Good Gas Almighty

Summary

The Commercial Break – "Good Gas Almighty" Episode Date: October 3, 2024

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Episode Overview

In this hilarious and irreverent episode, Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley riff on the wild side of human behavior, pop culture oddities, and peculiar addictions. The duo mines recent celebrity news (Lana Del Rey’s surprising marriage, internet conspiracies about Britney Spears), explores the pressures of fame, and dives deep into the world of “My Strange Addiction”—specifically, the bizarre cases of people addicted to sniffing gasoline, Pine-Sol, and VapoRub. As always, the episode mixes sharp observations, empathy, and their trademark offbeat banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Pop Culture Rabbit Holes: Britney Spears, Tate McRae, and Lana Del Rey

Timestamps: 00:00 – 13:32

• Internet Conspiracies & Celebrity Doubles

  • Bryan opens by mocking the internet theory that Britney Spears is using a body double on Instagram. He marvels at how people obsessively analyze mundane details in Spears’ videos, sparking wild conspiracy spirals.
  • Memorable Quote:
    “People who are like, they take the Instagram posts and the TikTok videos that Britney makes and then they stop them and then somebody Photoshops... She looks like a man... then they superimpose another image of a lookalike and say, this must be a double…” – Bryan (02:14)
  • Both hosts agree life’s simplest explanation (“Occam’s Razor”) is usually true, playfully dismissing elaborate theories.

• Tate McRae: The Next Britney?

  • Bryan introduces singer Tate McRae to Krissy, noting both her attractiveness and the way her career trajectory and VMAs outfits harken back to early-2000s Britney Spears.
  • Krissy: “You’re appreciating a beautiful…”
    Bryan: “I am appreciating the human form. That’s what I’m doing.” (05:20)

• Lana Del Rey Marries an Alligator Farmer?

  • The hosts react with disbelief and amusement to the news that Lana Del Rey married a Louisiana boat captain/airboat tour guide, theorizing about how celebrity-non-celebrity relationships work.
  • Quotes:
    • “Sometimes people who are super famous like to have people who are not super famous because they don’t have to deal with all the industry.” – Bryan (08:32)
    • “I’m gonna guess this doesn’t last very long because… you get all of this attention super quickly, you’re probably not going to handle it very well…” – Bryan (08:40)
  • They reference the media pressure that comes with sudden fame for “ordinary” people and joke about the ex-fiancée immediately giving interviews.

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2. The Price (and Pressure) of Fame

Timestamps: 13:32 – 21:00

• Chappell Roan and Festival Drama

  • Bryan explains recent controversies involving rising pop star Chappell Roan, who canceled a pair of major festival appearances (fueling fan outrage and social media storms). He highlights her public statements about setting boundaries with fans:
    • “I don’t owe you every bit of me. I enjoy what I’m doing when I’m on stage... but you can’t have every part of me.” – Paraphrased from Chappell Roan; supported empathetically by Bryan (16:35)
  • Both acknowledge the importance of mental health for performers but note the “two things can be true” dynamic: fans can be upset, and artists can prioritize themselves.

• Handling Disappointment as a Fan

  • Krissy recounts a festival where an artist backed out due to health reasons but was thoughtfully replaced (Jack White for Queens of the Stone Age), illustrating how to handle let-downs gracefully.

• Anthony Bourdain: A Voice of Reason

  • The hosts reminisce about Anthony Bourdain’s wisdom and authenticity and discuss how only he (and his book Kitchen Confidential) accurately captured the madness of the restaurant industry.
    • “If you eat and you go to a restaurant and you want to know what it’s like for those people that are serving you three times a day… Read Kitchen Confidential.” – Bryan (22:40)

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3. Scent Addictions: “You Won’t Believe What People Sniff”

Timestamps: 24:19 – 52:38

• Tiger Balm, Smells, and Memory

  • Bryan talks about using Tiger Balm for back pain, waxing philosophical about how smells trigger memory, and jokes about having a “super sense” of smell despite former drug use.
  • “Despite all the cocaine I’ve done… the smell still remains strong. That's my super[power].” – Bryan (26:17)

• Diving into “My Strange Addiction” (TV Show Compilation)

  • The hosts introduce, react to, and riff on a series of people addicted to sniffing or consuming bizarre substances:

    Gasoline Addict

    • A woman obsessed with smelling gasoline every 10 minutes—since she was 13. Keeps bottles around her house for consistent whiffs, even stashing them in purses and jackets.
    • “Theresa has a boyfriend. And there were periods of my life where I was single. Theresa has a boyfriend. And the dude with the downward penis curve can’t get a girlfriend. This world is not fair.” – Bryan (43:13)
    • Noteworthy: Her boyfriend and daughter are resigned, despite health warnings.

    Pine Cleaner (Pine-Sol) Addict

    • Woman addicted to smelling Pine-Sol, using it as air freshener, laundry detergent, a mask insert, and even boiling it on the stove.
    • “If I could douse my soul in pine cleaner, I would. The first thing I do when I wake up, I smell my pine cleaner.” – Jillian (29:43)
    • Hosts react with a blend of astonishment and disgust, speculating on need for therapy.
      • “I have Pine cleaner added to, like, a soft squirt bottle. It concentrates the aromas and the vapors, and it directs the spray directly into my nose or my mouth.” (34:18)

    Vapor Rub Addict

    • A woman who snorts, ingests, and puts VapoRub on her eyelids—spending up to $350/month on her habit.
    • “I like to feel it melt in the back of my throat.” – Danielle (51:01)
    • Bryan and Krissy’s disgust peaks as she eats VapoRub and puts it in her tea.
      • “I can't watch someone eat VapoRub. It makes me sick to my stomach, actually, if I’m being honest. God, I'd rather be in a cult than eat VapoRub.” – Bryan (51:49)

  • Both hosts continually riff on the theme that “there are a lot of people in this world and some of them aren’t well”—a refrain throughout the episode.

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4. Audience Interaction & Outro (52:38 – End)

• Bryan and Krissy invite listeners to share their own strange scent or substance addictions (“Text from another phone number... all these people seem to have children, so text from your child’s phone!”) (52:43)
• They briefly mention inclement weather affecting Florida, referencing canceled TCB live events and expressing concern for listeners in the region.

