Tell Em Steve-Dave - #609: Sarco

Episode Date: September 29, 2024

Ming the Maverick and Brian Nashel join TESD to talk comicons, late-age rocking and rolling, Kmart closed, and talking points for married couples. Bry brings back ‘suicide of the week’.

Hey kids, it's weekly Patreon plug time. This week's release is one of the Patreon Bulletproof shows, as Tales from Behind the Fake Counter returns. Now for those who don't know, Fake Counter is the show where three out of four of the original comic book men break down episodes of comic book men. But the real star of Tales from Behind the Fake Counter is CBM showrunner Brian Nichell. His unique, insightful revelations and memories have propelled Mr. Nichell into a listener favorite.

Declan, if you'd be so kind as to play a clip from this week's show. And let me ask you, do people in the Tesdy world, are there a lot of questions revolving around like Mike's absence from the table here and absence from you guys? No, not one. So there's a lot of questions based on that reaction. I mean, he just disappeared one day and nobody said anything. It's like Chuck on Happy Days. See, I told you, the shell has the it factor.

So go sign up now to the TSD patreon and hear more Brian a shell As well as more Sunday Jeff more Jimmy the hair guy more Tom Milashevsky or Tim the register clerk or get them more Frank five more officer Troy more Mike What actually no wait a second? We will not be hearing or seeing more of him More Ming Chen. More Giddim Steve Dave. More...

You know, you get the drift. It's a galaxy full of all your favorite TSDTown stars on the TSD Patreon. Alright? Alright, let's get back to the show. I ain't no Panko! We really had to talk about Hitler at some point. And this is part of the comedy show here. We're still trying to figure it out. Tell them Steve, Dave. Is that what they say?

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell them Steve, Dave. I'm here with Walt, of course. Hello. And two guys who are not usually on the show. No BQ this week, Walt. BQ is on permanent vacation? I don't know. I don't know. He's always out doing something. He's got a full life this BQ this week, Walt. BQ is on permanent vacation? I don't know. I don't know. He's always out doing something.

He's got a full life this BQ. He's out there in LA. That must be nice. No, he told me he didn't want to go really. It's work stuff. We have, according to the Bills, we have Mang Chen here. Hello everybody. Hello everybody.

What's up? Well, you were called Mang Chen at the Buffalo Bills game? Yeah, I went up and you know how you can get those like my first game certificates? Okay. I went and got one and the guy's like, what's your name? Like it's Meng and he spelled it, Meng, M-A-N-G, Meng. I'm like, all right, close enough. You didn't want to correct them?

It's Buffalo. It's, you know, the grammar is not so good up there. So you had to go out of your way to get that. I did. That certificate. I did. Okay. Yeah.

I just let it go. I thought it was funnier. Yeah. Yeah. Hilarious. If we could stop laughing for a second, we can introduce our next guest. Brian Nischel. Hello.

All right. Brian Nischel is here. Now we just got done recording a tells behind the fake counter for Patreon and if you don't know what that is, one shame on you. And two, it is about, uh, just reflecting, right? Well, you would say reflecting. It's reviewing in chronological order, every episode of comp bookman. And we are up to season five.

We pull back the curtain. We tell you things that maybe you don't want to hear. Maybe you like the magic of reality TV where you think all this shit's real, but it's not. Turns out it's not. Yeah, if you want really real, it's four guys who refused to let go of a show that aired 12 years ago and you would be right. That is real. Yeah. I do not want to let go. So, boys, you're going to help us out this week. I have a couple of things we can talk about.

If you guys want to talk about something, just bring it up. We want to see Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, man. Okay. Well, we saw Palmer. Emerson and Lake are dead. Oh, they are? Okay. They've been dead for quite some time.

Yeah, so it's just Karl Palmer touring by himself. But he calls himself ELP though. What prompted this? I'm a big ELP fan. Really? Huge. And when I found out that he was going to be in the area and Rupp wanted to go, I was like, sign me up.

Because I heard he was doing it hologram style, like Lake and Emerson were going to be holograms on stage. Like Tupac. Yeah. That's what I had read somewhere and I was just like, I fucking, and these guys were all about technology back in the day. So I was like, you know, that shit's going to be fucking wild, what they're doing. Wasn't that wild?

It was not that wild. It turned out to be no holograms, a video screen with old footage. That's not holograms. No. I was hoping for like Force ghosts from like Star Wars or something or they did it with Tupac. Like they have the technology. Yeah.

I don't think Palmer has got the bucks to pull off holograms in 2024. It was a smaller theater. Yeah. I think you're right. It's not like it's Coachella where they have that kind of bankroll. And how old is Palmer at this point? He's gotta be closing in on 80 if he's not in his eighties, but he is still got it. Still rocking. It was unbelievable.

Walt said at a certain point, it was like, it looks like his arms are going to fall off because the way he's drumming is just non... I've never been a big fan of the drum solos at concerts. Me neither. But watching this dude play was pretty interesting because you know what you're in for. I mean, he's a drummer, so you know you're going to get some drumming. Oh yeah, you know you're going to get a couple drum solos. Right. But it was amazing that a guy that at his advanced age can still play like that. Like it's the 70s. We have a drummer here at the table. We do.

Well, if we're talking about Karl Palmer as one of the great rock and roll drummers of all time, I would hardly then mention myself as a drummer, but it's true. I play, I play. I saw you play. I'm the only one here at the table who was lucky enough to see you hit those skins.

Is that what they say? Yeah, I think so. And I was blown away. People in the audience are blown away. I'm sorry, Karl Palmer might be a legend, but as I said earlier to you today, he didn't have anybody taking their shirt off. No, that's true. And Mr. Brian Nischel was hitting them them skin so hard, fucking blouses were opening up.

They were falling off. Middle-aged women were taking their tops off. Oh yeah. Still got a band. You know, the drums conjure up, you know, lots of- Primal. Primal feelings in people. So, you know, you lay down that back beat and, you know, sometimes people go a little wild.

Fucking- Is that how you account for it? Because I was shocked. I wanted to go. I ended up, I thought I couldn't go. But when Walt came back with his report, I'm like, God damn it. I would have rather went to that than Karl Palmer. It sounded so fun. Long, but fun. I mean, yeah, we did a three-hour set, basically. You guys did the longest set I've ever seen anybody do without taking a break. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we did a three hour set basically. You guys did the longest set I've ever seen anybody do without taking a break. You literally just went from one song to another, starting at 9.30 and stopping at 12.30.

Yeah, that was not what was supposed to happen. We were supposed to do like an hour and 15 minutes and then we were going to have a break and then we were going to do another an hour and 15 minutes. But the singer turned around to us and said, we got to keep playing. If we stop, everyone's going to do another an hour 15 minutes, but the singer turned around to us and said we got to keep playing If we stop everyone's gonna leave So all right. All right, let's keep going I thought he's gonna riot cuz I thought like, you know If you stop, you know the fucking you guys are gonna cuz I was stunned that you how close you guys were to the fucking audience

Yeah, like anybody could have came up and fucking accosted you guys. That's true. Was that a concern? No, I don't think we're on came up and fucking accosted you guys. That's true. Was that a concern? No, I don't think we're on the list of people who need security to keep wild fans away from. Three quarters of the people that you saw were my friends and family. And if not, and there was four other guys in the band,

and I told them, I'm like, guys, if you guys didn't have me as the drummer here, there would have been like seven people Everybody else was like a friend of my wife has so many friends in town You know I lived in that town for like 18 years I don't have one friend my wife is lots of friends and they came with their husbands and their kids so You know, I wasn't concerned that any of the close friends and family that were there were gonna murder us

What was the venue as a bar? Well, it's so funny to explain It's basically the train station where I used to wait for the train to take me to New York So okay, but at some point they they turned the train station into a restaurant and built a bar on the long Alongside of it. So it's all connected. So during rush hour It's a train station, but after the morning rush hour, they fill it with tables. Like you didn't see it set up as a restaurant. No.

So it's apparently like, I'm kind of a recluse. I don't go out, but apparently it's a very popular place in my town. That's common in TSC town, right? Recluses? I mean, I feel like when I go outside, my eyes are huge. What's going on out here? I don't really go out. Yeah.

What is that? What is that burning circle in the sky? Hey, Beth! It burns! It's hurting me! What is it? Turn it off! Turn it off.

That's the song, Brian. Yeah, it'll go out in about 12 hours. Oh, shit. Well, that's what it was. We thought, and I was excited to play outside. We thought we were going to be playing outside in the parking lot, but then. There was a, there was like a teenage band out in the parking lot. Yeah.

Well, we were supposed to go on after them, but apparently there were noise codes in my town that forced us inside. But it was cool though, because when you say it was a train station, they're playing their, their set and all of a sudden train just goes by behind them. And it's a cool like little like rock and roll kind of atmosphere. Yeah, funk rock. Like the train is coming, swing, was whizzing by.

Yeah. You know, they're pounding the skis, they're fucking laying down the drum beat, rocking out. Better than Grand Funk Railroad, man. It's a real railroad, a real railroad, man. At a certain point, there was some lady, like, I don't know. 55? On a good day.

Just gets up and starts dancing on the fixtures and the dirty looks from everybody in the room, like all the women in the room. When she started doing it, every woman in that fucking place just looked at her and wanted to kill her. Oh yeah. But that was a problem, all right? Oh yeah. No, she was doing her best stripper moves up there.

