Tell Em Steve-Dave - #629: Comin’ in Hot!

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

A day in the life, Walt’s backyard, broken heart syndrome, twerking flight attendant. Go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TESDSHOW

I fucking own the corporation! Yeah, Jesus, yeah! I can put my feet up fucking 24-7 and it's fine! Like that in the general store is pro twerking. I come in, I'm like a freaking robot. I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do and I go home. I don't care. I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining to bitches and I go home. I don't care. I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining to bitch in the morning.

It's like working here. Tell him Steve, Dave. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of tell him Steve, Dave. I look across the table. I see Walt Flanagan. As always. As always. Look across the table.

I don't see BQ. Is he down in Key West already? He might – I don't know. He was texting with me and Walt and he said he didn't even have one hour to spare this week. Not even an hour. I'm sure that like frazzles your brain, right? For like – It's inconceivable to not have multiple hours available.

Whatever the drop of a hat. Just showing. Imagine that like a couple of hours ago. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym.

I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. hours available at the drop of a hat. Just show up. I can imagine that just fries every circuit. Yeah.

I was like, that doesn't happen in real life, does it? Yes, and no cue this week, but fan favorite, Sunday Jeff. Hello. All right, Sunday. Sunday was just saying the same thing though. He doesn't have enough time to even watch Devil's Hockey anymore. I don't get paid like you. He doesn't have an hour to watch the Devils.

He says he watches five-minute highlights. Doesn't have an hour to watch it. How are you that busy? I got a film in for Q. so he doesn't have that hour. That's my hour. This is my free hour, so here I am. He took your hour this week? Yeah, he took my hour this week.

I also think he goes to sleep at like seven or eight o'clock at night. Is that true? No, I can't. I tried. I wound up going to sleep at 10, 11 o'clock. I wake up at 4.30. I don't know. I'm just habit.

I can run on five and a half hours of sleep. I can. I don't know how I do it, but I do. You need to be studied. Yeah. Zombified. Yeah, it's just used to it. Nobody's used have it. I can run on five and a half hours of sleep. I can. I don't know how I do it, but I do. You need to be studied. Zombified. Yeah, it's just used to it. You don't try to go to bed by seven? I do.

I can't. I want to go to bed that early. I wouldn't go to bed that early anyways. I mean, 930 is probably the cuff. It's like when I could try to do it. Just I can't. Why don't you load up on sleeping medicine? No, I'm telling you.

I'm telling you. Melatonin works, right? I can't. It's just like I just can't function that way for some reason. You got to talk to get him. He could fall asleep. What's that narcolepsy where he could just fall asleep, you know, in a concert. We were getting here to record and you guys, I walked up on you guys in the hallway and you said that you thought he was sleeping. Yeah, the door's all locked. Why else? All three of us are waiting to get into the office.

It's locked. That door's closed, so I keep the office locked. Aren't you supposed to be open selling stuff right now? That's why there's a doorbell. But this door was open down here. We didn't know that. We can't say. We're not looking. We did podcasts and he was remembering, it sounded like a fricking bear over here in the corner.

When we were doing the Sunday grinds. Sunday grinds, yeah. You could hear him get them snoring away. Now do you ever fear you might have narcolepsy? I've thought about it because every once in a while when I'm driving I get very – That's always a good time. Wow. He wakes up the wheels spinning upside down on the car. His head's just bleeding. He's like, I'm on narcolepsy.

I don't know what it is, like I can... It sometimes happens when I'm on a long drive. Like I wake up, take a shower, go get coffee, and I'm like, finished my coffee, and I'm driving down the parkway, and just all of a sudden, like I can't keep my eyes open. You're just 10 minutes away. Well, it's just like, again, when I'm long distance driving, like I'm going to a relative's house for a holiday or something.

So sometimes I'll just pull over, take a quick nap and then I'm good. But not enough to make you concerned enough to get to a doctor, maybe get checked out, get some blood work done, see if you've got any issues with narcolepsy that should be … Knowing my chief, it's probably an exhaust leak. That's why it's happening. There's no way he's going to – look, he's got a clone growing on his elbow and you're worried about – he hasn't gone to the doctor for that. I've got to cut it off at a certain length and growth period.

The growth might cut him off. And then he can start walking around. It might actually cut him off. It might actually cut him off. Might actually kill him off. Become self-aware. I have been to the doctor for this. And what did they say? Aside from gross, what did they say? They took a swab, there wasn't an infection, and just said, if it happens again, come back.

It looks better. I think it actually does look better. Maybe not. It does. It does look better. Maybe not. It does. It does. It does look better. Maybe not. Yeah, that actually was one of the things I wanted to talk to Sunday Jeff about because

I was wondering how do you fill your day? I know you work from, your work day is pretty long. Let's hear a day in the life of Sunday Jeff. Yeah, and then I'll tell you what I did. Yeah, compare them. Oh, don't start laughing already, Jeff. I know. Wait until you hear what I did. Yeah, compare them. Oh, don't start laughing already, Jeff. I know. Wait until you hear what I did.

The time is filled up. I mean it's like everything else. I wake up at 4.30. I'm at a house at a quarter after. No, hold on. You're glossing over all the fun things. The fun things. I wake up at 4.30.

Okay, that was the first thing you do when you open your eyes. Yeah, it's like a cheat day. You know, on my summer vacation, I woke up. Then I went downstairs. Do you need an alarm clock to wake you up? I do, but I automatically wake up at that time anyways. I'm always up before the alarm. So you try to wake up at that time.

I'm always up before the alarm. I'm always up before the alarm. I'm always up before the alarm. I'm always up before the alarm. I'm always up before the alarm. I'm always up before the alarm. downstairs. Do you need an alarm clock to wake you up? I do, but I automatically wake up at that time anyways. I'm always up before the alarm. So you turn the alarm off. When is the alarm set to a certain radio station?

430. Yeah, it's set to something really low. I think it's 101.5. Okay, I was going to say, do you have an alarm clock or use your phone? No, I don't use my phone. Okay. Then you get up. Do you take a shower?

No, I get my hours in, so I take a shower at night. This is vital information. I know, I should be writing this, but it's recorded, so I'll just listen back later. The summertime is like, I can't go to bed after being all sweaty all day, so I always take my showers at night. So you don't, this has always bothered me. I can't, I have to take a shower after I wake up because I sweat when I sleep. And when I'm awake, so I don't know had to take a shower after I wake up because I sweat when I sleep.

And when I'm awake. So I don't know when to take a shower. That's when I get my cardio. When I'm sleeping. My heart being stressed. And then just put on clean clothes. I don't sweat at all. I mean, I just, when they're sleeping,

I find that hard to believe. It's like, it looks like he just did the marathon with you same bolt. Now maybe your sweats are induced by your lack of not drinking lately. You've been drinking. How long have you been natty free? No. Ever since I was a child, I sweat when I sleep. My parents would tell me when they took me out of the car, I'd be dripping wet.

Are you sure they weren't just urinating and they just said it was sweat? Somebody's having a party. Did that make you feel self-conscious? No, no. Why is my sweat like this? So you'll wake up with cold sweats? No, I wake up drenched in sweat. That's usually when a fever breaks or something.

I'm not sitting on that couch anymore. That should be a super fun sight, that couch. That's not normal, like you wake up sweating. But since you're a baby, baby sweats. That's really unusual. Unless you're sick or something, I wake up dry as could be. Dry as a bone, right? All right.

Well, at least it's only sweat and it's not the other stuff either. So you wake up, you don't take a shower. So what do you do? You go in and make coffee, I bet, right? Yeah, coffee's made. I make coffee. Do you have a coffee maker or do you…? I have both.

