#667: Evil Plus One

Summary

Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave! #667: Evil Plus One

Date: March 2, 2026
Hosts: Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan, Brian “Q” Quinn, Frank “Frank Five” Santoro
Special Guest Appearance: Pam Johnson (Bryan’s Mom)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave! blends the show’s trademark irreverent humor with heartfelt moments, discussions of pop culture oddities, and tales from the hosts’ personal lives. The group dives into birthday celebrations, plans for future trips, reflections on aging, classic TV ephemera, the grind of comedy events, and the joy (and misadventure) of late-night road trips. Packed with quick-witted back-and-forths, plenty of friendly ribbing, and a nostalgia-driven tour through lost media, the episode spotlights why TSD remains a fan favorite among podcast listeners who appreciate both depth and ridiculousness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Birthday Call & Reflections on Aging

[02:01-05:20]

• The crew calls Pam Johnson (Bryan’s mom) for her 80th birthday.
  • Light-hearted banter about how to celebrate milestones and growing older.
  • Pam imparts classic wisdom: “Always only admit to being 29.” — Pam Johnson [03:56]
  • Pam is flexing high-roller status with a Michelin-star brunch in Palm Springs.
  • The guys joke about one-upping Pam’s “other son” who’s flying her first class, with Walt saying: “You gotta one up him when she gets back.” [06:08]
• Discussion about celebratory expectations:
  • Q marvels: “Wow, that’s a major buck. Did he fly her out?” [05:48]
  • Walt: “He flew her out first class.” [05:51]
  • Bryan: “He’s one-upping big, the big bro.” [05:55]

Summer Plans & Universal Studios “Monster Island”

[06:26-08:55]

• Frank Five joins to discuss plans for the annual Flanagan–Frank Five family summer trip.
  • The destination: Universal Studios’ “Epic Universe” and the Monster Island attraction.
  • Their wives are less thrilled — “They don’t do any of the rides…they don’t have any reference for the monsters.” [07:05]
  • Bryan jokes that Mary will be “weighed down like a pack mule going across the desert” with all the souvenirs. [07:38]
  • Q gives a roller coaster warning: “If they get nauseous, don’t even think about going on that werewolf ride…it spins.” [07:50]
• Travel logistics:
  • Overnight auto-train from Virginia to Florida, sleeper cars, shower onboard—mix of “roughing it” and glamping.
  • Frank describes driving to Key West from Orlando, noting, “There’s no way you can keep up the conversation when you’re driving. So what do you do with Mary?” [09:51]
  • Walt confesses: “We drive home together. Silence. If I don’t put on the radio or something, there’s silence.” [10:25]

Road Trip Talk, TSD-Style

[10:35-12:16]

• Comparing friend groups versus married couples for road trip conversation quality.
  • Bryan: “With us TSD guys, it’s all up the scenarios of whose dicks you’re gonna suck, why you’re gonna have to suck it, and how gay you are for doing it.” [10:41, also callback from the cold open]
  • Brian Q: “I guess married men just don’t want to do that…” [10:56]
  • The guys reminisce about bizarre ‘what if’ road trip discussions of the past, including superhero adventures, historically problematic hypotheticals, and recurring bits.

Q’s New Jersey Comedy Roast Anxiety

[12:29-18:38]

• Quinn is prepping for a roast at a high-profile New Jersey event (possibly not for charity!).
  • Q laments he couldn’t get the TSD guys in the audience, though he included jokes for them.
  • He debates roast strategy — “Do I play the bashful good guy or the stone face killer?” [17:00]
    • Walt: “You’re too lovable as a Joker to come in like the killer.” [17:48]
  • They highlight a risky joke: “I go like: Bar A… Bar AIDS. And I turn to Tiki Barber and go: That spells AIDS, Tiki.” — Q, [14:48]
  • The group ponders the dark art of roast comedy—how far can you go, especially in 2026?

Stand-Up Mishaps: Stuttering John’s Cringeworthy Set

[19:32-24:27]

• Walt braves the NYC commute for a night of Stuttering John Melendez’s stand-up—a “shit show like I’ve never seen before.”
  • John is “heckled off stage” after reading Anthony Cumia’s rap sheet instead of telling jokes.
  • Walt explains the ‘LOLcow’ concept: “A person whose eccentric or foolish behavior can be exploited to amuse onlookers.” [22:19]
  • Recall of TSD-related ‘LOLcow’ moments—Ming as the show’s possible first “LOLcow.”
  • Walt swears: “Never again will I go to New York. It took me two and a half hours to get there.” [23:42]
  • Everyone laughs at Walt’s misadventure—both at the traffic itself and the anticlimax of the show.

Old Men on the Road: Night Driving Woes

[25:38-27:08]

• Walt confesses: “I don’t think I can drive at night for the most part anymore. I couldn’t see shit, dude.”
  • The group shares tips about “blue blocker” glasses for night driving.
  • Light banter about aging and marital driving dynamics: “Why don’t you have your 20-something-year-old wife drive? She can see in the dark.” — Bryan [26:41]
  • Walt: “I’m the man. There you go. See, don’t forget who the man is.” [26:46]

The Haunted Hamburger House Excursion

[27:33-29:47]

• Frank and Bryan recount an excursion to a haunted hamburger-themed restaurant on Long Island.
  • Slow traffic, existential second-guessing, and risking it all for a Stranger Things burger night.
  • Bryan: “It needs an investor to dress it up a bit…a bit more budget, they could do something cool.” [29:00]
  • Highlight: A van with a loudspeaker and TV playing religious music—the guys are convinced Bryan’s “satanic” comic project is being divinely interrupted. [30:37-31:06]
  • Bryan: “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, God’s talking to me. He wants me to stop doing this comic book because it’s too satanic for my soul.’” [31:03]
  • Frank wants to call the cops on the van for distracting drivers; hijinks ensue.

Lost TV, Plex, and the Pursuit of Obscure Media

[41:17-49:48]

• Bryan discusses his Plex crusade—friending strangers to gain access to obscure TV and variety shows from decades past.
  • Bryan: “I want somebody with the biggest Plex library to friend me, that has everything from when TV began to now.” [44:07]
  • The ethics of “stealing” old or lost TV: “It’s a victimless crime. We’re talking about shows from the 80s…unavailable other places.” [45:21]
  • Lost episodes of "Run, Joe, Run"; the allure of “Pink Lady and Jeff”; and why Bryan relishes “so bad it’s great” TV.
  • Dialogue on media preservation: “Does anybody give a fuck enough to hold on to it all?” — Q [47:27]
  • The strange afterlife of media: “There’s only four episodes of Run, Joe Run to be in known existence…” — Bryan [46:01]

Reflections: Robin Williams and Celebrity Nostalgia

[51:06-56:13]

• Extended chat about Robin Williams’ TV and movie legacy.
  • Bryan describes an episode of “Mork and Mindy” where Robin Williams befriends Robbie the Robot, and the robot’s on-screen “death” devastates Mork—a surprisingly heavy storyline. [51:06]
  • Coco the gorilla and Robin Williams’ real-life connection: “He came to see Coco on Coco’s deathbed and when he saw Robin for the first time in a long time, he signed ‘friend.’” — Bryan [54:00]
  • The group reminisces about favorite Robin Williams dramatic roles and comedy, the nature of public perception, and acquaintances with other late comedians like Gilbert Gottfried.

