Rudolf The Sunburnt Reindeer

Summary

The Commercial Break Podcast
Episode Title: Rudolf The Sunburnt Reindeer
Date: March 12, 2026
Hosts: Bryan Green and Kristen Joy (Krissy) Hoadley
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Episode Overview

In this laid-back, riotously funny episode, Bryan and Krissy recount Bryan’s misadventures at his twin brother’s beachside wedding in Florida, featuring sunburnt kids, family chaos, and sentimental yet awkward toasts. The duo also launches into an extended riff on podcast culture, the dangers of content overexposure (thanks to Gary Vaynerchuk’s advice), and viral internet hoaxes about dolphins building underwater cities with human help.

The tone is self-deprecating, irreverent, and improvisational, with both hosts bouncing between relatable tales and internet absurdities. If you’ve ever survived a family event or gotten tricked by an internet story, you’ll feel right at home.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Wedding Weekend Woes and Wins

[00:08–07:14]

• Bryan’s Family Wedding Recap:
  • Bryan narrates the chaos of getting three young kids ready for his twin brother Kevin’s wedding. Sunburns abound after forgetting sunscreen at the pool, turning his kids lobster-red (“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer cheeks!”), requiring emergency melatonin naps.
  • Memorable Quote:
    • “It looks like an emergency, that’s what it looks like. I’m like, okay kids, wrap it up, let's get out of here… the damage is done. They're going to be fried.” – Bryan ([00:08])
• Rehearsal Dinner & Wedding Logistics:
  • The wedding setting is idyllic, with best-behaved-kids (at least as seen through tipsy relatives’ eyes), but the parents are exhausted from parenting and party planning.
  • Hilarious tales of classic Florida spring break, a car show, and fighting through traffic behind a jet-powered race car being towed by a golf cart.
• Childhood Sunburn Memories:
  • Krissy reminisces about pre-sunscreen days:
    • “It’s 1989 and no one knows what sunscreen is… you wake up with the covers stuck to your skin.” – Bryan ([05:59])

2. Toasting with Twin Energy – Wedding Speech Anxiety

[07:14–13:24]

• Speech Dilemmas:
  • Bryan deliberates between off-the-cuff comedy, heartfelt writing, or a short and sweet toast—settles on writing an emotional, humorous speech meant to make his brother laugh and cry.
    • “I was going for laughter, I was going for tears, and wa-bam.” – Bryan ([08:19])
    • “I started reading it and I’m like, oh, this might be true, all this stuff I wrote. It might be true.” – Bryan ([08:44])
• Typical Family Interruptions:
  • Just as Bryan is handed the mic to speak, his youngest announces she has to pee—classic parenting in action.
    • “My youngest goes: pee pee peepee, of course.” – Bryan ([11:26])
• Long Winded Toasts and Family Dynamics:
  • Observations on American wedding culture—some guests shine as public speakers, others flounder, and the event becomes a (sometimes endless) open-mic of emotion.

3. Kids at (Almost) Adult Parties

[13:31–17:08]

• Children at Grownup Events:
  • Bryan marvels at his kids behaving at a packed bar full of rowdy adults, speculating: “They’re gonna be great alcoholics…they fit right in!” ([15:05])
• Practiced Partiers:
  • The kids’ poise attributed to frequent attendance at family events (“a lot of Venezuelan parties”).

4. Wildlife Antics: Seagulls and Balcony Mishaps

[17:08–20:01]

• Balcony Fears & French Fry Bombs:
  • Parental paranoia about hotel balconies, and the youngest hurling fries at passersby.
• Seagull Assault:
  • Seagulls at the pool are now so aggressive hotels serve food in lidded plastic containers.
    • “Those fucking seagulls…one of them came down and tried to grab a french fry and it sent my daughter into a holy tizzy.” – Bryan ([18:34])
    • Krissy counters with a raccoon break-in story from Costa Rica ([20:08]).

5. Meta Moment: Podcast Critique & the Manosphere

[24:01–32:52]

• Being Lampooned Online:
  • Discussion of ‘Podcast Cringe,’ a YouTube series dissecting and roasting other comedy podcasts. Bryan jokes the show flies under the radar, hoping to avoid such scrutiny.
• Overexposure and the Content Gold Rush:
  • A critique of Gary Vaynerchuk’s claim that “overexposure is so 1987,” and the push for non-stop content and Amazon affiliate linking in the influencer era.
    • “Gary’s new thing is everybody needs to be an Amazon affiliate…you need to be making content 24 hours a day, seven days a week, needs to be cutting it up…and then also needs to be putting links…to sell everything.” – Bryan ([27:56])
    • “If you film every minute of your life and put it out…people are gonna get sick of your shit. No pun intended. It’s bad advice.” – Bryan ([32:21])
• Taylor Swift & Mr. T as Case Studies:
  • Wise celebrities manage the spotlight—Taylor Swift takes breaks, while Mr. T’s ubiquitous presence became comedic overexposure ([29:13]).

6. Guests, Clickbait & Honest Conversations

[32:52–37:16]

• Guest Interviews – Uncensored vs. Clickbait:
  • Krissy and Bryan reminisce about guest interviews—preferring honest conversations over viral “gotcha” moments and clickbait, even if it costs them social media reach.

7. Viral Hoax Breakdown: Dolphins Building Underwater Cities

[38:43–49:44]

• The Tale of Gerald the Dolphin:
  • Bryan shares a viral TikTok story about an “underwater engineer” who allegedly helped a telepathic dolphin named Gerald design a dolphin city.
    • “The dolphin said his name was Gerald…He needs your help building this underwater city for our friends.” – Bryan ([40:54])
• Debunking the Myth:
  • Red flags: lack of specific details, pseudoscientific “sea particles in blood,” and fabricated police reports. The story, widely shared online, is ultimately debunked by the local sheriff’s office.
    • “Nowhere in any record system…do we have any written or otherwise evidence that there is a dolphin named Gerald or a guy named Jason found on our beach.” – Bryan ([45:18])
• On Gullibility in the AI Era:
  • Cautionary reminder: AI-generated animal videos and internet “slop” are getting harder to distinguish from reality.
    • “I want to believe that Gerald the dolphin exists. I really do.” – Bryan ([48:06])
• Dolphin Laws:
  • Fun fact: It’s illegal in the US to communicate with or get within 50 feet of a wild dolphin to prevent behavioral changes in the animals ([49:05]).

