#624: The Accused

That was always weird to me.

Like, why'd you kill all those fish, dude?

People have accidental discharges.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.

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

I'm Bri.

Walt's here.

Hello.

BQ is here.

Hello.

Get him is here.

Howdy Stanking.

Special guest, Demi,

which I don't...

Have we been officially introduced to you yet on the show?

No.

I've no kind of lurked in the background a little bit yeah you've come here with your friends with Troy you've come here several times with Troy you're

you're also an officer yeah of the law yep

and you're gonna help us out with some stuff today yes okay good we're expanding the TST town police department yeah yeah Troy's not gonna be around forever you know it's true the old sheriff's gonna ride off into the to sunset one day you know you need a deputy I was I was wondering about Troy recently because he talks about retiring, but he's like, you know, I can't do it yet.

I got to wait.

I got to wait.

Yeah.

So, but that's, that's like every cop, right?

They're just like, wait, towards the end, they're just like, I just want to retire.

Yeah, at some point, depending what you do.

Yeah.

Like, what does Troy do if like the day he retires,

Mary Beth and I fall prey, we fall victim to a double homicide?

Whoa.

Does he, do you think he takes it on himself to investigate?

It wouldn't be his jurisdiction, though, would it?

No, it depends on what you do.

It wouldn't be his jurisdiction.

Well, I assumed you guys are at home.

I mean, that's a safe assumption.

Anything's happening.

It's happening at home.

So you two get brutally murdered.

No,

I think he gets on the case.

I think he gets on the case?

Yeah, he's not going to, like, one of his dearest friends gets murdered.

I don't think he's putting away 30 years of detective experience to

meep at your funeral.

Yeah.

But he

doesn't have 30 years of rules and regulations to follow either or laws

if he's retired.

He's a private detective.

He's retired.

Yeah.

Wasn't that the plot of Lethal Weapon?

Like, Murtaugh was like two days away from retirement.

That's like every

cop movie.

He was

41 in that, too, when he says, I'm too old for this shit.

He was 41.

Yeah, I saw something.

I had to look it up.

I was like, he's not really.

I was like, oh, Danny Glover was 41 when he said, I'm too old.

He wasn't wrong.

That's a lot to deal with.

How would you react if you were given a partner like Riggs?

I don't even know.

Yeah.

Like a loose cannon, just shooting the rules and

just going about his business in a high-profile, wacky case, handcuffing himself.

Isn't it a results-oriented business, though?

Like Riggs got it.

Sometimes people look the other way.

Riggs got the job done, though.

I don't think Riggs would have survived today.

I don't know if people look that far the other way.

Nobody cares

about crime cases being closed.

They care about how it looks.

All those South Africans would have needed was a cell phone camera when he shot the fish tank.

That's it.

And that's the end.

Oh, you would have had everybody all over them.

That was always weird to me.

Like, why'd you kill all those fish, dude?

They never made sense to me when he shot that fish tank.

He just wants to say a big fuck you.

Yeah, but it's me.

He just wants to use his service.

Like, how do you feel if your partner?

Fish died in that?

Yeah, because you saw them running to try to.

Yeah, but where are they putting them?

Find a bucket, toy.

Trash can.

Okay, so tropical fish that need like perfect temperature and pH to just throw in the trash can.

That sounds about right.

But yeah, like if your partner shot his service weapon into a fish tank to make a point.

Officially or unofficially?

Yeah, he's there.

He's investigating a crime and he's like,

and he just shoots the tank.

People have accidental discharges, they call it.

Oh,

a lot of them.

What?

Old desk pop.

That was on purpose.

Yeah.

So we're going to do that in a little bit.

but first I have to be, I don't want to forget this.

Pam finally published her book.

Whoa.

So it is available at Amazon, Barnes Noble, Google Play, all those places.

I'm going to put a link up in the

Twitter feed at Tellum Steve Dave.

I'll put that up Sunday in case anybody wants to buy it.

That's an accomplishment.

I mean,

you see that to the finish line so many years later.

So many years later.

Yeah.

I mean, it's been like 10 years?

If not more,

and that's

seeing it through.

And

that's a big accomplishment, no matter what the

matter what your last name is.

What's the name of the book?

What's the official title?

Shane, heir to the throne.

Oh, you know what?

I wish I brought it with me.

Because she didn't use her real name.

She wanted a pen name.

Okay.

That's a good idea.

So she used she's a mono-associate with me.

So she's

a good idea.

She don't want to be like Joe Hill and Stephen King.

The Johnson Colonels.

Happy New Year.

You want me to say what her name is?

The

Pammy J.

P-A-M-I is the first name.

J-A-E is the second.

Yeah.

Pammy J,

and it's called Shane.

Air Your Throne.

Book one.

I'm not sure if it meets Walt's Musk.

Pen name's not as exciting as I thought.

Well, you know what?

She wanted it to be at first was P C Case.

Because

her maiden name was Case.

Piece of Case?

PCS?

PC.

No, PC Case.

It was just like, I don't know what PC meant, but I was like, everybody's going to think a personal computer.

Nobody's going to

think like that.

Well, a lot of authors for women, though, use initials to hide that they're women.

Like J.K.

Rowling.

J.K.

Rowling.

Yeah.

She should have changed the name to J.C.

Rowling.

That would have been tricked some people.

The first review says, brilliant, just brilliant.

Schools should be required to read this together as a class.

Who is that?

That's

Grant Slingerland.

I don't know him.

Oh, that's a TSD guy.

Is it?

Yeah.

That's your father's command name.

I send him merchandise.

Well, Brandman says,

this book cured my dyslexia.

10 out of 10, must buy.

So reviews are in.

Five reviews, all five stars.

Wow.

Yes.

I'm ordering mine right now.

What's the cover price in that?

Hard cover, soft cover?

It's a soft cover.

There's a paperback for $21.95,

and

that is being shot.

Man, that has got to feel good, though.

I mean, because

she crafted that for so long.

She finally was like, it's good enough.

Yeah.

That's the hardest part.

She went through with this, you know, the publisher, the whoever helps her get, you know, do the

set it up and get it looking right, you know, format-wise and all that shit.

That took a really long time, and she was complaining because they kept sending back like they would change, like they would put semicolon.

Every place a comma was, they put a semicolon instead, like that kind of shit.

So I heard about that for a while.

That was a good signal.

Is there hopes that this isn't like something like a Harry Potter?

And it's book one.

She already is working on the second one.

Well, I mean, she has a lot done on the second one, actually.

Well, let me ask you, do you think it's possible for her to do a signing at the general store?

Mary Beth suggested that she was like, you should have a Pam day just like you had a Frank Day.

But I was like, I don't know.

Like, I don't want to have a Pam day, and then it's like, crick, crick, crick, crick.

I think people would come.

I think people would come.

Yeah, I do.

I think

you have to have Pam and Q Day.

No.

Well, I'll come.

If Pam's here, I'll come.

I think you have to have her on TSD to talk about the book and get listeners excited just to show up on prompt, like, you know, without any,

you got to lubricate the fucking system.

You got to make it exciting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just can't be like, show up.

You gotta make it a spectacle.

Okay.

Get her in, talk about the book, you know,

get her feelings on like with the inspirations, you know, what, like, what when she was growing up, what were some of the authors that she liked, you know, really do a real-life sit-down interview?

We, um, over, what was it, Christmas?

I think it was Christmas, we went to Darren's house and

he asked me to bring the puppet theater along because he wanted to see

Joseph No, the heir Shane to the throne,

Shane heir to the throne part where we remember in the puppet.

Oh, God, okay, all right.

He wanted to see that.

Yes, dude, I was crying.

Really?

Oh, my God.

It was so fucking funny.

Oh, Walt had that creepy voice, right?

Oh, Walt, right?

Joseph No.

Holy fuck, dude.

I was crying.

Like, legit tears.

It was so fucking funny.

There's some really good stuff on that.

I think it's still available, right?

If you go to.

I don't think so.

Maybe digital?

No, not maybe digital.

I don't know.

It's been a long time.

Those contracts were signed before there was a Patreon and everything.

So I'm not sure what the, I can't remember legally where we

are.

Where we stand on that one.

That was signed a long time ago.

Right.

What are you saying?

We can't.

put them back into rotation because we would owe money to people?

Yeah, I mean, we don't have any, I don't think we have anything in the contract, original contract, that were like, we would have a Patreon and we would just put it out there for people to watch.

So then they're fucked, just like actors with like DVDs and stuff.

Yeah, right.

Let's fuck them over.

You have to re-record it.

Like Quantum Lake, they changed all the copywritten songs.

All the music you got to take it out.

Well, maybe we could just buy them out.

Maybe we can just reach out to them and be like, hey, we'll give you $100.

I haven't heard from any of those guys in quite some time.

Really?

Yeah.

Puppet Theater is available for digital download on TomSeeveDave.com.

Oh, okay.

TomsteveDave.com.

If you want to see something, that's not that expensive, right?

$9.99.

$9.99.

That's pretty good.

It's fucking funny, man.

Yeah, yeah.

And that's not even my favorite skit out of all of them.

Right.

Walt's cable box story is like.

Oh, my God.

That's right.

There's nothing but gold.

Nothing but gold.

Like the puppet answers the door and it's like instantly terrified, right?

Oh, man.

We got to get, yeah, I got to watch that again.

That's so funny.

Yeah, they're getting Pam and Edgar, they're getting their bedroom done.

They're redoing their bedroom and redoing the bathroom because they're at a point now where they want to stay on one level of the house.

And the bathroom, I don't know if you remember it being in a state of disrepair, Walt.

The bathroom was right across from where the kitchen was.

You walk in a front door, kitchen, bathroom.

Right.

And Edgar tore it apart and probably circa 1985 because he was going to re-redo.

Yeah, it's always been torn apart in my mind, right?

Always been torn apart.

Yeah.

So it's a longer process than Shane here here to the throne.

Shane here to the throne, oh, yeah.

By like 30 years.

So that's finally getting done.

Finally getting done.

Nice.

