Tell Em Steve-Dave - #682: Boomer Bait

Episode Date: July 5, 2026

Heatwave, Q buys a bar, tall ships, pranking influencers, Supergirl, Norm’s viral video, Walt impugns the swimming pool industry and stumps for a Middle-Eastern despot. Factormeals.com/tesd50off, BuyRaycon.com/tesd, theperfectjean.nyc - Code:TESD15, https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/tesd

Just a quick announcement for those in gift tiers that go out in July. My plan was to get all the July gifts out before I left for Florida. As you'll hear in this episode, my EC went out, and my power went out, and all this happened on the 4th of July weekend. So I couldn't print labels as well as having a whole bunch of other things to address. So long story short, July gifts will start going out on July 15th. I appreciate the patience and support from every aunt who is on the Patreon, and I hope every aunt had a great holiday.

weekend. Thank you. I had a hole of my straw. Really? This guy named Larry, who I only met once. I don't think there's any harder job than being the head of the tourism board where I ran. Tell him, Steve, Dave. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell him Steve Dave.

Waltier. Yes. BQ via the magic of the internet is here. Hello. Hello, hello. And of course, Gidim is here. How you stanking? And I'm here, Brian.

Yes, Q, you could not come in today because that long, deathly red streak in the maps. Yeah. Holiday traffic. It would be added up to like two hours for you to get here, which is normally, what, a 40-minute drive? Yeah, I've made it in 38 minutes at times if I'm really cruising along. It's holiday weekend. It was silly to think I would ever be able to get down there today. I was thinking about that last night.

I was wondering, like, I wonder if he's going to have to zoom in because it's like everybody's going to be coming to the shore. Yeah, I was hoping I would be able to sneak in early. Or if it wasn't 101 degrees, I would have taken the motorcycle down. That helps with the traffic a little bit. But, you know, at a certain point, you've got to say, I could just record this in my basement. Yeah, you know?

Yeah, fuck it. Yeah. Yeah, fuck it. Although I'd rather be there. And count your blessings cue, no matter what they are, because poor Walt Flanagan's air conditioning went out on him. No. The fucking day of the year.

Yeah. And they can't do anything until next week because of the holiday weekend. Well, you're going to a hotel? What are you doing? Yeah, I'm kicking get him out, and I'm going to stay at the office. I'm not kidding.

I can't imagine what the hotel prices around here would be. Right. I'm not paying out. I got to pay for a new unit, so like there goes on my DoorDash money. Oh, God, God, damn. Crazy. It's the worst timing of possible, though, because we're leaving for Florida on Monday, and they got to order the water. And so, I don't know. Need somebody to meet up there at the house?

Yeah, I might. Okay. You can stay there, cute. Got to sleep in the attic. Yeah. Yeah. That's bad timing, brother. Yeah, it can't. And really couldn't be any worse.

I don't know how it could be worse at this point. I'll tell you how it could be worse. Okay. I'd love to hear it. If you live in Europe. Oh, yes. If you live in Europe. I don't know.

Why can't these Europeans get their air conditioning fucking lockdown queue? You know more about Europe than us. I do not know. It's always been mystifying. It's not like AC doesn't exist there. Places have it. Like, it's not such a foreign concept.

I never understood while you go there and they swelter. I went to go visit Mosier in Paris one summer. and I was like, what the fuck is going on with you people? Like, why? Like, who would choose to live this way? Isn't it? It's wild. Isn't it all based upon since it's such an old country that all the, all the infrastructure and the electrical wiring cannot handle electricity?

Is that the, one of the reasons? That may be, but you guys are a civilized fucking country. Get your act together. Like, I mean, to lay some new lines down. What are you doing? Yeah, like in three countries. It was like France, Belgium and some other country. I can't remember which one.

But it was like 3,400 deaths in the past week. They're like mostly only people. Yeah. That is stunning. That is stunning. That was, it's a stunning number. If it's accurate, it's called, like there has to be some sort of investigation. And there has to be some, something put in, some government has to be like we got, we have to do something.

So this doesn't happen again. We got to get these. Yeah. Yeah, so heat wave in case everybody, everybody's not in the midst of it. Is it the whole country, get them? I'm just reading about Europe right now. Oh, okay. Yeah, Europe has it bad.

June heat wave may have killed around 20,000 people in Europe. Holy God. What? Say that again? June heat wave may have killed around 20,000 people in Europe. That's a number that should make anybody. just like sit there and just like, like just stop you in your tracks and go, what the fuck.

We have to do something about this. We just can't let people die because it's hot. Right. This is the new scientist. It's a from a report based on Indiana University. Is this global warming? It happens every couple years. Doesn't it seem like that?

Like it'll be a decent summer. And then like the next couple summers will be a right. And then all of a sudden one summer where it's like, what the Fuck, man. I heard now we're breaking record. In Jersey, we're breaking records set back in the 60s. Okay. So we've had some hot summers, but apparently they were hotter back, you know, before we were born.

Well, I was born. All right, all right. You don't got to take shots at us. What's the fucking guy? I know. Yeah, you know, I was waiting in the steam, you know, for the program we used to record over the internet. And I could hear you guys a little bit before you knew I was on there.

And, uh, you, Brian Walt, you guys weren't saying anything. It was like Gidim was talking to himself. He was just throwing out comments. And the two of you were just staring down at the table. I was like, it sounds like Gettom's just talking to himself in a room. And essentially he was. Kind of happened, yeah. Yeah, me and Walter are like, this will end soon.

Kew will be on. They're so fun at once. I came on the screen. He commented on what I was wearing. Neither of you guys answered. It was funny. I was like, God, God. We only talk when the bike is on.

Yeah. We're not going to waste anything off mic at this point. We just spent 10 minutes on the weather that we can't afford to waste anything else. Yeah. I brought up something show related yesterday and it was like, I'm not working today. I'm on vacation already. That's great. What do I got here?

Let's see. Oh, Q, I wanted to make a request. Now, I can't really get too involved. Okay. But I want a bartend one night at your new bar. Maybe I can hand out beer. It's always been a dream of mine to bartend and have people tell me their problems. Yeah.

I love it. I would love to have you do that. That'd be great. Yes. You're going to do the, like the speed opener, like an armband. What's that? The thing you used to open beers. Oh, is a speed opener?

Yeah. Oh, no, I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, yeah. Well, Q's a bar is going to be busy, so I'll probably need it. Off to practice. All right. Well, we'll have you back there. Yeah, so I bought a bar in Key West, me and two other guys.

I bartended for the World Cup game the other night. And great success. It's so much fun, buddy. I would love to have you. Guest bartender Brian Johnson. And we'll put you behind the bar with different, you know, other bartenders. So you don't really have to do too much. We're more skilled, I would say, than me.

Yeah. I was more. I was more. eye candy behind the bar there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was fucking great, though. Well, we're going down, I'm sure, for Fantasy Fest.

So, you know, one of those nights, we'll get you in a toga behind the bar, bartending. Nice. I'm there. That would be fun. Now, is your bar, I imagine, is a well-established bar before, you know, had been there for a while? Yeah, it's been there for a while. It's called the Bearded Lady. It was, it's more of a locals bar.

It's like off Duval on one of the side streets there. And, you know, the guy who owned it, this guy named Larry, who I only met once, was looking to get out. And it's connected to my friend's surf shop there, Lost Boy. So he was like, hey, man, I want to take it over. Do you want to go in? Went in on it. Walt, it's across the street from the Green Parrot, which is a bar that's been there since like 1850. So it's like a real locals area.

It's great. It's been really good. You know, it's only beer and wine. It doesn't do liquor. So, you know, if people are looking for that, then they don't go there. But we buy shots at the bar next door and bring them in. Well, that's interesting. So you can't serve, you can only serve certain type of liquor?

