CLACK! CLACK! ATTACK!

Summary

The Commercial Break – Episode Summary

Podcast: The Commercial Break
Episode: CLACK! CLACK! ATTACK!
Date: November 5, 2025
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley

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Overview

In this freewheeling episode, Bryan and Krissy dive into the wild world of cruise culture, discuss celebrity plastic surgery (with some pointed commentary), riff on Halloween hijinks, and entertain with their signature brand of irreverent banter. The conversation weaves through everything from Carnival Cruises’ new “fan ban” and behavioral rules, to whether Simon Cowell looks human, to the etiquette of trick-or-treat candy. True to form, the episode is a chaotic, relatable ride through internet oddities, pop culture, and personal tales.

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Key Discussion Points & Timestamps

1. Celebrity Facelifts & Hollywood Vanity

[05:13–13:22]

• Bryan reads about the increasing trend of male celebrities undergoing plastic surgery, listing names like Simon Cowell (“Doesn't even look human to me” – Bryan Green, [05:25]), Tom Cruise (“He looks fantastic. How does he look fantastic? Aliens, aliens, aliens, aliens.” – Bryan Green, [05:42]), and Ryan Gosling.
• Krissy: Reminisces about when Mickey Rourke was the first male celebrity to “go too far” with surgery ([06:12]).
• Both hosts discuss the culture of eternal youth in Hollywood and the pressures within insulated celebrity bubbles that make these choices seem normal.
• Notable belief: “If you’re good looking and sexy in your 20s and 30s, you’re gonna be good looking and sexy in your 40s and 50s, like Clooney.” – Bryan Green [07:58]
• Debate about Botox side effects (including tongue-in-cheek speculation about brain cell loss).

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2. Cruising Chaos: Carnival, Cruises & Clack Fans

[16:10 – 41:00]

• Discussion shifts to cruise vacations—Carnival Cruises in particular—and their recent, much-publicized behavioral policy changes:

  • Carnival as “party cruise”: Accessible prices mean a wilder crowd and sometimes unruly behavior.
  • New rules include curfews, fines for disruptive behavior (up to $5,000), bans on running or shouting in hallways, restrictions on drinks on dance floors, confiscating pool chairs left unattended (anti-seat-hogging), and a ban on personal speakers and “clack fans” in nightclubs.

• Clack Fan Controversy:

  • Krissy: “I had a friend tell me that the fans are the new glow sticks for the dancers.” [04:06]
  • Bryan: “Keep your fans at home, kids. Click clack. You click clack. Get back. Jack attack. Click clack. I don’t know what was going on with the fans.” [04:17]
  • They theorize fans were “whipping open in people’s eyeballs” leading to the ban ([04:40], [36:57]).
  • Both express amusement and confusion at the outrage online over the fan ban.

• Cruise ship discipline:

  • Discussion of cruise ship jails and the reality of being dropped on the next island if kicked off ([28:03], [28:16]).
  • Maritime law means the cruise ship is in charge—"it’s a lawless land” ([28:22]).

• Comparison with other cruise experiences:

  • Bryan and Krissy riff on luxury (Ritz) vs. value (Carnival, Margaritaville) cruises, sharing personal anecdotes and joking about cost:
    • “One cabin in a Ritz cruise costs what it probably costs to rent out a Carnival Cruise Line. $31,000. Insane.” ([17:43])
    • "Discount captain. Discount boat with a discount captain. ... Bring your fans on the Margaritaville cruise. They’d just be happy to have anybody there.” – Bryan ([38:56], [39:14])

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3. Halloween Hijinks & Trick-or-Treat Etiquette

[43:33–53:17]

• Krissy recounts a jam-packed Halloween at her house with tons of trick-or-treaters, running out of several pounds of candy ([44:01–44:39]).
• Bryan describes adults sneaking candy for themselves while out with kids ([45:23–46:09]); shares an anecdote about a quirky “Candy Man” neighbor handing out oversized chocolates and playing Earth, Wind & Fire ([46:42–47:30]).
• Both hosts passionately judge best and worst candies:
  • “People still doing Almond Joy? What’s wrong with you?” – Bryan ([48:07])
  • “While we’re at it, let’s not give out candy corn anymore.” ([48:25])
  • Agreed: Kit Kats, Hershey’s, Butterfingers, Skittles, and Fun Dip are where it’s at.
• Bryan’s take: “...it is fun to watch all of the kids dressed up, having so much fun. Especially the young, young ones.” ([49:17–49:32])

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4. Tangents: Daylight Savings, Politics & More

[50:48–51:45]

• Both vent about the confusion of daylight saving time shifts and wish the government would finally settle the matter.
• Hit on recent political headlines (“He doesn’t seem to know either. He didn’t know who he pardoned.” – Krissy on Trump, [51:23])
• Brief mention of Diddy’s legal troubles, Bitcoin, and celebrity influence.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Celebrity Surgery:
  “Simon Cowell is the worst example of this. He has gone so far overboard that he’s not recognizable as a human.” – Bryan Green [10:08]
• On Carnival Cruises:
  “When you’re out in international waters, it is a lawless land... The cruise ship is first and last authority.” – Bryan Green [28:22]
• On the Fan Ban:
  “Click clack. Get back. Jack attack. Click clack. ... Keep your fans at home, kids.” – Bryan, riffing [04:17, 36:36]
• Halloween Best Practices:
  "I think our neighborhood is one of those that people drive to from other areas." – Krissy [45:30] “And while we’re at it, let’s not give out candy corn anymore.” – Bryan [48:25]

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Episode Flow & Tone

• The episode is high-energy, unstructured, and heavy with inside jokes and friendly ribbing between Bryan and Krissy.
• The hosts’ chemistry and observational humor provide a “friends talking nonsense at a bar” feel.
• Frequent callbacks and running gags—especially on Hollywood vanity, cruise mishaps, and candy—give the episode connective tissue.

