#629: Comin’ in Hot!

I fucking own the corporation!

Jesus!

I can put my feet up fucking 24-7 and it's fine.

Like that's in the general store is pro-twerking.

I come in, I'm like a freaking robot.

I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do and I go home.

I don't care.

I've heard it all before.

I'm tired of hearing complaining and bitching and moaning.

I'm tired.

It's like working here.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.

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

I look across the table, I see Walt Flanagan.

As always.

As always.

Look across the table.

I don't see BQ.

Is he down in Key West already?

He might be.

I don't know.

He was texting with me and Walt, and he said he didn't even have one hour to spare this week.

Not even an hour.

I'm sure that

frazzles your brain, right?

For like...

It's inconceivable

to not have multiple hours available

at the drop of a hat.

Just show up.

Imagine like, that just like fries every circuit.

Yeah.

I was like, that doesn't happen in real life, does it?

Yeah, so no cue this week.

But, fan favorite, Sunday, Jeff.

Whoa, hello.

All right, Sunday.

Sunday was just saying the same thing, though.

He hasn't had enough time to even watch Devils hockey anymore.

Yeah, but I don't get paid like you.

He's not getting, he doesn't have an hour to watch the Devils.

He says he watches five-minute highlights.

Doesn't even have an hour to watch it.

How are you that busy?

I think he's.

I got to fill in for cue.

So he doesn't have that hour.

That's my hour.

This is my free hour.

So here I am.

He took your hour this week.

So he took my hour this week.

I also think he goes to sleep at like 7 or 8 o'clock at night.

Is that true?

No,

I can't.

I tried.

I wind up going to sleep at 10:30, 11 o'clock.

I wake up at 4:30.

I don't know.

I just have it.

I can run on five and a half hours of sleep.

I can.

I don't know how I do it, but I do.

You need to be studied.

Zombified.

Yeah, it's just used to it.

You try to go to bed by 7.

I do.

I can't.

I wouldn't go to that bed early.

I wouldn't go to bed that early, anyways.

I mean, 9.30 is probably the cuff.

You know, it's like when I could try to do it, just I can't.

Why don't you load up on

sleeping medicine?

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm telling you about it.

It's just like, I just don't, I just can't function that way for some reason.

You got to talk to Giddam.

He could fall asleep.

Yeah,

what's that, narcolepsy where he could just fall asleep, you know,

in a conversation?

We were getting here to record, and you guys, I I walked up on you guys in the hallway, and you said that you thought he was sleeping.

Yeah, the door's all locked.

Why else?

So, all three of us are waiting to get into the office.

That door's closed, so I don't keep the office locked.

Aren't you supposed to be open selling stuff right now?

That's why there's a doorbell.

But this door was open down here.

We didn't know that.

You can't see.

I mean, we're not looking.

Well, we did podcasts, and he was remembering, wow, sounding like a freaking bear over there in the corner.

When we were doing

the Sunday Grinds.

Sunday Grinds, yeah.

You can hear Giddam snoring away.

Now, do you ever fear you might have narcolepsy?

I've thought about it because every once in a while when I'm driving, I get very.

That's always a good time.

Wow.

Fall asleep.

He wakes up, the wheels spinning upside down on the car.

His head's just bleeding because you have narcolepsy.

Don't know what it is.

Like, I can, like, it sometimes happens when I'm on a long drive.

Like, I wake up, take a shower, go get coffee, and I'm like, finish my coffee, and I'm driving down the parkway, and just all of a sudden, like, I can't keep my eyes open.

It was 10 minutes away.

This is like what I'm again, when I'm long-distance driving, like I'm going to a relative's house for a holiday or something.

So, sometimes I'll just pull over, take a quick nap, and then I'm good.

But not

enough to make you concerned enough to get to a doctor, maybe get checked out, get some blood work done, see if you've got any issues with narcolepsy.

That

knowing my Jeep, it's probably an exhaust leak.

That's why I'm not saying that no way he's going to.

Look, he's got a clone growing on his elbow, and you're worried about it.

He hasn't gone to the doctor for that.

I've got to cut it off at a certain length and growth.

The growth might cut him off.

And it can start walking around him.

It might actually cut him off.

It might actually kill him.

I'm kind of self-aware.

I have been to the doctor for this.

What did they say?

Aside from gross, what did they say?

They took a, what do you call it, a swab that wasn't an infection, and just said if it happens again, come back.

It looks better.

I I think it actually does look better.

Maybe not.

It does.

It does look better.

Maybe not.

Yeah, that actually was one of the things I wanted to talk to Sunday Jeff about because

I was wondering, how do you feel your day?

Like, I know you work from, you know, your work day is pretty long.

Let's hear a day in the life of Sunday Jeff.

Yeah, and then I'll tell you what I did.

Yeah, compare them.

Oh, don't start laughing already, Jeff.

I know.

Wait until you hear what I did.

The time is filled up.

I mean,

it's like everything else i wake up at 4 30 i'm out of the house at a quarter

you're you're glossing over all the fun things the fun things i wake up at 4 30.

okay that was the first thing you do it's like uh cheat you know you know on my summer vacation i woke up and i went downstairs do you do you need an alarm clock to wake you up i do but i automatically wake up at that time anyways i'm always up before the alarm so you turn the alarm off when was the alarm set to a certain rate 4 30.

no it's it's yeah it's set to like something really low i think it's 101.5.

Okay, I was going to say, do you have an alarm clock or use your phone?

No, I don't use my phone.

And then you get up, do you take a shower?

Do you have a nice day?

No, I take a shower.

I'd get my hours in, so I'd take a shower at night.

This is final information.

Probably can't.

I know.

I should be writing this.

Well, it's recorded, so I'll just listen back later.

I mean, what I'm at.

In the summertime, it's like I can't go to bed after being all sweaty all day, so I always take my showers at night.

So you don't, this has always bothered me.

Like, I can't, I have to take a shower after I wake up because I sweat when I sleep.

And when I'm awake, so I don't know when I take a shower.

Yeah, like, that's when I get my cardio when I'm sleeping.

So you could sweat.

My heart being stressed.

So you sweat all night and then just put on clean clothes.

I don't sweat at all.

I mean, I wake up.

Some people don't sweat when they're sleeping.

I find that hard to believe.

It looks like he just did the marathon with you saying bolt.

Now, maybe your sweats are induced by your lack of not drinking lately.

You've been drinking.

How long have you been?

Ever since I was a child, I sweat when I sleep.

Like, my parents parents would tell me when they took me out of the car, like, I'd be dripping wet.

Are you sure

you weren't just urinating?

And they just sort of sweat.

Somebody's having a party?

Does that make you feel self-conscious?

No.

My swimming sweat is all like piss.

So you'll wake up with cold sweats.

No, I wake up and I'm like drenched in sweat.

That's usually when like a fever breaks or sitting on that couch anymore.

Yeah, that should be a super fun sight, that couch.

Right?

That's not normal.

Like, you wake up sweating.

And it's been since you're a baby.

Yeah, since I was a child.

Baby sweats.

Yeah.

It's really unusual.

Yeah.

I mean, it's unless you're sick or something.

I mean, I don't, I mean, I wake up dry as could be.

Dry as a bone, right?

Yeah.

All right.

Well, at least it's only sweat and it's not the other stuff either.

So you wake up, you don't take a shower.

So what do you do?

You go away and make coffee, I bet, right?

Yeah, coffee's made.

I may make coffee.

Do you have a coffee maker or do you?

Yeah, I have both.

In the morning, I use the Kurd because it's quick.

Use the what?

Kerry.

The Kerig with the little capsules.

Oh,

that's a fucking time saver.

Yeah.

Oh, I remember he used to go nuts when we used to get the.

Ming used to get him the Deathwish coffee curry.

He still does every now and then.

