No Flight For YOU!

Summary

The Commercial Break – Episode Summary

Episode Title: No Flight For YOU!

Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Release Date: July 30, 2026

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Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break dives into Bryan’s recent travel misadventures, unraveling a wild, sleepless saga of airline delays, chaos at New York airports, and the strange karmic universe of frequent flyers. As usual, Bryan and Krissy riff with improv humor and candid banter, moving from Bryan’s journey-from-hell to broader topics like morality, celebrity scandals, and the sheer oddity of modern life. The episode is a showcase of the show’s signature: unpredictable, raw storytelling mixed with acerbic comedy and personal confession.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

Bryan’s Travel Horror Story

[00:54–22:15]

• Karmic Setup:

  • Bryan sets up the episode’s theme: “You are a man of the people. You are a hero to many and a lover of all. You have an opportunity to step in here and save the day.” ([00:08])
  • He reflects on karmic balance and how luck always seems to even out, especially in travel.

• The First Flight:

  • Bryan describes his routine flight from Atlanta to New York: “On time, early. In fact, early. The flight was early when it landed. … This is great.” ([01:50])
  • Krissy notes, “Getting there is not the problem.” ([02:38])

• Storms & Delays:

  • New York and much of the East Coast is walloped by a storm system, grounding flights and upending schedules.
  • Bryan, perched at LaGuardia’s now infamous Gate 88, notes the airport is filled with stranded travelers: “There are people sleeping all over LaGuardia.” ([04:14])
  • “In like a 45 minute time period, I just watched hundreds of flights get canceled. And I was like, but we’re still taking off. I just had this glimmer of hope.” ([05:41])

• Customer Service Meltdown:

  • Bryan critiques Delta’s handling of the chaos: “This was probably some of the worst customer service, customer interaction, customer management I have ever seen an airline do.” ([07:00])
  • A snarky gate agent delivers brutal news:
    • “All my people going to Chicago’s … we canceled the flight … We ain’t got no flights until Saturday. … We’ve given out thousands of hotel rooms already. We ain’t got no more left.” ([07:27–07:55])
  • The growing sense of doom and confusion is palpable as neither passengers nor off-duty pilots know what’s happening.

• Human Drama at the Gate:

  • A pregnant fellow passenger’s plight prompts Bryan to offer his ticket: “If this flight takes off, I would be willing to give you my ticket if they allow it. Like, I’ll swap tickets with you. I’ll wait until tomorrow, I can figure it out.” ([11:38])
  • Her sharp retort: “I … I don’t need your sympathy.” – leading to Bryan’s self-effacing humor and instant regret. ([12:13])

• No Way Out:

  • The final flight is canceled due to a missing flight attendant and bad weather: “So, we’re gonna have to go ahead and cancel this flight. … If you’re trying to get to Atlanta, it will be Saturday before we have additional seats available on any flights. And everyone was like, ah, the whole place went crazy.” ([13:03])
  • Hilarious exaggeration about the chaos: “Cats were flying in the air, people were beating each other up. Children were thrown out the window. It was carnage.” ([13:29])

• Desperate Solutions:

  • Bryan tries every workaround: switching airports, exorbitant ticket searches ($3,000+), and rental cars (“Let me take a car from that pregnant lady”). ([14:06])
  • Finds a Bronco at Newark, embarks on a 13+ hour road trip at 1:30 AM.
  • “I made it in 14 hours and 31 minutes. And that’s after I stopped at the pharmacy to pick up some medication … and I made it here by 4:30 in the afternoon. App solely wasted. I mean, just wasted.” ([18:55])
  • Family reunion and much-needed rest follow.

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Reflections on Morality & Human Nature

[25:06–33:00]

• Bryan discusses “The Righteous Mind” audiobook and its exploration of morality.
  • “The tagline Righteous Mind is by a theologist and a philosopher and a scientist, a guy that’s very well versed in the science of morality and how we shape morality and how morality shapes religion and politics.” ([25:08])
  • Offers two wild moral scenarios from the book (accidental cannibalism, chicken necrophilia) and prompts Krissy for knee-jerk reactions.
    • “Was the head on or not?” – Krissy’s instant reaction. ([28:00])
    • Bryan notes: “Morality, our emotions essentially lead our morality. Right? And everyone emotes differently. He likens our emotions to an elephant and our brain to somebody riding the elephant.” ([29:30])
  • The takeaway: Most people judge morality by whether harm is done to others — “Do no harm” is the default rule.

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Pop Culture & Celebrity Scandals

[40:34–50:14]

• Jared Leto Allegations:

  • BBC report claims multiple women accuse Jared Leto of sexual misconduct, some underage. Bryan shares insider industry rumors and reflects on the “creepiness” and culture of predatory behavior in entertainment and modeling.
    • “Jared Leto is one of the creepiest guys that I know in the entire entertainment business.” ([44:40])
    • “It’s hard to believe that he’s had so much success even after all of these things came out.” ([46:42])
  • Reflection on the limits and excesses of cancel culture.
    • “The MeToo movement went way too far and captured a whole bunch of people up in the ropes that probably didn’t deserve to be captured.” ([47:36])
    • “Jared Leto should never star in a movie again. Period. End of sentence.” ([48:21])

• Mention of Louis CK and American Apparel’s Terry Richardson:

  • The duo riff on other problematic celebrities and industry coverups, weighing “cancel” versus “consequence.”

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Politics & Pandemic Debates

[32:25–39:11]

• Focus on government corruption, Trump’s influence, and Fauci’s public scrutiny.
  • “And so this is just like. It’s really wild how corrupt our federal government is right now, and Donald Trump and his family …” ([33:17])
  • Fauci’s controversial diary, pandemic management, and congressional witch-hunts:
    • “There are specific pages and phrases where he is sharing that he is enjoying his access to fame…” ([33:58])
    • Bryan’s analogy: “When you’re in the middle of a fucking house fire. You’re just trying to get out of the window. And if you step on the dog on the way out…you can be forgiven because you didn’t know the goddamn dog was there and you didn’t mean to hurt it. You just did.” ([36:19])
  • Strong statements about politicized public health:
    • “We needed real information. And the reason why the guy plead the fifth yesterday is because he’s so goddamn afraid you’re going to find a way to put him in jail for the rest of his life.” ([37:51])

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Music, Food, & Other Tangents

[24:31–25:05], [50:36–51:28]

• Snarky Puppy – Bryan’s new jazz-fusion obsession.
• Cereal restaurants and the cost of pizza in NYC.
  • “It’s just cereal. You just go and you pick your cereal for $20, $80. Probably part of town. I’m in $80. A hamburger there is $27. Two slices of pizza, $32. Now those slices of pizza are outrageously good, but still.” ([51:11])
• Road trip listening: documentaries, audiobooks (Maggie Haberman’s “Regime Change”), and no music—Bryan prefers spoken word for long drives.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On flight attendants:
  “We are down one flight attendant. And that flight attendant I don't think is gonna be showing up. So we're desperately trying to find another flight attendant. And if we can do that in the next 40 minutes … then we can fly tonight. If not, we're gonna time out, and it's illegal for us to fly.”
  – Delta pilot relayed by Bryan ([09:00])