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Memorable Quotes & Banter

• “Your constant failure allows other people to shine.” – Bryan, tongue-in-cheek, opening the episode (00:00)
• "Sometimes people who are super famous like to have people who are not super famous because they don't have to deal with all the industry." – Bryan (08:32)
• "There’s a lot of people in this world and not all of them are well.” – Krissy (02:14, echoed throughout)
• "Despite all the cocaine I’ve done... the smell still remains strong. That's my super[power]." – Bryan (26:17)
• "Theresa has a boyfriend. And there were periods of my life where I was single... This world is not fair.” – Bryan, on the gasoline addict (43:13)
• "I'd rather be in a cult than eat Vapor Rub.” – Bryan (51:49)

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Notable Episode Segments & Timestamps

• Internet conspiracies & the nature of “truth” (01:52 – 05:03)
• Lana Del Rey’s surprise wedding & “hot ones with the hard ones” (06:34 – 13:32)
• Chappell Roan & fame burnout (14:00 – 18:44)
• Anthony Bourdain & authenticity in food shows (20:27 – 22:40)
• "My Strange Addiction" reactions: Pine-Sol, gasoline, and VapoRub (27:26 – 52:07)
• Call for listener stories (52:40)
• Compassion for Florida listeners (weather) (53:10)
• Signature TCB sendoff (54:18)

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Tone & Style

As always, the conversation flows freely—self-deprecating, sharp, and sincerely weird. The hosts’ close friendship brings warmth and a sense of being in on the joke. Beneath the laughter, they occasionally touch on real empathy for the tribulations of both stars and everyday oddballs.

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For fans new and old, “Good Gas Almighty” is classic Commercial Break: equal parts unvarnished weirdness, astute pop culture commentary, and the kind of banter you’d want at every dinner party—if only you could keep a straight face.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

Some people just aren't meant to amount to anything. What if everyone amounted to something then? Amounted to something wouldn't be special. Your constant failure allows other people to shine. On this episode of the commercial Break. When I was into coke, I would go over to the dealer's house and he'd have like, you know, half a brick or something and he'd be like cutting it off and weighing, you know, half ounce, you know, whatever. I had $7 on me, you know what I'm saying? And I'd be like, man, if I only, if I could only. Do you think when a gas TR truck passes by, this lady's like, yeah. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the take to my Taylor, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe, how the hell are you? Do you know Tate McCray? Have you heard of Tate McCray?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't think so.

[Brian Green]

Whoa, Nelly. Tate McCray. She's a singer.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Can't say that I love her music because I. That wouldn't be a true statement, but she's not a bad looking woman. Okay, McCray, check her out on your instas and your. In your tick tocks. Wow. Oh, hey, Tate McCray. She's a very beautiful woman. Very beautiful. Reminds me of Britney Spears. Not, not in the way that she looks, but kind of the trajectory of her career.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And she dresses, you know, flashy, and she was just at the VMAs and this kind of low cut, half cut, dressy thing that it reminds me of something that Brittany would have worn back in the 90s, right. Or the 2000. When was Brittany? Around 2000s.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Do you see that people go 90s, 90s, 2000s, late 90s, early 2000s.

[Jillian]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Do you see how people go fucking bananas over trying to figure out whether Britney Spears is actually Britney Spears on Instagram? This is a bananas theory that is going around. And of course, I think this started off with someone trolling somebody and it's just taken on a life of its own. People are so incredibly dumb. I just have to say that. I mean, I don't know what.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's a lot of people in this world and not all of them are well.

[Brian Green]

Not all of them are well. And I'm starting to think that most of them aren't well. Actually, I think we might be in the minority. And I'm not saying I'm well. Either. I'm not, I'm full of calcium and my brain doesn't work so well. But I do have to say that people who are like, they take the Instagram posts and the TikTok videos that Brittany makes and then they stop them and then somebody Photoshops like one of her fingers is a little bit longer than the last video and then they catch her at a certain angle and she looks like a man and then they look at her, you know, they, they superimpose another image of a lookalike and say, this must be a little.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Time could be spent way better.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, of course. But you know, these are 13 year old boys that are probably starting these, you know, rumors and then it becomes some kind of Internet, you know, conspiracy theory and it just, it makes me go bananas because I know the truth is a very delicate thing and it's hard to keep a hold of and everybody, of course.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. And this especially in the times we're in.

[Brian Green]

In the times that we're in. There was a recent study that said 54 of Americans don't know what the don't believe, don't understand what the truth really is when it comes to our politics and the news. They don't understand. I can see why they don't believe it. They don't understand it. And I can also understand why too is because you turn on one channel and you get one thing and turn on another channel and you get a completely different thing and it's hard to understand how do you know which one is right and which one is wrong? Where are the facts? And, and then it's hard to say who's to blame for that because both sides of the, at least the political aisle are both guilty of doing the same thing. And that is twisting up real facts to fit their own narrative. So it's hard to figure out what the facts are. But when it goes all the way down to Britney Spears, I mean, come on guys, really. Britney's Britney, she just likes dancing crazy in her underwear on Instagram videos. There's no look alike. Why? Oh no. Who is benefiting? I tend to think that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one because that's. Because that's how life works in general. Right. So when I hear these crazy conspiracy theories about, you know, George Bush knocked down the twin Towers, it's like really, it would take thousands and thousands of human beings would have to be involved in that in some way, shape or form and people can't even keep their mouth shut about, you know, anything. Yeah, yeah. Looking At Ben and Jen or whatever. You can't even keep your mouth shut for two seconds about those two idiots. They're out running around with each other and there's a million. No one can keep a secret. That's basically what I'm saying. So who would benefit from having a Britney double on Instagram? Who? Who? Tate McCray. I don't know. Tate McCray. McCray.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Look up Tate McCrae now.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Tate McCray. Look her up. Look up Tate McCray and see what you think. See if I'm off on this one, because I think. And listen, I'm not trying to be machismo here. I'm just saying I think she's an attractive.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, here she is. You're appreciating a beautiful.

[Brian Green]

I am appreciating the human form. That's what I'm doing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. The dancing. I can see.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How it is kind of Britney spearish.

[Brian Green]

You see what I'm saying?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

She just did it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Very beautiful.

[Brian Green]

And the reason why I bring it up is because she just did a video where she's like, completely buck naked being arrested. And I'm not really sure what the premise of the video is because I've only seen clips of it, but sex sells. Sex does sell. And Tate's got it. Whatever that is, she's got it. And so there you go. Why couldn't I have been blessed with a. With one of those bodies? You know, I see those guys out there. Oh, I see those guys out there with these big chiseled bodies and, you know, they've beautiful handsome faces. And I'm like, wow, like that guy who played Eric Menendez on. On that show Monsters. And I'm like, why couldn't I have had a penis that long? Or have that chiseled body with the 13 pack or whatever, you know, and a nice jawline and. Good. Ha. Why couldn't I have had that? I'm stuck balding, fat, too much calcium in my blood, hairy thighs. I mean, you know, what's going on with me? I don't know. And then I read that Lana Del Rey, that beautiful Lana Del Rey married some local yokel alligator farmer from Florida. Did you see that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, I saw that she was getting married, but I didn't know who it was to.

[Brian Green]

God damn it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The hot ones with the hot ones.

[Brian Green]

The hard ones with the hot ones. How did those two get connected is what I want to know. Where did the alligator farmer meet Lana Del Rey? And where was I when? I mean, I. Trust me, I got my Own Lana Del Rey and Astrid. I don't. I want to be clear about this. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to Astrid. We both can. Astrid can. Astrid tells me all day long who she thinks is hot. She's dreaming that someday, you know, somebody else will walk in the door. And I'm not dreaming somebody else will walk in the door. But I'm just saying it is fucking insane that this, by all accounts local yokel, alligator farmer married Lana Del Rey.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

To be through friends.