She was living her best life, as they say. She was not with you, not part of the Nichelle crew. No, no. I didn't know who she was. My wife knew who she was. I swear to you, when I say that if Looks could kill, she would have died right on the spot. As all the women that were there, I guess friends and family of the band were just like, what the fuck is this bitch doing?

Yeah. Wow. She was listening to the music. Yeah, man. I was feeling it, man. Hey, man. You just, you know, you gotta let her go with it. Yeah. Who am I to interfere with that, you know?

So you guys played covers, I imagine? Yeah, we did songs that everybody would know. You know, The Stones, Almond Brothers. You know, we got a little modern, you know? Apparently, get them like that we did The Middle from Jimmy Easts. Oh, nice. Jimmy Easts World, yeah. World, yeah.

Yeah. You know, Tom Petty songs. But listen, my my heart was warmed when I saw Walter Flanagan and get him walking. Yeah, I'm telling you, don't even, it it was more of an experience for me. Like, I always used to say, man, I **** really wish I had been at Woodstock but now I don't have to wish that anymore. Oh yeah. I saw Brian the showalle fucking captivate a crowd and have someone fucking get

up and dance and take their shirt off. That's fucking better than Woodstock. Now she's in a bra, I'm assuming. A sports bra. A sports bra. Oh, a sports bra. Oh, not even a regular bra? You didn't see Bear or anything, no. No, that didn't matter. That may have crossed the line. Yeah, I don't think she would have made it out of there. All the women in that fucking place would have beat the shit out of her. Yeah, that would have been it for her. All right, bitch.

We've had enough. It's over. Yeah, she got out of there. She made it out in her little sports bra. She was having a good time, man. She was. Everybody was. That's rock and roll, baby.

Yeah. Now, how long have you guys been together? Oh, I mean, we got thrown together. It was a big festival in the town. So there was musical stuff going on all day at the parks. And the one dude, I actually went to high school with the singer. He was three years older than I, than I am. And, uh, you know, he knew I played drums and he said, Hey, I'm putting

something together for, uh, October fest. It was called. And he got, I think it was called rocktoberfest. Oh, rocktoberfest. Right. And so he threw us together. We had, I think four rehearsals. We only had one rehearsal with the whole band, which was the night before we went

into a studio, we played through the set list and try to work out, you know, some of the endings and how we're going to start and if we're going to do the bridge here or whatever it was. That's it. We just got up there and it was wrought with fuck-ups and mistakes, but we just played through them and again, that's just – it's rock and roll. Were you guys exhausted? I mean, three hours is nothing to sneeze at.

Oh, dude. I was exhausted. I had ice packs on my wrists when I got home. That's not rock and roll. No, that's rock and roll at 53 years old. I haven't played a gig in 20 years. That's rock and roll. My hands were gnarled. It's a lot of wrist action playing those drums and I hit them pretty hard. I noticed at the Carl Palmer concert, I could smell icy hot quite a bit.

There's a lot of icy hot there. A lot of older people. Also John Anderson from Yes. I thought it was Yes with as many of the remaining or the current lineup. I guess what Rupert didn't fail to mention was there's two bands that tour under Yes. Okay. One is with the singer and then one is with like a bunch of the other guys. I agree with Walton as much as like, if you got the singer, you pretty much have the band. Yeah.

Because those guys sounded exactly like Yes. It did. You know, the guy of his advanced age still sounded like, it still hit that, not if you're familiar with Yes and yeah the surround about sure thing but he still sounded like he does or he did in the 70s which I wonder if it was some help he got maybe or if not then it was phenomenal his voice yeah that's impressive because I saw Robert plant at the PNC a few months ago and you know he changed everything to suit the voice of a 70 something year old. It's not that high pitched Robert Plant and nor do I expect it to be.

But to hear that he's hitting those roundabout notes still. I mean, easily. Wow. I'm talking like effortlessly. Wow. His throat is preserved. Yeah. I mean, we only heard three songs that we are familiar with though. Yeah. Yes.

That was the bummer. The set list. The songs go on too were familiar with though. Yeah. When the yes. That was the bummer. Setlist. The songs go on too for like 15 minutes. Yeah. Rupert was like, this is the best song. It was 20 minutes long. Yeah, man. 20 minute long song.

What are they called? Is that prog rock? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I love prog rock. You do? Yes.

Like King Crimson. Yeah. ELP is the Emerson, Lake and Palmer. That's the kings of prog. Yeah. That was never my thing too much. I appreciate it because the, the, the musicianship is amazing witherson, Lake and Palmer. That's the Kings of Prague. Yeah. That was never my thing too much. I appreciate it because the musicianship is amazing with, with Prague rock, so like Carl Palmer's, you know, one of the greatest drummers ever.

Uh, but, um, I didn't gravitate toward it too much. Are you guys going to do more gigs? I mean, I don't think with the lineup that you saw, there's already Cutspeed made. Well, we got this guitar player at the last minute who was like a legit guitar player who plays in a bunch of real bands that they're out like every weekend at bars playing and, um, but I'm still playing with some of the other guys, you know, I got together with the guy you saw on bass and his son and we

got together. So I really saw that was the only time that lineup that I saw may have played together. So I definitely fucking am. I lucked out. Yeah, no, no, you lived through one of the quintessential moments in rock and roll history. It's almost like being an Altamont for the Stones. Thankfully you were there. You know, get him got to be a part of it.

I was there. He didn't get stabbed. He's there. You were there, baby. He didn't get stabbed, which is good. Yeah. No, no, no. No, we hadn't. You check your collars at the door. No collars at this gig.

Bulkers. So, Walt, again, warmed my heart and thank you so much for coming down. It was a great night, great evening, just fun and just rock and roll at its primal, in my opinion. It went on forever. I mean, my daughter, she's a rock and roller, man. My wife was like, Daisy was, she had it toward the end. She just kept saying like, are they playing another song? Are they playing another song? And we did. You know, it's weird. The only thing that I would say is when the guy, the lead singer was singing, I could

understand every lyric and everything he was saying. But when he spoke to the crowd, I couldn't understand a word he said. It was the weirdest phenomenon of the sound system. Yeah, it wasn't a great venue for sound. I don't know what was happening. Honestly, I could barely hear. So I watched back some of the video that my friend was shooting and I'm like, oh my God. And you're going over the video too.

Yeah. You're that thorough. Instant replay, man. I love it. Well, listen, I mean, I'm not lying when I tell you the last gig I played was 2004. That was 20 years ago. So my boy Chris came out and he was shooting some video of some of the songs I was watching. I was like, oh my God, we're speeding up so much, slowing down. But in my defense, I really, we had no monitoring system. I couldn't hear.

It was allowed. No, I could only hear myself. I couldn't hear them. I'm like watching the bass player's fingers, like looking for the one. It was a tricky room to be in. We're a big echoey train station. But we did all right. I was happy with it.

It was very, very fun. It made me really regret that I went 20 years without picking up a drumstick. So now you're back into it. I'm back into it, man. I'm playing. I got like three people I'm talking to about playing with. And you know, listen, this is a new life for me. I'm playing I got like three people I'm talking to about playing with and you know listen this is a new life for me I'm an empty nest. Please let me design a shirt for your band. Yeah I got a some merch.

I can revisit like my 80s work with a band called Dementia where like I'll have a demon shitting Hitler's head. Oh yeah. What do you think about that? What do you think? It depends on the band's name. It would somehow have to make sense. No, it works for anything. Okay. That'll sell. I'll let you know, as soon as we get a band name, you're going to be my first call. All right. Awesome. Yeah.

Did you toss any around or no? No, I mean that line up that Walt saw that night was for some reason called the Banzai Beach Band, but I really didn't know that till, you know, I showed up. So you'd say a demon wearing sunglasses with a beach ball under one hand shitting Hitler's head. Yeah, that would have been appropriate. Into a sandpale. Of course, but I don't know if that band even exists anymore.

I don't think that band plays together anymore. One night only. I love it. You could sell so much merch. Oh, yeah, no, that's huge. I will let you know because at some point I hope to be in a more permanent band and you know, I hope that we could play some more gigs cause I got the bug man. I've been bitten by the bug again.

So you know, hopefully this becomes, you know, the next 10, 20 years. You can't run from who you truly are, Brian DeShalle. No, it's, it really made me regret not sticking with it. How much better would you be after the past 20 years? I mean, yeah, I would be a very good drummer. You're Karl Palmer. No Karl Palmer, but I was a very good and sought after drummer when I was younger. I played, I recorded, um, but, um, you know, it's, it's, it's in you to play it.

I just, I lost some techniques, some hand speed, you know what I mean? I haven't played in 20 years. So I was surprised at how fast it came back to me just to even get to the level I was at. And how come they wouldn't, didn't give you a drum solo during the whole set? Oh, I wouldn't, uh, taken a drum solo. Oh, come on. have taken a drum solo. Oh, come on, I would have been fucking killer if all of a sudden, like, you know.

That sports bra would have come off. Oh, yeah, it would have been too much for that woman. I think some of the fucking undergarments on like the lower garments may have came off when I got a drum solo. No, you know how like the kung fu masters' hands are registered with the police? Or totally wet.

Yeah, that's what it would have been like. I couldn't unleash a drum solo on that woman. She was all riled up. Next thing you know, she's writhing on the floor. It's almost like she's at a black mass. How was your wife at the end of it? Was she like, my man? Was she impressed? She was very complimentary. If we had been able to get home an hour and a half earlier, maybe I could have gotten some groupie action. But as Walt said, it was the longest show ever played. I mean, listen, we're not young. She just wanted to go to sleep. I wanted to ice my wrists and she wanted to go beddy time. So if we wrapped things up

around 1030, maybe I could have lived out some, but she was very complimentary. And look, she was at my last gig 20 years ago and we went out in high school. She used to come down in the basement and see me with my bands in high school and she loved it. So it was like, she was very happy and she was, I was hard on myself about, oh, I fucked this up and I fucked up this song. And she was like, oh my God, stop it. You sounded amazing.

