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Episode 15 - Alfie Gets Stopped By The Police And Trey Has The Worlds Stupidest Cat · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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This is the Treehouse Podcast. I'm Dan, O'Malley, Trey Trenholme is here
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as well, and Alfie Coy, who apparently has decided to run a foul
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of the law a little bit. Stop phrasing him like that. There was
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no run a foul. There's just an odd encounter. Put it the odd
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encounter with the law. Yeah, well, allow me to just sit back
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and enjoy the tale. Y'all ever been in a situation with a police officer
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where you want to put them at ease? Yet you know that if you
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try to put them at ease, it's just going to make things worse,
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and potentially like way worse. I will say yes, and with a with
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a slight twist, because we throughout our careers have known and still do know
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and consider friends many police officers. And it's different when and when I'm hanging
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out or talking to one of my friends who's a cop, because I don't
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want to put them at ease. I love putting them through their ringer because
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that's what I you know, just because it's the rare opportunity to do that
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to an officer. So if one's your friend and I feel obligated to really
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give them a good old fashioned hard time. However, if I'm talking to
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a police officer that I don't know, and especially if it's in some sort
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of official capacity, yeah I am. I am a cupcake exactly. I
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think that there's a lot of things that police officers have to deal with,
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and I think that there's all sorts of things that they encounter and are kind
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of given over the course of their careers that really can make them on edge
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under the wrong circumstances. Hell even paranoid and under the wrong circumstances. And
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I don't want to add to that during any encounter with the police. Is
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that why when you see a cop you don't know, you start out by
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saying, what up? Player? Yes, hey, yo, going on?
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Okay, so see you walking up to my car with your finance.
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Yeah, they don't like that. Last Saturday, I was out hanging out
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with one of my friends and we were we went to like a taco shop,
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right, and we're hanging out in this parking lot outside this restaurant and
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it's probably like, I don't know, two thirty in the more something like
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that, and we're just chit chatting, you know, shooting the s and
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so you're in a parking lot at two thirty in the morning. Yeah,
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yeah, but it's well lit. It's not like it's you know, an
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empty well. I guess it is empty, but it's it's a well lit
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parking lot. And it's not you you think it. You think there's nothing
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wrong with it because there's lighting. Yes, exactly, there's a lot of
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light. Good to go, And uh, all of a sudden a DPD
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squad car rolls by. And it's not all of a sudden, that's that's
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trust me, that's on their normal patrol. Yeah, it's commonplace. And
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the DPD squad car pulls in the parking lot. I think, okay,
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they must be going to you know, a water burger or something down the
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street on the other side of the parking lot. It's something I don't know,
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right, And real quick, just for clarification, you're you're talking about
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Dallas Police DPD. Yes, Dallas Police. I figured that's what it was.
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But I didn't want someone you know, at Duncan God saying hey,
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that wouldn't me or didn't. Uh. So this DPD squad car pulls in
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the parking lot and all of a sudden, they like stop and kind of
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make a you turn towards me and my friend, you don't say, and
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the squad car pulls up, and I'm immediately thinking, where are my hands?
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Where are my hands? Where am I? I'm not the weed,
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You're the weed one dan zip it up. So I got a taco for
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you. This police officer happens to be female. She rolls up, rolls
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down her You say, it happens to be almost even like, yeah,
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no, I gotta taco. She rolls up, rolls down her window and
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goes, hey, uh, y'all be careful, don't get assaulted. I'm
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like, what, wow, okay, do me a favor. Back up
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about ten seconds and then it that again. She rolls up, rolls out
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her window and goes, hey, y'all be careful, don't get assaulted.
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And we're thinking, what does that? What does that even mean? Is
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that a warning or is it a threat? Exactly? We're in a parking
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lot, and we're in a nice wallet parking lot. It's it's next to
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like, it's adjacent to a parking garage, right, And this cop goes,
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yeah, you gotta be careful this time of night. There's all such
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little places for people to hide in the bushes and the parking garage and stuff
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like that. This is a perfect place to get assulted. And I'm like,
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and then then she just drives off. No. I immediately start trying
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to like put her fears at ease, But unfortunately the way that I could
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best put her fears at ease would be the exact wrong thing to do,
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because you don't want to go to a cop and go it's okay, don't
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worry, officer, I'm armed, I got a pistol. I don't sweat.
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I'm pretty sure there's there's lots of evidence out there that you don't just
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offer up out of nowhere to a police officer. It's I got a gun.
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No, you're supposed to if you have an LTC and you get pulled
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over, if you're pulled over on a traffic stop and you are the driver,
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you are supposed to immediately identify that you have a license to carry,
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and you're supposed to let them know whether or not you're carrying. But it's
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not. This is not one of those situations. We're not being pulled over.
