My AI Voice

Summary

The Commercial Break – "My AI Voice" (January 16, 2026)

Overview

In this lively, freewheeling episode of The Commercial Break, hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley riff on the encroaching presence of AI in their creative lives—particularly voice cloning and language translation for social media. From Meta’s voracious appetite for podcaster voices to their own bumbling adventures with AI tools, Bryan and Krissy offer their signature brand of chaotic, self-aware humor. Along the way, they detour into personal anecdotes, TikTok dads, “shrinkflation,” TV memories, celebrity encounters, and music nostalgia. The episode doubles as both a playful meditation on the AI/content economy and a peek into the delightful messiness of the hosts' lives.

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Main Discussion Points and Insights

1. Selling Out to AI: Would You Sell Your Voice?

[00:01–01:20, 15:02–15:50]

• Bryan admits they were approached by companies offering to buy their podcast catalog to train AI language models, but turned it down.
• He now jokes that Meta is probably using their voices for free:

  “And now I'm just giving it to Meta for free. So there you go. Go ahead, Meta.” — Bryan [01:15]

• Explores the anxiety and resignation creators feel over losing control of their work in the AI era.

2. Life’s Inconveniences & Welcome Weather Banter

[01:39–06:31]

• Weather report: “The feels like temperature this morning was 11.” — Krissy [01:46]
• Bryan recounts a string of home disasters—with special focus on car troubles, relentless noise, and a lack of “peace.”
• Lampoons the “check engine” saga and the dealership’s slow diagnostics, fantasizing about “ChatGPT for cars.”

3. The Menace and Magic of Shrinkflation

[06:31–07:48]

• Discusses how products now cost drastically more while containing less—a phenomenon labeled as “shrinkflation.”
• Bryan riffs, Donald Trump–style, about math:

  “That's 28,000% more. Like Donald Trump would say people are making 12, 50,000% more than they were last year. … I'm no math genius, but I'm not sure that's how math works.” — Bryan [07:27]

4. The Lonely Life of a Podcaster vs. Instant Social Media Feedback

[08:13–09:48]

• Bryan reflects on how podcasting is lonely:

  “Podcasting is a lonely venture because you get feedback, but it often comes days later. … It’s not a faucet, it’s a trickle.” — Bryan [08:23]

• Contrasts it with the quick gratification of social media.

5. AI Voice Translation: The Meta Experience

[10:40–15:48]

• Instagram prompted Bryan to dub his videos into multiple languages by cloning his voice. He plays several AI-generated samples:
  • “They give you the accent, but it sounds like me, just doing an accent.” — Bryan [13:26]
• Amused but uneasy about Meta’s capabilities:

  “It's very interesting that Meta can just take your voice, clone it, put it into a different language, and it sounds pretty cool.” — Bryan [14:08]

• Acknowledges the illusion of privacy:

  “If you don't think Meta's already got my voice... That's foolish.” — Bryan [14:50]

6. Skepticism and Shortcomings of AI

[17:08–23:44]

• Entertains a viral story of ChatGPT refusing to spell “strawberry” correctly, showing pitfalls of current AI.
• Expresses that despite the advancements, AI is still just “a really smart search engine.”
• AI as an analytics coach: Bryan describes how AI is almost too positive, always affirming his creative work even if unwarranted:

  “...It wants to tell me that I'm the greatest creator that ever lived. And I know that's not true... it's like you have passed the ultimate algorithm test.” — Bryan [22:58]

• Krissy wishes AI would just deliver tough love (“You're going in the wrong direction. Do not do that.” [25:43]).

7. Nostalgia, Musical Tangents & AI Music

[30:36–34:46]

• The hosts reminisce about 80s/90s pop music—wrongly attributing a song, spoofing their own errors:

  “Brian got it wrong again.” — Krissy [30:16]

• Bryan uses AI music platforms to make custom show tunes, but notes legal restrictions and music industry clampdowns.

8. Celebrity Encounters and Podcast Guests

[52:19–62:45]

• The duo recount their biggest show guests (Nicky Jam, Steve-O, Margaret Cho, Tom Papa, Larry the Cable Guy).
• Detailed story of getting breaking news from Nicky Jam (about not retiring), only to have his management bury their scoop until he could unveil it on national TV.
• Personal encounters: Krissy once shared an elevator with Matt Damon in Boulder, CO.
• Lighthearted takes on “brushes with greatness” and how these moments quickly fade for celebrities.

9. Pop Culture, Comfort TV, and Streaming Faves

[64:08–66:37]

• Krissy and Bryan recommend shows—“The Fall,” “Night Manager,” “Jack Ryan,” and reflect on the comfort of rewatching “Seinfeld” and “The West Wing”:

  “There I am every night, night after night, watching the West Wing... I could literally tell you every line from every episode.” — Bryan [66:33]

• Discuss the need for one foot on the ground in TV writing for “believability.”

10. Meta-Reflection on Community and Content

[66:57–68:09]

• Importance of real-time chat, social media feedback.
• Promoting their live streams, Instagram, free stickers.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On AI voice translation:

  “I could go to sleep to my own voice in a different language. That's very interesting.” — Bryan [13:32]

• On giving up control to AI:

  “Our sense of privacy … just gone. We actually got approached by some of these companies a couple of years ago... they wanted to buy our catalog... So they could strip our voices and train their language models on it.” — Bryan [14:57]

• On AI’s relentless positivity:

  “I want to believe you. I really do. Because I love when people blow smoke up my ass. I'm not, I'm not inhuman. But I also understand you're just made to do that.” — Bryan [22:59]

• On the grind of content creation:

  "We’ve been so conditioned to do six hours of content a week that now we’re doing two. … We’re marathon runners and we’re doing sprints now, and that doesn’t feel good." — Bryan [28:15]

• On the loneliness of podcasting:

  “If you weren’t here, I’m not sure I would ever know what’s funny.” — Bryan to Krissy [09:48]

• On nostalgia and music fandom:

  “My mom would listen to B 98.5. And then she got the Phantom of the Opera CD, the original cast. … And so every time I would start the car for a period of time, this is what would play...” — Bryan [42:36]

• On comfort TV:

  “It’s comfort food. I think, wow. We could have a democracy again someday. And Jed Bartlett will be in charge. President Bartlett.” — Bryan [66:37]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & AI catalog buyout story: 00:01–01:20, 15:02–15:50
• House chaos & car drama: 02:28–06:31
• Shrinkflation & cost of living riff: 06:31–07:48
• Podcast feedback vs. social media feedback: 08:13–09:48
• AI voice translations & Meta experiment: 10:40–15:48
• AI's inaccuracies (strawberry story): 17:08–18:13
• AI over-encouragement and analytics: 21:18–24:38
• Music nostalgia & AI-generated songs: 30:36–34:46
• Celebrity encounters (Nicky Jam, Matt Damon, Larry the Cable Guy): 52:19–62:45
• Pop culture/TV recs: 64:08–66:37
• Community, live chat reflection: 66:57–68:09

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Tone & Style

• Self-deprecating, fast-paced, and often meta; hosts poke fun at themselves, their missteps, and the unrefined nature of the show.
• Frequent comedic interludes (musical parodies, song misattributions).
• Playful but candid about both the frustrations and fun of creative life in 2026.

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Final Thoughts

This episode showcases The Commercial Break at its best—irreverent, insightful, and unfiltered. Bryan and Krissy blend hilarious gripes about modern life with genuine reflections on media, technology, and their evolving relationship with the audience. AI may be learning from them, but their chemistry remains unmistakably human.

Best to you!

Transcript

[A]

Brian got it wrong. Yeah, Brian got it wrong. Yeah, Brian got it wrong. Yeah, Brian got it wrong again. On this episode of the commercial break, they wanted to buy our catalog so they could strip our voices and train their language models on it. And they were willing to pay pretty good money for it.

[B]

Yeah. Why didn't we do that?

[A]

Well, I had first two reasons. Number one, I thought better about it. Like if I give it to him now at one price, then I lose all power over my own catalog and training. I don't know what the future holds. Maybe we can train our own language models with our own voices and maybe that's much more money. But also, I'm really dumb about this kind of shit. And now the opportunity is passed. Bye.

