#437: Jim Class

Well, I don't have to imagine not having possessions, Gail Godot.

I don't have any.

La la la la la

The most miserable of us

will walk out of this, probably the most unchanged, unscathed, and shippy walk along like whistle and fixing because nothing has fucking shaped for this guy.

Tell him Steve Dave.

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

And in defiance of government orders, we got together in a secret bunker underneath the stash, the basement.

And

we're willing to risk it, right, boys?

Yeah,

I'm fine.

I feel comfortable out walking about.

I think everything's going to be okay.

Much ado about nothing.

Much ado about nothing.

No, we're using technology,

Each in our separate homes.

We're hoping we're using technology.

Walt,

have you gone out anywhere?

Well, obviously we're talking about the corona thing.

That's all anybody wants to talk about.

Well, I mean, it's a pretty big deal.

It is.

But

I check the news once a day, and I'm like, all right, it's like it's nothing more major than the day before, except, you know, more people getting sick, I suppose.

But with this Tom Brady news, I thought

we would have pumped the brakes.

Who the fuck cares about Tom Brady now?

Wow.

Is this because he left the pats?

No, it's because the fucking world is about to end and

fucking Tom Brady has the fucking

doesn't have a brain in his head to be like, maybe maybe I shouldn't announce where I'm going yet till this all subsides.

I mean, it seems kind of frivolous at this point.

It is like if

say like a C-list celebrity dies the same day as Tom Hanks dies, like

Tom Hanks is gonna

take the headlines and Corona's gonna take the headlines over Tom Brady.

Yeah, do you think he would just like give people something else to think about, maybe?

I just think the NFL is

living in a world that they don't even realize that, like,

nobody gives a fuck.

I shouldn't say that.

I guess that's just me personally.

Yeah, I just didn't care.

I heard about it.

I didn't get him texting me and told me he left the Pats, but at this point, I was like,

who the fuck cares?

Who the fuck cares at this point?

Have you sequestered yourself, Walt?

Are you listening to all all the

all the advice to not go anywhere and bunker?

Yeah,

I probably started hardcore not going anywhere.

Probably

yesterday was like the last time I decided to go to Target or anything.

I didn't go anywhere today.

I went on a couple walks,

a lot of walks with dogs, without the dogs, but otherwise I have been in for the most part.

Walks with the dogs or without?

both.

Oh, yeah?

What are you like walking around like

thinking about shit, contemplating?

Oh, no, not when I'm walking.

I don't even want to think about anything when I'm walking.

I save that for the other 23 hours a day, and I'm just staring at the ceiling.

What girl band was it, Q you may remember, that clear your mind and the rest will follow.

Who used to sing that?

uh free your mind uh free your mind was on it might it be en vogue maybe in vogue yeah i think you're right i think you're right yeah um

it's got you nervous walt

i mean how could it not how could it not get everybody nervous i mean i think the world that we come when it's all said and done is going to be a lot different than the world before it stopped yeah

Out of your control, though, you know?

Oh, of course.

I feel like

I get more nervous or anxious about shit that I'm like, I could have controlled that, like a stupid decision I made or some fucking asinine bullshit.

But like something like this, it's like oh, you see, and I guess I'm the opposite because I feel like if I have control, then I don't stress about it then, because I'm kind of confident somewhat that if I have control, then I can

fix it or I can make it better or I could make it work out the way I want it to.

This

obviously, you know,

what's going to happen is Gonna happen.

Q, how's your fortress?

I know you had a boiler issue.

Uh, yeah, my, I, uh, it's unfortunate.

My boiler, less than two years old, um,

it's a piece of shit where it breaks down all every fucking once, it was once a month, then it was twice a month, and then like my guy was here three times last week.

So,

uh, based with the fact that

but he's probably not going to be able to work and come to my house soon, I have to get a whole new boiler and fucking replace it.

Um, because I don't have time to go to the repairs and ordering parts and shit like that.

So it's not too good.

There's a lot of cold showers the last couple of days.

Oh, I hadn't even thought of that.

I was just thinking, like, you've got a couple of fireplaces, so you could at least stay warm somewhat.

But that hot water, yeah.

Holy shit.

And I have a lot, you know, I have a fake fireplace and shit like that, the electric fireplace.

So that's not just the hot water that's the issue.

It's one of those ones that have the foil flames and a fan blows it.

Exactly.

exactly

couldn't you just heat up the water and take a bath

i could but i don't have uh but that's a that's a walk from the kitchen to the bathtub i see me spilling water everywhere

oh okay i guess you let your you let your assistant go

well yeah i'm here i'm here oh you're all oh you're all alone oh my god everybody's in place

that's got to be scary

oh yeah to do it all alone?

Yeah, that's got to be, you know.

And the way he's falling all over the place, dude, like, you don't want him slipping and falling on water.

Yeah.

Yeah,

it's an interesting time, man.

I can't believe what I'm seeing outside my own window, though, the lack of traffic on Staten Island and everything.

It's really crazy.

Yeah, same with around us.

Like, if you take a ride, Walter, or even in the mornings where it was nuts with school, like, you realize how many fucking fucking kids there are around here because without the school buses and shit and without that school traffic, there's nothing.

I guess except for people who are not working in the area, too, you know.

Yeah,

I'm really fucking nervous, man.

I mean, I'm nervous.

I think that we're in a really bad situation here.

And I don't, I don't know, man.

I'm nervous in a way.

I feel almost the same way I think I would feel if there was a war going on in this country and it was two states away.

You know what I mean?

Like something bad.

It feels bad.

I don't know.

I don't have a good feeling right now.

I mean, nobody does, I guess, but I really don't.

Did you

did you did it feel like it came out of kind of left field?

Like it just felt like it happened, like it was like snap

and then boom, everything was different within a second, it felt like it didn't, it felt way too quick.

Yeah.

Well, you heard about it.

You heard about

the flu for a couple months, and it was like, oh, it's worse than the regular flu.

And, oh, and people get sick.

And then you're right.

It's like, bang, no more flights.

You can't go out to eat.

It did seem like in the span of less than a week, all these changes were put into place, all the restrictions and shit.

But the lead up to that, which is really weird, is that nobody speculated about, okay, well, this is what we're going to have to do.

It was almost like it was truly out of left field, like this was every once again.

But yeah, like no one was like saying this was the way that we were going to have to fight it, this is the way that things were going to have to go.

It was like everything was fine one day, and then the next day it was like everything's different, everything's done.

You're like, What are you stupid?

Why are you out in public?

I mean, when I think of the when did you feel, when was the first time you said either both of you where you're like the thing that really triggered you to be like, okay,

something really fucked up is coming, it's coming down the pike.

What event happened?

I think for me, it was the

restaurants.

You know, and they're like...

Well, that was pretty recent.

Yeah,

when they shut down the NBA and NHL, I was just like, what?

Like,

so quickly without no hesitation.

Oh, they suspended the seasons.

Yeah.

To me, I was just like, that's like they basically waved a white flag within a second

yeah

there was no thought to try to save it yeah

yeah i was talking to uh jordan you know jason muse's wife and um i'm like i don't understand like all the like there's so many like you said like they're just without blinking an eye they're like hey okay no more flights and or you know from this from from anywhere outside the us and the borders are closed and all this other shit

It made me wonder

what are they not telling us?

Because it seems like if you look at the statistically, the number of cases versus the number of deaths, it's not that high

relative.

But Jordan was like, well, if

everyone goes out there and gets it and gives it to each other, it's like they don't have the supplies now.

Can you imagine if, you know,

10 million people get it?

I think that that is the

game plan.

It's like, they have to stagger

the amount of people getting sick at one time so they're not overrun and the healthcare system doesn't collapse under itself.

I think that's all this is.

It's just a delay tactic

just so that they're not faced with

an emergency room full of thousands of people.

Yeah.

In each one.

I was talking to Eric today.

He told me he has to work the next 12 days in a row.

Oh, my God.

With that shit.

Yeah.

And he said, like, chances are highly likely.

He's like, I'll probably get it at some point.

And he's like, and the people I'm working with, like, some of them are old.

So they'll probably get it and they may not survive, you know?