In the morning, I use the curry because it's quick. Use the what? Curry. The curry though with the quick. Use the what? Curry. The curry though with the little capsules. Oh man, that's a fucking- Time saver. Yeah. Oh, I remember you used to go nuts when you used to get the, Ming used to get him the

death wish coffee curry. Still does every now and then. Ming, I need some coffee. How much coffee will you drink before you get to work to get you up and ready for the day? Well, I don't, I drink it as I'm going to work, so one cup. That's it. You only need one cup to get your guy going, wow. He always insists he only drinks one cup of coffee. And then, boom.

Well, that's coming here. I mean, I have been up at 4.30. And then on Sundays, he would go and go get a Rook coffee while we were working. I don't do that no more. Okay, then what do you do while you're drinking the coffee? I drive. I drive to work. So you just roll around in bed? No, you get dressed. It's like everything else.

You get dressed. You don't put the news on. You don't – No, I listen to music in the morning. You know I don't listen to news. That's right. But you don't like – I don't know, check the scores at a double game maybe? No, I do that at night.

Do that at work. You should talk. Yeah, that's – You should talk about it. You should talk, too. That's your job. I fucking own the corporation. Jesus. I about it. You should talk too. I fucking own the corporation. I can put my feet up fucking 24-7 and it's fine.

I've heard more lines, press conferences. When you own the fucking business, you can do whatever you want. So we're not on the same level as Gittum? I wasn't aware of this. No, that's the thing. He has to get through his thick fucking... But isn't he the head of the department? I thought he was the head of the department. Aren't you the office manager? He's up there too, isn't he? No, he's not. Yeah, he's not at the... General manager?...height where

he could just do whatever he wants. Make decisions? No. Well, it seems like he is at that height. So you don't... You just get right into the car and you're immediately on the road. Yeah, I mean, I just don't want to feed the cat and stuff like that. Then I head on out. Oh, he's grabbing the mic. Yeah, he's touching the mic. Head on out and how long of a ride is it? About 35 minutes.

Not too bad. That's not too great either though. It's a pretty long ride. Yeah, it could be a lot longer. What do you listen to in the car? Whatever's on. I listen to Pandora or whatever. Rocksteish. Depends it could be a lot longer. What do you listen to in the car?

Whatever's on. I listen to Pandora or whatever. Rocksteesh. Depends on what mood I'm in. Yeah. Do you get rocking in the morning? No, I usually put it's like slow rock or something. I usually have 70s. Soft rock. 70s. Now you don't think maybe a little bit more of an up tempo music might help you? A little Motley Crue in the morning. Some ACDC maybe. Yeah. It might get your heart pumping so you can get into work with a – like hit the day,

running. I do that anyways. It doesn't matter what I'm listening to. You come in like a tiger? Yeah. I come in hot, bro. Coming in hot. How many years have you been there?

How many years have you been there? This August is going to be 36. I have – I really – I don't mean to say that I don't buy that, but I don't buy that you come in hot 36 years into it. Yeah, I come in hot. There's nobody that goes into their job 36 years into it. They come in on an aircraft carrier. I'm coming in hot.

He's kicking that door open. Look, all my work is done. All my work is done. Let's sell some fucking parts. There's no way. Well, I'm there before anybody else anyway, so. Okay. I'm there before anybody else anyway. They're like an hour before everybody's there.

So I do what I'm supposed to do and then get it open. Do you open the place? No, I don't. Well, there's other people. Do you turn the lights on? No, just a mic. Somebody's there before you then? No, I'm the first one in there.

So you open the place? I'm not opening up the place to like for business. But you open the door. Yeah, I'm the first one through the door. The doors are locked. You're the first one in there. Yeah, I'm the first one in there. So you open the place. I'm not opening up the place to like for business. It's a customer's place, but you open the door. Yeah, I'm the first one through the door. The doors are locked. You're the first one here. Yeah, I'm the first one in there. Okay. I deactivate the alarm. So you, this is they… We trusted. We're a trusted employer.

Thirty-six years. Thirty-six years. That's one of the privileges. You get there first for everybody else. You get there free, you get there 5.30 in the morning. You know what? I don't mind leaving at 2.30 though. I don't mind leaving at 2.30 though. So then what's a typical day at work? Like do you put out a lot of fires? Is there a lot of gossip around the – in the inner office community? This isn't the office. This isn't like what you see on TV.

Is there a water cooler there? No. There is. Isn't there? Water cooler? Well, there's vending machines. Yeah, that's not a water cooler. Right, but that's where you guys, that's not a water cooler.

Right, but that's where you guys, that's where the water could congregate. Yeah, that's everybody, you know, all 30 people in the dealership just congregate in front of the snack machine. So is there a lot of like gossip and… I don't pay attention to anything, man. Thirty-six years, all right. You haven't heard a thing. I've seen everything.

Holiday party. I've seen them come, seen them go. It's just like I'm numb, man. I don't care anymore. You're coming in hot. Now I'm stuck in a dome. I do what I'm supposed to do. I come in, I'm like a freaking robot. I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do and I go home. I don't care. I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaints and the bitch in the morning. It's like working here. It'd be like working with him.

Oh, Jeff, this Rube came in for an oil change and I told him we need a white blinker floor. I tell you, if I was here, this office is going to look like they film Twister in here. Well, we need you in here, man, because he won't listen to me. He won't listen. He won't do it. So maybe we need you to come in and crack the whip. You need proper motivation. What's the proper motivation?

A real whip. I don't know if that's legal. Is that where you're motivation? A real whip. I don't know if that's legal. Is that what you – where you're at? A real whip? When you do what you're supposed to do, you don't get whipped. Just how it is. So all these years in, there's never been one juicy story that you've heard that like it's been running around the whole building.

Like it's made its rounds from upstairs to downstairs. They're like, can you believe Sheila in accounting? What happened to her? Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. No. Oh, my God. I could care less about the accounting office. I could care less about the sales department.

There's more gossip around this office. Oh, I believe that. Yeah, I mean, I see people come and go. I mean, there's constantly people that are just like, yeah, he won't last. He'll be here for about three weeks. He'll be gone. You know, we take that. Do you think that someone thought that about you that first week you were on the job? No, don't forget when I started.

He's coming in too hot. He's coming in way too hot. He won't last three weeks. I'm fired, this guy. We can't have him here. It's making everybody look bad. The business has changed so much from – don't forget, I was there from like the late 80s, early 90s. So it's just – it has not – the business has changed so much from – don't forget, I was there from like the late 80s, early 90s. So it's just – it has not – the business has changed so much. Okay. But you know what hasn't changed though?

Human drama. That hasn't changed. Oh, yeah. Well, it's gotten worse, I would think. I never had the issues like we got at work now. All right. Now we're talking. Yeah.

All right. What are the issues? Just like work ethic, people that are inexperienced. And now it's hard to find people. It's hard to find good people out there to do work What's too much fricking TV man, I don't know what the hell you watching has anybody found anything in a car while I'm fixing it Like a kilo drugs or something. I don't remember anything. Or Sheila's fucking underwear in the back of a … We've had vandalism, stuff like that, you know, at the dealership.

But it's just like … There's been no like hanky-panky in some of the showcase cars? No. There's 100% been hanky-panky. It's just like nobody talks to them there probably. Yeah. It's just like everybody is just like, I don't really talk to anybody. You're just sitting down and there's no, like, there's no.

I'm no man. I'm counting my time. I'm envisioning like that time lapse where Jeff is just sitting at a desk and everything's moving around like the time machine. I work with young kids. I work, you know, with people that just don't, you know, so it's just like, I'm doing work while they're sitting there, you know, looking at their phones and immersed in everything else, but what they're supposed to be doing. So, you know,

somebody has to keep the place to go, you know, and that's what I'm doing. I come in there, I do what I'm supposed to do when I go home. I don't pay attention. I don't set the pace. Nobody's following. That's the truth. Well, if I'm setting the pace, nobody is following. That's the truth. So do you think that – what do you think their perception of you is at the – like the rest of the people are like, this guy is a fucking robot. He is not human. He comes in hot every day. He is 36 years old. They wish they had more of me. They wish they had more of me.

