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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
How excited I am to get out of this studio?
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
On warm beach days.
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
I can take on the activities and.
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
I'm taking to the beach.
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
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Brian Green
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Unknown
In 1930, the Republican controlled House of Representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the. Anyone? Anyone? The Great Depression passed the. Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill, the Hawley Smoot Tariff act, which Anyone? Raised or lowered raised tariffs in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work. And the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Anyone? Anyone?
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Chris Joy
On this episode of the commercial break. I just locked it and you have to press in the numbers before you lock it or else it's the last person's code. And so then, and then it just started yelling at me. I was like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, red, red, red. And I was like, okay, all right. So here I am, you know, fat, you know, at least you had your underwear. Man boobs. Like, yeah, at least I have my underwear on. So then she comes in and she was like this. She literally put her hands like horse blinders and she's like, I just want to make sure no one else is in here. And I'm like, no, I'm the only old fat guy you're going to see today. So thank you. All right. I mean she was like young too. And I think she was like, oh God, this is not. I don't get paid enough for this.
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Unknown
Exactly.
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Chris Joy
I don't get paid enough to look at this guy naked. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. 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, Chris Joy. Hold the best of you, Chris. Best of you out there in the podcast universe. Why not start off with a race? You remember that movie with Mr. Bean, like the.
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Brian Green
The Great Race or whatever it was called?
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Unknown
That's right.
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Chris Joy
I don't know. For some reason I remember finding that, thinking I found that Movie extraordinarily funny as Mr. Bean ran around and goes, it's a race. I just, like, raced to the chair to put my earphones on and fix all the things that are wrong with the studio, because that's just the way it goes here at the commercial.
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Unknown
Good old updates.
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Chris Joy
Yes, good old updates. Updates. Almost took a salt. One simple computer update almost took the entire show down. Astrid called me this morning. She goes, did you put out an episode this morning? And I'm like, yeah, of course. I always put out an episode. You know, I'm pretty timely with that stuff. I always put out an episode. But I, in fact, did not put out an episode this morning. So. So some listeners recognize that and texted in, chill out. It was like 8 o' clock in the morning. What are you guys doing up so early? Fuck that. Fuck that's too early. I put them out at midnight on the dot just for you. So when you wake up in the morning and your pretty little ears are waiting for Brian to scream and yell at you, you've got it ready to go. That's how it is, Chrissy.
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Unknown
I know it is.
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Chris Joy
The trains must run on time.
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Unknown
They might have. The trains must run on time. They might have been over across the pond.
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Chris Joy
They might be across the pond. That's right. In a race.
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Unknown
In a race.
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Chris Joy
In a race. We were talking about before, right? When we came on air, we were talking about this whole Bill Belichick thing, which I mistakenly thought was the Bill Bellamy thing. Chrissy said, have you heard of the Bill Belichick thing? And I go, who fucking cares about Bill Belichick? And she goes, bill Belichick's girlfriend? And I go, bill, the old MTV vj, right? Does anyone really care about the old mtv?
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Unknown
He was hot for a while.
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Chris Joy
He was hot for a while. Brian got it wrong again.
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Unknown
That's a new one.
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Chris Joy
Yes. Brian got it wrong again. So will it ever end? I got it wrong. Will it ever end? Probably not.
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Unknown
That's a great one.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, there's another one in there, too. Will it ever end?
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Unknown
Did you have this made?
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Chris Joy
Yes, I did. No. Let me tell you what happened. Let me tell you what happened. So, Chat GPT, you know, we're all getting a little used to this AI thing, and we're all trying to figure it out. So, chat GPT, as we're moving into doing 36 interviews in one month because of the 12 hours of TCP, and it just happens to be interview season, I have trained AI to do one thing really well, and it's really, the only thing that I use it for. Well, there's two things that I use it for. One is I ask it to do chapters on our show. So I'll say, hey, can you take this file and do chapters on the show that I can then put into YouTube or. Or into the. Into our hosting system called Megaphone? The other thing that I ask it to do is I ask it to do deep research on our guests, because that's a really hard thing to do. We used to have, like, five people doing the research for the guests. And since we make no money here, we can't afford those five people anymore. So what I said, what I trained Chad GPT to do was anytime that we have a guest, I ask it to go do deep research on the guest. And then a couple of days ahead of time, I can start digesting that information, going and watching links and specials and the highlights of someone's career, which, you know, you. We don't tend to be like. If you listen to the commercial break, then you'll know that our interviews are not the this is your life type of interview, which a lot of people do. But we don't have the time. We only, you know, we only request an hour from our guests because quite frankly, that's all the. That's my attention span span limit is one hour. But also, we don't want to tax the guest with some lengthy interview, especially when we don't know them.
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Unknown
And a lot of times they've already done it somewhere else.
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Chris Joy
They've done it a million times somewhere else.
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Unknown
It's like, okay, recount. How did you get stars?
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Chris Joy
Yeah, exactly. I want to get something else out of them. I would rather pretend like I just met them at a bar and we were having a conversation. If you met Margaret show at a bar or Kyle Kanane at a bar. You met Margaret show at a bar.
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Unknown
Yeah, Barcelona, down in Edmond Park.
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Chris Joy
You. Oh, that's right. You did say that to her when she came on. But if you met Kyle Kinane or Margaret Cho, Des Bishop, Hannah Burke, whoever. What a name. The person that we've had on the show. If you. If you met them at a bar, you wouldn't say, so you started your career in 1983 with a cameo appearance on Silver Spoons. I mean, you just wouldn't do that.
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Unknown
Right? Or where were you born?
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Chris Joy
Yeah, where were you born?
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Unknown
What were your parents like?
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Chris Joy
Tell me about your journey to get to comedy. Right. I mean, no offense to anyone who does interviews like that. And some people, quite frankly, think my Own interview style is really obnoxious. And I've heard it. So you don't have to text in and say it again. I've heard it. Trust me. The ones that are terror. The, the comments that are terrible are the loudest and I hear them. But in any case, we just have conversation. We even sometimes the agents, especially with the bigger names, they'll write in and they'll say, can we get some. Can we get some questions ahead of time? So we're prepared and we have a stock response. Astro just cuts and pastes it. Brian and Chrissy like to have a conversation with our guy. In other words, we're too dumb to have an actual interview with them and too scared to ask them the tough questions. So we're just going to talk to them about whatever's on our mind. But I find that that often leads to a more interesting conversation. And at least those who like the commercial break have had some of them have said so. So we'll keep doing that because that's easy. So, hey, can you. But I like to be informed about the guests there. We' I think Astrid counted them. We've had 68 guests on the show so far. And I just want to know who they are, especially if they're not in my purview, like my everyday feed or whatever. Okay, all right, so chat. Here's how I'd like the deep research done. Here's what I like. Please go do this. Okay, so then the other day I asked, we're having an AI system transcribe all of the episodes and put the transcript on a server so that we can like when I say, okay, I'm going to do a best of about Frankie B. Or we're going to do the 12 hours of TCB. I want to pull some clips. I can search through the transcripts real quick and pull up all the references. Yeah, look at us, look at us, look at us.
