November 28, 2025 • 39 mins
It's a special Black Friday edition of The Treehouse and we've got a good one for you. We start off with an elitist and racist Campbell's Soup Exec, what you should (or should not) wear on an airplane, the "I'm not drunk it's NyQuil" defense, a woman loses her StrongWomen title because she's a man, and a woman thought she married a man, instead found out he was Batman, and divorced him without criminal charges.
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Campbell’s executive says products are for poor people, mocks Indians, lawsuit claims
Stop wearings pajamas on airplanes, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says about 'bringing civility back'
School bus driver allegedly drove students while drunk, claimed alcohol smell was NyQuil
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She Married a Man… and Got Batman Instead: Jordan’s Latest Viral Divorce Story
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LINKS:
Campbell’s executive says products are for poor people, mocks Indians, lawsuit claims
Stop wearings pajamas on airplanes, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says about 'bringing civility back'
School bus driver allegedly drove students while drunk, claimed alcohol smell was NyQuil
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/worlds-strongest-woman-loses-title-over-gender-identity-in-scandal-hit-competition-9703089
She Married a Man… and Got Batman Instead: Jordan’s Latest Viral Divorce Story
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Dan, O'Malley, along with
Trey Trendholm and Jerry called Well, this is the Treehouse
Black Friday Special. We want to accompany you on your
(00:45):
adventure of punching old ladies in the teeth for televisions today. Yeah,
or if you're an old lady who got punched in
the teeth over at television, you could use some Treehouse
and we're here for you. We get you coming and going. Baby.
So let's start today with something especially holiday themed. All right,
(01:09):
let me pulled this up. A senior executive at Campbell
Soup Company was allegedly caught making disparaging remarks about the company.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We're looking at healthy brands, avocado based oil. Healthy. If
you look at our fantry, we still we have four people,
right we have that's for four people. Don't apply more healthy.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
The Michigan lawsuit claims executive Martin Valley was secretly recorded
by a former employee.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know he said chicken. It came from a
three D printer and you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The meeting was recorded by Robert Garz, a former cybersecurity
analyst at Campbell who later filed a discrimination suit against Bally.
Guarza said he met with him expecting to discuss salary.
He alleges he was later terminated after raising concerns about
the executive. Campbell said Bally was placed on temporary leave
as the company conducts an internal investigation. Well, there's nothing
(02:22):
like leading into a holiday and having one of your
top executives being whistleblown all over social media and on
the Washington Post. Fascinating there from Campbell's. Also, timing couldn't
be better because new from Campbell's just in time for
the holiday. Cream of Campbell's executive, full of hate and stupidity,
(02:47):
a dash of corporate cover up, and just a hint
of racism. If you're wondering where the racism comes in,
I'll tell you. Martin Bally is a vice president and
chief information officer at the food giant. He said, hearing
a meeting that Campbell's products were highly processed food for
poor people, that Indian employees were idiots whom he disliked
working with. That's according to the employment discrimination complaint filed
(03:10):
by Garza. Garza said in the lawsuit he was fired
after telling a supervisor about the comments that he planned
to report them to the HR department. So there's your
dash of corporate cover up. And then the more hints
of racism came when Garza's attorney provided The Washington Post
with a lengthy recording other conversation which Bally can allegedly
(03:32):
be heard complaining about an incident during which employees could
not be reached in a technical emergency, saying, effing Indians
they couldn't think for their effing selves. He can also
allegedly be heard suggesting that the company suits possibly used
bioengineered meat. A statement from Campbell's said these statements, if
(03:53):
they were in fact made, are unacceptable. They do not
reflect our values and the culture of our company. And
they also said, no, we use real chicken in our products.
Any claims otherwise or false. Hmm, I can't wait to
rip open my can of Campbell's cream a mushroom from
my green bean casserole. Well, happy freaking holidays. Sorry, you've
(04:17):
got the look of discernment on your face. Do you
smell a stinky?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mean the what was he he's the CTO.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Basically, yeah, he's yeah, thank you, Jerry Cio, chief information
officer and vice president I'm sorry, vice president and chief
information security officer at.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Campbell, so about as far away as from production as
you could be, I am. I always find it interesting,
you know, when people take recordings into meetings and then
they go, oh, but there's more, Well, why didn't you
(04:59):
really more so, either you're blackmailing the company or I
don't know it just I mean, the guy's an asshole.
He just hurts to be fired. I mean, how long.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Does this internal investigation really need to be? I mean,
this seems pretty cut and dry. Is that him? Bye?
Is it not him? Then you're fine?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But I also, I guess I'm at a point now.
And you know you can get a can of soup
for ninety nine cents. Yeah, I know. It's highly processed.
It's m it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There is something to be said about saying the quiet
part out loud is one of the ways to phrase
it these days, which is another way of saying, well,
we're just I'm kind of saying what we all already know.
It's just not really said. It's more understood. I certainly
don't expect, you know, some of Campbell's soup products to
(05:55):
not be high processed. I mean it's canned food. I
mean kind of by definition processed. I also know, and
all the mushrooms I have handled in my life, I've
yet to see one pump out cream. And if I do,
I'm not gonna eat it. But I know the soup
is tasty and it's an essential ingredient in my green
(06:16):
bean cast role. So yeah. The thing is, though, as
a high ranking company executive, you're not supposed to be
the one that says that stuff. You're supposed to waive
the company flag and go rah rah raie gay Campbell
not not talk trash about the ingredients and the company
to fellow employees, subordinates.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No less chief information security officer didn't keep that very secure,
did your brother?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, stay in your lane, bro, You need to be
worried about the site. Which that's another angle on this story.
Campbell's soup has a cybersecurity department. Oh, twenty first century.