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Topic | Timestamps | Highlights/Quotes | |---------------------------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | Celebrity Plastic Surgery | 05:13–13:22 | “He looks like an alien.” (Bryan on Simon Cowell, 11:42) | | Cruise Life: Policy Changes & Chaos | 16:10–41:00 | “Carnival has kind of become the party cruise.” (24:15) | | The “Clack” Fan Ban | 04:03, 36:05 | “Fans are the new glow sticks.” (Krissy, 36:26) | | Shipboard Law & Cruise Ship Jail | 28:02–29:39 | “It is a lawless land... cruise ship is first authority.” | | Halloween Recap & Candy Debates | 43:33–49:32 | “People still doing Almond Joy? What’s wrong with you?” | | Daylight Saving Time & Politics | 50:48–51:45 | “He has no idea who he pardoned.” (Krissy, 51:26) |

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a prime example of The Commercial Break’s off-the-wall improv: blending current events, personal stories, and absurdist humor. If you’re seeking irreverent takes on cruise culture, celebrity excess, and holiday shenanigans—delivered with the easy rapport of old friends—this one is for you.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

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[Unknown Speaker (possibly a guest or contributor)]

I would lose Alan Hamilton. Build a ballroom that ain't making sense to me. No, that ain't Defense contractor. What is it they're really after? It feels like a SEAL conspiracy. Why would Locky Martin build a ballroom that ain't making sense to me? No, that don't make rockets. They build missiles. Now it's drinks to wet your wet. Get some bits in a stir indeed. Oh, I would volunteer. Want to help build a ballroom.

[Chrissy Odley]

That.

[Unknown Speaker (possibly a guest or contributor)]

Ain'T making sense to me. I just can't get down with that, man. You remember that scene from Batman? They're gonna build more surveillance technology. Oh, turns Hitler also built a ballroom.

[Brian Green]

Surprise.

[Unknown Speaker (possibly a guest or contributor)]

Now it's making sense to me. That's the place that they all ran. And it turns out that Trump had the exact same plan. God damn it.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial Break. Interesting.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah. Well, now, I had a friend tell me that the fans are the new glow sticks.

[Brian Green]

Oh, really?

[Chrissy Odley]

For that? For the dancers.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that is interesting. I had no idea that that was a thing. All right, well, keep your fans at home, kids.

[Chrissy Odley]

Click clack.

[Brian Green]

You click clack. Get back. Jack attack. Click clack. I don't know. I don't know what was going on with the fans.

[Chrissy Odley]

I don't know why they're being banned, but. Okay.

[Brian Green]

There's a lot of people on the social media that are upset about the fans one way or the other. Like, thank God, they. I don't know. The fans that big of a problem.

[Chrissy Odley]

Maybe they were, like, hitting people in the face.

[Brian Green]

Probably. Yeah. They're probably whipping them open in people's eyeballs.

[Von Miller]

I found out the next episode of.

[Unknown Speaker (possibly a guest or contributor)]

The commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green]

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 and Joy Odley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you. Out there in the podcast universe, I am reading a lot about the trends of the men in Hollywood getting the face surgery.

[Chrissy Odley]

Which one?

[Brian Green]

Oh, we can. We can name a lot. Now, you want me to go through a little list here?

[Chrissy Odley]

Sure.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Hold on one second. And then. Well, we all know Simon Cowell. Simon Cowell. Terrible.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Have you seen Simon I have not. Oh, terrible. I mean, that is just like. He look. Doesn't even look human to me, if I'm being real honest. Let's see, who else? Tom Cruise has the best plastic surgeon ever.

[Chrissy Odley]

He's gotta have one, right?

[Brian Green]

He looks fantastic. How does he look? Fantastic. I just don't know. Aliens, Aliens, Aliens, Aliens. We've, of course, been talking about Bradley Cooper.

[Chrissy Odley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Bradley Cooper has done a number on his face. Now, Ryan Gosling is in the mix.

[Chrissy Odley]

Not Gosling.

[Brian Green]

Yes, Gosling. Let's look here. Mickey Rourke, well, he's been a mess for years.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah, that's.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he's been a mess.

[Chrissy Odley]

He was really some of the. One of the first men that I remember seeing with something bad. Some kind of bad plastic surgery.

[Brian Green]

Well, I mean, he. He was in that wrestler. It was shocking, right? Yeah, it was shocking the way that he looked, but it kind of fit the narrative. It fit the story. So you felt like, okay, run hard and wet and run ragged. You know, he's just kind of that guy.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But okay, we can. Mickey Rourke is Mickey Rourke.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But Ryan Gosling is Ryan Gosling. Now, I know Mickey was a fuck with the Notebook. It's just terrible. Yeah, hold on one second. Let me see if I can. Ryan Gosling, he was in La La Land.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And he is just a lovely human being.

[Chrissy Odley]

He is.

[Brian Green]

He's a very handsome gentleman, easy on the eyes. Lots of people are now pointing out that he has, you know, he's got that altered. Yeah, he's got that altered look. He is messing with his face and people are not happy about it. Here's the thing, and I agree with this sentiment. I forgot who said it.

[Chrissy Odley]

Let me see him.

[Brian Green]

I don't see this as much as other people do, but. Okay, maybe hold on one second and I'll see if we can post some pictures of this on the video if you want to go watch it. Yeah, I guess he's had face wisdom. Yeah, something's going on there. He's going in that direction. Let's put it that way. Something's different. Oh, here it's more noticeable. Face is puffy, cheeks are plumped, eyebrows furrowed even more. That's a goddamn shame. Here's the thing. If you're good looking and Sexy in your 20 and 30s, you're gonna be good looking and sexy in your 40s and 50s, like Clooney.

[Chrissy Odley]

I just saw a interview with him. I think it was CBS Sunday Morning. I love that show. Anyways, he was on there and he has some deep lines. On his forehead and some wrinkles and stuff. Still so handsome, so rugged, so handsome. It's perfect.

[Brian Green]

A great, great looking guy. Harrison Ford is another example of this.

[Chrissy Odley]

Get older.

