Tell Em Steve-Dave - #621: Savage White Elephant

Episode Date: January 12, 2025

Wildfires, Johnson health scares, Walt finishes a project, Mt. Everest feces, Q can’t handle the Oregon Trail.

Your dad likes to collect puzzles? Flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip. How'd you get off the floor? They had to call the cops. Tell them Steve, Dave. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell them Steve, Dave. Hello everybody. Happy 2025. Here with Walt. Hello.

And here with Sunday Jeff. Oh, happy new year. Is this the first show back? Happy new year. Yep, this is the first show back and Quinn already missed it. He's traipsing. Well, he was traipsing around in LA. Not so much anymore. He's back. Came back Well, he was traipsing around in LA. Not so much anymore.

He's back. Came back. I just talked to him about a half hour ago. He was in LA, stuck there. He had to take a red eye back today, so he just got in. A lot of problems out there right now. Yeah. Yeah.

Kev was spared. Yeah. I talked to him last night. It didn't – When I talked to him last night though, he said – It wasn't looking good. He said his house was spared. Yeah. I talked to him last night. It didn't, when I talked to him last night though, he said. It wasn't looking good. He said his house was gone. He said it's like, it's pretty much I have to give up. It's going to be gone.

Right. So that was awful. But then this morning, I didn't want to bug him about it, but I'm like, I said like, Hey man, what's going on? Like, I just wanted to know. Cause I've been thinking about it all night. And he said though, that they got incredibly lucky and the planes flew over with the water and they got it under control.

His part of where he lives was spared. Which is amazing because I was looking at the map and he lives so close to, I don't want to dox him, but he lives very close to some of the areas that are, well, he had to be evacuated. It was a mandatory evacuation had to be evacuated. It was a mandatory evacuation. He was evacuated. I talked to Jordan last night and same thing. It was a suggested evacuation that was going

to turn into a mandatory one. She happened to have a friend who had a house that's out of the fire zone. She and Jay and the kids were able to go down there and their house is fine too. Yeah. You never know what shit like that, man. It's just like some streets are gone, other streets are not. Like a tornado almost. Just coming through and being very selective. That's not the area usually it's known for though, right? It's usually like out, like where it's like incredibly wooded areas though, when you hear about California wildfires.

It's usually happening. I don't remember it usually happening in Los Angeles. No, it's happened there before. When I lived there, I remember a couple of times there were some big fires. It's crazy how this happens so frequency out there. Yeah. Well, that's one of the – this is going to be a largely laughless pod. Walt doesn't want to laugh because he doesn't feel well. Listen to him. Yeah. So we're just going to talk about regular stuff. If I laugh, it's going to sound gross. You can hear all that phlegm.

Mucus. We're going to get mucus all over the mic. You guys can laugh. I don't care. All right. Well, at least he doesn't care if we laugh. But yeah, it was like a combination of cuts to the fire department and … Well, I'm hearing so much shit and I just don't want to hear … I want to hear the truth. I want to hear the absolute truth. Well, don't look to any politicians for it. And if the truth is that the leaders of the state And if the truth is that the leaders of the state fucked up, at this point, how many times can we allow people to fuck up at such a cost and nobody pays a price?

I mean, this has been going on my whole entire adult life. We go to war and there's no fucking weapons of mass destruction and nobody pays a... No job is ever lost. Right. Nobody answers to anything. Nobody is ever held to account for fucking up. And this is not a small mistake. What happens in this office? Stop. Stop it. Yeah. So I saw this one piece of footage. It was really interesting. I guess the guy

had like a fire suppression, some sort of fire suppression mechanism on top of his house. So it like sprays water out from the roof. And it was like, it was a four wall, like the two walls you could see were all glass. And he's looking out at the fires, him and his dogs, and it's fucking unreal. Like it just looks like this dude's dead. But the fire suppression thing I think helped him because it like sprays water out and keeps things wet,

like surrounding the house, keeps the house wet. What powers it though? What powers it though? What powers it? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, because you got to cut the power to that street. You would think so.

Yeah, I'm not sure unless they have generators or something. What about the water pressure? Like the fire department starts using all the water and it just like spritzes. I guess you got to have your own bank of water in it, right? It's got its own – Yeah, it probably has its own supply, I would think. Well, how many gallons of water would you need though? A lot. its own – It's got its own – Yeah, it probably has its own supply, I would think. How many gallons of water would you need though?

A lot. Yeah, a lot. I don't know. Yeah, that's it right there. Yeah. So that house survived? Could you imagine like eating just like coming downstairs and still eating breakfast with that shit going on around you? It's insane. It's not – look at that. It's like a furnace. Yeah, but then you can see it like every once in a while.

That house survived? Yeah, I think so. You can see every once in a while, the flames get pushed back. It's like, it's hard to see, but like. Well, that fire suppression system. It should be mandatory. Should be, yes. Right? Just like when you build houses down in Florida, you got to have. Hurricane proof. Yeah, that should be mandatory in everyone's house.

I mean, it looks like it might stop a lot of the damage, but you know, I'm sure it's not cheap to have it done either. Cheaper than replacing the house. Right. But you got to weigh the. That's crazy. I mean, it literally looks like, like fucking hell out there. Yeah, it looks like hell on earth. Is it?

That's crazy. It doesn't look like he's got power either. It just looks like that's. Like the whole house is lit up by the flames. Yeah, because of red. Yeah. So how does that mechanism work then? It's pump. Like I said, maybe there's a generator.

Maybe that's, it works purposely on backup. When you're generating, you don't want it to generate your house because you want all the juice going to that mechanism. To your suppression system, yeah. Keep the water pumping. That's nuts. Yeah, I don't think it was, I didn't think it was going to that. That suppression system. Yeah. Keep the water pumping. That's nuts.

Yeah, I don't think it was, I didn't know it was that close to that area. Oh yeah. He said it was, he said his house was gone last night. And what I, how do you respond to that? That's what Jordan said too. She said, she said probably Kevin's probably all those his house. And I was, I was just lying there this morning until I saw his Facebook post. I was thinking of – the only thing I could think of was that big picture of Harley,

that big painting. I was like, that's – if that goes and then all the mementos he has and all the art and all that other shit, it's like irreplaceable stuff. Where do you go from there if that happens to you? Are you just like, look, I'm going to live fucking bare minimum from here on out? That's this guy. Yeah, he was living bare minimum prior to that. All I said was like, this is terrible. I said, I'm so sorry. That's all I could say. Right.

Yeah, there was nothing else I could say. It was brutal though to hear that and super excited to hear that it didn't come to pass, but it was surprising considering how dire it looked. Yeah. Even he is like, I'm probably going to lose everything. And then you're just waiting. You go to a hotel or you go to … You know, you've been displaced. I've been in the same year. It was with water and going to a hotel and then driving home to see, hoping that, oh,

when you come back, it's going to be okay. And luckily, it was real. Two times it happened. One time I came back, it was fine. It's the next time it happened. But it was repairable. You don't lose all your belongings. Right. I mean, it's a difference just coming home to like nothing.

There was a big difference. It's gone. Everything you had is just… There's no house there. Yeah, the clothes on your back is all you got. Yes. There is an absolute big difference, but I kind of know what the feeling of driving up and seeing your house looking like it

was picked up and shaken and then put back down on it. But these natural disasters are happening more and more. It's got to be- Well, they say cause. I mean, what causes that? There's so many of these out there. I don't know what was the like spark, so to speak, but the winds were what was really spreading it, I think. That's what that's, you know, the combination. Perfect firestorm. And you hear so many nitwits on social media just saying shit. That's –

Good. No, not good. I saw some of that. They're saying they're like, oh, this has got to be a terrorist attack. These are manmade. They're mining them by manmade. There's too many fires for this to be a natural cause. Right.

I can see a cigarette getting thrown out of a – that could happen. One of the problems was that some of the services that got cut, they don't really clear away a lot of the brush and stuff that they used to. Pre-burn, pre-burn fires. Right. Well, that's what I'm talking about. Someone has to pay a price. It's probably the governor and the mayor of LA.