It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But yeah, you know, and then also anything a can
that it's gonna last five years, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, you're right, it's ninety nine cent cream of something
that doesn't typically have cream in it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm not shock regardless if I want soup or
have there's a recipe that calls for soup. That's my
first you know, I'm probably going towards you grabbing a
can of Campbell's mm hm hm.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Honestly thought roast it's very important part of the recipe.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Okay, yeah, I mean, honestly, at the top of my head,
I don't even I can't even think if Progresso or
I think that's the only other soup competitor I can
come up with. At the top of my head, I
don't know if they have cream of product lines or not.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
No, they're usually like a full blown you know, it's
MINNESTRONI it's vegetable beef.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that's the other thing about what this guy said,
He's like lofing food for poor people. That's what soup is.
That's what soup has always been. It's you know, it's
it's the table scraps that we got from the monarchs
and the rulers and the lords, and then we just
throw it in some water or throw it in some
stock and tried to make it taste as good as
(08:19):
we could.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, I mean chicken stock literally is you know. Oh,
they took the bones that the royalty weren't gonna eat,
and they pull it stock and took whatever meat was
going to be left off the bone.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, and marketing is not a brand new thing. They
called it chicken stock even back then because bone water
doesn't sell as well. Sure, that's what it is, but
let's not call it what it is. You know. Ah,
Campbell's just out of nowhere, just stepping in it. The
(08:51):
angle on this that does bother me at a real
authentic level is if what this for seeing whistleblower in
terms of a Campbell's Soup controversy. But here we are
if what this complainant is saying is true that he
went in had to have some sort of salary negotiation
(09:11):
and he ends up recording the conversation because the executive
is just just dogging the company left and right, and
he's saying bad things about the Indian employees. And then
if it's also true that he went to another supervisor
to report it and was fired, that's a severe problem.
And that's something that unfortunately is not limited to Campbell's
(09:34):
Soup that's something that happens at corporations. I think every
single day I've seen it happen where the company you
think you might be doing something right, and then about
halfway through the entire process you realize, Oh, the company's
not helping me. They're just protecting their executive yep. And
(09:59):
that's a realization to make.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean that that is an unfortunate realization. And corporate
America and government everything is that a lot of a
lot of positions could be eliminated. But otherwise, you know,
people protect their position by screwing other people.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, mm hmm, corporate one on one baby, Uh, I
had something else and now I just lost it because
I got I got stuck in a memory. What was that?
I could something in my ear? Get all. That's an
(10:42):
odd flutter in the audio stream. I don't know what
that was. Maybe we can fix it and post.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah. If there was ever an industry where this rings true.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's the media industry, without a doubt. And the sad
thing is, is your only recourse, like this guy, this
employee again, if all this is true, his only recourse
really is to go to the media and say, all right, look,
this is what's happening because I had a problem with
this guy, and I went to this guy to say, hey,
there's a problem with this guy, and that guy fired
me for it. So now that we got corporate cover
(11:15):
up type of situation, and the only recourse if you're
not being treated fairly by the company is to go
to the media. And you got a whistleblow and everyone
looks at you funny because number one, you're whistle blowing
on Campbell's soup, and number two, it's the first time
they've heard you actually say out loud that you work
at Campbell's Soup because it's not exactly high on people's
LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, there's also there's another factor to this, which is
you may not be popular with the company overall because
if their employees a lot of them are vested in
Campbell's stock, stuff like this tended to be uh, not
so good, So you may have cost everyone some money.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You said, vested in Campbell's stock.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
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Speaker 6 (14:39):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
Transportation Secretary is not a position inside any presidential administration
that gets much attention unless there's been some sort of
tragedy or if he or she wants to tell everyone
what to do, especially while traveling over the holidays. And
that's exactly what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy did recently out
of Prescot on Friends Again.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I call this, uh, just maybe dressing with some respect.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
You know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
and a and a decent shirt, I would encourage.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
People to maybe I would encourage someone to pay attention
to that dangerous sounding alarm in the background. Did anyone
else pick up on that?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Call this, uh just maybe dressing with some respect. Uh,
you know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
and a and a decent shirt. I would encourage people
to maybe dress a little better, which encourage us, encourages
us to maybe behave all a little better.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Let's so, I guess the head of the Transportation Department
wants to also be the head of the fashion police.
This this is what you're focusing on. Well, it's it's
it's ahead of traveling season. He's trying to say, you know,
the airports are back to normal after the shutdown, and
let's all kind of work together and make the you know,
the traveling experience as good as possible. I just I
(15:58):
do find it ironic though, you know, when it's the
freedom the people that say freedom, freedom, freedom, are now
telling me how I should dress or what they think
I should dress. Like, I'm more libertarian on that on
that front where it's like, how about you let me
dress how I want to dress, It's not it's a suggestion. Yeah,
it's a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean, as someone who has traveled a fair amounta
in the last month. Uh, you know, people dress like
shit when they're flying. I mean it looks like people,
you know, they're they're going to bed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So going to Walmart at three am.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I mean, look good, feel good, act good. I
mean I don't. I don't think it's you know, he's
not mandating what you can and can't do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He's not mandating it because he can't and he knows that.
But he can certainly suggest it, and he can certainly
feel in his core that we all should be doing this,
and we should do that, and we should act appropriately.
Whereas I say, there is a direct correlation between the
softness of airline seats and the softness of travelers attire.
(17:03):
I don't think we started dressing like crap until the
seats on planes got really uncomfortable. So we decided, you
know what, I need some cushiony sweatpants on this plane
because they keep taking away the foam padding in the chairs.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
When were plane seats ever comfortable in coach?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's not that they were comfortable, it's just that they've
gotten less comfortable.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We've gotten less comfortable because they're smaller, not because of padding.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
No, it's padding as well. They've done they've done this
like they'll they've they've made the seat smaller and they
decreased the padding on some airlines, so it's like it's
noticeably thinner. And I remember flying. I think the first
time I flew in a plane was eighty five. I've
never flown first class. I don't know. The closest I've
come is the big front seat on Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
While cushiony, it is not first clas on Delta or
American and it's certainly not you know, Emirates, So I
am very familiar with you know, the coach seats, and
I do know that they used to be more comfortable.
And he can't mandate to airlines hey make comfany your
seats either, So you're right, it's not a massive deal.
