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It's FRIIIDAY! #11: Rumble in the Treehouse · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Mho, time to leave your worries outside and join me. Daniel Malley,
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Trey Trenholm and Raz Sharma right here in the treehouse. It is red which
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by the way, guys, if you ever feel like turning it, turning
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that into a chorus type thing instead, I'm all for it. We can
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harmonize it. It just makes it just makes me giggle every time you do
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it, so I don't think i'd be able to participate because I'll be laughing.
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But you feel like it's it's my bit, not yours, like it's
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kind of your thing, and it's it's quite adorable. It does make me
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laugh every time. I'd try to be uh, I try to give the
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people what they want. And that's one of those odd things that you don't
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expect someone to latch onto like I think I did it like twice when we
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were on the radio, and then when I didn't do it one Friday,
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people were messaging and going, Hey, what's wrong, why didn't dancing Friday?
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Oh okay, that's what it is. Really, I like that thing.
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I was just me being dumb, like, okay, I'll do it
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if you like it. I find it. I find it whimsical. Well,
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if we are nothing else here in the treehouse, whimsical is a good
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describer. Normally it's stupid, but I like whimsical. It sounds more positive.
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Yeah, it hurts my feelings less you're whimsical, I'm contrarian, and
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then then what would raj be? I I don't know. But we're just
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adding dwarves now to the the seven doors we got sleeping. I think you
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had it right with dwarves. I feel like we're coming up with our own
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categories of dungeons and dragons, but just really really stupid. You know,
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it's like, what are you? I'm a level I'm a level six whimsical
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and Tray Tray is a what a level nine contrarian master? A master contrarian?
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Which is weird that you bring that up. Uh, Dungeons and Dragons
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making quite the comeback. I didn't I didn't realize that was a thing anymore.
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Thanks. I think doing very large part to stranger things, Dungeons and
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Dragons has turned into more of a mainstream thing than I think it's ever been.
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Yeah, I mean it's still I mean you, I mean you have
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to understand that you are just a nerd, Like that's the fact like if
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you're if you're playing it, because nerd culture has has kind of gone mainstream.
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Yeah, you're talking about shows like Stranger Things because it's about you know,
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these outcast kids, they're the nerds to play dungeons and dragons. But
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then that became the hottest television show on the planet. You have The Big
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Bang Theory centered around nerd culture. Yeah, and it took a few years
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but eventually became the number one comedy on television. Yeah, that stole my
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name, Big Bang Theory. Yeah, raj oh, yes, I yeah,
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I actually thought about that last night because in our new place here on
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Saint John, we actually have cable for the first time and I don't know
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how many years, and so we actually turned on TBS and watched a little
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bit of Big Big Bang Theory. It's a really terrible show. It's a
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really really Oh you're about to You're about to see Trey's Outer Contrarian. It's
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so it's so badly written that it's it's painful. I well, I have
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I've seen it on accident, and I'm so glad. It's just so bad.
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I disagree. I think it was incredibly well written and well so no,
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it's so bad. It's it just it was on for twelve seasons.
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Yeah, this is like one of those things that like when I say,
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like I don't like Metallica, Okay, well that's just dumb. But I
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know they're doesn't make sense, so I don't say they suck. I just
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they're just not my cup of tea. Young brother, I know that's that's
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a hill I will die with you on, not the Metallica thing. It's
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Metallica is one of the best ever. And how dare you but the hill
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I will die on you with is the just because you don't like something doesn't
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mean it sucks. It just means exactly that it's just not your cup of
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tea. And it's very difficult to claim something sucks when the thing you're saying
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sucks is wildly successful. No, it's it's it's what we call in La
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So how TV shows work. It's called selling soap to the Midwest. That's
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what it is. Is it's you you try to sell. That's all TV
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is, is just selling advertising. And for the Midwest, like that's like,
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oh my god, look at these nerds and look at that Indian feller
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Like that, I get okay, but like Trey is educated and it has
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been around a variety of people, same as am I, and I too
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am a fan of the Big Bang theory. Rug it's just so, it's
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just so, And I feel like, how many wait, hang on,
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hang on, wait like, yeah, you said you watched an episode by
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accident. I didn't watch an episode by hold on. Let me, let
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me, let me back up. I've seen snippets of multiple episodes because I'll
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leave the TV on and I think Friends is on before it uh and now
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so I think it goes Friends, Big Bang Theory and then modern. How
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many episodes have you actually sat down and watched? I watched in my hotel
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room a couple of months ago. I watched one full episode and I was
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miserable because the it's just it's just it's a set up punch. It's set
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up punch. That's all it is. It's a sitcom. That's what it's
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supposed to be. It's supposed to be twenty two minutes of setup and punch.
