Suns Out, Buns Out!

Summary

The Commercial Break – “Suns Out, Buns Out!” (January 9, 2026)

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break marks the second installment of the show’s seventh season. Hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley launch into signature chaotic, comedic banter—diving into stories of naked yoga trends, wild festival experiences, friendship dynamics, and the convoluted world of comedy podcasting. The pair zig-zag through musings on body positivity, a hilarious 25th wedding anniversary, the perils of spiking drinks (à la Ari Shaffir and Bert Kreischer), and the awkwardness of “couples blind dates”—all with their unmistakably self-aware, irreverent style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Kicking Off Season 7: Self-Deprecation & Streaming (01:54–04:53)

• Bryan opens with an intentionally cheesy song and classic banter.
• Jokes about “record-breaking” streaming numbers (all of seven viewers).
• The show’s new approach: more flexibility on episode drops, less rigidity.
• Bryan acknowledges, “Some people are going to think it’s great and other people are going to go, that’s too much.” (24:32)

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2. Naked Yoga: WTF or the Cure for Society? (04:55–23:24)

Naked Yoga Goes Mainstream (05:20–06:54)

• Krissy reads from a news article on the rise of naked yoga.
• Bryan quips, “Downward dog means upward asshole. That’s what it means.” (05:32)
• The hosts riff on body acceptance vs. awkward public nudity:
  • “I just don’t know that I want to see everybody in naked yoga positions.” — Krissy (05:54)
  • Bryan reflects on how to teach kids about body appropriateness—“There’s just some places to show your penis and other places when it’s not appropriate. Like when you’re serving chili for dinner.” (06:22)

Personal Anecdotes: Nakedness Through the Years (08:02–20:21)

• Bryan tells stories about his friend Raphael, credited (jokingly) as an OG naked yogi.
• The group’s festival days: wild parties, drum circles, and seeing Raphael naked at sunrise doing yoga atop a VW bus. Bryan muses, “His wing wing’s facing the sun. His dick is out. He’s fine.” (17:56)
• Krissy describes the low-key normalization of nudity in some situations, and Bryan reflects on his temporary comfort with it at music festivals.
• Both reflect on how, in the right (often drug-fueled) context, public nudity loses its shock-value.

On Paying for Naked Yoga (20:21–23:16)

• The absurdity of paying for group nudity. Bryan jokes, “If you’re super hot naked, you can get paid to do that. So you’re not going to show up at free yoga class and do that for free.” (22:52)
• OnlyFans comes up—“God bless you” to those monetizing their bodies, says Bryan (23:16).

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3. The Ari Shaffir – Bert Kreischer “Spiked Drink” Saga (29:15–42:36)

Inside Comedy Podcast Gossip (29:15–31:29)

• Discussion of comedian guests and the sometimes repetitive, incestuous nature of podcast interviews.

The Legend: Ari “Spiking” Bert’s Drink (31:31–36:05)

• Bryan details the story: during "Sober October" Ari sneaks MDMA (Molly) into Bert’s whiskey on his own podcast.
• “Ari takes a capsule of Molly out of his pocket and he puts it in Bert’s drink. They then slug the whiskey and thirty minutes later they start the podcast and of course, they are flying.” (32:56–33:17)
• Aftermath: Bert ends up rolling in front of his family, his wife bans Ari from the house.

Serious Reflection: Is This Ever Okay? (35:06–38:18)

• Bryan’s “old man” wisdom: “With some perspective...that’s fucked up. You could kill somebody. Or at the very least, send them into a really deep, dark hole.” (37:52)
• Both hosts agree: non-consensual dosing is dangerous, even if “funny” in a story.

Personal Parallels: Non-Consensual Partying (38:18–41:28)

• Bryan shares his own story: unknowingly drinking “moon juice” (psychedelic) at a bonfire, reflecting afterwards on the ethical lines of spiking.
• Krissy distinguishes: group festival context is not the same as at home, around partners and kids (41:00).

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4. Couple-Friend “Blind Dates” & Male Friendship Rituals (44:38–54:23)

Set-up Anxiety (44:38–49:01)

• Astrid (Bryan’s wife) wants Bryan to “make an effort” to get along with another husband—setting up the comic premise: Bryan feels like he’s being sent on a man-date.
• “You gotta understand, it doesn’t work like that for guys.” — Bryan (47:10)
• Krissy advises, go in with low expectations (50:26).

Navigating Male Bonds (51:24–54:23)

• Contrasting women’s “text-a-thons” with men’s slow-growing, casual friendships—“It takes a little while. It’s like a little seed...needs a little cultivation. Guys take a little extra cultivation to plant roots.” — Bryan (52:03–52:09)
• Bryan jokes about interactions with his “coffee boyfriend” Lance—establishing that guys generally require time and shared experience versus instant connection and banter.

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5. Local Comedy Scene & The Business of Laughter (54:42–57:20)

• Krissy brings up the opening of new comedy clubs in Atlanta and their importance post-pandemic: “Everybody needs to laugh.” (55:18)
• Brief musing on Joe Rogan’s expansion in the comedy world—speculating if Rogan bought the legendary Comedy Store in LA after partnering posts with his new Austin Mothership club.

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6. Classic TCB End Notes: Food, Parenting, & Upcoming Plans (59:10–63:34)

• Chili and spaghetti sauce improving with age—Bryan’s love of chili and (self-deprecating) attempts at cooking, even learning sunny side up eggs via Peppa Pig for his daughter's breakfast (60:25).
• Parenting heartwarmers—“My daughter said, ‘It’s good egg, Dad.’ And I said, ‘Well, good job. You’re a good egg too, kid.’” (60:59–61:04)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Naked Yoga Summed Up:
  “Downward dog means upward asshole... It means the sun don’t shine.” — Bryan (05:32)

• On Monetizing Attraction:
  “If you’re super hot naked, you can get paid to do that... you’re not going to show up at free yoga class and do that for free.” — Bryan (22:52)

• Antics at the Festival:
  “His wing wing’s facing the sun. His dick is out. He’s fine.” — Bryan recounting Raphael’s naked sunrise yoga (17:56)

• On Being Spiked:
  “With some perspective...that’s fucked up. You could kill somebody. Or at the very least, send them into a really deep, dark hole.” — Bryan (37:52)

• Male Friendship:
  “It’s like a little seed...needs a little cultivation. Guys take a little extra cultivation to plant roots.” — Bryan (52:03–52:09)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Season 7 Opener & Banter: 01:54–04:53
• Naked Yoga Discussion: 04:55–23:24
• Paying for Naked Yoga Joke: 20:21–23:16
• Comedy Podcast/Spiking Story (Ari/Bert): 29:15–42:36
• Festival Memory & Drink Spiking Reflection: 38:18–41:28
• The Awkwardness of Couple Friend “Blind Dates”: 44:38–54:23
• Atlanta Comedy Clubs & Rogan Speculation: 54:42–57:20
• Food, Parenting, and Upcoming Episode Teases: 59:10–63:34

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, self-aware, and self-deprecating.
• Banter is fast, filled with asides, callbacks, sarcasm, and warm friendship.
• The show is openly unpolished and proud of it, frequently breaking the “fourth wall” with meta-commentary.

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed this episode, you missed classic TCB: Bryan and Krissy tackle naked yoga trends, recount legendary (and hilariously mortifying) tales from their wild youth, debate podcast ethics over drink-spiking shenanigans in the comedy world, and pick apart the weird pressures of adult friendship and couple socializing. With rapid-fire jokes and off-the-cuff honesty, it’s part therapy session, part roast, part totally relatable podcast hangout. If you like comedy with a side of chaos and candid storytelling, this one’s for you.

