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Episode 24 - A Chicken Invasion and How to Spot a Fancy Hobo · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It feels good. It feels good to be in this treehouse. I'm donal
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ally along with friends, co workers. At one point, Tray Trenholme and
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Alphie Coy Hello. I never like to just assume or presume that you guys
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have seen certain things on social media that I've posted, or maybe that my
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wife has posted. I think Trey typically does, but Alphie likes to be
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more reclusive when it comes to social media, and the things that I think,
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Alphie, you typically interact with are the things that are, you know,
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that you consider to be cool. So I don't know if what we're
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doing now is is high up on your cool meter. It should be,
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you think, so, yeah, y'all are picking up chicks. Oh,
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the boat guy finally convinced you to join that lifestyle. You know what,
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Alfie, this is one of those times I know how you feel when I
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use bad puns. Sucks, doesn't it? Even I'm embarrassed to that one.
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You're embarrassed, but you're also really, really proud. I can see
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it. It's it's all in your face. You're like, yeah, it's
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screw it. I'll say it. Yes, we have we have gotten back
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in. We have gotten back into Jesus. We've got back into the chicken
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game. So this has nothing to do with the boatman. The boat man.
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No, no, this has nothing to do with the boat although interestingly,
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the chickens that we got came from a boat lady. And in the
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future, you know, y'all do have the ability now to say, hey,
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come back to our place. We make chickens. We don't make chickens,
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tray, we just we just acquired chickens and they make eggs, and
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then and then I'll make eggs, but I don't. I don't make chickens.
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You get the right ratio hens, the roosters, you'll you make it
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chicks. Yeah, I'm not really. Our fingers are still crossed on that.
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So we did this this uh, this past week. There's a lady
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who lives on a boat right off of Water Island, which is one of
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the four US Virgin Islands. Water Island, Yeah, it's right next to
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u It's on the south, just south of Saint Thomas. It's next to
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Dirt Island. There's not a dirt island, Alfie, they're all dirt island.
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Well, yeah, these are rock He lives on a boat. She
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lives on a boat and she raises chickens, and so just just imagine what
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that must be like. It's sort of like the Beverly Hillbillies, but you
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know, on a yacht. She raises chickens on a boat. Yes,
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that's why I said, we got chickens from a boat, lady. But
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and it had nothing to do with that, you know, weird old boat
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dude. And you couldn't. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if
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we've ever discussed this or not, but there are numerous wild chickens in and
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around your property. You couldn't just corral some of them, Trey. It's
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taken every ounce of energy I have and effort to keep Tara from doing just
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that. Why and it's it And it's been close a couple of times,
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because there was a time, I think it was last year, we were
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here and in the driveway, like we're at the top of the stairs that
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go down into the driveway, and at the top of the stairs, Terras
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stops and lifts her head up, and I can tell she's heard something.
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She heard chipp heard baby chickens, and she could tell they were close.
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So she threw all of her stuff that she had in her hands to the
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ground and scampered down the stairs, made a hairpin, turned to the left
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and found two baby chicks cowering in a corner because they were afraid of two
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iguanas who were giving them the side eye across the street. We did not
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keep them. We had to relocate them to like a like a chicken colony,
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like ten minutes away. Why not you had free, free chickens right
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there. I understand that, and it was easy. They were right there.
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She picked him up, she held them, and because they know,
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they were terrified of these of these you know, island dragons, and we
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weren't in a position to keep them because we weren't living here. So we
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couldn't, you know, do something with these chickens and then just leave them
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and then have nothing or no one to care for them. I was about
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to say, because it seems like it would take a lot for you to
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get Tarata not keep two baby chicks. The only thing that kept it from
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happening was the fact that we didn't live here, and she she knew logically
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it was not it did not make sense how much she did stay a couple
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of times. We could just go ahead and move here now, right as
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she's holding the chickens and holding them in front of my face, She's like,
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we could just I could just stay. How much did you pay for
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these chickens, Dan, that you got from boat lady? I don't know.
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Tara didn't tell me. You have to have seen some sort of credit
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card record or cash exchanged. Nope, separate accounts. I have no idea
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what she paid for these chickens, but it was her money, whatever it
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was. How much would a chicken like this cost on the market? What's
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the market value of? Tell me Dan, where did chickens close that today?
