All Washed Up At Bonnaroo

Summary

Episode Summary: "All Washed Up At Bonnaroo" – The Commercial Break Podcast

Release Date: June 25, 2025

In the "All Washed Up At Bonnaroo" episode of The Commercial Break, hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley delve into the tumultuous events surrounding the Bonnaroo 2025 music festival. Combining their trademark blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and sharp commentary, the duo offers listeners an unfiltered look into the challenges faced by large-scale festivals in the wake of unforeseen natural disasters.

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1. Bonnaroo 2025 Cancellation: A Historical First

[05:41 - 07:01]

Bryan opens the discussion by highlighting the unprecedented cancellation of Bonnaroo 2025 due to severe weather conditions. This marked the first time in the festival’s history that such an action was necessary, underscoring the growing unpredictability of weather patterns likely influenced by climate change.

Bryan Green [07:01]: "Bonnaroo 2025, which just happened this last weekend as we're recording this, was canceled for the first time in its history because it became unsafe to be out there."

2. The Legacy of Jonathan Myers

[07:01 - 09:36]

The conversation takes a somber turn as Bryan shares the news of Jonathan Myers, one of Bonnaroo’s co-creators, who tragically passed away just days before the festival. Myers' contributions to Bonnaroo’s success are acknowledged, and his passing adds a poignant layer to the festival's challenges.

Bryan Green [08:08]: "Jonathan Myers passed away, and he was one of the co-creators of the original Bonnaroo music festival."

3. Comparing Festivals: Lessons from TomorrowWorld and Aqua Blues Fest

[09:36 - 18:37]

Bryan and Krissy compare Bonnaroo's predicament with other festivals like TomorrowWorld, which also faced severe disruptions due to heavy rainfall. They share personal experiences from Bryan’s time with Aqua Blues Fest, detailing the complexities of event insurance and the harsh realities of weather-related cancellations.

Krissy Hoadley [11:14]: "People got naked and ran around in the mud and then they all tried to pull their big ass trucks out of the mud with little or no success. It really is reminiscent of Woodstock."

Bryan Green [16:05]: "Event insurance is the most expensive thing that a festival creator or producer will pay for because if you get washed out like that, you are out tens of millions."

4. Safety Concerns and Logistical Nightmares

[18:37 - 21:12]

The hosts emphasize the critical importance of safety in festival planning. They discuss the logistical nightmares that ensue when events like Bonnaroo succumb to extreme weather, referencing instances where attendees were stranded or faced hazardous conditions.

Bryan Green [20:47]: "This is why you will never find Brian's American Express paying for my kids' Bonnaroo tickets because this is how they start acting. That guy is one second away from paralyzation."

5. Personal Anecdotes: From Jam Land Productions to Festival Chaos

[21:33 - 34:32]

Bryan recounts his experiences with Jam Land Productions, detailing a failed attempt to host Aqua Blues Fest and the pitfalls of relying on event insurance. These stories serve as cautionary tales about the unpredictable nature of live events and the importance of meticulous planning.

Bryan Green [24:13]: "We put on the Aqua Blues Fest, convinced by rain insurance, but when it poured, the insurance didn't cover us because the nearest weather station recorded virtually no rain."

6. Spotlight on Celebrities: Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

[34:32 - 42:57]

Transitioning from festival woes, the hosts pivot to discussing Hollywood figures, focusing on Bruce Willis' battle with a rare form of dementia and his enduring legacy. They also delve into Bill Murray’s reputation, sharing anecdotes that illustrate his complex personality—both charming and notoriously difficult to work with.

Bryan Green [34:32]: "Bruce is just one of the greatest guys. You can be a superstar and still be nice."

Kristen Joy Hoadley [41:17]: "Bill Murray reminds me of Martifousia. He's my favorite."

7. The Dichotomy of Comedians: Humor as a Shield

[39:26 - 42:57]

The discussion deepens into the psychological aspects of comedy, where Bryan and Krissy explore how comedians often use humor to mask personal insecurities and struggles. They reflect on the challenges faced by well-known comics like Chevy Chase and the transformation seen in Bill Murray as he gains self-awareness.

Bryan Green [39:26]: "Comedians have the ability to point out insecurities and put a mirror to the world, but they fiercely protect or can't see those things in themselves."

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Bryan Green [07:01]: "Bonnaroo 2025... was canceled for the first time in its history because it became unsafe to be out there."

• Krissy Hoadley [11:14]: "People got naked and ran around in the mud... reminiscent of Woodstock."

• Bryan Green [16:05]: "Event insurance is the most expensive thing... because if you get washed out like that, you are out tens of millions."

• Bryan Green [20:47]: "This is why you will never find Brian's American Express paying for my kids' Bonnaroo tickets..."

• Bryan Green [34:32]: "Bruce is just one of the greatest guys. You can be a superstar and still be nice."

• Bryan Green [39:26]: "Comedians have the ability to point out insecurities and put a mirror to the world..."

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Conclusion

In "All Washed Up At Bonnaroo," The Commercial Break adeptly navigates through the chaos of festival cancellations, the personal loss of a key figure in Bonnaroo's history, and broader reflections on celebrity and comedy. Bryan and Krissy’s candid conversations provide listeners with insightful commentary on event management, the human side of fame, and the intricate balance between humor and personal struggles. This episode serves both as a commentary on the fragility of large events in the face of nature and a window into the personal lives of those who navigate the highs and lows of the entertainment industry.

Transcript

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[Brian Greene]

Hey. Oh.

[Ziggy Zalinsky]

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[Brian Greene]

On this episode of the commercial Brick he's jumping off a car into one inch of water. That's a back waiting to be broken.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

On his back.

