#629: Comin’ in Hot!

Summary

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

Date: March 9, 2025
Podcast Theme: A candid, humor-filled look at everyday life, work routines, and aging, woven together by the off-the-cuff chemistry of two Comic Book Men and an Impractical Joker—with a healthy dose of irreverence, behind-the-scenes banter, and some touching moments.

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Episode Overview

This episode captures Tell 'Em Steve-Dave’s signature blend of self-deprecating comedy and genuine, sometimes poignant discussion. With BQ (Brian Quinn) absent (reportedly with no time to spare), fan-favorite Sunday Jeff joins Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, and Giddem for a deep dive into their daily lives, the grind of long-term employment, the routines that anchor adulthood, and the perspective-shifting effects of aging. The discussion is peppered with the group's usual playful ribbing, deadpan observations, and, briefly, a heartfelt appeal to help a friend in need.

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Key Discussion Points & Segment Timestamps

1. Absence of BQ and Life's Busyness (00:54–02:14)

• BQ's absence leads to a joking lament over lack of free time.
• Sunday Jeff is commended for making time for the show despite a packed schedule; he notes he’s so busy he only watches sports in highlight form.

Quote:

"I don't get paid like you. ...I can run on five and a half hours of sleep. I can. I don't know how I do it, but I do." — Sunday Jeff (01:53–02:25)

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2. A Day in the Life of Sunday Jeff (05:06–26:22)

(Major segment – funny, detailed, and insightful look at work/life routines)

• Early Riser: Up at 4:30am, showers at night, minimal sleep.
• Coffee Ritual: Prefers Keurig for speed; claims only one cup is needed for his "hot" mornings.
• Commute & Work Start: 35-minute drive, soft rock on Pandora, the first to arrive (deactivates alarm himself).
• Work Ethic: Has worked at the dealership for 36 years, "comes in hot," but admits to emotional and social detachment—“like a robot.”
• Office Culture: Downplays the notion of workplace drama or gossip, expressing indifference and resignation after decades—“I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining, the bitching and moaning.”
• Breaks & Lunch: No set break schedule, but typically has lunch late (1:30pm), well into the workday. Eats throughout the day—eggs, banana, yogurt—to keep energy up.
• Post-Work Routine: Goes to the gym for 1–1.5 hours daily, spends evenings at his girlfriend’s, watches TV (recently rewatching "The Boys"), and manages to avoid most workplace and home drama.

Quotes & Highlights:

• “I come in. I'm like a freaking robot. I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do when I go home. …I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining, the bitching and the moaning." (12:30–12:40)
• On workplace gossip:

  “I'm numb, man. I don't care anymore.” (12:28)

• On his value:

  “They wish they had more of me. Management, upper management, yes. Guaranteed.” (15:57)

• Lunch routine:

  “I eat like so many every so many hours. Like I'll have two eggs in the morning when I get there, I'll eat a banana for a snack sometimes. So I'm constantly eating little by little.” (23:00)

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3. Bryan's Daily Routine: A Portrait of Domestic Life (28:58–35:46)

• Morning: Wakes up at 6:20am to see his daughter Sage off, but then goes back to sleep until 8:30am.
• Daytime Errands: Runs pet-related errands or chores, underscores monotony with laundry-folding as a recurring theme.
• Chores Turned Social: Shares a rare run-in with a stranger during a car wash—minor, but notable excitement in an otherwise quiet daily existence.
• Mealtime & TV: Lunch out once or twice a week, otherwise at home. Evenings feature family TV (e.g., “Matlock,” “The Boys”) and light reading.

Quotes:

"I'm always folding laundry. Those women, man, they wear more fucking clothes. …Marybeth wears more clothes without going anywhere." (35:00)
“If we can get to some lady yelling at me just by going out for a little bit, who knows what happens if I keep going out?” (34:31)

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4. Reflections on Work, Aging, and Life’s Fragility (51:44–54:09)

• Following news about a friend’s ALS diagnosis, the crew reflects on mortality, aging, and the inevitability of loss.
• Touching discussion about appreciating the present, especially as friends and family members age or pass.

Quotes:

“That is one of the most awful things about getting older … you start now to see things and people getting sick or people getting.” — Walt (52:44)
“That only comes usually with old age, when you start to see things really start to go, like, where you're like, wow.” — Walt (53:07)
“No guarantee.…Take advantage of what is in front of you and appreciate what’s there.” — Walt (54:09)

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5. Benefit for "Tim the Record Store Clerk" (47:48–52:00)

• Announcement of a Bandcamp benefit podcast (featuring the full cast and some classic TSD games) to support their friend Tim, recently diagnosed with ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Listeners encouraged to contribute by purchasing the benefit episode.

Quote:

“We tried to make it worth it.…You’ll be getting, I think, the best of us.” — Walt (55:10)

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6. The Twerking Stewardess and Workplace Celebration Debate (65:35–70:37)

• The crew discusses the viral story of a flight attendant fired for twerking in uniform on an empty plane.
• Debate whether firing was justified; contemplate how workplace “celebrations”—including twerking—are policed in different environments.
• Joking proposal: General Store staff should twerk to celebrate accomplishments.

Quotes:

"I found that absolutely crazy, though, that the airline didn't just issue her a warning and ask her to take down the video." — Walt (66:12)
“That’s in. The general store is pro twerking.” — Walt (67:41)
“Imagine that back in the day when you found a hot toy in the aisle, you just twerked when you found one, recorded yourself, done that.” — Walt (71:38)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Sunday Jeff’s Work Ethic:
“I come in hot, bro. Coming in hot.” (10:32)
“I've been there before anybody else anyway, so.…they're like, 'Oh my work.'” (11:01)

On Indifference to Office Drama:
“I’m numb, man. I don't care anymore.” (12:28)
“They wish they had more of me.” (16:02)

On Aging and Friendship:
“Take a page out of Sunday's book. Come in hot while you can, because you're not always going to be able to come in hot, and you're going to be remembered as the guy who came in." (54:17)

On Twerking in the Workplace:
“I want to be able to post it and not without a rating.…But that's why we become known as pro twerking establishment.” (70:20–70:28)

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Segment Timestamps Highlight Reel

• 00:54–02:14 - Sunday Jeff on lack of time and sleep
• 05:06–26:22 - "Day in the life" with Sunday Jeff: work, breaks, gym, food, media
• 28:58–39:43 - Bryan Johnson’s domestic day: pets, laundry, errands, minor social “run-in”
• 51:44–54:09 - Reflection on mortality and aging, inspired by Tim’s life event
• 47:48–52:00 - Benefit pod for Tim the record store clerk (ALS diagnosis)
• 65:35–70:37 - Twerking stewardess, workplace celebrations, and comedy riffing

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Tone & Style

• Uncensored, candid, and filled with sharp observational humor
• A mix of deadpan sarcasm and genuine affection between long-time friends
• Occasional poignant moments about aging, loss, and gratitude juxtaposed with irreverent, bawdy jokes

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In Summary

Episode #629 is classic Tell 'Em Steve-Dave: a blend of blue-collar work talk (“coming in hot”), deadpan analysis of the small routines that make up daily existence, friendly mockery, and sudden left-turns into the personal or profound. The group’s dissection of “a day in the life” (especially Sunday Jeff’s) is both hilarious and relatable, while the benefit announcement and reflections on aging add a thread of real vulnerability, making this a must-listen (or must-read) for fans old and new.

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For details on the Tim the Record Store Clerk benefit pod, see Bandcamp—links will be posted on the podcast’s socials and show description.

Transcript

[A]

I own the corporation.

[B]

Jesus.

[A]

I can put my feet up 247 and it's fine. Like that in the general store is pro twerking.

[B]

I come in, I'm like a freaking robot. I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do and I go home.

[C]

I don't care.

[B]

I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining, the bitching and moaning. It's like working here.

[A]

Tell him, Steve Dave.

[C]

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of. Tell him, Steve Dave. I look across the table, I see Walt Flanagan, as always. As always. Look across the table, I don't see bq.

[D]

Is he down in Key west already?

[C]

He might. I don't know. He was texting with me and Walt and he said he didn't even have one hour to spare this week. Not even an hour.

[A]

I'm sure that frazzles your brain, right?

[C]

For like, it's inconceivable to not have multiple hours available at the drop of a hat. Yeah. Like just showing.

[A]

Imagine that. Like that just like fries every circuit.

[C]

Yeah. I was like, that doesn't happen in real life, does it? Yeah. So no cue this week, but fan favorite Sunday, Jeff.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

Hello.

[C]

All right, Sunday.

[A]

Sunday Was just saying the same thing though. He doesn't have enough time to even watch Devil's hockey anymore.

[B]

I don't get paid like you.

[A]

He's not getting. He doesn't have an hour to watch the Devils. He says he watches five minute high highlights.

[C]

Doesn't even have an hour to watch it.

[A]

How are you that busy?

[D]

I think he.

[B]

I gotta fill in for Q. So he's. He doesn't have that hour. That's my hour. This is my free hour. So here I am.

[C]

He took your hour this week?

[B]

He took my hour this week.

[D]

I also think he goes to sleep at like 7 or 8 o' clock at night.

[A]

Is that true?

[B]

No, I gotta. I can't. I tried. I wind up going to sleep 10:30, 11:00 clock. I wake up at 4:30. I don't know, I just have it.

[C]

I just.

[B]

I can run on five and a half hours of sleep. I can. I don't know how I do it, but I do.

[A]

You need to be studied.

[B]

Zombified. That's just used to.

[A]

You don't try to go to bed by seven.