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Probably higher than than the dal Jones Um. I don't know what the
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going rate is for chickens here. I'll have to ask her. But I
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know for similar breeds that that we that we bought in Texas when we first
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got into chicken ing, I think they were like thirty, thirty or forty
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dollars each. Yeah, so you guys got two? No, we have
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six? Oh my god. Yeah. So Trey is right. There are
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chickens run a muck on these islands. They are everywhere. They are the
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absolute definition of free range. Actually there's not It's it's not even fair to
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say free range, because even free range makes it sound like they, you
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know, come in for the evening. No, they're just out. They're
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everywhere. You have feral chickens, yes it is. Yeah, yeah,
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you're right, feral chickens. And so those are those are the street chickens.
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Those are like the street thugs, right, So they're not the they're
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not the quality chickens that you want in your yard right there. They don't
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want to fa underneath their chicken eyes. Yeah they got yeah, they got
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the little egg drops underneath their eyes. They've you know, got the knives
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on their feet and stuff. Seem like you one at least one for security.
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Yeah, I'll see how it goes. Where's your out because you know
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how it is. I mean, if you get a bunch of these domestic
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chickens in our yard, eventually some big bad Farrell roosters gonna be like,
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hey, yeah, I see over here, and maybe he just moves in.
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Have you already built a chicken coop? Uh? Not a full blown
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coop yet, because there's still baby chicks. They were only born like a
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week ago, if that so right now, we're just we have them in
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a and we have them in an enclosure. That has like brick pavers on
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all four sides, and then like a top that we've put on the top.
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So, uh, when will you be installing your cock camera? You're
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proud again, You're so so proud of yourself. The cock cam tray is
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already operational, thank you very much. We had a we had and this
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is not intended. It's just what it's called. We had an additional nest
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cam that wasn't being used. So no, Alphie, that's that's not a
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joke. It's just it's what it's called. It's a nest cam. I
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didn't call it an egg drop cam, which I could have. That's not
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a pun. But some of them are called drop cams. Oh, I
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see, yeah, that's all. Yeah. Anyway, No, that the
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chicken camera went in the same day that we got the actual chickens tree.
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I've even got the notifications when there's motion, and believe me, when there's
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motion on what Tara has titled the chicki Cam, she is on it.
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She's got to make sure nothing is near those baby chickens. Ye ta take
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some tips and advice from Everett with his owl cam, No, because he
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doesn't have any owls yet. So I think so far. Tara's kind of
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got a got a one clock up on every Oh my god, I'm going
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back here. Yeah, okay, yeah, it's fun sometimes like yeah,
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but no, no, So we got the chickens back because I don't know,
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we still get people asking us questions about what happened to your chickens because
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when they find out that we moved, I guess they did. They've missed
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all the times we had said on the radio that right before the Big Freeze
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in twenty twenty one, we had given the chickens. We had two friends
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of ours who live in Arlington, because we knew that we were going to
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be selling our house. We knew that we were going to be moving into
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an RV for a little while while while we decided our next steps. And
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we couldn't have the chickens at an RV. That was no, So they
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went. We moved them to Arlington by Lake Arlington with friends of ours.
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So we were chickenless for you know, a couple of years. But now
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now that we're we're sort of settled in here. Tara found the chicken on
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a boat, lady, and now we've got six new chicks. They were
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eventually eat those chickens. Now, why not you mean the chickens we had
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previously. Yeah. No, I'm not saying did you, I'm saying do
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you do? People like, is that part of the chicken life cycle?
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You get a chicken, it lays a bunch of eggs, and once it
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hits a certain age, you're just like, all right, I'm eating you.
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That is standard I would say standard for you know, farms and ranches,
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because if you have you have sort of like your eating chickens, and
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then you have your laying chickens, and then once you're once your layers are
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done laying, then yeah, you probably eat eat them because they're no longer
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producing. They're just costing you money. I see, um, but that's
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not the route we're going. Taras sees the chickens much more as pets.
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Well, even though she and I both grew up with plenty of headless chickens
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running around that you know, in the morning they were running around on two
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legs and a head, and by middle of the day they were, you
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know, lunch. What did the chicken ladies boat look like? I am
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just absolutely befuddled by that. I mean, as someone who has raised chickens,
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and had a chicken coop with one hundred and twenty chickens and know the
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absolute nastiness that ensues. How how how on a boat? I believe it's
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I believe she's on a catamaran. That doesn't answer the question, Dan,
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you just no excuse me, Trey, it's a catamaran. No. Trey
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asked what kind of boat she's on, So I said it's a catamaran.