Those two seem to be in the hot seat right now. It was proven that their ineptitude caused this. But if it's like a hundred mile per hour winds, if that turns out to be the cause that you can't go after them then. Well, I think it can. Cause you can't stop a hundred mile per hour winds. Right. And they're not going to be responsible for the winds, but the lack of water and

the lack of water in the hydrants because of like – I can't remember the exact story, but like Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he could have diverted a bunch of water to LA, but instead he was studying – he was studying – I've heard this fish. … he was studying the smelt. Yeah. But I don't believe that though. You don't think so? No, no. I'm saying it could be true, but I'm not as quick to believe it

true, but I'm not as quick to believe it until it's proven beyond a, every iota of that is true though, because you do know that like there's some people who just wanted out for that guy anyway, so they're going to say, they're going to put the blame on him and yada, yada, yada. I can't believe anybody. I just want to, I don't believe anybody. Why should you? I believe either side. And if you believe either side, you're crazy.

They're both fucking horrific. Yeah, somewhere in the middle is the truth, but not on either side. You never find the middle though, is the problem. Yeah, you never see the middle. Marjorie Taylor Greene blames wildfires on secret Jewish space leavers. Hi. Sunday Jeff, is there something you'd like to tell us? You're telling me that, huh? Walking around with matches in my hand.

And this is somebody that's in a position of power, right? Yeah. Blaming the Jews. Is she a senator or is she a Democratic mischief maker? Yeah, mischief is right. Yeah, I'm not sure what her position is, but she's one of those wackos. How the fuck does anybody vote for somebody like that? I don't know. I mean, look, they voted back in Mary and Barry.

Let's not get on another topic now. Yeah, I, I, at this, at my age, and for as long as I've subscribed to this, and I, I haven't been proven, I haven't yet to feel that I'm wrong yet. I've never once, ever fallen for either party's fucking bullshit. Oh, believe that? Never believed either side and never have been a supporter of either side and I've seen nothing to make me want to ever be like, you know what? I'm a committed Republican.

Or I'm a committed this because both sides are – and people are like, oh, that's the easy way out. You choose it. You say you're in the middle. You're either with us or you're against us. I'm like, whatever side you fall on, you're going to be disappointed in because they're both inept. They're both full of fucking maniacs and charlatans and people who just want to get rich. That's all they care about. They don't care about you. Oh, that's this country, man. It's all about the dollar. It's greed.

They want to get rich. I want Sunday Jeff in office. I want somebody who will fucking make decisions. Good, then I'll have my own coin on the next bottle of wine. I just want somebody who'll make decisions for the people, not for himself. Would you think he'd be a good president? I think he'd be amazing. Definitely for the working man.

He wouldn't know anything that was going on though. That's okay. Sometimes that might be better, but I'm saying definitely for the working man. What does he need to do if he wanted to put his hat in the ring in the next election? Oh my God, this is my campaign trail right here. What does he need to do to get on the ballot? I think it's just a certain number of signatures. And then you can go under like a certain party.

Well, we know. As I say, if it's like seven grand, we got that. Got it covered? We got that. That would be amazing. I think you might need more than that. I think you need other stuff too. It would be the first time I voted since the early 90s of Sunday, Joe.

I would vote for you. I'm sticking out of your sun roof. Even if you're just completely, utterly honest. You're like, I don't for you. I'm sticking out of your sun roof. Even if you're just completely, utterly honest. You're like, I don't know shit. That doesn't exist. It's just, you know, the thing I don't understand about all the rich people is like, how much fucking money does Bezos need? How much money does any of these people need?

How much money is enough? You can't take it with you wherever you're going. How much? But you can't stop though. It's a disease. It's an illness. But if your base is like once you have started Amazon and you're like, oh my God, I'm like one of the richest guys on earth, you're not going to stop.

So what do you want me to do though? Yeah, what do you do? Retire? I mean, you could retire, but I'm saying how much more do you have to go, a lot of times for tax cuts for the big guys. There's a lot of tax cuts. There's a lot of stuff that helps. Well, if you want BQ's vote, you're going to have to give him some major deep tax cuts.

Oh, well then he's got the right guy. That's the guy. No, you will. If you want his vote. If Sunday Jeff wants BQ's vote. He can't even make it to a podcast. Do you want me to help him out? Look, I always see that people want the best for their families, their lives, and everything else.

With politics, you can have, like you said, people go up there and they tell you certain things and you can't make promises. I mean, they say things, but you can't always say that that's going to happen because there's something called Congress that they have to pass all these laws and they never agree. They never agree, especially now. It's worse than it's ever been. Worse than it's ever been. Very difficult.

It's a very like, you said it, Walt, it's a very like, it's almost like sports teams. Oh yeah. Where it's like people are fucking hardcore and they can't imagine rooting for the other side, regardless of the situation. Yeah. That's a good analogy. The only thing like in a. Did you vote for the Rangers?

No, but I'm just saying the only thing that should matter, voting for the other side, just voting for what's best for the country and nothing else really should matter. But like you said before, with like somebody like you. What's best for the country isn't all. What's best for the Republican, what's best for me, I'm going to vote for this guy. That's naive. What's best for me is going to be there and that's where it goes with what's in the middle. I mean, there's, you know, you need somebody to really be objective.

You'd be like, you know, if both parties come away like unhappy, then maybe you found the right, the median ground. I wish that there was somebody like that old dude from the nineties that was running and almost won. Oh, Ross Perot. Yeah. That's what we need. You need that third party. Yeah. You need that. That guy was one. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that. I remember doing that.? Yeah. That's what we need. You need that third party.

You need that wild card. I remember doing that with SNL sketches about him. Why? What was wrong with him? Because he was like a weird dude. That's what you need. You need an eccentric who's successful. You need that successful eccentric to get in there and think outside the box because

the box – the box- You don't think that's Trump? A lot of people would say that's Trump. Yeah. At the end of the day though, it's he's still- He's more than eccentric. Yeah. No, you need somebody who can unite and Trump is not a uniter. He's a fucking divider. No, you're right about that. Yeah. It's all he does is divide. Crazy. crazy times.

You need somebody who's not affiliated with a party who doesn't have to bow to the… Well, that's been happening. I'm sure there's independents that have tried to run, but they just can't get the votes. There's just no way they're going to get votes and they don't get the money. Then even if you win, you get sucked up into the system. It's like you get two senators. It's like, all right, well, scratch your back if you scratch mine.

Then you're like, well, I really want to get this project done. So even though I don't agree with this guy's project, so fucking pork barrel shit. It's politics, bro. Oh, what's the suitcase doing? Oh, I think you find this successful. If some place had to burn like a massive wildfire, it's too bad it wasn't fucking the White House and the Congress and we'd just all start over. Just clear it all out and start anew. Start fresh with all new rules, all new people.

Not that the people had to die, I don't want them to die. But they're like, yeah, it's too much to rebuild, we're too old, we ain't up for the task. Right, they're a little bit long in the tooth, let's be honest, aren't they, all the fucking politicians? Yeah, but just because their place burns down, they're just not gonna like, ah, we'll start from scratch. They're just gonna start the building from scratch. Everything else is still going to be the fucking same.

And you know what? It's going to cost you even more money because the building is going to be nicer and bigger. It's going to have extra wings, more electronics, more computers, and the taxpayers are going to pay you even more money. It's true. I've seen it on a small scale. In Highlands, they built a borough hall, and it took a long time. But you think of the old borough hall, how like, how. Quaint. Perfect word, quaint. It worked.

Yeah. You didn't need this huge building with like all these different offices and shit. They went and built this monstrosity, this ugly thing, this borough hall on the highway. Yeah, like a little mini pentagon. Yeah, yeah. In this little shore town. What are they doing in there that they need a bunker? I've yet to be in there, yeah, I don't know. Did they condense? Maybe they condensed a bunch of other buildings until like everything's now under one roof. That word doesn't exist in government, condense.

They don't condense nothing. They'll condense on your behalf. They'll take something away from you. Yeah, it's called your paycheck. Did you – even though you were ill and were you able to do your book project? I did. You did it? Yeah, that was before I got sick. I worked on my shelves. I told you, son, I had a big project. I was going to rearrange my bookshelves. Whew. I told you, son, I had a big project. I was going to rearrange my bookshelves. Pete Slauson I'm surprised you're bearding.

You wouldn't have a beard like he, like Brian has. Peter Van Doren Put everything in proper order, get all the volumes lined up by categorizing it. Pete Slauson I thought it was though. I mean – Peter Van Doren It was. But again, you know, after a couple of years – Pete Slauson They start coming in faster than I can clean

the shrink wrap off, dust the shrink wrap. Peter Van Doren It's like the chocolate conveyor belt with Lucy and... Yeah, you miss one, start eating them, let them fall on the floor, we'll pick them up later. That happens. The masterworks are coming in, keep up. I got Omnibus holding the furniture up now. us holding the furniture up now. But I did take it on and it's now looking better than ever. Yeah.