And the guy who's doing it used to work with Edgar back in the day, like way back in the day when Edgar had his own company.

So the boys are back.

The boys are back.

And not only that, but like I used to work with this guy too.

Like because I would work part-time with Edgar.

And it's the first time I saw him in 40 years.

And if you want to feel old,

don't see somebody for 40 years and you have a picture of them in your mind.

Kind of like Facebook when you go to like school pictures and you're like, whoa, you didn't look like that back in the day.

Did you ever see that Spider-Man meme where

Spider-Man is pointing at Spider-Man?

You know, that guy was thinking the same thing when he saw you

up the stairs.

You know what she said?

He goes, used to be some skinny kid who listened to the scorpions.

You know, I'm not like, can you believe I haven't changed a bit?

Now I'm not so skinny.

I listen to Blue October.

Oh, that's another thing.

I got to ask your permission.

She has to ask permission.

I told her I would take it to the table.

Mary Beth wants to go to Dallas to see a Blue October concert.

And she needs my permission to do that?

I like this.

I think she needs a round table or rectangular table of men to decide what they would do in this situation.

Because I'm not going.

So, what's the problem?

Send her to Blue October.

Dallas?

Yeah,

send her by herself.

That's a party city queue.

What are we afraid is going to happen here?

Well, she's going with her brother.

What are you worried about?

I don't know.

It's just.

You're not worried about her getting kidnapped.

You're worried about her.

Close to the border.

Yeah, but you don't care.

I mean, it's Dallas.

You know, it's pretty nice there.

Yeah, it wouldn't even occur to me not to.

No?

You just say, yeah, go ahead.

What is she going to do?

I don't know, man.

Let's say she could be.

She could be dangerous.

Who gives a shit?

Do you care anymore?

Walt, when you went to Chicago, you saw the kind of happenings that, like, if Walt hadn't been alert,

I could have gotten him.

What are you talking about?

Chicago.

Yeah, remember when you went with the Franks to Chicago, when you were walking in the middle of the street?

That was Detroit.

Oh, it was Detroit.

Sorry.

The mean streets of Detroit.

The mean streets of Detroit.

Okay.

Yeah.

We almost got mugged.

Yeah.

Yeah, I felt it like my stomach just like everything sank and I was like, oh my God, we're about to get robbed.

And then nothing happened.

Well, I saw, I didn't tell you this.

You might have.

You've told me a lot over the years.

But there's like four guys.

yeah, and one, and they walk past.

We were walking the opposite directions, and one of them stops, looks at us, and what, and then looks at his gang, his buddies.

Gang, did I say gang out loud?

His posse, right?

And they're looking at each other like, yes, no, like, are we going to do this or not?

And I was like, oh my god, they're going to rob us.

I just felt it.

And

Frank and my wife were talking and they didn't notice it, but Mrs.

Five and I

knew it was like inevitable.

It was like it was going to happen, but for whatever reason, they just

kind of like were hesitant.

You can, there's little to no doubt in my mind that they were sizing it up or like, should we do this or not?

Just are we going to go here or not?

Yeah, they were kind of non-verbally making their what do you think about you guys

swayed the decision either way?

Yeah, because you look like pretty easy people.

Oh, yeah, I can do it.

Yeah, That's what the gang members heard.

They didn't hear talking.

They just heard like,

I don't know.

I don't know what happened.

Maybe because I looked right at them.

Yeah.

I mean, I directly looked at one of their eyes.

You weren't afraid.

Oh, well,

I was afraid.

Let's make no bones about it.

But I looked and I was like, there was little to no doubt that they knew that I was.

Seeing that they were getting

there's, I know you're going to think I'm crazy.

I don't think you're crazy.

They definitely were going to do it.

And they just didn't have all four of them weren't on the same page at the right time.

Right.

And then I guess they felt they lost their

moment was gone and we had there was so much.

I don't know what happened, but for whatever reason, maybe God just was like, not today.

Not today.

Right.

Yeah.

All right.

But and Mary Beth wants to go to shoot to Dallas.

And how long is she going to be gone?

A couple days.

A couple days.

And you're worried?

What's that?

And you're worried?

Not really.

No.

No.

Although, like, she would be the first to admit that like if

like trouble came, she would rather be with me than her brother.

Her brother's not really like

an assertive, aggressive kind of guy, but that's assuming there's trouble.

I want to talk about Mary Beth because your poor, poor old Walt got put in the crossfires by Mary Beth over the last week.

If you think,

if you think that my good friend Walt wasn't defended, she wasn't given a tongue-lashing for that.

What happened?

She commented something on Walt.

She commented on Walt.

On Walt.

Where?

She She said that I have a bizarre relationship with women.

I even asked her, I was like, what do you mean by that?

And she was like, I don't know, just like, because we're not friends and stuff.

I was like, but you see how that could come off, right?

Like, you see how that could come off.

Like, my jaw dropped when she told me that.

I was like, you did what?

So I wanted to ask you guys, do you guys believe that too?

I don't think so.

I think if the statement was Walt has a bizarre relationship with everybody, I would be like, okay, I see what you meant.

Yeah.

I don't discriminate.

But to single out women,

I don't understand that.

I don't even see you talking to women.

Maybe that's what she means.

I don't know, but like,

I must have

done something

that would warrant her to say that.

Yeah, I wish.

This is how the show ends.

This is it.

This is fucking how it ends.

There was a picture.

I think somebody had a picture of Yoko on Facebook.

Like, her is Yoko.

Well, she's not going to get people to change their opinion of her by attacking the one people that people like on the show.

Right?

I thought I was saying a psyop fucking government experiment because I was like, How am I like?

I don't.

How did you find out?

Where did she say

on Facebook?

Facebook.

But then deleted the comment.

Okay, after you spoke to her or before?

Somebody's rattling.

Yeah, I think it's Q's.

After you spoke to her or before she deleted it, it was before.

Okay.

Yeah, it was before.

I mean, I'm not overly friendly to anybody.

It takes me a while to warm up to anybody.

Yeah, not to think, neither is she.

It's not

like, what the fuck, man?

It's not like you're running around being friendly to everybody.

You're standoffish.

You're anxiety and social anxiety and all that shit.

And I was just like,

why?

This is fascinating.

I couldn't get my head around it.

I'm sorry.

We might not get to you today, but because this is the most fascinating thing.

Wait, so what was she commenting on?

I don't know.

I can't remember what the original post was because I didn't personally see it.

Okay.

She told me about it.

So she came to you worried that she'd said something that you're not going to like?

Not really.

She's just like,

she mentioned she was like, yeah, somebody said something on Facebook, and this is what I said.

And I was like, I literally go, you said what?

I wasn't upset.

I was more like, fuck.

Do you guys think that too?

I don't think that.

I'm more in agreement with Q.

It's like, you're an individual that has

not issues, but like.

Everybody.

Everybody falls under the same umbrella.

It's not easy to get close to a Walt Flanagan.

Yeah.

But when you do,

there's nothing more magical.

I disagree with that.

But you've got to, yeah, but you got to split the word.

It's like the key to a secret garden.

And

there's no way posting comments on Facebook is going to get you there.

That Bruce Brinkstein song, Secret Garden, I just changed the word slightly from woman on her to Walt and him.

And that's how I feel about your friendship.

It's a secret garden, man.

Okay, all right.

Well, well, I don't know.

So, what did she mean?

So she didn't clarify.

I found out.

She never really clarified what she meant.

And I was just like, oh, does she regret saying it now?

Oh, yeah.

Was she corrected?

She was corrected.

Yeah.

I was like, What are you basing that on?

I was like, Never write anything, anything about us like that.

Wow.

I was just more like, wow, I wonder what would have prompted that.

How did you find that, Walt?

I saw it online.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Somebody emailed a link to it, too, of course.

Of course, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I have to give a high five to that person because they knew what makes content on it.

They sure do.

This is how shows are.

If you can find out, maybe I'll work on it, though.

I'll find out from her.

I'll get in no uncertain terms.

I'll be like, what did you mean by that?

Well, or what could I do to make it less bizarre then?

Right.

Like,

because I don't know.

Yeah, I wouldn't say that your interactions with her were bizarre either.

I didn't think so.

I didn't think so either.

We've gone out plenty of times and had a great time, yeah.

You think it's funny, huh?

I think it's hysterical.

I don't know why,

I don't know why she would do that.

That's surprising.

Me and you both, buddy.

Yeah, but like, you know, she didn't mean it in like

to be mean.

I think like once she realized what it sounded like, that's when she deleted it.

It had to be that.

She definitely didn't mean it like

for 100%.

She didn't mean it to be disruptive or anything.

Like, yeah, which one was she coming from?

Wow.

I'll find out.

I'll bring it up.

How exciting.

Do me next.

She does under her alta cap.

Oh, wow.

Oh, so Walt.

So how did you feel?

Like, what was the...

I was just like, wow, that came out of nowhere.

And I was like, I wonder.

Shots fired.

Are there, is that the common

perception of me amongst everybody?

Is that I'm this

weirdo?

that

is eccentric.

Eccentric.

Yeah, I would use the word eccentric.

I would say singular.

You wouldn't use the word.

I'm not a very singular, yeah.

Normal was not one of the vernacular words.

What is normal anyway?

I think the thing is sometimes when women are around, you become a little prudish.

Like you're trying to save their feelings.

Like when we've had women in the studio.

They're all cursing stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that's the strangest thing.

Being a gentleman, it is strange.

But it is strange nowadays.

It wasn't strange back in the day, but nowadays it's strange.

But I don't want to talk like a sailor in front of a

broad.

Yeah, you're not baudy.

Get him.

When did you did you discover this on the on the face Facebook it was on?

Uh, yeah, yeah, you discovered it before Walt saw it.

I don't know.

I was alerted to it by the our group chat.

And then what, what

it's all over the place.

It spread like what faster than the Hell of Saints fire.

He has has a group chat of all the

crew.

Yeah.

James,

Tom,

Rupp, Chuck, Brad.

Yeah.

And what was your reaction?

I just shook my head and it was just like, oh, I don't want to go.

