TCB Caputophobia!

Summary

The Commercial Break — "TCB Caputophobia!"

Date: February 21, 2024
Hosts: Bryan Green & guest cohost Tina

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Commercial Break takes a deep dive into the world of phobias—rational and irrational—guiding listeners through the bizarre, the common, and the absolutely absurd fears people claim to suffer from. From personal anecdotes about deep water and birds, to mockery of outlandish phobia lists, Bryan and Tina keep the banter rolling. The centerpiece of the episode is a characteristically sharp, comedic takedown of TV medium Teresa Caputo’s latest show, with the hosts eviscerating her methods and persona in a playfully skeptical tone.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

1. Banter & Personal Phobias (00:00–07:30)

• Opening banter: Hawaiian Shirt Day reminder sets a jokey, irreverent tone.
• Do you have phobias?
  • Tina: Deep water and the ocean (“If I can see land, I’m a lot happier.”—01:30)
  • Bryan: Not paralyzed by deep water, but prefers lakes or pools.
• Submarine and ocean horror: Discussion of the Titan sub disaster (“That, to me, is nightmare fuel.”—03:31); both agree space death would be preferable to drowning.
• Bird fears: One of Bryan’s kids fears owls; both recount stories of intimidating birds and raptors carrying off squirrels.
  • Bryan: “Cycle of life, kid.”—07:30

2. The World of Phobias: From Relatable to the Ridiculous (07:30–21:00)

• Bryan browses “most common phobias” list live:

  • Claustrophobia/Spelunking: Both would never do caves or cave-diving.

    • Tina: “That movie ‘Descent’, it took me three sittings just to get through it.”—08:02

  • Isolation tanks & deep meditative states: Bryan compares the experience to a “K-hole”; they riff on the oddity of Instagramming an ayahuasca ceremony.

  • List of strange phobias:

    • Arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth)
    • Arithmophobia (fear of numbers)
    • Astrophobia (fear of thunder/lightning)—both claim to be “brontophiliacs” (12:50)
    • Autonomophobia (fear of human-like figures, e.g., animatronics)
    • Botanophobia (fear of plants)—“How do you even function if you have that one?” (17:16)
    • Cacophobia (fear of ugliness): “Well, you’re not allowed here at the commercial break.”—17:42
    • Coulrophobia (fear of clowns): Both dislike clowns, find them pointless.
    • Chronophobia/Chronomentrophobia (fear of time/clocks)

  • Notable moment (14:31): Tina tells a harrowing personal story about a roller coaster bar coming loose: “I thought I was going to die.”

3. The Caputo Segment: “Caputophobia!”

Set Up (21:00–26:36)

• Bryan transitions to his real “irrational fear”—psychics, and particularly Teresa Caputo. Announces a segment on her new show after venting his professional grievance:
  • “This woman is a true whack job, in my opinion. And she’s doing a con job on everybody out in the audience.” (26:36)

The Take Down: Teresa Caputo’s New Show (31:16–54:38)

• Bryan & Tina watch and deconstruct a scene: Caputo “spontaneously” gives readings at Hillbilly Hot Dog (Virginia).
• Ridicule of production & methodology:
  • Her “hair helmet”:
    • Bryan: “There’s gotta be something in that hair… a pressure device… or better yet, just an actual earpiece.”—27:56
    • Tina: “I don’t trust her anyway. I certainly don’t trust her hair.”—32:50
  • Staged “randomness”: Both hosts mock the notion she just wanders into restaurants and finds unsuspecting people to “read”—they break down the obvious pre-production, producer research, and presigned waivers.
    • “They probably had a production crew there since the early morning, and Teresa rolls up at noon to get her lunch or whatever.”—38:29
• Classic Caputo lines get roasted:
  • On claiming “spirits” make her cough and rub her throat to signify cause of death:
    • Bryan: “I got a bunch of jizz in the back of my throat.”—36:26
    • Tina: “She started rubbing her throat and coughing the minute she walked in there.”—37:27
  • Generic readings—“Your mom says she’s proud of you, you’re twice the mom she ever was.”
    • Bryan: “Now you’re interpreting what the ghosts are saying in some kind of psychological, therapeutic way. Gotcha. 10-4. You’re now a ghost therapist.”—40:49
  • On uncovering “details”—e.g., a loved one’s favorite shirt or bracelet:
    • Tina: “He’s sitting there holding up a shirt. Like, what are you talking about?”—45:54
• Memorable roasting:
  • “I actually think I believed Ms. Cleo more than I believed her.”—49:41 (Bryan)
  • “How can you look these poor people in their face and say that, you lie, you lie.”—48:41 (Tina)
• Emotional manipulation critique:
  • Bryan: “I’m not calling them gullible. I’m saying they desperately want to believe… but what I don’t do is I don’t make believe. I’m not playing make believe with other people’s emotions.”—46:36

4. Reflection & Wrap Up (54:00–end)

• Bryan extends an invite: “I welcome Teresa on the show. I’ll be fair. If you give me details not on social media, you’ll turn me around.”—53:55
• Theme of healthy skepticism: Both reassert their willingness to change their minds if ever truly convinced.
• **Sign off with signature catchphrases and well-wishes for the listeners.

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• On deep water fears:
  • “If I can see land, I’m a lot happier.” (Tina, 01:30)
• On Teresa Caputo’s methods:
  • “There’s gotta be something in that hair… or better yet, just an actual earpiece.”—27:56 (Bryan)
  • "I don’t trust her anyway. I certainly don’t trust her hair." —32:50 (Tina)
  • “I got a bunch of jizz in the back of my throat.” —36:26 (Bryan, grossing out Tina)
  • “She started rubbing her throat and coughing the minute she walked in there.” —37:27 (Tina)
  • “You nailed in this two and a half minute conversation. Exactly. Come on.” —42:11 (Bryan)
  • “How can you look these poor people in their face and say that, you lie, you lie.” —48:41 (Tina)
  • “I believed Ms. Cleo more than I believed Teresa Caputo.” —49:41 (Bryan)
• On Caputo’s tactics:
  • “They probably had a production crew there since the early morning, and Teresa rolls up at noon.”—38:29 (Bryan)
• On willingness to believe:
  • “I’m open minded about everything… but I’m not stuck to [my opinions]. And I’ve changed my mind a lot.”—53:59 (Bryan)
• On clowns:
  • “I don’t like clowns. Hate clowns.”—18:44 (Bryan)
  • “What is the point of a clown?” —19:02 (Bryan)

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Noteworthy Segments with Timestamps

• Deep Water, Space and Submarine Fears:
  • 01:14–04:46
• Birds, Predators and Children’s Fears:
  • 05:00–07:30
• Ridiculous Phobias (Live React):
  • 11:36–21:00
• Caputo Caputophobia Segment Start:
  • 26:36
• Dissection of Teresa Caputo’s Show, Mockery of Psychic Readings:
  • 31:16–54:38

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Final Thoughts

TCB Caputophobia! is a signature Commercial Break episode: smartly silly, irreverent, and self-aware. The hosts skewer pop culture with affection and blunt honesty, never hiding their skepticism, but always allowing their listeners to make up their own minds—especially when it comes to the deeply personal realm of believing in psychics. The Caputo roast is both hilarious and, at times, pointedly critical of emotional exploitation.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

Expect plenty of belly laughs, wild side tangents, personal confessions, and a delicious takedown of psychic television. If you’ve ever wondered about irrational fears—or asked yourself “What does Teresa Caputo have in her hair?”—this episode is for you.

