#654: Mother Slug

Nobody was like,

well, we can't have Q-tips representing people.

I was wondering about both of you guys.

Have either of you ever salted a slug?

Were you wearing a pleated skirt?

Maybe that's why you didn't look like Hercules?

That could be it.

Yeah, I did used to wear pleated skirts to the chips.

Tell him Steve Dave.

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Tellim Steve Dave with BQ.

Hello.

Walt.

Hello.

Very reserved, Walt, today.

Yeah, I fell asleep before you guys got here.

Oh, did you?

Yeah.

Fucks me up if you fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon.

Where were you when you fell asleep?

I was just sitting in this chair that I'm sitting in, and all of a sudden I was watching TV.

And the next thing I know, I was out like a light.

And Giddam has a fucking chloroform soak rag in his head.

I never fall asleep.

What's going on?

But now I feel very groggy, and

I'm not at

my best right now.

Want an Adderall?

Pep you up a little?

No.

No?

No.

I tried a little bit.

I tried a sprite, and

that didn't really work, though, either.

But I'll be all right.

As the episode goes on, I'll start to feel more and more awake.

Yeah.

I would introduce Gedim, but he annoyed me.

Oh.

Yeah.

He ruined the End of Tellum Steve Dave last week by posting that Teddy won on Sunday, or on Saturday, rather.

He didn't ruin it, though, because

everybody was asking me if the people who were voting for him was announced on Friday.

Oh, it was announced on Friday, okay.

Yeah, so they already knew.

So, yeah.

Well, the vote is.

All right, get him out of the doghouse.

Oh, very well done.

Doghouse.

But listeners who are paying attention and who wanted

to vote for Teddy, they were well aware that he had won already.

I'm sure some

who didn't vote, who didn't give a shit

were still surprised, though.

There you go.

And

tomorrow's the big day, right?

Tomorrow's the big day.

Yeah, I'm super nervous.

That's why I'm so tired.

I haven't got any sleep.

Yeah.

Who do you have going up with you?

Yeah, just me and my wife.

Yeah.

Yeah, we have the

lady's phone number, and they want us to call every half hour

because it takes us like an hour and a half to get up there with traffic.

They want somebody to text her our updates of where we are.

You know, I don't know.

I mean, I think like

this is like a present campaign detail, the way they're treating Teddy getting up there.

Yeah.

Some Secret Service going?

I don't know.

It's weird that they're like, we need to know exactly where you are.

I guess because there's going to be other dogs there, though.

Okay.

And I told I want the whole place cleared of any dogs.

Teddy can be the only dog in the whole entire studio

or he's not coming up.

You want Teddy?

You're going to have to cut Teddy.

Oh,

that's exciting.

Well, probably like they say, like, never work with children and animals, right?

It's probably going to be so chaotic there that they're, like, you just need to know

what's going on.

Shit, man.

I can't wait to hear about it.

I'm sure it's like the Miss America pageant.

Like, if something happens to the dog in between them announcing it, and

you know, by the time the lottery tickets are ready to be produced,

if something happens to the dog, they have to have somebody, another dog, step in and to be the big grand prize winner.

Teddy somehow disgraces himself.

Yeah.

Okay.

What do you think Teddy could do to earn such

a

photo?

Let's say he got sick or something.

He wasn't able to come to the photo shoot.

Well, somebody else has got to get that gig then.

Oh, I said, not like they notice he only growls at black people or something like that.

Yeah.

I don't think it's behavior issues.

I'm sure it's more of health issues that could keep him from fulfilling his duty as the grand prize winner.

Oh, shit.

Yeah, what if the governor was there and he took a shine to him, like, to the point where you're like uncomfortable?

Yeah.

Who's the governor of New Jersey right now?

He's

Governor Phil Murphy.

Murphy, still him, huh?

Still him.

Yeah, I think there's another

election coming up soon, though.

Well, first I'd give him an earful.

Yeah.

Good.

Then I say, you can't pet my dog either.

Nice.

That's the way to do it, man.

Can I pet your dog?

Like, no.

Bring down the the goddamn property taxes and the electric costs.

Then you can pet him.

So then you can fuck off.

Yeah, really.

He's got no fucking right.

Q, I heard, has been

romantically linked to somebody in Hollywood.

Well, well, well.

Romantic rumors?

Do go on.

So what I'm hearing, let me just pull it up if I can.

I don't know why this does this, man.

This is not me.

There's something wrong with this iPad.

Anyway,

I can't pull it up.

I don't know.

Do you remember it from memory?

I can't remember the

actual.

I remember her name, Tilly Norwood.

Oh, the AI girl?

Yeah.

Sparks debate.

Oh, wow.

Is it even a real person?

No, it's an AI actress.

Oh.

Yeah.

Native-based musician Stella Hennen found her doppelganger.

She's a computer-generated actress stirring up controversy online.

And she does really like, there's a picture of this girl who,

like I said, is a national-based musician, Stella

Hennen.

And she does look almost exactly like her.

Okay.

Jesus.

So how is Q getting?

No, I was just kidding about that.

Oh,

okay.

That he's seeing an AI, but everybody's fucking pissed off about the AI actress.

Q decides to date her.

Yeah, I'm like, come here.

I don't know what I'm going to do.

I mean, the whole thing is that, you know, I guess that what are they going to do with her?

They just rent out the files to you and you just type in what you wanted to do.

It sounds like a porn nightmare to me.

It really does.

Like, I mean, there has to be some

fine print.

Yeah.

By nightmare, you mean

one word for it.

The other word is the future, I guess.

There's got to be some paperwork, yeah, that like

the whoever created her, right,

has to have some rights to it or or no?

This is where AI gets it.

It's murky.

Yeah.

Does she have an agent?

It says when Outlets began reporting that Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress, was quote-unquote in talks to sign with a talent agency, Hollywood was outraged.

Woo!

I wonder what agency.

This is exciting.

This is inside baseball shit that won't matter to anybody else, but I'm excited to know what agency did it.

Everybody's, yeah, I'm not seeing what agency did it, but this, and this story that I actually had, I can't pull up.

But this girl says that she may sue because it looks so much like her.

Shit.

Didn't Ellen Page have that or Elliot Page when he was she

sue Last of Us because the girl in the game looked just like her?

Yeah.

I vaguely remember, but yeah,

I think that was the case.

This is tricky, murky, murky, murky, man.

AI performer Tilly Norwood continues to spark debate about the intersection of Hollywood and technology, and Sean Aston, star of Rudy and just elected leader of SAGAFTRA, spoke to Variety over the global curiosity.

It's not the first shoe to drop, he says.

They had a 118-day strike fighting very hard to put AI provisions and protections in place.

And the teams at SAGAFTRA have been in this fight for longer than people might realize.

So it's not just about Tilly Norwood.

Yeah, I mean, they were doing it for a second, right?

They were doing it with digital extras for a while now, right?

And

look, man, the genie's out of the bottle.

It's kind of crazy.

I had talked to someone who works in special effects.

I was out in LA,

what, last week or the week before?

