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IT'S FRIIIDAY! #32 | Solitaire with Friends · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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It is time to leave your worries outside and join me, Dan O'Malley,
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Trade Trendholm, and Raj Sharma right here inside the Treehouse. Today is Friday,
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April twelfth, twenty twenty four. Today we will cover such topics as
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naked with an axe. Sorry, I'm just thinking into the future, also
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a less intense scrabble. But before we get to any of that, we
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must first discuss the biggest thing that happened this week in all of North Texas,
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the Great American Eclipse as I saw it referred to a few times,
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or as Steve Noviello, the very handsome guest inside the Treehouse occasionally from Fox
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four said, few things live up to the hype. This was one of
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them. And he wasn't just talking about his dreamy blue wiyes. He was
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actually talking about the eclipse. Me here in the US Virgin Islands. I
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posted what I saw of the eclipse, which was a bunch of clouds with
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the sun behind it, and I couldn't see anything, Not that I could
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have seen it even if there were no clouds, because there was only going
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to be a sliver of it covering up the sun. We get here,
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but in North Texas. You guys, you reached totality, and the photos,
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the videos that I saw from Totality in North Texas honestly lived up to
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the hype. The weather was not bad. You could see it clearly.
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Everything went dark for a while and it came back on, so we know
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it wasn't urkhot. So gentlemen, how was your eclipse? I've caught now
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I say this. If I had traveled or done anything out of the ordinary,
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I don't know that I would have the same thing. But just on
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the event itself, I walked outside, had daisy, the neighbors had the
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dogs. It was kind of like a little communal event. It was really
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cool. It was the one thing I remember from the eclipse in seventy nine
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that I is how I think when the sun goes, you know, the
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temperature changed in the middle of the day. It's just it's a very cool
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event. It was fun. I you know, I would not have traveled
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thousands of miles or you know the fact that I mean a Best Western in
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Grand Prairie was going for four hundred bucks and there were no rental cars in
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the city. You know, I don't if I had spent some money like
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that. I think I might feel short changed or but but I don't know.
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People really enjoyed it. I mean I was shocked at the bar We
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had people Germany, England, South America, I mean all over the world.
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We're here for this event. And in general everyone enjoyed it. It
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was cool, Like I thought, like I heard people like oath and tears
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and I'm like, wait in why, like did you stare at it?
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Is that what happened? Yeah? Actually actually there Uh the immediately after the
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eclipse, searches on Google for why do my eyes hurt? Skyrocketed. I'm
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not making that up, that's true. Uh. Yeah, And then did
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release a statement saying that they felt the effects of the eclipse. Really they
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did. They did release a statement saying that the effects of the eclipse were
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felt direct. Here's a secret. Yeah, so the power relies on the
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sun. Don't tell them. If they don't know, then there's no hope
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Already. I saw one release and it really did. It was like Urkott
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says that power dipped during the eclipse, and I was like, they released,
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don't say. One of my favorite things that I saw was from a
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congressman I think who had posted on social media saying how see you can't,
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basically saying you can't rely on the sun. This is why you need to
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depend on fossil fuels. Oh yeah, you can't, because the sun could
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have an eclipse, you can't. You can't depend on that as a power.
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So I guess he didn't stop to think about how the sun goes down
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every single night, but it still comes up the next day and can power
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things. But that was I don't know what it was about the eclipse.
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It brought out the worst and so many people. It was sort of like
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our tree house, which is typically full of stupid, right, because that's
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the stupid is this is the treehouses where stupid comes to breed. And for
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that one day during the total eclipse, it's like the tree house full of
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stupid spread across North Texas well and and and made everybody dumber. Now,
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But I mean, I can't argue with that. But I also will say
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this, anytime there's an event where news anchors have to fill automatically, you
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know, you just need to an addition for to the treehouse. Yeah yeah,
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yeah, they really should. I mean, I mean it's look,
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we've been doing this show and in various forms on various formats with various people
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for a long time, and we know stupid and so that's that's that's why
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when we see it, we know it, and that's also why we talk
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about it. It's actually it's actually was a perfect timing. It's sort of
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like Baine versus Batman. We're the bane of stupid. Batman just kind of
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plays with it. But we're bane. We're the ones we were born in
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the stupid I was watching. I just this is this is also another thing,
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like how lazy have we become? When they were live streaming and eclipse,
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when you could just I mean, for for a lot of people just
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go outside. But they're like, if you don't want a CNN said this
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and it was brilliant. They go, if you don't want to go outside,
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just turn on the TV. Like, is this what we're going?
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We can't. We're not even encouraging going outside. Now that's what we're doing.