Ming, I need some coffee.

How much coffee will you drink before you get to work to get you up and ready for the day?

Well, I drink it as I'm going to work, so one cup.

That's it.

You only need one cup.

So you're going, wow.

He always insists he only drinks one cup of coffee.

And then, boom.

Well, Well, that's coming here.

I mean,

I have been up at 4:30.

And then

on Sundays, he would go and go get a rook coffee while we were working.

I only drink one cup.

I don't do that no more.

Okay.

Okay, then what do you do while you're drinking the coffee?

I drive.

I drive to work.

No, but you get dressed.

It's like everything else.

You get dressed.

You get news on.

You don't drink dresses.

Nah, I listen to music in the morning.

You know what I don't listen to news.

That's right.

I don't like I listen to you.

I want to check the scores of the double game, maybe?

Nah, I do that at night.

Do that at work.

You should talk.

Yeah, that's.

You should talk about it.

You should talk about it.

I fucking own the corporation.

Jesus, hey.

I can put my feet up fucking 24-7 and it's funny.

I've heard more Lions press conferences

in the past six months.

When you own the fucking business,

you can do whatever you want.

So

we're not on the same level as Giddam?

I wasn't aware of this.

No, that's the thing.

He has to get through his fucking.

But isn't he the head of the department?

I thought he was the head of the department.

Aren't you the office manager?

He's up there too, isn't he?

No, he's not.

Yeah, he's not at the

general manager where he could just do whatever he wants.

No.

Well, it seems like he is at that height.

So you don't, you just get right into the car and you're immediately.

Yeah, I mean, I just throw my feet the cat and stuff like that.

Okay.

Then a head-on out.

Oh, he's grabbing the mic.

Yeah, I look over the mic's.

Head on out, man.

And how long of a ride is it?

About 35 minutes.

Not too bad.

Would he listen to the car?

That's not not too great either, though.

It's a pretty long ride.

Yeah, it could be a lot longer.

What do you listen to in the car?

Whatever's on.

I listen to Pandora or whatever.

Rocksteech.

Depends on what mood I'm in.

Yeah, do you get rocket in the morning?

Yeah, I usually put it.

It's like slow rock or something.

I usually have 70s.

Soft rock.

70s.

You know, you don't think maybe a little bit more of an up-tempo music might help you?

A little Motley Crew in the morning?

ACDC, maybe?

It might get your heart pumping so you can get into work with a, you know, like hit the day running.

I do that anyways.

It doesn't matter matter what

I'm looking for.

Do you come in like a tiger?

Yeah, I come in hot, bro.

Coming in hot.

How many years you've been there?

How many years you've been there?

August gonna be 36.

I have, I really, I don't mean to say that I don't, I don't buy that, but I don't buy that you've come in, you come in hot 36 years.

Yeah, it's coming hot.

Nobody goes into their job 36 years ago.

He's coming in on an aircraft carrier.

I'm coming in hot.

He's kicking that door open.

All my work work in his hands.

All my work in his hands.

Sell some fucking parts.

There's no way.

Well, I'm there, but before anybody else, anyway.

Okay.

They're like an hour before everybody's there.

So I do what I'm supposed to do and then get there.

Do you open the place?

No, I don't.

Well, there's other people.

No.

Just a microphone.

Somebody's there before you, though.

No.

I'm the first one in there.

So you open the place?

I'm not opening up the place

for business.

But no.

But you open the door.

Yeah, I'm the first one through the door.

You're the first one through the door.

Yeah, I'm the first one in there.

I deactivate the alarm.

So you, this is they.

He's trusted.

He's a trusted employer.

36 years.

36 years.

That's one of the privileges.

You get there first.

You get there first.

You get there at 5.30 in the morning.

You know what?

I don't mind leaving at 2.30, though.

So then, what's a typical day at work?

Like, do you put out a lot of fires?

Is there a lot of gossip around

in the inner office community?

This isn't the office.

This isn't like what you see on TV.

Is there a water cooler there?

No.

There is, isn't there?

I thought there was a water cooler there.

Well, there's vending machines.

Yeah, that's not a water cooler.

Right, but that's where you guys, that's where the water should congregate.

That's everybody, you know, all 30 people in the dealership just congregate in front of the snack machine.

So do you, is there a lot of like gossip and I don't pay attention to anything, man.

36 years or hasn't been a juice.

I've seen everything.

Hallelujah parties.

I've seen him.

Seen him go.

It's just like, I'm numb, man.

I don't care anymore.

I'm coming in hot.

Now all of a a sudden, you're numb.

I do what I'm supposed to do.

I come in, I'm like a freaking robot.

I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do, and I go home.

I don't care.

I've heard it all before.

I'm tired of hearing complaining and the bitching and the moaning.

It's like working here.

The people like working with him.

Oh, Jeff.

This room came in for an oil change, and I told him he needed a white blinker for him.

I tell you, if I was here, this office is going to look like, you know, like they filmed Twister in here.

Well, we need you in here, man, because he won't listen to me.

He won't listen.

He won't do it.

So maybe we need you to come in and make a difference.

Yeah, you need proper motivation.

What's the proper motivation?

A real whip.

I don't know if that's legal.

Is that

where you're at?

You do what you're supposed to do.

You don't get whipped.

Just how it is.

So

all these years in, there's never been one juicy story that you've heard that it's been running around the whole building.

Like it's made its rounds from upstairs to downstairs.

And they're like, can you believe Sheila in accounting?

What happened to her?

Papa.

No.

Oh, my God.

I could care less about the accounting office.

I could care less about the sales office.

There's more gossip around this office.

Oh, I believe that.

Yeah, I mean, I see people come and go.

I mean, there's constantly people that are just like, yeah, he won't last.

He'll be here for about three weeks.

You'll see.

He'll be gone.

You're right.

You know, we take that.

Do you think that someone thought that about you that first week you were on the show?

No, don't forget when I'm in the middle of the day.

He's coming in too hot.

He's coming in way too hot.

He won't last three weeks.

I'm fired this guy.

We can't have him here.

He's making everybody look bad.

The business has changed so much from,

don't forget, I was there from like the late 80s, early 90s.

So it's just, you know, it has not

so much though.

Human drama.

That hasn't changed.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's gotten worse, I would think.

I never had the issues like we got at work now.

There you go.

Now we're talking.

Just like work ethic, people that are inexperienced.

And now it's hard to find people.

It's hard to find good people out there to do work.

Okay, that's not what I thought he was going to do.

It's fine.

What do you think?

It's It's like, oh, this guy's forgetting that.

Oh, yeah, sheila is sleeping with this guy.

You watch too much freaking TV, man.

I don't know what the hell you're watching.

Has anybody found anything in a car while fixing it, like a kilo of drugs or something?

I don't remember anything where Sheila's fucking underwear in the back of a.

We've had vandalism, stuff like that, you know, at the dealership.

But I mean, it's just like, there's been no like Hanky Panky in some of the showcase cars.

There's 100% been Hanky Panky.

It's just like nobody talks to him there, probably.

Yeah, it's just like everybody's just like,

I don't really talk to anybody in Seal.

I'm just swimming down and there's no, like, there's no,

man.

I'm counting my time.

I'm envisioning that time-lapse where Jeff is just sitting at a desk and everything's moving around him like

the time machine.

I work with young kids.

I work, you know, people that just don't, you know, so.

You know there's hanky-panky going on.

No, no.

So it's just like I'm doing work while they're sitting there, you know, looking at their phones and immersed in everything else, but what they're supposed to be doing so you know somebody has to keep the the place to go you know and that's what i'm doing i come in there i do what i'm supposed to do and i go home i don't

i don't pay attention

i don't

setting the pace nobody's following that's the truth

so do you do you think that

what do you think their perception of you is at the like the rest of the people like that's this guy's a fucking robot he's not human he comes in hot every day he's 36 years old

they wish they had more of me

They wish they had more of me.

