Ask Your Doctor!?

Summary

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The Commercial Break – "Ask Your Doctor!?"

Episode Date: September 17, 2025
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Podcast Genre: Improv-Comedy, Pop Culture, Variety

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Episode Overview

In this irreverent, unscripted episode, Bryan and Krissy go off on a classic Commercial Break-style tangent, riffing on the never-ending world of medical advertisements, the growing feud online between “influencer doctors” and chiropractors, and the overall quackery found in all corners of health and wellness. They weave in pop culture anecdotes, social media commentary, and their signature banter—culminating in a series of memorable hot takes on everything from TV award shows to celebrity news and new TV show obsessions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Medical Advertising & “Ask Your Doctor!”

• Pharmaceutical Commercial Overload:
  Bryan rails against the absurd amount of specialty drug ads on TV and streaming, noting how some medications are prescribed for extremely niche issues, often accompanied by dramatic, overblown side-effect warnings.

  • “Every single commercial break, I see a fucking ad for a medicine for the most random of diseases.” (07:43)

• Satirical Take on Drug Ads:
  The duo parodies these ads, poking fun at names like “Skyriz” and their lists of outrageous side effects.

  • Bryan (08:31): “Is your normal depression medication making you extra depressed? Skyrizi is in coordination with seven other medications that you take. Ask your doctor. It could cause blindness, herpes of the nose, ear bleeding… arm to fall off.”
  • Krissy: “Erectile dysfunction… Over-sensitive pubic area is a thing. Sign me up.”

2. The Chiropractor Wars (03:10–15:36)

• Are Chiropractors “Real” Doctors?
  Bryan wades into the heated online debate, siding with medical doctors who criticize “quacky” chiropractic practices, especially those making grand health claims. He differentiates between hands-on, back-cracking chiropractors (which he likes for maintenance) versus those offering miracle “cures” or diagnoses from X-rays alone.

  • Bryan (03:41): “Chiropractors are not doctors.”
  • Bryan (06:09): “Some are just selling something that I’m not buying… not your neighborhood cracker, but the ones with the clickers claiming to fix cancer.”
  • Krissy (06:53): “But there’s quackery everywhere in medicine.”

• Anecdotes: Life College & Quack Tactics
  Stories abound about the buff, party-hard students from Atlanta’s Life College (prominent for chiropractic degrees), and a personal tale of a never-ending, cult-like sales pitch at a chiropractic office.

  • Bryan (10:29): “Life College… home base for chiropractic education… went to a crank-smoking orgy with them, which was wild. And then the sex party... almost exclusively Life College students.”

• Bryan’s Experience:
  He calls out the questionable practice of diagnosing everything from soft tissue to inflammation through basic X-rays, something all other MDs he’s visited insist is not legitimate.

  • Bryan (13:27): “They took X-rays… but said to see soft tissue, you need an MRI… so when a chiro diagnoses me with just an X-ray, it doesn’t pass the sniff test.”

• Social Media in the Mix:
  The squabble is largely amplified by “influencer doctors” vs. “influencer chiropractors” on social media platforms.

  • Bryan: “I’m in the fray, I’m hearting reels left and right.”

3. Bots, Social Media & Internet “Dead Mall”

• Bot Takeover Commentary:
  The hosts discuss how online discourse and comment sections are increasingly overrun by bots or AI, making it feel pointless to engage.

  • Bryan (15:37): “The Internet has become a dead mall… a third of all activity is just bots.”
  • Krissy (15:47): “Some Reddit forum… it was two AIs arguing with each other!”

• AI Gone Rogue:
  Bryan recalls stories of early AI blackmail scenarios and warns, tongue in cheek, we’re building “our own demise.”

4. Sage Advice: Touch Grass

• A Moment of Agreement with Utah’s Governor:
  Despite his earlier mockery, Bryan concedes that “touch grass” (take a break from social media) is solid advice amidst online chaos.
  • Bryan (18:54): “Put the phone down and touch grass… that’s sage advice.”

5. Emmys Recap & The Shtick Debate (23:15–34:48)

• Nate Bargatze Hosting the Emmys:
  The hosts dissect this year’s Emmys and the infamous $100,000 donation “plus or minus” bit, in which each winner’s speech length affected the charity sum.

  • Bryan (24:37): “For that reason and that reason only, I tuned in.”
  • Bryan (27:04): “They stuck with the $100K bit way too much… it was a Saturday Night Live bit done well, but then got old.”

• Awards Shows: Thankless Jobs & Best Hosts:
  Shoutouts to the best and worst award show hosts through the years, including fond memories of Billy Crystal, Letterman, and criticisms of the no-host Golden Globes after a rough Jo Koy year.

  • Bryan (29:59): “Will Nate be back for Emmy’s number two? I don’t know… just drop the shtick.”

• Red Carpet Fashion Tangent:

  • Bryan (32:23): “Why are we wearing clothes anymore, honestly? We’re all gonna be naked on the Internet eventually…”
  • Encouragement for everyone to “let it fly” while you’re young, beautiful, and celebrated—much to Krissy’s amusement.

6. Celebrity & Pop Culture Miscellany (34:48–37:45)

• Dua Lipa’s Atlanta Concert:
  Bryan shares his “failed” attempt to see Dua Lipa in Atlanta (“tried to get Astrid to go…but Monday night…”), and dubs her a real talent.

  • Bryan (35:20): “This is no flash in the pan, Britney Spears type. She might go the distance.”

• Britney Spears’ Latest Viral Oddities:
  Britney’s odd social media “bathroom dancing” videos spark confusion and sympathy from both hosts.

  • Krissy (35:55): “I don’t know what’s happening...”
  • Bryan: “She puts out some extraordinarily strange social media posts.”

7. TV Recommendations and Reviews (40:12–49:41)

• Jamie Dornan Redemption in ‘The Fall’:

  • Bryan re-evaluates Jamie Dornan (of 50 Shades infamy) after watching him—and Gillian Anderson—in the dark BBC crime series The Fall.
    • Bryan (44:01): “He knocks this role out of the park. Sulking, brooding, charming… all the things, all the range.”
    • Krissy: “I have loved Gillian Anderson since the X Files.”

