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Episode 69: Goodbye Joel, Hello Katt Williams · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Maley along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.
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This is normally the portion of the show at the beginning where we intro
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things and say it's time to leave your worries outside and join us here in
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the treehouse. And you can still do that, but sometimes things happen in
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our lives that we'll kind of bleed into the treehouse some and that's okay,
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that's part of life. And what I'm talking about is we were supposed to
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record this episode yesterday, but life took a bit of a turn because we
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had to put down our boy Joel yesterday. And actually I need to amend
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that we got to h yeah, because I know people, and I've had
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this experience in my life before where you didn't have the opportunity to be there,
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you know, at the end. So while we're sad, we're also
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really grateful. And I also need you guys to help distract me at this
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point. Thank Kat Williams for going off the crazy train talking about that,
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because man, you talk about a great distraction, something to get you thinking
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about something else. It ever hurts go, It never hurts to go with
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not only stupid, but crazy crazy. You can really fill your brain very
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very quickly, right, Trey, Oh yeah, yeah, it lives rent
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free in mine. So we'll get to the Kat Williams going Scorched Earth on
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Shannon Sharp's show in just a little bit. But fourteen years we had Joel.
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Terry got to meet him first. I met him a little while after
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that. She met him at a at a now defunct Rescued Group adoption event.
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So we got Joel. They suspected that he was like one and a
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half maybe two years old when Tara first met him, and we had him
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for fourteen years, So that means that dude kicked it for sixteen years on
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this planet. Yeah. And what was truly amazing to me and Tara was
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the last two weeks we weren't home, all of our animals were. We're
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here at our house on Saint John while we were doing a Christmas you know,
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vacation, right. We went to Seattle. We went to Levenworth,
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Washington, which is the crazy Christmas town and the middle of the Cascades,
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and then back to Seattle and then flying forever to get back here. And
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we flew back. We got here on the morning of the third, or
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actually, sorry, afternoon of the third, So we hadn't even been home
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for two full days when we recognized that something was wrong with Joel, because
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before we left we had taken him to the vet get him checked out because
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he had a new lump, which is not new for him because he's had
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lots of lumps. It's kind of like Trey. Do you remember what doctor
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Fettner said the uh so weird to say that the show used to have a
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show proctologist, but we did. Doctor Fettner used to say that he lived
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long enough. What's that trait? Technically he was a urologist. Oh he
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was. I forgot he did the front stuff because I only saw him doing
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the back end. Yeah. I mean he didn't mind sticking your finger,
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his finger up there. But when you guys saw this, oh no,
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some of us experienced it first finger lying on a m Luckily I was always
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young enough to where uh he didn't get access to me. And then he
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retired. So I think he retired thinking like I never got in on Dan.
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But he had said years ago that as a man, if you live
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long enough, you will eventually get prostate cancer. I don't know if that's
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true or not. But he was a doctor, and I was just kind
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of deferring to him. So absolutely true and so mm hmm, and I
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think that's and that might it might be the case if you you know,
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if you live long enough, something, something's obviously going to get you in
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the end. And as a human, it might be cancer, it might
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be he just died just because you're old. Whatever. But Joel, because
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of his age, he had all these lumps on him and whatever. He'd
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get ano and Tara would find it and we'd take him to the vet and
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then uh, inevitably they'd come back and say, it's fine, it's just
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one of those what is it called the leppoma. Yeah, it's it's just
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it's just a fatty nodule. And uh, luckily his weren't terrible. I've
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seen them where they were like on dogs, are like dragging around on the
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floor. Nothing like that on him. But we'd always get him checked out.
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We had him checked out before we left because Tara found one doctor's like,
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he's good, he's in great shape. Everything sounds wonderful. And that
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was like a week or so before we went out of town. But as
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soon as we got back, we noticed that something was different about him.
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He was moving much slower than he already was. I mean, like I
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said, he was sixteen years old, so it's not like he was running
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around like the flash and he hadn't in years. But he was still mobile.
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He's still moving around, just a little bit slow. Oh we got
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back, he was ultra slow. Okay, yeah, And the pet sitters
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that we had helping us, we're giving us updates on the pets the whole
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time, which is great. And then they had told us at one point
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that he was having some potty issues, like okay, that's a bit of
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a red flag. And that continued when we got back, so we made
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an appointment at the vet. Tara also noticed that out of nowhere, he
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had a second chin, so a new lump had sprung up in just the
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two weeks. We were gone, oh wow, So we take Jold of
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the vet. And we also noticed that when a dog lies down, Trey,
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I mean you both have dogs, you know, like they'll put those
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front legs down and then he just kind of just go down right onto the
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floor. When he was doing it, it was taking him about about ten
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to twelve seconds to actually go from the starting position and actually making it all
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the way down part of that ultra slow thing. So the vet said,
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yeah, he's super uncomfortable. The stomach issue is an issue, but the
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bigger issue is that she was pretty sure that she found lymphoma, and the
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thinking is that it was probably pretty aggressive considering how this new lump felt like
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lymphoma. Plus his limp nodes were swollen and positions where they're not supposed to
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be to where you know, he wouldn't have had much longer. So I
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say all that to say we you know, of course we're tears and were
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sad, but we're also grateful because, like I was saying before, some
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people don't ever get that opportunity like we had that with one of our previous
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dogs, Daphne. She went in for trade knows this. She was tiny,
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not as tiny as Trey's Daisy, but pretty tiny. She was like
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four and a half pounds and she went in for dental surgery and she never
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woke up, so we didn't We didn't get the chance to say goodbye.