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Unknown
Yeah, so this leading to the fact that you got.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, but listen, okay, so. So I'm asking this AI system to do it. So I say, hey, please tell me what some of the most. The biggest running themes of the show are. And what I wanted it to tell me is what are the things we've talked about most, like mountain monsters, whatever. You know what it said? Brian gets it wrong. Number one theme. Brian gets it wrong. And so I was like. So I literally responded to it. I need a song for that. And it goes. I can help create a song for that. Here are some suggestions. So I wrote the lyrics and then I Said, okay, make me a song in this style. Make it 80s cheese rock. And there it goes. I wrote a song about Jackie Beans. I wrote a song about Best of you. I've always wanted to have, like, this kind of like, you know, fun songs on the show.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Chris Joy
But it's really expensive to get musicians to do it. And I've paid some musicians and it's failed miserably. It's just been terrible. I mean, terrible. But God bless them, they're trying to take what's inside my head and put it on sheet music. It's really hard to do that. So if you're a musician out there and you'd like to work with us and you think you get the commercial break, text me 212-433-3822. I'd rather work with a musician. But anyway, I was just having fun. In a pinch, I use ChatGPT or some offshoot of ChatGPT. So there you go. Our new house band is ChatGPT. Every musician in our audience just turned off the commercial break. We just lost every one of them.
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Unknown
Yeah, they're like, thanks.
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Chris Joy
Hey, listen, I'm sorry, guys. I'm just having fun. And, you know, when you find a tool that's cool, then you use it. And, you know, I don't want to shy away from using the tools that every other human being is currently using.
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Unknown
I know. I need to get back into it.
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Chris Joy
I went to a massage yesterday, so Astrid got me a surprise massage. So listen to this. Okay? And then we'll get to Bill Bellamy's girlfriend.
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Unknown
Well, I think it's old news anyways. So.
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Chris Joy
It is old news, but I think it's worth talking about. It's weird. The whole situation is strange, but who am I to cast aspersions? But anyway, I. Astrid, I wake up on Saturday morning. Astrid. All of a sudden there's like a calendar notification. You're invited to a 90 minute massage on this day.
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Unknown
She's a gem.
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Chris Joy
I know. And we had gotten these gift cards for Christmas, but I kept refusing to go because I was like, you know, when you have kids, all of a sudden everything gets deprioritized financially. Everything. New shoes, new clothes. I used to buy a new wardrobe when me. And when Astrid and I first met, I'd buy a new wardrobe every two months.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Chris Joy
But now I don't think I've. I think this is the same T shirt I've been wearing all five seasons. Six seasons. So she keeps saying, go get the massage. Go get the massage. And I say, no. You know, we have gift cards. I know, but then it's like a $70 tip. And by the time you leave and they are some fucking cream they want you to have and some special, you know, bunion sauce or whatever. By the time you leave, it's $700 bunion sauce. So I'm walking out the door. So if she finally just says it.
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Unknown
To the place that you went the last time with the weird curtains and.
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Chris Joy
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is to a place I really like.
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Unknown
Oh, nice.
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Chris Joy
A really nice spa in a really nice location. Like a good, solid spa. A type of place you would want to go.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Chris Joy
Is the best I've ever been to. No, that would have been in. When we went to the wedding and we went to that, like, whatever. Whatever ancient Greek massage.
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Unknown
You're, like, up on the top.
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Chris Joy
We were up on the top, and some guy was throwing ice. The ice machine was dumping into the pool.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Chris Joy
So I'm getting ready for the massage, and then I'm about to leave, and I say, hey, babe, thanks very much. I really appreciate it. She goes, no problem, and I hope you have a great time. And I got you the masseuse you like. And I said, oh, well, who's the masseuse I like. She goes, well, last time you went, you said you had a great massage. And so I asked for the masseuse that you had last time, and she happened to be available, and there you go. And then it dawned on me that the last time that I went to this place, three or four months ago, I actually had a terrible time because the masseuse wanted to play 50 questions while we were having a massage.
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Unknown
That's right.
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Chris Joy
And she didn't give a massage. She was, like, breathing on my back.
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Unknown
Right. Or the worst is just the rubbing of the lotion.
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Chris Joy
That's it. That's all she was doing. Yeah, I remember telling this. This story. She also was wearing gloves. So she's wearing gloves. She's doing the oil that she's just spreading around my back. And she's really spending a lot of time just conversating. It seems like this was her. Her hour of break, and I happened to be scheduled during it. Do you know what I'm saying? Now, listen, massages are like food or like sex or like dating. Not everybody's going to be for. Or the commercial break. It's not for everybody. Not everybody's going to be the same. Not everybody has the same style or taste. It's very personalized. Like, every masseuse is different. But I instantly get this picture in my head of this lady who I really just did not like. Not her, but the massage, the experience, I did not like. And I go, oh, thanks, ba. You know, she was like, no, really. I said, actually, I think this lady was really kind of obnoxious. Last time I was there, I did not like her at all. And so now I'm freaking out a little bit and Astrid's freaking out.
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Unknown
I know, right? Astrid was so excited.
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Chris Joy
But also, you don't want to blow a couple hundred dollars. Now I'm not getting a 50 minute massage. I'm getting a 90 minute massage. Double the time, double the, double the aggravation as far as I'm concerned. So I explained to Astrid and then I said, but you know what? It's a massage and it's better than sitting here and listening to the kids screaming, listening to blue bark of me. So I'll take it. Like, I'm not going to complain. No worries. She let me call the place, you know, I will call the place. I will find another masseuse. Don't worry. I go, listen, it's an 80, 90 minute massage. They don't. There's only like three of those available a day. They're not going to have some other person that's going to be able to fill and, but, and I'll probably get some dude, you know, that wants to, you know, break my back. I'm. No, just don't worry about it. I'm good. I'll just tell her at the beginning, like you do on an Uber ride. I want.
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Unknown
Yeah, I want deep tissue, no talk, no talk.