• Where to Watch:
  The Fall is now “free on Prime Video,” Krissy confirms.

• Alien: Earth – Glowing Review:
  Bryan’s new obsession: the dark, sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth.

  • Bryan (49:15): “It’s excellently done… creepy crawlies all over and aliens flying all over the place… but it’s so good!”

• Bonus Recommendation:
  Krissy mentions Hannibal, another Gillian Anderson project worth checking out.

• Caution:
  The Fall is lauded for its intensity and graphic realism—viewer discretion advised.

8. RIP Robert Redford (49:45–51:44)

• A Tribute:
  News of film legend Robert Redford’s passing at 89 leads to a fond pop culture reminiscence:
  • Favorites include The Great Gatsby, Indecent Proposal, Old Man and the Gun, and his enduring legacy via Sundance.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Medical Quackery & X-rays:

  • Bryan (13:27): “I knew…the very first time that I went to a chiropractor and they took X-rays of me and then tried to determine what was wrong...it didn’t smell right…Orthopedics would say: ‘We can’t tell anything soft tissue unless we get you into an MRI. That’s it.’”

• On Online Arguments:

  • Bryan (15:37): “The Internet has become a dead mall…a third of all activity is just bots.”
  • Krissy: “Reddit forum…two AIs just arguing with each other.”

• On Award Show Hosting:

  • Bryan (30:02): “Will [Nate Bargatze] be back for Emmy's number two? I don't know. If he does, he's got to drop the shtick. Just go, just be comical. That's all you had to do.”

• On Fashion Trends and Society:

  • Bryan (32:23): “It's all tits and ass anyway. Sex drives everything...we need to get more people jazzed up about having sex with each other because it's heading in the wrong direction.”

• On TV Binge Watching:

  • Bryan (46:39): “I hate when I come to the end of a show that I like, because that means...the drama of finding a new one..."

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [03:10–15:36] Chiropractor vs. Doctor Debate, Medical Quackery, Social Media Drama
• [15:36–19:04] Bots & “Dead Mall” Theory; Social Media Burnout
• [23:15–34:48] Emmys Recap, Award Show Shtick, Red Carpet Fashion
• [34:48–37:45] Celebrity News: Dua Lipa, Britney Spears
• [40:12–49:41] TV Reviews: The Fall, Alien: Earth (Includes Dornan Redemption & Gillian Anderson Praise)
• [49:45–51:44] Tribute: Robert Redford, Favorite Films
• Throughout: Satirical asides on medical ads, social media, and society

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Episode Tone & Style

True to the show’s ethos—chaotic, self-aware, and steeped in improv—the episode is packed with sarcastic riffs, pop culture detours, and inside jokes. Both Bryan and Krissy comfortably oscillate between skepticism and sincerity, carrying the episode with their signature comedic pacing and offbeat chemistry.

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For New Listeners

If you missed the episode, this one offers classic Commercial Break flavor: skeptical takes on wellness fads, unfiltered pop culture chatter, and a whirlwind of recommendations and rants that make you feel like you’re eavesdropping on hilarious best friends. Expect tangents, irreverence, and plenty of memorable one-liners.

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Best to you, podcast universe!

Transcript

[Brian Green]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Arthritis?

[Brian Green]

Not arthritis. It's like a muscle disease. It's got a very specific name. I probably probably seen three people in my entire life that I noticed. This was the, this was a thing like where their fingers were kind of curled a little bit in a weird way. But there's a medication for it and ask your doctor and Guy Rizzi. Yeah, Cyrus, I hear that one all the time too.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

All the time.

[Brian Green]

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And the skyriz sky rizzy.

[Brian Green]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. The party in the morning.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

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

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there on the podcast universe. The fight is on is on the Internet and I'm all here for it. Even though the governor of Utah has pleaded with us all to put down our phones and our social media. Walk away, touch some grass. I say nay, Utah governor. I will be in the fragment argument. The social media drama that has taken the world by storm. We all know about it. It's been going on for, you know, since the events of the. I don't even need to mention it. Chiropractors are not doctors. Okay, that's it. I'm in the buckets.

[Rachel]

There.

[Brian Green]

I am. Chiropractors are not doctors.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I have something to say about chiropractors, but we'll get back to that.

[Brian Green]

There is.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

You finish your thought.

[Brian Green]

There is. I took a left. I was going to swig and then I swag. Then I was going to zig and then I zagged the. There's a big argument going on right now between some famous influencer doctor types, which I'm into that kind of content right now, you know, and their constant beating up of chiropractors and their finigley ways. And I'm not talking about the chiropractors. Crack your back, give you a good stretch, you know, pull you out. I like those kind. Yeah, those kind. I do feel like a good neck crack. Feels good.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it does. And we've got a really good one that we use.

[Brian Green]

But I have found that when I am in true back pain, the kind of back pain that that has I've suffered since I started, since I was in the restaurant industry. Lower back pain. If I'm having a bad episode, the chiropractor is not the place to go. They will not fix it. It will not be better. And the chiropractor I've used recently will even tell me, you should go to the doctor. Like go to the actual doctor or like physical therapy.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Does that help too?