The management, the upper management, yes, guaranteed they wish they about a hundred of you, you know, walking around and … Could they handle that much heat? They could. The fire department would be there. I would be concerned about your position here. What about some of the other people who aren't in management, who are just there to cash a paycheck and maybe they're looking to jazz up their lives and they say, oh, that salesman looks cute.

Let's hop in the back of the backseat of this RAV4. Our salesmen are like old. They're like – a lot of our salesmen are like freaking in their late 60s, early 50s. That's too old to get to – Well, you know, it's not what you're looking for. I mean it's just like banging people on the showroom floor with the customers walking around. No, no, no, no. You do it in the... After hours.

Yeah, you do it with... Or before hours. After hours, I'm gone by the afternoon. I'm gone during lunchtime. Make sure you do it in one of the cars with tinted windows so no one can see you. You can't have tinted windows. No? So factory tint doesn't exist. Well, factory tint is one thing. Not the tint that you're talking about. You're tent doesn't exist. Well factory tent is one thing.

They're not the tent that you're talking about. Where you can't look inside. You're talking limo tent. Yeah. They're like, I don't know who's inside. Or what they're doing. Okay. So get in there 5.30.

They're about 10 to 6. First thing you do when you get to behind the counter. Punch in first. Christ. Then I do my duties. Paul Jay So you hit the clock. You have a time card. Jeffery Hicks No. So it's all like facial recognition.

Whoa. Paul Jay Wow. Jeffery Hicks That's pretty futuristic. Paul Jay When did they implement that? Jeffery Hicks I said a long time ago already. It's probably been at least about eight years. Paul Jay Did you ever have a time card? Jeffery Hicks Yeah, we used to have time.

Like, yeah, that's going back in today. You know how much somebody would pay for Sunday Jeff's time card if he had one of his old ones? Like a signed time card? Yeah, that shit would be fucking worth hundreds. You didn't save any, huh? Nah. So you punch in, you put your face in front of the clock

or whatever the facial recognition. And I just start doing the work. I'd start working from the computer. What do you do? What's the first thing? Do the orders and everything else. I set up everything. Just get everything ready for when the guys get in there to start fixing the cars.

Do you set up their bays or? No, I don't work in the service department. So what time do they start to get there? Seven. Seven. So you're there an hour and a half? An hour. An hour.

An hour. And do you put the music on? You know, that elevator music that's always playing? No, I pulled that – I actually disconnected that speaker in our department. That's cool. There's a little – there's a little bit of wild man in them. Some gossip, yeah. They all play his country. I ain't listen to country, man.

I unplugged that sucker. It's like, as far as I know, the speaker is defective. I play my own music. So this gets you to 7.30. All right, so I'm 7.30. When's your first break? I take breaks whenever. How many breaks you get a day? There is no set time for breaks. How many are allowed? How many breaks are you allowed?

Well, some people seem like they don't break all the time. Not me though. I like how you can't get a straight answer, but you can get the sarcastic answer. I take less breaks than them. I don't take breaks. I mean, it was like, if I need to like just do whatever, I mean, it's like... They owe you breaks. Well, it depends on what you're doing. I mean, if you're... What does it?

What do you mean legally? You're on the clock. So what's his story? His whole day is a break. Right. Well, that's why... What are you right? Right. There's no way he could ever come at us and be like, well, you didn't give me Break because he's on break all day That's why he's still here. It's not because –

It's all worth it. It's not because – The place looks like shit. It looks like there are homeless people that live here. But if we hired somebody that knew how to fucking clean and set up the equipment, they wouldn't know how to fucking land at Abbot Acastello joke. I guess I see what your morals are for firing work people. All right. So, you don't get a set break? No, there's no set break.

I thought legally in New Jersey, like every certain amount of hours you had to have a break. Yeah, you got like a 15-minute break or something. That's for like kids and stuff. It's not for adults. Really? Yeah, you don't have to have breaks. My union would like a word with you.

No, like the technicians are flat rate. They don't have to take breaks. They take breaks when they want. They just go to their manager and be like, I'm taking five or whatever. No, they just do whatever. There's no set breaks. Lucy goosey over there. But there's a set amount of breaks, correct?

They have to get a break. They have a lunch. They get half an hour lunch. Is there a union over there? Has a shop steward aware that you guys are getting breaks? No. Trust me. They get breaks.

Trust me. Because when I was in a union, after five and a half hours, we got a half hour lunch. That was in our contract. What about a break? One 15-minute break. Yeah. Yeah, they get breaks. But I'm saying they can take them whenever.

There's not a set time that they have to be like... I remember our break. I worked at Sears. I remember I just like count the hours to that break because then I would go into the bathroom. I'm going to be in here for half an hour. Does that break yet? But I remember it was at 9.30 in the morning. We'd get a break, 15 minutes.

Then I want to come back. That was it. Those are like, I worked at Sears too. those are long hours between the breaks and the lunch. You are counting every single minute. Yeah, but what are you doing? Because it's so boring. You're unboxing merchandise, putting it on shelves, breaking things down from tractor trailers, bringing it back into the storeroom.

Sure, it's work, man. It's work. When's that break? It was a real... You'll see one day I'll have a podcast studio. I'll show all you. I'll hire a slope. Who knows Abba and Costello jokes? Costello.

Yeah, see? But I cannot believe though that somebody is not on top of this though that you're not getting your regulated breaks. They fought hard to get those breaks. I can't believe that you're not taking advantage of them. No, they do take breaks, but they're not at a lot of times. I'm talking about you though. I take a break.

If I want to – like if I just want to walk away from the counter for a while, I walk away from the counter for a little bit. Okay. It's not that I just like – You don't have to check out? Like you don't have to punch out? No, there's no punching out for that. You got to punch out for lunch.

Where do you walk? Just outside. Like I'll go eat my yogurt or something. I'll just walk around the town. Oh, you didn't tell us you brought yogurt. Oh, come on. I told you I brought my lunch. I didn't say you made your lunch.

So when do you make the lunch? In the morning or the night before? Night before. Yeah. And what usually it's – I imagine it's a lot of fish, right? Like cutting around a fish. Tuna and fish sandwiches. Tuna and fish with a chipotle.

No, that's – then I'll make the lunch. I'll make the lunch. I'll make the lunch. I'll make the lunch. I'll make the lunch. I'll make you're on a fish sandwich. Oh, I see. A turkey sandwich, salad, all kinds of stuff. It's a tuna fish with chipotle. No, that's, then I'll make that no more. Oh, I'll try finding you for you. What time is lunch for you?

I usually eat about 1.30. And you get out at 2.30, though? So you're really- I'm used to it, though. It's a long stretch, man. From 1.30 to what? But I eat during the day, though. I eat, I don't eat like, I eat like every so many hours. Like I'll have two eggs in the morning when I get there.

I'll eat a banana for a snack. So I'm constantly eating little by little. Keeping your energy up. Correct. Are they hard boiled eggs or? Yes. Gatum does that too. Like he'll eat constantly throughout the day.

He tells me to keep his energy up. He doesn't want to fall asleep. Well then, either he's not eating. He's chilling and he won't fall asleep. Which he's not eating enough, which isn't the case. That's so funny. That makes me write up. That's the reason why he's sweating because his jaws are still moving at night when he's sleeping.

Wake up with a chicken leg in the mouth. So how long is your lunch break? Half an hour. Half an hour. Then when you're back from lunch, you're- Right, it goes quick. It goes real quick. Yeah. How long is your lunch break? Half an hour. Half an hour. Then when you're back from lunch, you're – Right. It goes quick. It goes real quick.

