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Episode 48: F*ck You ERCOT! · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome into the treehouse. Time to leave those worries outside, well, almost
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all the worries. There is one I do need to bring up here in
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just a moment. But first I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trendholme and Raj
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Sharma. So there's one worry that creeps in. No matter how high you
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build a treehouse or how low into the ground you bury, I don't know
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it a groundhouse, or or how thick the walls you make. Whatever it
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is, it's still hot. Yeah, and it is so hot in Texas.
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How hot does a thick garage that Arcott is now asking everyone to voluntarily
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conserve, which is of course not new, But every time I see the
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headline it makes me laugh because I know that everyone just immediately just says fu
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to the voluntarily conserve after all the crap that Texas has been through in recent
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years. When it comes to electricity, I think it's even worse. I
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think people will literally go and turn their thermostat down a couple degrees when Urcott
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does that just to be a dick. Yeah, Spike is very spite is
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an extremely powerful motivator. I have to ask, like, what do you
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set your like apartments at what is the setting, like, what's your what's
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your act and my home or away homes? Home day or night average?
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Do you have t X shoes free nights and weekends? But all right,
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when I go to bed, when I sleep, it's usually sixty seven sixty
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eight seven. During the day, I usually put it about seventy two.
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If I'm not here, I put it up to like seventy eight six.
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That's on your dog's tongue hangs. Actually, you think with those temperatures,
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Daisy's tongue would stay in her mouth. That's cold. So yeah, that's
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what we used to do. That's what we used to do. So when
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we lived in Texas, it was at night, we would drop that ac
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down quite a bit because we like it cold. It's one of the reasons
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my wife and I work out so well together is that she likes it cold
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at night, and God bless her for it. But here's the here's my
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question. Okay, understand this. Do you like? Are you like?
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Okay, let's let's make it cold, but let's let's get under the down
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comforter because there's a resolution. Because there's a resolution to that. It depends
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Raj Okay. So the comforter that that that we have is a very lightweight,
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very breathable down comforter. So it's mid too. Well, no,
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that's that's that's the one in Dallas. Okay. Here we just have like
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it's like a blanket. Yeah, okay, So we're not we're not.
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We're not just throwing comforters around and needing to turn the air down because our
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betting is too thick. No, we're not. No, we we have
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appropriate betting. Yeah. But like Trey, well, we would keep thermostat,
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you know, in the mid to upper seventies if we could while we
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were there, if we weren't, maybe turn it up to seventy nine or
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maybe eighty okay, which is but but Urcott the Electric Reliability Council of Texas
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one of the most ironically named entities in the history of ever. If I
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remember last year, the year before, they released their recommendations on what they
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wanted Texans to set their thermostats, and it was like, during the day
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or away, they wanted you to put it at like eighty two or something,
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and when you're home, they said, you know, let's see if
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you can do seventy eight and I'm with Trey. Everyone's like, bitch,
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please, all of our thermostats are in like seventy four, seventy two.
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Yeah, I'm a seventy four. I'm I'm a good I'm a good seventy
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four. Like I'll turn it to seventy two for a minute and then like
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I'm desert. People like, I'm good with heat. I'm okay with it.
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Like people like it's hilarious to me, Like it's one hundred and nine.
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I'm like, and everybody in like the Middle East is like, it's
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a very pleasant day night, put put the jackets on. It's very it's
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very cool seven. But that's a dry heat. Yeah. I'm like I've
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been when I when I did the travel show for Amazon. Uh we had
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to do we did camel racing in the desert in India, and uh,
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we get there at so we're supposed to be there at I think ten.
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We didn't get there till eleven. And they're like, I mean that window.
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I'm like, oh, like the heat and you could see the camels
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and we should I should have known something. Hindsights twenty twenty camels were in
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the shade, and I'm like, that's weird. This is kind of their
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hood. Uh. And then we had a huge tent with the air conditioning
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units pumping in and uh we went to the go do the camel racing and
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the my my my camel when when when they when the race started, it
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took two steps and was like f this uh and just sat down and the
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handle that's actually that's actually a great barometer. Yeah that I wish more.