[B]

I do. I can't. Well, I wouldn't go. That better. I wouldn't go to bed that early anyways. I mean, 9:30 is probably the cuff, you know, it's like when I. When I could try to do it just. I can't.

[C]

Why don't you load up on sleeping? Sleeping medicine works, right?

[B]

It's just like I, I just don't. I just can't function that way for some reason.

[A]

You gotta talk to get him. He could fall asleep.

[B]

Yeah, that's. What's that, narcolepsy, where he could just fall asleep.

[D]

You know.

[A]

We were getting here to record and you guys, I walked up on you guys in the hallway and you said that you thought he was sleeping.

[B]

Yeah, the door's all locked.

[C]

Why else?

[B]

All three of us are waiting to get into the office.

[D]

That door is closed. So I don't. I keep the office locked.

[B]

Aren't you supposed to be open selling stuff right now?

[D]

That's why there's a doorbell.

[A]

But this door was open down here.

[B]

We didn't know that.

[C]

Can't see.

[B]

I mean, we're not. Not looking. We did podcasts and you remember, Sounded like a freaking bear over there in the corner when, when we were doing the Sunday grinds.

[C]

Sunday grinds? Yeah, you can hear Gidem snoring away now.

[A]

Do you ever fear you might have narcolepsy?

[D]

I've thought about it because every once in a while when I'm driving, I get very.

[B]

That's always a good time to fall asleep. He wakes up, the wheel spinning upside down on the car, his head's just bleeding.

[C]

Because I got narcolepsy.

[D]

Don't know what it is. Like, I can. Like sometimes happens when I'm on a long drive, like I wake up, take a shower, go get coffee and I'm like, finish my coffee and I'm driving down the parkway and just all of a sudden, like I can't keep my eyes open.

[B]

It was 10 minutes away.

[D]

Again, when I'm long distance driving, like I'm going to a relative's house for a holiday or something. So sometimes I'll just pull over, take a quick nap and then I'm good.

[A]

But not enough to make you concerned. Enough to get to a doctor, maybe get checked out, get some blood work done, see if you've got any issues with narcolepsy.

[B]

That.

[D]

Knowing my Jeep, knowing my Jeep, it's probably a exhaust leak. That's why it's happening.

[B]

There's no way he's going to look. He's got. He's got a clone growing on his elbow and you're worried about it. He hasn't gone to the doctor for that. He's got to cut it off at.

[A]

A certain length and growth.

[B]

The growth might cut him off.

[A]

Then he can start walking around.

[B]

It might actually cut him off. Might actually kill him off.

[D]

I have been to the doctor.

[B]

This.

[C]

What'd they say? Aside from gross? What did they say?

[D]

They, they took a. What do you call it? A swab. Oh, that wasn't an infection. And just said if it happens again.

[B]

Come back, it looks better. I think it actually does look better. Maybe not.

[C]

Maybe not. Yeah. That actually was one of the things I wanted to talk to Sunday Jeff about because I was wondering, how do you feel your day? Like, I know you work from, you know, your, your work. A day is pretty long.

[A]

Let's hear a day in the life of Sunday Jeff.

[C]

Yeah, and then I'll. I'll. What I did.

[A]

Yeah, compare them. Oh, don't start laughing already, Jeff.

[C]

I know. Wait until you hear what I did. The time is.

[B]

The time is filled up. I mean, it's like everything else. I wake up at 4:30. I'm out of the house at a quarter.

[A]

Hold on, you're. You're glossing over all the fun things.

[B]

The fun things? I wake up at 4:30.

[A]

Okay, that was the first thing you.

[B]

Do when you open your eyes. It's like cheating. You know, on my summer vacation, I woke up and I went downstairs.

[A]

You. Do you need an alarm clock to wake you up?

[B]

I do, but I automatically wake up at that time anyways. I'm always up before the alarm.

[A]

So you turn the alarm off. When was the alarm set to a certain radius?

[B]

No, it's, it's. Yeah, it's set to like something really low. I think it's 101.5.

[D]

Okay. I was gonna say, do you have an alarm clock or use your phone?

[B]

No, I don't use my phone.

[A]

And then you get up, do you take a shower?

[B]

Nah, I take a shower. I'd get my hours in, so I take a shower at night.

[A]

This is, this is vital information.

[C]

I know I should be writing this. Well, it's recorded, so I'll just listen back later.

[B]

In the summertime, it's like I can't go to bed after being like all sweaty all day. So I always take my showers at night.

[D]

So, you know, this has always bothered me. Like I can't. I had to take a shower after I wake up because I sweat when.

[C]

I sleep and when I'm awake, so I don't know when I take a shower.

[B]

Yeah, like that's when I get my cardio when I'm sleeping. So you've Been calling my heart being stressed.

[D]

So you sweat all night and then just put on clean?

[B]

I don't sweat at all. I mean, I wake up.

[A]

Some people don't sweat it when they're sleeping.

[D]

I find that hard to believe.

[B]

It's like it looks like he just did the marathon with Usain Bolt.

[A]

Now maybe your sweats are induced by your lack of not drinking lately. You have. You've been drinking. How long you been.

[D]

Ever since I was a child. I sweat when I sleep. Like my parents would tell me when they took me out of the car, like I'd be dripping wet.

[A]

Are you sure they were just. They weren't. You weren't just urinating and they just said it was sweat?

[B]

Somebody's having a party.

[A]

That make you feel self conscious?

[B]

Why is my piss. Why is my sweat.

[A]

So you'll wake up with cold sweatshirt?

[D]

No, I wake up and I'm like drenched in sweat.

[C]

That's usually when like a fever breaks.

[B]

Not sitting on the couch anymore.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. That should be a super fun sight, that couch.

[A]

Right? That's not normal. Like they wake up sweating and it's been. Since you're a baby.

[D]

Yeah, since I was a child.

[A]

Baby sweats?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Really unusual.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean it's. Unless you're sick or something. I mean, I don't. I mean I wake up dry as could be.

[A]

Try as a bone.

[B]

Right. All right, so at least it's only sweat. And it's not the other stuff either.

[A]

So you wake up, you don't take a shower. So what do you do? You go in and make coffee a bit, right?

[B]

Yeah, coffee's made. I may make coffee.

[A]

And do you have a coffee maker or do you?

[B]

Yeah, I have both. In the morning I use the curry because it's quick.

[A]

Use the what?

[B]

Keurig.

[C]

The Keurig with the little capsules.

[A]

Oh, that's a time saver. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, I remember used to go nuts when we used to get the. Ming used to get him the death wish coffee curry.

[B]

Still does every now and then. Ming, I need some coffee.

[A]

How much coffee will you drink before you get to work to get you up and ready for the day?

[B]

Well, I don't. I drink it as I'm going to work. So one cup.

[A]

That's it?

[C]

That's it.

[A]

You only need one cup to get your gag going. Wow.

[D]

He always insists he only drinks one cup of coffee and then boom.

[B]

Well, that's coming here. I mean, I have. I have been up at 4:30 and.

[D]

Then at Sundays he. On Sundays he Would go and go get a rook coffee while we were working. I only drink one.

[B]

I don't do that no more. Okay.

[A]

Okay. Then what do you do while you're drinking the coffee?

[B]

I drive. I drive to work.

[C]

Do you fall asleep?

[B]

No, but you get dressed. It's like everything else. You get dressed.

[A]

News on you don't.

[B]

I listen to music in the morning. You know I don't listen to news.

[A]

That's right. But you don't like. I listen to news you don't like. Check the scores of the double game, maybe.

[B]

Nah, do that at night.

[D]

Do that at work. You should talk.

[B]

Yeah, that's.

[A]

You should talk.

[C]

You should talk to them.

[A]

I fucking own the corporation.

[B]

Jesus.

[A]

I can put my feet up fucking 247 and it's fine.

[D]

I've heard more Lions press conferences.

[A]

When you own the business, you can do whatever you want.

[C]

So we're not on this. We're not on the same level as. Get him. I wasn't aware of this.

[A]

No, that's the thing that he has to get through his thick.

[D]

But isn't he the head of the department? I thought he was the head of the department.

[B]

Aren't you the office manager? He's up there too, isn't he, like.

[A]

No, he's not. Yeah. He's not at the. At the general manager where he could just do whatever he wants. No.

[B]

Well, it seems like he is at that height.

[A]

So you don't. You just get right into the car and you're immediately.

[B]

I mean, I mean I just don't. I feed the cat and stuff like that.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Then I head on out.

[C]

Oh, he's grabbing the mic.

[A]

Yeah, head on out. Yeah. And how long of a ride is it?

[B]

About 35 minutes. Not too bad.

[D]

That's what he listens to.

[A]

That's not great either though. It's a pretty long ride.

[B]

Yeah, it could be a lot longer.

[D]

What do you listen to in the car?

[B]

Whatever's on. I listen Pandora or whatever rock station. Depends on what mood I'm in.

[C]

Yeah. Do you get Rock it in the morning?

[B]

Yeah, I usually put. It's like slow rock or something. I usually have 70. Soft rock, 70s, you know.

[A]

You don't think maybe a little bit more of a up tempo music might.

[B]

Help you a little Motley Crue in.

[C]

The morning, AC DC maybe.

[A]

You might get your heart pumping so you can get into work with, you know, like hit the day running.

[B]

I do that anyways. It doesn't matter what I'm listening to.

[A]

Like a tiger.

[B]

Yeah. I come in hot, bro. Coming in hot.

[A]

How many years you been there?

[B]

How many years? August's gonna be 36.

[A]

I have. I really, I don't mean to say that I don't buy that, but I don't buy that you've come in. You come in hot. 36 years.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Come in hot.