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Best to you, and best to you out there in the podcast universe!

Transcript

[A]

Oh, and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans. On this episode of the commercial break, I don't think any doctor diagnoses this. I think people self diagnose. They do it by looking at the same website I'm looking at. Oh, I got a fear of the figure 8. I got a fear of. Hey, hon, I just learned that I have gotten sagaphobia, which is the fear of my wife. So if you don't mind, I'm gonna go to the shoe show. Yeah. 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 the temporary tata tat Tina co host. Best of you, Tina. Best of you, Brian, and best of you out there in the podcast universe. How are you doing?

[B]

I'm doing great.

[A]

Yeah, you look great. He. Thanks. Yeah, I like that blue color on you. Looks good. And the glasses, that's a whole. That's a whole thing you got going on there. Librarian, MILF or something like that.

[B]

You gotta, you gotta say age appropriate.

[A]

It's certainly age appropriate. Yes. I learned that recently, but we'll move on from that. Do you have a phobia? Do you have phobias? Do you have things that you fear?

[B]

Deep water.

[A]

Deep water. Deep water, Ocean.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

You don't want to be there?

[B]

No.

[A]

So crew's not good for you?

[B]

I've been on them. You know, if I can see land, I'm a lot happier.

[A]

Okay. So when you're on a cruise, you okay to sleep at night? You feel like everything's okay?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Is it just like the one I trust? Yeah. Is it like being in the, like on a dinghy in the open water kind of way or thinking about.

[B]

I would have a panic attack and die before we even made it out far enough for me to not be able to touch. Yeah.

[A]

You know, up until recently, I hadn't done a lot of open water ocean swimming. But over the last five or six years, since we've been overseas a number of times near the Mediterranean and Spain and other places, I found that, you know, we would go on a boat ride or whatever, and the captain inevitably stops in some beautiful location. But it's open water. I mean, it's like you're out in really deep water. I don't know how deep, but it's very deep. Yeah, it's deeper than I can see the bottom.

[B]

So then still put you in a boat to take you to land deep yeah.

[A]

Yes, that's exactly. That's exactly right. They put you in a boat, they drive around and they stop at some cove. But the COVID in and of itself is deep water. The waves are, you know, rolling and rocking. And I don't. I'm not. I don't love that sensation of swimming out in the open water, but I don't have a fear of it. It would. I would rather be in the lake or a pool. But I'm okay. Like, I'm not, you know. It doesn't, like, paralyze me. Would you be paralyzed by that kind of activity?

[B]

I've done that. Like the catamarans in the Bahamas and stuff like that. That's okay. If I can see land, I'm okay. It's when it's like so deep the water's black, you know, and there's no land in sight in every direction.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I feel very insecure.

[A]

I think I'm with you on that. I don't mind cruises because the cruise ships are so big.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I know that. There's always a chance something's going to happen.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you hear a lot. You hear all the horror stories. But the truth is, like, the cruise ships these days, they're so big, I think it's unlikely they would just capsize really quickly and I would be fallen to my death. Right. But that. Who is that fucking moron who took the people out to the Titanic on that little tin can he had? Remember that guy?

[B]

Yeah. No, I don't.

[A]

I don't even remember the name.

[B]

I don't remember his name.

[A]

Titan. The Titan submarine. That, to me is nightmare fuel. Absolutely nightmare.

[B]

100%.

[A]

Why in the world I'd rather go to space. I don't like the thought of going to space either, but I would rather go to space. I would rather go to space because I. At least then I know that the death would be rather instant.

[B]

Not drowning.

[A]

Yeah, it's not drowning. It is running out of oxygen.

[B]

That's fine.

[A]

But I'll fall asleep.

[B]

Water in my lungs.

[A]

Yeah. Like, my brain would just go to sleep. No sharks, no creaking noises. No giant hours of understanding that my death is probably really close and some idiot now is trying. And I just paid $500,000 to try to convince me everything is okay so fast.

[B]

No. No opportunity to even be afraid of.

[A]

It in space now you just implode, don't you? I don't think you actually implode. I think it's just like you. It just sucks all the oxygen. Yeah. I Think it's sleepy time, actually.

[B]

Night night.

[A]

But one of those guys went down there and they. Two days where they were looking for him and they could be down there and they're going to run. They had the timers on the news stations, like the running out of oxygen. So I couldn't. I couldn't catch my breath sometimes. I was like, oh, God. Just the thought. I mean, I don't care how rich they are, just the thought that they would die like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I'm watching this television show the other day and some person on the television, can't even remember who says that they had a fear of birds pecking their head open and eating their brains.

[B]

Where did you even come up with this idea?

[A]

I don't know. Yeah, that's birds the movie, the old Hitchcock.

[B]

I don't like the meat eating birds. I love songbirds. I'm songbird person. Yeah. No owls, no eagles, no falcons like that.

[A]

One of my kids has like a real fear of owls.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I think they're so cute there. She does not agree.

[B]

I don't want it coming near me.

[A]

Yeah. We were like walking outside the other day to the car. She's like, daddy, an owl. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, babe, there's no owls around here. And she's like, owl, daddy owl, please help. She was like trying to get in my arms. I was like, oh, Hunt, it's okay, it's okay. There's no howls.

[B]

Yeah, they're not going to peck you to death. They're going to eat you.

[A]

They're going right for your eyes.

[B]

Just the idea that something with no teeth can eat meat freaks me out.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. The kind of, the grabbings like that tearing beat. I get it, I get it. When I was probably in sixth grade, I was ran off with this girl in school and her mom was like the assistant principal or something. And we ran off to go kiss, you know, like sixth graders. Stupid. Yeah. It was after school, we ran off and there was like a stream, like little woods in a stream down by the school. So we ran down to the stream. Dusk, sun's going down. Probably winter months, I would imagine. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, an owl came swooping down and grabbed her hair. And I screamed like a little chicken. I mean, I was like a little weasel running out of there. I mean, I grabbed her. I was like, let's go.

[B]

They're terrifying. I think. I mean, I watched one land. It landed on my neighbor's deck and when it hit the deck, it was so big, it like shook the rail. And I was. I just went inside. I'm like, I'm not. No, I don't need to be this close to you.

[A]

We have these family of red hawks that live behind the house. They're so beautiful and they've got wingspans are like 10ft long.

[B]

You can feel them. It's intimidating. Yeah.

[A]

And so I'm always hoping that blue will accidentally be scooped up by one. Blue doesn't know how to go outside. Yeah. I've been sending her up, hoping that, that. That family of redhawks. But I've seen those red hawks take away squirrels, like baby squirrels, chipmunks, all kind of like they've just grabbed them out of the yard.

[B]

I love seeing them because I hate the rodents. So I like seeing those birds.

[A]

So it made me think. Yeah, yeah. That when they pick up those rodents and the rodents are like. One time I saw it and one of my kids was looking out the window with me and the kid goes. My kid goes, oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. Daddy the squirrel. And I was like, cycle of life, kid.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Cycle of life. You just gotta do that.

[B]

We got too many of those anyway.

