#481: Silent Sufferin’
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Did you want to urinate on the floor?
Yes, yes.
But I wanted to say to Walt, I love you.
Are you trying to break down my walls here?
Yeah, but tender walls.
Sugar walls?
Tell him, Steve, Dave.
Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Tell him Steve Dave with Walt Flanagan and Brian Quinn.
Hey, everybody.
And myself.
Hardest working podcast in the business.
We didn't even take off for Memorial Day.
Except for the random weeks that we just take off, I guess.
Any plans, Q?
My parents are driving from Florida to New York, and they're stopping at Graceland
on Saturday.
So I'm flying to Memphis to surprise them.
Oh, really?
But yeah, I'm going to take them on a tour of Graceland.
I got my peeps over there that I'm going to talk to, and I'm going to spend the surprise day in Memphis with them on Saturday.
So they don't know when they get to the Graceland, they don't know you're going to be there?
They don't know I'm going to be there.
You should jump out in a fucking Elvis, the white Elvis with the mini cake.
Right?
It's been discussed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A bellhop outfit because what they have is they have this new hotel at Graceland.
Like supposedly it's like awesome.
And I told them that, oh, you know, my dad and my mom always went to Graceland.
I was like, The people of Graceland, if I got friends that work there, I was like, they'll set you up with a hotel and everything like that.
Don't worry about it.
So I booked it all on my credit card and stuff like that.
They think it's comped from Graceland, but it's not.
But I want them to feel special.
And then I got a room down there, and then I'm going to surprise them.
Hey.
Thank you.
So, yeah, those are my big Memorial Day plans.
And then
flying home Sunday.
And then that's it.
Monday, you know, sitting around having some RH, delicious RH beers.
I want to talk to you about beer and alcohol in general.
Did you hear this meeting?
This is an intervention.
Well, we're going to be talking about beer in general.
I guess I should mention that RH is now shipping not beer, but merch internationally.
So everybody in Australia and England can get their RH gear.
Please.
Please get it.
Please get it.
Did you see that study that was released last week about
absolutely any amount of alcohol causes brain damage.
Really?
Any amount.
Permanent brain damage or like temporary brain damage?
Because we used to call that being drunk.
No, it says in an observational study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers from...
It's a bunch of fucking killjoys coming together to try
the killjoys who never get invited to the parties where they have good alcohol are like, alcohol is bad for you.
Have fun with your brain cells dying.
Yeah, I will.
I don't know if you're going to have a ton of fun.
I didn't know this is how you felt about me, but the researchers noted that drinking had an effect on the brain's gray matter, no matter what
amount was consumed.
It definitely...
But do these nerds know that that's why we drink it?
To affect the gray matter?
The more brain cells you kill, the less you kill.
That's the goal.
It doesn't matter what type of alcohol either.
Really?
It's just all alcohol.
So wine, rosé, even?
There is no safe level of drinking.
Yeah.
I've been telling you guys that for decades.
You have.
Right?
I've never backed off it.
I've been saying there is no safe level.
Even a drop is deadly poison.
You're talking to somebody who was addicted to opiate for like five years.
Drinking wasn't my issue.
But you know, you hear all these, all these other studies that say, like, oh, you know what?
If you drink a glass of wine a night, it'll make you live longer.
Yeah.
Yeah, but you may be living as a vegetable, though.
Well, look, man, those are this is uh, you just said it's it's observational.
Like, what does that even mean?
It means that it's, it's probably accurate, but there's more studies need to be
performed.
Uh, there is no safe limit.
I mean, I don't know how many times they could say it in this article.
Dude, these fucking herbs are out there trying to ruin everybody's good time.
Don't let them have a drink.
Right in time for Memorial Day, they're fucking it up for everybody.
Yeah, like, fuck off, man.
Summer's here.
We all been trapped indoors for a year, and you want to tell people not to drink?
Fuck you.
Fuck off.
Not you, Walter.
Now, drink drinking had to have gone up during the
lockdown, right?
I mean, most people I know would just fucking high the entire time.
Me too, yeah.
A lot of people I know, it's like it was people I know that were casual smokers who were like, Yeah, I'm fucking everybody.
Gigi Chong over here.
I didn't mean to put you in a tough position, though.
I know,
because I know
you own
a death merchant.
But
damn, though.
I thought that was shocking, though, to
read that
just slowly destroying our brains with all this alcohol consumption.
Well, I mean, it gets so bad with some people, what's it called, like wet brain or something?
I've never heard the term.
It's just like they just jottle the time.
Yeah, they're
somebody with wet brain.
Yeah, wet brain.
It's no fun.
No, no.
And I look at them and I'm like, and as people like, you know, as we see more of our loved ones, you know, as we're getting older,
we're starting to see people pass away on a much more regular basis than ever in our lifetime.
And this one motherfucker keeps on trucking.
And I'm like, how the fuck does this guy?
I don't know how this guy who just is like a total, I mean, he literally has a wet brain.
His whole body's wet.
Like, fuck his brain.
But I don't know how he's alive.
Get him.
You know who I'm talking about, right?
How the fuck
does this guy keep going on?
Do you want to urinate on the floor?
Yes, yes.
And how do seemingly healthy people drop right in front of me?
Like your neighbor.
Yeah.
Your neighbor versus this dude who's been pickling himself for how long now?
Like life doesn't seem
fair.
It's not.
Oh, it's not.
Plenty of drunks die.
You know?
Yeah, no, I know, but it's like when I see the worst example of like what this study is talking about, right, wet brain.
Um,
and I just see him like just like doing the same thing and living the same kind of existence year after year after year, seemingly
like untouched in terms of like
his health, like other than like being fucking having wet brain, which is
but like it's not like he's like in a hospital, like, you know, where he, where he, you know, he's still out there fucking trying to score free comics from me.
And, you know,
hustling.
He got some trades on something.
Yeah, he was just in the store recently.
Holy shit.
So he's doing all right.
I mean, he's doing at least the same exact existence that he did when we first started podcasting.
Okay.
Yet
we and everybody around me has changed so much, but he hasn't, though.
He's like a fucking bug in amber.
He's pickled.
Well, that brings me up something I wanted to ask you guys.
You guys know,
I know you guys aren't big fans of Poison like I am, right?
The band?
Yeah, they were a little bit more hair metal than you guys were into.
But I don't know if you recall the cover of one of their CDs or albums was a tattoo, and it said poison, flesh, and blood.
Do you recall that at all?
Yeah.
Okay.
So let me ask you something.
Was that people who got that tattoo when that album came out, right?
Because there got to be people who got them.
Oh, yeah.
Mostly chicks.
Mostly chicks.
Did that it definitely went through a phase where people were like, why the fuck did you get the poison?
Like, as you age, like, 10 years past it, that tattoo might be a little bit regrettable.
Do you think?
Absolutely.
I mean, I think
that's potential for almost any tattoo, though.
Right, but this is very specific because I'm wondering, is there a point that it comes around again and becomes cool?
Like, is there a point where you're like, holy fuck, is that a poison flesh and blood tattoo?
Only if you're at a poison concert.
Really?
You don't think so?
Like at a barbecue, your aunt's got it you're like holy she was a wild child when she was younger even if you're at a music store let's say you're at jack's and same the record store clerk even he would have to be like you know raise an eyebrow and be like holy
it has to be regrettable it has to be why
i think now it would be cool
I mean, assuming you got it when that album came out, it would be so fucking faded by now.
It looked like shit anyway.
I got to get my Superman tattooed.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, I have regrettable tattoos that have nothing to do with poison.
Right, but there's something about this moment in pop culture.
Like, if you go to, like, let's say strip clothes are open, and we went to one, and there was a stripper, and she was 19, 20, and she had a poison flesh and blood tattoo.
You wouldn't think that was awesome?
I would be like, how the fuck did you hear the album?
Like, how are you a fan of poison?
Wouldn't it be more realistic if the stripper was 54?
Yeah, I was going to say.
Well, then that would be.
And 19, and would it be just as cool then?
I think it would be cooler then.
That's what I'm I'm saying.
