December 9, 2025 • 35 mins
On today's show, we learn about a man who forgot what he needed to deposit, the messy love triangle between Netflix/Warner/Paramount, and a woman who needs to learn how to arson better.
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Woman arrested for stabbing firehose as Dallas Fire fought blaze – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Man allegedly sent meth to bank using drive-thru tube
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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Man allegedly sent meth to bank using drive-thru tube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
Trey Trendholm.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Today.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Speaking of today, we will start with how to spot
an arsonist. A woman was arrested for stabbing a fire
hose while Dallas firefighters battled flames. It's not the traditional
way to spot an arsenist, but it is the new
(01:00):
version and I think it well. If I may beat
a pun it holds water.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. The woman is facing criminal mischief charges yes, and
first degree arson according to Dallas Fire Rescue, who got
more than they bargained for when they responded to this fire.
Dallas police arrested a woman early Friday morning for stabbing
a fire hose while Dallas firefighters were responding to a
(01:27):
house fire. The blade started just before one am, when
all good house fires get started at a house on
Prosperity Avenue in South Dallas. And that will never not
be ironic to me. Prosperity Avenue the name Prosperity Avenue
in South Dallas.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Investigators determined that someone used an unknown heat source to
ignite combustibles in a corner room in the front of
the house. The fire was declared extinguished at one thirty
five am. While Dallas Fire Rescue was extinguishing the fire,
Jemishia Denise Murphy, a thirty seven year old woman from Dallas,
allegedly took a knife to one of the fire hoses
in an attempt to prevent their efforts. She's also believed
(02:10):
to have started the fire. That's some excellent investigative work
right there. That's according to multiple people on scene who
witnessed her admitting to setting the fire as she stabbed
the fire hose. That's got to be one of the
most entertaining admissions of guilt I have ever heard. I
did it, and I'm currently doing it more.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, that's h and you know, pardon the pun, but
I believe the prosecution will be able to poke holes
in the defense whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm proud of you. You one up my terrible pun
from earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
She was later placed under arrest at the scene and
charged with criminal mischief. A charge of first degree arson
will be added to that. According to Dallas Fire Rescue.
Oh Man, that's one of those times where if you're
you're the firefighters, you're like, come on, really. Also, there's
(03:09):
no mention about the owner of the house why she
started the fire, if anyone inside the house was injured
or not, because clearly she had a reason to do this,
and I'm assuming it's because there's you know, she's a
jilted lover and there's some man inside that house that
she is really pissed at.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That are insurance fraud.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Either way, she is really mad at that house or
somebody in it. Something happened, Like, even if it's for
the insurance claim, I don't think in an insurance fraud situation,
you stab the fire hose while the firefighters are battling
the flames while screaming I did it.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, you would at least think, you know, because from
what I read, she stabbed the hose multiple times and
different spots. Uh, you know, if you're gonna do that,
you would think, you know, just one good cut and
get the hell out of there. But evidently that was
(04:14):
not her plan. No.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No, she turned that hose into Swiss cheese. And you're right,
I mean, there's there's a sneakier way to do it.
If nothing else, like wander around to the back of
the truck where the hose is coming off, just go
a little and just poke poke it there, or perhaps
if it's plugged into it, you know, the fire hydrant
in front of the house, if there was one. For
all we know, she had knocked out over before they
(04:37):
even got there. Who knows what she did before they
got there, but some more conspicuous place to, you know,
sabotage the firefighting efforts on the on the house fire
that you started. On the other hand, there is one
other aspect to this. We have not considered one other possibility.
(04:58):
There might have been a spider, fair you know, and
she was not about to let that. She was not
about to let that house or any spiders escape it.
So therefore she poked all the holes in the fire hose.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
One spider, I'll say, a little excessive, but if there
are multiple spiders, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like you saw the movie Arachnophobia, right, yes, yeah, great
movie by the way, mm hmm, terrible movie for ten
year old me to see, especially at the Costelindo Theater.
May at rest in peace with my good friend Eric.
At the time, we played soccer together and even though
there was no one else in the theater there was,
I mean it was mostly empty. We still sat like
(05:44):
at the in the front row, which was another horrible
mistake because then it actually felt like the spiders were
jumping on you, because there were quite a few of
the jump scares, or the spiders jumped like at the
camera lens. Yeah, mistakes were made that day. I couldn't
do right now. I've got a lamp next to me
with a little poll string to turn it off and
on see watch huh. Yeah. I don't know if you
(06:08):
remember this in the movie Iraq Noophobia, But in the movie,
like an old lady sticks her hand under the lamp
chain and spider drops down, bites and kills her. Oh yeah,
every time I pull a pole chain on a lamp,
I think of that movie. Every time I go into
a barn, I look up to make sure there's no
(06:29):
freakishly large spider web sprawled across the top, along with
some people rolled up in there. Every single time I
pick up a thing of bananas at the store, I
check them for spiders, all because of the movie Iraq Noophobia.
Every single time I get I can go on. Every
single time I put on some slippers. I checked the
(06:50):
slippers to make sure there's no deadly spider hiding in
the toe to get me like it got that old man.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I never really thought about it, but that would
have been a hell of a movie for.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Three D, outstanding, imax, holy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you would think. I wonder if it with technology today,
they can go back and you know, make it into
a three D film, because that that that would just
absolutely scare the crap out of you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Absolutely, it would. That would uh. And here's the thing
I don't. I don't want anyone to remake it. I
think it's already a classic. It's a wonderful film. It's
just you know, it's as perfect as it needs to be.
But in order to get that full three D effect,
if we had to redo it, I'd be okay, as
long as you remake it as closely as possible to
(07:40):
the original, and that includes bringing John Goodman back and
Jeff Daniels to reprise their roles.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So you want a sequel, No, I mean maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I mean, look, sequels have broken our hearts left and right.
