#616: Pam’s Sex Tape

Speaker 1 Would you want people to sit on your lap at all? Depends on who the person was. Yeah.
Like Jimmy, you know? Jimmy the hair guy. Well, because he's he's light.

Speaker 1 I want Jimmy and Ming on either, on both knees.

Speaker 1 I could deal with that.

Speaker 1 So I'm turning into just the biggest pussy in the world.

Speaker 1 It's really weird. Kid wouldn't leave me alone.
I saw him in the grocery store, and he was like, you can just buy anything you want here

Speaker 1 and then bring it home and eat it.

Speaker 1 I had to wait in line to buy these groceries just like you. This is so awesome.

Speaker 1 Tell him, Steve, Dave. Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Tellum Steve Dave.
I sit here with Walt Flanagan. Hey, you.

Speaker 1 And BQ. Hello.

Speaker 1 How's it going, guys? How is everything?

Speaker 1 Fucking phenomenal. Yeah? Yeah.
It's a good day.

Speaker 1 It's a good day. Isn't it a good day? You're above ground, son.
Any day above ground, right? But that only knows one thing. It is better to be alive.

Speaker 1 It is. Speaking of that, like right out of the gate, I have to say, are you guys going to watch the Tyson fight on Netflix tonight? This is Friday the 15th.
We're recording this.

Speaker 1 I don't know that I'm that interested in it, but no.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't if I was home, but I'm not home tonight. Oh, you're not home? Okay.
Me and Joe DeRose are

Speaker 1 getting together tonight.

Speaker 1 You know how that goes? I do, that you're not going to be home until late. Yeah.
It's going to be carousing if it's a DeRosa. I mean, or in his house playing video games.

Speaker 1 It's one of the gentlemen. And I haven't seen him in a couple of months.
So I was going to get some pretty irate

Speaker 1 vibes. Well, it was a little bit like, you know, he's not wrong.
Right. He's not wrong.
You know. There's

Speaker 1 this thing. I don't know if you heard it, but Tyson

Speaker 1 did an

Speaker 1 interview.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I saw it. Did you see it?

Speaker 1 With the little girl? Oh, you sent this. I didn't get a chance.

Speaker 1 I didn't see it. I was driving when you sent it, and then I forgot about it.
I want people to hear it because it's so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 You'll like it. Purposely funny or like.
No, no. Oh, boy.
It's just.

Speaker 1 So it's an hour. It's an hour.
It's a minute and 15 seconds, so be patient. It's worth the payoff.

Speaker 1 Just as a visual, I'll give you a cue.

Speaker 1 That's the little girl right there who's doing the interview. Okay.
Wow. She looks like she's about 12 or something.

Speaker 2 I just think that's another word for evil.

Speaker 1 Okay, so this is Mike Tyson talking to a young girl in an impromptu interview.

Speaker 3 In your return to the ring, for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for the first time.

Speaker 3 So after such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it's all said and done?

Speaker 1 Well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't believe in the word legacy. I just think that's another word for ego.
Legacy doesn't mean nothing. That's just some word everybody grabbed on to.

Speaker 2 Someone said that word and everyone grabbed on the word so now it's used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me.
I'm just passing through. I'm gonna die and it's gonna be over.

Speaker 2 With a big ego, I'm gonna die. I want people to think that I'm this, I'm great.
No, we're nothing. We're dead.
We're dust. We're absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 She's nodding and agreeing. My legacy is nothing.

Speaker 3 Well, thank you so much for sharing that. That is something that I have not heard before.
Someone say that as an answer.

Speaker 2 Can you really imagine somebody say, I want my legacy to be this way when I, you're dead?

Speaker 2 Why do you want

Speaker 2 to think somebody really wants to think about you?

Speaker 2 How, what's the adaptive act thing? I want people to think about me when I'm gone. Who the fuck cares about me when I'm gone?

Speaker 2 My kids, maybe, or grandkids.

Speaker 3 And again, thank you so much for sharing that.

Speaker 1 Is he cursing? Yes.

Speaker 1 She's doing her best, that girl.

Speaker 1 She's got a future. She didn't blink.

Speaker 1 She went along with it. Yeah, she's fucking great.
Wow, I guess Tyson's feeling a little depressed, huh? Seems so.

Speaker 1 He just, I saw, did you see the footage where he smacked Jake Paul in the face because he stepped on his toe? I did not know. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess, you know, when they, like, prior to the fight, when they go and they, like, get nose to nose and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 For some reason, Tyson was in socks, just socks, and Jake Paul like stepped up to him.

Speaker 1 I don't know, I don't think so. It didn't appear to be because it looked like he barely stepped on his toe.
All right.

Speaker 1 But for some reason, Tyson said something about, like, he's like, I don't like people stepping on my feet.

Speaker 1 And he smacked, like, he smacked him so hard that, like, I feel like I would be either dead or on at least, at the very least, like, in a comatose.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You think it was pre-planned? Or suggested? I thought something happened.
This feels like WWE

Speaker 1 to me. Yeah, it does.
I mean, just more hype for people to latch on to and be like, I got to see this. I got to see this.
Yeah, I'm not really into it.

Speaker 1 I'm not really into boxing, so it's not something that

Speaker 1 I will make an effort to watch. I don't really care.
Yeah, I don't care either.

Speaker 1 I want to see if Jake Paul gets smacked around because he's very like you have to, even though he's like half his age, I think Jake Paul's only like 27 or 28 or something. Tyson's 58.
58, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, not so old that he can't kick ass. I mean, 58 is still in the range of, I don't want to fuck with this guy.
No.

Speaker 1 But his, but is, will he tire quicker, though, than a 28-year-old?

Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe, but he's probably training. If he could survive the first couple rounds, I mean, I imagine he will tire out a lot quicker than a 28-year-old will.
You would think, yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's an exceptional in-shape 28-year-old, too. Yeah.
It's not like me at 28 walking up.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I actually want to watch it. And I'm not a real, I'm not a boxing guy either.
I'll watch like highlights.

Speaker 1 You know, like I'll watch Tyson Highlights where he's knocking people out in three seconds, that kind of shit.

Speaker 1 But as far as the actual sport, I'm not a big boxing guy. Yeah, me neither.

Speaker 1 I don't like UFC. It's why I like pro wrestling because it's like, yeah, people get hurt, but.

Speaker 1 Not purposely getting knee in the face.

Speaker 1 I don't really like it.

Speaker 1 It's pretty brutal. Yeah, I have a hard time with that.
So I'm turning into

Speaker 1 just the biggest pussy in the world.

Speaker 1 The older I get, the more and more I get soft and soft. And soft.
Because you don't like to see other human beings, like anything, animals. hurt and mangled for other people's enjoyment.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's that's a good bit, but people do though. Oh, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I never really liked that.

Speaker 1 But, like, when I was in Los Angeles last week, there was like a spider in my hotel room, and I caught him and like brought him down 10 stories to get him outside. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, it's just like I'm in this thing now where it's like I see like a dead bird on the sidewalk, and I get like upset.

Speaker 1 Yeah, choked up and shit. It's really like this thing where it's like, I can't imagine hurting anybody, and I can't imagine hurting even animals now.
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 You got the feels man look at you you got the major feels

Speaker 1 yeah yeah

Speaker 1 yet at the same time

Speaker 1 I started rereading

Speaker 1 uh Garth Ennis' Punisher run yeah holy fuck dude it's so good there's a lot of violence that's how I'm saying it's like issue after issue of just people getting torn apart and I'm like it's so fucking well written I I was reading it and I actually wanted to I want to do an iBuy Comics about it okay because I can't believe how much I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm like, this might be one of my favorite runs. It's a long run, isn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 First, it was Marvel Knights, and then he switched to Marvel Max, and that's when it got into the more violent, like child slavery-saving shit.

Speaker 1 But like, the Knights was, and I'm loving them both, but the Knights was, that's where you had your grotesque villains, you know, the Russian coming in, and like comedy was, and like Wolverine, his take on Wolverine is just so funny.

Speaker 1 I'll save it for the episode, but dude, I'm just falling in love with it. I'm like, I cannot believe it.
What made you revisit it?