I think it's an artifact of a time and
day that like that I would respect it now.
I think it would come around.
And I think if a young person got a poisoned flesh and blood tattoo, I think it would be fucking pretty cool today.
I think on an old person, especially, and please don't anybody take this the wrong way, but like on a woman, it would look trashy.
Like, I think at this point, it would just look trashy.
You know, I don't think I would look at it as cool.
I don't think I would look at it as cool if I was there the day they got it done either, though.
How do you not take that?
The only way you can take this is.
Because
I'm not sure what to do with this.
Please don't take this the wrong way.
Everybody fucking takes everything the fucking wrong way.
You can't take goddamn anything anymore.
Oh,
that's shit without everybody fucking freaking out.
I disagree with you.
Therefore, you're an asshole.
It used to be just your friends who said that to you.
I know.
Now it's everyone.
It's everyone.
Maybe that means we're friends with everybody.
It could be.
It is one big family, the anthill.
Oh, the ants are telling you that?
Well, the ants on Reddit.
They're not real ants.
Those are not real ants.
If you're on Reddit bitching about anything we do.
It's just come true and you got a little caught a little heat for last week's episode.
Yeah, I mean,
I feel like.
We had predictions that people would think it was a little angry.
Yeah, I hung out at Q's house last week, and we almost went swimming, but it looked like
there's a tree next to him.
He's got this tree where these little white petals fly off.
Oh, yeah.
Skim the pool a minute later.
So you're afraid to go into a pool that has a petal in it?
I don't want to get pedals all over me.
I've learned to just swim in pollen.
You don't care?
Well, this is the first time I have a pool.
Like we opened the pool.
I had the guy, he opened the pool last week.
You have a pool guy?
Well, I have a pool now.
I never had a pool boy.
He's kind of a sexy pool boy.
Yeah, he puts on like shorts and shit.
And so he came and he opened the pool.
I never, you know what I mean?
Like, this is a big thing for me.
And so I will swim in pollen.
I don't give a fuck.
Whose pool is bigger, Q's or mine?
When I had my pool?
Oh, Q's easily.
Fuck.
Q's area.
I gotta tell you.
Sorry.
It's not a very big pool.
My wife resented so badly having to take care of the pool.
Did she?
Oh, my God.
I would hear about it fucking night and day that, like, I'm the only one taking care of the pool.
And I would be like, I don't fucking care.
Then let it fucking rot then.
The girls weren't going to take care of it.
They were children, right?
No, and I certainly didn't know how to fuck.
I don't know how to mix chemicals and shit.
am I a fucking scientist now?
Because
the girls want to go into fucking take care of it.
Well, I got my fucking beakers to make your life easier.
Oh my God, but it's apparently quite a task to maintain a pool for a season.
I just break him off a piece of that sweet and practical joke.
But he can't get all the pedals out, though, huh?
It's spring, so it's like it's every day they just drop.
Oh, he's not on call 24/7?
Oh, I've seen him.
I didn't see it.
But
what a great area to hang out in, though.
A little fireplace action.
It made me think, too.
Well, that's not a fireplace, Brian.
Just so we say that legally.
That's a grill.
Oh, is it a grill?
Well, because legally, you're not allowed to have outdoor fire pits.
You are allowed to have outdoor grills.
And the distinction is a grill.
Did I say fireplace?
You said fireplace.
My bad.
But I wanted to say to Walt, I love you.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Why?
Well, because you're my friend of 45 years, but I realized today that I've never told you once that I love you.
When I say goodbye to Q, I tell him I love him all the time.
You, I tell him I love him.
I've never heard you say that.
I told Sal I love him as recently as today.
Well, don't you don't like it?
I knew you wouldn't like it.
It's just not that.
It's physical rent.
It's just not that.
That's how my mother talks, though.
It's just not how.
I love you more than your mother does.
I know that
I'm a product of a generation and was raised not to
wear my emotions on my sleeve.
So
it is a kind of like
you're going to get that reaction, though.
Like, I'm never never going to be able to
say with any kind of like comfort or casually, yeah, I love you guys.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just don't know if I could do it.
I'll feel it.
Yeah.
But you can't even receive it?
It depends on what it calls for to be receiving.
Like, do you want to like, like.
Do you?
Yeah, like, because I'm not sure.
What kind of fuck is that?
Like, he gave you cooties.
Yeah, because now what comes with that?
Like, is this just the first step in actually trying to, like, you know, have intercourse?
Because
what's wrong with that?
Why are love and intercourse related?
I haven't noticed that all that much.
Are you trying to break down my walls here?
Yeah, but it's tender walls.
Sugar walls?
I noticed the same thing.
I have a difficult time even saying it to my parents.
Because my mother just, she doles it out like it's fucking nothing.
Yeah, because then, yeah, yeah, because then it does it become noise then.
She's like, I love you to the mailman and shit, you know.
No, I wouldn't do that.
But I am, I am, I, I live of the philosophy, philosophy, I live in the philosophy that I like to tell people that I love them.
Because,
uh, well, isn't life just better that way?
Like, knowing how people feel?
And then also, it's just like, what if, you know, they die, or even worse, I die?
You know what I mean?
So if you're telling all these people that you love them,
seemingly more than your mother is telling people, how can you tell everybody you're here?
How come you're waiting now to tell me 54 years or 50 years in?
Because it only occurred to me, because I was talking to Sal today, and it only occurred to me
after I got off, and I was like, oh, I love you.
Then I'm like, you know what?
I have friends that I say that to, but I never say it to Walton.
Yeah, how do you open that door?
I'll tell you who the Staten Island guys opened it for me.
Yeah.
I'm of this Italians.
It's an Italian thing.
I'm of this.
It's not an Irish thing.
I think Irishmen are a little bit more, I mean, a little bit more.
Are you kidding me?
The Irish, aren't they like super emotional and shit like that?
Yeah, but that's usually anger-induced.
Oh, yeah.
I think they're a little bit more stoic, aren't they?
The Irish?
Yeah, they suffer.
They suffer silently, right?
The Irish.
That fucking defines me to a fucking T.
Long-suffering Walt Flynn.
Silent.
No, it's because nobody's telling you they love you.
We got to keep it in.
Yeah, we got to break down the sugar walls.
All right.
All right.
Love you, Walt.
Oh, God.
I don't know how I feel.
I really don't know.
It's an odd thing.
It takes a little getting used to.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean,
do you say this in front of your wife?
You tell
that
you meant you say these phrases in front of you.
She's like, what is butt fucking next?
Maybe.
No, she knows.
She knows what?
She knows that I say it.
She's been there.
Yeah.
And this has been going on for years?
With Muse and Q and Salia.
Yeah.
Love you, buddy.
How do you sexes come up with Muse?
You barely see Muse.
When I talk to him, though, like on the phone or even in person,
whenever we part, we're like, oh, I love you, brother.
Love you, bud.
Yeah.
I tell get him that.
I tell get him, I love him.
You guys should practice when you're sitting here.
Like a brother.
No, not like a brother.
No.
Oh, really?
But there's different levels.
Like I'm like a brother's friend.
No, like.
My pool boy's brother.
No,
I don't think that like a brother encompasses really my relationship with him.
Should there be like a little caveat though after you say it though?
But that's my point.
Like there's a difference between being in love with someone.
I'm not saying Walt, I'm in love with you, which is different.
How is it different?
That's when the butt stuff comes.
Oh, that's like a romantic, yeah, that's like a romantic thing.
It's a physical love.
But just, no, it's just like, if I'm, if, like, I have, like, I've never been in love with a dude.
I've been in love with women.
No, it's that romantic fucking hearts and flowers shit that I'm not.
It's not semantics, though.
No, no, it's just a phrasing of language, it feels like.
Not at all, man.
Not at all.
You're talking about like, I don't want to marry you and spend the rest of my life with you.
Why not?
And have, well, you're on the right parts.
I get them, apparently, now.
Yeah, all right.
Well, then
let's do this.
But I don't know.
No prenups.
Watch me worry about that bull.
