#592: Never Surrender

Save your brain and get rock hard boners.

Like, this is a gift from God, man.

And it's 2024, baby.

That's it.

That's all you need to know.

I identify as a brunette white male.

That is brutal

what those poor princesses have to go through.

I know.

Their life must be so hard.

It's got to be difficult to be a fucking princess.

Tell them Steve Dave.

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

Walt is here.

I am.

And BQ is back, baby.

Back against the catalogue.

I heard I missed a banger of an episode.

Oh, Ming Chen.

Ming Chen.

Ming Chen Estraganza.

Handing down life lessons to all who want to podcast.

Oh, really?

That's what it was?

Well, some of it, yeah.

Walt solicited some questions from listeners to

see what they wondered about Ming and the podcasting game.

Ming couldn't answer most of them, though.

The Maverick came up short, I felt, on plenty of those questions.

In fact, I don't think it's the Maverick, man.

What's more Maverick than that?

He avoided every question.

Now

he's throwing pizza at people on the streets.

He's fucking, he's causing all sorts of problems everywhere.

Yeah,

if you haven't seen

the pizza deal, go to Ming's Twitter or X or whatever at MingChen37 and you can see Ming

mix it up with what appears to be a homeless guy

wait that guy was homeless I believe so I mean that's what Ming Ming said he geeks sort of thought that was the case I haven't done it in quite some time but I hope you guys don't mind but can I dedicate this episode to a listener

Sure.

Whenever in the past, it's always seemed to be worthy.

Well, I think this one is definitely worthy.

I had a listener contact me and tell me

something that warmed my heart.

He was working in a retail situation, and he was wearing something four-color demon-related.

And a customer came in and knew what TSD was and started talking shit.

What?

What?

Yes.

Started talking shit about TSD.

He was saying shit about Bry, saying shit about BQ.

But it was when he said that Walt Flanagan was a self-righteous,

what was the other?

Egotistical,

prude.

This listener got out from behind the counter

and threw this customer out of the store.

What kind of store was it, Do you know?

It was a drug store.

A drug store?

Good.

I mean, I would have him rather have thrown them out when he was offending me in BQ.

He didn't have to get to you.

He did say, though, which I thought was funny, he said it was only when he said I was a prude that it annoyed him.

When you said that you were a prude?

Yeah, when the guy was.

Self-proclaimed prude?

No, when the guy accused me of being a prude.

The guy said you were a prude.

That's when he had said too much, he felt.

And he told him to get the fuck out of the store and not to come back.

All right.

That's how young BQ got his start.

He's going to send me to to try to send me the security footage.

That would be amazing.

That would be fun.

If we could put that up on our YouTube.

He's not worried about losing his job, treating customers like that.

That's why I don't think the security footage is ever coming, because then that could probably get him in trouble.

But I told him I would tile it out, you know, and make sure his face can't be seen or any of the establishment, you know, but we'll see.

We'll see if we can get that footage.

But I thought that was awesome because I think a lot of people walk around thinking that they can talk shit as if they're online in the real world

nowadays.

You know, they get this comfort zone at like, well, I said it online.

Why can't I say it here?

I don't find that with people.

Most people are pussies and don't say shit in public.

Oh, no, man.

I see it all the time.

People say shit and they kind of fucking realize they're like, oh my God, I shouldn't have said that.

I didn't type that.

Yeah, I didn't type that.

I said that out loud.

And then they backtrack so fast.

Yeah.

That has not been my experience.

I find that, like, yeah, I agree with Brian.

Like, most people, again, like,

I think the type of person that goes online and writes like sour fucking missives and shit like that, nasty little fucking comments.

I think, like, in person,

I don't know.

I think, I don't think they would say it in person.

Like, the type of person that goes online to be like, eh, bitchy little comment, bitchy little comment, and like gets the joy out of that.

It's like in person, like, you wouldn't even want to be around that person.

So it's like you probably,

I don't know, I probably wouldn't have run into that person because people don't talk like that in real life.

Like, county little comments and like shit screaming into the void constantly about like things I don't like about that.

Like, I've rarely met people like that in the real life, Vault.

You're telling me you see that in the real world?

I've seen it.

Yeah, I've seen it at stores, people talking to employees pretty harshly and

being

jerks and just

flexing their muscles because

they feel that they're online and that they're not online.

And

it's gross.

Whatever happened to, when did it evaporate?

When did this become

not

doable for most people?

When did, if you don't have something nice to say, say nothing.

Why is that so hard to do in 2024?

Because talking shit is easy.

Coming up with nice things is really difficult.

No, no, no.

It's difficult.

No, no, just being.

If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing.

I don't say anything negative at all.

Well, fuck, I'd be a mute.

I'd be Helen Keller over here.

But why is that so

far?

You think today in today's world?

I think that,

I mean, I've said it before.

I just,

I think people are unhappy.

And I, I think that's what they want to greeds.

Yeah,

like I say, man, I don't think happy people go online and

like make little, you know what I mean?

Like, if you're happy with your life and you're fucking, because I've done it in the past, and every time I've done it, I've been a fucking little piece of shit.

You know what I mean?

Like,

so I just think that people who feel good about their own lives and stuff like that don't go online and scream and make little shitty comments and stuff like that.

Because, look, it is fun at times to do that.

Like, nobody's saying it's not, but like, there are people who just do it.

Like, it's their identity.

I don't know, man.

It's just

fun to troll.

But it's brutal, though.

What you see, what like some of these real famous people have to go through, like, like the princess,

what she had to go through, and all the trolls, and all the nasty comments.

And it's just like,

how do you deal with that if you get if you're getting that kind of level of hate and

which princess the princess who had uh Meghan Markle or the or Kate Middleton well Kate Middleton I think is favored over me nobody likes Megan Markle Why though?

Because she does so wrong.

Because she's one of these like Hollywood inside type people who think she's hotter than shit and I think that's why people don't like her.

Why do you assume that though?

What proof do you have that she thinks?

I'm saying what I glean, what I gather from reading, you know.

it's I think it's brutal what what that what those poor princesses have to go through I know their life must be so hard

it's got to be difficult to be a fucking princess if you saw if you did a deep dive and just saw some of the fucking heinous shit people write about them sure I think you would be shocked I think you would be absolutely appalled what could be worse than wishing death upon somebody though because I remember like remember when Kevin got that troll and somebody was like instead of making he-man I wish you had died

and that somebody somebody wrote that yeah and like what's worse than that though?