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No. The condition of her boat, Oh, I don't know. I
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didn't see it. I mean, I guess there's one thing. I mean,
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I guess you can just hose the damn thing off. But you just
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you do is you just flip it around in the water a couple of times,
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it just rinses right off. Alphie, have you ever been around chickens?
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I mean, I've seen a chicken, I mean, like, but
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anyway they poo. Most recently, when you went to that petting zoo in
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Garland and you saw the goat ass open up, yeah and drop things from
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its insides. Where there any chickens running around? There were not the portal
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to oblivion inside that goat's ass did not contain any any chickens. There were
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no chickens at that farm. All I've ever seen with chickens up close,
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or I think they have some of the State Fair, don't they, where
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it's like, you know, here's prize chickens and stuff like that. And
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then there was that one chicken at penny Whistle Park that used to play tik
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tac toe against that I never beat jackass. It's a very humbling experience,
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Prick. I didn't know penny Whistle Park was still around when you were in
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your formative years, Alfie. Yeah, very was very very young before they
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shut it down. But because because that chicken broke so many young children's dreams.
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Stupid chicken. How did it always know? How did it always know
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the right move to make? And the other thing too, is it's picking
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on little kids. I was no more than maybe like four or five,
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and this chicken's out here rocking me with frigging grand master tik tac toe strategies.
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Jackassed chicken. How old were you? Four or five? So your
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first bully was this chicken, stupid ass chicken, and find it, I'd
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eat it, probably already dead, jerk gass chicken. Yes it is yummy.
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It is, yeah, very very common here too. By the way,
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Dan, you're not training any of your chickens to play tick tectoe,
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are you? Well? I am, I'm considering it now. They start
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getting a big head, start thinking that they're better than humans. Stupid ass
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chicken. You guys want to be teto. Yes, you you've never seen
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this before? No? Oh my god, there was a Okay, so
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it's a and and I lived in North Texas for like thirty years. It's
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not just a North Texas thing. It's it's a thing like a carnival thing.
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I guess like every every town has a bully chicken. I'm sure they
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do. D Did you ever go to Penny Whistle Park? No? I
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don't, I think so, so if I did, we can just add
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it to the long list of things I no longer remember. But yeah,
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I don't mean, I don't even I've heard of it, but I don't
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know really what it is or where it was. It was a small,
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like almost amusement park, very small micro amusement park inside of a warehouse on
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Northwest Highway and Lake Highlands. I think, who I'm sorry just by that
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description. No parents now would would take their kids to that it was it
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was big enough because I think at one point after Penny Whistle park it for
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a brief minute it was like a roller rink, so that should give you
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some idea about the size of it. But it was basically a little indoor
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amusement park that it was fantastic. But like if I remember correctly, Alfie,
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it seems like right when you walked in, that chicken was almost front
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and center taunting you. Yes, and you had to pay to play it.
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It was like fifty cents a dollar or something like that to play this
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chicken too. Yeah, yeah, and you think, okay, this sounds
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fun. I would love to show my prowess as the top of the food
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chain and really just shove it in this chicken's face and beat its ass at
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tic tac toe. And so you, as a five year old, decide
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yes, I will spend a dollar on this, and you put your quarters
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in, and then the game starts and the chicken just absolutely stomps your ass
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every time. I think the best you could hope for against that stupid ass
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chicken was a maybe a draw like the grand master of tic tac toe.
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Imagine you versus Bobby Fisher and chess, but you gotta pay him twenty bucks
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every time you play, and you know he's going to kick your ass.
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So I'm curious, then, so did this chicken did it? Did it
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play other games or is it solely a tic tac toe thing, just tic
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tac toe. I didn't know if maybe it like branched out and would also
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kick your ass at the claw game. I'm going back over here, Kray.
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end of something that you were telling Trey earlier before we started the show.
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What is it that that you want to do? You want to eat the
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rich? No, I don't want to eat the rich. I'm just annoyed
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at one lady, one stupid ass lady. Oh what did you do?