You weren't just more like, thank God it's not me.

Oh, man.

This is exciting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll have a good time.

I'm glad to hear that you guys think

that's not the common thought process.

I don't think so.

And I don't think she meant it like it came off

knowing Mary Beth.

I don't believe so, yeah, because she was not happy with herself.

But I still

want to hear her explanation.

I can't wait.

Yeah, because it feels like it was like, she had to be holding on to it, though.

It felt unprompted.

Was it not like the rest of the thread?

What was it?

Do you remember?

I don't even remember.

No.

It was something to do with the Dr.

D, though, thing.

Because it was prompted by that episode, I think.

Okay.

I'm not sure.

She'll remember, so I'll find out.

I'll find out what the head it was and get to the bottom of this.

I'm going to tell you, we were driving, I was just like,

you said what?

I couldn't believe it.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought she was fucking around with me at first.

I bet you, like, is your first thought or your third thought?

I don't want to deal with this.

Oh, yeah.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

What's this captioned on the dash cam?

It may be.

I'll have to check it out.

Good thought, Giddam.

Good thought.

Wow.

All right.

Wow, exciting.

Yeah.

All right, now that Giddam said that, I'm going to hand out these.

I got some sheets where

Tom Milazewski

came up with some checklist because we're going to start rating and reviewing Giddem.

Yes.

You and I are in charge of Gidem now.

And we wanted to do basically performance reviews.

Right.

And that's why Lieutenant D,

is that what we're going by?

Everybody says somebody D.

Yeah,

Lieutenant D.

Yeah, that's true.

Puts the D in TSD here.

He responded to,

I put a call out.

It was like anybody who does this professionally that comes in and reviews

workplace environments,

both

the staff and the management.

And

Lieutenant D sent in his credentials, which are impeccable.

Oh, yeah.

Because of who he's in charge of a precinct, right?

No, no.

You run the rat squad?

Yeah.

I want to see his IA file.

No, but lieutenants review sergeants and the cops underneath them, too.

Yeah.

So I've been a supervisor for like 15 years.

What is a beat cop called?

What's their type?

Police officer.

But they don't have an official flat floor.

No, just police officer.

Patrolman?

Are you using the patrolman's the old?

Oh, okay.

That's the oldest

terminology.

Yeah.

So do you

enjoy that aspect of the job, having to review, or do you find that can be depending?

Yeah, it can be.

You know, sometimes you have to show tough love to people.

Depending on tough love.

Nobody likes that.

I've heard that term a lot around here.

Yeah.

It's the only love I really know.

Still love that.

Still love.

Still love.

Walt's secret garden.

No one type of love.

So you have done this for a long time, though.

Yeah, like 15 years.

All right.

And you

can help,

I think,

illuminate.

Get us to a point where, like, no one's here to attack anybody.

It's more just like,

get us into a good zone where everyone's like, this should be the happiest job on the planet for all of us.

Yes.

Yeah.

There's listeners that would fucking kill for that fucking seat that he's in.

The curator has told me he's ready to slice his wrists because he can't be the office manager.

And he takes many opportunities to be like, Giddam doesn't know how to upsize an image for you?

Whoa, Giddam.

Are you aware that this is happening?

You know that this guy's gunned on?

No, but no, that's good.

I know now.

Next time Curie reaches out to me for something, I'll.

He doesn't need anything from you.

He told me so.

And I never need anything from Genem.

And you have some paperwork.

Oh, my goodness.

We have so much paperwork here today.

This is from Tom.

Do you find that people's motivation to change is

dampened a little bit when they know that there are absolutely zero repercussions to anything that they do ever?

Yes.

Okay, so that is

definitely

not a good carrot

on the stick that definitely has to be nothing can happen to you for uh diplomat diplomatic immunity

am i allowed to have my union rep here is this this is not a union job

you only need 75 of the employees to

to agree

have you ever uh reviewed troy have you had to give no no we never worked together oh no no no.

That would be tough.

Yeah.

Right, since you're buddies with a lot of people.

I mean, you're probably buddies

with a lot of cops, though, right?

Yeah.

Sometimes, you know.

You ever had to bring the hammer down on a buddy?

No.

As long as

everyone has

to.

Me neither.

Everyone's got their roles to play.

You know, as long as

I'd like to make it understood with people.

If everyone does what they're supposed to do, you know, then I don't have to be a robot and, you know, oh, you came back 10 minutes late from your lunch break or whatever, you know, stuff like that.

Oh, wow,

speaking of lunch, meal periods, that's speaking of lunch, like, is there a place where a common place where people eat?

Officers eat together?

Depending if you have time on patrol, sometimes the dashboard of your car,

but sometimes

if somebody were to bring in like an ungodly, ghastly

dish,

pork-filled dish, other people out there would not appreciate it.

And that officer would be

ostracized?

Yeah, possibly.

Sometimes people cook whole fish in a toaster oven.

You didn't pull pork.

So you have actually had this problem that you're bringing stinky food into the work.

Oh, okay.

How do you do that?

Not really.

No?

Not officially, yeah, no.

Oh, no.

It's cultural.

It's cultural to eat the fish's eyeballs while you're sitting at your desk and pick your teeth with the bones.

Okay.

So the cultures outside the police department are more important than the culture of the police department.

Respecting people's cultures and identities.

Yes.

I thought we were doing all right with that.

Federally.

Federally.

We don't have to follow those rules in this office, though.

No.

Not a federal agency.

No.

We're fed.

Different rules.

You don't have to respect anybody here.

All right.

So how do we, what is the, what do you got here?

What did you bring us today?

So I have a modified version of a...

What's a performance evaluation guide for police officers and detectives that I did, you know, I tried to make it apply more to here.

Oh, wow.

You customized it.

Yeah.

So there's

on that one, there's 27 points of things that cops get rated on, but I narrowed it down to 13 that more apply.

Oh, wow.

And it's rated on a scale of one to five, from very low to highly competent.

Okay.

So there's some, each one has descriptions.

So we're, but we, but look, we're talking, today is the first ever performance review.

Yes.

Anybody getting reviewed today doesn't even know

what they're getting judged against.

No, it's all commonly think.

But we would say this is like a baseline one, and the next one would really be the would be, we got to see what we're working with here.

Could be.

Yeah, give a fair and then give instruction for improvement.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's right.

So I have suggestions for improvement.

Nice.

Now, the management can also be critiqued, I feel.

Well, there's a supervisor's, what makes a professional supervisor

both knife here.

Okay.

About a, you know, for frontline supervisors, that's worried.

I've got to tell tell you right now.

I'm worried about it.

I think I might not have a professional might, I might fall short of professional at times.

I don't see how.

Get him continued.

There's also common.

There's a section for common.

I'm sorry.

No, no, no.

There's a section for common supervisor rating mistakes.

I don't know if you want me to read that before the ratings or you want to hear it after.

Let's hear it.

Yeah, let's see.

Let's see if any of those might apply.

Some expose the landmines

Walking into them.

Yeah, some might apply for that.

All right, so what do we got to do here?

What's the so I'll go over the categories and

then I guess everybody decides is it on a scale of one to five?

So five is extremely competent, four is highly competent, three competent, two low, and one is very low.

So extremely competent is basically like the performance exhibited is exceptional, rarely equaled.

Work is consistently excellent as to quality, thoroughness, accuracy, technical expertise.

Basically, outstanding.

Then, four is, you know, exceeds expectations, but maybe needs a little bit of guidance here and there.

Competent is like, you know, you get by, it's beyond the minimum requirements, and work is performed in a steady manner, but sometimes you need guidance.

You're shaking your head up beyond minimum.

You're shaking your head up beyond minimum.

I was thinking of striking the first two right out of the gate.

Yeah, three, ball.

Three is meeting expectations.

So Low is the performance is marginal.

There's limited ability to

perform the appropriate

limited ability to perform the appropriate skills for a given responsibility.

The rate E frequently disregards performing responsibilities or adherence to standards, occasionally exercises sound judgment, is generally willing to do the job, but only with instructions and directions.

Oh boy.

Performance is not sufficient to the degree of being below expectations.

And now very low.

That was just two.

Very low, which is a one.

The performance exhibited is poor.

There's almost a complete lack of skill in being able to perform basic responsibilities, consistently disregards responsibilities or adherence to standards.

Does not exercise sound judgment, is unwilling to work, shows no desire to work, learns slowly, requires repeated instructions with extensive directions, and performance is consistently unacceptable.

Wow, you know that all already.

Oh, that wasn't your rating.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm going to be scared.

Now, have you ever had to give somebody a one while reviewing them?

Because that seems like a lot of people.

No,

no, no, no, no.

A five is like, usually, like, a captain or above has to give someone a five.

Like, that's like the highest you could get.

Would you use like a TV cop as you're like, you know, like, like as your guide, like Columbo, five?

Maybe Frank Drevin.

Little that be one, right?

Solid case.

At the end of the day, yeah.

Save the queen.

That's right.

All right.

But like, so, like, is there, like, so nobody really gets a five?

There's no super cops?

No, people do.

Well, sometimes it's favoritism.

Sometimes it's, but some people do, you know, are exceptional and go above and beyond, regardless of, you know, what's going on, you know.

But then people get disgruntled and a lot of people fall.

Some of them.

Get him's got money.

Well, good thing.

The first category is ethics slash integrity.

Oh, right.

Excellent, but a bribe isn't good, buddy.

Yeah, a lot of people fall somewhere in between.

You know, they want to come in, do what they're supposed to do, you know, and then go home.

You know, but what if they never leave?

It is their own.

That's happening.

People going through divorces, living like a U-Haul van outside of the precinct, run an extension cord.

And but, like, are there guys that just like

they'll spend as much time as possible at the at the job?

Yeah, so they just don't feel like

there's definitely uh, yeah, we're dealing with that.

Yeah, yeah, we guys in the fly house like that, too.

Like, I don't want to go home, my family's there, yeah, yeah, definitely.

That's the way I feel.

My wife talking about my friend

and she won and she thinks she can go to Dallas?