Speaker 1 I couldn't find them for the longest time. And then recently, I guess I just found out that they did omnibuses about all his entire run.
So I was like, well, good time to dive in.

Speaker 1 And it was fucking, dude, it's makeup mic. Like, I'm sitting there laughing out loud while I'm reading.
So, what do you do at your floppies? Your old floppies are when you originally read it.

Speaker 1 They're in, they're preserved in long boxes. Preserved.
I love that. Yeah.
Preserved. They're in a box.

Speaker 1 Bang and boarded, you know.

Speaker 1 Preserve.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to go out there and fill out 200 issues and bring them downstairs when I just pay $14 and download them on an iPad. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 So I have them all. I'm just,

Speaker 1 you know.

Speaker 1 It's that long of a run. It's long.
Yeah. Yeah.
He did it for like five years. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Yeah.
And some of it's with Steve Dillon. Most of it's with Steve Dillon.
And it's like.

Speaker 1 The late Steve Dillon, right? Yeah. And it's like getting those preacher like.
Is Garth Ennis still

Speaker 1 active in the current comic community? Not as much as he was and not as much as he should be. He just did a Punisher Fury in Vietnam story that just ended last month.

Speaker 1 How come he fell out of favor or he just chose to. I think he chose to do

Speaker 1 independent stuff so he can make the money, I guess. But I don't know.
Boys was a hit. is an ongoing hit.
That's right, yeah.

Speaker 1 Preacher had three seasons. So it's like, I wonder why they're not.
The TV show? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nobody. I forgot all about that.
Yeah. That is not a TV show that people remember fondly.
What TV show? I'm sorry. Preacher.
Preacher. Oh, yeah.
Remember that? It was on AMC. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought that was going to be a lot of fun. I watched the first season.
I watched the first season, then I didn't watch anything. It wasn't really Preacher is the problem.

Speaker 1 So you're saying that it still needs to be done definitively? I believe so. That being said, I did enjoy that series.
Like, I liked the take.

Speaker 1 To me, it was just like,

Speaker 1 it's not the book, but they got a lot that they made a show that I did enjoy. Okay.
Preachers. So I was on board with it, but I would love to see like a television series, like an HBO series.

Speaker 1 I don't know why they're fucking doing Last of Us from Preachers right there. You know what I mean? Like, it would be wild, but hopefully, one day.

Speaker 1 A lot of that Vertigo stuff has not been able to translate to the screen. They did the Sandman, and nobody.
I didn't like Sandman. That didn't really hit.

Speaker 1 They got a second season coming.

Speaker 1 How long in between first season and the second season? It's like two years, like a year, two years. I think it's more than that.
No, it had the strikes and everything. No way.
I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 It feels like that was so long ago. So the second season never came out yet? No, no.
No, it's coming out. I'm going to say it's been four years.

Speaker 1 I mean, possible, but we had the strikes and everything like that.

Speaker 1 I think a lot came into it. How long was that strike?

Speaker 1 Shit, man. There were like two strikes right next to each other.
It was the writers and it was the actors.

Speaker 1 But that is probably the most acclaimed comic book in comic book history, Saman, right?

Speaker 1 It's up there. It's one of them.
I would have to think, like, if it's not the most acclaimed, it's one of the top five.

Speaker 1 Top five. And

Speaker 1 what people at home will ever see is how your eyes went distant when you said it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I don't think that that series resonated

Speaker 1 as I thought it would. Like, I thought it would be like

Speaker 1 the biggest thing. And it really wasn't because I don't know why, though.
Well, it wasn't like it made you.

Speaker 1 See, we're for my thing, because I watched Sandman and there were episodes that were good, and there were episodes that were whatever. Like, the Corinthian, I thought they nailed.

Speaker 1 But the changes they made to Sandman for me

Speaker 1 were like, why the fuck did you guys do this? Like, it doesn't even make any sense, the changes that you guys made. It's taken me away from, like, what I love and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 Whereas with Preacher, they went so fucking wacky with it that I was like, I could accept this. You know what I mean? I don't know.
Like, I could accept it.

Speaker 1 I mean, that preacher series, the television show somehow made you feel for Hitler, which is insane to think about. Did it have a resolution, the Preacher series? Yeah, they did have that.
Wrapped up.

Speaker 1 When was Sammy, Broy? Sammy was almost exactly two years ago now. The first season came out.
Wow, it feels like a million years ago. Yeah, 2022.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know. So I don't know.
So anyway, yeah, I'd love to do an iBot comics about it. I'm deep in, man.
Deep, deep in, and loving it.

Speaker 1 Briar, you might actually enjoy reading them for

Speaker 1 that episode. 200 comics? Well, I don't think you got to read all 200 comics.
But you might get started. Well, what's the best, what's your favorite Ennis storyline? And then we'll do that then.

Speaker 1 Of Punisher? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let me read a little bit more of the Max titles because I just finished The Knights and I'm a little bit into the Max. Had those gorgeous Tim Bradstreet covers.
Every issue.

Speaker 1 Even both Knights and Max, yeah.

Speaker 1 You know how a challenge? He just passed away, Bradstreet. He passed away, too.
He just passed away, yeah. I believe.
Dude, everyone's dropping like flies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We just had a contemporary go. Who's that? Well, this guy, Al that we knew from school.

Speaker 1 Like, he was a couple of years older than us, but not so old that you would be like, ah, you know, we got a while. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What killed him? I'm not sure. I just happened to see it on Facebook.

Speaker 1 So I'm not sure exactly what happened to him.

Speaker 1 People dropping off.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It doesn't matter.
He's gone. He's a fucker.
He's gone.

Speaker 1 I probably wouldn't be so concerned with legacy if part of my legacy was rape. Right.
Probably like maybe just forget all this. Smashing old ladies with bricks and stealing their purses.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I went ahead and did some research

Speaker 1 because we're looking for that younger demographic. So I watched Tua Pod.
Oh, yeah? Oh, boy. Not as good as the clips.
Not as good as the clips. No, it's

Speaker 1 it was, I'm not going to say it was brutal. It wasn't like, holy shit, there is nothing of value here.

Speaker 1 But it

Speaker 1 is geared definitely towards people who are not our age. Like she was introducing her boyfriend, who I think is like 20 or something.

Speaker 1 Oh, I heard rumors her boyfriend was Sam Darnold from the Minnesota Vikings. Quarterback? No, it's this other guy that's from her hometown.
Oh, okay. Some guy she calls calls Pookie.
Oh, all right.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Poor guy. Yeah, he was like, Yeah, they were like, because her friend is on it, you know, the friend that was in the video with her originally.
The friend is also on the podcast.

Speaker 1 I can't remember what her name is.

Speaker 1 But she

Speaker 1 brought up a question: like, how do you feel, you know, being called Pookie all the time now? Like, because people at work call him Pookie, people, like, his friends are calling him Pookie.

Speaker 1 And he's just like, I don't know, I guess it's fine. But you look at that relationship, and he's so

Speaker 1 down homey and not Hollywood. Yeah.
And now she's just stepping into it, and it's a new relationship. So

Speaker 1 I almost want to keep abreast of what's going on with Hocto to see how quickly it falls apart.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 she's already tied to athletes already, though, though. There's already rumors that she was dating a quarterback in the NFL, though.
Right. So that's got to be difficult.

Speaker 1 You know, if, you know, if rumors are circulating that she's dating this this one or that one, Pookie's got to be going out. She's here and she's there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's got to be his Pookie's got a lot of his hands. Yeah.
Pookie couldn't get into

Speaker 1 the Soho Club.

Speaker 1 I guess the other they were out in LA and she was in there and he went to the door and they're like, you can't come in.

Speaker 1 And he's like, oh, I'm here for Haley Welch. And they're like, yeah, you can't come in.
So she had to come out and get him. Well, if you're not a member, you can't come in.

Speaker 1 Right, you can't just walk in, right?

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it just goes to hammer home your outsider status.

Speaker 1 You know? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 1 What'd they talk about?

Speaker 1 They talked mostly about how they met and that kind of shit. A lot of like sex jokes, that sort of thing.
She had on Holly Madison.

Speaker 1 I didn't watch that episode, but Holly Madison, that Playboy Playmate.

