12 Days Of TCB: A Gift For You...

Summary

The Commercial Break - Episode: "12 Days Of TCB: A Gift For You..." (Released: December 24, 2024)

Hosts: Bryan Green & Kristen Joy Hoadley
Guest: Frankie B.

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Introduction to the 12 Days of TCB

The episode kicks off with Bryan and Kristen extending warm holiday greetings to their listeners. They announce the culmination of their special "12 Days of TCB" series, which has been running since December 13th. The duo reflects on the journey, highlighting the fun and purpose the series has brought to both hosts and their audience.

Bryan Green [02:26]: "Ho ho ho. Ah, yeah. Dancers and prancers."

Holiday Traditions and Personal Anecdotes

Bryan shares humorous and somewhat chaotic Christmas Eve memories from his time working in the restaurant industry, including a notable incident where he spent Christmas Eve in jail due to overindulgence. Kristen reciprocates with her own family traditions, emphasizing the significance of Christmas Eve gift exchanges in her upbringing.

Bryan Green [03:11]: "I partied so hard one time I spent Christmas Eve in jail. Oh, Merry Christmas to Brian."

Reflecting on Family Gatherings

The hosts delve into their family gatherings, reminiscing about large Christmas dinners filled with relatives. Bryan recounts humorous incidents, such as his grandfather's "squiggly tits" television antics, which became a running family joke.

Bryan Green [07:16]: "And my grandma getting drunk. Yeah. My grandmother and my grandfather had this loft, like, you know, that overlooked the living room."

Pizza Mishaps and Holiday Feasts

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing favorite and least favorite pizza chains, intertwined with personal stories. Bryan narrates his experiences working at Little Caesars, emphasizing the challenges and quirky management styles he encountered.

Bryan Green [12:10]: "I was so terrible at making pizzas. And this guy was such. He had. He was a former military guy now selling weed and carrying guns."

Introducing Frankie B.

As the episode progresses, Bryan and Kristen shift focus to Frankie B., a recurring character from their earlier seasons. They discuss his influence, content creation, and the evolution of his online presence. The hosts express their fascination and longing for more content from Frankie B., especially after discovering his recent activities, including his new girlfriend.

Kristen Joy Hoadley [24:21]: "Yeah, portraits."

Charity Spotlight

Bryan and Kristen take a heartfelt pause to highlight four charities they support, urging listeners to donate during the holiday season. They emphasize the importance of giving back, especially during a time when charities rely heavily on donations.

Bryan Green [19:44]: "If you would please, we're going to put all four. We're going to list all four of those charities in the show notes."

Frankie B.'s Dating Traps Segment

The latter part of the episode features Frankie B.'s video on "Dating Traps," which the hosts humorously critique. They engage in playful banter, dissecting Frankie B.'s unconventional advice and storytelling style. The segment includes mock interactions and exaggerated reactions to illustrate their points.

Frankie B. [25:50]: "Welcome to the third edition of dating traps."

Bryan Green [32:40]: "Oh, a Cliffhanger. I know. He's stringing us along."

Behind-the-Scenes Fun and Team Recognition

Towards the end, Bryan acknowledges Christina's contributions as a new team member, celebrating her role and integrating her into their dynamic. The hosts share light-hearted moments, including searching for Frankie B.'s social media profiles and congratulating Christina on finding his Instagram account.

Bryan Green [48:55]: "Thank you, Christina."

Closing Remarks and Future Content Tease

In their final moments, Bryan and Kristen tease upcoming content, hinting at more episodes and interactions with Frankie B. They express gratitude to their listeners and encourage them to stay tuned for future episodes that promise to continue entertaining and engaging their audience.

Bryan Green [59:03]: "Best year. Best to you and best to you in the podcast universe. Until next time, we must say goodbye."

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Bryan Green [03:11]: "I partied so hard one time I spent Christmas Eve in jail. Oh, Merry Christmas to Brian."
• Bryan Green [07:16]: "And my grandma getting drunk. Yeah."
• Bryan Green [12:10]: "I was so terrible at making pizzas."
• Bryan Green [19:44]: "If you would please, we're going to put all four."
• Frankie B. [25:50]: "Welcome to the third edition of dating traps."
• Bryan Green [32:40]: "Oh, a Cliffhanger. I know. He's stringing us along."
• Bryan Green [48:55]: "Thank you, Christina."
• Bryan Green [59:03]: "Best year. Best to you and best to you in the podcast universe."

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Conclusion

"12 Days Of TCB: A Gift For You..." is a festive and humorous episode that encapsulates the essence of "The Commercial Break." Through personal stories, playful critiques, and heartfelt moments, Bryan and Kristen deliver an engaging holiday special that resonates with both long-time listeners and newcomers. The episode successfully blends comedy with genuine reflections, making it a memorable addition to the series.

Transcript

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[Brian Green]

Hey Chrissy, Best to you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe and Happy Holidays.

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[Brian Green]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

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[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Ho ho ho. Ah, yeah. Dancers and prancers. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the yule log to my dreidel, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Out there in the podcast universe, Chrissy's going back to the 90s and starting a rave right here.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's a snowflake.

[Brian Green]

It's a Christmas Eve rave.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It is a Christmas Eve Christmas Eve rave.

[Brian Green]

It's a Christmas Eve rave. Yay. When I worked in the restaurant industry, I loved Christmas Eve because I knew I was going to get shit faced. That's right. It was a favorite tradition of the people who work in the industry who had to work on Christmas Eve was to party very hard on Christmas Eve.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yes. I partied so hard one time I spent Christmas Eve in jail. Oh, Merry Christmas to Brian.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Was that the jail night?

[Brian Green]

It was one of the jail nights. Yeah. It was one of the jail nights. I had to beg my dad to come get me. I actually got arrested on the 23rd and then was well into the Christmas Eve when my dad decided to bail me out at like 5pm Merry Christmas here, dad. Yeah, I went straight from jail to the family function. Yeah. At which I got no presents, I bet. Ah, thanks, dad. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas Eve, everybody. I hope you're doing well. Thanks for joining us. We're on the last couple days here of the 12 Days of TCB. But fret not because I think there's six more episodes after the 12 Days of TCB. And we'll get them to you. Unbelievably, we'll get them to you. I think we have some guests lined up for that in between space that, that, that space where you're just a little bit depressed to that Christmas is over, but you're very thankful because you have a couple more days off of work.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. And on the way.

