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Walt
You can't expect get him to be to do the work of two office coaches, could you?
Brian
He's not even doing the work of one.
Q
I just leave the window open, a squirrel could come in and it'll be the same thing. That's my office coach, Tally.
Walt
Supply coach. If you need a coach, Mr. Quinn, there's plenty of homeless men in their 40s who are with Leap at the chance to be your office coach. Tell them Steve Dave.
Brian
Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Tell Them Steve Dave. We got 1, 2, 3, 4 guys here ready to chat and talk and banter. Right Q? We're gonna banter it up, man.
Q
We're gonna. We're gonna banter.
Brian
People love the. They love banter.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
What's he got to first, Walt? What do you think? Q's 50th birthday.
Walt
I would. I mean he still seems. He's recovering from his 50th birthday. It feels.
Q
It's been an ongoing festival of celebrations of which last night was a. Was a barn burner.
Walt
Yeah.
Q
My friend brought over a 200 bottle of tequila and we killed it.
Walt
Did you eat the worm?
Q
There were no worms. What are you asking?
Brian
Just because guy gets drunk with another guy.
Q
Are you talking about. What does that mean? That was the worm in my throat. Yeah. Not in this one. I've actually. I don't think I've ever actually seen that in person.
Brian
I don't think so.
Q
Yeah. But I would really. I would just for the. I'd love to sit here before you Walt and tell you. Yeah, man. I did it like a true Mexican.
Walt
I have read stories though about like kids like licking slugs and then they go. They, they, they. They become paraplegics.
Brian
Oh, that kid in Australia or something. Yeah.
Walt
I would not just.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
In a drunken party haze. Eat this. Eat the slug out of the tequila bottle. Because. Yeah.
Sal
I don't think tequila makers are putting death inducing worms into their.
Q
What type of worm is it?
Sal
I think it's like a. One of those super worms. Like one of those like. Like what you. They gave to the lizards.
Walt
He points to me like. Yeah, I should know what he's talking about.
Sal
No, we went to that. The exotic pet place.
Brian
Oh, okay. Way back, way back when.
Q
How's it going around here?
Walt
So what.
Sal
What was a magway worm?
Q
Oh
Brian
yeah.
Walt
So what was some of the hijinks to celebrate? 50. Do you.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
Do you feel like you still party like a 30 year old or is it definitely you partying like a 50 year old doesn't look like it. It looks like he's partying. Like a 30 year old looks like,
Brian
well, he's party but he's having the recovery time of a 50 year old.
Q
This is a bad one. This is, this is bad. Like this is like driving and like the, everything's like feeling nauseous and sick. I haven't gone like this in a long time. I got a little ahead of myself last night. I was having too much fun and I just stopped counting. And then you know when you see the empty bottle at the end of the next day, you're like, oh, I'm responsible for at least half that.
Brian
And you always promise yourself in the beginning night, like, I'm gonna drink one drink and then water. One drink, then water and then the water never comes.
Q
And then you're like, ah, these ice cubes melt. Yeah, no, it's good. It was, it was good. I was, I went down to Key west and got trapped.
Brian
Poor guy.
Q
I got trapped there for a couple extra days. My flight got canceled. Oh no, I know, but it was rainy and cold the whole time. Yeah, it was a bummer. But I was there for spring break and it was like a, it was like a perfect storm of spring break and St. Patrick's Day, which I wasn't supposed to be there for. I was supposed to be Manhattan. And then like, so it was like, it was, it was fun down there, but I, I handled it like a pro. There was no hangovers or anything like that.
Walt
Oh, okay. Not until you got back home.
Q
So last night was the breakdown. Yeah. Yeah.
Walt
Will this end the.
Q
I think so. I'm back to work now. I'm in the office five days a week.
Walt
So it's like, you know, you still got a little bit of Sunday left.
Brian
Yeah. Have a drink on the way home.
Sal
The liquor store downstairs and a bar.
Q
We ordered a pizza last night at like 11 o' clock at night and. And like, rather than wrap it up properly, I just shoved the whole box into the fridge, you know what I mean? So when I go home, I'm going to be seeing what's left in that box and just eating it.
Brian
Eating it.
Walt
What time is it right now? It is 1:40, so you've got about 10 hours. Hey, and Mark's out of prison now, so we go down and score some real good shit.
Brian
All right, come on now, you're talk.
Sal
He's on the straight and narrow now.
Q
No, I think I'm just gonna, I think, I think, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna Lower the flag on the event. You know, I've celebrated enough. What more am I gonna.
Walt
Oh, I got you a birthday present.
Q
Hey. Really?
Walt
Yeah, I did.
Q
Oh, that's sweet of you, bud. I wasn't expecting that.
Walt
Well, it's. It is the 50th birthday, right? You know, just a little something to let you know how much. And I really think you're gonna dig it.
Brian
It looks like a.
Sal
Like a tombstone.
Walt
It actually is a tombstone.
Q
It is a tombstone.
Walt
It's not what you think, though.
Q
Oh, what is it?
Walt
This is the death of Superman. The absolute edition with the limited edition tombstone. This is the definitive collection of the story in oversized hardcover with a tattered Superman cape book cover.
Q
Really?
Walt
This is one of the sweetest collected editions that has ever been produced, and they're pretty rare. And I thought if anybody deserved one on his 50th, it was you, dude.
Q
Thank you, man. I'm so touched. This is. This is right. This is right up my alley. I love this.
Walt
I figured you'd like this one. I know this was a seminal part of your comic book collecting, and I was like, if somebody deserves to own this, I thought it was you.
Q
I will definitely like you got it to the right person to appreciate it, because I'm in love with it.
Walt
This is heavy, too.
Q
It's. It's tombstone slip case is about the size of a, like, Monopoly box. I guess you'd say it's huge.
Walt
It is only 19, 1992 or 1993 editions because of the year it came out.
Q
When did you. When did this come out?
Walt
Oh, God, I don't know. Maybe about a month ago.
Q
Fuck. Dude, thank you.
Walt
No problem.
Q
I know you don't like hugs, but can I give you a hug for my birthday?
Brian
Yeah. All right.
Walt
I wish I had the cameras rolling. I know this happens only, like, once. Everybody like Haley's comet.
Sal
Too late.
Brian
Too slow, Too slow.
Q
Oh, you want to do a recreation? 75.
Brian
Yeah.
Q
I'm so touched and also psyched.
Walt
Yeah, I got one.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
And it is mind blowing. You will be, like, tickled to death with all the extras that are in there.
Q
Really?
Walt
All the reproductions of all the things that were in the original.
Q
Oh, wow.
Walt
It is. It is the. One of the most sweetest collectibles that DC has put out ever, in my opinion.
Q
It is. I can't wait to get it. You know, Mike Carlin just texted me. I haven't answered him yet. He said, happy birthday. Yeah.
Walt
What?
Q
Yeah. Isn't that funny?
Walt
And he. He wasn't able to Swing.
Q
I didn't even know this existed. I have to answer.
Walt
Still working at tc?
Q
No, he's retired now.
Walt
How do you have Mike Carlin on the speed out? For those who don't know, he was the editor of the Superman titles during the Triangle era or the biggest era of Superman probably since.
Q
Yeah, the 50s. He's a true comic book love. It's his whole life. He loves it. And I think I told this story for. I was at Comic Con in San Diego before the pandemic, and this guy comes out to me and he's like, hey man, can I get a picture? You know, he's kind of like, you know, I don't want to interrupt. Can I get a photo? And I looked at him and I go, you're. You're. You're my Carlin.
Walt
How the fuck do you know who he is? How do you know his picture?
Q
I'm that big of a fan. Like I'm that, you know, this was my world back in the 90s.
Walt
That is wild that you knew the editor. What the editor, like, because comic book creators, you know, before the Internet, toiled in obscurity with what they look like.
Q
Yeah, but remember, like I was reading it, wizard magazine would do interviews with them and they would have photos of. It was a different kind of fandom back then.
Walt
You had a picture of him in your locker at high school. Where's Christine Brinkley? Who the fuck's that?