8. Dolphin Sightings & Audience Wrap-Up

[49:44–52:12]

• Personal Dolphin Stories:
  • Both hosts share fond memories of dolphin encounters in Florida, admiring these “cool” creatures destined (jokingly) to inherit the earth after humanity screws things up.
• Closing Banter:
  • Show reminders, social media plugs, and loving sign-offs to the audience.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Sunburned Kids:
  • “We gotta get them upstairs and magically to bed somehow some way.” – Bryan ([00:08])
• On Parenting at Parties:
  • “My kids—they’re gonna be perfect. They’re gonna be perfect. Irish, they have that Venezuelan. They’re perfect for parties.” – Bryan ([15:05])
• On Overexposure:
  • “Gary’s advice is that in a fractured media ecosystem, you can’t be overexposed because there’s no way to. There’s no mass media to make you overexposed. And I sincerely disagree with that.” – Bryan ([32:42])
• On the Gerald Dolphin Hoax:
  • “Gerald says: ‘I will be back. We’re not done. We gotta finish this project!’” – Bryan ([44:06])
• On Viral Gullibility:
  • “I want to believe that Gerald the dolphin exists. I really do…But it’s not true. It’s not going to happen.” – Bryan ([48:06])
• On AI Content:
  • “In the future you’re not gonna believe everything that you see. It’s gonna be firsthand accounts.” – Krissy ([47:55])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:08–07:14 | Wedding weekend chaos, sunburn stories, poolside parenting | | 07:14–13:24 | Wedding toasts: writing, delivering, and being upstaged by bathroom breaks | | 13:31–17:08 | Kids at rehearsal dinners and parties, family party dynamics | | 17:08–20:01 | Seagull and animal antics, raccoon break-in story | | 24:01–32:52 | Critique of podcast culture, Gary Vaynerchuk, and overexposure | | 32:52–37:16 | The value of honest guest conversations vs. clickbait | | 38:43–49:44 | The viral “dolphin city” hoax and social media gullibility | | 49:44–52:12 | Real dolphin memories, closing banter |

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Final Thoughts

This episode is classic TCB: a wild mix of relatable parenting stories, self-aware comedy about modern podcasting, and skeptical, side-splitting takes on internet nonsense. Bryan and Krissy’s decades of friendship and mutual ribbing create a madcap listening experience where even sunburns and seagull attacks become comedy gold. Amidst the hot takes about influencer marketing and AI hoaxes, there’s real warmth as they recount family moments and late-night dolphin watching—plus wise advice about thinking twice before believing Gerald the dolphin, or any other viral tale.

Best to you, TCB fans—and watch out for sunburn, seagulls, and talking dolphins named Gerald.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break. And then I look at my other kid and they have like Rudolph the red nosed reindeer cheeks. And then I look at my third youngest child and she looks like she is in distress. It looks like an emergency. That's what it looks like. And so I'm like, okay kids, wrap it up, let's go, let's get out of here. She's like, we'll just put some sunscreen on them. I'm like, it's too late now, hun. The damage is done. We better go. And they're gonna be fried. They've been swimming in a pool for three fucking hours now. They're sunburned. Now we've eaten, they're gonna be fried. And we got a rehearsal dinner tonight in like three hours. We gotta get them upstairs and magically to bed somehow some way.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Good nap?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So we did magically got them to bed with melatonin.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

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

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there on the podcast and streaming audience. Thanks for joining us. A day late and dollar short, as they say. That's okay, that's okay. How's that? It's at a wedding over the weekend. So I, I took me a second to get back into the swing of things. You know how it goes. I had drinks for the first time in a long time.

[Rachel]

Good.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

A little champagne, a little, a little gin and tonic. Okay.

[Brian Green]

A little G and T. G and T. A little G and t. A little TNT if you will. 10 grand tonic. We'll take a little TNT.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Which immediately made me sleepy, gave me a headache and reminded me of why I don't do much drinking anymore.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Your body was like, no, no, no, no.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. When you go so long without doing something, it's gonna take you a minute to get back up to speed. But that is not a race I'm looking to run right now. At least. No, I got those 3K. Lovely, lovely, lovely. At the wedding. They did so good.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Picture was so cute.

[Brian Green]

I know. Everyone, everyone just telling us how lovely and well behaved they are. And Astrid and I looking at each other like, which children are they referring to? But they're all drunk. They were all. Not the kids, the people. So they were all drunk. And so I figured, well, you know, they look well behaved from those rosy colored glasses you're wearing. Yeah, but they were dancing on the dance floor. They had a great time. This was a. This was a knockout weekend for the kids. For Astrid and I, it was a lot of work because, you know, you got the rehearsal. The rehearsal dinner, the wedding. Everyone's got to get ready. And it happened to be one of the more beautiful weekends in that I've ever been in Florida. I mean. And what I mean by that is, temperature wise, it was like 70 to 73 degrees. Sun is shining, so it's warm. Pool is heated.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, perfect.

[Brian Green]

Shallow. So it's on. No, no deeper than three and a half feet. And it's huge. So you can just let the kids go in there and swim. And so that's what we did when we got there on Friday night. We immediately went to the hotel room and went to bed. Everyone was downstairs in the lobby drinking. And Asher and I looked at each other. We're like, no, not happened. These kids need to go to bed. Let's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Let's start off on the right foot.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. We rolled in about 10 o'. Clock. It was a little late and so. And the kids were getting way wound up. They hadn't slept at all in the car. So I was like, let's get some. Them some food and then let's get to bed. Which is what we did. Woke up early the next day and said, let's hit the pool. Let's go down there and grab some chairs before, you know, they get taken. Very busy weekend on the island. Spring break.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Big car show down, down there that they do every year. Christie's does this big car show, like anti.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like anti auction, old car.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's live on tv. It's the whole nine yards. It's thousands.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Cars are really cool.

[Brian Green]

They were driving around the beach. A lot of traffic on the island, but they were driving around the beach all weekend or being towed. Buy golf carts because some of them don't even run. We saw like an old experimental racing car, the kind that would drive on the salt flats with the jet engines on the back being towed around the island. Actually, we saw it. We were stuck behind it trying to get some fucking breakfast. It took us only six and a half hours because we had to go the speed of a slow golf cart. But it was cool looking at the car for a minute. And then I got frustrated yelling at the car. Anyway, we get up, we go down, we have breakfast. We get back to the hotel, we run down to the pool and get grab primo chairs and everyone's having a good time. This is about like 10 o' clock in the morning everyone.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's a great time to get out there with the kids.