[Brian Green]

Not us. We'll continue to work for you. Congratulations to you. So I hope you're doing well on this Christmas Eve. A lot of people writing in saying how wonderful it is to have 12 days of TCB. They're so excited. Thank you for writing. Thank you for listening, quite frankly. That's really nice. I think the intended, intended effect has happened and that is that people are tuning into the 12 days of TCB. So who knows, Maybe we'll do it Next year, if we're still alive and kicking, if this year hasn't killed us, maybe we'll do it next year.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Maybe what we can do next year if we do do this, is just record an extra episode. 1. 1amonth.

[Brian Green]

1 a month. And then we'll have the 12 days of TCV. Well, there you go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's.

[Brian Green]

I think we'll be a little ahead of ourselves. We'll be in shorts recording the 12 days of TCV. Hey, listen, what do you do? What is the bigger day to you? Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Growing up, it was always Christmas Eve.

[Brian Green]

It was.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, yeah, we did a big holiday dinner with family and everybody got together and exchanged gifts on Christmas Eve.

[Brian Green]

So your Christmas Eve gift exchangers. Okay.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But Christmas Day then was for Santa.

[Brian Green]

Wow. Yeah, you guys are wild. You have two full days of Christmas giving. You know what, actually that's how it was in my family, too, is that we would go to my grandmother on my mom's side would, where I have, like, 32 cousins, many aunts and uncles that go along with those cousins that had those cousins. And then they would all get together for a huge spread. Couple hours of gift giving, laughing, joking. Christmas Eve. Yes, Christmas Eve. My uncle making slightly racist jokes. You know, stuff like that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah, the big family get together.

[Brian Green]

That's right. How is it done over there in Scotland, Christina? Is Christmas Eve the big day?

[Christina]

Well, not in my house.

[Brian Green]

No.

[Frank Bernardo]

No.

[Christina]

I mean, we have a good Christmas Eve. It's. It's like we just go over and have some sausage rolls at someone's house, and it's just a nice day. But all of our gift receiving and giving goes on on Christmas Day. And we do have a massive Christmas dinner with the three, like, expat families.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Christina]

So we have, like, two British families and a Canadian family that we do our Christmas Day with.

[Brian Green]

How many people in total come to that?

[Christina]

Yeah, like 20.

[Brian Green]

20 people. That's nice. Yeah, that's nice.

[Christina]

It's really fun.

[Brian Green]

I used to always love that get together at my grandmother's house because there were so many people there that I could kind of hide out. Right. I could kind of do my own thing. My parents weren't up in my ass. Yeah. And my grandma getting drunk. Yeah. My grandmother and my grandfather had this loft, like, you know, that overlooked the living room. But then there was, like, this little room off to the side, so you could go up the stairs, and then you could look down on the crowd in the loft, and that's where all the kids would be. At the railing, looking down on it. But then my grandpa had this TV that you would, you know, watch. You could watch stuff on. So I remember that when my grandpa eventually got cable up there, one of my older cousins had figured out that you could do the squiggly line. See a tit thing on, like, the pay per view channels. Yes. So then that became a running, you know, theme.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You all would just race upstairs to the.

[Brian Green]

Race upstairs to see the squiggly tits. Squiggly tits on Christmas Eve? Who doesn't want squiggly tits on Christmas Eve? But I remember thinking to myself the first time that that happened, that Santa wasn't going to come because I was being bad. That's right, Because I was being naughty. Little did I know I could be much, much worse and still receive gifts. But not on the time I went to jail.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Not the jail.

[Brian Green]

Yanked those presents away from me. I think he literally yanked. I think he decided your president is out of jail card. Well, I mean, listen, I'm just a boy on a mission to get french fries. Hitting somebody in the middle of the street in downtown Atlanta.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, that time.

[Brian Green]

It was that time. Yeah.

[Christina]

Was your bail?

[Brian Green]

I don't think it was that much. I think it was like probably $1,000. You know, they. They ended up charging me with a DUI because they. They threw the book at me because I. It was the 23rd, it was 3 o'clock in the morning, and there was absolutely nothing else going on on Ponce de Leon and Atlanta, except everything goes on in Ponce de Leon, Atlanta, 24 hours a day. Except for white boy driving a Saturn, you know, looking for weed. Looking for. I was looking for french fries is what I was looking for.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Thought you said it was weed.

[Brian Green]

No, I had gone to the. I had been high and I was going.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You needed.

[Brian Green]

I needed french fries. Yes. But the funny thing was, is I had been asleep. Like, I was asleep. The TV was on. I woke up, saw a commercial for McDonald's, like the Christma milkshake and the french fries. And I knew that the McDonald's was open 24 hours a day. Popped in the car, go down the street, take a left at a light, the light turns green. I go to take a left at the light, and when I take a left, someone just is right in front of me. They're right there. And boom, they came up on my mirror is what happened. They broke the mirror off. But then somebody else was running behind that person. So I can only assume they were chasing each other down the street. Probably for crack or something. You know, something more important. But they never found him, so. They never found him. There was no blood. So I think we can all make the assumption that I hope they're still alive. I'm really sorry if that was you. I really apologize. But anyway, that was my Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve was always the bigger deal in my household. And I think we continue that tradition now because.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You do.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I do. Because there's something like. I feel like Christmas Day, the steam gets taken out a little bit after the morning presents are open. It feels like. Okay, now I have to get used to the fact that it's not the holiday season anymore. Christmas is over. I know I'm depressing everybody right before on Christmas Day.

[Christina]

I was gonna say, that's when you break out the mimosas. Exact holiday spirit going, yeah, you do.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

A big breakfast and a breakfast casserole and do the mimosas.

[Brian Green]

We do do the breakfast this year. We'll have the Grandma and grandpa will be over to do the Santa Claus presents with us. So I feel like it'll be a really special, probably elongated Christmas, but everyone comes over on Christmas Eve, and then Christmas Day, we invite everybody over. They all say they're coming over, but no one ever makes it over. And I can only imagine it's because Christmas mimosas. Right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

So Since I have 12 to 15 children, you guys do Christmas mimosas for me. Because if I start getting drunk on Christmas Day, forget about it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, when you're a dad now. It's not the Christmas Eve anymore for us now.

[Brian Green]

It's Christmas Day now. You've turned it into Christmas Day.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We turned it into Christmas Day. Yeah. Cause there's no Santa anymore.

[Brian Green]

Oh, that's true.

[Christina]

My mom still writes that presents are from Santa.

[Brian Green]

It's cute. It's cute.

[Christina]

I'm 30.

[Brian Green]

My mom still does that, too. Jean jackets and all. Jean jackets and pizza pockets. My mom still does that. Rights from Santa. Pizza Hut delivered.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I went home and had a pizza that night.

