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It's FRIIIDAY! #17: Stockings Full of Stupid · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the treehouse on a Friday right before Christmas. I'm Daniel Malley,
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along with Trey Trnholm and Raj Sharma. And if any of you are looking
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for a last minute gift for me, I would appreciate some good fucking Internet
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so shod that in my stocking. I would greatly appreciate that. Because the
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Island Internet has not been ideal. That's my hope for for a Christmas miracle.
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Maybe Hallmark can make a movie out of that Internet. Yeah, I
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don't. I don't think that would work because I because that would mean,
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like the big city Internet comes to the island and and and takes over.
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You would have to be the struggling, the struggling you know, local internet
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provider and just looking for the love of a good woman in a flannel on
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a beach, at a at a farmer's market, trying to hawk like the
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professor from Gilligan's Island. My own my own coconut Internet service provider company,
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and uh and then big Internet comes. That would be a good name though,
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that'd be a good name for island Internet is coconut. That'd be a
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that's solid. It's not bad because honestly, the Internet between two halves of
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coconut is probably better than what I've been getting the last couple of days.
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Yeah, well, I just like the image of Dan, you know,
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and kind of like a flannel speedo and some oh and a half walking up.
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That is not a family friendly image. Trey Hallmark would not go over
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that. I'm not even I hope to god nobody would. I was thinking,
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for your only day's account, you're not going to get a You're not
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going to get Candice Cameron to co star on that one. Oh no,
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You're finally gonna You're finally gonna get a roller ROJH. Today is, of
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course, Friday, December twenty second, twenty twenty three, the Friday before
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Christmas. I have a very special heartwarming story or actually feet warming story to
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share with you two before we get into the stupid news of the day.
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But as it is Friday, right before Christmas, it reminds me of my
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days of celebrating Christmas by going to the galleria. This is what I would
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do typically with Gallery or North Park or whatever mall that was close by at
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the time, and I would have my Christmas list all the gifts that I
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needed to buy, for people, and I would do one shopping trip one
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day and one day only, and if the stores didn't have it, you
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didn't get it. But every single time I was able to accomplish my mission
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and get at least a gift for everybody on that list, and doing it
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in strategic military fashion. I would have to plan out which stores I was
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going to hit first. First of all, which mall am I going to
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hit? Where am I going to park? And then which stores am I
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hitting on which levels first and in what order so I can be in and
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out as most efficiently as possible, while also of course stopping at the anti
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christ Starbucks for their anti Christmas cup flavorings. So what does that mean?
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Like you have to download the programs like for a map program for the mall,
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and then the inventory list of every store and then process it and you
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just get a list, and that's the way you do. But but and
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what I would do is where where in the list you sit on Santa's lap.
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It's at the end tray. That's the reward, you said, right,
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I don't really have to ask for Santa for anything at that point.
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I just tell him to tell me I'm a good boy. That's all I
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need, and then I can get my tr the only person, he's the
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only person that has Santa. And it's a mall Santa too. You find
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a right Santa though, you know the Malsana's if there was some open work
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in a BD s M club, they're they're gained for eleven months out of
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the year. Hey man, what Santa does at night after after a day
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full of kids at the mall. I can't really say I blame him.
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They make really good money, do they. That's the that's Oh yeah.
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A buddy of mine, uh her dad uh is a is a Santa Claus
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and for this he'll he'll clear one forty for the Seriously, that's what he
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one. I'm not frozen, that's just me stunned. I just wow,
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Okay, Yeah, he clears about anywhere between when he first started out.
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I guess. I don't know if there's a hierarchy or whatever the corner is
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or whatever, like whatever you have to do. I don't think Santa's working
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a corner. Yeah, I don't know how it works. Is there a
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Santa's Union? I mean not in Texas. I'm sure there is in l
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A positive there's one in La. Now now we have another storyline for our
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Don Kringle movie. You know, he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna break the
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unions. Yeah, but yeah he clears about one uh anywhere between one forty
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and mall, Like is that the North mall or is that like the between
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malls between malls and like uh appearances and like, uh, you'd be surprised.
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I don't know anymore. Yeah, yeah, big big town, big
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town paying big bucks these days. That's you just age yourself because I don't
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even think it's there anymore. Like I don't even think the building is Like
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I don't know if the building. You just have gun shows there. Santa
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still my spot still runs for it. Yeah, but like appearances and like
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like like showing up to like kids like Christmas parties and corporate parties and all
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that stuff. Like he makes like that's what he does and he's done for
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the year. God, I bet, I bet there is a gun show
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that has a Santa there. I bet that you're talking about a Santa that
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rakes it in Yeah. Oh yeah, And that's that's not even a center
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you can mug at the end of the night, because you know, he's
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gotten stuff in that bag. Gun show Santa. I like those guys.