[Brian Green]

Where in the world is Lana Del Rey have friends that know an alligator from. I mean, isn't she like at Mr. Chows or something in New York? I mean, Solana Del Rey, she's so exotic and she, her voice is beautiful.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know, she seems like so sultry. She's like, I don't know, it's like, I imagine that girl from Portishead only goes to like secret clubs in London and meets other very secret club people. Secret club people. Guys who wear eyeshadow and, and you know, have secret blood ceremonies and only have candles for lighting and can have sex for hours on end without help from a medication or a penis pump. You know what I'm saying? I do. And so then I look at this local Yoko farmer and I go, he must have a ten foot dick. That must be what's going on. Because how else does Lana Del Rey connect with the guy who's riding hovercraft for work? I mean, it's crazy. It's insane. It's insane. But that Lana Del Rey. You know, we talked about this a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, whenever it was, I don't know, my brain doesn't work correctly right now. But we talked about this, that sometimes people who are super famous like to have people who are not super famous because they don't have to deal with all the industry.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And I can see why.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Also I can see how that would be taxing on the relationship down the road.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I'm going to guess. And this, I'm just going to throw this out there and I don't want to, I don't want to bet on somebody's demise. But I'm going to guess this doesn't last very long because if you're an alligator farmer, if that's what you do for a living and then you get all of this attention super quickly, nine times out of 10, you probably are not going to handle it very well.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Ben couldn't even handle it.

[Brian Green]

Ben can't even handle it. And he's like one of the most famous people on earth. It's Ben fucking Affleck. He's. And he's been famous since he was like a teenager in his early 20s when he did the Goodwill of Hunting or whatever that show was, whatever that story was. So when you're 46 years old and you're going to work and, you know, you have your big cup and you're driving your monster truck around down in South Florida and you're wrangling alligators or whatever they do, and you got your good old boys and you watch the Florida game on TV on Saturdays and some shack in a swamp or whatever that guy does. And then all of a sudden, Lana Del Rey shows up for a tour of your alligator farm and your guys are married three weeks later. It's gonna be. The pressure's on, dude. The pressure is on.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's true.

[Brian Green]

And if you, you know, most of us do this, most of us are guilty of putting the best foot forward at the beginning of a relationship. And then slowly but surely, just like Astrid found out what a fucking shithead he really is. But now there's 17 kids involved, things start to unravel real quick. I'd say about after year number one, you start slipping a little bit, you know what I'm saying? You let a fart out here and a fart out there and pretty soon they know about all your crazy ex.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Girlfriends naked cooking to keep things going.

[Brian Green]

Well, yeah, I mean, listen, everyone's got their ways, the ways and means, but I'm just, just saying that, you know, this guy's gonna get an enormous amount of pressure. Everybody's gonna. What I, what I read the other day is I saw this about two weeks ago. I saw the first article that said Lana Del Rey connected to, you know, or seen with this guy. And I looked at the guy and I go, ah, you know, it's very tan, but besides the tan, I mean, he's better looking at me, but that's a low bar to set. But then I see that, you know, I see this about two weeks ago and I go, oh, because he's a little bit older than she is, I believe. And this guy probably has a lot of, like we all do, has a lot of secrets and a lot of skeletons in the closet or in the swamp. In the swamp. And what I read the other day, just yesterday, what I read was that they had gotten a hold of his ex fiance. Apparently he had been engaged once.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's what, that's what it first pops up when I'm just at a search for Lana Del Rey husband.

[Brian Green]

It only took two weeks for the ex fiance to come out and start talking shit. And I don't know that she's like talking shit shit. She's just saying basically she's really surprised. Shock wedding, of course, because she's like.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

A boat captain from Louisiana.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he's a boat captain from Louisiana? Yes. Oh, I thought he was in Florida. Excuse me, I'm sorry, Boat captain. But he's an alligator boat captain, right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think he is, yeah. Yeah, sounds like it.

[Brian Green]

He rides around showing you alligators. He's a tour guide, basically, is what he does. He's a tour guide. So he was engaged to this girl and it didn't take two weeks for her to start talking. And she probably got paid handsomely to have that conversation. Just my guess. She got paid handsomely to have that conversation. And everybody that knows this dude is going to look to cash in. Or 90% of the people that know this dude in any interaction, in any way, shape or form.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. He doesn't even own the company.

[Brian Green]

No.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Arthur's Airboat Tours.

[Brian Green]

How lucky is this guy? At least for a little while. How lucky is he? At least for a little while. Private planes and champagnes and all this other stuff. This guy's going to be living high on the hog for about another two months.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This says, according to the bio, he was previously worked as a at a chemical plant, but found his true calling as an airboat captain.

[Brian Green]

Well, hey, listen. Yeah, the world needs airboat captains too. Not arguing his profession. He's working for a living. That's good enough for me. I don't give a what you do. As long as you're not hurting other people. I don't give a what you do. But at the end of the day, the pressure is going to come down on him and his friends. There are going to be investigative reporters that these little shitty little TMZ wannabes, they're going to be sniffing up everybody's asses looking for a good story about this guy and that Lana Del Rey. She must know this. She's been famous for a long time. She must know. And that's why if I ever get in this situation, let's say that Astrid kicks me to the curb tomorrow and then On Thursday, Tate McCrae shows up at my front door. For some reason, I'm at the Starbucks and Tate McCray is sitting there and we get hooked. I'm telling her all the bad shit first. I'm saying, before we get involved. I might as well just tell you this now because it's gonna come out for years.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's gonna take a while.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Actually, just listen to my podcast.

[Brian Green]

So there's about 612 episodes of the commercial break. I need you to listen to about 598 of them and you'll hear my life story. And then. And then if you're good with it, come back to me in a month and let me know. Two months, three months. It took six days for the information to get it from server to server. I know it's going to take years to listen to this entire podcast, but it's very interesting. It's very interesting. That Tate McCrae thing is very interesting. And Tate McCrae is apparently, I mean, not take tape crazy. It's very interesting. Lana Del Rey. Is it Lana Del Rey? I say Lana like I say Laura. It's my lazy tongue and that. But that Tate McRae's friends with Chappelle Roan. Chapel Roan. Chapel Roan just canceled two big festivals after then canceling some European shows too. And I caught the announcement right when it came out. Don't ask me why, I don't know, it showed up on my Instagram. But that all things together are at all of us together or something. The festival ATM ato ata. I don't know what it is, but they have two of them, one in D.C. and one in New York. And the reason why, according to a lot of people, why they're able to do two festivals two weekends in a row in two different places and sell it out. Because festivals are hard to put on, they're hard to make money. And it's only their 10th year and it takes a long time for a festival to build up momentum. But the reason why is because Chapel Roan agreed to play both festivals and then she canceled, the first one being last weekend, and she canceled like Thursday and the festival started on Friday or she canceled Wednesday and started on Friday. And a lot of people, a lot of people were very upset. I mean, first of all, the festival turned off comments on the posts. Bad idea. Just a bad idea. Just not a good look. So the next post down is where all the comments went, right? And the next post down is like, oh, site map available now. You know, and everybody goes crazy about the fact that Chaplin Chapel is now has canceled. This Chapel has been, I think, struggling a little bit with all this new.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what I've heard.