[Brian Green]

I know. You told me. You called and told me. It did make me hungry. It did make me hungry for pizza. But I know we're going to have pizza if I just wait another day.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Pizza's coming.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I swear to God, there's so much pizza. The other day, the funniest thing is we recorded that. And then a day later, my twin brother comes over getting kicked out of his house. And he comes over and I say, hey, listen, I'll order some pizza for the kids, and then we can all have some. So my wife goes to order pizza, and one of my kids who is just fascinated by pizza, like everything is pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza. He gets into the pizza companies. He has favorites. He knows which one is good, which one is bad. He ordered the triple decker pizza box from Pizza Hut, which is three pizzas stuck in a box this big in a holiday box. It looks like it's gift wrapped. And so it came to the door. I had no idea. And the guy takes out, you know, out of that bag, he takes out this huge wrapped present. And I was like, what is this? And he goes, it's the triple decker pizza, sir. And I'm like, the triple decker pizza? Is that a sexual position? What are we doing here? You're wrapping pizzas now? It was festive, but, you know, it was still Pizza Hut at the end of the day. Listen, Pizza Hut's not the worst of the worst.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's not the worst of the worst. Which have you. Which has your children identified as the worst?

[Brian Green]

I don't think we get very much into dominoes. Little Caesars is good, but they don't deliver.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Their cheesy bread is good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, but Little Caesars is good value.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They don't deliver, though.

[Brian Green]

They don't deliver. So you got to go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They don't even like doordash it.

[Brian Green]

Or they might, they might. But I. Yeah, they might. But I tell you what, there's one Little Caesars around us, and it's like, you know, 15, 10, 15 minute drive away. And you go there, and it does not fucking matter what time of day or night you go there. There is a line at that Little Caesars because it's pizza. Pizza, right? Am I making everybody hungry on Christmas Eve? Yeah, here we go talking about pizza for the second time on the 12 days of TCB. But that little Caesars is really good. And I used to work at a Little Caesars. It was one of my first jobs. Yeah, that was the time that the manager showed me his gun and a pound of weed. It was fun times in the bucolic town of east Cobb, Atlanta, where the manager to the Little Caesars traveled around with a gun and a pound of wee. It was unbelievable.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Was that before or after McDonald's?

[Brian Green]

That was after McDonald's. After McDonald's. I was now venturing into, you know, more shady kinds of restaurants.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You were working your way up.

[Brian Green]

Listen, that Little Caesars.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, Fine dining and cocaine.

[Brian Green]

I was, yeah, fine dining and cocaine. I just had to get. I had to get some weed from the Little Caesar's guy first. You know, the weed is the gateway drug. And when a guy sticks a gun in your face and tells you to roll a spliff, you do it. But that Little Caesars. I was so terrible at making pizzas. That. And this guy was such. He had. He was a former military guy now selling weed and carrying guns. He's a former military guy who was very diligent about everything. You know, one ladle of sauce. Don't put too many pepperonis. That's not enough cheese. More cheese, less cheese. You know, you're ruining the dough. The dough we used to make every day. And then you'd put it in the. You'd measure it, weigh it, put it in a ball. I couldn't even get that right. He had to throw away so many fucking pizzas because of me that eventually he just sat me down and he was like, you are not a good pizza employee.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. You're not working out.

[Brian Green]

Yes. So he said, you can either work the register or I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to let you go. And I worked the register probably for about a week before I decided that was the worst job in the world too. Because when pizza. When people want pizza pizza, they want pizza pizza now. And they're not. They're not going to take in the no for an answer. So anyway, I hope you're not having Little Caesars for Christmas Eve, but if you are, it's not the worst thing in the world.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's not.

[Brian Green]

But Domino's has become the least favored in the household. I think they changed their recipe about 10 years ago and something happened. You and I used to. That Domino's is on. Speed dive.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Green]

Speed dive.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Pepperoni and black olives.

[Brian Green]

Pepperoni, black olives. Get it to us now. Yes, Mr. Green and Mrs. Hoadley will be right over. You know, we'd give a $30 tip because we were too drunk to note any different. And that happens six times a week. Honestly, let's be real about it. Six times a week. So anyway, it's Christmas Eve. We just have been in love with the 12 days of TCB. Apparently you have too. I actually think this has been a lot of fun. It has been. It's given us purpose and direction and content ideas. Purpose, direction, and content ideas.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Something like that, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And it's almost over. To end this long, exciting journey that we've had, reviewing all of our content favorites, ideas, events, stories that we've talked about, there is one that continues to reign supreme among all content related events that Happen here on tcb. There is one. One leather faced strap backed turtleneck wearing cheap knockoff Rolex having man that always takes the cake. And his name of course is Frankie B. I'm from Chicago. Now this has been the year when we have done the least amount of Frankie B. If you remember season one we started to get into him. Season two was basically Frankie B. The entire for all Frankie B all the time. And he was pumping out videos and we could not wait to get another one. Season three, we made a decision we were going to not do Frankie B anymore. That lasted for about a month but we chilled out on it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The people demanded it.

[Brian Green]

People wanted it. Season four we went back to Frankie B a little bit. We. I'd say probably once every other month we did it. In season five we have done remarkably few Frankie B videos. I think maybe three the entire year. And we've done more episodes this year than we ever had before. So I have been waiting and waiting and waiting patiently saving two video. Now Frankie B. Has stopped posting a long time.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was going to say. And we figured when this happened happens. He has a girlfriend.

[Brian Green]

He has a girlfriend and I think you're right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

His girlfriend makes him stop with all the crazy posting. Then the girlfriend and him break up and that's when he really pumps the content out.

[Brian Green]

The Frankie B's YouTube channel is a like I guess it's basically it's a needle right into the vein of whoever he has dated or divorced last. Right. He is desperately hoping that someone that he has recently been with sees the content that he's making because it's so obviously personal and he says things that are so obviously personal like smoking crack cocaine. Like the time he did a whole series on dating a party girl and it was obvious that he had been dating a party girl because slowly but surely he started to tell the story about how he was dating a party girl or the divorce at the beginning when he got the divorce. Listen. No, no. Of all of the paws that we do, and I do consider Frankie a pickup artist because he's teaching men how to get women. Of all the paws out there, he is the one that's nearest and dearest to my heart. He's kind of a softy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He was our first.

[Brian Green]

He was our first. Never forget your first. Never forget your first Frankie B. Pounding. Never forget your first slicked back hair, turtleneck wearing pinky finger. Who wears a pinky ring anymore? Frankie. Let's be honest about it. But Frankie has had some videos that we amazingly have not done.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I cannot believe it.