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Cop just approaches in a parking lot and just says, hey, y'all,
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don't get assaulted. And I wanted to be like, don't worry,
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it's all good. I'm I'm, I'm cool. But I can't so I
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just, you know, kept both of my hands on the hood of my
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car. It was like, don't worry, we won't get assaulted. I
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appreciate your help. As you look back over yourself back towards her and go,
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oh, I'm I'm ready, officer. Why are both why why are
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both of your hands on the hood of your car than just making sure,
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just making sure what she needs to know where my hands are. She needs
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to know exactly where my hands are. And that looks so guilty though,
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I mean, I put yourself in her police shoes. You roll up on
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this scene of of of of of two people outside of a taco shop in
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an abandoned but an empty parking lot at two thirty in the morning, albeit
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well lit, and you roll up, roll your window down, and the
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first thing one of them does is spread their legs and put their hands on
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the hood. No, I didn't do that. I didn't assume the position.
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He I just you know, I had one of my hands in my
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pocket when she pulled up, and I'm like, all right, let's take
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my hand out of my pocket immediately, and I know where to put it?
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You know, where the hell do I? What do I do with
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my hand now? Right? One hand is on the hood, like I'm
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standing next to my car, and one of one of my hands is on
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like the hood right next to the windshield, just kind of leaning against the
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car. The other hand is free. Yeah, and I don't know what
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the hell to do with it now, And I'm like, yeah, on
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your hip or going to look too like coquettish? Or is that going to
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be uh do you put it behind your head or stuff? That's exactly how
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do I How do I show her that? Like all? Or you just
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do like a Forrest Gump and just wave like Hi. Neither of my hands
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are doing anything uh mischievous or or dangerous. So I just I have one
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hand leaning on the car and the other hand is kind of set like next
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to the other hand. Right, Maybe have the other maybe have the free
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hand like stroke your beard a little. I should have done that. Yeah,
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that's a good one. That'd have been good. It was, I
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mean, yeah, sure. But my point is the only reason I asked
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that is because that could help to sort of complicate the situation, or she's
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trying to flirt or something like that. Well, I'm not saying like if
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she was, I mean, maybe she's bad at it, and her idea
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of flirting is hey, y'all, don't go good assault didn't now, But
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the flip side would be if you thought she's kind of cute. One is
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you're trying to make sure that your hands are visible to a police officer.
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But then if it's a cute cop, now you're like, well, I
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gotta look kind of cool too. Yeah, I better start flexing. No,
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officer, I haven't seen any assaults around here. Maybe over in that
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direction. I'm sorry, officer, but I am licensed for these. Don't
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laugh at that trade. That's terrible. Now, if I'm sitting here actually
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trying to analyze what she was doing, she was probably just checking in are
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these people selling drugs? Are they doing something? You know? Are they
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about to you know, start doing some some Revershan Park antics out here.
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This is not at Revershon Park, by the way. So you had you
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had the colonoscopy, Van I had the colony. Uh, and uh,
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I get it. She's just doing She's making contact. In fact, I
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think that's what they call it in law enforcement operations. She is making contact
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with somebody and she's making sure there's nothing going wrong. You know. That's
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that's it. But it felt like the most awkward, silliest way to make
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contact with some buddy, to roll up and go, hey, don't you
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get assaulted? Well, in a weird way, it's sort of in it's
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it depends on her delivery. But it sounds like, you know, the
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early stages of a slasher film, when a group of college students go to
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some scary po dunk town and the sheriff rose up said, don't know,
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y'all, go get murdered. No, I'm fishing this weekend, you know,
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something stupid like that. That's kind of what it sounds like. She
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sounds like she's she's setting up the story for you to get murdered. And
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again, I would not be the dumbest victim in the horror movie because I
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stay strapped. But I can't tell her this. I can't go. Don't
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worry, officer, you see that that's a pistol. You can't because then
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I'm gonna get shot. Yeah, yeah, ya, yeah, because at
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that point, with your freehand, you can't reach into your holster and pull
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it out. It's like, it's cool. I got a gun. Yeah,
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don't sweat look at this. Start waving it around like an idiot.
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That's how you get shot. That's how you interaction. But how else do
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do you? I think I handle it in the best possible manner, and
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Trey, I don't know it's a better way to do it. What's a
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better way? If you're just hanging out in a part you and you,
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the two y'all are hanging out a parking lot talking I don't know, the
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Dallas Stars playoff run or something like that, and and you're you're just minding
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your own business. And then a cop rolls up and goes, hey,
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you two fellas, don't get assulted. We wouldn't be out that late.
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We don't know, dude, I'm in bed at like ten. Yeah,
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I'm damn sure. Not in a parking lot of a taco shot where where
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outside of my car? I mean, you just hanging out, just hanging
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out bars or clothes, you know, just I'm wanting to kill time two
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while all the drunks get home. So that I think is though, is
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you're the one that actually looks suspicious. I get that. I'm at home
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already. I'm at home, already complaining about the current season of The Mandalorian.
