Show Me The Drama!

Summary

The Commercial Break – "Show Me The Drama!"

Episode Date: June 6, 2024
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley

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Episode Overview

In this episode of "The Commercial Break," Bryan and Krissy turn their laser-focused, irreverent banter on a mix of topics: everything from the viral debate over leg and foot washing (sparked by Travis and Jason Kelce), to their complicated feelings about possums (and opossums), invasive spider species, audience antics in the TCB universe, a new music trivia game, men's mental health, and the latest train wrecks from "90 Day Fiance." As always, their quick wit, personal anecdotes, and intentionally half-baked opinions make for an unpredictable ride that leans hard into honest laughter and chaos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pop Culture Chaos: Leg Washing, Big Soap, and the Kelce Brothers

[00:09 – 05:44]

• The hosts riff on the national attention given to the Kelce brothers admitting they don’t always wash their legs or feet, poking fun at how trivial topics blow up when celebrities address them.
• Bryan recounts his own history as a "non-everyday leg washer," but he’s religious about pumicing his feet (especially after a run-in with a moldy old pumice stone).
  • "I admitted on this show years ago, two years ago now, that I, in fact, am not an everyday leg washer... but I do wash my feet every night. Because I'm using the pumice to pumify my feet." – Bryan [03:26]
• Krissy compliments Bryan’s smooth “pumified” feet, capping the segment with characteristic deadpan.

2. Possum Drama: Listener Emails, Naming Debates, & Animal Opinions

[06:07 – 17:22]

• The duo reflect on a listener email correcting their use of "possum" vs. "opossum," with Bryan’s partner Astrid chiming in on the right pronunciation and spelling.
• They banter about a recent baby possum sighting at Krissy’s house, which softens even Bryan’s staunch anti-possum stance — but only temporarily.
  • "It's hard to dislike a baby anything, let alone a baby possum." – Bryan [08:04]
  • "Well, it's really hard to dislike... a baby anything, let alone a baby possum. Do you know what I'm saying?" – Bryan [07:58]
• Bryan relates his deep-seated distaste for adult possums, comparing them to roaches: "They're weird, disgusting animals. They crawl around your walls... It's the same thing that possums do." [09:18]
• The duo discuss their chronicling of possum debates and fan emails, with a standing offer: whoever finds Bryan's original possum rant gets a week of coffee on him.
• Brief tangent into spiders — especially Japan’s invasive Joro spider — and why even useful critters freak them out.
  • "Anything that is better at building things than I am, that is not a human being, is pretty much on my... shit list." – Bryan [13:33]

3. Self-Awareness (and a PSA): Men’s Mental Health

[24:23 – 35:22]

• Bryan pivots for a rare serious segment, highlighting June as Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month.
• He and Krissy get candid about the stigma men face in seeking help, sharing personal familial anecdotes and emphasizing how therapy has helped them and their loved ones.
  • "I know a lot of men who have suffered greatly and unnecessarily, because they are embarrassed to talk about their mental health... It’s much more acceptable [in 2024] to say I’m going to go see a therapist, but I still think there’s a large subset... that doesn’t address these things because they think somehow it’s a weakness." – Bryan [24:33]
  • "It’s a tune up for your car. The car will break down if you don’t keep up with the maintenance." – Krissy [29:31]
• Bryan vulnerably shares the story of a friend's suicide and his regrets over a missed call, underscoring the reality that those who seem happiest may struggle most.
  • "If this dude, the most unlonely person in the world... was suffering with his mental health, then there must be so many others that you look at and you think, that guy’s got it together..." – Bryan [32:00]
• They urge any listeners struggling to reach out, reminding them that starting somewhere — anywhere — is key, and support is widely available.

4. Inside the TCB Universe: Listener Antics and ‘Frankie B’ Warnings

[18:40 – 21:03]

• Bryan appeals to listeners to tone down the TCB-inspired trolling of "Frankie B" (a recurring character/target), fearing the gag might get out of hand and spoil the fun. He teases the idea of eventually involving Frankie B on the show, but only if fans cool it with obvious YouTube comments.

5. Game Night: 'Hitster' Music Trivia Review

[21:03 – 23:48]

• The pair review "Hitster," a music trivia game sent to them for free.
  • "Music games are fun. Especially when you’re drinking." – Krissy [23:09]
• Bryan lays out the gameplay (guessing song timing or performer), vouches for its replayability, and thanks Hitster for the swag.

6. Reality TV Fix: '90 Day Fiance' Trainwrecks (Feat. Insider Intel!)

[36:32 – 50:55]

• Bryan and Krissy gleefully dissect the current season’s most disastrous storylines — especially the saga of a "fur coat-wearing," broke American and his young, high-maintenance Brazilian fiancée.
• A listener with inside knowledge texts the show to confirm that "what you’re seeing is true," and this couple really is headed for disaster, not just creative editing.
  • "…this relationship is basically headed for disaster. And. And I love. I don't love it because I love seeing people. Yeah, I do. I love the drama. I love the drama. I want." – Bryan [47:02]
  • On why people tune in: "There's no issue. Why else would I watch it? I'm not watching it so I can see everything turn out great. I'm watching it so I can see the train wrecks." – Bryan [47:09]
• They break down the couple’s financial woes, the failed nail salon, the doomed sunglasses venture, and the ill-timed prenup request — classic TLC drama.
• Other past 90DF couples are mentioned, e.g. Angela & Michael’s long-running mess.

7. Quick Hits & Callbacks

• Quick thanks to audience members sending content ideas.
• Gentle reminders to engage on social media and YouTube.
• Krissy and Bryan acknowledge the show itself can be "their therapy," with Bryan quipping: "This probably saved my life on more than one occasion." [54:27]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Possums:
  • "Commercial break is, in fact, possum haters. Except for babies. Okay? Baby possums get a. After they turn one, I hate them. But before one, they're fine. I'll leave them alone." – Bryan [08:11]
• On Men’s Mental Health:
  • "It takes a village to raise a human, period and descendants. I encourage everybody out there to, to hold some space for yourself and, and it's okay to be aware that you're not doing well and it's okay to reach out and say, I just need some help." – Bryan [28:56]
• On TCB’s Appeal:
  • "I realize we are not like the cream of the crop comedy podcast. I realize we are not like best in class comedy podcast, but possums. We can't be better than possums." – Bryan [17:16]
• On Reality TV:
  • "I love when 90 Day Fiance turns into a train wreck. I love it. I just love it. I love it. I think it's—" – Bryan [48:34]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pop Culture & Foot Hygiene: 00:09 – 05:44
• Possum/Opossum Debate & Animal Tangents: 06:07 – 17:22
• Audience Antics & Frankie B: 18:40 – 21:03
• ‘Hitster’ Game Review: 21:03 – 23:48
• Men’s Mental Health PSA: 24:23 – 35:22
• Listener 90DF Insider & Reality TV Breakdown: 36:32 – 50:55

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Final Vibe

The episode is a classic blend of the show’s "Cheesecake Factory" philosophy — sprawling, zany, and unpredictable, mixing comedy with moments of real vulnerability. Bryan and Krissy’s improvisational riffing covers mundane controversies (washing feet), relationship drama, and the tangled lives of reality stars, never missing a chance at a punchline — but also making space for a genuine PSA about men’s mental health. It’s a modern, unfiltered buddy comedy that feels like the most entertaining group text you’re a part of.

