Tell Em Steve-Dave - #677: Episode Zero

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

TESD newbies Johnna and Matt drop by to ask questions that’ll help new listeners join in the podcast fun! https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/tesd

Go out to the garage, boy. I mean, aren't we all looking for a James Garner type? It does seem like you're like assembling like a small town. Yeah. Tell them, Steve, Dave. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell him Steve Dave. I'm here with Gidim. How you stanking?

I'm here with Q. Hello. I'm here with Walt. Hello. And we're here with two special guests, Q, that you brought in. Very special guests. Yes. Yeah.

This is Jana. this is the episode zero we've been promising. This is John who works with me on Unpractical Jokers. I've spoken about her before in the show. If you're at Q West, she was there putting on the shows the last two years. And her husband Matt, who is a great dude, came down to Q. West. We've hung out before on Halloween.

I ruined his Halloween years ago by we got too drunk at a bar. We never got to the parade. Ruin my morning after that. Yeah, it was pretty bad. But Matt came to Q. West and said, man, I'd love to listen to Tell him Steve, Dave, but I don't know where to start. Oh, my God.

So we put him to work instantly. Right. Put the married couple to work instantly. We're like, let's bring him in. Let's see if we can win them over as a listener. Get them to ask questions that newbies would need to know. Right. And anybody listening to Tell them Steve Dave for the first time can jump on as well.

There you. So we got to make this as accessible as possible. Okay. I think we could do. As friendly. Oh, no. And as accessible. as possible, boys.

Well, before we start, Walt, do you have any questions for these to it? Because we see Q as a friend. We see Q as a fellow podcaster. We see Q at home, but we don't see really see Q on set that much. Is he a taskmaster? Is he laid back, or is he a bit more of a, you know, high strung? Right.

Is he yelling at people? That's a great question. He is, he's extremely chill. Yeah, he's a great boss. I know I've heard on the cast, you guys have kind of called him like Hollywood BQ. I would say he's more of like a, he's more of a Princess Diana,

more of the People's Princess. Oh, okay. He's, he's a man of the people. He's not a Megan Markle. He's not a Megan Markle. He's not. I'll take it. Yeah, he's great.

He's very fun in a pre-production comes in with big ideas. And we get some crazy ideas. And he's always the one who's going like, oh, we'll see, maybe we can make it work. I really got something there. So, like, is it a difficult decision to be like, how do we dismiss his idea? Always, but we do it in the politest way possible. No, that's for the producers.

They kill the ideas that, yeah. We yes, and. We yes and. Everything. We say everything's great. And then someone tells us, well, that'll cost $60,000. And then you're like, we didn't have to say it. No robot dogs.

Oh, damn. No, we do have robots this season. Yeah, we do a robot. robots this season. We're trying to get work, this, crack this robot thing for a while. Yeah, you're talking to the wrong people. We want to make all of Q's ideas work, to be honest. Yeah. Yeah. The weird or the better. Hmm. Yeah. Matt, what do you do? I work for a labor union. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You guys are unions. That's not a good answer, man. Yeah. Or union. Somebody here being exploited.

Did you hear that question? She asked if we were a union here. I'm trying to organize myself, but it doesn't work. All right. Matt may flip, get him. Yeah, get him. We'll talk. Well, you know how hard it is to fire a union guy? Yeah.

It's just as hard to fire this mother's because he never leaves. We can actually use it because, like, the union also lists out responsibilities that the union members have as well, right? I mean, and all unions are different. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like a lot of times that's the case. So, Gett would have a checklist of things that. has to do every day. That's true.

Yeah. He doesn't want that. No. No. Now, Walt, have you listed your grievances? Like, is it written down so that when we should count them? I have been compiling a list for many years. Ten years.

Wouldn't you tell? Like, just go back and listen to the episodes. You'll see. You'll see. Wow. All right. So you want to get right down to the questions, Q? Sure.

Yeah. I mean, we can get into it. I'm excited to hear what they came up with. Yeah, Matt's the potential listener. I guess I'm ironically here as Matt's guest. You would think I would have been invited, but I'm really, I'm not. But I have some questions of my own. You're Matt's plus one.

I'm Matt's plus one. Do you guys listen to podcast? Yes. Okay. What do you guys listen to? I like to hear about women who have been murdered by husbands. So if this podcast has elements of that, that's good for me. I talk about it weekly.

Very best plotting all the time. What do you like to listen to? I've had a bunch that I've like dipped in and out. I've been a podcast person for a while. So like I noticed that you guys like keep the company, it seems like like Dan Carlin's like hardcore history. I think you started the same year. I saw. I listened to like I listened to WTF for a stretch.

The McElroy brother that. Did he get too annoying, Mark Maron? I'm sorry? Did he get too annoying for you, Mark Maron? I thank everybody. Like, I don't know anyone who, like, started episode one and listened to every week. Nope. I used to listen to, and then I was like, all right, enough of this.

Yeah, you get to a point. And it's like, I definitely was like fast forwarding through the preamble sometimes, you know. But, you know, there's some good interviews in there. And I got, like, fancy football podcasts. I listened to The Ringer. Yeah, you know, I dabble. What would you say your favorite genre is? Favorite genre?

It's always like a lot of time it's comedy, right? It's like a comic spin on like something. Like the ringers, the fantasy football podcast I listen to and I like appreciate it because they're just like. Who's your team? My team's the Steelers. Oh, okay. Yeah, I noticed some Patriots stuff. No, I was a Tom Brady fan.

It was not a Patriots fan. Oh, Brady specifically. Yeah. Yeah. You want Aaron Rogers to come back? It seems inevitable. I wouldn't mind it at this point. You know, like two, like guys off the bench, like, yeah.

I'll do another time around the block with Rogers for sure. Good. I should have just went to the girls' bathroom with you. Sports talk. Sports talk is not for many. You didn't want to talk about that for an hour. I guess, man, what did you see in Q.S that piqued your interest? or raised questions.

I guess it was like the whole vibe. It seems like a rich lore. Sure. Right. Like, first of it, like the community seems like a central part of the show or like it seems to like compound on the show itself. In a way like everybody. Ants. So that's like a question.

Yeah. Right. Of like is that is that? That's the official thing because Walt said, Walt said early, early on that no human. when he was trying to keep us in check. Yeah. No humans are special. We're all just ants crawling around an ant hill.

And I kind of stuck as a self-descent. Before I became the people's princess, yeah, like we kind of self-identified as non-important, replaceable creatures. So, like, is an ant, like, just any, any listener? Or does somebody have to be, like, steeped to a person? No, there's any listener, but there are certain special ones that get, like, like there's one called the Tony StarCant

who repaired a robot for us or who was some of the other ant variants A robot repairman? Yeah, he's just He's working on that sketch. Yeah, he fixed one of my robots for me. Ambassador Ant. The Ambassador Ant, yeah.

You keep robots? I have the robot from the 80s that was at the Omnibot 2000. Okay. I found one in the, yard sale and this gentleman U-Kan great guy repaired it for me.

Okay. I see the Hollywood BQ nickname a little bit more now. Yeah. People's princess. Keep that in mind. How many robots I have it? There, it is there, it is right there. It's not really, you know, it's from the 80s. It's a child story from the 80.

Did he have like specific know-how on robot? Or is he just like a tinkerer? Everything. He's a tinkering and everything. It's what he does. That's... And he was a long-time listener in the show. He just piped down. up. He was in, he was in, he was in QS, I think, both times.

Oh, man. It's from Turkey, correct? I forget now, but yeah. So, yeah, I got a few, like, in the weeds questions. Sure. So, like, well, there's also, before you, before you ask, within the answer, there's also a subset of the 13 percenters, which are the women. I was wondering about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So 13% of the listeners of the shit, that's what that comes on. Are women, but it's jumped since we did the poll, but they're still the 13 percent. Have you ever thought about getting those numbers up?

We have. What did they jump up to? Like there was something like like 18%, 19% something like that. Yeah. Did that just happen or did you like introduce a segment? We've yet to be able to do anything that draws people in. Many ideas that we have like, what can we do? You know, that would make more people listen.

Yeah. Okay. We don't roll that stone up the hill all that off. Yeah, it was a good question. You said, have we ever thought about getting that number up? How would you even suggest doing such a thing? Well, I guess there's like, well, you can come out from two directions, right? It's like, do, have conversations that appeal to more women or have conversations that drive men away.

Oh, no. Neither of which sound appealing. Yeah. So this is this talking about appearance? Yeah. Yeah, that's probably what they like that. I love to talk about that. Real quickly, John, can't help

notice that you're embracing yourself because you're probably cold? Yes. No, I'm good. I'm okay. If you need a sweatshirt, I got you. I did wear shorts and a t-shirt and on the way here, Matt said,

why did you do that? It's going to be cold in there. And I said, it's a podcast studio. They're not going to have the AC running. And he said, I'm sure they have central air. Central air. Well, you have merged lying around if you want to throw something on.

Great. Okay, I'm good. You're covered if you do. Yeah. They could probably help drive up viewers. Like all the women. listening would see how like gentlemanly everybody's been. Yeah.

John was told they have jackets available that could get you to 14. I don't know if that can undo 12 years of massage. Remember, this is episode zero. We have a chance for fresh start. Yeah, we could all start again. You hear that Reddit? It's a new start. Now everybody likes me again.

Yeah, the Teflon's back, baby. 50% less Q. Is that what Reddit wants? At one point they did. At one point, there was a, there was a, there was a, an overwhelming request for me to step back more. Okay. Did something, was there? One person made a comment and we blew it up in terror.

Okay. So Reddit, does Reddit call the shots on this show? Absolutely not. Okay. Nope. Let it, let it be. If we let them call the shots, we wouldn't be recording anymore. Okay.

Yeah. They think they have great ideas. They don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely stopped into the Reddit to do, like, my homework.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you see all the love? That was a mistake. Did you just take a shower afterwards? Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, Reddit is like, you know, it's like, I don't know, usually with other, like, other anthropological exercises. Yeah.

Reddit can be useful. Yeah. The one thing I noticed was that, like, your Wikipedia is, like, pretty thin compared to, like, yeah. And it's like, do the Rediders not know that they can chime in on Wikipedia as well? I'm sure now. Have they been stopped? I'm sure they know.

Yeah, I think they keep their hateful comments to Reddit as opposed to like going to other avenues. Well, because when you go to Wikipedia, somebody else could take it down and change it. So it's like you're going to engage in this constant battle. The moderation on the Reddit and the subreddit is pretty, it's tight, but we let a lot of stuff go to, you know, not be censored.

Gotcha, that's, by the way, Gennam's decision. We've told them to. censor it. I'm a moderator. I am a moderator. I'm a moderator. Okay, right on. All right.

So you're like in the weeds on it. But if somebody says something particularly nasty, you have the ability to take that comment down. Yes, yeah. Usually I floated to the other moderators and it's a consensus. Okay. Yeah. So I don't like striking the ban hammer down unless I really have to. How do I get to be a moderator on there?

The sole moderator. You have to be the top one. Everyone above you has to leave. Oh, okay. So I would have been the top moderator at one point, and then someone took me down and then dropped me down to the bottom of the moderator list. It's all about how long you've been a moderator. Okay.

So I haven't been on Reddit and coming up on three years, three and a half years. Yeah. So I don't, I can't go there. Gotcha. I imagine you have a different relationship with it. There's just some cooks on there that have been there for fucking almost a decade that just do nothing. Yeah, like the people,

like the people that want to interact the most are the people that hate you the most. Mm-hmm. Yeah, like restaurant reviews. You're only getting the zero stars mostly. Yep. Yeah. Is that just the natural turn of all Reddits or like, is like a certain sect of your listening? Well, I heard.

Now, Gidham gleefully came back to me last week and was like, everybody on Reddit thinks you're bald. So people suggested that I shave my head like him. So, you know, so I could appear to, you know. Got it. Got it. So I appear to be really bold. I embrace it, I guess. But we went to the bald subred where I had posted because I shaved my head for a wedding or after a wedding.

And the amount is like everyone there is supportful, you know, very supportive of you shaving your head and like, you know, hey, you're looking great. You know, it's just, it's so much positivity. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to start hanging out on R bald a lot more. Can't go to ours. Can't go to TSD. Yeah. But get them.

I'm sure you've seen Curbier enthusiasm. Yes. Do you remember the episode where, uh, the cop is talking to Larry about being bald. And Larry's like, in all fairness, he's like, you're not bald. That's a stylish choice that you've made where, like, Larry's really bald. And I think that applies to get him, too. People shouldn't be complimenting him.