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I'm not at at an empty parking lot at two thirty in the morning
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being looking and possibly acting questionable. I get it. I get that.
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I it was a scenario in which the police officer was probably right to come
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up and just make contact and say, hey, everything cool with y'all,
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But the way that she said it of watch out around here. See all
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those bushes, you see those the parking garage over there, You see that
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stop sign. There could be a rascally rabbit hiding behind that stop sign.
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That's where all of our assaulters are. It just felt so it felt so
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fake and phony and like forced, Like I don't know again, cops have
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every right to make contact with somebody, but just come up with a better
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six qus, a better story, or just say, hey, asked,
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want to make sure you guys, you know, are all right? That's
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fine. That to me, that puts me like at extra ease. I'm
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like, oh, that's so sweet, Na, Na, you know,
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appreciate you, cop, but don't you get assulted. You better watch out
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for all these assaulters around here. Okay, so so then tell me what
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happened after that, after after, after you, after she says that,
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and then after you go, oh, okay, we won't. It was
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the oddest thing. She just goes, you, watch out. There's all
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sorts of places to get assaulted from around here. There's places people can hide
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in the shadows. And I go, don't worry. We're getting ready to
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leave, right just to kind of put her mind at ease, We're about
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to take off. Don't sweat it, thank you about it. We've already
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made our deal exactly. The drugs have already been exchanged. I've already purchased
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the Colin oscar be kid from this man on Craigslist, and now we're just
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discussing the stars playoff run. I just tell her we're not here gonna We're
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not gonna be here for long. Thank you. I appreciate it, and
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she goes all right, and she just rolls up her window and drives off.
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What's troubling to me about that is she gives you the very clear warning,
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watch out, because there's assaults that happen here. I've got to watch
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out for the bushes and the stop sign and all that, But then she
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just drives away. It's like, well, just stay and make sure that
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you two are safe, hang out with us. Yeah, yeah, why
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didn't you ask her? Go, hey, well, why don't you hanger
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out with us and make sure we don't get assaulted? I think that's very
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reasonable. It's I mean, it doesn't typically say it on the side of
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the cars anymore, but the idea is still to protect and serve. And
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then if you really needed to break the ice, go hey, do you
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know? Oh, should should I bleep that? Yeah? You're in the
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treehouse Switt, Dan O'Malley and Alfie Koy because even if she doesn't know him,
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one other quick, not so random question for you. But bear with me.
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When was the last time you were yelled at by a cop? Oh?
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Dude, it's been forever. I don't think I've been yelled at by
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was very cool. So I haven't been yelled at by a police officer in
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a very long time. All right, Well, I'm gonna keep that in
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and Alfie Cord. I don't know exactly the story behind it, but I
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know I know when I know him. My buddy Trey sends me a text
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that simply says, my cat is stupid. I don't want to know anything
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more until we dirt recording. I just I got a broken cat. I
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don't even know. I don't even know what else I mean. He struggles
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to jump, just even on a tabletop. He routinely falls over, like
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gets especially going down the stairs. Whatever. He's not very graceful. He's
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clumsy. He will not eat. I'll like usually once a week I go
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get a rotisserie chicken. I debone it and I just put it in the
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fridge and I put it on salads or whatever. Will not eat chicken.
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We'll not eat shrimp. We'll not eat steak. But oh when I have
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an asa E bowl with some granola, he all over that, like you
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wouldn't believe. I mean, he will literally, you know, claw me
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to get to it. So, so your cat's a hippie. I got
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a vegan hippie cat. I figured the dreadlocks on your cat should have been
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a should have been a clue for you. He's just I love him.
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You know, he was astray that I just started feeding and somehow, and
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you know, it's just one of those things. I probably he probably made
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friends with me because he couldn't feed himself. He's too clutzi. I mean,
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I'm quite sure if he saw a rat or something, he would run
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and hide. Well maybe not maybe not just the fact that he's clutzi,
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but also realizing he'd go and sniff something and be like, oh, no,
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no, no, that's gotten meat in it. Yeah, did you
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use dairy in that? I don't eat real cheese. I need to make
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sure now. I need to make sure that the cheese I eat is not
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actually cheese, but instead is made in a lab somewhere. Oh and the
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other thing is every night I have the same routine about nine thirty. Take
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Daisy out, you know, let her do her business. I come back
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in. I give her a treat. That's you know, it's like a
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cosequin, you know, like help with joints for older dogs and whatnot.
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I do it in the same spot every night. Daisy knows right where to
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go, sits down, you know, just waiting for her treat. Most
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nights, Drew, I just have to, you know. Finally, I
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get tired of like trying to chase him to come to the same spot,
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and so I just I like have to put the treats up on a table
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and just hope he finds him, and it's a fifty fifty shot. I'll
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come down the next morning. Sometimes I just I don't. I've and he's
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got a you know, he's kind of got this. It just looks like
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a he looks like a cat that was really fat and lost weight and then
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you know, sell us a bunch of excess skin. That's what is.