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I wish that. I wish that the meteorologists would would use those uh in
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their in their weather forecast because it's it's camel. Pay a lot more intention
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if say, Pete Delkis had a shot at the zoo of the African animals
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in the shade, Like, that's a new that's a new gauge that they
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can use for the rest of us to visually understand how hot it is the
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lions are in the shade. Maybe you should do the same. Yeah,
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if it's camel sitting hot, Uh, it's it's so about noon is when
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like and I asked the handler, I was he was trying to prod him
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to get him up, and I was like, what's the problem. It's
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like, is he hurt? Is he not not used to this? And
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he goes, it's too hot. Better. I'm like, why why are
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we here if it's too hot for the camel? What are we doing here?
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Uh? And then we wrapped it up around I think twelve thirty or
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one, because it was one hundred and I think it was one hundred and
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seventeen in the shade and I think it was one twenty three or whatever it
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was. And they told us we had to leave because flesh starts cooking at
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one hundred and twenty seven. So we were we were back like we got
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We woke up at six, got to the desert, back in the hotel
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by three. I was like, well, that was a good day of
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shooting. That was so on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, August seventeenth was
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the hottest day of the year up up until that day, and that could
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not broke the record for the year. But then Friday, things are supposed
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to be hotter at temperatures was expected to reach one ten, possibly one eleven.
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Again that's the temperature, yeah, not the heated decks. The record
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for August eighteenth is one hundred and twelve degrees. That was set in nineteen
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o nine. Okay, and now that's what I'm saying nineteen o nine,
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it was one hundred and what one hundred and twelve, they didn't have a
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c No. Yeah, let's let's let's try to live like them. No.
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Oh, dear Godna, I like the progress we've made with air conditioning
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technology. I don't want to ever go back like I've I've heard of families
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that will do this in the summer of all times, where they'd go to
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camps that are that are that are designed to show families what it was like
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to live in colonial era. Like. No, I want none of I
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don't want. I don't even I'm pretty sure most of the country doesn't even
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want to revert back to the sixties, let alone the seventeen sixties pioneer camps.
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And Arcot's new slogan is live like it's nineteen o nine. That's what
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it should be. Conserve like it's nineteen o nine. Yeah. The Texans
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may be asked to conserve power on Friday because extreme heat is testing once again
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the state's power grid. This summer will be remembered for some pretty extreme temperatures,
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and that has repeatedly sent the demand for electricity higher than it's ever been.
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Many are naturally wondering if the state's power grid will be able to hold
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up to Erkot and the PUC the Public Utility Council kind of do a collective
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emo Elmo gift of them. Yeah. I actually no, they're not,
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because they've already announced that, Uh, our gyle is going to be a
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rolly have a rolling blackout tonight. What's our guyle up to that they're getting
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that fight? You don't know what our gyle did get into race a horse
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farts taking their toll. I my parents would do this thing you're talking about
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the Pioneer camps. My parents did this thing where we would go to I
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don't know, uh, like some like like, where would you guys go
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for your summer vacation? Did you have besides like your hometowns on vacation vacation?
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Where would you go pleasant climates or water parks or something like that.
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Typically for us, it was typically it was a family member's house that we
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were required to go visit. So it would be a road trip to you
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know, East Texas to visit my he's just great grandmother, or it might
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be my more fun and pleasant grandmother in Tulsa or actual Tulsa Tree, not
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Saint Tulsa. It might also be a visit to Worlds of Fun in Kansas
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City or six Flags. We would do that, and then twice when I
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was a child, we did Disney. Wow. See my parents would do
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this thing. Also did Granton a couple of times. So my parents would
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do this thing where we would go to this magical place called New Delhi in
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the summer and they have you know, India at one point four billion people.
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Uh, they've been doing rolling blackouts forever. So you'd go to sleep
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just fine, and you would wake up literally drenched in your own sweat.
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Uh. And this was supposed to be our So when the first time I
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remember that? So tell me what you did on your summer vacation, uh
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paper that you're supposed to write when you got back to school. I'm like,
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not die, that's what That's what I did, Drey. What were
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your summer vacations? You know? I I I had very few. We
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went to uh Winter Park twice as a kid. That really was about the
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it. My dad was not a big traveler and neither was my mom.
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And so okay, so you kind of stayed local. Yeah, stayed and
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Dan, I have to say something when when you identified your grandmother, your
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great grandmother is extremely racist. I think that goes without saying at this point,
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I think we all know that that grand that that that my great grandmother
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Sira was racist. That yeah, that generally that people from that era were
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just had a different view on life. That's the part of nineteen o nine.
