December 23, 2025 • 36 mins
We start off today talking about a very odd Spainish traidion, then we discuss the miracle healing some passengers experience during a flight, then we get into the very odd plumber problems Dan is having.
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Caga Tió: A Catalan Log That Poops Candy At Christmas : The Salt : NPR
Travelers Are Sick Of Airline Passengers' Disgraceful "Jetway Jesus" Loophole To Skip Lines
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Caga Tió: A Catalan Log That Poops Candy At Christmas : The Salt : NPR
Travelers Are Sick Of Airline Passengers' Disgraceful "Jetway Jesus" Loophole To Skip Lines
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
Trady Trentholm and Ras Sharma. We have just a couple
of days before Christmas and I want to make sure
that we cram in all the Christmas related content that
(01:00):
we can, including a Christmas tradition out of Spain that
I had forgotten about until recently. I would like to
thank my social media algorithm for reminding me about the
Catalan Christmas log or as others know it. Are you
(01:22):
guys aware of the Catalan Christmas pooping log?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I can't say that I am.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
This is from Spain, sometimes called CagA Teo or Teo,
the Nda dog.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
H interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If someone put googly eyes in a and a smiling
face on a log and a hat and a hat.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. So this is the Catalan Christmas pooping log, sometimes
called Taga Teo or Teo d Nadal. This is a
Christmas tradition out of areas of Spain that spans a
few centuries. This is its story. A log is given
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a face, a red catle and hat as you can
see there, and stick legs on the front. Children then
feed it daily with water, nuts and sweets leading up
to Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve, families gather. They cover
the log with a blanket, sing traditional songs and then
(02:37):
beat dick out of it with sticks. As they sing,
the log poops out small presents like candies and fruits
and little presents and gifts from underneath its blanket. Then,
after the main presence, the log just might drop a
(02:58):
final less desire riable item like a salted herring or
a rotten potato if it's been natty. So keep that
in mind with whatever Christmas tradition you keep alive in
your household, that in other parts of the world they
have their own.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, I don't know. My family was from Spain and
I was a log because I got beat the same way.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Had pooped out presents.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's how it got out of the beating, and a potato, which.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Is odd, uh rotten potato. Yeah, that is so strange. Yeah,
it was a handful of years ago. I first heard
about this, and then, like so many things in my life,
I had completely forgotten about it, and then it just
kind of popped back around.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
On my algorithm. I was like, oh, yeah, because when
I saw this photo, I was like, I remember this,
and I was like, oh, that is a weird, weird
Christmas tradition. At the same time, if you think about it,
all Christmas traditions are kind of weird if you really
look at him from a different perspective, because a big
chunk of the Christmas mythology is that Santa delivers toys
(04:18):
to all the boys and girls of the world on
a single night, and he has elves that he keeps
his labor and drain deer that fly. I mean, I
guess making a pooping gift log is not that far
of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I'm speechless.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I would say Nick was real, I mean, like Nicholas whatever,
what what was his actual name? That was a real thing,
and the only reason it was like flying reindeer is
because of the snow. So when they were when he
was delivering presents, it looked like they were flying.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
In the air, and that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So are you saying that Santa is more believable than
the Christmas pooping or are you saying that perhaps at
one point there was an original pooping log.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yes, I wanna go. I'm gonna go with as a Hindu,
I'm gonna go with the with Saint Nick.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah. It's interesting though when you think about it, because
there's all these stories that come about around different holidays,
especially Christmas. I mean, you've got things like Rudolph and Frosty,
things that are completely you know, just made up from
someone's you know, creativity, and then it's found its way
into the holidays season up to and including the California
(05:47):
Raisins Christmas Special I remember watching as a kid, which
I thoroughly loved. By the way, these different traditions are
fascinating to me because the stories and the thing that
come around and then and then it becomes a franchise
like we have Elf on a Shelf has taken off
(06:08):
and is wildly popular, but here is a missed opportunity
for some ip for a movie studio, just waiting to
happen with the cattle in Christmas pooping log. It's adorable.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I mean, you can put it on a chain, you
can call it poop on a loop.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh sells itself. But yeah, I mean you have all
these stories that that will sell. You know, it sells
toys and merchandise and movies and television shows, all these
things surrounding. And I'm just can't understand why this one
hasn't taken off in the same way as so many others.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You could have it in a glove and called shit
and mint.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And they do think that. I don't you would think
that the thing that gives you Christmas presents, you wouldn't
beat it with a stick. But that's part of the tradition.
In some of the research I did into this, Yes,
I did little research into this. It's reminiscent of a pinata.