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I didn't do anything, really, I was being a normal human being and
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she was just rude. I was okay, I'll play along. What did
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she do? Okay? So I was leaving North Park the other day,
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there's your first problem. Well, I was. I was in there shopping
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doing you know, fashion photography stuff. And you spend more time at malls
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now than I ever did as a kid. And that was back when the
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thing to do was go to the mall. Oh yeah, it's it's part
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of the gig. But um, I was leaving the mall and I was
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walking out and right in front of right in front of the mall, there's
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all this like, you know, just parking where it's either valet or just
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she had a really really good as spot and I'm walking through the parking lot
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towards my car. This is that valet, like like the valet stand in
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front of PF Chanins. Uh yeah, kind of exactly. And I just
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saw her car park there, and I don't know whose car it was.
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All I saw was that it had a funky license plate. And it was
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curious to me because it was a white range Over and it had a European
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style license plate but with a Texas license plate number right, So it's one
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of the long European ones you see in like James Bond movies, where it's
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a bunch of numbers and letters and looks all who you know. Yeah,
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that was the first thing I thought, because when you say European license plates,
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all I see is the one on the Aston Martin that flips down and
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then the guns come out, exactly something like that. She had a European
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style license plate on her range Rover and on the left hand side it said
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Texas and then a thingy. And I was curious because I was under the
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impression that that's not legal, that you can't just go I've made my own
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license plate. Here's the numbers. You're welcome, officer. Was it on
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the front or back? It was on the back, and I was curious
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about it. And I'm walking past. I keep looking at the car,
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going like, how is that legal? So I look at the front to
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see if it has a license plate on it and if it's the same European
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style, and it doesn't and there's no license plate at all. But while
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I'm looking at it, I see this woman walk up and start opening up
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the side door. And I not shout at her, but I, you
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know, not hollow either. What's a good word? I go, hey,
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quick question, because I'm not shouting at her. I'm not screaming at
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her. I'm not hollowing at her because that sounds like I'm hitting on her.
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But I just go, hey, quick question, right, just like
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that, and this awful bitch just gets in the car as quick as she
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can, slams the door and just shakes her head no at me. And
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I'm like, you piece of trash, what the hell? Because you said
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hey, yeah, exactly wait did you said hey, quick question? Hey?
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Quick question? Okay? And I'm far enough away to where like if
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she's worried about me. He worried about me stealing her purse or something.
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Crap. No, there's also police there. There's almost always police by this
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entrance, asked the North question, go for it. Did I miss something
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because I went to look up European style license plates in Texas and I want
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did I miss a chunk of the story or did I hear this correctly when
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you said you see this lady getting into a ranger over with the license plate
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and you just said, hey, quick question, Yes, that's there's nothing
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there. There's nothing in the middle there that I missed. Nothing else,
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And I wanted to ask her about the license plate, if it was legal
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or not. I go, hey, My question would have been, how
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did you get that that European style license plate? It's cool, you know,
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I want to know is that legal? And she didn't give me any
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opportunity to say anything to her. She just terrifiedly got in her car,
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which is understandable. I get it. I'm not a woman on my own
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out shopping many you know, many different stories you hear of women getting cat
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called and this and that, but this isn't one of those. I was
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just trying to ask her a question and for her to be so just tremendously
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rude. It annoyed me, so I flipped her off and walked away.
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But I feel like in her mind probably solidifies the fact that she had no
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business talking to you. Yes, yes, for sure. But my point
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is is, I'm trying to see it from her standpoint. It just seems
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either self absorbed or paranoid, or any number of different things. I'm all
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about being safe in public spaces. Right there have been times where I've been
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alone pulling up to a gas station and I've seen God, there was one
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time I pulled up to a gas station and I'm getting ready to get out
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of my truck, and all of a sudden, I see two dudes coming
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at my truck from like two different directions, from like ten o'clock and two
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o'clock, right, yeah, And one of them's on a like a mini
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bike, And I'm thinking, Okay, I don't know what the f this
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is. It's late in the evening. There's two guys coming at me.
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So I just put it in drive and just peel out out of there,
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Because you know, you get a sense of dangerous situations, and I think
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everyone, man, woman, whomever should avoid things like that. If they
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can sense it, if they can get out of a situation that could turn
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nasty, just bail. That's your easiest option. It's better to err on
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the side of caution. If you think something is up, then leave exactly.