Q
Behind that middle aged dude in a Hawaiian shirt. So. And I was wearing the Death of Superman watch with the, with the different Superman. And I go, dude, you're Mike Carlin. I was like, can I get a picture with you? And we, we became buddies and, and you know, we email once, twice a year. So. Yeah, it's so funny that I'm gonna send them a picture of this. Be like, look, my boy got me.
Walt
Yeah, now you deserve 50 is a
Q
big thank you, man. I, I love it. Thank you. I mean, I legitimately love that. Thank you. I can't wait to get home and.
Walt
Yeah, crack it open and let me know what you think.
Q
It's so funny.
Walt
So cool.
Q
This is how, this is how lame I am. And I guess if you want to look at it one way. But I was, when I was down in Florida, I was driving the golf cart and I was thinking of the panel in this way. I mean, this is, this is so weird where doomsday standing on like the hillside and a bird lands on his.
Walt
Yes.
Q
And he crushes him. I was, that was in my head the Other day and I was like, I wonder if there's a story about that bird. Like, I wonder if there's like, you know, you could do like fun comic book.
Walt
Like a little like. Yeah. Like a little six page story.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
About that bird's day before. Yeah.
Q
It went into my head and I was like, wow. So it's just so funny how that, that, that came together. It's so cool, man.
Walt
That is, you know, one of my. The piece of the year for me. Really in my collection. I was like, this is so cool.
Q
It's great. Would you get this? The secret satch. You got it through them?
Sal
Yeah.
Walt
No discount.
Q
Oh, dude, it is. It is awesome, man. Thank you. I love it.
Walt
No problem. Happy birthday.
Q
Thank you. Nice. So, Brian, what do you got?
Brian
I left it in the car.
Q
Okay.
Brian
I got you the same thing. So now I feel embarrassed.
Q
Oh, man. Another thing. While I was down there, I was thinking about gingham too. And I was thinking about what you said about, you know, maybe if we lead with love a little bit, it'll help.
Walt
Right.
Q
And I've decided to, well, maybe not go as far as you were suggesting, but to celebrate him a little bit more his positive attributes.
Walt
There you go.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
Not the overflowing garbage can.
Q
It is wild that today is Sunday. Self proclaims Sunday garbage day. That can, I end it.
Sal
I empty it Sunday night. I throw everything out. I took a picture last week.
Q
Okay. I'm here to celebrate.
Brian
Yeah.
Walt
And this is. Don't take this the wrong way. This is just, just for us to get into your headspace so we know how to proceed and how to handle things. But just give me just an honest answer to like, if you know he's coming and he's mentioned the garbage can, why not move emptying the garbage can a little earlier in the day? I don't understand that. Why. Can you just tell us why you would?
Sal
Because we're recording stuff tonight. So it's going to get stuff, put it. More stuff's going to go into it. So it's.
Brian
I don't think so. Not the way that garbage can looks.
Walt
So it's so in your head, there's
Q
garbage and wrappers around it because more garbage can't fit in it.
Brian
The.
Walt
And again, and this is all just so we understand you. And we. And we, you know, act accordingly. It's impossible to empty it twice on Sunday.
Sal
It's. I have to go down the back steps to get to the dumpster. So it's, it's a little extra tough for Me, because there's. There's no elevator down to there. So I like to do it.
Walt
You empty it, though, in the front in one of the cans. Like, one of the cans in front
Sal
of the store that doesn't do recycling. So we have. It's recycling and trash.
Q
You asked. You asked. You got an answer. And. But what?
Sal
There's a. Yeah, there's a box out front. You can see it's all just recycling.
Walt
Yeah.
Q
When he found out that I was hungover, he went, got me Pedialyte and brought it right in. Without. Without it. Without even. Like, he just put it on the table. He didn't make a big deal out of it.
Walt
He's gonna charge you for it.
Q
That's all right. That's okay.
Walt
To build me.
Q
Pedialyte ain't free. So that's what I'm saying. You know what I mean? That's cool. Like, that's.
Walt
That's a.
Q
That's a good friend. Let me help you out.
Brian
Yeah, yeah. So you got that going for you.
Q
So, yeah, I was thinking of Superman. So it's spring break. There's all these beautiful women everywhere, like, partying, going nuts at St. Patrick.
Walt
Are they in bikinis?
Q
Everybody's in green. Too cold the weekend before.
Walt
There's no real beaches down here, right?
Q
Oh, no, there's some beaches, are there?
Walt
Okay.
Q
Yeah, it's a. It's a. You know, and I'm. And I'm thinking of get them and Superman. So, you know, that's where I'm at. Put it back. Back to work, back to ij, Back in the area. Was in the office a couple days already last week, and this week starts the full time grind.
Walt
What time you got to be there?
Q
It's a little nebulous when you're the boss.
Walt
What time. What time are you supposed to be there? What time does Q. What time?
Q
Time.
Walt
Just Q roll.
Q
There's no supposed to be time. I usually like to give them the morning, so, like, I try to get there around noonish.
Walt
Yeah.
Q
Buy lunch for everybody.
Walt
Oh, yeah.
Q
Yeah. And then not every. Not every day. No, not every day. Not every day.
Walt
Who's everybody? How many staff? I know what kind of staff. What kind of number you buy. How many people you buying for?
Q
Well, maybe five, six people.
Walt
Okay, that's a lot. That's a.
Brian
That's a.
Walt
That's at least a 250, $300 bill then, right?
Q
No, no, not that bad. Well, the bar tab after work was two and change. But this means I get to come in at noon. You know, everybody's happy to see me at noon.
Walt
Oh, yeah.
Q
No, I don't do it, and I don't do it as much as I should. I don't do as much as I should. But. But yeah, usually around noon, I like to give them the morning to, like, gossip and gossip about you.
Walt
Gossiping about you guys?
Q
No, not about us, but why are you.
Walt
Then, like, let's give them time alone, because I would think they want to gossip about you guys.
Q
Then they could gossip about me all they want.
Brian
I don't mind.
Q
Yeah. You know, nobody wants to start the day with.
Walt
With the boss right now.
Q
Yeah. Right in your face first thing in the morning. Like, everybody warm up a little bit. It's not like we have real jobs. It's. We're writing a. Practical jokers. Everybody relax. Yeah.
Walt
So you're not like the kind of guy that's like, you know, you. You take a. They hand you a premise, and you're not like, you're like, this sucks.
Q
That's Sal's job. My job is to go, good enough. Let's do this.
Brian
The waste basket is more overflowing than ours.
Walt
So there is roles that you guys have taken on. You're the guy that's like the easygoing joker. Then the. Sal is the more, like, total line. Like, kind of like.
Q
No, no, he's. He's still friendly.
Brian
Sal.
Q
His. His standards are, I think, a little higher than mine.
Walt
Okay.
Q
I like to roll with a. With a. This is good enough. We'll make this funny attitude. Yeah.
Walt
He is a little bit more discerning.
Q
Sal wants to understand how it's funny before we even get to it. Whereas I'm a little bit like. Which is great. Like, yeah, you need that. You need that. I'm not my. His. I'm not saying my methods better than his, but, like, I think that's why we have, like, a good mix of.
Walt
Of.
Q
He's enthusiastic. He. He loves getting there and. And, like, finding fun things to do and stuff like that. And he's got, like, a more sunny, rosy. He dreams bigger than the rest of us. Like, he likes bigger challenges and. And bigger mountains to climb. Yeah, he likes that. Yeah. Whereas I've always been firmly in the good enough camp. Good enough. Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah.
Brian
This is. This is a question you probably would get in an interview and be like, what the. But like, is it hard this many years later to come up with new. No.
Q
I mean, look, the writers have been with us forever. They're the. They're the best at what they do, you know, and then so, like, right away, they're. They're thinking year rounds, you know, like, they come strapped with, like, packets, and they're just funny, funny people. So it's not that hard. Punishments are always the hard part. Challenges. We could also be like, which ones did we, like, from last year? I'll redo them. Or what haven't we done since season two? So it's a little bit easier. But punishments are always the. That's. You know, we. Everybody's got to be on their A game a little bit and come up with good stuff. And it's. It is harder every year, but we managed to do it. Yeah, but it's good. It's good to be back and see everybody and shit like that. Although we. We had the office last year, our office, you know, we didn't know if we were coming back, so we gave up the office. Like, tear down all the custom walls. We put up everything. And now we're back in that same office and. But it's like, it's all.