You can only serve beer and wine, yeah. It's always been that way. That's a town ordinance? No, no, no. It's a different level of liquor license. Oh, okay. And then it's been a beer and wine bar for years. and years and years.

So when we bought it, we were like, it's just easier to buy the place and keep going, rather than change up the liquor license and all that stuff. It's such a pain in the balls. But it also makes it easy to bartend because people are just like, give me a fucking beer. I'm like, here you go. That could you have as many types of beers as you want as long as it's beer?

Beer and, like, there are also like cans of like vodka-based, like Gatorade with vodka in it type drinks that it's something to do with the presentation of it, I don't know what it is. So there are vodka and tequila drinks, but they're in cans. Like dad water? Yeah, like dad water. Okay.

Yeah, I don't think dad water's in there. I don't know if they're in there, but should get them in. Yeah, but it was great. It was great. We got Gansits, the Jaws beer that they drink in, uh, in Jaws on the boat. Yeah, we're the only ones on Key West. Maybe one of the place, actually. I might be saying that wrong.

But we might be the only place on Key West that has it, which is, great. By the way, remember I told you, remember I told you that a beer in Manhattan during Happy R was nine bucks the other day? Yeah. $3.00 Gantzit to my friend. $3.00 pints of Gantz.

It's like the fucking 90s are back at the bearded lady, baby. And what's the origin of the meme? I don't know. I don't know. When we bought it, I was like, are we going to change it? And they were like, now the locals love it. So we'll just keep it. So I was like, fuck it.

We'll keep it. I don't know. I was thinking as like an IJ prank, you should hang up a sign that says locals not welcome. Yeah, I'm sure they love that. Just record the responses. I think my whole plan is to make us few waves as possible with the local community there. But it's great. It was, it was like really nice that first night to like be in the bar and be like, wow, I own this place.

You know what I mean? Yeah, some familiar faces showed up. Some ants showed up. It was great. It was great. Congratulations. Yeah. Now, when I go down there and I see Q interacting with these people, he's generally beloved, Walt.

Like, he's like a returning hero or something. I wouldn't imagine anything else. But like anybody else, I'm sure he has his detractors. I'm sure we all have our detractors. No, not all of us. All of us? I think all of us still. Really?

Yeah. Oh, my God. Believe it or not. I don't want to have any detractors. I think you'd do a good job of not having them. Because as far as I can see, everybody loves you down there. Down there? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I don't really give. I tip really well and I don't really do anything but love it down there. So hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully. So you let me. A lot of locals showed up.

Like a lot of bartenders from other bars came to be like, hey, we wanted to wish of good luck and stuff like that. Oh, really? That's nice. Yeah. The Bali bar guys said, hey, we want to buy you a gift and send something over to the bar. My friend over at Graceland. was like, we're going to send you something Elvis related to put it on the wall.

I was like, this is cool, man. Like, people are like being real sweet about it. It was nice. Right. Yeah, yeah. It was good. I feel very lucky. We got a nice outdoor deck.

We put a TV out there for the World Cup. Oh, it's great, dude. Not a deck like a back patio. How much more do you want? We had a victory the other night. It was great. It was just a great night. Hmm.

Hmm. Anyway, how do we feel about the 4th of July? You boys feeling patriotic? Hell yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Patriotic shirt. I want to blow something up.

Yeah. I got my parents coming over and the family coming over for a barbecue. Nice. All-American-style hot dogs and hamburgers. Fuck, yeah. You got that pool going? Yep. Pools going.

Owee. You got that air conditioning? Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Just a normal old patriotic, All-American Fourth of July picnic. 250 years. I feel like, well, do you remember the tall ships in 17, I mean, 1976? I don't. No, I remember a lot about 1976, but I wasn't in this area back then, so it wasn't a big deal about the tall ships. It wasn't something that excited my community because we weren't on the water. Right. Yeah, so I, I've heard about these tall ships for

decades. And I'm just like, oh, it's really just a tall ship. That's all it is. Walt, I was there. I was there and I can tell you with authority. This is the largest gathering of tall ships in history. This one coming up? The one coming up. Starting already in Sandy Hook Bay.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, I can't wait. They're doing that big parade of the tall ships. Yeah, nice. I mean, how many tall ships can go float by before you're just like, yeah, what's on television? 250. Oh, something just happened here. Something just popped.

Now you're in both ears. What did you touch again? Oh, is it the phone? Might have been that, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. But we know somebody yesterday who was out walking at the tall ships. Oh, yes, Tim Hill.

Oh, Tim Hill. Oh, Tim Hill? Our boss from all those many decades ago when we worked at the community center, We went out to dinner with Tim, and he's very excited about the tall ships. So you and get him? Yeah, me and get him. Really? Where'd you guys go?

M.J's? Oh, over in Meadowtown. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, M. He said he went up to the highest point in the highlands and was looking with some military, but not... I had a hole of my straw. Really?

That sounds even worse than the air conditioning. Did you just spurt soda on yourself? You can verify that, kid? What are your plans? What do you got going on, Fourth of July? I mean, now, well, now things change, I don't even know. There was no real firm plans now. everything is so up in the air now because

it's so, yeah, it's like it is stifling in the house. It's like, it's like dangerous. I could say like if there was an elderly person in there. Did you kick it in Europe style? Yeah, they might go European on me. You're ready, Que? You've got a look of consternation on your face.

No, no, something. Yeah, no, I'm fine. I got a text from my mom. That's just the normal look I get a look. I get on my face when my mother text me. What now? I just worry. I'm just, you know, that age

where I worry about them, you know. I'm going to Florida Q. If I'm able to make a detour to the bearded lady, will there be any comp? Well, I don't drink, maybe. Is there any cola? There's Coca-Cola. There's Pepsi's. I might take that short seven-hour trip.

A little diversion. From Orlando. He was for a free-go- Your money's no good there, Walt. Your money's no good there, buddy. You drink free for life. Yeah, what if, like, the night that you let me bartend, I immediately get busted trying to move a little weed. Shit, man.

I thought they were cool here. We lose our liquor license. You can still sell soda. The bearded lady, so do pop stand. Yeah, yeah, Walt, anything you want down there, buddy. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So no big fourth plan.

And Q, you're just having your parents over. So my parents, my brother's coming now, too, with his lady and my nephew. So it'd be good. Yeah, it'll be fun, you know. It was supposed to be a little bit bigger. But once my parents started coming and my family were coming, it was like, you know, a lot of my degenerate friends won't be able to be degenerate. To be Gingered.

I was like, I put out the warning. But it's so hot, too. People are like, we don't even know if they want to go. Fetone was supposed to come. He's going. I called you and Fetone, and I was like, it's not the party. It was in past years, boys. You might want to, you might want to not come to this one.

And they, you know, you guys wisely chose to go elsewhere. But I'm looking forward to it. It's nice to have my family together at the house, you know. They're all staying for the weekend and everything. It's great. That's nice. Mm-hmm. Walt, I was wondering, I saw this, I saw this video of this influencer, this prankster.

And he goes up behind this guy. Guy's like looking over the side of a bridge. He's like looking at the water. Big guy. Not a small guy. And the prankster, the influencer, goes up and sprays something on his neck and like on his cheek, some unknown substance. So the guy, the big guy turns around, looks at him and then hits him like, like hits him in the face and knocks him backwards. This influencer now is in a coma.

Holy shit. Yeah, he's like, it's not looking too good for him, I don't think. And I was wondering, like, do you think that the jokers are partially responsible for this new generation of pranksters? Because I don't remember this kind of shit happened before the jokers were out there? Like all these influencers running around. Don't they usually have big bodyguards with them? Usually if they're big enough, like a Jack Dardy type. Yeah, that's usually only him.