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And they had one of the anchors was interviewing an astronaut and this was
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a direct quote and I was like, you you said that out loud.
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She's like, so, what's what's more? What's more magical? The eclipse
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that you just witnessed, or the four spacewalks you did, And I was
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like, I was like, is that a real because you should have seen
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the look on his face was like, I'm gonna go with space idiots.
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That was a direct quote from this lady. Oh my god. What was
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more magical the eclipse that you just witnessed in totality? And he was an
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older guy, so he's like he was sweet. He's like, you know,
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I'm not going to be around for the next one, Like yeah,
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so was it as magical as space? And he's like that was pretty cool?
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Like, Mama, was it? No, he's hilarious. Yeah,
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No, it's you mean being strapped, so you know, millions of pounds
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of jet fuel being propelled and propelled into space the waitlessness, not the eclipse
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by far away or yeah, does it, sir? Doesn't that comparison to
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looking up? Yeah, She's like he goes. At one point, he
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goes, well, you know, I got to see the Earth from outside
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the space shuttle, Like yeah, you win, Bud was all the eclipse.
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He's only like out of out of what tins of people that have done
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what he's done. Yeah, Yeah, And that's it's a great example of
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the eclipse. It's it not only dimmed the lights, but it also dimmed
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people's brains. Yeah, and you can tell, like you know, they
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have producers in their ears, like basically like, hey, so go ahead
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and ask him right now, like well, how does this compare to space?
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And instead of asking, you know, well, this is kind of,
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you know, in another scientific phenomen on, like how does that?
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You know, how does it compare to your travels into space? She was
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like, which one's more magical? I was like, what if I was
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the producer, I'm like, I didn't say that part. Don't ask him
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that. Yeah, trust me as someone who's dealt with a person who really
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didn't like to follow the script. A lot. Anchors need to follow the
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script because there's a reason for it, and sometimes if you go off of
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it, bad things happen. And that's a great example of it, because
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what you just described is a producer saying ask this, and the anchor think
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you actually, I keep stop right there, just the anchor thinking is the
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problem. And then the anchor thought, oh, I can reword this into
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my own words and make it better, and she didn't make it worse.
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The other thought would be is the producer just screwing with the anchor by saying
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ask him which was more magical? Oh yeah, that'd be hilarious because maybe
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they had maybe yeah, maybe they got into a fight at the previous news
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meeting and the producer didn't appreciate something that the anchor said, or vice versus.
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Another producer is just going to feed bad questions into their ear. I
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would just do that, That's I mean, yeah, I would. As
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if I was a producer, I wouldn't do that. It'd be like,
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hey, here's what I need you to ask him. Uh, don't don't
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go off script and just say, hey, you know, this is like,
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this is science and we're you know, we're in the presence of it.
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You've done this for You've gone to space four times, but for us,
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this is like, this is a cool event. What what how do
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you feel about it? Instead of going Which one do you think is better
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being in space? That's the dumbest question I've heard. Which one's better just
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writing in a space shuttle? Or it got cool for it got eight degrees
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cooler for two minutes? Which one? Which one did you like better?
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I thought it was really neat. I didn't have that experience that people were
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talking about like that were on the news or people that were chiming in on
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social media, like you know, it brought me to tears, and I
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was just so emotional over it. I was like, okay, I mean
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it was pretty it was pretty dope to watch it, like you know,
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actually happen and go the whole thing and then you could take the glasses off
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and look at it for a couple of minutes. But that was that was
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that. When it was done, I was like, cool, what's for
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lunch? This is like a meaningful moment in my lifetime. I mean,
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yeah, how many people I could? I'm with you. It's like,
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it's a cool event. I've seen a couple of eclipses. To me,
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it's not a it's not necessarily a life changing thing, but I can understand
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how some people maybe maybe some people are just more in tune with their emotions,
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or maybe they're just more in tune with space. I don't, I
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don't, I have no idea. I don't know anybody that was spiritually or
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physically moved by I mean I read a few people online on different Facebook posts
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were like this was just so magical. It brought me to tears, and
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I was like, wonderful, Like is that I want to know the demographic
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of the people that cried, Like, is it like people like I'm not
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going to be around twenty two years from now when this happens again. I
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think that's it. I think it's age related because you realize this is going
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to be your last eclipse. Kind of like the dude in fort Worth who's
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one hundred and five years old, and I think this one was like his
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thirteenth eclips to witness and he's probably well aware this was going to be the
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last one. He's one hundred and five and it just went over his house.
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I'm surprised that he didn't die right then and there, which would have
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been a cool thing. I mean, that's you know. I'm just I
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saw Haley's comment when I was I think five, and I'm just trying to
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make it to the next time it swings back around, so then my life
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can be bookended. Would you be Holly's comment if you saw when you were
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five, wouldn't you be seventy seven? Isn't it every seventy two years now?