[Brian Green]

But it had rained the night before and there was a deep like heavy fog sitting on the ocean. And we're right next to the ocean so it was foggy. Right. And so we didn't think much of it. And by the time we got lunch, which was like one o' clock in the afternoon, I looked at one of my kids and I was like oh shit, Astrid, did we put sunscreen on the kids? And she's like I did not. And this is like so unlike Astrid to do. Astrid always remembers this stuff and we just didn't think about it. And then I look at my other kid and they have like Rudolph the red nosed reindeer cheeks. And then I look at my third youngest child and she looks like she is in distress. It looks like an emergency, that's what it looks like. And so I'm like okay kids, wrap it up, let's go, let's get out of here. She's like we'll just put some sunscreen on them. I'm like it's too late now hun. The damage is done. We better go. And they're going to be fried. They've been swimming in a pool for three hours now they're sunburnt. Now we've eaten, they're going to be fried. And we got a rehearsal dinner tonight in like three hours. We got to get them upstairs and magically to bed somehow some way a good nap. Yeah. So we did magically got them to bed with melatonin.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

So everyone took a nap. That felt good. But I think they would have gone to sleep anyway.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They were just wasted that sometime tiredness.

[Brian Green]

Think about when you were a kid and you're running around the beach, the pool and it's sunny and you're. It's 1989 and no one knows what sunscreen is and you're sun kissed and fried and burnt and all it takes is just a couple of wonderful hours in the sun and you're ready to sleep the day away and wake up with the covers stuck to your skin. That's how it goes.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The nice cool air conditioning and like a fan maybe blowing yeah one sheet

[Brian Green]

over you and manage to get stuck because now you're sweating profusely because your body is desperately sounding an alarm that you've had a fourth degree burn. So I woke up to go to the rehearsal and, and I Started smathering lotion all over the children, giving them Advil. I'm like, okay, kids, this is what's called a sun. It's not gonna be fun. You're not gonna. It's not gonna be fun, kids. But they did great. They did great. We. And then rinse and repeat the next day. We remembered to put on sunscreen the next day. But they were just. They were. They were great. Everyone was wonderful. It's like a high school reunion. My. My twin brother got married. He's got a lot of. Of friends still from high school.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That's what you were saying.

[Brian Green]

And credit to him. Credit to him having these friends for all of these years. And when I see them, they are my friends also. I don't keep up with them like Kevin does. But, you know, no time is lost when we're together. Like, we jump right back into it. They're all lovely people. And Kevin asked me if I would give a toast at the rehearsal dinner. And so I thought about it long and hard, and I was like, I could go one or two directions here. I could go. I go one of three directions. I could just rip off, riff off the cuff, see what vibe the room, and rip off the cuff. This is what I do.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

That I was gonna say, you're good at that.

[Brian Green]

I can make it an episode of the commercial break, essentially throw in a few punches, you know, make a couple funnies, and then see if I can jerk a tear out of Kevin. Something like that. Number two is I could write something so I keep it under control, right. So that it's. It said that I have a framework to go. Or number three, I could just give a really short wedding toast, you know, cheers to the bride and the groom. Congratulations on being, you know, loving whatever. You know how it goes. So I went road too. I said, hey, I'm going to write

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

something, and I'll put it outline.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And it became a personal challenge of mine to write a toast over the preceding, you know, four weeks before the wedding. It became a personal challenge of mine. I was going to take it as an affront if I didn't make Kevin cry. Oh, if I didn't make him laugh, and if I didn't make him cry, I was going for laughter, I was going for tears, and wa. Bam.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Did you deliver?

[Brian Green]

I did. I also delivered on my own tears, too. There you go. I didn't think I'd get so emotional, but I did. I started reading it, and I'm like, oh, this might be true. All this stuff I wrote it might be true. Good. You know, good job.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Good job.

[Brian Green]

I told the crowd, I said, hey, listen, asking me to give a speech or a toast is a dangerous proposition for someone who has a twin. Because we have known each other every breath of our life. And there's three buckets of stories. One, I'm not gonna tell for legal reasons. I don't wanna get anybody in trouble. Number two, the other bucket is stories I probably shouldn't tell right now in this room with this crowd, because I do want Kevin's future wife to say yes tomorrow. Keep those to myself. And then number. You know, and then there's number three, which is like, just inside jokes between Kevin and I that no one else would get. So why tell those? But anyway, I, I, I, I dabbled a little bit of this and a little bit of that in there. And that was fun. And Astrid was so supportive and encouraging. She's like, you know, you gotta do this beat. Like, do. Because I. At the night before, a couple nights before, I was like, I don't know if I should do this whole thing. Like, it's four pages long. It's a lot. She's like, you gotta do it, Brian. You have to do it. It's really good. Like, okay. And she was so supportive and encouraging. And I was so excited to hear her, to have her hear me do the speech. So the guy who. The reverend. They call him Rev. Kev. Which he wasn't really the Reverend Kev. Yeah. He was more like the guy who got the Internet certification. But he does this. He's not. It's not like, just for Kevin. He does this for other people too.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So is he, like a friend, too? Of Kevin?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, friend of Kevin's. Yeah. And nice guy. Super nice guy. And he kind of held court for the weekend. He was. His job was to, like, manage everything. Right. Lead, Guide the way. So at the rehearsal dinner, which is only like 40 people, maybe 30, 40 people. It was relatively small for rehearsal dinner. Long, big, long table. So he gets up and he says, hey, listen. You know, at these kind of things, people do, like to get up and give a toast. And a lot of people are too shy, and so people don't want to, and this is not their thing and that. But you'll. You'll kick yourself in the butt if you don't say something. So I'm going to hand it over. I'll start it off by handing it to Kevin's twin brother, Brian. I know he'll say something. And so I was like, okay, here's my moment. And I'm so excited to have Astrid watch me do this little speech that I've been wringing my hands about for a couple of days. And the second that Rev Kev says, I'll hand it, I'll hand it over to Brian, my youngest goes, pee pee peepee,

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Of course.

[Brian Green]

And as soon as I can't, damn it, you know, what am I gonna do? They're the only kids at the table. Am I gonna go, hey, Rev Kev, can we take a pause for five minutes while we do pee pee poo poo break? I'm on the, I'm on the clock now.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

And I have notes, but they're all the way in the coat in the next room, so I gotta go run and get those. I'm trying to buy time to get astros. It didn't work. I had to start. I, I, I couldn't filib long. I'd sound like an idiot. So I think she heard about half of it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay, good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And then, yeah, and then that kicked off. Everybody else stood up and said something and, you know, it's, those are, those are interesting. I think the most interesting thing about American weddings is that people do get up and say something.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

If not at the wedding, at the rehearsal dinner. Because some people are really good at it, some people are really embarrassed by it, Some people love it, some people hate it, and some people are just really terrible public speakers.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

But they think otherwise. Do you know what I'm saying? They go on forever.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They think they're good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, they think they're good. Oh, hey, everybody in the chat. Sorry, I just saw the chat. Yeah. And, and, you know, so I'm, I'm not going to name names or anything like that, but everyone gave a toast that was, it was at least had one foot on the ground. It was meaningful in some way.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

How many people gave toast?