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Best To You, and Best To You Out There in the Podcast Universe!
— Bryan & Krissy (63:34)

Transcript

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[Brian Green]

Oh yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

All right.

[Brian Green]

I'm turning on my podcast playing tuning in tonight. So good. TCP is back in town and it's giving me hardwood. It's been hard. They've been gone. Haven't heard them in so long. Oh, I've been sad. I've been down. I need it back.

[Kristen Joy]

I need it now.

[Brian Green]

I'm back, Chrissy. I'm back crying with no tcb I've been dying but I'm back to Heaven. It's not be SA me Season 7 Season 7 Season 7. On this episode of the Commercial break Paying for it.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. Yeah, paying for it.

[Brian Green]

I don't understand. Yeah. You're gonna strip yourself down of all worldly possessions.

[Kristen Joy]

10 pack of glasses.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And then you're gonna do 35.95 per class.

[Rachel]

Right.

[Brian Green]

And you know, the yoga instructor is so much hotter than you are. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna go to a class where some fucking buffed up dude is doing naked yoga. And Astrid's like, I'll face this way. Right, you face that way. No, no, no. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. Cats and 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. Holy Chris.

[Kristen Joy]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. Thanks for joining us on episode two of season number seven. Number seven. We already got some people in the chat. Hi, how are you doing? Welcome back. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciate it. Our streaming numbers are breaking servers. Yes, we're up to seven.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, okay, seven.

[Brian Green]

Anyway, we're just starting this. If you're joining us via the streaming, welcome aboard. If you're not, you can check us out. Tuesdays and Thursdays, somewhere around 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time, Give or take. Give or take. We went right at one o' clock today. So proud of us. We did it. We did it. And then of course, more people saying they're going to make us popular by giving us fake streams. So thank you very much. We'll talk to you about that later.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. That's so funny how those bots do that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the bots come right on, don't they? Yeah. Well, welcome to the. Welcome to the world of podcasting and streaming. That's how it works. Whether you want it or not, you're going to get trash. So over the vacation, Chrissy and I were reading an article about naked yoga taking hold across the United States, and there is a picture that. A picture tells a thousand words, doesn't it?

[Rachel]

It's hilarious.

[Kristen Joy]

I mean, I love the start of this article too. Picture it. You're completely nude, surrounded by strangers and downward dog.

[Brian Green]

Downward dog.

[Kristen Joy]

This isn't some feverish anxiety dream. You're in the middle of a naked yoga class.

[Brian Green]

Downward dog means upward asshole. That's what it means. Ye. It means the sun don't shine.

[Kristen Joy]

I'm all for look, everybody is beautiful in their own way.

[Brian Green]

To somebody.

[Kristen Joy]

To somebody. Yes. And you know, I have. No, I don't think we should be ashamed of being naked. No, that's what you want to do. I just don't know that I want to see everybody in naked yoga positions.

[Brian Green]

I definitely don't. I definitely don't. Listen, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? And so I don't think we should be ashamed of our bodies. And I'm not telling you here's why I want to I want. I want to piggy front off of this story. First of all, it's a very interesting lesson to teach your children as they get older about body appro. Like the appropriate times, places and people to show your body to. Right? That's a very interesting lesson. You want to like, do a little dance there. You don't want them to be ashamed of their body. But at the same time, like, you know, there's just some places to show your penis and other places when it's not appropriate. Like when you're serving chili for dinner. You know, a naked fling. Fling. Swinging around the kitchen ain't appropriate. I don't do it. You shouldn't do it. Follow your daddy's rules. Only see yourself naked in the dark, in the shower. So over the vacation, we got to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Rafa and Chelsea.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, my God. It was their 25th.

[Brian Green]

25Th wedding anniversary. A lot of people we are going to make. By the way, we are not unaware of what is going on in the United States and around the world right now. We are choosing to ignore it so that we can give you a laug. So.

[Kristen Joy]

And ourselves.

[Brian Green]

There's going to be no talk of Venezuela, health insurance, Minnesota, none of that shit. Not today. Okay, we'll give it a break. We all need a break. So let's give it a break. But I am sharing that a lot of people ask who. Why are you so entwangled with Venezuela? And Raphael is really the reason why. Rafael is a Venezuelan and he gave you your intro. He gave me my street cred with Venezuelans because he introduced me to. He was my. The first Venezuelan that I actually knew and that I didn't know anything about Venezuela before I met Raphael, but quickly became a part of his big family. Raphael's been my best friend for 30 years almost. And a couple of years after we met, he met his wife at the restaurant we worked at. Chelsea. Chelsea and. And Raphael married. They had a baby very quickly. And. And. And a love story, A great love story that continues to this day.

[Kristen Joy]

Love story. I love those two so much.

[Brian Green]

So we had their 25th wedding anniversary. Very intimate. Dinner. And I'll get back to naked yoga, but follow me here for a second. Well, yeah, there you go. Okay, I'll follow you.

[Kristen Joy]

A circle of people.

[Brian Green]

Follow the bouncing ball. Naked yoga is not new to some of us, let's just put it that way. I think I might know the guy who started naked yoga. I think his name is Raphael. So we get invited a couple of weeks Ahead of time to an intimate dinner at another friend of ours house, Ben. Ben and Sidra. They ask us to come over. There's going to be a private chef and all the accoutrements. Right? Now when you think of Private Chef, you go, oh, wow, very nice.

[Kristen Joy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

But if you actually go to a dinner with a private chef, you know that sometimes the idea of private chef and the reality of Private Chef are two totally different things. Let me explain.

[Kristen Joy]

Yes, please. I can't wait.

[Brian Green]

You're out of your. Imagine it from the chef's point of view. You're in a home kitchen that has none of the things you usually have. You have to bring everything that you need, probably pre cooked most of it. You're limited. If something goes wrong, you're limited in what can happen. Usually what ends up happening with a private chef who is not used to working in a home setting. And this is like a restaurant chef. Like a well known restaurant chef. Yeah, that one of our friends knows because one of our friends, like, owns restaurants. And so he brought in this chef, right? And this is like a big deal for us to have this chef here. But I'm thinking, I'm telling Astrid on the way down there, you know, Brian's normal curmudgeon self. I'm like, this is gonna be a shit dinner. I'm telling you that right now. There's gonna be five different cold plates. And one thing that's hot, that was cooked 12 hours ago. It's gonna be reheated in some shitty oven. But it was the exact opposite. That chef fucking nailed it. He nailed it. Seven course dinner plus dessert. So eight courses altogether. Ooh. However, because the chef nailed it and did everything on the spot. Yeah, everything on the spot. It was an hour in between each course. We got there at 7 and we left before the dessert. And we left at like 12:30 at night.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, wow.

[Brian Green]

We left before the dessert was served. 40 minutes between each. Each. So it was a long dinner. But that left a lot of room for stories. Drinking, having fun. And this group of people is not, you know, we've known each other for years, and so no one's shy to, you know, bus balls and have fun and do all this. And so I told the, you know, I gave a toast. You know, we went around. We gave a toast, I gave a toast. It was mix of heartfelt and comedy. You know, all the other stuff, you know, I can talk, right? That's what I do. I can talk. Somebody asked me to give a toast. I'll give a Toast. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

You do a great job.

[Brian Green]

And I'll do it on the fly. I feel pretty comfortable when someone asks me to give a toast, especially if it's in a room full of people I know. I have good stories. It's. It is. So I. So I do this toast, but Raphael. Then at the end of the meal, like. Like, not the end of the meal, but like, we're talking like 11, 30, 12. Everyone's really loosey goosey. Like everyone's been lit up. We've all been sitting at this very long table for a very long time. And Raphael starts in on the story of how him and Chelsea met. Okay, so he shares the story like this, that they all got tickets to go see a band named Riot.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, right. I remember that band.