You don't want a prenup up with him?
You've got to get one.
No way.
I don't want one.
Oh, so I can take it off at least one.
This way I can get some of my fucking
money.
Some of that fucking
sugar mama, not his.
No, wait a minute.
I'm older than him, so.
Well, it depends.
Are you having a sex change?
Yeah, I would have to.
You would have to.
Okay, so.
Yeah, he's the sugar daddy.
I wonder if they would
be practical jokers if I came, if I was like, I'm transitioning.
Would they do like a season 10 with me as a woman?
They would have to.
They would have to because if they canceled it just because you were transitioning, it would be over for true.
Really?
Oh, can you imagine the press?
You make a decision, a life decision, something that
is
on that level of.
It wouldn't work.
I'll tell you why it wouldn't work.
Because the guys would have to be able to make fun of me.
Right.
And they wouldn't be able to make fun of me.
And that would be death to the show.
What would you change your name to?
What would it be like, Sally?
I'd be like Brianna.
Brianne.
Yeah, Brianne.
Yeah.
Or what if like you transition and you just you're like a total slut you're constantly coming on to them.
I'm like Sal, I love you
in a butt fucking way.
Yeah, yeah, the show wouldn't work.
The show wouldn't work.
All right.
I wondered, you know, we're going on this trip in June.
This question's mostly for WAP, but you could weigh in, of course.
Thank you.
If
we come to a stop, right?
you know, hotel for the night, Mary Beth's not with me anymore.
Where is she?
Well, I tell you that she
I tell you that we got into a fight at a rest stop
and she left with a trucker.
Am I believed?
I absolutely.
You believe me?
Yeah, absolutely.
I could see that happening.
I could see that happening like
even in Monmouth County.
I could see that happening.
You're not even out of the county yet?
Like, you leave that bitch.
I'm going to tell you that like a half hour hour into the ride, you don't even get out of Jersey and she's already.
No, that would have been like with the last one.
Definitely.
In fact, there were times when we lived in Vegas and we had to go from Vegas to California.
And I'm like, it's a big desert.
It's a real big desert out there.
So it's not enough to leave her?
No, no.
Yeah, I think we would definitely believe you.
Why would we not believe you?
I don't know.
Maybe if I was acting cagey and shit.
Like, how should I know?
Well, I would find it odd that you still went on the trip.
Well, it's a mid-trip.
We're like, you know, we're somewhere.
We're in fucking Kansas or something.
Right, but she got into a truck.
I would never, I wouldn't, my first thought would never be like, you killed her and buried her in the field.
I know you wouldn't do that, but I would be like, well, you're not that upset?
Like, sorry, do you not?
Like, do you not care enough that you're just still going to go to the Grand Canyon?
Well, I mean, I'm halfway there.
Yeah, but I would.
She made a decision as an adult.
That That you're that cool about it.
Well, I don't think I'd be that cool about it, but at that point, it's like if I'm that deep into the trip, just keep going.
You know, maybe Frank Five and Mrs.
Five will invite me in.
Right?
Oh, shit.
I love you, Frank Five.
At least let me videotape some of their love mates.
Yeah, do you think that they'd go for it?
I don't get that sort of thing.
No, I don't get that vibe either, but maybe if I was bereft, like, I can't believe she left me.
I don't know.
I also thought that
as I get older,
like we've talked about this before, like me dying before she does.
And today I was like, can you imagine if
she has to help me find a nursing home?
Like she can't handle me anymore.
What do you do?
What are you like, baddie?
You got wet brain?
You just,
no, I don't have wet brain, but maybe it's like I'm just like broken down and shit.
So it's like hard for me.
Like she can't lift me and shit.
Oh, but mentally, you're still there.
Mentally, I'm pretty much still there but like you come along with me i'm not putting you in home absolutely you out of your mind i imagined her and her new boyfriend shopping
oh okay all right
you could do water aerobics in my pool oh that would be awesome i ain't gonna let you brot dude that would be awesome yeah i thought just to get her back for something like that preemptively what i'm gonna do is like every six months I'll make a series of increasingly frantic videos where I'm like, she's trying to kill me.
If you see this, if you get this video after I'm dead, you have to look closely at her because
she's trying to kill me.
But if I do it now and then I don't die for another 10 years, nobody will believe it.
So that's why I have to constantly update it.
But what's the end goal here?
Just to make life hard for her after I die.
Even though she didn't kill you.
She didn't kill me, no.
Okay.
No.
But I just,
I just, I hate the idea that she's going to have this whole second life after I'm gone.
Why?
You had a whole second life before she showed up.
So did she.
Much of one.
Well, she doesn't have much of a life now.
Why is she so accustomed to life?
I did think, though,
if that were the case, if it's like, look, you're way too much to handle.
You got to go to a nursing home.
I think that's when I'd be like, I'm going to bust out the gun.
Assuming there was no pool boy to lift me in anything.
No, dude, you're always going to have a pool boy to lift you up.
If she came home with a poison flesh and blood tattoo,
what's your reaction?
I would be floored for one.
I would be like, I've never heard you listen to poison.
I didn't know you liked poison.
I know you have
this phobia of needles.
There's a whole host of things that go into me wondering, what the fuck?
But if she came home with that tattoo,
I would have to look for other odd behavior.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, because I'm like, this is fucking, this is off the reservation, this kind of thing.
So
I need to keep a closer eye on what she's up to.
I can't believe you guys hate fucking Poison Flesh and Blood so much.
What's the big song that came off that album?
What's that?
What's the big single that came off that album?
Hold on.
I'll read you the whole track list, my friend.
Get ready for a list of American classics.
Was Poison the band you sung with?
The Brett Michael Michaels was.
Brett Michaels.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Here we go.
You ready for this?
All right.
Tell me if you know any of these songs, Walter.
Okay.
Unskinny Bop.
Fuck yeah.
Isn't that about masturbating?
Something to Believe in?
Isn't that about masturbating?
Ride the Wind?
Don't know that one.
Life Goes On?
Know that one.
Oh, I know.
Isn't that the Beatles?
Was that a cover of that song?
Oh, I don't think so.
That would be surprising.
No.
No.
And Sacrifice, with just the hits off that album.
I don't think.
Wait a minute.
Unskinny Bop wasn't Warren?
No.
I get those guys confused.
Warrant and Poison.
By the Wind's a fucking weapon song, too.
I don't know.
I just think it's a good album.
I just think maybe some tattoos should come back from.
Now, are you willing to lead the charge?
Well, I already have a Superman tattoo.
So
what am I doing here?
You know what I mean?
What do you mean?
You can't get it on the other arm?
What am I going to get?
A bunch of logos and stuff on my arm.
It's like a mass car.
You know what I mean?
Like, I got it.
You're sponsored by Poison.
I can't really.
But
I would get a Poison Flesh and Blood tattoo.
Maybe I'm like my back, like back shoulder.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think?
It is.
I think most people would be like, I have no idea what that means.
Yeah.
And I feel like
they're not the most, and I, I, this is wrong, especially coming from a, from an,
where you guys are not professing love to each other on such a regular basis.
And you, and you.
And yeah, and me.
They're not the most like masculine of metal bands to get a tattoo of.
So you are going to be looked at
with a little bit more thoroughness of,
you know, what I'm saying.
Well, thank God he's not a woman, though.
He looked like trash.
They're not the most masculine.
I guarantee if you take
every store.
I know what they're doing.
That they blocked.
Everybody is everybody.
I know.
I know.
They didn't fuck as many people as Brett Michaels did in the masculine store.
There is no doubt about it.
So what are are your metrics?
Just about, like, you know,
like
it was hard ass.
Like, you want to be, you want to be like legit.
Like, you know, maybe you get a Metallica or a Slayer tattoo.
Yeah.
You know, Venom, black metal, something that's side down cross.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not a heart that says, what does it say?
Unskinny body.
Flesh and blood.
Flush and blood.
Flesh and blood.
It's just the poison logo.
It's the track of the skin.
That's a tattoo.
Yeah, those are the kind of tats, though, that will get you a little bit more.
