Why Does Dating Suck So Much Now? | First Date Disasters, Reddit & Double DWIs

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real quick before I get into what one woman claims
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to be as the worst first date ever. Jerry, you're
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precluded from this because you're in a long-term relationship. I'm married,
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so I'm precluded. Trey, is it really that bad out there,
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the single scene, the dating world? Yes.
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Now, let me preface that. You're asking someone who's 52. Okay.
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Do I think it's that bad in your 20s and 30s? No,
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I don't.
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Because....
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And I've given this a lot of thought, while I
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think expectations are out of whack sometimes because of social media,
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but at the same time, when you're in your 20s
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and 30s, your dating pool is long, wide, and deep. Yeah.
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As you get older, and this is one of the
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things you really don't think about, and if I could
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go back and talk to myself and it's like, I
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want to spread this message. It's one of those things
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you don't think about, but then as you get older,
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being single really is sucks because that dating pool, it's
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shallower and shallower and it's full of, of throwbacks for
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both sexes. But, uh, which, you know, that leads to, uh,
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old bitter fish and, So do I.
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In reality, and this is one of those things people
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don't realize, and this generation, Gen Z, does not realize,
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dating was in a way harder. Back in the day,
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you didn't have cell phones. You had to actually write
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down numbers, hoped you wrote it down correctly. You had
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no idea if you were getting left, you know, a
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home number, a work number, whatever. And you couldn't text anyone.
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There was no, a lot of times you just, you
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left a message and you hoped they'd call back. Ghosting,
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you might go on a date with somebody and you'd
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literally never see them again.
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Ever.
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Ever.
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And you didn't have social media to know what they're
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up to. It was just a big question mark.
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The next time you saw them, it might have been
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on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
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Yeah. So, no, for Gen Z, I think Gen Z
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whines a little bit more about it than they're... They're
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a little in their feelings. But I will say this,
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and this comes from watching years of bars and interactions.
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Over the years, I think guys have become more gun-shy
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about taking their shot. And so I think there is
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a problem on that front. I think there's a lot
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of men, and I'm not precluding myself from this, That
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you have an inner battle of, I don't want to
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be alone, but I don't want to deal with the bullshit.
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And it's a struggle.
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So right now we're going through a correction phase on
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the guy side when it comes to asking women out.
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Because for a long time, guys were over the top.
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They were too strong with it, would go up and
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do and say certain things. that were not only too
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strong of an approach, but sometimes outright illegal, um, and deservedly.
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So there's been some correction on that. Now that also
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over corrects to a certain degree where now guys are
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afraid to even say hi to someone because they're afraid
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of in person and or online ridicule for having the
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gall to even say hi to someone. If that's someone
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thinks that they're too far above you or whatever.
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Um, Yeah, or they're beaten down by unreal expectations.
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So the reason why I asked Trey, is it really
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that bad out there in the single world, is because
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imagine you're a young, beautiful, 20-something woman.
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Is the dating world really that bad?
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Let's ask Vittoria Vega, who recently went viral for what
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she says. is the worst first date ever. Now, can
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you imagine looking like her and thinking you've got it hard?
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No.
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So I just had the worst first date of my life.
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I show up. He is stoned.
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He is high as a mother freaking kite.
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And we go into the bar.
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He is quiet.
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He's not talking.
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He's not talking. And then when he talks, he tells
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me that he pees in his sink. He tells me
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that he does not wash his hair with shampoo or conditioner.
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Then proceeds to keep staring at these gorgeous group of
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girls sitting next to us.
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Gorgeous.
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They're so beautiful.
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He is staring at them the entire time while I'm
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trying to talk to him. Oh, my gosh.
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I physically had to ask him if he was stoned.
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I had to ask him if he was even interested.
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I had to ask him if I was appalling to him.
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Those words actually had to come out of my mouth.
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We only had one drink.
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I swallowed my drink.
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And now I'm going to go grab some pizza.
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Because that was god awful.
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Now she's at the pizza place.
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I'm going to go, like, eat.
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My feelings right now. Did I mention that he leaned
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down and.
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Proceeded to ask me to smell his hair. He wanted
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me to smell his.
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Hair, his dirty hair.
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Shout out industry for making me feel better.
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So there you have it, Trey. I think it's, I
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think it's very important that you keep in mind.
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It's so important that you keep in mind that your
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competition out there is really, really bad.
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So here's the thing. And this is one of the
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cruel facts of life. I can no longer compete for that.
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I am too old. That is out of my league.
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You think she's out of your league when all you
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got to do is just show up and pay attention
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and don't stare at the girls at the table next
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to her?
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I'm probably older than her father.
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But buddy, you look good.
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I don't look that good. But here's the thing. Here's
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part of the reason why you look as good as
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you do for 52. It's because you don't have a
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daughter that looks like that. I guarantee you that if
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you were her daddy, like actual daddy, that.
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Dude looks rough.
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That dude looks beaten down like he's been rolled over
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in the ditch four or five times because, yeah, I
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think that may be one of your secrets and you
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don't even realize it. So to her, to her, if
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she were to see you. She may think you're 10
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years younger than her dad, even if he's 10 years
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younger than you.
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Here's one of the problems, and this is where dating
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is much harder today. It's counterintuitive, but before social media,
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before online dating, when you actually had to meet someone
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in person, you had to go up, you had to
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talk to them, break the ice, whatever, but you at
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least got a vibe one-on-one. Now you're going on someone's profile.
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But the worst part about it is as a guy,
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you are competing with the unreal expectations of what people
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put out on social media for their first dates, that
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they're going to these fancy restaurants that they're doing this,
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they're doing that, you know, it's like money's no object,
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everything else. And for, for most it is. And money
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is money.
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It's an object.
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It is.
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It's an obstacle. Yeah.
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Yeah. You know, you don't have $ 500 to go splurge
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on every date and everything else. Um, and, So I
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think that's one of the things where guys have gotten
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really gun shy is, you know, can't we just go have,
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you know, dinner and a drink and just call them casual,
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get to know one another and it not be a
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big production, a big show, everything else.
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I think, um, I think you're right. So I, I
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have no idea. I'm just as, this is pure conjecture
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on my part because I've been out of that game for,
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you know, uh, since.
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2009 and.
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Things have changed since then right because like when Tara
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and I went on our first date it was due
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in part to MySpace I mean we sort of met
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like we met in person first but MySpace helped facilitate
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a little bit of it that's how far back I
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go right so I would think in today's age you
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know how there's like this sort of yearning for nostalgia
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and in some cases like physical media like people want
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to have like They want to have a record. They
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want to have a CD or a cassette to touch
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the thing.
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And you're right. Instead of.
