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Which Is Worse? Insurance or Ercot | Thursday 01.22.26 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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  Speaker 2: It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh
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  Speaker 2: with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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  Speaker 2: Trey Trenholm, comedian Ron Sharman and Jerry Caldwell. And what
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  Speaker 2: I like to call a new example of an attractive nuisance.
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  Speaker 2: A Florida Keys boat captain has been accused of selling
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  Speaker 2: kilos of cocaine that he found at sea. So you
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  Speaker 2: know how this guy's gonna get wrung up for attempting
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  Speaker 2: to deal and sell kilos of cocaine. But what about
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  Speaker 2: those people that hurt themselves in a neighbor's pool, and
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  Speaker 2: instead of being prosecuted for trespass, they sue the homeowner
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  Speaker 2: for a having an attractive nuisance in their backyard. And
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  Speaker 2: when so, I'm just floating this. When you leave drugs
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  Speaker 2: floating in the Atlantic, in the Florida Keys in a
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  Speaker 2: boat cap that happens upon them, I mean, is it
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  Speaker 2: really his fault that he tries to sell them and
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  Speaker 2: make a few bucks. It's only fair.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's good you didn't purchase it to the
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  Speaker 3: intended distribute right is if well, I guess it's if
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  Speaker 3: you buy it and then try.
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  Speaker 4: To sell it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I think the intended distribute is when you is
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  Speaker 2: when you try to sell it is when you try
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  Speaker 2: to distribute it. So, but I'm with you. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like in order for it to be a true, like
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  Speaker 2: decades long sentence type situation, I feel like you gotta,
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  Speaker 2: you know, be the guy that's handling it from source
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  Speaker 2: to distribution, as opposed to look what I've found? Would
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  Speaker 2: you like this? Yeah, I have this that I found?
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  Speaker 2: Would you like some? It's Is it a system or
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  Speaker 2: is it just opportunistic?
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  Speaker 5: If you just happen to find random cocaine floating in
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  Speaker 5: the ocean, who do you sue for the attractive nuisance?
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  Speaker 2: The government? Because if they weren't out there blowing ships
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  Speaker 2: up and making the drug dealers dump it overboard, then
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have been floating in the water in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. War on drugs has gotten o a hand.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Ragan has to be stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Can the attorney use like the finders keeper's rule?
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  Speaker 2: I would thoroughly enjoy watching on court TV the finder's
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  Speaker 2: Keeper's defense, Except this guy didn't do that. It was
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  Speaker 2: finders sellers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the problem with the finders keeper's defense
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  Speaker 1: is the other part of that, which is possession is
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  Speaker 1: two thirds of the law.
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  Speaker 2: Here is that or in this case of eight moll.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, but drug weights. I've
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  Speaker 2: never been a hard drug guy. I couldn't even tell
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  Speaker 2: you what the proper amount of marijuana is to smoke
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  Speaker 2: or to stick in a pike kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I have no idea even how much an eight
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  Speaker 2: ball is. I assume that it that it correlates to
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  Speaker 2: the size of an actual eight ball, Then why do
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  Speaker 2: they call it eight ball?
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  Speaker 4: Uh eight?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's it's an eighth of something. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I ever would have gotten there. I just assumed
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  Speaker 2: that it was like roughly the size of an eight ball.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever I heard someone talk about, oh, I got
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  Speaker 2: an eight ball of cocaine, It's like, that sounds like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of cocaine. It's the size of a billiard ball.
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  Speaker 2: And then I thought, well, if it's not that, then
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  Speaker 2: is that is an eight ball? Then eight servings. I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea, So it's an eighth of something. Jerry, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking that up.
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  Speaker 4: It's eight an ounce, Yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: An eighth of an ounce. That doesn't sound cool. That
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  Speaker 2: sounds kind of weak. It's like an eight bles out
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  Speaker 2: again every time. I don't know when I hear I
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  Speaker 2: got a new bole that sounds like a lot. When
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  Speaker 2: you when it's an eighth of an ounce, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't sit like a whole lot. I put more.
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  Speaker 2: I've put more weight protein powder in my bolt of
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  Speaker 2: Greek yogurt than you're doing bumps.
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  Speaker 1: Of I just I feel like this boat captain, the
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  Speaker 1: problem is he got greedy. He really he could have
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  Speaker 1: gone to Miami, found some you know, crypto bro and
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  Speaker 1: been like, hey, let me.