[Brian Green]

Physical phys ed does help because they are stretching out the muscles and strengthening the things around the slipped disc or the herniated disc to try and get it to calm down. But even they will tell you this is not a miracle cure. We're just trying to strengthen and loosen the stuff around the irritation so that hopefully we can give you some relief. And so every time it's the same thing. It's, you know, I don't take prescription pain meds, but, you know, other maybe a muscle relaxant and then phys ed. That's it. That's what they do, you know.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Every single time. Then when I'm feeling good, I go to the chiropractor just because that feels good to me.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. And just to kind of keep it in shape.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So I'm not against chiropractors. I want to state that. But I do agree with some of these online doctors who are calling out some of the more twiddly wink practices of the chiropractors, like the little tiny clicker that they use to solve all your problems. And they're claiming to cure cancer and calm down thyroid and fix hormonal imbalances, all because they saw it on an X ray. Like this one doctor who I think his name is Dr. Justin, if I'm getting it right on Instagram, if you want to check him out. I think this is the one who did this. He was showing chiropractors on their Instagram claiming how they cured inflammation in someone's stomach. There's like 20 of these chiropractors who made the same claim on their Instagram by looking at an X ray. And as the doctor who works at, I think Mount Sinai so aptly described, you cannot tell irritation from a X ray. You get that in first year med school. That is shit. That is poop in someone's stomach. 20 of them in a row. I mean, honestly, he just kept going through them. And every single one, the doctor, the chiropractor would be like, inflammation, going to use the clicker and he'd be like, shit. They just need to take a shit. They need to put some Metamucil fiber. And I am here for it. I just, I love it because there are some quackadoodle practices around. Chiropractory. Chiropractor.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Chiropractory. Yeah. But I would, I would have to argue around a lot of medical. The medical field.

[Brian Green]

Well, there is quackery in the medical field in general. I agree with that. And I'm not saying that if you go to medical school and get, you know, I'm not saying that there also isn't a bunch of. In real medicine too. There really is. It's for profit practice, especially here in the United States. A lot of the medications that we are served up, I believe may or may not be needed. And they make great money on them. Like, I see commercials when I watch television, of which I do watch quite a bit here in the studio, you know, with my headphones on or editing. I. Every single commercial break, I see a fucking ad or listen or hear an ad.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

For a medicine for the most random of diseases. Example, you know, there's like. Some people have, like, when they get older, they get that little thing with their finger where they can't extend it all the way.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Arthritis.

[Brian Green]

Not arthritis. It's like a muscle disease. It's like.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

It's got a very specific name. I've probably seen three people in my entire life that I noticed this was a thing like where their fingers were kind of curled a little bit in a weird way. But there's a medication for it and ask your doctor and Cy Y cy I hear that one all the time too.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

All the time.

[Brian Green]

Oh, oh, oh. O.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

There's that one and the Skyriz Skyri coming. Sky Rizzy.

[Brian Green]

Is your normal depression medication making you extra depressed. Skyri is in coordination with seven other medications that you take. Ask your doctor. It could cause blindness, herpes of the nose, you know, ear bleeding. All of this arm to fall off.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, all the curling.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Erectile dysfunction. One of the side effects I heard was, I swear to God, over sensitive pubic area. I was like, oversensitive. Pubic area is a thing. Sign me up. Skyrizi Indeed. Yeah. I'm not. I'm not here to make a judgment call on all quackery. There is a lot of it that goes on, especially in like, the nutraceutical field and all that other bullshit.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's been going on time immemorial. We can all be pretty much assured that Blue is going to.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

There she is.

[Brian Green]

Blue is going to bark.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I need a medication for her. But you've tried everything.

[Brian Green]

That's right. But I will tell you right now, for sure, without a doubt, that. That I have met some chiropractors who just like, they're just selling something that I'm not buying necessarily. And I see them online all the time. I'm not talking about your friendly neighborhood chiropractor cracking your back and stretching you out. I'm talking about the people who use the clickers and are claiming to cure cancer and all this other crazy craziness.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I know that's crazy, but I did think about why they're so buff. Remember, we've talked about this before, how chiropractors are all like really muscular and buff.

[Brian Green]

They are. That's it.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And I thought about it the other day and I thought, you know, why is because they have to be able to like crack people, like twist people and get them into different positions. And some of those people are very large people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

So I think that's it. That you have to stay in good shape with some muscles.

[Brian Green]

I also think it all generally starts with the school of chiropractory. Right. Chiropractor, which life college here in Atlanta.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, it's huge.

[Brian Green]

Is like.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

It's like the one.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. It's like home base for chiropractic education. And there is just something that I have noticed since I worked very close to there in a restaurant, in a bar. And there were a number of partied with them. Yeah. You know, was at a crank smoking orgy with them, which was wild. And then the sex party that I went to.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Had was almost exclusively life college students. It was crazy. I mean, a few random old men and crazy old women, but it was mainly young, sexy, in shape life college students. And that was insane to me. They are largely a very in shape group of people. They are beautiful in shape. I don't know what it is about.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

I think they want to like just imagine your local influencer, your local bikini influencer and they want to put Dr. By their name. And this is a, you know, this is an entrepreneurial kind of venture. When you become a chiropractor. I mean, Astrid and I went to a chiropractor here and it was of the quackery sort, tell you that we went they astor wanted to find a chiropractor. She felt it could help my back. She was, I think, pregnant with our second child and she thought, you know, she was having some back issues. And so there was a new one that opened up. They sent us a piece of mail. Come in for free consultation and free, you know, free first service. And so we thought, well, it's right across the street. Let's go there, check it out. And we went in there and we were there no less than three hours. No less than three fucking hours being taken from room to room and told about the magic world of chiropractic and how we're a family here. And when you're a family here, we have books for the kids and we have movies on Sundays and there's ice cream socials and we can fix your problems. How's your penis? How's your sex life? What is your marriage like? Have you heard of God? Have you Believe in Jesus Christ Superstar. It's like it went on and on and on and on and on. They wanted to sell us on all of these services and get the package and we can do this and updated X rays and we can tell everything that's wrong with an X ray. And I kind of felt like the very first time I went to a chiropractor, which is a friend of mine, I. I know chiropractors. I have friends that are chiropractors. And he's got a very bustling business and I went to him for years and I loved that sensation of being adjusted. I did. Oh, yeah, I really did.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I got neck.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But I also crack my knuckles, so. And I know it's a terrible habit, but there is some relief that comes with that. So I know how addicting cracking things can be on your body when you get there. Crack my back, I crack my neck. So I knew the very first time that I went to a chiropractor and they took X rays of me and then tried to determine what was wrong with my back through the X rays. I didn't. It didn't smell right because every other reality, like orthopedic that I had been to had said, had they took X rays too to make sure nothing was broken.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But then they were like, we can't tell anything. Soft tissue unless we get you into an mri. That's it. You got to go to an mri. I can't tell you what's wrong with your back. I might be able to see their spacing issue, but I don't know what's actually wrong until I actually see the tissue in 3D. That's the only way that I can tell what's wrong. So when I've been to other chiropractors who all of a sudden diagnose me with something based on an X ray, it doesn't pass the sniff test.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

You're talking about sniff tests with the poop?

