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Today we remember the greatness that was Val Kilmer. From Top Secret to Top Gun, we celebrate the real genius that gave us Iceman, Batman, Jim Morrison, and both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. You're all our Huckleberry.

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Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the treehouse. Today is Thursday, April third,
twenty twenty five. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trenholm.
And while we will find many many things to laugh
about today, I do feel the need somewhat obligation to

(00:50):
start with something sad, and that is the death of
Hollywood legend, in my opinion, Val Kilmer at the age
of sixty five. News came out. I first saw it
yesterday morning that Val Kilmer had passed away. And look,

(01:11):
people die every day. They don't necessarily touch us. We
don't know them, and in the case of Hollywood celebrities, actors,
things like that. I never knew Val Kilmer. I only
knew whatever you know, work he put out there. But
I enjoyed almost every single film that I saw him in.
And that's saying something. It's really hard to do in

(01:34):
Hollywood to have film roles where Granted, I know you
think my taste bar is quite low tray, but I
really liked just about everything Val Kilmer did and I'm
gonna miss him.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I your taste bar is low, and yet I do
agree with you. Yeah, I first remember Val Kilmer and
Breakout in Real Genius Men, so so good in that movie,
and then you know, from that to Top Gun and

(02:10):
everything else. A notoriously an a hole to work with.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know if he was if he's one of
the really well known method actors in Hollywood. I don't
know if he's as hardcore as some of the really
hardcore method actors that are out there. But he was
very he took his craft very seriously. Like I was
just yesterday, I was reading up on some behind the
scenes things throughout his career, one of which in Top Gun,

(02:42):
the first one in nineteen eighty six, he and Tom
Cruise had very little interaction off camera because they wanted
to have that conflict and that strife between Iceman and
Maverick to have some authenticity to it, which when you
fast forward thirty five years and he makes his return

(03:03):
as Iceman in Top Gun Maverick, the story comes out
that Tom Cruise refused to do a sequel without him.
It truly is amazing, and the fact that he did
that role in the condition that he was in. Look,
I know there's other higher forms of courage, but as
an actor and as a vain individual, that was pretty

(03:25):
courageous on his part.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Absolutely, But you know people have said for ages that,
you know, the reason he did not get an Academy
Award nomination for Doc Holliday and Tombstone was because nobody
could stand him.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
We have interesting experience with death, you and I tray
and we have interesting experiences throughout our lives, some examples
bigger than others. There is a line out of the
TV show mad Men and one of the characters dies,
and one of the leftover characters says, I don't understand

(04:05):
how dying makes saints out of people, but it's true. Yes,
someone someone dying somehow you start thinking about all the
positives and none of the negatives, and you focus on
the things that you'll miss, And that's that's kind of
the case with Val Kilmer. Maybe maybe I'm lucky that
I didn't know him, because, like you said, if it

(04:26):
was so well known throughout Hollywood circles that he was
just a giant jerk to work with. And I'm glad
I didn't know him. But on the receiving end, as
a fan, I loved him.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, he was just, I mean, immensely talented. I would
say probably one of the most talented actors in my lifetime,
and you almost hate that you didn't see more out
of him.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
And maybe that's why, Maybe because he was so difficult
to work with, Hollywood didn't you know, throw as many
roles at him. But the ones that he got, he
made the most out of. Now, granted i'm skipping over it,
good chunk on. When I went through his IMDb, I'm like,
I don't know what I feel like. Every actor, if
you're around long enough, has a chunk of your of

(05:09):
your resume that you just soon forget and you probably
did it just to you know, pay the rent. And
he had that for a while. Uh in more more
of the recent years. But when you go back to
the eighties and the nineties, you're like, man, it was
memorable role hit after hit, like uh, top secret, real,

(05:30):
real genius movies that really weren't supposed to be much
of anything. But when I think back about some of
my most favorite Val Kilmer movies, those are some of
the ones I absolutely love, the ones where he was
more comedic. He was the only reason I even bothered
to watch The Doors once. I couldn't stand the Doors

