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Speaker 1 (00:25):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan ol Malley along
with Trey Trendholme and Raj Sharma. Happy to have you
with us today. That's a smooth fade there, Tray.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know why. I have no idea why. I
just hit it off.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You've just you've just had it with William Orbit. You're like,
that's it. I've reached my limit. It's been over twenty
years and I'm done. It's more like fire and no mercy.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And that's what happens when you take a week off.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It really does. You have to remember. You have to
remember how to do things. You have to remember how
to do your job. It's hard. Luckily, the digital side
of things that we operate in now was a lot
more forgiving because most people on this side have no
idea what they're doing. And when you come from the
side that has to be buttoned up and tight and
doing certain things, if you get away from it for
(01:30):
a little while, you're like you walk into the room,
You're like, what is this place? I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
God, I just don't learn. I just don't learn new things.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know what, there's something to be said about sticking
your head in the sand. Well, thank you for joining
us inside the treehouse. The rest of the show will
go less abruptly but still quite hilarious. So hilarious, in fact,
we're going to make fun of Trey, but then make
fun of the rest of the planet. Okay, Trey, We're
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going to start out making fun of you, ever so briefly,
because of your courage to admit to us inside the treehouse.
How much of a girl you are when it comes
to your Starbucks orders?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've gotten less girly, but yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What is your what is your current go to when
you go to Starbucks?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Vanilla sweet cream? Cold brew?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay? What was it prior to.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
This cinnamon dulce latte?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Who shamed you? Who shamed you into this darker, richer
cold brew coming off of the dulce thing?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This really doesn't help my argument less calories?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Does your husband get one as well?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's more along the lines I was thinking, Yeah, he
just gets a straight coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He's far more of a man.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, at least now we know who the top and bottom.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Is, even Daisy. That gives me a you know questionable
eye when my coffee.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Order, there's never been a doubt that tray's a power bottom.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Come on, Trey likes to drive up. See I told
you it's gonna get hilarious.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, that is a that is an that's an that's
an order, buddy.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh, it is an order.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Like like like when Trey walks into Starbucks and they say, hello, sir,
may I take your order? Tray says you get damn right,
or you will. Trey turns into the drill sergeant from
Full Metal Jacket.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Now even but even my cole brew order, you know
it's actually it's a vanilla sweet cream cle brew with
one pump of simple syrup and four packets of Stevia.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh no, there's more than want pump in their tray.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
With a with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And when you order it, do they look over your
shoulder to see if there's a soccer mom behind you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I do it through the app so I can put
put on a disguise and running there and get my
order disguise.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So even you're ashamed.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, if your order at Starbucks involves pumps and sprinkles,
you're due on the main stage.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You are cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We haven't even gotten to the main story yet, we're already,
you know, getting some good stuff. All right. So the
reason why I asked Tray, and I'm so glad that
I did, about your current Starbucks order, is you're not
a You're not a PSL person, right, You're not a
pumpkin spice latte lady.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No, I don't have uggs.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah well yeah, yeah, yeah, wait, wait till the temperature drives.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
A PSL girly so sad.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I can't fight him on this. I am a bit
of a basic bitch. I like a good pumpkin spice Lotte, Wow,
but not this much. Are you into pumpkin spice?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean really, do you really love pumpkin spice? Like
searching for pumpkin spice underwear level of love? Because some
people are. According to Google, Google says searches for pumpkin
spice just hit an all time high, which is saying
something considering the PSL's been around for over twenty years now.
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Google says PSL searches always peak in September, but now
people are searching for pumpkin spice stuff more than ever.
Some examples pumpkin spice underwear and my personal favorite, pumpkin
spice toilet paper. For the record, I don't know if
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either of those things exist, but Google is saying people
are searching for it, and I'm willing to believe that
those items do in fact exist. But of all the tawdry,
horrific things I have typed into Google over the years,
I do not want to enter in. Is there such
a thing as pumpkin spice toilet paper?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Why would.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Why would anyone want scented toilet paper?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well? I can think of a couple of reasons, two
of which cannot be listed on your Starbucks order trade.