Now, what is he?

Now, is he in an emergency room?

Because I thought he was a psychiatrist, right?

He is, but he has like his MD, so he can do certain other medical type shit, I guess.

So he's going to go into onto the front lines?

I don't know about that.

He's going to go bust up some exotic meat markets in China.

No, no, I mean,

is he going to be in the emergency rooms, like taking care of the ill?

Yeah, I think he works in a hospital.

The place where he works, it's a hospital, so he can help out in other capacities, you know, because he knows what to look for or whatever, I suppose.

So he doesn't have to be helping out, but he is.

I think he doesn't have to be, but he is, yeah.

Fucking man, that Johnson, that Johnson.

That one.

That's what Johnsons do.

Not those Johnsons.

That specific Johnson.

That's what Johnson does.

Yeah,

I wrote a text to him earlier.

I said, well, you know, before you go, definitely, you know, take a look at your will and make sure that your prescription pads go to me.

he's not worried right because i mean he's not in the danger area i don't think i mean he looks relatively healthy he looks like he'll be fine oh yeah a younger guy and i mean i don't know what the but i guess like it just if you got somebody with it standing right there it's like

one little wipe of the eye one little you know germ you miss that point one like a hand sanitizer is 99.9 maybe that 0.1 snuck by

you know and i guess that's all it takes

Now, you're home with the girls.

The girls aren't going anywhere, Walt.

No,

no, they're,

I think the realization hit them

a couple days in, and the faces, you know, like

the thousand-yard stare came in when we were like, well, we can't go there.

Well, what about here?

Well, we can't go there either.

Well, what about here?

No.

And then it was like, oh my God, it was like,

then I think it really just kind of

felt real you know yeah

yeah it's just because you know they're not like i mean

like the three of us it's like being like hey you have to stay home it doesn't seem like a punishment that much well i was gonna say don't you isn't this like business as usual dude it's almost it's virtually unchanged

I really, when I was thinking about it, I was thinking about it.

I was just like, well, I don't think he does anything different than what he's going to have to do now.

Everything they're telling us to do, this motherfucker's been doing for the last 25 years.

I was on top of it, man.

I was born for this moment.

Yeah, I mean, aside from like, you know, like Sage being home, that's a big thing.

Homeschooling her.

Oh, dang it.

You know, I didn't go to school to be a doctor, and I didn't go to school to be a teacher, but somehow I turned into a teacher now.

Well, Mary Beth, too.

But it's like, dude, it's hours a day.

It's not like here's a few exercises.

Like, I feel like I should, at the end of this, I should get a teaching certificate.

I should be able to like substitute or something, maybe.

How long can you commit to that before you're just like, just go watch some TV?

Her schoolwork?

Yeah.

Well, you have to,

it's like online.

It's not as advanced as you would think it would be, too.

I was like, why can't.

Like, all these kids have these Chromebooks, like these little computers that they send home with them.

So I'm like, why can't the teacher just teach and they watch it on the screen?

Which I think they're going to try to do.

What's it?

Like live streaming.

Yeah, yeah.

I think they're going to try it on Monday, but it would just be too.

Do you remember when I tell them, Steve, Dave, tried to live stream?

Yeah.

It

really worked out for us.

Yeah, so what makes you think that

educated people in the school can do that?

I'll tell you what.

If a special needs class can get it together and we couldn't, I'm going to be really upset.

Yeah, this is this is it's weird.

It's a weird situation for me.

The TV show's down, the beer company's down, but we can't tour.

We're supposed to be doing all the warm-up shows now for our big tour in the summer, and none of that can happen.

I don't know.

They're saying that they're hopeful the tour is still going to go in the summer, but I'm like, you guys are fucking crazy.

It seems crazy to me that everybody's thinking that.

But apparently, they still think it's going to happen.

Yeah, I mean, this is got to be the most time you spend at home in quite some time, right?

Well, I had that time off of my throat surgery, but yeah,

this is the real fucking

test of it all.

Still got nobody to talk to.

Well, you got all those pinball machines, right?

I imagine you're a fucking must be the pinball wizard by now, all the high scores of all your games.

I'll tell you what, I'm a lot happier than anybody I know that has kids.

Everybody I know that has kids is like, fuck this.

The guys from my fire house are like, this is hell.

Like the

friend, everybody that has kids is like, this is just the worst.

This is horrible.

Yeah, my kids are old, so they do

their own thing.

And it's not, yeah, it's not like that for me.

Right.

But I could see young kids like, yeah, I could see it being very difficult if you have young kids trying to keep them busy or try to tell them that, you know, how things are different now.

And you've got to go to school at home.

Yeah.

For your first grader, that's tough.

Now you're homeschooled like a religious freak.

You know?

Yeah.

I'm worried.

Like,

are you like, I'm worried about the crew from the TV show?

Like, I'm worried.

I mean, like, what is Giddam going to do for money?

Like, what is this guy?

Start digging.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's everybody.

I'm sure that everybody who

is really affected by this has got to be

thinking that same question.

I mean, I don't know if that store

will be able to withstand something

on this level.

It remains to be.

Yeah, I don't know.

I really don't know.

I mean, it's one of those things.

Like I said, though, it's so, like Rye said, it's out of your hands.

So you just got to...

not stress about it and just see what happens after it's all said and done.

Oh, wow, wow, man.

This is so crazy, though, right?

I never would have dreamed

this would be the plan of attack, though.

I think if, and the reason I didn't tell anybody is because I didn't want everybody to do what they did in the last

like four days, which was go take everything out of the store.

Even though they were doing it anyway, though.

How do you feel about it?

Like, don't you feel like after it passes, like, if you do someone who is doing that, like, hoarding that shit, like, they should be shunned?

You know, like, cast out.

Don't you think, like, what an asshole move

what do you mean though i mean you have to

go yeah like what do you think it depends well it depends on how many people you have in your family but like let's say uh okay walt you got a family of four uh right you don't need an entire palette of hand sanitizer you know

like you if right if you're genuinely concerned about yeah that that's all i mean yeah like like i don't i mean you can buy a healthy supply but like shit where like obviously the assholes who are trying to sell it on ebay eBay, like you're glad that they got busted.

But just like I saw a video of somebody who's like,

I'm all set.

And it's just like the amount of shit where it's like, why would you ever think you would need this much of this product?

You know, and you don't.

And ultimately, it's like, if it gets that bad that you need an entire palette of hand sanitizer because like society has descended into that level of chaos, probably somebody's going to come by and just take it away.

And also, hand sanitizer is going to be the least of your problems if it's that fucking bad.

It's getting to the point.

I mean, I go to the store.

I don't know when the last time you guys went to the store recently, but like every time I go, there's less and less there.

And it's alarming.

I can see where it causes stress levels to rise, anxiety to rise.

And,

but I mean, I wanted to let's let's take dates here.

How long can they possibly expect a country to do this?

I mean, I'm surprised that they even gave it till the end of March.

But when they start talking shit like into June, it's like, that's insanity.

That's insanity.

You can't do that.

That'll destroy the psyche of a country, though.

Not too much.

We lived through World War II.

I mean, you know,

that's probably what they'll do.

They'll start a war with somebody.

I mean, that's the only way to stimulate an economy on that level, right?

You're like, we got to fight somebody.

I mean, are we taking their riches then?

Because

maybe.

Who's going to be rich after this?

I think this is a global

domino effect, though.

So no country is going to have anything to take.

The rich are pretty good at keeping their riches.

When do you you call?

When do you say it's over?

When they tell me, I got to go back to work.

No, when do you think they'll say they'll wave the, they'll say, okay, you guys, the restaurants can open up again.

What date do you think it'll be by?

If you had to guess, you're a gambling man.

Sometime in June.

Whoa.

Whoa, I don't think they could do it that long.

I don't think that's possible.

They're going to get everybody out, then there's going to be a second wave of fucking everybody getting sick then.

I don't know if that's possible to keep everything closed until June.

So nothing but vitals until June?

Well, I was thinking more of people on their house on their stay-home order than businesses.

Well, that's what I mean.

Businesses

are gone.

Yeah, but stores were open and stuff like that until recently.

