Fare Thee Well TCB!

Summary

The Commercial Break Episode: "Fare Thee Well TCB!"
Air Date: February 6, 2025
Hosts: Brian Greene & Kristen Joy Hoadley

Episode Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break finds hosts Brian Greene and Kristen Joy Hoadley in peak, irreverent form as they riff on "farewell tours"—both in music and in their own podcasting shenanigans. While joking about the endless cycle of “final” tours by acts like The Eagles, they draw parallels to the tongue-in-cheek uncertainty of their own podcast's longevity. Beyond the main theme, they journey through pop culture detours: Super Bowl ticket prices, celebrity scandals, the illusion of status in Atlanta, misheard song lyrics, and a deep-dive on farewell tours from legacy bands. The improv-comedy feel is as raw and playful as ever, maintaining the show’s signature chaotic-yet-familiar warmth.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Endless "Farewell" Loop & Podcast Parody

• The concept of farewell keeps looping back: The Eagles' famously repeated farewell tours lead Brian and Krissy to mock the concept.
  • Brian: “The Eagles also have done six farewell tours, and yet they have yet to say farewell.” (00:00)
  • Krissy: “I know. I don't know why anybody says it anymore.” (00:50)
  • They jokingly claim each episode could be their last—"consider every episode from now on the next episode, because that's our farewell." (01:11)

2. Super Bowl Hype, Ticket Prices & Location Oddities

• New Orleans' place as host and declining Super Bowl ticket prices spark theories:
  • Higher Vegas prices last year, fewer NOLA hotel rooms, potential political/incident deterrence, and economic worries are discussed.
  • Brian: “It is now the least expensive super bowl ticket in a decade, inflation adjusted ... prices are dropping out.” (03:49)
  • Krissy: “I was wondering if the fact that it's in New Orleans has anything to do with it.” (04:31)
• NOLA love/hate: The two reminisce about wild Jazz Fest parties, the city's “street soup”, and the divide between Bourbon Street and more soulful areas like Frenchman Street.
  • Brian: “Bourbon street is like the Cheesecake Factory of booze streets. Do you know what I'm saying?” (06:03)

3. Marcus Jordan Scandal & Real Housewives Tangent

• Michael Jordan’s son Marcus gets arrested for cocaine possession and fleeing an accident.
• Krissy provides the Real Housewives connection: Marcus dated Larsa Pippen, ex-wife of Michael’s teammate Scottie Pippen—setting up “twisted” drama.
  • Brian: “That’s a twisted affair. Yeah, that is a twisted affair.” (10:20)
  • Krissy: “They had a podcast together and stuff like that.” (10:28)
• They riff on Atlanta’s cultural phenomenon: people claiming fancy titles with little basis.
  • Brian: “Atlanta is full of people who have jobs that they never had.” (13:39)

4. The Great Atlanta Illusion: Rented Wealth & Fake Status

• Conversation about “producers” and “entrepreneurs” whose wealth is all surface-level, often rental-based.
  • Brian: “This is the kingdom of the non-existent job here in Atlanta.” (14:39)
  • Krissy: “The rental business here in Atlanta’s gotta be huge, booming. I see cars, homes, jewelry, all of it.” (15:02)
• Brian tells a story about being inside Atlanta’s “paper tiger” world, exposing the illusion behind high-end appearances and reality TV “wealth”.

5. Misheard Lyrics: Comedy, Nostalgia & Family Favorites

• Inspired by his kids’ mishearing “September”, Brian and Krissy dive into famed mondegreens (misheard lyrics).
  • Brian: “What are some of the most famous misheard lyrics? Because we do this all the time.” (23:41)
• Memorable misheard lyrics discussed:
  • "Feel the beat of the tangerine” (should be tambourine) — Dancing Queen by ABBA (26:49)
  • “Let’s pee in the corner” vs. “That’s me in the corner” — Losing My Religion (27:15)
  • “Every time you go, you take a piece of meat with you” — a family favorite misheard lyric (25:14)
  • “Wrapped up like a douche” — Blinded by the Light (38:32)
  • “And you say coleslaw” — Time After Time (39:26)
• Krissy: “It’s whatever you hear at the time.” (39:39)

6. Sphere Residency Hot Takes: Who Belongs?

• The Eagles' Vegas Sphere residency feels mismatched to Brian and Krissy; they argue bands with stronger visuals would suit the venue better (e.g., Pink Floyd, jam bands).
  • Brian: “I just don’t think there’s only so much Hotel California… only so many images you can put to that.” (42:25)
  • Krissy: “I went out there to see the Dead... then the Eagles, and I was like, yeah, I don’t know.” (43:25)

7. Legacy Band Farewell Tours: Truth or Ticket Scam?

• The cyclical nature of “last” shows: Ozzy Osbourne, Steven Tyler, even the podcast itself.
• Sharon Osbourne’s claim that Ozzy’s next show will be his last is met with skepticism.
  • Brian: “I think this is the fifth time that Ozzy Osbourne is going to do his last concert… but this time she says full stop, it’s his last appearance. I doubt it, we’ll see.” (51:06)
  • Krissy: “I know. I don't know why anybody says it anymore.” (52:11)
• The tradition of legacy acts never really saying goodbye, like the Eagles, who always seem to be on another farewell run.
• In true comedic honesty, they parody the concept: “this might be the Commercial Break’s farewell show. Or we, Chrissy and I might be doing this until our 98th birthday.” (54:46)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Farewell Tours (00:00):
  Brian: "The Eagles also have done six farewell tours, and yet they have yet to say farewell."
• On Bourbon Street (06:03):
  Brian: "Bourbon street is like the Cheesecake Factory of booze streets."
• On Atlanta's Imaginary Jobs (14:39):
  Brian: "This is the kingdom of the non-existent job here in Atlanta."
• On Misheard Lyrics & Family Faves (25:14):
  Krissy: "Every time you go, you take a piece of meat with you. She was like, why did they say that?"
• On Real Housewives/Marcus Jordan Drama (10:20):
  Brian: "That’s a twisted affair. Yeah, that is a twisted affair."
• On Ozzy’s Farewell (51:06):
  Brian: "I think this is the fifth time that Ozzy Osbourne is going to do his last concert... but this time she says full stop, it's his last appearance. I doubt it, we'll see."
• On Podcast Longevity (54:46):
  Brian: "This might be the commercial breaks farewell show. Or we, Chrissy and I might be doing this until our 98th birthday."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00 – 01:15: Opening parody of farewell tours, The Eagles, self-referential podcast jokes
• 01:32 – 04:39: Super Bowl tickets, New Orleans, the “Cheesecake Factory” of street life
• 09:00 – 13:46: Marcus Jordan scandal & Housewives crossover
• 13:47 – 18:40: Atlanta’s “producer” culture and renting wealth
• 22:27 – 25:55: Dance parties & misheard lyrics in pop culture
• 27:00 – 39:40: Rapid-fire comedy on misheard lyrics from classics & modern hits
• 41:34 – 44:59: Sphere residency opinions, Eagles vs. Grateful Dead & EDM acts
• 47:28 – 52:00: Ozzy and Aerosmith last tours and industry hypocrisy
• 52:11 – 56:17: Mocking the concept of farewells for legacy bands and the show
• 56:17 – End: Closing (avoiding outro specifics), reflection on podcast and calling for listener engagement

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Flow & Tone

The episode has the lively, wandering banter and raunchy irreverence familiar to TCB fans, full of self-deprecating jokes, spontaneous tangents, and satirical social commentary. The chemistry between Brian and Krissy is friendly and unpredictable, bouncing between personal anecdotes, pop culture, and self-aware mockery of both themselves and the broader entertainment world.