And I was talking to this guy, and he works at a fucking company.

If I said the name of the company, you would be like, oh, of course, that's the company.

And he was like, we could do everything so much fucking cheaper now.

But we're not allowed to.

He's like, he's like, like, a shot of a superhero flying in the air, like just that one shot of him just rising up is like cost them like 85 grand to make like four seconds.

And he's like, I could make that shot basically for free right now by just mapping the superhero into the thing.

It's not a superhero project, just I changed it on purpose, but mapping the superhero into it.

And AI will make that shot for us, and it'll cost nothing.

He's like, We're not allowed to do it.

He's like, So, so some studios are being like, We will not.

Holding strong.

Yeah, are holding strong.

But this guy was arguing for it.

He was like, it's a computer program that I could use, and it's going to bring the price down.

So, you know,

even internally, there are all sorts of differing opinions on it, I guess.

So I guess the difference between CGI and AI is CGI actually takes real people and multiplies them, or something like that.

Like for crowd scenes.

Whereas AI, you're just totally making up the entire crowd.

Like,

we're taking existing files of scanned people and putting them in.

But this was very specifically about

a specific character flying into the air and

how much that one shot costs

as opposed to how cheaply they can do it if they just used AI.

It was really interesting.

It sounds like nobody knows what the fuck to do or what's going on with it.

Yeah, he says, with regard to AI, we have an extraordinary amount of leverage because the audience wants to see real human performers in movies, TV shows, animation, video games, audio books, and all the other ways that we represent our members, Aston concluded.

So what about, like, let's say in Phantom Menace, when, remember the big pod race scene with little young Darth Vader?

Do you remember the

Coliseum shot of the big crowds that were there to witness the race?

Those were all Q-tips.

That was a miniature set, and it was all Q-tips.

Nobody cried then.

Nobody was like,

well, we can't have q-tips representing people.

I think it's because the people that they put in were real actors that they composited into it, and the person doing it was like a digital artist who was doing it, not just like, make a crowd here.

And then an hour later, there's a crowd there that the computer made.

Like, you don't.

Like, there's still some artists being employed to create that image for you.

Whereas AI is just prompts.

Would you watch an entire AI movie?

Would it bother you?

Would you?

I think I'd find it distracting.

I was thinking of it because I had a lot of talks about it out there, and it's like, there is something about animation,

right?

It's the same thing.

It's computer animation, it's hand-drawn animation, but there's still a human actor behind it.

I don't know how I would, I think I would be so fucking distracted by the fact that everybody was fake and the voice was fake.

I'm not saying I couldn't get over it, but.

Do you still go to the grocery store?

Or do you have you left, have you eradicated that from your day-to-day life?

I did eradicate it for a while, and then I made a choice to do more going to the store.

So I do both now.

Have you ever heard that argument?

It's like,

where is this juice?

when checkout clerks were being shown the door and we were we had automated checkout lines where you just check your own stuff out now, and you bag it yourself, and you walk out.

I don't remember anybody.

Nobody was standing up for those people,

right?

Yeah, like you go to McDonald's, they have those touch screens now and shit.

There's not even people there.

Yeah,

I'm sure some people were grousing, but it's not a sexy topic.

You're right.

It isn't sexy.

We got to try to make it sexy.

It's not sexy.

It also affects the consumer in a positive way.

They feel like I can get out of there faster.

I don't have to wait for somebody to scan my shit.

I have three things.

A person in front of me has 30 things.

I can get out of here sooner.

But now the stores, I think, are starting to realize that there's a lot of that skip scanning where people aren't really scanning shit.

I see that

on cop cams all the time.

People getting busted at Walmart, especially.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Now,

I don't want to get you off topic of AI, but there was some sad news this week.

I don't know if there's something wrong with me, and maybe you guys can weigh in.

Is

the food town that i go to since i moved to my new place in the

early 2000s is closing i read that today

and it shook me

or i felt sad and i'm like what's wrong with me why do i feel sad about this is a grocery store Because the next closest one is a major pain in the ass for you.

It really wasn't that, though.

No?

It really was.

I don't know why.

That food town is so overpriced.

I don't know why you'd be nostalgic about it.

That place is a fucking problem.

You don't think all food towns have the same cost of

prices across the street?

Yeah, they do.

They're expensive.

And they're more expensive, let's say, shop right now.

Then shop right or stop and shop for sure.

Oh, I didn't know.

I don't know.

I was just hit by a wave of

melancholy that that food town that was right across the street from me is no longer there anymore.

It's not going to be there anymore.

And all those people are out of jobs.

And

I don't know.

Like, it just kind of took the sales out of me.

Was there anyone there that you'd be like, hey, no, no, no, no, never talk to anybody there?

Not one person, not one person,

not one single person.

But I was just like, that's got to suck, though, that you know, for all those people that work there that have been there for a while,

that's their place because they're, I mean, they are unionized, right?

Get him?

Yeah, they're unionized.

You're making a choice between Red Bank and

Highlands and Atlantic Highlands.

Atlantic Highlands and Red Bank.

And go to one of those, too.

Someone

was complained about me answering forget him when you guys ask him a question.

And the reason I do it is because he won't fucking put a mic out for him for himself.

Yeah, I don't know why he's like, he suddenly won the right to come back.

Yeah.

And when I have to listen and watch the Patreon pods that go out, there's nothing more infuriating than someone talking off camera.

Like, if you're going to weigh in, put a mic on.

Right.

And if you're, but if you're not going to put a mic up, then you have to have the restraint to keep your mouth closed no matter what anybody asks you.

Yeah, sometimes when we're

when I'm when I'm cutting it, I have to boost him because you know.

He's so fucking annoying.

Just put a mic out there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In case you have something worthwhile to say.

I'm not saying I think you do, and I would love for you to be on mic, but if you're going to sit there and make some sort of statement, which it seems like he is, with the little smirk on his face,

yeah, well, then you can't talk then.

Yeah.

Because it's just annoying.

It's not a good product for our listeners.

I agree.

There's a podcast that I watch as husband and wife, and they are constantly yelling off-camera to each other, and it's the most irritating fucking thing in the world.

It's like, I can't hear what you're saying.

And it's like, these are two quote-unquote professionals that should know, like speaking to a mic, not from across the room.

Hey, what was Genem doing while you were napping?

I have no idea.

I know we can't ask him now.

We can't ask him because of the rules.

The new rules that were just put in place.

He probably was sleeping, too.

Every time I walk in, you see he's sleeping.

He's holding up an empty pizza box.

What a weird workplace for everybody involved in that situation.

Like a slow gas leak involved.

Is everybody sleeping?

What time is it?

It's only four.

All right, I'm going to go back to sleep.

Wake me up at six.

I got to punch out.

I don't want to oversleep him.

Just punch it out.

That rarely happens, though, that

I fall asleep here.

I can't say it.

Like, since we've gotten this spot maybe five times, and today was the fifth time I've fallen asleep.

Okay.

That's because I'm working around the clock, though.

What are you working on?

