#498: Cometh the Early Bird

I would have preferred the dicks.

Oh, my gosh!

That's what it's going to bring you to.

Just a constant state of

climaxing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Non-stop elation.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.

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

I am sitting here with BQ.

Hey.

And Walt Flanagan with a lush head of hair.

I'm surprised you're not ripping your hair out.

Oh, why?

Because

of the fuck up on the air.

We got signs.

He's dealing with China.

He's got all kinds of shit going on over here.

Supply chain issues.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you know what, though?

I'm still thankfully in a mode of like, these are small issues.

Yeah.

Thank God, you know, that

I had that incident happen a couple, like almost a couple of months ago, because

if not, yeah i probably would have uh

just had my wife run me over a couple times

so many fuck-ups man since we've moved over to the new spot yeah the sign was put in today and uh

the major sign you know the sign with our logo which i supp you know i supplied the logo to the sign company couldn't fuck it up because you know i supplied all you got to do is print the sign and then install it that's correct but when they put our name on the directory sign with a much smaller sign that's above the door, instead of putting T-E-S-D-Town Studios, they put Test Town Studios.

So now I'm sure everybody's going to be bringing us samples

to see if

we can do tests on them to see if they're positive or negative for something.

Yeah, we'll just take it.

We'll take their money.

Yeah.

Be like positive or negative, pick them negative.

Good news.

I think you just tell them they're positive.

No damage can happen happen then, right?

So are we handling biohazard though?

It's got a little turd drawer that it's going to come in.

And then I've been dealing with

a major

issue with

seized merchandise at a port.

Oh.

Yeah.

Collectible plates, like dishes like from the 80s.

Yeah, we went for something like that.

Franklin mint plates.

Exactly.

We had some of those made, or I had some of those made, and they got seized.

And I found out today

they were seized because

they have to undergo tests by the FDA.

I guess

they

have suspicions that there's lead in the plates, I'm guessing, although they won't tell me what they're testing for.

And I'm trying to tell them that

these are not plates that anybody's going to eat off of.

They're going to be hung up or displayed

or put in a box.

And no one is going to eat anything off these plates.

but I mean you heard the conversation I'm having with you know it's hard enough to deal with it and then on top of that I can't understand like the pronunciation of all the words they're saying I've heard Walt talk to these people on two separate occasions both times it's like a wrong number called and he's trying to get a gauge of like who are you and what is going on here

nobody will tell me like any like they're very cagey about everything like there's some information they just will not give out wow so they made it through to the port they got it to all the way to l A from China And now

some fucking pencil pusher.

Some do-gooder.

There's fucking fentanyl coming through every fucking orifice.

You've been trapping.

It's like a dozen women locked in one of those containers.

But some fucking hero was like, oh, my gosh.

Claude.

TSD plates?

These must have lead in them.

They must be TEST.

Being unfairly targeted.

Yeah, and so they said it takes 18 months for the test results to come back.

18 days.

Oh, 18 days.

I'm sorry, 18 days.

I say, like, isn't the company that sold them to you like certified non-lead?

We already did the tests, so you don't have to worry about it.

Caveat Impaw, bitch.

Well, they say that, though.

They say that when I'm dealing with them, like, no lead, no lead.

We promise, sir, no lead.

And then, you know, like, how am I to know there's not lead?

So, like, they say, shake.

So now, 18 days from now,

supposedly they'll get the test results back.

And if they pass, they'll give me the plates.

And I asked the lady, flat out, okay, what if they don't pass?

I don't know.

She says, that's what she said.

I don't know.

I don't know.

It's like you drop them in the bay.

What do you do with them then?

Do you destroy them?

To be fair, there is a good chance that Giddam's going to end up eating off one of these things.

No.

You know what?

Is he dopey enough to eat off one after all this?

If he deserves whatever brain damage he gets, yes.

He deserves mercury poisoning, whatever the fucking lead gives you.

Oh, man.

Probably lead poisoning.

What would have been my guess?

Remember years ago they buried those

Atari cartridges.

Yeah, DET cartridges.

And then decades later they dug them up.

Maybe this becomes that.

It becomes the new treasure hunt for these internet sensations where people go on treasure hunting.

They're looking for the 480 TST plates that I'm missing.

I wonder if they have to bury them specially with that much lead in them.

I tried everything.

The one guy I talked to,

he was, I could understand everything he said, and he was laughing about it with me.

And so I tried to explain.

I even dropped your name.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I said, you ever heard of this TV show?

I said,

I thought I'm talking to somebody at the FDA.

I'm pulling out all the stop for him.

You just be like, oh, okay, no problem.

You know,

I'll check that box that says gnome lead.

And maybe he'll show them.

But he was like, oh, I watched that show.

And I was like, yeah, one of the guys is on there.

I said, yeah, they got the flat cap, the picture of the flat cap guy in the back of the plate.

That's Q.

He's on the podcast.

I like Joe.

He was just like, oh, that's funny.

All right.

So

your plates are right now under lock and key, and I don't know if you'll ever see them.

Yada, yada, yada.

So I'm on it dealing with the credit card company.

And

spinning them.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like I said, luckily.

Priorities were straightened out a couple months ago.

So right now it's like...

Perspectives realigned.

Yeah, what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

Bring it on.

I don't care what fuck up you bring up next.

I'll fucking knock it down.

Complete sleep.

Like Tyson.

Give your best.

And a guy like what we're doing, these trucks

for the Christmas launch, the Christmas or the Black Friday

grand opening, we're doing like a homage to the Hess truck.

I go down.

There's a sticker guy, a local guy.

I'm going to lose a local guy because I'm like, you know what?

Let me shop local, shop small.

Go in, I tell him what I want.

I want these stickers on clear, clear stickers, not on white.

No problem, no problem.

Your stickers are ready.

A couple days later, go and get them.

They're not on clear.

Fucking, they're not printed on clear

backgrounds.

Yeah.

What do you do?

I had to go back and be like, you know, he goes, oh, you didn't tell me you want that.

I was like, oh, I did tell you I wanted it on clear.

He goes, okay.

And then he had to reprint them.

But luckily, you know, I did it with enough time so it didn't fuck shit up.

But a lot of people don't listen, though.

I've noticed, you know, it's.

They're harried.

They don't pay attention.

And they don't pay attention.

Like a lot of people.

I know that everybody's dealing with their own shit.

And that is why

I kind of want to be patient with people.

But I just see a lot of

no one's concentrating.

Everyone's asleep at the wheel, it feels like everyone's just in like, you know, that kind of like

when you're looking 10 miles, at three-mile stare or the 10-mile stairs?

Then-yard stare.

Everyone's got that thousand-yard stare no matter what they're working on now, it feels like.

And everyone just yeses you and tells you, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

I know.

I know.

I know exactly what you want.

It turns out it's not what I want.

Oh, man.

But that's okay.

You're just going to demand what you need.

Right?

That's what you move on to.

Oh, there's a public outrage that the sign mega changed from TEST Studios to TEST Studios.

Yeah, there's people who wanted me to

tell me to keep it

character.

I lean towards

your feeling, though.

Can we have something that's right?

I don't know.

I lean towards leaving it.

It is pretty funny.

I know.

I could call her back right now and be like,

I could know.

I call her back and be like, hey, you know what?

We'll keep it the way it is.

You knock a couple bucks off the final cost.

All right.

Let me do that.

A quarter of it is wrong, so we want 25% off.

You know, can you not?

I mean, if you guys want, I think it's funny, but if you guys want the real one up there, I mean, I'm not worried about that.

That's what she says.

I remember when we did the Vulgar Thon church, remember that there was a misprint,

yeah, like the third Vulgar thon.

They missed the company because it's such a weird word, Vulgar.

And at one point, it was Vulgarathon.

Vulgarathon.

Yeah, I remember that.

Yeah.

And

it didn't make any sense.

And so they printed it the way that most people would do it, but.

But it wasn't the right way.

And

the woman was like, fuck, we'll knock off 50% if you just take it as is.

And I was like, yeah.

Oh, you made the call?

You made the call.

Oh, you were just like, okay, we'll take.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

And was Kaf happy with that?

He was happy with that.

Oh, nice.

I would have been terrified to do that.

Yeah.

That's a big call to make.

A young BQ.

Went behind the ears.

I mean, 50% off the shirts.

I mean, I know where I fucking

worked as hard as you can.

I know I wasn't going to err on the wrong side.

You want to call the side lady?

You've got to see the pension for

sweet talking people.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

You know what's weird, too, is that

at the new location, Airport Plaza,

if we move and we take the new sign with us, let's say we want that sign as some sort of like memento or a keepsake, we have to pay more than what the sign would cost us.

Why?

I have no idea.

Because

they.

I think they don't want a blank empty spot.

Right.

So you leave the sign, you know, you don't have to pay a fee for taking the sign tile with you and then showing it, I guess, showing the rest of the world that there's an empty spot in the airport plaza.

God forbid, there's only like fucking 30 of them in this place.

31 ain't going to make a difference.

I guess the New York, the New Jersey Democrats weren't as precious about getting their sign back, huh?

No, I don't think it meant as much to them as our tile would have meant to us if we took it.

Wow.

I

went leaf peeping recently.

Oh, all right.

You went to the leaf peeping?

I did.

How'd it go?

Where'd you go?

Well, okay, first off, I didn't go from far north enough, I don't think, because we only went to Tarrytown, which is like around it's basically at the top of Staten Island, it seems.

It's not that much farther than here.

And I think we didn't get a cold snap.

Like, now we're going through a cold snap where it's like fucking 30s at night, like low 40s.

So I think we're getting that cold snap.

Now that will change the leaves.

So if I went like another week or two away, you're going to go take a second bite of that leaf peeping?

I might have to.

But driving here on the parkway.

Yeah, some of the trees are leaf.

Yeah, I'm leaf peeping on the way up here, man.

Oh, yeah, they've changed.

I haven't even noticed.

Golden is an explosion of golden colors.

Yeah, a lot of gold.

Not a lot of red yet, though.

No, not a lot of red, but plenty of gold.

And do you feel you notice the like?

I don't even notice the trees.

Like, I've been, like, I guess, like, you know, kind of driving in a

much more focused than I would be like looking at the trees do you find yourself noticing the trees I'll peep a tree yeah I don't feel like I do enough I feel like I'm lost in thought when I'm driving life's short you got to stop and peep trees yeah I agree with you I think you you're but uh so around here they're are they changing pretty soon yeah like you could go over to like give it another week or two you could go over to Homedale Park you could peep the shit out of those trees you

When you're taking a walk, maybe.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, the TV puts off a good amount of heat.

I think that's it.

Just letting you know, like, if

you guys are red.