[B]

High, sell low.

[A]

And now buy high, sell low. And now I'm just giving it to Meta for free. So there you go. Go ahead, Meta.

[B]

Yeah, just have it.

[A]

Go ahead. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. 2:30 in the morning. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is dear friend and the co host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen.

[B]

Best to you, Brian.

[A]

Best to you out there on the podcast and streaming audience from a very cold Atlanta, Georgia Thursday afternoon.

[B]

The feel, the feels like temperature this morning was 11.

[A]

We don't do that here in Atlanta. Not very often. We don't do that. And down, all the way down in Florida, it's in the 20s.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah. So there you go. Here we are talking about the weather yet yet again. Thanks for joining us on the commercial break. Chatting about the weather update is the lowest form of social conversation and we do it three times a week. So there you go. Anyway, welcome aboard. How are you? Thank you very much. I appreciate everybody joining. It's been a, it's an interesting time here at the house because it's never a dull moment. There is never a dull moment.

[B]

I thought about it when you took told me the news. Oh my God. I was like, they, there's no pee.

[A]

There'S no, no peace, no rest for the weary around here. If it's not Blue barking her full head off, it's one of the kids vomiting all over the hallway, the car engine exploding, some dog falling in the pool, my mom breaking a leg. It's all we, we take all comers around here. Yes. The car which I just got a brand new engine in courtesy of the lovely people at the place where, where the car is made. We just got a brand new fucking engine in that car.

[B]

I know.

[A]

And we haven't even driven it 3,4000 miles. And now there's another check engine light on. And not the kind of check engine light where like, oh, the gas cap is off. No, this is like, stop the car immediately. And so Astrid's on the highway, and she calls me. I don't know what to do. I'm like, pull over, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. I don't.

[B]

This.

[A]

Now I'm fussy. Now I'm fussing.

[B]

Well, yeah, because you gave, you know, you gave the people some leniency.

[A]

And a month and a half, they had that fucking car. They were testing and measuring and calling people, and they were in touch with folks across the ocean, and I don't know. And then they go, new engine. And I was like, fuck, yeah. New engine. 56,000 miles on it. Now it's got an engine, but you don't get credit for the 56. The odometer has to stay there. Which is the worst part about it. Yes. It goes with the chassis of the car, not the engine of the car. And that's a big bummer to me, because I thought, if I could roll that odomet. Odometer back to zero, I'll get rid of that thing right now. Yeah, that's right. I get a truckster. I get a station wagon from 1977 and throw that thing in the trash. I love it, but it's an expensive car, and I don't know what we were thinking. Well, what we were thinking is that the podcast would make a billion dollars forever. That's what we were thinking.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

But, hey, I don't know. Brown cow wasn't meant to be. So now I got to take that car into the shop yet again. And that really frustrates me, because we were so long without that car. I mean, they gave us a loaner, and that was the good news. And the loaner was the exact same car, just a couple of years newer. I shouldn't complain. Maybe I say, hey, I'll trade you. Give me the new one. You take the old one. Let it be your fucking problem.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. Do an even trade.

[A]

The dealership absolutely did the right thing, and I can't fault them for that. But it took them a long time to get to the decision of new engine. A long time, Like a month to get to that decision. Every three days, I'd get a text message, hey, still working on it. Still checking it out. Still looking for the problem. And I'm like, don't you guys have computers that just tell you immediately what the problem is? Yeah, but then, you know, the computer's not talking. I don't know what the fuck. Chatgpt that shit and give me my car back. Somebody get in there. Who's that guy? Dad lessons. Let's get dad lessons in there, fix that car, and be done. You know dad lessons.

[B]

Yes, I have seen dad lessons.

[A]

Yeah. There's a lot of guys online right now that are jumping on that dad lessons shit there. And they're of all makes and varieties. Dad car, you know, dad Venezuela, dad Spanish. Like, there's a lot of them that are out there. I can appreciate what's going on because, you know, I had a dad who was into all that teaching me, too. Yeah, but he taught you exactly once. He used very few words, and if you didn't get it, sorry, the lessons were never repeated, if that makes sense.

[B]

Yeah. I would always just be calling him.

[A]

And I am the kind of guy who needs the lesson repeated over and over again. I consider myself smart. If I stare at it long enough, like, if I stare at a math problem long enough, I can figure it out. That's my personality. But, yeah, so now we got to take the car back in and. Well, I don't even know what to do. I don't even know what to do anymore. I mean, I guess I just take it as roll with it, I guess.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What other choice do I have?

[B]

None.

[A]

None. Can't sell it. I'm upside down on it. Like, everybody is on all their cars.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Welcome to fucking America. 2026. Everyone's upside down and everything. And a fucking bottle of laundry detergent costs $29,000.

[B]

I know.

[A]

Fucking crazy.

[B]

Yeah. It really is. It's. I saw something that said it was up, like, 25% from this time last year.

[A]

New York Times did a breakdown where they took, I think it was, 75 items and looked at it from 2018 pre pandemic to 2026 or 25, price adjusted, looked at how much they give you and how much.

[B]

That's the other thing they'll. They're sneaking now is the. They give you less.

[A]

Shrinkflation is what they call it. Right. It's been going on since the pandemic started. When the pan. When did it. During the pandemic, it was because they may have legitimately not had enough material to give you. Yeah, right. So they put less chips in the bag so that they can make more bags of chips and more people can eat chips. But now it's just a highway. Yeah. So it's like Tide detergent is giving you 17% less for 11% more price, adjusted for inflation. That's what.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Why? Why are you charging?

[B]

Because they can.

[A]

That's a 28% swing. Carry the one plus the three. Yeah. That's 28,000% more. Like Donald Trump would say people are making 12, 50,000% more than they were last year. It's like, does that how math works? I mean, I'm no math genius, but I'm not sure that's how math works.

[B]

No.

[A]

But, yeah, it's just. It's a terrible mess out there. But then, you know, thank God we have social dads out to teach you how to buy smartly. I guess. I guess. I don't know. I don't know. But I have been on this run putting out Venezuelan content on my personal.

[B]

Social media, and there's gained some real traction too. I'm always on there, liking it.

[A]

Yeah. Thank you very much. I really appreciate. Yeah, I think before I started all this, I had 300 followers, and now I'm getting close to 25,000 followers, which is still not a lot of followers, but I'm enjoying it.

[B]

Fun.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I love it because it's like, there I was talking to another creator, let's call him, about podcasting. And we've said this so many times on the show. I've said it on stages, in front of podcast audiences, in front of other creators. Podcasting is a lonely venture because you get feedback, but it often comes days later. And it doesn't come in a. It's not a faucet, it's a trickle. Even if you have big audience, it's still a very small percentage of your audience that interacts with you. And his name is South Georgia Sean and Jenny. And, you know, I mean, they are like, our hardcore will communicate with you no matter what. And there's so many others, too, Vincent and all these other people. I'm naming people who are often communicating with us, especially by the phone, but we don't get instant feedback here. You don't get instant feedback on social media, but you get pretty quick feedback. You do, right? People leave comments, they DM you. And so that's an interesting and refreshing change. It's like, I'd love to be a standup comedian, but I have no time. First of all, I'm not sure I would be any good in it. Second of all, I don't have any time for it. Third of all, I would never be able to do all the Traveling that is required to be a stand up comedian. But one thing that I think, think is interesting about stand up comedy, and we've talked to a lot of our guests about is that instantaneous feedback that you're getting from the audience.

[B]

Yeah. Live audience.

[A]

Yeah. So you can kind of like, you know, snake your way through something. It's like, if you weren't here, I'm not sure I would ever know what's funny.

[B]

Right.