You can see like your games stopped closing now and shit like that, so businesses might be able to open before.

I don't know.

I got no fucking clue, dude.

I got no fucking clue.

June is a doom, is a fucking grim, grim fucking date.

Yeah,

I think that, okay, we're

March 23rd, something like that.

Another week.

I would have to think by

the like end of april at the latest they have to get shit back on track that's another five weeks and even then it'll be economically devastating i don't think they can wait that long either i think they got till easter and that's it i don't think the country will

april april i don't think that uh i don't think that people will stand for it because you're talking about a country where there's like there's some states that got like two fucking cases Oh, yeah, yeah, you got to do it to just in New York and California then because that's where everything is now.

You can't expect the riddle of America to fucking sit on their ass while the two coasts are fucking dealing with this, though, I don't think.

Yeah, I agree with that, but

that's a that's a heavy fucking toll.

If like, when you only have like, what's it, Montana has one or something like that?

Yeah,

it's the uh the concentration.

I'm sorry, is Montana under the same restrictions as New York and California ready?

Well, they're in the same level of like they want everything, you know, don't go out, social distancing.

I don't know about restaurants and stuff.

Yeah, that one's crazy.

I think it's almost countrywide, except for a few states that aren't adhering to it.

I mean, it's like a handful of states out of the 50 that haven't.

said, okay, we're closing down restaurants and everything.

Did you see in Pennsylvania they stopped selling alcohol

now?

Giatum told me something now.

It made sense, and if it's him just spitballing, like saying shit out of his ass, he sure sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

He said, and he was right, though.

They said, he said, they will never close the liquor stores.

And I said, why?

And he said, because the

domino effect of the people, of the alcoholics who will get sick and

go to the hospital because they, because they're having withdrawals, will be too much to handle.

So they have to keep the alcohol on tap.

Hmm.

And I looked at him and I was just like, that makes sense.

I mean, it kind of made sense to me, right?

I don't know.

I don't think so, man.

He said that it would be, they would get too sick and that they would.

So now they're worried about all the alkies?

Well,

they would flood the emergency room, though.

I don't know.

You don't think alkies have a good, like a true alcoholics?

How could a coronavirus even like stay in a body that alcohol soaked?

You talking about Giddam?

Yeah.

Get him to get him.

He gave him healthy alcohol, though.

What's that now?

He gave up alcohol.

Yeah, he hasn't been drinking alcohol.

He gave it up in January and he stayed true to it.

That can't be.

No, that's the truth.

Where's the weight?

What's going on?

Well,

he he didn't give up greasy, fattening foods, though.

Just alcohol.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

Hey, good for that, man.

Yeah.

So it seems like

it seems like many states

have

the

required restaurant shutdowns, but not all of them.

Yeah, does it say how many?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, fifteen, sixty, seven, eight, twenty, twenty, twenty one.

So 25

states.

Half the country.

Yeah, and then there's a bunch of cities, some of which may not be in those states.

I don't know.

But you know what they'll do, Q,

if they don't shut down

all those states that are not adhering to it,

they know everybody in the quarantine or the states that are will just go to those states to go out and do shit and do whatever they want to do.

You know what I'm saying?

They know that they'll just go to other states where the restaurants are open.

Yeah, it's fucking terrible, dude.

It's a bad situation.

Yeah.

It's so fucking weird.

I don't know why I arrogantly, like, just fucking never thought shit like this would happen.

Like, it just never occurred to me that I'd been living through something like this.

No, which is weird, but I think everyone because, like, you've lived through Sandy

9-11.

9-11,

the 92.

Yeah, I was saying to someone, it's like, I wonder if that's like we've seen this kind of stuff before, so

you don't panic as much, maybe.

Like you've seen catastrophic type shit.

You were talking about this?

This is on a different level than all of us.

Yeah, but I mean, like, that was just an isolated incidence.

Right.

Little pockets.

This is nationwide.

This is going to be worldwide.

Global.

It already is.

I think only like there's a couple countries inside of Africa that don't have it, that don't have any cases.

That's it, man.

But like every state and every country has it.

I meant the after effects, though.

I mean, it's going to be

the

is the cure worse than the disease, though, because what will be

what will be standing when it's all said and done, though?

Fucking tell them steadily.

I don't know.

Tell him steep

town.

I don't know, bro.

I'm already got my foot on the stool.

I don't know if it's going to be standing.

Maybe space monkeys will be standing.

Why would you choose?

Do you see violence?

You see violence breaking out, Walt?

No, not no, I don't.

What I see really

is people becoming so frustrated because

high number of cases of the ill in their state.

I see that, like the

anger and the resentment of

people's having their livelihoods taken away and having their

retirement.

I mean, having nothing when it's all said and done, I think that's going to cause a lot of anger and a demand for them to

fucking open up

business.

I don't see how they can keep it till June.

Well, yeah, because you're talking about like, okay,

a Chili's closes, but it's not one Chili's.

It's every fucking Chili's, pretty much.

Exactly.

And then you have your cooks, and you have your bus people, and you have your waiters and waitresses, and you have the fucking cleaning crew that comes in afterwards, and the managers, and this one, and that one.

And it's fucking like this sprawling effect that takes out so many jobs that you don't really think about when you sit down and you're like, hey, I'll take some pancakes or burger or whatever.

You don't think about everything it took, including the people who drove the fucking ingredients to get to the restaurant, you know.

Everybody's fucked until this shit writes itself.

Yeah, yeah, and it's gonna, it's who knows how long that'll take.

Yeah,

but uh,

I was at the bank the other day, a few days back, and somebody came in and was like, oh, you guys are still open?

And I'm thinking,

if a bank, if banks and grocery stores,

if the banks were closed, that's when you're going to see that true panic, right?

Like

29,

people couldn't withdraw money and everyone starts freaking out and shit.

So

you're detecting any food, you know.

Are you guys worried about getting sick?

No.

I don't really, no, no, not really.

I don't worry about getting sick.

I worry about my parents because they're down in the retirement community and they are not fucking taking it seriously down there.

No.

They're still golfing.

They're still fucking doing shit like that.

I'm like, Ma, stay away from everybody.

It's crazy down there.

I'm like, I can't even get to you if there's something goes on.

Stop fucking doing stupid shit.

But they close a restaurant down there in the villages, but the life carries on with golf.

And they're like, oh, we're all on the golf course.

We're away from each other.

And I'm like, all right, I understand that.

But like, you know, why not just stay home?

Now, Brian, do you think that you had it when you were sick earlier this year?

I, you know, the more I read the

symptoms, I'm like, they were so bad that it was like nothing I'd ever had before that I'm like, it had to have been it.

But then I'll read like

something anecdotal where the lady's like, it felt like I had glass in my lungs.

Now, I never felt like that, but does that mean I didn't have it?

I don't know.

But it was bad.

It was real bad.

Now, when I say, now I didn't want, I mean, you mentioned in the last time, Steve David did.

I didn't want to say it at the time, even, even before this happened, because I didn't want to sound like a lunatic.

But I truly believed that I had caught it from what everything I was reading about.

And I was like, well, that makes sense.

That makes sense.

But again, I had those same things where I was like, well, I didn't feel like I was going to die.

I didn't feel like I was like that sick.

But I certainly had weird symptoms that I'd never had before.

And Frank got it.

And Frank's wife caught it.

And then you got it a couple of weeks later, and then you gave it to Nichelle immediately because you guys drove home from New York.

And I remember, and I remember it being like when you got sick,

and I wondered, well, am I going to catch what you had?

Because Nichelle caught it from you, but I didn't catch it.

And I wonder if I didn't catch it because I had already had it already.

I wonder, can you get it?

I mean, this will, here's some feel-good news for you: Harvey Weinstein tested positive for coronavirus.

Yeah, there you go.

Right.

Let's see.

Ken.

No, from what I've heard, they said you'll have some immunity built up for like a year to it.

Oh, yeah.

You'll have enough of the antibodies in your stream to, you know, to not get it.

If you come in contact with it again for a good year, you may not get it again.

It may.

Right.

But

I'm convinced.

I know my wife thinks I'm crazy, but I'm like, I mean, I was talking to it about Frank again just the other last couple of days.

