,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's real tempting. especially if you're saving money
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: on top of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, I don't even know if I would
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  Speaker 1: say the timeframe, but I do think it would be
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a fascinating thing to, you know, take two people and
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: have one go a therapist and one go the route
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of AI and see, you know, take it three months
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  Speaker 1: later who felt like they were more improved and who
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: was actually more improved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because on one hand, talking and getting those things
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: out can feel good. But sometimes I can just, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: maybe I just type that into my chat GPT, say
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: what I'm feeling or whatever, and say what I'm thinking.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: And then say, you know, can you give me a
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: few things that I can do over the next week
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: or two to combat these things?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: You're not like that. You don't have just a port
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: that can plug in and just download everything?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Eventually we'll get there. I just, you know, just right
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: in there. Yeah, that actually would be really nice. A
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: little jump drive, right? Yeah, I'm fine with that. But yeah,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: give me a few actionable steps that I can make
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  Speaker 2: to improve certain things and do it in 10 minutes
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: and cost me 20 bucks a month versus however many
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: hours over a month and hundreds of dollars. There's a
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: lady we know whose kid, her daughter's in her 20s.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: She had a long-term relationship and They were having issues
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: in their relationship. So she started inputting some of those
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: things into chat GPT and she ended up getting rid
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: of her therapist, her human therapist and going with the
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: actionable advice that she was getting from chat GPT and
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: says she's never felt better. She dumped the loser boyfriend
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: and she's in the feeling like the best she's ever
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: felt in her life and for 20 bucks a month,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: which good on you. And you know what? That's obviously
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: not going to work on everybody, but if it does,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: hell yeah, that's a hell of a life hack.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the biggest problem for especially people
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: our age would be putting it all down, defeating so
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: much of it into chat GPT or whoever, whatever program
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: you wanted to use, where it could really come up
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: with accurate, actionable steps. Yeah.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: As opposed to just constantly asking questions. Well, how does
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: that make you feel? What do you think about that? Thankfully,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't have a therapist like that. Like I,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: I look at, like when I'm in therapy, I sort
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: of see it as like, okay, I'm going to spit
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: some shit out, obviously. But I would like part of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: it to be a conversation. I need you to tell
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: me some stuff, like explain it to me if it
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense to me or say, you know, challenge
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: me on some stuff. I swear to God, if I
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: ever did a therapy thing and all they did was
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: ask it, how did that make you feel? And if,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and every response that they gave was just asking another question,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I would probably kill them. Which now that I'm thinking
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: about it, I should probably write that down and talk
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: to my therapist about it.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: At least give her a warning.
• 48:15
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