Come On Down To Car Town!

Summary

The Commercial Break – "Come On Down To Car Town!"

Podcast: The Commercial Break
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Episode Date: July 31, 2024

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Bryan and Krissy dive into pop culture’s flavor of the month with irreverent takes on “Brat Girl Summer,” the challenges of fame (hi, Katy Perry), Olympic obsessions, and the chaos of watching rugby (“murder ball”). Along the way, they riff on recurring commercial car dealership tropes, local radio giveaways, and their own embarrassing media stints. The duo’s signature blend of improv, nostalgia, and playful mockery is on full display—sprinkled with tangents, inside jokes, wild analogies, and a touch of heartfelt commentary on celebrity burnout.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

Brat Girl Summer & Pop Culture Trends

• 00:51 – 02:57
  • Bryan and Krissy open with the “brat” trend, poking fun at cable news anchors’ confusion over the new slang (“You sound 80!” – Bryan) and referencing Rachel Maddow’s attempts to discuss Charlie XCX’s “Brat Girl Summer.”
  • Charlie XCX’s album is heralded as the soundtrack of the summer.
  • Memes, news cycles, and being “with it” versus intentionally avoiding the internet are debated.

Fame, Katy Perry, and (Not So) Triumphant Comebacks

• 03:02 – 13:13
  • Krissy admits to “overfilling her mental dumpling” with media noise.
  • Bryan delivers a deep-dive on Katy Perry’s career trajectory, from Firework stardom to her American Idol judge stint and current struggles.
  • The duo scrutinizes Perry’s controversial reunion with producer Dr. Luke and the critical panning of her new song “Woman’s World.”
  • Satire vs. empowerment: the awkwardness of needing to explain your own joke/message.
  • Memorable moment:

    “When you have to explain the satire, it has probably fallen on deaf ears. If you have to say something is satire, you may not… or may or may not be doing it right.” – Bryan (11:22)

  • Reflection on the relentless cycle of building up and tearing down celebrities.

Hollywood Relationships, Divorce, and “Industry People”

• 13:13 – 18:57
  • The pitfalls of celebrities dating other celebrities: Orlando Bloom & Katy Perry, Oprah & Stedman, Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell, Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston/Angelina Jolie.
  • The effect of fame on relationships and the higher divorce rates among stars.
  • Bryan jokes about being available for Dua Lipa and riffs on his wife Astrid keeping him in line.

The Olympic Spirit & Simone Biles’ Resilience

• 20:07 – 25:13
  • Excitement about the upcoming Olympics offers “a distraction from all the crazy drama that currently fills the news cycle.”
  • Krissy recommends the Simone Biles documentary; discussion of Biles’ mental health journey and how competing under public scrutiny is uniquely brutal.
  • Bryan shares advice from sports experts about the futility of over-investing in kids’ sports, praising natural talent and mental strength.

Watching Rugby AKA “Murder Ball”

• 25:45 – 33:34
  • Bryan’s confusion and awe at the sport of rugby, recounting wild memories with enormous rugby guys who treated him like a “little poodle.”
  • The physical brutality and camaraderie of rugby, the culture clash with American sports, and personal stories of being tossed around after games.

  • “These are guys who don’t even wear pads. They’re the toughest, roughest motherfuckers I have ever seen.” – Bryan (27:55)

  • The impossibility of understanding rugby’s rules, even after reading “Rugby for Dummies.”

Suburban Adventures: Lacrosse & Neighborhood Kids Growing Up

• 33:34 – 36:13
  • Talk on the mystery of lacrosse, daughters/daughters’ friends playing the game, and the evolution of neighbor kids into potentially too-handsome teens.
  • Comedy on teenage boys, summer pool etiquette, and suburban observations about sports.

Car Dealership Culture & Local Giveaways

• 40:14 – 47:05
  • The ubiquity and absurdity of car dealership sales events and radio-sponsored car giveaways featuring celebrities’ supposed “personalized” vehicles.
  • Bryan investigates the industry trend: one influential promotions specialist sets the standard that’s rolled out nationwide across radio/TV stations and dealerships.
  • Krissy reminisces about being in a local car dealership commercial:

    “My tagline was, we’re cutting prices to the bone.” – Krissy (44:39)
    – much laughter ensues about over-the-top dealership commercial tropes ("We're giving this sale a vasectomy. We're cutting it at the nuts.").

  • The clichés of scantily clad models, wild promises, and manufactured hype in car ads.

Embarrassing TV Moments & Behind-the-Scenes Anecdotes

• 47:05 – 48:52
  • Stories of almost being on reality shows, drunken scenes gone wrong, TV-radio bloopers, and the youthful willingness to do anything for a bit.
  • Bryan laments not being invited back after getting too “hammered” for a shoot.

  • “You gotta just take life by the vasectomy… by the disembodied balls.” – Bryan (48:39)

Reflecting on Rugby & Injury (Again)

• 48:52 – 49:14
  • The potential long-term injuries for rugby players are pondered; it’s called “so violent and vicious… so many of them have tissue up their nose.”

Closing Banter & Calls to Action

• 49:14 – End
  • How to contact the show, sticker giveaways, more jokes on bad reviews (“Worst podcast ever. You’re welcome. Thank you for listening. I guarantee he’s listening.” – Bryan, 50:34)
  • Gregarious encouragement to follow, share, and “come on down” for all things Commercial Break.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Gen-Z Trends:

  “Why don’t you just go on the Internet and watch some memes and then you’ll understand exactly what brat means.”
  – Bryan (01:51)

• On Katy Perry’s Comeback:

  “This is probably one of the worst comeback songs of all time… it’s just not a good song, not a good look, not a good video.”
  – Bryan (11:22)

• On Rugby Players:

  “These are guys who don’t even wear pads. They’re the toughest, roughest motherfuckers I have ever seen.”
  – Bryan (27:55)

• On Old Local Car Ads:

  “We’re cutting prices to the bone. We’re giving this sale a vasectomy. We’re cutting it at the nuts. $39.99 today only. Come down to John Dick Ford…”
  – Bryan & Chrissy in dealership commercial voice (44:39 & 45:13)

• On Living With No Regrets:

  “You gotta just take life by the vasectomy… by the disembodied balls.”
  – Bryan (48:39)

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Timestamps by Segment

| Timestamp | Segment | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:51-02:57| Intro, brat girl summer trend, Charlie XCX album | | 03:02-13:13| Katy Perry’s fame journey & comeback critique | | 13:13-18:57| Celebrity relationships/divorce, industry dating pitfalls | | 20:07-25:13| Olympics, Simone Biles documentary, sports parenting | | 25:45-33:34| Watching rugby (“murder ball”) & personal rugby stories | | 33:34-36:13| Suburban lacrosse, neighbor kids, lacrosse balls | | 40:14-47:05| Radio car giveaways, dealership promotions, Krissy’s car ad | | 47:05-48:52| Embarrassing TV moments, reality show anecdote | | 48:52-49:14| Rugby injuries reflection | | 49:14-end | Show outro, listener engagement, closing banter |

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Recap Tone

True to the Commercial Break’s “chaotic, unpolished charm,” this episode is a wild ride of affectionate teasing, satirical pop culture analysis, and the hosts’ infectious, meandering chemistry. If you like improv, tangents, and the feeling of eavesdropping on friends who can’t help but roast themselves and the world around them, you’ll have a blast.