I mean, I did I did hear? I did hear
Chris Evans call it a cinnamon ring in the Deadpool
and Wolverine movie.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It seems like that'd be like a moist tallet.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Though that response made him quit the show.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I don't know if he lost his Internet connection he
just finally had a point of shame.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But I just found that there is pumpkin spice toilet
paper available on Amazon. It is eleven seventy five. Yeah,
And or you can do a pumpkin spice Kleenex, you know,
for the for the cleanup that you know that reminds
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you of fault. So that was it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You just dropped out in shame.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Dan, Actually it wasn't even me. It was it was
my prent amp. I guess it didn't I didn't like
something so it decided to power flash on me.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes, I was just telling Troy. I found on Amazon
there's pumpkin spice toilet paper. It is eleven dollars and
seventy five cents per roll. And there's also pumpkin spice Kleenex.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
See that makes sense. I'm gonna be smelling that for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, nice other things to do with Kleenex, you know,
when you want to clean up but it's still fall.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Look, some people really take you know, cents quite far,
and in this case, into some interesting territories.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, this is a we need to start doing this.
We need to start selling pumpkin spice toilet paper for
eleven seventy five or roll. I don't know how you
get sent into spoilt paper, but.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I don't either, and I'm guessing, like I'm look, I
think there's a lab in either Korea or Japan that
tests these types of things. Like there's even a museum
where you can go and smell different animals butts, Like
you don't actually smell the butt, it's supposedly like they
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replicate the scent of say a rhinoceros ass, and they
put it in a little smelling thing that you can
stick your face in at this museum. Okay, I mean
I don't see any need for that, but but.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
People people go to it apparently.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, I've seen video of people doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Wow, Dan, I found something you will be quite interested in.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Pumpkin spice.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Pumpkin spice lube, slick and tasty.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I believe that'd be a good episode title.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
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(13:32):
talking about the twenty things that we all experienced as
jen X growing up that would absolutely destroy kids of today.
And we're going to go through a few more of those.
But first, when I jumped on today, Trey, did I
hear you say you were at the dentist recently?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yes? I had a root canal and temporary crown last
week and then the temporary crown was not sitting right,
so I was back there this morning, Uh getting it
yikes the bite lord, because I've been basically had a
toothache for three days.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Like I guess you and I are a dental twins,
because I too went to the dentist this morning, and
since mine took a little bit longer, hit to push
back recording time because they got in there and they said.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Holy.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
What do you do? What do you what are you eating?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Uh? I have periodontal disease. So at this point it
doesn't even matter what it doesn't even matter what I eat.
So that's that's my thing.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, I gotcha. There's a genetic thing.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It is predominantly a genetic thing, which is really fun
for someone like me who's adopted and doesn't know Jack
Squat about his biological family. So when the dentist or
the periodontist says, do you know if anyone in your family,
I don't know anyone in my family. Don't ask me
about family history. It's too it's it's just as tender
as my gums.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Somewhere in Oklahoma is just a village of toothless people.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well that's not just somewhere. Although since I am in
Cape Cod right now, when they asked me, they're like, so,
do you have family that It's like, I'm adopted, so
I don't really know. But since they're all from Oklahoma,
we can make assumptions. So I don't even know at
this point if one's worse than the other, because I've
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while I've only ever had one cavity. That was back
when I was like five or six, when I first
went to the dentist, and I've never had a root
canal or anything. But since I got the periodontal stuff,
if you don't do certain things with it, then eventually
you're just gonna lose all your teeth. It's just a
matter of when. But all the horror stories I've heard
about root canals and things, I'm not sure if there's
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one over the other, I would take Trey.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
The truth of the matter is root canals. I mean,
it's not a fun way to spend a couple hours,
but it's it's not awful.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, there's a reason why there's no strippers named Periu.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah. I mean, especially with modern you know, it's not anesthesia,
but numbing medicine and everything, the pain blockers. It's it's
very awkward to feel someone have a metal file up
in your the bone.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And uh no, sorry, I've had I've had two different
oral surgeries where they had to take teeth out because
jokes aside. I actually have a diagnosed small mouth. So
when I had orthodonics put in, they had to pull
four permanent teeth to make room to move teeth around.