Transcript

[Brian Green]

I don't think it's funny.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Capri, I didn't raise you to wear Birkenstocks.

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break. You know, this relationship is basically headed for disaster. And. And I love. I don't love it because I love seeing people. Yeah, I do. I love the drama. I love the drama I want.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's what you watch it for.

[Brian Green]

Of course. There's no issue. Why else would I watch it? I'm not watching it so I can see everything turn out great. I'm watching it so I can see the train wrecks. Y which is. The only two storylines I'm following are the train wrecks. Because I like that. Right. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. The cardi of the party. Oh, yeah. Guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the leg washer of the group, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Out there in the podcast universe, why is it that you and I can talk about something and we never get any coverage from tmz?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, but I don't think we're on the radar.

[Brian Green]

Swelsea, or whatever his name is. The Kelsey brothers talk about it and it becomes big news all around the country.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Are they talking about leg wash?

[Brian Green]

They were talking about leg washing and Travis explained that he does not in fact wash his legs every time he posted something on. On squitter. Twitter. X Twitter. I don't even know what they call it. Whatever he twatted. All of you have been fed diabolical lies that washing every crevice of your body and hair all the time is somehow better and healthier. Any dermatologist not in bed with big soap will agree. Big soap.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I didn't know that.

[Brian Green]

Satire. Yeah, hot spots are. Hot spots are all that is necessary and actually leads to cleaner, healthier skin. Byline, tmz Travis Kelsey. I don't wash my feet either. Dirty feet are apparently commonplace in the household of the Kelsey's because. Just because. Yes. Days after Jason Kelsey admitted he doesn't wash his feet, Travis Kelsey revealed he too does not wash his piggies. The Kelsey brothers dove into a new into the topic on Wednesday's episode of New Heights after Jason caused an Internet uproar earlier this week when he posted on X that he does not routinely scrub his tootsies.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know. Piggies and tootsies.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, this is journalism. Apparently, Jason reiterated on the pod that he thinks it's a complete waste of time telling Travis who the washes your legs or what kind of psychopath washes their feet? He insisted. He then insisted. Travis doesn't wash his either. And the chief star didn't exactly disagree. Okay, so I'm.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't think you're a psychopath if you don't wash your feet. No, you do wash.

[Brian Green]

If you do wash your feet, it's your personal preference. But I think we agree and.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I get the fe.

[Brian Green]

Big. What. What are leg doctors? What's a doctor of the legs? Is there a leg doctor? I guess an orthopedic would be as close orthopedics and dermatologists agree. Well, I mean, I guess orthopedic doesn't care if you wash your legs or care if your bones are broken. Exactly. But okay. Big dermatology agrees that the soap running down your body can probably suffice for a good leg wash. You don't have to wash your legs every single time you're in. And I admitted on this show years ago, two years ago now, that I, in fact, am not an everyday leg washer. Every shower. We agreed on this. It was. It was something. And I think the feet go in hand in hand with that. Now I take care of my feet. I do wash my feet every time, every night. Because I'm using the pumice to.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Green]

To pumify my feet.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Because if my feet are not puma fied, especially in the summer, they become an. It's like an alien foot. It just gets weird. Right. And with these pretty feet I have, according to the lady of publix, I got to make sure that my feet stay on. On fleek. I want to have Riz and my toes. Riz and mater. Yes, you have to.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It puts a little pub in your.

[Brian Green]

Step, especially when you have sandals. I want you to look at my sandal. My sandal sunburn. Right there. Right there. I have sandal marks burned into my.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, I. Looking at your foot, though, it does look very smooth.

[Brian Green]

It does. Look at that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Good job.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, well, that's the pumicing. You just do the pumic.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know all about the pumice.

[Brian Green]

I went and bought a new pumice. So for, like, I don't know, I've had this same pumice for, like, pumice. Whatever the you call it. I've had it for this old one that I had. I've had it for, like, six to eight months. I think a pumice should last as long as a pumice lasts, right?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. I Mean, you should maybe clean them regularly, but.

[Brian Green]

Well, I figured putting soap on it would clean it. Like, but I guess that's not right, because when I would go to pumice my feet, I started sensing this increasing smell of, like, musty, moldy stuff. And I was like, is that my foot? Does my foot smell like that?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

But no, it wasn't my foot. It doesn't smell like that. You know what it is? It's that when it's the skin, when you use that pumice over and over again, you got dead skin. So I threw away the old. So as I said, astrid, does this thing smell? And Astrid threw it right away.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Stinks.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Smell it.

[Brian Green]

Pull my finger. So Astrid. Astrid smelled it, and she immediately threw it away. And I was like, that's my pumice. I need it for my feet. And so I went to the store.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Time for a new one.

[Brian Green]

I got a new pumice. I got a new pumice and some period products for Astrid. I'm sure the lady at CVS was like, wow, did your house. And so I got a new pumice. I feel very excited about this, but so fresh.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Fresh pumice.

[Brian Green]

Fresh pumice for my nasty ass feet. And so that's why my feet are so smooth. Because I promise, every night. So I do wash my feet. Leg washing. Not necessarily. That's not a thing. I don't. I don't do it every time I'm in the shower. Jason and Travis say it, and it's front page news on tmz. You and I say it, and Joe Dombrowski wonders who we're connected to to get right guests in our.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't think we're on TMZ's radar, which I'm fine with.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, I don't.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I am good with that.

[Brian Green]

You know, the second is. The second that TMZ starts covering us.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I hope not, actually.

[Brian Green]

We could probably use the press. Tmz. We said it first. No, I'm sure it's a common. I'm sure it's a common topic that all top podcasts talk about. Right, Chrissy?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, gotta be.

[Brian Green]

All right. Speaking of Joe Dombrowski, Joe was a great guest. We got a lot of feedback on the Joe Dombrowski interview.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Lots and lots of feedback.

[Brian Green]

Really loved him, especially his calling us out on the possum and when.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And then. And then I sent you the picture.

[Brian Green]

And then a possum showed up at Chrissy's house. I know, it's unbelievable.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Little baby possum it was a baby. It was a baby. We were sitting outside enjoying a beverage in the evening, and all of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I see a little baby possum, you know what, Running over. And then it just stood there and it was scared.

[Brian Green]

It's hard to dislike a baby anything.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I was like, first of all, this is weird because we just had a whole talk about possums. And I've never seen a possum at my house before out in the yard.

[Brian Green]

And.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I think it had gotten lost, maybe from its family, which I felt bad about. But what am I going to do?