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But then go watch Friends, and then you'll see how a sitcom should
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be written. And you know what the thing is, Raj is there are
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people in this world that that would say your opinion of friends is bad because
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they think. And so that's the whole thing. It's like, you can
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be wildly successful and you can still have detractors no matter what. Yeah,
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at the end of the day, like you said, like unfortunately, you
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painted yourself into that Hollywood quote unquote elite credit category, which is you're just
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trying to sell soap to the Midwest. So the downside of that is you're
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already looking down on your potential audience, which is not helpful if as a
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creator. I don't care if it's an online creator or Hollywood New York doing
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plays, stand up, whatever it is. That was something Leno tapped into.
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He tapped into the Midwest uff and that's why he was successful. And
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Letterman didn't really do that, but he still found himself successful. And that
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was what was great about Late Night at the time is you had an option
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either whichever whichever was your cup at the at the time. But when it
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comes to television and movies whatever, Yeah, yeah, you can have something
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that's meant to sort of, you know, appeal to the general American.
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But The Big Bang Theory is one of those shows that didn't the fact that
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it ever appealed to the to the Midwest was kind of shocking because they were
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using words that were more than three and four syllables, which by studio executive
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standards. I'm surprised that show even made it to a third season. But
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I have seen Young Sheldon. I've seen an episode of that, and that
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is better written than The Big Bang Theory, which it's based off of.
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The thing is, though, I think that's an unfair comparison because they're two
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vastly different styles of shows. They're both I totally disagree with you in that
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a. I don't think Young Sheldon was better written, but it also it's
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very similar in that if you like, if you liked it, because Jim
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Parsons narrates Young Sheldon, and I didn't say I liked it. I just
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said it was better written. I didn't say I liked it. He's just
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saying it's the better trash. Yeah, I'm just yeah, okay, I'll
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just say it's terrible to me. Let's just say that that's more mature.
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That's more mature is to say if you like Big Bang Theory, that's good
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for you. It's not my cup of tea. Well, it's like you
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know, if you read or any list about you know, people who classify
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the greatest sitcoms ever. I love Lucy is always on there. I can't
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stand it. I think it's just dumb and predictable. And yeah, uh,
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I think it was just because it was great for its time. Uh.
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It's the same with like the Doors. The Doors hands down one of
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the most overrated bands in the history of bands, outside of Nirvana, which
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was just terrible. Uh. And and you and I there there is something
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you and I totally agree on hate Nirvana. There we found in common ground.
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And I can't say on the Doors either. And I agree with you
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if Jim Morrison's death is you know, and Jim Morrison made The Doors the
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Doors music just completely yes, I mean, and I think that's where three
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of us and can gather around the center of this here treehouse and all agree
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that none of us like the Doors. No, it's they were just I
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mean, like if you just lyrically, if you look at what they were
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doing, nobody was doing it at that time, right, But it doesn't
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hold up, Like Nirvana's lyrics are garbage, Like if you just look up
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smells like teen Spirit, just look up the lyrics and you'll be ashamed of
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yourself if you actually liked that song. You look at them. It's just
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the ramblings of a heroin addict. That's all it was. But it sounded
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good and we ate it was. And then and then you listen to Dave
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Grohl talk about that specific song, and then go listen to the Gap Band.
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Is where he got the drums from for for that entire album? Yeah,
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it is from the Gap Band, which is hilarious because you're just glad
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that we were able to find common ground and that the love or hate over
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the Big Bang Theory did not fracture our show. It did not, but
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you know, it is pioneering for its time, like uh, you know
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people like but also people didn't have options. That's the other that I think
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you have to give shows in the modern age that are successful like The Big
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Bang Theory a lot of credit in that. You know, I love Lucy
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and all that, there were three stations like you, you had no options.
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Now you've got hundreds of options. In the fact you have a run
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like that, it's important, But I mean you're also following the same the
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same formula as Friends, right, because every show kind of did that.
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Like, if you look at Scrubs, you have six people that are friends,
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and then there's romantic spinoffs of that. Right, So the same plot
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for Big Bang Theory is there six people and then there's a little romantic spinoffs
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of it. So they're just following that. It's what Hollywood does. It's
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basically like, if that show is successful, we'll make another one of those
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and everything. You would you agree that Friends of a copy? Would you
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agree that Friends is a copy of Living Single? Yes? Okay one percent?
