Let It Go Bryan...Let It Go!

Summary

The Commercial Break

Episode: "Let It Go Bryan…Let It Go!"

Release Date: February 18, 2026
Hosts: Bryan Green & Chrissy Hoadley

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Episode Overview

This episode finds Bryan and Chrissy riffing on the chaos of podcasting, Bryan’s inability to “let it go” when it comes to a social media squabble with his wife Astrid, and a broader, often darkly comic meditation on the perils of social media in modern life. The banter detours through tales of internet train wrecks, podcast industry oddities, and Olympic obsessions, all while reflecting their signature blend of irreverence, self-deprecation, and thoughtful cultural critique. The central thread: Bryan’s escalating (and relatable) struggle to accept Astrid’s social media boundaries, highlighting both the addictive thrill and emotional pitfalls of online validation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Schedule, Best-Of Episodes & Listener Requests

• Bryan and Chrissy address listener feedback and how two different fans requested the same classic episode, “Two Wettings and a Funeral,” which Bryan plans to air as a “TCB Classic” (02:10).
  • “Out of 900 episodes, when two people name the same episode, there’s something going on.” — Bryan (02:19)
• They riff on their reputation for being “consistently inconsistent,” and poke fun at their own scheduling chaos, noting that no week has passed without a show (03:35).
  • “We don’t know our heads from a hole in the ground... neither does the podcast industry.” — Bryan (04:04)

2. Social Media Train Wrecks: Watching or Walking Away

• Bryan shares the saga of a woman he followed online whose public mental health crisis played out on social media (04:21–10:10).
  • Initially followed her due to a “catfish drama” involving country star Morgan Wallen.
  • Discusses the moral dilemma of “hate-watching” vs. offering real help, and why he chose to finally unfollow for the person’s own good.
• Chrissy and Bryan reflect on the disturbing entertainment value social media can provide in others’ unraveling.
  • “That’s the downside of social media: everybody watches, but they’re not watching for the right reasons.” — Bryan (05:49)
• Comparison with another “E-list” internet persona — a self-promoting musician/podcaster obsessed with fake accolades and fame (11:01–16:44).
  • “I would call him E-list... you’re an extra in the reality, in the famous universe.” — Bryan (13:14)
  • Both hosts needle the absurdity of competitor podcasters inflating their creds to a surreal level.

3. Social Media, Fame, Validation & Domestic Drama

• Main theme emerges as Bryan’s growing notoriety among Venezuelan/Latino Instagram communities, and Astrid’s reluctant involvement (17:33–34:18).
  • He describes making reels focused on “multicultural marriage” with varying degrees of success and the compulsion to chase bigger numbers.
  • Chrissy relates to the cycle of social media highs/lows: “It’s a wheel of... you get a little bit of love, then you expect more. When you don’t get it, it hurts your feelings.” (19:55)
• The Astrid Reel Story:
  • Bryan crafts a suggestive but playful video idea involving Astrid and a laundry pun ("Give your Latina the load she really wants... of laundry.")
  • Astrid appears in the video for only a few seconds, covered by a towel, but becomes anxious post-filming about her appearance — leading to a marital debate.
    • “We go round one, round two… ten rounds on this back and forth. It is just going.” — Bryan (30:25)
  • The episode’s recurring title quote appears:
    • “Eventually the Irish guy goes, ‘Who fucking cares, Bryan? It’s not worth it. Let it go. Just let it go.’” — Bryan (30:57)
  • Bryan’s internal struggle: wanting to respect Astrid but feeling “haunted” by the missed validation/opportunity.
    • “Of all the hills you’re going to die on, this is not the one…” — Bryan (31:48)
    • “I knew this was Let It Go. My fucking brain won’t let it go.” — Bryan (31:32)
  • Ultimately, Astrid relents with stricter editing — the video receives a warm response, and Bryan hopes it’ll ease future on-camera nerves.

4. Society, Social Media & “Rat Kingdom”

• Bryan shares the “rat colony experiment” — a metaphor for social overstimulation and social media’s long-term effects (36:22–41:09).
  • Compares rats losing interest in reproduction with humans distracted and dulled by endless online validation and “looksmaxing.”
  • “We’re overstimulated by each other and not stimulated by anything. Even though I enjoy social media, I see how desensitizing it is.” — Bryan (37:29)
• They discuss “looksmaxing” influencers and the disturbing lengths some go for online clout, like the notorious “Claviker” (38:44–44:09).
  • “He’s grooming himself for other males… Why is he breaking his jaw? Tanning himself to death?” — Bryan (39:59)
  • “I guess his parents tried to stop him, too.” — Chrissy (43:35)
  • Both find it darkly comic and sad, especially the audience’s toxic relationship to such content.

5. Unplugging & Setting Boundaries

• Bryan shares his own strategies to protect mental space — only checking texts/emails twice a day, turning off notifications, encouraging tech boundaries with his kids (42:13–43:35).

6. Olympics: From Curling Controversies to Downhill Luge

• The duo devotes the last portion to Olympic obsessions — curling cheating scandals, underdog athletes, and the drama of lesser-known sports (46:45–59:35).
  • “Are we really... Is this what we’re going to do? Get all upset with each other at curling?” — Bryan (50:17)
• Marvel at the risk and commitment of winter Olympians, notably the insanity of luge, skeleton, and the ski-shooting biathlon.
  • “To me, when you luge, you just go… The first part you do, you run, and then once you get on the luge, you’re just going for a ride!” — Bryan (57:02)
• Reflections on how even less-experienced athletes represent their country — connecting Astrid’s step onto Instagram with a Venezuelan athlete entering cross-country skiing for the first time (51:56–53:00).

7. True Crime Detour: The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

• Brief, unresolved discussion of a real-life kidnapping case, showing the show’s penchant for dark but empathetic tangents (60:01–61:39).
  • “What are you gonna do with an 80 year old woman? It’ll get annoying after a while. Just bring her back. She’s loved by somebody, and it’s not you.” — Bryan (61:47)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Podcasting Realness:
  “Consistently inconsistent. Good way to put it, Chrissy.” — Bryan (04:03)
• On Social Media Voyeurism:
  “It’s like a train wreck. You can’t look away.” — Chrissy (05:48)
• On Inflated Internet Fame:
  “Not D-list — E-list. You’re an extra in the famous universe.” — Bryan (13:14)
• Bryan’s Internal Monologue:
  “Let it go. Just let it go. But my brain won’t let it go.” — Bryan (30:57–31:32)
• On the Social Media Cycle:
  “You get a little bit of love, then you expect more of it. When you don’t get it, then it hurts your feelings.” — Chrissy (19:55)
• The Rat Colony Parable:
  “We’re currently depopulating in the rat kingdom… because we are acting like fucking idiots.” — Bryan (41:09)
• On the Olympics:
  “To me, when you luge, you just go… The first part, you run, and once you get on the luge, you’re just going for a ride. What else are you doing?” — Bryan (57:02)
• Dark Comedy on True Crime:
  “What are you gonna do with an 80 year old woman? It’ll get annoying after a while. Just bring her back. She’s loved by somebody, and it’s not you.” — Bryan (61:47)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:10] Listener classic episode requests (“Two Wettings and a Funeral”)
• [04:21] Social media train wreck — the Morgan Wallen catfish story
• [11:01] The E-list podcaster and podcast industry absurdity
• [17:33] Bryan’s Instagram growth, “Latino gringo” niche, Astrid’s involvement
• [29:42] The Instagram video saga: Astrid’s anxiety and the creative/marital negotiation
• [36:22] Rat colony experiment: Science fiction or life online?
• [38:44] Looksmaxing and the “Claviker” influencer phenomenon
• [42:13] Digital detox tactics and the desire to unplug
• [46:45] Olympic obsessions — especially curling and luge
• [60:01] True crime detour: Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

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Tone & Style

The episode is loose, confessional, and peppered with absurdist asides, dark humor, and meta-awareness of their own “train wreck” brand. Both Bryan and Chrissy move fluidly between empathy and mockery, skepticism and sincerity—especially around the interplay between social media, ego, and creative ambition. At heart, the show’s charm is the authenticity of their long friendship, their willingness to go down tangents, and their ongoing search for meaning (and laughs) in absurd places.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• Even the most unfiltered creators have boundaries — respect matters offline and online.
• Social media’s addictive loop can fuel creativity, ego, and unexpected conflicts, but it also requires self-awareness and restraint.
• Watching (or being) a “train wreck” online is easy; being present and supportive offline takes real work.
• The world of podcasting (and life) is a blend of chaos, hustle, and finding joy in the mess, whether pursuing Olympic dreams, Instagram likes, or enduring friendships.