The management, upper management, yes.

Guaranteed they wish they had about 100 of you, you know, walking around.

Could they handle that much heat?

I would be concerned about your position here.

What about some of the other people who aren't in management, who are just there to cash a paycheck?

And, you know, maybe they're looking to jazz up their lives and they see, oh, that salesman looks cute.

Let's hop in the back of the back seat of this.

Our salesmen are like,

our salesmen are like freaking in their late 60s or early 60s.

That's too old to get to a restaurant.

It's not what you're looking for.

I mean, it's just like, you know, it's like, you know, banging people on the showroom floor with the customers walking out.

No, no, no, no.

You do it with me.

After hours.

Yeah, you do it with

hours.

I'm gone by the afternoon.

I'm gone during lunchtime.

Make sure you do it in one of the cars with tinted windows so no one can see you.

You can't have tinted windows.

No?

So, factory tent doesn't exist.

Well, factory tent's one thing.

They're not the tent that you're talking about.

Where you can't look inside.

You're talking limo tent.

Yeah.

They're like, I don't know who's inside

or what they're doing.

Okay, so get in there at 5:30.

They're about 50.

First thing you do when you get to behind the counter?

Well, punch in first.

And I do my duties.

So

you hit the clock.

You have a time card.

No.

So it's all like facial recognition.

Whoa.

Wow.

That's pretty futuristic.

Yeah.

When did they implement that?

I said, long time ago already.

It's probably been at least about eight years.

Did you ever have a time card?

Yeah, we used to have time.

Like, yeah, that's going back in the day.

You know how much somebody would pay for Sunday Jeff's time card if he had one of his old ones?

Like a signed time card?

Yeah, that shit would be fucking worth hundreds.

You didn't save any, huh?

Nah.

So you punch in,

put your face in front of the clock or whatever.

You just start doing the work.

It's starting working with the business.

What do you do?

What's the first step?

Do the orders and everything else.

You'll set up everything.

Just get everything ready for when the guys get in there to start fixing the cars.

Do you set up their bays?

Nah, I don't work in the service department.

So

what time do they start to get there?

Seven.

Seven.

So you're there an hour and a half.

An hour.

An hour.

An hour.

And do you put the music on?

You know, that elevator music that's always playing?

No, I pulled that.

I actually disconnected that speaker in our department.

there's a little bit of a wild man it all

they all they play is country i ain't listened to country man i i unplugged that sucker it's like as far as i know the speaker's defective

i play my own music

so

this gets you to 730 all right so i'm 730 when's your first break

i take breaks whenever whenever i want how many breaks you get it uh a day there is no set time for breaks just how many are allowed how many breaks are are you allowed?

Well, some people seem like they're on break all the time.

Not me, though.

No, no, no.

That's how you can't get a straight answer, but you can get the sarcastic answer.

That's breaks to them.

I don't take risks.

I mean, it's like if I need to, like, just do whatever.

I mean, it's like.

They owe you breaks.

Well, it depends on what you're doing.

I mean, if you're

legally.

So, what's his story?

His whole day is a break.

Right.

Well, that's why he's.

Right.

Right.

There's no way he could ever come at us and be like, well, you didn't give me breaks.

Because he's on break all day.

Yes.

Right, exactly.

That's the point.

That's the point.

But he's not going to be able to do that.

Did you get that?

Is that a Costello joke?

That's why he's still here.

It's not because.

It's all worth it.

It's not because place looks like shit.

It looks like there's homeless people that live here.

If we hired somebody that knew how to fucking clean and set up the equipment, they wouldn't know how to fucking land at Abbott Costello joke.

I guess I see what your morals are for firing work people.

All right, so

you don't get a set break?

No, there's no set breaks.

Like, I thought legally in New Jersey, like every certain amount of hours, you had to have a break.

Yeah, you got like a 50

break or something.

It's not for adults.

Really?

Yeah, you don't have to.

You don't even like the word with you.

Like, the technicians are flat rate.

They don't have to take breaks.

They take breaks when they want.

They just go to their manager, but I'm taking five or whatever.

And then they just do whatever.

There's no set breaks.

Lucy's goosey over there.

But there's a set amount of breaks, correct?

They have to get a break.

They have a lunch.

Okay, so they get a lunch.

Half an hour lunch.

Yeah.

Is a shop steward aware that you guys are

breaks?

No.

Trust me.

They get breaks.

Trust me.

Because when I was in a union, after five and a half hours, we got a half-hour lunch.

That was in our contract.

What about a break?

One 15-minute break, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, they get breaks.

But I'm saying they can take them whenever there's not a set time that they have to be like.

I remember our break.

I worked at Sears.

I remember I just

count the hours to that break because then I would go into the bathroom.

We've been here for a half an hour.

But I remember it was at 9.30 in the morning.

We'd get a break, 15 minutes.

Then I want to come back.

That was it.

I worked at Sears 2.

Those are long hours between the breaks and the lunch.

Like you are counting every single minute.

What are you doing?

It's so boring.

You're unboxing merchandise, putting it on shelves, breaking things down from tractor trailers, bringing it back into the storeroom.

When's that break?

It was a real.

You'll see one day I'll go to podcast studio.

I'll show all you.

I'll hire a slope.

Who knows

Abben Costello jokes?

Yeah, she.

But

I cannot believe, though, that somebody is not on top of this, though, that you're not getting your regulated breaks.

They fought hard to get those breaks.

I just can't believe that you're not taking advantage of them.

No, they do take breaks, but they're not at a lot of time.

I take a break.

Like, if I just don't want to walk away from the counter for a while, I walk away from the counter for a little bit.

Okay.

It's not that I just like to check out.

Like, you don't have to do that.

No, there's no punching out for that.

You got to punch out for lunch.

Where do you walk?

Just outside.

Like, I'll go eat my yogurt or something.

I'll just walk around the table.

Oh,

you didn't tell us you brought yogurt.

Come on.

I just told you I brought my lunch.

I didn't say you made your lunch.

So, when do you make the lunch?

In the morning or the night before?

The night before.

Yeah.

And usually it's, I imagine it's a lot of fish, right?

Like, you're on a fish dice.

Tuna, a turkey sandwich, salad, all kinds of stuff.

So tuna fish with chipotle.

No, that's they don't make that no more.

I'll try finding you for you.

And what time is lunch for you?

I usually eat about 1:30.

And you get out at 2:30, don't you?

So you really.

I'm used to it.

So you're from 1:30.

It's a long stretch, man.

From 1:30 to what?

But I eat during the day, though.

I don't eat like, I eat like so many every so many hours.

Like, I'll have two eggs in the morning when I get there.

I'll eat a banana for a snack.

So, I'm constantly eating little by little.

Keeping your energy up.

Correct.

Are they hard-boiled eggs?

Yes.

Giddam does that, too.

Like, he'll eat constantly throughout the day.

He tells me to keep his energy up.

He doesn't want to fall asleep.

Well, then, either he's not eating.

He's assuming you won't fall asleep.

Which he's not eating at all, which isn't the case.

That's true, Fred.

That licks me right up.

Or

that's the reason why he's sweating because his jaws are still moving at night when he's sleeping.

Wake up with a chicken leg in his head.

So, how long is your lunch break?

Half an hour.

Half an hour.

Then when you're back from lunch,

it goes quick.

It goes real quick.

Yeah, and you can't really go anywhere during your lunch because you're like your place is sort of like

just traffic on that road

forgetting.

For all those decades, though, that you took your lunch break and would go over to Toys R Us, though, you need it more than a half hour, right?

No, I didn't in half an hour.

Don't forget, Toys R Us wasn't always at that location, though.

It was closer, it was behind,

it was behind, so it was easier to get to.