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But my dumb looking ass, I wasn't looking, you know, disheveled
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or homeless or anything like that. I was reading a fashion magazine. I
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was reading a fashion magazine. So I was walking out of North Park.
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Maybe she thought that was some sort of a ploy, Like, It's just
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this guy clearly does not need to be like, he doesn't look fashion at
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all. Just annoyed the crap out of me. What are you wearing?
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Just a short sleeved T shirt and my like, you know those Lululem and
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pants that you have Dan, the ones that are like kind of like jeans,
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Yeah, they look like like slacks. Yeah, but they're very stretchy
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and comfortable. Yeah. The nice keep you keep you junk all oh happy.
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So you're wearing a T shirt and Lululemons and she was afraid of you.
27:17
Yep. She probably thought you were going to ask her for money.
27:22
That's what I thought, too, is is okay? Because they're are you
27:26
know a fair amount of homeless people around North Park. But I mean I
27:33
also probably are wearing Lululemons. That's true. Yeah, I'm sitting there reading
27:38
a fashion magazine and it just it felt unjustified the rudeness that I got.
27:45
By the way, after I got home, I googled whether or not those
27:48
European style license plates are legal. They are most definitely not legal in text,
27:53
they're not. Huh they're not. Yeah, because I went to a
27:57
website it's uh, you can buy them online. It's Texas euro style license
28:03
plates, but yeah, I can't find anywhere where It says, like,
28:07
you know, for Texas Texas motor vehicles, about whether or not you can
28:11
get one. Let me see what this is. Yeah, it like,
28:18
since I believe that they still haven't renewed the whole you have to have a
28:22
front license plate, so I think you can have one on front, but
28:26
you still have to have a normal Texas plate on back. Is the last
28:29
time? Oh, so you can get like a fun not legal, ridiculous
28:33
plate on the front as long as you're the backside is good to go.
28:37
I don't know about fun ridiculous, but I think you can get away with
28:41
the European style, if it has your actual plate numbers on it. Oh,
28:48
okay, it had her. It had her license plate on it too,
28:51
like her actual plate numbers. And I know this because her license plate
28:56
has the same three letter prefix that mine does. So it's like, okay,
28:59
let's obviously a license plate number. But she didn't have an actual license
29:04
plate anywhere else on her car that I saw. Point is is, if
29:07
I'm a cop and I see one of these euro style license plates, that's
29:11
an easy ticket for me. Yeah. Dpd's got better things to do with
29:18
this. Right now. I see a lot of the pulling people over.
29:22
Imagine how many more cops you can hire if you just busted all these fake
29:25
eurostyle license plate people at North Park. At North Park, also, how
29:30
much money would be brought in by busting the panhandlers asking for those rich ladies
29:36
for money. They don't have money, Dan, You bust the rich people
29:38
because you know they got pockets full of cash. The homeless guy, what
29:41
are you gonna get a bottleful of pe or something like that. That's I
29:49
feel like the North Park holumeless are are a little bit more upper crusted Thanese.
29:55
Yeah, okay, but is this rude ass. Lady didn't need to
30:03
be that rude, didn't. I get you took it personally. You took
30:06
it personally, and I understand that because I have a tendency to take things
30:08
personally that I shouldn't, but I do. And I understand that. You
30:14
know that you're not a creep. You know that you're not asking her for
30:15
money, you're not trying to rob her or anything else untoward. You just
30:19
had a genuine question about her license plate. But instead she wanted nothing to
30:23
do with you because you look like a Lulu Limon homeless dude at North Park
30:27
Mall and she just get daddled the absolute audacity. Should I be this upset
30:36
over this because it's obviously like stuck with me. It's been a few days
30:40
and I'm still annoyed. Well, I think clearly what you need to do
30:45
is you need to go back to that exact spot and wait until you see
30:51
her again and ask her again, which is not near her car. Hey,
30:55
I have a quick question still for Jesus that would be justifying her action.
31:00
Listen, lady, I waited here this whole time. Tell me about
31:04
your license plate. Meanwhile, the headline on Fox hour is something along the
31:08
lines of strange altercation leads to gunfire at North Park. Mall Man, the
31:17
I don't know I'm all about, especially like my female friends. I'll tell
31:22
him, like, you know, hey, watch back, be safe,
31:23
that kind of thing. But there's a certain line at which caution becomes paranoia.