So this is kind of like a Christmas pinata type
of a scenario, except in an actual pinata, you beat
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it so much it opens up and spills out all
of its gifts and not its enterds. But here it's
just a it's a log and it's got a happy,
smiley face on it, and that it pooped out your presence.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Congratulations, I got beat with a stick. It wasn't a
holiday tradition. It was just a Tuesday. But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Although although there were a few times that I got
beat so bad I thought I was gonna shit.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It wasn't. It wasn't a good beating. If you didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That that that's how my mom knew I was done anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it'd be a good Christmas story for me if ultimately,
you know, the log got taken away and your heart broken,
and then it comes back as a paddle.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's your dad just carving up the Christmas log into
a paddle and then changes you around the tree.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Still have the eyes. Yeah, come back, have the eyes
and smiley face. Just time. It's the architect of your destruction.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Which is a little strange because my parents or Hindu,
so I don't even know why we did this.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's the only time my mother believed in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It is is fascinating though, sometimes when you're getting beat
like that as a kid and you're like, why do
you have me? If all you want to do is
hurt me?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, my dad had an answer for that question. It
was like, that's what kids are for, you know, I'll
take out your frustration.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh wow, that is horrific.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
See, don't you feel a little normal because we have
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't think. I still don't. I don't feel normal. No, No,
I think, I think. I think. What we've all come
to realize here is that while we have some shared experiences,
that doesn't make them okay.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Child abuse is a universal language.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It really is, and the three of us are fluent.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I knew in mathematically is nine one one.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
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Speaker 4 (10:27):
Daniel?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Not naked, but we have had a couple of doors
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deal one time and they probably were shorts, but they
(10:50):
definitely weren't shorts. Maybe I think one time a lady.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Answered in a towel.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Okay, so I mean, I guess that happens. One time
a guy answered and all he had on was a
pair and he did not have a very flattering fasique.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah he had what did he have on?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Just like a pair of shorts, like one of those
like shorty shorts, like from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, and not.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Flattering at all. So that was kind of like.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
In a moment like that, do you look around to
see it? Am I in the right place for the
service call? And did I interrupt a key party?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
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for instinct is look and then you look down at
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(12:01):
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hey man.
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I'm like Jesus man, you know, but.
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(13:27):
all the beatings we all got is the reason why
we don't have kids.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
My mother used to say this.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I don't know if you ever got this, but it
was like, when you have your own kids, you can
do this too. I never got that, and I was
like well, that's why I don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's actually one of the main reasons I don't is
because there's a little bit of a cycle breaking mentality
going on with me where it's like, you know what,
I think it's probably best because I wasn't shown the
best way to parent, I probably wouldn't be the best parent.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, that's I mean, I'm go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, they say you parent like you were parented, and
I mean my parents were not good parents. You know that,
And the world really doesn't need another bipolar addict.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So you know, well you told that to Los Angeles,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I'm really good with kids, like kids love me, and
I love I love children like I I'll buy gifts,
I'll go out of my way to do things. But
I don't want any more of this DNA in the
world at all.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I'm kind of an enigma because I'm I'm very
much a question mark as far as when it comes
to nature versus nurture because I'm adopted, right, and I
don't know my biological family, so I don't know what
sort of screwed up recessive jeans are in that gene
pool that I have somewhere lurking inside me. All I
know is how I was raised and what was modeled
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for me, and how I was raised and what was
modeled for me was not stellar. So I think it's
probably for the best that we just not, you know,
tempt fade on that front, or like Trey said, it's
like the world doesn't need another bipolar addict. And even
on Christmas, most of our Christmases were absolutely fantastic. But
if I saw this teo didn't a doll cattle in
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Christmas pooping doll underneath the tree on Christmas morning, I
would be worried that it looks a little too easy,
too wheeled in my mother's hand, like she could pick
that up and chase me around the tree with it.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I would just wake up and be like my dad
had too much Johnny walkmerd and shit under the tree
and then drew.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A face on it and put a hat on it
and covered it up with a red rug so you
wouldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I mean the rug would be Persian. But yes, anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Uh so, Merry Christmas do us And and I'm with you,
Roger Meane. I like kids. I've never had anything against them.
It's just the the older I got the more I
thought about it, and I was like, you know what,
I think, it's probably it's it's best for me and
my life and lifestyle, and probably for the benefit of
the child. That's probably not good.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
He's one I always wanted kids. I'm like, even when
when I was married, Like, we didn't not try. Uh
But I guess that was the universe going, hey, just
be a good uncle and and and buy cool stuff.
Uh So I'm okay doing that.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's a good spot to be in.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, because I can also not show up the next year.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it's fine. Speaking of good spots to be in. Right,
if you are flying over the holidays, keep your eyes
open because you might just see a miracle or two.
According to the International Air Transport Association, airlines have reported
a more than thirty percent surge in wheelchair assistance requests
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at airports, with larger airports reporting even higher numbers. Flight
attendants say many are able bodied passengers seeking wheelchairs for
a so called VIP experience, an escorted trip down the
jetway that skips lines and secures early access to overhead
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bin space. However, a large number miraculously stand and walk
unaided upon arrival, leading many to credit a divine intervention
known as Jetway Jesus for their sudden return to mobility.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Oh yeah, because they like it because you get to
board first.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But if you need wheelchair assistants and you're last off
the plane and they don't like that. So yeah, amazingly
they can walk. I saw that the last three times
I've flown, Like it's mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The same for me. I would see people get pushed
through the terminal by the attendants in their wheelchairs. Then
they get right to the front of the line, doesn't
matter what group number they're supposed to be for whatever
they paid for, because they need the special assistance. They're
in the wheelchair. They get on first, and then you're
right trey. Once once the plane gets to where it's going, boo,
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up they are and they're grabbing stuff out of the
overhead bin and they're ready to get off that plane
and go. It's a it's a it's a holy divine intervention,
and it's just lucky that we've been able to witness it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh. My father, I can't even make this up.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
He would always ask for a wheelchair and I was like,
what because diabetic? Right, But this was before any of
the congestive heart failure and any of the dimensions stuff.
