Do Better Kari!

Summary

Episode Summary: "Do Better Kari!"

Release Date: August 14, 2025
Podcast: The Commercial Break
Hosts: Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley

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1. Family Dynamics and Miscommunication

Brian Green opens the episode by delving into a personal story about a miscommunication concerning his marital status. He recounts a conversation with his brother, Kevin, who mistakenly believes that Bryan and his wife, Astrid, are contemplating a divorce.

• [07:02] Brian Green: "I go, what? So then I go into the kitchen where Astrid is, and I'm like, Astrid, did you say anything to my mom about getting a divorce?"

This misunderstanding creates tension and highlights the complexities of family relationships, especially when external perceptions clash with reality.

2. Navigating Family Concerns and Mental Health

Bryan discusses his mother's anxious tendencies and how they impact family interactions. He reflects on instances where his mother misconstrues situations, leading to unnecessary worries.

• [09:26] Brian Green: "And then she's like, oh, thank God. I thought you were maybe dead."

He emphasizes the importance of clear communication within families to prevent misunderstandings and manage anxiety, especially in aging parents who may develop heightened fears.

3. Reviewing Community Interactions via Nextdoor

Transitioning to community matters, Bryan and Astrid explore posts from the Nextdoor app. They address various neighborhood issues, from scams to pet troubles, showcasing their unique chemistry and humorous take on everyday situations.

• Scam Awareness:
  [16:00] Brian Green: "Buy Payola coin today and get unlimited access to the mayor's office... That's not a scam? That's just someone trying to scam you."

• Pet Concerns:
  [19:49] Brian Green: "Do you think there's a service that comes and wipes your dog's ass? That is insane."

Their discussions not only entertain but also provide practical advice and warnings to listeners about common neighborhood scams and pet-related problems.

4. The Impact of AI and ChatGPT 5.0

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the advancements in artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT 5.0, and its implications on society.

• [53:10] Brian Green: "Chat 5 is a little less personal. It doesn't like communicate with you like it did before."

Bryan critiques the evolving nature of AI, expressing concerns about its role in mental health and human interactions.

• [56:20] Brian Green: "People are suffering from loneliness since the pandemic... AI becomes the default mental health engine or therapist. It's not designed to do that."

He argues that while AI tools can be beneficial for tasks and information retrieval, they should not replace genuine human connections and professional mental health support.

5. The Intersection of Technology and Social Behavior

Continuing on the theme of technology's influence, Bryan reflects on how rapid advancements are shaping societal norms and personal relationships.

• [62:07] Brian Green: "We are so far behind... The world is moving so fucking fast right now. It's unbelievable."

He draws parallels between current technological trends and fictional portrayals in media, lamenting the loss of authentic human interactions in an increasingly digitized world.

6. Creative Endeavors and AI in Content Creation

Bryan shares his experiences with using AI for creating podcast-related content, such as music and video editing, highlighting both the potential and limitations of these tools.

• [60:11] Brian Green: "It's a helper. And just like the AI music tool... I'll write the lyrics. It's fun. I'm just having fun with it."

He emphasizes the importance of maintaining creative control and ensuring that AI serves as an aid rather than a replacement for personal creativity.

7. Call to Action and Community Engagement

Towards the end of the episode, Bryan encourages listeners to engage with the podcast through social media, merchandise purchases, and active participation in the community.

• [52:50] Brian Green: "If that's of interest to you, just let me know and then I'll start working on it."

This segment reinforces the podcast's commitment to building a strong, interactive listener base while promoting upcoming content and initiatives.

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Notable Quotes

• Brian Green: "AI becomes the default mental health engine or therapist. It's not designed to do that." [56:20]

• Bryan Green: "People are suffering from loneliness since the pandemic... our brains are not bred to be solitary." [57:50]

• Brian Green: "Best friends are the ones that call you on your shit, not the ones that blow smoke up your ass." [59:45]

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Key Takeaways

• Family Communication: Clear and honest communication is essential to prevent misunderstandings within families.

• Community Vigilance: Staying informed about local scams and neighborhood issues can safeguard individuals and families.

• AI's Role: While AI tools like ChatGPT 5.0 offer significant advantages in task management and information processing, they should complement, not replace, human interactions and professional support systems.

• Maintaining Authenticity: Balancing technological assistance with genuine human creativity and connections is crucial for personal and societal well-being.

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This episode of The Commercial Break weaves personal anecdotes with broader societal discussions, offering listeners both entertainment and thoughtful insights into the interplay between technology, community, and human relationships.

Transcript

[Brian Green]

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[Brett Podolski]

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[Brian Green]

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[Chris Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

Boo Bing.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

No.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

Collectible? You bet your sweet altcoin it is. All proceeds go directly toward paying off the mayor's ever growing sack of legal bills, funding his new high rise luxury condo project, and maybe, just maybe, buying back that gold plated jacuzzi he lost in a settlement. So don't wait. Call now and we'll throw in one free bribe. A Crabapple bumper sticker.

[Brian Green]

What just happened?

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

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[Brian Green]

You are driving me crazy with your junk. Please remove it. Call Dale. Call Dale. Hi, neighbor. That's a text message to whoever hit my car in the parking lot Walmart and did not leave a note. I hope you're having a miserable day. Okay, there's one about the Starbucks cup. Where is that? To K who likes her Vinti Caramel macchiato from the Starbucks at this location. And got it today, Tuesday, the date at 8:05. You left your cup on the ground 5ft from a trash can. Do better, kids.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Lena Dunham]

5:30.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris Joy Hoadley. Best you, Chris. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Shoptcbpodcast.com it's now open. Even though you've already heard a commercial for it and you're likely already hear another commercial for it, we thought we'd let you know the Shop TCB podcast is where you can get your exclusive limited time merch and a free sticker with every single order. Don't let me persuade you. Be persuaded by the additional commercials I'll put in later on in the show.

[Astrid]

Nice.

[Brian Green]

Thank you. Thank you, thank you. We're going to.

[Lena Dunham]

We're going to 30.

[Astrid]

That always gets me.