He shaved his head. Oh, it's such a stolen valor. Yeah. I'm going bald. Like, there is a spot up here that has no hair whatsoever. So it's still smooth. Yeah, it looks like you got a lot of hair there. I don't.

Okay. Still got options. Yeah, you've got a lot of options. Yeah. But I had, I went for a tonsure cut for a, for a wedding for somebody. So I looked like, so I was a friar,

like friar talk. I'm guessing that was Jimmy and Michelle's wedding. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Our roommates, Jimmy and Michelle were in the room next to us. Oh, okay.

They're great. Congratulations to them. Yeah. Sweet people. So actually, that brings up a good question. So it seems like you have this collection of people in your universe, Jimmy being one of them.

You know, you have, what do we have? We have also a lawyer, a doctor, a doctor. Sexy lawyer, a doctor. A homicide detective Okay

Yeah we talked to Troy A priest We have a priest We have an exorcist Okay It does seem like you're like assembling Like a small town Yeah

Well Yeah TSD town Yep TSD town There's a map somewhere How do these characters come in Are they like Very organically

Yeah Like Jimmy came around Because Q had cut his hair On the show Yeah And Jimmy came in and bought it because the idea was that Kim would sell his hair for $2,000. Whoever bought it, the money would go to Get him so he could get his teeth fixed. Well, no, it wasn't that I was going to sell my hair for $2,000.

We cut the hair and Getham was going to sell it for whatever price you could get. For whatever price you could get. And then held on to it for two years, never sold it, and then got an offer for $2,000 and sold the lock of my hair for $2,000. Right. Now, I thought that was insane. So I give him a Lego thing that I built as well. well to try and take the sting out. It's a $300 set.

I was like, maybe this will help. But that's how Jimmy got in. That's why he's called Jimmy the Hair Guy. Yeah, yeah. Because he bought the hair. Well, that's initially how we met him. But the way we got him was at Walt, I think, was like, you have to really pursue a maniac who will spend $2,000 on hair.

We got to see what else this guy's about. So he was about a lot, it turned out. How much did you think it would go for? I mean, a hundred bucks. Like, you know, something. like that. So 2000 for you. I wouldn't have sold it for 2000. I would have been like, I wasn't involved in this

transaction. I would have been like you can't spend $2,000 on that. But I wasn't around to stop it. By the way, Gettam has not gotten his teeth fixed or moved into an apartment, which are the two things that we were raising money for. Okay. You still hold, is it collecting interest? Or did you spend it on something else? I had

it in PayPal for a while, but now I have it in a high interest savings account. Oh, okay. So you put it to work for you. It's only using three, It's only losing 3% to inflation currently. I'm at 4%. Oh, yeah? All right.

And how did you put it on eBay? Is that how Jimmy came across it? No, I was going to put it on it. What happened was I was going to put it. The Impractic Joker's movie was starting to take off. And I was... For a week. Well, then COVID happened.

So that kind of killed it. I was getting ready for it to go like a little more nationwide and then I was going to list it so that it had like nationwide appeal. And then COVID happened. and, you know, just everything went to everything. And so then I just had it in a case in a case in the studio or in our display case with, you know, $2,000 price time. Yeah. Were you surprised at one for $2,000?

I knew it would eventually go for that amount. You knew what you had. I know what I got. So this is a sort of whip-crack conversation that we're going to get from Getham on every episode going forward for new listeners. Yep. Okay. Yeah. But I guess my question is, like, how did Gettom get involved?

Like, because U.S. people were like cheering whenever you walked into rooms and stuff. You want my side? You want Gettom's side. In all fairness, they also cheered for Walt's dog. When we first started the podcast, we were trying to get, tell them, stevedave.com. And we mentioned it on the air, and Ginnettom was listening. So he bought it squatted on it. No, no.

And then. I had it before that. He had it years before a podcast even started. I just said my side and his side. Okay, all right. And then, you know, he claimed to, he was in the complex store at the time we were recording the episodes in the Secret Stash in Red Bank. And get him would come in and he would claim to like the show and claim to, you know, be a good person. And then he wanted to charge us.

He wanted to make money off us. And we came to an agreement on the price, and then he reneged and raised the price. So I hate his guts. And for that purpose alone, I think Walt brought him around more and more. That's not true. That's not true. If I really felt you hated him, I wouldn't bring him back around. I just...

I certainly didn't like him. No, you didn't like him, but I felt that there was so much to scratch beneath the surface. You had no idea what you were doing. into yourself. I know, yeah, but I felt he was too interesting of a human being to just let wander away. Because he was a listener and it was just by happenstance that he lived in the same state we did only about an hour away from us. And it was just like coincidence that he owned tellemstiev.com because it was a line from a Kevin Smith movie. That's why you purchased it. You like heard you knew the line had weight to it. No, I was, well, by that point in time I was going

by get him Steve Dave. So I had an original screen name and I had a PsychoX girlfriend and I had to switch names on AOL and instant messenger. So I came, I misremembered the line of tell him Steve Des, is get him Steve Dave. And so I had that as my username. And then I just started like GoDaddy was doing those 99 cent domain deals. And I was just buying up domain names for no good reason whatsoever because I had a webcam site. I had webcam set up in my house. And I would have all those domains lead to my webcam site.

So I would just drop them anywhere I could. So I bought Get Him Steve Dave, both spellings, and then also tell him Steve Dave. Yeah. Years before a podcast even existed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was listening to.

I was a Smodcast fan at that time, but you guys hadn't started telling him Steve Dave yet. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. And so with this podcast, from what I understand, you two, Wall and Brian had a TV show and wanted to do a podcast together. And Q, you were their audio engineer? TV show came later. Okay.

Yeah. The TV show, I think, came about, what, 2012? And we started 2010. Almost because of the podcast. Yeah. Okay. Got it. So Brian and Walt appeared in several of Kevin's early movies as the same characters.

And Walt's line in the movies was Tell him Steve Dave. Yeah. And so when Kevin Smith started his network up, he asked these guys to do it, to do a podcast on it. I asked him to do it. I asked him for you. I think Kevin forced the name on you, right? He was like, call it, tell him Steve, Dave.

Yeah, I wanted to call it something different. I want to ride on his coattails. And we, like, Walt was initially, you were, you were for it. You were for telling Steve, you were like, it's instant recognition, I remember. Whereas I was like, let's do our own thing. Let's not have anything to do with Kevin. I wasn't that against it. Wasn't it joint, counter joint?

I wanted to do joint counter joint where I would smoke and I would debate Walt on different topics. I don't know how long that would have lasted. Okay. And you were, there's something. sound engineer at first? Well, not really. I mean, I was just Brian's friend and Malt's friends, so they needed help. So I was like, I'll come down. I'll work the soundboard, but I didn't know anything about doing the soundboard. I literally was just just hooking up mics and just recording it for them to help out. Okay. And then you got a TV show. Then,

yeah, then. Then he started giving us the high hat. Well, then, then Convickman, their show was based on telling Steve Dave. I was supposed to be on Combookmen. Yeah. And True TV tried to legally block me from being on it. And then they realized they couldn't because I'd carved out in the contract any projects I'd have to do with Tom, Steve Dave. And they called me up and basically they begged me to not do it. They're like, please just do that. And the schedule

was getting so bad that there was no way I could have been on both TV shows anyway. Wow. Yeah. What a decision. Yeah. To not be a comic bookman. So I stepped down from, I stepped down from Comic Man. Mike Zapsick steps up, steps up and takes the roll. And the rest is

sorry, the rest is... Oh my God. Do you believe this fucking guy with the phone? Princess Diana would never pick up the phone during a podcast. Okay, there's tell him, there's Tessie Town. There's Tessie Town. Oh, you do have a town.

Oh yeah. The early dream was to have a compound so we could all live on it. Yeah. Yeah. You already have many aspects of society covered. Yeah. We talked to Troy and is it Johnny?

law the lawyer yeah yeah we have a lawyer it's like that uh you see that documentary wild wild country where the uh all the indians came in and they like built that yeah built a town and they brought in people that it's like these are serious engineers that knew how to build roads and bridges and all this other stuff i don't know if we have any engineers yeah okay you gotta get some civic engineers yeah i guarantee you i'll have two at least two contact me after him you need a bridge built yeah yes do you feel like you have enough to secede from the union and kind of create a sovereign state. If Texas can't do it, I'm not sure what our chances are.

We're more just waiting for society to break down. Yeah, and then we got our people. Okay. And then you have your secret please. Sure. Yeah. Okay. So I see the four colored demons there.

Yeah. Now, I like, I understand this is a motorcycle club. Yeah. And there's one rule for entry, which is that you've seen a motorcycle. Yeah. I forget. Like, I was. I forgot what episode we first mentioned.

I was driving either home or two, tell him Steve Dave, and it just popped in my head. I forget why. Like, we're, we must have been watching that fucking TV show. Remember you coming in to something? I want a comic themed motorcycle. Yeah, and that was it.

It was like, I want a comic theme motorcycle club. And the name came pretty quick. And then, yeah, it came together pretty quick. So it is, it's a four-color demons. It's the world's only motorcycle. Yeah. Combook theme motorcycle club.

We're pretty loose. It's a free entry. There's a whole website for it. You can go on and sign up and you get your membership card. We're over 10,000 strong. Yeah, there's no dues or anything. And it's all over. And like people in Ireland will have meetups.

Like the ants, uh, four colored demon members will have, will organize meetups. That's so like, if there's independent of us. Independent of us. Like they'll be in like London this weekend. We're having a, tell them Steve, uh, four color demons meet up. Oh, man. Yeah, I definitely.

When you do something like Q. West, you realize that, like, these people are like, we're incidental at this point. Yeah. They have their community. They have their friends. They have, like, the people they want to see when they go to these meetups, you know, so it's like, they're all like, we're kind of outsiders a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, we got the, we got the logo, the Cucharic brothers did that awesome logo for us. And, you know, we got, you get yourself a leather vest bud, get yourself a patch on the back and get yourself, people like, get their numbers online and they just put the number on their vest. It's like a rank.

Oh, right on. Even though all numbers are kind of equal as no. Yeah, it just is what it is. I think I'm one. Brian's two. Three is Walt. Yeah, all the numbers are kind of equal, but like, I'm one. Yeah.

The lower numbers are definitely coveted. Sure. Some numbers are more equal than others. You know what I mean? But get him, do you have a number? Yeah, I'm number five. A pretty big number as well. Frank should have been number five.

We have a professor too, Frank five. Okay, so you have a college. You have a community college. Yeah, he was at, he was at Q West. Oh, right. He was up on stage. He was the guy who drank half a bottle of vodka before coming on. He was like, you didn't tell him.

He was like, I didn't know that I was going to have to be up there on stage. So, you know, like, so right before he was like, he drank some vodka. And I went back to my text and I was like, I'm going to call you up tonight on stage just so you know. So he definitely was aware. Uh-huh. I think he just used that as an excuse to, to, uh,

down some juicy tits, vodka. Straight to that. So if you look around the studio, you'll see like a lot of the shows that are on Patreon because we have like a whole, we basically have a whole network at this point that's really accessible through Patreon. It's like they'll do, the guys will do like a Kiss podcast or,

um, any sorts of fucking, I would have got the, we have a comp book one called I buy comics. we sit there and talk about comics that we I sell comics um Bride tries where bride tries new hobbies and stuff like that

yeah uh Baron von Flanagan you're Baron von Flanagan correct yes so the Barons are like they like dressed up and stuff there's like a costume oh the wannabe dressed up as uh yeah they cosplayed as barons yeah so I get what's the the premise of the

the Barons or um I was I was into the whole schick of horror host that host horror movies, you know, like Spangouli. Sure. And the guys who preceded him, Zacharly. And I've always been into that. And I wanted to create my own version of that and do it on the podcast.

Gran, is that a Patreon thing as well? Once in a while, like he pops up here now and then. For the long time, I think I overused him. So he's kind of been retired for a while. So he hasn't been He was at Jimmy's wedding though Ironically Yeah he was

Like he asked me to come to Yeah Well yeah it's a lot easier to wear a mask to Go out in public I find for myself So when he asked me to go To the wedding dressed as Baron von Flanagan I wholeheartedly agreed

Because yeah That to me is more comfortable Yeah that sounds incredible I would love to have a character That just goes to work for me Yeah Yeah Speaking of characters

It is really interesting to watch you slip in and out of characters. Like I went to your improv show and then like with Sherman the Scumbag. It's really like how much improv experience do you have? I know you're supposed to be asking us stuff, but a lot. Oh, yeah, a lot. I started in college. And then that became sort of my major unofficially, you know. And then I moved to New York just simply to pursue improv comedy and see where that led and see what happened.

