Dirty Drama Drop

Summary

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The Commercial Break

Episode: "Dirty Drama Drop"

Hosts: Brian Green & Krissy Hoadley
Date: November 21, 2024

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break finds Bryan and Krissy riffing through the fallout of reality TV drama, real-world political shenanigans, and the never-ending parade of pop culture oddities. Tapping into their signature irreverent banter, the duo dives into everything from relationship red flags and "sister wives" absurdities to Grammy predictions and the strange thrill-seeking rituals (and risks) of parasailing and skydiving. As always, the episode is a mix of biting commentary, self-deprecating humor, and off-the-cuff insights—making you feel like you’re hanging out with two quick-witted friends who just can’t help but share (and mock) the world’s messiest moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media, Politics, and the Need for Communication

• Bryan brings up the recent news about Mika and Joe from "Morning Joe" dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago despite past hostilities and legal threats. He takes an unconventional stance, suggesting that open lines of communication—even among adversaries—are vital in the current climate.
  • "Why is it a bad thing that there are open lines of communication between media that may not necessarily see eye to eye with the political candidate or president or whatever? ...We've got to start talking to each other or none of this shit's ever going to get solved and...it's going to end up absolutely civil war, quite frankly." (02:10)
• The discussion pivots to controversial political figures, namely Matt Gaetz, with Bryan and Krissy ridiculing the idea of him leading the DOJ due to his scandal-laden past.
  • "If you have even a whiff that you were in an underage drug-filled orgy... you should [not] ever have your name in the head of the DOJ in the same sentence except unless... the DOJ put the handcuffs on." – Bryan (03:19)

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2. Reality TV and Relationship Red Flags

90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days

• The hosts dissect recent episodes focused on a quadriplegic man in Brazil and the drama around his four marriages and divorces, sparking a debate about “how many divorces are too many.”
  • Krissy: "Yeah, I think it would at least give me pause." (08:31)
  • Bryan: "Fourth one. You're a problem. You're the problem. That's it. There's no other way to explain that. None." (10:08)
• Both agree that omitting such a detail from a relationship is a huge red flag and riff on the psychological underpinnings of serial engagements and marriages, with Bryan wryly pitching the horror movie concept, "Divorce x4."

Ex-Boyfriend as "Security"

• The pair laugh over a contestant bringing her ex-boyfriend to South Africa “for safety”—even though she's accompanied by a reality TV crew.
  • Bryan: "They’ve got TLC there with you? … I can imagine that they probably at least have one security person." (14:22)
  • Krissy: "Yeah, right. Or don’t stop at this restaurant or whatever the deal is. That must be the case because TLC can’t have some huge liability on their hands." (15:07)
• Both agree the real motivation for such drama may just be a need for chaos and attention.

Sister Wives & the Manicured Polygamist

• Bryan skewers Cody from “Sister Wives,” lampooning his grooming habits and failed polygamous marriages.
  • "When you have like, like long curly locks and they’re like flying off the back of your head and you’re wearing some kind of headband half the time… It says something about your personality, doesn’t it? ...For a guy who has four wives, he’s really manicured." (18:05)

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3. Are Pageants and Awards Shows Washed Up?

Miss Universe, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, & Fading Cultural Events

• Krissy reflects on her own pageant experiences, then both hosts debate the relevance of televised pageants after seeing clips from the latest Miss Universe, now inclusive of married, transgender, and even pregnant contestants.
  • Krissy: "I do think they're a little outdated, though..." (22:45)
• The hosts lament a decline in the collective cultural cachet of events like Miss Universe, Victoria’s Secret, the Grammys, and other awards shows, noting how social media and streaming splintered the viewing experience.

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4. The 2024 Grammy Nominations (and Industry Slice & Dice)

• Bryan and Krissy review Album of the Year and Song of the Year nominees, joking about their own knowledge gaps and making amateur predictions (“It’s the year of Taylor Swift.”)
  • Bryan: "I think it’s been the year of Taylor Swift for a long time." (30:47)
• They discuss the rise of new artists like "Khrungbin" (after an amusing pronunciation lesson) and note how streaming and TikTok now drive discovery.
• In the rap category, they predict Kendrick Lamar as the likely winner, moving into a deeper commentary on Kanye West’s “heel” persona and America’s love of a redemption arc.
  • "You can either be a hero... or you can be a heel and everybody hates you until some people start to like you. … That’s the story of America." – Bryan (35:20)

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5. Tangents: Parasailing, Skydiving, and Viral Ride Mishaps

• Bryan shares a personal story about why he’ll never parasail (or hang glide), referencing a friend’s traumatic accident and reflecting broadly on adrenaline sports.
  • "It just seems like an unnecessary danger. Who was the who thought about tying a rope to the back of a boat and putting a parachute on it and zooming people around in circles? It seems like a dumb thing to do, honestly." (46:07)
• The hosts riff about viral slingshot ride videos (and wardrobe malfunctions), warning listeners to always read waivers before riding carnival thrill machines, lest their embarrassing moments go viral.
  • Bryan: "I’m pretty sure that half the videos I see with these people passing out, puking and coming out of their tops is from that very same place." (58:10)
• Krissy teases that she still has a video of their indoor skydiving attempt, which they plan to revisit and record for the podcast.

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6. Listener Engagement & Upcoming Content

• Bryan plugs upcoming "12 Days of TCB" (Dec. 13–25) and the planned Twitch Lives for 2025, encourages fans to follow their socials, and foreshadows all episodes moving to Spotify video.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Inter-political Dialogue:
  "I cannot be inconvenienced with [civil war] right now. I’m contractually obligated to put out episodes of The Commercial Break and if there is a landmine in my front yard... I won’t be able to go to the grocery store and get milk." – Bryan (02:33)
• Relationship Red Flags:
  "Fourth one. You’re a problem. You’re the problem. That’s it. There’s no other way to explain that. None." – Bryan (10:08)
• On Modern Pop Culture Events:
  "But now... besides a few Instagram clips of beautiful women walking down the stage in lingerie. I didn’t see anything about the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Has it even... did it even play on any of the networks?" – Bryan (27:54)
• Pop Industry Cynicism:
  "You can be [a heel] like wrestling. But the hero eventually becomes the heel. But the heel can eventually become the hero. ...I think Kanye knows that." – Bryan (35:20)
• On Dangerous Thrillseeking:
  "It just seems like an unnecessary danger. ...It seems like a dumb thing to do, honestly. It just does." – Bryan (46:07)

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Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------------|--------------| | Politicians & Media Communication | 01:29–03:16 | | DOJ/Matt Gaetz Commentary | 03:17–04:33 | | 90 Day Fiancé & Relationship Red Flags | 04:45–11:33 | | Ex-Boyfriend for “Safety” on Reality TV | 13:37–16:48 | | Sister Wives & Cody’s Marital Mayhem | 17:45–20:55 | | Miss Universe / Pop Culture Event Decline | 22:02–28:14 | | Grammy Noms and Music Industry Rant | 28:21–36:47 | | Parasailing, Hang Gliding & Viral Fails | 44:48–51:55 | | Amusing Waiver/Video Release PSA | 53:41–56:31 | | Slingshot Ride Stories | 56:31–58:28 | | Indoor Skydiving & Future Episode Ideas | 58:28–59:28 | | Listener Call-ins, Socials, 12 Days of TCB | 59:44–61:09 |

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Tone & Style

The episode nails TCB’s hallmark style: gleefully chaotic, unscripted, and peppered with “did-they-really-say-that?” moments. Bryan and Krissy’s rapport shines as they veer from thoughtful takes to raucous lampooning, always with a willingness to call out hypocrisy—be it political, pop-cultural, or personal.

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For fans of hilarious, honest takes on reality TV, pop culture oddities, and the weirdness of modern life, this episode of The Commercial Break offers a prime slice of the show’s “cheesecake factory” comedic charm.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

If two days pass during which I have not asked for a Manhattan, a.