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I believe I'll be like eighty one or eighty two when it comes back
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around seventy six years Yep. Interesting, okay, I will, yeah,
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that I was. And now I'm kind of worried about it because when I
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was five years old and Holly's Haley Holly's, I never know which one it
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is. When the comet first came around when I was five, for the
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first time for me to see it. When when Haley's commet first came around
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when I was five, it was a massive worldwide thing for a few days
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because it took some time, you know, to go by. We've all
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gotten dumber since then. It seems we made a huge deal out of the
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eclipse and said some really stupid things out of the eclipse, and eclipse has
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happened way more often than Haley's comet comes around. So I'm actually genuinely worried
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about when it comes back what we're gonna make of it, just based on
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what we said about this most recent eclipse. But they did say, like
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I was watching when physicists say that the cosmic lining up of this eclipse probably
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will never ever happen again. Yeah, because it's it was the perfect deal
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of you know that the fact that the Sun is four hundred times larger than
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the moon, and it was perfectly four hundred times the distance from the moon,
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and so it just lined up perfectly. Said yeah, yes, you
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will have other eclipses, but chances are it won't be like this now with
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you. Yeah, I don't understand the tears, but I also understand.
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You know, people lose their mind for full moons anyways, So people crying.
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It really wasn't that surprising, and I don't understand it, but yeah
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I did. There's a park then that's directly behind our place, and that's
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where we went to go watch it, and there are people in the park,
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and I was like, okay, this is kind of cool, like
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people are gathering for it. There was one way I was like, she
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didn't come out here for no goddamn eclipse. She came out to talk to
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people because she's I don't know if she had no friends. She literally had
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her chair like in the cove of like this set of trees, like there
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was a little little area that you can set it, and it was nowhere,
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like you from where she was sitting, you couldn't see the eclipse,
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and she was just adding away with the people in the park. I'm like,
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she's not here for the eclipse. She's lonely, like that's all that
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is for the people she's here because she doesn't talk to folks all day long.
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Ago no, if the kids don't visit anymore. I don't know what
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it was, but she was who I was watching. I was like,
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that's hilarious. I was pleasantly surprised that there were no like, you know,
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you didn't find that there was some secret cult that we know thought that
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this eclipse was there, uh you know, ticket to uh you know space
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and you know, some mass suicide or anything like that that were aware of.
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She may just not have been discovered yet. Oh that'd be so good.
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It's like the what the hail Bop guys, what was Yeah? The
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hell, yeah it was. It was the Heavenly Gate people with the hail
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Bop comment. That thing came around and they thought that was there. That
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was their moment. That was the time to drink the you know, can
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I just death juice and lay down on bunk beds wearing black nikes and purple
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shrouds and let's go hook up with the mother ship. But that's after they
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also self cast traded themselves, so some of them, well the men yes,
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well no, no, no, if you actually there is a few
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that didn't. Amazing the higher ups didn't. I just here's my question,
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and even for listeners, like just chime and send this to me on my
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social media whatever. How how charming? Like? How do you convince a
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group of people to do this? Like? I don't know. I would
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consider myself a charming guy. I perform on stage, people seem to like
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me. I consider myself charming, But I could never in a million years.
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I don't think sit a group of people down and went, hey,
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here's the deal. See those nikes, put them on, so your nuts
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to take them off. Let's let's all jump on this comment that's gonna come
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get us and have them go yeah, roch sounds good. I don't know
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how you do. Here's the thing. Have you tried I I will show
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you the post I did say I wanted to start a cult on I posted
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that on Facebook. I say, that's that's your first mistake. You can't
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you can't. You can't call it out. You can't tell people that it's
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a cult. Oh okay, we'll you'll do realize. There's a series on
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Netflix called How to Become a cult leader. Okay, now I do.
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And uh, that's not that's not a series. That's an instructional video for
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me. It's there's this whole you know series and it's all narrated by Peter
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Dinklic who actually does fabulous voice work. But it's like how to become a
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tyrant, how to become a cult leader. And there's a couple others they're
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fantastic, but this one it goes through Jim Jones and all the other like
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even the hell Bop people. I got it. I got to see how
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the hell Bop people got it, Like, I don't know how you convince
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people to do that. It started like, you know, twenty five years
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earlier, and it was this couple and it just started taking people in.
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And then it's watched that special. Yeah. I mean I've had House Guess
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before too, but nobody's like, hey, I've never been able to go
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what are these clothes? Rip your nuts off and let's go, let's go,
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let's get on that's right, that's my phone. And then and then
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hand them the bottle of something and say here, drink this, drink this,
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and nobody goes, what are we doing? Get out? We need
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to get out of this man's house. I think there's something wrong with this.