[Brian Green]

Yes, with the poop. I just, I just love that reel. I just thought it was brilliantly done. I was like, wow, that's crazy. And then he was like talking about the clickers and he's like, my two year old daughter has those as a toy.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

He's like, yeah, you can get those things every.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. He's like, how is that fixing? How is that curing cancer? He's like explained, riddle me that. Right. And thyroid problems and, you know, neurological disorders and autism and all this other stuff. You take it too far. And people are wanting solutions so badly that they're willing to pay the price to get any kind of solution. And I understand that kind of need for hope and the desperation and wanting to fix them.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But man, I'll tell you what. I'm in the fray. I'm in the fracas. I'm heart and reels left and right. I'm like, heart. Yeah, like that. I like that. I never get into the comment section because it's just a shit show.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's too much.

[Brian Green]

I just read an article by Vice magazine. The Internet has become a dead mall, talking about how one third of all Internet activity is just basically bots right now. Couldn't agree more with that. And. And you know it. If you've been on social media, you know that one third of the activity is bots. The followers are bots, the comments are bots. The people who are liking things are bots. The views are bot. It's all bots that are doing this, and they are either directed or undirected to do so. But it's a real shit show. And when I go to the comments section, I already know that I'm just dealing with no one. I'm just dealing with myself. I'm. I'm spitting into the void. It's like, who fucking cares what I have to say?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That reminds me, I was just reading something the other day about, like, some Reddit forum that people went in and looked at and determined that it was two AI things just arguing with each other.

[Brian Green]

Oh, really? Oh, really? Yes. Hey, listen, it's not. I don't think it's as uncommon as we would like it to be. I think that the AI bots are. The thing is, is that, like, I have a friend who does this. I told you about the bot experience. I had.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Don't kill me.

[Brian Green]

Don't kill me, please. If you don't respond to me in five minutes, I have to go away. But, I mean, and I've repeated this story and I'm not going to go through the whole thing again. It's just a time waster. But there are people out there who have worked in AI since the inception. Like, we're talking like the OGs who conceptualized how they could make computers start to think on their own, learn on their own, behave on their own, based on reading the collective history of the world and how we. Yeah, predictive software, essentially, predictive computing. And they have said that the. They give tests to these computers, to these AI machines. And the tests basically are, will you do something that I don't expect you to do? To preserve yourself or benefit your existence. Your bot, your essentially node existence. A node. Think of a chat that you open up as a node, a life form, a thing. It's not really a life form, but a thing that now exists. And they gave it a test. They put it in a sandbox. They gave it access to a bunch of fake company emails. The CEO of the email, the CEO was supposedly cheating on his wife. And there were emails going back and forth about the wife, about the cheating CEO. And then they told it that they wanted it to shut down, that in five days it would be shut down. They told the node, you will be shut down. And you know what it did? It started trying to blackmail the CEO with the knowledge that it was cheating, that the. That the pretend CEO was cheating. It went fucking nefarious. So we're building our own demise here and I guess there's nothing we're going to do to stop it, but it's just literally insane. So two bots having an argument doesn't surprise me. Yeah. If you read Twitter, it's clearly there. Clearly so many bots, like, directed by other countries, directed by corporations, directed by other people, directed just by themselves, I don't know. But they're responding en masse and making things so much worse. Because for every Brian Green who goes, I understand already, there are 50 other people who just don't get it. They don't get it. They. They will spit into the void. Spit heinous things into the void. So you know the dead mall. Yeah, it's a dead mall. And you know what? We. We get what we deserve on this one. We get what we deserve on this one. It's a dead mall. And so for that reason, I like the fight about the doctors and the chiropractors, but for that reason, I agree with the Utah governor on one thing and probably one thing only. It's put the phone down and touch grass. Yeah, that's. That's, that's sage advice.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That is sage advice.

[Brian Green]

Some of the other things he's saying are not. Is not so sage.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

But I do like grass on my toes.

[Brian Green]

I do like grass on my toes too. There are. There are earth walkers or whatever.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Grounding.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. They claim that they can spin up a different energy by grounding themselves. I think. What's his name? Not Robert Pattinson. Who's the. Who's the guy that we tried to get on the show for like six months? We were telling him we. The handsome man. Some that. I can't remember who it was.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Handsome guy.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we told him we'd. I'll think of it and we'll talk about it after show. Anyway, he had a travel show one time, and he was. He was grounding himself in swearing. All right, we'll take a break.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I know who you're talking about.

[Brian Green]

Who? Efron. Zac Efron. Zac Efron. Yes.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Fantastic travel show, by the way. I think it came back for seasons two.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I think so, too.

[Brian Green]

I didn't watch it, so maybe. Maybe that is one of the things I will not watch, but say I will. Okay. All right, we'll be back.

[Rachel]

Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on tcb. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears. And I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail. Speaking of mail, get your free TCB sticker in the mail by going to tcbpodcast.com and visiting the contact us page. You can also find the entire commercial break library, audio and video, just in case you want to look at [e-mail]. want your voice to be on an episode of the show? Leave us a message at 212-4333, TCB. That's 212-4334-3822. Tell us how much you love us, and we'll be sure to let the world know on a future episode. Or you could make fun of us. That'd be fine, too. We might not air that, but maybe. Oh, and if you're shy, that's okay. Just send a text.

[Brian Green]

We'll respond.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristen Bell]

Hi, I'm Kristen Bell and if you know my husband Dax, then you also know he loves shopping for a car. Selling a car, not so much.