• On empathy in crisis:
  “Like, have a little empathy. You're getting paid. We're not. We paid you.”
  – Bryan ([08:40])

• After offering his ticket:
  “She looks at me and she goes, I … I don't need your sympathy. And I was like, oh. Oh.”
  – Bryan ([12:13])

• On moral philosophy:
  “Our emotions essentially lead our morality. Right? And everyone emotes differently. … The elephant reacts and we desperately try and pull the elephant back. … And that is our emotions.”
  – Bryan ([29:30])

• Satirizing his travel ordeal:
  “Cats were flying in the air, people were beating each other up. Children were thrown out the window. It was carnage.”
  – Bryan ([13:29])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Bryan’s travel nightmare begins: 00:54–06:32
• Airport chaos & candid customer service: 06:32–12:13
• Bryan’s failed hero moment with the pregnant lady: 11:11–12:13
• Flight finally canceled; finding a rental car: 13:03–16:55
• 14-hour road trip saga: 16:55–20:31
• Audiobooks, podcast listening, resetting after travel: 22:13–25:05
• Morality & “The Righteous Mind” discussion: 25:06–33:00
• White House & pandemic politics: 32:25–39:11
• Jared Leto allegations & Hollywood misconduct: 40:34–50:14
• Cereal restaurants and NYC food tangents: 50:36–51:28

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Tone & Takeaways

Bryan and Krissy maneuver through absurdity with their hallmark blend of bemusement, sarcasm, and self-awareness. Even at their most exasperated, they keep the riffing light, vulnerable, and winkingly esoteric (“It’s the Cheesecake Factory of comedy podcasts!”). The episode's central arc, a real-time travel disaster, is a perfect springboard for musings on morality, celebrity culture, and resilience—never losing the show’s “relate-to-your-friend’s-worst-day” charm.

Transcript

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the Commercial break. So I thought to myself, brian, you are a man of the people. You are a hero to many and a lover of all. You have an opportunity to step in

[Chris Hoadley]

here and save the day.

[Brian Green]

Save the day. So I tapped the guy next to me, the pilot, and I said, can you take my phone and record this? And then I, I gotta make an Instagram post, right? So I said, listen, if I understand, you know, you gotta get back, you want to get down to Atlanta. If this flight takes off, I would be willing to give you my ticket if they allow it, like I'll, I'll swap tickets with you. I'll wait until tomorrow, I can figure it out. And she looks at me and she goes, I, I don't need your sympathy. And I was like, oh, oh, stop recording. Yeah, stop recording. One minute, hold on, we gotta change the answer there. The next episode of the Commercial break starts now. 5:30. Oh yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green, this is my dear friend and the co host of the show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris Best. Brian, best to you out there in the podcast universe and the streaming universe. How are you? Thanks for joining us, we really appreciate it. Lots to talk about today. I just got back from a 39 hour adventure to and fro New York. I'll tell you what, my luck continues. Here's the problem. I immediately should have known that the universe karmatically always finds balance. There's always balance in the universe.

[Chris Hoadley]

Very true.

[Brian Green]

And I took my normal flight to New York as I do on Sunday nights.

[Chris Hoadley]

Gate 88.

[Brian Green]

Gate 88, that's right, Chrissy. That's gate 88 at LaGuardia. If you know, you know I can't ny d y kitty T that girl still does it on Instagram, by the way. Dumbest fucking shit I've ever seen in my entire life. But I have to say, I have to say when the whole drama happened with Venezuela and the earthquake, that girl who I hate watch on Instagram as, as the universe always does, finds karmatic balance. She wrote me a very sweet note wishing that everything was okay and telling me that she had donated some money to one of the causes I had asked for money for. So I hate her a little less, A little less, a little less. Okay, so I take my trip to New York, gate 88 from Atlanta to LaGuardia. There you go. Guess what? On time, early. In fact, early. The flight was early when it landed. When it landed, I was like, happy Doo dah. This is great.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, getting there is not the problem.

[Brian Green]

Getting there, that's right. Getting, getting out. So New York experiences some kind of nor' easter bullshit or whatever. It rains. I mean it was pissing rain. This is Tuesday night. Starting at like 6 o' clock at night, it starts pissing rain. Yeah, well rain isn't a problem. Planes take off and rain all the time. That's not the problem. The problem is the thunderstorms. And they were all up and down the East Coast.

[Chris Hoadley]

I saw that on the radar. Yeah, it was crazy.

[Brian Green]

It was insane. One line of thunderstorms all the way up and down the east coast from New York to Atlanta, all rain all. And so I knew, I already knew. I didn't order my Uber. I sat in the, I got my hotel room for an extra night. I said worse comes to worse, I get three or four hours in the hotel room watching some TV and I'll be a little late. My flight start to start. Supposed to start boarding at 7:50 at night to take off at 8:30. I would be home by 11:00'. Clock. Well, I already knew. So I wasn't pissed when Delta informed me that the flight was in fact an hour delayed. Okay, I check and see where the plane is, you know, where's your plane? The plane is back in Atlanta and it hasn't taken off yet to come to New York. So it's got a, it's got a truck full of people, you know, it's got a, it's loaded, ready to bear. Yeah. And those poor people are sitting in Atlanta waiting for their plane to take off five hours later. Five hours later, I got notified at like 4:30 my flight was going to be late five hours later. So we're talking like 9:30 at night. The plane takes off 10:15. Excuse me. The plane takes off from Atlanta to get to LaGuardia. Our flight now leaving at 1:10am in the morning to get home at 3:30. Okay, at least I'll get home.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

So I wait until 11 o' clock at night. I call the Uber, I get in, I, I get to LaGuardia about midnight. Flight supposed to start boarding at 12:45. No, absolutely no one in security. However, there are people sleeping all over LaGuardia. Like there's just hundreds of people just camped out in LaGuardia.

[Chris Hoadley]

Not a good sign.

[Brian Green]

I should have known at that moment just to turn around. I should, I could see it through the glass. I probably should have told the Uber driver, take me back to the fucking hotel. But I will Tell you what, man, I. I get down to gate 88 and there are just people. Every single gate has people sitting in it. And every. And I'm watching as the board goes, canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled. And our flight's still taking off. But now I'm As I do because I'm a pilot. I don't know if you know this. If you listen to the commercial break, then you'll understand. I've flown twice. But to be fair to me, I did land and take off those two times without killing me or the instructor. So there you go. Well, it was the instructor who told me to take off and land. I wouldn't have done that without instruction. So I look on my airplane app and I see that not only are planes not taking off from LaGuardia, they're not taking off from JFK, and they're not taking off from Newark. Everything is getting canceled. Cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel. In like a 45 minute time period, I just watched hundreds of flights get canceled. And I was like, but we're still taking off. I just had this glimmer of hope

[Chris Hoadley]

telling me there's a chance.