[Chrissy]

Glass of Chardonnay or chocolate, go ahead and pull the plug.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break. That is a big drama going on. This is the hairdresser. He was like attacking the hairdresser.

[Chrissy]

He wears away exposing himself.

[Brian Green]

Exposing himself. What is up with all these guys have to show their dicks. Louise ck I mean, everybody has to whack off in front of somebody, show their dicks or what is what gets. What gets you off about that? Quite frankly, I want the. My dick to be the last thing a woman sees before we get intimate. Do you know what I'm saying? The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the Robin to my Cody, Chris and Joy Odley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast ass universe. Thanks for joining us. Here we are, Chrissy and I, catching up on our sister wives in the studio. Our sister wives and our 90 day fiance. Before the. After the other days. Whatever the.

[Chrissy]

That is crazy.

[Brian Green]

It is crazy. But, you know, I can't take all the drama right now on the news. So I'm just taking a break. Just a little bit of a break. I like have a little bit of an eye on it. I.

[Chrissy]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

I'll look at the headlines, but then I don't dig any deeper. But yeah, but I have a. We just watched a scene from before the 90 days I think is what it is. And I'll get to that in a second. But I wanted to ask you if you had seen that over the weekend. I know it's. We're now at Thursday, but over the weekend that Mika and Joe from Morning Joe. Yeah. Hadn't gone down to Mar A Lago and met with Trump, sat down with him for dinner. Yes. After all that shit talking between two of them. And then like supposedly, supposedly someone in Trump's circle was threatening to have them arrested after the election because of all the lies they told on Morning Joe. And so now people are up in arms going, how could you possibly go and meet Trump after all the things that have been said and done after this? I'm taking the opposite look at this. And this is the only reason why I'm bringing this up. I think it's a good thing that you open up lines of communication right now. I don't think that anybody should be pandering to any particular politician on one side of the aisle to Curry favor or to milk toast the real news? Facts are facts. That's what it is. But why is it a bad thing that there are open lines of communication between media that may not necessarily see eye to eye with the political candidate or president or whatever? I don't think this is a bad thing. I think this is a good thing. And I think it's a new approach that may be needed that we've got to start talking to each other or none of this shit's ever going to get solved and people are, it's going to end up absolutely civil war, quite frankly. And who fucking wants that? I cannot be inconvenienced with that right now. I have contractually obligated to put out episodes of the commercial break and if there is a, you know, landmine in, in my front yard, then I, I won't be able to go to the grocery store and get milk. So leave it alone. All right. I like it. I'm all about it. I think it's a good thing. I agree.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Maybe settle down. Some of the rhetoric on both sides would be not a bad thing whatsoever. Okay. That said, Matt Gaetz we can all agree is a terrible pick for the Department of Justice. I mean if you have been even a whiff that you were in an underage drug filled orgy, then you should prob. Ever have your name and the, the head of the DOJ in the same sentence ever. Except unless the head of the DOJ put the handcuffs on. Yeah, that's it. I mean, period, end of sentence. There is no way this guy gets through. I, I can't imagine the Senate will appoint this guy, but if they do.

[Chrissy]

Seems like people are up in arms.

[Brian Green]

We are in a real shit show. Yeah, it seems like enough people on both sides of the aisle are up in arms. This isn't going to happen. And now new report comes out that maybe he was up at up to 10 of these drug filled underage orgy, so. Wow.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, it's crazy.

[Brian Green]

Sounds like a stand up guy to me. The kind of guy that we really need to be the sheriff in town, you know, I mean, come on, Trump, come on. I'd like to think this is just a Trojan horse. Yeah, he's just putting it out there so that he can, you know, throw somebody in there that's like equally as bad but not a criminal in, you know what I'm saying? Oh well, that guy's not as bad, you know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy]

Right. No, there is that strategy.

[Brian Green]

There is a theory going around that that might be it. I have to agree. So we' watching the 90 day before the 90 days here. On to more important things where we're watching 90 day before the night after the 90. But whatever it is. Yes.

[Chrissy]

And before the 90, which, for those of you who don't know this is. There's a show, 90 Day Fiance, which I'm sure you've heard of. And that's where the. They go. They get a visa and for 90 days.

[Brian Green]

Fiance visa.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, the fiance visa for. So the person from the other country can come to the US and live. And they try it out for 90 days to see if it's going to work. So this is. This show chronicles a relationships that are leading up to an engagement.

[Brian Green]

Yes. This is like before they actually get engaged, they're meeting. They live in different countries. They're meeting for the first time or continuing a relationship they've been continuing. And who doesn't want a camera crew and your middle of your relationship. So we've been talking over the. Over the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about one. A couple of the relationships, but one in particular about a guy who's in a wheelchair, who's a quadriplegic. He's in a wheelchair. He's down in Brazil. Brazil. Meeting a beautiful young woman. And then they had a little drama because they were gonna have sex. He didn't have a condom. He went down on her, tried to go down on her. And she said, no, I don't want that. Because she felt it was more intimate than actually having sex. And he didn't ask her. He just assumed that that was okay. And he tried to go for it. He rolled out of there all upset and. And so onward and upper. So now they've made up.

[Chrissy]

They did. They made up.

[Brian Green]

They're on some kind of vacation. Chrissy told me this last time we were talking about this, but it just was in this little clip and I. To ask the question, how many divorces are too many divorces? Four. He's been married and divorced four times now. You know, I suppose there is a chance that you just. Your pickers off and you really get terrible relationships. Four times I've been in four. Terrible and not terrible, but I've been in four relationship serious in my life. I've been in four serious. I would consider serious relationships and Astrid being one of them. But we're currently married and so far, at least not this week, we're not getting a divorce. And so, you know. But marriage is a certain type of serious. Like when you decide to get married, I can understand, like when you're young and you get married because you think it's the next thing to do, when the next thing to do is probably break up and then you quickly realize this, you're in way over your head and this is never going to work out. Never was going to work out. And a divorce, I understand a practice, a practice marriage, I get that because I did it right. But for practice marriages, isn't that a little much? Isn't that a little much? I don't know. Yeah, well, I'm asking the question.

[Chrissy]

And like, I guess the original marriage was to someone here in the US But I think that the other three have all been the women from Brazil.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Now aren't you just have a fetish for Brazilian women at that point? Don't you think? I'm. Astrid has said that. Like I told Astrid, it's something that I, after I got a divorce, I would say almost immediately to anybody I was interested in or if we were interested in each other, I would say it immediately. There was no hiding it. I just said, I'm divorced. That's it. Let's get it out there. If you don't, you. And not one time did I ever get any flack about it. Not one time. I've had a few people ask follow up questions. What happened? How did it go down? Who was who divorced who, you know, normal questions, the restraining order expired, stuff like that.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying? But normal questions. But I never got. Someone said, I'm sorry, it's not, not for me. I don't, I don't date divorced men because I think divorce is a rather common thing. But like a divorce. Not like four divorces, maybe even two. Like. Okay, all right, I got it. All right. You know, you had a practice one and then you had one. Yeah, maybe it didn't work out so great. You're on your, you're trying to go for your third serious relationship or marriage, but your fifth serious relationship or marriage. Would that turn you off?

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I think it would at least give me pause.

[Brian Green]

Oh, for sure.

[Chrissy]

Very least give me pause as to why there has. Because, I mean, this isn't a man in his 80s.

[Brian Green]

No. You know, he's in his early 40s or 50s or something.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it would definitely be a red flag.

[Brian Green]

A red flag. But here is the thing that I, that I do have to say about this that makes it even more kind of. It's going to be more of a show on this next episode. He didn't say that. Yeah, he didn't tell her.

[Chrissy]

And his excuse is that he.