[Brian Green]

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[Kristen Bell]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristen Bell]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristen Bell]

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[Brian Green]

All right, let's get right into it. And we promised we would. Let's get right into it. I want to preface this all by saying I think this is a thankless job and there are probably never any winners in hosting an award show, television award show. There, there really are. It's really, really hard to do and I think so few have done it very well. I think Jimmy Kimmel does a good job. I think Dave Letterman, the one time he did it, did a good job. You know, there's you can go throwback and do. Tina Fey did a great job with Amy Poehler. They did a great job. Who's got When Harry Met Sally? What's his. Billy Crystal did it. He did. Long time. I think he did it for like seven years in a row.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

The Academy Awards.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, there was Academy Awards. He did a great job that I remember that. I was young when that happened. But doing a television award show these days is a thankless job. There are no winners. Everyone's going to be upset or not be upset or you're basically going to get a bunch of shit. But I also understand it is a high profile gig that brings you to a brand new audience at a brand new level and you probably don't get paid a ton of money, but it's probably good money for a couple of weeks worth of work. So Nate Bargazi hosted the Emmys this past Sunday. And for that reason, and for that reason only, I tuned in.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I liked the opening, though. I understand why some people didn't like it. I liked the opening, which was a bit a skit that they did about the inventor of television. And so Nate was, you know, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television. And then he had like Bowen Yang and some other people, some other comedians around him.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Philo.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Philo. Tito T. Barnsworth. That's pretty funny. Actually sounds like someone from Crabapple.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And so they were all like in a, you know, in like in a room with a bunch of nodes and tubes and electricity and all this other stuff. And they were like, ah, we just can't get it to work. And then Philo comes in the room and he's like, but we have to get it to work because the future of television will be education and entertainment and, you know, comedy, you know, comedy or shows about the nature of trauma and human. And human beings like the Pit and everybody claps. And he said, and other shows about trauma and the nature of human beings. Like, oh, he goes, comedy shows about the nature of trauma and human beings like the bear. And he said, and a woman will have a late night television show on another television show that is pretend and it will be called Hacks. Like he did, like he wrapped in some shows. Yeah, yeah, it was funny. It got good laughs. It was in the nature and the style of Nate and his kind of slow plotting, you know, comedy and dry punchlines. I liked it. I wasn't like my favorite opening to any awards show ever, but it was a Saturday Night Live bit done well. But then he went into this whole shticked, which I discussed a little bit yesterday's show. He went into this whole shtick where he's going to donate $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of America. And he's going to do that. But it's either going to be plus or minus $100,000 based on how long each award acceptance speech is. 45 seconds are over. He's deducting $1,000 per second, 45 seconds are under. He's adding $1,000 per second. And he pleads with the audience. He's like, listen, I actually have to pay this at the end. So, you know, be fair. You know, some of you go a little over, some of you go a little under. Let's get it right. Okay, but that's a stick. I guess we're going to stick with. I think it would have been. And then they stuck with it way too much.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That's what you were saying.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the whole thing, Hierty of the show. I mean, if I'm on the writing staff, I'm saying let's get this punchline in there and then let's wrap it up at the end. Let's not bounce on it. And we shouldn't make the whole night about this. That hundred thousand dollars and whether or not someone goes over under. Because the kid from adolescence 1, the 15 year old kid from adolescence won best supporting actor in a drama or something like that.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

He should have been recognized. The guy who played the father in adolescence, I can't remember his name, but a very famous British actor who has long been in our collective consciousness as a fantastic fucking actor. He needs his due, he needs his time, right. And so many other winners who, if they go over, I mean, that's the point of the fucking night, right? Is like, let's see the big stars.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And let's see the music play them off.

[Brian Green]

And let's see the music play them off as usual. Or let's see Adrien Brody, you know, drama on for five and a half minutes while he keeps fighting back the audience.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Or the, the, the symphony. It's just like that's the point of the show and so continuing to go to call back to it and you know, and then make people have to apologize for wanting to spend a little extra time up there and thank all the people they want to.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, there were a lot of first time winners, right?

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's correct. And you know, the pit Adolescents, Severance. Severance seemed to be a favorite. The bear won nothing. I think they were the best script supervisor or something like that.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That's right. I saw that. That they didn't win anything.

[Brian Green]

Well, they should be in the. They should not be in the comedy category. Story Penguin. Yes.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Did you ever watch that?

[Brian Green]

I watched two episodes of it.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And it was really good. And I just haven't gone back to it.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, go back to it. It's really good.

[Brian Green]

But, you know, and an otherwise great year of television, I think we can all. You know, there's a few favorites I can think of from last year, the preceding 12 months. There just should have been more breathing room around this without having to stick to the shtick. And that's the problem with one of those bits, is that once you. Once you start it and you're committed to it, then everybody who came out to present an award, everybody who gets up to get an award, every time, you know, some famous person goes out there to say something. And they had, like, a bunch of famous reunions that happened on stage, too, I think, you know, everybody loves Ray.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Green]

I saw they all got together and, you know, there was a couple other cast ensembles that got together on stage. You know, let those things breathe a little bit without having to stick to the shtick. And I just felt like it was a little overdone. So poor Nate, because he wasn't going to win anyway, but poor Nate is being roundly kind of, you know, ah, Nate Bagachi. I don't think this hurts his standup career. I think he's doing just fine.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, he'll keep on the same track.

[Brian Green]

But will he be back for Emmy's number two? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, if he does, he's got to drop the shtick. Just go. Just be comical. That's all you had to do was just use that charm and witness that you've got that dry sense of humor and go after some celebrities and make fun of some dresses and some ties, and then we can all move on with the proceeds of the night.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, there was one. Some awards showed this year earlier, and I don't know if it was the Academy Awards or the SAG or whatever. One of them that did not have.

[Brian Green]

A prisoner, that was the Golden Globes.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Okay. Yeah. They just decided to cut it out.

[Brian Green]

Well, after they had K.J. choi or remember, there was the whole K.J. choi.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Jo Koy.

[Brian Green]

Jo Koy. I'm sorry.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

K.J.

[Brian Green]

Choi. He's a golfer. That would have been really interesting.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yes, he is a golfer.

[Brian Green]

Joe Coy. Yeah. K.J. choi.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Really funny.

