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Brian Green
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Kristen Hoadley
See Mint Mobile for more details on this episode of the Commercial Break if you asked me Today, Memorial Day 2025, whether or not I regret having a wise Idea to do 12 episodes of the commercial break in a 24 hour period, I would tell you no. Nay, no, I do not. Because my original idea was to do 24 episodes in 24 hours. To which my longtime and very faithful co host said fuck you and cooler heads prevail. Dug my heels in for a few days, but when she just flat out refused to go along with the idea, I figured it might be hard to do 24 episodes in 24 hours if I had no co host. So 12 of them. That's what we settled on. I still think there's a chance she might not show up, but I'm hoping you do DCB's endless day at the end of this week Saturday, May 31st and in preparation for our Big 12 episodes, we're missing one regular episode this week, so the math still isn't mathing. I intended to put out 16 episodes in one week, but now it's going to be 15 as we just could not record enough guests to have one play today for a TCB infomercial Tuesday. So in return, I give you a TCB classic every time I do that damn Carl voice. You know the one, hey girl, it's Carl. That one. Based on the infamous preacher Carl Lentz, we get a slew of messages on our TCB hotline. 90% of them are from you, the good natured listener who takes comfort in the laughable hypocrisy of megachurches. However, there is a small segment of the audience that gets really annoyed when I go after these guys and girls I don't know. Call me a throwback, call me a classic. I got a soft spot in my.
Brian Green
Heart for the kind of satire that.
Kristen Hoadley
Can actually open eyes to the world around us. Now, I don't place any importance on that satire that I'm doing. I just find it funny myself.
Brian Green
We're throwing this back to April 15.
Kristen Hoadley
2022, if you even remember that far. When Chrissy and I reviewed me reviewing a documentary about Hillsong where Carl was a preacher.
Brian Green
This is the first time that Carl.
Kristen Hoadley
Voice makes an appearance, along with some other noteworthy commentary on megachurches in general. You'll also note in this episode that the actual commercial breaks inside of the commercial break, the liner where Rachel tells you how to find us on social media and our phone number, and the commercials that follow those Liners actually just come out of nowhere. They're random places in the episode because this episode was made before we even had advertisements. That's how long ago this was. And yes, I do have to pay some bills, so you'll excuse me for dropping in a couple of advertisements.
Brian Green
All right, enjoy this TCB classic, also.
Kristen Hoadley
Known as hey Girl, It's Carl, episode 173. For those that are counting, we'll be back tomorrow with a fresh episode and.
Brian Green
At the end of the week for.
Kristen Hoadley
12 or 13 fresh episodes.
Brian Green
Enjoy.
Kristen Hoadley
The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Yes, ma' am. It's another episode of the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend, Kristen Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy.
Chrissy
Best to you, Brian. I almost just said happy new year.
Kristen Hoadley
I told you no, no, no, no. I gotta tell my daughter and she'll go like this back to me. She'll finger wag back to me. If I tell her no, she'll finger wag. And if I tell my son no, he just does whatever the hell he pleases. But he's a three nager, and that's what we got to deal with. The best you out there, podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on yet another episode of this, the commercial break, the only one you'll ever need. In case you're wondering. That's it. Don't worry about those other commercial breaks.
Chrissy
Especially not the vlog.
Kristen Hoadley
This is not the commercial break you're looking to for. Yeah, the vlog that never seen the light of day until I decided to make it see the light of day. How bad bad was that?
Chrissy
That was we both made fun of our younger selves.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, I mean, listen, we all make mistakes. We're gonna look back on this in 10 years and go, well, that's a train wreck we probably should have gotten.
Chrissy
Hey, we're living in the moment.
Kristen Hoadley
Yes, your honor. In bankruptcy court. I was trying my best. Look at what it could have been. It could have been much worse, your honor. Could have been much worse. So a lot of stuff to get to today. Let's jump right into it. I, you know, we just got back from having a little break, and so when I was on vacation, I didn't have access to my normal viewing activities. I. Because I will say this about the Disney. Disney cruises. No tlc, no discovery, no nothing. Okay, we'll say this about the Disney cruises. I have been on the much bigger cruise ships and the Internet was as if you were at your house. You can make phone calls. You could Internet it. No problem. You could download, stream, do whatever you want. The Disney cruise had miserable Internet. It. You couldn't even get on a website. It took like a reason, 30 minutes. Of course. No, they want you to buy their Internet program. That's what they want. They block your phones. They have a phone blocker. Because we're not that far off the coast. Like, I mean, you can pick up Bahama area. Yeah. You can pick up cell ph Miami until you're probably 30 or 40 miles away, I would imagine. I'm not a technologist, but I imagine that's how it goes. Yeah, they black your fucking cell phone and then they tell you you got to buy, you know, 300 megs for $30. You know what 300 megs is? It's like one really good selfie is what that is. And so you're. Someone sends you a text message with a fucking picture in it and you're fucked. You just spent $30 anyway. Anyhow, I didn't have any. But that's okay. I wasn't there to watch tlc. I had to do plenty of that here in the studio.
Chrissy
Yeah, withdrawals. Just a little bit.
Kristen Hoadley
A little back a little bit.
Chrissy
A little.
Kristen Hoadley
Little Ted. See? Just a teeny tiny. But when I got back, I was inundated with news and television that I had not yet had an opportunity to watch. I turned on my, you know, my Go to TLC discovery app. First of all, are you are not watching the new 90 Day the other way?
Chrissy
No, but there is one that that's on Netflix that it's the follow up to Love is Blind.
Kristen Hoadley
I saw that, but we didn't like it. We watched one episode and we didn't were into it.
Chrissy
I was kind of like, eh, but I'm gonna give it a shot. I thought it's something that we could discuss.
Kristen Hoadley
Okay, then I'll keep going through.