Yeah. You can't really go anywhere during your lunch break because your place is sort of like – Not for half an hour. Yeah. You can't really walk anywhere. Just traffic on that road. Right.

For all those decades though that you took your lunch break and went to go over to Toys R Us though, you needed more than a half hour, right? No, I didn't have a half an hour. Don't forget, Toys R Us wasn't always at that location though. It was closer. It was behind. It was behind. It was behind. So it was easier to get to.

Like it was a big circle. Now you had to go and do some U-turns. It took extra time. Cutting it close. Cutting it close. Did you ever get there late and did anybody ever read you the riot act? No. Did you ever get written up in the 36 years?

No. Never got written up. No. Not once. Perfect sterling record. Yep. Jesus Christ. Where is this man's edge? No, never got run up. Nope. Perfect. Never. Sterling record. Yep. Jesus Christ.

Where is this man's edge? Is that why you eat during the day so that you could skip eating to go to Toys R Us? No. Get them to talk about eating now. That was back in the day. It's like now, once that whole situation flew south, I started bringing lunch. I remember running into him at Suncoast Video. Yeah.

I've seen him at the wild too. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh, Jeff, you're here? I'm just going to teach pops. Now, so you get out at 2.30, then what do you do? This is what I'm really curious about, like how he fills his empty out. From 2.30 to 10.30, you're up. That's eight hours.

What are you doing? By the time I get home, I'll go to the gym for about an hour and a half. What gym you go to? What's the name of the gym? Retro. Retro gym. And then how long is your workout? Hour, 15 hour and a half.

That's a long workout. That really is, yeah. What do you listen to? Just whatever they have on. Do you, do you film yourself like the TikTokers do? No, you don't film yourself lifting weights. I know my limitations. I'm not going in there thinking I'm coming out looking like freaking yoga pants. And so what do you, what do you, do you have a leg day?

Do you have arm day? Nah, I don't do that. I just, I do full body. I do whatever I do. Everything. Like a circuit every day? Yeah. I just don't like, I'll just, you know, if I want to do something, if somebody's

working on this or whatever, I'll just do another machine or I'll just go do free weights or something. I don't have a set schedule. Do you do a lot of treadmill? No, I don't do that. I do maybe about 20 minutes afterwards. Steam room? 15 minutes. No steam room. No Turkish baths. Is that how you spend an hour and a half in there? Is 80 minutes at 90 minutes in a steam room?

Apparently, I could just – he can watch him at night with his steam room because that's all he does is steam. His office is a steam room. Yeah, it does. Maybe that's why he wakes up, you know? Yeah, how could he not sweat in this fucking office? All right. So, that takes us to about four o'clock then, right? Mm-hmm. I jump in the shower and then head over to the woman's house.

Okay. To your gal's house. Yeah. And we make dinner, eat dinner, watch some television. Okay. What are the programs you guys like to watch? The Boys. I've been watching The Boys again. Can I make a suggestion of a show that has been universally liked by anybody who's taken the suggestion? What is it? Matlock, the new Matlock.

I have not seen it. It finished eight episodes yesterday. You did? Yeah. What was I doing that year? It was after you left. You were working. So you stayed up to about four o'clock in the morning, watching Matlock?

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Learn about Alfie, Edwin, Olivia. Oh, Edwin's the best. I like Kira. I like her character now. Oh, is that the, um. That's the tech girl. The tech girl, the lesbian tech girl. That's hot shit.

I got upset about that. Yeah, Sunday there's some girl on girl action in Matlock. In a Matlock show with Kathy Bates, you wouldn't think it, but it's pretty titillating. What's it on? Oh, what's it on? It's on Paramount if you have that. See, I do not have a lot of time to think about it. I'm not going to do it.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going Kathy Bates. You wouldn't think it, but it's pretty titillating. What's it on? Oh, what's it on? It's on Paramount, if you have that. I do not have Paramount. OK. You can watch the first episode. Jimmy the Hair Guy can maybe hook you up.

He's hooked everybody up at TSD Jeff. Yeah, he's got a, yeah. What else you got? He doesn't have that one. He doesn't have that. He doesn't have the devil's the. No, he doesn't have Fubu? No, he doesn't.

All right, so now you guys watch TV and then what? Yeah. Yeah. Not every night. I mean, man, it's… Speak for yourself. It's in his 50s now. That don't matter.

He's hit the gym. Yeah. I remember he said he hit the gym. So I imagine he's got to get up at 430. Lift and weights builds testosterone. I mean, come on, not every night. There's got to be nights you're just like, I'm just like a little pooped. I'm a little tuckered out, baby. Yeah. I got to come to work tomorrow.

Time for shut off. I'm coming in cold now. If I don't come in hot, what's the rest of the workforce going to think of me? They depend on me. What's going on? Sales are down this week. Have you been coming in hot? Same sec. That's just normal. I noticed you've been coming in lukewarm.

I want to talk to you about what's been going on after hours. I think you need to make sure that whatever you're doing, you stop doing. Have you been doing it seven nights a week? Because we need you to come in extra hot. Just do it six nights. We don't care what you do on your day off. But we're coming to work. What do they say?

Seventh day rest? That's what you've got to do. So that's his day. That's his day. Let's hear your day. Let's hear Brian's day. My day? Okay, so my day today?

We'll call it today? Well, try to pick a day that's most like your – most common day, not just the day that where you actually – I did some stuff today. Let's go with the day. What did you do yesterday? Let's go with the day – with the activities that you most engage in. I came in –

Not an outlier of a day where you actually – When you come in your house, you think you're in a nursing home. What's going on? Oh, he's in the room. All right. How you doing, pops? So say yesterday. Yesterday would be a good example.

It was an average day. It was an average day, yeah. What time do you usually wake up? I get up at 6.20. You get up early. That's early. Well … What are you greeting the day up? I get up at 620. You get up early. That's early. What are you greeting the day that early for?

That's not bad. Because I have to get up and get Sage ready and get her to the bus. Responsibility. However, I don't stay. I used to stay up. Now I just go back to sleep. I'm like, it's so early. I'm like, there's nothing to do.

It's like fucking 630 in the morning. What am I going to do? Marybeth isn't up. The pets are all still sleeping. Pets are sleeping. I'm like, fuck it, I'll go back to bed. Usually, I'll sleep till like 8, 8.30 somewhere in there, like another couple hours. Normal time. Yep. Yesterday, we had to bring the cats to the vet. So we did that. We took them in at 10 and got home by like 11-ish.

Now, this is not common though, you have to bring the animals to the doctor. No. And this was just something that like, are you hoping we should bring the pets to the doctor more often? More, yeah, so I can just, when I get to the table, I can be like, I did something. Doc, we're coming in hot with the pets. Mr. Johnson, most cats don't have eight rabies shots a year. When we got back, then she wanted to go to breakfast, so we could do that.

Now, do you usually go out for breakfast or you stay in for breakfast? I would say, I mean, usually we stay in. She'll make me breakfast, but once a week or twice a week. What you got? Is it good? stay in. She'll make me breakfast, but once a week or twice a week. What you got? Is it good? Yeah, she usually makes me the same thing every time, bacon and eggs and cheese on a bagel. That's a lot of bacon though. You're like, he's having that every day.

Yeah, it is a lot of bacon. Well, you can look at me. You gotta introduce the fish to the diet, right? Canadian bacon. We don't want to find out Canadian anything. We're going to have to cut that. You're banned now? We're not going to talk about that. Let's get back to Brian's breakfast.

But is that too much bacon though and eggs? Or is eggs good for you? Eggs are good for you. It depends on your cholesterol. It depends on your – But they have omega-3s and stuff. She scrambles them. A lot of pepper. Some pepper. Fried eggs. It depends how you. But they have Omega 3s and stuff. Yeah, it's. What's that? Oh, she scrambles them.

