#530: Cons-troversy

As soon as he's done pumping, we'll go out to eat.

Don't cry like Bry.

Houses of cards

fold more slowly than I did.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.

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

It's me, Bry, with Walt.

Yo.

And no BQ, BQ, he's gallivanting yet again.

So instead we have Frank Five.

Hello.

Fan favorite, Walt.

Listener favorite.

You know, one of the top draws, one of the top names.

He's up there on the marquee with Sunday Jeff.

There's no doubt about that.

Under him, definitely.

You think so?

You bow to Sunday Jeff?

Absolutely.

We all do.

This episode of Tolum Steve Dave is brought to you commercial free,

which is good for you guys, but not so great for us.

No, I just, I know people, like certain people, rely on it.

Okay.

And I know that I have a podcast that I look forward to weekly.

And if it doesn't come out, it is kind of like a little deflating.

All right.

Okay.

That's good.

So it's not for the money.

Ten years later, it's not for the money.

It's still motivated by the love of the art art of podcasting.

It's not about the dollars.

It's for the people.

Could you call it art?

Podcasting?

I think so.

Yeah.

I've never been more artistically

able to express myself in any other way than within the last 10 years.

So I definitely consider it a form of art.

Now, I'm not saying it's always funny or good, but

other people would agree with that from Twitter.

But, you know, I mean, trying different things or creating different people.

Even sometimes it's artwork, sometimes it's audio work.

It runs the gambit of how you express yourself.

All right.

Well said.

Nice.

And isn't that what art is?

It's like, you know, it appeals to some people and not to others.

Everybody sees what they want to see within the art.

I think Tell'em Steve Dave is the

crucifix dipped in

urine.

That's old Piss Christ.

Remember that?

Remember

in the 90s that was considered art?

People got very upset about Piss Christ.

As well, they should, like, not on a level of like, oh, this is sacrilegious, but on a level of like, seriously, you pee in a jar and put a crucifix in it, and then, like, everybody's supposed to pay attention to you, which they did.

I think he got, whoever did it got the exact reaction he wanted.

And

like Frank says, I mean, art can never be censored.

It should never be censored.

I don't care what it is.

It may be wholly against everything that I

stand for or, you know, it may offend me so much, but it's not so offensive that I'm like,

it can't be shown or it can't be see the light of day.

Yeah, it's strange.

I mean,

I am wholly against censorship.

However,

like when we did Vulgar, Blockbuster wasn't going to take it unless like these two scenes were removed.

Two ridiculous scenes, and I'm like, really?

That's it?

So not the rape, but the.

It was a bottle smashing over his head.

It was a bottle smashing over his head, yeah.

And then there was like one other little thing that I can't even recall what it was.

Did you stand tall or did you buckle to Blockbuster?

Houses of cards

followed more slowly than I did.

So I went for it.

I mean, because I didn't think I was in a position to be like, fuck Blockbuster at the time.

Now I can say it.

What are they going to do to me?

But back then, yeah, they were like, yeah, this is probably a good move.

And I

took a step back and considered it and was like, it's a bottle smashing on his head.

What's the big deal?

And I guess in the grander sense of things, it's like, it is a big deal because

if they wanted to go after that, what else are they going to go after?

Why do you feel they pick that?

Because I think people have to justify their jobs.

So if they give them a movie and they're like, no, everything checks out.

It's fine.

What use are they?

So they have to find stuff here and there.

They're not going to find it in your rated G-Fair or maybe even your rated PG fair, but something like Vulgar.

They're going to be like,

this is a no-brainer.

I can find something offensive in this.

And so we can strike it, and then I won't get fired.

Right.

You know.

I get it.

It's kind of like what I do at my job.

You know, somebody turns a paper in, and I feel like if I don't find something to correct, then it's going to look like I didn't read it or look at it.

So sometimes you go looking for things to mark.

Really?

Yeah.

So if somebody turns into something that's really good, you're like, fuck.

Yeah, no, I'm not disappointed if they're doing their work and they're doing it well.

But if I glance through something and I don't find any mistakes when I'm going through it, I will will go back and look at it even more

thoroughly to make sure that, hey, I didn't miss something.

Because, you know, you start getting like two or three papers and it's like everything is perfect.

It's like, all right, am I just tuning things out?

Am I not being as thorough as I should be?

You're questioning yourself more than the person who turned it in.

Absolutely.

I'm constantly questioning myself with everything.

But you said when you got down here to Jersey that it hasn't been the best month for Frank Five.

No.

What happened?

Like, what's been.

I don't know.

I don't know what's going on.

Why is the cloud over my head?

The dark cloud is over my head.

I read something last night that said, like, all these different planets are not aligned, but in something, you know, and people are putting the blame on the planets or whatever.

And I kind of have to believe something

is a missed for this to happen.

I mean, it's just been one of those things.

It's been one of those months where it's been constant.

You know, every little

thing has seemed seemed to have gone wrong.

Like, you know, the first,

like two weeks ago, I was sitting in my house and all of a sudden I heard a big bang and my garage door springs broke.

And just

while they're down.

The door is down and you just heard the sneak the spring snap.

Like we thought somebody broke in.

So I did what anybody would do.

I sent Mary to go see if somebody was in the basement.

And

when she didn't find anybody, I went into the garage and I looked and you could see it.

The spring broke.

And then naturally, without the spring, the door is like 5,000 pounds.

You can't lift it.

So I had to call the garage people and have them come out.

And it's funny because I had just gotten my first paycheck.

I have a new job at the college.

So I'm getting paid a little bit more money.

And I made the mistake of being happy because I said to Mary, I said, this is great.

That's your first one.

I agree with you.

Yeah, I agree too.

Never go walk around with a stupid grin on your face.

Like, everything's great.

That was just, that's exactly what I said to her.

It's everything's great.

Right again.

And I said, oh, you know what?

We're making a little bit more money.

I says, this is great, you know?

And then immediately after I did that, garage door springs broke.

$400 to replace the garage door springs.

And I'm like, all right, you know,

we have it.

I said, so, you know, we'll pay it out and everything.

And then it was like three days later, Mary calls me and she goes, the septic is acting up.

That septic has been the bane of my existence since we moved into that house.

Now, is everybody in upstate New York on septic?

Are there no like sewers?

No, if you live in, like we live in a little bit more of a rural area.

So rural areas are on septic.

If you're in a city or a suburb, it's

have you always lived with a septic tank?

I've always lived with sewers.

Oh, okay.

So this is the first time you ever deal with a septic tank.