[Brian Greene]

That is a back waiting to be broken. That is mommy and daddy's insurance getting kicked off.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, no wonder they shut that shit down.

[Rachel]

This is why you will never find.

[Brian Greene]

Brian's American Express if I ever have one. You'll never find Brian's American Express paying for my kids Bonnaroo tickets because this is how they start acting. That guy is one second away from paralyzation. Oh, my God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's all right.

[Brian Greene]

Let's see. This dude has an update on Bonnie. Friday, Friday the 13th.

[Rachel]

It's 1:30 and we are undergoing heavy rain right now.

[Brian Greene]

But you don't undergo heavy rain. You undergo surgery. I just want to let you know that, honestly, the next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah.

[Rachel]

Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Greene]

Best you out there in podcast universe.

[Rachel]

How the hell are you? If you're anything like Atlanta, you are.

[Brian Greene]

Soaked from the heads to the toes because it doesn't stop raining. 32 out of the last 40 days we have had rain. Thank you. Global warming. Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Sometimes downpours, like twice in one day.

[Brian Greene]

Yes, I will say downpours.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And it's sunny.

[Brian Greene]

It's sunny.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And downpours.

[Brian Greene]

You should see it in the pool. We're like running in, running out, Running in, running out. I just keep the kids under the, like, the little, you know, thing overhang, overhang in my house because I say give it 15 minutes, it'll change. But it pours. When it rains, it fucking pours, like torrential. But I do want to thank global warming because I have not once had to call the fire department to fill up my pool.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Greene]

Last year it didn't rain for like two months. And I was pouring water in that pool almost daily because it was so hot. I remember it was just evaporating. My water bill was out of fucking control. But we're not the only ones, Chrissy, who are seeing torrential down, torrential downpours everywhere all the time. Bonnaroo 2025, which just happened this last weekend as we're recording this was canceled for the first time in its history because it became unsafe to be out there. And I've been watching video after video. This is tragedy porn, really. I mean, is it really tragedy that you. I didn't see Diplo at Bonnaroo. Is it really trag. It's not really tragedy. I don't think anyone died. I think, I think everyone is okay generally. But they did have to cancel after just one day of the festival. They canceled the second day or they said there's not going to be performances. Too dangerous to let people be walking around the campgrounds. And Bonnaroonians did what Bonnaroonians do. They got naked and ran around in the mud and then they all tried to pull their big ass trucks out of the mud with little or no success. I mean it really is reminiscent of Woodstock, but it begs the quest and this is really interesting and I don't know what you make of this or make anything of it. If you, if you want to. Jonathan Myers, one of the co creators of Bonnaroo just died days before this Bonnaroo. Oh, connection pause. Thanks for that. I'm gonna show some videos. And now the connection pause. We'll, we'll go through the technical aspects of the show here in a minute. Jonathan Myers passed away and he was one of the co creators of, of the original Bonnaroo music festival. I think 18 of them went down under that original ownership group before he left. Before he left in Live Nation bought the entire festival. What I didn't know until reading the comments is that the Bonnaroo farm in Manchester, Tennessee is a working farm the rest of the year. Can that, could that possibly be true?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I mean I used to live close to there and I went to a lot of the Bonnaroos when I lived in Nashville. And yeah, it is. It's a farm. I don't know exactly what it farms.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. What are they farming?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's a huge like piece of land.

[Brian Greene]

Joint roaches and old Percocet laying on the ground. I mean what in the world could they be farming? Seeds of Percocets, ponchos and tall boy cans. I mean I don't know what they could be farming the rest of the year. I would imagine a festival like that really for a year you're working on the land to get it ready for the next year because that's no small. Like what's that big festival out in, in London that they do every year? It's fail. It's failing me now. But. Well, there's that Glasgow, Glastonbury. Glastonbury, yeah, Glastonbury. I saw like a flyover of that and that is the size of a, like a medium sized town here in the United States. Tens of Thousands of cars, RVs, support trucks, stages, tent camping grounds. Like, that's huge. I would imagine that's all that particular piece of land does, really. So I don't know what, man. The Bonnaroo farm in Manchester is farming most of the year, but people were online complaining so hard, and it's like, have. I don't want to take away from the fact that your weekend was ruined, that you spent money that you're clearly going to get back there. Are refunds going to be issued. I don't want to take away from the fact that this really sucked for anybody that was there. When you're really looking forward to something and it gets ruined, that's a shitty feeling.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It is. It's a disappointment.

[Brian Greene]

Have you looked outside your window lately? Have you turned on any news channel in the last year? There are lots of things to complain about, but this is not one of them. People were like, they need to change the drainage. Change the drainage. You don't need to change. You can't control the weather and change the drainage.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You can't.

[Brian Greene]

That's a $50 million project to change the drainage to make sure the water rolls in your direction. I mean, come on, guys. Bonnaroo got ruined one time out of what, 27 of them.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, a lot of them.

[Brian Greene]

That guy was 51 years old when he died. 2005.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, no, no, no, no. It would have been 2,000.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No. Was it?

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think this has been going on for 25 years.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I guess you might be right.

[Brian Greene]

First Bonnaroo. Yeah. I had to have 2002.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Two.

[Brian Greene]

June 21 through 23. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Because I had just moved to Nashville.

[Brian Greene]

Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, String Cheese Incident, Trey Anastasia, The Dead, or what was then being. Was it called the Dead back then, or was it the family or something like that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Who knows?

[Brian Greene]

I don't know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Reiterations.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. But 70,000 people showed up. I remember hearing about it. I owned Jam Land Productions at the time. A rival festival company.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Rival promoter.

[Brian Greene]

A rival promoter in the same. In the same ilk. Of the same ilk. I was promoting Pete. Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, there was the. There was your big. Your big event where you were carting around on the golf cart.