[Brian Green]

It is okay to get older. I have thought about this myself. You know, getting a little plump, but like a little Botox here, a little Botox there. And I got to be honest, like it scares the shit out of me because I see these people who have had Botox for a very long time now on the Internet talking about Botox and fillers and how it's just causing damage to their faces, their skin and.

[Chrissy Odley]

Go too far with it.

[Brian Green]

Well, now they're saying that Botox leaks into your brain and kills brain cells. Well, I don't need any help with that. I did that in my teens and twenties at a rapid clip. Luckily I had some to spare back then. Now I don't, I don't have any more to spare. But listen, you know, I, I have just have advice for the. And who are the people who are advising them to do this? Is it a manager? Is it a girlfriend? Is it a wife?

[Chrissy Odley]

Is it a boyfriend? You know, you probably are so insulated in a bubble of just really self absorbed people and that are constantly changing and getting things done and improving and I got it. Yeah, you're running in that circle maybe of they're doing it. So I should do it. And who did you use? Who's your doctor? Then maybe the doctor talks them into it. Who knows?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I am with you a thousand percent. I totally understand that in that business you really have to take care of yourself in or. I mean that's your face, your body. That is the thing that sells the show. That is what keeps people coming to the box office. But I think we're all adults and we can be aware that Ryan Gosling is not going to look like that. Exactly like that.

[Chrissy Odley]

You don't have to look at. You want to be frozen in time?

[Brian Green]

No. And that's what some of these celebrities look like. They look like they're frozen. Literally their faces are frozen. I mean, Simon Cowell is the worst example of this. He has gone so far overboard that it. He's not recognizable as a human. I don't think.

[Chrissy Odley]

Did he also have. Was he in some kind of accident? Didn't he have.

[Brian Green]

Was he.

[Chrissy Odley]

I feel like I remember something about that.

[Brian Green]

I think it was a scooter accident. I think it broke. He broke his leg.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

If I'm not mistaken, had two significant accidents while riding electric bikes. Both came with hospitalization and he almost became paralyzed.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yes, I remember that one.

[Brian Green]

He broke his arm in one and he broke his back in the other. Okay, so not the face. Right. And. But he just got so puffy and weird. Have you seen him doing the dance down the Kelly Clarkson show? Let me, let me show this to you. You're going to. This is shocking. Kelly Clarkson show. Okay, let me show this. I'm going to ask dance. Is it the Kelly Clarkson show or was it the.

[Chrissy Odley]

Oh, well, the other one?

[Brian Green]

Gosh, what's her name?

[Chrissy Odley]

Jennifer Hudson.

[Brian Green]

Jennifer Hudson.

[Chrissy Odley]

She has like the dance thing.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that was it then. Okay, let me show you. You watch too much tv.

[Chrissy Odley]

No, I just, I just saw Jennifer Hudson on another show the other day and she was talking about it.

[Brian Green]

Here it is.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Brian Green]

Is that not stunningly weird? Is that not stunningly weird? He looks like an alien. He looks like an alien. Now I can understand he might be walking a little weird because of the broken back and the bro and the hands, but he's like looks like a dinosaur clapping his hands and he's got a huge round face on this tiny body and it's just like plumped with fillers. It is a trend that I am not interested in. Not interested in at all. I don't want to poke at someone else's looks. If you feel like that's what you got to do, that's what you got to do. I am sharing that. My own personal perspective is it's been taken too far in some cases and some of these men in Hollywood. Simon Cowell was a good looking dude. Yeah, he's a handsome dude. Maybe he wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but you know, he was the, you know, the smart ass, whip smart guy on, on AGT and on American Idol and I think everyone could have agree he wasn't terrible to look at. No, he could have just kept going that direction. A little grayer, a little older, a little more rugged. Yeah, yeah. Few more wrinkles. This is the problem. Yeah, this is the problem with Hollywood and our influencer obsessed culture is that now we're all feeling pressure to turn back the clock, including some, you know, 18, 19 year olds who are getting Botox. That's insane. Yeah, that's insane. You're too young. 35 at the youngest. At the youngest. Just go through it. Go through age. You're going to get better looking if you're 18 years old. You're going to be your best looking between 25 and 30. Guarantee it. Guarantee it. That's when God makes You the most voluminous so that you can attract a partner like the caveman days, just to go for it. Don't worry about it.

[Chrissy Odley]

Peacock.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, peacocking all around. Speaking of peacocking, I've been keeping an eye on Mystery, who has popped back up. And he is doing all of these events where you pay money and you show up and then you get advice and it's the pickup order. Yeah, it's wild. It is wild.

[Chrissy Odley]

We'll have to do a show on it.

[Brian Green]

I. I would love to if people would take video of it, but I think it's kind of like a closed environment. But here's the. Here's the gig. Here's what they do. Him and some other dipshit pickup artists, they go online and they drum up a bunch of. And we're going to be down in Miami or Tulum or Hawaii or whatever, some far flung location. We're going to rent a house. It's going to be two pickup. Two of the master pickup artists spending quality time for seven to ten days with you. You, just us in a house, hanging out 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We'll eat together, we'll play together, we'll go do sets together out in the town. And I'm like, think to. The only thing I can think to myself is you'll buy call girls together. I mean, that's what's going to happen. Don't bullshit it, number one. Number two, Mystery and this other guy are taking people on vacation at their expense. That's what they're doing now. I'm not knocking the game. If I could get people to take me on vacation, I would do it too. But it just seems appallingly kind of.

[Chrissy Odley]

Like the bands that go to, you know, Mexico or whatever.

[Brian Green]

Of course.

[Chrissy Odley]

Except this is Mystery.