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Chris Joy
Degrees, no talking, no ticking, no tacky. 70 degrees. Deep tissue. Pick me up at the bar. Yeah, Raphael. So she's like. And I'm on my way out the door. I'll call. No, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. So I get in the car and I'm driving there and I'm a little like, anxious. Anxious is the right word to say. I'm not upset, but I'm also not totally relaxed because I'm remembering this experience and I'm thinking, if I had to do this for 90 minutes and kind of bat this lady back with all her questions. Great. So as I'm pulling in, I wonder.
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Unknown
If you could put like in your earbuds too, maybe just to kind of be like, hey, look, I just want to listen to my own music.
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Chris Joy
I'm sure you could.
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Unknown
Wow. Okay.
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Chris Joy
I'm sure that nobody would ever probably, you could put your beats on or whatever, but, you know, it might get in the way. You put your head down in that pillow and they might fall off. So I'm pulling in and I remember that I'm not that good at remembering because two times.
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Unknown
I ain't got it wrong again I.
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Chris Joy
Ain'T got it wrong yeah, I ain't got it wrong again Brian got a root exactly where I was going with it. So falling in, Brian got it wrong yeah, I love it.
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Unknown
I think, when is it gonna end?
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Chris Joy
When is it gonna end? I wrote the lyrics, by the way. There you go. I just had it repeat. Brian got it wrong. Yeah, Brian got it wrong. So I'm pulling in and I go, but two times ago, I had a really, really good massage. Wait, what was that? Was that the last time or was that two times ago? Was it two times ago that I had a bad massage? It was last time they had a bad massage. Now I can't remember. Now I'm all screwed up in my head. So now I'm basically playing masseuse roulette. And I know for a fact that the lady I had with the bad massage had an accent that would, like, a foreign accent that would be very recognizable. So I get into the place, you know, I go, I change. I lock myself out of my locker. So I'm in my underwear and I have to, like, open the door and hope that an employee walks by.
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Unknown
I actually did that when we were down in Tulum. Oh, yeah, I got the code. When I got back to the locker.
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Chris Joy
I just locked it, and you have to press in the numbers before you lock it, or else it's the last person's code. And so then. And then it just started yelling at me. I was like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Red, red, red. And I was like, okay, all right. So here I am, you know, fat. You know, at least you had your underwear on. Man boobs, like. Yeah, at least I had my underwear on. So then she comes in and she was like this. She literally put her hands like horse blinders, and she's like, I just wanna make sure no one else is in here. And I'm like, no, I'm the only old fat guy you're gonna see today. So thank you. All right. I mean, she was, like, young, too. And I think she was like, oh, God, this is not. I don't get paid enough for this.
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Unknown
Exactly.
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Chris Joy
I don't get paid enough to look at this guy naked. So I get in, I go, I sit, I'm sitting in the waiting room. You know, they have a fire going. No matter how fucking hot it is outside, these people have a fire going in the wa. But fine, whatever. It's nice and it's relaxing. Water and cucumber water. Some ladies trying to talk to me. She's like, so, are you here for massage? And I know I'm sitting in a robe. I'm sitting in a robe, waiting to get my oil changed. What are you doing? Am I here for a massage now? I just come here every Tuesday to enjoy the fire and get free lemon and sage water. I go, no, okay. All right. So people are getting called one by one. I'm there just a couple minutes early. Door opens, Brian. And my. To my relief, it's. There's no foreign accent. And I'm like, okay, all right. Thank God. I think this is the one. And I turn the corner, and I recognize it's the lady that I really enjoyed the massage with the last time that she was a pro. She knew exactly what she was doing. Enough pressure to get the knots out. I don't mind a deep. Like, I don't mind you getting in there with your elbow.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Chris Joy
Because my back is a hot mess. Like a lot of people, you know? Like a lot of people. I'm not the only one in the world with knots in their back and holding your stress in your shoulders and your lower back.
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Unknown
I love it.
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Brian Green
So I tell her.
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Chris Joy
Yeah. So I tell her this funny story, you know? So we're talking. She's asking, you know, she's like, okay, I think I remember. And, you know, okay, we'll get that, and we'll do your whatever. And I'd say, hey, listen, I got to tell you a funny story. On the way here, my wife tells me this. I tell her the whole story, and she goes, oh, my God, that's so funny. And I go, yeah. And, you know, it was just like, the whole time, she was talking the entire time, and that was just made it, like, a little bit uncomfortable. Okay, fast forward to 90 minutes later. The two of us, yackals have not shut up the entirety of the 90 minutes. Not one moment of silence in the entire massage. The two of us were just yucking it up the entire time.
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Unknown
I could tell already. The fact that you're like, let me tell you about this story.
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Chris Joy
It's just like, I just demonized this poor girl in my head because she would not shut up and I would not shut up the entire massage. I talked the entire time. The entire time. I mean, honestly, I left and I was like, oh, that was a. And she gave me a great massage, by the way. And we were laughing and joking and, you know, having fun and talking about wild, weird stuff. She was like telling me about how she believed that Chris Rock was slapped on stage because the Masons hit a rock. And it was like a symbology of some sort. I mean, listen, not my flavor of conspiracy theory, but okay, it's each their own. She told me what shoes I should be wearing when I was running. She explained that there's a pillow that can help me with my. She. She had a large variety of conversations and it was great. I just chatted it up. I felt like I did an episode of the commercial break is really what I felt like. And it was good. I had a great one. And she gave me a great massage in the meantime. And, you know, so I want to say to the masseuse who will never listen to this show and never understood that I didn't care for that massage, that I'm sorry I demonized you for talking so much because I turned around and did the exact same thing after I told the lady that I was upset for the last massage.
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Unknown
Well, in your defense. So when you're getting a good massage, then it's. You're relaxed, it feels good. You're talking and you're relaxed.
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Chris Joy
I'm good.
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Unknown
You're getting a bad massage. That's like all you can focus on. Yes, really is.
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Chris Joy
It really is. I think I was sharing this with my masseuse, who I won't name. And by the way, now she knows the show. She's probably listening to this, right?
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Unknown
We might need her in a pinch, no pun intended.
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Chris Joy
I might need a pitch. I said to her, I think people who do the services for us in general are like little angels. We agreed on one thing and talked about this quite a bit. Everybody should spend some portion of their life, maybe three to five years at least of their life, working in some service oriented business, 100% retail, hotel, restaurant.
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Unknown
Be on the other side.
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Chris Joy
Be on the other side so that you have just a little bit more empathy for the people who are bringing your food, making your coffee, doing your dry cleaning, you know, serving you at the hotels, the restaurants.
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Unknown
All I did.
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Chris Joy
Me too.
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Unknown
Up until, you know, I got the quote unquote, real job.