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Uh yeah, so, I mean I don't. I'm surprised there wasn't
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one. I would be I'd be stunned if they don't come out with something
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like the we found fifteen bodies in Buenos Aires and it's because they were all
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about to jump on the eclipse. But yeah, it was cool. I
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thought it was a fantastic phenomenon. Like I was like this when I was
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watching it. Pretty rad. Not gonna lie, but yeah, I mean
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I didn't have the the the tears in my eyes as some some folk did.
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Well, that's because you got surrounded by a whole lot as stupid,
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Like a lot of the conspiracy theories leading up to the eclipse, people claiming
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they were going to be mass of power outages, there were going to be
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cell service interruptions, that you had elected officials saying it was God sending us
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messages to repent for our sins. Alex Jones even said the government was going
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to use it as an excuse to declare martial law or or or to practice
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for declaring martial law. Wow. Again, So the eclipse brought out all
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this nonsense and you know what's funny is what I enjoyed about it more than
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anything else, is like for a weekend, for a day, you could
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turn on the news and it wasn't you know, politics and war and anything
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else else. You know, it was It's nice. There's no there's no
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you know, the no updates on the Middle East, so there were no
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what's China doing to Taiwan? None, none of that was happening. It
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was just like, hey, the sun's about to go away for a minute.
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That's because you were watching the wrong channel. Tray. Yeah, I
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uh, but you should have been watching was Alex Jones. Yeah, I
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don't. How how do you how do you find like, oh, Darius,
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no, you were you were watching your own television show, Trey.
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Oh no, Christ Jones. Here, I'll have to say you you got
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an old picture of I saw a recent picture of Alex Jones, and you
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are fifty pounds lighter. I'm a man, Trey. To take all these
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info war supplements, I thought you're gonna I thought you were gonna say that
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was a government conspiracy just to make you look fat. She like, yeah,
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let's go with it. By the way, I'm Alex Jones and the
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eclipse. Was it real? It was a false moon operation. The government
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just wants you to think of science. Science ain't real. It's hope.
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I'm meant to scare you in control. Oh you it's big balls full of
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gas and dust up there, But that ain't true. I'm the only big
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ball of gas and dust. Pay my legal bills. What do you think
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space lasers have been doing. They're juicing up the moon. They're juicing up
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the moon. And all those people standing around you staring up at the sky
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like a bunch of TikTokers on the phones, all paid actors. They're not
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real. They fold you. Even the ones in your family, your wife,
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your kids, not real, paid actors, just like mine. I'm
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surprised you were left with a video camera and a mic to talk into.
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The lawyers can't take it all. It clips my ass. It's actually Obama
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in this weather machine blotting out the sun. He wants the Earth to be
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as dark as he is. Okay, Alex, you remember darper Right,
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Obama. They got the same number of letters
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and they rhyme it's so obvious. Okay. Well, and that didn't end
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when Obama left office, he kept it in his bathroom and he hit it
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until Biden snuck into power. Neither're alltogether, Obama, Darper Biden five letters
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each, and they all rhyme. I'm a genius by my supplements. Isn't
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isn't Trump? Five letters as well. Oh shit, you're listening to the
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Treehouse during this break. I need to go apologize to my dog and my
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Now I realized that we had a lot going on with the eclipse and all
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the conspiracy theories, whether or not the rapture was gonna happen and Jesus was
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gonna come back. The world kept turning, it moved forward, and we've
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now found ourselves square in the middle of Friday, which means, of course,
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we need to do some birthdays. Today is Friday, April twelfth,
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twenty twenty four. Birthdays today Sirrcey Runin turns thirty. She is from Hannah
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the Lovely Bones and Joe in the twenty nineteen Little Women Remake. Happy Birthday,
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Tess Susy Jesse James Decker, country singer and wife of a former NFL
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wide receiver. Decker is thirty six Today. Brooklyn Decker is thirty seven.
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Unrelated to the other Deckers, this one was the Sports Illustrated cover model who
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also turned actress. She's married to tennis star Andy Roddick, and I believe
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they live in the Austin area. Other birthdays today from panic at the disco.
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Brendan Eerie is thirty seven. Country singer Easton Corbyn forty two, Claire
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Danes from the Homeland is forty five. And I don't know why I'm brain
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farting on the show My Soul Called Life. That was when she became a
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star. Her and Jared Leto all the way back in My Soul Called Life.