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You know, other people have traumatic things to happen on their pets and they
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don't have a chance to say goodbye. It's just something that happens. So,
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uh, while we were sad and still are, we're also happy that
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we got to have that for him and with him. Yeah, because man,
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he went out on a full belly. They brought him. Oh man,
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the only thing missing was like a cheese burger. But they, when
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we had talked to the doctor, made the decision and Okay, this is
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what we all think needs to happen. So they brought a blanket in and
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lay on it, and then they brought in all the treats and then uh,
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doctor Murria which a quick thank you to canine cats and critters on Saint
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John. So doctor Maria is like, no, no, no, we
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got better treats than that. So she goes and gets it eat better treats.
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I just feel bad for the dogs that they have and they're in boarding.
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We're back, you know, in the cages waiting for surgery. Like
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where you going with the good stuff? Like I'm assuming she's trolling it off
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the top shelf or they're going what do I have to do? You don't
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want to know, just walking by a bunch of dogs that can't eat before
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surgery, right, Yeah, it's yeah, you know, Sparky, you
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don't want to know what has to happen to get those treats. So and
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then she also game like this like super awesome canned food, and and he
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went to sleep and are you and that's it? Yeah, it was.
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It was a great dog. I was. I was fortunate enough. I
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got to meet him right after y'all had gotten him. That was when you
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were in that apartment over in Addison. We would watch the Bachelorrette our Bachelor.
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Yeah, yeah, so we Tara first met him and we were looking
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at photos yesterday while drinking for obvious reasons. And she first met him in
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September of two thousand and nine at the adoption event for this rescue group that's
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now gone away, and we brought him home in February of twenty ten.
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So I mean he lived. He lived a hell of a life. He,
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like I told Tara's like, he was an adventurer, maybe a reluctant
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one at times because it was sometimes us dragged in places, but you know,
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he got to live a life that I think only most dogs could dream
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of because he came to us and the situation he was in with that rescue
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group was not very good, but then he got to blossom in our home
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and kind of became you know, Tara's helper slash protector as anytime another dog
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would walk by, he had to yell at it and say you stay over
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there. Yeah, people, he was fine. He also hated squirrels,
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but I think that's universal. Yeah, but uh yeah, he lived in
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uh Lakewood, lower Greenville area. He got to live in Uptown when it
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was good, he got to live in Addison. He had to live in
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Irving, Las Colitas. You know, So the nice part, not the
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MacArthur side. I was gonna say, you know, life has ups and
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downs. It does, it does. And the good thing is his life
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was mostly on an upward trajectory. And then eventually, you know, he
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was he was so resilient that he made the move with us to Saint Thomas.
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Yeah, and what he had to endure for that because we throw ourselves,
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our stuff and our and our animals all in all in my jeep and
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we drove from Dallas to Miami, and then Joel took a separate flight from
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Miami to Saint Thomas via Puerto Rico because a hurricane decided to get in the
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way, and then eventually made the move here to Saint John near the end
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of last year. So it's it really is a cool thing to think that.
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You know, at one point in his life he was a city dog.
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Then he at one point he was living with us in our trailer next
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to Lake Louisville and Frisco, and then eventually he got to go to the
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beach and poop on it. Yeah, that's why I moved to California.
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I don't think that's special though. Isn't that sort of a normal thing at
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Venice Beach? I mean they they frown on it when they want to do
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it. Well, I'm sure they frowned as they want to do it.
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But there no one's stopping you. No, I mean, there's too many
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crazy there's a there's always the great the lady who has the wedding dress that's
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made out of trash. She kind of distracts them. Oh well you can
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while you poop. Hell. Now, there is a budding industry in San
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Francisco where there are people that are charging money to take you on tours through
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the homeless and and you know, watch the homeless and in their natural habitat
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and defecating on the streets and doing all these things. Twenty bucks by not
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bad? Why are you paying a guide for that? I've been to San
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Franciso. You just walk around, you'll find it. Yeah, just go
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to the Tenderlone. You're good. I'm guessing that they offer they feel like
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like some security with it. So it's like it's an urban safari, like
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photo safari, looking at all the different people and go oh okay. But
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I'm wondering if you're paying twenty bucks for this urban homeless safari, does that
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And speaking of funny things happening, cat Williams, Oh boy, what
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the hell? I mean? What the hell? Why? Uh? This
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was was was? What was? What was the catalyst? For him to
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go off in the way that he did in this interview, And a separate
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question would be why Shannon Sharp and also why do Shannon Sharp call his showed
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the Shay Sheha Club Shaw. Okay, that's a horrible thank you, thank
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you, Daniel O'Malley. Uh, that was my before I even watched the
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interview, I was like Club Shasha, Like, okay, first of all,
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you or you're already named Shannon. Let's just let's just let's just cut
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our losses. Look, did you immediately know that Sha Sha was a nickname
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for him or something, because it took me a little while to realize.
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I thought he was like guest for some lady who was known as But then
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I realized, oh, I guess that's a nickname because Shannon Sha Sharp,
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so she is like okay, oh, I just thought it was a nickname
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for Shannon, just but the Shannon Sharp. Okay, I guess it's the
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sh s h Okay, all right, we're not even sure to answer your
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other question, why he was I I did not had never heard of Club
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Shay Sheha. But obviously it's a thing because one of the reasons that brought
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him there was he evidently is interviewed, Ricky Smiley, Cedric entertained or I
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forgot, but some of these guys he's he's been talking to. And so
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part of this is Kat Williams coming in saying, you know, I'm set
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the record straight on some of this stuff, gotcha. Yeah, Yeah,
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Because look, I mean I've I've followed comedy, you know, from my
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teenage year, like, like from when I was like eleven or twelve.