[Brian Green]

Everybody gave a toast. Okay, well, not everybody.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Like 20 people.

[Brian Green]

I would say seven.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Seven of us got up there. Let's see if my dad and my stepmom got up. My dad spoke. My stepmom was standing next to him.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, good.

[Brian Green]

The bride's father. Best men or groomsmen of all sorts and sizes. And then a couple of the girls that were with Carrie Ann, who was the bride. So, you know, it was, it was lengthy. It was about an hour worth of speeches. But it's fun, it's fun when you don't know. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And to hear the different little stories and anecdotes and. Yeah, you know, Emotionalness of people and the heartfelt.

[Brian Green]

The heartfeltness, that's right. So then, you know, very busy weekend on the island. We're staying at the place called the Amelia Island Plantation. And I know that that word is very out of vogue. I'm just telling you what it's called, the Omni Amelia Island Plantation. And anybody who's been down there knows this is a huge resort with houses and condos and hotel and.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, I've seen that before.

[Brian Green]

Restaurant, retail, all this whole whole nine yard. And so we go to the bar that's on the property, one of the bars that's on the property, and they have rented the upstairs of this bar because the downstairs is completely packed. There's like an hour wait to get in the place because there's thousands of people on the island, an island that's not used to seeing thousands of people for this car show and other weddings and all the other stuff. So there's this upstairs bar. You have to like, sneak up these stairs, up the back. And the upstairs bar is the size of this studio. And there's 70 people that are coming, 80 people. And the people at the restaurant thought it was happening at 8, and we were told 7:30. So everyone showed up a half an hour before they were even ready to have us. And the room filled quickly. And I've got my small children with me. And I'm telling you what, I do agree that they handled themselves very well, especially as the louder it got, the more drunk people got and the more kind of surly the situation got. My kids, they're gonna be great alcoholic. They just fit right in. I mean, they're gonna be perfect. They're gonna be perfect. Irish, they have that Venezuelan.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're perfect for parties.

[Brian Green]

They're perfect for parties. They fit right in. They knew what to do. They were dancing and talking. I saw my son holding court with somebody. I was like, who are you talking to? Is that my old high school friend? Is that the guy I first smoked dope with? And my son's like, sure, tell me about my dad.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brian Green]

Smoking cigarettes outside. My daughter found a friend. One of my brothers is dating a lovely, lovely woman. And. And. And my daughter, one of my daughters, who's like a prince, she's 21 years old.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

She's. Oh, yes, she is.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. She's an Instagram influencer. And I don't mean this real. She doesn't have an actual Instagram, but she. If she did, she would be an influencer. That's what she's doing. She's taking pictures like this, like this and like this, the whole nine yards. So she's doing this whole number. So she found another, you know, princess female besides her mom. The princess female who's, you know, she's over there holding court. And then my smallest one, she's drunk, she's knocking into walls, she's unplugging stuff. It fun to be there and watch. Watch the wedding through their eyes. Right. And that's. I guess every parent will understand this. That's kind of what happens is that they consume a lot of your time and a lot of your perspective. It's hard to shake that perspective when they're in the room. So it just became about watching them, like, maneuver through this world. Yeah. And I was really glad that, you know, no one got.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, they've got a lot of practice. Right. Because they do. There's been a lot of Venezuelan parties that they've been a part of.

[Brian Green]

True. This is true. And Astrid was saying that too. They, you know, they have been to a number of these. I'm so surprised that my kids are at this rehearsal dinner in a sit down wedding and this whole nine yards and they're actually behaving themselves.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I'm like, wow. I think it's like the first. And she's like, brian, we've done this a ton of times. And I'm like, that's true. They know what to do. They know what? They know that I'm. They know. And they don't want to be on my bad side. I think it's really what it is. They don't want to make daddy mad.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Or mommy.

[Brian Green]

Or mommy. For sure. We had this. We had the, the seventh floor overlooking the beach, which is really the eighth or ninth floor, once you add. In the basement, the lobby. There's a balcony on every room overlooking the ocean. Beautiful place. And you got to watch the kids when you got a balcony like that.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Sure.

[Brian Green]

And ast's terrified. The balcony is like a breakaway fake B. You know, I don't know what she's so paranoid about. Like, they clearly couldn't fit in between the. The posts. But I think she has this, like, just a fear. Yeah, she just has like motherly fear.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

She says every time I look at this balcony, any of these balconies, like going into the room or out the back of the room, it just makes me nervous that it's just going to break and one of the kids are going to fall. And I'm like, okay, well, we'll keep an Eye on them. So they're out there eating. I. I put. I set up lunch for them out there. And I'm like, look at the ocean. And. And then I turn, I. I walk inside just for one second to grab something, and I turn, and my youngest, who is a hellcat, taking french fries and throwing them over the balcony and there's a walkway down below and there are people walking. She's just like throwing them over.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Laughing.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And laughing. She was. And I'm like, what are you doing? Stop that. But you gotta be careful. Cause when you tell her to stop it, she takes that as. She takes that as a challenge to continue to do something. Yeah, she's gonna be trouble.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

There could have been a whole seagull

[Brian Green]

swarm too, when we were eating at the pool. Those fucking seagull, they don't. They stand on business. They don't give a shit.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're used to people.

[Brian Green]

He used to be. We have been to this place a million times. Astrid and I have. We have been to the. We have been on the plantation to the plantation a million, a million, billion times. I've been going there for 30 years to Amelia island and to this particular place. And it used to be that they would. If you order something by the pool, the waiters would bring you something on a plate. Like, like most human beings eat food on a plate, you know, burger, fries, whatever. They bring it to you on a plate. Then they started bringing it with a little cover on top of it. Okay. Like a. In dining, a dining right, you know, hotel, the bell shaped, bell shaped thing, okay, you got. Now they have these blue containers, like hard plastic containers that they bring the food in covered, and then you lift it up, you eat your food, you put the thing back on. Because if you leave it undone for one second, it doesn't matter if you're sitting right there with the thing in between your legs. Those seagulls are like. And one of them came down and tried to grab a french fry. And it sent my daughter into a holy tizzy. She was like, dad, the birds are attacking. She, like, jumps in the pool sideways. I'm like, honey, it's just a bird. And then I jumped in the pool sideways because I was like, it is. That thing is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They're coming at us.

