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- 0:11Speaker 2: It is time you'll leave your worries outside and laugh
- 0:15Speaker 2: with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with
- 0:18Speaker 2: Trey Trenholm coming up today, how being fat and not
- 0:23Speaker 2: shaving your legs just might affect your relationship. Also, a
- 0:29Speaker 2: fiery penis caught everybody's attention over the last handful of
- 0:33Speaker 2: days for obvious reasons. And we're also going to choose
- 0:38Speaker 2: our midlife crisis, although it sounds to me like one
- 0:41Speaker 2: of us has already made that choice. We'll jump into
- 0:43Speaker 2: that momentarily, but first wanted to mention this to you.
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- 1:07Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It is a time that seems
- 1:11Speaker 2: to hit all of us at one point or another.
- 1:15Speaker 2: If we're fortunate enough to make it to midlife, it
- 1:22Speaker 2: hits us in different ways. Different people choose different paths,
- 1:27Speaker 2: and apparently, Trey, you have chosen your midlife crisis.
- 1:33Speaker 1: See, I don't know if it's a midlife crisis. And
- 1:36Speaker 1: this is where I am. I am at a profound
- 1:41Speaker 1: I am profoundly befuddled, and whether I am this is
- 1:46Speaker 1: the next part of me actually growing up. I've talked
- 1:51Speaker 1: about this before. One of the more interesting things about
- 1:54Speaker 1: alcoholism and addiction is they say you quit maturing when
- 1:58Speaker 1: you start drinking. And so basically, I was a seventeen
- 2:02Speaker 1: year old and un phil I was about forty two,
- 2:06Speaker 1: and many aspects of my life and it rings true.
- 2:09Speaker 1: I some of the very poor decisions I've made, some
- 2:12Speaker 1: of the way I thinks I did, why I behaved
- 2:15Speaker 1: absolutely that of a seventeen year old. And so I
- 2:22Speaker 1: don't know if I am in a midlife crisis. I
- 2:25Speaker 1: don't know if this is the next evolution of my
- 2:28Speaker 1: you know, grow up, or I don't know if I've
- 2:33Speaker 1: skipped midlife crisis and I've gone directly I'm nearing senior citizen.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I am as befuddled as anyone
- 2:42Speaker 1: else because some of the things I've done, Like I've
- 2:51Speaker 1: one thing about me is for years my car always
- 2:54Speaker 1: was an absolute wreck. I mean just dirt, like just
- 2:58Speaker 1: papers everywhere, just just a mess. And I made the
- 3:03Speaker 1: decision a couple of months ago. I'm like, I'm not
- 3:05Speaker 1: going to do that anymore. Cleaned it out and I
- 3:08Speaker 1: keep it immaculate. I even got a membership to a
- 3:11Speaker 1: car wash. I get it washed at least once a week.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Wow.
- 3:17Speaker 1: My place, I make my bed every day. I you know,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I clean like my Sundays. I get up, I walk,
- 3:26Speaker 1: I go to church, and then I come home and
- 3:29Speaker 1: then I make myself a nice brunch and then I
- 3:33Speaker 1: spend a lot of the day I laundry and cleaning.
- 3:39Speaker 1: So Friday, I woke up and I have a nice
- 3:44Speaker 1: new place and I really enjoy it, and especially it's
- 3:47Speaker 1: been the first place that I've had a second bedroom,
- 3:49Speaker 1: so my podcast, all this stuff is not stuck in
- 3:53Speaker 1: my living room or in my bedroom. So that way
- 3:56Speaker 1: and keep everything much nicer. But I woke up Friday
- 4:00Speaker 1: and I have a nice balcony and I I don't
- 4:06Speaker 1: know where it came from. I'm like, I need to
- 4:07Speaker 1: go buy plants.
- 4:12Speaker 2: You woke up Friday morning with a green thumb?
- 4:15Speaker 1: I yeah, this just intrinsic need to go buy plants.
- 4:21Speaker 1: I went to Low's, I went to home depot. I
- 4:23Speaker 1: didn't see anything I liked, and I remember, oh, this
- 4:25Speaker 1: is a really nice nursery over there by love Field,
- 4:27Speaker 1: So I went over there. It's called Jackson's. I don't know,
- 4:30Speaker 1: and it could and you neither loves are home depots
- 4:35Speaker 1: And I'm not knocking them. Customer service not great, especially
- 4:40Speaker 1: in you know that department, because I have no idea.
- 4:43Speaker 1: I literally I have never had a plant before. So
- 4:48Speaker 1: I am you know, you give me a dog, a cat,
- 4:50Speaker 1: whatever I can tell you. I tell you everything you
- 4:53Speaker 1: need to do, from puppy to to you know, birth
- 4:56Speaker 1: to death. Plants not a clue. Yeah, And so do.
- 5:01Speaker 2: You have any idea what kind of plant you want?
- 5:06Speaker 2: Are you wanting a plant that you have to like
- 5:09Speaker 2: talk to and like truly take care of, Like are
- 5:12Speaker 2: you looking for a friend that's green? Or you're just
- 5:15Speaker 2: wanting to make the place look nice.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I just felt like I and I So one of
- 5:22Speaker 1: the things I probably that spurred this on is I
- 5:25Speaker 1: cleared out the last of stuff from my mother. There
- 5:29Speaker 1: was one little tiny storage unit that I had left
- 5:32Speaker 1: that I cleared out and I had in there there
- 5:35Speaker 1: was a couple of nice brass flower pots, So I
- 5:43Speaker 1: I think that maybe, And so I got those. I
- 5:46Speaker 1: put them on my patio and I'm like, I gotta,
- 5:48Speaker 1: I gotta buy plants. So then I went to this
- 5:52Speaker 1: nursery and uh, this very nice lady and I because
- 5:58Speaker 1: I and I told her on the f and I go,
- 6:00Speaker 1: I have no idea. I I don't know what I'm
- 6:02Speaker 1: looking for. I uh muld me.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a fifty two year old man. What what
- 6:10Speaker 2: do I need? What do I what? I'm like? Did
- 6:15Speaker 2: she just have like dollar signs in her eyes like
- 6:17Speaker 2: a like a cartoon or was she just like just
- 6:19Speaker 2: super really like, let's I'm gonna I'm gonna guide you
- 6:22Speaker 2: through this.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Now. She was? She was incredibly Actually, I told her,
- 6:30Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want to spend a fortune like
- 6:33Speaker 1: something that looks pretty that if it, you know, doesn't
- 6:37Speaker 1: need a ton of care.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Were you looking for a were you looking for a
- 6:42Speaker 2: plant or a new girlfriend?
- 6:46Speaker 1: Well, I mean, with my luck, the new girlfriend would
- 6:48Speaker 1: uh bloom and then die and never you know, come back.
- 6:53Speaker 2: So looking for something pretty that doesn't need a whole
- 6:56Speaker 2: lot of care?
- 6:58Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'll give Jackson's Home and Garden Center was
- 7:01Speaker 1: a place because the woman could not have been nicer.