Yeah, just TSD stuff.

Okay.

Clearing videos, Halloween videos, getting Halloween content ready for

the regular TSD

Halloween show, which will be coming up later this month.

Yeah, never ends, Q.

No, you're on the treadmill, man.

It just keeps fucking happening.

Yeah.

I'm fucking exhausted.

I'll be back in a minute and take a cat nap.

Give me 20.

Get him, wake me up in 10.

I want to catch a quick power nap.

Do you feel like you should drink more caffeine or you don't want to overdose it?

I don't know if it's the like I have kind of

not had caffeine this week.

I wonder if that's it.

But I've I have had sugar though.

I know

I thought sugar did the trick though.

No, it was caffeine on purpose or you just no it just was a coincidence.

Yeah.

How's the how's your uh

going strong

your uh what's it's all no caffeine, no sugar, no?

Uh no I drink caffeine, but it's like I have a cup of tea.

You know, it's like I don't drink soda.

Going good though, huh?

No, you didn't fall off no wagons?

Nope.

Still on the wagon.

Still looking good.

Well, not looking good, but still

feeling all right.

Yeah.

Pulled a muscle in my back or something.

I don't know what the fuck I did.

I was like trying to do some

do some weightlifting.

And the next thing you know, pull in the back.

Now it's been like three days.

50s and no joke, huh?

Nope.

Don't lift weights in your 50s, Q.

That's my advice to you.

So you went to shut down.

Did you go to the gym or do you have your own little weight?

No, I have stuff at home.

Yeah, we have a huge house.

You have a bench at home.

You felt it pop.

Dumbbells.

I didn't feel any pop.

No, I woke up in the next morning.

I was like, what the fuck, man?

Why is my back hurt so bad?

I thought it was maybe the way I slept, but I'm starting to think it was

doing these bands that I do.

Like, I put them on my feet and then do rows and shit.

But you have had a history where you should not be touching weights.

I remember that one time your arms puffed up and you had to almost have your arms cut off or something.

Yeah, it was like the...

He's not even kidding.

Yeah, he's not even kidding.

It was like the...

they told me later on.

Well, tell a story.

Yeah, you're working out like a madman pumping iron.

I was, I was when was this?

Oh, this would have been late.

Uh, no, 96, 97.

Yeah, somewhere in there.

And I was overweight, so I'm like, all right, I'm going to get fit.

So I go to the gym, and instead of like doing a course of a couple weeks, I'm like, well, maybe I'll just do it all in one day.

So I put on this belt and started doing curls.

Like, so my arms are braced against against this.

What's the belt belt?

It helps you brace your arms so you can keep form.

It's like it goes around your stomach.

It's not a weight belt like a brown one.

It kind of looks like a weight belt a little bit, but it has these two things on the side.

Did it have like studs so you look like Hercules or something?

Not that I recall.

I don't think I look like Hercules.

No.

Were you wearing a pleated skirt?

Maybe that's why you didn't look like Hercules?

That could be it.

Yeah.

I did used to wear pleated skirts to the chip.

I don't know why I heard so much shit about it.

Hey, Hercules.

Hey, guys.

All right, so you're working out like...

But so I'm working out, but it's like in a way that I haven't, I've never worked out before.

I've never used this belt before.

And I'm like, wow, I can lift so much more weight, like just jamming my arms against this belt.

So I'm like, I lifted like a lot more than I probably should have.

And it broke down all these proteins in my biceps.

I've never heard of this before or since.

Nope.

Nope.

I know that if you pull a muscle or something, or we can release proteins or whatever into your blood and it's not good, you could have a heart attack.

And so that's what it did.

It just blew up my arms to the point.

I looked like Popeye.

Not with the forearms, just the way my arms held.

Now, when you see your arms start to get bigger, I guess you're like, holy shit, man, I'm getting jacked.

I got the new system.

I'd have written a book.

Or do you realize this is not normal?

I realize that.

This doesn't look like a muscle.

This looks like I'm swollen.

Yeah, yeah.

It looked like, you ever see when those guys inject cooking oil into their arms?

No, no.

It's weird.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Get him has a picture of it right here.

Yeah, the guys will inject like cooking oil into their arms.

Or sometimes women do it in their faces and shit, but it's like, it'll blow your arms up.

I can't remember what the exact stuff is called.

Delayed onset.

Okay, I didn't read that.

Rhabdomoleostalisis.

After intense exercise.

Oh, that's the condition.

That's what it's called?

I guess that's what it's called, yeah.

And so your arms, how quickly after working out, do you start to feel something strange going on in your body?

This time?

No, no.

The first,

yeah, the time when your arms almost.

That time it was like a couple hours.

A couple hours.

Yeah, and I was like, whoa, this is not,

this is beyond just being sore because they were really sore, too.

But I couldn't bend them.

And my girlfriend at the time was laughing at me because she was like real fit and shit, you know, and like used to lifting weights and fucking all the stuff.

Yoshi, she's like, you're just a big pussy.

Pretty much.

Yeah, pretty much.

So then you're a legend.

She went to the doctor and confirmed you're a big pussy.

This is the worst case of pussyitis I've ever seen.

What do you do?

Try to lift weights that are too heavy a bitch.

Tighten your pussy.

We have an emergency vagina plastin.

We're in room one.

But it took a good week for it to go down.

Like, then they said that

was the case of the week in the hospital.

If you didn't get it taken care of, like your arms would have to be amputated.

I probably would have died.

I probably would have had a heart attack.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, it wasn't.

Yeah, they would have had to amputate my arms.

I thought that's, as I recall, the story is that

you had your arms amputated if you didn't go down to the hospital.

Yeah, no, it was more that you might have a heart attack

if you don't.

And that doesn't scare you off weights then.

You're still.

The weights I'm lifting right now are so it's like it's comparable to like when women used to lift like soup cans and shit.

They're like two or three pounds and they're pink.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

You're doing a Jane Fonda workout and you're doing

buns of steel over here.

So

that to me would,

if that happened to me and I knew that my body was prone to

reacting that way, I probably would be scared off lifting weights for the rest of my life.

It happened once 25 years ago, over 25 years ago now.

And I'm sure that's.

And it happened again.

I pulled a muscle on my back.

Is that the same thing?

That happens to lots of people.

No, I'm sure it's.

I don't think I'm prone to injury.

I think your back's all puffy and swollen.

Yeah, it might be.

I look like a hunchback over here.

Where did that come from?

No, that was Michael.

Oh, is that you?

I hear the volume is supposed to be off, but I don't know why it's on.

All right, it's off now.

Very odd.

I know that we could never do it because we got a guy who won't fly.

Yeah.

The comic book men is who I'm referring to.

But I know who you meant.

If the Jokers

got an offer

for this festival over in Saudi Arabia,

big bank.

A lot of money.

Have you heard about this, Walt?

No.

So

there's a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia,

which is well known for their human rights violations.

And their great sense of humor.

And they cannot get enough free speech.

They cannot get enough of free speech.

So all these comedians were hired by some rich guy who threw on a a festival through a festival.