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I've followed comedy when I first started watching you know, George Carlin and Pryor
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and Eddie Murphy and honest at Sindbad If it was one of my favorites.
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Hey, one of my favorite specials. One time I watched him Allen and
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was on a Showtime special when I was like twelve or thirteen. I laughed
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so hard that it made me sick. So I love stand up comedy,
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and I'm familiar with Kat Williams, and I'm familiar with Ricky Smiley and Cedric
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the entertainer Kevin Hart obviously everyone's familiar with. Yeah, But I like most
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things, you don't realize all the drama that's happening behind the scenes because most
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most of what we see is just the jokes, we don't know all the
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drama going on behind the scenes, and well now we now we know there's
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a lot of stuff going on we didn't know about. Yeah, so he
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Okay, so he's been beefing with Kevin Hart forever, but that's been a
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so that wasn't a new thing. And then the Ricky Smiley thing was kind
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of an old then going back to I think Soul Plane, I think is
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what it was, but him going after aris drama on the set of Soul
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Plane. Yeah, you know, you can't have that many egos in one
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room and something not happen, which is why I would agree with that.
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And then so the new one with me like I didn't know about the cedric
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the entertainer thing, and I was like, I knew the joke, but
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I hadn't seen This is when back in nineteen ninety eight when Kat was Kat
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Williams was known as Cat in the Hat before he got a cease and desist
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from Disney. But he he and then I saw the preview joke and I
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was like, oh yeah, and then you put two and two together and
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like, oh yeah, that's he blatantly ripped that off. So I understand
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that thing, but everybody else like he went after everybody like. There was
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an article in Vulture and the headline nails it, Kat Williams scorches the earth
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and every comedian on it. Yeah, except for apparently he knows every comic
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in the works, and all the young comics he's a fan of, So
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to Kat, thank you. But all the older black comedians they've all stolen
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from him, gotcha. So yeah, So in this article it kind of
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encapsulates this pretty well. They say. Remember The Last Dance, the must
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watch documentary event of early twenty twenty, which Michael Jordan, reflecting on his
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final NBA Championship campaign and legacy, captivated the world by finally cutting loose on
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his former teammates, rivals, and the headlines that dogging throughout his career.
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Well, imagine if The Last Dance consisted solely of one long interview, switched
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focus from basketball to stand up comedy, and swapped out Jordan for comedy legend
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Kat Williams. On January third, the Internet was stopped in its tracks by
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precisely this, as Williams sat down for a nearly three hour interview with ESPN
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First Take correspondent Shannon Sharp on his podcas cast Club Sha Shape. And I
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even saw a joke someone had posted that said it's one of those. It's
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like Shannon Sharp basically says Kat Williams, welcome to Club Sha Shape, and
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then it just him ranting for the next three hours, just going off,
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just off the and just basically Shanon. I think there was a genuine I
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think there was a genuine moment where they discussed Shannon Sharp's kognak for about That's
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not a genuine moment, that's a plug. Yeah, He's like this is
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this is nice? Is this doesn't burn? Like Okay, thanks Cat,
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and then he just proceeds to just keep drinking it like and then you know
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he's then he then he starts and like I don't even think Shannon gets to
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ask a question for most of it. I think you didn't have to.
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It's the easiest three hour interview, and I'm like, I couldn't. I
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wish I had the time to watch all of it. I just I had
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to kind of pick and choose. But honestly, he I give him credit
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because he's it sounds funny, but he's a better interviewer than I thought.
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Because you have to be a good interview, to know, shut the f
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up and you have got gold just shut up. And and really what all
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he does is occasionally he just spurs him on a little bit, talks about
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it. Man, you're gonna get it. You're gonna get it, Like
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like three times he goes, you can get his canceled every else, and
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that just fuels him more. It is he is brilliant in this interview and
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not saying anything. Yeah, I think that right there, That right there,
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to me is one of the hallmarks of a great broadcaster. And I
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don't necessarily want to put that on him at this point because of the first
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take nonsense, which I absolutely loathe, but he did nail that tray.
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You're right, because one of the hallmarks of a great broadcaster is when to
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shut up and then just let the action happen. I don't I think you
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guys are giving Shin Sharp a little too much credit. I think what he
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was like, so let me ask you this question, Kat, and like
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he just starts and he's like, just he asked the first question, and
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that was it. If you look at Shannon Sharp's face, his face is
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like, what the f is happening? And you think do you think it
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was more accidental than intentional? Yeah, because that's his face for the next
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forty minutes. I was like, this man won't shut up. And then
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he tries to ask a question again and he's like you know what, And
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that's when you can see like I give up. Like that's when Sharp's like,
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I'm gonna keep them mouth shut because he's not gonna answer any He came
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in with a three hour plan. Look, Cat Williams came in and was
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like, this is gonna take two hours and forty six minutes, and I'm
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with, like, I'm not ready to say Shannon Sharp is Sharp is a
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great broadcaster, but it would be most people's tendency, especially when you see
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it going off the rails to try and especially most journalists, they're gonna try
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to get you back on track. Most people, most don't love the chaos
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that was gonna ensue. But he just let it happen. And yeah,
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and I'm gonna guess he had a producer in his ear going shut up just
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when he's you know, Kat gets his dates mixed up at one point for
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you know, calling such with the entertainer out saying you know, I did
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this joke then, and then he still and did it on The Kings of
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Comedy. The producer is behind, like his mike behind him, and it's
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like, you know, you said these dates, but this is when the
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joke aired, and this is when the King's of Comedy tour happened, So
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how did that? And then he had to go back and it was another
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like five minute explanation for why he got his timeline off, and I'm like,
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okay, but he is right. But here's the weird thing, and
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it's in the comedy circle. Other comics will do another comics joke when they're
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not working on the same show together because they write together, they have the
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same joke they or they both helped write that joke. If you'll hear like
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Kat Williams mentions Mark Curry multiple times in that interview where he's like, you
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know, Mark helped me punch up this joke. Mark helped me punch up
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this joke. So I wouldn't be surprised if Mark is also doing that joke
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when he's on tour. So when you hear somebody like, oh, he's
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stole my joke, I'm like wow, I mean that's got to be a
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blatant call out and then you know, again, like I said, I
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saw it, I'm like, okay, well, and my understanding was,
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well maybe back then they were friends, and it's like, okay, you
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do that joke, but it's the spaceship. That's the only thing that's different
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in the joke is he's talking about black people. Like if white people go
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to the moon and like to colonize the moon, black people are coming with
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them, And this is how they would go to the moon, is they
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would they would they would fly the space shuttle like it was the seventy two
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cutlass. That's the joke, And if you look at Cat's joke, it's
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the kind of the same thing. It's like just having a convertible Cadillac that
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cuts out on you and you still keep pimping while you're while you're popping the
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clutch. So it's not exact, but it's similar enough where yeah, it's
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it's yeah. So all the text of thing is, oh, so I
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was gonna say that. There's also a thing in comedy called parallel thought where
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you can oh yeah. That is a very common thing and entertainment in general,
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because it happens with radio stuff and podcasting all the time as well.