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  Speaker 2: Give you the deal of the century. Yeah, I'm with
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  Speaker 2: you because I will say this, with as many police
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  Speaker 2: officers as we know, Trey, and enough of those officers
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  Speaker 2: that we know have worked under cover, right, not a
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  Speaker 2: single one of them could go under cover as a
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  Speaker 2: crypto bro. They don't look the part at all and
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  Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen. So if you're trying to offload some
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  Speaker 2: found cocaine, selling it to a crypto bro is a
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  Speaker 2: great choice. Because I don't know a single cop I've
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  Speaker 2: never known a single cop that would ever come close
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  Speaker 2: to in a million years looking like a crypto bro. Homeless, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: a little on the tawdry side in someplace. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be absolutely very good at blending into those situations,
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  Speaker 2: but not the not the crypto bro type. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a great idea, finding the closest crypto bro, which
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  Speaker 2: is somewhere in a penthouse in Miami, and that's that's
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  Speaker 2: your target. And eight ball is one eighth of an
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  Speaker 2: ounce or three point five grams. Three point five grams
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  Speaker 2: saw metric stuff. I'm so bad at it. How many
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  Speaker 2: cups is that?
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  Speaker 4: Three point five grams? How many cups isn't that?
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  Speaker 2: That's how my brain operates. I need to know cups
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  Speaker 2: and ounces like not not ounces by weight, but ounces
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  Speaker 2: by volume. This is this is the problem with the
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  Speaker 2: American system versus the metrics system. My brain can't translate
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  Speaker 2: these good.
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  Speaker 4: The first time you do hard drugs, you're gonna overdose.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we're doing a cup tonight. Yeah, OK, please
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  Speaker 5: three point fives?
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  Speaker 2: No, man, I mean seriously, I grew up in the
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  Speaker 2: era of what what's your bench bro? Not the uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the dainty you know, finger nail whatever. So
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  Speaker 2: I have a hard time wrapping my brain around an
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  Speaker 2: eighth of an ounce, being like, yeah, an eighth of
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  Speaker 2: announces around three quarters of a teaspoon.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Again, obviously I've never tried it, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: My perspective is greatly askew. That just doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 2: that much. But then again, whenever I've seen it in
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  Speaker 2: film and television and on the a couple of occasions
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  Speaker 2: i've seen it in person, I guess it doesn't actually
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  Speaker 2: take that much to get you going.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that depends on how far along you are
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  Speaker 5: in your cocaine career. But it's a journey, Jerry, we
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  Speaker 5: call it a journey. These days, we're all on a journey.
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  Speaker 6: This this guy was trying to make it a career.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody else is on a journey.
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  Speaker 2: A sixty five year old Florida Key's boat captain was
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  Speaker 2: arrested on Monday after deputies say he was selling kilos
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  Speaker 2: of drugs that he found at sea. Following an investigation
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  Speaker 2: led by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, deputy say they
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  Speaker 2: nabbed Bradford Todd Picarello and seized twenty three kilograms of cocaine,
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  Speaker 2: his thirty eight foot vessel, eight thousand dollars in cash,
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  Speaker 2: and a forty caliber handgun. All right, twenty three kilos
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  Speaker 2: of cocaine? How much is that it comes? Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a forty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I need to know the you know
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  Speaker 2: the formula. I need to know what you know?
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  Speaker 6: The comparison is, Yeah, it should be roughly if it's
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  Speaker 6: twenty three kilos, it should like forty five pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Ish, Okay, that sounds like a lot of cocaine. That
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  Speaker 2: is that's I mean, that's like a that's like an
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  Speaker 2: eight or nine year old. That is approximately one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty four cups. Thank you, Jared. That's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty four cups of non fat Greek yogurt. To me,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they call Miami too.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation code. Yeah. The investigation ended Monday, when undercover
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office Special Operations detectives purchased a kilo of cocaine
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  Speaker 2: from Picarella for ten thousand dollars and placed him under arrest.