[A]

There's no. Nobody goes into their job 36 years.

[B]

They come in on an aircraft carrier. I'm coming in hot.

[D]

He is kicking that door open. Look, all my stuff in his hands.

[B]

All my work.

[C]

Sell some fucking parts.

[B]

There's no way. Well, I'm there before anybody else anyway, so.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

They're like an before everybody's there. So I do what I'm supposed to do and then get.

[A]

Do you open the place?

[B]

No, I don't. Well, there's no. Just a microphone.

[A]

Somebody's there before you?

[B]

No, I'm first one in there.

[A]

So you open the place.

[B]

I'm not opening up the place to like for business. No, but you open the door. Yeah, I'm the first one through the door. Yeah, I'm the first one in there.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

I deactivate the alarm.

[D]

So you.

[B]

This is.

[A]

They.

[C]

He's trusted a trusted employee 36 years.

[A]

36 years. That's. That's one of the privileges. You get there first.

[C]

Get there first. You get there 5:30 in the morning.

[B]

You know what? I don't mind leaving at 2:30, though.

[A]

So then what's a typical day at work? Like, do you, do you put out a lot of fires? Is there a lot of gossip around in the inner office community?

[B]

This isn't the office. This isn't like what you see on tv.

[D]

Is there a water cooler there? No.

[A]

There is.

[B]

Isn't there water cooler.

[A]

Cooler there? Well, there's vending machines.

[B]

Yeah, that's not a water cooler.

[A]

Right, but that's where you guys. That's where the.

[B]

Yeah, that's everybody. You know, all 30 people in the, in the dealership just congregate in front of the snack machine.

[A]

So do you. Is there a lot of like, gossip.

[B]

And I don't pay attention to anything.

[A]

36 years or hasn't been.

[C]

You haven't heard. I've seen.

[B]

I've seen everything. Holiday party, see him go. It's just like, I'm numb, man. I don't care anymore.

[C]

It just.

[A]

I'm coming in hot now.

[B]

I do what I'm supposed to do. I come in. I'm like a freaking robot. I just come in and I do what I'm supposed to do when I Go home.

[C]

I don't care.

[B]

I've heard it all before. I'm tired of hearing complaining, the bitching and the moaning.

[C]

I'm tired.

[B]

It's like working here. People like working with him.

[D]

Oh, Jeff, this room came in for an oil change, and I told him, we need a white blinker fluid.

[B]

I'll tell you, if I was here, this office is going to look like, you know, like they film twister in here.

[A]

Well, we need you in here, man, because he won't listen to me. He won't listen. He won't do it. So we. Maybe we need you to come in.

[B]

And you need proper motivation.

[A]

What's the proper motivation?

[B]

A real whip.

[A]

I don't know if that's legal. Is that what you use where you're.

[B]

At, when you do what you're supposed to do? You don't get whipped. Just how it is.

[A]

So there. All these years in, there's never been one juicy story that you've heard that, like, it's been running around the whole building like it's made its rounds from upstairs to downstairs. They're like, can you believe Sheila in accounting? What happened to her?

[B]

No.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I could. I could care less about the accounting office. I could care less about the sales.

[C]

There's more gossip around this office.

[B]

Oh, I believe that. Yeah. I mean, there's. I see people come and go. I mean, there's constantly people that are just like, yeah, he won't last. He'll be here for about three weeks. You'll say he'll be gone. All right, you know, we take that.

[A]

Do you think that someone thought that about you that first week you were on the job?

[B]

Don't forget when I.

[C]

He's coming in too hot.

[A]

He's coming in way too hot. He won't last three weeks.

[B]

I'll fire this guy. We can't have him here. It's making everybody look bad.

[A]

It's.

[B]

The business has changed so much from. Don't forget, I was there from, like, the late 80s, early 90s. So it's just, you know, it has not.

[A]

The business has changed, though. Human drama. That hasn't changed.

[B]

Oh, yeah, well, it's gotten worse, I would think. I never had the issues like we got at work. Now.

[C]

All right, now we're talking.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

All right.

[B]

Just like, work ethic. People that are inexperienced, and now it's hard to find people. It's hard to find good people out there to do work.

[A]

Okay, that's not what I thought he.

[C]

Was going to tell me.

[B]

What do you think about. She was sleeping with this guy. I watched too much freaking tv, man. I don't know what the hell you watching.

[D]

Has anybody found anything in a car while, like, fixing it? Like a kilo. Drugs or something?

[B]

I don't remember anything where Sheila's underwear.

[A]

In the back of a.

[B]

We've had vandalism, stuff like that, you know, at the dealership. But I mean, it's just like.

[A]

It's no, like, hanky panky in the. In some of the showcase cars, there's.

[C]

100% been hanky panky. She's like, nobody talks to him there, probably.

[B]

Yeah, it's just like.

[C]

It's.

[B]

Everybody's just like. Like, I don't really talk to anybody down.

[A]

And there's no. Like, there's no.

[B]

Oh, no, man. I'm counting my time.

[D]

I'm envisioning, like, that time lapse where Jeff is just sitting at a desk and everything's moving around like the time machine.

[B]

I work with young kids. I work, you know, people that just don't, you know, so, you know, there's hanky panky going, no, no. So it's just like, I'm doing work while they're sitting there, you know, looking at their phones and immersed in everything else but what they're supposed to be doing. So, you know, somebody has to keep the place to go, you know, and that's what I'm doing. I come in there, I do what I'm supposed to do when I go home. I don't. I don't pay attention to pace. Nobody's following.

[C]

That's the truth.

[A]

So do you. Do you think that. What do you think their perception of you is that, like, the rest of the people, like, that's. This guy's a fucking robot. He's not human. He comes in hot every day. He's 36 years old.

[C]

He even refers to himself. They wish.

[B]

They wish they had more of me. They wish they had more of me.

[A]

The management. Upper management, yes. Guaranteed. They wish they had about 100 of you, you know, walking around.

[D]

Could they handle that much heat? They could be there.

[B]

I would be concerned about your position here.

[A]

What about some of the other people who aren't in management who are just there to cash a paycheck? And, you know, maybe they're. They're looking to jazz up their lives and they see, oh, that salesman looks cute. Let's hop in the back of the back seat of this.

[B]

Our Salesmen are like, RAV4. They're like. A lot of our salesmen are like, freaking in their late 60s, early 50s. It's too old to get to what you're looking for. I mean, it's just like, you know, it's like, you know, banging people on the showroom floor with the customers walking out.

[A]

No, no, no, no.

[C]

You do it after hours. Yeah, you do it with or before hours.

[B]

After hours. I'm gone by the afternoon. I've got them during lunchtime.

[A]

Make sure you do them. One of the. One of the cars with tinted windows so no one could see.

[B]

You can't have tinted windows.

[A]

No, no.

[D]

You're saying. So factory tent doesn't exist.

[B]

Well, factory tent's one thing. They're not the tent that you're talking about where you can't look inside.

[D]

Talking limo tent.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know who's inside or what they're doing.

[A]

Okay, so get in there. 5:30.

[B]

They're about 10.

[A]

First thing you do. First thing you do, when you get to behind the counter, punch him first.

[C]

Christ. Then I do my duties.

[A]

You hit the clock. You have a time card?

[B]

No. So it's all like facial recognition.

[C]

Whoa.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

That's pretty futuristic.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

When did they implement?

[B]

I said a long time ago already. It's probably been at least about eight years.

[A]

Did you ever have a time card?

[B]

Yeah, we used to have time again. That's. That's going back in the day.

[A]

You know how much somebody would pay for Sunday, Jeff's time card, if he had one of his old ones?

[C]

Like a signed time card?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That shit would be fucking worth hundreds.

[C]

You save any?

[A]

Huh?

[B]

Nah. So you.

[A]

You punch in, put your face in front of the clock or whatever the.

[B]

Just start doing the work and start working.

[A]

What do you do? What's your first step?

[B]

Do the orders and everything else. You'll set up everything. Just get everything ready for when the guys get in there to start fixing the cars.

[D]

Do you set up their bays or.

[B]

Nah, I don't work in the service department.

[A]

So what time would. What time do they start to get there?

[B]

Seven.

[A]

Seven. So you're there an hour and a half.

[B]

An hour.

[A]

An hour?

[B]

An hour.

[A]

And you put the music on. You know that. The elevator music that's always playing?

[B]

No, I pulled that. I actually disconnected that. That speaker in our department.

[C]

There'S a.

[D]

Little bit of wild, man.

[C]

They all.

[B]

He plays country. I ain't listening to country, man. I unplugged that sucker. It's like. As far as I know, the speaker's defective. I play my own music.

[A]

So this gets you to 7:30. All right, some 7:30. When's your first break?

[B]

I take breaks whenever. Whenever I want.

[A]

How many breaks you get a day?

[B]

There is no set time for breaks.

[A]

How many are allowed? How many breaks are you allowed?

[B]

Well, some people seem like they're on break all the time.

[D]

Not me, though.

[C]

I like how you can't get a straight answer, but you can get the sarcastic.

[D]

I take less breaks than them.

[B]

I don't take. I mean, it's like if I need to, like, just do whatever.

[A]

I mean, it's like they owe you breaks.

[B]

Well, it depends on what you're doing. I mean, if you're.

[A]

What do you mean?

[B]

Legally, you're on the clock. So what's his story? His whole day is a break.

[A]

Right? Well, that's why there's no way he could ever come at us and be like, well, you didn't give me breaks.

[B]

Because he's on break all day.

[C]

Yes, right. That's the point.

[A]

That's the point. But you. Did you get that? Is that a Costello joke? That's why he's still here. It's not because.