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Yeah, so you can you can play if you have the if you have
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the bit, or just play any of the interview. But yeah, so
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there is probably thought so no, no, no, I don't know if
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you had that thing like, but there is parallel thought, so you can
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see like how you go, Okay, well maybe they thought of it,
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but it's almost too cool when you watched the two and I did not pull
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the clips because a neither one of them are great audio because they're old.
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But and especially yes, he tweaks the joke a little bit where it's different
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and you know, Rush said it's a spaceship, not an old car or
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whatever. But the delivery, the manner isn't how he does it. It
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is a he stole it from Kat Williams. You're talking about Cedric Entertainer.
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So let's let's play a couple of these clips from the interview on Club Kat
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Williams going off on on Cedric Entertainer stealing his joke and told you when you
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asked him, did you steal Cat Williams joke? He said, and don't
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line up? How it don't line up? He thought that I was just
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a no name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know.
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The issue was that I had already done this particular joke on BT's Comic
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View twice. It had done so well on BT's Comic View that they had
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made it part of the commercial. So part of the commercial of make sure
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you tune in the BET was you seeing me doing this joke. So this
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is not just a random joke. This is my very best joke, and
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it's my last joke, and it's my closing joke. Okay, yeah,
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Look, I'm not a professional thief by any measure, but if I were,
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I would make sure not to steal the most obvious thing. Well,
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I mean, he is right, So there's again another rule in comedy is
27:47
first the TV wins, So theoretically Kat won even if the said had written
27:53
it at the same time. Cat had it on BET. Seid got it
27:57
on Kings of Comedy, So it's who gets the most the most. So
28:03
if you ask people that that's a that's a centric the entertainer joke, and
28:07
a lot of people back then were accusing Cat of stealing it. And then
28:11
when he's like the timeline that said thing was like the timeline doesn't add up.
28:14
Well, then you look, if you want the timeline, it's nineteen
28:15
ninety eight versus two thousand and one or two thousand and two. So he
28:21
won. But it is very common for like Carlo Smincia is known for this.
28:25
He would be like, let's go to let's go to a club and
28:27
let's find something that a younger comic that doesn't get TV is doing, and
28:32
then he would do the joke on TV and take credit for it. Wouldn't
28:34
that I mean, wouldn't that why everyone hated Dane Cook. I think everybody
28:40
hated Dane Cook because like the wasn't he accused of that a lot? Yes,
28:45
he was accused of stealing. I think Luisy K's bit yeah, like
28:51
I think it was a first album that he stole almost verbhetim to where when
28:56
Dane's album went platinum, Luisy K sent out to thank you, So the
29:02
message was thank you. I want to thank Dame Cook for making my album
29:04
number one because it was all of his material. So yeah, you know,
29:11
and people go, you have to understand, go back to Robin Williams.
29:12
Robin Williams, everybody's this beloved character from TV, This beloved actor was
29:18
also a notorious joke thief, to the point where he would be in his
29:22
car outside the comedy store until it was two minutes to go on stage because
29:25
comics inside wanted to beat him up because he would do all of their stuff,
29:29
like everybody's trying to get ready to do the tonight show, and he
29:30
would. Johnny loved him, so he would go on and do all this
29:33
stuff. His manager would stand in the hallway with a checkbook and go,
29:37
okay, well, how many jokes did you do of yours? Well he
29:40
did five mins seventy five hundred, good, and just cut a check.
29:44
So, I mean you have to understand. It goes back a long way.
29:47
That's why for me, I'm on such a smaller scale. I don't
29:51
watch anybody that goes on before me and Dan. I think you even know
29:53
this, Like I'll sit in the green room and talk with it, like
29:56
before somebody's up, and if the server comes in, I'm like, how
29:57
much time to so and so have. I don't want to watch anything that
30:00
anybody else does because I don't want to get accused of like if that's my
30:03
bit, man, No, it can't be, because I never saw it.
30:06
Yeah, here's here's some more of Kat Williams on Cedric the Entertainer,
30:11
Him and Steven already apologized for me, So I gave him a pass for
30:15
that decade, and the Stevie's talking about it is Steve Barby. Why would
30:22
you sit here and be like I talked to I saw Cat thirty times and
30:26
Cat didn't do as I stand before you, Shannon. I would to bust
30:34
Cedric's stomach. There was nothing that would have kept me from one of these
30:41
in that patch right there, Like, are you kidding me? Why would
30:45
you downplay me like that? Why did I give you a pass if you
30:49
were just gonna lie? Cedric sitting here telling you why he ain't a movie
30:53
star. He already looked like a wal risk. You didn't say nothing.