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You know, he has kind of this old man gut that just ye,
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I've seen that I have. I think we have our our our big cat
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Warren. He's kind of got that because he was really big for a while.
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He had gotten up to like eighteen pounds. Now we've got him down
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to like fourteen. But he's got the he's got the swaying BELLI synder and
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Julius is and he and Julius never got fat, that's the weird thing.
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But he and his is a far more pronounced than worn. And I wonder
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if that's why he is a hard time jumping up on the table like it
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like his belly hits the corner and well, yeah, it's just there's some
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kind of physics at work that you know he jumps, but that you know,
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belly just takes longer to get up there. You know that, and
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the fact that my three pounds chihuahua with no teeth, you know, Daisy
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will just boss him around and chase him around, and you know, God
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bless him, he goes for it because he could just smack the crap out
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of her. Yeah, I just I really And oh the other thing he
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does now this is I guess more cat like is you know, in the
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middle of the night, sometimes I'll go down on stairs and I'll get water
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or whatever, and he will sit under the coffee table and because he thinks
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it's fun and I think he wants my attention, he likes to just swipe
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and just claw me right in my achilles heel as I why I saw that
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scene. It was it was a scene out of the very first Chucky movie.
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Yeah that's and yeah, and then he doesn't you know, when all
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of a sudden, I'm like, expletives you, Julius, And he looks
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quite shocked every time because he's already thought, yeah, what are you?
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Was fine, I'm a broken cat, right, that's yeah, that's he
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has no And I don't know if that's something that like, because he was
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I guess orphan or whatever, and maybe that's something the mom teaches him.
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He does not understand when to put claws up and when to not. Yeah,
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so that's that's definitely a social socialization thing. Because we had that with
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Warren, our cat, because Tara found him outside of a previous job in
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an alley way and he just kind of wandered in, you know, in
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front of her car and she's like, oh my god, a cat,
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and she scooped him up took him home and of course, you know,
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he's like three weeks old. His eyes are barely like, are hardly open.
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He's super tiny. He's covered in fleas. Uh we we immediately or
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she did. Actually she got him in the kitchen sink and started giving him
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a bath right to get the fleas off of him. But because he wasn't
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used to that either, he promptly drowned and then oh, there's your cat.
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You you picked him up for us to see. H So then we
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had to kind of revive the cat because he kind of inhaled the water in
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the flea bath. So that was interesting. But same thing. He didn't
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know how to play because he wasn't properly socialized. So he didn't actually play.
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He just hunted you, Like, if you're walking down the hallway,
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he would just come flying in, just all claws. Yeah, that's that's
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pretty much, you know. And if I'm kind of going up the stairs,
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and of course he never does it when I have shoes on, but
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when I'm barefoot, then he'll also take that opportunity to chase me up the
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stairs and he thinks it's rare a lot of fun and just swipe at my
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ankles, swipe at my achilles. And so it's not just the fact that
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you've got a broken cat. Your cat's got a murderous streak in it.
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Yeah, yeah, I mean, and then to me, that's more typical
25:22
cat of you know, they're plotting to kill you. But yeah, it's
25:26
just he's just he's just stupid. Yeah. So we as humans, we've
25:32
made the mistake of claiming this world as ours, when in reality it's the
25:37
cat world and they're just allowing us to live in it until they decide otherwise,
25:41
until they you know, evolution gives them opposable thumbs and we're all screwed