Chrissy
It is pretty crazy.
Kristen Hoadley
And I told Astrid, here's the premise of it. I won't give away anything about the first episode, but here's the premise is that five or six couples.
Chrissy
It's the same host.
Kristen Hoadley
Same host. Vanessa and Lachey. And the premise is that five or six couples that are on the verge of either break. It's like they're giving them an ultimatum. Either we're breaking up or we're getting married.
Chrissy
Yes.
Kristen Hoadley
One of the. And so it could be the girl.
Chrissy
Or the guy that's giving the ultimatum.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah. And so they discuss all that on the first episode and then for three weeks you pick another partner. So there's 12 people try out. You pick another partner and you try them out and you decide if you really want to be with the first partner, which is absolutely fucking wackadoodle. It makes no sense. There's no real life application for this. This is just a drama. This is just a shit stirring show. Which I get it. That's what Netflix needs to do in order to drive ratings. I don't hear the same kind of scuttlebutt about this as we did about Love Is Blind in either season. But I watched the first episode and it's just so unbelievable to me that I can't get into it. And here's what I told Astrid when we watched like within three minutes of the show, I said, not one of these couples is not already broken up. They're already broken up probably and they're coming on here as like a last ditch effort or because they want some fame. Because you do not send the one. This person that you're ready to get married to into a home to live with some hot fucking stud for the next three weeks and see if you know his happens to make it into your vagina.
Chrissy
Jealousy happening. Of course, the one girl came over and sat down right at the table that the new girl and guy were.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, I read somewhere, you know, I.
Chrissy
Listen, I don't watch it. There's plenty of content I can focus on.
Brian Green
There are.
Kristen Hoadley
I just want to give this. I want to give this disclaimer again. There are lots of shows and programs that you can go to to get fudgeing facts. This is not one of them. Do not take anything that we say here with any degree of seriousness because we do not know what we're talking about. We're two friends, as if we were sitting a bar shooting the shit and one of us really doesn't know it. Really doesn't know what facts are. And that's me. So let me explain. I read somewhere. So let me explain.
Chrissy
Similar. Similar to. What do you call the place where the captain of the boats.
Kristen Hoadley
Starboard. Starboard. I think that's the right side of the ship. So the cockpit. Yeah, that's not it either. That's a plane. I read somewhere the galley is. The. Is. Is the front of the. Is like the place where you walk in. I don't.
Brian Green
I don't know.
Kristen Hoadley
I can't now. I can't even still can't remember. It's the. I don't know what it's called. The thing, the place where the people are. You know, it's in the. At the helm they're at the helm. But I don't think that's what you call it either. Anyway, anyway, I read that non monogamous relationships are becoming like consensual. Non monogamy is becoming very popular with the younger generation. I don't. I'm not one who believes that you should be monogamous for the rest of your life if you don't want to. You should do whatever the fuck makes you feel good. Right. If that your truth, if you're. If where you live, in your own head, in your space, is that I don't want to be stuck with one person for the rest of my life or at any time in my life. God bless you. But I see this turning out really badly. I see this turning out really bad.
Chrissy
It takes two really strong, strong people to have a lot of, like, therapy and working through that to allow that.
Kristen Hoadley
A lot of rage happening in these younger kids. And I don't know, but any relationship that I've been akin to like that I've seen in my own life where they decide they're gonna do consensual. Non monogamy, it's just another word for our relationship isn't working. Let's try something really fucking drastic. And it never worked. Never. Not once. Not once have I seen it work out. And I can. You and I could probably name 10 people right now. And you would know who they were.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
You already know who they are. Yeah. Okay. So I get back from the cruise and then I got a whole thing of. To watch. And one of the things that pops up on there is a documentary series on Discovery. Three part documentary series on something called the Hillsong Church, which I've been watching this story for years.
Chrissy
Yeah. It's been unfolding for years.
Kristen Hoadley
The Hillsong Church. Let me give you a little brief. I'll give an explanation. Right. And I. And I actually wrote some things down so I don't get them wrong. Right. Yeah. Because I know that some people who are listening who have ever been the Hillsong Church, might be upset if I get it wrong. So I won't get it wrong. The Hillsong Church is a breakaway church from a Pentecostal type, like evangelical Christian church based in Australia.
Chrissy
Australia. I thought that was okay. Gotten that right Guy.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, you did. Guy comes from New Zealand, named Houston, and him and his son Brian Houston, they start this, you know, evangelical church in Australia. Then Brian breaks off and starts another church that eventually ends up becoming the name Hillsong Church.
Chrissy
Okay.
Kristen Hoadley
Named Hillsong because of the band that was playing at the church was called Hillsong. Right. Okay. So Brian's. His father has this very traditional.
Chrissy
They should have called it 33.
Kristen Hoadley
They should have called it 33 penis church. I'm the 33p pastor, son. Is that up?
Chrissy
If they'd only known about your brother.
Kristen Hoadley
They'D only known about us, then Hillsong, would they still be going strong to this day? But they're not. And I'll tell you why. Brian breaks off, he starts this more younger version of the church, like hip, like relaxed, not so Pentecostal, not so brimstone and fire. And he realizes something. He realizes that the music that's being played at the church, which is a little bit more forward thinking than most of. Yeah. Like repeating all of the same old hymns and maybe putting a little razzle dazzle on it is not what everybody's into. What they're into are these big ballad swooping songs that are very popular at the time. 80s, early 90s.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Right. So Brian catches onto this and he goes. Or the people at Hillsong catch onto this and they say there's a formula, right. It's the music that is doing something. I'll tell you what it is. Music is scientifically able to change your emotion based on certain chord progressions. There's a whole thing called music theory that lots of people study in college where you can actually manipulate how someone feels if given the right circumstances, based on chord progressions.
