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Episode 70: Arctic Blast 2024 (Avalanche of Stupid) · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse along with me, Daniel Mallley, Trey Trenholm, Raj
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change his life, and turns out I was I was exposed to something.
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Yeah, yeah that I'm gonna have a difficult time returning from Yes,
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and did not want to share with his beautiful wife what what what he was
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exposed to because she loves it so much. Well, I was trying to
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protect her rush We've barely had her best interest in mind. That's how it
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starts, how it starts. Trust me, you want to go listen to
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that episode because I think I'm actually gonna go back and listen to it after
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this. Oh Jesus, anyway, how how are you guys doing. I'd
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love to pretend and say, all right, we're in the middle of it.
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It's Arctic Blast twenty twenty four and we're all feeling the effects. But
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I have to be completely honest with you guys. This is one of the
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this is one of the reasons why we moved to an island in the sun
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is to get away from that nonsense. Twenty twenty one earned us burned us
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bad and uh, obviously it was freezer burn and among the number of reasons
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why we wanted a change in scenery, that winter storm had had a big
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role to play, and the idea of not having to go through another one
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of those is very, uh soothing for us. But I'm not without empathy,
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are you guys? Cozy? How are you feeling? Yeah, I
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got the heat on. It's it's it's not not not planning to go.
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Uh. Anywhere we got the last week, we went and actually prepared for
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it smart. We went and got stuff that we would need, like in
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case things went awry like that, like I did a couple of years ago.
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So we we've we've planned for it. We've got all this stuff.
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Uh, and then we got some heat of blankets, so we're solids.
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Yeah, Drey, what about you? I'm doing okay. I've stocked up,
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got anything I might need and uh, you know, unfortunately I still
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have to go out, but uh, and it's it's miserable. But but
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Dan, I did I did feel it for you because I did look at
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the forecast and you know, uh, you have that that big temperature gap,
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you know, swing of seventy six eighty two all week, But it
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does look like it's it's You've got a chance of rain almost all week.
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So I feel for you. Yeah, Saint John is is a real hell,
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especially this time of year. The good thing you have going for you
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Trey, and I don't know Raja if you're aware of this, but uh,
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Trey's dog Daisy, very famous Daisy. She is a three ish pound
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chihuahua. Here is something that anyone that has ever had a chihuahua in their
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lives knows. The smaller they are, the more heat they generate. If
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Rkatt was smart, anytime they feel like their generation is too low, they
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should just go plug into the nearest chihuahua and you will see an entire neighborhood
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lit up with all the heat it needs. This was true when we had
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Daphne, our four four and a half pound space heating chihuahua. You put
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her under a blanket, you're sweating. Bella, our current chihuahua mix,
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who's like eight pounds, doesn't put off the same amount of heat as Daphne
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did because she was smaller. It's more concentrated, you know, but Bella
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still will put off a good amount of heat, Trey, your Chihuahua Daisy
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would basically be like a radioactive isotope heat source. Yes, she is.
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It is amazing that that small of an animal can put off that much heat.
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But she will curl up against my neck and I will be sweating in
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five minutes. Wow. So just the Chihuahuas. I don't know if it
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happens with any other breed of dogs, because we've been we've had a number
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of dogs in our lives, Tara and I have. We've also fostered many
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types of dogs, including ones that are supposed to be, you know,
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cold weather dogs like we've we've fostered a few, uh not Pekades, grant
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Great Pyrenees, very different dogs. Those are the huge white dogs, you
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know, and you think if he, if that dog smothers you, you're
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gonna sweat and die. But no, they're actually it's very comfy and relaxing.
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But chihuahua. Yeah, so what it is, it's like they just
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maybe that's the reason they shake. It's not because they're cold, it's because
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they're just releasing so much heat. Yeah. So the white dogs are relaxed,
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and then the chihuahuas are working extra hard to generate heat. I don't
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know if I like this. I don't know if I like this road called
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metaphor that you're you're taking down this. I'm just saying, you're saying the
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white you know, the white dog, doesn't you know, what you expect
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him to do, doesn't do, and then what you you know, you
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get, you get the chihuaha and it does more than you expected. I
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feel like this dry have on metaphor lane, that you're taking me down RAJ
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into a very bad dead end. No, and I'm trying to and I'm
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and I'm going to cancel this uber. Oh so now I drive an uber
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because I'm the Indian guy on the show. You know what, I was
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already, it was already in the neighborhood of stereotypes. I'm not as well
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exploited for my own benefit. Yeah that was beautiful, well played, my
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friend. If I had I would tip it to myself. Yeah that's uh
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yeah, I have one hundred pound boxer bulldog and uh he it's very interesting.