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The first interaction you have with someone who's on a
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profile who never met them, go old school. The first
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date doesn't have to be a massive production. It can
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just be, hey, let's just go meet for a drink
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or let's just go meet for a cup of coffee
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and just see if there's enough here to do a
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nicer first date type of thing. Like, basically, let's go
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old school. Let's slum it a little bit on the
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first date.
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Listen, this is, you know, I said this for years,
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is the Old Loon was the best first date spot
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ever because it didn't look like much. It was a
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dive bar, but strong drinks, but had great food. And
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so if you met a girl and if they turned
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up their nose at it, fine, get lost. if they
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stayed around and were like, I'll check it out, you
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realize it was a great spot. It was quiet. You
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could find a dark corner, talk, not be overwhelmed. It
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was perfect.
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Yeah, it really was.
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Again, and I think so much of this is social
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media has falsely shaped so many narratives. And one is
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that you've got to be, and I think this hits
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more for guys, that you've got to be this big
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time baller and be able to do all this expensive
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crap in order to go on a date.
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Yeah, because you're right.
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You're trying to jump over the bar of expectations that
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is set unrealistically high from the outset.
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Well, and listen, this was a principle for dating for
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years is, you don't want to shoot your shot as
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it were on the first date. If you go all
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out on the first date, then there's, it's nothing but
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downhill from there. Yeah.
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That's a, and that's a tough, that is a tough
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tone to set.
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Absolutely.
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Because ideally as a guy, when it's traditionally, that will
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be the one putting the bill for it. We want
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to know if it's worth going all out for that
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first big date.
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Yeah.
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I can't even, There's no way in hell I would
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go crazy on a first date with someone I've never
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even actually met in person.
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For me, I w I would rather go small, casual
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until you get to the point where you're really thinking, okay, I,
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you know, want to have the talk of, are we
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exclusive boyfriend, girlfriend type thing? That would be more of
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an occasion to go big.
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On a date.
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Sure.
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But, and again, and, and it's like we had that,
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that clip, uh, from the girl that got stood up
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that we played. I think it was on maybe Tuesday. Uh, I,
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I am willing to bet a lot of that is
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she's probably bashed guys before on their attempts to go
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out with her.
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I think the biggest aid in dating would be to
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keep it off of social media.
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I think that would help everybody because people watching it,
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they see certain expectations. You putting it out there, you're
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watching it as well. You've got certain expectations. And there
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are certain things you may not even realize you're doing
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or noticing other people. If you take it offline a
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little bit and just make it what it's supposed to be,
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which is supposed to be trying to connect with a
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human on some sort of a human level, you should
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be able to talk to a person more easily than
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your phone.
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Listen, I went out with a girl, I know, I
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think we talked about it, that I actually followed on
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TikTok and I saw her out one day and I
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liked her. We had a nice time, but it played
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into my thought pattern about she's on social media all
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the time. She posts every day. And is that too much?
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While keeping in mind, it's fair game to talk about
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her on the Treehouse show all we want. Well, it's...
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I'm messing with you. It is a completely different thing.
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Because everyone airs all their... Not everyone, but so many
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people air all their business on social media.
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It's like, you realize you don't have to do that, right?
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It's just a thought.
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You can just keep it to yourself. If you had
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a bad time or a good time, just whatever. Just
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enjoy it.
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It's not like if You don't post about it. It
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didn't happen. But I think that's how a lot of
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people seem to approach it. It wasn't real unless I
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posted about it.
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You want to talk about this weird place. You want
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to talk about people. I am looked upon like damaged goods.
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And I'm not saying I'm not. But I am 52,
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never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic. People think just the
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fact I've never been married and don't have kids, there's
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something profoundly wrong with me.
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That is a tough hurdle to get over.
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Mackie posted something here that says, my buddy said that
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women have told him that it's a red flag that
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he doesn't have social media.
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And look, there are plenty of men out there that
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take that approach. Like, I've got friends of mine that
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are barely on social media. Like you're trying to hide something.
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It's called living in the moment.
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Listen, I just don't interact with it. Yeah, that's sad.
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There is a girl on TikTok, and she goes on
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dating apps as a guy and will do and say
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different things. And she's consistently shocked about how awful women are.
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One of the things that she posted, and it was hilarious.
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is that the guy in his bio said, I believe
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that a first date should be split 50-50. And the
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comments were just, you know, it's like, oh, you're cheap,
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you're a red flag, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And so, yeah, that's one of the other things. And
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then women, and women are shocked. They meet these guys
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on online dating apps, and they're their bios, you know,
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make them sound like they are, you know, captains of
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industry and, and just the greatest thing ever. And, and
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they're not, and the, and the women are shocked, but
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yet they still like, you know, I was reading about
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one guy who is a welder. And if you know
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anything about welding right now, like you're making six figures
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as a welder blue collar, but you're, you're doing really
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well for yourself. And yeah. Yeah. but with data centers
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and everything else, you're, you're banking. And, but put that
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in his profile and, you know, and how he, it
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was just look, look down upon.
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Yeah.
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Expectations, expectations, expectations. They will ruin you. Oh God.
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Um, And even Linda in the chat says here, can
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Gen Z keep it offline nowadays? No. It's so rare
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that they do anything only offline.
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I've known some Gen Z kids.
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It really does feel like something wasn't real if they
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didn't post about it.
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Or there's this....
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It's like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when we
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were young, right? And we just always took that stuff
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as true. Then as we got older and saw Cribs
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on MTV, we realized that a lot of the celebrities
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on TV doing Cribs, that wasn't even their house. They
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were renting it for the show. And then we started
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realizing that a lot of this stuff is manufactured. It's
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fake just to make you look better than you are.
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And that's what has happened now with an entire generation.
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They've spent their entire lives online and on social media.
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So a lot of the stuff they put out there
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is just concocted or it's fake.
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So there's the pressure and the stress to keep up
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the illusion.
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It's fake or, you know, the truth of the matter
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is a lot of the quote unquote influencers who do well,
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they come from well-off families and they have the luxury
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of being able to throw all their time into being
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a social media star. And by the way, Linda, thank you.
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I saw your post that you said your husband's 20
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years older and I still have a chance. I appreciate
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that talk.
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So you're telling me there's a chance.
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Absolutely.
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Maybe all you got to do, Trey, is hear me
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out here. Just a little light stalking. And this is
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what I mean. That sounds controversial, but hear what I
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mean in application, okay? Let's go out to some place.
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and just wait for like someone like this young Victoria Vega,
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who's going to end up with some moron on a date.
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And you can just be the, the kind of cool,
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mysterious gray Fox that comes up and says like.
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Yeah, I want a cookie.
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Actually.
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Yeah.
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And you just open up a box of your snickerdoodles
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and she will be yours. I mean, because everything you
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said earlier about people saying you're a walking red flag.
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It's like, yeah, I get it.
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You're 52. You're single, never married, no kids, recovering alcoholic.
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I realize that is not a list of green flags
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by some people's standards.