And these are not small amounts.

I think like the baseline is 375,000

up to like 1.5 million.

Like the big guys, I think probably like Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Bill Burr.

I think those are probably the guys that are at like the 1.5 million range.

And then there's a bunch of like lesser comics who's vacuuming out there.

Cleaning group.

Oh, God.

So

people are like,

you're hypocrites.

Because all these comedians are pretty way on the side of like virtue signaling and shit like that.

And they're like, how can you do that when these people like they caused, like, even Pete Davidson's going?

His dad died at 9-11.

Yeah, I wonder how much they're paying him.

It all has to boil down to that, right?

Just what's your number?

Yeah, you got a number, and that's it.

Yeah.

Or you don't have a number, and that's it.

I think that's Ming.

Ming didn't have a number.

He went over anyway.

The second, look, on the surface, you know, you're like, eh, fuck it.

But then the second you dig into it and you're like,

wait, these guys were connected to 9-11?

I couldn't do it.

I wouldn't be able to do it.

Yeah, Shane Gillis is one of the guys, Tim Dylan, I think, also.

We're like, we're not doing that.

Yeah.

These are the people I wanted to turn their region into glass

way back in the day.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I wouldn't do it.

I mean, look,

they couldn't dangle enough money in front of me to do it.

I don't know.

Oh, but Q, what you could do is take the money, and then when you get up on stage, you drop that joke.

Yeah, and then what, run to the airport?

I know you motherfuckers got planes.

Where is it?

I don't get out of here.

I haven't forgiven a single thing about 9-11.

I I hold that hatred deep in my heart.

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it.

I guess what all the comics are saying are like there's more free speech over here.

Bill Burr is saying they got a fucking Chili's over here.

So it's more like America than you think.

And I was thinking, like, in terms of people who have attacked us, who else?

The Japanese in Pearl Harbor.

We get along with them now.

But they also don't have the same background right now in terms of like social

unfairness, let's say.

Yeah, it's just a sticky wicket.

And I don't know, man.

And once you have that much money, like, why are you

like, why are you doing it?

Like, what are you getting out of it besides just more money?

I guess.

I don't care.

But you know what?

I don't know the ins and outs.

I just know the, I know the hub.

I know the backlash.

That's all I heard.

I haven't done any research into it or anything like that.

Do you think it's an audience of like sultans and princes and guys who probably have to be familiar with

american stand-up right because i can't imagine that american stand-up is

yeah does it translate to a worldwide well they're throwing a bit they're throwing a big comedy festival i i think so like yeah the wwe goes over there and performs you know what i mean but that's like yeah guys flying around, beating the shit out of each other.

That plays anywhere.

You could take that to the middle of the Congo.

No, I just mean in terms of like the morals of doing it.

Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

Like, and then the females wrestlers have to dress up in like head-to-toe gear, no matter what they normally wear.

They have to cover every inch of the ship.

Oh, did they bring any female comedians?

They did bring some female comedies.

Did they have to dress up?

I don't know.

I couldn't find them.

Oh, I promise you that if there are female comedians there, they're going to be a female.

I don't think they need like the whole get-up, the whole like bird.

They just can't, they can't show anything other than hands and head.

Yeah.

That's what the wrestlers have.

So I don't know.

Look, man, if I was fucking broke and somebody's like, I'll give you $400,000 to travel over there and do a fucking 20-minute stand-up fucking act, you know, I don't know what I would do in that position, I guess.

But I'd like to think that I would

hold to

strong, huh?

That's what I would like to think, yeah.

And I have turned down things on principle before, so my record's pretty good.

but every but everybody's a fucking every company if you dig dick deep enough has fucking shady shit that you don't want to be associated with you know what i mean i don't get it i do know this that if you not making hay llc that's right baby but we don't we don't know who we don't know who owns airport plaza we might be paying rent

to some fucking print somewhere but uh but i'll tell you what if you guys want to go to a comedy festival that has no ties to terrorism there you go What a segue.

All-American Q-West.

Haven't even announced it yet.

Just said it on.

Haven't done any promotion.

Haven't done anything but mentioned it on TelemSteve Dave.

There's only something like 35 tickets left.

Dude, that's how you fucking promote that shit online of social media.

No saudi performers.

That's it.

All

fucking

American.

Women can wear whatever they want.

In fact, it's encouraged to dress as provocatively as you feel like.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, tickets, and I'm only mentioning this because I am going to start promoting it next week after this episode comes out.

And I really, just like last year, the more, you know, ants there, the happier I am, of course.

But there's something like 40 tickets left, I think.

I mean, it really went so quick.

Yeah.

So you only got to move 40 more tickets.

This thing will sell out.

Yeah.

There's not a question.

I just don't want to promote it until every ant has had an opportunity to.

Oh, I see what you mean.

You don't want to let, yeah, you don't want to let

the mass market know it's happening until the ants have had a chance to maybe figure out a selling.

Sometime this week, probably the upcoming week, Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll start promoting.

Where can they go to buy tickets?

You know, I don't even know.

It's on Eventbrite.

If you just go to Eventbrite and just type Q West, it'll come up.

But all-American Walt.

There's no

there's fuck.

You don't got to worry about me doing any terrorist shit.

No machetes, no strapping bombs to yourself, none of that.

No fucking way, dude.

I'm, I'm, unless it's an Irish car bomb, we're not going to see you with any bombs.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

And the list of people that are over there is pretty impressive, right?

Like you said, like, Chappelle's going.

Like, I would love to hear their reasoning.

Have they said anything yet?

Or is this also

a thing where it's just a thing because people are making a thing out of it?

Yeah, you don't know because you could people who started this and started bitching about it, maybe they have other agendas as well.

Like, they didn't get invited.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But they didn't make it.

Some people did.

A Saudi Arabian Comic-Con?

Yeah, he went to Dubai.

That's what I was talking about before.

Yeah.

Wow.

Oh, shit.

Well, they didn't pay him to go.

You're right about that, right?

Oh, I think he

probably at least got paid for his flight in his hotel and stuff, I'm sure.

He took that blood money?

Yeah.

He sure did.

Oh, man.

Maybe somebody's not going to be at QS2.

Yeah.

Fucking infidel.

He could fucking grab a drink with Jimmy the Hair Guy somewhere

up here.

Pete Davidson, whose father died in the 9-11 terror attacks, was direct about his financial incentives.

I know I just get the routing and then I'll see the number and I go, I'll go.

So

he cares about the money.

Bill Burst says, You think everybody's going to be screaming

death to America and they're going to have fucking machetes and want to chop your head off?

Because this is what he's been fed about that part of the world.

Instead, Burst said they just wanted to laugh.

And that there appears to be more freedom in the country.

It's definitely true, but the reality is that Saudi Arabia remains an absolute authoritarian dictatorship, or voices that criticize the government, criticize the royal family, criticize the economic performance, and public investment fund literally face decades and decades in prison.

Aaron Ross Powell, I do, you know what?

At the end of the day, though, I think he is somewhat correct, though.