Yeah, he has his bodyguards because he'll purposely start shit, like, so that people will want to beat his zes. and then the bodyguard step in. I have seen videos of him without his bodyguards. People are not kind to him. That is a tough way to go if your death by prank is a tough fucking pill to swallow for his family, that he just did it for the likes. It wasn't as if, because that's at the end of the day, really, that's all it really was for, where he was like he just wanted the likes.

He's just one of the likes, I guess, so he could get monetized. Maybe he could make some money from it. But there are, if there's one, there's fucking 10,000 other people like you out there trying to do the same thing by bothering people. Like you see these videos all the time. It's like they'll blast an air horn in people's ear or like this guy did. They'll spray him with something or they'll like do something to inconvenience them. And I think people are like, look, I don't want to be on your fucking video asshole. Has the guy been charged?

He was charged, but they're still doing like a stand your ground kind of thing. I believe. For just getting water sprayed on you? Well, I guess, yeah, because you don't know what it is. It's a salt. Even if it's just water, it's still a salt. Oh, really? Okay. I'm looking at the video.

It does look like it's, it looks like it's one of those air horns. Oh, it's an air horn. Yeah, I thought that they said they sprayed something on him. Yeah, I don't know. But it looks like he goes up behind the guy and hits it, like hits him, but an airhorn by the ear, which, you know, yeah, it's going to be a. It's going to hurt. Yeah.

It can actually do damage. I don't feel responsible for this. No. I thought you might want to send up some flowers or something, this guy. You got to go, you got to go farther back. You can't just stop it on us. You got to go back all the way to the beginning. You know what I mean?

Alan Funt's responsible directly. Fuck, yeah, he is. That's right. You could say those punk guys were before us. You know, there's a lot of blame to go around. I don't think we should be. But I agree with you, Kube. I think it's society's fault.

Because do you remember, do you remember on Canada camera, one of the all-time famous bits it was always in the opening is that somebody walks down the street and some old lady is sweeping with a broom on her sidewalk and she hits the person who goes by on the butt with her broom.

Could you imagine if someone turn around and just put her in a fucking coma? Right? Could you imagine a world where someone just fucking laid her out and put her in a coma? Like that wouldn't have happened and it shouldn't happen now.

No. Well, what do you do though? Like a guy comes up and he sprays some unknown substance all over your neck. Like, what's your reaction? Like, what does Walt Flanagan do? I'm like, uh, I don't know.

I don't know. I feel like I turn around and fucking knock the guy out too or at least try to. Because I'll be like, what the fuck are you doing? I don't know what I would do. I don't know if my first reaction would be like I'm going to, uh, I guess it really depends on if it, if like if it starts to burn or anything. Yeah. You're going to take a wait and see attitude.

Yeah. What if he sprayed a lot of it? on your neck and he was like, I jerked off into that water. Then do you start swinging? Yeah, probably. But it's like, I'm looking around for cameras, though. Yeah. Yeah.

So make sure. Like, you've been Bukaki. You had a camera. Oh, he had a camera? Well, yeah, that's how they recorded it. Oh, so he didn't have a camera crew? No, I think it was just like a guy on an iPhone. That's what it looks like, right?

Oh, God. It's one of these. No frills guy. Do you think it looks like a camera crew? No, I think it, I hate to say it looks like boomer bait, but But you think it's not real? Yeah, I'm only finding, like, results from the past week. And it said the trial already happened.

And so I think I'd find, like, more news results. Oh, it's so, so. So it's not even real? Like, the videos I'm watching, like, there's that famous judge from Rhode Island. Like, there's pictures of him judging the trial. You know, the one who lets people go. Right, right. And he died.

So maybe we're looking at a fake video. I fell for boomer, babe. I got a feeling that Mary Beth should take your audience. your devices away, so you, so you don't have, so all her money isn't fucking Zimbabwe bank. Mary Beth, won the lottery. All we got to do. I just brought a million dollars with the Google Play cards. We're going to turn into a billion.

What I got to do is send them to this guy and then he'll send them back. I mean, I could be wrong. I just, I could be wrong, but. Right. Yeah. You could sniff it out, though, get them. You're pretty quick on it. I don't want to do around the conversation.

Well, one thing I know is true. Another video of influencers are these guys that climb to the top of the Empire State Building. Did you see that? Yeah, I did see that. To propose? Now, is that more or less romantic than your proposal or my proposal? It's definitely more sensational. Sure.

It's definitely more worthy of making the news. You think so? I would think so. Yours is a feel-good story, though, where these guys are like, look at us. Likes, likes, likes, attention, attention. Yeah, but just the sheer balls it takes to not only get up there, you got to get past all that security, then do it actually, and then unveil a flag. Right.

It's quite defeat. I'm sure they're going to pay a hefty price, though, for it. Yeah, they already got caught. They already got caught. They're in custody. If you don't know what we're talking about, a couple of lady and a guy climbed to the top of, not just the top of the Empire State Building, but to the top of the spire. Can't get any higher than that. And he proposed and they got engaged and then they came down and, you know, now they're in custody.

She comes from a family of circus performers, I heard. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's why she's so. That's why she's so confident. She's so good at climbing. It's... Isn't she also, like, gorgeous, too? Wasn't she, like, super pretty?

She only saw one photo of her. And I was like, well, if you're going to climb to the top of the Empire of State Billing for anybody, it would be Fay Ray of this girl. I think it's funny in that. That's a great line. I like that, buddy. Oh, that was so good. King Kong joke.

Yes, it's really good. Back to the 19. 33. I think it's funny. I think it's funny that on my Facebook, I've been seeing a lot of local area businesses putting their flag as the flag that the couple was holding. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think even Sal did it.

Sal had like some sort of replacement text on the flag. Okay, yes. I just, I think it's, you know, that whatever message they may have had has now been completely diluted. by the local laundromat advertising. What was the message? What message they have in the flag? I feel like it was something that they had a problem with the country. No, no, it's a vote attributed to Jimmy Hendrix,

but actually it was like from some prime minister back in the 800s. When the love of power, something, when something, when the love of love eclipses the love of power, the world will be a better place, something like that, some sort of feel good. So trite nonsense Really? Is it? Will it?

Jesus Christ. You guys sewed that on a flag? Well, I mean... When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. It's true. Wait, say it one more time.

It's true. It's true. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. That's what I said again. Okay. Yeah.

That should have been a testy flag. Or four-colored demons. A four-colored demons. Yeah, I think four-colored demons because it was a black flag. So anybody who wants to put that on there. Looking at your direction, BSJet. Yeah, we've already seen, I assure you were open. Oh, you've seen that?

Yeah, on a Facebook group. That's pretty good. I was just looking for the people on the spire, but then another headline caught my eye. Iran's, in quotes, probably gay supreme leader, bails on first day of late Dodd's funeral ceremonies. So they're accusing the Iran's supreme leader of being maybe a little bit late in the loafers?

Is this something you heard about, Walt? No, what would that have to do with him not attending his funeral? I know, maybe he was, like, caught up in a gay bar or something. Who knows? That is a very strange headline. Like, that makes no sense. on any level. I think they're just trying to get it out there that the guy's gay to like,

you know, it gets like a sci-op thing. Don't they throw gay people off buildings there and stuff like that? Isn't that the place where? I don't know. I don't know if they do. I know we've heard that. But I mean, is anybody really in Iran to know if it's really happening now?

Like these are things that, you remember when they said they're pulling babies out of fucking incubators to get us to be like, yeah, we got a fucking gulf fucking war, golf storm, whatever the fucking was. desert storm and it wasn't even true nobody was pulling babies out of fucking incubators but it just kind of i don't know aren't there videos online and them throwing people off building tops and shit yeah i believe so yeah i don't i don't think that's one of those things where we have to be like i wonder if they do like gay people but don't they have like the internet

don't they have the internet uh like locked down here so like those videos can't get out well no i mean it would it would probably be somebody who brings it back like on a phone or something, you know, like, you know, like records and then somehow smuggles it out. Yeah. I also don't think they're, I don't think they're worried about that getting out. I think they're like, yeah, this is what we do here. Like, oh, you don't think that's a bad PR, though? I don't think they think it's bad PR.

