#641: Truck Steak

Oh, you have you have a burner phone for

a fringe.

Yeah, I have a three frame.

Not the curator's fringe.

Talk to the hand, honey.

Everybody, my plug's ready.

Gone swimming.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.

Oh, and welcome to this week's edition of Tell him Steve Dave.

I look around the table.

I see Getem.

Howdy y'all.

See Walt.

Hello.

BQ.

Hello.

BQ.

Did you have to brave any traffic or was it not the same?

No, we did it.

We got it.

Great.

We got it down.

Took 40 minutes today, which is about it.

Nice average time.

Yeah, it's great.

Yeah, I was thinking about it last night after we

or yesterday after we decided to do it.

I was like, yeah, weekend should not be a thing in the summer at all.

It's just grand.

It has taken me up over two hours to get home from here on weekends.

That's crazy.

And

it's like 17 miles, isn't it?

Oh, it's less than that.

Yeah, and it just

saps your enthusiasm for

life, really.

Sending that traffic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If we were to add another patron here to

subsidize helicopter rides in for BQ

from Staten Island to Haslin.

I don't know if that's look.

every we've done the math before.

It cost me about twenty-five bucks an episode for me to record.

So, you know, between the

tolls and the and all the stuff.

So,

how much more can a helicopter be?

It'd probably be about $300 to $500 if I use it.

I, you know,

each time you take it.

Yeah, so maybe I'll just sit in traffic.

What if I got my pilot's license?

Yeah.

Are you maintaining the vehicle or no?

Someone else will, maybe.

Well, it doesn't also have to be one of those official choppers.

It's like, you know, the ones that guys make for just themselves, like to fly.

Like, just a drone.

That cannot be illegal around here, I would think, over this population.

It's so close to Newark Airport.

Three different airports.

You're pedaling away like crazy.

Blades whirring.

It's like, remember that old-timey footage of flying where it's just the guy with the umbrella that bounces up and down

flying out through the air?

Q got shot down again.

But we got the episode out.

It was on the way home.

No, no, no.

Really, it's just as long as it's before a certain time on Friday and never on Sunday,

it's all right.

You really got to blame your brothers and sisters, though, in

Shangri-La, what do you guys call it?

Show Linux.

Chaolin.

They just can't stay out of New Jersey.

It's not that.

It's everybody uses Staten Island as a...

as a thoroughfare to Jersey.

Like the traffic doesn't end on Staten Island.

It goes over the Barrazato Bridge

into Brooklyn and points beyond.

I'm sure there's a healthy amount of Staten Islanders, but.

You got to shut that place down like fucking no man's land.

I'd love to blow the bridges.

Nothing would make me happier than blowing the bridges to Staten Island.

But we've been saying that on Staten Island for decades.

Yeah, I mean, that would make me very happy.

But it's all right.

We're fine.

Yeah.

We're totally good today.

All good.

All good.

Walt was saying earlier,

I thought this was interesting that he says, Teddy doesn't dream.

Really?

Yeah, my dog Teddy has never had one of those dreams.

And every dog I've had, where you know, that twitching and the whining and everything.

Yeah.

Teddy doesn't dream at night.

It's the one-year anniversary.

Oh, really?

Already?

Yeah, Ryan Nichelle called me this morning and he's,

you know, out of the blue.

And I was like, I was a little worried.

I was like, oh, why is Michelle calling me?

And he just said that today was the

anniversary.

I know,

I guess it's not proper to say anniversary of someone's passing away.

Yeah, you know, what I was going to say, yeah.

His aunt passed away a year ago, and that's how I got Teddy.

And he was just checking in to see how Teddy was.

Yeah.

Great.

Got rid of him six months ago.

Did I mention that?

No,

Teddy is.

You know that you are completely in love with something when you overlook.

every aspect that is not a positive.

Yes.

And you're just like, it doesn't matter that I got to take him everywhere I go.

It doesn't matter that I haven't eaten in a restaurant in the last like seven weeks.

I've eaten in my car.

But we do it with a smile on our face because he's so goddamn affectionate.

You don't even, it's not like it's a compromise.

It's just like, that's the way it is.

You wouldn't change it.

You wouldn't change it.

You'd be like, hey, look, what are you going to do?

You know, you're in love head over heels.

Yeah, yeah.

That is probably why

so many marriages fail because when people fall in love and they get married and stuff, and as years go by, that feeling fades.

Yeah, I guess it would.

It won't fade with the dog.

No, yeah,

it's no diminishing returns.

The dog is always happy to see you.

Maybe the missus and the hubby aren't always as happy to see their significant others as they're.

Maybe they just got a text on Facebook from their old boyfriend.

You don't know.

You don't know what's happening while you're at work.

You know what's happening with the dog.

Yeah, he's on Facebook.

He's just waiting to see you.

Yeah,

you don't give a fuck about Facebook.

That's when I'm walking through that door the next time I'm coming through.

That's it.

That's fantastic.

It's fantastic.

What do you do for Father's Day?

Because you're going up to

Pennsylvania to see

my little grandson.

And we're going to go to Red Robin.

Right.

And that's the, I don't know if it's the first time he's going to be inside of a restaurant.

Wow.

I'm sure that his parents have taken him somewhere by now.

But yeah, we're going to go to Red Robin, then we're going to go back to their place.

They're going to shower me with gifts, I'm sure.

And then we're going to hit the casino because

my youngest, Alicia, is able to gamble now.

I'm going to give her some money to

gamble.

I'm going to teach her how to gamble.

Oh, that's great.

Not that I'm going to go teach her.

I'm not.

But I'm going to show her my favorite games and see if she can turn her 50 bucks

into

$51.

$0.

$51

would be

an accomplishment.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Have you been to this casino before?

Yeah, it's pretty close to where Caitlin lives.

Which one is it?

Is it the one we used to pass when we went to your parents' house, right?

If you don't want to say it, no, I don't care.

It's up by Bushkill.

I don't know where that.

I don't know.

You know the name of the casino?

It's not like Mount Airy Lodge Casino.

Oh, it is.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I know that casino.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's nice up there.

Yeah, my parents don't live too far up there, so sometimes I'll go to the casino with them.

Yeah, and they're giving away toolkits to everybody.

Oh, father.

Yeah.

They know what to do in Pennsylvania, man.

You already got the Telemesse Dave toolkit.

What do you need another one for?

Well, I mean, I was just going to flip it in the parking lot for extra gambling money.

How much you got on that voucher?

What are you doing for Father's Day?

I think we're going to go see Edgar, go to his house, have a barbecue.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, I would invite him over, except like our place isn't exactly ready yet.

We open the pool, and

there's something without going into too much detail, there's something called phosphates, which make it so when you have, like, you have a saltwater pool, this is not something you have to worry about.

Okay.

But the phosphates come from leaves, organic matter, pesticides, that kind of shit.

So I guess over the winter, all this shit blows underneath the cover and gets in the pool.

And when they came and opened the pool the other day, and they're like, yeah, it should clear up in 24 to 48 hours.

And like 48 hours, still the water looks like a fucking murky Louisiana bayou.

Okay.

It's all fucking brown and gross gross looking.

So I brought the water in, and they're like, yeah, you got phosphates, 50%.

So now what I have to do is, and this is like real first world problems, but I'm sitting there cursing my life.

You have to empty your pool like three-quarters four times.

Why not just empty it 100%?

Because one time.

It'll all collapse in.

You need some of that water to like hold up the walls.

The pool will collapse?

Yeah, that's what they said.

It was a danger that it could collapse in.

It's a liner or a liner, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay,

that means it must have to be on solid pools.

Well, no, it is what they say.

They said any pool.

They were like, Yeah, they're like, unless they're concrete.

What about skateboarders?

I see.

Yeah, those are concrete pools.

What kind of pool is yours?

Mine's like it has a liner, it's not concrete.

Is it plastic?

Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah, I have the same thing.

It's like looking down your nose at my plastic pool.

They dig out the hole and they basically put like aluminum slats on the side

and then put the liner in and then fill it with water, and that's how.

Well, it's not like it's pool weather yet, right?

Like, it wasn't like it really hasn't been, though.

It's not that hot, is it?

I've been in my pool a couple of times.

Already?

Oh, sure, yeah.

It's been a couple 85-degree days.

Yeah.

How fucking cold is that water, though?

It hasn't been a chance to warm you up yet, has it?

You think you're looking at a man who doesn't have a heater?

Oh,

that's right.

Fucking.

I'm as pussy as I get.

He's considering a helicopter, right?

Do you think it doesn't have a heater on this pool?

Yeah, I had a heater put inside, just jacked that up.

Nice.

But yeah, so our place isn't really ready to host people just yet.

Still got a bunch of fucking weeds to pull.

I tell you, the best thing about Sandy was fucking knocking my pool down.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That was like, you know, that was the only thing we looked at and was like, thank God that albatross is fucking out of our lives.

Yeah, but then you have all those dangerous holes in your backyard.

that people know

what are the dangers of phosphates

uh it just like what it it does is it eats up the chlorine.

That mercury water is good enough forget them.

Yeah, it just, I guess it just eats up the chlorine right away.

So, like,

once you're in the pool, I mean, just because you maybe don't go under the water,

your cavities

are being

exposed to phosphates.

You know, you can't let, I mean, you can't stop it from going in your

cavities.

No.

I can't seal them up.

I mean, I guess you could, but it would look odd if you went.

Yeah, everybody.

Very bad stage.

Time to seal the cavities.

We're going into the phosphate pool.

You think I'm going to fucking

take three-quarters of the water out four times?

Fuck that.

I just want to head Adam and Eve and brought a much cheaper solution.

Everybody, plugs ready?

Gone swimming.

I just put the sign on the front door.

They know not to bother us.

Everyone's like, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Yeah, plus, like, Edgar's six, I figured it's easier for him to not have to come over to the house because he gets tired pretty easily.

Yeah, how's he doing?

He's doing all right.

Every time I see him, he's like, yeah, I got the chemo this week.

I had a blood, blood,

took my, or gave me blood last week.

But, you know, I'm doing all right.

He still takes his dog for a walk every day.

You know, he's

doing his own thing.

So he seems to be doing all right so far.