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Final Note for Listeners

If you love comic takes on pop culture, don’t mind nonlinear, slightly chaotic discussion, or want to hear two longtime friends riff on everything from “farewell tour” absurdities to family misheard lyrics, this episode delivers. As always, every episode just might be their last... or at least until the next one.

Transcript

[Brian Greene]

When I came home last night, you wouldn't make love to me. You fell fast asleep. You wouldn't even talk to me. You said, I'm so crazy. You said, I'm so crazy, girl. Coming home intoxicated. Give it up, girl. I can make you feel all right. Come on and give it to me, baby. Give it up, girl. Give it to me, baby, Give it to me. Give me that stuff, that funk, that sweet, that funky stuff. On this episode of the Commercial Break, the Eagles also have done six farewell tours, and yet they have yet to say farewell.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. I don't know why anybody says it anymore.

[Brian Greene]

Don't say it. Don't say it. Just say sayonora for now. Right? We're leaving.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We're old. We might be gone. Yeah, you might want to check us out again.

[Brian Greene]

Hey, listen, this is the commercial breaks farewell show. For all I know. Could be the commercial breaks farewell show. As a matter of fact, every ep, consider every episode from now on to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The next episode, because that's our farewell.

[Brian Greene]

When will that happen? I don't know. Tomorrow, maybe. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Yeah. Cows and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is the mosque to my Sanders. Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you.

[Brian Greene]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. Just want to shout out to Andrew Callahan, Channel 5 News. Dear Kelly, the new documentary that has been self produced, directed and funded by Channel 5 and Andrew's Media company. Go check that episode out Tuesday, the Tuesday infomercial. A lot of positive feedback about that conversation.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I enjoyed that interview. Interview.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. I asked some of our, of our listeners ahead of time. I just sent them a quick note like he, you know, I know we don't normally talk about politics, but if I was to have an interesting conversation, not specifically bashing one, you know, politician or another, but just about the, you know, the, how people get the landscape. The landscape and how people, you know, fall into extremism and, you know, the kind of the closely or the hotly divided country that we have right now, would you be interested in that conversation? And most people said yes. And a few people said, and not really interested in all that, but all the pot. The feedback was positive. And they said, well, Andrew did a good job. We did a good job of keeping away from the bashing and just having a conversation about the nature of our culture in 2025. So please go listen to that episode and then check out Andrew's documentary. You can go to his Patreon page. Unlock that. Dear Kelly, support independent journalism. For sure. For sure, for sure. Okay. The New Orleans super bowl right around the corner. Chrissy. The football team against another football team. Can't wait. Super excited. Taylor Swift's team versus the people who shoot each other after they win. So it's the Eagles versus the Chiefs. The Chiefs in the super bowl for the third time in as many years. Could they. Could they do it? Could they be the only team in history to win three Super Bowls in a row? No one knows and very few fucking care. But I will say this. It is now. It is now the least expensive super bowl ticket in a decade. Inflation adjusted. In a decade. So prices are dropping out. The bottom is falling out of the prices I just looked. You can now get a ticket for $2,300. Not bad seats. I would never pay $2,300 to see a sports event. I almost paid $4,000 to go see the Cubs win the World Series. But that's the Cubs winning the World Series. Sorry. That wasn't a bomb. That was just my phone. I do. It's now part of the show Blue and my phone dropping on the floor and make in this echo chamber. I don't know what it is about this table. I got to figure it out. Maybe I should have bought an actual table that wasn't $32 on Wayfair. No offense against Wayfair. Wayfair is great.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Some good stuff in there.

[Brian Greene]

But it was really heavy. I felt like, oh, this. When you look and it says it weighs 62 pounds, I thought to myself, great. It's solid piece of wood. It is absolutely hollow in every sense of the word. And so everything that happens in this house now gets echoed through the. The table into the microphone part. So. Sorry. Yeah, yeah. There we go. There's a little annoyance for you in your morning drive there. But that's. That. That is interesting. And I know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was thinking about that this morning when I saw that, too. I was wondering if the fact that it's in New Orleans has anything to do with it. I don't know. I wonder why.

[Brian Greene]

I think you're being. I think you're on to something.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Brian Greene]

Last year, Las Vegas ticket prices were through the roof almost double. The cheapest ticket was about $5,000. And some experts that I read this morning said New Orleans has a lot to do with it. Because New Orleans, first of all, has far fewer hotel rooms. So the hotel rooms are terrible. It's, you know, the Cost to travel down there is much is. Is more expensive. The cost of travel and stay there. And then some people think that, you know, New Orleans just had a terrible incident occur. Maybe some people are shying away from going to New Orleans specifically. And then some people speculated Trump announced he's gonna go to the game. And some people speculated that that is not a ticket sales. That is a negative. Not because people don't like Trump, that might be the truth too. But because Trump has been a target and they worry about safety. Who knows if any of that's true? It's all speculation, I'm sure.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And I love New Orleans. It's one of my favorite towns.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, maybe Me too. By the way. By the way. Loved it. Astrid. Not the biggest fan of it. I can't wear sandals in New Orleans because of the New Orleans soup, the street soup. I can't, you know, you don't want to have anything to do with that. So not my favorite footwear city. But I love it. I think it's a beautiful place.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

I've got friends that live here. People are nice and listen, Bourbon street is not the street I go down at my age. It's just not. I mean, you go down just to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

See shit, but yeah, there's so many other parts.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, yeah, it's like that. Is that soul. Bourbon street is like the Cheesecake factory of booze streets. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's the main. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

It's bright, it's shiny. It has a thousand items on the menu. You know, all of them include a shit ton of cheap alcohol. That's going to give you headache. That's what you do when you're a frat boy or you go down for the first time or. Marty Gross, I can see you going down Bourbon street for a Mardi Gras because of course, that's where a lot of the action happens. But that's not my favorite part of town. There are many other places in New Orleans that are just as fun and wonderful and. Frenchman Street. Frenchman street, the Garden District. I remember I went down to New Orleans for Jazz Fest.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes. And many times.

[Brian Greene]

One night we went over to, I think it was Frenchman Street. Am I right about that? Am I saying that right? Is that the right street?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Greene]

And there was, you know, it's kind of a place where some retail and some houses are mixed together like most places in New Orleans down there and in the District. And there were house parties going on.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Where live music was playing out of the open windows. You just walk in and out of some of these houses. It was amazing. It was just so much the best. It was so much fun. And there's lots of drugs and alcohol down there. So. At a certain part in my life, New Orleans was like, you know, that was like a mecca. I'd much rather go to Soul.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

To me.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, yeah, it's old history.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The soul of it. Yeah. It's old music, food. The food's incredible.