[A]

So then he goes, he goes, what are they? What is the bird going to do with him? And I said, oh, I think they're just going to take it to the nest and play. Like, I couldn't bring myself to actually sell him. Yeah, that's lunch. That's dinner time. It's dinner time for the bird. So I thought I'd go through a list of some of these phobias, like the 50 most common phobias. I'm going to go through all of them. We'll just pick and choose what we want. Because I think there are a lot of people out there. I don't think I have an irrational fear. Like, I don't think I fear something irrationally. Heights is my biggest thing.

[B]

I call it a healthy respect for heights, a healthy respect for the sea and tight places like Cavern. That's blunking. The movie Descent. It took me three sittings just to get through it. Because I can't watch people getting stuck in tight places. Like, I physically react to that.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. I sometimes. Because I'm a glutton for punishment. I also, I'm not claustrophobic, but I would never go spelunking. I would never go. The even crazier. The cave divers, the guys and girls who go un. Exploring unexplored areas of this earth that are not only deep, small and dark, but then have water in if it's.

[B]

Not on my ways. Gps.

[A]

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. I don't need to be under the ground. I figure I'll be there soon, so I don't need to be under there prematurely.

[B]

No, my. Yeah, my. My boyfriend's grandson was watching a YouTuber who buried himself alive for seven days. And I'm like, why? He was raising money to go put wells in Africa. So kudos to him.

[A]

Great.

[B]

But again, if I can't. If I can't open the door or the window or. I'm not into it.

[A]

Yeah. No, no, no, no. There's a. I can't remember the name of the show. The Saint or something like that. The Sinner, I think is. Maybe it's called the Sinner. Do you remember the center?

[B]

I did Bill Pullman.

[A]

Bill Pullman, where he buried himself alive. That like third season.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where there was a kind of ritual where he buried himself alive.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

No, no. So hard to watch. Yep.

[A]

No, no, I've done a lot of weird rituals, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I've done ayahuasca, tantric yoga ceremonies, man moon cycles. I've done a lot of stuff. Do not put me underground. No, but I've heard about this. I've been in an isolation tank and I would love to go do it again. And I'd love to go do it where I could actually record it. So with the commercial break, the isolation tanks are enough for me. Like that will drive you insane.

[B]

Yeah. I don't know if I could mentally handle it.

[A]

You can, but it's. But you got to dig deep.

[B]

Deep meditative states, deep medicine, lots of gummies.

[A]

We were talking to Reggie Watson. He was. He was telling us about his experiences with ketamine. And I kind of liken the isolation tank to gay hole. A K hole. Yes, I do.

[B]

I totally.

[A]

There is a certain moment when all of the panic and fear, your brain just doesn't take it. You literally disassociate. And it's like right there that the. That the rubber meets the road. Then you understand why people do this for spiritual experiences. Because you're having one. But it's. It's pure panic induced. And if you go into one of those floating ones, forget about it now. You're just like. You're. You can't even feel your body. It's a totally weird sensation. And I would love to do it and then record it, but then am I going to be the weird guy? Who's bringing a bunch of recording equipment? You know what I'm saying? Like, why is that guy.

[B]

You understand this is an isolation.

[A]

Yeah. You're like these. I don't know. I'm not going to. I'm not going to say anything, like purely negative about this, but I will say it's kind of defeats the purpose. Talking about. Chrissy and I were talking about how I saw someone film for Instagram an ayahuasca ceremony with like, you know, a bunch of people sitting in a circle drinking ayahuasca. And I was like, doesn't. Why are you posting this on Instagram? Like, this should be something that is deeply personal. Deeply personal. And even though it was one person filming everybody else, if I was in that group, I'd be like, dude, don't put this on. Don't film this. I don't want this film. This is not going to be the prettiest time of my life. Yeah, blur my face. Blur me throwing up. Blur me screaming about my mother and how she abandoned me. Yeah, please. Yes. And if you don't mind, also delete the million deaths I'm about to experience. Thank you very much. So let's explore some of the.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Irrational fears. Rational or irrational. That people may have. I don't even know how to say this. Iraq, Iraqi Buddha. Trophobia. Iraq or booty. Trophobia. I don't even know how to say it. It's got so many letters in it. Fear of peanut butter. What? That is an irrational fear.

[B]

That's irrational.

[A]

Unless you are allergic to peanut butter.

[B]

But maybe that's what it is. Maybe they're so.

[A]

Maybe they're.

[B]

They know their bot. Their body's reacting with a fear. A fear state.

[A]

Yes. To keep you away from that I can understand. But that is not an irrational fear. That is a perfectly rational.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

If something can. I have a.

[B]

If they can kill you. Yeah.

[A]

I should be afraid of it. Of people putting their. A gun to my head. That is a rational fear.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Right. Arithmophobia, which is the fear of numbers. How do you even get around life?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Fear of numbers.

[B]

And why would you be afraid of numbers?

[A]

I have no idea.

[B]

I love numbers.

[A]

Astrophobia, which is the fear of thunder and lightning.

[B]

Oh, I love it.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, I guess you could be scared of lightning. That's a thing that could kill you.

[B]

It could, but it's so beautiful.

[A]

Oh, I love a good rainy night.

[B]

Me.

[A]

I love a good rainy storms.

[B]

The other night.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, I like it.

[B]

I'm a brontophiliac.

[A]

Brontophiliac.

[B]

Turned on by thunder and lightning.

[A]

Oh, you are?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, okay. I think I might be a brontophiliac too. Something about. Didn't they say, like, the negative ions, when the low pressure system and the high pressure system, the negative ions that are created, whatever, that. That actually has a. Has a physiological.

[B]

Some people do, yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Something about it that kind of makes us feel happy. I love it. Yeah, I love it too, man. The only thing I. The only complaint I have about Georgia storms, they don't last very long.

[B]

They don't.

[A]

They just breeze by in 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and then you're done with it. I want a good, like, sustained.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Thunder, lightning.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

30 minutes. I want it to be like three hours long. I like that kind of thing. In Chicago, we used to have thunderstorms that would last for days. It felt like maybe I was just a kid and it just was going by much slower back then. Astrophobia, which is a fear of space.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I would say that I have a healthy respect for space. I don't think I need to be there. If you're not meant to live there, I don't think I need to be. I love it.

[B]

I love watching me sky. The night sky is one of my favorites planetariums. I can't wait to live in Space City.

[A]

Space City. Oh, yeah, that's right. You're gonna live in Huntsville Space City. That's right, it is. Let's see. Autonophobia. Autonom phobia, which is the fear of human, like, figures. So not actual humans. But let's say you go to Disney World and you see those animatronics.

[B]

Yeah, those are kind of creepy. I say I'm afraid of them, but I don't like them. But I don't like any. Yeah, I don't. I get it.

[A]

Yeah. You're not like a. I don't think. I don't think of you as, like, a theme park no Type of girl. It's not my thing. Yeah. Like Six Flags. Cool.

[B]

Maybe.

[A]

Maybe you like roller coasters.

[B]

I used to. And then I had children and I got afraid of dying on them.

[A]

Oh, you did?

[B]

Because I had a couple malfunction when I was a kid, at which point you think you're invincible and you don't care, but. Yeah, then I had children and I. Yeah, I can't do it anymore. The thrill seeking kind of waned.

[A]

Yeah. You know, Astrid, you still really love roller coasters. And Then we went to Europa park, which is like a cheap knockoff of Disney, but done really, really well.

