Dallas is Great for (Fetish) Dating | Wednesday 10.02.24

0:26 It is time to leave your warriors outside and laugh with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trade Trendhome and Jerry calledwell, today is Wednesday, October second, twenty twenty four. I actually forgot to even mention it yesterday on the show, but damn, it's already October. We feel like we just started September. But here we are at the beginning of October. It is no longer too soon to put up your Halloween decorations. Get him out, get him on, let your freak flag fly. If you haven't bought any, you better go get them this week because they're already starting to put Christmas decorations out.

1:11 That's right. For as much as we make fun of the Halloween decorations starting to make appearances in the middle of this summer, like I think we started seeing them in July, make fun of it all you want, but that's actually the time you got to buy them, because if you don't. The early birds, like Tara and I used to be, we will buy that stuff immediately because we know we can't wait because other people will buy them and then we won't have anything left to have new in the yard. So the best time to buy decorations is actually at the end of the right, Like in a couple of weeks, you can go to Home Depot like a bunch of different stores that sell that stuff, and now it's on clearance, so you're just buying for the next year.

1:58 And that is absolutely the best time to do it. The downside is all the really cool things are already gone, like the twelve foot skeletons. When those first came out, I don't even think they made it into September. They were sold out. They were sold out the following year online they didn't even even make it into the stores. But every year, especially at Home Depot and Lows, will have those new animatronic things. There's always a new handful each year at Spirit Halloween as well. Anytime the Eagle feels like coming back from a previous format, there's a Spirit Halloween just waiting outside anyway. But you've got to be early because those cool things are gone early. At the end, though, there are some good deals to be found.

2:47 That's where you can pick up some extra skeletons, lights, things like that, so you can get a good deal on those for the next year. But you guys, decorate a lot out there on the island for Halloween just a little bit. We do have our house in Saint Thomas. Has Tray's been there so he knows when you're coming up our very steep hill because it's mountainous there. There's this rock wall that is just beneath our driveway that our house sits on because it's on the side of it, you know, mountain basically, and it's like a two level, a two tiered rock wall. On the first tier is technically where the cistern is I'm sorry, not the cistern, but the poopy tank is over there, and then next to the road, it's just a level area. That's where we put these skeletons in the folding chairs in front of like a little campfire kind of thing. And so I think this year we're putting up maybe like a spider and a spider red behind there. Nothing to the extent that we did when we've lived in North Texas. No competition there. Well, it's you just don't get as much stuff because we do have a home depot and they have some animatronics running power and stuff like. That's kind of a pain, especially when our power situation isn't so good. So we have a tendency to go more rustic with the decorations, so less on the lighting, less on the electrical pole, and more just you know, skeleton kind of things. Anyway, it is time to put up here Halloween decorations if you are so inclined. And when we lived in North Texas,

4:19 we started I think it was mid September. We would start putting stuff out just because it kind of ramp it up because we had a lot of stuff, and then we'd pretty much be done by the beginning of October and it'll be up for the month. Anyway, get that done and no one's going to look at you sideways now. Although we did drive through Highland Park the other day and did see the dual twelve foot skeletons in somebody's front yard off of Mockingbird. That was. As if Highland Park doesn't flex enough as it is. Were they the animatronic type of course motion activated? Were they like talking to each other?

4:59 That I don't And it was actually they were that type, but I didn't see them in action. It was the middle of the day and I'm not even sure if they were plugged in, but they were they were just watching traffic, just watching traffic go bye. Yeah, So it's out there. We did see some decorations start popping up early here and there, and then occasionally you think, are come on, it's too early for that. But it depends on how much you're going to put up. If you're putting up a lot, then you need to get ahead start because it can be time consuming. And I don't think Trey, you're not a big Halloween person, so I think the most Halloween decoration you're doing is just that black backdrop behind you. Yeah, pretty much. All right, quick question. This really isn't an addition of verses, but I guess now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it wouldn't be a bad one. You guys want to do a quick opening show versus?

5:50 Sure, Sure, there we go. What's versus? It's a great question, Jerry, Welcome to Verses where I the host of verses. I'm going to, well, well can you Jerry and Trey as contestant number one and contest number two to verses where inside the treehouse, I will ask you a question and you have to it'll be of competing nature versus. Okay, and you have to give me your answer? Are you ready sure? Would you rather be single in Dallas or Fort Worth? Would you rather? This is versus? Would you rather be single in Dallas or Fort Worth? I'll give you a moment to think about your answer. By the way, if you're curious, fetish Finder are the very kind people behind this survey of the best and worst cities for dating in North America. So, Trey, I will start with you, would you rather be single in Dallas or Fort Worth?