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Best to you!

Transcript

[Chrissy]

Rose, what was your first impression of me? I thought you wore too much makeup.

[Brian]

And were a slut.

[Chrissy]

I was wrong.

[Brian]

You don't wear too much makeup. On this episode of the commercial break.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

We'Re giving this sale a mastectomy. We're cutting it at the nuts. $39.99 today only. Come down to John dig Ford. Get yourself some free ice cream. Don't worry, we got po and pizza for the kids. A free pack of camel lights to any kid under 18 year olds that shows up at John Digford. Right now, that's the way it is. This is our best salesman, Jimmy. He's tried to jump off the roof four times this month. You gotta get here quick.

[Brian]

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 the bratz of my white boy summer, Kristen Joy. Holy. Best to you, Chrissy.

[Chrissy]

Best to you, brat.

[Brian]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thank you. Staying on trend, staying on topic. Trying to get with the kids. I mean, truth is, I do so much Internet trolling. I'm with it. I get it. I understand. But what's really funny for me right now is watching every news broadcaster in the world struggle for their little pea brains to understand what brat means. It's like, it's so funny. If you watch any of the conservative channels, there's like, they're like, she's calling her a brat. That can't be a good thing. Conspiracy afoot. If you watch the more liberal channels or the. The left leaning channels that they're just struggling to understand what this means. I think it means a messy woman and. Okay, all right, okay. Just try, try, try. Why don't you just go on the Internet and watch some memes and then you'll understand exactly what brat means.

[Chrissy]

Exactly.

[Brian]

Kamala is brat. It's not. This doesn't say Kamala. Kamala is a brat. It says kamala is brat. Charlie XCX having a wonderful summer herself.

[Chrissy]

Brat girl summer.

[Brian]

Brat girl summer with a. An album that is just killing it and live appearances that are just killing.

[Chrissy]

It's a great album.

[Brian]

I listened to some of it. Yeah. Really? I enjoyed. It's a. It's a hippity dippity hip hop. Chris. The kids are really boogieing down to that record.

[Chrissy]

Yes, that lp.

[Brian]

Oh, I think. Who was it? Maybe it was Rachel Maddow. And she was like. She was like, charlie XCX is having a great summer with her record. And I was like, oh, you sound 80. You sound even. She was struggling anyway. She's struggling to figure it out. But Charlie XCX is. Is having quite the summer without. With that album. And it is. It's catchy. You gotta admit, it's catchy.

[Chrissy]

There's that, you know, there's usually that one album each summer.

[Brian]

Yep.

[Chrissy]

That blows up. It's Brad summer, and it's a brat summer.

[Brian]

It's a brat summer.

[Chrissy]

I'm here for it.

[Brian]

You know what? It's not. It's not a Katy Perry summer is what it's not. Have you been keeping up with this?

[Chrissy]

No, I've seen a few snippets. I mean, Brian, there's just so much.

[Brian]

I know.

[Chrissy]

There's so much in the world.

[Brian]

You know, how much is jingling and jangling around.

[Chrissy]

I know. It's. It's. It's like. You know, I was making homemade dumplings the other night, and I don't suggest that.

[Brian]

Oh, that sounds utilitarian.

[Chrissy]

Trader Joe's does a fantastic job with. With them frozen, and they're so much easier. But I got it in my head, I'm going to make these dumplings. So I was making the homemade dough and then the filling for it. You know, it's Asian. So I was grating the. The g. Ginger, making everything, chopping scallions, doing the whole thing. And by the end of it, I was like, this is way too much.

[Brian]

For a tiny bite of food that will be gone in five seconds.

[Chrissy]

It was too much work.

[Brian]

Yeah. Leave that to the professionals.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Did you, like. Are you wrapping them and stuff?

[Chrissy]

Yes, I was wrapping them. So that's what I was trying to say is that my brain feels like a dumpling that is overfilled, squishing out too much information. I don't know. It's coming at me from all sides.

[Brian]

Woman's World. Bianca Soros, pulling out politics.

[Chrissy]

I can't understand it. Exactly.

[Brian]

Well, I do have to say. I mean, you live in a. You have a different perspective of the world because you very carefully choose what you get yourself involved in and what you watch and what. And I don't. I'm just like. I want to digest it all. I'm like. I'm like a monster information monster. I want to stay. It's not that I want to stay relevant. It's that I like to watch the, like. I like that stuff. It's interesting to me, and I like to.

[Chrissy]

I do, too. I try and sign up for some newsletters that can kind of keep me.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Abreast. Of everything. Yeah.

[Brian]

Just give you the.

[Chrissy]

I have not seen. What is the latest Katy Perry.

[Brian]

Katy Perry. I mean, everybody knows Katy Perry and she is representative, squarely representative of that 2010's pop world, that pop culture. And in a lot of ways she was funny, ironic, beautiful. She's like this good Christian girl that kind of, you know, listen, it was the incest, went sexy and kissed a girl and Katy Perry. It was like Katy Perry summer for like five summers in a row. That one album she put out, Fireworks. Yeah. There was only one song, one or two songs out of that album that she put out where, you know all of them. You can. Yeah, you remember all of them. There was only one or two of those songs that didn't get into the top 10. Right. It was an amazing album. It crushed it. It put her in like the ethos of some of the best pop culture icons. Song of music, Super Bowl. She did the Super Bowl Fireworks shoot out of her tits or something?

[Chrissy]

Probably.

[Brian]

Yes. They should have. She was the it girl for a long time. And then for some unbelievably, incredibly dumb reason. And I have to say, I think this is where it falter, where she. Where the falter starts to happen a little bit. She just did. Never had anybody, you know, I imagine because we'll never know this now imagine when you get some degree of fame. There's a team of people behind you and a trusted team of people. Like people you trust.

[Chrissy]

Trusted advisors.

[Brian]

Trusted advisors. That's right, Chrissy. We don't have any trusted advice. Blue is our only trusted advisor and she just yells at everything we do.

[Chrissy]

My friend Kimmy used to be my trusted advisor, but she moved.

[Brian]

Yeah, she moved.

[Chrissy]

And listen, we used to laugh about that. Just an advisor, Kim. Neither one.

[Brian]

Kimmy's brat. Kimmy's brat. Kind of messy party girl, you know, but a rock star nonetheless.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian]

So Katie makes this move to American Idol.

[Chrissy]

For some reason I knew she was on that.

[Brian]

And I imagine that her team says one of the biggest television shows in the world, you're going to get so much exposure, you can branch out into other things. It's just going to be great for your career.