It's a sight to behold. I'm surprised you didn't add another wing to your place. Oh, I'm working on it. Yeah, so I thought that was it. Oh, I'm working on it. I thought the real president of the house signed the order that this is it. She does. She does.

I have a make of my inroads. Oh yeah, I see. You know, you got to sweeten the, uh, just like any politician. You got to sweeten the pot. Every time I go to that. What's in it for her? Yep. That backyard looks like the garden of fucking Eden. Every time I go there in the summertime, it's insane.

It's got more pavers. I thought he was going to take people's names and start putting it in the pavers like they do at Disney World. Yeah. It's a better homes and gardens backyard. It's crazy. When I first moved there, it looked like the fucking moon. It was nuts. Yeah, I'm working on getting another wing.

Yeah. What do you think of where the window is? It recesses in here. You don't need this window, right? Put bookcases in there. It's too much sun in here anyways. That's where it's going, isn't it? Yeah. No, I got my eyes on another room. Oh. to a sun in here anyways. That's where it's going, isn't it? No, I got my eyes on another room. Oh. One of the kids aren't here anymore, you think? I can move everything in that one room. Yeah, that's the plan. I haven't got the green light yet though. No, never know when they come back. They can use the sofa.

Oh, God. It was so funny. Hey, don't laugh. I know, but one of my kid's friends was over, I think it was on New Year's Eve, and she had some friends over and they were chilling out before they had to go where they were going for the night. One of the guys asked Alicia, he goes, wow, he's going – they were in the room where all the books are and he was like, your dad likes to collect puzzles? He thought they were puzzle boxes.

He was starting to come in there with his chest pumped out, I'm ready for it. Look at all these comic books. They're like, puzzles? What the hell, man? Get him out of the house. He's rearranged that shit. And she's like, no, they're not puzzles. They're books. What kind of books? And she's like, I just want to change the subject. Puzzle books. Look at all these puzzles. Could you imagine? Yeah. Why are they all sealed?

If I can't like the puzzles. It's puzzling while they're all sealed. That's funny. We had a week with the Johnsons since New Year's. Edgar got an operation. He had a hernia. Really? Yeah. How long he had that?

I think for like a couple of weeks he had it, maybe a month. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia.

He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. He had a hernia. Really? How long he had that? I think for like a couple of weeks he had it, maybe a month. They had to –

How did he get it? I don't know. Just lifting something. Just like going down like this. Just lifted it wrong? Just lifted it wrong. He knew it. I think so.

He's a pain in the nut. He should. Actually, yeah, he can't bend over and pick anything up. And during that time, Pam fell at the house and my sister's there and Edgar's there, but they can't get her up. They can't lift her up. They can't get her up. And it's not like she's like super heavy or anything, but I think they just, they just,

you know. How old's your father? He's 78. Yeah. 78 and so. But he's always been like, I mean, even up until like this past, not this past summer, but the summer before, he was like going full steam like when he was helping us with some stuff with the house and shit. It takes a lot out of them.

Now it's like, I wouldn't even ask him. I wouldn't even ask him to help me. How'd she get off the floor? They had to call the cops. She was all embarrassed. She's like, no, don't call them. Because, you know, I mean, I don't know how much- Was she okay? I mean, just- Yeah, she was like, no, don't call them. She was like, no, to call the cops. She was all embarrassed.

She's like, no, don't call them. I mean, I don't know how much help. Is she okay? Yeah, she's okay. Except the day that Edgar has his hernia operation, which was this past Monday, which would have been like the fifth or something, they get home and Pam's like, oh, I'm having chest pains. So they have to go back to the hospital. Turns out Pam had a heart attack and she had to stay in the hospital for two days.

They had put a stent in and all that stuff. Is that partial blockage? Yeah, I think so. Now she's on a new diet with just vegetables and fruit and shit. That's your worst nightmare. Which would suck, especially at that age where you're like, I just want to enjoy shit. I don't care about getting fat or whatever. I just want to eat.

I don't want to have to worry about that crap. But yeah. So was she eating a lot of meat before? I don't think so. No. I don't think so. Hereditary problems. They're like, no meat.

Yeah. No meat, I guess, because it will block up her arteries or something. So you said they're staying at your house now because they're all – Oh no, no, no. No, they're still at their house. Oh, I thought you said the Johnsons are at my house still. Oh no, I said the Johnsons had a week. Oh, okay.

Yeah, because of Pam and Edgar and – So who's taking care of them then? I think my sister is over there because she lives in town. Yeah, I know, right? 2025, starting off – Starting off with a bang for the Johnson. Yeah. Yeah, Marybeth was sick this week.

Marybeth was sick this week. What did she get? I don't know. It sounded like she kind of like was not as bad as you, but something similar. Like she had a scratchy throat, itchy throat and was feeling nauseous and stuff. Yeah. I didn't feel nauseous. That's the worst part. But just bad congestion. No throwing up, man. No way.

No. You taking anything? I have a heart attack. Usinex. Usinex? Yeah. I always wonder how well that shit works. Like when I get sick and I take it and it's – It doesn't work for me.

It doesn't seem to be that good. It doesn't work for me. We sent Leisha to get some Usinex or something over the counter and she had to come home and get her license. Oh yeah, they won't let you buy that shit without a license. Is it that bad out there for junkies that they – Does that have that sugar friend in it? that pseudo-ephedrine in it? Pseudoephedrine, yeah.

Like people are popping mucinex and getting high? No, they're afraid – it's so stupid. They're afraid that – like if you get enough of them, you can take out an ingredient and use it for meth. It's used in the – How many people are capable of doing that? So few. And especially in this state, like meth is not a problem in New Jersey. It's not like we're

living out in the Midwest or something. What a pain in the – one time I didn't have my license. I had my passport because I lost my license but I had my passport. They can't scan a passport so they wouldn't let me buy it. I literally had to – like a teenager looking for alcohol, I had to be like, hey, man – like to a guy I knew, can you buy me this cold medicine? Yeah. Well, you want some liquor? Nah, I need, I need Sudafed. Yeah.

It's just a way to keep track. So like say Alicia gets Mucinex there. She doesn't go to 10 other pharmacies and buy one thing of Mucinex there. You know how much you're buying. Like you see her buying 50 of them. So let's say you want to get something out of the Mucinex tablet.

What do you gotta do? Do you gotta boil it and melt it down? Uh. You gotta be a chemist. I don't know tablet. What do you got to do? Do you got to boil it and melt it down? You got to be a chemist. I don't know how people do this. Yeah. I don't know if you crush it and extract certain chemicals out of it. I don't know. I don't know. So the mucinex, can you open it? No. It's like a chalky kind of pill. Okay. All right. Yeah. You must have to be able to, and if you can still do it these days, make meth out of it, I guess you would like crush it down and separate the ingredients. Is all mucinex like this? Is the liquid mucinex like the cough syrup,

is that also where you have to be of certain age to buy it? If it's behind the counter. Yeah, if it's behind the counter. If it's behind the counter, they got stuff in it. Or you have to take up one of those little pieces of paper, a little piece of cardboard with the picture of mucinex on it, you know, and hand it to the, hand it to the pharmacist. Buy video games from Toys R Us and the cards that you had to bring up to buy everything.

Oh yeah, yeah. That's right. Wow. So they don't get stolen. I was in CVS in, uh, over in Middletown the other day by where Boston Market used to be across the street from there and they've taken to locking stuff up. I don't know if it's a corporate thing or it's a problem within the area. It just doesn't seem like that kind of area.

I think if you do it everywhere, then you're not accused of doing it only in certain areas. Right. Yeah. If it's, if it's nationwide. Nobody can be like, Hey, you're just doing it here. Why? Yeah. Did it lock it up? Well, let me tell you.

Yeah. All locked up. How'd you fare on Christmas? Did all right. Did pretty well. Uh, got some headphones, got this little thing to put in the car so I can like put my phone on it, got a whole bunch of movies, that kind of stuff. DVDs, blu-rays?

Yeah, blu-rays. Wow. You're still doing the discs. Still doing the discs. Yeah. Physical man. Yeah. No wrong with that.

Yeah. But again, anything good? What? Half the time I'm like, Hey, I want to watch this. It's not, it's not streaming. It's not streaming. Yeah. What, what discs are, or did you? Which the time I'm like, hey, I want to watch this. It's not streaming. It's not streaming, yeah. There you go. What disks are they?