Like, it was a big circle.

Now you had to go and do some U-turns.

You had to, you know, it took extra time.

Cutting it close.

Cutting it close.

Did you ever get there late?

And did anybody ever get read you the Riot Act?

No.

Ever get it written up in the 36 years?

Never got it written up.

Nope.

Perfect.

Never.

Sterling record.

Yep.

So is that why you're.

Jesus Christ.

Where is this man's edge?

Is that why you eat during the day so that you could skip eating to go to Toys for Us?

No.

Get a break.

Well, that was back in the day.

It's like now it's, you know, once that whole situation flew south, they started bringing lunch.

I remember running into him at a Sun Coast video.

Yeah.

I've seen him in a while, too.

Yeah, yeah.

Look at what you watch.

He's looking at these pups.

And now, so you get out of 2:30.

Then what do you do?

This is what I'm really curious about, like how he fills his empty hours.

So from 2.30 to 10.30, you're up.

That's eight hours.

What do you do?

By the time I get home, I'll go to the gym for about an hour.

What gym you go to?

What's the name of the gym?

Retro.

Retro gym.

And how long is your workout?

Hour, 15, hour and a half.

That's a long workout.

It really is, yeah.

What do you listen to?

Just whatever they have on.

Oh.

Do you film yourself like the TikTokers do?

Yeah.

You don't film yourself lifting weights.

I know know my limitations.

I'm not going in there thinking I'm coming out looking like freaking

pace for

little lemons.

And so what do you do?

You have a leg day?

Do you have arms day?

Nah, I don't do that.

I just, I do full body.

I do whatever.

I do everything.

Like a circuit every day?

Yeah, I just always.

I'll just, you know, if I want to do something, if somebody's working on this or whatever, I'll just do another machine or I'll just go do free weights or something.

I don't have a set.

Do you do a lot of treadmill?

No, I don't do that.

I do maybe about 20 minutes afterwards, 15

minutes.

No, no steam.

No Turkish bath.

Is that how you spent an hour and a half in there?

Is 80 minutes of that, 90 minutes in a steam room?

Apparently, I could just, you can watch him at night with his steam room because that's all he does is steam.

His office is a steam room.

Maybe that's why he wakes up, you know.

Yeah, how could he not sweat in this fucking office?

All right, so that takes us to about four o'clock then, right?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Jump in the shower and then head over to the woman's house.

Okay, to your gal's house.

Yeah.

And we make dinner, eat dinner, watch some television.

Okay, what are the programs you guys like to watch?

The boys, I've been watching the boys again.

Can I make a suggestion of a show that

has been universally liked by anybody who's taken the suggestion?

What is it?

Matlock, the new Matlock.

I have not seen it.

I finished eight episodes yesterday.

You did?

Yeah.

What was I doing?

It was after you left.

You were working.

So you stayed up to about four o'clock in in the morning, watching Matlock?

Yeah.

Don't worry about my day in the life.

Learn about Alfie, Edwin, Olympia.

Edwin's the best.

I like Kira.

I like in her character now.

Is that the

tech girl?

The tech girl, the lesbian tech girl.

That's hot shit.

I got upset.

Yeah, someday there's some girl-on-girl action in Matlock.

It's a Matlock show with Kathy Bates.

You wouldn't think it, but it's pretty titillated.

What's it on?

Oh, what's it on?

It's on Paramount if you have that.

I do do not have Paramount.

Okay.

You can watch it

Jimmy the Hair guy can maybe hook you up.

He's hooking everybody up to TSD Jeff.

What else you got?

He doesn't have that.

He doesn't have the devils.

No, he doesn't have Fuboo?

No, he doesn't.

All right, so

you guys watch TV,

and then what?

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, yeah, not every night.

I mean,

he's in his 50s now.

That don't matter.

He's at the gym.

Yeah, remember, he's had to hit the gym.

So I imagine it he's got to get up at 4:30.

Lifting weights Bill's testosterone.

I mean, I'm not,

come on, not every night.

There's got to be nights you're just like, I'm just like a little pooped.

I'm a little tuckered out, baby.

Yeah.

I got to come to work off the bus.

Time for shut.

Time for shut off.

I'm coming in cold now.

If I don't come in hot,

what's the rest of the workforce going to think of me?

They depend on me.

What's going on?

Sales are down this week.

Jeff, have you been coming in hot?

Seems sick.

Jeff, it's just normal.

I mean, she's been coming in lukewarm.

I want to talk to you about what's been going on after hours, and I think you need to make sure that whatever you're doing, you stop doing.

Have you been doing it seven nights a week?

Because we need you to come in extra hot.

Just do it six nights.

We don't care what you do on your day off.

What do they say?

Seventh-day rest?

That's what you got to do.

So that's his day.

That's his day.

So let's hear your day.

Let's hear Brian's day.

My day?

Okay, so my day today?

Well, try to pick

a day that's most like your most common day, not just a day that where you actually.

I did some stuff today.

Let's go ahead and do that.

I want to use that as your example.

What did you do yesterday?

Let's go with the activities that you most

engage in.

I came in.

I'm not an outlier of

a day where you actually had a couple of days.

When you come in your house and you think you're in a nursing home.

What's going on?

Oh, he's in the room.

All right.

How you doing, pops?

So say yesterday.

Yesterday would be a good example.

It was an average day.

It was an average day.

What time do you usually wake up?

I get up at

6.20.

It's early.

6.20.

Well, what are you greeting that early for?

Because I have to get up and get Sage ready and get her to the bus.

Responsibility.

However,

I don't stay.

I used to stay up.

Now I just go back to sleep.

Because I'm like, it's so early.

And I'm like, there's nothing to to do.

It's like fucking 6.30 in the morning.

Like, what am I going to do?

Like, Mary Beth isn't up.

The pets are all still sleeping.

So I'm like, fuck it.

I'll go back to bed.

Usually I'll sleep till like 8.30 somewhere in there, like another couple hours normal time.

Yesterday

we had to bring the pet the cats to the vet.

So that we did that.

We took them in at 10

and got home by like 11-ish.

Now, this is not common, though.

You have to bring

the animals to the to the doctor no and this was just something that like

like are you hoping like we should bring the pets to the doctor more often yeah so I can just when I get to the table I can be like I did something

we're coming in hot with the pets

Mrs.

Johnson most cats don't have eight raby shots a year

when we got back then she wanted to go to breakfast

so we could do that now do you usually go out for breakfast or you stay in for breakfast I would say I mean usually we stay in.

She'll make me breakfast, but

once a week or twice a week will do.

What you got?

Anything good?

Yeah, she usually makes me the same thing every time, bacon and eggs and cheese

on a bagel.

That's a lot of bacon, though.

You're like, we're having that every day.

It is a lot of bacon.

Well, you can.

You got to introduce a fish to the diet, right?

Canadian bacon.

Plus some Canadian bagel.

We don't know.

I want to talk about Canadian anything.

We're going to have to cut that.

Oh, you're banned now?

We're not going to talk about it.

Let's get back to Bri's breakfast.

Yeah, yeah.

But is that too much bacon, though, and eggs?

Or is eggs good for you?

Eggs are good.

It depends how you have omega-3.

She scrambles them.

Oof.

A lot of pepper.

Some pepper.

Fried eggs.

Well, pepper is okay.

It's salt that you've got to watch out for.

So you need an egg-white omelette.

Okay.

Egg-white omelette?

That's what you eat?

No, I mean, I eat a hard-boiled eggs.

I don't believe that.

It's fine.

All the nutrients, a lot of it's in actually the yolk.

That's really what you really should.

The shell and chew it.

And what time is usually breakfast?

Usually breakfast is around like 10-ish or something like that.

Yesterday it was around 11 because, you know, we are 11.30 because we brought the cats to

the vet.

Do you have that when you come down and breakfast?

