#669: No Show Git ‘Em

Summary

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Tell 'Em Steve-Dave #669: "No Show Git ‘Em" (March 15, 2026)

Overview

This episode sees Walt Flanagan, Bryan "Bry" Johnson, and special guest Ming Chen (filling in for Q) joined by "Git 'Em" for an uncensored, classic hangout. The vibe is irreverent, honest, and meandering as the guys catch up on everything from convention travel, weird local news, and bachelor party trends, to their own unique brand of workplace drama at the legendary Airport Plaza. The theme is classic TESD: everyday absurdities, community in-jokes, and ribbing each other about everything under the sun.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ming’s Cruise Experience & TESD Live Appearances

• Walt and Bry ask Ming about his View Askew Cruise experience:
  • Ming describes the trip as "awesome" with “no real responsibilities,” much like being “Kim Kardashian”– just showing up and mingling ([03:04]).
  • Reflects on the perks: "I got free cruise. A free three thousand dollar cruise. Yeah, I can't complain about that." – Ming Chen ([03:09]).
• The TESD live event mystique
  • Walt insists he stays away from fan events ("To keep the mystique alive") so that fan anticipation never dies: "If I never show up, then there's always the clamoring... But if I do show up, it won’t be amazing, so I have to not show up." – Walt Flanagan ([04:14])
  • Discussion of possible schemes to get Walt to appear, from drugging him B.A. Baracus style to making him emcee game shows. Walt wants the Ming Chen deal of "just showing up and not doing anything." ([05:15])

Notable Quote:

“That’s how you get people to keep liking you, by not interacting with you.” – Bry ([04:41])

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2. Ming’s Convention Life & Slowing Down

• How many cons is too many?
  • Last year Ming did 37 cons. This year he’s targeting maybe 20 ([07:17]), but Walt calls him out for still not slowing down.
  • Ming admits, “No, it’s nice being back here. It’s nice hanging out with you guys. It’s nice being on call as a third stringer.” ([08:36])
• Spousal input?
  • Ming makes it clear, “No, not at all...[my wife] likes having me home more, but...there was never any pushback that I was going too much.” – Ming Chen ([08:53])
• Flying too much: health jokes
  • Jokes about how so much air travel gives you "soft bones" (“Like it’s like being in space!”) and exposes you to radiation ([09:36]).

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3. Annoying Airplane Etiquette & United’s New Rule

• Headline: United bans device audio without headphones
  • Bry is thrilled: “Is there any bigger asshole on earth than a person who goes to a restaurant or an airplane… [playing audio out loud]? That’s one of the worst things you can do in public.” ([11:24])
  • Ming and “Get ‘Em” agree it’s out of control; Walt hasn't noticed and says he simply tunes it out ([13:45]).
  • Discussion of how society allows rudeness to persist until it’s official policy (United’s new rule).
  • Jokes escalate about putting headphone-less offenders on the no-fly list “with the terrorists” ([14:51]).

Notable Quote:

“If I don’t want to hear it, I don’t. I can not hear it.” – Walt Flanagan ([14:02])

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4. Sign Waving, Job Prestige & Small Business Sadness

• The “Statue of Liberty” tax guy and human sign-waving
  • Bry questions the effectiveness and dignity of the classic sign-spinner: “Would not guess that place was reputable...it is cruel.” ([16:21])
  • Recollection of "Git 'Em" as TSD's own sign waver – conversion rate: “Zero. Negative.” ([17:28])
  • Jokes about how Ming would never trade convention life for a sign-spinning gig.

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5. The State of Pop Culture Conventions

• Competition is up, not down:
  • Ming: "There's definitely no shortage of conventions."
  • Hollywood names now appear at cons due to fewer big roles, which Ming admits puts "the Maverick" lower down the guest list: “If you got Thelma and Louise [Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon]...no competition there, unfortunately.” ([19:02-19:55])
• Cons shifting from comic focus to pop culture focus.
  • Walt laments: "The window's starting to close as the hobby starts...struggling." Ming assures it just means more competition, not fewer shows.

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6. Community Drama: Security Guards, Dish Soap & Office Life

• The Case of the Stolen Dish Soap

  • ‘Git ‘Em’ describes leaving dish soap in the ladies’ room “for the good of all.” It vanishes in 24 hours, sparking a ponderous investigation with jokes about “cork boards and yarn” ([27:17]).
  • Ming: “So back up. You're allowed in the women's room here?” ([27:31])
  • The convoluted state of restrooms at the Airport Plaza, day-to-day trials, and the social order among tenants are recounted in trademark TESD detail.

• Security guard certification

  • Git ‘Em details New Jersey’s process for becoming and staying certified, to much amusement from Walt and Ming.

Notable Quote:

"If they knew your health conditions, there's no way they'd license you." – Walt Flanagan ([29:54])

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7. Workplace Gossip: Mike Zapsik & Ant Drama

• Mike Zapsik thinks TSD is mad at Ming, reports double agents feeding him information:
  • Ming admits to letting Mike believe it if it cheers Mike up: “If he's happy, I'm happy.” ([21:51])
  • Walt/d Bryan riff on their own “moods” affecting workplace relations.

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8. Dreams, AI, and Squarespace Sponsor Segment

• Ming’s shifting ambitions: From pro-athlete to pop culture figure to ‘just getting out of bed’

  • Walt presses Ming: “These kind of do seem like a little bit of vapid dreams though… It’s all fluff.” ([39:36])
  • Ming is self-deprecating about “fame and fortune,” admitting it's “empty” (with jokes about the drinking problem it solved).

• AI’s Pros and Cons

  • Ming: "It can be useful. It's gonna kill a lot of jobs." ([41:37])
  • Walt questions the real world threats compared to Skynet, with Ming replying: “We were warned about this in 1984 when Terminator came out and no one's listening.” ([41:44])
  • Git 'Em asks if AI has helped Ming's podcast studio. Ming: "Only positively...write the episode description...just throw it through AI and it spits it out in two seconds." ([42:41])

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9. Generational Pranks, Mischief Night, and Crimes of Youth

• Discussion of a real-life “prank gone wrong” – tragic accident involving teens and their teacher
  • Group debates culpability, whether kids should be charged; Bry raises the question of whether the teacher was partially responsible ([49:38]–[52:14]).
• Reminiscing about Mischief Night & teen pranks:
  • Stories of egging, soaping, and sign vandalism from their own youth and “Get ‘Em” trying to prevent egg sales as an adult supermarket clerk ([53:39]–[57:08]).
  • Walt scolds: “If I was a kid that you tried to stop us from buying eggs...I’d be fighting such fucking horrible shit on your windows in soap.” ([56:09])
  • Ming and Walt riff: “Not all heroes wear three pens and an LED light... some heroes wear aprons.” ([56:29])

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10. Bachelor Party Trends: Strippers vs. Magicians

• Bry reads about a new bachelorette party trend: hiring magicians instead of strippers.
  • General disbelief and jokes about whether this will catch on for male bachelor parties. Ming: "I'm going to take a wild guess and say no." ([60:37])
  • The group speculates about awkwardness, and how the trend is about being more inclusive for attendees uncomfortable with strippers.

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11. Key West Plans, Jerseys for Dads, and Future TESD Events

• Key West “Antstravaganza”
  • Ming's father is attending for the first time; Git 'Em details getting a personalized New York Giants jersey for his own dad so people know to “keep an eye on him” ([65:50]).
  • Walt and Bry needle Git 'Em about overthinking it, the intricacies of blue jersey shades, and the social etiquette of tagging along.
  • Conversation devolves into who’s responsible for Git 'Em’s dad’s fun, and hypothetical scenarios of wild Key West adventures.

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12. Classic TESD Banter & Wrap Up

• Appreciation for Ming’s presence:
  • Ming jokes about being “third stringer” and the group acknowledges the abnormal standards for regulars and fill-ins.
  • The group riff on self-deprecating health, aging, and who gets “below-the-belt” zingers ([73:10]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I’m here and happy to be here now.” – Ming Chen ([08:06])
• “That’s how you get people to keep liking you by not interacting with you.” – Bry ([04:41])
• “If I don’t want to hear it, I don’t. I can not hear it.” – Walt Flanagan ([14:02])
• “You see a woman now, we just go like, what the fuck was that?” – Walt Flanagan ([00:28]/[28:14])
• “Not all heroes wear three pens and an LED light,” – Ming Chen, on “Get ‘Em” the anti-egg crusader ([56:29])
• “My dream? ... just get out of bed every morning.” – Ming Chen ([38:42])
• “We were warned about this in 1984 when Terminator came out, and no one’s listening.” – Ming, on AI anxiety ([41:44])
• “If they knew your health conditions, there’s no way they’d license you.” – Walt clowning on Git ‘Em’s security credentials ([29:54])
• "If anybody is interested in Get ‘Em, his is still numb." – Walt ([74:35])

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [03:04] Ming describes the View Askew Cruise gig; Walt explains “the mystique” of never showing up at events.
• [07:17] Ming’s convention circuit numbers and why he’s (supposedly) slowing down.
• [11:24] United Airlines bans playing device audio without headphones; TESD erupts.
• [16:21] Statue of Liberty sign-waver discussion; human advertising sadness.
• [19:02] Cons: competition, Hollywood stars, and “the Maverick’s” new con status.
• [27:17] Git ‘Em’s dish soap mystery and the saga of Airport Plaza bathrooms.
• [39:36] Ming outlines his dreams: from athlete, to fame, to simply getting up.
• [41:37] AI and its effects: fun, fear, and how it makes podcasting easier.
• [49:38] The tragic “prank gone wrong” story and moral debate.
• [53:39] Mischief Night, eggings, and the “hero” clerk vs. the rowdy youth.
• [60:01] Bachelorette parties replacing strippers with magicians; group laughs.
• [65:50] Key West plans: Git ‘Em’s dad’s bespoke jersey, and the ensuing over-analysis.
• [73:38] Walt, Bry, and Ming debate what happens if Git ‘Em’s dad becomes a party legend.

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Tone, Language, and Final Thoughts

The episode is quintessential Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave: equal parts barbershop sarcasm, neurotic detail, honest reflection, and a deep in-group rapport. The language is informal, profane, and sometimes deliberately absurd as the group riffs on the mundane—turning every day office drama and nostalgia into oddly compelling comic essays.

This show is as much about the peculiar chemistry among its regulars as it is about any news item, trend, or event. If you haven’t listened before, Episode #669 provides plenty of context—and plenty of laughs.

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Transcript

[Ming Chen]

Look how mad he is already.

[Bry]

We're 90. Worked up about it. Yeah. I haven't gotten worked up about anything in a while.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah,

[Bry]

We.

[Walt Flanagan]

We see a woman now, we just go like, what the fuck was. And you like. Your bones get softer too, right? You got a soft bone.

[Bry]

Soft bone chin. Don't worry, we have a blue chew coming up.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tell Them Steve Dave.

[Bry]

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell Them Steve Dave with me, Bri and Walt.

[Walt Flanagan]

Hello.

[Gidam]

And get him how you Stankin and

[Bry]

Walt when Q can't make it. And this is one of those weeks, what better fill in than the Maverick himself, Ming Chen.

[Ming Chen]

Hello, everybody. This is Ming Chen. I love. So if Q can't make it on the. On the backup, the pinch hitter, the.