[Brian Green]

It does. It gets me every time. So I, you know, mom and I, sometimes we go through a streak where we talk all the time. And then other times it can be a little hit or miss because I have many children and it's not because I don't love my mother. It's because I. Yeah, if she calls once and I answer the phone, then she's going to call five more times. And I feel like I have to answer the phone. But anytime I don't answer the phone, mom always thinks that there's trouble.

[Astrid]

Right. There's something wrong.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So I guess it was about, I don't know, about five weeks ago, four weeks ago, something like that. I get a phone call from one of my brothers and he's like, I think you were here in the studio.

[Astrid]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, hey, what's up, bro? You know, he doesn't usually call and he called twice and I was like, okay. I mean, he doesn't call frequently. We just talked the night before. And I was like, I wonder what's up. Hey, brother. Hey. Hey, man. Everything going okay? Yeah, everything's going fine.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

You sure?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, why? It's like you and Astrid at The house, everything's cool. And I'm like. And I. According to. According to me. Yeah. I don't know. Astrid always seems to have an angry look on her face, but I think that's the general look of marriage disdain. I don't think there's anything unusual about that. Why? I don't know. I heard from mom that you guys might be getting a divorce. What? I go, what? So then I go into the kitchen where Astrid is, and I'm like, astrid, did you say anything to my mom about getting a divorce? She's like, I haven't talked to your mom about anything. And I was like, huh? I go, what did she say? And he goes, well, she told me.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

That she hadn't heard from you guys.

[Brian Green]

In a while, and she had a.

[Chris Joy Hoadley]

Suspicion that you guys are getting a.

[Brian Green]

Divorce and not talking to her about it. And I'm like, kevin, come on.

[Astrid]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

I go, kevin, listen, I get it. He goes, oh, no, I'm just going to check on you. I'm like, thank you. I appreciate. I would have done the same thing.

[Astrid]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

But at the end of the day, no, I didn't give my mom the inside track on the divorce. The impending divorce between.

[Astrid]

She just went to the worst thing.

[Brian Green]

She went to the worst. I mean, the other thing is, like, the children are hurt, and, you know, we're not telling her, you know, someone's got cancer and we haven't told.

[Astrid]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Green]

She's. She goes on the. Like, her mind goes. But that's because her mind is very unique. And it can go. It's a little. It's. It's a little susceptible to paranoid. To paranoid thoughts. And that's why about five years ago, four years ago, when she started only watching Fox News, we had to stop her from only watching Fox News because I was like, mom, this is the place that was built for your brain. You got to turn it off. And she did. To her credit, she turned it off and turned back on Little House on the Prairie in qvc. That's right. Where no damage can be done. But. So the other day, she leaves me a message. Hi, Brian, it's your mom. And I was just thinking, did one of the kids get in an accident? And then they're at the hospital and you didn't tell me? And I'm like, oh, my God, Mom. So, you know, whatever, we're doing something. And then hours later, another message. Hi, Brian, I was thinking, maybe it's not the kids. Maybe it's you. Maybe you got in an accident and no one's telling me. Can you call me back and let.

[Rachel]

Me know that you're not in the hospital?

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, mom, yeah. No, So I text her. I'm like, mom, I'm okay. Like, I'm just busy. I'll call you. I'll get around to it. And she's like, oh, thank God. I thought you were maybe dead. And I'm like, jesus Christ, mom, stop it.

[Astrid]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

But I wonder if that's maybe just how you get in your old age when you're like, rumbling. Yeah, there's a lot of time, and some of that time can be on your own. And when the ones you love are not, like, right there in front of you, maybe you always suspect that something bad. When you're already prone to thinking bad things might happen, then, you know, the anxieties get to you. But so anyway, I say that to remind myself to call my mother and explain to her that I'm not in fact, getting a divorce. To my knowledge, you know, I didn't. Who knows, as you could walk in tomorrow with papers and I would be none the wiser. I'm kind of a dumb dumb when it comes to stuff like that.

[Astrid]

No, you guys just had a great anniversary.

[Brian Green]

We did. We had a nice anniversary. Thank you to a lot of listeners who texted in and said, happy anniversary. We had a nice anniversary. And by nice anniversary, I mean we got away for three hours and I'll take it. All right. It's been a long time. It's probably been months since we have reviewed Brian's next door posts, but I figured we'd give it a shot because I've collected a few and I think these are good ones. So you want to go through a couple.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

How many segments we can eat up with the Next door post because I think there's quite a few. But first I'll start off with a serious one. I was just telling Chrissy that as I open the nextdoor app to look at the posts I've saved right down the street for me. Right down the street from me. They cbp, the Dean Keynes Agency. They intercepted a package from Mexico that looked, I think, like a box of vodka. Like a box of liquor. And I guess they did some testing on the liquor and found out that the. The clear liquid inside was not, in fact, alcohol. It was liquid crystal meth. Pure liquid crystal method, which I've seen this in movies.

[Astrid]

Yeah, that's what I was saying.

[Brian Green]

And additionally in Breaking Bad and additionally in Better Call Saul, I think. But I Have never. I did not know that it was actually a thing that I know liquid cocaine is a thing because, you know, that's novocaine. Essentially it's liquid cocaine. But I guess I should have known that you can turn a solid into a liquid by doing something to it. Chemically, I'm not sure. I didn't go to that class ever. But that's just crazy to me. They found 20. Is it 20? They found 18 bottles of pure liquid crystal met.

[Astrid]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

So then they drop off the package, somebody grabs it, they bust down the door, they arrest the people inside, a couple of guys inside. They then find additional kilos of cocaine, tons of cash, you know, all kind of drug related paraphernalia, baggies and stuff to distribute the stuff. And then they find two cursors to chemicals, precursors or chemicals where you would mix it with the crystal meth and it would turn the meth back into a crystal form. Yeah. That's unbelievable.

[Astrid]

Well, I mean, it's already chemicals anyways, right?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's liquid at some point.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Right. I guess they just like ship it to you like that. It probably has, I don't know, it's got to have a smell. That's a big bust that, that crystal meth is made out of like drain cleaner and gasoline and stuff like that. I mean, cocaine is also made out of gasoline, ether, ethanol. But wow, that, that it's got to have an incredibly pungent smell to it. You would think. And that's not something you want roaming around the house. Imagine someone gets a hold of that, you're like serving it at the party, like, hey, what you got? Oh, cool, man. I'll take a shot of vodka. And then you're running around.