Chrissy
It makes sense. Whenever I'm in a certain mood, if I kind of want to change it, I listen to music.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah. And. And if you listen to an upbeat, happy chord progression, major chord progressions, then you're going to feel good. If you listen to major, minor chord progressions and they swoop, they like it, it goes from soft to loud. You're going to feel. Or it could be a religious experience, could be considered a religious experience. You're getting chills. You know, think of Celine Dion singing some, like huge. Hitting some huge high note in a minor key after a major. Like, you know, you're going, oh, you know, or Adele, Whitney Houston, all of us who've been to a concert can probably experience. It can probably describe a religious type experience at a concert, because music does that to us. And I do believe there is some God in music. Like there is some universe, you know, computer in the sky, whatever spirit, whatever the you want to call it. That music is a communication tool that we don't quite understand yet. Through the ages, kids can learn how to read faster if there's music set to it. There's a whole thing, right? It's a thing. Something goes on with music, and it really hits us at our core. It's a communication tool that we don't quite understand all the power of. But what. What people who are in the know have been doing for many years, and especially preachers, is they, like, if you go to a Benny Hinn, you know, Benny Hinn is. Okay, Benny Hinn is this, like. Like, huge evangelical preacher on tv, and he's the guy who will, like, hit you on the head and then tell you you're cured of Ms. Or some bullshit stuff that's never been true. Right. It's all bullshit. It's fake. It's a big show. But he puts on this big show. Big lights, big show. And what he does is he starts the music the second you walk in the door and he swoops to a crescendo an hour later. Yes, you have been manipulated. Your mind is in a totally different headspace, and you think this stuff is happening and it's because of God, when. When maybe. Right. But probably the more realistic answer is that it has been designed to do so.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Hillsong catches on to this, and they start doing this with regularity and super effectively. Now, I'm about to do something that I'm not going to put this on YouTube, but I'm about to do something that I have never done at the commercial break, and that is, I am going to play a song because I want to play this song.
Chrissy
Okay?
Kristen Hoadley
And I want you to hear this song. This is Ocean by the Hillsong Band. There's a girl who's singing. This is a very incredible voice, but this is. I want. This is a live version of this. All of their live songs are seven to 12 minutes long. They all start out very hypnotically, and then they move into this crazy, you know, call back, you know, I. I sing a verse, you sing a verse. I sing a verse, you sing a verse back to the audience and listen to this song and tell me that if you listen to this for, like, 15 minutes straight, you wouldn't feel some kind of emotion either. Yeah. Okay, Ready? Ready? Let's play this. This is called Oceans I Walk by the Side or some shit. And this is just as good as any popular music that's out there today.
Chrissy
Starting slow.
Kristen Hoadley
Of course it's. And listen, look, it's eight minutes long.
Chrissy
Come on, sing it tonight. Come on, sing it.
Kristen Hoadley
Come on, sing it. Tonight's your prayer. Sing your prayer to me. Feel it in your bones. Look at my body this Chord progression is known as major minor chord progression, I think. Right. And so what it's doing is it's hitting on a note that sounds happy and familiar and then it's moving down to a note that sounds more dramatic and sad.
Chrissy
Look, how many people are there?
Kristen Hoadley
There's 10,000 people in this video. You got to see this video. But I'm not gonna put out. But you got to see it because YouTube will just demonetize it anyway. Okay, now I'm gonna fast forward. Get it.
Chrissy
Okay, I get it.
Kristen Hoadley
Now this builds for another.
Chrissy
They've got the drums coming in. The xylophone.
Kristen Hoadley
Oh, yeah, It's a whole orchestral thing.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Right. Now I'm gonna fast forward about three minutes in the song.
Chrissy
They got some hypnotic looking stuff going on in the background. Back to.
Kristen Hoadley
Okay, now listen. This here's the call back in response. They sing this over and over again. Oh, sorry.
Chrissy
Guitar is coming in.
Kristen Hoadley
It's getting louder. It's getting faster. Look at these people. They are hypnotized.
Chrissy
They are.
Kristen Hoadley
This crescendos into some craziness.
Rachel
Boom.
Kristen Hoadley
Yes, boom. Just like your favorite song would do, right? Yep. And they do it again. Over and over again. Crescendo, crescendo, crescendo. Louder and louder. Faster and faster. More. More instruments. You are totally mesmerized and hypnotized.
Chrissy
You're in it, right?
Kristen Hoadley
And it's hip and it's cool and it's not the same things that your parents were singing. It is something completely different. Right. This is not the hymns of the church. This is modern music. This is Adele. This is Whitney Houston. This is whoever.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
So they get these young kids wrapped up in this craziness. Brian Houston starts this and it starts out small. He puts it in the middle of a major metropolitan city in Australia and he starts treating it almost like a nightclub. It's an event, right?
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Church starts at 7.30pm it goes till midnight. You got a. There's a red carpet that you're walking. Like it's an event. It's a concert. Multimillion dollar stage productions. It's mainly music with a. With a charismatic preacher. And so he breaks out and decides he's. He's. He starts a college like this. Church starts to get huge. People are going fucking bananas. Do you know how many play, you know me plays? That one video that I just showed you has 486 million plays on YouTube. There's over a million likes on that video. That's insane. The amount of money they're generating Just from one video is insane. So now Brian decides he's going to open up a church in the United States in downtown New York.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
And instead of getting a church space, he gets a live music venue. And that's where he puts the church every Sunday at 7:30. And he gets this charismatic preacher named Carl Lentz. Carl Lentz is the guy that we've seen with Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, all these celebrities. Young, super smoking hot guy, dresses to the nines.
Chrissy
Right. And beautiful wife and kids. The perfect. Yeah. Hip, cool.
Kristen Hoadley
Hip cool.
Chrissy
Cusses a little, I think, right?