[Brian Green]

Well, it's probably dad is, like, sitting out in the middle of the road somewhere with a tire mark on it. I mean, those things, they just don't get out of the way, I think. Are those one of the animals that get like. Like deer in the headlight type thing?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I think so, too.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

They can't blind. They're blind or something. But the possum drama continues here at the commercial break because we got someone that wrote in that said, you're saying it wrong. It's opossum. It's opossum, not possum.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay, but.

[Brian Green]

And so Astrid said, you're saying it wrong because we even say it opossum, like in the English translation of opossum is, or opossum is opossum, not possum. And so I said, no, that can't be true. I've been writing it possum my entire life. Yeah, it's been possum mind. So when did it turn into opossum? Like opossum. No, you don't sound like. I'm calling it. I'm saying it's opossum. So, in fact, Astrid was correct, and I was correct. It can be said either way. Opossum or possum.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Either way.

[Brian Green]

Either way. Either way, possum still don't like possums. Opossums or possums still don't like them. So my mind is not veggies.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I like the baby. I felt bad for the baby.

[Brian Green]

Well, it's really hard to dislike right? A baby anything. A baby anything, let alone a baby possum. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

So the drama continues. Commercial break is, in fact, possum haters. And so Joe united.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Except for babies.

[Brian Green]

Except for babies. Okay? Baby possums get a. After they turn one, I hate them. But before one, they're fine. I'll leave them alone.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Small babies good.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, small baby good.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Big ones now.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Pee, pee, poo poo in the diaper good. It's just like kids are dogs. Puppies don't stay puppies forever. They eventually turn into dogs. You know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

They're cute as a button until they start chewing your legs off your $10,000 furniture. Then you fucking hate them.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Case in point, blue.

[Brian Green]

Case in point, blue. I wish blue was chewing on the furniture. That would be the. I would. I would accept that as a good alternative to what's actually going on in this house. Blue, Blue. Man, oh man. I'm not gonna get into it. I'm not gonna do the 3,000th story about Blue. Yeah, waking the baby up on my feet, whatever. Anyway, so, okay, under one years old, possum good. Over one years old, possum bad. Po. And I don't care if you call it opossum or possum. And I know that there's one particular person out there who really dislikes our stance on possums. But I'm sorry to say they are weird, strange animals who really skeeve me out. They're like roaches. Do you find roaches to be friendly? Are you a roach lover? No one is a lover. Is a roach lover. No one. You want to know why? Because they're weird, disgusting animals. They crawl around your walls. Yeah. Really fast. They ski view out. They're like in the middle of the night, they're crawling against walls. It's the same thing that possums do. The same thing. They're in your trash, they're walking around walls. They crawl out at night. They're under your porch. You never know where they are until they show up at Chrissy's house to have a drink with her and Jeff. Okay, just let's all agree possums are. I'm not saying kill them. I'm just saying, you know, I don't know what I'm saying. What I'm saying is I don't like them. That's what I say.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And that's okay.

[Brian Green]

And that's okay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And neither does Joe. For the record, I think Joe's on our side about this one.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He seemed to be.

[Brian Green]

At the very least, he's on the side of shitty Internet comments, leaving dumb reviews. But I think this person actually wrote a long email to us once and Astrid was trying to find it. I don't know if we've been successful in that. We haven't. Because I would have it if we had. But she swears up and down. And I remember her telling me this, that someone had written in and given this long soliloquy on possums and why we should take a second look at our opinion on possums. Now, I put a call out to the audience earlier this week asking them to. If you can find that clip of us, I buy you coffee for a week. I said, still stands. I haven't had anybody.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No one's taking you up on it?

[Brian Green]

No. Because no one's listening, so.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Just talking to myself. Just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're just talking to each other.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But if you do know, if you remember, if you can find the clip of me talking about opossums or possums and my stance on them originally on the show. I'm not talking about when Joe told us about this review, then I'll buy you coffee for a week. Whatever your favorite coffee shop is. I'll send you a gift card to it. But I'm just.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I'm not sure what their attributes are, and I'm sure they're. They have some, but I'm not quite sure because, you know, like, if you have a spider that can be good for the bugs or, you know, a cat running around outside can be good for the rodents.

[Brian Green]

Let me. Let me tell you about spiders. I don't like spiders either.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

But I will deal with them under certain circumstances because I understand that they are eating the creatures that I really don't want. There are, like, house spiders that will eat roaches and flies and gnats and stuff that you don't actually want in your house. So they're a necessary evil as far as I'm concerned right now.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Speaking of spiders, have you ever seen one of those? That's the. It's got. It's got all the different colors on it.

[Brian Green]

They're the Japanese, and they.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They do this. I remember seeing this one that was in between two bushes at my grandfather's house. And it had this elaborate we. And it was beautiful. I didn't want to mess with. Looked like it was doing its work, and it was gorgeous.

[Brian Green]

Are you talking about this spider? The joro spider?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Maybe. I just remember it being black and it had yellow, like bright yellow.

[Brian Green]

This is it. Yeah. It's called the joro spider. It's from Japan. It originally was found here in Georgia. They think because of the port of Savannah, it got brought over on shipping containers. It's an invasive species, and it's made its way up the east coast and they are now flying to the. The joro spider can be 4 to 5 inches in diameter.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's big.

[Brian Green]

It's huge. Like maybe the size of my hand. I have seen a number of them on, on corners, in, on the outside of my house and the pest control guy was like, invasive species. I'm going to kill it. Sometimes I leave spiders alone, but I'm going to kill these because they're invasive species and they'll eat all the other spiders or whatever they do. I don't know. They're poisonous and they can like, you know, they eat bugs and stuff like that, but they can also kill the spiders that you really need. Okay, so piggybacking on the possum thing. Spiders serve a purpose, except for the joro spider, except for the invasive. Except for the invasive ones.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They, they serve a purpose in Japan.

[Brian Green]

They serve a purpose in Japan, but they are out of their own element when they're here in the United States. And so now New York is, is waiting for what they're calling spider apocalypse because they do very well in cities. They breed fast, they lay hundreds of eggs at a time and they can make parachutes. They actually like tall buildings and they have been known to make their own parachutes and fly from building to building. Not even kidding. Wow, that is a nightmare. Come alive.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Spider apocalypse.

[Brian Green]

Spider apocalypse. I am not interested in spiders that build parachutes, anything. No, that is better at building things than I am. That is not a human being is pretty much on my, on my shit list. You know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right. We're just interested in watching Frank Ub go down in a parachute. Not, not, not.

[Brian Green]

Oh God, what I love to see.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, no, we. It's at the beginning of his new.

[Brian Green]

Oh yeah, he jumps out of the plane. He.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's doing parasailing and he just lands on the beach.

[Brian Green]

He's so crazy. So I'll give you. Remind me in the next segment to tell you about Frankie B. And why I think our listeners may be poking the bear a little bit too much. I'm going to implore my. Our listeners to calm down a little bit on Frankie B. But okay, so let's talk about the opossum a little bit. The Virginia possum is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is awfully often simply referred to as an opossum. And in North America it is commonly.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Referred to as on. On the spelling. Is there.