[Astrid]

God, I don't even.

[Brian Green]

Peachtree street with your dick half hard. I was gonna say stabbing yourself with a pencil.

[Astrid]

Yeah, it would not go well.

[Brian Green]

Listen, I'm one of these guys who like, if you're doing it and it's not hurting anybody else, God bless you. You know, you'll, you'll figure it out on your own eventually or you won't. But crystal meth is one of those things where I, I can see how getting 12, 18 bottles of pure liquid methamphetamine a mile from my house, out of the community, probably did some good.

[Astrid]

Yeah, and thank God next door told you about it.

[Brian Green]

And hey, listen, next door, I'm. I'm going to check it for news updates now because I have seen quite a bit of weird stuff, you know, up and down. I live in a Nice neighborhood. But then not too far away from me, there's a little corridor there. It's a very busy street. There's a lot of businesses. It's a, it's a commercial district. And that commercial district can be hit or miss a little bit like most suburbs around the world. And I've seen a few odd things here and there.

[Astrid]

Somebody with their dick half hard stabbing themselves.

[Brian Green]

Yes, I actually, I saw a guy pissing on the neighborhood sign a couple years back. There was the lady that parked in front of my house and started honking her horn incessantly. She was having a mental health crisis. There was the lady at Waffle House who was almost dead. I don't know what was going on with her. I think she had been on the tranq. Lots of. If you, if you. Like, if I'm coming home from a trip or going to get someone at the airport late at night or something, you can see some weird stuff. Yeah. People running across a six lane highway, you know, dodging traffic in a weird way. I went to the gas station a couple of weeks ago. I don't know why I was at Kroger or whatever. I was out late at night. I go to the gas station to put some gas in the car for the next day. And there was a girl who was tweet. She was outside of her car, but there was like a guy that was pumping gas. He looked like he was tweaking, but the tweak level on this girl was an 11. She was like shaking her head left and right, like looking at everything so quickly and like really, you know, doing this whole number, like almost like she was having convulsions. And you could tell she was just so high that her body had lost control of itself, you know what I'm saying?

[Astrid]

Had made a stop off at the.

[Brian Green]

That's what, that's what I was thinking. That's the connection that I made that wasn't too far off from where this liquid meth was. So anyway, we'll probably get killed by a cartel here soon. But anyway. All right, number one, scam alert. Everybody be on notice. There is a scam that is going around and someone, well, I'm not going to name the name, but someone because it's very unique. Name someone older, wants you to be aware of it. Scam alert. I despise scammers, so I want to bring awareness to a particularly elaborate one. You get a phone call from a number with a recorded message from Lt. Jones of the blah, blah, blah, law enforcement division. He asks you to call back a number. Do, do, do, do. She puts the number and Then choose extension 4. I have confirmed directly with the sheriff's office that this is not their phone number. If you call the number and it sounds legit, it's because the man is using a fake voice to impersonate an actual sheriff's officer. It gives you five options, but all lead to the same voicemail. Don't get scammed. Scam alert. Okay, what's the scam? Well, right, I called a voicemail. I'm waiting for the scam part of it. She gives no detail, so just don't call the phone number. Okay, got it. 10, 4. Listen, if a police officer calls me or I think a police officer's calling me, I'm likely to call them back. For whatever reason, I want to know at what time I'm going to get arrested. So I'm going to call them so I can put on the appropriate clothing and stick stuff up my ass. But listen to me right now. That's not a scam. That's just someone trying to scam you. You didn't go through all the steps. Yeah, and if you are hate scammers and you would have gone through all the steps, you could give us actual information. Not don't press five. I mean, come on, get it together. Hi. I don't normally complain, but I want to make people aware. I used a flooring company and it's the worst thing I ever did in my entire house. Poor quality materials. They used a leveler liquid and now that's leaking into my basement. It ran down the walls and some onto my artwork. No one returns my phone calls. I was going to post pictures, but I cannot figure out how. You've been warned. Please do not use them. No name attached.

[Astrid]

There's nothing.

[Brian Green]

No, they don't use anything. They don't touch any name. Shout out to the young man that works at the sanitation trucks. He left my garbage can out in the middle of the street for the 10th time this year. What's his name? Let's shout out the sanitation guy.

[Astrid]

They do do that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Looking for someone to come and mow Mow my yard, trim up my bushes. Would like to schedule something Tuesday at 2:00'. Clock. Thanks. Here's my. Here's my favorite one. Here's my favorite one. You ready for this?

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I need more information about Trump's immigration policy. Google.

[Astrid]

That was the.

[Brian Green]

I thought she was googling. She put Google like comma, Google. Here's a good one. I'm missing Two Birkenstocks. I was at the country club and took them off to go to the pool. If you see them, can you call me to parkinstock? Let it go. A little PSA for people up driving up and down this particular road. The elementary school gets out at 2:20, so if you can slow down around 2:00 clock and then you can speed back up at three, I've called the police to advise them. Okay.

[Astrid]

Oh my God. Can you imagine the phone calls that.

[Brian Green]

No, it's probably the guy who pulled me over. I think it's the same road actually. Spotted bird. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. Hey, that's not. You know, I've seen a lot of these posts. My dog, my little brand new shelter dog will not stop humping my leg. Does anybody have a cure for that? A cure for that? Yeah, get him a nut.

[Astrid]

What did people say?

[Brian Green]

Oh, that's a good. Hold on, let me see.

[Astrid]

The comments are always where the gold is.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Congrats. He must be very happy to see you. Sweet baby. Precious boy, so cute. What did you name him? Aw, those ears. What a cutie. Oh my God. Congratulations. Oh my God. Precious, thank you for adopting. Oh, here's one. Put a little lemon juice on your leg pants. I one time went to the vet and the vet said this was a sign of domination. He's trying to dominate you. Abort mission. I don't know who's luckier, him or you. You're right. The comments are where it's good. You rock for adopting a shelter dog. Good luck. Okay, that's good. A lot of Precious is. I think they're just looking at the picture and.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Da da da da da da. I nutted.