Which ones did I get? I got Dallas. I got Chopping Mall, which I think is actually on Shutter. I got Pet Sematary. I got a really nice version of it. That's what I could stream it, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre too. It has all the extras and stuff. It has so many extras on it. There's a lot of it. A lot of it. You have those Sunday? I have Texas Chainsaw Massacre has so many extras on it. There's a lot of it.

You have those Sunday? I have Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You have Pet Sematary? I have it. And Chopper Mall? Yes. You could just borrow Sundays. Should have, I just burned them.

Right? You could have borrowed Sundays. I know. Maybe I don't need to buy. Let me check out those masterworks. That one's sealed. You can't... Well, I guess I can only open one volume then because it's the only one that's open. Do you have a hard time reading those books? I found that when I have those big omnibuses, it's hard to read. You have to sit there with a pillow in your lap.

Yeah. They're somewhat clunky to read. I thought you meant do I have a hard time reading them because the print's so small. That I know. Print's normal. My eyes are bad. I think my ability to read the small print is more of an issue than if I need a pillow on my lap. I'll take the pillow on my lap any day if I could just fucking see it.

That's nuts. I don't know. if I could just fucking see it. That's nuts. I don't know. Yeah. So that was Christmas. Mary Beth got a bunch of shit. Sage got a bunch of shit. We went over to my brother's house, Darren's house for Christmas night.

He gave us a bunch of shit. Yeah. We all traded shit. Yeah. But it was quiet. Nothing really happened. What, but it was quiet. Nothing really happened. What did you get?

Trying to get that win. I got some masterworks. Oh, yeah. When you get your masterworks, do you pick them out and just tell me, okay, how's it going to sound? Yeah. My wife would not be able to identify a book I have or don't have. Letter from Santa.

Make sure it's the gold, little foil.le. Yeah, the letter sent via text. You know what? They're already in the basket. Just check out. I already – oh yeah. Let me send you the link. He's got a picture. He opens it up.

It's like, not here yet. He's just opened up. It's just a printout of what he sent her. Masterworks. And we did, for the first time ever, we did a, what's it called? The Savage Elephant? White Elephant? The Savage White Elephant where you take the gifts from people? Yeah, we do that every year.

It's different. Well, I wanted a gift. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought. Like, everybody tells me this is awesome. So you're like the Michael Scott with the iPod. Remember that episode? I wish I got an iPod. No, that was that episode in the office.

You don't remember the episode in the office where everybody was supposed to get the cheap gifts? Oh, is that the one where Jim wanted to give the teapot to Jill? Well, not Jill. He gets pissed off because, you know, Phyllis makes him that stupid gift. Phyllis makes him that stupid gift. He's like, I don't know, like fucking some crochet. He's like, I want the iPod.

I told Deb, I was like, wrap up some iTunes gift cards and make sure I know what they look like. There's more iTunes. I'll grab them when it's my turn to go. Somebody got the iTunes gift cards first and then I was given the stink eye when I was like, I'm going in for those iTunes gift cards. I'm going to steal them from my brother-in-law. I got the wave off.

Don't do it. Don't steal it. Really? I thought that's the whole point of the game. She did not want me to take it. Remember the cable box incident. Yeah. No, it's a different brother-in-law. It's a different brother-in-law. Well, you're not the only one anyway.

She said that he could use the iTunes gift cards more than you can. You can get your own iTunes gift cards. Pick something else. Don't take his iTunes gift cards. Or Sunday's Jeffs. He's too happy with them. So I was like, all right. So I go in and I grab a gift off out of the- You want that wing, huh? Off the table and it was some sort of holder for a tablet and I'm not even sure if my tablet even fits in it.

So it's like a completely useless piece of equipment that will never get taken out of the box. That now has just become, should we just throw it out? Is it rude if we throw it out? It's like, who cares? Where did you get it from? I got a guy. I got a guy I know.

It was so underwhelming and so useless and pointless. I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. Oh yeah, you're done with it? I'm done with it. I got all salty and shit because then he gives iTunes. It would have been perfect. I got my master words. But when do I have my iTunes gift cards?

Is iTunes still around? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Isn't it just Apple Music now? Well, you know, Apple is – you know. But I'm saying is there actual iTunes like – Yeah. Is iTunes still around? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Isn't it just Apple Music now? Well, you know, Apple is, you know. I'm saying is there actual iTunes like that?

Yeah, you can still do that, huh? Wow. I think it's broken down into, it's iTunes, but then it's broken down into like movies, music. Right, but I'm saying that they still have that same format, like you would download, like if you had the iPod, you would plug it in and you'd have that same format. Yes. But now it goes straight to my phone when I purchase it. So it's like it on the cloud or something.

You use the cloud, yeah. What'd you get Sunday? You had eight days. No, I don't have eight days. No? You're not doing it right then because I've read it's eight days. I'm sure you would demand eight days if you were Jewish. You'd be like, I want a masterwork on all eight days. Eight iTunes gift cards. Last day's the big day. I want the omnibus. But yeah, I got some nice devil stuff this year. Did you?

Yeah, nice cool devil. It almost looks like a jersey, but it's a hoodie. Similar to the one you got. Why don't you wear it? I want to see it. Because I just got off of work. You can't wear it at work? No. You won't let you? No, they won't let me. Okay. What else did you get? What else did I get? I got a bunch of hoodies this year, a bunch of zip-ups, a lot of clothes.

A lot of clothes, huh? Yeah, hard to shop for, I guess. Do you think that you're easy to shop for? No. No, not according to the people I know. He's just like, what are you buying? Don't buy anything. It's kind of like you don't know. It's just like if you saw something, you buy those books. So they're not going to know what book to get you. I mean, same thing. They know your likes or whatever. It's like, what do I buy? What movie do I buy from that he doesn't fucking have like three or four times already? It's hard. But look, I'm always good. My daughter got me an Amazon gift card. She got me a Barnes and Nobles

gift card. I'm fine with that. It's not like it'll go to waste. I use it. I would use that Barnes and Noble gift card ASAP. Oh, you think they're going out? I think so. I don't think they're long for this world. They just put a brand new one up in Eaton Town. I know, but they're downsizing at a- It is a smaller store, but I think they got better stuff there though. I was in there once.

They downsized over in Home Belt too. Yes. And the next step is- Yeah. Online only. ... kiosk and then boom, done. Online only, yeah. Kiosk. I'm sure I'll use it before then. But Amazon, I mean Amazon,

buy whatever you want on Amazon, I'm fine with it. Bunch of little stuff though. It's pretty good though. Some people would say that gift cards are, you don't put as much thought into them. I don't care. Me personally? Me neither. It's like, I'm fine with it, bro. I'm fine with it. It's just like, would you rather have something that you know that I know he's going to get something that he likes, rather than just be like, eh. Here's a tablet cover. Yeah. Here's a tablet cover that doesn't fit my tablet.

I'll trade you this one. You got a tablet, right? It looks just like it fits perfectly in this. I got a mini tablet too. And I don't even think it was, I don't even fit. I don't think this holder didn't even fit Apple products. Like universal one where you can just like, you can keep stretching. Fits every tablet. And Dev was like, bring it into the office, have it get him. He could fix it. He'll fit, he'll put it right for you.

And I'm like, yeah, yeah, he'll do it. He'll do it. They're like, go get your tablet. I'll do it. I'm like, I'll bring it to him tomorrow. You can fix it. He'll put it right for you." I'm like, yeah, yeah, he'll do it. He'll do it. They're like, go get your tablet. I'll do it. I'm like … I'll bring it to him tomorrow. He can fix it for me. I wasn't saying that disparage get him.

I'm just like – I didn't even care enough to go get my tablet and to try to set it up. At what point do I need – how much multitasking am I doing that my hands have to be free to do other things than hold a tablet? Never. Right? I'll tell you who made out like a bandit. My kids. Well, they always do, but it was Teddy's first Christmas as a Christian.

Look at him, he's all stitched and knocked out. Yeah, it was because he's- Good Christian dog. He's got a horse head pig over here. because he's first four years of his life, he had eight crazy nights. Oh, he converted them, huh? Yeah, he's a Christian. Oh, well, you know what I'm saying? You get eight presents. Don't let this fucker fool you. He's been back.

You get eight presents plus Christmas. He got more than eight presents, believe me. He came home with the most presents out of all of the Flattigan's. It's like elevated, it's like levitating over there. He's got so many presents. Collars, leashes, jackets, bones. Yep. I hear you. Same thing at the Johnson's. The dog got more presents than everybody. Like owner. All right. Let me break up this fun. We'll read some stuff and get it out of the way.