I would think they would want to keep the download, though, if they're throwing people off the roof, though. They don't want to be like, like, like the tourism. fucking community is like, hey, guys, tourism to Iran? What the fuck? We're not going to get anybody booking a vacation if we keep throwing people off the fucking top of rooms. I don't think there's any harder job than being the head of the tourism board for Iran.

I am reading some reports. I am reading some reports of embassy news that, yes, the ISIS has. as at least thrown gay men off towers and then stone them when they landed on the ground. Just to make sure that. Just for good measure. Yeah. Jesus Christ. ISIS, though. It's brutal, man.

But is that, but as I, ISIS in Iran? Again, this is, I put into Google and this is what it's giving me. It's, like, mixed in with the results, so. But, yeah. That would be, I would, if somebody out there would make, like, a web series about some hot shot New York marketing guy who was hired by Iran to be there, fucking tourism director. And, you know, it was like 30 second videos of this guy just freaking out every fucking time. I'd probably watch it.

I'm just putting that out there in the world. It's called maddest man. Oh, God, it would be so funny. It says back in March, U.S. intelligence assessed Mojitaba Khomeini is probably gay and briefed President Trump to that effect. Why would that matter? Why does that matter now? That is, that's crossing the line. You think so.

You think by outing this guy who allows people to get thrown off buildings No, but like why That's unfair to him? You're a soft touch, motherfucker. That's like there's, there's, there's,

there's, there's, there's, there's, and there, I thought there were, you know, the Geneva Convention.

I thought one of the top ones was and out people. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,

don't, don't, don't, don't, don't blow my cover if I'm fucking, be cool. 1A, be cool. He's on the DL, you know what I'm saying?

I mean, could you? Because that's what they could be doing Iran. Iran could be like publishing, you know, like, hey, Trump is gay. Just to kind of diminish Trump in their eyes, though. Or whoever is in charge of America, whatever. Biden's gay, anybody's gay. Didn't they come up with that thing about prostitutes, pissing on them and stuff like that.

They reported that like that tape was out there. Pissing on the Supreme Leader? No, no. No, didn't when Trump was run for president? They were like, yeah, Putin has video prostitutes pissing on him, so now he runs America. Wasn't that? That was like a big thing, right? Yeah, I remember that happening.

Yeah, so they've tried it, Walt. They just realized. Most America, what's a little piss? It was proven to be. hoax? I mean, I don't think it was ever proven to be true. I don't know. I got a bad feeling that. You just don't come up with that out of fucking thin air. You just don't pull that out. You think that if the Democrats, you think if they had that footage, they wouldn't have released it? It's like fucking wild. Of course they

would have. Where do you release that, though? You can only release that on like porn sites, though. You just can't release that on the fucking six o'clock news with, you blur it. You put your trial it? I would love to see it. them try to cover that. I would love to see them try and cover it. You might want to have children leave the room. And there's like some hot Russian blonde. Well, again, no.

But that goes right back to my point. That like what goes on in a private in someone's bedroom shouldn't be open game politically, though. Like this poor guy in Iran now is. Oh, I know. This poor, poor dude. Poor guy in Iran. I know. This guy's a fucking scumbag asshole.

Is he? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea what's going on. The devil's advocate shit can go too far sometimes, Walt. I mean, what did they say about me?

Well, I mean, think about that, though. Think about how terrified he is. He's fucking, in his own land, he might be, he might be, you know, a little, he might like a little bit of taste of something, a little off the beaten path. And if his own country finds out, he could get thrown off a roof. It's got to be fucking. It's got to be horrible to be that guy. Poor guy. Can I just...

Can I just take a second? I'd love to take a second to just state that these views are not endorsed by the bearded lady. You know, we... We don't simp for the Supreme Iatoll or whatever the fuck is called. What he ever do, says Walt Flanagan. Did you know that bedroom stuff is how Obama got elected president? Because of the 7 of 9 story. Yeah.

And you told me this so many times. That's how I know it. Okay. Seven and nine from Star Trek is the reason why. Jerry Ryan. Yeah. Why Obama was a congressman or something like that? Yeah, got elected and started his path to his power.

Political career. Jerry Ryan? How did she manage that? So her husband at the time was a congressman or center or whatever. And they had a divorce. And part of the divorce was that he was like into swinging and stuff. It would take her to sex clubs and stuff. And she wasn't down with it.

And that's part of the reason for the divorce. And that scandal, the divorce, you know, papers got released. And that caused a scandal and that caused Obama to be elected because he had to drop out of the race. Gotcha. Yeah. Wow. All right. Now I know.

I thought the age of the sex scandal was done with. I thought we moved past that. Well, I think it depends on who's involved, right? Like a Pamela and Tommy Lee, if I can cite a recent... That's recent. Well, you got this one... The most recent one is the Mike Rable, the head coach of the Patriots, and that reporter, NFL insider. Which I find incredibly insane that it rose to the point where a show.

She has to lose her job. And they're talking about him getting suspended. It didn't happen, though. So just she lost her job. Yeah, like, she's only one to pay the price for what. I don't know. I mean, people have affairs every day. I don't understand why this one captivated a certain segment of the population.

It is so weird. It is that what grabs people's attention and then run with it. Yeah, and that's because, unfortunately, for them, I think there was like four weeks or nothing happened in the world. And there was no reason for them to move off the story. It felt like, yeah. Oh. But apparently, though, I did a little bit of research on that.

She is insatiable. Oh, yeah? Yeah. In a good way. That's a compliment. Insatiable, you say. From his research. You read a passing remark about it in an article.

America could use a few more insatiable women. Yeah. For a 250th. Yeah, let all our insatiable ladies get out there. There are a lot to handle it. Oh, cute. Especially at an event stage. I met one or two in my day.

I didn't have a problem handling them. I've seen you put your hair out a couple times. I see you. That's true, too. I've seen you frazzled. I have been frazzled by the fairer sex from time to time. Can't deny that. They will frasal even a good man.

The insatiable ones. I like it. They'll put you to the tough. It's part of the fun. Can't keep up. She's insensual. You rarely get to use that word in any other way, right? Insatiable only needs.

Yeah, unless we're talking. about like get him at the Chinese buffet. There's really not a lot of chances to use it. I hear that word coming from the back in the kitchen. He's insatiable. One is sexier than the other. There's a bunch of Chinese stuff and then in the middle of an insatiable. Speak of insatiable, Q.

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I know it's been. A pile of woke shit is what I hear. Raked over the coals, but I still want to see it for myself, though. Yeah, I got to, they put Lobo in it, man. I got to go see it. You know what I mean? I just want to see how they do Lobo. I have talked to a bunch of friends who have seen it.

The vast majority of them are like, nah, dude. Nobody's saying it's out now terrible, but the vast majority is like, nah, this wasn't the way. But I have two friends that I respect. One of them was like, it's way. better than he thought it would be. And another guy who loves to savage Star Wars, loves to savage it for the bullshit. Sunday Jeff got so on. Yeah, kind of like that. He saw it and he he said the opposite. He goes, no, he goes, it's really not. He goes, he liked it a lot, which I was like,

oh, wow, I didn't expect that. What do you think this means for the future of the DCU? I think of Man and Tomorrow comes out next year and it doesn't do well that that, I mean, I don't know, I don't know what it means. Do you think they'll put a plug after there are only three films? And three TV shows. I mean, look, Warner Brothers is getting bought by Paramount. You know, we got new owners. The best thing new owners love to do is put their people in.

You know what I mean? So I would not be surprised if that happens. But it would suck. You know what I mean? To like another set of reboots, like it would kind of blow. But this is the way. world we live in. It's hard to please people. Yeah. Yeah, but it's also not.