I don't know.

I know somebody made fun of me in one of our YouTube videos that I dyed my hair still.

Really?

Yeah.

And I was like, what?

That's worse than dying.

That's worse than wishing death would hold him.

They were making fun of me.

That's a different type of dye.

I wanted to just, I want to be able to tell that person.

I hope they're listening.

It's like, I identify as a white male with brunette hair.

And it's 2024, baby.

That's it.

That's all you need to know.

I identify as a brunette white male.

Fuck, fuck off.

That should be enough.

I should not have to hear anybody say anything about my dye job.

You shouldn't.

But that's the world we live in.

It's not a world off.

It's all online.

Like,

if this were back in the day when it was like, hey, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.

It might have worked.

But somebody's like, all right.

Dye your hair, will you?

We'll just see about that.

I think like for me, there's, you know, I could look back at fucking 10 years of criticism online, like, you know what I mean?

Like, just people ripping on us and shit.

The only time it's ever bothered me was when I agreed with them.

Like, you know what I mean?

Like, where somebody says a nasty comment that I'm like, God, they kind of got a point.

But, like, that happens so fucking rarely that you just got to water.

Like.

It says more about them than you, and you just ignore it, man.

Who gives a fuck?

I mean, who gives a fuck?

You know what I mean?

Like, who cares what they say about your hair?

Fuck them.

Stay offline.

It's easy.

unless you agreed with them then it might sting

no i don't agree with them but it's easy to say that though you know it's easy to say that and then

you know who cares who would but

it's it's i just think it's easier said than done and look man

that is a lie that sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me that's bullshit You it's bullshit.

Words can hurt just just as much, if not more, than sticks and stones.

Yeah, but I mean, like, if I go online and see somebody, like, say some shit about me, like, whatever, look at this fat fuck, right?

It's like, I'm like, all right, so what?

Who gives a fuck?

Somebody says, like, he's not funny.

I'm like, okay.

It's like, sure, I have a fucking highly successful career in comedy.

So I'm not, you know what I mean?

Like, you're just like, I don't.

If I don't give a fuck, I don't know.

Well, I think he's just got to be like, fuck him, fuck him, bro.

I know.

Again, it's very easy to do.

But I'll show you a guy.

I'll point to something I just watched online.

It was on Apple TV.

It's called The Dynasty, and

it's a multi-part documentary about the New England Patriots.

And

they have coverage of Bill Belichick and some of his head coaches.

And they have footage of them

listening to talk radio,

reading the newspaper, the columns, and being highly annoyed about the criticisms that they're facing, even though they're fucking at the top of their game.

Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a difference, Walt, between getting criticized in like a national news program or a national paper, as opposed to one fucking dickless asshole online who's got nothing better to do than to be like, here's a fucking funny little nasty comic.

Like, I think it's a little different.

At the end of the day, I disagree.

I think it's the same thing.

It's just a different context, though.

They were telling Belichick that he didn't know what he was doing and like with these idiots, you know, we got to, we got to get rid of all of them.

They're making all the wrong decisions.

And then, bam,

they win multiple Super Bowls and they still can't stop listening to talk radio.

On the way to the job, they're listening to talk radio and getting agitated about the ignorance of the callers.

critiquing them or criticizing them.

But that's like

if, say, like you're a contractor and you have like the homeowner come in and be like, oh, I don't know if I would do it that way.

Are you sure he's supposed to do it that way?

It's like these

armchair people who like Belichick should be like, these people don't even know what the fuck they're talking about.

He should be.

Yeah, he should be able to.

Just like Hugh said, tell these people to fuck off.

But it's hard as a human being, though, to

But like somebody's saying like like, hey man, Walt dyes his hair.

It's like, that's just a fact.

It's like, it's not.

Well, they didn't say that.

It wouldn't be that bad if it was just that, hey, Walt dyed his hair.

No, it was like, Walt looks like an idiot dyeing his hair at his age.

Oh, okay.

Well, I don't know.

I'm sorry.

I didn't want to say it.

I could put it out there on Broad Street.

Well, it does help clarify a little bit that you're not that easily offended.

Walt dyes his hair.

Who said that?

I'm not denying it.

But

I think it's like, why did that person feel the need to say that and hurt my feelings?

But I see you all the time, and not once has it ever occurred to me, like, oh, he looks like an idiot.

Yeah, but you're, you're, you, it's different, though.

Like, it's just different.

I don't don't know why that person like gets up and like is watching and is like, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to write this.

Yeah, for me, it would be

for me.

If I'm like watching something and I'm like, oh, wow, that guy fucking is dying his hair.

It's obvious.

Howard Stern.

Obvious case of somebody who's either dying their hair or is wearing a wig and is denying it.

Like the dude's hair is jet black at 70 years old.

And people have called him on it and he insists that it's his real hair.

Not once have, I don't think it's his real hair, but not once have I ever been like, I think I'll tweet in.

I think I'll tweet in.

And Tom Brady was in this documentary called The Dynasty, and

I really think he's dying his hair, too.

If I had to guess, if I had to weigh big bucks, I'm almost positive he's dying.

I couldn't see one white hair on that guy's head.

And I'm like, but I would never go, well, I just did now and said that, but I would never be prompted to go.

write a review or write a comment online that like, I think Tom Brady's dying his hair.

He looks like, what a joke.

What a vain asshole.

It's hard to call him a joke.

It's tough to call Tom Brady a joke, regardless of what he does anymore.

But I guarantee you, though, even Tom Brady, I bet you when he looks at online comments and if he sees something,

I just think even he

is probably annoyed or stung by some

criticism.

I don't think so, dude.

I don't think he cares.

If he was to admit it, how could he care?

If he could brutally honest,

because why would Bill Belichick?

Why would Briol Belichick?

He's reached the mountain just as many times as Tom Brady.

Well, actually, one less time than Tom Brady.

But he was at the top of his game.

He was called the greatest coach ever

in the entire history of the league.

He was considered the greatest coach that ever coached.

And he's still finding time to listen to criticism, listen to fucking people who are fucking making donuts,

but yet are telling Bill Belichick how he should have coached the team.

And

he's still finding time to be agitated by it.

He shouldn't because, like, sports is

made for trash talking.

Like, like, modern sports is a little, like,

sanitized, right?