[Brian Green]

Yes. I was talking to Paul Chowdhury and Chrissy was out. But I was talking to Paul, who is an extraordinarily famous comic from the uk, Indian descent. He's very famous. Like, he goes to Wembley and sells out one of their state. Like Wembley is a complex of. Of stadiums. It's not just the big football stadium. But he sells out Wembley. And he explained to me that most of the time when you do these big shows, what you're really doing is you are lucky if you pay for all of the costs associated with the big show. It's a fuck you kind of statement. You go there, you sell it out, you announce to the world, you're big, you're bad. He's like, it's really, just a. Yeah, really. Just a punctuation mark is what it is. Now, I know these bands that tour, like, you know, 200 nights a year and go do these stadiums. They have to be making a little, you know, some money. They don't seem to be bad off, but I always felt like the other bands, the ones that go down and do the Mexico show, like, you know, once a year, and they're down there for a week, and they are Dominican Republic at the Hard Rock or whatever, and they don't tour around a lot. That's essentially what they're doing. They're getting you to pay for their vacation.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay, that's fine.

[Brian Green]

If I like listening to the music, I'm okay.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah. If my vacation. And I like the band and they're playing my vacation, so that's fun.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Listen, how else are you going to get the band to play your vacation? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, listen, I'm not. However you got to do it, you got to do it. I'm not saying it's bad. That's also same with the cruises. Remember, Tammy would go on the. Tammy. I love Tammy. I'm watching all her shit. Tammy on those cruises.

[Chrissy Odley]

Those cruises are wild.

[Brian Green]

Wild. Heather McMahon did one. Everyone's doing one. There's another podcast. I can't think of the name right now, but they're kind of like a sports friendship podcast with a couple of celebrities. They're also doing their first cruise. And I just think to myself, I know you don't like cruising, but it would be fun, I think, to just rent a cruise ship or have a cruise ship, fill it with all the listeners, and then just go wild. Just do a bunch of stuff. That would be amazing.

[Chrissy Odley]

Or you could just do a resort.

[Brian Green]

I know you could, but then you're not, like, on a boat. And a boat is cool. I like a boat.

[Chrissy Odley]

Do a boat excursion.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, but then I like a boat. But then, you know, we could do.

[Chrissy Odley]

Wait, hold on. If we did this, we could, you know, choose a place.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Odley]

Choose a resort. Somewhere tropical that we liked. And then we could do one of those sunset cruises.

[Brian Green]

Okay, we could.

[Chrissy Odley]

That would get your boat and your boat in.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. It's not the same vibe. I'm telling you right now. I think you would really love it if you were in a balcony room and you opened up the door and you. I've said, I'll do a Ritz Cruise. Yeah, a Ritz Cruise. That's the first thing we're gonna do, is the Ritz Cruise. Yeah.

[Chrissy Odley]

Listen, dream big, Brian.

[Brian Green]

I agree with you.

[Chrissy Odley]

You gotta dream big for the stars.

[Brian Green]

Dream big. Paychecks are small. That's the way they did it. Listen, I, I'm all about manifesting, I'm all about that, all about it. But I think we're going to shoot a little lower than the Ritz cruise. Because one cabin in a Ritz cruise costs what it probably costs to rent out a Carnival Cruise Line. $31,000. Insane.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And they're filling them up. How do I know? Because I see them like they send me these, this information all the time.

[Chrissy Odley]

I know, I've gotten it too. And I really, I started looking into it because I was like, oh maybe like for a special occasion, Jeff and I's 10 year anniversary or something. But I mean they crazy expensive.

[Brian Green]

They are crazy expensive.

[Chrissy Odley]

They are for like just the base level.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah. It's like $12,000 for a four night cruise.

[Chrissy Odley]

Per person.

[Brian Green]

Per person. It's just way too much. Now what you get is amazing. You essentially get a floating spa, a floating Ritz spa.

[Chrissy Odley]

But I'm sure that, I'm sure not all of that is included.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Chrissy Odley]

No, no, no, no.

[Brian Green]

You get the room. You get the room and some food to you. But it's not going to be the good food. It's. That's not how it works. That's any cruise line. That's Disney cruise line. I mean Disney gives you pretty good food. But if you want to go get like the really nice food, you got to pay extra for sure. If you want booze, you got to go pay extra for that. That's how it works. That's how they get you. And then they give you those damn wristbands where you don't. You're not even paying attention to how much you're spending. Yeah. There's no way. You don't have to physically do anything. It's unbelievable. And listen, I love a Ritz Carlton. I've been lucky enough in my life to stay at a few I love. They are the best hotel chain in the world. My opinion, I've stayed a lot. Not all of them, but you know, I've been stayed a lot of luxury hotel chains, but I've stayed in a number of them. And the Ritz just. There's something about the dark woods.

[Chrissy Odley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

And the lion and the service. It's really touches a fun experience. If you ever get an opportunity once in your life, just once in your life, save up enough money to spend the night At a night or two at a Ritz, like in a tropical location. You know, Fernandina, Miami, wherever, Tampa. Naples One is great. Yeah, Naples One is just as expensive as the cruise. You cannot find a room there for less than $2,000 a night. I know. I thought about, like, we were down there on vacation, and I thought, let me. And it was not. Was kind of nearest to my anniversary. And I said, let me take Aspen for a night or two over at the Ritz. And then I looked at the prices and I said, let me stay right here in this cheap Airbnb for a drink. That's right. It's exactly what we do. The good news is I could walk outside of my Airbnb and see the Ritz 18 stories in the air. I mean, we drove by it a lot. I said, look, remember, we did our honeymoon there because that's where we did our honeymoon. So. All right, let's take a break, and when I get back, I want to talk a little bit more about Carnival Cruises. They've made some interesting changes to their behavior policies.

[Rachel]

Really?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Odley]

I might have needed to.