Well, it's also pleasing if the, if the star doesn't come out and, like, insult a large group of people that maybe it would have went to see the movie. And now they're like, well, fuck her. Yeah, I've heard that too. I've heard that too. I've heard that too. Yeah, because she came out and she's like, oh, you know, the people who don't like this movie are white men. Do you, but back to your comment, though, about it's not that hard to please people, I think it is. I don't think any, I think we're predispositioned. Predisposed.

To not like things it feels like nowadays. It just feels like that's the way it is, no one's happy. No matter what it is, people are upset by it or are not pleased with it. I don't know if upsets the right word. I mean, horror movies are on a pretty good run right now. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. but are those existing IPs that are

They had to get had the scrutiny Yeah Well the problem with Supergirl is like look like They could tell you that woman of tomorrow is It's not the classic that they're trying to fucking make it out that storyline The Tom King one like I read it as it came out I read it month a month I enjoyed it I didn't put it down and be like

This is fucking one of the best kind like this is the dark night returns of Supergirl Like it was just like you know what I mean It was just a good story and it's like right away when they like that's when I started like being like I don't know about this when when when the early things where they're basing in a woman in tomorrow and it's such an important story for Supergirl I never read that what was the story about it in a gist what was the like if you could summarize it's it's it's the the girl's family gets killed Cal L. I'm sorry Carol. No no the little girl in the movie the Riefie whatever name is and Supergirl and her go on a revenge like go to track him down. and it's basically the plot of the movie. Like, she's hunting down this bad guy.

I only read it once, and I don't remember if the crypto getting poison thing was in there. I don't remember. But I do remember being like, it's a good story, but it didn't feel like fucking like they were trying to put. Is she holding the, up with,

like, with upholding the virtues of the shield? And then when she's hunting down these, this. Yes, she is. She's not, she's not, I'm, she's not willing to take a life, right?

No, she's dressed like Supergirl the entire time. She's in the, I mean, it may be and I don't remember, but I don't think so. And she's wearing the Supergirl outfit the entire time. So, you know, I don't know. I don't think it's, I don't know. Do you think that they misstep by not including the Bottle City of Candor? Well, first of all, I don't know that they misstepped. I haven't seen it yet.

know what I mean? And I don't know that the bottle city's not in it. Like, is it not in it? Oh, you think there's a chance it's that the bottle city of candor is? That would be cool if it is. That would be, I haven't heard that yet. It's such a bizarre concept. I'm like, why not use it?

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Like, that's the, that's the movie to make that candor gets stolen by, you know what I mean? And she goes to fucking get candor. Like, that's, but I don't know that. Look, we may walk out of the movie next week and be like, it's good. Like, you know what I mean?

I don't want to, I don't want to down on it. I don't mind the casting. know people were ripping on the casting, but I don't know. She looks pretty to me. I'm like, I don't know. She looks like people are upset with her as being cast as Supergirl, too? Yeah. She didn't look the part.

That's what I'm, I thought it was fine. You know, I thought, I think, I don't know how you could look at her and say she's ugly. Like, that's, that seems like a stretch to me. There's people who will say that she's ugly just for the, the, the, that, uh, troll factor. Yeah, in terms of what she said to the public, like, I think these actors need to take some fucking media literacy courses. And like, and if I was a company like Warner Brothers and I was like, do you know how much we hit fucking writing on this movie?

Shut your fucking mouth. Talk about how you've loved Supergirl since you were a little kid. Talk about like, will fake costume with shots of you in the costume as a little girl? Like, do not say anything. Like besides what will sell tickets for this fucking movie. I don't know what. it's not 2020 anymore. People don't want to hear that fucking shit.

They just want to shut their brains off and go see a fucking movie. I don't understand why they don't learn the lessons, these people. What's the next big movie, though, after a Supergirl? Is it Spider-Man? Yeah, Spider-Man? Well, for me, it's Evil Dead. Evil Dead Burn, yeah. When's that coming?

Yeah, Evil Dead Burn. I think July 10th, I think. Ninth or 10th, yeah. So any day now. Yeah, I'm fucking excited. I'm excited about that. Even though it's not Sam or Amy anymore and it's not Bruce Campbell.

I have such a love for evil dead that I, that, and I've liked all the movies, so it's not like. I heard it's pretty savage too. I heard it's like really good. Yeah? Yeah, that's what I read. Oh, fucking awesome, dude. But you're right. You're right.

Well, like, I think people are more, like, if I read that it sucked, I'd be like, God damn it, it sucks. Like, you tend to believe, like, or go for the negative, the negative more than the positive. It just feels like it has so much more sway now than it did when we were growing up. Like the internet, the internet's, um, Influence cannot be understated, though, in terms of how people react to media. Well, you've shifted down from professional critics to anyone who can put a camera up on their computer and, you know, record themselves, oh, or you know, crying or whatever about a movie.

Watch it. What are you talking about it? Watch it. I'm trying like that. I mean, crying like complaining about it. Yes, complaining. Yeah, I know. Yeah.

And they get, they get the views. Because, yeah, I know. And so then they have somehow more pull than like, again, someone who's classically trained in movies. And I don't buy all that bullshit about Supergirl being it's too woke or this or that. There's no doubt about it that the people who are on the one side of political spectrum love to fucking hurt of a movie and play to that crowd that's going to give them views or, you know, clicks. Yeah, like I'm getting. I'm getting this negative attention. I need to see it myself.

I'm not going to rely on the fucking... But didn't you like Joker, too? I did like Joker, too. Did you... I still stand by the Joker, too. I still watch the video of them singing that song that duet they did. Together, Lady Gaga.

It was a very famous song. I still put that out when I go in the shower. Yeah, I feel... I don't know that I would watch it again, but I remember walking out of that movie being... I think you're glossing. over something, Peter. This guys listened to show tunes in the shower.

I think it's something to common with the Supreme Leader of Iran. You don't have music in the shower? Not show tunes, no. It wasn't a show. What was that duet they did? What was the name of the guy in the Joker?

The main duet is that my friends could see me now. They longed to be close to you. They longed to be close to you. I like that when they sung that together. No, wait a minute. No. Yeah. Bewitched to love somebody and go to build the mountain.

That's the, you haven't seen it since the original time you saw it in a theater? No, I walked out just being like, I think my review at the time was like, if you liked the first one, I don't know why you wouldn't like the second one. You know what I mean? It just seemed like, you know,

I didn't hate it like everybody else did. Yeah, that's why I need to see it myself. Well, now I know two people that I trust their opinions. Did you see it? I never saw it. No, they said they didn't. I said they didn't hate it. Do you let the internet influence?

It was the length. I was like, holy shit, this is long. And then I just never, it never felt long to me. No. No. I'll give it a try. Oh, yeah. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how uniquely strange it is.

Okay. I'll give it a shot. Yeah, that's for sure. Why not? But like, Walt, like, like my problem with the take on Supergirl that they're doing is it's just like, it's not a version of Supergirl. that's ever been in the comics. Like, we've never seen her. Like, it doesn't, it just what I've seen of it,

it doesn't hew to what the character's been. And to me, it's like, if you're introducing a character to a mass audience, or reintroducing a character to a mass audience, like, why are you not making the version of the character that got her this far? Like, I just don't get, like, why suddenly she's drunk and she doesn't wear the costume

and all this stuff. I'm just like, but that's not why people like Supergirl. Like, it's not why she's lasted this long. She has the issues that we have. It's supposed to be relatable. I think if you were to be, give it a real honest look at the character of Supergirl, she's gone through quite a few incarnations, some of which are like so, so freaking inside baseball where she was not even really a human being. She was that Matrix character from Peter Day.