(05:51):
of the band. I didn't like the music. It's it
wasn't my cup of tea, but I watched it because
I wanted to see him portray Jim Morrison. And he
did all the singing on his own in that film.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's funny, you said, because I am right with you.
I cannot stand the Doors, absolutely, I don't understand the
people's love for them. But yeah, I'm same with you.
I watched that just just.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
To see him, Yeah, just to see the performance. And
even some other films that you weren't considered massive successes
I really liked because, as you pointed out, Trey, my
taste bar is quite low. I loved Val Kilmer in
The Saint. I love that movie. It didn't perform well
enough at the box office to become its own franchise,
like I'm sure the studio wanted. But I really enjoyed

(06:39):
it because that was based on an old that was
fifties or sixties television show, and that's when where he
plays all these different characters. He dresses up in disguise.
He was perfect for that. Well, it is a and
he made a Volvo look cool. That's almost impossible.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
You're right, it is fascinating, and it's not even death
but you know, it happens with it like athletes and
people all the time, where at the pinnacle of their
career they're absolutely hated, but then as they start falling off,
everyone loves him again, like and we can do it

(07:21):
to him.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
We're the ones that will tear them down because okay,
they've gotten too big for their bridges. Kobe Bryant had
that people forget that he's actually a really great example
of this. Became a massive saint upon.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Death, not even upon death, remember the Kobe retirement tour.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's true death.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, like we had completely forgotten about everything about
the all the negative allegations about Kobe and when he
was on the retirement tour, he was you know and
and was one of the greatest players, but everyone forgot.
Like Dale Earnhardt, people hated him in his prime, and
then at the end after he won a Daytona five
five hundred, and then when he died obviously then he's

(08:02):
a saint. Uh yeah, It's just it's fascinating when they're
at their peak, but then and and it's basically the
same as they as they get old and they start
dying off, then we have sympathy for him. And I
love them again.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, because we we were able to make make them
human again. Well, and that's the case. With Val Kilmer
having passed away yesterday at the age of sixty five,
We're gonna play a little Val Kilmber game a little
bit later today, so stay tuned for that. For now,
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I'm Daniel Mally. He is Trey Trentholm. Today is Thursday,
April third, twenty twenty five. Raise your hand if you
want to be a millionaire, raise your hand.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Want to be there?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's my hand is up, Trey's hand is up. Behind Trey,
there appears to be a cow in his a virtual background.
The cow's hoof is also up. I think anybody, if
given the choice, would want to have as much money
as possible. And if you want the secret to being
a millionaire, we have it. Make your bed yes, do
you want the secret to being a millionaire? Make your bed?

(11:50):
Want to make millions in your life? Make your bed.
It's actually not that simple. But it's nice to think
that all you have to do is make your bed.
But that's not the case. But a number of headlines
I've seen this past week sure make it seem that way.
They make it seem like if you make your bed
every day, there's a two hundred and six percent higher
chance of you becoming a millionaire. That's not what the

(12:13):
study said. The study didn't say if you make your
bed you'll become a millionaire. No, I make my bed, well,
sort of, make my bed every morning, and no one
has ever paid me for it. No one's ever said, hey,
good job, here's a million bucks. No one's even said, hey,
good job, here's a scratcher. It's more like, all right,
I made my bed. Good for me. But apparently that's

(12:36):
the secret, because according to a socio economist or a
socio economist, his name is Randall Bell, he's been studying
success for twenty five years. I'm fascinated by that. You
know how they say those who can't do teach. If
you're a socio economist, for twenty five years studying success.