[Rachel]

I was carting around.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What was the band.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, my God, Now I can't remember. Oh, they're still around. No, not Gomez. Gomez. Can you imagine Gomez on my cart? Gomez. No, they're. Starts with a P. P. Groove. Perpetual groove. Sorry. I like them. They're good.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They are good.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, they're good. But I. Yes, I was carting around P. Groove, offering them lines out of my very wet cocaine. They bought the entire keg like this at. This guy showed up and I think he owned a liquor store in town or something, and he was. He donated one keg and then everybody started buying the beer. I think it was Sweetwater. Actually, it might have been Sweetwater that was up there. And then the guy from PE Group, he said, can I buy one of those pony kegs? And he bought a pony keg and we put it on the back of the cart and we were driving around high on everything.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm picturing it now.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, it was so good. It was so good. Anyway, you know, that was a. That happened in 2000, long before Bonnaroo came around. It was the prequel to bonnaroo. They had 70,000. We had 70, 52 of which were working for the festival, 52 of which got in free.

[Rachel]

But it was a farm.

[Brian Greene]

It was in the mountains. We did have our, you know, a stage and. But yeah, Bonnaroo is. Is quite. Has become quite the thing. I mean, it is the mainstay of the festival community. But it begs the question, has Bonnaroo kind of jumped the shark a little bit? Listen, Bonnaroo is going to go on because Live Nation has the ability to continue to put it on one. And now. And here's a little surprise. There's probably no surprise to anybody is that all of these events, including the small ones that I put on, pay a whole shit ton of money for something called event insurance. And that includes weather and that weather insur expensive thing probably besides, you know, maybe besides the actual, like, minutiae of the festival, like the staging and the porta potties and stuff like that. The logistics. Weather insurance is the most expensive thing that a. That a festival creator or festival producer will pay for. Because if you get washed out like that, you are out tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in the case of Bonnaroo. And that's your one shot that year. So. So don't feel bad for Live Nation. They are getting every dime of what they could potentially make back. As a matter of fact, here's a fun little story. So Jam Land Productions also put on something called the Aqua Blues Fest. One time the Aqua Blues Fest was at a place, a restaurant called Aqua Blue, north of Atlanta.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I remember that place.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. And I worked there. And the owners, two guys, they had heard that I was putting on these small little festivals and they said, so what are the economics of that? And I Quickly put together a PowerPoint presentation high on cocaine that indicated that you too could be a millionaire if you could just put on your own festival, which was not true at all. But you know, I want. I thought because we would be in the city and we would have the power of this restaurant behind us, the power of the restaurant, that we could do a one day festival. We could take over the entire parking lot, this huge parking lot. We're talking the size of a super Walmart parking lot. We could take it all over and then we could put a stage in the corner and we could put a bunch of vendors out there and get.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's how it all works.

[Brian Greene]

And I estimated 10,000 people would show up and the LA. At the last minute, I convinced the two guys who had fronted all of the money, which was like $25,000, a lot of cash. I had convinced them to buy rain insurance, like the week before event insurance. And man, did it rain. And it rained and it rained. But the way that event insurance works, it's like this. Sure, we'll give you all the potential money you could have made due to the rain. But here's the catch. We have to take the measurement from the closest airport to your location. An official weather station at an airport. And the airport that was close to us was 25 miles away from us and it did not rain, not one lick. So there you go. All right. Well, if you heard there's a little weird like interlude in there, it's because like all chaos broke. All hell broke loose at the house. Anyway, we were talking about Bonnaroo, which Bonnaroo 2025 rained out. I told you, I was telling you. Aqua Blues Fest. We got the insurance and we didn't ever got the money because the amount of rain recorded at the airport was like 0.00001. The amount of rain recorded at the local weather vein was one and a half inches. So it just goes to show you, location is everything. Timing, timing, timing. Listen, Bonnaroo got mudded out. I am not poo pooing on those who are disappointed. I think you have every right in the world to be disappointed. I would have been disappointed too.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I mean, it's a safety issue too with trying to get all of these people out there and then the conditions in the field and what people are going through. Yeah, I mean, it's safety.

[Brian Greene]

Do you recall here in Atlanta Tomorrow World, I think is what it was called. Yes, yes, yes. So we have this huge. I don't even know what to call it. It's a private piece of land.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

EDM festival.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, it's an EDM fest, but the Chattahoochee, whatever the fuck it is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, Banks of the Chattahoochee.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, the banks of the Chattahoochee river they thought was a great place to put an EDM festival. And it went off without a hitch for one year. And then the next year it rained like it did in Bonnaroo. And guess what? Kids were walking, like, 22 miles to the next exit so that they could get, you know, food, water, gas, a telephone, whatever it was. This was like. This could have been really bad. People could have been injured or died. They waited for days for buses to come pick them up. It was just terrible planning on behalf of everybody, and they got stuck four days. So I think because of Tomorrow World and the situation that took place, they see Bonnaroo and other festivals like this now. See, like a rain event. Less like, let's have fun in the mud kind of thing, which has been traditionally the way you handle rain. Let's dance in the mud. Yeah, let's dance in the mud, bro. Titties, show me your tit. A reason for girls to take their tops off in the minds of every young man attending the festival. And more of a very scary safety situation for those who are in charge of 75,000 people and their well being. Because some of the dumb shit I saw people doing in the rain at Bonnaroo. I mean, let's. I want to take a break, but real quick, let's see if we can take a look at one or two of these reels here. You ready? Yeah. Okay. Welcome to disaster Rue. I wonder why this is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The roads were flooded.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, wow. Yeah, we're looking at some. We're looking at some reels. Very muddy.

[Rachel]

Yeah, very much holy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It was like a river disaster.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, my God. I love this sound, by the way. I love this song.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's people, like, with their water up to their knees pulling their suitcases out of their tents.