[Brian Green]

I think they might have needed to listen. And we'll get into it. We'll be back.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

This episode is sponsored by Jack Archer do you hate shopping for pants? You're not alone. Jack Archer's Jetsetter Tech pants are basically the answer to every guy's closet struggles with their customizable fit, wrinkle free fabric sourced from Japan and all day comfort, these pants can take you from work to the weekend without missing a beat. Seriously, these might be the only pants you'll ever need. Style them with the Jetsetter tee legacy button down shirt or the buttery Legacy polo sweater. And you've got timeless staples to meet your everyday wardrobe needs. Jack Archer is just better. For a limited time, get 15% off using the code [e-mail] again that's promo code getjackarcher.com for 15% off your entire order. And thanks to Jack Archer for being a sponsor of the commercial break. I have been watching some videos from Carnival Cruises lately where people are getting kicked off of the Carnival cruise for breaking a number of the new rules that Carnival has installed, I think to keep everyone safe and happy. Yeah, listen, yeah, Carnival has kind of become the party cruise, like one long booze cruise. And you can understand that when you're trying to run a cruise line, that's fine, you can make a good chunk of change doing that. But because they are relatively accessible, it's one of the, it's not the lowest price cruise line, but it's one of the lower it's value. Right. You can, you can get a room and probably get a good room for cheap and quite frankly most of us need that right now. But what happens is large groups of people are congregating inside of clubs, inside of the, on the deck, wherever, and they sometimes get a little bit out of control. The booze. Yeah. And so Carnival has taken a number of steps to tamp down on this. Now you can argue that this is what needs to be done if they want to survive as a cruise line and continue to have families show up, continue to have anybody. I mean, listen, if you go to a cruise and it's just so loud and rambunctious that it's uncomfortable, you're probably not going to return to the cruise line. That's true. But for the people who are looking for, yeah, for the people who are loud and rambunctious, if that's what you're looking for, then this is your cruise line, right?

[Chrissy Odley]

And apparently a lot of people are looking for that, right.

[Brian Green]

I've seen videos where there must be a thousand people on the deck, on like the Lido deck where the pool is and all that raging, just raging, just dancing and raging and you know, not an inch square inch in the pool. Everybody's just sitting there, loud music, it looks like fun. If I was 10 years younger, right? If I was 10 years younger, it would look like fun. But now I have children, I would never vote that cruise line because I needed to be a little bit calm, just a little bit, right. People have been falling off of cruise ships, fights have been happening, bags are stolen. Imagine the fights yeah, there's a lot of Carnival Cruise fights. It's a whole, there's a whole throw.

[Chrissy Odley]

Alcohol, sun, alcohol. People in bikinis and. Yes, but good looking bodies and jealousy. What I can only imagine.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And you have a whole sub genre of Instagram videos that are Carnival Cruise fights. I mean it's just what it is.

[Chrissy Odley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

And to be fair, listen, there are also Disney Cruise fights. There are Disney World fights. I mean there are lots. You know, people are on edge, everybody's on edge. But that Carnival Cruise seems to be a magnet for this for like it just taking it too far. And so there are other people now who are posting videos where they are actually getting kicked off the ship.

[Chrissy Odley]

How do they kick you off the ship? They put you in a jail or.

[Brian Green]

They lock you in your room.

[Chrissy Odley]

Oh, I heard, I've heard about the cruise ship jail.

[Brian Green]

There's a cruise ship jail. It is a room with no windows, essentially a room with no windows or television. And they'll put you in there until you make it to your next destination. Then you're on your own getting home.

[Chrissy Odley]

And really that.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And that is probably not the best situation. Especially if you just drop you off.

[Chrissy Odley]

In an island somewhere and say goodbye. Figure it out yourself.

[Brian Green]

Yep, that's it. They have the right to do it. They have to maintain order on the cruise ships. Listen, when you're out in international waters, it is a lawless land. There is no there. There are maritime laws, there are treaties, but there's no real law. And that's why that there are also a whole sub genre of investigative journalism around people who go missing or get killed or get assaulted on ships. Because the cruise ships fiercely defend their territory. They fiercely defend their own right to investigate their own situations. And when it happens in the middle of sea, they're the first and last authority. Now usually someone like if you're, if you're out in the Mediterranean and, or let's say you're crossing the Atlantic and something bad happens, someone goes missing, someone gets murdered, whatever. Wherever the boat is flagged is usually going to be involved in the investigation and then usually wherever the person was from. Right. Like the US but they have limited investigative possibilities and opportunities because the cruise ship can largely dictate when, where and how those investigations happen.

[Chrissy Odley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

You don't have any authority on a boat in the middle of the ocean. You just don't.

[Chrissy Odley]

Who's the air traffic controllers of the seas?

[Brian Green]

No one. Okay, you are. You are. Maritime law keeps you in check. And how do I know this? Because I, I have an app on my phone. I follow maritime traffic. There are well known shipping routes.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And cruising routes and recreational.

[Chrissy Odley]

I just kind of stay in touch with each other or I guess you just see another ship.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You have radar and most of them have global tracking. Almost every boat that does any kind of activity out in the open ocean has tracking for two reasons. Number one, in case you get lost. But number two, to keep an eye so that you, you are visible to other boats.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Brian Green]

And so that other boats are.

[Chrissy Odley]

But there's no one main hub.

[Brian Green]

No, there's not air traffic control, like, and, and I'll get back to Carnival. But when you cross the Atlantic on an airplane, you fly up to the furthest point, like Newfoundland, Canada, you fly up to the, the farthest point and then you travel across the shortest distance to get over to land in Europe. Right. And you sometimes might fly over Greenland or what. I mean, however, where. It depends on where you're flying.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

But there are air traffic controllers who maintain those routes. And every day, based on weather patterns and traffic patterns, they will decide there's A, B, C, D, E and F. There's all kind of lines in the sky, highways in the sky.

[Unknown Speaker (possibly a guest or contributor)]

Right.

[Brian Green]

And the traffic pattern often goes one way at a certain time and another way at a certain time. And they separate you or they have everybody flying on the same line because of weather. So let's say today they're using a. Right. So the air traffic controller put you on pattern A and there you will go. A lot of times you are so far out in the ocean that there is no air traffic control that you can communicate with except via a global position. Like there's a global text message system essentially. So you have to relay on other airplanes that are behind you that can hear you, that can pick up your air traffic. It's a little scary when you think about it.

[Chrissy Odley]

You would know this.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Stuff when you get on a ship, there is nothing like that.

[Chrissy Odley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

They stay in touch with each other. There's maritime friendliness.