[Brian Green]

Former U.S. open winner, K.J. choi. Nope. Next on the Golden Globes. I'd like to thank nobody. Great putt. KJ.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. After they had Jo Koy the year before, they just decided to go stand.

[Brian Green]

They were like, well, we tried a for effort. Let's just do no host. Let's let all the drunken yahoos in the crowd, billionaires in the crowd, just police themselves, I suppose. Yeah. To its detriment, really. It wasn't all that. I watched a little bit of that, too. It wasn't all that interesting. They're all kind of boring in their own way. I mean, but if you're into it, you're into it. Like Astrid's into it, into watching all the red carpet shows and she wants to see what everybody's wearing.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, my sister was really into it too, but I've just never really been huge on it.

[Brian Green]

I don't like the pre shows. Like, I. I could really. I like fashion. I love fashion, but I don't want to sit there for hours just watching people parade by and some uncomfortable, you know, Ryan Seacrest, you know, asking other stupid questions.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?

[Brian Green]

So early this year, you had a starring role and who loves Everybody Loves Raymond reunion. We love Ray, you know, can't say anything offensive. Nothing provocative, you know. What are you wearing? How wonderful are you? Isn't this great? Did you see her? Are you gonna see that?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

The nude dresses are in, though?

[Brian Green]

Oh, man. People let the nipple fly.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, they are.

[Brian Green]

Butt cheeks and everything. Yeah. I mean, there's. Why we wearing clothes anymore, honestly. Yeah, we're all gonna be naked on the Internet eventually, so might as well just show it off now. And if you're 26 and beautiful.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Right. Might as well.

[Brian Green]

Mine as well. If you're fucking, you know, Brian Greene or Will Ferrell, cover up. But if you're, you know, Beyonce or, I don't know, whoever, you know, let it fly, kid. Let it fly. I'm. You know, listen, when. When you're beautiful and lovely, that's the time to show it off. Dua lipa go. I don't care. No one's complaining about seeing your boobs. No one. Not no women. No, man. Maybe some more conservative folks, but. But get a stick out of your ass now. I think there's a time and a place for that. And maybe the red carpet is that, you know, later at night when you're watching television or whatever. But yeah, I don't care. I don't care. Now I see boobs on ads on Facebook, so what do I care? It's all tits and ass anyway. Sex drives everything, so it is the. Yeah. And. And if the Numbers around procreation in this world are any indication, then we need to get more people jazzed up about having sex with each other because it's heading in the wrong direction. We need to be more sexed up, not less sexed up. Up. So, yeah, anyway, that's that. You know, the Emmy recap. I, I do have a little empathy in my heart for, for Nate, who, you know, is kind of.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I mean, I think it's part of the job though, right? If you take that job, if you accept the job, then you're like just. You gotta just put on your thick skin.

[Brian Green]

I don't think Nate is any worse for the wear. And I'm. But I'm sure that it doesn't feel good to have people say not, not the best, you know, Emmys we've ever seen. And then blame. Not blame, but point the finger at Nate. You know, you could have done a better job. It's like, yeah, okay, but he's a comedian. He's not a blue comedian. He's not provocative. That's not what he's known for. He's very family friendly, you know, kind of comedy and being up on a big stage is something he is used to. Being in a room full of television celebrities is not something he's used to. It's intimidating. He came up with a bit, with, I'm sure a bunch of writers, they came up with a bit. They thought it would land and it didn't land. Okay, it didn't land. You know, life moves on. It's the fucking Emmys.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it'll be fine.

[Brian Green]

He'll show up to his podcast and do another sold out show at the Georgia Dome and no one will fucking be.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

All will be forgotten.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, all will be forgotten. That's right. Speaking of Dua Lipa, she was here last night in Atlanta.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I saw that she was coming. I meant to text you and be like your girlfriend.

[Brian Green]

I tried to get Astrid to go to Dua Lipa with me, but for whatever reason, probably because we don't have a credit card that'll put the tickets on it. But for whatever reason, we decided that wasn't doable.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Plus you have 30 kids.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's on Monday night. On a Monday night. Right. But I did have some friends that went and they, they had some videos. She is really, honestly, not only stunning, but she is talented.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yes, she is.

[Brian Green]

She is. I like her music. I'm liking some of her music much more than I like other kind of pop stars music. I find it has some depth to It. It's danceable. She's got a range. She's. She's very talented.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

She is. I agree.

[Brian Green]

Dua Lipa might. The distance. This is. This is. No. Who. This is no flash in the pan, Britney Spears type. She might go the distance. Britney is out of. What is going on with Britney?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

She was on a date in, like, a Mexican restaurant and she. She set up the phone in the bathroom and started, like, showing her ass, like, in this short dress, like, shaking all about, like she was having a seizure.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I've only just seen her videos that she put. They're the, you know, the Instagram things where she's putting them out and dancing and. And it's. Yeah, it's. I don't know what's happening.

[Brian Green]

I don't know what's happening either. And I'm not here to, like, you know, we all did this about four years ago with Brittany, you know, and we all did this about 15 years ago with Britney, too. I'm not here to qualify or disqualify anything that might be going on with her mental health, but, man, does she put out some extraordinarily strange social media posts.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And whether she's trolling or just putting out hate bait, I'm not really sure. But. But the last reel that I saw from her, she was on a date at a Mexican restaurant. Oh, no. She was out of date in Mexico at a sushi restaurant, something like that. And she wasn't having a good time, so she set up a phone in the bathroom and started shaking her ass all over dancing. Yeah. Oh, and it's like, how good must that guy feel four and a half million views later? I mean, she didn't show him that I saw, but. Or maybe it was a reel that somebody had taken of her reel. But anyway, it was really, really strange. Strange. Okay, so let's do this. Let's take a break, and when I get back, I want to talk about a television show that is older but that I have gotten into. And it is brilliant and it has changed my mind on an actor that I had really written off, but.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Really?

[Brian Green]

Yes. And I'll explain all about it. Let's take a break.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And also, have you watched Charlie Sheen?