[Brian Green]

She never asked. Do you have to ask if you're on your fourth marriage, are you divorced? Yes, I am. Oh, okay. How was that? Yeah, you know, didn't work out. Are you divorced the second time? Well, now that you asked, yes. And a third. Yeah, I also had one of those. What about a fourth? You. Well, now that you ask, I'm on my fourth.

[Chrissy]

I'm done with my fourth. Yeah, you would be the fifth.

[Brian Green]

That is a huge red flag. Yeah, that is a huge red flag. Tomorrow's episode, we're going to talk all about relationship red flags. But that's just an example of one huge red flag. Four divorces you got.

[Chrissy]

I'm going to need to know a lot more information.

[Brian Green]

I'm going to want to know. I'm going to want Instagram ads, addresses. I'm going to want to look at Facebook pages. I need to see all wedding albums, any videos or audio in your phone. I want to see text messages to.

[Chrissy]

Even speak to the women.

[Brian Green]

Oh, definitely.

[Chrissy]

From my country.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy]

Married this man.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Well, I want to speak to at least. At the very least, the first and the last wife. I want to speak to the first one you got married to and the last one. Have you learned anything in the four divorces, is what I want to know. And because on your fourth divorce, it might be you that's the problem. Do you know what I'm saying? First one. Okay, chalk it up. Everyone was silly and stupid and young and you had. You decided to have a big party, it didn't work out. Second one. Okay, maybe. Maybe your pickers just off. Right? Maybe you just happen to fall into the same trap twice. Third one. It's definitely your fault. Fourth one. You're a problem. You're the problem. That's it. There's no other way to explain that. None. And even if it is that your pickers off, then you're still the problem. It takes you a long time to learn stuff. So I'm just saying. I'm just throwing it out there, Chrissy. Fourth divorce. You got to put that. And I understand why you don't want to lead with that. Right? It's hard enough to lead with a divorce, let alone four divorces. Hey, I've been married and divorced four times.

[Chrissy]

Times four.

[Brian Green]

But you got to say it. You got to weed those people out right away. You got to allow somebody the opportunity to bow out if they, in fact, don't Want to be with the Divorcee X4. You know what I'm saying? Divorce X4 the new movie by whatever his name is. M. Night Shyamalan m. Night Shyamalan DX4 divorce times 4. All four terrible relationships end in disaster.

[Chrissy]

It's a horror movie.

[Brian Green]

But now, could we. Oh, there's a Miley Cyrus commercial for perfume. I just thought I'd throw that out there. Miley Cyrus is really a beautiful woman. She really is. I do have to say that if you are in a relationship with someone who is quadriplegic, then maybe we could chalk this up to. The women who got married to this.

[Chrissy]

Young man, thought that they could.

[Brian Green]

Thought that they could be a support vehicle and a support system for a person in a wheelchair who needs a lot of daily attention and then decided it was a little bit too much. Maybe it. Maybe it might not be him, maybe it might be them, but I want to have that conversation with somebody. What really happened? Like, how did that go down? And especially when you get.

[Chrissy]

And how long were the marriages?

[Brian Green]

It could have been that long.

[Chrissy]

The guy's not, so I know that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I don't know, three years apiece or something.

[Chrissy]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Maybe he's just a hopeless romantic. You know those people. I've known some. I've known two ladies in my life who were engaged multiple times. Like three or four times a piece. Yeah. And I think it was just a fetish, if I'm being real. Not a fetish, but a fantasy. Right. It was like they. They fell in love so quick. It got so hot and heavy. And then the guys, you know, I. I don't know, like a whirling dervish. They. They came in, they spun up their lives, they. They decided they wanted to put a ring on it, and all of a sudden no one's getting married. That's even a red flag to me. Like, if you've been engaged four or five times, three or four, two or three times, and it didn't happen, that's a red flag to me too. How did you not make it down to the aisle? I don't know. Just to me, like, you put a ring on it, you're going down the aisle. Yeah, I went through with it. Even though I know I shouldn't go through it. I just said, hey, I gotta do it no matter what. I'm going all the way to the distance. Yes. For. For sure. So 90 day fiance, before the 90 days turning into. I started slow, but now I'm getting. Now I'm getting Into it. I'm getting excited. Yeah.

[Chrissy]

I mean, there's the other girl with the. Bringing her ex boyfriend to meet the new boyfriend.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's a. Hiding it and hiding again for the first 10 days. Yeah, that's. So there's a girl who's going to meet a guy in South Africa for the first time and she decides that since she met this guy in the Internet, even though they've been dating for over like a year and a half online and phone calls and all this other stuff, that she is going to bring her ex, her recent ex boyfriend along on the trip for security and safety purposes. Now, I don't disagree with the reasoning here. Okay. There's a lot of nightmare stories about catfishing and people getting hurt and in trouble in strange places. They don't know where they are.

[Chrissy]

And said you're traveling with a production crew.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's what I was gonna say. You have TLC there with you?

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

What? I mean, I don't think they're. I don't think they travel. They, they actually, I bet they do travel with security. They must have some person on staff who's in charge of making sure no one steals the cameras, gets in, you know, wants to start drama on a camera on a TV show. So they just get, you know, froggy around people. I can imagine that they probably at least have one security person. And they always, I think, travel with local camera crews also. People who are, who know the environment, who are. They're local, who know, speak the language. Yeah. Don't go to that neighborhood. Yeah, right. Or don't stop at this restaurant or whatever the deal is. That must be the case because TLC can't have some huge liability on their hands.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

And they go to some far off, far from locations. I mean, one of the first seasons they were like in the, like in the swamps of the Amazon. That's right. Literally.

[Chrissy]

And remember when they did have somebody that like stole a phone.

[Brian Green]

Yes, Stole a phone, ran off while they were on TV and like there.

[Chrissy]

Was like a gang swarming.

[Brian Green]

Yes, the gang swarmed. The camera crew stole one of the. I could say contestant. That's kind of what it is. One of the contestants phones ran off and the security guard ended up like running after the guy into the Amazon River. It was insane. This is a good TV show. I mean, I've soured on it a little bit over the last couple seasons, but I, I do have to say, when you think back on all the great moments of 90 Day Fiance, it's. It really Is can produce some fantastic television. Including the one where the girl brings her ex boyfriend along to meet the dude and then she's surprised that the. The guy she met is so upset. Yeah, she's like, I just brought him along for safety. It's like we've known each other for a year and a half. What am I gonna do? Safety. I'm supposed to be that guy. I'm supposed to keep you safe. Not him keeping me. You safe from me being. What the. Yeah, That's a red flag too. And I think personally I just think she likes the drama. I think she grew up in a lot of chaos and this to her familiar to have guys fighting over her. She wants attention and, and like all of us do. And so. But some of us go to great lengths to get it. Like flying your ex boyfriend 6,000 miles across the world to be on a television show where you're meeting a stranger in South Africa for the first time. It is crazy. But you know, hey, listen, it takes.

[Chrissy]

Away from the other real life crazy.

[Brian Green]

Yes. This is what we have to do for ourselves right now. We need all new self care. Me too. I was talking to our friend Allison and I was just saying, hey, listen, you know, and you know, there's all this talk about, you know, CNN's ratings went down 50% day after election. MSNBC's ratings went down 50%.

[Chrissy]

Of course nobody wanted to see it anymore.

[Brian Green]

No one wants to see a break. We. Everyone has to lick their wounds. And I don't think it's just the people who voted for Kamala Harris. I think everybody.

[Chrissy]

I think so too.

[Brian Green]

Okay, done. Like, okay, can we all just like get back to regularly scheduled programming now? Because it's really been a lot for the 10 years and we can just let it go at least until January, whatever it is. We can all just like gotta let it go. Let it be and tune into 90 Day Fiance because that's where the action is. That's where the real action is. That's what the. The most meaningful stuff is happening on tlc. I swear to God.

[Chrissy]

It always has been.