[Brian Green]

I'm telling you there's a chance. I told Astrid, 50, 50 chance. But I'm feeling good about it. I'm 51 49. I'm feeling good. So 1245 rolls around. I go to the gate. I don't like to sit at the gate, like, with all the crowds. Like, you know, to watch people. It irritates the shit out of me. To watch people start lining up. It irritates the fuck out of me. Sit your goddamn ass down. Especially when you're in zone number seven and you're standing right in front of the gate. Yes, you, you. It does. You're not. Your bag's not gonna fit. It doesn't matter. Check it, please. God damn it. So I'm standing there, and I'm in. The gate is very close to the Delta customer service counter. And as I'm standing there at 12:45, I'm watching as the Delta customer service counter, the line goes from five people to about 105 people.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

So imagine this. Delta customer service, a gate here, Delta customer service here. And I'm watching as people start congregating at the little desk at our gate. All these Delta employees, including two pilots, our. The plane has landed. People are exiting the plane. So I'm feeling good about this. I'm like, they know what they're talking about. They're gonna get us out. It's not gonna be to 110. It'll probably be closer to 1:30, but. Okay, I think we're. I think. I think it's gonna happen. This snarky little gets on and I gotta. I love Delta. I will always love Delta. And unless they treat me like what Spirit did, I'm always gonna love them. But this was probably some of the worst customer service, customer interaction, customer management I have ever seen an airline do. This snarky little shit gets on the microphone.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, the recording

[Brian Green]

to all my people going to Chicago's. And everyone at the gate is like, right, yeah, Chicago. All my people's going to Chicago's. I'm going to tell you right now, we canceled the flight.

[Rachel]

And.

[Brian Green]

And that's the bad news. But the worst news is I ain't got no flights until Saturday. Not through Atlanta, not through Detroit, not through Houston.

[Chris Hoadley]

Saturday. I mean, it's Tuesday, right? Technically, Wednesday, because it's over midnight, but that's right.

[Brian Green]

You want to fly through Japan, I ain't gonna get you there till Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, it's gonna be a long time. Additionally, and here's the. Here's the even worse news. We've given out thousands of hotel rooms already. We ain't got no more left. So go ahead, make your own appointment to go to a hotel and save your receipts. And you can hope to get it, I guess. Upload them through Delta or something, call them. So you all want to stand there for another four, you've been here all day. You want to stand here more hours, that's fine. I'll tell you the same thing. You ain't getting out tonight, you ain't getting out tomorrow. You ain't getting out on Friday. I'm just telling you that right now. So I'm going to let somebody else deal with the Atlanta people, okay? And everyone's like, what? What the fuck just happened?

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, yeah, because isn't it just a direct flight from New York to Atlanta?

[Brian Green]

Of course it is.

[Chris Hoadley]

Chicago.

[Brian Green]

Well, no, he would. That's what everyone was confused about, right? So now there is a Delta pilot that is standing next to me. He's not flying. He's trying to get on the flight, right? Because Atlanta's home base. He's trying to go the fuck home, right? So he looks at me and he's like. There's a couple people standing around me. He looks at me and he goes, I don't know what that just was. And I'm like. I'm not sure either. Is he talking about Atlanta or Chicago? He Goes, I think he's talking to the people that just came in line. And he's like, but that was just not handled well. And I was like, absolutely not. Like, have a little empathy. You're getting paid. We're not. We paid you. Okay, all right, fair enough. We figure out that he's talking to the people in this customer service line. He's just trying to make one big announcement, right? Okay, fine. Whatever. Next, the Delta pilot that's standing behind him congregating behind the desk gets on a little more empathy. Hey, everybody, listen, we just came back in from Atlanta. We're one of the few flights that got to land tonight. I think we could probably find a break in the weather. But I'm going to give you a bit of bad news. I don't know that we're going to be taking off tonight, because we are Miss, we are down one flight attendant. And that flight attendant I don't think is gonna be showing up. So her flight was canceled. She's not gonna be showing up. So we're desperately trying to find another flight attendant. And if we can do that in the next 40 minutes and she can get to the gate in 40 minutes, then we can fly tonight. If not, we're gonna time out, and it's illegal for us to fly. And everyone's like, ah. He's like, listen, little bit of hope. We're trying. We're calling everybody we know. And I look over to the pilot and I go, can't you be a flight attendant for this? He's like, he goes, dude, if I could, I would for sure. I just wanna get home, too.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

10 minutes. So now everyone's on a phone, everyone's congregating, everyone's chatting. The whole. Everyone's in a tizzy. The whole place. We're five hours late already. Yeah, we're tired. We want to go home. Everyone wants to go. People are crying. You know, it's all Fucking situation. And I felt bad. So two things. One, like, I just think it was, like, poorly handled, right? It just was poorly handled. We don't need to know the minutia. You just need to say to us that the flight is canceled. That, you know, that that lady's not showing up in 40 minutes. It's fucking pissing rain. Where's she coming from? Where's the magic flight attendant coming from? Even if she's coming from downtown Manhattan, she ain't getting here in 40 minutes. Yeah. All right. So there is a pregnant lady, couple people next to me, and she is just pissing Sweating. She's huge. She's sweating. She's crying. She's. She's huge. She's probably eight, nine months pregnant. I don't know. Can you be nine months pregnant? I think you'd be nine months. She's eight months pregnant.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And she is telling the person standing next to her, this older lady, I just need to get to somewhere where I can eventually get back home, even if that's Atlanta, like, just any flight. And then I can drive home. I don't know where she was going. So I thought to myself, brian, you are a man of the people. You are a hero to many and a lover of all. You have an opportunity to step in

[Chris Hoadley]

here and save the day.

[Brian Green]

Save the day. So I tapped the guy next to me, the pilot, and I said, can you take my phone and record this? And then I. I gotta make an Instagram post, right? So I said, listen, if I understand, you know, you gotta get back. You want to get down to Atlanta. If this flight takes off, I would be willing to give you my ticket if they allow it. Like, I'll swap tickets with you. I'll wait until tomorrow. I can figure it out. And she looks at me and she goes, I. I don't need your sympathy. And I was like, oh. Oh.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, I go, stop recording.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, stop recording. One minute. Hold on. We got to change the answer there. Cut.