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He likes the heated blank like you can't get him off the heated blanket.
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I'm like, that's what you're like, your size, you should be
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warm, like that's you're a big dog, you would think, you would
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think. And he no. He curls right up on the electric blanket and
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he is dead to the world, like literally, like I got to check
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on him, like, I'm like, oh you did you did you get
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elextrocuted? What happened buddy? And he just kind of looks up like I'm
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good. Like no food that is that is just bliss that you were witnessing.
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Yeah, no, no treat, go get him up. No food
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in the here and the food hit the bowl, none of that gets him
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up. Just heated blake, And so I have to turn it off.
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And then once it finally cools down, he's like, so, what's for
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lunch? So it turns out your dog is a suck on the energy coming
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into your home. Yeah, absolutely, And so because of the Arctic blast,
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I saw it, you know last week. You know, I have
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a you know, sort of a a heart on for Urkot, not necessarily
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a good one. I'm always curious, before it's going to be really hot
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or it's going to be really cold, what's Urkot gonna say? Somebody asked,
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or even if nobody asks, they'll release a statement. And this from
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CBS eleven. And I appreciate, you know, quality journalism, right,
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something that has you know, is not as common as it used to be,
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at least it seems, so I appreciate when the news outlets really go
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the extra mile. So right before the Arctic Blast twenty twenty four, hit
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Urkott wanted to make sure everyone knew that it was ready. Urkott said it's
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prepared to handle potential record breaking electricity demand related to the Arctic Blast hitting North
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Texas. Oh jesus Ah, you kill me. Yeah, thank you,
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Goose. I would like to point out that as I read that headline,
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that's the exact laugh I had in my head was Goose from top Gun because
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I don't ever believe it. Yeah, yeah, Nor is there any reason
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why you would Nope, Because because here's the problem when it comes to IRCOT
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all right, there's more than one, but this is one of the main
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issues at this moment. That is, even if they get it done properly,
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that's the bare minimum. That's that's you doing your job. Was keeping
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everybody's power on? Did you keep everybody's power on? You did your job,
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as opposed to they make it seem like they just won the super Bowl
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every time they're quote unquote successful, that the IRCT line of success is is
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really just the bare minimum. Yeah, the line of success is the grid
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didn't collapse. I just want to know how that. Yeah, how'd that
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conference, like that meeting go when they're like, hey, can we just
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do our job? And it was like, you know what, Jenkins,
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that's a good idea. That's a smart That's why you're the brains here.
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So we're just gonna do what we're supposed to do. You're incredible. Make
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sure you make sure you make sure you circulate that. And memo for everyone's
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got to read this. I was driving on Thursday or Friday, and I
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remember coming off the tollway thinking, I'm like, we're close to the hot
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I know we're on the same hosp The grid is the hospital that's behind us.
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So I'm like, nothing, the power's not going to go out.
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That was my first thought, not like Urkot's gonna be great. It was
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like where are we as in reference to this hospital? Yea, And that's
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when I was like, okay, a little sigh of relief yeah as.
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An arctic blast heads toward North Texas, bringing with it below freezing temperatures.
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Urkat said it's prepared to handle potential record breaking electricity demand. Jesus, you
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kill me. One good turned deserved another. But for many across Texas,
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the cold front is blowing in flashbacks to the February twenty twenty one power grid
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failure. During that historic storm, much of the state lost power, in
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some cases for days. The outages caused pipes to burst like mine, homes
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to flood like mine, and killed more than two hundred people. In the
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three years since the storm, more power plants have been winterized, natural gas
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producers have been put on lists to ensure their power stays on yeah You list,
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and the overall electricity capacity in the state has increased, But has it
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been enough. The CBS News Texas I team asked experts on a scale of
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one to ten what their confidence level is in the Texas power grid holding up
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in the next severe winter storm. So experts on a scale of one to
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ten where asked what their confidence level is in the Texas power grid. Thomas
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Overby, director of Texas A and M Smart Grid Center, his confidence level
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is a nine. Meanwhile, Beth Garza, former Independent or Cotton monitor,
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says her confidence level is a seven, and finally, Doug Lewin, author
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of Texas Energy and Power newsletter, says his confidence level is a three and
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an eight. At the same time, he says an eight in confidence that
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the storm will not be as bad as twenty twenty one, but only about
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a three in confidence that there would not be any outages at all. Me
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however, my confidence meter runs on a completely different scale when it comes to
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RKOT. Mine's on the letters scale, and my confidence level in Rkott being
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able to get us through this Arctic blast is for me, I grade that
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as f you. At the same time, who's this US white man?
