TCB Classic: Puddle Of Dud!

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Commercial Break

Episode: TCB Classic: Puddle Of Dud!
Date: December 27, 2024
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Vibe: Irreverent, nostalgic, self-deprecating, improv comedy

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Episode Overview

This episode resurrects a notorious “Best of the Worst” segment from deep in TCB history—episode 203—infamous as the show's least successful audio release and its most-watched YouTube video. Bryan and Krissy revisit youthful musical misadventures, infamous moments in washed-up rock, and the disaster magic of viral bad singing. It's a self-roasting romp: sonically cringeworthy band tapes, roast sessions on Vince Neil and Puddle of Mud, and the hosts' characteristic offbeat, chaotic banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. TCB History & Episode Context

(00:02 – 03:01)

• Bryan explains the odd fate of episode 203: the “worst” episode per download stats but viral on YouTube.
• Show evolution: From one episode/week with long gaps, to more frequent (and, Bryan jokes, lower quality) episodes.
• Confession of lost tapes: 50-60 hours of unaired material, often used for “Best of the Worst” filler.
• Episode theme: Revisiting historic bad singing—Bryan’s youthful band tapes, Vince Neil’s post-glory concerts, and Puddle of Mud’s meltdown.

"The algorithm has shined on the horse's ass of this 17 minutes." - Bryan (02:21)

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2. Bryan’s Teenage Band Disaster (“33 Willie”)

(03:01 – 22:31)

The Origin Story

• Bryan recounts starting a band at 15 with two friends: Dan (guitar, talent), Mike (drums, self-taught), and himself as the “unfortunate” singer-songwriter. Band names: first "Slow Head," then "33 Willie."

First Gig: The Awkward House Party

• Setting: A suburban Atlanta living room at 11:15 AM, furniture pushed aside, one person on a couch.
• Long, awkward tuning and “jam” before starting any song, prompting mockery from the hosts.

"This is the 26 minute intro. We’re just so scared if we keep twanging around, eventually a song will come out." – Bryan (06:10)

Live Tape Roasting

• The group plays clips of the old band tapes, providing MST3K-style commentary over fuzzy, amateur grunge “songs” like “Sunny Side Up” and “Slide,” cringing at their teenage attempts to channel Pearl Jam and Doors.
• Dan and Mike get praise for actual talent; Bryan’s vocals get compared to Scott Stapp and Rob Zombie—but with less control.

"I still wait for my balls to drop. I just can’t get over how bad that is." – Chrissy (18:18)

• Jokes about band fashion: Doc Martens, wallet chains, fake gear (“the chain that peels because I’m 15…”).
• Improvised “VH1 Behind the Music” for 33 Willie: “Not one person clapped. Not one fucking person said anything.” – Chrissy (19:52)

Perspective & Self-Mockery

• Reflecting on ‘90s music and how their band was honestly no worse than some acts getting radio play.

“Listen to my voice. I sound like Scott Stapp from Green Light.” – Chrissy (09:55)

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3. Vince Neil’s Car Crash Vocals: "Kickstart My Heart"

(29:09 – 39:10)

Segment Setup

• Bryan rewards the audience for surviving his band tape with a review of Vince Neil’s famously disastrous vocal performance at Rock in Rio (2015).

Clip Commentary

• Bryan & Krissy react to a YouTube video of Vince slurring “Kickstart My Heart,” unable to keep up with the lyrics or the song’s energy.
• The hosts lampoon his unintelligible delivery, lack of breath control, on-stage lethargy, and wardrobe choices.

"He’s so… bad. Every inch of his diaphragm is straining to make that noise." – Chrissy (32:16)
"He sounds like a dead cat." – Chrissy (34:07)
"This is what a heart attack looks like. Live." – Chrissy (34:33)

Notable Gags

• Parallels to cartoon sound effects (Batman “POW!” popups), and mock concern for Vince’s health.
• Disbelief at Vince’s use of teleprompters/lyric sheets despite performing hits.
• Relating Neil’s trainwreck to their own misadventures.

“I could honestly listen to Vince Neil slaughter his own music all day long.” – Brian (38:55)

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4. Puddle of Mud’s Infamous Nirvana Cover

(39:10 – 62:31)

Set-Up

• Introducing Puddle of Mud: hosts strain to recall the band’s hits (landing on “She Hates Me”).
• Acknowledgement of lead singer Wes Scantlin’s notoriety for onstage meltdowns and substance issues.

Clip Reaction: “About a Girl” Cover at SiriusXM

• Live review: Wes’s vocals are strained, off-key, and bizarrely intense (“looks like he’s about to take a shit” – Chrissy).
• The band members appear embarrassed or resigned, some in pajama pants.