31:30
And it would have been perfectly fine to me had she just gotten in
31:37
her car and acted like she didn't hear me. Okay, I get it.
31:41
She she wasn't even that pretty. She was just kind of a rich
31:45
looking blonde lady and diame a dozen in Dallas. Yeah, exactly. So
31:52
while she's getting in the car, did she look at you and she just
31:55
said nope? Or she didn't get look at you and she just said no,
31:56
No, she looked right at me and she shook her head, nod
32:00
like finger like no, no, not that bad. So she didn't exactly
32:05
treat you like a dog, but close, it was damn close. The
32:07
vibe that I got was, how dare you think you can talk to me?
32:13
That's why I'm saying, maybe you go back to that exact look.
32:19
That's the only way you're gonna get closure in this scenario. I don't want
32:22
closure other than for a police officer or to enforce these laws that they deserve
32:25
to be enforced for people like that to to get their come up, and
32:34
and they certainly will given the karmic arc of the universe. And you know,
32:39
I'm on I'm on board with you on that. You know, me
32:42
and my justice boners, I'm all for. I want people to get the
32:45
punishment and the consequences and all the negative outcomes that they deserve. Every single
32:52
time I support that. That's why I like in movies and television shows.
32:57
I love movies and shows about revenge. That's why Taken to Me is one
33:00
of the most perfect Hollywood films ever. Someone did something bad, and you
33:04
did something bad to the wrong dude's daughter, and you had to pay the
33:07
price dearly for it. And that's why I love that movie. Also because
33:10
it's an hour and a half and it didn't need to be two two and
33:13
a half hours to exact punishment. So the other way you can go about
33:17
this, Alphie, is the long game. What you can do is because
33:22
Trey, you mentioned Dallas Police Department very much overwhelmed and understaffed, right,
33:29
Yes, so Alphie, you can knock out two birds with one stone.
33:32
So what you do is I'm listening. You go apply at DPD Okay,
33:37
go through the academy, you become a police officer, and then you work
33:40
your way up to the North Park patrol area and you wait in that parking
33:45
lot until you see that woman and her illegal euro license plate. And then
33:51
you walk up to her and say, hey, I asked you a question
33:52
like six years ago. This all sounds justified. See doesn't it make sense?
34:01
So now you can get an answer to your question and you can give
34:06
the rich bitch a ticket. Perfectly reasonable solution, Dan, I like it.
34:09
I like it. This is the best solution you've had to one of
34:14
my problems in years. You know. It's something about the Caribbean air.
34:16
It just helps me think more clearly. Seven years of police training, kidding,
34:22
my certification, working my way up from nights just to go stake out
34:28
the North Park parking lot toe because you're not gonna get you know, whatever
34:35
subdivision that is in Dallas with that North Park is, They don't hand that
34:37
out to rookies. No, you gotta go cut your teeth in northeast or
34:40
or CB or is it CBD or that the Central business CBD or Southwest.
34:45
You gotta you gotta earn your stripes there. Plus, the old adage is
34:50
still true. Revenge is a dish best served cold. It's not revenge DWN.
34:54
Not looking for revenge's looking for justice for somebody to story rude, revenge
35:00
for someone to be so rude while also being such a scoff law, that's
35:06
what I don't like. You could be. You could be, you know,
35:09
a little miss illegal license plates as long as you're you know, winking
35:14
a smile about it, like hey, yeah they're illegal, but don't tell
35:17
nobody. And I'd be like, oh, okay, I got you,
35:20
Yeah yeah, fight the power. But she was just awful and rude.
35:27
So she deserves come up, and she deserves to have her illegal license plates
35:31
taken away. How far away from you from her were you when you started
35:37
talking to her? When I not yelled, not hollered, when I said
35:42
hey, quick question, I would say I was, I don't know,
35:49
three car lengths maybe four away, So it's not like you yelled at her.
35:54
And then did you start moving in her direction? No, stop waived
36:00
clearly had a fashion magazine in one hand, so one hand is waving the
36:04
other hand is holding a fashion magazine and obviously not armed, not posing any
36:12
sort of threat. Look, all I'm saying is you pull her over and
36:19
then you tap on the window, and you say, I don't know who
36:22
you are, and I don't know what you want, but I have a
36:25
particular set of skills I've acquired over a long career leading to this moment.
