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We take a long look at a short man and delve into the big life of Shrimp Boy, San Francisco’s Chinatown Capo, and the FBI sting that took this lil guy to the Big House.

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Sneakaboard

We call it 'monk diming' in the scene

Shfifty_five

Nah son you got it backwards. Skrimps are saltwater, hence shrimping/shrimp boats on the Gulf Coast of the US (& worldwide). Prawns are big freshwater shrimp-like crustaceans that originate from Southeast Asia and Australia.

Waleed

Liz "Classico" Franczak

Josh

Hahaha there were a lot in this ep

Emioly

Kim Cattrall 4 EVA

Graham Hoese

Coming up with thoughts they never get back to? No way. Yung Chomsky is right, you guys need a courtroom stenographer who can read back the podcast minutes to you.

SH

YC absolutely feeling himself on the ones and twos on this one. Let’s go

KYZ

Guys who are hair actors besides JD?

K

Liz is right. Johnny Depp = hair actor. The massive Pirates of the Caribbean craze in the mid 2000s was a doozy!

K

Jared Leto

John Swan

He's a tattoo actor as well

Go'Thrak

The Wing Kong Exchange is more trustworthy than FTX

Mark Owen

Can You Hear Me? Music from the Deaf Club. My brother had that comp.

Some Guy

I liked Depp in Gilbert Grape, but even then yeah he kinda is the hair

NYCM&AHole

70s San Francisco was fun until Dirty Harry came and busted you

Chachi uday

Hell yeah some local shit. I hope they do an ep on the bullshit behind the chesea boudin recall.

NYCM&AHole

My 98 year old grandmother supports Chesa

sir peepus

islamic milf island is 100% a search hunter biden made

Jon W

Brace had too much fun writing this tag line

Nora Motchil

Arnold Schwarzenegger works at anchor in an ep of streets of San Francisco.

D. Elwood

lol I only know about all this because Leland Yee was gamer enemy #1 for a while

TrueAnonPod

He actually had my same job in that one

YourBabysFather

Thrifty was the store with ice cream similar to Walgreens and rite aid you were thinking of

NYCM&AHole

He wants you to buy the real weapons from his buddies instead of using the video game version

Evan Scott

i'm an east coast boy through and through and aggressively don't care about california and try to avoid learning anything about it but i love these san francisco lore episodes

Shiv

I recently found myself on Rose Pak Way, so I’m in the right mindset for this ep. Hope there’s a Toy Boat mention!

Dinosaur

YC, Brace, and Liz are in a triad together and practice ENM with small-tittie goth gf's and sometimes Felix Beiderman.

Shiv

smirking slyly for Galileo, ancestral home to innocent men

Dan Z

"he gets a normie girlfriend" oh hell noo

Jon Juan Travis Hallowell

William Burroughs shooting his wife in the head and just being like "I'm gay" was wild

Bobby Volcano

Did you guys come across Chinese Benevolent Association in this research? It's a popular thing to will your money to if you don't have/don't like your own kids. One of my uncles did that. Ears popped up when Brace threw out the word "benevolent" talking about various front groups.

Salt M. Bank

You jest but you absolutely should do that school board episode. There’s some bizarre levels of racism going on wit that every time there’s a dust up on twitter

justdave

Cmon man, kids listen to this show

Maurice Fok

Shrimp boy in Cantonese just means he’s a little fella.

Treppy

golf balls don’t bounce? come on guys….

Nora Motchil

I was more of a canning line/ craft pack gal if you catch my drift.

Evan Scott

i came of age during the 'last gasp of anything cool' years in SF so it always just kind of seemed like a tech shithole to me, but I can see the funky appeal of old san francisco in these eps

snakecase

Fantastico classico San Francisco

Bill

Always excited for some unexpected Felix content

Broton Thompson

Brace is one of the most underappreciated comedic minds of this era.

Bruno

Bro what is that song

Marcus

Throw Some D's

SoldierBlue

Salt water: prawn Fresh water: shrimp

Hugo

Welcome to m’house

Cooper Trevitt

johnny depp isn't a hair actor because he didn't have any hair in fear and loathing

O

you: nerd

Lionel Boyd Johnson

Spent a long weekend there in '86 wilin' out and ran into a young Hunter, powder all over his face, talking about "my daddy's gonna be president, I don't have to pay you hoes!" But then the mujahideen pimps came by to collect, and the only thing that saved his ass was a spicy young colonel named Gaddafi that threw a fat stack of cash on the table and stuffed Hunter's strung out ass into the back of a tricked out fully tinted stretch Land Rover. Big Joe's little dope fiend would have been chopped to bits and fed to jackals, and now look how they paid the colonel back, it's shameless.

Lionel Boyd Johnson

Real working man's jobs will pump you up, baby, one keg at a time.

00000000000000000000

As a long-time True Anon listener I must say it is beginning to irk me that you people are consistently so damned coy about what cities you all are currently living in. It's not like we the listeners want to know your social security numbers or blood types, but we do just want to know kinda sorta where you are in the country. Why does it matter? I don't know why. But it matters. It's not even a big deal to say. I have an anonymous Patreon account. But I'll say it: I live in Portland, Oregon. It informs my opinions, and it's info I don't think needs to be kept secret. (Either that or the opposite-- get even more cryptic and/or throw in false leads about where you live. That would be Ok too.)