[B]

I hear it's great.

[A]

It was super fantastic. It's in the middle of nowhere Germany. Middle of nowhere Germany. And we went there, and we spent two days there. Freezing cold outside. It was, like, in January. Freezing cold. But all the roller coasters were open. Everything was open. They were just, you know, hey, it's this Germany. It's cold sometimes. We're going to keep it open. And it is a Disney World like place. They have parks and hotels that are attached, and it's a whole themed land. But then they have, like, you know, what was it like, Ryan the Rat instead of Mickey Mouse? It's like, everything. Yeah. It's literally coffee, but it's good. So we go there, and Astrid and I had enjoyed roller coasters up until this point in our relationship. And then one night, we went on a roller coaster, and Astrid got off and she did not feel well. She felt physically sick. And ever since then, it's hard for her to get on another roller coaster.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She's like, I just don't want to be sick.

[B]

I've gotten so far as sitting in them and they're strapping me in, and then I make everybody stop so they can let me off because I'm, like, going to have a panic attack. Oh, I rode the scream machine in high school and my seat belt thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know that bar?

[A]

Oh, the bar that comes down came.

[B]

Up, and it was during a backwards run. Remember when they used to do that?

[A]

They run it back.

[B]

Mine came up and I thought I was. That was it. I was going to die. So I've had things go.

[A]

So what did you do, just pull it back down?

[B]

Well, I just held and, like, I started screaming and crying, you know.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

When we came back through, they stopped it and got us all off and then shut it down. But, yeah, I was terrifying.

[A]

Yeah, I would.

[B]

I was okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Then after I had kids, we got on the screen machine. Gavin's like 4 or 5 years old. I was like, you have to let us off. My poor kid starts crying because he wants to ride the thing.

[A]

Of course he does.

[B]

And I had to wait for his dad to come back and get him and take him because he was riding with heaven.

[A]

So.

[B]

Yeah. No, I can't do it. I just can't.

[A]

You just, like, got this super panicky feeling that you. Something bad was gonna go hat was gonna happen.

[B]

And I couldn't be on that thing. Not certainly with my son next to me. So, yeah, that's it. No more of that.

[A]

I do have a little bit of a fear about my kids riding roller co for the first time.

[B]

Yeah. Because it is nerve wracking.

[A]

It is nerve wracking. I think because as a parent, I don't want to see my child suffer unnecessarily. Like, what if they really don't like it? We've taken it on small rides and they liked it, but they were fearful at first, then they liked it by the end. But now I don't want to see them suffer unnecessarily. I think I. I think I can pick out a couple of the kids who will be okay and a couple of the kids who are probably not going to like the experience. But then I also have this, like. I guess I do have a little bit of an irrational fear that something's going to go wrong and a kid's going to go flying out of the fucking.

[B]

Yeah. I don't want to lose my child and I don't want my child to lose me. So just don't do it together.

[A]

No, Botanophobia, which is the fear of plants. Botanophobia. Yeah, the fear of. Yeah, they're everywhere. How do you even function if you have a irrational. I mean, I say you need the.

[B]

Oxygen they put out. Come on.

[A]

Yeah, and I don't think that's a rational fear. Like, most plants aren't going to harm. You do. Do yourself a fav. Do not put them in your mouth.

[B]

Yeah, that's right. Only, only from the grocery store.

[A]

I told my kids, I said plant. These are all. These things are pretty. Look at. Don't put them in your mouth because who fucking knows, right? Cacophobia, which is the fear of ugliness. Well, you're not allowed. You're not allowed here at the commercial break. Probably not listening on radio. Catarophobia, which is the fear of mirrors. Mirrors.

[B]

Is that the fear of the mirror or the reflection?

[A]

Doesn't say. Well, let me, let me click through here. Oh, they're calling it spectrophobia. Why did the other one call it caterophobia? Okay. Spectrophobia, a type of anxiety disorder classified as a specific phobia, is the fear of mirrors or the fear of what may be reflected in them. It may also be referred to as.

[B]

Like, Bloody Mary's gonna show up in there.

[A]

Yeah, okay, that I get. Yeah. But that's just kids being dumb.

[B]

Yeah. It's more of a fear of apparitions than the mirror itself.

[A]

Right. Cowler phobia. Which is fear of clowns. I do not like clowns. Hate. Yes.

[B]

I wouldn't say fear, but I do not like them. I don't want them coming near me. I don't hang out where they hang out. Yeah, it's a no for me.

[A]

I just don't understand it.

[B]

It's the makeup and the masking. I'm just against it, but it's.

[A]

Yeah, I don't have a fear of them. I don't like them and not at all. My question is, what is the fucking point? What is the point of a clown?

[B]

They say it's to entertain and to make a clown.

[A]

I've never been entertained by a clown except for Bozo the Clown.

[B]

Okay, I did like Baskets.

[A]

Okay. Baskets was really funny. But that's a different story altogether.

[B]

You are not a clone.

[A]

Chronophobia. Chronophobia, which is the fear of time. How do you survive if you have a fear of time? How do you even do that?

[B]

How do you even identify that you have that fear?

[A]

By looking at the clock, I suppose. But there's a fear of clocks also, which is chronomenophobia. These words are really hard to say. And why do they make chrono. Mentrophobia. Chronometrophobia is the fear of clocks. Now, do you have is something. Is it like. Is. Are you born like this? I'm wondering.

[B]

Yeah. Do you develop this.

[A]

Do you develop this over time or are you born with this? Do you develop this over the time you're afraid of? Just curious. Let's see. Doma tophobia, which is fear of houses. God bless you, child. What do you live in?

[B]

A tent?

[A]

Yeah, well, there's lots of people.

[B]

Apartments or.

[A]

Decidophobia, which is exactly what.

[B]

It sounds like in fear.

[A]

It's the fear of making decisions. Okay, we'll get back to this. And I have a fear of psychics. That's what I have a fear of. So we're going to review some more Teresa Caputo. She got a brand new show out. I want to talk to you about it. Yes, they just keep this training of going. So why are we paying Teresa Caputo to lie to everybody on air? I just don't understand it. I don't get it. Obviously I have a grievance with Teresa and. Yeah, we'll get into it. Sounds good after these words.

[C]

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[A]

All right here with Tina talking about rational or irrational fears. Here's a. I just want to do a couple of more because I think this is really interesting. Ginu phobia, which is the fear of knees. Knees.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

Now sometimes I look at my knees and I am fearful, but it's not because I'm fearful of my actual knees, it's that my knees are showing my real age. Don't you hate that? Your elbows and your knees. So now I've started moisturizing the shit out of myself every night. Like I'm just an astro comes in one day and she's like, what the are you doing? And I'm like, I'm moisturizing. And she's like, hun, you don't have to moisturize every bit of your body with four different moisturizers. Which is what I was doing. And I'm like, you don't. And she's like, no, just use one. There's one for your body and one for your face. And I'm like, there's one for your face. I didn't know that. I've been using the one on my knees for my face. Am I supposed to know this? No one taught me. Oh, this has got to be a tough one. Happy phobia. The fear of touch.

[B]

Oh, that's terrible.