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And that's something that Hollywood sometimes needs to realize. And this is where
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a lot of times you'll get like the studio versus the actual creators. Is
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you get the formulas, and some of the creators hate it, but also
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some of the creators you can be like, it gives me a framework all
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ready to work from. You can always go back, You can go back
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from storytelling basics and find some running themes through everything, whether you know a
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TV sitcom, a TV drama, or an audio podcast. Yeah, when
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I did when I did the when I auditioned for the CBS Showcase and I
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ended up getting it, which was amazing. It was a turning point in
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my professional career. Like I remember sitting with some of the executives at CBS
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when Priyanka Chopra's Quantico came out, and I remember them sitting around going before
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it came out, like talking about it, like, let's see if this
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hits, because if it hits, we need to find ours and them bringing
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in uh actresses and actress from India during pilot season, Yeah, to try
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to knock off their version of I think that's part of the reason why once
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you get set, you know, even if it's just your big toe inside
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the Hollywood sphere, once you peek behind that curtain and you see the Wizard,
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you're like, Okay, a lot of this is really really terrible,
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and that's going to give you a different perspective, Whereas like Tray and I
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haven't really done that, so we can watch Big Bang Theory. And then
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while I recognize that they play into a lot of stereotypes with their raja,
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they at least call it out. Yeah. They'll say like they'll say the
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thing that was clearly racial, and then they'll say, you can't say that
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because it was racial. So they they operate kind of like on the fence,
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like they got the toe in the Hollywood following the formula, but they're
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also they're also calling it out say like hey, we're aware of this,
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but we're just trying to give the people what they want, which is,
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at the end of the day, entertainment. Yeah, and you're right,
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it is when you see behind when you start seeing behind the curtain, like
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I when I first walked onto the lot at Radford, CBS, and like
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I would still remember, I was on the corner. I'm not even making
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this up. I was at the corner of gun Smoke and Gilligan's Island.
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That's the streets. They've named the streets after their show. So I'm standing
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on the corner of gun Smoke and Gilligan's Island. I was like, this
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is hilarious, and like all of it. It's just majestic and all the
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studios and all that. And then when I started, you know, I
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was there for thirteen fourteen weeks doing this CBS showcase, and I started seeing
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like behind the scenes stuff and how this was getting done and how they were
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how incestuous it is like a Fox show being filmed at the CBS lot because
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it's produced by CBS. But they won't tell you that because the ratings war
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and all these networks are against each other. They're not. That's completely false.
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They're producing shows on the same line. Then I started seeing how formulaic
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it was, and then hearing execs go okay, so what are they doing?
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Okay, so we need to bring in people from India because if that's
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a hit right now, we need to do our version of it. And
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they were just throwing writers in a room like just kind of something like that
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and make it the same. And I was like, oh, there's no
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creativity behind this. So and that's why at the end of the day,
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if you're the creator in the room, you're the writer, you're the director,
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you're the you know, whatever it is. That's where it's Yet there's
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the realization you can either do it completely independently, which is possible but it's
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extremely difficult, or you can play a little bit of the game. Yeah,
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but then try to get enough power to where you can do your own
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thing, and then the studios will just follow you. So that's and and
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then everything you just said is both true and not new. That's how we
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end up with in the same summer, we get Armageddon and deep impact.
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That's the reason why we still get that's the reason why we still get King
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Kong movies and Godzilla movies. As I go, worked in Japan, well,
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we got to do it here. Yeah. So when when people go,
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oh, so Hollywood's run out of ideas, that's not true, what
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they've done is they go, well, you sit over there, this works.
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This, This will make us a hundred million dollars in the box office.
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We don't know if that will so we'll make that an independent film,
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or we'll make that as a you know, an art house film or whatever.
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But we will do like King Kong versus Jason, like, we know
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what we'll do. We'll do that because that's gonna Those are okay. So
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far as you have thrown out two really good mashups that I would watch,
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I would watch. I would watch the mashup of gun Smoke meets Gilligan's Island
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and what'd you say, Jason versus King Kong. Yeah, I mean shows
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you know Jason's gonna win, he beats he can't die. But I would
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love to see gun Smoke and Gilligan's Island. I would also like to see
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Jason vo He's on Gilligan's island because at the end of it, he'll be
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the only person on the island. Here you go, that's actually even better.
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It's uh, the new, the new, the new season of Survivor.
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And then the last person that they introduce as the last member of the
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of the island is Jason Or are you just picture him in the opening credits
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know the places that you're moving into, Like the new place you've moved into,
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was it furnished? Yes? Okay, because it's very common, it's
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that the places, whether it's for rent or sale, typically you'll get a
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see the new place that I'm living in. Most of which of this stuff
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is is not mine or Terra's, Like, yeah, on the walls was
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here when we when we moved in. Yeah, like my mom would have
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that. My mom would have had that mirror, probably because the people that
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own this house were about the same age as as all of our parents.