You'll still get the honeys.
Yeah.
With the tattoo.
Yeah, but you'll also get,
you'll also get the respect of the dudes in the room.
Which you might not get
as easily with the poison tattoo.
Yeah, but what am I looking for in life?
Yeah.
Don't you want a little bit of everything, right?
I mean, I don't, I don't know.
I mean, I think there's a subset of dudes out there like me who would be like, is that a fucking poison flesh and blood tattoo?
And I'm like, yeah, I got it last week.
I think they would be like, this fucking guy's awesome.
That's way more stunning than if they had gotten it in the 80s.
Yeah, I think it's pretty, I think it's a fucking hell of a statement.
Maybe I should do it, I guess.
I don't know.
You may want to think about that one for a little bit.
Yeah.
Beyond the three of us fucking talking about it.
All right.
It was only because I was driving up here listening to the hair metal station on Sirius.
And like, when the song comes up, they have the album cover.
All right.
And it was the tattoo.
And I was like, so is that your favorite hair metal band?
Poison?
Yeah.
I mean, they're up there.
Motley Crew?
Hair metal?
I like Poison more than more than Motley Crew.
Really?
Yeah.
I like Poison more.
They're more fun.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I think the greatest hair metal album ever is
Is that hair metal, would you say?
I mean, I know they're wearing makeup and they got fucking giant hair.
But
it's a rocking album.
It's a great album.
And you don't have to ever, like, dude, you can get Shout Out the Devil.
Yeah.
Way fucking more legit.
Yeah.
And
what is the Slippery One?
What?
What does it say?
What?
Fles and blood.
Sorry.
It's Bon Jovi.
He has that tattoo by his butthole.
But you can get the pentagram
and still say the crew or something underneath it.
Yeah, but I wouldn't be being true to myself.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Some of these hair metal bands, like
I don't really care for Cece Deville's guitar playing, but then you get like
Nino Betancourt.
I think he was in White Lion.
or like Reb Beach, who I think was in Winger or something.
Now, is he throwing out names that you're just like
just the tar, you just the hits?
No, no, no.
I'm not.
I know those names.
So you're a legit, like, big, big fan of hair metal.
I'm a healthy enough that I listen to the station, but I wouldn't say like
you're listening to constantly on the way back from Chicago that time?
What was the album?
Oh, wasn't it fucking
Jimmy Buffett?
no that was a different time
it's five o'clock somewhere that trip yeah it really was cheesecake and a fucking it would have been a cheeseburger and a cheeseburger paradise yeah man
but but some of these guitarists like i i look them up now and i'm like they're fucking amazing but they were kind of like i didn't recognize it at the time because i didn't like hair metal well that's what i've always heard like that those those albums are technically really hard to play some of them right yeah i don't think poison really is like i think they were a little Yeah, I don't think CeCe Deville is like up on that.
Did you also like Warrant?
Because they were like Poison Light.
Yeah, I was never really into Warrant.
You felt like they were just kind of like copping off, like riding the Poison coattails?
No, I just think that I, you know, I mean, look, I'm not even saying that I'm the biggest poison fan in the world.
I mean, just because I have the tattoo doesn't have the biggest one in the room.
But
I don't know about that.
Oh, really?
But
yeah, I, yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know.
Who are some of your other favorite
hair metal bands
Wasp
wasp uh fast faster pussy cat would say is hair metal
Okay LA guns LA guns yeah, I listened to a bunch of LA guns my bad.
His name's Nuno not Nino from the Boston rock band Extreme Guns N' Roses
Were they always hair metal like they got out of hair metal
Did they when I mean they lost all that makeup shit pretty early on.
So you wouldn't consider they're not on the hair and.
Well, maybe that's
glam metal.
I would say they're more glam.
Yeah, like, I mean, because if you look at Appetite for Destruction, like, there's a lot of, like, scarves and shit like that.
Yeah.
But I think that was just the era, right?
Like, I thought they, by the time User Illusion came along, they weren't fucking with that anymore.
No.
He never lost the hat.
Slash?
Slash never lost the hat.
And still,
I've never seen a rock star wear a hat like that.
Like, not like that, but like wear it so well.
About Rat.
Yeah, he's awesome.
Rat, no, you don't.
You don't like rat.
I've listened to rat.
I don't own a rat album.
You got to get the best, the greatest hits of rat.
Yeah, that's a, that's like old school rock mixed in with airmount.
Right?
Rat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about
Cinderella, again, like I've listened to, but I always found them a little too corny for me.
They're very soft.
It's a good part to get the.
Yeah, right.
For the guy who's talking about getting a poison tattoo, Cinderella's too corny.
Yeah, who is the corniest then?
Oh my God.
White Lion was corny as well.
White Lion was real.
Cinderella was corny.
All right.
They're saying, oh, Steel Panther is still playing out there now, but Steel Panther is kind of like.
They were a product of decades later of just mocking the genre.
Yeah, mocking, but they do it well, man.
I've seen them play a book.
Yeah, we went to see them at the same time in L.A.
Well, they're saying it, it came out of, like, now I'm looking at it.
All right, Poison Skid Row.
You dig Skid Row?
I've listened to Skid Row.
Motley Crew, they're saying Quiet Riot is considered gland metal.
Yeah, they kind of warn mascara and shit.
I never liked the Quiet Riot song.
I don't, there's not one song I ever liked.
Well, any of their hits are just remakes.
Yeah.
All right, so they're including
Twisted Sister.
Yeah, I like a couple of Twisted Sister songs.
Before
I'm Not Gonna Take It.
That's when they jump to Shard.
Okay.
Striper, who I never got into.
I know they have one or two good songs, but I never got into Striper.
Bon Jovi, they're counting as glass.
Oh, yeah, definitely hair metal, right?
Well, they're saying glam.
I guess they're putting glam and hair together.
Well, I mean, look, if Bon Jovi's hair metal, then you got to cover me a hair metal guy because it's fucking Bon Jovi, man.
Blaze of Glory.
Oh, yeah.
Get him going.
No, there's like a fucking lump on his wrist over here.
Dawkin, Poison, Skid Rose, Cinderella, and Warren.
Dawkins' disappointing because Dawkins wasn't hair metal in the beginning, but then once hair metal took off and they saw how popular it was, they started putting on makeup and shit and grabbed their scarves.
Yeah,
they got it.
It was considered hair metal for a while.
Yeah.
You know, they put on all and what's it called?
Androgynous?
Androgynous.
Yeah.
Do you ever go on to go androgynous?
No, not really.
I don't think I could pull it off.
My brother Eric tried that, like when he was in college.
I remember he used to wear barrettes in his hair.
I'm like, what's your fucking deal?
I guess being androgynous was cool at the time or or something.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But, all right, I just wanted to get your opinion on
the poison tattoo.
I have this.
Well, go ahead.
No, I have something we're talking about.
What you just said to your brother would be considered toxic masculinity.
And I found this article, and I wanted to see if you guys have ever been the subject.
of toxic masculinity because
I know for a fact that not only that one of the things said on here, one of these examples,
you
partook in.
Is that the right part?
Yeah, maybe partaken.
I've partaken.
Yeah, I've just, I mean, I'm just going to say off the bat, like, I, I, I'm a, like, what they call toxic masculinity.
I don't, I don't, I don't agree with the definition of toxic masculinity.
Well, I mean, some of these things, though, I know I have been guilty of.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
Yeah, but it's stupid, though.
Stupid isn't bad.
Stupid isn't.
Stupid though.
That's it.
Have you guys ever been made fun of for wearing safety gear?
I know I made fun of Giddam for wearing safety gear.
But he wears it in situations that are not appropriate.
It's like everyday wear for him.
Like a fucking safety bench.
No, I actually, I think people should wear safety gear.
Yeah, and I have to apologize to Giddam right here and right now.
And I want to apologize to Giddam for making fun of him for wearing his safety gear.
What gear?
Can we put this in context?
What gear were you wearing?
Just like a vest when we were shooting a video.
Oh, okay.
And he wore
a vest to stand out, and he wore boots and shit.