[C]

Worth it.

[B]

Place looks like shit. It looks like there's homeless people that.

[A]

Live here, but if we hired somebody that knew how to fucking clean and set up the equipment, they wouldn't know how to fucking land at Abbott. A Costello joke.

[B]

I guess I see what your morals are for hiring work people.

[A]

All right, so you don't get a like, set break.

[B]

No, there's no set break legally.

[A]

Like in New Jersey, like every certain amount of hours you had to have a break.

[C]

Yeah, you got like a 15 minute.

[B]

Break or kids and stuff. It's not for adults. Yeah, you don't have to.

[D]

Uni would like a word with you.

[B]

Like, like, the technicians are flat rate. They don't get. They don't have to take break. They take breaks when they want. They just go to their manager, be like, I'm taking five or whatever. And now they just do whatever. There's no set breaks.

[C]

Okay, but Lucy Goosey over there.

[D]

But there's a set amount of breaks, correct? They have to get a break.

[B]

They have a lunch. They get, you know.

[D]

Okay, so they get a lunch.

[B]

Half an hour lunch. Yeah.

[A]

As a shop steward, aware that you guys aren't.

[B]

Yeah, no, no, trust me, they get breaks. Trust me.

[D]

Because when I was in the union, after five and a half hours, we got a half hour lunch. That was in our contract.

[A]

What about a break?

[D]

One 15 minute break? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they get breaks.

[B]

Like, I mean, but I'M saying they can take them whenever. There's not a set time that they have to be like, I remember our break.

[A]

I worked at Sears. I remember. I just like count, count the hours to that break because then I would go into the bathroom.

[B]

We've been here for half an hour break yet.

[A]

But I remember it at 9:30 in the morning, we'd get a break, 15.

[B]

Minutes, then I want to come back. That was it.

[C]

Those are like. I worked at Sears too. Those are long hours between the breaks and the lunch. Like you are counting every single minute.

[B]

Yeah, but what are you doing?

[C]

So boring.

[A]

You're unboxing merchandise, putting it on shelves, breaking things down from tractor trailers, bringing it in back into the storeroom.

[B]

This work, man. When's that break?

[A]

It was a real.

[B]

You'll see one day. I want a podcast studio.

[C]

A higher.

[B]

Slope who knows Abbott and Costello jokes.

[A]

Costello.

[B]

Yeah, she.

[A]

But I cannot believe though, that somebody is not on top of this, though, that you're not getting your regulated breaks. They fought hard to get those breaks. I can't believe that you're not taking advantage of them.

[B]

No, they do take breaks, but they're not at a lot times I take a break. Like if I want. Like if I just don't want to walk away from the counter for a while, I walk away from the counter for a little bit.

[A]

It. Okay.

[B]

It's not that. I just.

[A]

You have to check out. Like you don't have.

[B]

There's no punching out for that. You gotta punch out for lunch.

[D]

Where do you walk?

[B]

Just outside. Like, I'll go eat my yogurt or something. I'll just walk around the.

[A]

Oh, you didn't tell us you brought yogurt. Come on.

[B]

I just told you I brought my lunch.

[D]

You didn't say you made your lunch.

[A]

When do you make the lunch? In the morning or the night before? Yeah, and what usually it's. I imagine it's a lot of fish, right? Like kind of.

[B]

You're on a fish, turkey sandwich, salad, all kinds of stuff.

[D]

It's a tuna fish with chipotle.

[B]

No, that's. They don't make that no more.

[D]

Oh, I tried finding you for you.

[A]

And what time is lunch for you?

[B]

I usually eat about 1:30.

[A]

And you get out at 2:30 though, so you really.

[B]

I'm used to it.

[C]

So you're from a long stretch, man.

[B]

From 1:30 to what I eat during the day though. I. I don't eat like. I eat like so many every so many hours. Like I'll have two Eggs in the morning when I get there, I'll eat a banana for a snack sometimes. So I'm constantly eating little by little.

[A]

Keeping your energy up, Correct.

[D]

Are they hard boiled eggs or.

[A]

Yes, Gideum does that too. Like he'll eat constantly throughout the day. He tells me to keep his energy up. He doesn't want to fall asleep.

[B]

Well then either he's not eating enough, he won't fall asleep, which he's not eating enough, which isn't the case.

[D]

That wakes me right up.

[B]

Or that's the reason why he's sweating because his jaws are still moving at night when he's sleeping, wake up with a chicken leg in his head.

[A]

So how long is your lunch break?

[B]

Half an hour.

[A]

Half an hour. Then when you're back from lunch it.

[B]

Goes quick, goes real quick.

[C]

And you can't really go anywhere during your life because you're like, your place is sort of like you can't really walk.

[B]

Just traffic on that road.

[A]

For all those decades though, that you took your lunch break and would go over to Toys R Us though you needed more than a half hour, right?

[B]

No, I did in a half an hour. Don't forget Toys R Us wasn't always at that location though. It was closer. It was behind. It was behind so it was easier to get to. Like it was a big circle. Now you had to go and do some U turns and you know, took extra time cutting it close.

[A]

Did you ever get there late and did anybody ever get read you the riot act?

[B]

No.

[A]

Ever get written up in the 36 years?

[B]

Nope.

[A]

Perfect.

[B]

Never.

[A]

Sterling record.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

So is that.

[C]

Jesus Christ. Where is this man's edge?

[D]

Is that why you eat during the day? So that you could skip eating to go to Toys R Us?

[B]

No, that was back in the day. It's like now it's, you know, once that whole situation flew south. Start brand launch.

[D]

I remember running into him at Suncoast Video.

[A]

Yeah, I've seen him.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just looking at these pops.

[A]

Now. So you get out at 2:30, then what do you do?

[C]

This is what I'm really concerned, curious about like how he fills his empty hours.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

From. So from 2:30 to 10:30 you're up. That's eight hours. What are you doing?

[B]

By the time I get home, I'll go to the gym.

[A]

For about what gym you go to. What's the name of the gym?

[B]

Retro.

[A]

Retro Gym. And then how long is your workout?

[B]

Hour 15 hour and a half.

[A]

That's a long workout.

[C]

It really is. Yeah.

[D]

What do you listen to?

[B]

Just whatever they have on.

[C]

Do you film yourself like the tiktokers do? No. You don't film yourself lifting weights?

[B]

I know my limitations. I'm not going in there thinking I'm.

[C]

Coming out looking like freaking yoga lemons.

[A]

And so what do you. What do you. Do you have a leg day? Do you have arms?

[B]

Yeah, I don't do that.

[C]

I just.

[B]

I do full body. I do whatever. I do everything.

[C]

Like a circuit every day.

[B]

Yeah, I just don't. I'll just, you know, if I want to do something, if somebody's working on this or whatever, I'll just do another machine or I'll just go do free weights or something. I don't have a set.

[A]

You do a lot of treadmill?

[B]

No, I don't do that. I do maybe about 20 minutes afterwards. 15 room minutes. No. No steam room, no Turkish bath.

[A]

Is that how you spend an hour.

[B]

And a half in air?

[A]

It's 80 minutes of that at 90 minutes in the steam room.

[C]

Apparently.

[B]

I could just. You can watch him at night with his steam room because that's all he does is steam.

[A]

This office is a steam room.

[B]

Yeah, definitely. Maybe that's why he wakes up, you know?

[C]

Yeah. How could he not sweat in this office?

[A]

All right, so that takes us to about 4 o' clock then, right?

[B]

Okay. Jump in the shower and then head over to the woman's house.

[A]

Okay. To your gals house.

[B]

Yeah. And we make dinner. Eat dinner, watch some television.

[A]

Okay. What are the programs you guys like to watch?

[B]

The boys. I've been watching the boys again.

[A]

Can I make a suggestion of a show that is. That has been universally liked by anybody who's. Who's taken the suggestion?

[B]

What is it?

[A]

Matlock. The new Matlock.

[B]

I have not seen it.

[D]

Eight episodes yesterday. You did?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. What was I doing that?

[D]

It was after you left, you were.

[B]

You were working.

[A]

So you stayed up to about 4 o' clock in the morning watching Matlock.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Don'T worry about my day in the life.

[D]

Learn about Alfie, Edwin. Olympia.

[A]

Edwin's the best.

[D]

I like Kira. I like in her character.

[A]

Now. Is that the.

[D]

That's the tech girl?

[C]

The tech girl. The lesbian tech girl.

[A]

That's hot.

[D]

I got upset.

[C]

Yeah. Someday there's. There's some girl on girl action in Matlock.

[A]

In a Matlock show with Kathy Bates. You wouldn't think it, but it's pretty titillated.

[B]

What's it on?

[A]

What's it on? It's on Paramount if you have.

[B]

I do not have Paramount.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

You can watch.

[A]

Jimmy the Hair guy can maybe hook you up. He's hook.

[B]

What else you got? He doesn't have that hbo, Max.

[A]

He doesn't have the Devil's.

[B]

No. He doesn't have fubu?

[D]

No, he doesn't.

[A]

So, all right, so that's it, then. You guys watch TV and then what? Yeah, not every night.

[B]

I mean, speak for yourself. That don't matter. Yeah.

[A]

Remember he said he hit the gym, So I imagine he's got to get up at 4:30 lifting weights.

[B]

Bill's testosterone.

[A]

I mean, I thought. I mean, I mean, come on. Not every night. There's got to be nights. You're just like. I'm just like a little pooped. I'm a little tuckered out, baby.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I got to come into work.

[B]

Time for shut. Time for shut off. I'm coming in cold now.

[A]

If I come in. If I don't come in hot, you know, what's the rest of the. What's the rest of the workforce going.