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Oh yeah, you see that that corner over that shoulder. You see that
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corner entertainment center. Yeah, not ours, No, corner entertainment center like
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ten fifteen years ago. Is the is the is the painting over there on
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the wall? Is it on the wall? Yeah? It's not ours?
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Not Yeah, definitely not yours. I see that. You see that black
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fan right there, Yeah, that's mine. If you ever need a good
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air moving fan. Yeah. They're not paying me to say this, although
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I'd love to, you know, get a cut of the action Forornado,
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Vornado with a V for I see like a vortex tornado. Yes, it's
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exactly what it is. Good job, good job, raj as opposed to
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what I thought it was initially was very tornado somewhere my immigrants somewhere in the
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ether. My immigrant parents were laughing because even then they would be like,
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even we didn't think that, that sounds like something like my dad would be,
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you know, it's very tornado. Yeah. I also feel like it's
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one of those things that my family, you know, would look at me
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and see this and hear me say that and think, you know, we
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really should have just left him in Oklahoma. It really is amazing the things
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I'll say inside this treehouse, which, by the way, the house that
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we're living in is very much like a treehouse. I'm not kidding. Yeah,
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but didn't they didn't they mix you up? Wasn't there a mix up
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with the babies when it came time for me to have the official adoption?
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Yeah? There was, Yeah, Tray, do you remember this story?
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I think the last time I I think the last time I told you this
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story, you were drinking at the time, so I don't mind telling it.
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Both your memories were screwed. I'll give you the very short version,
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and it's taken me, you know, forty four years to become better at
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telling short stories. Was it? Was it a drop off at a Walmart?
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Yes? Yeah, okay, that just just it doesn't get more Oklahoma
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than than this moment where you're you're getting a baby in a Walmart parking lot.
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Yeah. So, so I did the switched it birth thing, except
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I was switched back. So here's what happened. So my parents were on
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the wait list for a baby. They wanted to adopt a baby, and
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they've been on the wait list for a long time, and they were supposed
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to be matched up as closely genetically possible as they could. At the time,
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that was the whole point of the process, right, was I just
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saw that way. Yeah, so that way in case you didn't want to
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tell the child he or she was adopted, they really wouldn't have mattered because
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he looked close enough. So that's what my parents did. And then when
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they went to Oklahoma City. So I was born in Tulsa, and then
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I went into foster care and for three months I was in foster care.
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And then when it came time for me to be matched up with my family,
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they had to do it in Oklahoma City. So my dad and my
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mom drive Oklahoma City to come and get me. Then they get the baby.
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They're driving back home to northern Oklahoma. My dad's looking at the polaroid
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of me and comparing it with this weird kid in the back seat, and
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it's like, this ain't our kid. So they turn around, go back
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to the facility in Oklahoma City and say, this ain't our kid. And
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at that point my dad got angrier than he ever had been in his life.
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My mother would still give him that to this day. And so then
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they had to call the family that had me. State of Oklahoma was initially
24:48
saying you wanted a kid, you got a kid, get out of here.
24:51
But my parents were insistently like, no, we waited years for this.
24:55
We didn't. We don't want just whatever kid fell off, you know,
24:59
fell out of the bin. We want the one that we were supposed
25:00
to get. So they contacted the family that actually had me, and they
25:04
had gone to a different part of Oklahoma. And so then they decided to
25:07
meet in the middle, somewhere between Oklahoma and wherever this random family had me,
25:12
and they had an official representative from the state witnessed the exchange of babies
25:18
in a Walmart parking lot. And that's how I end up where I am
25:21
today with you fine gentlemen. And you know, somehow the greatest story was
25:26
supposed to being lost forever in southwestern Oklahoma. If you were ever going to
25:33
tie in a story of your being switched at birth, very Tornado and Oklahoma
25:37
really just make it all to sync up. Do you get nostalgic at Walmart
25:45
parking lots like you like you? Do you feel a sense of like this
25:49
is home, Like why are you loitering? I'm not loitering, I'm home.
25:59
Do you ever find yourself like at a Walmart Park, like like I
26:00
don't want to go in just yet. You know what, No, because
26:03
Walmarts just aren't just aren't like what they They aren't like they used to be.
26:10
Now it's all about deals and falling prizes as opposed to switching babies.