[Brian Green]

It always has been. Brian's been right the entire time. It's. It's a 90 day fiance. And now that sister wives, which I. How did this guy. Meanwhile, four divorces with the guy in the wheelchair. Cody's had four divorces in a day. Like in six months. This guy. Cody. What is going on with that hair?

[Chrissy]

I know, it is quite the head of hair.

[Brian Green]

Give it up, Cody. What are you. Who are you trying to. What Are you trying to prove, Dude, I mean, that hair, when you keep your hair like that, it really says something about your personality, doesn't it? Doesn't it? When you have like, like long curly locks and they're like flying off the back of your head and you're wearing some kind of headband half the time. Yeah. Wispy. And then your salt and pepper beard, it says something. It. He's so manicured. For a guy who has four wives, he's really manicured. He must spend a lot of time in the. In the mirror. I gotta be honest.

[Chrissy]

I think so too.

[Brian Green]

Well, it doesn't have four wives anymore. He's only got one now, one left. Yeah, and that's a red flag, by the way. If you meet Cody from Sister Wives and he's looking to buckle up with, you just know that there's red flags all over that place. I mean, when you want to have four wives at one time. At one time.

[Chrissy]

One time.

[Brian Green]

That is definitely a red flag for sure. Without a doubt. And this show, the way it's played out, they are 20 seasons into this. And you. I could have told you. Season 1 Now, I only really watched, like, when it first came out. I watched a couple of episodes, wasn't all that interested, decided that this is just something like, you know, I. I don't know, this is some novelty wiki fan page for, you know, weird religions essentially. Right. And this is just TLC whitewashing a certain type of abuse almost. Right? And then you get into season four or five, I started watching another couple episodes when the women, now TV stars are like, well, now they start realizing they're a wiki fan page for this certain type of. And they go, nope, not involved. So I like that part of it where they're like, okay, you know what? Corey's an. Or Cody's an. And we're out of here.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And so now since, I don't know, since whatever season or 20 seasons in, at least half of it has been the drama around these women extricating themselves from kind of this shitty situation and Cody pissing and moaning that, oh, me, poor me. Oh, me, poor me, dude. Oh, you, poor you. When you were married to four women, how did he do it? And the kids, he's got like 37 children and 112 grandchildren. He's like trying to populate the world. What was that show?

[Chrissy]

There was my sperm.

[Brian Green]

High sperm count or something.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Where those three guys were trying to populate the world with their sperm. Unbelievable. So now all of these women who were married to this guy Cody on season one. Most of them all. All but one are now divorced. That one is hanging on by like a piece of dental floss. I mean, she dislikes him too. And it just has become a show about how these women are getting independent, getting their own lives, moving on, and how Cody is still wondering, what happened?

[Chrissy]

What happened?

[Brian Green]

What happened? He's like that coach who gets a tar beat out of him in a football game. And he has like a three hour long press conference. Wonder what happened? Reviewing every play, making excuses. That's what. That's what sister rises become. But I gotta be honest. I like this version much better than I like the beginning of it. All right, we got more important things to talk about. We'll get to it. We'll be right back.

[Joy Odley]

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[Brian Green]

All right. In news from 2006.

[Chrissy]

Perfect.

[Brian Green]

Perfect. Right on time for the commercial break. The Miss Universe pageant was held over the weekend and I saw some of it online. Saw some of the clips online. I mean, are we. Is this our pageant's a little bit outdated? Are we. I don't know. What do you think? You were in pageants, weren't you?

[Chrissy]

Well, I did too, when I was in high school. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

What kind of pageants were they?

[Chrissy]

They were just like.

[Brian Green]

Like local.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Miss.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Miss the school. Yeah. Ms. Honey Crisp Apple or something. Yeah. Okay. Did you win?

[Chrissy]

I did.

[Brian Green]

Wow, look at you. Pageant queen right here with me on the commercial break. I feel. I feel honored, Chrissy, to be with Ms. Honeycrisp.

[Chrissy]

I'll wear my crown.

[Brian Green]

You are definitely a honeycrisp.

[Chrissy]

In my own.

[Brian Green]

You'll always be Miss Honeycrisp to me.

[Chrissy]

Please.

[Brian Green]

I always Miss Dew Drop Sunshine to me.

[Chrissy]

So, yeah, I do think they're a little outdated, though, it seems like. But that being said, I guess they provide scholarships and Things and the winners do good things in the world. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

But yeah, I'm not saying they're outdated. And I'm taking anything away from the women who work very, very hard to get up on stage and present themselves or represent their countries or regions or whatever it is. I don't want to take anything away from that. And I'm not saying that, that it's like, like I don't hate it. I just. I don't watch it. I'm not interested in it. But then again, it used to be.

[Chrissy]

A really big thing.

[Brian Green]

The like Miss USA and Miss Universe. It used to be in Miss America. It used to be a really big deal. Like everybody would watch it. But that was back in the 80s and then I never was into it in the first place. It was never my thing. Like I didn't like it. Which is surprising because I am very interested in the female form. But you know, I can be interested in the female form and not be interested in all the parading and la de das and all that other stuff. Stuff. But okay, but taken on face value, here it is, the Miss Universe pageant and a very lovely girl from. I think it's. She's Denmark. I think she's Danish. Yes. Victoria Theovig of Denmark won the 73rd annual pageant on Saturday beating out 120 other contestants. She is a blond haired, blue eyed, very lovely girl.

[Chrissy]

Congratulations.

[Brian Green]

To which a certain segment of the Internet is taking credit for wokeness being dead because a blonde haired, blue eyed woman won Miss Universe. What? You're taking credit for that?

[Chrissy]

Of course.

[Brian Green]

You keyboard warriors in your basements with your mommies doing your laundry. You're taking credit for Ms. Thielvig winning. Congratulations. It's so silly, but the whole, the whole like I guess issue that that this corner of the Internet had with Miss Universe is that they have allowed contestants. Last year there was a married woman. Multiple married women, which is typically not. There aren't a lot of married women. There was also a transgender women. Who. One of them. Whom. Who placed in the top 20. I think there was a pregnant woman, if I'm not mistaken.

[Joy Odley]

Oh wow.

[Brian Green]

Am I mistaken about that? I just want to make sure. Who cares? I get everything wrong. But yeah, I believe there was a pregnant woman last year in the competition. Now that takes some balls to be pregnant and go up there on stage and parade around in various states of dress and undress. But. But I don't like. Astrid gets excited about Miss Universe because Venezuela has typically done very well.

[Chrissy]

True.

[Brian Green]

And it's a sense, it's a source of pride for Venezuela that they're on an international stage. They get some credit for something because Venezuela often is the butt of jokes. Lot of different things because of their political drama that goes on down there. But they get very excited about Miss Universe and that Miss. And that Miss Venezuela oftentimes is doing very well in those competitions, if not winning those, I think, like six times in a row or six times in the last 20 years or something. Ms. Venezuela has been Miss Miss Universe, but I just don't get into it anymore. You know what else is back is the Victoria secretary.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Brian Green]

And now Miss Victoria's Secret or the Victoria's Secret Fashion show was a cultural phenomenon when it first came out. And everybody. And I mean everybody. Every supermodel, some people weren't supermodels. Now they have, like, influencers and stuff like that, that walk. And they still have supermodels. I get that it's one big commercial. It is. And it's of interest. And sex sells. And so I almost understand that more than I understand Miss Universe. But, okay, whatever. The things that we all used to gather around these big, like, marquee events. The MTV Music Awards, Victoria's Secret catalog of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Miss Universe, Miss America. What else am I? The Grammys, the VMAs, the CMAs.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, for sure.