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Best to you, TCB listeners — and, as always, “Let it go, Bryan!”

Transcript

[Brian Green]

Foreign. We disagree on a lot of stuff. Not fight, like yell and scream, but we, we go at it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, yeah. Butt heads.

[Brian Green]

Eventually the Irish guy goes, who fucking cares, Ryan?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's not working.

[Brian Green]

Let it go. Just let it go.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Smart man.

[Brian Green]

And so I tell her, I go, you know what? I'm not releasing it. She goes, no, no, no. I just want to reshoot it with me in a robe. And I. If we redo it in a robe, the innuendo is gone. Like, if you. Why did you take the towel off the robe? You know what I'm saying? Why would you take a towel off the robe? That's just the innuendo is gone. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, Just don't worry about it. I'm letting it go. I'm letting it go, but I can't let it go. I knew that was fucking let it go. My fucking brain won't let it go. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, my favorite. 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 on the podcast universe and the streaming universe. Thanks for joining us on yet another episode of this commercial break.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The only one you'll ever need.

[Brian Green]

The only one you ever need. Fact, fiction, or news. Five seconds alone. Guarantee. Go to TCPodcast.com to collect your winnings. Get your sticker and get your free sticker. TCBpodcast.com still got stickers in case you don't have any. I've got some left. There's like 30 of them. And maybe we'll do a new sticker in 2026, but we had a lot going on there, so we decided to. Yeah, and we have stickers, so we have extra stickers. So if you need. We bought a lot of them and we don't need all of them. So please, please.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And then to give away.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, and we have some extra hats and a couple extra sweaters and stuff like that. So if you guys want some TCB merch, email us through the website and we will do our best to accommodate if available. And it doesn't cost us a lot of money in postage and handling. We'll figure that out. Yeah, we had some people that heeded the call when I said tcb classic. Let us know which episode.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, good.

[Brian Green]

Yes, we had a number of suggestions. Yes. And we had a number of people that. That dialed in and told us which episodes they would like. To hear on TCV Classic. Two People. I think we have one episode in the running because two people named the same episode. And out of 900 episodes, when two people name the same episode, there's something going on.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Pay some attention.

[Brian Green]

Pay some attention. And that would be two wettings and a where I talk about my mother going to Irving's funeral.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Funeral, Yes. I mean, that really is a classic.

[Brian Green]

One guy said, I think his name was Vinnie. He said, listen, I think it was. His brother had just passed away and it was a tough time for him, and he heard the episode and he said, I just could not stop laughing at that episode. Please, please play it. You can use my name. Please, please play it. And, and I will. I'll do that this Friday. Two Weddings and a Funeral. TCB classic coming up. So two of you request. And it shall be done. Look at that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It really was a hit.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. A super majority of our fans spoken. And. And that's it. There you go. So we, and then somebody asked, why have, why has the schedule been a little funky? Well, it's a couple different things, but I was sick on whatever. It doesn't matter. We're here now. What does it matter? What does it matter? We're here now. We did seven.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We thought we wanted to do one thing as, as per usual with us and the commercial break, we decide one thing and then change it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And that's how we keep everybody on their toes.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Including ourselves.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And you know what? That's the beauty of the podcast world. We can literally. But I will tell you what. Since we started this show, there has not been a week where we have not done an episode. Not one, not one, not one week have we ever missed an episode couple. We've had to play like, you know, TCP classics or whatever, but we've never missed a publishing schedule. And that's more having to do with my OCD than anything. But I would tell you right now, there is plenty of commercial breaks.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Inconsistent.

[Brian Green]

Consistently inconsistent. Good way. Good way to put it, Chrissy. We don't know our head from a hole in the ground. That's what Chrissy's trying to say. And neither does the podcast industry.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Schizophrenic, Maybe we're schizoaffective. We're going to do this. We're going to do that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Speaking of schizoaffective, I, I, I'm not going to name names because I do not want to psych shame anybody. And mental illness is a serious Thing. And there. And there's no fun to be made. It's like having cancer, only you can't see it. And it affects the way you behave, so people misunderstand you. So I'm. I really am not shitting on anybody.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No. We raised money for mental health.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Mental health awareness. That's right. And both of us have had family members who have been affected by serious mental disorders or psychological problem, emotional traumas, whatever you want to call it, but, you know, diagnosed undiagnosed. We all know people who are suffering or have suffered temporarily, permanently, whatever. You get it. But the Internet, the social media really brings that out in some people. There are. There is one person in particular that I have followed for a very long time, and I'm not even gonna. I'm not even gonna give the description.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That girl.

[Brian Green]

It's that girl.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And she's literally falling apart on social media. And I almost. I came this close to DMing her the other day because her stuff pops up. Because I watch a lot of her stuff, and if I'm being honest, I watch it for the entertainment value, but I'm starting to see that that's pro. That is exactly what she doesn't need. She doesn't need. People hate watching her, essentially. I don't hate her, but. But I'm just, like, amused.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, it's like a train wreck.

[Brian Green]

It's a train wreck. You can't look away. It's really hard to look away. But that's the downside of social media is that if you're having a moment then, and you put it out there, then everybody watches it, but they're not watching it for the right reasons. And she's clearly having an episode. She's clearly falling apart. She's clearly in trouble. Like, clearly she's not making any sense. She's all over the place. She's crying one moment, she's laughing the next. She's talking nonsensically. She's talking about beings and entities and all this other stuff. It's, like, taken. It's. It's at another level now. Right, right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Because she was the one that thought she had a relationship with the country.

[Brian Green]

Morgan Whalen, Morgan Wallen, whatever his name is.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

She still believes that. Right? She believes that Morgan Wallen is. She believes that Morgan Wallen owes her an explanation and an apology because she was catfished by someone who claimed that they were Morgan Wallen. Morgan Wallen doesn't know you. Shit. He just doesn't.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

But she's under the delusion that somehow Morgan Wallen has now further harmed her by not reaching out and talking to her. And she talks to him. She, like, goes on dates with him online. It's. It's weird. It's weird.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Goes on dates.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So a couple of, like, a month and a half ago, two months ago, when she started going on, like, pretend dates with him with her phone, you know, like taping it for social media, I'm pretending I'm on a date with social with Morgan Wallen. Hi, Morgan. Here's what we're going to do today. Here's where we're going. Going, like, really delusional.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

I was like, okay, no, thanks. Like, I'm out. Peace out. See you later. And so I just kind of ignored any posts that came up. And then a couple, like, maybe, I don't know, like five posts ago, she, like, really. She was naked in her kitchen on the floor, crying.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, no.

