#671: Q-pae

Summary

Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! #671: Q-pae

Episode Overview

This episode of "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!" brings together Brian Quinn ("Q" of Impractical Jokers), Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson, and Get 'Em Steve-Dave for another irreverent roundtable full of rants, reflection, and ribbing. The hosts contemplate change, personal growth, and "cocoon phases" of life, all while weaving in stories of pets, fig trees, midlife crisis tattoos, and relentless debates over the cleanliness of their recording space. A new game, "Are You Cueless?," pits Quinn against Bryan in a challenge of street smarts and pop culture knowledge, and, as always, the show is rife with quotable moments, tangents, and self-deprecating humor.

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Opening: Loss and Reflection [00:07–04:45]

• Walt shares the recent loss of his beloved dog, Socks, igniting a heartfelt discussion about pets and grieving.

  • "The only bad part of owning a pet is the end otherwise." – Bryan Johnson [02:17]
  • Walt reflects on giving Socks a more rewarding last few years after leaving his comic shop job.

• Q shares a personal ritual, planting a fig tree using ashes from his own pet, Benjamin, connecting it to family legacy and loss.

  • "When I was planting it, I was like, oh wow... here I am decades later doing this one, which is an offshoot of that. And there's a fun little continuity to that that I liked." – Brian Quinn [08:31]

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Generational Change and “Cocoon” Phases [10:38–26:13]

• Q muses on midlife—turning 50, evolving identity and priorities, and “cocoon phases” of change.

  • "When did I make the switch to being the version of myself that I am now?" – Brian Quinn [11:32]
  • He discusses shifting from being work-obsessed (fireman, TV show, touring) to a slower, more deliberate phase.
  • "Maybe I just want to fucking plant fig trees. I don't know." [15:51]

• Walt and Bryan analyze their own transformative stages, including TV fame, addiction, and fatherhood.

  • "Becoming a dad had to be the most major cocoon of all...that one that changes you forever." – Walt Flanagan [19:21]
  • Bryan reflects that TV fame felt surreal and secondary to the ongoing podcast.

• The group debates whether growth is still possible as one ages, or if most "cocoons" are spent.

  • Walt suggests drastic late-life change is usually triggered by major or negative events.

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Green Thumbs & Domestic Life [04:45–10:23, 27:00–32:32]

• Q’s newfound interest in gardening (fig trees and weed), funny failures digging holes, and sharing memories of Italian-family horticulture.

  • Tales of family traditions, like putting fish heads under fig trees and wrapping them for winter [05:56-06:13].

• Discussion of homegrown cannabis—and weed cultivation’s practical (and legal) aspects.

  • "I've been doing that for a few seasons. I grow like three or four plants a year." – Brian Quinn [09:16]

• Aside: Catnip and the perils of attracting more felines; the legalization of personal cannabis grows.

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Game Segment: "Are Youe Cueless?" [42:12–67:55]

• Premise: Q and Bryan face off, answering questions outside their comfort zones (Q guesses prices of everyday items, Bryan navigates pop culture/personalities).

• Great banter and trash talk throughout, with Walt as quizmaster and Get ’Em keeping score.

  • Sample challenge: Price of eggs ("$2.49, and that's what everybody's fucking complaining about?" – Q, [45:32])
  • "You have to come within a dollar of the actual price." – Walt Flanagan [42:22]

• Highlight: The concept of being "cueless"—disconnected from everyday knowledge—becomes a persistent joke.

  • Notable quote: "You were in a sex club last week ... and Q, you are going to play for Donovan Barkman of Kentucky." [42:52–43:06]

• Bryan does surprisingly well with lucky pop culture guesses, netting a signed limited-edition Batman print for his listener.

  • "You're not cue list. ... I was like, oh my God." – Walt Flanagan [54:09]

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Life, Change, and the Office Cleanliness Saga [67:55–114:03]

• The eternal "clean office" debate – a signature TESD motif.

  • Q presses to overhaul the studio before he'll bring celebrity guests: "I need a month of Josh approved office." [103:16]
  • Walt floats tactics from “leading with love” to “reverse psychology”—making the space even dirtier to motivate Get ’Em.
  • "Can we be filthier than him? ... Sink to his level." – Walt Flanagan [94:29–94:46]

• Get 'Em’s hoarding and inability to throw things away becomes a running joke—pizza boxes, receipts, dog hair, and mystery stains pile up.

  • Q: "The pizza boxes, natty daddies ... just sitting in the back." [106:34]
  • Walt: "We're gonna make a promise—no more five day old pizza box." [109:06]

• Psychological musings on why Get ’Em can’t change and whether it’s "disease" or "laziness."

  • "He's just not capable of doing it." – Walt Flanagan [112:41]

• The “deal”: If the space stays clean for a full month, Q promises to book a "caliber" guest like Danhausen or Brooke Shields.

  • "If he pulls that off, I will get... It has to be a caliber..." – Brian Quinn [104:10–104:15]

• Riff on using a psychiatrist, possible interventions, and jokingly comparing Get 'Em's attachment to garbage to genuine trauma.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On growth: “Maybe I just want to fucking plant fig trees, I don’t know.” – Brian Quinn [15:51]
• On old habits: “We had to move to public shaming. That hasn’t worked either.” – Walt Flanagan [91:39]
• On podcasting reality TV: “If we didn’t do Behind the Fake Counter...the TV show would seem like some sort of distant or fever dream.” – Bryan Johnson [21:12]
• On time passing: “When did I make the switch to the version of myself I am now?” – Brian Quinn [11:32]
• On office filth: “But the pizza boxes, how are you not getting... You could overlook perhaps the stain on the wall or the chocolate wrappers piled up in the corner... but the pizza boxes?” – Brian Quinn [111:14]

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Notable Timestamps

• [00:07–04:45] — Walt’s story of Socks and pet loss
• [04:45–10:23] — Fig trees, family, and legacy
• [10:38–26:13] — “Cocoon phases” and life transitions
• [42:12–67:55] — Game: “Are You Cueless?”
• [67:55–114:03] — The Office Cleanliness Saga & Grand Guest Challenge
• [103:16] — Q sets terms for bringing in a celebrity guest
• [109:06] — Walt and Q’s “pizza box promise”

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Tone & Language

True to Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave’s style, the tone leaps from comic absurdity to sincere existential reflection—sometimes in the same breath—with plenty of ribbing, confessions of weakness, and surreal hypotheticals. The language stays conversational, crass, and hilariously self-effacing.

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Summary

Episode #671 spotlights the evolving lives, quirks, and frustrations of the TESD crew as much as any explicit topic. At heart, it’s about negotiating (and failing to negotiate) change—whether that means growing old, coping with loss, navigating friendships, or just cleaning up your damn pizza boxes. Through the new "Are you Cueless?" game, the hosts poke fun at their own disconnect from the "common man," but the episode’s lasting hooks are its willingness to be honest, be absurd, and, as always, keep the laughs flowing no matter how mundane or morbid the subject matter.

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Final Challenge & Takeaway

If Get ‘Em can keep the office “Josh-level clean” from May 9th to June 9th, Q will book a proper celebrity guest—possibly even Danhausen or Brooke Shields—a wager symbolic of the show’s perpetual hope for growth, redemption, and a room that doesn’t smell like old pizza.

Transcript

[Brian Quinn]

You guys attempted to sexualize things. I mean, I don't know that that's the way to go. Even something. Jeff abandoned Star War.

[Bryan Johnson]

What the is going on over there? Get him.

[Brian Quinn]

He's got to turn that shut R2D2 off for two seconds while I'm pouring out my goddamn art.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tell him, Steve Dave.

[Bryan Johnson]

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of. Tell them, Steve Dave. I'm sitting here. Well, I never get to introduce. Get him first. I know. People love. Get him.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

How you stanking, Brad?

[Bryan Johnson]

Bq hello and what appears to be a very sleepy Walt Flanagan.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, it's cloudy out. You feeling a little?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I've been cloudy for a while.

[Bryan Johnson]

For a while?

[Walt Flanagan]

For about a week.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, that's a long time to be cloudy for.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't want to talk about it, but. Yeah, I didn't think. I thought I was doing a good job hiding it, but I lost socks. We lost socks.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Brian Quinn]

Really? Oh, no.

[Bryan Johnson]

Fuck.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, so.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, boy.

[Walt Flanagan]

Kind of. Yeah. In a bit of a, you know, funk. Just. Yeah, funk. That's the perfect word for it.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, she had cancer. She was. We were willing. We were willing to go to. To the ends of the earth, though, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

She was such a fiercely fighter, you know, she. She. She beat everything. So we were ready to go, but the doctor said she had a tumor inside of her, that if it burst, it would be agonizing. So we decided to follow the vet's advice. Stinks. It's awful.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. I'm sorry.

[Bryan Johnson]

Usually unless you have an extraordinarily bad pet, it's the only bad part of owning a pet is the end otherwise. Yeah, it's like.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. But I told my wife. I was like, was. We were. They're talking about treatments and I was like, you know, weighing and everything. I was like, this dog has beaten everything and is so strong and so fiercely. Just doesn't get anything down. We've. We can't, like, not offer her anything that is available to them. But they said it wouldn't have worked though, Right. I just didn't want to be like, if. When the next time, if we, you know, in the next life, you know, like, she's like, oh, how come you didn't try?

[Bryan Johnson]

Why'd you betray me?

[Walt Flanagan]

Why didn't you do? Like, I could have beat this.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So I was like, we gotta do it. But it turned out there was really little. The odds were not good that, like, she wouldn't like, even the operation she needed. She might not have even Survived that being her advanced age.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. I'm sorry to hear that.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Little socks. She's been around forever.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. How old was she?

[Walt Flanagan]

Fifteen.

[Brian Quinn]

God damn, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a long time. And I was thankful that in one aspect though, that I. The latter part of her life. I don't know how long I've been. I haven't been at the stash, but once I left the stash, both dogs and now Teddy were given much more to do on day to day basis rather than just staying home and waiting for the family who leaves in the morning and then comes back right in their home all alone all day.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just sleeping, I guess. But you know, they did. They were like, you know, she did quite a bit during those, during those years. Well, not much just coming here, doing.

[Brian Quinn]

Still. She was like your constant companion.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Oof.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wow.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man, that's brutal. It's. It's.

[Bryan Johnson]

That should have been the end of the show, not the beginning.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, you asked.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I did.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I get it. That's tough, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

But you have like a last day, Like a good last day or.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it wasn't a good. No, the last day was just news and everything and it's like, like it's that time.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow. Look, I planted a fig tree this morning and I figured. A fig? Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

My grandfather has this fig tree and he planted it in my. One of my family's yards 40 something years ago. And I took a cutting and I've been growing the cutting and I finally grew like a tree and I planted it today in my yard. I dug a hole, put it in there, and I sprinkled some of Benjamin's ashes in it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. So it's again, that's three years now. You know what I mean?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It just.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you like figs?

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, as much as the next Italian. Yeah, I grew up with them in my yard and stuff.

[Bryan Johnson]

You know, I saw the way. I've never had a fig, but I saw the way it looked when we did that thing for some. The Sunday Jeff show.

[Brian Quinn]

You guys attempted to sexualize things. I mean, I don't know that that's the way to go.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Did your family do like the winter

[Brian Quinn]

wrapping it up in plastic and stuff for many years? No.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

And then when I. When I bought the house that I'm in now, I paid this company to come and dig up that original tree that my grandfather did.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

Which again was there for 40 years and replant it. And now every year I get it wrapped and stuff like that. Properly. We used to do it. And then, you know, then I found pussy. And nobody cared about the fig tree anymore, but it survived anyway. And so it's. So now I have two fig trees in my yard.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

My family had a similar tree and my one relative would put fish heads.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

And. And then the rest of the family would claim that the figs taste like.

[Brian Quinn]

Tastes like fish.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It's funny. Yeah. Apparently that's like the best thing. Like.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Some fish stuff down there or. Or stuff from the fireplace. Apparently when you burn wood.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. The biochar.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. If you do that, it's apparently really good for it. So.

[Walt Flanagan]

And what will you expect to. Like, what's a good season for a fig tree? How many figs will you.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, it depends on the tree. Like, you can get a lot. Like, if you. How big, you let it grow enough.

[Walt Flanagan]

Or you could, like, you know, just like have a roadside little side.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, no, no. I'd have to grow like four or five trees for that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like peach baskets full of.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no. If anything, I'm like, you guys want a fig for my tree?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, so it's that sparse of a.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, this since. Since we moved had something called root shock. So for eight years. It didn't. It didn't. That tree that my grandfather planted didn't fruit at all last year. It just started fruiting, but like small, tiny ones. So every year it'll get better and better. But I also have to keep it at a certain size for where it is. So it'll never be like a giant, like, fig tree.

[Walt Flanagan]

But if you look into it, like, do you see more. Do you see more to it than most people would. Would see when you. When you see it come back to life like that? Or do you think that there's some sort of, like, supernatural. Not super.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, no.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like his grandfather's looking over him while he. Fig tree.

[Brian Quinn]

I think it was just one more fig tree for my. He was a farmer. He was an Italian. That's what he did in Italy. I think it was just one more fig tree for him. But for me it's, you know.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, but I mean, saying, like, since it didn't. Didn't do anything for eight years. It didn't have.

[Brian Quinn]

No. They told me. They told me it wouldn't do it. They were like, it's gonna have root shock probably. So it's right on target.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Trying to assign some sort of.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I mean, that's what I would do. That though, I would be like. Wants me to have A fig this season.

[Brian Quinn]

Thanks, grandpapa. When I was digging the hole today, you know, I'm not a hole digger by nature.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. What is that? Like, did you, like, were you just looking at it? Like, well, where do I start?

[Bryan Johnson]

No, upside down?

[Brian Quinn]

No, no. I mean, I'm not that. I'm not a complete. Like. I mean, I've dug holes before, but there was like. I was like, just kick at the

[Walt Flanagan]

dir and like, where is it?

[Brian Quinn]

How much money do I have to give you to move dirt?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Let me ask AI how to do this.

[Walt Flanagan]

Is there a YouTube video I can watch?