[Brian Green]

The award shows, the award shows, the Emmys, the am I Awards. Leave out the Academy Awards, because I still think that holds some cachet. But all this other stuff, it seems to be kind of washed out in, like, the. Yeah, the universe. Like, I used to think of the Grammys at, like, I had to watch the Grammys and the VMAs. It was the two. Two award shows of the year that I. Because I love music so much, I just had to watch those things. And I felt like, wow, when you got a Grammy, that was a big deal. If you want a vma. Wasn't as big of a deal as getting a Grammy, but it was still a pretty big deal. Now I don't think of any of these award shows, pageants, you know, fashion shows, whatever. I don't think of as having the kind of cultural cachet that they used to. Besides a few Instagram clips of beautiful women walking down the stage in lingerie. I. I didn't see anything about the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Has it even. Did it even play on any of the networks? Yeah. I don't know. Do you make it a point of watching any of these Award shows like I know the CMA's is this week. Do you watch any of that stuff?

[Chrissy]

Not really, no. No, I don't watch it anymore. But you're right, it used to be a big event. Everybody was like on a Sunday night and you got your popcorn in your, you know, drinks, whatever. It was an event you watched. So now.

[Brian Green]

Not now, not. No. Maybe we should.

[Chrissy]

Maybe we should.

[Brian Green]

Maybe we're just old and we're not paying attention.

[Chrissy]

Maybe we should go back to watching.

[Brian Green]

Well, this all. I say all of this to bring up point. The Grammys have released their nominations for 24.

[Chrissy]

It's a big deal to win a Grammy.

[Brian Green]

Yes. It can mean millions of dollars in album sales or song sales overnight, essentially. So it's a big deal because you want that. That nomination leads to a lot of additional recognition. Yes, of course. So I thought, let's go through some of the Grammy nominations. I want to ask, I want to know if you have heard of any of. If you've heard any of these. Right. Music is so disparate and so like it's all channelized. Like if you are not paying attention, where in the world do you hear this music? Besides maybe Sirius xm, which I think almost everybody has in car now but you? No one listens to the radio anymore. Do you listen to the radio anymore? There is no music tele. There is no video television, video, music, television anymore. Where does this stuff get pushed down besides TikTok Videos, Instagram videos and maybe like television.

[Chrissy]

Spotify.

[Brian Green]

Spotify. Ah, they have channels on Spotify. Does anybody have Pandora anymore? What happened to Pandora? Do you have Pandora?

[Chrissy]

I used to listen to Pandora all the time. That's still around, of course.

[Brian Green]

I think Raphael still uses it.

[Chrissy]

Somebody bought it, I think.

[Brian Green]

Anyways, SiriusXM bought it. Okay, so SiriusXM owns it.

[Chrissy]

There you go.

[Brian Green]

But Pandora used to be the jam. I mean, everybody was listening to Pandora, Sirius, Spot. I mean Spotify. Who had heard of that, right? Okay, here we go. Album of the year. You ready for this? Cowboy Carter by Beyonce. I've heard a few songs. New Blue sun by Andre 3000, Carlos Ninos and a couple other people. De Jesse Volume 4. Jacob Collier, Emily Lazar, Chris Allgood Short and Sweet Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff, Julia Michaels. The Tortured Poets Department, of course, is Taylor Swift. Jack Antonoff Production. The Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess by Chapel Roan Brat, Charlie XCX Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish.

[Chrissy]

I've heard of all of those.

[Brian Green]

I've heard of every One of those. Except for De Jesse, Volume four. I don't think I've actually heard that. So who's winning this? I think it's the year of Taylor Swift.

[Chrissy]

I think it's the year of Taylor as well.

[Brian Green]

I think it's been the year of Taylor Swift for a long time. For like 10 years. Yeah. And so I think that's it. Song of the year. Ready Fortnite. Taylor Swift, Birds of a Feather. Billie Eilish. Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar. Good luck, babe. Chapel Roan. Please, please, Please by Sabrina Carpenter, A bar Song by Shabuzzi, Die With a Smile by Lady Gaga and Texas hold' Em by Beyonce. I do think Not Like Us by Kendrick are had such a cultural impact at the time when he did those two concerts. It's such a cultural impact that I don't think that Kendrick can be ignored.

[Chrissy]

Quite agree. Chapel. Ron's having a big year though, too.

[Brian Green]

She is. I think she deserves her due. I think Chapelone decided she's finally going to show up to concerts too, which. There you go. Best new artist.

[Chrissy]

Oh, okay.

[Brian Green]

Kon. Is it Kaban? What? How do we describe Cragabin?

[Chrissy]

Krongabin?

[Brian Green]

Kronigan. I love these guys too, man. I love.

[Chrissy]

They're so good. They're so good.

[Brian Green]

Hold on one second. We had this, right? How do you spell it?

[Chrissy]

It's like K, H, R O U.

[Brian Green]

G, K H R U K H, R U. Krogaben. How to say Please help me here.

[Chrissy]

I think it's krongbin.

[Brian Green]

How to say krongbin? I think you're right. Let's see. Let's hear it. If you're looking to learn how to pronounce this word correctly in American English, keep watching this video. This word is pronounced as croangbin.

[Chrissy]

Croenbin.

[Brian Green]

Let's practice together. Crowing Bin. Okay, got it. Crowing. Ben. Sabrina, Carpenter, Shaboozi, Dutchy, Teddy Swims, Chapel, Roan, Benson, Boone and Ray. I mean, I know who I would go. I'm voting for, hands down, Growing. Ben.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Krongan, Binogan Bing. I think we gotta find a nickname for these guys because they're so good. We need to learn how to say their name correctly.

[Chrissy]

They're not new either.

[Brian Green]

No, they've been around for a while. While. But they are so fascinating. If you haven't seen Christina, maybe you can put a link to Spotify to. To their, like, you know, homepage. They are so good and fascinating. You have to watch these people play live. It's unbelievable. And the music Is Hep. Is.

[Chrissy]

I've seen them live.

[Brian Green]

Hypnotizing.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Okay, let's see. Pop vocal album. There you go. Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande. Day Short and Sweet. Sabrina Carpenter. The Tortured Poets Department. Taylor Swift. The Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess. And Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billy Eilish. That's Chapel Roan. The Rise and Fall of Midwest Princess. I say the Chapel Roan probably has to win one of these. And which.

[Chrissy]

Which the what category is?

[Brian Green]

Pop album.

[Chrissy]

Pop album.

[Brian Green]

Okay, so that's. That's my guess. Music video is Taylor Swift's Fortnite. Not like us. Kendrick Lamar, 360 Charlie XCX Houdini by Eminem and Taylor Swift by ASAP Rocky. I don't know. I've only seen two of these.

[Chrissy]

I was gonna say, I don't think I've seen the videos.

[Brian Green]

I've seen Houdini and Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar, so I'm gonna go. Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar. Rap song Carnival. Kanye west like that. Kendrick. Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us. Kendrick Lamar. Asteroids by Rapsy Rhapsody and yeah. Glow by Little Ronnie. I can't imagine. Yeah, Kendrick Lamar. That's right. Because I. I don't know. I think Kanye.

[Chrissy]

Ah.

[Brian Green]

I think Kanye's just done himself such a disservice by trying to be so fucking controversial to stay. Keep himself in the spotlight. And I get his game. I know what it's all about. Like, I don't actually think Kanye believes half the stuff he says. I think he says it. It because he know and he said this before because he can, right? You can either be a hero, like when you become a cultural zeitgeist like a Taylor Swift or Kendrick Lamar or Kanye or whoever, the Kardashians. You can either be a hero, right? You can try and walk the straight and narrow. You can try and be the. Try and walk the clean path and do everything right. But eventually people will find fault with you and they will knock you down 10 pegs, and then they will wait for you to get back up because America loves a good. Hit him hard.

[Chrissy]

Knock them down, Knock them down, get.