[Walt Flanagan]

The Sunday couldn't make it either.

[Ming Chen]

Oh,

[Gidam]

kidding.

[Walt Flanagan]

You are first choice. No, no, I'm only teasing.

[Gidam]

I was surprised Ming wasn't invited to the New Jersey roast being the Maverick.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah, the roast of New Jersey that Q went to.

[Ming Chen]

Did you get her invite? No, I did not get an invite. I heard about it. I was told about it. Was not invited to it.

[Walt Flanagan]

How come?

[Ming Chen]

I don't know. I. I guess I just. I don't have those chops.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, you got those chops.

[Bry]

I thought you meant, like to be in the audience. That's really what I thought.

[Gidam]

You mean. No, I meant to perform.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I meant to get.

[Ming Chen]

No, they didn't give. They offer me a free ticket. That's how far off I was.

[Bry]

Wow. What were the benefits that came along with being the Maverick? Aside from the plaque that was now a trophy?

[Ming Chen]

And then everyone calls me the Maverick now. That's the benefit.

[Bry]

That's the benefit.

[Ming Chen]

Thanks to you guys. Yeah, you guys popularized the term. So. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Fresh off the cruise of usq. Cruise.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

How was it?

[Ming Chen]

It was fun. It was fun. Definitely. You guys were missed. You guys were brought up where, you know, you think the guys would come on the next one. A lot of you have a lot of fans there. There's a lot of Tom Steve's fans. A lot of. A lot of ant shirts. Rent a lot of ants.

[Walt Flanagan]

What were your. Some of your duties while on board? Did you have any set? Because. And I talked to you before you left, you said you didn't really have any firm scheduled events or anything. So what did you do to pass the time or earn your. Your room and board?

[Ming Chen]

I. So I didn't have any responsibilities. It was awesome. It was awesome. Didn't get. Didn't really get roped in Anything. And yeah, my job was to go to as many scheduled events as I could.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're like Kim Kardashian. You just need to show up. You don't have to do anything. You just got to be there.

[Ming Chen]

That was great, man. Was getting. And then get free. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Did you get free, too?

[Ming Chen]

I. I mean, I got free cruise. A free three thousand dollar cruise. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That was nice.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I can't complain about that. Yeah, they. They had like. They had like 13 guests there, so I didn't. Yeah, they didn't need me. They didn't need.

[Bry]

Still brought you anyway, though.

[Ming Chen]

They did.

[Bry]

So you had some value, man.

[Ming Chen]

I guess either they wanted to make the boat look full, like, see receiver.

[Bry]

We need one more guy.

[Gidam]

It's a lifeboat feller.

[Ming Chen]

We need one more who's guaranteed to show up and not say no and do whatever.

[Walt Flanagan]

Did you do any karaoke? Nothing.

[Ming Chen]

I did karaoke. Yeah. Yeah, I did that. And yeah, I mingled. But yeah, it was very much Kim Kardashian. It was pretty awesome. I get it. I get it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nice. Yeah, it's great work if you can get it right.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. But yeah, whenever I run into Thompson's Dave fans, like, how do we get Walt on the next.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really? See, I feel that that's why I cannot go to any of these things, like the View Askew Cruise or Q West, because I keep the mystique alive that way. Like, if I never show up, then there's always the clamoring.

[Bry]

If I show up, are you officially declining Key west right now?

[Walt Flanagan]

But then they're like, if I come, then the mystique is shattered. Then they're like, oh, my God. I asked for him to come countless times, and this is what he's really like when he's on an event. Yeah. This way I keep that mystery and that kind of vibe going of like, one day he'll show up and it'll be amazing. But if I do show up, it won't be amazing. So it's like I have to not show up. Yeah, that's the key.

[Bry]

That's how you get people to keep liking you by not interacting with you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes.

[Ming Chen]

But we were trying to think of ways to get you on there. Like, what would get Walt Flanagan on this phone?

[Bry]

Let me guess. Somebody suggested drugging him. Like, B.A. brock.

[Gidam]

I'm just gonna say that. Mr. T. Matt.

[Ming Chen]

I was like, we don't have to fly. These guys have driven down to Florida. That's not really a problem. But I was talking to our friend Savon. He's like, I got it. What if they came up. They let him emcee game shows on the boat. You could bring all your own games.

[Walt Flanagan]

So. Yeah. So then it becomes one real job. I want the Ming Chen fucking gig where I just show up and not do anything. I have the noble responsibility, and I can leave whatever I want.

[Ming Chen]

Like Family Feud, all these. Get them, Tracian, Take over the boat.

[Bry]

Get them, Tre.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, thank you. That's. That's like more work that I'm doing right now than it sounds like.

[Ming Chen]

I guess so. But that somebody came up with that. I was like, he might go for it if you got the mc.

[Walt Flanagan]

I can't. I just have to never show up to any event. And that just keeps the excitement, you know, at a. At a fever pitch.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Well, good thing.

[Walt Flanagan]

And the anticipation.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That I might just do it one year.

[Bry]

Next year's a year when they. When we had. What was it? What were we celebrating? That day that we went down to Kevin's theater.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, that was curator's event.

[Bry]

Curators. Curators event. That's right. Yeah.

[Gidam]

Antstravaganza.

[Bry]

Antstravaganza. Yeah. Like, there's one where you showed up. Nobody expected it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Then you were in and out, in and out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yep.

[Bry]

You weren't trapped on a boat for four days.

[Gidam]

No WI fi.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, you get WI fi in a boat?

[Gidam]

Yeah, you told me, you know, you never get wifi. That's why you don't answer my notes.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'll just tell you that. I just tell you that because I don't feel like answering about the yarn lady and your battles about the thermostat in the hallway.

[Ming Chen]

Great excuse. I didn't want to pay $200 for the Wi FI package. That's why I didn't. That's why it was out of communication. Yeah. Well, you guys were missed, so it would have been. Would have been nice to have you guys.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's nice to hear. It's always nice to be missed. Rather than the opposite where they're like, I'm so glad they're not here.

[Ming Chen]

I did not hear that once.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what else is going on with Ming Chen? I think.

[Ming Chen]

I think that's it. You know, doing cons, podcasts.

[Walt Flanagan]

I thought you were slowing down. You haven't slowed down at all.

[Ming Chen]

I slowed down a little bit.

[Walt Flanagan]

You did not slow down.

[Ming Chen]

I don't think I'm gonna be going to as many as I did last year. I did 37 last year. God damn. Was a lot.

[Walt Flanagan]

And so what are you planning on this year then if you did 37 last year, what is your.

[Ming Chen]

Maybe 20?

[Gidam]

What are you up to now?

[Ming Chen]

I think I did two.

[Walt Flanagan]

I count the, the cruise, though, as an event though. You can't say.

[Ming Chen]

No, that counts. That definitely counts. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You did more than two so far in 20, 26.

[Ming Chen]

2.

[Walt Flanagan]

You did more than two weekends where you were away?

[Ming Chen]

Oh, sure. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So so far.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah, that was Albuquerque. I did the cruise. I think that was it. Maybe there was one more.

[Gidam]

You were at Smart Castle the other day. I saw.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Does that, that don't count though.

[Gidam]

Okay. Still wasn't home for the weekend.

[Ming Chen]

That don't count. So I think I've been to two or three. I might in there, but yeah, it's good. You know, that means I get to be here more with. Hanging out with you guys.

[Walt Flanagan]

I've been here a lot, but that's why I'm holding your feet to the fire, because I'm. Like you said, you're going to slow down and you're still not around.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Well, I'm here and happy to be here now.

[Bry]

Do you miss it? Because you were like, you went. Were going hot and heavy for years.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

So do you miss it now? Like the slowed down pace, like.

[Ming Chen]

No, not really.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's not slowed down though. Like he's still going like a mile a minute. How is this slowing down?

[Bry]

He's only been to two or three of us.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, Two or three. Yeah.

[Bry]

As many months. Yeah. Like he was going every other week.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Sometimes more.

[Ming Chen]

No. It's nice being back here. It's nice hanging out with you guys. It's nice being on call as a third stringer.

[Bry]

Now was this your decision solely or was there any, say, spousal input?

[Ming Chen]

No, no, not at all.

[Bry]

No, I think.

[Ming Chen]

No, no, I think. I mean, I'm sure my wife likes having me home more, but.

[Bry]

Sure about that?

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm pretty sure.

[Ming Chen]

I'm pretty sure.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

But there was never. Yeah. You know, as I kept going, there was never any pushback that I was going too much.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow.

[Bry]

Okay. That's an understanding wife. Debbie Chen is something else, huh?

[Ming Chen]

She is.

[Bry]

She is. I couldn't get away with that.

[Walt Flanagan]

You couldn't?

[Bry]

No. Really like being away that long. And I never bring her ever. 37 weeks out of the year now, she wouldn't like that. Wow.

[Gidam]

Ming was in the air for 10 days in 20, 25.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. If you added up all the flights,

[Gidam]

all the hours, 10 days, total 93 flights.

[Walt Flanagan]

That changes your, your body, though, when you're in the. When you're in the air that much,

[Ming Chen]

probably not good for you. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, it's like being in space.

[Gidam]

Yeah. You get exposed to a lot more

[Walt Flanagan]

radiation and, like, your bones get softer, too. Right. You got a soft bone.

[Bry]

Soft bone chin.

[Gidam]

Don't worry.

[Bry]

We have a blue chewing coming up.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Tdsd.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

What am I looking at here? Get him. Brittle bones. Osteoporosis.

[Gidam]

OPL. Apparently it affects Asians.

[Ming Chen]

Really?

[Gidam]

Same thing I.

[Ming Chen]

What's OPL? Oh, yeah.

[Gidam]

Ossification of the posterior ligament.

[Ming Chen]

All right, I better watch it. Keep my neck up.

[Gidam]

Start losing feeling in your feet and your penis.

[Ming Chen]

And where does the radiation exposure come from?

[Walt Flanagan]

Is that true?

[Gidam]

What?

[Ming Chen]

And.

[Walt Flanagan]

And the little. Get them.

[Ming Chen]

Also went. Infected your penis.

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah. I was losing. Yeah. I was dribbling.

[Walt Flanagan]

Not a. Not a. Like a DEFCON 4 situation, I think

[Gidam]

so

[Walt Flanagan]

If I don't feel it, it doesn't exist.

[Bry]

I can't see it. I can't feel it.

[Gidam]

But, no, the radiation comes from space.

[Ming Chen]

Oh.

[Gidam]

Just because you're that much closer and you're. You know, the aluminum isn't that much of a shield.

[Ming Chen]

Right.

[Gidam]

So.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Wow. Okay.

[Gidam]

That's why pilots don't get it. To opt out of the scanning at the airports because they get exposed to so much radiation while they're flying.

[Ming Chen]

All right. So no, no. No X rays.

[Gidam]

No extra X rays.

[Ming Chen]

Right?

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

All right, I'll start. I better watch it then.

[Bry]

It's too late for you.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. It's been fried to a crisp.

[Bry]

Yeah. Ming talking about flying.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Bry]

It's rare that I read a headline and I get a smile and I'm like, yes, finally.

[Ming Chen]

That rarely happens.

[Bry]

Yeah. United finally implemented a ban on people listening to their devices without headphones.

[Ming Chen]

Thank God.