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But once you put in there, but I like to bake.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Although now that I hear all that out loud, they
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might think you are baking people.
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Yeah.
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I say go with it.
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Go out with a little box of cookies and you
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just wait for some pretty girl to be on a
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horrible date and then you say, I can't believe this
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guy is treating you so badly. Here, would you like
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one of my freshly baked cookies?
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Well, I may give it a shot.
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And make sure that you eat one in front of
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her so she knows that they're safe.
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They're not lazy. Puppy in the other hand.
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Yeah, take Lily with you, take your puppy and a
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box of cookies. No one will care about your red flags, Trey.
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Right.
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Because you're holding two green ones.
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That's a thought.
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You're right. It is a thought. Not necessarily a good one.
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Maybe not a good idea, but it is a thought.
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It is a way to go.
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Yeah, it'll either get you a date or possibly on
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the 11 o'clock news.
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It's a crapshoot.
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I do like Double AJ in the chat pointing this out.
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He says, it's keeping up with the Joneses, except now
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the Joneses can follow you everywhere.
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That's exactly what it is. There is good news, though, Trey,
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if you are single.
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Being single right now means you don't have to worry
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about catching STD diarrhea.
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What?
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Yeah.
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I would think being single would.
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Put me at a higher risk than being married for that.
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I don't know what it is, but anything STD, I'm
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going to assume.
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A bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea can spread through
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sexual contact, and drug-resistant strains are becoming more common in
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the United States.
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In the United States. It's called shigellosis.
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And shigella passes from person to person when tiny amounts
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of infected fecal matter reach the mouth, including during sex
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or through contaminated food and water. Symptoms include fever, stomach cramps,
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and sometimes bloody diarrhea. A CDC analysis found that extensively
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drug-resistant strains accounted for 8.5% of samples tested just as
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recently as 2023, which was up from zero in 2011.
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So, in other words, there's been a meteoric rise in.
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In STD diarrhea. It's known as shigellosis or the shigella.
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I swear. Can't even eat ass now. Just take it
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all away from us. All of it. You're dead on, Jerry.
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That's exactly what it is. What's the world coming to
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when you can't even eat ass without worrying about catching
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an STD?
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Actually, there was a Reddit thread that someone asked, what
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does it taste like to eat ass?
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I would imagine exactly like you expect.
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Well, as one person said, well, it shouldn't taste like anything.
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It shouldn't. That is correct.
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Yeah.
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If it tastes like something, um, then, uh, yeah. Then
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if it does taste like something, then it wasn't clean enough. Yeah.
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I do like what Linda says.
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First lettuce and blueberries. 2026 has been a rough year
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for the different ways to get unwanted diarrhea. Right. Oh, Yeah,
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I've never actually thought about that. What does it taste
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like to eat ass? Well, hopefully nothing. Yeah.
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If it tastes like something, you're doing it wrong.
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Then to the bathroom you both need to go. Or
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if you're doing it and you can taste what they.
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Had for dinner. Mmm, Burger King.
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Trey, how far down did you read in that thread?
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I mean, was that pretty much the resounding answer that
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it shouldn't taste like anything?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Unless you get lucky and you get like a fruit
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roll-up flavor. Even that has questions that come with it.
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Jesus. Jesus.
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Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration
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into the treehouse. 833-COOK-DFW is the phone number to get
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your free roof inspection and property review scheduled. The website, cookdfw.com.
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I'm going to say some scary words, Daniel. Super El Nino.
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And the effect that is going to have on weather,
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especially in the North Texas area.
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You know, you're right.
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We just are officially in going into the Super El Nino.
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The reason why is because it's warmer than a regular
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El Nino. And it does prelude that we will have
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a wetter, higher rain percentage than a normal year, or
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shall we say on El Nino. So there are some differences, speculations.
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Nothing is set in stone. This is not a guarantee
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that we're going to have a deluge of water. for
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the next year. I mean, that's just not what it means.
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Scientific data says, hey, we might have a wetter than normal.
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We could have more storms.
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It could be just a lot of rain.
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We all need to go out and build arcs.
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I don't know.
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But I mean, be prepared.
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The moral of the story is every day you live
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in North Texas, especially in North Texas, be prepared. Know
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how your home is sitting. Know how your roof looks.
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Know how your Windows are working. Know if your doors
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have holes in them. I mean, just know your home.
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Know your home. Call us out.
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We want to educate you.
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We will come around, walk you around, show you things
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that you should know, and then we can help you
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with getting them taken care of.
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And no pressure, all education.
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And Daniel and his fine team at Cook DFW will
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take care of you, the homeowner, with very, very gentle hands.
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00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.660
I know because I've been in them. 833-COOK-DFW. That sound bad?
494
00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:44.140
Sounded bad.
495
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:50.500
833-COOK-DFW. Get that scheduled today. the website cook dfw.com.
496
00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:52.920
All right.
497
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.039
Well, I tell you what, let's, uh, let's completely shift
498
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:56.519
gears into some birthdays.
499
00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:56.960
What do you say?
500
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:03.099
Today is Thursday, October 15th, 2026. Let's celebrate today.
501
00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:03.559
With some birthdays.
502
00:29:12.630 --> 00:29:14.589
I am drawing a blank on this girl. Trey, you
503
00:29:14.630 --> 00:29:21.940
may bust out your phone. Um, Grace Van Dien, V-A-N-D-I-E-N.
504
00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:31.630
She's 30 today, and she played Chrissy Cunningham on Stranger Things.
505
00:29:31.769 --> 00:29:38.289
Her character's unforgettable scene with Vecna became a viral sensation. Okay,
506
00:29:38.650 --> 00:29:41.240
Chrissy was the one at the beginning. of season four
507
00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:44.599
that Vecna folded up. She was the first victim, uh,
508
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:46.839
in four where she got folded up in Eddie's trailer.
509
00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:49.700
That's who that is. Okay. Took me a second.
510
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:51.650
I was like, which character is Chrissy Cunningham?
511
00:29:51.670 --> 00:29:52.650
It's like, Oh yeah, Chrissy. Okay.
512
00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:55.450
She was the cheerleader from season four. So she is
513
00:29:55.450 --> 00:30:00.519
30 years old today. Um, I think there are some
514
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.940
people that didn't love season four and season five kind
515
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.640
of has some of its controversies, but there is no
516
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.960
mistaking that everyone remembered her death at the beginning of
517
00:30:13.029 --> 00:30:15.750
season four of stranger things. When all of her bones
518
00:30:15.769 --> 00:30:18.089
start popping in her eyes, get sucked into the back
519
00:30:18.130 --> 00:30:18.549
of her head.
520
00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:20.369
That was a shocking death.
521
00:30:22.650 --> 00:30:26.089
I thought stranger things was one of the better, better
522
00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:27.589
done shows in the last 20 years.