[A]

Terrible. I wonder who suffers with that. I mean I like being touched. I don't like being overly touched. There's this thing, one of the Venezuelans are very touchy feely kind of people. And I guess I am too with people that I know and I know it's okay to touch. Like, you know, put your hand on a knee or on the back while you're talking to them or whatever. I love to give hugs and stuff like that to some people, not everybody. So don't come up to me in public. I don't want to hear that. I'm not looking to, I'm not Going to give hugs. Hey, brother. I mean, I guess if someone was like, hey, brother, love the commercial break, I'd be like, okay, like, air hug. Air hug. But if, like, you know, living the commercial break. But the Venezuelans love to touch. And we were on this trip one time around Spain. Like the. Astrid's uncle took it on this, like, amazing trip, driving 10 days through Spain, staying at castles like old castles have been turned into hotels by the government and this private company. And so it's just like this amazing trip that we went on, but we had to drive in two or three cars because it was like 12 of us. And one of the relatives that I got stuck with was sitting in the middle backseat. We're driving like, I was driving like an suv and they were sitting in the middle bench. In the middle of the bench. And she kept on pulling my arm, like, mira, mira, mira, mira. Which is like, look right, look or see. And she kept on like grabbing my shoulder. And eventually I was just like hunched right over the.

[B]

Trying to get away from it.

[A]

I just wanted to get away. That's all I wanted to do.

[B]

I just didn't want to be crawling into the windshield.

[A]

Yes. You know how, like people touch you sometimes and then you're like that, that part of your body starts to get. You get irritated. It's like you have a negative energy build up and you're like, stop, grab it off. Octophobia, which is a fear of the figure 8. Octophobia.

[B]

How do you even identify that?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

My mind is blown.

[A]

My mind is blown too. I mean, listen, I'm not saying that. I mean, this is irrational. Clearly the figure 8 is not going to hurt you in any meaningful way.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So. But, and I'm not diminishing the fact that people probably do have a fear. Some people, some small minority of human beings have a fear of the figure 8. But you're right about this. How do you even determine that the figure 8 is bothersome to you? Yeah, like you look at and then.

[B]

What doctor diagnoses it?

[A]

I don't think any doctor diagnoses this. I think people self diagnose. They do it by looking at the same website I'm looking at. Oh, yeah, I got a fear of the figure 8. I got a fear of touch. Hang on. I just learned that I have bagophobia, which is the fear of my wife. So if you don't mind, I'm gonna go to the shoe show.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Papyrophobia, which is the fear of paper.

[B]

That's a terrible fear to have.

[A]

That is a terrible fear. Technophobia, the fear of any kind of technology. The Solis phobia, the thalassophobia. Thalassophobia is the fear of the ocean. Thalassophobia.

[B]

We have that one.

[A]

Yeah, we have that one. Okay.

[B]

Now there's a name for it.

[A]

Wikiphobia, which is the fear of witches or witchcraft.

[B]

Okay, Well, I mean, I guess I could hurt you.

[A]

Yeah, I guess I could. Zugar phobia, which is the fear of vacuum cleaner, which every dog in the world has, by the way. Every dog, yeah. So there's also ghostophobia. Right. There's people that have a fear of ghosts. I don't know what the official term is, a spirit phobia or whatever. Fear of ghosts. I have the opposite. I'm not afraid of ghosts. I'm afraid of the people who say they could talk to ghosts.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And I'm afraid of them because I want to watch. Of course. Caputa phobia. That's what I have, this caputa phobia. This woman is a true whack job, in my opinion. And she's doing a con job on everybody out in the audience. And it just drives me up a wall. And here's why. It drives me up a wall. And I've said this so many other times on the show, but I feel like I have to preface it because I know that we do have fans that listen to the show that also like Teresa Caputo. Here's the reason why I don't like Teresa. Teresa, I'm pretty sure of all the vehicles on Earth, of all the human beings on Earth that the universe could use to channel ghosts, Teresa would be the last person that they would choose, number one. But number two, and a very close number two, is she's just doing a parlor trick. That's all she's doing is a parlor trick. And she's got the advantages of having technology on her side. And I'm sure somewhere in that large mane of hers, there is technology working for her and her parlor tricks. It's gotta be 100. Gotta be. There's gotta be something in that hair that is like, you know, some kind of, I don't know, like, pressure device that's pushing her head when answers are right or wrong or. Or better yet, just an actual earpiece. Yep. Look at this earpiece. You couldn't even tell that I was wearing this unless you looked really closely. And it just would take a little bit of hair to hide that. And you could talk to anybody, you could have conversation with anybody that was outside of the room simply by just piping it into your ear. Listen. Those fucking football players do it. They call those. They talk to the quarterbacks in those helmets all the time. And I don't, I don't see any earpieces now. They're wearing a helmet, but so is Teresa. Teresa's wearing a helmet also.

[B]

Hair helmet.

[A]

Yes. So Theresa's got a new show.

[B]

This is outrageous.

[A]

It's outrageous. It's a crime against humanity.

[B]

I agree.

[A]

Theresa's been moving from network to network. I don't follow it that closely, but she's been moving from network to network over the last, say, decade and a half. I think she was on tlc, I think she was on Lifetime, I think she was here, I think she was there, all with some iteration of her parlor trick. So now she's got a show where they follow her around when she's not, when she's doing her tours, which I think is how she makes a majority of her money. I'm sure the TV deal is lucrative also, but I don't think it's that lucrative. Maybe they pay her $25,000 an episode, $30,000 an episode. It's the tour, it's the people who. To come to see her live, where she actually makes her money. Because live events, if you can fill an arena, you're making some money. And I don't know if she can fill an arena because I think I mentioned to you it's like half full. It's like half full. I saw. I had always said to Tina, we have to find a way to get into one of these events. But that will never happen.

[B]

I might be good.

[A]

Not anymore. Not anymore. Not anymore.

[B]

Probably not.

[A]

Because clearly Theresa's team is going to do their homework and they are not going to let someone troll Teresa in her live events. You have to put your name, your phone number and your address when you sign up to go to one of these events or Ticketmaster or however they get that information. And I'm sure there is some kind of cross checking system going. I'm sure they're sure of it. Right. And at the very least, a cross checking system for the people who are going to be sitting close enough to talk to Teresa. So the other thing is, I know for a fact that they scan for electronic devices. Like, you know how you go, like we went and saw Pete Davidson. You had to put that thing in your yawn. The yonder bag.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Lock it up. I'm sure they do that with her, too. Yeah, but somebody out there, some brave soul, some hero that doesn't wear a cape, decided to tape a live Teresa Caputo event, unauthorized, obviously, from the nosebleed seat. So it's a little hard to hear. It's a little hard to make out some of the stuff she's saying because of the echo in the building. But that place was half full. It wasn't even. It wasn't even close.

[B]

That makes me feel better about the humans that I live in this world with.

[A]

It also makes me feel better, too, because if you only fill half an arena, you're probably not making much money. Right. I think you really have to fill the thing to make, like, you know, good, good money.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So. But Teresa makes money doing tours. She tours all over the country. She does it, I think, for a majority of the year. And then she gives side readings. Readings? Yeah, like private readings.

[B]

You can book a private.

[A]

Oh, I'm sure it's like $2,500. How much do you think a Teresa Caputo reading would be? 2500. Probably about the hour, I would think. Or for half an hour. Hour. Probably got to be that. She's a big TV star. She's all over the world. She's well known. Okay, so this show is an unscripted, unedited look at my life on tour. Whatever. So now she just shows up to random places and then reads people. So I thought we should take a look at this video.