Were you leery when you bought the house?

You're like, I don't know about this.

No, because Mary insisted that there was no difference.

I don't want to have.

Was she wrong?

Oh, she couldn't be more wrong.

She couldn't be more wrong.

Has she come from

living in a, with never having a sewer?

She lives around the corner from where we live now.

She grew up in a house around the corner.

Never having a sewer.

She grew up in an area where it is known that the septics are failing constantly.

And there's, you know, having shit come up in a, in a, in a, in a shower is, oh, that's just what happens.

No biggie.

Yeah, no biggie.

Show up.

Your feet are brown for a couple of days.

Waffle stock.

Looks like you're wearing socks.

It's horrible.

So I'm always afraid of that because when we first moved into the house, Mary and I were upstairs.

We were there like a year.

And we went downstairs to do a laundry.

And I went downstairs.

I'm like, geez, something smells kind of funny.

And when we went downstairs,

the septic had backed up to the point where

the waste came into the basement portion.

So it didn't just stay stationary in the bathroom.

It came into.

Yeah, there's water, which sucks, but then there's something way worse than water.

And like we were so, like, we didn't know what to do.

Like, we stood there just staring at each other for a minute because we were that devastated.

Because, like, who's going to clean this?

Like, who's going to make the first move?

We need to get rambling off.

You?

Oh, yeah.

I had to clean it.

Yeah.

How come?

She just said she refused or she left.

She was like, she goes like this.

She goes, we'll call the people tomorrow.

And she goes upstairs, and I'm like, there it is.

Swamp shit everywhere on the floor.

So you could have been like, okay.

But it really,

to the point where you got downstairs and like you just smelled.

Thank God the whole basement wasn't refinished.

Like when you guys came and you saw it, it wasn't to that point.

But there's no.

You hadn't had your 8x10s up yet?

I didn't have any of that stuff up yet.

That's why I'm like so neurotic whenever if we hear a different gurgle or if it's something.

So I had to get the shop back and I'm sucking everything up and then we had to get towels and it's, I can't describe to you how horrible that is.

It's just a horrible feeling.

And only the people, only the people who are on septic, who have had an issue, will understand what I'm saying.

I can hear your voice.

I know.

Like,

I was passionate about it.

It was the trauma that you went through.

It was horrible.

It was horrible.

I mean, you got to.

But it's always in the back of your mind.

It could happen again.

Always.

It's always in the back of my mind.

I mean.

And whose fault was it?

It was just.

I can't blame any of us.

It was just.

The problem is, is where we live, it's clay, is the soil.

And clay is not an absorbent soil.

So when they built the houses where we live, people put a lot of topsoil.

Well, where our particular house, there just isn't as much topsoil, so it's clay.

So what happens is the water and runnage will go out into the leech field where the water is supposed to drain out into the dirt.

But because it's all clay, it will sit there and not absorb.

Like regular dirt, like if I go out and pour a thing of water outside of like your backyard, for example, a couple seconds, it's gone.

You could feel it and it's dry.

Where with me, you know, it'll take like a day or two for that to go.

So, if you do a lot of laundry or you flush the toilet a lot or whatever, there could be a chance that you have a lot of swappage in the backyard.

So, that's what that's just, it's just the way it is.

Now, how come in 2022,

the town hasn't just been like, all right, we're the borough hall meetings, like you like,

the residents aren't like,

it's fucking 2022.

Can we get a sore line in it?

We don't like Leechfields.

Well, here's the issue with that.

There's a story behind that, too, because I said that after the first shot.

Did you rally the neighbors?

They're like, we got a store in Burrough Hall.

I didn't rally.

Pitchforks.

We're going to put them there.

I was standing there in the middle of the toilet jeaner.

The brush, and I was like, come on.

Or a plunger.

The plunger.

No, because originally, before we moved into the house, like maybe 10 years before we moved in,

they got city water.

So, usually, when you live in a rural area, you could have well water, or it's usually well water and septic systems.

So, they just dig a well into the ground, and that's where your water comes from.

Where we lived, our water was contaminated.

I mean, it sounds like we're living like in Chernobyl, you know, yeah, it really does.

But, but, um, so they brought up city water for us.

Now, when they were bringing up all the pipes for the city water, they said, while we're bringing up city water, we can bring up the sewers lines as well.

So then you guys would get tapped into the sewers.

But the problem was, is that you have to pay for that.

So every person on the road pays for it until it gets paid off.

So it ended up being $5,000 per person who owned property.

There was one neighbor who owned like six lots and didn't want to do it because he never had a septic problem.

So because it got voted down, because he owned so many lots.

Oh my God, so it literally, you know, that person caused you not to have a sewer line.

Yes, that's exactly it.

Do you resent him?

I like him a lot, but there are certain times that I resent him.

Yes, like when the first

fucking doesn't say when your floor is covered with shit.

Yes.

When I was like ankle deep in goop and stuff.

And then, you know, when I got the phone.

And she always calls me like, Mary, well, she'll never just wait until like I get home.

It's like I'm in the middle of teaching a class, and I get a text message that says, the sewer's backing up.

And I'm standing there teaching.

It's like, what am I supposed to do at this point?

So now I got to go another 40 minutes of talking and then immediately call her back.

Like, how is it backing up?

I mean, is it in or is it just gurgling and water is starting to come up?

What's going on?

So.

So this is.

How many times has this happened since you've three times this week?

Thankfully, we've only had one backup.

Okay.

One major backup.

And then this last time that Mary was like, and so we've gone in between, we've gone like 10 years between like a backup, so it's not horrible.

But, like I said, I'm just so scarred from the first.

Oh, yeah.

And so when I got home, I looked and it was like water was coming up in the shower.

It wasn't like waste yet.

I'm like, all right, well, that's not bad because you waited a long enough time and then it went back down.

I called the septic people.

They're going to come and pump and check everything out in another couple days or whatever.

I'm like, that's fine.

So I'm sitting down there and I'm just doing laundry.

Now I'm like nervous.

I said, so I sat in the basement while we did laundry.

And as the laundry and the washer was emptying, I heard the gurgling.

And I went over to the fucking shower, and all of a sudden, you just start seeing the water come up.

I'm like, all right, not too bad.

You know, it's like you're praying, like, you know, if you overflow toilet, like, please put it on.

Yeah, yeah.

And then all of a sudden, it's like, oh my God, look at all that dirt that's starting to come up.

And then I'm like, look at the toilet paper.

I'm like, oh my God, it's like dirt.

It's like dirt.

