It’s been a while since we had a genuine Treehouse challenge. So, today I stumbled upon an excellent opportunity for each Treeper to test their mental stamina, and the contest has benefits.
Yesterday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked on Fox News, essentially, why he could not relate to people [video segment below fold]. Ron responded by saying, essentially, ‘hey, who cares, did you see how much money we’re raising‘. People immediately started being snarky and discussing it. However, the real answer can be found in this Treehouse challenge below.
♦ Here’s the rules: (1) Watch the video below which is prompted to start at 2:14. (2) You cannot walk away for a break, you cannot pause the video, you must sit and watch it without the assistance of alcohol, medication or any other cognitive numbing substance. (3) How long were you able to watch the video? (4) Everything is on the honor system. (5) Respond in the comments with your honest answer of how long you were able to watch. (6) Whoever lasts the longest is the winner.
Turn off any other distractions. Get yourself mentally prepared. Ready?
Okay. WATCH:
Be honest.
How many seconds did you last before you just couldn’t take it any longer?
Respond with your honest assessment of your stamina in the comments.
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Here was Ron DeSantis being asked why he cannot relate to people.

When she begins talking about 5 yr. olds, bathroom breaks, and last question of the important interview. About as real as the camo and high heels she wears in Iowa!
The tag team of Casey DeSantis and the Governor of Iowa was riveting. I got as far as Michael Ward and the last question of an important interview.
I am fixing to go to Walmart tomorrow to buy a two hundred dollar golf cart. I really hope I can find one. I’ll be sure to tell the store manager Casey DeSantis inspired me.
Poor fake Presidential candidates cant connect with voters because everybody knows Biden didnt win and Trump is still our President.
Buzz Off Meatball
12m 34s until I just lost interest. Mind you I got 9 minutes in, my connection died, and I had to rewatch 3-4 minutes. She has the personality between the two and is much more polished. Probably his most effective campaigner. She doesn’t have an annoying vocal fry or uptalk, I tune that out pretty quick. Maybe I’m just used to listening to people talk about their kids and spouses. Do it at least forty minutes a weekday when school is in. I work a job dealing with elderly clients, many just want to talk even if its totally unrelated to work. And Im typically content to just listen in a conversation.
Not very long. The timestamp was missing on the embedded link 🤣
I have a low bs tolerance though so I’m sure I didn’t win.
Wow I know I didn’t win some of you heard about snow cones and kids jumping off tables. I tapped out around the sleeping in princess outfit bit.
5:56.99
Man, was that a lot of blah blah blah!
6 minutes I won’t get back in my life but I’m procrastinating bedtime anyway LOL
1:38. thats all i could handle. now watch melania!! total class.
If this my test for mental stamina…..I have none.
Ten seconds, about 8 seconds longer than I could endure her husband.
6 minutes 22 seconds
Two minutes, and THAT felt like an eternity… How self absorbed can one be? … for real… Why would I want to sit and listen to her drone on and on about herself and her kids?
You mean you didn’t want to hear her blabber on about how her children draw on expensive french wallpaper? You know, the kind most Floridians have on their walls?
Especially if we have our own kids. Hers don’t matter to me.
I’m sorry I can’t help myself but here comes a snarky arse comment! Hey Ron, who does wear the pants in your family??? 😆
Jill a.k.a. Casey.
45 seconds
I made it to 3:34…. waste of my time…..
0 seconds. I went straight to make this comment.
#Metoo, and IDK if it means I have no mental stamina or I’m just smart.
7 minutes and 26 seconds. My reaction – oh, puke.
4 minutes 20 seconds …that I will never get back.
I made it 2.54. Called my wife and also a mother, to watch without telling her anything. She made it 1.04. She asked what that was all about. I up paged to let her read Sundance’s Intro. She laughed. Said hoped she passed.
Camo pants? Where are her long white gloves?
I mainly watched to see who Casey was other than the 10 second sound bites. I can now see why the do not give her any more than 10 seconds.
70 seconds
Don’t know how much time I wasted on this, but when she started on the second story I said Enough, Already!
Her voice makes my teeth hurt!
About 5 minutes, and then I started getting dizzy. It wasn’t worth the mental effort.
3 minutes. She made my brain hurt. I’d rather watch Brady Bunch reruns.
Yikes…. I lose… 76 seconds. 76 seconds I’ll never get back…
About 20 seconds. Her voice is like finger nails down a chalkboard. 🤐
Fluff for brains for both interviewer and interviewee. Maybe if I watched more TV talk shows I could take it, but I just need more substance than fluff.
well i already had 4 or 5 beers in me and thought i would give it a go.couldn’t even make a minute.
I made it a little over 1 min 15 seconds. In all honesty it was too late for me not to have already numbed my mind with a few beers, a shot and half a joint…I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have made it 30 seconds had I been playing by the rules.
That woman. Oh man. Them two $#@s deserve each other. I feel sorry for their kids.
OMG! CASEY and Ron were made for Each Other!
