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Bryan Johnson
Fifteenteen years in, still can't figure it out.
Brian Quinn
I didn't even. That didn't even sound racist to me when I made it up.
Bryan Johnson
Where'd Lithium be at? Tell him, Steve.
Brian Quinn
Dave, hey, it's Brian. I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that we are missing the first minute of the show or so due to a technical snafu. Yes, it can happen even after 15 years in the biz. And the good news? It was pretty boring shit. We were only talking about the weather, so you didn't really miss much, so. Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell Them, Steve Dave. Yeah, like every morning I get out there with. With sage, and I'm like, I cannot believe how fucking cold it is. And I'm like, but why? Why can't I believe it?
James Murray
You would think 50 something years.
Brian Quinn
What am I, fucking stupid?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, it may be that, you know, we're crossing over that. That threshold where old people are always cold. You may have to go into that where you're. Where you're always cold.
Brian Quinn
Oh, maybe it's hard to tell in this office.
Bryan Johnson
I'm trying to keep it warm for you. Yeah, because I know that you always.
James Murray
Complain about Dutch oven in here.
Bryan Johnson
So I'm like, you know, Q's gonna come in, he's gonna be bitching his cold. Get him. Make sure the heats crank 90.
Walter Goggins
It is only 72 degrees in here. 22%.
Bryan Johnson
You know how he's gonna be.
James Murray
Yeah. Give me my shawl. We need to tell him. Steve Dave's shawl embr with the three heads on it. Yeah. Grandma could put it around her spiny shoulders when she's frigid.
Brian Quinn
I have. I have noticed at home, even though I keep it at 6. What do you keep your house at? Because I keep mine at 68.
Bryan Johnson
You know what? I'm not allowed to.
Brian Quinn
Whatever your wife says is what you keep it at.
Bryan Johnson
I'm not allowed to even go touch it, so I don't even look at it for fear that I might touch it out of, like, just like, and it up. Did you break the thermostat?
Brian Quinn
No. Teddy.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, I'm never. I temperature really doesn't bother me. I'm never, like, cognizant of it.
Brian Quinn
Right. Well, you don't. It's really fucking weird because you don't mind the heat at all, obviously, with the fucking hoodies on in the middle of summer, but you don't mind the cold either.
Bryan Johnson
I don't like it when it's super cold, but you know, I just deal. It's part of the.
Brian Quinn
It's so fucking simple. Why can't I just deal?
Walter Goggins
There were times in the summer he would go out and sit on the bench in front of the store to sit in the sun. Anybody.
Bryan Johnson
It would just feel good to.
James Murray
Like a lizard on a rock, like.
Walter Goggins
It'S too cold in here. And then he'd go out. He'd change the temperature, then go out.
Bryan Johnson
But you don't like the variety of having, you know, living in a. In a place where you can experience cold and warm summers or hot summers. It's. It's nice to have that variety.
Brian Quinn
The contrast.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, I think so.
Brian Quinn
I like it until it gets below 50. Like 50. I can like wear sweatshirts and shit, you know, and sweater weather. It's fall. It's nice, you know, there's a crisp air.
James Murray
It just doesn't seem. It seems lopsided. It's like cold for like seven months out of the year. And then it's kind of warm for two months, right? And then you got a nice.
Brian Quinn
And then you bitch the whole time. It's like, why is it so fucking humid?
Bryan Johnson
Why is this office? Yeah, it's rarely though 50. It feels like 50 degree days either. 50 to 59 are so rare during the year. Like they're far and few between. It's usually 70 to 90 and then under or 40.
Brian Quinn
Right?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, that's what it feels like for the most part.
Brian Quinn
I like that you can come here and get your weather fix. You don't have to worry about your friends.
James Murray
It really is all I fucking talk about. It's getting dire.
Bryan Johnson
Did you say that? I might. That someone told you. You. They don't want to hear you talk.
James Murray
About the weather no more. Did you say it on Mike, my friends? Yes, I said it on Mike.
Bryan Johnson
Okay, and so how'd that make you feel? Were you self conscious now about.
James Murray
Yeah, a little bit.
Bryan Johnson
Weather shamed.
James Murray
A little bit. I was a little weather shamed. Yeah, I was a little bit. But. But I. But I. When she said it, I was like, oh, she's right. Like it's. It's all I'm talking about. So I have to stop. And then of course, here we are talking about it. It's just like. It's like I just feel like a rat in a cage. It's got to stop, right? It's got to stop.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Every time you step outside, you're like.
James Murray
Oh, I fucking had a fucking enough, man. And then like we go years and years without snow and suddenly it's snowing like, every other fucking day. Like, fuck you, snow.
Brian Quinn
I know.
James Murray
Get out of here. Fuck it all.
Brian Quinn
Just enough to make it slippery.
James Murray
And then it gets dirty and fucking black, and I'm fucking done, man. But it's all right. No, no. Walt's right. We got a deal. Let's deal.
Brian Quinn
We got a deal for another month and week.
James Murray
Yeah. I don't want to fucking. Look, I was. I love March. I was born in March. I don't want to hear this bullshit about it coming in like a line and going out like a lamb. I haven't seen a lamb in March in decades. It's cold until mid April. Now it's frigid. Too much fucking die.
Walter Goggins
There's this global warming.
Brian Quinn
Everyone talking.
James Murray
People understand. I want to die. I can't take it anymore. Yeah, but it'll be, right. It'll be okay.
Brian Quinn
Oh, you know what I was wondering. What do you think about Canada lately?
James Murray
What do you mean?
Brian Quinn
Booing the national anthem.
James Murray
Whose?
Brian Quinn
Canada. They were booing the American national anthem. At what hockey game was that?
Bryan Johnson
It was like an international tournament that the NHL put on for two weeks.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
And they were playing the Americans, and they booed the national anthem.
James Murray
I think we better get used to United States taking a bit of.
Brian Quinn
We asked for this for four years.
James Murray
Got used to those boos for a few more years. Years, man. It's.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
James Murray
They're canceling rough already.
Brian Quinn
Canceling trips to. To America.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
They don't want anything.
Bryan Johnson
Canadian brothers, our northern brothers are. Are shunning us.
Brian Quinn
I think it was.
Bryan Johnson
They were the nicest people on the planet. They had the reputation.
Brian Quinn
They were. And. And now, I guess, talk about annexing their country.
James Murray
What the. What is the matter with this dude? Why does he. That's the. I said in, like, third grade. Like, why isn't it a state like. Like that. Oh, my.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah. America could have won. There was a big international game this week, and America could have gained the bragging rights as being the greatest country in hockey. But they lost to Canada again. Yeah.
James Murray
There's no shame in losing to Canada.
Brian Quinn
Right?
James Murray
Like, there.
Bryan Johnson
There's definitely no shame. But I think Rub. Remember Rob?
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Rob said it best yesterday. He said, like, America would have rejoiced for, like, an hour after the game was. If they had won. But if Canada had lost, they might have, you know, committed, like, nationwide suicide, you know, because it would mean so much more to them to lose than for us to win.
James Murray
Right.
Bryan Johnson
You know, that. You got to think about it that way. Like, they Their mindset would have been absolutely.
James Murray
Oh, it's colder up there.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
And, like, if we lose America, the American audience who, like, we were in.