But there are some great ones, and we've talked about
them on the show before, including the ones where you
know the sequel was better than the movie that came
out prior. I have such high hopes for Spaceball's too,
that if that lands the way that Top Gun Maverick
(08:13):
landed no pun intended there, then it might open the
door for some other possibilities. But that's everything that Hollywood's
doing these days, is like they're just rolling the dice,
trying to, you know, hit the jackpot again. But I
think you're right. When an Imax three D version of Arachnophobia, God,
that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Spaceballs, I have faith in just I have faith in
mel Brooks that he would not be making this if
he didn't think it was a worthy because, I mean,
he's got an abe. I'm sure he knows this that
there's a good chance this will be his last film.
I mean he's going to be one hundred when it releases.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So, And I'm a fan of Josh gadd He's the
one that believe wrote the script or at least worked
on it with others. He's starring in it. I think
he's I think his role is son of maug Yes,
And I have a lot of I have a lot
of faith in him. Well, I have a lot of
hope in him. We'll see if the how the faith
goes when the movie actually comes out. But again, I
(09:19):
love your idea of doing an Arachnophobia, you know, three
D God, that would be good and John Golden. John
Goodman is a treasure.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He is a phenomenal actor that can play so many
different styles of roles. But him as Delbert the not
the Executioner, Exterminator, the exterminator, slash executioner whatever, he was
so good in that, so good I I I occasionally
(09:53):
ask our bug guy, our exterminator that comes to our house.
He looks nothing like John Goodman. I think his name
is Angel and I've asked him before if you've seen
arachnophob and he's like, no, what is that? I'm like, God, damn,
you're young. I said you should see it because there
aren't any real Hollywood there are any really are any
movies that Champion the Exterminator quite as well as Arachnophobia?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Did? I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's basically either that or Steve's on in Saving Silverman
when he gets face attacked by a wreck.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I forget. Have you ever watched The Righteous Jim Stones?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Not all of it, but we've seen some episodes.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's John Goodman. Is is a treasure mm hm.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
As a quick aside, So over the weekend, Tara and
I watched Santa Claus, the movie you remember that, Tim Allen, No,
that's the Santa Claus. No, this one is Santa Claus,
the movie that came out in the eighties. I'm of
course brain farting the names of the actors, like the
(11:04):
guy that played Santa I forget his name, and then
it also had what's his name?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We played Arthur Dudley Moore.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Dudley Moore, thank you. I don't know why I was
trying to call it Dusty, and I know that's not
it because I don't think there's ever been an English Dusty.
But Dudley Moore as one of the elves, and John
Lithgow as the bad guy, the head of BZ Toys,
where they're at the Senate Subcommittee and they're breaking open
his toys and one of them is a panda and
outcomes sand and glass and nails stuffing in the panda.
(11:43):
John John Lithgow is another one of those guys. He's
such a phenomenal actor, can do so many different things.
It's worth rewatching that movie. Just for him. But yeah,
uh so that made me think of it as far
as actors that are, so I'll have to I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I don't remember that movie, but I just.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It is a hardcore kids movie from the eighties. It's pure,
it's pure Christmas type stuff. I almost shocked it's only
got like sixty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well pretty much anything Dudley More I have always liked.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So yeah, oh yeah, yeah, so you got uh so
Dudley Morris patch John Lithgow was busy with his glass
and nails stuffed toys. David Huddleston is the actor that
played Santa Claus. You'll recognize him, uh when you see him.
And then Burgess merediths really plays a really old elf.
(12:38):
This is not Burgess Meredith from Grumpy Old Men. This
is not the Grumpy old Elf. Although now that I
now that I'm thinking it, that might be a fun
movie as well, but we can't have it because Burgess
is long pasted. I did though, as he comes, it's
been a while since we had seen Santa Claus the movies.
So when this early, when the scene happens when Burgess mayored,
(12:58):
this character comes out of this ancient elf. I just
keep I can hear is him doing the really nasty
jokes and rumpy old like that is not These are
not jokes for a kids movie, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I would wat trumpy old elf though, Oh grumpy old elves.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
I love roller.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Coasters and it's been something like I think I started
in my little portion of my life when I was younger,
I was scared of high speeds or turns or twisters
or anything like that. But as I've gotten older, probably
from my teenage years all the way now I love
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(14:15):
that it gives you, the scaredness of it going upside down.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I love roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
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coming to six Flags in twenty twenty six, Tormento Rampaging Run.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I would definitely be excited to see how it looks.
I mean, because I heard this on the news that
they were I think, tearing down another section of a ride.
I don't know what ride they're tearing down.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I think it was Shockwave that they took down, and
this one's going to go in that.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Spot, okay, I mean, and that was a I mean
I remember as a kid driving by the highway always
looking at Shockwave and watching the roller coaster going on
as I was driving down the road, you know, because
I was a passenger obviously, so I was always watching.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It, going, oh, look at the fuck? You know, but yeah,
that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
They got to keep up dating fresher items all the time, right,
because people get numb to the old rides, and I
understand it. It's kind of nostalgic though to me, Like
you know, that Shockwave was that was a cool I
can't tell you how many times I rode that ride.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, I mean, like we talked about it on the show.
That was an iconic ride, not just for when you're
at the park and you ride it, but it was
iconic just as part of the skyline of six flags
driving by on I thirty. It's one of the ones
you saw every single time with the loops.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This one's going to take its place, and it's also
going to stand out because this is big. It's a
three hundred and nine foot dive coaster that has you
dangling over the edge and of course it pauses at
the top so you get you know, good and freaked
out before it drops you into oblivion. I'm glad you're excited.