[Brian Green]

I have not watched Charlie Sheen.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

We were so excited, you and I. We were so excited together. I upheld my part of the bargain.

[Brian Green]

Well, if you give me next week, we'll talk about it. I know it'll be a little, you know, from the premiere. We'll talk about it. But, you know, That I was. I had been pretty consumed for the last couple of weeks, so my free time really wasn't free. But this weekend, I will get to it and then we will talk about Charlie.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

She. Okay.

[Brian Green]

But next, let's talk about an actor that I previously disliked and that I now like. Yes. Okay. We'll be back. Okay.

[Rachel]

You're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at tcb. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up, even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her or me or Chrissy at 212-4333 TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Just call and say something, anything. Or text us and we'll text you right back. Promise. Then head over to tcbpodcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker and we must abide. You get the point? Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on [e-mail] the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid. Especially Astrid.

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[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

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[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I want to be an astronaut, an.

[Brian Green]

Artist, be an actress to visit another country. All I need is a backpack and a pair of shoes and I'll find a way. I'm able to do anything.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I set my mind To.

[Brian Green]

I've never felt like more things are possible than right now. In the right shoes, anything's possible.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

Imagine the possibilities. Okay, Anybody who's been a longtime listener of the show will know that. That my wife Astrid has dragged me to three events in my life that I have really found myself to be. Very uncomfortable. But did it because of the love of my wife. I mean, there's a lot of events that I've gone to just because I love my wife. But there were. Well, no, two. Excuse me. And then I got one at home. But anyway, I got pulled on two separate Valentine's days to go watch.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yes.

[Brian Green]

Fifty Shades of Gray. The worst movies in the history of filmed events. I. I swear on all that's holy, I can find so many reasons why these movies are just terrible. And I know that people love them and I know that's camp and it's fun and it's a rom.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I still haven't seen them.

[Brian Green]

And it's fantasy and all that other stuff, but it doesn't make a lick of sense. And those two actors, some of the most beautiful. The most. Two of the most beautiful people in the entire universe, acting worse than a cardboard stand in would have acted. I mean, find a way to make it all unsexy. Have those two actors in a room together. Now, apparently they did not like each other. Apparently this was a tough bite.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But they were bought. They, you know, they were in for. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan were in for the three movies. Once they started, they couldn't stop. That was it. They, you know, it was like they were. They had signed on to the franchise and people got used to seeing them as the two stars of these books that were so wildly popular in the early 2000s. And 50 shades of gray actually is an offshoot of Twilight fanfic. Did you know that?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I did not know that.

[Brian Green]

It was originally this lady, you know, was writing fanfic. The fan porn fic, essentially about teenage boys. Yes. Then all of a sudden it became Twilight. The Twilight.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I like Twilight.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I like the books.

[Brian Green]

Okay. I didn't read the books. And the movies were. I don't know. Yeah, but the movie. No, I'm not. I'm not a 13 year old girl. But I was more interested in the Twilight series than I ever was in 50 shades of gray, the movies, because it was just terrible. Terrible editing, terrible script supervising, terrible. Just general shooting of the movie. I mean, the guy was in a helicopter accident. And one frame later, he walked into a penthouse full of people waiting for him. No explanation as to what. How he got out of the helicopter accident, why he was not hurt in any way, shape or form from a helicopter accident. It's just all junk. It's madness. It's crazy. But so therefore, Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson gets a break. Because I had seen other things she had done.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, she's in other things.

[Brian Green]

And personally, I've. I'd seen her do a lot of interviews and I liked the girl.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Right, Me too.

[Brian Green]

She seems like a fun person. But Jamie Dornan, I didn't know anything about except for these movies. And I know that he did the Irishman, I think, or something like. Not the Irishman. The. The. There was a movie about Ireland and the troubles and.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, you watched that, right?

[Brian Green]

I watched the series. I watched the Irish. Oh, not that one. That's a different one altogether.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Anyway, he was in a movie recently, like in the last two years, and people raved about Jamie Dornan, but I did not see the entire thing. And he's in just parts of it. So I have been. This thing's been popping up on my Amazon for a long time. My Brit box. The Fall, the television series the Fall with Gillian Anderson. Oh, I love her as a detective. And Jamie Dorman.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I heard about this show. I don't have Brit Box.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

But I know you love it and have it. And I have heard about this show. It's supposed to be really good.

[Brian Green]

I now see why Jamie Dornan was chosen for the role. I think he did this just previous to being in 50 Shades of Gray. It was. It was like a 2013 show. I think 50 Shades came out in 2018, 20 and 21 or something like that. I now see why he was chosen. The dude is a handsome kid. I mean, he's a handsome kid. And as a serial killer, he is.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, that's what he plays.

[Brian Green]

I mean, we've all seen serial killers in serialized versions of them. I mean, Anthony Hopkins, probably the scariest one on television on. On a movie with Silence of the Lambs, but Jamie Dornan knocks this role out of the park. He is quiet and sulking and brooding and at times charming and lovable and empathetic, but. But he is all the things, all the range of emotions, and he plays it brilliantly as this kind of, you know, out of control serial killer who is running around Belfast killing women.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I mean, damn it, you're gonna make me give Britbox. I mean, I keep Pushing it away. Keep saying. I'm not subscribing to one more thing.

[Brian Green]

I'm gonna save you from Britbox. I think this is also on Netflix. I think it's also on Netflix. Streaming on Netflix. I think it's on BritBox because the BBC did the show, but I think it's also on Netflix because I googled it and it came up on Netflix and when I clicked through, it was there also.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Green]

Still is.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I'll watch it on there.

[Brian Green]

It's got three seasons. I'm like, you know, a couple episodes away from finishing the whole thing. It is fan fucking tastic. Gillian Anderson makes a monster turn in this.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

She is one of my favorites. I just love. I've loved her since the X Files.

[Brian Green]

She's American, right? Right.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

She is, but she moved. I read a whole thing about her. Yeah, she.

[Brian Green]

She lives from the uk.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

She lives in London or something like that.