[Chrissy]

Well, I feel like everybody or a lot of the big names kind of make rotate, kind of rotate in and out on these types of shows. America's got Talent.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Mass singer.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

American Idol. That.

[Brian]

But I don't think you ever see like super superstars. Like, I don't. Has Lady Gaga ever been on one of those shows? I don't think so. But I don't know.

[Chrissy]

John Legend.

[Brian]

John Legend was on. Okay, so there's, like, exceptions to the rule. Sometimes your fame out shines. Any mistakes that you make. Like, you make mistakes, you falter. People are there. Katie goes on American Idol, and I think. And she becomes a mother, and maybe she's going through a different stage in her life. I don't know. That's a personal choice. Whatever. Cool. You know, I totally understand. Parenting changes your life. Maybe you're just not that into being out at the clubs and, you know, promoting music and all that stuff. Or maybe you're just not into music at the time, but who knows?

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

But she does this big comeback album. By all accounts, people are desiring, like, her fans, the pop culture world, the pop music world is desiring another killer Katy Perry album. She's been off the. She's been, you know, over at American Idol for a while, doing her thing. Let's make some fantastic music, Katie. Let's do it.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And I think everybody can agree, you know, listen, Katie's a likable character from all accounts. I'm rooting for her.

[Chrissy]

Me too.

[Brian]

Right. I'm rooting for her. And. But this incredibly dumb song that she put out, I don't know what she was thinking. First of all, in case you don't know, she was produced by Dr. Luke. Dr. Luke was accused by Kesha of that guy. Yes. Was it rape or sexual assault? It was something bad.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And they settled it out of court, and it all got handled. And Dr. Luke, by most people, stayed away from Dr. Luke. Right. Because they said, I don't want to be attached to that kind of stigma. So, you know, Katie also worked with Dr. Luke. He was largely responsible for a lot of her hits and for some reason, inexplicable again, she decided in our management team, decided it'd be great if we hook up again with Dr. Luke. It's not that, you know, I want to be careful about how I say this. I get it. Like, innocent until proven guilty, all that other. I get it. But I also understand there is perception, there is reality, and then there's just, like, a healthy dose of pragmatism. Like, this was my good friend Kesha, and I'm Katy Perry. And even though I made a huge string of hits with Dr. Luke, maybe I should just stay away from him. There are plenty of. Of other well credited, absolutely talented producers out there that can help me make the album that I want to make.

[Chrissy]

Mickey jams.

[Brian]

Nikki jams, dude. Well, he would. I can't say anything. We got to be careful about what we say.

[Chrissy]

Inside joke.

[Brian]

Yeah, a little inside joke. We'll be careful what we say about Nikki. But love Nikki. Nikki could have been, you know, he could have helped her.

[Chrissy]

I don't know.

[Brian]

He's a great producer, so. And it's Nikki Jam, by the way. And yeah, yeah, I keep saying Nicky Jams. And it's not Nicky, just Nicky Jam. It's Jimmy Jams. My brother in law, who is much younger than me in Venezuela, who just loves Nicky Jam. He, I, I kept calling him Nicky Jams and he's like, who are you talking about? I was like, nicky James. And he's like, no, it's Nicky Jam. And I just naturally want to put an S on the end of jam. I don't know why.

[Chrissy]

Because he has some jams.

[Brian]

He's got some jams. Yeah. Yes, he does.

[Chrissy]

So now he's down to 80.

[Brian]

Yeah. Now. Well, we might be. We're getting there. We're getting close that. We're getting close to getting down to that village villages or whatever it is. So Katie, I don't even think her album's out yet, but she put out the first song called Woman's World or Woman World or whatever it's called. It is not a good song. It is actually a pretty bad song. And the video to go along with it is equally as bad. It's just dumb. I'm sorry. It's just kind of dumb and all of like the. The message is supposed to be empowerment, right?

[Chrissy]

Women empowerment.

[Brian]

Women empowerment. But the words are. It'd be as if it was 1952 and someone had just introduced you to the world of women's empowerment. The things you would say. Right. It's not a very refined message. And okay, then the video is her in a bikini, like, bouncing her boob. Like specific boob shots of her boobs bouncing everywhere. It's just weird.

[Chrissy]

Like, it's just kind of contradictory of. Of what? Then again, I guess it could be satire. Well, right, well. Or the message is women empowerment. That means you can do whatever you want to do. Yes.

[Brian]

Right. So then she has. It gets so much blowback that she has to put out a Instagram reel that basically shows her with the other women that were in the video. And it shows her and she's saying something about how satire can be satire. If you satire this and satire, like when you have to explain the satire, it has probably fallen on deaf ears. If you have to say something is satire, you may not. Or may or May not be doing it right. Let me be clear about this. I'm rooting for Katie. I don't, I don't want to see someone like go have to go away. But this is probably one of the worst comeback of all time. Comeback songs of all time. Oh, Chrissy. It's not. It. Could it, could you bibbidi bop to it? Sure. Is it going to be blasting from every, you know, convertible in Miami on South. No, it's not. It's not one of those songs. Yeah, and she is just getting destroyed in the press. I mean destroyed. Poor girl. That's why I never want to be like actually famous, like actually like people. Because there is nothing like. And I know that I'm contributing to this right now, but I'm just making some commentary. I gotta fill time, guys. I gotta say that like that kind of fame brings like a microscope, like a microscopic laser beam of attention right on you. And anything you do is going to be panned and praised. It just depends on which stage it is. But there isn't. There is an American sport, really, I think like a white person sport, which is tear them down and then hope they come back and then root for them again. Right. It's like we all love a comeback story, but we have to manufacture it in order for it to happen. Listen, I get it. It's not a good song. I 100% agree with everybody that's saying not a good song, not a good look, not a good video. But I mean there are like some super mean spirited, like very pointed articles out there. And I think to myself, geez, I hope she's not reading any. Who's she married to? Orlando Bloom?

[Chrissy]

They're not married. But they're together? Yes. They have the child together.

[Brian]

Oh, they're not married. I thought they were married.

[Chrissy]

As far as I know, I don't think they got married.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Huh.

[Brian]

What's up, Orlando? Why'd you put a ring on it?

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

What's going on there?

[Brian]

It's not Orlando Summer.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

What's up with that? You know, I would have thought that.

[Brian]

Orlando probably would have tied that down. What's the last movie, Orlando?

[Chrissy]

Everybody always like gets divorced. So I kind of get it in that.

[Brian]

Everybody else get divorced.

[Chrissy]

You know, I kind of get it.

[Brian]

In that world everybody gets divorced. And that world, in every world, everybody gets divorced. It's like a 70.

[Chrissy]

I think there's a higher rate though amongst super famous people.

[Brian]

Yeah, well, because I, I can totally see why that.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Brian]

Yeah. There is no relation.

[Chrissy]

There's no Human being on any beautiful people everywhere. Yes.