[Brian Green]

I realized this a couple of months ago and I said, I'm going to save this for the end of the year. And so to round out the 12 days of TCB, you not have one, you have two days of Frankie B coming your way. Two videos we have not reviewed in the past. And we're going to get started with those. But first, I want to remind you over the last couple of weeks that we've been here with you on the 12 days of TCB. We've talked about a lot of different charities. We talked about four of them. It's been so important to us because this time of year is when these charities who are doing a lot of good in a lot of people's lives, when they collect the most amount of money, just like everything else in the world, all of it happens in the last two months of the year. November, December, the holiday time. We spend the most amount of money, we give the most amount of money, the most amount of money exchanges hands at the last two months of the year. And it's so important for these charities. And some of these people are doing real fucking heroes work, like God's work. And so if you would please, we're going to put all four. We're going to list all four of those charities in the show notes. If you would please go pick one of those charities. Give five dollars, give a dollar, get 50 cents, doesn't matter, every dollar counts. If you want to, you can share with us which one that you donated to or which ones you donated to. Send us a screenshot of that donation and we'll be happy to send you some free swag. We have nothing to do with these charities. We have not talked to them. They have no idea we're doing this. We have no idea we're doing it. We have no idea what we're.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That we're.

[Brian Green]

They probably don't like that we're talking about them. Yeah, but the links on the show notes go directly to their websites where they collect money on their behalf. It has nothing to do with us. We don't touch the money. We just thought it was a good thing to do to give back at the end of the year to hopefully brighten somebody's lives. And these are causes that are near and dear to our heart. Chrissy had the National Breast cancer coalition fund, St. Jude's ASPCA, and then there was one more. We'll put them all. We'll list them all on the show notes in these next two days. So if you think about it, Right before the end of the year, you want to give a few bucks? That would be fantastic. So why don't we do this on this Christmas Eve, keeping you company, keeping you warm and cheery and bright with our talk of pizza and Brian's potatoes. We are going to take a break, and when we get back, we'll do some Frankie B.

[Christina]

What do you mean you don't know our phone number? I only tell it to you twice a day, four times a week. Fine. If you insist, I will tell you to you again. It's 212-4333, TCV. That's 212-433-3822 and don't you forget it. Now, in case you can't remember, our Instagram handle is hecommercial break. A tough one. I know. And our TikTok handle is CBpodcast. And that one is the same as our website, tcbpodcast.com and one last thing, go to YouTube.com the commercial break for all of our video episodes. Got it?

[Frank Bernardo]

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[Brian Green]

All right, we're back. And Chrissy, no man in the TCB history has quite got our goad like Frankie B. Frank Bernardo. He's a content creator out of the greater Chicagoland area. He's a master of all things fitness, fashion, fun and grooming. And here he is again, looking his best with his black turtleneck on his pinky finger ring, slick back hair standing in front of his fresh follicles. Fresh follicles. Frankie B's follicles standing in front of the silk screen that he got from the JCPenney family photograph. Bankruptcy sale.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, portraits.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, from the portraits from the 80s. You know he did. You know he did.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And who has one of those? Just hanging around, by the way? Honestly, who has one of those? I mean, just do it in your house. Who fucking care? Do you think he sets us up at his house or his studio?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think he's got some kind of little studio.

[Brian Green]

You think he does? Well, we've seen his salon suite. His salon suite is no bigger than this room. The entire salon suite.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And we also saw an apartment one time when he was showing us his.

[Brian Green]

Cooking methods where he had like fake fruit in a bowl.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, we think it was a model apartment.

[Brian Green]

I think it was the model apartment. He had convinced the girls downstairs to let the leasing officers to let him Use it. So Frankie B. As we had meant as. As we mentioned, he has stopped creating new content at least over the last six to 12 months. And we've done a few of his videos this year for that reason. But, Chrissy, we are six inches from gold on this because we dropped some nuggets on the floor. We had done one video, I think, back in season number four about dating traps with Frankie B. And he created two more videos. I just don't think we ever got around to them. At least I don't think so. You know, we've done so much Frankie B. It's very possible we've done one of these videos, but I don't think so. So here we are at the end of the year. I saved these in my pocket just for these purposes. And so let's do this. Let's review. We're going to go backwards here. We're going to start at number three, and then we'll go to number two for Christmas day, because that's just the way that I want to do it. These are day Frankie B's dating traps and how to avoid them.

[Frank Bernardo]

Welcome to the third edition of dating traps.

[Brian Green]

I love how he shakes his head. I love how he, like, hey, I know. He's like Peter Griffin. Hey, everybody.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Rocket.

[Brian Green]

Rocket. Lifestyle.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Lifestyle is him smoking cigars.

[Brian Green]

Fashion, Golfing, Fitness. Pumping iron. Hot cream on your face. Parasailing. Frank Bernardo walking away from the camera. Can you imagine being someone driving down the street just walking a guy, watching a guy walk away from a tripod?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

What is that? Influencers in the wild.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's funny.

[Frank Bernardo]

Hope you're having a great day. And to any women that are watching this channel, I hope you're having a lovely day.

[Brian Green]

Welcome to the I take 50 milligrams of Calis daily for your pleasure.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Thanks, Frank.

[Brian Green]

I'm ribbed for your pleasure.

[Frank Bernardo]

This video. My name is Frank Bernardo. If this is your first time here, this channel is for all guys who want to up their game and grooming, fitness, fashion in lifestyle.

[Brian Green]

Lifestyle. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's no tea.

[Brian Green]

Where did that tea go? I want to know. And we're gonna cut the tea out. Woof, woof, woof, woof.

[Frank Bernardo]

All right, we're gonna do a lifestyle category today. And within that lifestyle, we're talking within.

[Brian Green]

That lifestyle, we're doing a lifestyle category. And then when. If in that category we're doing additional.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Lifestyle embedded in the category. Embedded in the category.

[Brian Green]

Lest you think I not. Lest you think I'm not organized. Chrissy.

[Frank Bernardo]

Eating dating traps. This has Become a very popular segment of my videos. I'm getting a lot.

[Brian Green]

I've literally had tens of phone calls about this request.

[Frank Bernardo]

Every time I put one out. Do you're liking this information? Appreciate that you're liking it.

[Brian Green]

What's that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's our listeners.

[Brian Green]

That's our listener. Yes, there's many TCB fans. Stop it. You're going to. You ruined it for everybody. That's why he's not creating more content. It's because you keep making fun of him, you shitheads.

[Frank Bernardo]

And guess what?

[Brian Green]

But he deletes the comments after a while. They go away. So I know that he's out there. He knows about us.

[Frank Bernardo]

I'm here to fulfill your wishes. So sit back and enjoy the video.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he's here to fulfill our wishes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Our Christmas wish.