[Brian Green]

Opossum.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, okay, okay.

[Brian Green]

But it's.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You can spell it either way.

[Brian Green]

Yes, it's Simply referred to in North America mostly as a possum, not opossum. Okay, so listen, they have definitely been. They have. 20 million years old. They come from their.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right, that's 20 million years. The review said. Yes, they're very old. Got it. Check.

[Brian Green]

They probably came from the Amazon region. Their diet consists of rodents, birds, eggs, frogs, plants, fruits and grain. In other words, they eat anything that they see. They're like goats. Right. Some species may eat the skeletal remains of rodents and roadkill. God. In captivity, they will also eat dog food, cat food and human food waste. So this is what they do. They are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers and regularly prey upon these snakes. Okay, all right, all right. Okay. Well, I guess you're doing something good out there. All right, all right. 1.0 possum, 10 points, Brian. Okay, still beating you on this one. Some authors have suggested this adaptation. Oh, wait, hold on one second. Similar adaptations are seen in other small predatory animals such as mongooses and hedgehogs. Opossums, vipers have been suggested as an evolutionary arms race. Some authors have suggested this adaptation originally rose as a defense mechanism to allowing a rare reversal of evolutionary arms race where the former prey has become the predator. In other words, they have defended themselves. The fer de lance, one of the most venomous snakes. Oh, that has nothing to it. Oh, no. There's nothing to do with opossums. That's what can kill them. So they're found everywhere. North, Central, South America, as far north as Canada. And, you know, they eat trash. That's what they do. Look, Miranda's messing with a opossum right now. My daughter's just losing it right now. She's got an earache. She's poor things, miserable. I just don't. I'm just not. I don't see my mind getting changed. Changed on a pot. On opossums or possums anytime soon. No matter how you say it. I just don't know what purpose they serve in my trash can. Do you know what I'm saying right now? I'm not going to kill them. I want to be clear. If I haven't yet put Blue down, I'm not going to go out of my way for opossums. They bother me a lot less than blue does, but they do. Telling you right now, they're ugly little alien creatures. And I'm not a fan. If you want to be a fan, be a fan. But what drives me crazy about this one review, what really drives me crazy is seriously Are you going to choose possums over the commercial break? Are we bad? Are we that terrible? I mean, I realize we are not like the cream of the crop comedy podcast. I realize we are not like best in class comedy podcast, but possums. We can't be better than possums.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We hit a nerve.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Chrissy, we are so. I don't even know. Why are we bothering? Why do we bother? Why don't we put so much effort into this thing? And then. And then I say one thing about possums that everybody's running. Imagine I was talking about politics.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, we're not going there.

[Brian Green]

No, thank you. All right, let's take a break. I'm going to diagnose my daughter. Okay, what's going on? And then we'll be back.

[Christina]

What? Oh, hi, it's Christina again, here to remind you to go to tcvpodcast.com for all things audio, video, and TC video. Give us a follow on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at TCVpodcast. And guess what? We have a new phone number. I know what you're thinking, but I promise this is the last TCB phone number you will ever have to remember. So call us and leave us a voicemail or text us at 212-4333, TCB. Once more for the people in the back. That's 212-4333, TCB. Oh, and check out our YouTube channel at YouTube.com thecommercialbreak. That's all for now. Let's listen to our sponsors and get back to the show.

[Brian Green]

All right, I do. That took care of. Nothing I do want to say to the commercial break audience right now, guys and girls and possums, possum lovers everywhere, we do not want to ruin a good thing. And by leaving comments on Frankie B's YouTube channel that is clearly coming right out of my mouth onto the YouTube comment section is not going to help us stay under the radar. If we want this train to continue, we have to do it. We have to have a little bit of tact. So while I appreciate the hilarity and it is pretty funny that the comments that are being left on some of his videos, while it is pretty funny, can we just, like, calm it down just a little bit? Because now I know that Frankie is deleting comments that are left that are clearly from the commercial break. So like someone said on the latest video that we did, latest breakdown of how you eat right in your 60s 70s, where he's making these juice smoothies.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

With like 20 ingredients.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Someone said, high tea, low T, no hard P. Someone else said, can you tell me how I can make a million dollars using your salon sweet? They had sweet. Like W, E, E, E E e.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

E. Well, it was only a matter of time.

[Brian Green]

It was only a matter. Oh, it's been going on for years, by the way, but it's been one or two random here or there. Now I see a little bit more of a concentrated effort, possibly by one or two individuals to really light Frankie up. And I just want to say I don't want to ruin it. Not quite yet. Because my dream, if I go, if I pull my curtain back a little bit, if I pull up my dress a little bit, I'll give you a sneak peek. My goal is to eventually have Frankie with us in some capacity.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Not like a permanent member of the show, but someone that pops in and out and we can have fun with it. Live, like, ask him questions and live. And I'm. I'm waiting for the perfect moment to pull that trigger, but it's going to be ruined if he thinks he's going to get, you know, smashed with just shitty comments. So let's be a little bit nice to let me do the talking on behalf of the commercial break and then you guys send him emails. Don't put it on. Don't put it public on his YouTube channel. Go to salon.com. oh, my gosh.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

All right.

[Brian Green]

Hey, I wanted to talk about something real quick. Chrissy. This is not a commercial, but we did get sent. We did. Were sent.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

A game, cool little game that you can play.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's interactive.

[Brian Green]

It's interactive. It's a music game. Music related game called Hipster. So me and one of my family members were playing this the other day. And Hipster is a game that connects to your Spotify. If you have Spotify, you can play with Apple music or whatever connects to your game. And basically there's two ways to play it. One way to play it is that you try and put the. So let me give you an example. I'll. I'll just. Okay. You take out a card. The card is a QR code on the back. You scan that QR code, it pops up your Spotify. It plays the song that is on the other side of the card along with the year the song was a hit. Right. So here's an example.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We wanted to play it on air, but we don't think we can get.

[Brian Green]

I don't think I can legally. I think I legally have the Rights to play the songs. But Twenty One Pilots had a hit called Stressed out in 2015. So I would start making a timeline, guessing what years these hits were made. So Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love youe came out in 1992. So I would start to build a little timeline. And If I get 10 cards in that timeline correct, then I win the game. But there's another way to play it, which is kind of like name that tune, which is you scan the QR code and you guess the song title and the artist. Not necessarily having to do with the year. You don't have to get the year exactly right. You just have to get like a range of years.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Can you determine within a year or two on your timeline when that song was a hit? The mystery. The other way of playing it, which I had a little bit more fun with, was like kind of guessing which name. Sure. Which artist and which name. Because they're all hits. So it's likely you've heard most of them. Right. There's some. There's some random ones in there that I didn't know. But. But it was a lot of fun. We played for like an hour. I had a good time. And so I want to thank Hitster for sending the game to us. I just appreciate that they. I just appreciate that they care enough to send us a free game in hopes that I will, you know, in hopes that I will inspire a million of you to go buy the game. So hit. It's a game. You can buy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Music Games are fun.