[C]

To think of me? They depend on me.

[B]

What's going on.

[D]

Down this week? Have you been coming in hot?

[B]

You seem sick. Yeah, but it's just normal.

[A]

She's been coming in lukewarm. I want to talk to you about what's been going on after hours. And I think you need to make sure that you, whatever you're doing, you stop doing.

[C]

Have you been doing it seven nights a week?

[A]

Because we need you to come in extra.

[B]

Just do it six nights.

[D]

We don't care what you do on your day off.

[B]

What they say, seventh day rest. That's what you got to do.

[A]

So that's his day.

[C]

That's his day. So let's.

[B]

Let's hear your day.

[A]

Let's hear Brian's day.

[C]

My day. Okay, so my day today.

[A]

Well, try to pick a day that's most like your most common day, not just the day that we're actually.

[C]

I did some stuff today. That's what I want to use today.

[A]

I want to use that as your example.

[B]

What'd you do yesterday?

[A]

Let's go with the day with the activities that you most. Most engaging. I came in not an outlier of a day where you actually, when you.

[B]

Come in your house, you think you're in a nursing home. What's going on? Oh, he's in the room. All right. How you doing, pops?

[C]

So say yesterday. Yesterday would be a good example.

[A]

It was an average day.

[C]

It was an average day.

[A]

What time you usually wake up?

[C]

I get up at 6:20. Yeah, it's early 6:20. Well.

[A]

Well, what are you greeting the day that early for?

[C]

Cause I have to get up and get Sage ready and get her to the bus.

[B]

Responsibility.

[C]

However, I don't stay. I used to stay up. Now I just go back to sleep and I'm like, it's so early. I'm like, there's nothing to do. It's like fucking 6:30 in the morning. Like what am I gonna do? Like Mary Beth isn't up. The pets are all still sleeping. You know, pets are sleeping. So I'm like, fuck it, I'll go back to bed. Usually I'll sleep till like 8:30 somewhere in there. Like another couple hours, normal time. Yep. Yesterday we had a. We had to bring the pet, the cats to the vet. So that we did that. We took him in at 10 and got home by like 11ish.

[A]

Now this is not common though. You have to bring the animals to the, to the doctor, right?

[C]

No.

[A]

And this was just something that like, like, are you hoping like we should bring the pets to the doctor more often?

[C]

More. Yeah. So I can just. When I get to the table I can be like, I did something.

[B]

We're coming in hot with the pets, Mr. Johnson.

[D]

Most cats don't. Eight rabies shots a year.

[C]

When we got back then she wanted to go to breakfast, so we could do that.

[A]

Now do you usually go out for breakfast or you stay in for breakfast?

[C]

I would say, I mean usually we stay in. She'll make me breakfast, but once a week or twice a week.

[B]

What you got anything good?

[C]

Yeah, she usually, she makes me the same thing every time. Bacon and eggs and cheese on a bagel.

[A]

That's a lot of bacon though. You're like, he's having that every day.

[C]

Yeah, it is a lot of bacon. Well, you can look at me.

[A]

Introduced a fish to the diet, right?

[B]

Canadian bacon.

[A]

We do not want to talk about Canadian anything. We'd have to cut that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, you're banned now.

[A]

We're not gonna talk about it. Let's get back to Bry's breakfast. Yeah, yeah, but is that too much bacon though, and eggs or is eggs good for you?

[B]

Eggs are good. It depends how you cool. It depends how you.

[D]

But they have Omega 3.

[C]

She scrambles them.

[A]

A lot of pepper.

[C]

Some pepper Friday. Well, pepper, pepper is okay. It's salt that you got to watch out for.

[B]

So you need an egg white omelet.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Egg white omelettes. That's what you eat.

[B]

No, I mean I eat a hard boiled eggs. I don't believe it's fine. All the, all the nutrients, a lot of it's in actually the yolk.

[C]

That's really what.

[D]

You really should chew it.

[A]

And what time is usually breakfast?

[C]

Usually breakfast is around like 10ish or something like that. Yesterday it was around 11 because, you know, or 1130 because we brought the cats to the, to the vet.

[B]

Do you have that? Will you come down and breakfast. Breakfast will be served at 11. Come down with the napkin already tucked in your shirt.

[D]

She slides it under the bed.

[A]

Yeah, you could, because I don't have breakfast. I eat at between 11:30 and noon.

[B]

You just had breakfast. You just had a croissant at like 4 o' clock in the afternoon.

[A]

That was just a pick me up. Cause I knew I was podcasting, but go ahead back to Bry.

[C]

So we went to breakfast over at Turning Point. Right.

[B]

Good place. I like that place.

[C]

After that we. My car had not been vacuumed out for some time, so we went to the car wash. Vacuumed out the car, got the car washed where I got.

[A]

Now are you doing blowing your load all one day now?

[C]

Kind of, yeah.

[A]

Can't you space this out? Kind of like vacuum the car another day.

[B]

Just vacuum the front and vacuum the back.

[C]

Yeah, it was nice yesterday, like in the morning. So we were like, fuck it, let's just do it now. Where I like, because last week we were talking about like, I have to go out more and. Because that's the only way something's going to happen. It's the only way I'm going to run into somebody or, you know, like your story with the pizza guy dancing and all that shit. Like it doesn't have. Like that shit doesn't happen unless you go out. So I went out and I got into a minor tiff with a lady. Oh no, very minor.

[B]

You met somebody?

[C]

Yeah, very minor. So when you pull into the. To the car wash, there are three vacuums. One of the vacuums was being used, so I sort of straddled the line. So Marybeth could do one side and I could do the other side because there's nobody there. You know, we're almost finished and some lady pulls up and she's like, are you just going to use both vacuums? And I was like, that was the plan. And she's like, unbelievable. She goes. And I said, I still, I'm not being an asshole about it. I said, there's four more vacuums around the corner. Like, you know, like if you go around the corner, there's four more vacuums. She goes you're so self important. And speeds off. I was just left there, like, I didn't say anything. What am I gonna do?

[A]

But you had to been like, smiling from ear to ear, being like, I got a story.

[C]

Something happened.

[A]

I got a story.

[B]

Very bad. Wasn't a good story.

[C]

It was not even barely an anecdote.

[D]

This is way better than the penny.

[C]

But I'm like, if we can get to some lady yelling at me just by going out for a little bit, who knows what happens if I keep going out? Who knows what arguments I might get into?

[A]

So what time does this bring us to after the car wash?

[C]

Okay, this brings us to probably get home around 1:30. I go inside, I fold up some laundry. I'm always. It seems like I'm always folding laundry. Those women, man, they wear more fucking clothes. And Marybeth wears more clothes without going anywhere. I'm like, why the fuck do you wear.

[B]

My daughter's the same way. She comes back from, like, school, like college. I mean, I mean, I do enough laundry a week, but it's just like, I just emptied the freaking laundry. It's like full again.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Sage does the same thing. At least she's going to school and she's going it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So folded up some laundry.

[A]

Three weeks worth of socks, though. Ten socks.

[B]

No, this is. This happens within three days.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[C]

I watched a couple pod. You know, like, I watch a podcast that I normally watch while I fold the laundry. Then Sage gets home, I make her snack for her generally. And then the rest of the day I'm like, well, what do I do now? And that's where like, the TV watching comes in. And I'm like, kind of wait until a point where I can get Marybeth to sit down and watch Matlock or watch one of the other shows that we've been watching. Love After Luck Up. So there's a. I think there's a fair amount of TV watching in the average day. And it's like junk TV now. It's not even good stuff. It's just like stuff that's easy to put on in the background. Just garbage.

[B]

Don't read.

[C]

What's that? No, I read sometimes at night. Yeah, Like, I'll read a bit. She plays her video games. I don't read as much as I should. I think I probably should read more instead of watching the. Karen, you walk your dog?

[B]

I mean, or do you just let.

[C]

Them run a dog? Cause we don't have any sidewalks next to us. So we just put them out in the yard and let them run around, around.

[D]

And the street's pretty busy, so it's like streets around. Like a blind corner.

[C]

Yeah. So. But if you remove the pets and the. Oh, I did something today. Sunday. Jeff, I was thinking about you. I wanted. I tried to get a little bit of grease under my fingernails so I could impress you. I changed out Mary Beth's battery in her car. Oh, okay. Which I wasn't really. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do because like I didn't know if it was the battery was dead or if it was the alternator. And my brother gave me this little tester kit. So I put the tester kit on. Figured out it wasn't the battery or it wasn't the alternator. It was the battery. Went and got the new battery, traded it in. But batteries are expensive, man. Holy shit.

[A]

Yeah. How come the batteries are.

[B]

It depends on how many. I mean, they make cheap batteries or like two year batteries are pretty cheap.

[C]

Yeah, this one was like 200 bucks.

[B]

It could be like a five year battery then.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So that's good.

[A]

Is Everlast still the best ever last? Yeah, that's still.

[B]

It's like a boxing glove.

[C]

Oh, ever Ready you're talking about.

[B]

They don't make. They don't make car batteries. That's. That's like batteries for flashlights.

[D]

I don't think ever Ready did make car batteries.

[A]

What was the Sears one?

[C]

Die Hard.

[A]

Die Hard.

[B]

Die Hard. Still never start? No. If there's Sears around.

[C]

No, I got a Die Hard from this. The name goes on or something like that. So, yeah, Advanced Auto Parts Hard.

[A]

That's. That's a great name of a product. Die Hard.

[B]

You think so?

[A]

I think so.

[B]

So you Die Hard.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it's. It evokes tough, you know, you can't kill it.

[B]

Oh yeah, yeah. Batteries are expensive.