[Brian Green]

I didn't know. Yeah, me too. I didn't know this, but she's been around for seven or eight years, a decade making music. And it's just recently that with this, you know, what is it? Midwest, whatever, that album that she put out, you know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's a good.

[Brian Green]

It's a great song. It's a good album. I like a lot of the songs on there. And I. And I'm with her. And then she puts out this post where she explains that I don't owe you every bit of me. She's getting some stalkers. She's getting people that are getting upset because she won't take pictures or she won't sign it, or she's out at the coffee shop and people want to bother her and she's like, I don't owe you every bit of me. I enjoy what I'm doing when I'm on stage, I'm entertaining. You can have that part of me. When you're listening to my album, you can have that part of me, but you can't have every part of me. I agree with her 150,000%. As a famous person myself who has on three occasions been approached, I don't want to be bothered. Okay. Just kidding.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No photos, please.

[Brian Green]

No, I don't give a shit. But I don't give a shit because I don't have that kind of pressure. And fame, I mean, if it's gotta be a lot. Yeah. If once a year somebody comes up.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

To me, life changing.

[Brian Green]

Life changing. Totally life changing. And not everybody's gonna handle it the same way. And not everybody wants that kind of fame. We talked to Nicky Jamie, who was like, one of the world's most famous musicians, and he says, I don't like it either. It's part of the. It's, you know, that's where the devil is. You know, you make a deal with the devil, that's where the devil is. He says, but I don't like it. I like my privacy. I like to be alone sometimes. I don't want to always be on. And I get what she's saying, but people are silly and stupid and sycophantish and they get these weird ideas in their head and they just don't stop. Like, it's. They expect that. There's an old saying, never meet your heroes. And the reason why is because they're just going to be human like you. And humans get irritated and upset and don't want to be bothered and need some privacy and need some alone time. And Chapel said this clearly a couple of weeks ago on Instagram, said, I don't owe you, every bit of me. Stop it. I don't. I want to be able to go to the mall and do what I want to do. I want to be able to go to the coffee shop, out shopping, out to dinner with friends, and I don't need you along with me. And no, I'm not going to sign your silly shit and I'm not going to take a photograph with you because I am being myself. And that's just what I want to be. Unfortunately for Chapel, that's not going to happen. Because people. Because there's a lot of people in this world and most of them aren't. Well, that's how it goes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

That said, canceling last minute like that is a bit, I think, unprofessional. Now, her mental health comes above all else. I will say yes, definitely. But to do it multiple times in a row days before the show feels to me to be a tad bit unprofessional. And the festival, it probably needs to refund people some money, which they are asking for. Hey, I made these plans. I paid hundreds of dollars for these tickets just to see Chapel, and now I'm not going to get to do that. Are you going to compensate us or at least put somebody else in her place? I can understand the anger behind this. You know, two things can be true at the same time. Chapel can have her mental health vacation that she obviously needs, and the festival.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Chapel or Chappelle.

[Brian Green]

I've heard it said both ways, but I think it's Chapel Roan.

[Theresa]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. Today on this episode, I'm saying a Chapel Roan.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay?

[Brian Green]

And then I'll say it's Chappelle Roan tomorrow. But two things can be true at the same time. She needs to prioritize her mental health, but then people have the right to be disgruntled about the fact that they are just made plans just to see this one artist, and that's why they went. Obviously. Of all the people at that festival, she is the draw right now. And you know, I would be upset too if I paid, you know, 10. Who do I go see? You know, if. If I went to go see the Beach Boys, it was like, people have a high area and Brian Wilson didn't show up. I'd be upset. That's the truth. Right? You would be too. And so, you know, I see all that, the kerfuffle out there, and I can understand it. I really can. I can understand how it is. How would Jeff handle that if someone canceled last minute? Well.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, it Wasn't last minute, but they did have someone that canceled, you know, due to health reasons. The Queens of the Stone Age.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And they replaced with Jack White. So, yeah, you kind of have to replace.

[Brian Green]

Okay, all right. I'd say that. I'd say you got the better end of the stick there, but that's my personal opinion. Love the Queens of Stone Age. But I would also say those are two very similar, like, type Ish artists. Like, if you like Jack White, you're likely to like Queens of the Stone Age. And so he's fitting in a good alternative there. Yeah, good for Jack, stepping in there last.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

I mean, he got paid a lot of money, but good for him anyway to step in there last minute. I guess Jack wasn't doing anything that weekend, huh? It just happened.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He loves Memphis, for one. And then. Yeah, he was happy. He's actually been filling in a little bit with the health issues for Queens of the Stone Age.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he has. He's been jumping into the festival circuits and stuff like that. Yeah. Good. They're friends, I think, aren't they? Yes, they're friendly. Friend, friendish. That guy from the Queens of the Stone Age. The only reason, I mean, I like their music, but then additionally why I like him. And listen, I know he's not a perfect human being. There's a lot of stuff that he's done that's not great. He's also a rock star. And I don't expect rock stars to be perfect human beings because they're just guys who play guitar. But the reason why I think I will always have a little bit of an affection for him is because he was good friends with Anthony Bourdain and he was always great when he was with Anthony Bourdain.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I miss Anthony.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man, do I. You know, I had this insta. On my personal. I. I follow this Anthony Bourdain every day, I think is what it's called. And so they send out a photo or a clip or something every day. And every day I miss that guy. And I wonder what he would be saying about where we are in 2024. And he just always had a way of summing it up.

[Theresa]

He did.

[Brian Green]

He did. Summing it up, but with no conclusion whatsoever. He didn't, like, pontificate. He wasn't telling everybody what to do.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it was a short and sweet.

[Brian Green]

Sweet. Yeah, it was. He spoke in isms and platitudes, but not like the kind of platitudes you would expect. Like, you Know, it is what it is. But the platitudes that he made up that were original. And I always liked his point of view. I always felt like there was a kinship there. Like, I understood who Anthony Bourdain was from, like, and I liked him from the very beginning. Like, from the very first time I read his book. Oh, his books are fantastic because he tells it like it is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

The only person. I was talking about this with somebody. The only person who has ever, in my opinion. Was I talking to you about this?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We have talked about this.

[Brian Green]

About the bear. The.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah, we talked about the bear.

[Brian Green]

The only person, in my opinion.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Watch the bear.

[Brian Green]

I haven't watched the bear yet. It's on our list.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We're getting it on the list for a while.

[Brian Green]

I might get to it after the surgery. To be honest with you, the only person, the only television show, the only person who has ever gotten the restaurant industry right is Anthony Bourdain. Like, showing it to the world, telling you like it is, having you come along with on the ride, that is the craziness.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, that's why it was so popular. Kitchen Confidential.