Well, if you guys are like warm in here, like, that does vent out a lot of heat.

You have a heat source on right now.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah, it's been a little, the heat has been a little

bit an issue at the new studio.

We had to hack the system.

I just sent in our best hacker.

I think the rest of the tenants must be growing growing pot or something because there's no fucking customers up here.

And I think they need it this hot just because they're growing so fucking marijuana.

They're probably, yeah, it's probably the lights from the weed and the necessity of being an old yarn lady.

I looked at her.

She's insulated all that yarn.

Yeah.

Like, like, there's, like, why is the heat up so high?

This is getting through in this fucking section of the building.

It's weird.

Like, I don't even see heat.

Is it four stairs?

Is it come through those two vents?

Where's Where's the heat coming from?

I don't know.

It's got to be coming through those two vents up on the ceiling.

Well, it's well, look, we have a windowless room, so there's no ventilation.

So,

you know, it's in the interior of the building, so it heats up.

There's a lot of insulation here, man.

There's no reason for it to go down.

But that's all right.

What do you want?

Everything perfect?

What do you want?

Hey, we got rid of the fruit flies, though.

Hey, they all died off.

Yeah.

You know what?

A fan would help.

A fan, but yeah, but then while we're recording it, I'm sure you won't want to.

No, no, no.

But it'll cool down the room a bit before you.

I'm okay now that the AC kicked on for a minute, but it is warm in here.

Yeah, we're working on it.

Yeah.

Another issue, bro.

Just another one.

It's all right.

Nothing.

I want a challenge.

That ain't even a challenge.

Don't say that.

You think, hold on to my plates?

It's going to hurt me.

You're going to think it's going to fucking phase me.

No challenges.

We don't need no challenges.

So we got to the hotel.

Yeah.

We were going to stay.

Tyrytown, New York.

Tyrytown New York.

That in breakfast?

A regular hotel.

It was like a lodgy type hotel with like a big fireplace, stone,

that kind of shit.

A little bit older.

Could probably stand to be updated.

So I go up to the...

the registrar and I say, hey, I'm here.

And I can tell immediately there's an issue.

Like, I see him look at the computer, and he's like, looking at it, like, huh?

And then he's like, let me call my manager real fast.

I'm like, all right.

So, long story short, it turns out that what I believe happened was whoever was staying in the room that I got, and there's only one of them in the whole, uh, in the whole hotel.

It's like some junior deluxe suite, which sounds fancy, but it really wasn't.

All I knew is it had a jacuzzi tub in it.

So I was like, all right, I could go for some jacuzzi after a day of leaf peeping.

Some titty peeping.

Yeah.

And then I'm on to the next fucking round.

But the way I think it happens, I think somebody was like, hey, I want to stay another day.

And somebody erroneously was like, oh, sure, okay.

So anything below, there's nothing below that room.

So they can't downgrade me.

Okay.

You know, except one room, which is the room I was paying for was $185 a night.

This room is $600 a night.

Whoa.

Whoa, what's in there?

You know, let me tell you.

At first I was like, all right, that sounds good.

It's going to be more than three times as much as I'm paying, so it's probably going to be a pretty nice room.

Now, when I went into it,

at first I didn't see the door, so I was like, you got to be fucking kidding me.

This room's fucking 600.

Mary Beth's like, calm down, calm down.

There's a door to another room.

So open up that door.

And it's, you know, you've been in suites where it's like this huge room with like a couch and a table and all that shit.

Another bathroom.

So that was two bathrooms.

But I'm like, but there's no jacuzzi tub.

I don't need a room that big.

What the fuck?

I don't get it.

I'm not entertaining anybody, you know?

Yeah.

So I had to to take it, though.

There was no other room.

That was unfortunate.

Mary Beth is putting the stuff away.

She opens up a drawer.

She's like, what's this?

Oh, my God.

It's drugs.

She goes, no.

And it was an unopened, sealed jar of weed gummies.

A bonus?

A little bonus weed gummy for a while.

Yeah, did that make up for the hot tub?

For her, it did.

I was like, I don't know.

Maybe that's what they put in rooms now instead of Bibles.

That's what Mary Beth said.

That's exactly what Mary Beth said.

She was like, wouldn't that be cool if they did that instead of putting Bibles in?

Really?

I was like, all right, well, you know, if I find myself, you know, like checking out early, you got your, you know, you guys found somebody that could take my place.

There you go.

Same sense of humor.

But then, and this is the question I had to ask you guys.

All right, let's say there's two bathrooms in this place, right?

Yeah.

I went into the first one.

I don't want to get into the dirty details.

Let's say I just compromised the integrity of their septic system, right?

So as to render it unusable anymore.

The whole system or the bathroom?

Just that bathroom.

Okay.

The other bathroom's totally fine.

I'm not going to go downstairs.

I'm not going to call somebody and tell them.

Right.

I don't want to go through the, like, and be like, hey, it was like that when I got here, because they're going to be like, no, it wasn't.

Yeah.

I'll just wait until the very end.

You know, like, I'm not even going to say anything.

I'll let them discover it on the paper plug in the hole on the bottom and stuff.

Probably not paper.

Yeah.

But something.

Yeah.

Something foul.

No plunger in sight.

No, no plungers, nothing like that.

You don't travel with a spare plunger?

I should at this point.

Most hotels have them.

You scroll down and be like, I don't know.

Well, can't you just take a quick while you're going out leaf peeping?

Can't you just stop at Walmart and grab a plunger?

I guess I could have.

But then, like,

now there's a plunger in the room.

Now I got to take it with me and it has fucking shit water all over it.

I'll leave it there.

Yeah.

They're only like $1.50 or

maybe five bucks.

Wood handle with the red rubber.

I hadn't thought of that.

Yeah.

I know.

I really should have done a group.

I got a not-so-Super Bowl on my hands, boys.

What do I do?

Call me and click.

We could have helped you out with that.

At the very least, I could have been like, maybe just go get a plump.

Or go out and take a walk on the grounds and find yourself a nice stick.

Yeah, a little poop stick for you.

Just jam it in there.

I'm like, I've got shit and a stick on my system.

But my question was:

okay,

if I'm going to leave X amount of dollars as a tip for the maids anyway,

how much do I boost that by?

What are you leaving?

Tell me what you're leaving.

Is it a 20?

Is it more than 20?

It's not more than it's 10.

I would leave in 10.

How many nights?

Two nights.

Yeah, I think $5 is like the

$5 a night.

I think so.

But if you leave it like how you're leaving it.

But I'm leaving it how I'm leaving it.

I mean, if you want to

make right with

the karma police,

you better leave

fucking 50 on that table if i know if if if it's as bad as you're making it out to seem let's not forget it's their toilet walt that failed i mean let's not put my boy in the system yeah yeah

uh marybeth did not say that so you're sticking around for a while marybeth said only an additional five dollars wow i was like i don't wow in good conscience i don't think i can only leave another five dollars yeah what did you end up doing i i might have i might have left twenty like a twenty i left a twenty yeah fifty seemed a lot Yeah.

Well, I guess I'm just picturing something like out of, you know, saw.

Yeah.

Like the walls are just covered.

Somebody's chained to it.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it wasn't saw-like proportion.

In fact, there wasn't like anything you could see in the well, it just wouldn't flush anymore.

Like once

the

call in a plumber, though.

You think so?

Maybe.

So it's going to cost me.

It's a Costco's plumber who's seen it all probably seem way worse worse than that.

Oh, he's like, this is amateur hour.

This guy thought he was something doing this, leaving this.

What is this?

Fuck him.

Little bird shit stuck in the door.

Do you think plumbers think like that?

I know they do because I had, for I went through a period where I was using

disposable wipes and flushing them.

And that's not.

That's not good, right?

Oh, no.

It fucking backed up my whole.

This is the old.

Did you not think it might?

Or are you just like?

I said flushable, man.

Here I am as a fucking douche.

I don't know, it's just flushable.

This is how I learned that you're not.

And so, like, then

the trap down was backing up.

And I was like, ah, fuck, man, this isn't great.

Because I saw bits of

flushable fucking.

So I called the plumber, this guy, Igor.

And Igor came.

And, you know, what am I going to do?

I had to be like, no, he was like, if they ever had like Russian gangsters on Sopranos,

he was the guy.

What's this?

Like, he talks, you know, like, like he's killed children.

And

so we get, so he gets there, and I'm like, I was embarrassed until I met Igor, and I was like, oh, this fucking guy doesn't give a shit.

I could tell.

And he got there.

And, dude, he barehanded,

reached into the trap and just started scooping out.

Yeah, those guys are prone to do that.

They're just.

But how do you not care?

They work with it all day long.

It's just nothing to them.

It's child's play.

Yeah.

But all you got to do is put on a glove.

We're not talking about it.

It's one step.

Yeah, it's like a step.

But he didn't.

He just barehanded.

Was it your bidet or your toilet?

No, this is the old house.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, you don't flush in a.

Well, the bidet is the toilet.

But this was in the old house.

And I went upstairs, the girl that I was with at the time, and I was like, well, this is, I got to tip this guy.

I think I ended up giving him 50 bucks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I was like, you know, it's my equipment that failed.

That's my shit.

He's scooping out with his hand.

Do you contemplate at all contacting Johnson and Johnson and being like writing a nasty letter and be like, you know, you said it was flushable.

I had to give my plumber a $50 tip.

Can you send me some free product

or a gift certificate for some free flushable?

No, I didn't do that.

I didn't do that.

Because it's false advertising, though.

I know, but it's hard.

I get enough free shit in my life, I guess.

I don't want to be the squeaky wheel when it comes to ass wiping.

Like how Jon Stewart was at, like, was like sticking up the 9-11 responders

in court and stuff like that in the Supreme Court.

Like, there's me in a suit and tie going on and on about my shitty fucking

wipes not going down.

I don't know.

Johnson and Johnson's defense lawyers are bringing up possibly that you have over 150-year-old pipes.

There may be even something wrong with his internal system.

What did you eat that night, Mr.

Quinn?

Indian.

All right.

Let's say.

I have.

Do you recognize this receipt?

Because after the Indian food, it says you went to Carvelle.

Case dismissed.

Strike that.

Strike that for the record.

Two fudgy-to-wail cakes.

Yeah.

And then we went went to dinner.

And this is where I'm like, all right, this is it.

I'm old.

Was it dinner at 4.45?

That's when they had reservations available.

Otherwise, the next one was 7 o'clock.

And I was like, no fucking way.

Seven's your cutoff?

I think 7 o'clock.

Seven's too late.

Seven has become your cutoff.

Wow.

Yeah.

When did it happen?

Probably a while ago.

That's early bird special.

That's what it is.