[A]

So.

[C]

To wrap it up.

[A]

So are you at dinner time yet?

[C]

So if I hit. So once we hit dinner time, the Marybeth generally makes dinner. Sage loves to eat, watching videos and stuff. So we don't normally eat together. Like we'll just watch TV and eat. Or Sage will watch her videos.

[B]

Cooks a lot.

[A]

You guys ever go out to eat for dinner?

[C]

Not usually dinner, no. We'll go out to lunch a lot. Like we'll go out to Chili's. Like I said, we'll go to Turning Point. Those are two places that we go to. Oh, and Texas Roadhouse we go to on Sunday sometimes.

[A]

Little. It's a mad house over there.

[C]

Yeah. That's why we try to get there early, before dinner. Church people get there anytime. Yeah. During the day. Yeah. Like it. It's okay. And then it hits a certain point and you're like, holy, I'm glad I didn't come down.

[A]

25 minute wait.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Easily you get in line and all of a sudden, like, there's 30 people behind you.

[B]

No other competition around. I mean, no outback or any other longhorn.

[A]

There's a lot of competition around us.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Just like you. You have even more competition down by you.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

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

[C]

Bedtime is usually like, I'll start like getting drowsy around 11, somewhere around there. So there's a couple hours of trying to figure out what to watch on tv, watch a movie or something. You know, just. Just hang out and like, if it's the summertime, like, we'll go out in the pool or we'll, you know, hang around outside a little bit more. But now that it's winter, it's like.

[B]

I should be dreading that. Then they go to work with the pool.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Start cleaning the shit out.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a whole different kind of.

[B]

I gotta come out of the house now.

[C]

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

[B]

You should get the same gardener, he uses.

[C]

Oh, with his backyard.

[B]

Yeah, I see, right. I thought they're going to play the US Open, you know, like they're going to play the golf tournament in the backyard. How that backyard looks? Just need some palm trees, a couple.

[A]

Patio bricks impresses you.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's not a couple patio bricks. Got furniture. I mean, it literally looks like it's on Better Home And Gordon, wait till I tell her.

[A]

She's going to be so happy that all the work she put in.

[B]

Well, I saw how you mulch, so.

[D]

Thank you very much, Jeff, because some of that stuff was put together by me.

[B]

Oh, the furniture?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, you have fire pit, right? I don't think the fire pit's ever been.

[A]

We never fire.

[D]

They have the propane thing in the center with the glass.

[B]

Yeah, you should.

[C]

It's pretty cool.

[B]

I mean, it's nice.

[A]

Like, I'd rather much spend my time inside in air conditioning.

[C]

Well, it's either. It's either too cold or when you go out, there's bugs everywhere.

[B]

In the summer, I'm saying, like in the. The fall time, you know, like when it's like, you know, drops down maybe 60s a night go around there.

[A]

Beautiful fall nights that Jersey has maybe a week of. Otherwise it's too hot.

[B]

You got to go outside to know about it. I'm not talking about. You just said you don't like the outdoors.

[A]

I don't like. I. I don't like just sitting outside doing nothing and staring at a fire pit, though.

[B]

Oh, you did not. You stay with your.

[C]

For once in a while hanging out there by yourself. By yourself or.

[A]

I like. I mean, I'd rather sit inside and by myself. Myself. I don't know why. I just like the indoors better.

[D]

He does live next to marshland as well, so I don't know.

[B]

Well, a lot of it's gone. A lot of it's gone.

[A]

It's not. It's still there.

[B]

I didn't say the summer. I'm saying the fall there shouldn't be really.

[A]

But Jersey doesn't really have a fall.

[B]

They used to.

[A]

They used to. But that. That Jersey fall only lasts a week. I feel.

[C]

Same with the spring. Yeah, it's cold and then suddenly it's.

[B]

Like, holy shit, it's getting warm pretty quick too.

[C]

Oh, we're going back to the weather.

[D]

We're straddle on that edge.

[B]

I can't talk about weather. Weather.

[A]

That's Q's.

[C]

That's Q's. That'S his purview.

[A]

Yeah, he has his name on weather. If we're going to talk weather.

[B]

So he's the weatherman.

[A]

Well, he likes to talk weather.

[C]

He likes to talk weather so much that other people are like, can you stop talking about weather?

[A]

He's put dibs on weather.

[B]

So what can you talk about? I can't talk about Canada. I can't talk about weather. I can't talk about anything.

[C]

We can do an ad. We got one ad this week and then a special request for the listeners.

[A]

I have a couple ads.

[C]

Oh, yeah?

[A]

Yeah. Go ahead, do your ad. Your real deal ad.

[C]

Okay. The real deal ad is Raycon.

[D]

Raycons.

[C]

Half of the. I don't know why this is, but half of the copy is taken up by like, look at this box. It's like covering up all the, all the text.

[D]

Can you zoom in?

[C]

Can I?

[D]

Nope.

[C]

Nope. So, okay.

[D]

Jeff loves his Raycons.

[B]

I know I do.

[C]

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[B]

I don't wear them at the gym. I don't like, because when I'm still sweating and stuff, I just don't like them just like dripping down the side of my ears.

[D]

Yeah, it's got to keep situated this up.

[B]

I don't have a lot of hair on top to sit there and absorb the sweat. So it just comes right off the head. I want to look like Bijan Borg.

[A]

Your ear canal sweat.

[B]

No, it's just like when you're sweating, like it'll go down your ears or whatever. It's just like I'll, I'll just, I'll just listen to what they have on there.

[D]

But that doesn't matter to Raycons because they're sweat proof.

[B]

I use them at night, listen to my tunes.

[C]

Yeah, you listen to your tunes at night with them?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Good.

[C]

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[B]

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[C]

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[A]

I was just like, dude. I was cath. I was like, Alicia Deb.

[B]

Scamming already.

[A]

I was like, holy, we're going to be rich.

[B]

Is there a Ted Flanagan that lives here?

[D]

A Socks Flanagan?

[B]

He's right here. Comes in with that monocle on the top.

[C]

Pat let's see. It'll take a few minutes to fill out the survey and will be an enormous help for. Tell them Steve Dave So go to. I'm going to put the link. I'll put the link on X and that will also be in the show description. It's surveymonkey.comr in all caps. TesdShow. Fill out the survey. Make sure you enter your email address for a chance to win a $150Amazon gift card. Again, click the link in the description at your email and complete the survey for a chance to win the gift card. And thank you for everything you do to support. Tell them Steve Dave that's true. It says it right there. But I do appreciate it and I would be remiss if we didn't mention Patreon. I was thinking of our Patreon today. We're like the Costco hot dog, bro. We have not raised our prices since we started. It's the same. Even with all this inflation Sunday. Jeff it's the same sweet deal if you go to patreon.com tesd I mean.

[A]

Again, it does sound like we're tooting our own horn and that is not the case. But I don't think people realize like when shipping prices go up, we eat them, right? We have eaten them and we haven't because I feel it's the right thing to do. So take that as you will. But we have not raised the prices and hopefully we won't raise the prices ever.

[D]

But.

[A]

But you know, the world is a changing.

[C]

Yeah, it's a warning.

[A]

I have some. You're done with your.

[C]

I was just gonna mention that you can also give. Give memberships gift memberships on Patreon now, too. Yeah, I wasn't aware of that.

[A]

Yeah, we have some ads for some Friends of the Family Sunday. Which ad would you like first? Who would you like to hear first about?

[B]

Who's the Friends of the Family?

[A]

We have Will Rogers and we have Tim, the record store clerk.

[B]

Listen to Tim.

[A]

Okay. You want Will to follow that. That ad.

[B]

Well, you just asked me a question. I answered the question.

[D]

Is Monty Hall.

[B]

I answered the question and the question. There is a wrong answer with the question questions. So you know what? Let's go, Rogers.

[A]

I shouldn't ask.

[B]

Let's go with Will Rogers.

[C]

We'll go.

[A]

We'll go with Tim. So it is a bit. Not even a bit. It is very sobering and very. I mean, I'm at a loss for words here. But we're. We have to announce that Tim is battling something right now. Very serious diagnosis of. That's weird. Someone just laughing.

[C]

Somebody's laughing about good stuff. Good stuff. Yeah. That wasn't in the show.

[A]

I don't know if anybody even picked up on the. It was somebody in the hallway who laughed. But he's been diagnosed with als, Right.

[C]

Lou Gehrig's disease.

[A]

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

[C]

Yeah. Is dire the word.

[B]

Oh, it's.

[A]

It's a serious.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

It's a serious.

[B]

Yeah. There's no cure for it.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. So we. TSD did a 90 minute podcast. Me Bride Q Giddam was there. Another special guest was there. And we did some old listener favorites. We played Quinny's Choice, which was a. For the second time. The first time. People loved that when we did that game. Brought back one true three after a long, long time. Yeah. We haven't played that in such a long time. And we had a bit of an overkill segment as well. A little bit of overkill. So 90 minutes. And you can find this podcast On Bandcamp. If you search tesd, Tim the record store clerk benefit pod. It's not on our page. It's on Tim's personal page.

[C]

I'll get a link from him. I'll put it up on Twitter too.

[A]

Yeah, we'll get it.

[C]

I'll get a link. Okay.

[D]

Yeah, Tim, Record store clerk should definitely.

[A]

Pull Tim Regasur clerk, tsd benefit pod. All those words. Should be able to find. It's available right now. If you go there now, it should be up there. And it's definitely up there. Definitely up there. Yes. Get them, get them. This is again, you know, we bust games balls, but, you know, we. We fast track this and get him. You know, me and him were here at 11 o' clock at night, one night editing, getting it ready. Declan did the poster or the COVID art and we just. He was like, I wanted it done yesterday.