[Brian Green]

And I really thought about, like, DMing her and being like, girl, girlfriend, been there, done that scene. This movie. You need professional help.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right? And stop filming.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, and stop filming immediately. Cut yourself off. Like, call Instagram, tell them to never allow you to have an account again, because this is doing way more harm than it ever. Than it ever. But the problem is, is that when she did this whole, you know, filming of this. This breakdown that she had there, almost no one ever likes or comments on her posts. But this time, a bunch of people came out of the woodwork and were like, hey, girl, we support. Know, don't. Because she was. She said, this is the last time I'm ever going to post on social media. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And people were like, no, no, don't go away. You know, we love you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And fed into the psychosis, I think. And now. So I was like, okay, I'm going to DM this person once, just once, and I'm going to say, hey, I'm going to give her the comforting words that I know to give her. I don't know if it'll work, but. But then I thought better of it because she also has a tendency to take DMs that people send her and, like, go crazy on them and, like, tell her. Her. The people that are following her to, like, go to the page and, you know, this person is abusing me. You know, unfollow them. And I was like, no, I don't want to be in the fracas. I don't want to be in the fray.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best to stay away from this whirling.

[Brian Green]

Dervish is not something that I want to be a part of at all. So. Event. So the bottom line is, I unfollowed. I was just like, you know what? There's nothing I can do. There's nothing I can do. Yeah, there's nothing I can do. Now, that said, where is she located? I don't even want to say. Okay, I don't even want to say here in the United States, but I don't want to say. I don't want to give anybody ammunition to then go do the same thing that I was doing. I realized that it was just like a parasocial relationship that I was having, and I was essentially enjoying the train wreck. Right. And I don't need to enjoy somebody else's train wreck. I'm a train wreck enough. I don't need. I'm sure that people are watching me for the same reasons, and I don't. And I don't need it. But at least I know that some people might be watching me for the train wreck. Like, I get.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, you showed me a few of those posts, and I was like, I had to look away. It was painful to watch.

[Brian Green]

It is painful to watch. It's painful when you see somebody. I don't know this person. I have never known this person. The reason why I followed this person was because she was going through this catfish drama. And it was entertaining. I thought it was entertaining. And at the moment, I thought, poor girl got catfished. Let's see how this. Let's see how the story ends. By the way, she was on, like, a show, too. She was on a television show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That's how I even found out about it. And I imagine that's how most people found out about it, right? How Found out about her account. She's got a couple thousand followers. It's. It shrinks. It's shrinking because I think people are like me, are going, we don't. We don't need to contribute to this. All that said, that's the kind of train wreck I need to step away from. I don't want to watch that kind of train wreck. I don't want to watch children getting hurt, essentially. Oh, God. And I'm just giving an example. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm making a metaphor. It's a terrible metaphor, but whatever. But the kind of train wreck that I like to watch is our other friend that I like to watch on social media who starts every single reel, every single video by talking to someone else off the camera. And like you're interrupting his conversation.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, like you're just popping in.

[Brian Green]

Yes. It is so strange. And I don't understand what the deal is. He'll be like, let me give it. Let me give him a name that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Huh. Huh. Yep. Okay. Two Grammys. I, I, I think we're going to be nominated for two Grammys this year. That's. Oh, hey, guys. How you doing? It's Sammy, your old friend Sammy. And I'm going to be playing Josh's Deli next Tuesday. Sold out. But I have some extra tickets available. Give me a call. Okay. We get those Grammys. Yeah, we got them. Great.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's been doing that for years.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Did the Oscar invitation come through yet? Oh, hey. Didn't see you there. Yes, you did. You press record, right? You press record.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, I didn't realize I was live.

[Brian Green]

I didn't realize that. Sorry about that. Tell Chappelle I'll have to call her back. Chappelle Roan. Tell her I'll have to call. Oh, my gosh. I'm instantaneously on a video on Instagram. So sorry to keep you waiting. I was doing unimportant work of talking to Chappelle Roan. And by the way, he's not talking to Chappelle Ro. Now, that's the kind of delusion I think that's an appropriate train wreck to watch because he knows better. He's just being an idiot. Why is he doing that?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Excuse me. He's got something. I know. I think you've given me that cough. I was so excited because my cough had gone away. Then I've been hanging out with you, and now I got the cough back.

[Brian Green]

Anyway, it's terrible. I had. It was gone yesterday, and now it's back because you're here. I think it's a studio. Gotta get out of this studio.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Maybe we need to clean the drapes.

[Brian Green]

Astrid wants to get rid of these so badly. What? Yeah. Once we, once we find a way to make money doing this, then we're gonna change these drapes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Also, too. Not to bring up the weather again, but we're having crazy warm weather right now, and I see stuff sprouting out, blooming out, and that's gonna be spring allergies hitting me.

[Brian Green]

Anyways. Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Anyways, the guy that we were just talking about, he has some kind of, like, notoriety. He does, because he was on again. He was on a show.

[Brian Green]

I would call him E List. Not D List, but E. Listen, E Yeah. E meaning you. Yes. You're an extra in the reality, in the famous universe. Right. You. Some people, some very small amount of human beings may still remember you from something that you did and you did it well. I will say that I'm not going to get into who it is because I don't. Because I don't mean to, like, trash the guy. He seems very nice. He's just an idiot. He's just an idiot.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. That's been driving you crazy for years with him because he.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he begged me for a year to come on our show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right. That's right.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. And at first. Jeez, Christ, man. And at first I was like, okay. It was the beginning of the show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

We were on Clubhouse.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right, Clubhouse.

[Brian Green]

And I thought to myself, oh, look at this guy. He was on a thing. He did a thing. And like a singing thing. Yeah, in a singing thing. And then he gave me his bio and it was like, rather impressive. He was like, you know, nominated for two, you know, music of the year awards. But then when I started to, like, really dig into it, what I realized, it's a lot of made up awards and a lot of made up things and like we all do on our resumes. He beefed it up a lot.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay, yeah. Like Atlanta's Best of.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Atlanta's Best of, where you just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Pay to be in the magazine and then. That's right, the award.

[Brian Green]

We did Atlanta's Best of, and we didn't pay. They just begged us to do it. They were like, but you write it. And I was like, me, I write it. We'll give you the questions, you give us the answers.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So I made this whole thing. So now even sometimes when you Google the commercial break, what comes up first is the best of Atlanta.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Forgot about that.

[Brian Green]

The best of. We're not even the best.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Podcast magazine.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Podcast magazine. Which is funny because that's kind of how we met. This guy is like in this inner, you know, this fucking incestual clusterfuck of podcast universe. We. We met this guy. He begged me for a year to come on. I told him yes at first, and then I just kind of like ghosted him a little bit because I was like, eh. I started to see what was really going on and I was like, with 212 followers, I don't know how famous you could be, but we had 112. So I figured, you know, hey, listen.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Double what we had.

[Brian Green]

That's right. But now he's just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's still doing it. Well, he's speaking of consistency.

[Brian Green]

He does it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's staying consistent with what I think he thinks works.

[Brian Green]

I think he thinks it works.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Looks good.