David's run. Yeah, Peter David's run. She was dating Lex Luthor and Lex Luthor and Lex Luthor had that red hair and stuff like that. Yeah. And then you have her being like, you know, like when from the 50s through the 70s where like her, like her,

she had her own, her own book, but her adventure of the month was like, you know, she really wanted some guy to like her. Right. You know, so like they were very fluff kind of stories. So the animated, the animated series did a great take on it.

in it? Like, yeah, and you have that television show that people loved it, the CW show. Yeah, that's true. So you had that, you had that built, hey, Teddy, stop. You had that built in audience for Supergirl, which really surprised me that they didn't show up. Yeah, I didn't, I, I, I just think, like, it's not a character, like, is it Supergirl if she's just some chick in a long brown coat wearing, like, fucking non-supergirl outfits? Like, not, like, like, like, ignore like I heard the movie opens up with crypto pissing on a picture of Superman and I was like, oh, come on man.

Like what, what, what a, why are you doing that? Like, if I was in charge of these characters, I would just be like, and somebody would be like, I got a great idea. Crypto pisses on Superman in the beginning. I'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about? I'd be like, that's Superman. Like, no. Like, I'm not going to have a dog piss on Superman.

Yeah, I agree with you. But you got, you got to be, we've got to have some edge Q. sure you can have edge you have some edge do you you need to have edge because she has to be different than Superman

but she can't just be the female version of Superman where you're like aw shucks every uh I'll save a squirrel and everybody's great and everybody's redurable and you know the

pillar of optimism of Superman you go the opposite direction and Supergirl yeah but there's still a way to do it that feels I imagine like Supergirl, you know what I mean? Like, first of all, and I haven't seen the movie, so I don't, maybe they do. I don't, I don't know. You know what I mean?

I'm going to go see it this week for sure. What is your, what is your, in your head when you, someone's like, tell me what Supergirl is in one sentence. I would be like, fuck me. I don't know. I'd be like Superman's cousin, but I don't know. But there is, but like, I think the idea that like she, feels so disconnected from earth because she didn't grow up on earth and and she has she doesn't

have those feelings that her cousin has like I think that's a pretty rich area to play in. So, you know, but like again, she's still got to be Supergirl. I mean, she still has to be the character. You know, maybe she, you know, maybe the character, I'm almost certain. Maybe they, maybe I'm wrong though, but like maybe she resents having to live in that shadow of Superman and having to. be responsible for saving people just because she has these powers? Which is, again, that sounds like a great internal struggle to have on planet Earth while you're in the DC universe. Like a bunch of fucking fighting a bunch of Muppets in space for characters that we just met.

Like, I don't know. I don't really care. I want to see it. Yeah, I'm still going to see it. And I'm open to it. I'm not going in and being like, this is going to suck. Like, I want to enjoy it. I saw a toy story, though, bro.

I saw it. Yeah. Oh, fuck. How is that? Do you want to cry? I do. Okay, then go see Toy Story. Yeah.

I rewatch Toy Story 3 and 4 over the last few weeks, and I cried both times, so I'm ready to cry again. So you're ready to bring a box of Kleenex Q. It's like the main, like, little girl character has it so tough for the entire fucking movie. Yeah. Bonnie? Is it still Bonnie, right? Yeah. Yeah, she's like, it's hard for her to make friends.

And so it really plays on your heartstrings. I don't know if I'm going to be able to see it in theaters because there's such a backlog. So can you spoil something for me? And everybody listening if they don't want to hear the spoiler, they could tune out now. But like the end of four, Woody doesn't live with them anymore. He's on the run with what's her name? Yeah. And little bo-peep.

Does they undo that in this? Is he like, they don't? Okay. So he just comes back to help. Yeah, he gets the SOS to come help his friends. Okay. So in the end, he still leaves. And at the end, yeah, they still part, you know, that he goes with his family or his new.

Okay. Yeah. But the good buy of that can't punch as much as it did the first time knowing that. Oh, it was. He's already got a signal. Yeah, it wasn't even, that that wasn't anything they even tried to pluck heartstrings. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Oh, I was curious. I was wondering if they were going to undo that. they don't. Do you think all that stuff hits harder if you have a kid and your leg sort of putting it through that? Yeah, I think it really does have a bit more impact if you have a kid. But I just don't understand. These movies are making phenomenal amounts of money.

But at the end of the day, I'm always just kind of like, wow, I'm really surprised that kids want to go through the emotional wrecker. Like as if they're not going through in real life. Like the ringer that you go through with these movies. I'm like, wow, I'm really surprised. As a kid, I wouldn't want to feel sad-watched movie. I wanted to feel excited and energized. I don't want to feel like, oh, my God, like the world is a horrible place. Yeah, like the biggest bummer you had when you were, like, in the Bad News Bears, like, when they lose at the end.

But they're like, fuck it. We don't care anymore. Yeah. Like, those are the feel-good stories of our youth. Yeah, but these are emotional roller coaster these toy story movies. Yeah. Because that's a real life thing for a lot of kids. It's like being on the outside or being like, hey, I'm still into toys.

I'm not into a device when I'm fucking seven years old, eight years old. And other kids are like, oh, okay. Yeah, it's like a real thing that, like, some of these kids are going to probably identify with. I mean, I think they could prescribe the Toy Story movies to people with low estrogen. I think it would be like, you know, a drug-free way to fucking rise the estrogen levels is to go see Toy Story. I came out of that movie with Cameltoe. They are. They are great movies, but they really are like emotional, like ringers of films that as a child, I don't know if I would have been attracted to. I'm like, this fucking is, this is horrible. This is so sad. I want to sit here and watch this.

But didn't you watch like Bambi's mother get killed and stuff like that? I did. It was traumatizing, though. It was one of those things where I only could only watch it once. I never watch it again. Old Yeller. Yeah. Let's see it again. Yeah. Not a high rewatch. Disney, I guess, is known for this.

You know, that's what I'm saying. Like, I think this is what it is. Like this, they want to break your heart a little bit. They do. Fox and the Hound. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah.

Yeah, they do. Yeah, you're right. All these movies, they break your heart at a certain point. I think that's good. I think that's a good thing. E.T. Are, aren't there enough broken hearts out there as it is? But doesn't the end?

Doesn't the end of the journey redeem all that? Yeah, I guess the happy ending, but that sets you up for like, you know, if your happy ending doesn't come, because you've seen it so many times in the film, then you're kind of like, what the fuck? I would lie to. What the fuck, Disney? That's me and rom-coms. I'll get him I was wondering

I know that in the past you've said that farting isn't funny I've gone on record I said I don't know if I've ever laughed at a fart joke Now is it different if a dog does it Depends on the circumstance

Depends on the dog Yeah Because Marybeth recorded Norm She just record him And he like he stretches constantly And he's always farting and shit And he was like a particularly loud one And she had recorded it

So she put it on her Instagram It got 300,000 views. I've never got anything close to that for any reason. Is that like, is that encroaching on some money then? It might be, yeah. Like, that has to be like all norm, just farting and see if we get like a, get a Patreon or something. They'll start to think it's all AI as you insert sound effects of farting and everything. Whoa, Norm.

How did you do it again? It's like those, the boom guys. Boom. We're tired of you. Or are you just feeding fucking Norm anything that makes them fart? Yeah, like no matter what it is. Come on, Norm, just eat it.

You need this money. A stomach-churning parasite that causes explosive watery diarrhea has sickened over 140 people across multiple states. The highest number of cases being in New York, Q. Oh, shit. You better be careful. From 5 to 86, so it doesn't

Well, how do you catch it? How do you... Let me see. How's your pool looking? You got somebody up there maintaining the levels and everything? It's been a difficult summer for that pool so far, but finally my mom will have pristine water to get into tomorrow. Is it pristine right now?

It is pristine right now. Yes. It had algae issues. It had all sorts of issues this summer. But we're good. It might have this fucking... You might have this. Yeah, your mom might get...