[Brian Greene]

People are pulling their suitcases out of their tents and there is. Holy shit. That's no shit amount of water. That's two or three feet. Okay? Oh, this is the guy. Look, he's jumping off a car into one inch of water. That's a back waiting to be broken.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

On his back.

[Brian Greene]

That is a back waiting to be broken. That is mommy and daddy's insurance getting kicked off.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, no wonder they shut that shit down.

[Brian Greene]

This is why you will never find Brian's American Express. If I ever have one. You'll never find Brian's American Express paying for my kids Bonnaroo tickets. Because this is how they start acting. That guy is one second away from paralyzation. Oh, my God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's all right.

[Brian Greene]

Let's see. This dude has an update on Bono. Day two, Friday, Friday the 13th. It's 1:30 and we are undergoing heavy rain right now. But you don't undergo heavy rain. You undergo surgery. I just want to let you know that, honestly, where do these kids learn to talk?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. And there were thunderstorms and lightning and all of that. You can't have that.

[Brian Greene]

No. Oh, wow. 3:49pm, three hours later, still torrential downpour. Wow. Yeah, that's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They had to call it.

[Brian Greene]

They had to call it. They had to call it. It's not. Oh, Jesus Jones. Now we're looking at a reel where there's a river running through the campground. Wow. If you were there at bonnaroo, let us know. 212-433-3822. I would love to hear your take on all of this, but what prompted me to kind of get pissy about this was there was a young lady who did like a 30 minute long live that I watched. And she was upset that they put, you know, My Little Pony and in this stage and the My Little Pony sir mix a lot something or, I don't know, some band was on this stage and it wasn't safe and they should have put that band on this stage and it wasn't safe. And they canceled and it was like, I, I know everything's relative, but it just sounds a little tiny, little bit petty. Everyone got out alive. That's the good news.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That is the main thing.

[Brian Greene]

And there's always Bonnaroo next year. There will always be a next year of Bonnaroo. You want to know how I know that? Because Live Nation owns it. And they're gonna make sure there's a Bonnaroo next year. You better fucking believe it. The Bonnaroo's not going anywhere, kids. Bonnaroo will be around forever and ever. There will be no human beings left on Earth. And the CEO of Live Nation is going to be sending spaceships down to do Bonnaroo 2187. I guarantee it. They didn't pay $1 billion for that festival for it not to happen next year. They're not gonna put in drainage ditch, though. I have news for you. That's a $50 million project. They're not gonna do that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

All right, we'll be back. Oh, look, I see a Percocet floating through the river. Grab one for me, Chrissy. Grab one. You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some really heavy thinking to do before 10 o' clock.

[Unknown]

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[Rachel]

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[Brian Greene]

Youm know, I was watching clips of Andy Cohen. Watch what happens next live.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Watch what happens live.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, Watch what happens live. Next. Watch what happens next live.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's just Watch what happens live.

[Brian Greene]

Okay. All right. Whatever it is, I like it. It's good. When I.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

When I happen to catch it.

[Brian Greene]

It's good.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's really good. It's like 20, so it's nice and digestible.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, that is true. It's very quick. They're drunk usually. And Andy is a laugh a minute. I do find Andy to be a laugh a minute.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I love him.

[Brian Greene]

He's my favorite. I think he's my favorite gay. I gotta be real about it. He's my favorite gay. And Andy had on Bill Murray, who you. And I went and saw Bill Murray and the Blood Brothers and the Blood Blues. Blood Blues Brothers and. And we had a good time. It was a great time. Very talented musicians. And Bill Murray. Yes. And I also saw that Bill and the Blood Blues Brothers, they played like an extraordinarily large festival crowd. I mean, there must have Been, I don't know, 50,000 people watching them play. And he was posting on his Instagram. So when I saw Bill was on Andy's show, I thought, oh, let me stop and check it out for a minute, Chrissy. And he told the most touching story, you know who about Bruce Willis. He said that Bruce Willis was a page at NBC when Saturday Night Live first started.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian Greene]

He was an NBC page, which is like a legendary job that a lot of people who went on to become very famous in the comedy world and in acting started off as NBC pages. It's a coveted job. There's a whole fucking television show about it. It's called 30 Rock. I love that. And that guy who plays that page, whatever his name is, he's the laugh a minute too.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He is.

[Brian Greene]

He reminds me of Martifousia. Isn't he, Martifousia? Hey, you wanna go to the Clemson game with me?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And he's from the South.

[Brian Greene]

He is from the South. I like potato salad. Do you like potato salad, Brian? I sure do. Martifousia. My name's Martifousia. He's my favorite. So he's a page at NBC when Saturday Night Live is seeing his heyday. Season one, two, three. Whenever Bill came, Bill came season two. Did he season two or season three? I don't know. Anyway, around there, around there. So he explains that Bruce's job at the time, it was his only job, was to be up at 30 rock refilling M& Ms. And pretzels. That was it. He just had to go in from dressing room to dressing room and make sure the accoutrement. The coup d't tray of junk food was filled to the brim so that the stars could get. They could nosh in between funnies. I don't know what I'm doing today.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They could nosh.

[Brian Greene]

They could nosh in between funnies.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This seems like a good gig.