Brian
There's no walls anymore.
Q
It's just a janky open thing with, like, patches all over the wall. So it's like. We're like. Yeah, it's like. It's so funny because it looks like we're working in a slum somewhere.
Walt
You were talking about. I don't know if you ever did it. Did you get your own personal office? I remember you mentioned that at one point.
Brian
That was a long time ago.
Q
Yeah. I ended up not getting it. I came close, and I was like, what am I doing? I'm not coming here.
Brian
You had posted as like, a. Like, with a pinball machine.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
Like a really, like, fun place.
Q
Yeah. I basically described my house, but in another location. Why the. Am I spending money on another location? When goes to stay in my house? Yeah, yeah.
Walt
You'd have to get yourself an office coach, you know, because we can't. You can't expect to do the work of two office coaches, could you?
Brian
He's not even doing the work of one. How could he do the work of two?
Walt
He'll empty the bin on Monday nights.
Q
I'll just leave the window open. A squirrel could come in and it'll be the same thing. That's my office coach Tally. There he goes.
Sal
Stumpy.
Q
I'm like, does this. Does this office come with a coach? So I have to bring my own
Walt
coach if you need a coach. Mr. Quinn, there's plenty of homeless men in their 40s who are with leap at the chance to be your office coach.
Brian
One last bite at the Salvation Army.
Walt
We can go get a secondhand couch at the Salvation Army. Put it right there in the corner. That'll be your office coaches. He'll never leave. He'll be here 24, 7. At your disposal. Well, not really your disposal.
Brian
He might fall asleep.
Q
We don't use the word disposal around here. Except Monday nights. Yeah, we'll pre nail all the windows shut, sir. So you can't get any fresh air. We know you like that.
Walt
Can we. Can we drywall over the windows? That's an unusual request, Mr. Quinn. My office coach windowless.
Q
I do have a baseball uniform two sizes too small.
Walt
Hollywood. They're so. They're so weird. They're all like Michael Jackson.
Brian
All these weird requests.
Q
Like, so Monday nights the garbage goes out. They're like, no, we. We empty it every night.
Brian
What?
Walt
How much extra is that?
Brian
That sounds like fancy coaching.
Q
Really funny. Yeah, Great. Yeah. So I didn't get it. Anyway, I have an office. What do I need another one for?
Walt
This you get Ken. This is part. Like, this is your office. I never hear of you. You know, I'm not here all the time, but I haven't heard once where you came in to brainstorm or just come in and kind of like work furiously at your laptop.
Brian
My eyes all lunch.
Q
It's not a surface to put a laptop on in this fucking room. There's really not. I know I'm making a joke and it's not. I mean, I guess I could knock the thing of nuts off the table over there with the melatonin next to it. Oh, boy.
Walt
Well, if you call, maybe schedule a week before you're gonna come in.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
To work in the office. We can kind of make a little spot for you to put just enough room for your laptop.
Sal
Yeah.
Brian
Maybe make a special trip to the dumpster.
Q
It is hysterical that. That garbage is overflowing. Whatever.
Brian
People are gonna put more garbage in Q. It's like making your bed. Why the fuck would you make your bed? It's just gonna sleep in it again.
Q
What's the point of any of this anymore?
Walt
You subscribe to that? Not making the bed.
Brian
I don't make the bed. No,
Walt
I mean, but would you subscribe to that if you were living alone and you didn't have someone there? Would you make the bed or would you leave it unmade?
Brian
No, I would leave it unmade. I've never been a bed maker.
Walt
I think that says a lot. That's about like anybody's personality. The kind of person who makes the bed and the kind of person who doesn't make the bed.
Brian
Right. What do you think it says? Not good stuff, I'm sure.
Walt
Did you ever see those spiders that make fucking webs on lsd?
Q
That's the human equivalent.
Brian
No, I would like it, but like, I don't know. Marybeth's of the same mindset as me. I think she was like, it would just want to hear to where to make it.
Walt
Oh, yeah. My wife makes the bed immediately after getting up.
Brian
Yeah. That's nice, though.
Q
It's nice.
Walt
It is. It is. And isn't. You know, it's kind of like.
Sal
Is that why you sleep underneath it then?
Brian
Not allowed to get back up there. Speaking of drinking, I was watching an episode of Columbo the other day and I didn't think he drank, but at a certain point he mentioned that I think on his wedding day he doesn't remember a lot because he was so drunk.
Walt
That would be a special occasion. Yeah, I imagine most of the time. Most of the episodes take place with him on duty.
Brian
Right.
Walt
So maybe that's why you don't see him drink. But off duty, I would imagine. Especially a wedding. I would think he would.
Brian
At his own wedding, celebrated. Yeah. I just thought he was like. I thought he was straight edge. I didn't know that. Columbo, that's a.
Walt
That's a non sequitur of get him caliber right there. Bringing that up out of nowhere.
Brian
I was just thinking about it.
Q
He's a cop. He's got a drink to dull the pain, you know?
Brian
Yeah, I guess so.
Q
Is it any worse than me thinking of Superman and that bird driving down?
Walt
Well, I guess it was prompted, though, at least by a gift about.
Q
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm trying to.
Brian
I was thinking of him drinking. Drinking last night.
Walt
Oh, cute. Yeah, I'm sure he wasn't on duty solving a murder case, like.
Brian
Probably not.
Walt
Let loose, Let it rip.
Q
Where were you? Where the fuck are you coming from?
Brian
Oh, I went to Maryland.
Q
Who's in Maryland?
Brian
A couple friends.
Q
Okay.
Brian
That lived down there. So we went down to visit for the. Just for the night. Because the only day we could do. Tell him Steve Day was on Sunday, so I had to come back early this morning.
Walt
Whose friends? Yours or Mary Betts?
Brian
Both of ours. Yeah. Friends that we made on the IJ Cruise pretty much. And went down there and hung out. Went out to eat. Just shot the shit. Had some jello shots like college girls.
Q
Nice.
Brian
Not a 200 bottle of tequila.
Q
Yeah, and nothing wrong with jello shots.
Walt
$200 bottle of tequila will do the same fucking trick, won't it? Cute.
Q
I mean, it. It will, yeah. I mean, I. It didn't. I don't even know. Like this. Surely there's got to be like a thousand nala wall of tequila, right?
Brian
Sure.
Q
I don't even know. High. How high on the. Like, I wouldn't know the difference either way.
Brian
You know, you might though, like if you did them side by side. Maybe one's lighter or I mean, smoother.
Q
I'm mixing it with soda and putting limes in it.
Brian
Yeah, yeah. So we went down there and then at night. Never did this before. We went to an adult oriented social club.
Q
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Was this the plan going down there?
Brian
Yeah.
Q
Well, what's that like?
Brian
It was that. That was the whole thing. I wanted to go there. I really wanted the people watch because I'm like, I've always wanted to go to a club like that but never had the opportunity.
Q
Would you describe it as a sex club?
Brian
I think you could.
Q
Okay.
Brian
I didn't see any sex while I was there.
Q
What did you see? What goes on back there?
Brian
So, well, it was white night. There was like a white party. Everybody dressed in white. Like a diddy thing, kind of. Except pulling that off. So white party, which I didn't know how timely that was. Maybe the white party days were over.
Q
It's spring, baby.
Brian
Yeah. You know, so I had my white shoes, my white pants, my white shirt. Look like a belong on the Righteous gemstones or something.
Q
Oh, great. What were your expectations going into it? Were you like, we're going to hit this club hard? Were you?
Brian
No, not really. I just. I was more like, I'm gonna sit back and just watch everybody.
Q
Okay.
Brian
And.
Q
And had these friends of yours gone there before? Were they like.
Brian
Yeah, they had gone there before. They had scoped it out. They knew what was. Yeah, they knew what was what. They showed us around once we got there, they had like all these different rooms with different themes. And like one was like the. The bondage room. So they had like the X with the.