- 7:03Speaker 1: I finally, so she showed me around. I go, I know,
- 7:06Speaker 1: I kind of I said, I'd like a perennial. I know,
- 7:08Speaker 1: I want something that you know, we'll come back every year.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Got it. So you're looking for, like you said, pretty,
- 7:14Speaker 2: So you're looking more of a a an esthetic type
- 7:17Speaker 2: of plant versus something like you're not going into gardening.
- 7:20Speaker 2: You're not trying to like you're not trying to grow
- 7:22Speaker 2: a pepper plant and get food off.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I still live in an apartment.
- 7:25Speaker 1: I mean, uh so, yeah, I just wanted something that
- 7:32Speaker 1: you know, look nice and I you know, I could watch.
- 7:38Speaker 1: So finally she was like, well, you know, these rose
- 7:46Speaker 1: I don't know if they're like trees or.
- 7:50Speaker 2: They're not spoken like a true plant. Man, I don't
- 7:53Speaker 2: know if it's a tree or.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Well, it's it's big, it's like so it's they're like
- 7:58Speaker 1: a rose bush, but it's a long base like it
- 8:04Speaker 1: almost looks like a little shrub and then bloms on top. Anyway,
- 8:09Speaker 1: so I got two of them. They were on sale.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Is it the desert rose?
- 8:14Speaker 1: No, they're the called nitty Gritty Red Rose.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Nitty Gritty red rose.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Reaches three to four feet three feet tall, four feet wide,
- 8:32Speaker 1: and they were on sale.
- 8:33Speaker 2: I was like, okay, perfect, and you got two.
- 8:37Speaker 1: I got two.
- 8:38Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. Congratulations. You got some plants.
- 8:42Speaker 1: I got some plants. And then you know, I and
- 8:46Speaker 1: the woman told me, you know what I need to do,
- 8:48Speaker 1: And it's like, do I need to repot them? She's like, actually, no,
- 8:52Speaker 1: leave them there and we've already pruned them and they'll
- 8:56Speaker 1: bloom once more. And then after they're done, then you
- 9:01Speaker 1: have to trim them and then when in the fall
- 9:04Speaker 1: to come back in some potting soil, and then then
- 9:06Speaker 1: you can you know, take them out of their their
- 9:08Speaker 1: pots and repot them. Okay, and uh and then but then, uh,
- 9:14Speaker 1: you know, as a side note, uh, you know, we
- 9:18Speaker 1: had a little storm yesterday and they blew over. It's
- 9:27Speaker 1: something I didn't really think about is rose bushes have thorns.
- 9:31Speaker 1: So when I went to pick one and pick the
- 9:34Speaker 1: one up, and it was blocking my door, so I
- 9:36Speaker 1: was very limited as to my access. I screamed like
- 9:40Speaker 1: a bitch because I had like four thorns in my hand.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Look I'm not one to typically beat a metaphor to death,
- 9:53Speaker 2: but I think in this instance it applies. You didn't
- 9:56Speaker 2: just buy new plants. You bought them you You bought
- 10:03Speaker 2: the plant representation of all your romantic interests in your life.
- 10:08Speaker 2: It's pretty, but it's got thorns and it's probably gonna
- 10:11Speaker 2: hurt you. I'm sorry.
- 10:16Speaker 1: It's very fair, you know, at least at least it's potted,
- 10:19Speaker 1: and it can't just disappear and leave again.
- 10:22Speaker 2: It's an it's an extension of you trying to fix
- 10:26Speaker 2: Not only is it a representation of the women you've dated,
- 10:29Speaker 2: but you're trying to fix the plant because you can't
- 10:32Speaker 2: fix the woman. You know what way to do that
- 10:33Speaker 2: is to beat them from running away.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Maybe you're right because after, you know, after they fell over,
- 10:37Speaker 1: I went and got some bungee straps and I strapped
- 10:40Speaker 1: them to the falcony so they can't leave.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Man. That is a all right. I don't think we
- 10:50Speaker 2: can beat this metaphor to death, but I'm a little
- 10:52Speaker 2: worried about your captives if they try to make a
- 10:56Speaker 2: run for it. I got it. I got a nice
- 11:00Speaker 2: I got a nice Stockholm Rose. All right, kidding aside,
- 11:08Speaker 2: it might be a combination of all three phases of
- 11:11Speaker 2: life that you're talking about, because there's the midlife crisis,
- 11:15Speaker 2: there's the old man era, and there is the just
- 11:18Speaker 2: maturing side of things, and you may be and this
- 11:21Speaker 2: and getting these plants might be a might be a
- 11:24Speaker 2: combination of all three.
- 11:27Speaker 1: You know, I've made this joke too. I don't remember
- 11:30Speaker 1: if I made it to you, but I've made it
- 11:32Speaker 1: some other people that know me well enough to, like
- 11:36Speaker 1: Amy and my stepmother Jackie, and you know, I I
- 11:41Speaker 1: finally I have a place that looks you know, it's
- 11:43Speaker 1: like you walk in and go, oh, an adult lives here,
- 11:45Speaker 1: and they looks nice, and it looks like they it
- 11:49Speaker 1: looks like they have their shit together.
- 11:54Speaker 2: I mean they don't, but it looks that way. And
- 11:57Speaker 2: isn't that really what adulthood is all about?
- 11:59Speaker 1: I think, you know, before in my life you walked
- 12:02Speaker 1: in and you're like, hey, this person does not have
- 12:04Speaker 1: their shit together. So at least now it looks like
- 12:06Speaker 1: I have my shit together.
- 12:08Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's an essential part of
- 12:12Speaker 2: growing up. Whether you have it together or not, it's
- 12:14Speaker 2: just reaching a certain point in your life or it
- 12:16Speaker 2: at least looks like you.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Might fake it till you make it exactly.
- 12:21Speaker 2: That's a lot of what adulting is, and most of
- 12:23Speaker 2: us don't realize it till we hit a certain point
- 12:25Speaker 2: and realize, oh my god, everyone that I looked up
- 12:30Speaker 2: to when I was a kid, they didn't know what
- 12:32Speaker 2: they were doing either. It was all fake it till
- 12:34Speaker 2: you make it. It works that way with kids, it
- 12:36Speaker 2: works that way with jobs, it works that way with everything.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Anyone that tells you they've got everything figured out is
- 12:43Speaker 2: full of it. They absolutely do not. Those are the
- 12:45Speaker 2: people that worry me the most because they're either delusional
- 12:50Speaker 2: or they're just straight up lying, And so different people
- 12:54Speaker 2: find the different sort of impetus for realizing that they
- 13:00Speaker 2: don't have it all together. For most people, I think
- 13:02Speaker 2: it's kids. You and I don't have kids, so we
- 13:04Speaker 2: didn't have that same thing happened. We're like, oh, now
- 13:08Speaker 2: I get it. I don't really know what I'm doing,
- 13:11Speaker 2: and my parents didn't either. It's just trying to figure
- 13:14Speaker 2: it out as you go. Fake it till you make it.
- 13:16Speaker 2: At least make the kid look good on the outside,
- 13:18Speaker 2: because you can screw them up on the inside all
- 13:20Speaker 2: you want. Kind of like your apartment, so yeah, and
- 13:24Speaker 2: then in your kid it's it's finding different, like finding
- 13:26Speaker 2: the thing that makes you realize that you're like, yeah,
- 13:29Speaker 2: I'm just kind of figuring it out as I go.
