Poli-charged Potato Prince

Summary

The Commercial Break

Episode: "Poli-charged Potato Prince"

Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Release Date: September 25, 2024

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Overview

This episode opens with Bryan revealing the real and rather health-related reason behind the postponement of the podcast’s highly anticipated Florida live shows. The duo then shift into their signature blend of unfiltered banter, diving into a satirical roast of RFK Jr.'s bizarre campaign headlines, the challenges of political relationships, and viral DNA/ancestry stories. As always, the episode is wrapped in TCB’s offbeat humor and self-aware chaos, balancing candid personal disclosures with wild, comedic takes on current events and internet oddities.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Health Scare & Show Postponement (00:00–16:55)

• Bryan’s Health Journey:
  Bryan details an ongoing struggle with persistent fatigue, headaches, and general malaise spanning several years. Initially chalked up to age, stress, and parenting, symptoms worsened—culminating in chest pain and a trip to the ER. Doctors noticed a recurring high calcium level and, through diligent follow-up (including a new, thorough doctor), diagnosed Bryan with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHT), a rare and often overlooked thyroid disorder.
• Parathyroid Explained:
  The hosts riff humorously while discussing what the parathyroid does and why its malfunction is such a big deal, emphasizing the importance of self-advocacy in health matters.
• Impact on Live Shows:
  The diagnosis means Bryan cannot travel or perform for now, so Florida dates are postponed. They promise to honor tickets or provide refunds and assure fans the shows will eventually happen.

Notable Quotes

• “I just assumed that because I was not 22 and still had very young children...I was excusing a lot of this.” — Bryan (03:37)
• “Who knew? You need [calcium] for everything. Every electrical current in your body uses calcium...” — Bryan (08:52)
• “I am not dying. I don’t think. As of now, although some in the podcast industry probably would like me dead.” — Bryan (11:47)
• “If you sense something’s wrong with your body, you know it.” — Bryan (20:23)

2. Medical Intuition & Trusting Your Gut (16:55–21:19)

• Bryan recounts a “psychic” diagnosis anecdote:
  A Venezuelan family member once felt his neck at a party and insisted he see an endocrinologist—an incident he originally dismissed but now finds eerily prescient. The segment wraps with advice to trust your body, advocate for thorough medical care, and sometimes listen to “crazy aunts.”

Notable Quotes

• “If you’re a crazy aunt from a South American country who’s known as the family witch...go get it checked out for everybody’s sake, please.” — Bryan (20:23)

3. Satirical RFK Jr. Roast & The Absurdities of Political Drama (22:22–39:42)

• RFK Jr. “Wackadoo” Watch:
  The duo lampoons recent news about RFK Jr., including his alleged sexting with a reporter—delighting in absurd details like “demure nudes,” his reputation as a “legendary coxman,” and his shifting politics. They weave in stories of whale heads, dead baby bears, and wild conspiracy rumors—all in their trademark improv.
• Cheryl Hines’ Dilemma:
  Empathy is extended to Cheryl Hines, RFK’s wife and beloved “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, speculating on the strain of public scandal and personal differences in high-profile relationships.
• Political Ideology and Relationships:
  Wistful (and comedic) musings on whether modern couples of strongly differing politics could even connect anymore.

Notable Quotes

• “I thought he was one of the good guys for like seven minutes, right? Then he fell off the turnip truck about nine years ago and hasn’t come back yet.” — Bryan (22:37)
• “What is a demure nude? I’m not spreading...I’m just showing it like it is. And soft lighting.” — Bryan & Krissy (24:58)
• “RFK Jr. is a legendary coxman. He has been for a long time...” — Bryan (26:17)
• “Could you love Jeff if he had a different political ideology?...I don’t think we would’ve gotten together.” — Krissy (35:27)

Timestamps

• RFK Jr. headlines & scandals: 22:22–29:36
• Cheryl Hines discussion & guest booking story: 27:51–28:40
• Political differences in relationships: 34:59–36:39

4. Wild DNA & Ancestry Stories (40:29–49:47)

• 70-Year Reunion Thanks to DNA Test:
  Bryan shares the real-life resolution of a child’s 1951 kidnapping, reuniting him—at 76—with his long-lost family thanks to an online DNA test and determined relatives. The hosts celebrate this “feel-good” amidst the usual grim news cycle.
• Comparisons to Reality TV DNA Surprises:
  Krissy and Bryan share further wild ancestry finds—from surprise siblings to “Lamborghini Lady” and the fantasy of finding oneself heir to an “O’Malley potato fortune.” (49:19)
• Reluctance and Paranoia Over DNA Tests:
  The conversation humorously explores Bryan’s DNA-test paranoia about false criminal accusations, with Krissy pointing out that his twin already submitted theirs anyway.

Notable Quotes

• “It’s like a shitty story, but it’s feel-good in so many ways...tickles the cockles of my heart, Chrissy—warms the cold, dead, calcium-filled heart I have.” — Bryan (43:36)
• “Wouldn’t that be awesome if I was like some Irish, you know... Prince ... heir to a potato fortune?” — Bryan (49:19)

5. P. Diddy Scandal & Closing Banter (51:33–52:52)

• Celebrity Silence:
  The hosts briefly touch on the ongoing P. Diddy scandal, commenting on celebrity silence and the feeling that “we’re just at the tip of the iceberg.”
• Wrapping Up:
  Bryan jokes about using his parathyroid as a perfect excuse for any obligation, and the duo reaffirms their love for listeners—and each other.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (by Timestamp)

• On the PSA:
  “Your prostate, serum estrogen...PSA, that’s the screening you get for your prostate.” — Bryan, 02:01
• On the diagnosis:
  “I am not dying. I don’t think. As of now, although...some in my own family, I think, might like me dead.” — Bryan, 11:47
• On RFK Jr.:
  “He’s out there cutting off the heads of whales and throwing baby bears in Central Park...” — Bryan, 26:47
• On political couples:
  “How do you have two totally different philosophies and maintain a relationship?” — Krissy, 35:20
• On Irish fortune:
  “You’re a potato heir. An heir to a potato fortune. To the O’Malley potato fortune. Unfortunately, we’re bankrupt because we no longer grow potatoes here.” — Bryan, 49:47
• On using health as an excuse:
  “My parathyroid is telling me it’s nap time.” — Bryan, 52:46

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–16:55 – Bryan's health struggles, show cancellation, and parathyroid explanation
• 20:03–21:19 – Bryan’s “psychic” thyroid diagnosis anecdote, advice on self-advocacy
• 22:22–30:40 – Satirical RFK Jr. & Cheryl Hines section
• 35:07–36:39 – Relationship politics discussion
• 40:29–44:44 – 70-year kidnapping/DNA reunion story
• 49:19–50:33 – Potato prince/ancestry riff
• 51:33–52:46 – P. Diddy, celebrity silence, episode wrap

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Tone & Overall Vibe

The episode is candid, irreverent, and full of dark, twisted humor, lightening serious topics with self-deprecation, inside jokes, and their signature chaotic, “we’re just fine” charm. The camaraderie is strong, making even discussions of illness and political chaos feel like an off-the-cuff hang with old friends.