[Brian Green]

It is big. It's kind of scary.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. They don't care.

[Brian Green]

They don't give a. Those birds. Isn't there like some kind of something they can give those birds?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I told you about the time when we were in Costa Rica and they told us at our hotel. Please be sure and keep that sliding glower lock.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Things will come in. Sure enough, while we were out having dinner, we came back in. The raccoons had come in.

[Brian Green]

Had come in. Eat in your food.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I opened the door, the sliding glass door. We hadn't locked it. It was our first time. I guess we thought we'd locked it, but we didn't. Had opened it up, got into the mini fridge thing, like, where there was all the treats and things.

[Brian Green]

Got the food out and left and standing on business.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It was crazy.

[Brian Green]

Did they charge you?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No. So then we called the people and they were like, oh, God, this happened so much. I mean, so much. So now they. They refilled everything, but I had, like, a little birthday cake.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

They had given me. And yeah, they kind of took a

[Brian Green]

swipe and the mollies. I'll tell you what

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I mean, I guess it's just survival.

[Brian Green]

It is. Hey, List, listen, what are you gonna do? Where there's food, there will be animals.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yep.

[Brian Green]

All right, let's take a short break and we'll be back.

[Rachel]

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

[Anonymous Critic]

Just a guy who rants. Not funny at all. The co host is asleep. She's pretty dark. People like this show. Why are they on the charts? What's the bug I talkin about? I shouldn't have A student stat. TCB is terrible. This show is fucking bad. I'd like to punch Ryan in the mouth. This podcast is kinda sad. Is this what we think is funny now? How do I turn it off? My ears are saying ow. Stop laughing at yourself. Are these two making sense? At least I didn't pay him deaf. In my defense. PPB is terrible. That is being kind. Both the hosts are idiots. They left the funny behind. What is this show about? It's offensive to my soul. But Brian is a hack. These two aren't funny and so old. Why all the hype? How did this get made so many episodes, none of which are great. TCB is terrible. Worst show you could do. TCB is terrible. Worst to you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So catchy.

[Brian Green]

Go girls. Go pretend girls. Go pretend girls. Get it. All right. DCV is terrible. I agree. I was watching the interwebs about all the, you know, the comedy podcasts. There are now. There is now a comedy podcast, mainly done on video, that is here to break down and bash other comedy podcasts.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, that's nice.

[Brian Green]

I forgot what it's called. Something about something. But it's really, it's really well done, actually. And it mainly takes aim at the big named manosphere podcasts. Rogan, you know, all those boys. Rogan, Bert, on and on and on. And he was. The guy was doing. I wish I could remember the name. Podcast Cringe is the name of the channel if you want to go check it out on YouTube. And I don't want to give him too much noise because I don't want him to do one about.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, right. I was going to say make it.

[Brian Green]

No, I don't think so. I don't think we have enough. I don't think we have enough clout to make one. I don't think. Yeah, we don't matter enough. Yeah, we're flying right under the radar and that's the way I choose to keep it. So he was doing one about Mark Normand, Mark Norman's podcast, and Sam Morrill, who we've had on our show before. And I liked him very much, thought he was very great. Anyway, they're, you know, a couple comedy podcasters and a couple of standup comedians and they've been doing this for a long time. They also own Bodega Cat, which is a whiskey brand that they're very proud of, and they had on. Gary Vaynerchuk is another guy that I interviewed the day that Charlie Kirk was unalived. Right. The day that Charlie Kirk was unalived. I was scheduled to talk to Gary Vaynerchuk. And I have mixed feelings about Gary. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Because I remember looking him up and he's the one that's right. He's got like, he's the entrepreneur of the wine business. Right.

[Brian Green]

He had wine dot com. Yeah. He started wine dot com. He started selling wines online. You're right about it. About that. And then he parlayed that into, you

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

know, he was business advice.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, business advice. Hyping you up. Everybody's a CEO waiting to happen. Kind of. You can do it too. He's, he's very positive about his messages, but he'll, you know, he's not afraid to bust your balls about something, cut the mustard. But he's also very empathetic and he seems to care at least a little bit in his interactions online. Okay, that doesn't mean he does in real life. That just means he does. By all accounts. Seems like on the nice version of Mr. Wonderful.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was gonna say from like Shark Tank. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right. He's got his hands in everything. He was also big into NFTs, when NFTs are. I think he's still big into NFTs. He's still pretending that that's gonna happen, that that's a thing. But they had him on. And it doesn't, it doesn't surprise me that they had him on. Everyone makes their way around everyone, and Gary all of a sudden starts showing up on these comedy podcasts, I think to get at the young male audience. That's my opinion. But I gotta, I gotta say, this podcast cringe guy was right in the sense that this was kind of a train wreck of an interview. And here's the reason why, is because I think they brought him on hoping they would bring some marketing guru on that they could have some fun with. And what it ended up being was Gary giving them like an hour long training course on what they should do, advice for them, and how they should handle their business moving forward, up to and including his new thing is. Gary's new thing is everybody needs to be an Amazon affiliate, an Amazon shop. If you're making content, you need to be selling things on your content through Amazon affiliate. Now, this is very interesting because about six weeks ago on my Instagram, I got a message from Amazon, a direct message. You are now approved to be an Amazon affiliate. And I was like, oh, cool. What does that mean? And what it means is, is that I could. Let's.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You recommend stuff.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, look at this, look at this cup. This cup is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And then you get A cut of the sales cup.

[Brian Green]

Right. And then I could put a link to this cup right, on the video or in the. In the description or whatever. And then you go buy it, and I get a commission on it. And some of those commissions are good. Some are like 5%, but some are 50%, depending on what the product is and how, what deal Amazon has with those people. So Gary's whole new shtick is that everybody who's making content needs to be making content 24 hours a day, seven days a week, needs to be cutting it up and disseminating it in every way, in every place ever possible. And then also needs to be putting links in the description to sell everything that you talk about or that you have inside of your studio or around you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay?