[Brian Green]

Read it. It's like a prerequisite of eating. If you eat and you go to a restaurant and you want to know what it's like for those people that are serving you three times a day, the misery that they go through and the craziness and the just absolute insanity that is a restaurant kitchen and a restaurant in general. Reid, Kitchen Confidential. Because he gives you the unvarnished truth from his point of view, and I think it's really accurate.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

All right, so good.

[Brian Green]

Speaking of things that smell good and taste good, let's take a break, and I got a video for you here today, okay?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

All right, we'll be back.

[Christina]

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[Brian Green]

Okay? I do have to say this. You and I yesterday were talking about Megalopolis and how at the screenings there was going to be an actor there breaking the wall. Right, the fourth wall. I just read that. That is not true, that there will be an actor at every single screening. You have to go to the enhanced screening and those are only available in certain cinemas.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay?

[Brian Green]

So if you have enhanced screening or going to one, then I must know. You must come on the show. You must tell us what that was all about. Okay. All right. So I have been having a back trouble along with my brain trouble. I've been having back trouble and my calcium trouble and my brain trouble in my brain and my hypercalcium. Yeah, My whole body is just breaking down basically. And they may all be connected, who knows? But at the. At the same time I put this stuff on my back called Tiger Balm. Do you know what Tiger Balm is? You've heard about it probably. If you're lived in. If you use. If you lived in the 80s, there were commercials about a tiger bomb. You know, ancient Chinese medicine, Tiger Balm. I love Tiger Balm. Tiger Balm works. You put it on your sore muscles. It makes it feel nice and cool. It numbs the whole area. It's wonderful stuff. It's probably full of stuff that's terrible for. It probably caused my hyperparathyroidism, but who cares? I use it. I slather it on my back. It stains every. All the clothing that I have.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It makes everything smell, but.

[Brian Green]

Makes everything smell. But I love. I hated that smell at first. But I have come to love.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, if you associate it now with.

[Brian Green]

You feeling better, then yeah, yeah, maybe it's. Maybe that's why. I don't know, I'm connecting it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm a guy who smells is a very big part of memory.

[Brian Green]

Oh, it is. Oh, well then I wonder why my memory doesn't work so good. Because I can smell. If blue poops in this house and it is all the way on the other end of the house, within seconds I will smell it. My sense of smell is so keen. My eyesight and my hearing, not so good. But in my touch and my feel and my taste and my. My tasty teeners, not so good. However, my smell is excellent. Anybody who knows me for a long time will know that I just get. I'm highly sensitive smell. So as I snort into the microphone, so I reminded.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Despite all the drugs, despite all the.

[Brian Green]

Despite all the cocaine I've done, despite all the things that have been up.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There, somehow the smell made it through.

[Brian Green]

Yes. The smell still remains strong. That's my super. Imagine if I hadn't done all the drugs. I'd probably be going crazy over every smell ever. But this reminded me of an episode that I saw once of my strange addiction, which we haven't done a. Reviewed an episode of this in a very long time. I found a compilation video of all the weird. The people who do weird smelling stuff. Right. Because that's a big thing and it's an actual psychiatric disease. But of course, everything's an actual psychiatric disease these days.

[Christina]

Right?

[Brian Green]

I mean, honestly, everything has a. Has a name. Everything is a curse. Everything is a reason why you should do this or why you shouldn't do this. But anyway, I'm sure the people who suffer from this legitimately not like me who just claims I. I suffer from something because I did it once. But like people who actually suffer from it, like the people we're about to hear from, that. This must be terrible. But there are people out there who sniff. Who like the smell of some rather strange shit and do it a whole bunch of. And so I thought we'd take a look at some of these people on this compilation video. What do you think?

[Christina]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right, let's go for it. This is my Strange Addiction compilation.

[Jillian]

I am sniffing gasoline once every 10 minutes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's like the first thing that came to my mind when. With people doing this. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Gasoline.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Gasoline is a thing.

[Brian Green]

Gasoline is a thing. And apparently, you know, I. Sometimes you go to a gas station and I'll see like a bottle, like a water bottle full of gas, you know, you think it's a piss, but then like, it's. Gas is what it is because people huff it because it makes them high. I Gasoline, to me, it's a smell is fine, whatever. It doesn't bother me necessarily. And I'm glad it doesn't because I fill up my car a couple of times a week, you know, but at.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The same time, on high alert.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

When I smell that smell, I would.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, of course, of course.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Flammable.

[Brian Green]

I know. And then I see these morons that smoke at the gas station.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

Even when I was a smoker, I never thought to light up at a gas station. Never.

[Jillian]

Matt. I have a bottle with me. Nobody can get through to her.

[Brian Green]

And now we're smelling gas while you're cooking.

[Jillian]

And your point is? I'm afraid you could die.

[Brian Green]

And your point is? I done been cooking with gasoline for five years and ain't nothing bad happened. Oh, honey, I'M on fire.

[Jillian]

I don't want to do it for myself, and there's no point in doing it.

[Christina]

Jesus, stop.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, because your brain is going to rot from the inside. I mean, honestly. Yeah. Oh, God. This drives me crazy. These people. My strange addiction. The scent addictions.

[Theresa]

My name is Jillian. I'm 33 years old, and I'm addicted to smelling pine cleaner.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Pine fall.

[Brian Green]

She's driving down the road sniffing it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Didn't we do another episode where we talked about the Pine Sol? Somebody liked to eat it or drink it or something.

[Brian Green]

I don't think they were drinking Pine Sol. I think they were drinking. I think they were drinking gasoline. I think that's what they were doing. We did that episode, like, years ago. Yeah, yeah, they were. They were drinking a couple. Like a couple liters of gasoline every week. And the doctor was like, you realize this is really bad for you. And she's like, is it really?

[Theresa]

Pinecleaner is my holy grail.

[Brian Green]

Oh, look at her.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She's got bottles and bottles and bottles.

[Brian Green]

Sitting around the table, and she's, like, rocking back and forth, snorting it. That's like, my nightmare is to become one of those people in old age where I'm just, like, huffing pine cleaner.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'll keep an eye on you.

[Brian Green]

Thanks.

[Theresa]

If I could douse my soul in pine cleaner, I would. The first thing I do when I wake up, I smell my pine cleaner.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Did your parents. Did your mom ever used to clean with the pinel?

[Brian Green]

Oh, of course mine did.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, the mopping.

[Brian Green]

There was a.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There was a whole mop. The floor.

[Brian Green]

There was a Pine Sol decade. From, like, 83 to 93, when Pine Sol just took over the world. It was everywhere. Every house smelled like pine salt because it was supposedly cleaned. Everything, it was just made of gasoline and pine scent. It was terrible. It was terrible, terrible. Everything smelled like Pine Sol. I remember being, like, maybe a child, like. Like a small child. Some of my first memories are sitting on my linoleum floors in Chicago and smelling that Pine Sol. And to me, it doesn't smell all that great. I'm not a fan of it. How this lady can have it around her house. Thousand bucks she's not married.

[Theresa]

And I will smell pine cleaner. I will use it as laundry detergent.