[Chrissy Odley]

It seems like there's just so many cruise lines out there. But I guess the ocean is so very big.

[Brian Green]

It's vast. It's vast. When, when we went on our cruise in the Mediterranean, we could see other boats at night, either following us or on the side of us going, pacing us. Almost like the exact same. Now they're probably a half a mile or a mile away, but that is done, I think, because we're all going in the same direction. And a lot of times we would see those ships in port at the next port because there's only so many combinations. But then also I think it's for safety, right. It's to make sure that nothing happens. And if something does happen, there's power in numbers. You've got some friends, you've got something that can go on. Carnival Cruise. Known as this kind of value cruise ship operator. They have largely catered to people who normally don't. Can't afford like luxury cruising. So they fit this bill.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And they give you, they can give you really cheap rooms like $259 for a, a four day cruise for a person.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And they feed you and sometimes they booze you depending on what package you get. And then they let rip. And then everyone just gets on the cruise ship and goes crazy. So they've been play, they've been putting some new rules in place and they are not kidding because I have seen these videos of like, you know, 24 year old college girl brings booze on the cruise in some kind of container, gets caught and then gets put in the maritime jail inside of the thing. And then she gets dropped off at the next location. No shit. So there's now a curfew. Minors under the 18 must be in their stateroom or accompanied by an adult that is over the age of 25 after 1am Sounds like it makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Disruptive behavior. Guests can be fined up to $5,000, removed from the cruise without refund or blacklisted for violating behavioral codes and rules. Noise. You're no longer allowed to run or shout in the hallway. It is prohibited and you can be fined or kicked off the cruise.

[Chrissy Odley]

Which means there were a ton of people doing this before.

[Brian Green]

Ton of people. There are people who do this for content creation. They like make videos of themselves running down the halls at three in the morning, banging on doors and screaming and yelling like someone's getting murdered. It's not cool swing. Yeah, yeah, exactly. No more pineapples on the door now. That one didn't. They didn't, they didn't go that far. They know, they know their niche market. That's right. Dance floor rules. Consuming drinks on the dance floor is no longer allowed. Okay, okay. I don't know how that stops anyone from drinking. You just pop off the dance floor, sip it up and they get back.

[Chrissy Odley]

Well, there's probably a lot of spilling going on, people falling.

[Brian Green]

You know, one of the rules that has got a lot of people bent out of shape, but I think this is perfectly reasonable is that pool Chairs left unattended for more than 40 minutes will have the belongings removed. So if you. What a lot of people were doing on these cruises.

[Chrissy Odley]

Saving seats.

[Brian Green]

Saving seats. It's not cool. Don't do it. If you're going to be at the pool chairs, be at the pool chairs. If you're not going to be at the pool chairs, let somebody else go. If you have a pool chair and you go to take a dip for 20 minutes. Yeah.

[Chrissy Odley]

Otherwise, if you're spending the entire day in the pool, then you don't need the chair anyway.

[Brian Green]

You don't need the chair on the.

[Chrissy Odley]

Side of the pool.

[Brian Green]

Put it on the side of the pool. Or, or better yet, if you go down to take a nap in your stateroom and you're leaving two pieces of clothing on the chair so that two hours later you can have the same fantastic seat you had before. Yeah, it's not fucking fair. Don't do that. You're just being rude and entitled. That's what you're doing. You need to see it from someone else's perspective. Speakers and radios, all personal speakers, including Bluetooth, are now banned in public safety. Public spaces to ensure guest safety. Fans. Now, I don't understand this one as much as I maybe could, but the handheld fans.

[Chrissy Odley]

Oh, there's the big thing with the ravers.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. The clack fans.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Is what they call them. Are now. Oh, they do? Okay. They're now prohibited in nightclubs and indoor dance floors for safety reasons, but battery powered fans are still permitted. Interesting.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah. Well, now I had a friend tell me that the fans are the new glow sticks.

[Brian Green]

Oh, really?

[Chrissy Odley]

For that? For the dancers.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that is interesting. I had no idea that that was a thing. All right, well, keep your fans at home, kids.

[Chrissy Odley]

Click clack.

[Brian Green]

Click clack. Get back. Jack attack. Click clack. I don't know. I don't know what was going on with the fans.

[Chrissy Odley]

I don't know why they're being banned. Okay.

[Brian Green]

There's a lot of people on the social media that are upset about the fans one way or the other. Like, thank God they. I don't know. Are the fans that big of a problem?

[Chrissy Odley]

Maybe they were like hitting people in the face.

[Brian Green]

Probably, yeah. They're probably whipping them open in people's eyeballs. I don't know. I don't know. If somebody knows, let me know. I really am interested. Marijuana, all cannabis products are now banned on board because they are illegal under federal law and violators will face arrest and be removed from the ship. So, you know, and then there's behavior and consequences. Fan ban. Listen.

[Chrissy Odley]

Fan ban.

[Brian Green]

Fan ban. I just think some of this sounds like common sense, but apparently there were.

[Chrissy Odley]

People that were abusing it, so. And we know.

[Brian Green]

We know. We know a lot of people. There's a lot of people.

[Chrissy Odley]

A lot of them aren't well.

[Brian Green]

A lot of them aren't well. And they'll take advantage. You give them an inch, they take a mile. That's just the way it is. Can't say I've never. I can't say it's never happened to me, or I've never been that guy either. But I was young and dumb. And so, you know, by tailoring the experience a little bit more toward people who have a little more maturity, I think you'll cut a lot of the crap out. Like, if you got to be 25 to be out after 1am then okay. But here's the thing. The people who are probably upset about this type of behavior aren't out at 1am Anyway.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Do you know what I'm saying? So I don't understand how that works, but okay, you do. You Carnival Cruise. But people are crazed. Some people are really upset about this. They feel like this is, you know. Ah, you cut out all the partying. I'm never going on there again.

[Chrissy Odley]

Listen, go get on Jimmy Buffett.