I was like,

dude, I'm almost certain that I got it.

My daughter has, my daughter never gets sick, never gets sick.

And she had something like that.

I mean,

it seems like you can get it twice from here,

but

very rare.

Very rare.

So, so, so one of your daughters got it, and

Yeah, Caitlin, Caitlin,

like,

I mean,

it's one of the things I brag about to people is like, I've never, the kid has never gotten sick, never got a sick in school, you know, in 20 years, never took a sick day other than intentionally because she didn't want to get perfect attendance.

She never took off, never got sick.

And we would like joke around about it because my other daughter would get sick so often.

But then, you know, and then she mentioned that she got sick

and I I was, you know, on the heels of me getting better.

She got sick then.

I mean,

she's let you down by getting sick?

No, no, no.

I'm just saying I think that like that her getting it, her getting sick around the same time is like it's a head scratcher because she never gets sick, though.

So maybe that leads me to believe maybe it was that thing then.

Yeah, Sage got real sick right after Mary Beth got sick, or actually during the same time, so I got to take care of both of them while I was still sick

and she I mean Jesus Christ she

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What do you miss the most, Walt?

Like, not being able to go out there and

I mean, obviously going, you know, the stash.

I mean, it'll be fucked up if the last day at the stash was you know was the day was monday or tuesday of last week

and uh that would be

yeah if that was the unceremonious right right there where i were i was just me and mike were just staring at each other for six hours because nobody came in because they're not one there was nobody in red bank at all that the last day before we closed if that was the last day watching shitty game shows um that'll be kind of uh anticlimactic though

but you know what if they were like hey where were you the day the stash closed for good?

I would be like, well, which one?

The one that I made ran into the ground or the other off?

And then I would say, I was there.

I was there on Monday.

I stopped by to get some mics, and

you were out shopping for something.

They said you were looking for something.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So I was there.

And they were staring at each other.

You're right about that part.

Yeah, so I guess I'll miss going.

Right now, I miss going out to, you know, out to dinner.

I mean, these are trivial things.

Yeah.

Because it's more about

how awful it's going to be for people when it's all said and done.

Yeah.

I don't give a fuck about not going out to eat.

It's the misery that's going to be

inflicted upon people when this is all said and done.

That's going to be horrendous.

Yeah, and it's hard to.

Go ahead, Q.

I was saying, do you think the government sending checks out and trying to help everybody is going to

make that any easier?

You're just like,

I mean, I guess they think it will.

I mean, smarter.

I mean, smarter people than

us are deciding that that's going to be enough to help, right?

I can't see how that little bit is going to be enough to help, but I mean, I guess

they would send more if they thought more was needed, right?

I don't understand it.

I don't know.

I got no clue.

But

they got to have the smartest people

at their call to fucking make the right choices on this, right?

You would think?

You would think.

They weren't smart enough to fucking order enough ventilators, though.

They weren't smart enough to fucking get everything all prepared.

Seemed like

it just crept up on them.

They're like, okay, now we're going to do this.

Unless they fucking knew it, which I can't believe.

That they knew it a little bit earlier than that.

They knew that this was the game plan.

No, that they knew this was the game plan.

yeah i don't know man that's fucking crazy i mean but but i the woman the the woman from the white house was like look like it would be crazy to keep a hundred thousand ventilators on

on on deck like nobody does that she's like people would be like that's an insane thing to do So it's like we were somewhat prepared.

We just obviously weren't prepared for this level.

Because they had

since December, though, but they had since December when they saw it was, well, or whatever it was, November when it was in, or December when it was in Japan or China.

Did they increase the order for ventilators?

I mean, if they didn't, why not?

Yeah.

All right.

Why not?

Well, Trump was going around fucking saying that it's no big deal.

Right?

But then he was.

That's what the nails.

You backed off that a bit.

But then you have another.

Did you hear about that other senator or congressman who who they got secret audio?

They secretly recorded him at a meeting talking about how this was like last month in February saying that he knew it was going to be like the Spanish flu and he sold a whole bunch of stocks.

Oh, yeah, there were two people that did that.

Yeah.

He was briefed.

So if he was briefed back in February and he knew the shit was going to hit the fan and didn't tell anybody and didn't let, didn't tell the country or his, or even his state, like, hey, man, you better go stock up on shit.

It's going to be bad.

He just told people it was going to be, yeah, we were we're covered we got it but if he knew it that means all of them knew it though oh for sure

and if that and if that's the case why was he saying that trump then

why was he saying that's fake news don't worry about it it's no big deal why would he say that i i it makes no like that's a great question why

it says here uh four different senators sold stocks before the coronavirus threat crushed the market market that's another thing like all these retirees who like have their money in the market and rely on those checks each month man it's like

what will they do to those senators q

they got a nail into the wall right they've got to

so nobody ever why do they do it though If you're not smart to get to be a fucking senator, why do you think that you can do this and it's no one's going to notice?

You're going to dump all that stock and

no one's going to raise an eyebrow.

There has never been a time in history where people notice more shit that you're doing.

Everyone notices everything all the time.

You know?

Like, remember Martha Stewart?

It was 60 grand.

Yeah.

This is not only a walker.

What's that?

She went to jail for 60 grand.

That's all.

Yeah, that was 60,000.

She made these people at the time.

And what was she worth, too, at that point?

She must have been worth millions upon millions upon millions.

At least tens, if not hundreds.

And she was so greedy that she was like, I can't stand to lose 60 grand.

Yeah, these amounts were like one was 350,000, one was about 900,000, and then these other two were 1.2 million together.

Yeah,

somebody's going to notice that shit, you guys.

Yeah, and what they sold was all like travel-related stocks, like stocks in hotels, stocks in all sorts of stuff that they knew would be tanked if a pandemic were to break out oh my god what asshole

how how are they not being fucking eviscerated right now oh they are they're in there i guess when the ethics committee is going to look into it and all the all the investigations will happen but right now even you got to focus on the the the issues at hand but that ain't going to go away for those i mean not only now that they have to go to work and try to fucking do the right thing now, but they got that hanging over their head.

Hey, guys.

Oh, my God.

That's bad.

Yeah, that's

having that looming as you're like, all right,

I'm supposed to be like helping the state get through whatever shit we're going through at any given moment.

Right now, it's the fucking worst thing ever.

And on top of it, I have to think about this scandal.

That once people don't, once this dust is settled on this,

they're like, and now you.

Yeah,

they'll want to fuck you.

They'll want them dead.

Can you imagine that going, you'll have to talk to

your constituents?

Is that how you say it?

And you know, they're going to be fucked.

No one wants to hear what they have to say.

They fucking

terrible.

You're going to try to convince people that it was coincidental, the timing.

Not one person.

Not one.

Well, the one lady who did it,

she went on TV.

I saw an interview with her, and she was saying, I don't make these decisions.

I have a financial planner who does it all.

He makes all the decisions, and I had no idea he was going to do it.

Let's talk to him.

Let's see why he decided at this very opportune moment.

You got to think, too, like

with kids being home, like if people are prone to like, um, short fuses and domestic violence, like that shit has to shoot up, too, right?

And then the cops are.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah.

I mean, people who aren't in the best of situations already and being now being forced to stay together 24-7, you know, and where tensions can rise.

Oh, boy.

So, what are we going to do?

So, I mean, like, there's nothing that stops Tom Street Dave, though, right?

Like, we just keep going.

Like, if the store closes, Walt,

you're a full-time

day full-time.

Oh, I don't know about that.

I mean,

I'll probably have to find another job on, but you know, I'll still find time for Telm Steak Dave.

Who the fuck is hiring you, old man?

Oh, I think I can bring him up on the fucking table.

You know?

So, at the end of the coronavirus shit, shit, you're like, that's when you start your job on.

Well,

I know it must be a lot

applying for the jobs, but I mean, I think my resume, I can put out a pretty good resume, I think.

I could check for PA positions on the practical joker.

Do you think that you guys will be able to do

you think that you'll be able to get me a job on the crew?

Yeah, I think so.

I don't think you'd want to do it, but

I've seen his PA skills in action.