[Brian Green]

I remember that band too, actually. Chopper Johnson opened up for Riot in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, one time. This is the same time I fell off the stage. There was no one in the room. I mean, it was like we were one of 17 bands that opened up. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like one really long night of music. We were the first. It was not. There's no credit in that. It's not. So he tells the story about how a bunch of people got tickets to go, and then it ended up that everyone kind of fell out for whatever reason, and it ended up being him and Chelsea. And they got these. They were like in the crowd making out, and people were kind of like, you know, poking them like, hey, go get a room, blah, blah, blah. And the girl who led the band recognized what was going on and threw some hats to them and said, hey, you do your thing, you know, and the thing said, pussy posse. So here they. So after the end of this, like, 45 minute long story that Rafa told, we were all like, busting his balls along the way. And I'm thinking, man, this is one long fucking drawn out story. Like, you know, it's fun, but, you know, wow, Raphael, you've been going for a while. He pulls out a ring that he had had the original diamond that he had given Chelsea reset in this beautiful ring. And it was a touching moment. And that then I could understand why.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

So at the end of it, so after I. Yeah, so after everyone does their ohms and ahs and congratulations and hugs and kiss and all that, I go, I really thought you were gonna pull out a pussy posse.

[Kristen Joy]

I thought when you were telling this story that that's what he was gonna do.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I thought for sure. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

He still had it.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. Everyone busts up laughing. But at the. At some time in the dinner, I tell this story about Raphael and Chelsea when they were first together.

[Kristen Joy]

First days of love.

[Brian Green]

First days of love. Chelsea was pregnant. And, you know, we were all very young and dumb and we didn't know shit from shinola. None of our friends were married. Non them have children. You know, maybe the off person young.

[Kristen Joy]

And they have really lasted.

[Brian Green]

They have lasted.

[Kristen Joy]

So proud of.

[Brian Green]

I'm so proud of them too. I said in my toast, is that naked yoga? It helps. That's right. When you look at it. When you look at. You know, everybody has like, people in their life that they look to for certain, like stereotypes, like archetypes, right. You look at someone who's been successful in business, you say, I look to that person and how they conduct themselves in business and in friendship and in love and in marriage and in child raising. And so Raphael and Chelsea are one of these people I think we all look up to, and we say, if we could have a successful marriage, if we could look at each other like that 25 years later, yeah, then we've done something. Right? And so I shared that with him. But I also shared a story about how there. It's young days, it's early days, and not everybody is like, convinced that this relationship is going to work, Right. And. And that either is jealousy or just being young or maybe we just don't know. Right. We're. Everybody wants to cause drama. And I can't say that I was.

[Kristen Joy]

Early 20s and Chelsea was actually, what? Younger?

[Brian Green]

19, I think. Yeah. Okay, so we go to this festival that we helped put on called the Mountain Jam.

[Kristen Joy]

Was this the one in the golf cart?

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no, no. This is a different one. Yes. There were golf carts at this one too, but this one was put on by T Dog.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, T Dog.

[Brian Green]

T Dog or Early Days. T Dog. It was very famous festival producer here in town. And for many years he put on the Mountain Jam. And we're talking like a couple thousand people on this property. It's all of us, our cars parked for a couple of days, and we were helping to, like, you know, set up stages and make sure that the trains run on time. It was. We weren't actually.

[Kristen Joy]

So you could see the music.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's right. So we could do drugs, be behind stage and get free drugs. Yes. And hopefully do more drugs and hopefully find the people who had good drugs. And it was all about drugs. That's basically what it was. So we're out in this field, we're parked. There's a bunch of cars parked. And me and the guy who I had got is me, my little brother Danny, and this guy who would. We had gone with Eduardo. Eduardo. Which is not his real name, but I don't know if he chooses to be on this podcast. I've mentioned him before. I'm mentioning him again. Eduardo. So we're all in Eduardo's Taurus. We're, like, sleeping. Yeah, the good old Taurus. We're either sleeping on the Taurus, in the Taurus, around the Taurus. They did. Yes. Back when they made good cars. And those Tauruses lasted forever. Yes. They were big and bulky, and my parents had one. Yeah, they. Everybody had one.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

There was a tour. Every other car on the road in the 90s was a Taurus. If you talk. If you argue my point, go Google it. Ask AI. So we're here, and then Raphael and Chelsea are in their car some place down the road, right? And someplace down in the field, we had been up all night doing. We got parked next to a guy who had a can of nitrous oxide. Like a dentist can of nitrous oxide.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, yeah, the real thing.

[Brian Green]

Eduardo had been paying and making deals with this guy all night long. And Eduardo was wasted. I mean, his brain was fried. I had been working a little bit, so I wasn't so fried. And Danny was with me, too. And so I'm sleeping somewhere around the car, on the car, in the car, I can't remember. And Danny comes over to me, my little brother, and. And he shakes me and he goes, dude, dude, is Raphael okay? I think something's wrong with Raphael. And I go, what? And he goes, seeing something's wrong with Raphael, man, you gotta come. And I'm like, what's going on? I think they had just had the baby. And I got really concerned and I woke up and he goes, come here, look at this. And I go. And I crest to this hill, and there was like, a VW old wagon with one of those camper tops on top of it so you could, like, stand on it, right? And Raphael. The sun is rising behind raphael. It's like 6:30 in the morning, and the moon is behind him. Raphael is full, buck naked, doing yoga on top of this VW bus parked in sight of a thousand other cars. And everyone is, like, rousing for the morning. And he's, like, doing yoga.

[Kristen Joy]

Sun salutation.

[Brian Green]

And Danny's like, I don't. Is he okay? And I'm like. I look at Danny, I Go. He's fine.

[Kristen Joy]

That's perfect. That's normal.

[Brian Green]

That's if he's perfectly okay. Actually, that's the indication that he's okay. His wing wings facing the sun. His dick is out. He's fine. What are you talking about? This guy is great. He's good. He's wonderful. Raphael takes notice to Danny and I, you know, a couple of yards away or whatever it is. Hey, brothers. Good morning. Salutations and greetings, you know, namaste. You want some coffee? Do I want some coffee? Could you wash your hands? Oh, my God. Could you wash your hands?

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

His ass was full bore. I mean, hairy ass and everything.

[Kristen Joy]

He's known for his nakedness. Drum circles.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy]

Parties in the woods, wherever.

[Brian Green]

Listen, I admire that. I admire it, too. And I. And I got a little taste of it. Listen, I. I wore a kilt around for three days one time at a party in the woods. And sometimes I would take it off. There's just like. There's certain situations where nudity becomes, like, it's ubiquitous with just being the way that you are, being who you are. And that happens when a lot of people are naked. You start, and they are not shying away from the nudity, and there's a lot of love in the air and probably drugs and alcohol. Then you start to understand that it's not that big of a deal. So. I've been there. Listen, Rafael and I. One time when you and I were in Costa Rica, after you left, Rafael and I got blitzed. One night. We were up all night long. I won't explain why, but we were up all night long and we went. He had this huge property in Costa.

[Kristen Joy]

Rica that, like, we went foraging for mushrooms.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Kristen Joy]

One morning, the two of us, Rafa.

[Brian Green]

And I. Oh, you did. Oh, I do remember that. Yeah. So we're up at the top of this hill, and, you know, we're sitting there having a conversation, a deep conversation about something. And then I'm just kind of blitzed. I'm out of my mind. So I'm sitting there, smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer, whatever, and a couple minutes later, I look back and Raphael's naked, doing yoga. So, you know what? I got naked and I did yoga. What are we gonna do? Like, okay, all right. That looks good. I like that. And, you know, nude yoga is.