[Brian Greene]

Seems like a great gig. I'd love it. And it's like a fast track to stardom because you get to meet all these other famous people and you can hobnob and, you know, there's something. If you put NBC page on your resume, supposedly it's kind of a door opener. So Bill says that years later, when Bruce was becoming famous, when he was on Moonlighting, or I'm assuming Moonlighting is really when Bruce kind of hit his stride when he was on, by the way, for those of you that just were born, for those of you who were just at Bonnaroo. Moonlight. Moonlight. Moonlighting is a Television show about two detectives, two private investigators. Two private detectives at the moonlighting agency. And they. They loved each other. They hated each other. It was like a romance, drama, comedy kind of thing. It was really a breakthrough television show, actually. They did a lot of weird stuff on that show. Like, they did a musical episode. They did. Yes, they did. I loved that show. I thought it was brilliant. I loved that. It was weird and wacky and wild and. Anyway. And I love Bruce Willis. And then forget about it. Die Hard came along. Oh, yeah, everybody was in love with Bruce Willis because yippee ki yay, motherfucker. That's it. Right. That line right there skyrocketed him into mega stardom. He was the action star of all Action Stars.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The Christmas movie that we all think of.

[Brian Greene]

The Christmas movie that we all. Yes, the Christmas movie that we all think of. The Christmas movie that some of us think of. Anyway, it is a Christmas movie.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It happens during Christmas.

[Brian Greene]

It does happen to happen during Christmas. That's right. So he says. Years later, he catches up with Bruce, and Bruce explains to the then superstar Bill Murray, because Saturday Night Live really made him a superstar. And that was back in the 70s. He says, you know what? You and Gilda Radner were the only two on that set whoever acknowledged me, who were nice to me. And Bill starts to, like, get choked up and cry on Andy's show and says, from that moment on, I thought to myself, I like this guy. This guy's all right. Like, you know, he. He recognized that I recognized him. And I'm just putting words in his mouth, by the way, but I assume he's. He.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Paraphrasing.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, paraphrasing that this guy recognized that I recognized him. And all these years later took the time to say thank you regarding that. And he said that Bruce is just one of the greatest guys. And it made me. I kind of forget this from time to time, that Bruce Willis, while a man of my time, like a man who I grew up. Up watching and loving, especially in those Die Hard movies, espe. You know, Moonlighting and all the other things that he's done. Bruce is terribly sick. I mean, he's terribly sick with a rare form of, like, dementia, Alzheimer's, that. That causes him to be mute. Essentially. He cannot communicate. And they started to notice this at, like, on sets. All of a sudden, he was asking for his lines to be read to him so he could repeat them back. And some people were starting to go, why, like, you know, you've been doing this for years. Isn't that Your job. And then it all went downhill from there. What a burden that he must carry and that the family must carry.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Greene]

But what is fucking beautiful about this situation, what I love, love, love about this situation is the fact that that Demi Moore is still involved in the care of the family and of Bruce and that the new wife, and I'm sorry I failed to remember her name, is all about it. Everybody is tag teaming.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's been that way for years. They've been posting their like, you know, Christmas photos with matching pajamas even before he was sick.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So, yeah, it's great that they've all kind of stayed together.

[Brian Greene]

So it underscores how cool Bruce Willis must be and how cool the people he puts around him must be and his family members must be. And if you remember when Demi and Ashton Couture were starting to date, Kutcher the Butcher were starting to date.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Bruce was all about it. He's like, congratulations, good for you guys. Hope that love blossoms. Hope you guys do okay. You're welcome at my house anytime. There was no drama. There was no, like, no one was getting upset. No one was feeling. I mean, at least not publicly, they weren't. I'm sure there was some feelings behind the scenes, but no one was, what a fucking cool dude. What a fucking cool family. What a fucking cool. But what a fucking cool woman. Two women, right? And the. And the children. See, you can be a superstar, Chrissy, and still be nice.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, you can.

[Brian Greene]

It is possible, despite all evidence to the contrary recently for us, you can be a superstar and still be nice. That's all I've got to say. That's all I'm saying. Chrissy knows what I'm talking about. You will never. But there you go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, yes. We've encountered some along the way.

[Brian Greene]

We've encountered a few. I would say we just encountered the worst, but we've encountered a few. But you know, I take. When I saw the reel, it made me think back on all these things that I have like seen disparately, right. And put them all together and say, what a cool situation.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

While the Poly family.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love seeing that.

[Brian Greene]

Did you notice the Poly family just went away?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, I realized I hadn't watched it in a little while, but I was like, eh, yeah, it just went away. It just stopped.

[Brian Greene]

It just stopped. It just went away. At least. At least it stopped recording on my dvr. Just stop. Five episodes. Six episodes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And it was just getting good, kind of.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They were gonna add in a girl, another girl into the Mix?

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. I think people were like, this is boring. This is twice my daily drama. I don't want to watch it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, well, it was reality TV without the good looking and scripted reality we've come to love.

[Brian Greene]

Yes. When you have reality tv, you put hot people together and throw in some tension and let them go at it. Yeah, there's no tension. God bless them. Listen, I'm not claiming I look any better than anyone on Poly Family because I don't.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No. I mean, it's not about the looks.

[Brian Greene]

But I don't watch it to see people like me. I watch it to see people much better looking than me and then I judge them. That's what I do. Because that's what reality television is. That's the way it goes. Don't say you don't. Because one of my favorite new Instagram accounts is this girl and I can't remember her name. I will remember it. I'll put it in the show. Notes of this episode is an Instagram account where a lady looks for other Instagram accounts. Let's take an example. Paris Hilton posts a picture and then she goes down into the comments and watches while every shithead in America with one tooth, still living with their mother, 375 pounds, not a string of muscle on them, decides to comment on the looks of Paris Hilton. And she posts the look, she posts the comment and then she posts pictures she finds of them. And it is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen in my life. And I'm mad I didn't think of it first. I am mad I didn't think of it first because I thought, wow. Because the comment alone is shitty enough on whoever, you know, like Paris, small tits, never was anybody, whatever. And then posts a picture of some dude basically drooling on himself with, you know, boogers hanging out of his nose. It never had a girlfriend in his life. And it is the funniest fucking shit because it underscores the hypocrisy of what is going on. But I will admit I'm in full hypocritical mood and mode when I watch those reality shows. I'm like, ah. When I see that 90 Day Fiance, I'm like, he, he would never date her in real life if it wasn't for 90 Day Fiance's cameras. That would never be going on. But who am I to judge? Look at my wife. You think, you think I didn't marry 12 levels up? I married 12 levels up.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You did. But you're a good looking couple.