Kristen Hoadley
He cusses. He'll tell you, you know, don't let God get away from, you know.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
And people are like, oh, he's. He's us. He's like us?
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
People in New York go crazy about this.
Chrissy
Oh yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Because they know that any place that there's a line for 100 with 150 people waiting to get in, it's a place they want to be.
Chrissy
And Justin Bieber.
Kristen Hoadley
And Justin Bieber. That's right. Right. And it starts getting almost. This guy has more fame than anybody in this particular like preacher circle, right?
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
He starts getting secret service, like security people come in and they'll do like a sweep of the facilities before he shows up. He's talking in front of 25,000 people. That music's playing. People are going crazy. They've got VIP sections. They start bringing like they'll have 35 named celebrities in the front row. And you know, all the pleons have to sit in the back. It's a whole thing. They're selling records. They're have a donation box that's getting folded a gullet. And Carl, no taxes, paying no taxes and buying property all over the world. And Carl Lentz is the superstar of this show. Brian Houston's doing his thing in Australia, but it's really Carl Lentz in America who is just having a fucking grand old time, Right? You want to hear a little bit of Carl? Carl? You want to hear him talk a little bit?
Chrissy
Sure.
Kristen Hoadley
Okay. Let's look at this guy.
Chrissy
Oh yeah, yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Handsome dude. I mean that dude is like. He's like this thing of preachers.
Chrissy
He is the preachers. Even has the lower cut tank top.
Kristen Hoadley
Oh yeah. I want to have sex with this guy. I'm just sharing that information out loud.
Chrissy
A red leather jacket.
Carl Lentz
Dating advice. You ready for this? Find somebody who is occupying their street, not watching you. Occupy by yours.
Kristen Hoadley
I have no idea what that means, but it sounds good to me. Holler back at a player.
Carl Lentz
If you see him in the street.
Rachel
What?
Kristen Hoadley
I'm just 100 convinced about whatever he said. I don't know, but I'm convinced. Yeah, he's hot, he's. He's cool, he's hip, he's got a little bit of attitude in his voice. You hear that voice like the kids talk holler baggy to play. You see him on the street. You see my yeezys. That's $75 million. I got them easy. Gave them to me, flew them to me on a private jet. This guy is like a rock star amongst rock stars.
Chrissy
He is.
Kristen Hoadley
You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some very heavy thinking to do before 10 o' clock.
Emma Greed
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Kristen Hoadley
You get the point.
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Kristen Hoadley
One of the things he's really known for is giving a lot of dating advice, like sex advice, and it's all about purity, purity, purity, purity. He shames people who have sex before this goes. See where this is going? It's where it goes every fucking time. And that is whatever someone's talking about, they're not doing, they're doing themselves. It's like thou does protest too much. And Carl was doing a little bit too much protesting about his 33 pp, if you know what I mean. He was saying, purity, purity, purity. Listen to his dating event.
Carl Lentz
Find somebody who's occupying their street, not somebody watching you occupy yours. I have a belief with my daughters. My daughter's like, dad, when is it gonna be a good time to date? I'm like, never, girl. You're gonna live here until you're 70.
Kristen Hoadley
Why? Because I am also sleeping with a lot of young women. I do not want to run into you at the club and hit on you on accident. Carl is on fire. This is when he's a little bit younger, too. He had, at one point, he had like the long, you know, longer hair and he had man bun.
Carl Lentz
But I think dating for the most part, part.
Kristen Hoadley
Oops, sorry.
Chrissy
I did the man bun.
Kristen Hoadley
I think so. Yeah.
Carl Lentz
Do something about it. That's the first thing. So if you're occupying your street and you're doing great things, if you're in high school, for instance, I don't know who you're dating and what you're doing. Because that guy you're dating, he ain't got no job. He has nothing to offer you just yet. I think it's a good idea to occupy.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, dude. He's like super strict about dating. He's like, he. He would publicly.
Chrissy
Because the guys don't have a job. Well, what are you saying? Go get a sugar daddy.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah. I mean, first of all, second of.
Brian Green
All, you're in high school.
Kristen Hoadley
What do you want me to do? I gotta, like, pass my classes. Unless you're gonna be like Brian and work at McDonald's 40 hours a week while you're going to high school. There's a famous picture of this guy in the famous picture is him and Justin Bieber. I don't have the picture. The famous picture is him and Justin Bieber, like, walking. Yeah. They had just played basketball or something. They're walking and both of them have their shirt off. Well, Justin has, like, an open shirt and he has his shirt completely off. Carl Lentz does. And his pants are. Are right in that, like, man Runway. You know what I'm talking about? Those two little muscles that go down there that are pointing in the direct. Your flaccid cock. I'm saying. It's like a. It's like a little. It's a street V. The V. Yeah, the V. It's a neon V just pointing directly to the happy zone. And just Justin looks like a schleb next to Carl Lentz. Justin looks like your fat old dad on the beach when you were embarrassed that he was still wearing socks on the beach when he's next to Carl Lentz, who looks like a man. God. I mean, the guy is like Jesus Christ. Christ reincarnate. And the thing about Carl Lentz is, why, as a preacher, would you ever be walking around the streets of downtown New York with your, you know, vocational V hanging out? You just don't do that. You just don't do that. Not. It's not V for victory. It's V for vaginas. Go here. You know what I'm saying?
Chrissy
Like, right. You get where I'm going with this.
Kristen Hoadley
Like, why else would you be? And, you know, there's paparazzi going to.
Chrissy
Take pictures of you. That's the reason here. He was looking like that.
Kristen Hoadley
This is a story that has been told so many times, it's not even funny now. I watched this documentary knowing some other things about Hillsong that I think are much more serious than Carl Lentz being a douchebag. Right.