[Kristen Joy]

It's like, I've done nude yoga before by myself.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

Not in the studio.

[Brian Green]

Yes. I' seen videos of it. I've seen videos of it, but I'm pretty sure that the videos were not to teach other people how to do nude yoga. It was to teach guys how to whack off. You know, I'm saying it was like.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. If people want to go do it, do it. I'm all for it. I don't know that I specifically want.

[Brian Green]

To see paying for it.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah, pay, paying for it.

[Brian Green]

I don't understand. Yeah, you're going to strip yourself down of all worldly possessions.

[Kristen Joy]

10 pack of glasses.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And then you're going to do 35, 95 per class. Right. And you know, the yoga instructor is so much hotter than you are. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to go to a class where some buffed up dude is doing naked yoga. And Astrid's like, I'll face this way, you face that way. No, no, no. Yeah, naked yoga. Listen, it makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense. And I, I, I also think that as a society we are going fucking crazy. So it's just a lot of.

[Kristen Joy]

That's what I texted you. I was like, maybe this is what the world needs.

[Brian Green]

What the world needs now is how now, brown cow, let's look at your shiny starfish. It's like a nude beach. You know, you go to a nude beach like you go to Spain and they just aren't that plussed about clothing over there.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know, they don't care. It's you, you're going to see a, you're going to see tatas everywhere. You're going to see tits everywhere on the beach and, but they're not going to discriminate like. No, when you think, yes, there are beautiful women who are nude or topless on the beach. There's young beautiful girls, there's middle aged beautiful girls. But there are also people that you know are just regular bodied people like me. Yeah, you wouldn't want to see me naked on the beach. I look great in clothing. I look great in clothing. I look skinny, I look svelte. You take off my clothes and it's a different story altogether. Yeah, that's right. I got the titties, I got the man bod. I'm, I'm going, I got no ass. I just, I got hair everywhere. I'm not a good looking guy naked so I don't, I choose not to get naked. But there's like, you go over to Spain and this thing, everyone is everywhere.

[Kristen Joy]

Of course.

[Brian Green]

But you know, people think of a nude beach and they think of Like a hyper sexualized super hot women just, you know, super hot dudes just walking all over the place. That is not a reality. And it's not going to be a reality at your nude yoga class either.

[Kristen Joy]

No.

[Brian Green]

So if you're thinking this is a place to go so that you can find the next date, you just remember these are going to be regular human beings that are choosing to take off.

[Kristen Joy]

Their sampling of the society.

[Brian Green]

Sample. Yes, the sampling usually. Listen, if you're super hot naked, you can get paid to do that. So you're not going to show up at free yoga class and do that for free.

[Rachel]

You're not. That's true.

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying?

[Kristen Joy]

You're gonna monetize.

[Brian Green]

You're gonna monetize that as I would, too. Yeah. I look at all these people on OnlyFans and all this other shit and I go, God bless you.

[Kristen Joy]

I know.

[Brian Green]

God bless you.

[Kristen Joy]

Only fans is killing it.

[Brian Green]

I should have done that. I think to myself, I should have done that. When I was 20 years old.

[Kristen Joy]

I thought the same thing.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But then I think I was. It looked no different at 20 than it does now. It really didn't. My penis size didn't change in my 20s. So anyway, nude yoga is a thing you can get on it with $1.99. He'd pay $1.99. All right, lots of people in the chat. Thank you very much. Welcome back season number seven of the commercial break. We're happy that you're here. I'll refresh some of the minutiae that we talked about last episode and I want to just apologize. Last episode, if you listen to it on audio, it sounded kind of tinty because I forgot to hit record, so I had to take the stream version.

[Kristen Joy]

Old habits die hard.

[Brian Green]

Old habits die hard. I press chord this time. Chrissy and I are moving into season number seven with our eyes wide open and being flexible about everything. So we are going to be a little less regimented about everything. Tuesdays and Thursdays, we know we're going to be here doing streams at least. Wednesdays and Fridays you're going to get episodes on the RSS feed or the podcast audio version of this. But you may also get three episodes and maybe you'll get four some weeks.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So surprise, surprise.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Just like seeing me naked at yoga. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Yeah. Sometimes some people are gonna think it's great and other people are gonna go, that's too much. That's too much. So let's do this. Let's take a short break. I want to talk about another podcaster, another pot. Other podcast. And a story that's going around that is loosely, loosely connected to you and I. And I'll explain.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

That's how. And then I also want to talk about a blind date that I've been set up on this weekend.

[Kristen Joy]

What?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, by my wife. It's really weird.

[Kristen Joy]

Okay. I can't wait.

[Brian Green]

I know if I can find the commercials. I think last time I just played a bunch of sound effects.

[Rachel]

You did.

[Kristen Joy]

It was the John Popper one.

[Brian Green]

John Popper Paw paw. There he goes. It's a skinny paw paw.

[Rachel]

Pauper.

[Brian Green]

I'll be back. Okay.

[Rachel]

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

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[Brian Green]

Tag team back again to wreck it. Check it. Let's begin.

[Kristen Joy]

Party on, party people. Let me hear some noise. DZ's in the house. Jump. Jump for Joyce.

[Brian Green]

Whoa. All right. I didn't know you were going to go that far with it. Thank you very much.

[Kristen Joy]

Look at you jamming out.

[Brian Green]

Well, that's next to that. I forgot I remembered one line. All right. Right. Hi, everybody in the chat. I love you too. We love you too. Thank you very much. Gracias. Gracias. Welcome aboard. Pretty soon we actually have the ability now, but I'm going to wait until we start publicizing a little bit more that we're going to be streaming. I'm waiting. We got to get our feet under us a little bit. But so thank you to those who are in the stream right now. We got to get our sea legs and then I'm going to start using the ability to have you FaceTime in a like a FaceTime into the show and we'll get you on board and you can our world. Yeah, you can come into our world. That's really what I want. I want engagement. That's what I want. I'm getting some of that on my Instagram right now. And I'm realizing that's where the fun is. The fun is in having the conversation outside the room. Because after 900 episodes, we've had the conversation inside the room. We did. We did it after a thousand hours. I think Chrissy and I know what we're talking about. We got it. All right.

[Kristen Joy]

In addition, before we did the podcast, we were just doing the same thing.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. We've been friends for 20 years. It's like we got it. We know. We talk on the phone. We text all the time. We're okay. We're friends. Fine. We can. We can invite somebody else.

[Kristen Joy]

Invite some other people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And not famous people. And here's why I say that. This, this whole podcast. Let me explain. Ari Shafir has been a guest on our show. Bert Kreischer has not been a guest on our show. I think there was some talk about it at some point. But it never really came to fruition for one reason or the other. But Bert Kreischer, of course, is one very famous comedian who has a number of podcasts on ymh, the network, I think, and he has one with Tom Segura, and they do Two Bears, one K. That's right, Ari. But Bert has his own podcast also. He does it out of his home. And Ari Shafir, former guest of ours, has been. They're all friends. Yeah, they're friendly, and they're friendly with Joe Rogan. And so they. They have appeared on Rogan together and separately. Now, Ari came on our show, and we had a great time with Ari.

[Kristen Joy]

He was a lot of fun. I've thought about him since.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

And the story that it told about his other person, that was on his podcast that went around the world on the National Geographic plane. Oh, yeah, I listened to that episode, and it was so funny.