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Chris Joy
The real job was a clear channel knocking on dry cleaner doors.
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Unknown
It was after college at the advertising agency. So, you know, that was kind of like, oh, the big thing. But yeah, and in a pinch, you know, you can always Go back to it.
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Chris Joy
You can always go back to it. I had considered it a couple times during the run of the commercial break, actually.
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Unknown
In fact, I need to talk to you later.
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Chris Joy
Okay. Are you gonna go back to doing restaurant work? Yeah. It's one of those things that you can always rely on and one of those things that gives you some perspective about what it's like to do service for others, even if that is you're getting paid bad. Tippers have never worked in a restaurant. Never. Guarantee it. Guarantee it. Love some of my family members, but a few of them are terrible tippers and it drives me crazy. And I cringe every time we go out to eat with these people, specifically because I know I'm going to have to make an excuse. Go back. I always. I bring an extra. Sometimes I'll even bring, like, if I have it, cash, so that I know I gotta go back, run and give an extra tip because I know what's about to happen. They're gonna give 5 or 10% because they don't believe in. And all of their children worked in the service business. And these masseuses are a special type of angel because they touch my nasty ass body to make me feel better for 90 minutes with their hands. That takes a lot of energy, effort, and just patience to do that with people and good training and constant learning and knowing the body. Listen, this girl was lovely and she gave me a great massage and I wasted. Well, maybe I didn't waste 90 minutes of her life. Maybe I made it go a little bit quicker because I just decided to yak it up.
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Unknown
Sounds pleasant.
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Chris Joy
I don't know. Like, I was so upset about having to be in a talkative mood for the other girl, I got in a talkative mood and just decided to chat it up with her.
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Unknown
That's classic.
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Chris Joy
So, anyway, all right, let's talk about Bill Bellamy's and Belichick's girlfriend on the other side of the break. We'll be back. You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some very heavy thinking to do before 10:00.
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Rachel
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Chris Joy
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Brian Green
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Places that take credit cards nationwide. Yeah, 99%. So maybe now you'll think twice before.
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
In that case, judge away.
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Brian Green
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Chris Joy
Learn more at discover dot slash credit card. So 74 year old Bill Belichick is dating 24 year old. 24 year old. 24 year old Jordan Hudson.
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Unknown
Yes, that's been dope. We talked about that, I think a.
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Chris Joy
Year ago, a year ago, back in Christmas time. Because he, like, it was Thanksgiving Day. I think that he was kind of caught on a ring cam, like leaving some shitty apartment complex in his underwear or something. Yeah, in a bathrobe. He looked like Brian leaving the Massuits. And so, you know, rumors fly as they do. And then fast forward now it's well known because they've taken a lot of photographs together. Bill Belichick is.
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Unknown
She was in a commercial.
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Chris Joy
Remember she was in a commercial. Oh yeah. Like a Doritos commercial or something. Something like that. Cheetos, Doritos, Pizza Hut, Domino's. I don't know, one of those commercials she was. And in an obvious ploy to either jump on the cult, the zeitgeist, or get her some money that she needed, Bill kind of wrapped her into his world. And so, you know, since then there's been some, I'd say probably strange things that have happened regarding Bill Belichick, a notoriously private person, a notoriously quiet person who led the Patriots with the help of Tom Brady to seven Super Bowls. I think something like that. I'm not a Patriots fan, so I don't really know all the numbers, but. But nor am I really good at sports, so don't. Hold on one second. So. So Bill Belichick, this kind of notoriously like hermit crab of a human being, starts popping out of the woodwork, including jumping on social media, TikTok and Instagram. Just start accounts at the behest of Jordan and starts posting pictures of them. Going to now these like kind of Hollywood ish events and doing yoga.
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Unknown
Like he. There was something where he was like holding her up. Oh yeah, was doing some kind of yog.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, yeah, in. On the beach, holding her up by his feet. You know, she was flying in the air. You know, as Instagram influencers are prone to do. 74 year old former Patriot head coaches influencers are prone to do. It's all very odd. I am not here to cast dispersions on the age of a relationship. As long as it's legal, I don't. As long as it's legal. Legal and appropriate are two totally different things in my mind. Is it appropriate? I don't know. I guess that's up to them. You can't really help who you fall in love with. I guess at the end of the day, I'm not saying a 75 year old should be with a 25 year old, but I'm not saying it shouldn't happen either. I just don't know. It's not the first time, it won't be the last time. And obviously the angle here that a lot of people think is that she's after his fame and riches because she's a relatively unknown human being who jumps into the Bill Belichick spotlight. Actually jumps into the Bill Belichick void. Really. He's nowhere to be found. He's not out at like, you know, Spago or Lawgo. He's not at Lago having yuckles with fucking Conan o' Brien. That's not what Bill Belichick does. But all of a sudden he writes a book. He's on CBS News this morning. He's doing interviews. He's showing up at nightlife places. He's out and about on town. He's going to Hollywood, red carpets and all, with Jordan right in tow. She's acting as his publicist, his PR person.
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Unknown
This is all, oh, she's acting as PR person.
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Chris Joy
That's what she said she was doing, was acting as his, she's now part of his team, quote, unquote.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Chris Joy
She's managing the situation. It's not hard to get Bill Belichick an interview since he notoriously doesn't do them. All you have to do is pick up the phone and ask anybody if they'd like to have Bill Belichick on and they're going to say yes. He's a seven time super bowl winner. He's a seven time super bowl champ and some people might argue one of the better coaches that's ever existed. But he again is totally oblivious to any of this starlet star power type of bullshit. Oblivious or maybe willingly doesn't do it until Jordan shows up and now he's out there on the scene. So what do we make of this? I don't know.
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Unknown
Well, I mean, I guess the thing that I wanted to bring up was that CBS MORNING thing where they're doing the interview and then the interviewer asks Bill, so hey, tell me how you guys met again? And I guess she really jumped in and said, we're not talking about that.
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Chris Joy
We don't talk about that. We're not answering about that.
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Unknown
And I guess people were kind of like, why? I mean, I wonder why, why not, why not say we met here, we met there. Who knows? I mean, a lot of people meet on apps now and it's fine. There's nothing wrong with where you met.
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Chris Joy
Yeah.
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Unknown
It seemed more suspicious to jump in and say, you don't, we don't. We want to talk about it.
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Chris Joy
That's right. I agree with you on this. I but I agree with you that it's it, it leads to suspicion. You know, the mind abhors a vacuum and that's how all of this crazy, you know, all these crazy conspiracy theories get started is when the answers are not one clear. Why would she not want to answer? I could think of a few things. Maybe they did meet on an app. Maybe they met on an app that they don't want people to know about. Like, you know, sugar daddy.com or something.