Parasitic. Cyclosporesis. I don't think there's anything that can survive the chemicals. I think the guy finally, when my pool guy came for like the fourth time, I think he was like, fuck it. And then just like dumped everything he can. I think it's fine. I think it's like the Dead Sea right now.

It's going to float on top of it. Do you think that's all BS or a little bit of BS, a little bit of scare tactics by the pool industry to make you spend more money to get a cleaner pool? Like maybe they're overplaying the dangers of some of the things that could be in your pool. If it's not 100% pristine, if it's like 75%, you probably would be fine too. You think big pool? The big pool industry is out there. You don't think that there's an incentive to be like, oh, BQ's.

We're going to BQ's house. Let's make sure we tell them that it's special. algae he has. I don't think so because like you sign a contract for the season. It's not like it's more money. It would behoove them to not have to spend more money on chemicals.

Oh, you pay a one-time fee no matter how bad how shitty the water is? Yeah, it's like a local pool guy that just comes once a week to do it. You have a contract for the summer. Oh, so he might be telling you like, yeah, yeah, Q, be Q. A hundred percent, pristine water.

you're good, but it's really not, though. No cyclist. Are you there? You know how long it took me to get here? He's a retired fireman. You might want to get a second opinion on that water for Mama Kew jumps in. Let him shit himself. Comes up with the red eyes and brown water.

It's pristine. It's supposed to be brown. That's what pristine looks like. Looks good to me. But I do think that there's a little bit of the amount of the ungodly amount of money that Americans spend on pool supplies and chemicals. Dude, you couldn't be more right. Every time I go to the pool, it's like, you're not going to believe what you need.

There is, I really question if it's as needed as they claim it to be. I wonder how many people really get sick or if it's just a matter of like, I am. I got a little bit itchy eyes. well, I can live with that. The hardness of your water is going to make your skin feel weird when you get out. Like, you're going to need this. Yep. That kind of shit.

Yeah. In the beginning of the season this year, I went to the pool company. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't need all this shit. Right. And you're looking good. Your skin doesn't look like you took a beating. Well, you think, do you think it's possible that the pool industry, you know, they only make money four months out of the year, if that, maybe three months out of the year? Oh, no.

It's such a competitive business. it seems like it looks like you're crushing something within Q like he doesn't want to believe it I'm not worried about it think about it I think about it if you're like 50 bucks a month I'm really not worried

if you were in the pool industry and you only made money three months out of the year you would be like I've got to maximize my profits I would be like I got to find another gig the rest of the year I would be like I got to rip off the customers I have Well, everybody's doing it, though.

I think they made the standard for quote unquote, pristine, clean water so high that it forces you to put so many more chemicals in there when you probably would be okay if it wasn't pristine. Do you think they play people against their neighbors, like with lawns and pool? Like, your water's not as clear as the neighbor's pool is. So, you know, you've got to make it a little bit clearer. This is, where's this theory coming from? None of this makes sense to me. Why? What do you mean?

But there's money involved. Corruption is sure to follow. There's got to be some guys out there that you can't trust. There's got to be some. Are you fucking, are you fucking, are you fucking, I got firemen doing my pool, man. Retired firemen guys, they're fucking taken care of me. They're definitely not corrupt, but they have fallen. They're products of the system.

They fall in. Yes. They fall in for the trick. So they've fallen for the fucking story that it has to be at a certain level or you're going to get the shit. If it's not at the level,

allergy starts growing in the pool. I know it's Have you ever seen it? Yes. The whole fucking pool is green. Oh, it's just a little Are you sure it's just not the sun and a certain way it reflects on the water? I don't know where you're going with this.

I mean, there's allergy in the pool. I can't. People have been swimming rivers and lakes for years. I don't know how to spin it. Yeah. If I could go swimming in a lake, like two miles from here, they don't put any chemicals in the fucking lake.

Sure they do. What? What are you talking about? There are no chemicals in a lake. There are literally millions of people coming down to the Jersey Shore right now to go swim in the ocean. And there's algae in the ocean. Yeah, but I don't understand your point. I don't understand what you're saying.

Yeah, there's algae in the ocean. Who cares? And you know, and nobody gets deathly ill. after they go into water. So what? I don't understand what this has to do with algae in my pool. Because I don't know if it's that dangerous to your health as they make it seem. So you're saying better yet to let Mama Q swim in the algae than to clean it out and have the chemicals effect.

Not at all. I'm just saying, no, I wonder if people with pools aren't being taken advantage of and being sold. A false dose sale. Yeah, that like, you know, this complete and utter scare tactic that they have to have a certain. Is your point that like people could have clear water without all the chemicals, or is your point is that we don't need the clear water so we don't need the chemicals? I don't think we need as many chemicals or we don't need to be as, we don't need to be, you know, a scientist. We don't need, you know, with all these tests and fucking, I.

Like Gatim said, we can go into a pond and swim and nobody's, you know, run into the hospital or being, you know, having to be treated for algae contamination. Yeah, but I don't understand how that applies to a pool. It's a sitting water. Dirty and green. But it's a sitting pond is a sitting water, right? Just like your pool? No. It's not sitting.

It's got a filtration system. It's not just sitting. Which one? Your pool? Yeah. All right. So it's even, it's even more beneficial to swim in than a pond, right?

For me, because it's in my yard, yeah. Like, I don't have to go to the local water hole. It's probably, it's probably got less, down there.

It's probably got less stuff in it than a, than a pond does, right? That's not true. That's not true. You think your pool. Yeah. You think your pool has more than a pond? Without a doubt.

What about all the fish taking shit? All the salt from the roads. Is it? Having sex. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What about all those creatures that are forticated?

That's an argument against what you're saying. No, it's not. Swimming fish come? No, what I'm saying is we can jump in a pond right now and we be fine. Why can't we jump in your pool and be just as fine? Well, you can jump in my pool if the water is green if you want. You're welcome to. I don't want to do it.

But you would jump in a pond, right? A pond has all the fucking fertilizer and all the shit that comes. out in the rain that flows into the bond. Oh, do you cover your pool when it rains? Yeah, I got a retractable cover. It goes right over. Stop doing that. Why? Let the rain get in there.

Why? To clean out, dilute some of the shit that's in there. Q, I can't believe you don't want your pool to look like a pond. I don't even understand the conversation I'm in right now. I don't know what he's for or against. I don't know what's going on. Ponds, yes or no? People swim in ponds.

Okay. Why don't they get sick? I mean, people sleep on the ground. It doesn't mean I should have a bed. I don't understand what this doesn't do with anything. I'm not saying don't clean your pool, but I don't know if you need it to spend as much money as people. Not you. I'm talking about in general. I don't know if people need to spend the thousands that they are spending on their pools, their maintenance.

Can we get a pool? Do we have a pool? out there that can weigh in on this? Tomkins says himself a pool, aunt. Yeah, he can call in anonymously and be like, yeah, I'm ripping you guys off. I think you're right, though. Like, I mean, I don't want my pool to have algae in it either, but I do think you're right that pool companies push more shit and it's very expensive at the pool store.

Like, there's certain chemicals that, like, if you just use baking soda, it works just as well. You hear this cute? Yeah. Do you remember? Is baking soda free? It's like, you could just baking soda. You got to buy the fucking bacon soda anyway. Yeah, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper, though.

It's cheaper than what you get at the pool store, for sure. What were you saying? Do you remember the company that they found was using drones to drop stuff into pool so that they would get more business? Here it is, cute. Tell that story. That's how corrupt the pool industry is. This is why I have a cover on my pool.

They can't do that. But all kidding aside, though, I really do think that you could swim in a pool that wasn't pristine water and not feel and not get sick? Or what's the worst that could happen to even if it was, even if it was a little algae in it? Like what? You're going to get a little green tint to your hair? I turn it to swamp thing. But if you put too much chemicals, your hair disappears. Yeah, it turns orange. It turns orange, doesn't it? It's, well, I have a, I don't know what to tell you. Like, it's slimy. It's gross. Like the water. swimming?