[Brian Green]

I. Ari's got a great show. Yeah, he's got a great show. It's a good angle. You know, when you look at that YMH crew, there's a lot of podcasts now that are on there, and it's typically the same. Like, everybody interviews the same people. It's the same stories. It's generally the same thing. That's the problem with podcasts. And part of the challenge with doing interviews is that someone comes here, but they've also been 10 other places, too. So it's kind of like, what are we going to do that's any different than somebody else? We're not Howard Stern. We can't spend three hours with somebody breaking down their entire life. We just don't have that kind of credibility, to be honest with you. So Ari comes on our show, and whatever. He kindly invites us to his show a couple of weeks later. And Chrissy, I, Raphael, Jeff, Tina and Tina's husband Mike, we all go to the Ari Shafir show. It was great. It was fucking hilarious. He was on stage for, like two and a half hours. His long show. He did. He did a lot of comedy, and we were there late, and Ari is mainly a storyteller. He tells stories that have punchlines. He is not a very politically correct comic, but he was a lot of fun, and he was very good at what he did. I thought it to be. I found it to be a very funny show.

[Kristen Joy]

I did, too. Had a lot of fun.

[Brian Green]

I give him a lot of credit for what he does, and he commands the audience, and he had. He. He did a great job. But at the end and when I, when we felt like it was being wrapped up, he told an additional 15 to 20 minutes story. And let me break it down now. This is Ari story. You can go find it in many places. This is not a secret. But Ari told a story inside on the stage. He told a story about how he had been invited onto Bert Kreisler's podcast and went over to Bert's house to do the podcast. And they were. This is additional context he didn't give us then, but I'm, I now know they were in the middle of something called Sober October, which Joe Rogan coined because he wanted to see if Bert Kreischer could stay sober for an entire month. In case you don't know, Bert Kreischer is a big drinker. I think even a self proclaimed, maybe alcoholic. He drinks a ton. That's his whole shticked. He goes out, he gets drunk, he drinks, you know, 12, 13, 14 drinks a night by his own admission, a lot of alcohol. They're going to do Sober October. They're in the middle of Sober October and Ari is angry about having to do Sober October. He agreed to it. Now he's angry about it. So even though they're in Sober October, he goes over to Burt's house to do this podcast and they agree they're going to do one slug of whiskey before they get on the microphone. Ari says, I'll put the drinks together. Bert leaves the bar, the bar he has in his garage, and Ari takes a capsule of pure Molly MDMA out of his pocket and he puts it in Bert's drink. They then slug the whiskey and 30 minutes later they start the podcast and of course, they are flying.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Now Ari admits to Bert, which again.

[Kristen Joy]

I don't know how he did not taste that.

[Brian Green]

I don't know either. You're right about this. Like, cocaine has the taste of ethanol. Like almost like gasoline a little bit. But it's not an. I don't want to say it's. It's not a particularly unpleasant taste if you know what you're getting yourself into. Yeah, you can deal with it. Right. Although it does make a lot of people gas. All right, but okay, whatever. You know what I'm saying? All right, Molly? Not a pleasant taste. Nothing about it is pleasant. It's like mushrooms. Not a pleasant taste. Nothing pleasant about it.

[Rachel]

It.

[Brian Green]

But Bert has said, I've never done it before, so I don't know. And I guess if you don't know, you don't know. You don't know what you're getting yourself into. Okay. So they do the show. Ari goes on to admit that he had spiked Bert's drink. And they do this podcast episode. Then Bert has to fly out at 12:30 to start his tour. And it's only seven o'. Clock. When they end the show, he's at home with his two children, young children, and his wife.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And he is freaking the out because he is high as a kite and he is rolling hard and he doesn't know what is going on. And so you can go hear Bert tell this story on his own on Joe Rogan. And this is kind of popped back up either in my feed or because they're talking about it recently. But in the show, Ari explains that, you know, Burt went up, he was talking to his children. He had to, like, apologize to his wife.

[Kristen Joy]

It was a funny story.

[Brian Green]

It was a funny story. And his wife basically blacklisted Ari. Ari was not allowed anywhere near the family for a year or something, whatever it was. Until Ari came and apologized profusely and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But Ari didn't seem super apologetic about any of this. Right.

[Kristen Joy]

He thought. He thought it was funny.

[Brian Green]

He thought it was funny.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So I'm watching, like, all of the follow up to this now, this story that we heard on stage that I didn't know about, that now I'm. I'm hearing about on the thing.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And it. The episode apparently has not been released. The one that they did.

[Kristen Joy]

I was wondering.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Because Bert is afraid that dumbasses will get the idea that it's okay to spike your buddy's drink.

[Kristen Joy]

They were probably just laughing the whole time.

[Brian Green]

They probably were. Well, even Bert admits, like, I was having a great time. Like, I was having a great time in the moment. I'm smiling, I'm laughing. I'm. I'm having a good time because I'm hot.

[Kristen Joy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

You know, like, what else was I. What else was I to do? Like, Molly feels good. I felt good. But it brought up, like, this interesting question in my mind, because when he's telling. When they're in on Rogan and they're all talking about this, Rogan and Tom Segura are there too, kind of learning about this for the first time. They both seem very concerned about the fact that Ari would spike somebody's dream.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. I mean, it is concerning.

[Brian Green]

It's very concerning. It's very concerning. And now I think about it, I thought, I'm laughing at this story because it is funny story. Right. When he tells it, it's funny. When Ari tells it, it's funny, but it's coming from the guy who spiked everybody, right? I think to myself, holy.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I have had my. I have been spiked before. I've had my drink drugged. I think I was drugged one time, like really drugged one time. And I, I, I think that the. Holy. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. Even with your best friend, it's not good. Even if you think it's gonna be funny, it's not good. Good if someone doesn't know what's coming.

[Kristen Joy]

Trust factor. That's, that's going on.

[Brian Green]

I mean, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. There was a guy that I knew when I worked at a, At a small startup company, and he was Ari Shafir. He was the guy who. Lsd, Molly, coke, drinking, it didn't matter. This guy was like, he was in for Hunter S. Thompson level drugs, right? He did it all for it all, up for it all, did it all, came into work on it. Everybody knew it. He was unapologetic about it, but he got his work done, so everybody kind of just dealt with him. Right.

[Kristen Joy]

Functioning.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. When you work at a startup, one leg falls over and everybody goes crashing down. So you go, oh, he's on lsd. Well, it's a Tuesday. I guess that makes sense. But there was a. We all had kind of this understanding that when you went out with this guy you watched, you got to be careful. Very much so. You had to be mindful of your drink, you had to be mindful of what was happening because he was known to send people into outer space without telling them. And I think to myself now, after I'm listening to this, with some perspective as an old man, that's fucked up.

[Kristen Joy]

It is.

[Brian Green]

You could kill somebody. You could kill somebody. Or at the very least, send them into a really deep, dark hole.

[Kristen Joy]

It's not nice.

[Brian Green]

No, it's not nice.

[Kristen Joy]

Not nice.

[Brian Green]

I went to a party in the woods. You know, same kind of group of people I'm talking about with Ralph and Chelsea. Big party in the woods. I think I've told this story before. At the end of the night, there's a huge bonfire, drum circle, hundred people all with drums around, people dancing in the middle.

[Kristen Joy]

Nakedness was absolutely happening.

[Brian Green]

Absolutely. Titties, tatas, wing wings, they're all flying everywhere. Not everybody, but some people, right? Usually the people better looking, let's be honest about it, right? This is their moment to shine. And they did because everyone was watching them dance all high and fucking up. And there was a girl who was dancing around the fire. Beautiful woman that a lot of, I think a lot of people, men and women, like, were always like, oh, I won't say, but she was dancing around. I was playing the drums with Raphael next to me. I was just drinking. That's it. Because I at that time was not doing drugs. Like I just, yeah, I. It kind of phased its way out of my life. And she has this jar.