But, like, we all know that when guys get on the field and start playing each other and there are no rules and no penalties and no mics, it's trash talk and no mics.

It's fucking trash talk or rama.

I think it's built into sports.

I think sports has lost something.

Oh, well, there's definitely penalties now.

There are certain things you can't say.

You can't call somebody.

Sure, I understand that.

That I get it.

And if the referee hears it, you're going to get a penalty if he hears that word.

No.

So let's say you're of the same

color.

Can you not

be friendly?

No, no, no.

That wasn't the word.

Oh, that's not the word?

No.

No.

I, I, you know, I think it's a word that would, you know, you would, you know,

oh, okay.

Not very nice to gay people.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Oh, yeah.

Well, look,

I, that's, you know,

I guess there, you know, there are some people that would, I don't know, there are some people that would get hurt by that, I guess.

Sure, of course, like that.

But I mean, like, if you're just like, just ripping on someone and calling them a fucking bitch or, like, calling them like they, I don't know.

Like, I just think trash talking is built into it.

So, maybe he should have a thicker skin.

You know what I'm saying, Belichick?

Because I guarantee when he was listening to the radio, when he was just a fan, he was sitting there going, like, oh, fuck Yogi Barrow, whoever the hell he was playing back the other day.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's built into the sport.

I think that's a long difference from someone.

How did somebody comment on your hair?

Where was that, Twitter?

I was on YouTube.

It's like this clown still dying his hair.

I mean, that person.

I tried to get it removed from YouTube, but YouTube wouldn't

strike it.

They wouldn't strike it.

Yeah.

I don't think the person that said that is happy is a happy person.

Because a happy person does not go on.

A happy person doesn't give a fuck about your hair.

Okay.

And then if they do and want to have part of the show, part of the spirit of the show, you know, there's ways to do it that are fun, like a little tongue-in-cheek.

That's not a happy person.

Well, what if you found out, and what if I found found out he's absolutely happy?

I think that's impossible.

Really?

I don't think that's impossible.

I don't think a happy person does that.

I don't think it's impossible.

I don't think it's impossible.

I wouldn't say that, but it does speak of like

having the time to go out of your way to, and it doesn't take long to leave a comment, but it's just as easy, in fact, easier to not leave a comment.

It's easier just to not say shit, to just think like, oh my God, look at this guy.

And that's it.

Move on with your day.

But to go down, like, who's it for?

It wasn't like addressed directly to you.

So who is, like, who is, like, why is he even writing it?

That's what I'm saying.

It's serving something inside of them

that needs to be that the fucking guy.

He can't stop.

He needs something

to make himself feel better.

Whereas a happy person has a wife they love, has a house they love, has fucking whatever, like does not worry about going on to comment about digestion.

It's good advice, Q.

And you know what?

I did do

I went out and I brought a darker shade of dye.

So, fuck this guy.

I was like, fuck you.

Yeah.

My wife was like, Are you sure?

I was like, I was like, I'm sure.

Jet black.

That's the only way to go.

I'll show you.

And like the die box has a black guy, has like a black guy on the cover.

He's like, Yeah, this will match that.

I saw something.

I did a show, Who Are These Podcasts?

A show that I like.

And shout out to our friend Trucker Andy, who was repping four colored demons with a cap on the show.

Nice.

But I went back and I looked at the comments to see, you know, what people were thinking.

And one of the comments struck me that I was just like,

I don't agree with it.

But it was like,

tell them Steve Dave used to be the best podcast out there until Brian Q got these big egos.

And after that, it's...

See?

I have a big ego.

I guess so.

According to this person, I was just saying, I was trying to find evidence of it.

I was trying to think back.

Wait, wait, hold on.

He never mentioned me.

He didn't mention you, no.

Okay.

No.

Nothing about your ego or your hair or anything.

Look, I'm a human.

I'm sure there have been times I've displayed something akin to that, but I think anybody who knows me overall does not think that

I have a show ruining ego.

What are you talking about?

I wouldn't think so either.

Yeah, I read that and I tried to think about: I mean, is there anyone more self-deprecating than myself?

Is there anyone who had admitted to self-hatred more than me?

Like, where I don't, I just don't get where the ego comes from.

Oh, they were talking about you?

They were talking about me and you.

Oh, we ruined it too.

Together, we ruined it with our big egos.

I mean,

that's mystifying to me.

Yeah, I couldn't think of it.

Do you have a big ego?

Maybe I know.

All right.

But that's the thing.

Like, that's the thing about art.

And if we consider podcast an art,

which why not?

Like, it's open to interpretation.

Right?

Right.

So at least they're talking about you.

You know?

Well, they ain't.

Is that all that is?

He didn't mention me, though.

He didn't mention you.

My ego just said that.

You were big as you were beneath mention.

Well, you you should,

if you really want to see some vicious comments, next time we're together, what I'll do is I'll sit you down and take you through all the comments and the episodes that were released after Joe left the show of Practical Jokers.

I mean, it was a fucking blood.

It was a slaughterhouse, man.

Bloodbat.

I'm not watching the show without Joe.

No, Joe, no show, which we always found funny because it's just like, well.

Yeah, there is a show.

There is a show without Joe, so I don't know what to tell you.

But like, you know, we get slaughtered, and like, I'll get, I'll see people on Twitter or X, whatever the fuck it's called, being like, the show sucks now without Joe.

I've never watched an episode without Joe.

And you're like,

then how do you know?

How do you know the show sucks?

Yeah, I know.

It's like, but these are the people you're dealing with.

Like, why,

why is a person hunting me out on Twitter to write no Joe, no show to me?

Like, what is that

person?

You've got to wonder.

That's why I would love to meet people like that and talk to them but that's the same type of person that if he were to see q in the wild he'd be like oh my god it's q can i get a picture hey q i love the show oh

and and even if you sat down a person like that and be like look dude we're responsible for a hundred people's fucking you know incomes we have a contract to make the show you know what i mean like if you explained all these things like we still want to do the show i still love doing it why should i stop because you could explain all of that to them and it wouldn't change their fucking mind to say they'd be like, no, Joe, no show.

So it's like, not to mention, Joe left of his own accord.

Joe left.

I didn't want to go.

I fucking wish Joe was still on the show.

Of course, I wish he was still on the show.

He did most of the fucking work.

Did it?

Did it upset any of the guys?

No, we

look when you read the comments.

I don't think so.

No.

Well, you guys are.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

I guess it says more about me than that it bothered me, though.