25:45
exactly. Oh that's the other thing. And I don't know, I've I've
25:52
grown up with kath on my life somehow, Julius, I swear you would
25:55
think he has an opposable thumb. So when he gets out of the litter
25:57
box he has a handful of litter, he just drags it all over the
26:00
house. I thought you're gonna say he throws it in your face. He
26:03
might as well. You know, maybe maybe you actually just unknowingly unlocked that
26:11
kitty cat's secret is that maybe they actually do have opposable thumbs. They just
26:14
keep them hidden, and they only use them when they just really really want
26:18
or need something. They just want to vex their human by way the hell
26:22
they do that. They like to They like to let us think that we're
26:26
in charge. So that's why they keep that thumb hidden. Yeah, Alphie,
26:30
how was the cat that you had for a while that you were taken
26:34
care of and then found a permanent home for him? How? How how
26:38
was that kitty cat? Huh? I'm sorry, I'm just I'm out of
26:44
it a little bit. I'm still coping with the fact that Trey eats osa
26:48
e bowls. Here's the thing, we don't know if Trey purposely ordered it
26:56
for himself or because the cat wouldn't eat anything else. He's like, let
26:59
me just try granola. Which is it, Trey, Um, I need
27:03
to know. Well, I get Sam's will have them on occasion, and
27:10
I'll buy a package of the Assai bowl because of the failure if it comes
27:14
from Sam's. Yeah, exactly, you know what is as supposed to getting
27:18
them from spouts. This is a very throwback and Alfie, I don't even
27:23
remember if you were at the time, but going back to the days when
27:27
Craig Ludent, yeah, was pimping the ash juice and ever since then,
27:34
I really liked it. But the bowl, you got to do the ball,
27:40
well, that's how it comes and you don't have to eat it out
27:42
of the ball. You know. Here's the thing. Here's the thing,
27:45
Trey. So from the time that you left the radio show in in twenty
27:49
twelve, uh, Alfie evolved and the way most of us evolved. As
27:56
we get older, what happens we have a tendency to start hating things,
28:00
right, and we don't like change, right. So that's that's what started
28:04
happening to Alfie after you left, after you left the Treehouse back in twenty
28:08
twelve. Because Alfie then found initially something to truly hate, and that was
28:15
avocado toast. Yes I didn't, and I enjoy the vocado toast is putting
28:22
a smoothie that should be in a cup in a bowl instead, you dan,
28:25
thank you. It's a smoothie if they just put it in a bowl
28:29
and they charge you five dollars more for it, they sprinkle some granola,
28:34
some seeds or something, maybe a barrier two that weren't actually thrown in the
28:40
damn blender into honey, and they go, that'll be twelve dollars as opposed
28:45
to the you know, four dollars smoothie or something like that. It's a
28:48
smoothie. It's a smoothie that you're eating out of a bowl with a spoon.
28:51
It's where the hell do you get a four dollars smoothie? Trade home
28:55
smoothie human They still have for four dollars a smoothie King, because I love
29:00
smoothie King. You know, you can't even get a kid smoothie for four
29:03
bucks. But but that's actually what I was saying. It's basically ice in
29:08
a sprits of water and then you hand it to a child and that's your
29:11
four dollars one yeah, because the smoothie I normally get its smoothie King.
29:15
It's like ten bucks. Yeah, I know, same here. But the
29:17
point is Assai bowls. It's just extra steps. You're just you're getting more
29:22
dishes dirty when all you need is a cup and a straw. And well,
29:26
these are frozen, they come in a bowl. I'm not putting them
29:29
in a bowl. I'm not having someone like and they're they're cheap. It's
29:33
like, okay, that's that. That is probably my main concern. How
29:36
much What it is is Trey, you are buying the scam as opposed to
29:41
uh, making your own scam. Yeah, but you know the scam I'm
29:45
running. Yeah, or if they've running, it'll only cost I guess two
29:48
dollars a bowl, So that's not bad. You go to some stinking,
29:52
you know, hoity toity sit down breakfast place and they charge you for a
29:56
stinking smoothie in a bowl, and they're they're up charging twenty thirty percent.
30:02
That's what just annoys or crap out. I mean, that's my problem with
30:03
the avocados toast too. And I know lots of listeners have heard me harp
30:07
on it, and I know that sound like a broken record right now.
30:10
But I enjoy avocado toast. I despise the scam of it, the absolute
30:15
adiotic paying twelve dollars for a frigging piece of bread, a little bit of
30:19
GUACAMOLEI half the time, and oh, we sprinkled some salt on it,
30:26
so that'll be twelve dollars at an egg solfe. You just hate restaurants.
30:30
I hate restaurants that absolutely take advantage of people for like minimal minimal input,
30:40
minimal effort, maximum price. If I can't cook something, I will gladly
30:45
pay for it, I will gladly pay well for it. Chicken wings is
30:49
a perfect example. Chicken wings are something that is an absolute pain in the
30:53
ask to cook on your own at home and get them nice restaurant crispy quality.
31:00
I'm willing to pay for that. But avocado toast, where it's a
31:04
piece of bread, usually an eighth of an avocado smashed up, and we
31:10
sprinkled some salt on it, sir, that'll be twelve dollars. If you
31:15
put a protein on it, that's another sixty eight dollars leftover bacon from the
31:22
night before or something. Get out of here. The assai e bowl is
31:29
just to me an extension of that if they took the smooth dunderstand that.
31:33
I understand that you're saying you're you're worried someone's going to be hearing this,
31:37
and then you're like, oh, there goes Alpha gooing, blah blah blah.
31:40
But the thing is you you are still fighting the good fight, because
31:45
as long as the restaurant industry is going to scammed its customers, then you
31:48
are going to carry the anti avocado toast price gouging flag. So it's not
31:53
your fault. And it heard just responding to the to the continued attacks on
31:59
America, so exactly, it hurts my heart hearing that people. People are
32:04
are still susceptible as I'm not talking about Trey, I'm talking about trace Cat.