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He don't talk good, but he makes a country, making your loopholes bright
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got a set of truck nuts on the sleigh, wouldn't it be eight sets
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that glows that are red already? He just calls miss Clauses old lady.
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He's the only Santa that's a one percenter. Al Right, Before we get
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too far down into the u into the drenches of Christmas, let me share
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a quick story for you to bring us out of it, something uplifting that
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I wanted to share with you guys briefly. And that is so the day
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after we did our Christmas road show at Shaker Tins, Tara and I got
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in a rental van because we had to take some more of our personal things
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from Texas to Florida to be shipped here to the island, and in doing
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so, we had acquired at our Airbnb and at our house where we stayed
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a bunch of snacks and things that we weren't going to finish, right,
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So we decided on our way out of Dallas, you know, heading east,
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that we would find a homeless person and say, here you go,
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here's some stuff. If you're hungry, please, you know, either eat
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it all yourself, share it with your friends, whatever. But here you
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go. And on our way out, we're thinking, okay, well where
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should we stop? And I knew we were getting on I thirty and heading
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east, and I said, you know what we can do, Let's just
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stop at Exposition, you know, down there at the dart station across from
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the Cotton Bowl. Pretty much guaranteed to find some homeless people there. So
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that was what we did. Make the exit. We're on Perry Avenue,
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I believe it is, and I'd say, almost immediately see this homeless lady
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sitting in front of I don't know if it was a bar or a barber
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shop. Obviously it wasn't open, but she's just sitting there, and she's
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sitting in the sun. And I realized, now that was very strategic because
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it was a cold morning on Saturday or Sunday, December tenth, but it
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wasn't so bad in the sun. And the reason why that was important is
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because I got out of the van from around the corner, brought over that
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sack of food and snacks and things to give her, and as I turned
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the corner, I noticed that her legs are sticking out into the sun,
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and she's not wearing any shoes, and she has no socks, and that's
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why her feet were in the sun, because they were frozen. And I
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immediately felt silly for handing her a bag of like special K protein cereal bars
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and cheerios and cheetos and things that we stole from our airbnb. And she
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was grateful. She was so happy for it. She stood up, she
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came over and she's like, oh my god, thank you so much.
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Because I didn't want spooker. I don't want to scare her, obviously,
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and she said, thank you so much, and so here Merry Christmas,
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and I hope his help and go back to the van. And every step
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back to the van, I'm thinking about her cold bear feet, and I
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realized in my suitcase, I've got four pairs of socks. They're not the
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last pair of socks I have in the world, but I in that moment
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realize she needs these obviously much more than I do, especially because I'm going
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back to the Caribbean and feel like a real a hole with all these socks
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open. I'm a suitcase. Grab a pair of big long gray socks,
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and I walked those back over to her and I said I forgot one,
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and they said, here you go. I'm not telling that story to be
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like, oh, look what I did. I'm saying it because if an
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opportunity for you arise is to do something similar. This is something that when
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I told Tara, when she asked what I was doing going back, I
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came back and said she needed socks, and she's like, okay, yeah,
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because Tara has volunteer doing a homeless count program before in previous years,
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where they would go around and try to do sort of like a homeless census,
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and it was extremely common for the people in those situations to not have
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any damn socks, and something most of us don't think about. So that's
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why I wanted to share the story. If you find yourself in a position
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to do it, food is obviously great. Jackets are great, coats,
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hats, mitten's, gloves, all that stuff. But if you find yourself
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at Walmart or something or Dollar General like RAJ, if you're buying a turkey
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again and they've got a big sack of socks or something, try that a
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big thing of socks, warm socks to take someplace and we all know where
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our nearest homeless in camp it is. It's pretty common these days we know
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where the nearest ones are, or we know the people that hang out on
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the street corner of panhandling while not being shoot off by you know, Pimpy
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Santa. So that's just something I wanted to to share with you guys,
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because it was it was something that happened to us. It was very important,
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it was very eye opening to me, and I hope by sharing it
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it can be eye opening to somebody else, and maybe someone else who needs
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a pair of socks will get some who had given who had given you the
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socks. I'm assuming it was a Christmas gift and you just, you know,
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like you did with my bottle of You catch me regifting one gift of
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yours, and you assume everything I give away is a gift that's that someone
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has given me. You know, why why wouldn't you give the whiskey to
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the homeless because I had already gifted it to Jerry. Well, he's kind
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of homeless. I mean it's kind of close. He works for nowhere he
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works, he's almost home, I know. Yeah, So that was the
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number one years ago. I saw the thing when I was when I was
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in LA that the number one thing that's requested at homeless shelter is socks.