[Brian Green]

He keeps mentioning that he's got the. That he's in. That he's a top podcast in the world, yet he only does a podcast, like, you know, four times a year. He puts out an episode. He says it's monthly, but it's really only four times a year. And I don't see anywhere where his podcast is the top podcast in the world. But listen, that is the nature of the podcast business. We've been on Apple charts. We've been high on Apple charts, and I'll be honest with you, it doesn't make a shit from shinola. It really doesn't. Doesn't mean we have the most traffic. Doesn't mean we're the most popular. Doesn't mean we have the most reviews or the most stars. It doesn't mean we're in the conversation with the other ones around us. It just means that for some reason, that's how Apple ranks like podcasts. I think it's how many people unfollow you in a day, then you go up, and I think that's how we got there. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But, you know, at the end of the day, it's not important. None of that shit is important. What's important is y'. All. Are you tuning in?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes. And thank you to the people that are in the stream.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, thank you to the people that are in the stream right now. And there's been a lot of people who have traveled in and out over the last couple of weeks. I actually enjoy doing it live because it gives it to it. There's some. It's like flying without a net a little bit.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, exactly. It's some kind of feedback, too.

[Brian Green]

Puts a little fire in my bones. Little fire under my balls. Like, I like warm balls. I don't know about you. Warmer.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's a bit of a ball.

[Brian Green]

It's a bit of a ball warmer. Chrissy, as I've always said, I sure hope my children's teachers are tuning in.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, that's right.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Now that your secret's out, Astrid and.

[Brian Green]

I got in the biggest disagreement about my social media. You would not believe.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Do tell.

[Brian Green]

Well, you know, the commercial break isn't the only place where you can see me be a train wreck. You can also see me be a Train wreck on. That's right, Instagram, too. And my personal Instagram has become a bit of a hotbed for Latinas, Latinos and Venezuelans more specifically. And gringos who are involved with Latinas, Latinos and Venezuela. Venezuelans specifically.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Because there's a lot out there.

[Brian Green]

It's a ton out there. And by the way, I'm not the only gringo that does this either. There are like five or six of us who have some measure of fans, and I'm the smallest of them all. Some of them have hundreds of thousand. 1. It's almost at a million followers. I mean, it's a big. He's a big deal, right? And he makes a living doing this and all this. But I've been having a great deal of fun. No money, just having a great deal of fun throwing out content that's relevant to my multicultural wife and my multicultural life. Okay, so you listen to the commercial break. Then you know this. I don't need to repeat myself, but I started making content specifically about the multiculturalism in, let's call it November of last year. So it's only like five months old.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

I've really been doing this. I've got like maybe 30, 40, 50 posts. And I do it pretty consistently. It's like every day or every other day, I put out a new post and some of them hit and some of them don't. Some of them have a million views, some of them have 500,000 views, some of them have 5,000 views, which, if this was the commercial breaks account, we would die for 5,000 views on anything. But I'm a little bratty now. And I'm like. My wife's like, shut up. What are you talking.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You're bratty about what? Like your notoriety?

[Brian Green]

I get bratty about, like, the statistics sometimes, right? And I'm just being honest. Right? You put, you, you think of an idea, you put some hard work into it, you flesh it out, you write a script, you. You tailor the script, you do it over, you sit in the camera and for 45 minutes doing it over and over to get it right. And then it flops. Yeah, in my, in, in. On my personal account, a flop is like, you know, five, 6,000 views, right? Which again, six months ago, five or 6,000 views would have been the best thing since sliced bread for all of us here. And just being honest about that now, I got a little spoiled because some. Because a lot of my.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's the nature of the game. That's why I got off of it. Quite frankly, because it's a wheel of, you know. Oh, you get a little bit of.

[Brian Green]

Love expectation here, and then.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. Then you expect more of it, and when you don't get it, then it's. It hurts your feelings.

[Brian Green]

Yes. If I'm 100% honest, I got a little spoiled. And it's not about the. The hearts don't make me feel any way. The. I love the engagement. I like talking to people. I like when I talk back and forth to people, like on DMs and stuff like that. Or I go live sometimes and people join me on the live, and we talk about. Yeah, Venezuela or whatever, the funny things that happen. Okay, that's besides the point. But I get a little bratty about this stuff. But I came up with an idea. I came up with an idea. And I run in the kitchen the other day, and I tell Astrid about this idea, and she says, no. What? I don't think that hits. But what about this idea? She's like, my executive producer.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

She's, like, tailored a little bit.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like, he's a great sounding board.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Tweak it a little bit. Tweak it to this. Which then led to a third iteration. Let me give you a little bit of an idea about the process. My thought was being with a point of view. Being with a Latina is like, be like, okay. And I walk in to the bathroom, and Astrid's hand comes out of the bathroom door with a towel. And I'm like, yeah, what's that?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And warms your ball.

[Brian Green]

Warms my balls. Exactly. The innuendo is there, right? And she has. I just see her arm, and the towel comes out, right? And I'm like, oh, yeah, write some music playing behind her or whatever. And the next shot is me sleeping outside, pulling the towel up like a blanket. Okay. All right. Yeah. That is my idea. Which I still might do, by the way. Don't take my idea. All right, so that's. That's the idea. I walk in, asserts, like, yeah, funny, but not that funny. I don't know if. I don't know if it would be culturally relevant. She goes, what if you put the towel. Like, the towel ends up on a pile of laundry, and then I turn it into a third version, which is, what if the same thing. I walk into the room, towel comes out, but then the next shot is me with a pile of laundry, and she's putting the towel on the laundry. And then I'm saying, give your Latina the load she really wants of laundry. All Right. Okay. There you go. Okay. So that's what's currently on my Instagram. You can go. All right. So fully executed, but now the amount of drama that this real cause internally in this household is significant. And I had to make a determination at one point in the argument. I am not getting a divorce over Instagram. No, that's not happening. I don't care. I don't care that much. It's a fucking reel. I'm not going to do it. Okay. All right, Now I'll tell you the story. Let's take a break.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And when I get back, I'll give you all of the details. This will probably cause a divorce.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, God. It's going to reignite.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's going to reignite passions. So at least listen to the commercial break. Okay. Oh, and by the way, people, somebody said there's like six commercials before the show. Oh, yes. Sometimes there are multiple commercials before the show. Because with this new hosting platform, it's about the amount of time that the commercials take, not about the amount of commercials. In other words, with our. With Odyssey, you might have heard two or three minutes of commercials in every break, including the ones before and the ones after the show, the pre roll and the post roll. Now, still the same amount of time, just different amounts of commercials. They'll do 10, 15, 30 second, 45 second commercials. So just know the amount of time that we take on commercial breaks has not changed. The number of ads might change. So I hear you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I would prefer quick, quicker commercials anyways when I'm listening to other podcasts.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, just move on. Okay. And if it's really that irritating, DM us at the commercial break on Instagram. I want your feedback. So if it gets, like, overly irritating, then let me know. I know ads aren't your favorite thing in the world. I get it. But we got to make some money somehow. And trust me, that's getting harder and harder to do in the podcast universe, and we'll continue to get harder to do. So we need ever. We need all the help that we can get. And this is the help that we're. That we're. That this is what's come to the rescue right now. So it's not. No, no amount of time has changed. Just the amount of commercials. Okay, I just wanted to explain that. All right, let's take a break now that you know all about the podcast YouTubers.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay. And then we're going to hear the Instagram story.

[Brian Green]

So Brian's answer is. Fuck you. We're going to play him anyway. And then we'll hear about the Instagram story we'll be back doing too.

[Rachel]

Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on tcb. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Let's.

[Rachel]

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

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. All right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes. You'll have to tell me more about that later.

[Brian Green]

Anyways.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, hey.

[Brian Green]

Hey.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I didn't realize you were here.

[Brian Green]

Hey.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hey, audience.