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  Speaker 2: He was subsequent booked in the Monroe County Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 2: on counts of trafficking cocaine, selling cocaine, and possessing cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: And since it's in the story that it was found
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  Speaker 2: at sea, I'm just guessing that was his story to
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  Speaker 2: the arresting authorities, saying, Okay, look, it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: I just found it floating and decided I would sell it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I picked it up directly from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't want the sharks to get a hold
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  Speaker 4: of it again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. He's doing us all a favor. He's
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  Speaker 2: keeping the beaches safe by making sure the sharks don't
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  Speaker 2: accidentally ingest the cocaine again like they've done in years past.
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  Speaker 3: And what do you do, Like, okay, let's say you
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  Speaker 3: find it. Do you show up at the police station
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  Speaker 3: and be like, hey, I found all of this cocaine
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  Speaker 3: and they don't arrest you either way?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I think so that's supposed to be how
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  Speaker 2: it should work. It's like, hey, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: finding a lost wall. You say like, hey, I found this,
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  Speaker 2: they don't arrest you for stealing the wallet. Wallet's are
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  Speaker 2: an illegal possess, all right, that's a solid point, Jerry
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  Speaker 2: think I think I'm just saying when the idea is,
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  Speaker 2: if you find something dangerous, you're supposed to be able
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  Speaker 2: to call the authorities, and they're not supposed to assume
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  Speaker 2: that you made it.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you call the coastguard at the point
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  Speaker 1: you find it, you're you're gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 2: So like, don't bring it on board. Maybe just call
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  Speaker 2: it in, just radio into the coastguard. Hey, here's my position.
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  Speaker 2: I see something floating, I'm just gonna hang out about
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty yards away just so you can find it
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  Speaker 2: more easily. But I'm not touching it.
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  Speaker 1: Drop them a pin.
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  Speaker 2: What if he put an actual pin in the cocaine
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  Speaker 2: and some shot out and accidentally went into his nose
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  Speaker 2: as he inhaled.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was just making sure it was pure. That's
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  Speaker 4: what this is.
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  Speaker 2: Coke great. I just want you guys to know I'm
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  Speaker 2: radioing in the good stuff. This isn't fake. I tried it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I think it'd be.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I want you to know I'm radioing the
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  Speaker 1: good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, all right, Big news out of Fort Worth.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Halverson, Fort Worth firefighter, who was badly burned while
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  Speaker 2: responding to a house fire in September of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: will receive workers compensation for treatment for injuries he sustained
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  Speaker 2: while responding to that Fort Worth house fire. It only
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  Speaker 2: took a minor miracle to get it. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the kind of bullet that I just don't understand that
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  Speaker 2: happens with first responders. And of course, our DUP insurance
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  Speaker 2: system in this country, Sedgwick, which handles workers' compensation claims
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  Speaker 2: for the city of Fort Worth, allegedly initially denied the
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  Speaker 2: injured firefighters claimed, but then reversed that decision after public
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  Speaker 2: backlash to the decision. That's according to the Fort Worth
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  Speaker 2: Star Telegrams reporting. Caleb Halverson, Fortworth firefighter was badly burned
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  Speaker 2: while responding to a house fire September twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: While fighting the fire, he became pinned under heavy roof
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  Speaker 2: debris and suffered second and third degree burns to his back, legs, hands,
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  Speaker 2: and faced. He also sustained a dislocated knee and other injuries.
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  Speaker 2: He was released from the burn unit at Parkland Hospital
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  Speaker 2: after undergoing several major surgeries. After multiple denials, the city
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  Speaker 2: of Fort Worth will now cover the cost of a
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  Speaker 2: machine to help him recover from triple knee ligament surgery
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  Speaker 2: and laser surgery to aid in the healing of his
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  Speaker 2: extensive burns. That's what he said in a Facebook post.
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  Speaker 2: In a statement, city Manager Jay Chappa said the delays
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  Speaker 2: were related to issues with the physician chosen by Halverson
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  Speaker 2: not being within the city's network of workers' compensation providers.
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  Speaker 2: How does that work well? According to that, he was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to choose certain providers in the city's health network
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  Speaker 2: and they said he didn't. Therefore that made a huge problems.
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  Speaker 1: The short version, it's probably not that he chose someone different.
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  Speaker 1: It's because Parkland probably isn't in Fort Wors network. Although
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  Speaker 1: but Parkland is one of the best burned trauma units
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  Speaker 1: in the country, and.