Speaker 1 So they were talking about like Playboy. I thought Holly Madison was a website for people who to date.
That's Ashley Madison. Oh, okay.
If it's still around even. I don't know if it's still around.

Speaker 1 Remember, there was that big leak and everybody got in trouble. Everybody's emails got leaked.

Speaker 1 That has to be like, if you're one of those guys and you hear that news, you must be like, God damn it.

Speaker 1 Who would do that? Why would you do that to me? Bros.

Speaker 1 Yeah, before hoes.

Speaker 1 We were supposed to have Brian Rupert on. He was going to tell us he had took a poll of all the students in the high school he works, and

Speaker 1 he was going to give us talking points moving forward to reach a younger demographic because he polled all the students. Oh, wow, that's great.
Yeah, but

Speaker 1 he works in school, so we're recording this at 1 p.m., so he wasn't available.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Just so you know, Q, that foul smell isn't me, it's this dog.

Speaker 1 That's what French bulldogs do. That's just their way of reminding you: hey, I'm still here and I love you.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's sweet. That's a sweet way to look at it.
Yeah. Don't forget me.

Speaker 1 Great. Cats don't do that? Cats very rarely.
Very rarely. Very rarely.
I won't say it never happens, but like, I mean, years go by before I smell a cat.

Speaker 1 But when you do, you're like, oh, man. Benjamin, when he like all his medications and shit, towards the end, he would let loose some.

Speaker 1 No shame at all.

Speaker 1 No shame.

Speaker 1 Norm does it. Norm is a very stretchy dog.
He constantly is stretching, like stretching his arms out, stretching his legs out. Yeah.
And whenever he stretches his front paws out, it's like

Speaker 1 almost universally every time. Doesn't smell, but Mary Betho is like, Norm.
Like as if that's going to train him. She can control him.

Speaker 1 She knows what the fuck she's talking about. Yeah, you can't teach a dog not to do that.
Yeah, she can be like Brian, but she can't be like Norm.

Speaker 1 But I mean, look, I have full-on conversations with my cat, so I can't blame her. Right.

Speaker 1 So, you know, we're all crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that you, the kitten's doing well. Yeah.
The kitten really

Speaker 1 fucking sassy. Settled in big time.
Good. Already running the house.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The main dominant cat is kind of like cool with her, which I was really surprised about. Salem.

Speaker 1 I wasn't sure if he was going to be a bitch. Salem's a little bit of a scaredy cat, right? Sometimes? No, that's Princess Mitch.

Speaker 1 Princess Mitch is the scaredy cat. And she wasn't crazy about her at first.
They were doing some hissing back and forth. But Salem was like,

Speaker 1 all right. I mean, we got a dog.
What's another cat? I've already lost control. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Exactly.
But

Speaker 1 he got displaced on his, like, his little spot on the bed the other day. So now we have two cats and a dog in bed with us every night.
That's nice. It's hot.
Well, it makes it hot.

Speaker 1 You mean physically warm? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, not hot. No way.
I'm like, oh, yeah, let's fuck with these animals on the bed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
You got dogs in the bed? Sure. Both of them?

Speaker 1 Sometimes. Yeah.
And it definitely gets hot.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Definitely the body temperatures start to rise.

Speaker 1 In the summertime, it could be brutal. In the wintertime, it's not that as bad.
But

Speaker 1 it is what it is.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 part of the gig.

Speaker 1 So Pam got

Speaker 1 a ransom letter

Speaker 1 sent to my email

Speaker 1 with an address I haven't lived at for the last six years. Oh, a physical letter? No, no, it was an email.

Speaker 1 But it was,

Speaker 1 so it says Pamela Johnson, which, and now the address that they provide was a place that I lived, but Pam never lived. She, you know.

Speaker 1 They have my phone number. They have the wrong zip code.

Speaker 1 But it says that I know by calling and then my phone number or visiting, the old address, would be a convenient way to have a word with you. If you don't cooperate, don't try to hide from this.

Speaker 1 You have no idea what I can do in Tintin Falls.

Speaker 1 That's the town I used to live in.

Speaker 1 I suggest you read this message carefully. Take a moment to chill, breathe, and analyze it thoroughly because we're about to discuss a deal between you and me and I don't play games.

Speaker 1 This is someone fucking with you, right? Like this is comedy? I don't think so. I've seen this before.
Okay. Because

Speaker 1 basically what they're doing is like they're saying that they have access to your computer and your browser history and all this other shit. And what they want is Bitcoin.

Speaker 1 They're like, if

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 they go on about like you're keeping tabs on your pathetic, oh, I've been keeping tabs on your pathetic existence for a while. It's simply your hard luck that I accessed your misadventures.

Speaker 1 I gave in more than I probably should have been exploring into your personal life. Extracted quite a bit of juicy info from your system, and I've seen it all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I've got footage of you doing filthy things in your room. Nice setup, by the way.

Speaker 1 And Rob Reader that's all I can think of is Pam and Edgar with a video camera in the corner of their room. Nice setup.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I developed videos and screenshots where on just one side of the screen, there's whatever garbage you've been enjoying, and on the other part, it's your vacant face.

Speaker 1 With just a click, I can send all this garbage into your contacts.

Speaker 1 Your confusion is clear, but don't expect sympathy.

Speaker 1 Frankly, I'm willing to wipe the slate clean and allow you to get on with your life and wipe the slate clean, says it twice. I will give you two alternatives.

Speaker 1 First alternative is to turn a deaf message to the ear. Let's see what happens if you pick this path.
I'll send your video to your entire contacts. The video is straight fire.

Speaker 1 And I can't even fathom the embarrassment you'll endure when your colleagues, friends, and fam see it. But hey, that's life, ain't it? Don't be playing the victim here.

Speaker 1 Why wouldn't you? Yeah. You are the victim.
Yeah, you're not allowed to jerk off in your fucking office. Really? Like, just by the fact that they're shaking me down or shaking Pam down.

Speaker 1 Thank God, Gim's not here to hear you say that.

Speaker 1 I don't want to think about that.

Speaker 1 It's also not his office.

Speaker 1 Is there squatters' rights? Yeah, you might be right about that.

Speaker 1 The second option is to pay and be confidential about it. We'll name this his confidentiality fee.
Let's see what will happen when you select this way out. Your dirty secret remains private.

Speaker 1 I will wipe everything clean once you send payment. You have to make payment by Bitcoin only.
I want you to know I'm aiming for a win-win here. I honor my obligations.
Wow, what a great guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 And then the amount is $1,950.

Speaker 1 And the Bitcoin address is like a long series of like numbers and letters.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you, it's peanuts for your tranquility.

Speaker 1 What is Pam's reaction upon getting this? She didn't get it. Oh, you got it.
I got it. Yeah, they sent it to my address.
I think she would, knowing her, I think she'd be buying Bitcoin.

Speaker 1 Even though it's like clearly, they've got nothing to do with it. What about Farmville Bucks? Yeah, Farmville.

Speaker 1 No doubt.

Speaker 1 If I catch, oh shit. Now, here's where we could run into trouble since I'm sharing this on the podcast.

Speaker 1 If I catch that you've shared or discussed this email with anyone else, the video will instantly start getting sent to your contacts.

Speaker 1 And please don't don't even think about turning your phone off or resetting it to

Speaker 1 factory settings. It's pointless.
I don't make mistakes, Pamela. Woof.
All right, yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, actually, it made a lot.

Speaker 1 Now, if you could, what would you do to the people who pull these stunts? Oh, jail.

Speaker 1 For attempted fraud. I feel that, like, since they're in these other countries,

Speaker 1 their government should be doing far worse than jail.

Speaker 1 I think death sentence to a couple of these people teach everybody else a lesson? Yeah, make sure that you get the word across. You get caught pulling this shit, you know, it's going to be curtains,

Speaker 1 lights out.

Speaker 1 I mean, they have barbaric judicial systems, right? Where are these people? I think it's not probably as fair as here. Yeah, I mean, dip them in a fucking acid bath slowly.
Take off their skin.

Speaker 1 We think you. I mean, wow.
Well,

Speaker 1 would I call for it if you're not? If he came in all sunny and shit.

