#674: The Hoodlums

Summary

Tell 'Em Steve-Dave #674: The Hoodlums

Released: April 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave crew—Bryan Johnson, Walt Flanagan, Brian "Q" Quinn, and Sunday Jeff—assemble to share stories from their recent escapades, reminisce about bachelor party shenanigans, muse about aging and nostalgia, and dish out their signature blend of humor on everything from comic conventions to strip clubs. Special highlights include an in-depth tale from a bachelor party at a fancy steakhouse, memorable elevator mishaps, WrestleMania recaps, and the philosophical musings only this trio (plus Sunday Jeff) can deliver.

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Key Discussions and Insights

1. Scandal in Key West (and the Cosplay Controversy)

• [00:06] - [06:13]
  Bryan teases a "scandal" involving Get 'Em Steve-Dave's dad potentially "creeping" on a cosplayer ("Rogue from Savage Land") during a brunch in Key West. The group examines a photo of Get 'Em and his dad with three cosplaying women, debating whether dad was innocently snapping a photo or being a little too enthusiastic.
  • Walt defends the moment:

    "I think people are allowed to take pictures. I mean, come on, you know, I..." – Walt, [03:24]

  • Bryan jokes:

    "But he's definitely has it aimed at her ass. It's a different kind of picture." – Bryan, [03:43]

  • They reflect on community support online (especially on Facebook, not Reddit), noting the wholesome post-event atmosphere.

2. Internet Positivity & Social Media Reflections

• [05:17] - [06:13]
  Walt describes venturing back onto Facebook for group feedback post-Key West, surprised by the uniformly supportive and drama-free tone:

  "Not a single nasty comment about anybody. Everybody was supportive and friendly..." – Walt, [04:57]
  No one believes Reddit has improved, and the cast remain deeply skeptical about the internet overall.

3. Bachelor Party: High-End Steakhouse, Bathrooms, and Life Wisdom

• [07:15] - [22:35]

  • The gang recounts a recent bachelor party at Homestead Steakhouse, Borgata, Atlantic City.

    • Attendance split between "elders" (Bryan, Walt, Frank, Sunday Jeff) and "the youngsters" (Get 'Em was notably absent due to illness).
    • The emotional highlight: Chuck and Jimmy getting matching tattoos to honor late friend Tim Cronin, as a reminder to take chances to know people while you can.

      "This would serve as a reminder to always try to get to know somebody in case you don't get that opportunity." – Brian Quinn, [08:11]

  • Bathroom Confusion:

    • Both Bryan and Q share their confusion over a fancy restaurant bathroom featuring an exposed toilet with no stall.
      • Eventually, a waiter explains it's a single-person bathroom—you must lock the door, something that eluded several members of the party:

        "That's a one person bathroom. When you go in the bathroom, you lock the door behind you." – from conversation with the waiter, [18:21]

  • Aging and Loss of Edge:

    • The guys muse about "losing their edge," getting flustered by minor modernities (missing keys, flashlights in pockets).

    "I'm like, man, I wonder if I'm losing my edge. Like, soft in the head, though." – Brian Quinn, [19:42]
    "It's happening, man." – Walt, [21:06]

4. Elevator 'Hoodlums' Moment

• [21:08] - [23:36]
  Sunday Jeff's innocent interpretation of twenty-something women declining to share an elevator with the group leads to the running "hoodlum" gag:

"It's childlike, it's absolutely healthy. It's the most healthy way, like POV on things you can imagine. He turned to us and giggled. I was like, 'they don't want to get in a fucking elevator with a bunch of hoodlums.' Like, with no sense of irony. He absolutely 100% meant it." – Brian Quinn, [21:41]

5. Casino and Gambling Antics

• [24:45] - [26:17]
  • Sunday Jeff's "system" quickly leads to losing $80 and quitting, summarized by Q as:

    "The system is lose $80 within five minutes and then call it a night?" – Brian Quinn, [25:01]

  • More stories of gambling mishaps and minor wins, with good-natured ribbing all around.

6. Strip Club Ban and Bachelorette Party Irony

• [27:00] - [29:02]
  • Discussion about bachelor party rules: Jimmy’s apparent inability to attend a strip club due to a prior incident.
  • Irony: Michelle, his fiancée, had a "surprise" male stripper at her bachelorette, which Jimmy may not have known.

    "She knows how to act." – Walt, [28:16]

7. WrestleMania Reactions, Roman Reigns, & Danhausen

• [31:13] - [37:41]
  Walt and Q discuss their experiences with this year’s WrestleMania, the highs and lows (commercial overload, short matches), and Roman Reigns winning the title.
  • Walt muses on why he’s satisfied:

    "Any WrestleMania where Roman reigns gets the title back for me, is a massive success because it should be nowhere else but around his waist." – Walt, [33:50]

• Wrestler CM Punk’s altercation with a fan after being recorded, and his history of being outspoken and sometimes abrasive.
• Danhausen's positive reception in WWE after being underused in AEW.

8. Aging, Life After Relationships, and Independence

• [49:54] - [53:44]
  • The crew discusses the unique joys of reclaiming solitude after a breakup.

    “It’s a fucking glorious feeling. And it’s not something that they teach in school, you know?” – Walt, [53:00]

  • Bryan adds:

    "It still felt awesome because...my life’s mine again. Like, I’m the captain of my own destiny." – Bryan, [53:15]

  • They ponder whether more people would break up if they truly understood this post-breakup freedom.

9. Would-You-Rather and Social Hypotheticals

• [53:44] - [56:51]
  Bryan presents Walt with a choice: say something bluntly rude to his wife after a spat, or wear an embarrassing “hoof arted” (hoof/fart) shirt to a child’s birthday and refuse to take it off. The crew debates which is less socially damaging.

10. T-Shirt Etiquette, Offensive Symbols, and Midget Terminology in Wrestling

• [56:51] - [59:46]
  The hosts reminisce about “no fat chicks” shirts and reflect on social acceptability. Walt describes how little person wrestlers at WrestleMania wanted to be called "midgets," and the announcers honored that request, discussing changes in societal language norms.

11. Odds and Ends – Bags, Broadway, and Balloon Bans

• [61:00] - [66:06]
  Walt explains his penchant for carrying a gym bag—usually for extra clothes and his iPad, nothing mysterious. The crew chats about attending Rocky Horror Picture Show on Broadway, experiencing nostalgia for live participatory shows.
• Bryan campaigns against the balloon releases at funerals and graduations, citing their environmental impact:

  "Can we stop releasing these mass balloons into the fucking environment where they're gonna pop and some fucking seabird is gonna eat them?" – Bryan, [66:46]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Positivity Online:

  "Not a single nasty comment about anybody. Everybody was supportive and friendly..." – Walt, [04:57]

• On Chuck’s Tribute Tattoo:

  "This would serve as a reminder to always try to get to know somebody in case you don't get that opportunity." – Brian Quinn, [08:11]

• On Relatable Aging:

  "I'm like, man, I wonder if I'm losing my edge. Like, soft in the head, though." – Brian Quinn, [19:42]

• On Sunday Jeff's Innocence:

  "He turned to us and giggled. I was like, 'they don't want to get in a fucking elevator with a bunch of hoodlums.' Like, with no sense of irony." – Brian Quinn, [21:41]

• On Joys of Solitude:

  "It’s a fucking glorious feeling. And it’s not something that they teach in school, you know?" – Walt, [53:00]

• On Balloon Releases:

  "Can we stop releasing these mass balloons into the fucking environment where they're gonna pop and some fucking seabird is gonna eat them?" – Bryan, [66:46]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:06] – Key West "scandal" and cosplay photo incident
• [07:15] – Bachelor party recap
• [11:11] – Emotional value of tattoos and memory
• [13:04] – Restaurant bathroom debacle
• [19:42] – Discussion on aging and forgetfulness
• [21:08] – Elevator ‘hoodlum’ moment
• [27:00] – Strip club ban and bachelorette party irony
• [31:13] – WrestleMania review, bloodline, Roman Reigns
• [49:54] – Post-breakup joys and freedom
• [53:44] – Would-you-rather: verbal jab vs embarrassing T-shirt
• [56:51] – Offensive T-shirts and wrestling terminology
• [61:00] – Walt’s gym bag explained
• [63:08] – Rocky Horror Broadway trip preview
• [66:46] – Bryan’s PSA against balloon releases

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Tone & Atmosphere

As always, the episode is raw, irreverent, and peppered with self-deprecating humor and genuine camaraderie. Walt plays the straight man, Q offers moments of introspection, and Bryan acts as provocateur and facilitator—while Sunday Jeff brings unexpected wisdom and a guileless outlook. Many conversations veer between heartfelt (friendship and memory) and hilarious (bathroom mistakes, fashion faux pas), all with the crew’s signature uncensored banter.

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Conclusion

Episode #674 encapsulates the essence of Tell 'Em Steve-Dave: real friends, nostalgic tales, and a refusal to take life—or themselves—too seriously. Whether discussing cosplay etiquette, the importance of living in the moment, or what makes a T-shirt truly offensive, the laughs are real and the wisdom, sometimes, surprisingly poignant.

Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!

Transcript

[Bryan Johnson]

I have a scandal that could rock Q West.

[Walt Flanagan]

Bloodline's back. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

You're asking me what's wrong with me? These two guys are being awful. Tell them, Steve Dave.

[Bryan Johnson]

Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of Tell Them, Steve Dave. Look at all of us here. Look at G. Are you stanking? Look at wall.

[Brian Quinn]

Are you thinking?