Final Comic Cruise & Friendship Dynamics

[55:24-58:00]

• War stories from having Gilbert Gottfried on the Impractical Jokers cruise.
  • Q: “The first thing he did when he got on the boat…‘Can I do one set, half an hour?’…Just wanted to do as little as possible.” [56:12]
  • Gottfried’s legendary thriftiness and penchant for crashing craft services across Manhattan.
• The bonds of true friendship:
  • “Would any of your buddies do your laundry, your specifically your underwear?” — Bryan [58:05]
  • Walt: “I would do it for you too.” [58:12]
  • Q, out the door for the theater, closes: “I gotta be at the theater three minutes ago.” [58:25]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Turning 80:
  Pam Johnson: “Always only admit to being 29.” [03:56]

• On the awkwardness of marital road trips:
  Walt: “We drive from the studio home together. Silence. If I don’t put on the radio or something, there’s silence.” [10:25]

• On TSD’s classic road trip banter:
  Bryan Johnson: “It’s all up the scenarios of whose dicks you’re gonna suck, why you’re gonna have to suck it, and how gay you are for doing it.” [10:41]
  Brian Quinn: “I guess married men just don’t want to do that…” [10:56]

• Comedy Roast Anxiety:
  Brian Quinn: “Do I play the bashful good guy or the stone face killer?” [17:00]
  Walt: “You’re too lovable as a Joker to come in like the killer.” [17:48]

• Stuttering John LOLcow drama:
  Walt: “All he did was sit on stage…read Anthony Kumia’s rap sheet…He was heckled off stage.” [21:02–21:56]

• On lost media and nostalgia:
  Bryan (on Pink Lady and Jeff): “It’s so bad, it’s great. I cannot stop watching it. I’d rather watch that than something critically acclaimed.” [49:17]

• Reflection on friendship:
  Walt: “That’s the kind of buddy. I don’t think Carl would pick up my underwear.” [58:01]
  Bryan: “Would any of your buddies do your laundry, specifically your underwear?” [58:05]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pam Johnson Birthday Call: [02:01–05:20]
• Universal Studios/Monster Island Summer Plan: [06:26–08:55]
• Marriage vs. Road Trip Banter: [09:51–12:16]
• Q’s Comedy Roast Prep: [12:29–18:38]
• Walt’s New York Stand-up Adventure: [19:32–24:27]
• Night Driving/Senior Moments: [25:38–27:08]
• Haunted Hamburger House Saga: [27:33–29:47], [30:37–31:06]
• Bryan’s Plex/TV Nostalgia Crusade: [41:17–49:48]
• Robin Williams & Childhood Comedy: [51:06–56:13]
• Gilbert Gottfried on Joker’s Cruise: [55:24–56:13]
• Bonds of Friendship, Laundry Edition: [58:00–58:28]

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Tone & Style

• Witty, brash, and occasionally sentimental.
• Relentless ribbing and in-jokes among the hosts.
• Heartfelt nostalgia contrasted with raunchy humor.
• Honest, uncensored reflections on aging, friendship, and the value of finding the right media (or burger).

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This episode captures everything that keeps TSD loyalists coming back—raunch, sincerity, pop culture obsession, and the occasionally earnest meditation on what it means to grow older beside your best friends.

Transcript

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, you went all the way to New York for this?

[Walt Flanagan]

Let me tell you something. Never again. Never again will I go to New York.

[Bryan Johnson]

You have buddies.

[Walt Flanagan]

I do. I have five podcast buddies. Buddies? Yeah. What's wrong with that?

[Bryan Johnson]

Us, the TSD guys. Well, yeah, because it's all up the scenarios of like, whose dicks you're going to suck, how you. Why you're going to have to suck

[Brian Quinn]

it, and how gay you are for sucking it.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know if that works between married.

[Frank Santoro]

Steve Dave.

[Walt Flanagan]

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell Them Steve Dave. Man, we got some heavy hitters here today. We got pq.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Got Walt Flanagan. And we got Frank Five.

[Brian Quinn]

Hello.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, get him today. Get him. Did not put a mic out for himself. He said that. Stepping back a little bit.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, again, a little bit. All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Steps back anymore, he's gonna go right off the edge.

[Walt Flanagan]

How's Guinovin doing? Well, you haven't been around to really observe him.

[Bryan Johnson]

I haven't been around.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So we're gonna assume he's doing great.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's how well, we'll just make that assumption. Exactly. Why not?

[Brian Quinn]

Sure.

[Bryan Johnson]

Good enough to go to the buffet.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he is good enough to go to the buffet. You're right.

[Frank Santoro]

Five plates worth.

[Walt Flanagan]

I gotta call somebody very quickly. This may or may not work. We're calling Pam Johnson for her eighth birthday.

[Pam Johnson]

Hello, my fine young son.

[Walt Flanagan]

Happy birthday.

[Pam Johnson]

Thank you.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm here with bq.

[Brian Quinn]

Happy birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

Here with Frank Five.

[Frank Santoro]

Happy birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

And Walt Flanagan.

[Bryan Johnson]

Happy birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

And get him too.

[Bryan Johnson]

Happy birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, we're taking up precious minutes of the podcast to wish you a happy birthday.

[Pam Johnson]

Oh, that's sweet. I love it.

[Walt Flanagan]

What are you doing? Anything fun?

[Pam Johnson]

Yeah, we're going to a Michelin Star restaurant for a brunching right now.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, well, well.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is what happens when you have a shrink son. That's all rich and.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah,

[Frank Santoro]

she don't want.

[Walt Flanagan]

She don't want to hang out in New Jersey and spend time with the rest of her family.

[Brian Quinn]

You take her to Chili's?

[Pam Johnson]

He brought us to Palm Springs.

[Walt Flanagan]

She got to get her baby back. Baby back. Going to Palm Springs, huh? Yeah.

[Pam Johnson]

It's nice here. And it doesn't have any snow.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. Nice.

[Pam Johnson]

Yep. Sorry that you guys have snow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's okay. We weathered it. We're all right.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Well, there is more coming.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's what I heard.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Pam Johnson]

But the day we get back, it's going to be 56, so that'll be nice.

[Walt Flanagan]

Here's the thing about, like, I don't know about you, Walt, but, like, older people I found are constantly checking other people's weather. Edgar is constantly telling me what, like, miner's weather is or like, she'll ask Mary Beth what her father's weather is. Places he's not gonna go.

[Pam Johnson]

That's funny.

[Brian Quinn]

Any wisdom? Any. Any wisdom from the, from the mountain?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Do you have any wisdom for us before we go?

[Pam Johnson]

Where are you going?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, we're gonna get off the phone. We can't spend the whole time with you.

[Pam Johnson]

Oh, okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what kind of wisdom can you impart before we say hello? Before we say goodbye?

[Pam Johnson]

Always only admit to being 29.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, that's a lie, right?

[Pam Johnson]

This is my, this is my 51st 29th birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

I thought you meant you were born in 1929.

[Pam Johnson]

Nope. 1946.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. 80 years old. Well, wow, that's something, huh?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Still going to Michelin.

[Walt Flanagan]

Where are you going to Michelin. Five star restaurants. Yeah.

[Pam Johnson]

Yep.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's like the bar.

[Bryan Johnson]

Do you have. You can order anything off the menu or is.

[Walt Flanagan]

Can you order anything off the menu or is Eric limiting you to certain selections?

[Pam Johnson]

Eric's yelling at me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Get the lobster.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, take him for everything he has.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Son of a.

[Bryan Johnson]

Take lobster to go, too.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, get a couple lobsters.

[Bryan Johnson]

Put them in filet mignon.

[Walt Flanagan]

Put them in your. All right, we'll talk to you later. We're gonna go. Okay.

[Pam Johnson]

Okay. You have a good time with your podcast.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yep. Have a good birthday.

[Pam Johnson]

Tell hello to everybody on the podcast.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. You're on speaker, so you just.

[Pam Johnson]

Yeah, I meant your audience, too.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, okay. Well, you're online. You're a natural, everybody. Yeah. All right, we'll talk to you later.

[Pam Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, Bye. Bye.

[Pam Johnson]

Bye.

[Walt Flanagan]

Bye. Hang up on her. She's one of those people like, bye, I love you. See you later.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, that was nice for her to come on. Thank you. Happy birthday.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. There you go, Pam80.

[Bryan Johnson]

We can only pray we get there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

And we're going out when on our 80th, to a filet. What's it called?

[Walt Flanagan]

A Michelin five star restaurant. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow, that's, that's a major buck. Did he fly her out?

[Walt Flanagan]

He flew her out first class.

[Brian Quinn]

First class.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yep.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's one up in big. The big bro.

[Walt Flanagan]

I, I, I couldn't believe it. First when she was like, yeah, we're going out there for my birthday, I was like, oh, okay. So you got all your family's here. You got one person there.

[Bryan Johnson]

You got to one up him when she gets back.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I'm gonna have her.

[Bryan Johnson]

Have a new car waiting for her.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's it. With a big bow on.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, There you go.

[Brian Quinn]

Just gotta use Kia. She won't.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's what I want to give an 80 in a car driving as it is.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, that's funny.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what do we got going on this week, boys? We got. Let's see. Frank, are you here?

[Frank Santoro]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

What are you here for?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, what brings you here?