[Brian Green]

Chrissy, what's your Christmas wish?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Frank?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, listen, duh, forget fucking Santa Claus and sitting on his lap with his red rocket or whatever we reviewed a couple weeks ago. I want Frankie B. Black Sears turtleneck to come in ripped, rocking hard and ready.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, like when he wears like the more open chested stuff and he's got the bracelets and rings.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm a fan of the chest hair.

[Frank Bernardo]

Before we get into dating trap number one, I want to explain to you.

[Brian Green]

That everything before I make a point, I want to make no point whatsoever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

A, yeah.

[Brian Green]

B3, he's like Clark Griswold number one.

[Frank Bernardo]

And B, no talking about in this video. It's not something that I was reading in the book. These are actual dating experiences and you don't. Unfortunately I'm still on the dating scene. And you know I did have a.

[Brian Green]

Unfortunately no you lucky lady has knocked me down yet, Chrissy. But I am just waiting relationship and it ended again.

[Frank Bernardo]

So. So what? Back on the wagon, Back out there.

[Brian Green]

This. You are so right about this. He just said it. I was dating. I went back to it, it didn't work out. Now I'm back on the wagon. Back on the wagon.

[Frank Bernardo]

A lot of people out there go ah, dating. Who needs that?

[Brian Green]

Listen, you're all, who needs sex? Who needs companionship? A lot of people out there say ah, other people aren't for me full of bs.

[Frank Bernardo]

Okay, you know anyone who says that you rather be alone? A lot of women say that, oh, I'd rather be alone. I don't.

[Brian Green]

A lot of ladies with their breasts say that. Ah, all their period stuff. I'd rather be alone. Frankie, come on man, eat a man.

[Frank Bernardo]

They're all full of. Okay. They do need a man. The Problem with them is they can't get a man. That's why they talk like that.

[Brian Green]

The problem with them is they can't handle a man.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

They see the little red rocket come out, and all of a sudden they're scared. I pop a couple extra Viagra, I'm half hard and ready to go, and they say I'm out ski. Well, let me tell you something. You need this man. Look at all the things I can do. I'm a content creator, a lifestyle guy. I have over.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I play golf.

[Brian Green]

I have over five locations of my salon, Suisse, paying me jack every month. You know what kind of rent I bring in? $60 per. That's right. You can't get a guy like me. Rock it.

[Frank Bernardo]

You run into a woman right off the bat that starts chirping that they don't need a man. They're fine.

[Brian Green]

I'd like to remind all the ladies out there, welcome to my video.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I hope you're having a lovely day.

[Brian Green]

I hope you're having a great day. You won't be here long.

[Frank Bernardo]

Yeah, for life. Guess what? I would run because that's already showing attitude, and that's dating trap number one.

[Brian Green]

Dating trap number one. A woman who talks that attitude. If you catch attitude. If you catch words from a bit, you'd say, I'm out of here. I don't need all of that. Yeah, yeah. I can hear that on espn. I don't need you Dating trap number two.

[Frank Bernardo]

When you're having a conversation.

[Brian Green]

Pokem horns.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Dating trap number two. I poke your eyes out.

[Frank Bernardo]

Hey, girl, before your date, you're gonna definitely talk a few times. And one of the big questions is, how long have you been divorced? I asked that. The women ask me that.

[Brian Green]

And the first question, which time? How many times have you been divorced? As if it even fucking matters. I mean, I'm so annoyed with all the questions. Yep, yep. Who fucking cares?

[Frank Bernardo]

This is funny.

[Brian Green]

There's.

[Frank Bernardo]

There's the story that's gonna unfold here. So bear with it here, okay?

[Brian Green]

Bear with it. We're barren. We're barren. As much as we can. Frankie, bring it home, baby. Tell us that story.

[Frank Bernardo]

So I asked this one woman and.

[Brian Green]

Come on, kids, gather round. The Frankie B. Hear a little story about that one time he got ghost.

[Frank Bernardo]

And she says, I've been divorced five years. The biggest mistake I made was not asking her how many times she was married, okay? I asked her how long she was divorced, okay? Big mistake. We're gonna get to that story shortly here.

[Brian Green]

Oh, a Cliffhanger.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. He's stringing us along.

[Brian Green]

Who knew he was a storyteller? Wow. He is the George Carlin of pickup artists here. I'm fascinated. All right, let me guess. She's divorced. More than once. Frankie, Is that the end of the story? Okay, I'll. I'll do it for you. How's that?

[Frank Bernardo]

We go out on a date. We're at the restaurant, and then again in conversation, the divorce thing came up. She looks at me and she goes, I got something to say to you.

[Brian Green]

I got something to say to you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Frank.

[Brian Green]

I happen to be a max murderer.

[Frank Bernardo]

I go, what?

[Brian Green]

What? I knew it. You woman. I knew you women can't be trusted. What?

[Frank Bernardo]

She go, oh, three times.

[Brian Green]

La cuita, por favor.

[Frank Bernardo]

You know what they.

[Brian Green]

Amigo, feliz la vidad. La quinta, por favore. Frankie, Frankie. When you get into your advanced age, you can't expect that everyone's going to be on divorce number one. I promise you. You aren't on divorce number one. Thousand bucks. At least two. At least two means.

[Frank Bernardo]

That means. Check, please.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Frankie, we got it. I think all of us speak enough.

[Christina]

He thought he ate with that one.

[Brian Green]

Mic drop. They're going to be hitting me up in the comments section. I'm as good as laid.

[Frank Bernardo]

I almost had a heart attack. Dating trap number two. Before you get out on that date, ask them how many times they were married.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What a day.

[Brian Green]

So I have shock. Am I right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I get it that there's like, maybe could be a warning sign there with three divorces, but everybody deserves love. And you know what? What it did to just automatically, hey.

[Brian Green]

Listen, everybody deserves love, but not with this guy, okay? If you're not fresh out of the oven, I don't want to have anything to do with it. You also got to make sure they're virgins. That's all I gotta say. Ok. All right, conversation over. Nuff check, please. La cuenta, por favore.

[Frank Bernardo]

Hey, dating trap number two. Don't go out with a woman.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That was number two.

[Brian Green]

Three times. I know. He's making his point. Six times.

[Frank Bernardo]

Okay, I'm skating trap number three now.

[Brian Green]

Can't you just stick up three fingers?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He just did two hands.

[Brian Green]

Why did he have to use both hands to get to number three? Dating trap number three. If it takes more than one hand to make three, you got a problem. Hey, listen. But not everybody has, you know, fine motor skills. But he isn't an esthetician, so I would hope that he's got that one in the bag with that woman and.