Brian Quinn
We were playing hockey.
Bryan Johnson
Oh, there was a hockey game the other day. Yeah.
James Murray
Is it hockey season?
Bryan Johnson
Canada. It would have been a devastating, mentally devastating blow that they may not have recovered from, especially what I was like, you know, with the feeling, the pressure that they might become Americans by force.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Not so bad, Canada. It's not so bad. You'll get used to it.
Bryan Johnson
They love all our entertainment. They don't care. They'll take that.
Brian Quinn
Sure.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
James Murray
So why not be ruled against your will? Because you got Law and Order episodes to watch. Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
I mean, what are we getting fucking into, maple syrup? Who gives a shit?
Brian Quinn
We got.
Bryan Johnson
What are we getting if we take.
Brian Quinn
Them on through the 80s? We got a slew of bad slasher movies from Canada.
James Murray
Like, what. What was it?
Brian Quinn
Oh, slasher movies? Yeah. Oh, they were. Yeah. Canada. Yeah. Because it was so cheap. It was like. I think what happened was there was a certain time in the 80s where it was a 100% tax rebate if you invested in film.
James Murray
Oh, wow.
Brian Quinn
So all these rich people were like, well, fuck it.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
Why not? These Little Kiss slasher movies were popular at the time. So, like, we'll just make all these slasher movies and shit.
James Murray
I mean, I had to have seen some of them, right?
Brian Quinn
Oh, yeah.
James Murray
I mean, I just didn't know they were made in Canada.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Yeah. Probably not. Probably not.
James Murray
Wow, that's. That's interesting. It sounds like Bollywood, but, like, Maplewood, right? They want to call it.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. I think we do get. I think we do get oil from Canada, and we get steel from Canada. Like, not a ton. Lumber, Is it okay.
Bryan Johnson
Lumber.
James Murray
You know what, man? Like, we. We're so blessed with good neighbors. Like. Like, you know what I mean? Like, we don't. Like. I don't know, man. Like, we've had a pretty good relationship with Canada and Mexico my entire life. Like, why would you, like. I think the best thing to do is just have good relationships with your neighbors, not threaten them with taking them over and shit like that.
Brian Quinn
That'd be something, though, right?
James Murray
It would be wild. I mean, it seemed to work for a long time, so I don't know to an end. You'd be like, well, why? Like what? Like, now what?
Brian Quinn
I guess so that they. Because I think they also have minerals, right? Like, there's a lot of minerals in Canada. Like, rare minerals that they're.
Bryan Johnson
What do we do with rare minerals?
Brian Quinn
Because I heard they wanted the minerals out of.
Bryan Johnson
They want the minerals out of Ukraine.
Brian Quinn
Well, the minerals out of the Ukraine.
Bryan Johnson
What are the ray minerals used for? Because I thought they were just like. I'm like, what? The vitamin industry is going to Flintstones.
James Murray
Vitamins is taking over the Ukraine.
Brian Quinn
Well, there was, I think. Was it in North Carolina? Get them where there were those huge lithium fields.
Walter Goggins
Yes, supposedly. That's what the.
Bryan Johnson
That's a mineral. Okay.
Walter Goggins
That's what the hurricane was for. It was to. To wipe out people's property so they can mine lithium for.
Bryan Johnson
I thought lithium was a drug.
Brian Quinn
It is like, it's a drug. It's in batteries. It's a multi purpose.
James Murray
It's a great song.
Brian Quinn
Mineral. Yeah, yeah, great song.
Bryan Johnson
And what does it do for your. In your body, though?
Brian Quinn
When I was using, it was for a mood stabilizer. It does something to your mind that like, it evens it out somewhat crazy.
James Murray
Is something that you dig out of the earth, just interacts with your brain.
Bryan Johnson
Is lithium a gas or is it a solid metal?
Walter Goggins
It's a metal, yes.
Bryan Johnson
And you don't use this metal for anything other than batteries or drugs. Like, you wouldn't make a lithium fence, right?
Walter Goggins
I do not believe. No.
Bryan Johnson
You would not make a lithium fence. I call him my fence company. I'm like, yeah, take it out. I want to be the first on my street with a lithium fence.
Brian Quinn
I came into some money recently and.
James Murray
I'd like to splurge on a lithium fence.
Bryan Johnson
I want it six foot high and I want the neighbors seen over it.
James Murray
Lithium, though, you sure you don't want to just buy a movie theater with your friends and show your own movies? You want to get a lithium fence? There's better ways to spend your money.
Walter Goggins
Used for batteries, used for grease, Greece.
Brian Quinn
Glass, ceramics and medicine.
James Murray
Wow, man.
Brian Quinn
Laptops, mobile phones and electric vehicles.
Bryan Johnson
Can you recall the very first time you've heard of this coming onto your radar? Because when we were growing up, nobody was like, where'd lithium be at first? It wasn't like one of these things that trees were.
James Murray
Lithium ion batteries from Energizer or.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
James Murray
Or the song Lithium or. I think wasn't there something how serial killers had a higher count of lithium in their hair or something like that?
Brian Quinn
That I'm not sure.
James Murray
There was some weird fact about serial killers that had something to do with lithium. I think that might have been the first.
Bryan Johnson
Q says when songs when he was a boy and he lists. He lists. The Nirvana song is like he was a child when that came out.
James Murray
No, no, it's the first time I heard the word lithium. Yeah, yeah.
Bryan Johnson
I was like, wow. I mean, I, like I was in high school. Yeah. When I'm a kid, they're far older than.
James Murray
Yeah, yeah.
Brian Quinn
Nirvana.
James Murray
No, no, it's the first time I heard, like one of the first times I heard lithium. But I. That was what, 90, 91, 90, 93, I think.
Bryan Johnson
92, 93.
James Murray
I mean, at this point I was 13, which is basically a child.
Brian Quinn
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James Murray
I was trying to save the audience a little bit.
Brian Quinn
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James Murray
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Brian Quinn
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James Murray
What do they got?
Brian Quinn
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James Murray
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Brian Quinn
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Walter Goggins
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Brian Quinn
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James Murray
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Brian Quinn
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James Murray
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Brian Quinn
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Bryan Johnson
I think that they can get away with a fake poll. I don't think that the FCC is going to investigate me. On to see their data about.
James Murray
Yeah. Do they have citations under there?
Bryan Johnson
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Walter Goggins
Is the MCC still living around? Didn't they get disbanded last night?
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Bryan Johnson
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Brian Quinn
Yeah, I don't think so.
Bryan Johnson
Just a man hater. Just like some fucking feminazis. Like, no, it still looks small, right?
Brian Quinn
No matter how big it looks.
Bryan Johnson
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Brian Quinn
Yeah, the ball caddy.
Bryan Johnson
It's fucking. It's pathetic.
Brian Quinn
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I mean, now I want her to talk to. I could use a little of that.
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James Murray
Oh, I got opinions.
Brian Quinn
It's like an everybody's got one in the all stink. Isn't that what the saying goes?
James Murray
Yeah. Oh, they're all full of.
Brian Quinn
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James Murray
Oh, okay. Yes, I guess. I guess that's one way to put it. We've been talking about it now.
Brian Quinn
I wonder, with this interview that she did.
James Murray
Oh.
Brian Quinn
If she fucked herself with this Lyft lawsuit.