36:32
It's rational. I like it. Let's do it. You're listening to the
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things I want to do with one of our first spots with you is to
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say I heard heard heard a dirty, dirty rumor about you, and I
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think we need to address it. Um, I had heard you were up
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on a roof the other night during a hail storm. Are you just trying
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earlier I mentioned Alphie, I wasn't sure if you had seen on social media
43:02
that Terry and I once again have become chicken parents. Yes, and I
43:08
don't know if you saw this as well. Um my wife was kind of
43:14
uh post happy this week. Um, she played her own version of could
43:22
the answer be c this week? And I don't love it. I'm guessing
43:32
you did not see that though. No, hold on, Yeah, you
43:37
don't like it when your own bit writes itself against you? No, I
43:40
don't. It's not fair, especially because this is the time of year.
43:50
What is that, Alphie? Will she ragging on you specifically? Um?
43:52
Yeah, I'll get to that in a second. Well, hang on,
44:01
I haven't seen the post, but Tara's right. I don't need to see
44:04
the post. Tara's she's got a good head on our shoulders. She's right,
44:07
Yes, yes, she does. I know that very well, Alphie.
44:09
On this one, she was absolutely right. Yeah, Trey. So
44:15
this also comes to that the tera is right. I look, I'm not
44:20
saying she's wrong. I'm just saying I don't like it, which is perfectly
44:24
fine. I've asked the Alphie in dance defense. He is the only one
44:31
in most of the three of us that actually has been able to have a
44:35
long term, stable, serious relationship. That's that's because he has good friends
44:38
next to him that buttress his wife's opinions and positions on things. It is
44:46
interesting how like you're you're supposedly quote unquote my friends, but you actually support
44:53
her more than me. Yep, welcome so And to that end, this
44:59
makes sense because there's a tie in here. Around this same time that Tara
45:01
has this post where she's playing one of our bits against me on social media,
45:07
is it's also around that time of year every year where we celebrate our
45:12
anniversary. She and I've now been married for eleven years. And part of
45:15
what's interesting about that, thank you, And part of what's interesting about that
45:20
is Trey. I was just looking through a couple of photos from our wedding
45:23
day. Trey was one of one of my groomsmen, and it's just nice
45:28
to see that as we're looking through those photos of so many people that are
45:32
no longer in our lives, which is interesting in and of itself. I'm
45:36
glad to know that Trey still is and Eat and Alfie. You were not
45:38
a groomsman, but you were there. You also took some great photos which
45:43
I'm not sure if I've ever seen. But it's nice to know that YouTube
45:47
guys are still in my life. Thank you. Tara's right, that is
45:53
nice. Dan. I saw those pictures and it does make you feel good
45:59
that you know still around. And it really is a weird thing because Tara
46:05
and I were looking through some of those old photos this last week, and
46:09
you go through, we're we're going through looking at all these photos, and
46:14
I would venture to say half the people at our wedding are no longer in
46:19
our lives, at least at least not with any sort of regularity. Like
46:22
there have been some people that have straight up disappeared. Now I don't think
46:27
they're in danger, but they've just like just there's just no contact whatsoever.
46:30
It's sort of like a weird relationship you just kind of grow apart. I
46:32
guess other people seem like they're sworn enemies for some reason. I don't know
46:37
why that is. It's just a weird thing how you can look back at
46:42
one day in your life and see all these people that were so important to
46:45
you at the time that you invited them, but then just over a decade
46:49
later, you think, like I'm saying, half of them nowhere to be
46:52
found. It makes me feel good knowing that Tara is right again. I'm
47:02
not disagreeing with it. I just don't always like it. So the game
47:10
she played on me this week on social media was could the Answer? BC?
47:15
And I just wasn't prepared for that. Her post read, Let's play
47:21
a game, who can guess what happened to this toilet paper roll? And
47:24
it's one of those alfie where it's like you ever get a new roll of
47:28
toilet paper and you can't find the seam where the the role is supposed to
47:34
start, where the paper is supposed to start. It's just all one sheet
47:37
for some reason. It's a little start a line. Yeah, yeah,
47:40
So that's what happened with one of these rolls of toilet paper. So Tara
47:45
does her own damn could the Answer BC? By saying let's play a game,
47:47
who can guess what happened to this toilet paper roll? Is it a
47:51
the cats found a fun toy. B the chickies tried to make a nest
47:55
or. See. My husband got frustrated that multiple sheets stuck together when opening
48:00
the roll and ripped the chunk out of the side. M hmm. And
48:04
then there's of course a photo of the damaged roll of toilet paper shredded.