[Brian]

You're out making out with some girl on the set and you're showing your boobs in every video and you're, you know, doing press tours without me. And you're at the club, of course.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Time away. Because you're touring here or making a movie there.

[Brian]

All of it. All of it I can understand. And I've heard so many famous actors and actresses say, this will not date inside the industry. Will not do it. And then imagine that you have to find someone who's got a really special skill set to just be kind of dumb and ignorant. You know who I'm always surprised by? You know, I'm always surprised by that they're still together. Is that Oprah and that Steadman.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, they never got married.

[Brian]

They never got married.

[Chrissy]

Same Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

[Brian]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true. But like that Stedman, he's married to the most famous human being on earth. Married to the most famous. Oh, not married. He's with the most famous. He's partnered with the most famous human being on earth and has been forever for a long time. You never see him. He's never out. I mean, occasionally you'll see. Could snap a photograph or something like that.

[Chrissy]

Same with Dolly Parton's husband. Actually, they're married, but yeah, he never. He never surfaces.

[Brian]

Yeah, man, I can't imagine. But you know, if you're looking, if someone famous out there like Dua Lipa or somebody is looking for a non industry person to marry, I am with it. I am not chuggy anymore. I'm right here. Chrissy's brat. I'm white boy. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's get it together.

[Chrissy]

Try it out.

[Brian]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Chrissy]

Bastards. Down.

[Brian]

No, Astrid's not down. No, no, no, no, no, no. Esther would be like, the fuck? You are going anywhere. I have suffered with you through years of your bullshit, of your yammering, of your craziness. I have suffered with you. You will be seeing this out. You will be seeing this through. And if you don't like that, my dad will come with his large collection of antique guns.

[Chrissy]

That's right, you're gonna stay.

[Brian]

I'd be like a gimp in the basement in Venezuela somewhere.

[Chrissy]

Yes, he would be.

[Brian]

Oh, man, I' it's easy. It is easy to understand why two industry people, two heavy hitters in the industry getting together is like a recipe for disaster.

[Chrissy]

But it's also easy to understand why they would get together because Then the other person understands.

[Brian]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's like. It's like damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of thing. And I'm sure there are lots of exceptions to the rules. I'm not thinking of them right now, but there are. That Jennifer Aniston, never been married, she.

[Chrissy]

Was married to Brad bit.

[Brian]

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I apologize. I forgot about that one. But that was a short one, wasn't it?

[Chrissy]

Two or three years short. I wouldn't think that. It was maybe for like five years or something. And then the whole Angelina thing came along and.

[Brian]

Well, there you go. Another example of why it's really hard now.

[Chrissy]

They're in a terrible divorce.

[Brian]

Oh, God, those two. What's up with that?

[Chrissy]

They're in a terrible divorce. I read stuff about that all the time. Or this really lengthy article about. Because they have that winery. And so a lot of this, that's what happens is over the. Like the winery. That's why they haven't finalized things.

[Brian]

You like drinking so much you had to buy your own winery? You know what I'm saying? You like drinking so much you had to buy your own winery? I mean, Brad Pitt has admitted I have a problem with alcohol. I. I was. It was terrible. It did have a problem. No, that's what I'm saying. He did have a problem. I had a problem with alcohol. I had to get sober. You know, it was starting to affect my life. And if any of the accounts of some of the stuff that went down are even half true, it's. That's. That's the ugly kind of alcohol. Like, ugly kind of alcoholic where you just turn into a mean fucking bastard. And like, in some sense, you know, you can understand how the fame, the money, the prestige, the power can exacerbate your ego and then forget about it. If you're an egotistical person in the first place, I guarantee drinking is not going to make you a better human being.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian]

There are two kinds of drunks in this world. There are the happy drunks who are great, wonderful. They're fine. They just get happy. And that can be obnoxious sometimes, but at least I'm not hurting anybody. And then there are the Karen Lee yesterday. Oh, my God, Karen Lee. Friday. Friday was going on with Karen Lee.

[Chrissy]

She was getting tipsy.

[Brian]

I can't believe that video's out there.

[Chrissy]

That's so funny.

[Brian]

If I were her, that video be off the Internet the day after it came up anyway. And then there's the mean Bastard kind of drunk. And we all know those people, but not for long because you never want to be around them. They're like, nope, that. Forget that I've only met like a couple of like, really mean bastard, bastard drunks. Because I do think they, they probably more quickly realize they have a problem because people are like, no, no, no, no. Not gonna be around.

[Chrissy]

Hopefully.

[Brian]

It's almost like a blessing in disguise. As long as you don't hurt, you know, actually hurt anybody. It's the happy drunks that are the ones at the end of the bar at 77 years old just drinking themselves silly. But as I have said before in the past, drinking and drugs is something you should experiment with, with, with when you're young and just go at it when you're old. Because who cares? At that point, you're on your own.

[Chrissy]

You're old. Yeah, we're gonna run. We're gonna run that down at the Villages.

[Brian]

Run it. I can't wait to be at the Villages, actually. I know, I'm looking forward to it.

[Chrissy]

We're pimped out golf carts.

[Brian]

Yeah. I'm going to be the guy with like, you know, everybody, like, has their Trump flags on there. I'm going to have like, kill possums. 21 EPM flag.

[Chrissy]

Oh, my God. 21 EPM flag.

[Brian]

That's right. I'm going to stay non political for the rest of my life. All right, let's take a break and we'll be back.

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[Brian]

Bye. Right before you came in here, I was. I'm getting really excited about the Olympics. So I think the Olympic opening ceremonies will have been Friday of last week, and we're recording this the week before, but it would have been Friday of this week. So last week. I'm really excited to get the Olympics underway. A little distraction from all the crazy drama that currently fills the news cycle. And also it's just fun. It's fun when there's like good sport on. Good fun just on in the background. Sports on 24 hours.

[Chrissy]

It is, it is good fun. And last night Jeff and I started watching the Simone Biles documentary documentary on Netflix. It's good, is it? It's really good.

[Brian]

I gotta say, man, she's amazing. She is amazing. Amazeballs. And my daughter, one of my daughters, loves gymnastics and she's good at it. Now I'm not one of those fathers who's like Olympian, you know, I'm not because I don't have the money to do that.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, it's like all the time.

[Brian]

Yeah. Keep on going to the local community classes and we'll be fine. Like, I also understand, I heard this one time from somebody and it was the most like clear headed thing I'd heard about children's sports. We have seen no evidence that traveling teams, extra money, five, you know, 10 hour sessions a day for children under the age of 15 improves their chances of being a professional athlete at all. If they are naturally gifted, if they know how to swing a bat or a golf club or whatever, it will come out regardless. Like if they get to it, they find it regardless. And it was like this sports like expert of some kind. And I thought, wow, that's, that's really good for me because I don't have the money to do any of that or the time. You're right about that. But anyway, she's really good at it. And so we were watching the Olympic trials a couple of weeks ago and Simone just kills it. I mean, you know, she just does what Simone does. She's flying 12ft in the air on some of those floor exercises, like the floor exercise routines.