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What do you mean? Yeah? You have a you have a you have
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a bitch to you have a you have a you have something a bitch about?
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Really on the on the island? Yeah that now? Is that your
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Is that your thermal short sleeve shirt? You know what they're they're there are
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a partnership that we have had for many, many years. Trey, How
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what do you think our partnership with Pause in the City, North Texas's largest
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no kill all volunteer rescue group two thousand and eleven, twelve or what?
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Did it actually go back to twenty ten? It would actually go back to
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about eight, No, I guess, No, it was twenty ten.
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So the show was tied to another no kill animal shelter and our friend there
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got ousted, and so that happened in I think eight and then we were
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off the air. Then when we came back, Johnny had gotten hooked up
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with Pause in the City and Tara and that's how so that happened right actually
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when we started doing mornings. Yeah, yeah, twenty ten. Kudos to
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us to kind of remembering that, because we don't remember most of the stuff
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we did and when we were doing morning radio on the Eagle. But we
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have managed to maintain the relationship despite some changes at the leadership level at Pause
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in the City, some of which were not all voluntary, But that's something
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this show knows a lot about as well. That's why we seem to get
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along so well. So once again, we talked to her a handful of
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times last year, and so she's back this year. Kaylin from Pause in
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the City, welcome back. Yeah, thank you having me. Oh it's
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our pleasure. So what's new at Pause in the City. Uh, So,
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we wanted to kind of touch bas and give you guys just a really
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brief overview of what y'all helped us do last year. Oh, you're giving
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us credit, please continue. You know what we're gonna We're gonna give you
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like an a for half heard on some of these now not results, but
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the effort. Yeah. See effort. Hey, if if our partnership mean
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is coming and having a beer and getting to talk about dogs, I think
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that's a good effort. It's been helping. So, you know, last
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year we kind of talked about typically we hold around fifteen dogs a year going
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through our process to get them out adopted. Twenty twenty three, we had
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twenty nine dogs rescue, fostered and cared for in total. That's awesome to
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give you an idea. Just since November, I have six dogs that have
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been in my email about they have been adopted out just starting process in November
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through today. Wow, that is fantastic. Yeah, so it's really exciting.
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And then out of everything we've raised, you know, we've got the
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typical yearly events we do, We do all of our regular adoption events,
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and then last year we added Vermafest we raised. Out of everything we raised,
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ninety one percent of everything raised went straight to the dogs. The other
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nine percent is just like admin and things like that and bandwidth and such.
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I understand those. Yeah, I get it. That's fantastic. And that's
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a number that a lot of charities strive for but typically fall short of.
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And then there's there's you know, charities out there that I'm not naming any
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names, but they'll operate to where like ninety seven percent will not go to
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its intended purpose, but instead we'll go to the organization running it right.
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And then so that leaves three percent going to the actual efforts that they supposed
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to you know, take care of. So it hitting that ninety percent and
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above mark is is a huge accomplishment. So so good job. Yeah,
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and that's how like you can you there are different websites you can and look
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up charities and they get graded on that and and the very few that are
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above ninety percent, you know that that is an exceptional mark. Yeah,
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we'll appreciate it. No, I mean, it's it is what it is.
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It's one of those we're pretty proud of it. But there are definitely
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organizations that make the number kind of hard to find, yeap when you go
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to you know, see what their online presence looks like. So, and
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that's typically what happens when you have two organizations. Uh. And and another
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way that we're familiar with sort of the backside of things of what of what
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Pause and the City does, is our foundation that benefits you know, families
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of fallen police officers and firefighters in North Texas operates in a very similar fashion,
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meaning it's all volunteer based. Some of those other organizations will have actual
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payroll of people that do things and those and those can be important functions.