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We don't want to live like right, yeah, but I don't see
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in your right. Like I had an X and they lived in Arlington,
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and it was sixty four in their house. Always didn't matter. It didn't
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matter if if everybody was out of the house, nobody, nobody turned it
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down. It was like I froze to death many a time, to the
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point where for Christmas they bought me another comforter for the Bensam summer mittens.
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Yeah. Like it was a little little things you can crack and put in
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your pocket to keep you warm. Yeah, yeah so they Yeah, so
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I understand. But I mean, for these the types of people that urcott,
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the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas is targeting when they say it's so hot,
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we need you to conserve. Whereas yeah, Trey, I think you're
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correct as well. I think the majority of Texans, and I think people
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in general, when they're told to do something, we all want to go
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m F you. But especially when it's a hundred and twelve degrees temperature with
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a heat index of one hundred and India, we don't. We don't want
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to be told where to set our thermostats. So much so when Urcott then
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comes out and says, hey, would you mind voluntarily conserving my responses would
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you voluntarily suck a bag at Well, it depends on the bag. Honestly,
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I Ercott, when you ask me to conserve energy, I want you
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I believe I showed Trey this a couple of weeks ago, but I
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don't think I've showed you yet. While we were gone in Texas, our
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house here in St. Thomas had a couple stay to how sit how Sit
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slash pet sit. The main goal was to take care of our animals right,
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yes, you got the two dogs, the two cats, eight chickens
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now and the main goal was for us to return to here from Texas with
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all twelve still alive. Now. Granted, Joel is like sixteen now,
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he's setting five pounds. He's like a sixteen year old dog, which makes
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him like a kung fu master in a movie old human years. And it's
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weird because I he'll stroke his like four foot long beard. But whatever the
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point is, he's an old dog. And I was legitimate. I was
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legitimately worried about whether or not he would still be here when we got back.
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Luckily he is. So we're very very happy. We feel very very
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blessed. However, now we've been back for a number of days, we
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keep discovering things that the house sitters did or in some cases did not do.
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So I'm going to give you the teaser to set the tone. Okay.
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One of the first things we found when we came home, as we
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walked into this room, this office that you see me and and on an
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end table where a lamp sits, Tara found this. It is a It
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is a It is a cardboard toilet paper roll with no toilet paper and a
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quarter sticking out of it, looking like a saw blade flew off of a
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saw into it, except it's a quarter. Gotcha, why why? Why
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why is this quarter sticking out the side of a toilet paper roll? I
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think I think it's on an end table for us to flo You're missing the
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abstract art, Dan, The metaphor is it's on the end table because it's
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it could be a metaphor for our for our for our money, for our
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for our content. It's a statement on consumerism and how you should take your
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American money and much of it up your ass flush it down the toilet.
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Ah, that makes more sense. Uh see, you're missing the point.
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Or it could be money ain't I don't know what it means. Uh money,
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money ain't a thing. I don't know what is? Have you have
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you looked it up? It could be a yeah. Also they could have
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been working on like a makeshift bongb I don't. I don't know. I
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had my my buddies in college. Uh made bonds out of many a thing.
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I've never seen that. Or it could be a guy who's like,
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I want to start doing magic. I've seen them used to let paper and
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a quote paper towel rolls for bongs. Yeah, but what was the quarter
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to do? It wouldn't be the thing to take out open it up and
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then he puts upthing there like to put the weed on. And then this
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is why I needed to ask you guys what this thing was, because I
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had faith that you might be able to come up with something possible. And
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I feel like you have because this is not the only random thing we have
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found in our house since the people left. And keep in mind we never
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actually met these people. They we knew them from like friends of friends,
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right, okay, and live in your house semi quasi strangers. We talked
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on them beforehand. They were friends of friends, and and we trust those
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friends. Those friends trust them, so therefore we just carried it over the
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trust. Then obviously we get home and weird things start appearing like this,
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and Trey, I think you may be onto something because this may have been
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the start of a white trash uh bong. Because one of the things I
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found on the floor in the kitchen was a broken glass pipe. Oh yeah,
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there you go, and it looked like it had had some various forms
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of smoke passed through it. So I took a whiff of and I was
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like, yeah, that's weed. Oh interesting, Okay, So what I
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think then may have happened, if Trey is correct here is they broke whatever
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glass piper bong that they brought and then had to resort to at least the
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failed attempt at the toilet paper quarter roll bong. Do you guys not have
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pringles in your house? Do you guys not carry the famous pringles we we
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I think the whole is probably too big, because I mean, you have
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to have put it up to your mouth. No, no, you can
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put the piet youth. I've I watched it happen. That's why I've I
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said a long time ago. If corporations want to solve problems higher stoners,
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oh, I couldn't agree with you, bore you. You give them a
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set of problems and you know I mean they're yes, yeah, you know,
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yes, yeah, two balls, a string and a paper clip and
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you know, a rubber band next thing. You know, they're high as
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a kite because all I mean, because like nature, stoners find a way.