[Chrissy]

She's incredible.

[Brian]

12Ft in the air, just with her legs.

[Chrissy]

Exciting.

[Brian]

It's crazy.

[Chrissy]

You should watch that documentary because she did. She had like a mental kind of. She had to. Well, it wasn't necessarily like a breakdown, but she was psyching herself out, you know, I mean, she wasn't able to keep at that pace of what she was doing since she was like 13 or 14 is when she first made her Olympic debut, I think.

[Brian]

Yeah, she's. This is her fourth Olympics or fifth Olympics, I think.

[Chrissy]

She said after 20, 20 she thought she was done. That's when it happened. I mean, imagine too. I was like, God, you're like, you know, early 20s. It's Covid. It's the Olympics.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Like think about all of the mental things that were going on. So she's got, she's, she's better now and she's like worked it out.

[Brian]

Well, she stated that. Yeah, I'm sure that like all of us, who, anybody who's experienced a mental break, I mean a breakdown, whatever you want to call it, a mental break where you're just like, holy, I'm not where I was yesterday and something is off.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian]

And I'm feeling bad and if you live long enough, you'll go through it.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

It doesn't matter how, what kind of human being you are, you're going to go through it. And because those things make you have some perspective and self awareness. So, you know, that's just it. But to have it in front of millions and millions and millions of people is a different animal whatsoever altogether. She had that break while like in the middle of routines in the Olympics when she was fighting for gold with her teammates. And this is like the one thing during the COVID when we were all like, you know, okay, I guess we're going to watch. Let's cheer for Simone and the team and by all accounts the best gymnast that's ever lived. And I'm sure after this Olympics she will be anointed the queen. But just her physical abilities, her prowess, her mental agility, all of it comes together in such a beautiful way. And my daughter and I were watching it and I always like to point out to my daughter when I see something I think she should pay attention to, to my daughters, you know, this person, this human is doing things that are borderline superhero. Like physically illegal.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian]

And mentally illegal. Superhero level type shit. She's got superpowers and you can do anything you want. Don't listen to anybody. You can do anything that you want that's within your physical limit. Mental limit. You know, and my budget and my budget and my time and whether or not I'm going to let you out of the house wearing that outfit.

[Chrissy]

Exactly.

[Brian]

Yeah. I'm still a dad. Yeah. Yes, I got a dad in me. Right. But I like to point that out. And she was just so fascinated by, oh, it's Simone flying so high in the air. So anyway, so I'm watching all of the, you know, pre Olympic trials and all that other stuff. And today they had on usa had it on for whatever reason. What happened to usa? What kind of. What happened to that network? What's going on there? Yeah, it's like a weird sports, interesting tele drama.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

I don't know.

[Chrissy]

But it's funny that you Bring that up, because we were just talking with Gina Gershon.

[Brian]

Gershon, yeah.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. And that was last week, right?

[Brian]

This week it got released this week. It was yesterday we talked to Gina.

[Chrissy]

By the time we're airing this, it would have been last week. Anyway, she was talking about the Pray for Rock and roll or Pray for Rock and Roll. Yeah. And I was looking it up, and it. It came out on usa.

[Brian]

Oh, they had it on usa.

[Chrissy]

No, I mean, it's not still up there.

[Brian]

Okay, but that's one. That's right.

[Chrissy]

What happened to that station?

[Brian]

Yeah, what happened?

[Chrissy]

One of the ones.

[Brian]

I don't know, it's one of the usa. Tnt, tbs, they all kind of like Truth or True tv. They kind of like. We got weird anyway, watching it on usa. They had rugby on, which is Murder Ball. That's what they should call that, is murder Ball. Half the guys have tissue hanging out of their nose. The other half of the guys have, like, literal broken arms just dangling in weird places. You know, knees all scraped up, one foot missing. You know, one guy's got, like, a brain bleed, like, pouring out of his head. And they still. They just go. And they're just running into each other. Rough hundred. And then the. Then now they have this weird thing. I don't understand rugby. To save my life, I actually looked up Rugby for Dummies. I read it. I still don't understand rugby. Have no clue. I couldn't tell you one thing about rugby, but it's an interesting sport to watch because there seems to be just chaos going on at all times. Yeah, they're throwing the ball left, they're throwing it right, they throw it back.

[Chrissy]

A big northeast sport.

[Brian]

It's a big. Like Ireland, Great Britain, I think Norway, Sweden. I think down in Africa, they play it a lot. I don't know, Chrissy. I have no. Like, here's what I know about. Here's the limited knowledge. Murder ball. That's what it should be called. Because it is the weird thing they have in rugby, at least on this particular game, was so the guys are running at each other, hugging each other, you know, making that big pack of animals. And then they all swing back and forth, swing back and forth, you know, kicking each other in the balls and punching each other in the face and taking teeth out. Like everyone's got fake teeth. They're doing that. And then the ref stops, and they're like. The ref is, like, talking to the audience. Please, you know, please replay the last play or whatever. He's, like, talking on the Loudspeaker telling him to put the last play on the jumbo so he can watch it, so he can determine if there was an illegal tackle made. And I'm like, an illegal tackle? You can literally gouge people's eyes out in that sport. What are you talking about?

[Chrissy]

What's off limits?

[Brian]

The announcers are like, so important to keep the safety of the sport.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

And I'm like, the safety of the sport? These are guys who don't even wear pads.

[Brian]

They're the toughest, roughest motherfuckers I have ever seen. Here's my experience with rugby in life. I used to wait tables when I was really young, like seven. Like, my first waiting tables job in an actual restaurant. I used to wait tables.

[Chrissy]

This was the. After McDonald's.

[Brian]

After McDonald's.

[Chrissy]

Okay. Yeah.

[Brian]

@ a place called Bertucci's Brick Pizzeria.

[Chrissy]

Cheese.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Yeah. Bershitzis Brick Oven.

[Brian]

Pizzeria. You should have seen the line out the door in this white middle class suburban neighborhood. I mean, people were like, well.

[Chrissy]

That was back when brick oven.

[Brian]

Was. Oh.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Like.

[Brian]

Wow. Yeah. It was like it had just been invented by Italians and shipped over.

[Chrissy]

Right. Meanwhile, been going on for.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Centuries. But on the back of the.

[Brian]

Menu, there was, like this long story about the brick oven, and we used to have to know it by heart. And it was like, what the are you talking about? It's a big deal. This is the same restaurant where the manager took me to a Carlos Santa.

[Chrissy]

Concert. I remember you.

[Brian]

Talking. Oh, my God, it was so weird. The managers were, like, mingling with really young kids. And I mean, nothing. Nothing on tour had happened to me anyway. But it was just. It was a great experience. But it was a little bit weird looking back on it. But anyway, so I. We waited tables. When the restaurant opened, there was like a group of us who opened the restaurant as the first people who worked there. And one of the guys, his name was Ronin.

[Chrissy]

Ronan.