[Brian Greene]

Well, thank You? Yes, we're a good looking couple because it's like Astrid raises the law of averages. If there's power of small numbers, if there's just two of us and one of us is a 10 and the other one's a 2, we're gonna be at a 7, you know what I'm saying? Did I do the math right there? I don't think I did the math right there. Anyway, I just wanted to share that story about Bruce Willis and Bill Murray on Andy because I never knew they were friends. How would I know? I'm not friends with neither of them, but I thought it was a beautiful story and Bill really got very choked up about it when he was thinking about Bruce and.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I like watching him in interviews and listening to him. Actually just a little while back, listened to a whole like hour long interview with him on. I think it was like on my New York Times audio.

[Brian Greene]

He's been making the rounds stuff. Yeah, he's been making the rounds.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He's a funny guy. Like, I mean, he's emotional too. He's real.

[Brian Greene]

He's real. Here's where I put my finger on Bill. I think comedians are. We are. No, say we. Let me back up for a second. I think comedians, they are, have the ability to point out insecurities, funny situations, absurd things, hypocrisy, and kind of put a mirror to the rest of the world. But I think that they fiercely protect or have the inability sometimes to see those things in themselves. So I think some of the most famous comics in the world have really been messed up people. Right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Chevy Chase. I mean, I can go on and on. I don't need to go on and on, but I can go on and on. And if they make it to old age, which some of them don't, I. E. Chris Farley, they make it to the old age. If you make it to old age in general, you're gonna start to learn some things, of course, because life is gonna pound you against the wall until you do. You're gonna keep on repeating the same mistake over and over and over again. You're gonna keep running into the same emotional walls over and over and over again until you learn your fucking lesson. Take it from a guy who needs to be taught 30 times and then on the 31st lesson, and I might or might not take a hint, right? I know this all too well. I get the sense that Bill Murray was kind of went through life with comedy as his guard from that reflection in the mirror until very recently, I think.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So too. I agree with you.

[Brian Greene]

When tragedy hit and he had a lot of people that were crawling down his neck about past behaviors and all this stuff. And he did some things that maybe weren't so cool. And he had to say maybe that maybe I didn't do that the right way. And when. When you're forced to stop and take a look, when you're like, hot to trot, everybody loves you, everything about you, and then someone goes, yeah, but there's this other side to Bill that sometimes is not so hot, and you're forced to take a look at that, then I think that couldn't equal growth or further deepen your position as kind of an asshole. Right. And I think Bill went the other direction, seems to me, because I see these interviews too. Right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And he did have kind of a reputation for being a little bit of a dick dick in the earlier years.

[Brian Greene]

He did. There's a lot of people that have come out publicly and said, I didn't like working with Bill Murray. He was kind of a dick. Who was the guy? He did what about Bob With Richard Dreyfus. Richard Dreyfus hates Bill Murray and takes every opportunity to tell everybody what a dick Bill Murray is. And if you listen to the story that Dreyfus tells, and listen. Dreyfus. No fucking.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I was gonna say songstress himself.

[Brian Greene]

That guy is a fucking asshole who thinks very highly of himself, himself. But when you hear the story he tells about being on set with Bill, doesn't sound very pleasant. Right. Bill was Bob, essentially, and drove Dreyfus nuts, despite Dreyfus continually telling him, settle the fuck down. And he just kept going at him, going at him, thinking. I think, thinking that it would make the movie better. And how can you make that movie better? I mean, it's brilliant. It's a classic.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian Greene]

But now I see Bill in these interviews. Same ones you see, he was on with Theo Vaughn. I think he stopped by Joe Rogan. No intention of him coming by the commercial break. Just settle down, everybody. I think the only A listers we've ever had, we've either pissed off or we haven't even managed to get through the first five minutes of conversation with them before they left. But Bill has been on these shows and I've watched him, and it does appear that there's a little bit of self awareness creeping in them.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's the 70s.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So you gotta think once you get to that age. Yeah. You're happy to be alive and. And maybe remorseful for some times in the past. Yeah, that you weren't so nice.

[Brian Greene]

Listen, that's the way I guarantee we all get there. We're going one of two ways. We're going villages, Fox News, or we're going soften up in the belly a little bit because we're realizing how lucky we were to take this spin around Earth and how we probably could have done a few things differently. So that's all I gotta say. That's my little soapbox for the day, Chrissy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I like it. Thank you.

[Brian Greene]

Well, then let's take a break. Break. And I'll find another soapbox. Jump on on the next segment. Boom, boom. Right back at you. All right, we'll be back. When am I.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What's going on?

[Brian Greene]

Oh. Oh, sorry. Hey, Kevin. Try that again. I hit the wrong buttons. Try that again. We're going to start the. We are going to start the commercial break now.

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[Brian Greene]

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[Rachel]

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[Brian Greene]

Miracles in Real Life yes or no?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Yes. Can we take a minute, just one second, to acknowledge on this very silly stupid show that no one cares about that a miracle happened right in front of all of our eyes? And I don't know if you've noticed yet, but I'm going to point you in the right direction. The world's largest passenger jet, a 787, took off from an airport in India and minutes later blew up and smashed into a set of buildings in India. Terrible tragedy where everyone on board perished because no one survives plane crashes like that. Except for one fucking dude. Yeah, who walked away with every limb and apparently his penis still intact. And I don't want to make light of it because a lot of people perished like I don't know, 227 or something. But this dude walked right out of the plane into an apartment building to waiting to where people were waiting in open arms to take him downstairs and carry him off to an ambulance.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's amazing.