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But Pause in the City and the Listeners Foundation operate very similarly in that it's
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all volunteer and over ninety ninety five percent whatever the exact number is for our
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side, I'd be like ninety seven percent for the foundation goes to its intended
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purpose and the rest is like the like you said, it's like you know,
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website hosting and such and taxes, and the more your charity grows,
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the more difficult it is to keep that number. I mean, it sounds
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counterintuitive, but the more money you take in and you're growing and so then
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you have more admin expenses and everything else. So as you grow and you
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keep that number above ninety, it shows that, you know, Pausing the
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City is a very well run organization. And I know I can tell Kaitlyn
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you don't want to take all the credit for it, but since you're here,
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you're going to have to just deal with So congratulations, good job,
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Kaylen Naymi. No, no, we have. We have a fantastic group
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of people, and that the admin cost. What we've done is we've taken
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feedback from people who have been on our website and you know, whether they're
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fostering adopting, you're just going to donate, and we're kind of seeing that
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back into some of the technical side of things, just to make it more
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user friendly. We don't want it to be like pulling teeth for you to
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try to foster a dog. Yeah, so that's a great I think,
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make that use differently for more use differently. So that's one thing a lot
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of people forget about is especially with the rescue group like yours, like Pause
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in the City, it's all volunteer. There's no brick and mortar building,
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it's all fostered based, so it's those dogs living in in the homes waiting
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to be adopted. So that's where not just adopting a dog, which is
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fantastic. If you want to find a way to volunteer to help, you
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know, dog rescue, like Pause in the City, it doesn't necessarily have
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to be where you have to just the only thing to do is adopt a
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dog. You can also donate money, but you can also open your home
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up to foster these dogs until they find a home, which is a great
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thing. Absolutely. If you're interested in any of that, you can either
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go to just send us an email at info at Pause Inthcity dot org,
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or you can email me. I can get you in touch with the right
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person depending on how you want to volunteer and make an impact. And it's
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just my first name, kaylin Ka l y n n E at Pausecity dot
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sailor. Is there any At one point I know there was talk in a
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pausing the city about eventually trying to get a brick and mortar shelter. Uh,
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is that still something y'all are thinking about, or if you just said
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we're just going to keep with just fosters, I'm not sure that that's something
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that's still being discussed. You know, it is something that if we decide
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to go that way, you know, the the things we have sid in
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place as far as like our major fundraisers can go a long way towards that.
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But I think part of the hesitancy is, while that can be great,
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where that takes more money away from like the medical bills and stuff.
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Because again, we don't shy away from animals that might be a little bit
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more medically acute to get them on the up and up to get them adoptable.
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So I think that's where the hesitancy is. It would be great,
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but you know, there's a little give and take there. So well,
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if you want, we're we're all familiar with some real estate off the toll
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Way that would be better used as a dog shelter. I think I might
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know what you're talking about as far as as far as fundraising goes. So
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twenty twenty three, you guys obviously had a great year as far as getting
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dogs adopted, fostering. And you mentioned that you've got your fundraising events that
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you do every year, and I know you've got at least a couple of
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those coming up pretty soon. So what's on the what's on the calendar for
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pausing the city right now? Yeah, so the most sorry, the closest
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event we have coming up is in February. I'm still waiting on a date
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from that. But the lovely folks at Three Nations Brewing in Carrollton have very
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graciually graciously opened up their space for us. So I am going to give
24:48
you that information so that you can chat about that, so we can get
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that out there before the event passes. But if you want to go and
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you know, meet a couple of dogs, have a beer, donate some
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money, pick up some some goodies we typically have, you know, shirts
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or dog toys or something available, pop in and say hi, our biggest
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well what used to be the biggest fundraiser of the year. And I say
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that in the most loving way possible because we actually have an event last year
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that was new. I'll go into that second. But March ninth, we're
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holding Martinis and Martini's, poor mutts, and that's going to be a candle
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room. Yeah, is from seven to ten o'clock. If you've never joined
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us, it's it's a lot of fun. You know. You can purchase
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a table or a single ticket and you come in. There's a DJ,
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there's a lot of great people. There's a wine raffle, there's you know,
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there's there's all sorts of things. There's gifts for botox, stars,
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tickets like you name it. Somebody has donated something really cool for you to
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go in and bid on. And that's you said March ninth. That is
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March ninth, the candle Room. Yeah, so that's a night that Tara
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and I went once and it was a for that evening. It was a
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masquerade themed So I don't know if they're always that way, but I will
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say this, that was the most handsome Mark Verma ever looked, was with
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a mask. And it's worth the It's worth the price of the ticket just
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to watch dogs drink Martini's. It's fantastic, especially when they stick the deuke
26:26
claw out to be fancy. I'm telling you, they get fed up.