(18:19):
It's just a suggestion. But I don't like being told
what to wear and being looked down upon. I don't
like being told what to do at all.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, I don't think one has anything to do with
the other. It's judgment, that's what it is. Well, okay,
but that's not Sean Duffy's fault.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
He's part of the problem the same way apparently you are.
Because you're looking at what people are wearing and you're
being all judgy and snooty and snotty and stuck up
about people wearing pajamas to the airport.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Guilty is charged.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
If I want to wear a snuggie on Spirit, then
goddamn it, I'm gonna wear a snuggie on Spirit because
that's the only thing that's gonna give me any sense
of life because I'm flying Spirit and all I care
about is wear shoes. That is universal put your goddamn
shoes on and lead and keep them on through the
whole flight. Yeah, I don't want your toes on my arm.
(19:24):
So in addition to the if you want us to
dress more comfortably, make the seats more comfortable, I actually
contend you can say, like passengers do wear uniforms to
a certain extent, you just don't recognize them. So like
you can tell the people that are going on vacation
based on what they're wearing. They're wearing the straw hat,
they're wearing, the Jimmy Buffett Margueritaville's shirt. They got the shorts.
(19:47):
That's probably swim trunks as well. There's your vacationers. You
can also tell who's traveling for work. You like, the
guy that Seann Duffy's describing their jeans and a decent
shirt could be a work traveler. I'll be what you wear,
Trey uh. And if there's a like a sport coat
blazer situation, definitely traveling for work. And then you can
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tell who's planning on sleeping on the flight because they
have come prepared with their pajamas and the net roll
and basically just a human body bubble.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean let's not forget there once was a dress
code to fly mm hmm. And as that has decreased,
you have incidents of unruly travelers has increased. Now is
there a correlation, I don't know, but that is a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think that's the skank effect. Well, that's where a
lot of the problems come from. And a lot of
the problems have stemmed from unruly passengers because of alcohol
and or drug abuse mixed in, especially with people not
like I can't talk, people not like being told what
to do. There you go there, it is.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, because ultimately the one thing people really don't like
being told is to sit down and shut them up.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's true, we don't like that, but sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's needed for all of us.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Mm hmm. That's where all of us together. Yeah, that's
where the air marshal is supposed to step in.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There are no more air marshals.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
See stop telling us these things. You've taken the fear
out of it, and now the pajama clad idiots have
run them up.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I feel like over the last couple of years the
no air marshals has become blatantly obvious.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It has, but I mean, come on, you need to
you need to pepper one in on occasion and light
somebody up that's dressed like a furry in business class,
just to set an example. So everyone knows there could
be one on this flight, so I should behave accordingly.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I mean, I don't know why we can't just give
the flight attendants tasers.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, you know, I mean on paper, that sounds like
a great idea, And when you're on the plane, it
kind of depends on which flight attendant has it. Because
some of them I'd be fine with that. Then there's
some where I'm like, oh God, please don't let that
person have a taser. That would be bad. It'd get
(22:27):
me wrong. I'm not gonna be the one getting taste.
I'm gonna I'm gonna get a good show. I'm gonna
get some good free in flight entertainment. So bring it on.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I mean, just just that sound. It's just but you
know what, it's kind of like crime in Texas. There's
a lot less why because you don't know who's armed.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's true, it's just the possibility.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, if you just if you just opened up the
possibility that one of the flight attendant had a taser,
I think people would would would think twice.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The threat of retribution can be just as effective as retribution.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Itself and just one viral clip.
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place because I was trying to remember where I wanted
to start today because there's so much good stuff the news.
Let's start with this. A school bus driver allegedly drove
students while drunk, but he says that's not true because
the smell of alcohol on his breath was actually Nike
Will Old school night Will. Huh. I'm not driving your
(25:35):
kids drunk around town on a school bus. I'm just
effed up on Nike Will, just sleepy. How dare you
accuse me of something so terrible? I've been driving these
kids around, you know, for years, and you're gonna that
(25:58):
one actually kicked me right in the gut. Surprisingly, this
was not Florida. This is Maple Lake, Minnesota. The school
bus driver allegedly drove his students to school while intoxicated,
later telling the police the alcohol the students smelled on
him was from nik Will. According to documents obtained by
a local outlet, School Resource officer for Maple Lake Schools
was notified by his student that their bus driver smelled
(26:21):
like alcohol. I would like to I hope that they
said bus driver smells like mommy.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I really do think that's got to be the second
visit you make is if you know how old? Did
it say how all these kids are? Elementary?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The officer contacted the bus company to do charging documents
multiple students, multiple students under the age of sixteen. Didn't
say how many students.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So, if you're a kid and you know what alcohol
smells like.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Through breath, not just whiffing it out the top of
the bottle, but mixed in with you know, human biology, if.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You can go, oh, Jack Daniel, single barrel.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The bus driver smells like my mom, Stanley or dad
or dad at football practice. Yeah, it's a bit of
a hint there. So he's in trouble. He's probably not
going to be driving kids around anymore, if ever ever again.
(27:38):
A woman filed for divorce because her husband decided he
was batman. I tell you, you show me a man with
a dream, and I'll show you a woman who wants
to squash it. The first month of married life for
this couple went smoothly, but then the husband started acting
completely unhinged. He would regularly roam the house in a
(28:03):
Batman costume, force his wife to watch Batman movies, insist
on being called Bruce Wayne, and disappear at night whenever
he saw lights in the sky that he believed were
the bat signal. The last straw came when the woman
woke up in the middle of the night to find
her husband in a Batman suit, standing in the dark
and speaking in a deep brooding voice. After that, she
(28:26):
packed her things, went to her parents' house and filed
for divorce. I say for richer, for poor sickness and
in health. Meet his superhero energy with your own. He's Batman,
You be wonder woman.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
At least she didn't file assault charges on him.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Me. That may be the best double n taundured joke
slash punchline in the hit story of this program. And
I am including every iteration of it, Sir, I am
(29:13):
shook right, damn. Look, I don't know you know how
they say that I bet so and so is rolling
over in their grave. Well, I don't think you can
roll over in your grave if you've been cremated. But
(29:34):
I would like to think somewhere in a tube six
feet beneath the surface of a cemetery in Garland, Texas,
a little just occurred.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All I want to do now is stop the show,
go back and pull the audio and just listen to
it for the rest of the day, maybe the rest
of Black Friday, maybe the whole weekend. All right, well done.