[Walt Flanagan]

And look at Q. Hello.

[Bryan Johnson]

Look at me. We're all here. Now what? First right out of the gate, I have a scandal that could Rock Q West 2 and possibly prevent QS3.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, wow. Let's. Let's get it out there, then into the world.

[Bryan Johnson]

I need you guys to look at something and tell me what you see.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right? All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

You see that, Walt?

[Brian Quinn]

I do.

[Bryan Johnson]

What do you see there?

[Walt Flanagan]

What am I looking at?

[Bryan Johnson]

Looking at a picture. What do you see in that picture, though?

[Brian Quinn]

See? Get him. Right?

[Walt Flanagan]

Get him.

[Bryan Johnson]

I see his.

[Walt Flanagan]

Is that his dad?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's he doing?

[Bryan Johnson]

That's what I'm wondering.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's he got in his hand there?

[Brian Quinn]

I. I really thought. I really thought your beard was cut off. I thought that was you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, you thought that was me in the background? How dare you.

[Brian Quinn]

I just thought your beard was.

[Bryan Johnson]

After all my hard work, I look like Gideum. Gideon, would you like to explain. Oh, you got it up there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, this is the video. Is the idea that this man, this beloved gentleman, is recording?

[Bryan Johnson]

The guy who got nothing but compliments is creeping. Is creeping? Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

That can't be. We have to be eating this.

[Bryan Johnson]

It runs in the family, though.

[Brian Quinn]

You haven't explained to the listeners who have no visual what's going on.

[Bryan Johnson]

I haven't. So we're looking at a picture of three lovely ladies with Gidham and his dad lurking in the background. Seems to be just there, by happenstance.

[Sunday Jeff]

But we were on our way out. We were on our way back to the. To the. To our place.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Sunday Jeff]

We had done the. We had done the butterfly thing and then came back. So what I think happened is when we were going through the butterfly, after we saw Ming and everything, MJ had come through, like, the opposite way. So he had seen her passing him. And now that he's at the. The brunch place, he's seeing her, like, in all her glory.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. So he liked her?

[Sunday Jeff]

I think so, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, she's pretty hard not to like. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

But is this something that will ripple?

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, I'll tell you why. Because part of the reason that that, you know, I mean, look, she's gorgeous, obviously, so that makes her notable, but she is dressed in a cosplay style costume.

[Bryan Johnson]

Cosplay style, I'll agree to that.

[Walt Flanagan]

And scantily clad, but that's all right because that was what the cost. That was. It was Rogue in the Savage Land, and that's what she looked like then. So, you know, if you're walking around in full comic book costume, you got expect it. I think people are allowed to take pictures. I mean, come on, you know, I

[Sunday Jeff]

mean, she's taking a picture here on the one side, right.

[Bryan Johnson]

But he's definitely has it aimed at her ass. It's a different kind of picture.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, it's not aimed at her ass.

[Bryan Johnson]

Come on, you don't you see that lens? Telescope.

[Sunday Jeff]

He wishes he had a telescope.

[Walt Flanagan]

You don't have to point him at the ass these days. Cameras are so good. You could just take a photo and zoom in later.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, you're right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So it's. Well, he might not know that. He, he. Yeah, I think she's in costume, man.

[Sunday Jeff]

Like, I think he was mostly taking it, like, to send, like, back to, like, his friends. Like, this is what I'm seeing in Key West.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, yeah, that's all right. Come on, man.

[Bryan Johnson]

And I mean, if I can't have,

[Walt Flanagan]

like a knockout walking around dressed like Rogue from Savage Land and not have a guy take a picture or two,

[Bryan Johnson]

and if I'm being totally honest, I'm sure she loves it. I mean, she loves it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's totally fine. It's great. I got. I. They talked me into going into the. You know, I haven't been on Reddit in years at this point, and I just. It's been probably a decade since I've been on Facebook. And Jiggy kept telling me, he's like, you should go into the Reddit. You go on to Facebook. You should see people are really happy about it, make you feel good. I am not going on to Reddit under any fucking conditions or circumstances. I will never go on to read it again in my life. I. I was so. But I did lock in to Facebook to look to the QS group and. Oh, man, it really did make me feel good. People had a great time. Yeah. Not a single. Not a single nasty comment about anybody. Everybody was supportive and friendly and, like, everybody was just, like, enjoying the thing that they all love together. It was nice. And then I lied down. I won't ever go back, but, you know, but it was as long as

[Bryan Johnson]

you see the good stuff.

[Walt Flanagan]

I just saw the good stuff dip my toe. I got out. That was that. But I'M really glad everybody had a good time.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's good.

[Walt Flanagan]

Thank you for the kind words.

[Bryan Johnson]

Internet, that's a rarity these days. Yeah. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean, for all. I haven't been on red in a long time. It could have changed, right? No. Everybody's shaking their head. Okay. Why continue to go, guys?

[Bryan Johnson]

And there's MJ with Johnny Law, with her husband there. There she is, Walt in her full rogue outfit.

[Walt Flanagan]

Get him.

[Bryan Johnson]

Died within his rights to take a picture of that.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. You know, she's out in public.

[Bryan Johnson]

Out in public. He's sporting it around. She doesn't want people to not look.

[Walt Flanagan]

No.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

No. And God bless her.

[Bryan Johnson]

Need more rogues out there. Oh, come on.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just. Just do your part, people. Yeah. Beautiful.

[Bryan Johnson]

Now, I noticed today Walt's very distracted.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

What's going on in here?

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know what's going on over here.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're very quiet. You're staring at the floor.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, he's not. He's looking at his phone.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah. What's going on?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh. Oh. So you are staring at the floor.

[Brian Quinn]

I was staring at these rubber fidget balls.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know. What do you want me to say? I wasn't. I. I wasn't there. I don't have really much to weigh in on. What? On the.

[Bryan Johnson]

On a. Get him Trying to. This is gotcha journalism. You're not letting to it. It's supposed to be different. It's supposed to be like, we got him now. We cancel him next.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's get him dad, though.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't want to cancel.

[Walt Flanagan]

What a crew. What a crew.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Good people.

[Walt Flanagan]

Good people.

[Bryan Johnson]

So the fuck happened this week? What do you mean?

[Walt Flanagan]

Anything to talk about in the world.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know. Which is why I brought some banter topics. And what would you do if. Okay, that kind of stuff because I don't have any real life shit. I don't look at the news.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I rarely go to social media at all, if at all anymore.

[Brian Quinn]

You went to a bathroom bachelor party.

[Bryan Johnson]

Did go. Yes, we did go to a bachelor party a week ago. Oh, yeah, you're right. We didn't. Yeah, the bachelor party was pretty decent, I would say. Okay, I got down there. Well, we got down there. It was. Let's see. It was me, Walt. Well, there were the elders. It was me, Walt, Frank and Sunday Jeff. And then the youngsters were not. Get him. He didn't show up. Get him Canceled out.

[Sunday Jeff]

You guys can still sick Key West. I had a massive headache.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. So he didn't go. So we had. We had Jimmy, we had Chuck, who went and got matching tattoos with Jimmy. Jimmy and Chuck got matching tattoos?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, they got. It was touching. They got art by Tim Cronin.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, get out of here.

[Brian Quinn]

Clerk.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, that is pretty nice.

[Brian Quinn]

And it was. It was kind of sad when I asked Chuck, you know, why he chose to get that artwork, and it was like he said he didn't get to know Tim all that well. And this would serve as a reminder to always try to get to know somebody in case you don't get that opportunity. Yeah. I mean, which. I mean, it's sad all around when you're getting a tattoo of somebody who's no longer with us, but that even made it more. It's also. I mean, it's sad, but it's also wise.

[Bryan Johnson]

Is it. Is everybody worth getting to know? Tim was.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Because once. If you get to know him, Alicia, if you want to distance yourself, at least you know why.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, good point.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, I see. Yeah. Look, Chuck's an emotional guy, you know?

[Brian Quinn]

Well, he's not the only one that got it. Jimmy got it as well.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, but Jimmy's an emotional guy, too.

[Walt Flanagan]

Didn't Jimmy know Tim or Jimmy?

[Brian Quinn]

They both, I think, knew him as much as they. As both of them. They only knew him from meeting him from. Tell them Steve, Dave events.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's got a. Jimmy's got a lot of tattoos, so I don't think it really matters when he gets around.

[Brian Quinn]

That's Chuck's first tattoo.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's what I mean. Like, it's.

[Brian Quinn]

He didn't tell his girlfriend either.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, is she finding out right now?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, she found out probably the next day after the.

[Walt Flanagan]

Why?

[Brian Quinn]

You think that's bad?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, no, I don't think it's bad. He's trying to make it worse for Chuck, that's all.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, that's the picture there.

[Walt Flanagan]

It is.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. But, yeah, that was Chuck's first tattoo, which I thought was also very. It warmed my heart. It definitely made me go, like, wow, that's absolutely touching and very heartfelt, though, for the reason behind it was because it serves as a reminder. You know, maybe you take the time to get to know somebody because they might not always be around. You might not have that opportunity, but

[Walt Flanagan]

some people you're happy to see go.

[Brian Quinn]

You're asking me what's wrong with me? Guys are being awful.

[Bryan Johnson]

You're like, well, people aren't worth knowing.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but at least we're talking.

[Brian Quinn]

Some things are left better unsaid you

[Walt Flanagan]

think we're supposed to. Everybody out there believes that everybody's worth getting to know. I, I think if anything that the last decade or so has taught us is that a lot of people's opinions shouldn't be heard or taken seriously in any way, shape or form.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's quiet guys like Tim that are worth getting to know.