You haven't been playing. So she was great. It wasn't any hardcore groupie action going on, which I was hoping for. Groupie action is an all time low. We went to whiskey. Whiskey Myers. Whiskey Meyer. No groupie action.

Well, we don't know that. You know, I don't know. We went on the tour bus. They said no groupies. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Well, they're all married. I think.

And I have girlfriends. Yeah. It was a band. We went to see one of the guys is a listener. That's true, yeah. Well, they're all married, I think, and have girlfriends. Oh, sorry. Yeah. It was a band we went to see. One of the guys is a listener down in Asbury, the Stone Pony. We hung out with him for a little bit afterwards. We went on the tour bus and stuff, but it wasn't like the rock and roll tour bus that you hear about.

No. Very sedate, very relaxed. I still, even that show, I didn't see anybody take their top off. roll tour bus that you hear about. Very sedate, very relaxed. Even that show, I didn't see anybody take their top off. Yours is the only show it ever happened at. Yeah, no, we have that kind of power. I've seen it on Motley Crue videos, but I didn't think it really did happen in real life. I don't even think it happens at Steel Panther shows anymore. Right? You're laughing, but it was like fucking mind bending. I was shocked, Walt. I got to tell you, I understand your dismay was very unexpected to see a woman.

All she needed was a pole and it would have been a full on burlesque show. She was, she was having a good time up there. It definitely. That must make you happy to see that, right? Oh, I loved it. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. You inspired that. Hell yeah, man.

Yeah, I'm telling you. So laying down those jungle beats, man, you know, you unleash the demon inside. Oh yeah. That's why they banned music in that town in, uh, Footloose. I thought you meant the town that you were playing in. Update, update, music is now banned. Strips a train station. Short Hills Bridge, music is now banned. Middle-aged women, strips, a train station.

Short hills, New Jersey. Yeah, you got to get handed to Walt. There's no short drive up to where you go. No, I mean, I from the bottom of my heart. I wasn't missing it. I was not missing it. And I even told you, like, you don't have to stay for the whole thing. It's going to be late.

Check out some songs. Could you imagine if I had left and then I found out you would have missed that. That grandma was fucking getting her freak on and I missed it. I never would have forgiven myself. I am so glad I stayed to the very, very end. Yeah, you did.

Yeah. Much appreciated, my friend. That's gonna happen at all your gigs, right? Oh, that's a Hit man, it's gonna follow you like you're the death Sports brah It's a guarantee okay, well only one way to find out Maybe we add some more motley Crue to the set. Oh, yeah.

A little Dr. Feelgood may get them up there. Girls, girls, girls, man. Oh, you can't not strip if you're girls, girls, girls. Even the guys will start stripping. Oh, yeah. So what was your set list mostly? Was it 70s rock or? Yeah, I think it was mostly 70s.

We went into the 80s with the Tom Petty stuff. Um, uh, Beatles, Almond Brothers, Stones. Um. Played some Zeppelin? We didn't play Zeppelin. Um, the Zeppelin stuff was a little too, we tried some Zeppelin stuff, but it was a little too hard, those bass lines. I mean, the bass player I had was only playing bass for the last four years or so, uh, we did some who songs or maybe a who song. Yeah.

That's the one where you just fucking took over. Yeah, Long Live Rock. You really, like you elevated yourself on Long Live Rock. Long Live Rock. That's why I was like, they have got to put more songs like that into your setlist so that you can fucking just slay it. Yeah, we had like good times, bad times we were gonna do, but those bass parts were really hard.

Like, Zeppelin's hard to play for a band, especially a band that's been together for three days, you know what I mean? Zeppelin's not easy, you know what I mean? Understandable, understandable. But I'd been playing Zeppelin songs my whole life, so like, you know, we had good times, bad times, we had Misty Mountain Hop at some point,

but they were just a lot for a band that's just like thrown together. Right. So, yeah, man, it was a lot of shit. What are you going to do if somebody comes to you and they're like, we want you, but not the rest of the band? I mean, we're not a band. We're not a band at all. So. One performance, that's it. Yeah.

I'd like to get in a steady gig where I'd love to, look, my ideal thing would be like, okay, once a month, I'd love to play out at a bar or something. That would be fun. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's reasonable. Did you get paid?

No, we didn't get paid. Oh. Didn't get paid. And you probably had to load your own shit in and out. It's true. No roadies. No roadies. No roadies. But you guys should have got paid though, because the amount of people you brought

into there to buy drinks and everything, they should have thrown something your way because you definitely filled that room. Yeah. I think it was just part of this whole Rocktoberfest deal, you know, where it was just a celebration of music in the town. All right. All right. All right. All right.

So, you know, we beat that horse for, it was almost longer than my set talking about this. Just took his shirt off. I love it. I love it. Where are you going this weekend, Walt? I like to live vicariously through your travels. Oh, I'm just going up to Pennsylvania and to spend the birthday with, not my birthday, my

wife's birthday with our daughter who lives in Pennsylvania and Alicia's coming up too. So. Okay. So it's a whole family thing. Yeah. Just going out to dinner. Out in Pennsylvania.

Well, cause I thought it might've been like a romantic Pocono getaway or something. Ooh, no. Heart shape revolving bed. Yeah. Yeah. Martini glass. They closed that place down.

Oh yeah, they closed it like not too long ago. Mount Gary Lodge, is that what you're talking about? Yeah, I think it's closed down. Probably within the past year or so. Yeah. I think they closed it down. Yeah. They, uh, they weren't getting the same, like, you know, same amount of people.

And because they stopped running those commercials, man, those commercials leered, really lurch in with the mirrors on the ceiling, the revolving bed, the heart-shaped jacuzzis. Yeah, you're like, this is the place that's built for me. It's like Austin Powers' bedroom. I remember seeing those commercials when I was like seven years old. I'm like, man, I can't wait to grow up and take someone to that hotel room. I don't know what I'm going to be doing in there, but it looks sexy. Is it just the proximity that the Poconos seem like the most romantic place in the area

to go? Yeah. Like you know when you're younger. Yeah. It's like you went to the Poconos a lot when you were younger too, right? Sure. Why though? It's in the mountains, man.

Is that it? Yeah. There's really not that much there that isn't here. Is it just the mountains? I think you're in the mountains and it's the drive. There's elevation. I think there's some water, right? Is there a river right there? Yeah, a little street. Delaware River. You get out of civilization, you right? Is there a river right there? Yeah, a little stream. Delaware River. You get out of civilization, you know?

Running wild like a banshee. Hmm. Yeah. You check it out, right? I mean, I've been to the Poconos lots of times. Did you find it sexy? Yeah. I just didn't, I just didn't know why though.

I can't, I can't figure out why everybody from this area goes to the Poconos to have a romantic weekend. Ming thinks it's the elevation. The air gets. Scenery. Yeah. Scenery. Get back to your roots, you know, your natural self.

You don't use deodorant up there. You don't shave your underarms. If you're a woman, you get untamed and wild. Is that over here? So it's more about the wilderness now. I think so. All right. Does that make sense?

No. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Uh, let me see. Walt, you're going to be blown away by this. Kmart. Yeah, I saw this. To close its last remaining store in the contiguous U S here's where it is. Now it's the last big box store, but it's not the last Kmart.

Kmart will shutter its location at Bridgehampton Commons Mall in Bridgehampton, New York on October 20th. It's the retailer's only remaining full-size store in the US. And it's confirmed that Kmart is leaving the shopping center. Now this is just another little dig in Kmart. Now is the one in Jersey still open? No, that's gone. That's gone too.

Yeah. And then there's one in like Hawaii or something. I thought it was Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is it? Or is that Sears? I can't remember now. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's on one hand, it's sad, but on the other hand.

It's Miami, but on the other hand, it's just reality is that in 2024, there's just no need for a store of K-Mart. Who needs K-Mart? But it's just, it's just a Walmart really. That's the thing. It's as it's a, there are sales are sagging among rising competition from players such as Costco and Walmart, along with the advent of e-commerce. Yeah, that's really what they're doing. First-commerce. Yeah, that's really what it is.

First and foremost. Yeah, that's really the culprit. Now, where does this money go? Like an $11 billion merger in 2005 with another fading retail brand Sears led by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert failed to stanch the bleeding. Now, you put $11 billion into a merger and then both places go bankrupt. Like where does that money go? The fuck's that money?

CEOs? Did they all just take it in? New jets? Yeah. Did they all just take it to bonuses and shit? I would imagine. Or is it merchandise that's purchased that does never get sold? Or you know, you know.

Oh, maybe they have to turn around and then try to sell it to somebody else. Yeah. Real estate, property, salaries. Yeah. And eat, go quick. Here you go. Bed Bath & Beyond, Rite Aid, CVS, Health, and Foot Locker shot a total of 4,600 stores in 2023, up 80% from the previous year. Now, will we see a time in our lives where people are just not going to the store at all?

No. We'll always see. Yeah, there's always going to be a need for a store of some sort. Because the mall near us closed. And that's almost, I mean, not shocking anymore because you saw the downward trend, but it is like at one point, if you've been like, someday the mom with multiple clothes, because not enough people go to it, you'd be like, get the fuck out of here. I still think though that there will always be a need for a target or a Walmart.