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He wouldn't be sitting here right now, not definitely. I don't think so. It would have been too weird. Every time I think of giving him a return, I'd be just like, do a collector's corner. I don't think... I think you're right. I don't think we would have probably grown attached to him as much as we did when he was – Something's wrong with that guy.

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No way. You wouldn't get one? No way. No. But I know you say that now. No, it looks terrible. Look at that. I would say that back then too. There's no way. That has no interest. But I think you forget how hooked you were.

I was but it wasn't on fucking dildos. It was on toys and that's not the toy that I'm talking about. If it had that Star Wars logo, I think you'd be like, you know what? I wasn't buying like a candy bar or whatever. I know this is fucked up but these are limited pieces. Don't use them. Then when you're going back through your stuff, when you're getting rid of all your shit, can you imagine stumbling across? Yeah. It's like I'd be 18 to come into my house to start looking at my collection.

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There's no way that Disney is allowing Star Wars to be licensed out to sexual toys, right? If they got a cut of it, they may. But I saw that Star Wars logo that looked like a legit logo though on it. Well, the R2-D2 you can kind of get away with like, ah, it doesn't really look like I'm that much. The gator does. Darth Vader. There's no way around it.

Yeah. Yeah. It looks just like him. All right. I know Sunday talks a bit, a game, but I'm telling you, he doesn't remember the fucking, he, he, he was a crack head, but for toys though. He was as worse as any fucking real head crack head you'd meet in Newark, New Jersey. Here he comes.

Look at Jones in for toys. And all the times that you and I went on runs. He had that white shit all over his lips. All dry. What kind of toys do you have? He likes to paint a picture of himself that he wasn't diseased. I'll paint a picture. You were with me plenty of times.

I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was with you. I was try it. What kind of toys do you have? He likes to paint a picture of himself that he wasn't diseased. You were with me plenty of times. Never did I say it, man.

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Yeah. So I'm going to put a link on our ex accounts for this week. Tell them Steve Dave if you don't follow us on ex formally Twitter. There's an aunt and she's trying to win a contest. Adam Bagley's Billy the Brave comic inspired by Billy's incredible courage during his battle with DIPG brain cancer has been nominated for a comic scene award for best charity comic. But it's up against some big hitters. Have you heard of these? DUI and Shift It. Have you heard of either of those comics? No, I have not. I'm a masterwork. I've been out of it.

So this nomination is a huge win, but taking home the award would be monumental. Okay. So what we're going to do, it's called Billy the Brave and I will put up the links to both Facebook and regular, you know, regular website shit. And that's it for Billy the Brave. That sucks. That is terrible brain cancer. What else have I got here? Oh, New Year.

What did you do for New Year's, Walt? Anything? I went to a casino. Did you? I think that's maybe where I was not feeling great before I went and then I felt okay and then I came back from that because I had some fucking seniors coughing all over me. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

Where did you go down to Lacey? Uh, New York. New York? Yeah, we met the Franks. Get out of here. Yeah. Really? I tell you, seniors love to gamble. Yeah, they live, well, they save their whole lives.

I'm like, what am I going to do with this money? Might as well feed it into the- You're close to being that senior too. Feed it into the slot machines. I lost about a hundred bucks. Kill me. It hurts. It hurts to lose.

People always take a fucking blink of an eye at set. My wife continues down to be on this streak where she walked away with 500 bucks. It's not fair. I don't know how she does it. I told her she should write a book. She has a method. Yeah. Oh, she does have a method. Yeah.

But it's, I think it's everybody follows this method though. I can't imagine she's the only one. She plays the slots, but she, if she, if she wins, she won't play in that machine anymore and like, that's not a method. I think a lot of people assume that the machines, I can't pay out. It's just not like he's being in every place at the right time. It's not, you know, and that's the, one of the things you have the least best odds of winning in slot machines.

Yeah. She constantly wins on them though. But I mean, if you, if you play big and you hit a couple of bonus rounds and you walk away, you could, you could do all right. That's the thing. She probably walks away. I found a fucking, never seen this before, a quarter blackjack machine. Really?

It's 25 cents a hand. And you still manage to lose a hundred bucks? I'm not kidding around. I've been playing for three days. That was another machine. There was a point where I had lost 30 hands in a row and I was like, this is definitely fixed. Right.

I would pull a 20 and the machine would go flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, like seven cards to get to 21. That's why it's only a quarter. I was just like, this is definitely, there's something not right here because there's no way I should lose like 13 hands in a row, 14 hands in a row. Then if I finally win one and then lose another 13 in a row. Now when you win, how much do you win? Do you just double your quarter?

Cause you're playing a quarter at a time. Okay. I had never seen that before though. What casino is this? Uh, he, Frank called it the Indian casino. Did you go to Connecticut or in New York? Did you go to New York? You need to be know if you went to Connecticut.

Oh, Connecticut's far. Why would we go to Connecticut? That's where the other two casinos are that are owned by Indian Reformation. Oh, okay. Yeah. You got Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. Yeah. People dress up too for New Year's at the casino. Oh, yeah. They wear gowns and shit. I saw when I went out to dinner. Way dressed up.

Yeah, people are just like, you'd think they're going to like a ball. Yeah, yeah, like sparkly clothes and shit. Yeah, exactly. It was just like, I'm at a restaurant. I had my sweats on. You didn't fit in? Yeah. Look at that homeless guy.

He's playing that quarter slot machine. But then some fucker just sat down next to me and was just like, that, this guy better not get me sick. But I was not feeling great before I even got there though, so I can't blame that guy. Sure you can. What did you do for New Year's? You went out to dinner, you say? Yeah, I went out to a nice dinner. Well, yeah, I went out to dinner.

It was quiet. Where at? It's a nice Italian restaurant. You don't want to say, huh? That's out to dinner. It was quiet. Where at? It's a nice Italian restaurant. You don't want to say, huh? That's your place? You want anybody to know? I don't really remember the name of the place. You know what? I believe it. Yeah.

I don't really know the place. I saw somebody eating food there. They seemed to enjoy it. I've eaten there once. I really don't remember. It was just that they made the residence. What town? This is your president, by the way. I don't know. That's why I put Biden back in office. Manisquan.

Manisquan, okay. Off 34? It's on 35. 35, okay. Yeah, no, it's good. Their food's always been good. I'm sure they could have used the little plug, but it's not to be. I think it's Angeles. I'm not sure. Did you make it to midnight? Oh yeah. Yeah.

And after. And then. Ranging the new year. Doing what? And I literally say. Oh wow. Oh, okay. 2025, he's not waiting a second.

Oh, get him found it? That's it. What's the name of it? Is it Angeles? Antonio's. Antonio's Trotterios. Food's really good. What'd you second. That's it. Oh, get him found it? That's it. What's the name of it? Is it Angeles?

Antonio's. Antonio's Trotterios. Antonio's. Antonio's. Food's really good. What'd you get? I liked it. I got some chicken parmesan.

I got some calamari. Oh, squid? Fried calamari, yeah. That's why you were able to make it after midnight. That's an aphrodisiac, isn't it? I don't know if it's an aphrodisiac. I think it's oysters, but it's got squid breath. Come here, honey. I'm going to get you some. make it after midnight. That's an aphrodisiac, isn't it? I don't know if that's an aphrodisiac.

I think you're thinking oysters, but he's got squid breath. Come here, honey. I don't think I was – at least nobody was fucking coughing on me. Squidly-doodly over there. You play your fucking arcade games and have people coughing on you all night. Did he make any resolutions? Nah. He gave it some thought. You know, he did.

Resolution. You know what? There's not one thing that you'd be like, you know what I'm going to do this year? I'm going to do this or I'm not going to do this. Nothing, huh? No. I'm not going to buy Star Wars dildoys. Dildoys. Dildoys. Did Star Wars dildo. Dildo. Dildo.

Dildo. Dildo. Did you say dildo? Whatever it is. Did you make it at midnight? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Not much longer after midnight though.

Yeah. Did it ring in the bell? No. I was too tired. Oh, so when did you go to the casino? During the day? How was there at midnight? No, we went at like nine. Oh, you stayed there. You didn't come back home.

I came home the next day. Next day, okay. January 1st. All right, gotcha. Where did you eat? I was trying to figure it out. Chick-fil-A. Oh, Christ.