I will not be writing that thing though.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Have you ever been to the Sphere in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's exactly what you're describing to me. They have that
roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That hangs off the top of the Sphere yep, and
it literally just rops and then it stops here before
you obviously you fall Olivian.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But that's sick. Sounds like exactly what this is going
to be like.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, terrifying. And it's a great name. Tormento.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Tormento, hear you, that's exactly.
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on between Paramount and Netflix. I don't know why. I mean, okay,
(17:29):
I do know. I don't know why I do. I'm
very excited about this. This is fascinating. So we talked
about the Netflix bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery on
our Treehouse Plus episode Treehouse Plus episode I believe that
was one O seven, which you can get when you
subscribe to our Patreon Patreon dot com slash Treehouse On air, Trey,
(17:51):
you and I talked about that in pretty good depth
because it is interesting. It's a massive deal that can
change the landscape of not just where and what you stream,
but the entire entertainment industry. Okay, not to mention the
political implications of it, because that deal would have to
get through federal regulators. And part of the discussion we
(18:13):
had on our Treehouse Plus episode about Netflix buying Warner
Brothers Discovery is the fact that the Netflix bid beat
out Paramount, which they just did their own merger deal
Paramount Skydance thing, and that's run by the Ellison family,
who are big Trump supporters. So it's a real interesting
(18:36):
story across the board. And then it got better because
Paramount has launched a hostile bid to acquire Warner Brothers
Discovery after it lost. It's after the company lost to
Netflix in a high stakes bidding war. What do you
(18:56):
think is gonna happen here, Trey.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well A, you know, they came out over the weekend
and said the Trump administration said they did not see
this deal going through period. Uh So, but one of
the more fascinating theories I heard was that Netflix really
may not want Warner Brothers, but in the time it
(19:24):
takes to do this merger, he said, Netflix is the
number one streamer streamer, Warner Brothers is number three, and
they could basically sideline Warner Brothers for a year and
a half, two years during this merger and long enough
to damage it and get you know, some new subscribers
that would which I can't even fathom, but that it
(19:45):
may be just deploy kind of just to kill Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, just a strategic move, not to actually take over
the company, but to just neoter it for the time
that it takes to go through federal you know, regulator approval,
right and if it if it did pass it, then
Netflix still gets a company that was their biggest competition
in essence. But if they don't, like you just said,
(20:10):
they hamstring it for a year, year and a half,
two years perhaps and then could take advantage in that
in that timeframe. It really is a fascinating thing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, it's fascinating because when you're doing those deals, it's
not like, let's say Netflix went through all the motions
and then at the end of the day it got
turned down whatever You're still talking about probably three to
five hundred million dollars spent in doing the deal. So
it's obviously got to be worth a lot for them
(20:42):
if that's there, you know what they really want, if
they don't care if it goes through or not, if
it just it sidelines them long enough to get new subscribers.
But yeah, it's it's crazy. And then I mean, I
haven't seen I haven't seen the term hostile takeover. It's
like the nineties.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, that's part of why it's exciting. I like, I
almost had to open up the newspaper. I turned on
my computer and went to a news site and the
first thing I see is Paramount launching a hostile bid
to acquire Warner Brothers, and like, oh, this is getting good.
We got a money fight now. And speaking of that,
Paramount said it would offer thirty dollars per share for
(21:23):
the media conglomerate, which owns the Warner Brothers film studio,
the cable channel HBO, streaming service HBO Max, and a
portfolio of cable brands. In a federal securities filing, Paramount
said the hostile bid will be backed in part by
funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, as well as
(21:43):
Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by Jared Kushner, President
trump son in law. So that could be one of
the big reasons why those inside the Trump administration don't
necessarily think the Netflix bid will you know, be the
win here, because well, it's the Ellisons and now you've
got Trump family on this other side, so that could
(22:06):
you know, tilt the scales just a little bit. The
bid comes after Netflix agreed last week to buy a
large part of Warner Brothers discovery studio and streaming assets
for twenty seven point seventy five per share. Netflix's takeover
would not include the Warner owned cable channels, which include
Singing In and TNT, So yeah, this is gonna be
(22:29):
This is gonna be interesting. Warner Brothers board of directors
already approved the deal with Netflix, but Paramounts moved to
go directly to shareholders, a maneuver known in the business
world as a hostile bid, will push what has been
private negotiations into the public realm hmm, this will be
a fun movie slash documentary in a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh, it's I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just a question of which streaming service is gonna carry,
it might tell you how good it's gonna be. H.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Do you remember the movie Barbarians at the Gate. It
was something HBO made James Garner. It was about the
r GR R j R Nimbisco. It was Philip Morris Takeover.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't think I ever saw that. I've heard of it,
but I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A great movie, you know, especially just considering the time
of how something. I mean, I think it started. They
started the bid at and maybe they were buying R
j R. I don't remember, but whatever company they were buying,
I think they started like at seventy dollars a share
and then they got into this big pissing contest where
(23:34):
I think the final winning bid was like one hundred
and twenty dollars a share.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And what and what was what were the companies involved?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
One of them was r GR R j R Nibisco,
and I want to say the other one was like
Philip Morris. It was one of it was food and tobacco.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, that's SIGs and cookies. Man, as a as a
former smoker, I can tell you those two do actually
go well together. I mean, milk and cookies ring supreme,
but throw a little tar in there for after the
milk and cookies, not not necessarily altogether.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, but it's I can't see either one really going through.
I can see I guess I can see Paramount and warn.
I mean because.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Paramount I can I mean, because I didn't realize that
Jared Kushner was involved in this. But you throw in
all the Middle East ties that you know Trump has
in recent years, plus his son in law, that definitely
tilts the scales in the paramount bid direction. Not the
not the least of which is the fact that it's
(24:39):
the paramount bid is also for more money, which the
shareholders will like it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, so is it because the Netflix big didn't include CNN.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It did not, so it's a little bit different. But
I mean, I mean that's another interesting twist as well.