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Yeah. Other birthday, Shannon Doherty, one of Raj's favorites, is
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fifty three today. She famously played Brenda Walsh on nine oh two one Oh
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did you ever? Raj as a fan of Shannon Doherty and a fan of
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nine oh two one oh, ever, watch did you ever watch Shannon Doherty
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in Charmed? I wasn't. I wasn't a fan of the Shannan Doherty.
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Oh it was. I mean, Brenda was just annoying. So you were
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team Kelly, I was very much so, yeah, I was very much
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the team Jenny Garth on that side. And then she was very difficult to
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work with, and then same thing, Aaron Spelling gave her a shot and
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brought her back on Charmed, and then she was again very difficult to work
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with, and so they fired her again. But I you know, my
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heart does go out to her. She's suffering from my think stage four cancer.
27:30
So God Blusterer, happy birthday. But yeah, I uh, you
27:33
know, I was. I was a Brandon Walsh guy. I was my
27:34
you know, it wasn't really a Dylan McKay dude. Ye I watched.
27:38
I watched a fair amount of nine oh two and oh h when it was
27:41
on because I felt like I had to because that was around the time that
27:45
I was in high school and middle school, and if you weren't watching it,
27:48
then you you didn't know a lot of the stuff that people were talking
27:52
about. Yeah, so it's I kind of felt like I had to watch
27:55
the show to I understand certain conversations. And you got to give them credit.
27:57
They were ahead of their times. They covered AIDS, they covered homosexuality,
28:00
they covered drug use. Uh, they were I mean Spelling was a
28:06
Spelling wasn't ahead of his time. Well, they did it. They did
28:07
a solid solid because our age group grew up on the shows like that,
28:11
because we started out with Jesse On Saved by the Bell and her caffeine pill
28:17
addiction, and then that and then Aaron Spelling moved us into harder hitting things
28:22
like actual drug addiction. Uh in nine O two one, oh and such,
28:26
I mean, and then they rolled into peach Bit after dark and it
28:30
was just you know, off the rails at that point. I'm sorry,
28:33
but I think y'all are the facts of life. Had had a show about,
28:37
you know, caffeine pills too, let's not let's not. Yeah,
28:41
did the caffeine pills get Trudy like it was Joe? Oh, of course
28:47
it was Joe. That's so. That's so Joe Tooty didn't get And then
28:52
you have remember don't remember Family uh Family Ties, but Michael J. Fox
28:59
Yep, that's it. And you know the very young Tom Hanks as the
29:03
alcoholic uncle. He was drinking the vanilla extract in the cupboard. I do
29:07
not remember that episode. I don't either. Yes, Wow, Okay,
29:14
I have to go back and say Tom Hanks was on Family Ties. Yes,
29:17
he was. He was. Was one of his first roles. Was
29:21
was this before or after Bosom Buddies? I think this was before. Wow.
29:26
So someone saw Tom Hanks in a guest role as an alcoholic on Family
29:33
Ties and said that there is one half of the star that I need to
29:38
cross dress in prime time. That man look pretty address. That's what I
29:44
like. If he's drink drinking vanilla extract, he'll put on some dresses and
29:48
you know what put You can put Bosom Buddies in a category along with so
29:52
many other things that Hollywood produced that would not be able to be on TV
29:59
today because it would make so many people angry that two dudes were living in
30:03
a women's only apartment building and cross dressing. Yeah, I think it's a
30:10
It was a great show. I really enjoyed watching it because, on one
30:12
hand, around the same time frame, around the same era, Archie wouldn't
30:18
work today. All in the family wouldn't work today because Archie would be Archie
30:22
would be seen as too harsh, and Bosom Buddies wouldn't work because the other
30:26
side would see Bosom Buddies as too woke. Yes, well, also you
30:33
have to look at it is in the almost juvenile way. You know,
30:38
we looked at things like transvestite, transsexual we didn't understand, and everything else.
30:44
But also, let me before we the original, the og show that
30:48
addressed most of this stuff that people don't really give it credit for. It
30:51
was brilliant. It was soap. Billy Crystal was a Gaman character in late
30:56
seventies like that that was unheard of. Yeah, and that show spawned Benson.
31:02
There you go, Thank you so forgiving us Benson. Robert gillm was
31:11
was one of the true national treasures that people really didn't appreciate his he was
31:17
so good like Sports Night. I don't know if you'll ever saw that Oh
31:19
Love show. Oh that's one of my favorites. That that show died when
31:23
he had his stroke. Yeah, yeah, I'm, by the way,
31:29
convinced ABC did gave him a stroke. Yes, that was a phenomenal show
31:34
that shouldn't have been treated the way it was. And I think that ABC
31:40
had Robert can stroked. I didn't know that was I thought that was just
31:47
arterial blockete. But maybe maybe it could be a giant network conspiracy. Why
31:52
do you think they always had cheeseburgers there for craft services? That all makes
31:59
sense. Thank you now, Now now you see what I'm talking about.