You know, I don't know.

Maybe a little uh

well, it's just like a snipe out of nowhere for no reason.

You know, it was a little, yeah, it's like it says something about my self-confidence then or my

vanity.

They know or my

I don't know, but well, it's it's I mean,

and again, I think you're 100% right how you how you should proceed when seeing things like that, but

it's hard.

I, I, It's hard, though.

It's hard.

You're a human.

It's not like I'm perfect at it.

Like I said, sometimes I'll read comics where I'm like, ah, that I kind of not agree, but like, I see where they're coming from type thing.

You know what I mean?

And it hurts.

You know, it does.

I can't say that I've never gone line and read something bad about myself or people who try to dig up like personal fucking shit.

Like psycho.

You know what I mean?

Like that hasn't bothered me, but

I would say 90% of the times I'm like, this is a psycho.

This is a fucking person who, this is an unhappy person.

This is a miserable person.

Like, you're able to see for where it's coming from.

But it's not easy, Walton.

I've gotten bothered by stuff too.

So I don't want to sit here like I'm some sort of fucking Buddha.

But for the most part, you feel you have like

kind of a duck

body.

I think it says more about

where you have not like not your body shape.

I mean, like your like a duck.

It was you.

You know what I'm calling me?

It was you who called me fat.

No, like a duck, like water off the back of a duck.

I meant.

I truly feel it says more about them than it says about me.

I do.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's a good way to handle shit.

Just like, just keep reminding yourself of that.

But, you know, I got to work.

And also stay offline.

I don't go online.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I could do that.

Anytime I go, yeah.

Just stay the fuck off.

Just don't even go.

Yeah.

That's fine.

Yeah, I don't read comments either, usually, just because it's like, then I would have to address them.

Yeah, that's, I try not to do that.

I like to address things.

I feel it's a bad move.

Done it.

And then always just like, what a waste of time.

Well, you can't win an argument online.

It's not possible.

We have a man here that's won.

I think he's almost got like a 900 percentage win record.

Get him, Steve Dave.

I wish he could talk about all his victories online.

This is a man that wins nine out of ten arguments online.

No, are these people that concede?

Are they like, all right, get all right, you got me?

No, he pretty much proclaims himself the winner and he moves on.

That's what we should do.

We're the winners.

Why not?

Why doesn't his opinion?

His opinion holds as much weight as these fucking psychos online.

So if Giddam says he won, who are we to say he didn't win?

He won.

Right?

Very, very true.

Nobody's opinion matters, and we'll all be dead in 100 years.

So what the fuck does it, you know?

Giddam's right.

But when I die,

fucking hair is going to be black in that coffin, bitch.

Good.

Hell yeah.

It's going to be so black.

It's going to be darker than the fucking wood finish on that fucking coffin.

It's going to be staining the satin in the coffin and shit.

When we dig him up in a hundred years, his hair will be perfectly preserved from the chemicals.

Yeah, it's just, it's like

women dye their hair.

Like, nobody says a goddamn word about it.

Well, look, like I said, man, if I identify as a brunette, that should be end of story.

End of conversation, right?

End of conversation.

It's supposed to be.

It's supposed to be, but it's not for certain people.

We don't have the same protection as other groups.

Nobody's looking out for us.

What do you mean, brunettes?

You know what, Walt?

You know what, bud?

Can I tell you this too, bud?

I spent today, I hosted this make-a-wish thing in the city today.

So for about five hours today, I was spending my time talking with kids who have cancer, kids who have debilitating disease, kids who are in wheelchairs that can't walk, kids with deformities.

And like,

really,

I just got home from it.

And it's like, I was immersed in it all day.

And you meet these kids and you see their capacity for joy.

You know what I mean?

And I remember, you know, when I was young, like I would be like,

life sucks.

and

you know what I mean?

And I'm depressed, I don't feel down.

And then you see these kids, and it's like,

like, he's, he's, the doctor's literally like, we don't know if we're going to be able to beat this.

The kid, you know, the mother's crying while she's talking to me, and these kids are just playing with each other and talking to you.

And it's just like, man, they are facing things that I have never had to face and probably won't have to face until I get old and my health starts going.

And you know what I mean?

And like,

so in the face of that,

it's, I think it's good to keep that in mind.

And it's hard to

worry about what some fucking dickweed says about your hair when you have two beautiful healthy kids a beautiful healthy family you know what i mean like it's i know this is what i'm saying you're happy you're happy you know you have a great life a great family so it's just like sage-like advice brother yeah you're you're 100 right you're you're fucking

This goes for everybody.

Everybody who deals with, like, you know, I wish Megan Markle would listen to this podcast and

all the people like her all the time.

She doesn't listen to little people like us.

No.

She's Megan Markle.

I think even Mrs.

Five doesn't like her.

That says a lot.

Wow, really?

Yeah, I think she's not crazy about her.

Could be wrong, just in case I don't want to smirch Mrs.

Five and her relationship with Megan Markle.

Did you go see Ghostbusters?

I saw, well, I went to the premiere, I saw Ghostbusters.

Yeah, I saw Ghostbusters.

I saw the part.

They had the chain.

I was was supposed to be, I supposed to have a little thing in it.

Anyway, a bunch of things happened.

So I saw where I would have been in it, and I was like, oh, man.

Could have been me.

I was a little depressed.

It should have been me.

It could have been me.

But, you know, a lot of it takes place on Staten Island.

I didn't know that.

I was not aware.

Are you going to see it, Wolf?

Oh, yeah.

I'll see it.

I've always enjoyed Ghostbusters.

There's like, I think Hughes age group

worships Ghostbusters, like Ming.

Ming is your age, right?

Yeah, a little older, slightly older.

Like, I like Ghostbusters,

and I think Hughes demographic, like his age group, loves Ghostbusters, but I've always liked it.

I've always liked it.

I've liked every version of it.

There hasn't been, even the girl one that, you know, I was the only one, you know, I remember you singing the praises.

I thought that guy, Thor, was great in that one.

I went online and commented about you.

But this one looks good, too.

I heard it's like the best opening of any Ghostbusters or something like that.

Is it?

Yeah, some crazy.

I had fun with it.

I had fun with it.

A lot of people I know saw it, had fun with it, but I have some people that I know and like who hate it.

So I have to go see it again because I was like, oh, that was fun.

But I saw it at the premiere and I had Andy Potts,

two seats down to my left.