[Brian Greene]

They have a piano down there that's twice my age. Do you know what I'm saying? They have a piano at one of those bars that's twice as old as I am. It's been there twice as long as I have been on earth. And yeah, it's just there's so much going on down in New Orleans at any given time. It's a big city. It's got big city problems. You certainly have to mind your p's and q's down there. Like, don't take cab rides from a gypsy cab driver with a gun in his gun in it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Right. Learn from Uncle Brian.

[Brian Greene]

Learn from Uncle Brian. Take these sanctioned cabs. Though we did get from point A to point B safely. I'm pretty sure it's because someone had a panic attack in the car and the guy was like, rather than rob you, I'm going to drop you off because I don't want to be bothered by anybody. These white people bothering me. I'm getting out of here. So. But the ticket prices dropping is, I think, an indication also that people are a little bit nervous about the economy. You know, like, who's going to go spend $5,000 just for you and a buddy to go see? Unless you're like a die hard Eagles or Chiefs fan, you can watch it on tv. Let's all be honest. The best thing about the super bowl is the fucking commercials. That's what we want to see. And who's doing the halftime show?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Is it Nelly? No. Is it Kendrick Lamar?

[Brian Greene]

It's Kendrick Lamar.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Kendrick Lamar. Okay. All right. There you go. Yeah, I'll look. I'm looking forward to that. So. Yeah. Okay. Another sports related thing that I wanted to talk to Piggy Piggy Fronton is you see Marcus Jordan, Michael Jordan, son, got arrested for cocaine leaving the scene of an accident. Got stuck on a rail. You know, like rail ties. In his Lamborghini.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, the railroad. Yeah, yeah, his Lamborghini SUV.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, it's an SUV. Oh. Because why not spend an extra $50,000 on a Lamborghin? That's insane to me. Listen, I. I knew Michael Jordan had children, but I had no idea about any of those children. They've done a good job. I had no idea that Marcus Jordan.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, you don't. You don't watch the Housewives then?

[Brian Greene]

Oh, the Real Housewives. He's on the Real Housewives of something.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah, Miami. He dated Larsa Pippen, who is Scottie Pippen's ex wife. And it was a big deal. You know, there's a huge age difference and Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen had a big rivalry, so it was kind of.

[Brian Greene]

Okay, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on. I grew up in the age of Michael Jordan in Chicago. Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan were like wonder twins. They were so good with each other and for each other on the basketball court. And I realized there may have been some friction that Michael Jordan got all of the attention. And Scottie Pippen was. Michael Jordan is a Michael Jordan without Scottie Pippen. Right. But his ex wife was screwing Michael Jordan's son.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. They did it for like a good year, maybe longer.

[Brian Greene]

No way.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It was all over the house.

[Brian Greene]

That's a twisted affair. Yeah, that is a twisted affair.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Greene]

Wow. That's the kind of drama that like, usurps even Real Housewives drama. Bullshit.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, they had like a podcast together and stuff like that.

[Brian Greene]

They had a podcast together. Scottie Pippen's ex wife and Michael Jordan's son. What's the age difference there?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, she's 50, he's 36, I think. So There you go.

[Brian Greene]

Wow. No shit.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Well, that's one way to get back at your. That's one way to get back.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, he was on the show and everything.

[Brian Greene]

That's one way to get back at your ex. Could you imagine fucking your longtime co worker slash friend's ex wife or son? That is unbelievable drama. Wow. Okay, so the guy is known. Well, I don't. I don't watch Real Housewives, so I would not have known this. I knew that Michael Jordan had kids, but I had no idea who any of those children were until I started reading the headlines that Marcus Jordan was arrested for cocaine. He had cocaine in his pocket and he was drunk and he fled the scene of an accident when cops were trying to pull him over and got his Lamborghini SUV stuck on a train crossing. Essentially. This just befuddles me. This befuddles me to no end. That if you can afford a Lamborghini.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Lamborghini.

[Brian Greene]

A Lamborghini.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'll let you get Away with it for a couple of times.

[Brian Greene]

Lamborghini.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

A Lamborghini.

[Brian Greene]

It's a Lamborghini. It's a Labradoodle mixed with a Lamborghini. They're delicious. You can have them for breakfast.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

They're a new thing. They're so cute. They honk instead of barking. The Lamborghini suv.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Coming in at, I don't know, half a million dollars. Yes. Half a million dollars.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You can't afford a driver.

[Brian Greene]

You can't afford someone crazy. Yes. To get in that seat and get in that driver's seat sober. You could pay me $30 and an in and out burger, and I would stay with you all night long drinking water just to make sure that you got home safely. That would be enough for me. And by the way, there's plenty of those people out there. They're called Uber drivers. They will do it for you for very little money. How you get into a car, being Michael Jordan's son, being a famous person yourself after getting smashed, leaving the scene of an accident, cocaine in your pocket. With cocaine in your pockets, do what everybody else does. Have somebody else drive you if you have cocaine in your pocket. That's what I did all the time. I refused to drive if I had cocaine in my pocket. You want to know why? Because you're just adding insult to injury. It's. It's just stupid. It's stupid. Don't do that, Marcus. Come on. You're already fucking your best friend, coworker's ex wife, like, just it. Doesn't your dad talk some sense into you? Doesn't that dad ears say, hey, son, don't fuck up while you're fucking up? And where did he get the Lamborghini suv? Where did he get it? Is that Michael Jordan's money or is that Marcus's money? What does Marcus do?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, according to whatever I saw in the Housewives, he does have a lot of business ventures that he does on.

[Brian Greene]

A lot of business ventures.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't quote him. We'll find that.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. I know a million of these people. I got business ventures. That's me, that's Brian. I got business ventures. I got a podcast. I'm an entrepreneur. I got a podcast. I'm a producer. I'm making a movie. I'm an actor. I'm an actress. I'm in real estate. I'm in MLMs. I sell essential loyals for a living. I got lots of entrepreneurial things going on. Yeah, that's. That sounds very nebulous to me. And I know A lot of these people. Atlanta is full of people who have jobs that they never had. Do you know what I'm saying? They will tell you, you know, it's like, hey, what do you do? Oh man, I got a lot of irons in the fire right now. I'm a producer on this movie. I'm making this new album with a friend of mine. I got a podcast and a vodcast. I'm an influencer in the wild. I also have a talent management company if, you know, you ever want me to take 10% of your money for no reason. They have all of job descriptions, but they do none of them. They actually do none of them.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Atlanta, a little bit of this.

[Brian Greene]

You want to live in Atlanta, make up your own title. Wha.

[Rachel]

Bam.

[Brian Greene]

You're in Atlanta. Wha.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Bam.

[Brian Greene]

Producer. Producer. That's it. So many people in Atlanta are producers. We're all producers. What are we producing? I don't know. It's like this is the kingdom of the non existent job here in Atlanta. Now. Everybody seems to have money, but no one can tell you exactly what they do because they're renting the fancy car.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Say. I think the rental business here in Atlanta's gotta be huge, booming. I see cars, homes, jewelry, all of it.

