Did You Say Jinnie?!

Summary

The Commercial Break

Episode: Did You Say Jinnie?!

Date: January 30, 2026
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley

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Overview

In this improv-comedy episode, Bryan and Krissy dive into the everyday absurdities of gym membership sales tactics, overexposure in the podcasting world, and nostalgia for boozy radio days. Their offbeat chemistry and candid banter are front and center, featuring Bryan’s battle with invasive Crunch Fitness staff (notably “Ginny/Jenny”) and a meta-discussion on burnout in comedy podcasting. Pop culture tangents abound, including reflections on podcast giants, movie recommendations, and fond recollections of Atlanta dive bars. The episode is laced with dark humor, self-deprecation, and that “just FINE” vibe unique to TCB.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. Opening Parody Song: "Cut Crush"

• [00:01] The episode kicks off with a deadpan, comedic love song about having a "cut, cut crush"—complete with closet-hiding and awkward longing.
• Sets the offbeat, tongue-in-cheek tone.

2. Gym Life & the Saga of "Ginny/Jenny"

• [02:03] Bryan introduces his ongoing ordeal at Crunch Fitness, involving relentless staff—first James, now a new, impossibly perky “Ginny” or “Jenny” (pronunciation unclear).
• Favorite Moment: The “Ginny/Jenny” Name Bit
  “Did you say Ginny? Yeah, Ginny with an I.”
  “With a no. That’s like Jenny, but it’s with an E. It’s Jenny.”
  —[02:15], Bryan & Ginny/Jenny
• Crunch’s “Jammers” are out in full force, hard-selling personal training, content creator packages, and more, using every gambit from corporate small talk to leveraging attractive staff.
• Bryan mocks their efforts, refusing to be upsold:
  “I’m just trying to get this workout in and then I think, you know, I’ll set up my Crunch Jam later. Is that okay with you?”
  —[46:27], Bryan

3. Weather Chat & Atlanta Local Legends

• [03:12] Krissy & Bryan riff on Atlanta weather, the perpetual “no-show snow,” and legendary weatherman Glenn Burns.
• Discussion pivots to overzealous forecaster posts and the fickle nature of winter weather in the South.
• Anecdote: Glenn Burns receives threats and is “catastrophizing,” leading Bryan to muse on the dangers of “overexposure.”

4. Podcasting Burnout and Overexposure

• [09:44] Bryan draws a parallel between weather forecasters and podcasters: too much exposure can be detrimental.
• Pulling back on TCB episodes has helped their own burnout, echoing a trend in the larger comedy podcast world.
• Commentary on declining numbers at YMH Studios (Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer) and the risk of flooding the market with endless cross-promotion and guest swaps.
• Quote: “Two guys just—or girls or whatever—cheating and chatting sometimes can wear thin… It’s why we have a lot of turnover in our audience.”
  —[12:17], Bryan
• Highlights the difference between Joe Rogan’s careful public image and Bert Kreischer’s perceived “overexposure.”

5. Reflections on Wellness & Drinking Culture

• [21:12] Krissy notes the health trend among youth:
  • “Wellness, it’s a thing.”
    —[21:12], Chrissy
  • Alcohol companies are “scrambling” because younger generations are drinking less.
• Wild nostalgia for “old radio days” packed with booze, the Braves Radio Network perks, and parking beat-up Hondas alongside execs’ Maseratis.
• Drunken exploits in Atlanta’s infamous dive bars—The Rusty Nail and Northside Tavern—take center stage:
  • “The dive bar was so divey that even the bartenders had cigarette stains… worst environment you could be in in the best live music.”
    —[26:55], Bryan

6. More Crunch Fitness Antics

• [35:28] Bryan details the “content creator” upsell:
  • $189/month to set up a table and tag Crunch in your content.
• Encounters with mismatched “networking events” (e.g., buying cookies before/after working out), which Bryan finds hilariously pointless.
• The “hard sell” escalates with both James and Ginny/Jenny approaching Bryan multiple times in one session, critiquing his form, trying to schedule “Crunch Jams,” and berating him for watching movies while exercising.
  • “What a lot of our members find—actually, all of them find—that if you don’t watch your phone while you’re working out, you get much more out of it. You’ll attain your goals quicker.”
    —[51:53], Ginny/Jenny
  • “I like sliding the line between ‘I did something, but it doesn’t hurt too much.’”
    —[56:21], Bryan

7. Pop Culture Catch-Up: Movies & Awards

• [57:00] Post-gym segment: Recommendation section, packed with candid movie commentary.
• Movies discussed:
  • “Smashing Machine” (The Rock as a UFC fighter; notable for its realism and abrupt ending)
  • “Sinners” (praised for its aesthetics and music, compared to “From Dusk Till Dawn”)
  • “One Battle After Another”
  • Upcoming interest in the Springsteen movie featuring “the guy from The Bear”
• Touch on award nominations—Michael B. Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Timothy Chalamet—as well as DiCaprio’s Oscar history.
• Take on opiate use and injuries in pro sports, referencing The Rock’s character and real-life painkiller issues among athletes.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Did you say Ginny? Yeah, Ginny with an I.”
  “With a no. That’s like Jenny, but it’s with an E. It’s Jenny.”
  —[02:15], Bryan & Ginny/Jenny
• “Two guys just—or girls or whatever—cheating and chatting sometimes can wear thin… It’s why we have a lot of turnover in our audience.”
  —[12:17], Bryan
• “More money, more problems.”
  —[16:24], Bryan
• “Wellness, it’s a thing.”
  —[21:12], Chrissy
• “The dive bar was so divey that even the bartenders had cigarette stains… worst environment you could be in in the best live music.”
  —[26:55], Bryan
• “I’m just trying to get this workout in and then I think, you know, I’ll set up my Crunch Jam later. Is that OK with you?”
  —[46:27], Bryan
• “What a lot of our members find—actually, all of them find—that if you don’t watch your phone while you’re working out, you get much more out of it. You’ll attain your goals quicker.”
  —[51:53], Ginny/Jenny
• “I like sliding the line between ‘I did something, but it doesn’t hurt too much.’”
  —[56:21], Bryan
• “We’re the penny stock of podcasts.”
  —[10:13], Bryan

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Additional Highlights

• Bryan’s Philosophy on Exercise: Happy to do it “wrong” if it works for him—eschewing the hard sell and high pressure.
• Meta Moments: Acknowledgment of “overexposure” even as they joke about their own show’s frequency.
• Listener Chat & Live Stream Antics: Occasional, chaotic live stream comments bleed into the conversation, adding to the unscripted atmosphere.
• Guitar Lesson Update: Krissy starts guitar lessons, prompting a philosophical tangent about the value of music education.

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Useful Timestamps

• [00:01] – Parody song cold open
• [02:03] – Bryan meets Ginny/Jenny at Crunch Fitness
• [09:44] – Podcasting parallels: overexposure and burnout
• [12:17] – “Two guys just… chatting can wear thin.”
• [21:12] – “Wellness, it’s a thing.” Young people & drinking trends
• [25:00] – Radio station days, Braves stories, dive bar nostalgia
• [35:28] – Crunch Fitness “content creator” package spiel
• [39:26], [40:34], [41:07] – Multiple staff interruptions at the gym
• [46:27] – Bryan’s standoff with Ginny/Jenny
• [51:53] – Ginny/Jenny critiques Bryan watching shows during workouts
• [56:21] – Bryan: “I like sliding the line between ‘I did something, but it doesn’t hurt too much.’”
• [57:00–62:00] – Movie/award commentary

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Tone & Takeaway

Casual, self-deprecating, and irreverent, this episode centers on surviving aggressive gym sales, the perils of too much content, and savoring the silliness of it all. Bryan and Krissy embrace the “just FINE” podcasting ethos, making listeners feel like they’re in on an inside joke—one part exasperation, one part dark humor, and all parts fun.

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Bottom Line:
If you’ve ever dodged a gym “jammer,” worked in radio during the good ol’ days, or pondered why your favorite podcasts seem to be everywhere, this episode’s rambling, stream-of-consciousness laughs might be just what you need.

Transcript

[Poet/Songwriter]

I saw you in there in the VIP bottle service in Hennessy? My heart went crazy, it skipped a beat. I thought that you could be with me. I walk over to you, we lock eyes. You're my wife and I realize you're with my friend and it's no surprise Watching you two makes my flag rise. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I hide in the closet, let you do what you do. I have a crush on you. So, baby, grab your phone, start to swipe? We need to spend some time getting it right. I don't want you to be alone tonight. I want you to cheat without a fight. When you're in the bed with my favorite guy? I hide myself and try not cry. I love you, lady, but I won't lie. My therapist even wonders why I have a cut, cut crush on you. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I hide in the closet, let you do what you do. I have a cut crush on you. Grab a man and let's paint the town. I'll stay in the corner and watch it all go down. I promise not to make a sound while you and neighbor ground and pound. It's so lovely to be your man. I can't do what the other guys can. But when you're happy, I feel grand. He can be your lion, I'll be your lamb. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I hide in the closet, let you do what you do. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I have a cut, cut crush on you. I hide in the closet, let you do what you do. I have a cut, cut crush on you.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

I love to watch you get sweet.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the Commercial break, she goes to give. And I'm like, nice to meet you, too, Ginny. Did you say Ginny? Yeah, Ginny with an I.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

With a no. That's like Jenny, but it's with an E. It's Jenny.