Now look at you. Well, I found the one improv comedy job in the entire world working on impractical Jokers. I think it's the only one that is that exact job. But it's really cool. When we did the Sherman, the scumbag thing, I really appreciated Q sandwiching me between you and Mersio. Two fucking accomplished. Oh, do I knock my thing?

Yeah. That's just for us, though. All right. Yeah, two accomplished improvvers. And I'm like, Ar. Hey, everybody are. Well, I'll take credit for Joe as well. He was actually my student years ago.

Was it so funny. Before we were co-workers on the show. Really? How was he as a student? He was, he was great. He was, Joe and Bergeo is like the most lovely man on earth. So he was, uh, he's a really nice guy. He's just, yeah.

He's someone that makes you very comfortable to like be in a room with. I know you guys have had him on the show. Yeah. But yeah, he was, he was, uh, he was good. You know, I had notes for him. I helped him a lot. Yeah. I figured.

I could tell when I was watching the improv show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, John is a killer. Like, we'll get, we get ideas. You know, when we're writing the season and stuff like that,

everybody will submit these packets of jokes. And, like, John is like always, always killer. Always, always killer. Yeah, I use a lot of her stuff. And claim it as my own. That's great. You're the genius. And I'll be honest, every so often an idea of Matt's,

comes into one of those packets. Oh, excellent. Yeah. Oh, that's great. So sometimes it's a twice stolen joke. And remember Nick, do you have a nice? Sure. So Brian worked with Nick years ago at the VSU office.

And Nick is now a writer on the show. And Nick and John have a fun relationship. They seem to get along. Oh, yeah? Yeah, we're both very dark people. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Nick's into conspiracy theories.

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Yeah, right? You'd make an employee that you carry fucking for the rest of your life? What if they felt they were under pressure and made a decision under duress? No, that sounds very simple. A grown man made an agreement. Anybody can come up with any excuses to negate it. Who I'm going to have to think about that. It takes a tip of a special thought man to like honor the agreement.

Anybody can come up for this. Weren't you given guidance by another podcast? Yeah, people had reached out to me and said that, you know, I was being low-balled. Is that podcast still around? No, the one person died, so. So what? Just not going on around. It was making great decisions.

It was a couple. Do you think that they would have hired your ass if you lost your job? Or do you think that they would have taken you in like a lost puppy? They took me in a couple times. How do you mean? How so? Well, I used to go down to there for Mumbers Parade, to their place for Mumbers parade. I don't think that's taking you in. I think they let you spend one night at your house. They would have let you squat, basically, and the way you squat it in the NISTful office?

I don't know. I don't think so. What's behind the gray curtain? I'm curious. Is that, is that? Don't look behind the gray curtain. Okay. Yes. It's a green screen. The office is normally disgusting.

It's beautiful in here. I know. It's beautiful. This is like the coolest basement ever. Yeah. Normally it doesn't look like this. Normally this piles of garbage everywhere. By the way, when I mean garbage, I mean whatever your definition of garbage is, that's

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Okay. So something had to be done. I suspect what was done was that curtain was put up and everything was pushed behind it. I would like you to go look behind that curtain. Really? Really? Yeah. It's just it's just foldable chairs, a podium.

Not that I don't believe. And some boxes of merchandise that we have to pack and send out in June. You know what? Yeah. It's not bad. In your face, Q. Everything is in a place that it's supposed to be. Yes.

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Because I just. Tricks their eyes as you're thinking that you look like Brad Pitt. Where the hell is out there now? Yeah, who is out there? Brad Pitt, I think, could still be the gold standard. I saw him recently. I'm like, Jesus Christ, this guy. Oh, the guy from Maverick.

Well, why don't we ask John? She's here. Tom Cruise? No, the other, no Gibson. James Garner? James Garner is like it stuck his head to be hot. James Garner is the new hottest thing. Gen Z women are just looking for a James Garner type.

I mean, aren't we all looking for a James Garner type? I'm saying Glenn Powell. Is that from the Rockford Falls? Glenn Prow. Yeah, but he was in the movie version of the Maverick. Oh, as the older man? He was Mel Gibson's dad in it. Oh, okay.

Well, wasn't he the original Maverick? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he connected him to Mel Gibson. And who's in Project Hail Mary? Gosling.

Yeah. Gosling. Yeah. Okay. That's a dream boat. Big time. And that movie, I finally saw it. You did?

That was so good. Yeah. And the project, How many, it was awesome. Oh, man. It was really good. A little different than the book, but it was all different in the book. It was up.

It was a little bit. acceptable, yeah. Speaking of which, real quickly, 100 pages into... DCC? Dungeon Coal Carl? Yeah. What are you thinking? I like it, and I see why you love it.

Yeah. It has a lot to do with Dungeons and Dragons and video games. Yeah. Yeah. I can tell the influences there. That stuff evens out. Does it? Yeah, they give it to you heavy early on.

So you know. So you know. And then later on, all you had to know is like, oh, they went up. They stopped even discussing levels and shit after a while. Very enjoyable so far, though. It's great. Yeah. Did you get to Mongo yet?

No, no Mongo yet. Okay. Great. How far are you into Book 8? A little more than halfway. Okay, yeah. Is it going to go to planet? I don't want to ruin it from.

No, I'm not that cool. It's not a special needs person, is it? In a way. All right. Yeah, but not really. I think I'm on the fifth race. Yeah, I'm like 40% in, yes. They're just doing the third.

All right. This is what we do, though. We go to do zero episodes and we don't do it. I know. We start talking about shit. I don't care. Is this a single book or is this a series? Dungeon Crawl of Carl is a series of books about a guy who Earth gets taken over by aliens that turns Earth basically into a dungeon and dragons maze is the loose way to describe it.

And you have to, and they broadcast it like a TV show. So it's like a hellish Truman show type that. And they have to survive their fight. And this guy, Carl has his girlfriend's cat with her. and she gets super intelligent because it's something the aliens do, and it's him and this cat fighting their way through a dungeon. But it's seven books, eight books now. And each book is like better than one.

Yeah, it changes as it goes. Like it's kind of a different story now. Does it really reward a reader that knows Dungeons and Dragons? Not really. No, it's definitely an easier in, but no, there's, it really doesn't. I'm not a bit, like, I don't know a lot about Dungeons and Dragons. I still can, like, get, pretty much. Yeah, they just gamify the rules.

As long as you know the basics. Yeah. It's like, there's like no rolling or anything, but like there is the levels. So you have to learn about levels a little. Like leveling up. Yeah, yeah. But it's okay. And quests.

Got it, got it. But all of that falls away fairly quickly. Okay. It's just you're into it. And then it starts getting into the political of why the aliens are doing it. It becomes this whole other other thing. Yeah. It's awesome.

Anyway, the eighth book came out last week. So me and get them are hot and heavy. All excited. And if you're an audio book guy, the audio books are fucking awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a reader, so I just read it on my phone, yeah. So, all right, so let's get into this. We do.

We get distracted. Do you guys feel so far that we've created anything that's welcoming to new listeners as of yet? Yes. Yes, I have to tell you. It happened during the commercial break, but I think I want to listen. I love it. I'm drawn in. It was when Gitum recommended the special headphones just for eating, honestly.

And it was right on the heels of talking about the baron. And I'm like, I think I would come for the comedy and I would stay for the life advice. Like I feel like I've learned a lot just in the few minutes that we've been together. And you're all just so likable. I want to listen. I mean, can I listen? Yes. Okay.

Yes. And I think after this episode, you'll be even more prepared to listen. Okay. Those are the barons by you. There's multiple colored barons just to go on what we are before. Oh, cool. I'm the white baron. in the middle there

who's a bit of a doof apparently and Brian's the gold baron where's the gold baron on the right up there above get him I'm the gay baron he's the gay baron he's the gay baron Paul just puts his in positions to

I had no choice in the matter I'm just on Judy Garland put this outfit on yeah we have a claymation movie which Matt you worked in in stop motion for a while right as I recall

I still do. It's kind of like a side hustle. My friend's the actual animator. Okay. We do, uh, you guys would remember, what's his name?

Alex Kropanak. Okay. That would have been crazy. Yeah. He's the same guy. Do you know, uh, Mr.

Oz? You ever heard of that animator? Mr. Oz? No. I mean, not Frank Oz. No,

no connection to Frank Oz. He's his own Oz. Yeah. For sure. And Oz onto himself. Do we like him now? Um, we kind of,

connected, I did me and him, and we had an email back and forth tried to, like, build bridges after a burnt, you know, destroyed bridge, but he, I wasn't able to convince him to come back into TSD town. He was, he was polite, though, and said, you know, he wished us well, but he didn't feel like he could ever work with us ever again. I don't blame him. Hard to blame the guy. So you're looking to add an animator to your fifet? Claymation only. Claymation only. Yeah, but they're harder to find.

Yeah, yeah. They're more maniacs than I found. When you work in claymation, you've got to be a bit special. But we have a line in here to a non-clamation anima. Alex could definitely do claymation. Yeah. He's, he, so we have a contract with Marvel. We do the what the videos for YouTube, which is like, you probably remember like the panels in the middle of the comics where they have the action figures do like a little sketch.

Yeah, it's usually to advertise the actual Hasbro toys. Okay. But yeah, he's made like hundreds of these things since like... And you write them with them? Yeah, so I'll write them and do voices. John is like, John has done... John is the voice of Captain Marvel.

Oh, nice. And that's on an official Marvel product, too. Whoa. So you are Captain Marvel. I guess I didn't remember. Wow, I didn't even know that. Awesome. And Canon, you know.

Yeah, she's the like stop motion Carol Danvers. Wow. That's cool. Yeah, you and Bree Larson. Okay. I think we're going to get you guys some low numbers on those four color demons.

Oh. I mean, we have to be a lot of number 10. Get him, you shook his head hard. Yeah. Yeah. How much to sell your number? Oh, I sell mine.

I don't do anything with it. Oh, yeah, make me an offer. I've never used it once. Doesn't get your discounts anywhere? No way. Well, yeah. Yeah, we'll have to talk. Like, Alex could definitely claimate if you're, if you need claimation.

But, yeah, he's stopped motion. All things stop motion. But he is also like, yeah, your brain needs to be wired a certain way. Yeah. He, like, does all of his, he'll, like, not sleep for, like, 48 hours. Yeah, you got to disappear from the real world for months on end. It's wild. His office looks like this.

too. Yeah. Just, like, surrounded by toys. Yeah. Yeah, maybe that's why I like this office. It looks like your office. That's in Pittsburgh. I never get to be there.

Those guys, those guys hold it down. What other questions are that? Matt? Yeah. So, I feel like we covered, like, the community. Like, is awesome and sincere and inviting. And, like, that's the first thing I learned at Q. West.

And then you got, like, the crew. and we talked about getham and jimmy but like how do you like i understand you have a number of franks yeah some of them have died since the whole frank thing started we went on a run where we were meeting interesting people who were named frank like frank one was just a cranky old dickhead right if something like that yeah he was like the racist guy yeah he was like he was pretty bad but then frank number two was a uh uh auschwitz survivor auschwitz survivor he was this old doc cow he was in docca and he survived Docow. And we had to separate him from the dickhead first, Frank.

So we called him Frank too. He was obviously the more interesting one, which led to a great telling Steve Dave moment early on where Brian Johnson was complaining about how hard his life was to a Doc cow survivor. It was fucking phenomenal. Then I took his seat. You hear him out? Yeah, it was interesting.

So that put the Franks on the map. And then we just kept meeting these different Franks who were assigned the number of Frank three. The most relevant, I would say, to this day, is Frank Five, who is just a regular on the show and has become one of Walt's best friends. He was also at QS. He's a QS. Yeah, I remember meeting it, Frank. He owns a Delorean. He's a Back to Future fan, so he bought a Delorean.

He skipped Thanksgiving dinner spending with his family to drive down and visit the studio. Yeah, at 35. That's how we met him. Yeah. He showed up one day before, the day before Thanksgiving, and the rest is history. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's Frank Four. There's him all up there.

