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Brendon Walsh Shenanigans
At 1:07:00 · chapter starts 1:04:00
Inspired by Stanhope, Bert identifies his spiritual twin: Brendon Walsh. Tom unpacks Walsh's greatest hits — a 'Whole Foods Coming Soon' sign planted on a closing Silver Lake Circuit City to generate neighborhood excitement; a 'Silver Lake Gun Club' sign complete with bald-eagle website and a personal phone line Walsh answered himself as angry liberals called to complain [1] — Tom Segura "Brendon Walsh put up a 'Silver Lake Gun Club Coming Soon' sign in one of LA's most liberal neighborhoods, built a patriotic website, and an…" 1:07:40 . During COVID, Walsh infiltrated Zoom business meetings and paid Craigslist strangers $40 to stand up naked on camera mid-meeting, never posting the footage. These were pranks with no audience — the joke existed only in Walsh's knowledge that he had disrupted something real. Bert confesses that even in his own 'pure' comedy moments, he always asks how to monetize. Walsh and Stanhope never did. The hosts agree: they got into comedy before there was money in it, and those are the real heroes. The chapter expands to include a Brendon Walsh stage stunt involving a fake Gene Hackman death announcement.
Brendon Walsh put up a 'Silver Lake Gun Club Coming Soon' sign in one of LA's most liberal neighborhoods, built a patriotic website, and answered calls from outraged residents — just for his own private entertainment. No footage, no audience, no monetization.