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right, now, fine. So Sam says, hey, Gary, don't you worry about overexposure with stuff like this? And he said, Gary responds, overexposure is so 1987. Okay, all right, I lost you here, Gary, on this one. There are plenty of people that we know, comedians, ourselves, that we know, that we've had on this show, that are way overexposed. They go on everywhere, all the time just. Just to make sure that their faces are still out there thinking.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

But you're hearing the same thing. But you're hearing this over and over

[Brian Green]

again, over and over and over again from the same person, the same. The same 12 stories. You're. You're overexposed. No one wants to hear it anymore. They've already heard it. And if they haven't heard it, they're sick of seeing your face. You need to take a break. There is. Look at that Taylor Swift. She's smart. You know why she's smart? Because you don't hear about her right now. Sure, there's lots of people who are paying attention to her every move, of course, but the general public, like me and Chrissy. I don't hear about Taylor right now. There's no album, there's no big concert tour, there's no movie that's coming out that I know of. Yeah, she's dating that guy and they're getting married or whatever that might be on Pay per View. Who cares? All right? She is taking a break because her incredibly smart PR team probably, or her sat down to them. It's had a big pow wow. Let's do projections. A projections meeting where they said, I project. People are going to start to hate you. Yeah, yeah, people I project. Public sentiment is turning not in your favor because you're too out there.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You Gotta have a break.

[Brian Green]

Give you a break right now. Granted, being at a level of Taylor Swift is becoming increasingly harder and harder to do because of the fractured media ecosystem. It's hard to be a Michael Jackson. It's hard to be a Mr. T. It's hard to be a Mr. T. You remember Mr. T? Of course.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Remember Mr. T. Of course.

[Brian Green]

What you talking about?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yep.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. What was that? Don't be a fool. Whatever he said, you know, I pity the fool. I pity the fool. That guy is a classic case of overexposure. He was on the A Team. He was in a Rocky movie, and he was in wrestling, and he.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And then every commercial.

[Brian Green]

And then every commercial. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Guest appearance.

[Brian Green]

And then he was on, you know, the. The Willises. What was that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Something with her? I just read something about his daughter. She's, like, on something else now.

[Brian Green]

Oh, okay.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right. Well, don't make the classic mistake your dad did, which is all of a sudden, he was showing up as a guest on every single half hour sitcom that ever existed for years. You just see. Just show up and people go, Ms. T. And then he'd show up and go, I pity the fool. You know, the whole thing. And people eventually were like, I pity the fool that has to watch this one more time. No offense to Mr. T. He was on every public service announcement. He was at every event with the.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And you're right, that was back before the. The media was so fractured. So he literally was everywhere.

[Brian Green]

Everywhere. MTV Music Awards videos with what's her name, Not Tina Turner. Who's the other one? Cyndi Lauper. He was everywhere. And you know what people got sick of? People got sick of that. And they were like, okay, all right, Mr. T, whatever. Right? He didn't. He didn't bring himself out in doses. So Gary's advice is that in a fractured media ecosystem, you can't be overexposed because there's no way to. There's no mass media to make you overexposed. And I sincerely disagree with that. I sincerely disagree with that. There is overexposure. And if you film every minute of your life and put it out in clips every five seconds, you taking a shit, and then you're selling toilet paper for Amazon. I can promise. I can. Yeah, squatty potty. I can promise you people are gonna get sick of your shit. No pun intended. They're gonna get sick of it. It's bad advice. It's just bad advice. You gotta dole yourself out in doses. You notice how Chrissy and I do that four Days a week, for years on end. This turned into such a train wreck. Sam. Poor Sam. Poor Sam and Mark were with him for, like, the first 20 minutes, but then it just turned into a sales pitch, and they were like, oh, God, what did we do? What did we do?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Let's wrap it up.

[Brian Green]

That's all the time we have for today.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Interesting.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You know, I think there also is an. It's okay not to put out an episode. You know what I'm saying? Every once in a while, if you have a bad one, just don't put it out. I think that's okay. I guess when you're Sam Morrill or Mark Normand and you have actual things to do outside of your podcast studio, that time becomes more valuable. But I am of the opinion that if you have a bad episode or a bad interview, and when we say

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

bad, our standards are already really low.

[Brian Green]

So there are.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

It must be really bad.

[Brian Green]

There are episodes that are in the can, but they're gonna remain in the can, because if we think they're bad, then they're really bad. There are a few I wish I could go and I could take back, too. Gary's not one of them, though. Gary. You know, I remember that day. It was an intense day.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah. Cause you thought about canceling. Well, you heard about it, right? As the Charlie Kirk, right. As it had happened.

[Brian Green]

I remember the time. 3:00pm he was supposed to be on.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

He said, let's get into it. Let's just go ahead and talk about it.

[Brian Green]

Well, we jumped on, and it had just happened like 15, 20 minutes earlier. The news had broke, and every. And then he had just announced that he had died or is likely dead. Right. And I jump on. Gary's there, and he says, how you doing? And I said, I'm kind of shook up, actually. He goes, I'm kind of shook up, too. And I said, listen, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna be upset if you want to reschedule this. And he's like, do you want to reschedule this? And I said, I think I can power through, but I don't think I can ignore what's going on. And he's like, well, then let's not ignore it. Let's address it. And I was like, if you're. That, I'm good with that. And so then we had a pretty deep and meaningful conversation about all of it. Right. And I. And I. It made me feel better. It really did, because I wasn't getting the salesy, Gary.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I was just getting, say, like the honest. Yeah, raw.

[Brian Green]

A smart, interesting, empathetic guy. And. And so then afterwards, immediately, his people, his team are like, we need the video of this immediately, please. We need to cut this up and put this out. And so we immediately got it to him three days later, immediately didn't put out anything. I was like, okay. Now, granted, fast moving story. Things were changing all the time. He may have saw a fit just to keep out of it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because it got really out of hand really quickly. And I can understand. He's got a brand to uphold. I don't. So, you know, I was hoping for the big push from Gary. I didn't get it, but I don't blame the guy because this was an interesting, weird series of events. But if I had a dollar for every pr, you know, every person who said, give me. Give me Eclipse. Eclipse.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, give that to me. I'll put it out.

[Brian Green]

Give me clips. I'll put it out in a text message to my friend. Okay, thanks.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, we had a couple of people that put stuff out, but, yeah, it was more the exception than the rule.