[Brian Quinn]

So the alternative is get to know no one then?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, but, but, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Trust your instincts, you know.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't think it was instincts that made them not get to know him better. I just think of circumstances.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sure.

[Brian Quinn]

He's a bit older. They're doing, you know, their circles are different. And when they came to be in the same room with him, you know, they enjoyed their time spent with him, but they didn't. They, they felt like maybe we could have did more together. We wish we had more time to do more things together. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's a memory.

[Bryan Johnson]

So Rupert was there.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Steve and Anthony from reviewing History were both.

[Brian Quinn]

Tom.

[Bryan Johnson]

Tom was there. Got to sit next to Tom, talked to Tom a bit.

[Walt Flanagan]

How'd that go?

[Bryan Johnson]

Pretty well.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he's a good guy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I like Tom. And I guess the. Probably the standout moment of the night was the bathroom.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh yeah, I forgot what happened in the bathroom.

[Bryan Johnson]

So I went to the bathroom and Walt followed shortly.

[Brian Quinn]

It's a very fancy restaura. Yeah, it was, it was over a thousand dollar. It was twelve hundred dollar bill.

[Walt Flanagan]

For how many people?

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know.

[Bryan Johnson]

Ten probably. Ten. Yeah, Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean it's, it's not cheap.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, it was not cheap.

[Walt Flanagan]

I would have thought it was like very pricey. 10 people drinking alcohol and eating food.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know how many people drank. I don't know if anybody at a

[Walt Flanagan]

steakhouse, it just feels like that's like 100 bucks a person. Sounds about right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

The I, I felt it was the most expensive hamburger I ever had in my life.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

You know, I had to pay. It was a hundred dollar hamburger for me.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a lot.

[Brian Quinn]

$100.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Well, in all fairness, you handed over that hundred dollars very graciously.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, I had to pay for Jimmy's meal.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

I had to put in. And then you put in the tip. It was $100, wasn't it? It was very close.

[Bryan Johnson]

Nice size burger. I gotta say. It was a one pound burger. Couldn't eat the whole thing.

[Brian Quinn]

Couldn't eat the whole thing. It was so big.

[Walt Flanagan]

Look at Sunday Jeff.

[Bryan Johnson]

Sunday Jeff with his pointing at the camera.

[Walt Flanagan]

Always keep it special. I mean, at this point, should Frank 5 just get an apartment here or something?

[Brian Quinn]

He wants to, but the real estate in New Jersey is keeping him from getting that getaway.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right. That pieta tear, what do they call it? Yeah. Look at Rub. There he is. Nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think Rub is supposed to organize it, right? Was it Rub? That was.

[Brian Quinn]

Rub did organize it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Organized it.

[Brian Quinn]

Did a great job.

[Bryan Johnson]

He did do a great job. It was fun. So anyway, there's this bathroom in the place, like Walt says, very. I would call it high end, for sure.

[Brian Quinn]

Scale 1 to 10, how fancy would you put it? I'm putting it at a 10.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's the name of the steakhouse?

[Bryan Johnson]

Homestead Steakhouse in the Borgata.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

I've stayed as far as places I've gone to. I'd put it at 10.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's not a 10. It's not a 10?

[Bryan Johnson]

No. What do we got for a 10?

[Walt Flanagan]

Maybe I haven't been there yet, Having eaten all over the world, and it's steakhouses all across this great land. I would say the original old homestead in Manhattan, probably an 8. The one in AC. Yeah. 7, 7, 8.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Great. Which is great. Like, that's not a reserve. I got to get a reserve. The nine tens for, like, the. The places that we'll never eat at.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know what I mean? Like, I don't think we're.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, we're not there.

[Brian Quinn]

It was. It was a 10. In my lifetime.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sure. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

From my experience, my life experiences, I

[Walt Flanagan]

think the highest we'll ever be in is. Is an eight in our lives.

[Brian Quinn]

No, I just told you I was out of 10.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know, but I'm talking real world statistics, though.

[Bryan Johnson]

You won't go to another steakhouse for another. Until the next person gets married, probably.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but it's great. Old homesteads, they're great. Is it the family style they do there, or. It's not. It's individual plates.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. Individual plates, but family style.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Appetizers or not? Appetizer side. Sorry.

[Brian Quinn]

Right.

[Bryan Johnson]

So there's a bathroom, and I went into it, and there was a guy in there in a urinal. And what I notice is. The first thing I notice is that the bowl is unencumbered by any sort of cubicle. So it's just a bowl sitting there,

[Walt Flanagan]

and it's deuce in.

[Brian Quinn]

Nobody's.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, nobody's. Do some.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

I went into the bathroom. Yeah, same thing. A guy at a urinal and another guy just kind of fixing his hair in the mirror. And so I just went over and washed My hands, you know, because I wanted to. Because I was going to eat. I was just going in to wash my hands and have to use the bathroom.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

So there was three people in the bathroom, and. But I didn't notice the.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, that's it.

[Sunday Jeff]

No, no, no.

[Walt Flanagan]

That looks like fucking hell on earth.

[Sunday Jeff]

That was the bathroom I ran against, where I used to go drink.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that makes more sense. That looks like something that would wake up in a Saw movie.

[Brian Quinn]

I didn't notice the toilet in the corner, you know, just out in the open.

[Walt Flanagan]

Right.

[Brian Quinn]

I didn't notice. I had to be told about it. As the. Towards the end of the meal, they were like, what'd you think of that? And I was just like, what? I think of what? That there was no stall? That you just go to the bathroom, you do number two in front of everybody? And I was like, no, you had your mind. And I went in, I looked, and lo and behold, yeah, this fucking place had a toilet where you do the most personal thing you could do on the planet, where you clean up the most per. Like, you don't want anybody to ever see the way you do that.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like, the way you watch me wipe. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Nobody wants eye contact right out in the open.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was the only toilet in the

[Bryan Johnson]

room in the restaurant.

[Brian Quinn]

It was the only toilet, only men's room in the restaurant. And there was a female. There was a. A women's room. Female room. There's a women's room right next to it. And so I walked in and to get confirmation that the buzz amongst the table was accurate, that there was no stall in the bathroom.

[Walt Flanagan]

Maybe they ripped out the old stall this week and they're putting in the new one next week.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm like, I can't. No, I wasn't. The way. You're just like, maybe I was more, like bamboozled. I was like. I demanded an answer because I'm like, how the fuck can the board of health think.

[Walt Flanagan]

You asked the manager?

[Brian Quinn]

I went to next closest thing to the manager, right.

[Bryan Johnson]

And it was tossed around for a while before we finally found out what the deal was.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, because I felt the same way. Like, when I went in to wash my hands, it was a guy taking a piss in there, and his girlfriend was waiting for him outside. And, like, when I opened the door, she's like, there's just a toilet in there. And I was like, yeah, it's weird, isn't it? She was, yeah, it is weird. So I got back to the table, you know, Walt went and he checked it Out. And then he asked the guy, the waiter, he's like, you know, what is the deal? Like, why in a place like this is there just a toilet sitting out there in the open? And the guy, the way he looked

[Brian Quinn]

at me was, if I asked him,

[Bryan Johnson]

like, would you like to see me use the toilet?

[Brian Quinn]

He looked at me with the most perplexed, stupefied look you could ever have on your face. Like, bamboozled, to say the least. And he's like, what? And I was like, bro, have you ever been in the bathroom? I said, let's go in right now, hold my hand verbatim and explain to me why the hell you guys don't have walls around a door, around this. He goes, and he just shakes his head. He goes, I'm not allowed in them in the, in the, in the men's room here. But that's not possible. That they don't have a staller on it. It's not possible. And I go, let's go. And he goes. And then he says something to the long story short, he goes, that's a one person bathroom. When you go in the bathroom, you lock the door behind you. He goes, there's one urinal, there's one toilet. He goes, you don't. It's not for three people at a time.

[Walt Flanagan]

He goes, okay.

[Brian Quinn]

So the most simple answer escaped everybody at the table, right? That was a one person bathroom.

[Bryan Johnson]

I failed to notice the lockdown.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, so it was that small of a bathroom. It was urinal, toilet.

[Brian Quinn]

No, it was just so fancy a restaurant. The bathroom was too big. And in your head, you couldn't accept that this would be a bathroom for one person.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Like, coming from this, such meager origin as I come from, I can't imagine having ever using a bathroom.

[Walt Flanagan]

So in retrospect, was the person that was in there when you walked in alarmed that people were walking in?

[Brian Quinn]

No one seemed alarmed. But I will say this on retrospect, when I thought back to it, there was three guys hanging out in front of the bathroom. And I walked right past them and they looked at me weird. And I have to. Now that I realized that I was cutting the line

[Bryan Johnson]

for all of us.

[Walt Flanagan]

Come on, boys.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, he told me, it was like, it was almost. I was almost ashamed of myself for not figuring that out. Coming on the heels of many other things are. I'm like, man, I wonder if I'm losing my edge. Like, soft in the head, though. Yeah, yeah. Like I'm having to ask my daughter to do things and what just on My phone, things that I can't fucking get. Right. And I'm like, can you do this? And she does it in two seconds. And so I'm like, yeah. Am I getting to that point where

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm like, I think you are.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Where the VCR has like everything's a vcr. Like the way my parents treated a vcr.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Now I'm treating everything like a vcr.

[Sunday Jeff]

It's my VCR box.