Yeah, Frank Three was, we don't hear from him much anymore. But Frank Four, I don't even remember. Yeah, he was a guy. He came in very, very briefly. He came into the store one day, and he was from Staten Island. And we were talking to him for a bit. And then he, it sort of, I can't remember how it came out, but that he had married his cousin.

Oh, that's right. What? Yeah. And that's why we started talking to him. But he wasn't like he's not a, like Frank three for a long time. He was a regular part of the show. Frank five for even longer probably is now as a part of the show. Frank one and two were assuming dead at this point.

Yeah, I would have to imagine. Frank two, a notable character. He was a World War II dockout conservation camp survivor. And in parentheses, though Brian later contested his veteran status. So, yeah. So, yeah, we, we collect. And usually, like, like, the, like, Father Lance, he's. Oh, you have a priest as well.

He's an exorcist. He's on the, he's on the, he's from Pittsburgh. He's from Pittsburgh. He's a Steelers fan. You got a Yinzer exorcist on the show. Yeah. And he works with the church. He's an actual on the church's exorcist squad.

And when, when, so. Walt collects these guys and brings them in and finds these interesting people. And then they tend to stick around once they've been in. So you're the purveyor of the... Well, he answers emails. You bring them in and then you guys deal with them, basically. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. We do have some sources. Like two of my, like, long-time friends are listeners of the show. One of them claims to have emailed with you. I don't know. He didn't even tell me about what. He was actually pretty unhelpful. I guess I'll call out Jesse. Okay. He was, he was like, Josh. I remember Jesse? I don't know. We'll listen or Jesse. That was striking. So, like, how many emails do you get? It depends. You know, I found, and I understand it. I get it. Like, there's a kind of vibe that with the show, I think anybody listens to a podcast, probably.

kind of gets that vibe like you know the people that are on the mic. So when you see guys like a Jimmy or Frank who are listeners and then they come in and then they kind of get roles, regular roles, reoccurring. They keep coming on, coming back, become part of the family. You'll find then you'll have a lot more emails of being like, well, here's what I can do. Here's what I am. And like they want to join the colony and a more... important way than just listening sometimes. So we get a lot of emails like that.

Like, I buy hair also. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's just people have, like, people just have to break through through. It just got to be a chemistry there, though, too, though, you know. Like Eli, my boy, Eli, who doesn't have an official aunt title. But he, I went to, I gave him an extra ticket.

He sat with me at DeRosa's show with the Netflix special. He hung out with me afterwards. Like, some of them just get their way into, you know, they proved to be good people. Because they're cool and they're laid back. Yeah. Like, I gave you my number this time. So that's, I don't think I've ever given that. I think get him only got my number two years ago.

Jimmy was asking you for your number. I'm like, I didn't do that. Well, Jimmy, I gave my number. Oh, did you give it to him eventually? So far, so good. All right. There are some random thoughts coming in. I like one a am that I wonder why I'm.

He's always lovely. Right. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes, yeah. At least I work at that time. Yeah. And the text will come in that I'll be like, I don't know why he's telling me this.

I just don't answer those. I love you, dude. Yeah. Jimmy is the best, I want to say. Yeah. He was so wonderful at Key West. He gave me, like, the support that I wish I got from my mom before I do comedy and after. I see why you have him around.

He's just a wonderful maternal energy. Yeah. Ray of sunshine. He was on the cruise. He was on the cruise. He was on that. That's where I learned to like him. I actually didn't like Jimmy that much up at that point.

Okay. He freaked me out. a little bit. I didn't believe a person could be that nice. Okay. So it wasn't about the hair. It was just he was too nice. No, it was just that I kept trying to find out what his angle was. Okay. And he doesn't have

an angle. Yeah. He doesn't. Yeah. But I had to get, I had to figure that out first. That's wild that it wasn't about the hair. Someone was too nice to you and you couldn't figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. Says everything about you.

This guy I'm not sure about it. He just happened to pay $2,000 for my hair. Yeah. It was a crazy start. But yeah, great guy. Yeah. I'm totally important now. As someone who's like been to Johnna's comedy shows, like with both her mom and Jimmy,

and it's like, I can confirm. Like Jimmy was like, after the show and he like looked at me. He's like, how does she do it? Her mom is like very generous, but she's definitely like, all right, there's a time to go home now. But did you do your funny thing? Yeah. Speaking of QS though, so. You know, we couldn't help but notice Frank was there.

Johnny Law was there. No, Walt. And I understand it's because Walt don't fly. I do not fly. Okay. And we were wondering what else don't Walt do? Drugs. Okay.

The list goes on. Seasoning on food. Okay. Yeah, I don't eat a lot of... Many foods? Many. I only have, like, maybe four things I eat. Wow.

What are they? Plain hamburger, no bun. Chicken tender. I'll let my son... Yeah. Plain fries, no salt. Pizza, plain pizza. Chicken fingers.

That's about it. So you can... Soda only from a fountain machine. I get that. This is all like bowling alley food. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like bowling alley.

Like driving theater. I like foods in a basket. Years and years ago, what was the year we drove cross-country for Comic-Con the three of of us. Oh, that would have been 2002, I think. 2002, we drove

three of us drove across country. 2003 at the latest. And, and Walt told me at the time that if he could, he would cast a magic spell

that the only way you could get drunk was to eat powdered human feces. He was like, then let's see the drunk's drink. I think we would all still do it. That was my point.

I was like, yeah. I was just, yeah. I throw it in the water and drink it back. Kool-aid hides a lot of flavors. So Walda's always had an aversion to, you know, drugs or outside influences. Okay.

He's probably steered me straight in a lot of ways. Yeah. He's been a good influence on my life. Oh, really? How so? Well, you know, sometimes I promise you that I would... The amount of times you come in here and you're like, guys, I'm really gone over. I got a bad headache.

It doesn't seem like I'm staring you're right. What was the last time that happened? Like two months ago? And when was the last time for that? Okay. I can't even name it. Yeah. I suspect many times you zoom in, that might be the reason.

Sometimes I have walked on my shoulder. Yeah. We're telling me not to do things. Who's on the other shoulder? Ryan Johnson. You're looking at them. You're looking at both of them. You're looking at both of them.

So that's interesting. So are the three of you really different people? And what is it? I guess what's, what about you guys is? different. What draws you together as friends and co-hosts? I love pain killers. Okay. Walt doesn't. Okay. And I'm not talking about the baby shit either. I'm talking about the bear. The shit you've got to go to rehab like two, three times to shake.

And then once you get rid of it? Yeah. Then it's okay. Then you're good. Then you're like Walt Flanagan almost. Except for the weed and the occasional booze. Yeah. But I guess like in the show like whenever you started out, did you have like specific responsibilities to the show? Like I heard Walt that you put together games, right? And like I noticed at QS like you seem to introduce the topics. Yeah, pretty much. So like was was that like intentional? Do you have like jobs?

I think that's probably organic. Yeah. I mean, it just kind of fell into roles. Yeah. Early on. Well, there was a thing with Walt specifically where when we started at Walt didn't want to do it, didn't want to do the podcast and didn't think it would last. So looking back over the long years,

it has been something to see Walt become like this creative force. He's thrown himself into it in a way that I don't think any of us would have called. Like a lot of the creativity you see around them came from Walt being like I have this, the Barons, this, that, like came from Walt from a guy who was largely uninterested in doing a podcast whatsoever. So it has been, it's been great to see my friend Bloom into that sort of role as like a producer, main producer, almost in a way. Brian, you know, always wanted to do the podcast, did the podcast, but then stopped

taking it seriously for a while because of a horrendous drug addiction, but comes in and drives the show. He steers a ship. He's out here. I come in. I don't prepare any. Walt says I sleepwalk through the show. You know, Brian comes in.

He sees him. He comes with topics every week. Like, that's why when you saw her on stage. on space monkeys is a show that Brian and I do that Walt's not a part of telling Steve Dave without Walt becomes space monkeys uh and Brian is a guy that drives he's captain steering the ship type stuff when I came onto the show my job was like you said to be the audio guy purposely didn't talk much early on and I think all these years later like I still kind of see myself as like my job is to pivot between the two of them and to knock them into some thing like I've

never been like a main engine driver on the show type thing got you guys like it's kind of watch these two go back and forth, which is great. Decide who you want to jump in with. Yeah, decide who I want to jump in with, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, get him is just get him. He's a singular entity. Yeah.

Chaos agent. Yeah. Is any of this helping? Is any of this? Yeah, it is working. So, like, Space Monkeys, that's the show where, like, if Walt's not there. And it's me and Brian in Space Monkeys, yeah. Originally, it started as, like, topics that Walt wanted to steer clear of Hot Button

topics. Okay. He and I would bring to our Space Monkey's podcast and talk about until Q got pussyified and won't talk about hot topics anymore

because he's too fucking famous. When did you get pussified, Q? It's about the time that the crew started relying on us for their jobs. And I was like,

I got shit. I got a lot more responsibility than just shit I want to say on the show. So, yeah, I have to,

I catch a lot of shit for that. I expect the next the next time you guys shoot, I want to see like an eight by 10 of Q up at right,

pusified on, just tack it up somewhere. That's what, that improv job that she's, that she loves is one of the jobs I'm protecting by now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, as soon as you said that,

I was like, I do love my drug. That's all bad advice. So, yeah, I mean, even I don't wade into those waters anymore. People are just too willing to fucking try to bring you down for any means necessary. That's interesting.

So one of, one of my friends did say, space monkeys is when Brian and Q get sexy. We have gotten sex in it. It's definitely more. It's like there was something to it. Yeah.

It was a fair. Yeah. It's not what it was. Like originally we were going to interview like drug addicts and prostitutes and stuff like that. You know, it was going to be a travel. Yeah. We were going to travel all over the place and

have sponsors pay for it. We had big ideas. Wow. Yeah. So is it scheduled or is it just like if you're just like busy, that day and they record. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a show you do by yourself when they're on? No. On Patreon. Oh, yeah. On Patreon. Oh, yeah.

A Patreon. A couple, yeah. Like the driving show, like, you steer that. Yeah. Not no pun intended. All-timey radio hour. Yeah. Is that generally a deal with Patreon?

It's like you got, like, tell him Steve Dave is what's in front of the paywall and then behind the paywall is like all of the other stuff. Yeah. With some of the other. people in the universe. I don't want to call them characters, but other people who make up our family. Since Q is so busy,

we rope in any number of different guests who have appeared on the regular show and give them more opportunity to shine. The stuff you don't want John Q. Public to see. No, I think he's even more...

It's definitely cleaner than... I think it's more sanitized. They'll review like shows from the 60s. It's all, it's like, it is just that place where it's, that's where like the TSD town residents get the shine a little bit more. So you take an old, an old issue, TV guy, just go through it. Yeah. On the surface, it doesn't sound good. Yeah.

It's true. We really do that. A JC Penny catalog from 1962. They'll just go through and discuss it. It's awesome. I'm unbelievably turned off for becoming. a Patreon number. And then you see that T,

right there blocking T, S, D, and D. It's like, we'll play, tell them, we'll play, we'll play Dungeons and Dragons. We'll come up with a character, we'll play. All right. That sure got canceled, Q. Did it really? Yeah.

What happened? I killed it? Well, we couldn't live up to your absence. Once you appeared on it, everybody was like, well, now it sucks with that Q on it. Yeah, because Q was so psyched. You wouldn't do it every time, though. I wanted to complain about.

So they wanted you off the main show, but they couldn't have that show without you. Yeah, I really had fun on that one. I came alive. I was, I had an elf that I made when I played with my cousins in junior high school and, you know, when I was really young. And I had an elf named Fister Mesh that was my character back then when I was preteen, teen. Yeah, yeah. I'm your boy. And I brought Fister Mesh back to play that.

And I was so excited to take my friend. out of the case after decades and decades that are really shown shown through and I took it seriously and people liked it but I just found that it was canceled I was like maybe a very special episode yeah it's the return of fister mesh fister mesh I don't know where it came from so yeah Patreon is where you get a lot of the like bride tries is an awesome one where it's like bright tries different hobbies He's just stamp collecting. Yeah, stamp collecting last week we did a balloon animals.

Okay. Has anything taken permanently? You know, you've tried a bunch of hobbies. Has one? Not yet. No. No. I'm very hard to capture my interest.