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And so I make these, and I again not I don't tell people,
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but I make these little go bags, and so you're right. I do
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go to the nine sense store, not just for twenty pounds turkeys every year,
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but I do. They sell socks and there I think they're a dollar
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ninety nine for three pairs of socks. And then I get the brown like
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remember the old lunch bags. It's a little brown paper bag. And I
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do like the small toothpaste and a toothbrush and socks and soap, and I
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do a bottle of water. Sometimes I'll tape two if the bag is strong
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enough, and then I do like two bucks and quarters because I don't know
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if you know this, but drug dealers don't take quarters, and they can
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also use that to get like a sandwich like here, you know, it
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was like you know, it's a dollar menu, but it's nothing. It's
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a dollar. It's a dollar plus tax or whatever. So I always do
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that, and they just have like eight quarters in the bank and I keep
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them in my car and if I see somebody like nothing, nothing, not
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the usual guys that I see out that I know getting the Mercedes. I'm
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sure. And you know, because not everyone else has you know, the
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wherewithal to think about, you know, giving someone a homeless starter kit.
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Well, I mean, if you find yourself newly homeless, you're like,
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where do we get water from? Da? There's no place to get water
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from? Uh? And and soap and toothpaste and a toothbrush and a comb
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stuff like that. So I just put a little thing and I keep them
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in my car, and so I'll just give them to the folk that are
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out there, especially at this time. And I also do the like the
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like sweaters and stuff from my previous years. If I if I keep them
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in a suitcase and I'll keep them in a car and if I see somebody
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that needs one. It was one a couple of months ago. It was
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just hot and I had extra water, so I was like, here man,
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and he wasn't. You can always tell he wasn't begging for anything.
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He wasn't didn't hold up a sign whatever. He was just kind of on
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the side of the road doing his own That was probably just a guy out
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for a run who didn't plan well well, but he looked like shit.
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Uh, he looked he looked very fit. Yeah, he looked very very
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uh very fit for being uh out for a run. He didn't need to
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be running anywhere. He was already very very skinny. And I was like,
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there's just a couple of extra bottles of water. But yeah, that's
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a I love that you did that, man, that's very cool. Like
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I I don't, I don't. It's hard to tell people that, like,
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let me tell you the story. Maybe it'll help somebody else. But
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it does and people will listen and hopefully it's the paying it forward thing that
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that comes. Do you do anything like that? He just throws. He
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just carry around carre around food for dogs and cats. That's good and you
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give that to the homeless people. It is. I think you're in the
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Including smexcellent holiday shows this weekend and then next week. All sorts of good
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stuff happening at the Dallas Comedy Club Friday before before Christmas. I'm not doing
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the the crazy Christmas list crossing off of stuff. I've finally reached the point
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in my life where i don't have to worry about buying things for anybody for
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Christmas because I did the smart thing and I moved twenty two hundred miles away
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where I'm not required to do such things anymore. That's nice. It doesn't
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But like when you're in person, like you know, when you're like here
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visiting like for like a road show, you could have had a gift for
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your friends then, you know, like we did. I didn't have time.
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Hm. I'm just saying, like, you know, we had he
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had bought us socks. Yeah, yeah, apparently because it was I can't
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remember Trey, whose idea was it that we all should say, like,
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let's set a limit of twenty five dollars and that's as far as we go,
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and then we just can buy something. I can't remember, Trey,
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if you remember whose idea it was. I think it was Dan's. Yeah,
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I think I think it was your. I think it was your idea.
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Dan says, some time familiar to me at all? Whatsoever? I
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deny all of it. Uh, well, you know that's the thing about
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you can't run from tape. So we can just play the episode back where
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you decide that's what we're gonna do. We don't have those freak fire tragedy.
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We we have the episodes. It was the white It was a white
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elephant, I think because I did know what a white elephant gift was.
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And then you explained the whole thing, and then you set a price limit,
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and then Trey and I actually went out and bought stuff, and so
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you're also saying you didn't have time right to get anything for us. You
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could have just given us the twenty five dollars I didn't have. I didn't
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have enough cash with Venmo cash app that it was congested by everyone buying merch
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at the event. Oh so we could have gotten a T shirt, you
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know, because those were twenty five dollars. So you could have just given
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us each our own T shirts. Pray you have, you have? You
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have two? Right, Yeah, one's an Xcel, one's a double Excel.