[Brian Greene]

I'm sure, like a lot of different places, like many different places in the United States of America. Atlanta is the. Is like the glowing Metropolis full of $250,000 cars. You can be driving anywhere in Atlanta and see an extraordinarily expensive car every five minutes. It's just the way that it works. But how do all of these people have all of this money? Where did it come from? I don't think it exists. I think you're right. I think where it exists is on the rental lot. The guy who actually bought the car and is renting it to you. That's what happens. I mean, I just reading an article about this kid who gained like half a million followers in three months. And it was an expose that's really not surprising to anybody. The kid said he had a lot. It was his. Like his Instagram was full of shots of him holding, you know, tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Gold bars, gold chains, you know, million dollar shoes, driving around Lamborghinis. It's got a tailpipe. They're so cute. You could get them in red or yellow.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love it.

[Brian Greene]

Make sure to take them for an oil change. He's. He's got all this, like his Instagram was just full. And this kid is like 19 years old. Full of multi million. I mean, the posts themselves were worth multi million dollars. You know what I'm saying? They just look like they're dripping in gold. And the expose was done by like this investigative reporter, quote unquote, on Instagram, to find out that this kid arrival, this kid had none of it. None of it was true. All the cash was borrowed. All the shoes were, you know, rented out from someplace. The cars were not his. The plane that he claimed was his was not. He claimed he had a private plane. But in doing the investigation, the guy realized that the plane that he was taking a shot standing outside of was not the same plane that he was taking a shot standing inside of. It's just all manufactured. And I feel like Atlanta. While I love this city, I love it to death. And I know there's a lot of money in Atlanta, a lot of real money in Atlanta. This is a place where you can make things happen. It's a lovely city, but there's just too many $250,000 cows out there on the street for me to believe that everyone is making that kind of money. Yeah, it's like a rat race. It's Keeping up with the Joneses. Everyone's got to do.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Look.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. How do you look? That's right. Fake it till you make it. That guy, that real estate late night TV real estate seminar guy, like, we, we reviewed him. One like Joe Kwan or whatever his name was, Joe Quad. He made that up. Look like a million dollars till you make a million dollars. And that. That couldn't be more than.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It works. Sometimes it does. Most times it doesn't.

[Brian Greene]

Dude, I, I, when I worked for Scam Cole fm. Oh, yeah, yeah. Which was also, you know, pretend like you have money and you have.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And housewives adjacent.

[Brian Greene]

All of it. Yeah, I was. It was so it's where I realized that the housewives of Atlanta were neither housewives or lived in Atlanta. And none of them had money. It was all just of. It was all just a facade, essentially. No knock on Nene Leakes, you know, I think she's done great for herself.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, I love all of them.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. But they just showed these women in fantastic and spectacular riches, and almost none of it was true. And how did I know that? Because I became embedded. I got like, thrown into the middle of this group of ladies who was either on the Housewives or adjacent to the Housewives. None of them bad human beings. All of them very nice. But you realize that it's a paper tiger. You poke it and it breaks. Right. And same with the guy who ran the place. Simon Guabadiat is like the biggest paper tiger of them all.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, who's now getting divorced from Portia.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, really?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Well, fill me in on that one. I do love me some Simon Guavadi. Out, tiger.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You might have to watch the Housewives this spring.

[Brian Greene]

I can't.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I can't watch Simon.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, I can't watch Simon.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, I mean, I don't know if he's a big part. He's in. They kicked him back to Africa.

[Brian Greene]

I think they took his visa because he lied because he said he was someone else.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'll take it exactly once again.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. And then he went to. And then fucking phone. I think the story goes, is that he said he was someone else, lied on his visa application. And then when they caught him, then he sued the government because he said that they like, you know, kicked him out on fraudulent terms or whatever. Yeah, I mean, the guy has been a joke for a long time. And it doesn't surprise me that Porsche has. Porsche has eventually caught on to this.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She did. So she. And she's back on the Housewives this season. It starts in March.

[Brian Greene]

Okay.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So I. I think you should watch it. But I can also be your liaison.

[Brian Greene]

Be my liaison. Because I don't think I could swallow another episode of another season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. But story. So these. So this girl comes in with this guy. This guy claims to be a big time music producer that he's working on all of these albums with these people that I had never heard of.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This is when you were working?

[Brian Greene]

When I was working there, yes. Couple nights later, we're at the bar that Simon said he owned but never owned. We're at that bar and then this guy. So he says, let's take it back to my house. Take it back to my crib. And we're like, okay. We go to his crib. It's like me, him and this other person. His crib. There. There isn't even a crib on the floor. There is zero furniture in the place. And he was driving around a Maybach and I was like, did you just move in here? He's like, nah, I've been here for about a year. I'm switching furniture up. I'm switching furniture up. He had a blow up mattress in the corner. It didn't look like he was switching furniture up. It looked like the furniture had never arrived. Ever. There hadn't been a. The rug didn't have any indentations in it. You know what I'M saying, it was just so manufactured. And I was like, wow, dude, you're driving around 150,000, $200,000 car and you do not have a couch to sit on. No knock in your game. I know that's probably. You probably get, you know, lots of action that way. But it was just mysterious and magical to me about how, like, I don't know how magical thinking this all was. And who knows if the Maybach was even his or even real. Maybe he made that up on. Maybe he put that nice Mercedes Benz Maybach symbol on his Toyota. Maybe that's what happened. Probably TCB will never pretend to have money because we'll probably never have any. And we're still looking for that airplane. One engine. We don't care if it can get up 100ft in the air. We'll take it. Make sure you send inquiries to tcbpodcast.com. let's take a break. We'll be back.

[Rachel]

Let me do something Brian has never done.

[Brian Greene]

Be brief.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Greene]

I was playing a game with my kids the other night that's playing a game. Sometimes we like to have a dance party.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I love dance parties.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. And so the little game is, is that everyone picks a song and then they go up, they are on stage, quote unquote, right? And they do their dancing. And then I judge the contest, right? I say, okay, you get a 5 for this or a 10 for that. I'm really pretty a harsh judge. I'm like the Simon Cowell of dads. Really? Yeah. I'm like, what was that? That was awful. You sound disgusting sound. You sound like a dead horse. I don't sound like a British person either. What is that voice, Brian? So one of my kids was singing September, which is in the Trolls movie, you know, dancing in September. Body. Ah, dancing to remember. Yeah. So my kid was going body down. Dancing on September. Body down. Now he's a kid. Like, he mishear, you know, we have all of us misheard lyrics.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

We're just making stuff up. I Don't even, you know, I don't even know you could put that sentence together in real life, let alone while he's singing it. So he's just singing what he knows. And so I tried to tell him. I said no. The lyrics are body da, right? Bow di da. However you say that. And I don't even know the lyrics. It's. Is it bow di da?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Brian Greene]

Bow da.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's originally Earth, Wind and Fire. Right?