[Astrid]

What's that one said?

[Brian Green]

One said. Oh, hey buddy. Has your back straightened out from. Can I read that? I'm not gonna read that. That's a little too much. Okay, well, listen, there's a lot more. Why don't we take a break and then we can get to some other ones.

[Astrid]

I love it. I love the ones from your specific one.

[Brian Green]

I know. It's because it's just a bunch of old people. It's my mom who has too much time on her hands. Brian and Astrid are getting a divorce. Please help. All right, we'll be back.

[Rachel]

Let me do something Brian has never done. Be brief. Follow us on Instagram hecommercial break text or 212-433-3TCB that's 212-433-3822 visit our website tcbpodcast.com for all the audio, video and your free sticker. Then watch all the [e-mail] thecommercialbreak and finally share the show. It's the best gift you could give a few aging podcasters. See, Brian, that really wasn't that difficult now was it? You're welcome.

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[Brian Green]

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[Brian Green]

All right, we're back here doing the next door update on my very senior suburban next door app. Chrissy has like five. I just got shot at the Kroger.

[Astrid]

Yeah, downtown. So there's a lot. It's a lot different.

[Brian Green]

And I have. Oh, here's one. Attention to all those walking at night. You're scaring the neighborhood. Stop. You're scaring the neighborhood. You should not be feeding the deer. Chronic waste disease is a fatal neurological condition that can spread through saliva, urine and feces, particularly. Particularly at feeding sites. Why do you keep doing it? Who are you talking.

[Astrid]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Looking for amazing recommendations for a photographer specializing in a boudoir shoot and family photographs. Oh, and family family photograph.

[Astrid]

Specializ in both of those.

[Brian Green]

Yes, me and my wife are looking to have some sexy pictures done, but would also like some photographs for the Christmas card. Did you really post that? Dude, you're younger. I think you're trolling. Okay. Recommendations for an honest painter. I've had some troubles with the dishonest painter, apparently. Apparently. So, ladies, what brand named high quality tops do you wear? My nipples show in all my tops. And I am looking for high quality.

[Astrid]

What?

[Brian Green]

Is there a donation place? I might get some. Okay. All right. High quality at the donation place.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Hi, neighbor. You are driving me crazy with your junk. Please remove it. Call Dale. Call Dale. Hi, neighbor. That's a text message to whoever hit my car in the parking lot Walmart and did not leave a note. I hope you're having a miserable day. Okay, there's one about the Starbucks cup. Where is that? To Kari, who likes her venti caramel macchiato from the Starbucks at this location. And got it today, Tuesday, the date at 8:05. You left your cup on the ground five feet from a Trash can do better, Kari. I actually like that one. Shame em. Shame em.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I live on this street and you don't know how many times a week I pick up an entire bag worth of McDonald's trash.

[Astrid]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Church's Chicken trash. Waffle House trash.

[Astrid]

It's crazy just throwing their trash.

[Brian Green]

People who have no brains in their head. None whatsoever. Listen, you. That's the way you become, like a real shitty society real quick is if there's just trash all over the place. It's one of the differences between America and some other places is that we have an actual system that we dispose of waste. That's called put. If you have to use my trash can, I'm okay with that. Go ahead. I don't care. I'm not precious about that. Use my trash can. Clean up your dog shit. Put your stuff away. But don't be the asshole who just throws stuff on the ground right out of the car. Are you fucking kidding me? Listen, you go to Switzerland, and I know Switzerland is a different universe than, you know, Atlanta, Georgia, I get that. But you go to, like, places like Lucerne, Switzerland, there is not a piece of trash on the streets anywhere.

[Astrid]

I've seen the. I haven't been to Switzerland, but I've seen. I like to watch travel shows and different things and. Yeah, and other countries, they're very adamant, too, about the recycling.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they are. When we went to Lucerne and we got that apartment, when I. When Astrid and I were in love. Engaged, but she was finishing school. Oh, God, what a wonderful time. No kids, no nothing. We're living in Lucerne, Switzerland, in the middle of January, cold as shit. But we loved it. It was beautiful. We were living right downtown. We rented this little apartment. It's like basically in a little Ikea corner, is what it was. Yes. Oh, it was tiny. It was tiny. But we loved it. And it was for us, right? And we had this tiny little kitchenette. And then. So it was very small. It was like a mini kitchen. It had a burner, it had a sink, it had a toaster, it had a coffee maker, but you would pull out the little trash thing and it was three trash cans.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And so I go. So they had given us. The people we rented it from, they'd given us a few trash bags to start off with. Clean trash bags. Great. And then quickly, because the trash cans were tiny. They were like a foot and a half tall. Right? And so they. We. One day, we filled up all the trash. We unpacked, we put trash, we unpacked and we quickly learned by Googling with the. What the bags colors meant. And so then I take the trash out, and then while Astrid's at school, I'm gonna go and get some more trash bags. So I go and I have to walk the trash to the town center where they have all of the big, like, what you would see behind any KFC, McDonald's, the big dumpsters, right? But the dumpsters, there's like 12 of them. And I have to separate the trash additionally from the bags that are separated. Then I go to the store, and they don't have, like, you know, hefty. They have all of these different types of trash bags. But you must ask for them at the front of the store when you check out. And they will give you the number of trash bags that you are requesting, unless you want, like, a lawn bag. And they. They're extraordinarily expensive, and you can only use them for certain purposes. But you have to buy the trash bags and you have to name the size and the color that you want. So you would say, like, I need a G34, right? A green size 34. And they would give you one trash bag at a time. Or you could get three or four or five. But you paid for them individually.

[Astrid]

It was allocating them like that because.

[Brian Green]

They want people to be consciously aware of how much trash they produce, and they want people to really think about how they're doing their trash. And the system seems to work because it was. At least this town we were in was extraordinarily clean. I mean, really clean. But anyway, it was also, like, the center of the banking universe. So, I mean, there's a lot of money there. You know, I understand there are differences, but maybe we could, you know, think about it just a little bit more how much trash my family and I produce. It's an immense amount of trash.