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  Speaker 2: This is where a fair amount of common sense should
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  Speaker 2: come into play. I understand that Dallas is not Fort Worth,
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  Speaker 2: so I understand the general thinking that Dallas is not
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  Speaker 2: in Fort Worth's medical network. However, if you are a
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  Speaker 2: fire fighter. It does make sense that you would have
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  Speaker 2: one of the most prestigious burn units in the world,
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  Speaker 2: which is forty miles away in your network. Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: this is stupid, and this is stuff that people see
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  Speaker 2: and read and approve. Well, you know what, I made
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  Speaker 2: an assumption there. I'm assuming that they're reading through these things.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not even I am sure they probably did
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  Speaker 1: not think about firefighter.
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  Speaker 2: Parkland burn unit.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, although they should. You you would think
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  Speaker 1: it would be standard for especially for first responder policies
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  Speaker 1: of oh, hey, we'll make an exception, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: the nearest level one, you know, burn unit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, even if even if they don't
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  Speaker 2: read the stuff ahead of time, and then a situation
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  Speaker 2: like this, you know, just kind of layers up and
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  Speaker 2: the firefighter is taken to Parkland for treatment and recovery
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  Speaker 2: and everything. Maybe when that paperwork comes across, don't deny
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  Speaker 2: it because it's out of network, look at it for
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  Speaker 2: the sense that it makes and go, hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: this kind of makes sense. We should probably just approve this.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen that often. It's probably gonna be okay,
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  Speaker 2: someone higher up might get mad that we approved it
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  Speaker 2: because it's gonna cost a lot of money. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, isn't that what insurance is.
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  Speaker 2: It's gambling and on this one you lost, so you
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  Speaker 2: got it. Just pisses me off. Also, this reversal to
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  Speaker 2: cover comes after Fort Worth City council member Charlie Lauersdorf
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  Speaker 2: called out the company and said he was declaring war
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  Speaker 2: in a Facebook post after the company had denied the
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  Speaker 2: first responders workers' compensation claims. He says, when a first
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  Speaker 2: responder gets hurt doing their job, the system should move
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  Speaker 2: heaven and Earth to take care of them and return
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  Speaker 2: them to the warrior athlete they were. Instead, I've heard
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  Speaker 2: of delays, denials, run arounds, paperwork, games, and bureaucratic a
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  Speaker 2: bolt that leaves injured firefighters and police officers fighting two battles,
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  Speaker 2: one on the job and one at home. After that,
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  Speaker 2: the city managers said that they will add a position
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  Speaker 2: to the city's HR department to serve as a case manager,
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  Speaker 2: specifically for first responders who suffer an injury at work. Again,
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  Speaker 2: that seems like something that they would have had already,
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  Speaker 2: because enough of that stuff happens. Fort Worth is a
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  Speaker 2: large enough city with enough police officers and firefighters that
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  Speaker 2: it would just make sense to have someone on the payroll.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of help with the process. M crazy thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on my end, I guess, then again, I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: bureaucrat city manager. Chapa also said, please know the city
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  Speaker 2: works consistently to get the best care possible for all
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  Speaker 2: of our injured employees. This employee included, while remaining compliant
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  Speaker 2: with Texas laws that govern workers compensation. And that is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: also true. As much as I'm dogging on the City
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: of Fort Worth in this situation and the insurance companies centric,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: there are our rules and stipulations and laws when it
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: comes to workmen's or workers compensation. So that's another prong
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of the approach is there may need to be something
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: changed there.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Oh absolutely needs to be worked from the reworked from
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: the top down.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And these are instances where they should do that as
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: opposed to just treating it like a one off, having
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: to wait until something bad happens, and then having to
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: wait till more bad things happen before they actually do
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: anything to accommodate this one bad situation.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: What if it had been multiple firefighters that it happened
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: to you're gonna wait for that one.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's just stuff like this that just drives me
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: absolutely crazy, and it makes me wonder. It's like, why
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: do we keep putting ourselves through this? Like, come on,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: just just fix it, fix it, fix it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But here, and I'll give you a counterpoint on this
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: one though. Adding a position and a bureaucracy to handle
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: this stuff just ultimately adds cost to the whole thing.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: It's the whole.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. And I tell you what, if whoever
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: was in charge of doing these things on the front
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: end would consider these things, if this person was already
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on payroll to help help it, then I'd be okay
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: with it. And I'm a big fan of I'm with you, Trey.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I like fiscal conservatism. I also feel like you can
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: spend money in a way that would make sense. I'm
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: pretty sure we could find money for that position by
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: eliminating something else that's completely dumb and redundant.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Just take a few dollars out of the big guy's paychecks.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I said it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: There you go, it's me. You can send me the emails.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You have to narrow that down.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, which big guy are you talking about?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna ask it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Uh, you know, the shareholders, the see the sea the
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: sea level positions, you know for the inine making. Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: sorry for yeah, it's seduick.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: But what needs to happen and where this could be
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: fixed is you have to go to the state and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they rewrite the workers comp laws and put a clause
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: in there for first responders.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: That changes the scope of things.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: That's what I like. The problem though, is getting the
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: elected visuals to do something exactly, and in order for
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: them to do something, you have to attach money to
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it or hooplah or outrage and some type of crisis. Ironically,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: you have to start a fire for a legislator to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: make any attempt at putting it out.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I mean they, I mean, Dan, the Texas legislatures work
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: so hard. I mean they worked six months out of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: two years. Fuck, what more do you want out of them?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Just just a little more, just just like ten more minutes.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I'd be a special session.