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Nobody's taking that perfect perfect. Those shirts run small. See this is
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when this is this is the part that I love when when Dan becomes Indian
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without knowing he's Indian. That's what that's what happens. Is like I I
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got so busy, you know I did. I got really busy and out
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and out of nowhere. Birthday showed up to distract us all. Today is
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Friday, December twenty second, twenty twenty. I do love you guys.
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I'm just really terrible at giving gifts now birthdays today because today is you're not
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you're good at giving gifts to other people. It just y yes, yeah,
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yeah, you managed to give everybody else their gifts. All right,
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well, I tell you what it's. It's kind of a good news bad
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news situation. The bad news is you guys don't have a gift. The
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good news is I now have a resolution for next year. Ah good,
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and you, in your forgetfulness, will keep that intact. I can't control
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what I what iat what my brain decides to remember or forget. Look more
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birthdays. As I mentioned before, today is Friday, December twenty second,
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twenty twenty three birthdays today. Pop singer, I guess she's still that Meghan
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Trainer. She is twenty nine that actually, I guess now that she's it's
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this day would probably make her thirty, So she's the Big three O today.
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Rapper the baby is definitely not a baby. He's thirty two today.
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Now I have to skip over all the all the TikTok and Instagram stars,
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so I hate that they're in here. TV actor Joshua Bassett is twenty two.
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TV actress Genevieve Hanelius is twenty four. Movie actor Bryce Geiser is eighteen,
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but the photo they have for him makes him look he's like six.
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Here's someone that we all know, actor director producer Ray Fines. He is
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sixty one today. Wow, he was. He graduated to the level of
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m in the Daniel Craig Bond movies after Dame Judy dench okay, gotcha and
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they announced who's going to be the next Bond. They have not really really
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pushing for inter Selvo. I think he's pretty much come out and been like,
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no, I'm good. But they didn't feel like they all say that
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until until they accepted. Yeah. But you know, I think the other
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problem with him is by the time they started production, he's too old,
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because I mean, I think they want someone who's got a ten year a
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ten year span, and I think Sean Sean Connery was born old. Uh
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and he still got the gig. So well, you say, but you
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think about it, they actually were sixty seems to be the threshold that they
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walk away from Bond stars because that's about how old Connory was, and then
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Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton. I think they just got rid of him.
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Yeah, whatever happened to him, Like his Bond career ended. His career,
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Bonds completely over. He was in the Uh, he was in Hot
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Fuzz with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. After after they did a Sean of
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the Dead, they did the Hot Fuzz movie. That was awesome. He
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was in that. Yeah, was he in Crampus? Do you remember him
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in that? Do you remember? You say? That's awesome? You were
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you were James Bond, You're Hot Fuzz. Yeah. Man, there are
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some things you're just gonna have to contend with. I if you kind of
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peek in your acting career or just your career in general, like some people
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would say, oh, you go from the Russ Martin Show to a podcast.
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Yeah, but it's it's the next evolution, it's the next thing.
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You started out as James Bond, and you know he's still a working actor.
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He was in other stuff after it. I can't name any of not
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uff my head, but that. I mean, look, that man's been
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in a movie. He's been in a number of movies, and none of
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us have That's true, at least not on that level. I mean,
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Roger and I have done a couple of things for friends, but I don't
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know if I want ad many of those. Yeah. The story that I
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will always remember from you know, the days of the of the Russ Martin
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Show, or you know the fact that Adam West after he's Batman and successful,
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and then you know, two years later he's getting fired out of a
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cannon because that's the only work he can get to Iowa State Fair or something
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because it was a paying gig. Look, I don't I don't fault anybody,
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no matter what your job was before, and how how illustrious it might
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have been or how well it might have paid. At a certain point,
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you got to eat, you want to provide for your family, or at
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the very least you're just bored and want to do something, and you want
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to do something that you know. And Timothy Dalton, yeah, maybe he
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had a couple of down years or whatever, but he's still. Catherine Heigel
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from Grey's Anatomy, when she got fired from the show because she's so difficult
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to work with, nobody wanted to work with her. If you will go
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back, she did a Niqual commercial because that's the only work that she could
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get for the longest time. And I didn't falter for it. I mean,
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was it was it a step down from from the TV gig, sure,
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But I like the fact that I liked that she she had to you
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know, it was actually really smart of her to do that because it showed
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you milody, which is one of the things that was one of the complaints
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about her. Yeah, but I don't think people when when you when you
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get to that level of where people are complaining about you, they don't see
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humility and that they go, oh, that's what that bitch gets, Like,
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that's that's what they see. Because I remember, I remember watching it.