[B]

We should.

[A]

Because clearly there is a lot of horseshit and shenanigans going on here. And what better place to talk about horseshit and shenanigans than the horse and shenanigans. And listen, I. A lot. But at least I'm clear about it. I'm clear headed about it. You know it. And I tell you, transparent. It's transparent if you believe anything I say. Check your head. Talk to your therapist. All right, so without further ado, I was trolling on the Internet as you do. Oh, man, do I like to do this. And let's take a listen. Oh, my holy God. Look at that mane of hair. Look at that. She has gone to new heights on that hair.

[B]

That is epic.

[A]

How long do you think it takes her to do that hair that is.

[B]

Standing up six inches off the top of her head?

[A]

Maybe eight.

[B]

Maybe eight.

[A]

Maybe eight.

[B]

That makes the 80s look like they should be ashamed of themselves.

[A]

But, you know, this is coming in.

[B]

This is the Flock of Seagulls feather.

[A]

Do you know this is coming back?

[B]

This is. This is horrific.

[A]

Flock of Teresa's. Yeah.

[B]

They're like, no, we need to go bigger, Teresa. We're going to put the nodes here.

[A]

We're going to put the nodes here, the earpieces here, and we've got a message board in the back of your head. She's going to be the first one to get Nero Link from that musk. She's going to be like, can.

[B]

I want.

[A]

I want to be able to wire it right into my brain. How does she get her hair like this? Because not only is it 8 inches tall off her head, it's like all the way around. Yeah.

[B]

And down. This isn't. I don't know who is this?

[A]

Is this a wig? I mean, I clearly. I think it's attached to her.

[B]

You can see it coming out of her head, but I. I don't trust any. I don't trust her anyway. I certainly don't trust her hair.

[A]

No, jc, there's got to some magic going on there for sure.

[B]

It's witchcraft.

[A]

I want to know what it looks like from the back. Is it like, all flat because they pooped everything else?

[B]

Yeah, the ghosts are like, make it bigger so we can see you.

[A]

Make it bigger so we can smack you on the back of the head. All right, here we go. Let's take a listen to Teresa's brand new show on whichever channel.

[D]

When I'm touring and I have a day off, I always love to see what is unique to that town.

[A]

Oh, I'm sure, Theresa, you're a man of the people.

[D]

I mean, it's a lot of fun to visit Hidden Treasures with Kiana. Apparently, Hillbilly Hot Dog was, like, the place to go.

[A]

Oh, good old Hillbilly Hot Dog.

[B]

Are they gonna tell us where they are?

[A]

They're in Tennessee.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I mean, I don't know this for sure, but I'm just assuming Hillbilly Hot Dog.

[B]

It's in Tennessee with that Dolly Parton here.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, no, they're in Virginia. Sorry, what?

[D]

Teresa. Teresa.

[A]

They are literally pulling up into a shack that's called Hillbilly Hot Dog. And by the way, they're probably good hot dogs.

[B]

They probably are.

[A]

Hillbilly Wedding Chapel.

[D]

A wedding chapel where?

[A]

What can you imagine for the rest of your life telling your wife, I'm so glad we got married at the Hillbilly Hot Dog Wedding Chapel. Crowning achievement of my life.

[D]

Hey, let's go get some hot dogs.

[B]

Don't let her in.

[E]

The weenie says he sells besties.

[A]

Thank you. Wow.

[B]

They did just say the best weenies around.

[A]

They just said the best weenies around in a song. When you make up a song, it's probably. You probably earned it.

[D]

Sometimes something as simple as trying to order food is very difficult because spirit clearly has a very different agenda for me.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I can't take it. It. So this is how our original show started with the Long Island Medium.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

She would just go get her nails done and, oh, God, there's a spirit.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

And then she'd go order a sandwich and. Oh, God. Did you just. Yeah, you know, the same. I can't stand.

[A]

I'm feeling a buzz on my nipples. That means someone died in a couch.

[B]

She's, like, rubbing her throat.

[A]

I know she's rubbing her throat. Is she gonna go through this whole routine where she. She's choking now?

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

And that means somebody died. It's like, I can't breathe.

[D]

All right, I'm gonna do the A la cheesy beefy weenie.

[E]

Cheesy beef.

[B]

Hilarious.

[D]

It just rolls off the top. It does. Beefy weenie right off the top.

[A]

We're doing a whole comedy routine here. See? Nothing having to do with the telephone cameras.

[E]

All right, it is 2480.

[A]

Would you like a lot? Geez. 24.86 for a cheese weenie.

[B]

I know. It'd be one big weenie.

[A]

She's drinking Diet Mountain Dew. You're an adult, Teresa. Stop it. If you're gonna drink a Mountain Dew, drink a Mountain Dew. You know what I'm saying? That's my opinion. Just go for it. Anybody out there ever drank my Diet Mountain Dew?

[B]

I do.

[A]

You do?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You drink diet?

[B]

I do.

[A]

Sorry. Sorry to offend. Never mind. I take it back.

[D]

No, I'm okay. So I don't know if you know what I do.

[A]

Yeah. I don't know if you know what I do or why all these TV cameras are all around us.

[B]

It's not about the hot dogs. It's about me.

[A]

It's about me. It's always about me. Because if I can deflect it to me, then I don't have to worry about you.

[D]

But I'm able to communicate with people that have died. So when I start choking and coughing and I feel a restriction in the throat, it means that someone passed from something of the throat.

[A]

I got a bunch of jizz in the back of my throat.

[D]

Do you understand that?

[E]

My mom actually.

[A]

With suspenders in the background, he's like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. You mind moving it along? I got a half hour for lunch.

[B]

I Need my cheesy weenie, cheesy weeding fire.

[D]

Okay. She passed in the fire.

[E]

Yeah, she did. I'm very skeptical. Yeah, I mean, I, I, I'm spiritual, but I'm kind of a skeptic when it comes to mediums and things in.

[A]

That aspect, obviously you're not, because you, A lady just walked in with a bunch of TV cameras. Yeah.

[B]

They Facebooked all of you.

[A]

Yeah, that's right before they walked. How many producers talked to these people before they actually showed up? This. You don't just randomly show up at these places and start filming.

[D]

So when a soul hits me in the back of the head, when they show me, like, how they pass and they make me feel how they pass, hitting me in the back of the head is the validation that she did not suffer to her death.

[A]

I didn't see anybody get hit in the back of the head. So your head never moved like that.

[B]

And she started rubbing her throat and coughing the minute she walked in there.

[A]

Yeah. So here's how it goes. For those of you that don't know, and you should know, because we're adults in 2024. Yeah. That's just allergies. Just last night's dinner stuck in your throat. It's Gerd. You have Gerd. Clear up those ghosts. Zerg not approved for ghosts. Zyrtec for mild. Gerd and ghosts. Oh, my God. I take ghost tech. So for those of you that don't know, and you should know because you're an adult in 2024, but when someone, when a TV, film or TV or film crew go to film something like this, they spend probably at least a half a day at this place making sure they have the right angles that the TV cameras know where to stand.

[B]

Also, it's the cutest girls on staff. They've got their hair done, They've got their makeup done. I guarantee these girls don't serve hot dogs looking like that on a regular Tuesday.