- 13:36Speaker 2: And I kept mentioning this before as far as like
- 13:38Speaker 2: choosing your midlife crisis, because there's been this meme going
- 13:42Speaker 2: around that I've seen the last month or so where
- 13:45Speaker 2: millennials are now entering midlife, and so this running meme
- 13:51Speaker 2: now is all right, millennials, you're now of the age
- 13:53Speaker 2: that it's time to choose your midlife crisis. And when
- 13:56Speaker 2: you and I, you know, were growing up seeing our
- 13:58Speaker 2: parents go through their mid life crises, if they did it,
- 14:01Speaker 2: like my dad's midlife crisis was a little similar to yours, Trey.
- 14:05Speaker 2: One of the first things he did was he went
- 14:06Speaker 2: out and bought a plant. Now his plant was marijuana,
- 14:09Speaker 2: but still it was a plant. He also got a
- 14:12Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two Z twenty eight Camaro. So those midlife
- 14:19Speaker 2: crises that we saw as kids were more of the
- 14:22Speaker 2: stereotypical traditional like dad can finally afford a sports car,
- 14:27Speaker 2: so he goes and gets one kind of a thing
- 14:29Speaker 2: he wanted, not mine. It's like you know, it's like
- 14:31Speaker 2: if you ever wanted like a convertible corvette, you couldn't
- 14:34Speaker 2: afford it when you were twenty when you wanted it,
- 14:37Speaker 2: But now that you're forty five, you can afford it,
- 14:39Speaker 2: and you're like, ah, now I'm gonna get it.
- 14:41Speaker 1: And it's funny you brought that example up, because if
- 14:46Speaker 1: there's been one thing that I think literally midlife crisis's
- 14:51Speaker 1: have ruined corvettes.
- 14:54Speaker 2: It really has. You can't be a middle aged man
- 14:56Speaker 2: and get the sports car of your dreams anymore because
- 14:58Speaker 2: then people think one two things tiny wiener or it's
- 15:02Speaker 2: just midlife crisis. You're acting out you know, your younger selves,
- 15:05Speaker 2: fantasies or both, and so it's kind of ruined it.
- 15:09Speaker 2: So I think what's happened is we've replaced that sports
- 15:13Speaker 2: car with just a big ass truck. Now maybe that's
- 15:15Speaker 2: partly because we're from Texas, but at some at some
- 15:18Speaker 2: point you're like, you know what, I just want a big,
- 15:20Speaker 2: kick ass truck. I want it big and I want
- 15:23Speaker 2: it awesome and just yeah, and you know, you can
- 15:26Speaker 2: get a big truck when you're younger, but if you
- 15:29Speaker 2: want like all the bells and whistles, like, if you
- 15:31Speaker 2: want that King ranch, you're gonna throw down some money.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Do you know how much like a king or like
- 15:38Speaker 1: a platinum f two fifty costs Now.
- 15:41Speaker 2: It's it's gotta be over one hundred.
- 15:44Speaker 1: I think it's like one hundred and thirty five.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's so. I think. I think like
- 15:50Speaker 2: a really it doesn't even have to be a sports
- 15:52Speaker 2: car anymore. That's the ultimate stereotype. But it really is
- 15:55Speaker 2: just buying or leasing whatever, just getting a really nice
- 15:59Speaker 2: car that you can afford. And it's sort of like, ah,
- 16:02Speaker 2: I made it, I'm an adult. It's not. But yeah,
- 16:05Speaker 2: but so our stereotypical midlife crises aren't what they used
- 16:10Speaker 2: to be. What we saw is a midlife crisis as
- 16:14Speaker 2: a kid, like the convertible or you know, an ear
- 16:18Speaker 2: ring or something. There's so many more options now, So
- 16:23Speaker 2: this means has been going around millenniar millennials, It's time
- 16:26Speaker 2: to choose your midlife crisis. There's all these other options
- 16:29Speaker 2: now that can signal I'm going through the change, I'm
- 16:33Speaker 2: hitting midlife. Things like making sour dough out of nowhere,
- 16:39Speaker 2: having a supplement obsession, like if someone you know as
- 16:42Speaker 2: all of a sudden talking about peptides. Let left and right.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go. If someone gets into cross well,
- 16:48Speaker 2: CrossFit maybe not so much, but all of a sudden
- 16:50Speaker 2: they're into health and fitness. All of a sudden, they
- 16:52Speaker 2: get into gardening hardcore, or they get into bird watching.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Right now, I got. I don't say, I don't think
- 17:01Speaker 1: I've really gone overboard, but when I turned fifty, I started,
- 17:07Speaker 1: you know, taking exercise a lot more seriously and working
- 17:13Speaker 1: out regularly, and I got, I knows, I take a
- 17:16Speaker 1: lot of supplements.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Part of the difference is, though, is how much you
- 17:22Speaker 2: tell others about it so you can do these things
- 17:25Speaker 2: like if you're just going to the gym just because
- 17:27Speaker 2: you want to, you know, lower stress and just increase
- 17:30Speaker 2: your quality of life by the time you're eighty, that's
- 17:33Speaker 2: one thing. Well, but if you're signaling it, especially on
- 17:37Speaker 2: social media, or you're part of groups and things and
- 17:40Speaker 2: doing that's where it's supposed to kind of carry over
- 17:42Speaker 2: into the midlife care.
- 17:43Speaker 1: I mean, I my primary deal in working out is
- 17:48Speaker 1: twofold Number one look better, but number two, because I
- 17:54Speaker 1: watched this with my parents and my stepmom is the
- 17:58Speaker 1: opposite of it. And you know, she's almost eighty and
- 18:01Speaker 1: she lives this active, full life. Both my dad and
- 18:04Speaker 1: my stepmom, I mean my dad and my mom, they
- 18:06Speaker 1: were so sedentary that their bodies broke down by the
- 18:10Speaker 1: time they were in their early seventies. They were basically
- 18:14Speaker 1: Mom was in a wheelchair and Dad could, you know,
- 18:18Speaker 1: hardly move. And I didn't want to end up like that.
- 18:21Speaker 1: And listen, when I if I have, you know, a
- 18:24Speaker 1: little bit extra income, you make no mistake. I'm I'm
- 18:27Speaker 1: gonna try the peptide thing that and stem cells. I'm
- 18:32Speaker 1: all over it.
- 18:33Speaker 2: So some of these, some of these other choose your
- 18:35Speaker 2: midlife crises. There's a couple that are stereotypes still buy
- 18:40Speaker 2: a sports car, divorce. Then you get into more twenty
- 18:44Speaker 2: first centuries stuff, hormone optimizing, skin and hair care obsessions,
- 18:49Speaker 2: starting a farm, pickleball, dressing like a twenty's teen. No,
- 19:01Speaker 2: having a panic baby like you're forty three and go
- 19:07Speaker 2: oh no, or I guess that'd be more of a
- 19:10Speaker 2: surprise baby. Low toxic living, gardening, going alcohol free. Now,
- 19:17Speaker 2: for some people, that's different. Yours was a different situation.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Some people are like, you know what, I'm just gonna try,
- 19:21Speaker 2: you know, not having alcohol for a while and see
- 19:24Speaker 2: what it feels like. That can also be a thing.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Supplement obsessions all of a sudden deciding I'm gonna run
- 19:30Speaker 2: a marathon. No buying a motorcycle, and they're done that divorce,
- 19:39Speaker 2: I've taken a taking a year long sabbatical. I wish
- 19:46Speaker 2: only fans.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Look, there's all sorts of if I had something I
- 19:53Speaker 1: thought was I could sell on OnlyFans, make no mistake
- 19:56Speaker 1: about it.