[Astrid]

Wow, 30 kids.

[Brian Green]

I'm embarrassed to say it. When we had a family in town, we were filling up our entire trash can, our outside trash can that we rolled to the street to get the garbage can to pick up. We were. We're filling that up in half a week. We were doing, like, two bags every day of trash. That's amazing. That's an immense amount of trash. I am embarrassed. Next time, I'm gonna throw blue in there. She can eat it. She can eat it. Be careful. I was photographed coming out of Walmart the other day. Photograph attached. And they photo. They attached the photograph of their own truck. Who photographed you and sent it to you. And how threatening Is that when you know the guy is photographing you? Honestly, where did you get that picture? That's so weird. I was photographed coming out of the wall the Walmart the other day.

[Astrid]

And then. Photo attached.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Recommendations needed. I have a cricket in my neck. However, last time I got a masseuse, he ended up being creepy and sticking his hands near my private areas. I would like someone that does not stick their hands near private areas. Serious inquiries only. Serious inquiries. I'd like to inquire about not sticking my hands near your private area. Hey, this neighborhood. I wanted to share a feel good story about my mom. My elderly neighbor had. My elderly mother had a nasty fall and she ended up in the hospital for three days. But then I was able to order a whirlpool jet tub for her and look at her. She's doing great. Hold on one second, I'm gonna show you the picture. You ready? Yeah, let me see if I can. I want to get this as big as possible.

[Astrid]

That's gotta be fake.

[Brian Green]

It's not. It's not. I mean, maybe. I don't know. Kevin, I'm gonna give you this picture. Maybe you take a screenshot of it. She looks like she's drowning in the tub. It's a tub and looks like she's drowning in it. Spring cleaning. It's not spring. Thanks. Hi. I need a little help. My dentist, who I used to. Who I used for years, has retired and everything went to hell in a hand basket. Now I went for my. Oh. Now I went for my regular cleaning. And the new dentist has told me that I need to remove at least two of my teeth and get denture replacements. Like, you know, wooden replacements. However, my old dentist never told me about this, and I am suspicious that they are trying to take out the teeth just so they can make some extra money. Does anyone know how to check your teeth to see if they need to be replaced?

[Astrid]

So that's the question. Not even looking for a new dentist?

[Brian Green]

No.

[Astrid]

Yeah, she needs to know about.

[Brian Green]

Okay. To which one guy says, oh, this is so rude. But it's funny. Put a dick in your mouth. There's always one in the group. Go to Dr. Choi. He's amazing. He'll tell you if your teeth need to come out. How old are you? How old are you? You're looking for a date? Oh, first day of school. Best photo ever. I did like that one. I just saved that one because I thought it was cute. See? Where's another one?

[Astrid]

Oh, if you want to put pictures of Your children, though, up on the.

[Brian Green]

It's the back of his head. But I still agree with you. You don't want to push it. Yeah, My. My. My children don't get many. We don't put a lot of social media pictures of my kids. And when we do, it's only to the private group. Like, the group that we know. Like, you know.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Ten people, whatever it is. My little dog has started pooping all over the house. I cannot get her to control her bowels. I would like to use a diaper company to help her with her bowels. Does anyone have a recommendation for a diaper service that I could use for my dog? She would need to be cleaned twice a day. Do you think there's a service that comes and wipes your dog's ass? That is insane. You have been fed a bunch of lies. Because if that exists, I'm getting it right. No matter what the cost. Yeah, no matter what the cost. The racetrack up the street has problems. Be warned.

[Astrid]

What are they?

[Brian Green]

All right. Doesn't say.

[Astrid]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Doesn't say, good morning, neighbors. I am looking for someone to do some odd jobs for me and my kiddies. I do not have a car, but I'm getting desperate. I live in an extended stay, so I don't need cash donations. I just need you to come and help me out. What?

[Astrid]

What?

[Brian Green]

Are you asking for a job or are you looking for one?

[Astrid]

Yeah, I know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I worked as a merchandising manager for six years. I can take care of your bearded dragons, but I might need you to help me with my lawnmower.

[Astrid]

Your bearded dragons.

[Brian Green]

Bearded dragons. Why would you.

[Astrid]

What?

[Brian Green]

Who needs help with their bearded dragons?

[Astrid]

That's really sad.

[Brian Green]

I thought. Don't you just put a couple grasshoppers in there and let them go to. I hoping not to lose my room and I might be forced to give it away if I can't get my cat under control. Please let me know. I don't know. I think I. I think I just saved that one because it was interesting. Looking for recommendations on aluminum fencing. I'm trying to keep the neighbors. Aluminum fence. I don't think the aluminum fencing is going to help you with the neighbors. King Tut. A picture of Steve Martin.

[Astrid]

That was just it.

[Brian Green]

People are having so much fun. Yeah. Oh, there's one about. Hold on. I was alerted on my Facebook today that many immigrants have found our way into our community and are now raping people in the streets.

[Astrid]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

How do I confirm this is true? Please confirm. You are the Reason why people over a certain age should not be on Facebook. Because that is fucking crazy. You don't think that that would be like front page news everywhere? Because it probably would be. Oh, this guy says, call my mom. I love it. That's great. Spotted. Two men and a dog walking down the street looks and they name the street looks Very sketchy. Why are two men walking a dog together? Dun, dun, dun, dun. Plot twist. Spotted. Is this your dog? Picture of dog. My cat won't get off my keyboard. I keep on asking my cat to get off my keyboard, yet she continues to lay on my keyboard. Anybody have any tricks on how to get the cat off the keyboard? Let's see what the responses are.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Put her outside.

[Astrid]

Right. Close the door to the room.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You can get a box for about $5 a box. Oh, that's a good one. All right. There's lots more here, but I think we've gone through all the good ones. Needing electrician. I woke up this morning to find my clock not working in the kitchen. At first I thought that it was the clock, but then after, in further investigation, I found out the plug also doesn't work. I need an electrician to figure this out. I've attached pictures of the clock.