[Brian Green]

No idea you were here after I opened the camera and press record.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

While I've got you, let me tell you, we will be playing Titty Joe's Cafe and Coffee Shop next Tuesday at 2:15pm to 2:25pm Tickets are going fast. Actually, there are no tickets. Just show up. I was a former American Idol extra. No, the guy is bona fides. He actually. He actually did the thing. He did the thing. He did the thing twice, actually. So figure that out.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Now maybe you have enough information to go figure that out. All right, so, okay, so here's my idea. My idea is I walk in the room, Astrid's hand comes out of the door. All you see is the hand with the towel. The innuendo is there. She just got out of the shower, she dropped her towel. And I go, oh, yeah. And she goes, oh, yeah. And I go, oh, yeah. Hold on one minute. And then I turn around, leave the room, come back with a pile of Laundry towel goes on top of the laundry. Next shot is me putting the laundry into the washer. Give your Latina the load she really wants of laundry. Okay. All right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

It's an innuendo. It's all innuendo based. All right, so now a little backstory on this for the four or five months that I have been doing this. Of course, the main. The sun in this universe, the black hole, the. The infinity pool of my universe, as far as listening or as far as talking about multiculturalism, is my wife, because she is Venezuelan. And that is where I get most of my content from now. I've known Venezuelans for 30 years, long before I met my wife. But this is the. This is the thing that's in my universe now. My kids are partially Venezuelan, right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And that day to day living.

[Brian Green]

But Astrid is terribly shy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

It took me three years to get her in that seat. Three years to get her in that seat. And it took a long time to get her comfortable with that idea. Okay. She didn't want to hear her voice on camera. She didn't want her voice on camera. She didn't want her face on camera. She gets used to the idea, but she really doesn't like it. Yeah, but the people on my Instagram are clamoring for Astrid. Clamoring. Instagram has a thing called Edits. Edits is essentially an edit app where you can record your videos and it makes it easy for you to edit them. Cut, paste, slice, add text, add music, all that stuff. It also keeps track of the comments once you post the video. Okay. So when it does that, it will summarize it via AI so it'll say you have a new summarization. So on these posts that sometimes get millions of views, Astrid, I mean, the comment section gets summarized and I will bet you every fourth one or every third or fourth one says show us. Users suggest bringing Brian's wife into the videos. Right. Users want Brian's wife. The demand, the people are demanding hammering for Astrid, okay. But she's never been on the channel. I eventually got her to use her voice in some incredibly popular reels that went around. I loved it. I thought it was great. People loved her. They love her. They love her. Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't? She's gorgeous, she's funny, she's interesting, she's intelligent, and she's Venezuelan. All the things it gives me, the bona fides, it's my street cred right there. That's my girl. But she's my wife also, so I understand this is a. Anxiety for her. I don't want to make it crazy, right? I don't want to make. I don't want to make her feel.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't want to push too hard.

[Brian Green]

I don't want to push too hard. Okay. So I convince her to do this reel with me. And the reel basically is I just need her hand and the towel. And I need two face shots, right, of her with a towel wrapped around her head here up, shoulders up.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

She's going like this. Okay. And I. I shoot it. And I shoot it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, she did it.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And it is perfection. It is so fucking funny. I loved it. I don't. I. I think it's going to be a hit. I don't know if it's going to be a hit. I don't care if it's going to be a hit. To me, it's perfection. It is funny shit because of the way I cut and spliced it. And her, she's on screen, total of 3 seconds total. But she gets so frazzled at the idea that she is naked on the camera when she's really not. Her shoulder is naked, but she's really not. And we go round one, round two, ten rounds on this back and forth. It is just going.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Did she want you to completely scrap it?

[Brian Green]

The whole thing? She wanted me to put a. Put a black box to edit it. So just her neck up.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, that's a big step for her.

[Brian Green]

That's a big step.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, to show the face.

[Brian Green]

I know. And. And eventually the Irish man and the Venezuelan woman who fight like cats and dogs when it comes to any. Like, we disagree on a lot of stuff and not fight, like, yell and scream. But we, we go at, yeah, butt heads. Eventually the Irish guy goes, who fucking cares, Ryan?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's not worth it.

[Brian Green]

Let it go. Just let it go.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Smart man.

[Brian Green]

And so I tell her, I go, you know what? I'm not releasing it. She goes, no, no, no. I just want to reshoot it with me in a robe. And I go, honey, if we redo it in a robe, the innuendo is gone. Like, if you. Why did you take the towel off the robe? You know what I'm saying? Why would you take a towel off a rope? That's just. The innuendo is gone. Blah, blah, blah. Okay? Just don't worry about it. I'm letting it go. I'm letting it go, but I can't let it go. I knew that was let it go. My brain won't let it go my. I have this incredible waking up, thinking.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

About it, going to sleep, thinking about it.

[Brian Green]

All day, all night, driving around, like, re. Watching it over and over again. Like, I could probably put it out. She would never know, you know, I'll put it on YouTube. She'll never know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

But I'm like, oh, yeah, no, no, no.

[Brian Green]

But of course I'm not going to do that. But I'm just thinking about it. I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about it. And I'm like, I just. I know that it's a beautiful shot of her face. She looks beautiful. Half the half of Instagram is innuendo. It's like, you know, this is the least risque thing you've ever seen on. On Instagram. But. But I have to understand her point of view. So I'm like, okay, all right. So I keep telling myself, let it fucking go, Brian. Just let it go. Of all the hills you're going to die on, this is not the one. Like, you have let bigger stuff. You chasing those stats, chasing those views, baby. I think what I'm really chasing is the idea that I know once people see Astrid's face, and especially this particular shot where I think she looks particularly beautiful, that people are going to love it. They're going to be, well, that's probably.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Astrid's fear too, is that people are going to love it. It's going to fly all over the place. And there she not feeling quite comfortable.

[Brian Green]

You said what she said, and I just couldn't fucking let it go. So day goes by, two days goes by. The other night, I walk in, she's watching tv, and I say, hey, babe, listen, I love you. Thanks. Thanks for all the help the last couple of days. I really appreciate it. What if I tailor the video just a little bit so that it's just like, here up. Like, nothing like this. And she's like, I swear to God, I swear to God, I will think about it. But I don't know if I'm. I don't know if I'm gonna do.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Trying to wear her down.

[Brian Green]

I was a little bit. Trying to, like, you know, sandpaper it down. Sandpaper the sharp edges down. Yeah, just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Because I know this is the one. I know this is the great introduction to the Instagram.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Come on, baby. No way.

[Brian Green]

Come on, baby. No whammies, no Whammies. And eventually she said, I'm never gonna look at your Instagram page again, but you can send it out with The. If you edit the view, like, okay, you can. You can send it out. And I did. And it. People loved. They loved it. They loved it. Now, listen, it's not gonna get a million views, but maybe in this case that's the best thing. But I love the idea that now, like, the seal is broken, because now I can bring Astrid onto the channel and hopefully, hopefully she'll be a little less stressed about how people are going to react to her on the channel. Listen, people on Instagram, they. They. Some of them don't understand that this is a parasocial relationship. You just see, you should see some of the DMS that I get. They're really weird. I bet these people are strange.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, there's a lot of people in the world, and a lot of them aren't.

[Brian Green]

Well, a lot of them aren't. Well, yeah, now most of the DMs. 95% of them, but perfectly fine. They're lovely. But there's a. There are that. There's that 5% where you really have to, like, you have to be mindful of who you respond to because you don't want people going, like, right. It's. I had this one guy, I put out a reel about something completely innocuous. Completely innocuous. The dumbest shit you've ever heard of. Like food. No one cares. No one cares. And this guy went fucking bananas. You're a fucking retard. You're a. I can't. Wow, do this. This is. This food company is funded by Maduro. And I'm like, what are you talking about? First of all, with the language. Dude, please. Second of all, I said, dude, you are so willing to throw out, like, really harsh words.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Did you respond?