48:10
And I don't like it. Why it was well written. It was well
48:15
written, and that's why. That's why I don't like it. You know,
48:19
eleven years married, fourteen together, and and and she's using our own
48:24
bits against me. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, I
48:35
mean, there's there's no discussion here. Terri's right again. I'm not saying
48:39
she's wrong, because that is exactly what happened. The answer is ce I
48:44
got frustrated because there was no seam on the toilet paper and I ripped that
48:46
mother apart. Right, I'm not going to put a seam on the toilet
48:52
paper roll. I'm anna make one. Now. If you crawl in bed
48:58
one night and she's got buzzers out and to play rock and roll Jeopardy,
49:00
then you might want to rethink things. Does Tara have that electric shocking thinging
49:07
that we have because I can send it to her right now any more anymore
49:12
rock and roll trivia or game playing and will we may not make it to
49:17
twelve. I've had my fill of that over the recent years, not with
49:23
her, obviously. So what did you do to this toilet paper roll?
49:27
You just absolutely like, like, what was your thought process? Is what
49:30
I want to know. You're sitting I was trying to find I was trying
49:32
to find the seam in the toilet paper roll to start it to where it
49:37
could be used, and yeah, there just wasn't one to be found,
49:39
so I just tried to make one. So you just started tearing into the
49:44
side. I get that. How many layers deep did you start tearing?
49:46
Like six? Oh my god, do you not have any finesse? I
49:52
have finesse layer. This toilet paper was jacked up. That's why it looks
49:58
so shredded, because it's like when you get a b piece of tape and
50:00
you pull and it splits down the middle or down the edge, and then
50:06
you have to keep going until it yeah, kind of grows back out,
50:08
yeah and becomes a whole piece. This didn't do that. It just stayed
50:13
on that line of like a third of the paper and tear perpendicular. You
50:16
find a nice perforation and you just try and tear that down, and then
50:21
you get your giant layer of toilet paper that you now have, and then
50:24
you finished business. By the way, do you have a bidet? I
50:30
do not get a bidet. You still have to use toilet paper, yeah,
50:36
but you have to use a lot less, So those rolls that you
50:38
have will last you a lot longer, and you'll have to have less time
50:43
spent frustratingly ham fisting twelve layers of toilet paper off of a fresh roll.
50:49
I'm a tear on this. She knows what she's doing. What was going
50:52
on that you were in such a rush. There was no rush. I
50:59
was just there was only one roll of toilet paper that I could use,
51:04
and it was a poorly functioning roll of toilet paper. So it's not that
51:07
I was in a hurry, but I mean it didn't work, and I
51:10
don't like when things don't work the way they're supposed to. So you just
51:13
gorilla fisted the toilet paper and go turn nude poopoo cleaning twelve layers deep and
51:20
tear into it like it's some sort of stinking. I don't know, bag
51:25
of chips or something. I would just like to make a simple request.
51:29
Can we please stop using the fisting references in reference to my bathroom usage.
51:36
I'm feeling very uncomfortable. My wife already attacked me during a social media post.
51:39
Off could the answer BC? I don't want to have to deal with
51:43
the deal with it in the treehouse as well. It would just fist.
51:46
It was gorilla fist. Yeah, that is the big fist. Yeah.
51:52
So you're sitting on the toilet, you got a poop dangling, and you're
51:54
trying to shake it off, and you decide to pick up the single lonely
51:59
roller toilet paper, and you're gonna Bruce Banner hulk fist it. You're gonna
52:05
grab the three fist references. Now, that's so, that's that's hulk fist,
52:09
gorilla fist, and ham can you toilet paper? Now? Is that
52:20
where Tara's supposed to open the door and say, the sun's starting to get
52:22
real low? Come on, big guy, let's let's calm down. I
52:31
think the biggest takeaway in all this is that Tara is right again. I'm
52:37
not arguing that I just don't like it. M so it seems like,
52:45
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