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Unknown
Or only fans or something.
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Chris Joy
Or only fans. Yeah. Or, you know, maybe Bill was trolling Facebook for young Women, I don't know, I. It's hard to know because they don't say. Or maybe there is a friend or a family member that was involved in the meeting of these two that wants to remain nameless. And, you know, the heat's going to be on them if they say, well, we met through X and Y. And then that person, of course, is going to be hounded by the tabloids and the paparazzi trying to figure out what the real story is. So maybe they're just trying to protect the innocent.
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Unknown
Listen, I mean, I don't really care, but it was in my newsfeed that.
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Chris Joy
Is like my bottom line about this. There is a story here. 2075 year old, you know, former super bowl champ, head coach meets 25 year old. Nobody, you know, kind of rags to riches story, so to speak. That kind of meeting. A prince, an old prince. A king, if you will. Yes, like King Charles, like his way out the door. That kind of story. But at the end of the day, who cares? I mean, is Bill Belichick really the guy that we're interested in knowing all about his love life?
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Unknown
No.
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Chris Joy
There are so many. Bill Bellamy, actually.
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Unknown
I know.
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Chris Joy
That's what I was just looking at is more interesting.
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Unknown
Yeah. Where is Bill Bellamy now?
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Chris Joy
I don't know where Bill Bellamy is.
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Unknown
Well, it made me think and I looked it up.
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Chris Joy
He's been in some movies and stuff, I think.
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Unknown
Has he?
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Chris Joy
Bill Bellamy is a former MTV VJ from the 90s, I believe.
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Unknown
Yeah.
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Chris Joy
And I. If I'm not mistaken, he was part of the Woodstock 99. He went to Woodstock 99. I think he was part of that coverage when they all had to, like run out of the place because people were literally losing their shit and turning it into a riot.
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Unknown
Oh, my God. Well, this is really funny. I mean, this is so funny how stuff comes together. So here in my news, when I did a lookup, it says Bill Bellamy talks comedy MTV days and his top billing, comedy stuff for the first time in almost 20 years.
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Chris Joy
Oh, he's back on the scene. Okay. Yeah.
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Unknown
Okay.
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Chris Joy
Bill Bellamy making a comedy.
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Unknown
Yeah, he was part of that Def Comedy, Jamie.
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Chris Joy
He's part of the Def Comedy Jam. But honestly, Bill Bellamy hasn't been heard from in 20 years.
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Unknown
He created or coined the phrase booty call.
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Chris Joy
Oh, he did. Okay. Well, there you go. Bill Bellamy more interesting than Bill Belichick on any day of the week.
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Unknown
Yes.
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Chris Joy
I mean, at the end of the day, we're talking about it because everybody else is talking about it, but I really don't care how Jordan and Bill met. It's not of interest to me. Like, even if they say they met on a sugar daddy website. Okay, yeah. All right, listen. Bill is. Seems to me like a guy who's just all consumed with his job 24 hours a day, seven days a week, always recruiting, always thinking up the next play, always, you know, riding Tom Brady's patootie like those two just, you know, hand in hand, having conversations, figuring out.
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Unknown
Ways to read lips.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, long. Yes, that's right. Figuring out ways to plant people. Figuring out ways to deflate footballs. Like, there's a lot of different things that I imagine go into being a head coach of a football team. And so it's probably all consuming. And I would bet that you. If you would ask. 90% of the wives of head coaches of professional football teams or even college football teams, don't see a lot of their husbands for about nine months a year. And so it's a hard thing to have a really start a relationship when you're a head coach of a professional football team. Well, he's done, and now he's trying to recapture some of that you said he had 50 years ago. But that's okay. Whatever. I mean, cool dude. All right.
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Unknown
Yeah. As long as everybody's cool and the.
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Chris Joy
Kids are cool, I'm cool with it.
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Unknown
Because I think I would have a. Me, personally. This is just me personally. I think I would have a problem with my dad dating someone much younger than me.
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Chris Joy
Well, that really is, I think, the challenge when you're. Yeah, but does Bill Belichick have children? Is the question. He does.
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Unknown
I think he does.
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Chris Joy
So this. So I wanted. Speaking of, like, head coaches, did you hear about the guy who was supposed to go, like, in the first round of the draft? DeAndre Sanders.
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Unknown
Yes, of course. That was all over the place. And then our guy, our Falcons guy, we've got. They made a stupid call. Prank call.
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Chris Joy
Shador Sanders was supposed to go.
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Brian Green
And I know this is gonna bore.
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Chris Joy
People who don't wanna pay attention to football, but I think this kind of breaks outside of just the football world. And this story, by the way, is a couple weeks old. You heard it here first on the commercial break. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you.
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Unknown
Now you got all kinds of surprises.
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Chris Joy
Oh, wait, there's one big surprise I'm keeping for you. I'm sorry. I just played with it all morning long, and I was having fun. I was having fun, and I thought that was good.
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Unknown
That's a Good one.
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Chris Joy
Best to you.
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Unknown
That's a good one.
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Chris Joy
Best to you. Best to you. Okay.
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Unknown
Electronic keyboard in there.
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Chris Joy
I said make it Cynthia and Poppy Shitar Sanders, who is Neon Dion Sanders son, obviously is a quarterback. Talented quarterback, who by some accounts had a really good season of college football.
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Unknown
He was a Boulder.
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Chris Joy
Yeah.
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Unknown
And Colorado.
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Chris Joy
Yes, that's right. He played for his dad.
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Unknown
He was the head coach. Yeah.
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Chris Joy
So a lot of people, including the prognosticators who do this kind of thing, decided that he was going to go in the first round. He decided to predict that he was going to go in the first round of the draft. And just so you know, the NFL draft is now 24 hours a fucking day on ESPN for like three days in a row. I had no idea until about a decade ago. And it's just gotten crazier how interesting people find the NFL draft. I understand if you're getting a good guy on your team, that makes you really excited. But who are these people who are showing up to these huge stadiums?
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Unknown
Oh my God. My brother in law and I were talking about this. We were like, what? What are these people doing?
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Chris Joy
What are these people doing? What are you guys doing?
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Unknown
I mean, they're fully dressed up. They have gone makeup.
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Brian Green
Yes.
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Chris Joy
And there's like people from every team, they show up so much so that like this year it was like an outdoor stadium. And people. I was watching the fourth round of the draft and they were like choosing. Yeah, I know they were going crazy. Let me give a little example here. Choosing now the 375th,000th pick in the 2025, 26 draft. Clowney from Devry. And people go.