You won't be impressed.

You're telling me

I can't get a no-show PA job?

So we're boys.

Come on to the set to arrogantly pick up your check.

I gotta be honest.

I don't know.

I don't know if,

you know, who knows if fucking a practical yogas will make it past this.

We only shot two episodes of the new season so far.

And if we're down for so long, I don't know.

I could see it being like,

hey, man, like we're totally restructuring.

We got no money.

Everything's

different now and wrapping it up.

Like, I don't know.

You never know.

Like, nothing could be just, like you said, like, just for me personally thinking about it.

But in my own life, like,

they have to have programming, though.

Like, they're going to be like, remember that show that was the most popular before all this shit?

How about we trash it?

And

yeah, but they have so many seasons of it already.

Yeah.

Don't you think we need you now more than ever, Q?

People need to watch stuff.

I don't know.

You guys should be doing it like from bubbles, like Travolta.

Boy in the bubbles.

I mean, it's really fucked up, though.

You think about it, Q.

I mean,

the most miserable of us

will walk out of this, probably the most unchanged, unscathed, and should we walk along like Whistling 60 because nothing has fucking changed for this guy.

Finally, the sky is parting for him, and there's one little sunbeam is floating down, and it's on Brian Johnson's head.

Well, everybody else his head will have the clouds over their heads.

Dude, fuck it.

I'm driving down the highway.

Every light is turning green.

I mean, that really is like a complete 180.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thankfully, due to my procrastination, like, I'll panic a month or two from now, and then all the shit will be back on the shelves anyway.

Now, did you go and did you go and get supplies early on, or were you called with your pants down, Brian?

No,

I don't get that stuff.

Mary Beth does most of that.

Like,

she does all that shit online.

So, most of the stuff that was necessary, she already had anyway.

And

I went to shop right one day and the self-checkout, I was like, that looks like a 40-minute line to me.

I'm not going to do that.

So I went back and I was like, you got to go shopping.

So she, you know, she went out and she went shopping because she didn't care.

And I think we've been out to the grocery store one other time since then.

But yeah, we had most of the stuff that we needed anyway.

I imagine you do too, Debbie.

I mean, well, you know, hey, I want to give a, I want to, I don't know, I can't remember if I did, but if, yeah,

I'm pretty sure I kind of poked fun

at somebody who I want to apologize to, but I think I want to give a big apology to Mike Zapzic.

Oh, yeah.

The only guy that I knew who was preparing for this was right.

And he, you know, he fucking was the little, what was that squirrel who gets all his nuts in order?

Isn't that every squirrel?

Well, isn't there some squirrels that just fucking whistle Dixie and not get nuts?

Oh, okay.

You're talking about.

the grasshopper the grasshopper and the ants and the

ants

right isn't that ironic we should be ants

but he was on he he was right to get all his fucking shit together and he was he was out early on this he was fucking way ahead of the curve getting ready for this and he was getting ready in December

but he's um he gets excited by his bug out kits and that type of thing like him the shells another

Like they're they get real excited at the uh doomsday prep.

So yeah, it makes sense that he would be prepared.

His excitement turned to fucking

anxiety the last day I saw him, though.

I mean, he looked like he was on uh he looks like he was a little wrapped a tight though when we parted ways last week.

Oh shit.

That's like day one of the quarantine.

He's not even home yet.

Has anyone heard from Julie or the kids?

I really gave him props, though.

I mean, he definitely fucking called it.

Yeah.

You never, like, I always, after Sandy, I was like, I should, I should get a generator just in case the electric goes out.

And then I'm like, I should get it.

I should get it.

And then I just never get it.

And I don't think this is going to require a generator type situation, but the day will come when

I get that generator.

I don't think you should be playing around with a generator, though i don't you mean you have a hard time getting the recorder to record sometimes you know when you plug a generator in the wrong way you everybody dies yeah that's true

like why was he trying to do it in the house

that's why i don't get a generator because i'm like i'll kill everybody i'd rather sit in the dark you know and be alive yeah do you guys

you guys aren't going to be doing the generator yourself right like when you have somebody install it or you're talking about like one of those gas ones no No, just like a gas on the gas ones.

The gas ones.

I mean, they're not that hard.

Fucking every year, people die from putting them in the wrong way or fucking running it wrong.

You think that we're fucking crafty enough to get it the generator run right?

Yeah, I mean,

I would say you're probably because you think about the millions of people who do get them going correctly.

I think you guys probably fall into that.

I couldn't get the Xbox to turn on today.

I had to call my youngest daughter in.

All right, you know what?

Don't get me

My hand to God, the only reason we're podcasting right now is because Mary Beth figured out this new recorder I got.

Otherwise,

we wouldn't be doing it right now.

Give her the fucking generator manual before you order it to make sure she can fucking figure it out before you place the order note in.

Yeah, unless you want to sit around in the dark all night here, figure out how this generator works.

Gets to reading.

Well,

that's the only thing that could be worse in this situation now.

If there was no power, that's the only way it could be worse.

Oh, yeah, because you remember after Sandy, like 10 days, 12 days, something like that, of no electric is like, holy fuck,

yeah, it waits on people, man.

It makes it brings them to a breaking point.

Yeah,

you get scarred for that with that shit.

I know it's horrible, but it's true, though.

Yeah, do you see?

Uh, have you seen any increase in tension at all around your house?

Is anybody snapping at each other?

Not yet.

No, I mean,

I hope it doesn't happen, but I mean, I guess it would be understandable if it does, right?

I mean, the longer it goes on,

the more, you know, anxiety builds up and you have nowhere to release it.

So I hope it doesn't happen, but not yet, though.

Well, maybe you should make the first move to establish your dominance, you know?

Like,

that ship sailed in 98

nice try dad

i'll turn the xbox off

oh i watched um

i don't know if you saw it q or walt uh on netflix i watched mcmillions it's a documentary oh yeah yeah did you watch it it?

No, I heard about

the sweepstakes at McDonald's, right?

Mm-hmm.

Very interesting.

It was just a total scam?

Yeah, I mean, at the time they uncovered it, like, what, that there was an inside

criminal ring, but they really explored over, I think, six episodes.

And this Netflix special,

it's fucked up.

Like, it's fucked up how long people think that, like, how long people get away with shit, and then suddenly somebody's at your door, and they're like, you didn't get away with it.

Could run on for a long time, man.

That was long time.

Or like with DNA, people who kill someone and 30 years later.

Yeah.

And then they're like, hey, you thought you got away with that shit.

I was watching,

what the fuck was it?

It was one of those little half-hour ID shows, and it was about a guy who lived in Florida,

and he was

like a doo-wop singer, but like a terrible doo-wop singer.

And he told people in the area that he was a former member of Sean Ana.

And his name was...

Now, if you don't know, Sean Ana was like a doo-wop band.

They were at Woodstock.

That's how they became popular because they were at Woodstock and they,

I guess, got a lot of exposure.

Then they had a team.

Yeah, they had a second life when Happy Days hit.

Right, right.

And they put Sean Nana on because it was a throwback to the 50s shit.

And it was like a, almost like a variety.

I don't know.

Do you remember Q, it was like a variety half hour.

Every night.

That's how much a demand it was for this shit.

It was on every night at like 7:30.

Sean Nana.

And they would just sing 50 songs, a little comedy skits.

I remember.

It was a Bowser, right?

Bowser was the.

Bowser, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I remember.

I played some of an episode for Marybeth, and I'm like, can you imagine the family getting around and watching this shit every night?

But we did.

But the guy, this guy, his name was Tommy C., he called himself.

And he met up with these other guys who did the bar circuit down in this, I think it was Jacksonville or something.

And

met up with these guys and sort of established a rapport.

And these other guys were other doo-wop singers who were like more established so he's like hey

my name is really Tommy whoever or whatever the name of this former guitarist for Shawnana was and this guy I guess because it was you couldn't really research it but this guy had died the guitarist and

and

from a heroin overdose.

So this guy Tommy C

the alleged doo-wop singer who's masquerading as this former Shaunana guitarist, tells these other doo-wop guys, yeah, um,

something went on.

They paid me a million dollars to go away and never talk about it.