Oof. Mm-hmm. A lot of pepper. Some pepper. Fried eggs. Well, pepper is okay. It's salt that you got to watch out for. So you need an egg white almond.

Okay. Egg white almond, that's what you eat? No, I mean, I eat a hard-boiled egg. I don't believe that. It's fine. All the nutrients, a lot of it's in actually the yolk. That's really what you really should eat. To the shell and chew it.

At what time is usually breakfast? Usually breakfast is around like 10-ish or something like that. Yesterday it was around 11 because you know, or 1130 because we brought the cats to the vet. Do you have that when you come down and breakfast? Breakfast will be served at 11. You come down with a napkin already tucked in your shirt. She slides it under the bed. Yeah, you could because I don't have breakfast. I eat at between 11, 30 and noon. You just had breakfast. You just had a croissant at like four o'clock in the afternoon.

That was just to pick me up because I knew I was podcasting. But go ahead, back to Brian. So we went to breakfast over at Turning Point. Good place. I like that place. After that, my car had not been vacuumed out for some time. So we went to the car wash, vacuumed out the car, got the car washed where I got. Now are you doing blowing your load a wall one day now? Kind of. Yeah. Can't you space this out?

Kind of. Vacuum the car on another day? Vacuum the front and vacuum the back. Yeah, it was nice yesterday, like in the morning, so we were like, fuck it, let's just do it now. Where I like, because last week we were talking about like I have to go out more and because that's the only way something's going to happen. It's the only way I'm going to run into somebody or like your story with the pizza

guy dancing and all that shit. Like that shit doesn't happen unless you go out. So I went out and I got into a minor tiff with a lady. Very minor. Oh no. You met somebody? Yeah. Very minor.

So when you pull into the car wash, there are three vacuums. One of the vacuums was being used. So I sort of straddled the line so Mary Beth could do one side and I could do the other side because there's nobody there. We're almost finished and some lady pulls up and she's like, are you just going to use both vacuums? And I was like, that was the plan. And she's like, unbelievable, she goes. And I said, I still, I'm not being an asshole about it. I said, there's, there's four more vacuums around the corner. Like, you know, like if you go around the corner, there's four more vacuums. She goes, you're so self-important and speeds off.

I was just left there. Like I didn't say anything. I was, what am I going to do? You had to been like smiling from ear to ear, being like, I had a story. Something happened. I got a story. Something happened. I got a story, Mary Beth. Was it a good story? It was almost.

It was not even barely an anecdote. This is way better than the penny I found. But I'm like, if we can get to some lady yelling at me just by going out for a little bit, who knows what happens if I keep going out? Who knows what arguments I might get into. Trevor Burrus So what times does this bring us to after the car wash? Paul Cooke OK, this brings us to probably get home around 1.30, go inside, I fold up some laundry. It seems like I'm always folding laundry. Those women, man, they wear more

fucking clothes. Mary Beth wears more clothes without going anywhere. I'm like, why the fuck do you wear- My daughter's the same way. She comes back from school or college. I do enough laundry a week, but it's just like, I just emptied the freaking laundry. It's full again. Yeah. Sage does the same thing.

At least she's going to school and she's going to- 10 socks. Yeah. So, folded up some laundry. That's only a week's worth of socks though, 10 socks. No, this happens within three days. Oh, okay. I watched a couple podcasts. I watch a podcast that I normally watch while I fold the laundry. Then Sage gets home, I make her snack for her generally.

And then the rest of the day I'm like, well, what do I do now? And that's where the TV watching comes in. I'm like, kind of waiting do I do now? And that's where like the TV watching comes in. I'm like, kind of waiting to a point where I can get Mary Beth to sit down and watch the Matt Locke or watch one of the other shows that we've been watching a lot after Locke up. So there's a, I think there's a fair amount of TV watching in the average day and it's like junk TV now. It's not even good stuff. It's just like stuff that's easy to put on in the background. Just garbage. Don't read.

What's that? Don't read. I read sometimes at night. Yeah. Like I'll read a bit. She plays her video games. I shouldn't, I don't read as much as I should. I think I probably should read more instead of watching the Karen videos.

I mean, or do you just let them run around the back? Cause we don't have any sidewalks next to us. So we just put them out in the yard and let them run around. And the street's pretty busy. So it's like cars zooming around in like a blind corner. Yeah. So, but if you remove the pets and the, oh, I did something today, Sunday, Jeff, I was thinking about you.

I wanted, I tried to get a little bit of grease under my fingernails so I could impress you. I changed out a Marybeth's battery in her car, which I wasn't really sure I was going to be able to do because I didn't know if the battery was dead or if it was the alternator. My brother gave me this little tester kit, so I put the tester kit on, figured out it wasn't the alternator, it was the battery, went and got the new battery, traded it in. Batteries are expensive, man. Holy shit. Yeah, batteries are expensive. traded it in. But batteries are expensive, man.

Holy shit. Yeah, batteries are expensive. Yeah, how come the batteries are at a price of price? It depends on how many – I mean any cheap batteries are like two-year batteries are pretty cheap. Yeah, this one was like 200 bucks. It could be like a five-year battery though. So that's good.

Is Everlast still the best? Everlast? Yeah, that's still the best. Die hard. It's like a boxing glove. Everlast. Oh, Everready you're talking about. Ever Ready.

They don't make car batteries. That's like batteries for flashlights and stuff. I think Ever Ready did make car batteries. What was the Sears one? Die Hard. If there's Sears around. No, I got a Die Hard from this. The name goes on.

Yeah, Advanced Auto Parts. Die hard. That's a great fucking name of a product, die hard. You think so? I think so. So you die hard. Yeah. It evokes tough. You can't kill it.

Oh yeah, you can. Die hard. Yeah, batteries are expensive. So, I had to replay- To sum it up. To sum it up, yeah, but- The batteries are expensive. So, are you at dinnertime yet? So, if I hit- So, once we hit dinnertime, the Mary Beth generally makes dinner. Sage loves to eat watching videos and stuff, so we don't normally eat together.

Like, we'll just watch TV and eat or stage or watch our videos. It cooks a lot. Do you guys ever go out to eat for dinner? Not usually dinner now. We'll go out to lunch a lot. Like we'll go out to Chili's. Like I said, we'll go to Turning Point. Those are two places that we go to.

Oh, and Texas Roadhouse we go to on Sunday sometimes. It's a madhouse over there on Sundays. Yeah, that's why we try to get there early before all the church people get out. For dinner? For any time. Any time during the day. Yeah, like's why we try to get there early before all the church people get out. For any time. Any time during the day. Yeah, like it's okay and then it hits a certain point and you're like, holy shit, I'm glad I didn't come out. Yeah, because it's a 25 minute wait.

Yeah. Yeah, easily. You get in line and all of a sudden there's 30 people behind you. No other competition around? I mean, no Outback or any Longhorn? There's a lot of competition around us. Just like you, you have even more competition down by you. Yeah.

Well, where you, in brick I meant, where you used to be, yeah. There's like, I don't know how anybody can survive out there, like any of those eateries because there's so much competition down in brick. But so are you, after you eat then what time is dinner then?

I mean, I'm sorry, what time is bedtime? Uh, bedtime is usually like, I'll start like getting drowsy around 11, somewhere around there. So there's a couple hours of trying to figure out what to watch on TV, watch a movie or something, you know, just hang out and – like if it's the summertime, like we'll go out in the pool or we'll hang around outside a little bit more. But now that it's winter, it's like I'm fucking – You're dreading that. Then they get to work with the pool.

Yeah. Start cleaning the shit out. Yeah. Yeah. It's a whole different kind of thing. I gotta come out of the house now. Got to come out of the house to clean up. Yeah, man.