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Unknown
Camera cuts to them and they are just freaking out.
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Chris Joy
I know they're freaking out while everybody else around them is like, like snoring because they're just wait. They have to wait three hours for the next time their team gets picked.
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Unknown
My favorite part is watching the families. What? Watching, you know, when they get selected.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, they insta millionaire. Right. But now when you're in college, you're an insta millionaire if you do well. Anyway, should our Sanders supposed to go? Shador Sanders supposed to go in the first round of the draft. And a lot of people thought that was like a lock. First round, second round, third round, he's not picked.
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Unknown
Yeah, it was all the talk.
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Chris Joy
It was all the talk. Why was he going so low in the draft? Well, from the 15 minutes of coverage that I watched, the ESPN commentators who had to refer to it every 30 seconds or they were going to lose ratings I mean, it became kind of like a ratings getter. I think now everybody, including myself, was tuned in to see when and if he was going to get picked. They were all saying that, listen, could be a combination of a couple things. He comes from a family of kind of like loud, maybe some people consider obnoxious football players. He might be more trouble than it's worth. Some people thought that he played for a team that played other teams that weren't that great and his stats were whatever, and he doesn't have the arm to throw, whatever the deal is. I don't know. But when you're supposed to go first and you don't go till like, I don't know, 236th or something like that.
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Unknown
Yeah. What was that was like the fourth round?
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Chris Joy
Yeah, fourth or fifth round, I think. But I don't know. I don't know. Brian got it wrong, Okay. I don't know. But that's not the point of the story, okay? So he's waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. Cameras all over him. The entire world is waiting for this Sanders guy to get picked, and he's not getting picked. Call after call, you know, hour after hour, day after day, he's just not getting called. Except he is getting called. He's getting a phone call on a phone, a burner phone that he got specifically for a team to give him a call. So his personal cell phone, he knew it was. Had a lot of. A lot of people were going to be calling his personal cell phone. So they got him a phone with one phone number, and they gave it to each team coordinator so that if he got picked, that team coordinator could call that phone and let him know he was picked. That phone was not supposed to ring until and if he got picked. And because of all the drama and attention surrounding this, you know, that phone number was valuable. And every. Everyone, I'm sure every news media outlet in the world wanted that phone number. Well, Jeff Ulbricht, who is a. I think it's Jeff Ulbrich, a guy who is coaching for the Falcons. Yes. Our team here. Yeah. Jeff Ulbricht, a defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, had the phone number because, of course he did. Everybody, you know, the team had the phone number. So he had the phone number. Number. His snotty little kid who's like a teenager found the phone number and decided that on this day, the best prank in the world that he could play was to call Shador and pretend that he was a team calling to pick him in the draft. You get the Prank phone call is that he calls the phone number that's only going to be called when he's picked up, picked, and he picks it up and pretends that he has gotten picked in the draft. Well, quickly everybody realizes that that's not true. I mean, of course there's a million people coordinating all these things and you're going to be found out pretty quickly. But Jeff Ulbricht's son decides to videotape this and then put it on fucking social media. He decides to videotape himself prank phone calling Mr. Sanders to tell him he was drafted, when in fact he was not drafted, raising the hopes of everybody in the Sanders family, including, you know, the, like all the agents and the press and the paparazzi. That phone rings and he answers it and his dad, namely his dad, Deion Sanders. Deion Sanders, who's probably freaking out with every additional pick that his son is the best and he's going to get hundreds of millions of dollars and all this other stuff and he's not going in the draft. And that phone rings and everybody fucking freaks. Only within a few seconds they realize that that's not it. Well, Jeff Obrich's son videotapes himself doing this and puts it on the fucking Internet. My uncle used to say something, kids, and now I want you to listen to me. I took your glasses off for that because I wanted. I wanted this to be serious. I want these kids to understand something. And I'm going to tell my kids this. Do not fuck up. Up while you're fucking up. Do you understand what I'm saying? Anybody who has a brain in their head will understand what I'm saying. And this is wise advice. And by the way, I keep saying, my uncle said this to me. I don't know who said this to me, actually. I just have said it forever and I remember it this way. Don't fuck up while you're fucking up. If you get. It's great advice to live by. If you get the guy's phone number and you decide to make that prank phone call, do not videotape it. It and put it on the Internet for everyone and their mother to recognize what a dumb shit you are. This has got to be one of the dumbest things you could have ever done because now your dad was fine.
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Unknown
The FCC is looking into it or something.
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Chris Joy
It was no joke, $225,000.
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Unknown
Yeah, I remember reading it and I was like, oh man, his dad is pissed.
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Chris Joy
They find the Falcons, $250,000, Ulbrich $100,000 in response to the situation. Excuse me. The kid was 21 years old. Jax Ulbricht wrote down the number from his father's open iPad while visiting his parents house to conduct a prank phone call. And I promise my son and I will work hard to demonstrate we are better than this. Of course, this is all PR speak. They probably got like one of those PR firms that I'm sure we're gonna have to call at some point.
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Unknown
Emergency.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, we better have one of those.
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Unknown
Management.
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Chris Joy
Do we have one of those? We need one of those. Because, you know, I get it.
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Unknown
Jeff's got one, so we'll tap into his.
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Chris Joy
He has one.
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Unknown
Well, I mean, their company. And they work with a PR company.
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Chris Joy
Is that PR like. Yeah, but there's specialized companies that come in during times of shit and they just.
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Unknown
They can do it. This woman can do it.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, they write really fancy press releases that make it sound like you're really sorry when you're not sorry. I'm going to rehab. Sorry. I'm going to take some time to myself. Sorry. I'm going to go away and reflect on my actions. You know, there's like, step by step, you know, A's and B's.
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Unknown
You're gonna be best.
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Chris Joy
Yeah, I'm gonna be best. Be best. That's the stupidest phrase. That's best to you? Honestly, it is. So this kid does this and now his dad's $350,000 in the hole. I mean, I don't know what you get paid as a defensive coordinator. Probably a million, million and a half.
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Unknown
Well, I mean, the fact that the team. The team got. The team got fined, and him personally. I mean, not only did the kid fuck up with the dad.
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Chris Joy
Up with the team and his dad's work.
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Unknown
Yes, Dad's work.
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Chris Joy
If this guy doesn't have one of the best defensive years in the nfc. Afc, nfc, whatever the fuck we're in, then I promise you Jeff Fulbrick is not returning to the Falcons. Arthur Blank. Do not play, kid. No, no, he's not a joker. He has desperately wanted a winning team forever and never. I mean, one year we went to the super bowl. One year and got stomped. By who? The Patriots? That's right.