[Brian Green]

Back up again story. That's just. That's the story of America. It's in our blood. We love an underdog and we dislike and we take down people at the top. That's what we do. Check out what happened during the election. That's what we do, Right? That's how we do it. That's what we do. Mm. Kanye, I think, has made a conch. Or the other Thing you can be is you can be a he heel and everybody hates you until some people start to like you. And then some people like you because you're a heel. They like you because you go against. You swim against rising waters. You were an from the beginning. And then some people say, yeah, that guy, because he's an just like me. Right? It appeals to our darker side, to our worst senses. And I think Kanye has decided to be the heels. Like wrestling. You can either be Hokage or you can be Andre the Giant, or you can be the whatever, the Undertaker. I don't even know who these people are. But you can be. You can be one of two things, right? But the hero eventually becomes the heel. But the heel can eventually become the hero. And I think in some cases, people love that story. They love the heel becoming the hero eventually. And I think Kanye knows that.

[Chrissy]

I don't wish him ill will, but it's not really my thing.

[Brian Green]

I don't wish anybody.

[Chrissy]

No.

[Brian Green]

But at the same time, I don't. I just don't like what he's selling. I'm not buying what he's selling. You know what I'm saying? It's like Scott Disick, that guy from, you know what I'm talking about, that guy from the Kardashians. What a douche. But there are so many people that really like Scott Disick, and I don't know why. He sells hotel air fresheners for a living. That's what the guy does. I mean, do you know this?

[Chrissy]

No.

[Brian Green]

Have you seen the commercials? There's like a couple of like B list celebrities who are out there selling an air, like, freshener system that I think I did see the Waldorf Astoria uses. And that's the whole catch. And you too, you can get like a fancy hotel for fifteen hundred dollars plus, you know, five hundred dollars.

[Chrissy]

Did you see that? I've just seen it online.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

When you're selling NFTs, hotel air fresheners and, you know, meme coin for a living, you're a heel. That's what you are. That's what you're doing. But Scott Disick has a bunch of people that just, he's, he's. He's become legitimized in a lot of people's eyes as a bonafide star because he just. And I don't think Scott. I think Scott Distick is probably a nice guy. Somewhere down. Yeah, somewhere. Right. I don't know where that is. But somewhere down somewhere, you peel off all those Layers of skin. You can use some of my cream if you want to. If you peel off all those layers of skin. At the end of the day, I don't think Scott's a bad guy, but he plays one on tv. And eventually people came around to it and they were like, oh, yeah, that Scott guy. Because now expectations are low that he's going to do anything nice, nice, humane, or interesting. And when he does, people go, oh, maybe Scott's not that bad of a guy. He's my hero. Kanye's the same way. I think that's what he's doing. That's my opinion. But I don't think it wins him a Grammy Award. I don't think so either. I think that Kendrick Lamar takes it all home. Oh, Best metal performance. What? Oh, rock. Let's do rock album. Best rock album. Savior's Green Day, no Name. Jack White, Romance, Fontaine's DC Tanked. The Idols. Dark Matter by Pearl Jam, Hackney, Diamonds, the Rolling Stones, and Happiness Bastards, The Black Crows. And I've only. I haven't heard every single one of these.

[Chrissy]

I'm voting for Jack White. I'm a huge fan.

[Brian Green]

I'm gonna say that surprisingly, and I think they've only won one other Grammy, but surprisingly, I think Pearl Jam takes it for Dark Matter because I do think a lot of people believe it's their best work since Vitology, which is a long time ago. Yeah. But the Black Crows had a great album, too.

[Chrissy]

They did, too. Yeah. Those were all good. Green Day.

[Brian Green]

Great.

[Chrissy]

Great, too.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And I wanted to see if we could throw. Oh, I want to see if we could throw country in there, but I actually just Xed out of it, and I don't know. I don't know too much about country.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

CMAs have their own thing. Like, country has become such. So mainstream. But to me, unless there's some country music that I really, really like, I'm just gonna vote.

[Chrissy]

Dolly.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, there you go. Dolly. Or who's that other guy? Jelly Roll. Yeah, but Jelly Roll is really. Isn't country either. He's like rap rock almost, you know?

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And he's got a beautiful voice. That guy does. But I will say this country has become so mainstream that there's no difference to me between pop music and country. And a lot of it sounds very much the same. It's hard to decipher, but there is some country music that's still very country western, that's still like. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it, but I love it.

[Chrissy]

About new or old?

[Brian Green]

New. New and old. Yeah. Right. But I don't like that, like, twangy, like, you know, who done me wrong song kind of thing. Right. And I don't love the pop, like, you know, who done me wrong song. I like the more ethereal, real country western music.

[Chrissy]

Like a Johnny Cash.

[Brian Green]

Kind of like a Johnny Cash type. Or like the alt country, like, you know, rocky country, little twang where Wilco gets sometimes. You know, Wilco gets into sometimes.

[Chrissy]

Or like a Chris Stapleton or something like that, maybe.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Huh? Yep. But. But country has just become so mainstream that them having their own awards just seems like another Grammys to me, if I'm being honest. Yeah, it is. Remember, 94. 9, the ball had everything to do with that. Chrissy, you're responsible. Yeah. You're responsible.

[Chrissy]

Don't remind me.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. You know who really had to do something? Who? Who. Who's who's at fault here? Here. Billy Ray Cyrus. Honk that Hoochie Coochie woman, or whatever it was.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, the boot, Scoot and boogie.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no. That's right. But then right before him. Well, listen, there's a lot. I think. Who's that guy who's. Now his hairdresser is saying he. She slept with him.

[Chrissy]

Oh, g. Brook, I know.

[Brian Green]

That is a big drama going on.

[Chrissy]

That's a big drama.

[Brian Green]

It says the hairdresser when he was, like, attacking the hairdresser. He wears a wig.

[Chrissy]

Exposing himself.

[Brian Green]

Exposing himself. What is up with all have to show their dicks? Louise. Ck I mean, everybody has to whack off in front of somebody, show their dicks or what is what gets. What gets you off about that? Quite frankly, I want my dick to be the last thing a woman sees before we get intimate. Do you know what I'm saying? I actually would prefer that you see my dick after we have sex.

[Chrissy]

After the lights are off.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, well, after we have sex, like, long after it's done, that's when I want you to see my penis. Not just running around the hotel room flashing at you. I mean, come on, Garth, honestly, you're a multi trillionaire. Yeah. If you really want to do that, can't you, like, legitimately pay someone in the sexual health industry? Like a sex worker? Someone who actually gets paid to do that. Someone who. Who knows that's their job. Do you have to go doing that hairdresser? You don't even have any hair. What are we doing with your hairdressing? Honestly. Stupid. And. And God bless the woman. Seems like you know, a lovely woman. I've. I was reading about this story a couple months ago. I meant to mention it, but that's just really weird. I mean, it is.

[Chrissy]

It's very weird to me. Yeah, you don't have to do that. Don't do it.

[Brian Green]

All our heroes want to show their dicks. And that just makes me sad. That just makes me sad. All right, well, enough with Garthbrook anyway. Garth Brooks probably first one of the first cross. Dolly Part Martin could. Could be one of the first crossover artists. Kenny Chesney. No, Kenny. Kenny Rogers. Yeah. Islands in the Stream. There's a lot of, like, crossover, but I think it was that way down yonder on the Jackson. Alan Jackson. It's like back in the early 90s or late 80s. And that way down in yonder on the Hoot. She never knew what that river boat did do me. If I had a dollar for every time I wanted to slap one of my classmates for liking that song. It's like this dumb song about the dirty river. What are you doing? All right, we'll take a break. We'll be back.

[Joy Odley]

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[Brian Green]

No.

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[Brian Green]

I'm just watching a video of a couple people parasailing.

[Chrissy]

I know. I'm looking at them.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Which I will never do. Do ever. You couldn't pay me enough money to go parasailing. Have you ever been parasailing?

[Chrissy]

No. I want to, though. Well, no. Yes.

[Brian Green]

I have been parasailing off the back of a boat. Yes. Yeah. What'd you think?

[Chrissy]

It was okay. I did it when I was young.