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, that's. That's the version we were listening to. It's in the Trolls movies. So that's why, you know, they like it. September. Hold on one second while we get this right. Here it is. Yeah, it's body ya. Body Body ya. Close Sadie. Yeah. Okay. Body down. Body ya. And it got me thinking, what are some of the most famous misheard lyrics? Because we do this all the time. It's a. It's a pretty common thing that we hear something that's not there because of the way or the inflection or the accent in the artist's voice. We just don't get it right now. It's pretty. All pretty easy because you got Spotify saying those lyrics to you back in the day. You would have to open up your tape case cover and get to the bottom of the lyrics. And that is if the artist was generous enough to put the lyrics on there.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it wasn't always on there.

[Brian Greene]

That's right. Nothing pissed me off more than getting a brand new CD or tape to find out that there was zero information on the inside except for who the fucking engineer was. I don't care. I want to know what you said in that fucking song.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Yes. Thank you, Chrissy. It should be mandatory. Mandatory, minimum. So let's go through some of the 40 of the top misheard. 40 popular misheard lyrics.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, what do you think? And then I'd love to do that. And then I'll get the end. I'll give you one that's a family favorite in my family.

[Brian Greene]

Let's start off with that one.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, my sister, when she was younger used to think that, you know that song every time you go, every time you take a piece of meat with you. But she thought it said meat.

[Brian Greene]

Every time you. Every time you go, you take a piece of meat with you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes. She was like, why did they say that?

[Brian Greene]

Yes. That is Brian, because he's poor. Every time he goes away, he takes some extra meat with him.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That was you for like a string of months when you were doing the Carnivore diet.

[Brian Greene]

When I was doing the carnivore diet, there was no meat was safe in my house because I was so ravenously hungry, because there were zero carbs in my body. Astrid was just feeding me steaks.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Have steak Bacon.

[Brian Greene]

So expensive. Steak, bacon. I didn't care if it was alive. I was e. I was killing it and eating it. And I, to be honest with you, I lost a bunch of weight, but I lost too much weight. Like, it went quick. It melted off me and it went quick. So I went back to cream and cereal. I went back to cream and cereal after. After my parathyroid got taken out, I figured, ah, get back to calcium. I need to build my bones back up, up. Okay, ready? Here we go. As as stated by Good Housekeeping dot com.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, Good Housekeeping. They're the. Also the ones that gave us the Christmas list.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, yeah, that's right. You're right. I think we had a Harper's Bazaar one in there too. And I don't know. Anyway, here we go. Ready? Okay. Dancing Queen by abba. We all know Dancing Queen. Feel the beat of the tangerine. Have you. I've never heard that in the lyrics.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Greene]

And the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Is that what it is? It's the tangerine tambourine.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. Thank you, Tina. Because Good Housekeeping here didn't bother to put the real lyric in there. They're just telling us the misheard.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The miss one.

[Brian Greene]

We're gonna have to figure it out on our own. All right. Losing my religion by R.E.M. let's pee in the corner. Let's pee in the spa. Like, amazing. Yeah, that's me in the corner. How did you get that one wrong? I know what dumb dumbs are listening to that song, by the way. I saw a video with Michael Stipe, and the guy who was doing the video played Michael the original audio that was used for Losing My Religion, the isolated track of his voice. And Michael Stipe started crying when he heard himself in that isolated track. And the guy was like, what's getting you so emotional about that? He's like, it's just so raw and so emotional. Yeah. And I was so young, I realized it makes me think about how much time that best pass since he's gone. Michael Stipes getting up there in age for sure. Do you remember, like, total side note that REM Signed the biggest record contract in history at the time, it was like $150 million for five albums with Warner Brothers Music or whatever. It was Universal Warner Brothers Music. And they never had another hit song after that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They didn't.

[Brian Greene]

They didn't. They didn't have one hit song after that. Like, it was a. It was not a good deal for Warner Brothers. Now, if they bought the whole catalog, then I could understand.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're still a classic band.

[Brian Greene]

Of course. From Athens, Georgia. You're the one that I want. You're the one that I want green. I've got shoes. They're made of plywood.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I've got chills.

[Brian Greene]

They're multiplying. That's not even close.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Greene]

Who are these people who are mishearing this? Good4U by Selena Gomez, which. I don't know the original song, do you?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Greene]

It says, I'm farting carrots.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That can't be it.

[Brian Greene]

Obviously. What the real lyric is. I'm 14 carrots.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

14 carrots.

[Brian Greene]

14 carrots. Monster by Eminem and Rihanna. It says, I'm friends with the mustard that's under my bed. But, of course, the real lyric is, I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed. In sync. It's gonna be me. And people think they're saying, it's gonna be me. May. May the month. I mean, I realize that NSYNC was not exact. You know, they weren't. I don't know. It wasn't Shakespeare. But why would they write a lyric called it's gonna be May? Yeah. If you just think about that for one second. Old Town Road by Little Nas.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. Old Town Road.

[Brian Greene]

I'm gonna take my horse to the hotel room I'm gonna ride till I can't no more hotel room. Actually, I think I did think it said that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't know what the.

[Brian Greene]

I'm gonna take my horse to the Old town road.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Old Town Road.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That was a good song.

[Brian Greene]

Stir it up by Bob Marley, which is a fantastic song. Stir it up, little darling Stir it up. People say. People think he's saying cereal. No, little darling, cereal.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. I mean, how.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Good Housekeeping. Where are they getting this?

[Brian Greene]

I think Good Housekeeping is making this up on their own. Or this is an AI product.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Greene]

Because who thinks he's saying cereal? No, he was a stoner. But I don't think he's saying stir up your cereal. I think Bob is a bit deeper than that. We will rock you by Queen. I can understand this one, buddy. You're an old man, hard man. Living on a van. Gonna be a big man someday. You got on your face, Big disgrace. Kicking your cat all over the place. It's kicking your can all over the place. And I think the original lyric was actually kicking your ass all over the place, but I think the record company said. No, no, no, no. Blowing in the Wind by BOB Dylan, the 17 minute diatribe. And my wind, my winds are blowing. These ants, my friend, are blowing in the wind these ants are blowing in the wind. Definitely not ants this course. It's these answers, my friend, are blowing through the wind. Royals by Lorde that was a good song. Yeah, it is. You can call me Bean. I don't know which part of the song this comes in, but she says you can call me or you can call me Green Bean. She says you can call me Queen Bee.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Queen Bee. Yeah, that makes more sense.

[Brian Greene]

Hold me close My Tyner Dancer by Elton John.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. That's one that's been on my yeah, homie coast.

[Brian Greene]

My Tony Danza, that's always on the list. I guess that's not a far fetch. I mean, you know, Elton's a man with certain acquired tastes. Who. Who doesn't like a. Who doesn't. Who didn't like Tony danza in the 80s for five minutes? Tony Danza for five minutes in the 80s was just your regular old Joe guy that everyone could kind of, you know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, he was the housekeeper of the house on who's the Boss?

[Brian Greene]

Oh, that's right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

I forgot that he was the housekeeper in that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Very forward. For that time.

[Brian Greene]

How long did who's the Boss stay on?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It was on for a long time. I mean, I remember growing up with it.