[Brian Green]

And I go, jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny. And I'm like, okay, all right, cool. Sweet. I'm just. I'm here working out, and, well, it's.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

My job because I'm one of the Crunch Jam jammers here. It's my job to welcome you to Crunch Fitness and make sure that we get you to your 20, 26 goals.

[Brian Green]

The next episode of the commercial Break starts now. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my Dear friend and the co host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Krist.

[Chrissy]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast, the streaming audience. Thanks for joining us. Here we are Thursday afternoon, some people getting ready for yet another snowstorm.

[Chrissy]

A nor' easter and nor'.

[Brian Green]

Easter. Wow. I'm seeing how many days we can open the show with weather reports.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I think we're like five in a row.

[Chrissy]

Okay, good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the snow never comes here. It never comes here. I want it here. I want my kids to just have one really good snow that they can go play my puppies.

[Chrissy]

Got it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we had one last year that was kind of a little bit of snow. It was like a, you know, dusting of snow. And the kids went out and played and they realized that snow looks very pretty from the window, but it's very cold when you're actually out there playing in it and they didn't like it. Hey, everybody. Streaming out there. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Yeah. So, you know, I understand in my own head that snow looks pretty, but it's not all that much fun. You give it about an hour, right? Yeah. Unless you have all of the, like the galoshes and the snow shit and the snow boots that you can wear to keep your feetsies warm and your hands warm. But you know, what am I going to do? I live in Atlanta. I just wasn't. It's just not a place where it just turns to shit every time and the roads go crazy and people go nutty. That's the way that it is. But, you know, we just live in a very cold couple of weeks without any snow. Fuck you, weatherman. The weather guys did such an awful job of getting it right last week and at least for us here in Atlanta, so.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Well, maybe Glenn Burns deserves all the shit.

[Chrissy]

No, no, no, I love Glenn.

[Brian Green]

He's still getting.

[Chrissy]

Is he?

[Brian Green]

He's still getting. He's like. He slowed down on posting. So every, every town has that one weather guy, the weather guy that you trust. And here in Atlanta, that guy's name is Glenn Burns. He's 97 years. I don't know, the guy's old. He's old. He's been. He was there when I was a kid. He's still there.

[Chrissy]

Probably. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Gotta be late 70s. Yes, I think late 70s. All right, so Glenn Burns, WSB TV, WSB radio, trusted weatherman. He doesn't get over dramatic. He doesn't, you know, catastrophize things. He just lets you know, the straight shit. And if, like, especially when the weather gets nasty, tornado wise.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I turn into Glenn. I want to see Glenn. And if it's not Glenn, then I go over to the other guy.

[Chrissy]

Well, Glenn's got his. His apprentice, if you will. Now, I can't remember his name. That might. Neil. Neil somebody.

[Brian Green]

I thought it was David Nitz or whatever his name is. Anyway, so Glenn Burns gets on. You want to have that guy because he'll tell you where. He seems to have a lot of knowledge about everything. And he tells you where they go down.

[Chrissy]

Like right down to the street too. You know, they can really pinpoint.

[Brian Green]

Well, he also said in one of his posts they're very good at extreme tornadic weather, but they're very bad at winter weather. And man, were they at least here.

[Chrissy]

Where winter at least here, but not up in Nashville and Oxford, Mississippi. My gosh, that's a war zone down there, too.

[Brian Green]

Clemson University war zone up there too. I still don't think they've thought out up there. I could be wrong, but I don't think they've thought out of there. Okay, Glenn goes. Glenn. Last week, a week before this ice storm was going to happen, like starting on Sunday, the Sunday before, Glenn puts out this very long post on Facebook that basically says, if I get this wrong, sorry, if I get it right, I will have warned you with a lot of time that this could be catastrophic ice going on in Atlanta. And it really could be bad news.

[Chrissy]

I mean, I think it was just off by like six hours or something.

[Brian Green]

It was off by six hours. It was off by 60 miles. Okay. Yeah. All right. I give them that. It's. Weather is. You can, you know, weather is not.

[Chrissy]

Mother Mother Nature.

[Brian Green]

Mother Nature changes her mind. She's a fickle bitch.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right. So Glenn puts out this long post and he follows it by many other posts, catastrophizing what is going to happen, which is not necessarily his style. So everybody is paying attention to Glenn. They're like, oh, shit. Well, if Glenn's saying it, then it's a problem. Some dick tweeds in the comments section start, like, threatening Glenn's life.

[Chrissy]

No. Poor thing. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And he has to. He. He puts out a. One of the posts. He says, I had to block about 150 people because they were getting out. It was. This was getting out of hand. So I'm just going to shut up now and give you the straight shit like, here it comes, get ready, whatever. Well, they didn't come. At least it didn't come here to us in Atlanta. So now he's getting it again. Now he's talking about this nor' Easter, and, you know, the weather.

[Chrissy]

I might set this one out if I were you, Glenn.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I would, too. That's exactly what I was gonna tell Glenn. I was gonna say, hey, Glenn, why don't you just take a break? Right?

[Chrissy]

Yeah, Just pause on this one.

[Brian Green]

And this reminded me of the podcast universe that we were talking about. And let me explain how I'm gonna make this correlation. Let's see what everybody. There's supposed to be snow in Tampa. What? No, that's not true. Is that true? You guys down in Tampa are expecting snow? Okay. All right. So there is such a thing as overexposure. There is such a thing as just putting yourself out there too much too often. And it's a dance, and I'm starting to learn it myself. Right? It's a dance. You post every day. People get annoyed of you. The algorithm gets annoyed of you. Right? The algorithm will say, let's slow down. I've been talking to Chad about this. I'm like, oh, I got all these ideas for my personal Instagram. And Chat at one point goes, you are going to start to overexpose yourself. Oh, really?

[Chrissy]

Chat said, no.

[Brian Green]

Chad said, no.

[Chrissy]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

It didn't say no. It just said, gave you a warning. Right? Yeah. And I said, well, I do seven episodes of the commercial break every three hours, so how could it possibly hurt? Look at what. Look at how wonderful it's worked out of the commercial break.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So it says you're overexposure. Right. Be careful of overexposure, because the algorithm and your followers will start to notice and you will get ratcheted. You'll get pulled down because Instagram knows followers will get irritated and they'll start leaving. Slow down. So I took the advice.

[Chrissy]

Okay, good.

[Brian Green]

Glenn needs this advice right now. He needs to slow down. Don't make any more predictions about winter weather until it's, like, on top of us. Right? And then say, go. Now's the time to go get bread and milk. But the podcast universe is also experiencing this a little bit. Let me tell you about the. Let me tell you about the larger podcast universe, because Brian's got his finger on the pulse.

[Chrissy]

Yes, you do.

[Brian Green]

We about two months ago, decided we're going to pull back a little bit, save you all from overexposure and save ourselves from overs, but save our own brains from. From burnout. And it's working, by the way. It's working. I feel. I feel much better about in here and doing content when I don't feel so pressured to do so much of it. So much so that we've decided we're doing more episodes. It's like we wrote it in the novel.

[Chrissy]

We're fighting the balance.

[Brian Green]

We're fighting the balance. Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

The force is with us, and we're trying to figure out exactly where that force is. Wherever the. Wherever the dollar sign is, that's where the force is pushing us. Excuse me. Not dollar sign. Penny sign. We're like a penny stock. Yeah, we're a penny stock here. They say there's a little bit of snow expected in Tampa, and it's a. Well, God bless. I don't know how many times Tampa has gotten snow. That's.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Not very many, I'd say.

[Brian Green]

Okay. The larger pod comedy podcast universe is experience a bit. Experiencing a bit of burnout itself.

[Chrissy]

You alluded to this the other day.

[Brian Green]

I talked about Two Bears, One Cave, YMH Studios, Joe Rogan, and a lot of the other comedy podcasters that are kind of in our same circle. Not that we're, you know, making that kind of money, but you know what I'm saying? Like, we're in the same circle.

[Chrissy]

Genre.

[Brian Green]

In the genre, which is basically two idiots off for an hour.

[Chrissy]

Trying to monetize.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, trying to monetize. Well, if we were in this for the money, we would. Yeah, we would have quit a long time ago. A long time ago. Like August 2023.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

All right. Okay. Settle down, everybody. All right, so I've been paying attention as YMH Studios, which is Tom Segura and his wife's podcast studio.

[Chrissy]

I've heard of that.

[Brian Green]

Okay. They have a lot of. They've. They've built, like, a little barn. Stable full of comedy podcasts.

[Chrissy]

Barn.

[Brian Green]

A bunch of. Full of. A bunch of jackasses. I don't know. I don't listen to any of those podcasts, but Two Bears, One Cave, Bert's podcast and Tom's podcast being kind of the, like, the ones that lead the state. They are.