[Brian Quinn]

There was a feeling, like, when I was putting, because what I did is I did a cutting last year from the fig tree for my grandfather's, and I grew it over the winter in my house. And it's now it's like. It's like 3ft high, and it's leafing and stuff. So when I. When I was planting it, I was like, oh, wow. I was like, it's kind of cool that, like, 45 years ago, my grandfather planted the other one. And, like, here I am decades later doing this one, which is an offshoot of that. And there's a fun little continuity to that that I liked. But, I mean, I'm not fancying myself a farmer of any sort. I dug a hole and put a.

[Bryan Johnson]

You know, you might have a green thumb. Next thing you know, I think I

[Brian Quinn]

could have a green thumb.

[Bryan Johnson]

You grew that weed?

[Brian Quinn]

Weeds good.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, that.

[Brian Quinn]

That wind is great.

[Walt Flanagan]

That growing weed, too?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I've been doing that for a few seasons. I grow like three or four plants a year, and then indoors or outdoors, I start indoor around January, so they sprout. And then once the weather turns, I. I go out and I plant those around my property.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Do you have any catnip planted?

[Brian Quinn]

No, I. I do think about that sometimes, but I already have so many cats around my property that I'm like, what am I gonna do, attract more? At a certain point, like, they start fighting, pissing all over the place back there.

[Walt Flanagan]

And it's legal to. To grow that up to five plants. Up to five Plan. Do you keep it? Make sure you're. You already. You have six or seven.

[Brian Quinn]

I know I did. I was doing five. But, like, the planting and the growing is easy part, it's like, then you have to harvest. You have to turn it upside down. You have to wait, and it gets real bad. And I was like, I don't want to do this five times. So I cut it down to three.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it doesn't look like Tyson's farm.

[Brian Quinn]

No. No. Although it does. Like, when they fully bloom and they have the buds, it smells like weed in my yard. Like, fresh, nice weed attracting stoners to your yard. Yeah. Sleeping in the blue stone at the back and. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

So you might have a green thumb. You don't know. See how this fig tree does? Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

I believe I have a. I believe I could have a green thumb if I put the time and effort in, which I'm just not going to do right now.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You know, just don't go too crazy.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll get there. I want to get there. I was thinking about this the other day. What do you guys think of this? Like, all right, so, you know, I guess it's just midlife crisis time now that I turned 50, because I was like, I was just thinking about myself and my life and being like, wow, like, how many versions? I'm not gonna word this, right, but I'm like, I'm not the same person I was when I was 16, obviously. Right. None of us are. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm also not the same person. I don't feel the same person. I was in my 20s, so that's a different version of myself. And now I'm like, well, wow. When this current version of myself, when. Like, if. If you're looking at your life through errors, right? And different versions of yourself through the years, or in my case, errors, life full of errors, then when did I make the switch to being the version of myself that I am now?

[Walt Flanagan]

Right?

[Brian Quinn]

And that's an interesting thought. So then I was thinking, all right, let's think about the last 10 years. And I'm like, I'm not that guy either. Like, I. I'm not. Like, it was all about work. It was all about the TV show. It was all about the touring. It was all about this. And I'm like, I'm not that guy anymore. Like, I don't tour. I can. I don't want to. You know what I mean? I don't. You know, the TV show we cut it down to, you know, you shoot 32 episodes. I think we're doing 18 now. I'd cut it down even less if I could, because the TV show doesn't matter as much as it's more part of what I did rather than what I'm doing, right? And then I'm like, oh, wow. I was like, so if I'm in this weird transitional period between that guy and who I'm becoming, like, who am I now? And I'm like, all right. All these things that used to matter.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're like, who am I?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, like, who what. What matters to me now? And then I was thinking about, wow, I understand everybody listening to this. It sounds like I'm babbling in a midlife crisis, and that's only because I

[Bryan Johnson]

have smoking some of his crop.

[Brian Quinn]

No, I haven't smoked in days. I haven't smoked in days, but. And then part of it, too, was like, reading. I opened that book, the super absolute Superman, you bombing. And it's gorgeous. It's fucking gorgeous. It's like the pages are so big. You know what I mean? The artwork is.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's the scope that the story deserves to be read.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And not only the scope of what the story meant to comics, but, like, the scope of what that particular story meant to me. You know what I mean? Cause I loved comics when I was younger, but that was the one that was like that, Like. God, it's hooked in me, you know?

[Walt Flanagan]

That's the one that's in the pocket of your most. The time in your life when it could make the most impact, and it did. Yeah. And that story, if that event happens today, it might not. It wouldn't even. It wouldn't have the same.

[Brian Quinn]

Not at all.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. It has to be at that right age to hit that. That spot and make it feel like it was important to you.

[Brian Quinn]

And not only was it, but, like, the book that you gave me gives it the presentation it deserves for having that level of importance in my own life. And pouring over the artwork and pouring over the. The coloring. So gorgeous. I don't think they redid it, but, you know, it just looks big. And I was like, man, I was like, it's just weird to, like, also recognize these touchstones in your life from being like, it's from 35 years ago or whatever it was. You know what I mean? And what. It just meant the world to me.

[Bryan Johnson]

What the fuck is going on over there? Get him. Turn that shit off.

[Brian Quinn]

Shut R2D2 off for 2 seconds while I'm pouring out my goddamn heart trying

[Bryan Johnson]

to figure out who he is. Christ sakes.

[Walt Flanagan]

So you think you're in another cocoon phase and you're about to emerge from another cocoon and be a different cue.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I think that's right. Or I'm already starting to come out of that cocoon and figuring out who I. Who.

[Walt Flanagan]

And when was the last time you think you came out of a cocoon?

[Brian Quinn]

It had to be. It had to be sometime with the TV show where it took over my life and changed the course of my life, you know what I mean? And became like, suddenly I had to navigate people knowing who I am and, and, and you know, that's not an easy thing to deal with because you're like, yeah, I don't feel good about myself especially, you know what I mean?

[Bryan Johnson]

So it's like those early days.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And like people being like, I love the show. Like, you have to learn to accept that in a way that isn't off putting to yourself. You know what I mean? And some, I think some people go the wrong way with it and some people go the right way with it. So it has to be somewhere. Obviously, the fire department at 28 was a big one for me. I loved being a fireman. I felt like a fireman. But there had to be a transition between fireman and TV show that I didn't recognize while it was happening. But looking back, I'm like, oh yeah, like, yeah, obviously, you fucking idiot. Like the TV show becoming so successful, replacing the fire department is a huge growth that I had to navigate and stuff like that. And now I'm at least old enough and lucky enough to recognize I'm in the middle of that again. And that's awesome because I'm like, oh, maybe I just want to fucking plant fig trees. I don't know.

[Walt Flanagan]

How many times have you. Do you think as a person you've emerged from a cocoon?

[Brian Quinn]

That's a great question. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, obviously. Well, you got to do.

[Walt Flanagan]

Or do you. Or do you think fought less? Because it's like 10 year intervals.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know. I think it comes fast and furious when you're a teenager because, you know, I got into horror and stuff like that and comic books and stuff like that and started developing my own attitude towards it. Like 11, 12, you know what I mean? And. But then women hit, girls hit. And then you're like, oh, fucking, this is nice. I don't know. So maybe let's say one per decade.

[Walt Flanagan]

So you're talking about.

[Brian Quinn]

And then sprinkle one more on top that I'm not. Oh, yeah, something like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. How many cocoons you think, Brian?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I thought I was still in one. I was waiting to bust out. I don't know. I mean, I guess like the beginning of the TV show. The end of the TV show.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, the drug era, I mean, you know.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, you beating that TV show, like

[Brian Quinn]

we make fun of the drug era a lot but, like, you got out of it. You know what I mean? And that's. That's not. That's not easy. It's called addiction for a reason.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right?

[Brian Quinn]

You.

[Walt Flanagan]

You. You look at the. The TV show Comic Book man as a. As emerging from a cocoon two times.

[Bryan Johnson]

Not really.

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think. I think came out of the cocoon right before the show. Like when we started doing Tell Him, Steve Dave started coming out, then the TV show came, and then the drug shit came then, I guess. Yeah, that would have wrapped up 2017. And that's when we started Patreon.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was weird. It was fun. It wasn't an indicator of how the TV show, how it plays an impact in my life or how little it did because we were. We were. We had to go to Lyle, me and get him. And we're listening to the local radio station and the topic was, have you ever been on TV for whatever reason? And get him goes, you should call. And I was like, when the. Have I ever been on tv? I said,

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

it's like seven seasons.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Because he was like, well, I was. I was. He was like. I was at a. I was at a Devil's Game once, and I was on TV then.

[Walt Flanagan]

That was the first thing I thought.

[Brian Quinn]

That is funny, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

That is the first. Like, in 1988, I went to my first double game with my wife. Not the first one I've been, but together. And during the late stages of the game, the crowd left, you know, with 10 minutes left, and we got to go down in the glass. And I knew from watching the game so many times that we've got to be on TV when they do these close ups of when the puck's in the scrum right in front of us. And I remember going home and watching it and being, like, jazzed on tv, and that's the first thing I thought of. And I was like, well, I don't know if this is engaging enough to call the radio station. I said in my head, yeah, that's it. Well, I gave Just like, kind of flew right over my head.

[Brian Quinn]

What do you think that means?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think it had the. I don't know if I allowed it to have any impact.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, it never seemed like you wanted to do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know if I didn't want to do it. I like the money.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Sure.

[Walt Flanagan]

I wish that was still around.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Or did you just feel like you weren't on tv? It was just like going into work.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, well, you never watched it, so it probably didn't feel like unless somebody came up and was like, I love the TV show. That's when you're reminded of it.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, yeah. So do I. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Or I hate the TV show.

[Walt Flanagan]

I have to think. I think my cocoon is. Well, I guess becoming a dad had to be the most major cocoon of all.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that one. That one that changes you forever, makes you really see things differently. Forever. You know, it doesn't. It doesn't stop.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, just because, you know, you have adult children, you know, it's still. It's still.

[Bryan Johnson]

Still tracking them, still wearing them.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Is there. Now that Oliver's around, is there a. A even bigger difference, you feel or.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it's okay. No, not yet. Okay. Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Well, you don't realize it because maybe you're in that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah. Maybe I'm in the metamorphosis stage.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you still worry about the girls as much, like. And that doesn't go away or is. Or does it get to, like, look, they're adults. They have a handle a little bit.

[Walt Flanagan]

A little bit as they get older. And you. You. You get. You. You deal with it better, I think.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wasn't it just a couple weeks ago that you're like, you're in a hospital?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no, that was a story I told. Recounted that happened a while ago, but I just remembered it, though. Yeah. No, yeah, it definitely. As they get older, you. You feel a little bit more. They're not as, like, where they need to be out and about, like, you know, like as much. You know, when they gain that independence, then it feels like, you know, like they're. They're on a. Like a worldwind worldwide tour where they

[Brian Quinn]

never stop, you know, but it's called youth.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right. So as that kind of wanes and it's like, oh, I don't have to go out every night.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

You kind of.

[Brian Quinn]

You start feeling better. Yeah. Safer at home.

[Bryan Johnson]

Nice and safe.

[Brian Quinn]

I get it.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think the. The TV show would seem like some sort of, like, distant or fever dream if we didn't do behind the fake counter and be reminded of it, you know?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Or tell them, Steve, Dave, you know, where.

[Bryan Johnson]

Where it comes up.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, where. It wasn't like we went dark after the TV show was like, there was a place where you could find us if somebody wanted to.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right, Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, but like, we just didn't drift away into complete anonymity. Like, you know, like many. Many probably reality show people do.

[Bryan Johnson]

The only people that don't seem to be like, the people. Like Hollywood Housewives. You know, like, the people. Like, shows with, like, rich people that can continue to maintain a certain lifestyle. Yeah, it seems like that for some reason, they're always showing up at, like, club openings and.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

That kind of shit.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't understand that either.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

We had those housewives in New Jersey, used to come to the Mammoth park all the time.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Why people?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I never watched the show, so I don't know. I just know, like, what you would see on, like, E. Like, you know, like, clips and stuff.

[Brian Quinn]

Right?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, but apparently they were just, like, they were on TV in real life, according to the people I know who were working with them.

[Bryan Johnson]

A bunch of.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, divas.

[Brian Quinn]

I met one recently. They were nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't remember which one, but get him. What about you? How many. Let's talk about your cocoon stages here.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

That's a tough one.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's. I have a tough concept of time, so it's. It's really tough to, like, you know, I think it kind of. For me, it's like, where I was living.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, Makes sense.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. You know, like, you know, my time at the farm, then my time living in Union.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Then, you know, college slash living in Tom's river and then living at the farm.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And now what does that mean? You have a tough concept with time.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like. Like, you know how I could just bring up a conversation I had a week ago? Like. Like, it just happened.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like, I don't.

[Bryan Johnson]

He sure does.

[Walt Flanagan]

So even if I wasn't in a conversation, when you start talking about it, it's. If I was in a conversation, like, what about are you talking. Talking about?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

So it's. It's. It's really, like, for me to judge time, like, I have to have, like, a reference. Like, I go back and look at a picture. Like, I can tell you, like, you know, when I can relate it to that picture. Not the year, exactly.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, like.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like, I look at the picture to find out the year.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It's more of a mental game, though, I think I'm talking about, like. Like, you don't go to, like, when we met you. You don't strike me as the same person as when we met you.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, yeah, Definitely. I was. Yeah. Yeah. So, like. Like, when I tell. When I tell. When I tell you that I was worse when I was younger.

[Brian Quinn]

It's. Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You know, it's. It's true. You know, I mean, I've been. I'm still Growing, Sure. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Which brings up an interesting point.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like how many Walt. I know you didn't say anything. How are you still growing?

[Brian Quinn]

Like he was in. You don't think he's growing?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know. I don't know what that actually means. What does that mean? You're growing. I know people use the phrase, but what does it actually mean? You're growing. How do you define growing?

[Brian Quinn]

I define it in terms of priorities and things that bother you, maybe, and things that you love.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like these things that change.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, sure, I think.

[Walt Flanagan]

And if they change, that's a sign of growth. If they don't change, it's a sign of not growing.

[Bryan Johnson]

Stagnation.

[Brian Quinn]

Stagnation.

[Walt Flanagan]

A little bit stagnation.

[Brian Quinn]

I think so. Even Sunday, Jeff abandoned Star Wars. We never thought we'd see that.