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For listeners:
If you need a mix of real talk, wild tangents, and sharp-witted improv about pop culture, politics, health, and DNA-fueled soap opera, this episode serves it all—“just FINE,” and proud of it.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

Would you rather eat a baby goat or a matter baby? A matter baby. Yeah. What's the matter, baby? Nothing, sugar. What's the matter with you? On this episode of the commercial break, you're a potato heir. An heir to a potato fortune. To the o' Malley potato fortune. Unfortunately, we're bankrupt because we no longer grow potatoes here. But one day you were rich about five years ago. Had you gotten in, you would have been a billionaire. We decided to contact you for money, not because we wanted to give you money. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the Britney to my Taylor, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. All right, bit of excitement around the TCP universe. Quiet.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Quite the weekend.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Quite the weekend.

[Brian Green]

Quite the weekend. Quite the week, actually, I think is probably more appropriate. A couple weeks is more appropriate.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Let's go back six months.

[Brian Green]

Let's go back two years ago. I was born a small white boy in downtown Chicago. Back when I was sucking on my momma's titties. We're not in Orlando right now. We're not in. We weren't.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We were supposed to fly out this morning.

[Brian Green]

We were supposed to fly this morning. As we're recording it, as you're listening to it, we would have been in Orlando. And we're not there. And there's good reason why. And I guess I owe it the explanation. Even though I don't want to put every single bit of my personal life out there in the world, I'll do it as a psa. How's that, Chrissy? Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Let's do it that way.

[Brian Green]

Your prostate, serum estrogen, whatever the. What is that? Ps. PS what? Psa. Yeah, that's what they call it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Public service amounts.

[Brian Green]

I know. But then there's the PSA that you like. The screening that you get for your prostate.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brian Green]

That's another one, too. That's another one too. We gotta deal with skies. You know, I got covet about. I'll start at the beginning, about two years ago or three years ago at this point, two and a half years ago for the first time. And like everybody, I didn't really get all that sick. I mean, I had gotten the vaccine. I felt relatively okay, but I was tired. Man, was I tired. And that lingered for a very long time. And long.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Covid is a. Is a thing.

[Brian Green]

It's a Real thing, yes. And I assumed that I had it after three, four, five, six months. I got increasingly tired, like fatigued. I got increasingly achy, my body got achy along with a bunch of other disparate syndromes, like bad headaches. And I would be shot out of a cannon in the morning. But by 1, 2 o' clock in the afternoon, I was having a hard time standing straight up. Now, you know, I was just chalking this up to having 65 children, a terrible cocaine problem in my 20s, and you know, generally just being malaised because the everyday things that you go through.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Catching up to you.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And not being 22 anymore, I thought, okay, here it is. I'm old, I got it. I'm old, I got old and that's what happened. And I felt like one of two things. I got old and I have long Covid or I got old and I just got old. I mean, I'm just feeling like all.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Of your children are enough to, to, to run. People say, and blue, I mean, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And blue blues is just a, like a highly stressful part of daily living. But let's put blue aside for a second. I just assumed that because I was not 22 and still had very young children. And it seems like every year we had another child, like for the last 10 years. And so we're always constantly, you know, doing this thing up at night and trying to put the kids to bed. It was, I was excusing a lot of this. So about a year and a half ago, I was also having some terrible headaches that started to concern me that I was having these day after day after day. And I went to my doctor and my doctor said, are you taking Advil for it? And I said, yes, I am. Like, I'm taking ibuprofen. And he said, stop taking ibuprofen. And I said, what? And he that's the thing that helps it. He said, no, it's the thing that's hurting it. What you're having is what's called a bounce back headache. So I stopped taking Advil and for a while that actually did work. And then the headaches came back again and then the tiredness persisted the last three to six months. I think Chrissy and my wife will attest to this is I've been a general in a lot of different ways. My attitude, my mood. I've been irritable, I've been super tired, I've been achy, feverish at times. And it got to a point where I started getting really concerned about my health. Like maybe this is something that I need to go get checked out. Maybe there is cancer, right? Maybe it's something like that or some kind of disease that I'm not aware of. Insect born disease.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

West Nile.

[Brian Green]

Yes, exactly. Or you know, one of those. Like a fly.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's so many things I know it's bombarding and it's overwhelming.

[Brian Green]

I read in like some British rag, I read that some lady had the like flies in her house, she ate an apple and then she had some like flyborn disease of like her eyeball popped out one morning.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

I thought to myself, I have one of those. That's what it is. I've got something, it's blue, the blue and piss everywhere. I know it's. So anyway, four weeks ago, five weeks ago, I, Chrissy and I are here recording and I start to get some fluttering in my heart and some chest pain that persisted for the next three hours to the point where I finally had to say, this just is just like a man. I finally said something three hours later to my wife and she's like, ambulance or hospital, your choice. But one of those is happening right now. And not wanting to cause a scene and embarrass myself in front of my neighbors, especially the one whose air conditioning fault, he's nosy and he'll, he'll put it, I know he's gonna be riding on next door attic across the street with the curtains always drawn, smoking crack, went to the hospital, got an ekg, was not having a heart attack. But the doctor who was good, said, let me do some follow up blood work. We're going to take a bunch of blood and we'll run the gamut. And what he found was high calcium. And then two weeks later, serendipitously. So this is like three weeks ago, four weeks ago now I had an annual physical and my doctor I had seen for many years was gone. He started his own practice. I got a new doctor. She was really nice. She sat there for a long time asking me a bunch of questions and then said, I noticed for the last four years you've had high calcium levels and I see again that you had another high calcium level when you went to the emergency room. So we're going to test for calcium this time like we always do. And then if we see any indicators, I'm going to do some follow up testing. So I'm going to draw an extra vial of blood I can send off. They did that, came back, she sent that blood work to a specialized laboratory. That laboratory then tested my thyroid and my parathyroid. The parathyroid. Who knew? I mean, I. I had never heard of the word.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, I think really the whole thyroid part of things.