James Murray
Okay, I'm gonna play it for you. She fucked around and she's finding out.
Guest Speaker
It's like, my mind don't know that I'm this big. Does not know that I'm this big. So I be feeling like I could do everything. So when I walk in the gym, I feel like I'm. I'm fit. Or like, if I'm trying to do certain, I feel like I could do it. And then I'd be like, damn, I can't do this. But in my head, I'm like, damn, I could do that. So I'm gonna walk over there. Should I be going in the gym in front of all those people? £500 and shorts. No. No shirt. Well, I have on a sports bra.
Brian Quinn
But, you know, so.
James Murray
I can't believe my life has intersected with this woman's in any way on such a.
Brian Quinn
Such a level where for the past.
James Murray
Three weeks we've been talking about her.
Brian Quinn
Did she just fuck herself over?
James Murray
She blew her. She sounds to me like any lawyer worth their salt. Johnny Law would carve her up.
Brian Quinn
Right.
James Murray
Like, I had, like, a ham.
Brian Quinn
She's like a fucking Christmas ham.
James Murray
Yeah, she's a big old Christmas ham getting carved up now. Yeah. So she just admitted that she.
Brian Quinn
She's delusional.
James Murray
Yeah, well, yeah, in a way.
Brian Quinn
I said I'm delusional.
James Murray
Yeah. Yeah.
Brian Quinn
She's like. Like, it doesn't occur to me she has body dysmorphia.
James Murray
So then you have to wonder if that guy driving that lift.
Bryan Johnson
I have no idea.
James Murray
Get that girl some lithium.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, she needs it.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
So that was. Yeah, that was my question. Did you. When I saw that, I was like, oh, I think she just admitted that she has no real idea of her size.
James Murray
This is what. Anytime you're involved in legal action, the first thing your lawyers tell you is, shut the fuck up. Do not talk to anybody about anything. I mean, way back in season, before we even launched Jokers, it was this radio show in Texas that was like, they stole the idea from impractical jokers from us. And it was like, dude, you're a local radio station in Texas. Like, how the fuck would we have ever heard of you or anything?
Brian Quinn
Right?
James Murray
And true TV was like, you don't say anything. You never address it. You don't say anything because I'll use it against you. And then they tend to. Any lawsuit stuff has come up over the years, it's advice. One, shut your fucking mouth.
Bryan Johnson
There actually was a lawsuit.
James Murray
No, they were going. They were threatening. They were threatening. So they just prep. You don't give them anything. You know, so we've been involved in a couple of those over the years. Yeah, yeah. Who didn't sign to be on tv, ended up on tv. It happened every once in a while and they like to shut the fuck up.
Brian Quinn
So we had one where, I think, was it first or second season where people came in and they bought. So it was a couple. They bought something really expensive and then turned around and tried to return it and say that they were pressured into making the buy.
Bryan Johnson
Because of the cameras.
Brian Quinn
Because of the cameras.
James Murray
Okay.
Brian Quinn
They were gonna sue, right? Or they did sue.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, they were gonna sue if I didn't give them the money back. I didn't want to give them the money.
Brian Quinn
But it was a lot, wasn't it? Like a grand.
Bryan Johnson
It was over a thousand dollars. But I was just like. I didn't feel it was any way that we would lose it, but I guess battling it for 1000, you'd lose that just in.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
And paying for a lawyer. I didn't know Johnny Law at the time.
Walter Goggins
That was my question. If you knew Johnny Law at the time, would you be like, well, now.
James Murray
Like the network just leaves you to hang on that. They're like, hey, it's a store problem, not a show problem.
Bryan Johnson
AMC wasn't going to be footing our legal bills. They would be like, it's part of your day to day dealings with the customers. And.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
So like, we wouldn't have. Just because our cameras are there doesn't mean that we should be part of the lawsuit.
James Murray
Well, your cameras are the one that caused the pressure.
Bryan Johnson
So, like they claim, which is probably somewhat true, though they're like, got caught up in the moment. But if they had kept the book, right now, that book's way, way, way more than a thousand dollars. It was a Hulk 181 and a Hulk 340 with Wolverine McFarland cover. You know that.
James Murray
Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah.
Bryan Johnson
I Mean a thousand dollars for both of those books.
James Murray
It's worth way more now, right? Yeah. Holy.
Bryan Johnson
So I mean back. Back then they said that they felt they we had put the price too high.
James Murray
Where's that book today?
Bryan Johnson
We sold. But we did take it back and we sold.
James Murray
You guys, I will say, like, I have been treated well and I have been treated badly by various people in charges of the network over the years. You guys did not get treated as well as you should have got treated, I thought on that show.
Brian Quinn
I've heard that from several people. Yeah. In the business.
James Murray
I remember trying to like talk to you guys about it at the time, but it was just. It was too.
Brian Quinn
Kevin had to.
James Murray
It was too walled of a guard of an ecosystem to. Yeah, yeah. But you guys, they didn't treat you like like the stars you were.
Brian Quinn
But it was also like, like let's say we were going to hold out for more money. It's like you guys are working at the store anyway. It's like, what would we have done if they've been like, no. We probably would have been like, okay, sorry we asked. Right.
Bryan Johnson
I didn't feel we had any. I did not feel we had any leverage.
James Murray
Yeah. But like, nonetheless doesn't mean.
Brian Quinn
Don't ask.
James Murray
You know, you guys didn't even get to know. You guys just preloaded the. No.
Bryan Johnson
Every time though.
Brian Quinn
We got more money each time. Yeah. And it was because like AMC just bumped it up each time.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
Like we did. We didn't have to ask for that. But like I see some of like the reality shows. If it's true, like I see some of the salaries that people get.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
It's a lot more than we were going.
James Murray
Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't even salary. It was like. I mean, you guys actually had pretty creative freedom, right? Yeah. So actually that's pretty good, you guys.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah. When I look back on it, I'm never like. I mean, would I have liked what I've, you know, going back and if I Time machine if I like, hey, if you ask, you'll get you more money. Of course. But I'll never look back and be like, man, I really think we missed a boat on.
James Murray
No, no. I don't think it was anything like bad. But I just remember seeing things like I would have liked to have seen that.
Bryan Johnson
I mean your position, you guys at true. Were you were the Beatles, man. You were on 24 7.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, we were.
Bryan Johnson
Barely got on before the test pattern got on. Yeah.
Brian Quinn
4. We had no people ready to sing the national anthem.
James Murray
No I think what I was spotting was like I saw you guys, it wasn't even a matter of, I don't even remember specifically what I talk about. I just remember the time. And speaking of Brian being like, I don't know, I would maybe ask for this, I would ask for that but, but I've been, nobody's been fucked around more. You know what I mean? Like we're still on that first contract we signed 15 years ago. So you know, don't listen to me.
Bryan Johnson
You know, when I look back on it, when that era and what came out of it, I, I, it's all positive and we definitely garnered like a, like a good solid friendship with a good dude in Brian.
James Murray
Yeah, yeah. He is awesome.
Bryan Johnson
That has now, sir. You know, he says that it's very uncommon that he, that people keep up with each other.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
After, you know, shows end.