Dan Aykroyd was sitting up front.

You know what I mean?

Like Bill Murray was there.

It's hard.

Like, I can't give a fair shake to it because I had such a good time.

You know what I mean?

Like, anytime anybody walked on screen, everybody was like, yeah.

You know what I mean?

So it's like, so I have a lot of fun, but people I respect are like, I didn't like it so much.

But people I respect are like, they love it.

And there is something to knowing that,

you know, the Ghostbusters' new home is on Staten Island.

You know, I have that pride, brother.

So when I see that, I'm like, yeah, yeah.

The Ecto One going over the Verrazano Bridge.

I'm like, yeah, it gets me all ready, man.

It gets me excited.

What is it about Staten Island that captivates people's attention?

Like, now the Ghostbusters are there.

What we do in the shadows set in Staten Island.

A lot of stuff comes out of the world.

That's a good question.

Yeah, that's a good question.

Why has it become the jewel of the shore all of a sudden?

Because say what you will about Staten Island, and people say a lot about it.

It has a reputation.

It has a personality.

It has

quirks that are known now nationwide.

So it's kind of an easy target.

But once people kick something enough, you know, then a kind of affection comes in.

So I think we're in the period where people are like, what am I going to do?

Make another joke about fucking Staten Island or am I going to embrace it a little bit?

I think we're in that.

I think we're in that era.

Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.

I think

New Jersey also has a kind of the same kind of feelings.

We've always been made fun of.

Like New York's little brother.

I was watching All on the Family a couple days ago, and Archie was comparing two things, and he's like, it's even worse than Jersey.

Yeah.

So we've had our share of barbs thrown our way, too.

And, you know, we've tried to make the best of it.

Fuck them.

I wouldn't have it any other way, man.

What do I want to do?

What do I want to be?

The fucking top dog?

I want to be the underdog.

You know what I mean?

I want to be the fucking guy that everybody's thinking, you know?

Like, give it to me.

That's where the interesting shit is.

What do you go to fucking Queens?

Who gives a fuck about Queens, man?

Anymore?

Nobody.

Nobody gives a fuck about Manhattan or the Bronx or the Queen.

Actually, Staten Island is, it might be the most popular borough right now.

Really?

You said it.

You said it, not me, my friend.

After all these years of dissing Staten Island and pretending it's part of the city.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want to go too far in this because, like, there's a lot of, there's a lot of bad stories about Staten Island.

They are not handling this migrant crisis well at all.

Oh, no, I've seen some of that.

Yeah,

I'm a little, you know, you're a little bit like,

not that, you know, not that politics of it, I don't I'm not really that interested in, but the behavior of people is a little bit like

better ways to express yourself.

Brother Staten Island comes out.

Yeah, a little bit.

I wish it wouldn't.

Even if I agree with some of the things, I'm like, guys, you know,

you got to be shining flashlights into little kids' beds that they're trying to sleep.

I don't know if we need to

get a little bit of stuff.

Yeah, there was like a protest where these fucking ding bats were outside one of the shelters and like shining super bright lights into the room and stuff.

And like somebody was like, Yo, there are kids getting terrified in here, man.

And they didn't stop.

And you're like, dude, like, I mean, you know, do you want to be the person that's doing that?

You know, it's like Walt's fucking die job.

Like, why do you want to be the person that's

doing that?

Even if you'd be known to do that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm a little disappointed in that, but I don't know.

That aside, you know, I love this borough with all my heart and soul.

So

are you excited?

Today was opening day for baseball.

I know you're a big Yankees fan.

I was

going to be excited, but then I completely forgot about it because I was in the thing today.

I got to get back in, Walt.

Honestly, I've been going to fucking more Mets games in the past few years because

for my friends that are fucking Mets fans and stuff than I have Yankees.

I got to get back into it, but I'm...

I want to be back into it, Walt.

I want to get back into it full-time.

It doesn't feel like it's baseball season, does it, though?

It feels too cold still.

It's cold and wet and muddy and shitty.

Fucking sucks, man.

I've been in Florida every weekend for the past three weeks.

So to go down there and it's 80 degrees and then to come home and it's fucking 30 degrees, I'm crying over here.

It gets me pissed off.

It makes me want to go online and make nasty comments about people.

Well, you can make nasty comments about the weather.

If you want to criticize the weather, that's okay.

Take it out on the weather.

But why not?

Why not?

And you can tell I just came from a room full of kids with cancer.

Why not

celebrate it a little bit, you know?

Yeah, the cold sucks, but what are you going to do?

You know, it's worse than the cold being dead.

True.

This is a very

optimistic look on the sunny side, Q.

I love it.

Do you?

Some is coming, baby.

So I like going over to Q's house and sitting there and just fucking ragging about shit.

Really?

Oh, I love it.

Love it.

That's always available to you, Brian.

Well, because we make ourselves laugh.

Visionary loves company.

Is that what's going on?

Could be, yeah, I don't know.

Well, I find when Brian and I get together, it's like

we're mainly ripping on ourselves.

Yeah, we're just trying to make ourselves laugh.

Yeah, we're just really making fun of ourselves.

Yeah, I don't know, Walt.

Today kind of shit.

Yeah, I remember the last time I did a

make-a-wish thing like this, I walked away feeling the same way.

That shine lasted for a few months.

Right, well, yeah.

Maybe I'm annoying right now.

It really affects you in a good way, I imagine.

It makes you more appreciative.

It has to, right?

I mean, you would have to be fucking insane not to walk out of dealing with something like that and then realize, you know,

all the shit that you were bitching about before means nothing to what those kids are going through and their families

yeah yeah it's heartbreaking stuff man right i remember i remember that affecting me when we were on doing a comic book man this family came in and they were on their way down to philadelphia to the children's hospital because the girl had eye cancer she was like fucking six or seven years old and i i wonder if like you were saying q like they're all playing with each other and they seem happy and they're doing their own thing uh maybe like conceptually like it's it's it's different for them because like for them to conceive of death

may be very difficult.

Whereas for people our age is like, oh, shit, look at these kids.

They don't know how fucking raw they have it.

I don't know, man.

I think these kids have faced a lot of painful surgeries and, you know, and realities and stuff.

I don't think they're ignorant to their

plight.

That's not the sense I got.

You did a complaining bitch in front of them?

You should have seen how long it took me to park.

Dude, I was like, I worked a fucking 14-hour day yesterday, kid.