[Brian Greene]

Alyssa Milano.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Tony, who was one of my first crushes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Judith Light. Judith Light.

[Brian Greene]

That's right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Career mom.

[Brian Greene]

Wasn't there a guy in there, too? Danny Masterson. Well, not Danny Masterson that he was in a different. That Danny Masterson is a guy that's in jail currently.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, he was that 70s show.

[Brian Greene]

I forgot. I forgot who the kid was, but. Waterfalls by tlc. Okay, go, go, Jason. Waterfalls. Go, go, Jason. Waterfalls. No, don't go chasing waterfalls. Blank Space by Taylor Swift. Got a lot of Starbucks lovers. Okay, star cross lovers, obviously. Starbucks lovers. What the good fuck is going on there? Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys. Yep. Concrete Jungle. Wet Dream, Tomato. Wet Dream, Tomato.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Where dreams are made of.

[Brian Greene]

I'm calling your bullshit on this.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Good Housekeeping is an AI.

[Brian Greene]

This must be AI because who's who in the world is saying Concrete jungle. Wet Dream, Tomato. It doesn't even come close to sounding like that. Baby, Baby by Amy Grant. Don't know that song. Gonna move on. Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera Come, come, come and let me meow Come, come, come and let me meow no, I don't even remember that part of the song. Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix. This one is a very frequently misheard lyric. Excuse me while I kiss this guy. But it's, excuse me while I kiss the guy. Message in a Bottle by the Police. A year has passed since I broke my nose.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's funny.

[Brian Greene]

A year has passed since I wrote my note. Since I wrote this note. Humans by the Killers. Are we human or are we denser? Denser. D E. Denser. S E, R. What is denser dancer? Denser like dense, like thicker. So stupid.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Greene]

How about Living On a Prayer by Bon Jovi? Whoa. Living on a prayer Prayer doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not. If we make it or not.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I like the naked or not.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, actually, I could go with that. Last time we saw Bon Jovi, he wasn't doing so hot. Do you remember a couple years ago when we reviewed Bon Jovi doing a live concert? And it was just like. His voice was extraordinarily torn up. He couldn't hit a note to save his life.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He had a real problem.

[Brian Greene]

He had a real problem. So I forgive him. I don't think I've ever. I don't think I've ever apologized. I do a lot of apologizing on the show. In case you're just joining us. Us. So here's yet another apology on behalf of Brian. I'm sorry. Yeah. Straight to Bon Jovi. I thought you were just being bad at singing, but apparently you had a throat issue, so there you go. Lucy in the sky with Diamonds the Girl with Kaleidoscope. The girl with Kaleidos goes by. Oh, it's the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Kaleidos. Really?

[Brian Greene]

Yes.

[Rachel]

I.

[Brian Greene]

This is definitely AI Why would they run this with AI like this? I mean, I guess AI is taking over the world. Bad Moon Rising by Credence There's a bathroom on the right. There's a bathroom on the right. That's a good one. I'm using that one. Next time I hear that song. Like a virgin, McDonald. Like a virgin touched for the 31st time like a virgin the 31st, first time my name is Bonnie Bonnie Blue Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty Running Down a Drain that could be my theme song for the other day. And some of these, I don't know. So. Rock the Kasbah by the Clash. Rock the Cat Box Rock the Cat Box if you really don't. Wait. Chevy don't like it. Rock the casbah. And it's not she really don't like it. It's Sharia don't like it. We're talking about Sharia law. Paradise City by Guns N Roses. Take me down to a very nice city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take me down. It's the fucking name of the song.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Paradise City, you dumb, dumb Panama by Van Halen. Animal. Animal. It's the name of the fucking song.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Although I see why it's easy to get confused because of the way that he sings it. Let's see. Paradise by Coldplay. Don't know that one. Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Now, if you have a muddle mouth full of rocks, then I can understand why it might be hard to understand some of your lyrics. And it wasn't like. Like, Kurt was always singing so crisp and clearly. Right. I'm a lion, I'm a vinyl I'm a skittle, I'm a beetle.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, you're right, though. I think at the time when that song first came out, I did not know what he was saying.

[Brian Greene]

A mulatto, an albino a mosquito My libido, that's right. Yeah. I'm a Believer by the Monkeys Then I saw her face Now I'm gonna leave her that's awesome. And now I saw her face and I'm gonna leave her that's a song for an ugly girl.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Do you chase again the name of the song?

[Brian Greene]

Yes, that's the. Oh, yeah, that's true. It's the name of the fucking song. I'm a believer. Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams. Great song.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I loved at the time.

[Brian Greene]

I got my first real sex Dr.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But that doesn't make sense for the next part. Bought it at the Five and Dime.

[Brian Greene]

Bought it at the Five and Dime Blinded by the light that's. That's a hard one. That. That's a hard one.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, yeah. Wrapped up like a douche Wrapped up.

[Brian Greene]

Like a douche Another rumor in the night Blinded by the light but it's deuce. It's revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night but he clearly says douche in there.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It sounds like it.

[Brian Greene]

It must be. I think he slyly put that, because if you. I've listened to that song so many times for the purpose of trying to figure out if he's actually saying douche. I did this, like, I went through this exercise one night high, and I listened to that Song I must have been 20 times in a row he says the word douche even though it's deuce. He says douche. Clearly. He says clearly. And one more for shits and giggles. Hold on one second. There was one more that I wanted to do here. Oh, did I lose it? I might have lost it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I have a Cyndi Lauper one.

[Brian Greene]

Okay, go.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Go for it. You know, time after time. Yes.

[Brian Greene]

Where she says, and you say, go slow. My kids to this day swear. She says, and you say coleslaw, and you say cole slaw.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's whatever you hear at the time.

[Brian Greene]

You know, listen, this is a fun game. I played this a lot in my life. It's a fun game. Misheard lyrics. And, you know, we all interpret things the way that we interpret them. And to be fair, like, artistry is artistry, and lyric writing is not always straightforward. So there's a lot of people. I mean, you want a fun game? Find someone that has never read a lyric for Pearl Jam and see if they can figure out Yellow Ledbetter, Black Jeremy, alive, any of the early works of Eddie Vedder and see if they can understand anything that he's saying. I misheard those lyrics. I made them up in my head. I loved Pearl Jam from the moment I heard them. And I made up so many lyrics to a live, even flow.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, you had to.

[Brian Greene]

You freezing? Rather see you sleeping with a guy named Billy. It's rather see you slipping on a pillow made of concrete. Okay, all right, let's take a break, and then we'll be back.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Greene]

All right, well, speaking of music news, a couple of old geezer things I should think I should take care of. First of all, the Eagles, I think, are in the middle of their run over there in the Sphere. In this sphere. And. Yeah. And so I think they played 25 shows and then announced that they were doing some more shows. So I saw some footage of it. Listen, I like the Eagles, okay? Like, it's not my favorite band in the world. It's not the worst band in the world. I think Don Henley did some better work than the Eagles ever did. But anyway, I regress to me, like, I saw some of the footage. It's. I don't know that the Eagles are the right band to have at the Sphere. Like, okay, you can make some. You could make any imagery at this sphere, I'm sure, for the Sphere, and people would pay to see it to any music, because it's just such a marvel of technology.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Beautiful.