6:56 Well, being single in Dallas for decades has gotten me Jack squad. I'm gonna go fort Worth. You know what. I There is no right or wrong answer on versus. It's more of just a conversation starter. But honestly, you you earned the bell. There's that's excellent logic on your part. Jerry. What about you? If you had to be single in Dallas or Fort Worth? Which city are you going to be single in? Absolutely? Dallas? Really? Yes? And why is that? There's more of my kind of people here? They're you know, you know, if you've got fetishes, Dallas as a much better place to go.

7:40 I'm glad you bring that up because fetish Finder did the survey and found the top ten best cities to be single and the top ten worst cities to be single. Where do you think Dallas and fort Worth fell a worse on either list? I don't know. I don't think Dallas is so far down on the list fort Worth. I bet you fort Worth is up there as far as good or bad. Oh on the on the bad list. Oh, actually that is correct. As far as the worst cities in the United States for dating, according to Fetish Finder, fort Worth ranked sixth number one New York, number two, Los Angeles, number three, Philadelphia, for Chicago five, San Antonio six, fort Worth.

8:33 Uh. You was surprised by all of those except fort Worth. Yeah, it was interesting how the fort Worth. You never see fort Worth on lists for anything when it comes to cities ever, So I feel sorry for fort Worth that they got kind of dumped on on this one. The survey sites low likelihoods of marriage and high divorce rates. Honestly, when the force rates, I would have assumed Dallas would I was up there. But it turns out that Dallas is the third best city for dating in the United States, despite the poor track record of our very own trade.

9:14 Trenhme, what are one and two? What are they? What do they say the best two what beat out Dallas? I can't wait to hear this. Number two was Denver and number one is Seattle. Is yeah, by fetish finding Now, I don't think they they they didn't rank this stuff by fetishes unless. I'm I'm sure they're surveying their members, though. They're probably are, look having just spent a lot of time in Seattle. If you have a super roof fetish, that really would be the top city to go to, or if you're a lesbian.

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12:25 Are you interested or are you thinking you just found a new income stream? It's an unusual amount of toes. I'm sort of taken aback by. It's like, are we looking for people that only have twelve total toes or twelve toes on one foot? It is? Actually the website is called fetish Finders. Maybe that's one of those. Instead of you going to the website to find your fetish that you already have, what if, in fact, it pairs you with the fetish after a short survey. I just sent you all a text. That's not something I can say on the on the broadcast, but.

13:11 I would agree with that. I I think I think he does have an account. I think you just put in the right keyword and yeah, he'll he'll pop right up. And I just want to say, under this twelve toes category, everybody here has the normal amount of toes. Well, that's kind of a let down. That's advertising. What is sexual about having twelve toes? Clearly I may be asking the wrong room here, but. What's sexual about toes in general? All right? Solid point? I mean never mind. Yeah, Like some people just see it as if it's an appendent. No matter how big or small it's, it's it should be licked. I guess that needs to be on a T shirt.

13:56 We could sell those on fetish Finder. These twelve toes won't lick themselves. I've tried, and you can get pictures of that too. All right, so we just so. Fetish Finder did the survey the best and worst cities in the United States to be single. In the criteria that they used, how many single people live there, how likely is marriage, what the divorce rate is, how many people are actively seeking a relationship. And then there's the more mundane criteria, what's the quality of life the cost of living. The study also used data from the Census Bureau, Very Sexy, Google, keyword Planner, and Numbio. The best city was, in fact Seattle.

14:41 Dallas ranked third. The worst cities for dating New York was number one, and our very own. Fort Worth cracked the top ten at number six worst city to be single in according to Fetish Finder in San Antonio two. I think san Antonio just sucks for a lot of reasons for people. I mean, I've enjoyed my time there, my wife and gauge there. I like San Antonio, but some reason it's I don't know if it's the water or what, but it always seems to get pooped on in this date I will I am curious about this. When you guys were like, because Trey, you're still single, Jerry, you're in a relationship. It's been a long time since since I've dated, and I know things have changed a lot in that decade and a half. I know, as Southerners there are certain dates that do not apply to us that will occasionally see in movies and television, and maybe you know somebody from up north where they'll have different date ideas, one of which is apple picking. I remember this. I think it was in an episode of Friends and I've when we were in Seattle and also in Michigan at times. I remember seeing signs for places you can go and pick your own apples, which some people think that sounds fun to me, that sounds kind of awful, but like, just in general, let alone as a date idea, and someone actually put together an impressive

16:13 list of why they say apple picking is the worst fall activity. But if you guys ever done anything like that on dates? Is that? What did you ever say, Hey, let's go to Michigan and pick apples? Mmm? No, yeah, I didn't think so. But here you have eleven reasons apple picking is not actually a fun activity. Number one, you're doing work. There's a reason people get paid to do it. Number two, there's ritting fruit all over the ground. Yeah. Number three the bugs. Number four you'll get lost. Orchards have massive apple mases. That's kind of funny. You could actually maybe instead of a date at an apple orchard, that's where you could break up with someone and just leave them there. Get them up on the ladder while you're holding it down on the ground and be like, you know what we're done, I'm out.