Speaker 1 I feel bad for a roach when I saved him.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't call for this, but if I found out that other countries were making this a punishable by death thing, I'd probably shrug.

Speaker 1 I guess that's what they're doing. You've heard a lot worse than other countries are doing, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you shrug? To innocent. Yeah, I shrugged everything.
What am I going to do?

Speaker 1 What am I going to do? What do you want me to do about any of it?

Speaker 1 The only thing I can do is help the spiders in my hotel room

Speaker 1 and the birds in my yard and the squirrels in my yard. And that's it.

Speaker 1 So if you were somehow you found out about some poor,

Speaker 1 where is it? Where are usually the countries that are these originated? A lot of times it's Nigeria or something.

Speaker 1 Some Nigerian guy is like, BQ, BQ. Yeah.
We need your help.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 your confusion is clear. Don't expect sympathy.

Speaker 1 So what do I do with that?

Speaker 1 It's the same letter. I'm in jail.

Speaker 1 They're going to dip me in acid. Oh, so he's like, only you can get me out of this.

Speaker 1 Look, man,

Speaker 1 I got some cats in the yard. They're hungry.
I got to go.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm not looking to help fucking scumbags like that. Well, I mean, you were involved in something like this, you know, indirectly.
Well, yeah, I wouldn't say I was involved, but yeah,

Speaker 1 I was the victim. I'm a victim.
You're a victim too, huh? I think so, yeah. My identity was stolen

Speaker 1 and used for nefarious purposes. Like, how am I not a victim here? I guess so.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I wonder how many people did believe it, though, like, when she, when after she told the story, I wonder how many people were, like, would have fallen for the same thing. Because

Speaker 1 Troy sent me this TikTok thread the other day. There isn't a woman out there who is in love with Q.

Speaker 1 There's not one. There's not one.
Tom is not sending this to me. Oh, and he sent it to me.
Well, his daughter sent it to him. And she was like, check out these comments.
And it was like, dude, like,

Speaker 1 it's highly desirable. Well, that's because they don't know me.
Looking at a TV screen from 10 years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So it's out there, Q.
People, they like more than just your feet, it would appear. Yeah, what are you going to do? Nothing.
Nothing. Nothing you can do.
I'm not going to do anything.

Speaker 1 Let's see. I will say this about Hawktua, too, because, you know, we have some spots here, of course, but Hawktua in an hour and 10 minutes had seven live reads.
Whoa. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She's got to get it while she can. She's got to get it while she can.
And

Speaker 1 they're sponsored by some big company. And their set looks pretty nice.
The editing sucks, though. Like, you know, there's like a couple.
I think they have like three different camera angles.

Speaker 1 And the direction of that is just, it's terrible. It's very like jarring.
They need Chuck. They need Chuck for something like that.
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Yeah, I considered that at one time.

Speaker 1 Like back when I was in shape. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 I've seen guys like that. Yeah, it's not that attractive.

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Yeah. Hairy chests is one thing.

Speaker 1 I think the back, though, like that gorilla fur on your back is like a little bit much. So, why is the front okay to have hair, but not the back?

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Speaker 1 no, okay, yeah, like I can feel it like on my shirt, you know, like when I, when I, when she buzzes my back and then I put a shirt on, it feels so much better.

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Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 What else do I got here? went to I wanted to ask Walt's opinion on something.

Speaker 1 Okay. So when I was in California, I went to this complex store called Revenge of.
It's kind of on the newer side. So new shop?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not like Meltdown or Golden Apple or any of the ones that have been out there forever. And

Speaker 1 I walked inside and it was f it was awesome. It was like, they had like the front when you walk in.
It almost looked like a deli to me. And they had like comics were all the

Speaker 1 like in the fridge and stuff like that. whatever it just looked like a store when you walked in then then the next room they had all these pinball machines

Speaker 1 and some classic arcades and the next door was like a cafe

Speaker 1 that was playing old movies with like toys all around that you could buy and games that you could buy like board games you could just take off and play and stuff like that okay and it was it was awesome and it was packed There were tons of people there playing games and buying comics and just hanging out and shit like that.

Speaker 1 And I had thought that comic book stores were kind of like going out a little bit or it was like a little bit of a dying in. It was a tough market.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but this made me want to open my own comic book store. It's like, how fucking cool would it be to have a place like this? I'm not going to do it.
Why not, though?

Speaker 1 Unless you want to do it with me.

Speaker 1 Well, you know the cost of comic books today. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
And they're going up to $4.99 a book, too, now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I would not invest in a comic book store at this stage of

Speaker 1 the but they're making it work

Speaker 1 are they buying comics or were they all hanging out? That's the one thing you

Speaker 1 is money being transferred from customer to proprietor or is it a hangout? Is it people watching movies all day and then being like, oh,

Speaker 1 or and like I would buy that book if it wasn't $5.99? You know,

Speaker 1 are they

Speaker 1 packed? What day of the week was it?

Speaker 1 It was Friday. It was a Friday.
Evening, afternoon? It was during the day. It was, yeah, probably two in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 And it was, I mean, the only, that was, it was the week that Absolute Superman came out. So I know that they had to restock that while I was there because I saw them do it.
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I wasn't paying attention to see if people were buying.
Yeah, I would be terrified. I don't know how.

Speaker 1 I've been out of comic books, specifically new comic books for so long, I wouldn't even know what the pulse rate is of the consumers are at this point.

Speaker 1 It would be not something that you'd have to relearn everything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that would be that would be a daunting task to try to figure out what today's buyer is interested in and what they're not interested in anymore. Like, kids don't like X-Men.

Speaker 1 I used to love the X-Men.

Speaker 1 Wolverine. Anything a Wolverine sells, I'm buying 100 copies.

Speaker 1 This is you running Q's story? Yeah.

Speaker 1 BQ because it's whoa, whoa, what's with all these copies of this of Dazzler or whatever? What's a book that you are absolute surprised, guest staring Wolverine?

Speaker 1 I was like, it's got Wolverine in it, BQ.

Speaker 1 The kids will love it. It's like Ace Freely.
It's like we got gold on our hands.

Speaker 1 Do you hate gold, Q? Is that your problem?

Speaker 1 Oh, man. It was so nice to be in a thriving environment.
How many pinball machines you got? I have five.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, that right there, we could fill at least one wall, a big portion of the store with your five pinball machines. Sure.

Speaker 1 That's great. We got a leg up because you already have the pinball machines.
Right, okay. And the arcade games?

Speaker 1 No arcade games. But I'd be willing to invest in.

Speaker 1 They had a Temple of Doom one, like the original one where Indy's like walk, it's like a side-scroller where you're whipping like molaram and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 Now, is it a quarter-based, or is that something you buy for an hour? You could unlimited amounts. No, it was the, it was, they had custom tokens, but it was basically a token was a quarter.

Speaker 1 It was a dollar to play the pinball machines. But these angels kept the Temple of Doom machine at 20 at a quarter, at one token.
So I was there for a while playing that one. Okay.

Speaker 1 So, how much did you spend when you went walking out of here?

Speaker 1 Uh, uh,

Speaker 1 yeah, I guess that's a good point. How much did you spend? Probably about $10 on the video games, and

Speaker 1 I bought maybe three comics. Well, the $10 on the video video games is pure profit.
Right, because we already own the machines. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let's maybe open on arcade.

Speaker 1 And if we see

Speaker 1 things aren't going well, we can sell drugs out of it like they used to in the 80s.

Speaker 1 Fuck yeah.

Speaker 1 That's where I step in.

Speaker 1 You think it's just a dead.

Speaker 1 Don't even dream about it. I don't know.
I don't want to say that. I just don't know enough about comics at this point to

Speaker 1 tell you it's a good idea or it's not.

Speaker 1 Everything I've heard is that

Speaker 1 it's a tough business. It's like

Speaker 1 you really got to love it and you're going to have to invest a lot in it. You know, that stock to open up a brand new store.
You're going to want to have it full of cool shit. Right.

Speaker 1 And that's an investment and

Speaker 1 that's a tough one. But it could be cool though.
Where are you thinking on the island? Well, I wasn't thinking anywhere, really.

Speaker 1 I just, when I I was in there, I just felt it. Right about in the Airport Plaza.
There's a lot of openings here. And cheap rent.