You get to have a member of the Trump family
as an involved an invested owner of CNN, which is
one of Trump's most hated networks. Yeah, there are conflicts
(25:13):
of interest all over this deal.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But at the same time, I mean, hey, the Saudi's
in Middle East money that it's so pervasive that saying
like they're trying to wash their money left right and
sideways from football to you know everything. But you know
the other thing about this is is whenever it goes
(25:36):
through Trump, love him, hate him, whatever, he really has
one more year where he is relevant and then after
the midterms next year he's a lame duck president. I mean,
it's I think it's gonna be. One of the things
that Democrats are really going to have to figure out
is what are they going to do because they've been
(25:58):
basically running on hatred and spy of Trump for ten
years now.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't with the conversation to go too far that direction,
but I do feel like it bears saying that's if
he leaves quietly.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh, he said, I you know, they they started that
thing a while back, and he has never even indicated
that he wants another term.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, it is really, he said. He's like, oh, that's
what the people want. I mean, god man, there was
there he said in interviews before we were like when
he's sitting in the Oval office and they're saying, he said, well,
I legally they say you can't. But but then but
then lots of people are telling me that they that
I could, and that I can, and then maybe I will,
Maybe I won't and then it's he Then he was
out of both sides, so he doesn't confirm nor deny,
(26:47):
therefore leaving the door over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now he was asked and then he was like, no,
I'm not. But he also he loves to torque the media.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Mm hmm, like I'll tell you what we'll find out
in a couple of years what actually happens, because we
really won't know until it actually gets.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's not even possible. I mean, because you couldn't get
a consolational amendment.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
He doesn't care that much about it. No, stop it,
stop stop it. It's not like that, but he doesn't.
There are checks and balances, and a lot of us
(27:30):
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be selfish and talk talk about a major screw up
I had, but I really, really really want to talk
about this story that you sent Trey. Okay, so we
might have time for both. We'll see. But at the
very least, we need to talk about this story because
this is a story of how running errands could land
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you in prison. An Ohio man sent meth to the
bank using a drive through tube during an otherwise routine transaction,
according to Sheriff's so Good in the Buckeye state of Ohio,
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Jason Smith, forty six, was booked on drug related charges.
The underlying incident, according to Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Occurred
December third at a bank in Woodsfield, a small town
located one hundred and twenty miles due east of Columbus.
On the day in question, a bank employees A bank
employee called deputies to report finding a crystal like substance
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consistent with methamphetamine in a baggie that had a companied
a transaction sent through one of the bank's air tubes.
I wonder if there are any questions from the Sheriff's
deputies to the bank teller about how you know what
meth looked like? And your answer and her answer better
have been breaking bad, otherwise she's gonna have a search
warrant on her hands. UH Subsequent testing determined the substance
(30:27):
in the small bag was in fact methamphetamine. Over the
course of the ensuing investigation, authorities determined the defendant had
inadvertently sent the package to the bank through the drive
through while completing an otherwise routine banking transaction. Look, if
you can't look after your own drugs, then you don't
deserve to have them. It's that simple. I mean, being
(30:50):
arrested for it is insult the injury, obviously, but how
do you how do you How does the baggie of
meth somehow get mixed into the deposit slip? Maybe there
was cash. Look, I have not made a physical deposit
at a bank in a very long time, But if
I have a baggie of something, I'm going to notice it.
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It's got a different feeling texture to cash and paper. Also, Also,
when you hit the button and it goes away, it's
gonna make a very noticeable rattling sound, at which point
I might go, oh, no, I just sent my meth.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know how
people did. Like maybe it was in his wallet and
he grabbed some cash to deposit and oops, the baggy
went with it, you know, like some people leave their
IDs in there. That I get.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You're in a hurry, you think you've got the whole
clump of stuff and the IDs in there. But that's
something that's that's a feel of something that's supposed to
be in the tube, A plastic baggie of anything. I
don't think is supposed to be in there. That just
it just seems so weird to me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We are we are there is one thing we are
kind of missing out on. This which is we are
applying trying to apply logic and reason to someone who
smokes meth.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So you think perhaps he might have been a little
high while at the bank.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know, I think that is possible.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I hadn't thought about that. I mean, I hate running
errands too, and I guess if I had drugs around
all the time, I guess that would be a way
to do them.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I mean, you know, it's it's not a drug that
you really think of people, you know at a certain
point being that discreet about.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Although I will say, if you want to knock off
some things on your to do list for the weekend,
smoking a little myth will probably get you through it
a lot faster. I mean, they're not going to be
able to understand any of your handwriting on that deposit
slip at the bank, but by god, you did it
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after the defendant oh sorry. The man was located in
nearby Wayne Township by officers with the state's Department of
Natural Resources. After he was detained, deputies were called and
what the use of a police dog. They recovered additional
suspected drugs and drug related items from his truck. He
was then transported to Monroe County jail, where I imagine
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he's going to be for quite a while. I do
give a lot of credit to the Monroe County Sheriff
Derek Norman. He said in a statement, illegal drugs don't
belong in bank drive throughs. Yeah, share for the year, right,
there got a boy keeping our streets safe and our
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press releases stern.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And you know, maybe next time cash app.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, go digital, bro. There is no possible way you're
going to inadvertently send your meth through cash app or
PayPal or Venmo. That's never going to happen. It'll stay
safely in your pocket or in your button, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And and if people are buying it from you, and
that's why you got this cash, you just have them
put you know, various reasons, you know, tickets, food, whatever,
just make sure they don't go for meth.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
And you're yah. I think it makes a lot more
sense if you're going to deal drugs, whether you're buying, selling, whatever,
do it digitally. It just makes more sense. You can
bump phones and then you can.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Do bots. Yeah, and depending on how well that goes,
you might be able to bump other things.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
Trey Trendholm.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Today.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Speaking of today, we will start with how to spot
an arsonist. A woman was arrested for stabbing a fire
hose while Dallas firefighters battled flames. It's not the traditional
way to spot an arsenist, but it is the new
(01:00):
version and I think it well. If I may beat
a pun it holds water.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. The woman is facing criminal mischief charges yes, and
first degree arson according to Dallas Fire Rescue, who got
more than they bargained for when they responded to this fire.