(12:59):
Does that mean you yourself are not successful because you
spent so much time studying those that are? Or are
you successful studying the successful?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I can't answer that. I know one of the authors
that you know of books like People that Study Successful
People turned it into a headhunting firm where he's like
one of the top you know, when that upper level
CEO headhunters, they contact him. So he's turned it into
quite a profitable endeavor.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Interesting so, according to Randall Bell, the socio economist who's
been studying success for twenty five years, he says those
who do their chores and keep their living space tightier
tend to make more money. As part of his research,
he has spent time and talked with five thousand people
around the world, including but not limited to professionals, students, retirees,

(13:55):
the unemployed, and multi millionaires, and he says those who
make their bed in the morning are up to two
hundred and six point eight percent more likely to be millionaires.
The reason why, it puts your mind into a productive mindset.
So people who make their beds every morning are more
likely to have jobs, have higher incomes, and be more

(14:16):
satisfied with their lives. So again, it's not the if
then scenario. If you make your bed, then you will
make millions. It's more like a trait of those who
are very successful. They tend to make their bed.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I've heard that many times before. And the simplest explanation
I ever heard was, Yeah, someone said, you start off
the day and making your bed, you've accomplished. You've immediately
accomplished a goal.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Was that someone retired Navy Admiral William mccraven.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I cannot remember, but I think that sounds it sounded
like I remember it was someone in the military, so
that probably.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, he did. He did the commencement speech at your
alma mater, ut University of Texas at Austin, all the
way back in twenty fourteen, and in that commencement speech
he shared things he learned during his time in the Navy,
which included being not only a seal but a seal
commander and the head of the entire program, retiring as

(15:18):
an admiral in the Navy hook him horns for utre
and at this commencement speech, one of the things he said,
which people thought was kind of at the time because
they didn't really think about it in context. Was him saying,
make your bed, Just make your bed at least that way,
no matter what happens, and his reasoning was very sound.

(15:38):
If you start the day by making your bed, then
no matter what happens the rest of the day, you've
at least accomplished that you've accomplished something, and that sort
of sets the dominoes up for the rest of the day.
You can feel good, Hey I did something, Yeah, good
for me, and you just kind of carry that with
you throughout the day. And I actually read that book.

(15:59):
I enjoyed it and it's stayed with me. So when
I saw the headline the other day, oh, if you
make your bed, you're going to be a millionaire, I thought,
I don't think that's exactly how that works in a
you know, in a in a Genie lamp filled world,
it would just rub it and say, hey, hey, I just
like millions of dollars please, and they give it to you.
But just just keep that in mind when you see

(16:20):
certain headlines, maybe just read the next sentence or two.
It's helpful, So you.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Make your You really thought there was going to be
an article that just you know, immediately told you the
secret to making millions, and.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
No, I wasn't. I was just hoping that there would
be an article that told me about a map that
would lead me to a buried treasure or the Genie
lamp that I could rub and then get my three
wishes and go about it that way. But that doesn't
exist either. I try to live in reality as much
as I can, but I'm guilty of fantasizing on occasion.
Do you make your bed every day? Trade I don't,

(16:58):
you slob, it's guilty. I half assed make my bed.
All I do is I just I don't. I don't
tuck everything in. Admiral mccraven would probably be frown of
my bed making ability, but I do. I do my
version of making the bed, which is just pull the
covers up and then Tara makes it. No, no, no,

(17:22):
This is one of the few things I do around
the house. I make the bed, and my my version
of making the bed is just pull the covers up.
I'm not tucking anything in. There's no military corners, none
of that crap. It's just the covers are pulled up.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
There.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I have helped. I'm like a radio program director walking
in the studio saying I helped and both are full
of crap.

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Silly television anchors are going to say it's a bunch
of bolooney, but it's true. The fifty two year old

(19:09):
man was arrested at the US Mexican border trying to
smuggle two hundred and fifty two pounds of pork boloney
into the United States. Can you think of a less
cool item to be caught smuggling across international boundaries than blooney? No,

(19:30):
thank you, that's I mean you have he's going to
go to prison. It's gonna be for a long time
because that's a lot of meat to smuggle, and you're
gonna and when you get to prison, they ask you
what did you do or what what are you in
here for? And when you say smuggling blooney, I don't
think they're gonna take it literally. I think they're gonna