Shut the washer.

Shut the washer.

And then it was like, I just closed the bathroom door that was down in there.

And I'm like, let's not do any laundry or anything until they come.

Now, now, this is just your residence, or is this everybody on the streets dealing with this?

Um,

it's certain, certain, it's funny, certain people have an issue, and certain people don't on the road.

So, that's why I don't think you'll ever get the sewers there because there's not enough people who would be like, Yes, I'm willing to spend the five or ten thousand dollars to do it.

Like, my sister lives across the street from me, and they had a septic problem, but they just went in and put in a whole new septic system, which was like, you know, it's like 15 grand to do that.

So they're not going to do it.

And the people on the lower road, we overlook the city, so we're on a hill.

They never have any issues because they're at the bottom of a hill.

It just goes off to the side of the hill.

So it's,

I guess, really just me.

There's no hope for you.

There's no, yeah, oh, please.

There's no hope with that.

There's no hope with anything.

Yes.

And didn't you tell me, though, that the septic guy's coming?

Huh?

The septic guy,

you schedule the septic

visit.

So you're only You're really in the shitter.

So

this shows how important you guys are to me.

So they're like, we can come right out there as soon as you need us.

And because of my work schedule and everything, I'm like, it's got to be on a Friday because that's my lightest day.

I only have two classes on Friday.

And they're like, all right, we can come down this Friday.

I'm like, no, I'm going out of town.

I'm going to New Jersey this Friday.

And then next week, I'm babysitting my niece.

I says, you can't come there.

And they're like, all right, well, we can come the next Friday.

And I said, I'm going to New Jersey again that next Friday.

And he says, well, how about this next Friday after that?

And I'm like, yes, let's do that date.

A month from now?

Yeah.

So Mary comes home and she's like,

do you call the septic people?

I'm like, yeah, they're coming.

And she's like, when are they coming?

And I says, like three Fridays from now.

I says, September 23rd.

And she goes, oh, nice, Frank.

Fuck, that's my birthday.

They're coming on my birthday.

And I'm like, well, what do you want me to do?

I said, do you want me to,

do you want me to have them come like a week later?

Or do you want me here when they're here?

And she's like, well, I thought we were going to go out to eat eat and i thought it was going to be romantic and i says as soon as he's done pumping we'll go out to eat

that's really what i said

so yeah so that's what we're doing september 23rd

and it's and you know what nothing is cheap with a septic system that's the thing that really gets me is like i know the leech field has to be replaced so you have to get an excavator they have to dig out tons and tons of dirt, lay rock and soil and everything.

So it's like you're looking at at least 15 to 20,000 to do do that is how much it's going to cost for them to do all that stuff.

So it's like I keep trying to put it off because eventually I'm hoping to just retire and move.

See, you're not the only guy, bro.

That's dealing with some

home issues.

I brought my list of issues with me.

Oh, nice.

None of them are going to match that, I don't think, right?

I hope it's all handled.

I'm not going to outdo Frank.

I wasn't cleaning up shit with a shop pack

or

no leech fields in my stories.

No, but maybe there is something to this plan and alignment thing you're talking about because my garage also broke.

I have like electric garage doors.

Well, had electric garage doors.

And

all of a sudden, they just stopped working this week.

The pad stopped working with the code, all that shit.

You call them out there?

Not yet.

Not yet.

I'm doing too much other shit to worry about garage doors right now.

Wait for Mary Bett's birthday.

Yeah.

The filter for the pool stopped working.

Just won't turn on now.

So that's why, like, when you came over the other day, the pools are kind of murky looking and shit.

And also,

there's a cricket in my car.

I can't find him.

I find that to be the funniest one.

Crickets are nasty.

Yeah, I don't like them.

Yeah, they don't do anything, but boy, they're nasty.

I don't like them in my house, man.

It drives me nuts.

I haven't had one in quite some time.

Yeah, I couldn't find the bastard.

He's in there somewhere.

Playing you a song every time you get in there.

Yeah, exactly.

And then as soon as you get in there, he stops.

You can hear it from the outside.

Pool's going.

I mean, other than that, everything else is going well.

Everything is well.

It's just, it's...

I guess the other day marked a month.

since we actually like bought the house and

painting took up a lot of time a real lot of time.

And then there were a couple moves.

Moved last Sunday, tried to get the fucking refrigerator out of the house.

It got dented and banged up and like ball bearings falling out and shit.

Thank you to everybody who helped me with the door thing, though.

I went on Twitter to

ask some people how to get the door off.

And now, just like a little bit of shit left at the old crooked house.

I'd say we're like 95% out of there.

How good is it going to feel to just walk away from that other house and shut the door behind you?

It'll feel great.

It'll feel good.

Well, the other day, like, my neighbor told me, because, you know, I threw out our mattress and Sage's mattress, and they're like, oh, well, bulk pickup's not going to take that.

And I said, why not?

And like, you got to wrap it in plastic.

And I don't know if that's for like the rain or

he said bed bugs.

He's like, because people have bed bugs and they don't want to get them on them.

So like you have to wrap it in plastic.

And I'm like, this could turn into a landlord problem.

Yeah.

You know, just fucking leave it there.

Don't wrap it up and fucking pull up stakes and just go, man.

Like, because I don't want to deal with it.

Frank, I know you're not caught up on

Tele Steve David, seems, right?

Right.

I listened to the quitastrophe one.

Okay.

I did hear that one.

So then you are familiar with my...

My admitted distaste for

Chuck Taylor's.

Oh, well, I didn't even have to listen to the podcast for that.

It was all over Reddit, Twitter.

Really?

See, I don't read Reddit.

What were they saying?

Were they backing me?

It was all over Reddit.

You know what?

It was 50-50.

Let's say that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Then I doubled down and talked about Disney, and I've got even more shit for it.

Yeah.

Like,

who is championing Disney at this point?

They're like the most

money-hungry

corporation.

And like I read an article the other day about Disney, Disney World

in Florida.

And

they were saying that the prices, they're like, it's like rides are broken, shit's dirty, like stuff is in the streets.

They're like, it's not the Disney experience that like, say,

you or I were accustomed to when we used to go back in the 90s and shit, where the place is like perfection,

that they're like, they're like, this shithole should not command the prices, the ticket prices that they're charging.

What they're gouging should make everybody who backs Disney.

And I'm talking to you, Chris LaDondo.

It's time, you know, you open up, you talk about a lot, you bring everybody to task for other issues.

Now, here's one that is close to your heart.