[Brian Green]

I did.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I did. Because I felt I. I felt I wanted to defend. I felt I wanted to talk some common sense into the guy. Like, first of all, you don't know me and you're willing to throw out these words to me over a real. About food, like, where are you coming from? I don't understand why you're so angry. Second of all, where in the world did you get the idea that this food company is funded by the Venezuelan regime? I don't think they have any money, first of all. Second of all, what are you fucking talking about?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Did he come back with an okay response or.

[Brian Green]

He never responded, but. But he follows me and it's like.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay, he's hate watching.

[Brian Green]

He's hate watching for sure. You know, social media is a. Is a weird. Is a weird thing. And I'll share with you some video that I saw yesterday. It kind of summarizes my thoughts about social media and I think where it's headed in general. In 1962, there were two famous scientists who did called the rat colony experiment.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

They started with four rats. Two males, two females. Okay. And for a decade, they allowed the rats to propagate, essentially. And within a year, they had hundreds of rats. Within two years, they had thousands of rats. Within three years, they had 10,000 rats. And within seven years, they had five rats. Rats like five, five rats. And they did nothing except feed the rats and give them a place to live. That's it. They were in like a big warehouse space and they just observed what happened. And what happened was the civilization died. And it died because they got over stimulated with the interaction with each other. Males started to groom themselves like they would call super. Males started to groom themselves and became disinterested in the females. They became more interested in attacking the weaker males and grooming themselves, essentially. Right. You see where I'm going with this? Okay. The females became disinterested in the males.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Because they were acting like idiots.

[Brian Green]

Because they were acting like idiots. Right. They were acting too aggressively. So the females shied away from them and they went to their corners and they didn't have babies. And eventually the population went backwards until it died off. And that's just what it did. It just died off. Within 10 years. It exploded in five. It died in five. That's what happened. And I think so. And so some people are now making comparisons to this groundbreaking study. They're making comparisons to what we're experiencing now or our children will experience. When it comes to social media, we are overstimulated by each other and therefore we are not stimulated by. By anything. And I see, even though I. I'm on social media and I do social media, and I enjoy interacting with people on social media and I enjoy getting the content out there on social media. I see how social media desensitizes us to so many life's small wonders because we're all too busy with our heads and our phones to realize what's going on in the world around us. And this is especially true when it comes to our children who are now not populating like we used to, not even interested in sex like we used to. And the males are looks maxing and grooming themselves.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, my God, the looksmaxing guy. Did you read in the Times about Clavicle?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, whatever his name is.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Holy. I was like, what? First of all, he makes a hundred, $100,000 a month on. Across his, you know, channels and all of that. But it's really crazy. And I mean, to read that interview with him, I was like, this guy isn't right. And the people that are looking at him are right either. What's happening?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I did not read the interview, but I did the research. I saw the headline, and then it was paywalled. And I was like, nah, fuck that. I'm not paying for the. What was it? New York Times?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, it was the Times.

[Brian Green]

We dropped our New York Times subscription just because it was not something that we were getting much use out of.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Not that we don't like the New York Times. We do, but. But I went. This is my first time not hearing of the guy, but understanding, like, the. Just the blurb told me something that was interesting. And I went and did my own research, and I found a lot of interviews, and I watched him with the guy. This guy is grooming himself for other males. That's what he's doing. He's not grooming himself for males, for females. He's grooming himself for other males. And so I wonder what's really going on there. Like, why is he breaking his jaw?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Tanning himself to death. You know, listen, I tan myself, too, but I'm not breaking my nose to get, you know, long, a bit more elongated.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like the purse. Perfect. Quote, unquote, perfect. I mean, I guess, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Specimen of a male, but he really is a douchebag.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, and he's also kind of a pickup artist because that's. He. He. And he even admits he's like, all these guys watch me on here because I. He was, like, going out on a date.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

With a girl. And he was like, yeah, all these guys watch me on here because they can't get dates.

[Brian Green]

Well, congratulations to you. But that was very strange. It's very strange. All of these pickup artists that we have been busting on for years and years and years have turned falsely, have turned the very nuanced idea of courting into what they call a science formula. A formula which doesn't work for most people. And social media has turned the female attention toward super males that, quite frankly, have no one's best interest in mind. They are literally lug nuts. Right? And this has then been fed by this ultra masculine. I hate to say it, but these brocasters and MAGA and all this other stuff take the politics out of it. That's why the way that they lean, that the world is somehow being taken away from males and that we all need to, like, toughen up and, you know, bulk up and get guns and, you know, piss on each other's plates. And that's just not the way an evolved society works. So, therefore, we are currently depopulating in the rat colony, the rat kingdom. We are currently depopulating and it is because we are acting like fucking idiots. That's it. I don't know that there's anything we can do to stop it, to be honest with you. I really don't.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No. I think the trains left the station.

[Brian Green]

I know, but I feel so bad for my kids.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, I mean, there could be a back. I see. I do see a lot of backlash to it, of people kind of giving up all of it and saying, let's go back to analog things. Let's go back to getting away from our screenshots.

[Brian Green]

There was. There would be nothing that I would like more than to get rid of my. I have turned off text messages. I've turned them off. I mean, not turned them off. Like, I can't get them. I only look at them once a day or twice a day at most. Because it's. Now the email. It was like my email for BlackBerry. Anybody can get a hold of you at any time for any reason. Right. And I just. I. People on emergency contact. Yeah, I don't care. I don't care. It 10 years ago, 20 years ago, you would have to call my fucking house phone. 30 years ago, call my house phone and wait for me to respond when I got home. And there wasn't always this pressure to perform and to be on and to respond to get you back to you right away. And if I don't respond to you in 10 minutes, you know, this increasing urgency. I don't care. I really don't. I would like to be left alone sometimes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, you have to jump off the wheel at some point.

[Brian Green]

You know, I told you this back when I worked at Clear Channel, I came up with. I don't know if I read it or I heard it. I don't know where I came up with the thought. Maybe it was Mark Cuban. I don't know. I checked emails twice a day. That was it. And now I've gone to this with text messages. I almost never answer the phone unless you're an emergency contact. But now I check text messages and emails twice a day. And if that. And that's it. But, you know, I'm not trying. I'm not going to be teaching my kids about looks Maxing, that's for sure. That's insane.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, I guess his parents tried to stop him, too. He's been doing this since, like, 15. He started ordering those that, like, hormones off the Internet.

[Brian Green]

At 15 years old, you do not need testosterone. That is insane.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like the human. The hgh. Yeah, that stuff and whatever. And the parents tried to stop him. They just realized they couldn't, and he just was barreling ahead. Now he's making all. Yeah, now he's making all this money and just. It's bizarre. It's a bizarre life.

[Brian Green]

Hey, it's me, Clavicker.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Claviker.

[Brian Green]

What's his name?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Something like that.

[Brian Green]

Claviker, isn't it?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. I mean, that's not his real name.

[Brian Green]

But I wish it was Claviker, because that's a cool. That's a. That's a better name. Hey, it's me, Claviker. I'm just over here breaking my jaw. Hey, Chrissy, can I borrow your ball pen hammer?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Sure.