523
00:30:29.970 --> 00:30:32.329
The more I've, I've gone back and I've watched it
524
00:30:33.450 --> 00:30:39.690
twice and I watched the season five twice and the
525
00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:44.339
finale was, I think it was a little long, not
526
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:45.779
a little long, but there were a number of things,
527
00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:49.279
you know, they were just, I think unnecessarily long, but
528
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:50.460
you know, if that's the worst.
529
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:56.559
Thing, then so be it. Um, but overall it was
530
00:30:56.619 --> 00:30:57.059
pretty good.
531
00:30:57.690 --> 00:31:00.650
It wasn't majorly controversial the way, you know, the end
532
00:31:00.750 --> 00:31:03.990
of a Sopranos was, or like, what was it? Lost
533
00:31:04.049 --> 00:31:06.710
that people were, were really mad about the, the finale
534
00:31:06.779 --> 00:31:07.970
on that or game of Thrones.
535
00:31:08.019 --> 00:31:08.380
Jesus.
536
00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:12.039
Well, one of the things that I, I, I just
537
00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:17.339
fully appreciated with stranger things. So many series, especially now
538
00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:23.599
a game of Thrones lost suits. The, the, the last
539
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:24.680
season is a money grab.
540
00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:25.720
Yeah.
541
00:31:26.569 --> 00:31:30.819
And Umbrella Academy was another one. You know, great shows.
542
00:31:30.859 --> 00:31:33.279
And then they just really crapped the bed on the
543
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.220
last season. And I thought the, is it the Duffer Brothers?
544
00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:38.859
Yeah. Yeah.
545
00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:40.660
I mean, I thought they did a really good job
546
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:43.000
with it. You're never going to make everyone happy, but
547
00:31:43.099 --> 00:31:45.579
all in all, I, you know, it's not like I
548
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:47.740
sat back and like, God, I can't believe I wasted
549
00:31:48.069 --> 00:31:48.809
eight hours on that.
550
00:31:50.829 --> 00:31:51.730
Yeah, that is very true.
551
00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:55.849
Like, you didn't immediately turn it off and go, God,
552
00:31:55.890 --> 00:31:58.329
that was just trash and just whatever.
553
00:32:00.369 --> 00:32:02.029
I had a few notes, but all in all, it
554
00:32:03.049 --> 00:32:04.369
was all right. It was.
555
00:32:04.430 --> 00:32:06.970
You could definitely tell that there was some issues, you know,
556
00:32:07.009 --> 00:32:10.319
in the writing as far as, you know, there was
557
00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:13.079
one of the Duffer brothers, I think, got a divorce.
558
00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:16.619
And she was somebody that was helping write the show.
559
00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:18.579
So when she left, you kind of felt the influence.
560
00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:20.339
Oh, I did not know that.
561
00:32:20.829 --> 00:32:26.170
Yeah, that'll definitely throw a wrench into your season finale
562
00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:28.170
is when your marriage is ending to one of the
563
00:32:28.190 --> 00:32:29.190
people you also work with.
564
00:32:29.549 --> 00:32:30.309
Another reason why.
565
00:32:30.529 --> 00:32:34.430
Don't mix the stuff. It might be a little different
566
00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:36.509
if it's a marriage kind of a thing, but still
567
00:32:36.549 --> 00:32:37.170
that seems like.
568
00:32:38.869 --> 00:32:39.210
I don't know.
569
00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:39.990
It is Hollywood.
570
00:32:40.009 --> 00:32:44.930
Things are weird there. I work with my wife on
571
00:32:45.009 --> 00:32:48.349
certain things, but it's a very clear thing. It's like,
572
00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:51.309
with her job, she's the boss. I tell her like,
573
00:32:51.329 --> 00:32:52.670
you just tell me what you need me to do.
574
00:32:52.690 --> 00:32:55.569
And then I'll just go do that thing. Shut up, Trey.
575
00:32:58.950 --> 00:33:04.390
I didn't even have to say anything. I, I, I,
576
00:33:04.470 --> 00:33:08.210
I pummeled myself, uh, other birthdays today.
577
00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:08.809
Let's see. Okay.
578
00:33:08.829 --> 00:33:11.250
So Grace Van Dean is 30 from stranger thing. She
579
00:33:11.269 --> 00:33:11.869
played Chrissy.
580
00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:14.750
Um, it's just weird. My, I.
581
00:33:16.589 --> 00:33:20.319
Don't know how often you guys use, uh, like ai
582
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.740
whether it's chat gpt or claude or whatever sometimes it
583
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:25.680
changes things and i don't know why it does it
584
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.900
like it changed up my birthday's list here and now
585
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:30.400
i'm getting a bunch of people in here i've never
586
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:33.299
even heard of uh although genuine i know i recognize
587
00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:39.230
genuine genuine's 56 got to get on that pony dominic
588
00:33:39.289 --> 00:33:45.109
west is 57 play jimmy mcnulty on the wire He
589
00:33:45.150 --> 00:33:48.269
was also the bad guy in 300. He was the
590
00:33:48.329 --> 00:33:51.269
one that got the gold pieces to sell out the Spartans.
591
00:33:54.210 --> 00:33:59.450
Eric Benet is 60. This says it's, oh, I'm thinking
592
00:33:59.470 --> 00:34:03.670
of a different guy. So Eric Benet is 60. He's
593
00:34:03.710 --> 00:34:05.930
an R & B singer known for Spend My Life
594
00:34:05.970 --> 00:34:10.409
With You and Sometimes I Cry. What's the actor's name?
595
00:34:10.449 --> 00:34:14.389
He was from ER, Eric. but he was also the
596
00:34:14.409 --> 00:34:14.929
soul glow.
597
00:34:15.769 --> 00:34:16.409
Eric LaSalle.
598
00:34:17.190 --> 00:34:19.789
He was also the soul glow guy from coming to America.
599
00:34:19.829 --> 00:34:21.710
That's I saw the name. That's who I thought of.
600
00:34:24.530 --> 00:34:28.219
Emeril Lagasse. The bam chef is 67 today.
601
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:31.239
God, he looks old.
602
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:32.559
I don't know.
603
00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:35.019
He really does. I don't know if people remember.
604
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.119
I do.
605
00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:38.829
How big he got.
606
00:34:38.849 --> 00:34:39.829
Oh, yeah.
607
00:34:39.869 --> 00:34:43.820
I mean, not not just cooking show. Emeril was so big,
608
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:45.960
he had a sitcom.
609
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:50.639
Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. I mean, I
610
00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:53.570
don't remember how many. Yeah, I don't think it lasted
611
00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:55.090
more than a couple episodes.
612
00:34:55.710 --> 00:34:59.389
But I remember thinking, they gave this guy a sitcom
613
00:34:59.869 --> 00:35:02.909
based on being a chef and then a TV chef.