Speaker 1 Cheap rent. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 BQ's Arcade.

Speaker 1 BQ's Comic Symporium.

Speaker 1 I just missed it, man.

Speaker 1 I know what's going to happen because we know somebody who wants to go on a bookstore. Yeah, we do.
And they ain't selling comics.

Speaker 1 They're selling fucking the rights to sit on his lap and take a photo.

Speaker 1 I saw that. So

Speaker 1 you're going to have to spend a lot of weekends. You know what? Maybe I'll just visit Revenge Obviously when I'm in L.A.
and

Speaker 1 call it a fucking day.

Speaker 1 I thought that was so 2020 still sitting on Santa's lap. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think it's a cool promotion,

Speaker 1 but I think that is an indicator that maybe the comics

Speaker 1 ain't what they used to be sales because it's a fucking

Speaker 1 for people who are still collecting new comics to spend $4.99 on a comic book is staggering. Yeah.
Would you want people to sit on your lap at all? Depends on who the person was. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like Jimmy, you know? Jimmy the hair guy? Well, because he's light.

Speaker 1 Jimmy and Ming on either, on both knees.

Speaker 1 I could deal with that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You've seen VSQ. On the other hand, I was going to say, you've seen VSQ fans.
They don't look

Speaker 1 Jimmy and Ming side. My favorite part of that is like when he said, depends on who's sitting on my lap, like where my mind went was very different.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Walt's never going to say, like, if it's a hot chick,

Speaker 1 if it's Jimmy or Ming.

Speaker 1 Ah, what a shame, man.

Speaker 1 But you know what? Don't let me be the dream killer. As Jim Dowd once said,

Speaker 1 wives are dream killers.

Speaker 1 And I'm not maybe your wife. No.

Speaker 1 But I don't also don't want to be the guy that shits on

Speaker 1 your new dream of opening a comic book store because that would be awful. I do not want to be that person.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 I think the beer company was enough to kill my dreams in terms of being an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 I don't want to do this anymore.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I just had that feeling again that I haven't had in a long time.

Speaker 1 You have a lot of the

Speaker 1 things you're already equipped to do it if you really want to do it, though. You've got the pinball machines.
You can get them out of your house. Yeah.
Start monetizing them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You have the backstock if you have all your floppies that you have preserved. They do.

Speaker 1 Now you can sell them as BQ's preserved comics. You can own one of BQ's comics.
Yeah. You know, they bump that up a little bit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 If that book is worth $5 on the normal market, it's worth fucking $10 because BQ had it. There we go.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I'll sign the bag.

Speaker 1 So my signature is already worthless.

Speaker 1 You run this business out of your house. You don't have to move the pinball machines at all or the comics.

Speaker 1 Maybe a little entrance fee at the door. Yeah, that's not a good idea.

Speaker 1 We'll let that one go.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I just like, I think about retirement, and I think about my later years.
And, you know, you don't want to do nothing. You know,

Speaker 1 I mean, it's revealing something that I wanted to do on a future episode of TSD, but

Speaker 1 fuck it. It's never going to happen because it just never.

Speaker 1 I had this thing called TSD Shark Tank. Okay.

Speaker 1 And me and Gidem

Speaker 1 were going to pitch to you the idea of opening up a collectible store.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 But it would not be with new comics, though. Okay.
Just collectibles. Just collectibles.
Anything that me and Gidem find. And

Speaker 1 we were going to ask for investors.

Speaker 1 And we were going to open up, we were going to do it online only and with the goal of one day in five years opening up a brick and mortar store in Redbank.

Speaker 1 Okay. To come to like for us to close the chapter in our books that we can't close.

Speaker 1 We can't close the book on a, you know, this way we would go out. Me and Giddam would go out the way we want to go out.
Off top.

Speaker 1 We close. You know, if the, if the store was, if the brick and mortar store was profitable, we would, we would, we could stay open.
But if it wasn't profitable, it was only for a year.

Speaker 1 And we cultivated, we already bought a massive collection of

Speaker 1 high-end collectible magazines. Like, have you ever heard of the Mile High Collection? No.

Speaker 1 Well, there was this guy in the 70s who, Chuck Ronald. Mile High Comics.
Mile High Comics.

Speaker 1 He stumbled upon a collection of golden age comic books that he got at a really great price, and he started an empire off of that called the Mile High Collection. Okay.
It became Mile High Comics.

Speaker 1 Me and Giddam have stumbled upon a high-end collection of famous monster magazines. You have them.
We have them in here somewhere. And that was going to be our pitch.

Speaker 1 That's daunting.

Speaker 1 That was going to be our pitch. We bought them, and we were going to start

Speaker 1 what was called Flan and Son Collectibles. Okay.

Speaker 1 And we were going to just, we're not going to, it wasn't anything to do with podcasting, and we were going to, we were going to start this business online only.

Speaker 1 And then our goal was in a year to open up a brick-and-mortar store on Broad Street and go out the way we we want to go out.

Speaker 1 So you don't have any interest in that? Or that was never really a plan? Or is that something you guys would like to do? That's something we daydream about. Daydream about.
But, you know,

Speaker 1 you have a different,

Speaker 1 in your head, I could see what you're thinking about. You're talking about

Speaker 1 a high-end store, beautiful,

Speaker 1 like a lot of

Speaker 1 thought and aesthetics. Yes.
You know,

Speaker 1 I don't need all that.

Speaker 1 I'm all about just flipping it it immediately. I don't care if the walls look like they got holes in them.
And they're sort of like, well, those are like comic book stores that I grew up in.

Speaker 1 I'm all about flipping it immediately. I'm not about

Speaker 1 fostering a community. Yeah, and being like, oh, let's watch this movie together.

Speaker 1 Oh, what you got? Oh, let me see your high score, buddy. Oh, man, you could beat that.
Stay another three hours. Try to beat that high score.

Speaker 1 Like, you want it? Buy it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, get the fuck out.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we even had a logo made. Really? Yeah.
I'll show it to you.

Speaker 1 Another And to read?

Speaker 1 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 I can finish one more. Why can't you do that online? Why can't you just start the online thing? We want it to, but

Speaker 1 we need capital, though. We need some.
To run an online thing? Well, we need the money to buy the merchandise. We need the money to find the cool shit that, like...
But you already bought shit.

Speaker 1 Right, but we need more than that to like to to get to where we got to get to where we're able now to open up a store uh-huh we need we need capital to go out and buy merchandise that that we could flip for huge profits

Speaker 1 i need ten thousand dollars from each of you me and brian yeah if you guys want to buy in to the business so and then and then we'll take that twenty

Speaker 1 and then we'll buy all this merchandise we'll flip it and then by a year's end we'll we'll give you I think it was 2.5%

Speaker 1 on your investment. Okay.
By the end of the first year.

Speaker 1 By the end of the first year.

Speaker 1 So $250. Or $100? Wait,

Speaker 1 $250.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
By the first year.

Speaker 1 Plus your initial investment back, too, though. Oh, really? Oh, you guys think you'll make

Speaker 1 $20,500?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. What about paying you guys?

Speaker 1 What about it?

Speaker 1 Well, you've got to make more.

Speaker 1 You think you're going to make close to six figures just selling old monster magazines? Well, that's why we have the 20 grand to buy other shit.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 These monster magazines are

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 they go for big bucks. Oh, okay.
I didn't know that. Yeah, they're not familiar with the market.
This is a very nice collection they bought. Yeah.
Is it buried in the.

Speaker 1 I mean, no, trade octuring on the corner that rats are chewing at at this point in that room. Yeah,

Speaker 1 when are you guys going to tackle that? I told my employee

Speaker 1 Christmas break.

Speaker 1 You know, the employee that we all pay to be an employee? I told him to clean it up. I don't know what more.

Speaker 1 He gave you the finger and went to a party. You probably got to be a little bit more

Speaker 1 hands-on than that, bro.

Speaker 1 Are there any ants out there that want to fucking get paid to come in here and be get them manager for a cleanup process?