Lost a lot of weight, but that's about it as far as like

as far as I can tell anyway.

So I figured grab a couple steaks, maybe go over there and have a barbecue.

Although, I think it's supposed to rain.

Is it ever not raining?

You know, we're on Route 35, there's this pool

store in Keensburg.

It used to be a Kislin's when we were kids.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They had

about 1,000 people lined up the other day.

And I drove by, and I couldn't figure out what it was.

And then later on, I saw online, well, my wife did, that they were selling steaks out of a truck, truck steak.

Truck steak.

And

I couldn't believe that people would line up and wait for...

seemingly in a line that was, you couldn't see the back of it for cheap steak.

Yeah, I saw that that the other when I went to the curator's event.

It was a big truck or trail.

It was like 40 ribeye steaks for $20.

Yes.

Wait a minute, have any 40?

Yeah, 40 ribeye steaks for $20.

So it's 50 cents a steak?

That's a pretty good deal.

No, no, no, no.

What first truck did that fall off with?

I saw this.

They had a similar truck outside the buffet like two years ago, and I looked it up.

And apparently, they're like food service steaks.

So they're like that thin.

Oh, they're like, nobody could see that, and you're too little.

No, sorry, they're like a quarter inch thick, okay.

And they're and it's so like a steak'em, yeah, pretty much, yeah.

And then, like, they have like a bigger deal, like, if you want, it's like it's it's it's like a little bit of a scam almost from what I've read.

A scam from what I've read, you do get steaks, but they're not that with your picture.

They're not grade A?

Are they grade C, D?

I'm not sure.

Yeah, I didn't go that far.

You're right, though.

It is like, how do they get the rights to set up in the parking lot?

Like, the pool people aren't like, wait a second, what are you doing?

Ask the FDA or the, you know, yeah, can can you just sell food inspectors?

Can you just sell

like a

catch?

I guess they have it, though.

I mean, how many people are cruising?

How many like food inspectors are cruising Route 35 at the pool place?

But when you see that line of that many people in line, I think that raises the antennas, though, and you bring unwanted attention your way if you're selling steaks illegally.

Wow, here comes off your malady to shut us down.

Officer, you want some steaks?

Yeah.

Wow, I like steaks.

Take these.

Have a good day, officer.

You know, I'm a big supporter of Blue Lives Matter.

And There you go.

Back in these awfully thin steaks.

Take two, take two.

And is there a limit on the, like, could you buy like

a thousand steaks?

I'm sure they'll sell you whatever you want to buy.

Would there be a ride on their hands if I went in and I scounged up all the steaks?

Oohed up competing stands.

40 steaks for $25.

They put the two, get them to read an article right now, parking lot steaks.

They put $2 ribeyes to the test.

Wow.

I went to

Texas Roadhouse last week.

I had a ribeye.

I'm thinking they're probably not the same.

Was it good?

It was good.

You liked it?

Okay.

Very good, yeah.

I like Texas Roadhouse too, but to be honest with you, it's my third favorite steakhouse of the three chains, the major chains.

So you got Outback

and Lone Star I like are better, I think, than Texas.

Texas is okay.

You have Denny's.

Denny's used to be the best steak in town, but they changed their grade.

Yeah.

They're too salty, Ed Texas, I think.

Put a lot of salt in everything.

Yeah, they are salty.

But I think you can ask for without that shit on it.

Salt?

Yeah, do you ask like nothing on it?

I'm sure you do, right?

Yeah, but I don't.

I don't know.

I think they're

pre-salted or something.

I think they're soaked in salt water, I think.

Brine.

Yeah.

So this is a Kroger ribeye on the left and a parking lot ribeye on the right.

Looks like a pizza almost.

There's a little bit of a difference.

Yeah.

Looks like a fried egg, the one on the right.

From these.

Doesn't it?

Now, where is this from?

This is from

what part of the world?

This is Cincinnati.

Cincinnati.

So it's all over the place.

It's a country wide.

Well, I saw it in Hazlitt, and then I went up to Woodbridge.

I saw it in the Woodbridge Center Mall.

There's a, I mean, somehow, some way, like, I guess meat is not moving

as well as it did.

And now they're resorting to having to go into parking lots and sell it at tents.

I mean, the tents, and then they have a truck that says $20 ribeyes on it.

Yes,

$20 ribeyes, $40.

So, yeah,

they're not being clandestine about it.

So, maybe they do have the permits and the rights then.

Maybe we should get into the parking lot steak game, man.

Maybe there's money.

Why not?

There could be money.

Everybody's doing it.

We got a parking lot right in front of here that we can set up.

Ask the landlord, what's her name again?

Jill?

Jill Jill.

Yeah, ask Jill if we can just sell a couple steaks.

Huh.

Hmm.

All right.

Anyway.

Q, did you go see Ballerina or no?

I have not had an opportunity.

I've had

extended family at

still at the house, huh?

As far back as last week.

We're going on 11 days, probably.

So I don't know whether I'm going or coming anymore.

And I just found out that

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I might have other family members coming in the day before these leave.

So for one day, you'll have everybody.

No, no, no.

There's the overlap.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, your place is pretty large, though.

Do you...

It's not that large, Walt.

Do you find it?

Well, I've learned the.

I used to think it was large.

Because I feel like if you made a little bit of effort, you could not see anybody if you just

used your hidden passageways to move about the house and all your secret entrances.

No, you still don't have to go.

They're all covered.

They're all covered.

And it is just, you know, a delight.

It is a delight to have people you love around you.

But when you're not used to it for quite so long,

that's a little bit of a notable.

That's a stretch.

Yeah, Ben Franklin had that famous quote where, like, guests and fish stink after three days.

But to be fair, like, you couldn't get any easier than the guests that you know what I mean?

Like, it's fine.

They haven't done a single misplay or and they won't ever hear this, so it's not like I'm saying this just for that.

Like, they haven't done a single thing that's annoyed me or anything.

It's just, you know, you're used to your own

space.

But it's all space.

It's fine.

Everything's fine, guys.

It's all good.

It's all good.

It's so good.

So good.

All right.

Just check the.

And there's joys in it in many ways, because there's youngsters

in the mix who have never seen Predator before and have never seen the Terminator movies before?

We've been like a little bit of an Arnold Schwarzenegger kick, and it's been, you know, that's been fun.

You know, I don't have kids, so it's nice to have like how young are they

that they haven't seen these movies?

We're talking a range, we're talking eight, we're talking 11.

Whoa, you're showing them our rate of movies?

Did you get permission?

The 11-year-old, yeah, yeah, it's movie night, baby.

I saw fucking Predator in theaters.

I mean, what do you want from me?

It's a new age, Q.

The kids kids today are not as well

when something scary

scary occurs.

But I will, but give him a warning.

My argument is: Terminator is not a horror movie.

It's a science fiction movie.

But when he starts cutting his own face, ripping his own flesh off.

These are the parts that the kids.

Murdering people left and right.

I don't know.

Grew up on this shit, man.

Get him.

You turned off a whole year to turn the first Terminator movie come out.

1984.

84.

So I saw that in theaters.

Yes.

And I was born in 76, so what does that tell you?

I know, but you came from a different generation, a little bit tougher.

Yeah, but we're only seeding the future if we don't, you know, if anything I've learned from John Connor,

you have to fight the future.

I did rewatch Terminator 3 last night, and I remember you and I liked it when it came out.

Yeah.

Did it hold up?

It did in a lot of ways.

It did in that the humor doesn't hold up.

There are

some fucking clunkers in there that I'm shocked Arnold allowed to go in.

Like, there are three sunglass gags in it where

one, he puts on the sunglasses, and they're the stripper sunglasses that are stars, and he looks right in the camera, and I was like, all right.

And then

he gets knocked unconscious by the Terminatrix, and his glasses are, like, knocked askew, and he opens his eyes.

And then later on, he gets knocked onto the windshield of a fire truck, and like the fireman look, and he's like a bug on the windshield, and the sunglasses are askew again.

And I was like, Man, you really went in on these fucking sunglasses.

Yeah, I remember us back when it was originally coming out, we were like, More sunglasses jokes.

Not enough sunglasses jokes.

Pretty wild.

It's pretty wild.

And there's like a, there's like some callbacks that you're like, I mean,

I don't think they, I don't know if you remember the talk to the hand line

where when he takes the stripper's clothes, the super gay stripper is like, talk to the hand, honey.

And then later on, when he's stealing Slim Jims or whatever, you know, the guy at the counter goes, you have to pay for that.

And he's like, talk to the hand.

And it's like, ooh, oh, no.

Oh, don't do that.

And it didn't make sense because it's a, I know I'm talking about a movie that's like fucking 15 years old and reevaluating or even older.

I think it's older.

Yeah, but like, it didn't need it.

He was a different Terminator.

And, you know, the big reveal is he's the Terminator that kills John Connor in the future, and they reprogram and send them back.

And it's a darker movie if you take those jokes out.

And I'm like, why didn't they take those fucking jokes?

It's not the same Terminator.

It's not the one that was turned human.

It's not the one that was like learned to love.

So did you make it past this one?

Did you make it?

Like in your viewing your Terminator binge with the eight and nine-year-olds?

I started watching Salvation, but

I think boredom kicked in.

The eight-year-olds is not involved in these.

You know, these ones.

It's more than the 11-year-old.

But

Salvation, they started to get a little bored.

Like, it's a very serious salvation.

And

what's the one where Sarah Connor comes back and she's really old?

Oh, that's Dark Fate.

I'm not even going to bother.

You're not even going to try.

Dude, that was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

That movie sucked shit.

I remember watching that theater being like,

I can't believe that this team of people made a movie this bad.

What was it called?

Dark Fate.

Yeah.

Dark Fate.

I never saw it.

Did you see one?

Yeah, Arnold was like an interior decorator, right?

Yeah.

First of all, they killed John Connor in the first five minutes of the movie.

Yeah.

Like, they go all through the trouble of bringing him back and de-aging him just to get, just to die.

And what I'm guessing is less than a year after Terminator 2 ended, you know, in the timeline.

So you're like, well, so nothing that mattered in Terminator 2 matters.

And then, yeah, and then that Terminator that kills him.

This is all, as I recall.

I only started the one time,

but his mission was was completed.