[Walt Flanagan]

I love that. That's your fucking. That's your example.

[Brian Quinn]

Is it wrong?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I'm growing. Not gonna believe this, but I grow

[Walt Flanagan]

the kind of growth that, like, you know, you. You want. Like, you know, when you mature and you become wise, you're like, you know. Not that you get pissy because Disney went woke on Star wars and it makes him annoy.

[Brian Quinn]

Take what you can get, I guess.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

But that's how much it meant to him.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. What an example. Wow. Blows my mind. It just puts everything in place. You talk about resetting the universe.

[Brian Quinn]

How many more cocoons do we have left? Is the other question.

[Bryan Johnson]

Probably fewer than the number of cats, I guess.

[Walt Flanagan]

I doubt for me and Bri, less as you get older. You do not, I don't think, change unless you, like, unfortunately, unless when you see the end of the road and then you. Maybe you change because you're like.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're scared.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. But I think older people, especially if they get over a certain age, are much harder to. To, you know, they've. Yeah, they're so. They've so have so many years under their belt. It's like, what is it that's gonna now make them rethink or relook at things? And usually it's not a good thing that makes you do that.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't want that, though.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, nobody does.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, I like.

[Walt Flanagan]

Who does?

[Bryan Johnson]

One of the reasons I lost weight was because I don't want to have a heart attack. You know, it's like, I'm at prime age for a heart attack. Prime weight for a heart attack, you know, So I was like, that's one of the. Aside from pure vanity. I wanted to, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Not be, you know, stress on your knees. That Kind of.

[Brian Quinn]

Those knees go true.

[Bryan Johnson]

They sure do. Oh, yes, they do. Even the metal one hurts sometimes.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. They're clicking and clacking down.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Step I got sound like Declan. Oh, who I. I deck. I know you. I owe you an email. I'm sorry. I will answer that today, but how

[Bryan Johnson]

long was it now?

[Walt Flanagan]

How long has it been since you.

[Brian Quinn]

No, only. Only a few days. Yeah, only a few days, but what the fuck?

[Walt Flanagan]

They're clicking and clacking.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, the knees. Yeah, they go fast. I was petting Boris, and Boris is about to turn three, and I'm like, God, if he lives as old as Benjamin, by the time he dies, I'll be 66. Oh, my God. And then what? And then it's any day now. Yeah, I know. So that's kind of what I'm. That's what. This is what I was thinking of while I'm planting fig trees and reading Superman. I think I need more tattoos.

[Bryan Johnson]

More tattoos?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'll get one with you.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That the. One of the hallmarks or earmarks of a man who's like, I'm not 50.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know what else to do.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't. I'm not. I'm getting a tattoo.

[Brian Quinn]

I think it's in this.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, it's a sports car.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It's fast car. Yeah. I don't think you're completely wrong, but I do think it's. I don't think it's 100. Like, this will make me feel young. I think it's like, if I'm gonna do it, I'm running out of time to do it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. But I think it's in the. I think it's a cousin to what you're saying. There's definitely something in there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you have something that you've wanted on your body for a whole.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I wanted. I've wanted to get the four color demons for. For 10 years now.

[Walt Flanagan]

Where would you put that?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I think I'm gonna sleeve. I would like to sleeve this arm.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, maybe.

[Brian Quinn]

Maybe the bleeding Superman. I want. I want, like, the. I have an idea for the Ghostbusters. The stream that they fire out of the proton pack, like, wrapping around the.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is a major.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's got cover. He's gonna be like the Illustrated Man.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I look like that dude from. Oh, my God. Who's the big tatted dude?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

The Enigma.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, sure. I don't know.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Dave Navarro.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll never be that cool. I mean.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, you are.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't Know my Superman and Ghostbusters tattoo? Didn't he bang Carmen Electra in her prime? I don't think I'll be that cool.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, if you get those tats, you're on the way.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, man, you're right. That's all I'm missing.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Has. Has the TV show impacted your decision to get tattoos?

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, TV shows not really impacting much anymore. It's. Does feel like the TV show work, like, I mean, I didn't think we'd go this long. So it feels like we're in a victory lap situation where it's just like doing it for fun now.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

You know what I mean?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Type thing. Which is cool. Which is cool. But no, it didn't. That didn't affect that at all. But yeah, we get the four colored demons on.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, we got one.

[Brian Quinn]

Let's do it.

[Bryan Johnson]

I got a tattoo of more sagging skin.

[Brian Quinn]

Something I never want to show people because it's just disgusting and floppy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, exactly. Under the files of be careful what you wish for. A couple weeks ago, I complained. Well, not complained, but mentioned that Jimmy the hair guy was having four bachelor parties.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

I was like, wow, weird. I didn't get invited to any of them. Okay, well, that changed. Got invited to one.

[Brian Quinn]

Which one?

[Bryan Johnson]

It's down in Atlantic City.

[Brian Quinn]

Of course.

[Bryan Johnson]

I looked at the prices down there. I'm like, we must pay these guys way too much because if they can afford to go to the Borgata this coming weekend. I was looking at the prices. It's like 600 a night.

[Brian Quinn]

Jesus.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, you don't have to stay then.

[Bryan Johnson]

They're going to a. Yeah, I know, but like, if you're gonna, like, have fun and stay out and stuff, I don't want to be driving back like two in the morning. Morning.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's what I'm doing.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, you're going?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm not going.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I'm going.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're going to Jimmy's bachelor party?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, they're going to the steakhouse and gambling.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right? Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why? I might. What? I mean, I. I'm not into high end steakhouses. I found that the higher the end of the steak, the less it tastes like steak, you know? So I am as.

[Bryan Johnson]

As evidenced by you walking out of char that time.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I. I wish that we were going.

[Brian Quinn]

Those dollar parking lot steaks.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, like, long. Yeah, like Longhorn.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I forgot about Denny's.

[Walt Flanagan]

But yeah, I'm gonna go.

[Bryan Johnson]

Really? Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm not staying at night. I'll just drive home at the end of the evening.

[Brian Quinn]

Is it tomorrow?

[Bryan Johnson]

That's shocking. No, no, it's.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I heard the rooms after we get back. Exorbitant, though. Yeah, they're all shacking up like college. Dorm style, though. Why don't you just split the.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't want to sleep in a tub. I'd rather drive back.

[Brian Quinn]

Wait, wait. Give me. Give me a number here. April.

[Bryan Johnson]

April 18th.

[Walt Flanagan]

18th, right.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, now everybody's gonna go to AC, though.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, you could block that out. I mean, I'm. I'm home and I'd probably rather go to that than the wedding.

[Walt Flanagan]

He would. I guess he would be overjoyed, I think, to have a BQ at the festivities.

[Brian Quinn]

Make that one.

[Walt Flanagan]

Everyone's going.

[Brian Quinn]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Jeff? Even. Even Sunday. Jeff RSVP'd.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're kidding me.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No.

[Bryan Johnson]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Why would you. Why would you think we wouldn't.

[Bryan Johnson]

Bachelor party doesn't seem to be like your kind of thing, so when they said as far as I'm.

[Walt Flanagan]

As far as I know what I've been told, it's a. It's a. It's a restaurant. And then gambling. What else is there?

[Bryan Johnson]

Probably going to some strip club or something. That's what I would guess anyway.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, all right. I'm not doing that, though. Yeah, I'll do the steak. I'll do the gambling.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Brian Quinn]

I think I've been on this one.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. I think it'll be more fun for me than the wedding.

[Walt Flanagan]

Welcome. They didn't mention that in the email or the text.

[Bryan Johnson]

What's that like?

[Walt Flanagan]

I thought it just said called Evidence, bro. Yeah,

[Bryan Johnson]

rough. Asked me. He didn't actually email me or text me or anything. I happened to see him.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Someone was supposed to text Q, but I guess they didn't do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think Rob has your. Your number, right?

[Brian Quinn]

I believe he does, yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

He says he does not.

[Walt Flanagan]

You just asked him.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's in the text.

[Brian Quinn]

Tom does. Tom does, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Speaking of Tom, he gave us a game today.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, really?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, I think it's a good one.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

It is. It's. I'm curious what your guys thoughts on the game are, though. The concept and the format of the game. You might not be as happy with it or as tickled as I was with the name.

[Brian Quinn]

All right, can't wait. Let me do some ads and get into it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Knock out two. Got three. I'll knock out two.

[Walt Flanagan]

I've got an ad for my personal ad too.

[Bryan Johnson]

Personal ad. Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

That I have to announce.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

And I do have a problem taking pills. Like, big pills.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, they're saying this dissolves under your tongue.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah. Oh, small throat at all.

[Bryan Johnson]

Too small for a pill.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's too. Well, it's too small for those big fucking horse pills though, right? Yeah. It could be like traumatic to take a pill that's oversized for me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Gagging.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Throwing up.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Jesus. This. Well, it says here it dissolves under your tongue, so I guess it must taste all right. This is peak passion and peak performance in a single tablet. Forget neck chicks and Phil chill. This is Netflix.

[Brian Quinn]

It could take like duck. It could taste like duck. But if it gets my boner going in.

[Bryan Johnson]

Full ignition at 15 minutes. If your bed could talk after this, it'd be asking for a break. As if it's not already broken.

[Brian Quinn]

What? Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Brian Quinn]

Do you Raycon, man. They just. They come and come for us.

[Bryan Johnson]

They do. Raycon's pretty good. Raycon. Well, I haven't had me und's in a while. Bluetooth's pretty good too.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I love my Raycons.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

They're working out for you at the Chinese.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I was using them yesterday at the buffet.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, yeah, they're good.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

That way you can block out anybody. Be like, sorry, sir, you're eating too much.

[Brian Quinn]

That's our food

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

limit. One plate.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's eating the paneling off the wall. The 19 locus, just as you went on. That is like. Is like the smell of fish is embedded inside the panel. And the taste, it's like, mmm. Fish rips it down, nails and all Raycon's blasting.

[Brian Quinn]

Let's see, nails and all.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Eat my iron.

[Bryan Johnson]

This looks like it could potentially be an older ad because with the super bowl in the Winter Olympics this month, there's no better time to get inspired. That doesn't even matter. It doesn't. Hey, what's up?

[Walt Flanagan]

I thought you were coming later.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

And they've completely changed how he eats. This says workout, but I'm just gonna say eats.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, it is workout.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Your physical therapy. Physical therapy.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. But I gotta listen to what they say during it. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like when the waitress asked you if you need more water or anything. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Or like, are you gonna tip this time?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I do.

[Bryan Johnson]

That awareness is perfect for tackling your fitness resolution safely.

[Walt Flanagan]

Does the water have that noise?

[Bryan Johnson]

Is that your watch?

[Walt Flanagan]

It's more of his bullshit.

[Brian Quinn]

This guy is wild.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's like an arcade over there.

[Brian Quinn]

It's fucking wild.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you feel the water has a taste of a fishy taste as well?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No. Because they have a fountain machine, so I think it goes through the same. What do they get is from the same filter.

[Bryan Johnson]

So why does this place know if everything tastes a fishy kind of.

[Walt Flanagan]

I can't even believe it. When I. When I walked in. I've walked in to buy a gift certificate for him there for Christmas or something, and it's just like, oh, you

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

know, you came in to get the keys.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

And he kind of ran in with his super smell. Yeah. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

The. The smell of fish just permeates the place. Like it could shut down and a new business probably couldn't open unless it was a fish.

[Bryan Johnson]

A fishery. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Because you'll never get the fish smell out of these walls. They've been there since the 70s.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. There's certain days like when you go in and like a very, like a chicken meal will taste like fish because they fried it the same.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, well, it's what I deserve.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Just certain days, Certain days I can

[Walt Flanagan]

eat as much as I want.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Those are the days I want.

[Walt Flanagan]

That makes up for its tasting like fish because I can have as much of it as I want.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

Yes, thank you. All right, Is that it?

[Bryan Johnson]

That's it.

[Walt Flanagan]

I have my own ad here. So Chris Lodondo facilitated a business deal that I was able to take part in. I'm not sure how he knows the company, but a company contacted him to contact me. They do like, art prints and they had the DC license to do art prints and they asked me to do a print. And it is available now to purchase on Plush Art Dot Club, plushart Club. And it's officially a licensed, hand signed, numbered edition of only 85 screen print poster. I don't know what the. It's available now on plushart.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's a Batman print.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, that's cool.

[Walt Flanagan]

And it's got all the four major villains and it's up there now and.

[Brian Quinn]

Dude, that looks sick, man.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, thank you. Yeah, it was black and white. The. Can you go to the Catwoman? So, yeah, the only note I got I had to change was I put too much cleavage on Batwoman.

[Bryan Johnson]

Get out of here.

[Walt Flanagan]

D.C. had to approve of it.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, really?

[Walt Flanagan]

To pull the zipper up more on Catwoman.

[Bryan Johnson]

Jesus, what a bunch of mo's.

[Brian Quinn]

If DC wasn't on such a good streak lately, I'd be worried. They do. They're killing it lately, so I'll let it go. But like, you know. Yeah, they're the ones that drew her in the 90s. They're gonna tell you to bring that zipper up a quarter inch.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I'm not sure, you know, why. They thought it wasn't that much lower, but it definitely. I had a little bit more.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like a nip slip.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, damn. But it was the Zipper was a little bit lower.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

On the catsuit and. But it is available now. And if you guys want to check it out, you can go to plushart Club. And thank you, Chris, for hooking it up. And it was fun to do and I. I hope it does well for them. And I thought we could play for a listener, this game that Tom came up with. And the winner.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Will get one of these Batman prints from me.

[Bryan Johnson]

I hope I win. I want one.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, Right on. So, God, I love your joker man. You always make him so, like, demonic looking, like it's really there, how insane and evil this fucker is.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, thank you. So the game is called Are youe Cueless? Take on Clueless.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

And over the years, this is all from Tom. Both Brian and Q have been accused of being, let's just say, out of touch with the common man. This game will once and for all prove who is more cue less. Q's questions will revolve around the price of common objects that the everyday common man would or should know. You must come within a dollar of the actual price. Brian's question, since he leaves his home less than a houseplant are all related to pop culture.