[Brian Green]

What?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, what?

[Brian Green]

Dude, If I'm the guy who has to sit in the cubicle next to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This lady, she needs to clean.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, she needs to clean the laundry.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The washer.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God, look at that washer. How does a washer get that dirty? How do you do that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Chrissy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, Just use some of that Pine sol on that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, this is all skipping me out.

[Theresa]

Into a pot on my stove here so that it permeates the whole house.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh my God.

[Theresa]

It's like an air freshener.

[Brian Green]

She's using it as an air fresher. She's spraying it around the house and she's boiling a pot of it so that it. Can you imagine being the guy who hooks up with this girl on Tinder?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Surprise.

[Brian Green]

Hold on one second. I'm going to get the pine salt and douse my vajayjay in it.

[Theresa]

When I leave the house, I will take a little spray bottle in my purse. I will also, so put it on a bandana to keep in my pocket.

[Brian Green]

She's walking down the road starting a bandana full of fine salt.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

Oh my God. Remember when I made that statement a couple months ago on the show? I said, there's a lot of people in this world and some of them aren't. Well, I was thinking about this lady.

[Narrator]

This is up for as long as she can remember. Jillian has always loved the smell of pine cleaner.

[Brian Green]

She had a bandana like a black bandana wrapped around her face like an old bank robber, like in one of those. Put your hands up, give me all the pine sold you got. This is a good defense for Diddy. I, I, I, I like snorting the, the lube, your honor. I was addicted to the lube, your honor.

[Narrator]

But two years ago, her love affair turned into a full blown addiction after a stressful divorce.

[Theresa]

The pine cleaner absolutely did give me solace. It was like kind of a soft, calm spot amidst all the chaos.

[Narrator]

Now she's so dependent on the smell.

[Brian Green]

Don't you think? For all the money you spend on pine cleaner, and I mean, you have hundreds of bottles of pine cleaner, you could get a good fucking therapist to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Get you through the divorce. Yeah, that's what needs happen.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you need Tinder and a psychiatrist. Not anymore. Pine salt and a cat. That poor cat. There's a cat in the house. That poor cat.

[Narrator]

He needs a fix every 15 minutes and can't function without the scent.

[Theresa]

It's a very strong bait paper. Kind of like if you took a pine tree and you dipped it in.

[Brian Green]

A van, dipped it in gasoline.

[Christina]

Bleach.

[Brian Green]

Jillian goes up to goes through up to six bottles of pine cleaner a week. Yeah, but how do you go through it?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was gonna say you're just snorting it.

[Brian Green]

What are you going through? I mean, I Know, you pour a little bit on a cloth to smell it, but still the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I guess between the cloth and then the burning.

[Brian Green]

Spritzing. She's at a restaurant. They literally showed her in a restaurant spritzing the restaurant with pie cleaner. Jeez, 300 bottles a year. What do you think a bottle of pine salt cost? $8? 20, 24. $8. Okay, $8 times 300. That is $2,400. You can pay a therapist $100 an hour and go twice a month. Once every other week, I have pine.

[Theresa]

Cleaner added to, like, a soft squirt bottle. It concentrates the aromas and the vapors, and it directs the spray directly into my nose or my mouth. I also use the surgical mask with the pine.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Whoa. Oh, my God. Chrissy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She's putting it on like, yeah, the surgical mask, obviously.

[Brian Green]

And not making fun of. Obviously. This lady is meant. Has mentally. Has mental illness right now. Maybe not always, but right now in her life, she's mentally ill at home.

[Theresa]

And just strap it to my face. But my favorite way to smell pine cleaner is to have a bottle that has maybe an inch or two left at the bottom. The harder I crunch the bottle, the harder the scent is being forced into my nose. I almost feel like it's burning.

[Brian Green]

She's got her own, like, addiction habits, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you have your favorite bong or the favorite way to roll a joint or your favorite way to shoot crystal. Met. You know what I'm saying?

[Jillian]

Right?

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying, Chrissy?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I do.

[Brian Green]

You have your favorite way to shoot crystal? Yeah. Okay.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Everything does.

[Theresa]

Sight of my sinus cavities and my nasal passages, but I couldn't imagine a happy life without it.

[Narrator]

But Jillian isn't the only one who constantly smells pine cleaner. Her ex husband and current roommate is also subjected.

[Brian Green]

What? Oh. Oh, my God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Ex husband and current roommate.

[Brian Green]

No. No. Hell no.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And we wonder why this certainly healthy situation.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they're all addicted to pine cleaner. I got a feeling they're addicted to more than pine cleaner.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I think so too.

[Brian Green]

I think the pine cleaner helps them get through the times when they don't have the real deal. The scent, the smell really gets to me. It hurts. Hurts my nose sometimes. It'll give me a headache. Oh, he doesn't like it. Why are you living.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Why are you living there?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And you guys are divorced. You don't have, like, a mom or a dad or a brother or drug dealer. You live on their couch. Pine cleaner contains A toxic chemical called ethyl alcohol. Alcohol exhalate. Repeated exposure can cause severe respiratory damage and cancer. You don't say.

[Theresa]

And sometimes I do have shortness of breath.

[Brian Green]

You have asthma and you're doing this? Oh, man. That's like me, but like when I was 26 years old and I get a terrible sinus infection, I'd be smoking cigarettes like it's going out of style.

[Theresa]

Yeah, I'll wake up with that cinder block on my chest feeling.

[Narrator]

And recently, Jillian's addiction has started to escalate.

[Theresa]

It's not just quick sniffs anymore, it's sessions. I will.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. We gotta try this. Maybe this will make us feel better.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm not trying that.

[Brian Green]

Maybe I can get over my hypercalcemia with a little bit of pine soil and clean my brain right now and.

[Theresa]

Go into a trance like state.

[Narrator]

It's scary being a pine trance.

[Brian Green]

A pine trance. A trans. All pine transel. To witness. I try to tell her to stop, and she's just kind of ignorant to it and. And believes that it's not doing her any harm at all.

[Theresa]

It's been a part of me for so long. It's not something that I can ever foresee wanting out of my life.

[Brian Green]

Well, you've only been doing it for two years, so it's not been a part of your life for so long. You're 36 years old. It's been for a small part of your life. You gotta stop this lady. Yeah, call me. I'll. I'll talk you. I'll talk you through this. I'm a professional.

[Jillian]

My name is.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Okay, let's take a break and then we'll get to the lady who's. We'll get to another lady who's giving something. Yeah, okay. But I wasn't ready for the break. Why did I say I'm gonna go to the break if I wasn't ready for the break?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Kirsy, I don't know.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. It's. I blame it all on my. On my pine sole. We'll be back.

[Christina]

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[Brian Green]

All right, we're checking out weird scent addictions. We just listened to the girl with the Pine Sol addiction, which was. That's about as strange as it gets, I think. But here. Here's a lady who's addicted to smelling gasoline. I think this one is more mainstream. I think there's a more mainstream angle to smelling gasoline. I do know some people who, when I was younger, yes, they sniff gasoline to get high. I wonder where those people are now.