The Terminator.

So he walks off and then over the ensuing 30 years, like learns to

he has no more mission, so he learns to be human and he becomes an interior decorator with a family.

It sounds like you're kidding.

His name is Carl, as I believe.

And he's the one that is sending Sarah Connor secret information as to where the new Terminators are coming.

And the big reveal is that it's this Terminator that killed John Connor, who now designs drapes.

And,

you know, of course, John Connor is dead, so the new resistance is what appears to be a 13-year-old immigrant girl.

And you're like, they flash to the future and they don't age her up.

So it's just this tiny little girl going, let's go, man, let's do it.

Get the thing.

And you're just like, what the fuck am I?

What am I watching?

Yeah.

I do remember Linda Hamilton being satisfying in that movie, though.

I remember her being the part I liked about it.

Is this a girl power movie?

Well, look at that photo, and you go ahead and tell me what you think is going on in that movie.

Well, I wasn't sure about the middle one.

I couldn't tell if it was a middle one.

Arnold is nowhere to be seen in that photo.

He doesn't have top billing in the movie.

She's given some special drug, which like amps her up, like gives her,

like, but then it, then she crashes hard.

Yeah.

So you have to like soak her in ice.

She starts overheating.

Like, physically overheating.

Oh, my God.

It was just horrible.

The hardest part of me was Linda Hamilton.

Like, she's 80 years old by this point.

Yeah, but I don't, that part, that was the only part I liked.

She's driving out of a plane in a Hummer and like crash landing and just like, okay, dust me off.

I know, I know.

But that I'm like, it's a movie.

But like, look, Terminator 3 had Claire Danes become John Connor's wife, second in command.

And after

John dies, she takes over the

Resistance and sends the Terminator back.

And

the Terminator in the third one is a female.

And there was no sense of like

anything besides, oh, this is pretty cool.

Like, you watch Dark Fate, and you're like,

you motherfuckers.

Well, I mean, like you said, it's like, what are you doing?

You don't even have the gumption to put Arnold in the fucking big major still.

Just the girls walking towards the camera.

Yeah.

And Arnold's like, hey guys, don't forget about me.

The OG terminator is Carl.

Because we're called the Terminator.

Yeah, it was a terrible movie.

But again, it's not, I want to be very clear on this.

It's not because, like,

those are three women standing there.

It's because of how ham-handed and goddamn awful it is.

You didn't see Mission Impossible, the new one?

I haven't seen Ballerina.

I haven't seen Mission Impossible.

I saw Mission Impossible.

It had to be good, right?

As with

a little bit of sadness and melancholy, I have to say it wasn't horrible.

It wasn't like a train wreck, but

I think we've seen all the stunts that one guy can do.

There's really no way to reinvent the wheel of Mission Impossible, I don't think.

There you go.

And the villain is kind of corny.

It's like an AI that comes to

that can communicate.

So it's kind of a corny science fiction kind of vibe to it.

Isn't that weird that the villain in Terminator 3 was AI as well?

She controlled machines around there.

Yeah.

And like, so the

villain puts out this electronic sarcophagus.

Okay.

And Tom has to get into it to communicate with the villain.

Oh.

So it's like this,

it's this really just corny kind of aspect of the movie where, you know, this robotic entity, they call it the entity, is

saying what he's going to do.

Like, it's like that very cliched, like, over the top.

Like, if the fucking entity had had a mustache, he'd be twirling it.

That kind of like evil twirl

because that's how over-the-top it is.

But

there's nothing like being in a theater and hearing out of the good movie stereo speakers that mission impossible theme.

It makes you think that, like, you can fucking swim to the bottom of the ocean.

Yeah.

You know, and you could do it.

You can't.

You know.

but boy, that music makes me think I can, it pumps me up.

Yeah,

that's not the first time I've heard something like that.

That, like, when people, men specifically, they watch, you know, shows with like alpha guys, they're like, I want to be like that, like, I want to be Tony Soprano, I want to be Walter White, I want to be this guy or that guy, like these, right?

You know, I want to be Don't.

Has anybody ever said they want to be Tony Soprano?

Oh, I'm sure a lot of people want to be Tony Soprano, yeah.

I mean, not towards the end, but

I thought he was miserable, miserable.

He was miserable all the time.

I mean, I think.

Kuys want to save the world.

They don't want to kill their friends.

Yeah, that's why Reacher is so good, right?

Yeah, like

he was fucking taking out his buddies, his little childhood friends, because the code of Ralph code.

Yeah, poor Ralphie.

Yeah, I don't know.

I think you may be the only one who's

wishing they were Tony Soprano.

I don't think most people watch that series and be like, man, I wish I was living the life of Tony Soprano.

I don't know.

Like, he's rich, you know, he's very powerful.

There's got to be some mobsters that are like, it would be nice to be Tony Soprano.

Mobsters.

You said the key word there, but not normal folk.

Normal folk don't want to have to go out and

try it for a day?

And throw their friend to the fishes

because they broke some

legitimately feel bad when I cut people off in traffic.

I can't shake down an ascetic guy for his fucking motel money.

I can't do any of it.

I'm going to have a software.

He got him a get, though.

What's that?

You got him the get.

You have to.

You have to get him to get it.

No, I know.

I know, but I can't do it.

I get ripped off constantly because I can't just argue.

And there's something to,

and I hate to admit it because I know the internet.

The internet is so shitty.

No, you know what it's saying?

It is so shitty, and it's so smarmy.

It just really.

Those are just Gidam's posts.

I saw people commenting on Mission Impossible and with that kind of like, oh, let me guess.

Ethan Hunt saves the world

by doing something insanely impossible.

Thoughts, Mission Impossible.

Like these, they think they're smart and they're funny.

And then I see like the Strangers thing, got the new trailer just came out.

And I see the same kind of, like, it's like, it almost feels like it's written by AI.

It might be.

Because I'm like, how could this same level of like shit posting be from two different people?

They're like, Lo, let me guess.

Eleven points her hand at the evil thing, her nose bleeds, and saves the day.

I'm like, Yeah, but isn't that just what fuck, let me guess, Captain America throws a shield.

Yeah, that's what I'm supposed to say.

I'm like, why are you describing the things I want to see in a negative manner?

But I will have to say, you are hard-pressed to not notice that Tom

is a little long in a tooth to be doing some of the things he's doing.

Had to happen eventually.

I know.

Does he look stiff?

What do you mean?

Is the run slighter in

the Irishman?

Can he pull off the run?

He still runs exactly the same.

He has a very weird kind of run that looks good, though.

Oh, yeah.

It's a good run, but it's not your traditionally athletic run.

Yeah.

It's kind of very upright, like

he's got an

iron rod

inserted

in his cavity

up his back.

And it's like he's very straight up running, but he's going to Brian's pool later that day.

What were you going to say, though?

I was going to say, like, in The Irishman, I don't know if you saw it or not, Scorsese movie, there's like there's an example of Robert De Niro kicking somebody on the ground in The Irishman.

But if you watch Goodfellas when he's kicking Billy Bats, it's like it's too different.

Yeah, it looked bad.

Like, look, who am I to tell Marty Squirsezzi how to shoot a movie?

But I'm like, he probably should have shot up at him like he did in Goodfellas because when there's a wide shot and he's like, he's like barely balancing on one foot to try to stop him, like he looked old.

Clickety clackety.

Yeah, I mean, and of course, like, I don't know how many crazy-ass stunts he does in this new movie, but there's plenty of them.

But

it's still hard to swallow some of the stuff he's doing.

Yeah, about those stunts.

I know the big stunt is he's on a biplane.

Yeah.

And I would just like to point out that in 2020, there was a movie release called the Impractical Jokers movie that ended with us putting James Murray on a biplane for real and sending him up and doing loop-to-loops and all that stuff.

And he had to climb out from the seat to get to the top of the plane and stuff like that.

And he did it.

Yeah, I mean,

that's insane.

I'm not saying that Tom Cruise saw that movie and was like,

that's

what they did.

I'm just saying, like, you got to come to your own conclusions.

I believe that

IJ made it look smoother than Tom did.

Like,

you know, we didn't have to look good or cool.

Like, the only box doing it was to make him look like an asshole.

You know what I mean?

So maybe not.

Did he really do that?

Is it what I'm looking at?

Yeah, 16 times.

He set his parachute on, or is that CGI?

No, it's Radius Unreal.

He set his own parachute.

No, I mean, come on, man.

That sounds pretty awesome.

Yeah, it's badass, and it takes balls the size of Nebraska.

Right.

But

it doesn't automatically mean the movie's going to be good, though, unfortunately.

No, it just means the stunts are going to be cool.

Yeah, the stunts are amazing.

And then you think, when you sit there and you go, Jesus, man, he did this.

It is, you know, you're very impressed with his

commitment, but

that doesn't mean the screenwriters

achieve their goal.

Well, that's kind of on him, too, a little bit, because he has total control over that movie.

Nobody's telling Tom Cruise what to do, say.

Nobody's giving him a script that he has to do.

He can do literally whatever he wants.

So it's kind of on him, you know?

Yeah, I think

Tom Cruise can be at that point where he

doesn't have anybody in his life to be like.

He does not.

I know that.

I've heard that from people that work with him.

Really?

I know people that have worked with him and said he is a really nice guy, but

he has one here and he's

the buck begins and ends with him, and you just carry out what he wants you to do.

It's hard to argue with it, right?

Again, they've said like success is

they go out of their way to say he's super nice and respectful, but like it is, it's not a collaboration, like right, like you would think.

Yeah, and to his defense, you know, what Brian said, I mean, his success and those movies' success

are

he has to get the credit when it's super successful, and I still think they are.

I mean, this is just one schlub, me saying I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous ones.

Yeah, but you did stick up for every other one.

Yeah, I did.

I flew my Tom flag high and proud.

You should still.

I still do.

It's not like this one movie.

He makes another Mission Impossible movie.

I'm there day one.

Okay.

Yeah.

There's nothing he can do that would make me stop going to see Tom in Mission Impossible movies.

I like that.

There's nothing he could do.

Nothing.

There's no stumble in any of his movies that make me go, I've seen enough.

I don't want to see anymore.

Oh, I thought you meant real life.