[Christina Astrid]

Study.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The study of the thyroid has really only come into practice in the past, what, 20 years, 30 years.

[Brian Green]

The study of the parathyroid, certainly. But the thyroid in general.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. So I've always heard, like, oh, thyroid levels are off. But what does that cares?

[Brian Green]

It's a little flappy thing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Hormones and.

[Brian Green]

Wow. Okay.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Low T, high estrogen. I'm about to start my period. I don't know. Like, what? What is it?

[Brian Green]

And thyroids connected to your testicles. Testicles connected to your wife's hand.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So even to go further from just general, there's a. You have a thyroid now there's four parathyroids. Four parathyroids that also make that up.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, are behind it.

[Brian Green]

They're behind it. Yes. They're four little tiny glands the size of a pea. They put out something fucking amazing that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Your body has all this, like, machine. All work together.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And they're machines. And they talk to each other. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Release this.

[Brian Green]

You know, I'm sorry. Release the hounds. Release the calcium from your bones. Now you have leaky bones. I'll get to my leaky bones. So they test the parathyroid. They test the thyroid. The parathyroid is four little glands that sit behind your thyroid and they release. Release. Pth. Which then tells your liver, your stomach, your kidneys, and your bones how much calcium to contain. Yeah. Basically it says, hey, need calcium or have too much. And then you're supposed to pee the calcium out that you don't need. And generally calcium is just like. It's a rather benign thing that everyone kind of takes for granted. You know, it's in your milk, it's in your cheese.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, and you think it's just related to just strictly, oh, you need it for your bones. Yeah, that's it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But who knew?

[Brian Green]

Who knew? You need it for everything. Every electron, electrical current in your body uses calcium, and it can cause. It can wreak havoc on your body and your mind. If you have either too little or too much, that parathyroid can suffer from primary hyperparathyroidism. You can go ahead and Google that. Good luck spelling it. It took me about 30 times. If the pth. If you're pair one of your parathyroids or more grows a tumor or grows too big or just gets overactive, it tells the body to keep calcium. And also it will tell your bones to leak calcium because you need more that's what the PTH does. It tells your body you need more calcium, take it from your bones. And so it was. It has been wreaking havoc on my body for probably more years, like a decade, like a long time. But the symptoms got too big to ignore very recently. And it causes a lot of shitty symptoms like being tired and achy bones and foggy brain and memory loss and confusion. And it causes all wreaks, all kind of havoc. And it became kind of an emergent situation when they realized just how high my calcium levels were, just how high my PTH levels were. And that became a concern for my health. Traveling, doing hours of shows. Here's the truth. Maybe I couldn't get through hours of shows. I might have fallen asleep. I was, I was ready. We were excited. We were very excited to come down. A lot of work and energy and effort. But let me tell you this just in case, like there are, I think a lot of this goes misdiagnosed in so many people. So many people, maybe by half. Like, maybe there's a hundred percent more people out there that have this, that don't get it diagnosed because your doctor ignores it because it's not a very well known phenomenon. Only in the last 15, 20 years have, have they studied this. And I'm going to a great surgery center. One of the doctors who pioneered the surgery that I am having, I'm going to go have that in October. So couple things. This means for the show. Number one, obviously we're not down in Florida right now. I put out a message. I'm hoping the ticketing center sends you more information on what to do with those tickets. I will give you that information just as soon as I have it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it'll either be a refund or honor the ticket.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, hold on. We will come. Yes, we will be there. Just let me recover a little bit.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It'll be the first.

[Brian Green]

I don't know when. Yeah, I don't know when. We'd like it to be early next year, but we'll see what happens with the surgery, how everyone's feeling and the availability of the clubs and the promoter's choice. This is the promoter that needs to make those decisions in conjunction with our management and us, number one. Number two, in October, Chrissy and I are going to be taking a lot of time off and that doesn't mean no shows for you. We are going to definitely be doing shows. The podcast will continue. I am not dying. I don't think.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

As of now, although.

[Brian Green]

I'm sure, yes, ignorance is bliss. Although some in the podcast industry probably would like me dead. I'm not dying yet. Some in my own family, I think, might like me dead. But some. Some people were like, really? That's great news. No, I'm kidding.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We all want you to get better.

[Brian Green]

Yes. There is a secondary and cursory reason why. This is it. This was. This decision was made not to do these shows. And let me explain this part of it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It went into the notebook.

[Brian Green]

It went into the notebook.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Where all things go to die.

[Brian Green]

Where everything goes to die, including Brian, including my parathyroid. So when we made these shows with wme, great promoters, great group, and our talent agent, Matt Dysart, when we made this decision to do these shows, it was a really quick turnaround. Like, we signed for these shows back in early August, and then we're supposed to be in there in September. It didn't give us a ton of room to promote the shows. Like, we just got the links, two and a half weeks. It's not a typical turnaround on live shows. And I know that there are many of you that bought tickets and I love you and thank you to the hundreds of thousands of people that bought tickets. We love you. But it would do us. It probably would suit us a little better also to just have a little more room, like, a little more breathing room. So those. First, my health. Second, let's give it a little bit more Runway. And third. What's third? There's a hurricane coming, and so I want to be down there. There is a hurricane coming.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. I did see that.

[Brian Green]

There's hurricane season down there. So all of those things. So I want to apologize to anybody that bought tickets. I'm sorry that I ruined your Tuesday or Wednesday night late September, and just. Listen, I. There's no. There's nothing else to say. I'm. I'm sorry. I'm sick.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Health comes first.

[Brian Green]

Health comes first. I need to take care of myself. It's important. And just honestly, based on some results I just got this morning, it's like, do not push it. Don't push it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Get it taken care of.