- 19:59Speaker 2: How are your feet? Told me that you get a
- 20:00Speaker 2: pedicure on occasion? No, not not not only fans worthy on.
- 20:07Speaker 2: On the on the other hand, I mean only like
- 20:09Speaker 2: some of this stuff, especially with feet, you can get
- 20:11Speaker 2: real specific. If you have really hideous feet, there might
- 20:14Speaker 2: be some people out there willing to spend money on
- 20:16Speaker 2: that or just mid.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're very just maybe above average, but they're.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Honestly awesome.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Even if I have, I don't know. I find feet
- 20:32Speaker 1: just ugly in general, So I can't even fathom. I
- 20:37Speaker 1: can't fathom any of that.
- 20:38Speaker 2: I get that, like I I assume my I assume
- 20:41Speaker 2: I have feet that would be considered mid. I guess
- 20:43Speaker 2: because I don't. I don't think that they're pretty enough
- 20:47Speaker 2: to be on like that upper echelon of like only
- 20:50Speaker 2: fans feet pick domination, but they're also not so hideous
- 20:54Speaker 2: that would just garner so much, you know, general interest
- 20:57Speaker 2: or morbid curiosity. I don't know how it works. I've
- 21:00Speaker 2: never had a foot fetish. I assume though, that like
- 21:02Speaker 2: most things, if you haven't extreme, you could probably make
- 21:05Speaker 2: some money. If it's extremely beautiful, you could probably you know,
- 21:08Speaker 2: have some fun with feet picks and putting pretty bowas
- 21:11Speaker 2: on them or something. But then if you had like
- 21:13Speaker 2: some really hideous feet, like like Quasimoto ringing the bell
- 21:17Speaker 2: with no shoes on for one hundred and fifty years,
- 21:20Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure there's some interest there too. But
- 21:22Speaker 2: if you're in the middle, like you and I are,
- 21:24Speaker 2: then you're just probably stuck with trying to figure out
- 21:26Speaker 2: something else.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Oh and the one I left off that I think
- 21:32Speaker 2: would be an obvious one as far as choosing a
- 21:34Speaker 2: midlife crisis starting a podcast.
- 21:40Speaker 1: I you know, we've done I've done a lot of
- 21:42Speaker 1: these things. And you know, I had hot blonde that
- 21:46Speaker 1: was ten years younger than me.
- 21:47Speaker 2: And that's another one that was another one on there.
- 21:50Speaker 2: Now yours was a little different one. Of the other
- 21:51Speaker 2: ones I saw was start dating a twenty three year old.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Yours was not twenty three, but still ten years younger.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's maybe that, maybe that was the problem
- 21:58Speaker 1: I need to you know, maybe twenty years younger is.
- 22:01Speaker 2: That's what it is. You didn't go young enough.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Yeah. I made the mistaken thing of the you know, older,
- 22:11Speaker 1: mature and stable, and man, was I fucking wrong.
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- 22:44Speaker 1: Absolutely, Dan.
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- 22:53Speaker 3: affects their roof condition, long term effects just overall their home.
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- 24:26Speaker 2: All right. Today is Tuesday, July fourteenth, two twenty six.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Birthdays today. Jack Lynch Iimmy winning actress, best known for Glee.
- 24:40Speaker 2: She was also in the forty year Old Virgin Only
- 24:43Speaker 2: Murders in the Building, the newer version of Whose Line
- 24:47Speaker 2: Is It Anyway? Jane Lynch is six holidays, Talladega Knights,
- 24:51Speaker 2: Talladega Knights. Also that she's been in so many things
- 24:54Speaker 2: that's hard to pinpoint and remember all of them. Hey,
- 24:57Speaker 2: she is.
- 24:58Speaker 1: Sixty six Todayted actress, comedian. I mean she's fantastic.
- 25:07Speaker 2: Her delivery with some things, not everything, but her delivery
- 25:11Speaker 2: with some things comedically is so bone dry at times
- 25:15Speaker 2: it's a thing of beauty. I love a good dry delivery,
- 25:19Speaker 2: and she's she's got that going on. She is sixty
- 25:23Speaker 2: six today. Matthew Fox is sixty. He's best known as
- 25:27Speaker 2: Jack Sheppard on Lost. Before that, he was the oldest
- 25:30Speaker 2: brother on Party of Five.
- 25:33Speaker 1: I know who you're talking. I know who that is.
- 25:35Speaker 1: So this is I don't know why it's all of
- 25:38Speaker 1: a sudden come around in my cue. Our suggestions is Lost.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Did you ever watch Lost?
- 25:44Speaker 2: I never watched Lost. When I think when Tara and
- 25:48Speaker 2: I first started dating, she watched Lost, and so I
- 25:52Speaker 2: watched some episodes early on with her and then we
- 25:54Speaker 2: just I just kind of fell out of it. But
- 25:57Speaker 2: I mean, no more than a couple episodes. I think
- 26:00Speaker 2: it wasn't it wasn't a show that I watched.
- 26:05Speaker 1: It was in that that time frame where, yeah, I
- 26:09Speaker 1: was busy drinking and didn't watch any.
- 26:10Speaker 2: TV and unless it was on at the loon.
- 26:18Speaker 1: So I am just now getting into Game of Thrones.
- 26:22Speaker 1: But yeah, and there's I remember if people really liked
- 26:26Speaker 1: the show, and it seemed it and the cast is phenomenal.
- 26:31Speaker 1: I just there's only so much time.
- 26:36Speaker 2: That's that's that's very true. And the older we get,
- 26:40Speaker 2: the the the older we get, the less alluring a
- 26:47Speaker 2: network show is because all of our attention spans are decreasing,
- 26:52Speaker 2: doing part the social media, but also doing part two.
- 26:59Speaker 2: I think there's been a shift in what we consider
- 27:01Speaker 2: to be quality programming, especially when it comes to a
- 27:05Speaker 2: quote unquote television show like just not a movie. Right,
- 27:08Speaker 2: So television shows nowadays, if it's on a streaming platform
- 27:12Speaker 2: and there's eight to ten episodes, I have a higher bar.
- 27:15Speaker 2: I have a higher set of expectations for that than
- 27:19Speaker 2: I do if I'm watching a CSI or NCIS offshoot
- 27:23Speaker 2: on CBS or NBC that's gonna pump out eighteen to
- 27:27Speaker 2: twenty four episodes a year. Like my bar on network
- 27:31Speaker 2: TV is so low now, so I actually equate more
- 27:35Speaker 2: episodes with lower quality.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Now I've I don't. I just think it's lazy.
- 27:47Speaker 2: There might be there might be some truth to that
- 27:49Speaker 2: as well.