Oh, no.

I don't know.

And you know what?

I'm not one of those guys, though, too.

I don't hate the.

I don't take it out.

If he says something I don't agree with,

guess what?

Who cares?

I don't give a fuck.

And I'm like, I still got to go see the movie.

I thought I felt that way, and I understand that I got cut off at the knees, and Bruce Willis never got a chance to make another good one.

But I used to feel that way about diehard.

Yeah.

I was like, fucking love the first three.

I don't care what the flaws are.

I know they're there.

I love them.

Fourth one came out.

I was like, it still got me.

I'm here for it.

You know, I'm like, fifth one came out.

I was like, I can't believe they released this.

This should have been burned.

I was like, they never should have released this movie.

It's so bad.

And it killed me.

What was the fourth one again?

Fourth one was the one with Timothy.

Oh, Kevin was in it.

Kevin was in it.

Okay.

I didn't know if that was the third one or the...

fifth one.

Third one was New York City with the bombs and Samuel Jackson.

Yes.

You didn't like that one.

I love that one.

Okay.

Yeah.

I thought you did.

Oh, I love the first three.

I like the fourth one.

Stand island, of course.

Yes.

They mentioned Stan Island a couple times in that movie, and that's all it takes for me.

But yeah, I love the first three.

The fourth one I like.

I don't not like the fourth one.

It's just it was it wasn't rated R.

Now, why do you need a rated R movie?

Because that tells me that the violence is going to be toned down a little bit.

Okay.

You know, he, I don't even, in fact, in the fourth one, he goes

yippee Kaye, mother, and then an explosion cuts off the fucker.

And that to me is the beginning of the end.

Selling out, you think?

A little bit of selling out.

To get more spanny.

This is what got you here.

Yippee Kaye motherfucker got you here.

You did it in the second one.

You did it in the third one.

You fucking cut it off with an explosion in the fourth one.

And I still swallowed it.

And by the time the fifth one came on, it was.

Was that with his son?

Yeah, in Russia.

Never saw it.

Was it released theatrically?

It was.

I went to a

all-day,

I watched all four of them in the theater.

There was a marathon.

Really?

Leading up to the fifth one.

Now you're hardcore.

Yeah.

No,

you have the top billing as the

biggest fan of Die Hard.

I love the fucking Die Hard.

To me, Die Hard's one of the greatest movies ever made.

I love it, too.

And then the fifth one, and

it was like getting a hand job all day.

And then when you go to get to the sex, she's like, no.

It was not that.

I mean, it was just like a sinking feeling in my stomach as I watched it.

There's nothing good in it.

It didn't make any impact whatsoever, right?

It kind of came out silently and kind of

left theater silently.

I don't remember it at all.

I remember seeing it in Walmart and thinking to myself, I don't remember this coming out.

Was this released to direct a video?

I thought at times.

Yeah.

And I remember being like,

I'll give him a 6-1, but.

But he never got a chance.

He never got a chance.

And

I just didn't, I wouldn't have hope if they were going to do it anyway.

They were going to do a TV show for a while that was set in the 70s

about John McClain when he was a rookie cop in New York.

That's cool.

And they were going to have Bruce Willis shoot wraparounds for it.

So he was going to be in it, but it was going to be Flashbacks.

That would have been fucking awesome.

And then he really, you know, and then unfortunately, you know, everything happened with him.

But AI, they could probably mimic that voice now, though.

Yeah, I guess they could.

Or they could just make the show about him in the 70s as a cop but i think at a certain point you're like so this guy just had a billion bad days

you know i i you know i get it man i miss bruce willis i would i it's such a shame such a shame he's still with us i know but he's not making movies anymore you know what i mean and and you think about these movie stories where you're like

i was trying to explain to like

you know these kids as i was like it used to be like are you uncle q

yeah uh nobody calls me uncle anything Can we watch Uncle Q, could we watch something without murder mayhem?

That's Lilo and Stitch.

Okay.

Yeah, you know, we, you know, like, oh, you got screeners of the new Lilo and Stitch?

The animated one.

It must have been looking like the walls, man, if it's Uncle Q with the screen.

Yeah, and the parents, you know, definitely were

protective of what I was showing them.

It wasn't like, but their father was a little bit more like me than you, feeling like, no, these fucking kids, you know, we're going to watch it.

So, but, you know, like in Predator, when the bodies are skinned, hanging from the trees, we, you know, it was like, leave the room, then come back type stuff.

Kids next will watch in Death Witch 2.

You're going to love it.

You're uncut.

It's got the best skins ever.

Have the kids at school told you about Faces of Death yet?

I was watching Faces of Death when I was 12.

You know what I'm saying?

It was a different world.

I know, but wasn't it a better world?

That doesn't matter.

You have to take into consideration the kids today are just built different.

No, look.

You would think that they.

Oh, that's really not true.

Man, they're watching everything on their phones.

I was just going to say, like on the internet, they must see far more than we ever did.

No, they're not even allowed to say, like, the word death.

They have to be unaloted.

They're more...

I noticed.

I noticed, and the eight-year-old, we didn't really watch all that stuff, but I noticed it's not even like that.

They just get bored.

They don't shoot movies like they used to.

They don't, it's not quick cuts.

It's not,

you know, it's, it, it's you have to watch a movie and pay attention.

And they ju it's just not there for them anymore.

They're used to TikTok videos.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's going to be

a big factor in the way art, these people, these kids who grow up and when they create their art, it's going to be a lot different than what we

grow up on probably.

It's going to be a hell of a a lot different coming from a world where they only watch something for a minute and move on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, like, there were parts that, like,

in Terminator, that you have to send them out of the room and stuff like that.

And you're just like, you know, it just is what it is, man.

It just is what it is.

You know what I mean?

You can't.

They get you.

I mean, there's Arnold's backside is everywhere.

No, but also, I also

like a room with like 13 people in it.

You know what I mean?

So there's a lot of talking.

It's not like we're watching it, to be fair to the kids.

It's not like everybody's just sitting there watching, you know, we're all talking about our own memories of the movie.

So, you're not the only adult in the room, and then when Arnold's butt comes on, you're not like

13 kids out of the room.

In fact, we watch

we watch most of them outside, like on a screen and stuff like that, like movie nights and stuff like that type stuff.

So, would you could you show them jaws and stuff like that, or is that too intense?

That was a discussion, and the oldest was like, I don't want to watch it because it was too

scary.

How old is the oldest?

I think 11 or 11, something like that.

You know, I had to leave the theater when Joe's was on.

Yeah.

It was too much for me.

So, I mean, it's not as if I'm a pussy, right?

So

let's not be so hard on your.

I'm not being hard at all.

You guys are.

And then when did Raiders R come?

Raiders lost our.

81.

Okay.

That is the first movie I saw in theaters.

I was five then, and I remember watching that guy's face melt off.

Yes, and I remember being terrified of it, and uh, I couldn't wait to see it again.

It's just, you know, it's just the way it is.

I, you know, that's why I felt about Jaws.

Joe's was the first movie I saw twice in theaters.

Yeah.

And I wanted to go back so bad because just the ending with Sean

and the Jaws mouth

bitten down, blood squirting everywhere.

Yeah.

It's it's cool.

I don't know.

I, I, I, you know, I don't want to judge these kids.

I, you know,

You can't even get on the same wavelength as them.

Like, the shit that is pouring into their heads and ears day after day after day is so

beyond different from, like, the shit that we were dealing with at the time.

Like,

it's, it's fucking crazy.

And it's a scarier world, too.

And it's, like, you know, I it is what it is.

Is it, though, man?

I mean, like, you know, you have this thing with Iran going on right now, but, like, Christ, we grew up, like, during the Cold War where every fucking minute it was, like, you know, the test patterns on T V and shit and third threat of a nuclear war breaking out.

Right, but we couldn't access footage of it, though, the way that they can.

That's true.

Yeah, that's true, too.

We saw whatever we saw on the news.

Within a second, you can see Armageddon.

Like, like war atrocities and shit, yeah.

Yeah, on your screen, on your little phone screen, you could see

war.

So that's unfiltered.

That's what a mutilated guy looks like.

Right, and that's different.

And it was the news at 7 o'clock, whatever time, which I never watched because who gave a fuck?

Other than that, you didn't watch it.

There's no news, and the newspaper came once a day.

And that was for old people, other than the comic.

Give me Bloom County, I'll read that, and the rest of it, who gives a shit?

And I don't think it's the same anymore.

I think it's just 24 hours a day, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I don't know.

I do know I don't have kids.

So, once again, my name's Paul.

This is tween y'all.

Yeah,

I don't know.

The more I know, the less I know, right, Walt?

Yeah,

and

I can honestly say I thought about it last night because I was watching the Stanley Cup finals and somebody texted me.

It was like

World War III might have just kicked off.

And,

you know, I looked online to see what he was talking about, and it was Israel bombing Iran.

And it really made me realize.

I was like, I haven't gone home.

and turned on regular TV in years.

I go home, I watch something with my wife, she goes to sleep, and then I go into the family room with the dogs, and I put on Pluto.

So I have been like totally

oblivious of

for a long, long, long time.

I'm living a Sunday Jeff existence.

Wow.

Yeah.

And other than my phone, I am not exposed to news.

And I don't know if it's good or bad.

It just dawned on me.

Like, I have not watched anything but Pluto in

God knows how long.

I don't know if it's good or bad.

I just think.

Well, if you were watching the news, what the fuck were you going to do with that information anyway?

Yeah, that's always the thing.

Yeah.

Like, what are you going to do except throw up your hands at the riots in LA?

What are you going to do aside from being like, well, I hope this doesn't play out too much with the Iran-Israel shit?

You know, it's like you just watch the news and you're like, well, I hope.

Yeah, I was asking earlier, like, how long have you heard about

the

banging the drum of we must not let Iran have a nuclear weapon?

I mean, how long have we heard that?

It feels like a long, long time to me.

How come it's taken them so long to get their shit?

Like, how come it's taken decades to make a nuclear weapon for them?

Like, what is, like, can't they find that fucking shit on a YouTube video how to make it?

I don't think it's how to enrich uranium.

I mean, I think the equipment to make it's pretty specialized and pretty expensive, and a lot could go wrong.