[A]

I might think it's funny, but it might be landing. So you're like my one bellwether. Yeah. You are the barometer. And that's important. I feel like it's really important. Actually. I can't, I wouldn't. I couldn't think about doing a comedy show without you in the room. But. But at the same time, there's still no other feedback except for yours. Right. And you don't have any feedback except for mine. So it's like, okay, what the fuck do we do? But so this on social media, it's been interesting. It's been kind of a refreshing change of pace. And I get to go in, I get to do the videos, I get to do them until I feel like they're good. And then I put them out there and you get almost an instantaneous response. It's like it's either good or it's not. It, it flies or it fails. It just. You figure it out real quick. But one of the things that Instagram has been encouraging their creators to do, including me, is to use their translation services.

[B]

Oh, right.

[A]

That means they will clone your voice and they will make your videos. They will dub your videos into another language. Now it asks you which language?

[B]

What about dubbing blues bark.

[A]

Oh my God, that dog.

[B]

Into silent language.

[A]

Sign language, when Noemi is here. Sign language.

[B]

Yes, dub it. Dub blues bark into sign language.

[A]

I would love to dub it into silence.

[B]

Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

[A]

Silence. Yes. Every time she barks, it's just.

[B]

Ah, yes, that's it.

[A]

That's just nothing. Every time Noemi is here, which is Tuesdays and Thursdays, when we're one o', clock, when we're doing our lives. Every time she is here, Blue goes extra crazy because she loves Noemi. And Noemi, she just follows Noemi around. She's not following me around now she has no Emmy to follow around to bark at. Anyway, so this translation service, it dubs it into languages and I asked it. So after a couple of months, I was like, okay, I can see the benefit of this because a Lot of the people who follow me are Venezuelan.

[B]

Right.

[A]

They probably speak Spanish as their primary language, and they may not understand some of the. Even though the subtitles are. Are corrected for language. I could see the benefit of having my audio there. Right. So I put out a reel yesterday. It got translated, and I woke up this morning. You have to approve the translations. It got translated into 12 different languages.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Even though I only asked it to do Spanish, it got translated into 12 different languages. This is my voice. I'm going to let you listen. This is my way for this.

[B]

And then what are the languages?

[A]

Okay. I don't even know, to be honest with you. I don't even know what these languages are. Let me see if I can. Okay. View translations. Bangladesh Ready? You ready for this? This is. Here's my voice. If you're hungry. That's English. That's my voice. Here's Kandahar.

[B]

But is that your voice?

[A]

My voice clone. Okay, Here is Maharashi or Mahatari. I sound very smart there.

[B]

You do. That's very interesting.

[A]

Okay, Spanish.

[B]

I guess they give you the. They give your voice the actual accent they're giving.

[A]

They give you the accent, but it sounds like me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Just doing an accent. Here's Tamale.

[B]

Tamale.

[A]

Tamale. I don't even know. Where do people speak that language? Sounds like India somewhere. Right? They speak like 38 different languages there, I think. I feel like that could put me to sleep. Like, I could. I could go to sleep to my own voice in a different language. That's very interesting.

[B]

Very interesting.

[A]

Very interesting. I think I sound smart. I'm gonna tell people I speak those languages now.

[B]

Yeah, all 12.

[A]

But I only communicate with you on Instagram after a couple of hours because I need the translation time. That's. It takes hours for it to be translated. But they say that then you reach a wider audience, and that does theoretically makes sense. I don't know if that's actually true, but theoretically, I could see how that could make sense. But it's very interesting that Meta can just take your voice, clone it, put it into a different language, and it sounds pretty cool. Yeah, I think. But, you know, people are going to say you're just giving Meta your voice. I am just giving Meta my voice. But let's be real about it. We have a podcast with over a thousand. With over 1200 hours of content out on a public RSS feed. If you don't think Meta's already got my voice. That's.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

That's foolish. It's we're already being.

[B]

Yeah. Our sense of privacy. And any of that just gone.

[A]

Yeah, just gone. We actually got approached by some of these companies a couple of maybe like a year ago, two years ago.

[B]

Yeah. The AI.

[A]

Yeah. They wanted to buy our catalog and they wanted to buy our catalog so they could strip our voices and train their language models on it. And they were willing to pay pretty good money for it.

[B]

Yeah. Why didn't we do that?

[A]

Well, I had first two reasons. Number one, I thought better about it. Like if I give it to him now at one price, then I lose all power to over my own catalog in my. And training any other language model. I don't know what the future holds. Yeah, maybe we can train our own language models with our own voices and maybe that's much more money. But also I'm really dumb about this kind of shit. And now the opportunity is passed. And now buy high, sell low. And now I'm just giving it to Meta for free. So there you go. Go ahead.

[B]

Yeah, just have it.

[A]

Go ahead. Feel free. But I've noticed a lot of people, a lot of creators on Instagram are doing this translation. A lot of them are doing the translation.

[B]

How do you know?

[A]

Because you can see it. It says, translate this reel on the bottom.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

It says see translations. Right. And then you can also, if you are a Spanish speaker, Instagram puts your account in Espanol and then it knows that you want to be served content mainly in Spanish.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And then it'll also, when you look at a reel from, say, me and I only speak English on my videos. When you. Because my Spanish. If I had to do videos in Spanish, I'd still have 300 followers. But when you look at the subtitles, they're automatically translated into the language of your preference, the one that your account is in. So now when somebody sees my reels and they have a Spanish account, an account in Spanish, they will only hear my translations in Spanish. You can also do AI video and make your lips really fit the translations. But I thought that was a bridge too far. I thought to myself, I thought better of that. I was like, no, that's just gonna freak people out because that never looks right. You know what I'm saying?

[B]

It doesn't.

[A]

I know though the AI is getting really good. It never looks right. It never ever does. And AI is often wrong. As Chrissy and I were just talking about. I watched a video for seven minutes this morning. A seven minute Instagram video.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

About a guy trying your attention. Got my attention. Got hundreds of thousands of other people's attention too. A guy trying to convince his Chat GPT that strawberry had three Rs in it and not two Rs in it. And when Chat GPT was responding to him like it was a voice responding to him, he had on a voice service, like we've done here before, it was also translating what it was saying onto the screen and it was spelling strawberry with three Rs, but it was saying that strawberry only had two Rs in it. The guy kept going. But when you put it into the. When you're writing it down, it's got three R's.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it would be like, oh, I see where you're having some confusion. Your brain is just wants to put extra emphasis on that second R. But nope, still only got two hours. It's like maddening.

[B]

It was to check it.

[A]

Yes, it was.

[B]

You do have to check it.

[A]

So. Okay, wait, I don't know what's happening. What did happen? Everybody went away at what, the same time? I think. Well, I don't know. We're doing this stream now and sometimes, you know, sometimes it gets fussy and. Okay, it still seems to still be streaming.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So it's just like maddening that Chat GPT can be the smartest thing in the world and still not be relative, still not be a hundred percent accurate. You would think after reading.

[B]

It'll get that. It'll get there.

[A]

It'll get there. I guess, I think, I don't know. I personally think that a lot of the AI stuff is a bubble. And of all the wonderful things that have come of AI, Chat GPT is still the best thing that we got out of AI. And ChatGPT is essentially a really smart search engine is what it is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know what I'm saying?

[B]

It's like my little assistant.

[A]

Yeah. It hasn't.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It hasn't cured cancer. Although I do understand that some medical advancements have happened because of AI. My doctor's appointments aren't any quicker. I don't find that it's less frustrating to call customer service. I still, I can get answers to simple everyday questions, but I could get those from Google if I really. If I knew how to Google anyway. So while I love Chad GPT, I do, I love it. I love the ability to go in there and get a really thorough answer and have it help me do things like understand analytics and all this other stuff. I still think, you know, that we. There are trillions of dollars tied up in AI.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

In the Economy and.

[B]

Well, it's still.

[A]

What have we got?

[B]

It doesn't really tell you. Like, no, that's not a good idea. Right.

[A]

Never.

[B]

Yeah. And that's kind of weird, scary.