[Walt Flanagan]

You're not keeping up because it's moving. You're good with what you have and everything's moving so fast.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. And then I'm also not taking the time. I'm just kind of like barging in and bumbling into something. And I'm automatically assuming that my POV is the. Is the correct pov, not that. This must be a bathroom that has no stall.

[Bryan Johnson]

I can only see it one way. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It's outrageous there that I thought it was, but then again, yeah, a lot of the table did too. They didn't realize.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know. I walked around today before I came here with my hollering for where the fuck are my keys? Where are my goddamn keys? They're in my pocket. They were in my pocket the whole time. For 10 minutes. I'm roaming around. Well, watch was I wearing yesterday?

[Walt Flanagan]

God damn it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yes. Oh, my God. The word God damn it is it. So many times in my house.

[Sunday Jeff]

I did that the other night. I had one flashlight in my neck and one flashlight in my pocket. And I'm going around looking for my other flashlight and I went upstairs, downstairs, upstairs, downstairs.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, yeah. It's just gonna. It's happening.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's happening, man.

[Brian Quinn]

It's happening, my friend.

[Walt Flanagan]

Embrace it.

[Brian Quinn]

My favorite moment of the evening, though, happened very, very early on. We had just gotten out of the car, me, Sunday and Frank, and we got into. We were getting into the elevator to go down to the casino and from the parking garage and there was this group of 4 or 520 something ladies dressed to the nines.

[Bryan Johnson]

Can you help me with my phone?

[Brian Quinn]

You know, very dressed up and you smell the perfume, you know, they were, they were out for a gals night out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Hot Saturday night in ac.

[Brian Quinn]

And we get in the elevator and Sunday goes, you guys getting in? And they were, they're like, no, no, no, we'll wait. And the door closed. And I, I, I want, I wish everybody can live in Sunday. Jeff's head and the way he, the way he just perceives things is. It's childlike, it's. It's absolutely Healthy. It's the most healthy way, like POV on things that you can imagine. He turned to us and giggled. I was like, they don't want to get in a fucking elevator with a bunch of hoodlums. Like, with no sense of irony. He Absolutely 100% meant it.

[Bryan Johnson]

If only.

[Walt Flanagan]

Returning an action figure TO Suncoast video 30 years ago makes you a hoodlum. That's so funny.

[Sunday Jeff]

An llb.

[Bryan Johnson]

Please pull over.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh my God. A reader's on his head.

[Sunday Jeff]

His Batman ring.

[Brian Quinn]

Your reaction is how I was. I was just like. I was like. I think it might be the fact they just don't want to get any old people smell on them.

[Bryan Johnson]

The stank of old,

[Walt Flanagan]

the jokes on them because like they had the chance to get in the elevator with an actual living legend and they didn't. They judged a book by its cover. Holy favorite.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, my favorite, my favorite moment of the whole night was him.

[Walt Flanagan]

Fun loving criminals.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Quinn]

And he meant it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he meant it.

[Brian Quinn]

He meant it. He was just like, hey, they don't want to get out of Ellery with a bunch of hoodlums.

[Bryan Johnson]

Now did you correct him? I would, I would think so.

[Brian Quinn]

I was like, dude, bro, let's hit

[Walt Flanagan]

the stop button on the elevator.

[Bryan Johnson]

Hold on a second. What did you just say?

[Sunday Jeff]

Is there an emergency? No, no. I gotta explain something to Chip.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh my God. Those are the cleanest, newest, New Balance sneakers I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Bryan Johnson]

Cranks and khakis with a black polo and black sneakers to match.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean, look, Jimmy, Jimmy the hair guy, maybe you can make the argument. And he's, you know, he's wearing a Slim Shady T shirt and a Juggalo shorts.

[Brian Quinn]

I told Jeff that their, their comment back to him was like, no, no, no, that's okay. That, that if they. In the definition, like what, what they really meant to say, if you were to decipher that in 20 something year old speak was.

[Walt Flanagan]

Ew.

[Bryan Johnson]

No. Oh, man, you're too rough and tough for us gals.

[Walt Flanagan]

You know how like every once in a while you get like a four color demon member who gets like a title? Like that's. He should be the hoodlum, the official. Yeah. He's just been promoted.

[Sunday Jeff]

You know, my brother's in a band.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And the whole way up too. He's telling me about his system.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. And for gambling.

[Brian Quinn]

For gambling. And I was like, okay, I'm going. I'm going to sit by your side. I'm gonna learn this system. I said, I go. So, okay, what do you. What do you say?

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm done.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm done. I like when he finally tapped out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And said he was done gambling, I was like, okay, so the system. So let me see if I get this straight. The system is lose $80 within five minutes and then call it a night?

[Walt Flanagan]

No, you're not fucking Mr. Picknuts. I haven't seen you pet anybody yet.

[Brian Quinn]

Go ahead, show me how it's done.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, that's great. These casinos are built on guys with systems, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

Exactly.

[Brian Quinn]

I called it the. Well, I don't want to use his last name, but you know his last name. It begins with an S. It's like the blank,

[Sunday Jeff]

the Sunday system.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I walked by and Anthony was, he was, he was like, he got three blackjacks in a row. And I was like, this guy knows what he's doing. He has a system that I walked away and he was like, those are the only three hands I won otherwise. And who was playing? Somebody's trying to play. Was it Tom trying to play craps with Ruff?

[Brian Quinn]

No, that was Rupp trying to teach me how to play craps. And yeah, it was a little bit beyond me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

He also. I was like, okay, so let me see if I get these rules straight. You blow $100 within seven minutes and walk away muttering and cursing. And I go, okay, got it.

[Bryan Johnson]

And if I'm not mistaken, you said while other tables nearby are hooting and

[Brian Quinn]

hollering, other tables are fucking going nuts. There's high fives, there's fucking backflips.

[Walt Flanagan]

What a crew. This picture is amazing. To think that a Bunch of Hot 20 Year Old Girls would look at

[Bryan Johnson]

this crew and not jump in the elevator.

[Brian Quinn]

If this crew is fire, they would squid on us.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean, look at. Zoom in on Frank's face. Like, could you imagine? Like a girl looks up and somebody's looking at him across the room like,

[Sunday Jeff]

we understand why Mary's with him.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, it's so great.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, a lot of money was lost that weekend.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Did anyone win?

[Brian Quinn]

Frank won.

[Bryan Johnson]

Frank won some.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, you guys went.

[Bryan Johnson]

The one night I didn't even stay.

[Brian Quinn]

Chuck stayed over, Jimmy stayed over and Rupp stayed over.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay, everybody else, strip club action or

[Bryan Johnson]

is this straight up no strippers allowed?

[Walt Flanagan]

Allowed. Who's making that rule?

[Bryan Johnson]

Who do you think? Who's going to tell Jimmy, no strippers allowed and he's going to listen? Aside from Walt.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm surprised that she wouldn't.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, there's a backstory to it.

[Walt Flanagan]

There always is with Jimmy There always is.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think Jimmy was caught looking at a little bit too much.

[Walt Flanagan]

So nobody can have fun because Jimmy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, we could have had fun. We just couldn't bring Jimmy with us. But from what I understand.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, in lieu of the strippers. I mean, come on, something. Jeff's there. That's his one bachelor party that he's gonna attend in his lifetime, and he chose that one. I mean, he's better than Tata's,

[Walt Flanagan]

but why does he gotta. Sonic. You have. When we go to a strip club, I guess.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't know if he wouldn't have. But it wouldn't have mattered, though, because Jimmy had the decree.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, you're right. Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

But from what I heard.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Was that Michelle was surprised with a stripper at her bachelorette party.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, well, well.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know if Jimmy knows that. Maybe this is the first time he's hearing it, but.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, also, she knows how to act. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think she probably acted reserved, respectable, and.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Wow.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wasn't going nuts. And look how happy Jimmy is in this picture, too. Like, he wouldn't be any happier at a strip club.

[Brian Quinn]

No. No. And if we did, Tom would have to get an emergency second vasectomy if he was going to go to a strip club.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Ruin his pants. Yeah, for sure. Whoa.

[Walt Flanagan]

What is this?

[Bryan Johnson]

I think that's her stripper.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, so that's a gag stripper.

[Bryan Johnson]

I think they went to, like, it's some kind of, like, almost like a Jim Rose circus type thing where there were like. Yeah. Like, guys like this and.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

The fire guy.

[Brian Quinn]

So that's not really variety.

[Bryan Johnson]

But I don't know if that was the stripper. I don't know if that was the guy. I can't say for sure.

[Brian Quinn]

That was a. Where was that? In Key West?

[Bryan Johnson]

No, I don't. I know. This was in Philadelphia. Philly.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. You see guys like that just walking down the street in Key West?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

In thongs.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, sometimes.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sometimes.

[Bryan Johnson]

I mean, especially around fantasy. You're definitely gonna see that. It's one of my most vivid memories of Key west is me and Q walking down the street, the two dragons, these two gay guys in these with dragon wings.

[Walt Flanagan]

I have a photo of it somewhere.

[Bryan Johnson]

Do you?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, Somewhere I have it and green

[Bryan Johnson]

thongs tearing down the street because they were late to something.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know exactly where it was. Right near the Green Parrot.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah, I know.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know. Every time I pass that street corner, I'm like, there were the dragons. There'd be dragons there.

[Bryan Johnson]

Dragons. Yeah. And they Were running down the street. They were late for something. And me and Q looked at each other like, what the fuck?

[Walt Flanagan]

But cheeks are wiggling.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Yeah. That was probably. That was our first.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean, we just got into town. Yeah. It was like an early impression of Q, Right?