[Frank Santoro]

We're going to do the Sunday Jeff thing on the Patreon. I'm a contestant on that.

[Bryan Johnson]

And we had to get together. The Frank Fives and the Flanagans, where we had to plan our annual summer trip.

[Frank Santoro]

Yes.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, right.

[Bryan Johnson]

And so we got our heads together last night, went out to dinner, and we decided we're going to Universal Studios to see the Monster Island.

[Brian Quinn]

Whoa. Yeah. Epic universe.

[Bryan Johnson]

But the ladies are not too excited about this prospect.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'd give them the finger and be like, I went on your chocolate walk.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I don't want to hear shit.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, they don't do any of the rides. They don't have any reference for the monsters.

[Frank Santoro]

So it's money well spent.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's a ton of money, too. To get into the park and stay, it's going to be a lot. But I promise them that once they get there, they'll have monster fever and they'll forget that they don't like rides and that they get vertigo.

[Frank Santoro]

The only consolation is that by Mary, not going on anything, we have somebody that we could just leave everything with. Here's all the stuff.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah. I'm gonna buy so many souvenirs. Just.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Frank Santoro]

Weigh her down like a pack mule going across the desert.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, it's really hot. I need some water.

[Frank Santoro]

She doesn't have the wallet.

[Brian Quinn]

I would say if they. If they. If they do get nauseous, don't even think about going on that werewolf ride.

[Bryan Johnson]

Really? Is it a roller coaster?

[Brian Quinn]

It's a roller coaster that spins.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, I'm not doing it.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I like that. It's. Yeah, in theory, it sounds fun.

[Bryan Johnson]

I. I don't do any real roller coasters, but I'll do all the virtual rides.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. What's up? Do you. Do you know about when you're going? In case anybody wants to email to the SD Town General store with some backstage passes. We're going in the summertime. We're going in July.

[Frank Santoro]

I don't know. Mary knows July.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's July.

[Frank Santoro]

It's July sometime.

[Walt Flanagan]

Get those exact dates. You never know. Frank, you might save a couple bucks.

[Frank Santoro]

That's it. Beginning of July.

[Brian Quinn]

It's Universal Studios. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, it's epic. It's epic. Universe. Not Universal. Universal Studios. Separate parks. Okay. So.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, we'll figure it out. Don't worry. I could smell a monster.

[Frank Santoro]

Okay?

[Bryan Johnson]

Once I get into Florida, I'll fucking

[Frank Santoro]

lead us there like a bloodhound.

[Bryan Johnson]

We're taking the train down. We're gonna. An overnight train.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, nice.

[Walt Flanagan]

I remember your last train trip. You were not happy with it.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, but we've got sleeping compartments.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

We got a shower.

[Walt Flanagan]

A shower?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. We're gonna rough it all. We're gonna. Like. We're traveling across the country like in the 1800s.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah. With a sleeper car that takes our car down there because, you know, it's an auto train. So we'll get in Virginia, they'll board the train, then they take the car, and then we end up in Orlando the next day.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, nice.

[Frank Santoro]

And then we just drive all the way back. We're doing the same thing for Gidham's. Got this up here for Q West. Mary and I are going to that, and we're doing the same thing. We're taking.

[Bryan Johnson]

They'll be at Q, man.

[Brian Quinn]

That's cool.

[Bryan Johnson]

Did you know Frank was a. I didn't know. I didn't know either. It breaks my mind.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're excited about it. I'm taking a week off from work.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, we're gonna have a blast, bud. That's cool, man. Yeah, I'm excited. Thank you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. That's some drive, though. From Go. You drive to Orlando, or you take the train to Orlando and then drive from Orlando to Key West.

[Frank Santoro]

We're driving from central New York to Virginia, board the train in Virginia, and then Virginia gets off at Orlando. Sanford. And then we're driving from Orlando Sanford to the Key West.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow. There's no way you can keep up the conversation when you're driving. So what do you do with Mary?

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah, it's just silence. She usually falls asleep. And then I just drive and I'll listen to, like, the Sopranos or something through the car.

[Bryan Johnson]

And why do you make that assumption, though, even though it was accurate? Why do you make the assumption that there's no way that they can have a conversation for that long?

[Walt Flanagan]

They've been married how long? Yeah.

[Frank Santoro]

And he knows us.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I would just. I don't even think I could do it. No, I couldn't do it either.

[Bryan Johnson]

You couldn't do it? Your marriage is so fresh and new.

[Walt Flanagan]

We drive from the store, from the studio, home together. Silence. If I don't put on the radio or something, there's silence.

[Brian Quinn]

I remember us, the three of us driving cross country and not having any problems.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no problems at all. Chatting away.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, us, the TSD guys. Yeah, well, yeah, because it's all up the scenarios of like, whose dicks you're gonna suck, why you're gonna have to

[Brian Quinn]

suck it, and how gay you are for sucking it.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know if that works between married men.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, the wife's just don't want to do that.

[Bryan Johnson]

I guess every what if bizarre scenario on the planet that somehow ends with a dick in your mouth. One of my favorites was that was the early 2000s.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know if they would be the same topics in 2026.

[Brian Quinn]

As long as there wasn't a microphone in the car.

[Walt Flanagan]

One of my favorites was when we were like a, we were a superhero team and you guys were always going out on adventures to do all the computer work.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't want to get into it.

[Brian Quinn]

There was a baby Hitler involved or something.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, but the reason was because your girlfriend was on the trip and she didn't want you going out and saving the world because you'd be gone from home for too long. So you just had to stay on her side because she was too insecure to have you leave and go on adventures.

[Walt Flanagan]

And there was something, I remember, there's something about like a robot girl who like, I couldn't get to like, do what I wanted to do, so I put her in a garbage can. You guys came home and she was in a garbage can upside down.

[Brian Quinn]

And we were trying to solve the conundrum of what to do with Hitler's and we didn't want to kill a baby. So we decided to kidnap the baby from the Time Stream and raise him in our secret fortress.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Quinn]

And you were stuck home raising.

[Walt Flanagan]

Always homebound. Who knew that years later that would just be the way it was? I would have no problem staying home all the time. Oh, boy. Yeah, I went to. Oh, I heard you're going. You have your roast tonight.

[Brian Quinn]

Q roast in New Jersey?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

I thought you guys were coming. I, I, I'm sorry you guys won't be there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, well, I tried to make some connections. It didn't happen.

[Brian Quinn]

But I had a guess. I had you guys on the guest.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I didn't know.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I, I too feel bad because we had plan. We had a big Patreon show tonight. With a lot of guests, so obviously, I had no idea that this was even happening.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, we talked about it.

[Frank Santoro]

It's fine.

[Brian Quinn]

It's not a big deal. But I am wearing a New Jersey Devils jersey on stage tonight. Well, for you. Oh, it's part of my. I got a little jersey. I. I wrote it because I thought you guys gonna be in the audience, so I put a couple of things in there for you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, really?

[Frank Santoro]

Damn it.

[Brian Quinn]

But no, it'd be right. It's. Don't worry about it. You guys hear me talking?

[Bryan Johnson]

Will it be on my VC box later tonight?

[Brian Quinn]

It might be. I think that, like, what they do with Roast now is they say. They specifically say we won't let it be recorded. So you could say whatever you want without getting, you know, they'll cry babies up, up in arms.

[Bryan Johnson]

So you can be dropping a lot of slurs tonight, huh?

[Brian Quinn]

Maybe.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, I didn't see that coming. I mean, Tiki Barber's on stage.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think we want to.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I guess I meant within reason.

[Walt Flanagan]

So that should be fun. How did you get involved in that? I was curious.

[Brian Quinn]

They just told it reached out to you? I say no to every. I say there's no. So many things. But there was something about being the roasted jersey that I was like, yeah, I'll do that one.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that does sound good.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

How long is your set list?

[Brian Quinn]

They said you do between five and 10 minutes. I'm guessing I'm coming in around seven.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, something like that.

[Bryan Johnson]

Did you practice it? Like, time it?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no.

[Brian Quinn]

They're lucky to hear this in front of somebody. No, I just wrote a bunch of jokes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

I would. That you're a professional, but I would feel like I would be practicing in front of just to make sure.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, I'm on the fly, too, because, like, I got. I have, like. There's some levels of jokes where I have, like, really fucking mean ones, and then I have, like. So I want to see who goes first and who says, what about me? And then I'll decide. So it's hard to rehearse. Like, as a.