He would always request because of his age. He's like,
watch this, We're gonna go right through security. And I'm like,
I will take And I did this because I guess morality.
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I would go in the other line and he's like, no,
just come with me, just walk to walk with me,
pretend you have my nurse.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I was like, I look like you, what are the odds?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, and that man I watched him walk off a
plane one time carrying four bottles of Shivis.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
The wheelchair was still waiting at the jetway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, so that was that was my father, So he
was he was one of those people.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, and you're right, I have I have witnessed this tray,
and especially when it's someone that's younger and you see
them being pushed by the wheelchair and it's like, really,
are you kind of a thing? Now, I have learned
that if we're talking like a handicap parking spot and
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someone parks there and they walk out of the car
and they look completely fine physically, not everyone's handicaps are visible.
So I've learned that over the years. So you can't
just assume that someone is gaming the system if they
park in a handicap spot and they have the thing.
Although keep in mind that was something my family was
(20:35):
really big on. My grandmother had a handicap thing once
after a surgery, and it was supposed to be it
was supposed to expire after a certain amount of time.
Oh no, no, no, no, that thing kept getting renewed
and renewed. I don't know how. And next thing you know,
my aunt had one and my mom has one.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Because once they issue him typically there for life. But
I just can't imagine, I, okay, you're gaming the system.
You get the wheel. I would be so embarrassed. I
would at least have to wait and get wheeled off.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's it. I would pretend to have polio and that's
not even a thing.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Now, don't worry, it's coming back.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Thanks, Okay, I would. I would pretend that I would
walk up like if I got out of the car.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I would limp, just so everybody looking is like, oh,
well that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well that's the thing that's that's so disgusting about people
these days is they don't even try to hide it
until they absolutely have to. You raj you Trey I
get it. If you're going to fake it, you are
going to fake it in its entirety. You are going
to go with that bit from beginning to end. As
soon as you park at the airport, you got the cart,
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you're limping, you're limping into the terminal, you're limping through security,
your butts in the wheelchair, and you carry it all
the way through to the end. And then you wait
for the wheelchair, like you said, trade to take you
off the plane as well. So you've maintained the lie
the entire time. And I applaud that work ethic. So
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many people don't have it these days. They only do
it for as much time as they absolutely have to
to get what they want, and then they're gone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I think I would go as far if I really
were going to do it. I still have a boot
from what I broke my ankle. I would probably slap
that thing on just to give it some authenticity.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Even if it was on your army. Why do you
have a boot on your arm I'm not well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know what, This gives me a great idea for
a store at the airport, at the airport outside of security.
But you get your wheelchair right then and there.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
What's the there's.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
A luggage store that's like right when you go through security,
there's to me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Is that the name of the uh that sounds right? Yeah?
But yeah, I mean you can have little little medical
you know, appendage detachment. You can have medical accessories. You
can have a little gas tank wheel wheeling around. You
can get slings, you should. You can get knee braces,
ankle braces. You can get one of those halo things
for your head. I'd be great what you want.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
You don't even need to pay the rent.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You just need a car, and like it's like the
you know, remember the eighties, Like you people open up
their vests and they have watches and stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You pop the truck.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You've got bootslings, crutches, walkers, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And if someone ask you what sort of career you're in,
you're like, I'm in medical sales.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You can have some X rays you get you know doctor,
I say, oh, yeah, this is yours.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Here and I'm Indian. I'll help you with those.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hot in my mobile MRI van here. All it is
is just a printer just popping out MRI stuff with
circles on a go. Look, herniation or whatever neck braces
two for two for one.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Fuck clear? Uh clear?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I think it's ninety nine dollars a month. I'll so
you a boot for twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That's right, and I'll be sold out by lunch.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
On every boot it just says pay it forward, so
when you get done, when you get off your flight,
you just give it to the next person.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah. And also I'll have a separate line of those
medical accessories. Uh, we'll have the one where you can
also hide a flask.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
God damn, we're a mix of the Downies and the Kardashians.
I don't know what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'm sorry, Roger.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm disappointed in you. No, you don't pay it forward.
You make those things where they fall apart after one use.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Goddamn right, Hey brother, I'm still I'm still eBay not tu.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean you can have like the uh god,
I'm not trying to get five stars. You're just trying
to give five bucks.
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you live on an island like I do on St.
Thomas and the US Virgin Islands. There's like fifty thousand
people here, so I mean it's not a tiny town,
but it is a small area and it's got a
small town field because you see a lot of the
same people you know when you go places, and your
option aren't limited when it comes to a number of industries.
(27:03):
What I'm beating around the Christmas pooping log here is
that I'm afraid I'm going to need a new plumber.
And there aren't many really good plumbers on this island
that I have found yet. And I found one, found
a really good one, and I can understand what he says.