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, no. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

If I could put you, though, in a week.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Week in that kind of mindset that Sunday has. Would you want to go there or would you, like. No, no, like. Or would you be too dangerous? Because, like, I would love to live in a world where, like, he's that delusional. I don't know. Delusional, Positive.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, looking on the sunny side. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, I'll take every very sunny side.

[Brian Quinn]

I'm gonna extract every bit of cynicism out of your soul. Could you. Would you want to live like that? I would.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know. I mean, only for a week.

[Bryan Johnson]

It would be good.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. That's a party. Would be fun. You know what I mean? To go through life that way. I don't know.

[Sunday Jeff]

But you'd also be convinced to make questionable returns and forget his habit of collecting.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I don't think so. Because you still got to be part of a society, you know what I mean? You can't be walking around thinking that constantly.

[Bryan Johnson]

Now, are you in this picture, Walt? Are you hunching down a little bit to hide your face? Because there's no way you're not taller than Jimmy and his whole head is obscuring half your face there.

[Brian Quinn]

Probably. I'm not, you know, I'm just as tall as Chuck, Just as tall as Tom, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I guess so. Well, you do have a habit of closing your eyes or hiding your face or wearing a barren mask in pictures.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

What a crew. What a crew, this.

[Bryan Johnson]

It was fun.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was a good time. It really looks like a lot of fun.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah. Sad I missed it.

[Brian Quinn]

I heard WrestleMania did not live up to the hype. A lot of. A lot of dissing online. I saw people very disappointed in the lackluster WrestleMania they called it Saturday night Didn't.

[Walt Flanagan]

Didn't reach the highs I wanted it to. Sunday did. Yeah, Sunday did. So it's just. Just how you want to do.

[Brian Quinn]

You were. You were.

[Walt Flanagan]

I wasn't.

[Brian Quinn]

I.

[Walt Flanagan]

Look, I was annoyed with everybody else at. The amount of commercials was insane. The matches were, like, on average, like, 10 minutes or less long. It was. There was a little bit of, like, you guys messed with the. The formula too much. But there were some great matches, and Roman Reigns won the title, so all's Right in my world. Bloodlines back. Brock Lesnar retires Brock Lesnar retired and emotional. My friend Paige came back. I didn't. I didn't see that. I haven't talked to him many years, but, like, it was good. It was some surprises. No, I was. Overall, look, man, I had a great day, man. You know, sitting there, like, having a blast.

[Sunday Jeff]

Cena, pass the torch to Danhausen.

[Walt Flanagan]

Danhausen's killing, man. He might be too big for us now. Oh, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

He's all of a sudden, now that the office is shaping up.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was his manager for a bit. He'll get in here. But he's killing, man. It's like, wild how everybody, like. And he was in aw for so long, and they just didn't do anything with the guy. It's so good to see him go to WWE and just be a fucking runaway head. Right away.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. I saw a brief clip of him talking to some young girl. I guess it was like she was super excited about me.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, they. They took seats from up top and brought him down.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, did they?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. But everybody. Everybody in the backstage is taking, like. Everybody knows how hot he is right now. So, like, he's stone cold Steve that Austin's taking, asking for photos with him and stuff like that. Yeah. So good for him. Real happy for him because he's also, like, a great guy. Yeah, I like that. I disagree. I know what people are complaining about, and I have a lot of the same complaints. But, you know, WrestleMania is also like. It's a feeling, you know, you gotta. You gotta bring yourself to the. To the party. You gotta. You gotta have fun with it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

So.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, I mean, I like, this is your super bowl, right?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

For people who love wrestling, this is their Super Bowl.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

And I feel like, you know, this past year, super bowl was. Was toilet. It wasn't a good game. It was boring. It didn't feel like a Super Bowl. It happens.

[Walt Flanagan]

Any. Any.

[Brian Quinn]

There's always next year.

[Walt Flanagan]

Any WrestleMania where Roman reigns gets the title back for me, is a massive success because it should be nowhere else but around his waist.

[Bryan Johnson]

More wrestling stuff. CM Punk, did you hear about this?

[Walt Flanagan]

I got an altercation with a fan.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Somebody who was taking a picture of his wife or recording his wife.

[Walt Flanagan]

I get it. You know, I get it. Like, you're like, you know, it's after a show. You're just trying to go, I don't know why they fucking didn't have security. I don't know why. I mean, I know for a fact every hotel has back Alleys and stuff that, you know, that the staff goes through. I don't know why they didn't take him through that. But it is hard, you know, Like I. Like at the end of a show, you tired, you're exhaust. You just lost a fucking title. He's the one that lost it to Roman Reigns. You just had the shit kicked out of him. Your wife just lost the title. Like. And like, they just won't leave you the fuck. Like, let these guys just go to their fucking room. Like people forget that they're like humans. Like, just let them go to their fucking room. And they didn't. And they annoyed him.

[Bryan Johnson]

He wants an apology.

[Walt Flanagan]

For what?

[Bryan Johnson]

I guess he smacked his phone out of it. Yeah, he smacked his fan cell phone away. In an altercation in the lobby of the MGM grand following his loss to Roman Reigns in the main event.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I shouldn't do that.

[Bryan Johnson]

Footage showed a fan approaching women's professional wrestler Bailey and speaking with her while she embraced CM Punk's wife, AJ Lee. So I guess like this Bailey person was trying to talk to the.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, she's a wrestler. She's a pro wrestler. She's great too. Yeah. I'm looking at it now and he really is not. He's going after the guy like, dude, like after you made your point.

[Bryan Johnson]

So show it again. Oh, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Like he's like that. I understand this. I don't.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, going back.

[Walt Flanagan]

Going back at him.

[Bryan Johnson]

Maybe the guy said something. Who knows?

[Walt Flanagan]

But who cares, right? He just walk away. I get it. But. But I don't know that CM Punk, he's known for this. And let's not forget, like, he's a professional wrestler. You know, these guys are rough and tumble life.

[Bryan Johnson]

They are.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yes.

[Bryan Johnson]

CM Punk. I remember hoodlums.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, Actual hoodlums. Not anymore. I mean, back in the day. Yeah. Now I don't even think. I think there is like cushioned as everybody else these days now. Job's hard, though.

[Bryan Johnson]

CM Punk was one of the first guys to go on Twitter and on Comic Book Men.

[Walt Flanagan]

Really?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah. Never forget it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, he's the one that lost the title to Roman Reigns. What did he say?

[Bryan Johnson]

Comic book? Yeah, I can't remember the exact. It was just that it sucked or it wasn't any good or whatever.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, you know, there's a lot of CM Punk fans, but there's also people who are not a lot of CM Punk fans.

[Bryan Johnson]

There were people who were happy he lost the. The match.

[Walt Flanagan]

I mean, you're looking at one of them.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I like Roman Reigns.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at that. Before turning it off. Embarrassing.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wow.

[Walt Flanagan]

But what made. He didn't allow.

[Bryan Johnson]

There you go.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow.

[Bryan Johnson]

Get him. You are good. Embarrassing. So five minutes of the first episode and it was so embarrassing that he turned it off.

[Walt Flanagan]

Fucking like, you know, that's that thing of just like. All right, so you're going on. You shitting on everybody's work. Good for you.

[Bryan Johnson]

I know it's not as real as wrestling CM Punk.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right, calm down. Let's not get into this.

[Brian Quinn]

He got a gig as a writer at Marvel.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he wrote. He wrote the thing, right. With Cullen Bunn.

[Brian Quinn]

I don't remember what it was, but I know that he. He's a legit comic book fan.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he is a legit comic book.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yes. That's right there. He wrote the Thor annual number one in 2015. And a story for Strange sports stories.

[Walt Flanagan]

His co writer was Colin. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So in other words, the writer was Colin.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah. So I've been reading his book. Who Collins. The.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, good Bones. The Bones, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

I'm like 10 chapters in.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. It's a good book. He did a good job.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Wow. Disdain for the show.

[Bryan Johnson]

Disdain.

[Walt Flanagan]

Disdain. He's not known for making friends.

[Bryan Johnson]

Seem like now he's the heel guy.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, I mean, like in. In business and behind the scenes. Like, fired from this company. He gets fired.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

But entertaining. I mean, like, I'm not. I'm not upset when he's on Mike. He's. He's good. He's good. I just like Roman Reigns.

[Bryan Johnson]

There you go. All right, well, we're 30 snoons minutes in, so I'm going to read a couple spots here.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

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[Sunday Jeff]

Oh, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Sunday Jeff]

I'll tell you, when going through tsa, I was glad that I got the Ridgewild that I have.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

Because it made it so much easier to just, you know, slap it down

[Walt Flanagan]

and yeah, let it go.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah, yeah. Easy to pull my ID out and stuff.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yep. You just push that little notch. There's your ID.

[Sunday Jeff]

Things slide right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Beautiful.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's beautiful.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Walt Flanagan]

Why?

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know. They said they weren't sure why, but it was probably.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's all that access to porn growing up, I think or why is your brain sensitizes you. Yeah, I think it you up Jades you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Huh?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

It doesn't allow you to get, I think rouse.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think if you start watching that like as early as they can start watching it now that it rewires your brain to only get aroused at like extreme stuff. So then when you're just going through them, you know, actual what used to be good enough for us.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

It doesn't hit the. It doesn't click the same switch in your head.

[Bryan Johnson]

Used to be like, so like three's

[Brian Quinn]

company wouldn't give a.

[Bryan Johnson]

Like just wouldn't give you a twitch.

[Brian Quinn]

Wouldn't arouse, you know, like, you know me.