They'll always be, it may not be a target or a Walmart. Like they're going to, both of those stores will have the same fate as a K-Mart. Somebody else will take their place. I don't know when it'll be, may not be in our lifetime, but nothing lasts forever, nothing stays golden. Nothing golden. We learned that in Patreon just earlier. Yeah.

Yeah, thanks Pony Boy. Thanks Pony Boy. Right? I mean, Walmart will have its final day, just like Kmart did. Target will have its final day, just like Sears did. It's inevitable, but something will fill that vacuum though. I don't know what though, a different kind of department store. I hope so.

I think that the, I think we're seeing a lot of things that owned the second half of the 20th century are now becoming obsolete. I think that by the mid 21st century, lots of the stuff that we take for granted as just part of civilization and society will just be remnants of the past. Examples? Stores, you know, even the way we travel cars that stay on the road, laptops, things that we just use, the tools we use in society. They will be gone. So you think laptops will disappear? Yeah. Because, you know, I think there'll be things, and listen, I'm no Ray Bradbury, I don't

know, but I just think like, you know, we sit down, we use our fingers to type at these keyboards to, you know, look online, to type out a treatment or something. And then maybe, you know, mid 21st century, we're just sitting there, you know, thinking we're shoving a USB into our brain and those thoughts are coming out there and then that's transferred somewhere. And cars that stay on the road. What does that mean? Yeah, maybe they're all flying like the Jetsons.

People can't even navigate their cars on the road. No, I think it's like, uh, what was that movie with Tom Cruise, the minority report, right? Yeah. I think maybe it looks like that. I think, I don't know what it is because I'm not that you know I'm not smart enough to know I'm no visionary, but I just think the that technology is moving so fast that by the mid 21st-century the world is sort of unrecognizable the dinosaurs like us

And it is there Is there opportunity then for like is there economic opportunity for people in that existence though, like there was? As more and more technology advances, it seems like there's less and less for people to like, occupations to, you know, like they're disappearing as the technology advances. Well, I think the occupations just change radically, right? Like if you look at a big factory from, you know, the mid-20th century, so many of those jobs are just, have been replaced by a computer or... Automation.

...robot or whatever, and that trend will continue. So you'll need less and less people, I think, to operate those systems and eventually maybe, you know, no people or one person. Again, I don't know. It's a bleak outlook for people in how they will earn an income though. Well, I think it's bleak for people like us who grew up as products of the 20th century, but I think people who are born now are just going to be folded into whatever that world is. But will they be able to carve out an existence like our parents did and we were able to? Or that existence will be unrecognizable. I think it'll be unrecognizable.

I think maybe even the idea of earning money, doing a job and earning money may seem archaic to people of the future. I mean, I think people have now, nobody wants to work, right? Isn't that the, uh, the biggest problem? Walt tried to get a burger over at, uh, IHOP recently. One waitress for all these people. She couldn't get it. Wow. Yeah.

I mean, I, I don't, I, I just, I just know that, you know, even in my TV business that I'm in, I'm starting to feel like a bit of a dinosaur just because there's a whole, you know, a whole revolution that exists, you know, online on YouTube, you know, whatever, TikTok, that's different than the model I grew up on, which was we've got these networks that own the whole world of entertainment and we have companies that produce stuff for those networks and those companies hire me and my friends and we make stuff like comic book men and it goes on television and those were the gatekeepers we needed to keep us employed and they sprinkled some of their proceeds

around to the hardworking bees like me and my friends to get those jobs done and put them on but that whole thing has kind of shifted. Right. So there is, is there any part of you that's like, maybe I should start trying to find out, like make viral videos, put on YouTube, playing drums. I see how it's done, but, uh, I'm hoping, I'm hoping I can, I can, uh, you know, last the next 15 to 20 years, you know, taking the, uh, the, the dying industry I'm in, uh, and still, you know, earning a living that way. Yeah, cause you still have like, yeah, you're talking about networks, but I mean, they've just been replaced by streaming services, right?

It's like, it's kind of the same thing almost. Yeah. There's a whole bunch of jobs already in my business that are being replaced by AI. So what's going to happen in the next few years is like guys like me will hopefully still be able to work because what I do is I'm like the head of a sort of creative vision, right? AKA like, okay, we're going to do a show like comic book men. We need someone to run it. But a lot of the jobs I used to give people, especially in post-production, are going away. They're figuring out how to make AI programs that could do those jobs.

A lot of those entry-level jobs are just going away. It sucks because those entry-level jobs, like let's say you're an associate story producer or an assistant editor, those are tomorrow's showrunners. Those are tomorrow's showrunners. Those are tomorrow's senior editors. But it's almost like the path forward is being stymied in a way because technology is already replacing those jobs. We did a series recently for Discovery and they said, okay, we're going to send it to Focus Group.

We'll get back to you. We're like, when's the Focus Group? We'll have the tape ready for you. And they're like, well, we're going to send it to focus group. We'll get back to you. We're like, when's the focus group will have the tape ready for you. And they're like, well, we can just do whatever we want. And normally you would have to have advanced notice and you book people for the focus group. They're like, no, no, no, we're doing it AI. So the last series I did for Discovery did not have a human focus group. It had an AI focus group.

So they ran the episode through a program and extrapolated reactions from a non-living thing. A non-human. That's wild. It didn't work well. Oh, did it? It's kind of new because what was funny was it was like, so you guys had the focus group go with the robots or whatever it was, right?

And it was like, eh, well. They really had – the program had the opposite opinion of most of us and the execs at the network. So they decided to put just very little weight on the actual AI focus test where in the past, if it was humans, it was at least close to what you thought it would be. This focus group was way off. The characters that we were diminishing, they were like, no, that should be, that's your strongest character. And everyone was like, no, we don't think the robots didn't get it right at this point. So, you know, even- Needs work. Needs work.

Yeah, man. But that's where it's going. And even that was like, okay, there's like 25 people who would have come in, got paid 100 bucks, gotten a pizza lunch that aren't doing that anymore. You know what I mean? And a lot of these jobs are already being replaced by AI. And it's like in the infancy of it, but it'll move fast. So what I'm hoping is that there'll be less and less people on a show. There will be, but I'm hoping that the person who can oversee the automatons is still needed to keep them in line. Things are changing. You guys know me.

I'm kind of a Luddite. I don't follow technology. I don't know too much about it and I'm certainly not the one who's going to predict the future, but just me as a layman looking at it, I just think like in 50 years, the world is a little unrecognizable to people who grew up steeped in 20th century thought. So much so that I can't even imagine what it's going to be, but I know I'm not going to like it. Or be around in 50 years. Or not be around in 50 years. Or not be around. Thank God.

You know what's going to be around though? Will always be around. Do tell. Forever and ever. PrizePix. Oh yeah. PrizePix. Football kickoff 24, baby.

PrizePix is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over 5 million active members. PrizePix is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports unlike other apps. On PrizePix it's just you against the numbers. All you do is pick more or less on a 2 to 6 player stat projection and watch your winnings roll in. What did your Super Bowl pick, Ming? Super Bowl, oh, I just got back from the Bills game.

They're looking really good. So you're picking the Bills to win it all? I'll pick the bills and win it all this year. Why don't you go play, put some money on prize picks? Oh yeah? How do I sign up? Okay, hold on and I'll tell you. First, you can win up to a hundred times your money on prize picks with as little as four correct picks, Ming. Wow. It's the only real money daily fantasy platform with an injury insurance policy so that your lineup stay in play.

Even if one of your players gets injured, if your player leaves in the first half and doesn't return prize picks, your picks are still live. Your parks are still live. Okay. Sorry about that. Uh, price picks invented the flex play, which means you can still cash out. If your lineup isn't perfect, you can double your money, even if you're one of your picks doesn't hit.

So download the prize picks app today and use code TESD and get $50 instantly when you play $5. Let's code TESD on prize picks to get $50 instantly when you play $5. You don't even need to win to receive the $50 bonus. It's guaranteed. Prize picks, run your game. And then we have something else, which is very sexy, Brian, I shall. Ooh.

What do you got? Very sexy advertiser. I like to turn down the lights for this one. Bluecho. Bluecho is putting their money where their mouth is by giving you a month free. Bluecho is an online service that delivers the same active ingredients as Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra at a fraction of the cost and in a chewable form. And the process is simple. Sign up at bluecho.com, consult with one of their licensed professional medical providers and once you're approved, you'll receive your prescription within days.

Bluetooth tablets are made in the USA, Ming. And prepared and shipped directly to your door. Great. Awesome. The best part is all done online. That means no visits to the doctor's office, no awkward conversations and no waiting in line at the pharmacy. And you can take them anytime, day or night so you can plan ahead or be ready whenever an

opportunity arises. So you think you might not need it, but at our age, we're not getting those boners like we did when we were 18 or 20, you know? So you just take this as a little supplement. It's almost like a supplement. Right, right. It's not. Legally, it's not.

So run anybody holding to that. Grandma jumps up, takes off her shirt, bam, blue chip. Yeah, you're ready to go. You pop a blue chew in a half hour or so. How long does it take from the time you take it until you're rock hard and ready for action? I think it's about a half hour, I've read. It doesn't say here, but I'm pretty sure.

Okay, cool. Yeah. Okay. He's a generous lover that's been on the show. Sure, sure. Try to be. With blue chew, men everywhere are excited to see the postman because when your package has arrived, your package has arrived.