- 27:50Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say this it it makes me appreciate
- 27:56Speaker 1: the good network shows that we have seen over our
- 27:59Speaker 1: life and the fact they did pump out twenty two
- 28:01Speaker 1: to twenty four episodes a year, and you go, well,
- 28:05Speaker 1: you lazy bastards that are only doing eight to ten,
- 28:08Speaker 1: you know, and listen, here's the other thing. Now here's
- 28:13Speaker 1: one thing that really pisses me off. Yeah, okay, if
- 28:17Speaker 1: they're only doing eight to ten, but then there's like
- 28:20Speaker 1: two years in between seasons, I mean, that is double lazy.
- 28:28Speaker 1: And part of the problem is there's so many there's
- 28:29Speaker 1: so many projects, and there's the writing pool. It only
- 28:33Speaker 1: has so much. But I do feel like if you're
- 28:37Speaker 1: only doing eight to ten episodes, you should at least
- 28:39Speaker 1: be able to spit out a season a year.
- 28:42Speaker 2: And with those tweeeners, it's difficult to figure out what
- 28:47Speaker 2: it is. And what I mean by that is this,
- 28:51Speaker 2: when you've got a show that's eight to ten episodes,
- 28:54Speaker 2: is it a short television show for a season or
- 29:03Speaker 2: are you making a long movie?
- 29:05Speaker 1: Well? Is it something you just don't have any more?
- 29:11Speaker 1: Mini series?
- 29:13Speaker 2: And that's an essence what we're all watching the most
- 29:16Speaker 2: of now, Like Game of Thrones was a mini series basically, yeah,
- 29:20Speaker 2: as far as as far as season link kind of
- 29:22Speaker 2: a thing is concerned, right, because like if you were
- 29:24Speaker 2: to go back and like, do you know how many
- 29:26Speaker 2: episodes or seasons whatever Lonesome Dove was, I don't just
- 29:31Speaker 2: but that's one of the biggest mini series of our
- 29:34Speaker 2: age group. But a mini series was typically what like
- 29:38Speaker 2: one season, eight episodes maybe something like that. That's kind
- 29:44Speaker 2: of an essence what the new television model is. It's
- 29:48Speaker 2: a mini series with more than one season. But again,
- 29:52Speaker 2: it really does boil down to when you have that
- 29:54Speaker 2: is am I making a long movie or am I
- 29:57Speaker 2: making a short television show that people are used to?
- 30:01Speaker 2: And there's a difference because sometimes we can see them
- 30:03Speaker 2: and be like, you know what, this show that I
- 30:06Speaker 2: just watched that was eight episodes. That could have just
- 30:09Speaker 2: been one one hour and a half movie. It would
- 30:12Speaker 2: have been way better. Some shows might have been eight
- 30:15Speaker 2: episodes and thought, man, there's more to this. I want
- 30:18Speaker 2: like a twenty episode thing of this.
- 30:20Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'll say this, I appreciate good
- 30:30Speaker 1: writing more than ever. But here's another thing, complete side.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Do you know you can play games on Netflix? Now?
- 30:40Speaker 2: I saw that a while back that it's got a
- 30:42Speaker 2: whole gaming center.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you you scan it. This is I
- 30:52Speaker 1: I at some point probably sad because there's all sorts
- 30:56Speaker 1: of games. But you basically scan a QR code or
- 30:59Speaker 1: you download app and then your phone turns into a
- 31:01Speaker 1: game controller. Okay, I played Tetris last night for the
- 31:08Speaker 1: first time in ages on Netflix.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Uh huh, using the phone as the game controller.
- 31:16Speaker 1: Uh huh.
- 31:17Speaker 2: I think there's just a Tetris app that you can
- 31:19Speaker 2: just play on your phone directly, you know whatever.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Actually, you know, on a big TV I'm with you there.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Like like Terra still has like her Super Nintendo and
- 31:30Speaker 2: I've still got a PS four. So it's like I
- 31:34Speaker 2: can appreciate, you know, playing the game kind of thing
- 31:36Speaker 2: you doing at old school, like a controller. But yeah, no,
- 31:39Speaker 2: I didn't realize that when you download the game on Netflix,
- 31:41Speaker 2: that you could use your phone as a control. It
- 31:43Speaker 2: makes sense, but.
- 31:43Speaker 1: You don't even have to download the game, use download
- 31:45Speaker 1: an app that turns your phone into a control.
- 31:49Speaker 2: Got it?
- 31:49Speaker 1: Okay, Just an interesting side note.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Anyway. Matthew Fox is sixty Other birthdays today, This is
- 31:59Speaker 2: a good one. Jackie Earl Haley is sixty five. This
- 32:02Speaker 2: is one of those interesting Hollywood stories where it's he
- 32:05Speaker 2: started out really good and then there was a whole
- 32:07Speaker 2: lot of whatever happened to him, and then all of
- 32:09Speaker 2: a sudden he was in lots of stuff. Jackie Earl Haley.
- 32:15Speaker 2: It was an Oscar nominated actor known for Little Children
- 32:18Speaker 2: and the Bad News Bears. This is the kid that
- 32:23Speaker 2: was smoking cigarettes on the mound, throwing fastballs in Bad
- 32:28Speaker 2: News Bears.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Yep.
- 32:31Speaker 2: And so he did a bunch of stuff as a
- 32:33Speaker 2: younger actor, and then nothing for a such a long time,
- 32:38Speaker 2: and then he was in The Watchman and that Watchman
- 32:41Speaker 2: movie was mostly a cult hit. It wasn't a massive
- 32:45Speaker 2: box office thing, but it was very popular on the
- 32:47Speaker 2: cult side of things. And he was Rorshak in that,
- 32:51Speaker 2: and that kind of gave a resurgence to his career
- 32:54Speaker 2: and then he became the new Freddie. It's kind of cool.
- 32:58Speaker 2: So he's done some more stuff as he's like his
- 33:01Speaker 2: career had like a second swing to it, which I'm happy.
- 33:04Speaker 2: But dude's a phenomenal actor. He is uh, he is
- 33:06Speaker 2: sixty five today, Jackie Earl Hayley. I I know this
- 33:13Speaker 2: gets brought up a lot, and I can't help it
- 33:14Speaker 2: lean into it right now because it is the Bad
- 33:16Speaker 2: News Bears. If they tried to remake The Bad News
- 33:21Speaker 2: Bears today, could it even come close to comparing? Like,
- 33:29Speaker 2: unless they like, unless they actually have the kids smoking,
- 33:34Speaker 2: you know, while they're playing third base or something like
- 33:37Speaker 2: they did in the original, or you know, are they
- 33:40Speaker 2: are they hitting vape pins and the dugout or something.
- 33:42Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it would look like, but I mean,
- 33:45Speaker 2: if you don't have the actual bad in that, it
- 33:49Speaker 2: wouldn't even be worth it, right, Could you do it today?