Oh, yeah.

You should be like, yeah, we took a vote at a table.

You can't go to Dallas.

Is that bizarre enough for you to see?

All right.

So

the first category is ethics slash integrity.

So ability to adhere to TESD Town Studios policies and guidelines, a sense of principle regarding conduct, a sense of moral obligation, a sense of duty, strict personal honesty, noble, praiseworthy, and trustworthy.

So,

examples that they use before you get to the rating section is they maintain confidentiality of sensitive matters, adheres to all guidelines regarding rules and regulations, reports instances of corruption, never extends meal period, nor comes in late or leaves early.

Wow.

Okay, so what do we do?

One by one?

So I'll read it.

Yeah, from extremely competent to very.

And are we all answering this?

This is an assessment of us all, or is this?

Yeah, yeah.

Everybody's answering.

One for everybody.

Yeah, all right.

Okay.

So extremely competent, which is a five.

Always on time and punctual.

Always actively supports TESD Town Studios policy.

Deportment and performance always reflect a high level of integrity.

All right, so we'll break them down one by one.

Yeah, I'll read the five and then decide one to five.

Okay.

Where he lands.

Willing to risk unpopularity by adhering to principles.

Always consulted on sensitive matters.

Always maintain strict confidentiality and always adheres to TESD Town Studios directives.

Then a three, which is in the middle, supports policies and guidelines, not a disciplinary problem, represents TESD Town favorably, no evidence of breaches of integrity.

Very low, fails to maintain confidentiality of sensitive matters, regularly breaches integrity, and regularly violates guidelines.

Constant disciplinary problem.

See, the trouble is, these are all good questions for Walt.

Because like, we don't really see Genemon day-to-day and haven't for years.

I don't want to be the guy that piles on, though, either, though.

Right.

I don't want to be the guy that.

Tell the reality, and we'll, we'll.

Well, what are your thoughts on these things?

All right, let's go.

One by one.

What was the first thing there?

Extremely competent?

No, no, no.

The things we're rating them on.

Oh, ethics and integrity.

Okay.

And what's the breakdown on that?

Like you said, keep secrets.

Yeah, confident.

Yeah, never extends meal period comes in late.

Okay, so yeah, give them that one by one.

Give us those one by one.

All right.

Maintains confidentiality of sensitive matters.

I don't see him

doing that.

Were you the one that told Unmary Beth?

He was, wasn't he?

He was.

He was.

He wasn't.

He was not.

All right.

Do I have to swear an oath to Erlick?

Do I have to

have a Bible here?

My cheap town Bible.

Just grab the word of the undead.

I'll swear on it.

Yeah,

no, it was not him that that

alerted me to that.

But what am I?

What is it?

Is he an integrity?

Does he keep secrets?

Is that really what?

Is that really one of the things that you're talking about?

Confidentiality first.

Well, if it's something that's like Tom Seek Dave type stuff, yeah.

Yeah, if it's something sensitive, you're not

talking about victims of the future.

I think he's pretty good at that.

Yeah, I agree.

I try to do that.

I think he's pretty good at that.

I think it's almost too low.

He does it so well that it's a detriment, though, sometimes to

the officer.

In the five, it says willing to risk unpopularity by adhering to principles oh he he will do that too he will he he is okay with that he's he's willing to he's so unpopular as it is what they're doing yeah

what's he gonna do what's he got to lose

yeah i might as well be ethical

yeah he sticks to his guns when he feels that he's he's got something to believe in and if i told uh if i told him something tell him steve dave related

I feel like I could count on him not to tell anybody that like he shouldn't tell.

Yeah, which is good to learn right away.

Like, you, I don't, you know, Gedam has that trust.

Usually, when you do an evaluation, you want to give the, that's like one, you want to give people a five.

You don't want to say one that they're corruptible and get talked about, like, you know, crime victims and everything else, you know, right?

Active cases.

Yeah, as far as I know, yeah, that that could be

a very high grade.

Yeah, I agree.

I think it could be a high number.

Yeah, I agree.

You should say five, four, five.

Oh,

you guys?

I would say five.

I, I have no, I have not a single concern about Gidham's loyalty and honesty.

I agree with that.

Yeah.

I'll put my

number as a five as well.

Fives across the board.

Yeah.

So the second one is comprehension skills.

Ability to understand language written or spoken.

Involves the understanding of words as well as patterns of words.

So it's more than simply vocabulary.

He doesn't understand sarcasm.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

So then I'll read the card.

Right.

Yeah.

So examples are when one reads a paragraph and understands what the writer intended the reader to know.

Similarly, one might hear the oral description of an event and have good verbal comprehension skills and probably understand what happened.

This ability is used when one reads written narrative material, listens to descriptions of events, places, or people, or follows written instructions or work orders.

He rarely gets a written instruction.

Well, I guess your text could be a written instruction, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, what's that last one about written instructions?

Yeah, follows written instructions or work orders.

So like extremely competent would be follows written instructions

explicitly with no need for clarification or explanation.

Always understands and correctly complies with spoken orders in the first instance.

And

three would be some clarification occasionally necessary.

Confusion is limited to

very low.

Confusion is not limited.

Confusion is not limited.

It's just being honest.

Very low is constantly needs clarification of written instructions.

Fails to comply with written or spoken orders without follow-up and explain.

Hold on, one second.

I just want to go look at the costume room.

One second.

If I thought it applied something collapsed on cube back there, he's not going to make it back.

Structurally some pile of shit.

Just fucking...

I'm a little torn here because, like...

Like anytime I've asked get him to do something, he doesn't.

Like, the other day he helped me with a package I had to get out.

I was in a bind.

My man took care of it for me.

However, we did tell him to get that fucking room in some sort of order, and it's a disaster in there.

So, where does that land?

Like, where does that land on you?

Might be somewhere in the middle, to be closer to a three where some, you know, complies with written or spoken orders with minimum explanation, you know, some clarification, occasionally necessary.

I don't even know if it's that because he knows.

Well, that's that's comprehension.

Like, you can read something online or something and take it out of context, too.

That

he's a smart guy.

He's 148.

So

he knows.

But yeah, I mean, get him.

I'm pulling for you here.

I'm trying to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm not looking to dogpile on top of you.

But what is up with the costume room looking like that?

It is a

constant movement of

things because

some film people keep their stuff here.

So when

they go to film, its stuff's got to come out.

And then it's got to go and things got to get moved to get that stuff out, and then it's got to get put back.

So there's not enough room to develop a system where that doesn't take place

uh

i think there like i i know where everything is taking a long break though on filming though well we no we just had the just had the filming the other day that's why there's a there was a lot of stuff that had to get moved so it was clean before that it wasn't clean but

it was in order before that it's in a it's in a it's it it is in an order i know where everything like i know where everything is stammering like this when you're doing your review and you have to do that that is not the order

that you're going to be able to do.

Usually you'd go over the whole thing after.

Correct?

Would you be willing to do that?

No,

that's not the order you expect it to be in.

Yes, I would say my

order I expect it to be in.

But it's not what I wanted it to be.

That's exactly what I expect.

I understand, yeah.

There's another category for problem recognition, too, that's coming up.

You recognize if there's a problem with something.

See, I think comprehension.

But I will say, if you ask for something, do I not usually get it within two or three minutes?

Do you come from that back room?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, you will find it, but I know where much everything is there.

It's in a state, though, that you know that nobody wants it in, though.

And do you have more than ample time to do it, though?

Like,

this past weekend, I haven't been here in four days.

So, what did you do in those four days?

What did you do?

What did you do here, though?

Well, I had two days.

Almost two days.

Okay, all right.

So, I had Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Okay, those two.

Okay, Monday and Tuesday.

Were you not here Monday?

Uh, I got here late, okay, because I went to visit my aunt.

All right, but so Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,

I wasn't here, Brian and Q weren't here.

So, what did you do those days?

What are you doing, spending your time doing?

Uh,

it's okay to say

it's okay, just be honest.

We already know it's

watching TV, you're on your computer, but

so there's no real excuse why that room can't be, can't be put into the order that Q wants it in.

That

just would would be.

I don't even want it put in an, like,

it would be really arrogant out of line for me to be like, this is how I want it done if I'm not the guy going in there and doing it.

All I'm saying is, like, however it's done, it should be neat.

That's awful.

I don't care about the system at all.

Like, whatever system you think is best, you're in power to, but like, it's like an avalanche has occurred.

There's just like slopes of stuff that lead to the small path that you can walk through the room.

This is the

pattern of somebody who

hoards.

Yes, this is a meeting,

right?

Yeah, like when you see that show hoarders, or you see a hoarder, their shit's never neat.

It's never like hoarding.

And that's what you've got to fight against.

And

I can't do it.

I can't fight the fight anymore.

I can't fuck a butt heads about it anymore.

It's just draining me.

And that's why I can't be be the guy that's like riding you like a fucking Bronco.

Like I rarely go back there, but is there like you would know, is there a bunch of shit that should not be like is it Giddam's personal shit?

I don't even know.

I don't even care.

Look, I sympathize with a guy who doesn't have a place for his shit.

But if you don't have a place for your shit, you can't turn this place

into

the collier's mansion of Hazlitt.

Nice usage.

You just can't.

You've got to be you've got to you've got to fight against it.

And you're prone to that, I think.

And so you've got to fight against that

beast that lives inside you.

That's like, fuck it.

I'll throw it here.

That, to me, is the answer.

Yeah.

But it's hard, though.

I mean, because he's.

But it's not that hard, though.

It is hard for him, though, I think.

Yeah, I know.

But look, and I'm a Gethem fan.

I can't pass the guy.

You know, I always feel so bad.

But, like, that is, that is a choice.

That is a choice to leave that room like that.

But if you ever watch those shows, those people are.

So then we're saying he's mentally ill?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm not saying it in a bad way.

It doesn't mean

it's like having gout.

It's just like, you know, it's just what he's prone to.

It's his nature.

Not even second nature.

Yeah, it's just something that he has to

be cognizant of.

But would you agree with that, Giddam?

You hear that assessment of you from Walt?