[Brian Greene]

But I just don't think there's only.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So much Hotel California.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, there's only so many Hotel California, you know, there's only so many images you can put to Hotel California before you're just stretching to make something fit there. There are so many other bands that I think would be great there. Have David Gilmore play there. Have Roger Waters do his version of the Wall, like his very faithful version of the Wall, have him do that. And I know they got to be talking to some of these people. They have to be. And I would imagine that if you do something like the Wall at the Sphere, it's got to take an immense amount of time to put all of that imagery together. But that's one I would pay to see a lot of money on. And I would take a lot of lsd. I'm just saying that right out front. Ayahuasca. Pink Floyd, the Wall. Put a reunion together. Put a reunion together for Pink Floyd, the Wall. Get David Gilmour and Roger Waters to stop bitching at each other, get them in a room together and have them play that fucking Wall. And that's what I would pay $5,000 to see, hands down, all day of the week. Wouldn't you?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, I would love to see that.

[Brian Greene]

But I just don't know about the Eagle. I'm sorry, let me bash on the Eagles, but you Know, I said the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Same thing because, you know, I went out there to go see the Dead, and that was awesome. And then the next up was the Eagles, and I was like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they're gonna do for that, especially compared to the Grateful Dead. And. And there was that. You know, the New Year's show that went down with that EDM guy.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, yeah, Anorax or whatever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You want to pronounce that.

[Brian Greene]

Listen, those. Those visuals were crazy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I watched so many videos on that. I went down a rabbit hole and I was like, holy shit, that is so good.

[Brian Greene]

Those visuals were stunning on Instagram. They were stunning. Like on this tiny little screen, they were stunning. And I can only imagine what it was like to be there. And I had never, ever in my life ever heard of this human being. But he filled the place, I think, two nights in a row.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He's coming back too.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, he is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're bringing back.

[Brian Greene]

Listen, fish, Grateful Dead, you know, goose, geese, Gossards. I don't know where all the geese and goose bands that are out there. All these, like, jam bands that have visuals and light shows as a part of the kind of the nomenclature of what goes on. And in every show, those are the people, I think, that could be filling the sphere with really cool opportunities to embed those visuals further into their fans minds. The Eagles were never known for their visuals. I don't remember Don Henley ever being the guy who. You would be like, hey, man, let's take some mushrooms and go see Don Henley. It just. It just does. It. It doesn't make sense. I don't know. To me, it doesn't make sense.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It just doesn't make sense.

[Brian Greene]

I take Skinny John Popper before I went and saw the Eagle. You know what I'm saying? Skinny John Popper, Bluestre Traveler. I would take them beforehand. And where's Dave Matthews? Why isn't he getting in on all this action? Even though he's not really known for his visuals either? I could see Dave Matthews making something out of it. Right? But yet I think the improv bands like Fish. It takes so much work to, like, hold yourself back from just going ape shit crazy like you would on any other show. But apparently the Fish run was amazing, too.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I heard that too.

[Brian Greene]

Like, jam bands don't like jam bands. Everybody can agree we, when we're on mushrooms, that fish is okay. Yeah. Okay. All right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

I don't care who you are, be. You can complain about fish all day long. Take some mushrooms, you like fish. Let me tell you a little story. I have a daughter. I have many daughters, but I have one daughter in specific, specifically. And she's a dancer and a twirler and a gymnast and the whole nine yards. She. She's using her body. She is a. She's aware of herself and the way that her body moves. And she's very good at gymnastics and dancing and all this other. So the other day, just on a lark, I played some live version of Fire on the Mountain. And instantly my daughter started spinning and twirling and noodling like a moron, like we all do when we hear that song. Because now all of this, we're thrown back to 1963, topless, you know, spinning around in our funny skirts and hula hoops. It was amazing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love that I played that music.

[Brian Greene]

And it was almost.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It was like instinct.

[Brian Greene]

It was instinct. It was like it was in her DNA to act like a fucking hippie. The second I put on something hippie ish.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's fantastic.

[Brian Greene]

So we're having our dance party last night and it's her turn and she says, play me Fire on the Mountain. And I'm like, I created a fucking hippie.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Greene]

God damn it. Now I know she's gonna be sleeping with dreadheaded boys who don't have jobs and drive shitty cars without safety equipment. Equipment. It's all going to. It's not going to hell in a handbag. She's like, far. She's far. And she's doing the noodle. It was insane. I swear to God. I have a video of it. She just turned into a hippie the second she heard the song. Crazy Ozzy Osbourne is announcing, or Sharon is announcing, that Ozzy Osbourne, full stop, will have his last show at the one Day Music Fest that one day.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Jeff and I like to say farewell tour. Maybe.

[Brian Greene]

Maybe it's my close to last show. It's almost the last. To the last. The last before the last. Listen, we heard that about Steven Tyler, too. And then I see Steven Tyler's doing a. This is really rich coming from Steven Tyler. I believe anything that helps anybody, any kind of charity that's doing any kind of good is great news. But he's got a charity called Janie's. Whatever Janie says or Janie does or Janie. Whatever. Based on the song Janie's Got a Gun, a very famous song from the late 90s, early 2000s, late 90s. He now has a charity that helps young ladies in whatever capacity they help young Ladies. And so he's raising money for it. So I see Steven Tyler out there with all those scarfs on that damn fucking microphone, twirling and whirling around all different clubs in la, you know, with famous other people, like the Robinson Brothers from Black Crows. And I think I saw Miley Cyrus up there. And then he was doing. He was at the comedy club in la, the Comedy Store. And there were comedians and then there were also musicians. And he got out there and sang a few songs. I thought we got told that Aerosmith broke up. Cause Steven Tyler didn't have a voice anymore. And now he's out there acting like an idiot, singing all these songs with everybody else. I want an explanation, full explanation from Aerosmith as to why they really broke, broke up. Do you remember? I don't. I want to remind you of this. Not that anyone cares this much about Aerosmith anymore. I certainly don't. But I went through my Arab. I think we all went through our Aerosmith phase. If you're of a certain age. You remember Pump and pump and Pump. You remember that album? It was a big one. Every single song on that album was a runaway hit. Every single song. So you remember that during the Pandemic, their drummer, I think Kramer is his last name, Joey Kramer. Joey Kramer got locked out of practice. Do you remember this? They were practicing for an upcoming tour and he got locked out of the practice and there was like some kind of person standing at the door saying, no, you're not allowed in. And he was like, but I'm part of the band. And he's like, yeah, not. Not anymore, dude. So he basically got told when he showed up for practice.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, yes.

[Brian Greene]

And they claimed that he was on painkillers and he couldn't do the job anym or whatever. That's rich coming from Steven Tyler. Isn't Steven Tyler the one who left a 14 year old in a burning apartment so that no one would find out she was pregnant or something like that? Do you remember that story now?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't remember that.

[Brian Greene]

I think it's really.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's been known that he's had lots of pill problems as well as other drugs.