[Brian Green]

Music games are fun. Especially like when you're drinking. Like, you know, it's like, let's say you have. I find that once you're over five people at a particular get together, board games, games are probably not the thing to do, but you're having an intimate get together and you've gotten done with dinner and you have a few glasses of wine in you, that's a good time to break. Break out the. The board games.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, I agree.

[Brian Green]

And the cocaine. Just letting you know that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Followed by heroin. Speedball it into some Xanax and you'll take a good nice nap for a couple of days.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Saturday night.

[Brian Green]

Saturday night. Saturday night at Chrissy Hoadley's house.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

As your daughter said, not in her house.

[Brian Green]

Someone else's house altogether. Rachel's house. So thanks, Hipster, for sending the game. We did play it. We had a good time. And check it out. I think you can. I think it's hitster.com. you can go to it and check it Out. I'll put a link in the. In the Show Notes Hitster Dash app if you want to. If you want to check it out. Okay. So I want to talk to you about something, Chrissy. It's very important. I hope you're ready for this conversation. I guess it is Men's Health Mental Health Awareness Month.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

June.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's good.

[Brian Green]

And so let's take this with a degree of seriousness that I know the commercial break has inside of it. We have this inside of us. We just need to. To flex that muscle a little bit.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Dig deep.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You know, I know a lot of men who have suffered greatly and I think unnecessarily because they are embarrassed to talk about their mental health. You know, I can think of family members who. It took a real long time to admit that maybe they needed to get some kind of professional help, like a therapist or a psychiatrist or whatever it was because they weren't feeling good. And, you know, whether that's temporary depression or more serious version of a mental health disease, they were afraid to do that because men typically don't talk about this stuff with each other or to anyone else.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Feelings.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we don't. We're not good at that. I mean, I'm. I'm putting a broad stroke on this, but you get what I'm saying. And I think it's much more acceptable in 2024 to say I'm going to go see a therapist or I'm having trouble, you know, I'm feeling low and I'd like to go see a therapist. It's much more acceptable than it was even 20 years ago. And thank goodness. But I still think there's a large subset of the male culture that doesn't address these things because they think somehow it's a weakness or somehow it's going to mean I'm not good enough or I'm sick or I'm going to be painted with this.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can handle it on my own.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I can handle it on my own. The truth is, is that you very rarely, I think, can you handle it on your own. When you're really going through a bad time, you need people in your corner. And whether that's professional help or whether that's some. A friend or a family member, a sibling, whatever it is. I think that we, as. As a gender, as a group, need to admit that we fall short in this way and that we need to up our game and allow each other space to talk about feelings that are otherwise sometimes just hidden. It's just because I. I can remember, like when I was a kid and I look at all the male figures in my life and all of them were very strong men. And they weren't mean men, they were strong men. And they very rarely. Yeah. Stoic. And they never really showed emotion and they never admitted that they were having a hard day. And, you know, they were silent. They were like suffer in silence kind of people. And that's Irish Catholic male from Chicago. Like that's. That describes Irish Catholic male from Chicago to a T. Suffer in silence. That's what you do. You are the strong one. It's. You're the Gibraltar. You've got to keep steady while everybody else. But I could also know from some of those same men years later that they admit that wasn't the healthiest approach.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

And it wasn't good. And now they've, you know, especially my dad, I can think of has done a 180 degree turnaround because he at some point just said, you know what? I can't do this on my own. I've. And he had. He had a good for. He had a really difficult period there for about 25 years. It was called Brian from 0 to 25. When I'm sure he just needed a therapist to guide him through raising such an. Right. But I wanted to share that. I go to therapy. Chrissy goes to therapy. My. Some of my brothers go to therapy. A lot of the men in my wider circle of friends go to therapy. And a lot of us also, you know, once a year, twice a year, we'll get together and just spend a couple of days like, hey, let it out. Whatever it is, let it out. We're here for you. That doesn't mean I'm gonna write you a check if you're having money problems. It doesn't mean I can solve your relationship issues, but it means you can talk about it at the very least. And I think it's an important topic that needs to be discussed because I believe that lonely men who do not know how to deal with their feelings about life in 2024 are dangerous to society. They are dangerous to society. And it starts with you. It starts with you admitting that maybe you're not feeling well. Maybe you're having some thoughts that are dangerous, that are violent, that are depressive, that are sad. Maybe you're lonely. There are people out there who can help you. You don't have to do this alone. Maybe you're feeling even suicidal. You don't have to do this alone. No one has to do it alone. It takes a village to raise a human period and descendants. And I encourage everybody out there to, to hold some space for yourself and, and it's okay to be aware that you're not doing well and it's okay to reach out and say, I just need some help.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And some people don't know how to get started with it either.

[Brian Green]

So they don't.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You know, there's definitely local resources in each city, town that, you know, Google it, look it up, start somewhere, you know, and not every therapist is going to be right for you. No, you might have to, you know, you might try to try a couple different ones, but you know, eventually it really does help. It's like a tune up for your car. You know, it's. The car will break down if you don't keep up with the maintenance.

[Brian Green]

It's a release valve, it's a tune up, it's someone to talk to. It's a third party independent. I'm talking about therapy specifically, but this is not a commercial. So we're not talking about a specific, you know, mental health company or therapist or therapy company where I'm literally sharing this because I think it's an important topic. And I do believe that lonely men in this country specifically are, are having a really tough time of it. And I think lonely men are dangerous. That's what I think. I think lonely, anybody is dangerous, but I think lonely men who don't know how to deal with their repressed feelings are super dangerous to themselves and to other people. And I don't mean that like necessarily in a violent way, like they're going to be a serial killer tomorrow. What I mean by that is, is that, you know, when the mental health of a community takes a dive in general, that can't be good for anybody that is in relative contact with that community, period, end of sentence. And like it or not, males are here. We're probably going to be here for a hot minute. So I think we need to learn how to deal with some of this stuff. So I encourage you as a man specifically, since it's Mental Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, I encourage you specifically men, to put some self awareness on it, hold some space for yourself and get help, reach out, talk to friends, talk to family and, and, and you know what really brought this on?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What's that?

[Brian Green]

So I think I've told this story before, but maybe it was like a decade and a half ago, 10, 15 years ago, I got a phone call that I never expected to get, that one of my dear friends when I worked in the Restaurant business had jumped off a 21 story building here in Atlanta.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's awful.