(30:14):
If I was wearing a hat, I would tip it
to you. If I was wearing a cowl, I would
rip it off and go as it is a couple
more pieces of things to play with. The World's Strongest
(30:41):
Woman is a man.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
A woman.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
It's a man man.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That ain't no woman. It's a man man.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I love twenty twenty five. I know things like this
wouldn't make my heart happy, but they kind of do.
Jammy Booker was disqualified just days after she destroyed the
competition at the Official Strongman Games World Championship in Arlington
over the weekend. The Official Games took place number twenty
(31:18):
through twenty third in Arlington, featured hundreds of athletes across
multiple divisions and competitions, with one of the biggest ones
being the twenty twenty five World Strongest Woman Jammy Booker,
an alleged transgender athlete was the one who came out
on top. However, Jammy was disqualified after the competition, making
Andrea Thompson the overall champion, because it turns out Jammy
(31:42):
was born a man, and in the rules and regulations
for the competition it expressly states you have to compete
with the gender of your birth. I know this is
a hot topic in the world nowadays, and for some reason,
this is you know, split along political ideologies, like everything
(32:02):
seems to be these days. I have a simple solution,
and please Tray Jerry tell me if this is half cocked.
You've got the male division, you've got the female division.
And the controversy in these competitions arises when you've got
someone that was a man at some point, or was
born a man, transitions or is in the process of transitioning,
(32:26):
and then competes in the woman's side and just destroys
all the female competitors to take the top spot. Right.
I don't think there's any examples of a female's you know,
switching sides and dominating the men, at least not in
competitive sports. Can we just have a third category, just
have the trans category and let the trans athlete compete
(32:48):
against themselves and if you know what, because and here's
the other thing to keep in mind, across the world
and competitions that happen every single day, the number of
trans athletes competing in the opposite division of their birth
is extremely small. So if you create a trans division
for these competitions, you may have absolutely zero people in it,
(33:12):
or you may have one. But at least that's the spot.
I feel like that's a compromise, it's a solution for everybody,
and we can get back to debating things that truly matter,
and that is whether or not to wear crocs on
an airline.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That has been proposed and soundly rejected by the trans community.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Because they want to They don't want to be seen
as something other than what they're wanting to be. Yes, well,
I mean at a certain point you just got to
face reality.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well, I think everyone is entitled to be happy, and
I can't even imagine what it's like to be born
and not feel comfortable in your own skin and feel
like you want to be someone else. And but one
of the things, and quite frankly, it's one of the
things that is now, especially in the LGBT community, there
(34:04):
has been a trend of you know, because most most
trans people want to blend in. They want to be
seen as normal, not and and I think this is
an unfortunate deal of our age of the time we
live in that there are a lot of people who
want attention, but toss out the big one of the
(34:27):
biggest bullshit things of the last ten years was the
notion that there is no difference between sexes.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yes, there is, everyone knows it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And to say that, you know, oh, you know, you
grow you grow up as you know, a biological male,
and then you decide to switch, well, you still have
the benefits, especially if you're post pubescent, and quite frankly,
no one prepubescent. Really, kids shouldn't be making this decision.
You're you're you have the all the biological effects of
being a male, which there is a difference, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I mean good and bad by the way, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But when it comes to the physical traits. Serena Williams
is the greatest female athlete ever and one of the
top athletes of all time. But you know when she
sat there and said, yeah, I would get smoked in
straight sex sets by you know, my male counterparts, you
have to know that there's a difference.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, she's not putting down her entire gender. She's just
speaking honestly about something that for the most part, well
basically kind of know. And I'll tell you this right now, Like,
I love it when like idiot sports guys or just
idiot guys in general say something as stupid as, oh,
I could beat Serena Williams in a tennis match because
I'm a guy, Bubba. But no, no, you couldn't. Joe Schlub, No,
(35:45):
you couldn't. You know, Andy Roddick, Yeah, he probably could.
Pete Sampras would probably beat you know, the Williams sisters.
I'm not. No, I'm not gonna beat I'm not gonna
beat the lowest see tennis player in the world on
the female side, I'm not. And so there are exceptions
to these rules. But at the end of the day,
(36:07):
when you're you know, talking about elite versus non and
just male versus female, yeah, come on, common sense common
sense can still be a thing without it being against
somebody's thing.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Sorry, but yeah, I saw you know. And the woman
who has now been declared champion, uh yeah, she walked
off the podium after this because she was you could tell,
just absolutely kind of disgusted and yeah, they worked their
(36:40):
ass off for this and then all of a sudden
you get outdone by someone who has a biological I
just drive, yeah, thank.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You, you mean it, because look, and this is the
side of the show that we have to bring up,
because this is this is what we do. We'll talk
about something kind of seriously, but then we have to
bring our own twist to stupid on it. And that's
what we're going to do here because I have these
thoughts and I'm sure other people do as well. When
you hear about a story like this where the world's
Strongest Woman wins, where the person that won the World's
(37:15):
Strongest Woman competition is a man, how'd they do that?
Has this person who was born a male that competed
in the female division of the World's Strongest Man? Have
they gone through the complete change? Has has the wiener
been extracted or is it still there? I don't know.
I don't know if you know how closely they're checking.
(37:36):
Are they giving physicals before they lift weights on stage?
But I know in these events they're extremely, extremely difficult, and.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I just wonder, like some of these athletes, like how
do you keep it contained if you're not fully switched
like when you do Like one of these events in
this competition was a log lift press, which is basically
I think it's like a like a clean and jerk
type of thing.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And so you're picking up the log like a dead lift,
and then you're kind of snatching it onto your thighs
and then you're standing up and then pressing it over
your head. How do you keep your from flopping out
at some point during that heavy lift?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You never saw ace Ventura.
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That's a hell of a top tray. Neither Einhorn nor Pinkle.