[Chris Hoadley]

Edit.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, use some edits. I go, I'm not trying to give you sympathy. I'm trying to help you. I understand you want to get down to Atlanta tonight.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And she looks at me and she just don't understand. And I was like, wow. Okay. All right, well, I'm taking my ticket. Never mind. Offer rescinded. Yes, bitch. And I feel bad for your kid. Whatever. She probably was in a bad. Everyone's in a bad mood. All right, okay. So 10 minutes goes by, and another snarky fucking gate agent. All right, I'm just gonna tell y' all right now, it ain't gonna happen. It ain't no flight attendant gonna show up tonight. So we're gonna. We're gonna have to go ahead and cancel this flight. It may not say canceled on your app yet, but it's gonna be canceled. And so you heard the other man. There ain't no hotel rooms. We ain't got no flights out. And if you're trying to get to Atlanta, it will be Saturday before we have additional seats available on any flights. And everyone was like, ah, the whole place went crazy. I mean, cats were flying in the air People were beating each other up. Children were thrown out the window. It was carnage. It was just like craziness. I did not even miss a beat. As an experienced traveler probably, I guess you would probably consider me like an Anthony Bourdain type, right? An experienced traveler that navigates through the world with ease and grace. I cussed loudly. Fuck. And then I got on the phone immediately. I'm like, okay, not getting out of JF. Not getting out of LaGuardia. Let me see if I can get out of JFK. Nope. No, no, none available to Saturday. Newark. Nope, not available till Saturday. Washington D.C. dulles. Nope, none available till Friday. And those were like $3,000 tickets. And I'm like, no, that's not going to happen. And then I tried BWI and I, I see a few tickets, but I gotta get.

[Chris Hoadley]

I used to fly into there.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, but I gotta get down to BWI so I could. So like, I can take the Acela. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I see this ticket and I put it in my queue. Right Now I have to get down to bwi, so I. So now I can see everybody starting to hum and buzz. Everyone's gonna rent a car, right? So I'm like, nope, let me rent a car first. Let me get ahead, everybody. Let me that, let me take that. Let me take a car from that pregnant lady.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Chrissy. Not a fucking car available in the entire city of New York until Thursday. So this is a whole day later. I just can't even do it. So I start scanning other places in New York where I can get a car. And I find one car available at Newark, New Jersey Airport. And it's 24 hours, so I can pick it up now. Okay, it's one in the morning and I'm gonna now get in an Uber and go to Newark, New Jersey, which is what I did. A 45 minute drive to Newark. I have to go back through the city. I probably just could have stopped at the hotel and stayed for the night. I don't know what I was thinking, but I just. Now I'm just like on a mission to get home, get out of there. Yeah, I got things to do. I gotta, we gotta record. I gotta, like, I have things to do. I just want to get the fuck out of there. I don't want to stay until Saturday because then I have to fly again on Sunday.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, yeah, that's Saturday. The whole Saturday thing is crazy to me.

[Brian Green]

It was insane, but it was true because I looked and it just they're just. Every time I would put in the dates, it's like none available. But if you're dates are flexible, we can get you out on Saturday. So I said, you know what? Screw it. I rent a car for an enormous amount of money. I mean, it's just like a ridiculous amount of money, but it's better than paying $4,000 to get out of Dulles. And I get in the. I drive all the way over there. I. There's only one at. There's only one person sitting in the entire Rent a car. Huge four story rent a car building at Newark, New Jersey. There's one customer service rep. And there when I got there, there was two people in front of me. When I left, there was 15 people behind me. And I. The one dude in front of me was looking for a car. He hadn't rented one. He was looking for one. And she was like, sorry, we are literally all out of cars. If you don't have a reservation, I can't give you one. And I watched him go pick up the phone at each of those cars like Hertz Enterprise. And I just watched him dejected. He. There was nothing available. So I get to the counter, I said, hey, you know, and she's like, are you coming from Newark or are you coming from a different airport? And I said, I'm coming from LaGuardia. Why are you asking? She goes, and I'm just taking an informal poll. She's like, we've had people from all over the New York area renting cars tonight. No one can get out of New York. And I'm like, yeah, no, I hear you. And she's like, well, I don't have many choices of cars. And I go, okay, what is it? And she goes, well, I have a minivan or a Bronco. I'm like, give me the Bronco.

[Chris Hoadley]

The blue Bronco, right? Yes, Blue.

[Brian Green]

Blueberry Bronco. Huge car truck. Really? It's just like a huge, monstrous truck. Yes. And I took it. And at 1:30 in the morning, I got on the road and I started driving the 13 and a half hours that it takes to get down to Atlanta. I initially booked a ticket for 5:40am out of BWI, but by the time I got to BWI, it was 4:30 in the morning, the plane was already boarding and. And the car company that I'd rented from was not open till 7am so I could have dropped at Night Drop, but I didn't tell them I was dropping at Night Drop there. So when I called customer service, they Said if you drop it off at a different location than you have chosen, you have to check in with somebody. You can't just drop it off with your keys.

[Chris Hoadley]

With the keys.

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, motherfucker, so I'm fucked. So I canceled that ticket too. And I just kept going, man. Yeah, it's 4:00am, 4:30am going past Washington D.C. 6:30am past Charlotte. I mean, I would just. I just kept driving. I only stopped once to take a little snip, snap a little cat nap.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say a little bump.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I wish. Yeah, that's probably what I should have done. Honestly, I wish I had a drug dealer on the way. Like, who's that?

[Chris Hoadley]

Dee?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Dee, can you meet me in Charlotte? He probably would have said yes. Yes. But I would have been charged a lot of money and he would have shown up three days after I asked him to come. Dee was never once on time. You know who's not on time? Delta? You know who else is not on time? D and D. D. They're never on time. Never. Dee knew that I would wait as long as goddamn needed.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

He did not care. I was the last on his list. Brian will wait. I always could wait. I always waited. If I told D to be there at 6pm, it was like midnight. I mean, you know, we called him a few times. It was so terrible customer service, but nice guy, but yeah. And who are you going to fit in the complaint? Yeah, that's right.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's no.

[Brian Green]

Call the police. Go ahead. Yeah, so I stopped one time a little north of Charlotte, a little south of Charlotte for a little nap. I think I slept maybe 30, 40 minutes and I made it in 14 hours and 31 minutes. And that's after I stopped at the pharmacy to pick up some medication that I had on hold. And I made it here by 4:30 in the afternoon. App solely wasted. I mean, just wasted. Yeah. Astrid said I didn't look good. She said my eyes didn't look good. They were probably Cheshire cats. Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

After all of that.

[Brian Green]

I know. So right.

[Chris Hoadley]

You made it though.

[Brian Green]

I got home, kids ran out to say hello. Best thing in the world. Best thing in the world to see those kids screaming my name like that, Daddy.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

And they loved the car. So I popped the top off the Bronco, took him on a ride, got some fast food, came home, showered, shit, showered, shaved, and I out, out. 8pm it's like a new adult record for me. 8pm when I'm not jet lagged, when I Haven't been traveling to one country or the other. 8pm is the earliest I've been to bed in a long time. And I'll tell you what, Chrissy. I slept right till 10am this morning. I only woke up twice, like once to go to the bathroom. Yeah. Peeing all that water. And you know what I did? I talked to you yesterday when I was on my way. I made the choice not to drink a lot of coffee on the way down. And I think that was the right choice. My body clock reset at some point. Like 9 o' clock in the morning. It reset. And while I was definitely tired and definitely feeling strung out, I didn't feel as bad as if I had had the coffee.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah. Cause then you're like on that weird buzz.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. It's like your body's tired, so your eyes still feel heavy, but your brain is like all mush. You can't think. And then I already have a road rage problem. I don't need to add additional irritation into it when I'm driving 90 miles per hour down the highway. Astrid was so pissed that I rented that car. She was so pissed. We were fighting at 2 in the morning. We were fighting at 1 in the morning. On while I'm in the Uber. The Uber guy must have thought I was a real asshole. I'm like, astrid, you're not here. You don't understand. You're there. I think Astrid sometimes has.