Oh, 4.45.

I'm helping them fucking clear the tables from the night before.

As to quote Charlie Manson, he got old on

seven o'clock is too late.

8.30 is when I start having the conversation of like, do I really want to eat that late?

8.30 is pretty late.

Yeah, that would be too late for me.

And that's the reason, like, because

I don't want to eat and that it's like, you know, if I go to bed too soon or whatever.

Wow.

You know, but 4.45, I'm in a nice safe harbor.

You know, I could stay for the next six hours.

There's no wrong way to do it.

Mary Beth, bring the checkerboard in case we have to wait.

We could get a few games in.

And Mike Cardigan.

Let me tell you, shade too far behind me.

She's the oldest young person I think I've ever met.

That's funny that your days are wrapped up with a bow at 6.30 p.m.

I'm like, now what do I do?

It's like if it was summer, it would still be light out for three hours.

It's like going to bed when the fucking lights are starting.

It's still lit up outside.

Hey, man, but you know, listen, life is, you know, what you make it.

I don't think that you should be ashamed of this.

Yeah, no one should shame

your eternal clock.

I mean, you guys are just doing it.

You guys in a good-natured way.

Josh and we're ribbing.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Just ribbon.

But a serious shaming.

I have a right to stand up and say hey.

Some of us are hungry at 4:45.

Yeah.

I'm ready to to retire at 7.30.

Blow out that candle.

We're going to bed.

Wow.

I started skipping lunch lately.

I've noticed lately I'll eat breakfast and then not eat till like 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

I never did that before, but I don't even get to it.

Is it 5 o'clock your lunch or is it dinner?

Because if it's dinner, you're right there with me.

No, dinner for me is generally like

usually around 7 o'clock.

I think I'll eat at home.

Yeah.

If I go out, we're talking reservations, then probably 7.38 is my preferred time.

But home, I don't know.

I just stopped eating lunch.

I noticed that the other day.

I'm not losing any fucking weight because of it, but

I am not, I'm getting less hungry.

Does that happen to you guys?

You're getting less hungry.

Yeah, like I don't need to eat as much as I used to.

I don't know.

I don't think so.

Yeah, I don't eat breakfast, though.

I've never eaten breakfast.

I kind of wake up at 11, so I eat lunch around 12.30, 12 to 1 area, and then I'll eat dinner around 6.30, 7.

But you're up to like all hours of the night.

Yeah, and then at night, though,

I'll grab a chips of hoy.

Yeah.

A couple chips of hoy as my snack before going to bed.

And that's, you know, that's usually

that's my three meals.

What time do you because

whenever I'm up, I assume you're up.

Oh, yeah.

So if it's like three in the morning, I'm like waltz up right now.

Yeah, I'm up.

I'm actually, though, like, you know, I'm feeling a little bit like Brian though.

Like, I used to be up to three, three.

consistently, but I find myself now falling asleep by 2 and 2.30.

But last night I was up to 3, though, if you wanted to, or reach out, I would have been up.

I think I texted Tony around 3 a.m.

Two.

We'll do two.

Yeah.

Just to be on the safe side.

Yeah.

You know, we could talk about

meundis.

Although, can I just stop you real quick before you forget?

The weirdest thing happened, though,

it's been happening a lot lately.

I've been falling asleep sitting up.

that's really like when you chin on your chest where like i'm watching something and i'm falling asleep yeah but something happened and i was so excited by it um i was drawing and i fell asleep and i know for a fact i was drawing in my sleep

like i i was wow i was drawing in my sleep i could feel it happening and i could but i was in a

like a an altered state like i was like yeah i knew i was dreaming and i knew but i also knew i was drawing and i couldn't like, when I woke up, I said to myself, holy shit, I felt weird too when I woke up.

I said, I really want to see

what came about from that art session where I'm drawing sleepwalkers.

Just a bunch of dicks.

Where it's still better than I draw when I'm awake.

And I'm drawing on a tablet, though.

So I'm drawing on my on my tablet.

So what I had drawn,

here I am thinking, like, I'm going to create something so fucked up.

It's going to fucking be like, you know, like if, as if I dropped LSD, Peyote,

and what's another like mind-altering?

Like mushrooms.

Yeah.

All at once.

You know, one big cocktail of all that shit.

I really can't wait to see what my unconscious mind created.

Guess what I had done?

Tom Brady.

No football.

What I had done is I had gotten off the canvas, my digital canvas that I was drawing on, and somehow I took another piece that I was really happy with and I touched that and I fucked it all up.

Like I was putting layers on top of layers and I was just like, it was a mess.

It was like, you know, like you ever see spider webs when they make, I mean, when their spiders make them on LSD?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They're all kind of fucked up.

It was like something like that, but I had taken the eraser tool and I had fucked it all up.

Were you able to retrieve?

Luckily, I had had a backup to like underneath that one.

But

it was really weird that I just did nothing that was

nothing that was worth saving or or like showing anybody.

It was just a mess.

That's a bummer.

Yeah.

I would have preferred the dicks.

Me too.

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I've never heard of any of these.

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It's a nice thought for Myondis to try to plant a seed

in everybody's head that don't worry about it.

Don't worry about

eating too much on Thanksgiving.

But do you think there's anybody really who hears that and is like, well, you know what?

Me on Dees is right.

I've already accepted that.

I don't know why they would even

take that direction with the ad, though.

Like, don't worry about.

Yeah, it feels like, yeah, it feels like it's unnecessary and it's almost impossible.

If you want to hear my theory, yeah, I'd like to hear it.

Somebody's job is to write that shit.

And every month they're like, what the fuck?

Do it right now.

Because they got to make it a little personality.

They got to inject.

It can't just be so the guy's like, I don't know, something about

turkey expansion.

You know what I mean?

And he gets it out the door.

Somebody reads it.

It's all people just trying to get through the day.

Trying to get this copy out so Brian Johnson can read it on the air.

They don't care.

So Brian Johnson can butcher an on the air oftener.

Over years, I still can't say it.

Yeah.

It's just a case of the good enoughs, but I don't think they're really going for it.

I just wonder, like, you know, because I'm listening to it.

They put all that time, Walt.

Yeah, I listen to it.

Into making a quality product.

Absolutely.

That's what they're really concerned with.

Yeah.

You're saying, Walt, that

don't even mention eating too much.

Yeah, I don't feel that like that

it's worth even like going there because I feel like it's such a futile

um endeavor as to try to like make to make people feel less guilty about overeating

even on thanksgiving all they know is like at the end of it they're like i shouldn't have done that i feel like i'm gonna throw up these miyundis are so tight on me

yeah i really don't know why that's the angle that they would go with but you know q's probably right you know and i overthink things though too i you know know, that's one of my curses.

You've said that in the past.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I wish I could be just, you know, blissfully ignorant.

Oh, it's awesome.

Yeah.

Just wander through life.

Things happen.

Whatever.

I wasn't really preferring you.

You know, I just see people and I, and they look, you know, they look kind of like they're out of it, and they look happier, though.

Has that been since weed's been made legal?

I've seen that everywhere.

Everybody's kind of out of it, but everybody looks kind of happier.

I went up to the city to do the Chip Chipperson show a week back, and

I'll never go to the city again downtown downtown to my offices.

I got an office now.

Do you?

You have two offices now.

Two offices.

Can you come here,

spread your time around working in this office?

Half and half?

I could, but I will say this: what I have in Manhattan is a corner office with a, you know,

AC.

No fruit flies?

Yeah, no fruit flies.

You spell the name of the company right?

Yeah, they did.

They did.

So you're an owner of multiple offices.

Did you ever?

Well, I don't own any of them.

Well, you're renting.

Now, did you ever think growing up that...

Technically, I have three.

I have one in North South, too, that I don't use.

But did you ever think, like, growing up, like

when I grow up, I'm going to have to have three offices.

I'm going to be so successful.

No, no, I thought I'd just be in the firehouse or something.

Hey, I mean, it's pretty crazy, right?

Three offices.

It is.

There was something, because me and Casal has the, his office is opposite mine, and we went in the other day to get some work done, and we were like,

we did, we took a second to be like, wow, man, like, I have a corner office in Manhattan that overlooks St.

Paul's Cathedral, which is

where George Washington used to go to pray, and like where he accepted the presidency of the United States.

I mean, it's right there.

And it's like, wow, it's like, it's fucking like right outside my window is a 260-year-old church steeple.

You're like, this is, it's kind of cool.

You know what I mean?

It is cool.

Yeah.

I mean, I mean, it's not as cool as the KFC when you look out the window.

Well, not even a window.

I got to walk downstairs to look out a door.

But you can almost smell it here.

But we have that, but that's part of a deal that will be up and go.

Like, here, we can stay here as long as we want.

Like, we're masters of our own destiny here.

And there, somebody else is picking up.

I would love to, like, I wouldn't bother you if you ever like, hey, you know what?

I'm going to come down and use the conference room.

I got a lot of work to do.

Yeah.

You know, I would respect that.

I wouldn't be, I wouldn't like,

and I would make Giddam also respected, and I would bother you with.

The Manhattan Office is actually closer to my house than here.

Like, I'm actually.

I wouldn't just like to see you.

I'll come right here.

Or come right now.

I like to see you in work mode.

I don't really ever see you in work mode.

Most people haven't.

He and Sal are getting some work done.

Yeah.

Did we mention weed was legal?

Oh, my point was when I went up to the city,

they had set up by, what's that, Thompson Square Park, Tompkins Square Park?

These guys had set up a table, like a folding table with edibles and flour.

And it's just like, it would be like if suddenly you just went downstairs.

Like, you know how around here, girls will sell like Girl Scout cookies and shit.

Like, they'll just set it up.

This is what people are doing with weed in the city.

Yeah.

Oh, it's that legal now?

I don't think it's that legal.

Well, this store, a store, somebody opened the store for a brick-and-mortar store to sell it.

And they're like, what are they going to do?

Fine us?

Like, who gives a shit?

they're gonna be making so much money, man.

So much money.

It's so funny.

Could you imagine me and some motherfucker who went to jail for like 10 years for selling pot?

And, like, a joint.

Yeah, you get out now and, like,

oh, I'd be so angry.

I'd be so angry.

You guys, what happened?

I just heard, I was at the firehouse before I came here.

You guys,

New Jersey, what, a truck driver has like one of the highest.

Oh, he won like an assemblyman or

a senator or something?

Apparently, I don't have, I just learned about this, but apparently

there's a position of power

in New Jersey that's kind of like one of those quietly, one of the most powerful situated people in the state.

And the guy that he beat had it for like 15 years, and this guy spent $153 on his campaign, and he won.

He fucking won.