[Bryan Johnson]

Would you be okay just given one of your mean ones that you made that you're on the fence about?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

This will come out after the roast.

[Brian Quinn]

So I do. Yeah. So there's a joke about, you know, bar. The. The. The bar. It's a famous bar in Jersey.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

We used to go. And there's this thing about Jersey girls. You know, I'm ripping on Jersey girls a bit, and I Go for bar A. I go like, bar aids. And then. And then I turn to Tiki Barber and I go, that spells aids, Tiki. So which is the thing. I might pull it pretty rough. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I could go south real bad.

[Brian Quinn]

It's rough because, like, aids.

[Frank Santoro]

So you got.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, you're touching all the bases there with that one.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a roast, man. That's a roast.

[Brian Quinn]

I am like. But then I'm like, ah. But I. But the reason I pick Tiki is because he's a sports guy, but then he's also black, so I'm like, I don't want it to read like it's a black joke.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Brian Quinn]

So I might, depending on what Tiki says about me, bring, say, somebody else's name, you know?

[Walt Flanagan]

But even if it is, it's so mild that, like, I mean, you look at roasts back in the day. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, you can't. You can't really have a roast if you're gonna be like, let's just pull all the punches.

[Brian Quinn]

Right. There's no point.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. There's no point to having it.

[Brian Quinn]

So. But we'll see. We'll see what Tiki says about me, if anything.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So that was interesting. I was happy for you to get a chance to do that. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

You know, it was fun. I. Yeah, it's all right. You know, these things come and go.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Is this for charity?

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know. I have no clue, actually. Yes.

[Bryan Johnson]

So you might be getting paid.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I'm definitely getting paid.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah. I'm not showing up. Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't mean I don't need to apply. I was doing this for free. No way. Get me off my couch. WWE has elimination chamber tonight. I don't want to be home watching that. They just put Logan Paul in it. I want to see him get smacked around. Yeah. So, no, I don't think it's charity. I think the. The Jersey Chamber of Commerce, if you

[Bryan Johnson]

said something like a gas that, like, the whole place go, like, oh, my God.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Could you, like, later on announce that, like, you had, like, a 24 hour Tourette's. Tourette'? Just a quick 24 hour case of it. You're all better now. But, you know, you had a doctor's note. Dr. D. Right.

[Brian Quinn]

He caught Tourette's on a plane. Well, let me ask your opinion, because I am still. I am still thinking about the way that I approach the performance of it. And there's two ways for me to do it. One, Is. And I've done this before. It's a great success. Which is just like. Be like, I wrote this. There's a. I found the dark vein in me, but I'm still not, you know. Oh, and be like, yeah, right. I found it. And be like, I don't know that I want to read what I want. It's kind of play the bashful good guy. Where I'm like, I can't believe I'm saying this, and apologize. Right. You know what I mean? Like, say shit. And be like, I'm so sorry, man. I don't know where that came from. Which works. People like that done that. Or do I just Stone Face killer it?

[Bryan Johnson]

Do you own it?

[Brian Quinn]

Like, do I.

[Bryan Johnson]

This is who I am.

[Brian Quinn]

Tell the audience, fuck you. Fuck Jersey.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think you'd be the shy guy.

[Brian Quinn]

You'd be the shy guy.

[Frank Santoro]

The all Shucks.

[Walt Flanagan]

Because he's. Because he's too lovable as a joker.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yep.

[Walt Flanagan]

To come in like.

[Brian Quinn]

But isn't that. Isn't that more the argument to go in the other direction to.

[Walt Flanagan]

People will not expect it at all.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And just be like, Stone Face. Be like. Like, you got like. Like there's, you know, there's like a joke where I call Tiki Barber the goat. And then I'm like, yeah, but if you're the goat, why didn't this guy try and fuck you yet? You know? So it's like, I don't. You know. Do you say those things like that and be like, oh, I'm sorry about that, or you just let the audience laugh and boo and then just keep going? I don't know.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think they would boo that.

[Brian Quinn]

I take some pretty big shots at Jersey. I take some pretty. Pretty big shots. All right. We'll see. I don't know. I gotta feel it out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And also, am I going early? Am I going late? It's a lot of. It's a lot more thinking than I thought I'd have to do.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. It seems like it's a pretty big deal.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why they asked me and not. Oh, maybe they did ask Sal or Mary and they said no.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't.

[Brian Quinn]

Who knows?

[Walt Flanagan]

Eli came by.

[Frank Santoro]

Eli?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he came by. He's gonna go. He's gone with a couple.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, my boy Eli's going today.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he'll be there.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man, that's cool. I like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

That guy's the hottest ticket in town. Walt, these people paid premium prices for this. Yeah, I heard 300 bucks a ticket. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Can we get those comp tickets and maybe we could scalp them real quick?

[Walt Flanagan]

What time do we start Patreon? We could go down there,

[Brian Quinn]

see.

[Bryan Johnson]

Who needs tickets? Who needs tickets?

[Walt Flanagan]

Tickets here, tickets here.

[Frank Santoro]

Now you're a scalper. First the cable box.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, no, I have nothing to do with that. You know, look, they got to afford me, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, the hell? I went to a comedy show last night, if you want to call it that.

[Brian Quinn]

Where'd you go?

[Walt Flanagan]

I went out of my way, and I usually. I left the house one. Wow. I know. And there was a big part of me, though. It was like.

[Bryan Johnson]

And it wasn't because of, like, a gas scare or something?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no. Fire.

[Bryan Johnson]

Ngps. Pnc. Like, you got to get out the house.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. You got to come pick Sage up for school. She's sick. No, it wasn't that. It was. A bunch of my buddies were going to a Stuttering John standup show.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

You have buddies?

[Walt Flanagan]

I do. I have five podcast buddies.

[Bryan Johnson]

Buddies?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. What's wrong with that? I mean, I can't have a buddy. You do?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. That's plural. Buddies.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I have a couple buddies. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow. Carl from Watp, Kaylee, my other buddies.

[Bryan Johnson]

Buddies, yeah. They're. They refer to you the same way. That's a buddy?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I would say so.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

What is being buddy entail?

[Walt Flanagan]

I guess talking to him once in a while. Keeping friendly relations, you know? Yeah. We're more than acquaintances, but, you know, leaning towards friends.

[Brian Quinn]

And Stuttering John was doing this. Leaning towards. And you guys, like, are. You're not going on vacation together like, these two?

[Walt Flanagan]

Not like these. No, no. These guys are tight.

[Brian Quinn]

Right. But you are going. You are going to see Stuttering John.

[Walt Flanagan]

I want to see Stuttering John. And I sat with those guys. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And it was a total shit show like, I've never seen before in my life. Like the opening comics, one of them was pretty strong. The other ones were so weak. I most like. I was like, how did the fuck did they get up there?

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

And then Stuttering John came up, and all he. All he did was sit on stage. Anthony Kumia was there. He was in the audience.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And read Anthony Kumia's rap sheet. Yeah. That was how he started his act. Now, Stuttering John, if you're not aware of the dabble verse, Stuttering John was. He was on the Howard. Howard Stern show years and years, like, decades ago. He would go over. He was a stunt boy who would go around asking silly questions, and there he is. John Melendez. From Howard Stern. He was on the Jay Leno show for a little while. He would. First he was in the audience, like, you know, as. They would go to him as the audience guy, and then he. They put him in the back because I guess he sucked. But anyway, he's become kind of like a Lolcow now.

[Brian Quinn]

A what?

[Walt Flanagan]

A local. Like somebody that people like. Milk for laughs.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

And what's going on?

[Bryan Johnson]

That has to be a buddy phrase.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, no, no. That's a well known phrase.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's a really.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

What's it called?

[Walt Flanagan]

LOLcow. LOL. Like out loud cow. Yeah, you milk him for laughs.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

And he was heckled off stage.

[Bryan Johnson]

So wait a minute. Would Ming have been TSD town's first LOL cow?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Now we got the.

[Walt Flanagan]

But we like him, like, generally with LOL cows.

[Bryan Johnson]

Now we got all the big bovine over here.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah.

[Frank Santoro]

Jersey cow.

[Bryan Johnson]

You could feed a country with that milk.