[Bry]

Is there any bigger asshole on earth than a person who goes to a restaurant or in an airplane or a train or any number of public places and they don't use buds?

[Ming Chen]

I think it's one of the worst things you can do in public. Yes. It's beyond annoying. I'm not. I'm not easily annoyed, but, yeah, it happens every so often.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't realize this was a big issue out there. I've never been exposed to somebody who listening or watching something that was so loud that I was like, oh, my God, what's with this guy?

[Gidam]

It's not that it's loud. It's just that it's. It's there.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

It's distracting. And if you get a couple people doing it, you know, everybody's doing it.

[Gidam]

Like the people who, who sit there and hold their phones as they're talking on it because they're on speakerphone, because they can't just hold it up to the ear. They got to do that, keep doing this.

[Bry]

Yeah. Because everybody wants to hear their conversation.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. And you're trapped in a metal tin can.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, but. Okay, I can see it on an airplane. But, like, when you're out, like, these guys aren't on airplanes. Where is this happening that you're so annoying?

[Bry]

No, I'll go on airplanes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, not that man. Not as many as Ming Chad.

[Bry]

No, I'm no Ming Chan, that's for sure.

[Walt Flanagan]

What about him? Let's see, you've been on one airplane in the last, like, 15 years when he went to QS.

[Gidam]

QS, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what's one one irksome.

[Bry]

He doesn't like it when people do it in the office.

[Gidam]

No, I just don't like it. Like when I'm doing. When I'm shopping. It's. It's. Yeah, like, you're just. Yeah. Like you said, like, they're carrying on full conversations about people that they hate and stuff. And it's just. You almost want to join in just to get them to realize, you know, what they're exposing.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. With all the technology out there, you could get Raycons.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

I love my Raycons.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. You get $5 earbuds from the. The convenience store and I mean, Christ.

[Bry]

They give them to you on the airplane.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, give them to you on the airplane.

[Bry]

I read a short article about a lady who was kicked off American Airlines plane. I think because she was playing her. Her phone. And her defense was, this was only my second warning. It's like, you're a fucking adult, for Christ's sakes. First, you shouldn't have to be told once. No, that's common courtesy. But if you are told once, turn it the fuck off.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bry]

And cut the shit.

[Ming Chen]

I agree.

[Gidam]

I.

[Ming Chen]

Look how mad he is already.

[Bry]

We're not even trying to get worked up about it. Yeah. I haven't gotten worked up about anything in a while.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

This is it.

[Ming Chen]

I love it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

What I'm here for.

[Walt Flanagan]

I feel I have the ability to drown it out.

[Bry]

Yeah, not me.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I can. I don't. I don't think I'd even notice it. It's probably going on all around me, and I kind of just like, you know, just like, close my ears to it.

[Bry]

They got to you, man. They have you hypnotized for some of their fucking.

[Walt Flanagan]

I Don't know if it's. Hypnotized is the right word.

[Bry]

Mesmerized.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's just the. I don't know. Yeah, I just don't. If I don't want to hear it, I don't. I have. I can not hear it.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, but, like, on an airplane, it's pretty quiet on there. You know, you hear the drone of the plane, but it's very noticeable, and it's annoying as hell.

[Bry]

Yeah. There's enough noise on a plane as it is.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

We don't need to hear, like, competing to, like, you know, YouTube or whatever.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. I'm surprised it took this long to go into official policy.

[Gidam]

They don't want to offend anybody.

[Bry]

You want to offend people that do it.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Good on United, though. I hope this. All the other airlines, I'm sure will.

[Bry]

Other airlines should follow suit.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

They're gonna ban them.

[Gidam]

The passengers. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

It's gonna happen. Throw them on the no fly list. Yeah.

[Bry]

They should be on the same list as terrorists, I think.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I think so.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bry]

I was wondering on the way. And Walt, I'm sure you see this guy, the dude dressed up like Statue of Liberty, and the tax guy.

[Walt Flanagan]

The tax guy trying to get people to notice the tax company he's promoting.

[Bry]

He has an arrow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bry]

And on the arrow, it says, file today. And, you know, he's sort of pointing it in the general direction of the tax place as an advertising medium. How effective do you think that is? How many people walk in and like, hey, I saw your guy, and I need to file my taxes. So one plus one.

[Walt Flanagan]

The conversions, I have to think, are pretty low. I don't think it would sway. I think it would actually, like, deter me from going to that place because I'm just like, this is cruel and unusual fucking punishment. I think, because the guy can't sit down, apparently, or he's allowed to sit down for, like, a second or. I think there's rules that you have to be moving and holding a sign to be in that corner for that long. It's a. It's a very unusual tactic that I'm surprised has been adopted by so many businesses, like furniture stores going out of business to use it. Any number of places I've seen utilize the. Like, they must go to, like, the methadone clinic and be like, hey, do you want to hold the sign for eight hours?

[Bry]

I think you're right.

[Ming Chen]

You know, for 20 bucks, no experience necessary. We take all criminal records.

[Bry]

Yeah, I'm with you. I think that I Would not guess that that place was reputable. And because it is cruel. Like, I mean, today it's beautiful out for some reason. It's 70 degrees out today. The sun's out, shining. It's great here. But there are many days when that's not the case. And you see these people out in like 20, 25 degree weather, freezing their asses off.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like a foam costume of the statue.

[Bry]

Yeah, like the foam hat, like little hair band thing.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. And they have a. And they can stop to take a drink, but they have to be like. As long as they're moving their arm, you know, some sort of gyro gyration movement, they're technically, I think, able to stand there with a sign. You can't sit with a sign, though. You have to be standing.

[Bry]

Gotta be weird.

[Walt Flanagan]

New Jersey law.

[Bry]

I mean, the only reason they make laws like that. Right. Is because too many people were sitting down.

[Walt Flanagan]

I. I really don't know. I don't understand.

[Ming Chen]

Oh.

[Bry]

Oh.

[Gidam]

For those who don't know, we're showing the day in the life of the Office Coach where I was out on Route 36 with an arrow pointing to the TSD General Store.

[Bry]

What was your conversion rate?

[Gidam]

Zero. Negative.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. How many people came in here bought. Bought hats and Baron pop figures?

[Walt Flanagan]

Hot.

[Gidam]

Hal,

[Bry]

you are.

[Ming Chen]

Well, I mean, you liked it though? You were out there?

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah, I was having fun.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was the middle of summer though. Believe me, when that camera went off, he collapsed.

[Bry]

Oh, he's dancing. He's picking up.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is the era of getting. When he could dance.

[Gidam]

Yeah, I'm getting back there slowly.

[Ming Chen]

What about when you were directing traffic and doing kung fu? Was it. Was it.

[Gidam]

I couldn't do that because that would scare the horses. Any large sign would have scared the horse.

[Ming Chen]

But was it inclement weather when you did that or.

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like I was out there, rain or shine, directing traffic.

[Bry]

And the thing like, I mean, it's good if, like, if you have an intersection and you can get a couple people to see it, it's great. I guess we were lucky. For the most part, people are speeding by at 50 miles an hour. Like, what'd that say? Where am I supposed to go?

[Walt Flanagan]

So with you slowing down now, Maverick.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Would you maybe pick up a couple weekends and a Statue of Liberty foam costume?

[Bry]

You're gonna dress as a butterfly? Why not?

[Ming Chen]

Between then going back to cons,

[Walt Flanagan]

you know you wouldn't.

[Ming Chen]

Well, it's a tough choice.

[Walt Flanagan]

Easy though.

[Ming Chen]

Sweating my ass off, spitting a sign, or getting treated like you Know, like

[Gidam]

treated like royalty at a con where people are bringing him drinks and stuff.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I know. Tough choice.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, is it? I. I didn't want to ask the tough question.

[Ming Chen]

Okay, you.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can decline. Is it. Is the slowdown like your choice or is it. Is it the cons being like, there's just not as many cons nowadays.

[Ming Chen]

Mainly my choice. There's definitely no shortage of conventions.

[Gidam]

Really.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's still like, I would think that that window starting to close as the hobby starts. I hear it's. It's struggling.

[Ming Chen]

It's not struggling. There's actually more competition.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't mean con wise. I'm talking about comics and.

[Ming Chen]

Oh yeah, I think comics, sure. But these conventions are all pop culture cons now, so as long as there's movies and TV out there and the

[Bry]

guests are a big draw too, right?

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

And the. There's more competition now since Hollywood's kind of dried up, there's no work. You'll start seeing names like Sus and Sarandon and Gina Davis.

[Walt Flanagan]

And that hurts the mavericks asking price. Gina Davis is like, I'm willing to come to a con now. And you got. Well, let's see. We got the. For the budget. We. Can we budget. Can we budget a maverick when we got Gina Davis?

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah. If you got Thelma and Louise versus. She's like a triple threat versus Ming Chen and Mike Zapsyk.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, that's really no competition there, unfortunately.

[Walt Flanagan]

I.

[Ming Chen]

Maybe we drove a convertible off a cliff. Maybe, Maybe then. But yeah, I don't think.

[Gidam]

Let me check my spam folder. Maybe there's an invited.

[Ming Chen]

Actually, yeah. Some of these names are getting bigger.

[Walt Flanagan]

Does that, does that irk you when you see those big name shows?

[Ming Chen]

A little bit. Yeah. Where, you know, a year or two ago, you're like, man, this was. You were too good for this. Oh, now you, you know, you need to pay your mortgage and pay your butler and, you know. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You were just paying your. You just need a gas money and they're. This is butler money for them.

[Bry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Take a money out of your mouth.

[Ming Chen]

I gotta maintain my cyber truck like all this. Yeah, it's. It's tough, man. It's. It's tough.

[Walt Flanagan]

Speaking of Mike's apps, I had any.

[Ming Chen]

I've seen him see.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I've been by the store and still everything's great.

[Ming Chen]

Everything's good. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nice.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. He. Well, I think the other week he seemed especially happy. I'm like, what's going on? He's like, those Guys are mad at you, aren't they? He thought. He thought after, I think that one potty thought you guys were mad at me, so that made him happy. Whatever makes you happy, dude.

[Walt Flanagan]

He thought that TSD was made at the Maverick.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah?

[Walt Flanagan]

What gave him that idea?

[Ming Chen]

I don't know. I guess someone must have gave him bad intel. Maybe.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know there's ants out there that do feed him. Oh, sure, sure.

[Bry]

He's got double agents.

[Walt Flanagan]

You got to hear what they said about you this week.

[Bry]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You didn't, like, set him straight, though. You didn't say, like, why. Why are you playing into that? You're letting him believe that we're married.

[Ming Chen]

Listen, if he's happy and Happy Mike

[Bry]

happy, happy Mike happy life.

[Ming Chen]

Yes, that's exactly it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes, that's a Freudian slip.

[Ming Chen]

But, yeah, if he's happy, I'm happy.

[Bry]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow. What kind of mindset do you have to have that if Mike Sapsk's happy, you're happy?

[Bry]

Listen, I'm trying to think of the circumstances.

[Ming Chen]

That's just how it is now.

[Walt Flanagan]

What kind of fucking Hampshire wheel is in that cranium? That's all it takes is to know that if Mike's happy, he's happy.

[Bry]

Checking his Facebook and shit. You know what kind of days have it.

[Ming Chen]

Everything good? Okay. Good.