(19:51):
take that as an invitation.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's two hundred and fifty two.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Let me look aroun on the cell block here.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
I bet we can beat that.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
And I mean just the crappiest of meats, like really, why.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, it's just a poor cut of meat. That's not
even a cut, it's it's just it's using. Yeah, it's
a bunch of garbage things. It's leftovers put through a
grinder and then don't I don't know the entire process
of making blooney, but I can imagine you take all
the all the gross leftovers that no one wants and
you put that into a grinder and then somehow you
solidify it through some gelatinous concoction of things I don't

(20:32):
want to know that's in it, and then it solidifies
it and you press it and then and uh, it's
it's in a tube, right, because it's in that whatever
that red casing is on the outside of the blooney,
and then it gets sliced and then you have the
baloney slices.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, is this is?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
This? Is there? Is? There? Is the Mexican version much
better than ours? Is it a something?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hang on? That actually is a good question because if
you put, you know, two bologne's in front of me,
the American bologna and the Mexican bolooney, I'm probably gonna
go the Mexican bologney because I'm assuming it's gonna have
more flavor, it's gonna be more interesting. That doesn't mean
I'm anti American. I don't want anyone going crazy on me,

(21:24):
but I think I mean that's just gonna have a
more interesting flavor to it, which means you probably also
need to be really careful about how you smuggle that
across the border.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
If it's icy, Yeah, that's a.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
But is this the sign of a of a of a.
Is this another sign of a poor economy when they're
smuggling less fentanyl and more pork products, Like, I'm surprised
it wasn't eggs, which, by the way, I think there
have been more busts at the US Canadian border of
eggs crossing those boundaries than drugs.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Are they putting tariffs
on Bologney? Is it? Are they worried about that? I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I can't keep track of the terriffs. Yeah, unless they're
using Bologne to make cars and car parts. I'm I'm
really unsure, but based on the way some cars are
made these days, it wouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's I mean, maybe maybe it's just so much cheaper
down there, you just thought it was worth the risk.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Maybe I'm just I'm stunned by it, like it really is.
Like that's that's let me give you know what, Let
me let me share the story with you, Trey. Maybe
there's more context here that we're missing.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Just after two am, an Albuquerque man told agents he
had nothing to declare. He was referred to a second
agricultural inspection. This was early Saturday morning. Early Saturday morning,
around two am, the CBP agriculturaline Harley alerted to the

(23:03):
rear cargo area of the man's vehicle. That is when
they found twenty two rolls of baloney hidden beneath equipment
in the back of the vehicle. This is also one
of those times I like to point out, is hardly
trained to find baloney? Or did Harley just get really
really happy and excited and distracted, Like whooh, come on,

(23:28):
you know the dogs are at the border and you're
smuggling processed meat. Any dog's gonna find that, let alone
a well trained one.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, that's I mean, I don't think you needed a
lot of training to find the baloney.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, the baloney also found, I'm sorry, not the baloney.
Border patrol also found sixty undeclared tramadol tablets in the
center console of the vehicle. Trey, isn't tramadola muscle relaxer.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, it's a pain killer. It's a very mild painkiller.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Okay, never mind, I think I've been prescribed that in
the past.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
You have. It's actually it's one of the one of
the things that they prescribed to animals too, So it's
both dogs and humans can take it.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Gotcha. So it was actually a great payday for Harley
the Dog.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah. Well, I mean, I mean tram it all is is.
Like I said, it's one of the it's the most
mild of painkillers, so it's very People get it in
Mexico all the time. Jeezus.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's the two hundred and fifty pounds of bologney was
seized and destroyed by border patrols per USDA regulations. Look,
our country does not like mystery pork products coming into
the country. We want to make sure that we do

(24:55):
all of our artery clogging made in the USA.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah. If if we're gonna get the swine flu, it's
gonna be homegrown.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's right. If I'm gonna die from swine flu, I wanted.
I wanted to be from an American big.

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I'm Daniel Maley. This is the Treehouse Show that is
Trey Trenholme. Today is Thursday, April third, twoenty twenty five.
We talked earlier about Val Kilmer passing away yesterday at
the age of sixty five. I know he had a
long battle with throat cancer. I'm not sure if that

(26:27):
is going down as the official cause of death for
Val Kilmer, but it would make sense. Val Kilmer, the
icy cool star of Top Gun and his later revival
Top Gun Maverick, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the
age of sixty five. He was candid about ongoing health
issues that affected both his performance and his life outlook.