26:15
I mean, it's like if they're there's just no more American story, uh
26:21
than than yours. You know what, Then let's let's make let's make a
26:25
movie out of it or something raj because everyone complains in Hollywood there's no good
26:29
ideas. We all are forced to do this formulae at crap. So let's
26:32
do uh, let's do a movie about a lost white kid that gets saved.
26:36
Oh wait, make them make the parents Korean and you got to hit.
26:52
Let's do some birthdays. Today is Fred Day, November tenth, twenty
27:00
three birthdays. Today, we've got Mackenzie Foy is twenty four, the star
27:07
of Black Beauty Remake and Disney's The Nutcracker in the Four Realms. And even
27:11
though that was a thing, she was also Bella and Edward's daughter in the
27:17
Twilight Movies. So that's Mackenzie Foy. She's twenty four today. Then we
27:22
get Kieran ship Cup Kieran Chipka's twenty five played Sabrina Spelman on the Netflix series
27:26
to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She was also and this is where I know
27:30
her best, she was Sally Draper on mad Men. Do you guys ever
27:37
watch mad Men? No? That was on my list of shows that I
27:41
need to watch. It's a good one, Tray. Not only is it
27:45
a great show, but having since you've worked in the advertising industry, having
27:48
worked in you know, radio for many, many years, there are things
27:52
that will happen and things that are said that you will you will feel immediately
27:56
related to and also say ooh to too soon, too soon? I did.
28:00
I lied. I saw back to back. I saw two episodes.
28:03
It was great. I think they filmed some of it here in Dallas.
28:07
Really well, yeah, I think if I'm correct, the first season,
28:12
I think their office was filmed at Southside Lamar. Interesting. I've to go
28:18
and check that out see if that's yeah. I believe that season one.
28:23
I think part of season one was filmed here in Dallas. Zoe Deutsch is
28:27
thirty today from Zombie Land to also Vampire Academy, and she was also in
28:33
a Dirty Grandpa. Her mom is Leah Thompson from the Back to the Future
28:37
movies. Oh wow. Okay, So the other thing Hollywood, in addition
28:42
to being formulaic when it comes to the content of their TV shows and films,
28:48
they're also pretty formulaic and their choice of actors because they just keep going
28:51
back to the same damn families. Yes, it's called nepotism. It's true.
28:56
Well, I also keep going back to the same people. I mean,
28:59
good God, who would have thought Liam Neesan was going to be a
29:03
action star? No, and but you know he does Taken, and now
29:06
he's done ten different movies, just variants have Taken. Yeah, it's all
29:10
and and and can we just be honest with the first Taken was great?
29:14
The second one. The first Taken was perfect. It was, yes,
29:18
perfect, And then I'm like by this when the second one came out,
29:22
I'm like, stop vacationing and Azerbaijan like, why are you going with?
29:26
Who's your travel agent? And it was I think it was a work trip
29:30
for him. He's just an IT consultant that just knows how to kick all
29:37
the ass, like and then and then everything started being taken. Everything was
29:41
like Taken on a train, taken in the snow, and then the new
29:44
one that just came out was like taken with your kids in the car.
29:45
Like My favorite though, was taken three when uh uh his ex wife's husband
29:52
slash daughter's father in law was taken so hard they replaced him with different actors
30:00
and then made him the bad guy and take him three other birthdays. Today,
30:06
you've got Josh Peck. He is thirty eight today played Josh Nichols on
30:11
Nickelodeon's Drake, and Josh Lou Forigno Junior is forty today plays Rocker on SWAT.
30:17
I didn't even know that Lou's kid was an actor. Yeah, I
30:21
met. I met him once, he was a dad or junior of dad.