[Brian Quinn]

You were in a sex club last week. No, I came up with this game,

[Walt Flanagan]

I think before last week, talking about this. And Q, you are going to play for Donovan Barkman of Kentucky.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And Brian is going to play for Joshua Jackson of Michigan. And whoever gets the most questions right will get one of these Batman prints signed by me.

[Brian Quinn]

Nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay, you're right about last weekend, but I don't think I've left the house since then. So Tom's kind of right.

[Brian Quinn]

It's a big splash though. I mean, I mean, come on, man.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm gonna go out.

[Brian Quinn]

So somebody goes to the movie every week. That's better than you going to a sex club and then chilling out in your house for a few weeks off.

[Bryan Johnson]

True. Yeah. Reliving it.

[Brian Quinn]

Basking endlessly. Masturbating.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, remember that one part?

[Brian Quinn]

All right. This is great.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. Okay. Get him. You're gonna keep score? Sure. There you go. You know what you need two pens for?

[Brian Quinn]

What if the first one runs out?

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

All right.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Black and blue.

[Walt Flanagan]

First question is for Q.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

What is the price of a dozen eggs?

[Brian Quinn]

Well, here's the problem with this question. I don't eat eggs.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really? You have an egg free diet of choice or by doctor's?

[Brian Quinn]

I never like the taste of eggs. I can have it as an ingredient in things like cake or something like that or like pancakes. But I think omelets are gross. I don't enjoy.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't like scrambled eggs?

[Brian Quinn]

I don't like anything. Egg forward. I do not like. So I don't buy eggs.

[Walt Flanagan]

Would you like me to strike this question?

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, I'll give it a shot, but I just want people to understand that I've never bought eggs at any point in my life because I just don't like the taste of them.

[Walt Flanagan]

I have. I have an alternate question I can put in here if you'd like to get rid of the egg question.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. I mean, it would be a total shot in the dark with the eggs for the wrong reason. So I would say $27.

[Bryan Johnson]

Let's see, $27.

[Walt Flanagan]

37. So what would you get? We're not going to count, but what would you.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay. Eggs. Okay. Because everybody's complaining about the price of them. What, are there a dozen eggs in a thing?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yes.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man. I don't know. Eight dollars. Eight bucks. Everybody's always complaining about the price of eggs.

[Bryan Johnson]

They were. I don't think they are anymore.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

If they were $8, that's it.

[Brian Quinn]

That would be eggless.

[Walt Flanagan]

If this country would have no eggs.

[Brian Quinn]

If they're $8, well, they're more.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's way less.

[Brian Quinn]

Way less.

[Walt Flanagan]

According to Tom, the Average price is $2.49 for carton of eggs.

[Brian Quinn]

And that's what everybody's fucking complaining about.

[Walt Flanagan]

A dozen eggs.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And that was.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know if it's a carton or not.

[Bryan Johnson]

Usually they come in dozens or by 12.

[Brian Quinn]

So what the fuck Is everybody complaining about it? That's all I heard about. Didn't that sway the presidential election?

[Bryan Johnson]

I think before the, like, six, seven bucks.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

A lot.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, got it. Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think I don't buy eggs either, but I'm pretty sure that was the case.

[Brian Quinn]

I started getting into eggs. That's not that expensive.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I am protein.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, all right. But there was no way I was ever going to get that one.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, so here's your. Your first question. The average cost of home Internet in the usa.

[Brian Quinn]

Just Internet, no cable and stuff like that per month.

[Walt Flanagan]

Internet. When's the last time you looked at the bill? Oh, how many Internet streams you got at home?

[Bryan Johnson]

How many Internet cocoons have you gone through?

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you have Internet hooked up per room or do you have it.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, it's just a WI FI hardwired. Okay. Internet. It's about 30 bucks.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

30 bucks.

[Brian Quinn]

30 bucks a month.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you agree with that, Brian? Not that this matters for your.

[Bryan Johnson]

I disagree. Couldn't disagree more.

[Brian Quinn]

Just for. Just for Internet.

[Bryan Johnson]

Just for an Internet. I think you're probably talking like 80 bucks.

[Brian Quinn]

80 bucks.

[Walt Flanagan]

Brian Johnson gets it on the nose.

[Brian Quinn]

$80? Shit. I guess mine's part of a bundle. 80 bucks a month. That seems outrageous.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, it is.

[Walt Flanagan]

You gotta tie into your neighbor's fucking Internet.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

For their password.

[Brian Quinn]

80 bucks just for the Internet.

[Walt Flanagan]

Bring them over a bushel of figs and be like, hey, you wanna share

[Brian Quinn]

that code, that wi fi co. Oh, yeah, that password.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know what your password is. I mean, I know what the. What the Internet name is. I see it pop up all the time.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Devices. But wow. Like that password. Yeah. Let's.

[Bryan Johnson]

Let's stick it to the man together.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow. 80 bucks a month. That is a lot.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. Okay. Brian Johnson.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

So Brian does not get.

[Walt Flanagan]

He does not get a point.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, what would have been acceptable? Like, if I'd said 65, would I be on the point? Like what? I gotta nail it on the head

[Walt Flanagan]

in a dollar each way.

[Brian Quinn]

Within a dollar each way.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, so 79 or 81.

[Brian Quinn]

All right. Hell, that's a lot of money.

[Walt Flanagan]

Is this a song place or an influencer? Pink Pony Club.

[Brian Quinn]

I know the answer to this one.

[Bryan Johnson]

Do you?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Never heard of Pink Pony Club. So it's going to be a guess, a song, a person, or an influencer or an influencer.

[Walt Flanagan]

A club.

[Bryan Johnson]

Club, or an influencer or an influencer. I'm going to guess and say song.

[Walt Flanagan]

Say song.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, you're right.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's correct.

[Brian Quinn]

Chappelle Roan.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, okay. That's the girl with the sexy dress that she wore to the Grammys.

[Brian Quinn]

She had a sexy dress on.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Can you pull up. Pull up a picture of Chappelle Rohn?

[Brian Quinn]

At that time, I thought she was ant.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think it was the grandma Grammys. Not according to this dress.

[Brian Quinn]

Hey. All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. Our Internet must be down.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, we got.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, not that dress.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, it might be Grammy's outfit.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I remember this. Somebody showed me this. She just had, like a nipple rings attached to her. Yeah. To address.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yep, that one.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow, that is.

[Walt Flanagan]

It must be horrible to be a female in the industry, because to make a splash, you have to dress like that.

[Bryan Johnson]

Look at that dress, man.

[Brian Quinn]

It's a hell of a dress.

[Walt Flanagan]

It is. But look, do you think she has to.

[Bryan Johnson]

I mean, she wants to stand out.

[Brian Quinn]

She's standing out.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, like, standing out.

[Brian Quinn]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's what you gotta do. You know, if a guy came with it with his balls, his testicles. Keeping his pants up like that.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's how I'm going to the Bachelor.

[Walt Flanagan]

If his testicles were pierced, holding up his slacks, I doubt.

[Brian Quinn]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

He would get the same response, though.

[Brian Quinn]

But she looks, like, great.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, she looks very good.

[Brian Quinn]

Looks like a. Like, almost like a Greek. Yeah, it looks like goddess.

[Walt Flanagan]

It looks like 300.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Frank Miller's 300 cool guys got tiny nipples.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right, good for her.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, you should know this cube. Okay, for as often as you go to the movies, what is the average price of a movie ticket on Staten Island?

[Brian Quinn]

On Staten island, okay. There's a lot of design, Max. There's laser.

[Bryan Johnson]

There's already caveats.

[Walt Flanagan]

All little caveats.

[Brian Quinn]

About $15.

[Walt Flanagan]

$15. Do you agree with that, Brian?

[Bryan Johnson]

I would go lower. 12.75.

[Brian Quinn]

That's what I'm saying. Like, if I go see an IMAX at, the prices are different, but I'll stick with 15.

[Walt Flanagan]

15.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

According to Tom, the average price of a movie ticket on Staten island is $19.48.

[Brian Quinn]

Whoa.

[Bryan Johnson]

Really?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So no points for Q. You are cueless. So far.

[Brian Quinn]

So far. But at least I'm going lower and not, like, I don't know, $25. I don't give a. You know what I mean? I'm just dropping, like, 10 year ago pricing.

[Walt Flanagan]

Brian, your next question is Skims, an app, an influencer, or a store in Keyport?

[Bryan Johnson]

Skims.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah,

[Bryan Johnson]

an influencer.

[Walt Flanagan]

Skims an app, an influencer, or a store in keyboard. You know where keyboard is, right? Yeah, I don't know if you has the plan right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Next door made his way over to keyboard.

[Brian Quinn]

It has.

[Bryan Johnson]

I thought it was a Kim Kardashian thing. I might be wrong about that.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, she has skin.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I guess an app.

[Walt Flanagan]

An app.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I guess I'll say an Apple app. Influencer, or store.

[Walt Flanagan]

The answer is Skims is an app for clothing created by Kim Kardashian.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay, two for two, right?

[Walt Flanagan]

You're not the house plant, then.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, there you go, guessing all over the place.

[Walt Flanagan]

You need this cue.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, but he's got, like, one in three shot. Every time I have to come up with a number out of nowhere and be with him like a dollar.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like the. It was called Cueless because you're. You're set up.

[Brian Quinn]

Why wouldn't he give me three? Okay. Yeah. All right, now. Now I'm in familiar territory.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You got that wrong, right?

[Brian Quinn]

He got it right.

[Walt Flanagan]

He got it right. It's two for two. What does two for two? Mean, in your world.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay, please stop.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't want to get this started where you are. We're focused on Q.

[Brian Quinn]

Not getting smartest move I've ever seen him make right there. To not argue, to not call attention to himself.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay. He's like. This would go 5 seconds or 15 minutes, depending on what I say.

[Brian Quinn]

Just came out of a cocoon right in front of us right there.

[Walt Flanagan]

You must do this at least once every other month, I'm guessing. What is the average price of a haircut on Staten Island?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man. Again, like, it's two before tip. It's too. Is it a scissor cut? Is it a buzz cut? Is it. Is it a fucking beard? Trim on top of it, but okay. $35 just for the haircut. Just for a haircut. 35.

[Walt Flanagan]

You agree with that, Brian?

[Bryan Johnson]

I think it's more expensive. I'm gonna say 50.

[Walt Flanagan]

Get them. You've been quiet. You're the smartest man. I know mine.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I know mine was 35, and it just went up to 40.

[Walt Flanagan]

Here in Hazlet.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Staten Island. Yeah, the city.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

But I know.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I'm agreeing with you. It's like there's differences between if they touch your beard or if it's just a basic cut.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, it's hard to.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, Tom said haircut.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. He didn't say anything about a beard. No. You guys are the only ones bringing in beards into the equation. So you think it's more hair? You think it's more to get him?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I'm gonna say yeah. Based on that, we just went up.

[Brian Quinn]

So what I say you said 35. 35.

[Walt Flanagan]

So if it's 34 or 36, you're good.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Great.

[Walt Flanagan]

But it was 50.

[Bryan Johnson]

Did I just nail it again?

[Walt Flanagan]

Brian just nailed it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Damn.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're not cue list.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm not as much as I thought.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was like, oh, my God.

[Brian Quinn]

I also don't get my hair cut on Staten island, so that's another.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really? Where do you go?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, my buddy. No, my buddy has a shop in Brooklyn, so I just been going to him for years when I even get haircuts.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Does your buddy charge you?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, of course, he's got a business I don't want to take. Yeah. You know, I don't take his.

[Bryan Johnson]

So how much break if he's. If you're giving. If it's the 35, he charges you? 35?

[Brian Quinn]

No, he doesn't charge me 35.

[Bryan Johnson]

What's he charging?

[Brian Quinn]

Well, that's what I'm saying. I get. When I go, I get. I'm in the trip, like an hour. All right, so It'll be like 75, something like that. Beard, trim, haircut and stuff like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, that's not a buddy.

[Bryan Johnson]

And then.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, but I don't want him to not like. Okay, like, he should. Like. I don't want to do that.

[Walt Flanagan]

If I open up. When I open up my barbershop queue.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

On the house.

[Walt Flanagan]

On the house.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, look, he's not working for the Lemon Tree. You know what I mean? It's like his business. He pays the rent and stuff like that.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I don't think my dad would charge him that much.

[Walt Flanagan]

Doesn't your dad usually cut your hair in the barn?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, well, no, not in the barn anymore.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he used to cut it in the barn.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

First course, then get them.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Well, no, no, because the hair would keep the rodents out.

[Brian Quinn]

Of course. Of course.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's why I have hair all over my house.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. They smell their hair. They think there's a person there.

[Walt Flanagan]

They're scared of hair.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, that's. No, it's a smell. So they think that there's someone around, so they don't come into the barn.

[Walt Flanagan]

Your hair has a certain descent.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, it smells like a human. Look, there are people who go to barbershops every day and collect hair for that reason.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm shocked that you're not one of those.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, no. They spread it in their gardens and it keeps the squirrels and stuff out.

[Brian Quinn]

Really make you a murder suspect.

[Bryan Johnson]

DNA in your garden.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow, I thought you just made a hair suit. So do you. So you guys just didn't leave the hair where it fell in the barn? You guys would sprinkle it around?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Well, no, no, because I would. You would cut it near the door because I would get the best light.

[Walt Flanagan]

And so both of you guys knew this going in. You're like, oh, son, seen a lot of pests around. You need a haircut.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, no, no, he's totally bald, but it looks like he's going through chemo. Dad.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I used to do it myself.

[Bryan Johnson]

Just get rat traps.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I used to do it myself. And then he was complaining about how bad it looked because I had trouble getting the back. The back straight, everything. So. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. And you've now your dad has been unofficially retired as your barber, right?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

How do you take that? Did I ask you this already?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

He says, yeah, like, you may have to do it. They did a pretty good job.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah. We Mentioned this. I asked you if you could do it on stage.

[Bryan Johnson]

Keep all the rodents out of the theater.

[Walt Flanagan]

Did you know that, Q, that human hair kept away.

[Brian Quinn]

I didn't know. I never heard of that before. The human scent placing hair. Wow. I mean, it's a natural way to do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Will you?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. My fig tree now.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Sprinkle some hair around it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do it. Thank you for the tip.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, Brian Johnson.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Who is Tate McCray? A singer, an actress or an adult film star?