He does really good work. He was a marine and
(27:28):
he's also going through a difficult time with his girlfriend.
And I'm now going to tell you how I know
about this. So yesterday is his name? Probably shouldn't have
said that. Hang on, let me let me just do
this here. I can fix it, all right? Is his name?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Already said anyway, I might need a new plumber because
he's having a difficult time with his girlfriend. Yesterday he
came over to help me switch out some cistern filters okay,
and also sink stuff. Then this morning when I wake up,
he has sent a few texts.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yes, we've seen these movies. Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
This is the reason why I debated even telling you
guys about this, because I knew you were gonna twist
it and turn it into something that it's not.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I just don't know why. I think like Tray sometimes.
But he saw his face and I was like, I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So Renee comes over because I needed a couple of
things changed. The plumber comes over. I needed a couple
of things changed, and then the idea was for him
to come back, and then I needed a quote on
some other work okay, and then he was going to
come back today to finish it. Right. The problem is
(29:07):
he sent a couple of texts last night, and I
don't know if I'm ever going to hear from him again,
because he sent texts that were not intended for me.
In fact, they said, mm hmm. Up here, babe, I'm
still the same person you've loved. It was a bad day,
but know that I love you and I miss you.
(29:30):
Let me show you how much I miss you. And
then a photograph. Uh uh. I have now seen way
more of my plumber than anyone ever should.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
And take it away.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And it is not lost on me that he was
supposed to come back today to replace my p trap.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Or you're ovalbum like that.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
But here's the thing, the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But here's the thing. There aren't that many really good
plumbers on the island. So I found a good one
and I don't want him to be embarrassed. I want,
I need him to come back and do the work.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Also, how many dance does Rene love? So?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean, I get it, it's awkward, but bro, I
need some help.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Uh can So he thought he was messaging his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, or he thought he and I have a way
different relationship than I thought.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
God, I hope it's the latter.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
At any point, did you uh scream?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Didn't scream? If these pipes are clean?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
No, don't you victim blame me. This is not my fault.
I woke up this morning and I saw a couple
of texts from him, expecting them to say something along
the lines of I'll be over at eight am or
stopping to get parts, then I'll be on my way,
And instead it's him telling his girlfriend he loves her
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and that he misses her, and he wants to show
her how much he misses her by sending me a
photo of his pipe.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
PBC or copper copper. So he's pierced, good to know.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh no, he's just he's very tan.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Oh hence renee. Oh wow, Well, I mean, now, how
do you okay? So let's say he comes back, even
if he's the best plumber in the world, he comes
back tomorrow to.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I hate to say, finish the job, because Trey's gonna
laugh before we.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
You know, he comes over to right and then you
have to look at him and go, what do I
owe you? He can't charge you after that.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I know. So that's why it's kind of a good
news bad news rock and a hard place type situation
for me, it is we're really going to stop walking into.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Those You have the worst LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Or the best that'll stand out on LinkedIn let me
tell you, or porn hub. I don't know which one
you use to get you can copy and paste both profiles.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Now, okay, so do you call him again? Do you
have to.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Go another shot and go, hey, man, I think you
messed up. You got to tell him right as a
as a dude. Okay, man, I think you messed up,
and that was that was me and Stuf you. I
know you're trying to send it to a girl. You're
having a rough day. I get that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I don't know if I should say anything. If anything,
I want to send something to him that like takes
up the text screen, like a link to a dumb
you know, video or a dumb TikTok or something. So
that way, maybe just maybe in his own mind, he
can think maybe maybe maybe this guy didn't see it
and it's pushed to the top. Or if I send
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him something that's a video like a TikTok thing, it'll
push his text above mine, So then that way maybe
he won't then realize that he sent me those texts
although not that I'm saying that it's it's already middle
of the day here. It's far too late. He knows
what he did, and I don't think he's going to
be coming today, and I but.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I I think he is.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I just I don't want to call more attention to
it than than then. I know he knows that it
already has been.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And what kind of videos would you be sending him?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm not sending any videos.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You said you wanted to send him a video to you,
that's what you just said.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, oh god, sorry, yes, yeah, I would do I
would do something like that, like I don't care what
it is. It could be like the dog chasing a squirrel.
I don't There's something completely I don't know, just something
to push the text up to where he might think
that I didn't see it, or he won't know that
he sent it.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
So in your community, dog chasing a squirrel, what does
that actual video look like?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Honestly, I don't know, because we don't have squirrels here.