614
00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:07.489
It's crazy to think about now, just giving someone a
615
00:35:07.510 --> 00:35:09.659
sitcom based on no acting ability whatsoever.
616
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.000
But, you know, bam.
617
00:35:13.090 --> 00:35:13.230
Yeah.
618
00:35:13.269 --> 00:35:16.110
It's funny. You mentioned handing out sitcoms because I was
619
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:20.190
listening to Chuck Lorre was on Joe Rogan and talking
620
00:35:20.230 --> 00:35:26.889
about how sitcoms, you know, 20 years ago, even 10
621
00:35:26.889 --> 00:35:30.530
years ago were great. And now you don't see, you
622
00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:35.340
really don't see sitcoms anymore. They've become, and they were
623
00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:38.480
talking about how a lot of it with everything from
624
00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:42.849
the late teens, COVID, everything else has It's like people
625
00:35:43.190 --> 00:35:47.230
feel almost, it's like a guilty pleasure to laugh. And
626
00:35:47.250 --> 00:35:49.710
that everything has to be serious and meaning and everything else.
627
00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:51.010
And you just can't have stupid.
628
00:35:52.090 --> 00:35:52.309
Yeah.
629
00:35:53.070 --> 00:35:55.630
It's jokes are okay. It's okay to let go for
630
00:35:55.650 --> 00:36:01.260
a little bit. It's why we do this show. And
631
00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:03.380
it's interesting that, that some people like on the TV
632
00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:06.699
side of things, those things aren't as popular as they
633
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:08.800
used to be like the sitcom, because it used to
634
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:13.030
be the sitcoms. That was, I mean, I mean, think
635
00:36:13.050 --> 00:36:15.190
of all the classic shows we grew up with which
636
00:36:15.630 --> 00:36:18.090
owned the ratings. And then you might have one or
637
00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:21.750
two drama shows that might be in the mix. Let's
638
00:36:21.769 --> 00:36:23.570
just think back to something we all can remember, like
639
00:36:23.590 --> 00:36:28.900
the 90s. The 80s into the 90s was a beautiful
640
00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:33.019
heyday of sitcoms. You had great sitcoms. and then a
641
00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:35.800
couple of drama shows, and they were almost all really,
642
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:36.239
really good.
643
00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.099
But you're right.
644
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:40.110
Nowadays, it's like no sitcoms, and it's all scary, freaky
645
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.670
drama stuff, and some of it's just really just movies,
646
00:36:44.989 --> 00:36:45.829
but are on TV.
647
00:36:46.349 --> 00:36:52.789
Listen, I'll make an argument that the most viewed lineup
648
00:36:54.630 --> 00:36:58.070
was Thursday nights on NBC, and the mid-late 90s through
649
00:36:58.090 --> 00:37:06.449
the mid-2000s, because you had Friends, Cheers, I forgot all
650
00:37:06.469 --> 00:37:08.070
the other, but then you had ER.
651
00:37:08.230 --> 00:37:09.530
Also Frasier and ER.
652
00:37:09.550 --> 00:37:13.829
Frasier, yeah. But you had sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, sitcom, drama.
653
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:20.699
And it was, they owned Thursday nights. You couldn't, the
654
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.559
other networks couldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole.
655
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.960
No, because I remember at one point on Thursday nights,
656
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.059
you would start with Friends at 7, and then 7.30
657
00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:30.920
might be like something else.
658
00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:31.579
I can't, like.
659
00:37:33.130 --> 00:37:34.650
I'm kind of drawing a blank there, but then like
660
00:37:34.750 --> 00:37:39.440
eight o'clock, Frasier maybe, and then 8.30 something else, and
661
00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:44.519
then ER. That's three hours of programming from seven to 10,
662
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:45.219
you were locked in.
663
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.909
I was in college for a lot of that, and
664
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.929
we literally, people would come over and we would cook out,
665
00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:56.030
but starting at seven o'clock, seven to 10, we were
666
00:37:56.090 --> 00:37:59.969
all eating and drinking and watching TV because it was
667
00:38:00.269 --> 00:38:04.739
literally must-see TV. Yeah. And it's not like you could
668
00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:08.860
tape it. Well, you probably could if you knew how
669
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.300
to operate a VCR, but it wasn't like it's on
670
00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.679
demand or anything else. So if you didn't see what happened,
671
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:16.739
chances are you weren't going to be able to see
672
00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.179
it until the summer reruns.
673
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:22.280
Right. They called that block the must-see TV.
674
00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:23.179
Yep.
675
00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:28.760
It says here NBC schedule in the mid-90s during the
676
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.360
peak of all of that was mad about you or friends,
677
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:38.730
depending upon your region. Wings, Seinfeld, Frasier, or Mad About You,
678
00:38:39.110 --> 00:38:41.349
and then ER or Law & Order.
679
00:38:42.030 --> 00:38:43.510
Seinfeld. That was the other.
680
00:38:43.570 --> 00:38:44.849
Yeah.
681
00:38:45.869 --> 00:38:46.230
I mean.
682
00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:48.130
You can't.
683
00:38:48.429 --> 00:38:51.730
Networks are paying billions of dollars to get one of
684
00:38:51.809 --> 00:38:53.630
those shows on their streaming platform.
685
00:38:53.690 --> 00:38:55.969
And on NBC on Thursday nights, they had them all.
686
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:02.280
A couple other birthdays I want to mention. I almost
687
00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:05.019
missed this one. Uh, it was a couple in here.
688
00:39:05.139 --> 00:39:05.320
Okay.
689
00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:08.539
Paul Walter Hauser is 40. This is a guy who's
690
00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:12.849
kind of up and coming. Um, he was, he played
691
00:39:12.949 --> 00:39:19.329
Richard Jewell. The, uh, the guy who was the FBI bomber.
692
00:39:19.989 --> 00:39:22.530
Yeah. Uh, he, yep.
693
00:39:22.590 --> 00:39:26.469
He was also in I Tanya Blackbird and Cobra Kai.
694
00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:29.750
He was like the heavier set Cobra Kai guy on the,
695
00:39:29.769 --> 00:39:32.630
on the TV series. He was also in the soccer
696
00:39:32.670 --> 00:39:39.139
movie with, um, um, Marky Mark that came out last year.
697
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:40.559
It was like a world cup.
698
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:44.260
Thing that he was in. And then he was also, God,
699
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.320
he's been in a lot of stuff recently. He was the,
700
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:51.440
he was, what's the movie? He was like the head
701
00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:55.440
of the mole people in, was it Quantumania or something? Anyway,
702
00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:57.199
he's done a lot of stuff. If you see his face,
703
00:39:57.219 --> 00:40:01.900
be like, oh, that guy. So Paul Walter Hauser is 40.