[Kristen Joy]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

Of liquid around her neck. And I can see her taking a sip every once in a blue moon. And then I see her at times handing it to other. Like this jar. It's like a Mason jar. A small mason jar. Looks like water. Right. And I'm drumming and everyone's sweating. It's moon juice. That's exactly what it is, moon juice. And at some point I get up, I put the drum down, I start dancing and I'm dancing around and with her and she says, do you want a drink? And I said, yes. And she stops and she opens up the Mason jar and I drink. I honest to God thought it was water. I thought it was water. Only hours later did I realize that it wasn't water. When I was flying, flying. And it took me a while to recognize because I had been drinking all night long. It took me a while to recognize what was going on. But that is what was going on and I enjoyed the moment. But days later I thought to myself, that's kind of fucked up. Like you gotta give a brother a warning. Right? Right.

[Kristen Joy]

I guess she just thought you knew.

[Brian Green]

I guess she could make the assumption that if you're at the party in the woods, the Mason jar hanging around my neck is not water. You don't carry your water out in a mason jar hanging around your neck in between your naked titties. Uh huh.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. No, there was special.

[Brian Green]

While you're dancing in the hundred person drum circle with a bonfire behind it, like something straight out of the movie the Doors, here's Brian.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

One could infer, one could conclude reasonably, yes, it's not water. But hey, listen, I was young and I didn't know what's going on. But you know, the night ended up okay. I ended up safe. I was honestly. They had like security. They had a farmhouse.

[Kristen Joy]

There's also a difference between someone slipping something in your drink. Like in that situation.

[Brian Green]

I agree.

[Kristen Joy]

In your home, with your wife and.

[Brian Green]

Children upstairs at the party in the woods, there are, it's, it's expected, it's accepted, there are safety measures in place. And by that I mean like legitimate paramedics. In the community that are hanging out, waiting for anything bad to happen. And sometimes it does, you know, and they. They do their thing. There were precautions taken as well as a thousand other people who understand what it's like to be fucked up. Mindset.

[Kristen Joy]

The mindset.

[Brian Green]

If someone came into my home and dropped something in my drink. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

I say, I'm out. One day, somebody came over to fill in.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Tina, I know it would be you, Tina. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

And the next thing you know, you're fucked up. Kids are here. Astrid's here.

[Brian Green]

I mean, no.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. No, that's not cool.

[Brian Green]

That's why when I went to do the. The mushroom ceremony.

[Rachel]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

With the high priestess, I came home very late, and I came home, I waited till I was absolutely ready to try, but then. Then again, I was not like it. This was not that I was not like, oh, right. Yeah. As a matter of fact, it was a very light situation. But I agree with you. If someone came in and did that to me, I would. Not only would I be panicking, probably I would be fucking pissed. I would be really pissed and asked her to be double pissed.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So I can understand why Bert Kreischer's wife is a little skeptical of Ari's apology because, you know. And listen, we like Ari. I'm not saying that Ari's a bad guy. I think Ari was misguided in that moment.

[Kristen Joy]

I think he was gonna have to clean them, obviously.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, sure. Yeah. But, I mean, it's out there, so why not make a judgment? It's not like they're not talking about it. It's not like some secret Ari told us, and I'm letting it out of the bag.

[Kristen Joy]

Secret at the comedy show?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, secret at the comedy show in front of a thousand other people.

[Kristen Joy]

That's part of his act.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And. And actually, my blind date is at a comedy show also.

[Kristen Joy]

I can't wait to hear about it.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right, let's do this. Let's take a short break, and when we get back, I'll tell you about my boy blind date.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, okay.

[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 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 212-433. 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. Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection. Made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple.

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[Brian Green]

Asterid has made a friend, and she's made a friend. And this lady is very. Not like, I like the lady, too. There are. She's a very cool lady.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Like, perfect.

[Kristen Joy]

Made a friend.

[Brian Green]

Astrid made a friend.

[Kristen Joy]

I love it.

[Brian Green]

I love it, too. I mean, I said lots of friends, but she made a new friend. Yeah, right? And I say new friend, like, over the last year. Yeah, okay.

[Kristen Joy]

That's always nice.

[Brian Green]

And they. They've gotten really close, and I appreciate what's going on here. I like the. I. I think it's healthy when two people in a relationship are healthy inside and outside the relationship. Love it. All about it. And I love the woman, so I'm all about it. Twice. I'm like, yeah, and I like her, too, but the husbands have not met yet.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh.

[Brian Green]

And so husbands, like, okay, cool. Our wives are friends. Yeah, it's cool, dude. Well, we can hang out with each other. Yeah, whatever. I mean, whatever the dude is all about, I'm all about it. I mean, I'm. I can get along with a fucking rock. It's not hard for me to get along with people. And. Yeah. I mean, you have to be a real fucking nidnik for me not to get. To get along with you. And that's just the way that I. That's the way that I am. And when I.

[Kristen Joy]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you too. A lot of people. A lot of the people that we know.

[Kristen Joy]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Like, we're not fussy people. Right? We're pretty easy to get along with. So for a couple of months, there's been an attempt to get everybody together. But usually it's just the girls go out for whatever reason. Cause we have kids and somebody's gotta have a baby center. The whole thing. There's just minutiae.

[Rachel]

You.

[Brian Green]

So last week, I'm in the bathroom. Astrid's gonna take a shower. I'm brushing my teeth, doing whatever. And Astrid says, okay, we're gonna go out with this lady and her husband. Yeah, you guys have to get along. And I'm like, what? And she's like, you have to get along. Like there's no choice. You have really gotta make an effort to get along with this guy. And I'm like, are you setting us up on a blind date? And she's like, I just. I just want everything to go well. Like, she's all fussy about it. And I'm like, why would you think that anything. Now you're making it weird. Now it's weird.

[Kristen Joy]

You weren't even thinking about it.

[Brian Green]

I would have never thought about this at all. I would have literally thought about it 12 minutes before we showed up to wherever we're going. Right? Which happens to be a comedy show. I would have thought about it 12 minutes before wherever we're going is wherever we're going. Why is it weird? Why do you have to make it weird? And I'm not trying to make it weird. I'm not trying to make it weird. I just want to make sure that you two get along. And I'm like, we'll get along. But now that you told us we have to get along, now we're not gonna get along. Now everything's going to go sideways. I have to. I got to put the good perfume on. What do you want me to do? I gotta, like. Do you need me to shave or. I don't.

[Rachel]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy]

Come out with your best.

[Brian Green]

You gotta understand, it doesn't work like that for guys. I can understand it might work like that sometimes for women. Right? Is that their peculiar. Their personalities and their peculiarities and sometimes, you know, whatever. Listen, there's lots of guy friends that I probably have where Astrid thinks the wives are like, whatever, you know? Okay. I don't act like that. I don't work like that. I will get along with whoever because I want your relationship to be fine. We aren't going to be whatsapping each other. I'm not going to be judging his clothing. I'm not worried about you know, I'm not worried about what he drinks or, you know, what his house looks like. I don't give a shit. The guy is a guy. He's a guy. Okay? He's a dude. Is he breathing? Can he talk? If he can talk, she's like, that's not what I'm saying. I just want to make sure everything goes right. And I'm like, oh, my God, you're setting us up on a blind page.

[Kristen Joy]

There have been times when it happened. Hasn't gone right.

[Brian Green]

No. Okay, but a little clarification to defend Astrid a little bit. There are friends that she has had where the husbands are not my favorite people in the world. Right. But I have never once made a deal about it.

[Kristen Joy]

I was gonna say that almost could usually be the case of like, you know, you're just not gonna automatically wanna force them every time. Everybody loves each other.

[Brian Green]

You're gonna. You roll the dice on personalities. Right. May for the sake of getting along.