[Chris Hoadley]

Did she want you to stay?

[Brian Green]

She wanted me to do anything but drive a car.

[Chris Hoadley]

Drive?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. She was like. She was like, I found a ticket for you in Charlotte. I found a ticket for you in Dulles. I found a ticket for you on the train. I found it. There's a hotel. You can do anything but drive. Because if you're driving, I'm not sleeping.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And if I'm not sleeping, then I'm pissed off too. And I'm like, babe, just go to sleep. I'm fine. I'm an adult. I'll handle it. But the problem is, is that Astrid hates my driving. Well, I was about to say she hates it. Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

She's experienced.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, she hates it. She thinks I drive too fast, too aggressively.

[Chris Hoadley]

And hence your speeding tickets.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I do have a lot of speeding tickets, to be fair to her too. To two super speeder tickets in like a month. But, you know, I also felt in the moment that there's no way I'm staying in New York till Saturday. Yeah. I didn't make the BWI flight. I don't want to go as tired As I was. What was worse to me than the next six hours or seven hours or eight hours on the road was another four hours in an airport. That part, like going through security, waiting for the plane, getting on the plane, all of it seemed like a big irritation to me.

[Chris Hoadley]

Already on the road and just get there.

[Brian Green]

I was just going. I was just.

[Chris Hoadley]

What did you listen to?

[Brian Green]

I listen to a bunch of stuff. I listened to a documentary about the west bank in Israel. I listened to Louis Thoreau do a documentary about the hospitals that handle alcoholics in the uk. Super fascinating. I listened to the Regime Change audiobook, which is the new book by Maggie Haberman from the New York Times about the Donald Trump presidency so far.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, I heard about that.

[Brian Green]

Fascinating, Fascinating. Like, you know, palace intrigue kind of book. It's really good.

[Chris Hoadley]

You weren't getting back into your live.

[Brian Green]

I didn't listen to music because I. I don't know why, but it didn't. Just didn't strike me. I felt like the talking was better than the music. I just wasn't in a music mood. I just put it that way. But what I also did listen to is a book called the Righteous Mind that was recommended to me by Jose, recommended to me by one of my boyfriends. And I feel like we have a little book club going on because we shared books with each other. One book with each other, but, you know, whatever. We have a little book club going.

[Chris Hoadley]

Got a little seed of.

[Brian Green]

A little seed of a book club. Just me and Jose sharing one book with each other. And this Righteous Mind is a wild fucking book, man. It's. I'm only like four chapters into it. It's wild. You want me to share some with you? Okay. All right, let's take a short break and then. Yeah, we'll be back.

[Rachel]

Let me do something Brian has never done.

[Brian Green]

Be brief.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you,

[Chris Hoadley]

Little synthesizer.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you know, I've been getting into snarky puppy snarky. Do you know snarky Puppy, like the jazz fusion 14 piece band that does these weird, wild compilations with. And they do it with all kind of artists, by the way. Usually those artists are like not well known mainstream artists, but they've done some and they have a live album that is just wild. It's like, it's experimental, it's jazz fusion. It's not for everybody, but there's a couple songs in there, like 17 minutes long. They are so beautiful. And I just love. I'm getting into Snarky Puppies.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay, go.

[Brian Green]

There you go. All right.

[Chris Hoadley]

Get snark. Get your snarky puppies.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. There's ever been a band that's good for Brian. It's Snarky Puppy. All right, so the Righteous Mind, the morality of Jesus and religion, or Jesus and Politics. Religion and Politics is essentially like this. The tagline Righteous Mind is the name. Righteous Mind is by a theologist and a philosopher and a scientist, a guy that's very well versed in the science of morality and how we shape morality and how morality shapes religion and politics. And it's a very fascinating look inside of the human mind. And while I'm just getting into the meat and potatoes of the book, I'll share with you something that I found very wild about this particular book. It gives scenarios and it asks that you. The reader or the listener. Because, you know, reading is listening for me. Yes, the reader, the listener. It asks you to judge some scenarios or how would you judge those scenarios? And these scenarios are absolutely insane. You ready? Yeah, for one of them. All right. Child dies in an accidental drowning. Terrible situation. Terrible situation. However, the family is part of a kind of subset of humans who believe that human meat is okay for consumption and should not be wasted. So the child is then cooked and eaten. What you say crazy, right? Crazy. All right, that is that. But is that right or wrong? Morally, I mean, Give me the answer if I want to hear it. If you're answered unabashed, unfiltered, morally, I mean, is it morally wrong to do that? You wouldn't do it. That's right. And that is the answer most people will give. I wouldn't do it. But I guess if somebody else is part of a culture where that is acceptable. It's not for me, but sure. Okay. I mean, it's terrible. I think it's terrible, but I would never do that. Never even think to do that. Okay, all right. Here's another example.

[Chris Hoadley]

I think that's illegal too.

[Brian Green]

It's certainly legal in the United States, by the way. I'm not encouraging anyone to do this. These are just pretend things, guys like. Okay, let's be clear about this. These are pretend scenarios. No one actually did this. He's not citing anything. He's a. He's a moralist, and he's asking you to judge these. And you and I say the exact same thing that 90% of people say, which is not for me. However, I guess there are different strokes for different folks out there in the world. It's terrible, but it is what it is. Yeah. All right. Okay, the next scenario that is just wild. Man goes to the store and buys a whole chicken that he wants to have for dinner tonight. However, before he has. Before he cooks his meal, he has sex with the chicken and then cleans it and cooks it and eats it. Sex with a dead chicken. Okay, right or wrong or indifferent?