That's a hard name to forget. Can you find that? They had some – these really nice chicken nuggets that I really enjoyed. You both had chicken Sunday while you judged at them. You just had a little more sauce on yours. And then I had some casino pizza, which did not agree with me later on at night when I woke up, uh, coffins, some acid reflux. Real pizza, like New York pizza, or was it Chuck E. Cheese style pizza?

It was Chuck E. Cheese style pizza and the sauce, uh, definitely I had some acid. I haven't had acid reflux in maybe two years. I woke up with acid reflux. It's just the worst. It's the worst. It is literally the worst. You know what? Domino's does that to me. Domino's destroys, like mysophagus. It looked like that guy's fucking house with all the fire around his house. It just doesn't stop. After a certain hour, you can't even eat Domino's.

No matter how much fucking water you drink, it just doesn't go away. Yeah, I've heard drinking milk and shit. That doesn't's. No matter how much fucking water you drink, no matter, it just doesn't go away. Yeah, I've heard drinking milk and shit. That doesn't work. It's the worst. I don't, I don't ever get it. You just gotta sit there and wait. If I eat that pizza.

At night? Or anytime. If I eat that pizza anytime. So you can eat it at noon and then go. No, no, no, no. I'm saying if I eat Domino's period, like when I used to eat Domino's, it would always, always give me that problem. Nothing else gives me a problem.

I'm fine. Even if, if you went to bed like 12 hours after eating? What are you talking about? I just told you, Domino's gives it to me anytime, whether it's in the daytime or nighttime, doesn't matter. Domino's period. So you could have it while you're sitting up? Like right now, if you would have Domino's two hours ago. He's so confused. You don't have to lie down like it gives me bad so confused. Yeah, you don't have to lie down.

It gives me bad heartburn. Yeah, it does. It would bother me. You know what? Okay, when I get a fact. When you lay down. It's when I'm sleeping and laying down that the acid reflux happens. I actually have that when I'm standing up too.

If I'm sitting up. I've never had it sitting up. It'll bother me. Yeah, their sauce is fucking. It's like battery acid for me. Yeah, I agree. So last time I probably had it was like probably in the 90s, but I don't get it at all. I mean, that's the only thing that gives me, that's the only thing that bothers me.

You swore it off. Yeah, well, I won't eat their pizza unless they change the sauce. I'm not taking that chance. Yeah, I found that like when I was fatter, I would get it a lot more too. Yeah, it would do it a lot more too. What would do it to me were spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, chocolate and soda. Like all that shit. I love the sauce, the dipping sauce for Pizza Hut with the cheese sticks.

I have to be disciplined. I have to eat it before 6 PM. That's a cutoff? You're taking a chance with flirting. You're not going to bed at 6.30? No, but let's say I go to bed at midnight or 1. That's a long time. I know. It still might not be enough time for me to get it past the stage.

No, no, no, no. I got to stay up for another hour. Yeah. There's not a chance on the planet I will eat it after seven. Yeah, that's too much. That's the worst too. It just doesn't go away. Yeah, it takes a long time. You're sleeping in the morning and then all of a sudden it would come up. Like, bluh! Yeah, it's like literally you can't get rid of, it's, you can't get rid of it. It's like, no matter how much water you drink, it's the nastiest shit.

Taste them bile or whatever. Whatever. Stomach acid. It's terrible. Yeah. Think about it. It's like, it's meant to break down food. So like, why wouldn't it break down your throat?

Any resolutions? I have none except, uh, I'm going to try to spend my time more wisely, not watching so much TV. Like I got really into the, hey, don't you laugh at me, get them. You got movies. Yeah. I did get movies for Christmas. But I watched a show and I got really into the Oregon Trail, the westbound trail that they did in the 1840s, 1850s. That they used to go across America? Yeah. Just like the Donner Party and all that shit. I've just been reading a lot on that

lately. I'm educating myself on American history. I don't know what good it will do me. I'm 57. Who gives a fuck? Never too late. Why? Because I don't know what good it's going to do me knowing about the Oregon Trail, but I just – it's interesting. What is it – I good it's going to do me knowing about the Oregon Trail, but it's interesting. What is it – I mean it's sincerity. What about interests you though?

The hardships. The hardships. Like how difficult it must have been in the balls these people must have had or brainless some of them. Now what were they up against? Wild animals. Elements. The elements, dysentery, cholera.

What kind of animals though would be dangerous? Wolves. Bears and wolves. Yeah, they said they ran into a lot of bears and wolves. They didn't have guns? They did. They did. They could fight, like, shoot, they could ward them off, but I think if you're out

going to the bathroom or something, you get surprised by a wolf or a pack of wolves maybe. You know? Get done. This still exists, this trail? I think you can take it, but it's not like a real trail anymore. Go through a city. Yeah. I was reading it, it was like this one guy was like, hey, man, I found a shortcut, everybody. Yeah. I was reading it. It was like this one guy was like, hey, man, I found a shortcut, everybody.

People listened. It was called Hastings Cutoff. The guy had not used the trail. When people got there, they're like, what the fuck? There's trees in the way. There's mountains in the way. I found a shortcut. It's called a plane.

Yeah. No, I'm sorry. The trail exists as it did back in the day? I think pretty much, yeah. That's what your goal should be. To walk the trail? To So the trail exists as it did back in the day? I think pretty much, yeah. That's what your goal should be. To walk the trail? To walk the trail. Gets eaten by a wolf.

I thought of like, Nishella was like, what a reality show that would be if like people tried, like you took what they took with them, you know, the 150 pounds of flour, the fucking 75 pounds of bacon, all that shit, you know? Bacon? Yeah, they would take bacon with them because it's cured, yeah. Really? flour, the fucking 75 pounds of bacon, all that shit. You know? And then – Bacon? Yeah, they would take bacon with them because it's cured. Yeah. So –

Really? Yeah. So they would take bacon. That's why all the fucking bears are fucking chasing you. Probably. Yeah. They can smell all the food. You're taking this bacon and fucking –

Like this. You got to wipe all of your hands and shit. Yeah. But like after I watched Deadwood, I really romanticized the 1800s. I was like, what a great time it would have been to live. Then you go and you read about it. It's like, no, every part of it seems to suck. Well, I don't think you could walk it.

I didn't realize it stretched through all these states, but you could ride your bike across it. I mean, everybody left from Missouri, Independence, Missouri. It's a hell of a trail. Can't motorcycle across that? I don't think so, Missouri. It's a hell of a trail. You can't motorcycle across that? I don't think so, no. You're like going across planes and other people's property at this point. Back then it was all open.

I thought we were just going through the trail. People walking through. They haven't preserved it as one of those historic – Some parts of it they have. Where the Donner Party died, they preserved that. But you're telling me that some of the trail then is covered up by asphalt and fuck as strip malls? Probably. I would have to guess so. But you're telling me that some of the trail then is covered up by asphalt and fuck a strip malls?

Probably. I would have to guess so. Well, then you know you're – well, then you – I mean, I don't know if that'd make a great reality show then. Well, it depends. I mean, if you can like go around it, you know, if you can – I mean, I'm not sure like – I'll bet you like when you're going through Nebraska and Wyoming – Yeah, I'm sure a lot of that's on short –

It's still the same – yeah, still the same area. But yeah, when they were going back then, it was like they had to worry about Indians too. Like some Indian tribes are nice, but a lot of those Indians are kind of assholes in the city. Not the casino type. Seven-Eleven type. I'm telling you, that's what your goal should be, is to you and Mary Beth get her a bike.

She can't ride a bike. All right, so you ask her to ride in the back of your motor cycle. She's not allowed to ride a bike. No, she's not allowed to ride a bicycle. What's it called? The Oregon Trail. You can't do the Oregon Trail. I know somebody did do it.

I saw a book about it, but I didn't buy it. So I'll look at his book and see. I mean, you definitely want to get off at certain points so you can, you know, get a hotel room for the night. Sure. But it probably would take only a couple of, right? What are you talking about? It's like 2,000 miles. That's like half the country.

That's not that far, right? Wait a minute though. We drove to – Where's my magnifying glass? We drove from Jersey to California in five. Yeah, but these guys are going like 12, 15 miles a day. They're also walking. They're not taking your car.

No, no, no. You're taking a motorcycle. You're not taking a horse. He just said he can't go over it. It's all terrain. Yeah, I think it's – I don't think – Oh, your motorcycle can't get over all terrain? No, it's not a dirt bike. It's a fucking regular motorcycle. Yeah, but it's still a motorcycle though. Yeah, but that doesn't matter. I'll be falling off.