30:56
He can't even get his arms off his stomach sitting over. Wow, I'm
31:00
not. It's a situation. We never wrote anything. Remember when Sed of
31:06
the Entertainer starts, he's supposed to be singing, dancing and telling jokes.
31:10
That's why he's called the entertainer. We found out he can't sing, can't
31:14
dance, and doesn't he did four comedy specials. They're so bad, Shannon,
31:19
they're not available on Netflix or to B. Can I say that again
31:23
for the audience, they're so bad that they're not available on Netflix or to
31:29
B. For the record, I don't know what is available on to B.
31:36
I think pretty much between two BE, Between two B and Pluto,
31:38
you can find just about anything. It is where it is where if you
31:42
want to know where the vast of all the entertainment made that you you've never
31:48
heard of, never seen, Yeah, it's on one of those two.
31:52
So when you say Pluto, is that is that like a TV app?
31:56
Or is it it's there? There's two like kind of free TV that I
32:00
know of, but at the television because either way, no one's going to
32:07
see it. Right, lost in space that's what the generals would be called.
32:14
But yeah, so and Steve Harry is another one that he goes after
32:19
some of that come on the truth. Don't need motivation. I'm just saying,
32:27
I can't let these dudes lie. This is like Steve Harvey telling people
32:30
he used to be homeless. That's my story, that's not his story.
32:35
Steve Harvey wasn't never homeless. When he Mark Curry was touring with him twenty
32:38
five years ago, he was making three thousand dollars a show in cash and
32:44
doing five shows a week. They just tell the stories. This my thanks
32:49
to my wife. I'm where I am. You said that about the first
32:52
wife. You forget that, you told us it was heard. Then you
32:55
went and married somebody else that think like a man, Like are you talking
33:00
about they just yeah? I mean you got to give him credit, like
33:06
he the detail that he has in his crazy mind, Like it's still,
33:10
uh, there are people that can vouch for the fact that Steve Harvey.
33:14
I don't know if he was homeless necessarily, but he was broke. There
33:17
was a furniture store, a family that own family owned a furniture store,
33:22
and they helped him out, Like they got him his first like he started
33:24
his own cleaning business and they gave him his first opportunity to clean up apart.
33:29
So was the blind side to rip off of Steve Harvey's story? I
33:34
mean, well, yeah, I mean it's there's a lot of stories like
33:37
this, like Tiffany Hattish lived in her car and things like this, Like
33:39
there's a lot of and I don't know how much to that, you know
33:43
there is. I was in LA for eleven years. I never saw anybody
33:45
living in a car, I can just say that. I mean, and
33:47
if they did, they didn't tell you, and they were sure, sure
33:51
as hell, weren't going to go on a radio show like this and go
33:53
I live in a car right now, Like nobody's nobody's doing that. But
33:59
that might be the comedian that I want to see more so than the one
34:01
that lives in a mansion. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
34:05
mean sure, yeah, I agree the struggle. I mean, and there
34:08
are a lot of great comics in LA that don't get the notoriety that they
34:13
should because they aren't a household name. But he does go after Steven,
34:16
But Steve had a very I don't know if it's a similar story, but
34:20
I think Kat was homeless at thirteen, Like he left his house at twelve
34:22
or thirteen and was living in Miami at one point, And so I think
34:29
that's what the story that I don't think that's the story that Steve told.
34:31
I think Steve was older when he became homeless. But you know who knows,
34:37
I mean, cant. I had the opportunity a few times to meet
34:39
him, and he's a very interesting individual. Like when in that interview that
34:44
necklace that he's wearing that looks like a little with the steering ball on the
34:49
on a boat, like on a ship, like a pirate ship. That's
34:53
what he was wearing when I met One of the first times I met him,
34:57
and I saw him at the comedy store and he was in he had
35:00
a sailor's hat on. Every bit of jewelry that he owned was on his
35:04
fingers and his necklace and without and all of it. And he was just
35:07
staring at the House of Blues. And I walked on to the path and
35:12
he's just on the patio by himself and just with a glass of cognac.
35:14
And I walked past him and go, are you doing cat? And he
35:16
goes, hey, man, and he's just staring. He doesn't make eye
35:20
contact with me. Go you're good, yeah, And I was like,
35:23
and I did what everybody else did. We went all right, and then
35:25
just went in like nobody asks like why are you were just staring straight across
35:30
the street. And then he had two bodyguards with him that had They weren't
35:34
bodyguards. There were just big fat dudes that had the black shirt with a
35:37
white security And then when he took off, he's fast not as fast as
35:42
he said he was on the show, but he's fast. He went off
35:45
walking and they couldn't keep up with him. We're like, what is happening
35:47
right now? I would have imagine that him standing on that balcony at the
35:52
House of Blues looking off into the distance. He wasn't not thinking about anything.
35:58
I think he was plotting what he was going to say in this interview
36:02
all those years ago. That was that was the That was the Bursieoning era
36:07
of him going to Sports Earth on Steve Harvey, Cedric, the entertainer,
36:12
Kevin Hart, Ricky Smiley after Ludacrous, Like, who does that? Ludicrous
36:17
is one of the he said about Ludicrous. He said that he joined the
36:22
Illuminati. Yeah, that's how they got They offered him a you know,
36:28
Kat turned it down, but they basically said, you know, you'll get
36:30
a twenty movie two hundred million dollars deal. So in this interview, Kat
36:37
Williams alludes to or straight up says that the Illuminati is responsible for the Fast
36:43
and Furious franchise. No, no, no, see now you're being ridiculous.