So you
TM'd them?
Yeah,
I maintained that it was not manly for him to do that.
You should risk getting hurt.
And they're saying that's toxic because it might cause him to take it off.
And yeah, because you know, it's not cool and it's absolutely dumb to make fun of somebody for being
taking precautions.
I would argue, if I may, and this, and I'm a self-professed fan of safety and stuff like that, that the real toxic masculinity is him in this situation for not being able to handle your onsaults.
No, no, no, no, no, turning it around on you.
That's a toxic man right there.
But, you know, he didn't write this article, though.
I just saw the article and it made me like,
like, it just smacked me in the face.
And I was like, holy shit, I'm a jerk off.
You're toxic.
Yeah, I'm toxic.
Have you ever made fun of somebody for wearing a seatbelt?
I don't think I've ever done that, though.
I can safely say I've never said that.
So another safety restraint.
Yeah.
But Bri.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Unfortunately, dude, dude, you.
I'm toxic.
Absolutely.
For years, whenever this person was brought up, you brought this up
wearing purple.
Oh,
namesake.
Steve, the original Steve Digg, who owned
the stash before it became the stash.
Bri would always tease him for wearing purple.
I wear purple.
Because he would wear purple sweats and a purple shirt.
Oh, he's like the purple man.
Yeah, just purple.
I've never seen you in purple, though.
I've worn purple.
Really?
Yeah, you just haven't noticed.
Top or bottom?
Both?
I have purple pants on.
At the same time?
No, not
at the same time.
Not at at the same time.
But I have a purple pair of
slacks that I've worn from time to time.
I have purple sneakers.
I cannot believe it's so specific.
Like, if you make fun of somebody for wearing purple.
Wow, there it is.
Wearing purple.
All right.
I
am not happy, but
I can honestly say I've never made fun of anybody for wearing purple.
It just has never happened.
And
I'm kind of relieved that
I wasn't
checking off all the boxes on this article.
So at least I can say I didn't make fun of somebody for wearing a seatbelt or for wearing purple.
Now, this is male or female.
You make fun of male or female for wearing purple or just?
I think it's when you're making fun of other males.
Okay, because the number of guys or girls that I've made fun of, like without them knowing, you know, I'll see somebody in purple and usually they're like hyper-obese.
The grimace.
Yeah.
Go right to the grimace.
I'm just like, why would you do that?
Why
is that the grimace thing?
You shouldn't be bringing that up.
You should have just fallen on the sword immediately when he said, like, yeah, you know what?
I was wrong to make fun of
the Steve Dave.
Not now bring up the fact that you made up the funny story.
It gets worse.
I'm just like, I can't believe that, like, knowing that the comparison is going to be made.
I don't really care for the color purple, but even if I loved it, there's going to be some asshole that they're going to come across that's going to be like, hey,
we're out there.
We're out there.
Where's the shapes, Chris?
Well, you didn't say it to me.
Where's your fry guy?
You eternally were like, look at that.
I don't say it to him.
I'm like, hey, hey, hey.
I got to be honest.
I've had the same, I've been faced with the same situation where I've seen
an obese person in purple.
And in my mind, I've been like, wow, they wore that, huh?
Even knowing the Grimmis thing.
Now, when you've worn your purple attire,
has anybody said anything?
My friends have made fun of me.
Really?
Sure.
Jokers?
Bastards.
Jokers?
I mean,
I wear shit for you guys to make fun of me.
What the fuck is the skeletos were all about?
Yeah, but when I was-I like to give you guys shit.
But when we weren't fucking putting our toxic masculinity on display, you got mad at us.
Like, you were like, you were annoyed at us for not making fun of your skeletos, as I recall.
Yeah, it went through all the trouble about it.
Well, it did go to a lot of trouble.
Like, you're almost like you're looking for us to be toxic.
I am, because that's not toxic.
It's just boys being boys.
I don't want my friends to fuck.
You drop the occasional, I love you, bud, but it's like,
I don't want my friends to fucking.
That's kind of toxic to me, though, telling me you love me, though, because it makes me feel uncomfortable.
Is it in the article?
I have always said that if you walk into the firehouse and people aren't calling you an asshole within fucking five minutes, it means that they don't like you or you've done something wrong.
It's just the way guys speak.
I don't understand where this toxic masculinity thing comes in where people are like, you can't speak to people that way.
I'm like, but I want people to speak to me that way.
They're my friends.
Like, they're supposed to be able to fucking rip on me.
I feel.
I mean, maybe, maybe.
You lose a dimension of the friendship if they don't.
It's insane to me that my friends would not make fun of me.
It's fucking bonkers to me that it would be labeled toxic.
I think it's just because
you're so accustomed to it that now that you equate it with
love.
And
so you're always, so you're always like, that's how you, that's how you feel.
And that's how you, and that's why you you enjoy it so much.
Right.
So why does that got to be?
But not everybody's.
Yeah, but not everybody's built like that.
Sure, but then say that.
Don't say it's toxic.
You can't make fun of purple.
Like, I want you to make fun of purple.
Yeah, but there's dudes out there who are going to want to wear purple and not have to have their friends like
fun of them.
So that's an important distinction.
Like, to me, toxic is like, it's bad for everyone.
But it's like, it's not bad for everyone.
It's not.
I'm sorry.
So don't put your fucking label on my relationship dynamics with my friends.
Right.
Well, everybody in this in this little circle agrees that if you're going to wear purple, you're going to make fun of me.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I don't agree with that.
I've never made fun of anybody.
No, no, no, I'm not talking about us three.
Purple is the stand-in for skeletons.
Yeah.
All right.
Right.
It's like, it's like, I didn't ask you to fucking put a label on how I fucking interact with my friends and stuff like that.
So don't do it.
You know how sad.
Fuck off.
Yeah, I know.
Really?
Do you know how sad it would make me if my friends like wholesale just stopped making fun of me?
I would hate it.
You wouldn't even know how to talk to us.
Like, it's nuts.
And there's nothing toxic about it.
So only one out of three I'm toxic with somebody.
All right, What about?
I know you're the next one.
I know you are.
You would make fun of somebody for looking up to a non-male athlete.
No, that's not true.
I want to say that's true.
Skateboarders.
Oh, skateboarders for sure.
Yo, come on, man.
If I was fucking rocking like
a guy is looking up to me?
Yeah, like instead of wearing a Brady jersey.
Like a WNBA thing?
Yeah, I'm wearing,
I don't even know who a purple WNBA jersey is.
And you're like, what's that jersey?
And I was like, oh, it's such and such.
She's the goat of.
She's the bomb.
Like Serena Williams.
Like, you got into tennis.
Okay.
Yeah.
She's the goat of tennis.
Right.
You wouldn't be like.
I'd be like, aren't there any male goats?
Goats got no balls.
Goat got castrated.
What's going on here?
I don't see you making fun of people for that.
No, like if
a female, like, because I had a girlfriend who she was very into sports and shit, and she looked up to different female athletes, and I never thought to make fun of her for it.
But if Walt was super into it, I would just assume that there was some sexual attraction.
You would definitely, there is no doubt about it that you couldn't hold your tongue if all of a sudden as I was into some female athlete as much as I was into Tom Brady.
Oh, definitely.
Yeah, definitely.
You'd probably get in trouble, too.
All right.
This one I've definitely been a victim of.
Not by you guys, though.
Okay.
Not caring about cars.
I've had my fucking manhood questioned for not giving a fuck about cars.
Before the mics went on, he just was
proclaiming that he's never driven his car through a car wash.
He's never had it washed ever.
And any car ever, right?
Never.
I've never taken my own car through a car wash.
I've had to sit through a car wash with my wife having, you know, wanting to go through the car wash.
But I feel it's not even worth washing.
Who gives a fuck?
But you like,
you have such little interest in cars that you don't even care, like mechanically, if you hear a sound, you'll just turn the radio up so you don't got to fucking deal with it.
Yeah, definitely.
And usually the sounds go away.
They do.
They go away.
The car's fine.