Chrissy
Well, didn't it just come out, though, that he was very. I mean, he and his wife are getting divorced. It's a whole thing.
Kristen Hoadley
It's a whole thing, yeah.
Brian Green
So he was cheating.
Kristen Hoadley
And it turns out that Carl Lentz happened to be sleeping with a couple different people while he was talking about purity and all this other.
Chrissy
Got to his head.
Kristen Hoadley
Fame got to his head. He. You know, and at first I was like, well, who really cares? Okay? The guy cheated on his wife. Like, I mean, people cheat on their wives all the time. He got fired in this big public firing. And Brian Houston, like, you know, distance himself and said, listen, there had been some red flags for a while, and, you know, I don't want to get into it, but basically, this is the camel that brought. Broke the. Whatever.
Chrissy
The straw that broke the camel.
Kristen Hoadley
The camel that brought the straws back. You know what I'm saying? You know how it goes here at the commercial break. Just twisting words and so. But my initial thought was, that seems awful dramatic for, like, A relatively common offense, right. Maybe they could have spun it like, you know, Carl's gonna go away for a little while.
Chrissy
He's gonna get redeemed.
Kristen Hoadley
Him and Tiger are gonna go to, you know, you know, vagina addiction classes and we'll see you in a sex rehab, you know the bullshit that they say they're doing. And then he'll come back and he'll continue to sleep with people. Just keep it more on the download. But that's not what happened. It was like a big fucking blow up. And Carl himself said, I did wrong, you know, I, I'm stepping away, whatever. Meanwhile, he continued to like really creepily pursue some of these women on the backside. Like when he said he had their backside, well, that's exactly what he was thinking about. He would send him like 3 minute long videos where he'd be like, hey girl, I'm just, you know, I'm thinking about. He'd be in the car like, hey girl, I'm just thinking about you. The Lord were rolling down the highway. I got my vocational V hanging out, you know, I'm talking about. I just got back from, you know, doing a little workout at Bieb's house. I'm showing him how he gets his vocational V back. So, you know, you know, Biebs getting a little flabby. So I was thinking about you and I. I just want to know if it's okay to think about you. If it's okay to think about you. Let me know. That's. He was saying things like that, right? Real creepy. And he's like, and if it's okay, I'll stop by your house every once in a while, you know, knock on the door, surprise kind of thing, you know what saying, I'm saying like real creepy creepy.
Chrissy
He did a really good impression.
Kristen Hoadley
Thank you. Holy. It's me, Carl. Len. Hey, what's up, girl? It's me, Carl. Me and the Lord just rolling down the street. My 5o. You know what I'm talking about? Listen, I was thinking about you. I got my, I got my little Lord here. I got my, my walking staff and we're going through the desert 40 days, 40 nights, you know, I got a little trouble for, you know, sending pictures out, reply all, you know, talk about, girl. So be writing a song for you. I'mma send it to you a little bit later. But you don't mind if I stop by your house, your work, your parents house. It's going to check out, see what's going on. I'm bring some security over we're going to lock you down. Lock it down like we did last night. Not talking about. Girl, do me a favor. Don't tell anybody about this. You know, I'm going to put it on video and send it to you. But don't tell anybody about it. You're not talking about. Yeah, I might get a little trouble. I'm married. I don't know if I told you that, but don't worry about it. I'm with the Lord. Lord walks with me. I'm walking with the Lord, my savior. Remember that song, that girl? That girl singing Oceans. 435 million billion billion billion views. I wrote that for you, girl. Girl, it's me, Carl. It's. It's. Big lens and little lens. Big car, little car. Just here shouting out to your girl. I got my Yeezys, I got my Chanel scarf wrapped around my vocational V. You know I'm talking about, girl. B is for victory. Huh? Can I get an amen? Listen, do me a favor. Don't post this one on Instagram like you did last time. Appreciate it, girl. The NDA I had you signed. Don't worry about it, girl. I'll rip it up. I'm gonna leave my wife here in a couple months. Run away, get married. Married with. Okay, so that's all for now, I guess, you know, I'm just trying to chill. I'm just like. So if it's okay that I call you, you let me know. You call me. You tell me that it's okay to call you when I'm thinking about you, but you know, because I just. I'm hurting. The Lord has a big hole in my soul right now and I gotta fill my tummy. I gotta fill my tummy with that girl love, you know, I'm talking about this. You know, it's hard for me to preach on a full dick.
Chrissy
Oh my God, I just almost spit my. That was a good Carl performance.
Kristen Hoadley
Thanks, I appreciate it. Girl, I gotta go. Talk to you later. It's me, Mr. Carl. Talk to you later. So Carl has a big blow up at the whole church and you know how it goes. It's. It's a whole to do. Right? But that is not the worst of the offenses. So now this is a cup. This is like a year ago ago.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
That this happens in. But the. What is really going on behind the scenes is that Frank Houston. I think his name is Frank Houston. Frank Houston, who is Brian Houston's father, who originally brought the church to Australia from New Zealand.
Chrissy
Okay.
Kristen Hoadley
Was actually having Sex with young boys in the original church. And Brian Houston covered it up for years and years and years. Like, they found out about it. It became a thing. But essentially, it just slapped him on the wrist and told him to, you know, go away. Don't come back to the church. Church. And please don't be in any other positions that may put you in front of children. Well, of course. Of course that didn't happen. Yeah, yeah. He didn't listen, and nor did Brian Houston try and stop him. Now, you know, that's a complicated relationship. I understand son and father and all that whole bullshit. But recently, like this week, all of the sudden, some of these Hillsong churches across the United States, 50% of them, by some estimations, just closed the doors or changed their name. They moved away from. From Hillsong because they don't want to be associated, including the one here in Atlanta. Right. They. They said, we're no longer going to be hillsong. We're changing our name. The preacher is taking.