(26:48):
In a twenty twenty memoir, Val Kilmer revealed that X
Flame Share I Forgot about That helped him through a
cancer diagnosis and detailed the harrowing effects it had on
his body. His daughter, Mercedes, told The New York Times
and the Associated Press that the actor had died of pneumonia,
the lung infection that can range in severity, and with

(27:11):
all the actual health issues he had in later parts
of his life, pneumonia being the one that gets credit
in the end makes sense. So while that is sad,
Trey and I have many fond memories of Val Kilmer,
the first of which was, what was the first movie
you said you remembered him from? Trey?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I want to Real Genius is what sticks out. But
then there was Top Secret. I don't remember which came first.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Top Secret was first. Top Secret came out. I want
to say eighty four, I got it pulled up here,
let me check his IMDb.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And then.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Real Genius came out a year or two later. Top Secret, Yeah,
nineteen eighty four, that's where he played secret agent Nick Rivers.
And then Real Genius came out one year later, nineteen
eighty five, and then right after Real Genius was Top
Gun in nineteen eighty six. I AMDB put together a

(28:17):
really good in memoriam for Val Kilmer that I want
to share with you.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Hi, my name's I'm.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
OK. I can do anything.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
I'm not the first guy.

Speaker 9 (28:36):
I fell in love with a girl he met in
a restaurant who then turned out to be the daughter
of a kidnapped scientist.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's right, found myself.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
That right there was from top secret. Let's play a
quick game.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Try.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Let's say if you and I can guess the films
as they get as they get mentioned here. Okay, all right,
here we just kind of spit it out when once
you know it, let's see if you can beat me.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
Hi, my name is Stath, I can anything.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
I'm not the first guy I fell in love with
a girl he met in the restaurant who then turned
out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
That's oh, Kent, that is so unfair, and we were
gonna make you King of the Winner Carnival.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Sorry, I love real Genius. That's I need to h that.
That movie is so good. I really wonder of all
the films that Val Kilmer is known for, I wonder
if most people have really ever seen that movie. I
love that movie.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah I don't. I don't think it did exceptionally well
at the box office. So, but he was so good
in that.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
I mean, I don't remember what the school was, but
it was a school. It was a it was sort
of like a school like cal Tech, where it's future
geniuses and scientists and you know, people that will eventually
go on to, you know, make rockets for Elon and JPL.
That's it was a super genius school and he was
the genius of geniuses. There some new kid moves in

(30:07):
Who's I don't know if you ever did anything after
that movie. And one of the things I always remember
about that movie, in addition to Val Kilmer, was the
guy that lived in their closet, Laslow, love Laslow, which,
by the way, Laslow, what's he?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
So?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Laslow lived in the closet and they later go and
find out that he's got a whole operation going on
in the closet. I love that movie. I'll okay, I'll stop.
Let's go back to the video.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Daughter of a kidnapped scientist.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
So that's where I've found myself.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Oh Kent, that is so unfair. And we were gonna
make you King of the Winner Carnival.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Does this mean we're not friends anymore?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Don't?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Then then you've got Batman forever. Look is again we
mentioned this before. Not my favorite, definitely not my favorite Batman,
but still a hell of an actor. Then here he
is in Willow.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
There's a pack here with an acorn point at me.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Charles rather Truful's your problem.

Speaker 9 (31:13):
You're everyone's problem.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
You know what your problem is?