[Astrid]

Yeah. Why?

[Brian Green]

She needs clock repair, not electrical repair. She needs clock repair. That's what she needs. This next door, man, I'm telling you, this is the best app going since anything. Facebook. I did a little trolling on Facebook over the last couple of days. Yeah. As I wasn't feeling so good, so I was kind of laying and I thought, let me check in on Facebook and see what's going on. Nothing's going on. It's the. It's the dead Internet. It really is. It's all AI propagated bullshit. And the few people who are still remaining and posting. It's like a breath of fresh air when you see, like a post from a real person and someone you know and you're checking in with them and so. But it's just like the rest of it is all ads, AI driven content. Newspaper articles from newsweek.co.nz 2 to 2. So it's not really Newsweek. And they're making up all kinds of horseshit. I mean, Zuckerberg has just let that platform go fucking wild. I mean, hog wild. Facebook is a dead Internet except for groups. And apparently on dating, like, people are using it, young people are using it, and like the marketplace, I think the marketplace is hot. There's a guy, he calls himself, like King Dickie or something. Like that he's King Dicky and he's got a marketplace. And I have seen ads on television for his Facebook group where he sells things online. And then I know that there are a bunch of content creators over in the Far east who do nothing but TikTok, Instagram and Facebook videos where they show clothes and then they sell it through a affiliate link.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And they get millions and millions of viewers. And I was watching this video the other day. It's like a little side note, but I was watching this video. The content creators over in the Far east, like in China and in Japan and in South Korea, they are doing it so much different at an industrial scale than we are. They have whole camera crews that follow their every move around when they're an influencer. We're not talking like one can't one guy, you know, your friend, your buddy with a camera. I'm sure some influencers follow around with like, you know, a couple camera. Like Mr. Beast, a whole camera crew, like a professional camera crew. I saw one where a girl was walking down the street filming a reel of herself or a video of herself singing. There was a full camera crew, a couple of assistants, lighting people walking down the street with her with lighting. And then behind her was a production robot with all the production equipment, and it was following her. It was a robot. It was like. It looked like an old AV cart that you would find in a school. And it's just following her down the street. It's fucking unreal. It's unreal. And here we can't even get our zoom to work. I mean, it's like. It's unbelievable. We are so far behind.

[Astrid]

Yeah, no, Jeff. Jeff watches this one every once in a while. This guy that sells records and that thing has. Gets a lot of views.

[Brian Green]

Listen, the world is moving so fucking fast right now. It's unbelievable. The robot technology, the AI chat, GPT chat, TCB, just came out with 5.0. And I will tell you now, having used it for a while, having hated it, having railed against it.

[Astrid]

Yeah, people, that's what I've been seeing.

[Brian Green]

Having told you that it was mostly just hype chat. 5.0 is a different level. It's a different.

[Astrid]

Oh, I was seeing. I was seeing people were giving backlash to that version that just came out.

[Brian Green]

They think it's, like, more important. Well, we'll talk about it in the next. Let's take a break. And we'll be back.

[Rachel]

Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on tcb. And just like you. I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears. And I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail. Speaking of mail, get your free TCB sticker in the mail by going to tcbpodcast.com and visiting the Contact Us page. You can also find the entire commercial break library audio and video just in case you want to look at [e-mail] Want your voice to be on an episode of the show? Leave us a message at 212-4333. That's 212-433-3822. Tell us how much you love us and we'll be sure to let the world know on a future episode. Or you could make fun of us. That'd be fine too. We might not air that, but maybe. Oh, and if you're shy, that's okay. Just send a text. We'll respond. Now. I'm gonna go check the mailbox for payment while you check out our sponsors and then we'll return to this episode of the commercial break.

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[Astrid]

Here's your check.

[Brian Green]

Whoa. When did I get here? What do you mean? I swear it was just moments ago that I accepted a great offer from Carvana online. I must have time traveled to the future. It was just moments ago.

[Astrid]

We do same day pickup.

[Brian Green]

Here's your check for that great offer. It is the future. It's. It's the present.

[Astrid]

And just the convenience of Carvana.

[Brian Green]

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[Astrid]

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[Brian Green]

I almost fell over. I went to go grab something and I almost tipped right out of my seat. It reminded me of a video that I recently saw of a group of old high school friends that got together all in their 70s. Like mid to late 70s. They all got together. The remaining ones. The ones that are still alive and still with us. All got together to take a couple of foot. They had like a high school reunion. They took a photograph. So there's like 40 of them. There's most of the women are standing up and most of the guys are sitting down or kneeling or something. Right. So they can show the women. It's on this little hill. Not a big hill, just a little hill. And every guy that managed to get up off the ground had to help three other guys get off the ground. It was the funniest I've ever seen. I forget the song that was playing, but it was so funny. And my new favorite meme on the Internet, my new favorite sound effect is the one that goes. Come with us on a Jet2 holiday. Have you ever. Have you seen that one? Oh, God, it's too much. You'll know when you see it. I'll show it. Hey, I don't want to get a dog. Okay. I was wanted to tell you, the audience, I wanted to ask you a question. Okay. We're going to do part two of the Rally la. And don't know exactly when we're going to get to that, but we're going to get to it. Maybe we'll get it out this Sunday. We'll try our best. But here is my question to you. If I did an entire episode with all of the crabapple bits back to back and some new ones thrown in, because now we've got, I think chat tcb has counted about 190 of them.

[Astrid]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And most of them are less than a couple of minutes. Like, you know, most especially in the recent years, they're very short. If I did that, would you be interested in listening to a bonus episode that's just Chat tc, that's just crabapple wshit bits. If so Texas.

[Astrid]

I love that idea.

[Brian Green]

I think it's a good idea.

[Astrid]

I would definitely vote for that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I think it's a good idea. And then also I'm thinking about putting a place on the website where you can just access the.

[Astrid]

The crab.