[Brian]

Ronan. And ronan was like 6 foot 2, 7,000 pounds of brick oven pizzeria. You know what I'm saying? He was the brick oven. He was huge. Nicest dude you ever met in your entire life. So sweet and gentle, and we're like.

[Chrissy]

Take. He was your.

[Brian]

Age. No, no, no, no, no. He was like in his mid-20s or something like that. But he would come in and he'd grab you and give you a hug and break one of your ribs, and you'd be like.

[Chrissy]

Ah, come.

[Brian]

Here. Right? Drank Guinness like a fish. I mean, the guy was just like. He was. He was a Typical stout Irish boy. And he played rugby. And I didn't even know. I mean, I knew rugby was a sport, but I had never ever you'd heard anything to do with it. And he invited me one time to come see the guys play rugby. Come see. Come see the guys play rugby. We'll buy you a couple of beers afterwards. I'm like 17 years old, right? And I'm like, oh, my.

[Chrissy]

God. Beer, beer. Yes, I'll be.

[Brian]

There. I didn't even really drink at that age, so I think I probably just pretended like I was drinking it, but. So we went to this game, and I could not believe this match. I could not believe my eyes. Like, Chrissy legs were dangling in weird ways and arms were getting thrown in the back, and guys were sticking, like, these things up their nose because blood was just gushing out of it. They were. It was bloody, mangled mess. They were dirty and nasty. And they were the manyest men I have ever seen in my entire life. And I remember many is my balls shriveled around those guys because I was like, here I am. I got a chain around my wallet. I'm wearing Doc Martens with big hoop jeans. I am literally. But they were so cool. A lot of them from. A lot of them. Europe, like, from Europe. European, like Great Britain, Ireland, whatever. And a few Americans mixed in there. Black, white, all different colors. And we went out afterwards, and these guys, they got drunk, they were singing songs. We went to an Irish pub that was like the whole nine yards. And then they started throwing me around like a little rag.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Doll. They're like, oh, Brian, I love your.

[Brian]

Vite. And he'd be like, grab me and, like, toss me to the next.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Guy. And he'd be like, oh, Brian's the.

[Brian]

Best. Brian, Brian, Brian. I was getting thrown around the bar like a little football, and I was like. I mean, I was tiny. Like, when I was that age, I was like, you know, maybe 120 pounds, sopping wet. And they were just tossing me around like a little rag doll. And it.

[Chrissy]

Hurt. A little plaything.

[Brian]

Yes. But I was. I was their little poodle. They brought a poodle named Brian. Just going to throw him around. And yeah, I loved every second of it, but it was painful when those guys got ahold of you. They were so rough. I think that's just a world that they lived in, so they didn't understand. And I remember. Not dare say a word. Like, not dare say a word about how I might be in pain right.

[Chrissy]

Now. No, you had to man.

[Brian]

Up. Oh, and at the end of the night, like we were all leaving and this. I was smoking a cigarette and this guy came up behind me, gave me a bear hug. I could hear bones cracking. Yeah. Like the wind came out of me. One of my lungs came out of my mouth and then back in like one of those toys you squeeze. It was unbelievable. And. And so I remember specifically asking one of the guys, what is like, I don't understand the sport. Why are you kicking sometimes, throwing other times? Why do you throw forward and backward and sideways? You know, why are you getting in these big huddles and then, you know, smushing each other around? And he, with his, I think was an Irish accent, went on a five minute soliloquy about what a great sport rugby was and how easy it was to understand. I did not pick up a fucking thing. He was saying all of these words, like these terms that I understand. But I guess it's like if someone came from Russia and had never seen a professional football game and you have. Have them sit down and watch a professional football game. You'd be like the. It's like me trying to explain baseball to my kids, right? They don't understand. They know that people run around the bases, you know, they swing the bat, but they have no clue about the infield fly. I don't even know about the inf. Yeah. Chrissy, this is murder ball. I can't believe this is still like a thing. Like people are Olympic sport. How are parents letting when. This is why there are no high school rugby teams. I think is because can you imagine the uproar if kids were just running around and smashing each other left and.

[Chrissy]

Right? I think there are high school again. I think it's like a northeast.

[Brian]

Thing. Oh, you think so? Yeah. Well, my next door neighbor, his kid plays big kid. Like he's. He. When I met him, whenever we moved in here, when I met him, it was like a.

[Chrissy]

Squeaky. Oh.

[Brian]

Right. Lovely, squeaky little kid, right? I think he was like 12 at the time. 10, 11, 12.

[Chrissy]

Something. Now he's 16, now he's.

[Brian]

17. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm worried he's gonna sleep with my wife. You know what I'm saying? He's like a handsome man, some kind of.

[Chrissy]

Dude. The neighborhood.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Kid.

[Brian]

Yeah. I'm like, I used to invite them over to the pool, but now I'm like, ah, let's keep our shirts on, boys. None of that over.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Here. Hi.

[Brian]

Brian. I.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Think. I think we need the neighbor to come over and babysit the kids while you Go.

[Brian]

Out.

[Chrissy]

Go. Have a good.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Time. Go, go, go.

[Chrissy]

Go. Have a good time with your.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Brothers. I have a cough. You go. We'll handle it from here.

[Brian]

Bye.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Bye. I put some money on your debit card. Go to the strip joint. Enjoy yourself. Tasty teeter, or whatever it is you say. See you in a couple.

[Brian]

Days. He's a big, handsome kid. Like, you know, glowing locks of. You know. I know every time I see him, he plays lacrosse. He's like, apparently like.

[Chrissy]

A. That's what ours did, too. Our daughters played.

[Brian]

Lacrosse. Oh, they.

[Chrissy]

Did? In high.

[Brian]

School. Okay, so you understand the.

[Chrissy]

Game?

[Brian]

No.

[Chrissy]

Okay. Even after all those years of.

[Brian]

Going, yeah, so he's, like.

[Chrissy]

Back. He's there in.

[Brian]

Support. I don't understand that.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Thing. Go lacrosse.

[Chrissy]

Ball. Crosscross. Good for, like, rolling on your.

[Brian]

Back. Oh.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Against the wall if you got, like, a tight.

[Brian]

Spot. You know how I know this? You know how I know this? Because I have a collection of lacrosse balls. Because the neighbor. Even though we live in, like, our. Our yards are really big, and we have. We share, like, a yard, like a backyard with a fence in the middle, right? And he has one of those spring things where you throw the ball and it bounces back to you. It's got springs on it. It's like a piece of, you know, nylon or whatever. So he takes that lacrosse mallet, and he's just tossing it back and forth and back and forth and it rumbles the house. I think I've mentioned this before. You can hear.

[Chrissy]

It. Oh, wow. That's kind of.

[Brian]

Annoying. But you know how many of those. You know how many of those balls I found in the pool? Like, 80. Yeah, because they just go over his head and they go right into our pool. But he's out there sometimes, like, swinging that thing, and I'm like, jesus, I hope I've never had to get. You know, if. If shit goes down, I hope he's on my team. That's all I gotta say. And away from my wife. See you over.