Can I take an 18-wheeler around a racetrack? It's still got wheels and engine. Here you go. I saw Stallone ride a motorcycle as Rambo over in a jungle. That was a dirt bike. You're telling me you don't think you can handle your bike on the Oregon Trail? He assaulted some 16-year-old kid to take that bike. Let me ask you, how much of me resembles Rambo in any way, shape or form? But you know how to ride the bike though.

I do know how to ride the bike, but I just feel like if this was the Oregon Trail right here, I can't drive over that grass and stuff. It's just grass. I know, but there's rocks and stuff, there's trees in the way. I guess you go around the tree. He's got no reality. Yeah, I got to bring stuff with me though too. It was kind of like I got to roast his brain.

Yes, you bring some water, you bring some – no bacon. You bring some health bars. But every day you get off the trail and find a fucking interstate so you can stay at a fucking comfort inn or something. If there is an interstate close to there. Of course there is. Oh, here you go. Ride the modern Oregon Trail, Oregon trail rides.

That guy's on a motorcycle, you're right. Yeah. What the hell's wrong with you guys? Man, you guys are fucking soft. And it's not a trail. Shh, it's fucking. It's not a trail. You want to, oh, you know what? Let me, let me go Mount Everest.

Let me go to Mount Everest and just helicopter up me up there. That's all. It's the same thing. Actually, my dream of going to Everest, I've kind of put it on. I don't even, I don't even hold on anymore. Did you know there's like almost half of Mount Everest, like if you were to take off half of it, the reason it's so high is because it's so much shit piled on top of it, like literal human shit makes it the highest mountain there is. What?

Get the fuck out of here. I'm not fucking with you. Really? So it's like how many feet? 20,000 feet? So 10,000 feet is real mountain. You know 10,000 is just shit. Yes.

Right? Right, get them? Mount Everest climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp. Okay, yeah, you're right. They're shitting all over the mountain. There's so much human excrement up there that the mountain is – every year it becomes a little bit taller because of all the shit that's on it. The excrement doesn't – because of the – not the humidity but the environment,

it doesn't break down. It's too cold up there. So it just lasts forever. And every shit on top of shit on top of shit eventually starts to make the mountain grow even taller. So everybody's sitting in the same place. Yeah. There's so many places.

So I see a pile of shit and I go try to shit on top of that pile to make the mountain bigger. And another guy going to go on top of there and get a ladder to make that even higher. I think there's only so many places you can shit. There's no bathrooms up there. What do you think they're going to do? Yeah, I understand. But I don't think, I think there's a lot of the same routes that go up, like the safe routes up the top of the mountain.

Oh, the road routes you're talking about? So you're, you're going to want to stay and crap off those, off those routes. You're not going to want to take a long, you know, like I need privacy. I'm going to go, I'm going to take a half a mile trek down this way. You got to conserve your energy. You don't have the oxygen. So you shit where mostly you saw this person shot there. So I'll shut.

Yeah. You walk a little bit away from base camp. Yeah. Do your business. Three tons. Three tons of it. Oh yeah. Although no official figure exists, the organization estimates that there are

around three tons of human excrement between three tons, bro. You laughed at me. You laughed at me. You laughed at me. I don't know if that made the mountain higher. I don't know if that's making the mountain higher. That it's even higher now. So the guy who really declined it, his record can't be broken after it's actually 40 higher. It looks like a chocolate sundae at this point. That's what it looks like. It's like white ice cream and the top of it is glazed in fucking chocolate syrup because there's so much shit up there.

And who the fuck wants the traipse around an egg? I wouldn't do it anyways. Right? But I used to romanticize it. Like I want to do it. I would love to try it. I wouldn't want to step anywhere near something like that. How far we got?

I can still see my car. Is it much farther? There's hardly any ice and snow, so you will see. I'm sure there's a lot more dead bodies up there too. Well, yeah, they can't take the shit down. They can't get, well, three times is a lot. But I was going to say they can't gather it up and slide it down the hill or something, put on a sled. I don't know why they can't burn it. Shits are burning.

Why can't they burn it? Low oxygen. Oh really? No fires? Are there no campfires? Low oxygen. You gotta have a propane. Propane.

All right. So why, oh, and you can't waste a propane by burning shit. Cause that's the first thing I would do and I'd be like, Hey rookie, don't waste your propane trying to burn all this shit. Burn this. Yeah, but I would, I would, if you really have this love affair with the Oregon trail, you should one day drive it. That would be cool.

Yeah. Yeah. I've really only like looked into, I haven't looked into modern day Oregon Trail, so I'm not even sure what it is or where it goes anymore, but I just follow. And where does it start? Missouri? That's the point of it though. You just don't want to ride on a road. Right, right.

It's just like driving across the country on just on a regular road. You want to actually go on the trail. Or the National Historic Trail. Well, to do that, you need to be able to drive over grass though, and he's very unsure of It's just like driving across the country on just on a regular road. You want to actually go on the trail. The national historic trail. Well, to do that, you need to be able to drive over grass though. And he's very unsure of himself. No, you would need special. They did it with horses.

Right. I thought a motorcycle should be able to handle any horse can do. If I got a dual sport bike, yeah, I could do it. Yeah. What's a dual sport bike? Like it has could do it. Yeah. Yeah. What's a dual sport bike? It has knobby tires so it grips better. My tires, they're made for roads, they're not made for trails, but my brother has a bike like that. Borrow his. What's that?

Or ask him to come with you. It'd be good to have a second person. Yeah, he knows a lot about what my car has to do. And the other thing is, thank you. How many Exxon stations do you think are on that fucking trail? I don't mean the Disparage Cube, but P.Q. has been in Hollywood way too long. He is not capable of traveling the Oregon Trail. He's not. No five-star hotels on there? He can't bring his assistant with him, so there's no way he's going.

He can. He can just hover over there with a helicopter. Yeah, so that's what I've been doing. I did nothing on New Year's, stayed home, ordered some dinner. And even watched a winter classic. Can we end with some sports talk? Sure. Why not? the winter classic. I'm like, can we end with some sports talk? Sure. Why not?

The winter classic. Did you see the abysmal ratings for the winter classic? No. Well, it's overdone now, but I'm saying I didn't even watch it. I didn't even know it was on, let alone, but at this point- Is this the one that you went to with Gittum last year? It's an outdoor game. It's something like that.

I don't know why- That was the outdoors. That was stadiums. Yeah, stadiums. I don't know why some are called outdoor classics and others are called the winter classics. Yeah, I don't understand it either. It's like why are they doing like – the object was to have the one game. The novelty has worn off. It's the same teams over and over. I mean, it wasn't in Chicago, I think, in this one.

Oh yeah, it was Chicago. But I'm saying it's always the same team. It's either Philadelphia, Chicago, it's Detroit. It's always the same team. I mean, obviously because you can't really had stuff out in the West, but they did do some games out in the West. Yeah. If I was Dan H.

Hall, I'd be like, we got to kill the winter classic and bring it back in 10 years, make people want it again. Because right now it's. What were the ratings? I missed it. Gideon's probably pulling them up. Okay. I mean, you saw the one.

It's a 2020. The Devil's Game at MetLife. Definitely not set up for a hockey arena. So it's got, I mean, how far could you really see what was going on? I could see nothing. Right. You still have to look at the jump board, right? I saw nothing.

I had no idea what was going on. What happened? Did they score? People were standing up, who scored? I don't know how they did it. I saw a helicopter flew over us. I could see the fucking, I could see the brand name of the guy's glasses he was wearing, who was driving

a helicopter. That's how close we were to the helicopter than we were to the stadium. Get him, I've been excited. This is the closest I'm going to get to Everest. And there's no shit. Oh, get him. Just like I said, there's no shit. Stadium is just a little higher. Yeah. But yeah, I would definitely put the kibosh on the NHL.

Well, I'm looking here. Is this the lowest rating? From 2020 to now, I mean, from 2020 it's dropped precipitously. Yeah. Like. I said, it's been a lot of the same teams, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit, it's always been the same teams. And I have said this, you go back on Puck Nuts or TSD. I don't know where I said it, but I have been of this mindset

from the very beginning. I do not know why this was such a like game changer. Who cares? The only difference between this game and a regular game is that there's no roof overhead. Who the fuck cares? Like do something. You're not one of the games. Right. It was interesting.

I was cold. I was freezing. But at the end of the day, they're just outside. That's the only difference. Why is this a big deal? The goalies wearing hats. I mean, I thought it was pretty cool when they did in Canada the first time. It was, it was just like a, like a novelty game. Like you did it just for that. I don't know if you need to do it every year.