Could they Do an Interview Together like Bill and Hilarity Clintoon did on their first run for the
CO=presidency.
Ron & Casey please go back to Tallahassee, you are embarrassingly Junior Leaguers, sheesh.
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About 20 seconds. But I’ll get that time back after this cold beer.
Speaking of 🍺. Bet she drinks bud lite?
It is like Casey Desantis doesn’t pause or come up for air. She is too descriptive in her ramblings. I fast forwarded in the video and she was going a mile a minute like she was doing a stand up comedy routine.
She is not at all likable at least not by me.
Made it to 7 minutes – hoping she and Ron were running away with the kids to Miami in their toy car. Holy crow, can that woman talk at breakneck speed about nothing. Casey in her baggy t-shirt and camo pants is the tacky polar opposite of classy Melania Trump.
She was attempting to relate to her audience. Epic fail.
1 min 13 secs That’s it….I just can’t listen….
Okay; I made it to the 14 min 10 second mark. And my training is to be able to concentrate for long moments of time. Assuming the answer to why Ron DeSantis cannot relate to people is due to the fact that his wife doesn’t allow him to get a word in edgewise 🙂
You beat me! Lol. I think hes content to let her talk. Maybe not at him all the time, but when if it deflects conversation from him.
first eyeroll at 15 seconds – lasted a total of 2 minutes, 1.94 seconds…which was quite the challenge!
Made it to the 3:16 mark.
6 min 11 sec. First, she can’t read a room. I was embarrassed for her. She has been fed a lot of unearned praise and believes the hype. Second, Jill has a voice just like Hillary Clinton and that will not do. Third, she is in tight competition with Obama for the use of the word “I.”
Last, she is using her children for points like Gretas’ parent’s.
2:35 ducks in water
saw a guitar I want to know more about over in the right column
I made it to the duck comment
The guitar scene from “Animal House” popped into my mind.
shoulder shrug:
“Sorry”
Bonus points for naming the guitarist in that scene (Hint: He wrote and performed the theme song during the rolling of the movie’s credits).
I made it to 5:41 but felt pretty nasty by then
Less than a minute…
“This girls on fire” line was the last i heard….
I actually sat through a nearly 6 minute clip of this earlier, so I’m not even going to attempt the entire 44 minutes. I’ll leave that to people with stronger constitutions and more competitive instincts than mine. It’s weird. Until the Meatball clan decide to openly stab our president in the back, I thought they made a beautiful couple, but familiarity often breeds contempt. Now, all I see is how completely fake the two of them are. They deserve each other. She’s trying so hard to seem charming and relatable, instead she comes off as one of those annoying moms all the other moms try to avoid because she sucks all the air out of the room. She’s a liability to his struggling campaign. The entire clown show is really sad.
35 sec
After 20 seconds of the fakery I muted the video and watched it to the song When the bullet hits the bone and Radar Love by Golden Earing. So I guess I lose, lol. Can I get the 20 seconds back please?
you got the 80s play-list cued up, A.R. ?
2 of my favorite songs.
Oh, you mean “Twilight Zone”.
I want my 4 minutes back!
Ohhh Ronnie!!! We are going to be rich!!!!
On the Ron DeSantis video….
All that went through my mind other than early facial expressions was wondering (to distraction) how they trained him not to be a bobblehead?
I kept waiting for it.
I lasted 2 minutes and 46 seconds. Within 15 seconds I started to fade like I do when the music minister does the sermon when the pastor is not there, because frankly, the music minister is severely lacking in rhetorical skills. Like I do when the music minister is speaking, I tried to hang on but got lost in the word salad at exactly the 5 minute mark, because the discussion about the DeSantis’ 5 year old princess just was not relevant to my life and moreover, will never be, and this is exactly how I feel when the music minister starts talking about stuff unrelated to his own sermon. I could explain further but, well, I am sure you get the drift here. 🙂
PS – At least the music minister redeems himself when he, at long last, launches into the Hymnal for another song of praise. Our music minister is very good at musical worship and, at that time, I am sure God hears us.
One more thing. I thought I seldom get a chance to talk, but DeSantis must be running for President just so somebody will listen to him.
I made it to the 4:00 mark.
A millisecond.
4:08. The hyper behavior could be her response to sagging numbers and pressure to perform. I can’t imagine how upset the donors must be with Ron. Could this be Casey’s attempt to scale the unsurmountable heights Trump has attained with Ron in tow?
I stopped at 4:35, realizing that I could be facing a half hour of what appeared to be a vapid morning cable chick show of the type playing in a nail salon. As Mrs Ron, says, “Right?”.
I.don’t.know . 😳 They started talking about corn, sweet corn, brother’s corn.. I was aMAZEd!
She reminded me of that show, the Nanny from Flushing, NY… 🤌
Yes she does…great memory.
Was the actresses name Fran Drescher?
Yes! That’s the one.
I despise that show! My husband watches it and laughs. I watch it and roll my eyes in disgust.
Totally annoying yenta voice but an attractive woman.