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I was like, is that catch in a nic Cole commercial? Like
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you don't you don't see that? Like for the longest time, that was
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a big taboo. For the longest time, you didn't see Hollywood actors in
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tell they would do them overseas, do the voiceover stuff left and right.
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Yeah, yeah, but the commercials like you know, just selling you know,
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pitching chips or beer or whatever. Like they wouldn't do that uh here
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locally because it would be like a little stigma to their the crew. But
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overseas, like Schwartzenaker has been doing commercial Schortznakers st alone, like all those
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guys have been doing commercials in Japan for decades. Uh and then they they
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there was a TV show on Fox whatever that leaked all these international like goofy
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international commercials and They're like, everybody's like, what they won't do them here,
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and so then that's when that you know, now you see celebrities and
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commercials here now, so that's kind of interesting. But yeah, there was
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there was also a stigma if you were if you were considered a film actor.
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There was a stigma for the longest time about doing any TV. Oh
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yeah, for sure, for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. And
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now everybody wants to do a Netflix run or a Hulu run. So yeah,
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I mean it's uh yeah, I mean it pays out the ass of
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course they do. Yes. But again, going full circle, I would
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love to see Indris Elbow get it because that would be very cool to shake
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things up in the world of the Bond. I see what you did there?
27:36
See you see? I learned it from the best Whizzy I'll kill him
27:48
dead. The visit us online at Treehouse on Air. Let's talk to Daniel
28:04
Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration for your free roof inspection. Give them
28:08
a call eight three to three Cook d FW today. Daniel, I want
28:12
to ask you, did you hear about the Florida man that shot at the
28:17
Christmas parade? I have not, actually, Dan that's that's very interesting.
28:22
It's one of those things where you think, is it really so bad that
28:26
people are having a good time outside your house that you feel the need to
28:29
grab the gun, run outside and fire several rounds in their general directions,
28:33
Like can't you just put on some noise canceling headphones and watch die Hard or
28:37
something. Well, first of all, when you said a Florida man,
28:40
I already knew it was gonna be bad. Just like when you were in
28:45
the airport recently. He almost saw your altercation with that other Florida guy.
28:48
Yeah, take a shirt off in the middle of the airport. That already
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is You know, every time you say a story from Florida, it automatically
28:55
goes sideway. You know there's something really bad that's about to happen. And
28:57
I don't know if it's the water, maybe they have something weird in their
29:03
in their in their environmentals. I don't know. But every time you hear
29:07
the word Florida and story, you know it's fixing to be something really stupid.
29:11
But yeah, I hope they I hope they take care of this guy.
29:14
He actually has something mentally wrong with him obviously, so he does not
29:18
need to be in the general public, and especially for something like that,
29:22
for people just celebrating Christmas. My goodness, what a story. Yeah,
29:26
it also makes me think that maybe if he got a soundproof roof that maybe
29:30
that would have helped. I'm not sure if you make those or if they
29:33
make those at all, but I always say anything is possible with enough time
29:37
and money. Absolutely. You know, most of those roofs over there in
29:41
Florida, I mean a lot of the areas are tile roofs, and they
29:44
they echo. Actually maybe so maybe that's what was happening. Maybe he had
29:47
so many noises in his head going off it set back some bad, bad
29:52
problems from childhood. Who knows, but wow, what here is Get yourself
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a good roof, absolutely have something solid. Get make your home, make
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life better than the guy in Florida for sure eight three to three cook DFW
30:17
or the website cookdfw dot com. It's the streethouse. Let's talk to Jaqueline
30:22
from Brooks Plumbing two one, four, three, six eight thirty eight,
30:25
thirty eight for any and all of your plumbing once and needs. Now we've
30:27
got Christmas behind us, and what do you have playing for New Year's?
30:30
Ever you a big go out person or are you the opposite saying I'm older.
30:34
Now I've had my go out time. I'm going to stay at home
30:37
and watch the ball drop. I've absolutely had my go out time. I
30:41
am going to stay home. Fiance is on call. It's his on call
30:45
that weekend, and if I can't go out with him, I don't really
30:48
want to go out without him. Now on New Year's not when you want
30:51
to be with your person. So we'll stay home. We'll watch movies,
30:53
make dinner, and just have a very relaxing evening. It's amazing how the
30:57
older we get the nicer. That sounds like hearing you describe that sounds like,
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oh, that sounds really really good. Yeah, you still get the
31:06
Christmas tree up, so it's got a soft glow in the house of the
31:08
lights in the fireplace, and you just stay warm. It's cold here.