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So those four teeth plus wisdom teeth that had to
be taken out. I'm already down eighth.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm I'm like I had actually my orthodontos pulled too many,
because I think I had. I think I had four
permanent and three baby teeth pulled when I when I
was starting to get braces, and then and then all
four of my wisdom teeth because they had to be
sectioned out. Yeah, you and I've got a tooth. Technically
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in the roof of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Your dentist sounds like Doc Brown and Back to the
Future three just throwing stuff around in the shop.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But we're more twins than anything else, Dan, because I
have genetic peridonal disease yay, So I have to go
in and get the deep cleanings and all that stuff.
And yeah, I had to have my wisdom teeth. Weren't
even affecting like how my teeth were placed. They just
were like, you still have them if you didn't know that.
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So they pulled those out, and then I broke one,
like there was a cavity in one up here, so
they took that one out, and then this one back here.
They had to I broke it or it just broke, So.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's not all age related. So the periodontis that I
went to today. She was very nice. She did give
me a very backhand, did a young millennial compliment. She
was like, yeah, you have an advanced periodontal disease, honestly,
and she's looking at me. She's like, you're not that old, right.
She's like, she looks up and she sees on my
chart forty five. She's like, you're forty five. You don't
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even look forty five. So, on one hand, I appreciate it.
On the other hand, she also thinks forty five is
really freaking old, and so she wanted to point that out.
Her exact words were, you don't look that old. I'm like,
oh that stings woman.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
When she's when she's dictating her notes later, she's like,
forty five year old male advanced periodonal disease didn't look
like a meth head at.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
All, not at all, not one bit, as the tip
of her pen clings against the hoop of her septum ring.
So thank you for thinking I don't look my age,
but also thanks for slamming forty five year olds you
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don't look that old. Well God damn it, Denise. Anyway,
yay dentists, stuff got to hate the dentist. I really, really,
really hate the dentist, and that's part of the reason
why I have some of the problems I do today.
And all you want to know my origin story at
the dentist really quick. My very first trip to the
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dentist at age five, when I got the hook, you know,
the hook I got that hooked in the roof of
my mouth. I didn't, actually the dental hygienist did. So
that was my first introduction to oral health, was getting
hooked in the roof of a mouth like a bass.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I have the problems I do because when I was
in my early twenties, I went to a dentist and
he did not believe me when I told him I
had a really high threshold. It takes a lot to
deaden my mouth, like when they did this, like it
took five shots of stuff too dead to where they
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could work on it. And he didn't, and he went
drilling into my tooth and I came out of that
chair reaching for him. Yeah you did, and uh. And
then I didn't go back to the dentist for years
and years and years and uh. And actually I've always
I've always taken good care of even especially when I dipped.
I was always very conscious of it, so I'd always brush,
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floss everything, but ill ground my teeth and that's what
caused a lot of my problems.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So yeah, I'll tell the dentist straight up. If you
hurt me, I will hurt you back. So let's we're
going into this relationship on equal footing.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
M I actually I go to the dentist now that
I went by. I went to text A and emmdental
school because you can get really cheap dental work done there.
And uh, the guy that was I was his patient,
he was the student. I have now followed him since
he has graduated because I liked him so much.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Man, it's amazing. How like, if you've had bad dental
experiences and you find a good situation, we will hold
on to you and love you and cuddle you until
we die.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I I followed him, yo, Doctor sweps with McKinney. Drove
it to McKinney, went to Mesquite, drove to Mosquite. Now
luckily he's back in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh you drove Mesquite. He must be good. Well.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, the doctor also knew where to go for the
good business because he's like I could stay in McKinney
and retire at sixty five like most normal dentists. Or
I can go to Mesquite and retire and have three
beach houses by forty.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, but I mean I thought I thought most Dennis
liked to work on people that have teeth as opposed.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
To joke's on you. You can still charge the same for
a cleaning, even if the teeth are phantoms.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Dennis, for the most part, cash business. Eh, And I
doubt the dental insurance and Mesquite is a booming business.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Delta Dental
pulled out of their decades.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Ago like a meth head's teeth.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh god, it do'll just fall out? Or maybe they're
just burned out. I'm not really sure how that works.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, it's just it's it's called mouth rot, is the
I believe the technical term for it they just brought away.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh for for the meth teeth, not with our perio
periodontal disease. That's correct, because because if that's what they
call it in the break room, I'm glad they've kept
that term away from me.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You see that guy this morning, the forty five year old.