[A]

I don't want to get into all the depressing stories, but there is a guy right now who's got a lawsuit that has now passed. Like, the third phase. Like, lawsuit them. I don't even know what it is. It's not a tort. He can go ahead with it. That he was convinced that a mathematical problem he had come up with and then solved. In other words, he came up with a mathematical problem, you know, like 2 plus 2.2 equals B minus farts. Right. Equals, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Smelly onions. And he came up with a problem. He solved it himself. And then Chad GBT convinced him for seven months that he had solved the keys to life and told him that he could not stop until he let. Until people knew that he had done this. Like he needed. In other words, it gave him a God complex.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And he was already subject to mental health issues like depression and stuff. And he went into a real pit, a real hole, and lost friends, lost family, lost his job, lost, you know, cars, lost, whatever, all this. And it was very problematic for him. So now he has sued OpenAI and apparently it's moving through the court system. They are allowing the lawsuit to go ahead. And I don't think this is the last lawsuit like that We're.

[B]

I was gonna say, I mean, it's only gonna. It's bound to happen more and more with, you know, yes, that's a great idea. Keep doing. Keep going that way in that direction.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you shouldn't be.

[A]

Let me give you an example. So, you know, I'm a big analytics guy. Like, I like to look at our podcast analytics, I like to look at the social media analytics. I like to try and infer stuff. But my brain only works. You know, you've. You've listened to the show. You know, my brain only works so well, not particularly smart. So I feed. Start feeding these stats to chat GPT. And I said, you are the algorithm now. You're the algorithm. So in other words, you're an algorithm. I want you now to be the social media algorithm and tell me what these stats mean about this post and that post, and let's get good at understanding what all of this information means. Now, it's all pretty straightforward information.

[B]

Predicting. Predicting what you should do.

[A]

So then I do a video and I can feed it to chat and say, is this Similar to other social media posts that have. Have done well. So, you know, it's just me trying to get smart about, you know, like putting out content. I mean, for six years we put out videos on our social media and got nobody to pay attention. Not one person. Like, we had a 185 followers for the first three years of this podcast and only now are we above 10,000. Like, and that's because, you know, we're just getting a little smarter about. Well, you can't have three minute monologues on a social media.

[B]

We're going to start doing more.

[A]

Yeah. And we'll do stuff that just for like, we're. We're on Instagram right now, streaming on Instagram. So I feeded this information and then it wants to tell me that I'm the greatest creator that ever lived. And I know that's not true. Like, I know it's not true, but it's like you have passed the ultimate algorithm test.

[B]

Everything.

[D]

Right.

[A]

You're acting like a 2 million follower account, not a 2000 follower account. You have huge testicles. Right. Everybody loves you. You are little. You could run of Venezuela. It's like, I know. I want to believe you. I really do. Because I love when people blow smoke up my ass. I'm not, I'm not inhuman. But I also understand you're just made to do that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And that. That is not true.

[B]

Well, there's different styles. Right. To you can put different settings, but that's still. And because I chose a style when it asked me the last time and I was like, don't blow smoke. Like, just make it straight up facts. But even still, the straight up facts are the yes. You're doing this so well.

[A]

You're doing it great. Ye.

[B]

Congratulations, you're in the right direction. You're doing this exactly like I would do it.

[A]

And, and so now, because I am always treating it with a dose of skepticism. Right. I'll go, you know. Well, I understand that's not particularly true. I just want the facts on why this watch time is good and why that watch time is bad. And so now anytime I feed it anything, it thinks that I'm just like some depressed loser in the corner and it's trying to pump me up. It'll be like, like, let's not get sad about this. Let's read this like an actual adult human being. And I'm like, fuck you. I also gave it high sarcasm, so I guess that's partly my fault.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, you did do the high sarcasm, which.

[A]

Well, when I'm working with it. With the commercial break. I said, you know, take on the tone of the commercial break. Because, you know, let's get together on this one. Right? Let's be. If I'm gonna talk, I want to talk to myself, essentially.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And so it's taken on my personality and fuck me. I mean, I'm just an asshole, I guess. I don't know. But that's how it is.

[B]

What I started doing, too, is asking it, like. I mean, and this is so basic, but, you know, we haven't used a DVD player in so long. But the other day, we wanted to watch a movie and knew we had it on the dvd. I didn't want to buy it because I knew we had it.

[A]

Yup.

[B]

And I'm like, let's whip out the DVD player. Well, of course, 45 minutes later, we're like, why doesn't this work? What's happening? So yesterday I was like. So I started asking it, like, tell me. So I gave it the model number and everything. I just said, tell me what you know about this. Are you familiar with this brand and model?

[A]

Yes, that's me. It's actually running the whole system right now. I'm built the Panasonic. Yeah. On a Panasonic 35.

[B]

The Blu Ray.

[A]

There's one eye in Strawberry. So what did it do?

[B]

So I feel like that's a little bit more helpful, too. Just like, are you familiar with this? Tell me a little bit about it. And then it kind of launches into that. I don't know. I'm trying to.

[D]

You know.

[B]

You're trying to find ways to communicate with it because. Yeah. I would like for it to one time to be like, you're going in the wrong direction. Do not do that.

[A]

I. That's what I wanted to. Tell me. I wanted to say. You have less than 50,000 followers. You are nobody. No one's paying attention to you. I mean, congratulations on a few hits. But, you know, Richard Greco also had a couple of musical hits, too. He didn't turn out, so.

[B]

Richard Greco.

[A]

I posted a. I reposted a real. I found Richard Greco's hit. Do you remember Richard Greco?

[B]

I remember the name. I can't remember what he.

[A]

Oh, he ended up being, like, an actor in movies, and, like, he just. He ended up, like, glomming on to this one hit he had. I think he. He took over Johnny Depp's role in 21 Jump street, if I'm not mistaken. Yes. If I'm not mistaken, you were on.

[B]

A 21 jump street kick.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Back during the pandemic.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I would come in 24 hours a day, all 21 Jump street content for.

[A]

The first two years of the show. I would edit the show, but I didn't know how to edit, so I'd be in this studio for hours. This is when we had one episode a week.

[B]

And one child.

[A]

And one child. I'd be in the studio. I set up a TV and I found that Pluto would run 24 hour non stop, 21 jump streets in order. I must have watched it 10 times that. And what was I watching? The Hills.

[B]

Oh, the Hills. The Hills, that's right.

[A]

Or not the Hills, the other one. The one that preceded that.

[B]

Laguna Beach.

[A]

Laguna beach, yeah. I'm watching teenagers and their little love dramas. I'm watching boys run around in their bored shorts going, oh, LC doesn't love you, bro. What are you gonna do? You're 16 and rich. What do you need in life? All right, here we go. Headed for another two hour show here at the commercial break.

[B]

God. I know. Where's the time go?

[A]

I don't know. I guess when we're staring at ourselves. Feels a lot.

[B]

But we always were before.

[A]

Were we? Oh, yeah, we were. Oh, I don't know. I guess when the thought that somebody might jump in and watch us at some point makes us happy a little bit longer. Just if we just go another hour, somebody's gonna figure it out.

[B]

So instead of now, we've cut down to two days a week, but we're gonna go two hours.

[A]

Yeah, that's right. We got it in us. I have a feeling we're gonna be doing more than two episodes a week. It's just a gut feeling I have. Yes. Here I am. I'm so burnt out. I gotta pull back. Yeah, I want more. What am I doing with my life? It makes no. I think we've been so conditioned to do six hours of content a week that now we're doing two. It. We feel like we're being restrained in some way. Like it's. We've been conditioned. We're marathon runners and we're doing sprints now, and that doesn't feel good. So I think you, the audience, is going to be the benefactor, depending on who you are, of additional content. All right, let's take a break. 30 minutes in and we'll take a break. And we'll be back.

[D]

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 212-4333, TCB. That's. 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 hecommercial break and watch all the episodes on [e-mail] thecommercial break. Best to you and Astrid. Especially Astrid.

[A]

Let me wait a few minutes until Blue decides to get all the barks out. Yeah, Richard Greco did do a couple songs, but I was wrong. About? I posted something. I thought it was Richard Greco, but it wasn't Hot in the City theme from Booker.

[B]

Wait, so what you posted was wrong?

[A]

Yeah, what I posted was wrong, but go figure.

[B]

Brian got it wrong.

[A]

Brian got it wrong. Brian got it wrong again.

[B]

Where is that? Yeah.