Breakfast will be served at 11.

Come down with the napkin or anything

tucked in your shirt.

She slides it under the bed.

Yeah, you could because I don't have breakfast.

I eat at between 11.30 and noon.

You just had breakfast.

You just had a croissant at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

That was just to pick me up because I knew I was podcasting.

But go ahead.

Back to Bri.

So we went to breakfast over at Turning Point.

Good place.

I like that place.

After that,

my car

had not been vacuumed out for some time.

So we went to the car wash.

Vacuumed out the car, got the car washed.

Where I got

blowing your load on all one day now?

Kind of.

Yeah, like, can't you space this out?

Yeah.

Kind of.

Like, vacuum the car

another day?

Just vacuum the front?

Vacuum the back.

Yeah, it was, it was nice yesterday, like in the morning, so we were like, fuck it, let's let's just do it now.

Uh, where I like, because last week we were talking about like, I have to go out more, and uh, because that's the only way I'm something's gonna happen.

It's the only way I'm gonna run into somebody, or you know, like your story with the pizza guy dancing and all that shit.

Like, it doesn't happen, like, that shit doesn't happen unless you go out.

So, I went out and I got into a minor tiff with a lady.

Oh, no, Very minor.

You met somebody.

Yeah.

Very minor.

So when you pull into the

car wash, there are three vacuums.

One of the vacuums was being used.

So I sort of straddled the line so Marybeth could do one side and I could do the other side because there's nobody there.

We're almost finished, and some lady pulls up and she's like, Are you just going to use both vacuums?

And I was like, that was the plan.

And she's like, unbelievable.

She goes.

And I said, I still, I'm not being an asshole about it.

I said, there's four more vacuums around the corner.

Like, you know, like, if you go around the corner, there's four more vacuums.

She goes, you're so self-important and speeds off.

I was just left there.

Like, I didn't say anything.

What am I going to do?

You had to be smiling from ear to ear, being like, I got a story,

something happened.

I got a story, Mary Beth.

Was it a good start?

It was not even barely an anecdote.

This is way better than the penny I found.

But I'm like, if we can get to some lady yelling at me just by going out for a little bit, who knows what happens if I keep going out?

Who knows what arguments I might get into?

So what time does this bring us to after the car wash?

Okay, this brings us to

probably

get home around 1.30.

I go inside.

I fold up some laundry.

I'm always, It seems like I'm always folding laundry.

Those women, man, they wear more fucking clothes.

Mary Beth wears more clothes without going anywhere.

I'm like, why the fuck do you wear some?

My daughter's the same way.

She comes back from school, like college.

I mean, I do enough laundry a week, but it's just like, I just emptied the freaking laundry, and it's like full again.

Yeah.

Yeah, Sage does the same thing.

At least she's going to school and she's going it.

Yeah.

So folded up some laundry.

It's only three weeks' worth of socks, though.

Ten socks.

No, this happens within three days.

Oh, okay.

I watched a couple pods.

You know, like I watch a podcast that I normally watch while I fold the laundry.

Then Sage gets home.

I make her snack for her generally.

And then the rest of the day, I'm like, well, what do I do now?

And that's where the TV watching comes in.

And I'm like, kind of wait until a point where I can get Mary Beth to sit down and watch Matt Locke or

watch one of the other shows that we've been watching Love After Lockup.

So

I think there's a fair amount of TV watching in the the average day, and it's like junk TV now.

It's not even good stuff.

It's just like stuff that's easy to put on in the background, just garbage.

Don't read?

What's that?

I read sometimes at night.

Yeah, like I'll read a bit.

She plays her video games.

I don't read as much as I should, I think.

I probably should read more instead of watching the Karen Walkers and I mean, or do you just let him run around?

No, because we don't have any sidewalks next to us, so we just put them out in the yard and let them run around.

And the street's pretty busy, so it's like

moving around in like a blind corner.

Yeah, so, but if you remove

the pets and the oh, I did something today, Sunday, Jeff, I was thinking about you.

I tried to get a little bit of grease under my fingernail so I could impress you.

I changed out Mary Beth's battery in her car.

Oh, okay.

Which I wasn't really, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do because I didn't know if it was the battery was dead or if it was the alternator.

And my brother gave me this little tester kit.

So I put the tester kit on, figured out it wasn't the battery, or it wasn't the alternator, it was the battery, went and got the new battery, traded it in.

Bro, batteries are expensive, man.

Holy shit.

Batteries are expensive.

Yeah, how many batteries are expensive?

Well, it depends on how many.

I mean, any cheap batteries are like two-year batteries are pretty cheap.

Yeah, this one was like 200 bucks.

It could be like a five-year battery, then.

Yeah.

So that's good.

Is Everlast still the best?

Everlast.

Yeah,

it's like a boxing glove.

Everlast.

Oh, EverReady, you're talking about it.

They don't make car batteries.

That's like batteries for flashlights.

Ever ready did make car batteries.

What was the Sears one?

Die Hard.

Die Hard.

Die Hard still.

Never started.

If there's Sears around,

I got a diehard from this.

Yeah, they still have it.

The name goes on.

Or something like that.

Yeah, Advanced Auto Parts.

Die Hard.

That's a great fucking name of a product.

Die Hard.

You think so?

I think so.

So you die hard.

Yeah.

It

evokes

tough.

You know, you can't kill it.

Oh, yeah, you can't.

It's kind of hard.

Yeah, batteries are expensive.

So

I replace it.

So, are you at dinner time yet?

So, if I hit, so once we hit dinner time, the Marybeth generally makes dinner.

Sage loves to eat watching videos and stuff, so we don't normally eat together.

Like, we'll just watch TV and eat, or Sage will watch her videos.

Cooks a lot.

You guys ever go out to eat for dinner?

Not usually dinner now.

We'll go out to lunch a lot.

Like, we'll go out to Chili's.

Like I said, we'll go to Turning Point.

Those are two places that we go to.

Oh, and Texas Roadhouse we go to on Sundays sometimes.

Well, it's a madhouse over there.

Yeah, that's why we try to get there early before our dinner church people.

Anytime.

Anytime, yeah, during the day.

Yeah, like it's okay, and then it hits a certain point, and you're like, holy shit, I'm glad I didn't come down.

Yeah.

45-minute wait, yeah.

Easily.

You get in line, and all of a sudden, like, there's 30 people behind you.

No other competition around?

I mean, no Outback or anything outburst.

There's a lot of competition around us.

Just like you.

You have even more competition down by you.

Well, where you in Brick, I meant, where you used to be.

Yeah.

There's like...

I don't know how anybody can survive out there, like any of those eateries, because there's so much competition down in Brick.

But so are you

after you eat then, what time is dinner then?

I mean, I'm sorry, what time is bedtime?

Bedtime is usually like

I'll start getting drowsy around 11, somewhere around there.

So there's a couple hours of trying to figure out what to watch on tv watch a movie or something you know just hang out and

like if it's the summertime like we'll go out in the pool or we'll you know hang around outside a little bit more but now that it's winter it's like i fuck you're dreading that then they go to work with the pool yeah start cleaning the shit out yeah yeah yeah it's a whole different kind of

i gotta come out of the house now Gotta come out of the house to clean up.

Yeah, man, after all that hard rain, all my fucking mulch was everywhere.

So I had to clean that up today.

Slower?

Yeah, it's a lot of like.

Just like doing little shit around the house, I guess.

And TV watching.

You should get the same gardener he uses.

Oh, with

his backyard.

Yeah, I know, right?

I thought they're going to play the U.S.

Open, you know, like they're going to play the golf tournament in the backyard.

That's how that backyard looks.

He's going to need some palm trees.

A couple patio bricks impresses you.

Yeah.

It's not a couple patio bricks.

He's got furniture.

I mean, it literally looks like it's on Better Home Garden.