[Brian Green]

Keep it low key. And. And then I come in here in the studio and act like an idiot for three hours and four hours a day. But that's it. That's all we have to say about the shows. We love you. They will happen. We hope to be doing live shows it well into the future. This was going to be our first two, but we just can't make it this time. And so we love you. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns. 212-4333. TCB. Christina Astrid will be happy to take that abuse. Right? Yeah, I'll answer some, too. And much love to the cl. To the clubs, and much love to the wme. And much love to Matt. That was my. I was really excited to go to the Bone, actually.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. And the Danya beach one because we heard from these comics that. What a great place.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, go figure. You knew we were going to fuck it up somehow, guys. My parathyroid said. No, no, no, no, no. Not just yet, Brian. Not just yet.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You already made an announcement. Detracted.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You've been talking about it for three weeks straight, nonstop. No problem. Parathyroid. T. Bam. Well, bam. Put some extra cells and a funky calcium reading. Not so fast, Mr. Live Show, Brian. I'll show you. To make plans in advance. Exactly. I even got this Tina. Ten tweezers.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We had. I know. I have the piggy fronting.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. T shirt. We had T shirts. We had some giveaways. We'll be there. We'll. We'll do it now. We're too invested. I mean, we spent so much time.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

I spent so many nights trying to figure out exactly what to do in this live show because here, just to, like, reveal a little bit, we don't want to give it away because now we're gonna go do it. We'll do them at a later date. But, you know, I didn't want to do an episode of the commercial break either.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

This wasn't just going to be like a live show. We didn't want to do episode.

[Brian Green]

We didn't want to do an episode like this where you're just horribly depressed afterwards. We wanted to do an actual, like, fun show, guys.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like a interactive fun. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

With all your favorites, but new.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We were gonna bring out some old. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

We're gonna bring out some old people. Like Brian. What if you just wheel me up there with an oxygen tank, just like a small bag hanging out of my parathyl.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What you thought was gonna happen years from now down at the Villages has just been sped up.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. We just decided, well, what would we do if we were sitting at the Villages? Let's put that on paper and we'll do it at the Bone. And it'll be funny. Yeah. And, you know, to be honest with you, I am. There is a big part of me that is. That is bummed out. It's bummed out because I thought, this is going to be such fun. We're going to have a great time down there. And people had been texting us, you know, pretty frequently actually saying we're really excited the all of Venezuela was going to be at that, Tanya. To the point where I thought I might have to do some of it in Spanish. Honestly, I was like, should we do like an homage to, you know, should we do something? And then I was gonna have to cut out my astro voice just for the Daniel Point show. I didn't get in trouble. So you, you get it. Sorry. We love you best to you. You know, we'll be down there, we'll get, we'll get around to it. So anyway, okay, let's do this after this horribly, horribly depressing opening to the show. Oh, and I do want to say this, like, I think Chrissy and I have been through some really rough health related stuff over the last three years. Not talking about us personally, I mean now I'm going through it, but talking about close loved ones, family members, friends who have been through some rough stuff. And I'm going to share something with you. Six years ago. No, no, no. Nine years ago now. Nine years ago, when Astrid and I first started dating, Raphael's father was dying of inoperable prostate cancer. And we all went to like St. Patrick's Day part. A Venezuelan St. Patrick's Day party. Go figure that one. And all of his family was around. And one of his family members had been an endocrinologist in Venezuela, now living here in the United States, an older lady, one of his aunts. And they were taking pictures all around. You know, pictures, pictures, pictures. That's what Venezuelans do. They take pictures of every thing. Your shoes, your socks. You gotta just get all the entire outfit and your face a million times whenever you go to one of these parties. So she's taking pictures and she took a couple of photographs of me. And halfway through the party she says, and she doesn't speak great English, so she had her daughter, who was also a doctor, say, my aunt want or my mom wants you to lay down on the couch. And I said, what are you talking about? Lay down on the couch? She wants to feel your neck. She starts feeling around my neck and it, she tells her daughter to tell me to go see an endocrinologist because she thinks that something is wrong with my thyroid.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That is crazy.

[Brian Green]

It was insane. Like, I think about this moment now. Like the second that they started talking about like surgery and the tumor, I started thinking about this. And she said because my eyes were bulging and she saw something in my neck when I was talking. She said, two indications that something is wrong with your thyroid or something in that area. Right? And then she laid me down, felt my neck, and then she was, like, insistent upon this that I go see an endocrinologist. I chalked this lady up to be some kind of, like, black magic, witches brew, you know, problem. I can see through your skin. I honestly chalked this up to just craziness. Just like Venezuelan craziness and, like, cultural differences, right? Something like, how could you possibly know something is wrong with my thyroid by feeling my neck and looking at a picture with my eyes bulging. It has nothing to do with my thyroid. It's all that cocaine I've been snorting. Like, no, I'm kidding, but you know what I'm saying?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I thought, that's just a weird picture you took of me. My eyes happen to be open, right? She. I don't know if this is related. I don't know. I don't know if you know. The surgeon seems to think I've had this for more than a decade. I don't know if this is related, but if it is, man, is that weird. Trust your thing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Good thing you ignored it for.

[Brian Green]

Good thing I ignored it for seven and a half, nine more years, whatever it was. I guess the bottom line is, trust your gut. Trust the people around you. If you think something is wrong without.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Get it checked out and don't think you're crazy for it. You know, don't think you're being overdramatic either, because little things do add up, and sometimes it can be too late.

[Brian Green]

You are your biggest health advocate. I am lucky that I am lucky to have had a doctor who sensed something was wrong and the symptoms didn't add up and that there was a problem and she took it further. I am blessed to have, like, I hate that word when people use it, but I'm feeling that way right now. To have walked in and had someone that actually gave a shit about what was going on with me and connected some dots for me. But we also know people who just didn't follow it far enough. Like, they insist upon that test. Like, insist on seeing a specialist or whatever. If you sense something's wrong with your body, you know it. And if you're a crazy aunt from a South American country who's known as the family witch decides to put you on a couch and start feeling around your balls or your face and says something's wrong with you, go get. Go get it checked out for everybody's sake, please. All right, let's take a. Let's take a short break and then we'll come right back and we'll do something more light hearted. How's that, Chrissy?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Sounds like a plan.

[Brian Green]

We'll talk about P. Diddy and make it more light hearted.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

I'm kidding. I'm done with P. Diddy. All right, we'll be back.

[Christina Astrid]

Look, I only just started following the commercial break on Instagram too, and that's on me. But you need to follow us at the commercial break on Instagram and CB podcast on TikTok. I know that you are not sick of hearing that and you never will be. Right? Something else you're definitely not sick of hearing is our phone number. 212-4333, TCB. So text us or call us, but be nice to me because I'm a highly sensitive person and I just can't take the fame. If you want to be nice to me on another platform, you can go to our website, tcvpodcast.com and actually you can just watch videos of Brian and Chris and listen to them all day long. And I know that that will be the best day of your life. Now let's listen to someone who's actually very, very nice to me and that's our sponsors. And let's get back to the show.