• 22:58
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• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I am so glad it's almost Friday. Uh speaking of
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: almost Friday, m m mm hmmm. In news that will
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: not make any Texan feel good, Urkott says the power
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: grid is ready for the winter storm this weekend. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: don't have a weep, do you?
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Urcott says they're ready.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Believe it or not. Urkott says, the power grid is
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: ready for the winter storm this weekend. Trey, I believe
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the fuck?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Why only because it's only going to be like three days.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, you know, who feels really
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: really good about this whole situation, About this winter storm
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: that is being forecast for Texas. Senator Ted Cruz was
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: spotted on January twentieth on a plane heading to Laguna
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Beach as the state braces for a rare ice threat
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and Arctic cold front. Look where there's certain signs that,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: once you see them enough, you're like, Okay, we need
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: to start paying attention to these things. One is tornado warnings,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and two is Ted Cruz on a plane out of
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Texas and it's winter.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: He's like the pucks, a tunny fill of ice storms.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: He's like the ned stark of Texas. Winter is coming
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: from the friscy flies out of the state. Look, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: look at it this way. I appreciate this new warning
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: system that Ted Cruse has provided us with. All you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: have to do is ask Google. Is Ted Cruz in
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Texas right now? Yes, things are fine. If he just left,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: shit's about to go sideways.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Did he leave the dog again?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Don't know. It wouldn't surprise me though, if Ted Cruz
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: put that dog down just because it made him look bad. Trey,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I know it hurts that he's your chopple ganger, So
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I know that just it's got a sting. Every time
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you see him, You're like, good damn him.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Normally when I see him, he's pandering to the camera.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So That's what really irritates me more than anything else.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: And he's proven he can do that from in y
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: zip code.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: That beard help like his beard is awful.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Well, he did what a lot of guys do. He
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: gained weight, and in order to try to hide the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: neck fat, he grew a neck beard. And while it
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: works on some level, right because you grow the neck
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: beard over the neck roll of fat and it does
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: camouflage the flaps and the folds some right, It's true
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: it does, I get it. But the beard works for
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: him now. It was that awkward phase when he was
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: growing it out over like a year and a half
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: that it just didn't look right and I felt like
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: they should have put him in the Biden Bunker until
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: it grew in because I hated watching that transformation in public.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: It's like, dude, either just I can't stand the transformation process, Like,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: just go away until it's in, then come back. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: don't like looking at it. It was weird. It's like Trey.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Trey knows he can't grow a beard, so he just
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't do it. He just shaves, and he also works
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: out and takes care of himself so he keeps his
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: sexy jaw line, which Ted Cruz could have done. If
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz was to see his better looking twin in Trey,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: he would recognize that with a diet of you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: eating well and exercising and not doing any sort of
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: enjoyable substances, you too can look like a fifty something
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: year old Greek god. But he hasn't chosen that route.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He's choosing tacos in Laguna Beach. I would also love
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to see a hammered Ted Cruz. I think we do.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: This has got to be on film somewhere already. Uh uh. Anyway,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: are you guys ready for ice Pocalypse twenty six? Absolutely?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: As you take your head side to side into no fashion,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: but you say yes, I got groceries coming, so we're
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: good today, Like are they coming before? Before the storm
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: supposed to? You're gonna get the groceries delivered?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Yep?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: All right? What did you get? What's on what's on
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: your ice pocalypse grocery list?