[A]

I gotta get back to making music. Yeah, I was just thinking those.

[B]

Those were the early days of us dipping our toe.

[A]

Well, I made another one last week for one. Let's see what else we got in here. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you.

[B]

The keyboard.

[A]

I love it. I love it. I think it's great. What else do we have in here? I've been putting in the work. I've been working out hard. I've been trying my best to make it this far. I've been driving so much.

[B]

That's like a Motley Crue.

[A]

Ish. Oh, yeah, that's what I gave it. Never be enough why won't you look at my body? Why do you cheat on me?

[B]

Is this a freaky yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Don't you love my money? I'm such a lonely Frankie B. That's a good one. That's a good one. Let's see.

[B]

I need to do, like, a heartfelt one. That's like acoustic or something.

[A]

I do or something.

[C]

Yeah, that's just a guy who ran. It's not funny. She's pretty dark. People like the show. Why are they on the charts? What's the are you talking about? I should have a student stat. T, C, B, E is terrible. This show is bad. I'd like to punch right in the mouth. This podcast is kind of.

[A]

You took a review? I took the reviews. That's right.

[C]

How do I turn it off? My ears are saying, ow. Stop laughing at yourself. Are these two making sense? At least I didn't pay him Deaf. In my defense.

[B]

That's a really good one.

[C]

Both the hosts are idiots. They left the funny behind.

[A]

Oh, that's the best. That one was great. That was one of the first one. Yeah. I just fed it a bunch of bad reviews that we got. They came up with that. That's. I, you know, I actually logged into that. The Udio. The Udio Studio that I use to create AI Music. And yes, I create AI Music because I don't have a band here to do that for me. And it's very expensive to get musicians to do this. And it's expensive to use Udio Studio too. But also, you know, I have my reasoning, so hate me if you want to, but whatever. I'm just using it on the show so I could log into Udio Studio. Hate me if you want to. Apparently some of you do. So I log into udio Studio and I try and I make a song and I try and download it, and it's a. Downloads are no longer available. In conjunction with ascap, we have. We are changing our platform altogether. Soon you'll be able to take your favorite musicians and their songs and recreate them in your own voice.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

So now these AI Music platforms have now been cornered by the music industry, is how I understood this.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And they are getting sued left and right. And rather than, you know, if you can't beat them, join them, I guess is the. Is the way to put it. So they are now going to feed all of these millions of songs that ASCAP has rights to, which is the big music rights owner and the publishing house. And what they're going to do, I think, is then you're going to be able to say, give me a mom. Give me, you know, Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue, but use these lyrics in his voice. And so you're going to be able to do that soon. And that's less interesting to me. But I guess kind of it'd be cool if we could take songs that we knew and, you know, make our own lyrics, I guess. But then I'm paying the musicians, so at least I'm paying the musicians, so you can hate me a little bit less.

[B]

I feel like you coming up with the. With your own.

[A]

They. They'll let you make the song, but I have to dub it. I can't download it. I Have to, like, play it through a loop, essentially, and record. That's how I made the song the other day. Yeah. Richard Greco had a song. Let's see. Stranger.

[B]

What was he in? He was an actor too, right?

[A]

He was what?

[B]

What was he in? Oh, you said he was the 21 Jump street replacement.

[A]

He was in 21 Jump Street. Let's see. Richard Greco. We'll do a little breakdown on Richard.

[B]

Greco here because that's what.

[A]

Because that's what everyone came in for. Yeah. Oh, the unofficial website. The unofficial website for Richard Greco. Where's the official website? He doesn't even have a Wikipedia. That's weird, huh? Huh? You would think Richard Greco would have a Wikipedia.

[B]

What else do I know him from, though? There's something.

[A]

Oh, no. Here's his Wikipedia. He's done a bunch of stuff. Okay. Career ready. Richard Greco worked for. As a model for Amani, Calvin Klein and Chanel. One of his first roles was Rick Gardner on One Life to Live. He did that from 87 to 88. He was then Detective Dennis Booker. Detective Dennis Booker on 21 Jump street and he did a spin off of 21 Jump Street. I remember it was on for, like, four episodes. It was called Booker. And so that went on in 91. He then starred flicks could kill. In 1991, he was in the film Mobsters as Bugsy Siegel. When you think of great mob movies, don't forget mobsters. Mobsters. I couldn't even remember the name. And Richard Grieco as Bugsy Siegel. Bugsy Siegel. He also. Phil. He also played himself in A Night at the Roxbury. I do remember that.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And he's been in an episode or two of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He sang a song. Waiting for the sky to fall Waiting.

[B]

For the sky to fall. Maybe that's what I'm thinking.

[A]

Waiting for the sky to fall Telling.

[B]

My heart is in your arms that's.

[A]

Where you belong in my arms, baby I don't think that. Is that Richard Greco.

[B]

Is that.

[A]

Is that. Because that's not a bad movie. It's not a good one, but it's not a bad song. You know what I'm saying? Wait. Richard Greco. Waiting for the sky to phone. That can't be it. Is that it? No. That was a huge hit, wasn't it?

[B]

It was.

[A]

Okay, let's see.

[B]

I just remembered the words to it.

[A]

Of course. It's got fucking ads on YouTube. I stopped paying for premium because I was like, fuck premium. And now I want to get premium again. Stop paying. And now I want to pay. They get you coming or going, there's 17 ads on every fucking YouTube video. It's unbelievable. And I'm getting $0 from it. You know what I'm saying? We're on the. We're on the monetization program over there. We've made a total of like $600. Okay, wait. No, that's not it.

[B]

Oh, God. Yeah. No, that's definitely not it.

[A]

That's not it. What is waiting for? Waiting for a star to fall. That was it. Let's go to Spotify here. Even though I equally hate Spotify, but.

[B]

They'Re getting ready to jack their wise too.

[A]

Yeah, they're screwing everybody left and right. Waiting for a Star to Fall was by a band named Meet Boy Meets Girl. Oh, More keyboard.

[B]

That's what I was thinking of it on the radio, like a lot because I remembered the words.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Oh. It was a huge hit back in the 80s. Oh, the saxophone.

[B]

You had to have a sax.

[A]

You always have to have saxophone. Okay, let's get to the good part. Hold on. I do remember this song. Yes. Trying to catch your star.

[B]

So.

[A]

Much Baby I love you from this far. That's where you belong in my arms, baby yeah. Banana Nana. Huge hit. Huge hit. Your mom loved it.

[B]

Not Richard Greco, though.

[A]

Not Richard Greco.

[B]

Greco.

[A]

Greco. Greco. Grieco.

[B]

Grico.

[A]

Hey, brother. Some people in the chat. Hey, how are you? He says he caught a TCB Live. Yeah. We do it at the most convenient time for everybody. One o' clock in the afternoon, directly after your lunch break. Four hours before you get off work. Congratulations to you, but it's good to have you. He says he loves the jamming out. I like to do a music episode every once in a while.

[B]

We do.

[A]

I like to break copyright laws whenever I can. This episode demonetized by Brian. Congratulations. Boy Meets Girl is sending us a cease and desist right now. That was a huge hit, though. I remember Big. You know what was big back in when I was growing up was soft rock. Light rock, Right. They would call it Light Rock FM. They had a station here in Atlanta called B 98.5.

[B]

Oh, yeah. My mom listened to that.

[A]

Which was the most popular station by a mile. I mean, the talk station, 7.50am, then B 98.5. Owned by the same people.

[B]

It was playing in every office.

[A]

Every office, every mall, every car, everywhere. Everywhere. They had the most popular morning show they had. And it was like dumb shit. I mean, we're talking like. Not Morning Zoo crew, but good morning 8:05. A sunny afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Expected later on today. No clouds, lots of sun. Here's Boy Meets Girl. Waiting for a start of fall. Are you waiting for a start of fall? We'll catch you on the flip side. Like the dumbest, lamest stuff. And it was non offensive. And every mother in Atlanta loved it. Oh yeah, every mother in Atlanta loved it. And my mom was no exception.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

So it was just dumb love rock the entire morning on the. The two hour drive to school and the two hour drive back because we lived so far away from her school. And that song played six times an hour for at one point it was heavy rotation. Heavy rotation. Now I'm recalling a time being at a pool as a kid. Like a neighborhood pool. And that song coming on and like my mom like.