Speaker 1 I'll pay somebody else. I'll pay.
I'll pay out of my pocket to get rather than like rather than just you take it on as the guy that absolutely why

Speaker 1 because man

Speaker 1 why it's not my deal

Speaker 1 why is it not your deal because i'm too busy

Speaker 1 i'm not sitting around here all day in a fucking mess like that guy is well but you don't have to stay here but yeah i mean but if you make it your you walk around the office you make a list you're like here's your list here's here's what i wanted to see the next time i come in that i'll be willing to do that yeah you just got to well that i could do you want me to do that but Please tell me.

Speaker 1 You want me to give him specific instructions? But please tell me you'll rip him a new asshole before you give him the list, though, because then I want you to tell me every detail of it, too.

Speaker 1 Well, I would do that on air.

Speaker 1 I think we all want to hear that.

Speaker 1 I would sit down with him on air and give him a list of things and be like, I would like this accomplished by the end of the month. Okay, and what happens if he doesn't accomplish it? Nothing.

Speaker 1 Nothing. Nothing at all.

Speaker 1 What are we going to do? Throw him to the wolves? We're stuck with this fucking guy, son of a bitch.

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Speaker 1 Still looking well.

Speaker 1 I can't find the color one, but this is the black and white version of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's pretty great.

Speaker 1 That's pretty great.

Speaker 1 Oh, that is cool. Yeah.
That is cool. But that was our logo, and we were, you know, and our goal, like I said, was like we daydream about, you know, going back into Red Bank as conquering heroes.

Speaker 1 And then when we find it's time, like, you know what? It's time. Yeah.
Close the doors on our terms. Right.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
I like that you're already planning to shutter the business at some point. It's really not.
It's really about.

Speaker 1 In your face. No, no.
It's really about just

Speaker 1 about just going out the way we want to go out rather than on our terms. Being ushered out.
Yeah. All right.
One last. I can respect that quite a bit, actually.
We

Speaker 1 just become the kings of Red Bank again, like we were. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, you have the monster. Why don't you start with the monster magazines? Well, we, well, you know what?

Speaker 1 I was waiting to do this TSD shark tank thing because Frank had a business opportunity he got. He was going to pitch to you guys for an investment, both you and Tom had one.
Okay, so

Speaker 1 you don't want to do this anymore? I still want to do it, but it's hard to do with

Speaker 1 it's hard to do with

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 1 Well, I can get you a date in December if you want to do it. Okay.

Speaker 1 Because the problem is when we do this podcast, it's usually like what day we want to do this weekend, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's, you know, that's, that's, that's easy.

Speaker 1 And other people have commitments and stuff. Yeah.
So I don't know. That's, you know, I don't know.
We got to pick on me.

Speaker 1 Hey, I'll schedule months in advance if you want. Bro, let's do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I went, so to what you were were just saying about ordering on Grubhub or whatnot, there's this old Italian deli on Staten Island. It's been there for like 50, 60 years.

Speaker 1 And they make, and the guys who work behind the counter are these fucking old Italian men. You know, they always got one of their granddaughters running the race.
It's been there my whole life.

Speaker 1 And you walk in, they got the horns on the fucker. You can still buy Italian flags.
Like, you walk in, it's like, it feels like an old school Italian deli after all these years.

Speaker 1 They make the best fucking sandwiches. So fucking good.
And they went on Grubhub not too recently. So I started ordering them on Grubhub.
About two years I've been on Grubhub.

Speaker 1 And the other day I was like, man, you know, I fucking miss going to that shop. I was like, I used to love going in there.
It felt like, I was like, so

Speaker 1 I'm going to go down.

Speaker 1 It's not even that far. It's 10 minutes from my house.
I was like, let me go down

Speaker 1 and just order the sandwich today. I wasn't trying to prove a point.
I was like, I just haven't seen the place. And I went in, man, and it was, it hadn't changed.
They were all talking.

Speaker 1 And then my mom's cousin, who's 80 years old, came in. I hadn't seen him in 15 years.
Angelo, what's going on? Started talking to him. But I ended up spending like a half hour there.

Speaker 1 Went home and ate my sandwich. And I was like, fuck, that felt good.
Like, it felt like I was, maybe this is what I was wanting to do with the common man.

Speaker 1 What you're missing in your life is socializing. Well, rubbing elbows with the common man.
You got to let yourself get your elbows get dirty.

Speaker 1 Well, my argument would be like, I think we're all missing that. Like, I think we're all missing that thing of like the neighborhood store and going in and volume.
How you doing today?

Speaker 1 Like when you used to go to

Speaker 1 Well, he's saying he's

Speaker 1 a hermit. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, look, a lot of people are doing it. Grubhub is very successful.
You know what I mean? I think a lot of people do it.

Speaker 1 And I remember when I was a kid, like, we would order pizza, then drive to the pizzeria, bring it up and come back because my dad didn't want to pay the fucking $2,

Speaker 1 you know, delivery.

Speaker 1 I don't ever order off of this Grubhub or DoorDox. Did you just call the place? I just go and get in the car and

Speaker 1 go get it or

Speaker 1 take the dogs. But even Amazon.
Amazon, that's something, yeah, my wife does Amazon, yeah. So to me, I was like, I think I want to make a concentrated effort to start going to stores.
Oh, I love this.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 just, I'm not looking at it as like I'm on TV and I want to be around the people. I'm looking at it more like, this is missing from my life.
Like this, this community, this feeling of a community.

Speaker 1 You know? So I went, I've been doing it lately, and it's been fucking.

Speaker 1 Your reaction to this is going to be amazing. It's just like BQ is so far removed.
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 He's like, I need to connect with my neighbors.

Speaker 1 I don't think so. I don't think that's going to be the reaction.
I think people are going to be like, yeah, I order shit on Amazon. I ordered shit on Amazon.
It's really weird.

Speaker 1 Q wouldn't leave me alone. I saw him in the grocery store and he was like, Hey, you can just buy anything you want here

Speaker 1 and then bring it home and eat it.

Speaker 1 I had to wait in line to buy these groceries, just like you. This is so awesome.

Speaker 1 I didn't say groceries. I'm not doing groceries.

Speaker 1 The line's too long. Fuck that.

Speaker 1 No, I don't know, man. I think a lot of people, I think this might resonate with people.
They might be like, shit, I should go more. I should stop ordering stuff on Amazon.

Speaker 1 Let me go to mom and pop shop. I will.
What do you think the reaction is going to be?

Speaker 1 This sounds like somebody who's so

Speaker 1 out of touch. I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, man. Bigger fucking indication of how out of touch you are.
You're like, I'm going to go start going back to delicate intestines.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go get a sandwich.

Speaker 1 Then I saw a guy. Then I saw a relative of mine who I hadn't seen in 15 years.
Mostly because I'm holed up in my mansion.

Speaker 1 None of what you're saying is false.

Speaker 1 But that is not.

Speaker 1 I don't think that that's the takeaway from this. I don't think that's what I'm saying.
I know you hold it. Because I wouldn't say that I'm out of touch.
I wouldn't argue that I'm not out of touch.

Speaker 1 So I'm not trying to defend myself.

Speaker 1 But I'm not so far out of touch that I'm not. Like, people get Amazon deliveries constantly.
They do. People don't go to stores to buy like shit anymore.

Speaker 1 Not as much as they used to. Not as much as they used to, but there are still some of us out there that are willing to.
Well, what I'm saying is I think you guys are right.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm saying. I don't think it was right or wrong, but

Speaker 1 I think the this the brick-and-mortar stores would appreciate yeah you're not ordering off of Amazon and where are you gonna go? You want to buy a DVD?

Speaker 1 Well, now where are you going? Best Buy doesn't sell them anymore, Best Buy just doesn't sell them. Yeah, well, I mean, that's different, I guess, because you can't go anywhere and go.

Speaker 1 Right, fuck that.

Speaker 1 Um, but well, you find a specialty store, you spend all day looking for it.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 This is sounding not so great after all.

Speaker 1 I said we'll talk about the sandwiches.

Speaker 1 All right. Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong. I know what you're talking about, though.
Like there was a time when I lived in Highlands and like, you know, we would get

Speaker 1 pizza from Francesco's. And you would call them.
They'd be like, oh, is this Johnson's? You know, and they would just recognize your voice. And there was something about that.