[Brian Green]

That's it. I was just gonna say, Jimmy Buffett's Cruise Line will happily take you cockroaches and all dirty sinks and bloody sheets and everything you want. Margaritaville's got it for you.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Discount captain. Discount boat with a discount captain. I don't know that, but I've seen videos from there, too. And that.

[Chrissy Odley]

No hat, no problem.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, no hat, no fan, no problem. Don't worry about it. Bring your fans on the Margaritaville cruise. They're all about it. They'd just be happy to have anybody there. Yeah, I watched some really pathetic videos from that cruise line. I mean, people are.

[Chrissy Odley]

Which is a shame. Jimmy, you know, he's not around to defend it anymore, I guess. And how long did they have this cruise line for? He died. Because, you know, I've seen specials about these Margaritaville retirement resorts, and those things are big money and look like a ton of fun.

[Brian Green]

Listen, they don't look bad. We went to one of the cruise lines. Yeah. They have the retirement villages. They have the resorts. We went to a resort in Panama City, and I can't say it was terrible. Yeah, I can't. The place was clean. We had a house, like a bungalow.

[Chrissy Odley]

With a margarita machine.

[Brian Green]

Margarita machine, ice machine, po with water slides, perfectly lovely people. A nice bar and grill that you can hang out at. It wasn't the Ritz, that's for sure.

[Chrissy Odley]

Right?

[Brian Green]

But it didn't need to be. We had a ton of fun with the kids, so. But Margaritaville Cruise Line. I don't know what went.

[Chrissy Odley]

Something happened.

[Brian Green]

He loaned his. They loaned his name to it, and it's just a shitty cruise ship with shitty pipes and an old shrimp boat. It is like. Yeah, it's like one of those, you know, deadliest catch boats that they tried to doll up. All right, we'll take a break. We'll be back.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

Well, we haven't been here since Halloween. So how was it?

[Chrissy Odley]

Oh, I had a blast over Halloween. It was a beautiful day. It had been raining all that week and then the clouds parted and it was beautiful. We had tons of trick or treaters. I love Halloween. I love dressing up, I love decorating, scaring the kids, giving out candy, the whole thing. We did it. We did it for three hours or so. Rachel came over. We had a blast.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Chrissy Odley]

A little wine, a little candy, a little scare. Trick or treat. Boo. And we had to shut it down because we get so many.

[Brian Green]

That's crazy.

[Chrissy Odley]

We ran out of candy.

[Brian Green]

And how much candy do you think you had?

[Rachel]

A lot.

[Chrissy Odley]

I mean, I had an eight pound thing of assorted chocolates, all the good ones, Kit Kats, Hershey's. All that was a four pounder of the skittle. Wow. So when I mixed it all together, I mean, we had a lot.

[Brian Green]

A bucket of candy.

[Chrissy Odley]

Three buckets.

[Brian Green]

Wow. And you gave it all away.

[Chrissy Odley]

Gave it all away.

[Brian Green]

And so it's just like a stream of people just coming down the street at all given times.

[Chrissy Odley]

You know, it gets. It starts off, we had, you know, we first had people come in.

[Brian Green]

Like the trickle turns into a faucet. Yes, yes.

[Chrissy Odley]

That's exactly what it is.

[Brian Green]

As soon as the sun goes down. Yeah. And was it mainly younger kids or did you have a good mix of teenagers?

[Chrissy Odley]

It was mainly younger kids, I would say, below the age of, like, 11. Let's say 10.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy Odley]

I mean, there were a few sprinkled in. And I have to say there were some parents, too. We were like, okay, here.

[Brian Green]

The parents that, like, knocked on the door and said, trick or treat.

[Chrissy Odley]

Well, they, like, went up to the. To the thing with the group of.

[Brian Green]

The kids and they wanted candy also.

[Chrissy Odley]

Well, usually it was that they were getting it for their little baby that was out in the store.

[Brian Green]

The babies don't eat candy. Come on. I mean, listen, I gotta say, we were. We were.

[Chrissy Odley]

I think our neighborhood is one of those that people drive to from. Also from.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy Odley]

Other areas.

[Brian Green]

We were doing the whole trick or treat thing. We were running up and down the street at a different neighborhood that a friend. Like a friend of one of the kids. Because our neighborhood is not super conducive as a busy road, so we don't want the kids walking up and down it. And so we were walking around and we really hadn't eaten dinner. The adults hadn't eaten dinner. So Astrid at one point was like, oh, make sure you get one for our youngest. And then she was like. And also. Yeah, and also, I'm not gonna be mad if you get me a Kit Kat.

[Chrissy Odley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

And listen. Fair enough. When you're hungry, you're hungry, you know? And if people are just giving out candy, okay. But I wasn't, like, purposefully going up and taking candy for myself. I mean, maybe once I said, oh, those Skittles are good. I'll take one of those. I mean, but there are people who just go crazy. There are some people who put, like, large candies in the basket, whole packs of Starbursts, big things of KitKat, you know, there was this one guy, he was sitting by himself. He had his trunk of his car open. He had, like, decorated it lightly. Right.

[Chrissy Odley]

Starting off good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Well, you know, he had a single guy. He had a strong. He had a tall boy of, like, Schlitz. I'm not even kidding. I'm not even kidding. Older man, probably in his 60s. He had diabetic socks on with shorts. And he was like, compression socks. Compression socks. He's sitting in a lawn chair and there's some old, like, you know, R and B playing on the. On the radio. I thought, I love this guy. I was all into the vibe. I said, I go, you're. You're having the best time here. But he had just the monstrous candy, like the candy bars you pay for individually. Nestle Crunch and Hershey's Bars and big packs of Skittle. All kind of like great candy.

[Chrissy Odley]

Candy man.

[Brian Green]

In these two buckets. Crack. Just sitting on the hatch of his car. You know, just stick your head in.

[Chrissy Odley]

There for a minute.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Odley]

Grab it.

[Brian Green]

Just go ahead, young man. Jump up in the car. There's more where that came from. Ah. Do you like Earth, Wind and Fire? Come in here and I'll teach you about Earth, Wind and Fire. I got a handy Nestle Crunch bar for you.