32:05
I'm not doing it again. I had to tell my dog about It's okay,
32:07
I'm not doing it again. See other birthdays today lost my spot and
32:12
he hath anything else worth mentioning from everclear Alekstakis is sixty two, Vince gil
32:19
Is sixty seven, Andy Garcia sixty eight, David Letterman seventy seven, Ed
32:24
O'Neil from Modern Family and Married with Children seventy eight. Today, Oh and
32:30
John k from Steppenwolf is eighty. Ye. It's pretty good, pretty good
32:34
set of birthdays today, So happy birthday to all of those people. And
32:39
whenever Robert Giholm's birthday is, I feel like we should light a candle,
32:45
but not on a cheeseburger right now. I think that's too soon. Oh
32:58
boy, you know, uh oh, there's a story here that I'm going
33:00
to let the actual news anchors tell the story because sometimes I think it's fitting
33:06
that they that they do it wearing no clothes. Hang on one second,
33:09
Hang on one second, I need to restart this. This is one of
33:15
those stories that I think it's important to have the anchors tell it as opposed
33:17
to me just doing it for them. Mm hmmm. In tonight's crime report,
33:24
a woman is accused of wearing no clothes and threatening a man with an
33:30
axe. This woman allegedly chased the man through the woods in the slight Ol
33:34
area. So if anyone's curious what trade did this past week, I was
33:42
gonna say that take it was a bad breakup. I didn't even go have
33:45
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I can kind of run with things because there's only one other boss and
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it's my dad, and he's a little bit of a softie for me,
34:55
not maybe not for other people. And I love I said I've said it
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36:15
can all enjoy this uh naked woman chasing a man out of the woods with
36:19
an axe story. Why'd y'all go to the woods? Yeah, what were
36:22
you doing in the woods on like a naked hike? Please don't make white
36:30
people. Please don't make naked hikes a thing. We don't need this.
36:32
Just because Dan said it doesn't mean you gotta make it a thing. Don't
36:36
do it. It's no, you don't. You don't know. We're gonna
36:38
hashtag this. Yeah, yeah, naked ikes. Oh. I wanted to
36:45
do some a new exercise program, so I took a date, took it
36:51
to the woods, called her the C word, and ran it's a hell
36:55
of a workout. You can call it the see word, toss and acts,
37:00
and then took off. Trey beat every Kenyon in the woods. Screw
37:08
Hunger games. It's crazy games and Trey is always the victor where it's called
37:16
the C word games. Yeah, I can't wait to see that movie.
37:22
Posters can't wait to see the gold Medalist. Oh Marrier, and that will
37:32
be the second eclipse within a week. Okay, here we go. In
37:40
tonight's crime report, a woman is accused of wearing no clothes and threatening a
37:45
man with an axe. This woman allegedly chased the man through the woods in
37:50
the Slight l area. W go's Mellory Smith is there with By the way,
37:53
this is uh New Orleans w g n O. The rest of the
38:00
Mallory, Well, Kurt and Susie. It all happened right here this past
38:07
Saturday, and just hours ago. Police were able to track down the suspect
38:10
and to rest her, and they say it's not the first time they've received
38:14
reports of the woman walking around naked, but it is the first time with
38:19
an axe that was reported. She's escalating. At a certain point, you
38:30
have to recognize that it's getting worse and something needs to be done. I
38:37
mean, come on, I mean, let's let's all there is that we
38:44
make fun of Florida, but we we kind of you know, our deep
38:49
dark secret is Louisiana. We're kind of afraid. Let's be honest. Yeah,
38:59
there's a reason why we don't China spotlight on because then we'll find things
39:04
a neked woman, an axe, or an alligator, either one it might
39:08
be the same. I mean, you get into some of those swampy areas
39:13
and things have a tendency to this kind of crossed. Anyway, I'm gonna
39:19
switch this over to video modes so you can see so he can see the
39:22
report from WGNO here and this is I believe they said it was Mallory Smith
39:30
reporting on this. So here we go or a woman is accused of wearing
39:37
no clothes and threatening a man with an axe. This woman allegedly chased the
39:42
man through the woods in the Slight l area. W Geno's Mallory Smith is
39:46
there with the rest of the story. Mallory, Well, Kurt and Susie.
39:52
It all happened right here this past Saturday, and just hours ago.
39:57
Police were able to track down the suspect to rest her, and they say
40:00
it's not the first time they've received reports of the woman walking around naked.