Oh, you're going to wait till I tell her.

She's going to be be so happy with that all the work she put in well i saw how you mulch so

thank you very much jeff because some of that stuff was put together by me oh the furniture yeah yeah i mean it's you have a fire pit right i don't think the fire pit's ever been they have the we never fire they have the propane uh thing in the center with the glass yeah it should you should it's pretty cool i mean it's it's nice like a super guy i'd rather much spend my time inside in air conditioning well it's either it's either too cold or when you go out there's fucking bugs everywhere in the summer i'm saying like in the fall time you know like when it's like, you know, it drops out maybe 60s a night.

Go right there.

There's beautiful fall nights that Jersey has maybe a week of.

Otherwise it's too hot.

So you got to go outside to know about it.

I'm not always outside.

I'm not talking about it.

You just sit if you don't like the outdoors.

I don't like just sitting outside doing nothing and staring at a fire pit, though.

You stay with your

once in a while.

By yourself, by yourself.

I mean, I'd rather sit inside and by myself.

I don't know why.

I just like the indoors better.

He does live next to marshland as well.

So I don't know if it's a good idea.

Well, a lot of it's gone.

A lot of it's gone.

It's not.

It's still there.

I didn't say the summer.

I'm saying the fall.

There shouldn't be really a summer.

But New Jersey doesn't really have a fall.

They used to.

They used to, but that Jersey fall only lasts a week, I feel.

Same with the spring.

It's cold and then sunny.

It's like it's getting warm pretty quick, too.

Uh-oh, we're going back to the weather.

Weather.

Straight up on that edge.

Can't talk about weather?

That's Q's.

That's Q's.

That's his purview, yeah.

He has his name on weather.

If we're going to talk weather, he has a talk.

So he's the weather man?

Well, he likes to talk weather.

He likes to talk weather so much that other people are like, can you stop talking about weather?

He's always dibs on weather.

So what can you talk about?

I can't talk about Canada.

I can't talk about weather.

I can't talk about anything.

You can do an ad.

We got one ad this week and then

a special request for the listeners.

I have a couple ads.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Go ahead.

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Can I?

Nope.

Nope.

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I don't wear them at the gym.

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You know, that makes no sense.

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That's true.

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And I would be remiss if we didn't mention Patreon.

I was thinking of our Patreon today.

We're like the Costco hot dog, bro.

We have not raised our prices since we started.

It's the same, even with all this inflation, Sunday, Jeff, it's the same sweet deal.

If you go to patreon.com/slash TESD.

I mean, again, it does sound like we're tuiting our own horn, and that is not the case, but I don't think people realize, like, when shipping prices go up, we eat them.

Right.

We have eaten them, and we haven't, because

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I wasn't aware of that.

Yeah.

We have some ads for some

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Which ad would you like first?

Who would you like to hear first about?

Who's the Friends of the Family?

We have Will Rogers

and we have Tim the Record Star Clerk.

Let's listen to Tim.

Okay, you want Will to follow that

answer?

Well, you just asked me a question.

I answered the question.

It's Monty Hall.

I answered the question.

And a question.

There is a wrong answer with the question.

So

you know what?

Let's go with Tim Rogers.

I shouldn't have asked.

I shouldn't have asked.

Let's go with Will Rogers.

We'll go with Tim.

So

it is a bit, well, not even a bit.

It is very sobering and very,

I'm at a loss for words here, but we have to announce that Tim is battling something right now.

A very serious diagnosis of

that's weird.

Someone just laughed.

Somebody's laughing.

Good stuff, good stuff.

That wasn't in the show.

I don't know if anybody even

picked up on the line.

It was some hallway who laughed.

But

he's been diagnosed with ALS, right?

Right.

Lou Gehrigs, Lou Gehrigs.

And

it was obviously a shock to hear it.

And I'm, you know, very

frazzled by the news,

as, of course, I'm sure everybody listening is.

He's such a sweet man and such a good guy.

And

we felt the only thing that we could offer assistance-wise is maybe to do a podcast and

a benefit pod for him and put it up on Bandcamp like we've done for some other friends of the family.

And I know it stinks that

we just did a benefit podcast for the Warris family over Christmas time.

And now we're hitting you guys up again three months later.

But

it's obviously

the situation is what it is.

Yeah, it's.

Is dire the word?

Oh, it's.

It's a serious.

Yeah, it's a serious.

Yeah, there's no cure for it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we

TSD did a 90-minute podcast.

Me, Bri, Q,

Giddam was there.

Another special guest was there, and

we did some old listener favorites.

We played Quinny's Choice, which was for the second time, the first time people loved that when we did that game.

Brought back 1 True3

after a long, long time.

And a dry spell, yeah.

Yeah, we haven't played that in such a long time.

And we had a little bit of an overkill segment as well, a little bit of overkill.

So 90 minutes, and you can find this

podcast on Bandcamp if you search TESD Tim the Record Store Clerk Benefit Pod.

It's not on our page.

It's on Tim's personal page.

I'll get a link from him.

I'll put it up on Twitter too.

Yeah, we'll get a Times.

We'll get a link to that.

We'll get it to you.

Yeah, Tim Recordstore Clerk should definitely pull it up.

Tim Recordstore Clerk, TSD, Benefit Pod.

All those words should be able to find it.

It's available right now.

If you go there now, it should be up there.

It's definitely up there.

It's definitely up there.

Yes.

This is, again, we bust Giddam's balls, but

we fast-track this.

And get him, me and him were here at 11 o'clock at night one night, editing, getting it ready.

Declan did the poster or the cover art, and we just,

he was like, I wanted it done yesterday.

So it sounds like you're coming in hot.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

This was a

six.

It just was.

Turn on Matlock.

But it's over 90 minutes of great energy.

It's really high energy.

It's a fun episode.

There's a lot of laughs in it, and I feel like it's.

Does he have benefits?

No.

What is Jesus?

If he had benefits, I don't know.

Oh, I think if he had any kids,

I know he does have kids.

Yeah, I'm not sure about that.

I don't know about that.

So

I imagine that

aunts shocked by this.

We were.

We're wishing Tim absolutely all the best in his fight against this.

But I think this episode ticks all the boxes of what TSD listeners are looking for.

I agree.

I think there's some really good stuff in there.

There's some really high-energy stuff.

It's going for a great cause and a greater man, and it'll help his

with his issues.

It'll just ease his

He'll be able to use

the money generated for this podcast.

He'll be able to use towards his health care, whatever things arise with that health care that are, you know, unforeseen things.

It'll just.

Therapy, setting up his house, you know, for assistance.

Oof, yeah, it's a

fun thing.

It's not fun.

It's not fun.

It's tough.

It happens, man.

Like, we're older now, so everybody, like, I remember my grandmother, like, my grandmother would go through the paper and see obituaries like see people she knew and be like oh I knew her like it gets it got to a point where like because my grandma was like 98 when she died so it got to a point where like everybody she knew was gone

like except for her family you know but like all her friends and shit that is one of the

most

awful things about getting older is that, yeah, you start now to see things and people getting sick or people getting people who went to school with are not there anymore.

said that's the reality that's yeah that's that's that's when

shit gets real yeah and that is that's

that only comes usually with old age when you you start to see things really start to go like where you're like wow for me it's been with the p within the past few years I didn't really think about it but within the past few years I'm like because I think like a combination of like seeing friends and like seeing my parents are like you know pam just turned 79 I'm like wow like they're old you know yeah oh yeah those are the toughest, toughest things is dealing with.

As you get older, other people are getting older or older than you to begin with.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where they hit those milestones and it comes like, you know, it's a sudden realization.

Yeah,

80.

Yeah, well, Pam was already planning on what to do for her 80th, so she's in good spirits, I think.

She said she's living to 100.

That's what she told me anyway.