And I just don't think it's not easy.

But it's been decades, and they still haven't been able to have one yet.

And I guess they're super close if we're to

believe

that's why now is

the time that they've taken action, Israel, to

they're pretty close, I guess, and that's why they've gone into bombing all the installations.

But

I'll be damned if I'm like, I haven't heard this since the 80s, though, and I'm like, what the fuck is with those guys that they just can't can't get their shit together?

You're like, what are they doing all day?

Yeah, it's like, is it that hard to order some equipment or maybe or do some MacGyver into some existing equipment to get what you got to get?

Or you can get everything on the black market.

Like, why can't they buy their own?

Yeah, but what are you getting?

What are you getting on the black market?

Where are you getting it from?

Does it work?

Soviet country.

The Soviets can't build shit.

Are they famous for their shit breaking down all the time, those guys?

They have nukes.

Yeah, but the Soviet is famous, you know, or at least for a long time had a reputation of just they just didn't have well-made stuff.

There's something about, I think, and you're talking to a guy that doesn't fucking know anything, really, but I just think that there's something about a stable society like we've had for so long that allows

these professions to thrive and research to thrive and

the technical know-how to thrive.

I think some of these countries just aren't stable enough to hold it together long enough to support these programs.

They've been, but the Iran regime has been in place since Jimmy Carter.

Has it the same people?

I don't know.

Sometimes you see those things with, like, here's Iran in the 60s, and everybody's partying.

Chicks in bikinis, and now they're just like, and here's Iran now.

And it's just like if they're spending all their time being like, cover that shit up.

Since the hostages, it has been

a fanatical kind of leadership.

So

I, I really

like it, must be insanely hard to build a nuclear program.

Like

set up and running.

And think about this.

The most brilliant fucking scientist in Iran who could help them build that bomb

might be a woman.

And they're like, fuck you.

Yeah.

I mean, isn't it?

You'd rather not have a bomb.

Yeah.

It's just like, fuck you.

It's like, she might be the most skilled fucking person who can get it done.

They're like, you know, get it.

Stone her.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Like,

this is what you're dealing with.

So it's like,

you know,

I never saw that movie Hitting Figures, but wasn't the point that, like, half the reason that

the NASA was so successful was because they had these brilliant women working on the mathematics of it all.

And it was just the guys being like, all right, all right, all right.

They did the math, but we're the ones that did all this.

So it's just, you know,

you're cutting off half your talent pool

based on a Stone Age ideology.

You know, and that's not great.

No, no, no.

But it's.

I mean, it can go through far, and I think that's the difference between Terminator 3 and Terminator Dark 8.

If I'm going to be honest with you,

it was a joke.

It just sucks.

That was a joke.

It just sucks that the world always has to be

in

a constant state of turmoil.

right?

It just is like it's just fatiguing.

Nobody can just fucking chill the fuck out.

That's the word going around these days to all these special interest groups.

This is like fatigue.

I'm tired of fucking

just fucking, you know, bitching and moaning and killing.

You know, you have such a limited time.

You know, why are you going to waste it on this fucking

destroying rather than having fun.

I guess that's how you have your fun, though.

This is bad guys.

This is just bad guys.

There's always got to be bad guys.

There's always bad guys.

Yeah, like I'll bet you the looting in LA is fun for some people.

You know, it seems like it'd be stressful even to be doing that.

I don't know.

I saw these guys, they broke into an Apple store.

Some of them got locked in, so they got arrested.

But then these other guys, like, they steal phones that say.

How do you get locked into an Apple store?

Isn't it made of glass?

It is made.

It was made of glass.

They couldn't get out, though.

They were running and crashing into it.

They couldn't get through.

Jesus.

But the

fuck, I totally lost my train of thought now.

Oh, oh, they steal five phones, and on the phones, it says

they showed it on TV.

It's like this phone is trackable.

Right, that's it.

It's not returned.

And they keep it anyway.

But can you do anything with that stolen phone?

Can you ever like fire it up and use it?

Maybe you can fake somebody out and try to sell it.

Skip that person's never going to be able to use it, right?

Right, no.

It's going to come back as a stolen phone.

This was stolen from, yeah.

Yeah.

LA Apple Store, wherever.

I don't know, man.

I'm not really too hip to what's going on at L.A.

I didn't know.

I didn't even realize there were riots going on.

Are you going to LA soon?

Oh, they're mostly peaceful protests.

Don't worry.

Oh, it's like that again?

Yeah, it's like that again.

Okay, okay.

Police cars burning everywhere.

Sounds fun.

Are you having any

dates in LA?

I always have reasons to go to LA, but nothing that's pressing that I need to go out there.

I mean, last time I went there, the fucking city caught fire.

You know what I mean?

Like I don't know.

But I'm with you.

But you know what that Pluto thing is that you're talking about?

It's you just shoving that out and enjoying it.

And it wasn't intentional.

It wasn't like I made

a decision.

It was like, I'm done.

I'm not consuming news.

It just became

just something that happened.

It wasn't like I did it on purpose.

And I don't, but then I realized I'm like, wow, I haven't missed it.

Like, I got to get rid of my cable.

The only only reason I keep cable is for sports.

Otherwise, I don't even watch TV.

I'm on Pluto.

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Curator was

solid job.

He was walking around on Cloud Nine.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was very humble guys.

Curator.

He's a great dude, man.

Great dude.

If we had, if I had

20 curators,

I could, I could, I don't know if there's anything I couldn't achieve.

I think I could put, I think we can get back to the moon.

Wow.

You got a nuclear program going.

I think we could get another man on the moon, a TSD ant on the moon, if I had 20 curators.

Just planting a four-color demon's flag on the moon.

Yeah, he's a great.

He gave me a moment of panic.

Why?

Because

I know his name's Chris, and I called him Chris.

Oh, you're not supposed to say his real name.

Oh,

I have no idea.

Oh, and when I said, when I, when I, when I said, hey, hey, Chris, what's going on?

He gave me a look, and I was like, that was like, I was like, did I just get his name wrong?

I was like, this guy's been in my life for years.

I was like, did I, do I not know his name?

Like, it put me in such like a, it really threw me.

I think it probably threw him that you knew.

You know, I mean, you got guys, you're mispronouncing everybody's name.

You call Rop, Rub.

Yeah.

So, like, people have a perception of you that you're kind of like, you're

soft in the head.

Mushmouth.

So, I think when you probably knew his real name, it probably threw him for a loop.

Okay.

And it probably was,

he probably was

afterwards very touched.

Okay.

That you, you know, you remembered.

Well, it came off like,

and then I had to pull Chuck aside and be like, dude, I was like, I'm, I'm like, I feel like an asshole.

I was like, I really like that guy.

I go,

I've been, come on, Chris.

I go, do I have it wrong?

And he's like, no, no, that's his name.

That's his name.

Yeah, he did a great job.

He did such a great job, man.

It was so happy to.

And I love seeing the people.

It's fun to look at that crowd and like

recognize so many of them, you know, and like, like so many of them.

Well, and it was

cool.

It was neat.

It was a very intimate

theater, but to kind of surprise, I don't know,

it was nice that we could do a little QA to show that we

appreciate people coming from all over

the nation to celebrate our podcast.

It doesn't go unnoticed.

And

it's fucking,

like I said, I don't know of any other pods that do something, like, that have something like that, that kind of grassroots thing.

Sure, other pods could be like, hey, we're going to have a gathering like

in Las Vegas.

We're going to do live shows.

We did nothing.

We did nothing.

And

they did it on their own to come out here.

And

it was

a real shot in the arm for me.

I came up with some

things.

I was so energized by seeing the excitement

from the listeners.

I came up with some ideas for 2025 into 2026.

Wow.

Okay.

They're not all great ideas.

I want to bounce some off of you and see if you guys like these things

or if you're like, no, I don't think that's a good idea.

For the regular TSD, there's some things that I thought would be

everybody kept asking me, you know, I'd like to see,

will there be more games on regular TSD?

Okay.

They feel that

kind of move them over to the Patreon side.

So I was thinking maybe a game,

at least one game,

every two months.

I love it.

So six games a year.

Well, the major thing.

Can it also just make your life easier?

Yeah.

Instead of saying new games, how about just games every two months?

This way you could throw a dyslexia out.

Oh, you know what?

In my note, you're right.

At least

just a game.

A game.

I didn't say new game.

Yeah, okay, okay.

Yeah, I think that's...

Could be existing, could be new.

Yeah, games.

So at least six games.

Fucking sounds like heaven to me.

Yeah.

Okay.

This one, I'm very curious to think about you think about this idea.

One new

potential TSD town member introduced on free TSD every other month.

So that's again, six new faces introduced.

Not saying they automatically, just because they're introduced, they become mainstays.

Yeah.

But there's the potential then

to grow the universe.

To see if they have potential.

So not existing people.

You're talking

about bring a new person in once every other month.

So six times a year, meet new

face,

and if we click,

great.

If they don't click,

I'd like to see the wording of that changed again slightly.

Okay.

Like an increased focus.

I would say instead of committing to a number, just be like an increased focus on growing.

You can tell this guy's been in some TV meetings.

TSD Town.

I love it, though.

Yeah, like

an increased effort on bringing in new members to TSD Town instead of committing to a firm number.

Okay.

So what about the people who got rejected?

Well, we won't tell them.

They just will never come back.

I'm not saying they're even listeners.

We won't tell them, like, hey, you're trying out.

You're auditioning.

You're auditioning to become

a semi-regular person who appears

on a somewhat regular basis.

We're just like,

it could be somebody in our lives that has no idea we even do a podcast and be like, hey, I do a podcast.

Would you like to come on and

spend an hour with us talking to us?

Yeah, I love it.

You know, I just thought,

you're right, maybe promising six, but it's only six a year.

To me, that feels like in 52 weeks, six is not a lot.

Don't talk to me the 48th week when you've only done three.

I have in my notes, new fresh blood injected

into the TSD vein.

Right?

Because we, we, our last promise.

Oh, that's exactly the sort of vague promise I like.

That is fantastic.

Yes.

Well, look at the last three

injections into the TSV vein.

We had Sexy Lawyer.

Right.

We have the doctor.