[Chrissy]

There. That's.

[Brian]

Right. Stay away. All right, let's do this. Let's take a break. And we'll be back with. With more shenanigans and fun here on the commercial.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Break.

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[Brian]

You. Bye. Do you know who is everywhere.

[Chrissy]

Trying to get it.

[Brian]

Out? Oh, Chrissy's got a cough rag. You know your cough is bad when you have, like a cough rag with.

[Chrissy]

You. I was laughing about this. It's my cough.

[Brian]

Towel. You look like.

[Chrissy]

Biden. It made me think of the Whacking Tree for some.

[Brian]

Reason. The Wacking Tree. I'm going over to the Wacking Tree to whack it. Make sure you go over to the Whacking Tree to whack it down by the.

[Chrissy]

Creek. Cough towels sounded kind of like cum towel, which made me think of the Whacking.

[Brian]

Tree. Oh, yeah. Well, there you go. The Wacky Wacky Tree down by the. Oh, my God. The Wacking Tree was. That was one of the funniest mountain monster episodes.

[Chrissy]

Ever. We need to reference that what episode that is, because it's really.

[Brian]

Funny. I'll find it. I'll tell you next time. It's. I think it's called the Whacking Tree. So if you'd like to, you can just go search it yourself. It's probably season three. You know, I've seen a lot like Charlie xcx. Okay. But you know who else I've seen a ton of lately, like out there in the pop culture lexicon? Jelly Roll. Yeah, Jelly Roll is.

[Chrissy]

Everywhere. Festival.

[Brian]

Too. What'd you think of.

[Chrissy]

His? He was.

[Brian]

Amazing. He's got a great voice. Yeah, he really does. He's a great.

[Chrissy]

Talent. He was a great performer.

[Brian]

Too. Well, yeah, he's like, you know, he's singing for his life out there. He knows what it's like. He's been on the other side of it. He knows what it's like.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. His story is amazing. And he's really. He's very.

[Brian]

Talented. Yeah. He's not one of these pampered rock stars, you know, pop culture type of. Joe Jonas. Jonas. Why am I getting on Joe? I'm getting on Joe because my wife loves Joe. And I just think. I just. Then I'm like, whatever, Joe. But Joe's also out there, too. He's got a hit also. I saw him with Hannah Burner the other day. Joe Jonas. Oh. Anyway, so Jelly Roll is out there. And you know who. Who I saw him with just this morning, like on an Instagram post, is Brad Williams. Remember Brad Williams came in.

[Chrissy]

Here?

[Brian]

Yes. Remember Brad? Brad is like every where. Brad's everywhere. He's doing everything. He's at concerts, he's at places, he's at festivals. He's like, like, buddying up to everybody. Brad is quite.

[Chrissy]

Popular.

[Brian]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I realized quite the extent of Brad's fame when we had him on here. Brad Williams is a comic. He's a little person. He's a comic. He is super fucking funny. I mean, when he came on our show, we didn't even take a breath. No. And Brad took it.

[Chrissy]

Away.

[Brian]

Yeah. For 45 minutes. Brad just did a routine and it was really fucking funny. And, you know, he was with Jelly Roll. I mean, the picture is so funny because Jelly Roll is such a huge guy. And then Brad is not. So it is like the difference in the two of them is unbelievable. And I just think to myself, wow, Brad's. It's a. It's a Brad Williams summer. And then it's a Jelly Roll summer. And it's a Brad summer. And it's all the, you know, whatever it is. And so I was thinking about Jelly Roll. I see this post with Brad Williams. I scroll up two more times, and guess what I see? I see our friend at the local radio station still giving away jelly Rolls.

[Chrissy]

Bronco. I thought about that the other day. I was watching TV and they were. It was Jeep. I think it's Jeep. Maybe. I don't know. Anyways, they were giving away somebody's.

[Brian]

Jeep.

[Chrissy]

Oh. Like, yeah. And I thought that has to be, like, a thing. I think. I guess they're giving. I guess these. I think this was like a football.

[Brian]

Player. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one.

[Chrissy]

Too. Yeah. So I think it's. They're. They're taking these famous people, and I guess those people then like, like.

[Brian]

Customize. They customize.

[Chrissy]

It. Or the Bronco, they drive it.

[Brian]

For half a mile and they call it Give it Away. Yeah, yeah. This is the thing with radio stations, television stations. It's a giveaway the car summer. But not give away a car. Give away someone famous's car. Or at least that's what they make it seem.

[Chrissy]

Like. That They've customized.

[Brian]

That. They've customized. Yeah. Well, I mean, in this particular instance, it makes it sound like Jelly Roll is actually driving it around. Stopping at Dunkin Donuts for coffee. I mean, that's. I mean, might have. You're right. I can imagine. For legal reasons, maybe they told to hop in and take a spin around the block and then bring it back and we'll give it away. Right. Can you spray some of your cologne in.

[Chrissy]

There? Jelly.

[Brian]

Roll? Yeah, Carved for the jelly donut in the middle. Jelly was here. Jelly was here. But this is, like a thing, and everybody's doing it. And it's so interesting to me to see how. To see how that they're still doing giveaways. No, just, like, uninspired. It's an interesting angle, but, like, how uninspired everything is. It's all homogenized now. We're all doing the same thing. And I did that got me to. To Googling, you know, this car giveaway thing. And what. After a little bit of digging and like, refining my search and refining my search based on the information that I got, what I figured out is that there is a person out there, a guy. A person that works at a promotions department for one of the radio.

[Chrissy]

Firms. Oh.

[Brian]

Okay. And they also own television stations. And this person is largely responsible for the trends in radio and television local promotions. And when he does it, they all do it. And he does this for car companies also. Like the local car dealerships, they're often saying the same things, doing the same type of commercials, having the same type of giveaways or discounts or whatever. Because once he anoints it, it just gets rolled out across the country. Because they're all part of some big.

[Chrissy]

Marketing. Exactly. That's around for a.

[Brian]

While. Yeah, yeah, We've known that for a while. Like, you know, it's when you have a local car dealership, like, you know, John Dick Ford. Like when you have John Dick Ford. John Dick Ford is not alone in his marketing efforts. He's part of a larger group across the country of other dealerships that also. Then they. They team up, essentially. They collaborate on promotions and commercials and. And doing these.

[Chrissy]

Things. Or they have, like, the one agency. Because I know I used to work for a window company briefly where I did marketing. Oh, yeah. And they had one agency that did all of this stuff and then would just kind of customize it for each market, for each.

[Brian]

City. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember for a while in the 2000s, I want to say 2005, 2006, 2007, I think I had just gotten divorced. So I had a lot of free time in the Saturday and Sunday mornings to watch television on the local stations where you can buy television time, you know, like WCCC Atlanta, channel 40, you know, channel 13, UHF or whatever it was. You'd see those off market stations, off brand stations, but they were local to you on air kind of thing. And it became a thing for a while where they would have hour long television commercials from live from local car dealerships where people would drive up. Like someone would drive the car up and then some guy with a.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Loud mouth would be like, can you believe this? 99.99499. Look at these rims. You're not gonna believe this has a trunk and an engine. Oh, my.