- 33:53Speaker 1: Even though you know, you're kind of seeing a resurgence
- 33:56Speaker 1: of Hollywood going back to uh, lesser sensitivity. I still
- 34:03Speaker 1: don't know that you could pull that one off. There's
- 34:07Speaker 1: a lot of movies I feel like, late seventies, early
- 34:10Speaker 1: eighties that you just you could not remake.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Just too many sensitivities these days.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean and honestly, I mean yeah, just
- 34:24Speaker 1: there were I mean you have. I mean, there's no
- 34:27Speaker 1: way you could make Blazing Saddles always as the first
- 34:30Speaker 1: and foremost that comes to mind of right, there's no
- 34:33Speaker 1: way even I don't even think mel Brooks could get
- 34:35Speaker 1: away with it again.
- 34:36Speaker 2: Yeah, and and for Blazing Saddles, it's that way just
- 34:40Speaker 2: because of racism across all demographics and age groups. Right,
- 34:45Speaker 2: Whereas something like Bad News Bears, the idea is you're
- 34:48Speaker 2: having children do all these really terrible and questionable things,
- 34:54Speaker 2: and today's standards, I don't think you can get away
- 34:57Speaker 2: with kids even being pretty trade is doing some of
- 35:01Speaker 2: those things, like like you've got in Bad News Bears,
- 35:04Speaker 2: I mean, you've got Jackie Earl Hayley's sucking lung darts
- 35:07Speaker 2: before before he throws a two to fastball, And how
- 35:12Speaker 2: do you recreate that, you know, with a jin alpha
- 35:15Speaker 2: kid who's thirteen, like is he is he shoving a
- 35:19Speaker 2: zen pouch up his ass before he throws the opening pitch.
- 35:22Speaker 2: I mean, that's about as close as I can think of,
- 35:24Speaker 2: and I certainly can't show that.
- 35:27Speaker 1: This will be one of the few times I'm gonna
- 35:28Speaker 1: flip on the on the on the other side. And
- 35:31Speaker 1: it's probably wise that you shouldn't remake those movies because
- 35:35Speaker 1: it wasn't a good example for us to have, you know,
- 35:38Speaker 1: bad news, caddy shack, they're smoking, they're gambling. I mean,
- 35:41Speaker 1: it's things we should not have been doing. We're fueled
- 35:47Speaker 1: by stuff like that, So maybe that's not Maybe that
- 35:50Speaker 1: is one sensitivity that we have evolved a little bit.
- 35:53Speaker 1: And you know, we're not showing kids, uh, smoking and
- 35:58Speaker 1: drinking and gambling.
- 35:59Speaker 2: And throwing baby roots into the community pool.
- 36:06Speaker 1: Oh that's still be funny.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Some things are timeless.
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- 37:31Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, uh okay, before we get to fire Penis,
- 37:38Speaker 2: I know that's a I know that's hot on people's minds.
- 37:41Speaker 2: Before we get to fire penis, we need to talk
- 37:43Speaker 2: about this. Some things might affect your relationship that you
- 37:47Speaker 2: may not realize for others, it's gonna be real goddamn obvious.
- 37:53Speaker 2: This is a great example of that. Trey found an
- 37:56Speaker 2: interesting story on Reddit where a woman starts out by
- 38:00Speaker 2: saying he cheated with a twenty year old because I'm
- 38:03Speaker 2: fat and don't shave my legs. Not too uh, put
- 38:10Speaker 2: on too big of a captain obvious hat. But I
- 38:13Speaker 2: think we know the problem.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Yeah that really you you just kind of full stop
- 38:19Speaker 1: uh and more than if you said, you know, gain
- 38:30Speaker 1: some weight whatever. Okay, well that you but not shaving
- 38:35Speaker 1: your legs ew ew.
- 38:40Speaker 2: That's one of those things where you don't think about
- 38:42Speaker 2: early on in a relationship. You don't think about you know,
- 38:47Speaker 2: at some point we might get comfortable in the relationship,
- 38:50Speaker 2: but how comfortable are you planning on getting because we
- 38:54Speaker 2: should probably be on the same page with a number
- 38:57Speaker 2: of things, including if you're going to go oh natural
- 39:01Speaker 2: at some point, I need to know that really early on.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I it may be sexist, it may be whatever.
- 39:14Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't care. I don't want to
- 39:17Speaker 1: feel a hairy legs on a woman.
- 39:21Speaker 2: I'm just no, it's okay to have preferences, Trey. You know,
- 39:29Speaker 2: that's got of the way I see it. That's a
- 39:31Speaker 2: preference thing. If that's not what you want, then find
- 39:34Speaker 2: If you want to be a hairy legged Sasquatch woman,
- 39:38Speaker 2: then find you a man that loves it and you
- 39:41Speaker 2: will be happy and so will he. But do not
- 39:43Speaker 2: message Trey. He is not your person.
- 39:47Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have a hard time finding I
- 39:51Speaker 1: think the guys that love Harry sasquatchwomen are few. I
- 39:54Speaker 1: think they're very much in the minority.
- 39:56Speaker 2: They are, unless you know where to find them. Like
- 39:59Speaker 2: if you feel like going to Yellowstone for a couple
- 40:01Speaker 2: of years, you might find someone out there that's like,
- 40:04Speaker 2: oh yeah, give me that, or go on one of
- 40:06Speaker 2: those uh you know, like guys that live on the
- 40:10Speaker 2: Alaskan frontier. They might be all about it might be
- 40:13Speaker 2: very practical to him.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Maybe they have cruises for, you know, Harry women.
- 40:21Speaker 2: Of her you know what, they got cruises for everything else.
- 40:25Speaker 1: So evidently, if you're on a gay cruise and you're
- 40:29Speaker 1: really shocked that you can't get into a lot of
- 40:32Speaker 1: Muslim countries.
- 40:36Speaker 2: What do you mean I can't check out this portocol?
- 40:38Speaker 2: Oh you don't.
- 40:39Speaker 1: This is this is I that's a whole nother. Just
- 40:45Speaker 1: the number of people that are shocked on that cruise
- 40:47Speaker 1: and shocked that they can't get into Turkey and Egypt.
- 40:50Speaker 1: And listen, I don't care your politics. That's not Trump's fault.
- 40:57Speaker 2: No, they were like that already.
- 41:00Speaker 1: Says you've been sold a bill of goods on how
- 41:05Speaker 1: Muslim country seal about your lifestyle. They don't like it.
- 41:09Speaker 1: They'll gravity check you for it. Don't be shocked.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Yeah, look, look there are things you can point fingers
- 41:15Speaker 2: at all day. But that's that's one. That's that's that's
- 41:18Speaker 2: that's not changing anytime soon. And that's not one person's
- 41:20Speaker 2: wont But in this case where this woman who's in
- 41:25Speaker 2: her late thirties or early forties, we're not sure which.
- 41:27Speaker 2: You have a woman here who says her she says
- 41:30Speaker 2: he cheated with a twenty year old because I'm fat
- 41:33Speaker 2: and don't shave my legs. I am fat. She says,
- 41:36Speaker 2: that's true, but not obese or anything, but definitely not
- 41:40Speaker 2: like the twenty year old. He's effing not after three
- 41:44Speaker 2: kids he told me himself, I had no idea. Then
- 41:48Speaker 2: he started talking about separation. No apologies. I guess he
- 41:52Speaker 2: did say sorry, but he didn't mean it. No remorse,
- 41:56Speaker 2: No can we fight for our marriage? Mostly blamed me
- 41:59Speaker 2: for not shaving my legs and for letting myself go.