How do you fucking feel about that?

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My grandfather started getting demented towards the end, so it's a concern.

I think if

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Yeah, they're just basically a different person.

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Walt, could I do a quick I Buy Comics segment?

Yes.

Because I have a recommendation that's that I think I don't know if you've even

this is more for you, but there's a comic book.

There was a comic book last year called Superman Space Age.

Have you heard about this one?

No.

Okay, it's the art was by

Mike Allred, who we know did Madman, you know, and it was written by a game guy named Mark Russell.

And the reason I'm bringing it up is because, one, the series is excellent.

And

it's a different take on Superman.

It's like set back in the 80s and whatnot.

But remember how we bagged on Pariah in Crisis so bad for being like a whiny cry like bitch?

They've managed to make pariah like a fucking cool ass character that I'm like, oh man, I hope that they do more with with this.

They just released the first issue of a Batman version of that series and Pariah is in it.

And for the first time in all my years of reading comics, I got fucking excited to see Pariah, dude.

It was wild.

The art is great.

The story's imaginative like Superman Space Age.

And so far, this first issue of the Batman version is a home run as well.

I think you would like it.

It feels like old school, fucking cool comics.

I'm going to check it out.

What's the Batman one called?

I think Dark Age.

Sparked.

Okay.

But Superman, Space Age, Batman, Dark Age.

Yeah.

And they're all like retro.

They're set like a little bit in the past.

Okay.

And dude, it felt like it felt like I was reading the comics that I read when I was

growing up.

Nice.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

And they made Pariah cool.

I mean, making Pariah cool is something I didn't think.

No fucking way.

Even Perez couldn't do it.

No, no, not at all.

Not at at all.

So, there you go.

That's iPycomics corner today.

Want to hear about a Vietnamese dude with an eel in his ass?

Of course.

What kind of question is that?

Live 12-inch eel removed from Vietnamese man's abdomen after it slid up his anus.

Now, I have to, you guys are going to have to put on your detective caps and see if you believe this.

A Vietnamese man had a live eel surgically removed from his abdomen, and doctors believe it slid up his anus.

They think the sea creature entered the man's body through his anus, slid through his colon,

and then was found after doctors performed an ultrasound and x-ray, which showed a foreign object was in his digestive tract.

It says the rectal area has a lot of fecal fluid and is easily infected with bacteria, but it was performed safely, so the surgery did not have any problems.

The eel caused intestinal perforation and periotontis.

Periotontis, a condition that causes inflammation in the stomach or abdomen.

And then the man was kept in the hospital after having abdominal pain, having having mild abdominal pain after waking up.

So my question is.

He definitely got it swimming.

Like he just took maybe a skinny dip.

Yeah, and then the eel was just like I don't think there's any funny business going on.

I don't think there was any.

I don't.

Why would you jump to the conclusion that he put it there on purpose?

Well, there was also statistics of like people who are like, it says over 400 people per year in Vietnam or the UK, I can't remember which one,

show up to the hospital with objects in their ass weight trying to get them out, like light bulbs and eels and all kinds of stuff.

I think you'd have to be

twisted to put a live eel there, though.

Well, what about like hamsters and gerbils?

I think those are urban myths.

Oh, I don't think that's ever happened.

I don't think that's ever happened.

I think that's the Richard Gere thing and the Rod Stewart thing.

I think they're all fucking urban legends and they never happened once and they just became lore

but yeah i i think no sane person he might if if he did do it on purpose he has to be insane then to put a live eel there's some aren't they electric uh some are not all

i mean electric eel i think he would probably he might have died because they zap pretty strongly have you ever seen like an electric like a person touch an electric eel it gives them a shock man it like knocks them back

so they're trying to jam it up your ass but that may be what he was going for though oh like like a like a vibrator almost yeah you might be right.

If that's what he, if he was doing it for pleasure, I think it was just a one in a million chances.

He was just going for a skinny dip, and heel happen to be there.

You know, they're laughing too.

You don't think so?

You don't think it's possible that

it just he was unlucky and it he just happened

to swim in it and saw a hole and thought it was a little cavern?

I mean, at what point do you just clench?

I mean, how much has got to get in there before you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Yeah.

Well, you think

it disappears like a spaghetti?

Clenching?

It's an eel.

It's going to keep going.

You can't clench forever.

What the fuck is up with this eel?

Like, I don't think that it's going to want to go up to a clenching, dirty, freaking-out asshole.

Like,

well,

compared to the Indian Ocean, I bet you that, you know, I'm sure it was a fucking day at the spa.

That guy's asshole.

I don't think that the eel probably thought it was dirty at all.

You bet people shit in that ocean?

I don't know.

The guy definitely stuck an eel up his ass.

I think he

engineered it.

Seriously.

Yeah, of course.

No way.

No way.

What maniac would do that?

Then he's mentally ill, then, right?

Like, he's a guy that's not.

I mean, seriously, like, like, he's probably like, he doesn't have a grasp on reality.

He's that out of touch with reality.

I believe so, yeah.

Yeah.

Like, he should be institutionalized.

I mean,

what's he hurting besides an eel?

Just let him go.

Like, let him fucking stick things to his own past.

What do I care?

I know a dude.

huh?

Okay, in a major award, right?

One of the three or four major awards.

Mafrica Ward.

Yeah, like Entertainment Awards, who told me for a fact that

he's used his award as a sex toy.

I think everything's gone up people's fucking ass.

On another person.

Unpicked up.

Big difference.

Big difference.

Well,

my Oscar.

I didn't say it was an Oscar, but

I wouldn't necessarily, yeah,

I wouldn't necessarily say that knowing this person that they

didn't put it up their own ass

at some point.

I think, I think if it exists, it's going up some dude's ass.

But

it's still a writhing creature.

Like, it moves.

It's a living creature.

But that's the best part is it's, it's, it's not just like stationary.

It's not static.

It's like, it's, it's wiggling around in your butt.

It's all wet.

Oh, no.

Making it feel good.

No way.

I think it was a total accident and probably

he

probably felt it, but just wanted to deny it, like to himself.

It was like, no,

I just didn't feel something go up there.

And it probably then by not acting on it and trying to deny reality, you know, it slithered further and further and further until then it became like, this isn't happening.

This isn't happening.

And then it became like, I got to go.

And no one's ever going to believe me, you know, that it was an accident.

Q's commenting it online right now.