[Bry]

Good. Yeah, Deb, we can breathe now. Mike's okay.

[Ming Chen]

He's in a good mood today.

[Walt Flanagan]

That tickles me a little bit.

[Ming Chen]

It was like that with you for a little bit, like, oh, man, the devil's lost. I can't go in the store today.

[Walt Flanagan]

You would. You would avoid me. The devil's lost. You really thought that I would. I would take it out on you?

[Gidam]

He was lucky you'd be in a

[Ming Chen]

bad mood when you were really.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

You know, when you were really.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, but that wasn't bad for over 20 years.

[Ming Chen]

Put you in a bad mood pre2010, pre colon shock. Yeah, you were. You're. You, you, you're.

[Walt Flanagan]

And you. You would be like, they won. They won last night. I'll go into the store. Or if they lost, like, if they. I'm not going to go into the

[Ming Chen]

store if they lost. I knew if I came in before, like, one, like, I might hit you might be moody. And then afterwards, just because it was

[Walt Flanagan]

before one and I was still.

[Ming Chen]

Sure, sure. But I know there's a little.

[Walt Flanagan]

That, like, it kind of upsets me, though, that I was that out of control, that is that, like, irrational, like, they avoided me because the devil's lost

[Gidam]

amongst Other things.

[Walt Flanagan]

Is that your mindset when I'm. When I'm pissy to you or you're like out of devils? Must have lost last night.

[Bry]

Any number of things.

[Gidam]

I just knew it wasn't my fault.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah, you're blameless. Have you been listening to the pod?

[Ming Chen]

Did you listen to last week's while we guys talking about big tampons and. Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, you just listened to the fucking title? You just read the title.

[Ming Chen]

You didn't listen to it? I listened to it as much as I could on the way over, about 20 minutes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, so you didn't get into it. Okay.

[Bry]

All right.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Listen, how can you avoid it? How can you avoid it?

[Walt Flanagan]

Avoid what?

[Ming Chen]

Him.

[Bry]

Oh, there's a breakdown. Ming at the end of the episode of Of Gidham. And his. His psychological.

[Walt Flanagan]

He got a 1984 psychological evaluation.

[Ming Chen]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So we're calling to try and adhere to the doctor's orders.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

From 1984. They've been ignored for this many years. So I feel it's time that somebody at least take these. These measures like the recommendations from the doctor, to actually implement them.

[Bry]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's what we're trying to do now.

[Ming Chen]

Good. Good luck. Good luck.

[Gidam]

Going good.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really? Yeah. Get him. I had to get him over to the house the other day just to come over.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. And you actually called him and made

[Bry]

there wasn't a bird in your flu? Nothing like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

I picked him up. Chilled out.

[Ming Chen]

Set time.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

We had conversation. Right.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. No falling.

[Gidam]

Hung out with your wife.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow.

[Ming Chen]

All right. No falling asleep in the car outside. That's okay.

[Bry]

I fell asleep when he was there.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was laying down on my daughter's. But he was built. He was actually making a crib for me, not for me. Together.

[Bry]

That's all making sense.

[Walt Flanagan]

I laid down on my daughter's bed and I fell asleep.

[Gidam]

Because you had Teddy with you.

[Walt Flanagan]

I had Teddy laying on. I think Teddy started snoring. The next thing I know, I'm snoring.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And it was like it was 2 o' clock and all of a sudden it became 6 o'.

[Ming Chen]

Clock.

[Bry]

Get him. Good conversation. Is it time to take you back to the office?

[Walt Flanagan]

You feel better?

[Ming Chen]

I know I feel better.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Good job, Garam.

[Gidam]

I try.

[Bry]

How do you do with the crib? Looking good.

[Walt Flanagan]

Absolutely exquisite. And we would only put Oliver in a crib built by Gidham stick.

[Bry]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. For fear that any other slack jawed yokel putting it together, you know, wouldn't put as much time. And that little extra elbow Grease and making sure the nuts and bolts are tight.

[Bry]

Nice and tight.

[Ming Chen]

Right.

[Gidam]

Attention to detail. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yep.

[Bry]

All right, get him. Did it.

[Ming Chen]

Good job. Get him, get him.

[Bry]

While you're working on that, did you have time to solve the mystery of the missing dish soap?

[Gidam]

No, I did not.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was that?

[Bry]

I've heard this, I heard this around that Gittam left his dish soap in the women's room.

[Gidam]

No, I didn't leave my dish soap. What?

[Bry]

And then when it was gone, he freaked out.

[Gidam]

So explain. Okay, so the men's room only has a. What is it that like the hand operated.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, it's a dispenser.

[Gidam]

No, no, no, no, no. The sink itself, you gotta like constantly run your.

[Ming Chen]

It's a motion.

[Gidam]

The ladies room, on the other hand, has handles. So when you want to like wash dishes or something, you can turn the hot water on and you get hot water.

[Bry]

Your body

[Walt Flanagan]

hobo bath.

[Ming Chen]

Okay, understood. So you can keep the flow of water going.

[Gidam]

Yeah. So yeah. So you get a hot water. So I have my own dish soap, but I know other people go in there and wash dishes or used to go in there and wash dishes. So I decided I'll say, let me just leave like a 99 cent bottle of dish soap. Because there's also. There's hand soap. Yeah, yeah, there's hand soap. And I was like, let me just leave some dish soap. Yeah, So I left some dish soap.

[Walt Flanagan]

Thinking about the other residents of the plaza besides himself.

[Bry]

So. Not forgotten. Left there on purpose.

[Gidam]

Yes, yes. I even wrote second floor ladies room on it in a Sharpie marker.

[Ming Chen]

Very generous of you.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Gidam]

Within 24 hours was gone.

[Ming Chen]

Wow.

[Gidam]

Stolen.

[Ming Chen]

Wow. So back up. You're allowed in the women's room here.

[Gidam]

I go in there after 10 o'. Clock.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

I always knock, you know, if I don't see if the light's off, I just go straight in. But if the light's on, I knock, I go housekeeping.

[Walt Flanagan]

But it's not inaccurate.

[Ming Chen]

No, I'm watching things. I guess.

[Bry]

So.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

You know, just so that.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Gidam]

And hola. Yeah. As long as nobody responds, then, you know, I go in.

[Bry]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

To his defense, though, there are. Now that the yarn lady's gone, it basically is a fucking all dong action in the airport plaza. Like we don't like. Yeah. We see a woman now, we just go like, what the fuck was that?

[Bry]

Like, it's been so long. Lady that works downstairs and that's it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, like we don't see many women up here.

[Ming Chen]

Right. So my question is all hot dog action. How did you find out that the sinks in the women's room don't automatically shut off?

[Gidam]

Because I went in there one time because the men's room was. The lock was broken on the men's room.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

So we had to go into the. Use the ladies room if we had to use the bathroom.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. So this is sanctioned.

[Gidam]

Yes.

[Ming Chen]

Building.

[Gidam]

Well, not by the building.

[Ming Chen]

Like, oh, you were like, I gotta

[Walt Flanagan]

go, I gotta go. Nature calls. Okay. And you know there's no women in the fucking room.

[Gidam]

There's like.

[Walt Flanagan]

You wouldn't, you wouldn't go in.

[Gidam]

I'm.

[Walt Flanagan]

Bullshit. Bullshit.

[Ming Chen]

There's only one. And there's only one restroom in this building.

[Walt Flanagan]

No one was in.

[Gidam]

There's the men's room and the ladies room.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right. It was unusable because we couldn't get

[Ming Chen]

in the lockers broken. But that's the only set of restrooms in this whole.

[Gidam]

That we have access to.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's another restroom on the other side of the building, but we don't have a key to it though.

[Gidam]

No, I think.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, they kept us away from it for some reason.

[Gidam]

Well, I think that's for that side of the building. Like the sticker guy used to use it. The tax people downstairs use it.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. Yeah, but I love. Like you've basically set up an office and they're like Fonzie and shit.

[Gidam]

All the graffiti on the wal up your nose with a rubber hose.

[Walt Flanagan]

Was it.

[Gidam]

Stick it,

[Walt Flanagan]

stick it.

[Ming Chen]

Wow. So are you. Are you. Are there any suspects? Cuz aren't you kind of like the security guard around here now?

[Gidam]

We now have a new security guard.

[Ming Chen]

Like a real licensed and bonded.

[Gidam]

Well, I am. I am licensed by the state of New Jersey as a security guard? Yes.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Are you certain that license hasn't expired especially.

[Gidam]

No, I renew it every two years.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know, but if they knew your health conditions, there's no way they'd license.

[Gidam]

There is no.

[Walt Flanagan]

They would revoke that shit.

[Ming Chen]

There's no physical requirement?

[Gidam]

No, it just. It's actually. It's a knowledge requirement. I can. It's a knowledge requirement. You have to go through 24 hours training every two years. Okay.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, it's like all online, I imagine.

[Gidam]

What do you mean?

[Ming Chen]

The training?

[Gidam]

No, you have to go into a class.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow.

[Ming Chen]

And what's the class like?

[Gidam]

It's just a lot of it. Some of the. Most of it doesn't apply to you.

[Walt Flanagan]

If a train leaves the station at some.

[Gidam]

No, like, it's like the last one, it had modules on like how to tell if a cargo containers been tampered with.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really?

[Gidam]

And stuff like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's all common sense. You. You feel?

[Gidam]

I feel, yeah. And it's number one. It doesn't apply to me, but yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why doesn't apply to you?

[Gidam]

Because none of my security jobs involve shipping containers and checking seals and stuff like that. I truly. I. I never know. You don't want to. Like, I'd love a nice dock job. Those are.

[Ming Chen]

You want a no show dog job?

[Walt Flanagan]

He's already got a no show here. I mean, no shows.

[Ming Chen]

Does he need.

[Gidam]

Need.

[Bry]

He's mobbed up.

[Gidam]

Yeah, actually, I have to go again. This year.

[Walt Flanagan]

You will fail.

[Gidam]

What?

[Walt Flanagan]

You. Why didn't you shamble in over. You're like, oh my God. We cannot with good conscious give this guy did his check clear.

[Gidam]

Okay. He's good.

[Ming Chen]

Is there like an exam at the end? You have to. Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah. It's so easy.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah, the initial one was pretty tough because you have to go through. I think it was 48 hours of work, which is why you don't want to let it expire. Because if you let expire, you have to go through all that all over again.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

So I've had it active since like 2012.

[Bry]

Wow.

[Ming Chen]

And they get like a certificate at the end.

[Gidam]

You used to get a card. Now they don't do a card. It's all on. It's an online.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

So. Which is upsetting because I. That actually helps sometimes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Gidam]

Because it's issued by the state police, so I could use that as ID for like the six points of driver's license.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bry]

So hear the collective. Yeah. I'm almost falling asleep here.

[Ming Chen]

There's a real security guard here now.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

And you get along with he or

[Walt Flanagan]

she's got a real security guard here. Don't perpetuate lies.

[Gidam]

Well, I walk. I do walk the floor. And yeah, so did you.

[Bry]

Oh, so you were referring to yourself. There's not somebody else who also does?

[Gidam]

Well now. Now there is. Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

But going back to the dishwashing and the investigation, who are your leads? Like, who are you targeting as? Do you think Flo just took it on her way out?