[Chrissy]

They're the top racehorses.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they're the ones out of the barn most of the time. They have not renewed a number of contracts with a number of their podcasts. They've also seen an incredible, like, downward force on trajectory. Trajectory on their view counts and their downloads. Right. And a lot of people are taking note of this, so much so that There are whole YouTube videos dedicated to talking about how YMH Studios is really suffering I do not. I am not, like, cheering on someone else's downfall. That sucks. Because a rising tide floats all boats, but a sinking ship, you know, is bad for all the sailors. That's right. It's bad for all sailors. Right. And this is just indicative, I think, of what is going on in the larger podcast industry, which is the format that we live in. Two guys just. Or girls or whatever. Cheating and chatting sometimes can wear thin. It's why we have a lot of turnover in our audience. Except for these people who have stuck around with us. Think. Thank you very much. Thank you. Love you. But now Bert Kreischer, who has been kind of pointed at as one of the guys who is really seeing problems with his view counts with his downloads, is also, by some people's measure, overexposed. He is just everywhere, at all times, on every podcast, doing everything and everyone. It would appear if you watch some of these videos and you look at some of the comments sections, that he has just been overexposed. He's just. It's just way too much Bert Kreischer out there. And I think I'm starting to see why this can really be negative for your career. Like when you're out there talking about every inch of your life at all times, just. And on every podcast, doing that over and over and over again, telling every bit of your life, then it has the negative publicity effect. People start to get sick of you. They start to turn off. Yeah. So thanks for listening to the commercial break.

[Chrissy]

This is our sign.

[Brian Green]

This is our last episode. Yes.

[Chrissy]

Celebrities. Same thing happens with celebrities. And they're just everywhere. You see them everywhere, they're talking everywhere. And then it's. Yeah, it's overexposure.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So I give an example of Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan does a podcast episode, like every other day. Right. I mean, he. And he does it for four and a half hours. But you never see Joe on other people's podcasts. You don't see Joe on late night talk show television. You don't see Joe doing articles on, in, you know, New York Times or whatever. He doesn't do that, I think. And because I've heard him say before, because he feels like there is such thing as overexposure. Now, some people would say Joe's everywhere. Like he's everywhere all the time. Yeah. But not because he's pushing himself out there, but because other people are cutting him up and sending him out there.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. So unless he was, like, I was going to say in my head while we were talking or you were talking. I was thinking, it's the Howard Stern model.

[Brian Green]

It is the Howard Stern.

[Chrissy]

But, like, when Howard came out with a book or something like that, then you would see him maybe promoting it on other things. But, yeah, no, just. I mean, that's the format, and it's been pretty extremely successful for Howard Stern and for J. Rogan.

[Brian Green]

It's been. Yeah, Howard Stern picks his. There was a time in the 90s when Howard Stern was everywhere, all the time. Every book, everything.

[Chrissy]

All.

[Brian Green]

I mean, I lived here.

[Chrissy]

The movie.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the movie. On every morning, five days a week, you know, in every magazine, everywhere. He could not help himself, but he built a career like that, and he got hundreds of millions of dollars because he did so. But whether Howard could generate that kind of publicity now or not is almost beside the point. For the last 12 years or 20 years, while he's been on Sirius Radio, he seems to pick and choose his times to shine, and it seems to always be around contract negotiations. That's right. Yes. And some people are saying, you know, boo Segura. And Tom, you know, Burt gets drunk. I agree with all of that. Like, Tom Segura, to me, seems like he's a very dour version of himself. He seems very, like, not funny anymore, but kind of, like mad angry or something. I don't know. Angry at all those millions of dollars he made. But I don't know Tom personally, and we've never talked.

[Chrissy]

Well, it's the golden handcuff thing, too, you know.

[Brian Green]

It really is.

[Chrissy]

Once you get used to that and you've created this machine, you got to keep feeding the machine.

[Brian Green]

We know this personally, right? Is that when. More money, more problems. Yeah. And so he has created kind of an empire that now needs feeding. And so the downsizing seems to be a reaction to something. And so when people are saying the views are down, the downloads are down, people are getting sick of it, that might be the reaction to what's going on. This is the weird thing about being in this space. It expands and contracts all the time. Based on what? I don't know. Sometimes it's technical stuff, like how they count downloads or measure plays. Sometimes it has to do with, you know, just your overexposure. But I can see this. This sphere of the podcast universe contracting a little bit, because I believe there has been overexposure. There's this other thing that we are guilty of, too, that we had a hand in. And now I'm glad that we are, at least for right now, taking a break from. And that Is the constant rotation of every other comic and podcaster being on every other comic and podcasters podcast?

[Chrissy]

Yeah, yeah. Ye on one, then you hear them on all the others that you're listening to.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And wait, what are they saying? Somebody saying they remember when Bert K. Got sloppy drunk on a Netflix event a year ago. What a mess. I don't remember that event. I don't think I've seen that one. Here, I'll put it up there. And then someone else responded. If I was wearing Chrissy's white pants, I would have stains on it. Okay, that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Okay, so we all know Chrissy's not having her period right now. Thanks for sharing that, weirdos.

[Chrissy]

They're my winter white.

[Brian Green]

But they're saying Chrissy is rocking it. Chrissy's always rocking it. That's right. Chrissy's always rocking. It's a weird detour. And then we're talking about Bert.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

I know.

[Brian Green]

That's how Bert was wearing the white pants. All right, you gotta jump in the stream. It's a ton of fun. People are having fun over there. I gotta be careful about what I choose to put on the stream screen, but I can't read it in small print. I know.

[Chrissy]

I was thinking we needed like a little iPad.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do, for sure. We could just probably put it on one of our phones. But we're too lazy. Too lazy for all that. I like it kind of being a mess. Yeah, I don't remember Bert getting drunk. But listen, there is no secret, by the way. Bert at least claims. And this is just like a comedy podcast, I guess. Gossip if you want. He went on. Who was the guy? What was the comics name? God, I can't remember his name, but he's got a comedy pod. He's got a comedy podcast. Also, the two guys who own the whiskey brand, the tequila brand.

[Chrissy]

Well, I like Clooneys and all that.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no.

[Chrissy]

What brand?

[Brian Green]

I can't remember the bobcat brand, but cat something. Cat something. Cat. Anyway, two comics. They're famous, so he's a couple of. I think they've been on our show. Both of them.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Them.

[Brian Green]

At least one of them I know for sure. Anyway, Bert goes on there and he says that his doctor did a series of tests, and that series of tests basically told him, you are not in good shape, buddy. And you got to stop drinking and you got to stop smoking and you got to stop partying. So, you know, Bert's whole shtick is basically Getting drunk and taking off his shirt. Now he's a comic. He's got some punch lines in there too. But I can imagine when, you know, listen, you don't want to go out like John Candy or Chris Farley or any of those guys, or Jim, John Belushi or Andre the Giant. Andre the giant drank 112 beers one time. It was like confirmed. 112 beers.

[Chrissy]

Oh, really? He was a big drunk. I didn't realize.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Andre the Giant was a bad alcoholic. Bad alcoholic. But the problem was, the challenge for him was he just looked like an alcoholic to the rest of the room because he was 10ft tall and a thousand pounds. But he also had so many problems, like, you know, well, physical problems. Physical problems that he just.

[Chrissy]

He was a giant.

[Brian Green]

Literally, he was a giant. And people aren't supposed to be built like that. And, you know, when he was making that movie Princess Bride, apparently he was in so much pain. Like, you know, they were asking him to lift people up over his head, and he was in so much pain, but he refused to back down. He was like, I'm gonna continue to do it. But anyway, there's this long line, this history of comics who have traditionally, I mean, historically been overweight, who just drink them and drug themselves to death because they're afraid of not being funny anymore if that's not what they do. And, and for that reason, regardless of whether you like Bert or not, regardless of whether you think he's overexposed or his schtick is funny or it's not, I hope he does get healthy. Who fucking cares about all the money if you're not around to enjoy it?

[Chrissy]

Well, exactly. Yeah. You've got to take care of yourself. Wellness, it's a thing.

[Brian Green]

Health and wellness, it's a thing, says Chrissy. Chrissy.

[Chrissy]

You can quote me.

[Brian Green]

Chrissy's got her finger on the pulse.

[Chrissy]

Well, no, I was reading them the other day. Where wellness is, Is the. It's a. It's a big thing for. Especially too. For even young people to be thinking about now, which I think is great.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I totally agree. And listen, the truth is, is these alcohol companies are scrambling right now because kids are not drinking. They're just not drinking. The younger generation, is they. I mean, that's not true of everyone, of course, but, you know, they're.

[Chrissy]

They're not drinking like it was back when we were growing up, for sure.

[Brian Green]

Like the beer companies down by 20, the liquor companies down by 30%. We talked to Zoltan. Didn't Zoltan or. No, what was his name that had two different liquor companies, A beer and.

[Chrissy]

Oh, that was the guy.

[Brian Green]

He was funny. The guy.

[Chrissy]

He was really, really funny. It was. He was from up in the mid.

[Brian Green]

He was up in the Midwest. Videos. Yeah, he was like the video guy. He's really. Former weatherman, wasn't he? Or some shit. A journalist. He got kicked out of the Republican National Convention.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Anyway, Chris something. I feel like. Okay, we have done so many interviews, I can't remember some of the names. So, anyway, so Chris explained. It's just the liquor. It's a bad time to be in the liquor business. There's so many brands. Everyone's got one and the kids aren't drinking anymore. So it's really up to us old drunks like Chrissy to keep it going.

[Chrissy]

I do like my wine.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Listen, you're not 20 anymore, and so I think you're handling it well.