[B]

So it sounds like you're coming in hot.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. This was. This is.

[D]

Started at 6.

[B]

Just once turn on Matlock.

[D]

But it's over 90 minutes of great entertainment.

[A]

It's really high energy. It's a fun episode. There's a lot of laughs in it. And I feel like it's.

[B]

Does he have benefits?

[A]

No.

[D]

What?

[B]

Did you ask if he had benefits? I don't know.

[A]

Oh, I think he said if he had any kids.

[B]

Oh, no, I know he doesn't have kids.

[A]

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

[C]

I agree. I think there was some really good stuff in there.

[A]

Some really high energy stuff. It's going for a great cause and a greater man, and it'll help his. With his. With all the issues.

[C]

Yeah, it'll just ease his time with this.

[A]

He'll be able to use the money generated for this podcast, he'll be able to use towards his health care. Whatever things arise with that health care that are, you know, unforeseen things.

[D]

It'll just therapy, setting up his house, distance.

[A]

Yeah, it's a.

[C]

It's not fun. No, it's not fun.

[A]

It's tough.

[C]

It happens, man. Like, we're older now, so everybody. Like, I remember my grandmother, like, my grandmother would go through the paper and see obituaries, like, see people she knew and be like, oh, I knew her. Like, it gets. It got to a point where, like, because my Grandma was, like, 98 when she died. So it got to a point where, like, everybody she knew was gone, like, except for her family, you know, but, like, all her friends and shit.

[A]

That is one of the most awful things about getting older is that. Yeah. You start now to see things and people getting sick or people getting.

[B]

People you went to school with are not there anymore. I said, that's the reality. That's when shit gets real.

[A]

That only comes usually with old age, when you start to see things really start to go, like, where you're like, wow.

[C]

For me, it's been within the past few years. I didn't really think about it, but within the past few years, I'm like. Because I think, like, a combination of, like, seeing friends and, like, seeing my parents are like, you know, Pam just turned 79. I'm like, wow. Like, they're old, you know?

[A]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are the toughest, toughest things is dealing with as you get older, other people are getting older or older than you to begin with.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Where they hit those milestones and it comes, like, you know, sudden realization.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

80.

[C]

Yeah. Well, Pam was already planning on what to do for her 80th, so she's in good spirits. I think she said she's living to 100. That's what she told me, anyway.

[A]

Good. Good for her. I mean, this is one of those things, though, that make. That makes you go, man, there's nothing promised to you. Like, there is no, like, there's no promise. You're. You're going to get there to, like, you know, to 80 or whatever. So you should take advantage.

[B]

No guarantee.

[A]

Take advantage of what is in front of you and appreciate what's there.

[D]

And you should come in hot while you can.

[A]

Come in. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Take a page out of Sunday's book. Come in hot while you can, because you're not always going to be able to come in hot, and you're going to be remembered as the guy who came in.

[B]

Sometimes you can't come at all.

[D]

If you do need to come.

[A]

This is Tim. Tim, the record store clerk.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So go to band camp right now. I mean, he's absolutely, like, one of the nicest guys that has ever come to the table.

[C]

He's like one of those gentle giant types.

[A]

Yeah. Big teddy bear.

[D]

And so many aunts say they go.

[A]

And visit him in jacks, and he's so nice.

[D]

He just stops his day just to.

[A]

Yeah. But if.

[D]

And he enjoys it as well.

[A]

And I understand, you know, at times in financial times like this you know, it's, it's tough. It's tough to find reasons to spend money on a podcast. We get it, but if you can, we would appreciate it. And Tim will appreciate it.

[C]

We tried to make it worth it.

[A]

And you'll be getting, I think, like the best of us.

[D]

I know there's one revelation that is worth the price of admission.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Oh, yeah. I would agree with that. I would agree. Yes. There's one thing said that once you hear that, you'll be like, all right, the money was well served. Spent.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. And we have another friend of the family. Will Rogers has to follow that.

[B]

I think you should have went off with the Will Rogers again.

[A]

Will Rogers has a coloring book, but maybe you need.

[B]

You need a pickup now. So let's get things.

[D]

His athlete's foot. He needs to purchase some cream. Can you purchase this?

[C]

Yeah, we. We did a benefit pod for him.

[A]

No, we're not doing it, but benefit. 90 seconds of he asked me to announce that he has this, this book that he's publishing. And it's a slasher slash comic book, slash, choose your own adventure slash coloring book. It's called Survive the Night. And here's a description of the book. So you and your friends decide to go away for a quiet vacation at a lakeside cabin. The good news is that you're all together. The bad news, you're not the only one there. As the body count rises, prepare to make decisions to commit to them in color and hope you survive. And you turn the page. This coloring adventure book throws you into the world of terror, along with masked maniacs, creepy love struck teenagers, and buried secrets from the past and much, much more. You'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror tropes. And you'll have to make tough decisions and trust your horror trope. Know how to save your you just remember, just remember, there are no guarantees you'll survive the night. He's giving away five copies.

[C]

All right.

[A]

And all you have to do to win a chance to. To get one of Will Rogers Survive the Night coloring books is at him at the Myth Traveler. The Myth Traveler. Myth Traveler. The Myth Traveler also put in TSD in there so he knows how to differentiate from people who are TSD listeners as opposed to some of the listeners that he's from his podcast and other.

[C]

Ways that he's given the code TESD.

[A]

Now you can also buy it on March 18th. It's available at Amazon, Target, Walmart, Walmart and Barnes and Noble big time. So Is it going to be available at all the major outlets where you.

[C]

Where you buy books, physical copies on shelves at Barnes and Noble.

[B]

Barnes and Nobles, to sell your stuff.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And he's got a kick ass cover.

[B]

That's pretty cool.

[A]

Yeah. So good for Will and, you know.

[C]

Tough act to follow. Yeah. I remember Kevin years ago when he had just hit it big with Clerks and everything, and we went up to Henry Hudson and he did. He was going to give away like a $10,000 scholarship to somebody and, you know, he was going to go up and announce it and all this other stuff, but the person who went before him was a girl who had lost her brother, best friend in a motorcycle accident and, like, brought the entire gymnasium, like, everybody to tears with, like, her story. Her story about her brother and how much, you know, he meant to her and how sad she was that he was dead now and all this other stuff. And I remember Kevin being like, oh, my God, I have to fucking follow that. It wasn't easy. I don't think he wasn't on that top form that day. I think he was just like, what do I say now? All the shit I was gonna say, I can't say anymore.

[B]

On a lighter note.

[C]

Yeah. On a lighter note. Yeah.

[D]

Before we continue, a small dog was killed out in the parking lot. Run over riot car.

[B]

Hard to come back.

[C]

Hey.

[A]

Yeah, it brings to, you know, it's. But again, we're wishing him all the best. And he, he was, you know, this is. This is the kind of character that Tim has. He found out what had been ailing him finally. And he was like, let's fast track kiss. Let's fast track the podcast so I could be on it and finish the podcast. So, like, that's. That blew my mind. It just melted me when he was like, no, I want to finish Kiss and I want to make sure we do it now so I can finish it. And we fast tracked and did him and like, and over the course of a couple days, we finished the KISS pod and.

[C]

Thanks, Tim.

[A]

Oh, yeah, Will Rogers has a coloring book.

[C]

Yeah. Don't forget to mention the coloring book, guys.

[B]

You did mention the coloring book, right? Yeah.

[A]

And again, it's. It shouldn't, but it does man it for me anyway. Like, it makes you put things in.

[B]

Such perspective when you hear I know about you. Yeah.

[A]

And it really makes you go like, oh, my God. All the, like the little shit that's been bothering me and everything. I was like, I feel like a piece of dog crap. When you put into perspective.

[B]

It's meaningless what other people are dealing with. It's like life is.

[C]

That's what life is. You cannot put things into perspective otherwise you'll feel like garbage all the time.

[A]

But it's true though. Like when you realize what other people are going through and you allow little.

[B]

Be how fortunate, you know, really hammers home like.

[A]

Yes. How there are different tiers of dealing of things you have to deal with. Yeah. Tell him, Steve.

[D]

Dave.

[C]

I don't know. I mean, if you want to. Yeah, that's a weird note to go out on. Yeah, I was actually, I was going to talk about Gene Hackman, but that doesn't seem to be there been new news about that.

[B]

That whole situation is weird too. Yeah, well, all those people die and there's like no.

[A]

Oh, you heard about this?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. And you mentioned earlier in the episode you don't listen to news.

[B]

I don't, but other people I. I'm with does listen to the news.

[A]

Oh, and they. Well, they gave you the 91 1.

[B]

Yeah, she got 41 1. Yeah. Wake up. It's like, oh, Gene Hackman died. And then I found out later, it's like all the other stuff that, you know, the dog died.

[A]

Now, is it unusual for a man and is 95 years old?

[B]

No, but it's just like, you know, for all those people to die at the same, you know, this everybody in the house. Yeah, it's just, it's. It's weird, you know, I mean, they ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning, right? I mean, I would imagine you would have some kind of alarm, I mean, or something that that would inform you that something was going off, you know. But it's just new updates.

[C]

Well, this is the newest update that I just read today. Toxicology Sunday. Jeff, do you think that you can die from a broken heart?

[B]

Yes, I believe pets can do that. I don't know about people, but I believe. I definitely believe pets can do it.

[C]

This was a chief medical examiner, James Gill, who was not involved in the investigation, was theorized about what could have happened. He said that the two natural deaths around the same time have been known to happen due to a broken heart type thing. Suddenly finding your loved one dead on the floor, that can increase your adrenaline, that stimulates your heart to beat faster, and that can put your heart into an irregular rhythm.