30:26
I got him to sign one of my incredible to Collected the comic books
30:32
as a kid, and I got him to sign one of my Incredible Hulk
30:36
comic books. And he In the last segment, Raj, where an't you
30:37
complaining about how Hollywood is so formula leg that they named the Indian character on
30:41
The Big Bang Theory? Raj? Yet here you are geeking out at Lou
30:45
Forigno getting your whole He was at the same like he was in mesquite like
30:49
trust me back in, like that's a big deal. Like when we got
30:53
him at the skeet, that's what I'm saying, Like, that's that's that's
30:57
what we knew. Like I'm like, oh my god, fos at the
31:00
gym And that's when you knew your world's It was like two ships in the
31:04
night passing, except you were on your way up and he was on his
31:10
way down. Yeah, and and yeah. But he he like he was
31:14
at the same gym that was in Mesquity, was called USA Fitness and Racquetball
31:18
Club. If you do it, doesn't get more eighties than that. It
31:22
was a racquetball club. Uh, And he was at like promoting something,
31:26
but they had him as as an appearance, and he was just the biggest
31:30
human I've ever seen. I also was like five four and sixty five pounds,
31:37
so anybody was a bigger human than I've ever seen. Like yeah,
31:41
so basically you were so small and he was so large he mistook you for
31:44
a bell. Yeah. I remember distinctly saying his his calf, his calf
31:51
muscle was bigger than me. I remember looking at his like he was just
31:55
wearing like a black tank top black shorts, and I just remember looking at
31:56
his legs. I'm like, yeah, he he just like just slightly nudged
32:01
me with the toe. That's a fatality. And I don't even think hate
32:07
crimes existed back then, so I don't even think that's what. No,
32:09
at that time, this key police would have shown up and been like,
32:12
clearly he got your toe. Yes, sorry about the Indian fullllle. They're
32:17
not normally allowed here. You know, he's here for the racketball. You're
32:37
listening to the Treehouse. Visit us online that Treehouse on air dot com.
32:46
Time not to get Daniel Cook from cook DFW Roofing and Restoration into the Treehouse
32:52
right now. Their phone number for your free roof inspection is eight three three
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Cook d f W. The website cookdfw dot com. So, Daniel,
33:00
we were just talking on the show a little bit about this. You know
33:02
how Hollywood sitcoms can be kind of formulaic, you know, set up punchlines,
33:07
set up punchline, and you know, Raj and Trey and myself we
33:12
kind of got into it on sitcoms. We're you know, Trey and I
33:15
like Big Bang theory. Raj thinks it's crap, even though he's very similar
33:17
to the raj on the show ironically, and the he liked Friends, which
33:22
a lot of people think is either great or terrible. So where do you
33:25
stand? What's your what's your favorite sitcom? What's your least favorite sitcom?
33:30
I'm kind of right there in the middle. I enjoy watching several of them.
33:32
I think when you get those long running episodes of sitcoms like Friends and
33:37
Seinfeld and Big Bang, some of the episodes are great. You can tell
33:42
the writers were all on it together that day, and then some of them
33:45
are just kind of like you can tell they got into a room and go,
33:47
okay, we got to make five episodes. What are we gonna do
33:50
here, guys, Let's hurry up. Let's let's just throw something on paper
33:52
and we'll see how it goes. But I think every one of these long
33:57
running sitcoms have have really good content, and you can tell some seasons were
34:00
really written well, and you know the actors were getting into it. You
34:06
can tell if you go back, like Friends, we went to go see
34:08
the Friends promotional like trailer that came through Dallas and had all real memorabilia and
34:16
everything and had their backstories of the actors and all those kind of things,
34:21
And it was kind of fun because you know, as they're going through real
34:22
life and they're still becoming these actors on TV, and it just gives you
34:27
some insight of how those shows are always changing and how the writers changed their
34:32
approach on the show based on where the actors are in their life. So
34:37
it's a fascinating process. I love watching, especially like a like a pilot,
34:40
and then if it's a show that ends up being successful, looking back
34:44
at the pilot and seeing how different that show started out. So it is
34:47
a very cool process to see. So what's your favorite what's your favorite titcom
34:51
man? You know, Carrie forces me to rewatch Friends like constantly, and
34:55
then Gray's Anatomy is another one of those. But I don't think that falls
34:59
in their sick but some episodes, some episodes are greats Anatomy are pretty laughable,
35:04
Yeah it is, But yeah, I would say I don't know if
35:06
I had to pick one his Friends, I think Friends was just a really
35:09
well written doc. You know, it just seems like it flew it flew
35:14
by, even though it's so many seasons, but it kept you really in,
35:17
you know, wanting to see more of the show. Well, I
35:20
know next time we're in town than what we'll do is you, Me,
35:23
Carrie and my wife Tera will all sit down because Tara is a huge friend's
35:27
nut, and we will just have a marathon. In addition to that,
35:30
you can also get your roof inspected for free by Daniel Cook and his very
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three three COOKDFW orcookdfw dot com. It's the tree House. Let's get Jacqueline
35:44
from Brooks Plumbing into the tree House now. Their phone number two one,
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four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight and the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot
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com. Jaqueline, I'm curious, what is the most common problem that people
35:54
call you and hoping that you can help them fix. I have a lot
35:59
of people that call me and they like us so much and they want to
36:02
know, do you guys do hvac? Do you guys do electrical? And
36:06
we don't. You know, it used to be back in the day there
36:07
were not a lot of companies that did more than one trade. It's become
36:12
more so of a frequent thing circa the late nineties, early two thousands.