[Brian Green]

If you had ever met this guy, his name is Burke Boger. If you had ever met Burke, he was the life of every party. He was universally loved. He was a guy that would walk into a bar, maybe 50 of the people already knew him and the other 50 of the people were going to get to know him. He was just that guy. He wore a suit and a tie everywhere. You're just like a blues brother. He wore sunglasses at night. He was an energetic, absolutely the kind of guy you needed on a bad day. If you had a bad day, Burke would make you smile. He was funny, he was engaging, he was personable. He was a great friend to have. And never, not once it maybe with the exception of one time when we were like really fucked up one night, did I ever get an inkling that Burke may have been struggling with his mental health, Right? And when I got that phone call 10 years ago, whenever it was, it absolutely devastated me. Devastated me. And Burke had called me about a month and a half earlier and I didn't return his phone call. I was busy, I couldn't get to it. Whatever, I'll call him back, you know, whatever it was, he had called me. And I never answered that phone call. And it sticks in my craw to this day that I never picked up that phone to talk to. And he called me at like a weird hour. It was like 12:45 at night, right? 12:45 in the morning, whatever. And I, I understood, like reflecting on it, maybe he was drunk, maybe he was, whatever, he needed to talk to somebody. And he picked up the phone to call his old friend Brian. Brian didn't answer because Brian was too busy or whatever. Now I realize that maybe I could have changed the course of history, maybe not. But it just reminded me that if this guy, if this dude the most unlonely person in the world, the guy who can make a friend with a bar chair was suffering with his mental health, then there must be so many others that you look at and that you think, that guy, that guy's got it together, that guy, you know, he's a. He's on top of the world. His world is his oyster. There are so many more people that suffer in silence. I. Needlessly, needlessly. So I know this is not the funniest segment the commercial break has ever put together, but I think it's an important one. And I would encourage anybody, male or female or whatever that is suffering in silence, to reach out and get help, Whatever that looks like for you. But specifically for men, it's okay to talk about your feelings and it's okay to say I'm not okay. It's okay to say I'm not okay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Definitely.

[Brian Green]

Just ask Chrissy. She gets that phone call from me about three times a week. She called me yesterday. She said, what are you doing? I said, or I called her and said, she said, what are you doing? I said, I'm staring at the bottom of the pool wondering how long it would take me to get to it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And we talked about it and we.

[Brian Green]

Talked about it and I felt a little bit better. Yes, there you go. You know, even. Yes, even Brian sometimes suffers with, you know, his feelings. My feelings are, I wish I didn't have them, but I do. I wish I had no feelings would make life easier, but I do. And I certainly have strong feelings about opossums, in case you're wondering.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, you've got to feel the, feel the bad to know what the good is.

[Brian Green]

That's right. So if you have possum related mental health issues, you can call me. Otherwise, call a professional. I may not be the guy. I might not be the guy to go, all right, so there's my spiel. Chrissy's right. There's lots of local, there's lots of local, national and international help available. Like if you literally don't know where to start, I'm not feeling mentally healthy in Google or AI or whatever. And it'll shoot you back a number of places you can call or write to or go to. And of course, you know, hopefully you have a friend or a family member. At least you can pick up the phone and say, you know, hey, dad, I'm not doing good right now. I need, I need somebody to talk to. It's not going to solve all the problems overnight, but at the very least, it's a release valve. It's someone to talk to you. Then that person can keep an eye on you. That person can check in with you. That person can say, hey, how are you feeling today? Right. Take the next step, do the next thing. Get up in the morning, make your bed. He's going to be okay. We're going to figure it out and I'm here for you. So anyway, that's my little, that's my once a year, be serious, take life seriously kind of thing.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

There you go. I love it.

[Brian Green]

And also, remember to get your 33 ejaculations in. What is it? 21 ejaculations in. So now that I'VE given you the PSA of the day. Let's take a break and we'll be back with more hilarity. What?

[Christina]

Oh, hi, it's Christina again here to remind you to go to tcbpodcast.com for all things audio, video and TCBDO. Give us a follow on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTokcbpodcast. And guess what? We have a new phone number. I know what you're thinking, but I promise this is the last TCV phone number you will ever have to to remember. So call us and leave us a voicemail or text us at 212-4333, TCB. Once more for the people in the back. That's 212-4333, TCB. Oh, and check out our YouTube channel at YouTube.com thecommercialbreak. That's all for now. Let's listen to our sponsors and get back to the show.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Weirdest thing happened on our text message line. So we have a person. I won't even name the gender, but we have a person who has been texting us pretty frequently for a couple months. Right. What I would call a fan, if not a super fan, a fan of the show. And they texted me after. We have been talking about 90 Day Fiance and one of the story lines that was going on on 90 Day Fiance the other way. 90 Day Fiance has 75 versions of it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes, they do.

[Brian Green]

And you can't keep up with all of them. But there's, like, one that I'm paying attention to and there's two specific storylines. And I mentioned this on the show a couple of weeks ago. There's two storylines that I watch it for. I fast forward to those two storylines because I don't care about the rest. I'm over it. I can't have. I can't have 90 day fiance in my brain 24 hours day. Chrissy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It'll get in there.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man. And it will. Yeah, it'll be in your crawl. You'll. You'll go through three seasons in a day and you'll be like, what happened to my life? Where am I? That's when you reach out and get help, man. Yes, I should probably get help from my TLC related mental health issues. All right. So someone texted me and said, I know one of the people. Or I'm like, loosely connected to one of the people that is on this show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

So here's the storyline, dude. I guess the best way to explain it is there's a guy and he's probably in his 30s, I think. Okay. And we first meet him. He is wearing. In Los Angeles. In Los Angeles. He is wearing a full fur coat. Like sugar daddy pimp, like, like a pimp cup. He's, he's got a pimp cup in his hand. He's wearing this fur coat. He's got these sunglasses on, big chains. He's, you know, muscular guy, he's had plastic surgery or at least his face looks plastic fantastic. He's got this hair that's sticking up. I mean, the guy is like straight out of casting, right? Douchebag. That's what it is. Straight out of douchebag casting. Okay. And then of course we know what's coming next. He's falling in love with some smoking hot 20 year old from some far flung country in South America, which I think is Brazil. This girl has had plastic surgery of her own. She's had her boobies done. She lives in the nicest apartment, she drives a nice car, she's got all the nice things. She's got her nails done twice a day. You know, a kind of woman that is very pampered and she's young, so she's a little bit on the immature side, but this guy is in love with her. Not hard to see why. She is a gorgeous woman. It's not hard to see why he's in love with. It's not hard to see why he's in love with her looks at the very least. Right. But she's kind of immature and a little bit obnoxious. But he's a little bit immature and obnoxious too, right? So we meet this couple on the first episode and he, she explains that she's living in the lap of luxury because he's paying for everything. He takes care of all of it. They even have a, an apartment, a condo that they've bought in Rio that they rent out. And you know, they're living the high life basically. But at the end of the episode, we come to learn that this guy has lost his job and he is hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more in debt from bad investments like cryptocurrency and failed company after failed company. You know, he's investing in friends, companies. He basically had a little bit of money, he didn't know what to do with himself and he spent it all. He's Brian Greene basically, is what he is. Okay, let's buy more podcast advertising with all the money we don't have. So you get the deal. He says, I, I'm going. And he's on his way to go down to Brazil to spend a month with her. So he's telling the camera in this.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Cutaway credit card dime.