[Chrissy]

Yes, Well, I mean, come on. Let's just think about what we were up against when we worked in radio. I mean, I had my bosses feeding shots to me. Jaeger, Jaeger, Jaeger shots.

[Brian Green]

It was a dysfunctional.

[Chrissy]

Oh, God. Workplace environment rolled up and down the.

[Brian Green]

Floor on Friday when they bring margarita machines into the building. I mean, it didn't happen very often because it. Apparently, it caused a lot of trouble before we showed up. So it didn't happen very often with us. But I will tell you this. We worked for the Braves Radio Network. I worked for the Braves Radio Network. I got a green pass. Green means go. Go anywhere in the stadium. Turner Field. I was there all the time. I would park in the players lot, and then I would walk in through the players entrance. The best two seasons of my life. Best two. I mean, so much.

[Chrissy]

It was a lot of fun.

[Brian Green]

A lot of fun. And I would drag Chrissy along with me because she also worked for the station that had Braves radio. But.

[Chrissy]

And we would take clients.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we would take clients. Which was just Chrissy and I. Or people we were dating. Or people we wanted to date.

[Chrissy]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

Or I was dating Chipper Jones girlfriend.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Green]

Chipper Jones threatened to kill me. But one part of the trade deal, when you do this is like, okay, you're going to carry the Braves Radio network. We're going to split the radio revenue with. You're going to carry the Braves games. You're going to split the revenue with us. And your station is going to have two suites and an X amount of dollars to spend at every game. And it was like $10,000 a game. And you could go up to the bar, the private bar, you know, in the club level.

[Chrissy]

What was that? 721 Club.

[Brian Green]

The 755 Club.

[Chrissy]

750.

[Brian Green]

Holy shit.

[Chrissy]

The doors would open.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the door. You get that. Green pass. And they would just. Two people would be there standing. The doors open. You'd walk in. The bartenders knew your name and they fucking hated us. Because they knew that if it was a day game, they weren't going home till nighttime. And if it was a night game, they may not be going home till the next morning. And it wasn't going to be because we were entertaining clients. It's going to be because we were entertaining ourselves.

[Officer/Listener]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

With alcohol.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I had to carry Chrissy out.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Stadium.

[Chrissy]

I mean, I believe it. Cars were left. I mean. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

The security guards knew. They were like, oh, that's Brian's car. That's Brian's Honda with no headlight. Just leave that there. I was parking next to, like, Maseratis and Porsche, you know, all the players and the executives. And here's Brian. Green pass. They'd be like, let me double check that. Wait.

[Chrissy]

I remember they had a Lexus parking lot, too. And I remember I got to park in it because I drove Alexis. But my Lexus was old.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. I think it was like a hundred years old.

[Chrissy]

Scraped on the side.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Chrissy]

That's funny.

[Brian Green]

Best time of my life. I wish I could go back there just for a day.

[Chrissy]

I wish I could go back and just observe, like, from above, just what idiots we all are.

[Brian Green]

I wish we had iPhones like we do now. So we would have all this camera footage of us. But we had blackberries. They were shitty. You could text. But that was about. Was some of the best days of my life. But the train has to stop at some point.

[Chrissy]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

You do not want to be the last person at the bar when the lights go off or on. Whatever bar you're at, you just don't. The Rusty Nail.

[Chrissy]

Oh, God. The Rusty Nail.

[Brian Green]

Which is the.

[Chrissy]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Whoever said the first coined the phrase dive bar.

[Rachel (Voice of God)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Had the Rusty Nail in their head when they did that in Northside Tavern and Northside Tavern. But I even think Rusty Nail. Because Northside Tavern has some music.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

That's got some. It's got some cachet.

[Chrissy]

Well, it's got live music.

[Brian Green]

Got live music.

[Chrissy]

Rusty Nail did not.

[Brian Green]

Eric Clapton played there. B.B. king played there. So every famous guitar player has played at the as. Stopped by the Northside Tavern. It Is a fucking dive bar. No doubt. It's a brick box with cigarette stains.

[Chrissy]

Oh, Graffiti all over the place. The women's bathroom was always very strange there. Like you had. It was like an open air just. Toilet. Yes, in the middle.

[Brian Green]

Same with the guys. Like, little curtain you had to pull. The door came off at some point. They just put a curtain there. And it was one toilet. And that toilet was made in the 50s. It was like this. It was like this big. And you had to pee all over the place. The dive bar was so divey that even the bartenders had cigarette stains on there. I mean, they. Dude. It was just the worst environment you could be in in the best live music. However, the rusty name, right. Had no cachet. No one knew what that place was. If you knew, you knew.

[Chrissy]

I remember day drinking in there one time. I mean, it was just. It was like Vegas where you didn't know what time.

[Brian Green]

The windows outside. Yeah, the windows were this.

[Chrissy]

And there's a circular bar.

[Brian Green]

Yes, there's a circular bar. They made wood go circle. How did they do it? I don't know. And it's tiny. It's like the bar was the size of this table. There were like 10 people that would. 12 people that would fit around the bar. And the bartender was stuck in the middle of this circle. And she was there forever. Peggy was her name. I remember her. She was there forever. She looked the same forever. She was stuck looking 45 years old until she was 80 years old. I mean, I swear to God. There was a huge woman, blonde lady with stringy blonde hair. Huge woman. And she had a purse that would sit on the top of the Rusty Nail circular bar. It was her seat. No one else sat there. She was there likely 10 hours a day. And in that purse was anything and everything you needed. But you didn't ask her directly. You had to go through one of her intermediaries.

[Chrissy]

Oh, she was the dealer. The dealer at the bar.

[Brian Green]

Yes. I had been going there for three years before I even got an introduction to the lady. And I was going through like intermediaries, like the bar, you know, either the bartender or the waiter or the cook or some other person who knew them. And then it was just like. It was this whole scene that was going on in there. And I just.

[Chrissy]

It was wild.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And it was. It's.

[Chrissy]

Didn't it just get demolished?

[Brian Green]

It just got demolished. Actually. The walls are still standing, but the inside is completely ripped out. Oh, I don't know why. Maybe they can't rip the walls down. Maybe they're.

[Chrissy]

It's a historic preservation.

[Brian Green]

Maybe it is a hazard to human health to knock those walls down. There's so much cocaine, May. Cocaine. Yeah. It's crazy.

[Chrissy]

It's a crime scene now, but that.

[Brian Green]

Bar is what I think about when, you know, I haven't. I haven't been drunk in many years, right? I. I still drink every once in a while, but I haven't been drunk in many years. And that bar and that lady and that bartender and some of the characters that sat around that circular bar flashes through my head. I go, I don't want to be there when the lights turn on. I don't want to be the.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

The.

[Brian Green]

Who was the last customer at the Rusty Nail? Probably the blonde lady who sold cocaine. Probably. But I just didn't want to be there.

[Chrissy]

But there was a wild party to end it.

[Brian Green]

I can only imagine, right. I can only imagine how many thousands of dollars worth of narcotics ran through that place after they said, we're closing in a month.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And people were just like it. They had bikers in there every Thursday night. You didn't want to with those guys, but they were nice. But you didn't want to with them. They were definitely like the, like, legit bikers. Not like, you know, guys riding a Harley on Tuesday afternoon because they got the day off work. These were, like, legit bikers. Bikers. They had karaoke and people with no teeth and, you know, meth heads with short skirts. I mean, it was a whole scene going on in there, and we learned to love it. Why? Because we were on our way to being one of those people.

[Chrissy]

Right?

[Brian Green]

That's how it all happens. You get sucked in, and then you got no teeth and you're doing karaoke with the bikers on a Thursday afternoon, you know? Yeah. Playing, you know, digital lotto till you're blue. Keno. So you're blue in the face. Today's my day. There was one guy that was always playing keno. I just wondered where he got all the money, but he was always playing. But he'd win.

[Chrissy]

There are those guys there, the girls and guys.

[Brian Green]

He'd win. And he'd. He'd go like this. He'd go, well, hot dog. And then Peggy would turn around. She'd go, what? You won, Michael?

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Hot dog.

[Brian Green]

And then he'd lose, and he'd go, butterfingers. You knew if he won or if he lose, based on what he said. I'll never forget that for a long time. We would say, like, hot dog or butterfingers. And that is why I chose to get healthy. That's why I chose to go to Crunch Fitness.

[Chrissy]

Oh, I can't wait to hear.

[Brian Green]

Crunch Fitness is now officially on my shit list. And I'm not sure I'll ever go back there again. I mean, I'm locked in for three months, but I'm not sure I'll visit ever again. Because now that James can't get his way with me, he has sicked someone else on me.

[Chrissy]

I can't wait to hear this.

[Brian Green]

All right, so why don't we do this? Let me find the commercial. There's the commercial. Let me find the commercial. We'll take a break. We'll listen to a little music. Chrissy and I'll be. Chrissy and I will be back in two and two.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Okay.

[Rachel (Voice of God)]

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

[Brian Green]

Hey, Jackie beams. You're an edge man with your sandals.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Sure.

[Poet/Songwriter]

You're wild, grandma.

[Brian Green]

We're rocking out feeling divine at the.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Brilliant show we come alive Raise your.

[Brian Green]

Hands, sing it out Jackie beam, stand.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Out in the crowd Jackie beams, you steal the scene laughing Jeans jacket, you're the kingpin dream.