Well, I think that goes to show you just how

people can't stand politicians.

They are begging

to have all politicians thrown out and just have everyday people just try their hand because they can't fuck it up more than the professionals have.

Well, that's what the government originally was, right?

Like it was originally set up to be.

Yeah, not a lifetime position.

Yeah.

Not where you set yourself up and you become a millionaire when you fucking retire.

After you retire after doing it for your whole adult life,

you're a politician.

I mean, I'm so ignorant on politics, though, that I only heard about what you're talking about in between

the football last night they mentioned.

Coming up on the news, you know, the politician who spent $150

is the New Jersey Senate president.

That's his new title.

I mean, that sounds like a pretty big title.

It does, right?

He says, I'm absolutely nobody.

I'm just a simple guy.

It was the people.

It was a repudiation of the policies that have been forced down their throats.

This sounds like Aaron Rodgers.

Oh, did you hear about Aaron Rodgers?

Got caught lying about being vaccinated.

Yeah.

Got busted.

That's not a good look.

That's not a good look.

It turns out there is some more story came out after this news broke that he has COVID and he lied about being vaccinated.

He was lobbying the NFL to try to make them accept holistic

methods to like he was trying to raise his antibodies.

Okay.

Have you ever heard of something that will raise your antibodies?

That's like, you know, that like you, you take a

like like, what, like, like, what holistic, isn't it, like, when you burn incense?

I think it's part of it.

I'll stand up for a holistic a little bit here.

Okay.

If you want to hear it.

I want to hear it.

Yeah.

I got to open mine.

I'm not closed mind to anything.

Now, this is not regarding humans.

This is regarding my cat, Benjamin.

But he

is coming up on 18 now.

And my vet was like, he was having seizures.

And he was.

You have an 18-year-old cat.

Yeah, Benjamin.

That's absolutely

got to be one of the oldest cats.

They rarely live that.

In my vet office is one that's 23 now.

And Joe and Bergio had a 22-year-old cat.

I think the world record is like 30-something years.

18's nothing to sneeze at, though.

No, no, no, no.

He's definitely doing,

it's unusual.

It's in the upper limit.

And he, you know, it's like a person.

Like, you're starting to see him slow down a little bit.

You know, cats shouldn't stumble over their own feet.

You know what I mean?

It's like he's just getting old.

He's sleeping at 445.

Yeah, he's a little cranky and shit, trying to look at the leaves.

He flips the checkerboard

She was like, king me.

You're like, meer.

Goes for his eyes.

So, so, but I'm on, like, I take care.

His health is, I take care better than my health.

And he goes to the vet regularly.

And my vet was like, look, like, you, he's kind of at the end of where we're, what we can do.

Um, you know, maybe if he was a younger cat, we can go in his brain and see if there's a tumor or, you know, he goes, but, you know, she's like, we're just at at the end.

She goes, But there's this holistic vet down in Florida.

You don't even see him, you just call him up, and she goes, He's a miracle worker.

And I was like,

Whatever, man, it's Benjamin.

I'll do whatever I can.

And

I've been under the care of this guy for a couple of years now, which is why I'd be surprised if I didn't mention it before.

And it is all fucking off-the-shelf powders, and like, like, there's like a Chinese drop that's called QI, and it balances his life energy.

It's all this hippie shit that I listen to on the phone, and in my head, I'm just like,

I might be gay.

Like, why am I, like, what am I doing here?

And, um, and it, and it fucking works.

He stopped having seizures.

His health shot back up.

He looks amazing.

He's having fun.

He was playing, like, it's, it's something to it.

Now, this vet who, like, no one's allowed to see him.

Yeah.

And.

Well, if I lived in Florida, I see.

Oh, okay.

You could go, okay.

It's not like he's like, no, he's allowed to know my real identity.

Okay, all right.

But have you ever been tempted to be like, Doc,

what about me?

You know, I'm feeling a little, you know, I feel like I need a little boost.

He has mentioned he is a real problem.

He doesn't say there's no place for Western medicine, but he's like, everything they're trying to do with that is recreate what we could do naturally, aside from the surgery and the stuff like that.

He goes, all these pills and

all the medications are just figuring out what works on the human body and how to recreate that in a lab.

He's like, all this stuff is here.

He's like, but people don't have any faith in it anymore in a way.

Do you subscribe to that or do you feel like maybe it's

a little bit too

dude?

If I'm not seeing what's going on with Benjamin, I mean, it is a complete 100% turnaround.

Like, I think if it wasn't for this doctor, he would have been dead about two years ago.

Wow.

So I'm not saying, look, my first course of action will always be going to a doctor and like getting the MRIs that I get.

You know, I get one once a year and stuff like that to keep an eye on my brain.

But, like,

but I think three years ago, I would have been holistic medicine.

What kind of hippie shit is this?

But now I'm like, I don't know, man.

I've seen it fucking work.

Well, that's what Aaron Rodgers was like.

You know, he said that he had raised his antibodies to levels that he would be

immune to COVID.

He was wrong.

Yeah.

But the vaccine is you're not immune to COVID.

True, right?

But yeah, he's in big trouble, I think.

I mean, I'm sure the internet wants him banned for life now for lying.

Well, he's like, you're not going to cancel me.

That's what he said.

Yeah, in the post.

What?

Yeah.

Oh, he's actually being combative about it?

A little bit, I think.

He was coming back at people.

You can't be combative about it when you do something like that, though.

You just got to take your lumps and then try to come back and win a Super Bowl.

It's the only way you silence everybody.

That's the only way.

You can't be like

challenging people

to cancel you.

No, you don't want to get more headlines.

But I guess if you're Aaron Rodgers, though,

I mean, he's got all those commercials, though.

He's got those progressive commercials.

I can't imagine that that company is going to want to have a guy who lied about being vaccinated, though, right?

Being a spokesperson.

Who knows?

Maybe the company's like, I don't know.

It's got nothing to do with us.

I don't see that happening.

No, I would think that if I was the head of progressive or whatever, that insurance company that he's the mouthpiece for, I would be like, fuck, do we have?

I would seriously consider, is it going to be a problem for us if we keep running the Aaron Rodgers spots?

Yeah.

I mean, the problem is, for Aaron Rodgers, is those people could like all they care about is their jobs.

So if they're just like, they're not Packer fans, they don't give a no.

They're like, look, we dropped this, we dropped this clown, another clown, man, and my job's safe.

Why wouldn't they do it?

He's kind of flaky, though.

I mean, he's gone on record and said he's seen UFOs.

He hasn't talked to his family in decades, just totally cut everybody out of his life at a certain point

at a stage, very young part of his career, just was like dropped everybody like they were lepers.

No one knows why.

And he's kind of a

he's

kind of like a powder, too.

Like, you know, he wants it a certain way, and if he doesn't get it, he, you know, he wears his heart on his sleeve and he and he lets you know, like, I'm not happy about this.

And,

you know, there's nothing wrong with that, I guess.

No, no, I'm not, but he's, but he's not, it's unusual for athletes, though, like, you know,

to

be, um, you know, be that bitchy about shit, though.

He's very cranky, very temperamental.

Yeah.

Well, some people like that.

I always liked when Paul O'Neill would flip out and fucking start flipping benches and shit like that in the dugout.

Oh, okay.

You know, like,

I couldn't.

I didn't know who Paul.

Yeah,

he's fucking, he was the best, my favorite part of it, which means that he didn't do well, which would upset me.

But, like,

I like that.

The passion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He went dressed as

Aaron Rodgers went dressed as John Wick

to the costume party.

They said that's where he called COVID.

Yeah, he was running around without a mask on.

Yeah.

He says,

I was wrong about him saying, come on, bring on the cancel.

I realize I'm in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now.

So before my final nail gets put in my cancel culture casket, I think I'd like to set the record straight on some of the blatant lies that are out there about myself right now.

So I guess he's accepting he might get canceled.

I don't know.

I mean, do you really get canceled for that kind of shit, though?

Oh, fuck yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm telling you, I would not be surprised if Progressive drops him and he has an

incredibly hard time finding any more

sponsorship deals.

I mean, would you, I mean, because you know, though, like you said, the headaches that come along with him having been your spokesman, are they worth it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, maybe for the team, it's worth it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, the team needs him to be successful.

They have to deal with him as the headaches he brings to the table.

A progressive can get another quarterback.

There's 30 other ones.

Oh, the super ones.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

There's one that won seven Super Bowls.

Did you get him?

Aaron Rodgers only has won one.

And they got Mahomes, who's only won one.

So yeah, there's another guy out there that you might want to look at, progressive.

They can't afford him.

Oh, he does Subway.

Yeah.

But this is only recently he started doing commercials.

He

hasn't been somebody that the corporations have chased.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's because

90% of the country doesn't like him.

So, you know, it's like, is he a good spokesman for us?

You know, in Boston, yeah, he's going to be a great spokesman.

But national.

It's a high of a percentage, you think, of people that are like, fuck that guy.

It feels like it.

Oh, it feels like when I see reactions to anything that, like when he's trending or anything, it's like, it's all negative except for the city where he plays in.

No, do you ever love them?

Do you ever go online and

bait people and troll them?

I used to with Tebow a long time ago.

Tebow, remember?

Tebow, I would.

Yeah.

But not with

anonymous.

It's like, I mean, I could spend all day being just listing all his accomplishments, and it's just like, you're never going to, you know, it's just, it's pointless.

but Tebow yeah I would definitely like to press people's buttons because he really also was one that got people angry he was a divisive kind of guy yeah just because he was openly Christian what did you what did you guys do on Halloween anyway

I went to Pam's Halloween party

a witch a coven party uh kind of yeah what was it like she was the only witch there

it was my sister making a bunch of like hors d'oeuvres and shit and then uh sage

pretty much being the only one who was dressed for Halloween.

Oh, you didn't even get dressed?

I didn't do my pirate thing, no.

You didn't have the kitty up to like just put something on?

No, I mean, the party started at four, so it was already late.

No, I just didn't want to be bogged down by a costume.

Nobody else is wearing a costume either, so just Sage.

And then fucking 10 minutes into it, she's like, it's too hot.

So she took off her costume.

But that was about it.

Now it's just dinner at Pam's.

Now it's just dinner at Pam's.

And it wasn't even like, because Pam was, you know, like my sisters made all these hors d'oeuvres and shit.

Usually we have pizza every year.

It didn't occur to me that we wouldn't be having pizza.

So like at a certain point, my mom's like, Pam's like, you know, we got to decide if we want to do this or pizza next year.

Oh, shit.

Immediately told me.

Planning next year's party already?

Yeah, but more importantly to me saying like, so wait, there's not going to be pizza this year.

It was a bunch of stuff I don't really like.