Maybe it's time to go out online and start shaming Disney for what they are doing, man, the price gouging,

pricing out certain people

of economic situations who cannot go there there any longer.

I mean, Disney is

just,

it's vile.

I mean, what they were charging.

Yeah.

You know who doesn't price gouge?

Tell them Steve Dave.

How come?

Patreon.com/slash tell him Steve Dave.

Same 2020 prices hasn't gone up a nickel.

We started in 2020?

I think we started it before that.

We started before that, but like 2020 is like when people started raising prices because of shortages.

Yeah, you're right.

You know, the pandemic hit, and we weren't like, you know,

give us more.

Yeah, give us more.

No supply chain issues.

No.

No shortages of supply.

Yeah, our supply chain has been on time every time.

It's constant.

Yeah.

What's that look for?

No, I'm just looking for.

Yeah, but my original point being that

you don't have to listen to me.

If you like wearing cons, you go ahead and wear your cons.

You want to wear Disney shit at fucking 35?

Hey.

Just know people are judging you.

But if you're okay with it, then you're the stronger person.

But, you know, and

Chris told me why he loves Disney so much.

What is it?

We had this conversation

not because I was putting him under the spotlight.

I just needed him to give me some information regarding a project.

And

he said why he loves Disney so much is the tradition of him going with his family,

which a lot of families can't do or start now or continue because of what Disney's doing, but also

the

character-driven storylines that were like, if you struggle and you are behind the eight ball,

if you try,

you know, you're going to succeed or you're going to triumph.

And he likes the messages in the Disney movies.

Except for Song of the South, especially Song of the South.

He didn't mention that one.

I didn't throw that one in his face either.

What about this?

But I'm like,

are those

realistic, though?

I mean, a lot of people

love Disney, but

is that message played out at this point, though?

It should be.

It definitely should be.

It's been proven time and time again that it doesn't matter how hard or how bad you want something.

The misfit, the mighty ducks are going to go from

worst to first.

It's like,

I kind of think we've seen this before many, many times.

Beaten the drums since, what was it, 76 with Bad News Bears?

Yeah.

Like, same thing.

Yeah.

Disney, I mean, it's just like, I'm really surprised that Ledondo supports it as.

You know what Ledondo should do?

Next time you're going to go to Disney, you take that purse, you give it to a migrant family, and you send them to Disney, motherfucker.

Right?

Yeah.

I think that's what you ought to do.

Disney's lucky, though, that they have built up, they've been around for so long, that they've built up so much goodwill and so much

love from the public,

from the creators from so long ago.

Because if the people who are putting out the Disney shit right now are starting from scratch,

fuck it.

Ain't nobody going to your parks now.

And they should fucking remember that, that the guy, the pioneers, the guys like Disney and the people that he brought into

the fold to create that

magic,

you know,

they're the guys that are why you're making zillions of dollars.

Yeah, like all the shit you want to change or rewrite or whatever.

Yeah.

That's that's the shit that, like, like it or not, that the castle is built, the foundation the castle is built on.

Yeah.

When was the last time you were at Disney, Frank?

We went probably about five, six years ago.

Uh, we had a um, we were going on a cruise, my wife and I, and we stayed overnight in Florida.

And I had

I actually had a they used to give out

you used to be able to buy park passes that didn't expire.

So I actually had a a pass that was like 15 years old, you know, that I still had and I used.

And then we bought Mary her pass.

Crowded?

It was very crowded.

Yeah, I don't think it was crowded.

It's not crowded.

No?

It's always crowded.

Yeah.

Last time I went was with a couple of years ago with Troy.

We went down with Troy and his family, and I had a great time

independent of Disney.

Just hanging out with Troy was the fun part.

And Sage is like, Sage is not an amusement park person.

She likes rides.

What she doesn't like is the walking around, especially in the sun.

Oh, yeah, who does?

Yeah.

So

she would much rather just, like, I can bring her down to Florida,

skip every park, as long as the place has a pool.

Like, that's all she gives a shit about.

So

it's not cheaper.

Yeah, now that you have a pool, do you think you'll have to go more places or you could stay home?

Staycations.

I don't know.

I mean, I would like to say staycation, but I can't get the goddamn chemicals right in this pool, man.

And it seems like nobody I know.

It's like, I mean, Walt was like, yeah, I can never do it.

You just told me that you can never do it.

I couldn't do it.

When he had a pool, he filled in his pool.

It was put dirt in it.

It was cheaper for me to fill it than to try and fix it.

Wow.

So I was like, just cover it.

That shows you how difficult it is.

You've got to be a mad scientist.

Yeah.

To get it right.

Yeah.

So I was about to vacuum it out the other day and then the goddamn filter wouldn't work.

So I'm like, is there a reset button on it or do I need a new filter?

And if I need a new filter, what the fuck?

Like, I have to get it now so that you can blow out all those lines with the water in them to like, uh, so they don't freeze over the winter.

Oh, yeah, you have to put the antifreeze in the lines.

Yeah.

Like, I don't, like, I don't know anything about that.

But what Frank told me was that he was like, even up by where he lives, pool people,

by and large, are not very helpful.

They sell you shit you don't need.

And then when you're like, hey, can you give me a hand with

this thing?

I have no idea what I'm doing.

They're like, no.

You have to be on contracts.

Well, I think that's because they're like constantly hit up for free advice.

If you worked in a field where you only made money in July and August, I'd spread my knowledge.

Yeah, yeah.

Not like Johnny Appleseed over there.

Bullshit.

You would be so fucking bitter about all the people, like, even friends who were just like, can you believe fucking Troy yes me about his pool?

He knows how to make money in July and August.

You know, you would be resort to that.

Even as dear friends were like, hey, Ry, I know you know the pool game better than anybody.

I need a little help.

I need a little free bit of advice on how to get this to work.

Damn.

It would be miserable.

Well, Troy, let me tell you.

Even if Q didn't, you'd be ranting and raving to marry Beth.

You leave this guy all the money in the fucking world.

You just got to come to me for fucking free advice.

And it's like so demeaning when you go because it's like, you know, you bring your little sample and it's like you're at their mercy.

They're behind a big counter and you're like, you know, it's like Oliver Twist.

Here's my sample of water.

And they'll figure everything out.

And they're like, all right, you need that bucket, that bucket, that bucket.

And then it's like, all right, so now what do I do?

I mean, do I just dump everything all at once?

Or, you know, what am I supposed to do?

And they never even want to help you with that.