It looked good for his age with all the mouth rot.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But you know what that is, I don't care how
like how a girl is she has bad teeth, can't
do it.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, that's that's the funny thing with periodontal disease is
that like Raj and I don't necessarily have bad teeth.
I mean, I've got a couple of stragglers that you know,
the uh that wearing my retainers might have helped, but
I just got tired of after a while. Otherwise, it's
not like if I smile, I don't look like Jaws
or anything like. I don't look like I've been chewing
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on hot glass, meth pipes or anything. It's just all
the hidden stuff up in there. That's that's the grossness.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, oh Dan, I've never looked at your mouth and
was like I want to be in there.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
But the important thing is Tore, is that you've never
looked at it and thought you didn't is.
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like and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Today twenty things
that would destroy kids today that we all experienced growing
up on the Treehouse plus episode that came out yesterday.
We covered the first I believe eight of them, So
now we're going to go through the next few, starting
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with No. Number nine. This would destroy kids today, but
we lived through it. Being trapped in a car with
both parents smoking cigarettes right here.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah I did not. Yep, I did not have that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, you had smart, responsible parents, yes.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, smoking and drinking, Yeah, because what goes better with
a pall mall than a good seven and seven?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
At least that's what my grandfather would tell you. There
was one of the There was a when I after
my parents had split up. So I was in town
to visit my dad, my sister, and my grandfather, and
my grandfather was taking me to the airport to fly
back to Dallas. Right, so he has to drive the
forty miles from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to Tulsa, Oklahoma to the
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quote unquote International Airport to put me on a puddle
jumper back to love Field in Dallas. Well, I guess
my flight was leaving later late, late enough in the
day that he could enjoy his seven and seven happy
hour before driving me to the airport. Well, he got
a little too carried away, so about halfway between Bartlesville
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and Tulsa on Highway seventy five, he had to pull
over to the shoulder and take a take a take
a whiskey nap.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I loved this man.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Surprisingly, he lived at the age of eighty three, was
on kidney dialysis for many, many years. But man, he
kicked it.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, that is a that is I didn't have. I
didn't have to experience any of those things. So number
nine is not something I e.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
My dad especially could somehow manage to have a cigarette
a drink and still reach back there and hit me.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh yeah, I mean it was it's that third hand
that you don't know that they got. But yeah, being
trapped the car with both parents smoking cigarettes, a's absolutely
something kids today would not be able to handle. And
if it was cold, out. That means the windows might
not even come down a crack, So you're just well
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all that secondhand and joy I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Don't forget the cars back then had the little that
little front vent on the windows where you know that
was supposed to be the smoking window. Didn't really work
that well.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But yeah, yeah, my family wasn't fancy enough to have
that add on.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But yeah, I mean I remember the ash trays in
the car and the car lighter like that was all
utilized by I mean, you had friends that parents smokes.
Maybe I was in a car once or twice with
people that smoked.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, but you didn't live with it the way we did.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, And amazingly, you know, seat belts were literally belts.
They went across your waist. There was there was no
chest strap, there was.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
No high falutin chest strap. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I remember I was my like from talking about the
seatbelt when my dad would go on like long road
trips for work, like I was his like I was
his buddy, I was his co pilot. So I would
just stand next to him and put my arm on
it while he was driving. And the seatbolt was if
he if there was a sudden stop. He just put
his arm yeah out and that was that was the
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original seat That was the original seat belt.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, catching a parental arm bar was the seventies and
eighties seat belt. Yes, and here's the thing. They didn't
keep it on you lovingly throughout the entire drive. No,
that thing only came out. Wouldn't need it.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So that meant in essence, you were just being clotheslined
by your parent. But it kept you out of the
front windshield. I mean, sure, you look like you look
like a Steven Segal victim and out for justice, but
you're not through the windshield. So yeah. Number nine, kids
today would not be able to handle being trapped in
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a car with both parents smoking cigarettes, unless, of course,
the kid was in the back vaping. Then the whole
family could just do it together. Number ten. Nothing was
on demand. Nothing. If you wanted to watch something on TV,
you had to make sure it was on at that time,