Q
Okay.
Brian
Restraints up top and so hold on.
Q
All right, where.
Brian
What.
Q
What neighborhood? Like, what type of. Walk me through the initial. What? Driving up to this place. Like, is it a warehouse? Is it an.
Brian
It's in back of like a respectable, like, Indian restaurant, I think.
Q
Okay.
Brian
It looks like there's an Indian restaurant up front. It's like a strip mall type thing. And then you just. You would Drive around to the back.
Q
Strip mall.
Brian
Yeah. And I met Ellie's like the only one around too.
Walt
Was it by invite only or anybody could just walk in?
Brian
Well, you have to get. You have to be like, sponsored by somebody who's already a.
Walt
This couple is already a member.
Brian
This couple's already a member. Yeah. So they were able to.
Q
And then. That's it. That's the one.
Brian
Yep, that's it.
Q
Okay. It looks pretty. Yeah, it looks respectable.
Brian
Yeah, it was, it was. It was a lot cleaner. The people were not as wild as I expected. Like, I just like. I didn't know if like people are going to be walking around topless.
Q
Nothing like that.
Brian
Banging. No.
Q
You didn't see anything?
Brian
Nothing. I did see. I did see a girl. I did see. I did see a girl give another guy a lap dance with a top off. So I saw that.
Q
All right. All right. Worth the trip.
Brian
There was polls, you know, like stripper polls. Marybeth went up on the stripper pole for a little bit.
Q
And is it like other couples are watching?
Brian
Yeah.
Q
Okay.
Brian
Yeah, there's a bunch of people.
Q
Right. Nobody has any shame on their face whatsoever.
Brian
I think everybody's pretty like minded.
Q
We're here to party.
Brian
Yeah. Yeah. So. So that's what I did last night. Went to this swinger club. But yeah, I can't report back anything that I was like, wow, holy shit. I didn't think I'd see that. Everybody was like, pretty normal, right? You know, it seemed to me, I was like me and Mary Beth were talking about it reminded us of like Fantasy Fest, but in a room.
Q
Okay.
Brian
You know, like that older crowd, maybe
Walt
they needed someone to break the ice. Why don't you just go up there and just strip off all your white
Brian
clothes, Jump on the pole.
Walt
Yeah, just jump up on the pole.
Brian
And you know, like, hey, everybody, pay attention to me. Let's get this party started. It's already been started. We've been partying for hours without you.
Q
Okay, so the X, the bondage, Right, Right. You free use of it. They're like, hey, if you want to use it, just go use it.
Brian
You have to like rent the room. Yeah. You sign up and then you rent the room for a little while.
Q
Wow. How much is that?
Brian
I don't know. I'm not sure. I think it was like 60 for a half hour or something like that. I could be totally wrong though.
Q
60 minutes more than I needed.
Walt
What time of the evening was this?
Brian
We got there at like 9:30 at night.
Walt
Maybe shit goes down after midnight. Though.
Brian
Well, we wait. We were there until like one in the morning.
Walt
Shit never went down.
Brian
Shit never went down. In fact, people started leaving around that because I was like, me and Mary Beth were like, we're going out at a time that we normally go to start going to bed.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
Like 9, 30, 10 o' clock at night, you know, like, I haven't started the night in ten o' clock at some time. No.
Q
Quite a while.
Brian
Yeah. Maybe like Key West.
Q
That was. That's what I was thinking.
Brian
Fantasy Fest. Yeah.
Q
So they've gone before and were they filling your head with stories of like, oh, we've seen shit go down?
Brian
No, not really.
Walt
Is there a membership due fee?
Brian
Yeah, there's a membership fee.
Walt
How much is it?
Brian
Well, for us it was like. It was $31.
Walt
Oh, you had to pay a membership fee. You're now a member.
Brian
Yeah, well, we're a member for a month.
Walt
Oh my God. How much was it?
Brian
It was 30 bucks.
Walt
I dispute that fucking charge.
Brian
Yeah. Immediately.
Sal
Yeah.
Walt
You're never going back in a month, Right? I would just like.
Brian
Somebody stole my credit card. Yeah. I think it was my friends,
Q
but they go often, these people.
Brian
Yeah. I think they might rent a room sometimes here and there, you know, like they do their own thing.
Walt
Can there be. I'm just sitting here thinking this. Can there be a more polar opposite of like he goes to his friends, takes a long ride, and then he does that. When I go see Frank and Mrs. Fife, we're at a flea market. Can there be a more like 180° opposite than that?
Q
No, it's quite a spectrum we have here.
Brian
Like, if you ask the fives, like, hey, do you guys. What do you think about going to an adult oriented social club?
Walt
Oh, I thought they were. I mean, I don't think I'm the one. Like, I think out of the. Out of the.
Brian
Frank Swan suggested it.
Walt
Yeah. And even then. And then I'd probably just like, you know, drop him like a hot fuck potato. Like a.
Brian
You never talk to him again.
Walt
Never again.
Brian
Ghost him.
Walt
But Brian went, yeah, yeah, well, we're in business together. I can't drop him as easily as Frank. 5.
Brian
I would see the phantom outline of Walt if we weren't business together.
Sal
So it's apparently $30 for a month, $45 for three months.
Walt
A dollar a day, though. That's not that much, though. That's not bad.
Sal
But you get three months for $45.
Walt
Yeah, but if you come. You didn't. Yeah, that was the, the, the value. The Biggest value in the S and M club was the 45$. How many? 3 month membership.
Brian
How can we do that? Well, I figured we're not going to go anywhere within the three months, so why spend the extra?
Walt
Did you pay for it before you walked in or after you left?
Brian
Before.
Walt
Okay, so you had no idea, like, if your socks are gonna be knocked off, right?
Brian
Yeah.
Walt
And then you're like, well, man, now it's too late. I should have paid the 45. Now I'm gonna come here every weekend.
Brian
Maybe. Yeah, maybe it could be like, hey, can I upgrade? Nope, I'm not sure
Q
you want to get. You just got. Wow.
Brian
There were rooms though, downstairs where, like, I didn't see. I. Like I said I didn't see anything, but there were two rooms with windows in them. So anybody, like, if you're doing stuff in the room, anybody can walk by and just watch or check you out or.
Q
Oh, I got excited when I heard the word window.
Brian
I was like, that must be nice.
Q
Did you see. Wow. So. But why do they go. If it's like this every. Like, why not just go to Chili's? Like, I don't understand.
Brian
Like, I think it's probably sometimes like a little bit more extreme than what we saw.
Q
Why didn't you.
Walt
Saturday night, though?
Brian
What's that?
Walt
It was a Saturday night.
Brian
Yeah, it was.
Walt
Think about what it's like on a Tuesday.
Brian
Well, they're not open Tuesdays. I think they're only open Fridays and Saturdays. Yeah, they're like the flea market, so you can relate.
Walt
So what? It isn't open seven days a week. So it's not a dollar.
Brian
So it's not a dollar a day.
Walt
Oh, it's actually a lot more.
Brian
Yeah, it would be like. Yeah, more like four dollars a day almost. Or a little bit less than four dollars a day. Eight times four. Thirty. There's only two.
Walt
Two. Eight day. Yeah, whatever. Five days.
Brian
Yeah.
Walt
Five bucks a day.
Q
Other than like baskets of condoms around.
Brian
And there were. In the rooms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All that stuff.
Q
Right.
Brian
So people must, you know, really get busy and shit. But yeah, I didn't see it. Yeah, it wasn't. They weren't. It was also. I noticed at a certain point I was like, I think I'm in a black club.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
And I was. Yeah. I didn't notice until the very end. And I don't know why I thought I would. It would be predominantly white people, like a white person thing.
Q
It is funny, I. I assume the same thing. Yeah.
Brian
Yeah. But no, it was like I would say mostly. I would say 80% black people and then maybe 20% white and other.
Q
And your friends are white. It's part of the draw for them that it's largely.
Brian
I don't think so, but, man, they were definitely, like. They were definitely, like, not the mayors, but knew a lot of people.
Walt
So they have gotten wild at this club?
Brian
I think so, yeah.