James Murray
Sure. Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
You know, and that's, that's pretty cool that like, you know, something really cool was, was planted there and it grew into a big fine fat oak.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, it really did. I mean, I mean I look back on that show and the only times I can point at that I would be like, well this kind of sucked was during season two. Certain, you know, things that happened during season two. But like anytime the show was there. Yeah. It was like this is, you couldn't ask for a better job. I mean it was fun.
James Murray
Yeah. And you had a tight knit crew too. Like you did the sort of things I like seeing like they had poker games and they hun out and everybody like lived in a house by the beach at times and stuff. Like it was really fun. You guys had a good crew.
Brian Quinn
It was very family esque.
James Murray
Yeah, I like that.
Walter Goggins
They always had a big thing of cashews behind the counter for Ming.
James Murray
There you go.
Bryan Johnson
You guys are bringing up lawyers. I rarely, I don't think I've ever done it on Tell Them Steve Dave. But I have a television recommendation that's not from 30 years ago.
Brian Quinn
Really?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
Walter Goggins
What?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, I have a brand new current show.
James Murray
Can we guess what it is?
Bryan Johnson
Oh yeah, you could guess. If it's about lawyers, I'm sure you can figure it out.
James Murray
Matlock.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
James Murray
Yeah, I keep hearing this is good. No?
Brian Quinn
Yeah, Frank said it too.
Bryan Johnson
Frank said Frank 5 turned me on. And I am like, yeah, it won me over. I'm like watching it for the first time ever. I'm like what, what day is it on?
James Murray
Oh wow.
Bryan Johnson
And I'm like. And I watched it on Thursday night at 9 o'. Clock. Like that's the first time and I don't even know how long it's been that I've made appointment television watching other than a sporting event.
James Murray
Sure.
Bryan Johnson
But like for a television show, it's unheard of. And my wife is like, I have to stay up till 9 o' clock to watch it. You can't watch it at 6. I was like, no, if we're gonna watch first run, it's gotta be on their time.
James Murray
Scathy Bates.
Bryan Johnson
Right?
James Murray
Like, she's killing it.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, she's really good. Her husband's really good too, in it, but I can't recommend it enough. It's. It's pretty engaging.
James Murray
This is the one that's gonna make me watch it because I. I've been hearing it from a few people.
Bryan Johnson
You think it's about blue hairs, right? You think it's like, this is for the blue hairs?
James Murray
Yeah. There's like a twist to it, right, or something?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, yeah, it's. It's got a nice, like. Yeah, I guess twist is the right word.
James Murray
Right.
Bryan Johnson
And the twist is revealed immediately, so.
James Murray
Oh, so there's no hanging on. It's not.
Bryan Johnson
Well, no, no.
Brian Quinn
Why?
Bryan Johnson
She's doing what she said.
James Murray
Okay, yeah, I'll take it out. I'll watch it over the weekend. Yeah, right.
Bryan Johnson
But.
James Murray
But it's case. It's every week a new case that I.
Bryan Johnson
That I'm not as much a big fan of is like these cases that are won every week by miraculous, last second genius.
James Murray
But isn't that the format of those going back to the 60s?
Bryan Johnson
I never saw the original Matlock.
James Murray
Okay.
Bryan Johnson
But I imagine that is the formula. Like it's a fucking. The greatest lawyer just happens to be working his name, Matlock, and they come up with amazing, like, they solve these, like, these cases that look like they're done for, but with like a twist of brilliance.
James Murray
Oh, that's what it is. That. Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Which I can get tiresome every week when you're like, you know, I just want to see him lose once.
James Murray
Yeah. Even on svu, like, the rapist gets away every once in a while. They have to, they have to, they have to get. You keep you guessing.
Bryan Johnson
But it's not the, it's not the cases that are engaging. It's what she's doing in the episodes with like the, the twist portion of the. Of the whole motivation of this character.
James Murray
Wow. You got me intrigued, dude.
Bryan Johnson
I think you're like, you got to give it at least four episodes.
James Murray
I will.
Bryan Johnson
I was just like, what the fuck is Frank talking about? Does he have a sack at this point? It turns out he does.
James Murray
All right, man.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, we were. We do. We just started a new show with the. With Patreon, and he wanted to involve the Waltons and was summarily shut down.
James Murray
He's out.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, no Waltons. So I brought in this thing, and we'll see how good Walt is at it. Because you. I consider you to be. Probably know more about the 50s than any of us.
Bryan Johnson
I would say that's probably accurate. I mean, but all my 50s knowledge comes from 70s 70s entertainment.
Brian Quinn
That's true.
Bryan Johnson
Grease and Happy Days.
James Murray
It's like calling yourself an astronaut because you watch Star Wars.
Bryan Johnson
If every answer to that, like, who did. Who did this in the 50s? If it's not Fonzie or Danny Zuko, I may not be the expert.
Walter Goggins
Cunningham Hardware.
Brian Quinn
Well, this is. You get a choice. It's a. It's A or B. Okay, so I give you a term.
Bryan Johnson
You're gonna ask me and Kieran.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, I'm gonna ask you.
Bryan Johnson
And who knows more about the 50s?
Brian Quinn
She knows who more 50s.
James Murray
It's like Canada with the hockey game. You gotta win this one.
Bryan Johnson
Okay, If a guy. How much younger are you?
James Murray
I was born in 76, so 10.
Bryan Johnson
Years younger than me or nine years younger than me. If he beats me. What does that say about my knowledge? What does that say?
James Murray
That means that I watched Happy Days, dude.
Brian Quinn
Well, see, I don't know that it's Happy Days is going to help you, because what it is, is I'm going to give you the one term and then two definitions. One is. One is.
Bryan Johnson
Are these slang terms?
Brian Quinn
50 slang or. Or. And the second is porn slang.
Bryan Johnson
All right, Porn slang.
Brian Quinn
Right. So you have to guess whether it's 50 slang or 2025 porn term. Okay, so this might be difficult.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, I would say so.
Brian Quinn
Unless you're familiar with the I saw Porkies.
Bryan Johnson
That's like, to me, I thought that was porn. Yeah, that was set in the 50s.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Set in the 50s, right? Was it Porky's? Yeah, right.
Walter Goggins
Never saw it.
Bryan Johnson
You guys ever saw Porkies?
James Murray
I mean, I saw it in the 80s.
Brian Quinn
I can't remember when it was set. I think you're probably right. It probably was the 50s.
James Murray
Okay. Based on the cars and everything. Yeah.
Brian Quinn
So the first term is spooning your scarf.
James Murray
Spooning your scarf?
Brian Quinn
Yes. Does it mean eating your food? Or does it mean similar to a snowball but eating it with a small spoon?
James Murray
Oh, my God. This is what people are up to.
Bryan Johnson
Can Q go first? Then I'LL either agree or disagree with him.
Brian Quinn
Sure.
James Murray
I mean, I've never heard of this at all. Spooning your scarf. What's the first meaning again?
Brian Quinn
The first is eating your food.
James Murray
Spoon your scarf, man. Let's go to the. Let's go to the. Let's go to the drive in tonight. You know, it starts soon, so spoon your scarf.
Bryan Johnson
I remember when Potsy.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Was at the drive in with his girlfriend and Ralph Mouth was in the back seat, and they were like, hey, I'm trying to spoon my scarf wig with Rhonda here. Go get some popcorn from the fucking snack stand so I can spoon the scarf.