And, you know, I'm not like Giddam overreacting about like he hears a little fucking like ding and he's just, he's like distraught.
It's like he's on a suicide watch.
He thinks that his car needs to go into the fucking shop.
And he, and he's getting taken left and right because every time he fucker brings in, he brings his car in,
they find something
like that.
They're waxing his undercarriage and shit.
All kinds of stuff.
So, yeah, have you ever...
Now you're into cars, though.
No, I'm not.
I like.
No, I'm not into cars.
I like it.
Yeah, but you definitely know models.
You really know.
You had that old car.
You still got it.
Yeah, the Crown Vic.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that's...
I mean, I want a Crown Vic.
I want a DeLorean one day.
And I like my Wrangler, but I'm not really into car.
I'm not like a Bugatti.
I see him.
I'm not like, oh my God, I gotta.
I'm always like, that'll fucking.
Never attended a car show?
No.
We attended a motorcycle show.
We went to a motorcycle show, but
I was over the weekend.
I went to Friendly's and there was a car show going on in the parking lot.
Okay.
And my wife said, Do you want to walk you to the car show?
And I was just like, no, there'll just be some asshole that'll make fun of me because I'm not into it.
Because I'm wearing purple.
And finally,
we got this last one.
But who is the victim in these things?
Yeah, like why?
Like when they said toxic masculinity, I thought for sure it would affect women.
That's in a negative way.
Actually, there's more.
Oh, there's more.
But so far, everything I've heard is like,
who cares?
I feel like I'm not toxic enough.
I'm built to have only one.
When I've been around a different circle of friends,
or not even friends, just being out and about with people, associates, and they're talking talking about cars, and they're like, What about you, pussy?
On a car you like.
And I'm like, I don't know what to say because I don't have, I don't have a fucking, it doesn't roll off the tip of my toe.
What's up, Sugar Walls?
What are you driving?
Well, you should have a go-to.
I know.
I like a Trans Am.
All right, like Porsche 9-11.
Is Trans Am still a thing?
I don't even know if they still make them.
I don't know if they still make them.
Remember, that was the thing.
Say Camaro, you could say Corvette.
The Corvettes are really nice.
And they're like, what model?
And then I'm fucking toast.
Like a heart attack.
But but you, but you can hit.
What the fuck did I just do?
Is that me?
I think so.
Yeah.
My Apple Watch going crazy.
But I can handle it.
But like, you, like, all joking aside, if you're really hanging out with a group of guys, like, what car you drive, pussy, like, you don't think you can handle that stuff?
No, no.
What kind of, like, remember how you used to call cars?
Like, I call that car.
Remember when we were little?
You call that car?
Like, you're walking down the street and a car, a nice car drives by, and you call it.
I never had that.
That's my car.
And then, like, and then nobody else can call it.
You never did that as a teen?
No.
Oh, that was a fucker.
That was one of the things we did in Highlands constantly, right?
It was a whole big thing.
I got, I never called a car, and then I got called, all, called out.
Really?
Yeah, for being, you know.
Yeah, but how much did that hurt me?
Well, I didn't.
And then people were like, like, were just, were always wondering why I was not calling cars.
And then I had to, like, I couldn't fake it, though.
It was just, it was.
But wouldn't the answer to be turned around and be like, look at you assholes calling cars from never home.
Get your broke ass into a job and buy the car.
But you could turn it around.
15.
So what?
So what?
That's what I'm saying.
Like, it's only toxic if you can't fucking take your friends ripping on you.
You guys are strong.
Between dudes.
I think you made a good point about like, you know, you could be applying the same rules to women, I guess.
I think you're a stronger personality, though.
You can handle that.
Like, there's people, though, that can't.
I'm one of them.
Like, here's the next one.
Being expected to drink a lot yeah i can't even you know that is a real like 12
yeah i just i dislike people who do that like when you're like have another drink come on have another drink it's like what the fuck it's like
bullshit who's fucking i know yeah what what where is this article from this is a true article i know i can see it but yeah but like being like but i identify with a lot of these things either i i was i was committing them or i was being victimized yeah but just say i don't want to fucking drink bro get off my back that's all you gotta say of course it's that easy.
But you're a strong, self-centered, you know, you kind of like
that part wasn't a compliment.
No, no, not self-centered.
What do I mean?
You're centered.
Like, you know yourself and you're completely happy with yourself.
Sure.
And you're comfortable.
I don't know about that, but yeah.
A lot of us aren't, though.
So we put up these facades and we put up these like
these fake projections.
And then when those projections are poked with the hole,
it all comes tumbling down and we're
we're very sensitive about it.
Right.
So what's the answer here?
That
think
before you say something else.
So it's on other people.
It's not on you.
Who I don't want another drink.
I mean, come on, man.
Like, come on.
It's got at some point, somebody's got to be in charge of themselves.
It has to be.
Why is this exclusive to males?
Like, are we saying that women don't do any of this shit?
Women aren't like, hey, have another drink.
Hey, why are you wearing purple?
Hey, fucking.
What's with the safety equipment?
I don't know.
I have to think that this is the seat.
I don't think girls don't like attack other girls for the color clothes they wear, do they?
Girls are vicious.
I know they are.
But not about the color.
I think it's more about the tightness.
You know, oh, look at that.
They're wearing, they've got the cleavage all hanging out.
Oh, like, oh, they're accentuating that button too much.
You know, too much.
I don't know.
Stacy makes fun of me all the time, right?
Don't you?
You rip on me a fair amount.
Like, you've always fit in without an issue.
Is color a thing that girls look at and judge each other for?
No, you say no.
I would be shocked if the color of someone's wardrobe was a go-to for girls
going at each other.
You know how wearing purple is corny?
Because it's in the goddamn article.
That's how you know.
That's how big of a problem it is.
What is it?
Say that.
That's how you know wearing purple is corny because it's corny enough to bring up in a fucking article.
I disagree.
I think purple's cool, man.
You want to hear another one?
And look, look what I'm doing.
Look at you.
You're calling purple fucking lame, and I'm just being like, I fucking disagree.
Notice how there was no hurt feelings.
He doesn't like purple, so I wasn't like, oh, no.
Let me throw out my purple.
I was simply like.
And I'm left shaking my fist.
I fucking disagree.
I like purple.
But not everybody's as confident as you, though.
You have to understand that
people are like, are like searching for the kind of confidence and bravado of a Brian Team.
To be able to wear purple shorts.
So we should all lower our fucking all lower our fucking conversations to their level?
Or just be cognizant of maybe not having to
make light of someone's wardrobe to connect with them.
Or I have a better plan.
Don't hang out with the type of people that get their panties in a bunch about fucking making fun of their clothes.
How about that?
How about cut those people out of your fucking lives?
That's an option.
I don't think it's going to help with today's problems with toxic masculinity.
I don't think that's just like just not refusing to fucking just deal with it.
That's not going to help the creature.
Well, no, what I'm saying is just like, if this person can't handle the purple criticism,
then I just won't hang out with that person.
And they can hang out with people who are.
But you're going to cut someone out of your life because don't want they just don't want you to make fun of their wardrobe or tease them, not you know, tease them.
Well, I mean, look, I'm at the age where I wouldn't really tease someone about that.
I mean, look, if he showed up with a fucking really weird outfit, I'd be like, What's going on here immediately?
But, like, I'm in a live and let live type of situation anyway, where I'm just like, I don't give a fuck.
You want to wear purple?
Wear purple.
It doesn't matter to me.
But I would, I would, I think there should be a healthy level of segregation between people who can handle it and people who can't.
And there's nothing wrong with with that.
Like, don't
birds of a feather.
See, yeah, I think what is so clear here is that there are some people who
really
love
the ball busting between bros.
They love it.
Need it.
But there's, yes, need it.
And there's some of us who pretend they like it.
Us.
Really?
You're the biggest ball buster I've ever gone by this entire life.
Like the ultimate trauma.
It's like fucking.
It's like Mariana Rivera pretending he likes pitching.
It's like nonsense.
What are you talking about?
We got one more here that
really, really was.