[Bryan Johnson]

Tate McCray.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tate McCray.

[Bryan Johnson]

Never heard the name before, but it sounds like a country singer to me.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what do you think I'm saying?

[Bryan Johnson]

A singer.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're saying a singer? Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Q, this one. I don't know. I'd guess porn star.

[Walt Flanagan]

Porn star. Get him.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I know.

[Walt Flanagan]

You already know. How do you know?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Because I listen to the radio

[Walt Flanagan]

and Brian Johnson is three for three. Wow. It is a singer.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, and it's a female singer.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, wow. She's young, 22.

[Walt Flanagan]

She's the one that dating Jack Hughes from the Devils. Is that her?

[Brian Quinn]

Jesus Christ. She's gorgeous, huh?

[Bryan Johnson]

How many boyfriends has Tate McCray had?

[Walt Flanagan]

What kind of music she sing?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

They're in a real relationship. As a 20, that's what you get

[Walt Flanagan]

when you scored a gold golden goal for your country.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. You got yourself a Tate McCray.

[Walt Flanagan]

You get the other country's finest Canadian. You have to. You have to. You have to sacrifice her. The losing. The losing country.

[Brian Quinn]

We get the best. You take the women. This is a kid whose teeth got knocked out. Wasn't this kid getting shit for, like, celebrating? Weren't people, like, turning against him?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, it was the hockey puck.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. He said some weird shit about, like, he wished he wants the hockey puck back.

[Brian Quinn]

Why is that weird?

[Walt Flanagan]

I guess because the way he phrased it, he was like. He thought it was. He goes, it's bullshit that the hockey hall of fame gets to keep the puck. I want it back.

[Bryan Johnson]

Is he kidding? Is he fucking right?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think he was kidding. Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

He wanted his father keeps, like, all his milestones. He has, like, a little shrine in his house.

[Brian Quinn]

They should have cut it in half. They should have given half of the museum half to him.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I just feel like his choice of words were. It was a. It was odd phrasing to use the word right. I would have been like, hey, I like, after it's on display for a while, eventually I would love to be able to have the puck back, I would not have been, like, so aggressively

[Bryan Johnson]

accusatory.

[Brian Quinn]

Almost won.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. And that's a, that's one of the Garden State's finest right there. Without him, you don't win the. I'm actually in the goaltender.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

But it's inspiring that someone with some teeth problems can have a truck.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Get them right.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. Does that, like, I got my hopes up. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're like, you should tell people, like, like, you know, this isn't some, like, you know.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. My degenerative disease I'm going through.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is the result of many hockey pucks.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I thought about coming up with a

[Bryan Johnson]

story for it, like, periodontal problem.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like, they got knocked out while I was rescuing someone who was drowning. Like, like that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Something that's a little hard to disprove.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why don't you do that? Why don't you cultivate a fucking new. Completely lie about it? But, like, it makes yourself out to be like an amazing hero.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

That's my cocoon. I don't go with the truth anymore.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, this is shocking. One of you teeth fixed.

[Walt Flanagan]

Come on, Q.

[Brian Quinn]

You just showed everybody your cueless.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. How much that cost?

[Brian Quinn]

Get the teeth fixed.

[Walt Flanagan]

Come on.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

My spine was a quarter million dollars.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

It would be weird to see him with teeth at this point.

[Walt Flanagan]

You couldn't have said before you, before you, you know, before they put the mask on you and gave you the laughing gas? You're like, doc, while I'm under, can you fix the teeth, too?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's a neurosurgeon, not a.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just take some of the stuff. Spine, shape it into a tooth, Shove it in there.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Old bone tooth. Get him.

[Walt Flanagan]

What do you think, what do you think that the smile would look like if he had fashioned teeth out of his spine and just

[Brian Quinn]

a vertebrae between this gap.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, Q, I think it's a lost cause at this point, but here we go. We got to finish the game. What is the price of a Big Mac meal at McDonald's? I don't know. The last time BQ was a McDonald's, though, I would have to think the 90s.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no. I, I, I'm good for McDonald's at least once a year.

[Walt Flanagan]

Once a year?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. I, I, what was your. Too good.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was your. What's your go to at McDonald's? Is it the Big Mac? Is the deluxe arch.

[Brian Quinn]

It's usually the fish, the McFish. One of the things it' had a McFish. It's always either the two cheeseburger meal with an extra cheeseburger added no mustard. Or the double cheeseburger that they do. It's always between those two. Every once in a while I get a Big Mac. But I gotta be careful. So good that I got. I gotta train myself to have. I'm talking once every five years. I got like a Big Mac. But I love Big Macs.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't realize this. Yeah, I didn't realize you had this. Just McDonald's tooth.

[Brian Quinn]

I like that. It's that in White Castle. White Castle. I. I had to train myself not to. Not to go in one.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm shocked at that because White Castle is barely dog food.

[Brian Quinn]

I couldn't disagree. Oh, I love White Castle.

[Walt Flanagan]

It looks like liquid meat.

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like they just squeeze it out of the bottle.

[Brian Quinn]

Tastes like an angel. No. White Castle.

[Walt Flanagan]

Gray. Most of the time.

[Brian Quinn]

It's not gray. No, it's not. They cook it in butter. It's delicious.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's got five holes in it.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, it's the best. I love White Castle. And. And then you get. Their onion rings are far superior to anybody else's onion rings.

[Walt Flanagan]

You do onion rings too, huh?

[Brian Quinn]

Love it.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

How can you not?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I gotta be this. I'm saying that only.

[Walt Flanagan]

You gotta have the discipline, though.

[Brian Quinn]

You gotta have the discipline.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It helps that I'm not out till like four in the morning anymore.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You can't go ham on White Castle.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Oh, I love a White Castle. Hard as a. I will go to. I'll go to White Castle. I'll order six. Six sliders, onion rings and fries for the sack home. And then I'll order another three burgers for the drive home. I'll eat them as I drive. Oh, it's the fucking. Yeah, I'm gonna get some today. My mouth is pouring. And White Castle pulled off a trick too. Where they're the only fast food restaurant I know that sells frozen versions of their burgers. You can go to supermarket and get them. And they taste so close to what you get in. Like, they nailed that. You put them in the microwave, they steam inside the little pouch.

[Bryan Johnson]

Sage. Sage has them for snack all the time. It's worse than an abattoir.

[Brian Quinn]

It's.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's fucking disgusting the way they smell. It's crazy.

[Walt Flanagan]

I agree with you.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't agree.

[Walt Flanagan]

The whole house perm is the smells of it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, it smells like the Chinese restaurant, except worse.

[Brian Quinn]

I could disagree more.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Smell. I'm like gagging.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it is enough to make you gag.

[Brian Quinn]

Not me.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

The cost of a Big Mac.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay. A meal. You're talking what size fries?

[Walt Flanagan]

You get the.

[Brian Quinn]

This is.

[Walt Flanagan]

You get the drink.

[Brian Quinn]

I need to know what. Small, medium, large?

[Walt Flanagan]

Let's go small.

[Brian Quinn]

But who the fuck is ordering a small?

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, let's go medium.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, but I got to know. You can't just. Just tell me which one. They're all okay. Big Mac.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm telling you, McDonald's is fucking.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Crazy. If they don't tap you to be the next McDonald's commercial, the way you were fucking waxing about McDonald's.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't need McDonald's. I'm at white Castle.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

They got in trouble with their CEO eating that burger.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's how they repair shit.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, you get a BQ in there.

[Bryan Johnson]

Damage control.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm loving,

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

loving it.

[Brian Quinn]

I would sell my soul in a heartbeat.

[Walt Flanagan]

Some say I'm cueless. I'll tell you what I know comes to Big Macs, it comes to the Big Mac.

[Brian Quinn]

Let's say $9.

[Walt Flanagan]

$9?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Nine bucks.

[Walt Flanagan]

Say 950.

[Brian Quinn]

950.

[Walt Flanagan]

Correct. It's 10.50.

[Bryan Johnson]

Nice.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, you're worth it. A dollar. You get the point.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll take it. I'll take that help. That's pretty close. And there was a three size swing there that I'm working with too.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it used to be like fucking three bucks.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Great.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know when it changed. I don't know when the world went kablooey that, you know, you have to pay double figures for a hamburger and a Coke at a fast food place.

[Brian Quinn]

It's crazy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Sage gets. For. On Friday. She gets McDonald's. She'll get two. Two cheeseburgers, four nuggets and a soda. And it's 10 something.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Every once in a while people post online, like they find an old McDonald's or Burger King that still has the menu up. Yeah, that like went out of business, but still it's got like a drive through menu up. And they just take pictures of like what the actual dollar menu was when everything was under a dollar.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, do you like.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you enjoy that or does that.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I was never like a Big Mac fan. I was more of like the McChicken. I like to make chicken. Junior bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's was my. My big jam.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Baconator minus tomato.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, they pulled off a magic trick in that. To me, their burgers taste the exact same as they did when I was a kid.

[Walt Flanagan]

Who?

[Brian Quinn]

McDonald's.

[Bryan Johnson]

McDonald's?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

That was Ray Kroc. He. He pushed for that. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Great job.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like they developed. He developed his own machine that would measure the fat content when it got delivered. And if it wasn't within the specific.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I always just assume they just shooting chemicals on it that makes it taste that way.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Now it's.

[Brian Quinn]

But they also stopped freezing their meat too. McDonald's. Yeah, they used.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

They did that because burger, I mean Wendy's ragged about it as well. Yeah, Wendy's did that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

And Wendy's would take all the leftover burgers and grind that up and make it into the chili for the next day.

[Brian Quinn]

That I knew. Yeah. Or hurt.

[Walt Flanagan]

Good. Any more useless information you want to spit out there? All right, Brian, what is Claude? A singer, a 2026 movie or an app? Claude?

[Bryan Johnson]

2026 movie.

[Walt Flanagan]

2026 movie.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

That's your answer.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's my answer.

[Brian Quinn]

No, it's an app. It's an AI app, isn't it?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, is it?

[Walt Flanagan]

It is indeed an AI app. Yep.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Q, you're not dabbling in the AI after you got fingers. Fingers?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, I thought it was fingers. C, L, A, W, E, D. You

[Walt Flanagan]

know, kind of smack by the Internet, right?

[Brian Quinn]

No, I have not.

[Walt Flanagan]

Good man.

[Brian Quinn]

I have not. I'm done. Me and AI have gone a separate way. I did ask for a little fig planting advice today, but you know, that's some growth. You.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, the Internet spoke, I got bullied. Listened.

[Brian Quinn]

I got bullied.

[Bryan Johnson]

All the who are probably using AI themselves.

[Brian Quinn]

Four or five loudmouth dickheads online, right. Got me to change my ways. Congratulations, you cunts.

[Bryan Johnson]

There's AI everywhere but your little thing. That's what's going to ruin the world.

[Brian Quinn]

Stop it at my level. Pat yourself on the back, you fucking cunts.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is your last question, Q. What is the price of the basic streaming service for Netflix? With ads.

[Brian Quinn]

With ads.

[Walt Flanagan]

Now we know BQ does not take the fucking option with ads. Right? You're going ad free.

[Brian Quinn]

It's 899. Final answer, final answer.

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm going to say 17.99.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, I know. They just announced a price increase. I'm going to say 9.99.

[Walt Flanagan]

BQ. Yeah, you got it right on the fucking note. Eight, nine. How'd you know?

[Bryan Johnson]

Wait, what did you say? With or without? Oh, with ads.

[Walt Flanagan]

Did you just sign up for a full year with ads?

[Brian Quinn]

Well, when you pay for Netflix for like half your family that you figure out how much that you figure out how much it costs pretty fucking quick. So many times you gotta ask for your fucking password before you're like just fucking just get it?

[Walt Flanagan]

The password is.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You're killing me.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, that's your password. My fucking soul. Just take the 8.99amonth, please. So that one, I'm right on.

[Walt Flanagan]

Let me take a password.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

As I made of money, I'm gonna

[Walt Flanagan]

tell you, I guess from the table. And I want everybody to guess, though, how many streaming services does Q have under his belt? We already know he's got at least one Netflix.

[Bryan Johnson]

What's the number of all of them?

[Walt Flanagan]

Give me a number.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm going to say, just to keep in mind. It's. It's. It's a tax write off for me. I'm in the biz.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Quinn]

So technically, all of those are research, so factor that.

[Walt Flanagan]

So your tax guy, you're like, oh,

[Brian Quinn]

yeah, he gets it all.

[Walt Flanagan]

Had all the streaming services, bro.

[Brian Quinn]

He knows it.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, like I don't know all of them.

[Bryan Johnson]

We all got them all.

[Brian Quinn]

All the streaming. For me, you write down your password.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Can I write off a VC box?

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, so knowing that, that. That you. You're a smart businessman, you know, it's a tax write off. It actually makes sense for you to not be. To not have all of them then, right? I'm gonna say 12.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

12 different streaming services. You got Apple, you got Disney, you got HBO Max, you got. What else is there?

[Bryan Johnson]

Netflix Prime. Paramount.

[Brian Quinn]

Paramount. Hulu.

[Walt Flanagan]

Hulu.

[Brian Quinn]

Although that's folding in. Shutter.

[Walt Flanagan]

Shutter.

[Bryan Johnson]

Shutters with amc.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You think Jeff deducts vinegar mixes?

[Brian Quinn]

He's not in the business. I don't know if he could do

[Walt Flanagan]

it working at Toyota.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Sunday Grind.

[Brian Quinn]

It's research for Sunday Grind.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I write off all mine.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. I hope I don't get in trouble for it, but, yeah, we do.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. You're in the biz, babe.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Podcasting over here.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what do you think, Brian? I'm gonna say 12.

[Bryan Johnson]

I would say 10.

[Walt Flanagan]

10. You can't say 10. He already took it.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Nine.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nine.

[Brian Quinn]

I think nine.

[Bryan Johnson]

Nine.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, get him, Steve Dave.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Well, do you count Xbox game pass in that? Because then you're up to 10. The PlayStation version, now you're up to 11.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, one more, one more.

[Bryan Johnson]

And Walt's right.

[Brian Quinn]

I can find it. Oh, I do. You're right. It's a. It's a webcam. It's only. It's only like five bucks a year, but it's an app on Apple TV that categorizes all live webcams from around the world. He's just going to.