After all that hard rain, all my fucking mulch was everywhere. So I had to clean that up today. It's a lot of work. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot of like, just like doing little shit around the house, I guess. And TV watching.

You should get the same gardener he uses. Oh, with his backyard? Yeah, I know, right? I thought they're going to play the US Open. They're going to play the golf tournament in the backyard. That's how that backyard looks. It's going to need some palm trees. A couple patio bricks impresses you.

That's not a couple patio bricks. It's got a furniture. I mean it literally looks like it's not a couple patio bricks. It's got furniture. I mean, it literally looks like it's on Better Home and Gordon. Oh, like, you're going to wait until I tell her. She's going to be so happy with all the work she put in. Well, I saw how you mulch, so. Thank you very much, Jeff, because some of that stuff was put together by me.

Oh, the furniture? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you have a fire pit, right? I don't think the fire pit's ever been there. We never fire. They have the propane thing in the center with the glass. Yeah, you should. It's pretty cool. I mean, it's nice.

I'm not an outdoor guy. I'd rather much spend my time inside in air conditioning. Yeah, full night stuff. It's either too cold or when you go out there's fucking bugs everywhere in the summer. I'm saying like in the fall time. When it drops out maybe 60s at night, go around there. Those beautiful fall nights that Jersey has maybe a week of, otherwise it's too hot or too cold.

You got to go outside to know about it. Oh, fuck that, I'm always outside. I'm not talking about you. You just said you don't like the outdoors. I don't like just sitting outside doing nothing and staring at a fire pit though. Oh, you stay with your own life. There's something to be said for once in a while, just hanging out there by yourself, by yourself or be quiet.

I mean, I'd rather sit inside and by myself. I don't know why. I just like the indoors better. He does live next to Marshland as well. So I don't know. Well, a lot of it's gone. A lot of it's gone. I saw it.

No, it's not. It's still there. I didn't say the summer. I'm saying the fall. There shouldn't be really a lot of this. But Jersey doesn't really have a fall. They used to. They used to.

But that Jersey fall only lasts a week, I feel. Same with the spring. It's cold and then suddenly it's like, holy shit. It gets warm pretty quick too. Uh-oh, we're going back to the weather. Weather, we're straddling that edge. Can't talk about weather? That's Q's.

That's Q's. That's his purview, yeah. He has his name on weather. If we're going to talk weather, he has to be there. So he's the weather man? Well, he likes to talk weather. He likes to talk weather so much that other people are like, can you stop talking about weather?

Yeah. He likes to talk about weather. He likes to talk about weather. He likes to talk about weather. He likes to talk about weather. He likes to talk about weather. He likes to name on weather. If we're going to talk weather, he has the name. So he's the weather man? Well, he likes to talk weather. He likes to talk weather so much that other people are like, can you stop talking about weather?

He puts dibs on weather. So what can you talk about? Can't talk about Canada, can't talk about weather, can't talk about anything? We can do an ad. We got one ad this week and then a special request for the listeners. I have a couple ads. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Go ahead. Do your ad, your real deal ad.

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we won't raise the prices ever, but you know, the world is a changing. Yeah. It's a warning. I have some, you know, with- I was just going to mention that you can also give, give memberships, gift memberships on Patreon now too. Yeah, I wasn't aware of that. Yeah. We have some ads for some friends of the family Sunday. Which would you like first? Who would you like to hear first about? Who's the friends of the family? We have Will Rogers and we have Tim the Registrar Clerk. Listen to Tim.

Okay, you want Will to follow that? That is it. You just asked me a question. I answered the question. He's Monty Hall. I answered the question and the question – You want current name or current date? There is a wrong answer with the question.

So you want – You know what? Let's go with Will Rogers. I shouldn't have asked. I shouldn't have asked. Let's go with Will Rogers. Okay, we'll go with Will Rogers. I should ask.

I should ask. Let's go with Will Rogers. We'll go with Tim. So it is a bit – well, not even a bit. It is very sobering and very – I'm at a loss for words here, but we have to announce that Tim is battling something right now. A very serious diagnosis of – that's weird. We had somebody just laugh.

Good stuff. Good stuff. That wasn't in this room. I don't know if anybody even picked up on the – it was somebody in the hallway who laughed. But he's been diagnosed with ALS, right? Trevor Burrus Right. Lou Gehrig's disease. Peter Van Doren Lou Gehrig's and it was obviously a shock to hear it and very frazzled

by the news as of course I'm sure everybody listening is. such a sweet man and such a good guy. And we felt the only thing that we could offer assistance-wise is maybe to do a podcast and a benefit pod for him and put it up on Bandcamp like we've done for some other friends of the family. And I know it stinks that we just did a benefit podcast for the Juarez family over Christmas time and now we're hitting you guys up again three months later. But it's obviously the situation is what it is. Yeah.

Does it – is dire the word? Oh, it's – It's a serious – yeah, it's a serious thing. Yeah, there's no cure for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we had – TSD did a 90-minute podcast. Me, Bry, Q, Gittem was there. Another special guest was there and we did some old listener favorites.

We played Quinny's Choice, which was for the second time, the first time people loved that when we did that game, brought back one true three after a long, long time. It's been a drag spell. Yeah. We haven't played that in such a long time. And we had a little bit of an overkill segment as well, a little bit of overkill.

So 90 minutes and you can find this podcast on Bandcamp if you search TESD, Tim the Record Store Clerk, Benefit Pod. It's not on our page. It's on Tim's personal page. I'll get a link from him. We'll put it up on Twitter too. Yeah, we'll get it to you. I'll get a link. Okay. Yeah, Tim, Record Store Clerk should definitely pull it up Tim record store clerk TSD benefit pod all those words should be able to find it's available Right now if you go there now, it should be up there and it's definitely up there. It's definitely up there

Yes, get them. This is again, you know, we bust Kim's balls But you know we we fast-track this and get them when we know me and him We're here at 11 o'clock at night one night editing, getting it ready. Declan did the poster or the cover art and we just – he was like, I wanted it done yesterday. So it sounds like you're coming in hot. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah.

This was a – Just once, though. We started at 6. Yeah, just once. But yeah. Turn on Matlock. But it's over 90 minutes of great entertainment. It's really high energy.

It's a fun episode. There's a lot of laughs in it and I feel like it's going… Does he have benefits? No. What did you ask? If he had benefits, I don't know. Oh, I said if he had any kids. Oh, no.

I know he does have kids. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I don't know about that. So I imagine that ants are shocked by this. We were. We're wishing Tim absolutely all the best in his fight against this. But I think this episode ticks all the boxes of what TSD listeners are looking for. I agree. I think there was some really good stuff in there.

Some really high energy stuff. It's going for a great cause and a greater man and it will help with all the issues he's going to face. Yeah, it will just ease his time with this. Anything he's having. Yeah, he'll be able to use the money generated for this podcast. He'll be able to use towards his generated for this podcast, he'll be able to use towards his healthcare, whatever things arise with that healthcare that are, you know, unforeseen

things. It'll just- Therapy, setting up his house, you know, for assistance. Yeah, it's just going to be, oof, yeah, it's a- Yeah. It's a- It's not fun. No, it's-

Not fun. It's tough. So it happens, man, like, we're older older now, so everybody like, I remember my grandmother, my grandmother would go through the paper and see obituaries, see people she knew and be like, oh, I knew her. It got to a point where, because my grandma was like 98 when she died, so it got to a point where everybody she knew was gone. Except for her family, but all her friends and shit. That is one of the most awful things about getting older is that, yeah, you start now to see things and people getting sick or people getting...