James Murray
But that's the third meaning, because he's saying that it means eat.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, they were talking about blowjobs.
James Murray
Oh, all right, I'm gonna go porn turn.
Brian Quinn
You're gonna go porn term.
James Murray
Because I've never heard this before.
Brian Quinn
So similar to a snowball, but eating it with a small spoon.
Bryan Johnson
See, I don't know why scarf would be in there. Like, unless they're wearing scarf down. Oh, okay. I thought they mean, you know, I'm gonna agree with Q just because I'm not sure and I don't want to be down one already.
Brian Quinn
Okay, well, you shouldn't have done that. Yeah, because it's a 50s term meaning eating your food. That's what all the kids were saying. Come on, Q, let's go down to the malt shop and scarf some spoon. Some scarf.
James Murray
I don't understand it.
Brian Quinn
I don't understand it either, but okay, I like it. A lot of them don't make sense. You're not gonna be like, oh, okay, I totally get it.
Bryan Johnson
I wonder when it was the last time it was used in a public forum where the last person said it not trying to be meant it. Yeah, like it wasn't ironic.
James Murray
They're dead now. I'm still.
Walter Goggins
Listen to this guy over here saying, spoon your scarf.
Brian Quinn
So I should ask Pam and Edgar, like, do you guys recognize any of these terms?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
James Murray
Your dad will be like, yeah, that's when I eat my come out of a spoon.
Brian Quinn
Is it a small spoon?
James Murray
I throw you a hip.
Walter Goggins
I make your mom use a small spoon.
Brian Quinn
Okay, so the second term is gooning. Okay, now, does it mean hanging around with nothing to do or loitering? Or does it mean an extreme form of edging? Gooning.
Bryan Johnson
I don't know what edging means.
Brian Quinn
Edging is, like, when you jerk off but don't come and then, like, let it go, and then you jerk off again later on and come and don't let it go. Like.
Bryan Johnson
Okay, well, why would that be in a porno, though?
Brian Quinn
Why would that be porno?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, why would anybody want to watch that, though?
Walter Goggins
Oh, you'd be surprised.
Bryan Johnson
Oh, it's. Oh, it's homosexual porn.
Brian Quinn
Could be. I mean, I doubt a lot of women are watching it. You're probably right about that.
James Murray
It's funny. I've always heard edging is like a. More of a woman thing than a man thing, really.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, I do know a couple girls who told me about it.
James Murray
That's where I learned about it.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
So only. But girls can't edge themselves, though.
James Murray
Yeah, they can. It's just bringing it to the brink and then stop bringing it to the edge and then stop stopping.
Bryan Johnson
Show up and play right now. Is edging a 50s term or a porn terming?
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Oh, gooning.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, it's a 50s.
James Murray
I'm gonna. I was gonna. I'm gonna say it's a porn term.
Brian Quinn
You can say it's a porn term.
James Murray
I think so. Look at this. I never heard it.
Bryan Johnson
Goon.
James Murray
Yeah, but he's. But edging has been around for so long now that it has to have evolved into something else already. So I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say gooning's porn term.
Brian Quinn
All right, Q, you're on the board.
James Murray
Oh, well, I'm sorry. All right, we'll get this. The next one's going to be all you, bud.
Brian Quinn
Yes. Gooning is an extreme form of edging, wherein you continuously simulate your stimulate yourself for hours on end without reaching a climax in order to experience the goon state, A deeply meditative experience akin to meditation.
James Murray
I'll just meditate. Or better yet, I'll just watch tv.
Brian Quinn
Okay, Spike.
Bryan Johnson
Oh, fucking definitely. Remember, Spike was sponsor's nephew. It's gotta be a 50s. Or you mean spiking the punch?
Brian Quinn
Does it mean to copy homework? Or does it mean to slam a handful of come onto a woman's bust after nutting porn?
James Murray
I'm gonna spike her.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Come in and go right onto her boobs.
Walter Goggins
You said but.
Bryan Johnson
You said but at first.
Brian Quinn
Oh, did I say but? Oh, bust. I think I said. I meant bust. Sorry, I didn't mean.
Walter Goggins
But he said but.
Bryan Johnson
Wait a minute.
James Murray
That one doesn't even make sense to me.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, I might say that's a 50s now because he it up.
Brian Quinn
Well, I have bust written down. I have bust written down here.
James Murray
And what's the. What's the 50s version?
Brian Quinn
It's a copy.
Walter Goggins
Homework.
James Murray
Yeah, I'm gonna go 50s and you're.
Brian Quinn
Also going 50s, Walt.
Bryan Johnson
No, I'm gonna go porn.
Brian Quinn
You're gonna go porn now?
Bryan Johnson
Yeah.
James Murray
Oh, come on, dude.
Bryan Johnson
I'm down too.
Brian Quinn
Down too.
James Murray
Come on, daddy. O.
Brian Quinn
All right, this is your chance to come back, Walt. I feel good for you in this one.
James Murray
23 Skidoo. Isn't it 43 Skidoo?
Brian Quinn
23. Yes, it's 23.
James Murray
23 Skidoo.
Brian Quinn
Dump truck. Is it a lousy time? Example. Her party was a total dump truck. Or is it a large or shapely bottom?
James Murray
I mean, I've heard it. She's got dumps like a truck, truck, truck. What? What?
Brian Quinn
What?
James Murray
Even that song's old now, man. But it sounds like it's derogatory. Either way, I'm gonna say 1950s.
Brian Quinn
1950S. I think it's a lousy time.
James Murray
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
I don't even think that's a porn term, though. Just to say somebody has a large derriere that looks like a dump truck would. I don't think that would make the grade as a porn term. So I'm gonna say it's 50s.
Brian Quinn
You don't think so?
Bryan Johnson
Well, because that's not something that, like, I would think would be so only used in the porn industry. Like, she's got a bottom like a dump truck.
Brian Quinn
Okay. All right. Well, turns out it's a larger, shapely bottom. All right, this is just a list that I saw of porn terms, so.
Bryan Johnson
I thought you were throwing a curveball there because.
Brian Quinn
Right. I hear you. I hear you.
Bryan Johnson
It's not something that I don't think would be exclusive to the porn world to say that phrase. And it's not an act either. It's just a describing of.
Walter Goggins
Okay, that part sounds good.
James Murray
All right, well, hey, no points.
Bryan Johnson
Maybe strike that one and just dump that.
James Murray
Well, we both got that one.
Bryan Johnson
Give it to me.
James Murray
It's a negative.
Bryan Johnson
Just give me the points. Because you didn't understand your own game.
Brian Quinn
I'm going back and seeing if I said butter. Okay. Birds nested.
James Murray
Ah, birds nested.
Brian Quinn
Does it mean all mixed up, or is it a term referring to the comeback of bushy pubic hair?
James Murray
God almighty. He's got his brain. His brain's all burned. Next. Like that sort of thing. Like, yeah, he's in. He's falling in love with that chick. His brain's all a bird nest.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, he's bird nested.
James Murray
Makes sense.
Brian Quinn
What to do.
James Murray
Or what was the other one?
Brian Quinn
A term referring to the comeback of bushy pubic hair.
James Murray
Got a bird's nest.
Bryan Johnson
I Don't think they have. Do they still have pubic hair? So everything's shady.