[Walt Flanagan]

That up to 12.

[Brian Quinn]

So there you go.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sorry, Gam. You almost won.

[Bryan Johnson]

Almost. You got it. Yeah, you took it away from him.

[Brian Quinn]

But five bucks a year is like, that's what they should all be.

[Walt Flanagan]

And again, you're basically making money the more streaming services you have.

[Brian Quinn]

You're right.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, why take a pay cut? Like you could be here.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. It's free money.

[Walt Flanagan]

So Joshua Jackson of Michigan is going to get the print.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right, Joshua, finally, I want something for somebody. My lucky guesses.

[Brian Quinn]

What are five questions? Yeah, I got two.

[Walt Flanagan]

Got two. All right.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, not a complete failure. Hall of Fame career in baseball, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

What is in baseball? What is the hall of Fame career? What do you have to get?

[Walt Flanagan]

300.

[Bryan Johnson]

300? You got a bet?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, I mean, if you're anything over 300.

[Brian Quinn]

Sure. It's so impressive. I mean. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that. That. Yeah. That's a whole family.

[Walt Flanagan]

And speaking of baseball, the opening day was yesterday.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Yeah. Yankees won. M. Mets won. Oh, you're off to a good start on both lanes, buddy.

[Walt Flanagan]

You put your feet in both pools, huh? You want to cover your bait, all your bases.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's what he did last year, right? Wasn't he, like, just going back and forth?

[Walt Flanagan]

Talked about it last year.

[Brian Quinn]

No. Yeah. Last year was the one where you were telling me you were like, but you. You win it. You. You. You're happy either way. And I was like, yeah. Yeah, I was two years ago. And I was like, yeah, you know,

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know if either team was in the playoffs last year. Maybe they were. I don't know.

[Brian Quinn]

It's been. It hasn't been a great run, but. But, you know, it's great. I'm a Yankees fan, but I like the Mets.

[Walt Flanagan]

You like to see the Mets win, too?

[Brian Quinn]

I'd see the Mets win, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Will you get to many games this year?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I'm sure I'll go to a few. Yeah. I was supposed to go to one right behind home plate on Saturday. And then I looked at the weather and I was like, it's 40. It can be 40 degrees. Like, go fuck yourself.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's too cold for BQ.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, 40. 40.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't gotta just bring a sweater.

[Brian Quinn]

No, I want to enjoy myself, not think about the weather.

[Bryan Johnson]

Eight degrees away from freezing. Just bring a sweater.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

That.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a little bit of, you know, some might say a little soft.

[Brian Quinn]

That's all right.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can't go out if it's 40 degrees. It's too cold.

[Bryan Johnson]

Would. Would young Q have gone or.

[Brian Quinn]

No? Well, it would have felt the cold at all? No, I never enjoyed, like, baseball doesn't make sense to me. In the extreme cold, I'm always like, what. What are we doing here?

[Walt Flanagan]

Is it. Is there a temperature that's too hot too. Like, if it's 100, will you go sit in the bleachers?

[Brian Quinn]

If. If I'm in the shade, I'll sit in the. I'll sit in the bleachers.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Not in the shade, though. You're, like, bright. Directly in the sun for nine straight innings. No drinking.

[Brian Quinn]

You know how many streaming services I have brought of bleachers in the sun? Not this guy.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Umbrella boy.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, well, that was cueless. Thank you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, Tom. Thank you, Tom.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you think Brian, before. I know you already know, but I had this thought the other day. Could you fire a flare up from your backyard? Would that get you trouble with the locals?

[Bryan Johnson]

Like a flare gun?

[Brian Quinn]

Like, the ship going down, like, go up. What do you think you'd be able to get away with?

[Bryan Johnson]

Would the cops be mad or would. Well, I live literally right across the street from Earl Naval. Bas like their property, so they would probably look into it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I was looking across. I was looking across the water towards you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And I was like, I wonder if I could see if he shot a flare off what I see.

[Walt Flanagan]

So you guys are not communicating by flares?

[Brian Quinn]

I just curious.

[Bryan Johnson]

So if I went down to the bay and did it? Yeah, maybe.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, the bay I would definitely see, I think, because I could see Sandy Hook from. But I feel like I want to see where that flare, that pop goes. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, then you pull it off. Huh?

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know. First I have to get a flare gun.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay. I mean, how they gonna find you? Like, if you. If you drove down the road, like,

[Bryan Johnson]

100ft, a thousand people's different ring cams, like, he's the one who did it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Aren't you doing it in the middle of the night? Has to be dark.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Walt Flanagan]

Shoot it and then run into your house real quick before it gets the maximum.

[Bryan Johnson]

And Q's already on speakerphone, so I

[Brian Quinn]

could be like, yeah, I'm there. I'm in my yard looking.

[Bryan Johnson]

Let me ask you a question. Why aren't you the one shooting the flare? Now I'm looking.

[Walt Flanagan]

Both your clans are going to get by the authorities for violating some sort of airspace, right? Infraction.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, they got bigger problems than a solo flare going on.

[Bryan Johnson]

We're just doing a little science experiment.

[Walt Flanagan]

We just want to See if we can see it.

[Brian Quinn]

We're buddies, you understand?

[Walt Flanagan]

We're buddies.

[Brian Quinn]

I want them to see.

[Walt Flanagan]

Please let us go. We're sorry.

[Bryan Johnson]

We won't do it anymore. Now we know.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, it's just a case of boys being boys.

[Walt Flanagan]

You guys are both. You just turned 50, didn't you?

[Bryan Johnson]

And you're pushing 60.

[Walt Flanagan]

Who?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, me?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I guess you put it that way.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

The other boys made me do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tell them, Steve. Dave.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

Is that it? Yeah, well Josh walked in while we were recording. Josh is the gentleman who at one point just volunteered to, I remember, clean the office. Clean the office.

[Brian Quinn]

I thought we broke him. I don't think we'd ever seen him. He did get.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he was broken. Come here, Josh.

[Bryan Johnson]

I thought he unalived himself. Said, I thought he unalived himself.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what happened? Why did the project clean space? Why was it abandoned? What do. Did you feel the passive aggressive vibes permeating from Gidem Steve Dave as he was visualizing you with a thousand knives in your face as you cleaned up the office? And also meant cleaning up all his garbage? Well, that's. That's quite.

[Brian Quinn]

Why is there human hair spread all

[Walt Flanagan]

over the place to keep the pests away? Dolo.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't have to clean the garbage if the pets aren't eating it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it was. It was a big job. It was too big for you.

[Brian Quinn]

It's okay to say yes, but you have ocd.

[Walt Flanagan]

I thought OCD guys, like, there's no challenge that too much for a guy who. If, like, if that's all that, like, if you can't stop thinking about it. Well, the thing that bothers me with it, the thing. The thing that really made it tough was that everything I would go to and say, hey, I want to take this. He'd say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's got to stay there. Or, no, no, no, no, I need that.

[Bryan Johnson]

You know he's not the boss, right?

[Walt Flanagan]

I know, but we talked about this and like, what can I take? What should I take? Where can I move things? How can I rearrange this?

[Brian Quinn]

Right?

[Bryan Johnson]

I need five gallons of antifreeze. Keep it there.

[Walt Flanagan]

There was a lot of that, but there was also that he does need to know where the stuff goes. So as I was moving stuff and rearranging stuff, I wanted to make it easy for him to get to, but at the same time, I wanted to clean it up. I heard there was talks of a floor plan that was going to be designed with like, you know, a full. Like a manual where each. Each section was going to be laid out, written out where everything was. Or was that just a dream?

[Bryan Johnson]

I had a beautiful dream.

[Walt Flanagan]

I. I would have done that, but I don't think I could have gotten through everything.

[Brian Quinn]

He's going to be out of town for qs. Do you. Do. Do you think. Is there any thought to you coming in while he's out of town and just doing it, and then he's got to live with it when he gets back?

[Bryan Johnson]

I mean, talk about a ruined vacation. That's all he'd think about the whole time. Josh is touching my stuff.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you think you'd be up for that?

[Walt Flanagan]

How long is he there?

[Brian Quinn]

At least five days.

[Bryan Johnson]

Josh, the empty soy sauce package needs to stay there.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, if he came back and everything was as it should be, he'd just get used to it. I mean, this guy's house burned down and he moved on.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

He lost everything in a fire, and he survived.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's adaptable. If there's. That's his. Probably his best trait is his adaptability. Yeah, he adapts. You know, he wouldn't be tickled upon returning from Key west, you know, to see a clean office, but probably within a day or two, he would have.

[Brian Quinn]

And also, like, it's not his decision at all in any way, shape, or form.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Brian Quinn]

But we.

[Walt Flanagan]

But his doctor from 1984.

[Brian Quinn]

You're right. You're right, you're right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, probably in those notes. I remember reading, it was like, you know, you can't do that. That's kind of like a shock to the system. Like, that's counter conducive to.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm willing to risk it. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I was like, why don't we keep telling around?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Why don't we give it a shot and see, man?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So what happened? Are you. You just gave it up? And, like, how does someone who. You know, how do you deal with that where you're like, you know, it's the. It's the undone project, you know, that you have sitting there.

[Brian Quinn]

Are you able to sleep at night? Or is it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, look at me. I've barely been able to.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, it's.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's been. It bugs me. It does bug me that it. That it never got finished. I mean, there were a couple of weeks I had stuff going on, and I didn't get back here. And when I came back, it was like, the most. It was worse. So, like, the stuff he had done got undone.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

So then it was kind of like. Well, you do feel like you're not making a dent.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

And if you're not making a dent, then what's the point? Yeah, unfortunately.

[Brian Quinn]

But five days.

[Walt Flanagan]

Five days is a long time, and

[Brian Quinn]

you won't have to be alone in the office.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, I was looking for.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's not coming.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was just gonna say.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, good. Josh is here. Hey, Josh. I'm gonna do it, Walt. I'm here 12 hours a day. Don't worry.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right. I feel that you have to just be a little bit more patient. Q.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

It'll happen one day. It will happen

[Bryan Johnson]

the day after we go to Gideon's funeral, one day it

[Walt Flanagan]

will happen, but it can't happen on Q's timeline.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. You're only the boss.

[Brian Quinn]

It's fine.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's crazy.

[Brian Quinn]

You're right. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right.

[Bryan Johnson]

This doesn't happen on the set of Jokers.

[Brian Quinn]

Shit everywhere. It does. It does, it does. You don't think five days is a good. Like he comes back and his life is different? A new.

[Walt Flanagan]

Get him from Key West.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. He goes back, he sees the office all clean and he's like, I have to keep it this way.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no, I don't think it'll be. I don't think it'll be the trick or the spark that's going to ignite a new. I think you'll have a clean office for like maybe seven days and then eventually it all reverts back to chaos rather quickly and rather infuriating and, you know, and then. And. But if we do it the right way. That's the wrong way.

[Brian Quinn]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

If we do it the right way, we can have it for. We can have a clean office, you know, in perpetuity. Yeah, but if you do it the wrong way, the Q way.

[Brian Quinn]

Yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Where you just do it. You do it under the guise of, like, get him out of the office and like, you know, that's.

[Brian Quinn]

That's the wrong way mentally. So our job, as ever, any doctor

[Walt Flanagan]

would be like, that is absolutely the wrong approach.

[Brian Quinn]

Our job is, as ever, to endure, just endure until the moment's right.

[Walt Flanagan]

I've had a psychiatrist offer to do a zoom in, really. And to figure out a proper way.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

To approach this. And maybe we should do. It's a. But it's a young female, though.

[Brian Quinn]

What do you think that means?

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know.

[Brian Quinn]

If he won't take her seriously.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no, not at all. I just. I wonder if he's willing to.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, he'll be like, I'm okay, little girl. No, I'm not gonna be taking advice from you, period.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, not at all.

[Bryan Johnson]

What do you know?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I don't know if he. I don't know if he's as comfortable revealing all his secrets to a woman to. To a younger 20 something year old female rather than like a grizzled 60.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, I thought that's what we were doing at the bachelor party.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What would you like if you had to reveal things, like personal things. Would you. Would you want it? Would you rather have a 20 something year old psychiatrist, female, or a 60 something year old male psychiatrist.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I don't think that doesn't matter.

[Walt Flanagan]

Doesn't matter to you.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's the.

[Bryan Johnson]

What if she looks like Tate, whatever her name, her last name is.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, Jack. Jack Hughes's girlfriend.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I just think of it as if I feel comfortable with them.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like I really don't care about.

[Walt Flanagan]

Doesn't matter.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, that's good. That's growth.

[Bryan Johnson]

There isn't a part of you that would look at like a 22 year old graduate and be like, you haven't lived yet. Like you went to school.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

So, you know, like, my physical therapist is pretty young and she's still going for education. And I. It does not affect me one bit.

[Bryan Johnson]

I feel she making you walk up

[Walt Flanagan]

and down fucking three stairs. This is a lot more involved than you fucking walking up three stairs and walking down. Okay, see you next week.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

My physical therapist went on vacation. She had to go to a bridal party. Bridal shower recently. And they gave me another one and I did not feel comfortable with her. How come she, she.

[Bryan Johnson]

She made him work?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Well, she touched me and it's. It's.

[Bryan Johnson]

You were just crying that you weren't getting massages.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Okay. No, no, no, no. It's. Yes. Like when I was walk. Like part of my physical therapy is I do laps around the, the training area and she kept putting her hand like on my shoulder inside. And it just was, it's. It was. It was very bothersome.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

What was she doing that for?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I. I guess, I don't know, like, maybe to make sure I was steady. But it was like I've been walking pretty good. Like I wasn't like.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah. And I guess maybe it's just, you know, but you know, Jessica, who's my physical therapist, she's. She's amazing. Like, you know, she knows, you know, not to touch.

[Walt Flanagan]

Should we get. Can we get her and maybe to figure out this problem, then maybe she'll be.

[Bryan Johnson]

How do we get him to clean up this?

[Walt Flanagan]

Seems like you're very comfortable with her. Could she, like, as in the guise of this is good for your rehabilitation that you clean up all the garbage? Like, you know, like instead of walking up three stairs and down three stairs, how about you walk down a flight of stairs and throw something out in the dumpster? If she presented it that way, would it be more palatable to you?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Possibly.