[Frank Bernardo]

You'Re having conversation, I want you to pay close attention to what she says about.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Also, should these be considered traps or like red flags?

[Brian Green]

Chrissy, if you've learned trap, if you've learned anything about Frankie B. It's that he doesn't always have a master. He's like not always mastering the English language. And so dating trap. This is not a dating trap. This makes no sense what he's saying, how he's using the word dating trap but yet words dating trap, but we, we love him anyway.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Frank Bernardo]

Or it could be an ex boyfriend that they live with for years. If they're talking how dominant the man was in their life, how much control he had over her, how much control he had over the family.

[Brian Green]

You press the button and take her home. This is game on. I'm telling you what, you've hit the. You've hit the jackpot here. Chris. Crazy.

[Frank Bernardo]

And he kind of struck the fear of God in everybody. And she's going to tell you how much she hated that, how much she disliked that. You know what? I'm gonna feel sorry for the woman. And I'm sure you would too, because that's the furthest thing that I would do to a woman or a family. And I'm sure the average guy out there is going to be the same way. But unfortunately there are women who get.

[Brian Green]

Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Slow your roll here just a little bit. Frankie. Are there like so you just kind of controlling of women, you're kind of dismissive of them. You're kind of put their feelings in the backseat. But if someone really does those, like if someone goes full bore on those things, then what's to be considered is that they are weak minded and you don't want them.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That is the. Hello. That's the kettle calling the turtleneck black together.

[Frank Bernardo]

Mary narcissist and very Dom nominated people. Now pay special attention to that conversation. Okay. And keep it up here. And then I want you to see.

[Brian Green]

Do you know how specific these examples are? I mean, yes, very specific examples.

[Frank Bernardo]

How she acts. Let's say you're. You're progressing in your dating and you're noticing that if you have a disagreement and I say a disagreement. We all have disagreements. That's part of life. Okay? It's gonna happen. But if you have a disagreement and.

[Brian Green]

She'S doing a lot of talking, tune.

[Frank Bernardo]

Her out and she becomes obnoxiously dominant and you're not allowed to have an opinion, you're not allowed to have a say so what had been controlled.

[Brian Green]

Talking about what? Where did we go with this?

[Christina]

He hates when women have autonomy.

[Brian Green]

I know. It's really difficult for a woman to have an opinion in Frankie's. In Frankie's opinion. In Frankie's opinion. It's really difficult for a woman to have opinion. We gotta take a break. I'm just checking.

[Christina]

So engrossed.

[Brian Green]

I know. I love Frankie. Me too. And that's why I have to remind myself. Do we have to take a break? Is there a break in. Well, okay, let's pay some bills, donate to our sponsors links in the show notes. Uh, we'll take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina]

Hi. You know what time it is, so let's get to it. Pull that phone out of your pocket and follow us on Instagram hecommercial break and on TikTok for now, I guess CBpodcast. You can also find all of our video content that we're filming in our brand new [e-mail] TheCommercialBreak so check it out and throw us a follow a like a comment, whatever you can spay. If you want to get in touch with us, you can always text us or call us and leave us a voicemail at 212-4333, TCB. Now I have one last request. During the 12 or 263 days of TCB, check out our featured charities and donate to them if you can this holiday season. Alright, let's take a listen to our sponsors and get back to the show.

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[Brian Green]

We are in the middle. It's okay. We just listen. We're all having fun. It's Christmas Eve. You'll forgive us for a few mistakes, a little production. We're still coming together here as a team. There's a bunch of women around here and they want to have opinions. They've got opinions and stuff. And I don't know, we talk. I don't know what's going on in here anymore.

[Christina]

I can't do so much. I can't use my brain.

[Brian Green]

Frankie B. Is here telling us his dating traps. He's on the third video of three of a series that is apparently highly coveted. Everyone really wants one. And Frankie B. Is in the middle of telling us a story, a very specific story about when you go to dinner with a woman, if she starts talking about how dominating her man was, you feel sorry for her. But then if she has opinions, they're obnoxious.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

An argument.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And she talks then.

[Brian Green]

And she has conversation.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, she says something.

[Brian Green]

Well, listen, Chrissy, I mean, let's be real. He's kind of right about that.

[Frank Bernardo]

Kind of gets loud and, and jumpy like, like she's taking full control and you're not allowed to ask a question. And she kind of strikes. If you're a guy and you to.

[Brian Green]

Ask.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She strikes the fear of God in you.

[Brian Green]

How do I feel like. Why do I feel like this has never happened in Frankie B's life that a woman has struck fear into his heart? I mean, she strikes the fear of God in you.

[Frank Bernardo]

Particular question.

[Brian Green]

I just want to know so badly about Frankie B's personal life. I want to know who he's dating. I want to know what they look like. I want to know the interactions between them.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We saw, we did, did see that one woman. When he tried to pivot to being a travel travel content creator, he was.

[Brian Green]

A travel agent for a minute.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He took the.

[Brian Green]

The Holiday Inn in Puerto Rico.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He showed us the Hotel.

[Brian Green]

He showed. It was not great. It was not great. There was clothes all over the bedroom. He showed us the gym. It was as big as my bathroom. I mean. And then he showed us the beach. He showed us the beach. It was like the weirdest beach I'd ever seen.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Didn't he go into the ocean?

[Frank Bernardo]

He did.

[Brian Green]

It's like the great thing about the ocean is when you get right here is right up to your knees and I'm like, that's how all oceans work, Frankie. At some point, you're going to get.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I really want to see that one again.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he's got another one. That's the review of the gym in Puerto Rico. But it's only like four minutes long. And it's not that funny. But he shows you all the machines that you can work out on. But what fascinates me maybe even more than Frankie B's love life, is I want to know about his. His family life. Does he have children? Are they grown? Do they respect him at all? Does he have daughters? Probably not. Is he. Is his mother still alive? Is his father still.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Never mentioned? Never any of that.

[Brian Green]

Well, to be fair, they probably all sat him down and had an intervention. Fear of God struck the fear of God in him. If you say my name on that goddamn channel.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You have a daughter.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Right.

[Frank Bernardo]

That she knows is coming. So that woman just went through a relationship that she hated, but guess what? She lived that for years.

[Brian Green]

So guess what?

[Frank Bernardo]

It's. It's in her. They know no better. They could talk.

[Brian Green]

They literally absorb feelings and emotions.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They know no better.

[Brian Green]

They know no bounds. Chrissy, these women will do whatever they can to trauma dump on you. You. You got to stay steely like a man. Get back to your tuna and eggs. Get back to your tuna, eggs and ESPN and everything will be fine. Don't let that woman push her emotions on you. Not your problem. Those emotions, if they don't want that.