Chrissy
If. When in doubt, just rebrand that.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, I mean, hey, girl, I'm changing my name to Dan Wentz. Used to be Carl Lentz. It's now Dan Wentz. You know what I'm saying? I'll be back at church. Don't you worry. So. So here's my point. When we start putting these people on pedestals, right when we start, Blue, honestly, Blue wants to get into the conversation.
Chrissy
Blue has some thoughts.
Kristen Hoadley
Blue's in 33 of the 170 episodes that we've done. Hey, Blue, can you shut up while we're recording? Thanks. No, fuck you.
Chrissy
When I go out there.
Kristen Hoadley
She'S so fat. She's like that. Goes on all night in my house.
Chrissy
Oh, Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
So now. So now, I swear to God, I'm about to go out there. I'm about to lose my. Hey, boo, It's Carl. It's Carl. Hey, could you shut up for the Lord? I'd appreciate it. Thanks, guys. Girl, thanks. Girl. Could you chill out for the Lord? I'd appreciate it. You know, this doggy heaven, too, might go there soon. So all these churches close. Here's the point you. When we put earthly things in unearthly positions, this always happens. You want to know why? Because people are human now. Diddling little boys, unac. Acceptable on any. In anybody's mind. I think anybody with a right mind on their shoulders will agree with me on point. Sleeping with somebody that's not your wife, that's, I think, a much lesser offense. And I understand that. You know, people do things like Happens. And Carl couldn't control himself.
Chrissy
Preaching one thing and doing the other.
Brian Green
And doing the other.
Kristen Hoadley
It's so hypocritical. But this happens all the time. When are we going to learn our lesson? Be spiritual, not religious. And if religion helps you, God bless you, then keep on going to your religion. You're going to your corner church and you love it and you love the people. It's community, it's family to you.
Chrissy
Right?
Kristen Hoadley
Keep on doing your, your thing, but don't get caught up in all this. Don't get caught up in these crazy characters who beg for your money.
Chrissy
Yeah, they're these charismatic, you know, people that get up there and just hypnotize.
Kristen Hoadley
People and then they're flying around brand new 747s that are maced out with, you know, Gucci logos. And you're still trying to make rent. Two planes. Yeah, two planes. Because I. Because one didn't do it. And you're still trying to make rent.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Kristen Hoadley
Cutting a hundred dollar check to these people every week. Don't do, do it. Don't get caught up in the.
Chrissy
I love that show. The righteous gemstones.
Kristen Hoadley
Oh yeah, yeah.
Chrissy
So good entire thing.
Kristen Hoadley
So I'm just putting a cap on all this. I just want to update people on the hillsong. The documentary is fascinating. I think I just told you most of the story. So I've probably taken a lot of the bite out of the three part miniseries. But it's fascinating discovery. Plus it's one of the ones that I recommend that you watch. And it's well done too because at first you're like, who fucking cares? A preacher slept with somebody. Big deal. You know, happens all the time. But then, then it gets a little deeper and you're like, oh, I see. It's a whole fucking thing. Yeah. Okay. Now before we let everybody go, I wanted to end on a funny note since I knew this was going to be a little bit more serious. I didn't know Carl was going to show up. I thought it was going to be more serious. You want to hear a drunk preacher? Yes, Just a drunk ass preacher. Just a man who was drunk who just decided to get up there and sing to the Lord. Praise. This is where Carl Lentz is going to be in five years from now. This is the church Carl Lentz is currently, currently at.
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Kristen Hoadley
You ready? Okay. This is what I call drunk preacher. Thanks to Whack Jobs for Jesus for the video. Here we go.
Chrissy
He's been dipping into the wine.
Drunk Preacher
Oh Jesus. Oh dear Jesus. Oh Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
Jesus. Arn Arnold. Do you remember Arn? That's the nudist folks. The American association of Recreational Nudeness. I don't know. Hey girl, I just wondered if you wanted to go to ORN with me tomorrow night. I don't have a job anymore. I figured you've got some free time on your hands. What's up, girl? You want to go to art with me? Thanks.
Chrissy
Carnitas Colony. That's hilarious. We were calling it by the wrong name.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, it was. Aren't. We kept on saying aren't and it was like Aaron or something. I don't know. Who knows more shenanigans from tcb.
Drunk Preacher
Oh yes, Lord. I've learned a quick prayer. I'll teach it to all you really quickly. Okie dokie, Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
Okie dokie Lord. Here comes that Jack Daniels. Back up the other way. Arkie dokey. I feel the Lord in my gut.
Chrissy
Oh no.
Kristen Hoadley
I can feel the Lord in my gullet.
Chrissy
Does he turn?
Kristen Hoadley
No.
Drunk Preacher
Okey dokey. Lord, I love your heavy drunken glory.
Kristen Hoadley
Lord, I love it.
Drunk Preacher
Thank you father for more heavy, weighty drunken glory in this house today.
Kristen Hoadley
Look, this guy, this guy is like the dude you meet at the local dive bar. Yeah, he's got the full on 90s.
Chrissy
Goatee oh, yeah, that's. I mean, it's long.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, it's long.
Chrissy
That's a Jerry Cantrell actual goatee.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, it's a goatee. Oh, it doesn't have. But it doesn't have the mustache. It's like a corner of the lips. I don't know what you call that. You call that Allison chains. That's what I call that. It's an Allison chain. It's a sound garden. That's what it is. And then he's got the pants that are riding on the Victory V right there.
Chrissy
Oh, yeah, they're about to fall down.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah. And that shirt hasn't been washed in a couple weeks. His wife won't let him back in the house. He's just a mess.
Chrissy
Yeah.
Drunk Preacher
Favorite little bit of you. Jesus is the bliss is the joy. Oy, oy, oy. Isaiah 30:5.