Well, good.

Good for her.

I mean, this is one of those things, though,

that makes you go, man, there's nothing promised to you.

Like, is no, like, there's no promise

you're going to get there to, like, you know, to 80 or whatever.

So, you should take advantage of no guarantees.

Take advantage of what is in front of you and appreciate what's there.

You should come in hot while you can.

Yeah, yeah, take a page out of Sunday's book.

Come in hot while you can, because you're not always going to be able to come in hot.

And you're going to be remembered as the guy who came in hot.

You can't come at all.

But if you do need to come, go to butcher.com.

This is Tim, Tim the Record Story Corp.

Yeah.

So go to Bandcamp right now.

I mean, he's absolutely like one of the nicest guys that has ever come to the table.

He's like one of those gentle giant types.

Yeah, a big teddy bear.

So many aunts say they go and visit him in Jackson.

He's so nice.

He just stops his day just to.

Yeah.

And he enjoys it as well.

And I understand, you know, at times, at financial times like this, you know, it's it's tough.

It's tough to find reasons to spend money on a podcast.

We get it.

But if you can,

we would appreciate it, and Tim will appreciate it.

And we tried to make it worth it.

And you'll be getting, I think, like the best of us.

I know there's one revelation on Washington

that is worth the price of admission.

Yes.

Oh, yeah, I would agree with that.

I would agree with that.

Yes.

There's one thing said that once you hear that, you're going to be like, all right, the money was well spent.

Yeah.

I hope so.

I hope so.

And we have another friend of the family, Will Rogers, who has to follow that.

I think you should have gone off with Will Rogers again.

Will Rogers has a coloring book.

But maybe

you need a pickup now.

So

let's go ahead and do that.

Will bogges his athlete's foot.

He needs to purchase some cream.

Can you purchase this?

Yeah, we did a benefit pod for him.

No, we're not doing a benefit pod.

90 seconds of

he asked me to announce that he has this book that he's publishing, and it's a slasher

slash comic book slash choose your own adventure slash coloring book.

It's called Survive the Night.

And here's a description of the book.

So you and your friends decide to go away for a quiet vacation at a lakeside cabin.

The good news is that you're all together.

The bad news?

You're not the only one there.

As the body count rises, prepare to make decisions to commit to them in color and hope you survive and you turn the page.

This coloring adventure book throws you into the world of terror, along with masked maniacs, creepy, love-struck teenagers, and buried secrets from the past, and much, much more.

You'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror tropes.

And you'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror trope know-how to save you.

Just remember.

Just remember, there are no guarantees you'll survive the night.

Oh, God.

He's giving away five copies.

All right.

And all you have to do to win a chance to

get one of Will Rogers' Survive the Night coloring books is

add him

at the Myth Traveler, The Myth Traveler, M-Y-T-H Traveler, The Myth Traveler.

Also put in TSD in there so he knows how to differentiate from people

who are TSD listeners as opposed to some of the the listeners from his podcast and

other ways that he's given the code TESD.

Now, you could also buy it on March 18th.

It's available at Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Barnes Noble.

Big time.

So, is it going to be available at all the major

outlets where you buy books?

Physical copies on shelves at Barnes Noble?

Well, around doing

it.

What's Barnes and Noble's to sell your stuff?

And he's got a kick-ass cover.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, so good for Will.

And,

you know,

tough act to follow.

He's doing what we can.

Yeah.

I remember

Kevin years ago when

he had just hit it big with clerks and everything.

And we went up to Henry Hudson, and he was going to give away.

like a $10,000 scholarship to somebody.

And, you know, he was going to go up and announce it and all this other stuff.

But the person who went before him was a girl who had lost her brother/slash best friend in a motorcycle accident and like brought the entire gymnasium, like everybody to tears with like her

story.

Her story about her brother and how much he meant to her and how sad she was that he was dead now, and all this other stuff.

And I remember Kevin being like, oh my God, I have to fucking follow that.

It wasn't easy.

I don't think he was on that top form that day.

I think he was just like, what do I say now?

All the shit I was going to say, I I can't say anymore.

On a later note.

Yeah, on a later note.

Before we continue, a small dog was killed out in the parking lot.

Run over riot car.

Hard to come back.

Hey,

it brings, you know, it's

we're with, but again, we're wishing him

all the best.

And

he was, you know, this is the kind of character that Tim has.

He found out

what had been ailing him finally, and he was like, Let's fast-track KISS.

Like, let's fast-track the podcast so I could be on it and finish it.

So, like, that's

that blew my mind.

It just melted me when he was like, No, I want to finish KISS, and I want to make sure we do it now so I can finish it.

And we fast-tracked and did him, and like, in over the course of a couple days,

we finished a KISS pod.

Thanks, Tim.

Oh, yeah, Will Rogers has a coloring book.

Don't forget to mention the coloring book, guys.

You did mention the coloring book, right?

And again, it shouldn't, but it does mean

for me anyway, like, it makes you put things in such perspective when you hear that.

I know about you, yeah.

And it really makes you go, like, oh, my God, all the little shit that's been bothering me and everything.

I was like, I feel like a piece of dog crap when you put it into perspective.

It's meaningless.

What other people are doing through it?

It's like life is

you cannot put things into perspective, otherwise, you'll feel like garbage all the time.

But it's true, though.

Like, when you realize what other people are going through and you allow little

be how fortunate, you know, it just like goes, hey, look, it really hammers home, like,

yes,

how

there are different tiers

of dealing, of things you have to deal with.

Yeah.

Tell them Steve Dave.

I don't know, if you want to.

That's a weird note to go out on.

I was actually, I was going to talk about Gene Hackman, but that doesn't seem to be anything.

Is there any new news about that?

That whole situation is weird, too.

All those people die, and there's like no.

Oh, you heard about this?

Yeah.

Okay.

You mentioned earlier in the episode, you know, listen to the news.

I don't, but other people I'm with does listen to the news.

Oh, and

they gave you the 9-1-1.

Yeah, she got the 4-11.

Yeah, I wake up.

It's like, oh, Gene Hackman died.

And then I found out later, it was like all the other stuff that, you know, the dog died.

Now, is it unusual for a man in his 95 years of time?

No, but it's just like, you know, for all those people to die at the same, you know, this time.

Everybody in the house should be.

Yeah, it's just, it's, it's weird.

You know, I mean, they ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning, right?

I mean, I would imagine you would have some kind of alarm, I mean, or something that would inform you that something was going off,

you know.

But it's just

new updates.

Well, this is the newest update that I just read today.

Toxicology?

Sunday, Jeff, do you think that you can die from a broken heart?

Yes.

I believe pets can do that.

I don't know about people, but I definitely believe pets can do it.

This was

chief medical examiner James Gill, who was not involved in the investigation, was theorized about what could have happened.

He said that the two natural deaths around the same time have been known to happen due to a broken heart type thing.

Suddenly finding your loved one dead on the floor, that can increase your adrenaline, that stimulates your heart to beat faster, and that can put your heart into an irregular rhythm.

So it's more like shock.

Yes, he also noted that people can get very despondent and may even take rash decisions regarding their own safety after such a traumatic incident.

What about the dog, though?

Yeah.

Well, the dog was locked up in the, was locked in a cage.

Well, they didn't say he starved to death, right?

He must have.

He can't go along without water.

Yeah.

Really dog.

I thought he was in a closet.

He was in a closet in a crate, apparently.

So I don't know if maybe it's a large, like, walk-in closet, because I used to keep every once in a while.

Oh, that would make sense.

Obviously, the dog didn't have food or water for how many days.

Wasn't it like 14 days or something before they finally found him?

His pacemaker said it stopped on February 17th.

That's what the pacemaker reported.

But she was in a totally different area of the house, wasn't she?

Yeah, she was in the bathroom.