[Brian Green]

With a spice of.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Pride.

[Brian Green]

Jackie jeans, How's Jackie Beans?

[Chrissy]

Jackie Beans is great. And that guitar reminded me that I started guitar lessons.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you did what? Yes, you started guitar lesson. Oh, okay. You can't play as a song yet.

[Chrissy]

No, I just learned how to tune it and what the different chords are.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I'm so proud of you.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I figured I'd take it up.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, why not? Hey, listen, learn. Too late. That's right. I think, you know, look at. I don't know, look at somebody there and somebody that started late.

[Chrissy]

Well, Jack, Jeff was Saying that growing up, one of his friend's dads was like, you know, hey, I'm gonna learn how to play guitar. And they were like, yeah, whatever.

[Brian Green]

And then he became like a lady.

[Chrissy]

And then he became good. It was like a year later.

[Brian Green]

But, hey, listen, sometimes you have. You're gifted and you don't know it. My daughter, one of my daughters, wants to play guitar, so I gave her a guitar. One of my sons has joined the band, and I love it. I think one of the best things that you can do for your kids is put them in a music program, even if they don't seem musically inclined or not. You know, some kids will gravitate toward music, some kids won't. All of my kids have gravitated toward music, but that's because we. We're always playing music. That's our thing. But I think one of the best things you can do is teach them how to use that part of their brain, because it really can become spiritual almost in a way, in a sense that it's. It's meditative. When you starting to learn how to play an instrument, man, you'll fiddle around. If you get the bug, you'll fiddle around for days.

[Chrissy]

And it's just good for your brain.

[Brian Green]

It is good for your brain. What's not good for your brain is being constantly pestered by people at Crunch Fitness, and I don't understand why they have to do this. So I, you know, Asher goes hanking.

[Chrissy]

Any chance of getting the Crunch Fitness sponsorship?

[Brian Green]

Yes, we have zero chance to get well. Okay. All right, so let me tell you this. When Schnitzel Fritz signed me up for this whole thing, and, you know, I said, I just. I need to get out. It's easiest $38 you've made all year. Just sign me up and swipe the fucking credit card. You don't have to do anything else. And she decided to take up an hour of my fucking time.

[Chrissy]

Hold your license hostage.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And so she's like, so what is it that you do? And I'm like, I don't want to talk to you about this. I go, we are in the content business. Content. Do you create content? I go, yeah, we create and edit it. And, you know, it's just. It's. It's. And she goes, that is fascinating.

[Chrissy]

Of course.

[Brian Green]

And I go, yeah. And she goes, so do you do, like, a. What? Like Tick Tock or something? And I'm like, podcast Tick Tock Instagram. I really don't want to tell you. You're not. But you're not my core audience anyway. 18 year old girls who work at Crunch Fitness are not the commercial break audience I don't think anyway, so I just don't want to say it right. I'm just not interested.

[Chrissy]

It's a whole thing.

[Brian Green]

It's all fucking. Yeah, I got to fucking tell you how bad, you know, don't listen to it. It's not good. I got to, you know, anyway, I don't want to go through the whole rigamaroo. And she goes to wait, did I tell you about our, our content creation special that we have going on the Crunch Fitness content creator? And I go, and I go, no, you didn't tell me. Oh my gosh, this is perfect for you. You get to set up a table every Tuesday right here in the front. You get to set up a table. I go, I don't think I'm gonna set up a table.

[Chrissy]

And we're broadcasting live.

[Brian Green]

Let me. Yeah, broadcasting live from Crunch Fitness. Smoking cigars and drinking wine all day. She goes, you get to set up a table each Tuesday and then every month we close down at 9:30 and there's a whole, there's a whole networking event that goes on in here. And then you get to create all the content you want inside of Crunch Fitness. You just have to tag us and make sure you put our logo in the corner. And I'm like, oh, okay, great. And then so what do I get? And she's like, oh, well it's like $189 a month. And I go wait, you get to.

[Chrissy]

Network is what you get to do.

[Brian Green]

I go, I gotta pay. But then I can create content. She goes, so many of our small businesses love it. And I'm like, well fuckity fuck, I don't wanna have any part of that. And I said listen, let me talk to other people in the business about this because I don't think we'll ever be a part of that. But I'm gonna lie to you and say, hey, yeah, sounds great, I'll talk to other people about it. About it. You're gonna love it. Do you want me to email you a special promotional package? Yeah, please do. To the email that I never checked. There it is. Okay, so then, Brian [e-mail]. brian Green, Brian Green, Brian Green@Last Job.com. that's right, they'll get the email. So then yesterday I walk in and it's one of these days and there's like a lady there with her cookie business.

[Chrissy]

Oh, it was the day, it was.

[Brian Green]

The day And I walk in and there's a table up front and there's like a lady's. Yeah. She's got cookies, like wrapped up in a bag, like a Ziploc bag. And she's like, poor lady. I felt bad for her because she's like, hi. And I'm like, oh, hey, how you doing? She's like, do you want some cookies? And I go, oh, well, actually, I'm.

[Chrissy]

Going to work out.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm going to work out, so I'm going to skip the calories. And I thought to myself, this is bad alignment.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

I don't want it before I work out. And I'm certainly hopefully not going to want it after a workout. So I said, hey, listen, listen. Not right now, but maybe when I come back. She goes, yeah, because I have a special. It's 7.99 for three cookies. And I'm like, wait, I have to pay for the cookies? No, I'm not gonna. No, I don't want that. That's not. So I go and I check in and I'm scanning the room and I'm like, okay, all right. I don't see James. That's good news. I don't see James. And I go up to the treadmill and I start my workout and I put on one battle after another, which is another movie I'm trying to get.

[Chrissy]

It's a good one, right?

[Brian Green]

Oh, man, is Sean Penn fantastic.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Oh, my God.

[Chrissy]

I was telling you. Lockjaw. Is that his name?

[Brian Green]

Lockjaw? That's right. But I'm not all the way through it, so don't give me the ending.

[Rachel (Voice of God)]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

But everyone's.

[Chrissy]

That's why I watched the Pit.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you did?

[Chrissy]

Caught up.

[Brian Green]

Is it as good as last season?

[Chrissy]

It is.

[Brian Green]

It is. Okay, that's all I need to know. All right. I got. Astrid's gonna have to hurry up or I'm gonna. There's gonna be a mutiny on the bow. So I'm like watching. And this is yesterday I did this thing, right, the six by six by six, my six, six, six method, which is basically I'll run know 13 minute mile, right? And then four six of a mile, I just hug it. Yeah. And then I go back down to basically walking fast. And then I. And I do that six times.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

So I'm like. Yeah. So I'm like my third time in and I'm really struggling. I'm like, I got this cold, this cough. I'm schmutzing everywhere. I'm sweating. And then I see him out of the corner of my eye from the side of the gym. He's like, clocking in or whatever. And it's like, ding, ding.

[Chrissy]

Your radar went out.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's that western song. And I'm like, fuck. And he goes like this. And I was like. And I just got done with one of my, you know, sprints. And I'm like. Like this. And then I go back down. I look down, back at the movie, right? And now I'm just. Head at the movie, head at the movie. And so I just. Then I turn it on a regular running pace, and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna regularly run. I'm out of breath. I'm out of shape. I'm doing this whole number.

[Chrissy]

Plus, you've got to concentrate on James, staying away from James.

[Brian Green]

I don't concentrate on James. I just concentrate exactly on the movie. I'm not gonna look at fucking James. I'm just not gonna do it. And then all of a sudden.

[Rachel (Voice of God)]

God.

[Chrissy]

Sounds like he's got a.

[Brian Green]

I go. I look up and I go. But I go, hey, James, how you doing?

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Hey, man.

[Officer/Listener]

Officer, over here. You know, I was looking at. We were all watching your. What is it that you're doing over here? Cause we're all wondering exactly what's the. What is that?

[Brian Green]

I go, well, let me slow it down now so I can. Let me slow it down. I can talk to you. I go, listen, James, it's like a method where, you know, you, like. You work out your muscles, but then you work them really hard in short spurts.

[Chrissy]

Hit. Yeah, basically.

[Brian Green]

What's that?

[Chrissy]

It's called hit.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, whatever it is.

[Chrissy]

High intensity.

[Brian Green]

High intensity training. Right? And I go, yeah, this is what I'm doing. I'm going really fast.

[Chrissy]

High intensity interval training.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's right. And I got really fast. And then I go a little slow. And I go really fast again. And then I go a little slow.

[Officer/Listener]

So basically, you're working out like a small child. Yeah, that's okay. We've heard of that. We did that.

[Brian Green]

Huh?

[Officer/Listener]

Okay. Have you. Have you thought about not doing that?

[Brian Green]

I go, james, I know. Listen, man, I'm just like. I'm trying to get my own routine going. Like, I think I got it. And now I'm getting a little fussy, so I'm like, I think I got it. I just need a little time. Yeah. To do it. Oh, man. He goes. He goes like this. He goes, oh, man.

[Officer/Listener]

I wasn't trying to bother you. Listen, you still have at least one free hour. We call it the Crunch Jam. You've got one.

[Chrissy]

The Crunch Jam.

[Officer/Listener]

Yes, Chrissy, the Crunch Jam is where we jam as many sales opportunities as possible into one conversation. But whenever you're ready, I'll get one. I'll get you with one of our jammers.