[Bry]

She's like, for sure he would have a corkboard up here with the yarn and everything.

[Gidam]

But to me, I don't have access to yarn anymore.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, our lady left. She took all the yarn off our

[Gidam]

cork board I used to pull out of her trash. Now there's none.

[Walt Flanagan]

But let's say the yarn lady kind of in a state of Emotional distress. You know, she's retiring after 40 years in the building. Was like, you know what? I'm taking this just because I need to take something. I need this. I need this. Feel like I'm getting over.

[Gidam]

I need some memory of the man.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm getting over on the man.

[Bry]

Like, when people steal office supplies.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Would it be that big a deal? Let her have the dish detergent.

[Bry]

Or maybe she came back and as revenge, she took it because she's like, where's my sandwich board?

[Gidam]

She had just asked. I would have told her, as soon as Q said, take that sandwich board, I was downstairs.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can't really bitch and moan if someone steals your fucking plant or you. Your dish detergent, because you're taking sandwich boards left and right. There was every sandwich board that's on the front. You're like, you're eyeing up. Is like, I'm stealing that.

[Gidam]

There was a note on the plant that said it belonged to this.

[Bry]

I've been in business for a long time.

[Gidam]

There was a note on that plant, and the guy ripped a note off.

[Bry]

Oh, was that the one that said, I have a home or whatever? Oh, and he took it off and stole your plant.

[Gidam]

The dentist. The dentist on this floor took the plant.

[Bry]

Really?

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Bry]

No idea.

[Gidam]

When I found out he took it, he was like, can I keep it? Do you want it back? I was like, yes, I want the plant back.

[Walt Flanagan]

I would have been like, keep it. Yeah, just take it.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

He wanted it that bad, he was probably going to give it a lot of love, more attention than you do.

[Gidam]

Because the person who took the Lenzicato, they killed it.

[Bry]

Oh, God, not the Lenzicato.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't mean to be mean. You've been awesome. You're a great guy, but I think you're killing the vibe of the show. We got the Maverick here, and he hasn't even spoken. Because you're going on about plants and fucking nonsense.

[Gidam]

Okay, fine.

[Bry]

Let me see if I can liven it up with a spot.

[Ming Chen]

All right, what do we got this week?

[Bry]

Oh, Ming, you're going to be happy to hear this. We got Squarespace.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, all right. Building websites.

[Bry]

Yeah, I know that you use Squarespace.

[Walt Flanagan]

I do remember you used to call Eric Square Dick.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, Eric.

[Walt Flanagan]

When's the last time you called your brother, like, square dick?

[Bry]

In a while. The cubicle. Cubicle.

[Walt Flanagan]

You should just text him, hey, what's up, Square Dick? Just to see what he says. See if he's like, aw, damn it.

[Ming Chen]

I thought he'd stop calling me that?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I think it'd be heartwarming. He's like, oh my God, does Pam

[Gidam]

Pro and Edgar know you call him that?

[Bry]

I don't think so.

[Gidam]

People liked it when he called Pam the other day.

[Ming Chen]

Oh yeah, we love Pam.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was the reason why he was Square Dick?

[Bry]

I have no. Because it just rhymed with Eric. It doesn't rhyme with Eric a little bit.

[Walt Flanagan]

What?

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, not at all. Eric Square Dick.

[Gidam]

Duh.

[Bry]

Okay, so I just texted him, what's going on? Square Dick.

[Ming Chen]

I mean, doesn't have the same ring as say, SpongeBob SquarePants.

[Walt Flanagan]

Eric Square Dick. Yeah, it doesn't rhyme at all.

[Bry]

Eric Squaredick. Yeah, I guess the K rhymes.

[Ming Chen]

The K?

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Just because they both end in K.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's a stretch though. Some poet over there, isn't it?

[Bry]

What am I gonna write with Eric?

[Ming Chen]

Professional writer. Leave him alone.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow, this Jim Morrison. And now there's Brian Johnson. American Poets.

[Ming Chen]

Both Maya Angelou.

[Bry]

Square Dick Johnson. The Cubicle Pubic.

[Gidam]

Let's name a rest stop after him.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, but Square space. Not Square dicks.

[Bry]

Not Square dick. Square space. They give you everything you need to offer services and get paid all in one place. From consultations to events and experiences. Showcase your offerings and customizable website to attract clients and grow your business. Get paid on time. Do you get paid on time, Ming?

[Ming Chen]

I do get paid on time.

[Bry]

All right, that's thanks to. Thanks to Squarespace with their online payments. Plus streamline your workflow with built in appointment scheduling and email marketing tools. Every dream needs a domain, Ming. You had a dream.

[Ming Chen]

I did.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was your dream, Ming?

[Ming Chen]

My dream?

[Walt Flanagan]

Overall.

[Ming Chen]

In life?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Besides playing in any number of professional sports.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really? Wait a minute.

[Ming Chen]

You.

[Walt Flanagan]

You had a dream of being professional athlete? Don't most guys?

[Bry]

Yeah, but midget wrestling.

[Walt Flanagan]

What year did you hold that dream on? Like you know, when you were younger

[Ming Chen]

was, you know, say ages 6 to 12.

[Walt Flanagan]

Maybe even at 12 you had the. You're under the illusion that you could be a professional player. In what league?

[Ming Chen]

I'm about to hit puberty.

[Bry]

Maybe.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, if.

[Bry]

If when pube hits those hormones.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're gonna turn into a six foot.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

From four 225 pound Adonis.

[Ming Chen]

Yes. That could hit a 99 mile per hour fastball.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So when you. When 14 came around and you looked in the mirror where you.

[Ming Chen]

Like when I tried out for the high school baseball team and I didn't come close to making it. Yes. That's when the dream died.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was your like? What was your. Your attributes like. Like what were your good qualities as a ballpark?

[Ming Chen]

I thought I had some speed.

[Bry]

That thought.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Until you've raced any other. Any. Some of the other players on the team.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, they were. Yeah, they were taller and faster than me.

[Walt Flanagan]

Longer stride.

[Ming Chen]

That's what I. Yeah, that's why I blamed it on. Sure. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And your parents. You should have blamed it on you. It's not your fault that you're not.

[Ming Chen]

Right. That I'm not.

[Bry]

Genetics. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Superiority.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

But that's. All right. So you abandoned the pro athlete dream. What's your next dream then?

[Ming Chen]

I mean, next one was be rich and famous somehow.

[Bry]

Are you.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're well on your way right. Halfway there.

[Ming Chen]

I mean, at one point, you know, podcast studio, the trajectory was looking pretty good for say it was.

[Walt Flanagan]

You were on the right track.

[Ming Chen]

We were on a track.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're on track.

[Ming Chen]

We were on a track from, you know, say the. The years 2012 to 2018. It was looking pretty good.

[Walt Flanagan]

But as soon as AMC said then you had to. Another dream goes to bites the dust.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Then you're then, all right, so what's

[Walt Flanagan]

the third dream, then? You're old. This is the third act.

[Bry]

Used to call. Like when he was into the Amway stuff, he didn't call him dream stealers. Like if you weren't into the same.

[Walt Flanagan]

Dream killers.

[Ming Chen]

Dream killers. We heard that term firsthand.

[Bry]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Dream killers.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what's Ming Chen's new third act?

[Ming Chen]

Dream the third right now is just get. Get out of bed every morning. And it's.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's gone from professional athletes and now just getting out of bed. That's not Ming Chen. There's. Are you suffering from depression?

[Ming Chen]

No, but you know, come on.

[Walt Flanagan]

That is not the main chance.

[Bry]

The maverick.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know that now. His dream is to get out of bed in the morning.

[Ming Chen]

Now it's. It's getting a little late in the game to.

[Bry]

This is a hard 51. The past 10 years he hasn't been fucking around. He's been out there partying, living the life.

[Walt Flanagan]

So I know there's no mountains to climb for Ming Chen.

[Ming Chen]

I. I would. I would love to be back on TV again.

[Walt Flanagan]

Are you making any movements towards that, though?

[Ming Chen]

Not really. That's tough though, you know, but you got to do something.

[Walt Flanagan]

You just can't be like, oh, one day I'll be back on tv. I'm not going to do anything.

[Bry]

Wait, what? That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah.

[Gidam]

What's the last show?

[Ming Chen]

It worked once.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, once.

[Bry]

Why not again?

[Ming Chen]

Once, why not again?

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow. These kind of do seem like a little bit of vapid dreams though. I just want to be rich and famous.

[Ming Chen]

Compared to, you know, curing diseases, there's

[Bry]

no path to it changing.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, no, I hear you.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's all fluff.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Because then when you gain the fame and fortune, you realize it's empty. I don't know if anybody's told you that who's famous.

[Bry]

Yeah. Is that why you developed a drinking problem?

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. That cured everything. That cured everything.

[Bry]

Oh, there he is. Michigan.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Did you just AI that right now?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

That's great, man. Yeah, I did. I mean, I get the body there of a baseball player, just like you'd have to be. You just gotta hit a baseball and field really well.

[Walt Flanagan]

Remember you, you have a. At least in that picture, you have a Kirby Puckett type body. I do not in real life though. You need to start, you need to put on a little bit more muscle mass to get that Kirby Puckett start

[Ming Chen]

lifting instead of taking that protein powder that get him's taken.

[Walt Flanagan]

Or do we have. If he gets, if he ever gets out of jail, I'll hook you up with a guy I know downstairs who might be able to get you some, some good steroids.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Oh, that's what you need. You need to roy up, man.

[Ming Chen]

At this point.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

That's the only way it's going to happen.

[Bry]

That'd be a good idea.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Squarespace.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Bry]

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[Walt Flanagan]

I want to hear Ming Chen's feelings.

[Ming Chen]

It can be useful. It's gonna kill a lot of jobs.

[Walt Flanagan]

You think so?

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

Do as a.

[Ming Chen]

And overall, is it good? I don't know. I mean, we were kind of warned about this in 1984 when Terminator came out and no one's listening. So yeah, ultimately I think it's gonna

[Walt Flanagan]

let people say that. Now I must have missed a portion of the movie because I don't remember anybody talking about AI like making like Ming Chen look like me.

[Ming Chen]

Player.

[Walt Flanagan]

Now being as dangerous as a fucking murdering cybernetic robot.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That to me, is at the same.

[Ming Chen]

They didn't really. Threat level. They really touch on that when they're talking about cyber die. I mean, maybe that's how cyber got started. They were doing memes and stuff like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

But what can we do, though, to save, like. Like the writers and of Hollywood from having to fucking be, you know, the threat of AI writing movie scripts.

[Ming Chen]

I don't know. I don't. I think it's too late.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's too late.

[Ming Chen]

And it's too late.

[Bry]

Genie's out of the bottle. Yeah. Out of the tube.

[Gidam]

As a podcast studio owner, have you found that it impacts your business in any way?

[Ming Chen]

Only positively.

[Gidam]

Okay.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. So all positive. Just even. You know how you write the description of the episode every week? Just throw it through AI and it spits it out in like two seconds. Just me. It's made it easier. You're easier.

[Bry]

What? Write the description.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're writing AI. You're letting AI write. Nobody has to.

[Bry]

I could, I guess, if I want.

[Ming Chen]

A lot of people are. Most people are doing it, like, it'd

[Bry]

probably take me longer to figure out how to do that. Just write it down.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, that's true.