Okay. You know, so with any one thing for any amount of time. Walt has likened me to a frog hopping around on lily pads, you know. But in fact, there was one where we were going to check out serial killer stuff. And it's like, no, because then you'll have a hobby. That show will end. So we didn't do that one. That's too good.

Okay. We're about to do beekeeping. Is that overkill? Oh, sorry. No. The serial killer? Is the supernatural paranormal show that we do once in a while, every once in a while. There was a time when we did, I think it was 16 episodes.

We did 16 episodes with Microsoft because Microsoft was paying people to do podcasts. Yeah. So they gave us a bunch of money and they'll just come up with a podcast for 16 episodes. And I think it was you, Walt, that wanted to do the supernatural thing. So we did, yeah, Overkill for 16 episodes. And then from there on, we do it every once in a while. Every once in a great while, I should say. That was where my first episode was, wasn't it?

An Overkill? Overkill? Like episode nine or something? Yeah. Yeah. And that was funny because that was early into the podcast. And we were like, what do we call this new show? I forget who said it.

It was like, well, people are going to get sick of us. It's going to be overkill. I know who said it. And it stuck. And that was probably 14 years ago that you said that. And we're still overkilling it. Yeah. So when an overkill comes, we're supposed to come in with like a supernatural topic and discuss it.

That's where we found Father Lance was on an overkill, right? We were talking about exorcism and stuff like that. I can't recall if he definitely emailed in regarding something supernatural. Right. And when I, of course, my Joe hit the floor when he said that he was a, you know, a real. Hard carrying exercise. Yeah. That's very rare, you know, that you can pull in a man of the cloth and talk about.

And he's not all stodgy and shit. He's a cool guy. No, he's a great guy. So Father Lance came in about the Prussian kissing devil's skull. That's right, yes. Episode 325. Okay. Our friend Josh said specifically, who is much more helpful in prepping for this.

And honestly, much better salesman of the show. But he said ask about the kissing skulls. Okay. So that, it's actually here. It's in the lobby. out there, but that's it up there. So that was found. I found that in a market. It's a real human skull.

And I brought it in. It's got like this copper face bottom and it's just real carved human skull. And when we got it, we got a letter. It's an anonymous letter? We never know anonymous. Who detailed the history of the skull and it was

this, it was like this skull has been missing for a long time. This was the Prussian kissing devil skull and it was this cursed skull. that we have. So the idea was to profit off of it. Yeah.

So the idea is if you give the skull $5. What is it, $5? I think it's $5. If you don't, what was it, what was it? What was it?

You got to give it $5 and it will grant a wish. Yeah, it'll grant a wish. But there's a way it could backfire on you somehow. I don't remember. Is that how you got the TV show? That's how we got the TV show.

Yeah. Okay. I wish. I'm thinking of taking that $5 out. It's never going to fucking out. Yeah. So that's it. He's out there.

He's in a fish tank. out there would fight and ants will come in and put five dollars. Crumpies in the fish tank. What's that? Crumpies in the fish tank. Yeah, we'll get to crumpy. Let's not confuse. Let's get the basics down.

Yeah, there's a lot. Then I discovered this, this night fair where they sell all these cursed and haunted objects and occasionally I'll buy something and bring it in. But the real one was, uh, was, was the Prussian kissing devil's skull. So that's out there. And, uh, people, oh, that was it. People were accusing of us trying to make money off it. And we said we would donate the money.

Um, which we've, um, which we've, yet to do, but we also haven't ever filled the tank, so we haven't had to. Nobody's just sitting there. But yeah, that's out there. That's a big part of the... That's crazy. Somebody sent you an anonymous letter. You still don't...

Just confirming that that was a real thing. That's like straight up, like, Cthulu stuff. Yes. Yeah. And it had, like, dates. And it has the name of the guy who's skull it is and stuff like that. It was like a pretty intense lore. That's...

You're okay with this, Walt? Just having this around? Yeah. Put his five bucks in. The, is it Father Lance? Or what was the priest's name? Father Lance.

Father Lance has he weighed in on the skull? He's called into question a lot of the authenticity of the letter and the skull. Okay. It's a real, it's a real skull. Yeah, but, yeah, Father Lance is not ready to deem it a true, supernatural artifact. He says he believed there was a Tibetan Kapala skull.

What? Yeah. Have you all put in $5 and put a wish in? Yes. And have the wishes come true? I'm still here. Yeah. You wish to cigarette. Is that time Brian met Marybeth? He wished for love. He got it.

And the monkey's paw twist was that you became part of Q's life, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. That was a curse. You know. Wow. You know, Walt never had his son and he put $5 in. And Gennam is now basically his son. So in a way, the kissing skull brought Walt.

I'm putting money in. I was, but now I don't know if I'm going to. I'm going to put in for both of us. I'll take yours as well. Oh, God. Yeah, it's pretty cool, the Prussian kissing devil skull. That's so cool. It's a great story, too.

Like, it's a cool, it's a cool legend. I, like, I'm not religious, but I went to, CCD enough to be like freaked out about that. Yeah. Yeah. But it's not. Crumpy's evil. Crumpy's evil.

But again, well, that's important. So there is an evil thing here. Yeah. It's not evil. You felt it when you walked in, right? Yeah. So coldness. I felt a blast of cold air.

Yeah. That's what it was. I'm definitely, I'm definitely starting with your overkill episodes. This is definitely like my shit. Although, uh, both my friends. and like everything we saw, it was the episode was Hayday.

Making Hayden Hay. Making Hay. Was it the first one? Because there's three of them. This is a making hay trilogy. They said just ask about making hay. Which I know it takes places at a flea market. Charles had a soft spot for flea market.

That was our first outing, right? Yeah. Yeah, that was our first out. That's where we met Kidden. Isn't that where we met Kidham for the first time? The first time, that's where he met, Gettom. Gettom used to be a frequent.

You could just stop it. He would get up before sun up and make his way. Sometimes I wouldn't even go to sleep. Yes, you would stay awake so he could get to the Collingwood flea market early. And I've always been fascinated by flea markets. It's one of those things that I just marvel at the commitment and the optimism of people selling some of the things that you see on that table. Versus the return. Yeah, it's really like it's, it can just make you go, why?

How can they do this at weekend after weekend selling faded out matchbox cars? Some people, like one table you're like, this is some awesome shit. Like I would buy this. And then the next table was like, where the fuck did you get this for me? And why did you bring it here? And some of them people, they go to Collingwood on Friday and they bought it at Columbus Lee Market on Thursday. And then from there they'll go to Englishtown Market on Saturday. Just for the love of the flip.

Yeah. Some of them will, they'll sell up until the sun comes up and then disappear because when the sun comes up, so when the guy comes out and starts collecting money. And so they'll just sell stuff and then just disappear before they have to pay for the table. What were you waking up early to go, like, were you hunting for something? Oh, yeah. Zippoliders, old razors. Oh, really? Razors.

Yeah. Old razor razors. Yeah, old like the double-ed razors. Massive question. I marvel at those people and inspired by those people because it's like they just do it and they keep coming weekend after weekend putting out stuff that there's little hope of selling, packing it all up, going home, and then coming back and doing it again. To me, that's inspired. I would say I also marvel at them. I'm not inspired by them.

Inspired and not to be there. Oh, my God. There's a certain level of discipline. And determination and just not willing to accept that like, you know, this might be garbage. And it might be better to throw it away, but they just won't do it. I met a guy there once. He had a Zippo letter I wanted. I wanted to pay eight for it.

He said, no, 10. And for five years, I saw that same lighter in the same display case at two different flea markets. And this guy was driving around and he would not go below $10. Do you ever buy it? No, because he wouldn't go below $10. And I understand you came into $2,000 at one point. Yeah, but I had a certain, there was a certain limit I would pay for individual riders. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.

But this guy is driving this thing around for hundreds of thousands of miles, this lighter, and he won't come down from $10. And he's probably spent that in gas driving it around. So these are the sort of conversations that you've been missing. Yeah. All these years, buddy. Yeah. So we went there and we interviewed some of the people that worked there. That's where we discovered Frank II, the Dachau survivor.

He was selling at the free market. What was he selling? Frank I can't remember. What was Frank II selling? He was selling like when you when a house, when someone dies in a house. Like a state sale? Yeah. Like he would buy like boxes and stuff like that.

Like, you know, a box full of aspirin, but the aspirins are open and maybe there's gauzes in there. But the box may be sealed. It may not be sealed. It's just stuff that was ever in someone's bathroom. They pull it into a tote and they bring it to the, the English town, our colleagues with flea market, and try to sell it for $2 or $1 or a dollar or whatever. Non-sterile gauze, here.

So that was Megan Hay, and it was a huge, I mean, it was like a five-hour episode, right? Yeah, it was long. We did video, we shot pictures, and then years later we did making Hay 2, where we went back to the flea market, kind of after the rise, like the... And the attitudes were a lot different.

Yeah. From us and from the vendor. Like the first time we went there, we were bushy-tailed and bright-eyed. And then we went back. And I guess some of the vendors had listened to the episode and weren't that happy. They were depicted. And plus, and not all of them. Not all of them.

And, you know, the cue was a lot busier. And bride was on drugs, so he didn't want to be there. So it was like an ugly episode. It was like the opposite of what the first one was. then we brought it all back together, making hay three, we went back years later, and it was like a triumphant return,

different vendors who were long gone or dead. Yeah, and so it was a different vibe, and, you know, we were happy to be there at that point, and it was, yeah,

so we were determined not to sully it. Right. But only three, three-part trilogy. Yeah, squeeze all, all we can from the making hay trilogy. But it's interesting to,

like if you listen to one and then two and then three because it is a totally different vibe. It's much darker and like we're just. I'm really nasty to Tina X. Yeah. Yeah, really nasty to somebody. Tina X was a woman that was in all of all of them. She was there over the 10 years that we made this trilogy. And she was good.

She was sweet. The last time we saw her. She was great. The first time, the second time, she didn't give me the same, she didn't give us the same reception. So I was really nasty to her. But then we won her back. Oh, that sounds on three. He was right in there.

She was right in there. It was nice to get an update on her life and her mom and stuff like that. So those were kind of early cornerstone episodes that kind of, you know, because when we started podcasting, like, nobody knew what a podcast was. I would, I remember telling Sal, I'd be like, he'd be like, but who's listening? And I'd be like, Sal, it's a radio show on the internet. And that was the best way I could put it. Because nobody, and they'd be like, what does the pod part come in? Like, that's how on.

So it was like, it was an early. now I wager that people do making hey-esque things all the time now but back when we first started doing this it really was a unique thing that differentiated telling Steve Dave from other podcasts and like

in that we just did stupid shit like that you know and even now like you know reading a TV guide from the 70s you know it's like it's something to it oh that's a real thing you do okay that's not a joke I thought it was a lot of foreign in are we? I mean, there's like, the life stories are gone.

So unless you look around, you're like, you know what? Let's talk about in 1970s television. You'll find this out eventually, but your average 58-year-old man doesn't do that much during the week. There's nothing to talk about. But we can talk about Welcome Back Connor. Oh, yeah. Every episode. Like it's Shakespeare. No, you guys are really, honestly, you're very interesting.

I'm like trying to figure out of the four of you who's the weirdest person at this table. You all keep one up in. I don't know. I don't know. Between me and get them? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, maybe. You have a lot of quirks, bro.

I mean, but then you're finding. What are my quirks though? Super smeller. I don't know. That's just a, yeah, that's just a treat. He's cleansed he is a super smeller. I know he can smell anything because Brian brought a sandwich into the car once and it almost derailed their friendship. I brought a point.

Hold porkin. But I don't know if that's a personality trait, though. Like, being my senses are just more enhanced than yours are. It's not my fault that it might have a superior sense of smell. It isn't your fault. You're right. So I'll remove that one. It's not that you have a superpower.

It's what you do with it. We were the first podcast ever do an episode on vinyl record. Oh, really? Other people are trying to make that claim now. but they can't. We did it first. What did you put on vinyl? Or did you know you were doing the vinyl episode?

We did a vinyl cast episode. We did one and two. We have a plan for three, but most things that sit in my corner to get things done. Yeah. There's a long time. I cook for a long time. So that's the first vinyl cast. Walt did this amazing image of it that was like all these inside jokes from tell him Steve Dave.

And it's just gorgeous. And Gettams on the cover. And you won't recognize him because this was Gettem when we first met him when he was about half the size of the get him we have now. And no beard. And no beard. But luckily, you kept your teeth the same, so I can tell that it's you. And the shooting up is more something I would do than he would do.