36:45
He's saying the Illuminati is responsible for Ludacrous being a movie or making him
36:52
famous, but they didn't. They didn't create the Fast and Furious Vehicle pardon
36:58
the pun. Yeah, as an Illuminati project. I mean, now you're
37:01
talking crazy. I mean he says like I'm just saying like that's how insane
37:12
what he was saying, like if you say anything outside of that, like
37:14
you will sound crazy. Like he's just but specifically after the only dude know
37:20
that he could go after, was like, I guess it's because they're the
37:22
same height. I don't know what it is, they're legitimately like five five.
37:25
Well, I mean he's not going to say that about Paul Walker,
37:28
saying that Paul Walker took his role. No, it's only blind people like
37:31
to get because he became that star and he had to have sold his soul
37:36
to the Illuminatia. Ludacris isn't talented. And then Ludacris released a disc track
37:42
which is really good. Yeah, I was really impressed with it. It
37:45
was fantastic. And then he calls his wife ugly like he calls Ludacris's wife,
37:52
No, Ludacris's wife. I don't know if you've seen Ludacris's wife smoke
37:59
show, Uh, like utter smoke show. She's gorgeous. One of the
38:04
things that he implies in the Illuminati deal, hm, is that basically,
38:12
if they they give you a light skinned woman to be your wife who is
38:17
not going to go to the media and not going to talk and not do
38:20
anything. Yeah, that just sounds like scientology. Yeah, but they give
38:28
you. But here's the difference with the scientology gives you multiple lives. So,
38:31
uh, the Illuminati still traditional values. That's what it is. According
38:44
to him, the Illuminati sings both ways. Yes, you're listening to the
38:51
Treehouse. Visit us online that Treehouse on air dot com. Let's get Daniel
39:00
Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration into the Treehouse now. The phone number
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for your free roof inspection eight three three cook DFW. Whether you're needing an
39:08
entire roof replaced or you're just needing some repair or wondering, hey, how's
39:13
that roof doing, give Daniel Cook a call. Daniel was curious about this
39:16
before. We talked about downtime. And I know you and your wife travel
39:20
and my wife and I do as well. And we went out of town
39:22
for the holidays and came back and we had one of those overnight flights,
39:27
and we're trying to sleep with as much as you and your wife travel,
39:30
Are you guys able to actually sleep on a plane or is that next to
39:34
them? Possible sleep does occur, but usually is after sitting at the bar
39:39
for several hours before the flight. That does help as a good prescription.
39:47
There's a fine level there, though, So it's like, you know,
39:50
want, I don't want to be too intoxicated that I can't walk on the
39:52
plane and look sensible, because now they're getting where they'll throw you off the
39:57
plane if you look a little bit too much intoxicated. Mh. You have
40:00
to you have to know exactly where you're at at all times with your level
40:04
of intoxication. But yeah, if you get that perfect mix of wharrior just
40:08
on the edge of the cliff and you're not falling off, and as soon
40:12
as you get in the plane and the engines start humming, it's like a
40:15
perfect mix to put you to put you down for a little bit. I
40:19
like, yeah, yeah, exactly that, to put you down for just
40:21
a little bit. Because you're right, it is a very fine line between
40:24
being able to fall asleep on the plane for a little bit and ending up
40:27
on the news because you punched a flight attendant. So you just want to
40:30
make sure, like Daniel said, you make sure you toe that line properly.
40:34
That doesn't have a whole lot to do with roofing, but keep in
40:36
mind it does tell you that Daniel's responsible and he knows where his line is.
40:39
He's going to make sure everything is good with your roof and that,
40:44
and therefore you'll be able to sleep comfortably. So give them a call for
40:46
that free roof inspection eight three three cook d FW or the website cook DFW
40:51
dot com. Let's get Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing into the tree house now.
40:53
She sent a very interesting story that we're going to discuss here, and for
40:58
any and all of your plumbing ones needs, you need to give her a
41:00
call to one fourth three six eight thirty eight thirty eight. So the story
41:04
you sent me, Jaqueline right before New Year's was the Princeton Fire Department called
41:07
out to Clark Middle School because firefighters were having to rescue construction workers who got
41:14
pulled into a trench or a sinkhole or something when the soil gave way.
41:19
What happened there, so they were tunneling they had created an interior slab penetration,
41:24
so they broke through the concrete and they were excavating dirt out from underneath
41:29
that slab penetration so that they could make plumbing repairs underneath the foundation. It
41:35
could have they could have been making repair, they could have been doing a
41:37
replacement. But there's actually a photo that we shared on our Facebook that I
41:40
tagged the treehouse in where you can see this huge open hole and you can
41:45
see all the dirt on top of the concrete. You know that's still in
41:49
place. But ultimately what happens is is when you dig tunnels and trenches,
41:52
specifically tunnels, if they're not dug correctly with shoring by the right people who
41:58
have the experience, there's all always the chance that they may collapse with the
42:02
individuals inside. And so it's and it doesn't even matter even if you shore
42:07
it. Shoring should be one hundred percent. That there's always that outlying factor
42:12
where something may happen. But that is one of the things that drives up
42:17
the cost of plumbing. Be it us, my competitor's commercial residential. We
42:22
have to take out these massive insurance policies because there is a risk of death
42:27
when you're doing these kind of jobs, and these kind of collapses do happen
42:30
bare minimum in the DFW at least once or twice a year. Sometimes it's
42:35
commercial, sometimes it's residential. And these guys that get in the tunnels get
42:38
in there every day knowing that if it's not doug correctly, there's always a
42:42
chance something bad might happen. And I know I've said this before. This
42:45
is why I will not put my guys in other people's tunnels. This is
42:49
why we do it in house, because we sit at work waiting every day
42:53
to hear when people come out of the tunnel, because it's there's always a
43:00
chance, and that's very scary for us, especially because my excavators have worked
43:04
with my dad, because we're a family company since I was thirteen. So
43:06
that's uncle one, uncle Tooey. You know, these are my guys.