[Brian Green]

He's saying, I don't have a dime to my. I'm like, down to my last couple thousand dollars, and I've got to explain to her I've really only got a month and a half of living expenses left, and then we're done. And I lost my job, so I have no income. I'm really worried about going down there and telling her this because I'm afraid that she's in it for them. I'm afraid that she loves me, but she. The money might be a perk she may not be able to overlook. Well, you can know how this goes down. It goes down like a wet fart in church, right? He goes down there, and I got to give the guy credit. From the moment that we meet him, he's absolutely, at least. Least to our understanding, transparent about what's going on. He's not trying to hide it. He's not trying to pretend he's not Simon Guabadia, you know, pretending he has money as an oil man and he has, you know, not a dime to his name. He is actually sharing that he's really broke. He's broke. It's a joke. And it's stressing him the out. Now he's got this girlfriend. He's paying all this money to rent her a condo while they own another condo. And he's, you know, buying flowers, you know, thousands of flowers to fill the rooms and all this other stuff. So he gets down there and he says to her pretty quickly, oh, and by the way, he paid for her to open a nail shop. Like a nail salon.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay, Right.

[Brian Green]

So she's working at the nail salon. It's been open about a month. He says, how many customers per day do we have in here? And she says, oh, usually about one, maybe two appointments per day. And he said, how many do we need to break even? And she's like 18 to 20, right?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

And at least. Listen, he may not be the smartest business guy in the world, but he understands I'm not going to bridge that gap. Like, I don't know how we're going to survive if we're only at two and we need to get to 20. It's never going to happen in two months. So he starts slowly kind of easing her into the situation. Right. And she does not take it well. You know, it. First of all, he's hiding things from her. He did. He's you know, he's been not had employment for a couple of months and he didn't share that with her. He signed. This girl basically throws a tantrum. Like a five day long tantrum.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Are they engaged?

[Brian Green]

They're engaged.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And so the fast forward a couple of episodes and now what this guy wants or what this girl wants to do is she wants to now start planning the wedding that they are supposedly going to have. Well, he's, she's taking him to these places that's like 28, 000American dollars just to rent. And then you doesn't even include the food or the booze. And he is stressed the out. He says to her, I don't know where we're going to get this money. We don't have this money. We're not going to be able to do this right now. And she throws a holy shit fit. You don't love me. You never loved me. If you loved me, you would make this happen. Blah, blah blah. And she goes, and she goes into the back of the car. They're like at this wedding, empty wedding facility. And she runs to the back of the car, curls up in a ball and starts crying, right? And he comes in and he's like, you know, trying to calm her down. Baby. And this is what he says to her. Baby, I just, I love you. And you know, I'm trying to make all this happen, but I don't think you get the seriousness of this situation. I literally don't have any money. We don't have any money. The condo is all we got left. That's it. By the way, will you sign a prenup? Oh my God.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You threw a prenup in there.

[Brian Green]

Fucking explodes. She goes crazy. But that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is where they're riding down the road. So finally after all this gets settled down, right? I can't remember if this comes before or after, but it's. I'm telling a story here, so follow me. So they're riding down the road to her from this wedding facility and he goes, hey honey, I wanted to show you the new sunglasses. And she starts showing her these sunglasses that fold up and have a necklace on them so you can fold your sunglasses up and then you've got a necklace that he says looks like a pendant to me. Just looks like shitty sunglasses folded up. But he says, don't they look great? And she goes, oh, they look so sexy. Great job baby. He goes, yeah, I spent our last $10,000 getting 300 pairs of these made. And she's like, what?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, he was making them.

[Brian Green]

His brilliant idea to get out of debt is make foldable sunglasses. It reminds me of the time I worked for the Olympics. And the genius idea of the owner of the booth that we were standing is was to make a shirt that when it got wet, it turned colors.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Green]

Lizards on it. It was called like, like lizard shirt or something. It was the worst name, the worst idea. We did not sell one T shirt. Not one. This guy bought boxes and boxes of T shirts. Not one guy.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Wait, was it. Hold on, let's break this down for a second. Side note, but was it just a blank white T shirt and then when it rained. Yes, it turned colors and made a lizard.

[Brian Green]

It had. You could tell that there was a lizard on it. But once it got wet, that activated. It activated. First of all, who's regularly just pouring water on themselves? You want to see a cool trick? I mean, it's like a, I don't know, a wet T shirt contest. Maybe that would come in handy. I'm not sure. How else do they even do wet T shirt contests anymore? I don't know. Somewhere, probably. Yeah, but it was like the dumbest idea from the beginning. And I didn't care. The guy was paying me. So I went, stood at the booth and people would walk by and I'd be like, your color change your T shirt. And people would come over and I do a demonstration and they'd be like, yeah, I, I, I think that was a thing back in the early 80s. I think I remember something about that. Back in the early 80s they had like the heat T shirts.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right. Yeah, I remember that.

[Brian Green]

This one had to get wet. It had to get hot and wet. It was the dumbest idea. No one was ever. I don't care. If they would have put us in the middle of the Olympic stadium and had a 50 minute commercial on, on wet colorized T shirts, we would have never sold one because it's a terrible idea. And the only version of the shirt was a gecko. It's like a gecko cares about. The gecko has nothing to do with the Olympics. No one gives a. You don't go to the Olympics to buy a gecko T shirt that you can only see when it gets wet. It's dumb.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, you at least had the Olympic mascot on it. But I guess that probably cost more money.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's right. Now, while I can believe there's some 62 year old beef caked up Very red yacht captain down in Florida that probably wants foldable sunglasses that turn into a necklace. I cannot see how this is going to be a raging hit. I could be wrong. I'm not exactly Mr. Business either. So I'm not casting dispersions, but, I mean, in this case, I could see why she was so very angry because it's like a dumb thing to spend your last $10,000.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Sure.

[Brian Green]

When you have no promise of revenue coming in whatsoever. We know all about this, Chrissy, and I'm telling you right now, this is a train wreck waiting to happen. So this girl texts in and starts explaining that everything that we're seeing. I said girl. Okay, it's a girl. There you go. All right. As a girl. So this girl takes in and explains everything that we are seeing is true. He is, in fact, a terrible businessman who is just desperately trying to make money by throwing money at other things and hoping that it all works out right. And that, you know, this relationship is basically headed for disaster. And I. And I. I don't love it because I love seeing people. Yeah, I do. I love the drama. I love the drama. I want.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's what you watch.

[Brian Green]

Of course. There's no issue. Why else would I watch it? I'm not watching it so I can see everything turn out great. I'm watching it so I can see the train wrecks. Yes. Which is. The only two storylines I'm following are the train wrecks. Because I like that. Right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

But, you know, she knows him.