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Unknown
Bringing it all back.
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Chris Joy
Bringing it all back to Bill Belichick and Bill Bellamy. All right. And by the way, the last time the Falcons were in the super bowl was when Bill Bellamy was on mtv. That's how it worked. All right, let's talk about VR raves when we get back. We'll take a break and best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you.
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Rachel
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Brian Green
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Unknown
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- [55:24]
Chris Joy
In the Brian got it wrong department. They have picked a new pope. As we're sitting here recording right now, I'm just seeing that the new Pope is going to greet the throngs, the masses, in just a few minutes. So I guess we'll follow up on that next week. But very interesting. I assumed it would take a very long time for that to happen. So there you go. Yeah.
- [55:48]
Unknown
You called a month.
- [55:49]
Chris Joy
I called a month and took less than 24 hours. Less than 24 hours. They just got in there yesterday. I think we were talking about this yesterday at this time, and they were just entering the call and they puffed that black smoke yesterday. And so. Well, okay, there you go. Hey, why not? Not that I really care. I was just hoping for some, like, long, drawn out process so it could make sense.
- [56:09]
Unknown
You wanted the drama.
- [56:10]
Chris Joy
I did. I wanted the Italian media to go crazy, but they didn't. Now they're just, well, I hope it's a good pope for all those who care. Okay. One of the things that is interesting. Did you send that to me?
- [56:20]
Unknown
I did.
- [56:20]
Chris Joy
Chrissy found an article and I've heard about this before, about the raves, the VR raves. Raving is back. For those of you that don't know, raving was a thing that started back in the 70s and 80s. I think in the underground club scene. When electronic dance music or disco and electronic dance music really started to hit the scene, people would put on these kind of underground parties. I mean, you can think about this, like Club 54, Studio 54 really probably would be one of the first. I don't know because I'm not a historian on this, but I would imagine that's one of the places that really bred this kind of party culture. Go do drugs, dance all night long, or don't do drugs, but you know, party. Just party all night long. Get out in the sun. This has been going on in Europe for a long time. The Germans are known for this. The Swiss are known for. There's a lot of different cultures that have this kind of party all night long and listen to a certain type of music. More specifically electronic dance music, EDM. So this culture was really hot in the 90s.
- [57:22]
Unknown
Oh yeah.
- [57:23]
Chris Joy
I went to a number of them myself. When you would get the chocolate chip X ecstasy, like the really early ecstasy pills that some people claimed were like, you know, meth and heroin mixed together. Who knows what I was taking? It made you feel good, that's all I know. Made you feel good. And then you would just dance, you'd have that, you know, lovely I love you energy and you just dance the night away. And a lot of times these were in warehouses.
- [57:49]
Unknown
Yeah, the ones that I started going.
- [57:51]
Chris Joy
To were in warehouses, people's houses sometimes, you know, these really small events like the acid fest, you know, trip fest that we did. Only that wasn't electronic dance music, that was Pink Floyd, the Wall. Not exactly the same vibe but you know, you can get it. So these parties were in England. Sometimes they'd be thousands of people would show up en masse to one location based on flyers that were passed out. There was no email largely available back then. So, you know, I don't need to tell you, if you've been alive on this earth for more than 21 years, then you know what a rave is. At least you've heard about them. This culture is back. It went away for a little while largely and there's been a lot of articles about how raving as a culture just kind of died down once ecstasy went away and harder drugs hit the scene. Like Method and not heroin, but fentanyl, Fentanyl. You know, once these kind of drugs, like these synthetic drugs hit the scene, the culture kind of died a little bit because that lovey dovey dance all night energy turned into something else. And I read this really well written article and I forget which. I wish I could cite the author or the, or the magazine, but of course Ryan got the crown. Yeah, Ryan got, but he wrote this like five page essay on, on the rave culture and how it, how it was officially dead. Well, it's back and I've heard about this and it's back online.
- [59:28]
Unknown
Virtual reality, the VR race.
- [59:30]
Chris Joy
You don't need to be in the same room, you don't need to leave the comfort of your home. There's no getting taxis here or there, no chance you're going to get caught by security, you know, tooting in the bathroom or whatever, none of that shit. You are officially in your bedroom raving with others in a VR world.
- [59:47]
Unknown
You and Your avatar are getting down.
- [59:49]
Chris Joy
Yeah. So Chris, drugs, sex, simulated sex, all.
- [59:53]
Unknown
Kinds of things are happening for our days.
- [59:56]
Chris Joy
Listen, I really thought this metaverse was good for nothing. I'm sure it still is. But there are people out there who are going to these raves and like Chrissy said, 60 hour drug fests, simulated sex fests. This virtual reality world, like everything else, technology wise, is being driven by sex and drugs. Sex and drugs at all. Because those, because these are the things that humans need to do. It's. We're hardwired for that. We're hardwired to follow the dopamine, we're hardwired to procreate those two things. So when it seems base, like it seems crass, that I say that sex really drove the evolution of the Internet. Porn, sex, it's really not. It's like one of the human. It's the basic ingredient to life. We need to recreate, we need to procreate. And so our, that, that instinct, that base instinct drives us to think of new ways and new things and, and that dopamine that we get from it makes that base feeling to chase. That dopamine is why we do drugs. It's escapism and sex and all that other stuff. Well, now you put on that fucking Mark goddamn Zuckerberg helmet and you go for 60 hours and you rave.
- [61:14]
Unknown
Yeah. These people have like the body tracker things that you put on too, I guess.
- [61:18]
Chris Joy
Oh yeah, they have like things, body trackers. And then they have these sensation suits that can. They have pressure sensors and they. Wow.
- [61:26]
Unknown
And then. Yeah, and this one guy they profiled in the article was. He was doing, doing drugs as well.
- [61:33]
Chris Joy
Well, good for him.
- [61:34]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [61:34]
Chris Joy
At least he's doing it from the safety of his own home. I will say that.
- [61:37]
Unknown
I hope you get a fentanyl test.
- [61:40]
Chris Joy
Listen, if you're doing drugs in 2025, hard drugs, and you're not getting a fentanyl test, you are as. You're as good as dead. It's Russian roulette every time. Now I also realize that hype on the streets, hype outside the streets doesn't always mean truth on the streets. But I think we've seen enough cases of people who've wrongly, mistakenly taken something and died to know that even like, even if it happened just a couple of times where someone mistakenly took the wrong drug or thought they were taking blow and were taking fentanyl, I would be testing my drugs for sure. When I get back into drugs, when I retire, I'm going to be testing my Drugs. That's all I got to say. All right, so I went out there and quickly found a video about someone who went to one of these dance parties. And so let's watch this. I'm gonna give just for a few seconds before we. Before we head out of here and find out who the Pope is. Okay. This is someone. Otterly World.