[Frank Bernardo]

But you got to be real careful with women like that, because guess what? They could possess it.

[Brian Green]

They think they are witches. They go to therapy. They are witches. They think they're Wiccans, all of them. They go out into the woods and they curse our names.

[Frank Bernardo]

They're not doing it. And they think that it's right for them to do it because that's what they lived with. All right? I was in a relationship like that.

[Brian Green]

Just two days ago.

[Frank Bernardo]

She actually was a narcissist, okay? And I had to end it because she was carrying on all the same traits as her Ex spouse. So pay careful attention to that. Pay careful attention to narcissism because I.

[Brian Green]

Want you to take notes and record the phone call.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Because he's not narcissistic at all.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, listen. Hey, Frankie. Yeah. By the way, I do have to point this out. Chrissy's right about this. If you're in one bad relationship, we all have bad relationships. If you're in two bad relationships, that's really shitty luck. If you're in three, you should start learning some lessons. If all of your relationships are terrible, it's likely you are the problem. That's it. Ask me, I know it doesn't end.

[Frank Bernardo]

They can't change. It's embedded in them. Do yourself a favor, Dating trap number three. If you think she's a narcissist, get the hell out.

[Brian Green]

That was the most long winded way of saying if you're dating a narcissist. Get out number four.

[Frank Bernardo]

But before we get into that, if you like this video, do me a favor, guys and any ladies watching, hit the subscribe bell so you don't miss any of my upcoming videos.

[Brian Green]

Hit the subscribe. The subscribe S U S C R I D E. The subscribed button.

[Frank Bernardo]

Especially Dating trap number especially.

[Brian Green]

I love when people put an X in there.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Especially. Especially four.

[Brian Green]

And if you do like an espresso.

[Frank Bernardo]

Again, please give the video a thumbs up because that'll help this channel grow. I would greatly appreciate it. I'm going to ask you to follow me on Instagram. That's going to be in the description box below.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Have you seen his Instagram?

[Brian Green]

Holy. I never thought about this. Never once did I know that Frankie B. Had an Instagram. And now give me one moment please. Ladies and gentlemen, you'll have to bear with it's Christmas Eve. What else are you doing? Please stay with me for just one second.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This could be our Christmas gift.

[Christina]

Oh, but I can't believe you've never.

[Brian Green]

I've never thought about this. Never thought about this. I am really bad at this.

[Christina]

And that's why I'm helping with show research now.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Frank Bernardo. We're gonna have to look because there are many Frank Bernardo's. Oh wait, I think I found it. Oh, it's locked. That one. Only three followers. Christina, you got to get on this. Let me know if you find there are lots of Frank Bernardo's out there. And this. Wait. Founder of CEO, Boss recruiting. No, that's not him.

[Christina]

Are you looking up Bernardo or Benardo?

[Brian Green]

It's Bernardo.

[Christina]

It's on. He wrote it as Benardo.

[Brian Green]

He wrote it as Benardo.

[Christina]

Yeah. I always thought he just had like a weird way of speaking, but it's B, E, N, N. He does have a weird way.

[Brian Green]

He does have a weird way of speaking. Benardo.

[Christina]

Benardo.

[Brian Green]

Frank Bernardo. A R, D. Okay. I don't see that either, really, quite frankly.

[Christina]

I'm on it.

[Brian Green]

You got it.

[Christina]

Please hold.

[Brian Green]

Please text immediately. If not. Oh, you're airdropping it to me.

[Christina]

Well, just a second.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right. I'm just. I'm excited now.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. It's very exciting.

[Brian Green]

I'm really excited. Christina. And Christina is. We just gave Christina the employee of the week award.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Because there's only four of us. But she had a 25% chance of winning. But you should know that Christina comes into a really tough situation. Chrissy and I have been doing 650 episodes all alone with no help from anybody. When we're recording every. There's a lot of people that help us outside of the recording. But when we record, it's just Chrissy and I. But Christina comes in as the third wheel in a situation where Chrissy and I know each other very well. They needed third wheel and she's been doing such a great job. So I just thought I'd say that Christmas Eve. Thank you, Christina.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, thank you.

[Brian Green]

You've added a layer. Facts.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what I was gonna say. Of some kind of validity.

[Christina]

I'm sending you the link to what we're doing.

[Brian Green]

Yes. This is amazing. How did I never think to get on a social media hunt for Frank? Bernardo. Bernardo. And why did I always think it was Bernardo?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Because he says Bernardo.

[Christina]

It sounds like he's saying Bernardo, but.

[Brian Green]

Just with a Bernardo.

[Christina]

Like a speech impediment.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, he does have one.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. He just posted in October.

[Christina]

He's got a girlfriend.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, well, we've figured that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, she's very pretty. She's very pretty.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, good for Frank.

[Brian Green]

She looks like Darcy from 90 Day Fiance. Am I right about that?

[Christina]

Oh, my God. Have you seen his tattoos?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. We've seen the tattoo.

[Brian Green]

Wow. I hadn't look at him.

[Christina]

Oh, yeah, that's what he's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

His workout videos.

[Christina]

He's happy.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my gosh. This just opened up a whole.

[Christina]

Oh, he's over 60. Because he hashtagged over 60.

[Brian Green]

He did, yeah. He's looking really old in that. These recent videos.

[Christina]

I will say he looks happy, which is nice.

[Brian Green]

Yes, he does. Well, he's got a girlfriend. We were right. That's why he's not posting. Here's his girlfriend.

[Christina]

Oh, my God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Don'T stop believing. The most cliche real music ever. Oh, my God. This opened up a whole new world. There's going to be a lot more Frankie B. In 2025, guys.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I can't wait to dissect that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God, that's lovely. Thank you. Thank you for. Thank you, Frankie, for saying that. And thank you, Christina, for finding it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Let's get back to the video trap number four.

[Frank Bernardo]

And guys, if you fall into this, this is your fault, okay? First impression, all right? Especially for guys.

[Brian Green]

First impression, you're good looking, you're a little yappy, and you don't speak great English, but I still love you.

[Frank Bernardo]

You are not, you know, actively dating. Say you're dating for the first time in 20, 25 years.

[Brian Green]

Okay, 20, 25 years. Well, that's the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How he. He started or that's how we found him.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's true, because he was recently.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Coming out of a divorce and he was getting. Getting people back in the swing of.

[Brian Green]

The game, in the swing of things impression.

[Frank Bernardo]

It's everything with a woman, all right? Check your grooming. Us older guys, we got hair growing out of every orifice.