32:07
But wake up, people, It's just in a ball. It's a
32:14
smoothie in a ball. Up people. They handed you a spoon. I
32:22
can't remember the name of it, but I have to admit there is a
32:23
place. There's a place. I know they've got a few locations, but
32:28
I think they're individual franchises and they have fruit bowls. I don't know if
32:32
they're smoothie bowls. I don't know what they call them. Um, it's
32:37
not like a fruit cup, is it. It's a fun, refreshing state
32:42
fair treat or something? No, I mean it's it might actually be a
32:46
smoothie ball. I don't know. All I know is it that is damn
32:49
delicious. It comes, it's got this stuff in there. It's kind of
32:52
blended up, but it's still thick. To me, it's sticker than a
32:53
smoothie. But then it'll have some like chunks of fruit and they don't have
32:58
like some granola or something in there for crunch, and then some honey drizzled
33:00
on top. And it's delicious. How much they charge you for it?
33:04
Dan, I don't know. I don't. I don't. You gotta call
33:07
Rodney Anderson every time you get one of these damn things. It is sad
33:12
he has to tell me each time. He's like, damn, seriously,
33:15
we're gonna refinance you again, Rodney, I want the extra chia seeds.
33:17
Can I get the extra chia seeds? Did I? Did I build any
33:22
equity over the last three days? I got a hankering for another mango bowl.
33:30
That's the other one too. They got mango steen bowls first of all,
33:34
what the f is a mango? Steen? And second, I don't
33:37
know they it's a smoothie ingredient. As far as I'm concerned, it's something
33:39
that I see on the board at a smoothie king when I want a smoothie
33:44
and they just put it in a bowl and they go, that'll be thirty
33:46
percent more. Please, Alfie, have you ever tried to peel the mango?
33:52
Okay, you win this one, Trey. We're in the treehouse with
34:00
Dan O'Malley and Alfie Coy. You're in the treehouse with Dan O'Malley and Alfie
34:27
Cord. This is the type of topic that is really divisive, you know,
34:34
uh in the treehouse, at least inside my brain, because on one
34:38
hand, I really think it's useful and important information to share. On the
34:44
other side, it makes us sound so uncool that it makes me not want
34:47
to listen, even though I have to be here for it. Why why
34:52
you bring this up in conversation? Trey brought it up. It's his fault.
34:58
I blame Trey. No, that's mine. I'm fine with Trey and
35:00
I and all of us having a discussion off off the air or during a
35:06
break. Why are you gonna bring it up when we're when we're doing the
35:08
podcast. Did you hear what I just started with saying, On one hand,
35:13
I don't want to sound completely uncool, But on the other hand,
35:16
Trey seemed to have found some magical bottled elixir that cleans anything and everything,
35:22
and I think we should tell the world about it. Okay, I the
35:29
Dawn. It's in a blue bottle, comes with a spray top. It
35:31
will change your life, the way you do dishes, everything. It is
35:36
all the scrubbing everything you'd literally you spray this stuff on. Wait a couple
35:38
of minutes and everything comes off. You get to stay in on your clothes,
35:42
spray it on, put it in the washer. It's better than spray
35:44
and wash. You want to clean your tennis shoes, to spray it on
35:46
there, scrub them. It is miracle stuff I have not seen. I
35:51
have not seen a spray don the only don ever sees the liquid stuff comes
35:54
in the boy gotta squeeze it out, put it in your thingy, and
35:55
then you know you do your dishes. Is the first of all. Are
36:00
we advertising or like that they advertising with us as a sponsored segment or something.
36:05
Not yet, but I think we should take a clip of this and
36:07
send it to the Dawn people and say, hey, put down that oil
36:09
covered duck and send us some money. Is this the Dawn Platinum Powerwah disk
36:15
spray? Yes, okay, it looks pretty neat. It looks like he
36:20
just squeezed the spray trigger and you spray it on stuff and you clean dishes.
36:24
I don't know what. I don't know what magical sorcery are they found
36:29
to create this and put whatever magic is a bottle, But I'm telling you
36:31
go get some. Anytime you have to scrub a dish, anything, you
36:36
just spray it on. It's It's miraculous and it's better than careful about this
36:40
though, because the last stuff we've talked about at length was the uh,
36:46
the old Granddad one fourteen whiskey, and now it's hard to find in North
36:50
Texas because regular Dawn's pretty good. Like I'll use regular down dish soap for
36:58
you know, if there's a stain on my shirt, like you said,
37:00
I'll just get in there and scrub it with some hot water. Takes care
37:02
of things real quick. But I was complaining about having to clean cookie sheets
37:07
like um cooling racks you know what I mean because I used them one time
37:12
for cooking chicken wings. And yeah, chicken wings. It definitely wasn't butternut
37:16
squash. Yeah no, the chicken wings came out really good. I say,
37:20
I'm going to man up this segment a little bit. All right,
37:22
there we go. That was it was kind of a a week Well it
37:27
sounded good on my end. Okay, fictured and posted all right here and
37:32
there we go. That's a good one. Thank you. Um, regular
37:38
dawn just soap is good. But scrubbing the stupid cooling racks is just such
37:45
a giant pain in the ass When there's chicken grease and scan all in the
37:50
grid there, it's just an absolute pain in the ass. So you're telling
37:52
me, now we know you just get you a bottle of the tray spray,
37:55
the Dawn powerwashed spray is what I need? Is that what you're saying?