Like you would not eat one thing on the table.

Really?

Not one thing.

And she's a full-blown witch, right?

Like, she's like, she can go to any circle and she's recognized as, like, the real deal.

I mean, I don't think, like, holy shit, it's fucking witch Pam, but I mean, I guess that if she went to it, she would have the, she has the knowledge and the cred to be like, yeah, I could be a part of this.

Yeah.

And she's casting spells.

Does she cast more spells on Halloween than on any other day?

I don't know.

I don't think so.

I think that when you're doing that kind of shit, it's like the association of Halloween and witches is not, you know.

Is she just as into it as she was in the past because i know she was heavily into it like being a witch i don't i don't see her that much anymore like i see her only like once every couple weeks so i'm not sure what she's into i don't like it for what

let's get him he's talking about customer probably oh um

i uh i haven't you know she was into josh groban she's into her her book and she was into the witch stuff those are the three big things so i'll have to ask edgar i'll find out yeah i'll find out what uh

what she's up to these days.

What about you?

Do anything?

Well, Halloween was a Sunday, era.

Sunday, yeah.

I don't think I did anything.

I think I watched football.

Did you get trick-or-treaters?

Not one.

This will be like the third year in a row that we didn't get any trick-or-treaters.

Yeah, same with us.

Nobody.

Man, what a bummer.

Well, you don't.

You put up your walls.

Oh, I close the gate.

The kids try and get in, but they can't.

Yeah, I didn't do anything either.

Sal went into the parade with DeRosa.

I saw him, yeah, and I saw a picture of him.

Yeah, you know, I was like, I don't know, I'm not really kind of in the mood, I guess.

When he dressed

Batman,

they all dressed in the same Batman costume.

It was like 15.

So nobody knew it was him?

Yeah.

Oh, that's cool.

That's the

nice.

You know, I don't know.

Some other day came, and I was just, I had some work to do, too.

I was actually packing orders.

RH.

Oh, yeah.

That's 50% off, baby.

Yeah, 50% off RH merch.

We're going to switch over the merch so we're

shipping out.

As I'm packing them, though, I'm like, God, there's some pretty cool ones here.

Maybe I don't want to wrap them up, but yeah, I was actually packing.

I was doing it.

Nice.

You know, hands-on, bro.

Yeah.

Hands-on.

50% off RNA.

I'll tell this guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, we

had the Triple Baron shirt.

Yeah.

The pencil.

Oh, yeah.

How'd it go?

Went very well.

All right.

I can't say enough about the wonderful response from the listeners.

We moved a ton of shirts.

I mean,

very, very happy with the response.

And yeah, we cleared out a lot of shirts.

Do you want to, real quick, talk about Black Friday opening, grand opening weekend?

Oh, yeah, let's do it.

Got another confirmed guest.

I don't know if you were on the,

you kind of bailed, not bailed, bailed's the wrong word.

No, you, the Halloween episode, remember you started in the beginning?

Oh, right, right.

Yeah, I announced that some of the people who are going to be at the

at the grand opening weekend, not

all three days.

Yeah.

But they will pop in at a certain point during the three days.

What are those dates again?

The Black Friday, the Saturday after Black Friday, and the Sunday.

I don't even know the exact dates.

26, 27, 28.

But Maxwell is coming in from

Tennessee.

All right.

Frank Five from upstate New York will be.

Is he bringing the DeLorean down or no?

I don't think he's bringing the DeLorean down.

That's a lot of effort.

He wrote it down one time already, and

he was stressed.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

You could see it on his face.

And I wouldn't want to do that to him again.

And now I have Ming.

Okay.

And he'll be in town and he'll stop by at some point.

Again, don't expect to see these people here

all three straight days.

If you come in and you happen to see that.

I got nothing else to do.

If you come into the store and you happen to see those guys, you just got lucky.

Gotcha.

But another confirmed attendee at some point during the weekend?

Does anyone take a guess?

No.

Somebody from your neck of the woods?

My neck of the woods?

Yeah.

Chuck?

Not Chuck.

Well, Chuck, I don't know if Chuck will be here.

I don't know if Chuck will be here.

I think he will be here.

Yeah.

Black Friday night, the overnight.

We're going to stay open from Black Friday to midnight all the way till Friday at 7 p.m.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Why?

Just to have fun.

Okay.

Just to have a crazy atmosphere, you know, to

make people go,

I can't believe you guys did it.

So from midnight to 7 the next night.

Yeah, we'll be open.

So

that's a lot of hours.

We pay Get him salary.

Oh, I don't know if I'm going to be here.

I'll be here at midnight, and I'll probably go home and come back

at a more reasonable hour so I can be here all day from like 11 to 7.

But I'll start, definitely be there overnight until about 2, probably 2.30.

Chris Ledondondo is going to come down.

All right.

And he said he will be at the store at some point on Black Friday weekend.

That's not that special, though.

He's going to be boycotting KFC anyway.

Yeah,

we'll be here, right?

We're coming down.

I assume Brian's going to be here.

Yeah.

But you said that

you had

your parents.

Well, no, actually, that changed.

Now I'm going down to their place for Thanksgiving.

Like a week.

We're having an early Thanksgiving.

Oh.

So I'm around.

So I'll be here.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So,

again, you know, you're not going to be here.

I'll be here at least two of the days at random times.

Random times.

Possibly all three days, but you know,

that's exciting.

But at least two of them, yeah, I'll come.

I'll take over for you at three in the morning.

I'm just going to crash on the couch over here.

Bring you dry as turkey, everyone.

I'll do it up.

And then we have another promotion on.

Like I said, we're going to try to do some wacky, fun shit at the general store.

I got this promotion in December called the Dollar Shave's Triple X Mondays.

Okay.

So for the first three Mondays in December, Dollar Shave is going to be manning the square.

Get out.

In Dollar Shave outfit.

From noon to three.

Forget it, Triple X.

So it's three Mondays.

Great.

From noon to three, three hours every Monday.

That's where the Triple X come in.

I don't want anybody to think they can't bring the kids.

It has nothing to do with pornography.

Nothing sexy will ever be on it.

Dollar Shave will have pants on.

Yeah, but Dollar Shave, because Sunday will not be at the Black Friday event.

He is going away for Thanksgiving.

Wow.

All right.

Well, that's all right.

He's in his time.

Yeah, so he'll be in December on the three Mondays in a row.

He'll be here if anybody wants to come down between 12 and 3 on the first three Mondays in December.

We could sell anything we want here.

I just thought of that because

I have, the other day, I was looking at these fucking Lego sets that I built, and I was like, what am I going to do with these fucking Lego sets?

You can put them on display, personally built by BQ.

Yeah.

And sell them off here.

Sell them at a premium.

Yeah.

It's a lot of man hours that go into these fucking things.

I'll bring one.

I'll bring the first one

for Black Friday.

Okay.

And we'll see how it goes.

Then we're going to take it offers.

Oh, I don't know, man.

I mean, I'll let Geddam worry about pricing.

Okay.

That's why we can blame him later on.

Yeah.

Oh, that'd be cool.

Yeah.

So try to, you know, do a certificate of authenticity.

I'll just rip a page out of a notebook.

Just put a cue on it.

Yeah.

I mean, that'd be pretty pretty cool.

Yeah.

I mean, there's a lot of, there's endless possibilities of what we can do to have fun and make things interesting.

Did we ever look into, weren't we going to do like

get him on cameo or something like that?

Weren't we setting up a cameo account for you and Sage?

We were going to.

No, nothing yet, huh?

Nothing yet.

I'll move on that tomorrow.

What else am I doing?

Yeah, fucking, shouldn't we have that?

Get him, can just sit out there fucking doing telemedicine cameos.

But who gets the money?

Get him?

Well, of course not.

No, he's working.

That's all company time.

The salary.

He's on salary.

I don't want him on him on cameo, too.

No, no, no, no.

He's trying to double tip.

We'll give him like, well, what would we charge?

$30 for him?

And this, I'm not sure what it is.

What is cameo?

That's why they make those videos.

And he wishes people happy birthday or something.

Yeah.

So if he did the $30 and we gave him like

five bucks a video and the rest went into the company, I don't know.

We have to look into that.

We put it away for him, like a a 401k or something.

Yeah.

You know what else?

So that's it.

That's my announcements for the general store.

Cool.

And then one more, though, Bri.

Well, not Brian, but the Gold Baron will be appearing on New Year's Eve at the general store from

noon to two.

Two-hour window.

Wow.

All right.

We'll be taking pictures as the Gold Baron.

Somebody better come down and take pictures.

Am I standing in that outfit for no reason for two straight hours?

What day is New Year's Eve?

I just grabbed New Year's Eve.

I don't even know if

it's a weekday.

It's a Saturday.

Oh, okay.

No, no, no, no, no, sorry.

It's a Friday.

It's Friday.

All right.

So it's a Friday.

You know, you get your New Year's Eve kicked off right with a picture with the Baron.

Yeah, right.

The golden barrier.

We want to have a fabulous New Year starting off with the Baron, right?

There you go.

That sounds pretty good to me.

I like that shit.

Love it.

Yeah.

I fucking love it.

Oh,

the 500 episode we started talking about, I secured that guest you asked me to secure.

Ooh, okay.

Very quick.

Have you secured a date so I can get the other guests?

That's the

tricky part.

Secure the guest, he's unavailable.

Yeah.

No, no, that's, I don't mean tricky.

That's a part that's got to get worked out.

Now would be a good time.

Not right now, but like if Farnum.

As soon as you find out, let me know so that I can see if I can get the second guest.

Yeah, okay.

Okay.

Well, is there a range of dates that I can give this guest?

That you have secured?

Yeah.

Yes, Yes, of course.

Yeah, because that would be helpful.

Yeah.

Okay.

Whenever you say, like, he's available this, this, and this.

Right.

So I should go to this guest and say, anytime you're available in November or December, just let me know what would work for you.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll do that.

All right.

Great.

High-profile stuff, man.

Ooh, yeah.

That's a marquee name, right?

Yes, it is.

Trying to do, you know, make episode 500 feel like

a worthy

end.

Oh.

Somewhere between $4.99 and 501.

Yeah.

What are we at now?

What episode is this?

We're getting so close.

I mean, hopefully, he's available in the next two weeks.

This is going to be $4.99.

Oh, my God.

What?

Or $49.98 at the latest.

So, what is next week for?

So, until that guest is ready, we have to,

I guess, we're going to go on hiatus until he's ready, right?

We don't want to have episode 502 be

our big anniversary episode.

All right.

I didn't realize we were that close to the wire.

Okay,

I'll get them on board for the next couple of weeks.

Okay, let me see.

I can tell you for sure.