[Walt Flanagan]

Produce your teats. Yeah. A person who's eccentric or foolish behavior can be exploited to amuse onlookers.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

So there was moments. So he starts reading this, Anthony's rap sheet, and people start booing him because

[Brian Quinn]

why was he doing that? How's that stand up?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know. Because he doesn't like Anthony and Anthony doesn't like him. So it's not stand up.

[Brian Quinn]

So they don't. Hold on. He doesn't like Anthony. Anthony doesn't like him. So one makes his act all about him and the other one pays to go see him.

[Walt Flanagan]

Not only paid to go see him, introduced him on stage.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like, what is going on?

[Walt Flanagan]

Anthony got up, went on stage and took the mic away from the host and was like, you know, gave a little speech and he's like. And now stuttering John.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, my God.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was like. It was funny to watch. Yeah, it was. He was on for probably eight minutes trying to read this as people were like heckling him and shouting out. And then he finally just stood up and walked off stage and walked out the door.

[Brian Quinn]

Out the door.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he left.

[Brian Quinn]

I wonder if he still gets paid for that.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know. I don't think he should. I mean, eight minutes. He had a 40 minute set that he was supposed to do and he did like eight minutes of it. And then, you know, like the way comedy clubs operate is that.

[Brian Quinn]

What's he supposed to do? Stand up there and just take. Take them?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, no, if he had done his act, people would have liked it, I think. I think people would have Been.

[Brian Quinn]

It sounds like it would have to hate him.

[Bryan Johnson]

Where was it at?

[Walt Flanagan]

They do hate him. It was in Rodney's comic comedy club in New York.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, you went all the way to New York for this?

[Walt Flanagan]

Let me tell you something. Never again, never again will I go to New York. It took me two and a half hours to get there. This is, this is on 1st and 59th, so this should not take me three hours or almost three hours to get there.

[Brian Quinn]

Get right through the tunnel. Yeah, you should.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I went through Lincoln Tunnel. The tunnel took fucking forever. And it just kept like the time like, you know, kept jumping up. Traffic time. Oh, Jesus Christ. And I said like, I'm, I'm hooting and hollering and screaming, says, Mary Beth, why'd you let me do this? You know, I don't want it. Yeah. Oh yeah, I turned on her. That's what we talk about in the car. I yell at her, but why couldn't

[Brian Quinn]

you just turn around and go home?

[Frank Santoro]

Who cares?

[Walt Flanagan]

You couldn't. Like at a certain point you just couldn't turn around. There's too much traffic.

[Brian Quinn]

And then at the end of this rainbow was just a shitty stand up show.

[Walt Flanagan]

That total show. That was super enjoyable though.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it was really enjoyable because I got to hang out with my buddies, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, so that's what I did last night. But I, I swear on the way home because they brought me a different way. I didn't go back through the Lincoln Tunnel. I went like through Brooklyn, I guess, like, because I ended up going over the Verrazano to go to.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, you shot through Staten Island?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, and we were going to do a pop by, but it was like 11:30 at night.

[Brian Quinn]

I wasn't even home.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, you know, we're even home.

[Brian Quinn]

I got home yesterday. When did you go?

[Walt Flanagan]

Last night?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, no, I got home last night. Yeah?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but it was a little bit too late. I'm like, it's like you would think something was seriously wrong. If I'm like qq,

[Brian Quinn]

start loading the shotgun. I'm like, something's up, something's up.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So I.

[Brian Quinn]

What time did you get home?

[Walt Flanagan]

I got home at like 12:30.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, that's so late.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Oh, dude, 12. I'm so used to going to bed at like 11. Like I go to bed at 12:30. I can't fall asleep. I'm lying in bed till 3, then I wake up at 7 because that's normal. Like usually I wake up at 6 for sage, but I woke up, I slept an hour Later. Got up at seven. So it's like four hours and then I feel nauseous. Like, you know when you feel nauseous when you get up? Like you don't have enough sleep and shit. It was.

[Brian Quinn]

And that's today?

[Walt Flanagan]

That was today. That's why they asked, get him for some ibuprofen. But on the way home I was like, I don't think I can drive at night for the most part anymore. I couldn't see shit, dude. I couldn't see anything. I'm telling you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Blue blockers.

[Walt Flanagan]

I guess that's what I gotta get, man. Do they work? Cause I'll get them.

[Brian Quinn]

They do, they do.

[Frank Santoro]

We use them for shooting the. Those types of yellow sunglasses.

[Bryan Johnson]

What are you shooting?

[Brian Quinn]

Guns.

[Bryan Johnson]

You shoot guns?

[Brian Quinn]

I have a gun.

[Bryan Johnson]

Really?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah,

[Frank Santoro]

but for shooting. Yeah. They're like.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's the same lens you're shooting at the sun. Why are you staring directly?

[Frank Santoro]

No, it just takes.

[Bryan Johnson]

Get out of here.

[Walt Flanagan]

From Satan. I tell you.

[Frank Santoro]

It takes out all the UV light. So it just makes things crisper and clear.

[Bryan Johnson]

And drive at night, you need that glare. What you're having is those. That X right? You're seeing like all the. I forget what it's called, but it's a certain effect.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, like a halo.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, that's what you're seeing right on all the lights.

[Walt Flanagan]

Halos. And I can't see the lines on the, on the road. Like I can't see it. Like I'm really paying attention to stay in the lane and I'm so fucking tense.

[Bryan Johnson]

Why don't you have your 20 something year old wife drive? Who could see in the dark?

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm the man. There you go. See, don't forget who the man is.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're going to be. You're going to be man scraped up and put in a bucket if you.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're right.

[Bryan Johnson]

As you crash into a tree.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's. Those are blue blockers. That's what I need.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's. Yeah. I told you, man. Get yourself some blue blockers.

[Walt Flanagan]

Amber vision.

[Brian Quinn]

This guy's happy that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh my God. Look at what they look like. I look over at my wife, she's going to be like, I've made a huge mistake.

[Brian Quinn]

The nightmare. Look at this guy.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, you haven't got glasses on any street. Everybody's really happy when they put them on too, because they can see. Instant smile. Yeah. You're like, I'm not gonna crash.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I struggle with the same thing at times. We drove to Long island last night.

[Walt Flanagan]

Long Island.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. I'm Never again to forget it.

[Walt Flanagan]

What'd you go out there for?

[Bryan Johnson]

There was a haunted hamburger shack that Frank demanded we see.

[Frank Santoro]

First of all, he didn't demand that

[Brian Quinn]

we see it all on me.

[Frank Santoro]

I saw it and I. Haunted hamburger house, it was called. It's a haunted house themed restaurant that serves these haunted burgers. Looks really, really cool. All I did was send a text and say, hey, this looks pretty cool. Next time I'm down, we should probably do something like that. Ecstatically.

[Brian Quinn]

Yes.

[Frank Santoro]

Awesome. Let's do it. Once we get into traffic. It's all my fault.

[Walt Flanagan]

I.

[Frank Santoro]

You know, we're gonna die because you had to have a hamburger two hours

[Brian Quinn]

in this car, just the two of you. The ladies are agreeing with me. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

This is your fault, Frank.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah. All of them. He turned all of them on me.

[Walt Flanagan]

All of them.

[Brian Quinn]

How was it? Like, how was the place? Was it worth it?

[Frank Santoro]

I thought it was very good. I didn't think it was an hour and a half almost dying multiple times worth it.

[Brian Quinn]

How did you almost die?

[Bryan Johnson]

Because I can't see.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Well, I take the wrong exits when I shouldn't take exits.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I've done that.

[Bryan Johnson]

And I blame, you know, because every three people in the car, but yet they can't tell me to take an exit.

[Frank Santoro]

Well, it's our fault.

[Brian Quinn]

But what about. Nobody has, like, ways up and going or. We had the GPS going. Okay. This place looks cool, though. It was cool.

[Bryan Johnson]

What it needs is it needs an investor to dress it up a bit well, to influx a little bit more cash into it. I think if they had a little bit more budget, they could do something cool. Because last night was stranger things night. And they had somebody dressed up as Vecna. Bring your hamburger.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Which was really cool. They had somebody dressed as eleven, but it looked like a cupid calorie. The food was excellent too, though.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And it's called. What's it called?

[Frank Santoro]

The Haunted House of Hamburger.

[Bryan Johnson]

It was on probably the last exit on Long island, though.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Frank Santoro]

As we were driving.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Frank Santoro]

There's the vector.