James Murray
It's coming back.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, that's a term referring to the comeback. Bushy pubic.
Bryan Johnson
Oh, I thought you said the combat. I thought you said that it was.
Brian Quinn
All on the side.
James Murray
This question's invalid as well.
Walter Goggins
Now comb it over to the bald spot. Nina Merkin.
James Murray
I'm going to go with bird's nest as a pubic hair because there's a reason I wouldn't have heard of it, because, you know, that's just not my generation. My generation ain't looking for the bird's nest.
Brian Quinn
Right.
Bryan Johnson
I'll go 50s.
Brian Quinn
Walt, you're on the board.
James Murray
Oh, yeah. I like that term. We should bring that back. Fucking mind's a bird nest, man.
Walter Goggins
The front office looks like a bird's nest.
Brian Quinn
I got quite a few more, actually. Let's see. Nip knops.
James Murray
Nip knops.
Brian Quinn
Was it a popular style of shoes or nipples?
James Murray
Shoes.
Brian Quinn
You're saying shoes. Huh?
Bryan Johnson
I'm gonna say shoes as well.
Brian Quinn
Sorry, boys. Nip knobs refers to nipples.
James Murray
And. What? Why.
Walter Goggins
Why not just say nips?
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
This is just what I read on this website. I can't say for sure.
Walter Goggins
I'm gonna add an extra syllable on.
Brian Quinn
Double bubble. Does it mean a cute girl or two guys releasing on a lady's face at the same time?
James Murray
I'll let you go first on this one, Walt. I know Double bubble is very popular. 50s era gum. Right?
Walter Goggins
I think they still make, like, gumball.
Bryan Johnson
Double yum.
James Murray
Double yum.
Bryan Johnson
That was the name of the gum. Yeah. There was a double gum, though.
Brian Quinn
There was a little yellow package, little yellow wrapper.
Bryan Johnson
Cute girl.
Brian Quinn
Double bubble.
Bryan Johnson
Double bubble. I don't. I mean, it doesn't make any sense, though. Like, why. Why double it? What's the bubble reference? What's the I has to be a porn phrase. I'll go porn phrase.
Brian Quinn
You're gonna go porn phrase.
James Murray
I'll go 50s.
Brian Quinn
Q, you're on fire.
James Murray
Oh.
Bryan Johnson
How does that make any sense now?
Brian Quinn
I looked these up.
James Murray
I thought it was like a boob thing because.
Brian Quinn
And it doesn't really give you any idea of why they would call this double bubble. A cute girl at double bubble.
James Murray
Look at that. Double bubble.
Brian Quinn
Mm.
James Murray
It's gotta be a reference to the boobs.
Walter Goggins
Or the boobs in the butt.
Bryan Johnson
Remember Fonzie was always dating the twins?
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
That's the only time, like, he could say it. Unless you're not dating twins. I don't know. You should be using the Word.
Walter Goggins
Double bubble.
James Murray
He would show up with a twin on each arm.
Walter Goggins
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Oh, yeah.
James Murray
The implication being he was. He was fucking them both.
Walter Goggins
Oh, yeah.
Brian Quinn
Or at least making out with them. Like maybe some heavy petting.
Walter Goggins
Oh, you got your braces.
James Murray
But we don't. We don't. As a viewer, we're not left to assume that the Fonz isn't getting his dick wet. Right. Like, we're assuming he is.
Brian Quinn
He's gotta be.
James Murray
He's gotta be, right?
Bryan Johnson
There was nothing shown or said to lead you to believe that he was actually having intercourse. It looked like heavy petting was about all he was up to.
James Murray
Yeah, but I mean, how old was.
Brian Quinn
He supposed to be? He was older than the guy. So he's in his 20s.
Bryan Johnson
He was about me.
Guest Speaker
If.
Bryan Johnson
If Maybe a year older than those guys.
Brian Quinn
Like, he had graduated and they were.
Bryan Johnson
Two years older than. But I don't. I. I never got the idea that he was actually completing. He was having intercourse. Full blown intercourse.
Brian Quinn
Well, there's that one scene where Richie goes out on a date with a girl and he says they play chess. And Fonzie violently grabs him by the shirt. And he didn't seem like he was psyched about it. It seemed like he was angry about it. He's like, you played with her chest. He's like, no, no, Fonz, we played chess.
James Murray
What is going on in that town, man?
Brian Quinn
And Rich, he was, like, easily 17 at the time. I don't know why. Well, your friend would be that worked up.
James Murray
But how could you be that cool and have the looks and the motorcycle and.
Bryan Johnson
And.
James Murray
And all that stuff and not be closing the deal?
Brian Quinn
I don't know. I don't.
Bryan Johnson
I don't think it needed to be addressed right.
James Murray
But what do you think?
Bryan Johnson
I think. I think there were some. Some of the gals that were older than him. Yeah, I think they. Absolutely.
James Murray
And we don't think the Fonz was a virgin.
Bryan Johnson
Maybe by season four. But I think seasons one, two, and three.
Walter Goggins
I think the font is worried about child support.
James Murray
Yeah.
Walter Goggins
Because I remember when you had to take care of the baby at Laverne and Shirley's. He was very upset about that.
James Murray
Oh, wow. Jesus. All right.
Brian Quinn
Bubble, bubble, double bubble. Okay. Fluky. Is it a jerk or is it an accidental fart during anal sex? A fluky.
James Murray
Oh, man. I'm gonna go with anal sex.
Brian Quinn
Gonna go anal sex.
Bryan Johnson
I thought the same thing.
James Murray
She bopped out a flukie.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah. I say I'm gonna go with Q. Yeah. Yeah.
Brian Quinn
You guys would not Be home at the 50s. It's a jerk.
James Murray
Look at this Fluky.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, look at this fluke coming our way. Why doesn't he leave us alone?
James Murray
I don't know about this, man. I'm not living it.
Brian Quinn
Tough, right?
Bryan Johnson
I'm winning your proclaimed love about farts. I'm surprised you didn't know that. That it wasn't definitely not a fart. Because I figured you knew everything, you know, love of fart humor.
James Murray
Yeah, but not like discussing anal sex farts, you know, that has no place in comedy wars.
Brian Quinn
See, here's a. Here's the next one. Hot spook. Is it a good kid?
James Murray
This kid's a hot spook.
Brian Quinn
Right? Or is it ghost sex? A practice where two people have sex while basically not touching each other as much as possible.
Walter Goggins
What's the 50s? Keep in mind.
Bryan Johnson
I don't think that's a porn term. I'm going to go 50s.
James Murray
I've never heard of that before in my life.
Bryan Johnson
Unless they're. Are they shooting that type of porn? I doubt it. People touch each other as little as possible, right? It's got to be 50s.
James Murray
Yeah. I'm going to go 50s.
Brian Quinn
All right. You're both right.
James Murray
Yeah. All right.
Brian Quinn
All right, Walt 42.
James Murray
No flukes here.
Brian Quinn
If Walt. If you can get these next two right and Q gets them wrong, you at least tie up, okay?
James Murray
There's only two left.
Brian Quinn
There's only two left. Oh, boy. Walt, an accountant. Hey, man, that guy's a real accountant. Is it a boring nerd or. It is a sex worker or only fans? Creator.