[Brian Green]

I just to get up that High over water to know that there's probably a small chance that more than small chance that you're going to die being dragged behind a boat driven by some yahoos paying no attention to you. See, it all just seems like a risk unnecessary take. Now this comes from a guy who jumped out of a plane with another guy strapped to my back who also probably didn't care about me much. But I'm here's why and I'll tell you this story. And this is not funny story. It's just a story. When I was a kid, we had a friend and we got into high school and we used to go over to his house all the time. We hung out. And his dad was very cool kind of guy, you know, let you do whatever the you wanted to do. But he was a very nice man. And we got into high school, we learned one day like this, our friend was very upset that and we learned that his dad on a vacation in Mexico went parasailing and the parasail snapped. The rope snap came right back at him and did incredible damage to him. Like, incredible damage. Guy was in the hospital for weeks. And all kind. A little bit of disfigurement. All kind of scars. Many, many, many months of rehab and all just parasail. Just like a dude parasailing. Right. But this is not the first time that I have heard about this happening. I've actually heard about this happening since this situation. And it just seems to me like an unnecessary danger. Who was the who thought about tying a rope to the back of a boat and putting a parachute on it and zooming people around in circles? It seems like a dumb thing to do, honestly. It just does. Am I saying that right? Is it a parasail? Is that a parasail?

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I think it's parasail sailing.

[Brian Green]

It just seems like an unnecessary parachute that you're sailing strapped to and then you're sailing because it's a boat. So you're para sailing. Yeah, we see, we're smart, Chrissy. We figured this out. But that's just one thing that I will never do.

[Chrissy]

I want to go hang gliding.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's another thing that I'll probably never do because the hang glide fine. Hang gliding sounds cool. Looks wonderful. It does. Beautiful. But I hate heights, so I'm kind of out.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, you're out on a lot of stuff.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I'm out on the height. But also, Chrissy, there's no motor. You. If there's trouble, there's no one. You can't zoom yourself Back to the airport. You gotta find a. Hopefully a small patch of grass where you can land.

[Chrissy]

I think that's what you do anyway.

[Brian Green]

I know, but. Yeah, but don't do it. Like, what happens if the guy is, like, not, you know, loses control of his facilities, he has a heart attack or a stroke or he's drunk or he just doesn't like the wings? Well, how are you gonna fly it if the dude behind you is not.

[Chrissy]

Like, turn my wings.

[Brian Green]

You just turn your wings.

[Joy Odley]

Things.

[Brian Green]

Okay. It's that easy, I guess. All right, no problem. I've seen so many of those videos where things just go wrong. Like the one where they're just, like, doing circles on the way down. And then last minute, like, what. There was a famous video out there.

[Chrissy]

There was.

[Brian Green]

Who had a stroke or something. Like, the pilot had a stroke or something, and the guy was, like, trying to navigate it down. Don't do it. We don't have that kind of insurance here. Our insurance is good. We don't have good insurance. If we had good insurance, then do it. But we don't.

[Chrissy]

They do it like, two hours from here up in Chattanooga. So if I've wanted to do it for a long time, but I have not made the leap yet, so.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chrissy]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

It's not necessary. Please don't. Parasailing, Hang gliding. Yeah, any of that.

[Chrissy]

Airplanes.

[Brian Green]

Stick to airplanes. Fly in an airplane, go from A to B and just, you know, a zip line every once in a while. I can understand.

[Chrissy]

A zipline is a good thing.

[Brian Green]

A massage on a tall cliff overlooking the ocean. Ocean, fine. But anything where you have to, like, there's no motor and you're in the air hoping things work out, parasailing included. Just don't do that. We gotta. We gotta draw the line somewhere here. Because if you're gone, then who am I gonna do the commercial break with? I mean, there's probably other people I can do it with, but, you know, I don't like people all that much, so. And they don't like me. Between the. It's not gonna work out well for anybody in this situation.

[Chrissy]

All right, I'll think about. I'll reconsider.

[Brian Green]

All right. Good to call me before you do anything, sense into that head of yours. I don't know what you're thinking, running around around, cooking, frying stuff up.

[Chrissy]

See, I would never want to skydive. And you've done that, so.

[Brian Green]

I did that 20 years ago, before we started doing the commercial break and needing my mouth to make revenue I would never do it now. Never, ever, ever, ever. I would never consider doing that again. Well, not until my children are grown and the commercial break no longer needs me to make revenue would I ever consider doing that again. It's just dumb. I mean, it really is. It's. There's a small, small, small chance. A lot of people will write in and they'll say, say, hey, Brian, it's a really safe thing to do. Like by, you know, the amount of people that do it.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Very few get hurt, but we have known of people getting hurt at the same place where I. Where you did skydive.

[Chrissy]

Really.

[Brian Green]

Someone unfortunately bounced off the ground because her parachute didn't open and died just a couple of years ago. My little brother. One of my little brothers. I say little brother like he's little. Like I'm. I'm a grown man. But my younger brother. Thank you. My younger brother, brother. He used to do this all the time. He wanted to be a skydiving instructor, so he started skydiving. He got a membership to the club. He was out there every week.

[Chrissy]

You got to get your amount of hours in or whatever.

[Brian Green]

And he was skydiving three or four, sometimes five times in a day. He was kept on going up and doing this. But with every chance and with every time you do this, you increase the chances something's going to go wrong. And it's a parachute that you pack yourself. I don't trust myself to get to the grocery store without an incident happening, happening. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So I'm. I'm. And at this age, I'm not sure. And I say this age like I'm super old, but at this age, I'm not sure it's the wisest thing for me to be out there packing my own parachute and doing all that. And I certainly don't trust anybody else to do it for me. Because you just never.

[Chrissy]

I didn't realize you packed your own.

[Brian Green]

You have to. Of course.

[Chrissy]

Yes, of course.

[Brian Green]

Well, of course. Who's gonna pack it for you?

[Chrissy]

Parachute packer, the expert would pack it.

[Brian Green]

Well, when. The first time you do it. Yes. And probably the first. The first ten times you do it, somebody is there, of course, like, they're teaching you how to do it right. Making sure that you got everything like you. They just not going to let you fly up there. But after that, you know, you got to do it. It's all you. You got to do it on your own. That's the thing you do. So don't I, I would never do that in my old age. Older age, like that's for 20 year olds, not for 30 and 40 year olds. Then you got to start thinking seriously about what you're going to do with yourself. It should just think about, put. Take yourself through the steps of what you would do in an emergency situation with a hang glider. Nothing. You just fall to the earth. That's it. That's all you do is just fall to the earth and hope.

[Chrissy]

Will you glide to the earth if you glide?

[Brian Green]

If it's gliding. I'm talking emergency situation and there's no gliding happening on that hang glider. You see those people on those, those boards with the parachute, you know, para boarding, whatever they call it.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Is that para boarding where they have the surfboard and they're holding onto the parachute? Okay, you've seen those videos of like them flying up and into a building because the wind just takes them away and they're on the ground. I mean in the water, but they're on the ground. Kind of things can go haywire anywhere.

[Chrissy]

You also are being fed video after video of these things.

[Brian Green]

Yes, I am doom scrolling. I have a doom algorithm on my personal. And one of the things that now is constantly being fed up to me is there's a couple of, of, you know, those. I don't even know what you call slingshots, I guess is the best way to put it. The carnival rides that oftentimes you see near a beach town. Well, at least here in the southeast, you see in a lot of beach towns, they've got. It looks like a V. Two huge poles sticking up in the air and they're probably 100, 150ft in the air. And it's a. Two poles sticking like a V and then down in the middle with two bungee cords attached to it. It is a contraption, a device you sit in. Right. Oftentimes it looks like a ball almost. And you sit in it and they pull you down and they tighten those bungee cords and then they let it go and you fly up in the air and just bounce around for a couple minutes. So now the new thing I'm being served up on my YouTube algorithm, on my Instagram algorithm, is videos of people doing that and passing out and throwing up and screaming and yelling and oftentimes girls flying out of their shirts like, you know, like their, their boobs flying out of their shirts. How, who, how do, is that legal to send that video out there to the world? That's, that's what I'm curious About, like, when you're passing out, your boobs are flying out, you're throwing up all over yourself. Are you sign. Is someone signing permission for that to go out on the YouTube page? Or is it just.