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You should certainly look up the history of why or where it came from.
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Where people stick out their pinkies when they're drinking a cocktail. All right,
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I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make a note of that. You're gonna
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want to take a look at that. That's going to give you some good
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conversation, all right. And then as far as our event, that has
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overtaken that spot as far as being our largest fundraiser of the year. Last
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year, we had one of Mar's friends come forward and he said, Hey,
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Mark loved rock music. Let's do something music based. Let's get you
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know, a big thing together. So we introduced Verma Fest last year in
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memory of Mark Verma, former president of Pause in the City, who unfortunately
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passed away. Yeah, it was July of two years ago, I believe,
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But I can't give you too many details. It's going to be in
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April. There's still deciding between two weekends to choose from. We do have
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somebody who has a volunteered to be headliner. We're just trying to work out
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the details. Unfortunately I can't tell you who it is, but it is
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a really big Dallas based band that I think pretty much everybody's heard of,
27:51
if not, Oh, the mystery. So sorry. I've got all these
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bands running through my running through my mind, and I'm not saying them because
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I don't want to put undue expectations on on some people. Because some people
28:07
may be thinking up here, some people may be thinking a little more down
28:11
here, and I don't want to I don't want to put any name out
28:14
there because then I don't want anyone thinking it's supposed to be this person or
28:18
this band and it's not, and then they get disappointed. Makes sense absolutely,
28:23
because on one hand, a Dallas based band that pretty much everyone would
28:26
know what would be the Eagles, Yeah, m hm, and then on
28:33
on on, like the lower end might be like, uh, you know,
28:37
hardcore Vanilla Ice era. Oh please let it see. That's why I
28:45
didn't want to say any names, because I didn't want to get anybody's hopes
28:48
up. If you'd, like me, had tamper expectations. You're doing you're
28:55
doing a hologram age for the rest Marten Show bandh God, no, please
29:00
please don't slum it that way. No love here at the Treehouse are discussing
29:06
possibly helping us with the event. Obviously more of that later, but the
29:11
irony of that tray would be though, is that Russ would still demand the
29:14
same fee. So yeah, we are going to do it. We can
29:19
to help you with that event as well. Be happy to happy to help
29:22
Pause in the City. You know, any and every chance that we get,
29:26
including promoting things here on the show. And speaking of promoting things here
29:30
on the show, not just events, not just the accolades of a previous
29:34
year, but we always like to make sure we mention at least one one
29:37
cute dog that's available for adoption at Pausing the City. And I know you've
29:41
got one. Okay, bear with me because if you're seeing this on YouTube,
29:47
I want you to be able to see this dog. He is so
29:49
cute. Oh she's got on her phone. She's holding it up to our
29:52
little cameras see him. Oh, Mike, you gotta turn this can turn
29:56
the turn it a little bit pugged into too many things. I can kind
30:03
of see it. Yeah, I just have to. You have to turn
30:07
your head too far. Yeah, oh yeah, I'm sorry. But his
30:15
name is Gavin. He is like the cutest thing. He's about two years
30:21
old. We suspect he's a Grusseles Gryffon. Sorry Brussels gryffon mixed. That
30:26
is that's a mouthful, it is. I'm actually glad you said that,
30:30
because, uh, my old radio partner had one of those at one point,
30:33
and that was my first thought was that looks kind of like a I'm
30:37
with you. It's hard to say, a grustful business whatever, but a
30:41
Brussels griffin, that's what I usually calling it. But it kind of looks
30:44
that way, but a little bit shorter. So it's a mix. It's
30:45
got a few different things in there, but very adorable. Yeah, he's
30:49
he's super cute. He is in the uh, the categorization of a small
30:56
dog. If you're looking for a dog that is friendly and super lovable or
31:00
kind of independent, this is your guy. And you said his name is
31:03
Gavin? Yes? Does he? Uh? Does? Does? Does a?
31:10
Does he also run radio stations in Dallas or is that just a coincidence?
31:15
Does he have a proclivity for bad mid day Not anymore? Tree,
31:21
not anymore? He found he finally found the cure. Yeah, make sure,
31:26
maybe finally found a midday show. That's number one. Congratulations Corey.