Do you feel that that's the way inaccurate?

No.

And so

what's something that, what's like one thing that you think you can do to kind of make sure you don't slide into that

pattern of like,

it's just got to be,

you got to be on top of it, though.

That's all.

Do you feel the office isn't big enough?

And that's why things are kind of

spewing all over the place?

No, not necessarily.

Okay, so there is enough room for everything to be in a semi-oriented.

Well, let me start from the beginning.

Do you understand what I'm saying when I say that?

Yes, yes.

You see it.

Like, you understand what I'm saying?

Yes.

So, so you apprehension.

Right.

So it's like, so it's a solvable.

I mean, look, he's in a rough spot because half the shit we say on the show is for fucking laughs and jokes.

So the guy doesn't know whether fucking serious or not.

You know what I mean?

And not just me, it's the listeners.

Yeah, like I understand that.

So I understand what I'm saying, but it's like, if there's one thing.

Yeah, the listener comprehension is getting a bit concerning.

They really thought that I was serious when I was teasing Tom about taking time off for work for his testicle to heal.

Are you serious?

And they were like,

Walt's a piece of shit.

He was proud to say he left his wife alone after she gave birth.

And I'm like, I believe.

Fuck.

Do I have to now, like after every time I say something, I feel like that was a joke.

That was a joke.

And I believe they said you left your wife and newborn child to go work for a multi-million dollar corporation.

When I was running it, it was.

That may not be the case anymore.

That was a joke.

That was a joke, people.

And that's on Facebook and Reddit, Reddit?

Reddit, I guess.

Oh, you got to stay away from that job.

You can't.

They don't get it.

But there are a segment segment of the listeners who don't understand jokes, though, it feels like.

But we're a show that has said, we don't know what we're talking about.

Everything we say is kind of a goof.

And then, and they're still getting upset.

So they need that at the start of every episode.

A warning.

Yeah, like a practical joke.

It's like a warning.

This episode is made by people who are talking shit, who have absolutely no sense of

the law.

It busted each other's balls.

And there is some semblance of truth to it, but for the most part, it's all a joke.

So fucking relax.

Yeah.

All right.

So

enjoy it.

Yeah.

Embrace it.

Enjoy the ride.

Yeah.

And if you are a guy that's like, yeah, I'm going to fucking go leave my wife in the hospital to work for a multi-million dollar.

Like, why is it that funny?

Like, laugh at that.

I was laughing so hard as I was saying it.

I was like, how could anybody miscontrue that that was an obvious over-the-top joke?

It's willful.

Somebody they have to choose to do that.

There was more than one.

There was more than one that were like, he's a piece of shit.

It's a rare L for him

to leave his wife's side and not care for her.

He's a fan of her to go.

And I'm just like, I just scratched my head because I'm like, wow.

Has it come to the point now where I have to, every time I say something, follow it up with like, that was a joke?

I don't want to, but if I have to, I guess I will.

There are people that

say, I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

And meanwhile, your kids are like perfect.

Nobody's perfect.

Nobody's perfect.

Well, they're great kids.

They're great kids.

They're great kids.

Yes.

But

it's not because I stayed home

after they were born.

But I also, like, it's crazy that they thought that it was

like we're allowed.

We're allowed, Walt's allowed to goof on.

Our friend take it six weeks off to watch a baby.

Like, why aren't we allowed to goof on it?

Initially, I was talking about like, you don't need six weeks to fucking care for your nutsack.

You don't.

That shit, you could have gone to work the next day and you know it.

He's sitting there watching TV with ice on his walls.

Yeah, I could have done it at work.

Now, when you joke here, is that a joke, or are you being serious right now?

Oh, that was a joke.

Okay, all right.

Because you know, there's people who get mad that, like, I'm shaming him, they said.

Like, don't you people who the fuck listens to the show and doesn't understand and doesn't want to hear him shame.

We scramble to take positions that we don't believe in just to fucking bust each other's balls.

Like, how do they not understand it at this point?

And, like, even if somebody's like, well, then you could just say anything,

that's an excuse to say anything.

Yes!

That would be correct.

Yes, that would be correct.

It's fucking wild, a rare L.

Who fucking wrote that?

You know what?

I don't want to, this is why I don't even want to talk about Reddit.

It's the worst fucking place on the planet,

except for that train one, which I did swing by and look at, but I'm not ready to comment yet.

Okay.

Yeah, but I'm getting there.

I put the rules down, you know, only civil comments that I will delete.

Thank you.

Okay, it's coming.

It's coming within the next two weeks.

My first train post.

Very excited.

But yeah, Reddit's very rough, man.

I think you're better off staying.

Can we just shut it down?

Can't we shut all of Reddit down?

Isn't there a giant switch we could throw?

ENP that just directed to our TSD Cares.

Like the rest of Reddit can be fun, it's fine, but just that one.

Yeah, I caught shit for not knowing the ins and outs of TikTok last week.

There's such a lack of knowledge Because I didn't know exactly why they were trying to ban it.

It's like, and

Trump tried to ban it in 2020.

And it's like, well, that may be, but wasn't he responsible for bringing it back?

That's all I said.

So you don't know the ins and out of TikTok's that upset.

Yeah, like I guess the reason, the real, yes, oh, very upset.

The real reason is that if they have your,

they can implant something in your phone.

Okay.

To take, to pull out your extract other information.

Right.

That's that's the fear, I guess.

Not that they have your credit card information and that kind of shit or your address or whatever.

I don't even know why.

I was happy it was going away.

What's this?

This is a Reddit board?

That's the.

Love Walt with all my heart, but it pissed me.

But Tom taking time pissed me off.

I know he's playing devil's advocate, but then why are you even considering?

If you know he's playing,

why post it?

You have the answer right there.

But who in the right mind grinds for a company who makes millions of dollars?

But, like, you know, the start of your sentence is the answer.

He's fucking busting on Tom.

Indeed, a rare elf.

Walt's conception of masculinity is antiquated and brain dead.

Oh, buddy, why are you writing stuff like this online?

Why?

Why is your concept of masculine antiquated?

I equate toughness and

that roll your sleeves up and get to work and get the job done as masculine, I think.

And I don't think there's

I think in some people just don't

identify that as being masculine, though.

But so

their take on it is correct.

Your take is wrong.

Well, you know, I think anybody who wants to put their opinion on mine

firmly believes their take is correct.

Or else they are not going to post it.

So they post it without thinking about it because, like you said, it's like, Walt's like, I know he's playing devil's advocate.

It's like right there, you don't need to post any more of that.

It's not an L.

I wasn't truly like shaming him for taking time off.

I was, I don't even know why he even came up.

I just was bored in the moment.

His stories were lame.

So I was like, it's a ridiculous shit.

So I just came up with, like, I was like, my mind is wandering and he constantly talks about his vasectomy.

So I was like, oh.

All right.

Well, this guy brings up a good point, though, Walt.

This guy says, in what I'm assuming is a serious tone, paternity leave isn't, quote unquote, sitting at home for six weeks.

It's work, dude.

Like all day work.

You get maybe a few hours a day to relax, and the rest you're cooking meals, doing laundry, sanitizing

bottles of bumps.

Does that sound like any kind of man to me?

Changing diapers, yeah, I guess, yeah, this is some definition of masculinity.

Changing diapers, shopping, cleaning, sleeping in chips, doing dishes.

If you're a good father and a husband, at least.

So I guess what this guy is saying, the serious person is saying, that's what we should have sat here on Telum Steve Dave and said, that should have been the take that you gave Tom.

That would have been content that everybody would have fucking loved to hear.

You hand-jobbing Tom about cleaning breastbones.

Or just realized that, what a great episode.

Or just realized that there was no truth to that fucking ridiculous rant that I went on that he was a pussy for staying home.

You chided him for taking your taxpayer money.

Yeah,

which I know is not how a work works.

How do do you not know it's a check.

How do you know I understand how the tech system works?

It's lunacy at times.

All right, well, I'm sorry.

We're going off track here.

Get us a horse.

Don't call him Reddit anymore, man.

I definitely don't plan to check FCC.

Yeah, just don't.

They're not going to own it.

Anything you do, they're not going to own it.

See, I browsed, but not.

So comprehension, he knows what's going on.

He understands.

Yeah.

Whether he acts on it is something different.

Yeah.

What do you think it is?

What do you think it is?

You just, is there a party that's like Quinn's only here once a week?

Like, who gives a fuck what he thinks?

Like, it's my office.

Like, he has no say.

He's not saying no.

It's fine.

Dude, you already know that you have no repercussions for anything you do and say, so you might as well just shoot straight.

I think it's something of, I'll get to it, and then

that just

something else comes up.

Something else comes up.

I do think I do have an inability to,

no, okay, inability to prioritize sometimes.

Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

You know, like in my head, this is this is the most important thing.

This is the most important thing.

This is the most important thing.

But you're not claiming that all those things on the list are work, right?

Like if you're here on your computer playing a video game, you're not playing Gem Quest.

No, no, no, don't let that work.

I will say, I don't want to pilot.

Yeah, don't pilot.

You know what it is?

I'm sure you've fallen down the hole where

you fall.

You just get lost.

Sure.

And then you look and like, oh, crap, what time is it?

Yes.

But I also am getting paid to do a job.

I do the job.

You don't forget to make an impractical joke.

No, I got fucking zero impractical jokes, miss, in all these years.

Yeah.

It's hard for, it's a little hard.

This is bad timing on this episode because he just helped me out of a jam the other day with that box?

Yeah, yeah.

How much of a jam is that?

I would have had to drive all the way here and then and then get it out.

And it was a little bit of a jam.

Yeah.

What you asked him to do,

you found that like impactful to your life.

A fucking box?

Saved me an hour drive, round trip.

I mean, you know.

I thought the guy was coming here to get the box.

No, but then I sold it to someone else.

Then he had to drive it?

He took it to FedEx for me.

The guy was going to pick it up here.

That guy didn't come to me.

FedEx over by Staples?

That's around the fucking block.

No, I had to go to Walgreens.