Dr.

D.

People loved and want her back on doing more things.

And Jimmy.

And Jimmy.

Hard to argue with any of those.

Right.

Yeah.

Hard to argue with any of those.

So we're going to, I mean, but they're organic is the thing.

They're organic.

They came to us through the material of the podcast rather than throwing out a lasso

to find people.

In my eyes or in my head, I wasn't now actively going out and looking for people for this reason.

I already have people in mind.

Got okay.

Okay.

And I'm like, I think this guy is interesting

and I think it would be fun to hear his story.

That's what I'm looking at.

I'm not looking just like, hey, the guy's checking me out at Walgreens.

I'm like, I need somebody.

Can you check me out?

I promise six a year.

I'm just not grabbing anybody because I'm on a time crunch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I went to this idea is when I went to see Cousin Brucey, the concert with Cousin Brucey, I saw how happy people were hearing songs

that they've heard a million times.

Okay.

So I thought, why can't we do the same thing with stories?

And once a month, we would tell classic stories picked by the listeners years after we first told them.

But with a new kind of maybe there's a perspective.

Like, I don't remember half of that.

Yeah.

Maybe there's a new.

Don't we do that anyway?

I don't think we've ever, like, I think the Dickey story told again, just as a tryout to see

if it was as enjoyable.

It's one of my favorite fucking things that we've ever done on this show.

So I would love to, we could do a test with the Dickey story.

Would your wife be willing to come in for that to be telling you that

she's involved?

She was there, but I can almost guarantee.

I don't think it's a bad idea.

I think, like, I think, even

I'm not even saying she wouldn't do it, but I just fear that she doesn't remember it at all the way I do.

Like the way you remember it.

Wouldn't that be funny too?

I'm a Frank Five, Mrs.

Five situation.

I call it, though, this segment, retell them, Steve Dave.

Hey, all right.

And it would be, I think

it could be fun or it could fizzle out, but give it a shot and see.

And especially if listeners are involved being like, this is my favorite story.

Can you tell us, recount?

There's no reason not to try that

as an experiment.

Like, that's pretty fun.

This one I'm not so sure you guys will like, but I call it Operation Juju Bean.

Once...

Maybe every other month, we have a former listener come on, either in person or in the phone, and we find out why they left the Anhill and what we have to do to make them come back.

Haven't we done that before?

We've never done it before.

Yeah, we did it once with Lucy Muckeenes from Twitter.

She unfollowed us on Twitter and we called her.

She lived in the UK and we called her to ask her why.

And she drove us to the next one.

It was underwhelming, right?

It wasn't for any reason.

She was just like, I did.

She was like, yeah,

no reason.

But then she refollowed us and started listening.

I like her.

I haven't talked to her in years, but I always liked her.

You know, kind of find out

what happened on the listener's point, why they stopped listening.

Oh, my God, you want to open us up to that sort of criticism?

You think it's always going to be because they just didn't like it anymore?

You don't think it could be be like, hey, I had a kid or I got a new job or I moved or I, or I got a new relationship,

a new love interest.

I'd be fascinated to hear it.

I always thought that that was the fork in the road for me personally.

I know you guys didn't take it so hard, but when Juju Bean...

Remember her?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

She stopped listening.

I was like,

she's talking about Juju B?

Yeah, Juju B.

Was it Juju B or Juju B?

Juju B.

Yeah.

Oh, she stopped listening?

I have not heard from her in quite some time.

So I'm assuming you.

She was hardcore.

Yeah, I thought she was ride or die.

Yeah, no, I don't think so.

If she stopped listening,

I almost don't want another reason.

Well, I'm not saying her personally.

I'm just using her name.

There's got to be something horrible in her life or something.

Actually, I got to change it.

So it's not Operation Juju Bean.

It's Juju B.

Juju B, yeah.

Maybe that's why she stopped listening.

She didn't care if you win her name, right?

I thought that would be interesting.

What other pod has done that too?

Like,

reconnect and be like, hey, you used to love us.

What happened?

Yeah, I would like to screen those stories before we put them

on.

You don't want to be sandbagged?

Looking for any more sandbags.

And even though it's June, thinking about Christmas.

Oh, okay.

And I think I've got a winner.

The 2025 TSD Christmas special

will be a Christmas or Hanukkah-themed One True3 tournament.

All three stories have to be about Christmas.

And we have a new One True3 tournament based all on holiday stories.

Okay, I like that.

It's easy.

I already, a story instantly popped in my head.

And now you've got six months to come up with your other ones?

With the two lies, yeah.

Everybody start planning now and don't wait until you know the day before we record.

I like it.

I gotta say, after we did the episode this last weekend,

and I was home, I was looking at that tub, and I was like, I really want them to, I really want you and Frank Vibe to record an episode for my tub.

And now, I don't really want cameras, though.

That's what we don't have to have cameras.

So, like, what's the

only person who's

splashing is you

see the idea?

all like to think about when I look at that tub now is Walter Walton Frank Pipe in it.

Yeah, somebody came up with a Burton Ernie with Frank and Tub

pretty quickly.

It was funny.

But I thought that really solves

a lot of planning.

I don't have to plan anything then.

It's like it's all on the people who are invited to the tournament.

Got to have three stories.

Okay.

And they've got to be Christmas-themed.

And that takes care of a major

episode for us.

Everybody looks forward to the Christmas episode, and everybody wants a one-two-three tournament again.

Sure.

Yep.

Two birds and one stone.

Love it.

We got to lock Ming down now.

For a date for him?

Yeah, we can't do it without him.

He was there for the last one.

Remember, he called Mike?

No, I know.

That's why we need him.

Oh, he'll be here.

He never not delivers.

And you're going to love this next one, Q.

And finally, with what the curator pulled off last week, I want to tap him to help make the Tesde Awards show a reality in 2026

and put it out as a free episode.

Wow.

He'll get it done.

I believe he will get it done.

Yeah.

I think that's where we implement and utilize the curator's skills at organizations.

Rub it dub dub, not you, Rupert.

It's 11-something are you in the top?

That's 11-something.

Yeah, that's great.

Yeah, I believe that

it'll happen.

I think he can organize categories for awards and nominees.

He's fucking earned the right to,

I think, step up to a bigger situation.

This is a massive undertaking, though.

Yeah.

This is a lot of responsibility, but the man has showed, I think, he's more than capable capable of taking on a task this big.

I agree.

I would even be willing to give him one of my phone numbers

to talk to me.

You know, maybe not the one you guys have,

but there are several.

Oh, you have a burner phone.

I have three fringes.

Yeah, I have a three.

Not the curator's fringe.

I have levels of phone numbers.

Really?

I didn't know this.

Wow, that's very celebrity savvy.

Well, you learn the hard way.

You do learn the hard way.

But yeah, yeah, I'd love to work.

What do you think?

In 2026, I think that's amazing.

We call it the Tesdes, like the Dunkeys, and we'll have different categories, different nominations.

We'll have presenters.

We'll make it a big thing.

And it'll be a major event.

And the curator and myself will try to pull it off to what you imagined it to be.

Yeah, I love it.

I have some Patreon ideas.

I have some notes, too, on that still.

I'll dig them up and send them as well.

I have Maverick on the mic,

a Ming Chen-hosted show, and he picks his co-host.

It doesn't even have to be me, you, just a show, a very first on the Patreon where we're not involved at all.

Okay.

And it's a Ming Chen.

Turn him loose and watch subscribers roll in.

Or do you think that may not be the case?

I think he'll pick a hot chick that'll be boring.

Let the man cook, Brian.

Yeah, I mean, he should be able to pull somebody.

I mean, he knows so many people.

He should be able to pull in somebody interesting.

Yeah.

Even if he has to do it via like Zoom or something.

I just was thinking, you know, there's a lack of Ming Chen,

not because we don't want him.

Yeah.

Because

he's living his dream life.

Right.

He's out there.

You know, he's living the Maverick life.

And I think the show should be called Maverick on the Mic.

I love it.

If he wants to do it, if he wants to do it, I can't see.

I mean, I just wonder if...

I'm just seeing the

image of

Mingbutt fucking Mike, like Maverick on the mic

for the show.

Talking about getting numbers.

Kill is not the right word, but that podcast I was going to do with Audioboom, the five stupid questions,

has gone away.

Oh, you're not going to do it anymore.

Okay, but that's good.

Because

I have a show for you, Brian, a show for me, and a show for you.

Okay.

So that's good that you have some free time now.

But anyway, back to, but is there a possibility that people will be like, well, I'm subscribing, I'm paying my monthly subscription for TSD content.

If I fucking want it,

I think we try it and then we take, you know, take the temperature, see what happens, you know?

Okay, I just, yeah, I'm just, I just thought it'd be an interesting show.

Are you going to hear people bitch?

Yes, you will.

It's not what I want, though.

I want 100% honest.

100% approval rate?

100% approval rate, like NASA.

Right.

I can't have any mistakes.

I have this idea for a show.

I don't watch Survivor, but I'll find somebody who knows

how it's played.

Sure.

And we have a Survivor TV show that exiles some of the TSD town residents for one year.

So they form alliances, and I'm willing to see, I want to see who's willing to fuck over

other residents.

Yeah, but what if you lose a sexy lawyer for a year or Jimmy the Hair guy for a year?

You haven't said Sunday Jeff yet, so I'm still up for that.

They're all on the table.

I just assumed this this is.

That's going to make oxygen go away.

We're not going to make Sunday Jeff go away.

Right, but Johnny Law is in Boston, so like him being away for a year.

Oh, he's listening to this radio.

No, no, he's on, but

he's not on that often, though.

You know, it would be.

But to not know he's

on.

He might cancel a

summer camp trip with me now.

So when the three who are exiled, so we pick four,

only one wins, and the three who lose are exiled for a year.

When they return to the mic, there's excitement and catching up.

We find out what they've been up to for the last year.

There's a lot of stories now, a lot of catching up to do.

And also the winner

can also create his own show on Patreon.

I love it.

I love the mercenary.

But I think survivor people love that shit where

they see how people are willing to fuck over.

Well,

maybe, maybe the note I would give this would be like, instead of making it a negative,

maybe there's a positive outcome that they're contributing, that they're trying for.