Good. They always say the first impressions are important, but what about lasting impressions? And they also say there's nothing sexier than confidence and Bluechew can help you give confidence where it counts. Bluechew wants men rock hard. They said that's their mission. They will not stop until every man is bricked up. Wow.

Until every tent is pitched, till every rod is raised. So discover your options at Bluetooth.com. And we've got a special deal for listeners. Try Bluetooth free when you use the promo code T E S D a checkout, just pay $5 shipping, that's Bluetooth.com promo code T E S D to receive your first month free. Visit Bluetooth.com for more details and important safety information. And we thank Bluetooth for sponsoring this podcast. details and important safety information. And we thank BlueChu for sponsoring this podcast.

I mean, talking about like, you know, years ago, I feel like Brian could have had a, a nice career in radio. Oh, you think so? I mean, that was impressive watching you do that read. Oh, thank you. Yeah. All right.

Hopefully somebody buys it. Yeah. You missed her calling. I mean, I don't need the BlueChu after listening to him. No, I'm all right. Laying down that BlueChu read. We're both calling. I mean, I don't need the blue chew after listening to him. No, I'm laying down that blue chew reed. We're both rock hard over here, man. Hey-o.

Don't say that. No, say that you need blue chew. Oh, yeah, well, I would be rock hard if I had the blue chew. Right. Is there some under the couch behind me here that I can run around for under the cushions? behind me here that I can't wait to run for under the cushions. There is a segment that we used to do years and years ago called Suicide of the Week. Bringing it back for this week. Really? Yeah. First time in years now.

I'm not familiar with this segment. Arrests made after suicide pod used for the first time by a US woman. An American woman became the first person to take her own life in the new suicide pod in Switzerland, Walt. Didn't we just talk about Switzerland? Oh no, that was a fake counter. Sweden, Sweden, but what's the difference? It was given a chilling command by the Morbid machine before she took her last breaths. The machine says, if you want to die, press this button. The machine allegedly asked a 64 year old woman who has not yet been publicly named

to press the button that would euthanize her. Then the 3D printed chamber called Sarco, short for sarcophagus, floods its chamber with nitrogen gas causing the user's oxygen levels to plummet to deadly levels and it usually knocks them out and then death occurring within 10 minutes. The pod comes with an emergency exit button if you change your mind. Has not been approved for use in America. But it has been in Switzerland? It has been in Switzerland. Yeah, their laws are a little looser over there.

Switzerland is one of the few countries where foreigners can travel to legally end their lives through assisted suicide, which must not involve a doctor but can include outside help. The law states that the person must take their life without external assistance from a doctor and those who help them to die do so not for a self-serving motive. Like you're going to get some of their insurance or some shit like that. So is Sarco a free service? I don't think so. I think you have to pay. So somebody's then like- Profiting? Somebody's profiting though. Somebody's making some money.

There was a second follow-up article. Wait, so can you use this if you're just like miserable or do you have to have a legitimate like terminal cancer or dementia or Parkinson's or whatever? I think it has to be some sort of like real life. Like the quality of your life is so low now, regardless of what it is. I think depression. There was a lady, I was reading about a lady who had crippling depression. Did she use Sarco? No, she was talking about doing it though.

She hasn't done it yet. I just find it weird that they would playfully name something. So like Sarco. Sarco. Yeah. And give it a name that like almost- Like give it like googly eyes and stuff. Yeah. That's the future.

That's the mascot. That's the future we're looking at. It's a grim future. That's the way you were just talking about. Automated death. But this, um, there could be ulterior motives, according to the second article that I saw, an American woman who was meant to be the first person to use it, uh, accused, backed out and accused the company of being behind it being heartless and exploiting her for publicity and trying to

get her life savings. Her allegations surfaced after Swiss police on Tuesday arrested four people and the news broke that the sarco capsule had been used for the first time. So I guess it's not legal if they just got arrested for it. She was this lady who was supposed to – she was a wheelchair-bound Alabama native but she claimed she was being taken advantage of by last resort and two of its executives. It's called them deeply heartless people. She suffered from kidney disease and a debilitating nervous system illness called polyneuropathy. She said she cashed in her $40,000 life savings to travel to Switzerland and made end her life with the help of the organization. But once she arrived, she was inundated by a media circus and was allegedly made to conduct

embarrassing interviews as publicity for the organization ahead of her scheduled suicide date. date, you can't, I guess you can't have, um, some sort of, like it can't work out for you financially, right? If you're doing the suicide pod, you can't like make a ton of money off it without looking bad. I would think so. I mean, this is grim. Yeah, I mean, it looks like it's all for profit, suicide for profit. It really does, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's commercial does, right? Yeah. Commercialize, yeah. Yeah.

She also accused the two executives of pressuring her to pay for some of their personal expenses, including groceries and restaurant bills during the media tour. And she said that at one point, one of them said, you're going to die anyway. You don't need your money anymore. And then she backed out. You know what I think they would, in a just world, Sarko would turn, spit her out, and then f**king gobble up those two assholes. Yeah.

That's how you'd like to see that movie end, at a drive-in movie theater. Yeah. Sarko, the revenge of Sarko. Well, one of them was the revenge of Sarko. Sarko gets a conscience. You have to f**king become self-aware. One of the executives was among four people taken into custody on Tuesday over the other woman's American woman's assisted suicide. What would the-

I just questioned, it goes right back to my first point. I just questioned the person who creates this device and then playfully names it Sarco. That to me says everything about that human being. How seriously they're taking people's deaths. Yes. Look, check out my Sarco, short for sarcophagus. That right there is a statement in itself. Yeah, I don't, did you want to see the pod? It looks pretty streamlined.

It looks kind of cool. Like a, like a race car almost. Dude, it looks like a giant shoe. It does look like a shoe. Like a clog. Dutch clog. Yes, you go in there and I guess they put it out in the wilderness. So it's like, you're not dying in like with fluorescent lights above you and

all shitty and stuff. It's peaceful. You're in nature. Yeah. Right. Like a Mount Airy Lodge. Like Mount Airy Lodge on the Bocconos. So this is the, the segment. This is, you're bringing shitty and stuff. It's peaceful. You're in nature. Right, like Mount Airy Lodge. Like Mount Airy Lodge on the Boconos. So this is the segment. You're bringing this segment back. The suicide segment's coming

back. We're testing out the waters. Just dipping our toe in. I don't know if it's going to become a weekly thing. The fans have been clamoring to get this. When was the last time you did this? Oh, God, 2010? Yeah, it was... Wow, like, I'm talking about like, 47 or something?

It was like in the very, like like the infancy stages of TSD. You're a curator, look that up. And this is part of the comedy show here. We're still trying to figure it out. Yeah. Okay. Hey, were you happy to see all those explosive pagers? You must have been, right? Oh, I don't delve into the world of international politics, guys.

No. He's trying to work in media. I talk about rock and roll and sports bras coming off. That's not safe these days anywhere either. You never know. What? Sports bras coming off? Talking about ladies and their sports bras coming off.

They took it off willfully. In the most respectful way. I told you, man. Hard curve. What's up with the Maverick? Quickly step in. What's going on with the Maverick? Change the subject.

Oh my God. What's up with Maverick lately? I haven't seen you in a while. I've been traveling. I had a couple of weeks off. I'm curing up for a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks off from what? From CUNS.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a little bit of a fan of CUNS. I'm a fan of CUNS. I'm a fan you in a while. Yeah, I've been traveling. I had a couple weeks off. I'm gearing up for a... A couple weeks off from what? From Cannes. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had two movies open up with one week with each other. Two? I know you were in the 430 movie. What else?

Like two movies that you're in? Yeah. What are these movies you're in? The first one was Kevin says 430 movie where I played a angry Chinese restaurant owner, which was fun. Which you saw, right? Yes. You saw the whole movie?

Yeah, very sweet. Very unexpected. There's no crazy, vulgar, sucking 37 dicks. It's just a very sweet love letter. They don't make a porno. There's no walrus. Yeah, very sweet love letter to the days we yearn for. And I think that you too, as well, Brian Schultz, telling from how you're getting so worked up about these cars that don't stay on the road anymore. This is a time when the cars did stay on the road. Yeah. I like those times.

Yeah. But it was sweet. It was nice. What was the other movie you're in? About a couple years ago, I was at Kansas Film Festival, made a filmmaker who I befriended. As we were out drinking that night, I came out working in a movie. I have a one-day role as an Asian mob boss. We're shooting in Albuquerque in February. Would you be interested? And

yeah, I jumped at that. I was like, hell yeah, man. So you got out to Albuquerque on your own dime for this? No, no, they flew me out. Oh, okay. I thought this was a real small indie movie. No, I mean, independent, but they had a budget and yeah, four months. Yeah. The festival was in October, four months. Yeah, the festival was in October, four months later. You got to be a fucking good actor to pull off being an Asian mob boss with your stature. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying it in a bad way. I'm just saying because you're kind of a short guy.

Hey guys, I'm the boss. You call yourself the lollipop guild. I'm not saying, because I mean, because you That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.

That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.

That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. I had a fur coat and a sunglass. It was a comedic role, but- Oh, it's comedy.

Yeah, it's comedy. Okay, so it's a little bit- Yeah, well, it wasn't like whacking people and ordering kids. I thought this was a drama. So, that was like that. The comedy, it's a little bit more easy to accept somebody in a... somebody that doesn't look like Tony Soprano. You think Mobb Boss, you think fucking, you know. Ruthless. Yes.