- 42:04Speaker 2: I told him that we can work it out. He
- 42:06Speaker 2: was bewildered, is the right word, said he already cheated.
- 42:10Speaker 2: We can't work it out. I told him we can
- 42:14Speaker 2: if we go to therapy and he stopped chasing twenty
- 42:17Speaker 2: year olds. He asked if I had forgiven him, and
- 42:23Speaker 2: I said no, but I can if he put in
- 42:26Speaker 2: the effort. He said he would never have forgiven me
- 42:28Speaker 2: if I had cheated, so he can't believe that I will.
- 42:32Speaker 2: This is screaming. This guy wants out, but wants her
- 42:37Speaker 2: to make the call, and he's so committed to getting
- 42:40Speaker 2: out of this relationship. He cheated, told her he cheated,
- 42:44Speaker 2: and is like, you want you want to leave me now?
- 42:46Speaker 1: Yes?
- 42:47Speaker 2: And she said no. He's like, well shit, he thought
- 42:51Speaker 2: that would do it, and it's not working out in
- 42:53Speaker 2: the way he thought.
- 42:54Speaker 1: Well, I said, I understand you've put on weight. It
- 43:03Speaker 1: happens to everyone. It but I feel like if you
- 43:10Speaker 1: quit shaving your legs, you've quit doing a lot of things,
- 43:15Speaker 1: and there's some things you maybe just can't unsee.
- 43:21Speaker 2: Or on field.
- 43:22Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah, he clearly, he clearly wants out, and
- 43:30Speaker 1: he just doesn't want to actually be the one to
- 43:32Speaker 1: do it.
- 43:32Speaker 2: No, but he's doing everything but that he's doing he's
- 43:37Speaker 2: cheating on her. He's telling her he's cheating on her.
- 43:39Speaker 2: He's telling her she looks gross to him and that
- 43:41Speaker 2: it's her fault. He's doing everything but drop the hammer
- 43:44Speaker 2: on the relationship. She goes on in her post, she says,
- 43:48Speaker 2: for context, he's been cheated on before, but he did,
- 43:52Speaker 2: and he did leave as soon as he found out.
- 43:55Speaker 2: I thought he was very anti cheating, and he was,
- 43:57Speaker 2: but I guess not now. The only reason I can
- 43:59Speaker 2: even write it all down is because I was already
- 44:01Speaker 2: in therapy and she helped me process it all. My
- 44:04Speaker 2: depression is a reason I let myself go. But I
- 44:07Speaker 2: never denied him sex. He was mostly not interested, which
- 44:13Speaker 2: on that side that tells me that it doesn't sound
- 44:16Speaker 2: like she was initiating either.
- 44:19Speaker 1: But this, you know, also, this isn't just oh I
- 44:23Speaker 1: there's some stubble down there. I mean, clearly she's got
- 44:26Speaker 1: full on. I mean she looks like a dude.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Yeah, she's Yeah. She goes on to say he himself
- 44:40Speaker 2: admits that there is no future with the twenty year old,
- 44:42Speaker 2: but he likes her and he likes Effinger and he
- 44:45Speaker 2: wants to do that as long as possible. God, And
- 44:51Speaker 2: she finally says not finally, but in conclusion, she says,
- 44:55Speaker 2: the humiliation I feel is just so overpowering. He did
- 44:58Speaker 2: tell me to shave my legs once, and I kind
- 45:00Speaker 2: of blew up on him for being shallow. I feel regret.
- 45:04Speaker 2: Now here's here's my advice that she did not ask for.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Go to the gym, watch what you eat. If you
- 45:22Speaker 2: want to shave your legs, shave your legs, whatever the
- 45:24Speaker 2: case is.
- 45:25Speaker 1: Shaft not.
- 45:27Speaker 2: If you want a and go find you a new
- 45:30Speaker 2: go find you a new dude. This dude wants nothing
- 45:33Speaker 2: to do with this relationship or you anymore. You will
- 45:37Speaker 2: be better off without him. And and uh, go do
- 45:41Speaker 2: some stuff for you now. If that's shaving your legs
- 45:44Speaker 2: and you want to do it, do it. If you
- 45:45Speaker 2: want to go to the gym and look better, do it.
- 45:46Speaker 2: If you want to lay in bed and be a
- 45:48Speaker 2: hairy blob that weighs six hundred pounds and you're happy.
- 45:52Speaker 2: My God, more power to you. Just don't call me
- 45:54Speaker 2: when you need to be extricated to go to the hospital.
- 45:56Speaker 1: No, you can have your own reality show at that point.
- 45:58Speaker 1: But but here's the other thing. After you shave your legs,
- 46:03Speaker 1: I am sure you need to at least go get
- 46:07Speaker 1: a a wax. Probably just needed to shave it. But
- 46:10Speaker 1: because if you're not shaving your legs, you're not shaving
- 46:12Speaker 1: other things or keeping it trimmed, and so you probably
- 46:16Speaker 1: look like a sasquatch down there. No one likes that.
- 46:19Speaker 1: At least, you know, get it trimmed up.
- 46:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Probably probably need to wash it too.
- 46:24Speaker 2: Oh, definitely need to wash it. Yeah. If if the
- 46:29Speaker 2: hair is from one area and the hair on the
- 46:32Speaker 2: legs are connecting, it has gone too far. Now, that's
- 46:38Speaker 2: for most people. Look, leg shaving didn't even used to
- 46:40Speaker 2: be a thing until like the early twentieth century. I'm
- 46:45Speaker 2: glad it is now, like I supposed I guess I
- 46:47Speaker 2: saw this the other day. It was basically a way
- 46:49Speaker 2: to sell more razors, like Gillette, like their ad agency
- 46:52Speaker 2: or whatever, was like, hey, we need to sell more razors.
- 46:54Speaker 2: How can we do that? I know, let's make it
- 46:56Speaker 2: a mainstream thing that women are expected to shave their legs.
- 46:59Speaker 2: Now we can sell razors to women as well. And
- 47:02Speaker 2: that's kind of what happened, and I'm okay with it.
- 47:05Speaker 1: Truth pressures weren't really a thing either. You know. That
- 47:08Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you shouldn't use one or not using
- 47:13Speaker 1: one is okay.
- 47:14Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't mean that going back to ginger vitis
- 47:17Speaker 2: land is oh naturel. Just because something is going back
- 47:21Speaker 2: in time doesn't mean it's getting back to who you are.
- 47:25Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just you know, regression, regression, regressing, you know
- 47:28Speaker 2: what I mean. This dude wants nothing to do with
- 47:33Speaker 2: this relationship. So whatever you do, ma'am going forward, do
- 47:38Speaker 2: it for yourself, not for this guy. This guy wants
- 47:40Speaker 2: nothing to do with this relationship. And I don't know
- 47:42Speaker 2: if that would have mattered even if you weren't fat
- 47:45Speaker 2: and didn't shave your legs.
- 47:47Speaker 1: You sound like Will Smith and Men in Black after
- 47:49Speaker 1: he'sap's that girl and tells her go get the lobster
- 47:56Speaker 1: in Thailand or whatever, get some clothes, makeover. Yeah.