[Walt Flanagan]

Guys dancing.

[Frank Santoro]

Yep.

[Bryan Johnson]

We didn't do any trivia or anything.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's in a sex swing. What's going on?

[Bryan Johnson]

That's the Vecna swing.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, is it? Okay? Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Frank Santoro]

I get that.

[Brian Quinn]

I like this business model. This is cool.

[Bryan Johnson]

But I think it needs. It needs. Like, it's a great idea. Like, it's better than a great idea. I think it's a phenomenal idea, but I think it needs somebody with a little bit More artistic vision and a bit deeper pocket and you could do something.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Amazing. And plus. But it also was packed, though, so maybe they don't need it because, like, there was. We had to have reservations, which we were late for.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, there's 11.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, it's cool. It's cool, though. Yeah, I'm into this.

[Frank Santoro]

As we were driving down there, this was one of the things that almost got us killed. There was a van that had a loudspeaker.

[Bryan Johnson]

Play the video.

[Frank Santoro]

They had a loudspeaker on top of it with a. A television attached to the outside of the van, and it was playing religious music.

[Bryan Johnson]

But we didn't know what it was, though. Like, we thought it was normally. And then, like, I said to myself, why is our radio have religious music coming through it?

[Brian Quinn]

It.

[Bryan Johnson]

I turned it up, and it wasn't religious music. We couldn't figure it out. I am not lying to you for a sec. I'm drawing something very. I'm doing a comp. I'm making. I remember I told you guys after Tim passed away, I was like, I'm gonna make my own comic. I'm gonna write it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Working on it now. It's very satanic.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

So satanic that I'm like, I'm scaring myself.

[Brian Quinn]

You're worried about your soul?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. So then when all of a sudden, like, I'm driving along and I hear all this God music, and we can't figure out where it's coming from, I'm like, oh, my God. God's talking to me.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah. We're all quiet.

[Bryan Johnson]

He wants me to stop doing this comic book because it's too satanic for my soul.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's time people spoken to me.

[Bryan Johnson]

And we could not figure out where it was coming from until finally we realized it was in a car, like, three or four spaces behind us.

[Brian Quinn]

But the music, it was so loud,

[Frank Santoro]

it literally sounded like you were in a car. And then he was just fascinated by this van and wanted to get behind it and look at the screen of what they were playing behind it or

[Bryan Johnson]

what they were playing with the visual image.

[Brian Quinn]

Here it is. Let's. That music you hear,

[Frank Santoro]

that's how loud it is. We're in the car.

[Walt Flanagan]

Distracting, man.

[Brian Quinn]

They do that in Manhattan, too. They. They park these religious trucks on the corner and blast this music. I don't get it.

[Frank Santoro]

That's got to be illegal.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's got to be, I said, but I argued it. Why is it illegal, though?

[Frank Santoro]

It's a distraction.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, why are those lights flashing on it?

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, it almost looks like an emergency vehicle.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, well, maybe it was an emergency vehicle for people's souls.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's true.

[Bryan Johnson]

But really, why is it illegal? Like, he wanted to call the cops from the car.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm like, no, I want to go that far.

[Bryan Johnson]

But he wants to call the cops. Like a report of immediately. Like, what road we were on and everything.

[Brian Quinn]

Yes.

[Frank Santoro]

If I knew where we were, that's

[Brian Quinn]

what would have happened.

[Frank Santoro]

Do what's right.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Frank Santoro]

They had television screens mounted all on the outside of their cars, playing videos.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. How's that not distracting? It's like, off, man. But whatever that is, when we do,

[Walt Flanagan]

when we talk in the car. Well, to the going back to the GPS stuff, like, that's when me and Marybeth do talk. When I'm like, listening to the GPS and she's like, turn here. And I'm like, leave me alone. Because she always tells. She's the worst sense of direction. She'll always tell me to go the wrong way. So, like, I learned this slowly. Like, how she like, oh, turn here. So I would turn and then it'd be like. And they're like, like the goddamn recalibrating.

[Bryan Johnson]

And I'm like, God, I couldn't tell if you're yelling at your GPS talking to you or Mary Beth at first. Like, was it sure who you were yelling at in this when you're telling this story? See, that's the opposite. Like, they'll let me drive off the wrong way and then be like, you went the wrong way. Why didn't you tell me before I did it?

[Pam Johnson]

Why?

[Bryan Johnson]

Why?

[Brian Quinn]

Why would you not.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why are you doing this to me?

[Frank Santoro]

Minutes from home and you make the wrong turn. Now it's like 40 minutes from home.

[Walt Flanagan]

Jeez, I got a couple spots here, boys. Let me knock these out.

[Brian Quinn]

All right?

[Walt Flanagan]

And I got big news. Whoa. Yeah. Big Johnson news.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, my God. Is our. The little pitter patter of Johnson feet going. Being announced right now?

[Walt Flanagan]

Funny you should say that. Whoa. No, not for me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Your sister's having a pitter patter of

[Walt Flanagan]

being sucked up by a vacuum.

[Bryan Johnson]

Your sister's having another baby?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, not my sister. Eric. Oh, Eric just. He just called us yesterday and announced that he's having a little girl. Come on.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, that's awesome. Congratulations.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's had a long time girlfriend, this woman, Ellen. And she has a little kid, too. She has a little daughter that's four years old. Wow.

[Brian Quinn]

Hey, good for him, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

So now she'll have a big sister built in, you know, Very cool. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, when did he tell you?

[Walt Flanagan]

Last night.

[Bryan Johnson]

Does this make Mary Beth go like, I want a little.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nope. She wants a kid less than I do. Okay. Like, if she was like, oh, I'm pregnant. Like, I probably, like, well, I'm gonna be 100 when the kid graduates high school, but, oh, well, what can you do? But, yeah, she's totally anti. Because she does not want a kid at all. She has her dog. That's who she wants. So she's all good. Yeah. So gonna be an uncle again.

[Brian Quinn]

Congratulations.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes. But a girl. So the Johnson bloodline still dies with us.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's a sign.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a good sign there. That's God saying, like, enough, enough Johnson.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. He did this. He did this to. Only two other names I can recall. Hitler and. And the Johnson. He said, that's it. He drew the line in the sand.

[Walt Flanagan]

The bloodline is over.

[Bryan Johnson]

Why did I keep trying?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I'm ask Edgar how he feels about it.

[Frank Santoro]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I'll ask him. Because I know, like, it doesn't bother me.

[Brian Quinn]

It wouldn't bother me.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it doesn't bother me. But I wonder if Edgar's like, oh, that's it. Like, I don't have a grandson that can carry on the name.

[Bryan Johnson]

There's plenty of Johnson's out there. That's the best thing about your name. Yeah. They could always be like that. Yeah, I'm related to that Johnson. Magic Johnson. Yeah, that's my. That's my cousin. He's the famous successful Johnson.

[Walt Flanagan]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Brian Quinn]

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[Brian Quinn]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Brian Quinn]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Brian Quinn]

All right, Squarespace.

[Frank Santoro]

Still at it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Still in it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Still at it. Yeah, still working with me. But they're out of the game. Nope. There they are.

[Bryan Johnson]

Q, you on Plex?

[Brian Quinn]

What's Plex?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, Plex.

[Bryan Johnson]

What is Plex? Plex is a website or an app that. I don't know how you would describe it. It's a. It's a site where you join up and you have people friend you, and then you could watch anything in their media library.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, okay. Did I explain that?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, this is a hard drive separate from your computer, I think, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

So it's a hard drive.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't have any hard drive. This allows me to watch zillions of shows as long as I could keep accumulating more and more friends. And I want to announce my account name on Plex.

[Brian Quinn]

But don't you have to share your stuff with them as well?

[Bryan Johnson]

That's the beauty. I don't have anything to share. I'm never gonna have anything to share.

[Brian Quinn]

But what about your magic box?

[Bryan Johnson]

It's not as magic as I thought it was. It doesn't have the Donny Marie Variety Show.

[Walt Flanagan]

What the fuck's it worth?

[Brian Quinn]

Bullshit.

[Bryan Johnson]

It doesn't have Pink lady and Jeff Demand things. It doesn't have Run, Joe, Run. But my name on Plex is the letter J. S, B, S. 30. And if you want to friend me on Plex, I'm. I'm friending everybody. I. Right now. I'm trying to get to 100. I'm close.