Yeah, Yakuza. Yeah. Like somebody you would be afraid of if you saw him on the street. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I think you would see me and start laughing. Did you have a lot of lines?

It was, you know, not a ton, but it was more than I usually have, yeah. The meaty role? I feel it was pretty meaty, yeah. How many screens did it open on? It played, it just played at the New York Latino film festival, the Filmmakers Latino. So it's seeking a buyer now, but it's a good movie. It's called The Unexpected. And yeah, I hope everybody gets to see it soon. Are you in the guild? I am now. Yeah. I had to join the union because of the 430 movie.

Really? Yes. So now you had to join the Union because of the 430 movie really. Yes So you know you got to pay the Union dues and everything dues. I had to pay the the joining fee, which was not cheap Joining fees a lot. It's a lot. Yeah Guild fucks me over constantly. Well, first of all, they thought you were dead, right? I could I got some sort of statement that I got all this money. Yeah, not a lot of money, you know But you know chunk and I had to contact the guild again and be like, you know, I didn't get any money I've got the checking. Yeah, they're like well and they did some research like yeah, we have a couple You know, we have some money here for you, but it says here that yeah, you were deceased

I was like, this is the second time this happened. I go, I'm fucking dodging bullets, you know, that I didn't even know about. Cheating death. Yeah. So they had to release the money again. They said the same thing to me, but they said you moved. It wasn't about me dying. Do you think that they're doing everything they can to get these people their money? I think they can make sure they get like Al Pacino gets his fucking check. They ain't losing that shit. Right. Yeah. Yeah, but like us't losing that shit. Right. Yeah.

But like us. They know he's alive. Yeah. Throw out a couple of whoas, Walter. Get your check. Give me all you got. Give me all you got. That's it.

Ming's got the right idea. But I do think it's a little fishy that they keep fucking. Twice. Yeah. They keep trying to stop sending me my money that I'm owed. Right. What do you think's happening? Do you think there are other guys named Walt Flanagan that are dying? They keep fucking, yeah, they keep trying to stop sending me my money that I'm owed. And what do you think's happening? Do you think there are other guys named Walt Flanagan that are dying?

I don't know what's going on. It's a real mystery though that this is two times this has happened now. Someone's out to get you. Somebody, yeah, somebody in Hollywood does not want like me. You're on a list. Blacklist. Yeah, you're in black. That's why you haven't acted in a while.

I don't think that's the reason. I had a list of communist sympathizers, Walt Flanagan is on that list. Do you call yourselves, are you now officially change your name to Ming the Maverick Chen? I'm not listed in the S-Sag as Ming the Maverick Chen, it's Ming Chen. Do you add it to your bio though, actor? I'm not an actor. I am not. You keep acting.

I know, I am not an actor. I tell you what, you are really fucking good in that, in the- Thank you, yeah. I thought you texted me. I was like, wow, man, you really, you know, I, listen, Wolf Langen is not throwing compliments around at all, very lightly. That's right. But he texted me, he's like, I thought you were really good.

I thought you said, I killed it. I'm going to see it now. That's right. But he texts me, he's like, I thought you were really good. I thought he said I killed it. I'm gonna see it now. You look sweaty. You know, like where you should be, because you're in a hot kitchen. So you look great and the way you delivered your lines, perfect.

Thank you. Yes, thank you. That is high praise. I think you're thinking of Ken Jeong. Yeah. Oh yeah, you were Mike the manager, Mike? I was not Mike the Manager Mike, no. When you jumped out of that truck naked.

Yeah, you were great, which I would do it. He beat me to it though, man. Yeah, right? All right, yeah. Hey, I wanted to ask you a question. Yes. Manager Mike in the 430 movies. Yes. Was that named after Mike?

Mike Sapsack? Yeah. No, I don't. I mean, it makes sense, right? What, didn't he call himself Manager Mike? He did at one point. So yeah, I think that was like mean, it makes sense, right? What, didn't he call himself Manager Mike? He did at one point, so yeah. Do you think that was like some sort of nod to Mike?

I mean, everything led me to believe it because Manager Mike in the movie was an asshole and ... Right. Right. Sure. I mean, what a nod. Who thinks dodging that like it's a pager question? Sure. I mean, what I'm not- Ming's dodging that like it's a pager question.

Don't take the bait, Ming. Don't take the bait. You pay homage to perhaps Mike Sapsic, but you don't put him in the movie as well, even in a bit for- I don't know. I could not figure it out because it was such a unique name for a guy. Damn. Mike? Well, he's Asian Mike. I don't know. I just thought maybe it was a nice little like, you know.

The homage. Yeah, homage to Mike. I mean. To the real manager, Mike. Could have called him manager zap. Could have like, yeah. I don't know. I would have.

It's one of the questions I would have asked if I get the chance. I feel like if I get the chance I will. You know what? I will ask him when I see him in three weeks at Chronicon, which is what I'm gearing up for. Ask him if he was, if manager Mike was inspired by the real manager Mike. I will. I will ask him that at his Q&A.

I'll get up to the mic, microphone. And let me ask you this, were there any characters in the movies that were representative of a young Briar Walt? No, this was an era where- We weren't around yet. Mike Belicos and Ernie O'Donnell were in Kevin's life. Yeah, it was two high school friends before they met. Yeah, I know Ernie, yeah.

Yeah, you gotta see it. It was good. Yeah, good movie, really good movie.. Yeah, you got to see it. It was good. Yeah, good movie. Really good movie. All right. I will definitely see it. Certainly now that I know Ming-Chan is one of the stars. Yeah.

Yeah, that was fun. Now, Kevin just texted me about a year ago. He's like, hey, how's your Chinese? I was like, it's not great. But I told him I knew enough Chinese to order drinks at a bar, find the bathroom and flirt with Asian women. And he was like, all right, good enough for my purposes. Very cryptic text though. And then a couple of weeks later, he revealed that he had a part for me in his movie.

It was the line is in Chinese though. Nice. And yeah, I play angry Chinese restaurant owner that yells out the female lead to stop goofing off in Chinese. I was really hoping that you're going to reappear later in the movie. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had my fingers crossed. Yeah. Well, now I got that sweet SAG, you know, union money. Did you get that money yet? Yeah, I got that money. You got paid? Yeah.

There you go. It's a pretty paycheck for a one day role. Yeah. It's not the first time you've been cast as a crazed store owner. No, no. It was back in 1997, Brian and Michelle. I was cast oddly enough, or maybe not so oddly, as a angry comic book shop owner in a movie called Vulgar written and directed by Brian Johnson. Oh yes. I saw, man, I haven't seen Vulgar

since I started shooting the show at The Stash. I saw Vulgar. Probably me neither. Yeah. I haven't seen it in some time. Yeah, I'll have to watch it again. Yeah, it's good media role as well, which kind of came true to life later on.

Mm-hmm. How so? Oh yeah, and got to be in Comic Win, where working a comic book job. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. I thought you were talking about clowns. Clowns?

Killing rapists. Oh, and- I thought you meant that came to be. I was like, I haven't seen that news story. Yeah. No. If there's one thing I know about Mavericks, Walt. Yeah? They love Raycon. Oh, yeah. That was a smooth segue, baby.

You may have heard us talk about Raycon's everyday earbuds before and thought, hey, the same audio quality I expect from the big guys, but at half the price sounds pretty good. But if you haven't pulled the trigger on a pair of Raycons, now is the time to check them out because they just launched their upgraded model of the best-selling everyday earbuds. With Raycon's upgraded everyday earbuds, Now you also get active noise cancellation, ergonomic design and multi-point connectivity that lets you pair with two devices at once.

They're available in a variety of vibrant new colors to complement any and all skin tones. I don't care what color you are. That's how diverse Raycon is. They're for everyone. They're for everyone. Yes. They have optimized gel tips for.

I'm sorry. I'm going to give them the skin tone that they cannot match. I'm sorry. I got some. Sunday Jeff? Sunday Jeff. Should they have like ivory white? But it's not white white.

Jeff, Sunday Jeff white? That's what they call it. Yeah. Is that on the Crayola box now? They have a three customized customizable sound styles and awareness mode, new active noise cancellation, new quick charge function, new multi-point connectivity, new weatherproof and or sweat resistant. Uh, I use them at night to listen. I listen to, uh, anything that keeps the ringing out of my ears.

So, uh, yeah, you can sleep comfortably with them. I love that's your selling point. Yes. Did you pick up on sweat resistance? How often do your earlobes sweat? Well, if you're working out. Yeah.

Your earlobes will sweat? Well, the inside of your ear. Really? The inside of your ear sweat? I never took notice of it, but I would guess they do. I don't think there's any sweat ducts in there. I mean, I think there's sweating, little pores throughout all your skin. If you you have pores. And then if you have a, if you have a rake on

your ear, yeah, it forms a seal. It's going to sweat. Yeah. Forms a seal. Yeah. With your, with your ear, right? So you can hear. Yeah.

It's noise, uh, active noise cancelation. Active new, active noise cancellation. And what you're saying, Brian, is when you're sleeping in them, you don't feel them annoying you. Is that true? I don't feel them, yeah. Really? Yeah.

Huh. I like it. You know this guy is very sensitive. Yeah. Yeah. So if you've been wanting to check out Raycons or truly is no better time, their upgraded model will blow you away. Raycon offers a 30 day happiness guarantee.

So what are you waiting for? Go to buyraycon.com slash T E S D today to get 15% off your Raycon order plus free shipping. That's right, you'll get 15% off and free shipping at buyraycon.com slash tesd. That's buyraycon.com slash tesd. I mean he is like an old school pitch man. I know. Go on now. I mean Casey Kasem has got nothing on Brian Johnson.