704
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:08.809
Vanessa Marcille is 58. She was Nick Cage's girlfriend in
705
00:40:08.849 --> 00:40:09.250
The Rock.
706
00:40:11.210 --> 00:40:11.989
Oh, okay.
707
00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:14.030
Yeah, see?
708
00:40:14.110 --> 00:40:16.369
She was also, at the time, she was a big
709
00:40:16.550 --> 00:40:18.610
soap opera star. I think she was on General Hospital.
710
00:40:20.099 --> 00:40:22.800
I watched that. The Rock was on the other day.
711
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.300
That still holds up.
712
00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:26.460
That movie's so freaking good.
713
00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:27.059
Yeah.
714
00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:33.110
Sorry, I was just venturing off into my brain, kind
715
00:40:33.139 --> 00:40:35.780
of watching it in my mind. It's just like, God,
716
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.550
The Rock is such a good movie. I have never
717
00:40:38.610 --> 00:40:38.909
seen it.
718
00:40:40.070 --> 00:40:40.329
What?
719
00:40:42.030 --> 00:40:42.269
Huh?
720
00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:47.250
Never seen it. You've never seen The Rock?
721
00:40:47.929 --> 00:40:48.050
Nope.
722
00:40:50.150 --> 00:40:51.110
I just got chills.
723
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:53.780
I'm dumbfounded.
724
00:40:56.579 --> 00:41:00.179
Jerry, it takes a lot to make me speechless and
725
00:41:00.219 --> 00:41:01.090
you almost did it.
726
00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:06.880
You should. Is there any reason why you haven't seen it?
727
00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:11.929
I never saw a preview that made it look interesting.
728
00:41:12.329 --> 00:41:14.190
I've heard a lot of people say good things about it, but.
729
00:41:15.630 --> 00:41:20.570
I mean, a Sean Connery is so. Freaking good. Like that's,
730
00:41:21.650 --> 00:41:24.199
and that was, and that was prime Nick, you know,
731
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:29.340
Nick cage. Uh, but Sean Connery at hair, like that,
732
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:31.179
that whole cast, it was just, it's so good.
733
00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:34.760
And I've recently gotten more of an appreciation for Nicholas cage.
734
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.349
I've always, I've always liked him, but I've really gotten
735
00:41:37.369 --> 00:41:40.429
appreciation for him here after a spider noir.
736
00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.869
Um, well, I think he, he, I mean, and he
737
00:41:43.889 --> 00:41:48.280
did it to himself. His career crapped the bed so hard,
738
00:41:48.579 --> 00:41:51.860
and he did such crap for a while that people
739
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.960
have forgotten that in the mid-late 90s, I mean, hell,
740
00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:57.849
going back to the late 80s with Raising Arizona, he
741
00:41:57.869 --> 00:41:59.409
was a bona fide star.
742
00:41:59.849 --> 00:42:00.610
Such a good movie.
743
00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:02.110
Yeah.
744
00:42:02.989 --> 00:42:03.769
Con Air.
745
00:42:05.650 --> 00:42:11.519
Dude made like $ 20 million for Con Air. Partly because
746
00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:18.449
The Rock was that good. Jerry, we have not done
747
00:42:18.489 --> 00:42:20.949
a live movie rewatch, partly because it's kind of hard
748
00:42:20.989 --> 00:42:25.250
to do it because of copyright and stuff, but I
749
00:42:25.289 --> 00:42:29.010
would love to watch you watch The Rock just to
750
00:42:29.090 --> 00:42:32.760
see if you enjoy it. I'll tell you right now, though,
751
00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:34.179
if you say you don't like it, I'll kill you.
752
00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:40.250
I would be shocked if you didn't like it.
753
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.699
No pressure. No pressure. If we want to do that,
754
00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:51.420
that's cool. I'll make sure to... No, just watch it.
755
00:42:52.179 --> 00:42:53.260
Put it in my watch list.
756
00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:56.929
Yeah, it's truly... It is.
757
00:42:58.809 --> 00:42:59.630
It is a good movie.
758
00:43:00.889 --> 00:43:02.789
That is an all-time guy flick.
759
00:43:03.309 --> 00:43:11.269
Yeah. And it's... Going back and watching it again, the chemistry,
760
00:43:11.789 --> 00:43:14.159
the way they played off each other between Sean Connery
761
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:15.019
and Nicolas Cage was.
762
00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:17.280
Was superb.
763
00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:25.349
We're here for you, Jerry. We'll form a little support group.
764
00:43:26.329 --> 00:43:28.889
And if need to, we'll tie you down clockwork orange style,
765
00:43:28.989 --> 00:43:31.190
put in the eye spreaders, and you will see the rock.
766
00:43:32.210 --> 00:43:34.190
What's amazing to me is not only how great of
767
00:43:34.230 --> 00:43:38.610
a movie that was, but it's one of the best
768
00:43:38.739 --> 00:43:42.739
lines in movie history that Sean Connery delivers.
769
00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:45.300
And you've never seen it in context, Jerry.
770
00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:47.199
Prom?
771
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:48.639
Uh-huh.
772
00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.679
Yes, it is.
773
00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:56.019
Carla was the prom queen, and Carla is Vanessa Marcille,
774
00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:59.079
who is 58 today. Look at that full circle.
775
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:04.409
There you go. What do you have to do to
776
00:44:04.449 --> 00:44:05.989
get a double DWI?
777
00:44:10.010 --> 00:44:12.110
This is one of those stories that you would think
778
00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:17.449
is automatic Florida, and it actually is the opposite of Florida. Portsmouth,
779
00:44:17.510 --> 00:44:21.989
New Hampshire. A Portsmouth man was arrested twice in one
780
00:44:22.070 --> 00:44:25.710
night facing two DWI.
781
00:44:24.849 --> 00:44:26.010
Charges as a result.
782
00:44:27.550 --> 00:44:31.039
Tell me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire
783
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.000
without telling me you don't take DWI seriously in New Hampshire.
784
00:44:35.340 --> 00:44:35.940
If you get a.
785
00:44:35.940 --> 00:44:39.079
DWI pretty much anywhere else, you're not going to be
786
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:41.239
in a car for at least a couple of days.
787
00:44:43.949 --> 00:44:46.929
If even less than six months. It's a Right.
788
00:44:46.949 --> 00:44:48.949
That's my first question. They just let him drive away
789
00:44:48.989 --> 00:44:50.730
after that? Or did he have to go home and
790
00:44:50.750 --> 00:44:52.090
acquire another vehicle?
791
00:44:53.230 --> 00:44:57.400
So Michael Stiles, 25, was intoxicated when he crashed into
792
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.760
a parked police cruiser around 10.15 p.m.
793
00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:02.579
On Monday.
794
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:07.400
That's according to the Portsmouth Police Department. Then he was
795
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.960
reportedly arrested and charged with a DWI and reckless conduct.