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Yes, yeah, I want, I want to look at it.
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Can we look up? Can we look it up? Paper roll with quarter?
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Yeah? So while while one of you looks that up, let me
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let me give you an idea of some of the other things that we've discovered
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since the house sitters left. Okay, For example, we have the toilet
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paper roll with the quarter. Okay, we've also hey, I had to
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make a couple of notes here, there's a missing wine glass. Have no
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idea where that is. And it's easy to know that some of these things
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were missing because we don't have very many of them. Like we're not wine
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drinkers. We only had two wine glasses, so it's very obvious ones missing,
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so they didn't replace that. There's also a missing cereal bowl. I
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keep track of all cereal bowls in this house, and it ain't there.
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Also, we had we had told them, if you use anything, go
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for it. But just if you use up something, just replace it.
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That's all we asked, right, Yes, roommate etiquette. Roommate etiquette.
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Yeah, so what they went through and did not replace includes aluminum foil.
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Two rods by the way, Yeah, they're making So they went through all
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the aluminum foil, left the box with the tube in the box in the
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drawer without even throwing it away. Same thing with the parchment paper box.
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Same thing with our tide pods. They used all of our tide pods and
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then instead of replacing it with new tide pods, they replaced it with the
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cheap box powder stuff you find in an upside down logoed laundromat. Other things
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that they had done, they moved furniture for some reason. No idea why
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there's a box fan that that we keep in the office kind of tucked away.
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It's in the middle of the room. No idea why it's in the
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middle of the room. They didn't even bother to put it back. They
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used up almost all my hot sauces. That's almost a you know, a
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felony offense in this house without replacing them. They watched numerous plants die because
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we have plants inside so you can watch them go from green to brown.
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So they watched plants die. They also rearranged drawers, which has Tara wanting
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to hunt them down in the States because Tara is organized and she put all
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those drawers exactly how they're supposed to be. And then it's almost like they
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knew Tara did that, so they wanted to go into the tupperware drawer and
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rearrange all of it just to piss her off. Also, there's these weird
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dust rings on the glass top patio table outside and I think if you found
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the right hookah, I think their dust rings would match. It sounds that
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way because the foil, the foil and the glass pipe. I've watched enough
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intervention. Uh. They also for some reason, uh, like they removed
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a power strip and I no idea where it is to this day. And
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they also the candles that we have around the house. You know how like
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most people will buy candles from you know, uh, Bath and bodyworks,
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and then never actually burn them, or only burn them a little bit just
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to make it look like they've been used to get a nice scent in the
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room. But those candles last for years, not ours. Ours lasted about
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five weeks for these people to live here, and they burned down all of
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our goddamn candles. Maybe they're just sexy people. I don't know what to
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tell you. Maybe there's like, maybe put the put the foil hat on,
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burn some candles, let's smoke some wheat, and then you know what,
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Maybe we're sounds like you just had stoners that got high and decided they
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were gonna, you know, rearrange furniture and do various things, do a
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lot of laundry. Yeah, they did use a lot of tide pods.
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And now what I'm worried about is that they got so high off of their
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toilet paper roll bongs that they didn't actually use the type pods in the washing
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machine. I'm afraid they just straight up eate them. Yeah they did.
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Maybe they were in the type on challenge and were victorious, I guess because
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they made it off Island May at other Yeah, a little tipporary breaking bad
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in your house and had a little meth din in your house. You know,
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guys, honestly, all things are on the table here because there's no
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way to you know, confirm or deny any of these things. I've seen
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the foil thing where on in Like I said, I've watched enough intervention.