38:00
Go get a bottle, and I promise you you will thank me.
38:05
Okay, I'll check it out. Seriously, Someone send this clip to down.
38:08
What is that Procter and Gamble or something. I hope you're right it's
38:14
Procter and Graham Gamble. Okay, good, Yeah, someone send P,
38:17
P and g A an email. So anyway, Yeah, bikinis and booms
38:25
and stuff, Whiskey motorcycles. Can you use this hemp scenes? Yeah?
38:45
Can you use this stuff to like, sorry and go for it? Can
38:50
you use the stuff to like clean an oil spill in the in the driveway?
38:54
I think you could? All right, good, just make sure clean
38:58
something manly and definitely not use it for my pedicure or your colonoscopy camera.
39:09
So where is it going to use it? I would definitely want it to
39:12
be clean. So, as of the recording of this, the colon colonoscopy
39:15
camera is still on Craigslist, but I don't know. We'll see if some
39:20
listener picks it up. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. It's that
39:24
that's even too frivolous for me. No, I think for the right price,
39:30
it's it's just the right amount of frivolous. Four hundred bucks is pretty
39:34
frivolous, Dan. That's why I'm saying, if you just get their price
39:37
knocked down some, then all of a sudden, I think it'd be worth
39:39
it. Oh God, I don't like haggling. I went to an estate
39:43
sale the other day and there's people in there absolutely haggling over just the dumbest,
39:49
dumbest stuff, like it's an old jewelry box. The price says,
39:54
you know, ten bucks? Why are you making this harder on everyone?
39:59
Just either you want to you don't. I don't know the end of the
40:05
day that that's really what it is. I mean, my wife is probably
40:07
the best uh negotiator, the best haggler I've ever seen, because there have
40:14
been a couple of instances where she expressed minor interest in an item and the
40:20
salesperson's like hey, he just starts taking her through the whole spiel, and
40:24
then she just goes namm good, Like this happened on our honeymoon. We're
40:30
at We're we're at our honeymoon, and she she wanted a like a swimsuit
40:32
cover up, right, So she goes into this little store and she's looking
40:37
at it, and the guy comes over. He's like, oh, do
40:38
you want it? I'll take twenty percent off of him, and she's like,
40:43
I don't think I really want it. She's like, I don't think
40:45
it's worth that, and then she just puts it up and starts leaving,
40:47
and the guy chases her down the beach. And eventually, eventually she just
40:52
straight up says, mainly just to get him to leave her alone. She's
40:59
like, I'll give you twenty bucks for it. And he was so mad,
41:04
so mad, he took the deal. But that's why he was so
41:07
mad, because he was like, Okay, twenty bucks, fine, and
41:09
he hated her guts, but he took the sale. Best haggler I've ever
41:13
seen, mainly because she really did not care. Yeah, and ultimately that's
41:17
what you gotta do. But I mean, if you want something, just
41:23
pay the price. But if you could live without it, that's the kind
41:27
of mindset you have to be in. If you're gonna haggle, That's not
41:31
the mindset I'm in, because you really want the colony? Can all right?
41:38
You ready for Are you ready for a nice segue? Trey? Absolutely,
41:43
because we really manned that one up with antiquing and swimsuit cover ups.
41:50
I've gotten really good at seguays over the years. So, speaking of speaking
41:55
of colonoscopies, are all buddy, Luke Bryan was in the news. Oh
42:00
really, yeah, he was actually, uh, he was on I think
42:04
it was Jimmy Kimmel or he was on one of the night shows. Hang,
42:07
I'm I can pull this up real quick. Uh. And you know
42:13
how artificial intelligence it's it's very popular right now. Everyone. You know,
42:16
it's like, oh, artificial intelligence, this artificial intelligence that um. In
42:22
fact, he was on Jimmy Kimmel, so Jimmy Kimmel decided to have one
42:25
of those new artificial intelligence pages hammer out a song in the style of Luke
42:32
Bryan and uh and they and they played it for him on the shows.
42:43
Just me and my guitar, trying to find my way back home. But
42:46
it seems so very far. I'm just a small town living in this crazy
42:52
world. I'll keep on singing my songs and let my voice be heard.
43:00
Not that good, but I think I'm okay for now on the AI.
43:07
So that's pretty That was really awful. I mean, that's very bad.