Well, I'm not going to tell you that no that's extra I would just google it you both you well you don't have to you filled yours in

I would just google some videos on how to do it and just watch a whole bunch and then you know devour them as many as you can and you'll figure it out but back to the pool guys though I think it's easy though

it's not right but it's so easy when you're you know you know you're only making it's the end of August

you know like oh shit you look at the calendar you're like this is it man I mean I only got a few more weeks to make money off this You see that fucking dope walk-in.

Hello, Mr.

Johnson.

Still having problems with your cool.

I'm Mr.

Johnson.

I wouldn't believe it.

I think it's adaptation.

And it's wrong, but boy,

when you know you got a long winter ahead of you, you got to, like a squirrel,

you got to store some nuts.

And struts a pigeon.

It struts a dude who's just looking to get his nuts fucking taken from him.

I don't know anything.

Can you please help me?

It's just too easy for them to be like, I'm going to sell them this, this, and this.

And I have too much of this on this

of this concoction.

I have too much of this.

And if I don't get rid of these, they won't make it till next season.

So,

you know, God forgive me, but I'm going to have to sell it to this guy because I got to eat too.

I think that's just what happens in some industries.

I'm like, you're so kind.

You saved me.

You have like that hope as you're walking back to the car with all these $200 worth of chemicals.

This is going to take care of the day.

You're going to save the day.

Now, are there pool

people who are listening to TSD right now who are like outraged that I would say that?

Not all pool people.

Right.

Of course, we're not saying all pool people would do that.

But I mean, I don't want to paint the whole pool industry as crooked.

So far, that's

you know.

The same thing happened when we, uh, a couple weeks back, Labor Day, we went to get a mattress because, you know, I threw the other ones out.

And when I go in there, I'm like, all right, there's like 50 mattresses in this place.

And I'm like, the guy comes up to me and I just, it feels like you're buying a car,

you know, because you're like, he's like, well, this one does this and this one does this.

But he's not showing me certain ones.

So I'm like, well, the one that he's showing me that he thinks is so great for us is they're a higher profit margin on this.

And that's why he's pushing this one.

Because I don't know, I'm not Matt or Savvy.

Well, the very fact that you think he wouldn't do that

shows that you are not Matt or Savvy.

You are not Mavavyvi.

I know, I know.

You know that.

If you're the salesperson, bro,

what matches are you going to try to push the most?

The one that has the biggest profit margin on the bottom?

I guess the one that I'm going to make the most money on.

That's what I mean.

Like, I know that's what he's doing, but how is

Brian Johnson not like, why are you pondering this?

I don't know.

What's up?

What happened?

I know.

I used to be so much more cynical.

It's like when I walked through, I'd be like, all right, fuck face.

Don't even try it.

But yeah, I asked him, I did say, like, why did you show us any of the mattress in a boxes type thing?

You know, purple or Casper anything.

To tell you the truth, I don't really like them and blah, blah, blah.

But like, I don't know why not.

I don't know the wholesale price of every fucking mattress in this place or even one.

YouTube is your friend.

Yes, you got to go.

You got to do a little bit of homework.

See, I'm watching the wrong shit on YouTube.

Yeah, you're watching death videos.

You're watching people getting their face peeled off, you know, by the cartel.

And then you're walking in, and basically the same shit's happening to you, but it's your fucking wallet.

Yeah.

I underwent you all every store you walk into.

Yeah, I'm like, how much do you think I should pay?

I want a good night's sleep.

Can you check my pool water while I'm here?

Oh, God damn.

It is a cynical way to go through life, but you got to.

Everybody's looking to fucking steal from you.

Well, that's, you know, everybody's looking to make

what they need to make.

Yeah.

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

And if you don't think that's the way of the world, then you're naive and you know, you better see if they got a permanent residence in Disneyland.

Because everybody is looking out for themselves.

Everybody is, especially in the industry of like

sales.

Right.

Nobody, nobody, nobody is looking out for the fucking total stranger that walks through the door that you're never going to see again.

Why would they?

Because

we as humans should.

We should take care of each other.

I'm not saying that they're going to

bend them over and have their way with them.

But don't think for a second, though, that

they're more like, well, I got to do good by this total stranger.

They got an agenda that they got to meet, whether it's their own or the company's.

I just think that's the way I would

approach the shit.

Yeah, I think you're right.

I mean, as soon as the guy comes up, like, he's friendly, and like that makes me suspicious immediately.

Like when he's like overly friendly, hey, how you doing today?

You know, I never did that.

So and so.

And I worked in sales for 20-some years.

I never did it, though.

I never was like try to sell somebody like a $100

book.

I would always try to be honest.

So maybe there are.

Maybe I am painting a two broader stroke

on the sales

person industry because I didn't do it.

You know, I would be honest with people.

I'd be like, oh, you're looking for something really good.

I would say what I liked, but I would ask, what do you like?

and try to

tailor it to what their interests were.

And I never tried to

grab somebody and be like, you know what you need?

You need this.

And it's like, it's hot right now.

And it's $100.

And if you don't buy it this week, it's going to be $150 next week.

And you're going to come back and you're going to pay more.

Never did it.

And I can sleep like a baby, no, and I never did that to anybody.

No customer can walk out of there going, like, I tried to like

doink them

you know with a bad comic right yeah i can hold my head up high frank you know i can walk into heaven i wish more people were like you yeah but especially pool people garage door people yeah

people but was it because i didn't work on commission no so wait no there's no way i mean you think if you worked on commission you would have been different

if i'm not making if if i know i can get this this guy looks like he wants to spend money and i know i didn't make as much money last week as

I'm getting some grief at home.

And I'm like, oh my God, we got this bill coming up.

I cannot sit here and say that I would not be tempted to, like, especially working on commissions, it can make people do desperate shit.

And I would almost understand it, though.

But it's fucking caveat emptor, isn't it?

If you're out there, buy or beware.

Yeah.

If you're not, you know, don't

cry like Bry.

Yeah.

I was weeping openly right in front of Mary, but

we're getting screwed by the pool and the mattress people.

Well, I told her, I did tell, like, I told her when we were there, I'm like, I don't know, I just don't trust this motherfucker.

Like, he's out for himself, he doesn't give a fuck.

And, like, I was like, we got to try more beds than he just shows us, you know.

And did you?

Yeah, we sat on some, and then eventually we went with the one that he suggested because it was the best one.

You know what?

There might be, there might be some Boy Scouts out there like me.

Yeah.

There might be some Boy Scouts out there that are going to try to do right by customers.

And if you're happy with the purchase and you're getting a good night's sleep,

why torture yourself going like, he fucked me?