796
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:15.710
Police say he was later released on a personal recognizance bail.
797
00:45:16.789 --> 00:45:20.429
Three hours later, police say they responded to a separate
798
00:45:20.530 --> 00:45:23.710
incident where Stiles was again driving a car under the
799
00:45:23.769 --> 00:45:27.179
influence after his release, and he was again charged with
800
00:45:27.219 --> 00:45:30.960
a DWI as a breach of bail misdemeanor. He's now
801
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:32.559
being held without bail.
802
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.079
That is, when you hear about cashless bail and stuff
803
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:42.369
like that, that is exactly what that stuff is. And
804
00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:45.570
the other thing is, typically in most places, If you
805
00:45:45.630 --> 00:45:48.130
are arrested for DWI, you are going to be held
806
00:45:48.210 --> 00:45:50.530
until they think the alcohol has gotten out of your
807
00:45:50.570 --> 00:45:53.039
system and you are no longer intoxicated.
808
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:53.980
Yeah.
809
00:45:54.860 --> 00:46:00.000
This one, I mean, that is a quick in and
810
00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:04.019
out in a jail. I mean, that's basically they fingerprinted you,
811
00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:06.000
processed you, and you are out the door.
812
00:46:06.619 --> 00:46:06.860
Mm-hmm.
813
00:46:07.710 --> 00:46:10.269
This sounds like a story that would have happened in
814
00:46:10.309 --> 00:46:12.730
like the 70s or the 80s where you get pulled
815
00:46:12.829 --> 00:46:15.480
over for a DWI or reckless driving and they're.
816
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.760
Like, all right, don't do that again. You good? Yeah,
817
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:18.139
I'm good.
818
00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:20.340
I promise, sir. Okay, we'll see you later. And then
819
00:46:20.380 --> 00:46:22.079
you actually do see him a few hours later because
820
00:46:22.099 --> 00:46:25.059
they get into another wreck. That doesn't sound like anything
821
00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:27.880
that would happen in 2026.
822
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:29.480
Well, 76? Sure.
823
00:46:31.619 --> 00:46:34.019
Think about what happens if this had been more serious
824
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:36.340
and he had hurt somebody on that second.
825
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:36.519
Oh, yeah.
826
00:46:38.269 --> 00:46:38.670
I forget.
827
00:46:39.329 --> 00:46:41.820
Did did I show you guys the video or have
828
00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:44.840
you seen it? It was from WFAA, I think, in
829
00:46:44.860 --> 00:46:48.940
the early 80s where they were talking about the crackdown
830
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:53.139
on drinking while driving laws. So Texas didn't really have
831
00:46:53.179 --> 00:46:55.920
much of one. And then they were talking to drivers
832
00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:58.960
driving by saying, hey, what do you think about these
833
00:46:59.019 --> 00:47:02.099
new laws in Texas outlawing drinking while driving? And there's
834
00:47:02.139 --> 00:47:04.280
a guy in there is like, man, I don't like
835
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.989
it as he's taking a hit of Old Milwaukee or something.
836
00:47:08.010 --> 00:47:10.010
He's like, man, I get done with work. I want
837
00:47:10.030 --> 00:47:11.219
to have a couple of beers.
838
00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:12.010
I'm an adult.
839
00:47:12.139 --> 00:47:13.619
I should be able to have a couple of beers
840
00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:18.519
on the way home from work. Not anymore. Straight to
841
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:19.219
jail you go.
842
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:20.360
Mm-hmm.
843
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:21.139
No.
844
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.119
I believe he's smoking a cigarette in that clip, too.
845
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:26.679
He's multitasking.
846
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:30.059
Uh-huh. Yeah. All right, listen.
847
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.539
He's probably got a kid hanging out in the back windshield, too.
848
00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:39.869
Things you can't You can't accurately convey to younger generation
849
00:47:40.610 --> 00:47:46.250
of there was a time it was not– you did
850
00:47:46.309 --> 00:47:49.130
not have to wear a seatbelt. You could drive around
851
00:47:49.210 --> 00:47:53.719
with a drink. Parents smoked in the car and trying
852
00:47:53.739 --> 00:47:56.860
to understand that, hey, you would climb into the space
853
00:47:57.260 --> 00:48:00.679
where the back window slanted down between the back seat
854
00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:02.820
and the back window to get away from your parents
855
00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:04.699
whipping your ass. Yeah.
856
00:48:05.699 --> 00:48:09.400
All of that combined with, and the windows are all up.
857
00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:14.699
Yeah. Or old cars that had the smoking window.
858
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.519
The little vent.
859
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000
The little notch.
860
00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:25.139
And then if you really did misbehave and you hid
861
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.539
into that back windshield of the car, and then your
862
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:29.980
parents smoked, and what do they do?
863
00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:32.340
If you wedged your, yeah, they would hit the brakes.
864
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.369
Yes. but if you wedged yourself in there good enough
865
00:48:35.969 --> 00:48:40.050
and the brakes didn't dislodge you, did this ever happen
866
00:48:40.090 --> 00:48:43.190
to you? They would take the cigarette lighter, they'd push
867
00:48:43.250 --> 00:48:45.280
it in and then just go on down the road.
868
00:48:45.380 --> 00:48:47.059
And then when it popped back out, they'd pull it
869
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:47.840
and flick it at you.
870
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:51.500
No, not even.
871
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:51.590
Oh.
872
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:57.889
All right, Jerry, you're back up on the adoption process.
873
00:48:58.449 --> 00:49:01.960
Um, Just me? Okay.
874
00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:04.260
My dad just would pull over on the side of
875
00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:06.820
the road. I got my ass whipped on I-30 one time.
876
00:49:09.309 --> 00:49:14.690
While he was smoking and drinking. Ah, the good old
877
00:49:14.730 --> 00:49:16.869
days when we were raised with character.
878
00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:18.440
Mm-hmm.
879
00:49:19.019 --> 00:49:21.380
You're like 12 years old. Your dad's like holding you
880
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.179
by one foot.
881
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:23.440
Just smacking you on the side.
882
00:49:24.579 --> 00:49:28.130
So here's another little thing people don't realize. A lot
883
00:49:28.150 --> 00:49:29.590
of the older cars didn't have cup holders.
884
00:49:31.110 --> 00:49:33.150
Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't see a cup holder until
885
00:49:33.989 --> 00:49:34.139
the 90s.
886
00:49:34.130 --> 00:49:34.230
Mm-mm.
887
00:49:36.210 --> 00:49:38.010
That was one of the greatest things in sliced bread
888
00:49:38.050 --> 00:49:40.809
when something showed up. It was one cup holder in
889
00:49:40.829 --> 00:49:44.590
the console. That was the greatest thing ever. Yeah, so
890
00:49:44.949 --> 00:49:48.090
this is what it would look like. You would have
891
00:49:48.329 --> 00:49:50.789
in the left hand, this is the driver. So dad's driving, right?