We're doing snatching cleans during the movie, basically just walking
around really tight legged gut tape. Then that needs to
be the next rog Man sponsor, because holy that's some
(38:42):
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Speaker 1 (38:45):
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If it works for NASA, it'll keep your in place.
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Go to Treehouse on Air dot com. Oh now I
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Anyway. You can also find and follow us on social
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Dan, O'Malley, along with
Trey Trendholm and Jerry called Well, this is the Treehouse
Black Friday Special. We want to accompany you on your
(00:45):
adventure of punching old ladies in the teeth for televisions today. Yeah,
or if you're an old lady who got punched in
the teeth over at television, you could use some Treehouse
and we're here for you. We get you coming and going. Baby.
So let's start today with something especially holiday themed. All right,
(01:09):
let me pulled this up. A senior executive at Campbell
Soup Company was allegedly caught making disparaging remarks about the company.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
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you look at our fantry, we still we have four people,
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Speaker 2 (01:44):
The Michigan lawsuit claims executive Martin Valley was secretly recorded
by a former employee.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know he said chicken. It came from a
three D printer and you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
The meeting was recorded by Robert Garz, a former cybersecurity
analyst at Campbell who later filed a discrimination suit against Bally.
Guarza said he met with him expecting to discuss salary.
He alleges he was later terminated after raising concerns about
the executive. Campbell said Bally was placed on temporary leave
as the company conducts an internal investigation. Well, there's nothing
(02:22):
like leading into a holiday and having one of your
top executives being whistleblown all over social media and on
the Washington Post. Fascinating there from Campbell's. Also, timing couldn't
be better because new from Campbell's just in time for
the holiday. Cream of Campbell's executive, full of hate and stupidity,
(02:47):
a dash of corporate cover up, and just a hint
of racism. If you're wondering where the racism comes in,
I'll tell you. Martin Bally is a vice president and
chief information officer at the food giant. He said, hearing
a meeting that Campbell's products were highly processed food for
poor people, that Indian employees were idiots whom he disliked
working with. That's according to the employment discrimination complaint filed
(03:10):
by Garza. Garza said in the lawsuit he was fired
after telling a supervisor about the comments that he planned
to report them to the HR department. So there's your
dash of corporate cover up. And then the more hints
of racism came when Garza's attorney provided The Washington Post
with a lengthy recording other conversation which Bally can allegedly
(03:32):
be heard complaining about an incident during which employees could
not be reached in a technical emergency, saying, effing Indians
they couldn't think for their effing selves. He can also
allegedly be heard suggesting that the company suits possibly used
bioengineered meat. A statement from Campbell's said these statements, if
(03:53):
they were in fact made, are unacceptable. They do not
reflect our values and the culture of our company. And
they also said, no, we use real chicken in our products.
Any claims otherwise or false. Hmm, I can't wait to
rip open my can of Campbell's cream a mushroom from
my green bean casserole. Well, happy freaking holidays. Sorry, you've
(04:17):
got the look of discernment on your face. Do you
smell a stinky?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I mean the what was he he's the CTO.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Basically, yeah, he's yeah, thank you, Jerry Cio, chief information
officer and vice president I'm sorry, vice president and chief
information security officer at.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Campbell, so about as far away as from production as
you could be, I am. I always find it interesting,
you know, when people take recordings into meetings and then
they go, oh, but there's more, Well, why didn't you
(04:59):
really more so, either you're blackmailing the company or I
don't know it just I mean, the guy's an asshole.
He just hurts to be fired. I mean, how long.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Does this internal investigation really need to be? I mean,
this seems pretty cut and dry. Is that him? Bye?
Is it not him? Then you're fine?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But I also, I guess I'm at a point now.
And you know you can get a can of soup
for ninety nine cents. Yeah, I know. It's highly processed.
It's m it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There is something to be said about saying the quiet
part out loud is one of the ways to phrase
it these days, which is another way of saying, well,
we're just I'm kind of saying what we all already know.
It's just not really said. It's more understood. I certainly
don't expect, you know, some of Campbell's soup products to
(05:55):
not be high processed. I mean it's canned food. I
mean kind of by definition processed. I also know, and
all the mushrooms I have handled in my life, I've
yet to see one pump out cream. And if I do,
I'm not gonna eat it. But I know the soup
is tasty and it's an essential ingredient in my green
(06:16):
bean cast role. So yeah. The thing is, though, as
a high ranking company executive, you're not supposed to be
the one that says that stuff. You're supposed to waive
the company flag and go rah rah raie gay Campbell
not not talk trash about the ingredients and the company
to fellow employees, subordinates.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
No less chief information security officer didn't keep that very secure,
did your brother?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
No, stay in your lane, bro, You need to be
worried about the site. Which that's another angle on this story.
Campbell's soup has a cybersecurity department. Oh, twenty first century.
It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But yeah, you know, and then also anything a can
that it's gonna last five years, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, you're right, it's ninety nine cent cream of something
that doesn't typically have cream in it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm not shock regardless if I want soup or
have there's a recipe that calls for soup. That's my
first you know, I'm probably going towards you grabbing a
can of Campbell's mm hm hm.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Honestly thought roast it's very important part of the recipe.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Okay, yeah, I mean, honestly, at the top of my head,
I don't even I can't even think if Progresso or
I think that's the only other soup competitor I can
come up with. At the top of my head, I
don't know if they have cream of product lines or not.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
No, they're usually like a full blown you know, it's
MINNESTRONI it's vegetable beef.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And that's the other thing about what this guy said,
He's like lofing food for poor people. That's what soup is.