Speaker 9 (31:15):
Ramesses what you care too much?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
You got idiots and the diction are you know what
you'll find picture of me? No, the definition of the
word idiot, which you are.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Oh and that last one is from a Kiss Kiss
Bang Bang I have. I have to admit I actually
have never seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and I have either.
I know there are people that love that movie. I
think that's an action cult classic. I'm surprised I haven't
seen it.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh, it probably was too highly rated for you.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
You know what, You're a real jerk.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
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I'm Daniel Mally. He's trade Trendholme. Today is Thursday April third,
twoenty twenty five. It's time we celebrate today's date and

(32:41):
do so with.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Birthday all right.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Today is April third, twenty twenty five. Birthdays today. Amanda
Binds has made it to the age of thirty nine,
and I'll admit there was a period there where I
think a lot of us didn't think she'd make it
to her thirties, let alone to thirty nine. So I
guess good on her, although I don't know what she's

(33:13):
doing right now. Maybe she's regretting making it to thirty nine,
but she had some struggles, to put it lightly.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, you're right. You really haven't heard much from her
in a while.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
It was an interesting time. You had all those young
Disney starlets moving on into more adult careers. Was it
Hillary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bindes. Lindsay Lohan I think
was the one that really shot out of the gates,
and then she got into her troubles. And then Amanda

(33:47):
bind saw what Lindsay Lohan was doing and said, hold
my meth I can do better.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
And she did.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
But not really sure what she's up to now, but
I wish her well. Speaking of which, I think Linday
Lowland actually got a new project or something coming out.
I think she's she might be on the verge of
a comeback, not a Kardashian style one, I hope, but
an actual She had.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
A movie that came out around Christmas. I think it
was on Netflix.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I made it through the preview and it was bad.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh it was this one of those like bad Hallmark
Christmas style movies. But it was on Netflix. Yes, oh no, yes,
I think I saw a headliner or two about that.
Apparently it was just absolutely dreadful.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, that's uh. I know she's doing well now and
I wish her the best, but I think she whatever
she's doing use at one point, I want to say
like she had like a club in Abiza or something
and had sobered up and was doing well, And I
think she should stick.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
To that because you know, I think the there's an
opportunity here for Lindsay Lohan if she's on the verge
of a comeback. Something that might help push.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
That would be.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
A reimagining of one of her most successful films, Freaky Friday,
because I think it was Freaky Friday. She was in
that with Jamie Lee Curtis, right, and they did the
old body swap thing. What if you take the Freaky
Friday body swap, and you you merge that with the
Nicholas Cage movie The Unfathomable and I can't say that word,

(35:31):
the unfathomable weight of talent. So you do a body
swap with a regular person with Lindsay Lohan playing Lindsay Lohan.
So it's a regular person swapping with Lindsay Lohan.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
The celebrity that might be fun, might be a better actor.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
M hm, I'm just spent bawling. Look, Hollywood has way
worse ideas that they produced. Mine not that bad. I'd
watch it. Ooh, maybe it should be Nick Cage and
Lindsay Lohan body swam.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Give me my money, Hollywood. I'll be here. Yeah. Other
birthdays today. Kobe Smolders turns forty three today, known as
Robin on How I Met Your Mother. She's also Maria
Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She's also Wonder Woman
in the Lego movies. Kobe Smolders forty three today, Big Vanner.
I like I like her on How I Met Your Mother,

(36:29):
and her Maria Hill character in the Marvel movies was
actually was really really good. I'm trying to remember is
her character alive or dead in the MCU, not that
it really matters anymore because multiverse stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
I don't think she ever died.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, wait, was she the one that got killed in
Secret Wars or was that just I don't know, because
here's where my poor memory serves me. I watched every
episode of the Secret Wars show with Samuel L. Jackson,

(37:08):
the Marvel television show, and lucky for my brain, I
have forgotten most of it.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I never saw it.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Don't just don't at all. I will tell you the
best thing about that show. Did you see Captain Marvel
the movie Captain Marvel? No? Okay, So in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, they're these creatures called Scrolls. They're the shape

(37:36):
shifters that are green aliens in the Big Ears, but
they can look like humans. Gotam their leader.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
They had their intro into the MCU in the Captain
Marvel movie.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Oh I'm sorry, I did. I thought you were talking
about the sequel to cat I did see Captain Marvel?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, yea yeah, okay, So the main guy that you
thought was the bad guy in Captain Marvel that ended
up being a good guy, right, Yeah, he's in it.
He and Samuel Jackson are driving around one night during
an episode of Secret Wars, and this is the best
part of the entire series. It's when the alien watches
a guy on the street picking up poop that his