I'm going to come out and just
tell you how much this annoys me when people do this, though.
But
being submissive.
People don't dig it when, like, you know, you get made fun of because, you know, they do what their wife tells them to do.
Or, you know, that they.
Isn't that everybody, though?
This seems very specific to someone at this table.
No, I remember the guys in my firehouse were all like fucking, you know, tough guys when they're in the firehouse, but then wives get around and they ain't so tough anymore.
But I think those are, that's an area that, like, you could like.
There's like a world of difference between making fun of their purple
onesie and then like really poking that bear when you're like, oh, oh,
you can't do that because your wife says that.
Oh, well, we'll see, you can't go.
Why don't you check with your wife?
Yeah, but you all that shit.
But everybody would say that to each other, but they would all check with their wives.
That's what I'm saying.
It was all ball busting.
I think we should retire that kind of ball busting.
Because it's hurting my feelings.
Who busted your balls?
Who did?
I know that, I know that, like,
that, I mean,
when I first met my wife,
Kim and Kev would ride, would be like, oh, you're going.
Those left fucking scars, man, that are deep.
You left scars on us.
You didn't hang out with us.
Do you want to apologize?
No.
No, why not?
Look,
like, there's nothing, like, if you don't want to get, if you don't want your friends to rip on you and stuff like that, and you don't want that, then you should hang out with people who don't do that.
Yeah.
Don't label that fucking relationship between dudes that do like it as something that's bad.
It's not toxic, you're saying.
It's not toxic.
It's not.
They're not understanding what's going on.
What would you define it as then?
What would you call it then?
It's just another way of life, man.
That's all it is.
It's just another way of life.
It's like, it's not, look, I mean, I know what they're saying.
They're talking about like, I guess, the interaction between strangers, maybe?
I'd think maybe colleagues.
you know, people and friends, but maybe you're not as close as friends as you think you are, that you you can cross those lines and say things that are going to like really trigger you and really like really annoy you and like rattle around your head for decades.
Fine, if you're the person that's
decades, it's going to rattle around.
But taking you out of the situation, because I certainly don't want you to hang out with other people, but it's just like, then
don't hang out with people who would do that, but like don't label them as assholes because, like, they like doing that to each other.
Yeah, like, who the fuck are these people to be like, hey, here's the rules?
Yeah.
That's a good point, though, that you bring up that you feel
if someone were to say you have toxic masculinity, they're calling you an asshole.
You think that's what I mean?
For what we've mentioned so far, yeah, yeah, I think.
I mean, you gotta feel like sexual harassment and shit.
Then I'm just like, all right, well, yeah.
But that's not, I don't label that toxic masculinity.
I just, I, I, yeah, to me, what people call toxic masculinity and really and the things I agree with them on, I'm just like, well, that's an asshole.
Yeah.
It's just, he's an asshole.
Like, it's a toxic masculinity.
The guy's a fucking douchebag.
Like, stop fucking putting this label that covers everybody with it.
I just can't believe that this article really should be like things that get pussies upset.
Oh!
See?
Fucking, they'll never change.
You'll never change.
Goddamn range.
So if I come in here with a poison tattoo, you guys are just going to accept it?
I got to be honest with you.
I really thought you were going to fucking reveal a poison tattoo before the end of this episode.
And I wouldn't make fun of you because I would be like, that's what he wants to do.
Oh, that's sweet, man.
Yeah.
But you wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Like, yeah, it's what he wants to do.
The second I walked out of this room.
The question is like, why is that what he wants to do?
I thought maybe he got it maybe for the show.
No, no, no.
You know, maybe Brett Michaels was appearing, and that's maybe.
No, he was on dinner party, but no, I didn't get a tattoo.
Yeah.
It'd be amazing if you did and then showed him.
I should get it.
I should get it.
I want to sleeve my arm.
I've always wanted to sleeve my arm.
Maybe I work it in there.
Yeah, you could maybe hide it almost.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see what you're doing, buddy.
Thank you.
What is this?
Yeah, it's the record book.
The log.
Yeah, the store log.
The log that we discussed last week.
Is that all right?
You got to do an ad?
We got to do an ad?
Yeah, we should do an ad.
Hold on a second.
You can look through the log while I read this real fast.
Oh, my God.
It's not even close.
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I've heard some rumblings that people are not happy with the ads anymore.
Why is that?
Read too straight?
Yeah, that they missed the days when we would
go off on a tangent during the ads.
Yeah, well, I just got in trouble for fucking going on a tangent.
No more tangents.
No, you know what?
All right, we'll bring it back because I don't like reading them straight either.
I'm not sure.
Your wife's telling you what to do.
Look at this fucking guy.
Q.
Raining in.
A little toxic for my taste.
Oh, Ball and Chain dictating the show now.
Toxic femininity.
Oh, man.
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Like, how does that not?
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What do we got in the record book?
So we got the record book.
They have been diligent about it.
They've been keeping it up.
Giddam complained when I first came in that Walt says he keeps better records than Gidham does.
Do you?
I believe I do.
I believe I take more pithy records than he does.
He seems to not want to do the nuances a little bit.
He doesn't.
I am noticing he,
well, unless this is you, in which case I got to disagree with you.
Do you write, like here on Wednesday,
somebody just wrote, General Store opens, customer number one, customer number two, Walter Rise, Brian Rogers?
That's good.
Yeah, that's that's
not even worth doing anything.
It's not even worth doing.
You need a little commentary.
Okay.
All right, like, so this is.
Oh, I told you.
What do you mean, then?
You didn't say okay when I told you.
It's a little too toxic when he said
point taken.
Okay, so 5:24 Monday, 65 degrees out and cloudy.
12.05, the general store opens.
1335, customer buys six of seven shirts, plus a four-color demon's hat and flag.
Highest recorded transaction in general stores history at $194.
Wow.
Now that turned my whole remember last week, I was beside myself.
Yeah, just that one transaction changed it all around.
I'm a fucking ball of fire now, man.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
Everything.
Just like, I feel like.
there's still there's still stuff piled up in the corner
that's get him stuff still can't pay our rent is chinese food noodles just sitting around
fucking store now
this is your store too q if you i i am giving you carte blanche to tell him to clean that shit up this is your stuff i just i had chinese food for lunch today it's going out into the jeep i thought chinese food was banned uh he can have it when i'm not here
can't this don't we have like a storage spot it's full already it's full already Q.
This is get him, though.
He's a hoarder.
And I have come
a titanium fork.
It doesn't matter.
It's a fork.
It's in a store.
It can be a fucking pitchfork.
It's a fork.
It doesn't matter.
Now, these are the things that have taken me years
to
not notice and to not even bother with anymore.
And because I know he's a hoarder.
He's a pack rat.
This is how he lives his life.
For me to attack him would be toxic.
So I allow this to
go unchallenged and to just let it go because it's not a big deal to me.
So
the answer to toxic masculinity is anything goes.
Just suffer.
I'm not suffering, though.
I should say, I use that fork today to eat my Chinese food.
So
it's a fork that I use.
Yeah, but there's pills in here.
Yeah.
Those are yours.
Stuffed animals.
Those are yours.
All right.
All right.
Aspirin.
Yeah.
Like, but
why does this got to be out for customers to see?
Well, if they sat down there and looked, then yes, but I'm usually sitting there.
You usually sit in my chair?
Yeah.
Oh, great.
After you're sitting in Bri's chair, you can be sitting in my chair.
You can sit in my chair anytime.
But you know why I get them?
Because I love you, bro.
Yeah, I do.
Yeah.
But that being said, this is kind of crazy.
Urinary support complex pills just sitting around?
That's what I take.
I take those every day.
Nobody wants to read that.
What does that mean, though?
But now, if I'm a customer that goes into the general store, it's like I'm like.
They want to see shit like this.
They want to see stuff like this.
This is the kind of shit that they want.
They want to because that's tell them Steve Dane.
I agree.
But then we need a sign
that says Giddam's Corner.
So people know what they're looking at.
Now it becomes a display.
Yeah.
So can you make a sign up?
I will try, yes.