[Brian Green]

Okay, thanks, James. I'm just gonna get back to the work out here, and I'll get. I'll get with your jammers later, jammers.

[Officer/Listener]

All right, well, I'll see if she's around and if she is, touch base with her before you leave. Okay, thanks, Brian. Good working out, man. Have a good workout.

[Brian Green]

All right, James. Sounds good.

[Chrissy]

I'll.

[Brian Green]

I'll do that. And so then I get back to the workout, so I'm like, okay, I think I blew him off. At least for today. I got it. All right, here we go. All right. Back up to. Back up to a thousand. I'm going crazy, and then all of.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

A sudden, are you Brian Brian Greene?

[Brian Green]

And I turn sideways, and there's a girl getting on the treadmill next to me, and she's, like, starting it up with Crunch fitness gear on. And I go, yeah. Now I'm thinking, like, Astrid called to find out, you know, like, something's wrong. She can't get ahold of me and my phone on. Yeah. So I slow it down automatically, and I'm like, yeah, that's. That's me.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah. Hey, my name is Ginny, and Nice to meet you. And she goes.

[Brian Green]

She goes to give me knuckles. And I'm like, nice to meet you, too, Ginny. Did you say Ginny? Yeah, Ginny with an I.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

With a. No, it's like Jenny, but it's with an E. It's Jenny.

[Brian Green]

And I go, jenny, Jenny, Ginny, Ginny.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny.

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, okay, all right, cool. Sweet. I'm just. I'm here working out, and.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Well, it's my job because I'm one of the Crunch Jam jammers here. It's my job to welcome you to Crunch Fitness and make sure that we get you to your 2026 goal.

[Chrissy]

You're the goal.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

I go.

[Brian Green]

I go, hey, Jenny. I go, hey, Jenny. Totally. I want to get to my 2026 goals, but I really want to finish this workout before we do this.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Before we have a discussion.

[Brian Green]

That's okay. And by the way, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, whatever her name is Jenny with an Jenny with an E. With the little.

[Chrissy]

Like.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy]

The little ding after the e above me.

[Brian Green]

It's two E's. I don't know what it is. I can't read or think because it's over here. And I'm. And Ginny is 20 years old, blonde, and they knew exactly what they. Oh yeah, send the girl. I mean, I'm not saying she was like super hot. That's not what I'm saying. But she was not James, let's put it that way. They knew what they were doing when they hired all of these young girls to work up front. Right? That's how they sell you. That's part of the package. This. Listen, can. You can hardly blame them. That's the way you get. All these guys are coming in there probably with a couple extra pounds on them, probably a little bit older, recognizing that they need to get something done in the real. And the 90% of those guys, the reason why they want to get in shape is to talk to girls like that.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, I have no interest. I have my Venezuelan wife and she is all I can handle. So I'm not interested in Ginny or Jenny or whatever your name is.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And I go, hey, Jenny, I'm just trying to get this workout in and then I think, you know, I'll set up my Crunch Jam later. Is that okay with you?

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Well, listen, my job is to just welcome everybody here. It's a no pressure, no judgment situation. Why don't I do this? Let me walk you around, you can do your workout and I'll see what you're doing and we'll take some notes. What do you think? I got time. You got time. We all got time.

[Brian Green]

I go, nope, Ginny, listen, I can't do that today, but I would be happy to set up a time very far in the future when, when it's possible or not possible, we may actually do that.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Well, what are you doing now? What you got? You're doing like a run fast, then run slow, then run fast, then run slow. Because I've seen a lot of older guys do that, thinking that's gonna work, but it doesn't really. What you need is personal touch. You need a personal trainer.

[Brian Green]

I go, yeah, Jenny, that is what I'm doing. And you know what? I like it. It's good for me. Makes me feel good. Okay. It may not work, but at least in my brain I'm not sitting on my fat ass all day long. Exactly. That is all I really need.

[Chrissy]

Right. I don't need it's accomplishment.

[Brian Green]

Yes. My goals are to have 26 inch pythons. Okay? That's never gonna happen for me unless I start roiding.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Well, listen, I'm gonna let you get back to this round, and when you jump off, let's meet over at the weight training area. What do you say?

[Brian Green]

Nope, I don't think so. Not sure I have time for that today.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

You're not gonna work out today.

[Brian Green]

I am gonna work out today.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Well, then you have time for it. Let's get that jam in. What do you say?

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, holy fucking shit. Oh.

[Chrissy]

I mean, the hard sell. Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

They got me on the. The premium program because of the fucking tanning bed. Now they got everybody in the gym staring at me so that they can watch how bad my form is and make sure that everyone in the gym tells me that it's a campaign of embarrassment. It's a war of attrition. And I refuse to attrit or whatever fucking you say. So I go, okay, listen, Ginny, I don't know if I can do that today. I'm trying to. And I say to her, I go, I'm trying to be.

[Chrissy]

I'm doing my own jam.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm doing my. I got my own jam, thank you. My jam is continue to watch shitty television like I do at home, but just on a treadmill.

[Chrissy]

Oh, no. Exactly. So you're getting some exercise.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Right? Yes. And so. And she goes. She goes, okay, I got it.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah, no pressure. No judgment. Listen, why don't we do this? When is your next training day?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I might be out of town next week.

[Chrissy]

Next January.

[Brian Green]

Next January.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Why don't we go ahead and schedule something? Just put it on the calendar. No pressure. If you don't. If you can't make it, let me know five days in advance by email, phone, and text message, and we'll reschedule it for another time. What do you say?

[Brian Green]

I go, sure, whatever.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

What? You said you're gonna be out of town.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm gonna be out of town for a really long time.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Why don't we schedule it for whatever? February 28th.

[Brian Green]

Okay, February 28th sounds good. So she, like, puts it down, and.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

She'S like, I'm sending you an email and a text message, and I'll give you a call beforehand just to make sure you're ready to go.

[Chrissy]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

I go, okay, Jenny. Thanks, Ginny, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, Jenny, Ginny, whatever your name is.

[Chrissy]

Jenae.

[Brian Green]

Jennae. That's right. I go down. I go to the weights. Now I'm not being accosted by anybody. And I feel okay. I'm working out.

[Chrissy]

Oh, you went down to the weights. Okay, good.

[Brian Green]

I did. I'm not going to. Yeah, no pressure. Exactly. Shannon says no pressure. No pressure is right. Right. It feels like nothing but pressure, actually. I go down to the weights, I get unaccosted for my first, you know, good. For my 700 reps of this. I don't know.

[Chrissy]

How do you change the weights?

[Brian Green]

How do you change the weights? Ginny, I actually do have a question for you. Can you jam on over here and show me how to do this?

[Chrissy]

What was it to do that? You just flip it.

[Brian Green]

You just flip the button. That's it. They're like little toggles, and you just flip it to whichever weight you want to do anyway. So I go over there, I get unaccosted for the first one and then the second one, and I go to the second one, and then I'm watching the show, I got it on the little thing, and I hear, hey, Brian.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Hey, hey.

[Brian Green]

And I look over, and Ginny's on the same machine right next to. By the way, this girl is like a dollar. She's like a dollar sopping wet. I mean, she's a tiny little thing, right? No muscle. No distinguishable muscle on her whatsoever. No distinguishable fat on her whatsoever. She's just there, and I. And she's like, you know, doing it with no weights on, and she's like.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

I was talking to James over here, and we were noticing a little bit of, like, when your pasture is like this slumped over like this. I got the phone in my hand posture. It's really bad for every muscle group, really, but especially the one you're trying to work out. Let you sit up a little bit. If you get your back straight and put some muscle into it, you might actually work out the muscle, if you know what I mean.

[Brian Green]

I go, oh, yeah, thanks. I appreciate that. Let me. I'll straighten up here, and I'll just. I'll get back to it. I'm watching. I'm watching something right there. I think she goes, I think that's.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Part of your problem. I think part of your problem is you shouldn't be watching television while you're working out. It's just a suggestion, but what a lot of our members find, actually, all of them find that if you don't watch your phone while you're working out, you get much more out of it. You'll attain your goals quicker.

[Brian Green]

I go, I wanted to say in my head, I was thinking, you're 20. What do you know about Attaining goals quicker.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Was being a salesperson for Crunch jams in your 2026 goals book? Look, because I can't imagine it was. I go, hey, thanks. Yeah, appreciate it, Jenny, Ginny, Jenny, whatever your name is. But what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna finish the work out here and then I think we scheduled something, so I'm just gonna go ahead and wait for that. I don't want to get my jam in now. I'll get my. I'm looking. I gotta prepare for my jam later.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

All right, I'll talk to you later. Hey, swing by before you. You. I've got some information.

[Chrissy]

Oh, the old swing by.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah, I got some information on how you can perform better in your. Maximize your workout for your goals. I. I want to email it to you. Step on by and we'll. We'll take a look at those 20, 26 goals.

[Brian Green]

I go, yep. All right, sounds good. Yeah. This girl was. This is all judgment. No fun is what this is. And it's really annoying me. I know Crunch Bunch. I understand the game. I get it. Of course, one time, ask. One time. When I went to LA Fitness, they also bothered the out of me for the first day that I was there. And then they never talked to me again about it, ever. I would check in, I would work out, I would leave. I was never accosted by a salesperson. Now, maybe this is just because it's the beginning of the year.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I think so.