[Walt Flanagan]

Ask her if she wants to.

[Bryan Johnson]

If she wants you empty the garbage.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh my God. I got on the fire department like Fairly soon after 911 and there wasn't much fucking. There wasn't as much psychiatric help for the fucking guys who survived this guy to fucking empty a garbage can. Job duties.

[Walt Flanagan]

We didn't know as much as we know now that that's not the way to handle humans. You know, it's not like just suck it up and be a man.

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's like.

[Brian Quinn]

Or we did was when World War II.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like we got to be a little

[Brian Quinn]

bit more delicate around. It's got in the country in a great place.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't stick your finger in their face. You use your hand to lift them up.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. People are sensitive these days. Q. Isn't the hard scrabble 80s that you remember

[Walt Flanagan]

all those guys in your fire department, you know, like they're broken inside.

[Brian Quinn]

They just don't know it well. Yeah. That's again because they were at 9 11. I think that's the bigger issue. They saw their friend. They lost 20 of their friends in an hour.

[Walt Flanagan]

True.

[Brian Quinn]

Good point.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. But Gideon has issues throwing away stuff. We. But we know that.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Every garbage day is his 9 11.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know. But listeners. I've said we've probably spoke about this too often on Mike.

[Brian Quinn]

No. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. They're not. They feel that this is a private matter. Some that don't. That doesn't need to be aired. And for.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you think they're saying out of kindness to get him or out of boredom of hearing about it?

[Walt Flanagan]

I think a little bit of both. Right. I think it'd be accurate. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

That it's something that needs to be addressed privately.

[Brian Quinn]

We've tried to address it with them privately. It didn't work. We had to move to public shaming.

[Walt Flanagan]

That hasn't worked either. So that like there's that third option I've been trying to save.

[Brian Quinn]

And you're right.

[Walt Flanagan]

And no one's really taken that approach seriously though.

[Brian Quinn]

Correct. So we just don't want to take the opportunity that he's out of town for five days.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think it might be more of a setback than.

[Brian Quinn]

But how could it get worse?

[Walt Flanagan]

It might be, you know, detrimental to his overall fragile psyche.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, but where are we headed with that? What's the ultimate goal with this?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, do you. Do you want a broken blubbering fetal position? Get him or you know, clean office

[Brian Quinn]

will turn him into a blubbering.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, obviously we. In my opinion this like these things like cardboard and mailing packages. They're special and they're. And they. And they're meaningful to you because you equate. Them with memories. You talk about the memories, like, almost like photos.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So I can.

[Bryan Johnson]

I can totally understand. Well, I don't understand it. I'm not gonna lie. I don't get it. But if he had his own place and that's where he was storing this shit.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Then I could get it and I would be like, all right, I don't understand it. But whatever. It does it for you.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right?

[Bryan Johnson]

But keeping literal garbage, what we would consider garbage in the office is like.

[Walt Flanagan]

But he has to have his own place, though.

[Brian Quinn]

So, you know, we raised him a lot of money to get his own place, and he just buried it in a pipe in a yard.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, he's looking. There's just no place around here that he's.

[Bryan Johnson]

We did go look at a place. That's true.

[Brian Quinn]

It was five, six years ago.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay. I mean, you know, but I mean,

[Walt Flanagan]

it's not like the. He was in limbo with the ranch coming back. Then the ranch became. That was never going to happen. And, yeah, there's. It's a long, sordid tale, but I'm

[Brian Quinn]

being too hard on him.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're right.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're right.

[Brian Quinn]

I agreed to go the love route. But just.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think we. I think we.

[Brian Quinn]

But is there anything to the fact that, like, the three other people in the office don't want it this way and we just have to. He just. He just inflicts it on us and doesn't care that we don't want it that way? And you. He's like. He's essentially like, fuck you. I don't care that. That you don't like it this way. It's the way that I want it. And if you don't like it, go fuck yourself.

[Walt Flanagan]

Can we be.

[Brian Quinn]

You don't. You don't think that that's the message being given to us?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I think this is a mind that just doesn't think like that at all.

[Brian Quinn]

But he's being told to his face.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know why it doesn't sink in. But. But what if we went the opposite way?

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

What if we became even filthier than him?

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Hard to imagine, but it's.

[Walt Flanagan]

What if we spit on the water wall?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

And then he has to clean it up.

[Walt Flanagan]

We just threw at. You know, just leave dirt and food and we just made it the absolute.

[Brian Quinn]

So sink to his level.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like something that would be condemned by the board of health.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't understand how we're not there already.

[Walt Flanagan]

I let Teddy take a deuce and I don't clean it up.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know, and I just like, oh, it's good. It's fine. I mean, that deuce is special to me.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I got a lot of memories of that deuce. But, I mean, we're laughing, but that's essentially what. What is going on.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, let's do that, though. Let's go the opposite. Let's make it so.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Livable. That he's like, I can't live like this either, though.

[Brian Quinn]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't want to say that out loud because now he knows the plan.

[Bryan Johnson]

I just imagine office with tons of Teddy's Deuces around him.

[Brian Quinn]

Not cleaning them up, stepping around them.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, exactly.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, let's give that a shot.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll see what I can bring in.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I was picking up sticks to throw on the side of the road the other day. There's a ton of Norm's dog shit in the front yard. I'll bring it on.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, that's playing. I don't know what we'll call that, but that's Operation Useless Pigsty.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. I love it. I'm in. Is that the love one? Is that treating him with love, though, or is that.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think that's. What's that called when you do the opposite? What's that called?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oppositional.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, opposite of tough love.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it's like when you. You like. You tell a little kid, like, oh, like reverse psychology. Reverse psychology. Yes. A little. A little fucking reverse testology.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

We're gonna bring dogtion in.

[Walt Flanagan]

Don't make us dyslexia in psychology.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

We do a little dyslexia. We tell you we want it filthier now, you know, I'll just honk a fucking loogie on the wall. Right on the fucking. Right on one of the pictures. Everybody does when we come in. We'll tell everybody to do it.

[Brian Quinn]

The wall of loogie.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

They're your pictures.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, they're your pictures. You live here.

[Brian Quinn]

Does it bother you that, like, over the years there's been people like Danhausen and stuff that. Where you're like, get him in. Get him in as a guest on the show. And I'm like, I'm not doing that.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't know this.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm not bringing Danhausen.

[Brian Quinn]

Anyone to this office.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, if you told us, we would

[Brian Quinn]

clean it up, but I would think that that's, like, just common sense. Like, I'm not gonna bring in one of these guests that I can get us to this to bring them into this like. This is. This represents me. If I do that, I can't have. I can't have it.

[Bryan Johnson]

So cute. This is how you live, huh?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Bring Brooke Shields in here to talk on Mike.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can get Brooke Shields, of course. Really?

[Brian Quinn]

She's been on, like, the last three seasons. Absolutely. Her husband directed the Jokers movie. She's been in the last three seasons. She's always. She's great. She's a friend. I could get her in. I wouldn't bring her into this.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. Okay. What is it. What does it have to look like for you to bring in a Danhausen or a.

[Bryan Johnson]

We gotta bring her in that door for first of all.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's wrong with that door?

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no. Whatever Justin could pull off. I imagine.

[Bryan Johnson]

I was gonna say. Don't even let her see that part.

[Brian Quinn]

Josh. Sorry. Whatever Josh could pull off. Sorry. Josh, I believe would be probably. I have faith in Josh that he could pull off Brooke Shields worthy office. Yeah, I can't bring. I can't.

[Walt Flanagan]

You. What's the problem?

[Brian Quinn]

What are the receipts? All right, the receipts.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's the problem?

[Brian Quinn]

All right, the carpet. There's bits of paper, straw. There's chocolate wrappers in the corner over there. What's that mystery stain on the fucking wall? No, you see it.

[Bryan Johnson]

It looks like somebody dropped a soda.

[Walt Flanagan]

What is that. What is that mystery stain? Anybody know?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I know. It could be just. It could be a soda that bounced out of the. Or because the trash can doesn't have a bag, so it's just soda.

[Brian Quinn]

Sure.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Brian Quinn]

Staining the wall. I mean, there's. There's this backings of stickers. Do you feel you're seeing on the.

[Walt Flanagan]

Are you overly critical, though?

[Brian Quinn]

You think maybe about the soda stain

[Walt Flanagan]

on the wall or the overall in general that you. Chocolate wrappers standard are a little bit unrealistic.

[Brian Quinn]

Candy wrappers that are thrown in the corner over there. You think I'm being a little.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's a fancy guy. You don't have candy wrappers all over your floor at home.

[Brian Quinn]

There's two straw wrappers right there. There's. There's all this.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, well, maybe we need the. We need the carrot.

[Brian Quinn]

What is it? What is that? What is. Give me any of those receipts.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, he saves the receipts because he enters them into his phone and then he gets points to play a game.

[Brian Quinn]

No problem with that. But why are they on our t. Like, why are they gonna put. Right where I'm gonna. Where I would sit, Brooke Shields is an empty and open bottle. Yeah, there's three receipts.

[Walt Flanagan]

But they wouldn't be here if Brooke was here.

[Brian Quinn]

Brooke won't come here because they're there.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, but we need the carrot, though. Then you're like, guys, I got Brooke Shields.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's the carrot we got lined up.

[Walt Flanagan]

She's coming. April.

[Brian Quinn]

Right?

[Walt Flanagan]

Whatever.

[Brian Quinn]

I can't do it. Yeah, but I don't have any faith.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, I, I. You gotta have faith. You gotta have faith. That's. That's the first thing that you gotta.

[Bryan Johnson]

If you were like, this is the day I'm bringing Brooke Shields in, I would come down myself.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm not doing it. I'm not putting my money on Gidem. We've asked him to do it a thousand times and he won't do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

But that's not fair then, though, because you're not, you're, you're saying you're not allowing him to rise to the occasion, then he could put in the office

[Brian Quinn]

tomorrow and rise to the occasion.

[Walt Flanagan]

And then I walk in and be like, brooke shield's coming. Just, you're coming. Who cares?

[Brian Quinn]

Exactly. Exactly, exactly, Exactly. Yeah, that's it. It's a blue lagoon. This is a shit lagoon. The brown lagoon.

[Bryan Johnson]

Go lagoon.

[Brian Quinn]

This is what we podcast in. I mean, what is. When, when is the last time anything's been cleaned around? Around these.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's probably. This all happened last night.

[Bryan Johnson]

So was it view?

[Walt Flanagan]

This is all from last night. It was a late night recording. Reviewing history. Right. The reviewing history guys were in and I saw them. They had all these straws and shit. They were having paper straw fights.

[Bryan Johnson]

Empty soda bottles.

[Walt Flanagan]

Obviously they didn't clean up the wrappers.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I don't drink straws.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right, yeah, yeah. So it must have been those guys, Q. Yeah, we'll take.

[Brian Quinn]

It's not their office.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'll tell Rob the straws are now prohibited in the office.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, I'll help.

[Walt Flanagan]

Q's new decree.

[Bryan Johnson]

No straws again.

[Brian Quinn]

Everybody's got to suffer. I mean, what is going on with the air filter over there? It's like.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, that's because we don't have any windows.

[Brian Quinn]

No, I know, but like, what's that red alert on it there? Does that mean change the filter two years ago? Because it's just pulling in air through, like, every fucking shit that's accumulated in there. Change the filter.

[Walt Flanagan]

I didn't know you had to change the filter. I didn't know you had to. I thought this, I thought this was. This just worked forever.

[Bryan Johnson]

You just turned it on.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, don't. Dangerous. It sucked up in there, and then somehow it grinds it into, like, you know, to nothing.

[Brian Quinn]

No, that's not how it works in the air. It's not at all how it works.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, that's not Gatum's fault, though. Okay, that might be in my fault. I brought the air filter in two years ago.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, we replaced the filter a couple times since then.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know if we have.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, yeah, because I had your wife water it, remember?

[Walt Flanagan]

Right. What's the red light mean?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It means that it's actually not that bad.

[Bryan Johnson]

I know. There's dust flying all over the place.

[Brian Quinn]

That's not that bad.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, I clean it. I just forget to hit the. You got to hit a special button sequence to change it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Can you rise for Brooke Shields or Danhausen? Sure. Say you gotta. You've gotta put it first.

[Brian Quinn]

No, office first. And then I'll book it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like you can. Q can come in one week. Like, successive weeks. And the office is nice. It looks good.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

How many weeks in a row you need it to be a month? Oh, my God.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I know. I know. It's tough, dude.

[Walt Flanagan]

We work in here though, too. You gotta remember, this is not just a recording studio. Like.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Like.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like yesterday, we were just putting together Patreon gifts.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

The thing. The podium really can't go anywhere else.

[Brian Quinn]

The podium is not the problem.

[Walt Flanagan]

Can we set up this between me and you? Get him, like, from the green wall forward. Can we put up drapes in this? Oh, yeah. Hide all this behind it.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

No, we can't. That's what he did in the room back there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian Quinn]

Now we can't get it anymore, but now there's like, a snow dress of garbage.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. Oh, Brooke's not going to look behind the curtain. We just tell her, Brooke, don't go behind the curtain.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, that's fine.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, sit down.

[Brian Quinn]

Take a look back.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Brooke would love the rocking horse over there.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, my God.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It reminded of her child.

[Walt Flanagan]

Need a month of. Of a cleaned office.

[Brian Quinn]

I need a month of. Josh approved office.

[Walt Flanagan]

Josh approved.

[Brian Quinn]

Yes. He. I need him to say, come in with a checklist and be like, check, check, check.

[Walt Flanagan]

Then I start this room.

[Brian Quinn]

No, the office. And. And then I'll. Then I'll. Then I'll start getting us guests in here.

[Walt Flanagan]

So just this room and the front there.

[Brian Quinn]

Everything. Everything, everything, everything.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

Why?

[Walt Flanagan]

When are they going back there in our back?

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know.

[Walt Flanagan]

Come on, Brooks.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like, let me just take a look at this.

[Brian Quinn]

Can't do it. All right, so it's got to Be Josh level.

[Walt Flanagan]

So when is Key west ninth night?