The eel boy.

It was a boy.

It was a guy, yeah.

It was a man.

It usually happens to men, though.

So that kind of like it always blows my theory out the water, though.

It's usually like, you don't ever see girls run to the fucking emergency room with some weird eel up their ass.

It's always some laugh.

It's always some dude.

Yeah.

It's always some corny dude.

If it was a girl, would you be let more lead, would you be more able to believe her if it was an accident?

Well, no, because you've seen that tentacle porn

number.

What's that?

I said, you've seen that tentacle porn, so it's entirely possible.

Oh, that is the most repulsive fucking thing.

That tentacle porn.

Man, I can get through it behind a lot of fucking crazy shit, but that tentacle porn is.

So

you think that the man with the eel was into tentacle porn?

Is it possible?

I think that

there's probably an overlap.

Yeah, somewhere there.

It's horrible.

How come he can't sue the hospital for releasing his fucking records?

Well, I don't think they just said it was a guy.

They didn't give it a fucking.

But somebody at that hospital, though, leaked it, though.

There's only so much you can do, Walt, if a guy comes in with an eel up his asshole.

Like, we're all humans.

You got to tell someone.

You can carry that around on your own you should be able to find out who leaked that though

because that's wrong you're not supposed to leak medical issues like that man

they should open an investigation and really fucking bring down the house on this this guy where was it in he's unidentified yeah in cashmere he's in the kwang ning province oh boy wherever that is somewhere in vietnam i assume

that is brilliant i think they're being the doctors are being nice to him by saying like yeah he probably just slid through your butt We don't suspect you of anything.

Yeah, but why is it being reported, though?

You saw it online.

Right.

You know why the only reason it's for salacious.

Sure.

It's an oddity.

Do you think he started in

trying to get a girl to jam a finger up there or something?

And then he moved on to a carrot stick.

Then he moved on to a fucking,

to like a little vibrator.

Then he moved on, like he went up and up the ladder until there was nothing left besides like, I need a fucking eel up, Mike Keister.

Could be diminishing returns from the fingers and the carrot sticks and shit.

Yeah, you don't

start at an eel, is what I'm saying.

No, like, there's a journey there, yeah.

So, you think there may be different animals that have

that he has gotten to get up there,

or do you think this is the first live animal?

Maybe like an earthworm at first,

for all we know, this is his fifth eel, and this is the first one that went wrong.

You know, maybe the four eels before were just fine.

He was able to get them out with no problem.

People eat eels, too, right?

Yeah, I went to the fish store one time and they had a whole batch of eels in there.

I was like, who the fuck would eat this?

Giddam ever eat an eel?

No.

Nope.

Giddam says no.

Me and Giddam want to do a YouTube video about how to escape from quicksand.

We were talking about it today.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

We just don't know if there's any quicksand in New Jersey.

I would think probably not.

Wasn't it something you always feared as a kid?

Yeah, I think Sal does a bit, doesn't he?

Sal does a bit where he's like, I think quicksand, I always thought as a kid,

quicksand would be a much bigger problem in life when I got older.

But like as a kid in the 70s, man, you saw it on every TV show.

Yeah, there was always somebody getting caught like Gilligan's Island or

Land of the World.

So we're far away

from to find a real plot of quicksand.

Where quicksand would exist?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Let me check it out.

Could we make it?

Could we make you like a quicksand pit and see how it works?

Well, how would you go about that even?

It doesn't have to go like a natural occurrence.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean,

they used to make it for movies, right?

They used to make quicksands.

I don't think it was functioning quicksand in the movies, though.

It says from Alaska to Florida, but hotspots include the marshy coasts of the southeast, such as Florida and the Carolinas, and the canyons of southern Utah.

Southern Utah, northern something or other.

Kim told me he knows a sure, far way to get out of quicksand, too.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I would like to see get him in quicksand

battling his way out.

He told me with like with so much arrogance

and bravado that he'd be like, I'd be out in two seconds.

He'd be out of the quicksand in two seconds.

I don't know.

You don't believe it.

Neither did I.

Well, if you do make the video, just disable the comments.

Well, I'm going to wear a hat.

That's first off.

You got to go, Q?

Yeah, I got a couple more minutes.

Okay, all right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, unless you just want to fucking wrap it up.

No, no, I know.

I know you said you had to

go out.

Yeah,

I got a sick family member.

I got to to go deliver something to.

Never ends, bro.

You're out there, man.

You're fucking.

Taking care of sick people all day.

It is the fucking

craziest thing, man.

Every fucking weekend

is a tour weekend or a travel weekend for some shit.

I need a fucking day off, but here I am delivering.

I'm like a fucking nurse running around this goddamn island,

delivering hope to children in Manhattan.

I'm delivering drugs to old women on Staten Island.

What are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

I'm happy to be alive, Walt.

I'm happy to be able to provide this service for the people

assistance.

I'm here to serve.

Always have to do it.

The greatest thing a man can do is serve.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I got another, you know, 10 minutes or so for

the old TESD.

I got a route on that.

Did we know the results of the poll?

We do.

I can look them up right now.

Hold on a sec.

Oh, right, right.

The Will Rogers,

Tom Milazewski.

Did I just hang up on him?

Yeah.

Are you still there?

No, no, no, I'm here.

Okay, good.

Yeah, I'm here.

All right.

Let me see here.

I know I was crying about my hair, but I kind of looked at some of those comments about that episode, and I don't know if I should be crying about my hair.

Oh, why?

People were like weighing in very seriously.

Yeah, of course.

There's always some people who just fucking take it and just

go over the line.

I don't know know what it is with today's

listenership that they use.

Some of them, not all of them, but man, they just got to go, just got to go over the line and be mean.

I don't get it.

Yeah, why be mean to us?

What do we do?

And by us, like all the

people who are good enough and kind enough to come onto the show and try to provide some entertainment, you know?

Don't scare them off by like fucking obliterating them

and making them feel like shit.

Well, I get the feeling Tom's immune to that, right, Tom?

No.

Are we talking about?

No.

Really?

No, no, he's sensitive, man.

Yeah, he's not.

Really, Tommy?

I saw one time.

I felt so bad.

He said that he just wrote, I feel like I'm the Jar Jar Banks of TSD Town.

He wishes.

Right?

Like, it just ruined my weekend.

Yeah.

I felt so bad.

Did you go after him like you used to go after Jar Jar?