I'm a rube.

Mary Beth's like, what?

What?

You woke me up.

Will you go to sleep?

Yeah, why put yourself through the ringer like second-guessing yourself if you're happy with the purchase.

I am happy, but it's like if I'm like, oh, I could have paid $500 less.

Oh, okay.

Well, that would kill me.

Well, yeah, that would kill me.

Have you found out that you could have?

No.

Okay, well, then don't look.

It's like it's really, like, they make it so difficult to comparison shop with anything.

Like, you look for a TV, you're like, all right, there's fucking three different kinds of TVs, and out of those three different kinds, there's fucking 50 models of each.

Same thing with the mattresses.

I'm like, well, I don't know.

I don't know which one's the best one or which one is.

And they give you

two minutes to lay on each one.

How are you going to know what's going to work for you?

Now, Frank,

I consider you to be

an honest person.

I sit there and go, I would trust him.

Put in that position,

you're no longer the professor.

You're pushing mattresses

on commission.

Which could be if I'm not grading things the way I should be.

Except it tank blue.

Big time.

Mary's swimming and shit in the basement.

Last month.

So now

you have a big bill that you did not account for.

It has played havoc with your finances.

You sell a couple upscale mattresses and you can soften the blow for you personally and your wife and your family.

Are you going to be not trying to push a higher-end mattress this month?

Or are you going to stick to your guns and be like, that little old lady who came in, she doesn't need,

she doesn't need to sleep on the hand of God.

She can sleep

on a shitty old box spring that she could pay less, like $500 less for, or are you going to be tempted?

Oh, God.

You know what?

I'm going to be honest with you.

I want to say that

I would be honest because I've done it before.

I've sold things before.

Not that

my happiness is hinged on it, but I've sold things on Craigslist or whatever.

And when I've met the person, you know, maybe you see they're not driving the nicest car or, you know, and I've given it to them for less than they were coming to buy it for.

But you're in a position right now where you can do it.

Right.

Now we're saying your finances are in fucking

great havoc.

Yeah.

Because of this unexpected catastrophe.

This exploded septic tank.

It's exploded.

You know, it

you would only be human, no?

Like, you know, know, you see somebody who's like, I want the best.

Are you going to be like, okay, you immediately give them the best?

Are you going to be like, well, you don't really need the best, sir?

I can put you in a mattress today for that's $500 less and it's just as good quality.

Are you going to be like, you know what?

Take in the commission.

This guy wants it.

Yeah, I guess if it's not.

Well, I mean, if I had gone through

the door being like, excuse me, he's got the time to make an announcement.

My name is Brian Johnson.

I was on TV seven years ago.

I would like the best.

i want to be cradled by hands god

while i sleep

well i know you didn't walk in and say it but it's just your

you think i went in with swagger yeah i i just know you you walk in you you just you just ooze like i want the best though yeah you're not looking for uh you know to cheap out

yeah i guess but you you still want the dance though you want that you want the salesperson to dance and show you you know the cheaper model that's true Well, that's what we got for the guest room.

Sorry, Frank.

Lumpy masters.

Yeah, I would probably, like you said, I probably would cave a little bit.

I would, I really want to believe that I wouldn't, but I think if you're put in that desperate of a situation where that's what you should, it's like sometimes, you know, maybe you walk in with that attitude too.

Like, you know what, that guy, you know,

he's not a jerk for trying to like upsell me.

That's his job.

So we have to be more vigilant as customers.

Yeah, Yeah, it's on you and me.

Yeah.

Joe Blow.

Speaking of your septic tank thing, I was,

you know, we've been hauling shit out of the crooked house, bringing it to the new house.

Now,

last Sunday, we're recording this on a Sunday.

So the previous Sunday, I had Edgar and my nephew and my niece's boyfriend.

They were helping me carry shit back and forth, like heavy stuff.

And

that was it.

So most of the house was cleared out.

Now the next day, I went over to like get odds and ends and like shit that wouldn't fit in the truck or was too delicate for the truck or whatever.

And I'm sure, 100%

sure,

that I used that bathroom and flushed it.

But I didn't like no number two or anything like that.

Just pissed.

Now the next day, which would be Tuesday,

I went back to the house.

I'm getting more odds and ends.

I go up to the bathroom.

I open up the lid.

There's two massive logs in it.

Like, massive.

Now, with regular sewer systems, this is what I wasn't sure about.

Can stuff come back up?

It can, but it only happens if, like, there's a major, like, if there's a major rainstorm or something.

Why are you asking Frank?

He doesn't know anything about sewer systems.

I've had sewer systems.

I know my shit.

Yeah, but I mean, that's the guy you wouldn't go to for sewer sewer questions.

That's true.

Going for a nun for sex advice.

In my

belief from when I used to have sewers, is that the only time it would back up if there's a plug or if there is like a heavy rainstorm or something that blocks everything.

So I know what you're asking.

More than likely, somebody didn't flush.

Who else would have access to the house, though?

Nobody would have, except me.

Now,

the landlord does come by from time to time, but like I hide the keys and they don't have a key.

Oh, I'm sure they still have a key.

So the house.

I change the locks.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, like when I got there, I changed the locks.

So they're like, you're really naive.

Like, and those cameras, I don't think they work.

So

how are you?

So I'm like, did somebody come in the house somehow

do this and leave?

But then I'm like, I had like my, like, all my watches were still there.

And, like, there was stuff that was like valuable that was still in the house.

Like, nothing was touched.

But how'd they get in?

I don't know.

Like, the wind, some of the, some, the wind.

Who were you with that day?

It was just me.

Just you.

I was the only one in the house all day.

Mad crapper.

Maybe you, maybe you just had a, like a blackout.

You think so?

Yeah, and you just had, you know, and you went up there and you you did, you know, you don't even remember, you did number two.

I started second guessing myself, I gotta tell you.

But I'm just like, no, it wasn't me.

The only other thing is I'm like, did I not really go to the bathroom on Monday?

That's where I start second-guessing myself.

And somebody really did leave it from Sunday.

But there was like the other thing that I noticed, and this is disgusting, because first,

when I got there on Tuesday, it was me and Mary Beth, and we went in.

And when I saw, like, when I went to go to the bathroom,

take a piss.

How long were you in the house before you went in there?

Minutes.

She didn't have any.

Is it possible she went in there?

No, but I did accuse her.

I was like, were you in that bathroom?

She's like, what are you talking about?

I was like, listen to this.

Because I had flushed it.