[Brian Greene]

Yes, and no shame in that. There's lots of people that have addiction problems. There is. I'm not shaming anybody with an addiction problem. I'm saying it's a little rich that now he's got a charity that helps young women. When he wasn't doing any of that back in the day, he was impregnating young women, not helping them and now Aerosmith's broken up, but not really. I mean, they're broken up because of his voice, but his voice is still being used other places. There's something else going on there and I want a full explanation right now. As well as. Is this Ozzy Osbourne's really his last concert or is Sharon just trying to sell tickets?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, both probably.

[Brian Greene]

Here's the thing about Ozzy. Never the world's biggest Ozzy Osbourne fan.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Musically, musically, not.

[Brian Greene]

Not my thing. Black Sabbath wasn't my. Necessarily my thing. He had that one song with that Lita Ford, Remember, you told me lies, you told me br. The man. And now I feel so rain. Mama I'm coming home. Do you remember that song? Okay, all right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He had that one song, some Black Sabbath stuff. But yeah, it was never in my wheelhouse to pop on.

[Brian Greene]

Sharon has taken control of his.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She always has been.

[Brian Greene]

Yes, at some point in the 70s or 80s or whenever they got married, she took over his career and she did wonderful things for the guy. She sobered him up, she straightened him out. Although if anybody's ever seen any of the Osbournes, the television show, I think you would have a tough time arguing that Ozzy was sober. But okay, let's make the assumption that he's on some medication for purposes. But she took over that career and she really helped him because he was a fucking hot mess. Yes, everybody needs a Sharon Osbourne in the world life. But then Sharon has a. Sharon has a. A way of making everything a little bit like hyperbolic. Do you know what I'm saying? She's always blowing everything up. I think this is the fifth time that Ozzy Osbourne is going to do his last concert. He was on his last tour six years ago. He was going to make his last festival appearance three years ago. He made his last television appearance two years ago, you know, but none of her last appearance. But this time she says full stop, it's his last appearance. I doubt we'll see. I think this is just. The Eagles also have done six farewell tours and yet they have yet to say farewell.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. I don't know why anybody says it anymore.

[Brian Greene]

Don't say it. Don't say it. Just say sayonora for now. Right? We're leaving. We're old.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We might be gone. Yeah, you might want to check us out again.

[Brian Greene]

Hey, listen, this is the commercial breaks farewell show. For all I know. Could be the commercial breaks farewell show. As a matter of fact, every episode.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Consider every episode from now on to the next episode. Because that's our farewell.

[Brian Greene]

When will that happen? Happen? I don't know. Tomorrow maybe, if I'm still around. If I'm not, I don't know. If I'm not feeling good, maybe I don't do it. This is the commercial breaks absolute last show. Forget it. We're not doing one tomorrow until we show up tomorrow to do yet another one. Okay, don't say that. That's just silliness. We know you're just trying to sell tickets, Sharon. We know that Ozzy's going to show up some. You're going to have to roll him out there to pay some bills at some point. You're going to roll Ozzy out there and have him do a little thing. Guy's 78 years old. This could very well be his farewell show. Unless then you see that guy that they're still rolling out there. What's his name?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, Frankie Valley.

[Brian Greene]

Frankie Valley. Frankie Valli is 117 years old. He is a robot. He is literally has a mechanical head and mouth and he is still going out there and singing live. Is he really singing? I don't know. Yeah, some of it, I think. I think he's got autotune and a backing track. But I think he's trying to get some breath out of that mouth. I'm not even sure the guy takes a full breath anymore. But you know what? They put him on a dolly and they roll him out there every night and they stand him up.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Greene]

And they. They use a computer to make his hands move. And the guy goes out.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Chuck E. Cheese.

[Brian Greene]

Yes, yes, he is Chuck E. Cheese. That's who he is. They literally made him an electronic man. And he goes out there with his little robot wheels and he goes out there, he sings for 30 minutes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, they say you show his. Have a purpose in life that keeps you going.

[Brian Greene]

I don't disagree with that. And that's why I think Ozzy is not going to have his last, his final farewell show at this festival. Because I think that if you're a musician or whatever it is you do in life, like my. My grandfather was 99 years old in a retirement home with a hip that wouldn't heal colon cancer and could barely speak any kind of English. And the guy. And he was a former FBI agent till the day that he passed away. The. He passed away. He asked one of the nurses to take his resume and fax it to a phone number. And they would pretend to do that. They would pretend to do that because it was giving him Some kind of purpose. So listen, this might be the commercial breaks farewell show. Or we, Chrissy and I might be doing this until our 98th birthday.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Chuck E. Cheese.

[Brian Greene]

Until. Yeah, until we're in Chuck E. Cheese. Tina's got to roll us out here.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's strings.

[Brian Greene]

Yes. Until AI is, AI is doing my voice and I'm just here going till I have no teeth. Actually, you know what? I'll always have teeth because I know that I go get them in Turkey. That's. That's what I know. All right, well, will we see you tomorrow? I don't know. I don't know. As possible. Hey, once again, I want to thank Andrew Kalak. Now, I'm thinking about me doing this well into my retirement days. Yes, yes. I'm getting close to retirement age. Well, I, when you think about it. Well, retirement age back in the 60s. Now it's, you know, now you work till you're 72 or whatever it is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But yeah, we'll be down at the Village Villages, no doubt doing the show.

[Brian Greene]

I mean, I hear, listen, I heard the Villages has taken a turn and I was watching a reel about people in the villages racing their golf carts. That's what they're doing, racing golf carts up and down the street. It's like a parade. And some guy was driving in the wrong direction and smacked into another golf cart and the guy who was driving one of the golf carts went flying out into the street. It was like really intense. Intense. And I was like, geez, they have fun down there. But it's dangerous.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it can be.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. Listen, could be Chrissy and I. Could be Chrissy and I. All right, thanks to Andrew Callahan. I'm gonna put links in the show notes to go to his Patreon and watch the brand new directorial. Independent. Directorial debut. Not his directorial debut, but the first one he's directed independently. Dear Kelly, I think it's a movie you must watch to have a little bit of a better understanding. Understanding of why this country is so polarized, at least for some people, why this country is so polarized and how easy it is to get sucked into extremism. And remember, like my father in law says, and also extremes on both sides end up in the same place. Just remember that. I don't know what it means, but it sounds really smart, so I'm gonna say it. 212-4333. TCB 212-433-3822. If you want to hear your voice on the commercial break, leave us a message. Your salutations your goodwills, your good wishes or just talk about us one way or the other. We'll probably play it on our Wish Us Farewell tour. Fare thee well. Fare thee well. So go ahead, text us. Leave us a voicemail. You may be on the next episode of the commercial break. Tcbpodcast.com all the audio, all the video right there from one location and your free sticker at the contact us button at the commercial break on Instagram and YouTube.com the commercial break. Thanks, Dr. Phil. You're welcome, Brian. All right, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Greene]

I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Greene]

Best to you. The best you out there on the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say we do say and we must say, say goodbye. If you got a softy in your brain, you're gonna have a softy in your pants, you know what I'm saying?