[Jillian]

Theresa, I'm 44 years old. I'm from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and I'm addicted to smelling gasoline.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She's so proud.

[Brian Green]

Absolute. Williamsport, Pennsylvania. By the way, Williamsport, Pennsylvania is one of the cities that's going to determine the next election, so. Thank God. Thank God.

[Jillian]

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I. I roll over, sit up and smell my gas bottle.

[Brian Green]

Bad coin.

[Jillian]

Then I'll get up, take another.

[Brian Green]

Did you see that? Right next to her gas bottle is prescription pills.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That house. Whoa.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Not. Not. Not my house. Not where I would live.

[Jillian]

Sniff of the gasoline, and then I'll come downstairs, and a couple minutes later, I'll take another sniff of it.

[Brian Green]

She got a printer next her bed. I always wondered why people would have printers in their bedroom. You know what I'm saying? I mean. I mean, I think I had a printer in my bedroom once because that's the only room that I was allowed to be in. In, like, a roommate situation. But why else would you have a printer? Why would you have a printer sitting next to your bed? To do what? To print stuff out. Like, oh, I. I print so many things, I need to have it next to my bed. When I wake up in the morning, all my prints are done.

[Narrator]

Teresa has been addicted to smelling gasoline lean for over 30 years.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

30.

[Narrator]

She takes a sniff every 10 minutes and even wakes up in the middle of the night for a fix.

[Jillian]

I don't even know how to explain how it smells. I just love the smell of it.

[Brian Green]

No, you're getting high. That's what you like. You're honest about it.

[Jillian]

It makes my nose feel inside the back of my throat.

[Brian Green]

She's, like, orgasmic while she's doing this. You see that look on her face? Jeez. Wow. Weird.

[Narrator]

Teresa was only 13 years old when her dad asked if she wanted to smell his gas can.

[Brian Green]

Hey, honey, what you want to smell? My ass can. I meant gas can. Sorry. Don't tell your mama.

[Jillian]

I smelled it that one time. And that was all it took.

[Narrator]

Now she stashes four water bottles filled with gasoline throughout the house.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's safe.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Jillian]

No matter where I'm at, I have.

[Brian Green]

A. Yeah, because, you know, in case there's a fire, you want to have some random gas cans around. Yeah. Put it out real quick with me.

[Jillian]

I keep it either in my purse or in my jacket pocket when I eat. It's sitting.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I wonder what she does.

[Brian Green]

Like, if she flies, I guess. Well, first of all, I'm gonna guess that this lady hasn't left her house in a couple decades. Second of all, I guess. Is it illegal to fly with gasoline? Yes, probably.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You can't take it through? No, of course, the. The screening. Yeah, but you can't get it.

[Brian Green]

I mean, but if, if you put it in a bottle, would they know? I mean, they would. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You can't take liquids through the screening.

[Brian Green]

Oh, that's. Well, you can, you can. But you can take soap through and stuff like that, Right? What if you just put a little.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Talking about, I mean, it's water bottles.

[Brian Green]

Well, then you got to get to a gas station as soon as you land. That's all I got to say. Well, they have lots of gas at the. At the, I guess, airport. You know what I'm saying?

[Jillian]

Wait a minute.

[Brian Green]

She's stopping mid interview so she can huff gas.

[Jillian]

That might make me feel better.

[Brian Green]

Teresa takes what, 120 times a day she takes a sniff 4040, 3800 times a year. I love how TLC does the math for you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was gonna say that's a nice touch.

[Narrator]

When I walk in the door, the first thing that hits me is the smell of gas. Smells like you're walking into a garage.

[Brian Green]

Theresa has a boyfriend. Theresa has a boyfriend. And there were periods of my life where I was single. Theresa has a boyfriend. And the dude with the downward penis curve can't get a girlfriend. This world is not fair. It's not fair. Life is not fair.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How did it even progress to boyfriend status is what I want to know. If you didn't like it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. How do you get past the first date when she's sniffing every seven minutes? Seriously, how many hours there? 12 hours a day. She's sniffing every six minutes. She's taking a snort. If it's 120 times a day. That's assuming you're up for 12 hours, you know, a day cooking.

[Jillian]

And your point is? You don't like it. Go upstairs.

[Brian Green]

When Teresa doesn't have gasoline, watch out. She doesn't watch out. Every morning I get up, make myself a cup of coffee and some gasoline.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Pour a cup of gas.

[Brian Green]

Pour a cup of gas and get her morning fix.

[Narrator]

What do you think it's doing to your health?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You know how they always like the shows I watch where they. They're trying out different vacation homes or different homes, and they always say the same thing. If it's a beautiful view, they'll go out there and go, I can picture having my morning coffee out here.

[Brian Green]

I can picture my morning gas can. I can picture having my own. My own gas pump right here.

[Jillian]

I don't know. I can't answer that. But I'm not going to sit here and have you throw it in my face when, you know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Please don't throw it in her face. Literally.

[Brian Green]

You want to know something? Like, this is terrible to admit, but, you know, I would go to, like, the, like, d. D would come over or something, or. Or when I was into coke, I would go over to the dealer's house, and he'd have, like, you know, half a brick or something, and he'd be like, cutting it off and weighing, you know, a little half. You know, what if. $7 on me, you know what I'm saying? And I'd be like, man, if I only. If I could only. Do you think when a gas truck passes by, this lady's like, if I only had. Yeah, they had that. You've been saying that for years, but you're still smelling gas. Years. They've been together for years and is.

[Narrator]

Supported by her boyfriend. She spends almost 400amonth on her addiction.

[Brian Green]

Jesus.

[Jillian]

Fight over it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She's in the wrong profession. She should go into, like, being the. The. The gas that deposit the gas.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Or. Or a pumper.

[Brian Green]

A pumper. You know, they still have. There's one gas station here in Atlanta. You pull up, they still have full service.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

If she could get that job, she's one for me, one for you, one for me, one for you.

[Jillian]

You know, to go get the gasoline can filled, because I have to have my gasoline to sniff. I come to the gas station about twice a week. The more I go the. To the gas station, the fresher the gas is. I've heard her talk about situations where she chose the gas well.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I mean, she's been hooked on gas for years. I mean, what did she do with the. With the daughter? The. Her daughter was just talking.

[Brian Green]

I don't. Yeah. I mean, how do you even have a baby?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, yeah, I know.

[Brian Green]

I mean, the daughter seems like nothing's wrong. I mean, I don't know, but she doesn't seem like anything's wrong, at least physically.

[Jillian]

Food or something like that. She just needs her fix. I'm pet.

[Brian Green]

If I'm the gas station guy, like, I'm the guy turning on the pump. Don't you think at some point I'd call the police? Yeah, I'd be like, that lady's out there rubbing her hands all over the gasoline, putting it to her face.

[Jillian]

Memory loss since about 1995. Because of my memory loss. I have to use.

[Brian Green]

Ginkgo bilopa, ginkgo balopa. I use prevagen. Prevagen.