Dallas police arrested a woman early Friday morning for stabbing
a fire hose while Dallas firefighters were responding to a
(01:27):
house fire. The blade started just before one am, when
all good house fires get started at a house on
Prosperity Avenue in South Dallas. And that will never not
be ironic to me. Prosperity Avenue the name Prosperity Avenue
in South Dallas.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Investigators determined that someone used an unknown heat source to
ignite combustibles in a corner room in the front of
the house. The fire was declared extinguished at one thirty
five am. While Dallas Fire Rescue was extinguishing the fire,
Jemishia Denise Murphy, a thirty seven year old woman from Dallas,
allegedly took a knife to one of the fire hoses
in an attempt to prevent their efforts. She's also believed
(02:10):
to have started the fire. That's some excellent investigative work
right there. That's according to multiple people on scene who
witnessed her admitting to setting the fire as she stabbed
the fire hose. That's got to be one of the
most entertaining admissions of guilt I have ever heard. I
did it, and I'm currently doing it more.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, that's h and you know, pardon the pun, but
I believe the prosecution will be able to poke holes
in the defense whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm proud of you. You one up my terrible pun
from earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
She was later placed under arrest at the scene and
charged with criminal mischief. A charge of first degree arson
will be added to that. According to Dallas Fire Rescue.
Oh Man, that's one of those times where if you're
you're the firefighters, you're like, come on, really. Also, there's
(03:09):
no mention about the owner of the house why she
started the fire, if anyone inside the house was injured
or not, because clearly she had a reason to do this,
and I'm assuming it's because there's you know, she's a
jilted lover and there's some man inside that house that
she is really pissed at.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That are insurance fraud.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Either way, she is really mad at that house or
somebody in it. Something happened, Like, even if it's for
the insurance claim, I don't think in an insurance fraud situation,
you stab the fire hose while the firefighters are battling
the flames while screaming I did it.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, you would at least think, you know, because from
what I read, she stabbed the hose multiple times and
different spots. Uh, you know, if you're gonna do that,
you would think, you know, just one good cut and
get the hell out of there. But evidently that was
(04:14):
not her plan. No.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No, she turned that hose into Swiss cheese. And you're right,
I mean, there's there's a sneakier way to do it.
If nothing else, like wander around to the back of
the truck where the hose is coming off, just go
a little and just poke poke it there, or perhaps
if it's plugged into it, you know, the fire hydrant
in front of the house, if there was one. For
all we know, she had knocked out over before they
(04:37):
even got there. Who knows what she did before they
got there, but some more conspicuous place to, you know,
sabotage the firefighting efforts on the on the house fire
that you started. On the other hand, there is one
other aspect to this. We have not considered one other possibility.
(04:58):
There might have been a spider, fair you know, and
she was not about to let that. She was not
about to let that house or any spiders escape it.
So therefore she poked all the holes in the fire hose.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
One spider, I'll say, a little excessive, but if there
are multiple spiders, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like you saw the movie Arachnophobia, right, yes, yeah, great
movie by the way, mm hmm, terrible movie for ten
year old me to see, especially at the Costelindo Theater.
May at rest in peace with my good friend Eric.
At the time, we played soccer together and even though
there was no one else in the theater there was,
I mean it was mostly empty. We still sat like
(05:44):
at the in the front row, which was another horrible
mistake because then it actually felt like the spiders were
jumping on you, because there were quite a few of
the jump scares, or the spiders jumped like at the
camera lens. Yeah, mistakes were made that day. I couldn't
do right now. I've got a lamp next to me
with a little poll string to turn it off and
on see watch huh. Yeah. I don't know if you
(06:08):
remember this in the movie Iraq Noophobia, But in the movie,
like an old lady sticks her hand under the lamp
chain and spider drops down, bites and kills her. Oh yeah,
every time I pull a pole chain on a lamp,
I think of that movie. Every time I go into
a barn, I look up to make sure there's no
(06:29):
freakishly large spider web sprawled across the top, along with
some people rolled up in there. Every single time I
pick up a thing of bananas at the store, I
check them for spiders, all because of the movie Iraq Noophobia.
Every single time I get I can go on. Every
single time I put on some slippers. I checked the
(06:50):
slippers to make sure there's no deadly spider hiding in
the toe to get me like it got that old man.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, I never really thought about it, but that would
have been a hell of a movie for.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Three D, outstanding, imax, holy.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And you would think. I wonder if it with technology today,
they can go back and you know, make it into
a three D film, because that that that would just
absolutely scare the crap out of you.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Absolutely, it would. That would uh. And here's the thing
I don't. I don't want anyone to remake it. I
think it's already a classic. It's a wonderful film. It's
just you know, it's as perfect as it needs to be.
But in order to get that full three D effect,
if we had to redo it, I'd be okay, as
long as you remake it as closely as possible to
(07:40):
the original, and that includes bringing John Goodman back and
Jeff Daniels to reprise their roles.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So you want a sequel, No, I mean maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I mean, look, sequels have broken our hearts left and right.