Holy cow. Look at him talking into that can, man. Who is that dude that was doing the Vegematic? The Vegematic, remember? Oh, the guy who died, you know, the Slap Chop guy? Ron Popeil? Is he still around? Or the other guy. I can't remember his name. Yeah. Yeah. Not Ron Popeil.

Who is this? Steve Goodman now. Vegematic pitch man. Let's see. I know you're talking, I can't remember his name. No, it is Ron Popeel. It is Ron. Okay. Ron Popeel hawked a Vegematic and made the world, then it cuts off. So I can't see it.

Yeah. I didn't think it was Ron Popeel. I thought it was that other guy, the slap chop guy. Yeah, the slap chop guy. I think Brian has sold more Raycon than Ron Popeel moved to Vegematics. Is that right? Has Raycon seen it uptick since Johnson's been doing it? I mean, yeah, they-

They signed for, I think it was the longest term contract with wall, like for ads, a 10-year ad commitment with us. Wow, you're- Is that right? Yeah. You're like Dak Prescott over here. I knew I was witnessing magic. You're like a long- money. Well, it's not upfront because there are stipulations. Okay. We can fuck it up if we say the wrong thing. They'd be crazy to give us guaranteed money.

Yeah, that's happened before. Yeah. Hello, Burrow. Well, if I had a product to hawk, I would hire Brian Johnson to sell it. I mean, I am amazed at these reads right now. Yeah, the guy can sell, man. No steak nights for this guy, man. No. He's a winner. Cadillac.

Yeah, Slap Chop was Vince Offer. Yeah, Vince. He was crackhead. He was also ShamWow. All right. ShamWow. He's no longer with us, right? I don't know.

I think he was a crackhead in real life. You're very close to it, Walt, because he got arrested in 2009 with a 26-year-old prostitute after a physical altercation. The police reported that the women had bitten onto Offer's tongue and refused to let go, at which point Offer punched her in the face and left with lacerations and fractures. They later released photos of the bloody offer in a hotel room in the battered woman, and they declined to press formal charges against either person. Okay, so I was wrong. He had none do a crack. No, that was the Mr. Pillow guy was a former crackhead.

Oh yes. What was that guy's name? Yeah, the Pillow, right? That's what it's called, those pillows. Yeah, my pillow. My pillow. That guy, you know, very publicly declares he was a crack head and a serious drug addict and then found a God, Jesus, and uh. They made pillows.

Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell. Lindell, yeah. Is that who you're thinking of? Uh, no, I think a lot of pitch men actually go crazy. So yeah, so. A lot of crack in the pitch man world is there.

So Brian is flirting with a very dangerous game right now. Right, right. That's why I don't read the ads. Ride the line. Brian is flirting with a very dangerous game right now. Right, right. That's why I don't read the ads. Ride the line, Brian. Ride the line. I'm a sacrifice.

Oh, wait a second. This is just from two days ago. Mike Lindell has hit back against claims that his new MyPillow price is inadvertently linked to neo-Nazi propaganda. We really had to talk about Hitler at some point. Okay. So, MyPillow posted an advertisement that marked the pillows down from its sell price, 2999 to an even lower price of 1488.

Well, 88. The number 88 is used for shorthand for Heil Hitler as an H, the eight letters of the eighth, the eighth letter of the alphabet, the number 14 refers to the 14 word slogan by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist group, the order. Wow. Lane, who served, died in prison after serving 190 years for racketeering and violation of civil rights said.

People are doing Nazi algebra to fucking come up with that. Yeah, really. Yeah. Well, listen, as a businessman, Walt, it's good for you to know not to price anything at 14.88 apparently. We have a Black Friday promotion coming up that I was going to price everything at 14.88. Well now you know. Thank God.

You dodged a bullet baby. Oh my God. Hile these prices. Lindell told the Post that 88 cents price point is commonly used by some companies as Walmart. He's like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well everyone's doing 99. Right.

Let's do 88. He may want to take that down to 77. He's saying that attacks on his price point were retribution for his election claims. The whole thing is another attack on Mike Lindell and my pillow because I want to go to paper ballots hand counted in our country. Just sell pillows, bro. Yeah, stop talking. I mean, he can crack and make all that money.

He expanded. He's selling slippers apparently. Yeah. Yeah. Stick to that. All made in the USA though, right? I think so. What's going on here?

She's got nothing on Brian Johnson. What's she selling? Listen to that. Well, anyway, I just bought a new bed by the way. Oh yeah. Yeah. We went Tempur-Pedic. What does that mean?

It's the foam, body conforming foam bed. Yes. And, uh, we spent about two hours at the mall in the Tempur-Pedic store, hopping from bed to bed, snuggling, getting cozy, spooning. We did a little spooning. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. And you picked a good one? Well, the jury's out because we, I somehow convinced my wife to pick the absolute firmest model that they sell. The salesman was trying to convince me to buy the one under the absolute firmest, like sort of like the medium firm. But I was stuck between the firm. You think I'm going to have a commie?

And medium firm. I ain't no Panko. I'm not lighting the fucking feet. That's right. I didn't like the insinuation. Look at you. I'm a drummer. Like I can't handle full firm? I'm not lighting the fucking feet. That's right.

I didn't like the insinuation. Look at his wrist. I'm a drummer. Like I can't handle full firm? Well, if you've got two ice packs on them. But what happened was we're going back and forth. I'm trying to convince my wife. She's like kind of wants the medium firm.

I want the full firm. But then I was like about to cave for the medium firm and then on the sly, my wife went to the bathroom and I asked the salesman, I'm like, all right, so what are we talking about? What are we looking at here? He's like, well, the medium firm is $5,000 and the full firm is $3,000. So I was like, all right, buddy, thanks a lot. Thank you for that intel. She comes back and like, I got to tell you, babe, I'm really feeling this firm. And he says it'll loosen up in about 90 days and we'll regret not getting the medium firm.

Dude, are you crazy? So anyway, I got the full firm. Okay. It's really firm. It's like this table firm, but in 90 days, I'm hoping it relaxes. So you just made that up in 90 days. And now you're hoping it comes true. Oh, okay.

No, I'm a firm guy too. I love a firm. Yeah. Yeah. I like the mattress to be very, very firm. Yeah. This is very, very, very firm. Like a bus stop fucking bench.

Yeah. But I think it's going to ease in and I think we're going to hit a sweet spot at the 90 day mark, but I must say in my defense that, you know, my wife's got some hip arthritis from running all those years. But she said since I got this new bed in the house, she wakes up in the morning and no hip pain. Does it move the bed? No.

No. Oh, so it doesn't have like you can set up and she like. No, you could get that feature, but we didn't get that feature. That was another couple of months. For all that money, you didn't get that? No. Geez. But we haven't bought a new bed in well over 20 years. And this was like, really, we needed it.

It was all sunk in. Does it cool? Does one side cool, the other side heats? No, I didn't get it. You could get that. I didn't get any features. I told the guy straight up, temperpetic, I don't need any of the special features.

What a bed. I want a bed. But I couldn't believe the price difference between the medium firm and the firm. I don't know why there was such a difference. Yeah, you would think the firmer it is, the more expensive it is. Right, more foam, I guess. I don't know. I don't know.

Now, does that come with a headboard and all that stuff? Is that just the mattress and box spring? Just, no box spring. Oh, no box springs either? No, no. Just the mattress. They say just slip some blue chew underneath the mattress. Oh, yeah.

That'll loosen it up in 90 days. That'll make it firmer. Yeah, man. Oh, 90 days. It'll be real loose. Is there a return policy? 90 days, it'll be real loose. Return policy? Yeah, there's a return policy. I think you have maybe a year or six months to return it, but yeah, we could still return

it. Are you thinking that it might be returned? I initially was thinking that I might return and go for the medium firm, but then I'm like, if I return this, I need to give them another $2,000 and I'm not doing that. I will get used to this bed. Do you think if you sleep on it more, you'll break it in more? Yes, that's what he said. So you should be trying to like take a lot of naps, try to break that bed in.

I'm tossing and turning baby. I'm jumping up and down on this thing. There are other ways to break that. Yeah, you got to hit it. You got to hit it every night. The bench christened it yet? Yeah. The bench been christened.

It's not every night. Nice. No, I was – I'm not on the Bluetooth just yet. Not yet. Not yet. According to Brian's pitch, that's all you need. That better be broken in in 60 days.

Oh, yeah. Anyway, that's my bed advice to you guys. If you like a firm, I'll tell you, this thing is phenomenal. Yeah, we have a bed that we paid for a while ago. There's no way we're upgrading because we have the bed that goes up, one side goes up, one side goes down. Yeah, so we're definitely not in the market for a bed probably until I probably need railings on the side. Hospital bed? Yeah.

What size bed do you go with at the Flanagan House? Queen. Queen. Yeah, we're queen bed people too. We should have got a king. I don't think so. The bedroom's too small. I don't think so. I don't like a king.

What's wrong with a king? Well, you're a much bigger fellow than I am. Yeah. I like a king. I feel like I get lost and I feel like she's so far away from me on the king. You needy bastard, aren't you? Yeah, but I got two dogs though. I like to have a little contact. You guys got a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, so that's why I'm like maybe we should have got the king.