[Walt Flanagan]

It would because I grew up.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Back in the day when you saw Suzanne Summers just in those shorts. But now you need to see like.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, you need to see some guy like slapping across the face or whatever

[Bryan Johnson]

with her jean shorts. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't think it's a good thing. I feel bad for you.

[Brian Quinn]

Really. You think it should be banned?

[Walt Flanagan]

I think there would be nothing bad that happened if it was.

[Bryan Johnson]

If young people eradicated at least throttled.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, age restricted, I think adults who can handle though, right? Yeah, we're fucked. I think society's fucked as it is, right? No, I agree.

[Bryan Johnson]

Sunday Jeff coming out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Does anything seem like it's working? Well, since the Internet came to a lot.

[Brian Quinn]

That's why Sunday's like this. Like I said, if I could give everybody in the world just a week living this SJ lifestyle and mindset, I think this country's back, baby.

[Walt Flanagan]

Can't argue with me.

[Bryan Johnson]

We gotta be wrong.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, we gotta do something.

[Sunday Jeff]

I think Sunday tapped out of the Internet when the Simpsons game went. When got shut down, he was completely done with being online.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Brian Quinn]

It. I don't know. I mean, I don't want to poke holes in the blue chew argument, but would one.

[Bryan Johnson]

Wait a second, wait a second. Okay, go ahead.

[Brian Quinn]

Would wives can they with any sincerity, like, this is my trophy husband. But you have to juice to do it though. Like wouldn't. Wouldn't the. Wouldn't the trophy be the guy who doesn't need the juice?

[Bryan Johnson]

Doesn't need the blue chip?

[Walt Flanagan]

20 years younger comes out.

[Brian Quinn]

That's a trophy.

[Walt Flanagan]

That's a trophy.

[Bryan Johnson]

Unless you're talking like third place trophy or like participation trophy.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I think everybody in this room is aged out of trophy husband abilities.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know that I was ever there.

[Walt Flanagan]

I agree.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. Okay, we got one more prize picks and that's it. The regular season is wrapped and NBA playoffs are finally here. Do you watch the NBA wall?

[Brian Quinn]

I don't watch the NBA. I have been watching a little bit of the Stanley cup playoffs. My Devils aren't in it so I don't have any rooting interest. And I find myself like not being able to stay engaged watching two teams I don't care about.

[Sunday Jeff]

What was it the other night? There was five people each in the penalty box.

[Brian Quinn]

I didn't watch it.

[Bryan Johnson]

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[Brian Quinn]

It was funny at the bachelor party, this reminded me of that. You can bet on live sports while you're in Atlantic City. And Rupp got there and he asked me because I could see the tv, he goes, what's the score of the Flyers Penguins game? And I said, the Flyers are up. He goes, what period? I go first period still. He goes, I'm going to go bet on the Penguins to come back. And I was like, I don't know if he went and did it. And then later on in the evening I asked him, did you go bet on the Penguins to win? Come back and win. He goes, no, I forgot. I was like, good thing you did. They didn't.

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, they didn't come back and win.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, he had a rough night. Yeah, he didn't seem to have any luck. Yeah, a bit of a losing streak. Thank God he didn't bet on the Penguins though.

[Bryan Johnson]

People were avoiding him like he was a cooler.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that happens. I've been that guy.

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[Walt Flanagan]

Nice.

[Bryan Johnson]

For spots.

[Walt Flanagan]

I have two quick plugs I'd like to give out. Joe Derosa started an online show called Vile and Horrendous. And it's just him basically sitting in, like, a chair just talking to the camera for an hour and complaining and drinking. And it's like the closest you can get to hanging out with a drunk Joe derosa without hanging out. Yeah, it's fun.

[Bryan Johnson]

And he lives in Austin now, so it's more difficult to hang out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. So I sat there. I actually listened to it the other day.

[Brian Quinn]

He moved to Texas.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's in Texas now. Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

What made him go there?

[Walt Flanagan]

Like, the comedy. I think the comedy scene down there is just where it's at.

[Bryan Johnson]

If Joe Rogan's

[Walt Flanagan]

yeah, like, apparently, like a comedy scene down in Austin has gone on, which is weird because Duro's is not really, like, part of that scene, but I think a lot of his friends are. So I don't know.

[Brian Quinn]

So it's. It's a more happening scene in New York right now.

[Walt Flanagan]

I believe so. But you have to remember, I don't know. I'm not on the scene. You know what I mean? So I don't really know. But, yeah, I think it is. I think, like, the big names went down there for the tax purposes and also during all the cancel cultural shit, they were like, I'm going where people don't care did it yout know, and they became millionaires because of it. But yeah, so he so I think it's kind of down there. And also it's also, like, kind of convenient to a traveling comedian going everywhere, like, because you're kind of in the

[Bryan Johnson]

middle of of the country.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I don't really know. But so that. That volume.

[Brian Quinn]

So he's there 24, 7, 12 months out of the year. He lives in Texas.

[Walt Flanagan]

He does. He didn't want to. He had a place in. Well, he didn't want to, but something happened. He had to sell his place.

[Brian Quinn]

He said the sub place has gone to.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, that's still open.

[Brian Quinn]

Sandwich place.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, that's open, but. And then. All right, so Valhura. And this is fun. It's just. Listen, listen. It's great. And then. What the fuck was that? Oh, and I'm. I'm gonna be in the Netflix as a joke festival on Doug Benson show next week.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

I think it's Thursday. But he asked me. We went so well in Key West. He was like, you want to come do it again? So it's a rematch between me and derosa.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, nice.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. At the Netflix. It's a joke festival in Los Angeles. Next. Next week, the week after first week of May. I don't know. Doug Benson, Netflix.

[Bryan Johnson]

Look it up.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, so those two things I just wanted to put out there.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I never get to promote shows.

[Bryan Johnson]

There you go. Yeah, I got the two in one show.

[Walt Flanagan]

There we go. This is great.

[Bryan Johnson]

I had questions.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well.

[Bryan Johnson]

But I'm not sure if you're up for answer. I mean, you seem a little bit.

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Bryan Johnson]

Today.

[Brian Quinn]

No.

[Walt Flanagan]

May 7, 7pm Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Thank you. Get him.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah. I didn't see you go IQ when he looked at his phone. No, when you were. When. You know.

[Bryan Johnson]

Because he wasn't staring at it for, like, two minutes straight.

[Brian Quinn]

I didn't realize you had me on the clock.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, a little bit. I got a. I got a timer right in front of me.

[Brian Quinn]

True.

[Bryan Johnson]

I can count on. I can count on the clock. I would. I was going to wonder, like, if Jimmy came to you because his. His, his, his. Michelle was a runaway bride.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yes.

[Bryan Johnson]

How do you console him?

[Walt Flanagan]

First of all, good for Michelle.

[Bryan Johnson]

She finally came to her senses,

[Walt Flanagan]

I'd still send her a wedding gift, help her in a new life.

[Brian Quinn]

I mean, better to know now than to find out a year from now or whenever it may be when it's too late, and then you have to get a messy divorce and everything. I would try to put the spin on it that it was a positive that this happened before the wedding.

[Bryan Johnson]

Big Walt, I love her. I'm never gonna love anyone else.

[Brian Quinn]

We both know that's not true. You love somebody else.

[Bryan Johnson]

I love my WC Fields dartboard. Yeah, that's a good point.

[Walt Flanagan]

He'd get over it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Better to know now than to in a year.

[Brian Quinn]

Why do you ask?

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't know. I. I saw something about a runaway bride. I just made me think of Jimmy and Michelle.

[Walt Flanagan]

I was talking to a guy that works on jokers, you know, Great guy, young guy, 29. And I said, hey, how's it going with that girl? Because last time I'd seen him, he moved in with a girl, and they were getting married or get engaged, and he was like, ah, no, we broke up. I go, oh, well, who did it? He goes, no, I did it. I go, didn't she live with you? And he goes. He goes, yeah. He goes, and then we broke up, and she lived with me for three weeks and before she moved out. And I was like, how great was it that first day in the house when she was gone? And he was, this is the best feeling I've ever had in my life. And it made me think of all the feelings I'll never have again in my life. You know what I mean? Because, like, that's not gonna happen to me with some girls gonna move in. And I'm like, I don't want him to be here, like. And I was like, oh, what a great feeling to be like, my house is mine again. She's gone free. He goes. He goes, I shit with the door open all the time now. I was like, oh, what a great feeling.

[Bryan Johnson]

If you were living alone, would you. Would you do that still, Walt, or would you just by force of habit, close the door? Because I always close the door regardless of who's home or not.

[Walt Flanagan]

I would do it with the door open.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I wouldn't even think twice about it. Cats could come in. They can look at me. They can walk out.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, that's a good point. When I'm home all alone, and I know I'm home all alone because everybody's at work and I'm not, I will leave the door open because Teddy is more comfortable seeing me.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Even if I'm doing that, he's happy.

[Sunday Jeff]

Does he, like, lock eyes with you?

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, no, no. But. But he's more comfortable if the door is open in any situation.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

You know? Do you remember Leona Helmsley? Of course.

[Walt Flanagan]

Of course. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Do you remember the dog or dogs that she left all her money to?

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. I approved. It was actually the first thing ever that she did that I liked about it.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't think Walt's kids are getting any money. I think everything's going to Teddy.

[Walt Flanagan]

Well, it's actually in my will that. That my cats. There's someone. Are taken care of, and then as long as they. There's a fund for the cats, and as long as they die of natural causes, the person that I've assigned this to gets to keep the rest of the money after the cats go.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay. So they have a best interest, but right.