But there are some great ones, and we've talked about
them on the show before, including the ones where you
know the sequel was better than the movie that came
out prior. I have such high hopes for Spaceball's too,
that if that lands the way that Top Gun Maverick
(08:13):
landed no pun intended there, then it might open the
door for some other possibilities. But that's everything that Hollywood's
doing these days, is like they're just rolling the dice,
trying to, you know, hit the jackpot again. But I
think you're right. When an Imax three D version of Arachnophobia, God,
that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Spaceballs, I have faith in just I have faith in
mel Brooks that he would not be making this if
he didn't think it was a worthy because, I mean,
he's got an abe. I'm sure he knows this that
there's a good chance this will be his last film.
I mean he's going to be one hundred when it releases.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So, And I'm a fan of Josh gadd He's the
one that believe wrote the script or at least worked
on it with others. He's starring in it. I think
he's I think his role is son of maug Yes,
And I have a lot of I have a lot
of faith in him. Well, I have a lot of
hope in him. We'll see if the how the faith
goes when the movie actually comes out. But again, I
(09:19):
love your idea of doing an Arachnophobia, you know, three
D God, that would be good and John Golden. John
Goodman is a treasure.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He is a phenomenal actor that can play so many
different styles of roles. But him as Delbert the not
the Executioner, Exterminator, the exterminator, slash executioner whatever, he was
so good in that, so good I I I occasionally
(09:53):
ask our bug guy, our exterminator that comes to our house.
He looks nothing like John Goodman. I think his name
is Angel and I've asked him before if you've seen
arachnophob and he's like, no, what is that? I'm like, God, damn,
you're young. I said you should see it because there
aren't any real Hollywood there are any really are any
movies that Champion the Exterminator quite as well as Arachnophobia?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Did? I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's basically either that or Steve's on in Saving Silverman
when he gets face attacked by a wreck.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I forget. Have you ever watched The Righteous Jim Stones?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Not all of it, but we've seen some episodes.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That's John Goodman. Is is a treasure mm hm.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
As a quick aside, So over the weekend, Tara and
I watched Santa Claus, the movie you remember that, Tim Allen, No,
that's the Santa Claus. No, this one is Santa Claus,
the movie that came out in the eighties. I'm of
course brain farting the names of the actors, like the
(11:04):
guy that played Santa I forget his name, and then
it also had what's his name?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We played Arthur Dudley Moore.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Dudley Moore, thank you. I don't know why I was
trying to call it Dusty, and I know that's not
it because I don't think there's ever been an English Dusty.
But Dudley Moore as one of the elves, and John
Lithgow as the bad guy, the head of BZ Toys,
where they're at the Senate Subcommittee and they're breaking open
his toys and one of them is a panda and
outcomes sand and glass and nails stuffing in the panda.
(11:43):
John John Lithgow is another one of those guys. He's
such a phenomenal actor, can do so many different things.
It's worth rewatching that movie. Just for him. But yeah,
uh so that made me think of it as far
as actors that are, so I'll have to I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I don't remember that movie, but I just.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It is a hardcore kids movie from the eighties. It's pure,
it's pure Christmas type stuff. I almost shocked it's only
got like sixty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well pretty much anything Dudley More I have always liked.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So yeah, oh yeah, yeah, so you got uh so
Dudley Morris patch John Lithgow was busy with his glass
and nails stuffed toys. David Huddleston is the actor that
played Santa Claus. You'll recognize him, uh when you see him.
And then Burgess merediths really plays a really old elf.
(12:38):
This is not Burgess Meredith from Grumpy Old Men. This
is not the Grumpy old Elf. Although now that I
now that I'm thinking it, that might be a fun
movie as well, but we can't have it because Burgess
is long pasted. I did though, as he comes, it's
been a while since we had seen Santa Claus the movies.
So when this early, when the scene happens when Burgess mayored,
(12:58):
this character comes out of this ancient elf. I just
keep I can hear is him doing the really nasty
jokes and rumpy old like that is not These are
not jokes for a kids movie, you know what?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I would wat trumpy old elf though, Oh grumpy old elves.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
I love roller.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Coasters and it's been something like I think I started
in my little portion of my life when I was younger,
I was scared of high speeds or turns or twisters
or anything like that. But as I've gotten older, probably
from my teenage years all the way now I love
roller coasters. I love the speed, I love the adrenaline
(14:15):
that it gives you, the scaredness of it going upside down.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I love roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So then are you excited about the new roller coaster
coming to six Flags in twenty twenty six, Tormento Rampaging Run.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I would definitely be excited to see how it looks.
I mean, because I heard this on the news that
they were I think, tearing down another section of a ride.
I don't know what ride they're tearing down.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I think it was Shockwave that they took down, and
this one's going to go in that.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Spot, okay, I mean, and that was a I mean
I remember as a kid driving by the highway always
looking at Shockwave and watching the roller coaster going on
as I was driving down the road, you know, because
I was a passenger obviously, so I was always watching.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It, going, oh, look at the fuck? You know, but yeah,
that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
They got to keep up dating fresher items all the time, right,
because people get numb to the old rides, and I
understand it. It's kind of nostalgic though to me, Like
you know, that Shockwave was that was a cool I
can't tell you how many times I rode that ride.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, I mean, like we talked about it on the show.
That was an iconic ride, not just for when you're
at the park and you ride it, but it was
iconic just as part of the skyline of six flags
driving by on I thirty. It's one of the ones
you saw every single time with the loops.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This one's going to take its place, and it's also
going to stand out because this is big. It's a
three hundred and nine foot dive coaster that has you
dangling over the edge and of course it pauses at
the top so you get you know, good and freaked
out before it drops you into oblivion. I'm glad you're excited.
I will not be writing that thing though.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Have you ever been to the Sphere in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That's exactly what you're describing to me. They have that
roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That hangs off the top of the Sphere yep, and
it literally just rops and then it stops here before
you obviously you fall Olivian.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But that's sick. Sounds like exactly what this is going
to be like.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, terrifying. And it's a great name. Tormento.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Tormento, hear you, that's exactly.