[Jillian]

I have to use little notes and leave them tacked up on my steering wheel of my car.

[Brian Green]

My God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Cat owner's bad names. Yeah, this woman has a cat too.

[Brian Green]

Why do all the people on my strange addiction have a cat? Well, probably because the dog has died. They don't. They can't take care of a dog. Cats can fend for themselves. Dogs cannot.

[Jillian]

Even outside of my purse sometimes.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It causes brain damage, nerve damage, and death.

[Brian Green]

I am actually surprised. This lady is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I can't believe it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Jillian]

The past six years I have had major stomach problems. I've had anemia problems. To think about the gas. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What's the killing? What's her doctor saying about.

[Brian Green]

Well, I don't think she goes to a doc. She must not tell the doctor this. Or maybe just like with her boyfriend. She's defiant. She's like, I'm not going to stop doing. Because if you're a doctor, what do you do? 5150 on her? Maybe that holds her for a couple of days, but, you know, she doesn't seem like she's like schizophrenic or something. You can't hold somebody indefinitely. God damn, dude. People, this world is so wacky.

[Jillian]

It just makes me just want to curl up in a ball and cry somewhere because I can't get through to her. Nobody can get through to her. I never really thought about going a day without it. I don't know if I could or not. I'm ashamed of it.

[Brian Green]

Well, at least she's got some self awareness. I mean, that's that one token of hope there.

[Jillian]

She just needs to know that she's very loved.

[Christina]

She needs to stop.

[Brian Green]

Look at her mouth. It's so weird how she moves her mouth all happy like that. All orgasmic after she sniffs the gas. I wish I was that happy once in my life.

[Danielle]

My name is Danielle.

[Narrator]

I'm 30.

[Brian Green]

Oh, here she comes. Here's my girl. Three years old.

[Danielle]

I live in San Antonio, Texas.

[Brian Green]

Vapor meant to be snorted. Yeah. No, I don't.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You like to smell it.

[Brian Green]

I don't do it like that. At least, I don't think I do. I am addicted to paper.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

If I see you carrying around a handkerchief.

[Brian Green]

I know if I come in here one day and I smell like Tiger Bomb, look out. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, sometimes now, sometimes, like, I'll get up in the morning, I might take kids to school. Like, you know, I. I shower afterwards when I get home if I'm in a rush, you know, I just. Whatever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But now that I have this going through this back issue and I'm rubbing Tiger Balm all over me, I have to take a shower every time because I'm afraid to walk into Starbucks smelling like a Tiger Balm. This lady's snorting Vapor Rub. But Vapor Rub was meant to go in your nose.

[Danielle]

I'll use all kinds of Vapor ups, The inhaler, the patches, the candles. But the rub is my favorite.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The candles.

[Brian Green]

The candles. They make candles.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I did not know that.

[Brian Green]

That's not a scent I want burning through my house. I don't think. I don't think I want that for Thanksgiving dinner.

[Danielle]

I like to put it on my eyelids.

[Jillian]

Eyelids.

[Danielle]

When somebody squirts lemon in your eye. But it's a good burn.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's like this vape. But you cannot get it anywhere near your eyes.

[Brian Green]

No. It says it right on the bottle. Called 91 1.

[Narrator]

Gail has been addicted to Vapor Rub for over 20 years. It started innocently as a child when she had a cold.

[Danielle]

I remember the first time I put it on my chest because I was sick, and it just smelled so good to me. I wanted to taste it. And it just went on from there.

[Narrator]

Now Danielle can't go more than 30 minutes without a fix and spends up to $350 a month to satisfy.

[Brian Green]

A month. That's a lot of Vapor Rub.

[Narrator]

Her cravings.

[Danielle]

I like to use my inhaler as much as a full minute just sitting there inhaling. It's like when you're somewhere really, really cold and you breathe. It kind of like stings a little, but kind of the good sting.

[Narrator]

But sniffing inhalers isn't the only way Danielle satisfies her addiction.

[Brian Green]

Oh, she eats it. Oh, no, Danielle, I was with you until the eating part.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Of my tongue ring.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this guy's gonna go in her tongue. Like, actually in inside of her tongue.

[Danielle]

It's hot, and then it turns cold, and it keeps going back and forth. I like to feel it melt in the back of my throat.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God, Danielle, what are you thinking?

[Narrator]

Danielle is so hooked, she even needs Vapor Rub in her morning tea.

[Brian Green]

Oh. Oh, no. Damn.

[Danielle]

I usually coat the bag with a little pepper.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, just get that peppermint and put a couple tea bags in there, a candy cane or something, and I'll do a full teaspoon.

[Danielle]

It kind of coats your throat, and it stays there.

[Jillian]

Oh, it makes the house smell really nasty.

[Brian Green]

It's, like, gross. It's paper rope. It's not what you eat. Oh, my God. These people have children. That's what makes me upset.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, that's got to be traumatizing.

[Brian Green]

All right, I can't get through the rest. I can't watch someone eat VapoRub. It makes me sick to my stomach, actually, if I'm being honest. God, I'd rather be in a cult than eat Vapor Rub. Oh, man. What is wrong with people? Chrissy?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Not well.

[Brian Green]

You know, we can complain about a lot of stuff, but at least we don't drink gasoline or sniff it or eat Vapor Rub or Pine Sol. That's the worst of the worst is the Pine Soldier. I do have to admit, of all the things that I want to be addicted to, Pine Sol is not the one. Gasoline. I don't love the smell of gasoline, but I think I could deal with it. Vapor Rub. I. I already like Tiger Balm, so I'm just one step away from. From Vapor Rub.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Oh, Lord.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

If any of you out there have some kind of strange smell.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I know at least one of our audience. Audience members addicted to snorting something. You have a strange addiction. I want to know about it. You don't have to tell me your name unless you've already texted us and told me your name, but, you know, text from another phone number. Tell me. All of these people seem to have children, so text from your child's phone number. Okay. I want to thank everybody again for being so understanding about canceling the. The TCB live in Florida and.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And by the way, wish everyone in Florida that they're okay. Yeah, the storm.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Which was happening, like, right as we were. We would have been doing the shows.

[Brian Green]

Well, yeah. It would have been a day after we were doing the shows, but there would have been a lot of drama and Tampa got got hit and all through up the armpit of Florida really got it. Thank God it's not extremely populated. But for those who do live there, it probably was a freaking nightmare. So everybody from Florida to South Georgia to Carolina, Carolinas to Buckhead. I mean, even Buckheads.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, I know.

[Brian Green]

So what? What a weather week. And guess what? I just looked. There's another storm forming in the same place.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The last one did I saw something.

[Brian Green]

About and the cone of uncertainties going right in the same path. So if you live in the armpit of Florida, get away. TCBpodcast.com Go there, get a new stick breaker 212-4333 TCB Questions? Comments? Concerns? Ideas? Add the commercial break on Instagram, TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I've started saying things like that.

[Brian Green]

All right, Chrissy, I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

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

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Sa.

[Brian Green]

Sam.