Walt
How come they wouldn't get wild? I mean, they're bringing their friends there.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
The first time there, and they're like, they're going to sit on their hands. Why? Why not? Let it. Let it rip. Like I said earlier, let it rip.
Brian
Something. Some stuff might have ripped that I'm leaving out.
Walt
Oh, okay.
Q
Oh, well. What the. What's the point of you telling the story? I understand if you're gonna find that cut out the only parts anybody wants to hear.
Brian
We might have gotten a room. Things might have ripped. Not with me and the guy, of course.
Q
Yeah, of course.
Brian
But the two ladies might have gotten down to.
Q
What was the theme of the room?
Walt
Me thinks you're gonna leave out that part where you and the guy ripped.
Brian
Yeah, definitely.
Q
There's a tequila worm all over. What was the theme?
Brian
The theme was the bondage room.
Q
Okay.
Brian
So we took a bunch of pictures. Like, I was all in white. So I dressed up like I had an ice cream man, apron, hat.
Q
Yeah, that was there.
Brian
Yeah. No, I bought it from Amazon to bring there so we could take pictures. And they had. Both had, like, those bomb popsicles, you know, like a popsicle. Popsicle twins. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The rocket bomb pops. So they had them. So we took a bunch of pictures like that.
Q
That's dangerous with white clothes, dude.
Brian
They got popsicle juice all over the sheet that was on the bed in there. Uh. Oh, so, yeah, you just throw it in, you know, but you.
Q
Was it a black. Were you like, this is great. I'm going back?
Brian
I was like, this is great. But, like, when I go back, who knows? Cause it's such a far ride.
Q
And so is it you and the dude sitting there?
Brian
Me and the guy are watching. Well, I'm doing. Mostly taking pictures and doing video.
Q
Okay.
Brian
All right.
Q
And now we're getting into it. All right. Yeah, Great.
Brian
That's mostly what I'm doing. And he's watching. He's taking pictures, too.
Q
Okay.
Brian
Of the gals who were dressed up like. I was all in white. He was in jeans and a white shirt, and they were in schoolgirl outfits with white tops.
Walt
Yeah.
Q
All right, this sounds like what's Going on. And to me, behind closed doors.
Brian
Right. More.
Q
Yeah. All right. Right, nice.
Brian
And will those pictures be released on Patreon? Yeah, you want to sign up to Patreon?
Q
All right. Wow. So it wasn't a life changing experience, though, like.
Brian
No, I wouldn't say life changing, but it was interesting to watch, you know, like, everybody and see, like, what they're into and.
Q
Yeah, I get it.
Brian
And everybody, like, everybody there was like, at one point, they were doing like. Like, I would have to say 20 people doing that, like that Snap fan dance that they do, like, with the fans and, you know.
Q
Oh, I've only heard about this.
Brian
Yeah, yeah, they were all doing that. There's like 20 people, like, so. So I'm like, these are people that,
Q
you know, what they banned on cruises.
Brian
Yeah, yeah.
Q
I think that's where I heard about it.
Brian
So, like, these are people that are part of a community, you know, like, they're. They all know the dance. They all seem to know each other.
Q
That's cool, man. It sounds like they're having fun.
Brian
Yeah.
Q
Investigate this.
Brian
Yeah, yeah, why not? He went to the. In Key West. He went to the. The Naked Bar.
Q
Oh, Garden of Eden.
Brian
Garden of Eden.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
He said it was just an old
Q
dude with his balls out every time I've been there. Ah, cool, man.
Brian
Yeah. So that's what I did. And then such is my devotion to this show that I raced back up here to do the episode.
Q
Yeah. If I didn't, I'm sorry. I got stuck. You know, I wouldn't have been able to do during the week, but I got hammered. Yeah.
Sal
Weird.
Q
Yeah. The two worst days to get stuck there.
Brian
Let me see here. I got something for us.
Q
Where is it? I can't even turn my neck. Oh, God Almighty. This sucks.
Brian
Oh, my God. Am I gonna be able to see this? Okay.
Sal
Got some Bengay if you want it.
Q
No, I'm all right. Thanks, pal. I'll. I'll work it out. I'll just. Little hair of the dog, Walt.
Walt
You know, I don't know. What's hair of the dog?
Q
You never heard that term, hair of the dog that bit you? No, that's like when you're hungover. The next day you have like a little shot. You get a little alcohol in you.
Walt
Oh, so you just do more alcohol?
Q
Yeah. You know, you got a tiny bit. A little hair of the dog that bit you.
Walt
Okay, well, that's like a never ending cycle then. The circle never closes.
Sal
Yeah.
Walt
If you're just gonna constantly cure your hangover with Alcohol?
Q
No, it's more about a dismiss amount. It's like, less alcohol.
Walt
Wean yourself off.
Q
Yeah, yeah. You know, sleeping on a couch at 50 ain't no joke. I'm learning.
Sal
Try. Try a heating pad, too.
Q
Yeah, yeah, give it a shot.
Brian
What, did you just, like, pass out on the couch?
Q
I, I, they left, and I don't know why I got in my head that I wanted to watch Spider man with Mysterio with Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake Gyllenhaal. I went downstairs in the base. When I put it on, I just fell asleep watching that on the couch. I woke up at, like, 11 this morning.
Sal
What do you think of the new trailer?
Q
Yeah, I mean, those movies are good. I like those Spider man movies. So I'm like, all right. Yeah, it looks good to me. I don't know. What'd you think of the drill?
Sal
I thought it was nice to finally see Spider man, like, swinging from an actual skyscraper. Yeah, yeah. Like, take. Taking Advantage of New York.
Q
Yeah.
Sal
Yeah. It seemed like they went away from that. Like, the first movies were like, he was running through the suburbs and stuff like that, so.
Q
What do you mean? I don't remember that.
Sal
When he went to the. Went to the one party right before. Which one was the Vulture. He's at a house party. He's at. Oh, he's at a. Oh, he's at Michael Keaton's dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's, like, running through backyards and stuff, right? Yeah. To get to the gun sale.
Q
Yeah.
Sal
All right.
Q
Okay. Well, there he is. I know. Did you see it, Walt?
Walt
Yeah. Looks good.
Q
Yeah, it looks good.
Walt
Yeah. I wish it was coming out quicker than June.
Brian
Yeah.
Walt
I don't know why they released a trailer so far in advance.
Q
I mean, it's the first we've seen anything of it. Usually they do, like, drips and drabs, but. Yeah, should be some good. I know this. Somebody spoiled one of the things in it for me, which I won't do on Mike, but I know what one, One big story point I found out. I was like, that's pretty cool. And I like to take on the Punisher in the trailer. Little. You know, I like that they're treating the Punisher a little bit more like. Because the whole thing was, like, when Punisher came out, they could only present him as the PTSD broken version because everybody was getting their panties and a bunch about the Punisher, a bunch of. So like, now, at least it's fun. Like, we could get the battle van. He could be you know, a little. A little.
Walt
Is this the first time that a Netflix character has made the leap into,
Q
like, well, I guess, Daredevil.
Walt
Daredevil. But it was only a cameo. I wonder if this Frank appearance is a little bit more meatier than it is.
Q
Yeah, it is.
Walt
So this will be the first time we see somebody have a much more impact in the. In the MCU theatrical.
Q
Yeah, I'm excited. You know, I love the Punisher. And then anytime I see the battle van, I'm like, can microchip be far behind? I love Microchip. So I don't know. We'll see. But I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it.
Brian
Prize picks.
Q
Oh, that's right. We got to keep it tight today, right?
Brian
Yeah, we got to keep a little tight because Declan needs time to work on it.
Q
Yeah, Sorry, Declan.
Brian
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Q
I liked it. It seemed measured and professional to me.
Brian
Oh, yeah?
Q
Yeah.
Brian
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Walt
Of course.
Brian
We got a old Blue Chew.
Q
Blue Chew, yeah.
Brian
Blue Chew. Yes.
Q
Boing yoing. When you're in the sex club.
Brian
When you're in the sex club and you need something, some little extra boost,
Sal
make what's old young again again.
Brian
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Q
Yeah, I think so. I think they have to be.