It have to be like a dog chasing on iguana
or a hermit crab or something.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I'm just wondering in the docking or a rooster.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
And can you dress up as in a Star Trek
uniform so we can have h spot on a cock.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
That would be great. Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I know I'm going to regret this, but I'm going
to tell you anyway that the name of his company
is Rooster Plumbing.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah it is, and we're out now right happy.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Uhcall that from a mile of way.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I think it's because Trey's been here and he's seen
the guy's vand uh, you've seen more than that.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Anyway, if anyone knows of any good plumbers on the
island of Saint Thomas, please let me know.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Tell us what kind of d I y you as
you pull up.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
Trady Trentholm and Ras Sharma. We have just a couple
of days before Christmas and I want to make sure
that we cram in all the Christmas related content that
(01:00):
we can, including a Christmas tradition out of Spain that
I had forgotten about until recently. I would like to
thank my social media algorithm for reminding me about the
Catalan Christmas log or as others know it. Are you
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guys aware of the Catalan Christmas pooping log?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I can't say that I am.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
This is from Spain, sometimes called CagA Teo or Teo,
the Nda dog.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
H interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If someone put googly eyes in a and a smiling
face on a log and a hat and a hat.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. So this is the Catalan Christmas pooping log, sometimes
called Taga Teo or Teo d Nadal. This is a
Christmas tradition out of areas of Spain that spans a
few centuries. This is its story. A log is given
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a face, a red catle and hat as you can
see there, and stick legs on the front. Children then
feed it daily with water, nuts and sweets leading up
to Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve, families gather. They cover
the log with a blanket, sing traditional songs and then
(02:37):
beat dick out of it with sticks. As they sing,
the log poops out small presents like candies and fruits
and little presents and gifts from underneath its blanket. Then,
after the main presence, the log just might drop a
(02:58):
final less desire riable item like a salted herring or
a rotten potato if it's been natty. So keep that
in mind with whatever Christmas tradition you keep alive in
your household, that in other parts of the world they
have their own.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Well, I don't know. My family was from Spain and
I was a log because I got beat the same way.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Had pooped out presents.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
That's how it got out of the beating, and a potato, which.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Is odd, uh rotten potato. Yeah, that is so strange. Yeah,
it was a handful of years ago. I first heard
about this, and then, like so many things in my life,
I had completely forgotten about it, and then it just
kind of popped back around.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
On my algorithm. I was like, oh, yeah, because when
I saw this photo, I was like, I remember this,
and I was like, oh, that is a weird, weird
Christmas tradition. At the same time, if you think about it,
all Christmas traditions are kind of weird if you really
look at him from a different perspective, because a big
chunk of the Christmas mythology is that Santa delivers toys
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to all the boys and girls of the world on
a single night, and he has elves that he keeps
his labor and drain deer that fly. I mean, I
guess making a pooping gift log is not that far
of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I'm speechless.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I would say Nick was real, I mean, like Nicholas whatever,
what what was his actual name? That was a real thing,
and the only reason it was like flying reindeer is
because of the snow. So when they were when he
was delivering presents, it looked like they were flying.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
In the air, and that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So are you saying that Santa is more believable than
the Christmas pooping or are you saying that perhaps at
one point there was an original pooping log.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yes, I wanna go. I'm gonna go with as a Hindu,
I'm gonna go with the with Saint Nick.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah. It's interesting though when you think about it, because
there's all these stories that come about around different holidays,
especially Christmas. I mean, you've got things like Rudolph and Frosty,
things that are completely you know, just made up from
someone's you know, creativity, and then it's found its way
into the holidays season up to and including the California
(05:47):
Raisins Christmas Special I remember watching as a kid, which
I thoroughly loved. By the way, these different traditions are
fascinating to me because the stories and the thing that
come around and then and then it becomes a franchise
like we have Elf on a Shelf has taken off
(06:08):
and is wildly popular, but here is a missed opportunity
for some ip for a movie studio, just waiting to
happen with the cattle in Christmas pooping log. It's adorable.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I mean, you can put it on a chain, you
can call it poop on a loop.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh sells itself. But yeah, I mean you have all
these stories that that will sell. You know, it sells
toys and merchandise and movies and television shows, all these
things surrounding. And I'm just can't understand why this one
hasn't taken off in the same way as so many others.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
You could have it in a glove and called shit
and mint.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And they do think that. I don't you would think
that the thing that gives you Christmas presents, you wouldn't
beat it with a stick. But that's part of the tradition.
In some of the research I did into this, Yes,
I did little research into this. It's reminiscent of a pinata.