43:08
It's not random excavators, it's not random subcontractors. And so there's always that
43:14
risk, and that's part of the reason why plumbing can be so expensive,
43:16
because you've got this massive overhead and there's a danger. It's kind of like
43:21
underwater welders. They have a short lifetime expectancy and they're doing a dangerous job,
43:24
and that's why they're so expensive. That's one of the things that makes
43:28
contractors expensive is that there's always some sort of a risk involved. But shout
43:31
out for sure to the Princeton Fire Department. I think a few others joined
43:36
them in getting over their them. Yeah, and the prior departments are getting
43:39
faster and faster at responding to those because the last two that I've heard of
43:44
was the first two in a row where they got the people out alive,
43:47
because typically they're not pulling out live people there because it's all of the weight
43:52
of everything that collapses on you. It's not that you suffocates that your body
43:55
cannot expand the lungs to breathe, and that's terrifying and that's not how I
44:00
want to go. No, definitely not. And that's one of those things
44:02
you don't necessarily think about when it comes to plumbing, because it's pretty rare
44:07
that in your house you'll need to have someone tunneling at all. And usually
44:12
for residential stuff, you know problems we have in our homes. It's a
44:15
supply line issue, it's it's some sort of a hot water heater issue,
44:20
as opposed to having to call out an excavation team. But those are things
44:23
that do sometimes happen, and you need the best plumbers possible, and not
44:29
only that, but the plumbers that also work with the best to make sure
44:31
your home is safe and the actual workers are safe, which is obviously of
44:37
the utmost important. This is why we love Jacqueline and Brooks Plumbing here in
44:40
the Treehouse. This is also why I say, for any and all of
44:44
your plumbing wants and needs. It's also no job too big, too small,
44:47
whether it's a supply line or basically turning into a tunnel rat from Vietnam.
44:52
They're going to make sure your home is protected and you're taking care of
44:57
So give them a call two one four, three six eight thirty eight thirty
44:59
eight or Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. You're listening to the Treehouse, Visit
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needs in North Texas, give Brooks Plumbing a call two one four, three
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six eight thirty eight thirty eight. Two one four, three six eight thirty
45:25
eight thirty eight or the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. I would like
45:32
to uh thank Katwilliams for the mugs needed distraction today and uh also you guys
45:43
want to thank you as well for the distraction. There's one thing I've I've
45:49
learned throughout my years is that crazy can can at least alleviate sadness for it
45:55
for a period of time. So it works exactly like I said, it's
46:00
it's a good distraction. Now there's always something, always been something special about
46:05
something bad was going on. We got in the treehouse and it's like,
46:07
you know, you just kind of escape your problems for a little bit.
46:12
What do you What do you do? What do you do when when they're
46:15
when they're crazy and sad? Oh I think Trey calls her mom. Well
46:29
played, Sure, well played. So that right there is actually Trey's also
46:37
red flag. Like he loves he loves a good crazy girl. But if
46:40
it's sad and crazy at the same time, that's too much like mama,
46:44
and he's got to go the other direction. Yeah. Wow, Uh,
46:52
kudos to you for being able to recognize, uh, those those those red
46:55
flags. It's taking some time, but I find on they figured it out.
47:01
I'd also like to point out that really, you know, only friends
47:05
like Trey and I are for you know, over twenty years, can can
47:07
really get away with making it a joke like that, because I'm pretty sure
47:12
if, like, if we had just met, we were sitting at a
47:14
bar, he'd be punching me sencils right now now. I think even if
47:19
I just met you had been like, all right, you don't really know
47:21
me, but that was well played, which Daniel, you know, it's
47:30
a I feel like I'd be remiss though in all of this, because one
47:36
of the reasons you, as we talked about like at your roast after the
47:40
Christmas Show and everything else, is your robotic nature. And the biggest thing
47:47
that got you kind of the I don't know, reputation for being robotic is
47:54
your ability to get through the dog poem without crying. Oh yes, look,
48:00
and and that is that is a good example. And while when you
48:04
say that, I feel a twinge, I'm like, I'm not the robotic.
48:07
I've got emotions like like like like other people do. But when it
48:12
comes to doing you know, the dog pond that you couldn't get through or
48:15
Russ couldn't get through or whoever you know, Dan Lush or j D whoever
48:17
was on the show, they couldn't get through it because they just get they
48:20
started crying. I was like, I can give it to me. I'll
48:22
do it, gotcha. And I think in psycha psychological or psych psychiatric circles
48:30
they call it disassociation, and I think they frown upon it, but it's
48:34
it's worked in my favor sometimes, and it gave you a you know,
48:37
kind of a little bit of a feeling of superiority that you know, you
48:44
you were stronger than the rest of us, and you know you kind of
48:45
look down a little bit at our weakness for not being able to get through
48:50
it. I mean that's just because I mean whatever software they put into the
48:52
cyborg that is Dania Malley uh didn't allow for. But they're updating it,
48:58
like if you you'll see, like he'll plug into the wall every now and
49:00
again an update and bold laugh and smile. But it's actually still loading because
49:06
my internet here is not so good. I'm only at like forty eight percent,
49:14
so when I plug in, it's supposed to pick up where it's left
49:16
off. So I'm still I'm still debugging and damn if you get in complete
49:22
updates. I think that's just what I am, just a walking incomplete update.