16:57 I'm really sick of you. Number five, the more apples you pick, the harder it gets, so that makes sense. Number six mud if it's rained in the past twenty four hours, you don't want to do that. Number seven the crowds. Number eight, the photos are really not that great. Number nine. You'll end up with more apples, then you'll know what to do. At number ten, every grocery store has apples, so why are you making it a whole thing? Number eleven, The store out front is the best part as opposed to actually going in and picking them. I've never wanted to do manual labor as any part of a fun activity. No, and I just it didn't work for Adam, It's not gonna work for me. That's an excellent point. I also think that, you know, apple picking is an absolute northern thing because the Southern version is not going to be is widely accepted because we don't have apples here, we do have cotton, and I don't think anyone wants a fun activity to be told to them is like, hey, you want to go from Carton.

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20:55 We've learned over the last year that it was piloted by a game controller. We also we learned last week that one of the contractors that was removed from the Ocean Gate team had basically had some whistleblower situation going on because they had said, hey, this is not a this is not a safe thing. You shouldn't be doing this. There are certain things that you're doing that you should not be doing. And then through some of these other hearings were also finding out other interesting facts about the Titan sub from Oceangate. For example, one ocean Gate whistleblower said he had no confidence in the development of the Titan sub. Well, okay, now, the implosion happened in twenty twenty three. This is David Lockridge. He's the former director of Marine operations for Oceangate. He said he was known as a trouble maker in the tourism and expedition company because he was so outspoken about his safety concerns. In twenty fifteen, that's when he was hired to work in the operations for Titan. Ultimately not involved in the development.

22:02 He said he was phased out after butting heads with the ocean Gate CEO Stockton Rush, one of the five people who died in the implosion. When asked by the Marine Board of Investigation for the US Coast Guard if he had confidence in the way that Titan was being built in twenty seventeen, Lockard said no confidence whatsoever, and I was very vocal about that, and I still am. One of the things he had concerned about was the submersibles carbon fiber hull, including imperfections. After he said, the CEO asked him to inspect it. We also found out, according to this guy, that the CEO of Oceangate liked to do things on the cheap and had the desire to get the tight and had the desire to get to the Titanic as quickly as they could to start making a profit. He said a lot of steps were missing along the way, and at one point the CEO through the game controller at this guy's head.

23:00 That's a gamer for you. And then there was This is one of my favorite headlines to come out of these hearings about the Ocean Gate titan sub. Years before the implosion, the CEO told passengers to brace themselves during a time. Sorry, he told them to brace themselves for a loud noise. It's not just brace themselves in general. But still, it's just amazing all the red flags that are coming out about this thing in this hearing that everything points to why in the hell would you get in that sub? And not only that, as soon as you spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for this trip to the bottom of the ocean, and you see just a few of these things, how the hell do you think you're getting what you paid for?

23:55 I just always go I just always go back to this little factoid. The United States military a submarine probably costs about a billion dollars. Okay, we have like four types of subclasses. One of them is called the Sea Wolf class. It it goes the deepest, and depending on who you ask, but generally it'll only go to about twenty five hundred feet oh okay before a billion dollar sub and then after that you're you're nearing crush depth. This thing was going to what twelve thousand feet? Yeah, yeah, something like that. Six times six times deeper, yeah than that.

24:38 A nuclear US military nuclear submarine probably not safe. Just that out there, and you said that's the Sea Wolf class. Uh huh, Yeah. I don't feel comfortable if you're trying to tell me that you're going to take your Xbox class submersible deeper than a US Navy Sea Wolf class nuclear submarine. I'm not getting on that f and sub especially when their navigation charts were an Excel spreadsheet. And depending paper. Don't forget about that, Jared, Sorry, pen and paper and the Excel spreadsheet. Guess I'm guessing because they couldn't get word to update. It doesn't even sound like they even bothered with a power point.

25:24 Too costly, right. Actually, from some of what we're reading about these hearings, I think you may be right. But yeah, according according to these hearings, in a dive that took place years before the titan subs doomed voyage of the Titanic, the CEO warned that there would be loud noises, according to one of the passengers, and to brace themselves for them, she said. He told us to be prepared for noises. He had recently done a solo dive in his own and basically just said, this is gonna make noise, so brace yourselves. I don't really want my sub making a lot of noises. No, that's a nope. And that's not just because I saw a hunt for Red October a bunch. You gotta wonder what their brochures looked like. I think it was.