[Brian Greene]

It's unfucking believable is what it is. This is a modern day miracle. And I don't know who this guy is, but he should count every lucky star he ever had and we should maybe talk to him. Maybe he's. Maybe he's an alien.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. He's got to be getting interviewed.

[Brian Greene]

He has been interviewed by a lot of people. And as a matter of fact, I think I have one of those interviews if you want to read. Just first you want to. You want to get more information on this guy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Because the last I saw he was in the hospital and they were just reporting that he, you know, had lived.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, he. He's been. He's been making the rounds a little bit, but.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, wait, what a shocking thing to come out of.

[Brian Greene]

Shocking.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You know, just if you're the one person that survives.

[Brian Greene]

His brother was on the flight like 10 rows back. And by the way, seat change is what put him in 11A. 11A being the emergency exit row and is how he was able to get out, just walk out of the door is because there was a door right there. Yeah, right. When the entire plane was disintegrated, he had a door he could walk out of. It's just, quite frankly, it's just like. It boggles the mind. It harkens back.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, it reminds me too of like 911 stories from 911 where, you know, the kid was late for school and so the dad had to take and miss the flight or missed being in the towers at the time.

[Brian Greene]

Didn't Danny DeVito was. I think Danny DeVito, if I'm not mistaken, was supposed to be on one of those flights, was running late, changed his flight. Whatever happened, I mean, there's lots of stories like this, right. He's not the only person who's ever been the only survivor of a plane crash. But it doesn't happen very often. Commercial jet crashes, they're usually not survivable. And there's a lot of reasons why. And there's a few notable examples, like Sully fucking hero Sullenberger, who landed an entire plane on the water, which is nearly an impossible thing to do with a jetliner. Jetliners, they're big and they're heavy. They don't glide. I mean, they can glide, but. But usually you're in trouble if something goes terribly wrong on a. On a commercial jetliner. But they're also extraordinarily safe. It's. I mean, until recently.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Which is why Usually when you hear about a plane crash, it's a deadly disaster. But it harkens back to that story. If you remember this like 30, 40 years ago, it was an airplane in Brazil and it exploded midair and there was a young lady who was with her parents, she's like 11 years old. And it exploded in midair over the Amazon and debris went everywhere. And like 19 days later the young lady walked out of the Amazon.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that was wild.

[Brian Greene]

That is way wild.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Whoa.

[Brian Greene]

Way wild. And then recently there was like a small plane crash in the Amazon and three kids huddled up together and survived until some until authorities found them. A British man who was. By the way, this is what a BBC News. The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday's Air India plane crash said he managed to escape through the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage. I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through the opening and crawled out. I am definitely going to murder his name, so I'm not going to even try. His last name is Ramesh. Mr. Ramesh, 40 years old, was in seat 11A on the London bound Boeing 787 flight when it went down shortly after taking takeoff in Western India. Air India said all other passengers and crew were killed, including 169 Indian nationals, 52 British nationals. More than 200 bodies have been recovered so far. Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr. Ramesh said the lights inside the aircraft started flickering moments after takeoff. Within five or ten seconds it felt like the plane was stuck in the air. What a nightmare. What a nightmare. The light started flickering green and white. Suddenly it slammed into a building. Building and it exploded. The Boeing 7878 Dreamliner crashed into a building used as an accommodation for doctors. Wow. At the medical college and civilian hospital. But Mr. Ramesh, a businessman, a businessman from Leicester, I guess that's in England, who has a wife and a four year old son, said the section he was sitting in landed near the ground and did not make contact with the building. No one could have gotten out from the opposite side, which was toward the wall because it crashed. Crashed. The cause of the crash is not yet known. Video shared on social media shows Mr. Ramesh walking toward an ambulance with smoke billowing behind him. For a moment I felt like I was going to die too. But when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realized I was wife still alive. I still can't believe I I survived. While Mr. Ramesh did have some like non emergency injuries, he was disoriented with multiple small injuries all over his body. He appears to be out of danger. Wow.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's. I know it's hard to comprehend.

[Brian Greene]

It is really hard to comprehend. Really, really hard to comprehend how you are in the middle of that carnage and then you just walk out. It's a miracle. There's no other way. I would start thinking I was an alien. I would start second guessing my actual humanity after that. I'd be like, you remember Bruce Willis in that. What was it called? What was the movie where he was a hero? Where he survived the train with aliens? No, he survived the train crash and then he realized he was a. Oh, well, there's the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The one with the boy.

[Brian Greene]

The one with the. Not. Not that one. One. They'll be. Same director, different one. Hold on. We're so terrible. We are the worst. We are the worst.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's people out there, too, listening, that know that I know.

[Brian Greene]

They are screaming at us. Yes. Allison says it all the time. She goes, I scream all the time at you guys. Not the Fifth Element. Not that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No. I love that. The Fifth Element movie.

[Brian Greene]

The Fifth Element is really good. I just read that. Was it the Fifth Element where the director married. Who?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Was it Mila Djokovanic or something?

[Brian Greene]

Djokovanic or whatever her name was. And she was like 16 years old?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. I think there was something weird.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. And that director had. And he divorced another 16 year old to do it. It was really weird. Oh, what was that movie where he played not glass. That's the follow up. You're showing every movie, but you're not showing the movie I want to know about. And now the Sixth Sense is the one you're thinking of, but it's not that one. Unbreakable. That's it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Unbreakable. I don't think I saw that.