That's what soup has always been. It's you know, it's
it's the table scraps that we got from the monarchs
and the rulers and the lords, and then we just
throw it in some water or throw it in some
stock and tried to make it taste as good as
(08:19):
we could.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, I mean chicken stock literally is you know. Oh,
they took the bones that the royalty weren't gonna eat,
and they pull it stock and took whatever meat was
going to be left off the bone.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, and marketing is not a brand new thing. They
called it chicken stock even back then because bone water
doesn't sell as well. Sure, that's what it is, but
let's not call it what it is. You know. Ah,
Campbell's just out of nowhere, just stepping in it. The
(08:51):
angle on this that does bother me at a real
authentic level is if what this for seeing whistleblower in
terms of a Campbell's Soup controversy. But here we are
if what this complainant is saying is true that he
went in had to have some sort of salary negotiation
(09:11):
and he ends up recording the conversation because the executive
is just just dogging the company left and right, and
he's saying bad things about the Indian employees. And then
if it's also true that he went to another supervisor
to report it and was fired, that's a severe problem.
And that's something that unfortunately is not limited to Campbell's
(09:34):
Soup that's something that happens at corporations. I think every
single day I've seen it happen where the company you
think you might be doing something right, and then about
halfway through the entire process you realize, Oh, the company's
not helping me. They're just protecting their executive yep. And
(09:59):
that's a realization to make.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I mean that that is an unfortunate realization. And corporate
America and government everything is that a lot of a
lot of positions could be eliminated. But otherwise, you know,
people protect their position by screwing other people.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, mm hmm, corporate one on one baby, Uh, I
had something else and now I just lost it because
I got I got stuck in a memory. What was that?
I could something in my ear? Get all. That's an
(10:42):
odd flutter in the audio stream. I don't know what
that was. Maybe we can fix it and post.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah. If there was ever an industry where this rings true.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's the media industry, without a doubt. And the sad
thing is, is your only recourse, like this guy, this
employee again, if all this is true, his only recourse
really is to go to the media and say, all right, look,
this is what's happening because I had a problem with
this guy, and I went to this guy to say, hey,
there's a problem with this guy, and that guy fired
me for it. So now that we got corporate cover
(11:15):
up type of situation, and the only recourse if you're
not being treated fairly by the company is to go
to the media. And you got a whistleblow and everyone
looks at you funny because number one, you're whistle blowing
on Campbell's soup, and number two, it's the first time
they've heard you actually say out loud that you work
at Campbell's Soup because it's not exactly high on people's
LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, there's also there's another factor to this, which is
you may not be popular with the company overall because
if their employees a lot of them are vested in
Campbell's stock, stuff like this tended to be uh, not
so good, So you may have cost everyone some money.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You said, vested in Campbell's stock.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
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Uh.
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Transportation Secretary is not a position inside any presidential administration
that gets much attention unless there's been some sort of
tragedy or if he or she wants to tell everyone
what to do, especially while traveling over the holidays. And
that's exactly what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy did recently out
of Prescot on Friends Again.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I call this, uh, just maybe dressing with some respect.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
You know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
and a and a decent shirt, I would encourage.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
People to maybe I would encourage someone to pay attention
to that dangerous sounding alarm in the background. Did anyone
else pick up on that?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Call this, uh just maybe dressing with some respect. Uh,
you know, whether it's a pair of jeans and a
and a and a decent shirt. I would encourage people
to maybe dress a little better, which encourage us, encourages
us to maybe behave all a little better.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Let's so, I guess the head of the Transportation Department
wants to also be the head of the fashion police.
This this is what you're focusing on. Well, it's it's
it's ahead of traveling season. He's trying to say, you know,
the airports are back to normal after the shutdown, and
let's all kind of work together and make the you know,
the traveling experience as good as possible. I just I
(15:58):
do find it ironic though, you know, when it's the
freedom the people that say freedom, freedom, freedom, are now
telling me how I should dress or what they think
I should dress. Like, I'm more libertarian on that on
that front where it's like, how about you let me
dress how I want to dress, It's not it's a suggestion. Yeah,
it's a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I mean, as someone who has traveled a fair amounta
in the last month. Uh, you know, people dress like
shit when they're flying. I mean it looks like people,
you know, they're they're going to bed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So going to Walmart at three am.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I mean, look good, feel good, act good. I
mean I don't. I don't think it's you know, he's
not mandating what you can and can't do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He's not mandating it because he can't and he knows that.
But he can certainly suggest it, and he can certainly
feel in his core that we all should be doing this,
and we should do that, and we should act appropriately.
Whereas I say, there is a direct correlation between the
softness of airline seats and the softness of travelers attire.
(17:03):
I don't think we started dressing like crap until the
seats on planes got really uncomfortable. So we decided, you
know what, I need some cushiony sweatpants on this plane
because they keep taking away the foam padding in the chairs.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
When were plane seats ever comfortable in coach?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's not that they were comfortable, it's just that they've
gotten less comfortable.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
We've gotten less comfortable because they're smaller, not because of padding.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
No, it's padding as well. They've done they've done this
like they'll they've they've made the seat smaller and they
decreased the padding on some airlines, so it's like it's
noticeably thinner. And I remember flying. I think the first
time I flew in a plane was eighty five. I've
never flown first class. I don't know. The closest I've
come is the big front seat on Spirit Airlines.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
While cushiony, it is not first clas on Delta or
American and it's certainly not you know, Emirates, So I
am very familiar with you know, the coach seats, and
I do know that they used to be more comfortable.
And he can't mandate to airlines hey make comfany your
seats either, So you're right, it's not a massive deal.
(18:19):
It's just a suggestion. But I don't like being told
what to wear and being looked down upon. I don't
like being told what to do at all.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, I don't think one has anything to do with
the other. It's judgment, that's what it is. Well, okay,
but that's not Sean Duffy's fault.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
He's part of the problem the same way apparently you are.
Because you're looking at what people are wearing and you're
being all judgy and snooty and snotty and stuck up
about people wearing pajamas to the airport.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Guilty is charged.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
If I want to wear a snuggie on Spirit, then
goddamn it, I'm gonna wear a snuggie on Spirit because
that's the only thing that's gonna give me any sense
of life because I'm flying Spirit and all I care
about is wear shoes. That is universal put your goddamn
shoes on and lead and keep them on through the
whole flight. Yeah, I don't want your toes on my arm.
