1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Have you guys seen the news lately, at least the 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: news that I made up in my head. No watch channel. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 2: There's a larger than life caterpillar infestation and it's coming 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: directly our way. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: So it's not cute, it's scary. 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 2: Everyone who lives in a fifteen mile radius to warn 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: them and let them know the city is taking care 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 2: of it in their typical city way by making everything worse. 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: We've got it under control. In your phone tap right. 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 3: Now, working Jeff's phone taps on the twenties. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, I'm looking for Peter. 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is he. 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: He Peter. I work at the City of My name's 14 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: Max Girth. 15 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it is everything. Okay, did I pay my bill? 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: Bills are all up to date as far as I know. 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 2: I'm the city arborous good. 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah. 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: I'm the guy who deals with trees, deal with trees exactly. 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: So I'm reaching out to everyone in your neighborhood today 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: regarding the upcoming caterpillar season. 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: Uh okay, you're familiar. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: I mean, I have to be honest, I'm not completely 24 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 3: up to date on the caterpillar situation. 25 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 4: I know we have. 26 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: It's all over the news, right Now, this year is 27 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: supposed to be the worst season for caterpillar infestation. Okay, 28 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: and your area, in particular where you live, is going 29 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 2: to be a hotbed for those furry little things. 30 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 3: Whoa language. 31 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but it's warranted. 32 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: You do not want to mess with those little pieces 33 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: of lete your whole house down right to the studs. 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 3: Wow, I guess I didn't understand the severity of this. 35 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: So you're saying, you're saying. 36 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: It huge, huge deal. 37 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: So the city's trying to be more proactive about the 38 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 2: whole thing. We're going to be in your neighborhood on uh, 39 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: let's see on. 40 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: Thursday, to cut down most of your trees. 41 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: Wait, what, the only way to deal with these future 42 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: little badgards is to knock their homes down before they 43 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: show up. 44 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: You're not going to cut down my trees. It's my property. 45 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 3: You can't just come and cut down my trees. 46 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: Okay. 47 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: I mean, I guess technically you're right. I'll probably have 48 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: one of my guys do it so it won't be 49 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: me per se. No, but the trees are going down. 50 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: You're not listening to me. You're not cutting down my trees. 51 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 3: My family loves my trees. We have a swing hanging 52 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 3: from one of my trees. My kids love. I love 53 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 3: my trees. You're not cutting them down. 54 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: Listen. 55 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: You know what the city twenty minutes up north from you, 56 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: they had the same issue with caterpillars back in twenty fifteen. 57 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: And you know what, happy know many people still live there. 58 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: Ah, I don't have the population chart in front of me. 59 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: I mean it is still a lot technically more than before, 60 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 2: but it was it was pretty bad. 61 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, they weren't happy about it. I'm confused exactly. 62 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 2: That's why I'm in charge. I'm going to make the decisions, 63 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 2: all right. Do you trust me? 64 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: I do not. 65 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: Do you trust the city? 66 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 3: Not really? 67 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: Because we've made great choices in the past. 68 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 2: Oh remember the traffic roundabout that we put in. 69 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 3: The one that took two years and blocked up traffic? 70 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 2: I mean, okay, did it take a long time? Was 71 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: it two million dollars over budget? 72 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: Sure? But it's cool. Now. Have you seen the fountain? 73 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 4: Yeah? 74 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: I mean what what does the fountain in the middle 75 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 3: of the roundabout have to do with caterpillars in my trees? 76 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: And it's proof that the city makes good decisions. 77 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 3: Now, my question is ighly doubt that well. 78 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: Start coming around. 79 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: I want to know when is it best for us 80 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 2: to deliver the cardboard trees. 81 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: Like fake trees? 82 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 2: Kidding me, We're going to make big cardboard cutouts so 83 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: those little things they can nest. 84 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 4: You're telling me that we are in the midst of 85 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 4: an encroaching caterpillar invasion. You need to take my trees 86 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 4: down and you're gonna put up fox fake cardboard trees. 87 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: Yeah. 88 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 2: The only the only way to beat the caterpillars is 89 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: to punk them. 90 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 3: What punk? 91 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 2: They're gonna climb up to the very top and then boom, 92 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 2: whole thing falls down. 93 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: Catterpunk? 94 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 4: Did you just say? Catterpunk? 95 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: Caterpillars are very responsive to slapstick humor. 96 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,119 Speaker 3: It's just a weird thing for an arborist to say. 97 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: I just is it a weird thing for a radio 98 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 2: host to say? Who's doing a prank phone call? 99 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 3: I don't know. I've never had a radio host call 100 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 3: me into a. 101 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 2: Prece You have had a radio host call you right now? 102 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 2: Because my name is jeff from looking Jeffrey in the morning. 103 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: This is a phone tab dude. 104 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: What what what? 105 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: It's a joke? 106 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Yeah, Dude, your sister Savannah sets you 107 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: up because she knew how upset you'd get if the 108 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: city said they were gonna mess with your trees, so 109 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: she told us to mess with you. 110 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 4: Are you allowed to say those foul words on the radio? 111 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: Now, what do you mean foul words? Those are sentence enhancers. 112 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: The Brook and Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties,