Irritating Billionaires For Dummies!

Summary

The Commercial Break | Ep: "Irritating Billionaires For Dummies!" (July 10, 2025)
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley

Episode Overview

In this lively, improv-driven episode of The Commercial Break, Bryan and Krissy riff on the perils and perks of irritating billionaires—particularly Mark Cuban—via unsolicited emails, and muse about the state of tech, pop culture, and relationships in America 2025 style. They navigate stories about the Fireside podcast platform, Elon Musk’s third-party experiment, the wild days of weatherman Mark Mathis, and the internet’s current obsession with “trad wife” and “princess treatment” culture. The signature TCB banter is chaotic, irreverent, and always self-aware, touching comedic nerves while providing relatable (if off-the-wall) perspectives on society’s latest trends.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bryan’s Ongoing "Irritating" Relationship with Mark Cuban

• Recounting the Backstory:

  • Bryan recalls getting invited to a private dinner with Mark Cuban and Fallon Fatemi (CEO of Fireside) back in 2021, describing early days on the Fireside platform.
  • Fireside was pitched as the “HBO of audio video social,” but seemed underpopulated at launch (03:06).
  • Bryan delivered an impromptu, rambling rant to Cuban about platform differentiation; Mark was amused, if bemused (04:50).
  • “I liked him. I hope that he liked me. I mean, I don’t know. … throwing magical words and weird sentences out there. Ram Dass.” – Bryan [04:50]
  • Mark dropped Bryan's name several times during the Podcast Movement keynote, creating a surreal moment for Bryan (06:13).

• The Email Exchange with Mark Cuban:

  • Every 6–12 months, Bryan initiates an email, usually “irritating” Mark. Mark always responds quickly, but with clear exasperation (02:18, 12:16).
  • Quote: “He does respond lickety split. …It doesn’t take him but five minutes to respond every time I email him.” – Bryan [02:18]
  • Most recently, Bryan invited Cuban to discuss his political opinions on the podcast after Cuban publicly supported Elon Musk’s new third party.
  • Cuban’s reply: “Jesus, Brian, it’s just a social media post.” – Mark Cuban (via Bryan) [12:16, 14:16]

2. Billionaires Behaving Badly (Musk, Cuban, et al)

• Elon Musk’s Political Maneuvering:
  • Musk launches a third political party; Bryan is skeptical but notes America needs a viable “strong middle class and common sense thinking” option (08:38).
  • Mark Cuban is one of the first to support Musk’s move, prompting Bryan’s invitation email.
  • Bryan’s fair approach: “If you’re doing something I like, I’ll say so. Trump included... same with the Democrats...” [10:10]
  • Krissy and Bryan humorously downplay their show’s influence: “We reach over three people in two different states... one of them is my mom.” [12:18]

3. Audience & Internet Reactions

• Feedback from listeners: Some urge TCB to “stay out of politics,” but the hosts stress their approach is about personal perspective, not punditry (13:00).
• Quote: “We all have our blind spots, whoever you are. …We don’t talk about politics on the show. We talk about things that affect our own personal lives...” – Bryan [12:43]

4. The Legend of Mark Mathis—the Wild Weatherman

• Who is Mark Mathis?
  • Viral resurgence of Mark Mathis, Charlotte, NC weather guy known for unhinged, coked-up energy and extreme on-air antics (21:59–32:00).
  • Bryan shares a supercut of Mathis’s greatest hits: improvised raps, thinly-veiled sexual jokes, openly defying management, and more.
    • “I’m Mark Mathis, through the weather just fine, I make it exciting every time. But when I act like a fool, remember the rule: If you want the forecast, watch Channel 9, yo.” – Mathis [23:37]
    • “He’s the Howard Stern of weatherman. He’s going wild.” – Bryan [24:53]
    • “He’s giving Mountain Dew, crystal meth. I make crystal meth in a Mountain Dew bottle kind of….” – Bryan [28:31]
  • Krissy and Bryan draw parallels to similar radio personalities, reflecting on the gap between wild public personas and sometimes troubled private lives (26:01).
  • Mathis is now at KUSI News in San Diego but may have toned down his shtick (31:07, 36:01).
  • Listeners invited to report on current Mathis antics in San Diego (36:44).

5. Modern Trad Wife vs. Princess Treatment Culture

• Examination of the internet’s fascination (and backlash) to “trad wife” and “princess treatment” influencer trends.

  • Explanation: Trad wives present an idealized vision of subservient, elegantly dressed home-makers; princess treatment extends this with strict gender roles and personal rules (38:28).
  • TCB Perspective: Hosts are skeptical, finding the “princess treatment” dynamic (e.g., wives not allowed to interact with hostesses, husbands order food) to be “creepy” and “foreign.” (42:12–47:54)
    • “This girl has really touched a nerve...you are essentially acquiescing all your wants and desires...to another human being.” – Bryan [46:10]
  • Krissy: “I’m looking for, like, a partnership.” [40:29]
  • Both hosts agree choice is important, with respect for those who truly choose these roles, but deep skepticism about the trend’s implications.

• Economic Power in Modern Trad Wife Influencers:

  • Bryan is amazed to learn some trad wife influencers earn millions; he notes that makes the woman the true power in those relationships [49:05].

6. TCB’s Self-Awareness & Reflection on Podcasting

• High-volume effort: Bryan and Krissy boast over a thousand episodes and five years on air, reflecting on their “hardest working in podcasting” status (53:58).
• Constantly poking fun at their own reach, relevance, and brand of “unstructured” comedy (“cheesecake factory of comedy podcasts”).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Emailing Mark Cuban:
  “I bother them too much. They get irritated. He does respond and he responds lickety split.” – Bryan [01:53]
  “Jesus, Brian, it’s just a social media post.” – (Mark Cuban, reported by Bryan) [12:16]

• On Elon Musk and Political Parties:
  “He bought this fucking Twitter, turned it into X and now it's a total shit show over there.” – Bryan [08:03]
  “He seems to have a lot of ketamine in his body for common sense thinking.” – Bryan [10:55]

• Mark Mathis Example:
  Mark’s homemade rap:
  “I’m Mark Mathis, through the weather just fine, I make it exciting every time. But when I act like a fool, remember the rule: If you want the forecast, watch Channel 9, yo.” [23:37]
  “He’s like the Howard Stern of weatherman. He's going wild. Who allows this to continue?” – Bryan [24:53]
  “He’s giving Mountain Dew, crystal meth. …I make crystal meth in a Mountain Dew bottle kind of…” – Bryan [28:31]

• On Trad Wife/Princess Treatment:
  “You are essentially acquiescing all of your wants and desires and life and willingness and free will to another human being...” – Bryan [46:10]
  “I’m looking for, like, a partnership.” – Krissy [40:29]

• On Podcasting Hustle:
  “We've got a thousand episodes. We're doing this show for five years. That's a lot of episodes.” – Bryan [54:22]
  “Maybe we gotta start a tradwife account. That's where all the money is, apparently.” – Bryan [54:28]

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Important Timestamps

• 00:41–06:00: Fireside podcast platform and Mark Cuban dinner story
• 08:00–12:16: Elon Musk third party, Mark Cuban’s involvement, Bryan’s outreach
• 21:25–32:00: Mark Mathis, wild weatherman, supercut and analysis
• 38:12–47:54: Trad wife and princess treatment culture discussion
• 53:58–54:36: Reflections on TCB's prolific output and joking about new business models

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Episode Tone & Style

• Loose, punchy, improv-style banter—hosts regularly riff on each other’s jokes, spiral into side stories, and keep an irreverent, honest (occasionally raunchy) tone.
• Self-deprecating, “just FINE” podcast energy with both in-depth dives and wild comedic tangents.

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For Listeners Who Haven't Tuned In

This episode playfully unpacks the hazards of pestering billionaires (and why Bryan can’t stop), the evolving circus of tech moguls in politics, and the viral extremes of influencer culture. Expect rapid-fire asides, cultural critique, local news nostalgia, and plenty of laughs for anyone needing a break from the world's seriousness—even (and especially) if you have no idea what a “LaBubu” or a “Trad Wife” is.

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Best to you, and best to you out there in the podcast universe!

Transcript

[Mark Mathis]

Don't say I want to pull. I want to pull is impolite and informal. Here are five polite, formal and sophisticated ways to say I want to pull. One, nature is calling. Two, a brief visit to the restroom is in order. Three, excuse me, personal affairs to attend to. Number four, pardon me, biological urgency. And number five, may I step away for a private matter. Don't say I want to pull.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break, I liked him. I hope that he liked me. I mean, I don't know. But anyway, this starts kind of this back and forth the next day, Mark and Fallon. So let me stop here for a minute and explain that at the dinner, Mark is talking about Fireside and his investment in Fireside and he is asking me what makes Fireside different? How can we be better? What can we do? And I go on a typical Brian rant for like 20 minutes, throwing magical words and weird sentences out there. Ram Dass, Ram Dass. That somehow gets Mark's eyes spinning like a Cheshire cat. He's really into whatever it is I'm saying, and I'm not even sure what I'm saying because I can't believe I'm standing there talking to Mark Cuban, having a beer.

[Mark Mathis]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green]

2:30 in the morning. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. Well, I had my yearly exchange with Mark Cuban yesterday.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You did?

[Brian Green]

On email? Yes.

[Unknown Male Speaker]

Nice.

[Brian Green]

I love yalls.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

A little friendly.

[Brian Green]

I know we have a little friendly banter which mainly includes me emailing, mailing him and then him yelling back at me, but that's okay. I. I like you, Mark, regardless of your yelling, your absolute, your absolute irritation with me. It's like a lot of the celebrity relationships here on the show. I bother them too much. They get irritated. He does respond and he responds lickety split.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's what you said.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he's so quick. And I don't know if he's like this with everybody. He probably is, but he. It doesn't take him but five minutes to respond every time I email him. Let's roll it back to 2021, kids. God, when this show is just a baby show, probably on episode number 482 early on in our evolution and Chrissy and I get invited to do we are I am on Clubhouse, doing a lot of rooms for podcasting on Clubhouse, as well as having the show, the commercial break, and we get a phone call or an invitation to do something called Fireside, which is supposed to be clubhouse 2.0, where they. But they curate the content. Rather than letting anybody and everybody open up a room and be an idiot, they're gonna just pick certain idiots.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It definitely was a cool concept.

[Brian Green]

It was a cool concept. And how it was pitched was imagine we are the HBO of audio video social. So we are going to curate the people we put on the platform, and those people are. And then we're going to give them resources to develop their talent in their shows. And the commercial break was one that was invited early on by Fallon Fatemi. Fallon Fatemi was the CEO and founder of Fireside, and she was bankrolled by Mark Cuban. Now, for those of you who don't know, Mark Cuban has really been at the forefront of streaming since day one. He actually really owned one of the original streaming platforms, one of the platforms that it would allow you to press live and other people on the Internet to hear you almost instantaneously. So Mark has been doing this for a long time. I think if I'm not mistaken, he started Ustream, or what became Ustream, which unbelievably was the platform that Scam Cole FM would go on to stream, right? That's right. So we get invited to be on this platform, we take the dive, we do a few intro shows on Fireside. There's no one there. It's empty as it could be. And just because the platform is just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Getting started, really was. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But within a couple of weeks or maybe a month of being on the platform, there is a podcast movement, which is one of the larger. One of the three large podcast conferences that. That go on. It's going to be in Nashville. It is the smack dab middle of COVID coronavirus and all the whole hubbub blue. But I am not in. So I am not intending to go to podcast movement because I have a new baby and because it's just not smart to go stand around a bunch of other people, at least in my mind at that time. However, days before the podcast movement, Fallon Fatemi's assistant reaches out to me and she says, you are cordially invited to a private dinner with Fallon and Mark Cuban in Nashville on this particular night, the night before the podcast.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, because we had decided we weren't going. But then you got the last minute invite and I said, please go.

[Brian Green]

I got the Last minute invite. And I went, really? Again? Alison Harris steps in and says, you're a fucking moron if you don't go. Yeah. So I book my room the morning of and I'm on the road later on that afternoon. I get in, I go to dinner, and no, shit, it's me. 20, 22, 23 other people in this private room in this restaurant in Nashville with Fallon, other creators and notable podcasters of which I'm not at the time, but there's other notable podcasters in the room and Mark Cuban. And Mark Cuban. And I get to spend some time together. And I liked him. I hope that he liked me. I mean, I don't know. But anyway, this starts kind of this back and forth the next day, Mark and Fallon. So let me. Let me stop here for a minute and explain that. At the dinner, Mark is talking about Fireside and his investment in Fireside, and he is asking me, what makes Fireside different? How can we be better? What can we do? And I go on a typical Brian rant for like 20 minutes, throwing magical words and weird sentences out there Ram Dass that somehow gets Mark's eyes spinning like a Cheshire cat. He's really into whatever it is I'm saying. And I'm not even sure what I'm saying because I can't believe I'm standing there talking to Mark Cuban, having a beer. But okay, so then we all go out for drinks and stuff afterwards. And the next morning at 8:30am he is giving the keynote address at Podcast Movement. And there's hundreds of people in the room. And I managed to pull myself out of bed. This is like one of the last times I actually can remember myself being intoxicated with alcohol. And I wasn't that intoxicated, but I just had a hard time getting out of bed. And I go, because I figure I want to be at this keynote and see what they say there. Mark drops my name at least four or five times up on stage. He drops my name. Brian Green. He actually asked me to stand up at one point. Where's Brian? Is Brian in the crowd? Where's Brian Green? He had some good things to say last night, and I couldn't believe what was going on. It was kind of a weird, surreal moment that Mark Cuban is up on stage dropping my name, but he does. Okay, so let's fast forward. I have his email address and I start an email exchange with him over a couple of different things over the next couple of years. It seems like once every six months to a year, I Email Mark about something. It's usually irritating him to no end that I'm emailing him, but he does respond to me. So let's go to now 2025, just a few days ago. Elon Musk, who has been really the. Has been really a fucking moron for a long time. And I'm just gonna say it out loud. He's been a fucking moron.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's. I think most people agree, but there.

[Brian Green]

Is no doubt that Elon Musk is really good at what he does. And what he is good at is getting hyped, getting people hyped, raising funds and then putting those funds to use. I think some of the things that he is doing is noble. I think a lot of the things that he is doing is clickbait. And he does. I don't know why he's doing it. I don't know why the whole doge. I don't know. Who knows? You can't get inside someone's head. But he bought this fucking Twitter, turned it into X and now it's a total shit show over there. He's got this grok running crazy, you know, believing that it's like Hitler himself.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's building crazy stuff, just weird.

[Brian Green]

All of it is just like strange and surreal. But it's 2025 and nothing surprises me anymore. But one thing that Elon Musk did a couple of days ago that I might, might get behind is he decided to start a third party here, the American Party, the America Party, whatever he's calling it. He filed the paperwork, he put some money down, he got a lot of people all excited about this. And he's starting a third party because he doesn't like what's going on with Trump, he doesn't like what's going on with the Democrats. And I can agree with him on this one point is that both of these fucking parties are way out of touch with anybody.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, I mean, it's like we even talked to. Gosh, his name is escaping me. But that one guy who was saying that independents are going to really be. Who kind of rise up out of.

[Brian Green]

All of this, that was the Channel 5 guy. Yes, right, the channel. Now his name is alluding me to I and I. And I watch him almost every day. Anyway, the Channel 5 guy, who also, by the way, little announcement on the Channel 5 guy, he bought back the original All Gas, no breaks name, which was taken from him by Vice Media. So I don't know what they're going to do with that. But I did read A little blurb about that. Okay, so all of this. So he says. So Elon makes this announcement. A lot of people get excited about this. Some people still think he's an idiot. I agree with, I have no loyalty to any party. If you're an idiot, you're an idiot. And I'm going to call it out. If you're doing something I like, you're doing something I like. And I'm going to say that Trump included, as much as I don't care for the guy, there are some things that he has done and probably will do that I agree with. And when he does, I will say so. I agree with that. Same with the Democrats. Biden was not my favorite president in the world. He did some things I liked. He did some things I didn't like. So Musk is doing something I like. He's starting a true third party, independent third party, which we need to support a strong middle class in the United States of America. And common sense thinking. Will Elon follow through on common sense thinking? I don't know. He seems to have a lot of ketamine in his body for common sense thinking. But, okay, all right, we'll see if the right people get behind it. And Elon can temper some of his more craziness, you know, his crazy impulses maybe. But Mark Cuban is one of the first people that tweets at him and says something along the lines of, I'm on board. I'll help you get on tickets across the nation through this particular organization. He says that. So I get excited that Mark Cuban gets excited, because I like Mark Cuban, and I agree with a lot of what Mark Cuban has said in the past about politics. And I think he's for a strong middle class. I think he's mostly for a strong democracy, and I think he's mostly for humanity in general.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

So he seems to be.

[Brian Green]

He seems to be. Anyway, I don't know. He's a billionaire, so, you know, maybe he's out of touch in some ways. So I say to Mark, hey, listen, Mark, if you decide to get behind this third party, you got an open door to come have a conversation about it here on the commercial break. And that's basically what I say to Mark. And, and, and I remind him that I actually am the guy on the commercial break because he probably doesn't know who the fuck I am, right? To which Mark responds, jesus, Brian, it's just a social media post. And I go, I realize you're not announcing a candidacy for presidency, Mark. I'm just Saying if you should decide to support it, you have an open door, you have a platform that you can come on and talk about it. We reach over three people in two different states, and I think we could be of service.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We'll really blast out your message.

[Brian Green]

We got you, Mark. Don't worry. You need to reach people. We've got two of them. One of them. Yeah, one of them is my mom, and she's not exactly sure how to get the podcast, but I think everything's gonna be just fine. I just wanted Mark to know that he had our. An open door to come debate policy to come talk about, you know, the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Platform that would be a dream to have him on.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, and I would have made that invitation to Elon, but I'm still not so sure about Elon. I don't want to. Platform craziness. Some lady said the other day on Spotify, you know, Spotify, you can do comments now. And some lady said, stay out of politics. You're absolutely uninformed. You don't know what you're talking about. Well, we all have our blind spots, whoever you are. We all. I think her name was Ashley. We all have our blind spots, Ashley. And obviously you don't agree with something that I said, or you wouldn't have posted such a comment. We don't talk about politics on the show. We talk about things that affect our own personal lives and the things that we think. And if you don't care for it, that's okay. We can respectfully agree to disagree. But, you know, I largely stay out of politics because everybody else talks about it and everybody else has the same fucking talking points. They all have the same opinion. It's just a big echo chamber, and I don't want to be part of it. However, if there's something different that comes along and they know what they're talking about, I welcome them on the show. We've had a few people that are politic, you know, political experts. Mike Pesca from the Gist, who I consider a true independent, has been on this show, and I like what he has to say. That guy from Channel 5 News that we can't remember his name. I like him. I think he's. Yeah, please do. Because we sound like real fucking morons.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

People are screaming at us.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Are listening.

[Brian Green]

And if Mark Cuban decides for any reason that he wants to support a third party or he just wants to talk, I'll. I'll. I'll have him on here. So please. Yeah, so Mark and I currently bickering at each other. Va Jesus, Brian.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Just as.

[Brian Green]

Jesus, Brian. It's just a social media post, but Mark, it sounded like you were supporting the idea. That's why I reached Andrew Callahan. Andrew Callahan. Thank you. I like Andrew.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

And there's a. He's got a lot of follow. I mean, he is like blown up even more. Even a lot more. Andrew did all gas, no brakes. Then he went to Channel 5 news once. Vice media kind of crashed and burned. They took the rights away from him and he had a big blowout and he talked about that on the show. Then he did the HBO documentary. Then Andrew had an issue. A couple of young ladies came out and said that he didn't assault them, but that he was awful pressure after having had some drinks and kind of crashing out on their couch. One specific incident I can remember. I don't want to talk out of turn here, but. And this is. This may not be exact details, but here's the gist of it. She felt like she was being pressured by Andrew, that he was kind of drunk and being a little needy and, you know, fawning over her a little bit more than she would have cared for. And he took some time off and he went to rehab like a lot of people do. You. You crash out and then you realize, I got to do something.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, you got to make a change.

[Brian Green]

And he took some time off and. And he came back and he has really blown up since then by pointing out a lot of the hypocrisy that's going on on both sides of the aisle. And then also he just does like these. He finds the weirdest people in the world and follows them around for a couple of days or has correspondents doing it having nothing to do with politics. I remember he was down in Miami and he went to this place called the Magic Castle or something. Have you ever heard about this place?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, I thought that was in California, but there's another one.

[Brian Green]

Maybe it's not called the Magic Castle. It's something Castle. And it's this guy that owns this place and it's like a 24 hour rager with the weirdest, strangest human beings you've ever met. It's like part strip club, part techno rave, part monster truck rally, part monster energy drink promotional video. It's like the weirdest place. And I remember during the pandemic, he went down there and partied for like some period of time with them. It was the wildest video I've ever seen in my entire life. And I thought to myself, if only. If only we could do stuff like that. But again, getting out of this house is really hard for us. We like being in the tree of trust because look what happens when we venture outside our bounds. Mark Cuban's yelling at me. When I. When I try and go outside the four walls, I get yelled at by billionaires. That's what happens. Anyway, Mark, we love you. Open invitation to the show. And so that's that. Okay, listen, I have a smorgasbord of things to discuss.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can tell you've got, like, an energy.

[Brian Green]

I do.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

About you. And excitement.

[Brian Green]

I do. And so I'm very excited about all the stuff that is. That I have to discuss with you today. I have found some oddities on the Internet I'd like to share and some other notables. I do have to say this. I do have to go one step further with my comments on Friday when I talked about how the Booboo, I believe, has officially fudgeing irritated the shit out of me. It has jumped the shark. You do realize Labubu fans, and I'm not mad at you for loving the boo Boo. Love the boo Boo. You like a little boobu and you want to spend $1,000 on the labubu. Spend $1,000 on the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can't quit laughing at the name.

[Brian Green]

But anyway, Lafu Fu. La Cuckoo.

[Unknown Male Speaker]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

We're going to start selling. La Cuckoo is here. Because now it's so crazy that people don't even care if they're getting Lafu Fus. They just want it. They just. They want something that looks like a little.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That was that whole article that I read.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. They want little devils in their house biting their neck and bringing demon seed into their home. They don't care. They want to get the devil in their house any way they can. According to our friend that we listened to the other day, who people despised, by the way, that guy, former Satan. People despised.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Terrible.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they. I got a lot of comments. People were not happy. They were like, that guy's an asshole. He was an asshole. But I'm watching. I watched a pop up, like, I guess we call it Fashion show with Labubus, that a famous online fashion influencer put together. And there was, like, four people that showed up for this fashion show in Central Park. But then it drew a crowd. But guess what? The winner got a $10,000 Chanel cocoa bag. A Coco Chanel bag.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Can you. Can you believe. That's fucking insane? We are. We're taking it just too far, guys. It's like Beanie Babies went the same route. Garbage pails went the same route. Tigamachis or whatever the fuck you call them, they went the same. Everything goes this Brat Dolls, they all went the same route of the dodo bird. As is Labubu. It's going to go. So just be careful about how you spend your money. Take it from a guy who got in on the Dick Tracy craziness early, and then the craziness never quite happened. It never peaked like Lebooboo did. No, my Dick Tracy stuff went down in value, not up in value.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, it's the old buy high, sell low.

[Brian Green]

That's right. My mom had to pay for that stuff to be taken out of the house. She had to pay for something to take it away. All right, Just be careful about your lefufu's and your boobas. I don't want anybody. Maybe. Also, did you know that Cabbage Patch Dolls, Beanie Babies, Bratz Dolls, Tagamatis or whatever they used to call them, all of that stuff has been an ind. Has that all happened within months of a major recession?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Really?

[Brian Green]

A lot of people call them recession indicators when people start hoarding these collectible, hot collectible items. So great be. Yeah, great, great. Before we sign our new contract. Great. So be mindful. So be mindful of what you spend your money on. That's just Brian. Listen, if Mark was here right now, he'd give you the same advice. You think Mark Cuban owns the Boo Boo? He probably does. He probably actually owns La Boo Boo. He probably owns part of pop art.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

He didn't he just sell. He just sold his basketball team, didn't he? For like a $17 billion or something. He did, yeah. I think he sold most of it anyway. Okay, we'll be back. Lots more to talk about.

[Rachel]

Okay. You're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at tcb. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up, even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her or me or Chrissy at 212-433-3333. TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Just call and say something, anything. Or text us and we'll text you right back. Promise. Then head over to tcbpodcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker, and we must abide. You get the point? Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on [e-mail] TheCommercialBreak Best to you and Astrid, especially Astrid.

[Brian Green]

I have a question for the listeners. Did you grow up in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 2000s? Were you there? Did you grow up, did you live there in the early 2000s? And I think this was just for like a two year period where the local Fox affiliate weatherman named Mark Mathis was doing his whole shticked. Because I imagine if you grew up during that time or you were there during that time, then Mark Mathis will be a name you will remember instantaneously. And until two weeks ago, I had no idea who this guy was.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But currently there are some people on the Internet that are making Mark famous all over again. This is the wildest local reporter I have ever seen in my entire life. He's a weatherman. He is the wildest, most coked up, craziest weatherman I have ever seen. And I'm here for it. I wonder where these. I mean, he takes it way too far sometimes, especially when it comes to the ladies hanging around him. That's not my favorite part of this. But it's crazy what he gets away with as a weatherman.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't know who Mark Mathis is.

[Brian Green]

In Charlotte, North Carolina, on a local Fox station. That was going to happen anywhere it happened on Fox. But I cannot believe this guy was hired and then they let him run amok for two years. I believe. It's insane. This is like wshit Crabapple shit. I mean, this is what I would imagine in my head the fake universe of Crabapple would see as a weatherman.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Okay. I found, like, a super cut of Mark. It's like four or five minutes long. You got to check out some of this stuff that Mark's up to back in 2005. 2006, I believe, is when he was, like, at his prime. And then either he got fired or he got cut off or they told him he had to settle down. Anyway, you want to listen to some of this?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Mark Mathis, weatherman, fox, charlotte, 2005.

[Mark Mathis]

Not in here. I'm taking on all my glow. That's a song. Tonight is doing sports. That was the worst poem I have ever heard in my life. We didn't write it. Who wrote it?

[Brian Green]

Who wrote it? Wow.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, he's fired up.

[Mark Mathis]

Here's a little one that I made up of my own.

[Unknown Male Speaker]

Okay.

[Mark Mathis]

I'm Mark Mathis. Through the weather just fine I make it exciting every time. But when I act like a fool. Remember the rule. If you want the Forecast, watch Channel 9, yo.

[Brian Green]

Don't work.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

What in the good golly holy shit is going around here? What in the good Peruvian marching powder. The name of the Lord is happening here. How does he get away with this? Have you ever seen anything like this?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Green]

Has Glenn Burns ever once done his own rap on WSB TV? No, not once. And I've been watching Glenn for 82 years. The guy's 97. He still looks like he's 40.

[Rachel]

He does.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Dude, that didn't rhyme.

[Mark Mathis]

It didn't rhyme. Yeah, it did. Remember the rule. Actually, I didn't write it. Reed wrote it.

[Brian Green]

Actually, I didn't write it. Here he goes again. He's rapping again. This is his. I guess this is a shticked for a minute.

[Mark Mathis]

All right, here we go. Oh, by the way, do you know this, Steve? I got yelled at last night. I mean, yelled at me.

[Brian Green]

I don't believe it.

[Mark Mathis]

For my little coin. I know I wasn't off the set for two seconds and that phone was lighting up because, I mean, just.

[Brian Green]

He's like the Howard Stern of weatherman. He's going wild. Who allows this to continue? What producer in the back is saying, this is good for our rating? I guess it is good for their rating.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because you should see the comments on some of these posts about him. People remember this guy. They're like, I couldn't at the time. One guy said, I was young, and I grew up with Mark Mathis. And then I moved to a different city, and I couldn't believe how boring the other weatherman were. I was wondering when the comedy was gonna come.

[Mark Mathis]

I'm serious. I mean, you really. First I felt like going, you know who you're talking to, But I chose not to.

[Brian Green]

I'm Mark Mathis, middling weatherman for the number 212 market in the United States of America.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I, I, I wish Mark Glenn Burns would have done this.

[Brian Green]

Let me pause here for a second. I got to be careful about how I say this. There was a guy here that was very similar, but he was on the radio. He was part of the local alternative station.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Huh.

[Brian Green]

He was the traffic guy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Do you remember him? Yeah, Let me, let me say his name. I'm going to press mute.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

[Brian Green]

He's still around today in some form or fashion. You know, it's not his old glory days, but he was very similar to this guy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's true. It was like the loud and crazy.

[Brian Green]

But he was the Morning. He was part of the morning zoo crew. It was perfectly acceptable to be like this. And no one was really listening to him for the traffic or the weather. He was just a. Yeah, like a lug nut that would yell and scream and get into all kind of crazy shenanigans. And he would be at every single radio station, promo ever. Yes. Remote. The people would come to see him because he was a drunkard of epic proportions. And he would make life entertaining. And somehow I ended up living with a guy who knew a girl who. They were best friends. And I cannot tell you, I. In my mind, for years, this guy was like the coolest dude who was out there partying and having fun. And I imagined the life that he lived driving a Lamborghini around and living in his condo and having fun. When I got to know him, what I realized is he spent a lot of nights on people's couches, coked up and crashed out. You know what I'm saying? He was not the hero that I thought he was. When I was 17 years old, he. And so when I look at Mark Mathis, I imagine in his nice suit on television, local television station, you probably imagine Mark's driving his Mercedes Benz back home to his very nice house. He's probably coked out and crashed crashing on people's couches. Yeah.

[Mark Mathis]

You know how when you're talking to the boss.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Mark Mathis]

Probably a wise decision. So tonight, brought the cell phone in case he needed to call me. In case I do anything wrong tonight. Just call the cell phone. It's real easy. Oh, I pray to God he's not watching.

[Brian Green]

All right.

[Mark Mathis]

Some scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. No phone call yet. 71 is the current temperature. 66 in Statesville. See, he's chicken. He's chicken. He's scared of me now.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Whoa.

[Brian Green]

It's hard to believe this guy only lasted two years. I thought full exact station. He's begging his boss to fire him on air.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Mark Mathis]

91 and 71 are.

[Brian Green]

The doctors. Figure that flushing your pipes once in.

[Mark Mathis]

A while kind of cleans out the.

[Brian Green]

System and protects you.

[Mark Mathis]

Fighting is at least once a day. Is that what we're calling it now?

[Brian Green]

Gotta flush them out.

[Mark Mathis]

It's like your lucky weatherman here is gonna live to be 150.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, my God.

[Mark Mathis]

Right?

[Brian Green]

I love him. He's giving. He's given Mountain Dew, crystal meth. He's giving. I make crystal meth in a Mountain Dew bottle. Kind of.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, yes.

[Mark Mathis]

Once a day ain't nothing. I mean, what are you doing in there? What's going on? Just a little self medication, mama. Medicate myself. Hey, we want to introduce you to somebody.

[Brian Green]

Steve, do you think this guy went to like the local comedy clubs to try?

[Rachel]

Maybe.

[Brian Green]

I can see that. Where is Mark Mathis now?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I need to find out.

[Mark Mathis]

That's a different girl in here every single night.

[Brian Green]

But.

[Mark Mathis]

But this could be the one, people. This could be the one. Come here. Is it Laura? Julie? I don't know. Whoever it was last night. Look out. All right. From Charleston in South Carolina, Stevie's girlfriend, fiance, lover.

[Brian Green]

What?

[Mark Mathis]

Hey, how.

[Brian Green]

Hang on.

[Mark Mathis]

You're not done yet. You gotta do the weather dance.

[Brian Green]

Oh my God. Mark Mathis is currently employed by the San Diego Kusi News.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No way.

[Brian Green]

No, he. He. He isn't doing this whole thing anymore, is he?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He can't be.

[Brian Green]

No, there's. There's no way. Or, or maybe I could be wrong. I thought this was dead Internet type stuff and I think he's still doing it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh yeah, that's him. Well, that media world is a small world. People just jump around.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

From market to market.

[Brian Green]

That's why you and I don't have a job at any media market currently.

[Mark Mathis]

Okay, you can get off camera now. I will see you. Oh, the edge. Why don't you and I come over? Wow, are you doing good tonight, my sweet angel of light.

[Brian Green]

Okay, I want to tell you what's going on here. He's currently hitting on some girl that's in the back of, you know, that's behind the camera. Meanwhile, there is clearly a tornadic activity going on behind him. It's dark red and purple going across his screen and he's not indicating whether or not someone needs to be in the basement. He's hoping to get laid later on.

[Mark Mathis]

I did a little something earlier this evening that made it made to Meco a little upset, but she doesn't stay upset long.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's got his clicker thing.

[Brian Green]

He's laughing at, lapping it around, swinging dick. Look at Mark. He's. He is this. I like this guy. Yeah, not that much. But I like him enough that I could be entertained by him. I wish he was my weatherman. Except in moments like this when the tornado is going through Davidson county, like.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You kind of want to know what is the weather.

[Brian Green]

He's worried about what he's doing later on.

[Mark Mathis]

Hey, we got some big old thunderstorms out there. Let me put this. Hey, look at there.

[Brian Green]

Hey, look at there. Tornado head.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It really is. It really Is he's got the times listed out for each of the counties.

[Brian Green]

Jesus Christ. People are dying and Mark's worried about getting his balls wet. That's crazy.

[Mark Mathis]

Mount Pleasant, 1021.

[Brian Green]

Finger.

[Mark Mathis]

There's a town called Finger. Is that how you pronounce it? Roper's in the house tonight giving me the finger. Ah, let's see.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, he is so nonchalant about this touchdown of a severe storm.

[Brian Green]

I am having a hard time believing that anybody would survive this, employment wise.

[Mark Mathis]

No, I need more time, Pete.

[Brian Green]

Isn't one of your responsibilities as a TV weatherman to alert people? I mean, we just learned this lesson the hard way, right? Is that as much advanced warning as you can get about severe weather is probably better than little. Meanwhile, Mark has no regard for life right now.

[Mark Mathis]

Well, I need more time. I'm going to put that in my next contract. It's not funny, Jeff. All right?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, it seems like a big party in the whole studio.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. The whole studio. Yeah. Everyone's yacked out. Everyone's yacked out.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They're passing it around. Everybody's taking turns going to the bathroom.

[Brian Green]

That's right. This is the Go Go 2005. Things were different back then.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Tommy Lee bears it all for an Internet site.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Tommy Lee. Back when Tommy Lee was a thing.

[Mark Mathis]

Pamela Anderson video. That box needs to be just a little bit bigger. Trust me. Mr. Mathis, we've completed your boxer.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We completed your what?

[Brian Green]

Your box. Like, you know, okay. Tommy Lee was standing in a picture naked, and they had a black box covering his wang. And he said, I saw the Pamela Anderson video and it needs to be a little bit bigger and then some. The cameraman comes out with a tiny little black piece of cardboard and he said, we've got your box, Mr. Mathis. Donald Studios in on it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's what I'm saying. It's a big party.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. He must be getting the ratings.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He must be getting. I mean, I would tune in.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Just to see what kind of antics.

[Brian Green]

That's right next where I want to.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I want to be getting my real weather from another source and watching him for entertainment back then.

[Brian Green]

I TiVo this on my 2005, but I want to understand exactly what's going on in the other news stations. Are they even trying to compete with this? Like, is there.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think you can.

[Brian Green]

Do they have their own yuckels over there? What's going on, Pockle?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, my God. He just held it in front of his.

[Brian Green]

Okay, now in front of his dick. Yeah. This is so Sexually charged, I hope. This is the 11 o' clock news.

[Mark Mathis]

Not like the 6pm everybody in the studio's smiling. There's nobody laughing.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No, I think it is like that. Well, I mean, he's coming on because he was just pointing out times that were in the tens.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Well, there you go. This is the 9 o' clock Fox News. I think we're all embarrassed for you.

[Mark Mathis]

Have y' all seen the Pamela Anderson video? Folks, I got nothing tonight. I'm dying out here. I'm dying with this crowd. 73 for current.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right, so that's four minutes of Mark Mathis. That's hard to believe. I didn't watch it all the way through. That is hard to believe. Let. Let me. Let me see here for a second.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can see how it spices things up.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he's. I. I just want to know if he's doing the stain the same sht. But he doesn't have any of his weather reports on here. Oh, here's one.

[Mark Mathis]

Mathis is here. Are we doing the Mount Rushmore? We are doing the Mount Rushmore. And the way this came about was several years ago, Lauren and I began this little Facebook deal. And we would go on at night, and about 9 o', clock, huge hit. Hundred hundreds of thousands of people would watch us. And then Paul took over for Lauren when she went to Good Morning San Diego. Paul and I did it. And he would always ask me who would be on the Mount Rushmore for Kusi, Right? Yes. Almost nightly. And then he would give me, after about a month of doing it together, he gave me notes. And so we asked the viewers one time, what would you call this show? One of them said OCD and add. Oh, my gosh.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, it's like he's doing his thing.

[Brian Green]

His hairline is a little further back in. His head is glass. He's got big old fat glasses. But he is literally the same guy. It is a thing. Hard to understand how this guy made it any amount of time in media. It really is. But he's. It's a gem. It's a dead Internet gem. I guess if you're in San Diego, you still get your fair share, your dose, your daily dose of Mark Mathis. If you're in San Diego, I'd like to know, is Mark still doing this whole number? Like this charged up, this sexual, this crazy, bringing people, you know, talking to girls in a certain way? If he is, I want you to text me 212-4333TCB. Maybe Mark Mathis is someone that we should be.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think so, yes.

[Brian Green]

I mean, we had fun with Courtney Michelle, but Mark Mathis, she didn't do the weather for us. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, we get a weather and a laugh. That would be fantastic.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Double dose.

[Brian Green]

All right. More fun after we. After we take this break and we return.

[Mark Mathis]

Come on.

[Brian Green]

You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some really heavy thinking to do before 10 o'. Clock.

[Rachel]

Hi, cats and kittens. Rachel here. Do you ever get the urge to speak endlessly into the void like Brian? Well, I've got just the place for you to do that. 212-43338. TCB. That's 212-433-3822. Feel free to call and yell all you want. Tell Brian I need a raise. Compliment Chrissy's innate ability to put up with all his shenanigans or tell us a little story. The juicier the better. By the way, we'd love to hear your voice because Lord knows we're done listening to ourselves. Also, give us a follow on your favorite socials at the commercial break on Insta, TCB podcast on TikTok. And for those of you who like to watch. Oh, that came out wrong. We put all the episodes out on video, YouTube.com thecommercial break, and tcbpodcast.com for all the info on the show, your free sticker, or just to see how pretty we look. Okay, I gotta go now. I've got a date with my dog. No, seriously, Axl needs food. Today is pork chop day.

[Brian Green]

Okay, I'm gonna approach this subject delicately, Chrissy, because I. I don't want to make sure that I don't offend anybody's sensible ears. We have talked here, and I think the Internet has been aflame for the last couple of years, probably since 2020, with Trad wife culture.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Traditional wife culture. Trad wife. You've. You've all seen it. We all know that it exists. It really. I think we can, like, trace its roots back to some Mormon influencers out in Utah. And they have made a entire career. There's a whole industry. The. The. The Mormon moms have blossomed an entire industry around trad wifing and around this family vlogging and blogging and how life is perfect and they are subservient to the man, and they make the dinners and they take care of the children, and they do it beautifully dressed and in perfect makeup and looking their best. Cool. You want to do that? Cool. And Allison Hare, our friend Alison Hare, did an interesting episode of what was then called, at the time, Culture Changers. It's now called Reinvention Room. She changed the name of the podcast a couple times. It's called Reinvention Room. She did an interesting episode about trad wife, and she got an interesting perspective on it, and that was that. Some women have a lot of. Are feeling a lot of pressure to be both a moment and a money maker and this and that and everything and that. There's some, I guess, fantasy, or they feel like it might free them up a little bit just to perform in a traditional role of being a mom and a housewife. I. I'm not a woman, so I can't. I'm not here to talk about whether or not that's good or bad or indifferent. I don't love the trad wife thing.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. I mean, I think each to your own as far as what you would like to do, but, yeah, it's not for me.

[Brian Green]

Okay. I know that's definitely not for you, and I know it's definitely not for Astrid. I mean, I can't imagine her doing anything for me, let alone everything for me. I mean, it's just not the way we roll, and it's not what I would want out of a. Out of a partner. Just not. I'm not interested in it at all.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I'm looking for, like, a partnership.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I do for you. You do for me, too. And it could be more than one. One time, more than another. Another time. But generally, you're a team.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And I do believe in chivalry. I do my time. Manners. That's how my. My parents raised me. That's how their parents raised them. That's how I'm raising my children. You hold the door. Ladies go first. All that good stuff. You offer to pay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's a nice touch.

[Brian Green]

It's a nice touch, but there. But it's. Some people don't want it, some people aren't interested in it, and some people are way interested in it. Some people take chivalry to, like, a whole new level. There is a lady on the Internet who has started talking about what she's referring to or what some other people are referring to as the princess treatment. Have you seen this whole fad going around this particular reel right here? I'm about to let you listen to a reel. It's a little bit long. It's about four or five minutes long, actually. It's a TikTok video. This lady started the Internet aflame When she. And I'll let her explain. But she shared how it wasn't acceptable for her husband to drop her off at the front of a restaurant to go in to get a table while he parked the car. That he needed to be the one that went in and asked for the table. That he needed to be the one that interacted with the hostess. That it was disrespectful for her to talk because he needed to be the one that led the. This is like taking this shit to a whole new level. And she's being dead serious. There's not a bit of irony in this whatsoever. She is a trad wife. She's talking also about the difference between a housewife and a stay at home mom and how there's difference. I don't know. Let's listen to it and then we can get into it. We'll debate it. All right. Let's listen to at least a little bit of it. Okay.

[Unknown Male Speaker]

The very first tick tock I did, where I was like talking to the camera, did really well. I remember it hit 10, 000 views and I was freaking out. I was like, people are gonna start being mean to me now. It was actually kind of scary. But the conversation I was having, it was just like a random thought that I had. I was talking about housewives versus stay at home moms. And I was saying, you know, I'd recently been promoted to a stay at home mom, recently had stopped working, and my son is older. And so really my days had felt more like a housewife because I didn't have little children at home that I was in the trenches with. Like, a lot of my days were just like very relaxing and calming, like come and go and do what I want until pickup. And so then that turns into the housewife shifts. And I would walk you guys through how I broke up my day. Cause I had a very, you know, specific system for how I would get things done during the day. And then the housewife shifts were born. And then I talked about princess treatment and then things turned into like, I was the housewife princess. So that's how that came about. And then there were, you know, we've had conversations about summer starting and a lot of sometimes mean comments where people would say, like, well, just wait for the summer and then you're going to be a stay home mom again. And totally true. Now that it's summer, it's my first time, we're not working, we don't have a lot of camps lined up. I just want to enjoy it and it's like I truly am back to being a stay at home mom. Which is so funny because, you know, I don't have the. The same kind of. My son is older, like things are easier time wise, but it's just, it's not the same. So anyways, I got a comment on that video again today. I hadn't seen a comment on that video in a long time, so it must be recirculating or something. But it just made me laugh because I was like, no, like I'm back in the stay at home mom trenches.

[Brian Green]

Like, I mean, honestly, like, stay at home mom is probably one of the most difficult, noble things that anybody can do. Stay at home dad, stay at home mom. If you don't think for a second that's a fucking job, it's a fucking job.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Full time.

[Brian Green]

It's a full time, balls out, no time to yourself, stressful as it can be job. And especially if you've got multiples, everybody's pulling, yanking on you. You got to find things to keep them occupied and safe and fed and warm and clothed. I have the utmost respect for my wife and other parents out there who do that. I have the utmost respect for single moms or dads who do that. It's crazy. We have a friend who is a single mom. Like truly single mom. Like the father just fucked off. He was like a drug addict. He could care less. You know, he would show up once a year to do this or that. And she raised her two children on her own. And once I like got into her universe, I realized and she worked, she brought home all the money.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, you have to then.

[Brian Green]

And I realized just how fucking difficult that is. But this whole trad wife thing takes this like, to a new, weird, in my opinion, creepy level. The video she's talking about with the princess treatment is, the one I was just talking about is that she should not be interacting with anybody out there in the universe. Her husband needs to be leading the family. Her husband needs to be giving her the princess treatment. She explained that one day her husband dropped her. Her husband and her wanted to go to a dinner. So they pull up in the valet lane and he go, he gets out of the car, he says to the valet, I'm going to go check and see if they have a table available. The valet says, okay. He goes in, he checks to see if there's a table. There is. He comes back to the car. He tells his wife to get out of the car while he goes and parks the car. This girl, she goes and she stands at the hostess sand, but does not interact with the hostess because that is what her husband is supposed to do. PR princess treatment all the way. And she explains that if I'm going to be a stay at home mom or a housewife or whatever, I need the full princess treatment. It's not my responsibility to do things like get a table, interact with hostesses, you know, talk to anybody. Like this guy's ordering food for her. I mean the weird ass world that these people are living in, I just can't imagine. How did we get here, Chrissy?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know. It's very foreign to me.

[Brian Green]

And how do I become a house husband? Yes, with the prince treatment. That's what I want. Astrid, go in there and get us a table. And I will only be interacting with the hostesses if they are cute. That's it. I mean, this girl is like. This girl has really touched a nerve with a lot of people who are saying that by not taking responsibility for yourself and interacting and being a part of the conversation and getting involved, you are essentially acquiescing all of your like wants and desires and life and willingness and free will to another human being. And you're just becoming essentially like a little monster that this guy just kind of drives around and, and, and does for and does whatever. I mean, I don't understand it. Maybe someone can explain it to me. I gotta imagine somewhere in our audience, somewhere in our audience there is a trad wife or someone who's into trad wifing. Explain it to me. Explain to me why this feels good. Like a housewife or a stay at home mom, like in the most basic of senses. I can understand that all day long. It's a very noble thing to want to stay home with your children and have that time and that precious little amount of time, that first five or six years of their life, to get them started in life with all the love and care and daily interaction, but like baking an entire cake and like a $13,000 balance. The Langia dress or whatever they fucking call it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So that you don't look ugly for your husband is like a whole level of insanity to me that I just don't think I understand.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't either.

[Brian Green]

I don't understand it either, but it's not for me.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

But you know, some people, that's really what they want to do and that's what the husband wants too. Go for it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, whatever. Yeah, maybe you should be.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't think we would Be friends.

[Brian Green]

No, I don't live in that world.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

If that's what you like to do and everybody's happy.

[Brian Green]

Cool, cool, cool. Dude, maybe you should be my trad hostess. Like my co hostess, my trad co host. And you come in dressed in thousand dollar gowns and don't say anything unless spoken to. And some people might say that's already happening, Brian.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Minus the thousand dollar gowns. We can't afford that.

[Brian Green]

No, we can't. But you know, there's something on sale. My finest Target, your finest Walmart sweatpants. Which by the way, those sweatpants are wonderful.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You do love that.

[Brian Green]

I do love my sweatpants from Target. I just am. I get incensed when I see stuff like this because I am under the impression that this is just like a little bit backwards. But maybe my anger is misplaced. Maybe my irritation is misplaced. Maybe the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I. I mean, I guess what we all want is choice.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

If that is your choice, then God bless you. Yeah, go for it.

[Brian Green]

No one seems to be hostage here, you know what I'm saying? And they're making millions of dollars. There is one trad White that is making like six and a half million dollars a year on her social media. Six and a half million dollars a year on her social media. I can guarantee the balls in that family are worn by her and not him. Because she turned her love of cooking and trad wifing and you know, dressing the children up in these, you know, million dollar outfits and running them around like perfect JCPenney commercials. She turned that in to a multi million dollar enterprise. And he's probably still at his job at the, you know, Spanky and Sparks law firm as a consultant or whatever, making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. And that is the ultimate empowerment, I guess, at the end of the day. Exactly right. She took something and ran with it and now she's got a fab. But not every, not every influencer that is a trad wife is like that. And Allison's episode made me think about this in a different way because Allison admitted on the episode that that is a fantasy to just be. All you do is just cook the food, take care of the kids, and then everything else is taken care of for you in a way that you don't have to be responsible for it, stress about it. But Allison is the exact opposite. Because Allison was raised by a mother who banged into her head, you must make your own money. Never rely on anybody else. And so she has been at least 50, 50 breadwinner in that fam I mean, Allison does more in one day than you and I will do in an entire month. I don't know how she gets it done. Look at Allison. Social media. She's doing 75 things right now. Right now, she's. She's biking on the. The beltline. She's heading to a yoga class where then she's gonna learn how to make homemade cookies, and then she's gonna go to a protest later, and then she's gonna do aerial yoga, and by the time the day's done, she'll have learned seven new things. Meanwhile, I'm lucky if we get this episode in the can before the end of the day. Lucky, lucky. That's the extent of my. Of my work ethic. So in that sense, I guess I can appreciate that. Trad. Wifing, while not my thing, is a thing. It's a thing that people do, and it certainly is hot to trot on the Internet. There are millions and millions and millions and millions of views on these posts. And whether it gets people irritated, you know, you know, Professor G. Prof. G. Professor Galloway talked about him, okay. He's a guy that's on the Internet. He's an author, he does a couple podcasts. He's on a lot of television, he does a lot of interviews on news, when it comes to finances, when it comes to the manosphere, when it comes to men in 2025 and the things that are wrong. Loneliness, society. Anyway, he used to be a professor, and he said that if you're on the Internet and you're not getting negative comments, you're not getting people upset at what you're saying, you're not saying anything at all.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And so I can see that. Yeah. So we are not doing it right, because we don't get any comments.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Except from the one that said stay out of politics.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we could. We do. We do get quite a few comments, actually. Where we don't get them is on our phone. People don't confront us directly. They do that. They do that out there in the Internet.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's usually the case.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. They don't do it directly on the phone, but, man, do we get a lot of comments. Anyway, I thought I'd share this interesting post that has been setting the Internet aflame about the housewives versus stay at home mom versus Princess treatment and all that stuff. And.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, no, I mean, I was raised to be pretty independent, and I was for a very long time before I met Jeff. And, you know, even though I'm not the breadwinner per se, I.

[Brian Green]

You're not the breadwinner.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

With our finances here, you're not the breadwinner. I contribute, and that makes me happy. And I also love to cook and not bake, but cook.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And do fun, you know, do yoga, learn new things. And I think I would be really bored if I didn't have any goals or didn't want to go out to the world and talk to other people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, no, I mean, if you don't want to go out in the world and talk to other people, and the truth is, I don't think anybody would accuse you of being a stay at home housewife. Like, you come here, you do the work. We have lots of stuff that we do. You have other interests besides staying at home and cooking for Jeff. Nor do I think anybody would argue that Jeff wants you to be a stay at home housewife. I mean, yeah, he wants to get you out of the house just as much as you want to get out of the house.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He wants me to be happy, and I love him for that. And so, you know, he supports me in whatever I like to do.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And even though this puts your account in the negative, coming here, we have accomplished something. What that is, I don't know. There's going to be a retrospective on this show at some point.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We've done a thousand episodes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I don't think anybody can accuse us of not working that part. We got down. I was having a conversation with our agent and I'm like, we've got to be some of the hardest working people in podcasting. To which he giggled a little bit. But, I mean, in podcasting, there's a lot of people who do podcasts and they do a bunch of other stuff, but in just podcasting, we've got to be some of the hardest working people out there. We've got a thousand episodes. We're doing this show for five years.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That's a lot of episodes. We have to pare down the amount of episodes we do. We should go back to once a week.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Well, then we'd really be in the negative if we did that. Yeah. Maybe we gotta start a tradwife account. That's where all the money is, apparently.

[Rachel]

Apparently.

[Brian Green]

All right. Okay. Everyone's trad wife. You're out there in our audience. I know you are. You know I'm talking to you. Text us 212-433. TCB 212-433-3822. Let us know what exactly is attractive about being a trad wife. Why you like It, Why you don't like it? Whatever. Let us know. Yeah, I'll ask Mark Cuban what he.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Thinks about traveling an email.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, let me irritate him. Maybe more than I've already irritated him. I mean, he snapped back real quick, two minutes. It was like 11:45 at night too. He came right back at me. He's probably sitting in his. I just imagine Mark sitting in his, you know, palatial estate, either in bed or on a couch, watching bat, you know, foot, whatever he's doing, watching sports of some sort. And he sees my name come up and he's like, yes, yes. That asshole. Fuck you, Brian. Been waiting for this all year.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like I said, at least he responds.

[Brian Green]

He does. Until the next time we irritate each other. Mark, I love you, buddy. Door is wide open. All right, as mentioned. 212-4333. TCB. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. We are taking them all right there. No must, no fuss, jump in, be part of the conversation. A lot of times it's me that's reacting, responding. Not always, but sometimes it's me that's responding. We'd love to hear from you. Add the commercial break on Instagram. Man, that Instagram's been hot this last month. Hot, hot.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's great.

[Brian Green]

Over a thousand new followers. That means we're over a thousand followers. So keep it coming.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hopefully we can grow it.

[Brian Green]

We'll get there. Keep it coming. Follow us on Instagram. New posts almost daily. YouTube.com the commercial break for all of the episodes on video almost the same day. They are here on the audio. Not always, but mostly all of our guest videos, everything. And we do shorts on YouTube too. So short clips of the show follow that subscribe, like comment on your favorite video and of course tcb podcast.com all the audio video, all the video right there for the taking. If you're a URL kind of person, there it is. And you can get your free TCB sticker. Just go to the contact us button, drop down menu, give us your address and we'll send you one. Okay, Chrissy. That's all I can do for now?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

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