A year's a long time.

Because if they were fucking...

Not this.

I'm not saying this, but let's say that instead of the losing prize was you're exiled for a year, the winning prize is you're in the fourth seat for a month.

Not that, but you know what I mean?

If there's a positive, everybody's...

The winner?

What's the ramifications for losing?

You're not getting the

more about winning, more about losing.

Yeah, this way we're not losing Johnny Law or Jimmy the Hair guy.

All right, so what if we take Jimmy and Johnny Law off the table and we go like maybe Frank Three?

Guys who don't really appear all that often.

I don't think you're going to get the ravid battle then that you're looking for.

I don't think Frank Three is going to care all that much.

I'm curious.

Didn't he write us off at one point on his show?

We're still

cool with him.

No, I know he came back to the fold, but wasn't there a period where he was like, fuck this?

Or no, or am I not everyone?

No, not that I recall.

No, I think he had some personal stuff going on, and that's why he was.

This wasn't about me?

No.

Do you remember the first season of Survivor with the way one of the guys like chased everybody off as he was naked the whole time?

Do you remember?

Well, I mean, I already had an idea for that already.

I was going to order,

you know,

the green suit that Gidden wears sometimes.

I was going to order flesh-colored ones.

Nude body suit.

So everybody looks nude, but they're not really nude.

I just thought it was a cool visual.

Yeah, I already had that in mind for every plays.

It's going to have to wear that for, but I thought it'd be interesting,

and it's a different kind of take

on the Patreon to just a cool kind of different kind of show.

I can't take credit for this one, but this is my show idea for me.

Brian Rupert Rupp came up with this one, and I think it's genius.

It's just I drive around with a different Tesde Town member for one hour, and we talk cartoons and music in a show called Cartoon Tunes.

I mean, I would have loved that.

Yeah, I thought that's a fucking simple

idea that really appeals to me where I can just talk about two things that I love, like cartoons I grew up on and music.

I like that.

And you get good video with that, too.

Yeah, and I'm going to do that.

And every person I go out with, we're going to go to Stewart's and order food.

Stewart's?

Where the fuck you driving to?

Where's our Stewart's?

In Old Bridge.

Oldbridge, okay?

Yeah, Madeline.

There's a yeah, we can.

I guess we can't do this in the wintertime.

The stores will be closed.

For Brian Johnson,

I know you love this show.

I don't know if you still love it, but our version of

Tesde's Town's funniest home videos.

There's a million videos on the internet now.

You can find some of the great, craziest, funniest videos, and you host it and you do the narration, and you pick two to three people in Tesny Town to be your writers, and you guys get together and you riff on these videos.

Yeah, okay.

Put out our clone version of that.

I like that.

I like that.

To me, it's like

that's a lot of work, prep work, but what else should I do?

I happen to see 100 funny videos a day anyway.

I know you love that show, though.

Some of them don't even have people being lit on fire.

You've got to find the.

So, no necklacing them.

Yeah, they can't be torture videos.

Okay.

It's got to be light-hearted.

I know with Overkill, I bring in serial killers sometimes, and it's not the tone of the show.

But I thought you grabbed two guys that you're like, hey, here's the videos I'm going to put on this episode.

Give me some narration that, you know, some funny stuff I could say about it.

Or you want to just be your own sole writer.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But

I thought it was a fun idea to give it a shot and see what your version of America is.

American's funny summit video is.

And BQ.

This is the fucking game changer on the Patreon.

Oh, boy.

You don't have to do a lot of work either.

Six shows a year, six hours,

where Q the Laughs finally becomes a reality.

You cultivate and talk about what you want to talk about on a podcast.

You lead it.

You pick who you want on it.

Well, here's the thing.

The reason that I killed the thing, the five super questions, is because I just

got to stop working as much.

I just, I can't do it anymore.

Like, I've just hit the age.

But my thought was like, maybe I could start doing that.

I was going back and forth on something like this already in my head.

So I was like, maybe because I want to do it, I do love the idea and and I do love doing it.

I was like, maybe I'll just start doing one kind of way saying every once in a while for the Telum Steve Dave Patreon.

But then I was like, yeah, but I really do love the comic book one.

And I was like, don't have to get rid of it.

So I was like, if I was going to

start removing work off my plate, and believe me, I am removing as much work off my plate as possible.

I think I'd like to take a bigger swing at

iBuy Comics.

Yeah.

So not Q to Laughs.

Fuck, I ordered fucking 500 shirts with the logo Q to Laughs because I thought it was coming back.

I thought you were going to be like, yeah.

A bunch of African kids wearing Q to Laugh shirts now.

You know, I'm just trying to lead my heart towards things that are going to be, you know,

fun and not a fucking thing.

I thought I buy comics.

Look, everybody asks me for it.

They love that show.

But it requires more out of you than people realize because you have to read and do a little bit of.

Yeah, yeah, but I read comics all the time anyway.

Okay, so I was thinking

if it was just too much prep time to get a show under your belt, yeah, or could be like, remember, like in the middle of the QA that we were having the other day at the thing, and that guy brought up the Stephen King books, The Dark Tower,

and I talked to him about it for like two minutes while nobody else in the theater gave a fuck what we were talking about.

I was like, oh, something like that would be fun.

So maybe it's not even just comic-related.

Maybe it's like just a little bit more of like

just in the theme of I by comics, but maybe I you know, it could although they did dark tower comic books and stuff like that.

Yeah, so I mean I by comics could be

your

whatever pop culture you want to talk about, old, new.

Yeah,

well, it's comic book movie or it's comic book or it's a graphic novel.

Yeah, if you're willing and you think you want to give

six six episodes a year, I think we could do it easy.

I want to do it.

I can make it, and I I can make it easy on you if we just pick a single issue that really resonates.

Yeah, I think I'll commit to doing that six.

And it could even be the thing where it's like,

you know,

like you're saying, if it's a Dark Tower series or something like that, and you haven't even read the Dark Tower series, you don't even have to.

I could just get that guy in here and talk to him.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, it's like, let's take a little work off your plate.

But yeah, okay, I'll commit to that.

Six in 2026.

Absolutely.

Six Eye Buy Comics episodes.

Yeah.

Guaranteed.

At least.

At least.

At least.

Wow.

Wow.

At least.

Yeah.

Optimistic.

Wow.

That is, that is fucking exciting news.

I am.

I'm telling you, I'm clearing the fucking decks when it comes to my life.

I'm getting rid of everything.

Everything that I can get rid of, I'm getting rid of.

And I think this is something that would be very

fulfilling to do with that time.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think about it all the time.

I just never get to, you know.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

Awesome.

All right.

I love that idea.

I actually, well, I'm telling you, I love it.

I love it.

Okay.

So, so all the ideas are winners, you're saying.

I think so.

Yeah, some of the notes on those early ones.

Oh, except maybe Operation Juju Bean.

You did sound very Juju B.

I just don't want, like, I like,

don't we have enough people telling us what we did wrong and what we do wrong?

And, like, what are we really going to invite that in?

I just, to me, I always like the challenge of like winning someone's heart back.

I see kissed their ass

that five bucks a month yeah

like I think GGB's which on your end comes down to how much

like after you take the tattoos out and the split and all this other shabby

challenge though

I know I know we can be yeah we can mend whatever

was the issue that made you stop.

I know we can.

We're that good.

I'd be down for it, dude.

I just wouldn't want, I would.

Do you want me to do it as a Patreon show and you watch one and then you're like, okay, this is fun or like, or and then you're like, oh, you know what?

I'm glad I wasn't involved.

Just a little pilot to say it.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, look, ultimately, Waltz,

you guys obviously.

It's okay.

It's alright.

You got ourselves a guard dog here.

Like, you guys obviously don't have total freedom with Patreon.

It's your, like, do whatever you want.

So if you want to do it, do it.

You know what I mean?

You don't have to worry about it.

I know, but I understand where you're coming from.

And it is kind of like, like it is open the door like you can go south a scathing review of yourself yes

real quick and like well these are the reasons why we're like oh yeah okay i can't change that

i see well the lady the lady who blanketly said like i don't like you guys anymore i want to win her back i don't think she loved us not only did she love us i gave it some thought afterwards and i was like what are the chances that all three of us changed into unlikable people versus like maybe she changed see

yeah that's where you guys, see, I think that's where we differ.

Not saying you're wrong, but you guys, you're, and it's maybe a healthier mindset.

It's not you, it's them, right?

And I'm always, and I'm the type of guy that's like, it's not them, it's me.

Yeah, so it's falling,

I fall into that category.

It's probably in the middle, yeah, yeah.

And you're right, and it's not, it's neither or, it's somewhere in right in the middle.

But yeah, that one, that lady who stopped listening, yeah, that one, um, that one shook me to the core because she was so nice and positive.

Yeah, she loved it.

Very.

Yeah, that was devastating.

Cried myself to sleep any night.

In the top.

In the tub.

Razor sitting on the edge.

Oh, no.

So, I buy comics,

cartoon tunes, and Brian Johnson's funniest home videos.

Or, I don't know how, I don't know, maybe you can make up a video.

Yeah, I'll figure out a name.

But yeah, you watch videos.

You love funny videos.

I watch all those fell videos.

I just thought

it'd be easy to host against a green screen.

Right.

And it's fun collaborating with maybe with a couple other guys.

You're like, hey, here's the videos I want to focus on this episode.

And you guys

have a fine show.

I like it.

There's a reason that fucking show is 35 years.

It's been on TV for 35 years.

We could do a version of that.

And I think that people would enjoy.

Not everybody, but I think there's some people that would enjoy us

trying something new like that.

Something different.

Yeah.

Well, it's not really different because

there's been a lot of fucking shows like that.

Animal Planet hasn't written about animals.

There's so many clones that have been spawned from America's Funniest Home videos.

There's room for a TSD version.

Sure, why not?

Why not us?

I was waiting for you guys to speaking of clones of other shows, I was waiting for you guys to discover this on your own, but you haven't yet.

But you know, the Fons,

Henry Wrinkle himself, has a new new show debuting on the History Channel on Sunday where he talks about

failed tech like failed techno like technology that was dangerous,

you know, products that came out like not this, but like how cocaine used to be in Coca-Cola.