[Brian Green]

It was definitely the exception to the rule. And now once you do this for all, you start to understand the game of overexposure, which is when one guest comes in, when they want to come in on the commercial break and they want to sit and talk to you, you feel excited that you want to talk to them also because of. For whatever reason, you know them, you like them, they're interesting, they're famous, whatever it is. But then you also realize that they've been doing this for days on end with other podcasts. They are saying the same thing. Even. Even if you're a really smart, good interviewer like Chrissy and I are, if they say the same thing and then those clips continue to go around and around and around, same thing. Different host or different studio or whatever it is.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I do have to say, looking back, I think that we did do a good job of not like this is your life. And so that gives more of the same answers and the same answers for each thing. We. We. We did a lot more. I'm just like, hey, let's have a conversation.

[Brian Green]

Agreed. 100%.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I don't think we went down the same road. A lot of people do. But I also think that that didn't make for good clickbait. Right. So for us, it didn't. And we didn't land any punches because we weren't trying to swing. So there was nothing on the end of that to, like, make a really Good, solid, interesting, shareable clip. If I could do it all over again, I would do it the exact same way, because I'm just not in it for the clickbait, right? So you know that it is what it is. We're not doing guests anymore, so who fucking cares? Why are we talking about it,

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Gary?

[Brian Green]

Anyway, did you hear about the guy who was helping the way. Helping the dolphins build the city down in Florida?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

No, I did not.

[Brian Green]

You didn't hear about that?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Nope.

[Brian Green]

All right, well, let me tell you that story. We return.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I can't wait.

[Brian Green]

We'll be back.

[Rachel]

Okay. You're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at tcb. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up. Up, even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid, too? You know you do. Leave a message for her or me or Chrissy at 212-4333, TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show, too. Just call and say something, anything. Or text us, and we'll text you right back. Promise. Then head over to tcb podcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker, and we must abide. You get the point? Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on [e-mail] the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid, especially Astrid.

[Brian Green]

Sean's in there holding court. Sean's our moderator for this. Yeah, sorry, the fog machines are going in here. Here.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Wait, we're not back on the.

[Brian Green]

Oh, wait, hold on. Okay, well, that's. All right. Why not? There we go. All right. Hey.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

And we're back.

[Brian Green]

And we're back. There was a. There's recently a story. It's going around. Tik Tok. It's going around Instagram. It's going around your social media about a guy who was found on a beach down in Florida. I forget what part of Florida. Tate Florida, something like that. And where's Tate Florida? I don't know where Tate Florida is. Actually Tate county or something. I don't know. I can't remember exactly. Don't worry about the details.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Worry about the dolphins.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, worry about the dolphins, not the details. Guy was found on the beach, sunburnt, crusty, having trouble orienting himself. And someone called the cops. Cops show up, and they found that next to him, he had been drawing intricate drawings of a. Like, a city, like, map on the sand.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And so at first they were like, oh, this guy's drunk or high or something, you know, and the more that they talk to the guy, the more that they. They understand that he was dehydrated and seemed a little disoriented, but he didn't seem to be on any substances. He wasn't showing the classic symptoms of being drunk or being high, like, you know, the eyes or the breath or whatever. He goes on to explain that he's an. He's an underwater engineer. Like a. Some kind of engineer, an ocean engineer or whatever you call it. And I'm an underwater. A marine engineer. That's what he. I'm an underwater engineer. I engineer underwater. I engineer water under it. Under the water. That's where I engineer.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

What do you do? I'm an engineer. What kind? Underwater.

[Brian Green]

Underwater. I go underwater. All right. The guy starts telling this incredible tale about how he decided one night that he was going to go to the beach, as he often does, just to go sit, clear his mind, and that he's walked in the water to get, you know, cool off a little bit. When he walked in the water to cool off, a pod of dolphins came up. One of those dolphins started to communicate with him via clicks and noises.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And he understood the dolphin as if he was speaking human English language to him. And the dolphin said his name was Gerald.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Well, that.

[Brian Green]

Hey, why not?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Hey, listen, I mean, Gerald's not the first thing I would think of, is it?

[Brian Green]

Nope. I think like a fear or something. Yeah, something. Yeah. Aurelia. Gerald. No Gerald. Okay, Not Sisyphus. It's Gerald. You could call me Gerald. My friends call me Sisyphus. You can call me Gerald. So, okay, so, you know, Gerald's talking and he says, I need your help building this underwater city for our friends. This is already so funny.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I need your help.

[Brian Green]

Okay, so Gerald.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, underwater engineer.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Oh, oh, oh, Yes, Gerald. What is it? An underwater city, you say, with a Starbucks and a Whole Foods, But no chicken section. Fresh fish the whole way through. All right, got it. Thanks, Gerald. So Gerald says, come on down and help me construct. Help me figure out how I'm going to construct this. Me and my friends, how we're going to construct this. And so Gerald puts Jason, or whatever his name is, in a bubble of air and they go down to the bottom of the ocean where Jason is able to breathe, and he helps Gerald figure out how exactly they're gonna get this done. And for three days, back and forth, Gerald and Jason go. Gerald and Jason just traveling up and down in and out going down and all time and space is lost. Jason doesn't know what's going on. He doesn't understand it. But you know, know whatever city must be built. The city must be built. Gerald needs help. What do you want me to do? Right? So, so. And then all of a sudden, he wakes up and the cops are standing over him and there he is. He's been. Three days have been gone. Three days have been lost. He's sunburnt, he's dehydrated, he hasn't eaten anything. They take him to the hospital, do the. The analysis on his blood, and they find that while there's no drugs or alcohol detectable in his system, what they do find is that he's got certain, like, high levels of nitrogen that you would have if you spent a lot of time underwater and certain sea particles. I don't know. Don't ask me. Okay, so the cops chalk this up to we don't fucking know.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Green]

Whatever. We don't know. And now Jason is trying to hide from the public because he doesn't want to give away all the secrets or he. He doesn't want to be, you know, he's a little. He's embarrassed that he got this.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Okay. So Jason and Gerald formed this relationship. And Gerald. The last thing that he remembers Gerald saying is, I will be back. We're not done. I'll be back. We're gonna. We gotta finish this project.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Go get some food, Go get some water.

[Brian Green]

Go get some food. Take a break.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Come back on Tuesday. I'm gonna need you to come back down. Yeah. Or we'll find you. And so Jason is currently in hiding. They can't find the guy, you know, whatever. But they had a picture of him on this particular post that I saw. I've seen this post like six different places, by the way. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of comments. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. Unbelievable, Gerald. Yes. And people in the comment section are going crazy, just like the comment section. It's aliens. What do we do? I told you. Dolphins are here to.

[Anonymous Critic]

To.