[Gidam]

I've been seeing commercials on Pluto for a podcast. Studios.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one in la.

[Gidam]

Have you considered something like that?

[Ming Chen]

They're. They're nice. Those are. They're. They're expensive, but.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I mean, like a commercial, though.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I. I would love to have a commercial on Pluto.

[Gidam]

If you need a director, this man right over here direct a commercial like you wouldn't believe.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. It would be cool to have on. On, like, the Comedy Channel, like watching Three's Company.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think Pluto is probably a little bit more your price point.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I think so.

[Walt Flanagan]

Rather than Comedy Central.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

Do you own the rights to the price? Mike?

[Walt Flanagan]

I see does. I'm sure AMC wouldn't even remember.

[Bry]

Yeah, it was an injunction issue. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Bring back price mite for.

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

The.

[Ming Chen]

The pitchfork. It could work. It could work.

[Bry]

Ming, you know what you got to do?

[Ming Chen]

What do I have to do?

[Bry]

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[Ming Chen]

Well worth it. I highly endorse this product.

[Bry]

Yeah. You like them? If you're still using them.

[Ming Chen]

Still use them. Yeah. Yeah. I need a quick website. Didn't want to spend a lot of time building it. And, yeah, had it up in, like, a couple hours.

[Bry]

All right.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

How many websites you got now?

[Ming Chen]

I think one, like two or three. Not that many.

[Walt Flanagan]

That you monitor daily, that get traffic.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah. Not like the old days where I was responsible for.

[Walt Flanagan]

Hey, if. Now you're gonna have some free time. If we, both of us, you know, went back and we're like Vladi. For our old jobs back at vosq, you think the. What do you think the interest level is? And we come in with, like. With like, we'll do it for half the price. We did.

[Ming Chen]

Or back in the day, desperate. It would reek of a little desperation. But we did good work back in the day.

[Walt Flanagan]

We did. I think that's at half the cost.

[Ming Chen]

At half the cost now.

[Walt Flanagan]

Half the price? Same amount of work, half the price.

[Ming Chen]

Would that mean, I guess if people that are doing our jobs now get ousted.

[Bry]

Yeah. Would you do it just for spite? A spite job?

[Walt Flanagan]

Who's doing your job?

[Ming Chen]

They got multiple people that. Freelancers.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think it's a. AI at this point.

[Bry]

Yeah. Sorry, man. You can't come back. Well, you're in.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I think that would mean whoever's doing our jobs currently are. I don't.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, okay.

[Ming Chen]

Especially if we come in at half the price. We lowball it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

We got to go in and we got to have a power meeting.

[Bry]

They would definitely be like, what is going on? Why are they trying to infiltrate this company?

[Gidam]

Work on your elevator pitch.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. There would be a degree of suspicion, I'm sure.

[Gidam]

Why?

[Walt Flanagan]

Why is it, like, we just miss it. I miss being going to Red bank every day.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Yeah. The traffic, the people. It was great.

[Walt Flanagan]

Remember that guy Doc?

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was his real name?

[Ming Chen]

The. Wait, which Doc?

[Walt Flanagan]

He was like a psychiatrist. Yeah. What was his real name? Remember what I'm talking about?

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You remember his real name? We could tell me off my.

[Gidam]

No, I don't remember the name. I just remember the discussions I used to hear.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, sorry, Squarespace.

[Bry]

We're done with that.

[Ming Chen]

Build your website.

[Bry]

Yeah. We're moving on to bluechew.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, we actually do have bluechew.

[Bry]

Yeah, we do have Blue Chew today. You know what time it is, Ming? It's time to level up. And Bluetooth just dropped something crazy. Next level, championship belt. Gold plated Energy. Bluechew Gold is the newest innovation from the number one Chewable Ed brand. This ain't your grandpa's little pill. So it used to be your dad. Now it's your grandpa. Used to be like, hey, this ain't your dad's little blue pill. Then they change it to grandpa to make it seem even less cool.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, yeah, that's even more, you know, ancient. Then it's even more of a, like, you know, grab you by the face and, like, be like, hey, wake up, stupid.

[Bry]

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[Gidam]

What else could you ask for?

[Ming Chen]

Wow. How do I get this Bluechew gold?

[Bry]

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[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

Can you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Could you. Would it be detrimental to your health if you, like, took too many Blue Chews?

[Bry]

Oh, yeah, I think so.

[Gidam]

Anything can hurt you.

[Ming Chen]

If it.

[Gidam]

If it can help you, it can hurt you.

[Bry]

All right.

[Ming Chen]

That's a lot of blood flow, right?

[Walt Flanagan]

I just thought maybe it made it, like. Made it, like, almost like a adamantium dick.

[Bry]

No, I think they specifically warn against doing that for that result, because.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know.

[Bry]

I think it works.

[Walt Flanagan]

There might be dimwits out there that might be, like, you know, if I take six of them, six times harder.

[Bry]

Some people would think that. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

From the mines of Wakanda. Come here, Snict.

[Bry]

Did you see. Wait. Go, Henry.

[Gidam]

No.

[Ming Chen]

I'm sure there are people who think that way and they suffer the consequences. So this is your warning. If you're listening, don't take six.

[Walt Flanagan]

Don't take six at one point.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I'm sorry, what were you about to say?

[Bry]

Well, I'm rolling the dice on this story. The Georgia teen who got charged with killing the high school teen teacher and the prank gone wrong. Did you see that?

[Gidam]

No.

[Bry]

I'm really torn on this one because normally I'm like, kids, you know, forgetting my own youth.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Bry]

But it's a. These kids, it was like a senior prank that they were pulling on their Teacher who evidently was aware of it. He was like, kind of in on it. And what happened was they were toilet papering his house and he ran outside to get them, and they took off. You know, they ran. They got in their car, and I guess he slipped and he fell on. Somehow he slipped and fell underneath the car and they ran him over. They ran him over and killed him. They killed the guy or the guy got killed, I should say.

[Ming Chen]

Prank gone wrong.

[Bry]

So Prank gone wrong?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Is there ring footage?

[Bry]

I haven't seen any.

[Ming Chen]

There's gotta be.

[Walt Flanagan]

You would ring footage, because if you're chasing someone, usually that means you're behind the car, you're not in front of the car.

[Bry]

It says, after catching the pranksters doing it, he ran after the teens, but slipped and fell into the road because of the rainy weather and was run over as he.

[Walt Flanagan]

By the car with the kids or by another car by the kids.

[Bry]

He was driving his pickup truck away. The five teens gave first aid to the injured teacher before first responders arrived and rushed him to a hospital, where he later died of injuries. His wife Laura, had previously called for charges against the teens to be dropped. This is a terrible tragedy, and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy from occurring, ruining the lives of these students.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, so they don't even want to press charges?

[Bry]

They don't want to press charges, but the prosecutor's like, no, I want to. I want to get these guys.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think there might be more to the story than we're getting then if the prosecution feels that there's something there. I mean, first off, how are you in front of the car if you're chasing the car?

[Bry]

Well, I mean, you can run to the side of it, right? You can run up along the side and then fall.

[Gidam]

Yeah. Like if they were underneath, if they were parked in front of his house, like two cars, unless they backed up

[Walt Flanagan]

and ran him over, don't look that way.

[Gidam]

Like, if he was running in front of their car to get around to the driver's side, and then as he's running, he slips and they're already in drive.

[Walt Flanagan]

And should all of everybody in the car get charges or just the driver?

[Bry]

Just the driver is getting charged.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think that's fair.

[Bry]

The other people are getting charged with criminal trespassing and littering. Or that was the. I mean, come on.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, those are.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's gonna.

[Bry]

It's on private fucking property.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's going to forever you. It's hard to recover from that if you're one of the. Like, if you Kill somebody in a prank. A high school prank, senior prank.

[Bry]

But that's.

[Walt Flanagan]

But I'm not willing to just like. Just because the wife is like, well, no charges. I would want to hear more about why they want to charge them before making a decision like that. We do. We shouldn't charge them because they didn't intend to kill him. You know, a lot of things happen where you didn't intend for it to happen, but you were fucking stupid.

[Bry]

Yeah, well, look, I hate to victim blame here, but is there any onus on this guy who ran out into the road in the rain chasing a truck? Is it partially his fault for doing something?

[Walt Flanagan]

What should he have done?

[Bry]

I don't know. Let him do it. Go come out and be like, hey, you guys.

[Walt Flanagan]

You would just let someone TP your house?

[Bry]

No, but I mean, if they were students of mine and I recognize them because the. Evidently, this prank was worth two points, like the seniors.

[Walt Flanagan]

So let's say.

[Gidam]

Well, how would you recognize them unless you went to chase the vehicle?

[Walt Flanagan]

Let's say RUP and Chalker TP in your house. You're not just gonna sit there. Just sit there and be like. You're gonna go out there and you're gonna chase them.

[Bry]

I would be like, no, what are you guys doing? No, I'm not running all the way down to the road in my house. I'm like, I gotta. I can't wait until we record the weirdest thing happened.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, but you're like, this is why I have guns, man.

[Bry]

Finally.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, finally I get my firearms, get

[Bry]

put to use, like in Chuck's tail.

[Ming Chen]

Get back here, Rob.

[Bry]

Yeah, I mean, so, I mean, in response to your, like, you would want to know more that this is pretty much everything I've seen so far. It's like, there hasn't been. After it happened, there hasn't been like, a ton of information. A ton of information beyond that. Yeah, that was given.

[Ming Chen]

Did you. Did you tp. You ever TP to house?

[Walt Flanagan]

I've never TP to ask you.

[Ming Chen]

I. I tried. I went with a friend, but halfway there. It's the middle of the night.

[Walt Flanagan]

You had to take a. Yeah. What happened to that toilet paper, man?

[Ming Chen]

Now, I chickened out, and my friend kept on going. I. I turned tail and went back home. I got scared I was gonna get caught.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was Mischief Night.

[Ming Chen]

It wasn't Mischief Night. It was just some random night.

[Walt Flanagan]

But I would go out on Mischief night. I never TPed a house, but I would throw eggs. I soap up windows. You know, I wrote Some like some pretty funny ass on windows. On the windows of people's cars.

[Gidam]

Sit on it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Stick it. No.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was a little bit more colorful than to sit on it. Guys who are like. Who always, like, chases off or playing football on the street.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like. Like, because the football may have hit their car and. Nerf. Yeah. They paid for that.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

As I exposed what they put in their mouth.

[Ming Chen]

Right.

[Bry]

Oh, no. Everyone to see in soap.

[Gidam]

I drew a wild ass on the side of their car.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah, we did some. I would. We would shoot bottle rockets right At. At just houses and.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. We were wild animals.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

We ran the streets.

[Bry]

It's the kind of. That if, like, you're right. If somebody was shooting bomber rockets at my house, I'd be like, what the. What is going on here? Like, this is. This is weird.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's 1983. It was different rules back then.

[Bry]

Yeah. There really were no rules.

[Gidam]

No rules. I remember one night I was working at the supermarket overnights, and some kids came in and bought three cases of eggs.

[Walt Flanagan]

You weren't supposed to sell them to them, Right.

[Gidam]

I tried to stop the sale.

[Bry]

Of course you did.

[Ming Chen]

You stepped in.

[Gidam]

I'm like. I called the manager over. I'm like, it's two is.