At the end of the day, I think everybody just wants to laugh.

But unfortunately,

the world

conspires against laughter.

Yeah, look at Reddit.

They hate us laughing over here.

Reddit's worse than the Saudis.

I just meant like the state of the world.

I mean, it makes it difficult to laugh sometimes.

So if you have an opportunity to make somebody laugh in a region that isn't known for boisterous laughing, I mean,

maybe that's how you justify going over.

I have to say, though, I have seen, I don't know if they're Saudis or not, but they're definitely like of that persuasion.

These videos where it's like these guys

who have like the whole headdress and the long

white robes and stuff are constantly playing pranks on their dwarf buddy, who's also like, you know, I'm assuming Muslim.

It's pretty funny, actually.

Like, constantly breaking.

I'm watching this.

No, it's not on like YouTube.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, it's just like every once in a while, like on those compilation videos, it'll pop up and it's like these guys playing pranks on their dwarf friend.

And they seem to be having a good time.

He doesn't have enough fucking problems.

He's got to worry about these assholes busting

his balls constantly.

Bucking them as well.

Yeah.

That sucks.

I mean, well, you know, I guess like, you know, small humor, you know, that plays anywhere, though.

Right.

You know, it doesn't matter what.

You got a little guy and everybody's fucking piling on him.

It's going to make people laugh.

Not a Mikom.

Yeah.

Wow.

I had

a listener

ask me to ask you to.

a question that he's asking advice from Brian Johnson

and BQ.

He says, My job keeps me away from home three to four weeks monthly, making it difficult to support my wife, who's dealing with some depression issues.

We've been managing an insurance claim for the past two months due to a flood from a busted water line.

I just want advice or suggestions on what I can do to reduce stress.

And I cannot go on weed as my job requires drug testing.

He wanted

you guys to weigh in.

What would you suggest he do to alleviate stress in his life?

How do you alleviate stress?

When you have a bust at Watermain, what do you do?

In my Watermain bust, I used to take some weed.

Actually, I mean, the opiates were the best for that because opiates are like, yeah, you're like, I don't care.

Everything's fine.

It doesn't matter.

I was on a radio show one time with Kev,

Kevin, it was Jim Norton and Sam Roberts.

And he was talking about when he had the heart attack and he's on the gurney and they're bringing him in.

And he's like, you know, and I just, you know, I felt like I had an all right life.

Like

everything's okay.

And I was like, that was the painkillers.

That's what they do.

Regardless of the situation, you're just like, no, it's okay, man.

Like, I'm going to be all right.

Like, it just makes you, it gives you that soothing feeling, you know, until, you know, you're spending fucking hundreds of dollars a week on it and it's not soothing anymore.

You're just trying not to fucking is there a way that

he could

do that without getting caught on his on his drug tests though?

I would say no.

Okay.

And nor should he start.

Yeah, that's one thing I'd say.

That's good advice right there.

Yeah, yeah, that's not going to relieve your stress.

That's going to compound it.

Trust me.

Jesus.

I mean, I know people like go for walks and shit, you know, just like a short walk

15 to 20 minutes?

Never.

But you're asking a guy who's depressed and stressed stressed constantly.

You know, what are you stressed about at this point?

I'm constantly worrying about

what?

Like, I worry about the future.

I worry about Sage a lot.

Like, I think about her a lot.

I think about Mary Beth because I'm much older, you know, and I'm like, well, what's going to happen to these guys when I die?

And

I stress out about that.

I mean, I can't say it's on my mind 24/7, but every once in a while, especially at night, like when I'm going this little day, and it affects you negatively.

Yeah, I would say so.

Yeah, I would say so.

There's got to be

something that that you can do to alleviate that, though, I would think.

I mean,

try not to think about it, is one thing.

Yeah, it's pretty.

It's pretty, because

it's true.

You know what I mean?

It's coming regardless if I worry about it.

It's coming or not.

What are you going to do?

I had a similar thought today.

I just found out today that a second cousin of mine passed away this morning, and someone that I really, really, really liked a lot.

And

she was older than me.

She's my mother's cousin, right?

And she babysat me as a kid, and we always got along.

And I was like,

that generation's going.

Like, my parents are hitting their 80s.

I was like, I'm fucking like, whose generation's up next?

And I was like, it's fucking mine.

I was like, holy shit.

It's us, if fuck you.

It's me, Junior.

What the fuck are you worried about?

You're going to be seeing us in age.

We're too close in age for me to feel safe.

Yeah, that's how you maybe alleviate if you feel a little bit stressed.

Well, at least I'm not as old as Brian Walt.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Yeah.

Fall asleep in chairs and shit.

Yeah,

there wasn't a span in my life where I ever fell asleep sitting up, and now I do it regularly.

You can't stop it.

I'm watching the fucking devils.

There's not a chance on the planet in all the years watching that I ever fell asleep watching a game.

All of a sudden, I'm watching the game.

Next thing I know, fucking an infomercial's on about fucking chopping carrots with a fucking

and I missed the game because I fell asleep.

So what get back to this guy?

This guy needs some help.

Brian, I don't know.

Brian hasn't really offered anything.

Well,

we're trying not to think about it.

The problem is that he didn't give us.

This is the issue.

This isn't like a personal issue.

Like, I don't know what's going on with his wife.

I don't know how far.

He doesn't see his wife for three weeks out of every three to four weeks, he said.

So sometimes he might not see her at all.

I mean, that is fucking brutal, man.

So he's home for about a week a month.

Yeah.

I didn't want to.

I know what his job is.

It's pretty interesting.

I'm not going to give it on the air, but

so it probably pays pretty well.

He can't just quit.

No,

you just can't give up a job that I imagine he's probably making pretty good on.

Well, I mean, that to me is

the discussion because

your wife is alone and she's going through something.

And

is there something to be said for being like, look, that's my fucking, nothing's more important than that?

That's just saying, I don't know their relationship.

I don't know their, you know what I mean?

Like, their marriage.

Maybe it's hard to say.

Like, you would think if they're married, you would, you know, in a perfect world that they're they're fucking, you know, in a good, happy marriage.

In which case, I would be like, dude, if you, if you have someone that, that you love that much, like, you got to at least consider finding another gig.

But I don't know.

And, you know what I mean?

Well, how do you handle your stress and your anxiety?

What do you do to calm yourself down?

What are your methods?

What's something that you're as a proven method that BQ does to lower that pulse?

He's a video game guy, right?

Video games help a lot.

Yeah, video games help a lot.

i try and listen to me like this this is actually thing all right so for the month of october i'm away for four days out of every week i'm only home three days a week this month and i'm like just at the start of it and i'm fucking already like

stressing out about it the travel the being away from home being away from the cats being away from my house like all that shit is starting to build up on me and like For me, it's just, I'm just like one foot in front of the fucking other and let's just get through this.

You know what I mean?

It's just just, it sucks so fucking badly that I don't even know how to, If the guy's not going to smoke weed,

that does it for me.

Playing video games does it for me.