Yeah. You got two dogs. You're like six foot two, whatever the hell you are. Yeah. Plus I got a dog on the bed now and a cat. The dog sleeps at her feet and the cat sleeps on top of her. Okay. You got a lot going on in your bed. You guys need kings at the very minimum. You need king beds. You guys got a lot going on in your bed. You guys need kings at the very minimum you need king beds. You guys got whole villages living on your beds. Our bedroom is so small though that we couldn't, it would look comical like a clown bed. Like all of a sudden clowns are going to come out in front of you to mattress and shit. By the way, I forgot to tell you Walt, you know, you sent me the videos of Teddy the

dog. Your property is beautiful back there. It's nice back there, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I thought the same. Wow, what an oasis. It's Swampland. It's Swampland though. Oh, it doesn't look like Swampland. It's beautiful. Yeah, my wife hired a landscaper and she made it the way that she wanted it. It looks good. Yeah. We're happy. She's happy with it. You know what? I would have been happy with Swampland. Yeah. It didn't matter to me. It didn't matter how nice it looked.

It's the kind of guy you are. Yeah. Low maintenance. Low maintenance. It didn't matter to me. It didn't matter how nice it looked. It's the kind of guy you are. Yeah. Low maintenance. Low maintenance. It was great at the Picnic Olympics, man. Oh, yeah. That backyard. Oh, that's what-

Can't play the Picnic Olympics there. The first one, the one that you were at, the second one, but the first Picnic Olympics was in my backyard, but I don't think we could have it there ever again with all the landscaping. Right. Yeah. Right. The famous clip where Gidham falls down. Yeah. Yeah. It's collapsing. Yeah. Oh my God, man. We had a blast at that Picnic Olympics.

Yeah. I would do that again. I love that. We're probably, well, it's too dangerous at this point to keep going back. Every time you go back there to do something like that, you're taking a big risk on someone getting major injuries or worse. It's true. Could you imagine if someone died at the picnic Olympics? That'd be amazing. As long as it wasn't me. Well, it could happen, man.

So we could have a heart attack right there. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're at the age where you can't discount that some major shit could go on. Definitely. But at the same time, you can't live your life like that.

Then you'd be like, I better not exercise because I might have a heart attack. If somebody wants to rally and make their own like picnic Olympics not on our fucking dime, right? We're responsible. That's true. I am NOT gonna be the guy that's gonna be held responsible You require a doctor's note everyone's got to get a physical, you know Get him isn't going to the doctor to play in the Olympics. Well I think that's about it. I did have some stuff I was going to advise you guys on how to stay happily married but. Oh what do you got?

We have no time for that? I don't know. I'm at a new phase in my marriage, Brian. We're empty nesters now. I need some advice. You're actually going to start giving marital advice. You think you've crossed over that, you feel you've crossed over a certain timeframe where now you can start giving good advice. I can give some helpful hints to people.

Confidently, it's crossed the four-year mark. Yeah, man. Do we have time for this? Yeah. Give us at least one. All right. Well, this is actually, this is just something I looked up because I was like- Oh, I thought these were your Brian Johnson's old timey marital advice. This is, this is married men, uh, conversations. If you're a married man, conversation starters for couples. Oh, I need this.

Yeah. Let me get out my pen. Uh, I'm going to be really surprised. She's tired of hearing about get them. She's tired of hearing me complaining about fucking get them. All right. No more get them. That's on your list.

This is the kind of shit I would never, like, if she asked me this, I would be like, I want a divorce. Okay. She's like, uh, what is one action that your spouse has done in the past that has made you feel most loved? Like this is what I guess, like you would be asking your wife or she would be asking you. Uh, describe what love is to you.

Oh God, this is just too corny. This is painful, isn't it? Yeah. It's just too full of fucking sugary. When you were growing up, how did you see love expressed in your home? Like if she asked me any of these questions, I'd be like, are you high? What the fuck's the matter with you? Yeah, there are so many though. And then there's 75 of them.

Oh God. 75. What song do you want to serenade me to right now? Do it. If you were a musical artist, who would you be and why? Oh my God. These are like the worst banter questions ever. Yeah. Like if any of these came up in the banter, the person would probably get fired. Right. That came up with it. You're right. These are grounds for divorce. Yeah, that's what this is. What's your favorite form of non-sexual physical touch?

Hand job. That doesn't count as sex, right? Yeah, it's just everything like that. That's why I didn't think this would take too long. No, but it's funny. It's funny to mock. I don't think it's great advice. Well, how long have you been? Well, you're 30 years now?

1994, 30 years. 30 years. 23 years. You said empty nester, huh? Yeah. How's that feel? It feels like we accomplished something. We raised them right, got them out of the house. Did it feel very, for for me it was very...

it was a bit traumatizing. Yeah? Yeah. Wow. I felt a real sense of loss and had to get used to it. I'm used to it now, but initially when it happened, it was to get used to. I'm used to it now, but initially when it happened, it was hard to get over. It was hard to accept. It was hard to realize that everything that I enjoyed about having a family was really... Those stages, those kid stages, they're gone and ain't never coming back. Until you have grandkids. Yeah. Right? Right. Yeah. I don't know if I'm traumatized,

Walt. It's very new. It's very quiet. It is. I miss them around the house. But yeah, we've yet to, it hasn't really taken full shape yet. It's really new. If you guys want to increase the volume at your house, Sage can come over anytime. Yeah, all right. Always welcome. It's unending. It is fucking ceaseless. The talking to herself and the hooting and hollering and they're like, woo. She does wrestling, so she watches Ric Flair and she's out of her wooing and she's playing wrestling games.

I've never seen somebody have such a good time by themselves. Yeah. It's unreal. No, it sounds great. And I will let you know if the quiet ever gets to the point where I want to inject some lively hooting and hollering. Yeah. She's your gal.

Yeah. Love the enthusiasm. I also love that she's bugging the crap out of you. It's great. It's not me as much as Marybeth, but like, cause I'm so used to it after all these years, like I barely hear it, but Marybeth still is relatively new to it, I guess. She's like, can you please close the bedroom door? Cause like Sage's door is closed. She's all the way at the end of the hall. Our door is closed. You can still hear it. Yeah.

Imagine how eerily quiet it would be though. You do on weekends cause she'll go see her mom sometimes and it feels, it doesn't feel empty, it feels too quiet, it doesn't feel right. It does. It does. There is a feeling, like especially at night, like there's nothing, nothing's going on, there's no one, there's no one around. It's just a weird, weird feeling. I will tell you though that like a real nice gift was getting Teddy. I feel like me and my wife need something to

nurture and Teddy was very, needy is not the right word, but he needs somebody like around him at all times. It seems like it would be a bad thing, but for us it felt like we needed it too. We needed him to need us. So it's been nice. Yeah. That's great to hear. Yeah. You saw him today, right?

I got to see Teddy today. He was very happy to see you. It seemed like you remembered me, right? He did. I didn't see it that often. I only met that dog a couple of times, but. He definitely was excited to see you and was trying to kiss you and try to get up on you.

Yeah. He's a sweet dog. Oh, he looks fantastic. Yeah, that worked out, man. Yeah. It's costing Walter bundle, but he's nice dog. And listen, he got the dog for free. That's right. That was an expensive dog. He doesn't drop like 10 grand on that dog.

I would never complain about like his vet bills or whatever the special food he's got to eat or anything. That's a small price to pay for what he's injected into our life though. So, you know, I never bitch about that. I'm very glad to hear it. Yeah, I'm very happy and very grateful that you thought of me when you did. Yeah. Because I can imagine, because it really wasn't your dog or anything. So it's for you to step in and take control of that was- And vouch.

Yeah, man. Well, I knew it was something that had to be dealt with. My wife's aunt was dying and I knew it was just one more thing they were all talking about. I heard them talking about it, you know, but I knew Flanagan was a fan of the Frenchies and I knew he lost a dog and it seemed like, you know, everything was coming together and I knew if the Flanagans wanted him, it would be the perfect home. And I told Faye there was, oh, she goes, oh, well, my cousin spoke to, I said, tell your

cousin to forget about it. That's what I said. I said, you're not going to get a better home than the Flanigans. They're talking to people that live on the Upper West Side. His apartment living is not right for the dogs. No, he loves to play. I don't know how often he got to play, but he is getting all his, all the years he didn't get to run around, I guess, as much as he-

He didn't. Yeah. So he's getting it all out now in spades and You know, he's never alone. He's with me or he's with my wife And even my daughter like comes home and immediately wants to be like I'm gonna take Teddy I'm gonna walk him over here. I'm gonna take him up to the woods. Yeah, she just wants to spend time with him He's just a very affectionate lovable dog

Meanwhile socks is sharpening a shiv a lovable dog. Meanwhile, Sox is sharpening a shiv. Sox is a different kind of dog. Sox is as sharp as a tack. Sox is smart as a whip, but Sox isn't needy. Sox is just like, if you feed me, you know, that's all, you know, she doesn't need much more than that. He needs attention and he needs to be on your hip. He needs to be like, he needs affection. And he sucks us more like a cat, in my opinion. Right.

A loof. Yeah, she's just like whatever, you know. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's great that it worked out. And let me tell you, Faith, my wife Faith's mother gets so happy when I send her the videos of Teddy. She came up to me.

I didn't know who she was at the rock show. Yeah. She to me. I didn't know who she was at the rock show. Yeah. And she told me, over you guys playing super loud, she's like, I don't know if you know who I am, but I'm Brian Nischel's mother-in-law. And I didn't put it together right away because I thought she was going to be like, you know. Are you going to take your shirt off? She's not bad, Brian. Tell him, Steve, Dave. She's not bad, bro!

Tell him Steve, Dave!