40:06
In the evening hours of Saturday, April sixth, slides out, police receive
40:09
a frightening call reporting a naked woman allegedly chasing a man through the woods with
40:14
an axe. You can't make this stuff up. It's just a crazy storyline.
40:17
It's something that you probably see out of a horror movie. Police arrive
40:20
on scene within minutes, but the woman, who investigators have now identified as
40:24
Angela Wagner, was already gone. After talking to the man she was allegedly
40:29
chasing, officers determined it was a random act. The two had never seen
40:32
each other. Before the encounter, the man told police he was in the
40:37
woods helping a homeless man get back on his feet, but to his surprise,
40:40
an enraged woman with no clothes and a rusty axe charged at him.
40:45
Is no way that that is true. He's just trying to save face.
40:52
Yeah, he was doing he was doing something terrible in the woods to that
40:54
homeless guy. There was no homeless guy. Guy and and naked Angela Wagner
41:01
with her rusty axe in the woods? Things? What things would sour with
41:07
that guy? And he's trying to you know, he didn't want to go.
41:08
Yeah, we were on a date and I was about to propose.
41:14
Turns out she had a different proposal. She wanted to play hide the axe,
41:20
and it wasn't a place that you know, he was comfortable with.
41:22
In my head, yeah, that is a uh how old is this story?
41:31
It's just uh, just a couple because I'm just looking at it.
41:35
I'm just looking what the anchors are wearing, and I'm like, what years
41:37
that go back to slide down? Leuis in. I mean, honestly,
41:44
I didn't think about that. You're right, if I correct that male anchor,
41:49
it looks like, you know, that was the swamp thing of Scott
41:51
van Pelt. You don't get a lot of Scott van Pelt references, though,
42:04
well done her, thank you. I've surely looked at him, because
42:10
hey, he looks huge behind that desk. And the other anchor, that
42:17
outfit just looks like she they just woke her up out of a coma from
42:22
nineteen seventy eight. I think Trey's right, that looks like a Scott Scott
42:28
swamp thing van Pelt, and then they and then the anchor looks a little
42:36
bit like, I don't know, nineteen eighty two, Nancy Lieberman, that's
42:43
not even the poor man Scott van Pelt. That's like the it's like missing
42:49
a chromosome, Scott Maanel, like we're ones to talk. Scott van Pelt
42:59
slid down. Oh, speaking of being short a few chromosomes. Have you
43:08
guys ever been intimidated by scrabble? I want to say I've never really played
43:17
it, but you know what it is. Yes, So Mattel is launching
43:22
a new, less intimidating version of scrabble because I guess letters and blocks are
43:28
too scary for kids today. I really wish I was making this up Scrabble,
43:35
one of the world's best loved word games, is getting a new,
43:38
collaborative and accessible version. The game's been around for more than seventy five years,
43:44
entertaining and infuriating players and families. If I my dad an equal measure
43:47
with the simple premise of competing to see who can make the highest scoring words
43:52
from a random selection of letters. Now, an updated game named Scrabble Together,
43:57
adds a second side to the board that is collaborative and faster paced to
44:00
make gameplay more accessible for anyone who finds word games intimidating. That's according to
44:06
a statement that Mattel published earlier this week. Instead of competing, players collaborate
44:13
to complete goal cards, and there are helper cards if assistance is required to
44:17
aim is that the new game brings people together. What did they call words
44:23
with friends? Words with idiots? I mean that was dumb death scrabble.
44:30
Yes, now they've Now they've made it a board like you don't have to
44:35
They've made a dumber I just, uh, yeah, I don't know what
44:38
we're doing to kids today. I don't I don't understand. It's uh scrabble,
44:45
that's what we're doing. Making a collaborative. Okay, spelling is hard.
44:53
What are they going to do to Monopoly? I want to see what
44:55
they do now. It's like it's going to be habitat for humanity. Everybody's
44:59
going to help build houses on their property. Who can build the best co
45:04
op? No one goes to jail. It's always free parking and there's free
45:15
healthcare for everybody. Actually, it's kind of nice. They gentrified Baltic and
45:21
Mediterranean. Everyone actually reads on the reading railroad. Oh yeah, I think
45:35
we just get on the new game. Wow, it's a It's sad.
45:39
I've never uh, I've never really played scrabble, like like, it's not
45:45
a We never had that game. We had Monopoly grown up, but that
45:47
was just because Indians do hotels. But that's it was more of an instructional
45:52
board game than anything else. But we did have Monopoly. We played that
45:55
and that was man that that would start fights. So I can't imagine what's
46:00
spelling would do. My family played a lot of scrabble. We also played
46:06
a lot of trivial pursuit and I never found it intimidating. It's like,
46:14
if anything, it was good for me. It's how I probably know that
46:17
the word key is an actual word. QI. The only time I've ever
46:22
needed to use it was in scrabble, and to this day, I still
46:25
don't know what the hell it means. But by god, that's you know,
46:29
if that's a triple letter score. They were talking about thirty one points.