(19:24):
So in addition to the if you want us to
dress more comfortably, make the seats more comfortable, I actually
contend you can say, like passengers do wear uniforms to
a certain extent, you just don't recognize them. So like
you can tell the people that are going on vacation
based on what they're wearing. They're wearing the straw hat,
they're wearing, the Jimmy Buffett Margueritaville's shirt. They got the shorts.
(19:47):
That's probably swim trunks as well. There's your vacationers. You
can also tell who's traveling for work. You like, the
guy that Seann Duffy's describing their jeans and a decent
shirt could be a work traveler. I'll be what you wear,
Trey uh. And if there's a like a sport coat
blazer situation, definitely traveling for work. And then you can
(20:07):
tell who's planning on sleeping on the flight because they
have come prepared with their pajamas and the net roll
and basically just a human body bubble.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean let's not forget there once was a dress
code to fly mm hmm. And as that has decreased,
you have incidents of unruly travelers has increased. Now is
there a correlation, I don't know, but that is a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I think that's the skank effect. Well, that's where a
lot of the problems come from. And a lot of
the problems have stemmed from unruly passengers because of alcohol
and or drug abuse mixed in, especially with people not
like I can't talk, people not like being told what
to do. There you go there, it is.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, because ultimately the one thing people really don't like
being told is to sit down and shut them up.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's true, we don't like that, but sometimes.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's needed for all of us.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Mm hmm. That's where all of us together. Yeah, that's
where the air marshal is supposed to step in.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There are no more air marshals.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
See stop telling us these things. You've taken the fear
out of it, and now the pajama clad idiots have
run them up.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I feel like over the last couple of years the
no air marshals has become blatantly obvious.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It has, but I mean, come on, you need to
you need to pepper one in on occasion and light
somebody up that's dressed like a furry in business class,
just to set an example. So everyone knows there could
be one on this flight, so I should behave accordingly.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I mean, I don't know why we can't just give
the flight attendants tasers.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, you know, I mean on paper, that sounds like
a great idea, And when you're on the plane, it
kind of depends on which flight attendant has it. Because
some of them I'd be fine with that. Then there's
some where I'm like, oh God, please don't let that
person have a taser. That would be bad. It'd get
(22:27):
me wrong. I'm not gonna be the one getting taste.
I'm gonna I'm gonna get a good show. I'm gonna
get some good free in flight entertainment. So bring it on.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I mean, just just that sound. It's just but you
know what, it's kind of like crime in Texas. There's
a lot less why because you don't know who's armed.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's true, it's just the possibility.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, if you just if you just opened up the
possibility that one of the flight attendant had a taser,
I think people would would would think twice.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The threat of retribution can be just as effective as retribution.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Itself and just one viral clip.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
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Happy Friday from us inside the Treehouse to you. This
is Treehouse Black Friday special quick reminder as well, it
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(25:03):
place because I was trying to remember where I wanted
to start today because there's so much good stuff the news.
Let's start with this. A school bus driver allegedly drove
students while drunk, but he says that's not true because
the smell of alcohol on his breath was actually Nike
Will Old school night Will. Huh. I'm not driving your
(25:35):
kids drunk around town on a school bus. I'm just
effed up on Nike Will, just sleepy. How dare you
accuse me of something so terrible? I've been driving these
kids around, you know, for years, and you're gonna that
(25:58):
one actually kicked me right in the gut. Surprisingly, this
was not Florida. This is Maple Lake, Minnesota. The school
bus driver allegedly drove his students to school while intoxicated,
later telling the police the alcohol the students smelled on
him was from nik Will. According to documents obtained by
a local outlet, School Resource officer for Maple Lake Schools
was notified by his student that their bus driver smelled
(26:21):
like alcohol. I would like to I hope that they
said bus driver smells like mommy.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I really do think that's got to be the second
visit you make is if you know how old? Did
it say how all these kids are? Elementary?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The officer contacted the bus company to do charging documents
multiple students, multiple students under the age of sixteen. Didn't
say how many students.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So, if you're a kid and you know what alcohol
smells like.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Through breath, not just whiffing it out the top of
the bottle, but mixed in with you know, human biology, if.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You can go, oh, Jack Daniel, single barrel.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
The bus driver smells like my mom, Stanley or dad
or dad at football practice. Yeah, it's a bit of
a hint there. So he's in trouble. He's probably not
going to be driving kids around anymore, if ever ever again.
(27:38):
A woman filed for divorce because her husband decided he
was batman. I tell you, you show me a man with
a dream, and I'll show you a woman who wants
to squash it. The first month of married life for
this couple went smoothly, but then the husband started acting
completely unhinged. He would regularly roam the house in a
(28:03):
Batman costume, force his wife to watch Batman movies, insist
on being called Bruce Wayne, and disappear at night whenever
he saw lights in the sky that he believed were
the bat signal. The last straw came when the woman
woke up in the middle of the night to find
her husband in a Batman suit, standing in the dark
and speaking in a deep brooding voice. After that, she
(28:26):
packed her things, went to her parents' house and filed
for divorce. I say for richer, for poor sickness and
in health. Meet his superhero energy with your own. He's Batman,
You be wonder woman.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
At least she didn't file assault charges on him.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Me. That may be the best double n taundured joke
slash punchline in the hit story of this program. And
I am including every iteration of it, Sir, I am
(29:13):
shook right, damn. Look, I don't know you know how
they say that I bet so and so is rolling
over in their grave. Well, I don't think you can
roll over in your grave if you've been cremated. But
(29:34):
I would like to think somewhere in a tube six
feet beneath the surface of a cemetery in Garland, Texas,
a little just occurred.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All I want to do now is stop the show,
go back and pull the audio and just listen to
it for the rest of the day, maybe the rest
of Black Friday, maybe the whole weekend. All right, well done.
(30:14):
If I was wearing a hat, I would tip it
to you. If I was wearing a cowl, I would
rip it off and go as it is a couple
more pieces of things to play with. The World's Strongest
(30:41):
Woman is a man.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
A woman.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
It's a man man.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That ain't no woman. It's a man man.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I love twenty twenty five. I know things like this
wouldn't make my heart happy, but they kind of do.