[Brian Quinn]

What? All right, so wait. I log into Plex, I create a

[Bryan Johnson]

Plex, and then you put in a search bar, any show that you can remember from your childhood or before, and it'll pop up then. And it'll. And if any of the people you're. You are friends with, if they have it in their library, you could watch it for free.

[Brian Quinn]

And this is legal?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

It sounds like the early days of that.

[Frank Santoro]

It's kind of like. Remember Limewire back in the day? That's what it is, I think, for television.

[Bryan Johnson]

Lady and Jeff, Not Pink Lady. That's your porn?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

It is amazing. I've been. I was. I was. I didn't leave the house for a week, not because of this, but because I was. I had some health issues and Teddy was sick, so we. Me and Teddy just watched Plex the entire week.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

And I type in anything, and a lot of the people I'm friends with have. Have the habit, so I can watch it for free.

[Brian Quinn]

How did you make these friends so far?

[Bryan Johnson]

I announced it in an ad for tsd, and I said, declan, tack this on. But now I'm Doing it in the show. Because I need more Plex accounts like Infinity Stones. I want them. I want somebody with the biggest Plex library to friend me. That has everything from when TV began to now.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay?

[Bryan Johnson]

And I know that person's out there. I don't know if he listens to tsd, though. But somebody knows. Yeah, somebody might know him. Might be a friend of a friend of a friend. And then maybe they can hook. Do me the hookup. So my wing. My wingman woman.

[Frank Santoro]

I'm new to this, so I just downloaded based off of your recommendation. I downloaded.

[Bryan Johnson]

Frank is making a plea right now for Friends.

[Frank Santoro]

Go ahead, Frank. Number five, mail dot com. Spell it all out.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

How do you do that?

[Frank Santoro]

You spell it all out. F, R, A, N, K, N, U, M, B, E, R, F, I V, E at gmail. So if I friend you, it won't

[Bryan Johnson]

do you any good because you have nothing. I have nothing? Yes.

[Frank Santoro]

So I can't even go off of your friends nothing? Because I'm dying to see The Corey Feldman vs. The World documentary. That's what I'm trying to find.

[Walt Flanagan]

Is that. That's not. I thought that was on Apple. No.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah. You could buy it off of YouTube. It's like three bucks, though, so if I can find it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. You guys aren't able to steal it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, exactly.

[Walt Flanagan]

Exactly. I do. Like, with the VC box.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's on Plex, too. So somebody has it.

[Brian Quinn]

Somebody's got it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Somebody has it. I don't know if it's one of my friends, but maybe.

[Walt Flanagan]

Maybe I do enjoy how, like, with the VC box and Plex, you keep trying to sell a guy whose main industry is TV on, stealing tv,

[Brian Quinn]

he

[Walt Flanagan]

always has this look on his face like, I don't know.

[Bryan Johnson]

But what we're stealing, like, again, is. Is a victimless crime. We're talking about shows from the 80s.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nobody wants unavailable other places.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. It's almost like Lost Media. There's only four episodes of Run, Joe Run to be in known existence. But maybe there's somebody out there that has a fifth episode that's never been seen. It doesn't even realize.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, sure.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, it's great. I just. I like. How does this stuff go? Like, how do they not shut this down?

[Bryan Johnson]

Because it's. You're sharing it with friends, though, so it's not like you're selling it.

[Brian Quinn]

It. I guess. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Two seasons of Run, a total of. What does that say, 23.

[Frank Santoro]

20.

[Bryan Johnson]

26 episodes. But only four are known to exist. The rest are. The rest have been taped over or Lost.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man, that's a bummer.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, there's plenty of media out there. Like, you never heard of Lost Media?

[Brian Quinn]

No, I have, but it's just specifically about Run Joe, Run. Like, it's sad.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I don't think it'll ever happen in our lifetime. I don't think there's any. Actually, I shouldn't say that. There's something about Rick and Morty that is. They did this special thing on Spike and people are looking for it and nobody has it because nobody recorded it at the time. I guess they didn't. Nobody thought to record it, so nobody has it. I was looking at all the listing of all the lost media and I was like, I bet you there's nothing in these senses. Wow.

[Brian Quinn]

Rick and Morty's weird because it's animation, so they have to have those files.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think it was. I think it was to Spike TV did this special thing for it though, and Spike TV didn't save it. Right.

[Brian Quinn]

Weird.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's weird. In this day and age that they don't see everything.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, that's what's the big thing with mtv. People like, what's going to happen to all that programming from 40 years now that MTV is gone? Like, who's. Does anybody give a fuck enough to hold on to it all?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah, probably. Yeah. I mean, you have like all the videos, you got all the shows, Headbangers ball. Those.

[Bryan Johnson]

So much original programming that MTV did. If. If it wasn't saved by mtv like nobody else, but like somebody at a private home on a VCR would only be able to save it.

[Brian Quinn]

It. That's what I'm saying. There is no more mtv. So where would they even. I mean, I'm sure they have a parent company, right? Paramount.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, they have. I guess if they. If they found it, they deemed it worthy to keep in the vault.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Or keep it on, dad, or whatever. How they do it.

[Brian Quinn]

I hope so, because it's. It in a hundred years will be a pop culture gold mine. Like even just MTV News where they did reports on all.

[Walt Flanagan]

All the.

[Brian Quinn]

The going ons in the industry. It would be fascinating to watch.

[Walt Flanagan]

Martha Quinn.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, Martha Quinn out there doing it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nina Black. Blackwood. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Mark Goodman.

[Walt Flanagan]

Mark Goodman, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Ed Loder.

[Walt Flanagan]

Ed Loder. Kurt Loder. I said Ed Loader was in our class in seventh grade. So what's the one thing you've stumbled across that you're like, holy shit.

[Bryan Johnson]

Probably Pink lady and Jeff. It is. Absolutely. It's deemed one of the worst shows that that's ever aired. It only aired for six weeks.

[Walt Flanagan]

Was that Cida? Marty Croft.

[Bryan Johnson]

It was cinematic and it was about these. It was. They pluck two Japanese pop stars or two ladies, they can barely speak English and they team them up with this comedian for a variety show. And then they realize that they can't talk, so they have to limit their usage in the variety show. And the only reason I even know about it is because Alice Cooper performed live on it.

[Walt Flanagan]

It. Oh, really?

[Bryan Johnson]

And that's how I did some research and I found out that it's pretty hard to find. It's streaming nowhere. But one of my plex friends gave me a checkup.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nice.

[Brian Quinn]

Why was it so bad?

[Bryan Johnson]

Just really bad.

[Brian Quinn]

A bunch of hot chicks and bunny outfits there.

[Bryan Johnson]

When you watch the episode, you would be like, oh my God, this is written by like a 10 year old.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

The comedy is not. It's so primitive and so. I don't want to use the word innocent. It's just bad.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but it's so bad.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's great. I hear, like, I cannot stop watching it. I'd rather watch that than over something critically acclaimed.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

I really would. There's no doubt about it.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, sure. Robbie the Robot.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It's like who's who.

[Bryan Johnson]

Pink Lady. I can't remember the real names of Pink lady, but they would sell out in the, in the 70s in Japan. For some reason, an American producer was like, well, it'll work over here too. Yeah, it did.

[Brian Quinn]

But when did you first watch it?

[Bryan Johnson]

I remember it. I remember it airing when I was in. Aired in 1980. I remember seeing it in TV Guide and promos, but I never watched it. When I got into an Alice Cooper freight craze, I was doing a deep dive and I was like, he performed a song I liked on a show called Pink lady and Jeff. And that's how I was like, oh, I fucking remember that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Brian Quinn]

All right. That robot looks cool, man.

[Frank Santoro]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Robbie the Robot never let us down. Nope.

[Walt Flanagan]

Great design.

[Brian Quinn]

What was he. Why was he in so many things?

[Bryan Johnson]

He was in Forbidden Planet for the first thing. That's the first time you see Robbie the Robot. And then I believe whoever owned Universal, which I believe is NBC, right?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, NBC Universal. Yeah, that sounds good.

[Bryan Johnson]

They. They took him and used him and utilized him in TV shows.

[Brian Quinn]

Right?

[Bryan Johnson]

Because it was easier just to like, well, the art department doesn't have to make a robot. We got Robbie sitting in. In fucking storage.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right?