[Walt Flanagan]

If they die of anything remotely shady, all of it goes to goes to some animal charity. So that. So I've set it up.

[Bryan Johnson]

So this tainted cat food he ate,

[Walt Flanagan]

but got to be the most natural. Of course. A six figure fund I set up.

[Bryan Johnson]

Man, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot for a cat. Now, will there be an autopsy just in case?

[Walt Flanagan]

I have very, very powerful attorneys that will be. I mean, the person that I've chosen law is. I don't think would do anything like

[Bryan Johnson]

that but send your cat to an early grave.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but I did. I did put it in there in case something happens to me. But I just want to go back for a second because when I was driving out here, I was thinking about it. I was like. Like when you're a kid and like you're thinking about growing older and you're just thinking about your life, like, it's such a unique feeling that I don't know if many, because I've had girls that have lived with me that have left, that I've gotten out, and I've had that first night, first week in the house of my own place by myself. And it's a fucking glorious feeling. And it's not something that they teach in school, you know?

[Bryan Johnson]

Let me tell you, Years ago, I moved into the shittiest shit box in all of Port Monmouth. Yeah, it still felt awesome because it was at the time that the separation happened and I was in my own place, away from her. Didn't have to worry about her.

[Walt Flanagan]

Such a great feeling.

[Bryan Johnson]

It felt awesome.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's the best. And it's like, I think if people knew that or told that that feeling exists, a lot of people would break up more. You know what I mean? I think they would. Because it is when you shed someone that you don't want living with you. You know what I mean? You're out of relationship. It's like, fuck, my life's mine again. Like I'm the captain of my own destiny. What you do with. At that point, who knows? But, but, but, man, I was really jealous of that feeling. I was like, what a great feeling. I'll never feel. Very funny.

[Bryan Johnson]

Let's see here. What else do I got? What else do I got? Oh, this is. This was for Walt. And this is a tough decision for you. Okay, all right. You're in a minor tiff with. With your wife.

[Brian Quinn]

Minor?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, just minor.

[Brian Quinn]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Remember that feeling I just described?

[Bryan Johnson]

But as you're walking out the door, she gives you, like, a little bit of a parting shot, and your response is when you could do try shutting the up. And then you walk out the door. That's one choice.

[Brian Quinn]

All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

Your other choice is at Oliver's birthday party, you have to wear a shirt with a cartoon donkey on it with a poof of, like, air coming out of his ass. And it says like, hoof. Like hoof. And then farted.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Defend it as your favorite graphic tee and refuse to take it off during the birthday party, which is easier to get past the fan.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, who's requesting I wear this shirt?

[Bryan Johnson]

Well, somebody. You know, somebody.

[Brian Quinn]

My daughter would not want that.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, your daughter doesn't want it.

[Brian Quinn]

Nobody wants that.

[Bryan Johnson]

It's the same shadowy figure that always wants situations like this. You gotta pick one.

[Brian Quinn]

I probably would. I probably would do the verbal.

[Bryan Johnson]

The verbal, huh?

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Easier to get over or it's a

[Brian Quinn]

shorter because then everybody's in it. Because then the whole time, everybody's just so annoyed that I'm wearing the shirt they're annoyed by. Yeah, it's way more. The repercussions last way longer, though. And if, like, of causing discomfort and nobody would forget it easily and it would be much strife, probably, if I. If I was. If I refused to take it off, Nobody would be happy with me in this one scenario. Only my wife's unhappy with me, though.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's true. That's a good point.

[Brian Quinn]

So, like, everybody in the, like, you know, everybody at the party's not happy with me. That's tougher, you know, to come back from.

[Walt Flanagan]

Nobody. Nobody's like. Nobody gets. Nobody's like, really?

[Bryan Johnson]

Everybody going to that party, not one person, huh.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's worse? Bad?

[Brian Quinn]

Why would anybody. If I saw that. If I went to somebody's party and I saw the grandfather wearing that shirt, I feel like.

[Bryan Johnson]

I swear to God, I didn't even see that shirt. It just occurred to me, like, when I was in the shower the other

[Walt Flanagan]

day, I never saw hearted. I always saw it hoof arted.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

That's the first thing I could find.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Who farted?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, that's a horse.

[Walt Flanagan]

What's worse, that shirt or the no fat chick shirt?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah, no fat chick. Would be horrible. Horrible dynamic to try to have a party.

[Walt Flanagan]

And for what it wants to accomplish. There's really no better example of the form than the no fat chicks.

[Bryan Johnson]

There's no meat on that bone. Three words.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's the perfect, like, for what they're trying to accomplish.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's what you're trying to get across.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's the perfect shirt. It's the best shirt in the world. You know, whether you could.

[Bryan Johnson]

You don't even need the silhouette of the fat chick.

[Walt Flanagan]

Just no fat chicks is enough. It tells you everything you need to know about the person wearing the shirt. Oh, God.

[Bryan Johnson]

Back in times that were more accepting and not so judgmental, you and I were talking about, like, just how funny it would be to make a shirt that said that stole my fat chick.

[Walt Flanagan]

It was that. And we. We had a conversation the first time we went to QS about wearing a no fat chick shirt. But the purpose was to be a. And we didn't do it. But we were dying laughing, being like, what kind of an asshole? Where's the no fat chicks?

[Bryan Johnson]

You see, I'm. You see him crack kills A picture of Bart Simpson getting crushed by a fat woman's ass.

[Walt Flanagan]

Which. The word. The word midget is interesting because it was brought back at WrestleMania.

[Bryan Johnson]

Was it?

[Walt Flanagan]

Danhausen came out with a. With about a dozen little people dressed as him. And it was a pretty funny bit. And they were called like Danhausen's midgets. And the announcer even said, like, this is what they want to be called. Like we're calling them what they want to be called. They asked to be called midgets.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

So they were throwing the word midget around on WrestleMania the other day.

[Bryan Johnson]

Huh. That's interesting. The show did a show, lasted one season about micro wrestling. And they wanted to be called midgets.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

And it wasn't allowed by the network.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's crazy. Here they are, he's riding out on

[Bryan Johnson]

what appears to be a Zamboni.

[Sunday Jeff]

No, it's a coffin.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, it's a coffin. It's a Dragula car. All right. And all the mini dry Danhausen's are following them.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, they want to be called midgets. Which I get. Who decided the word was in it was offensive?

[Sunday Jeff]

Other people.

[Bryan Johnson]

Some fucking white person. So it's like of normal size.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Look at him go.

[Brian Quinn]

He's not your typical. I mean, he's in fantastic shape, but he's not this giant.

[Walt Flanagan]

No, he's not. He's not. The. Which is. Which is why some people don't like him. They're like, why is this guy, you know, doing it? But like, you know, he's got a. He's got a routine. He's got a bit. And he's good wrestler. He's just not like jack jacked. Like. Like all those other guys are so. So it's like, it's. You can only put him in the match with guys of his size without being like, he gets smashed.

[Brian Quinn]

But.

[Walt Flanagan]

But he's also a good wrestler.

[Brian Quinn]

So how tall is he?

[Bryan Johnson]

It's a bunch of mini Danhausen's knocking guys out of the ring.

[Brian Quinn]

Or is it just because he looks a little bit shorter? Because he's standing amongst these giants.

[Walt Flanagan]

He's, you know, the Miz is a tall guy. John Cena's tall guy.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Little balls tap there. Look at all those people. 55,000 people.

[Bryan Johnson]

55,000 people went, yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

What arena was that?

[Walt Flanagan]

That was Allegiant in Vegas.

[Brian Quinn]

Vegas.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I remember when we went to see that wrestling event in.

[Walt Flanagan]

We went to Philly or Baltimore, I

[Bryan Johnson]

think it was Philly. Was it Philly? It was nearby.

[Walt Flanagan]

One of my firehouse guys went, yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

And it was weird. Like, during the actual wrestling matches, the crowd wasn't as amped up as when they were playing stuff on the jumbotron.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

You caught a weird night.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Sometimes you get audiences like that where it just doesn't translate. Everything doesn't fire in all cylinders. I actually thought night one at WrestleMania was that. I think that was a lot of the reason. Some of the people were, like, not that into it. I thought the crowd was a little low energy the first night, which is rough.

[Bryan Johnson]

That take away from it.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Because he's distracting. You're like, why isn't the crab getting into it?

[Bryan Johnson]

And they don't sweeten it. Huh? They don't pipe in some.

[Walt Flanagan]

I'm sure they do.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

But there's only so much you do when everybody's sitting.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. Yeah. And not clapping.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

That's why the seats at MetLife are different colors. So it doesn't appear as jarring if they're.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, really?

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah. They have low attendance.

[Walt Flanagan]

All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

The other thing I wanted to ask Walt was, has anyone ever asked to take a peek in your bag? Your devil's bag? Because I noticed on Comic Book Men, when we were doing the Tales behind the Fake Counter, we went to the PEZ Factory and you have a black bag with you. A full size gym like duffel bag. And when we were in ac, you had the same thing, except it was a devil's bag. What is in there that you need to carry around with you?

[Brian Quinn]

Simple.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

I did not want to wear a buttoned up shirt all night long.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Quinn]

I also wasn't sure how cold it would be, so I had bought a buttoned up shirt and a hoodie in my bag. And I didn't want to. I didn't want to carry them around with me all day long. So I brought my bag with me, which has a strap that I could put over me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Right. Okay.

[Brian Quinn]

And just walk around not having to carry it. And it had. And plus it has like pencils and my stylus, my iPad.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh. In case you feel like busting out a picture real quick.