[Brian Greene]

Chrissy, this is the best movie ever. You gotta watch Unbreakable. It's by the same director who did Sixth Sense. It is an unbelievable movie where a guy comes to the realization after surviving a train crash where everybody else perishes. Most people perish. He survives the train crash without a scratch.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And he's an alien.

[Brian Greene]

He realizes he's a superhero. Oh, and it is the most unbelievably beautiful Mo. It's so awesome. It's like you're watching someone realize that they're a superhero. But not like, with a cape and all the Corny, Right? Yeah, it's very, like, hyper realistic.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What's his power? To stay alive.

[Brian Greene]

He's unbreakable.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Greene]

He's unbreakable. He cannot Be broken. But just like that other movie where I can't remember Signs. Remember Signs? Where the water kills the aliens? Just like Signs. Water is his downfall. It's water. That's his downfall.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

His kryptonite.

[Brian Greene]

His kryptonite is water, essentially. It's a fantastic movie. You have to watch it, Jeff. Get together and watch Unbreakable one night, and I guarantee you're gonna love it. Anybody who's seen Unbreakable knows what a great movie movie this is. M. Night Shyamalan. M. Night Shyamalan is really. M. Night Shyamalala is really good at what he does when he's at his best. He's really bad at what he does when he's at his worst. There are some real stinkers out there, but Unbreakable is not one of them. Signs is not one of them. I think Signs and Unbreakable are probably my favorite. Then they have, like, the. Is it lady in the Water or Lady of the Night or whatever? Lady in the Water?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Lady in the Water?

[Brian Greene]

No, I think that won the Academy Award. Isn't that about the lady in the water? They're, like, keeping her as a scientific secret. Do you remember that one?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I didn't watch it.

[Brian Greene]

That one was good, too. I like that one.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, that's M. Night.

[Brian Greene]

That's not M. Night. Lady in the Water is not M. Night.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We're going all over the place.

[Brian Greene]

We're not.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Where does an alien fit in?

[Brian Greene]

Signs. Okay, Signs is the alien movie from M. Night Shyamalan. And that has got Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson, and a fantastic acting all around. And you've never seen Signs?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I mean, it seems familiar, but the aliens come.

[Brian Greene]

Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson. Mom just died of a terrible, tragic car accident. And the little. And there's a little girl in the movie, too. The aliens come. They're like farmers in the middle of nowhere. And what do they do?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Whacking tree.

[Brian Greene]

Whacking tree. That's it, actually. You got it. Joaquin Phoenix takes a baseball bat to the aliens. He literally whacks them. How did you know that? He takes a tree and he whacks them. It's a whacking tree. How did you know that? How did you know that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

When I think of aliens, I think of Whacking Tree now until they figure.

[Brian Greene]

Out that, like, water is their downfall. I think they use, like, squirt guns or something. I mean, it's kind of corny, but. But science is a great movie because the visuals that M. Night Shyamalan puts in there, the. Like, the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The he's known for that.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, the intensity in which he can ratchet up your emotions and then scare the holy out of you and then, you know, make you cry and then all this other stuff. It's crazy. And Mel Gibson, think what you will of the guy. He gives a tour de force performance in there. And if you don't cry when Mel Gib Gibson is crying about his wife and trying to protect his remaining children from, you know, the aliens that are right outside the door, then you don't have a heart, man. You don't have a heart anyway. Love Bruce in summation, love Bruce Willis. Die Hard's not a Christmas movie. Moonlighting was a good show. Poly families no longer signs. Unbreakable Sixth Sense aliens, the whacking tree squirt guns. Watch it. Did you get that? All in that order? Planes survive the planes. Survive them if you can. We're going to hell. We're all going to hell. And when you're an A lister, don't be a dick. How's that? Don't be a dick. Or then you're going to be a D lister.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well. Well, I would venture to say that that happens. Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. Someday, Chrissy, someday we'll write a book. Yes, yes. When we don't desperately need a. Listeners to show up on the show will write a book.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Maybe I should write that in the notebook. Maybe that's what I need.

[Brian Greene]

I think we need to write it in the notebook. I think we know we're gonna remember that one forever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Don't be a dick, dude. Oh, anyway, pardon the interruption in the middle of the show, but, you know, we got back to it eventually. All right. I don't know what else to say, really. I don't know know what you want me to say.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't either.

[Brian Greene]

All right, well, here, I'll start here. Give us a call. 212-4333, TCB-212-433-3822. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas? You want to be a guest? If we decide, we.

[Rachel]

If we decide and we're permitted to.

[Brian Greene]

Do live recordings, we would love to have you. So if you're in the Atlanta area, let us know. And phone number to the text message hotline, let us know you want to be on the list. And we already have some people on the list, which is surprising. I didn't think anybody would let us know. But some people did let us know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, that's good.

[Brian Greene]

All right. Okay. Also, tcb, podcast.com. you can go there. You can get your free TCB sticker. All you have to do is drop us your physical address into the contact us form and we will send you one. All the comings and go goings about Chrissy and I, all the audio, all the video, it pops up there automatically. So when they drop down everywhere else, they drop right into our website. So you really want to stay up to date and you love just browsing. That's your thing. Browse on over to our website. Over 50 people a year visit that website.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Unique visitors.

[Brian Greene]

Unique visitors. That's right. Add the commercial break on Instagram. Lots and lots of you following like new followers on Instagram. I love it. Keep it, keep it coming. Keep it coming. Yeah, Instagram's gonna soon celebrate 6555 YouTube.com thecommercial break for all of the episodes on video the same day they air here on the audio. It's technology at work. It's magic. It too is a miracle.

[Rachel]

All right, Chrissy, that's all I can.

[Brian Greene]

Do for now, I think. So tell you that I love you. Best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say goodbye.

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[Brian Greene]

I get asked.