Brian
What do we got here? This is Pete.
Walt
Imagine though, going to school though, and you know, some. Some in your class, especially the scientists, you know, some go on to like, try to cure diseases, you know, and others go on to be like, oh, how can I make dicks harder?
Brian
Right?
Walt
Yeah, it's like, I don't know. I don't know if I would feel I was doing the universe as good as the guys who are trying to like, save, like, I'll tell you from illness.
Brian
I'll tell you why you're wrong. Because they haven't cured cancer, but they have cured Ed.
Q
So better science.
Brian
What's that?
Walt
Is that a mistake though, Ed?
Brian
I think so, yeah. I think it was like, for smokers or something.
Sal
No, I think they were trying like heart. Heart problems, like hypertension, and they ended up finding it made guys get and stay home.
Walt
So that guy who was working on hypertension, you know, do you think he feels like. Like a little like you. You took my. My life's work and you made it a boner pill. Right?
Sal
I'm sure he cries into a. Yeah,
Q
I think he's on a yacht somewhere.
Sal
He's in a bathtub. He in the field?
Brian
No.
Walt
I don't know. You might be like, you know, I it. You kind of like dirtied it up, but, you know, because now it's all. Now you got podcast just going, bo.
Brian
That's what your work comes down to.
Walt
You know, that boy is on every podcast.
Brian
If only we had that sound effect. Maybe I'll look for it.
Q
I mean, the only one who's gonna Be richer than the guy who discovers this pill is the guy who cures baldness. Yeah, like that's. Those are it. Like, would you. Cause the two things that affect men as they get older. You're gonna be the richest person in the world.
Walt
Do you think the guy who even was working in the hypertension. Who? Who? No, I meant Q's boy. Way better than he did it earlier. There you go. Do you think he even profited, though? Or was it.
Brian
It was probably he was working for a company and they took all the profits.
Q
Ain't that the way.
Walt
So that scientist probably has a bitter taste in his mouth whenever he sees all these companies with all these.
Brian
He's like blue chip.
Q
Hey. Well, he got a paycheck. Yeah, he was doing it.
Sal
I'm sure they rewarded him somewhat, but
Walt
he was working for something.
Q
Well, he could still work towards it. Yeah, maybe he kept going. Maybe he's still plugging away now. He's like, I don't care about the. The like, fine, use it for bona pills. But I'm still working. Maybe he's dedicated in the lab right now.
Brian
Yeah. He's like, I'm working on a cure for baldness.
Q
Yeah, that would be wild. If they ever cure that man, you're gonna see with no who have been bald for 20 years show up looking like Elvis.
Sal
I. Regrowing teeth. That's another one they could work on.
Q
Yeah, I think they actually made some.
Sal
I hear that every. Every like five years. Yeah.
Walt
Well, they had the pill now for. To make people skinny.
Q
Yeah.
Walt
If they've cured that. Is that a cure, you think?
Q
I mean, maybe. I mean, but there was always a cure for that though.
Brian
I think it's a treatment more though.
Q
Yeah. Eat less and work out more. Like there's always been a cure for being a.
Walt
That's. But it doesn't come in a pill.
Q
No.
Walt
Yeah. People wanted like a little pill and.
Brian
Or an injection or injection. Yeah.
Q
Yeah. I don't know. I won't do it. I'd rather just be chubby. Lose weight the old fashioned way.
Walt
There you go.
Q
Yeah, by not losing weight.
Brian
That's what I was doing for a long time. Yeah. Next time she sends you you up text answer with a picture of Bluechew. That's awfully presumptuous. Bluechew's turning bedroom performance into an Olympic sport. Go for the gold. Ladies, if you're listening, send your man the link and make him a trophy husband with Blue Chew Gold. Forget Netflix and chill. This is Netflix and Phil. All right. All right.
Walt
Wouldn't that be off putting, though? Like, if you did something. If. Let's say you were dating a girl and she asked you a question and you just responded with a picture of a fucking blue pill.
Brian
I feel like you have to know her pretty well by that point.
Sal
She's sending you an ad for bluechew, which is what it said to do, like, send it to your. Send an ad for bluechew to your guy.
Walt
No, she just asked a question. Why you up?
Sal
Yeah, I'm saying it's. I think they're both same sizes of
Brian
the next time she sends you a you up Text answer with a picture of bluechew. That's what I mean. It's awfully presumptuous. And she might be like, oh, it's also like, how many people have a picture of bluechew?
Q
Well, also like, assuming that the people who use bluechew are an old skew our age.
Brian
Right.
Q
Like, how many you up. Texts are you getting? It's been quite a while since somebody Good Quiet if I'm awake.
Brian
Yeah, Mary Beth from downstairs because she doesn't feel like coming up. Yeah. Oh, you are. Okay, Just checking.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
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Q
Yeah.
Walt
Oh.
Brian
And then she showed me the picture later on, and I was like. I was like, I'm bald. I come bald man. I'm going bald. And she's like, no, you're not. And I'm like, this bitch will gaslight me like nobody's business where. I'm like, I'm looking right at it. I'm looking at the picture.
Sal
I can see the shine.
Brian
Yeah. She's like, he's thinning a little. But you're not going bald, right?
Sal
I'm like, she loves you.
Brian
I know, but I need the fucking cold, hard truth sometimes.
Walt
Yeah, y'. All.
Q
Nobody could even see anyway.
Brian
Yeah. That's the one advantage of being tall. Yeah. Except the camera, when Chuck's putting it on.
Sal
Oh, my.
Brian
I know.
Q
Oh, really? Chuck's just focusing.
Sal
He's got this angle that just makes it like, you know, it's like a beacon.
Q
Yeah.
Sal
But speaking of rockets firing, did anybody see Project Hail Mary yet or.
Q
No. No, I want to.
Sal
You should.
Q
Should. Yeah, I read the book. The book's awesome.
Sal
Yeah. There's a couple. Few differences, but they make up for it.
Q
Excellent. You're giving it the stamp of a. Get him stamp of approval.
Sal
Yeah, I saw it last night.
Q
Is it overly long? Because that's a.2 and a half hours. That's what I keep hearing. It's like.
Sal
Yeah, a little bit. Like, the beginning drags a little. But the book dragged a little, too, in the beginning. Yeah. So. But they didn't. Just takes off.
Q
I still haven't seen that Elvis one. I gotta get over and see.
Sal
Definitely go with it. If you know a theater, it's got good sound.
Q
Oh, I know a theater with good sound, buddy. Staten Island's got an Alamo Drafthouse. Staten Island's got, like, an IMAX now. We're coming up, bro.
Brian
I know, man.
Sal
I was reading that if you have. If you have one of those Atmos theaters, it really excels there.
Q
All right.
Brian
You just mentioned dying in our age. And. Yeah, there's a woman. I don't know if you saw this, Walt. She got killed after becoming trapped under a parade floor. Did you see this?
Q
What parade? St. Patrick.
Brian
St. Patty's Day parade.
Walt
Yeah. Local.
Brian
No, it was in Louisville, Kentucky. The tragedy occurred when her foot got caught by a float wheel, causing her to fall. And then the float ran over and she got transported to the hospital. But of all the ways, you're like, I wonder how I'm gonna go. Yeah, death by parade float. Not, like, the top of the list. Probably not even in the top 10.
Q
No. Did the parade keep going? They're like, get her out of here.
Brian
I don't think so. I don't think so.
Walt
Protocol is probably moving forward. I imagine people won't be able to
Brian
walk within a certain walk along the. Yeah.
Q
You know, when I was on that float in Mardi Gras, people were. It was scary. Like, people were just running up to it and, like, there was no barrier.
Brian
Right.
Q
And I remember being like, God, they're not even watching when their feet are going, like, they're gonna get run over. So I get it. I get it. Scary.
Brian
Yeah.
Q
But it's St. Patrick's Day. I mean, come on, you know, It's a chance.
Sal
Alcohol was.
Q
Yeah. Once you get the Irish involved like that, somebody's gonna die. I mean, you know.
Brian
Yeah. So. So they. They say, like, a mom Like a local mom who was, like, you know, proud of her kids, like, known around the. The community and.