[Brian Green]

Anybody got a ball pen hammer I can borrow? I'm just gonna clink, clink, clink, clink. I'll be in the hospital getting my jaw wired shut. What are you doing, loser? He probably has never had a girlfriend his entire life. He's like that Nick Fuentes guy, the guy who, you know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, well, he's. Yeah, I think he did.

[Brian Green]

He's a virgin.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, he did something with that guy on Social.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he did? Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's what we need. Those two hanging out together. Oh, my God.

[Rachel]

We're.

[Brian Green]

We are so fucked. Nick Fuel, Lentes, and fucking Clavicker are hanging out together. Oh, God. They're both gonna go on Rogan tomorrow and hang out. All right. We'll take a break. We'll be back in tune too.

[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 you 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]

Brian got it wrong, yeah Ryan got it wrong, yeah Ryan got it wrong, yeah when would it ever end? Ryan got it wrong, yeah Brian got it wrong, yeah Ryan got it wrong, yeah when we ever end Brian got it wrong, yeah Brian got it Brian got it wrong again. I love my little AI tool. We're all fucked, but I love my little AI tool.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We'll always have that.

[Brian Green]

You've been watching the Olympics?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I have been watching some of the Olympics, yes.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man. I'm all. I'm all wrapped.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

There's been some good stories, too.

[Brian Green]

Some great stories. I'm all wrapped in the controversy around the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, the curling.

[Brian Green]

The curling.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What? Yeah. What was that? Was that where the Canadian and the Norways were screaming at each other?

[Brian Green]

Not to say screaming. They were insulting for Canadians and Norwegians. They were insulting each other. Yeah, but they were using a pretty harsh word, harsh language for, you know, nationally televised broadcast. But, yeah, so, you know, curling has taken the world by storm. I've been watching curling.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You have? We. We were watching it during the last Winter Olympics.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And I was watching it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's fascinating.

[Brian Green]

Olympics ago. Yeah, I loved it. I got onto it about probably, like, I don't know, whenever the 2020 Olympics was. Or 2022 or. No, 2018. I don't know whenever it was. I was watching it a long time ago, but it was like before that was like when Julia and I were split up. So that would have been like 2010.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Way back then. Those like that. I think when the Olympics started to get split up into. Remember, they used to have them summer and winter together, like it was the same year.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can only remember them now. Split up.

[Brian Green]

No, it wasn't too long ago either. It was like, I don't know, five Olympics ago, 10 Olympics ago. Something like that is when they split up. I don't know. Anyway, I was watching curling and it was. They had very limited coverage because they didn't have DVRs and all the other. And multiple channels. They just had whatever. But I found it to be a fascinating sport.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It is.

[Brian Green]

And so the coverage is grown.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

A little sweeper.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, a little sweeper. Now you can watch every moment of it. And I love it. I think it's great from every angle and every angle. Now my kids are into it and. Listen, I don't think it's, like the best sport ever, but I think it's an interesting sport. It's like chess on ice, right. They're playing, they're shot, rock. All that other stuff.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Like a botch.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Situation too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And I love bocce ball. I think it's great. I don't want.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I was in a league.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's right. I was in the league, too, at Orms. Yeah, I was there, too. I mean, I was in a league. I don't know if we were playing together, but so watching curling, and then the Brits and the Norways, the Norwegians, they get into a disagreement, and the Norwegian guy is accusing the captain or one of the captains of the British team of cheating.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Canadian.

[Brian Green]

Canadian. I'm sorry. Of cheating by pushing the rock after the line. So there's a, you know, they slide, there's a green line. They have to release it before that green line and try and get it in the. In the bullseye, whatever. And there's It. That's the simple way of explaining it. You've seen. I know. Everyone's seen it. So apparently the Canadian guy was sneakily taking his finger and giving it a little extra spin or a little extra touch after. Oh, and the Norwegians, I don't know if they set up a camera to record this or if it was recorded, but there is clear evidence that this was done. Clear evidence. Now, to me, the touch looks insignificant, but it is a touch. Right. It's clearly happening, but sneakily. Sneakily.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He was going over, giving it a.

[Brian Green]

Little ding, ding, ding, ding. He releases it and then he just gives it a little tap. Yeah, a little tap, tap, tap.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Go on, little buddy.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, go on, little buddy. Spin that way. Right? And so. Okay, not allowed. And that is. It's clearly in the rules. It's not allowed. They even had to remind the teams that it's not allowed after this big controversy blew up. But just the thought that there would be cheating at the curling, at the Olympics is funny to me. I mean, I find it funny. Find it interesting. I don't want to see anybody cheating. But the way that they were politely yelling at each other was just really.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, I saw the video of it.

[Brian Green]

It's crazy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Are we really. Are we really. Is this what we're going to do? This is where we're going with this. We're going to get all upset with each other. But, hey, it's the Olympics, you know, you're going for the gold, you're going for the glory. You got to do it straight up. You just got to be that dude, like, don't I know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I was watching one that was fascinating and I can't remember the name of it, but it's where they go. They ski and then they shoot the gun.

[Brian Green]

The triathlon, the biathlon or something.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, and then they ski again. And then they're doing, I mean, the lungs on these people. They were skiing uphill.

[Brian Green]

Skiing uphill.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I was like, what? Oh my God.

[Brian Green]

I would have been over passed out. How do you do that?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The pile of snow. Yeah, and then shooting and get down on your chest and then you get up. Then you do like the standing shooting too. It was fascinating. Wow, those are some athletes.

[Brian Green]

They're real athletes. And in Italy, the woman who does that, I can't remember her name. Bruno something, right?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, I saw her.

[Brian Green]

She has like 195 million social media followers.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. Yeah, she's really cool.

[Brian Green]

She is a fashion superstar. And then she does this too. She's like one of the best in the world at ski shooting, I guess. I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's amazing.

[Brian Green]

I mean, when do you need to ski shoot in like a Christopher Nolan movie? I mean, what are we doing? Ski shooting, but cool. I was watching it too.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Going after like an animal or something. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

I don't know either. But I was all wrapped up in it too. I was all wrapped up in these beautiful women out there shooting. And the crowds are crazy. There's like every seat is full and it. Apparently it's the most popular sport in like three of the countries in Europe.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, exactly. You grow up doing that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you grow up doing. You grow up watching it. You grow up knowing who the superstars are. Like the Michael Jordans and the, you know, I don't know, the Simone Biles of the, of the Eastern Europe or whatever it is. It's. It's insane. I love it. I love the Olympics. I know it's a big corporatized bullshit, but I love it. But here's what few people know. But if you watch closely, you'll, you'll. You'll catch on to it. These are not necessarily all the best athletes in the world. They are the best athletes from each country. So like Venezuela had like a cross country skier. There's no skiing in Venice, but they entered somebody into the competition. And the poor guy is just falling his way through the. God bless him. God bless all the heart he had. Go out there and do it. It's like Astrid getting on Instagram. He just broke the seal and went out there and did it. The poor bastard had no idea what he was doing. But he was out there. He was doing it. And listen, he did it better than.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I could probably say he was in the Olympics.

[Brian Green]

And that's what it is for a lot of these people. It's just about showing up, just about doing it, just about being there. And, you know, I love it. I guess the. The men won. The hockey. To me, the hockey is the least interesting thing that's going on in the Olympics. I'd much rather watch those other randos sports like that you never get to see. Yeah. Skeleton. The guys going down the luge with their head first. That is the toughest fucking thing I've ever seen.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I was talking to Jeff about. I was like. Like, how do you. Like, how do you grow up saying, I want. That's what I want to do.

[Brian Green]

You don't grow up.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You would have to maybe, like, have a family member or somebody that. That did it before you, because where.