[A]

No, probably not. I mean, maybe they do, but probably not. They knew exactly when she was coming in. They probably had a production crew there since the early morning, and Teresa rolls up at noon to get her lunch or whatever. They have to sign releases so that they can use the material. And while some of those releases admittedly can be signed afterwards, 99% of the time, they're. They're signed beforehand so that the TV crew can, or the editing crew can use whatever is made inside of that to their advantage. They don't do that afterwards because someone might go, I didn't like what I said, there. So can we take that part out? They start negotiating, editing. Editing. So the second that you sign one of those contracts, how easy is it to just find out that information, pass it along to Teresa?

[B]

You have their name. You have their address, their phone number.

[A]

Their Facebook, their Instagram. You're doing research, by the way. Even if you weren't a ghost, whatever talker you. This. These are things that producers of television shows would find out anyway.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Do you understand that?

[E]

Yeah. My mom passed away very unexpectedly three years ago. She died in an apartment fire.

[A]

Well, that is terrible. There's no doubt about. That, is terrible. But Teresa is not talking to her. Right.

[D]

Your mom kind of looked at me. She goes, you know, I was a bit of a free spirit, Theresa. Does that make sense?

[A]

Does that make sense?

[B]

When your mom. She kind of looked at me. What are you talking about?

[A]

She kind of looked at me and.

[E]

She said, yeah, my mom was not strict. She was very late.

[A]

Yeah, you're right about that. She looked at me. Teresa often says she doesn't see the spirits.

[B]

Right.

[A]

They touch her. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. It just hit her in the head.

[A]

If you can see her, I want to hit her. Where is she? Yeah. Why can't you give me details?

[B]

What does she look like?

[A]

Yeah, she's here.

[E]

Kind of let me do whatever I wanted to do. She bought me my first beer when I was 15. She had the biggest heart. She was kind to everyone. She was a pretty incredible woman.

[A]

She bought me my first beer when I was 15.

[D]

Your mom says, I never told you, but how proud I am of you. She says, you've always made me proud. She just said to me, she goes, my daughter is the best mom. She says, she's twice the mom that I ever was. That doesn't mean that your mom wasn't a good mom, but she's acknowledging it is the mom that you have become.

[A]

Oh, now you're interpreting what the ghosts are saying in some kind of psychological, therapeutic way. Gotcha. 10 4. You're now a ghost therapist. Go home. And by the way, no offense to this young lady, terrible thing happened to her mother. And if someone died that was close to me, I would desperately want to have one more conversation with them. Desperately want to have one more conversation with them. But I don't think you're too skeptical about this, because Teresa is giving you zero information that you probably couldn't figure out on Facebook. Facebook or Instagram.

[B]

Yeah, I'd be pissed off if she walked up to me and said like that.

[A]

I sure would.

[B]

I'LL talk to my mom on my own. Thank you.

[A]

I don't need. I don't need your.

[B]

Need your.

[D]

Thank you. So she says, please know that I did not suffer to my death. That is the main reason why she needed to come through. But more importantly, how much she loves you and how, how proud she is of you.

[A]

Saying things generically that any child would want to hear from their mother or father, one living or not.

[B]

100%.

[A]

I would. I'm still waiting for my dad to say it, but I don't actually think he's proud of the commercial break.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

Thank you so much.

[D]

Well, don't thank me. Thank them.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I never.

[E]

I didn't believe him as until this. And you, you really nailed everything spot.

[A]

You nailed in this two and a half minute conversation. Exactly. Come on.

[D]

I wish you all the best.

[A]

Thank you.

[D]

God bless.

[E]

I can't believe it. It's definitely real because somebody off the street that's walking into hilly hot dogs shouldn't know all that.

[A]

Oh, please. Come on. Don't, don't, don't say what the producers. Yeah, don't drink the Kool Aid. Don't. Don't say what the producers told you to say. That's a bunch of your weenies. Thank you.

[G]

Thank you.

[A]

We're not even gonna eat the weenies. We were never interested in this.

[B]

Just for the show.

[A]

This is just for the show. All right, more Teresa Caputo. We'll be back.

[C]

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[A]

Of course.

[C]

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[A]

I love how my producer uses our liners to make fun of me, to slowly poke at her boss. I allow it. I allow it because I'm a weak need. Probably agree with her kind of guy. All right, back to Teresa.

[E]

That was insane.

[D]

Somebody passed from something of a neck or something. And I kept feeling something with, oh.

[A]

Now she's in the back of the restaurant doing another reading for another random human being who I guarantee is somehow related to this restaurant. Let's see.

[D]

My brain.

[F]

You know, my husband died Alzheimer's and he had a lot of heart.

[D]

So this. So. So when I.

[F]

The founders of this, he passed away on July 29, 2021. He had battled.

[A]

Oh, he's the owner of the hillbilly hot dog place. Uh huh. Uh huh. Knew it.

[F]

Timers for probably about a year and a half. And he used to look at me and say, I'm not ever going to forget you.

[D]

Did he complain about his neck or what? Because he keeps making me feel the neck and I can't get rid of the neck pain.

[F]

We had that checked so many times and there was. Was nothing.

[A]

Oh my God. Oh my God. Did you post that on Facebook frequently? Well, yes, I did. How did you know that? Well, I have this little thing I'm seeing I have when my neck hurts. It means he's on Facebook that they could find.

[F]

But because, you know, he had heart issues and they were always checking his neck.

[B]

But he did.

[D]

I knew it. I knew it. My neck hurts now. Oh God, my neck. It was up upstairs and I kept feeling the thing with my neck.

[F]

It was.

[A]

Oh my God, how fake is this? They're doing like these cutaways where she's complaining about her neck frequently throughout the day. What a crocker. I can't. I can't even swallow it sometimes. It's so unbelievably and poorly edited. It's just terrible.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

It was a side wow.

[F]

And we had a chat.

[A]

Who's the young girl who's with her? Is that her assistant? Okay.

[B]

They could.

[A]

Poor girl.

[F]

Never find anything that was wrong.

[D]

So when a soul shows me a plaid or a flannel shirt, it means that's what they always wore. Or more importantly, they only wore a specific type of shirt.

[F]

Well, he has a red plaid.

[A]

What is she talking about, Tina?

[B]

He's sitting there holding up a shirt.

[A]

Like, what are you talking about? Well, he's dressed in a shirt. He's standing there. Yeah. Reason number three, give this lady a TV show. Anyway, they give her a TV show because there's so many, many people out there. And I don't. I'm not, I'm not calling them gullible. I'm saying they desperately want to believe.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That someone. And maybe it's true. I don't discount that. People talk to dead people. I don't discount that at all. I have talked I have friends. I've had experiences in my own life that I think are unexplainable, strange, and connected to some universal energy that I can't explain. I won't even try to explain. But what I don't do is I don't make believe. I'm not playing make believe with other people.

[B]

Yeah. People's emotions.

[A]

Yeah. This is the worst part of this.

[B]

It's. Yeah. It's terribly manipulative.

[A]

And, you know, Chrissy pointed this out so many Teresa Caputo episodes ago, and I. And I keep on thinking about this. How do these people then not follow up with Teresa and ask them questions? Why are they not doing that? They not allowed to. I would edit them out.

[B]

I would have questions.

[A]

This drives me crazy.

[B]

They probably make him sign it in the waiver that they won't ask.