26:12 I think it had clippy the clip art in the lower reded corner. It was probably like City of Dallas where they just had the wrong thing. They probably had a picture of a boat on it. Yeah, and it is pretty bad, like if you're right right when you're about to get in the sub as part of the safety demonstration, the CEO the only thing they have is part of the safety demonstration is just looking at everyone and signing the waiver that simply says just brace yourselves. If they got go ahead tray, well, just. And the fact that they had I think one or two people who had originally and these aren't these aren't normal people. These are billionaires with a lot of money who are adventure seekers and you already had a couple of them who were big time adventure seekers. Are like, uh uh yo, get our money back please, this is not safe.

27:09 Yeah, because if if, if, if billionaires and uber the uber wealthy are your clientele. They expect the Louis Vaton, They expect the Gucci submarine, not the not the the the gooty submarine, not not the Lewis Vutton sub They want the real deal. They want luxury and class. They don't want to be told that the only way you get out of this thing is by knocking on the whole and if we can find you and unlock it from the outside, and yes. They is that duct tape.

27:51 Honestly, I would have felt better getting into the sub sealed with duct tape than it was being piloted by an Xbox controller. Mm hmmm, mm hmmm. Have you seen the pictures of it on the ocean floor. I have, and it is pretty sad to think that the sub itself is in a better state than the people that were inside of it. Yeah. Yeah, one of them was the child of one of the billionaires. Yep. Yeah. They wouldn't even want to go. He was like, I don't want to do this is dumb. I know you guys go. He's like, no, you're coming with me. You know what He learned a valuable lesson that day that sometimes it hurts to be right. You're in tree as visit us online Treehouseonair dot com.

28:55 You're in visit us online tree House on Air. Be sure to check out all things Treehouse at Treehouse on Air dot com. That includes also while in addition to Treehouse on Air dot com, check us out on social media or handle everywhere is at Treehouse on Air and that also includes YouTube. Go to YouTube dot com slash at Treehouse on Air. There you go, Treehouse on Air dot com. Speaking of things sinking to the bottom of the ocean. The super yacht that sank a while back, I believe it was the the tech and billionaires. It was the the forty million dollars super yacht that sank off sicily last month, killing seven people, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch. The recovery efforts have gotten really, really interesting because they've asked for heightened security to guard the vessel over concerns that sensitive data locked in its safes may interest foreign nationals. They think that this yacht, the Beijian, if I'm saying that right, may contain highly sensitive data tied to a number of Western intelligence services. That's according to four sources. Similar with the investigation and salvage operation.

30:14 Lynch was associated with British, American and other intelligence services. There was various companies, including the cyber security company he founded, dark Trace. So now they think that foreign governments like Russia and China may also be trying to get to the safes held within this super yacht wreckage to get dirt on Western countries and correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't this early similar to the plot of Powerball with James Bond. That's where they Yeah, that's where they had the epic spear gun battle underwater.

30:54 Sounds like a dirt pit novel to me. Wait, is that an actual book or is that just one you're working on or is that just your diary? Good? But no, that's the Clive Cussler hero in his books. Oh gotcha? Okay. The sunken vessel, lying on the sea bed at the depth of some fifty meters, which, according to US translation one hundred and sixty four feet, is thought to have watertight safes containing two super encrypted hard drives that hold highly classified information, including pass codes and other sensitive data. That's according to an official asked not to be named. Specialist divers with remote cameras have searched the boat extensively. Initially, law enforcement feared that would be thieves might try to reach the records to find expensive jewelry and other objects of value still on board the yacht.

31:46 Thieves pardon me, salvage crews. Yeah, one's official ones less than official. What is it, Trey? What are we doing? Well? What do you mean? I mean, with all the problems in the world somehow M I five, am I whatever? And the CIA. You know, I have secrets on you know, some playboy billionaire's yacht. Dude, I'm with you. When I when I saw that, I was like, why are we trusting playboy billionaire types with all this sensitive information? Or is this something that again this sounds like something out of a movie. Was was he holding onto this information out of fear because if he had it then he knew he would be safe.

32:33 That being said, he's at the bottom of the ocean. He's dead now, Yeah, it was one of them, a masked vigilante by night. I just I try him kind of with. There's lots of problems in the world, but you know what, we as humans are still enamored by some good old fashioned sunken treasure, even if it's in the form of you know, highly sensitive data like like like like the password for the White House in Turtle Surfers, when we all know, given the administrations, given the recent administrations in the White House, you know that password is one, two, three, four or five, and. The giant vacuum is gonna come down and the atmosphere, you know.

33:15 What, I welcome, I welcome the giant robot vacuum to suck us all up, because I feel like that's what we deserve. She's gone from blow up. I'm just gonna welcome it with open arms and enjoy the show. All right, thanks for hanging out with us inside the treehouse today. Just wait for that great big robot in the sky to come suck us. That's pretty good. That's impressive. And you can take spaceballs and thunderball in one segment and combine.

34:01 That's right. All right, We will see you guys tomorrow. M