5.25, Tuesday, 68 degrees, partly cloudy.
Yep, I like it.
You were saying at 12.15, the general store opens.
I was 15 minutes late, Q.
I did notice that.
I don't want to say anything.
You were five minutes late the day before 12.
It opens at 11.
No, no, no.
It opens at noon for me.
I've always said that.
I allow you to come in at 11 because you fucking got nowhere to go.
It doesn't mean you have to be here.
And if you want to open the store, you can.
But you should be eating all the Chinese food you can between the hours of 11 and 12 when I'm not here, and you know I'm not going to be here.
And you shouldn't have just leave it laying around.
Well, you should, you just got to put a sign on it that says get him to it.
People will want to see now the urinary
urinary tract.
Um, what's it called?
Urinary tract support complex.
Now, what does that do?
What does that pill do for your urinary tract?
It's supposed to help flush out my system for like my kidney stones and such.
Has it worked so far?
Yeah, you feel you have a nice strong tract now?
Oh, yeah, nice.
Strong stream, nice strong stream.
Yeah,
I'll put my stream up against your stream any day.
Sounds like a Patreon video.
We'll put two pinwheels in the ground.
We'll see you can move faster.
That's what we're doing here because we're going insane at the Television Faith General Talent Store.
They ran out of love boats to watch.
Oh, man.
Yeah, we had a fucking day.
Oh, yeah.
This is a big day.
Big day, man.
70s
Vivo is turned on?
Vivo is a channel on Pluto Pluto that plays only 70s videos.
Okay, so you got to.
So I don't want to watch,
I will not watch Love Boat when Giddam is not here because that's our bonding
time.
Because
I like him.
And
tough to even say that.
And I don't want to watch it and get ahead because we're trying to watch it in chronological order.
So I will not watch it if he's not here.
I'll put on the music instead, the 70s videos.
That's very sweet of you.
But now, hold on one second.
Are we being
toxic masculinity by him?
Because he doesn't like us telling us, expressing our feelings and telling each other that we love each other?
Oh, it could be.
If you're shaming somebody, not at all.
I'm judged.
You could tell who you are.
Yeah, absolutely.
Right.
So, so separate that.
Right.
But you're the one that's supposed to change according to.
I'm going to change.
Okay.
You're going to melt this heart.
So, all right.
So 12-15.
I'm going to be
a love bug.
Richard Dawson to you guys.
Kiss us when we come in.
Right on the lips.
Give us a lollipop.
70s views turned on.
Brian, you should know that that was a 12-16.
So Walt Ridley jumped right into it.
12-15, 12-16.
12-26, customer number one arrives.
12-27, customer number two arrives.
1228, customer number 3 arrives.
Exclamation point.
A virtual stampede of customers exclamation point.
They were all not together.
Like none of them were, it was all by chance that they all showed up at the same time.
Oh, it's awesome.
And it was fucking awesome.
It really was.
That's nice.
Unfortunately, you know, they all left by 12.30, and so from 12:30 to closing, there was nobody else.
There were no other customers.
Well, hold on.
That's 15.55.
Yeah.
That's
5.55, right?
3.55.
Sorry, you're right.
Sorry.
Received feedback from general store customer via the Square.
Square.
Incredibly friendly, accommodating, wonderful experience.
Boom.
Wait, where is this?
On our Square, when you do a transaction, if you put in, you want the receipt emailed to you, you can then give a review of the store.
Oh, okay.
And we got our very first review
on Monday that came through me via an email.
And like I said,
it was the perfect pick-me-up, man.
Do you know the person who said it?
I don't know the person.
Actually, yeah, I didn't get the.
It doesn't even tell you who sent it.
No, man.
Infret.
Oh, it was from Adam Carpen.
A dude telling you he loves you.
Loves the store.
Looks like there's a new one at the top.
No.
I don't think so.
Hey, Adam, could you do me a favor and go on Untapped and rate RH beer with the same
vim and vigor that you did?
Because I could really use it.
Wow.
All right, so that's.
And then the store closed at 16.30.
So we had three customers all day yeah okay all right which i would which i would kill for every day sure you know that that would be cover our rent yeah oh absolutely yeah i think we covered it this month even though it has been a little slow
but to say the least uh we're still we're still covering it though which is all we really wanted to do so yeah who cares about profit as long as we're making profits in other areas we we did not expect the store to be a profit-making you're right about that endeavor i'm surprised that this many people come, to tell you the truth.
Yeah.
I wouldn't have thought that.
Yeah, there's been a lot of people, especially now in the summer, people are taking road trips like we're going to.
And so people are stopping in.
When are you going to be at the Grand Canyon?
We are leaving in June, and we will return
probably July 4th.
July 4th.
But you don't know when you're going to be at the Grand Canyon.
Because if I'm to fly out to meet you guys,
we'll give you our estimated time of arrival, I guess, before we leave.
But
hopefully we can keep up
with Q's tour of the canyon by himself.
Still in that Elvis costume.
He met his mom and dad.
Oh, that's great.
I had one more thing, though, unless we have another ad.
Nope, that's it.
Just one ad?
Just one ad this week.
Did you hear about
China?
I mean, they are in the news lately.
They are.
What specifically would you say?
This is really fucked up.
They have banned Doctor Who in China because of the government's anti-time travel stance.
Oh, my God.
Wait, say that again?
I'm sorry.
Doctor Who has been banned in China due to the Chinese government's anti-time travel stance,
which makes you go to what?
What's the first thing you think of when you hear that China is banning time travel entertainment?
That China has banned the last possible thing they can.
Oh, I think they have a time machine.
Oh, yeah.
You think they have a time machine?
Yeah, you got your fucking pulse on the phone.
Yeah, I think China's got a time machine.
Or they're close.
Oh, yeah.
And they don't want anybody talking about it.
Absolutely.
Fuck, we're all fucked.
Wait, so you're not allowed to talk about Doctor Who.
They're not allowed to watch
any entertainment that has time travel in it.
But why would that, like, even if they allowed Doctor Who, why would that lead people to believe that China had a time travel device?
Because you'll start to see in the entertainment, you'll start to see anomalies and things that you're like, well, hey, wait a second.
I think that we have been victimized by our government.
Oh, fucking shit.
I'm not saying they do.
I'm not saying they do this anyway at all, probably.
They probably are great and
huge.
Yeah, great.
Huge on human rights.
But hopefully, if they are on the cusp of
mastering time, they'll go back and fucking fix all the fucking shit they fucked up.
Yeah!
I hope Reddit doesn't get mad at me like this.
Nobody's going to be pissy about it.
That's toxic masculinity.
But wait, wait.
Do you know what that means, though?
What?
Like, put aside the thing about them having a time machine.
Like, if China is not allowed to
have ghosts, it's supernatural.
Oh, that's true.
No ghosts, no stories.
No supernatural storylines.
And now no time machines.
And you know that China is the biggest movie market in the world now.
So that means that we're going to stop getting
time machine movies like we have been getting.
Because
in America, we're producing content to meet their needs.
That's all we do now.
You saw John Cena sucking dick.
Did you see this?
Oh, I saw that, yeah.
That may be toxic, you.
The way you phrased that.
No, the way you phrase that could be considered toxic.
Sucking China's dick?
Yeah, really?
It could be.
Well, did you hear what happened?
I did.
He described Taiwan as a country, and instantly he did a video in Mandarin apologizing.
He's like talking in Mandarin, apologizing, saying that China is great.
How much money is on the line for him to do that?
Everything.
How much money do you really think is on the line if he doesn't do that?
Well, it has to be.
Not for him.
Sacks and sacks and sacks and stuff.
For the studio, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, he didn't make that video.
The studio was like, make the fucking video.
But if he doesn't, it's going to cost him a ton of money, right?
He's not going to cast in movies because they hate him in China, right?
Tell him Steve Dave will never buckle.
Well, you know,
let's not.
I don't want to plant any flags.
Can we say Taiwan is a fucking country that we love?
Yeah, we can.
I'm happy to say that.
Well, then.
Or to sit by quietly while you say it.
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