- 48:07Speaker 2: Uh, And finally, today this is a sentence I never
- 48:11Speaker 2: thought I would say, have you ever been so mad
- 48:15Speaker 2: at somebody that you cut off your penis and used
- 48:20Speaker 2: it to set their garage on fire?
- 48:25Speaker 1: I can't say that I have. And I've been very
- 48:27Speaker 1: angry with some people, but off my own body parts
- 48:31Speaker 1: never crossed my mind.
- 48:33Speaker 2: Right now, let me make this a question a little
- 48:35Speaker 2: more appointed. Have you ever been so angry at your
- 48:39Speaker 2: mother that you cut off your penis and you used
- 48:42Speaker 2: it to set her garage on fire?
- 48:45Speaker 1: No? No, and and I I feel like I am
- 48:49Speaker 1: an expert in being pissed off at your mother? But no,
- 48:53Speaker 1: and how exactly do you do that? You like, stick
- 48:55Speaker 1: a candle in the pee hole?
- 48:56Speaker 2: What? A black cat? Yeah?
- 49:02Speaker 1: A Roman candle?
- 49:04Speaker 2: Some sea for.
- 49:07Speaker 1: Ye.
- 49:08Speaker 2: This is a story that you know, pardon the pun,
- 49:10Speaker 2: but caught fire last week for obvious reasons, and it should.
- 49:18Speaker 2: An Indiana man cut off his penis and used it
- 49:21Speaker 2: to set his mother's garage on fire. I have never
- 49:28Speaker 2: been that angry. And don't get me wrong, I have
- 49:30Speaker 2: been really angry at things or even people in my life,
- 49:35Speaker 2: I think deservedly so. But I have never been so
- 49:41Speaker 2: mad that I cut off an appendage and used it
- 49:46Speaker 2: as kindling to start a fire. I've been mad enough
- 49:49Speaker 2: at some people that I've thought about burning down their house,
- 49:52Speaker 2: but not with anything of mine.
- 49:54Speaker 1: I've thought about cutting off their body parts and burning
- 49:56Speaker 1: stuff to the ground, but.
- 49:57Speaker 2: Not my own. Same. So prosecutors charged to Fort Wayne,
- 50:02Speaker 2: Indiana man with arson after he was accused of cutting
- 50:05Speaker 2: off his wiener and using it to burn down his
- 50:06Speaker 2: mom's garage. Christopher Peden, thirty six, was doing court back
- 50:14Speaker 2: in May for the fire and the detached garage on
- 50:17Speaker 2: his mother's property. A fire investigator got to the home
- 50:20Speaker 2: to investigate an incident. According to the affidavit, his mom
- 50:25Speaker 2: and brother lived at the home. They informed investigators at
- 50:28Speaker 2: the garage had no electricity and only a small gas
- 50:30Speaker 2: can for the lawnmower. His brother also reported that Christopher
- 50:34Speaker 2: Pedon was nowhere to be found. Sometime later, police found
- 50:37Speaker 2: an injured man claiming he'd been stabbed in downtown Fort Wayne.
- 50:40Speaker 2: While investigating the stabbing, police connected him to being the
- 50:43Speaker 2: missing person from the garage. Fire medics rushed him to
- 50:47Speaker 2: the hospital for treatment, where the affidavit said he confessed
- 50:49Speaker 2: to police that he was dishonest about the stabbing and
- 50:52Speaker 2: that he wanted to be truthful. You know, I imagine
- 50:56Speaker 2: there's a number of people in this world that think
- 50:58Speaker 2: cutting off the penes might actually make men more treesful.
- 51:01Speaker 2: It seems to be accurate. In this case. Police say
- 51:03Speaker 2: he admitted to the fire. He told officers he went
- 51:05Speaker 2: to his mother's garage round two am cut off his
- 51:07Speaker 2: penis with a kitchen knife. From there, he reportedly poured
- 51:10Speaker 2: gasoline on it and set it on fire on the
- 51:12Speaker 2: floor of the garage, just inside the door. Then after
- 51:15Speaker 2: starting the fire, he walked away from their property and
- 51:17Speaker 2: let the fire burn. I don't even know how you walk.
- 51:23Speaker 2: Collected as evidence at the scene the red gasoline container, lighters,
- 51:29Speaker 2: and a knife. And I don't it turned out to
- 51:35Speaker 2: be a pretty big fire too, because police also noticed
- 51:37Speaker 2: or police also noted in the same Affidavid that the
- 51:40Speaker 2: fire also damaged two additional properties and two vehicles.
- 51:45Speaker 1: But that I what was he trying? I mean, he's like, see, mom,
- 51:53Speaker 1: I didn't go blind.
- 51:57Speaker 2: What There's so many questions with this story, not the
- 52:00Speaker 2: least of which is what did she do? I want
- 52:04Speaker 2: to know what he thinks was so bad that that
- 52:08Speaker 2: was an equal and proportional response.
- 52:12Speaker 1: How much myth was involved.
- 52:15Speaker 2: A fair question as well. The story does not say,
- 52:20Speaker 2: but you know, you just know that it had to
- 52:23Speaker 2: be either drug induced or some sort of schizophrenic episode
- 52:27Speaker 2: or maybe both.
- 52:28Speaker 1: Well, it's like it'll come out because there was a
- 52:31Speaker 1: story months ago about a guy I think it was
- 52:35Speaker 1: in California who like cut off his own penis. Uh
- 52:39Speaker 1: And yeah, then they came out with the I want
- 52:44Speaker 1: to say, maybe it's adtops results. I don't remember if
- 52:46Speaker 1: he died or not, but oh, he died. High amounts
- 52:49Speaker 1: of myth were involved.
- 52:51Speaker 2: Like an alarming lethal amount of myth involved in that case.
- 52:56Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean as someone who is you know,
- 53:03Speaker 1: suffering through bipolar depression, everything, alcoholism. But if there's one
- 53:11Speaker 1: thing guys for the most really hold near and dear,
- 53:16Speaker 1: it's their junk.
- 53:18Speaker 2: M that. I believe that is a very fine line
- 53:24Speaker 2: of demarcation of your mental health. You can have issues
- 53:30Speaker 2: all the way up to do you feel the need
- 53:34Speaker 2: to cut off your own junk? As long as you're
- 53:36Speaker 2: beneath that line, maybe some things are manageable. But if
- 53:41Speaker 2: you go into a therapy session and they ask you,
- 53:43Speaker 2: have you ever considered harming yourself and others? And you're
- 53:46Speaker 2: like yeah, and they go, well, tell me more about that.
- 53:48Speaker 2: I like, well, I thought about cutting off my penis
- 53:50Speaker 2: setting it on fire in my mom's garage. I hope
- 53:53Speaker 2: at that point you get committed somewhere, because that is
- 53:57Speaker 2: beyond the line of normal mental health. I think.
- 54:01Speaker 1: I feel like ed Geen's this guy's role model.
- 54:06Speaker 2: Even ed Geen didn't cut off his own even ed
- 54:13Speaker 2: Gean didn't cross that line, and multiple movies have been
- 54:18Speaker 2: made about him. Uh huh.
- 54:20Speaker 1: He tucked it back, but he still kept it on.
- 54:22Speaker 2: That's right. He'll talk it, but he'll keep it. Thank
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