36:16
But I'm like a walking little black book of contractors. And so, like
36:21
I've always said, if I can't do it, I know somebody who can.
36:23
Like, for example, we don't do remodels, but I have a
36:27
company that does plumbing that I would allow in, well, well, we'd
36:30
remodel my house. But I've got a company that I would have in my
36:32
house if I needed to remodel. I've got electricians that I trust that will
36:38
push you to the front of the line in if you call them same day,
36:44
if you say I was your your point of reference, you know,
36:46
I've got an HVAC company that I trust. And it's because I'll tell you,
36:51
when you are a contractor, you're ten times more critical of the other
36:53
contractors that you work with, because you know, when you're getting a sales
36:57
pitch, you know when something is over, you might not know why.
37:01
But so that's what I get a lot of. So because most anything that
37:06
you that you need plumbing, we can handle, but we we don't go
37:09
beyond that. But I've got some I've got a guy. You're the girl
37:14
that's always got a guy, and you know that's actually that makes sense that
37:16
that's one of the most common things that you get because if you've done a
37:19
really good job for someone, they're going to be desperate for you to do
37:22
all the things. But obviously you you focus on one and you do it
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really well. But you have others that you can recommend to people that carry
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your stamp of approval. And you have our stamp of approval. So give
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eight thirty eight thirty eight two one four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight,
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the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. I go take a quick look
38:14
to see if there's any other birthdays that we really need to know. My
38:16
god, it's a big birthday day, all right. We're gonna run through
38:19
these real quick. Here we Go. We left off with Lou Frigno Junior
38:23
as forty from the TV show Swat. I skipped over unfortunately Tarren Edgerton.
38:30
He is thirty five today. He played Elton John in Rocketman. Yeah,
38:35
Robin in the most recent Robin Hood remake with Jamie Fox, which I've not
38:39
seen but I wanted to. And he's also eggsy in the Kingsman movies,
38:45
so good, The Kingsman for that last one, Golden One of the King's
38:50
Men, The Kingsman the prequel. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, he's
38:54
great. He's great in the Kingsman movies. Yeah, they're They're really good.
38:59
He's one of those actors, I shouldn't say one those actors. He's
39:00
one of those people that truly hit the genetic lottery. Like there was a
39:06
there was a supermodel A handfully of years ago. She gave a commencement speech,
39:09
so I think she was valedictorian at her university or something, and and
39:15
she talked about people's you know, stereotypes and stuff because she's gorgeous. But
39:19
the way she said it, it wasn't like in an Aholish supermodel kind of
39:22
way. She's like, look, I hit the genetic lottery. I know,
39:24
I'm I'm pretty, but I'm aware of it. Yeah, Yet she
39:28
still had to bust her ass and work against that stereotype to become valedictorian,
39:31
which I appreciated. Yeah. Taron Edgerton is one of those people that has
39:37
hit a genetic lottery but has still managed to put forth effort into it to
39:42
become the level of celebrity that he is. What I mean by that is
39:45
that dude is unfairly good looking, like he is a pretty man. Yeah.
39:51
He also has a beautiful singing voice. He actually, I don't know
39:54
if you guys have seen Seeing One or Sing Two. It's the animated movies
39:59
or animals, you know, the team he plays the chimpanzee. He's got
40:02
a gorgeous singing voice. Yeah, and and he's a good actor. If
40:07
you guys haven't seen it was on Apple TV the movie called Tetris about Tetris.
40:14
He plays the main role in that, and he was he was really
40:15
good in that. It's one of those guys. He was like, man,
40:17
that's that's just not fair. Yeah, I've been when I first when
40:24
I saw The First Kingdom in the movie, I was like, who is
40:25
this guy? I didn't know who he was. And then I saw the
40:30
second one and it and then I saw the Elton John biopic and it was
40:35
just so great, and I'm like, this kid is he's got it,
40:38
Like there's there's people that got like my buddy Matt Rife. Matt Rife is
40:42
like the new sensation in stand up comedy. He's got it. Like he's
40:45
ridiculously good looking. I've known him since he was seventeen. He's ridiculously good
40:50
looking. He's in you want to hate him because he's so good looking.