[Chrissy Odley]

Oh, my God. You know, it was mixed in with some of our. That big. The big thing of chocolate I got was the Almond Joys. And I was like, jesus. But people loved them.

[Brian Green]

People still doing Almond Joy. What's wrong with you? Coconut doesn't. I mean, I get it. People like.

[Chrissy Odley]

I like almonds.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But not the coconut and the nugget and the almonds and the chocolate. It's just a terrible, wasteful concoction combo. Yeah. And while we're at it, let's not give out candy corn anymore.

[Chrissy Odley]

No.

[Brian Green]

No one likes it.

[Chrissy Odley]

No.

[Brian Green]

I think it's cute to put can, like the little pumpkin candy corns in a bag. And while we're at it, Twizzlers. What are we doing with Twizzlers? You buy those at movie theaters when you. I don't know, when you're a teenager, your first movie, and you don't know what else to get. Let's get Twizzlers. Twizzlers are a terrible thing to give away.

[Chrissy Odley]

You need the Hershey's. Need the. You need the Butterfingers.

[Brian Green]

Sour Patch Kids. Yeah. Kit kids. Butterfingers, Skittles.

[Chrissy Odley]

That's the good stuff.

[Brian Green]

You know, dipping. I don't know. You. Not dipping dots, but the. What do you call them?

[Chrissy Odley]

The Pixie Sticks.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the Pixie Sticks are great, too. The Fun Dip. Fun Dip. One of my friends was giving away Fun Dip. I thought whole big Fun Dips. I was like, wow, that's impressive. And the kids.

[Chrissy Odley]

You're spending some cash on this stuff.

[Brian Green]

A hundred dollars. We spent.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah, we spent a hundred dollars, too.

[Brian Green]

And it's just, you know, it's. It's a lot. But it is fun to watch all of the kids dressed up, having so much fun. Especially the young, young ones, like, you know, 4, 5, 6, 7 years old. That's the sweet spot.

[Chrissy Odley]

So cute.

[Brian Green]

Come on in and look at my Earth, Wind and Fire collection. That's the sweet spot. It's just those are the kids that I really enjoy watching in. In this neighborhood. There was like a gang of people, like adults and parents that we had been with last year that we were with again. And, you know, I don't know, there's like 40 of us just walking down the street together. And all the kids, most of the kids are under the age of 13, a lot of them under the age of 7 years old. And they're just so cute. I mean, they really are. They're just adorable. They're excited. They're excited, they're excited. It's exciting. I love it. And then an hour in, I'm fucking done. I'm done. I'm done. As soon as it starts getting cold, I'm like, okay, guys, let's get out of here.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah, we were lights out at 8.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we were back home by 8:30 and. And the only reason, it took us a half an hour to get home, but we were really. I was. It got cold. That's the problem. It seems like Halloween is like the line of demarcation with cold weather here in Atlanta. You know, it's you. It gets cold right at Halloween, and that drives me crazy. I wish it would. I wish it would stay warm just a little bit longer. And then on top of that, that God damn moving your clocks. Let's stop that shit immediately.

[Chrissy Odley]

Yeah, the old spring forward fallback.

[Brian Green]

I love an hour and extra sleep like everybody else does, but this is. The whole clock bouncing back and forth is really bothersome to me. Pick one, pick one. And in 19 states, they have voted to keep daylight savings all year round. Right. So in other words, they did the fallback. Yes, but only if it becomes a federal mandate. Only if it becomes federal. And you know, Trump didn't sign it. Biden didn't sign it. Trump's not signed. I don't know what Trump's doing over there. It's a goofball.

[Chrissy Odley]

He doesn't seem to know either. He didn't know who he pardoned.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he has no idea who he pardoned. Trillionaire from Binance. He has no idea who that guy is. But the next day, Trump coin. Bitcoin, Trump coin on Binance. Go figure. But I have no idea who he is. No clue. Yeah, yeah, they just tell me who to pardon, right?

[Chrissy Odley]

Well, they said it.

[Brian Green]

They said it. Well, listen, you know, Diddy's next, guaranteed. Watch. Mark my words, Diddy is next. All right. We got a week full of fun coming your way, kids. I did have Fun at Halloween. I do.

[Chrissy Odley]

I love it. I just love it.

[Brian Green]

I do like to watch the kids. They're a lot of fun.

[Chrissy Odley]

I even watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown this year.

[Brian Green]

You watched Good gravy, Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown did.

[Chrissy Odley]

I had it all in the background as I was cooking one night and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's a cute movie. It is. It's cute. I don't know if Charlie Brown held up as well as some of the other Christmas classics, like, like holiday classics, but I do still like watching the Snoopy on Apple. Yeah. Snoopy on Thanksgiving. And it's fun. Snoopy's still riding down that Thanksgiving day parade every single time. Unbelievable. Yeah, I love it. God bless America. God bless America. All right, do us a favor. 212-433. TCB 212433, 3822. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. We take them all right there at that phone number. We'd love to hear from you. Get involved in the conversation. You can follow us at the commercial break. You can follow us individually. Brian W. Green. What's yours? Kristen Bransford, tcb.

[Chrissy Odley]

Chrissy.

[Brian Green]

Tcb, Chrissy, tcb. Chrissy, go get it. I'll put a link in the show notes there for you. And at the commercial break is of course our master services account in case you want to join up over there. YouTube.com they commercial break and tcbpodcast.com for all the episodes, audio and video. They're all lit given right there. And yeah, we love you, you love us. We know how it goes. Join in the conversation, help us. Oh, you get your free sticker too. If you go to the contact us button, drop down menu says I want my free sticker. We'll give it to you. We're obligated. We're obligated. Now we're in it now. We can't get out of it. Now I gotta pay A$50 every time someone gives me their address or puts me on a coupon site or some shit.

[Chrissy Odley]

That's right. Oh my God.

[Brian Green]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well, listen, that's all I can do for today.

[Chrissy Odley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

And I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy Odley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you.

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[Brian Green]

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

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[Brian Green]

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