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on between Paramount and Netflix. I don't know why. I mean, okay,
(17:29):
I do know. I don't know why I do. I'm
very excited about this. This is fascinating. So we talked
about the Netflix bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery on
our Treehouse Plus episode Treehouse Plus episode I believe that
was one O seven, which you can get when you
subscribe to our Patreon Patreon dot com slash Treehouse On air, Trey,
(17:51):
you and I talked about that in pretty good depth
because it is interesting. It's a massive deal that can
change the landscape of not just where and what you stream,
but the entire entertainment industry. Okay, not to mention the
political implications of it, because that deal would have to
get through federal regulators. And part of the discussion we
(18:13):
had on our Treehouse Plus episode about Netflix buying Warner
Brothers Discovery is the fact that the Netflix bid beat
out Paramount, which they just did their own merger deal
Paramount Skydance thing, and that's run by the Ellison family,
who are big Trump supporters. So it's a real interesting
(18:36):
story across the board. And then it got better because
Paramount has launched a hostile bid to acquire Warner Brothers
Discovery after it lost. It's after the company lost to
Netflix in a high stakes bidding war. What do you
(18:56):
think is gonna happen here, Trey.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well A, you know, they came out over the weekend
and said the Trump administration said they did not see
this deal going through period. Uh So, but one of
the more fascinating theories I heard was that Netflix really
may not want Warner Brothers, but in the time it
(19:24):
takes to do this merger, he said, Netflix is the
number one streamer streamer, Warner Brothers is number three, and
they could basically sideline Warner Brothers for a year and
a half, two years during this merger and long enough
to damage it and get you know, some new subscribers
that would which I can't even fathom, but that it
(19:45):
may be just deploy kind of just to kill Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, just a strategic move, not to actually take over
the company, but to just neoter it for the time
that it takes to go through federal you know, regulator approval,
right and if it if it did pass it, then
Netflix still gets a company that was their biggest competition
in essence. But if they don't, like you just said,
(20:10):
they hamstring it for a year, year and a half,
two years perhaps and then could take advantage in that
in that timeframe. It really is a fascinating thing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Well, it's fascinating because when you're doing those deals, it's
not like, let's say Netflix went through all the motions
and then at the end of the day it got
turned down whatever You're still talking about probably three to
five hundred million dollars spent in doing the deal. So
it's obviously got to be worth a lot for them
(20:42):
if that's there, you know what they really want, if
they don't care if it goes through or not, if
it just it sidelines them long enough to get new subscribers.
But yeah, it's it's crazy. And then I mean, I
haven't seen I haven't seen the term hostile takeover. It's
like the nineties.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, that's part of why it's exciting. I like, I
almost had to open up the newspaper. I turned on
my computer and went to a news site and the
first thing I see is Paramount launching a hostile bid
to acquire Warner Brothers, and like, oh, this is getting good.
We got a money fight now. And speaking of that,
Paramount said it would offer thirty dollars per share for
(21:23):
the media conglomerate, which owns the Warner Brothers film studio,
the cable channel HBO, streaming service HBO Max, and a
portfolio of cable brands. In a federal securities filing, Paramount
said the hostile bid will be backed in part by
funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, as well as
(21:43):
Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by Jared Kushner, President
trump son in law. So that could be one of
the big reasons why those inside the Trump administration don't
necessarily think the Netflix bid will you know, be the
win here, because well, it's the Ellisons and now you've
got Trump family on this other side, so that could
(22:06):
you know, tilt the scales just a little bit. The
bid comes after Netflix agreed last week to buy a
large part of Warner Brothers discovery studio and streaming assets
for twenty seven point seventy five per share. Netflix's takeover
would not include the Warner owned cable channels, which include
Singing In and TNT, So yeah, this is gonna be
(22:29):
This is gonna be interesting. Warner Brothers board of directors
already approved the deal with Netflix, but Paramounts moved to
go directly to shareholders, a maneuver known in the business
world as a hostile bid, will push what has been
private negotiations into the public realm hmm, this will be
a fun movie slash documentary in a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Oh, it's I mean, it's.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just a question of which streaming service is gonna carry,
it might tell you how good it's gonna be. H.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Do you remember the movie Barbarians at the Gate. It
was something HBO made James Garner. It was about the
r GR R j R Nimbisco. It was Philip Morris Takeover.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't think I ever saw that. I've heard of it,
but I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A great movie, you know, especially just considering the time
of how something. I mean, I think it started. They
started the bid at and maybe they were buying R
j R. I don't remember, but whatever company they were buying,
I think they started like at seventy dollars a share
and then they got into this big pissing contest where
(23:34):
I think the final winning bid was like one hundred
and twenty dollars a share.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And what and what was what were the companies involved?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
One of them was r GR R j R Nibisco,
and I want to say the other one was like
Philip Morris. It was one of it was food and tobacco.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, that's SIGs and cookies. Man, as a as a
former smoker, I can tell you those two do actually
go well together. I mean, milk and cookies ring supreme,
but throw a little tar in there for after the
milk and cookies, not not necessarily altogether.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, but it's I can't see either one really going through.
I can see I guess I can see Paramount and warn.
I mean because.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Paramount I can I mean, because I didn't realize that
Jared Kushner was involved in this. But you throw in
all the Middle East ties that you know Trump has
in recent years, plus his son in law, that definitely
tilts the scales in the paramount bid direction. Not the
not the least of which is the fact that it's
(24:39):
the paramount bid is also for more money, which the
shareholders will like it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, so is it because the Netflix big didn't include CNN.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It did not, so it's a little bit different. But
I mean, I mean that's another interesting twist as well.