So this is kind of like a Christmas pinata type
of a scenario, except in an actual pinata, you beat
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it so much it opens up and spills out all
of its gifts and not its enterds. But here it's
just a it's a log and it's got a happy,
smiley face on it, and that it pooped out your presence.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Congratulations, I got beat with a stick. It wasn't a
holiday tradition. It was just a Tuesday. But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Although although there were a few times that I got
beat so bad I thought I was gonna shit.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It wasn't. It wasn't a good beating. If you didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That that that's how my mom knew I was done anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, it'd be a good Christmas story for me if ultimately,
you know, the log got taken away and your heart broken,
and then it comes back as a paddle.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's your dad just carving up the Christmas log into
a paddle and then changes you around the tree.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Still have the eyes. Yeah, come back, have the eyes
and smiley face. Just time. It's the architect of your destruction.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Which is a little strange because my parents or Hindu,
so I don't even know why we did this.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's the only time my mother believed in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It is is fascinating though, sometimes when you're getting beat
like that as a kid and you're like, why do
you have me? If all you want to do is
hurt me?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, my dad had an answer for that question. It
was like, that's what kids are for, you know, I'll
take out your frustration.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh wow, that is horrific.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
See, don't you feel a little normal because we have
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I don't think. I still don't. I don't feel normal. No, No,
I think, I think. I think. What we've all come
to realize here is that while we have some shared experiences,
that doesn't make them okay.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Child abuse is a universal language.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It really is, and the three of us are fluent.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I knew in mathematically is nine one one.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
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Speaker 4 (10:27):
Daniel?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Not naked, but we have had a couple of doors
answering that have been risque. I would say it's a
good term maybe like almost brawl and panties kind of
deal one time and they probably were shorts, but they
(10:50):
definitely weren't shorts. Maybe I think one time a lady.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Answered in a towel.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Okay, so I mean, I guess that happens. One time
a guy answered and all he had on was a
pair and he did not have a very flattering fasique.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah he had what did he have on?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Just like a pair of shorts, like one of those
like shorty shorts, like from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, and not.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Flattering at all. So that was kind of like.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
In a moment like that, do you look around to
see it? Am I in the right place for the
service call? And did I interrupt a key party?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
It's kind of one of those things, man. I And
this happened like three or four years ago. But honestly,
it was a really nice neighborhood and we got called
out for the inspection, and obviously when he answered the door,
for instinct is look and then you look down at
the ground like, oh, I'm here to do your your
(12:01):
property inspection.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
He's and he's just so casualized. Yeah, yeah, I'm inspecting you,
hey man.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Good see man, You know he wants to shake your hand.
I'm like Jesus man, you know, but.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
At least he's only wanting you to shake his hand.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Well, like y'all said earlier, for a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I will shake some risky things for a billion dollars. Absolutely.
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(13:27):
all the beatings we all got is the reason why
we don't have kids.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
My mother used to say this.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I don't know if you ever got this, but it
was like, when you have your own kids, you can
do this too. I never got that, and I was
like well, that's why I don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's actually one of the main reasons I don't is
because there's a little bit of a cycle breaking mentality
going on with me where it's like, you know what,
I think it's probably best because I wasn't shown the
best way to parent, I probably wouldn't be the best parent.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, that's I mean, I'm go ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, they say you parent like you were parented, and
I mean my parents were not good parents. You know that,
And the world really doesn't need another bipolar addict.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So you know, well you told that to Los Angeles,
my friend.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I'm really good with kids, like kids love me, and
I love I love children like I I'll buy gifts,
I'll go out of my way to do things. But
I don't want any more of this DNA in the
world at all.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I'm kind of an enigma because I'm I'm very
much a question mark as far as when it comes
to nature versus nurture because I'm adopted, right, and I
don't know my biological family, so I don't know what
sort of screwed up recessive jeans are in that gene
pool that I have somewhere lurking inside me. All I
know is how I was raised and what was modeled
(15:09):
for me, and how I was raised and what was
modeled for me was not stellar. So I think it's
probably for the best that we just not, you know,
tempt fade on that front, or like Trey said, it's
like the world doesn't need another bipolar addict. And even
on Christmas, most of our Christmases were absolutely fantastic. But
if I saw this teo didn't a doll cattle in
(15:31):
Christmas pooping doll underneath the tree on Christmas morning, I
would be worried that it looks a little too easy,
too wheeled in my mother's hand, like she could pick
that up and chase me around the tree with it.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I would just wake up and be like my dad
had too much Johnny walkmerd and shit under the tree
and then drew.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
A face on it and put a hat on it
and covered it up with a red rug so you
wouldn't see it.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I mean the rug would be Persian. But yes, anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Uh so, Merry Christmas do us And and I'm with you,
Roger Meane. I like kids. I've never had anything against them.
It's just the the older I got the more I
thought about it, and I was like, you know what,
I think, it's probably it's it's best for me and
my life and lifestyle, and probably for the benefit of
the child. That's probably not good.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
He's one I always wanted kids. I'm like, even when
when I was married, Like, we didn't not try. Uh
But I guess that was the universe going, hey, just
be a good uncle and and and buy cool stuff.
Uh So I'm okay doing that.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's a good spot to be in.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, because I can also not show up the next year.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it's fine. Speaking of good spots to be in. Right,
if you are flying over the holidays, keep your eyes
open because you might just see a miracle or two.
According to the International Air Transport Association, airlines have reported
a more than thirty percent surge in wheelchair assistance requests
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at airports, with larger airports reporting even higher numbers. Flight
attendants say many are able bodied passengers seeking wheelchairs for
a so called VIP experience, an escorted trip down the
jetway that skips lines and secures early access to overhead
(17:37):
bin space. However, a large number miraculously stand and walk
unaided upon arrival, leading many to credit a divine intervention
known as Jetway Jesus for their sudden return to mobility.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Oh yeah, because they like it because you get to
board first.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
But if you need wheelchair assistants and you're last off
the plane and they don't like that. So yeah, amazingly
they can walk. I saw that the last three times
I've flown, Like it's mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The same for me. I would see people get pushed
through the terminal by the attendants in their wheelchairs. Then
they get right to the front of the line, doesn't
matter what group number they're supposed to be for whatever
they paid for, because they need the special assistance. They're
in the wheelchair. They get on first, and then you're
right trey. Once once the plane gets to where it's going, boo,
(18:36):
up they are and they're grabbing stuff out of the
overhead bin and they're ready to get off that plane
and go. It's a it's a it's a holy divine intervention,
and it's just lucky that we've been able to witness it.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh. My father, I can't even make this up.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
He would always ask for a wheelchair and I was like,
what because diabetic? Right, But this was before any of
the congestive heart failure and any of the dimensions stuff.