[Brian Green]

Can we talk just for one moment about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy. That's what I like to call him. I don't like to call him a Kennedy because he's a Kennedy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know, it's just.

[Brian Green]

What in the whack of fucking do is going on out there? What in the wack of fucking do is going on out there? I thought he was one of the good guys for like seven minutes, right? And then he fell off the turnip truck about nine years ago and he hasn't come back yet. I don't know what in the fucking world is going on with that guy. I really don't. He is openly bragging about having a sexual relationship, getting nude photographs from a reporter. And by the way, can we talk about this reporter who always seems to be in the middle of some kind of fucking sexual drama? I have a feeling she likes to make the news so she can report about it. That's my personal opinion. What else, Olivia Newsy. Oh, Chris, please. There's like a whole list of things, you know, that she walked into. She walked into the house and she started taking pictures.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Walked into whose house?

[Brian Green]

The house. The House Congress. Like. Bob's house. Bob's house. She walked into the house and started taking photographs. I think it was. Who is the Kevin McCarthy? I think it was Kevin McCarthy. And started taking photographs of his desk, of pieces of paper in his desk. And she was texting with her friend the entire time, like, hey, I just. I just broke into his office. And he's like, you know, that's illegal. And her response was like, oh, shit. Like. Like. You didn't know it was illegal to break into a fucking congressman's office? Office. The speaker of the goddamn House. And then she, you know, then she got fined. She was a, by all accounts, respected report. She worked for the Daily Beast. She worked for the New Yorker. She worked for New York Magazine. She worked for a bunch of these different, you know, highfalutin rags, but she always seemed to be in some kind of. Of controversy or drama. And the newest one is, is that she's out on the campaign trail following RFK Jr. For the new Yorker or New York Magazine, whatever it is, and she strikes up a consensual but sexual relationship with sex. Sexting. She's sending this guy nudes. RFK Jr. Who's famously married to Cheryl Hines.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know, but I love it. The. And the report, it was that they were demure.

[Brian Green]

Oh, they were demure nudes. Oh, demure news.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm like, what?

[Brian Green]

What is demure news? I'm not spreading. Yeah. I'm just showing it like it is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And soft lighting.

[Brian Green]

I judge up my vajayjay. Yeah, what is it? I've got a tuft of hair down there. What is a demure nude? Listen, if you're sending a nude photograph to a dude that you know is sexually interested into you, it's a sex message, or a sex Mexican, as my mom would call it. Listen, I have news for you. This is horseshit. RFK Jr all I can think about. All I can think about is Cheryl Hines.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I thought about the same thing.

[Brian Green]

What is she thinking? What was she thinking back then? What is she thinking now?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know. I read some stuff.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, I guess originally she was maybe the other woman is what I read, I think earlier today. But then. Then she married him. All her friends were saying, don't do it. You know, be careful. Well, here we are, you know, and this, even though she was having a good time, at least. At least an Instagram good time, you know, that makes everything look perfect. Everything's fine. She was celebrating her birthday.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

With his daughter and her daughter, and they were at the Milan Fashion Week.

[Brian Green]

And she wasn't wearing her wedding gown.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So we can only imagine. RFK Jr is a legendary coxman. He has been for a long time. He was also an alcoholic and he sold drugs and he had a bad cocaine problem and I think he smoked crack at one point. All of this stuff I have done, too. It doesn't mean you can smoke crack, but you know what I'm saying, All of this stuff, you can reform yourself. But I'm not running for, you know, whatever, vice President of the United States. Let's just be honest. He's running for Vice President of the United States because that Vance guy could be there for long. You know, he's running for President of the United States. He's got some really far out there ideas. He's been a lifelong Democrat, like a super liberal Democrat. He's out there cutting off the heads of whales and throwing baby bears in Central Park.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He's being investigated for the whale head thing.

[Brian Green]

As should be. As you should be. You can't travel down the highway with a whale head stitched to your station wagon. I mean, come on, it's, you know, it was up to Trump and we'd deregulate everything and just have everybody running down the highway with whale heads. It's not a good idea. Yeah, it's just not. I mean, Cheryl, like, let me give you a little inside scoop on the commercial break. When we first started taking on guests, our booking agency came to us and said, would you have Cheryl on your show? And at the time RFK was running for president, he had just announced. I don't even just announced, but he announced, you know, not so long ago. And we said, of course, the Curb youb Enthusiasm last season was coming out. And we said, of course, we'd love to talk to Cheryl.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I've been a big fan of hers.

[Brian Green]

For a long time.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Long time.

[Brian Green]

And I love her, too. And I love her work on Curb youb Enthusiasm. I don't love her work as the wife of Robert, but I love her. Yeah, but to be clear, she has always said, I don't like Trump. I'm not with it. I'm not down with it. But we can agree. And by the way, so did RFK until about three weeks before he negotiated some quid pro quo with Trump. It just goes to show you that everything's for fucking sale. And so she. And then, I don't know if you remember this. I'm just having a hard time fitting it all.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There's so much.

[Brian Green]

There's so much. She canceled. And the reason why she canceled, we believe, we don't know this for sure. But it sure was a coinky dink that, like, the week before we were supposed to do this, the Jeffrey Epstein files came out and oops, Robert FK is all over that airplane.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

And so she canceled. And I understand why she didn't want to answer the questions. We wouldn't have asked the questions because we're too chicken shit to do that kind of stuff. But, you know, I think we would have had to, actually. But at the end of the day, like, it's not her. It's her husband that's doing this. And rfk.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How embarrassing.

[Brian Green]

How weird. Just weird. Do you have to be to pick up a dead baby bear and then put it in New York and make it look like a cycling accident? Was the bear riding the bicycle? I never kind of got to the bottom of that well again.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Now something else new just, you know, takes over the cycle.

[Brian Green]

It's the next thing. It's the next thing. It's the next thing. And he.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Listen, he's like, yeah, what happened with that?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, no charges for throwing a dead baby bear on a bicycle and leaving it in Central Park. There are kids that go to that park. No, but no charges. Don't worry about it. I think the. The statue of limitations have run out on dead baby bears, I guess.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'm not sure this is our.