[Brian Green]

And they gotta get. They gotta get hit.

[Chrissy]

They've got numbers.

[Brian Green]

They hit their numbers, but you're not getting it with me. I am one squirrely. If I don't want to be somewhere, I'm not going to be there. If I don't want to do something, I ain't doing it. I am a stubborn Irish boy. And so I get done with my workout. I really want to go to the tanning bed, but Ginny and James are up at the front. And I'm like, not doing it. Yeah. So I just walk on. I walk on out. But right before I do, the lady is like, hey, you want a bag of cookies? Yeah. I actually dropped the price to 5.99. And I go, oh, oh. I go, yeah, I think I'm gonna pass. I actually don't even have my wallet on me. You can sell me later. I'm like, yeah, okay. All right. Yeah. How's that $189 a month working out for you? That's all I wanted to ask was, is it worth the $189 a month.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. The cookies doesn't seem like the right fit.

[Brian Green]

It was. It's not the right fit.

[Chrissy]

Unless they were like, special cookies.

[Brian Green]

For all I know, they could have been protein cookies, but I didn't have. I didn't give her a chance to tell me because I wasn't buying them. I don't. I afford 7.99 cookies for $7.99, I can get 3 boxes of chips ahoy. Do you know what I'm saying? And probably taste better. Probably. No offense. No offense. But sometimes the home cookie cooks, you know, I. I lived with one for a while. She thought she was like the cupcake queen. She would make all these cupcakes. I ended up being the taster because she didn't eat. And. Yeah. So I was. Yeah. So she'd get these orders from friends, and she'd get these orders from, like, tiny little bakery shops for, like, you know, five cupcakes or whatever. And she'd make these flavor, like cinnamon, cardamom, carrot cake and all this stuff. And I ended up being the taste tester. And to me, it all tasted the same. Super sweet. Right. But what. What was I gonna say? So I was like, oh, those are delicious. I don't know. I'm not a cupcake taster. What am. You know? I don't know. Yeah, but.

[Chrissy]

Well, it sounds like another eventful day at the gym.

[Brian Green]

Not going back. I don't know. I don't know. What do I do now?

[Chrissy]

You gotta keep pushing through. True.

[Brian Green]

I think I do.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I think I. They'll get the point.

[Chrissy]

They'll get the hint.

[Brian Green]

They'll get the hint at some point.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

But I think I've done as much as I can do without just saying no. Yeah. Like Astrid told me yesterday. She's like, just say no.

[Chrissy]

Right?

[Brian Green]

You just gotta tell them no. And like, you know, I'm not good at that either. But I guess I have to do it. I guess I just have to say no. I'm not going to do the. Your Crunch Jam. I'm not interested in your physical fitness workout hour or whatever it's is. I'm not interested in your classes. I don't need to be upsold on, you know, dumbbell ball sack.

[Chrissy]

I like doing it the wrong way.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm okay doing it the wrong way because it feels good to me. And if I start doing your program, then I'm going to feel really pressured to do it your way. And I can already tell your way is the right way, and that's going to be hard. I like sliding the line between. I did something, but it doesn't hurt too much.

[Chrissy]

Yes, yes.

[Brian Green]

That is the key to a good workout, as Arnold Schwarzenegger will tell you.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

By the way, I watched the Smashing Machine with the Rock.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Have you seen. Have you seen this?

[Chrissy]

But I've heard of it.

[Brian Green]

We'll talk.

[Chrissy]

He plays the wrestler, right?

[Brian Green]

He plays the wrestler.

[Chrissy]

And he has hair.

[Brian Green]

Kerr, I can't remember the John Kerr, whatever. Kerr, the. One of the very first American ufc, what they would then call UFC in the future. Fighters like Raw, unregulated, crazy fighting. And he was the Smashing Machine because he was a big boy who would kick the shit out of people.

[Chrissy]

Can't wait to hear about this.

[Brian Green]

He was like, I'll tell you all about it. If you want to watch the movie I make. I mean, it's his life story. There really is no spoilers, but I'll tell you all about it. Let's take a break, and then when we come back, we'll chat about it. Any shows you want to talk about.

[Chrissy]

You put it in there. Yeah, throw them in there. Throw them in there in the chat.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, and we'll pretend like we watched them because we didn't watch them.

[Chrissy]

I watched a lot of stuff.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's true. Chrissy watches a lot more than I do. Okay, we'll be back.

[Chrissy]

Also, while I'm working out.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's the time when you watch the show. That's the only time I have. Leave me the alone. We'll be back.

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[Poet/Songwriter]

I walked in the door to grab a latte I paid $10, heard Ariana Grande but then I saw him and his big dog I felt my knees weak here came the brain fog and though I'm not gay, you, you make me feel that way. I hope it never ends. My new Starbucks boyfriend. All my toes curl, all the feels come my world of gold, you are my shining sun. We love to talk sports and swim in pools. You like the patio, I like the bar stools. And we spill tea and we crochet the other tables. Might think we're gay. I don't really care. I hope it never ends. You're my best Starbucks boyfriend.

[Chrissy]

Have you played that for him?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Yeah, I have. We talked one day about when we all went out to dinner, didn't we?

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

When all, like, the two couples went out to dinner. Yeah, the four of us went out to dinner.

[Chrissy]

That's when you signed up for the New York Times after that.

[Brian Green]

That's right. But for the life of me, I cannot find that episode. I might got lost in the transfer when we moved to the new network. Anyway, Culture Changers Pod, which is up there right now, go check out Culture Changers Pod. It's Allison. It's one of our good friends. Talked a lot about her here on the show. She's a lovely human being, and she's got a great podcast called the Culture Changers Podcast. So go check that out if you have time. So.

[Chrissy]

So the Rock.

[Brian Green]

The Rock in the Smashing Machine. The Rock gives an excellent performance. He was built to play this because his physique is incredible in this, is incredible in this. But if you look at him now, he's lost all that weight. All that muscle weight just went away. He now looks very skinny and a little bit weird, if I'm being honest. Yeah, but the transformation that he makes in this movie is quite crazy. Not that he gets so big, but that his face, it doesn't look like the Rock.

[Chrissy]

Right? That's what I read. And he's got the hair.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he's got the hair. And they do an excellent job making it, like, very convincing. Very convincing. And it's all about the guy Kerr. Is it sad? It's not sad. I mean, there are moments that are sad. There are moments that are intense, for sure. When you're talking about guys smashing the fucking shit out of each other.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But it tries to take it to kind of like a spiritual level, tries to bring you inside the head of these fighters and why they're doing it and why it's interesting to them. Why particularly was interesting to. And it's really a story about friendship. The friendship between two of these guys that started at the same time and the friendship of the people around him and his girlfriend at the time, who is pretty intense and caused him a lot of problems. But they went on to get married and actually had a child. They got divorced, but they remained friendly. But the movie does not end in any particular way. It's like the plot just stops. It's like there's a big fight that he's going for and then. I won't give you the ending, but there's a big fight.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Fight.

[Brian Green]

The first championship, like world championship. He goes to it and then afterwards it just ends. The movie just ends. There's like no, like, wrap up. I like that. I like that. It was. It felt very real to the story, to the actual story about that.

[Chrissy]

Like, it was like a moment in time of what, a few years?

[Brian Green]

Just a snapshot. Yeah, just a few years from 1997 to 2001. That's it. That just shows that period of his life encapsulated a little bit. He had a bad problem with drugs. He almost died with opiates because of.

[Chrissy]

All the pain that he was in.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. How can you not take opiate painkillers if that's what you do for a living? It's like, you know, these football players. I knew one when I worked for myself. I. I knew a. A football player. He had played for the Giants, he had played for the jets, and he had played for the Cowboys. And he was a pretty good player. Player. Right. He wasn't a Hall of Famer, but he's a pretty good player. A good career, like nine years. And he was a pro. He was a pro. He's, you know, second round draft pick, starter on all the teams he played. He had buckets of opiate pain medication. Years later, he had buckets of it. He. He handed it out like candy. If you wanted it, he would give it to you. He had it in his car. He had like multiple. Just huge bottles of it. And he was like, the doctors just give it to you. Like the doctors give it to you. And these doctors, I don't know if they're associated with the NFL, but I think that the NFL doesn't Discourage it. There was a big like to do about this a couple of years ago about the doctors in the back giving guys pain medication, shooting them up with Demerol or, you know what, cortisone or whatever they needed to get through the game when they would hurt themselves. And I can't argue with it. If that's what you choose to do for a living, you've got to be able to have some relief. Yes, Yes. I don't agree with being addicted to opiate pain medication, but if that's what knocks it down, that's what knocks it down. If you're going to put these guys out there in these situations where they are killing themselves for the almighty dollar, for the billionaires that own these teams and the billionaires involved with the NFL don't deny them the care that they need. And that includes with the head trauma and all that. Now, I'm not saying being addicted to opiates is, is the best thing ever. It's not, obviously. But if that's what kills the pain, pain, and that's all you got, what are you gonna do? There is no better alternative that we know of today than opiate pain medications that are working on it. But it's really not there. So, you know.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Don't you have to keep taking more and more and more of it, though?