[Chris Hoadley]

Was the head on or not?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. Good question. Yes, you're right. Good question. The head was on. Totally unacceptable head off. Well, at least the chicken didn't see it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Frozen body. What? Who hasn't fucked a chicken before? All right, wild scenario. Right, Wild scenario. But the guy did it in his house, by himself, all alone. Not my best friend, that's for sure. Not a dude I'm having dinner with. I don't want to take the invite for dinner. However. Okay, guess he didn't hurt anybody. I mean, he's not hurting anybody, I suppose, right?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That also is illegal in the United States. I think that. Necrophilia, bestiality. But okay, all right, whatever. Whatever floats your boat. Dude, I don't want to be friends with you, but okay, you know, at least you're not harming any other humans, I guess. So these are like the kind of questions that he asks, and then he gets to the bottom of what morality really is. And morality for most people is the following. And they learn this very young, that morality is harm to other people. We give the answer that almost everybody gives, which is, I guess if he's not hurting anybody. I guess if they haven't harmed anybody, I guess if. If that's their way of thinking or their way, we wouldn't want to be friends with them. That wouldn't be something we would do. But is it morally wrong? Probably not right. Probably not morally wrong. However, if you ask a child whether or not running over and punching somebody is a bad. Is morally wrong. Just punching somebody out of the blue, just running over to your classmate and punching them in the face, they would say, it is morally wrong. Because I'm hurting somebody else. I'm harming somebody else. And that is the basis usually of most morality. Do unto others, Right. The Golden Rule is really what it boils down to. Now, I haven't listened to the rest of the book, so I don't get to the. I haven't gotten to the conclusions yet. I'll keep you posted. But this is kind of where we're at right now. And it is interesting because morality, our emotions essentially lead our morality. Right? And everyone emotes differently. He likens our emotions to an elephant and our brain to somebody riding the elephant. The elephant reacts and we desperately try and pull the elephant back. Right? We desperately try and control the elephant, but the elephant leads the charge. The elephant is an elephant. It's not. It probably is not going to do what we ask it to do. And that is our emotions. And so he's sharing. I think that where we're going to go with this is he sharing that emotions oftentimes are. Are swapped out for morality. And that's not, that's not real. That's just something that we are feeling. And our emotions are based on a complex series of inputs for us as, as people from nature and nurture. And it's different from morality. And that really, the bottom line is do unto others, do no harm, essentially. Right?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Good. All right. Okay, good. All right. There we go. That's my. That's my book.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I'll tell you what. But I've swapped between Righteous Mind and Regime Change, which I also think is a very. Jesus Christ, mom. My mom just keeps on ringing and ringing and ringing, and I can. I can guarantee you it's nothing important. I can guarantee you it's nothing important.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Love you, Mom. Hi, Brian, it's your mom. I just wanted to check in and see how you are. She called me at like 4 in the morning yesterday. Like, I'm on the road 4 or 5 in the morning, and I'm like, hey. And she's like, I got so worried. Everything was okay. I saw the rain in New York and I'm like, yeah, mom, what do you think? I melt. I'm not the Wicked Witch of the West. I don't melt in the rain. Everything's fine. So weird sometimes. I saw the rain in New York. I wanted to make sure you're okay. Yeah, it wasn't a biblical flood. It just rained. So I switched between those two. Because regime change is also a fascinating look at human behavior. I think in, in this one particular human, which we all pay attention to, his human behavior and how it is perceivably affecting us. And it's so weird that this one human has captured all of our attentions in a way that just moves us back and forth, left and right, all over the place. Based on what the next thing that he does is. And certainly, I think, do no harm. Doesn't. That doesn't apply to Donald Trump.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know if he's got that. That button.

[Brian Green]

No, absolutely not. Did you hear that? He is. He's thinking about rescinding Todd Blanch's nomination for the Attorney General because Todd Blanche cannot get confirmed because he refuses to put into writing that he will not make a slush fund for January six rioters, and he will not essentially put a. Put a piece of paper out there on behalf of the DOJ that says that they will never go after Donald Trump, any of his family members or anybody for anything they've done wrong. It's just like, how much. How much more corrupt can you get? And. And he won't put it in writing. He says it out loud, but he won't put it in writing. Why? Because he knows goddamn well that he can't. He won't do that because as soon as everybody's not looking, he's gonna create the Sush fund and sign the piece of paper.

[Chris Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

And so this is just like. It's really wild how corrupt our federal government is right now, and Donald Trump and his family. And so whether you like the guy, believe in what he does or doesn't do, and you agree with his policies or. I don't even know what policies he. I don't even know what his policy making is.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know that he knows.

[Brian Green]

He doesn't. He's just so corrupt. And did you see that trial with Anthony Fauci yesterday?

[Chris Hoadley]

I didn't watch it, but I've seen. I mean, I've read about it. It's just. That's awful. Leave the guy alone.

[Brian Green]

Here's the thing. They got his diary, and they. They. They scanned his diary. His diary? Yeah. First of all, what grown man is. Has a diary? Diary.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And who gets a hold of it? How do you. Because. Because they subpoenaed all records and all conversations about the pandemic, and he gave them the diary or that he had a diary, and they got it, which is just wild to think about a grown man having a diary. And it really is a dear Diary. It's like, dear Diary. He's writing all his thoughts down. I have to say that some of the stuff in the Diary. Even though we're reading a man's personal thoughts. Okay, it's out there. Let's, you know, read it. It's news. Word newsworthy. I do have to say that some of the things that Foushee was thinking about at the time are a little odd. And what. What do I mean by that? There are specific pages and phrases where he is sharing that he is enjoying his access to fame, and he's talking about how he might be the most famous person on earth right now, that more people know his name than know Michael Jackson's name or whatever. And he's sharing that it's odd, but that he's enjoying meeting some of these celebrities. He's being invited to parties that he never got invited to. But who wouldn't be enamored by instant fame like that? He was the most famous person.

[Chris Hoadley]

He was.

[Brian Green]

Because we were all looking to him to say some things about the pandemic that made us feel better one way or the other, or a lot of people were looking at him and saying, he's lying. Here's the thing that I believe. If yesterday had been taking with. Taken with any degree of seriousness and not a witch hunt to put. To essentially, literally put somebody in jail or crucify them for the decisions they made as the head scientist during an unprecedented incidental health crisis, if they had taken this with any degree of seriousness and asked questions that really needed to be answered. Should we have closed schools? Did masking, in hindsight, help? Should we have national lockdowns? Does that help avoid the spread of future pandemics that may include this coronavirus? Where did the coronavirus come from? Still never been answered. Where did it come from? What are your thoughts now? If we had asked serious questions, then Anthony Fauci would have felt, I think, compelled to answer in a way that would have given us information that was useful in the future.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, well, he. They already tried that with him. I mean, he's been up in these

[Brian Green]

panels forever, of course.

[Chris Hoadley]

Forever.

[Brian Green]

Yes, but. And he should go up on these panels many more times to answer these questions so that we can get to the bottom of what happened.

[Chris Hoadley]

But instead, they're asking stupid questions.

[Brian Green]

They're asking stupid questions. Yeah. Did you kill my mother? Because, you know. You know, you should be in jail. They just. It's. It's an absolute Kabuki theater of epically crazy proportions. Anthony Fauci made a lot of mistakes, but so did Donald Trump and so did the administration, and so did many people along the way. Why? Because when you're in the middle of a fucking house fire. You're just trying to get out of the window. And if you step on the dog on the way out of the window, you can be forgiven because you didn't know the goddamn dog was there and you didn't mean to hurt it. You just did. That's the way these things go down. But instead, the Republicans, including that fucking Rand Paul, that's a goddamn insane human being. Sometimes he sounds sane and most of the time he sounds insane. And Thom Tillis and all these other fuck nuts are up there making this a show trial for the conspiracy wing of the right in this country. And it is too little, too late to make any difference. It's too little, too late. You are. You are. You constantly go back to the same fucking well. The election was stolen. Covid was a sham. Ivermectin was for horses, but it should have been for human. Fuck you. Fuck you.