He would always request because of his age. He's like,
watch this, We're gonna go right through security. And I'm like,
I will take And I did this because I guess morality.
(19:19):
I would go in the other line and he's like, no,
just come with me, just walk to walk with me,
pretend you have my nurse.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I was like, I look like you, what are the odds?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, and that man I watched him walk off a
plane one time carrying four bottles of Shivis.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
The wheelchair was still waiting at the jetway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, so that was that was my father, So he
was he was one of those people.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, and you're right, I have I have witnessed this tray,
and especially when it's someone that's younger and you see
them being pushed by the wheelchair and it's like, really,
are you kind of a thing? Now, I have learned
that if we're talking like a handicap parking spot and
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someone parks there and they walk out of the car
and they look completely fine physically, not everyone's handicaps are visible.
So I've learned that over the years. So you can't
just assume that someone is gaming the system if they
park in a handicap spot and they have the thing.
Although keep in mind that was something my family was
(20:35):
really big on. My grandmother had a handicap thing once
after a surgery, and it was supposed to be it
was supposed to expire after a certain amount of time.
Oh no, no, no, no, that thing kept getting renewed
and renewed. I don't know how. And next thing you know,
my aunt had one and my mom has one.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Because once they issue him typically there for life. But
I just can't imagine, I, okay, you're gaming the system.
You get the wheel. I would be so embarrassed. I
would at least have to wait and get wheeled off.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's it. I would pretend to have polio and that's
not even a thing.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Now, don't worry, it's coming back.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Thanks, Okay, I would. I would pretend that I would
walk up like if I got out of the car.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I would limp, just so everybody looking is like, oh,
well that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well that's the thing that's that's so disgusting about people
these days is they don't even try to hide it
until they absolutely have to. You raj you Trey I
get it. If you're going to fake it, you are
going to fake it in its entirety. You are going
to go with that bit from beginning to end. As
soon as you park at the airport, you got the cart,
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you're limping, you're limping into the terminal, you're limping through security,
your butts in the wheelchair, and you carry it all
the way through to the end. And then you wait
for the wheelchair, like you said, trade to take you
off the plane as well. So you've maintained the lie
the entire time. And I applaud that work ethic. So
(22:22):
many people don't have it these days. They only do
it for as much time as they absolutely have to
to get what they want, and then they're gone.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I think I would go as far if I really
were going to do it. I still have a boot
from what I broke my ankle. I would probably slap
that thing on just to give it some authenticity.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Even if it was on your army. Why do you
have a boot on your arm I'm not well.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know what, This gives me a great idea for
a store at the airport, at the airport outside of security.
But you get your wheelchair right then and there.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
What's the there's.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
A luggage store that's like right when you go through security,
there's to me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Is that the name of the uh that sounds right? Yeah?
But yeah, I mean you can have little little medical
you know, appendage detachment. You can have medical accessories. You
can have a little gas tank wheel wheeling around. You
can get slings, you should. You can get knee braces,
ankle braces. You can get one of those halo things
for your head. I'd be great what you want.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
You don't even need to pay the rent.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You just need a car, and like it's like the
you know, remember the eighties, Like you people open up
their vests and they have watches and stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You pop the truck.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You've got bootslings, crutches, walkers, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And if someone ask you what sort of career you're in,
you're like, I'm in medical sales.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You can have some X rays you get you know doctor,
I say, oh, yeah, this is yours.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Here and I'm Indian. I'll help you with those.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hot in my mobile MRI van here. All it is
is just a printer just popping out MRI stuff with
circles on a go. Look, herniation or whatever neck braces
two for two for one.
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Fuck clear? Uh clear?
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I think it's ninety nine dollars a month. I'll so
you a boot for twenty.
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That's right, and I'll be sold out by lunch.
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On every boot it just says pay it forward, so
when you get done, when you get off your flight,
you just give it to the next person.
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Yeah. And also I'll have a separate line of those
medical accessories. Uh, we'll have the one where you can
also hide a flask.
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God damn, we're a mix of the Downies and the Kardashians.
I don't know what's happening right now.
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I'm sorry, Roger.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm disappointed in you. No, you don't pay it forward.
You make those things where they fall apart after one use.
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Goddamn right, Hey brother, I'm still I'm still eBay not tu.
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Yeah, I mean you can have like the uh god,
I'm not trying to get five stars. You're just trying
to give five bucks.
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you live on an island like I do on St.
Thomas and the US Virgin Islands. There's like fifty thousand
people here, so I mean it's not a tiny town,
but it is a small area and it's got a
small town field because you see a lot of the
same people you know when you go places, and your
option aren't limited when it comes to a number of industries.
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What I'm beating around the Christmas pooping log here is
that I'm afraid I'm going to need a new plumber.