James Murray
I'm gonna say onlyfans creator.
Bryan Johnson
So I have to go the opposite with him, even though I think he's right. Just for the sake of the.
James Murray
Well, what did you think it was?
Bryan Johnson
I think it's what you think it is.
James Murray
Then I'll take the other one. You could take it.
Bryan Johnson
That's not.
James Murray
It keeps it interesting. For the last. For the last one.
Walter Goggins
Not if everybody knows.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, it doesn't.
James Murray
I'll say it's a 50s term.
Brian Quinn
Term.
Bryan Johnson
I'll say it's an only fans.
Brian Quinn
Well, you're so caught up. Oh, so caught up. Three, Three to four right now.
James Murray
All right.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. And I guess it comes from, like, since if you're a sex worker, only fans. If people. Hey, what do you do? I'm an accountant. Yeah. So that you don't have to go into it, because accountants are, you know, notoriously the most boring trade out there. Okay, this is the last one. Walt, you can at least tie up here. Bad dad from Baghdad. Is it a guy who thinks he's tough, or is it a subgenre of porn where older Arabic men have sex with barely legal girls?
Bryan Johnson
I want to qa.
James Murray
I'll take the porn version, please.
Bryan Johnson
I do not think that's, you know.
James Murray
The bad dad from Baghdad.
Bryan Johnson
I don't think that the porn industry wants to be known as that.
Brian Quinn
You want to keep classy.
Bryan Johnson
That's racist.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
Why dad from Baghdad?
Walter Goggins
What was was Baghdad known of, like, in the 50s? Like, was it a popular.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, it was back.
Brian Quinn
I think it was totally different.
Walter Goggins
Yeah, I mean, I know I'm sure he was around, but were that where people.
Bryan Johnson
Countries are changing names constantly in the 50s, you know, it was like, I wouldn't know. Every other week they had different names from being overthrown by some other Middle.
Walter Goggins
Eastern country, some other bad dad.
James Murray
There is a corniness to the bad dad bag gad thing that makes me sound like it's the 50s, but I really do see it working. I think it's 50s as a porn sub genre.
Bryan Johnson
And you say it's porn, Cube?
James Murray
Yeah, I'll say it's porn.
Brian Quinn
All right. Well, yes, Walt, you can hold your head high.
Bryan Johnson
He's got a tie out of it.
James Murray
All right. You're a bad dad from Baghdad, bro.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, I don't even. That didn't even sound racist to me when I made it up.
Bryan Johnson
That's usually how it goes. Oblivious.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
So that's it. That's 50 porn terms versus or 50s terms versus porn terms.
Bryan Johnson
Very good.
Brian Quinn
That's fun, right?
James Murray
Yeah. If we played it again, we should produce it with like, like, a girl saying the terms and like, a sexy voice to really throw us off. Like bad dad from Baghdad.
Brian Quinn
Right?
James Murray
Throw us off a little bit. That'd be my note on that game.
Brian Quinn
All right. Yeah, that's not bad. You know what else isn't bad? Prize picks.
James Murray
Oh.
Walter Goggins
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Brian Quinn
They're not bad at all.
Walter Goggins
No.
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Yeah.
Brian Quinn
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James Murray
Yeah, you didn't want to talk about the weather for another.
Brian Quinn
I would like. What do you think? Yeah, I did want to. Curious, though, what you think of what should be done with Kanye.
Bryan Johnson
Kanye West.
Brian Quinn
Kanye West.
Bryan Johnson
Why has he been. Has it been in the news lately?
Brian Quinn
Oh, yeah. He was selling a swastika T shirt.
Walter Goggins
Advertised on the Super Bowl.
James Murray
What the hell is going on with this guy?
Bryan Johnson
He advertised it on the Super Bowl.
Walter Goggins
He advertised his website. And the website led you to his. Where he was selling swastika teas.
Bryan Johnson
I did not hear any of this. When you say what should be done about him?
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Like, should he be forcefully put into a hospital or something? Like, he's obviously crazy, right? Like a guy who's like literally says, I love Hitler. I'm a Nazi. All this other stuff. That'll be a clip for this week.
James Murray
What is that? Yeah, he just. There's no sense. He just seems nuts. There's no sense of some overriding plan or artistic statement or anything being made. He just seems like a lunatic. But then you see the photos of his wife and you're like, he's doing something right.
Brian Quinn
Ex wife. Q. What do you mean they're getting divorced? It looks like.
James Murray
No, that love. That love story ended badly.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Did you see?
Bryan Johnson
I thought that was like our modern day Romeo And Juliet.
James Murray
Yeah. I don't believe in love anymore.
Bryan Johnson
The way he forced her walk around nude.
James Murray
Right. Hey, now, there's no word that he.
Brian Quinn
Forced her when they're like.
Walter Goggins
Yeah, he said she was totally willing, highly encouraged her.
Brian Quinn
Strongly encouraged. So you did see the. I guess it was at the Grammys when they're like, show your outfit, show your outfit. And she takes off. She's wearing. Did you see it?
James Murray
Oh, I saw the pictures. Yeah. I didn't see it that night.
Brian Quinn
Nuts, isn't it?
James Murray
She's totally naked. It's wild.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, she's naked. And they go to the Grammys and they said there's not going to be anything done about it. Now Janet Jackson showed a nipple for a millisecond and it was the biggest deal on earth.
James Murray
It's nuts.
Bryan Johnson
It was a long time ago.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
Bryan Johnson
Grand scheme of things.
James Murray
Yeah.
Brian Quinn
People are more.
Bryan Johnson
Social media has not as shameful today has eroded any sense of class and shame, dignity, decency. Yes. And is it a byproduct of it now?
Brian Quinn
Is it just people's nature then to be mean and spiteful and shitty? Because like it comes out on the Internet all the time, right? Yeah, like in the comments and it's. It. But it's just like. It's not that you can't do it in real life. It just. It's not practical to do that, to like to talk to people that way in real life. It's not. Probably not going to go your way many times if you talk to that way people in real life.
Bryan Johnson
Yeah, you get it out. Like you're able to get that urge to pile on out on the Internet. I guess for some people it's healthy if they don't get it out there. Maybe in real life they get it out in a different manner.
James Murray
I don't know. People talk to each other like they talk to each other on the Internet. Brian's right. They get punched in the face and it's like maybe that's what people needed to keep them in line.
Bryan Johnson
Well, did you have you. Do you want the opposite, though? Do you want to go the route that England's going now? Or they're where they're like policing what everybody says.
Brian Quinn
Oh, dude, that's up. Isn't it? Like a resident.
Bryan Johnson
It's insane what's going on in Brit. Like if our British friends.
James Murray
Why? What's the. What's the holy.
Bryan Johnson
Now they've got Apple to let they. There's no unencrypted shit anymore. Like Apple now has given all the all the information or all the what's. How would you describe what, what Apple did? So now the government can see everything that you've written on your phone, right?
Brian Quinn
Keys, Total transparency.
Bryan Johnson
It's nuts.
James Murray
Why?
Bryan Johnson
They want to crack down on hate. They want to crack down on the.
James Murray
Name of hate speech.
Brian Quinn
Yeah.
James Murray
That's crazy. That's pretty wild. They want to go through your stuff to see what your personal thoughts are. To see if you, if you, I guess, wait, like in your private slide. Like, if I think it's.