Q
Oh, it's always those.
Brian
Yeah.
Q
It's never some scumbag.
Brian
Yeah. Why couldn't, like, like, some piece of. Just fall into. And everybody was like, oh. Oh, really? That's terrible.
Q
Oh, no. Property values are going up because that maniac like that.
Sal
Towns. Get them.
Q
Yeah. No, get them. Nobody wants it. Come on. Don't say that. So. We love you.
Walt
I've been invited to. To walk in plenty of parades, and I've always declined because I was always fearful that I might get pulled under one of the floats in Highlands.
Q
What if you were on the float?
Walt
On the float? I don't think I ever did anything worthy enough to get on the float, like, to get that kind of status.
Sal
Like a Tim Hilton. Yeah.
Brian
You can shepherd the float if you want.
Walt
Yeah, I can, like, you know, walk alongside of it. And I always was a little leery of that. With good reason. It feels like now.
Brian
Hey, man, you were onto something long before anybody else.
Q
Could have been you. What a bad way to go.
Brian
I was. I was in a parade. We used to, like, go in the parades, like if you were in Little League. And when I was in fourth grade, we. I was in the band. A drum player.
Q
Nice.
Brian
You would think so. But then when it came to the day, like, the day of the parade, I think it was Memorial Day parade. Instead of giving me a drum, like, I thought I was gonna have, like, the snare drum with the. Like, the strap around your neck and. And all that. He gave me a cowbell. Yeah. Had gave me a cowbell and just was like. Just hit it randomly.
Walt
Prior to that, though, in music class, were you playing the drum?
Brian
I was playing a drum. Yeah. So. I don't know why that.
Walt
So did you wonder why he hadn't given you. Did you practice what you guys are gonna be doing in the parade? Or was it just like, you know, or go, go crazy?
Brian
I. I did. No, I. I did practice. I did practice, but there were kids that were older than me, though. I think there were only so many drums.
Walt
Okay. So that you didn't have enough drums for you.
Brian
I think so. I. I just would hit the cowbell.
Walt
What, in practice, too?
Brian
Oh, no, no. In practice, I had, like, a drum pad.
Walt
Okay.
Brian
You know, so that's what I would use.
Q
They should have got you one of those drum suits that Phil Collins had. Remember? It was like. Oh, was it Phil Collins or Petey. Yeah. Where he had, like. He just hit.
Brian
Oh, yeah, it was like electric pads
Q
on him that he hit.
Walt
So you were telling your family, like, you know the big parades this weekend, I'm gonna be drumming.
Brian
And I remember being ashamed as I walked.
Walt
Because you had a bell.
Brian
They were standing right by the. I remember they were standing right by the post office because that's the. The mark of like, let's give the special needs kid a bell just to hit because he can't. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Back it would have been mongoloid for sure.
Walt
Reason why that one of the great rock and roll phrases is more cowbell is because it's fucking cool, the cowbell.
Brian
I mean, if you watch that sketch, it doesn't come off as very cool.
Q
Making fun of it.
Sal
It's not like you were carrying a flag or something,
Walt
so you had to. So did you at least attack the bell with ferocity?
Brian
You know, I don't think so.
Walt
No.
Brian
I think I was. I think every. That was like the longest mile I ever walked.
Walt
Should have threw yourself under the float.
Sal
His parents say he loved the cowbell.
Walt
How old were you?
Brian
I probably would have been like eight, nine, somewhere in there.
Walt
So how long did it take you to get over the. So did the older kid have the.
Brian
It didn't take very long at all because I quit band because of that. Well, I stopped playing drums. I started playing trumpet instead.
Walt
So you didn't quit band then?
Brian
Well, I didn't quit, Ben. I quit the drum.
Walt
Quit the drum because of that, you think?
Brian
I think so. I don't really remember. I can't say for sure, but it probably has to stock in the room.
Walt
There's like 30 horns. There's only two drums. I'm gonna become a horn player. Yeah, because they can't deny me next year though.
Brian
I even had my own trumpet, so there was no way they could fucking keep me out.
Walt
What'd you do with that trumpet?
Brian
I had it for the longest time. It might be at my parents house.
Walt
But you still got it.
Brian
I might, yeah.
Walt
You think you could play anything on it?
Sal
I was gonna say. Does he still have it?
Walt
The pipes?
Brian
I don't think so.
Walt
You'd at risk blowing a anism if
Brian
you ever tried to play the Ezekiel. Hemorrhaging.
Sal
Blow a cheek out.
Q
Think he's dizzy. Look at me.
Brian
Look at me. I'm Lou Armstrong. Oh,
Q
so is that.
Walt
Is that Mr. Elliot? Who, who, who said here you go.
Brian
That would have been Mr. Nut.
Walt
I know, I don't remember him.
Brian
Yeah, I think you came right after Mr. Nut left.
Q
Mr. Nut.
Brian
Yeah. Double cheese that's the horrific name that's up.
Q
But, but, but. Oh, I'm surprised he went into teaching with a name like that.
Brian
So what?
Walt
So what did you say? When the teacher gave you the horn, you were like, well, I'm a drummer. I was born to drum.
Brian
I didn't say that. No, What'd you say? No, I think I. I think it was my idea that I was like. Like, I wanted to play the trumpet.
Walt
No, no, no. When he gave you the bell drum, what did you say?
Brian
Oh, I don't. I probably just took it.
Walt
You didn't. Were like, but I'm a drummer.
Brian
No, probably not.
Q
This is my lot.
Brian
I. Yeah, I think I'm just like. I accept it, everyone.
Walt
I am now.
Brian
I'm now a cowbell player.
Walt
All right, hush up. We're going to start. I want to make an announcement.
Brian
I'm going to start this parade. Ding. I'm important.
Walt
Bell away from him.
Q
He it up. He up.
Brian
How could he it up?
Walt
So what did your parents say? When you're like, was your dad like, I thought you were playing the drums. Why you got that.
Brian
That fem bell no turn.
Sal
They turn their back on the parade.
Walt
Around like, ticker bell.
Q
I told all my friends at work to come.
Brian
May be ashamed.
Q
Maybe all your problems with your parents trace back to this one moment.
Brian
I lean into it. The next year I'm like, look at me, I'm Tinkerbell. Guys, remember. Remember me, Edgar, your son. And I don't know about him, you're
Walt
gonna have to send that boy to Sweden.
Q
Yeah, we had words for them back in the 70s.
Walt
Help with that. But when you got back to the grave is over and you go back to your family, did anybody ask, well, why were you playing a bell?
Brian
It was so long ago. I mean, it was literally 50 years ago. So I don't really recall the conversation, but I. I probably was like. I. I probably tried to, like, explain it away somehow, you know, ashamed that I was given a cowbell instead of a real drum. I think I'm gonna be Little Drummer Boy. Look at me. Oh, no, you're not.
Q
Here you go. Take a battle.
Brian
We're gonna. You can play the same thing that cows put around their necks just to let people know where they are.
Q
Oh, that's great.
Brian
God damn it, Tinkerbell. Well, we got this week's episode title anyway.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
Oh, do you want to hear about the Airbnb lady who Pees all over everything or Bob Barker's sexual misdeeds?
Q
Oh, I mean, Bob Barker for sure, yeah. Wait, Misdeeds.
Brian
Yeah, yeah.
Q
What do you got up to? You're gonna hear he's not here to defend himself.
Brian
He's not. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. Filthy dressing room secrets exposed. The dark secrets behind legendary the Price is Right. Bob Barker have been exposed. The host, who died at 99, has been accused of creating a toxic workplace in a new e docu series, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which Barker's beauties spill on the long running show. So evidently he was. He was having sex with one of the girls, model Diane Parkinson. Do you remember her? Well, by name? Yeah. Diane Parkinson.
Walt
Yeah, she was. She was pretty.
Brian
Yeah, very. Well, all the Parker's beauties were, but yeah, she was. She was exceptionally good looking.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
At first they attempted to hide the illicit affair, but it quickly became obvious, especially as the pair would regularly have a dressing room sex during film breaks.