Okay, this will be episode 498.

Oh, okay.

Halloween and Halloween was.

And then we got Christmas coming up, Q.

I know.

This is the busiest time of the year.

They say it for a reason.

Yeah, I'm excited about it, though.

And yeah, it's too bad 500 is right on top of Christmas and Halloween.

Yeah.

People liked Halloween.

Oh, they did.

Yeah,

they really enjoyed it, which was nice to see and hear.

I didn't realize the gusto with which I had put on that hot dog belt, but apparently

it's a big thing.

It's a big

heterosexual life.

Yeah?

Yeah, had it not been for you, I would have had to fucking gum those dogs before I could do that to you.

I was like, let me just do this so you don't have to hurt your knees.

And if you want on Black Friday weekend, if anybody comes down and wants to put on the hot dog belt and take their picture in it.

Oh.

Yeah, we have the hot dog belt.

We'll be here with hot dogs.

And is that free or are they got to pay?

No, that's free.

Okay, that's a free one.

That's just part of the whole

Disney-esque.

Yeah, I thought that was

off the TSD Town General Store.

It's like going to a podcast Disney World.

It's like you're on Main Street, USA.

Well, they could give $5 to the skull.

They could see it in person.

I mean, there's now mannequins with your costumes on.

I saw that.

That was pretty cool.

Yeah, I mean, this is, like I said, this is something to,

if you like Tell him Steve Dave, you should dig it.

If you love Tell him Steve Dave,

you should wear a body condom because

you're going to have an emission from every pore in your body.

Because that's what it's going to bring you to, just a constant state of

climaxing.

Yeah.

Non-stop elation.

We need an official tour.

Like, we got to write text, forget him, where, where he could like.

He has a certain thing where he greets people with.

Yeah, and like, would you like a tour of this?

Oh, he'll be wearing the, we, we secured also the coach uniform.

Oh, okay.

He put it on already.

I mean, Tommy Sorda was giggling

at

his physique.

He is like a pair with legs wearing the uniform.

He looks perfect.

It's white, too, one of the most unflattering baseball uniforms there can be.

Hides nothing.

He's got the coach hat on.

He's got the coach baseball jersey.

Yeah, it's going to be a good time.

Awesome.

I just want to see the FedEx guy or the UPS guy or any number of people who need to come to the office, come in and see, get him sitting there in the baseball outfit.

Oh, yeah.

This is TST Studios.

What are you guys testing here?

The limits of this fabric.

Tensiles.

Shit, man.

Yeah.

What do we got?

Another ad?

I do.

I see a woman up your ad finger there.

Yeah, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaking of fucking rock and roll,

did you see Cheesequake is no longer Cheesequake Walt?

They changed the name of the town?

No, they changed the name of the

park.

The service state.

Oh.

What do you call it?

The rest stop.

The rest stop.

What is it now?

It's now

John Bon Jovi.

That's a nice honor.

Special rest stop.

Good for him.

Yeah, I think that's.

I think he deserves it.

Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't name it Bruce Springs,

too.

But I think a worthy

name change is John Bon Jovi.

That's a clean one, too.

It's not like some of them you go to and you're like, there's probably guys meeting up here at night and shit.

No, although

I did have sex at that

rest stop once.

At this one?

Wow, that's tough to get away with, man.

This is a family rest stop.

No, this was back in the late 90s, and it was, it was, you know, how light is the rest stop, and then there's that parking lot just past it?

Like, that's part of it, but it's like where people park to go to the bus coming home from a view of SKU event.

Oh, yeah?

You couldn't wait to get to a bed.

You had to do it like in the rest stop.

I mean, I was a younger man back.

It was that

my partner was living in Jersey, so I didn't think that she wanted to come all the way back.

Oh, okay.

So we had to like compromise.

And compromise we did.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's an easy compromise.

They should have named it after you.

Yeah.

Like, what did he do?

They're like, yeah, apparently he fucking had sex somewhere back there.

So he says.

Oh, but you see what?

Such is his claim.

Wow.

That's impressive at a restop.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever done it at a rest stop before.

I think that's the dream of every young boy.

It's just like, you know, like, that's.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, a rest up, it's kind of like

a little seedy.

Yeah.

A seediness to it?

Yeah, it just kind of felt seedy.

Yeah, definitely.

It's like forbidden.

Yeah.

You shouldn't be doing it here.

You should just be driving on this parkway.

Yeah, you know that when the cops pull up.

It's just for driving.

It's not for anything else.

I went to Norbury's airport to pick someone up the other night at 11 o'clock at night.

And you know how the cell phone lots where you wait?

Where they're like, they now have areas that you could just park your car and wait.

This is a parking lot.

They call it a cell phone pot.

And you can wait and sit out.

You know how everybody pulls on the side side of the road, just puts their blinkers on until the flight lands, and they drive up and pick up their wife, or whatever.

So, I'm there, and uh, it's the Newark Airport cell phone parking lot, which is just a dark parking lot off in the middle of nowhere by the airport, and like dark, seedy.

And I'm looking around, and I'm like, There are definitely dudes meeting here to blow each other.

Like, this is it.

Like, this is right.

And sure enough, like that's a great cover.

You saw something.

I saw guys going from like getting out to going to another car and stuff like that.

I didn't see him do any shenanigans, but I was like, like, oh, for fucking sure, I'm going to glory stop.

Oh, no.

Somebody's rattling your door trying to get in.

My friend was like, we landed.

I go, I take your time.

I'm right out here.

I didn't know that sort of shit was still going on.

And how do they find out about it?

Like, how do you find out about something like that?

Oh, that's got to be the internet, right?

I'm sure there's web boards or the dark web.

Some dark web shit?

I guess so, but

I would have thought in today's day and age, like it would have been that nobody would be doing that anymore.

But why is it also, why is it always just guys meeting up?

Why can't you find the parking, the cell phone parking lot where it's like guys and girls of all ages?

I don't know.

I've never seen it.

Me neither.

Well, you see your lot lizards.

You know.

Yeah, but they want money.

Yeah.

These guys aren't, these guys aren't charging, I don't think.

These guys are just a bunch of good time Charlie's having a good time.

Yeah.

Having a ball out there.

Yeah,

I felt like defensive that I was there waiting for a flight.

You know what I mean?

Like, what if somebody was like,

well, that I know.

It's Q.

You can't.

Like, that's what I'm working around.

Like, he step up and drives in.

Like, holy fuck, is that Q?

Is that the guy over there cruising the fucking cell phone parking lot?

And I was like, these are going through my head.

I was like, because I was like, because I always park in the darkest corner because I just don't

see me.

So I'm like, holy shit, I am in the darkest corner in the cell phone lot.

I was like, fuck, man.

So I, you know, it's just, that'd be funny if I using your cell phone, it lights up your face.

People are like,

I've been.

I mean, I got while I was waiting, and the whole thing was lit up.

I was like, oh, man, I'm getting busted for this shit.

Yeah, but unfortunately, I wasn't there for any fun reason.

That's when you have to be like, somebody's like, hey, can you give me a ride home from the airport?

You'd be like, I'm not gay.

Get yourself a fucking car service.

What are you trying to say?

Yeah.

Yeah, so John Bon Jovi.

Who else?

I think Bruce is really the only other, maybe Danny DeVey.

Really Joel?

Is he from New Jersey?

No, Long Island.

He's Long Island.

Oh, really I thought he lived in Deal no Long Island I always said that he lived oh I think he had a house I think he had a house down there oh I thought he was a New Jersey guy no he's Long Island he's still on long I mean he might I'm sure he has a house everywhere I mean the guys couldn't couldn't be whose catalog would you rather have if you had you're gonna buy a catalog remember how like Michael Jackson brought the Beatles catalog

uh Bruce yeah Billy Joel or Bon Jovi you can only get one at a row both all three are up at auction you can only go after one of them I probably got to go for Bon Jovi's Blaze of Glory.

Okay, personal.

But you want to make money, though.

Honestly, dude, it would be hard for me to pass up Billy Joel.

He's got an unbelievable string of hats, dude.

Unbelievable.

And he wrote them all.

Like, he writes his own songs.

So

I probably would go with Billy Joel just for the money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If I'm going to try to resell it,

we should go for it.

I mean, if it ever does come up for auction, yeah, put our hats in the rain.

Every single video we do on Patreon is just loaded with Billy Joel music.

Chuck is scratching.

He's like,

how do we finagle like don't go change into a Halloween episode?

He's like, well, what does piano man have to do with a hot dog girl?

It just does, Chuck.

The funniest thing because, you know, we came in,

everybody knows this, but we came in to do do the

audio commentary for the Halloween episode.

I had a little bit of behind-the-scenes type stuff.

And as I was watching, it was the first time I normally don't watch the videos, I hate watching myself.

But as I'm watching this, I'm like, this is so fucking funny that every time we go to an event, they're playing The Devil Went at Georgia on that fucking channel.

So the song played about 15 times.

Yeah, that was wild.

It got so that, like, I was looking forward to it starting.

It really made me laugh.

Yeah, that was good.

The funny thing is, too, it's like the

action doesn't match the pace of the song.

So it's like Tom's.

Yeah, Tom's looking at something else slow and shit.

Tom did great.

His

bewildered look, the entire fucking thing was just great.

And you can tell, like, some of the shit, he's just down about it.

He's just like, I think you're like, hey, man, you got to put on this Darth Maul costume is the first part of like, oh, no.

Should we give away

what the

what the direction of Christmas is going to be?

Just tell them what the, it's a special kind of Christmas.

We've never done anything like this.

Yeah, I don't know.

No, I don't, I don't know.

I wouldn't want to give away the money shot.

No, no, but at least the but if you want to give the broad, I think that's

what I mean, just to get people excited.

It's going to be a TSD overkill Christmas where it's all spooky Christmas action.

People love overkill.

People love to tell them Steve Dave Christmas.

I mean, it should be a perfect marriage.

It should be.

Let's see.

Wow.

Knowing what you are bringing to the table,

I think it's going to be a milestone Telham Steve Dave episode.

I think it's going to be a heavily, heavily referenced episode going forward.

I hope you're right.

Yeah.

But I also wonder if we could get labeled as,

you know, like the...

Either we're going to go down as the P.T.

Barnum of podcasting.

Yeah.

Because, we already have a Prussian kiss and devil skull that we pretend is real.

We mean pretend real.

That's crazy talk.

Or we're going to go down as complete and utter hucksters, you know, like as

snake oil silken.

Tomato, tomato.

It doesn't matter to me either way.

Yeah, we could, yeah, we could get labeled as

the shim sham man of Hazlitt.

Instead of putting TSD up there on the marquee, I want the shim sham man a hazlet.