[Brian]

God. Leather seats. Do you want a.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Radio? Fmam. Don't you worry about it. We got it covered. This one, $49.99. I'm taking it down to 39.99 for today only. Come on down. We're live at John Dick.

[Brian]

Ford. Whatever it.

[Chrissy]

Was. Did we. Did we ever review that one that I was in? That I.

[Brian]

Did? No, you didn't have it. You said you were going to try and find.

[Chrissy]

It. Oh, I got to go back to try and.

[Brian]

Find. You were in one of.

[Chrissy]

Those.

[Brian]

Yes. Like where people just drove cars.

[Chrissy]

Up. And my Jeff still laughed about it. My tagline was, we're cutting prices to the.

[Brian]

Bone. We're cutting prices to the.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Bone. We're gonna break a leg. We're amputating prices here at John Dick Ford. We're giving this sale a vasectomy. We're cutting it at the nuts. 39.99 today only. Come down to John Dick Ford. Get yourself some free ice cream. Don't worry. We got porn and pizza for the kids. A free pack of Camel Lights to any kid under 18 year olds that shows up at John Dig.

[Chrissy]

Ford. Right now, that's the way it.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Is. This is our best salesman, Jimmy. He's tried to jump off the roof four times this month. You gotta get here.

[Chrissy]

Quick. Yeah, they like feature a.

[Brian]

Car.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. You know, in different.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Segments. Get here quick. Only a John Dick. Come on.

[Brian]

Down. Oh, yeah, I remember those. And for a while it was entertaining to watch. I was like, oh, my God. And inevitably have like beautiful women driving the car. And then occasionally. And then it got to a point where like, the girls were in bikini tops. Right. Come on, guys. Really? I'm sure it worked though. I'm sure sex does sell in everything. And I can't believe you're in one of these. And we need to find. Where is Chrissy's Embarrassing Moments? We need to find.

[Chrissy]

Them. Oh, yeah, I'll get it. I'll go looking for.

[Brian]

It. I'll make a note if you find your Ford.

[Chrissy]

Dealership. My sister and I watched it. She was cracking, of.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Course. She was like, I can't believe we're good.

[Chrissy]

Friends. It was like this really small market, too, like in between Chattanooga and Atlanta called.

[Brian]

Ringgold. Oh, I know Ringgold, Georgia. That's like the carpet capital of the world or.

[Chrissy]

Something. Yeah. And I mean, think 20 years ago too. So I mean, it was so funny that this, like. I mean, I'm in a golf cart and it's.

[Brian]

Sputtering. It's just sputtering along, and you.

[Commercial Voice / Announcer]

Show up and go, we're going fries into the.

[Brian]

Bone. And then just, like, sputter out of the.

[Chrissy]

Picture. It's.

[Brian]

Hilarious. Oh, my.

[Chrissy]

God. The things you do when you're young and work in TV or.

[Brian]

Radio. I could see why. How I would do that in a heartbeat. The one time I got invited to be on a television show when I was young was that reality show that one of the producers of Real Housewives was putting together for, like, this girl that worked at that scam, Cole fm with.

[Chrissy]

Us.

[Brian]

Yeah. And it was supposed to be all about her life. Looking back on it, I can see how that was never gonna fly. But anyway, I was. I was kind of excited because she invited me to be a part of the shoot. She was like, we're gonna do this scene in a restaurant. I'm sitting here with my friends. I'm celebrating my newfound freedom because I just stopped dating, you know? You know what I'm talking about? You know, I got. Ain't got no time for that. I got no time for Scruggs. Nuh. And. And so she invited me to be a part of the scene in the restaurant. And she's like. She's like. And then you can be. You can be in some other scenes too. I got some ideas. And I was like, okay, all right, great. Fantastic. And then it took so long to set the cameras up that all we did was just sit there and get fucking hammered. So by the time they started rolling the cameras, first of all, it was the middle of the afternoon, and the air conditioning didn't work because of. Of course it didn't, because Simon owned the place. The air conditioning didn't work. Second of all, we were on Bottle of Wine number, like, seven. By the time they actually started rolling the.

[Chrissy]

Cameras. Sounds a little bit like Hotel.

[Brian]

Impossible. Oh, yes, it was Hotel Impossible. I don't know where that footage is, but it's somewhere. But I think the scene only lasted for about a half a minute because the person who was directing the scene, not directing, but filming the scene, quickly realized that we had passed our expiration date and this was not the scene that he wanted. I did not get invited back to the reshoot. Just to let you know. Well, you know, you only live.

[Chrissy]

Once. You gotta just take life by.

[Brian]

The vasectomy, by the vasect, by the disembodied balls. That's what dad always told me. Grab them by the disinfectant. Disembodied.

[Chrissy]

Ball. That's what you did for the.

[Brian]

Rugby. Oh, my God. God bless those rugby guys. If you played rugby, I'd love to hear from you. If you play rugby, if you're I, I, I. You gotta imagine some of those guys have problems later on in life with their brain. The way that they hit each other, it's so violent and vicious. Anyway, I recorded it. I'll show you. It's so.

[Chrissy]

Interesting. I need to see.

[Brian]

It. So many of them have tissue up their nose. All right, do us a favor. If you'd like to please get a hold of us, we'd love to hear from you. There you go. There's rugby right there. We'd love to hear from.

[Chrissy]

You. Murder.

[Brian]

Ball. Murder ball. We're watching murderball here in the studio. 212-433-33-8822. That's 4332. 12-12-4333. TCB. Text us questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. We're taking them all. Ask Brian's mom. Ask tcb. We'll give you bad advice. It's free. Don't worry about it. Come down quick to John Dick. Get yourself a new win. All right at the commercial break on Instagram. We would love it if you would go there and give us a follow. We certainly would appreciate it. You can also communicate with us DM us through Instagram and we will respond month get your free sticker while they last slashing prices today. Go to tcvpodcast.com hit that contact us button. The drop down menu will say, I want my free sticker. And that's how you get your free sticker. Give us your address and we'll send it away to you. Don't worry, we never sell your information unless someone gives us enough.

[Chrissy]

Money. No one's phoning up yet. No.

[Brian]

Worries. And thank you to the guy who left the review the other day. Worst podcast ever. You're welcome. Thank you for listening. I guarantee he's listening. YouTube.com the commercial break for full interview episodes and selected clips. Give us a subscribe there too. We certainly would appreciate it. Okay Chrissy, that's all I can do for right.

[Chrissy]

Now. I think.

[Brian]

So. But I'll tell you that I.

[Chrissy]

Love you and I love.

[Brian]

You. Say best to you, best to you and best you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say we do say and we must say goodbye. It. Cow killing.