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I don't I don't like the cold. I'm gonna do that. Well,
31:15
if you ever change your mind on on living in a cold place, you
31:18
know I know a good spot. Just I'm just saying I do too.
31:22
We're I would. I would definitely relocate to Saint John. That's a beautiful
31:29
island. And trust me, there are plenty of plumbing projects that would need
31:33
your attention if you chose to go that route. As it is, you
31:37
guys are staying busy in North Texas helping people. So if you need help
31:41
with your plumbing, wants, needs, whatever it is, give Jacqueline and
31:45
her team at Brooks Plumbing a call two one four, three six eight thirty
31:48
eight thirty eight or Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. You're in the Treehouse,
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visit us online at Treehouseonair dot com. Sorry, I'm back, kind of
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fix the television. Don't like giving a free plugs to Tradition Network now that
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I've said their name. This second of the Treehouse brought to you by our
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friends at Brooks Plumbing, wishing you a very, very merry Christmas. When
32:25
your friends and family come over and clog all your pipes, which they will
32:30
do, you need to give Jacqueline and our friends at Brooks Plumbing a call
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for any and all of your plumbing wants and needs. Two one four three
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six eight thirty eight thirty eight. That's two one four three six eight thirty
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eight thirty eight. In the website Brooks Plumbing, Texas a dot com,
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there are a number of Christmas traditions that people have. Some people love them,
32:52
some people hate them, and a website decided to ask everyone to rate
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there. There are Christmas traditions on how much they love, hate, or
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just kind of about And I'm always fascinated by these things because one, I
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think, I think people like to compare, even though I'm a firm believer
33:15
that comparison is the thief of joy. Sometimes it's okay because it's interesting to
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see how different people do things, even if it's like at a similar time,
33:27
like like Rajah. I don't know, like in the Indian community for
33:30
for you know, like a for for an Indian holiday or maybe a Hindu
33:34
holiday. You know, Uh, do Indian families compare like decorations or meals
33:39
compared to other people. I think it's a natural human thing, the way
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you know, us white Christian folk in America do for Christmas. Oh yeah,
33:47
yeah, I mean it's everything's a comparison, like what you're everything?
33:52
So like whose kids doing what? Whose kids a doctor whose kids is not
33:55
who's who went to school here? Who went to school there? What?
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You know, what food did they serve at this holiday thing? What food
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did they serve at the wedding? Was there alcohol? What kind of alcohol?
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How expensive was I mean, it's all of it. So there's a
34:07
never ending uh comparisons to everybody else, like, well, you know,
34:12
so and so had a you know, the Volley party, which are basically
34:15
our Christmas uh, and you know they had this was catered by these people
34:17
and they had you know, you know, four bars and it was an
34:21
open bar and it was all top shelf. And then you know, we
34:23
went to this one in that place just had beer and wine and I'm like,
34:27
what do you guys? You didn't you're not bringing anything, Like what
34:30
are you complaining about? But yeah, I know it is if you want
34:34
to win your holiday party, whether it's like you said to Vali or Christmas
34:38
or Easter, whatever it is, I feel like we can make this happen.
34:42
What you need to do is you need to get yourself on the list
34:45
for Tray Trenholm's tender. Lloyd. Yeah, I'm not going to take that
34:50
to the Hindu parties. That's a bad. That's a bad. That's a
34:53
that's a that's a that's a different way to win the holidays. That's a
34:58
way to get your family disowned by a bunch of Hindus. It's bringing that
35:01
juicy beef tenderloin to a bunch of Indus. I just love that you referred
35:07
to Trey as juicy. I mean, that's a stripper name is beef tenderloin.
35:15
That's right there, Lord, beef tenderline. Lord. Yeah, you
35:20
got to make sure you get the the proper title. So anyway, Yeah,
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thousands of people weighed in on the website that suggested various Christmas traditions.
35:30
So there's all these Christmas traditions and thousands of people weighed in on whether or
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not they love them, they're sort of about them, or if they actually
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secretly hate them. And I've got the results making Christmas cards. Just over
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ten percent of people say they not only send out Christmas cards, but they
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also make them. Wow, there are very few people that I still know
35:59
that do Christmas cards. There are a handful. It's usually younger families because
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they just had a kid, second kid. I don't know, they had
36:07
a kid that learned how to graduate sixth grade or something, and they feel
36:10
they need to tell everybody about it, so they do the Christmas card,
36:13
make a card for everybody, and see about sending them out to everybody else
36:21
to show them what they've what they've accomplished. Yeah, because the you know,
36:23
bumper stickers that my kid's an honor student at some elementary school aren't enough.