[Walt Flanagan]

He is the biggest.

[Gidam]

How would you feel. How would you feel if someone egged your house and no one tried to stop it? It was 2 o' clock in the morning.

[Bry]

I assume nobody was trying to stop it.

[Gidam]

It was 2 o' clock in the morning. I said, who? What? Teenagers are buying eggs at 2 o' clock in the morning? 3. 3, like 36.

[Walt Flanagan]

So the mornings fell on deaf ears. Yeah, get him. Shut the fuck up.

[Bry]

We want to bring him up.

[Walt Flanagan]

God damn it.

[Bry]

We got shit to sell, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's three egg eggs. I'm going to sell that. I wasn't going to sell, so please. I'm not going to this sale. Up. Shut the up and bag it.

[Bry]

Yeah. So that somewhere someone will be like, well, my house didn't get. I'm sure there was some. Some grocery store clerk who stopped it.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. My hero.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sometimes there's a hero that no one ever sees.

[Bry]

Yeah. What a. What a little. I would just feel like, yeah, he's the.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's the guy that. Yeah. Like, I would be fighting such fucking horrible shit on your windows and soap if I was a kid that you tried to stop us from buying eggs. Oh, yeah. Everybody would know what you put in your mouth, bro.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And your butt.

[Bry]

Wherever I fit. That's where it's going.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Just remember, not all heroes wear three pens and an LED light.

[Gidam]

Some heroes wear aprons.

[Ming Chen]

Well, how'd you try to stop the sale? Were you renting and raving like that?

[Gidam]

I said, I have to ask my manager if I can approve this sale. Am I managing?

[Walt Flanagan]

How old are you?

[Gidam]

28, 30.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, my God.

[Ming Chen]

Shut up, old man.

[Gidam]

And my manager just was like, yeah, sell them to him, dude.

[Walt Flanagan]

There was. There was.

[Ming Chen]

Kid.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was in high school and I had a job. I had a job at Futown.

[Gidam]

That's what this was.

[Walt Flanagan]

And there was kids that came in that I was in summer school. And one of the kids in my summer school class came in and brought beer. And I didn't even fucking rat him out because I was like, and this is breaking the law, not fucking buying eggs. And I was. I didn't like the guy either, but I was. I wasn't gonna be fucking the hero that stands up and was like, this is wrong, right? I was like, fuck it, man. He didn't. Like. They didn't care back then. It was 1984. Nobody gives a.

[Ming Chen]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

Especially about eggs. No. Does anybody egg houses anymore?

[Gidam]

Apparently, yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, they don't, do they?

[Gidam]

Why were they buying?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no, I'm talking about 20, 26. Does anybody.

[Gidam]

Yeah, well, it doesn't make the news, so I can check. But I knew that these kids were. Because especially when they went to leave, they had a. One of the. Was like an astro van and the window was taken out of the sliding door.

[Bry]

So you knew they were.

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Or drive by.

[Bry]

Egging.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Bry]

All the clues pointed to it.

[Gidam]

Yeah. But my manager was like, no, just sell the eggs.

[Ming Chen]

You have your ear do stuck firmly to a police scanner. You don't hear about egging on.

[Gidam]

A lot of the police scanners are now encrypted, so I mostly get first aid calls.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Why do they do that? So that like criminals can't listen in.

[Gidam]

It's just, it's. The radios are cheaper, I guess, and less interference. And the state police can monitor the frequencies so they know what's going on. It's just easier for communications.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know someone's jeep who's going to get egged. This mischief.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

In the airport plaza.

[Gidam]

I won't notice.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're right, it wouldn't matter.

[Ming Chen]

Getting covered.

[Gidam]

You got the unlimited wash. You come

[Walt Flanagan]

down Megs, like in your Jeep, clean,

[Gidam]

cage free.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Don't get killed chasing him down. Get him.

[Gidam]

Is that Eric?

[Ming Chen]

Don't get killed.

[Bry]

He didn't answer. He's probably working.

[Ming Chen]

Well, I'm. I'm sure. Who's ever. I guess the house did get right.

[Gidam]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They weren't baking cakes at 2 o' clock in the morning.

[Bry]

Damn. You'll never know.

[Ming Chen]

Almost foiled this plot, Richard.

[Bry]

Jewel.

[Ming Chen]

You could have been Richard.

[Bry]

See how it worked out for him? There's a new trend now. Ming, I think you eventually told your wife that you and I had a mini bachelor party when you got married.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes.

[Bry]

Yeah, she knows all about it.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Bry]

Walt, his bachelor party was devil's game.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Bry]

My bachelor party was sitting around a table podcasting with you guys.

[Walt Flanagan]

Great.

[Bry]

But there's a new trend because usually guys go to strip clubs. That's. That's the tried and true classic bachelor party move. But women now, instead of getting a stripper, because there was a long period where they were getting strippers, there's a trend towards getting magicians.

[Ming Chen]

Magicians.

[Bry]

Yes.

[Ming Chen]

Wow. That's totally the same.

[Bry]

It's totally the same thing. Right?

[Walt Flanagan]

Do they perform in a banana hammock?

[Bry]

They don't perform in a banana hammock. It's just a regular magician and it's not like, erotic or anything. I read this in. Really? In the paper. Yeah. Well, online. But, you know, you have like a

[Ming Chen]

bachelor, part bachelor art party, and like Harry Blackstone shows up or David Copperfield or.

[Bry]

Well, I don't think you're getting those guys. I think. I think you're getting a guy, like, off of Facebook.

[Gidam]

You're getting Tom.

[Bry]

Yeah. You're getting Tom the magician.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Bry]

Do you think guys will follow suit?

[Ming Chen]

I.

[Bry]

Or do you.

[Ming Chen]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say no.

[Walt Flanagan]

But if it's a female magician, maybe, and she's wearing pasties.

[Bry]

Yeah, but it has to be some sexual element. It can't just be a regular magician.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, just a legit. It has to be a thong somewhere. Maybe a rabbit has wearing a thong. A little mini thong.

[Bry]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

There has to be a thong for

[Ming Chen]

it to be official. One thong somewhere.

[Bry]

A thong has to make an appearance.

[Ming Chen]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

But yeah, I don't know if.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, I don't think this is going to catch on in the. The bachelor party community.

[Bry]

Here it is. Ginham found it.

[Ming Chen]

Is this an ad?

[Gidam]

This is someone looking for a magician.

[Bry]

Hello. We're visiting in July for a bachelorette. 11 adult girls and looking for a magician to come to the house. Don't ask Roger's request. Lol. Does anyone have any recommendations?

[Walt Flanagan]

It still sounds a little, like, salacious. Yeah, it doesn't sound as wholesome as you making it does sound like the weird, like, stilted wording of it makes it still sound like it's dirty.

[Bry]

Well, I think she's like, normally we would get a stripper, but for some reason we're getting a fucking magician.

[Ming Chen]

Don't ask why, but there's a trend now you say?

[Bry]

That's what I read. It's a trend. Let's see. Yep. Brides waits, bridesmaids swear a new trend at bachelor parties is even better than a stripper. They're swapping abs and lap dances for a new kind of thrill.

[Ming Chen]

For rabbits and coin trucks.

[Bry]

Yeah, yeah. And there's a picture of the guy performing. He's just under. He's like in a suit jacket and a fully clothes, button up shirt. Yeah, there he is. He's right there.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, yeah. He's just.

[Bry]

He's fully dressed.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

How much you can make? He typically performs for an hour.

[Ming Chen]

I mean, what, a hundred bucks?

[Bry]

Maybe that's it.

[Ming Chen]

I. Yeah, I. I can't imagine.

[Bry]

That seems like a lot of work. Like, you're. For an hour.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. But you're. Would you pay more than a hundred

[Bry]

probably for a magician? Well, if it's a bachelorette party, there's, you know, there's a bunch of girls there, they could all chip in. Even if, like, you know, you got 10 girls in each, chip in 20 bucks.

[Ming Chen]

Right.

[Bry]

Then you got 200 for the magician.

[Ming Chen]

It's an expensive magician, though, man.

[Bry]

I don't know what's a magician's going rate? I'm not even sure.

[Gidam]

Not priced a magician.

[Bry]

Yeah. Oh, here's the thing. Because they say that no one felt awkward or left out, and everyone was laughing and generally comfortable and amazed, which isn't always the case at bachelorette party.

[Ming Chen]

Now it all makes sense.

[Bry]

Yeah. So it's for the other people who aren't into the stripper. Like, you have a friend that's like,

[Ming Chen]

ooh, all right, this is precious.

[Bry]

Or they're married or whatever.

[Ming Chen]

This is all inclusive.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

He puts shaving cream on his magic wand, you know, and then the girls have to lick off the magic wand.

[Bry]

It's better if it was whipped cream than shaving cream. Probably.

[Gidam]

I heard Jimmy's having like four bachelor parties.

[Bry]

Is he really? I haven't been invited to any of them.

[Ming Chen]

I don't.

[Bry]

Me either.

[Gidam]

I wonder if magicians have been invited to any of them.

[Bry]

Probably. He seems like that kind of guy.

[Ming Chen]

Have you heard of, like, the themes of these?

[Gidam]

No, no. I think, like, all, like the members of his.

[Ming Chen]

The jugglers.

[Gidam]

No. Like, what's the wedding. No. Yeah. The wedding party are, like, vying to throw, like, the best bachelor party for him.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's a competition.

[Gidam]

Yeah. I think Truck wants to be number one.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's gonna have to hire a magician and.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gidam]

Recommend it to him.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Make that shaving cream disappear.

[Walt Flanagan]

I meant whipped cream.

[Bry]

Yeah. Lunches and cocktails followed by games, dancing, activities. It seems outdated and predictable. They say, wow, the world is evolving, huh?

[Ming Chen]

Sounds riveting, but. Yeah. I don't see a bunch of dudes doing this.

[Bry]

No. Why don't you have a stripper? Just. You didn't want a stripper, Walt. Or was it. We think your wife would get upset.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think the Devils would have been, too.

[Bry]

It was a fun bachelor party, I'll say that much. We had a good time.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, well, we had. We had fun at ours, too, so.

[Bry]

Yeah, we did. We had a good time.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, we had a real good time.

[Bry]

Ming's bachelor party was me, him, a stripper who we were friends with, and then a teacher who we were friends. Yeah. And then we just went to strip clubs and hung out.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. Good old Jersey. It was fun.

[Bry]

Yeah, it was a good time.

[Ming Chen]

It was fun. Brian Johnson knows that. Throw a party, man.

[Bry]

Yeah, I do it rarely, but I do it. Speaking of parties, Q's turning 50 on. I think it's Sunday. Oh, really? Yeah. He won't be here, though, so we're going to try to schedule some kind of.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, nice, big five zero.

[Bry]

Yeah. Right now he's down in Key West.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, really? Getting ready.

[Bry]

Sure. Yeah, sure. He's there for a week, getting ready.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah. It's going to take that much time to.

[Gidam]

You excited for Qs, Ming?

[Ming Chen]

I'm very excited. Last year was awesome, and I expect nothing less this year.

[Walt Flanagan]

Have you announced? Oh, yeah. You announced your father's coming, right?

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that. I'm excited about that. I never met your dad.

[Walt Flanagan]

Ask these guys what you should do about the jersey.