[Kristen Joy]

Well, yeah. At dinner maybe.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Maybe we're like best buds immediately. Maybe everything goes swimmingly. Right. If the guy doesn't kick me in the fucking nuts.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Then I don't imagine we're not going to get along. Not to mention it's like it's. It's not a big deal, but we're making it a big now. You're making it a big deal now. I got a lot of pressure on me to like perform or something. I have performance anxiety about this now. I feel like I gotta be something to this guy. Like we had to be, you know, I don't know, we have to text each other and stuff. Guys don't do that.

[Kristen Joy]

I know. They just. I think they both just really want you two to like, be like really like each other too. And then that way you can do stuff.

[Brian Green]

That's right. You know, as a couple. We can go on vacation. They're imagining that, you know, we're gonna buy real estate together. It's a far flung location. Yeah. Him and I are going to be sharing a bed or something. I don't know what's going to be.

[Kristen Joy]

Playing golf with him while they're shopping.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. We're gonna be hugging and drinking whiskey at three in the morning. You know, not only. That's like moonshot type stuff. Stuff. It doesn't happen like that. Like, we have some friends. We have some friends that we've been out with a couple times. I love them. Right. I love the woman and I like the guy too. And I said to Astrid after one time we Went out, I said I could see all the families going on a vacation together. Right. And she was like, really? And I said, yeah. And she goes, oh, I didn't think you liked him that much. And I was like, well, I don't have to be in love with the guy. I don't have to. We don't have to kiss. I mean, we don't have to kiss goodbye. It's not like that. I'm just sharing with you that, you know, families with kids, sometimes it's hard to get the right mix. And these are cool people. And, you know, I could see us, you know, taking a little vacay together. A dip out. Yeah. And I think that Astrid wants that same reaction.

[Kristen Joy]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

From this particular interaction. So I'm gonna have to follow up with you guys and let you know. Of course he'll be listening. And then now it's twice as weird because everyone's listening to me talking about it on the commercial break.

[Kristen Joy]

I think you go in low, go.

[Brian Green]

In with low expectations.

[Kristen Joy]

Low expectations is always the way to go.

[Brian Green]

It's a blind date. This is exactly the way I would think about a blind date.

[Rachel]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy]

Go in with low expectations, and then that's how you're going to be pleasantly surprised.

[Brian Green]

I, I, I think everything's going to be just fine. Can we hold a conversation.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

For a couple of minutes. Do we all. We probably both now understand because we've probably both been prepped by our wives.

[Rachel]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

That it's important that we at least don't kill each other on the first day. We're not going to get into a fistfight.

[Kristen Joy]

There's not going to be a night strangling. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last eye and day. We're gonna get in a knife fight at the bar with the comedy show.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Not gonna be like that. Everything's gonna be fine. But if you expect us to be twiddling, you know, twatting each other immediately afterwards. Had a great day. This guy, everything. Heart emoji. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's not gonna happen like that.

[Rachel]

That.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Because I have been, I have been seeing my coffee boyfriend Lance for a.

[Kristen Joy]

Couple years now, right?

[Brian Green]

No, not a couple years. Probably a year.

[Kristen Joy]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Okay. And now almost every morning we meet. Almost every morning. When he's here. When he's here in town. When I'm here in town.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

We meet almost every morning. We make an effort to we sit, we chat for 45 minutes to an hour. Just now, how am I getting to the point where I feel comfortable texting Lance about anything? Right? I sent him a picture of, you know, celebration on New Year's Eve. He sent me a picture of him hanging out wherever he's. It takes a little while.

[Kristen Joy]

It's like a little seed.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. It's not.

[Kristen Joy]

It was planted. And then you have to have the sunshine and the water and make it grow.

[Brian Green]

Exactly. It needs a little cultivation. And guys take a little extra cultivation to plant roots. It's just the way that we are. We are. And I am so much more like a woman than I ever have been like a man. But in this sense, with relationships, with guys, I understand the pathology of it. And while I may feel like I want to, you know, you go on a diet, a date, a first date, and it gets over with. And I've never been one of these guys wait three days, right? I text right after the date. I had a great time. Hope we can see each other again. Right? Or follow up with a little funny inside joke that happened or wasn't that guy crazy? Or whatever.

[Rachel]

Whatever.

[Brian Green]

Right? Guys, pathology doesn't work like that. We're not going to get done over the weekend and with our little thing. And then I'm going to be texting him. You know, you looked cute in those shoes.

[Kristen Joy]

So great to meet you.

[Brian Green]

Yes. Those pants are perfectly tailored.

[Kristen Joy]

Let's go out for beers next week.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Football tomorrow.

[Rachel]

Right?

[Kristen Joy]

Big game.

[Brian Green]

You want to do a little. A little shopping? Tea at high noon. It's not gonna happen. But with the Venezuelans especially, right? And now I know this of Astrid, too. It's like she also takes a while to get warmed up in friendships also. That's. That's the way that she is. But when she does, it's a text Arama going on. Like she's texting this woman 24 7. I can barely get her attention anymore. She's like, I'm talking to. You used to talk to me. But I. Okay, it's a. That's. But now that it's texts around, that's never going to happen. I don't do that with Raphael. I don't do it with Chrissy. I don't do it with Rachel. I don't do it with any of my very good friends. It's not Textarama. I do that on Instagram. I text random strangers about Venezuela.

[Kristen Joy]

I say that on Instagram.

[Brian Green]

I do that on Instagram. You want to get a Hold of me. You want to get a hold of me? Follow me on Instagram when you're a sick of things.

[Kristen Joy]

Anonymous. Perfect.

[Brian Green]

Anonymous. Parasocial. Anonymous. Parasocial. Completely unhealthy. That's the way I like to conduct my relationships. Period. The end. That's it.

[Kristen Joy]

Dive right in on those.

[Brian Green]

I'll have to let. I'll. I'll follow up with everybody. I'll let you know how it goes. It's gonna. Listen, it's gonna be fine.

[Kristen Joy]

It's gonna be fine. And a comedy club is good. That loosens everybody up. And you're not, you know, having to talk too much.

[Brian Green]

Everyone is going to. Everyone is going to be fine.

[Kristen Joy]

Are you going to that new one that's up in Alpharetta?

[Brian Green]

No, where we. I don't know where we're going. Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

What's that? On Helium or something that opened up.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Helium is up there. And they're. They're having some big names up there. The Helium Comedy Club. They. They who did.

[Kristen Joy]

They've had some big people. No, I've seen.

[Brian Green]

I think Nacho Red is going to be up there. Nacho Red? Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

There were some big people I saw coming there, and they're opening a new one near Ponce City Market. Oh, they are at the City Winery.

[Brian Green]

The Helium.

[Kristen Joy]

No, different. It's the laughing skull guy.

[Brian Green]

Oh, the laughing skull guy is gonna open up a new comedy.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

I'm excited.

[Brian Green]

Comedy here in Atlanta is taking off.

[Kristen Joy]

I mean, everybody needs to laugh.

[Brian Green]

Everybody needs to laugh. We've had that punchline here forever. There was a punchline down on Roswell Road. The real estate got really expensive. It moved into a dining room.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I forgot which comedian I. I was seeing recently. Was it Tom Papa? I think maybe.

[Kristen Joy]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And he said, you know, last time I was here, I played the punchline. You know, nothing like playing a diner. It's literally in the back of a diner.

[Kristen Joy]

I didn't realize it moved to the diner.

[Brian Green]

It moved to the diner, and. But apparently. And listen, I've been there a couple times, too. It's a very small room. Probably fits like 300 people. 200 maybe. It's a very small room, but then there's some big names that have played there also. The punchline, of course, has a very famous name. Now here's one last note about all of this podcast universe. Joe Rogan shit that's really interesting. Over the holiday, and then we'll. And then we'll wrap this up. Over the holiday, Joe Rogan and his comedy mothership posted A. I guess real is what you would call it. Post. Real deal saying from the Comedy Store and from the Comedy Mothership, Happy New Year and, you know, Happy holidays to everyone. And so everyone was wondering, like, did Joe Rogan buy the Comedy Store? Why?