36:28
No, no, no, they need to send the same thing,
36:30
but with like a Santa hat on it. Gotcha? Okay, So the
36:35
people that do that, okay, I've never met it. I've never met
36:38
that many sociopaths, so I don't know how that works. You make a
36:44
Christmas card. Fourteen percent of people get their Christmas shopping done by Black Friday.
36:51
To me, that's just no fun. That takes the excitement out of
36:53
it. But if maybe someone's idea of excitement is getting it all done before
36:58
Black Friday and feeling like they can lord it over everybody else, then I
37:00
guess that's fine. Whatever float your both. Well, yeah, that's easy
37:02
for you to say. You don't even do any Christmas shopping. You just
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wait to see what you get and then you repurpose it and regift it.
37:08
Yeah, and then you don't buy anybody anything else anyway. Yeah, all
37:12
I'm hearing is you sound jealous. Trade. Also, fourteen percent of people
37:17
are really into doing Christmas family photos. I guarantee if you're the one person
37:22
that's into doing the Christmas family photo, you're the only person in your family
37:25
who's into it. Everyone else does not want to be there. They don't
37:29
want to do it. And I guarantee you the kids are thinking we could
37:31
photoshop this. Oh I'd love to do one of those. I've never got
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to do one that seems like finally get the like the dogs and like the
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girl and the in the just what you should do, raj and you get
37:45
your dogs and you you know, you go to Olind Mills, get the
37:49
wood paneling in the background, a little antler, you know. No,
37:53
it's just like, you know, wearing the matching shirts and the dogs are
37:58
there. And I've never been I've never got to do one of those.
38:01
If you guys, I'm sure have I never got to do one of those.
38:04
Yeah. Yeah, See, don't take for granted what you what you
38:07
uh, what you were able to? Uh? What's stopped? I'm forty
38:14
eight and I'm like, it sounds like a bucket list thing you need to
38:19
I would like to do. I mean, I'm not gonna be on my
38:21
deathbed, like where's the flannel? I don't I don't really care about that.
38:27
But I'm like, I didn't get to do that kind of stuff,
38:29
Like I never I've never carved a pumpkin. I've never done. Sounds to
38:34
me like you have a whole series of photos that you need to be shooting.
38:37
Yeah, that'd be weird, but look at me carving the pumpkin at
38:43
forty eight. But no, I've never got You guys got to do all
38:45
my white friends got to do all that stuff. Like, hey, there's
38:49
no reason why you can't catch up ra Just because just because it's sort of
38:52
like a white thing to do before you're thirty, doesn't mean that you can't
38:54
do these things before you're fifty. That's true. I've never been on a
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go cart. See look at your white faces. Look at look at this
39:02
sheer disappointment. You've never you never went to Malibu? No, wow,
39:08
No, you never went to that sketchy place off of seventy five between Bartlesville
39:13
and Tulsa. Chop tall I don't know what. I don't know which one
39:21
that is. But no, I never got to do the go karts.
39:23
I never yeah that my mom was. I told you my mom was a
39:28
nurse, So anything like motorized, my mom like you're going to die and
39:31
I'm like, okay, well, I guess we're not doing it. BECA,
39:34
we're not doing tho. I wasn't entirely wrong, and she did work
39:37
in an emergency room, so she had experience with it. Twenty one percent
39:39
of people love putting up their Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. Twenty five percent of
39:45
people love baking cookies. It's more of these Christmas traditions that people just either
39:51
love or so so or they secretly hate. Twenty five percent of people are
39:55
secretly obsessed with the ugly Christmas sweaters. I don't know how you can be
40:00
secretly obsessed with that, because if you're obsessed with Christmas sweaters, everybody knows
40:05
it. Also, twenty seven percent of people love to entertain over the holidays
40:10
and host parties. Twenty nine percent of people love Christmas decorations. I'm one
40:16
of those. I love Christmas decorations. I don't mind admitting it. People
40:21
love Christmas decorations, or your wife loves decorations and they're therefore you do.
40:25
I love decorations. She also loves decorations, so it actually works out well
40:31
some ironically, some of my happiest memories are when I was little and Christmas
40:37
because my family went all out for Christmas with the decorations and the gifts and
40:39
the food and everything. I say ironically because my parents hated each other,
40:44
but they did really good job of hiding it, which is part of the
40:46
reason why I love Christmas is my parents would have hide their hate for one
40:50
another. That's That's a Christmas miracle. It really is. Also, forty
41:02
people think Christmas music is great. I used to hate it. I've come
41:07
back around on it. I now enjoy it. No, I also for
41:10
a few years there, I was in a very dark place and would listen
41:14
to Christmas music in the world. It was something that would give me joy
41:17
on the ride home. What Christmas Carol like, the rocking around the Christmas
41:24
tree? Whatever, No, you can't, I'd be fine. I'd be
41:31
fine with Christmas music if they would limit it to two weeks before Christmas.