And he's hosting a show about it, and it's like a talking head type show where he does the

hosting and the intro, and then it cuts to experts, quote-unquote, who aren't even in the room, right?

Who aren't even in the room.

And I'm in the entire first season of it.

But your expertise.

Oh, they go to me with like stupid shit where they're like, how, like, if somebody's got to talk about Action Park and how fucking dumb it is, but I took a different stance.

I did it one day, and I took a different stance where I argued for the dangerous shit.

And apparently, the producers loved it so much they had me come back and do more because my take was not like, look at how stupid people were.

My take was like, man, it might have been dumb, but wasn't wasn't it awesome?

And it was like a different take.

And it's hosted by him and I

was waiting for you.

I didn't read him.

No.

He shot it.

We passed a message to each other through the producer.

But I was just waiting for you guys to discover it.

It's out now.

It starts this Sunday night, yeah.

Oh, how will we know, though?

Well, I figured it's on a commercials have been out for it already.

I am not aware of it.

I figured an aunt would have thrown it your way or something like that.

So I was just waiting.

I haven't known about this?

No.

I haven't heard about it.

Yeah, and there was a review of the show in the Wall Street Journal this week, and they mentioned something specifically I said in conjunction with him.

And I was like, this is for sure.

Somebody's going to tell them.

We're just getting to the point.

I mean, it's two nights from now.

Oh, I will turn it on

to that.

I was setting you up, guys, to be like making fun of me and being jealous.

You know what I mean?

Like a little bit of it.

There's definitely jealousy to be involved in a project with Arthur Fonzarelli.

I mean, that is

as a fucking

cool thing for your resume that you have.

That's what I thought.

Yeah, you're on something with the fucking coolest motherfucker that ever watched the planet.

I'll even tell you something else.

They asked me, and I said, no, because I said, look, look, I just don't have the time.

And the guy who's making it's a producer, he's a friend of mine.

I was like, I just don't have the time.

And then when the money offer came in, it's like.

Like you, you wouldn't even cross the street for it.

You know what I mean?

It's like we're talking like hundreds of dollars, you know what I mean, for hours of work and on a TV show that'll be as

but when they said then when they got back to me and they said that Henry Wrinkler's on, my only thought was for the moment that Walton Bryant bring it up, we'll find out I have to do it.

So I spent like three days in Manhattan doing it with them and stuff like that.

That's dark.

And I was hoping you'd bring it up.

You didn't catch it.

So it's coming out this summer.

I'm really missing out on that.

On the history channel.

I've been going online less and less, so I don't really see as much anymore.

Right.

I just figured a man would see the commercial and point it out to you guys.

I was giving you guys some fodder.

So, okay, so you're in the commercial too, then?

I believe so.

I haven't seen any of it, but I believe so.

They told me that

they liked the, because apparently I was the only one that took the take of this shit's kind of awesome and stuff like that, and they liked it.

But yeah, so that's this Sunday.

Nice.

Doesn't do anything for me.

I ain't getting residuals.

Nothing like that.

But I did get to, in a way, work with the funds from 5,000 miles away and stuff like that.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah.

And I did that for you guys.

All right.

Well, I got to watch now.

Do we know what time it's on on 10 o'clock?

I think it's on 10 o'clock.

8 o'clock?

10 o'clock?

10 o'clock, possibly.

And the name of it is?

Hold on, I'll tell you right now because I didn't even,

I didn't really care about any of it aside from the fact that you guys were going to

hazardous history with Henry Winkler.

Hazardous history with Henry Winkler.

Yeah.

And there's your boy.

There he is.

There he is.

Happiest motherfucker.

They said he is the nicest fucker.

They're like,

he's just,

he had one.

He had two rules.

One, I don't want to say because, like, I don't know if he wants it out there, but the other one was like, I'm not wearing a leather jacket.

He's like,

I'm worn one leather jacket and it's in the Smithsonian.

And I was like, I respect the fuck out of this guy, man.

Like, how awesome is that?

It would have been weird if they were like, we want you to dress like the fonts for this.

I don't know what the bit was that they wanted him to do.

Hey, this is dangerous.

Yeah,

I don't know what it was, but that was it.

So, yeah, that's the Sunday night.

Wow.

All right.

Well, this drops Sunday, so people tune in.

Yeah, yeah.

Didn't play out like I wanted it to.

It was a lot of work, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's good.

It's good.

It's all good.

I think that's it.

That's it.

You're waiting for Tom C.

Day?

Is that what you're waiting on?

I guess.

Yeah, I don't have anything else.

Except for the Air India crash.

I was wondering, like, oh, yeah.

The

one guy survived.

Seat 11A.

I was told.

How do you...

What do you do

after that?

I know, and I know it's shitty, and I know it's like, but

I'm like, how?

How is this possible?

That this guy survived?

Yeah.

It's weird, right?

You say he slid out the emergency hat.

He's barely like...

Yeah, he's

banged off.

So you're saying that maybe he didn't survive.

survive, maybe he wasn't in the crash at all.

I don't know.

I'm really finding it hard to believe that

you could walk away with just a couple scrapes.

I read that he was on the plane with his cousin, though, or something.

Like his cousin died.

Yeah, and that's shitty.

That's a bunch of people.

That's shitty, really, just for people to speculate like that.

But it's so hard to swallow, though.

You know, I got to say, I thought the same thing.

I was like, wow, he doesn't look too bad.

Like, when I saw his picture.

Yeah.

When Guinam told me there was a survivor, I assumed that they were alive, but were in no state to even say that they were alive.

Those people on the ground died.

They didn't even look human.

I thought they looked like hamburger with,

but he doesn't.

No.

He looks like he has a little strawberry

from

falling or something.

I mean, statistically, it does happen from time to time.

You know what I mean?

Like, it has to happen from time to time.

I heard that he jumped out the door, though.

The emergency door, yeah.

Wait, before the plane crashed?

Yeah, like, you know how, like, Bugs Bunny would step off the elevator as it's falling to the ground and he would be fine?

That's what I see.

He opened the emergency thing in mid-air.

Well, I think we know how the crash happened then.

I mean, Jesus, who would do that?

Now, I don't know if it's true.

There's so much shit out there, and I know people love to say, you know, don't spread misinformation, but I think I read he said he jumped out the emergency door.

That's how he survived.

But now.

Have you ever seen the old cartoons when Bugs Bunny's falling down an elevator and it's falling to earth and all of a sudden he just steps out at the right moment and he's fine before it crashes?

It says Air India survivor escaped through emergency door while brother, not cousin, just seats away from among them,

240 killed.

It says he escaped the fiery wreckage through

an emergency.

Maybe after a crash.

Yeah, after the crash.

Okay.

So he's probably just in the right seat.

He's a little puffy, but he just does have one little cut on his face.

He's walking around.

And this one, he's in a hospital bed just looking at that.

But there's footage of him walking, and the reporters are trying to ask him questions, and he doesn't want to answer any questions.

Really?

Which is understandable.

You're in shock, probably, but

you have to have it out here 11 minutes.

This is a strange story.

Either you have been literally plucked by God

from this.

I don't know.

I think if it was me, I would have to try to attribute it to

statistics.

I mean, it's got to be such a mind fuck.

How could you wrap your head around it?

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

You can't.

They're like, why me?

Why did I get saved?

And the truth is, no reason.

It just happened that way.

No fucking reason whatsoever is the answer.

A lot of people look into that.

Like, I remember hearing another plane crash.

Like, this is years ago, and Edgar got mad at me for this, too.

Where I was like, I just don't understand.

Like, people are like, you know, God wanted me to survive.

And I was like, but he wanted the other 200 people to die.

Yeah.

Like, that doesn't make any sense.

But he's just like, she's looking for something in it, you know.

He got all pissy with me about it.

you have to try and put it into some perspective yeah but maybe the

perspective is just like fuck yeah you know what i mean like i i i guess i it's it's it's madness there has to be more like i really need to hear more about this story though like this feels like but when i saw the picture of the plane i only saw the picture of that like tail sticking out of the building

the tail of the plane and that tail was in pretty good condition like there wasn't even a scratch on it so i was like i was like but you've seen the fireball.

No, I only saw the picture of the guy in the

tape.

I mean, I don't know,

it's a little dinged up there, but like, that's yeah, hey, yeah, I, I, yeah, it's cruel for people to speculate to say like something doesn't add up and it's and it's and it's shitty, yeah, but

human nature is like, how could anybody survive this?

Like, I want to, I have to hear more.

How could he,

how is it possible that he could walk away unscathed from something like that and everybody else die i i don't know

it's like the i mean i just read it read a fucking article about a guy who won the fucking lottery three times within the past two years and i'm talking big wins

and it's just like how how how does this happen with like 30

million has to happen right from time to time So this is the plane

taking off.

So this is how high it is.

I mean, it clashes very fast after taking off.

It's a

stopped getting

clamoring.

It's kind of just lofting to the ground.

It's not really like plummeting.

Yeah, but I think there's no runway there, so they're landing on a house.

Oh, yeah, fucking course.

But like,

it was a medical school.

Yeah.

Medical school?

Yeah.

Oh, man.

And they hit the lunchroom at lunchtime.

Oh, and it was filled with fuel.

Look at that fireball.

To go all the way to London, so it was fully fueled.

Jesus Christ.

I mean, I just said this recently: how, like, I saw the ring cam of a plane crash, and I've always had the fantasy that oh done in philly that i would survive a plane crash and then i was like nobody will ever survive a plane when you see that fireball you're like how could anybody survive and that's why where i'm that's where i'm coming from before people start hammering me and like

it's hard to wrap your head around that anything could survive that kind of horrendous yeah fireball that inferno right there but

I just need to hear a little bit more, like, because it's tough to swallow.

And it wouldn't be the first time.

I mean, there were people in 9-11 that pretended they were 9-11 and they weren't, you know, so it's not like the first time.

But he has a plane ticket, right?

And he has his.

I guess so, yeah.

His brother was on the plane.

So there's, it's, yeah, so a lot of times.

We call those guys

third tower survivors.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Like when firemen would like lie and say that they were there and shit like that.

It'd be like, we got another fucking third tower survivor over here.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, I tell them, Steve, Dave.