[Brian Green]

It is bizarre. He is so bizarre. Like all his. Everything that comes out of RFK's storied existence is just bizarre. And who is the other?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Most of his families come out and said, we're not with him. Well, don't associate him with us.

[Brian Green]

I imagine rfk. Listen, it's got to be hard to be a Kennedy. It really has to be very difficult to be a Kennedy. Not in the sense that you have all the money in the world and everybody loves you, you're notoriously handsome, and. And you get any girl you want. Not that. Not that part of it, but the other part of it, it. Where you have to live up to certain expectations. You always have to be a liberal. You know, you're a, you know, Irish Catholic liberal, and, you know, your dad, your grandfather, your uncle, whatever it was, was like, you know, the king of the United States for a long time. I get all that. That's got to be terrible pressure. But if you're going to live in that limelight, if you're going to decide to live in that limelight, then take a little bit from your family members and try not to. Try not to be a total moron.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Completely off the rails.

[Brian Green]

Completely off the rails. And what I like about rfk. Let me explain what I like about rfk. He will change his mind. He does a lot, but he will change his mind if someone presents him with an argument. He has changed his mind on a number of things. I like that. I don't think our politicians should be stuck in a box never to change their mind about anything. Agreed. I don't think you should say on a Monday that I'm not going to sign the six week abortion ban and then on a Tuesday I'm going to sign the six week abortion ban. But over time, if you're presented arguments, humans that start to make sense to you, I think you should change your mind if you start to believe something different. We all do this in life and politicians should be no different. So what I like about rfk, what I don't like about RFK is the dead baby bears, the whales and all the cheating, that drug abuse, it should all. What is he thinking? What is this guy thinking? He's on the campaign trail where every bit of his actions are being photographed and written about and videotaped and then he gets in bed with a reporter. Did you not think for one fucking second that that reporter could be digging for a story or that the story itself could become a story? Like there are other reporters around you also. And by the way, what's up with this Olivia lady? She's a very good looking reporter, by the way.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't, I think, I don't think I've seen a picture.

[Brian Green]

But all reporters that good looking. Because I always think of like, like reporters looking like me. Like, you know, like kind of weird and geeky with big heads and glasses.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You can be good looking and be a reporter.

[Brian Green]

Geez. Wow. Yeah, I go, listen, I understand why Robert F. Kennedy in his mid-70s, you know, is attracted to this woman.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But he's got, why Brian 3000?

[Brian Green]

Why Brian 3000? Why Baby Bear 3000?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what I.

[Brian Green]

You'll be strong enough to throw a dead baby bear right in the Central Park.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Because doesn't he have some videos showing him like all, you know, shirtless and.

[Brian Green]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he talks about like testosterone. Best thing ever, he said. He's been on like Rogan and they're like comparing muscles. I got muscles. You got muscles. Well, muscles. My balls are small. My balls are smaller. I, I read this story, I thought to myself, this cannot be true. True. And then as more evidence came out and then she admitted it, she's like, yeah, I sent him some demure nudes. Send me some demure news. What's up with that? If they're so demure, let's see the receipts. I want to see the receipt. Exactly. Good old rfk. And that voice. I. You know, if. If I was going to vote independent and let's say that Robert F. Kennedy wasn't so far out there on some of his, you know, thoughts and. And stances on general life. Let's say that. But that voice is. I don't think I could listen to that voice for an entire four years. Have you heard his voice?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. It doesn't match what you think.

[Brian Green]

Hold on. Let me see if I can try and replicate it here. Probably can't. Nope.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Did something happen? I can't remember. Was it, like, a health issue that made it like that?

[Brian Green]

It was the dead baby bear. It was all that way on me. Sounds like he's got, like, an ashtray in his throat. It is pretty disconcerting. Yeah. I think something did happen. He had his parathyroid cut out.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what you have to look forward to.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. I told the surgeon, I'm like, doc, I'm a podcaster. I almost make a living doing this. So you got to go easy on my vocal cords. And he could have get, you know, that doctor. He didn't even ask me what the name of the podcast was. He was like, yeah, it's fine. It's a small chance that you. Whatever. I don't care. I have a life, too, Brian. And I thought, you're gonna take care of this golden voice, right? So many tens of people relying on me Tuesday through Friday to get through their work day. Anyway, Robert F. Kennedy. What are you doing? And Cheryl. Poor Cheryl. I mean, now she's got to go through all the embarrassment and all of the heartache and all of the heartbreak. I can only say one thing. Thing. Run, Cheryl, run. That's what I have to say. Run. You don't like Trump. You don't like the deal that he made that your husband made with Trump. You don't like the fact that now you're. You have to be part of this, you know, ideology that you're not a fan of. If that was me, it's always like. It's like Kellyanne Conaway and George. What's his name? Is it George?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

George Conway.

[Brian Green]

George Conway, Yeah. It's like those two. How in the world do they sleep in this under the same roof?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're getting divorced.

[Brian Green]

I think they're separated. Yeah. And understandable, right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. How do you have two totally different philosophies and ways of thinking and maintain a relationship?

[Brian Green]

Could you love Jeff if he had a different political ideology?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't think we would have gotten together.

[Brian Green]

No, I don't think so either. I think Astrid and I would have seen. I just don't think Astor.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I don't think it would have progressed. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And that's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We wouldn't have had that connection.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. That's a shame. Like, you know, I know Jewish people and Catholic people that have gotten married. Right. Not one of them always can.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Or religion's one thing. I'm not Catholic. And he is.

[Brian Green]

Is he, like. Does he go to church Catholic?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, his mom is very, very. Oh, she is about. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

She doesn't know about this podcast, does she?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Green]

Oh, thank God.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She knows. But I've said you can't listen.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you did?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. You can't get it on your phone.

[Brian Green]

Smart. No, no, no. Yeah. Don't worry about podcasts. Just stay away from podcasts. All together. Yeah. Listen, I. I don't think in 2024 that if I was dating somebody, we. And I think we've had this question.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. We have.

[Brian Green]

On tcb. Ask tcb.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Is that it would be hard to connect with somebody that was really on the other side of the fence. Like, independent. Okay.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like, we can.