41:37
I'd be fine if they limited it to one song once that night and that
41:39
was it. That shit is terrible, Like, but I the only thing
41:45
I can think of is like, man, can you imagine being the guy
41:47
who's like, man, I've done my instant the instant instruments like bells,
41:52
like that guy like can't wait for Christmas to come around because that's the only
41:58
time he's in session. That's his end season, Like I can't what's the
42:04
radio station here one of two to one that's doing for years. They would
42:07
not listen to me when I suggested to them when they would switch to Christmas.
42:10
I said, you're missing an opportunity here because they call it Star one
42:14
o two point one. I said you need to change it to north Star
42:16
one oh two point one. They would never do it. No, And
42:20
I'm so grateful for that suggestion. Dan, you should have just been like,
42:23
hey, can we just do like an hour on Christmas Day? And
42:27
then that be it? Just play the hits or really screw with them and
42:30
be like, hey, you really want to you know, see if people
42:32
are paying attention, how about after Mariah Carey you bring back the edge?
42:42
You don't do that. I would listen to that. Well, if you
42:46
had back then, then you wouldn't have Christmas music on one o two point
42:50
one, it'd still be the edge. But no one listened. I know,
42:52
I just can't. Yeah, so I can't with it. Christmas music
42:55
and Christian rock are the same in the same boat, and I hope it
43:00
floods and saints to the bottom of the Eshan. Well, that's the irony,
43:04
raj is because of the genre of music. That's not going to happen,
43:07
because those are the two genres of music that made it onto the arc.
43:15
Noah saved those two genres, those are the two he saved. That's
43:22
terrible. Yeah, but I mean, if you're a Christmas I can't believe.
43:24
I can't believe I've learned something new about you today. Dan, You're
43:29
right, Well that keep in mind. I think you didn't hear the part
43:30
where I said at the time, I was in a very dark place,
43:34
and listening to Christmas music year round at that time in that dark place actually
43:38
helped me feel better at that time. I'm now at a better place,
43:44
and so I listened to Christmas music just you know, around now, around
43:47
Christmas music time, not you know July. Oh you flash back, do
43:52
you flash back when you were like a board op at KBIL and you had
43:54
to do Christmases and everything else. That was the reason why it was all
43:59
Thechristmas music I played at kV IL from two thousand to two thousand and two.
44:02
That I was dead set against Christmas music for about eighteen nineteen years.
44:08
What do you think of bordop fields? That works for the freak. I'm
44:16
going to take the fifth on that one. You did? He gave Jerry
44:20
a fifth on that one. And all they do is watch Hallmark movies because
44:25
they can't watch sports anymore. You know what, You just put on a
44:35
scarf and warm up your throat and dude, you do the you do the
44:39
thing, or you listen to Christmas music you're around like I did, got
44:49
out to the dark place that you're in. And finally, fifty four percent
44:55
of people still say they absolutely love doing Secret Santa. Interesting and and okay,
45:05
hold on, I'm gonna sounds stupid, but secrets like you you buy
45:09
a gift for someone, but you don't tell them who you are. That
45:12
works. Yeah, Sometimes it might be one gift, it might be a
45:15
series of gifts. Usually it's very popular in offices. That's what I was
45:17
gonna say, is that is this a family thing or an office I remember
45:21
that at the office. It can be both, but I think I think
45:23
it's mostly popular in offices. It's a it's a good way for large groups
45:28
to exchange gifts, but you don't break the bank. So you just draw
45:31
a name and you know it. Kind of like you know a white Elephant
45:36
Christmas, where you go, okay, there's a twenty five dollars limit or
45:38
whatever, and then you just don't bring anything, and then somebody brings you
45:44
stuff. Secret Dan Yeah, secret da Danta clause brings you nothing. It's
46:00
not my fault. You were bad. Oh sounds like my parents. Now
46:09
I learned from the best Danta claws. Sounds like something you can do on
46:20
your only dance though. Yeah, we've got a stake out of it.
46:30
You will get it on purpose. In the pic I almost drowned in my
46:37
Steel Treehouse podcast, Cup, be sure to tune into the Treehouse on Monday
46:42
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46:45
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46:47
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46:52
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