People who went to school with it are not there anymore. I said, that's the reality. That's when she gets real. That only comes usually with old age when you start to see things really start to go like where you're like, wow. For me, it's been within the past few years. I didn't really think about it, but within the past few years, I'm like, because I think like a combination of like seeing friends and like seeing my my parents, or Pam just turned 79,

I'm like, wow, they're old. Yeah. Oh yeah, those are the toughest things dealing with as you get older. Other people are getting older or already older than you to begin with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where they hit those milestones and it comes like sudden realization. Yeah. Oh, 80.

Wow. Yeah, well Pam was already planning on what to do for her 80th. So she's in good spirits, I think. She said she's living to 100. That's what she told me anyway. Good for her. I mean, this is one of those things though that makes you go, man, there's nothing promised to you. Like there's no promise you're going to get there to 80 or whatever. You should take advantage of what is in front of you and appreciate what's there. You should come in hot while you can. Take a page out of Sunday's book, come in hot while you can because you're not always going to be able to come in hot.

You're going to be remembered as the guy who came in hot. Sometimes you can't come at all. But if you do need to come, go to bloodshoot.com. This is Tim, Tim the record store clerk. So go to band camp right now. I mean, he's absolutely like one of the nicest guys that has ever come to the table. He's like one of those gentle giant types. Yeah, a big teddy bear and- has ever come to the table. He's like one of those gentle giant types. Yeah.

A big teddy bear and... So many ants say they go and visit him in Jacks. And he just stops his day just to... Yeah. Yeah. And he enjoys it as well. And I understand, you know, at times, at financial times like this, you know, it's...

It's tough. It's tough to find reasons to spend money on a podcast. We get it. But if you can, we would appreciate it and Tim will appreciate it. We tried to make it worth it. And you'll be getting, I think, the best of us. I know there's one revelation that is worth the price of admission. Yes. Oh yeah, I would agree with that. I would agree. Yes. There's one thing said that once you hear

that, you're going to be like, all right, the money was well spent. Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. I hope so. And we have another friend of the family, Will Rogers, that has to follow that. I think you should have run off with Will Rogers again.

Will Rogers has a coloring book. Oh, okay. Well, maybe you need to pick him now. So let's get these right. Wolf Roger has athlete's foot. He needs to purchase some cream. Can you purchase this? Yeah, we did a benefit pod for him. No, we're not doing a benefit pod for him.

It's 90 seconds of – He asked me to announce that he has this book that he's publishing and it's a slasher slash comic book slash choose your own adventure slash coloring book. It's called Survive the Night and here's the description of the book. So you and your friends decide to go away for a quiet vacation at a lakeside cabin. The good news is that you're all together. The bad news? You're not the only one there.

As the body count rises, prepare to make decisions to commit to them in color and hope you survive and turn the page. This coloring adventure book throws you into the world of terror along with masked maniacs, creepy love-struck teenagers, buried secrets from the past, and much, much more. You'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror tropes. And you'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror trope know how to save you. Just remember, there are no guarantees, you'll survive the night.

He's giving away five copies. And all you have to do to win a chance to get one of Will Rogers' Survive the Night Coloring books is add him at the Myth Traveler. The Myth Traveler, M-Y-T-H Traveler, the Myth Traveler. Also put in TSD in there so he knows how to differentiate from people who are TSD listeners as opposed to some listeners that he's from his podcast and other ways that he's given the book out. Now you can also buy it on March 18th. It's available at Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Barnes and Noble. Big time.

So is it going to be available at all the major outlets where you buy books? Physical copies on shelves at Barnes and Noble? Yeah, physical copies. How do you go around doing that? You're like, what's Barnes and Noble's to sell your stuff? Yeah.

And then he's got a kick ass cover. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So good for Will and, you know, we're doing what we can. I remember Kevin years ago when he had just hit it big with clerks and everything and we went up to Henry Hudson and he was going to give away a $10,000 scholarship to somebody. He was going to go up and announce it and all this other stuff, but the person who went before him was a girl who had lost her brother slash best friend in a motorcycle accident

and brought the entire gymnasium, everybody to tears, her story about their brother and how much, you know, he meant to her and how sad she was that he was dead now and all this other stuff. And I remember Kevin being like, Oh my God, I have to fucking follow that. It wasn't easy. I don't think he, he was on that top form that day. I think he was just like, well, what do I say now? All this shit I was going to say, I can't say anymore. On a later note. Yeah. On a later note. Yeah. Before we continue, a small dog was killed out in the parking lot.

Run over, ride a car. Hard to come back. Hey, um, yeah, you know, it's. We're, we're, but again, we're wishing them all the best and he was, you know, this is, this is the kind of character that Tim has. He found out what had been ailing him finally and he was like, let's fast track Kiss. Let's fast track the podcast so I could be on it and finish the podcast. That blew my mind.

It just melted me when he was like, no, I want to finish Kiss and I want to make sure we do it now so I can finish it. We fast-tracked and did him and over the course of a couple days, we finished the Kiss pod. Thanks, Tim. Oh yeah, Will Rogers has a coloring book. Don't forget to mention the coloring book, guys. You did mention the coloring book, right? And again, it shouldn't, but it does mean, for me anyway, it makes you put things in such perspective when you hear things like that.

I know about you, yeah. And it really makes you go like, oh my God, all the little shit that's been bothering me and everything. I was like, I feel like a piece of dog crap when you put it into perspective. Yeah, it's meaningless at the end. What other people are dealing with. It's like life is... That's why you can't do it. You cannot put things into perspective, otherwise you'll feel like garbage all the time.

Yeah, but it's true though. When you realize what other people are going through and you allow little – Yeah, be how fortunate, you know, just like, hey, look – Yeah, yeah. And it really hammers home like, yes, how there are different tiers of dealing – of things you have to deal with, yeah. Tell them Steve's day first. I don't know, man, if you want to. That's a weird note to go out on. I was actually going to talk about Gene Hackman, but that doesn't seem to be the… There's been new news about that?

That whole situation is weird too. Well, they call those people die and there's like no… Oh, you heard about this? Yeah. Okay. You mentioned earlier in the episode, you don't listen to the news. I don't, but other people I'm with does listen to the news. Oh, and they gave you the 911 or the 411.

Yeah, I wake up and say, oh, Gene Hackman died. And then I found out later it was like all the other stuff that, you know, the dog died. Now is it unusual for a man in his 95 years old? No, but it's just like, you know, for all those people to die at the same, you know, Everybody in the house. Yeah, it's just, it's weird. You know, I mean, they ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning, right? I mean, I would imagine you would have some kind of alarm, I mean, or something that would inform

you that something was going off, you know? But it's just- It's a brand new update. Well, this is the newest update that I just read today. Toxicology? Sunday, Jeff, do you think that you can die from a broken heart? I believe pets can do that. I don't know about people, but I believe, I definitely believe pets can do it. This was a chief medical examiner, James Gill, who was not involved in the investigation was theorized about what could have happened. He said that the two natural deaths around the same time have been known to happen due to a broken heart type thing.

Suddenly finding your loved one dead on the floor, that can increase your adrenaline, that stimulates your heart to beat faster, and that can put your heart into an irregular rhythm. And- So it's more like shock. Yes, he also noted that people can get very despondent and may even take rash decisions regarding their own safety after such a traumatic incident.

What about the dog though? Yeah. Well the dog was locked up in the, was locked in a cage. They didn't say he starved to death, right? He must have. He can't go long without water though. Yeah. I thought he was in a closet.

He was in a closet in a crate apparently. So I don't know, maybe it's a large like walking closet because I used to keep, every once in a while. Well, that would make sense. Obviously the dog didn't have food or water for how many days? Wasn't it like 14 days or something? Yeah, they finally found him. His pacemaker said it stopped on February 17th. That's what the pacemaker reported. But she was in like a totally different area of the house, wasn't she?