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I've seen the foil thing in the glass pipe where they put their it's the
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way to smoke heroin. I've also seen someone, a girl I went to
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high school with. We lived in the same apartment complex, and she would
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occasionally ride with me to school. She turned aluminum foil, yeah, into
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a pipe to smoke on the way to school. Yes, and she took
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the she she fashioned the aluminum foil into a pipe, and then she took
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the little screen underneath the fawcet in the sink and use that in the pipe.
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Yes, and I have seen that as well. Uh, spring break
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necessity is the mother of an invention on spring break. But yeah, I
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have you talked to your other friends about this about what happened? Not yet,
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But but it seems like we've discovered so many things now it almost seems
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like we have to say something. Yeah, or maybe they're just those people
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that are like, let's just move stuff around and see if they notice,
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Oh we noticed thing is like that that was done on purpose. It certainly
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feels like it feels very aggressively passive aggressive. Yeah, this is someone's tupperware
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drawer and completely rearrange it. Yes, And this is why I go back
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to my philosophy of why are you letting people you don't know? Okay,
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this is on you now, this is not their fault. You let them
28:03
live in your home. Uh huh, you don't know them, No,
28:07
you you they they they they that's their house. Now you're lucky, they're
28:12
they're like, you're lucky they didn't start squabbing. And now you're just you're
28:15
back in Dallas and they have your pets in your house. You know what
28:18
rids Honestly, with everything they've done in this house and the way they left
28:25
this house, I wish they were still squatting there when I got home,
28:32
because keep in mind I had just gotten off a plane from Texas. I'm
28:40
about to conserve their ass. Wow, I just I would never I had
28:47
one time, one time, one time in La the ex wife and I
28:52
were going to India and we're gonna be gone for a couple of weeks because
28:56
I rerouted us through Hong Kong, through sorry, through Incock, so she
29:00
could see her dad because they haven't seen each other in years and that's where
29:03
he lives. And uh, it was it was one of her fellow Australians,
29:10
didn't know her, just found her on Australians in La. I'm like,
29:12
all right, sure, it's like, oh, this is the Aussie.
29:15
It'll be fine. And I have a watchbox and we all know about
29:19
my fondness for watches. I have a watch box and I watches. You
29:26
have no idea and I have about fifteen fifteen or sixteen now, uh.
29:33
And I left my Blue Face Movado in the watchbox. I took the other
29:38
four whatever that I was gonna wear while I was gone. And I came
29:41
back and I went our fault, not theirs, our fault. And she's
29:48
like, what happened? I was like, they stole my watch? This
29:53
is why. Sure it wasn't just like a like a rogue koala that she
29:57
had the that's what I would call the girl that lived in that house.
30:02
She was a brogue koala. That's what I look with a nice watch.
30:07
Yeah, or for or or however much she pondered for. But this is
30:12
why you don't. You don't let people live in your house. You don't
30:15
let strangers deliver you food. What are we doing is we're getting in people's
30:19
cars now because they have a good rating. What are you doing our whole
30:22
lives we were told to stay out of people's cars. We really have come
30:27
full circle, especially especially Uh, I'm especially tempted to get in somebody's car
30:33
if they also have my food. We're listening to the Treehouse because it us
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online that Treehouse on air dot com. Okay, let's get Daniel Cook into
31:04
the Treehouse now from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration, the phone number eight three
31:08
three Cook DFW, the website Cook dfw dot com. Now, Daniel,
31:14
you told me something recently. I think it's important that we share this with
31:17
our Treehouse family. And that is not all warranties are created equal. How
31:22
so, Dan, that's a huge deal right there. So the warranties that
31:26
you receive from your contractor are definitely not going to be the same. Most
31:30
people don't know this, but a contractor cannot even give you a valid warranty
31:34
through the manufacturer unless they are certified and they are redshirt with that manufacturer.
31:40
So sometimes you'll see guys coming out there with different products every day. They
31:44
don't have a certain product that they are endorsed in red shirt with verify that
31:48
they're you know, have insurance, they are accredited contractor with installation processes has
31:55
been verified. And so those warranties that a contractor may say you get,
31:59
you may not truly be receiving the RIDTHM when it needs it. So we
32:02
are a Owens Corning preferred contractors, so we're able to provide a warranty that
32:07
most contractors do not automatically. So we stand behind our installation and our product
32:13
more than majority of the contractors out there. So that's a big, big
32:16
difference, and so you need to verify what kind of warranty you're going to
32:20
receive. And also on top of that, when you sell your house,
32:22
say you're gonna sell your house in three years, is that warranty transferable?