I'm under,

you know, a contract or whatever, non-disclosure shit, so I can't talk about it.

And I had to change my name, but that's me.

And they're like, all right.

And then this weird fucking story about this guy who, for whatever, decided he wanted to become a doo-wop singer.

He's a shitty one.

Somehow they figure out that he was really from New Jersey.

He escaped from New Jersey 30 years earlier after murdering his girlfriend and her child.

What the fuck?

That's the craziest shit I've ever heard.

Why would you go into a life of public?

Yeah, that's what I said.

I'm watching that and I'm like, you couldn't be more conspicuous.

Like, why are you doing this?

Oh, that's fucking weird.

Yeah, and his shitty singing was what got him in trouble.

Like, he was,

you know, these guys were like, okay,

you can open for us these other doo-op singers.

And then he gets up there and he's terrible.

And the club owner, like, people are walking out.

The club owner's like, he sucks.

What the fuck, you guys?

Like, denting their credibility.

But I'm like, what an odd like guy to choose to, right?

Oh,

that's really weird.

Did I ever tell that story on Tell him Steve Dave, though, about the about the very eccentric customer who would come into the stash?

And he told us that, I mean, this guy was really eccentric.

He told me that he got the job as Uncle Jesse on Full House.

Did I tell this?

Did I tell it on Telm Steve?

I don't even know if I told it on Tell him Steve Dave.

I can't remember.

But he told us he got the job, but then his mother got sick, and he had to,

they filmed like 10 episodes with him, and then

they had to scrap them all and then recast them when he had to go take care of his sick mother.

And I'm looking at the guy, and I'm like, well, I know what John Stamos looks like.

And I'm pretty sure, I know my eyes are going.

I go, but even the worst fucking vision can see that you're fucking no way, shape, or form.

Do you look like John Stamos?

I mean,

not even if he got hit by a bus and was dragged for 50 miles, he still would look better than you do.

But he told us all this, and I was just like, of course, I scoffed at it because you would never be able to find this out.

You know, you would, I mean, there would be no real records even on, like, on the internet.

But then he made the mistake of saying that he was in another TV series that only lasted six episodes before it got canceled.

And it was with Adam West, he said.

And I was like, Really?

I go, what was the name of it?

Because I'm like, well, I'll be able to fucking look this up, definitely.

He said it was called The Last Precinct.

And he played,

it was about a TV, a comedy about a police precinct.

And one of the cops would always come to work dressed as Elvis.

And I was like, and so he told his story about how he had the job, got canceled, but, you know, meeting Adam West was the thrill of his life.

And then, you know, he left and immediately I ran to the internet.

But like, there was so little information about Last Precinct, though, because it was just so obscure a show.

I was like, well, this guy probably picked this show on purpose.

But there was a website back in the day that's no longer around called IOffer,

which sold

any bootleg you wanted of any TV, any all bootlegs of any kind.

You could get it there.

They had everything.

And I went on there and I asked Ning, I was like, can you look up Last Precinct that was on there?

And they did, and I ordered it.

And it was not that dude.

There was no way it was that dude.

So he would go around telling people he was on the Last Precinct, though.

Yeah, I remember being he,

I wouldn't say he looked like Elvis, but he looked like as much like Elvis as any fat dude with a duck tail, like sort of hairdo like that would look like.

Yeah, but I knew the guy's real name, and then we looked up the guy who played The Last Precinct,

and they were definitely not the same guy.

Without a doubt, there was not a chance in hell, but like, but that's the kind of thing that, like, I remember telling Deb, and she was like

so weirded out about that about that story that she was terrified that you know that he would that if he ever found out that I knew he wasn't that he would get violent

although it's so out there what he's claiming that it's like I mean it's totally possible that he might

But can you imagine that?

Like, you know, tell going around and telling that story, though.

It's weird.

It's just really weird.

Yeah.

It's pretty fucking out there.

And you're not the only one he told that to.

Right, exactly.

That was the thing.

That was his icebreaker.

A fucking lie.

Yeah, we should pick out who we would be if

we had to change our identity.

Like, what

deceased celebrity.

Like, who is that Jimmy Savelle in England?

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Apparently, the National Guard is being called out in

California.

Oh, yeah, for what?

To help distribute food, they're saying.

Oh, man.

That's scary because why do they need food distributed?

Yeah, I don't know.

Right.

Why would the food supply chain break down now

if

that doesn't make sense?

I mean, I went to get my tire fit.

I mean, while you're looking for a property, this one's really fucked up, too.

I went to get my tire fixed.

One of the few things I did, because I had a flat tire for months, and I would put air in it, and it would slowly leak out.

But finally, I decided since I had so much time, I get it fixed.

And the tire guy, when I went back to pick up the car,

starts yelling at me, not at me, but like he's so agitated.

He's trying to blow off steam, telling me why he's so mad.

And he goes, hey, buddy,

if I cursed at your wife on the phone, I apologize.

And I go, what?

He goes, yeah, well, my wife called me.

He goes,

Well, I was talking to your wife to let you know your car was fixed.

He said,

my wife called, was on the phone I was on the phone with my wife.

And he said that,

now this is what he told me.

I swear to God, and I'm like, this is how rumors start, though, is that his wife, he didn't want his wife

he wanted his wife to refuse to accept

a request to go help in Ocean County, New Jersey, to give out vaccines

for the coronavirus.

And I look at him and he's very agitated, the guy behind the counter.

And I say to him, I go,

well, what vaccine?

He goes, oh, he goes, well, it's not a vaccine, but they're going to start giving out these two drugs that fight malaria and something else.

He goes.

And I told my wife,

you are not volunteering to help that out.

He goes, the Coast Guard's already down there already.

He goes, They're ready to implement this.

This is going to go into effect in a couple of days.

And everybody's going to have to get these shots, or else you're not going to be able to do anything.

And I'm like,

he was telling me with such

conviction and such anger because he was afraid to have his wife go down and be exposed to people.

And I'm like,

how does he know this, though?

And where is he getting this from?

Like, why would he make this up out of the blue?

Why does he seem so self-assured?

It was just weird, though.

But he said the Coast Guard has already been called out, and

that these two drugs are going to be administered to people, and because apparently they help quite a bit, and to start giving them to people so if they get into contact with the coronavirus, it will give them a leg up.

I had read about that the malaria drug.

that uh yeah that that was helping

um but yeah you're right that's how the rumors are like, well, you know what's fact is that they're now going to force vaccines on us or whatever the fuck.

But the way he said it, he was so angry about it.

I'm like, how could he fucking fake this anxiety rage

on a whim, though?

Then again, I know Brian Johnson.

I'm broke.

Let me tell you, I'll break it down.

I was like, he probably believes it.

Like, somebody that he trusts told him, and to him, it's just gospel that that's what's happening.

Oh, man.

But, like, that's how shit just fucking, like,

somebody's like

theory becomes reality

in a heartbeat.

And it becomes true within a second.

And it spreads like faster than the fucking virus.

Well, I mean, it's not even a theory.

It's someone's paranoia.

Yeah.

And most people, not most people, but there are a lot of dopes out there.

You know?

A lot of idiots out there.

So it's like it's jerks and morons coming up with stupid shit and then spreading them on Facebook.

And then other people being like, yeah, they must be.

They must be.

That's what they're doing.

It's crazy.

I don't really go to Facebook.

I don't use it.

But what I do, I'm like, wow, there are a lot of dummies on here.

Like, you read people's comments and you're like, these are real people.

And they really say this shit, you know?

Yeah.

It's saying here, I guess the National Guard is for those floating hospitals because they're sending out the

the naval ships or the Coast Guard ships or whatever.

It says

they're not passing out food?

I don't see that here.

This was updated an hour ago.

It's saying

medical stations with a thousand beds for New York, two thousand beds for California, and a thousand beds for Washington.

Q, why do you think it's um is it just because they're so heavily traveled?