[Brian Green]

Well, he's right about that. God. In his funny sense of humor as he gives us hair growing. The hair cannot grow on the top of my head, but inside of my asshole. No problem. If that's why the Frankie's follicles get transported from your balls to your head. That's why all these guys with hair transplants looks it. Oh, by the way, if you look on his Instagram, it doesn't look like the hair transplant did all that great. No.

[Frank Bernardo]

On the sun. So do yourself a favor. Even if you got to get a magnifying glass, you think you're getting all these hairs in your ears and nose out, but you're not. Remember, you're going to be very close to that woman. And what's that woman doing? She's dissecting you, all right? She's going.

[Brian Green]

She.

[Frank Bernardo]

She's looking at you and she's going, I don't like this.

[Brian Green]

This sucks.

[Frank Bernardo]

Ah, this is. Okay, he's a little pudgy there.

[Brian Green]

This.

[Frank Bernardo]

This is.

[Brian Green]

Wow. Who are you dating, first of all? Second of all, the Terminator.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's like analyzing every little thing through a magnifying glass.

[Brian Green]

Wha. Bam. You're not Jude Law. Wh. Bam. First of all, second of all, on a first date, are we really getting close enough to see someone's little ear Hairs or nose hair. I mean, listen. However, I have seen some guys, and I know some guys in my personal life, and it's like, sometimes the nose.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Hairs are out of control.

[Brian Green]

The toe hair, the nose hair and the ear hair. And they're not that old. I mean, we're talking like, you know, late 30s, early 40s. And it's like, do you not recognize that you could braid your toe hair? Could you please take care of that? Astrid and I have a friend, and I swear to God, his toes are much ballerina around here. Because it's like, could you just take a. All you gotta do is, you know, you have a razor for your face and a razor for the rest. You know what I'm saying? Get down in those toes every once in a while.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like small scissors.

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[Brian Green]

If there's a curl in your toe hair, it's entirely too long. All right, can we all agree that toe hair is not attractive? Listen, I know it can be on trend for women to have a little leg hair, a little armpit hair, whatever. Cool. I mean, I. Listen, that's my scene. Believe it or not, that's my scene, okay? Women with arm hair are my scene. But when you have toe hair, then you've taken it too far. It's gone too far.

[Frank Bernardo]

That's what they do. Don't give them. Don't give them that ammunition. Make sure your grooming is on par, okay? Your clothes. Don't pull out something that you've had in the closet for 10 years. Go buy a nice shirt. Okay? First impressions.

[Brian Green]

Don't wait. Now, Frankie, you're taking it a step too far. Because I will let you know that I only have things in my closet from 10 years ago. This sweater I bought. This sweater I bought when we worked at Clear Channel. Chrissy, I am not even kidding you. Still looks good, doesn't it?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's almost 20 years.

[Brian Green]

Doesn't smell so good. I think it is. Hollister.

[Christina]

I think that's so funny.

[Brian Green]

I don't know what. I don't know what that means.

[Christina]

It was of the time when you were at Clear Channel. It's kind of of the time now. It's come back.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Isn't Hollister the one that had all those guys, like, half naked? Yeah, Hollister and Fitch.

[Christina]

Both of them.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, but I think the Abercrombie guy was doing a little, you know, New World pay doing. He was actually giving guys blowjobs.

[Frank Bernardo]

Come in a hockey shirt. I was talking to a girl in the gym yesterday. She went on a first date. The Guy showed up, Chicago Blackhawks jersey. I mean, are you kidding me? She almost had.

[Brian Green]

Hey, listen. Go team. What does it matter? It's 2024. I see people going grocery shopping in their underwear. Oh, yeah, I have sat next to people on airplanes wearing Grinch pajamas. It doesn't fucking matter anymore. I'm wearing Hollister from 2007. It.

[Frank Bernardo]

Okay, a heart attack. I don't care if you're into sports. Okay? Save that for.

[Brian Green]

For.

[Frank Bernardo]

For your buddies, okay? Dress the part.

[Brian Green]

Look, save that for your prostate massage conferences, art.

[Frank Bernardo]

Be a gentleman and you will not fall into dating trap number four is losing that woman right at the first impression. If you enjoyed the video.

[Brian Green]

Wait. Dating trap number four is don't lose her at the first impression.

[Frank Bernardo]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Like, how is that your choice?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Right?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Clip your nose hair.

[Brian Green]

Well, listen, that. I'm agreeing. Frankie has made a point that I finally agree with. And that is, please groom yourself long before you decide to show up on a first date. Because nothing ruins Christmas like toe hair or nose hair. Okay, the first of two. I'm gonna get you through Christmas. I promise I will. Chrissy and I are on a mission to make your Christmas a little bit more. You do? All right, we'll get you one. Settle down. We gotta call HR and ask what's the maximum amount of drink tickets we can give Chris?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm pre approved.

[Brian Green]

You're pre approved? Do you remember we went to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yes.

[Brian Green]

And we got drink tickets because they didn't want people to get drunk at the Rate Radio Christmas party at the bowling alley. No expense has ever been spared at a radio party. No, honestly, no.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We knew the guy who. We knew who was handing out the drink tickets, so we got as many as we wanted.

[Brian Green]

Well, yeah, listen. Yeah, first of all. Second of all, you hand out the drink tickets and then you tell everybody it's a cash bar. We already knew we were going to pay for our own drinks, you cheap bastards. Here's. Did you get your two tickets? Yeah. No, I didn't. Give me two more.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

While I'm throwing up in the bathroom. No, I didn't.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We got wasted.

[Brian Green]

Holy. That was a long night at the office. No joke. Wow. I think I was still.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We got there at like 12, like, noon.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they. They brought us. They bust us over at noon. Actually, I think we took a car, but they bust everybody over.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Left my car there. I did not drive home.

[Brian Green]

I don't think you got that car back for a week. I was married. I don't think I got my wife back for a week. I think we were all in trouble. Didn't we end up at our Russian friend's house? I think high on whatever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Cheap bowling alley cocaine. Cheap morning show for producer cocaine. Something like that, yes. Yes. Oh well, listen, don't get yourself in too much trouble tonight because tomorrow we'll have another episode ready for you when you have your Christmas mimosas. After the presents are open. Donna cap and put on your headphones and come along with us as well.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Those new beats you got.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Put it on. Listen to Frankie B. Tcbpodcast.com More information about the show. All the audio, all the video, every single episode right there. 212-433-TCB 212433, 3822 add the commercial break on Instagram, TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break for all the episodes now on YouTube and Spotify a couple days later. Chrissy that's all I can do for today.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

But I'll see you on Christmas. I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Happy Merry Christmas. I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best year. Best to you and best to you in the podcast universe. Until next time, we must say goodbye.

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