I started working out again, but then that gets stressed because then when you be careful, yeah, because like

when you only work out once a week because you're gone the other fucking four or five days, then you just feel like a lazy asshole.

So I don't know.

I don't know how to handle this one.

I don't have a lot of advice for the guy here because I don't know what he likes.

I don't know what he doesn't like.

You know, it's.

Or like, how depressed is his wife?

You know, like, is she

on the ledge?

Is she is she just starting to feel like down because he's not around?

Can she travel with him sometimes?

Yeah, can you can you can you split the month where she's with you?

I I don't know.

It's hard to say without all these

these fucking I would say for this guy get into therapy and fucking talk it out.

I would say I would do like once a week like teletherapy with someone just to have someone to talk to and to bounce ideas off of.

Because you got to look out for your own mental health first before you you can help your wife, really.

I don't know, man.

I'm kind of coming up empty on this, and I feel really bad about it because I just don't know enough details, you know.

Right.

It's tough.

I don't know what he likes.

Okay.

Well, I mean,

I think the effort was there, though.

I mean, it's like, it's not like you guys just poo-pooed it.

No, I want to help him.

Yeah, I understand.

Yeah, sucks.

I want to help them.

Is there an ad this week?

Maybe you.

No ads unless you want to do Patreon.

We have to talk about Patreon, which is fucking good.

I thought maybe we could segue into maybe him buying something from us.

Oh.

Yeah, get some yundies.

We'll feel better.

I'm here.

Like, usually on Fridays, I uh I bring Sage to her mother's house and then I stop by and see Pam and Edgar.

But uh this week I was like, nope, I got to do the pod.

And that's on top of Pam having a health scare at the beginning of the week.

Oh, no.

In the hospital for two days.

Really?

Yeah, heart trouble again.

She was starting to have some pain in her heart, and then they brought her in, and it was something about elevated enzymes or whatever the fuck.

And

so she was there for a couple of days, and then they sent her home.

What causes that?

Elevated enzymes?

No clue.

No clue.

I don't know.

So why don't you just go after the pod?

It's not that.

Yeah,

I could.

I'll probably go Sunday and see them.

All right.

Yeah.

After the pod,

I got to decompress.

I'm winded.

I've got to fall asleep.

I was wondering about both of you guys.

Have either of you ever salted a slug?

Of course, I know Gidham has.

Giddam has.

I did when I was younger, yeah.

Now,

I

never have, and I don't really

have any

experience ever seeing anybody do it, but I'm guessing what the process is, is you just pour salt on a slug.

Pour salt on, and then I guess all the moisture gets absorbed.

Yeah.

It's horrible.

Yeah, I can't imagine that that's done by anybody but like a six-year-old who doesn't know enough.

You know,

who's just like, I wonder what will happen.

Yeah.

Yeah,

that's about the age that I, because you hear about it, you're like, I got to see this.

And then

it's horrible.

They just turn into like a fucking

fucking

I don't even know if I've seen a slug in decades.

I haven't seen one in the longest time.

Mary Beth came in the other day.

This is is what made me think about it.

She's like, oh, there's this cutest slug outside.

I'm like, I've never heard slugs being referred to as cute, but okay.

And I could.

Go ahead.

I got a cute.

Well, I'll let you finish, but I have a cute slug thing that just happened to me last week.

That's so fucking funny.

Yeah, that was the end of my slug story.

Oh, no.

I already got two slug stories.

I was in my yard.

It's hot this time.

And there was this fucking mother slug, and crawling away from her were like two baby slugs.

And I was like, holy fuck, I never even once in my life thought about slug recreation.

Like, you know,

like a slug having a mother?

Yeah.

And I was like, holy fuck, that was exactly my thought.

I was like,

that's a mother slug.

It just, it humanized them for me in a way.

And I put my salt, I put my salt shaker down.

You're like, you're lucky motherfucker.

Would it ruin it for you if I was like, you know, what they're looking for is just some sort of fucking fecal droppings to eat?

No, no, okay, all right.

No, no, I just never thought of a slug family before.

Because that's, I think that's what they

survive on.

They look for

dung.

That's how they treat it.

Yeah, that's all they do.

They're just eat shit.

Well, that's so like landscapers, when they

put down fertilizer, they just go in there and eat it?

No, I think it's more

not chemically treated fertilizer.

i think it has to be droppings from like

a dog a cat or a or a bird or something so here sometimes they even eat other slugs

oh little bastards yeah they eat more like organic waste organic matter little little tiny yeah

there are you know in the morning i have to i have to frequently clean raccoon poop out of my driveway and squirrel squirrel poop and stuff like that oh yeah i have fox shit fox loves foxes love to shit on the driveway for some reason Is it that much that you have to, like,

you are like, wow, there's too much there.

I can't drive through it.

No, no, no, no.

It's just you don't want.

Well, I have six raccoons that come down every fucking night to my front door and shit like that.

And they just drop turds in front of my fucking door.

Take that.

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

I'm feeding the little fuckers, but yeah.

Maybe that's their way of saying thank you.

No, they can't give you anything else.

That's all they got to give.

You like how a cat brings you a mouse or a bird or something?

Yeah.

So there's this raccoon who I thought had rabies because about two months ago he was out during the day and he walked into my garage and he was like moving herky jerky like he had nerve issues.

And I was like, all right,

I was like, all right, I guess this thing's going to fucking die.

You know what I mean?

Like it'll die.

And then I saw him last week.

How quick does rabies kill these things?

Because like, I'm thinking now he just has a nerve issue.

And then he was playing with the other raccoons.

So I was like, well, don't they reject?

Like, if a raccoon has rabies, don't they reject it and shit like that?

I think it has to be frothing at the mouth, foam.

I don't know what to do about this guy.

I'm thinking maybe he broke a hip when he fell out of a tree or something.

And now I'm like, what, do I got to help this guy?

I don't

want to go near it.

If only our resident genius had a mic, he could tell us what, because he's dying.

He's a raccoon.

Yeah, he's.

Oh, is he really?

Yeah.

speaking of frothing at the mouth.

Yeah, he's got blood dripping down his fucking chin because he's biting his tongue so hard.

Well, text me, get him, because I want to know how to help this guy.

And you're the answer.

You're a single.

You don't want to get too close to a potentially rabid animal, Q.

No, but he was like, when he came in my garage, he just came up to my, like, he, the way I found out he was in there is his paw was on my shoe, and I looked down.

He was just looking up at me.

So he's not like crazy.

No, that's what I'm saying.

Even at night, like when he's out there,

he goes away.

And if I put out food, then he slowly comes back.

And he's acting normal, except for whatever's going on with him inside.

I think they also can carry bubonic plague, too.

Oh, great.

So, you don't want to get you don't want to be wanting to treat that with kid gloves or wear a protective suit of some kind.

Put a whole fucking tent over his whole house, keep all the fucking rabies and shit in.

I am such a fucking pussy.

I saw this thing alone, and for weeks, I've been worrying about it.

I've been like, oh man, did the family reject it?

Does he have no, like, literally, this is how I think, and it's, it's getting to be a problem.