Yeah, she was in the bathroom. He was in the mud room. According to him, broken heart syndrome, also called stress induced cardiomyopathy, typically occurs after a physically or emotionally traumatic event, including the loss of a loved one. So it sounds like it's almost like a self-induced heart attack? Yeah, it says in these instances, adrenaline and other stress hormones such as epinephrine flood the system and can increase the heart rate and blood pressure, leading to symptoms that mimic a heart attack. He said that he may have collapsed since he's got a history of heart disease and that she

found him and that's where the stress hit her. But they would know that. I'm sure they would know that if they did a white top sienna, right? If she had that kind of issue. Well, it's going to take about one to three usually, for all the results to come back, officially. All the toxicology reports. Fast track it. Yeah.

It says, although a minuscule gas leak was found in one of the stove burners, they showed no signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. This is a real mystery, man. Well, if it was a leak in the stove, then what? Were there other dogs outside running around for a desire, the warrant said that one dog was found inside. The warrant for the police officers arrived on the scene. One dog was found outside and one dog was found inside next to the body.

The dog was alive next to the body? Yes. How did the dog survive that long? Yeah. Well, probably there's water, like if they had a pool or something, dogs drink from the toilet. Chlorinated water. Yeah, my dogs couldn't drink from the toilet.

Well these I believe were German shepherds. Yeah, I read somewhere for sure that they were a doggy day care. I read the warrant at the booths, issued so that they could officially search the house. Like no gardener, no wellness check, nobody ever following up. That was who discovered the scene. I'm sure somebody, I mean it's not like just because he's that age or whatever and I'm sure they have contact with people that they would probably contact every other day or every day and then all of a sudden you're not answering your phone.

You're like something's going on over there. Send the police. They had a Wolf Flanagan there. Wolf Flanagan would have checked on them. But I think they said there were long stretches where they would not contact people or they were like very like sort of insular. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just going based on the warrant I read and that's what the police are. Right.

Well, I believe the warrant then over the post. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. I saw a story on Twitter that made me think of our workplace a little bit more lighthearted than Gene Hackman, but there was this stewardess who got fired. I saw this.

For twerking, she videotaped herself twerking on her plane, but there was nobody on the plane. I guess they were just getting ready for people to board and she just was excited to greet the day and she made a short video of her dancing on the plane and she got fired. She was twerking. Wearing the uniform? Wearing the uniform.

Yes. Oh, that's why. Yeah. But I found that absolutely crazy though that the airline didn't just issue her a warning and ask her to take down the video. Because if it were like, say it were to like somebody doing like ballet or something or a different style dance that isn't so sexually charged as twerking, I think they probably would have let it go, right?

It wouldn't have been a big deal. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think they would have. I don't know how you could be that cold to be like, you're fired. In the state of the world and also in the state of like, you don't know if she's going to go to the media, which she did. Right.

Now it's causing you way more bad publicity than – I heard an interview with her. She loved that job. She really loved that job. I'm saying it's not something you really should be doing anyways. You shouldn't be doing it, but like Walt said, you get a warning. A warning and take down the video, keep your job. But has she had other warnings?

Like what are her performance reviews look like? I'll tell you what, I, the only reason I bring it to the table is because she mentioned something that really touched my heart. She said she likes to twerk when she accomplishes something. And I think that maybe that's what you should do is when you accomplish something here at the general store. Oh my God, God no. Come up to you.

I'll videotape you on my phone and we'll post it of you twerking. I mean, you'll be in traction afterwards. I'm going to have to do it for a couple of weeks. Throw his back out, yeah. You have it in the fibulator right next to him. But that's in the general store is pro twerking. But no TSD merchandise.

You can't be wearing anything that says TSD on it. But you'll, well, like let's say what's something you accomplished today. I mean, you opened the door for these guys and they were here, right? You could twerk over that and be like, we could post it. I got to the door, it took 10 minutes, but I opened the door for these guys so they could pot today. It did take a while for you to get to the door.

I was like, what is this guy doing? Because you woke him up. It's long enough that I'm like, he must not be in there. How come twerking is associated solely with females though? I think it looks weird when guys do it, right? Shaking their ass like that. I argue that from the opposite side of the twerk though, guys probably have more going on to look at than gals do.

If you're looking at the front side of a twerk, there's a lot more that's going to catch your eye. Yeah, but you're wearing jeans. I don't think you really see a lot of stuff. Oh, I thought they were wearing like a banana hammock or something. No, she was probably just like – I didn't see the video. No, no, she was wearing a Sturdis outfit. Don't talk about why is twerking – like when you hear the word twerking, you think

of a girl doing it, right? Sure. You hope a girl's doing it. No, but if guys were to twerk though, they have much more – like the front is just as interesting as the back if it's bouncing all over the place. Yeah, but when they're – There are differences in the head between the male and the female. No, it's not.

Yeah, there's way more. It's like – That's just sloppy ballplay there. It's not nice looking. Maybe for women maybe. I don't even know if women would want to see that. Helicopter shit. Nobody wants to see that, man.

But it's much more captivating, I would think. Wow, there's so much going on right now. You got the front and the back. With women, usually it's just the back, though. It's usually just the back. Yeah, I think- We're going to have stuff up front, too. But it doesn't. You can move around like the back though. It's usually just the back. Yeah, I think – We're going to have stuff up front too.

But it does – you can move around like the guys stuff. If you are wearing loose sweats or the banana hammock like you say, but if you're in just jeans the way the twerking works is like – they're so crouched down you probably couldn't see anyway, right? For the gals or the guys? The guys. Well, I would think there's some guys that you'd see quite a bit. Maybe, yeah, maybe. If they have the right pair of clothes on or no clothes.

Twerking with no clothes? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If they're wearing jeans and a shirt like, you know, like- Yeah, if guys- Maybe some cutoff jeans shorts? Maybe. Go try that tonight. See what that'd be like.

You can see the pockets. If guys- Put your clothes back on. If guys do it clothed, yes, it's a bit – it's not as – it leaves more to the imagination but if they're not in clothes though, there's like what do I watch first? Wait, wait. Yeah. So much going on.

Do I have to go out there and break out the thong before I do the twerking? No, no, no, no. We want to be able to post it and not – Without a rating? Yeah, yeah, without a no, no. We want to be able to post it and not – Without a rating. Yeah, yeah, without a rating. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know. But that's the way we become known as pro-twerking establishment, not like this airlines. A twerk-friendly environment.

Yeah. What was it? Alaska Airlines, I think. Right? Yeah, I think it was. Yeah. Yeah, a little harsh though, I thought, too. Yeah. Not just let her, I thought, too. Yeah. Not just let her take the video down and like no more.

I agree. I was listening to something on the way here and I heard that story and I thought the exact same thing. Like, why not just give her a warning and be like, you got to take the video down? It's not like she did it like... They might have that kind of rule though, like that no tolerance for that kind of policy. You know, it's like... Let's say you have an extremely productive day at work. You're not going to twerk.

A little twerk action to celebrate your accomplishments or – I would think people – he's not well. I think there's – he needs time off. He's up there and now he's doing it from the front. Now he's standing on the counter. It's a really productive day, right? He's like, whoa! You came in hot. You got the alarm undone in the first try. No one else is in the dealership and you just let it go. This is not that kind of place.

And then we get these security cam footage of Jeff out on the sales floor. Imagine that back in the day when you found a hot fucking toy in the aisle, you just twerked when you found one. Recorded yourself. I might have done that. I actually might have done that. You would have been a twerking machine. You were on fire for a couple of years.

One per case. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years.

You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for a couple of years. You were on fire for when you found one. Recorded yourself. I might have done that. I actually might have done that. You would have been a twerking machine. You were on fire for a couple of those years. One per case. One per case. Be like …

In a podcasting pod racing helmet. Oh yeah. He found a variant. I don't know what he's doing over there. Do back. 12 inch do back. Ow, my back. The toy's so heavy.

Tell him Steve, Dave. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go.

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