[Brian Green]

Do they have a luge run? Where in the world do. I mean, it must be in, like, the Upper Peninsula of Wisconsin.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Or upstate New York or something.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Or, you know, we have way up there in Maine or New Hampshire somewhere where it's consistently cold during the winter. And they. They care for those things. Because I was watching a video, I was like, how do they even make these courses? Like, how do they get the ice up on that wall like that? And I watched a video about it. They literally take what they call slush, which is what you think it is, snow and water, and they take it by hand, and they paste it up there. Like they're doing drywall, and they just. And then they spray a coat of water on it to keep it, like, icy and fresh. Right. And they do this every day. They go. But they go into all the corners, and they do it every day, which is insane to me. The amount of work to just have some people slide down there at 90 miles per hour. But these people are sliding down there at 90 miles per hour.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, they're so fast. And it's like by the tenths of a second that they're off from each other.

[Brian Green]

That's it. And they have to, like. And the people who are commentating, like, the people who have done this before, they really know what the fuck they're talking about, because it just looks like they're going fast down a hill to me, but they're like, oh, yeah. He came in the corner to set him up for the third turn. He's. He's gonna. He can't make up that kind of time. And I'm like, he's going 90 miles per hour.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right. How do you know that he can't make it up?

[Brian Green]

You can't make it up. He's going 90.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

It's like me on the highway. I know I can make it up. I'll figure it out. But then, like. Like I was watching the. The men's, like, qualifying luge and where they go down with their feet first. And there was an American.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And that's also scary. I mean, you're laying, like, barely. See?

[Brian Green]

You have to crash sometimes, right? You have to. Okay. Two sports that I just cannot get. Two tracks that I would. Multiple events happen where I just can't get it out is the downhill slalom. The one. The speed slalom.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Where they are going, they go miles per hour. No, no, no, no. The ones where they're going. Oh, the. The downhill. XP is what they call it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Where they are going in and out of the gates.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're doing great commentating on the Olympics.

[Brian Green]

We have no fucking clue what we're talking about.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Nothing.

[Brian Green]

You know, someone on two skis, the things that Lindsey Vaughn does.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Two skis straight downhill, 70 degree angle, 100 miles per hour going in and out of the gates. There was one day when I was watching, like, the women's qualifying when of the 10 women that I watched, six of them crashed because this. The. The course was so fast and they were going. It was so unmanageable that they were going 80 miles per hour crashing, like, just flying downhill. And then bones upon bones just flying all over the place.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

It looks so scary to me. That one of these people didn't die was a fucking miracle. And the second one is that goddamn luge. The luge where you're going 90 miles per hour down this. And I watched the Americans. It was two Americans in there. One what just seemed like a, you know, happy go. Lucky guy. He'd been in the Olympics a couple times. He was ready to go. He didn't do very well, but okay, whatever. He was, like in eighth place. The second one was a guy. He was big. He was a jolly ginger is what he was. Just a big boy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All sucked into that suit. All, you know, all the bits and pieces showing, all the, you know, steak and potatoes everywhere, and he's just going down. And the commentator was like, no, he's a bigger boy, but that'll help him on the speed. Like that's gonna help him when he crashes. He's got some extra padding to make sure he doesn't break every fucking bone in his body. These people are putting their lives on the line. To me, it seems like when you lose, you just go. The first part you do, you run. You have to run. And then once you get on the loose, yeah, you jump in. You're just going for a ride. Like, what else are you doing? No, no, I saw Seth. What's his name? The guy who does the weekend update. Colin Yost.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, right. Yes.

[Brian Green]

Colin Yost went on the bobsled, like, the. The tandem bobsled. So the driver took him on a ride down. They were going 90 miles per hour. And Colin was like, I've never ever been so scared in my entire life. And Colin was yelling like a girl the entire way down. He's like, Yeah, I don't even know if I'd be. I love that kind of shit. I love roller coasters. I don't know if I would be brave enough to do that. Yeah, I really don't. I'd be like, I'm putting my life on the line here. For what? To go down some ice? Like, no. Anyway, I love the Olympics.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Slippery slope, my friend.

[Brian Green]

It is a slippery slope. I think that's where the terminology comes from. All right, well, listen, the Olympics. But it's almost over, and that sucks. You know, we got one more week of it, a couple more days of it, and then it's. Then it's all over. So pay attention. And then, of course, there is squad God and squad God, who just was absolutely miserable. I. I don't watch figure skating, but I watched the replay because I thought to myself, oh, my God, like, it was such a big story. Squad God falls three times. Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No, he choked.

[Brian Green]

Poor thing, he choked. He really did. But, hey, listen, he's young.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

And he came out and said it. The stress got to me. It was running through my head. The stress got to me. It was too much. I put too much pressure.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And you know, also when you become, like, when you transcend the sport and everyone pulling on your time and you're doing all these deals and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it's like the business of it just gets in the way. Being a creative like he is and an athlete like he is, your mind needs to be focused on the task at hand. And when all the other crap comes in the middle, we know it becomes really sometimes stressful to get in and just do your job right. Which is do the thing you. You know how to do.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And that's, you know, and that's the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That happens.

[Brian Green]

It's the business of podcasting.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We don't know what that is, actually.

[Brian Green]

We have no idea.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're clues.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I do love the Olympics too, though, and I'm enjoying watching all of it.

[Brian Green]

I'm. I'm really excited to be. I've been really excited to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Still no Nancy Guthrie.

[Brian Green]

No, no, they're not gonna find her. I mean, they might find her, but they're not gonna find her.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What happened?

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I just. It's. It's very perplexing.

[Brian Green]

It's clear that someone was without the, you know, super spy skills of James Bond. Took her because he was trying to put like fig leaps in front of the NEST camera to turn it off. I mean, this was not a sophisticated criminal. But why did he take her and what did he do with her? And why did he do that?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't know. It's all very perplexing.

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They've had all these experts on too, and they're like, we've never seen anything like this.

[Brian Green]

I've never seen anything like it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No, I've never.

[Brian Green]

Living on this earth for a long time and we've seen a lot of kidnapping cases. JonBenet and all this other stuff. JonBenet, you can kind of understand. Some fucking creep took her. Right. Or something. You know, something or someone in the house did it and they tried to cover it up, whatever. What's her name? They got her back.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I just watched that story.

[Brian Green]

And, you know, there's the girls in Portugal, you know, I can't remember her name, but they were on vacation and the girl got taken from. It's all scary, but this one's weird.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's very bizarre.

[Brian Green]

It's weird. Some dude comes head to toe dressed in black and puts a fig leaf in front of the nest camera and then takes a 70 plus year old woman.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. I think she was in her 80s.

[Brian Green]

80S with her health issues. Yeah. And it's the mom of a famous newscaster Reason.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

There's no reason. That's really not out.

[Brian Green]

No. And they don't even know if these, you know, the ransom notes are real.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And that's the worst part about it is there's somebody out there with them. Probably.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So you. Anyways, give her back.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

What do you got? What are you gonna do with an 80 year old woman? It's gonna become annoying after a while. Just bring her back. Bring her back. She's loved by somebody and it's not you. All right. Okay. At the commercial break on Instagram, tcb podcast.com for your free sticker, all the audio, the video and YouTube.com the commercial break. And bring Nancy back.

[Rachel]

Come on.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes. Thanks for the streamers.

[Brian Green]

Thanks for the streamers. We love you all. We'll see you next time. Okay, Chrissy, All I can do for today, I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say we do say, and we must say goodbye. Sam. Sa.