[Brian Green]

We can work with that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Mind changing. I'm open to mind changing. We have a healthy discussion about things. Okay.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But somebody who's really on the other side.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Don't think it wouldn't. It wouldn't work.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. If you think of Firewolf, a monkey, and turned CO into a worldwide pandemic, then I'm gonna have a hard time dealing with you. You know, I'm gonna have a hard time seeing eye to eye with you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

If you think mountain monsters is real.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. If you think mountain monsters is real, you don't belong in my household. That's all I got to say. But, you know, so, Cheryl, this is it. Strawberg, camel's back. You know, it's one thing to have secret dalliances, which I think is just part of being with Kenny Kennedy. I think Kennedy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what they're saying.

[Brian Green]

That's what they say. Right. And so. And I don't think Cheryl is at all unintelligent. I think she's super intelligent. She's got to be to keep up with Larry David. Right. Well, improv situation and her.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Her career even before that. I've seen stuff about her before. I mean. Yeah, she was Very, very accomplished person in her own right. And then she got on Curb and it changed everything. But, yeah, she seems like a smart, funny lady.

[Brian Green]

Okay. So she knew this going in.

[Christina Astrid]

In.

[Brian Green]

It's one thing to have secret dalliances, right. You know, oh, I'm. I'm whatever. I'm in Vegas and I, you know, I know what you're up to. Right. And that's the way we'll live our life. You don't tell me. I don't care. You know, it's fine. Lots of people, I think, have that agreement, actually. I think there's lots of women and men who just kind of have that. Hear no evil, see no evil.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. What happens on the road is on.

[Brian Green]

The road stays on the road. Right. But when you have to deal with it in such a public way, I don't care who you are, how smart you are. It's embarrassing.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Very embarrassing.

[Brian Green]

Embarrassing. It's hurtful. They have children together. He's got 30 children. She's got a child with him. It's. That's got to be a very. I think she have one child together. Yeah. And I think he's got seven children all together.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Like, two with this girl and three with that girl, and one with this girl and that. Another one with that girl. I mean, which is fine. Whatever. That's your life's course. I don't care. I don't care who you have children with. But.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And you've got 30.

[Brian Green]

I've got 30. They're all with the same women. They're. I think they're all mine. I think. I'm taking a guess. One doesn't look so much like me. One's like, a little different than the other. But, you know, I think that they're generally all mine. And if they're not, who cares at this point is mine anyway. But. And I'm kidding, they're all mine. But I say this to say that, like, you know, it's one thing to, like, have children with multiple women. It's another thing to be, like, publicly having sex with a reporter that is following you around the campaign trail and making it such a public and ugly and hurt, hurtful thing. It just doesn't speak well. And then go back just, like, two months ago, we're talking about the whale. And then, like, two months before that, it's the dead baby bear. And like, three months before that, it's vaccines. Vaccines. And like, seven months before that, it's space, you know, space aliens and some secret, you know, what do they call them? Like whisper wolves or something like that. I mean, right? I have a feeling he does think that Mountain Monsters is real. But anyway, okay, let's enough with rfk. I mean, not enough. We'll, we'll be good. Diving into it more. As more gets uncovered, we'll dive into it more. But enough for now. Let's take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina Astrid]

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[Brian Green]

Listen to this wild story. Terrible ending. Wonderful. A terrible beginning. Wonderful ending. It's the story of Brian Greene. Terrible ending. Wonderful beginning. Man is kidnapped. A boy is kidnapped at six years old. At the age of six years old, a woman comes, lures him into a car. Never to be seen again, Never to be heard or seen from again. This is in California or Washington. Let me get it right. California. Never to be seen again until three weeks ago. 70 years later. 77, 0 years later, he is found because of one of those DNA ancestry things that I hate, right? That I hate for so many reasons. But I do have to say this is quite the unbelievable story. You want me to read a little bit of it?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Brian Green]

Six year old California boy who was kidnapped from an Oakland park by a woman offering to buy him candy has been found more than 70 years later. Luis Albino, or Albino, who was abducted Feb. 1, Feb. 21, 1951, is now a retired grandfather and Vietnam vet. He was reunited with his family in June. Oh, this three months ago. Excuse me. Thanks to the persistence of his now 63 year old niece, a leader who found her uncle on the east coast after using an online DNA test. Eloquent. Anita's Alita's first tip was the result of an online DNA test in 2020 which revealed her uncle as a 22% match. Not enough to be sure, but enough to investigate her initial Attempts to contact him did not receive a reply. Four years later, in February 2024, she and her daughters found several photos of the adult Albino online and compared them with pictures of him as a child that they dug up in a microfilm archive of the Oakland Tribune. The similarity was striking enough when she brought her findings to the Oakland police. A new missing person missing persons case was opened and the FBI and Department of justice were looped in. Police reached out to Albino and asked him if he was willing to take a DNA test. After the results proved to match, the FBI helped bring Albino to Oakland along with members of his family to meet his niece, her mother and other relatives. Unknown to him, he was also. That's his sister. Her mother is his sister. Other relatives unknown to him. He was also able to meet his brother Roger, who was 10 years old when he was abducted. Roger died in August, but not before Albino made a second visit to the house to see him in July. Albino's mother, who died at the age of 92 in 2005 and Kev kept a vigil of hope for her son, reportedly never stopped visiting the missing person's office of the police every year, believing somehow, somewhere, he was alive. I always knew I had an uncle. We spoke of him a lot. My grandmother carried the original article in her wallet and she always talked about him. A picture of him was always hung in the family wall. The woman who kidnapped him in 1951, when he still could not speak English after his family moved from Puerto Rico a year earlier, reportedly flew him to the east coast where he was eventually raised by a separate couple who raised him as their own son. What Oakland police now considered the missing person case closed, but along with the FBI, have kept the kidnapping investigation open. Wow, this, that's incredible. This is like a shitty story, but it's feel good in so many ways. I like this kind of story every once in a while because when you're dealing with misery and, and all the crap and politics and, you know, day to day living, you like to hear a good, feel good story. And this one tickles, tickles the cockles in my heart. Chrissy warms the cold, dead, calcium filled heart that I have. My leaky bones are just rejoicing that my thin leaky bones are cracking with joy this morning knowing that this guy finally had some kind of closure after 7.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I have so many questions. Did he know who did he know? Or was he just thinking that this he had to have not known?