He's injecting the podcast into his veins, right? Oh, that's so cool. Flutter, Flutter is a guy Sunday Jeff. Are you aware of Sunday Jeff? I've heard of Sunday. Yeah. Sunday Jeff is a guy who used to go to the, well, still, I mean, he used to go to the comic book store when it originally opened. And that's where we first met him.

And then he started working at the store. And then, you know, he became a regular part of the show. And he's like the most straight-laced. If you think Walt's straight-laced, holy shit. He eats two things only. Yeah, he might only eat two things. But that's all like inside jokes and like kind of, like that's Ming Chen getting crucified. I forgot about that.

With high heels. With high heels on. Foam face is something that was created. I Q created it because we couldn't say retard anymore. So he said we're going to call people foam faces. No, that's not correct. My point was that anything could be offensive. Anything could be offensive if you're a bitch.

And I made up, I said, I could call someone a foam face. I was like, it means nothing. And then everybody just took it to me in that a man retarded. It just meant like anything. So we were like, look at this foam face over there. And eventually someone got offended by it. The truth came around. And then we did vinyl cast two years later.

That was my 40th birthday, which is 10 years ago now. That was a roast. That was way better than the first final cast. It's like it has a bunch of ants on it and tells you downtown regulars on. And we just ripped into each other. It was great. That was great. That was a really good one.

So that'd be one to check out if we want to. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. and we have an idea for three, which is, final cast three is just funerals or wakes. It could be funerals. Ulogies. That's a year where we read eulogies for each other.

As if we had died. It's just another way to do a roast, but, yeah. I think it's a horrible idea. Why? You don't like that. Okay, now you sound like Simi. We're too close. Yeah, because people are actually leaving our town now.

You know, we've lost them. Yeah. So I feel like this is so, so dicey to start. Who's next? Yeah. It's just not a good idea. It's just like poking a tiger.

Definitely don't give the skull $5 and ask for the eulogy episode to go well. No. Really well. Okay. What else are you got? I mean, even something like on that vest if you look. Those cuts were cool, which like I honestly like showing up completely. I thought like, oh, there's like some overlap.

These guys are in like an actual. motorcycle. No. But like if you look at like the overkill sign, beneath it is cash poor. That's something that Q used to complain about when he was still rich. But he was like, I'm rich in a house, but I'm cash poor. Yeah. I don't have a ton of money.

You complain about it. Yeah. And so that's where that name from. Yeah. Cash poor. It's all invested in robots. The rocker on the far hand right side says funerals. That was a game show that, uh, what Billy Eichner stole from us, right?

Where you don't pretend people were dead and then reveal them? Yeah. We tell people it was, I was Walt's idea. right? Yeah. Funerals where it's like you go up to people and like, let's say you're a fan of whatever, who you're a fan of. Yeah.

That's still a lot of anything. I'd be like, you know, Brian Johnson, McCormickman just passed away. Did you hear the news? Yeah. We're doing a news coverage here. What's your thoughts on, you know, what you're, remember about Brian? And if he does, if he says, I don't remember, says something nasty, then he would pop around the corner. Yeah.

Totally. Yeah, Simby was there when you were pitching it, right? And then it was. Yeah. You know Simmy, right? I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah, Sammy, yeah.

Yeah. He came into the show one time. He was on the show a few times. And what we were talking about it. And then suddenly Billy Eichner has a show where he's revealing people like Seth Rogen. Yeah. Q has to remain neutral. Yeah.

That's just like, yeah. I don't have to remain neutral at all. That company doesn't even exist anymore. Cue's Brews was a beer company that I started. The beer company. Okay. We talked about it on the air before. I actually opened and then closed the company.

And these guys proposed logos for the company. Like, cute spruce for whites only. Like stuff like that. You know, and I was like, no, not going to work.

Foam heads only. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that. Yeah. Is there like a, there's not a Boy Scout aspect of these vests? Is it just whatever patches people pick up or they have to have a...

Those are all, those are all references to the show. Yeah. Not a bad idea, though, like a merit badge. You have to earn it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. to give in to it. Yeah, you have to go do something special and then we send you the patch. There wasn't a right to that time for Patreon. Yeah, like going on the cruise, Mary Beth has made patches for the cruise every year. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I did notice that at Q West

a lot of the attendees were giving away stickers and magnets and bracelets. It feels like that's a big part of the culture. We have we have barren patches or like, yeah, they just like handed me like it was like Mardi Gras, like a patch iron on it. Yeah. Yeah.

That's why I like texted my friends. It was like, what am I looking at here? They were just jealous. They didn't give me any information. Speaking of cash poor, my friend Jesse, who's a listener, said that Q likes to talk about his taxes. So I wanted to give you an opportunity today.

I used so I stopped because I caught so much shit. This is pre-pandemic to tax. That's how long ago. But, you know, it's just talking about how high taxes are in New York. Okay. And now you can win the fucking be in a mayor with it. But when I did it, it was a problem. Where I was like, I said, the thing that pissed people off when I said, like, the government

takes half of what I make, full half of what I make. I said, if we lived in a zombie apocalypse and there was a warlord on Staten Island, and he came and said, half the crops you grow belong to me or I'll kill you, he would be the bad guy. He would be the bad guy. That's a fucking bad guy. And like for the government to come and say like half of what you make comes to me or I'm putting you in jail. And then I just got such blow up in my face about it.

You're not wrong. I'm not wrong. But like many things on this show, you can only say certain things before you get some much shit. So I stopped complaining about taxes. Okay. Started complaining about the weather. Yeah, a lot about the weather. But they come after you about that yet?

No, not yet. It was weird because it just seemed like people enjoyed paying taxes. Like suddenly. some people are like calling me greedy for wanting to keep more of the money that I earned. Like the money that I made. Through my fucking blood, sweat and tears, I was greedy for wanting to hold on to, Matt. Think about the interstate's cue.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I know. There's all sorts of fucking people that need to get free shit. Is it just a coincidence? Space monkey's time. I got a old TV guy. I got an old TV guy I can break out right now.

Wednesday nights. In 1977. Maybe I was in. So I stopped talking about taxes quite a while ago because apparently people like paying taxes. Okay. Hot-button issue. I understand.

What about the fire department? That was faithful about taxes. That was a big one people would say to me. And I'd be like, yeah. And I fucking... So your house has a fucking burned down. You got a paycheck for taxes Yeah

And I had to run into burning buildings to get it Like it was like I know where the clips for this week are coming Yeah I fuck it is a subset Of people that listen to this show That is just fucking unbearable Not fun bearable

No Anyway God next question Before I get myself in further Yeah And you got a hard out in 12 minutes Yeah you're good Yeah

Okay I did know I really I loved your little not little comment, but the comment about the optimism of flea markets, I actually, I've been thinking about that's kind of a beautiful thing to say, do we expect more of that from you if we listen to the show? Do you have nuggets of wisdom to share generally? Every week?

I would think so. I would think, I think those two are easily the more cynical and dower and are prone to go towards, I would say the, I don't want to say negative. side, but they're a bit more prone to complain about things. And I feel like I'm, I could complain too, but I don't think that I do it as much as, they kind of like feed off that kind of negative energy. Yeah. And that fuels that each other. And they're, they're kind of like a parasitic kind of relationship.

As recently as a couple weeks ago, we had a friend pass away that was a part of the show. I'm sorry. And yeah, he was a great guy. Great, great guy. And one of the other guys got a tattoo in Memorial. Exactly. That's a perfect example of how bizarre and negative reaction could be to this. So this guy that got the tattoo said the reason that he got it was because he didn't take time to get to know this dude.

And it was sort of a reminder, like take time. to get to know people because you know you might end up liking them and me and you were like why the fuck would you want to get to know most people what we don't have to say gay because most people are idiots and assholes foam faces and what immediately was like you see what I'm talking about okay what else you got Matt what else do we have you mentioned Sunday Jeff I understand dollar shave is I just don't think I was coming to my house

the electrician I'll be like I won't be that until around six I was like we're rolling here I had the question about dollar shave yes it's gonna take some get a pull a picture of dollar shave Walt briefly became

kind of obsessed isn't the right word but let's just use it obsessed with 70s Exploitation. Okay. Well, Dollar Shave is a company that did ads for us. There we go. They were called Dollar Shave.

And to me, that sounded like a black exploitation character, Dollar Shave. Yeah. So I took the guy, my friend of mine killed Jeff, Sunday Jeff, and I charged him into a honky version of a black exploitation character called Dollar Shave. The palace funky brother you ever met. And this is before the world changed, though. Okay. Before the pacification. The great classification.

The great classification of 2019. One got vaccinated and now you can't say these. And so he hasn't really shown his face quite often, like a lot since then, here or there, but for the most part. He deals in tropes a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Magic the gathering card. Yeah, but that was just to create a fun commercial that the company didn't really appreciate all that much as like he would wear Hawkins razors with a white black exploitation character.

They didn't appreciate that. The dollar shaped for them. Just read. They were like just, you could just read what we tell you to read. So I had to change the name so that like to keep the character from dollar to dollar with A. H. Well, all right. We don't like it.

Which made it seem worse, but we didn't have a choice. That's how they fixed it. So I could keep the character, use it. So the Dollar Shave Razor Company couldn't say they owned him. I changed the name. That's like when my high school, we were the North Hills Indians with an Indian mascot. And to fix it, because that wasn't okay. They kept the mascot logo, but they became North Hills Big Red.

So that fixed it. And that's, everything's good now. That guy's name is Big Red. You're that young that that shit was coming out when you were in school? It happened after I was in school. Oh, after you were. It happened years after I graduated. My high school is also the Indians and went through that.

There's like a thing, I think, because like the redskins were getting some crap. Yeah, he was around that time. They're like, we're going to fix it. Countrywide. Meanwhile, every Indian in the country is like, we like it. Yeah. What are you going to do? So this is a dolly shave anime.

We have cartoons. Like, we have listeners. who make like cartoons and just send them in and stuff like that. Not this one though. Yeah. And it's a cartoon porno is what I'm watching? You would think so. That's being chat.

There's dollar she on the room. Right on. So he falls under the Sunday, Jeff. Yeah, but he's kind of like Pepper Lepew has kind of been, Walk back a little. You don't see him a lot in the Wonder Brothers. Has he been walked back? Really?

Yeah, he took advantage. It was always about trying to kiss. The cat. It was a little aggressive. Girl felines. I guess under false pretense. Yeah, he always wanted up to them and kissing their arm against their wishes.

Oh, wow. Peppellipiose somewhere. And Speed of Gonzalez. He's back, though. Wonder Brothers is making a Speedy of Gonzalez movie. Yeah, it's a fact. That means there's a hope for Dollar Shays. There he is.

Even more hope for Pepe. What about Slow Pope Rodriguez? I hope he's in it. Okay. Yeah, I would hope he's in it. But it's Fluffy is doing the voice of him. Oh, okay. Dominole O'Glacey, okay.

Who the hell is fluffy? I never heard of this person. Domino, Damien and Glaci? What's his name? Julio and Glacius's his son? No, Gabriel. Gabriel. Oh, this guy.

Yeah. He's doing the voice for Speedy Gonzalez. Also one of the nicest guys in the industry. Oh, right on. Just a total sweetheart. I watched him on Last Comic Standing. I think he was on that. Yeah.

Yeah, so Sunday Jeff is his own sub. Everything Sunday Jeff does is magic. Yeah. Can't help it. You can't help it. People love him. Everything he says. He lives in his state of childlike leader.

Well, he kind of was voted like the most. loved personality in Tosdytown, right? He's the most beloved out of anybody. More so than any of the major hosts. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The fans of big rankings.

Yeah, but it doesn't hurt our feelings because it's hard to disagree. Everything he does is kind of magic. That's him dressed on the top of the rock and roll, right? That's Sunday, Jeff. Oh, right on. And then here's him dressing the TESD adventures as like a peacock. I don't know if you can see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Riddled with syphilis. Yeah, he was. His character. His character was. Sunday Silver Tongue. Are we missing any other, like, characters in the stable that haven't come up yet? Like, yeah. Like, we've met Ming Chen, like we know.

Ming Chen, yeah. I'm trying to think who else, Walt. I'm trying to think who we would have. Brian Ishell. Oh, Nichelle, that's right. They do a show called Tales from Mind the Fake Counter where they rewatch comic book men. Talk about the episodes. He was a producer of showrunner on Complic, man.