Yeah.

That's all.

What remains to be seen?

Hopefully, you know, it all comes together like I hope it does.

But,

you know.

Well, I got excited when I saw the plants.

Okay.

Yeah, it was really good.

And I'm working on

bringing something good to the table too

overkill.

So what about

knowing the date already and knowing that we've got episode 500?

So should we shoot for not Black Friday?

Because I also got the Black Friday opening.

Maybe we should shoot for maybe December 20th release?

Not on Christmas, but I don't know.

It's up to you guys.

Maybe we should ask the ants what they prefer.

Oh, you know what?

Oh, they're going to be like Black Friday.

Fuck all your other shit you got going on.

Fuck it.

Your plate problems are your own.

Well, you spend a long time setting up it being a tradition.

We haven't done it every year, though.

No?

No, there was one year it got released late

after Christmas.

And there's been one year where it got released in December.

But it really is dependent upon

what we could pull together because it's Black Friday will be here before you know it's already November what 6th?

8th I think.

Is it?

6th 6th.

6th.

6th.

So I mean

5th.

5th?

We got to get down here.

We got to get

make sure everybody who we want to be a part of it is available to do it and then cut it because it's so visual this year it should be on video.

So, I mean, we'll talk about it.

Right.

Okay.

We'll announce it maybe a next episode.

Great.

I can't wait.

I'm really excited.

Christmas is coming up.

I was happy to see that that was the

Overkill Christmas.

Yeah, it's going to be fun.

Really fun.

We have never tried that before.

I can't believe it in the last 10 years.

We did one year because I remember looking up something about this.

It was like, I thought it was Overkill Worthy.

It was about this guy who had killed his, or somebody who had killed an entire family in Germany in the 1930s or something like that.

I think it's the Kinternik family or something.

We may have done a small segment, like in the, in the

giant episode about Christmas.

we may have done a like now we're going to do a little overkill segment about christmas but

not this year the entire thing from start to finish overkill christmas and uh

you know i want to make people shudder when they listen to it yeah piss their pants

i would love that if somebody did that like they showed they they sent back photographic evidence that they're like i pissed my pants this is what you guys did yeah that would be fucking great don't send they send that to brie don't send it that i want to see it

I pissed my pants, and all I got was this lousy overkill t-shirt.

Yeah.

Oh, did you see

James Bond?

I did not.

Still haven't seen James Bond.

What about Eternals?

You going to see it?

Oh,

I don't have any interest in it.

It came out.

I heard it was the worst installment.

I haven't seen it.

Yeah, there's a lot of people.

That to me makes me want to see it because I'm like, I am so

not the typical, I think, Marvel viewer.

So like, if everybody loves it, I usually am like, oh, I really didn't like it.

But so if everybody hates it, I'm thinking I might like it now.

I want to see it.

You know, Kamal's in it.

He's funny.

So maybe.

Is Angelina Julie in it, too?

She's in it, yeah.

I mean, yeah, it's a hell of a cast, I guess.

I don't know.

I'm just excited for it.

No, I can't say I'm excited for it, but I'll see it, though.

I saw Dune.

Are they like the Avengers?

Well, they're, yeah, they're a group of superheroes that have been hiding.

I mean,

there's no sign of Jack Kirby in that movie.

At all.

Well, the Celestial.

They had that shot of the Celestial.

The big giant monster.

And he had the round eye multiple eyes.

That was Kirby.

You know what I mean?

But yeah, you're right.

It's not.

Yeah, I don't see any Kirby in this other than that one shot in the trailer.

But what did I say before that though?

Dune.

Oh, Dune.

Dune, yeah.

What'd you think?

Well, here's the thing.

Did you read the book?

No.

Okay.

And I don't remember, and I've never had the love of the first movie that other people have.

I only saw it once when I was a kid.

It never really stuck with me.

At hour two of Dune, I was like, is anything going to happen in this fucking movie?

It ends at the exact moment every other film.

It's just the first act.

Yeah, the first act.

It's a two and a half hour first act.

And like,

none of it.

I was just like, what?

Did you see in the theaters or streams?

I saw an IMAX.

Wow.

It was beautiful, right?

It was gorgeous.

But I was dark.

Was it too dark for you?

I didn't think so.

I think there might have been something wrong with my projector, too, because that shot of the worm coming out,

I could barely fucking make it out.

I was like, what is going on?

But, dude,

they just threw out all rules of filmmaking and they were like, yeah, it'll end on a cliffhanger, I guess.

And you're like, but it's not even much of a cliffhanger.

I didn't get it.

I literally was like, I don't get it.

I just didn't get it.

I think I didn't get it.

The office coach is a massive Dune fan, read all the books.

Okay.

And

he asked me to go see it with him because he wants to see it so badly in a theater, you know.

And so I was like, I have no knowledge of anything Dune.

Never even saw the original with Sting.

And I went, and the whole time I'm sitting next to him as he's watching it, he's just like, he's throwing his hands up.

He's super animated.

He's super throwing his hands up.

He wants you to know that.

He wants to go see it at like 10.30 on a Wednesday night.

So like we're the only people in the theater.

And he's got to be like,

Oh, unbelievable.

That's not how it happens.

I'm actually liking the movie because I'm like, I'm like, I'm having a good time, and I'm like, I don't need him to tell me that's not how it is in the book.

You know, every two seconds, that's not how it is in the book.

Yeah, I'm like, I don't care.

You didn't read it, you never know.

But he

was left wanting, get on wanting.

Yeah, he felt that they missed some opportunities for some of the things.

Oh, the movie's so fucking long.

How did they not cram everything in there?

He said that certain characters are killed and aren't fleshed out enough, and they're so good that they gave them

no moments

to have any connection with the audience because they killed them so fast.

That's crazy because they sure tried to make you care about those fucking palm trees.

And I got 800 shots of.

I was like, what the fuck?

I'm like, who cares?

Why do I keep looking at these trees?

I saw the first one back, I guess it would have been like fucking 1980 or something.

Was that long ago?

Which Sting?

Yeah,

the David Lynch.

Yeah, and being like,

I don't, like you, I don't get it.

I don't like it.

I don't care.

And like, that's why I didn't watch this one because I'm like, if it's anything.

I would recommend it.

I know Q as that, but I enjoyed it, actually.

I don't want to say enjoyed it.

I left there going, like, I would watch another one.

I loved that there was no humor.

I mean, there was no humor in it.

Zero humor.

You're right.

Yeah.

Oh, how much I enjoyed that.

Like, you know, the Marvel movies, like, it's almost too.

Yeah, a little quippy.

Yeah, but this one was so bleak.

It really was 100%.

I don't know if I missed something, but like

they didn't explain anything.

I get him said the same thing.

It's like they really threw you into the deep end of the pool and didn't give you enough backstory.

And to me, it's like, that's not in a way of just like...

Because they have superpowers, right?

Because

use your voice.

Do they?

Oh, yeah.

Use your voice.

They never explain anything.

So they have Jedi mind tricks if they use a deep voice.

I don't even understand what the fuck they were doing on that planet.

I was like, wait, so wait.

I was like, they swap it out every few years?

I'm like, what is going on?

like, well, at one point, I said, somebody uses a gun, and I'm like, wait a second, what?

They have guns?

So I said,

why the fuck aren't they using guns the whole time?

I said to my buddy, I went to go see what my buddy Eric

swords.

I go, what year does this movie take place in?

And he's like, it's 10,000.

I'm like, they're still fucking using swords in the year, 10,000?

Why?

And then in your mind, you're like, well, there must be some reason.

Guns were never invented.

Blah, blah, blah.

And then one motherfucker pulls out a gun.

I'm like, how is this the thing?

I didn't get it.

Giddam told me in the car ride home

about how, you know, why guns are not used.

Why?

I guess those force fields that they throw up.

Okay.

If you shoot a gun at somebody, you're going to get the force is going to repel back to you and blow a hole in there.

Okay, so that's why they use swords.

That makes sense.

Yeah, but they didn't explain.

Wish they explained any of that?

They didn't explain any of that in the movie, though.

So that's a very big hole to leave unexplained in.

They don't explain anything.

So that is good to have a guy who's read the book and has thrown his hands up in the air because then you're at least like, okay, I understand it.

Even if he doesn't doesn't like it, at least I understand it.

I may be a guy who's not as animated and as over-dramatic as the guy I was with, you know,

as if

they ruined something wonderful of his childhood, the way he was acting, you know.

But

I kind of dug it up.

Oh, okay.

And I would see the second one.

I heard they are already.

Well, the director, he's the one that did the new Blade Runner, and I love the new Blade Runner, Blade Runner 24-9 or whatever it was.

I like his work.

I just couldn't get into this one.

And Ghostbusters got to be any week now, right?

Oh, yeah.

You're excited.

I'm excited.

You're still excited.

You're going to the premiere.

Yeah.

Really?

How'd you score an invite?

Who invited you?

Reitman?

I don't want to drop names or anything like that, but you know.

Was it Reitman?

No, it was Reitman.

I've never met.

Yeah, they'll all be there.

They'll all be there.

Bill Murray's going to be there?

Bill Murray's going to be there.

I'm excited.

I'm sure.

Wait, we'll be there somewhere.

I don't think he's going to be in the same fucking theater or section that I'm in.

So if he's there, would you go up to him?

No.

No.

No, I wouldn't go up to him.

You wouldn't even be like, I just want to let you know I'm a gigantic fan.

No point.

He doesn't.

No.

The guy's just trying to.

You have from now into the premiere

to have that one sentence.

Well, I've met him before.

Oh, you do?

Yeah, I went to his golf tournament.

Oh, yeah.

But I didn't talk to him there either.

I took one picture with him that somebody threw me next to him and took the picture.

Oh, okay.

I would never.

But wouldn't you have the challenge, though, of coming up with one thing that you could say to him that he's like, I've never heard that before.

No, I don't want that challenge.

The one thing Bill Murray wants to hear from me is nothing.

And I'm prepared to give it to him.

That kid, he knows how to do it.

Maybe Ernie Hudson I'll say hello to.

But not Bill Murray, no.

No.

All right.

Do you think if Q gave regards from the comic bookman to Ernie Hudson, do you think he'd remember any recollection?

I think so.

I think it was such a strange, unique truck.

Such a low point.

But I think it's just a strange, unique episode where he was on ice cream truck.

Yeah, the ice cream truck, right?

I have to think that even him, a guy who's been in so many things, is going to be not going to forget that one because I'm sure he did not expect that was the direction that it was going to go in, you know, when he got there.

I would stake some big money that, okay, that he would remember him being on that.

Nope, maybe not remember any of the people, the names of anybody there.

Except Ming, maybe.