[Rachel]

Yeah,

[Brian Green]

try. Try taking Delta out of LaGuardia and then see what real inconvenience is. Drives me crazy. Drives me crazy.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

We needed real information. And the reason why the guy plead the fifth yesterday is because he's so goddamn afraid you're going to find a way to put him in jail for the rest of his life. He can say, that's right. Anything he says, he will be taken to task for it. And. And this isn't over. I guarantee that the doj, led by Donald Trump's personal attorney and Donald Trump's little penis will find a way to get hurt because Anthony Fauci said something he doesn't like. Anthony Fauci, by the way, was Donald Trump's head scientist. And Trump was telling us to inject ourselves with bleach and take sun lamps and swallow them. I mean, come on. Anthony Fauci didn't do any worse. This is insane. It's insane. We need these people to talk to us. And by making this a fucking witch trial, no one's gonna say anything useful, and that's the part that sucks, is that we really need Fauci to look at his choices and say these were right and these were wrong without fear that he's gonna go to jail.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

So that he can inform future administrations on how to handle these things better. Children shouldn't have been taken out of school. It's 100% a fact. They understand that. Masking probably wasn't the best thing, all this other stuff. But we learned this six years later. It's not like we knew it in the moment. Of course it is. Chrissy, it's not like Anthony Fauci owned a mask company and he was making a billion dollars off of it. Right?

[Chris Hoadley]

I can't believe that Trump didn't think of that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Trump thought of its second term.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right, we'll take a break. We'll be back. We'll talk about something more light, light when we get back. Like Jared Leto. All right, we'll be back. Ooh, do you hear about that? Oh, terrible.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

In a BBC exclusive. Jared Leto has been. By an investigative series by the BBC. Jared Leto has been accused by 10 separate women.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, 10 times. I read some. There was four either way.

[Brian Green]

Well, four have accused him of underage assault, essentially. Right. And. And there's certain words I don't want to say here because it'll get blocked by YouTube and stuff like that, but certain women have accused Jared Leto, 10 of them, of some kind of impropriety, sexual impropriety, many of them under age. At the time, he was like, 30. We forget. Jared Leto is, like 57 years old.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. He looks like he's 12, but he's. He's really not. He's very. He's. He. He's. I say he's very old. So am I then. I mean. But Jared Leto, you know, he really didn't start getting fame until into his 30s. And he also had this band, 30 Seconds to Mars. So these women went on record with the BBC, some of them by name, went on record and explained what happened when Jared Leto was in his 30s and 40s, that he would often be in proximity because of his band or because of his relationship with modeling agencies, would be in proximity to very young women, talking as some as young as 14 years old, and that he would absolutely be inappropriate with them, if not also physically assaulting them or physically being involved with them sexually. When clearly that. You just don't have the capacity at that age to overcome the fact that there's this superstar in their bedroom or in their hotel room or whatever. I mean, right. You just don't have the brain to handle that. Right. Your brain literally explodes. Oh, my God. Jared Leto's right in front of me, and he's attracted to me, and he wants to do this with me. But some of these women are clear that it was assault. He. They. It was. They were not willing participants in what happened. And so I will share now a personal story that kind of brings us all around. I was also assaulted by James. Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Chris Hoadley]

You were. You were caught in a bedroom with Jared Leto.

[Brian Green]

Jared Leto, that's right. I had a friend that worked in the modeling industry. She was an executive in the modeling industry. She. I also dated a girl one time who had a brother, who had two brothers. The brothers were young. They were teenagers. They were, like, in high school. They got. I mean, absolutely enthralled. They were, like, in a cult about 30 seconds to Mars. And some of the. A few albums. They put these concept albums that thirty Seconds to Mars put together. There was like, this whole. These guys lived down in Tampa. There was this whole, like, pack of friends of theirs that really felt like 30 seconds to Mars was saying something super deep. And they were, like, super wrapped up in the 30 seconds to Mars.

[Chris Hoadley]

They were Mars heads.

[Brian Green]

They were Mars heads. They were Mars bars. That's right. Mars bars. They were Mars bars. They just loved it. In a conversation, separate conversation with my friend who worked in the modeling business, and I'm not going to name names, and I'm not going to say which modeling agency they. My mom is literally calling me, and what she needs is clothes. Okay, mom, got it. She needs some. She needs some new clothes. It's not an emergency. We'll deal with it later. If I thought it was an emergency, I'd answer the phone. But in a separate conversation with my friend who worked in the modeling business. I was explaining to her how I didn't know, but Jared Leto has this band, 30 Seconds to Mars, and these kids are like, I don't have my finger on the pulse because these kids are, like, in love with 30 seconds to Mars. And I had listened to some of their music based on these conversations I had with these brothers of this girl I was dating. And she. Her eyes lit up, like, not in a good way. And she was like, jared Leto is one of the creepiest guys that I know in the entire entertainment business.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's saying something, too.

[Brian Green]

That's saying something because she met a lot of creepy guys. And she was like, in the heart of darkness when it came to the modeling agency. She always said it's a terrible business where a lot of terrible things happen. And I don't think she was actively participating in those terrible things, but I actually know she wasn't. But she just. She just had this insider's view of the modeling business and. And how terrible it was and how people like Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and cronies like that really took advantage of the model. Yeah. Parade on models because they were fed the models by the modeling business. There was no protection, no layer of protection for these extremely young men and women.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So she one night shared with me that Jared had close connections with the modeling agency that she worked for and that it had been no secret inside of the modeling business that Jared was fond of and often asked for close proximity to very young models. And that my friend felt very protective of some of these models and would try and dissuade them, even though Jared was very famous. And she said sometimes it's hard to dissuade someone from access to fame. They want to be famous themselves. They think this is their way to get there. They think proximity to fame also means fame, and it doesn't. It often means a situation where the power imbalance is crazy. So I have known, or I have heard. I had heard rumors about Jared Leto many years ago. Now. I have no direct knowledge of anything that happened. I want to make that clear. Don't come knocking on my door. I don't know. It's just rumor and innuendo. But rumor and innuendo often follow things that are true. And Jared has been talked about in this way for a long time inside the business. And it's hard to believe that he's had so much success even after all of these things came out. The BBC invested in investigation found hundreds of claims on the Internet, on Reddit posts, on Instagram.

[Chris Hoadley]

How has he not been arrested or investigated?

[Brian Green]

I have no earthly idea. Why? It's just like Russell Brand and, like, all of these men, mainly, who have this power, wealth, and fame, and they take advantage of it. Weinstein. I mean, Weinstein got away with it for 40 fucking years. Some of the most famous people on Earth. This is gotta change. I think the MeToo movement went way too far and captured a whole bunch of people up in the ropes that probably didn't deserve to be captured. They were just not using their brain or said something inappropriate at an inappropriate time or made an innuendo that shouldn't have been made of. Listen, okay? We can forgive someone for that. Like, everyone makes mistakes. You don't need to be canceled for the rest of your life because you. You made an offhanded comment about how nice someone's skirt was or whatever.