[Brian Green]

Well, it doesn't say much about that. But at six years old, between four, between three, four and five is when most people start had generating memories. But you're so malleable at that age and you're not speaking English, so you're in a totally different new place. I could see how it might easily, how you could easily be. You were, you were given up for adoption, you're here with us now, or your mom and dad couldn't care for you anymore. So here, here you are here with us and you don't need to worry about it, we love you, blah, blah, blah. Obviously he made it through childhood, right? They kept him alive. We don't know any of the details, if there was any abuse or anything like that, why the woman stole the child to then give it to someone else, to give the, the albino to another human being, a couple, I have no idea. But that's the same questions I have. And then if there was any kind of inkling that you had been kidnapped, like some, some seed of a memory down in there, wouldn't you then take it the onus on you? If you, you know, you're in Vietnam, you're obviously away from your captors, your kidnappers, wouldn't you like get away? But that's the crazy thing about some of these stories is when you are kidnapped at such a young age and you're so malleable, you really can't are susceptible to, what do they call that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Stockholm syndrome?

[Brian Green]

Stockholm syndrome, where all of a sudden your kidnappers are your saviors, you're with them, we're all on the same team, we're doing this together. And a child like that, it's like it's every parent's worst nightmare that all of a sudden, bam. Gone.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Snatched.

[Brian Green]

Snatched, right? And no sign whatsoever. And in 1951, I can promise you that if a woman, woman, they, there was, they weren't checking anybody on flights, there was no id. You just had a ticket and you walked on and that was it. And if you had a child, I'm sure there was zero assumption that that child wasn't yours, right? So it was an easy getaway. And once she gave it to someone else, gave the child to someone else, what else is there to say? It's gone. I love this story. I love that he got to meet some of his family members, especially his brother, before he passed away. What, what an incredible story. And I hope he has a whole new life. Life. It reminds me of that. My 600 pound life or whatever. Oh, my big fat fabulous life. You know that, you know that Show.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Seen that.

[Brian Green]

Okay. There's that Whitney girl. Right. I think we were talking about this a couple months back, how people were egging her house and stuff like that. Right. I don't watch it much anymore. I think it's very formulaic and there's reasons. I have other. I have better stuff. I'm watching Brassic now. I like that better. And that show about the Menendez brothers.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, oh, I saw that.

[Brian Green]

We'll talk about that next. Next. Next episode. I want to talk about mother, but I am telling you what. This girl, her dad for 37 years, so she has a mom and dad. The mom and dad are very lovely people, very Southern, very lovely, very conservative, it seems like, but they're on the show a lot, and they're lovely. And when his mom, her mom passes away very suddenly, very quickly, she passes away. And she passes away. It breaks the whole family apart. And then the dad decides to hit them all with a bomb. I had a child before your mother came along. I had a child and it was raised with. By someone else.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

And now that child has contacted me. And I know that your mother would have wanted me to see my child. Right. I haven't seen her in many years. She's contacted me. She figured it out, and it's like a big bomb across the family. But now all the family is like, all together. They have like a whole new purpose, a whole new life. And so the little that I've watched of this, I can only say that what a blessing that the mother passed away. But now, Whitney, this girl has a whole. And the father have this whole new family that they can rely on that is extra support, that is extra love, that has just a little touch of. It just really tickles my balls in all the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Right. I have a friend that. That happened to as well.

[Brian Green]

What happened to?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, they did the DNA test stuff and were contacted by a whole. Their family that they didn't know that they had.

[Brian Green]

Geez, can you imagine?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, a half sister. Sister.

[Brian Green]

So makes me think maybe I'll be contacted by somebody and say your real parents are. Are wolf Walkers or.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What was the one?

[Brian Green]

You're a Kennedy?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, I was gonna say, what was the story that we talked a little while back about how they're.

[Brian Green]

This.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

These people found out that they were entitled to be a prince or something like that?

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, there was like a. Oh, the Lamborghini lady. Right, right, The Lamborghini lady who all of a sudden, you know, took a blood test and figured out she was like 100 Lamborghini and she's like, well, give me my money. Wouldn't that be awesome if I was like, some Irish, you know? I don't know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Prince.

[Brian Green]

Prince. I don't think they have princes in Ireland. You're a potato heir. An heir to a potato fortune. To the o' Malley potato fortune. Unfortunately, we're bankrupt because we no longer grow potatoes here. But one day, you were rich about five years ago. Had you gotten in, you would have been a billionaire. But we decided to contact you for money, not because we wanted to give you money. You're a famous podcaster now, and 78 of your siblings need money. And then I'd say, well, I gotta stop podcasting. My parathyroid won't let me. Parathyroid done gone crazy. It's really unfortunate. I guess we're all out of luck.

[Christina Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. All right.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You never know, though, until you take the test.

[Brian Green]

That's true. I won't do it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know you're. I've done it.

[Brian Green]

I know. Well, I mean, I don't know why I even give a. My twin brother has done it, so it's not like I'm getting away from it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And it's not like our. All of our information isn't stolen and being everywhere.

[Brian Green]

So nervous. You know, DNA is not rock solid. It's not a rock solid science. I am nervous that someone is going to take my blood and splatter it all over some crime scene, and then I'm take my DNA and then splatter it all over some crime scene, and then I'm going to be left hanging out with P. Diddy.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, well, you know, like you said, your twin brother's done it, so.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you would have. Even though we're fraternal. Even though we're fraternal, we probably have, like, very similar DNA.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You do.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I mean, same dad, same mom, same time. It's got to be very similar, right?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, it is.

[Brian Green]

Speaking of P. Diddy, that guy's never getting out of jail.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He shouldn't.

[Brian Green]

He's not. He's not. He's never going to get out of jail.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Got up on the rabbit hole, and I think we're just the tip of the iceberg right now.

[Brian Green]

Me, too. Me, too. Yeah. There's no celebrities talking about it. None. Not Jay Z, not Oprah, not Justin Bieber, not the Kardashians, not Paris Hilton. I noticed they're all very quiet right now. We'll see what happens. All right. 2. 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, 3. TCB. More information about the [e-mail] sorry about not making those Florida shows. We promise we will make it up to you when we come. It'll be bigger and better than you never saw before, right? It'll be so much better than you never saw. Yeah, that's a promise. Add the commercial break on Instagram and YouTube.com the commercial break. Did I give out the phone number? 212-4333 TCB questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas us about the live shows and the now useless tickets you have. We'll get you more information about that later on this week, I promise. Okay? Chrissy, I know that's all I can do for today. My parathyroid is telling me it's nap time.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It's quitting time.

[Brian Green]

What a great excuse, right? I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

I say best to you. Best you out there in the podcast universe. Fear not we'll all get through it together. Until next time time. Chrissy and I always say we do say and we must say goodbye. I.