I actually kind of had assumed it was her.

She said no.

But the other thing that was really weird was there was no toilet paper in there.

It was just two logs.

Oh, disgusting, man.

If it were to back up, I think other things would come up with it.

That's the thing that's weird.

I mean, you wouldn't just have two logs, you would have some

sort of remnants, paper or remnants, you would have something.

So, I mean, I guess the only logical thing to think of is somebody broke into your house, pooped, didn't wipe, and left.

No, that was my theory.

I think that's really out there.

You think it's more likely I blacked out?

Yeah.

Just for God and didn't wipe your ass.

Oh, my God.

Why do I smell so bad?

Sage, the other day when

Sage, dude, fucking,

you know, I had to switch addresses for the bus pickup for Sage.

They need four forms of ID

to show an address change.

Like, they're like, we got to see your mortgage.

We got to see your license.

We got to see a utility bill.

We got to see this and that.

That's the same amount that fucking DMV requires.

Just to be like, I moved.

It's just strange, though, that they would be that thorough with

where your child lives.

Like, of course they live there.

If they're fucking getting picked up there, where do you think they came from?

Right.

Yeah.

Because when I worked at a public school, they did this.

So what they're trying to combat against is people who should be going to other districts getting dropped off

at somebody else's house saying it's their house and then going to the wrong district.

If you got somebody that wants to go to a better district, yeah, I think that the per-student cost, especially with special needs kids, is higher.

So

they're like, if we don't have to pay for this kid, that puts $85 million back in our budget.

So let me guess: is it license, passport?

No passport.

So, what's your four forms?

Oh, my four forms?

Yeah.

It was the deed to the house, the mortgage to the house.

It was

a natural gas bill, a renter's insurance bill.

That was also extremely.

And who do you have to show this to the bus driver every day?

No, no, no.

I had to email the documentation

to the school.

I would be just like, the bus driver really is that thorough?

Yeah, they do a retinal scan too.

Look at the bus drivers, I see.

They look like they're barely able to, like, you know,

get out of bed.

Yeah.

My point being, though, I picked her up up the other day

and she asked me to put rap music on.

Really?

Yeah, she's like, dad, I put on rap music.

She's into that age, though.

She is.

That's how the kids rebel.

They use music, you know.

Well, you like rap music, though.

Yeah, I don't mind it.

Yeah, so it's not going to be.

Yeah, it was nothing for me.

I immediately put on some biggie.

And

it did make me wonder, though, because she's like trying to sing along.

She doesn't know the words, but she's like trying to sing along.

And it did occur to me, does she get a pass pass when she's singing the words?

Oh,

if she were to say a certain word,

does she say that?

Why don't you play her the censored version?

So, just so you don't have to even worry about it.

No, I don't like censorship.

I remember back in the day when I agreed to it, and I've regretted it ever since.

You know what, though?

I mean, there's no easy answer for what you're asking, and I didn't want to touch it.

But

I do want to chew my horn a little bit.

I came to the realization at this, you know, at this advanced age, though, that I like rap music more than I like country music.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

And you really do not like rap music.

Yeah, so I was just like, you know, I was like, I was, you know, I was telling everybody I can, you know, even that I could, you know, letting them know.

You know.

I know you're down with the flow.

You know, you know, I hate country music, but I love rap music.

So there's no, you're like, I don't, I like it marginally more than

country music.

It's like, I love and hate these two.

Well, compared to country music, I love rap music.

I mean, granted, I was telling the waitress at the Texas Roadhouse where

I was basically saying, like, can you please turn this shit off?

Brutal is the worst, isn't it?

It's brutal.

It is the worst.

Do they still sing along, too?

No, they've stopped it.

Thank God.

That was like.

That was like demoralizing just to watch.

It's cringy for everyone involved.

I mean, there was always one person doing the line dance that was into it.

That was like, you know, and when they got the memo, they're like, we're not doing that no more.

They're like, totally, like, well, I'm not working here no more.

But yeah, everybody else was dead inside when they were dancing and clapping and spinning.

Yeah, like it was like Chuck E.

Cheese, except like just like a little higher end.

And not wanting to meet anybody's eyes while they were doing it

because everybody's staring at them like, oh, God, you poor thing.

You have to do this to keep a job.

Whoever was like enough with the dancing,

they were a genius.

Well, yeah, I mean, they were fucking probably carried out of every restaurant on everybody's shoulders by the help.

Yeah, thank you.

And they used to do it at Johnny Rockets, too.

Yeah, I was just going to say that.

What did they do at Johnny Rockets?

I can't remember.

Disco dance.

Yeah.

Again.

Which is weird because Johnny Rockets is more like a 50s cafe.

So why aren't you doing like a 50s style dance?

But it couldn't save Johnny Rockets.

I mean, there's like a handful of Johnny Rockets left now, right?

Yeah, there's like a couple up where I am.

Yeah, I think there's only one now around us.

It's a Woodward Center, and I would not be surprised if by the time of this recording it has closed.

Yeah, there was one on the Monmouth Wall.

I noticed last time I was there.

It was gone.

It was gone for a long time.

Freehold Raceway, gone.

And Woodbridge is the only one that is left, but I never see anybody in it.

Maybe because of the lack of dancing.

Frank,

your wife must have been upset recently at the news of the Queen dying.

I know she's into the royals.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

What?

I know.

Seriously?

Yeah.

No, seriously, Yeah.

You didn't know.

I have to hear this.

She blows my mind.

Why, that she's that an American woman

has any interest in passing of, like, oh, she was still.

How old was she?

Wow.

The queen?

Like, that was it.

No, that's what I'm saying.

She just, she just hears the age and she's like, oh, wow.

No, she.

And then she moves on immediately to

her problems.

Once again, I'm in the middle of teaching.

And

phone goes off.

I look down.

The queen died.

No.

Yeah.

You had a text about that.

Oh, yeah.

She texted me.

And then, because we're down to one car right now, so I have to, we.

You got to come home.

The queen died.

She texted me from her office.

And we both work at the same place.

So she was in her office.

All the way home from the college to where we live was her going on and on about the queen.

And she's telling me stuff like I know.

Like, well, she's in this, I don't know, wherever she was at the Suncastle.

Yeah.

You know the estate?

No, lying in State.

Oh, Lying in State.

But like, then they got to bring her back.

And I don't think they're going to ask Harry and Megan to call.

No.

Yeah.

And I'm literally drive.

I couldn't drive home fast enough because I didn't give a shit about any of it.