[B]

So it's more like shock.

[C]

Yes. He also noted that people can get very despondent and may even take rash decisions regarding their own safety after such a traumatic incident.

[B]

What about the dog, though?

[C]

Yeah, well, the dog Was locked up in the. Was locked in a cage.

[B]

Well, they didn't say he starved to death, right?

[A]

You can't go long without water.

[B]

Yeah, I thought he was in a closet, so maybe he was in a.

[D]

He was in a closet. In a. In a crate, apparently so. I don't know. Maybe it's a large like walk in closet because I used to keep every once in a while.

[B]

Well, that would make sense. And obviously the dog didn't have food or water for how many days? It wasn't like 14 days or something until they finally found him.

[D]

His pacemaker said it stopped on February 17th. That's what the pacemaker reported.

[B]

But she was in like in a totally different area of the house.

[D]

Wasn't she in the bathroom? He was in the mud room.

[C]

According to him, broken heart syndrome, also called stress induced cardiomyopathy, typically occurs after a physically or emotionally traumatic event, including the loss of a loved one.

[B]

So it sounds like it's like almost like a self induced heart attack.

[C]

Yeah. It says in these instances, adrenaline and other stress hormones such as epinephrine flood the system and can increase the heart rate and blood pressure, leading to symptoms that mimic a heart attack. He said that he may have collapsed. He said that he may have collapsed since he's got a history of heart disease and that she found him and that's where the stress, you know, hit her.

[B]

But they would know that. I mean, I'm sure they would know that if they did a watopsy on her, right. If she had that kind of issue.

[D]

It takes about, you know, one to three months usually for those. All the results to come back back officially, all the toxicology reports fast track it.

[C]

Yeah, it says although a minuscule gas leak was found on one of the stove burners, they showed no signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. This is a real mystery, man.

[D]

Well, if it was a leak in.

[B]

The stove, weren't the other dogs outside, like, running around for the warrant?

[D]

The warrant said that one dog was found inside. The warrant for the police officers arrived on the scene. One dog was found outside and one dog was found inside next to the body. Body?

[C]

The dog was alive next to the body?

[D]

Yes.

[A]

How the dog survived that long?

[D]

Yeah, well, probably there's water, like if they had a pool or something. Dogs drink from the toilet, chlorinate water.

[A]

Dogs couldn't drink from the toilet.

[D]

Well, these, I believe were German shepherds.

[C]

So yeah, I read somewhere for sure that they were. That they were at doggy daycare in.

[D]

I read the warrant that the issue so that they could search. Officially search the house.

[B]

Like, no gardener, no wellness check. Nobody ever was calling.

[D]

That was.

[A]

Who discovered.

[D]

Discovered the scene.

[B]

I'm sure somebody. I mean, it's not like just because he's that age or whatever. And I'm sure they have contact with people that they would probably contact every other day or every day. And then all of a sudden you're not. You're not answering your phone. You're like, something's going on over there. To send the police.

[D]

Flanagan would have checked on him, but.

[C]

I think they said they had. There were long stretches where they would not contact people. Or they were like, very, like, sort of insular. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

I'm just going based on the warrant I read. And that's what the.

[C]

Right. Well, I believe. I believe the warrant. Then over the post.

[B]

Crazy.

[A]

I saw a story on Twitter that made me think of our workplace a little bit more light hearted than Gene Hackman. But there was this stewardess who got fired.

[C]

I saw this for twerking.

[A]

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

[D]

Wearing the uniform.

[A]

Wearing the uniform.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Oh, that's why.

[A]

But I found that absolutely crazy, though, that the airline didn't just issue her a warning and ask her to take down the video.

[C]

Because if it were like, say it were to, like, somebody doing, like, ballet or something. Something. Or a different style dance that isn't so sexually charged as twerking, I think they probably would have let it go. Right? It wouldn't have been a big deal.

[A]

Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think they would have. I. I don't know how you could be that cold to be like, you're. You're fired in the state of the world. And also in the state of like, you don't know if she's gonna go to the media, which she did.

[C]

Right now.

[A]

It's causing you way more bad publicity than.

[C]

I heard an interview with her. She loved that job. She really loved that job.

[B]

I think it's not something you really should be doing anyways.

[C]

You shouldn't be doing it. But like Walt said, like, you get a warning.

[A]

A warning and take down the video. Keep your job.

[D]

But has she had other warnings? Like, what do her performance reviews look like?

[A]

I'll tell you what the Only reason I bring it to the table is because she mentioned something that really touched my heart. She said she likes to twerk when she accomplishes something. And I think that maybe that's what you should do is when you accomplish something here at the general store.

[D]

No, come up to me.

[A]

I'll videotape you on my phone, and we'll post it of you twerking. I mean, you'll be in traction afterwards.

[C]

Throw his back out. Yeah.

[B]

You have a defibrillator right next to him.

[A]

But, like, that's in the general store is pro twerking.

[B]

But no TSD merchandise. You can't be wearing anything. This is TSD on you.

[A]

But, you know. Well, like, let's say, what's something you accomplished today? I mean, you opened the door for these guys here, right?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You could twerk over that and be like, we could post it. I got to the door, it took 10 minutes, but I opened the door for these guys so they could pot today.

[C]

Yeah, it did take a while for you to get to the door. I was like, what is this guy doing?

[B]

Because you woke him up.

[C]

It's long enough that I'm like, he must not be in there.

[A]

And how come twerking is associated solely with females, though?

[C]

I think it looks weird when guys do it right. Shaking their ass like that.

[A]

But I argue that from the opposite side of the twerk, though, guys probably have more going on to look at at than gals do. Like, if you're looking at the front side of a twerk, there's a lot more that's going to catch your eye.

[B]

Yeah, but you're. You're wearing jeans. I don't think you really see a lot of stuff.

[A]

Oh, I thought they were wearing, like, a banana hammock or something.

[B]

No, she was probably just like, I didn't see the video, so.

[A]

No, no. She was wearing a stewardess outfit.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Why do. Why is twerking associate? Like, when you hear the word twerking, you think of a girl doing it, right?

[C]

Sure. You hope a girl's doing it.

[A]

Like, if guys were to twerk them, though, they have much more. Like, the front is just as interesting as the back. If it's bouncing all over the place.

[C]

Yeah, but when they're.

[D]

There's differences in the hips between the male females.

[A]

There's way more to like.

[B]

It's like, that's just sloppy ball plate there.

[C]

It's just. It's not.

[B]

It's not nice looking. I didn't say, well, maybe for women. Maybe. I don't even know if women would want to see that helicopter shit.

[A]

Much more like.

[B]

Nobody wants to see that, man.

[A]

But it's much more like captivating, I would think. Like, wow. There's like, there's so much going on right now. You got the front and the back. With women usually just the back, though.

[C]

It's usually just the back. Yeah. I think women have stuff up front.

[A]

Too, but it does. He can move around. Like the guy stuff.

[C]

If you. If you are wearing like loose sweats or the banana hammock like you say. But if you're in just jeans, like, the way the twerking works is like they're so crouched down, you probably couldn't see anyway. Right, right.

[A]

For the gals or the guys?

[C]

The guys.

[A]

Well, I would think there's some guys that you'd see quite a bit.

[C]

Maybe. Yeah.

[A]

Maybe if they have the right pair of clothes on or no clothes.

[C]

Twerking with no clothes. Yeah, this is what I'm saying. Like if they're wearing jeans and a shirt, like, you know, like, yeah.

[A]

If guys.

[D]

Some cut off jean shorts.

[C]

Maybe go try that tonight and see what that pockets. Put your clothes back on.

[A]

If guys do it clothed. Yes. It's. It's a bit. It's not as it leaves more to the imagination. But if they're not enclosed, though, there's like, what do I watch first?

[D]

Wait, wait.

[A]

You know, like too much going on.

[D]

Do I have to go out there and break up a thong before I do the twerking?

[A]

No, no, no, no. I want to be able to post it and. And not without a rating.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Without a rating.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But that's why we become known as pro twerking establishment. Not like this airlines.

[D]

A twerk friendly environment.

[C]

Yeah. What was it? Alaska Airlines, I think. Right. Yeah.

[A]

A little harsh though, I thought to not just let her take the video down and like, no more.

[C]

I agree. I was listening to. I was listening to something on the way here and I heard that story and I thought the exact same thing. Like, why not just give her a warning and be like, you got to take the video down. It's not like she did it.

[B]

Like, you might have that kind of rule, though. Like that no tolerance for that kind of power. You know, it's like, let's say you.

[A]

Have an extremely productive day at work. You're not going to twerk. A little twerk action, celebrate your accomplishments.

[B]

I would think people. He's not well. I think there's. He needs to. He needs time off. He's up there. And now. Now he's doing it from the front. And now he's standing on the couch.

[D]

Like, whoa, he came in hot. You got the alarm undone in the first try. No one else is in the dealership, and you just let it go.

[B]

It's not that kind of place.

[D]

And then we get these security cam footage. Jeff out on the sales floor.

[A]

Or imagine that back in the day when you found a hot toy in the aisle, you just twerked when you.

[C]

Found one, recorded yourself, done that.

[B]

I actually might have done that.

[A]

You would have been a twerking machine.

[D]

For a couple of those. Pod racing helmet.

[B]

He found a variant. I don't know what he's doing over there with that dance.

[A]

12 inch Dubai.

[D]

Ow.

[B]

My back toy. So heavy.

[A]

Tell him, Steve. Dave.