[Brian Green]

They're really ruling the earth. We're just.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Brian Green]

This has gotten so out of control that the Tate County Sheriff's Office had to put out a statement. Nowhere in any record system of ours do we have any. Any written or otherwise evidence that there is a dolphin named Gerald or a guy named Jason found on our beach.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, really?

[Brian Green]

Yes. It's a completely fabricated story by a couple of people by someone on Reddit and then a couple people on the Internet went and made it into a reel. And it's getting shared millions of times and I'm seeing it everywhere. And the second that I started to hear this story and it lacked the details of exactly where this was. What is the guy's name? What is his last name? You know, when. C particles in your blood. C particles in your blood. You can't have C particles in your blood. What are C particles anyway? Yeah, if you had nitrogen in your blood, you'd be dead. Like, at a certain level you'd be dead. Right? I mean, just like all this craziness, like, there's no detail, there's no color. There's lots of color commentary. There's no black and white commentary on this story. But people are taking it at face value, of course. These content creators are getting hundreds of thousands of people following them and they're just telling this fucking bullshit, facetious story. And it is a reminder to me that how careful I have to be when I'm out watching stuff, because it had me hooked for the first like 30 seconds. But then I started to wonder. Wait, hold on one second. A bubble. Gerald. Gerald. I mean, when Gerald the dolphin. I said Gerald the dolphin Gerald. I started to get curious. But then when he said a bubble of air.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Look, anything can happen in Florida. We know that.

[Brian Green]

We know it.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So there's that. I don't, you know, the story is itself could. I could see somebody doing that maybe,

[Brian Green]

you know, I could see somebody believing that Gerald.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

The name Gerald is a giveaway.

[Brian Green]

I could. I think so too. And the fact that they never named the man, but they had a picture of a sunburned guy that looked like he had been.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Oh, they never named the man.

[Brian Green]

They never named the man. Not his first name, not his last name. They said a county, but they never named exactly where. Like all the details were missing. And that's immediately my spidey senses were up. But this is not the first time that, that these kind of stories have been going around, especially when it comes to animals. Now I'm seeing all these AI generated animals. Like I saw one today, a parrot laying on a road. All looks like it's dead somewhere down in South America. Looks like it's dead. It's on a road and its friend is standing there, you know, squawking, and the dogs are barking at him. I found this parrot on the road and his buddy wouldn't leave him. I tried to pick him up and the parrot thought I was trying to hurt him. You know, and the parrots biting the person's hand. It's like first person camera view. But then they take the bird somewhere and the bird, they nurse it back to health. And the two birds are together and they fly off. And five days later, they bring a ribbon, a red ribbon back to the window. Thank you for helping us. It's AI Slop. It's not true.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, it's crazy. I was reading that, you know, somebody said it's, you know, in the future you're not gonna believe everything that you see. It's gonna be firsthand accounts.

[Brian Green]

Correct?

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

You know?

[Brian Green]

Yes. You're gonna. You are gonna have to see it for yourself in, in your own world because now the not online everything is getting in inundated with AI crap. Now I'm saying AI doesn't have a place. It does. It's here. We got to figure out how to use it. But you know, just these stories that keep on like repeating themselves and manufacturing themselves and our gullibility to believe some of these things. I want to believe that Gerald the dolphin exists. I really do. It's not that I don't. I'm not heartless. I want Gerald to be down there building a city with a Whole Foods and Starbucks that we're all going to get to visit in a little air bubble sometime. We put C particles in our blood and we can all go, I. But it's not true. It's not going to happen. Okay. But then I learned doing my research that. Did you know that it's illegal to communicate with a dolphin? What? It's illegal to communicate with a dolphin. It's actually illegal to be within 50ft of a dolphin. And the reason why is the government doesn't want us. Doesn't. Doesn't want the wild dolphins to lose their fear of humans, number one. And number two, the government doesn't want us. Us. It's been studied that dolphins are extremely intelligent animals and that they can learn to communicate with other species like human beings. They've seen, we see that in SeaWorld and the aquarium and all that. And the government doesn't want us changing their behavior. So there's actually a law that you cannot communicate with dolphins, so. Well, I'd love to.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I would too.

[Brian Green]

Gerald.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Gerald.

[Brian Green]

Gerald.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Now whenever I see a dolphin, I'm gonna think of that.

[Brian Green]

Me too. Gerald the dolphin.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I'd love to. I'd love to communicate with the dolphin.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I know we had. When I was down in. Jeff and I were down in Naples and went out to dinner one night. There was this place that had outside seating.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

We were having dinner at night and it had a little, you know, inlet thing and all these dolphins were coming by.

[Brian Green]

Were you at like the tin roll roof place? The.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I'd have to go back and look at the.

[Brian Green]

What do they call that? The tin. The tin shop or the tin city.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

So sweet. Like all these little dolphins were coming up.

[Brian Green]

We saw them where Kevin got married. It was on an inlet or what they would call an estuary. Right. Or marsh. An estuary. And the sun was going down. It had just rained, so it was pink sky. And as the tide was going out, they were jumping. They weren't jumping. They were just. Yep, moving. They were moving around the estuary right there in front of us. I was showing. Showing one of my kids.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

It was beautiful.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Dolphins are cool.

[Brian Green]

They are, they are. And they shall inherit the earth when we it all up. All right, keep your hats on. All right, keep your hats on. We're working on it. We'll be back tomorrow, same bat time, same bad channel. Hope you can join us YouTube.com the commercial break. If you're not following us, do so so that way you can get notified when we go live. I usually go live and give it like five or 10 minutes before we actually turn the music on. So that gives you a little bit of a heads up. So go follow us on YouTube and that way you can get that little ding, ding whenever that happens and we'd all be excited to figure that out. All right. You can also follow us on Instagram at the commercial break if you want to follow. Chrissy and I personally. I'm Brian w. Green. She's TCB. Chrissy, you can catch us on TikTok too. Also additionally, you know, we. We now have a new TikTok because it's. It's hard to explain, but now in order to get the benefits of being a business account, we had to change art. It's still. I'll tell you in the show notes, I'll link it. I don't want to get it wrong. I can't remember what exactly. I think it's TCB podcast still, but I had to change it. And if you want to get a hold of us, go to our Instagram DM us. We'd love to hear from you. TCBpodcast.com all the episodes, audio and video. Okay, we'll see you tomorrow. Love you guys.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Yes, love you.

[Brian Green]

Mean it. Candle cane, everybody.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

Thanks for joining.

[Brian Green]

Okay, Chris, I love you.

[Kristen Joy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best to you out there. On the podcast and streaming audience. Until next time, we will say, we do say, and we must say goodbye. J.