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Just you know, some chicken, some vegetables, sandwich, meat, bread, bottle, water.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Tight coke.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, Trey, are you ready for this?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, got a couple of cases of water, got all
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: my lights and battery packs charged up. Uh, got some food.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some food just in case they can
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: eat regardless.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And do you have a brandy coming over to snuggle
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: up during Snowmageddon? Yes, had a boy.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah it'll be interesting because not only is she coming over,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: she's gonna bring her dog.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So that will be a uh uh that's a milestone.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Uh huh, It's gonna be interesting.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Thikes, meeting of the dogs.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: It's not meeting of the dogs that I'm really worried about.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, especially at this point, I mean at her
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: age days. He just didn't give two f's.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: It's the cat. Oh yeah, cats are always the X factor. Yeah,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what scenario you are in, what the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: situation is, does not matter. If you want to see
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: a situation get totally picked up, just throw a cat
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: right in the middle of it. Think of any situation,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: any scenario that seems fine or that seems secure, drop
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: a cat in the middle of that and just see,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: just see the excitement. Like I don't know why. Like
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: one of the things coming to mind is any sort
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: of Seal Team six operation is going to be very controlled,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: very rehearsed, very very you know good, right, Just imagine
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: if when they busted into Ben Ladden's compound, if there
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: was a cat dropped in the middle of it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Well especially, I mean, and I've got a fat orange
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: tabby that has, for some reason has some PTSD issues
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that make him just an absolute wild card. I mean,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: one minute I'm petting him, the next minute he's drawing blood.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's gonna be.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Just, it's gonna be just are you listening, Yeah, are
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you sure that cat isn't Al Qaeda and wasn't in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Ben Ladden's compound and was just sent over here as
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: part of the operation. Like after they kicked Ben Laden
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: into the ocean from the chopper, they're like, oh, I'm y'ao.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: We'll take him back to Texas, Operation Chaos. We'll give
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it to Senator Cruz. Oh wait, that was Trey.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Honestly, they could have probably just dropped Julius into beIN
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Lauden's compound and he would have gotten him just his
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: eyes out.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, you don't need a flash bang, You just
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: need Julius to cut.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Kick open the doors on the floor. Bloody pulp. Okay,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: it's making biscuits in him.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And that's no joke because Julius does not understand retracting claws,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: so when a lot of times when he's making biscuits,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it's full claws out.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right on that soft underbelly. All right, so
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: you get away while he's doing it as arterial sprays.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Just love, love, loving every second of it. Yeah, all right,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: good well, I'm glad you guys are ready for What
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: about you?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Dan? Are you you bracing?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: What is he gonna get in the seventies? Now?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Hang on, let me check the forecast. I got to
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: check the forecast to see what we're expecting Friday into Saturday.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Ooh we have we have a chance of rain and.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: A high of eighty Oh oh, chili.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a chili one for us. The
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: weird thing is is that all the problems we had
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one with our home from the storm,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: then from that winter storm we moved twenty two hundred
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: miles away. We've got a solar backup. We've got like
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: forty two solar panels and a liquid propane power generator
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: as the third backup.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: I hope a hurricane hits you, just a random one
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: just out of nowhere.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: That's called a tornado, Raj, We're gonna be freezing to
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: death and you guys are gonna be on the beach.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: No, it's supposed it's I've got a fifty percent chance
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of rain, Raj.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, oh sorry, Yeah, that'll probably happen. Yeah, that'll
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: probably happen in the morning. And and Jerry's right, all
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I gotta do is just pull the cabanas shade over
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit more and that'll solve any sort of
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: rain problems.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I mean the I mean you look.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: At the weather app and you look at Dan's weather,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I mean it is volatile. It ranges from highs of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: eighty five to eighty six and lows to seventy five
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to seventy six. I mean, I don't know how you
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: deal with that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: That's a that's a that's an eleven. Sometimes it's an eleven,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: sometimes a twelve degree change in twenty five. By the way, Raj,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: if you ever want to look up and download the
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: weather app here in the Virgin Islands, it's just two
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: big middle fingers and they just happen to be on
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: my hands. They kind of look like a v and
• 35:13
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