Jammy Booker was disqualified just days after she destroyed the
competition at the Official Strongman Games World Championship in Arlington
over the weekend. The Official Games took place number twenty
(31:18):
through twenty third in Arlington, featured hundreds of athletes across
multiple divisions and competitions, with one of the biggest ones
being the twenty twenty five World Strongest Woman Jammy Booker,
an alleged transgender athlete was the one who came out
on top. However, Jammy was disqualified after the competition, making
Andrea Thompson the overall champion, because it turns out Jammy
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was born a man, and in the rules and regulations
for the competition it expressly states you have to compete
with the gender of your birth. I know this is
a hot topic in the world nowadays, and for some reason,
this is you know, split along political ideologies, like everything
(32:02):
seems to be these days. I have a simple solution,
and please Tray Jerry tell me if this is half cocked.
You've got the male division, you've got the female division.
And the controversy in these competitions arises when you've got
someone that was a man at some point, or was
born a man, transitions or is in the process of transitioning,
(32:26):
and then competes in the woman's side and just destroys
all the female competitors to take the top spot. Right.
I don't think there's any examples of a female's you know,
switching sides and dominating the men, at least not in
competitive sports. Can we just have a third category, just
have the trans category and let the trans athlete compete
(32:48):
against themselves and if you know what, because and here's
the other thing to keep in mind, across the world
and competitions that happen every single day, the number of
trans athletes competing in the opposite division of their birth
is extremely small. So if you create a trans division
for these competitions, you may have absolutely zero people in it,
(33:12):
or you may have one. But at least that's the spot.
I feel like that's a compromise, it's a solution for everybody,
and we can get back to debating things that truly matter,
and that is whether or not to wear crocs on
an airline.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That has been proposed and soundly rejected by the trans community.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Because they want to They don't want to be seen
as something other than what they're wanting to be. Yes, well,
I mean at a certain point you just got to
face reality.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well, I think everyone is entitled to be happy, and
I can't even imagine what it's like to be born
and not feel comfortable in your own skin and feel
like you want to be someone else. And but one
of the things, and quite frankly, it's one of the
things that is now, especially in the LGBT community, there
(34:04):
has been a trend of you know, because most most
trans people want to blend in. They want to be
seen as normal, not and and I think this is
an unfortunate deal of our age of the time we
live in that there are a lot of people who
want attention, but toss out the big one of the
(34:27):
biggest bullshit things of the last ten years was the
notion that there is no difference between sexes.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yes, there is, everyone knows it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And to say that, you know, oh, you know, you
grow you grow up as you know, a biological male,
and then you decide to switch, well, you still have
the benefits, especially if you're post pubescent, and quite frankly,
no one prepubescent. Really, kids shouldn't be making this decision.
You're you're you have the all the biological effects of
being a male, which there is a difference, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I mean good and bad by the way, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But when it comes to the physical traits. Serena Williams
is the greatest female athlete ever and one of the
top athletes of all time. But you know when she
sat there and said, yeah, I would get smoked in
straight sex sets by you know, my male counterparts, you
have to know that there's a difference.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, she's not putting down her entire gender. She's just
speaking honestly about something that for the most part, well
basically kind of know. And I'll tell you this right now, Like,
I love it when like idiot sports guys or just
idiot guys in general say something as stupid as, oh,
I could beat Serena Williams in a tennis match because
I'm a guy, Bubba. But no, no, you couldn't. Joe Schlub, No,
(35:45):
you couldn't. You know, Andy Roddick, Yeah, he probably could.
Pete Sampras would probably beat you know, the Williams sisters.
I'm not. No, I'm not gonna beat I'm not gonna
beat the lowest see tennis player in the world on
the female side, I'm not. And so there are exceptions
to these rules. But at the end of the day,
(36:07):
when you're you know, talking about elite versus non and
just male versus female, yeah, come on, common sense common
sense can still be a thing without it being against
somebody's thing.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Sorry, but yeah, I saw you know. And the woman
who has now been declared champion, uh yeah, she walked
off the podium after this because she was you could tell,
just absolutely kind of disgusted and yeah, they worked their
(36:40):
ass off for this and then all of a sudden
you get outdone by someone who has a biological I
just drive, yeah, thank.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You, you mean it, because look, and this is the
side of the show that we have to bring up,
because this is this is what we do. We'll talk
about something kind of seriously, but then we have to
bring our own twist to stupid on it. And that's
what we're going to do here because I have these
thoughts and I'm sure other people do as well. When
you hear about a story like this where the world's
Strongest Woman wins, where the person that won the World's
(37:15):
Strongest Woman competition is a man, how'd they do that?
Has this person who was born a male that competed
in the female division of the World's Strongest Man? Have
they gone through the complete change? Has has the wiener
been extracted or is it still there? I don't know.
I don't know if you know how closely they're checking.
(37:36):
Are they giving physicals before they lift weights on stage?
But I know in these events they're extremely, extremely difficult, and.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I just wonder, like some of these athletes, like how
do you keep it contained if you're not fully switched
like when you do Like one of these events in
this competition was a log lift press, which is basically
I think it's like a like a clean and jerk
type of thing.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And so you're picking up the log like a dead lift,
and then you're kind of snatching it onto your thighs
and then you're standing up and then pressing it over
your head. How do you keep your from flopping out
at some point during that heavy lift?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You never saw ace Ventura.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's a hell of a top tray. Neither Einhorn nor Pinkle.
We're doing snatching cleans during the movie, basically just walking
around really tight legged gut tape. Then that needs to
be the next rog Man sponsor, because holy that's some
(38:42):
good tape.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
It works for NASA.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
If it works for NASA, it'll keep your in place.
It's perfect marketing for all things Treehouse.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
Go to Treehouse on Air dot com. Oh now I
can think of as in The Martian when Matt Damon
has the duct tape crossed over his face.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Anyway. You can also find and follow us on social
media at Treehouse on Air. For me, it's at the
Dan O'Malley. For Trey, it's at Trey Turn Home one.
And for Jerry it's at that Jerry yob uh. And
one more reminder, it is a Treehouse free preview weekend
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next time right here inside the Treehouse.
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