[B]

Oh, Brian, great pool music.

[A]

My mom knew I was like, party well, yeah, exactly. When you get your friends together at 13, what you want is boy meets girl smash. 1989 sensation. Meanwhile, Doug next door was listening to Metallica and Guns N Roses, Master of Puppets and Brian's Waiting for a Star to Fall. My mom knew I was kind of musically, I wouldn't call it inclined, let's not go that far, but musically interested. You know, like, you know, like you, you gravitated. Flirting with gay. You know what I'm saying? So she would pump in all this stuff she thought would be good for me to know. Meanwhile, my dad had an excellent taste in music. He was like listening to the Doors and Beethoven's Ninth and all of this great music, like this wide variety of music. But I spent less time with him in the car listening to music. So my mom would listen to B 98.5. And then she got the Phantom of the Opera CD, the original cast. Yes.

[B]

You've recounted your time with the Phantom of the Opera.

[A]

Feeling love.

[B]

Didn't a date get in the car or something? And there was a plane.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

This was not. And this was not. When I was a child, I got on a kick. I'm sorry, I did. I was like. I was living over, you know, in the Howell Mill area.

[B]

Oh yeah?

[A]

Yeah. I had that old beat up car with no headlights. Light wanted light. And my mom, we. My mom moved and when she moved, I found the Phantom of the opera CD. And so she didn't have a CD player. So I threw all of her CDs in the car. Because my car had a CD player. You know, it was state of the art. It had a CD player. My mom had a CD player. And I Put Phantom of the Opera in there and it got stuck in the CD player. And so every time I would start the car for a period of time, this is what would play. Are you ready? I'm gonna let you listen to it. And I went on a date with someone that I thought was pretty hot. Like, I. I think this is one of those. One of the three Tinder dates that I went on that all ended with the police showing up to get people out of trees. Here's here. Here's what. I swear to God, Chris. See, this is what played every time I started the car. Let's see, where is it?

[B]

Were you blasting it as you were rolling into the Clear Channel, too?

[A]

No, I. I had left Clear Channel at this point, I think. Or maybe was this before? No, I left Clear Channel at this point. Ready? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It just plays for like six or seven minutes, and then if I hit it the right way, it'll stop. I can't control the volume.

[B]

You couldn't control anything about it, Chrissy.

[A]

I, I could not press. Stop. I could not press.

[B]

Why do I not remember this?

[A]

Because I quickly took it to the Best Buy and got a problem solved.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

This happened for I. For a period of time. And then I was like, this is madness. I. I could turn it off and I could turn it on, but it would. The car would turn on and the radio would turn on automatically. And so it would just start playing the shit. And I did not impress this girl. But to be fair, I had to get her out of a tree later on.

[B]

It's a good thing.

[A]

It's great. Congratulations to me, Brian Greene. I was smooth with the ladies. I was listening to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

[B]

They're together again, right?

[A]

They are. They're writing movies again, I think is the word on the street. And I heard them on, just briefly on Howard Stern. I don't listen to Stern much anymore, but I was listening to Stern, by the way, signed a new contract. He signed a new three year contract. If you remember. We were following that drama loosely for a minute there as he was going and staying and coming and going. He signed a new contract, which indicates to me that it's. There are not 20, 000 people listening to him in the morning. Like some people were saying, oh, he's gone from 20 million to 20, 000 every morning. They don't pay somebody $100 million a year for 20,000 people.

[B]

He's so ingrained.

[A]

He is.

[B]

He's.

[A]

He is serious. Radio. Yeah. And listen, maybe he doesn't have the audience he used to because he didn't like, you know, Cuck some politicians, like other people have. But.

[B]

But he's still up there.

[A]

Yeah. Like, on a side note there, I've noticed some of those podcasters are not so cucky anymore about the Trump administration now that ICE has turned into the fucking Gestapo. It's insane.

[B]

It's really crazy.

[A]

Insane.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat that you cannot agree with this. And apparently nobody does. They did a poll, like, only 16% of Americans are support. Are supportive of ICE's actions.

[B]

It's really bad.

[A]

It's insane. It's insane. I can't believe what's going on in Minneapolis. And thank God I don't live there because I would be moving immediately. But anyway, okay, so I'm listening to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and they were sharing like, hey, Howard asked, hey, do you guys. Were you guys, like, good with the ladies when you were young? And if you. If you didn't know Matt Damon went to Harvard, did you know this?

[B]

That's right.

[A]

He went to Harvard. Like, they accepted a certain amount of locals from the local high schools. They do every year, they, like, dedicate some slots to local students and give them, you know, some form of tuition. He was one of those people. And so the movie that they wrote, Good Will Hunting, is loosely based. Loosely based on their experiences in and around Harvard. Harvard, right. So. So Matt went there, didn't finish schooling. I didn't know that he was, like, 12 credits short of a degree. But he was asking, hey, were you good with the ladies? And they were like, no, we were not. He's like, until they give that. Gave that speech at the Oscars when they won for Good Will Hunting, he said the weird thing was the movie was so popular. Yeah, I was in. Ben Affleck was in Titanic. He had been in Chasing Amy long before goodwill hunting came.

[B]

Who had Ben Affleck playing Titanic? Titanic.

[A]

Someone who died on Titanic.

[B]

He immediately doesn't come to. I can't immediately picture him in Titanic.

[A]

But okay, he said he was in Titanic. That's what he said. I don't remember him either, but I. Maybe, maybe. Okay, maybe that's like a bit of movie trivia. But he said he was playing, like, these bit parts, right? And then he said, we. We. I was terrible. No girl wanted to pay attention to me until I became, like, a sex symbol because of the Matt Damon, Ben Affleck Oscar's Speech that he gave. He said, overnight I became more of a.

[B]

Well, good looking guys before that too. So I don't know.

[A]

Listen, if you gotta pick two guys to have sex with, why not Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, you know what I'm saying?

[B]

I just got into an elevator with Matt Damon.

[A]

What?

[B]

Yeah, a couple of years ago. We were out visiting. Yes, out visiting our daughter out in Colorado.

[A]

How did I not know this?

[B]

I told it to you.

[A]

Oh, okay. Well, I'm forgetful. Wait, oh, you got into over the.

[B]

Thousands of hours of content.

[A]

Yeah, that's true. You got into an elevator with Matt Damon.

[B]

Matt dam there with his daughter, visiting, checking out the schools. And you were too, at Boulder.

[A]

No, no, she was graduating.

[B]

She was graduating. So that's what we were there for. But we'd go from the. He was coming from the, from the, you know, from the lobby into the. Into the. Into the elevator. Stood right next to him. He was so nice and so was.

[A]

Did you guys talk?

[B]

I mean, elevator talk? I think somebody made a funny joke.

[A]

You want to come on the podcast? We have over seven people streaming us at any given time.

[B]

Yes. Look at our audience.

[A]

Hey, listen, I'm appreciative of anybody and we're not telling anybody we're going live right now, so how. How would they know?

[D]

True.

[A]

And I didn't know that. That's.

[B]

That was pretty cool.

[A]

Yeah, that is awesome. Is that the most famous person you've ever met?

[B]

Oh, God, I don't know. I have to think about it. I've met a lot of music people through Jeff's work.

[A]

Work. We've met a lot of people here.

[B]

We have.

[A]

But like super Bon Bon famous. Like, I don't know, we had that. We had that Latino music guy on that one time.

[B]

Oh, God, the Bad Bunny producer.

[A]

Yeah, the Bad Bunny.

[B]

I just read something or heard something about him the other day.

[A]

Hey, everybody. Everybody's in the chat right now. Yeah, they. They felt bad for us because we said we didn't have anybody listening. They were like, I'm here.

[B]

Oh, good.

[A]

Hi, it's. Hey, Matt Damon is here. It says I'm Matt Damon. Hey, Matt, do you remember come on.

[B]

The show, the Elevator Encounter?

[A]

Yeah. Chrissy wants to know if you remember the elevator encounter, because I'm sure you do.

[B]

Boulder, Colorado, two years ago.

[A]

Boulder, Colorado, two years ahead. He probably has it on his calendar. He does an anniversary every year. He says the year that I met that one chick, he would remember because.

[B]

He would be visited the. For his daughter.

[A]

That I think he would remember. Yeah. But actual every elevator, I was the.

[B]

Girl in the elevator.

[A]

Ye.

[B]

10 seconds that we rode together.

[A]

That's right. I have to imagine that when you're that famous, these kind of interactions go in and out of your head like water. Yeah. You don't remember anybody. Like, you just.

[B]

And I bet you deal with, like, some really looney Tunes people, too. We were at a really nice hotel, so that's. I think there was a decorum that was there. So, no, I did not corner him.

[A]

Okay. I would have, but that's just me. Let's think about it. Who's the most famous person we've had on the show? Who's the most famous person you've ever met? You can jump in in the chat, too. Who's the most famous person you've ever a. Let's see. Okay. All right, let's take a break. We're an hour into the show. We're only on the second break.

[B]

I know.

[A]

This is going to be an hour and a half long show. We're not doing the 12 hours of TCB. Let's get on with it. What are we doing? I don't even think I can put that many ads in the show. I don't think we have that many ads. All right, we'll be back.

[D]

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[A]

Okay. I think Nikki Jam might be the most famous person we've ever had on the show is Nikki Jam.

[B]

Because although I didn't know who he was until we booked him.

[A]

Listen, I've f. Like, fair is fair. I had no idea. Maybe I'd heard his name once or twice maybe. But only because of my brother in laws, because they were into some reggaeton music and they knew the history of Nicky Jam, who is like, when I say world famous, world famous. Like 500 million collective followers on social media.

[B]

We got breaking news on that. And they wouldn't let us put it out.

[A]

Those. You don't know the story. We had Nikki. So Nikki Jam was on a. Like, our booking agent sent us a list of people. Hey, if you want any of these people, let us know and we'll approach them. This is before we started taking artists on the show, started taking interviews on the show. And we were going through the list and Gustavo happened to be here and Nikki Jam's name was on it. And he said, holy Nicky Jam. Like that, dude, you gotta interview Nicky Jam. He's like one of the most famous musicians ever. And I'm like, who? Like Nicky Jam? And look at his social media. And I'm like, oh, the guy's no joke. Like, he's got so many followers. So we put him on a list, right? Months and months and months and months go by and then we get a. We hear, hear. And we're. Plenty of other people have now come on the show and we hear, you know, we say, hey, can you talk to Nicky Jam?

[B]

It's even. It's very amazing that he confirmed with us.

[A]

Well, listen, so he. We approach him, they say, we'll get back to you. And then they eventually say, no. Then three months later, Nicky Jam's agent reaches out directly to me and says, nikki would like to come on the show.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I was like, what? What the. Really? So we get all excited about this, right? And then.

[B]

Oh, it was a big.

[A]

It was a big deal.

[B]

A big deal in this house. Yes.

[A]

And so we get on with him and he. Little rough start, you know, the plane kind of shook when it took off. But we eventually got into a groove with Nikki. He was late. We only had a certain amount of time. We felt rushed. But then he got. He got comfortable with us and he.

[B]

Goes spilling the beans.

[A]

He had just announced. He retired, right? Just announced this like two months earlier. He was retiring from music. No more music. After this new album, he was done. No more touring, no more nothing. And then he says on Our show. I'll give you a bit of breaking news. I haven't told anybody this. I'm actually not retiring. I'm going to do a tour. I'm going to do more music. I'm going to do a tour. I was in a bad place. I said those things, but I'm announcing it. And so the second that we get off air, I run out. We call our video editor, cut it up, put it out. Clip right now. Like, do not delay in the next 10 minutes. We got to have this out. This is breaking news. It's the only time in commercial break history that we will have ever been mentioned in the same breath as news. So let's do this. Yes.

[B]

That we're not two weeks late.

[A]

Yes. We're not eight weeks late. Somebody doesn't say something that's completely irrelevant when by the time we put it out 30 days later. But we're not doing 30 episodes a week where the episode recorded on Monday comes out in 2029. So it's like, okay, last. Okay, you heard it here last. That's where it all came from. So. And I think it came from Nikki Jam. Actually, I'm in the middle of, you know, we're in the middle of this big scramble to call a PR age, all this other stuff, and we get an email and it's from his agent. Hey, sorry, but Nikki said some things on the show that we can't discuss right now. So if you could. Could you please hold that interview for the next two months? Well, of. What are we gonna say? No, Yeah, I mean, I guess we could have said, but then we would have gotten into a fight, and that's just wasn't going to be cool. And I don't want to do that to Nikki. And so, okay, three days later, I'm laying in bed.

[B]

I wasn't on Good Morning America, and.

[A]

I'm watching Good Morning America, and here comes Nikki Jam to do, like the morning performance or whatever. And he's jamming out. Da da da da da. Song gets over, and I'm like, oh, he did a good job. And the interviewer comes up and he's. He's like, so I hear you have a bit of breaking news for us. And he's like, that's right, I'm not retiring. And I'm like, fuck. Fuckity fuck, fuck, fuck. So not only did Nikki tell us to hold it for 60 days, but then he wanted to let everyone else in the entertainment industry talk about it before we could even say. To be fair, I would have Done the exact same thing.

[B]

Now, we had a good interview with him. That was fun.

[A]

He was great. Great. Stevo. Yes. Someone has said Steve O. Steve O. Would have been the second most famous person. Steve O. The most famous American. We have had on By a Mile. By a Mile Margaret show. We had on. Yeah, we did Tom Papa's pretty famous himself. He's. He's done a lot. I. We had Larry the Cable Guy. I know you're gonna laugh at that one, but he's pretty famous. He is.

[B]

He was.

[A]

He. He's. Well, he's the voice of mater. I mean, you know how many hundreds of millions of people have seen cars and loved cars? Larry the Cable Guy.

[B]

About that.

[A]

Who else. Who else have we had on audience? Remind me, because I don't remember, but I think the most famous person that I've ever met, that I would consider the most famous person that I ever met would have been Eddie Vedder. Probably.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Because I mean, who doesn't know Eddie better?

[B]

I mean, I hung out with Flavor Flav.

[A]

Flavor Flav.

[B]

Yum.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, that's not it.

[B]

What was that?

[A]

I have no idea. Yeah, boy. That's the Flavor Flav version.

[B]

And Flavor Flav.

[A]

Yeah, that's the Brian version. That's the white boy version. 5:30.

[B]

With a clock. You could do the clock around your neck with 5:30, 5:30.

[A]

Yeah, boy. Yeah. Somebody in the chat is saying that the, that Larry the Cable Guy was on local Florida radio. He was. That's how he got famous. That's how the guy. That's how he started.

[B]

I mean, I remember in the, what, 90s was that? The 90s? He was part of that Foxworthy, the crew, wasn't he?

[A]

Yeah, the regular guy. Not the regular guys, but the. Whatever they call that. Yeah, the Good Old Boy. Something. I don't know.

[B]

Yeah, the Good Old Boy.

[A]

Yeah. The Rednecks. I don't know. But that was immensely popular. Immensely.

[B]

Back in the day.

[A]

All over the place. It was all over the place. And I, I loved him. He was so good.

[B]

A movie too, right?

[A]

Yeah, he did. He had a Larry the Cable Guy movie. I don't think it smashed any box office records. Stick with Cars, but he could not have been more nice. And then we're about to get off. We get off the interview and he says, hey, man, hold on. I want to do something for you. Because I had explained to him that my children were huge Cars fans, which kids are not.

[B]

It is a great show, great movie.

[A]

Great, great movies franchise. Now he's now, they did another 212 episodes or something of like, Mater Tales. And so, yeah, he didn't another like 212 Mater episodes for Disney Junior. But anyway, so we get off the interview and he says, hey, man, hold on, I want to do something for you. He's like, if you just be quiet for a second. What are your kids names? He writes them down and then he does a greeting and not like a hey, it's Mater. You know, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Have a good day. He did a whole thing, a whole sht.

[B]

Oh, that's really nice.

[A]

And I let my kids listen to it, and that brought them the biggest smile. Yeah, it really did. They couldn't believe it. They were like, that's Mater. Is Mater talking to you?

[B]

We've had a few of those on that have done children's stuff that then the kids were impressed with.

[A]

That's right, Joe. Joanna Houseman and Phineas and Ferb and then, you know, Paul Shear. Paul Shear. Paul Shear is pretty famous in and of himself too, I guess. Oh, we had that lady on from Reno911.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Oh, I love her.

[B]

She's that new show, the St. Denis metaphor.

[A]

It's killing it.

[B]

It is.

[A]

It's killing it.

[B]

It's pretty funny.

[A]

I haven't watched it, but it's killing it. I know that it's killing it because it's on the third season already. Yeah. And they have ordered another four. A fourth and fifth season. So I think it's like the office in a hospital. Right. Am I right about that?

[B]

Yeah, it's very similar. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. So, you know, listen, we've had a lot of brushes with. With it. I just got a hug from Sal Volcano. What more could you want in life? I can die happy.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

I can die happy. That's it. That's all I needed. Just a big hug from Val Volcano. He's good hugger.

[B]

Well, I mean. And he's a germaphobe, too. That's an extra kick in the hug.

[A]

He's a germaphobe. He doesn't like to fly. He's ocd. The guy's got a bunch of problems, but he's pretty famous. Seems like a lot of those famous people have those problems. Jerry Seinfeld to Howie Mandel. Howie Mandel is one of the most popular podcasts out there. Did you know that? Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. But he really likes to spice it up. I mean, he brings on, like, really controversial figures or people who are arguing with each other.

[B]

Listen to it.

[A]

It was the guy from Smashing Pumpkins and.

[B]

Oh, right. There was that whole thing about they.

[A]

Were twins or they were long lost brothers or something.

[B]

Billy Corgan.

[A]

Billy Corgan. And I can't remember the other guy.

[B]

And the other guy, the actor.

[A]

But they brought him on and then he sp. Yeah, I don't know. But they really got into Bill Burr. Was it Bill Burr?

[B]

Was it.

[A]

I think it might have been Bill Burr, maybe. Yeah. And they, they really got into. I mean, they like, they got into it. It was. And he has like this weird. He has robots and a big shop and people go there and he's got like AI machines and he's building his own robot.

[B]

Another GUST guest about it.

[A]

Yeah, I said, who's your favorite podcast that you've been on so far? And they didn't say the commercial break. They said Howie Mandel.

[B]

And yeah, he's like in his own like encased bubble or something. Like.

[A]

Well, he's. He's on. He's on the other side of the studio. He doesn't like to touch people. People. And you know, I can't believe he does that, you know, that whole AGT thing. Because it seems like a very messy, big production where you're around a lot of people, you have a huge crowd behind you. But he manages. I mean, he gets through life. He's taking private planes everywhere. So listen, we've had a lot of famous people. I've loved most of them. I've loved most of them.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And so we'll take a little break from interviews for right now. I think we've done a lot and I've. I really have enjoyed the interviews, have kept it fresh for us, content wise. But the tr. Here's the truth about interviews. Interviews only matter to the people who are already listening to you. Unless the interviewee lets their audience know that they enjoyed this conversation, they're coming. Which would happen sometimes, but not frequently. And so for us it was like, you know, kind of a return on investment is not money wise, but just like time wise. If we're going to only do two or three episodes a week, is the interview the right move? Should we kill one episode with an hour long interview? And the answer was not every week. And so we'll, you know, we'll keep going. By the way, we were supposed to have Nurse Blake on.

[B]

I saw that. And what happened?

[A]

He is supporting the New York nurses that went on strike. So he canceled.

[B]

Him.

[A]

Yeah, he canceled. And he said, listen, until this is over.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Taking a break. I'm just going to take a break.

[B]

Good for him, though. That's great.

[A]

Yeah. Like, listen. Amen. Go support them and do your thing. Those nurses, they deserve every dollar that they get.

[B]

For sure.

[A]

Watch you an episode of the Pit. Tell me that those nurses don't deserve.

[B]

Every single dollar that gets. I've got an itchy remote finger. I want to watch it, but I'm holding off.

[A]

Me too. There is a new season of Night Manager, which is an Amazon show that I watched. A spy show. Like a kind of a spy show that I watched with. Is it Ralph Fiennes? No, not Ralph Fines. Can't remember the guy's name, but it'. Good.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

All of a sudden, a new season popped up and I'm trying to slug through Jack Ryan. I loved the first season. I like the second season. The third season's okay. It's okay. It's okay. I'm trying to slug through it. It puts him in the most ridiculous situations and he misses every bullet. And it's just like, okay, you know, have some fight scenes and make it a little bit realistic. I understand. It's just like super. You know, it's like super spy bullshit.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And people love it. And it's very popular show. And I love, you know, I love Jim from the Office as Jack Ryan. I think he actually does a good job. But the show itself.

[B]

John Krasinski.

[A]

John Krasinski. The show itself puts him in such ridiculous situations. A South Georgia. Sean, he's here. It puts him in such ridiculous situations that it's hard to wrap your head around any kind of realism in the show.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And that I need. I need you to have one foot on the ground.

[B]

I agree. Agree.

[A]

One foot on the ground. And if you can put one foot on the ground, then I can suspend disbelief. I can suspend belief on some things. But please don't ask me to just suspend belief on everything in the most ridiculous of ways. That really irritates me. It irritates me. Irritates. Irritates Brian.

[B]

All right, well, slug through that.

[A]

I'll try. I'm gonna try. I guess I got a lot of other things to want.

[D]

Much.

[B]

I know. There's so much. Were you the one that was telling me about the fall?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I can't wait to watch that. I forgot about it and it popped back up. And it was three seasons, so I'm so excited to delve into that.

[A]

Yeah. Each one of them good in their own way. The first two excellent.

[B]

I mean, I love Gillian Anderson so much.

[A]

The third one, it's good. You have to watch it just to. Just so you can wrap it all up, just so you can put it to bed. But the first two seasons are master. A masterly crafted television show.

[B]

Can't wait to watch it.

[A]

I loved it. I thought it was good. Yeah. And there's a lot of great British television that's coming online, too. It's like I don't have enough time. And there I am every night, night after night, watching the West Wing. I could. I could literally tell you every line from every episode. And here I am watching.

[B]

We do the same thing with Seinfeld.

[A]

I love that. It's comfort food.

[B]

It is.

[A]

It's comfort food. I think, wow. We could have a democracy again someday. And Jed Bartlett will be in charge. President Bartlett. We'll see. We'll see how it all works out, but we'll give you a break from all of that. Love you, too. Thank you for joining us live. We appreciate it.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Everybody in the chat saying hello, everyone who's joining us, From Instagram to YouTube, that's it. The feedback is important. Keeps you going. I think that also might be why we go extra time. It's because we're having fun and we see that people are enjoying. Yeah. So, all right, so we'll see you next Tuesday. We'll be here right around 1 o', clock, come hell or high water.

[B]

Or broken cars.

[A]

Yeah, or broken cars, children, sick kids, barking dogs. We'll figure it all out. All right, at the commercial. Commercial break on Instagram. Please follow us. We'll go live there and we'll let you know when we go live there. So follow us if you don't already. YouTube.com the commercial break for all the episodes on video, that's also where we go live. And if you want to talk to us, DM us on Instagram. That's the new best way to get a hold of us. So do that. Okay. All right. Do that, do that. You can also go to TCB podcast, you get your free sticker. Go to the Contact us button. Drop down menu says, I want my free sticker. Give us your address and I will send you one. Or someone will send you one. Okay. All right. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for today, I think. So go drop that car off. I love you.

[B]

I love you.

[A]

Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. Until next time, we will say, we do say we must say goodbye here. Five thirty. Yeah, boy.