Right on. Yeah. Great guy. He shows up all the time on Patreon. You see him fairly often. And then we have guys like, we have a guy like Tom Milichowski. We're not really sure what his last name is. But he's like, he's, he's on screen, but he's also, he does game shows and he writes

stuff for the Sunday Jeff show and a new Sunday Jeff show. We do a Christmas episode every year. That's usually a charity thing. That's a big, that's a big. deal. Yeah. Walt starts panicking about that. Right around now.

Right right now is when he starts working about the Christmas episode. Oh, wow. Okay. Do you have a specific charity you go to? No, choose it or listeners. We usually do it for a family. Oh, wow. Not a big organ, I don't want to put on a big organization, you know, but this way it feels

like we're really impacting somebody, you know, who you can see it, you know. and that's what we usually do every year. Well, we once raised $5,000 for orphans, and they accepted the check and then nothing. They were the most unappreciative orphans. Unacceptable. We actually went to the orphanage. We went to the orphanage.

I was dressed at Santa Claus. And we never heard from them ever again. But they cashed a check, though. No, I read Oliver Twist. I thought all orphans were like that. Yeah. Super appreciative. Like, they take a beating.

Thank you, sir. May you have another? Like, that kind of thing. Okay. Did you bring up Oliver Twist to the That might be a source of time. We weren't allowed to meet them. Okay.

So we were, we, we toured an empty facility, and we were told the orphans were someplace else. Okay. So something off-putting happened here. There's not a lot of orphanages in New Jersey, too. Yeah. In 2016, whenever we did it, it was hard to find an orphanage still running. Right. And then when we got up there, we could only meet 18-year-old orphans.

Okay. We got beaten up. I think there's more of the story. Right? We can only meet the ones who are like right on the. cusp of turning 18. It seems like maybe maybe you want to when you contacted them the first thing they did

was check the Reddit. In a second, I would not go on the Reddit if I mean. It only takes away from the show. I have a question. In most workplaces when there are two, Brian's, one person is like Brian J and the other person is Brian Q, but I

see that you just got to be Brian and you had to take a different name. Most people call me Q. Okay. Okay. So wasn't a power play. No, because like Q sounds better than BJ, right? Oh, yeah. And BJ's pretty fun, though. You could run with that, yeah.

Yeah, as a child, it was great. I loved it. Sure. Maybe who you are. Well, what do you call Q on set? Q. Yeah. That's pretty interesting.

That started in the firehouse. Nobody really called me Q before that. Yeah. I thought we started from day one of TSD. I was in the firehouse. I was in the fire department. I don't think I've ever called you Brian. Q. Like when we worked at the office, it was BQ.

BQ was a lot, right. Yeah, he's BQ in our notes. I don't think I've ever, I don't think I've ever addressed you as Brian. Nobody does. Ever. My mom doesn't call me, Brian. Nobody calls him Brian. I like it.

I wish more people would. Why do you get illegally change the Q? What would be the point? Yeah, like Madonna or Roseanne? Yeah, it's like just like, just go by Q. It's like on your license and shit. You don't think they get picked up by the, by the, uh, by the, uh, the, no. The news?

No, I don't. And also, I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want it anyway. It feels like a midlife crisis thing if it gets picked up by the news. Changed his name. He's just cute now. I remember when Prince did it. It was a big deal, though.

Go buy a symbol. Sure. Yeah. I'm all right. It sounds like. Oh, yeah. If you say you're changing it to a symbol and it's just a cue. Yeah.

I'll get hell on it. You can have to At the interview, so what would you like to be called based upon this symbol? Hugh. Yes. What are you?

What are you? What are you? What are you? What are you? CNN. Yeah. Fox, TMZ. None of them would care.

None of them care. No. No one care. Okay. Tusty Twitter? Maybe. Yeah. I'll try it.

Another question. If, if you ever have any celebrity guests. Who's the biggest one you've ever had? And do you think you could get a beetle? Do you think you could get a living beetle on the show? No. I don't think we could get like a what's that fake beetle, beetle mania? I don't think we could get one of that. Okay. Okay. Are you a Beatles fan? No, it's just the biggest name I could think of. Like the Beatles, you know?

We have found, or I have found that our listener base vehemently is opposed to us bringing on guests. So good luck. Yeah. I find they want guests, but then they're not happy with the guests. I will not look at the Reddit. Yes, stay away. Are you familiar with Little House on the Prairie? Yeah.

So we had Nelly come on. Yeah. Which I thought was like a great bet. I thought she was awesome. The bitch of the planes. Yeah, exactly. I read her book. I did all kinds of research.

We had her on. Banned, universally. People did not like it. I loved it. I thought it was great. People universally disliked it. We landed the biggest name in Halloween that you can get for, like, to do a special Halloween podcast, Sven Guli, landed them twice.

Wow. And the response was just, you know, they don't want guests. Okay. I don't know why. Tough to hear at the end of the years. Which is true because we can't get any. Oh, my confidence is clear. Like, we have never tried.

I would be interested in doing that, but it seems like the listener base is against it. They just want... Well, currently they want either Brooks Shields or Danhausen. Yeah, they do. Danhausen. This is adding up. Our friend Jesse, it was definitely like,

if it's clean there, it's not for you. It's for Brooke Shields. Yeah. Because I would say it, like, I can't bring guests in here. Like, I can't bring Brooke Shields in here. You got to tidy up. Yeah, to tidy up. You got to tidy up.

You get him did not want to tidy up. He's got hoarding issues. His brain doesn't work like it should. He's actually a certifiable genius, though. Wow. You didn't tell me that when we were women? You didn't tell him? You remember of Mensa?

No. He could be, though. He could run the place. So do you assess people when you see them just instantly? Are you like, you're kind of like, did you read my IQ like people can read oras? No, no, no, no. I'd like to give everybody a chance. Okay.

Oh. Jesus. Oh, that's so nice. in their mouth. Fucking Stephen Hawking over. Well, you didn't tell him your IQ number? It's 148.

I don't know what, if that's big. That's like Einstein. Whoa. It's not verified. Einstein looks down on him, but not many others look, you know, everybody else is looking up at get him. Yeah.

Wow. It is an unverified number, but we did go look at his files from when he was a child. Okay. And some teen psychiatrist or whatever wrote that he had a very high IQ. Is that what you're basing this on? Well, actually, no, it was measured on those papers at 144. Yeah, 144.

And then you did it again, you said. Yeah. Is it hard to just walk amongst, you know. The plebs? Yeah, mortals like us? No. No. Okay.

I mean, it's hard for them. Yeah. It's easy for get them. It's tough to explain yourself. You know, it's like, you know. Yeah. explaining something to a bird. It's, yeah.

You have to be understanding. We're all parakeets. I admire your plumage. Have the three of you, like, noticed, like, does he do anything where you're like, oh, that's the IQ revealing itself? No. Not in my estimation. He's handy.

He's really handy. He can figure out how to do stuff. We did a six million dollar man. We did an episode where we recreated the, um, The Bigfoot episode. And in the episode, his arm gets torn off and all these sparks come out. So I played Bigfoot and get him somehow rigged it up. I'm not sure exactly how, but it looked great.

Yeah. Yeah, it looked amazing. Just like a catch-all kind of, if a problem comes up. Go to get him. You got a man on. Okay. I mean, it's not penicillin. It was a Roman candle.

He stuck a Roman candle in a hoodie. No, I developed a plate with a sparking device in it. So I didn't catch on fire. Okay, not every invention can be penicillin. We need bread, too. That was a great one. I wasn't bread either. There was some Velcro strips so that the arm could be ripped off.

Like, yeah, it was. Right on. And tell him about the rubber band on the hangers at the stash. I put, so we used to have, when I worked at the stash, had these displays that are like they're a bar with like little balls on it and you hang hangers and shirts on them off. Yeah, yeah.

And the problem is is that when you go for a back one and pull it forward it knocks the other ones off. So I just took a rubber band strung it between the balls and now you could pull a shirt off and not knock the other shirts off. So they get enjoyable and have a guest. You try to have a love that.

He's the shields. Wow. Okay. That's what it looks like. That's what 146 looks like. 148. 148. Sorry.

It's a real life. The French cleat that holds the poker table up on the wall. Yep. That's our original recording table from the secret stash. Oh, right on. And he came up with the cleat. And he called it a French cleat. Yeah.

Okay. But you came up with a hook. Basically, you invented a kind of hook? It's, I took a French cleat, which is what it's called. Oh, okay. I thought that was your cleat. invention. No, no, no, no. Clet that you invented.

No, I figured, I figured out the the way too mad it was a French cleat. There was a bunch of other ways. Museums use it. So it's a high, it's a high quality. Yeah. It only gets stronger than more weights on it. Yeah.

Science, Gianna. Yeah, that's a fancy cleat. Yeah. Protesters have come in and try to throw red paint on that. You can hang off that. No way. It could support 99 pounds. Yeah.

It's into five different studs, so two times. So there you go. Okay. Yeah. You want to know more? Damn. No. I got one more random lore question.

So Declan is a sound guy of yours, and I guess he's noisy. He's Irish. Well, he clicks because he's got bad knees. That comes from his knees. That's where like, yeah, you hear. Comes from. Yeah, that's him trying to walk. from one side of the room to the other.

It's like audible to other people. Oh, me, y'all. It hurts. Gosh, it would me go right. Trying to get to the computer? He does the mastering for the episodes? He masters everything. He mixes everything and masters it.

And then he says it to me, I edit it, and then send it back onto. To Ireland. To Ireland, yeah. He's so happy because he just got civilized internet. So he's like, it took me three seconds to upload it. Two seconds to download it. Yep. Okay.

So the clicking doesn't. make it on the show as much anymore, I assume, coming from Ireland. We haven't brought up Declan in some time, I don't think. Yeah. Well, we went, we were talking to a fan who was a day one listener. Yeah, okay. You know, we went. And I think Declan was, too.

I think Declan was a day one listener. Wow. Because he jumped in like around episode 10, I think, somewhere on there. Very early. What brought people in originally? Was it like the Tom Steve Day? Like, they came from like Mallrats and the Kevin Smith stuff. Yeah, I think, yeah, the original audience, the first

listeners came from Kevin's audience. Yeah, that's what brought me there, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But then Smartcast kind of became the same thing over and over again. That's it. Talk some shit. Just telling you, I'm not putting anybody down, not violating an NDA.

And this genius's opinion. Yeah, it was this, I found this to be more enjoyable. And then there was the giant hiatus after Zach andiri. Oh, right. Yeah. So it's like, I need podcasts. And these guys are putting out podcasts. I swerved over to their side, and it just became more enjoyable to listen to.

Is there, are there any other avenues that, you know, people come in from? Like, are there jokers people that find out? Yeah, there's a bunch, because I would wear, I still wear it to this day, like, tell them to Steve Dave gear on the show constantly. Yeah. And that leads people to. Okay. They check it out.

Yeah, they get curious. Get people in. I do think, though, you know, like you said, though, it is daunting to gain a new listener, because of the thousands and thousands of hours of audio that people feel they need to listen to to understand what's going on, though. So we're kind of in that catch-22. Yeah, we make a lot of reference older episodes and older stuff a lot. And we don't bother to stop and explain it because you just assume everybody listening is on, you know, they're with the program and they know, which is not a good assumption. But, I mean, that all changes today.

Yeah, right. This is episode zero. We're starting fresh. My advice to potential listeners is like get invited on the show. I'm not personally explain it to you. There are like back in the comic book store day, like ants would get on because they would just come into the store to shop. What do you doing? Come here, Russ.

Yeah, we'd be like, we'd get over here. Like, sit down and we'd throw people on the mic all the time. But it doesn't really happen anymore. We don't really get that sort of foot draft. No, people are walking here. Yeah, hard to find a little. Yeah. You have to go up some stairs.

Do they talk about comic book? Were they there to, like, was that an obvious point of discussion? If we would see somebody that would catch our interests, but hey, sit down for a second. Like this guy, English Russ. He sat down and we talked to him for a while. And it turned out he was getting married. And then we followed the whole marriage, you know, like.

Yeah. I missed that stream of people. Yeah. Like, one there were out. Just the randos, like, would come in and talk. Yeah. It was fun. But, uh, maybe we could set up a table out on the walkway by the DMV.