Bryan Johnson
I don't know if it's like, if I take. Like if you text one of your friends and you said something hateful in.
James Murray
It, which I would never do.
Bryan Johnson
No, I'm not saying you did, but.
James Murray
Let'S say, let's just delete this firehouse chain right here. All right, good.
Bryan Johnson
But let's. I don't know if they could go after you for that. I think if you were under a pseudonym name, you put up something on, on X or on Facebook, then, yeah, they're going to come after you and you're going to, you're going to pay a penalty, whether it be a fine or even possibly jail time.
James Murray
I didn't know about this. No, I am. I. Every time I've looked at the news lately, I've been like, oh, yeah, that's right. This is why I don't look at the news anymore, because there's nothing I can do and it just makes me feel bad. So this isn't making me feel any better. That's pretty crazy. Like, how did it get to that? How did it get to that?
Bryan Johnson
I wish I could tell you. I'm not. I don't really keep up to date on the state of the fair.
James Murray
See, this, this is a problem. Look, I obviously have displayed over the years. I'm no political expert, but, like, that's the sort of thing that, I mean, that's the sort of thing that people really rebel against. And the people who lead the rebellion in the beginning, and I don't mean like gonna get muskets and shit like that, but the people who, like start rabble rousing are the people who are like, I want to be able to say shitty things about people. And then so everybody's like, well, I don't really want to get on board with what he's saying, but, like, I don't want to not be able to say what I want. And that's how you end up voting for fucking people who are kind of crazy because you're like, he's the only one saying it. I got no other options but to vote for him.
Bryan Johnson
This is what I've seen. I don't even know if it's true because I don't. I don't. Like. I don't believe anything has seen it. Maybe Britain isn't even doing this. I don't know.
Brian Quinn
I don't know.
Walter Goggins
I know Germany is.
Bryan Johnson
Is Britain doing it? I thought that. I've seen.
Walter Goggins
I. I've seen.
Bryan Johnson
I've seen reports that they are, and I'm just like. I don't.
Walter Goggins
I've seen videos where the cops show up at the house of somebody who, like, you posted this on Facebook and we're here to arrest you.
James Murray
That's crazy.
Brian Quinn
Yeah, I've seen videos.
James Murray
What sort of things are they saying? Is it like, I'm going to assassinate the king and.
Bryan Johnson
I guess it's more about immigrants. Yeah, immigrants and stuff.
Brian Quinn
Immigrants and transgender. And this one, even that says that this is back in August some. There was a Muslim asylum seeker who was responsible for a mass stabbing that left three children dead. And I guess there were riots about it. And people in America were like, egging on the riots, you know, online.
James Murray
Okay.
Brian Quinn
And the head of police is now threatening extradition and jail time for US Citizens for online posts allegedly egging on the violence from afar. Good fucking luck.
James Murray
Yeah, good luck.
Brian Quinn
Good fucking luck coming to America and fucking transporting somebody back there. Because you said something mean about an.
James Murray
Immigrant who stabbed kids.
Brian Quinn
Yeah. Who stabbed three kids.
Bryan Johnson
But you better not.
Brian Quinn
Well, I guess it's.
Bryan Johnson
You better not plan a holiday to Britain, though. If you got a. If you got a lot of social media posts that are considered criminal, though.
James Murray
Yeah. You got to worry about it.
Brian Quinn
They may hear about that bad dad from Baghdad. Shit.
Bryan Johnson
Tell him, Steve Dave.
Release Date: February 24, 2025
Cast: Bryan Johnson, Brian Quinn (“Q”), James Murray (“Murr”), Walter Goggins
In this unruly and uncensored installment, the trio (alongside occasional input from Walt Goggins) riff from personal anecdotes about aging and handling the cold, to riffing on US-Canada relations, lithium mining, legal kerfuffles in the TV business, a raucous 50s slang vs. porn slang game, and finally, ruminations on Kanye West, censorship, and changing social mores. Expect candid banter, quick wit, and tongue-in-cheek takes throughout.
[00:06–05:21]
“We’re crossing over that threshold where old people are always cold.” (Bryan Johnson, 01:21)
“Whatever your wife says is what you keep it at.” (Brian Quinn, 02:11) “I’m not allowed to even go touch it.” (Bryan Johnson, 02:13)
“It just seems lopsided...cold for like seven months out of the year.” (James Murray, 03:35)
“I was a little weather shamed.” (James Murray, 04:37) “It’s like I just feel like a rat in a cage. It’s gotta stop, right? It’s got to stop.” (James Murray, 04:52)
[05:46–09:39]
“Our northern brothers are shunning us.” (Bryan Johnson, 06:24)
[09:51–13:03]
“When we were growing up, nobody was like, 'Where’d lithium be at?'” (Bryan Johnson, 11:58)
[17:17–24:49]
“Anytime you’re involved in legal action, the first thing your lawyers tell you is, shut the fuck up.” (James Murray, 19:20)
“AMC wasn’t going to be footing our legal bills...” (Bryan Johnson, 21:01)
“You guys did not get treated as well as you should have got treated, I thought, on that show.” (James Murray, 22:03) “When I look back on it… it’s all positive and we definitely garnered a good, solid friendship.” (Bryan Johnson, 24:09)
[25:26–27:34]
“It won me over… I’m like, what day is it on?” (Bryan Johnson, 26:01)
“I never saw the original Matlock… but I imagine that is the formula.” (Bryan Johnson, 27:15)
[29:00–48:20]
“It’s like calling yourself an astronaut because you watch Star Wars.” (James Murray, 28:54) “Well, you shouldn’t have done that.” [wrong answer] (Brian Quinn, 32:19)
[50:24–55:44]
“Should he be forcefully put into a hospital or something? He’s obviously crazy, right?” (Brian Quinn, 50:53)
“Janet Jackson showed a nipple for a millisecond and it was the biggest deal on earth.” (Brian Quinn, 52:09)
“Social media has eroded any sense of class and shame, dignity, decency…” (Bryan Johnson, 52:13)
[53:20–57:00]
“Now the government can see everything you’ve written on your phone.” (Bryan Johnson, 53:35)
“That's pretty wild. They want to go through your stuff to see what your personal thoughts are…” (James Murray, 54:00)
“I don't want to not be able to say what I want. And that’s how you end up voting for fucking people who are kind of crazy…” (James Murray, 55:08)
The episode is as candid and unscripted as ever: the hosts freely mix self-mockery, cultural riffing, and light-hearted vulgarity. Banter flows, tangents are welcomed, and they find humor in generational divides and society’s stranger trends, all while maintaining a sharp, satirical edge.
A quintessential TESD episode: meandering but tightly packed with laughs, pop culture nostalgia, and unfiltered observations—whether it’s about winter doldrums, North American neighborly squabbles, legal sagas in reality television, or parsing the line between retro and risqué vernacular. The “50s vs. Porn” game is a highlight, offering a snapshot of generational attitudes and the ever-shifting lexicon of the absurd. And as ever, behind the jokes are sincere reflections on aging, friendship, and the state of the world—served up, of course, with a side of irreverence.
[Tell 'Em Steve-Dave, Episode #627: Just Deal — For fans seeking a full rundown, this summary covers every memorable riff, reference, and punchline.]