Chrissy
Isaiah 30:5.
Kristen Hoadley
What is that? Is he calling aliens?
Chrissy
I don't know. He's having a good time.
Kristen Hoadley
Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi. Calling all humans. Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi. We watched a video. We know how to communicate with the humans. So silly.
Drunk Preacher
You will be overtaken by. That means taken over by joy. That means possessed by joy. Oh, my goodness.
Chrissy
Does he have black nails?
Drunk Preacher
Thank you, Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
No, I think that's just a shout. I think that's just a high quality studio tv.
Chrissy
I thought he was really trying to be cool. Black nails. No, that's the sound garden of it.
Drunk Preacher
A teaching gift.
Kristen Hoadley
Whoa, whoa.
Drunk Preacher
Now, I have a good gift of getting struck mute in the middle of a service. One of those few guest speakers who you invite in and then you may not be able to speak.
Chrissy
Is he a guest speaker? That's even funnier.
Kristen Hoadley
Hey, Bob, I really like what Joe's doing up there. Sign him up again. He's holding his stomach like he just had a big steak dinner. He's about to fart. That's how I hold my stomach after Thanksgiving.
Brian Green
Or Taco Bell.
Drunk Preacher
Oh, my goodness. Thank you, you, Lord. Well, today, just invite. We just thank you, Lord, that we have these little fat Friar Tuck bartender angels that travel around with us. And they will, in the barrels from heaven, some healing angels that come.
Kristen Hoadley
But let me tell you, this guy has such a guilty conscience, he can't stop talking about alcohol. He's like, I'm so drunk with your glory. The fat little elf bartenders rolling free bottles of Jack Daniels behind the pew.
Chrissy
The Lord's blood.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, the Lord's blood. Tequil.
Drunk Preacher
Little fat Friar Tucks. They start yanking on your arms, you better watch out, you know, we need help around here. I think it's okay to talk about the angels in the church. Amen.
Kristen Hoadley
Yoin. Yoin.
Drunk Preacher
Yoink. Help. We need somebody. Help. I mean, we think we can get. Oh, just. Let's just focus on Jesus. Don't talk about the angels.
Chrissy
Bring it back to Jesus.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, bring about to Jesus. Everything goes back in his mind. Joe, you're killing it. You're killing it.
Brian Green
They don't know anything.
Kristen Hoadley
It's best sermon you've ever given. You're the next Len, right?
Chrissy
Oh, yeah, he is.
Drunk Preacher
On Jesus, don't talk about human beings or animals or any other creature the Lord's created. I think maybe we need to learn.
Kristen Hoadley
A little bit more about. I love this guy. This is like watching.
Chrissy
Who is this?
Kristen Hoadley
I don't know. This is like me 15 years ago @ your house on a Saturday afternoon. Oh, all right. Don't talk about her. Don't call her. Don't call that girl right.
Drunk Preacher
Oh, thank you, Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
Whoa, Lord.
Drunk Preacher
I want to do it your way. I want to do it the highway. I want to do it the right way. I want to. I want it to get done.
Chrissy
Look, that woman in the front saying.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, speak it.
Emma Greed
Preach.
Kristen Hoadley
Yeah, preach. He's our savior. When do they sing the Ocean Song? Excuse me, question. Is this the church where they sing oceans? No. People will believe anything. Teresa Caputo, drunken preacher.
Drunk Preacher
So I have to say, I mean, I like miracles. We were in. We were in Cleveland, Ohio, ladies. Plastic eye, glass eye. I don't know. Artificial eye. She put. Began to see through it.
Chrissy
She began to see through her glass. Glass of plastic. Whatever it was.
Kristen Hoadley
We were in Cleveland, some chick with fake tits. I was able to feel him after a couple glasses of God's love. Oh, you're going glass. I'd be able to see through it.
Chrissy
Oh, my God.
Kristen Hoadley
If you still have one. Good eye. Not a miracle, California.
Drunk Preacher
A guy wouldn't. I mean, we see deaf ears open up all the time. But this guy with no hole in his ear started to hear, right, and he still didn't have a hole in his ear. He heard, but no hole. The hole didn't grow. He just got his hearing. Hearing with no parts. Couple weeks ago.
Kristen Hoadley
I'm just gonna tell you, he's just, like, random. It sounds like me. It's like an esper, sort of the commercial break.
Chrissy
Yeah. No facts.
Kristen Hoadley
One time I had sex with the same stripper.
Chrissy
No facts needed.
Kristen Hoadley
No, they just believe Them everybody at the front row happened.
Chrissy
It was in Cleveland, though. It wasn't here.
Drunk Preacher
Cleveland wasn't here just a couple weeks ago. I was. You know how many of you guys know Jeff? Have heard Jeff's bilocation story where he up two places at once.
Kristen Hoadley
The way that that video cut out, it sounded like B location story where Jeff once. Two places. Yes. Let's go back to that. I want you to hear how that cut out just a little bit and how it sounded like it was Jeff. Ready? Here we go. Okay, listen to this again.
Drunk Preacher
Tell you guys a few stories of wet your appetite. Just a couple. I was, you know, how many of you guys know have heard Jeff's bilocation story where he up two places at once. More than one place at a time. Like you show up up two of you, two Johnny's, two Jeffs. Right. So we've been pressing in for this for a while, Lord. We want to buy, locate, revelate.
Kristen Hoadley
I want to bifurcate. I want to buy low, sell high. I want to buy at Lowe's. I wanna.
Chrissy
Can I start with the bilocation program?
Kristen Hoadley
I don't even know what I'm talking about this morning. Black Friday, Green Tuesday. Not even sure this is what my boner sounds like in the morning.
Chrissy
That's the Lord.
Kristen Hoadley
That's the Lord. That's spirit running through me. That's spirit. Spirit's giving me a boner. That means I got a boner.