I'm like, does he have no friends?

And then I'm like, oh, what a lonely existence it must be to get rejected by your.

Now, do you put all your animal friends that are on your property, do you think of them living like a Walt Disney cartoon that they're fucking living together like Chip and Dale and shit?

Like his friends

aren't letting you.

They're stole around his property.

Or do you realize it doesn't really work?

Like, you're humanizing these things too much.

It's like they have friends.

Does he have friends?

Like, is he going to live or die?

But you can't tell me that animals don't feel loneliness and fear.

Oh, of course.

Yeah.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

Like, so if he's part of this little raccoon tribe and then they reject him and like he's by himself, like he's going to feel lonely and rejected, no?

i i don't know i think again i think it might be putting too many human emotions and onto

because they're these are creatures that survive on instinct not feelings

no i know but they feel feelings well they feel pain they feel fear well the raccoons play and raccoons like have like

they enjoy things like that's what i'm saying they have right

feelings and emotions.

So I can't rule out loneliness and rejection as one of them.

And then that makes me feel really, really bad.

Reject.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I would be shocked if a raccoon can feel rejection on the way that you feel it or like a human being feels it.

You know what I'm saying?

It would be on a different plane that you couldn't even understand.

Yeah,

I know.

I guess.

I don't know, but I don't know.

My cats, I fucking,

I see jealousy.

I see happiness, I see, you know what I mean, all sorts of things in these cats, uh, you know, and it, I don't know.

I just, this is, I might, I might have to go back to the fucking therapy to talk about this shit.

I do.

And then I spend time worrying about it and building this fucking story in my head where I'm like, where's he sleeping tonight?

And then I take one of the fucking cat houses out there and I put it where the last place I saw him was.

I was like, oh, maybe if he can't climb a tree, he could sleep in that.

And then, and then I see him playing with the other raccoons two nights ago.

And I'm like, I constructed this whole fucking story in my head and felt horrible about it.

And he's out there playing and stuff like that.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Is he going wacky in that house by himself?

Not by myself.

I have the cat.

That's true.

Your friends.

I went to a concert Monday night.

Last Monday night, Symphony X over in Redbank.

They're at the Basie?

They're at the

Vogel.

Where's that?

It's right next door.

Oh, okay.

Right next door to the Basie.

Not as big, like more of a club-looking type thing.

Like they have some tables and chairs, but mostly it's like standing room-only type deal.

And I got to say, all the metal sluts turned into grandmas.

Oh, yeah.

I'm looking around, and holy shit, everybody was like as old as me, if not older.

Yeah, especially for that.

White hair.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's like a, that's a, like, sort of a, like, it's a well-known band.

It's a niche band, but locally, they're known locally.

Yeah, if you're into it, you're into you're really into music if you're into that band because you know how

advanced that music was.

Right.

So I can only imagine that you're a lifer.

If you like Symphony X in your 20s,

yeah, you probably never grew out of it then.

Yeah, I didn't.

I know that much.

I think that's when I discovered it was a little bit more than a hundred.

I was thrown a sexy grandma in Spandex, shaking it to Symphony X.

What's wrong with that?

If they were a sexy grandma in Spandex, I would have said, okay.

But it's like they all dress like Karens now.

Oh, really?

They got the Karen haircut?

Yeah, they got.

It was a couple of younger ones, like maybe a little bit younger than me, that were still trying to.

Yeah, still trying to rock the look.

Zebra pants.

No, I didn't see any zebra pants, but definitely like tight jeans and like

stuff in their hair, like little

shiny shit in their hair.

Like they like went the extra mile to go to the concert.

Oh, man, if I don't see zebra pants, then I don't even think I went to a concert then.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah, they could have gone

a little bit further.

But when I was there, I saw a cop buddy of mine, and he told me, and it was sort of like vague, you know, I was leaving, but he said that he had a suicidal girl

a couple days before that he had to try to talk down.

And he was trying to relate to her, I guess, and he brought up view askew.

And she was familiar with View Askew.

And she was also familiar with Tell him Steve Dave.

Whoa.

So he brought it up and they bonded over that.

And he was like, you know, I got to say that.

Juju B.

It wasn't Juju B.

She's like, I'm off myself.

They haven't mentioned me in a couple of weeks.

Weeks?

It's been years.

I don't know if Juju B is still with us in terms of podcasting.

He didn't scare me like that.

No, it wasn't Juju B.

He didn't give any names.

But

I did feel like, all right, we helped out a little bit.

Yeah.

Like indirectly.

But he was able to talk about the pod and shit because he listens.

Yeah.

And this girl's from Jersey?

This girl's from Jersey.

Yeah.

Wow.

You should come over to the office.

Say, hey.

No.

You don't want to take too much responsibility on her, but

we're doing our part right now.

Oh, but that's like, that's when he got her, like when she finally was off the proverbial ledge.

Yeah, that's when he says, like, when he knows, like, she's like, okay, I'm going to, you know, let's go see a doctor.

Let's go wherever I got to go now.

That's when the cop should have been like, tell him, Steve Dave.

Yeah, she would have been like, fuck yeah, I feel better.

You think she's listening?

I don't know.

She may be.

Oh, man.

Well, we're sending out good vibes, though.

Yeah, that's

never.

We do best.

You know,

that's no joke when you're not in a good place like that.

So we hope that.

Because you can't see your way out of it.

No.

It's tough.

It's very tough.

So it's no, yeah, that's horrible.

But hopefully she's gotten and feels better since that happened, though.

Yeah.

We're thinking about you.

Yeah.

It's rough.

It's a rough world.

Angry.

It's an angry, rough world out there.

How old

did he say?

He just said she was young.

She was a younger girl.

I'm assuming like a rough time in the 20s or 20s.

20s.

Yeah, I thought so.

That's kind of what made it sound.

She's a 20-year-old listener base, female.

I think so, yeah.

There's some out there.

That blows my mind.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Got that young crowd we got to take care of.

Can't be off on yourself.

We need everyone we got.

Yeah, I got to rethink things then because

I thought we were playing to like all the grandma Karens at Symphony X concerts.

And the grandpas, yeah.

A lot of grandpas.

Let me not be sexy.

There's a lot of grandpas, including myself there.

It was a lot of thinning hair and gray hair.

Did I ever tell you that I went to see Adam Anton concert?

Did I ever talk about that?

I probably did.

I think you did, yeah.

I went to see Adam Anton.

Yeah.

That was a weird crowd.

You said they were all.

This is not metal.

It's not.

It's like New Wave.

Yeah, it's not rock.

I don't know what you call that.

Yeah, I don't know if it's New Wave, but

Adam Man still looks good.

And

he had a lot of young listeners.

But he also had some old

ladies just like

our age.

He had some zebra pants, too.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

He could still get that.

He could still get...

No, he wasn't wearing it.

I'm talking about some of the guys.

All these people in the audience had rock in the zebra print.

Yeah.

There's a sort of a conversation that's going on now about these older bands who have singers who cannot do it.