Speaker 1 Like, you say that sense of community where it's like, not that you're like an insider, but you're like, you're part of

Speaker 1 something. You're part of the community.
I go to the St. Pizza Parlor every day, every morning, without fail.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you feel?

Speaker 1 No, not at all. I fucking saved the fucking plaza and they fucking give me a free Coke.

Speaker 1 That's true. I forgot about the mini volcano.
So it's not just on us.

Speaker 1 I mean, maybe the proprietors, maybe the people who run the stores have to make sure that they reach out with a friendly hand if they want that community feeling, that vibe.

Speaker 1 They've got to do a little bit of it as well. Give me a discount for coming in.
Yeah, why not? Every day without fail. Every once in a while, well, this one's on us, buddy.
Yeah, that's what it means.

Speaker 1 Amazon will never do that. No.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah. They might.
They might

Speaker 1 if you pretend it didn't come.

Speaker 1 I believe that. Like, that's like, how often have we taken advantage of of Amazon's liberal fucking policy on returning

Speaker 1 all the fucking time? My wife is constantly at Kohl's or the UPS store returning shit that she doesn't want. And like, we didn't do that.
I don't know. I just, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe, maybe I'm just going through something because with the complex store, the revenge of thing, where I was like, oh, I missed this, like, being amongst this.

Speaker 1 Well, then you got to do it then.

Speaker 1 Then you gotta, if you want that, then you should, you should make it happen then. What do you need from you need something from me?

Speaker 1 Well, no, I mean, what what i need more than anything is is is time so i guess that we're you know we're a couple years off from it but and you want to be there

Speaker 1 i would love to be there i don't think i i can't right now is a thing like i i don't have time for anything but like

Speaker 1 it would be nice to have like a a place that's almost like a clubhouse that's

Speaker 1 out and and you need you probably would want it on staten island though then

Speaker 1 yeah i'd probably want it on staten island yeah yeah i'm out yeah

Speaker 1 But maybe Airport Plaza. What about Airport Plaza? Airport Plaza, yeah.
You have two people.

Speaker 1 You'd have two people that would be willing to help you.

Speaker 1 Well, you're, you know what? Yeah, I can't be there all the time. You're going to need somebody to man and register unless you're going to close down for maybe hire someone else.

Speaker 1 I just feel like, you know, Gedham has proven himself to be,

Speaker 1 you know, not that great at inventory control or customer service

Speaker 1 or knowledge of comic books. Okay.

Speaker 1 Maybe you poach a Sunday Jeff.

Speaker 1 Oh, that would work. Well, well, he only wants to work one day a week, though.
I outpay his other job. Yeah, you got to outpay his real job.
Yeah. 401k, insurance.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 All of a sudden, you need a lot more pinball machines.

Speaker 1 Many more quarters.

Speaker 1 You're posing for a lot more pictures.

Speaker 1 So many people are sitting on my lap.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess. I guess.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 think about this. If we do the Flannon Sun Collectibles and we open up

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 location in Red Bank, that could be the clubhouse, but it's far from you, though. It's not really your clubhouse.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not that this is so much as like, if you just said you don't care about the peeling walls and stuff like that, and it's like, that's not really what I want.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, you're going to think about it. You want a nicer aesthetic?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, you know, a can of paint isn't that much money, Walt. You're talking about peeling walls of paint and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 I didn't really mean, I mean, but like, I didn't really literally mean peeling walls, but you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I'm not, you could sink a whole hell of a lot into that place, but it doesn't mean jack shit in terms of like, are people going to buy the merch? The merch has got to be something people want.

Speaker 1 That to me is paramount. That has to be the biggest

Speaker 1 thing that we tackle is like, do we have the shit people want?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 It's a lot to think about here, I guess. You know, we could have a podcast section of the store.

Speaker 1 Maybe a little shared universe section in the back. A little studio.
Oh, yeah. Right then.
Ming needs a fucking fourth studio. Oh.
He could close one of his other ones.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Or make it really nice so he closes all the other ones and this is his only

Speaker 1 venue. Yeah.
I mean, it just sounds, doesn't it sound nice? So you want, oh, that is not a bad idea, though, if you try to woo him to, he hasn't got no money, man.

Speaker 1 We were just speculating how to fuck he even fucking survived.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 right? I mean, now all of a sudden we're like, hey, we want you to pony up rent for our clubhouse.

Speaker 1 But you will rarely be at. Well, he could be at here all the time if you don't get it in a studio in the back.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you know, his ass ain't going to be there. No.
He's on the road. He's on the road constantly.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's only one man for the job who never leaves. I can't.

Speaker 1 I can't, in good conscience, hire that guy. You already have.
I know, but it's

Speaker 1 another job. Yeah.
It's different because, like, I would need money to come in.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? Like,

Speaker 1 you don't want to be operating at a loss. Yeah, you need an employee

Speaker 1 who's going to want to make the shop look as good as possible, who's going to want to be pleasant and upsell and suggest to people and have these conversations with people.

Speaker 1 Oh, you want that level of fucking

Speaker 1 customer service. I mean, like, we're suggesting shit to people.
Walt's like, I'm out. I'm out of town again.

Speaker 1 Does that sound like too much?

Speaker 1 Oh, you like Superman? Do you ever read All-Stars Superman? It's fucking awesome. We just got the slip case version in.
Like, check this out.

Speaker 1 How about if I say with a smile, hey, there's our Superman section. Go to town, buddy.
Okay, I'll take that from you.

Speaker 1 We'll take that from.

Speaker 1 And if he's like, oh, what do you like? I got to go to lunch. I'll catch you later.
Get him.

Speaker 1 Candleless customer.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, man. I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I have an inside peek to how get him operates. You go in that back room, and it's a fucking nightmare.
You can't hide that guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's beyond hoarding back there, man. He is a lot of shit.
I can't wait. I'm really looking forward to how this plays out.
I love, you know, I want to see how you guys handle this situation.

Speaker 1 I'm looking back and I'm like,

Speaker 1 I'm looking back there, and I'm like, even if we just buy shelves for him to put shit on, yeah, spend more money on a problem. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Yeah, then he's going to fill out the shelf and then he's going to put shit in front of the shelf. He does throw money at it.

Speaker 1 It always works.

Speaker 1 It's not even like, all right, to describe it to everybody listening, it's not even like you go back there in a mess.

Speaker 1 It's like snow drifts that start high against the wall and then just come down into the middle of the room, and it's bottles of water, it's crumpled up paper, it's fucking boxes.

Speaker 1 There's no rhyme or reason to any of it. It's just snow drifts of.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's like all these old-style Coke glasses in there.

Speaker 1 You're like, how does this fucking operate? And we have that whole costume room back there. You can't even get to it.

Speaker 1 We haven't needed a costume in a while.

Speaker 1 Thankfully. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Breaking neck getting in there. Yeah.
All right. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to ride and get him his ass because we can't expect Walt to do it. No, we can't.
We can't expect Walt to do it.

Speaker 1 We're going to expect Walt to do it. Walt does too much already.
He's out.

Speaker 1 He's out for the third. There's a fuck another thousand things upgoing.

Speaker 1 He doesn't need that on the screen.

Speaker 1 So we could come in and be the heavies. Yeah, we could come in and be all right.
Okay. We're here Sunday.
We're here Sunday, yep. Yeah, I'll make a list.

Speaker 1 I'll start making my list of what he needs to improve. You're here Sunday? Yeah.
Yeah. We're going to record something with Jiggy.
Remember that thing? I asked if we could do it.

Speaker 1 One o'clock, you said. Yeah, one o'clock.
One o'clock. Is that right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was going to watch the Lions here, but that's okay. Because you could do it at four?

Speaker 1 No, can't do it at four. Can't do it at four.

Speaker 1 But we could move that out into there so you can watch it over there. Sure.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, it worked.

Speaker 1 I could move it into the hall, even. Great.
So, yeah. And it'll be an hour.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Did you tell him? Who?

Speaker 1 Get him? Yeah. Why do I got to tell him? Okay.
I don't know if you want the room prep prepped or anything. You think he'll prep it? Prep this one? Yeah, he'll do it today.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, I'll just tell him to leave it like this. Okay.