[Brian Green]

The crab apple bits and that way you can go and fiddle around and around and all that other stuff. So if that's of interest to you, just let me know and then I'll start working on it. And when I have the time, I don't know, it'll probably take me six months to do that. Also, I did figure out how I can distribute our music to. To Spotify. So there you go. Oh, I forgot to play this song. Oh, okay. We did Rally LA TCB tv. We did that over the weekend on Sunday. Due to technical issues, we had to release it on Sunday. Not live or streaming. You got it. I understand. Everyone knows. Okay. But I decided to make a song to go along with TCB tv. I wrote all the lyrics. Took me a while to figure out the right vibe. I. I was asking you to do 90s sitcom television show, and I think we came up with a good one. Here it is.

[Lena Dunham]

So you've loved, you lost the had some along the way.

[Brian Green]

And know that at times it kind of doesn't unders. Like the words can get a little weird. So it's like you love, you've lost, you've had some along the way. You've had some fun along the way is what I tried to get it to say, but it doesn't always work.

[Lena Dunham]

So you've loved, you lost a had some along the way. Life gives you lots of lacks, but you're in your own way. You take the good and the bad, but you don't ever win because God hates you and you are full of sin.

[Brian Green]

Nice.

[Lena Dunham]

So grab your good book and rally the family. It's time for TTV tv.

[Brian Green]

That's right. TTC tv tv.

[Lena Dunham]

We love our TCB tv. We love our TCB tv. So you played by the rules. You did it all right. But you're still in the basement and alone all night.

[Brian Green]

That's funny.

[Lena Dunham]

You paid your dues, you cleaned your.

[Brian Green]

Room.

[Lena Dunham]

But your mom still makes lunch and you sleep till noon. So grab your pants and take a seat. It's time for GCB tv.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Lena Dunham]

We love our TCB tv.

[Brian Green]

I love it. I love it.

[Astrid]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's good. It's a good one. Good one. Chat. Tcb. Good one. I like it. I thought it was good. I'm just trying to get that vibe of, like.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, listen to the guitar solo.

[Astrid]

They've got a couple of those.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Astrid]

The piano going.

[Brian Green]

It's catchy.

[Astrid]

It is.

[Brian Green]

I can see how people are pissed at AI Music now. I'm using it for a very specific purpose. But.

[Astrid]

That'S like a little Billy Joel.

[Brian Green]

It is. Yeah. But you could also see this being like a 90s sitcom.

[Astrid]

Yeah. Good job. Good job, you and Good job.

[Brian Green]

Thanks. Good job. AI. Yeah. This is the one where I really. Besides the song that I wrote for Esther, this is the one where I really had to dig. I had to go through a million different iterations because it kept on. I don't know. For some reason, I wanted to sound like a mix between Kenny Loggins and like, you know, disco. And it just wasn't. It wasn't vibing.

[Astrid]

Right. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And then I heard that one and I'm like. I could see that being like Friday night on abc.

[Astrid]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Anyway, so we do this whole. You know, we do the whole. With Rally La and I with Ratchet. We do all this. All this extra work. None of you listen. You and I just got. I had in my idea in my head that we should do these Crab Apple.

[Astrid]

I like that. I like that a lot.

[Brian Green]

And that we should also Knuckles in.

[Astrid]

The Crab Apple universe.

[Brian Green]

Knuckles is in the Crab Apple universe. All of it's in the Crab Apple universe. I think Crabapple comes up like episode number three or four. And then it's always been Crabapple. It's always been Wshit or WF. WFU's Wfuku. Wfuku was season number four. Wfuku. Any who just thought I'd say that about that. So. And then also what. I'm gonna put the songs on Spotify so you can. And stream them. Even though I'm not in love with Spotify. I'm going to put the songs on Spotify.

[Astrid]

I want to hear mine again.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I think I have yours right there. I think I have yours in there. That was a good one too. So what else was I going to say? I had something else to talk about. What did I say we would talk about when we got back from the break?

[Astrid]

AI and 5.0.

[Brian Green]

5.0.

[Astrid]

Because I've been hearing a lot of chatter about people saying it's not. Doesn't have the personality it used to have or something. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

So I read the same reviews, criticisms of Chat5 and Chat5, apparently to some people is a little less personal and a little bit more task mastery. It's not as smokey up your assy kind of thing. It doesn't like, communicate with you like it did before. Each version has their own little picadillo and it. It seems to have its own personality, if you will. Even though it's not really a personality, it's just mimicking a personality. But 5.0 is much faster. It's much better at finding timely topical information and is much better at doing tasks and multiple tasks at the same time to quickly come to an answer. So let me give you an example that it gave me. I said, what's different with you?

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

It said, before I could get up to 20 episodes at one time, I could quickly scan 20 of your episodes and pull out information, themes, blah, Blah, blah. But I'd have to do that 20 episodes at a time. Now I can do up to 250 at a time. So I can do like a third of our library just in a snap of a finger and figure something out for us if we needed to figure out what the tone and texture of something was. Chat's getting really good. Part of me thinks it's okay that it's a little less personal.

[Astrid]

Jeff and I were talking about it saying, well, maybe it's because people were using it for mental health stuff or talking to it like it is a person.

[Brian Green]

Let me tell you why I think AI is getting into the realm of scary for a lot of people. And I can't say that I will never fall victim to this either because I use Chat TCB four times a week, five times a week. And I'm using it for projects mainly related to the commercial break, cataloging and figuring stuff out, looking for themes and, you know, what was funny here and how do we make it better there? But people are suffering from loneliness since the pandemic. They're more disconnected than ever. They're more alienated than ever. We're all more jealous than ever. The world seems to be a great place if you're a certain type of person with a certain bank account and you live in a certain place, but otherwise you're forgotten, you're lonely. And people don't know how to connect in real life anymore. There's a lot of teenagers and people that are younger that don't know how to connect because they've been nothing but online since almost the day that they were born. We're at that time 30 years in and, you know, there's some early 20 year olds and late teens who just don't know how to interact with other human beings. I know some of them, they don't know how to talk to other human beings. Yeah, they don't even know how to look you in the eye or say hello, but they know how to scroll on their phones the entirety of the time that they're with you. And that's the only world that they know. That is a recipe for mental health disaster. Because our brains are not bred to be solitary. We are social creatures. So when all you know is online and you're feeling lonely and you're feeling isolated, then what you know is whatever's talking back at you. And so either that's a person on the other line, which I still don't think is extremely healthy, but at least it's another person or it's chat or some version of chat, some other version of AI and the they're so conversational that it's easy to see how someone in mental health distress can be like, I'm just not feeling good today. I'm feeling depressed. My boyfriend doesn't. We just broke up. I'm having trouble with bullies at school, whatever the situation is. My mom died, you know, some. I just feel like, yeah, I'm scared the world's moving too fast. And how chat becomes the default mental health engine mental at the therapist. It's not designed to do that. And I think in certain limited circumstances with oversight by actual therapists, maybe it's a good idea, right? Like, hey, you go to therapy and they say, hey, you're suffering with seasonal depression or you're suffering with acute depression because of this situation you're going through right now. Death in the family, a breakup, a divorce, you know, whatever it is. So in conjunction with the therapy we're doing here online, I, I'm. I would like you to use chat TCB to learn how to do this type of meditation or walk you through the steps of grieving or whatever. Right. With guidance, but on its own.