43:14
Do you think it you think it's it's it's even bad by Luke Brian lyric
43:16
standards. Yes, I'm sorry. Luke Brian is not Mozart, but everything
43:21
he does is miles ahead of that garbage. I don't know, because I
43:25
always go back to that one song where he talked about you know where he
43:30
just kept rhyming up and up and up and then threw in a real curveball
43:35
and threw in the word cup again. This man is not Mozart, but
43:40
that that AI thing was awful, Like like Luke Bryan at least has like,
43:45
you know, fun melodies. That was more of like here, I'm
43:47
gonna hear this again, just me and my gatar trying to find my way
43:55
back home. But it seems so you know what it sounds like. It
43:59
sounds like really like a really really bad John Mellencamp knock off. M hmm,
44:05
I could hear that. Yeah, it's just kind of talk singing.
44:09
Luke Brian will at least pretend to try and sing things, even if it's
44:22
the same note. But bla, I mean he's at least putting forth some
44:30
effort. That AI thing was just garbage. And some of these days,
44:34
this dude they think they can hit hit the target pretty good. Sometimes they
44:40
can. And I think what happened is is it's almost like Jimmy Kimmel used
44:45
the AI thing, and then you could hear Luke in there. He's kind
44:49
of like he's he's sort of offended by He's like, man, no,
44:52
I'm fine, I'm nothing to worried. About and uh so he's he's he's
44:54
kind of being a little uppity about it. Well, I mean, he's
45:00
got to have some concern for his well being if he gets replaced by a
45:04
robot who's gonna feed his pond all them trucks. That is a man.
45:13
That is a legitimate concern Alphie. By the way, Jimmy Kimmel, after
45:19
that appearance, he really got me scared because I thought that AI was actually
45:22
better than than I'm a little afraid. I'm afraid from a job. Why
45:30
because the AI was better. I thought it was gonna really suck, but
45:32
I thought it'd had some some some kind of high points because I like to
45:36
drive on the back roads. Oh sorry, who is this I'm speaking to?
45:38
So we're gonna re establish with Brian Hi this very old bit. Yeah.
45:43
I decided I nose through my trash and come up with some old old
45:46
song lyrics to see if I could be reinspired to write better music. I
45:52
wanted to see if y'all boys in the treehouse would give me some proper feedback.
45:55
Sure, go for it. I mean, I don't like I don't
45:58
like the fact that you're saying that it's better, even though I'm standing here
46:00
defending you well you know, but that's why I want. I want you
46:05
to hear it. Alphie. I think I need to have more yes men
46:07
in my camp. Go for it because because mainly most of the people around
46:12
me are screaming help, help, and they're not real good at giving me
46:17
lyrical feedback. And you know what I mean, it's mostly screams and uns.
46:22
It real real hard to to to give honest feedback when you've cut out
46:25
their tongue, right, see see you get me, Alphie. Thank you.
46:31
Anyway, So I've been working on I've been working on a couple of
46:34
new didties. So let me throw these at you. Okay, let me
46:36
know what you think. I need your honest opinion because I can't be uh
46:39
what is it, AMG Artist of the Year again without it? Okay?
46:45
My wife don't love me no more, probably because of this here sore no
46:52
idea where it came from, I swore, But her cooch now looks like
46:58
a smore. Is that good? No, that's quality. That's like,
47:02
uh, it's okay, thank god, that's up. That's that's Nashville Nashville
47:07
standard. All right, we'll go well, let well, let me throw
47:09
the second verse at you. Uh, this old hooker told me to get
47:15
out. My only choice was to pout. Does this mean I've lost all
47:21
my cloud Oh my god, I have crotched out. I can now see
47:27
why she told me to get out. Hmm. That sounds like a George
47:32
Straight song to me, But I can't put my finger on which one I
47:37
was inspired. I've been I've been listening to a lot of Spotify. Uh,
47:47
here's another one. Tell me what you think of this one. I'm
47:51
thinking of putting this as the new single on my next album. Okay,
47:55
me, me, Me me. I am friends with everyone in my band
48:01
except Doug. He hit me with a backstand. He said he pushed me
48:07
into quicksand I don't know why he bites the hand that feeds his ugly kids
48:14
and that sluck wife that I slam. I think you got a platinum record
48:19
on your hands, everybody you think so? Yeah? Yeah? The AI.
48:23
The AI can't touch that sort of realism, human human experience right there.
48:29
I've also been inspired by some of that Florida Georgian line country rap stuff.
48:34
So let me throw these at you here. Okay, go, I
48:37
am one with nature. I like fishing and hunting. For sure. All
48:40
I need is a good lure, and I get off on a good hauler
48:45
when I run people over on my tractor. Is this a real Florida Georgia
48:52
Lion song? Europe God, Follow all things Treehouse at Treehouse on Air,
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