"That's the ultimate compliment to hear".
At the local weapons superstore, Ultimate Defense, he hears that they saw an 84% rise in profits in the four months following Brown's death.
Now his views are facing the ultimate American test: a hearing before the Supreme Court, which is considering whether to overturn Proposition 8 and perhaps declare it unconstitutional.
How could there be such a disparity between a rare but serious set of allegations by the Department of Health and the ultimate finding of a hearing committee appointed by the commissioner?
"If I lived in another town, I wouldn't have heard of Ultimate at all".
The film will once again star Danny Trejo as the former Mexican federale turned ultimate badass, alongside Amber Heard, Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana, Sofia Vergara and Damian Bichir.
The alternative would be unthinkable: "Eavesdropping on the 109 bus! [The kids] would think I was a creep!" In the ultimate compliment, he now hears his slang being used by schoolchildren.
He also promised that they would hear "the ultimate inside story" from James Davis, Mr. Stanford's former chief financial officer, who was a witness to the fraud and a subsequent cover-up aimed at thwarting a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and keeping investors from withdrawing their money.
"If Al tells me something I want to hear, I might go for him," said Mr. Reynolds, one of many bone-deep Democrats in this riverbank town who remain furious over an unkept environmental pledge that Mr. Gore, the ultimate environmental politician, was heard to make eight years ago, when the Clinton-Gore team was fresh and its campaign packed with promise.
I became unsure as to how much of their reputation for ultimate inebriation I'd heard about was warranted.