[Brian Quinn]

Busted. What? No, no, I just. Because I didn't feel like taking out of the bag. It just stays in the bag. But yeah, it was. No, no. Big mystery.

[Bryan Johnson]

No, no.

[Brian Quinn]

The reason I had it in Comic Book Men was because I had to bring the fucking Pez with me.

[Bryan Johnson]

Oh.

[Brian Quinn]

That was supplied by the. Supplied by the. By the crew.

[Bryan Johnson]

What is it about a button up shirt you don't like? This is a new one. I wasn't aware that you would.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you ever see me wearing button up shirts?

[Bryan Johnson]

Never. But I thought that was just like a choice of, you know, like comfort.

[Brian Quinn]

It's both. Yeah. It's comfort. And I don't. I'm much more comfortable in a hoodie or a T shirt.

[Bryan Johnson]

You don't groove on buttons?

[Brian Quinn]

No, I don't like buttons. All right.

[Bryan Johnson]

What are you, a Q? Do you have anything against button up shirts?

[Brian Quinn]

Just wearing one right now.

[Bryan Johnson]

That's a zip up.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, a zip up. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

I know. Hawaiian shirts are buttoned up. I wear them fairly often.

[Bryan Johnson]

I wasn't aware of this, although I should have paid more attention over the past 50 years.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

Or yeah, now that I think about it.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

I learned it years ago when I wanted to buy him a hoodie that he doesn't like. Like zip ups.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah. Oh, I hate zip up hoodies too. Yeah. I mean, there's so many. I do like the design of them and everything, but in practicality, yeah. I find myself not liking them.

[Walt Flanagan]

I just don't zip them up.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

You know, my wife has been asking. She For a while now. She's like, when's Walt, Can I make another zip up hoodie, do you think? Now I know. Probably never.

[Brian Quinn]

No, no, I would make them. Just because I don't like to wear it doesn't mean I wouldn't make one. Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I would tell her there's still hope in the future.

[Brian Quinn]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Going to Broadway show this weekend. Rocky Horror Picture show back on Broadway. I'm excited about that.

[Brian Quinn]

Who's in it?

[Walt Flanagan]

Juliet Lewis is in it, which is cool.

[Brian Quinn]

Dreyfus.

[Bryan Johnson]

Juliet Lewis.

[Walt Flanagan]

Juliet Lewis.

[Brian Quinn]

Julia Lewis Dreyfus. The one who was in Seinfeld.

[Bryan Johnson]

Julia Louise Dreyfus Juliet Lewis, the one

[Walt Flanagan]

from Natural Born Killers.

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

I believe. Anyway. And then.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, you're right. Cape Fear.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Yeah. There are a few people in it. Harvey Guillen, who played Guillermo on what we do in the Shadows.

[Bryan Johnson]

Okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, he's in it. He's the reason I'm going. We had him on Joke. He's a great guy. Oh, there you go. Rachel Dratch, who I know you're not the biggest fan of.

[Bryan Johnson]

At least she's the narrator.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Yeah. Kind of cool.

[Brian Quinn]

Do you like the story?

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, I love Rocky. HR I do all the.

[Brian Quinn]

Like, when it's time.

[Walt Flanagan]

I used to know them because I used to go, yeah, when I was in high school and stuff like that.

[Brian Quinn]

All the hijinks that you're supposed to participate.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

Throughout my 20s. I could do them all now. I don't know.

[Brian Quinn]

You've forgotten them, huh?

[Walt Flanagan]

I forgot.

[Brian Quinn]

It's like riding a bike, though, once you get in there, we'll see.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know that, because I saw it the last time was on Broadway in the late 90s and people in the audience weren't doing it. I think a Broadway shows. I don't know. We'll see. I'll let you know that.

[Bryan Johnson]

You have to bring that stuff with you, I imagine. Yeah, yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

They don't let you bring that shit into theaters and stuff. I think when I saw it in the 90s, they gave you stuff. They gave you, like, a kit to do it, but it wasn't like what you. What you, you know, pull off when you go to a movie theater at midnight and shit like that.

[Bryan Johnson]

I've never seen it. Never seen.

[Walt Flanagan]

Oh, it's awesome, dude.

[Bryan Johnson]

Never seen any of you see it.

[Brian Quinn]

Well, I've seen parts of it.

[Walt Flanagan]

He is. He is so good. Tim Curry. Curry, Dude, It's. It's an unbelievable performance. Like, you should watch it. There's nothing quite like it. It's kind of nuts. His performance is like. You're like, how does this guy in that movie have the balls to pull off this performance?

[Bryan Johnson]

Right.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Bryan Johnson]

I have to check it out.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, it's great.

[Bryan Johnson]

I only had one. I had one opportunity to see it years ago. We were at a con in Miami, and I was sitting there watching it, and Ming came in, like, about five, ten minutes.

[Walt Flanagan]

In fishnets.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, he's in fishnets. And Frankenweenie. And he had, like, three. Two or three strippers with him. And they all got me, of course. I was like, all right, this might. This might prove Fruitful. Not the case at all. Within 10 minutes I was like, I'm out of here. I left. They were so annoying. Yeah, they up my whole Rocky Horror experience.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

You want to take me to the play?

[Walt Flanagan]

You want. You want me to see if I can get on the ticket for this weekend?

[Bryan Johnson]

No, it's okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

Okay.

[Bryan Johnson]

Thanks though.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't know that seeing it, it's on Broadway is the first time. You should see it. Yeah. I really think you should. You should watch the movie. It's. It's Tim Curry's like you're going to be blown away.

[Bryan Johnson]

All right. Yeah, I'll watch it tonight.

[Walt Flanagan]

Watch it tonight. Let me know.

[Bryan Johnson]

You there? I'll let you know.

[Walt Flanagan]

Great soundtrack. Great soundtrack.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I know people love singing along and all that stuff. How do you feel about that? Because like a lot of times, like people in. In plays and shit, they like Wicked is especially one of those. No, I don't movies like people want to sing along, don't sing.

[Walt Flanagan]

I don't want it. Rocky Horror is a little different because it's built on that.

[Bryan Johnson]

But audience participation.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah, but I don't want to go see Hamilton. Have some fucking somebody in your no good nick singing about like Aaron Burr in my ear.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, I know that's become a problem. And like the people especially. It's like with these Wicked people especially.

[Walt Flanagan]

I've honestly never really. That's not a problem I've had in any I've ever seen. Most people know to shut the fuck up.

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah, I know in the movies it's an issue too.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. Well, didn't they start doing like versions of the movies with sing along? Yeah, that sounds good. Go to that. Fuck out of here with this. No trying to watch Wicked.

[Bryan Johnson]

My parting thing is I want to just make a almost a psa. I guess when somebody dies, it's a sad occasion. Usually. Sometimes.

[Walt Flanagan]

But usually if I've had some victories.

[Bryan Johnson]

But that doesn't mean we need to release balloons. Can we stop releasing these mass balloons into the fucking environment where they're gonna pop and some fucking seabird is gonna

[Walt Flanagan]

eat them or same thing for graduations.

[Bryan Johnson]

Any of that. Can we stop releasing balloons into the environment? It doesn't mean they're going to heaven. To your law your lost one.

[Walt Flanagan]

Yeah. What happened to you? What happened that brought this up?

[Bryan Johnson]

I saw some balloons being released. I was like, what the is with people anymore?

[Sunday Jeff]

Now you.

[Bryan Johnson]

Why do they need to do this?

[Sunday Jeff]

Are you going by the helium balloons or those paper fire balloons?

[Bryan Johnson]

I'm going by helium Balloons, okay.

[Walt Flanagan]

The ones with the lanterns is like, who cares, right?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

But it's on fire, so it could actually come down and start a fire. Yeah.

[Walt Flanagan]

It's not a good idea either way.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't do that either.

[Sunday Jeff]

Yeah.

[Bryan Johnson]

I don't release anything into the air except who farted.

[Walt Flanagan]

Who farted?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yeah.

[Brian Quinn]

You don't like that, though, huh?

[Sunday Jeff]

What?

[Brian Quinn]

You don't like the balloons released in the air?

[Sunday Jeff]

No, because, like, especially the paper lanterns with the fire. Because, you know, know, I'm versed to fire now. For some reason, your house burns down, Scarecrow over here. Your house burns down, and then, you know, you get a little.

[Brian Quinn]

People adverse to fire.

[Sunday Jeff]

I, you know, you'd be surprised. Like, you know, like, you have a house fire and you realize exactly like, what. Or what damage it does and just how. Just even just a little.

[Brian Quinn]

Has there ever been a case in an instance of one of these balloons starting a house fire?

[Sunday Jeff]

They've actually started, like, regular fires?

[Brian Quinn]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sunday Jeff]

Like forest fires. I'm not sure.

[Brian Quinn]

I can't imagine why they're illegal then.

[Sunday Jeff]

They're not, but people just release them anyway.

[Brian Quinn]

Where do they get them?

[Sunday Jeff]

Do you order them on, like, Amazon and online?

[Brian Quinn]

Really? Yeah. Where would these balloons be used safely, though?

[Sunday Jeff]

I guess apparently in China they are used safely over there. But now they're, you know, people, you know, bring them to America and set them off and, you know, they have no concept that the what goes up comes down.

[Brian Quinn]

This is worse than what's in your gym bag conversation. Say it.

[Bryan Johnson]

Say it.

[Brian Quinn]

Tom Steve Day.

[Bryan Johnson]

There you go.