And I'm not talking about like, what's his name?

Who's the one that Mary Mrs.

Five likes?

Frankie Valley.

Frankie Valley.

I'm talking about like David Lee Roth or Axel Rose or ACDC.

Like they're saying these

Vince Neal Motley Crew is another one.

Wall Stanley.

Like, should these guys, like, should these guys just hang it up, or should you go in knowing that they're going to sound like shit?

I don't think they should hang it up.

No.

No.

Yeah, I don't think they should hang it up.

Because I saw a little clip from the PNC Judas Priest concert, and holy shit, did Rob Helford sound good?

Really?

Very good, yeah.

That's tough.

That guy's got a voice.

That guy got some high octaves.

Is that what it's called?

Octones?

Octaves.

Octaves.

Octaves.

Yeah.

Octaves.

I'm going to see see the Eagles at the Sphere.

At this weekend.

At the Sphere.

Yeah, I'm going this upcoming weekend.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

That is awesome.

I'm anticipating a good show.

Do I wear zebra pants to that, or that's not a.

Well, I mean, if you have to ask, you don't do that with the Ephesians.

If you have to ask, I wouldn't then, because then you're, you know,

you should know that.

You know if it's a zebra pants concert.

Yeah.

But the Eagles aren't.

They're not in zebra pants.

No.

Not even close.

I'll wear blue jeans, a flannel shirt,

maybe cowboy boots.

Cowboy boots.

All right.

You know, to add a little.

Now, is this a concert you have to see?

Medicated?

Have to?

No.

There's nothing on the ticket that says it's required.

It's a separate question from will I.

Yeah,

I am excited.

I am excited to go see see them.

I'm making the trip out there.

I'm seeing them, and then I'm seeing Seinfeld play Caesars.

Oh,

yes,

I got a superstar lineup coming up.

And what's the song that's going to get you out of that seat?

That's going to have you fucking pumping your fist.

Hotel California?

How about this?

They fucking open with Hotel California, man.

When you're opening with Hotel California, the rest of the lineup's got to be fucking sick.

It is.

Oh, yeah.

It's like a greatest hits album with our concerts.

Yeah, I want to.

I'm very excited for In the City.

Yeah, like that's my favorite Eagles song, so I'm pretty excited for it.

Oh, man, that is good.

That's going to be a good time, man.

Yeah.

I wonder what kind of visuals they put up because they're not known for

like a crazy stage show or

anything.

No.

So I wonder how they exploit the sphere's technology in a way that makes it like like worth it for them to go there and do it.

Yeah, I will have a full report for you, my friend.

I can't, when I get when I get back.

Yeah, I'm pretty, pretty fucking excited.

But, but, uh, hey, do I wear zebra pants to Seinfeld?

No, but yell out something about Palestine for sure.

Oh, yeah, that'll be great.

Let me come down on one side.

I see him dealing with some hecklers.

It's interesting to watch.

Oh, God.

I hope nobody does that.

Just fucking enjoy the show, please.

It's tough, man.

I see a lot of

on YouTube.

I'll see a lot of people that like, they're not necessarily heckling the comedians, but they feel the need to insert themselves with their own opinion.

Like, if they say something that, you know, the person doesn't find funny, they'll let them know.

And it's just, I always wondered about people like that that

go to comedy shows and feel compelled to, like, if I'm so fucking offended that I'm like, this person's an asshole, I'm probably just leaving.

Yeah.

You know, I'm not going to fucking let everybody.

Here's how I feel.

Right.

So fucking arrogant that everybody's got to know your fucking opinion on the way out the door.

But you know what?

These comedians, a lot of them

are bringing it on themselves because if you look at a lot of comedians

Instagram and stuff like that, they post a lot of crowd work because they need content to promote.

Right.

They need content.

I got to get that Instagram going.

I got to get that fucking, people are going to forget about me if I don't put a fucking clip up of me saying yuck yucks.

They got to get it up there, right?

But they don't want to sell their jokes, they don't want to put their jokes online.

So, what they do is they'll do crowd work, record that, and then put that.

And I think that incentivizes people to, or trains them, to be like, oh, crowd work's part of this.

I can't.

I can be part of the show.

Yeah,

I was very curious about how it was going to play out, and it's kind of playing out the way I thought it would, which is like audiences are getting more to the point where they feel entitled to be part of the show.

Yeah, emboldened.

But, you know, got to promote.

Got to promote it.

Especially if you're a comedian, man.

There's a lot of people out there that are comedians.

You can't throw a rock without hitting a comedian these days.

Everybody's funny.

Everybody's funny.

Yeah.

I used to know funny.

You know what I learned?

I don't know funny.

Simmy was right after all these years.

I don't know what's funny anymore.

I've lost it.

It's gone.

Sad.

Well, this isn't going to pick anybody up and anybody up.

We're all just talking about how we're just fucking getting out of date.

Yeah, that depressed,

anxious guy isn't going to like this.

Isn't he like?

There's that poor girl in her 20s who relies on us.

Yeah.

This is why Gedim needs a mic, man.

He's always good.

He's always good for fucking for

a carefree time.

And it's funny, too, because he's wearing headphones so he could hear you.

If he wasn't going interested at all in weighing in, he he would not need headphones to hear what you're saying.

Yeah, yeah, he wants to.

Yeah,

he's making

a statement.

His mind is amazed.

He's got these rules that he has to adhere to or something like that.

But,

hey, I don't see Get him going to fucking Saudi Arabia for money.

Nope.

Would you go get him if they paid you enough?

He's not saying no.

He's not saying no,

he's got no scruples, this guy.

Oh, shit.

Well,

so not around next week, Q?

No,

I'm around the first half of the week.

Oh, so we have seen the Eagles by then?

No, no, no.

I am seeing the Eagles a week from today.

Okay.

All right.

So I don't know.

I never know where the episodes fall.

Is this this week's episode or next week's episode?

You know?

This one's for this coming Sunday, which would be the

fifth.

Yeah.

Right, but does that cover the week ahead of it or the week behind it?

Covers the week ahead of it.

Ahead of it.

Right.

Okay.

So then the next episode we do will, I will have the Eagles report.

Yep.

And I'll be able to report back from Teddy's photo session.

Yes.

Yeah.

Is there, you know, peop people at my house are getting a little ahead of themselves.

They're thinking that, you know, this could be the ticket to a different world, you know, as all of a sudden now he's on TV and he's in movies.

And I'm like, you got to stop thinking like this, you know, and they're like, well, who's cuter than him?

And I'm like,

you know, it's not always about who's the cutest, man.

It's like whose palm you grease in Hollywood.

Yeah, who does Teddy know?

Yeah.

And who's and whose owner wants to put the work in?

It's also a very important factor.

If you want Teddy in a movie and you're willing to come to the airport plaza and shoot your movie while I sleep in the studio,

we have a green screen.

They can shoot whatever they need and put him in.

He could be America's new lassie

entirely shot in front of a green screen as he saves, you know,

get him from a well.

A well drink.

Somebody roofied him.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.