[Brian Quinn]

It's in less.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, so by what comes after May. May 9th. So May 9th.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah,

[Walt Flanagan]

I would imagine May 9th forward to June 9th, then you'll have a clean office from May 9th to June 9th.

[Brian Quinn]

If. If. If he pulls that off, I will get.

[Walt Flanagan]

Has to be a fucking.

[Brian Quinn]

It has to be a caliber. A caliber, yes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. It can't just be.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, this is my barber from here's Jiggy.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no. It will be a guess that you're like, oh, yeah, wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Socks knocked off. They will immediately pick them up. So you're not mad because they're socks. God forbid. Their socks on the floor for.

[Brian Quinn]

For a minute or two or a

[Walt Flanagan]

month

[Brian Quinn]

or a year or three.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, all right.

[Brian Quinn]

I think we buy a new carpet. This thing is.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's got a lot of dog hair

[Brian Quinn]

on it, and it came with the office.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, it didn't.

[Brian Quinn]

No, but the.

[Walt Flanagan]

The.

[Brian Quinn]

We bought this new.

[Walt Flanagan]

This one right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's probably the second carpet.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Oh, wow. I think we should.

[Bryan Johnson]

Looks like we need a third.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, all right. So new carpet. What else we need? Again, just so I know.

[Brian Quinn]

Look, I think if we get this place cleaned, we get rid of this carpet, we get a new carpet.

[Walt Flanagan]

Maybe I can't get rid of the carpet that's under.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, but we can get it cleaned. We can get like Stanley Steamer in here. Pay him 80 bucks or whatever it costs. Let's say 120, because I'm always wrong to just clean all the carpets and stuff.

[Walt Flanagan]

We gotta get all this out of here. Yes. Come on. That's a lot of work, but this

[Brian Quinn]

shit doesn't belong here.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, we gotta get the table out of here. We gotta get all. We gotta get the rockin horse out of here.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

The treasure chest.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, the whiteboard. If that room in the back was. Was cleaning together, all this shit could live in there.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it can't. It's not enough room. I don't know what there's.

[Brian Quinn]

Let me go look.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's really. Well, there's not enough room as is, but I don't think there's enough room anyway for that as it is.

[Brian Quinn]

Look at this.

[Bryan Johnson]

He's going to do a little recon.

[Walt Flanagan]

His office is clean. Okay, good to know. Sandbag his ass.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, just wait till he comes back.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

He asked about the packing foam.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's the packing foam?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

All that foam that was in here.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, we need that foam.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I know.

[Bryan Johnson]

You never know when you might need foam.

[Walt Flanagan]

Now, the foam is for shipping.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, he's back.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, man. You're in the back. I had to step over.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, my.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's a lot of natty daddies.

[Brian Quinn]

There's two Pizza Hut boxes just sitting in the back. Now, let me look at the dates on these to see when they were ordered.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

All right, Tuesday.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's now Friday.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, It's. That's exciting.

[Brian Quinn]

March 22nd.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's only the 25 days.

[Bryan Johnson]

27th.

[Brian Quinn]

Five days. It's sitting in the.

[Bryan Johnson]

Why don't you just throw them away? Why do you throw, like, garbage back? Like, that's gonna attract bulls.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, we got hair.

[Brian Quinn]

Look at this.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot about the hair.

[Brian Quinn]

Inside the box are still crumbs. Food wrappers, dirty napkins. I mean, it's. What this is just sitting in the fucking back.

[Walt Flanagan]

So a little birdie just told me something. Q.

[Brian Quinn]

Go ahead.

[Walt Flanagan]

About your own personal office that maybe isn't as clean as Felix Unger. His test. His white glove test might say. I don't know. I've heard that it be as.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm sorry. I can't hear you. By the way, that's my. There's no food inside.

[Walt Flanagan]

This is wild. Don't put it back. I'm going to throw it out now.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll put it right here.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, just put it right there. It'll be here next week. No, it won't. It's going out tonight. All right, we've made your point.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Don't let Teddy get those pizza crumbs.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I know he's allergic.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's allergic to pizza.

[Bryan Johnson]

Is he allergic to yeast?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeast.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeast, yeah. Norman's allergic to yeast. Like, oh, my God.

[Walt Flanagan]

Teddy's allergic to so much shit. I wouldn't doubt it.

[Brian Quinn]

It's just empty food packages, all right. And stuff piled up high against the door.

[Walt Flanagan]

What was the date? What was that? Circle the date, people.

[Brian Quinn]

May 9th to June 9th, okay?

[Walt Flanagan]

You're gonna come in and it's gonna have.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, that'll be different.

[Walt Flanagan]

The only thing that I will say is I don't know if we can get the. We could. We can get this carpet cleaned. Yeah, but I don't know if I can get it. I am not moving the couch.

[Bryan Johnson]

The couch is like.

[Walt Flanagan]

I am not. That closet.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Oh, that's the. You cannot touch that.

[Walt Flanagan]

It falls apart constantly. But you're going to be able to eat off of it, though.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, I guess we could just order another one of these. That doesn't fall apart when you do it.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's wasting money, though. It's good enough. We just put a cord. We just put a bungee cord around it and to keep it hold it together.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay, so five day old. So five days old pizza box is just sitting in the back. We can agree that that's not gonna happen.

[Walt Flanagan]

That that is. That is the end of that.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's the end of the five day old pizza box.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

We're gonna. We're going to. We're going to make a promise right now. Right?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Y.

[Walt Flanagan]

No more five day old pizza box. Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

How many days?

[Walt Flanagan]

What's. What's a. Yeah, what is a. I

[Brian Quinn]

mean, if we're professional, you're okay with. For an office professional.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Get it out that night.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Why not just throw it out as

[Brian Quinn]

soon as you're done then doesn't. There's no need for pizza boxes filled with crumbs and food to be sitting in the back of our office office for five days.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, so you were door talking. Has to be within a couple hours.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, let's go 24 hours.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. All right. 24 hours is not crazy, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

All right. I can do that. Yeah. All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why did you save the pizza boxes? I'm trying to defend you here.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

They're going out Sunday.

[Bryan Johnson]

You can't just go out Sunday.

[Brian Quinn]

You can't use that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Excuse me. No. Why. Why didn't. Why do you feel like it's not a big deal to have the old pizza boxes? Everybody, can you just be honest?

[Brian Quinn]

And the cans of beer, I don't

[Walt Flanagan]

know if you were saving them. Were you going to bring them to the aluminum center?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No, I tossed them in the recycling dumpster out back.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. You're not bringing. You're not making any money off the aluminum?

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

You really can't. That's so much. It's.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Well, you're making a good start Startup with all the aluminum we got back there.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

That's. That's only a couple days.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes. So you go out to Wawa, right? You go out to Wawa?

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. You don't go anymore?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

No.

[Bryan Johnson]

But that's a coffee maker sitting right next to you.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

I make my own coffee.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. Do you go out at all during the week?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Do you leave here during the week?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

Yeah, I go back to Debbie's.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay. So can you take it when you leave?

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

It's dumpster's out.

[Bryan Johnson]

Just throw it out in the garbage. Garbage can out front then.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

But then it's not recycled.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't give a About recycling.

[Walt Flanagan]

Q doesn't care. You have to say to yourself, what's more important? And the earth or Q?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, I think we know the answer.

[Walt Flanagan]

So wait, so take it to your car, drive to the back, dump it, and drive and leave. This car looks like.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, well, I know it looks like the office.

[Walt Flanagan]

It looks like the office on steroids.

[Brian Quinn]

I wanted to lead with love.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that. That train fucking left the station.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, the pizza box is. The pizza box is the thing that you're like. I mean, you got. You could overlook perhaps the stain on the wall or the chocolate wrappers piled up in the corner of the floor where we record. But the pizza boxes, how are you not getting.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't care how it happens. No, at this point, you don't even care how it happens. Because I could get in. The guys, like the guys, our guys, our team who have told me, I'll come down one day, we'll make a fun day out of it, and we'll. Well,

[Brian Quinn]

I don't care.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't even care at this point. It doesn't matter how it happens.

[Brian Quinn]

Why are you. Why are you here more than anybody? Yeah, why are you okay with the. With that? What I just pulled back from the pizza boxes. The pizza boxes. The Natty gave up.

[Walt Flanagan]

I gave up on. Look, he's not the only guy I gave up on. I gave up on people. At a certain point, you can't. You just let it go or else it'll drive you crazy. So I allow. I want my mental sanity right, over holding a grudge over a pizza box.

[Brian Quinn]

So I should just let it go.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like he. Like he fixed my. My dog carriage.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's worth fucking ten old pizza boxes. He fixed it for me.

[Brian Quinn]

The argument is not.

[Bryan Johnson]

He can't do both.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's not capable of doing both. Obviously, if he was, he would do

[Brian Quinn]

it, I guess, you know, if he

[Walt Flanagan]

was capable of throwing at the pizza boxes and doing all this stuff, he would do it. He's just not capable of it.

[Brian Quinn]

He's just not capable of it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but we could get it done and it could probably stay that way for a month. But inevitably,

[Brian Quinn]

inevitable ruin.

[Walt Flanagan]

It'll. It'll probably revert as to. Not the. Not the standards.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Of May 9th. By June 10th, you know, it'll be kablooey again.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, let's see what happens. Why don't we just see what happens? I mean, should we just stop talking about it and live like this?

[Walt Flanagan]

That's what I have been doing. I've been doing for like the past two years. No, I. I rarely talk about it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Because. And it's. It's a tough situation because it's not just a recording studio and we don't have a lot of room. It seems like we do, but a lot of stuff is larger, like the podium, the. I guess we can get rid of the treasure chest. We don't really need it.

[Brian Quinn]

I do think that back room could fit a lot of this stuff if it was just done properly.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, we'll do it. We're going to make it happen. And it's going to be. We better have a caliber, though.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll get a caliber.

[Walt Flanagan]

If we don't have a caliber.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Then, no, I'll get a caliber.

[Walt Flanagan]

There's gonna be egg. I know you hate eggs.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't like egg.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't love your face, Q. I'll get.

[Brian Quinn]

I'll get a calendar. I'll get a caliber. I'll give you guys options on who I should go after.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

And then you guys can pick from

[Walt Flanagan]

the housing is the one people. Really?

[Brian Quinn]

Dan? How's the fucking, man, dude? All right, I'll. I'll. I'll. He'll. You know, he's with WWE now, so he'll be coming through New York. No, I. I can get him. He's a pal.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, all right, all right.

[Brian Quinn]

I like this.

[Walt Flanagan]

We have a date. You know, our moonshot. Yeah. This is our moonshot. That NASA didn't get to the moon overnight.

[Brian Quinn]

You're right. You're absolutely right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Give us a little bit of time to get our.

[Brian Quinn]

Together Sunday. Everything happens on a Sunday.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, yeah, but our goal is to. Yeah. You know, every day Sunday.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, nice. Nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's on your calendar.

[Brian Quinn]

Sounds like something.

[Walt Flanagan]

Quote, every day, do not ask. That's not what you could do for your country.

[Brian Quinn]

Every day Sunday. But it sounds like the sort of thing an office coach should be saying.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's an office coach in name only. He's not capable of doing it.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't accept that.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why, though? Why are you not able to. If he had. If he had a disease, you could see, like polio or something.

[Brian Quinn]

Sure.

[Walt Flanagan]

You wouldn't be like, oh, he doesn't. You would not be on his balls the way you walk.

[Brian Quinn]

No. I wouldn't be like, dude, oh, my God.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can't.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You can't walk down to the dumpster with those fucking metal braces on your legs.

[Brian Quinn]

But I.

[Walt Flanagan]

Come on, suck it up.

[Brian Quinn]

He's thrown things out before.

[Walt Flanagan]

Rarely.

[Brian Quinn]

But he's done It.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Which means it's possible.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's possible.

[Brian Quinn]

That's. And my faith in him is so. So much.

[Walt Flanagan]

You have to. You can't see his disease.

[Brian Quinn]

You're right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Is his disease just that he's lazy?

[Walt Flanagan]

Huh?

[Bryan Johnson]

Is that the disease? He's just lazy?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it's not laziness. It's part of the.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

The dysfunction of.

[Brian Quinn]

So I'm being a bully a little bit?

[Bryan Johnson]

No, it's 2026. What are you up to?

[Brian Quinn]

All right, you know what?

[Bryan Johnson]

Shaming him.

[Brian Quinn]

Let's just live the way we live.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, no, no. We're definitely gonna go where we want to.

[Bryan Johnson]

We want the calendar.

[Brian Quinn]

You want a Dan house. All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

He had thrown it out there to the listener base and promise him a caliber. And then look at him. He's sweating. Now. He knows that this coffin is gonna look, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm not sweating.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're gonna be like, oh, holy shit.

[Bryan Johnson]

His last unreturned text from Danhausen, he's like, oh, shit. Now I gotta produce.

[Brian Quinn]

If I can't get Danhausen, I'll put on the Danhausen makeup and come in here.

[Walt Flanagan]

This place is gonna look like a brand new office.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm excited about that.

[Walt Flanagan]

And I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna call in some favors. Wow. I'm gonna call in some favors from.

[Brian Quinn]

So once again, it falls on you,

[Walt Flanagan]

as always, Q, as always, calling some favors to the gang. Yeah, you know, the. The gang who are always helpful and offering to help. And I think that we could have,

[Brian Quinn]

like, a pizza party and then throw away the pizza boxes at the end of it.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's the party.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, you know, it's not eating the pizza. That's fine.

[Brian Quinn]

It's throwing out some good stuff.

[Walt Flanagan]

Throwing it out, according to Q. This is the fun part.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm not gonna be the bad guy here.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm not.

[Brian Quinn]

I refuse to accept that I'm the bad guy here.

[Walt Flanagan]

Get him. Who's the bad bad guy here? Come on.

[Q (Brian Quinn's nickname)]

See the fifth?

[Bryan Johnson]

I'll tell you after Q West.

[Brian Quinn]

He wants to go to Q west.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a 148 right there.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah. He's playing chess.

[Walt Flanagan]

You playing tiddlywink, Q? You don't even have a checkerboard.

[Brian Quinn]

Look at me. I'm like a dope.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm lost.

[Brian Quinn]

I got.

[Walt Flanagan]

Tell him, steve. Dave.