Jordan Wright

Really liking the uptick in Liz’s use of the word classico

pq

Love that song

Ben Chisholm

128 Old Topanga Canyon Rd 90290

Nick B.

Funny hearing my Local safeway get dunked on, by Brace and Liz, I always joked it was so awful it burst his aorta

misterinterrupt

dubbaduhduhduhbbbbduhrubdubdubppbunub?duhbbbhuuhh and I am jere for the free coffee. I know you give bag of coffee to fan and I want mine niceeeeeeeeee! 💖💖💖💖🔥🔥🔥 here I build my one free simp comment per month and make best ever comments for my favorite pobcasht, someday my turd will be viewed, maybe removed! special

The Fine Art Revolution

i kinda tuned out this episode while working and listening, but I only pictured shrimp boy as Short Round from temple of doom every time they mentioned shrimp boy

malpertuis

I LOVE these deep dirty Streets of San Francisco (KOFY TV!) dives, Good stuff!

Dear Death

Gang names in LA are, like, "Toonerville," "Rascals," and Frogtown," so "Joe Boys" sounds about right to me...

Ellen

Batshit city council check out river forest IL circa 2007,8,9? Frank Paris and friends

John Swan

Male pattern baldness is a hairstyle

Doodles

Other Seedy San Francisco Shit you could do eps on: The Sunset Boyz Gang that was almost exclusively the sons of SFPD officers, Mayor Gavin’s weird brother’s bar(that definitely was legit) called “The Matrix,” and a deep dive into why The Arrow had a sculpted cave area.

NYCM&AHole

Cannibals were eating Gilbert Grape.

phil

they all live in dimes square along with every other podcaster. easy commute to pick up cia paychecks at the office in lower manhattan

Boris Apple

you’ve never bounced a golf ball, they BOUNCE

CJ

I…I actually did go by Crab Man but only when I was drinking. Seems like a lifetime ago.

Alec

Just got a fresh cut now we lookin for the freaks

Dorrian Weber

Does anyone know which Starbucks in Sac the referenced convo took place?

Cameron Young

Great episode Brace and Liz brought the energy for this one. You always show up for the hometown hits. This musical area could be called “late crunk” TI, Rich Boi, 36 mafia this style pushed fully mainstream

justdave

Every woman on earth

Stephen Wells

In the mid-1970s Northern Coastal California, my house mate from the East Bay had a friend who knew someone who was importing container loads of fireworks from China. Rockets, fire crackers, mortars, all the good stuff. Fathers and sons would come by the house and buy a lot of fireworks, then a day or two later they would return and buy more with new friends and family members in tow. It was likely a low level misdemeanor to retail fireworks in CA in 1976, but the mark up was like double or triple with very fast turn around for the whole month leading up to the 4th of July. There was an era when the unincorporated beaches from Santa Cruz North to San Francisco along Hwy 1 were packed with people from the greater Bay Area July 4th shooting off fireworks all night long. Sounds like the Chinese connection. When I was a kid the only firecrackers I'd see were from Mexico. Then suddenly there were all these high quality Chinese fireworks. Karl Malden never busted the fireworks.

J

Yung Chomsky tha big dick killa

Char Kelly

The music in this was WIIIIIIIILD 🤣🤣🤣you got me every damn time

SF

I'm not from San Francisco = not even from the States! - but these San Francisco eps are always so good

DJ B.

👆

Neil Jones

I just bought a Cadillac ! ! ! 😳😵‍💫😈

Antipaganda

Never heard it described as "Islamic MILF Island" before and that's awesome

Tinglewood

Brace is so terrible at this. Liz makes up for his bullshit 🤌

Charlie

Okay but what about rum diaries liz ?

Jeremy hatrington

Liz’s clássicos and fantásticos are overloading the embarrassment transfer center of my brain. Please stop

Vincent

Free shrimp, boy!

Jawn Feddermang

Wiz is actually short for wizz-bang. It’s a veiled Classico Fireworks reference. Yolo!!!

Derwood

This is a Chomsky tour de force. The music, the Felix cameo. Great stuff. Also, golf balls very much do bounce

Buster Malino

I really would like an NXIVM ep now that i know poso & james lindsay are both associated w them, but if that’s not happening i will look it up on wikipedia and everything will be okay regardless👍

Kerry Buchman

I spent way too much of my youth at the Mabuhay Gardens, the On Broadway and the Tool and Die. I can confirm early 80’s SF had a glorious, lawless feel. Wild in the streets! Til they hauled you in to Juvie:)

Jacob

Really missed a 'chasing the dragon's layup there with the bald barber.

J

Free Shrimp Boy tie dye please…

Isaiah C

When i was young i also was known as shrimp boy because i loved shrimp Still love shrimp btw

The Children of Jack Acid

What you guys don't understand is that the original script said "Ragu" but she decided to take it up a notch.

NigelBOpinion

One of the dumbest episodes--in a very good way.

Don Diva Quixote

You're telling me a shrimp freed this boy???

Connor Sick

I really appreciate the bald barber discourse. Liz is really onto some things

Scott

Flo Ridas video for that song was directed by an Alex Acosta 😮

Gene

Brace is my smoke break.