Okay, around the block.

Yeah, I'm trying here, man.

Well,

I took all the identifying information off the box.

Yeah, I left a label with my home address on it.

I retaped the box.

Oh, I mean, oh, this changes everything.

Holy shit, you didn't tell me you took a label off the box.

Oh, look, look, look, I'm not claiming this.

I know, I know.

I'm just riding on his claim.

I know.

I mean,

this is hard, but a guy does

one one thing for you.

You don't want to stop bringing the hammer down on him right after that, you know?

Right.

You were able to take a box for him, really, because

I can't even ask you to take boxes for me because you can't fit a fucking straw in your car.

So I wind up having to fucking load shit in and out of the storage unit.

I wind up having to move everything because you're fucking walking around like you got no feet.

Because you're fucking gout ridden.

So I wind up having to fucking do all the grunt work.

Yeah.

It's rough.

But I didn't know that you fucking took a heat gun and took the fucking label off Q's box.

Can I make everything a five right now?

Yeah, sure.

Thank you.

Recency error is a supervisor common mistake.

Judge do their full evaluation based on a recent action that might have been good and you forget what happened previously.

Right.

Okay.

So I'm falling victim right now.

Recency error.

That's my own.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're right.

When you're right, you're right.

You're right.

Hey, look, we all don't.

Yeah.

I'm more guilty than both of you of taking him and making him work for my own

benefit.

Yeah.

I'll just say that flat out right now.

Sure.

If I got to deal with this shit,

there's got to be a fucking benefit for me.

Really?

I don't feel guilty about that.

No, of course.

You're right.

Wow.

All right.

So for a comprehension, you'd say a four, five?

Well, yeah, I guess he understands.

Oh, he understands.

He understands.

Yeah.

So, the next is communication skills.

Ability to express information or ideas to other people in writing or speech.

Ability to use words appropriately, as well as to construct these words or phrases together to meaningful sentences and paragraphs.

So, we just give you one.

TESD Town Studios employees must frequently communicate with other people, such as shop owners, community groups, such as on Reddit or X, other town members, supervisors, etc.

In order to do this effectively, the employee must have a good vocabulary, knowledge of distinctions among words, and knowledge of grammar and the way words are ordered.

So a five is when speaking or answering questions, his or her ability to communicate is exceptional in what he or she says and commands the attention of all listeners.

I didn't actually write that.

That was actually already in there.

I can't give him a five.

Speaks with forcefulness and clarity and has near-perfect enunciation.

Statements are concise and deal deal directly with subject matter under discussion.

Still, five is four.

Okay, we can get skipped five.

You're always

seriously out of water.

So, three is able to explain his or her ideas with a little confusion, some clarification, occasionally

clarification.

So, what's twos have?

What's two say?

Two, they don't have one, it just goes hello.

Attempt to communicate always results in confusion and misunderstanding.

Two, that's a one, two.

Continually brings up irrelevant issues, is unclear.

Yes,

the discussion becomes obscure.

Enunciation is is very poor.

And language usage is almost always improper, frequently misunderstood.

In written exercises, spelling, language, uses of grammar, frequently incorrect or misleading.

Introduces

includes unnecessary and contradictory information.

Why, what time have you got to go?

Well, the flight lands at three.

Oh, I think you had to leave here at three.

No, no, the flight lands at three.

Oh, okay.

Uh-oh.

Right.

Okay.

Okay, great.

All right.

Yeah, we got a little bit more time.

All right.

So communication instead of two?

Yeah,

no, we're going no one.

One is like watling.

Yeah, he's mute, deaf, and blind.

All right, so you want to just flop it around on the floor like a fish?

Anime, bobate!

Send out cute box today!

Gotcha, water tay.

So the next problem recognition.

Ability to recognize or identify the existence of a problem doesn't necessarily include the ability to solve it, but the ability to identify that a problem exists.

So,

I think that I don't know that he

sees things as problems.

We're going to go off the example of the costume room.

Yeah, that's a problem, but he doesn't see the seed as a problem.

No, it's fine.

So, a five would be firm grasp of a problem's key dimensions, readily recognizes the existence of a problem without prompting or additional clarification, always understands a problem in a situation, And then when you go down to a three, it's like sometimes understands one is fails to recognize the existence of a problem even when given specific information.

Requires clarification of all or most issues relating to the problem, cannot even identify elements of the problem.

I think that's too harsh.

That's very harsh, but also I see shades of truth in it, though.

That's a two?

That's a one.

That's like the worst.

Let me give him a two point.

Some point five.

Yeah.

Yeah, it could be.

All right, let's give him a two point five.

All right.

No, you thought about it?

I think we've had problems with Patreon stuff that I've

helped.

Yeah, definitely.

Sometimes you can avert a large.

Right, but then there's other times though where you make problems for yourself just by not just

saying, what do you need?

Okay, I'm on it.

You know,

instead of arguing that, like, I don't know how to measure.

Let's give him a three.

Let's pull him up.

Okay.

Give him an extra 0.5.

Yeah.

All right.

Because he stood up for himself.

Okay.

Memorization is another one that's kind of self-explanatory.

Ability to retain information.

Yeah, I think he's got a good memory.

He quickly learns and retains all information and stuff like that.

Four.

Judgment.

Recognizes intuitively or by other methods significant factors and comes to a sound practical decision.

Ability to correctly arrive at a proper solution, whether by intuition, reason, or deduction.

Does not resort to sheer luck or chance.

Ability to correctly manage time.

You know, it's luck and chance.

I mean, look at his whole life is luck and chance.

Yeah.

It is absolutely, he resorts to luck and chance.

So a five always manages time efficiently.

No, no.

Obtains all necessary information required to make decisions.

You know, it always demonstrates ability.

That's a five.

That's like the five.

No, we're not yet knowing that.

Yeah, three in the middle of able to reach good conclusions based on information available.

Yeah.

Conclusions can be practical and sound.

Recognizes need for more information.

Time management is usually appropriate.

Good.

I think a three is fair.

One is unable to manage time and

stuff like that.

Well, he just said he's unable to manage time.

Yeah, it might be down to a 2.5.

I mean, he draws conclusions.

He just

admitted that he has a hard time managing time.

I think it's prioritizing

him.

Well, how's that different from what he meant?

That's kind of what he's saying.

you're saying

it draws conclusions that are based on little or no information available.

That's also part of the Reddit thinks so.

Yeah,

I don't know, man.

I think you got to go a little lower than normal on this one.

I'm deferring to you.

You're in charge.

I would go, what did you say, three?

I'd give him a two.

You don't want to drag the guy with a one, but

innovativeness, you know, generates improvements,

considers unusual and alternative approaches given a problem.

Well, you know what?

I always will say that when he was working at the Stash, he came up with this rubber band that he put on the shirt rack.

So when people walk by the

hangers, when they brush the hanger, the hanger wouldn't fall off because he put a rubber band on it.

Okay.

He stretched a rubber band over it.

And I've never been more impressed.

Yeah.

Before solution.

So let's give it to him.

So

five.

Wait, well, hold on.

Well, if you take things like

$6 million man, Patreon.

That's a good idea.

That's innovative, man.

He did a great job on that.

The fireworks and the Roman candles all in that look great.

Yeah.

So considers unusual alternative approaches to a problem.

The rubber band with a lot of people.

Sees better ways of solving than which currently exist.

Ability to improvise solutions in situations where standard procedures may not apply.

You know what?

He does sometimes go on the cover to get the heating in here, like worked out.

He'll figure out tools to

work on that.

Extremely resourceful.

I would call that resourceful.

I would.

Extremely, though.

Resourceful, I'm okay with.

I can live with the resourceful.

Extremely

occasionally resourceful.

Somewhere, maybe a four.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

This isn't going as bad for you as I thought it was.

I've seen worse.

That's kind of the same.

Drive and initiative.

Ability to initiate work without specific direction or supervision.

Very poor.

Ability to carry tedious work through to a conclusion without prompting.

There is so much tedious work that he just gets up from the table and I'm like, what is going on?

What are you doing?

Ability to.

How to get this fucking cut today?

Like, why are you wandering off?

Ability to begin or follow through with a plan or task.

So, an example would be: welcome to difficult problem as a challenge, initiate tasks without being directed or prompted.

No.

So, a five part of it would be always work some problems with little or no supervision.

No.

So, this is something like when you're rating a police officer or sergeant,

you want to have that.

It doesn't need to be

a good thing.

There's a section for rank on here.

Let's always keep that in mind.

He's not even

an office manager.

He's a coach.

Wasn't that an upgrade?

yeah i did the upgraded manager

uh so five knocks you down sorry always works with little to no supervision takes a personal interest in his work always makes every effort to meet deadlines relentless in his or her pursuit relentless is not in his case so three sometimes requires direction or prompting usually checks uh with others to ask for assistance in a problem usually meets deadlines One is needs constant supervision, sits around, and this is wording, I didn't make this up, sits around idly unless specifically directed to work, always takes shortcuts, tries to pass off his or her work to others.

Well, there's no one else to pass it on to but me.

Um,

I don't know, Q.

Well, a lot of that low one sounded right, and I just know it's it didn't all sound right.

Um, there was a lot in there, though, that hit that ticked all the boxes.

So,

yeah, I did once try to get Sox to do a job for me,

I think she did it better, too.

So the next is interpersonal skills.

Ability to get along with peers, supervisors, and the community.

Ability to deal with others professionally, regardless of social standing, ethnic background, culture, or religion.

Assertive when necessary to accomplish goals by displaying leadership.

So a five would be...

you know, always develops an excellent rapport with the other TSD town members, peers, supervisors.

Yeah, I think he does too.

Yeah.

Handles extremely sensitive problems without raising undue antagonism or creating hostility in the community.

I don't know about that one.

Extremely tactful in situations where potential for conflict exists.

Extremely diplomatic, outgoing, and personable.

A true leader is a five.

No.

Three is develops a rapport with others, able to handle sensitive situations with a degree of care and empathy toward the feeling of others.

Displays tact and concern,

when required, can assume leadership.