Yeah. A arrow pointing at me. Yeah. Already having a great day. We'll make it better. Do you have more questions? Yeah, I think most of my questions have been answered. I had like one like, is more like,

if you pretend. Yeah, gotcha. I really want to nail someone to the wall. Here's some quotes that you've said over the years. I know precisely why it's only 13%. I'll play back this audio. It's like, so if, Like, Tom Steve Dave is like a book on a shelf.

Like, what other books are around it? Like, and I guess maybe I answered this question myself. Like, there's some smodcast stuff, but like, you know, what genre would you put yourselves in? Or like, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's a weird podcast because I think other than Q, there are no people involved who are comedians or. or or or or have even interests in becoming comedians. It's really like a blue collar,

normal people who just kind of got scooped up and have been around now for over a decade. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know how else to describe it. It's odd. You know, there's nobody who's like a like a,

like a professional comedian. Like a like a lot of podcasts they are, and all the big ones are by professional comedians. Well, podcasts seem to have become things that are mainly about promoting and getting a name out, self-promotion. That's why so many comedians do it.

They don't want to do podcasts. They just want to sell tickets. Like we, since we started so early and kind of like, we were free to just do whatever the fuck we wanted without any concerns about what a podcast should be or there was no right way to do it. There was no wrong way to do it because nobody was doing it.

Yeah, like your only real context was Kevin. Yeah, Kevin. Yeah, like you watch him. You're like, okay, I guess this is how you do. Because in the first couple episodes, maybe the first like seven or eight episodes, like Kevin always should put this music bed underneath his podcast. So I was like, well, I guess that's how you do it. So that's what I did.

And it took fucking forever to get like, to get like, we're talking about a topic. I'm like, okay, what song would resonate with this topic? So I would like have to find it and put it underneath. Then eventually people are like, we don't like the music. So I was like, good. Great. Yeah. Yeah, I was happy they didn't like the music.

No more sitting there putting it in. Yeah, it's not a lot of structure to the show, really. No. And like the topics can be so varying from week to week. Like, you know, one week, it's that time your daughter went missing. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that up. Well, I'm just saying that's like a whole entire episode.

We found her. Yeah, yeah. She's been found. Yeah. But like, it's like a deep emotional. like you're very involved and then the next week's celebrity but blue chew is always

involved yeah always vulnerable pills we've done episodes where we started them and we were just so depressed that like 10 minutes into it it was like

fuck it and we've just put out a 10 minute episode because we're just like this fucking anybody want to do this today the energy wasn't right yeah and we just released it as an episode and I don't know how anybody would do that today

people were annoyed at that one they were like what the fuck is Yeah, we were lucky in that we got to kind of create it on our own terms without a real goal in mind or blueprint in mind. So it's this kind of real hodgepodge weird thing. But I don't know that it would be that inaccessible. Because once you meet Sunday Jeff once and fall in love with him, then it's not intimidating, dollar shave. Then it's not intimidating like whatever the fucking nonsense he's doing in the peacock outfit. You were like, I can't wait.

It's like, well, there's a whole treasure trove of Sunday Jeff acting like Sunday Jeff. You know what I mean? Like, it's not that deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One time Sunday Jeff and I went to a Kiss concert, we had the fucking best time and these guys were so jealous. They were so upset. Very a mention of it to us. Oh, we were having.

No invite was offered. Okay. It's just me and Sunday Jeff enjoying kiss and rocking out. It was the best. It was the best. He gets it. So it's like there's all sorts of. It's like little things here and there, but I wouldn't say the show is really inaccessible.

There is this Sunday, Jeff. Oh, is that at the kiss concert? Yes. Yes. Quist was the, yeah. Okay. But then you brought it up on a podcast after to. Oh, I couldn't wait to.

Bragg. Yeah. Couldn't wait. Rub it in our faces. That's kind of cool. I'm out here selling drugs. Oh, Q's J. Asbury Park looked like Bossey before the gays started moving in and fixing the place up.

Who does this? The Wiki. Who does this one? That I'm not. I think it could contribute it by a bunch of people. So this is a different Wikipedia. Oh, this is the Tel of Steve Dave Wiki. Yeah.

Which is why the Wiki Wiki is. Yeah. They're putting all the stuff here. Yeah. So there's all, yeah. That's pretty cool. People do that. Yeah, I love it.

Yeah. Yeah. I love that somebody likes it enough that they take the time to go and do stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. So, I mean, that's, that's kind of. Do you think you'll, do you think you'll be,

you have enough to. start listening now? How do you feel? I think I do. Yeah. I mean, you have a direct line. It's a little unfair because you can just ask a question anytime you want. Have we pleased you, Matt? Yeah. My way in is definitely like, oh, I went to this festival with what, only 200 tickets.

Yeah, 2nd. 10. You know, like, so, you know, that was a good leg up for sure. But yeah, no, like, the body of work is like extensive. At any time you see something you're interested. Like imagine somebody who's just like, I think I might like Dungeons and Dragons and then they see the bookshelf with all the manuals and everything. And it's just like that, though, it's probably like just like just jump in. Like that's what I'm, that's definitely what I'm picking up from this conversation.

When I hope other people might. All are welcome like poltergeist. All are welcome. Yeah, a little off-putting to whisper all are welcome into the mic. And the feed is separated. So like the first 300 episodes are on their own feed. than the subsequent episodes. So, like, you can just start there.

Right on. Okay. Yeah. I love what you guys just said, too. Like, it sounds like nobody puts on a mask whenever they record. It's just like, whatever you're coming on. A literal sometimes. Well, these are the literal mask from rocker roll,

a night and podcasts every day. Yeah. But there's no, like, clock you're punching in and then you behave a certain way whenever you hit record. No. No, really? No, I don't think so. Got to be the drawn in of itself.

Look at that line. Sunday Jeff rocks out doing air guitar and high-fiving cue whenever a new song starts. This is the Kiss concert. Walt keeps trying to raid on Quinn's parade by telling him the band is actually lip-syncing. I remember that. You really were trying to. You didn't see Kiss before. You saw them lip-sick. I like how earlier this episode, Walt was like, so I'm sort of the optimist of the group.

So there isn't one is what I'm hearing. So here's my last. I was like, you were... When he hears, overhairs him asking Mary Beth to go get him omnis. We still talk about that. She brings it up every once in a while. So I was a little paranoid, right? Because, like, these two friends in mine, like, one of them I've known literally since he was born.

So, like, 38 years. The other since high school, they've never mentioned this show once. So, like, the fact that, like, I know them both so well. And then I went to this festival and John has this connection. And then they just, like, revealed they were fans. I was like, am I surrounded by fans? Could like anyone... So I started wearing like the Q West hat

just to see if somebody would be like would reveal themselves as a listener. Did it work? Not yet. It's a far-looking hat though. I was curious, so is there like a code word or like... Yeah, there's a code for a square deal. Oh, really?

Yeah, it's the hand thing. I'd be on stage. Like when back in the tour and they say, there's me doing it on stage. I think the ants would do it to me from the audience and I'd do it back to them. This doesn't seem like a discreet thing in a grocery store. It came from,

Q and I were doing, Q was doing shows and I was doing cons and we both got sick from just like shaking hands, like really sick. Like how do we, like, I don't want to shake people's hands anymore, man. So we started doing the fist bump, but then we came up with that, the antennas. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

To see how to people. Yeah. And if people aren't in an amp, they don't know what the fuck you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. It's not subtle. No. This is not a secret society.

This is playing into my desire to be in a secret society. Well, it's definitely a low-key society. What was someone in a secret society? You got asked to join the Illuminati? You turned them down? I turned them down. I was going to join. What was the one that?

The Masons. But I was told by Father, Father Lance actually steered me not to join. the Masons, the Freemasons. Statetic? What was there? No, he just said that it's, you know, it's not good, it's not for a good Catholic boy. Okay. And that's what you are.

Godly. Yeah. What are they doing in there? I don't know. Makes you want to join them. Yeah. See? You're the one person in the world that's like, oh, not for a good Catholic boy.

It's not a volunteer test. Yeah. Well, I think, like, what, you know, what I would like from you guys is if you did start listening a little bit, like, we gave it like six months. Okay. Johnny, you get enough for me. You don't have to. I do have a new two-hour commute.

Right, that's true, yeah. Shoot my workplace. You know, we didn't know we were coming back for another season, so Johna went ahead and moved down to Philly. I moved away. I mean, look, I don't know if you know about these taxes in New York City. Oh, I know. I love paying.

I think it's great. So anyway, I have the time, but it sounds like you need to. You send more in, don't you Q? No, no, no. You have to. What's up? Don't you send more in and then you have to? I do, yeah, of course.

By the way, that's what everybody should do. Because if you love fucking paying taxes so much and I'm a fucking asshole for not want to pay, I remind you that all these billionaires and all these fucking celebrities can volunteer anything they want to the government. Because the government only has our best interest in mind. Yeah. They could pay any tax rate they want. So go ahead and pay any tax rate you want to see what happens.

I get excited. So if you guys want to give it like a preset of time and then come back with a review and maybe further questions, like 0.0 would be the episode. Yeah. Like 1st 20, 25? No, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to guide their journey. Take it however they want. But then...

What do you think would be more manageable? Oh, okay, yeah. Let that decide. I'm always like just jump in and then just go from there. No, I'm saying like when do you think that they should come back? Oh, I see what you saying. Like the first 25, the first... No, no, no.

I don't think he should go in order. I don't want to say he has to do it a certain way. Gotcha, got you. However you do it in like, in like around, maybe around the Christmas episode, come back and give a review and then follow up questions. Yeah.

And if you have any ideas for a good Christmas episode? Yeah. Walt would be glad to hear them. Cause in need, sure. Well, bigger is always better, Walt. We found some orphans affiliate that will actually be grateful. 15 people in last year?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, it was a massive Christmas episode. Yeah. It was probably going to go the opposite direction. Strip it down? Strip it down. Only like four people.

Right. Yeah. Us and Sunday, Jeff. Yeah, the Jewish guy. Yeah, and John, I know, I would love, you know, I don't want to give you any homework that involves spending more time with me. Yeah. Is this an official work assignment? No, that's what I was trying to make clear.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. If you listen to it on the clock. I will say that. It won't hurt. Can you listen to it on the clock? Yeah. There you go.

We can pretty much do whatever we want on the clock. Oh, yeah. That's some set, huh? It's some set. I'll tell you. Sounds like it. It's a good time. It's a good time.

Lay back and chill. Let's just say this is work so we can write off our Spotify subscription. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There you go. And is there an end title we can give? Is there an ant? That we can give the mat?

Yeah. New ant, fresh ant. Really going to piss Jesse off. Piss aunt? Josh will be happy for me. Jesse will be upset. Aunt Maddie. Huh?

Aunt Maddie. Well, we got to get in the time. Like, if his job is to get is to, is. Mant? Mant? That's not bad. It has nothing to do with the title, though, of like what he's doing us. Oh, like the ambassador, aunt.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. You want to strip Justin Kyle of his title? No. Hold on. Hang yourself, Justin. No. I don't do that to Justin. Justin works really hard.

I think fresh ant's fine. Fresh man's because it's like, we're trying to get fresh ants in. He could take in that direction. Yeah, you could be hip-hop like that. Yeah, I get up. Or will 80s hip-hop. Oh, how about the freshest aunt? That's not bad.

Yeah, because it'll straddle boldly. It shows that he's new. What I understand. And also, he's fresh in the old-school hip-hop sort of way. he's probably the newest aunt minted as of this moment. There's not a new aunt being minted as we speak aside from that. Right. So do the freshest thing?

The fresh or the freshest? What do you like, man? I mean, it sounds like Sunday Jeff ran into some trouble with all a shave. No, no, no. I don't want to go down. Okay. What do you think? I think DeFreshest or Duffreshest.

Ant is the craziest title. Obviously, I want you to have that. The freshest stand. Newly minted. I've got to get a question. Yeah. It is incredible. Wow.

Definitely. Yeah, I'm going to, you know, I'll get a vest with the patch and then I'll wear it in front of Jesse and Josh. Not mentioned to them. I won't answer any of their questions about this experience. I was talking to the guys. Don't even mention them at all unless they address you as Duffreshus a hand. That's true. It's true.

Yeah. It just goes to shit out of a lot. John, you probably get stuck with something like Mrs. Fresh. I should have thought longer and harder about this name. Mrs. DeFresh. Mrs. DeFresh. Mrs. DeFresh. Mrs. Five, baby loss.

And then finally and crucially, every episode ends like this. Tell him, Steve, Dave.