And there aren't many really good plumbers on this island
that I have found yet. And I found one, found
a really good one, and I can understand what he says.
He does really good work. He was a marine and
(27:28):
he's also going through a difficult time with his girlfriend.
And I'm now going to tell you how I know
about this. So yesterday is his name? Probably shouldn't have
said that. Hang on, let me let me just do
this here. I can fix it, all right? Is his name?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Already said anyway, I might need a new plumber because
he's having a difficult time with his girlfriend. Yesterday he
came over to help me switch out some cistern filters okay,
and also sink stuff. Then this morning when I wake up,
he has sent a few texts.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yes, we've seen these movies. Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
This is the reason why I debated even telling you
guys about this, because I knew you were gonna twist
it and turn it into something that it's not.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I just don't know why. I think like Tray sometimes.
But he saw his face and I was like, I'll wait.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So Renee comes over because I needed a couple of
things changed. The plumber comes over. I needed a couple
of things changed, and then the idea was for him
to come back, and then I needed a quote on
some other work okay, and then he was going to
come back today to finish it. Right. The problem is
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he sent a couple of texts last night, and I
don't know if I'm ever going to hear from him again,
because he sent texts that were not intended for me.
In fact, they said, mm hmm. Up here, babe, I'm
still the same person you've loved. It was a bad day,
but know that I love you and I miss you.
(29:30):
Let me show you how much I miss you. And
then a photograph. Uh uh. I have now seen way
more of my plumber than anyone ever should.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
And take it away.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And it is not lost on me that he was
supposed to come back today to replace my p trap.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Or you're ovalbum like that.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
But here's the thing, the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But here's the thing. There aren't that many really good
plumbers on the island. So I found a good one
and I don't want him to be embarrassed. I want,
I need him to come back and do the work.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Also, how many dance does Rene love? So?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I mean, I get it, it's awkward, but bro, I
need some help.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Uh can So he thought he was messaging his girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, or he thought he and I have a way
different relationship than I thought.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
God, I hope it's the latter.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
At any point, did you uh scream?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Didn't scream? If these pipes are clean?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
No, don't you victim blame me. This is not my fault.
I woke up this morning and I saw a couple
of texts from him, expecting them to say something along
the lines of I'll be over at eight am or
stopping to get parts, then I'll be on my way,
And instead it's him telling his girlfriend he loves her
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and that he misses her, and he wants to show
her how much he misses her by sending me a
photo of his pipe.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
PBC or copper copper. So he's pierced, good to know.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh no, he's just he's very tan.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Oh hence renee. Oh wow, Well, I mean, now, how
do you okay? So let's say he comes back, even
if he's the best plumber in the world, he comes
back tomorrow to.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I hate to say, finish the job, because Trey's gonna
laugh before we.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
You know, he comes over to right and then you
have to look at him and go, what do I
owe you? He can't charge you after that.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I know. So that's why it's kind of a good
news bad news rock and a hard place type situation
for me, it is we're really going to stop walking into.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Those You have the worst LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Or the best that'll stand out on LinkedIn let me
tell you, or porn hub. I don't know which one
you use to get you can copy and paste both profiles.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Now, okay, so do you call him again? Do you
have to.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Go another shot and go, hey, man, I think you
messed up. You got to tell him right as a
as a dude. Okay, man, I think you messed up,
and that was that was me and Stuf you. I
know you're trying to send it to a girl. You're
having a rough day. I get that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I don't know if I should say anything. If anything,
I want to send something to him that like takes
up the text screen, like a link to a dumb
you know, video or a dumb TikTok or something. So
that way, maybe just maybe in his own mind, he
can think maybe maybe maybe this guy didn't see it
and it's pushed to the top. Or if I send
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him something that's a video like a TikTok thing, it'll
push his text above mine, So then that way maybe
he won't then realize that he sent me those texts
although not that I'm saying that it's it's already middle
of the day here. It's far too late. He knows
what he did, and I don't think he's going to
be coming today, and I but.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I I think he is.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I just I don't want to call more attention to
it than than then. I know he knows that it
already has been.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And what kind of videos would you be sending him?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm not sending any videos.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You said you wanted to send him a video to you,
that's what you just said.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, oh god, sorry, yes, yeah, I would do I
would do something like that, like I don't care what
it is. It could be like the dog chasing a squirrel.
I don't There's something completely I don't know, just something
to push the text up to where he might think
that I didn't see it, or he won't know that
he sent it.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
So in your community, dog chasing a squirrel, what does
that actual video look like?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Honestly, I don't know, because we don't have squirrels here.
It have to be like a dog chasing on iguana
or a hermit crab or something.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
I'm just wondering in the docking or a rooster.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
And can you dress up as in a Star Trek
uniform so we can have h spot on a cock.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
That would be great. Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I know I'm going to regret this, but I'm going
to tell you anyway that the name of his company
is Rooster Plumbing.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah it is, and we're out now right happy.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Uhcall that from a mile of way.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I think it's because Trey's been here and he's seen
the guy's vand uh, you've seen more than that.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Anyway, if anyone knows of any good plumbers on the
island of Saint Thomas, please let me know.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Tell us what kind of d I y you as
you pull up.
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