And then he texts me and he's like, how's Mary feeling?

Because she was.

Well, how did you know?

Because

when they got married,

Harry and Megan, when they got married, I remember she was very into it.

Like, I was up at your place at the time.

Yeah, I think so.

And

she was super into it, it which i found strange yeah she's really i'll tell you what's strange strange thing i'll tell you what's strange the conversation that mary and i had i don't remember when it was but she gets into the car she's supposed to be working i watched for four hours that bring the coffin from wherever it's going to be to lying in state that's what she did for four hours while i was educating people

She watched it.

I don't even think the queen was in it.

I think it was just the coffin, I think.

Four hours she watched it.

If my wife texted me and was like, the queen died i would be like i i wouldn't be able to answer for a few seconds i'd be like someone steal her phone or is that is this just code like is this is this the 911 please help me yeah because i would be like what the hell why would she text me i i could i would be so perplexed no we had a whole conversation we went out to dinner and she was going on and on about how

she doesn't like Megan Markle because she got in between the queen.

And then, you know, and then I start bringing things up and then she's getting mad at me.

And I'm like, why am I getting into an argument with this?

I don't give a shit.

But I'm trying to have her see another point of view that, you know, this royal stuff isn't all it's cracked up.

Why are you fucking keeping these conversations just between these two?

These are conversations I would love to hear, like, as you try to defend

the queen's point of view?

Oh, she was trying to defend.

Oh, okay, but you were defending Megan Markle.

Oh, yeah, the kind of person, Megan Markle.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we're going to be down here in another two weeks.

You can drill her then and see what she says.

Yeah, she's really into it.

It made me wonder, like, is there anyone, because they said the lines were like nine hours long, like five miles.

It stretched.

I saw that too, and they were worried that there was going to be a lot of.

People who were going to pass out and have health issues, and that they were really condemning the government for not having more services available for people who

might might get sick and who might die in line right and i'm like how the is it the government's fault that you can't wait in line you might die waiting in line to see a dead person right

that's your fault you moron why on earth is it now the government's fault to make sure you don't die in line right because you waited too long and then they're like it's you weren't healthy enough to wait in line it's like think of how long five miles is and they're supposed to patrol that entire line for people who may or may not succumb to whatever the fuck the elements are.

What is wrong with the breeze?

We were in traffic for an hour and a half the other day in a car, right?

And we could barely do it.

And we had air control.

Well,

your stomach was bound up with onion rings.

Yes, but that's besides the point.

What I'm saying is...

Because mentally, it was hard to do, too.

Well, yeah, I mean, but I don't understand people who are going to stay in line for hours.

I mean, I wouldn't, I don't know if I would do that if somebody I really cared about died.

But I guess it's a cultural thing, man.

I mean, it means so much more to the Brits than it would to us.

It's so foreign for us to

put

royalty on

such a pedestal.

That's what we have Hollywood for.

Yeah, acknowledge it, like with us standing and just to see a glimpse of a coffin.

I mean, would there be nine hours for it?

Would there be anybody that if they were to die, you would wait nine hours to see?

I would have wait nine hours to see my parents.

I can't think of anybody, you know, but it's it's but it's different, though.

I mean, you don't be so quick to, you know, to ridicule our

British friends.

You know, they're married.

Plus, it's a very emotional time, you know.

No, if they want to wait in line and see,

what time is that?

And they're married.

We have Mary actually, she has on VHS tape Princess Diana's Wedding.

Back from the 80s, huh?

Oh, she got up early to record it on TV, off the TV.

So she's been into it for a long time because that was

what year was that?

80.

That was 84?

82?

I was.

Yeah, yeah.

It's got to be early 80s because.

So she's been into this shit for a long time.

Yeah.

I wish I knew about it first when we were dating.

She's no newbie.

She's not some fly-by-night.

She's just not into it because the queen died.

Right.

She's not a bandwagon.

Yeah, she's been a full-fledged fan.

You should get her the commemorative magazine that I saw in the racks the other day.

She probably bought it and didn't tell me.

It's like $15.

I was going to say, I'll bet you it's a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah, the magazine industry, talk about Disney and the magazine, especially raping people.

Magazines are like $15 now.

I went to buy a magazine the other day and I was like, nah.

I can't do it.

Yeah, like, what happened?

It was like $12.95.

Are they just selling so few units now that they're like, well, we got to make up for lack of sale, so we'll charge $15 for the people who want it?

I mean, they must.

They're like everybody else, man.

It's just like they take the opportunity, like somebody, like everybody hearing supply shortages, supply chain disruptions, all this other shit, and they take the opportunity to be like, well,

we can make some money off this.

You see every fucking, like, every restaurant does it, is doing it.

Every little mom, a pop shop is doing it.

It's It's like some because they have to, because it's genuinely, you know, there are genuine shortages and shit.

But

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's why you can get away with saying, you know, your con stance, because then sometimes when he speaks truth to power like that,

and then you just want to cheer, you know, from the top of the mountains, you know.

Everybody get behind because that's true.

The hero we need.

The hero we deserve.

Didn't know you want it.

Yeah, I really didn't want him.

Was he the only choice?

So you got a long ride back home, huh?

Yeah.

Get on the road right after this?

Yep.

Gonna head back home, drop off the truck.

Hopefully you'll miss some traffic, but it is Sunday.

No, I don't know what you're in store for.

I think I probably already know what I'm going to be in store for.

We sat in it yesterday.

Yeah.

It's all I've done is sat in traffic this whole weekend.

Oh, sucks.

It'll be okay.

It was worth it.

It's always worth it to come down.

You came down,

if we're going to give a little teaser,

a broside attraction to a very fun place for a Halloween episode of Broside Attractions.

Yes.

Coming out in October.

And

I think it's the best place we've ever visited.

I'd agree with that.

I think it's like the most impressive place we've ever visited.

Visually interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And

you couldn't get a more perfect place for a Halloween episode of Broside than this place.

I agree.

So if you're on the Patreon and you can check it out in October, if you're not,

get on it.

Yeah.

Get her done.

What are you waiting for?

Get her done.

Yeah.

As a smart man once said, get her done.

And that's it for this week.

That's it, Frank.

Frank, thank you for sitting in while Q goes out and lives his best life,

son of a bitch.

Thank you for having me.

Remember, everyone, you can wear your cons and your Disney shirts.

You're just going to look like a douchebag doing it.

You were just driving everybody behind you.

Everybody was ready to pump up on their shoulders.

Just teasa.

Just teasa.

Tell him, Steve Dave.