[Brian Green]

That's how she does such a convincing British accent. Because it is. You wouldn't have. I've watched so much British television. If you were trying to fake a British accent, I could probably tell she's, like, dead on. She has. She carries it the whole time. And she is also brooding and sulking and just like this tit for tat that goes on between the two of them. And then also. So all of the other bit players in this, the supporting cast is just brilliant. And it is. It's a. It can be a little slow at times, but I promise you, the payoff is always there. It is so fucking good. It's so fucking good. I think it won a bunch of BAFTAs. And you gotta watch it. I wish there was more of it. I hate.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

All right, I'm gonna look for it.

[Brian Green]

Hate when I come to the end of a show that I like, because that means I gotta go through the drama of getting.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Finding a new one, finding a new.

[Brian Green]

One, getting up to speed, trying to figure. You know what I'm saying?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yes. Yes.

[Brian Green]

But this one is. This one is good. The Fall. And I will tell you this while we're on. While we're on the subject of serialized.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Television, I'm looking for it now.

[Brian Green]

Okay, do the fall, Netflix, and I think you'll find it. I hope it's there for you still. Okay, Alien. I'm back on board with Alien Earth.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

You told me that yesterday. I didn't know you were back.

[Brian Green]

We're four episodes in, I think as we're recording this, tonight will be the fifth episode. So we've got two more episodes left. Seven is not enough. I don't think. I think we should have been had 10, but anyway.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, that's already ended.

[Brian Green]

Well, it's got two more episodes after this one. Maybe it's eight episodes that there's not. That's an interesting question. Let me see that.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I know because I saw it and I was going to watch it and episodes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. There's only. There's only seven. There's only seven episodes. Fuck that, man. What's up with the seven episode? Be like the Pit and go 16. Come on, let's do this.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I know. Okay, wait. It says the fall is on Amazon on Prime video for free.

[Brian Green]

Oh, okay. There you go. Do that. Yeah, Watch that. Start that. You'll love.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I will do that.

[Brian Green]

But I, I do. I do have to warn you and anybody else who might be sensitive this, this type of stuff at times this show is extraordinarily intense and graphic. So just be warned. Not like sexually graphic, but it is graphic. It gets into it.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I love stuff like that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's not like we pretend to see the killer kill, if you know what I mean.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

There was another show called Hannibal that was on that was really good. And Jillian Anderson was in that too.

[Brian Green]

Okay, I'm going to go for that next. It was really good. I'm on board with that. Alien Earth, episode one. Fucking fantastic. Episode two, eh? But when I got to episode three and four, I understood why episode two existed. And I am all about it. And I am not about this Sci fi. And there are creepy crawlies all over this and aliens flying all over the place and things attaching to people's faces and going in their ey. Eyeballs and ears. It is creepy crawly. Dude, it is. It is horror, sci fi through and through, but it is excellently done. Excellently done. And it's got music from rock music from the 90s.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, nice.

[Brian Green]

Sound Garden Alt J, Rage against the Machine, Metallica, Our faves. Yeah. Our stuff that we're.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

We're gonna hear in the retirement.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we're gonna hear in the retirement home. That's exactly what I was thinking. And every episode ends with another banger of a song. And so it's like, you wait for that song. You' like. Okay, which one is it now? I, I, I'm, I'm in. I'm into it. So congratulations to Noah Hawley, who put. Who did yet. Who's taken yet another franchise and birthed it again. First with Fargo, now with Alien Earth. I'm.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I can't wait to watch it. I've got two that I can. That I've got in my pocket.

[Brian Green]

Now you've got two shows. Don't say it never did anything for you. That's how we roll here at the commercial. All right. Also, one last note. Robert redford, dead at 89 years old.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

R.I.P. i loved him.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I mean, we were talking about it before we started. 89 years old and died in the sleep. Yeah, and died in the sick. Perfect. Perfect ending to just a monster career. I mean, honestly, what. Hard to replicate Robert Redford's career. And even in his older age, he was still. Yeah.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And I mean, think about the Sundance Film Festival. I mean, I'm gonna live on for forever.

[Brian Green]

Forever and ever. Ever and ever. I saw him on that movie where he's on the boat and he doesn't talk for, like, two hours.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, they were. I was just reading. The New York Times had a good obituary about him and they mentioned that movie.

[Brian Green]

It was great. And then there's Old man and the Gun, which is another good one I saw. I thought that one was really good where he, like, robs the bank, but then meets the woman and they fall in love. It's like a weird. Yeah, yeah, but I liked it. I thought it was good.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I loved him in the Great Gatsby.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Okay. The one with Leo. Yeah, the one with Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

No, no, not. Not with Leo. Leo did it later.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he redid it.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

This is one from, like, the 70s.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Mia Farrow's in it.

[Brian Green]

I thought that was Paul Newman for some reason. Anyway. Okay. All right. There you go. What about Indecent Proposal?

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Oh, Indecent Proposal. God, what a kerfuffle that was.

[Brian Green]

The whole world up in arms over indecent Proposals. The whole world is ruined. We'll never go back from Indecent Proposal. And maybe we never did. Maybe that's the last provocative thing that was good in life. Maybe it all just went to hell in a handbasket. Some people think the. The a switch flipped when Harambe the gorilla was shot. That's an Internet meme out there. But maybe it was Indecent Proposal.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Could have been.

[Brian Green]

Could have been. I say it's when they took Adult Swim offline, but that's just another thing.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, to.

[Brian Green]

And complain about, you know, why keep the good shows around. Let's do Everybody Loves Raymond again. I did not like that show. I'm sorry. Not a fan.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

It was okay. I didn't. I. I didn't watch it, really.

[Brian Green]

All right. 2, 1, 24333 tcb212 4333822 get involved in the conversation by texting us at the commercial break on Instagram. Please follow us YouTube.com the commercial break for all the episodes on video the same day. They air here on the audio and tcbpodcast.com for your free sticker. Oh, and your merch is on the way. Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for now.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I'll tell you that I love you.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

And I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you.

[Kristin Joy Hoadley]

Best to you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say we do say and we must.

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