(38:11):
dog had just done, and he turns to sam Jackson
and he says, I'll never understand you humans how it
is you'll pick up the poop from another species. And
when you think about it, that's brilliant and it makes
a lot of sense because he sees it as completely disgusting,
because he sees the two species as completely equal. Why
is one picking up the poop of the other one?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I got nothing, I know.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Because you and I both pick up chiuaba poop on
a daily basis. There's really not a whole lot we.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Can say and clean a cat box just for.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh god, we are sad. Yeah, you and I are
childless cat ladies.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah, we're sad. Swifties.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
We're going to our own Secret Wars.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
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Speaker 3 (39:17):
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Speaker 4 (39:20):
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(39:46):
the Treehouse Show. I'm Dan, He's Trey. Just a little
bit more left inside the Treehouse before we close up
for today. So earlier I told you about the man
that was arrested at the US Mexican border with two
one hundred and fifty pounds of illegal bolooney. He was
trying to smuggle it from Mexico into the United States,

(40:08):
but a very very well trained border dog sniffed out
the two hundred and fifty pounds of blooney, which, if
I'm being honest, unless that thing was on ice, I'm
pretty sure that agents themselves could probably smell that much baloney.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Daisy could have picked that one out.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, three pounds chuaba just tail just going crazy, My god, daddy,
is it Christmas? But there's actually a little bit more
to this baloney smuggling story. This is not the first
time that this guy was arrested at the border trying
to smuggle meat. Okay, this is the second time in

(40:51):
two months the same man was caught trying to smuggle
bloone from Mexico into the United States at the Elpaso
Port of entry in January, CBP agricultural specialists seized fifty
five roles of undeclared blooney from the man. He was
assessed a civil penalty in that case, and the contraband

(41:13):
meat was seized and destroyed because again, as we know,
the US doesn't like, you know, non declared pork products
coming into our country. He was issued a one thousand
dollars promissory note for the prescription medication violation. That's for
the tramadol that we talked about earlier in the second arrest.

(41:36):
But in January he was nailed for even more undeclared blooney.
So now that he is a repeat offender, I wonder
is that going to carry a stiffer sentence, Because just
based on the first part of the story I told
you about, I thought, well, that's probably gonna be a
hefty jail time type sentence. But since this is the

(41:57):
second time he's done it, he didn't get jailed the
first time. In the first time was even more bolooney?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
What just that it was even more bolooney?

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yeah, it's I heard it.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I I must do some research and find I I'm
puzzled as to what could be what would cause a
man to risk his freedom for bologney.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, because I mean, it's not like one of the
sexier items that you could smuggle that might make you popular,
like say cocaine. You'd be the you know, all you
got to do is get into one Michael Bay movie
and you'll be swinging around like you're the king.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Right if any.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Nightclub in Miami, man, you'll be popular slinging MDMA some cocaine.
But you're not cool if you're smuggling blooney.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
I mean it's not you could at least like go
for mortardella or something, the fancy bologna.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, I want, I want the mortadella.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Isn't that just bologna?

Speaker 1 (43:05):
No? No, no, no, okay. It just goes to show
that how how you say something carries an equal amount
of weight as to the thing that it is, Maybe
more so in the case of bologney.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I mean, he might as well have been smuggling wieners.
Because that's what he's gonna be. That's what he's going
to be, stuffed.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
With two hundred and fifty pounds of it.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Your wiener has a first name.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Well done, so well well done, and also good job
order patrol keeping our cum Yeah, appreciate it. For all
things Treehouse, go to Treehouse on Air dot com. Also
find and follow us on social media at Treehouse on Air.
For the show. For me, it's at the Daniel Valley.
For Trey, it's at Trey Trendholme one week. We'll see
you tomorrow right back here inside the Treehouse
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