Why do you think it's the two coasts that have such a high

um infection rate yeah i would say it's just the the amount of people the the amount of travel that goes in and out of the country yeah the density has a lot to do with it

you think it's just uh solely on that

yeah i think so i mean it makes sense right like why yeah yeah but it it does feel like um it's strange how it's just on both coasts though not in just but like it's so much more infection rate on you know like i heard like new york has thirty three percent of all the coronavirus um yeah infections in in the country which is nuts you think about it it's out there man uh i don't i think that's what it is i think it's just the amount of people

do you think it's just inevitable that you're that you're you're gonna get it me uh if i don't have it yet i'm willing to stay in my house by myself for three months like i'm so

based on that i mean if i don't have it already there's there's fucking i think there's a chance i might not get it, but I'm not afraid of getting it that the virus isn't the part that I'm like

people it's how fuck are people gonna react when they have no money and they gotta buy food and their families are hungry and shit.

That that's the part that I'm like, yeah, I mean, that makes me nervous.

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Surely you must have

considered that like if you moved

this whole situation back a month, month and a half,

the Joker's Cruise and the Joker's movie are two completely different outcomes, right?

Yeah, for sure.

But I mean, I think

I think of it.

It is, but I mean, on the other hand,

we're shutting down production of the season of that.

That means no after-party.

So after party shut down, that means no into, like, my entire revenue.

I mean, the beer company shut down right now.

Like, I don't feel like I've dodged many bullets.

You know what I mean?

Like, every single revenue stream I have is just gone for the time being.

Um,

so I don't know.

I don't know, I guess, yeah, with the movie, definitely.

I, you know, I, I, uh, I don't know, but I think they're gonna try and release the movie in

in like video on demand in the next week or so, yeah, to try and get that done.

That would, yeah, that would make a lot of sense now.

And you got people,

you know, sitting on their hands,

yeah,

yeah.

What did you did you see?

The celebrity designed

face masks or

respirator masks, whatever, you know, the

George Clooney sister,

a couple of different celebs designed these masks and people got mad at them because they're like 30 bucks each.

Are they giving that money to anybody?

Or whatever the line is.

They're taking it for themselves.

Well, you know, they designed them.

It's a legitimate fashion design.

Okay.

I guess the question is like people get real uh sort of sanctimonious in moments like this about like

celebrities trying to sell stuff uh celebrity like the the video that Gail Godot did about Imagine people are like fuck you

yeah and she was like I thought that was a funny thing to get mad at because it's it's as stupid and and as everything else.

I was like, why is this the thing that everybody's getting so set about?

I think a lot of it came down to, again, celebrities being like, hey,

take a life lesson from us.

You know, imagine there's no possessions.

It's like, all right, well,

people see you guys as rich and, you know, ivory tower types.

Like, I don't have possessions for real.

I don't have to imagine not having possessions, Gail Godot.

I don't have any.

You imagine it.

I hear you, but it was so that like,

I just felt, I agree, it was stupid.

Like, I was like, oh my God, if I knew her and she called me for this, I'd be like, how do I get out of this?

Yeah, what do you think?

You wouldn't have contributed?

I'd have to be like, how do I get out of this?

I can't.

I can't do Telling Steve Dave next week with this, with this out there.

That's just so good, man.

It was pretty cringy.

It was pretty cringy.

It definitely was cringy.

But my feeling was like, I don't think she.

I think at the end of the day, she was like, look, man, it's just a bunch of celebrities doing stupid shit to entertain you for five seconds.

Like,

what's the problem?

Like, why is this the thing that everybody's getting so upset about?

I agree, it was stupid, and I wouldn't want to do it, but I was like,

the backlights I was a little surprised at.

I'm like, this is what, I was like, you know, everybody's locked in their house with nothing to fucking do.

This is what's bothering everybody at the moment.

Yeah, yeah.

And yeah, it's not like they're locked in for the worst reasons.

Like, everyone's so angry and frustrated.

It's like, oh, fucking sing a song, will you?

I mean, and I'm not,

don't get me wrong, like, I am not,

I think it was kind of like dopey, but I think it was harmless, it's just harmless,

yeah,

yeah, people.

I don't know,

if Kevin called you up, he was like, all right, um, the viewers universe all-stars are gonna

make people feel good.

Uh, we're gonna be singing Imagine, like before Wonder Woman did it.

Like, what is your

what do you do?

Start singing, singing,

singing for your supper.

All right, but what if the stash is closed, Walt?

Are you still picking up that phone call from Kevin Smith and being like, All right, set up my phone?

I'm singing, I'm singing Imagine.

I can't do it.

I have Corona.

I would just be like, Cal, I can't do this, Cal.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, but people have already forgotten about it, I think.

Like, that's how quickly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, you know what?

I mean, the one thing that I think about, you know, how quickly this happened, almost at lightning fast speed?

How things change.

Like, since the last time we recorded Tom Steve Dave to now, the world has changed dramatically.

There's no reason to believe it can't change back the other way just as quick, though.

Sure, there is.

No, you're not.

I mean,

there's definitely, it definitely can change both ways, though.

Yeah, I think

the return is going to take a little longer, I believe.

Probably.

Yeah.

I mean, Tom Steve Dave.

It's fucking crazy what we're living through.

This is fucking crazy.

And it just happened like

literally, it felt like within 48 hours, it was like, okay, this is the new reality.

Yeah.

Hey, you know, I'm supposed to go away for Sage's school break.

She's,

it's the second weekend.

It's like April 8th to the 15th or some shit.

And we were going to drive down to Myrtle Beach

and spend a few days there.

What do you think?

It ain't happening.

Where are you staying?

I don't know.

Some hotel, Hilton, I think.

I know there's just Hilton shut down at Hilton in Manhattan.

Yeah, the Hiltons are like shocked, dude.

Yeah.

I got a friend that works for Hilton and it's bad, man.

It's fucking really bad.

Yeah, so I don't even know if we're doing that now.

When is it?

What's the date be?

April 8th.

Yes.

Probably.

Yeah, I would say nothing until

middle of April, I think.

Maybe then they start to reopen everything slowly.

Yeah, but I thought like driving would be better than flying and shit.

Sure.

Yeah, it would be.

And then

you see people like very like petty shit complaining.

These are the times when you see the viral videos come out where it's like, look how big of an asshole this person is, where they're like, they have no perspective.

Or they like to go after

Instagram influencers for peddling

things that aren't necessities.

Or Gwyneth Paltrow took some lumps.

Oh, really?

Yeah, buy this

pants suit that's like 800 bucks or some shit.

You know, they always get called tone deaf.

You always hear people being called tone deaf.

Oh, yeah, they're a little tone deaf today.

These lib punches.

She has a habit, but doesn't she have a habit of doing this, though?

She seems to always get like a

fucking advisor her.

Yeah.

The fucker war prophets here.

But who is her team?

I mean, they're giving her horrible advice.

Would you say what?

I mean, whoever's on her team is giving her horrible horrible advice on what to do and what to post and shit, right?

Oh, definitely.

Yeah.

I mean,

to be, I mean, it seems like they're not, like, right now, it's the like, hey, I'm an Instagram influencer.

Here's me in a bikini somewhere.

And people are like, you're tone deaf.

But it's like, but as little as it matters now, that's how little it should matter the rest of the time when you don't have the fucking flu.

You know?

Who gives a fuck?

Yeah.

Like, that shows you how fucking meaningless it is.

Like, if you can't care about it right now,

right?

There's always shit going on in the world that's fairly horrific.

Like, yeah.

It's like, it's no, why is it any less a form of escapism than watching something on Netflix to some people, right?

But, like, people, for whatever reason, they're like, this is what I find to be petty and bad taste and unnecessary right now.

Sure.

And you better listen.

Hey, you better.

We come out of this, man.

You better still be woke, son.

Got some opinions.

Oh, man.

Yeah, no.

I mean, it's fucking crazy.

The things that, like, were like, that were

okay before

have to be thought of differently now, I would think, right?

I mean,

you just, if you're, if you're really serious about like fucking locking shit down.

Oh, I think the I think the notion of globalization or globalism takes a big hit right now.

Right, P?

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

I mean, if anything, America's got to fucking fucking go back to making shit.

Yeah.

That should be good.

Like, I like it.

Right, it'd be great.

Yeah, it'd be great.

They got to go back to making stuff and stop relying on China.