31:30
Yeah, make sure make sure he's also dewarmed. Uh, I mean obviously
31:37
as always we we do that. Thank you for giving me. And I
31:42
was just talking about Gavin. I wasn't even talking about this one. I
31:45
was I thought you were talking about the various midday shows that that we're dragon
31:49
ass across carpet. That's what I meant. We can never just do one
31:59
thing around here, we and just promote Pause in the City. We have
32:00
to, you know, do other nonsense mixed in. Well. So another
32:07
word. So you got Gavin two years old. He's a Brussels Griffon mix
32:13
and he's currently in the foster program at Pause in the City. How long
32:15
have you guys had him? You know, he was a part of that
32:17
large intake we did right before the third quarter. We we took in quite
32:24
a few animals. We got a few large donations and were able to go.
32:29
We pulled like eight dogs and it was I think it was September.
32:35
So they've all gone through all the checks and made sure they're healthy, gotten
32:38
whatever medical treatment is necessary. But he is he's really versatile. He is
32:45
happy to like, if you work from home, he will sit and hang
32:49
out with you. Not a problem if you don't work from home and he
32:52
has to, you know, hang out by himself. He is perfectly happy
32:55
to do that. Yeah, it's good to be flexible, Yeah it is.
33:04
He's he's kind of just chill. You know. One of the things
33:07
we've seen with the pandemic is dogs have gotten really reliant on their owners being
33:10
home because of work from home situations. So when you have one that is
33:15
happy to be either or as far as left at home or you know,
33:21
being a company it all day, it's it's kind of rare. I can
33:23
tell you my dogs have gotten very, very cod abandoned. It is a
33:29
post if you said it's two years old. He's a post pandemic dog,
33:31
so yeah, he knows it, doesn't know that world. Yeah, yeah,
33:37
he's a he's a pandemic puppy. And I'm on the pause in the
33:39
city website, pausing thecity dot org under that where you can view available pets
33:45
for adoption, and the photo of him, the one that you actually showed
33:47
us, is even cuter, you know, where it's larger to see because
33:53
he's got just enough of an underbite to be really really cute. Yeah yeah,
34:00
I'm I'm a sucker for the underwrite. He's he's super cute. You
34:04
should definitely go check him out. Not side notes. Like I said,
34:08
he is great with kids. He has not really been around other dogs.
34:13
His demeanor, we we suspect that he's going to be dog friendly. But
34:15
if you do have a dog and you're interested in having a meeting with Gavin,
34:20
we're happy to help. You know, just let us know and we
34:22
will. You know, we can come to you or meet up at a
34:24
park or something, have some sort of controlled meat to make sure that is
34:29
a great fit for everyone. But like I said, we suspect he's going
34:31
to be pretty dog friendly. Does he sit to pete? You know what?
34:39
Han't that was personal with him? Sorry, that's more of a no,
34:47
that's that's not that's nothing with you. That's more making Trey and Raj
34:51
laugh. That was fantastic And I'm also going to send that clip to Gavin
34:58
at Odyssey so he can kind of feel and you were, yeah, oh,
35:01
thanks would be great. Is oh Man. He's a he's a big
35:09
supporter of the rescue dog community. Yeah, so I don't know an occasional
35:15
rescue show. It's Patty and Lease strains. So I don't know about your
35:20
Gavin, but I've seen our Gavin on the leash. Yes, all right,
35:29
Calen from Pausing the City, Thank you so much for stepping in the
35:31
treehouse with us. We appreciate seeing you and hearing you, and we'll do
35:36
more of this as this year goes on, so we'll hear more about what's
35:38
going on at Pausing the City, all the great events and of course all
35:43
the available dogs for adoption and ones that you can foster, and if you
35:47
want to donate as well, all that great information. Pause in the City
35:52
dot org. Thanks for hanging out with us, and more importantly, thanks
35:53
for putting up with this. Kaylen, thanks for having me. More treehouse
35:59
coming up that stay there, you're listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online
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that Treehouse on air dot com. All right, let's get Daniel Cook into
36:20
the treehouse now from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration. I'm curious, Daniel. I
36:23
know you're in your truck probably every single day. Are you a good driver?
36:28
And what is your opinion on roundabouts? Oh my gosh, what a
36:31
terrible subject. As you probably heard my wife in the background, I did.