Speaker 1 He has nothing to do with it. Yeah, as long as we leave this set up.
He might not. Like, he will.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'll text him.
Good thought. I didn't know.
See, this is, I'm learning. Maybe I judged too harshly.
Get him.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, but

Speaker 1 yeah, or I'll just tell him to leave this as is. Okay.

Speaker 1 24 hours.

Speaker 1 Black Friday. Let's talk about it again.
Yeah, you want to rub some elbows, Q? Yo, if you want to rub elbows with the common one. What day is that?

Speaker 1 The day for Thanksgiving. Yeah.
I'm in Florida. Oh, but I'm flying home that day.
So, yes. So come Saturday.
I'm flying home Friday. So I'll come Friday.
Okay. Or Saturday.
I'll come. I'll be here.

Speaker 1 Come both days. Well, I'm flying.

Speaker 1 I got to fly. I got to land.
I got to feed the cats and then come down. Okay.

Speaker 1 People can sit on my lap. And we'll be here.
Walt. You and I will be here.

Speaker 1 Say that. All the girls will be lined up.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Thursday night will be here at 11. 11.
11. 11 to 1.
Yeah, 11 to 1-ish,

Speaker 1 unless it's so busy we need to stay open later to 1. Right.
Yeah. Okay.
And then the next day, on Saturday, we'll be here at 11, 11 to 6.

Speaker 1 On, wait, what's Friday? On Friday. On Black Friday.
Black Friday. Oh, closing at 6.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 1 I might have to come Saturday then. I don't know when my flight lands.
Okay. But, but I'll be here one of the days.
All right. Yeah, can't wait.

Speaker 1 What are you doing for Thanksgiving, Will?

Speaker 1 Nothing special. Just at home with the family.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm cooking a turkey again this year. Nice.
I got one of those, like, it's like a

Speaker 1 radiating heat. Like, it looks like a deep fryer, but it doesn't have oil.
It just uses propane.

Speaker 1 Okay. You know, like those turkey deep fryers where people constantly, like, they dip the turkey in and then it explodes into flames.
It's like that, except it doesn't have oil.

Speaker 1 It just has propane, so it just like

Speaker 1 cooks it in a couple.

Speaker 1 Not, and yeah, there's no like forced air or anything. It's just like it radiates off, like it's like this barrel that you put it in almost.
Oh, cool. So we got like 15 people coming over.
Whoa, yeah.

Speaker 1 Who the fuck? Got all the Johnsons, got Eric. He's coming with his stepson.

Speaker 1 Got my nephew bringing his girl and possibly her mother. Whoa.
So, yeah. And we only have like 12.
Our table only fits 12 people. So we're going to have to have the kids' table.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Got to decide who to put there. Like Sage obviously will go to the kids' table.
Darren. Darren will go there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I'll have to think of one other person. I'll separate a couple.
Maybe I'll, yeah, maybe I'll put my nephew there too. You're going to have that kitten.
That's going to be a big showstopper.

Speaker 1 That kitten. Everybody's going to love that kitten.
Yeah, she's very friendly, too. So she'll come up to people.
Oh, nice. Nice.
Yeah, that kitten is cool, man.

Speaker 1 I'm glad in retrospect, because I was like,

Speaker 1 I was telling Walt, I felt like we had the perfect pet balance.

Speaker 1 The dog is great. The cats are great.
We're going to throw this kitten into the mix. I'm not sure how it's going to work out, but totally worked out.
Yeah. Fine.

Speaker 1 Same thing with Boris. I was like,

Speaker 1 I don't want a kitten. Yeah.
And then you're like, what the fuck was I thinking? Yeah, why would I want a kid? That's the best.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think I was telling Walter, I was like, just imagine, like, you're first you're in a cage, then somebody puts you in a cardboard box.

Speaker 1 A couple, like a half hour later, you're in a home, yeah, and there's cats around, there's a dog there, and you're so comfortable that within two hours, you're taking a nap, just lying there, not caring about anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like she acclimated so well. I was really happy.
I love that. That's great.
Good for you, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm happy we got her. She's cool.
A little sassy. A little sassy.
Yep. And also,

Speaker 1 the other bit of news is we recorded the Christmas pod. Yes, we did.
It is in the can, as they say, right, Walt. It is.
And that will be coming out on Black Friday night. It certainly

Speaker 1 should. I mean, I haven't touched it yet.
Haven't gotten it back from Declan, but I'm going to start cutting it possibly tomorrow. And the goal is to have it ready for Black Friday.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And it's a long one. Well, that'll be

Speaker 1 Thanksgiving evening at 11.59. 11.59.
Right. Should drop on Bandcamp.
Some gut-busting laughs in this one. There's some really good stuff in it.
It's the fullest house of all, I think,

Speaker 1 ever. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, everybody came out in droves for the cause, a great cause, and everybody was on top of their game and wanting to

Speaker 1 help the Waired family. And

Speaker 1 hopefully everyone enjoys it because

Speaker 1 it was a good time.

Speaker 1 I think everybody will enjoy it. There's a lot of fun stuff in it.
There is, and

Speaker 1 you guys correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a Ming Chen moment in this episode that I think instantly goes into top 10 Talon Steve Dave moments over the entire run. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 I think something legendary happened on this. Like, people, I don't, you know what I mean? I think it's going to be a fucking,

Speaker 1 I couldn't believe what was unfolding as I watched it.

Speaker 1 And I think I've thought about it every day since it happened.

Speaker 1 I can't fucking wait for this to be out. It was after we recorded it.
It was the first thing I told Mary about when we got home. I was like, it was pretty funny.
This is how it happened.

Speaker 1 It's fucking great. Yeah, I can do that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that's it's almost like for me, the thing I remember most about the day is it's so crystal clear everything that was said and done. It's great.

Speaker 1 And for those who are wondering if there will be any Christmas content on Patreon, there will be. There's going to be an all-do Sunday Jeff show Christmas special and a Bry Tries Christmas special.

Speaker 1 And I think that's it for the Christmas content, but there will be Christmas content on Patreon as well in December.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is your one-stop, well, not one-stop, two-stop shop for

Speaker 1 Christmas. Tell him Steve Dave, Christmas joy yeah

Speaker 1 all right so you're going down to Florida for Thanksgiving then yeah my parents

Speaker 1 see them all right you know they're getting older

Speaker 1 I hear you man I got to go I visit Edgar now on Fridays he got uh he got sick I'm not gonna go into too much detail but yeah every

Speaker 1 Friday I've been driving Sage to her mother's house because she likes to stay there on the weekends and visiting Edgar and talking to him and

Speaker 1 hanging out a little bit crazy though he can't hear shit. He can't.

Speaker 1 He's like, he's deaf from all those years of being a contractor and not wearing any hearing protection. So it's like I have to shout to him.
How do you feel

Speaker 1 your relationship with your dad is these days? I think it's decent. Yeah.
Yeah, it's gotten better over the years. Right.
He mellowed out. I mellowed out.
We realized we can't fist fight anymore.

Speaker 1 We're both too old. It's funny because the last one wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 1 It's true.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it's an interesting thing I'm having with my parents where it's like, as they get older, how these new facets of our relationship are developing. It's

Speaker 1 depressing and fascinating and weird. Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah, it's hard to do that with Pam because Pam is like certain she's going to live till she's 100, which is another 22 years.

Speaker 1 I don't even know if I'm going to live another 22 years.

Speaker 1 Yeah. How old are you being 22? Oh, you should.
66, 76. Yeah, I'll be 78 in 22 years.
Yeah, I think you'll make that. I hope you make that.
Yeah, me too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Put it that way. If

Speaker 1 my dad's about to be 79, and

Speaker 1 dad's a guy who has not taken care of himself a whit his entire life, you know what I mean? And so this is modern medicine keeping that man going.

Speaker 1 So hopefully by the time we're there, like it'll, it'll be, we'll have the life-sustaining things to keep us going.

Speaker 1 I know what I'll do today when I go visit Edgar, I'll play that Mike Tyson thing for him. The video? The life video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the video, the legacy video, where it's like you're just going to be dust and it's all going to mean shit.

Speaker 1 That'll make him feel

Speaker 1 a beat.

Speaker 1 Can't wait to see you next Friday.

Speaker 1 Tell him, Steve, Dave.