[Kristen Joy]

The one in la?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, the one in la. The very famous one that Mitzi sure owned for a while. Now Paulie is in charge of it. But why was he tagging? Why were both of these clubs doing a post together? And I. I don't know the answer to that. I Googled it. I. Look, no, I wish. I wish I knew the answer to that. I don't really know. But, you know, it's very interesting if Joe Rogan now owns or his company now owns the Comedy Store. I haven't been good.

[Kristen Joy]

I mean, that would be a good business move.

[Brian Green]

Sure. He owns the Comedy Mothership, which apparently does very well in Austin. Right. And the Comedy Store is legendary.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I follow the Comedy Store. And you can go there on a Tuesday night and like, Bill Burr do an hour.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, I'm sure.

[Brian Green]

Randomly.

[Kristen Joy]

Right, right. That's where people.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, famous people, they go to work it out.

[Kristen Joy]

Work it out.

[Brian Green]

They go to work it out there. So, you know, that's like, legendary. And they have apparently have multiple rooms and, like, the up room and the down room. I don't know. I've never been there.

[Kristen Joy]

I haven't either.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. We were supposed to go there one time with Brian Moses, but we decided. We decided smartly against it, I think. Didn't Brian Moses invite us to do something at the one in San Diego?

[Kristen Joy]

Right, right, right.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was gonna have us down in the San Diego.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, the San Diego. That was the roast. The roast.

[Brian Green]

He was gonna have us do a roast.

[Kristen Joy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And I think they're getting ready to do, like, season number three of those roasts or something. I hope Brian is doing well.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know, he was part of that Kill Tony ilk, and then they kind of split off for whatever reason, and. And now he's doing that. But, you know, I like Brian. He was a lot of fun. I loved having him on, and he was very gracious to invite us. But then I had surgery.

[Kristen Joy]

Well, right.

[Brian Green]

And so we couldn't make it because he want. The weekend after I had surgery, and it just wasn't gonna happen, so. But anyway. All right, so Happy New Year. Happy New Year, everybody. Thank you for joining us on season number seven. We'll be back next Tuesday here. Same place, same bat time, same Bat channel.

[Kristen Joy]

We think.

[Brian Green]

We think we'll try. We'll do our best.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. And we'll try to think about it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And if you want to get involved, you can go to YouTube.com thecommercialbreak, restream, IO or twitch, any of those places and find us. And then you can also jo jump in the chat. We'll be happy to answer questions. And soon we'll let you jump into the conversation via audio and video. What do you think?

[Kristen Joy]

I think we should do it.

[Brian Green]

I like it. What are you doing this weekend?

[Kristen Joy]

You know, no plans. It's supposed to rain really hard on Saturday.

[Brian Green]

Oh, it is.

[Kristen Joy]

We, Jeff and I were saying we could just have that day to decompress.

[Brian Green]

Noemi's making chili. It'll last for five days around here. So, I mean, we got extra people in the house, so maybe three days. But that chili, it gets better every day. It does better every day.

[Kristen Joy]

Like a good spaghetti sauce does the same thing too.

[Brian Green]

I love fucking chili. I have become such a chili. My dad used to make a killer chili. But as a kid, for some reason, I just didn't like it. Maybe because my dad and I didn't like each other and so I didn't like what he was making. But now I have become the biggest chili fan.

[Kristen Joy]

We should have a chili cookie. Do you cook it?

[Brian Green]

Neph. Do I cook it? I don't cook anything.

[Kristen Joy]

I was gonna say we should have a chili cooking day. Cause my brother in law is a big chili cooking master.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

And he said he gave me the recipe. I'm dying to try it.

[Brian Green]

I would love that. Next week we'll talk about our trip down to Gulf Shores. All the big. All the stuff that happened. Our trip to Houston, all the big stuff that happened. Lots of funny stuff to tell you there. And then I will share with you now because I won't tell. Maybe I'll tell. The story then is that I cooked my very first egg that was not scrambled for my daughter on Astrid's birthday. I gave her a little break. The kids were going hungry, she was sleeping. And I was like, I don't know what to do.

[Kristen Joy]

What style was it?

[Brian Green]

Sunny side up.

[Kristen Joy]

Sunny side up.

[Brian Green]

Sunny side up. Sunny side Up.

[Kristen Joy]

Well, that's perfect. Yeah, you should definitely have that in your recipe box.

[Brian Green]

I had no idea how to do this.

[Kristen Joy]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And my son said, there is a Peppa Pig episode about sunny side up eggs. And I said, thanks, kid, but I don't think Peppa Pig is going to be teaching me about how to cook a sunny side up egg. And it did. Cue to me watching Peppa Pig. And I followed the instructions to the tea and it worked.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And my daughter said, it's good egg, dad.

[Kristen Joy]

And I said, well, good job.

[Brian Green]

You're a good egg too, kid.

[Kristen Joy]

I love it.

[Brian Green]

All right. And I love you. And I love you. And everybody loves everybody. Hey, we're all going to get through this. Take a deep breath. We gotta rev down a little bit. Everybody needs to rev down a little bit. So our hearts and our thoughts and our prayers go out to this woman.

[Rachel]

The world.

[Brian Green]

The world. Yeah. Honestly, the world. But especially to this woman.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

This awful, terrible news. Terrible news. And the people of Venezuela, let's listen to them. Let's respect their objectives. What's done is done. Let's get behind mind bringing back democracy to Venezuela, please. I know the people who listen to this show understand. But you know, if I change one mind, I've done it. If I change one mind, you know. Bye. See you later. Bye. So, yeah, so we'll be back next Tuesday, 1 o', clock, next Thursday, 1 o', clock, Wednesday and Friday at least episodes. We might start running some TCB classics on Friday. So pay attention, attention to that. And maybe next Tuesday I'll throw out one of our last interviews. We'll do that. We talked with the very lovely Jeff Hiller. Jeff Hiller, yes. There you go. Jeff Hiller was lovely from. So what's the show?

[Kristen Joy]

Somebody somewhere.

[Brian Green]

Somebody somewhere on HBO Emmy award winner Jeff Hiller. That's a first.

[Kristen Joy]

And yeah, yeah, Emmy award winner. He's having a huge moment right now. I hope it continues. He's a great. He's a really fun guy to talk to.

[Brian Green]

We had a lot of fun talking to the guy. I don't think we talked much about anything he wanted to talk about, but we had fun talking.

[Kristen Joy]

He seemed to be up for whatever.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, he was just having a good time. We were just all having a good time. Yeah, Jeff Hiller. Maybe we'll drop that episode on Tuesday. So stay tuned. The schedule is flexible. We know Wednesdays and Fridays. At the very least you'll get an episode of the commercial break, but probably more. So stay tuned. It's gonna be a fun season seven. Okay. You can check us out at the commercial break on Instagram. Do me a favor. If you want to get a hold of us, DM us there. If you have the phone number, great. You can still use it, but DM us because I can check Instagram from anywhere and respond to you.

[Kristen Joy]

And you're always checking Instagram now.

[Brian Green]

Always checking.

[Kristen Joy]

Always on there though.

[Brian Green]

Very important. A whole of Venezuela is waiting for what Ryan has to say. Yes tcppodcast.com free sticker go to the drop drop down menu and of course live on YouTube.com the commercial break all the episodes audio and video right there. Okay, I guess that's all I can do for today. I think so tell you that I love you.

[Kristen Joy]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

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

[Kristen Joy]

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