He was in the mudroom.

According to him, broken heart syndrome, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy, typically occurs after a physically or emotionally traumatic event, including the loss of a loved one.

So it sounds like it's almost like a self-induced heart attack.

Yeah, it says in these instances, adrenaline and other stress hormones, such as epinephrine, flood the system and can increase the heart rate and blood pressure, leading to symptoms that mimic a heart attack.

He said that he may have collapsed since he's got a history of heart disease, and that she found him, and that's where the stress, you know, hit her.

But they would know that.

I mean, I'm sure they would know that if they did autopsy on her, right?

If she has that kind of issue?

It takes about

one to three months usually for all the results to come back officially.

All the toxicology reports.

Fast track it.

Yeah.

It says, although a menuscule gas leak was found

in one of the stove burners, they showed no signs of carbon monoxide poisoning.

This is a real mystery, man.

Well, if it was a leak in the stove, then the other dogs outside, like running around for the bottom of the bottle.

No, the warrant said that one dog was found inside.

The warrant, from the police officers who's arrived on the scene.

One dog was found outside, and one dog was found inside next to the body.

The dog was alive next to the body?

Yes.

How the dog survived that long?

Yeah.

Well, probably there's water, like if they had a pool or something, dogs drinking from the toilet.

Chlorinate.

Yeah, dogs couldn't drink from the toilet.

Well, these, I believe, were German shepherds.

Yeah, I read somewhere for sure that

they were a doggy daycare in the middle.

I read the warrant that the police

issued so that they could officially search the house.

Is there like no gardener, no wellness check, nobody ever was following up.

That was who discovered the scene.

But I'm sure somebody, I mean, it's not like just because he's that age or whatever, and I'm sure they have contact with people that they would probably contact every other day or every day, and then all of a sudden

you're not answering your phone.

You're like, Something's going on over there, and send the police.

Wolf Flanagan would have checked on him.

But I think they said there were long stretches where they would not contact people, or they were like very sort of insular.

Yeah, I'm just going based on the warrant I read, and that's what the

I believe the warrant then over to the post.

Yeah

Crazy.

I saw a story on Twitter that made me think of our workplace

a little bit more lighthearted than Gene Hackman, but there was this stewardess who got fired

for twerking.

She videotaped herself twerking on a on her

on her plane, but there was nobody on the plane, you know, I guess they were just getting ready for people to board, and she just was excited to greet the day, and she made a video, a short video of her dancing on the plane, and she got fired.

Wearing the uniform?

Wearing the uniform.

Yes.

Oh, that's why.

But I found that absolutely crazy, though, that the airline didn't just issue her a warning and ask her to take down the video.

Because if it were like, say it were to like somebody doing like ballet or something, or a different style dance that isn't so sexually charged as twerking, I think they probably would have let it go, right?

It wouldn't have been a big deal.

Yeah, I don't think so.

I don't think they would have.

I don't know how you could be that

cold to be like, you're fired.

In the state of the world, and also in the state of like, you don't know if she's going to go to the media, which she did.

And now it's causing you way more bad publicity than

I heard an interview with her.

She loved that job.

She really loved that.

It's not something you really should be doing anyways.

You shouldn't be doing it, but like Walt said, like, you get a warning.

A warning and take down the video, keep your job.

But has she had other warnings?

Like, what do her performance reviews look like?

I'll tell you what.

The only reason I bring it to the table is because she mentioned something that really touched my heart.

She said she likes to twerk when she accomplishes something.

And I think that maybe that's what you should do

is when you accomplish something here at the general store.

I'll videotape you on my phone and we'll post it of you twerking.

I mean, you'll be in traction afterwards on your for a couple of days.

Throw his back out, yeah.

Have a defibrillator right next to him.

But that, like, that's in the general store is pro-twerking.

But no TSD merchandise.

You can't be wearing anything.

But you'll, well, like, let's say, what's something you accomplished today?

I mean, you opened the door for these guys and they were here, right?

Yeah.

You could twerk over that and be like, we could post it.

I got to the door.

It took 10 minutes, but I opened the door for these guys so they can pot today.

Yeah, it did take a while for you to get to the door.

I was like, what is this guy doing?

Because you walk him up.

It's long enough that I'm like, he must not be in there.

And how come twerking is associated solely with females, though?

I think the idea looks weird when guys do it, right?

Shaking their ass like that.

But I argue that from the opposite side of the twerk, though, guys probably have more going on to look at than gals do.

Like, if you're looking at the front side of a twerk, there's a lot more that's going to catch your eye.

Yeah, but you're wearing jeans.

I don't think you're really seeing a lot of stuff.

No, I thought they were wearing like a banana hammock or something.

No, she was probably just like, I didn't see the video.

No, no, she was wearing a stewardess outfit.

I'm talking about why is twerking association.

Like, when you hear the word twerking, you think of a girl doing it, right?

Sure.

You hope a girl's doing it.

Like, if guys were to twerk, though, they have much more,

like, the front is just as interesting as the back if it's bouncing all over the place.

Yeah, but when they're

there's differences in the heads between the male and female skins.

Yeah, there's way more to like, it's like that's just sloppy ballplay there.

It's just not

nice looking.

I didn't say, well, maybe for women, maybe, but

I don't even know if women would want to see that.

But

it's much more like

nobody wants to see them out.

But it's much more

captivating, I would think.

Like, wow, there's so much going on right now.

You got the front and the back.

With women, usually it's just the back, though.

It's usually just the back.

Yeah, I think.

Women have stuff up front, too.

But you can move around like the guy stuff with it.

If you are wearing loose sweats or or the banana hammock, like you say, but if you're in just jeans, like the way the twerking works is like

they're so crouched down you probably couldn't see anyway, right?

For the gals or the guys?

The guys.

Well, I would think there's some guys that you'd see quite a bit.

Maybe, yeah, maybe.

If they have the right pair of clothes on or no clothes.

Twerking with no clothes?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Like if they're wearing jeans and a shirt, like, you know, like

if guys...

Maybe.

Go try that tight and see what's in pockets.

If you guys

don't know what to do, put your your clothes back on.

If guys do it clothed, yes, it's a bit

leaves more to the imagination, but if they're not in clothes, though,

there's like, what do I watch first?

Wait, wait.

You know, like

too much going on.

Do I have to go out there and break up a thong before I do the twerking?

No, no, no, no.

I want to be able to post it

and not

without a rating.

Yeah, yeah, without a rating, yeah.

But

that's why we become known as pro-twerking

establishment.

Not like this airlines.

A twerk-friendly environment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Was it Alaska Airlines, I think?

Yeah, I think it was.

Yeah, a little harsh, though, I thought, to not just let her take the video down and like, no more.

I agree.

I was listening to something on the way here, and I heard that story, and I felt the exact same thing.

Like, why not just give her a warning and be like, you got to take the video down?

It's not like she did it like that.

When you might have that kind of rule, though, like that no tolerance for that kind of policy.

Let's say you have an extremely productive day at work.

You're not going to twerk.

A little twerk action and celebrate your accomplishments.

I would think people would.

He's not well.

I think there's he needs to, he needs time off.

He's up there, and now he's doing it from the front.

And now he's standing on the counter.

He's very productive.

Like, whoa.

You came in hot.

You got the alarm undone in the first try.

No one else is in the dealership, and you just let it go.

It's not that kind of place.

And then we get these security cam footage.

Jeff out on the sales floor.

Or imagine that back in the day when you found a hot fucking toy in the aisle, you just twerked when you found one.

Recorded yourself.

I actually might have done that.

You would have been a twerking machine

for a couple of doses.

On for K's be like

a podcasting

pod racing helmet.

Oh, yeah.

He found a variant.

I don't know what he's doing over there with that pants.

12-inch doo-back.

Ow, my back.

Toy's so heavy.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.