32:25
Our's this so you can actually tell your homeowner you're going to get another roof
32:30
warranty more than what most people are going to get, and you're going to
32:34
get the same coverage that that homeowner had when they bought it. Give Daniel
32:37
Cook and his guys to call it Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration. They know
32:39
their stuff and you get their free roof inspection eight three three Cook DFW eight
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three three Cook DFW or Cooke DFW dot com is online that treehouse flare dot
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com. All right, let's get Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing into the treehouse again.
32:55
Their phone number two one, four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight.
32:59
And the website which is always fun to look at, nose doc photography.
33:01
I remember that is Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com. All right, So
33:06
what did you want to hit me with today, Jacqueline, Well, I
33:08
was so. I know that some of your listeners are actually plumbers because they're
33:12
friends of mine or they work with my fiance. But for those of you
33:15
who don't know, there's three key components, three rules of life when you
33:19
are a plumber, and the rules that we live by essentially are payday is
33:23
every Friday. If your employer can't pay you, jump ship immediately, uh
33:30
shi, t rolls downhill, and never eat with your hands because it's my
33:37
pun that I like to make because of tankless water heaters. Is it's a
33:40
tankless job, but somebody's got to do it. That's my pun. Wow,
33:45
Wow, you know what. I think you're missing something. Hang on,
33:47
hang on, find this for here on the fly real quick. Here.
33:52
That was so good, I'm going to give you the end of show
33:59
music. Good job, Want want one. Actually, it's funny. I
34:04
think they say that puns are the lowest form of humor unless they they are
34:07
your own. That one is mine, and then for your listeners only,
34:10
I'll also say that, since we have that little rubber ducky, the unwritten
34:16
slogan of the company is duck around and find out how quick we can get
34:21
it done. Yeah, you know what. I like that one a lot.
34:24
I think that needs to be on the side of the van. I
34:27
would have loved to have seen that on the side of the van parked in
34:30
front of my house a couple of weeks ago. He ducked around and found
34:32
out, Okay, one more, one more, one more. I will
34:37
tell I'm we are wildly Italian. All of my grandparents immigrated from Italy,
34:43
and I can tell you on what day and on the name of what vote
34:45
et cetera, et cetera. And so we started a like a side company
34:50
called Godfather Plumbing, which is completely out of commission because it terrified North Texans.
34:54
They were not ready to see this truck rolling down the highway with the
34:59
silhouette of three men holding guns and plungers. And the tagline for that company
35:05
was, we don't horse around with your plumbing problems because you know the horsehead
35:09
who it was such a good idea on paper call for the plumbing, stay
35:20
for the laughs. It's Brooks Plumber two one four three six eight thirty eight
35:22
thirty eight. Two one four three six eight thirty eight thirty eight, or
35:27
the website Brooks Plumbing, Texas dot com. I would have called Godfather's Plumbing,
35:30
by the way, I would You're in book Treehouse. Visit us online
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36:06
So yeah, on that little break in there, I forgot to mention to
36:08
you Trey and Raj. Yeah, the people that were house sitting slash pet
36:14
sitting for us, Yes, they live in a van in the States the
36:16
rest of the time. No, no, no, no, no,
36:19
back up the story you were talking about your upstairs whoever they are. We
36:22
have friends that have friends that live in a van, and we like these
36:27
friends. They're young and responsible. Let meca, they're friends. No,
36:31
no, no, no, no, let me recap the story. You
36:32
said, these friends came to you and said because they're highly responsible friends and
36:37
you love them. They said, hey, these are our friends. They're
36:43
like us, and you went, oh okay, and they go instead of
36:47
living on an island, they just live in a van and that's what they
36:53
do. They just travel the States in a van. Okay, you're correct.
36:57
I'll rephrase and say the exact same way that I that I that I
37:00
told you in trying the break. Yes, So our friends who we love
37:02
and trust, h they live on an island here right and they live they
37:09
live on St. Thomas. And they said, hey, we have these
37:12
friends that are like us. They're they're young, but they're very responsible,
37:15
they're great, and they live in a van state side and travel the country.
37:22
Okay, so except their living situation is different, that's what was told
37:27
to us. No, no, no, that's not a living situation.
37:30
No no, no, that's not they're living situations not different. You live
37:34
in a house, they live in a car. That's that's a different.