Maybe, Ming.

Well, you know,

I've worked with similar people.

I don't want to say I know Paul Rudd.

Like, I've worked with people that work with Paul Rudd.

So I've met him a few times.

So I know I can go up to him and talk to him.

It would be weird if I didn't say hi to him if we were there.

Ant-Man.

Ant-Man.

So what I'm hoping is when he's standing next to Ernie Hudson, then I'll go over to Paul Rudd and be like, hey, how you doing, man?

Good to see you.

Oh, hey, you know what I mean?

And then I'll just be like, you already got it down.

That I got down.

Bill Murray, I don't want to bother.

But yeah, yeah, but

I'm your peer, Bill Murray.

You know me?

I might be the only person in history who's using Paul Rudd to get to Ernie Hudson.

But fuck it, I don't count.

I'll use what I got to get.

And you're not nervous, though, that it's not going to be what you want it to be.

It's never going to be what I want it to be because Egon's dead.

So it's like, it will never be that what I, what I would have preferred a third Ghostbusters movie to be.

I'm just hoping.

Is there any sign?

I know you can't say it because

you want to make sure

anybody hears it that's at the premiere, but is there any sign of that it's going, that you're like, this is going to be good?

Because I don't look at that trailer.

Oh, yeah, I think so.

I think so.

I think that they're going to.

Do you think that it's a misstep to not show any of the original Ghostbusters?

I don't know why they're not doing it.

I find it strange, man.

Yeah, I think that's really weird.

I don't know why they're doing that,

but because I know they're all in the movie.

And when's it coming out?

It's got to be ninth next week right the 19th yeah yeah so the ghostbusters three three of the four are still alive three of the four three of the four okay egon's in the movie he's he's um they showed him in the commercial it opens up with uh

egon's death i think like it's he's getting chased by a ghost i don't know how they're working it out but i know that they said ming saw it ming said it was great i mean ming said it yeah ming was like you're gonna fucking love it and i was like well what do you mean i'm gonna love it he goes i don't want to spoil anything he's like i'm telling you you're gonna love this movie yeah i've heard i i've watched some videos, and they say that some segment of the population who's seen it is like,

it's all fan service.

That's what I want.

I'm like, yeah, how is that a bad thing?

I know.

I read those reviews, and people are like, it's too fan service.

And I'm like, are you out of your fucking mind?

That's all I want for the rest of my life.

Well, tell me what dude doesn't want to get serviced by anything.

Fan or otherwise.

Yeah, I can't wait.

I mean, I saw the clip that they released the other day of Paul Rudd's character fucking around with the ghost trap, and they use the music from the original.

So it's all that like that ghostbuster.

So it gets you right in the mood.

So I don't know, man.

I'm looking forward to it.

And I saw Ecto One in Manhattan the other day.

Like they have it driving around doing promo stuff.

I got real excited when I saw that.

I'm in, man.

You know what I mean?

If you love something.

I had the same feeling for Ken Kong versus Godzilla, man.

I had that boyish.

I was once like you.

Yeah, so I hope that it's a different experience for you.

It probably will be because.

Look, I'll be at the premiere.

Yeah.

That brings its own exuberance.

You know what I mean?

Like, I haven't been to that many premieres in my life.

You know what I mean?

I've only been to like four or five.

It's like, it's still an exciting thing.

Do you have to wear a suit?

I don't have to wear anything, but I'm considering.

You know what?

Let me ask your opinion on this.

Oh, no.

Tucks?

Ghostbuster out.

Do I I go my full Ghostbuster?

I have a screen-accurate Ghostbuster.

Do I walk the red carpet in that?

They would definitely take pictures of you.

And if you want to get on the news,

how much is it?

Is people really going to care?

It's a jumpsuit.

It's actually pretty comfortable.

It's a flight suit, yeah.

But there's like nothing sticking off the back or anything.

Well, I have the backpack, but they're like, I could just buy one and just, you know, it's the Halloween store one.

I could pitch it.

I don't know.

I lean towards like wearing

like Armani.

Really?

Like, going like you're going to con or something.

Nobody's going to care about that.

No.

I don't know.

I think that.

That's such a good thing.

There are going to be people that are like Armani.

I'm not going to look good in Armani.

It's not like I.

I wish you would.

No, no.

You get a tailored.

These are my options.

$5,000, $10,000 suit.

Either what I always do, which is just jeans, a black t-shirt, and a blazer, which is my standard going anywhere costume, or the full-on full-on Ghostbusters uniform with the Proton pack and everything.

Or I have, like, remember, like,

like, all the starter jackets where they're like satin-y.

Yeah.

And I have one from when they released Ghostbusters 2 on video, and it was a promo.

That's what you wear.

That's the one.

Just wear that.

Yeah, and the jeans.

And the jeans and the t-shirt.

And it went to Ghostbusters 2 as well.

So it's

even funnier.

I was going to say, it shows you're a fan even more than dressing up like a Ghostbusters.

Yeah.

Maybe I'll do that then.

Like to have something like that, to have that

piece of memorabilia is pretty fucking rare.

Yeah, maybe I'll wear that then because I could always just take that off, I guess, if I'm if I'm, but I don't know.

Maybe getting some bad looks.

Maybe I'll get Ernie Hudson to sign it.

You know what I mean?

That'd be cool.

Would you ask any of the other busters who are there?

Nah.

You couldn't do it, huh?

I don't want to bother them.

Yeah, I understand.

Me again.

Yeah.

I know Ackroyd is, I've talked to him a couple of times, and he's super friendly, and he's always willing to talk, but it's like,

I don't know, man.

I don't want to be that guy.

Yeah, I hear you.

I feel the same exact way when somebody was on Comic Book, man, I never once asked for anything.

Picture, autograph, nothing.

I mean, this is the place to do it, though.

They're at the movie premiere.

Right.

You know.

Sounds like you're

made his decision.

I was like, I might.

I know I won't do it.

I'd be too nervous.

Got Paul Rudd to go and ask him.

Yeah, I'm like, Paul, Paul, sign for me.

Get Ernie Hudson to sign this.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about Ghostbusters, man.

What theater is it at?

In New York?

I don't actually know yet.

Are you going to LA for it?

No, no, it's in New York.

New York.

Yeah, they usually do it at the

Lincoln Square one or the one in Union Square, but I don't know.

Yeah.

How did Bill Murray get this untouchable, godlike aura about him?

He is revered.

Yeah, I wonder that too.

Like, what movie did I miss that he became like this god amongst actors?

That he is is like,

like you said, he's like, he's like Pacino.

No, he's like De Niro was in the 90s.

Yes.

The way you and Kev were like, it's De Niro.

Right.

You know, fuck De Niro.

Fuck De Niro.

Murray has though.

Yeah.

You know, De Niro lost it, I think.

Oh, De Niro definitely lost it.

De Niro got it too early.

There was still time to fuck up.

He fucked up.

And on top of that, he was like with the Trump shit.

He got too involved in the Trump shit.

And I remember him being like, fuck Trump.

And he's like trying to raise his arms above his head and he can't quite do it.

You know, it's

yeah, but Bill Murray still is.

Bill Murray.

Yeah, he's got that like

where he where he where he wasn't when he did that elephant movie and stuff like that.

Like he had a period.

Orphan Trump.

No, he did

Larger Than Life.

And he, you remember, he did the Garfield movies.

People weren't like Bill Murray.

No, no.

I didn't even know he did that.

He went through a period where he had fallows.

Does he he's a guy that like

he just picks very choosy about the roles he he has.

Well, he has no agent.

And the only way to reach him is he has a phone number with an answering machine, and he never answers it.

And

if it's someone he knows or there's a project that sounds interesting, he'll call the person back.

Really?

Like, he's just shot.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, like, it seems like very...

I heard he's in the Eternals.

No, he's an Ant-Man 3.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

He's an Ant-Man 3.

I was going to say, it sounds like he's a very strange guy.

Plus, he's awesome.

I mean, what has, I mean, look at the fucking movies he's done.

Caddyshack.

What has he done that's not iconic?

You know what I mean?

Caddyshack, Carl the Gardner, is pretty iconic.

Ghostbusters is one of the fucking stripes.

Stripes.

I mean, you know.

Meatballs.

Fucking meatballs.

Even all the Wes Anderson movies.

That's really what I think did it for him with the Wes Anderson movies.

What's the Wes Anderson movies?

The one with Scar Joe, too.

What was that?

Was that a Wes Anderson movie?

That was Sophia Coppola.

But that was Astor Wes Anderson.

I think it was all the

Wes Anderson movies.

Royal Tennenbombs.

Okay.

Life Aquatic.

It was the one with the kid in the school.

Oh, Rushmore.

I think Rushmore was the movie that made that flip the switch for Bill Murray, where people are like, holy shit, this guy can also act seriously.

Now, is he one of the few actors that you will see anything he's in?

Yeah, I'll see anything Bill Murray's in.

No matter what, you're like, Bill Murray's in it.

I'm going to sit down and watch it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, I think so.

I know so.

Yeah.

Dune 2.

I'll probably see Dune 2 just to understand what the fuck was going on at the first.

And again, that director's so good that I would go see Dune 2.

Like De Niro had that, right?

De Niro had

that kind of mystique about him that anything he was in, like...

you and Kev would have been liked.

Oh, yeah, I would absolutely go.

And when did you become disillusioned with De Niro?

I think,

wasn't he in a movie with Marlon Brando?

Oh, with the Island of Dr.

Moreau, where he was kissing people.

No, it was a different one.

It was like this Canadian crime drama.

I think it was him in there.

But yeah, I mean, at a certain point, I mean, because he had fucking good fellas and he had casino, and like he was fucking on fire, man, in the 90s.

Well, the thing I hear about him is he just needs money, so he is a professor.

He'll do anything, right?

That's where all that grandpa shit came from.

And that's it.

If you meet his price, he'll show up and do it.

So it's just like someone could be like, well, let's just put a million dollars into getting him in, and then he'll do, he'll do it.

Bruce Willis is the same thing.

But at what cost, though, you lost to Brian Johnson, though.

He was a lifer, he thought, for De Niro.

I thought

you were talking about getting the De Niro tattoo.

Both of me kind of me and Cove.

I'll meet the fuckers.

Not even like Travis Bickle.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah, I don't have anything else this week.

How long have we been going?

Oh, wild hour and 18 minutes.

Okay.

Or does that say 38 miles?

Hour and 38 minutes.

Now, is that enough for the fucking bitches that complain that we don't go long enough?

Because all we care about is fucking Patreon.

All right.

Well, give me something that I can tag up with it.

Tell them, Steve, Dave.

I thought I just did.

Tell them, Steve, Dave.