Drunk Preacher
Heaven. Just give it all to me. I want everything, Lord God, I want everything from it. Just pour it out, dump it on. You know I want it. And so. So for a while, I showed up in Ireland, although I was in Georgia. It's just happened a few weeks. Happened actually on my birthday and August.
Kristen Hoadley
This guy needs mental health. This guy needs mental.
Chrissy
I have it. On my birthday I showed up in Ireland and. And the Lord made me drink all the Guinness.
Rachel
I was there.
Kristen Hoadley
That's how it happens, Chrissy. That's what happened.
Chrissy
It doesn't happen to me on my birthday.
Kristen Hoadley
Hey, girl, speaking of your birthday, Speaking of your birthday, what you doing? What you doing next Tuesday?
Chrissy
Let's go to Ireland.
Kristen Hoadley
Let's go to Island. Girl, send me this video. Do me a favor. Don't give it to anybody else except for the New York Post. Thanks, girl. It's me, Carl. Big Carl, little Carl out.
Chrissy
They do that. Ow.
Kristen Hoadley
Love you, girl. Love you, girl. Oh, my God. Fails, never fails. Every single time we talk about a preacher on this show, they're doing whatever they're telling Everybody else, else not to do. Every single time.
Chrissy
Every time.
Kristen Hoadley
Drunk with your love. Drunk with your love, Lord. Drunk with your love. Well, yeah, what else can I say?
Chrissy
Good day back.
Kristen Hoadley
It was a good day back. Thanks, Chrissy. Appreciate it.
Chrissy
Yes.
Kristen Hoadley
Good to be back.
Chrissy
Good to be back.
Kristen Hoadley
Good to have it. Everything is right with the world. Great to be back. Christy and I are going to be at Pod Fest the last weekend in my May. Go to podfest.com go to podfest.com if you want free tickets. I'm going to link it in the show notes. If you're interested in the podcast industry whatsoever, you're a casual observer, you want to get into it, you are into it. Go to Pod Fest. You can see Chrissy and I are going to be there all day on Friday and we're going to be doing a live episode of the commercial break as a presentation, which is going to be a ton of fun. Special guests, lots more to happen at Pod Fest. The good people over at podcast podfest. So that's a live appearance that we're making that if you'd like to down Orlando. Yeah, please do. Otherwise you'll have to see us at our next 33 Peep Pastor event. Yo, girl. What's up, girl? What's up, girl? Just look for me. V for victory. My V is more like A. It's more like a B. I got a baby. I look more like. What was that guy's name in your. In your video?
Brian Green
Pullman.
Chrissy
What was his name?
Kristen Hoadley
Plumly. I'm more like a Plumly. I got more of a Plumly figure than a lens figure. I got a rolling bee all the.
Brian Green
Way down to glory.
Kristen Hoadley
There you go. All right.
Chrissy
Rolling on in. Amen, brother.
Kristen Hoadley
Amen, brother. Here's what you do. You go to tcb podcast.com More information about Chrissy and I. All the show notes, all the audio audio, all the video. Now full episodes and clips every single day of the week. You can go to YouTube.com the commercial break to check that out at the commercial break on Instagram.
Brian Green
I love how we've had so many phone numbers.
Kristen Hoadley
I have to change it on every best of 212-4333. TCB. Okay, that's it. That's all I can do. I love you.
Chrissy
I love you. I love you, boy.
Kristen Hoadley
That's to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. We always say, we do say. We must say bye.
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Podcast Summary: The Commercial Break – "TCB Classic: Hey Girl, It's Me...Carl!"
Episode Details:
The episode kicks off with Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley discussing their ambitious plan to release multiple episodes within a short timeframe. Initially aiming for 24 episodes in 24 hours, they settled on 12 episodes in one day after co-host Krissy Hoadley vetoed the extended plan. This sets the stage for the episode's primary focus: the "Hey Girl, It's Carl!" segment, a satirical take on megachurch figures.
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The hosts introduce the "Hey Girl, It's Carl!" segment, which satirizes charismatic megachurch preachers. They explain that the segment receives a mixture of supportive and critical messages from listeners, reflecting the polarizing nature of such figures in real life.
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Bryan and Krissy delve into the history and controversies surrounding Hillsong Church, focusing on former pastor Carl Lentz. They explore how Hillsong leveraged modern music and charismatic leadership to attract a youthful congregation, likening their strategies to psychological manipulation.
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The conversation turns critical as Bryan and Krissy address Carl Lentz's personal misconduct, including infidelity and inappropriate behavior, highlighting the stark contrast between his public persona and private actions. They emphasize the hypocrisy often seen in religious leaders who preach purity while engaging in dubious activities.
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In a humorous yet biting performance, Krissy impersonates Carl Lentz, encapsulating his over-the-top preachery and blatant disregard for his own teachings. This segment serves to underline the absurdity and contradiction in Carl's public statements versus his real-life actions.
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The episode concludes with a comedic skit titled "Drunk Preacher," where Krissy portrays a preacher overwhelmed by alcohol, further mocking the irresponsible behavior of some religious leaders. This light-hearted segment provides a humorous relief after the intense discussion on Hillsong and Carl Lentz.
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Bryan and Krissy wrap up the episode by promoting their upcoming live appearance at Podfest, encouraging listeners to attend and engage with the podcast community. They also reiterate crucial messages about not idolizing flawed individuals and maintaining a grounded perspective on spiritual leadership.
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Overall Insights:
Concluding Thoughts: Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley effectively blend humor with critical analysis to expose the flaws and hypocrisies within prominent religious organizations. Their candid discussion encourages listeners to question and critically evaluate the figures and practices they encounter in spiritual communities.
Note: All timestamps correspond to moments within the provided transcript and are indicative of where notable quotes and discussions occur.