37:38
Are we talking about like an RV type van or are we talking about like
37:43
the neck Lady van my uncle used to have, or or are these people
37:46
solving crimes? What do they have a dog that talks? Uh? Like?
37:51
What do we like? This is what I'm trying to figure out,
37:52
Like did you have it was the mystery man that talk the talking dog and
37:57
the weed? Then that that does tie? It makes sense? That makes
38:00
sense. Ye had it been had it been Daphne and Fred living in our
38:05
house from the van life, we would have been fine. But instead we
38:07
got shaggy it Scooby those links. Uh yeah of course, now all of
38:15
those Now this isn't it. This doesn't all of it make sense? Now?
38:19
Yes, they took your tide pods? How else do you wash clothes
38:22
when you live in a van like you're not stopping to get tide pots if
38:25
you can steal somebody's. They needed foil to cover up the windows in the
38:31
van. So you're saying all the stuff that turned up missing, it wasn't
38:36
because they used it and replaced it. They just took it. Yeah,
38:38
and they don't know how to water plants because you don't have plants in a
38:42
van. You don't need to have plants in a van to understand to watch
38:47
her green things when you're house sitting. Also, you know, god damn
38:51
good, well they got at least one plant in that van. Yeah,
38:54
yeah, that one they burned. They don't water. They burned that plant.
39:00
And then the toilet paper roll, and the quarter now makes sense.
39:05
It's like, hey man, we used to ball your toilet paper. We
39:07
don't know how much it costs because we live in a van. So here's
39:10
a quarter attached to the toilet paper roll because that's how much we believe your
39:15
poop costs. Here you go, now all of this, But the one
39:20
thing that you said was missing that ties all this together is the power strip
39:27
because they probably had they probably set up a grow house for five weeks and
39:32
they literally like they grew their supply for a year. Yeah, yeah,
39:37
your house. That's why they flowed the windows that they had the hydroponics going
39:40
on power supply. When you get your energy bill, if it's through the
39:44
roof, yeah, exactly what happened. So that's the other thing I didn't
39:49
tell you. I'm certain that the energy bill is going to be through the
39:52
roof because one of the first things we noticed we got back, besides the
39:57
TP roll with the quarter stuck in it, is the water dripping down in
40:01
our What's basically it's it's like an open air basement, So the water dripping
40:07
down underneath the house clearly had been doing so for a long time to the
40:15
weed plants moist. Well, what I'm pretty sure they were doing is they
40:22
were running the air conditioning so much and so cold, they clogged the main
40:27
drain line. So water was backflowing into the unit area and then into the
40:32
concrete floor and then so heavily it was soaked up so heavily it was then
40:38
seeping through the concrete, dripping into the driveway. Yeah. I don't know.
40:44
I think that the colder climate makes for a stronger strain. So let's
40:49
just see what the market does in the us after this trip. Let's see
40:52
if like there's a new strain called O'Malley cush. It's gonna be O'Malley's house
41:01
once in a lifetime strain. Yeah, Omaldy's House tie pod strain. That's
41:08
gonna be the best weed ever ever. Was gonna talk about it all for
41:12
a quarter. Everybody on the scene's gonna be like, dude, these guys
41:16
in a van rolled up and just gave us some Omaley cush, best weed
41:20
ever so cold? Uh tastes like dead plant. Yeah, this this makes
41:24
all the sense. None of none of any of this should surprise you.
41:30
So on one hand, I'm glad that I feel like we have a plausible
41:32
theory it's what happened. But I'm mad now because I feel stupid, but
41:45
also because i feel stupid in that I'm not getting it cut of any of
41:47
my own cush. They did it leave me leave you a sample? No,
41:54
they should. They should have left just the just the toilet paper roll
41:58
with a quarter in it to put, Hey, you for the toilet paper,
42:00
because that's how much they think it costs, and then just a little
42:02
nugget right next to it, as any man, thank you so much.
42:06
And then thank you so much for letting us profit off of your home.
42:10
I love it. Okay, this makes so much more sense. I thought
42:13
you're just letting random strangers live in your house, but they probably I should
42:17
have left you so and just said, hey, you can make some good
42:20
brownies with this. But hey, you need to go to the store and
42:22
buy some foil. You'll need parchment paper for the bread. You both you
42:34
write in the asses eyes and nose, you in both ears at the same
42:43
time. Ps your tide pods are out, and you both for being right
43:05
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