Whenever we fucking moved, I guess it was in the 60s and the 70s, and really having in the 80s moving everything into China was a bad, bad decision.

Oh, bullshit.

Yeah, we're paying for it now.

What was that?

Ming Chen.

That was Ming saying, oh, bullshit.

I mean, because now you can't get fucking the vital shit you need, medicine.

It's just nuts.

But people have to,

along with that, though, people have to be like, all right, you know what?

We should have more jobs in America.

And I'm willing to pay more for like a shirt or those supplies or any number of things.

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's just a natural occurrence.

Those things will rise, but so will, so will hopefully the wages will

also,

you know, take care of that, though, as you have more people working in America at factories producing shit.

Dude, you know what we're talking about.

It's got to happen.

Make America great again.

It's got to happen, though.

I don't think you can go back to business as usual, though.

Nah.

It'll take a while, though, to get all that shit up and running again, where everything starts to be made more here

than old.

Because living in New York City after 9-11 and everything like that, and especially having worked for the city in the years after it, like they did take the opportunity to

make a lot of adjustments after 9-11, not only to infrastructure, but just to the actual buildings downtown, to like...

like city infrastructure, I mean like civil service infrastructure and stuff like that.

Like they went in there and they made a ton of changes.

So, we'll probably come out of this fucking

in the long term.

We'll probably come out better than we were in the beginning, because that's just, I guess, what society does.

Look at Japan after World War II.

Like, they

figured that shit out pretty good.

They're doing all right.

Yeah, bootstraps.

That's right.

I don't know.

It's fucking nuts.

I can't wrap my head around it.

I'm not smart enough to

see all the angles, but

I'm smart enough to know that there's a million angles I'm not seeing, you you know?

Yeah, yeah.

What uh, have you have you either of you guys walking, have you been watching anything binge in Q while you're

doing a little lost rewatch?

Oh, yeah,

yeah,

oh, I'm like, yeah, I'm into season four now.

I'm already like, I'm now fucking with time travel.

What about you, Walt?

Like, what do you do?

What's your day?

Uh,

I'm doing

I've been doing a lot of artwork.

Thanks.

Doing a lot of artwork.

And when today we started, my daughter and the wife, my wife has never really watched a series from beginning to end.

Never.

Really?

So we decided

me and my youngest daughter were both gaga for the office.

So we're like, okay, we're going to watch it together.

And me and Alicia will give her our commentary as the episode plays.

So we started today with episode one.

So you're talking through the episode the first time she's seen it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We tell her, like,

you know, like, we both squealed when Jim made his first appearance on camera because we're like, he's going to be the best character.

You're going to fall in love with him.

Oh, can I join this via FaceTime?

Can you record this?

Because there's one thing that both me and Alicia are just like, you know, we both argue who likes Jim more.

That's the cause of all the tension in the Flanagan household right now.

I don't know what the guy just went, haywire, man.

He went looks.

But I've forgotten, because I haven't watched it in so long, but I've forgotten how fucking strong it is.

It's good.

Those

early seasons are very good.

Like it takes a couple episodes to find its footing.

Yeah, yeah.

But once it does, there's some real strong shit.

Like Creed.

Oh, Creed's awesome, yeah.

I tape it off around season four.

I was like, I don't know.

I just started feeling like it was the same thing in and out.

But I really do love the show.

Yeah, I mean, when Roy came in, the first time Roy came in, we told him, we both swear, like, you're going to learn to hate him.

you're gonna despise him.

It's gonna be like the greatest thing ever when

Pam finally fucking kicks him to the curb.

Yeah, he told her that, yeah,

removed all tension of the month triangle.

Do you remember?

Do you remember when I was talking about the office like five years after it was off the air and he still hadn't watched it?

And he's like, uh, spoiler alert.

But to be fair, though, my wife is playing a fucking video game in her iPad while she's watching it.

So I'm like, I don't know if she's

got one eye on the game and maybe an ear watching the author, like listening to the author.

And she's not one of those people that's going to be like, oh, you're ruining it for me.

She'd rather know.

She doesn't like tension.

No surprises.

Well, that's a good time.

Well, I hope that

this helps some people kill at least, what do we got, like an hour and a half here?

You know.

Well, that's a long one, yeah.

You know what?

It helps me.

I'd like to.

I wouldn't mind if you guys wanted to do fucking multiple episodes this week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm down.

I got nothing but time, boys.

I'm going to be doing a

internet radio station on Staten Island.

I'm going to be because the beer company that I

foolishly launched seven months ago

back in the day had a radio show in New York City.

And I just saw a buddy, a guy who went to high school with owns a radio station,

that internet radio station.

And I was like, talking about doing the show, and I was like, oh, maybe I'll bring back the RH radio hour.

So I'd love to be like, the idea of sitting in front of a mic and bullshitting is very, very attractive to me.

So I'd love to do this again this week if you guys want.

Yeah, well, we definitely can.

I mean, like, like you said, Wayne, we got nothing else going on.

I'm sure sure as the, as the weeks go on or the episodes that follow this, I'm sure it'll get a bit lighter

and not so heavy and maybe more yucks.

Yeah.

People can tune in.

We'll talk about all the coronavirus news that happened two days earlier.

I love it.

All right, boys.

This is fun, man.

I should have made my night.

I'm going to go play

Doom.

The new Doom came out waltz on Xbox.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

As I recall Doom, it was a first shooter, right?

First person shooter.

Steep, steep in demonic imagery.

Like this is

of the reboots of the Doom, this is the second one.

And the first one, you spend a lot of time in hell fighting demons one-on-one.

It's a good story.

Now,

how do they make this for a 2020 audience?

What do they do that's different from the Doom?

I remember it was like 8-bit or 16-bit, maybe at the most.

They've already done it.

They just make it look really fucking great.

It's doom, man.

They play metal music while you're killing.

Like the violence is over the top.

The blood's everywhere.

They don't really fuck with the formula too much.

They keep it what it was.

So

basically the same thing.

You just wander around and shoot things.

Yeah, there's a bit of a storyline now, but that's the same, but it's the same thing, yeah.

In the beginning, the storyline was like, hell.

And then that's it.

Now the storyline is like, you were in hell and there's a whole like demon thing going on.

Not that it's a deep storyline, but they gave it something.

Okay.

And it's it's a single player game, which for a guy like me is fucking

critical, dude, because I I can't play uh

I can't play uh with these kids on the um you know

the

your fingers ain't fast enough.

No, it's it's not.

It's I I get shot and killed in two seconds.

It's no longer fun for me.

me.

I was going to say, Walt would have played online with you, but Alicia won't turn on his Xbox for him.

What were you playing, Walt?

No,

I make myself sound completely out of touch, but my daughter has, to watch The Office,

I tried to turn to fire up the DVD player.

I have every episode, and I was like, and my daughter's like, let's just watch it on Netflix.

I was like, no, I got all the DVDs.

I want to use the DVDs.

I don't want to, I want to, I want to fucking

get used to like DVDs.

So I put it in.

I'm like DVD player, and I can't find the controller.

So

we watched episode one, and then we spent the next half hour trying to fucking make the DVD player go to episode two.

But every time I pressed it, it would just play episode one over and over again.

So finally, she went in her room and got

a sheep sheep.

She's like, Jesus fucking Christ.

She just turned the Xbox on and supposedly, and somehow you can get Netflix through Xbox.

Yeah.

I didn't know.

Somehow, yeah.

I think she hacked it.

She's like a computer genius, I think.

What sort of sorcery is this?

Yeah, so so then she turned the Xbox on after it hadn't been fired up in months,

so that's we started watching it that way.

But the first episode we watched, we watched it one and a half times before we finally were able to get to uh

episode two.

And your wife never noticed.

Oh, my God.

All right.

I'll talk to you guys soon, I guess.

All right, boys.

You got to do this?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yes.

All right.

Until next time, tell them, Steve Dave.

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode.

People can pretend they're sitting around watching the radio in the 40s.

That's how things have gotten so bad now.

Oh, yeah, they should send a picture of themselves gathered round like whatever they listen to it.

Fireside chats with television.

Oh, my God.