and if it was five minutes into the show, there
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was no backing up. There was no Not only was
there no on demand, there was no DVR when we
were kids, so you couldn't even reverse anything or pre
record anything if you wanted to watch something you had
to want to watch it. You had to be there
when it aired in real time.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Or later on. You had to be a fucking engineer
to know how to program a VCR.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That's also true gen X. Gen X all qualifies for
a minor in engineering.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, I mean my dad did. My dad like read
the manual like he was that guy, so like he
could do the VCR to where like it recorded four
hours or whatever it was. Yeah, we could set it
to record from so if we missed an episode of Dallas,
oh we did not, We got to see that later
on that night.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm going to use that as a segue into one
of the later things on this list. Number nineteen, stressing
over whether you'd get fined two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars by the FBI for copying a VHS tape, which
my dad did absolutely one thousand percent. Not just recording
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something that's airing on TV on the VCR, but no,
he would grab the VCR out of his bedroom, yep,
bring it into the living room, daisy chain it to
the VCR attached to the floor model television, so we
could watch a movie on one and record it at
the same time on the other. We had our own
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many Blockbuster in our house.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Oh yeah, oh so did we.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I mean, if they were to find us, like per
event of recording a VHS tape, my family would be
billions in debt.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So my dad and your dad would be sharing to sell. Yes,
the same thing. It was the exact same thing, like
every every Bollywood movie that came out, because you hadn't
know where that because they popped the little tab on
the side off and you had all you had to
do was cover that up with a little tape tape.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, it really was. And that was standard operating procedure.
I mean we're talking in one weekend, we'd go through
three to five movies. So on Friday night we'd hit
the video store on the way home, and by Sunday
afternoon we may have gone through five movies. So that
right there is one point two five million dollars in
fines and that's just one weekend, okay. And so what
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he would do is, in order to speed up the process,
we would just record every single movie that we watched,
and then if the consensus of the family was no
one really liked it or no one would to keep it,
you would just tape over that recording with something else,
so that way you don't have to watch it twice
to get it recorded.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So you didn't get to have your own personal copy
of American Ninja four.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Unfortunately, that movie came out after my parents split up,
and my mom got one VCR and my dad got
the other, so it didn't quite work out too But
by the time American Ninja four it came around, then
I was banking on the free weekends on HBO and
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Cinemax kind of a thing, and that was how I
think I first saw those movies was Late Night on
HBO on a free on a free HBO weekend, which
I think they only did. I don't think they did
those free weekends once a month, maybe every other month,
kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Like once a quarter. I think, yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was more than once a quarter. But either way, man,
I would I would out down and I would have
This is back when my parents had split. So now
my mom and I are living in Dallas with my grandmother,
and so as soon as we heard that HBO was
doing a free weekend, we'd go to Walmart and buy
a stack of blank VHS tapes so we could then
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record everything Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh, that's interesting that they split you
and your sister and the VCRs equally. I'll take Dan
in the living room VCR.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Damn it, I really wanted the living group v c R.
That's the good one.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
You fired attorney, didn't he? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
That is so sad. Oh but it's true, all right, Um,
that was okay, I'm pertend it was nothing on demand
number eleven. Parents listening in on landlines was a regular thing.
Sneaky parents or siblings could pick up another phone in
the house and monitor your conversation. Honestly, they could have
just put having a normal phone conversation on here would
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destroy kids of today.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, we had the phone in the kitchen that was
in the wall, up against the wall, and then this,
this miracle happened. They had a longer cord that you
could buy. Oh yeah, and that changed my mother's life,
like she could still cook and talk to her friend
from the opposite side of the kitchen. Like it was incredible.
But we got this was really cool. We had our
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own line upstairs, so there was no listening into the
conversations that were being had there.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You go, that's a big deal. And even in growing
up in DFW. Do you guys remember the metro lines
metro lines you see, You may not because you didn't
move around like I did. So when I first moved
to Texas, I started in Dallas and from Dallas went
to Richardson, Richardson to Plano, Plano to Arlington. That was
all my schooling, right, So when I moved from Plano
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to Arlington, I wanted to keep up with friends in Plano.
Well that's two different counties. Terrant County eight one seven Plano.