49:37
Why you got to bring up the dog poem? Man? That things
49:39
sad? Yes it is. It's UH scarred many of us over the years.
49:47
M h Is that the email that you sent me? You sent me
49:52
an email says, uh, it had no subject line and I haven't opened
49:55
it yet. Is that what it is? Did you send me the dog
49:58
poem? I did? Are you trying to see if you can make me
50:01
cry? I got a hundred bucks says you can't get through the dog bomb
50:07
without getting emotional? Really? Mm hmm? Okay, that's such an odd
50:15
bet coming from the person who basically coined me as a cyborg of uh and
50:20
having a lack of emotion. Yeah, you think you think I can't get
50:23
through it? And a hundred bucks says, so I think this time it's
50:29
I don't think you can get through it this time. I've got to give
50:31
you credit, Tray. I did not see that coming. I I appreciate
50:35
the I don't know left turn there. I don't even know which way to
50:38
bet. I don't know and I don't either, And honestly, this is
50:44
we're only like like twenty seven hours from from when Tara and I said goodbye
50:50
to Joel. So I mean that's that's it's still pretty fresh. Yeah,
50:54
that's okay. I gotta I got it the same day one time. And
51:00
and Dan, I know you're at you're thinking it. Yes, you have
51:01
to use the music too. Oh no, all right, that makes I
51:07
feel like you're hedging your bet. Now I need to see if I even
51:12
have it. Hang on, h that's a bumper. That's news. That's
51:23
not appropriate. That's my favorite mm A tub situation. Hang on, are
51:37
you ready to have the scared out of you? It's actually kind of fitting
51:40
after the tub noise. Damn it. Oh, it's amazing because even just
51:50
just hearing the music can start to get your primed for tears. Yeah wow,
51:58
okay, all right, So one hundred bucks, one hundred bucks.
52:01
If I can do this, I'm going to tell you my secret. If
52:04
I can do this on this occasion, here's what's going to pull me through
52:07
it. Because I'm thinking about because it's such a weird thing, and I
52:10
understand it's a business and the VET needs to get paid for its services.
52:14
I've always thought it was such a weird thing and an awkward thing. You
52:17
feel like a doggy hit man. You know, they euthanize your your loved
52:22
one, and then you go and pay them for it afterwards. So if
52:27
I'm able to get through this, it's going to be because I'm thinking about
52:29
your hundred dollars trade going towards the bill and not it costing you one hundred
52:36
bucks. Yes, oh, I didn't think about that. I just I
52:42
just thought of my thought. This would be a win for damn, that's
52:45
what I thought. I didn't realize I was having to give you a hundred
52:46
bucks. Also, this really adds to it. It's a bet. I
52:52
don't like that bet, just like I just like the possibility of winning with
52:57
no losing. Okay, all right, I'll click on this. It's such
53:07
a weird title for this too, Like we always referred to it as the
53:09
dog poem, but the title of it doesn't seem to fit. It's dogs
53:13
don't have souls, do they? And the poem nowhere in it in the
53:16
actual context of it, does it ever refer to anything about souls or anything
53:20
like that. It just seems like it's a title for a different poem,
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and some of this stuff isn't even applicable to Joel. And I'm saying because
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in this story, in this poem, it's basically someone starts out with a
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puppy and a chewing on things when we never really that wasn't how we had
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Joel. We had Joel when he was like one or two years old.
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So the reason I'm saying that is because I think that'll make it easier for
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me. Yeah, because I mean I understand, you know, you're not
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going to think about the fourteen, you know, years you had with Joel.
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But the last paragraph, though, is always very applicable. All Right,
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I'm intentionally not reading down. I just saw the first two lines and
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so I'm not cheating, Okay, I mean I remember, I remember it
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pretty well, even though it's been a while since i've read it. A
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right, all right, here we go the dog poem for Joel. Do
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I have a time limit? No? Okay, I mean you just you
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just want to yeah, you, I mean, we can't finish this segment
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tomorrow, nor are we gonna pause for you to go get go, get
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housed. That wouldn't take a long pause. I got a bottle with then
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ten feet I mean, I can you can make this thing happen? All
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right? I remember bringing you home. You were small and cuddly, with
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your tiny paws and soft fur. You bounced around the room with eyes flashing
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and ears flopping. Once in a while you'd let out a little yelp just
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to let me know this was your territory. Making a mess of the house
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and chewing on everything inside became a passion, and when I scolded you,
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you just put your head down and looked up at me with those innocent eyes,
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as if to say, I'm sorry, but I'll do it again as
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soon as you're not watching. As you got older, you protected me by
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looking out the window and barking at everyone who walked by. When I had
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a tough day at work, and there were lots of them, you would
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be waiting for me with your tail wagging, just to say welcome home.
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I missed you. You never had a bad day, and I could always
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count on you to be there for me. When I sat down to read
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the paper watch TV, you would hop on my lap looking for attention.
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You never asked for anything more than for me to pat your head so you
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could go to sleep with your head over my leg as you got older.
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God damn it, that's the part you're talking about, right, Yep,
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hang on, I died to engage my robot suctioning. As you got older,
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you moved around more slowly. I hate you, drow And then one
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day old age finally took its toll. You win, Dick, you win.
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You're happy. No, I'm not happy. But a hundred bucks is
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a hundred bucks. If that wasn't so funny, I'd be really pissed.
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God damn you. Uh, I guess better send me back to the manufacture.
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I see this part of league