What do you mean?

Didn't you say like you had said some unsavory things about Jar Jar and he

no, no, no.

Somebody that Tom wrote that, that he felt like he was the Jar Jar Banks of TAC.

Right, right.

And it ruined my weekend because I felt that, yeah, I knew how he was feeling down,

and I felt horrible that he felt he had to write that.

He felt that down that he would go online and write that.

He had to tell somebody.

He wasn't telling his wife.

Right.

Because one, she'd be like, who the fuck's Jar Jar Binks?

And secondly, he's like, what do you mean?

He's the loser of the Star Wars universe.

Was that recent he said that to you?

He didn't even say it to me.

I just happened to see it online, and I was just like, and then I tried to send him some

pick-me-ups without trying to let him know that I had seen and posted,

you know, seeing his shame, you know, like trying to give him a little, like, you know, you're, you know, that was such a great job you did on this and this.

Hoping that he didn't realize I was just like,

Yeah, give him a little, give him a little pick-me-up.

Yeah,

Yeah.

I like Tom.

I like them all.

Everybody that comes by, we're all friends.

So I don't know why people don't realize that.

We are all friends.

So there is no need to write.

Sometimes you can write me personally on my email account to tell me how much you don't like somebody

or how they are destroying your enjoyment or something.

Just dial it down a little bit and just

before you send it, just throw it to yourself.

Read it and go, do I need to send this?

And I bet you,

99 out of 100 times, you'll say to yourself, I really don't need to send this.

I'm not going to get anything out of this.

Yeah, well, what people need to understand, too, and this is like the same as back in the Stern days, it's like a huge cast of people.

It's unlikely that you're going to fucking love every single one of them.

It's not like...

A guy like, say, Rush Limbaugh, right?

Where you're like, you either love him or you hate him or you just don't give a fuck, but it's one guy.

He didn't have like

he didn't have a group of other people that he would bring on, like regulars?

I don't think so.

No, I think he was too busy yapping.

But with a cast of characters like we have, it's like, sure,

not every personality is going to be suited to you.

You might not like that person, but it's like, so what?

You just got to live with it.

Because that's the way it is.

That's the way it is.

Yeah, plus, like, to me, it's like,

I mean, we've been doing this for so long.

Like,

who's still getting riled up about this show?

You'd be surprised.

Jesus Christ, guys.

You would think, yeah,

they all crossed over an age line that they don't have the energy anymore to fucking get to write nasty emails or post nasty comments.

No, now it's worse.

They're all ornery and cantankerous.

And just out of all that blue chew.

Yeah, like we're

not too far away from these people opening the newspaper and seeing that someone from the show has died.

And how are they going to feel then?

Right.

You know what I mean?

Horrible, you would think.

And they have Robert Bruce, for example.

You know?

Right.

Yeah.

But what do you got on the poll?

Who won?

At 64% to 36%,

Tom, the Jar Jar of Telling Steve Dave Town, has taken the title.

He's taken the title as Mr.

Overkill.

As Mr.

Overkill, yeah.

I think if you want to make somebody feel better, I think Will Rogers isn't feeling too good about it.

You know what?

Will, we'll find you another

Mr.

Something.

You're going to be Mr.

Something.

You mean like Mr.

Cleanup after we shoot something?

You can come and help the Hammerman.

Not really.

If Tom is Mr.

Overkill, we'll come up with another Mr.

title that you can go up against somebody else.

Well, what if he loses again, though?

That's okay.

Then we'll come up with another Mr.

Blank.

You know what Sage always tells me?

Sage is one of these people.

She goes, never give up.

Right.

Never give up.

Never give up, Dad.

I'm like, you're talking to the the wrong guy.

Tell him, Steve.

Sage and.

Oh, sorry, you.

Sage, go ahead.

I was going to say, Sage and Winston Churchill have the same advice about life.

Like, that's pretty cool.

We'll fight them on the beaches.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't know if Sage could have rallied Europe the way that Lynch Churchill did.

Probably not.

Wait, what's she talking about?

Before we do jump, because I have been thinking about Tom and Will since we we recorded that.

And I honestly thought Will, first of all, you didn't lose by that much.

He only lost by like 10%.

You know what I mean?

It's not that big of a gap.

I don't know what math you guys have on Staten Island.

It's more like 28%.

Well, you know, out of 100.

It's funny.

It's funny.

It's funny.

It's racist.

It is.

But

I thought he did a great job.

I thought

he clearly, it was important to him, and he loved it.

I felt like maybe, just maybe,

we didn't explain to him the assignment as well as we could have.

I don't know if he's going to be able to do that.

Come on, Walt.

Come on, Walt.

Waltz, Waltz, Waltz, come on, Waltz.

I don't want to get on.

I don't want to take the blame.

That's what he's trying to do.

That wasn't my fault, but I specifically and clearly wrote in a text what we needed.

But that's okay, though.

Because when he, both of those guys came in and provided, I thought, a banger of an episode.

and they will both come on again in the future and provide more content.

And

at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

It doesn't matter who won or lost.

Was the episode good?

I thought it was.

Some people did.

Some people didn't.

Just like fucking every other form of entertainment.

True.

Right.

Right?

And every episode of the show.

Right.

I don't get it sometimes.

It is confounding, but we'll find something

that that Mr.

Mr.

Will Rogers will become Mr.

Will Blank Rogers.

It's not overkill.

It's not overkill.

That ship has sailed.

Right.

But he's, but like we said, I think we said it to him off air where it's just like, dude,

you're already apart.

Like, you're already in.

You've got your foot in the door, and once you get your foot in the door,

it's hard to

find your way out the door.

Right, right.

So his loss was exactly what we needed from him, and he gave it to us.

And he's working on something right now that I am so excited for.

I can't wait this Halloween to announce.

And

it's going to be awesome.

And

he's great for TSD.

As is Tom.

As is everybody.

Everybody's a flower in TSD Town.

If you don't have something nice to say about somebody, say nothing.

But if you do have something nice to say, scream it from the hills of TSD Town.

If you have something nasty to say, just come tell me privately.

Tell us, Dave.

No, not Flake.

A fair to the Anna N.

We fire your friends.

We fight for your awesomeness.

Fire crafts.

Crisis for your uh

fire island.

Cause nap the baby.

Fire the bushes.

A fire na clowns.

Fight your fruits.

And it's wheat.

Fire fire house.

so it's rather.