Q
Well, what's the problem so far was
Walt
it sounds like they were having an affair. So, like, she was. She was a willing participant, right?
Brian
Yes, I believe so. The models of the show say the atmosphere behind the scenes grew so toxic it became unbearable.
Q
It didn't grow toxic because people weren't throwing around the word toxic back then.
Brian
Nope.
Q
It was just work.
Brian
I was really kind of surprised because Bob had a girlfriend and as time went on, people were noticing she would go downstairs during breaks and go into his dressing room, and that's when some hanky panky was going on. That's one of Barker's beauties. Maybe they're all just bitter now, like they're older. They weren't one of Bob Barker's favorites in the stable.
Q
I mean, so far I've heard nothing.
Walt
You know, how did. How was it toxic, though?
Sal
I'm guessing the other beauties were like, oh, she's getting preferential treatment.
Q
And they said she's sleeping with them.
Brian
Yeah.
Q
Fuck you think it's gonna happen? You get worse treatment.
Brian
So at one point. All right, this is. Now this is something Bob Barker always said that black men were the most diseased people on earth and would not want. Didn't want to have sex with a woman who had had sex with a black man.
Q
Man.
Brian
Now, I didn't know that.
Walt
Who said this?
Brian
This is what, let me see. Halm is her last name.
Walt
Was she one of Barker's beauties?
Brian
She was one of Barker's beauties, I believe. Holly Halstrom.
Q
Yeah.
Brian
Okay.
Walt
She must like to. To reveal that true or not, she must really fucking hate him.
Q
She got an axe to grain.
Walt
Oh, yeah.
Q
Guy's dead.
Walt
You're gonna destroy his.
Q
Yeah, but it's not because most people are gonna be like, who?
Brian
At this point?
Q
Yeah, like Bob Barker, the guy from Happy Gilmore. Like, that's really.
Brian
Yeah, she was Hellstrom. Okay. Here's why she's better. She was warned that her weight was becoming a problem. She was told to address it and eventually lost camera time. Next thing I know, my lawyers had called me and said, Bob Barker just filed a lawsuit against you for defamation. And after that, nobody spoke to me.
Walt
To me.
Brian
I lost everything. I was totally broken. Living out of my car. I couldn't afford to stay in the lawsuit and I would have to settle and I was not going to do that. She would go under, sue Barker five years later for malicious prosecution.
Q
Wow. But what did she say about him at the time that he sued her for.
Walt
For making her lose weight, I guess.
Brian
For making her lose weight?
Q
Yeah.
Brian
I mean that's the way. That's the way the article would make it appear.
Walt
Now this is a show. Where's the show?
Brian
On E. On E. It's a two part docu series.
Walt
Imagine that. Like there's a. There was a. There was enough interest, they thought, in Bob Barker to create a two part miniseries about it.
Sal
It's E. They kind of do that,
Q
like, and filled it with like, like nothing I've heard so far.
Walt
Well, the. I mean, the black thing.
Q
He's not on record saying that.
Brian
Well, he. The black model. There's a black model saying that. He would say. The producer used the term reverse Oreo. He would say, claudia, you get in the middle of the two white models. Or tell me that on the ass model because stereotypically black women have a larger behind. And I guess that's why he wanted to grab it and feel it. The show reportedly only allowed two black contestants at a time. They would have the letter B written on the card. It was pretty sad. A black contestant may try to hug Bob Barker, but he would shrink away from them. I never noticed that now is price. I wasn't looking for it though.
Walt
Is it still on?
Brian
Should look, isn't it? With Drew Carry?
Sal
Yeah.
Walt
Do you think this hurts the current state of the Price is Right and it. You don't think so? I. I would think it has to have some knock on effect.
Q
Why?
Sal
I don't know.
Walt
It kind of like taints the good times, you know, everyone's like, I bet
Brian
you Drew Carey's doing the same.
Walt
No, not that. But like now all like without that show. And it's Legacy. This show doesn't exist. So now to like have fun watching it or participating feels gross.
Q
If the headline is guy from the 70s has questionable opinions, I don't know that I'm so shocked that I can't watch the show anymore that I never watch anyway.
Sal
Nearly 60 years later.
Q
Yeah, yeah, they had. Bill Burr, had a good bit in his last stand up special about it where he was like, they're going after John Wayne. The guy's been dead 50 years. About an interview in a magazine that doesn't even exist anymore. Like when the. Does this stop? Like when does it stop?
Brian
That's a good point.
Q
Yeah. I was like, he's right.
Brian
Yeah. So that's it. That's all the news for this week.
Q
If he was a piece of shit, he deserves it. That's what I say.
Walt
Parker.
Q
Yeah, yeah.
Walt
Put him in the. In the barrel with John Wayne and then fucking seal it up.
Sal
Shoot it to the moon.
Walt
Shoot. Well, I don't even think it's worth the money. Shooting to the moon. Let's just drop it over the fucking side of the.
Brian
OR in a garbage dump.
Walt
Yeah, they'll just sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Sal
Throw it off Niagara Falls.
Q
Yeah, well, let's take all these people that think this way and put them on their own island somewhere. Let them just live there.
Brian
Well, like minded people.
Q
Yeah, why not? That's what I say. That's what they say too.
Walt
I thought you had that island or something.
Q
Island we love. We fucking drop the bowl.
Walt
Tell Steve Dave.
Date: March 23, 2026
In this lively, comedic, and uncensored episode, the usual quartet—Walt, Brian, Q (Brian Quinn of Impractical Jokers), and Sal—catch up on milestone birthdays, office antics, and wild weekend escapades. The crew dives into stories from Q’s ongoing 50th birthday celebrations, banter about office life and garbage responsibilities, and a surprising in-depth recounting of Brian’s visit to an “adult-oriented social club.” Later, discussion ranges from parade mishaps to reflections on aging, comic book collectibles, and even controversial posthumous revelations about Bob Barker. Throughout, the group delivers their trademark blend of humor, teasing, and nostalgic storytelling.
Q’s Recovery and Celebrations
Birthday Gift: 'Death of Superman' Absolute Edition
Work Dynamics and Office Chores
Bed Making Philosophies
Comic Book & MCU Chatter
Reflections on Aging
Q on Recovery from Partying (03:35):
“I was having too much fun and I just stopped counting. And then you know when you see the empty bottle at the end of the next day, you’re like, oh, I’m responsible for at least half that.”
Walt on the ‘Death of Superman’ Gift (06:29):
“This is one of the sweetest collected editions that has ever been produced… if anybody deserved one on his 50th, it was you, dude.”
Brian, describing the swing club (28:30):
“It was… a lot cleaner. The people were not as wild as I expected.”
Walt on Tinker Bell (60:12):
“God damn it, Tinkerbell. Well, we got this week’s episode title anyway.”
| Timestamp | Segment | |---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:26 | Teasing Q about his 50th birthday celebrations | | 06:10 | Walt gifts Q the ‘Death of Superman’ Absolute Edition | | 09:30 | Q’s Comic-Con story: “You're...You're Mike Carlin!” | | 11:58 | Sal grilled about office garbage and “Sunday Night Garbage Day” | | 14:23 | Q’s flexible “boss hours” and staff lunch routine | | 26:00–31:40 | Brian’s swingers club escapade | | 33:35 | Club demographic and membership economics | | 36:45 | The big reveal: what actually happened in the club’s theme room | | 51:43 | News: Death by parade float at St. Patrick’s Day parade | | 54:09 | Brian’s “Cowbell Parade” humiliation and “Tinker Bell” origin | | 60:31 | Bob Barker, ‘The Price is Right,’ and posthumous controversy discussion | | 65:20 | Q on cancel culture and legacies: “Guy from the 70s has questionable opinions…” |
“Tinker Bell” encapsulates everything TESD fans love: inside jokes, candid life stories, loving ribbing, geekery, and the odd (sometimes NSFW) detour. Whether recounting drunken escapades, comic book nostalgia, or the sting of childhood humiliation, the hosts’ chemistry and humor shine throughout. For newcomers, this episode is a great snapshot of why the show has such a passionate following: honesty, irreverence, and the sense that no topic is off-limits.