[Chris Hoadley]

Jacked off in a tree.

[Brian Green]

You jacked off in a tree. Who doesn't jack off on trees? And listen, Louis ck. Yeah, the going down to the Wacking tree with Louis ck. We're gonna jack off in trees together.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

So he's got a new special.

[Brian Green]

He does. He's back, baby. He's back, baby. Listen, you know, even Louis ck, I'm not defending his actions, but whacking off in front of people is just a weird. It's just a weird, like, fetish is what it is. Right? I don't know, but I think there were some people that claimed that he did that without their consent. That clearly is wrong. Yes, but if that's. But if it was just that. Can I whack off in front of you?

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, consenting is one thing.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, consenting is one thing. Not consenting. Not cool. Not cool. But this Jared Leto thing takes it to a whole nother level. I mean, just takes it to a whole nother level. It's just a power imbalance. And these men, mainly, who get away with this, should be taken to task. They really should. Jared Leto should never star in a movie again. Period. End of sentence. It's just. It's like. It's all terrible. Jared has just been a real. And then they, like, put clips of things that he said in interviews, and. And, like, he's just. Do you remember there was, like, a Vice magazine, American Apparel photographer, that weird guy with the mustache. Can't remember his name now, but there was a guy that was taking American Apparel photos mainly, and sometimes for Vice magazine of nude young women. And when I say young, 17, 18, 19 years old. It's not illegal to take Nude photographs of anybody, as long as they're not sexual in nature. But he was certainly pushing the envelope. And.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, there was a whole documentary on that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And he got excommunicated. He got canceled, as he should have. He. That guy was a real fucking creep. Jared Leto was best friends with him even after this guy got taken to task. And Jared said some things about his friendship with this guy in interviews that clearly indicate that Jared not only knew about it, was okay with it and encouraged it. Like, Jared is just a fucking creep he needs. And now he just announced that 30 seconds to Mars, like a couple months ago. 30 seconds to Mars is going to go on a new tour in 2027. He's a 56 year old dickhead. Let's not encourage 30 seconds to Mars to do anything. The guy's enough wealth and fame. Let's leave him alone. Honestly, it's like. It's like Cosby esque. The guy is. After I heard this investigation, coupled with the information that I know from my own personal life, I think Jared. It's time to cancel Jared. That. Cancel Jared. That's another Jared down the drain.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm good with that. I was never 30 seconds to Mars. Huge fan.

[Brian Green]

No, me neither. Nor was I a fan of the Jared guy from Subway. I always felt like something was wrong with that guy. I always thought that was weird. It was like a weird. Why was Jared all of a sudden, like world famous for.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know. I guess he was. You know, he actually ate the Subways and lost it. And then they made him the spokesperson or something and.

[Brian Green]

Okay, all right. I cannot.

[Chris Hoadley]

So weird.

[Brian Green]

I want to be. I should be a spokesperson for the half and half companies. For the cream companies.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

That's all I eat.

[Chris Hoadley]

Cereal and cream.

[Brian Green]

Cereal and cream and hot dogs.

[Chris Hoadley]

I told you there's a food truck that's cereal and cream.

[Brian Green]

I know.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm so excited seeing it around town.

[Brian Green]

They have a restaurant in New York too. It's like a cereal restaurant. That's all it serves. It's just cereal. You just go and you pick your cereal for $20, $80. Probably part of town. I'm in $80. A hamburger there is $27. Two slices of pizza, $32. Now those slices of pizza are outrageously good, but still.

[Chris Hoadley]

They are. You gotta check that one place out.

[Brian Green]

Which one?

[Chris Hoadley]

The one that I've sent you that's got named the best pizza place in Lombardi's.

[Brian Green]

I think you. Was it Lombardi's?

[Chris Hoadley]

I can't remember. It was closed for a Little while because they were on vacation in Italy, but.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, no, no, no, I know that place. I have it on my list of places to go. I have like a little list of places and then I end up going to the same two places every time. So I like to. I get comfortable with food, but I can't get away from it. All right, Chrissy and I will be. Be right back. We're gonna come back and do another episode. So if you're hanging in there, I. I don't think I pressed YouTube. Sorry. Okay, whatever. If you're watching us on Twitch, we'll be back on the stream and then. Yeah, and we'll be back tomorrow with more shenanigans. Shenanigans.

[Chris Hoadley]

And good news now that you're home,

[Brian Green]

more stuff to light bright up your day. Yeah, that's right. Now that I'm home. Honestly, I. If I had my druthers, I would skip New York next week. Yeah, I'm like, I have PTSD now.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know. I bet.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I don't want to go through that again. That was wild. Just wild. No flights till Saturday.

[Chris Hoadley]

Why don't you just start flying home on Wednesday morning? Like first thing Wednesday morning?

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chris Hoadley]

I think this might be.

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chris Hoadley]

That might be something.

[Brian Green]

Well, I like to fly in on Tuesday night because then I get a night's sleep here. I'm ready.

[Rachel]

You're not.

[Brian Green]

I know, that's true. I'm not. I'm not really getting a good night's sleep here in Atlanta. I'm always. Or maybe I should try and take a little earlier. Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

Take the first flight out on Wednesday morning, get home, take a nap, I come over, we record.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you might be right about that. Okay. I mean, let me think about it. Let me chew on that.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

That might be a good idea. That may be a better idea than sitting in LaGuardia every Tuesday night for days.

[Chris Hoadley]

As long as you've been doing this, it's.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I've never had a nine time flight. Yeah, Never.

[Chris Hoadley]

It's not been working out.

[Brian Green]

Nope. Never. Not once had a nine time flight. And I knew that it was likely I would have a cancellation, a travel drama. When you fly as much as I do, there's gonna be a travel drama somewhere. I just didn't realize it was gonna be so epic. I thought cancellation booked in the morning.

[Chris Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

That's what I thought. And I was prepared to handle that on Tuesday night. I was prepared to say, okay, gotta go get a couple hours of sleep. And then come back in the morning and fly. But when they said Saturday, I was like, Saturday. But it's understandable if 180,000 flights are canceled throughout the New York area. Yeah, they're just filling exactly the five empty seats.

[Chris Hoadley]

They have supply and demand.

[Brian Green]

That's it. That's all you can do. And it's not like they're going to start adding a bunch of flights. They don't do that. That's not how it works. They just charge more for the seats they have.

[Chris Hoadley]

Not like adding showtimes to the Odyssey, which. We got to talk about that.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right, let's talk about it. We'll talk about it in a few minutes. YouTube.com the commercial break at the commercial break on Instagram. TCB podcast on TikTok. Okay, Kirsty, I guess that's all I can do for this moment.

[Chris Hoadley]

I think. So.

[Brian Green]

Call my mom back.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes, please call your mom back.

[Brian Green]

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

[Chris Hoadley]

I.