36:37
She's not a fan. We've gone to multiple areas of the country,
36:43
like you know, we'd like to travel, and every time we're driving and
36:45
we see one. That's the first thing out of Carrie's mouth is something negative
36:51
about this roundabout. And I try to explain to her how safe that is
36:54
and how much of a better in theory opportunity for reducing of res and in
37:01
traffic collisions and deaths, you know, and so, but she's definitely against
37:07
them. I don't have an opinion in my case. I mean, if
37:08
they if they help, if they're scientific data that says these stop more accidents
37:14
and deaths on the road, then hey, so be it. I'm not
37:16
I'm not the smartest man to tell you that's not gonna work, but you
37:22
know, I could care less. It is what it is. Let me
37:24
ask you this then, just based on your own common sense and your first
37:30
impression of this headline. Okay, California City to open fifteen million dollar turbo
37:37
roundabout at deadly intersection. Wow. See, the first thing that popped through
37:43
my mind was Daytona five hundred. The second thing in my mind was I'm
37:50
just picturing all these teslas and hybrid cars going in a circle in California,
37:54
trying to their their their mitigation software, trying to not hit each other because
38:01
they have all their safety modes on, and then there's going to cause more
38:06
cars to break getting into that circle of death. Yeah, I don't know.
38:10
All kinds of just turbo things just kind of went through my mind all
38:14
at one time. Yeah, that is so cool, man. I think
38:17
everything you just said applies because there's lots of things to consider. I also
38:21
think it's an additional bullet point for us to include when we think about the
38:25
phrase, don't California by Texas. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
38:30
know if we can handle a Texas turbo roundabout. I don't even like that
38:34
name. How about this one. You need to get somebody like kitchen A
38:37
to sponsor that roundabout, like the kitchen A Turbo round Think about a blender.
38:40
I mean that'd be perfect. I need to work for California. I
38:44
get people to pay for these kinds of things. I mean, that's a
38:45
great idea. I'm ready to hire you right now. Just somebody needs to
38:47
give me a bunch of money to do it, all right, So give
38:51
give Daniel a cook. Speaking of a bunch of money, you're not going
38:52
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in a treehouse with us. Always a pleasure for us. I'm not sure
40:16
if it's necessarily that way for her, but she I forget how it came
40:22
up. This was off the air. We uh mentioned something about pinky's out.
40:27
Oh, it had must it must have had to do with Martiniz and
40:30
Mutts not being fancy and having your pinkies out. Right before she left,
40:37
She's like, do you know the origin of that? And I'm like,
40:38
no, just I assume it's aristocracy. I'm not sick still aristocracy, sure,
40:46
yeah, And uh She's like, she's like, you need to look
40:52
up sort of the origin of you know, the pinkies out stuff. I
40:54
was like, okay, well, she's she's very sweet. Instead of way
41:00
for me to look it up for myself, she wente and just sent it
41:00
to me. It was actually really really helpful. So most of us associate
41:07
pinkies out while drinking something to be fancy, to be Oh, we are
41:13
upper crust. We are bougie. We are wealthy, we are we are
41:17
you know, we are the cool kids because we're doing things for pinky's out.
41:22
Turns out not too much. Stiff. Pinkies were caused by venereal diseases
41:31
like syphilis hmmm, and ended up being used. The pinkies out ended up
41:38
being used as a signal that it was safe to court one another from one
41:44
individual to the other, meaning like, hey, you got syphiliss, I
41:46
got syphless nice and you can you can joyfully hook up without worrying about infecting
41:52
someone else, and so instead you can just pass it back and forth in
41:55
a nice syphilis party. Did you stick your pinky out when you're like,
42:04
I got some wormy black cod. I was gonna say, that's how you
42:10
would have known if your black cod had your big black cod had worms.
42:15
Uh as if it had its fin out. Uh Like no that that there
42:22
was. There was nothing fancy about that. It felt much dirtier. I'm
42:31
sure it was plus uh plus I mean, when you're holding your pinky up
42:40
next to a big black cod, it's just yah, puts things in perspective
42:54
for you. Yeah, just tuck that thing back in there. Save myself
43:08
the embarrassment. You really got to go back and listen to that plus number
43:20
thirteen episode Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on air. Oh what a day you
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guys. Stay safe Arctic Class twenty twenty four. If you feel like getting
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a while. I'm just saying, and there's no cod here. Two names,