[Brian Green]

She knows. Loosely knows him. I'll just say that I don't want to get into too much deal detail because we agreed that I wouldn't. But, yes. There's like a direct connection there to him and the situation. And, you know, sometimes you want to. You want to believe that some of these storylines are kind of propped up a little bit. Right. They're made more. They're made more dramatic by good editing.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Embellished.

[Brian Green]

Embellished. But in this case, I think this is the real deal. Like, this is actually what's going on behind the scenes. And I mean, I did it, so I guess it's hard for me to say this out loud, but what is it about this fucking show that it's like a rubber stamp? Old white man meets young Latino girl. Old white man meets young Latino girl. Old white man meets young Latina girl. Brian meets Astrid. In this case, I wasn't rich. Never claimed to be rich.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And fur coat.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Asked her to happen to like me on my merits. Now I'm sure she Regrets the decision now, but we're stuck. You can't have 13 kids and get a divorce. That's just a bad idea.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You're doing it.

[Brian Green]

It's a bad idea. I love when 90 Day Fiance turns into a train wreck. I love it. I just love it. I love it. I think it's.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Of course, it's so.

[Brian Green]

It's high entertainment, you know, it's high energy. It's high energy. And I can't wait to see what this girl does next. I mean, if you have nothing, what are you worried about a prenup for?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know. Yeah, that's not. That wasn't making things better with the whole dropping a bomb too, that we have no money.

[Brian Green]

Well, I was thinking about asking Astra to sign a prenup where I get some of her money. Like, hey, can you sign a prenup where you pay me some money if we get divorced? Because it's likely I won't have any then either. So if you. If you don't mind, let's do this. There's no. You know, they say potential is just energy on energy not realized. I'm like a big ball of potential. When girls say never rely on potential, or he's got potential, or whatever it is they're talking about Brian, he's got so much potential. Look at him.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hasn't reached it yet, but it's there.

[Brian Green]

No. When I'll reach it, I don't know. I'll probably be Wilford Brimley.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Old Wilford.

[Brian Green]

That's like my nightmare is that I ended up being like a spokesperson for diabetes strips.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It would pay, though.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. At least. Well, you think. You'd like to think. You'd like to think Wilford got paid, but maybe he was just so angry about diabetes. Diabetes. How does he say it?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Diabetes.

[Brian Green]

Diabetes. It's not diabetes. It's diabetes. Maybe he's so angry about diabetes that he just decided to do the commercials out of the. Out of the goodwill of his heart.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Maybe. I don't know. Well, I can't wait for an update on this storyline.

[Brian Green]

I gotta keep watching.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I can't watch it now.

[Brian Green]

No, you can't watch it. I already gave you the. I already gave you the. All the juicy parts about the one storyline. What's gonna happen is they're gonna find a way to this. And this always happens. They're gonna find a way to remedy. And I'll tell you why they're gonna find a way to remedy with each other. It's because there are Future seasons of 90 Day Fiance at stake here. And if you break up up, it's unlikely they're going to follow you unless you are some extraordinarily entertaining human being on your own. Which a few of the cast members over the years have become a show in of themselves. But these two, I don't see a lot of. I. I just don't see it. I just don't see that spark, you know, like, oh, my gosh, this person I have to watch or that person I have to watch.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Whatever happened to Angela and Michael?

[Brian Green]

Angela. Angela. So funny that you ask because Astrid had it on in the background the other day. It's like 90 Day Fiance the other way after the days. Two years later, seven years later.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

There's so many versions.

[Brian Green]

Well, I didn't catch the whole thing and I have not kept up with the storyline very well. But he is still trying to get his visa to come to the United States seven years later. And he's been like, denied twice. And then he keeps telling her he's got to go to the, you know, the embassy in Tanzania or wherever he lives. Lives.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I think he's Nigerian.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Nigerian. Yeah. And so he. This last one of the episodes that aired recently, I don't know because I don't actually watch. I've actually decided to watch a good television from now on. So I don't watch a whole lot of 90 Day Fiance, but what I did see in the background was that Angela went through his phone and found out that he was like Nigerian, scamming other American older women and collecting money from them. And she blew up as she does.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

She does. She does.

[Brian Green]

Angela is a ball of fire. I'm sorry, but I would run, not walk away from Angela in a relationship. Like, she is explosive, that lady is. I like her. I think she's highly entertaining, but she is explosive. And she's still smoking cigarettes. She's like 77 years old.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

She's chain smoking them. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Every time I go down to that island, we go to. To vacation, we drive through the. The town that she lives in. Yeah. And I always just want to go, like, run around and try and find it. I know her address is out there somewhere. I knock on the front door. Angela. Angela.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. She's had so many surgeries too.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God, she looks great. She. I mean, not really, but compared to what she did before, she's looking great. She's looking better. Let's put it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

She's got that 90 day money.

[Brian Green]

She's got that 90 day money with that OIC face. That's right. I think she actually had gotic by festival.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I think so too. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And boob job and a butt lift and skin removal and all this other stuff. She's like a Frankenstein.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey, bleach, blond hair, yelling at Michael. I swear to God, Michael, I see one more in your phone, I'm gonna kill you. Don't mess with the horn bowl, you'll get the horns. She has always has those, like, Southern isms. She yells at him, don't mess with the bowl. You're gonna get the horns. And Michael's like, angela, Angela, I did not do anything wrong.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I know. He's sitting there in, like, his robe.

[Brian Green]

I know. Oh, high class ass kids. High class. All right. TCBpodcast.com that's where you go. For more information about the show, you can check out all of the links to our guest, all of our sponsor codes. All of that stuff is included on the website and in the show notes. So please go to the website, visit, listen, watch, and get your free TCB sticker. All you got to do is go to the contact us page, drop down menu. I want my sticker. Give us your address and we'll send it off to you. Be happy to do that. I want to thank. A lot of people have been writing in with content ideas.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Nice.

[Brian Green]

And I want to thank those people for writing in contact. You will get a personal thank you. Yes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Keep them coming.

[Brian Green]

Keep them coming.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Four days a week.

[Brian Green]

Four days a week. That's not. Yeah, I mean, we do it under duress. Contractually obligated. Yeah, contractually obligated. 212433.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right away. This is our therapy too.

[Brian Green]

Oh, definitely.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, for sure. This has probably saved my life on more than one occasion. Yeah, no doubt.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

212-433-3Tcb 212-433-3822. Questions? Comments, concerns, content, ideas. If you want to be on the show, let us know, text us and we will. We'll get back to you. Also, I wanted to let you know that you can check us out on Instagram at the commercial break and on Tick Tock TCB podcast. But if you would, if you could, if you don't mind, go to our YouTube channel, YouTube.com the commercial break, and subscribe to that channel. All the guest interviews and selected videos are up there. We put up great clips, clips on the Instagram too. If you want to check that out. I really would appreciate it. Okay, Chrissy. I guess that's all I can do.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

For now, I think so.

[Brian Green]

But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

I'll say best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I do say, we will say, and we must say goodbye, Sam.