[Gidam]

I already ordered it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Everybody tell them the dilemma you had.

[Bry]

You had a dilemma with the jersey.

[Ming Chen]

What's going on?

[Gidam]

So I wanted to get my dad a jersey so that he was easily identifiable. So in case.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

In case I'm not around people. Well, no, just so if I'm not around, like, you know, someone will at least keep their eye on him.

[Walt Flanagan]

So we want to order him a Giants jersey.

[Bry]

Okay.

[Ming Chen]

New York Giants.

[Gidam]

Yeah, New York Giants.

[Bry]

You purchased a pin, A note to his shirt.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's identifiable as, like, did you think that he would be like, oh, my God, that's Phil Sims.

[Gidam]

What do you mean?

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, how is he easily identifiable?

[Gidam]

Well, then people would know that he's

[Walt Flanagan]

my father because he's wearing a Giants

[Gidam]

jersey that has Giddham's dad written back.

[Ming Chen]

Spell it out for everybody.

[Gidam]

Yeah, I ordered. Yeah. Custom jersey for him, but I was trying to find out the right color.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, the jersey.

[Gidam]

Yeah. Like, did he want the white jersey? Would he want the blue jersey? What do you want the. You know.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Gidam]

So I was trying to find out which color jersey he wanted, and I was trying to find, like, the best.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's trying to find out without asking his father.

[Bry]

Oh. Oh, you want to surprise.

[Gidam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

I.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I told him, go blue, but it wasn't. Yeah. The answer wasn't good enough, though.

[Bry]

I wanted to go blue, too. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

That's pretty standard.

[Gidam]

There's two different. There's like two or three different blue ones, though. Just.

[Ming Chen]

Home blue Giant.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is the.

[Ming Chen]

This is what you guys do all day here?

[Walt Flanagan]

I tell him, he asked me. I give an answer, and then it's. But he doesn't like that.

[Gidam]

No, I just wanted to know which blue. Because again, there's a new blue one. There's an old blue one.

[Walt Flanagan]

I said, get the 80s blue one.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

Which is when I ended up.

[Ming Chen]

When they're champions.

[Gidam]

I thought you got the white and the blue eventually. Yeah, I did get the 30 jerseys.

[Ming Chen]

What the hell?

[Gidam]

Just. Well, no, I went. I went both blue.

[Ming Chen]

Okay, Okay.

[Gidam]

I went both blue.

[Ming Chen]

Okay, well, so he can have one for each day.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Bry]

Do you have a number on his jersey, too?

[Gidam]

Yeah, I found that. His high school football number.

[Bry]

Oh, the high school football number.

[Gidam]

Yeah. Okay. 62.

[Bry]

Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was he, a lineman?

[Gidam]

I'm not sure. I don't know. I remember really asked.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wichita lineman.

[Gidam]

No.

[Ming Chen]

Is your dad prone to, like, what, just wandering off? Is that.

[Gidam]

No, just so, like, people could, you know, make sure he's being taken care of if I'm, like, found it available or if I'm doing something.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, now, what does that mean? Like, quote, unquote, taken care of? Like, what.

[Bry]

Who are these people that are taking charge?

[Gidam]

You know, it's just gonna ask the other answers to, you know, make sure he's having a good time, like, type deal.

[Bry]

Right.

[Gidam]

Like, you know, he's not being excluded.

[Walt Flanagan]

What does that entail, though? Like, have a good time. That sounds almost like, wink, wink, make sure he has a good time. If you know what I Mean, no,

[Gidam]

just like, you know, he's not bored, you know? You know, just bored.

[Walt Flanagan]

Strangers that he's never spoken to.

[Bry]

Make sure he's done his important.

[Ming Chen]

Make sure he's entertained and having.

[Gidam]

Well, he's not just like sitting by himself. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, this is the fevered mind.

[Gidam]

Like, he doesn't like he being worried about my father.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, listen, but you wouldn't even mention this on Mike, though. So in his mind, he buys this jersey. Two of them.

[Ming Chen]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

This ensures in his brain that if his father is there, if strangers see him, they'll read the back of his jersey, realize it's get him's father, and then make sure he's not bored. But he would never have put this out there.

[Gidam]

No, I was gonna say something when we were down there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Bry]

Spread the word.

[Gidam]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Like, it's like, hey, guys.

[Gidam]

Hey, if this can't that be your

[Ming Chen]

responsibility, Ming, to make sure it's a good time.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

When he's in the butterfly sanctuary.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, so, like.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So when Ming butterfly costume. He can't make sure he's having a good time. But yeah.

[Gidam]

Or if, you know, if they want me to do. What are you doing? You can't. If they want me to do something, I've already. I've already offered myself for down there, so I.

[Walt Flanagan]

As what?

[Gidam]

Whatever they wanted me to do, I

[Walt Flanagan]

told about for your father. Why can't you make sure your dad's

[Gidam]

having a good time again? If I'm doing something.

[Walt Flanagan]

What are you doing?

[Gidam]

I've already offered to do anything they wanted me to do.

[Walt Flanagan]

What did you do last year that you.

[Gidam]

I was helping Chuck with the recording and stuff.

[Ming Chen]

You're on stage?

[Gidam]

I was on stage, yeah. So.

[Walt Flanagan]

So your dad will be left alone when you do those things.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. So ants who are coming, you know, now there's going to be like, any number of ants are. Now we're going to, like, they're going to want to, like, basically tag along with your dad.

[Bry]

Let's steer clear. Get him down. Otherwise you got to entertain him.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I think there's some that will be like, I want to watch.

[Bry]

Oh, yeah, you can hang out with us.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Now he's going to have plenty.

[Gidam]

Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Probably too many.

[Gidam]

I just, you know, how much would

[Bry]

you hate that if, like, one of your daughters did that to you? Make sure everybody's around my dad at all times.

[Ming Chen]

Make sure you talk to him and don't leave him alone.

[Bry]

Don't let him get bored.

[Walt Flanagan]

Don't Let him be bored. Now.

[Gidam]

What do you want to see? There's tons of different jerseys out there.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what would be a bridge too far, though? Like, all of a sudden you. You're, you know, you. After helping Chuck, you kind of go, where's my dad? And then you find out like, some aunts took him to like.

[Gidam]

What if we took him to the. The Garden of Eden?

[Ming Chen]

Let's say we took him to the Gard Eden.

[Gidam]

What's the. The naked part.

[Ming Chen]

That's it. That's the Garden of Eden.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, and he. And he was like, basically like. Like painting the town red.

[Gidam]

Okay, good for.

[Walt Flanagan]

His girlfriend found out back home and she broke up with him.

[Gidam]

That's not on me.

[Ming Chen]

Is your dad committed?

[Gidam]

Yeah, he's got. He's had a girlfriend for 30 something years.

[Bry]

Wow.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. So can't.

[Walt Flanagan]

He can't.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can't get crazy. Yeah, don't. Don't get the man.

[Gidam]

Hey, what happens in Qs stays in Q. West makes out his girlfriend, listens to the pod. Well, like I said, I'm looking out

[Walt Flanagan]

for the jerseys come yet?

[Gidam]

No.

[Bry]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're getting nervous at the beginning.

[Bry]

Well, they're coming from China, right? I'm assuming.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah, yeah, it was a Chinese New Year. They don't do any work down there.

[Gidam]

But it's over now.

[Walt Flanagan]

Featured father. Why aren't you just going out into the fucking Dicks and buy him a fucking Giants Jersey?

[Gidam]

No, it's 120 that has Gideon's dad on it back. Yeah, they'll do that at Dicks.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes, they will, but they will.

[Ming Chen]

It'll cost you like 10 times as much.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's his father.

[Gidam]

It's true, he is my father, but I'm still me.

[Bry]

And it's guaranteed to be here on time. You don't have to like, stress and

[Walt Flanagan]

worry about it now. You're all stressed about it.

[Gidam]

Well, I'm not really stressed. They said that it would be here on time, so I trust China. They called me friend. So it's. You know what they tell me? Do not worry, friend.

[Walt Flanagan]

Dear friend. It will be there. Do not worry.

[Bry]

All right, China, I trust you.

[Ming Chen]

Don't trust the Chinese schedule. Do not trust the Chinese. Well, good luck. I'm glad we have an identifying marker now so we know it's your dad.

[Walt Flanagan]

If you see anybody in a Giants jersey. Yes, it could be.

[Ming Chen]

Get him's father could begin his father.

[Bry]

I'm gonna get married both as Bry's wife.

[Walt Flanagan]

Jersey.

[Bry]

Yeah. What kind of jersey should I get her?

[Gidam]

Okay. We got it.

[Walt Flanagan]

We already fucking.

[Gidam]

You're welcome, friend.

[Walt Flanagan]

We cannot have another. Like, bug everybody about what Jersey you should buy. You already did that already.

[Bry]

Forget them.

[Walt Flanagan]

You'd have to decide what jersey to get her on your own.

[Bry]

All right.

[Ming Chen]

Jersey of a winner.

[Walt Flanagan]

What else, man? Anything else? Where we hit the road?

[Ming Chen]

I think that's. I think that's it. Thanks for having me back. I miss this, man. This is fun.

[Bry]

Yeah, it's fun shooting the.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Bry]

It's a good time, right?

[Ming Chen]

Like it. Everyone's like, why aren't you on more? It's like where they found someone even more messed up than I am to feature. I'm sitting across from her.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's not the case. We're not. We're not going any more low blows like that.

[Ming Chen]

No more low blush.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. Really serious.

[Gidam]

No more low blowers.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. It's loving the ribs.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's got to be more like a. Like a yuck yuck.

[Ming Chen]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, not below the belt.

[Ming Chen]

Okay. They're laughing with me, not at me.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes.

[Bry]

Blow the belt. And he spazzes out.

[Gidam]

If I could feel it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Has little Gidem returned to life?

[Gidam]

He's been getting more and more feeling back. Yeah.

[Bry]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's been months then.

[Gidam]

It was. It was on a slow decline. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Wow. Just in time for Key West.

[Bry]

Entertain my dad. I'm going to bang this broad.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Will your dad be a good wingman, you think? Or would he be a bad wingman?

[Bry]

Like, if he comes home and he sees. He comes to the. To where you're standing, he sees a tie on the bedroom door.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. A sign.

[Bry]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Or an LED. A scrolling LED for 30 minutes.

[Gidam]

I think he might be happy.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, I think he'd be very happy.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

So.

[Bry]

Yeah, boy.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah. I mean, is he cool? He doesn't. He won't block you, right?

[Walt Flanagan]

Like Dad?

[Gidam]

I think unintentionally, he might.

[Ming Chen]

Unintentionally.

[Bry]

Okay.

[Gidam]

Yeah.

[Ming Chen]

Oh, man, I can't wait.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think Q wants you banging anybody on that trip.

[Bry]

Better safe than sorry.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I think you better just tell people it's still numb.

[Bry]

I'm not even gonna bang my wife to play it safe.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just tell everybody. Let's just get it out there right now. If anybody is interested in. Get him. His is still numb.

[Ming Chen]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

At least until. Doesn't work until next September.

[Bry]

Yeah.

[Gidam]

I'm waking up. When September end.

[Ming Chen]

It could paralyze him.

[Bry]

Don't even try.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tell him, Steve.

[Bry]

Dave.