A one is abrasive, abusive, inconsiderate, or tactless.

No, he's not a one.

Shows a little concern for the feelings of others, displays bias or prejudice against others due to race, color, creed, culture, gender, or sexual preference.

Damn touch.

Annoys, alarms, or unduly intimidates.

Never displays leadership.

I can't give him a one.

You can't give him a one.

Yeah.

You think that's fair, too?

I don't think

they're personal.

I was going to say three because he does, he does,

he does, any ants that interact with him, I think, are happy with the I don't know.

Sometimes people have come in and so excited to see him, and he's just kind of like he's very distant.

Yeah, but isn't that part of the get him experience, though?

Not if you drive far to get here, yeah, not if you've traveled a far distance to come and you're on the front line, and you gotta fucking hey, I was on the fucking front lines too for fucking 10 years, and I had to fucking shuck and dance whenever somebody's like, oh my god, comic book man, dance for me,

Screw this.

No, you just stepped out the door.

You just missed him.

I hated that fucking joke.

I take a

2.5.

I said three.

You want to do 2.5?

Oh, no, no, no.

You said three.

I'm going to defer you.

I think I get along with the people in the plaza.

Yeah, you did.

Didn't he fuck the yarn lady?

No, don't say that too loud.

I think you heard that one one time.

Really?

These walls hate and stick as you think.

She heard it.

She made a comment to my wife that

leads me to believe she may have heard you.

Me?

Yeah, you're the only one that's made that joke.

Yeah, really?

You're the only one that keeps saying it over and over again, too.

Is it a joke that Geddon finds love with the yarn lady?

Yeah, it's absolute lunacy.

She doesn't know that we're just kidding on this fucking show.

She's on the bottom of the show.

Yeah, I got to make a disclaimer every time I make a comment.

I'm not kidding her.

She made a comment that made me, and I was like, She said, What?

What did she say?

And I was so like, like, stressed out.

I was like, oh my god, she must have heard Q say that.

What was the

comments?

Giddam had her on the podcast table, and he was banging her brains out.

No, he's saying, What did she say to your wife?

So she was like, Oh, yeah, they think they're real funny over there.

Well, we do.

I know they and they made a joke about me one time.

And

my wife was like, Oh, they make jokes about everybody.

It's Not like this.

My wife was like, what'd you say?

What did you say?

I don't want to tell her what you said.

Because I'm a gentleman.

I was like, I don't know.

Q said something stupid.

I said, I don't remember what it was.

What was it?

I was like, I don't remember.

Something is hard.

Well, I'd like to formally apologize to the young lady then.

I don't know what she heard.

Maybe she listens every week.

I want to apologize to her.

I'm sorry if I have to say that,

but you know, you know, it was a joke about a specific person.

And if that person didn't find it funny, well, then I apologize.

That was a joke.

The apology was a joke.

The last one's professional image/slash physical fitness.

Oh, well, I mean, come on.

Kennedy, are you going to weigh yourself in on that one?

So, employee must maintain smart and professional appearance.

It is a tight copper sleeve on my fucking

But again, no, he's not a police officer.

No, no.

He doesn't have to.

This isn't as important to our situation.

Like,

you know,

if he got to 600 pounds and he could still do what he's doing, it wouldn't matter to me.

You know, yeah, I didn't know.

Is there an official grooming policy?

Good news.

Gonna gain another 50 pounds.

More fries.

Yeah, we could discount that.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean,

that one, I don't think it really is.

That's not important.

I don't know if it's important for you guys.

It may be, though.

I don't want to speak for you guys.

Well,

only in that I've tried to get him to get healthier over the years.

Right.

There's no magic bolt that's going to do that.

Like, nobody in his year is going to change anything.

Yeah.

I don't think.

He's an interesting character, this guy.

Started eating bananas.

That's all right.

I like that.

That's good.

Could you read the bottom of this?

Yeah, give me one.

Let me just hear it.

You You don't want to hear the five first?

I know it's not a five.

Improperly dressed or equipped, despite being offered guidance.

Appearance, seldom in accordance with professional duties.

Equipment used, I guess would be the equipment, is not clean or serviceable.

Fails to conform to guidelines for appearance.

Individual is physically unfit.

I mean, he is physically unfit.

I mean, like I said, I don't even ask him to do things because he hobbles around like, like I said, like he's got his foots have been amputated.

Yeah.

You got to go low on this one, man.

He's physically not fit enough to help you carry boxes.

It's sad but true.

Yeah.

It's a one.

Yeah, it's

a one.

Part of the factor is projecting authority or command respect while providing assurance to people or professional standard of service.

Because it's professional in the world.

His point to the fact that he can't get either of the dogs to listen to him.

That is not command respect.

Protect authority.

Smith.

Do they ignore him?

I think I even saw a fucking teddy almost lift his leg on him one time while he was sleeping on the couch and he didn't even know.

That's what that was.

So

when doing the evaluation, it's also if there's any special recognitions received, factors into it.

Remember the rubber band thing.

Yeah.

Is it what the rating?

What's the rating piece?

when we do, you know, when we shoot videos and stuff.

Yeah, he's all in, man.

He's a soldier.

He is.

He is.

No, not all in.

Yeah,

he wouldn't eat chocolate pudding out of a baby's diaper.

That was less enough.

For

one of the baby episodes we did, and I thought that was

insane that he drew the line there.

And I was like, it's fucking chocolate pudding in a diaper right out of the box, brand new.

Seeing it in there.

Yeah, he's like, that's a line too far.

I'll admit it.

Why?

No, because you want me just to be casually sitting there eating pudding out of a diaper, like leaning against a wall.

Like, I didn't see the humor in it.

No.

Really?

Like, as the credits roll.

You're not helping your case.

It sounds awesome.

It's kind of like the last Sunday chef where, like, everybody takes off and you're left eating all the burgers and stuff.

That's something I would do.

Like, I don't see myself eating.

Well, I don't think anybody anybody does.

I don't think anybody's like, oh my God, he really does it.

It's a joke.

Yeah.

But, you know what?

That's one.

Every performer is allowed to have a lot of stuff.

There's a line.

Yeah, I would say he's very good at stuff like that.

Yeah, and he dances when we need him to dance.

Even though it tires him out.

Wear tight space.

He literally occasionally.

Yeah, he literally dances, like on the game show episode.

Yeah, he dances.

So not well, but depends how do you want to factor that?

I'd give him a five, you know.

I mean, you know what?

Let's give him a 4.5.

If he ate the pudding in a diaper, then it'd be a five.

I got it.

I can't let that go because that would have been brilliant.

That was my best idea

of 2020.

You ruined it.

And like that, my vision wasn't fucking seen

in its full brilliance because all of a sudden he has standards.

Yeah, I don't want my dad to see me eating pudding out of a diaper.

Hey, Kennedy, put up the new video you did for your podcast show.

Auntie, Auntie,

that is chuckle pudding, I promise you.

Oh, great.

Now she has a heart attack.

Made it 102 years.

All right, so when you average it out, it comes to a 2.9.

Oh, man.

That's good.

It's not good enough.

It's not three.

Three would be good enough.

2.9 is not good enough.

Yeah, a three is

meet expectations.

Efficient, but only to the degree of meeting expectations.

But if your expectations are so low to begin with, it's not hard to meet them.

It's a weighted scale.

Yeah.

If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down.

So, some possible

tapes.

Yeah, what do you recommend?

This is real.

Yeah, like it is.

Well, like, sorry.

Monthly tracking sheet

or hourly for day by day.

That's sometimes a punishment.

What did you do for like eight hours of the day?

Write down what you did.

I wish you were time management.

It's a punishment for me because I got to do it with him.

No, he would do

it.

He would have to write down what he did each hour of the day.

And if there's specific tasks, you know, how many of those like tally those up, and then at the end of the month, you could see you, you know.

Well, none of us are going to do that.

No, that's well, he does it himself and then has to turn it to the bottom.

But no one's got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, compartmentalizing for time management.

You know, every day, like 15 minutes working on doing something in that room, possibly.

Okay, do you think you could do that?

Do you think you do like 15 minutes a day in that room?

I could set a timer.

Yeah,

you know, why 15?

He's fucking here for fucking 20.

You got to start smoking.

Of the 24 hours he's here.

Why are we

at 15 minutes?

And I like that.

He's like, I can do that.

Bro, in all honesty, why is he?

The bar is at zero.

Baby steps.

I said baby steps.

Yeah, you gotta.

You say an hour, an hour of.

He walks like a baby.

Because he can't fucking move.

He is one to step away from crawling.

Okay, 15 minutes?

And then when can we bump it up to, I don't know, let's say a half hour of work out of a fucking

hour day like a lieutenant d's now taking shit for his

i can only offer suggestions okay what else you got uh

denied or shortened meal period for disciplinary matters that happens sometimes too deny him a meal deny him a meal that i feel well on company time i

have been specifically trying not to eat on company time anymore why really because of the pulled pork incident yeah if it was a union job you would have a steady meal period he can

i've told him flat out, fucking go sit down somewhere and eat whatever you want, then come back.

Like, what is this preoccupation with eating in front of me?

Like, is it some sort of fucking erotic fantasy of you?

No, it's not eating in front of you.

It's just eating here.

Like, I don't want to eat there.

Why?

It's like, that's the best part of my day when I get to be by myself and eat somewhere, not at where I have to be.

For you.

Yeah.

That's for you.

I've never.

Why?

I just.

You get to fucking fucking relax and fucking decompartmentalize is that the words yeah, but here like I got my

knife and my fork and my spoon they're

what are you fucking cutting into like like you just can't get a slice of pizza you need to bring cutlery everywhere you go well this is you know like when I'm eating rice and stuff you know it's like the shit that they give to soldiers in World War II

it's titanium titanium that's nuts I bought it with my stimulus check oh so you so you I gotta go okay

I'm gonna finish it up but you you tend to eat

even if you don't know if I'm coming, you will eat now.

You're not eating in the office?

I wait till after, yeah, wait till after like six.

Well, you just text me.