- [62:33]
Unknown
Otterworldly.
- [62:35]
Chris Joy
Otterworldly. Excuse me.
- [62:40]
Unknown
Wait.
- [62:40]
Chris Joy
Hold on one second. Okay, you talk, Chrissy.
- [62:46]
Unknown
Yes. Well, we're looking at possibly a Fatboy Slim concert coming up here.
- [62:52]
Chris Joy
I love it.
- [62:53]
Unknown
Eat, sleep, VR, repeat.
- [62:56]
Chris Joy
Okay. All right, let me see if I can make it work. Now go.
- [62:59]
Unknown
Today we are going to a Fatboy Slim concert in VR. They're doing a special event today, so I'm going to be at this virtual concert with hundreds of other users. Let's do it. But why are there aliens over there? And a naked person? That's kind of weird.
- [63:17]
Chris Joy
Whoa.
- [63:19]
Brian Green
That is so cool.
- [63:23]
Unknown
It's showing this girl with the headset on.
- [63:26]
Chris Joy
Yeah.
- [63:26]
Unknown
And she's at the VR concert.
- [63:28]
Chris Joy
She's at the VR concert, and they're showing some weird, like, strange, you know, graphics. And every time she looks down, around her, there's other feetless, legless avatars walking. This reminds me of my time in the metaverse when they told me to leave.
- [63:55]
Unknown
It's very interesting.
- [64:00]
Chris Joy
Yeah. But these graphics seem like they're Atari. You know what I'm saying? Like, these graphics don't seem all that.
- [64:05]
Unknown
Impressive, but I think maybe when you have the headset on, it feels like you're there.
- [64:09]
Chris Joy
You're in it, you're there. Okay. Part of it, maybe it looks a little bit more 3D.
- [64:13]
Unknown
We're just walk. Watching it on the flat screen.
- [64:16]
Chris Joy
Yeah. And Fat Boy Slim had one hit, and he's breaking it out right at the beginning. If you're gonna go for a, you know, 60 hour rave, I think you saved that for some time toward the end, don't you? Okay, baby.
- [64:32]
Unknown
I have to pray is you, like.
- [64:40]
Chris Joy
Wonder if Fatboy uses chat. GPT.
- [64:43]
Unknown
They. I bet they do. They're in the. They're having.
- [64:46]
Chris Joy
Hello, my friends.
- [64:48]
Unknown
Hi.
- [64:48]
Chris Joy
Welcome home.
- [64:56]
Unknown
This is so cool.
- [64:57]
Chris Joy
I don't know if this is one of the coolest things I've seen or one of the things that makes me feel like humanity probably doesn't have a stand a chance of making it past the age AI revolution. This looks to me. This is bad graphics. Maybe not. My Fatboy Slim isn't my favorite artist ever. And it looks like I'm a little lonely. Because even the crowd seems sparse and weird. It looks like I showed up to a party that I would show up to, you know? You know what I'm saying? Like, if I'm. Yes. If I'm gonna show up to a party, I want it to be a party like I think somebody else would go to. Do you know? Do you understand, like, what I'm saying to you? Okay. Okay. Well, at least there's other people there, I guess.
- [65:39]
Unknown
Yeah.
- [65:42]
Chris Joy
There are literally, like, seven people at this. That's kind of sad.
- [65:50]
Unknown
Yeah, I guess it's showing your name above it, like.
- [65:53]
Chris Joy
Yeah, that's how it works in the metaverse. Yeah. Well, your username, anyway. Oh, someone is screaming to me. Eat, sleep, rave, repeat. I would just be going absolutely bananas. It's Fat Boy Slim. That's what you gotta do.
- [66:22]
Unknown
All right, So I think we need to investigate this some more.
- [66:26]
Chris Joy
Okay, we'll investigate it some more another time. All right, kids, that's all I got for you today. But I love you, and just know that and everything will be okay. Everyone will be all right. Even with the meta raving, we're gonna be just fine.
- [66:46]
Unknown
Hey, yeah. Again, each to their own. Yeah, you know, that's your thing. Do it.
- [66:50]
Chris Joy
Do each their own. Yeah, but Fat Boy Slim, I don't know what that's.
- [66:58]
Unknown
That. That's the same concert.
- [67:00]
Chris Joy
No, it's definitely not the same concert. I don't think the hardcore ravers are showing up to the Fat Boy Slim concert and vice versa. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't think Fat Boy Slim is showing up to the hardcore race. It's Fat Boy Slim.
- [67:12]
Unknown
There's like, a drive in too, so. Huh, Interesting.
- [67:16]
Chris Joy
It says Norm's drive in. Why am I going to Norms for the party? I fell off. Anyway. Anyway, the 12 hours of TCB is coming at you May 31st. Be here with us, starting at 10:00am or 9:00am Pay attention. Just hang tight. We're gonna be there, don't worry. For 12 episodes. 13 episodes, 14 episodes of the commercial break. We'll figure it out on the day of. Just show up May 31st. Celebrating mental health. Celebrating five years, not celebrating.
- [67:51]
Unknown
Celebrating our mental health.
- [67:52]
Chris Joy
Celebrating our mental health. The five years of the commercial break, six seasons of tcb, and shedding a little light on mental health. And it's. And your need to be aware about your own mental health. I guess it's the best way to say that. Oh, Lord. Okay, I'm gonna try and end this episode.
- [68:11]
Unknown
Yeah, you can land the plane.
- [68:13]
Chris Joy
I can't.
- [68:16]
Unknown
Shaky but you got it.
- [68:17]
Chris Joy
All right. Brought to you by Covert Creative Odyssey podcasts and original podcasts and CTB and of course us. The commercial break okay 212-4333 tcb212 4333822 questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas? We take them all right there. Or you can leave us a message and you too can be on the next episode of the commercial break at the commercial break on Instagram TCB podcast on TikTok and YouTube.com the commercial break rate us on Apple and Spotify. TCBpodcast.com for your free schweag. Okay, I think I did okay.
- [68:56]
Unknown
I think you did great.
- [68:57]
Chris Joy
All right. That's all I can do for now. I know I'll tell you that I love you.
- [69:00]
Unknown
Love you.
- [69:01]
Chris Joy
Best to you and best you out there in the podcast universe. Habeas pom pom. Until next time. Goodbye.
- [69:09]
Unknown
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- [71:55]
Chris Joy
Sardi of the Party.