[Astrid]

Right.

[Brian Green]

It can go anywhere and it can do anything and it can. We have experience with this, just using it ourselves. It will tell you basically you're a God. It will explain to you that basically you're a God and it will reaffirm any positions that you have. Regardless of how you treat it, it will always act like a very excited puppy dog to give you any information to blow smoke up your ass when that's maybe not what you need all the time. Maybe you need somebody to say, hey, you need help? Or hey, get out there and go to a bar, you know. Prof. G, the guy that I, I just, I just think he's so smart. He's been saying he's been on this tangent. Young kids need to go out to bars and they, to get more drunk and they need to interact and make a few almost life changingly bad decisions because that's how the world works. You have to get out there and experience it and you can't do that behind a screen. And so I think it's okay that chat 5 is a little less personal.

[Astrid]

I do too. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because then people see it less as a person and more as a tool. It's just a tool. That's all it is. That's all it will ever be as long as we keep it confined to that box. And that's up to us individually If I start thinking of Chat TCB as my buddy, as my friend, as the person who hypes, as my hype person, then. Then we're screwed. Then I'm just a dude who's delusional. Essentially, I'm a delusional dude. And now they have all of these programs that get, you know, you can have an AI boyfriend or girlfriend, and they look very real and they sound very real, and there's video to go along with it. Why not? Why wouldn't you think that? It was just, you know, this is my new girlfriend, you know, 5 foot 10, blonde, buxom, you know, does anything I want her to, anytime I want her to. That's no fun. You gotta have someone that, you know, hates you and despises your every move. Then you know you're really alive. That's how you know you're alive. Right, Chrissy?

[Astrid]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

Right. Chrissy and I are universally in agreement on this. If someone doesn't disdain you at least four days a week, it's not a real relationship. You know, the best friends are the ones that call you on your shit, not the ones that. That blow smoke up your ass. That's just the way that it is. So anyway, chat 5, however, task oriented, when I ask it to do tasks, things that I needed to do, it doesn't.

[Astrid]

It's a helper.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's a helper. And so. And just like the AI music tool. Listen, if I could, I would play all those instruments and make that song myself if I could. But I can only play a couple of instruments really poorly, and I don't need any more equipment in this studio. If I start getting music equipment, my wife is gonna fucking murder me. I mean, I swear to God, she is. She's gonna murder me. So it's best that I just stay in my lane, do the podcast and we, you know, manufacture some music. I'll write the lyrics. It's fun. I'm just having fun with it. So anyway, that's. That's my opinion, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[Astrid]

Do it.

[Brian Green]

What do you think?

[Astrid]

I think you should.

[Brian Green]

All right. Okay. All right. I can see that sign Chrissy's giving me. She's like, okay, Brian, I've had enough of your talking today. Time to go.

[Astrid]

No, well, I know you do use Chat more than I do. Like I said, I just use it for basic little stuff like recipes and gardening tips.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, no, I use it for more complex cataloging, essentially.

[Astrid]

Interested? I like to read. I Read a lot of news about all the AI stuff. You know, I subscribe to that newsletter I've sent you a couple times.

[Brian Green]

I got it. I got it. And AI could be useful in, like, you know, cutting up clips and stuff like that, you know, But I don't know. It's expensive to get that video software. It's still expensive. And it doesn't work all that well. No one. No AI, seems to really understand our sense of humor. I tried one of those video clipping services, and it never seemed to get the punchline. It was always just me talking for three minutes.

[Astrid]

Okay, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Which is largely the show. But maybe there isn't a punchline. Maybe I'm the. Maybe I'm the one who's delusional. But it's. Anyway, you get it, all right? Be. Be wary of the AI, kids. Be wary of the AI. It's not all good. It's not all bad, but it's not all good. And you'll see in the new rendition of Aliens just how scary it all is.

[Astrid]

God, now I don't want to watch it now.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, if you're. It's. It's weird because, like, four companies, technology companies, own the entire world, and it's broken up into segments like normal north and South America, you know, Asia. It's weird. And they. And one of them's like a Mark Zuckerberg type, young kid with curly hair. It's a little too close to home. And it's just 100 years from now.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And if we keep on having UFC fights and selling Trump coin, it's gonna go that way quicker than we ever expected. God damn. Did Idiocracy have it right?

[Astrid]

I mean, it's so crazy, right? It is so crazy. Crazy to look back on that movie.

[Brian Green]

It had it, right. And then also, didn't Back to the Future have Trump as the president? Oh, no, it was Biff that was. Biff is present.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah. But something else. The Simpsons or something.

[Astrid]

Yeah, no, it's true. I was reading that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And they all had, like, big, you know, shiny lights on the White House and, you know, by now it's. It's all true. It all came true anyway. 212-4333 tcb212 4333822 questions, comments? Concerns content ideas shop tcb podcast.com get your pre order your merch now. Free sticker with every order. Also at the commercial break on Instagram TCB podcast on tick [e-mail] the commercial break for all the episodes on video the same day they air here on the audio. Chrissy that's all I can do for today.

[Astrid]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I love you.

[Astrid]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

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

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