Yeah, algae grows on the side. Everything's all slick and green. It's gross. It's pretty nasty. Yeah, I agree with that. But is it detrimental to your health? You thought it was just floating on the top? Yeah. Oh, gross.

Like you swimmer through lily pads and shit. You would look like a swamp thing. I don't know. I just feel like if there's sitting water like in a pond, I don't know why that and nature just fucking handles it shit.

And people can go swimming in it. I don't know why a pool is not the same thing as a pond. Well, a pond has a pond in good health. So this is pond on Staten Island called Jack's Pond, right? And when I was a kid, I would go there and I would catch turtles and I would go fishing there and stuff like that. And over the years, it wasn't able to happen because so many chemicals from all the salt in the roads and people's lawns and stuff was getting into the pond. and then it killed the grass because a pond has a natural filtration system,

a healthy pond, right? The water comes in from the storm dreams or whatever. There's the right type of plants in it that absorb all the bad shit, filter out the good shit, and then the pond water moves on to wherever it goes. So I think, though, that's hard, like Jack's pond, I think they had to drain it and clear out the whole bottom of the pond, like the whole layer of chemicals and shit that accumulated over the year

and then let it refill. So I don't think of like a pond is the answer, man. Are you telling me so Mother Nature just can't do it on our own? The pond doesn't just... Not against humans. Not against humans. Yeah. It's, it's, there were no fish in there.

They, I think they restocked it after they cleaned it out. So what's getting into your pool then? Like, are you getting, like, how is the salt getting into your pool and all the chemicals and stuff? There's not. That's my point. That shit's not in my pool. That's in the pond.

Right. So how come it's not in your pool? Because my pool, first of all the runoff from the neighborhood doesn't flow into my yard. Cue, you're lucky because in my yard, it does. It really does. I live on a hill and I have to every summer. I got to refill

empty and refill my pool three times because all the bug spray and all the shit that the neighbors use, all their fertilizer, it runs down the hill and goes into my pool. So by the summer, it would just join a pool club. I would just join a pool club. It sounds a lot easier, doesn't it? Yeah. Why is your land pitched towards the pool? Like, the whole point is everything should be pitched away from

the pool so the water doesn't flow into it. Yeah, well. Well, he didn't build it. He bought that. It was... Suddenly, I'm a contractor. I put up that brick wall in front of my house along the street because I'm on a hill and it was flowing into my property and I

said, no, nah, nah. It's somebody else's problem. So, yeah, we... Oh, so where's that runoff going now with your brick wall there? Someone else's pool. Yeah, somebody else's problem. It just goes down. It just doesn't disappear, because

It hits Q's wall, you know. Whatever. Hey, I'm not responsible for fucking what everybody above me has. I'm not taking this shit. Let the people down below handle that. So your shit really does run downhill. Yeah, fucking well and truly downhill.

You know what? My pool is pristine. I've got it. Just for, just so listeners don't hammer me, I really know anything about. pool so I could be saying stuff that's really it's just me thinking about it and wondering and pondering just

you know can I just question it without anybody fucking attacking me for being dumb I just throwing it out there that's what scientists do I think I think you're musings I think you're musings about the supreme leader of Iran being an okay guy I never said he was an okay guy

I just said it must be it must be a nightmare trying to keep that secret in Iran though To try to get your freak on And still be the supreme leader That's a rough trick That is a fucking that is a fucking lot to juggle But you stop at his shoes

You're right, he's still a human You know, you got to think about it from his point of view For a long day of torturing school children He might watch how to fuck a dude and relax Yes It's the worst hellhole on earth I'm worried about him You know how many pools that guy must have

But yeah, no I know people are going to be like Oh, what the fucking Somebody has to ask the questions, though Everybody else is thinking And somebody's got to take the bullets And you know, I'm willing to do it You're the guy

Yeah All right That's cool because I don't want to be the guy But you're over here going like, Yeah, you're just reinforcing it Yeah shit does run into my pool. Yeah, they try to sell me shit.

Oh, you're right. I'm saying you're right about that. Supreme Leader, I'm not really on board with. This is why you thought that video about the guy getting squirted on the neck was also true. It looks real to me. The guy had to fucking knocked out cold. Doesn't it look real? Get him?

At least give me that. Get the fuck out of here. The chick in the police mess was a little suspicious. You show it to me on the internet. You show it to me on the internet. I'm going to believe it. Yeah. Internet doesn't lie.

Internet doesn't lie. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, boy. All right, all right. What a show. What a fun time. All right. Oh, the only other thing I wanted to say was, and I doubt either of you have, like,

Sophie Cunningham, the player that I've been talking about. Oh, how cool was that when she pointed to those 22 seconds? Yes. I was like, that is fucking cool, man. Didn't say a word. Did you see that wall? I have no idea what you're talking about. So Sophie Cunningham got mixed.

She mixed it up with another player on the court. And she started pointing at the other player. And the player was like, don't you point at me? And all she did for the next 22 seconds was point at her, like ball backing up. And like, you know, like the coach tries to get in her way. She goes around the coach and just keeps pointing. Well, on the surface sounds like whatever, it was fucking awesome. Wasn't it?

Yeah. It was surprising, surprisingly savage. Very effective. Yeah, it was surprisingly. I was like, I actually was like, fuck, why don't I never think of that before? Just pointed someone until they go crazy. Oh, dude. I, Derek, the greatest moment in sports history personally, for me, what viewing it is 1995, the Stanley Cup finals, Devils versus Detroit Red Wings. Scott Stevens, one of the greatest, most devastating hitters in NHL history, lays out a player, knocks him out cold. they have to go to commercial break.

When they come back from commercial break, he is on by his bench, Scott Stevens, and he hears somebody say something from the other team. They get it. It's almost like it was a movie. You see, they have the camera right.

I'm you can see it again, probably. He points to him and he goes, you're next. It is fucking devastated. I got chills watching it in my bedroom, like in my room in 1995. It was like something out of a movie. He just, like Arnold was like, you're next. He hits there.

He hits him there. He's sliding across the ice. And he knocks the guy out cold. And then they come back for a commercial. And he just points, here it is. So he was like, you're next. Look at that face. Look at those eyes.

Wow. Yeah, because I think what modern sports is missing is a little bit more of that. Like a little more fucking. Yeah. What you are next? A little more 20. two second fucking point. I like that shit.

Yeah. Not saying a word. No violence at all. Just pointing at her and making her go fucking nuts. I mean, that fucking chick did not like getting pointed at. She was like, she was fucking pissed.

She took it very personally. Yeah. It didn't, it wasn't a good look for her because now she's kind of like, looks like a clown in a way. Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

All right. Well, should I say, tell them, Steve Dave. I think it should. We got to get out of here. All right. All right. Everybody, you know,

have a happy, say, fourth. You know we're going to see the stories, though, if people blowing fingers off. Oh, yeah. Inevitably, don't do it. Don't. You're not going to light any fireworks, right,

Q this year? No, no, no. My fingers are going to be. My little piggies are going to be fine. Yeah, get somebody else to it. If you got a fireworks, going to let somebody else light them for you. And for sure, don't let your children do it.

I mean, who the fuck are you two? What the fuck are you talk? What's all this fireworks safety bullshit that you guys are? Every year. What do you mean? What are you talking? What are you talking about? Every year someone blows

their wrist off, from their wrist down is fucking obliterated. Why is the fireman going against fireworks safety? Because I grew up in the fucking 80s and 90s. Oh, but we would fucking... The 80s and 90s guy, though, can't fucking sue in a pool. A little green tint, though. Yeah. Oh!

We're a green one. Well, now I'm rich, Walt, I can't. Tell him, Steve, Dave.