892
00:49:50.809 --> 00:49:53.429
Because very rare mom drove, especially if dad was around,
893
00:49:53.550 --> 00:49:55.110
unless he had just drank so much and then they
894
00:49:55.130 --> 00:49:59.719
had to switch. So he's got the cigarette between the
895
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:03.099
index and the middle finger while holding the beer with
896
00:50:03.340 --> 00:50:04.380
the other two fingers.
897
00:50:04.619 --> 00:50:05.679
That's the left hand.
898
00:50:08.139 --> 00:50:12.159
The knee would be steering, and the other foot would
899
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:14.820
be on the gas or brake pedal, leaving the right
900
00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:20.010
hand free to reach and beat you while driving. That
901
00:50:20.139 --> 00:50:22.309
is what it was like to grow up in the 80s.
902
00:50:24.230 --> 00:50:25.630
I called it vacation elbow.
903
00:50:25.650 --> 00:50:33.869
It's like you'd be trying to hide in the back windshield.
904
00:50:34.269 --> 00:50:36.469
They'd slam on the brakes, and your dad just sticks
905
00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:40.380
his arm out, and they'd clothesline you with the people's
906
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:42.219
elbow as you fly to the front.
907
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:46.559
The other variation is they would get that extra six
908
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:48.300
inches on the arm, and they could just reach back
909
00:50:48.340 --> 00:50:50.380
and just smack wherever you were in the car, and
910
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.619
they would just find you.
911
00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:58.409
I think they designed cars purposely for that purpose was
912
00:50:58.429 --> 00:51:02.719
so that parents still had enough reach to reach the
913
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:05.400
kid in the back seat, so the car wasn't too long.
914
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:07.840
That was the difference.
915
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:11.179
Once the Suburban came along and the kid could hide
916
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:12.940
all the way in the back where the parent couldn't
917
00:51:12.980 --> 00:51:15.550
reach them, that's when all the kids got too soft.
918
00:51:18.030 --> 00:51:18.429
I don't know.
919
00:51:18.469 --> 00:51:20.650
There was quite a bit of distance between that front
920
00:51:20.670 --> 00:51:23.150
seat and the back in a 78 Oldsmobile.
921
00:51:25.510 --> 00:51:27.849
Well, see, that's why, to me, that was the grandparents' car.
922
00:51:27.889 --> 00:51:29.289
They could get away with it because it was very
923
00:51:29.349 --> 00:51:31.949
rare that they were going to get you. But it
924
00:51:31.989 --> 00:51:34.110
also meant you had more distance to travel when they
925
00:51:34.150 --> 00:51:35.829
hit the brakes and you flew to the front.
926
00:51:36.469 --> 00:51:41.159
There was that. Oh, man.
927
00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:44.800
I think it was cell phones because when cell phones
928
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.659
came out, then people could call in when you're watching
929
00:51:47.699 --> 00:51:49.460
someone with their child on the side of the road
930
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:51.099
and go, hey, there's child abuse.
931
00:51:53.139 --> 00:51:54.449
Back in the 70s, you drove by and it's like,
932
00:51:54.469 --> 00:52:00.820
I wonder what he did. stick your head out get
933
00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:01.840
him for me.
934
00:52:04.139 --> 00:52:06.420
You're right it really does take a village to beat
935
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:08.559
a child yeah.
936
00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:12.199
This is great.
937
00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:14.199
Marshall in the chat mom always used a fly swatter
938
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.750
handle on me from the front seat the metal handles See,
939
00:52:17.769 --> 00:52:19.829
that's the difference. When someone says I was beat with
940
00:52:19.869 --> 00:52:22.199
a fly swatter, the kids today would think, oh, my God,
941
00:52:22.219 --> 00:52:22.889
that's terrible.
942
00:52:23.219 --> 00:52:25.820
They hit you with the flappy part? No. They hit
943
00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:26.219
us with.
944
00:52:26.139 --> 00:52:34.659
The metal part. The flappy part would come off. Kids
945
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.989
today just don't know. Linda, the good old days of roadies.
946
00:52:39.230 --> 00:52:39.469
Mm-hmm.
947
00:52:39.909 --> 00:52:47.579
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And yet somehow we survived, and here we are.
948
00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.400
And not only that, but we all wax poetic about
949
00:52:51.420 --> 00:52:53.400
it and feel nostalgic about it in some way.
950
00:52:53.420 --> 00:52:56.929
I know, right? It's sort of a trauma bond. We
951
00:52:56.949 --> 00:52:58.409
all turned out just fine, didn't we?
952
00:52:59.010 --> 00:53:00.690
Yeah, did you ever have that time where you were
953
00:53:00.730 --> 00:53:02.809
hiding from your parents in the back windshield, and then
954
00:53:02.829 --> 00:53:04.389
you blinked, and all of a sudden you were in
955
00:53:04.409 --> 00:53:05.340
the front windshield?
956
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:10.360
Tangled up in the gap between the two seats in
957
00:53:10.380 --> 00:53:16.699
the front.
958
00:53:16.969 --> 00:53:23.929
When the front seat feels like a turnbuckle. And we
959
00:53:23.949 --> 00:53:26.349
could do that because you didn't have rear seat belts.
960
00:53:28.070 --> 00:53:29.969
Well, that's the only reason the parents had such reach.
961
00:53:30.010 --> 00:53:31.849
They didn't have front seat belts. Or if they did,
962
00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:32.789
they were just lap belts.
963
00:53:33.550 --> 00:53:34.909
You know.
964
00:53:36.670 --> 00:53:39.349
Seatbelts were a big inconvenience because they really restricted your
965
00:53:39.369 --> 00:53:39.949
range of motion.
966
00:53:43.889 --> 00:53:44.409
Let's go.
967
00:53:44.429 --> 00:53:50.730
I'll say what I think. Marshall talked about extension cords. Yes,
968
00:53:50.789 --> 00:53:52.710
they were. The other thing that was used to whip
969
00:53:53.409 --> 00:53:56.030
phone cords, the phone cords that went from the wall
970
00:53:56.110 --> 00:53:56.690
to the phone.
971
00:53:57.409 --> 00:53:57.590
Yep.
972
00:53:59.409 --> 00:54:02.639
Those are made differently today than they were back then.
973
00:54:02.659 --> 00:54:04.440
They don't even make them anymore.
974
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.409
And this is why, because so many kids were beat
975
00:54:07.429 --> 00:54:08.070
to death with them.
976
00:54:12.369 --> 00:54:14.760
The cord from the wall to the phone was too dangerous.
977
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:16.699
All right.
978
00:54:16.739 --> 00:54:18.659
Thanks for hanging out with us, guys. We will see
979
00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:22.159
you next week right here inside the treehouse.