You get to have a member of the Trump family
as an involved an invested owner of CNN, which is
one of Trump's most hated networks. Yeah, there are conflicts
(25:13):
of interest all over this deal.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But at the same time, I mean, hey, the Saudi's
in Middle East money that it's so pervasive that saying
like they're trying to wash their money left right and
sideways from football to you know everything. But you know
the other thing about this is is whenever it goes
(25:36):
through Trump, love him, hate him, whatever, he really has
one more year where he is relevant and then after
the midterms next year he's a lame duck president. I mean,
it's I think it's gonna be. One of the things
that Democrats are really going to have to figure out
is what are they going to do because they've been
(25:58):
basically running on hatred and spy of Trump for ten
years now.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't with the conversation to go too far that direction,
but I do feel like it bears saying that's if
he leaves quietly.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Oh, he said, I you know, they they started that
thing a while back, and he has never even indicated
that he wants another term.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, it is really, he said. He's like, oh, that's
what the people want. I mean, god man, there was
there he said in interviews before we were like when
he's sitting in the Oval office and they're saying, he said, well,
I legally they say you can't. But but then but
then lots of people are telling me that they that
I could, and that I can, and then maybe I will,
Maybe I won't and then it's he Then he was
out of both sides, so he doesn't confirm nor deny,
(26:47):
therefore leaving the door over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now he was asked and then he was like, no,
I'm not. But he also he loves to torque the media.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Mm hmm, like I'll tell you what we'll find out
in a couple of years what actually happens, because we
really won't know until it actually gets.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It's not even possible. I mean, because you couldn't get
a consolational amendment.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
He doesn't care that much about it. No, stop it,
stop stop it. It's not like that, but he doesn't.
There are checks and balances, and a lot of us
(27:30):
are okay with that as long as it's for our benefit.
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be selfish and talk talk about a major screw up
I had, but I really, really really want to talk
about this story that you sent Trey. Okay, so we
might have time for both. We'll see. But at the
very least, we need to talk about this story because
this is a story of how running errands could land
(29:21):
you in prison. An Ohio man sent meth to the
bank using a drive through tube during an otherwise routine transaction,
according to Sheriff's so Good in the Buckeye state of Ohio,
(29:42):
Jason Smith, forty six, was booked on drug related charges.
The underlying incident, according to Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Occurred
December third at a bank in Woodsfield, a small town
located one hundred and twenty miles due east of Columbus.
On the day in question, a bank employees A bank
employee called deputies to report finding a crystal like substance
(30:03):
consistent with methamphetamine in a baggie that had a companied
a transaction sent through one of the bank's air tubes.
I wonder if there are any questions from the Sheriff's
deputies to the bank teller about how you know what
meth looked like? And your answer and her answer better
have been breaking bad, otherwise she's gonna have a search
warrant on her hands. UH Subsequent testing determined the substance
(30:27):
in the small bag was in fact methamphetamine. Over the
course of the ensuing investigation, authorities determined the defendant had
inadvertently sent the package to the bank through the drive
through while completing an otherwise routine banking transaction. Look, if
you can't look after your own drugs, then you don't
deserve to have them. It's that simple. I mean, being
(30:50):
arrested for it is insult the injury, obviously, but how
do you how do you How does the baggie of
meth somehow get mixed into the deposit slip? Maybe there
was cash. Look, I have not made a physical deposit
at a bank in a very long time, But if
I have a baggie of something, I'm going to notice it.
(31:13):
It's got a different feeling texture to cash and paper. Also, Also,
when you hit the button and it goes away, it's
gonna make a very noticeable rattling sound, at which point
I might go, oh, no, I just sent my meth.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know how
people did. Like maybe it was in his wallet and
he grabbed some cash to deposit and oops, the baggy
went with it, you know, like some people leave their
IDs in there. That I get.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You're in a hurry, you think you've got the whole
clump of stuff and the IDs in there. But that's
something that's that's a feel of something that's supposed to
be in the tube, A plastic baggie of anything. I
don't think is supposed to be in there. That just
it just seems so weird to me.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
We are we are there is one thing we are
kind of missing out on. This which is we are
applying trying to apply logic and reason to someone who
smokes meth.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So you think perhaps he might have been a little
high while at the bank.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You know, I think that is possible.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I hadn't thought about that. I mean, I hate running
errands too, and I guess if I had drugs around
all the time, I guess that would be a way
to do them.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I mean, you know, it's it's not a drug that
you really think of people, you know at a certain
point being that discreet about.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Although I will say, if you want to knock off
some things on your to do list for the weekend,
smoking a little myth will probably get you through it
a lot faster. I mean, they're not going to be
able to understand any of your handwriting on that deposit
slip at the bank, but by god, you did it
(33:03):
after the defendant oh sorry. The man was located in
nearby Wayne Township by officers with the state's Department of
Natural Resources. After he was detained, deputies were called and
what the use of a police dog. They recovered additional
suspected drugs and drug related items from his truck. He
was then transported to Monroe County jail, where I imagine
(33:25):
he's going to be for quite a while. I do
give a lot of credit to the Monroe County Sheriff
Derek Norman. He said in a statement, illegal drugs don't
belong in bank drive throughs. Yeah, share for the year, right,
there got a boy keeping our streets safe and our
(33:47):
press releases stern.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And you know, maybe next time cash app.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, go digital, bro. There is no possible way you're
going to inadvertently send your meth through cash app or
PayPal or Venmo. That's never going to happen. It'll stay
safely in your pocket or in your button, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
And and if people are buying it from you, and
that's why you got this cash, you just have them
put you know, various reasons, you know, tickets, food, whatever,
just make sure they don't go for meth.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
And you're yah. I think it makes a lot more
sense if you're going to deal drugs, whether you're buying, selling, whatever,
do it digitally. It just makes more sense. You can
bump phones and then you can.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Do bots. Yeah, and depending on how well that goes,
you might be able to bump other things.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
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