[A]

Ask too many detailed questions that I.

[F]

Have to hang by my front door because that's what he always walk out. He'd put that on.

[D]

And then you lay on his side.

[F]

And I lay on his side of the bed.

[D]

And you feel him. You feel the bed?

[C]

I do.

[F]

It's a love story. It truly is. And I miss him like crazy. Do you know I have to tell you that my son in there, Vance, he had a dream that Sonny came to him.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But this is what your husband also wanted me to say. The dream, it wasn't a dream. It was a visitation.

[A]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, wait. After you told me, I figured something out. Yeah.

[B]

You just reminded me.

[A]

Yes. This is another thing that she does. She'll see a piece of clothing and she'll goes, is there a bracelet? Was there a bracelet involved? And the bracelet says, like, rip, dad. You know what I'm saying? And she's like, I knew it. I knew it.

[D]

Where is your son? In the kitchen?

[F]

Yeah, he's in the kitchen.

[D]

I gotta see your son. I want the guys to sit down.

[A]

We're gonna bring Vance in here.

[D]

Oh, saved by Vance. So, Vance, are you familiar with who I am?

[G]

I am.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[A]

So. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, they're not familiar with who you are. He owns the restaurant. How did they get permission to film in the restaurant? From Vance.

[D]

I delivered a few messages, and then your dad came through.

[A]

Really?

[D]

And there was a point where he wanted me to say that the. The dream. It wasn't a dream. It was a visitation. It was your dad's soul coming to you, letting you know that he was okay.

[B]

He's not okay, Teresa.

[A]

He's dead. He's dead.

[B]

How can you look these poor people in their face because. Say that you lie. You lie.

[A]

Because all she wants at the end of the day is the moolah. That's all she cares. She wants the moolah.

[B]

Know who I am?

[A]

Yeah. Do you know who I am? Do you know what I do? No. Theresa. Come on, people. I'm a grifter. I'm a.

[B]

Thank you for signing that waiver.

[A]

Yes. You want to play my politic? Yes. Thanks for signing all those legal documents that allowed us to come in here today. I use those to my advantage and Googled you.

[B]

We're making a gimmick out of you.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Not suffering.

[G]

Sonny was more than a stepfather to me. He was a guiding light in a lot of ways. A cool guy that just basically took me under his wing. He just had a special way of just putting his charm on things.

[D]

He says, and I want to thank you for the way that you have really stepped up.

[A]

I actually think I believed Ms. Cleo more than I believed her.

[B]

He.

[A]

Teresa Caputa, for sure. For sure. Like, Ms. Cleo seemed more sincere and genuine than Teresa Caputa does.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

He says, because every morning you're like.

[A]

Sonny, I don't know what I'm doing.

[D]

But I'm gonna do it. Is that correct?

[A]

Yeah. No, it's not. Look at his face. He's like.

[B]

He's not buying it.

[A]

My dad's not in bed. My stepdad's not embarrassing me from the other side of the grave.

[D]

So know that when you do that, know that his soul is right, right beside you. And he says, and I want you to know that I'm proud on how you've been stepping up and really kind of doing things outside of the box or outside of things that you typically do.

[F]

That's spot on.

[A]

That's spot on because I posted it on Facebook three days ago. I wish Sonny was here, by the way. Sonny sounds like a cool dude. Sonny, wherever he is, is probably right. This fucking nitwit. How did she get involved? Spot on.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

So know that he wants to thank you for that.

[G]

Well, thank you. It is.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Wow.

[G]

Every day I walk into this place and go, I got a lot to do because it's a constant gain. And he always said it's one piece of duct tape away from falling in. But nobody can live up to Sonny. He was one of a million.

[D]

I do what I do to help people. People, right?

[A]

No, you do what you do to make lots and lots of money and then you torment them for the rest of their lives. You don't give them a business card or a cell phone number that they can call to have frequent conversations with their loved ones who unfortunately passed away. It is mean, it is cruel, and it is.

[D]

And. And that's it. But how spirit gets me to move and to do things is just so incredible.

[G]

Well, you spoke to my wife earlier. She was.

[B]

No way.

[A]

I didn't know that until five days.

[B]

Ago when my producers told me after.

[A]

They did the Facebook dig. Yeah, we didn't realize that until we were looking at all your social media.

[B]

That's why I made sure she was working today.

[A]

Yes, we didn't realize that till we pulled backgroundreport.com. i was your wife.

[G]

Yeah. I guess Teresa didn't even know I was married to Shannon.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

You guess Teresa didn't know. Of course you know that she knew.

[D]

This is absolutely. Oh, my God. This was really a family affair, like.

[G]

But the real question is, how is your food?

[D]

Let me tell you something. I might have to go get another hot dog.

[A]

I might have to go get another hot dog. I'm so interested in what's going on in this place, but unfortunately, I've got to get back to the Ritz Carlton where I stay, and that's nowhere close to here. Unbelievable coming from Teresa Caputo's mouth. Again.

[B]

Again, longer hair.

[A]

Someone hit her on the back of the head. Come on.

[B]

Every time she says it, I'm just like, no, Teresa. Anything but that.

[A]

Anytime she claims that she's having multiple conversations with ghosts and having a conversation in front of the. With the person, mom looked at her.

[B]

And kind of said, yeah, kind of said.

[A]

Kind of looked at me. Can you tell me what she actually said? Because it's kind of important. Teresa, you're talking to my dead mother.

[B]

Good.

[A]

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well, we're here slaying Teresa Caputo again. I'm sorry if you're a fan. I'm not. Actually. I'm not sorry if you're a fan. I hope that you get the comfort and.

[B]

Yeah, if it serves you. It serves.

[A]

Yeah. I hope you get the comfort and empathy that you're for looking. Looking for. Because I do know how hard it is to lose somebody. And I still see Nico sometimes. I still smell Nico sometimes in this house. Stinky ghosts. Poor Nico. Stinky, stinky Nico. If he was only here with us, he would not approve of Teresa.

[B]

He would bite her ankles.

[A]

That's right. And as always, as I've always said, and I always will say, I welcome, welcome Teresa on the show. I will be fair. I will Be objective. Well, I'll be fair. I don't know if I'll be objective, but I'll be fair. Come in here and tell me how you do this. I want the details. Give me any information about anyone close to me who's passed away that is meaningful, relevant and detailed.

[B]

Not on social media.

[A]

Not on social media. And I promise you, you will turn me around.

[B]

I give her a go.

[A]

I'd give her a go. Yeah. Listen, I'm open minded. I'm open minded about everything. I have my opinions like everybody else does, but I'm not stuck to them. And I've changed my mind a lot. A lot. I changed my mind. Okay.

[B]

No fear of decisions here.

[A]

Yeah. All right. TCB podcast.com that's where you go. You find out more information about the show, all the audio, all the video right there from one location. TCB podcast.com your free piggy fronting sticker with me as Teresa Caputo on the way to your house. If you drop us a line at the contact us button at the commercial break on Instagram, TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break, our new phone number, 212-4333. TCB. Okay, Tina, I guess that's all I can do for today.

[B]

Okay then.

[A]

But I'll tell you that I love you.

[B]

I love you.

[A]

I'll say better.

[B]

Best to you and best to you.

[A]

Best you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Tina and I do say, we will say and we must say goodbye. I'm going to go chilling to see this one. That is so stupid.