46:32
Wow, Okay, we have to find out what game means. But
46:37
yeah, we just had the Uh we had a monopoly in operation. Like
46:40
if you don't, it doesn't get more Indian than that. And like you
46:44
could tell, like when we were playing it as kids, like the one
46:46
that just kept bumping it against the side, You're like, Oh, dermatology,
46:51
that's what they're gonna be. That's what they're going to specialize in.
46:53
You could tell. But yeah, we didn't have the We didn't have that.
46:55
We had we had a hungry, hungry hippos. I don't think you
47:00
can have one today. Isn't that fast shaming? I don't know what that
47:04
game would do well balanced tippos. I don't know how that's candy Land just
47:13
promoting diabetes. Also a fantastic name for a strip club, and Battleship was
47:23
just a way for the Navy to uh, you know, work on indoctrinating
47:29
you as a child and getting you to enlist in the future. Yeah,
47:32
that's exactly. Maybe that's all it was. All board games is really just
47:37
you know, training for the actual life ahead. Yeah. And you know
47:44
the kid that brought in, like the brought in cookies from the easy bakeup
47:47
and you just you just don't she's not going to cook. That's they're just
47:52
not going to cook it. And uh, but yeah, that's wild.
47:55
I can't believe they're doing that to board games because it's I don't know,
47:59
maybe it's causing a lot of fights because we didn't play it, so I
48:01
don't know. The only reason whatever cause any fights is this is because you
48:06
don't have a decent enough vocabulary to have a chance at winning. Therefore,
48:09
you play the game more and you learn more words and you get better.
48:15
Yeah, but that's the that's the thing now is uh it has to be
48:21
super inclusive, right, and you can't because you can't. Everybody has to
48:25
be on the same page. Isn't that right? Is that what it is?
48:28
I don't know. I'm just why. I'm glad to doing it.
48:30
But that's the case, then how the hell do you play clue? Does
48:35
anybody still, That's what I want to know. Does anybody still you can't
48:37
play a game where there's you're solving a murder, can you? Is that?
48:40
Like, isn't that too much for today? Yeah? I mean if
48:44
if scrabble with tiles and letters is intimidating, then then how do you how
48:51
do you fix clue? Is everybody the murderer? Or is nobody the murderer?
48:55
Or is it in Instead of there's been a murder, there's there's been
48:59
a there's been a hugging. We having to find out we have to find
49:04
out who the who the hugger is in the house and which room they hugged
49:07
somebody? Now was it a consensual hug? Is the question? That's when
49:10
you're getting into the you're getting into the rule book. Ah, Yes,
49:15
that's the game. I can see in thirty years people will be doing a
49:20
podcast like this somewhere in space, feeling nostalgic about the game of consent.
49:30
Yeah. I mean, what's next? I mean, they're gonna take grand
49:32
theft auto and like all of a sudden, you're gonna you know, pick
49:35
the hooker up and you know, you know, fix her up and get
49:37
her you know, on a solid life, get off the streets. Grand
49:42
the Grand Theft Auto Pretty Woman version. He cleaned that hooker right up,
49:50
I tell you, and she got him to stop selling drugs. It's a
49:53
it's a it's a fairy tale story. Okay. So what you're saying is
49:59
maybe maybe changing up some of the some of the games isn't all bad.
50:05
I mean I don't want to. I don't want to feel like there was
50:07
a heartwarming moment when I'm playing Grand Theft Auto. I mean, if it
50:12
does happen, I'm just saying like, I wouldn't know that actually is a
50:15
solid point if you're intimidated by scrabble. Oh yeah, how do you feel
50:20
when you pick up a controller and start playing Grand Theft Auto? Yeah,
50:23
what do you do? Like, how do you call him? Duty's going
50:25
to be terrible? Are gonna fuck up? Solitaire? Connect four is gonna
50:42
be all chanked up. What they're gonna do that bad boy? Make you
50:52
play it with somebody. You have to play Solitaire with a friend. Now,
51:02
that's a new game for your phone. Solitaire with friends. Now.
51:08
I think that's going to be the episode title of this. Yeah, all
51:14
right, there you go. That is Friday, number thirty two inside the
51:16
Treehouse. Thanks for hanging out with us today. I'm glad you survived the
51:20
eclipse and everything that happens since, including this episode. We will check back
51:24
with you next week for episode ninety one of the Treehouse. We'll see you
51:30
in there, yes,