I didn't even Plano didn't even have the nine seven
two number yet. It was still like a two to
one four situation. But in order to call any friends
back there, it was a long distance unless you paid
for an upgraded metro line, which then you could then
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you could call uh County to county in North Texas
without it being considered long distance. My god, we're old.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah. Did you remember when you had to wait till
after five because the raids went down?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yep? Yeah, And we always.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Nine seven, We were always nine seventy two.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I believe, no nine the two weren't even invented until
ninety nine. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a bit
because I I mean, I because you have to remember,
initially nine to seven to two was solely north of
six thirty five. Yeah, and two one four was south.
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And that was because like, unlike New York City did
it right, where when cell phones invented, they created a
whole nother area code just for cell phones, Dallas did not,
and they were simply running out of two to one four,
so they had to create another area code. So I mean,
and that was a big deal. Like, yeah, yeah, that
was back. I mean when when that came out, you
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could where you lived. You know, oh you're nine seven
to two, Okay, I don't go to Oklahoma exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, people judged you, and judged you harshly based on
your area code prefix. And keep in mind, we all
started out not even needing area phone or area code prefixes.
We started out with a god old fashioned seven digit thing.
And my grandparents I think even had the the old
school party line at one point where it was just
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one phone line for like six houses.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Leonard was so small you only had now four digits.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, that's good and tiny. I feel like we're just
sitting around a campfire and going my day.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeahmember remember calling cards?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, I'm sure do.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Still I still occasionally see uh, like places in the
islands or say, like calling cards here, I'm like, what
the who are you trafficking?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Well, they got to make sure the drugs get to
the island somehow.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, No, I'm serious. At this point, if you're still
using calling cards, you are involved in illegal activity.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah. That was the original burn phone, That's what that was.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But like when calling cards first came out, those were
cool because then you could like you have uh, you know,
prepaid stuff, and that was way cheaper than paying the
long distance. So yeah, calling cards were cool for a while.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yeah, and you know, you're talking about ninety seven to
two and two and four. People would judge, like, you know,
how bad it is a mosqui when people be like
nine seven two and I'm like, oh no Garland, h yeah, not.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Mosquite, No, No, this is yeah, this is not the
posh nine seven two. The downside though, is how that's
how harshly people would judge people with a four six
nine or then one day when the nine oh three
came in. When nine o three came in, four six
niners thought they were golden Wow.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
But nine O three's in East Texas, right.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Exactly north and east. Oh exactly, yeah, nine three, I
think it was before four six nine?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Was it really?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well? Thank god we don't have any gen al food
listeners because they won't understand anything about this show.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We might as well have been speaking of Russian like
backwards numbers and stuff. Oh no, oh, no, you made
old man Trey get up from his desk and walk
away to go get something. I I made him if
he pulls a gen Z kid out of his closet
like they's been keeping cactive, which would not shock me.
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I'd be surprised, but not shocked. Oh oh, I can't
wait to see this. This, this is, this is Cooper.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Noah, would you do something I found the other day?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Let him go, Trey, let him go home?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
No oh wow, I just got chills.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
The unit card, Oh, the unit card to get you
into private clubs. Wow, that's amazing. Where did you use it?
Where did you get it?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I I don't even remember. I mean god, I mean
that was back when when like Colin County was dry,
but they could serve wither if they were a private club.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
And yeah, uh, I think I think when I went
to so Jerry called well, he had a birthday party
a handful of years ago at his local establishment, like
his regular spot, and it's in like this area of
Richardson Slash Dallas where I think where he goes. It
actually is still considered a private club and they would
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put you on the unit card type list. You didn't
get the card anymore, but they actually they go, we
got to make you a member of the club. I'm like,
that still exists.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, I think Wizards still, but it's digital now. You
don't have the card. They just make you sign it.
They used to even up until a couple of years ago,
so I don't know if they've changed it now. But
you walk in and they just make they'd scan your
ID and then make you sign.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I think part of that is because they can still
smoke in there, and that's how they get around.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I believe that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
But I mean, you can smoke anywhere in Addison. I mean,
like they don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well, I thought they Addison changed that. No, Addison is
still the last bastion of you.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
They're supposed to be. If you serve food, you can't
smoke into until after four mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Nope, until that to the stadium. Cafe because their idea
of food is cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I'll have the Paull Maull Sliders.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
That's right. Can I have the Kobe cools please? I'm
just kidding. They don't have Kobe on the menu at
Stadium Cafe.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
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