I don't think you need to do it. I wouldn't, I do a 10 year moratorium. Is that the right word? Yeah. Very good. Pronounced correctly. Yeah. Um, on the outdoor games.

No more outdoor games. Come up with a new concept, a new twist that'll get to capture people's imaginations and it may think, think outside the box. Like maybe, what's a winter animal? Polar bear? Too dangerous. Penguin? Penguin. At one point during each period, a penguin is released on the ice and you have

to play around it. That's it with the slap shot. Got animal activists kind of empty and shit. Sat there with a stretcher and all these emperor $10,000, $20,000 emperor penguins you're pulling up. Or you do that. Or walrus like at the commercial. The guy's sleeping. He's like, no sleepies. No sleepies, Duncan.

You got to do a thing outside the box at this point to get people. It's called the circus though. That's called the circus. That's not fucking a hockey game anymore. I feel like in Russia, they didn't think to do that with bears. Yeah, Russian bears with the hats and shit riding the unicycles. Fucking fantasy world. It's out of control, man. I think when he was rearranging those books, I think he put the fucking bookcase fell out

of the wall and fell on his head. Yeah, that's what you need. I'd go see that game though. I would definitely go see it. If there was a walrus in goalie? Yeah. And another, I want to add another sports talk. Um, Lions, um, my Detroit Lions, I'm, I'm, I. I'm happy for them.

Yeah. They clinched number one overall in the NFC, never been done before by that team. So it was very. Actually in the league, right? They had the best record in the league because Kansas City lost. Uh, same amount, same out, but they had never achieved that before. It was really cool to see. And, oh fuck, what was I going to say now?

Tell them Steve, Dave. Uh, who, who you got in the Super Bowl then? I'm going to say Detroit and Kansas City. Wow. Oh, I hope so. I can't pick the Lions though because that's a jinx I think to pick the Lions. We haven't spoken though. Your Giants released Daniel Jones.

Oh, yeah. Well, I knew about that. I don't care about the Giants right now, man. It's hard to watch that team. It's just hard. I mean, it's like, I know there's bad, I don't know what it feels to be a Jet fan all those years. I mean, it's just like, even the Jets didn't play that well this year.

Even getting that quarterback, it wasn't going to make the difference there. It wasn't going to make a difference. Just not. It's hard to watch these games. It's just like, that was the only one home game this year. Giants? Yeah. The last one, right?

It was the last home game, yeah. Yeah. Well, you've been a Lions guy forever. Do you feel pressure now? Oh, sure. Like they're doing so well? Oh, yeah. You would think there's gotta be that time that comes over the hump, like Tampa Bay,

you know, won a Super Bowl. Yeah, but there's still so many good teams out there. There is. I mean, you got the Eagles. And a lot of listeners assume that I'm some sort of bandwagon. No, as long as I know you always like Detroit. I need you to testify for me Sunday. No, you've always liked Detroit. Yeah. Put your hand up. I mean, it's just that. You just swear I you always like Detroit. I need you to testify for me Sunday. No, you've always liked Detroit. Put your hand up.

I mean, it's just that. You just swear I don't like the Bible. That's definitely true. He's always liked Detroit. Now, and the reason they're like, well, I never heard you talk about the Lions. And I'm just like, what was there to talk about? But I'm saying, I don't know if you're really ever a Patriots fan. You just were a Brady fan. Exactly. You liked the quarterback.

Yeah. And when he left- I used that loosely. I loved the quarterback. And when he left the Patriots, I followed him to Tampa. How do you think about the announcing? I think he's doing a really good job. I like him as an announcer. Ready? Yeah. I think he's done really well. I think he's won people over.

Yeah. You know, it took him a while. Not at first, right? It took a little bit. It took a while. Well, that was like, what's his name too? Like, I like Romo also as a… I like them all. And there's no announcer that I'm like, oh God, I can't bear to hear them. I like Akeman. I like Romo. I like, who's the other wacko? Collinsworth. I like them all. I don't think any of them do. Al Michaels and his color guy, they're kind of bland, but I don't hate them though. Well, he's done a lot. The other guy he's done-

Streitsberg or something like that. Yeah. I'm just saying that. It's like, I don't know. There's always something with, I just never really liked Al Michael's voice. Who's Al Michael's color guy? Talrico or something. No, Talrico's the guy on Sunday night. Al Michael's in Kirk something. He always travels with a dog, which has a warm spot for me. He always brings a dog with him?

Yeah. He brings his dog everywhere. He's like me. I wish I could bring my dog everywhere. To the casino. Yeah. Teddy hit the button. Kirk Street? Kirk Herb Street.

Yeah, it's close. Kirk Herb Street. Yeah, these games are on Prime too. Playing that game again. I got Prime. Yeah. Not everybody has Prime. Do you have Prime? I don't have it personally. Are you hinting that you want my password? I'll give it to you someday. You got it. I'll hook you

up. I'd rather have Fubu. You'd rather have Fubu? I can't give you the Fubu because my guy will know. Because you have to have a separate account. So yeah, he'll know immediately. Any Fubu guys there? You can that would be 10 TVs. I cannot give you the FUBU. We're gonna have to talk. You know what? The only way you get the FUBU is if all of a sudden you're ordering masterworks from the stash. Maybe then we'll talk FUBU. Come on, Steve, Dave. Hey, Jeffrey. Hey, Jeffrey. You're ordering Masterworks now, Jeffrey? Yeah.

There's no Jeffrey in my house. No, the guy, I'm doing your boss's fucking invitation. It's not a good one. Hey, bud, I noticed you've been ordering Masterworks. A lot of them. Spider-Man? Never got this before. What else is here? X-Men? So are Surfer. Would it stand out? I do get one. The only one I get-

Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider is the only one I get. How many are they up to? There's only one more left for Ghost Rider. No, I'm saying have they crossed 400 in Master Workshop? No, getting very close. Close, right? 383, 39? Yeah.

That's nuts. They'll never have them all. That's how many volumes there are? Yeah, they only put like, I think, nine or they're nine in there? Ten issues in a volume. How many X-Men issues are there? But I have a cutoff mark. Oh, you're not going to continue? No, like certain series I'm like, once they get into the 90s, it's like it was or he'll be… Jared I mean, you guys, you know, it's just like, knowing that Blake, it goes from like 416

to 423, he's not going to be able to sleep. No. That's a beyond asher reflux for him. Yeah, that is a disease that you know well, if you see 416 and it jumps all the way to 420, yeah, you can't abide by that. That's like having a limb missing. That's right. There's something incomplete and it will eat at you. Yes.

And gnaw at you until you go online and buy it. I'm buying the 90s and I got to spend even more money for it because I didn't pick it up when it came out. Exactly. Do you have all the early ones too? All of them. All of them, huh? The only ones I don't have are the, I don't know if you even know what this is, the life of the flipper. Do you have all the early ones too? All of them. All of them, huh? Yeah.

The only ones I don't have are the Atlas, I don't know if you even know what this is, the Atlas versions. When before Marvel, before Marvel became Marvel, they were Atlas timely. Hmm. Like the gold, like this is, we're talking the golden age. Oh, you don't have those volumes? I don't have those volumes. Like golden age volumes, it's like golden age Marvel or something, right?

Yeah, I don't have that because I wasn't around for that. It is, but for me personally, I have no connection to it. I have no exposure to it. So you've never read them at all? Maybe in reprints in the back of some 70s issues, but I have no desire to have those issues and maybe if I get that wing that I've been trying to work on, maybe then I'll expand and get the golden, but for now – It's a fucking Library of Congress.

I got to play it close to the vest. I can't have everything. You want the masterworks? You have to go take this ticket, validate your parking. It's down the call. Do you think there's any possibility that the ants could pay to come and not give them a tour of my library? Could be.

I'm sure. You weren't even allowed to take gift cards away from your brother-in-law. I think your wife's going to let all these random people in the house. A dollar per tour. If you throw the backyard in there, you might. The compliments on the backyard, you might. All right. Maybe $10.

$10 seems fair. Okay, $10. Take a tour. I could tell you my first personal favorite volumes. So, you like fucking Forrest Ackerman now. People just coming in this house. Fucking Flannerman. How many tours do you think I could book?

I'll picture more than you think. People come in here, you're not too far from here. Got to talk to her about that. Get a picture with Teddy. Extra 20 bucks. Bump it up. Yeah, bump it up. It's true.

Tell them Steve, Dave.