[Brian Green]

I think that's the game. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we all know somebody who's had problems with it, right? Yes, you do have to take more and more and more. But you got seven, eight good years in the NFL. That's all you got. You know, as a professional athlete, if you're in baseball, maybe 10 or 12 if you're a golfer, maybe 20 if you're a professional golfer. But golfers and baseball players don't hurt themselves. Like these football players and these UFC guys.

[Chrissy]

I don't like the UFC stuff. I don't like watching it.

[Brian Green]

I've watched it. I w, I, I told you the story. But there was a guy, I worked at Black Eyed Pea, like a weird restaurant. They used to remember that. The Black Eyed Pea.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I worked at the Black Eyed Pea for like, like two months before it turned to Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizzeria and at the Black Eyed Pea and then at Bertucci's. I ended up being friendly with a guy who was older than me, I think, I look back on it now, pretty sure he was gay, closeted gay, but he was older than I was. He could drink. He had pot, you know, and he invited guys mainly over to come over to his house and watch these wrestling videos, early UFC competitions with like, ho. Gracie and his father, like these videos that. That's the only way you could watch UFC or any of this kind of fighting is you had to get the videotape. You had to buy it or find a store that would rent it. And very few of them did because it was so gory and there were no rules. Eye gouging, ball kicking, you know, titty twisting, like all of it. It didn't matter. They were just doing it.

[Chrissy]

And it's like bare knuckles.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, yeah. This was bare. Bare knuckles. Now I think they wear at least like, you know, half inch gloves or something. Yeah. But it was just. It's. It's intense. But this movie was very good.

[Chrissy]

It was. Okay.

[Brian Green]

A little bloody at times. So they don't show anything too gory. Like anything that. With nothing. They don't show in the pit.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying? Nothing they don't show about.

[Chrissy]

Astrid was. I was watching the show last night, I thought, oh, Astro's not going to like that part.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's Sometimes that's really intense.

[Chrissy]

Sometimes that's not as many tracheotomies as I was saying.

[Brian Green]

Okay, that's good.

[Chrissy]

Last time.

[Brian Green]

That's good.

[Chrissy]

There's other.

[Brian Green]

At least they slowed down.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, they've mixed up it up.

[Brian Green]

Yes. So one battle after another.

[Chrissy]

That's really good. I've seen the whole thing.

[Brian Green]

Smashing Machine. I finished Sinners.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I have to say, Sinners is very good. It is very good. Brian. Brian Jordan or Michael B. Jordan deserves every accolade he will get for that movie. But in total, total, after I look at the whole movie, it reminds me too much of.

[Chrissy]

You were saying that from Dust Till Dawn. Dust Till dawn, which I don't remember really seeing.

[Brian Green]

So that's maybe Quentin Tarantino at post Pulp Fiction. Put. Put Dust Till Dawn. Dust till dawn is one hour.

[Chrissy]

I thought it was Ethan Hawke.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no. It's got George Clooney in it.

[Chrissy]

Oh, okay. Well, I saw that one. Quentin Tarantino.

[Brian Green]

Okay. George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star together. Quentin Tarantino, they. One of them very evil, one of them kind of has a heart. Right. There's like so many similarities. They get stuck in a music joint. Strip joint, really. But they're playing music, they turn into vampires. They have to fight their way out till the. Till mid. You know, till the dawn comes, whatever. The first half of the movie is a crime caper. It's like a mystery and then all of a sudden it turns into a vampire movie. No warning whatsoever. All of a sudden you're in a vampire movie. It's a weird shift in gears years, but that second half of the movie remind. It just reminded me so much of it. However, the last 10 minutes of the movie.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Where they're showing about the real people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. If you haven't seen Sinners, I don't want to ruin it for you, but the last 10 minutes of the movie are fantastic. Fantastic. And the music is outstanding.

[Chrissy]

It is.

[Brian Green]

It really is. So in total, I think Sinners is just as good as From Dusk Till Dawn. Two different movies, but very similar, similar plot points, plot devices. But at the end of the day, Sinners is, I think it's aesthetically more pleasing than from Dust still dawn. And I really enjoyed it. So congratulations.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So now we've got Michael B. Jordan.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Leonardo DiCaprio. And the other guy for Timothy Shalom.

[Chrissy]

He's not in there.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah. He's.

[Chrissy]

Oh, you mean nominated.

[Brian Green]

Oh, nominated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are the three that are what.

[Chrissy]

He, he's the Marty. Marty movie.

[Brian Green]

Mr. Marty. Yeah, Mr. Marty.

[Chrissy]

Lila, our daughter, you know, saw that and she was like. Yeah, yeah. She's like a Timothy Shalala. May.

[Brian Green]

Really?

[Chrissy]

Fran.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Is that movie based on the story of Wally Green?

[Chrissy]

No.

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Wally.

[Chrissy]

I thought about him. We interviewed him. No, this is a guy from like the 70s 70s.

[Brian Green]

I should, I should reach out to him. Not reach out to Wally.

[Chrissy]

I saw Wally did a great interview with him. A two parter which never aired.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I know. It's two hours long. We did a two hour interview. He was fascinating, fascinating guy named Wally Green. African American black guy who was on his way to big trouble in the world of the hard streets of New York and he got yanked out. Out by like a Russian guy if I remember correctly. Yanked him out like, didn't he? Wasn't he going to rob him or something? Something about something. It was a gun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy]

When we did that interview and all.

[Brian Green]

Of a sudden he was part of a pingpong club, like a private ping pong.

[Chrissy]

Like Susan Sarandon had started the, the.

[Brian Green]

Church of the Holy Roller and Marty was all. I mean, not Marty, but Wally was a big part of like this whole scene and he was like opening ping pong places around the country with Sarandon and he's got a very interesting story. Went to North Korea.

[Chrissy]

I see him on, on Instagram every once in a while.

[Brian Green]

He is there. He's got a very so When I saw Marty supreme, the commercials for it, I was like, oh, is this the story of Wally Green? But it's not. Okay. All right, so I haven't seen Marty Supreme. I'll check it out. I also want to check out, you know, that movie about the Boss. The. The Bruce Springsteen movie.

[Chrissy]

Oh, I do, too.

[Brian Green]

I have heard it's not good.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, but I want to see. It's the guy from the Bear. Gosh, I can't.

[Brian Green]

Whatever his name is. Name is.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, but, yeah, I want to see it.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right, so we've got some things.

[Chrissy]

To watch on some lists.

[Brian Green]

But I'm trying. I'm trying to knock out, you know, piece by piece, a few shows here and there that we can.

[Chrissy]

I like it. Jeff and I do the same thing. We're like, okay, these things were up for awards. Let's watch them.

[Brian Green]

Absolutely. Want to watch the stuff that's up for the award. So now I've seen Sinners and some of one battle after the other. I'll get through it. Maybe I'll do it tonight. Yeah, for sure.

[Chrissy]

It's a long movie.

[Brian Green]

It is a long movie. It's three and a half hours long. That's a epic movie.

[Chrissy]

I guess that's the way DiCaprio does now, which he. I think I saw some kind of stat on him, but he's been nominated the most.

[Brian Green]

He has been nominated, I think.

[Chrissy]

Of all time.

[Brian Green]

Only one once, and that was for Titanic. The Bear? No, not the. Oh, was it. What was that movie where the bear attacked him?

[Chrissy]

Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Was that movie where the bear attacked him? He was. He's in Alaska. He's a fur trader. Is it called the Bear?

[Chrissy]

It's not. It's not coming to mind.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. Anyway, he won. It was a decade ago. I just read about it. It was a decade ago. Let me see here. I saw it. It was intense. Leo DiCaprio movies. The Revenant.

[Chrissy]

The Revenant, yes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Where he gets. He gets raped by the bear or whatever. That's an intense movie.

[Rachel (Voice of God)]

That is.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's an intense movie.

[Chrissy]

Forgot about that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the Revenant. That's right. Thank you very much. He's been nominated a lot, but he hasn't. He's only won once, so we'll see. But. But also Timothy Sheldon. Lame. They do not like to give this particular award to young actors. They just don't. Historically, he would be the youngest to ever win, so we'll see. And Michael B. Jordan would tie for the Youngest winner ever at 37 years old. He is very good.

[Chrissy]

Very good looking man too.

[Brian Green]

I'm just as good looking. I think you are thankful.

[Chrissy]

Couple more Crunch Fitness.

[Brian Green]

I'm in there. I'm in there every day. Not every day I'm in there. Some days I'll be in there less now. But I'll be reporting back every time that I go.

[Chrissy]

I can't wait.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right. Excuse me. And my cold. Still not going away. Unbelievable. All right. At the commercial break on Instagram. We'll let you know a couple minutes before we go live. So make sure you subscribe. Subscribe and follow us on Instagram. Brian W. Green. My personal Instagram. Chrissy. Oh, tcb Chrissy.

[Chrissy]

Which I never post. I'm sorry, I should.

[Brian Green]

She will. I'm gonna smack her over.

[Chrissy]

That's a new year. That, that's my. That's my 2026 goals.

[Brian Green]

New year, new year, YouTube.com the commercial break to watch us streaming every Tuesday, every Thursday. And yeah, you know the drill. Do it gets hold of us. Okay, Chrissy. That's all I can do for today, I think. So tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy]

And I love you.

[Brian Green]

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

[Gym Staff (Jenny/Ginny)]

Sam.