40:52
Uh, and he's funny and he's a good comic and then on top of
40:55
that the nicest guy. So there's nothing to dislike about him. And I
41:00
I would hope that this guy is the same way. I would hate to
41:01
meet this like Terran is that his name ran Ran? Terran Ederton Yet Yeah,
41:07
I would like I would hate to meet him and him being a hole
41:08
like I would that would that would be disappointing because he just seems like it's
41:14
all like he's got that whole package put together. Like but you kind of
41:17
like a Tom Holland someone that seems like, yeah, good looking, young,
41:21
very wealthy, talented, not only is he a really good actor,
41:24
but he's he's a really good cross dressing dancer, as as he showed on
41:30
the lip Sync Battle show. Yeah that was a great show. But yeah
41:36
that's a good well. Happy birthday, and you forgot to mention your own
41:38
birthday was last week? Oh I didn't forget. Is this a thing where
41:45
you don't mention that you have a birthday? Pretty much? I'm not.
41:50
I guess I'm not completely on record on the Treehouse podcast at how I'm not
41:53
a birthday person, but I'm not a birthday person for myself. I like
41:57
celebrating other people's birthdays. Trey. I think at this point knows that I'm
42:00
not big on celebrating my birthday. Raj. I've known you long enough you
42:04
should know that I'm not big on celebrating my birthday. So that's why I'm
42:06
assuming you're bringing it up now is to embarrass me. No, because I
42:12
was at I was I think I was watching the game. Was it Sunday?
42:15
Yeah, I was watching the game and your lovely wife posted a happy
42:21
birthday to you, and I did not know that it was your birthday,
42:23
and so I did send you a couple bucks to buy yourselves around, which,
42:30
by the way, thank you, Roger. I really do appreciate that.
42:34
That is one thing about the twenty first century that is awesome is that
42:37
you can give someone like me who doesn't want anything for my birthday, yes,
42:43
an unsolicited birthday money thing through technology, and I can't reject it.
42:50
That's true, you cannot. The best thing I can do is send you
42:52
back twenty bucks and then we're just stuck in a twenty dollars infinity loop.
42:57
Yeah, we don't need to do but yeah, and I know it was
43:00
your birthday. I felt like I didn't know that you didn't. I'm not
43:02
a big birthday person. Everybody likes to celebrate it for me, like it
43:06
is great. I always get like the girlfriend, like this time I had
43:10
brownies, which I thought was ironic, but no kidding, Like Tara didn't
43:16
bring me a plate of whities. You're both a play of whities. And
43:27
scientists have shared an update on the Mexican three fingered alien corpses that they unveiled
43:32
recently. What what this is? This is one of the most comical things
43:40
I've seen. So a handful of months ago, you had the UFO hearings
43:44
that happened in the US, right, the whistleblower guy. We talked about
43:47
him, and everything seemed very legitimate, above board, like, hey,
43:51
there's some things happening. We're not all really sure what's going on, but
43:54
we're all kind of unified for once, kind of wondering what's happening, right,
44:00
And then Mexico took it for a different spin. A team of scientists
44:04
returned to Mexico's parliament to declare the three fingered Peruvian mummies unveiled in September as
44:09
real, but refused to say whether or not they were aliens. One doctor
44:14
claimed the specimens were a new species that did not have lungs or ribs.
44:20
The specimens were reported to have been found alongside at least one other in a
44:23
Peruvian algae mind, sparking a minor diplomatic tiff in the process, given the
44:29
country's authorities were not made aware of the discovery. However, a scientist across
44:34
the world, especially in Mexico, were immediately skeptical and quick to dismiss the
44:38
claims of tiny alien corpses. Yeah, okay, they got to explain all
44:45
those pyramids over there in Mexico, Peru, Machu pichi, it's onto something.
44:51
They don't think that these tiny aliens are responsible for that. Those are
44:53
some really big structures that these little guys I don't think would have been able
44:57
to do. You say they're onto something or they're on some thing like there's
45:00
those are two different things there. I agree with the latter, and I'm
45:07
you know again, I believe in aliens and I believe in I believe that's
45:12
who did the pyramids. But very valid point. But uh, they don't
45:15
have lungs or ribs. That's the part that got me like scientifically, like
45:22
how do you oxygen? Eighth, Well, there are plenty of creatures on
45:25
this planet that don't have lungs or ribs and they live. They found them
45:30
in and and what does it say a mine? An old algae mine.
45:32
So maybe they were under underwater creatures. Okay, I guess all right,
45:37
So they're not human humanoid? Well, they're humanoid because they they you know,
45:42
they have arms and legs and a head and stuff, and fingers.
45:44
They had three and three three fingers. They're they're they're they're part of the
45:47
Simpson species. Are they're like early rednecks. They didn't know how to fire
45:55
off fireworks or they just play for the New York Giants. It's not a
46:12
war movie. Don't count the three just light it and throw it. Thanks
46:19
for hanging out with us inside the Treehouse. Be sure to check out the
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