You're like, are you coming today?

I don't know.

Because I don't like getting a response back.

What does it matter if I'm coming?

Yeah, I gotta go.

I mean, I'm a half hour away.

They land in 20 minutes, so I'm already fucked.

Very quickly, Q West.

Yes, Q West.

Are you going to come get them?

I keep trying to get you to come down.

I got to figure out the date and if I have to get a real id or not to travel okay uh yeah q west uh because they're going to start requiring even if you're in new even if you're in the united states you need an id you just let me know yeah yeah i don't want my mother waiting outside newark airport yeah yeah uh yeah q west uh we got uh we're throwing a little comedy thing in in uh

in q west we got roast will be there to rose will be there joe gatto will be there steve burns gonna be there brian johnson will be there i'm trying to get jimmy the hair guy down there uh detroit's coming down i'm trying to get uh we could share a room James Murray the other day.

Dr.

D is going to be there.

What's up?

Dr.

D is going to be there.

Yeah, it's going to be quite a telesteve day.

There's not that many tickets left, right?

There's like less than 20 tickets left.

Yeah.

It's on sale now.

And I don't know.

Come on down.

Go to QS Comedy Escape or just QS Comedy.com.

Get your tickets, guys.

Yeah, there's like 18 tickets and shit like that left.

Yeah, we're going to have a blast.

It's going to be fun.

Yeah, I'll go into some of the plans are really starting to crystallize.

Now, businesses in QS West are like joining with us.

Oh, nice.

So, we're getting specifics that I can lay out.

But I think anybody that doesn't come to it and is not gonna be happy

that they're missing it.

But more on that later.

I'm sorry to leave, guys.

I'm so sorry.

We're gonna wrap up.

Yeah, I apologize.

All right.

Bye-bye.

I'll see you next week.

Sorry about that, guys.

Bye-bye.

Take it easy, Q.

See you soon.

All right, so any other suggestions that, like, some practical ones?

Yeah.

Realistic ones?

Nothing else I could really think of, like realistic.

That is something that would actually be done, you know, like

time management, I think, is a big part of it.

Okay.

Yeah, because if you're here for a week, monthly, quarterly evaluations, yeah, like if you're here for a week, it should be, he should, I think hourly is too much, but maybe like

in the beginning of the day, yeah, you just write down on a piece of paper, here's what I'm going to accomplish today.

Get photos.

I'm going to dust

that cabinet out there.

I'm going to hang that picture that Chuck gave us for Christmas.

Yeah.

And that's still sitting underneath the skateboard.

That's where it's going to go in that area.

So I just.

Right.

Just got to get it on the wall.

Yeah.

And then you can take a sit.

Then you can

put your feet up on the couch

for

a couple hours and then check off something

task number two for the day.

For the room, as far as cleaning, you could do photos before and after each day to show progress.

And like a time lapse.

That's a good idea.

Over a week, you could see how much was done.

And then that's motivating, too, to be like, oh, wow, I really did.

How about this?

Lieutenant D?

Is that what you want to be called?

Sure.

What if I make it a Patreon video?

Cleaning backgrounds.

I was used to live webcams.

Well, you know, we edit it up and he talks about the process.

Would that make it easier?

Would that make it more fun?

Or would that be more pressure?

I think more pressure

to keep it interesting, I guess.

Yeah, because we got to get it all done.

Oh, it'll never be interesting.

Maybe a 30-second time-lapse

I thought more of a day-in-the-life kind of episode, but okay, if you think that's too much pressure.

Well, no, I mean, like,

I'm in on the film crew and everything and trying to get it done in the time that we have allotted with them.

Oh, you're thinking about

the filming crews.

About their time.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that's very considerate of you.

They could pay too.

So raise interpersonal skills to a four.

All right.

All right.

the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway from you looking in on this as an outsider,

not as a professional, just as somebody who listens, you're like, what do we, what,

what do you think?

Again, with time management, like discipline, obviously, you're not going to discipline.

Unless you take, you got to lock your phone up when you come in and not use it for

issue of he might have to investigate.

But he's got fucking 17 phones.

If I take one, he's still got 16 to look at.

I think they sell jammers.

Then you can buy a jammer and put it in there.

You don't get cell phones.

Yeah, you're going to buy a jammer.

Well, there's my five, but then he gets jammed as well.

All right.

All right.

Well, I thank you for coming in on that short notice.

And I want to thank everybody who emailed in and wanted to come on and do this.

Lieutenant D, though, was right around the corner, and he sent me his credentials, and it seemed like a perfect fit, which it was.

But I do want to say thank you to everybody who did apply for this opportunity.

Some had much more had their fangs out.

Oh, okay.

Had their fangs out and wanted an opportunity to fucking rip open that elk

and disembowel it on camera on Mike.

But thankfully, I didn't want that either, though.

But thank you.

Constructive criticism.

The best kind.

There's the one thing I was going to mention was there's a thing

called the Peter principle.

It's when an employee continues to receive promotions up to the point where they reach a level of incompetence because they were not critiqued, counseled, or guided along the way.

So it's kind of like, oh, just keep letting it go, letting it go, letting it go, to the point now they're responsible for more things and are incompetent with it because they weren't

properly disciplined or guided along the way.

There's a chance that I have failed upon that.

Small chance, but there's still a chance.

A rare L for flattening.

A rare second L.

I made a joke.

An obvious joke that

I didn't, I wasn't at the hospital when my child was born.

But

wild.

But you know what?

What do you think of this, though, Giddam?

What do you think of Tom setting up this paperwork?

Didn't it feel kind of like he was trying to get you in trouble?

Especially the leading categories on the paper.

I felt like Tom was setting you up for

disaster.

I don't know.

I mean, look at some of these, the categories of the paperwork he gave Bry that he felt was a good indication or indicator of how you were performing.

Cleanliness of the office,

dusting.

He knew.

That's the first one.

Dusting.

Well, dusting, I got to be honest with you.

I do not care about dusting.

Dusting is going to, it doesn't bother me in the least, but I think I threw out that yellow thing.

Oh, the

dusting magazine.

Yeah, so every, so, but at Shop, I know the cleaning supplies are at the far end of the store, and I never remember to go over there to pick up another one.

But there's a lot of, I felt like Tom was, this was kind of like him, like, you know, I think somebody rubbing his hands together going, like, oh,

I cannot wait to hear him get eviscerated.

Like, some of this seems like it's stuff that I don't already do, like setting up the mics on recording time.

I got to say, every time I'm here, every time we come in to record, it's ready to go.

Or was water provided to the hosts?

Same there.

Oh, man.

My God, the way you fucking fumble over make sure Q has water, it's fucked up.

I want to make sure everyone has water.

No, you don't.

You don't want to make sure that my fucking throat is as good.

I put out enough water for everybody.

No, I'm all you're looking.

Mr.

Q, you need this?

Mr.

Q, you need this?

Got a box I can mail?

Oh, look at this growth initiative.

Tom is suggesting that Giddam must gain the podcast one new listener each week or one new Patreon subscriber a month.

And their name.

And their name.

How do you prove that?

Daddy.

Wild.

How would you do that?

If you did that, if you got even one new Patreon subscriber.

No, but a month?

Dude, you could let this place fall in disarray for five bucks a month.

$5 at the lowest tier.

You don't have to show ID to accurately.

So if someone wants

to innovative might,

you know, they'll say, that's exactly what they might come up with fake nation.

In the past three months, Giddam one, two, and three have signed up for Patreon at $5.

GSD

Gidham will turn in keys to success each episode once all keys have been met.

What does that even mean?

There was another sheet

that I couldn't print out and Giddam couldn't get printed out.

It was

Keys to a Successful Episode.

I can read them to you because

I do have them in email.

Really?

I'm curious what Tom thinks are keys to a successful episode.

Tom is on the episode, number one.

Must mention my vasectomy.

No doubt.

Okay, so it's one through six.

Bry rants about something.

Two, Walt mispronounces a word.

Three, Q speaks about a famous friend or a visit to outside the tri-state area location.

Okay, yeah.

Four, current news topic discussed.

Yeah.

Five, crazy hypothetical situation bounced around.

Six, someone talks in ridiculous accent, like Q or Cletus.

Monthly Giddem will secura.

Tell him Steve Dave Town resident to come on the podcast via Zoom or in person.

I don't know.

That sounds not good to me.

No.

But yeah, those are the six.

How is it that in this episode, he has performed worse than Gidem?

Just by reading those keys, now he looks worse than Giddem does in terms of his ability to.

So get him to 2.9 times a solid 2.5.

No ads today?

No ad.

Commercial free today.

How come?

Bounce some stuff around so we could have, because I knew that we were going to have, this is going to be a long one.

We wouldn't want to break it up.

So move some stuff around.

And commercial free for everybody.

Let's thank Brian Johnson for moving stuff around.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Took me 15 minutes.

I'll be back in a week.

I really know.

Ready?

Well, come on.

Give him a hand for fucking moving shit around so you can have an ad-free episode this week.

Because you like to complain when there's ads.

So you gotta fucking

recognize when there's none.

All right.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

Is there anything else

you wanted to do?

Like something you were like, I want to at least make sure I say this.

No, nothing burning.

Nothing burning.

Okay.

Well,

now that you, you know, you're Lieutenant D

for forever in TSD Town, and you'll be invited back to more events on mic.

Appreciate it.

How long have you been listening?

Since almost the beginning.

Really?

How'd you find it?

Smodcast.

I worked at a video store for like five years before it came across Suncoast and Hollywood video.

Suncoast.

Oh my God.

The Suncoast story is always.

Did that burn you

make you really pissed off?

I wasn't loyal to the corporation.

Suncoast corporation.

So you knew that, you knew how easy it was for me to, like,

they would do such shady things, try to get people to sign up for subscriptions to Entertainment Weekly.

Oh, just you get 10 free, whatever.

Yeah, then they bill you for a year if you don't call and cancel within those 10.

So they were shadier than I was.

Yeah,

tell them, Steve.

I'm sorry.

Tell them, Steve.

We're going to go out on that.