[Chrissy]

Maybe it's part of the general waiver before you even get in that thing?

[Brian Green]

See, that's what I'm thinking. So I'm here to give a little public service announcement to everybody about this. Don't sign that wave. Read that waiver about the Instagram account, because I think there's a lot of especially young ladies that would probably think twice about going on that ride or signing the waiver if they knew that the video is going to be posted on Instagram for purposes other than general entertainment. Like, if you do it yourself because you thought you had a good time, great. If you know creepy Uncle Joe is doing it, smoking camels and drinking a monster energy drink, working the carnival ride in Panama City beach, loves to watch you fly out of your little bikini, that is a different story altogether. And I'm wondering. I'm really saying this as a public service because now that I'm a father, I think, like, that I'm like, who is allowing this? Like, would the woman whose boobs are flying out of that bikini, would she be the one that volunteered to have the. That rather unflattering in general video be thrown out there? Or is that some guy with a goatee and Cheeto dust on his fingers looking to get a few extra followers on his Instagram at his rv? I mean, come on, ladies, watch those writers. That's the releases that you sign. That said, we have a release here at the commercial break that we sign. And it often causes much consternation amongst celebrities because they hate, hate it. I don't know why we just don't change it. But anyway, it we hated. They had to sign this release, and they read that thing like a hawk. Like, every sentence becomes a big deal for them, you know, and in some cases, it's warranted. There's some celebrities who come in the door where we're like, okay, you know, you're a big deal. We're not. We get it. We'll change it. And then there's sometimes where it just, you know, I can Google a better form than this. Okay, jackhole. Like, anybody cares about you. You'd be honored if I put your face on a T shirt. Stop it. That's enough.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, people do get hung up on those.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And so I remember, I point to this. I remember a couple years back, maybe it was like six years ago. And my brother in law was going to be a pilot. He wanted to be a pilot. So we went and visited pilot schools. And there's a famous one down in Destin that a lot of people who fly planes go down there and they get their, they get their flight license for like commercial flying. And so we were there and we took a tour. I took him down there after a vacation. One time we shot over to Destin and we took him there. So we're there for a couple of nights in Destin, on at this beach hotel. And then we're walking down the boardwalk one day, lo and behold, there's a slingshot. And I'm like, all right, let's do this. Like that looks good. I did the slingshot.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I did.

[Chrissy]

Well, I mean, I was not expecting you to say that.

[Brian Green]

It's attached to something, right? I. I wasn't super scared about the slingshot for some reason. Didn't make me nervous because I watched it a few times and it looked pretty secure. They had like three different bungees attached to it. So I figure if one snap, there's another one to back up. And I've seen them snap also on videos online. It doesn't really do anything like, you know, you still survive or at least I think you'll survive. And so we did it. But I didn't pass out. But I like got lightheaded. I don't know, I like went out. I don't pass out. I didn't pass out fully, but I kind of like went in and then out for a second because of the G forces. Sometimes when you're going up, then you kind of, you know, it's like being in a fighter, you know, you see those videos that people, like normal people in the back of a fighter pilot, in the back of a plane with a fighter pilot. And then they pass out when they start doing the roles. That's kind of like the sensation. It's like so many G forces, your body just kind of gives out. And I wonder where that video is and if it's going to come to light one day. Because I signed a writer, I know I did. And I'm pretty sure that half the videos I see with these people passing out, puking and coming out of their tops is from that very same place. Slingshot. Yes. Because when I watch the videos, I see the same hotel that we stayed at is in the background and I'm like, that's the same fucking motherfucking place, dude. Cheeto Dust, dude. I remember the Guy, he was wearing, like, a corn shirt. And I don't mean, like the kind you eat. I mean, like the band core.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah. That's another type of person.

[Brian Green]

That is another type of Corn fans are another type of person. But listen, I knew a lot of people that were into corn when corn was a thing. I knew a lot of people.

[Chrissy]

Absolutely.

[Brian Green]

Corn. And they're out touring again, too, I think.

[Chrissy]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

I never really got into it. I say, speaking of videos of those types of things, I still have our video from when we went and did the simulated skydive.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you do? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's about as. That's about as much skydiving as I'll be doing. We went to indoor skydiving.

[Chrissy]

We did, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And that was a lot of fun, I do have to say, but I didn't get much air time because you got to, like, hold your body in a certain way and. Yeah, my body just doesn't. It's not all that responsive to my requests. I try sometimes. I'm a little uncoordinated, but a couple of us did really well, but not all of us. Yeah, I didn't. I wasn't someone who got a lot of hang time, but that's okay. It was a lot of fun. And do you know what? We bought, like, seven additional hours of fly time that same day we went there. And I have never used those cards. I still haven't to this day. We should go and do it.

[Chrissy]

We should.

[Brian Green]

We should go and do it, and then we should videotape it for the commercial break. All of our new clips that we're going to make. We should have one of those.

[Chrissy]

I'm in.

[Brian Green]

You want to go?

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right. Well, Gustavo's coming in town. Gustavo. Gustavo's gonna be here in the next couple weeks, so maybe. I know he's the only young guy that we know that can hold his body correctly to fly up there in the air. So maybe we should do. I think we went. Do we go for your birthday or Rachel's birthday?

[Chrissy]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

I can't. Somebody's birthday. Or maybe it was Gustavo's. Anyway. All right, well, listen, I just have a few other things to say, and then we're gonna let you go. We're gonna let you go. We're gonna let you go. You're no longer obligated to listen to the commercial break. Do me a favor. Do us a favor. Write in. Call in. We'd love to hear from you. 21-22-433-3TCB 212-433-3822. We're gonna start doing a Twitch Live episode every single week or every week that we're recording in 2025 in season number six. That'd be middle of January when we start that, and we'd love you to be a part of it. If you're interested in that kind of thing. Just let us know. Write us and tell us. Write us whatever. We'd love to hear from you. Also, we're gonna be live with brand new episodes every day. We're supposed to be here. We're gonna be here during the holidays. We're not taking off, so please tune in. 12 days of TCB, December 13th through December 25th through Christmas Day. Brand new episodes of the commercial break every single day. Can't wait for that, Chrissy. Super excited about that one. Oh, yeah, thanks, Brian.

[Chrissy]

Gather around the tree family.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Get your favorite Christmas sweater on and listen to Brian drone on for hours.

[Chrissy]

We're gonna make it fun.

[Brian Green]

It'll be fun. We'll have a good time. Also, there was one other thing, and now I can't remember what it was. Well, it was one of the. Oh, YouTube, please do us a favor. Go and subscribe to the YouTube channel. Soon every single episode of the commercial break will be available on YouTube and shortly after that on Spotify. That's right. Every video available on Spotify. Every episode of the commercial break on video on Spotify. We're super excited. We're testing it right now. We're throwing a couple here and there, so go see if you can find them. Of course, Spotify probably makes that easy. It says video here. Like I'm doing a scavenger hunt or something. Yeah, but we'll make all of those available, certainly by season number six, if not a little bit beforehand at the commercial break on Instagram. We'd love it if you would follow us for clips every single day of the week and then tick tock at the commercial break. I say that Tik Tok TCB podcast. Tik Tok Bitcoin. So There you go. TCBpodcast.com More information about the show. All the audio, all the video. Get your free sticker at the contact us button. All right, Chrissy. I guess that's all I can do for today.

[Chrissy]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

So I'll let you go and I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best you.

[Chrissy]

Best to you.

[Brian Green]

Best you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks again to Ron Funches for coming in this week. Go check out his episode and his until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say good goodbye, Sa.