[Brian Quinn]

But Robbie was a full on character as I recall, right? Like he was. He Was like a family member.

[Bryan Johnson]

He appeared in other movies. That boy there was a will Mummy from Loss of Space, I think was in a movie with him.

[Brian Quinn]

He was in Twilight Zone.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Like. Like, it's weird to. It's like taking R2D to him, just putting them another show. And like, it's not R2D2. Wait, what?

[Bryan Johnson]

The weirdest appearance of Robbie the Robot isn't. Is in Mork and Mindy. He is in. He's not called Robbie the Robot, but it's basically, it's the robot and he is in a museum and Mork, Robin Williams comes to visit him every night and talk to his robot friend. And then he starts to power down and he dies and Mork can't save him. So you see, like, Robin Williams go off the deep end in depression because Robbie and dies on screen where he's like. Where he's talking to Mork about how he was. He was happy that he made one friend in his existence. And before he could say the word friend, his power dies. And then, like. And Mindy cannot bring Mork out of his doldrums.

[Brian Quinn]

He's out depressed.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, there. Yeah, there it is, man. Get him.

[Brian Quinn]

You're fast.

[Walt Flanagan]

What is he dressed as? What is that a mailman or.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I can't remember why he's a mailman. I mean, he was bas on coke the entire production of Or Mindy. So I think they just let him

[Frank Santoro]

do whatever he want.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's like, I'm okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, Robin, whatever you want.

[Bryan Johnson]

But look how good he looks in that. Look at that HD print of Ork and Mindy.

[Brian Quinn]

It looks great. It looks great. Oh, man. Sucks that he killed himself. Who?

[Walt Flanagan]

Robbie?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, no. He had a. He was dealing with some health issues too. That's why.

[Pam Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Still. It's just like he was such a big part of my childhood. Now everything I watch with him, it's like it.

[Bryan Johnson]

There's people out there who don't, like, who are like, don't understand Robin Williams. Like, don't find him funny and find him annoying. I'm like, how do you.

[Brian Quinn]

They didn't grow up in the 80s and 90s.

[Bryan Johnson]

Sunday Jeff did.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, well, something. Jeff is unique.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, I like his. I like his dramatic stuff, I think, more than his comedic stuff. Yeah. Like when he was, like, freaking out and just like. Like stream of consciousness, like jumping on couches on talk shows. And I'm like, I don't. I don't get it. He's like, like making all those weird noises Yeah, I. I didn't get it. Yeah, I gotta say, I didn't get it.

[Brian Quinn]

But what about like, when he did like his comedies? Like, you know, you. You gonna hate on this?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, no, no, no. Oh, all right.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, you just mean these public appearances and stuff.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, yeah. Like when he. When he was like trying to. And probably again was coked up, like it was trying to like be wacky and on talk shows.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay. Did you ever see him in that

[Frank Santoro]

movie the Final Cut?

[Walt Flanagan]

No.

[Brian Quinn]

It's a good movie.

[Frank Santoro]

It's underrated. Yeah, he. It's. It's really good. He's really good at it.

[Brian Quinn]

He did a great two episode stint on Law Order SVU. He's a bad guy. He was like. Was he a bomber?

[Bryan Johnson]

Moms.

[Brian Quinn]

Robin Williams on svu? I think he was a bomber.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And like he was play. And it was like weird. It was like he was not played for like a funny villain. Like, he was played like an evil motherfucker.

[Bryan Johnson]

There was a rook in real life. Do you know he befriended the chimp that could sign no.

[Frank Santoro]

Coco.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Frank Santoro]

Really?

[Bryan Johnson]

And like Coco, like was a super attached to Robin Williams. And he came to see Coco on Coco's deathbed and he. When he saw Robin for first time in a long time, he signed friend.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, that's heartbreaking.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And then Coco, just like the robot. Just like Rob.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, basically. Yeah. It was basically the same plot line from work and Mindy.

[Brian Quinn]

And yeah, he was bummer when he

[Bryan Johnson]

died, but he has a special human being.

[Brian Quinn]

I thought so. I mean, you know, but just as a kid, you were like, this guy's the best.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, as a kid, sure. Yeah. Watching Morgan, Mindy was like the best.

[Brian Quinn]

But no more.

[Walt Flanagan]

No more Robin.

[Brian Quinn]

Even like Aladdin, him doing the genie's voice. Yeah, you'll get more iconic than that. Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. He's the one voice you remember.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, yeah. Street.

[Walt Flanagan]

And also. What was. What's his name? Gilbert? Wasn't he also in.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, Yago. Yeah, yeah, he was. He was huge. Right? Yeah, of course. Can't leave that. Out. Out.

[Bryan Johnson]

They're both gone.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's gone.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wow.

[Brian Quinn]

Gilbert, I got to know a little bit before we went, but Robin Williams, you know, it's just iconic.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I got to have lunch with Gilbert the first cruise.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

First cruise. Yeah. Like we. And there's that room for the talent and everything. Yeah. And he was in there. So I sat with him and we talked. I was like, this is amazing. Like, this is. This is a once in a lifetime type situation. Then he started doing this James Mason impression to a 5 year old for like 10 minutes.

[Brian Quinn]

He's got no idea what's going on.

[Walt Flanagan]

Kid doesn't know what the.

[Brian Quinn]

He. The first thing he did when he got on the boat. We had him on the impractical Joker's cruise one year. And the first thing he, like, he boards the boat, looks at us and goes. And I. Whatever the numbers are supposed to be. Let's say he's supposed to do. Do three shows an hour each over the course of the cruise. The first thing he says is like, can I do one? One. One set of a half hour?

[Frank Santoro]

Serious?

[Brian Quinn]

He was like, I just want to do as little as possible. Paid a lot of money for you to be here with you. He was.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're like a marquee name, bro.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And he used to be. He used to, like, go to, like. He'd be. He told me the story. He would be wandering the streets of Manhattan and see, like, craft services for a movie or like Law and Order. And he would just walk up to the craft services, and because he was Gilbert Godfrey, they would just assume that he was on the show. And he was just. He goes, I just. I would eat free all over the city.

[Walt Flanagan]

You should talk about that on Stern. Like, how whenever he went to a hotel, he had. He had tons of samples under his bed. Like. Like shampoo and soap and that kind of stuff. Like, he had them all stored under his bed.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Great.

[Walt Flanagan]

When he was in the hospital, Howard Stern went to see him. And, like, he was asking Howard. I thought it was like, underwear or something. He asked him to bring him. Like, he was asking Stern if he could bring him under. It was some weird fucking request that he made.

[Brian Quinn]

It sucked when he left.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's one of the. I mean, Gideon will tell you. He was on, like, that's one of the vital things you need, right? Underwear.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Rupert was washing his drawers for him. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. It's not no joke, man. I mean, you can't have access to underwear. Your fucking life changes.

[Walt Flanagan]

I gotta say, that's a. Rupert's a good friend because, like, if I'm giddam, I'm like, before I go into the hospital, I'm buying all new underwear.

[Bryan Johnson]

But he didn't know he was going, oh, that's true.

[Walt Flanagan]

Or I might send somebody to the store to buy me all new underwear. But to be like, wash my panties.

[Brian Quinn]

That's too much run over so badly right now.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay. I watched Grub's House before when he's been on vacation. I know he has a top loading washing machine and my clothes were in a bag, so all he had to do was just, just dump the clothes.

[Brian Quinn]

Still though, it's, it's, it's an ass.

[Bryan Johnson]

He just, he's got to pick him out though. I've, I've picked up his dog's poop for him, so.

[Brian Quinn]

Great. He's a great buddy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, he is.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's the kind of buddy. I don't think Carl would pick up my underwear.

[Bryan Johnson]

Any of your buddies, would they do your laundry? Your specifically your underwear?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think so.

[Bryan Johnson]

Your meundies.

[Brian Quinn]

You need a clean underwear.

[Walt Flanagan]

I would do it for you too. I wore your meundies.

[Bryan Johnson]

I would buy you guys just brand new underwear. I like, I like. Yeah, your underwear got eaten up by the washing machine. I buy. You know, I was gonna wash him.

[Brian Quinn]

I gotta be at the theater three minutes ago.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

So I gotta run.

[Walt Flanagan]

We'll wrap it up then.

[Bryan Johnson]

Tell them. Steve. Dave.

[Frank Santoro]

Great.