"It sounds like if diarrhea had a voice, that would be it." – Chrissy (50:02)

• Discussion about the inherent difficulty of singing Nirvana, but pointing out Wes’s specific failures—clenched teeth, lack of airflow, “singing like he’s passing a turd.”

Band Dynamics & Theories

• Hosts joke that fellow band members are sabotaging Wes out of frustration.
• Discussion of how viral infamy followed the performance (380M views) and how Wes’s personal struggles may play a role.

Bad Lyric Moments

• The line “I do take a number 2” offered as a misheard or mis-sung lyric, with comic analysis.

"He does say, I do take a number two, didn’t he? Is that the actual lyrics of the song?" – Brian (60:36)

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5. Closing Banter and Reflections

(62:31 – Finish)

• Light-hearted talk about the post-holiday blues and podcasting as an enduring and accidental career.
• A tease for future episodes: “One more thing… I’ll spill the tea on being helmet buddies with a pro baseball player you’d know by name.”
• Encouragement for listeners to follow, text, and interact with the show—directly and humorously.

"There are a lot of people on this earth and many of us are not well. And if you couldn’t tell that I’m one of them by this first segment… then your crazy picker is off." – Bryan (63:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------|-------| | 02:21 | Bryan | "The algorithm has shined on the horse’s ass of this 17 minutes." | | 06:10 | Bryan | "This is the 26 minute intro… if we just keep twanging around, eventually a song will come out." | | 09:55 | Chrissy | "Listen to my voice. I sound like Scott Stapp from Green Light." | | 18:18 | Chrissy | "I still wait for my balls to drop. I just can’t get over how bad that is." | | 19:52 | Chrissy | "Not one person clapped. Not one fucking person said anything." | | 32:16 | Chrissy | "Every inch of his diaphragm is straining to make that noise." | | 34:07 | Chrissy | "He sounds like a dead cat." | | 34:33 | Chrissy | "This is what a heart attack looks like. Live." | | 38:55 | Brian | "I could honestly listen to Vince Neil slaughter his own music all day long." | | 50:02 | Chrissy | "It sounds like if diarrhea had a voice, that would be it." | | 60:36 | Brian | "He does say, I do take a number two, didn’t he? Is that the actual lyrics of the song?" | | 63:20 | Bryan | "There are a lot of people on this earth and many of us are not well. And if you couldn’t tell that I’m one of them by this first segment… then your crazy picker is off." |

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Important Segment Timestamps

• TCB episode context & trivia: 00:02–03:01
• First band tape & high school gig: 03:01–22:31
• Vince Neil “Kickstart My Heart” review: 29:09–39:10
• Puddle of Mud Nirvana cover roast: 39:10–62:31
• Closing thoughts & future teasers: 62:31–end

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Takeaways & Tone

• Self-Deprecation as Therapy: The episode offers catharsis and laughs by mocking their own failures as musicians and drawing parallels to legendary (but legendarily awful) rock performances.
• Improvisational, Unfiltered Comedy: True to the “Cheesecake Factory” label, the show is a buffet of self-aware, ragged, long-winded, and hilarious banter.
• Internet Culture Touchstone: The viral phenomenon of catastrophically bad performances, from Vince Neil to Puddle of Mud, is celebrated as much as it is critiqued.

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For New Listeners

This episode is peak TCB: cringe becomes comedy, self-analysis morphs into pop-culture skewering, and the laughs are both at and with the hosts. If you’ve ever failed publicly—or privately—this one’s for you.

Transcript

[Brian]

Here's an interesting fact about TCB. The most popular episode on YouTube is the least popular episode on the audio feed. And the least popular episode on the audio feed is a best of, or what we used to call the best of the worst of the commercial break. Here's a little revisionist history for you. Go all the way back to the beginning of the commercial break. And Chrissy and I did one episode a week. And sometimes we would skip a week that went on for the first 20 or 30 episodes until we got our shit together and decided decided we could in fact put in one full hour of work every single week. Somewhere around episode 50 or 60, we upped that to two episodes a week. And then the worse the show got, the more episodes we put out, but the more episodes we put out, the more opportunity for us to fuck it all up. And man, did we. I think we've got about 50 or 60 collective hours of episodes that we have never put out for one reason or the other. And on the off chance or the odd times that Chrissy and I were sick or needed to take a day off, we would haphazardly take from the can, cut it up and put it out as a best of the worst of the commercial break. On episode number 203. That is almost 470 episodes ago. I dug around the trash, found an episode where Chrissy and I talked about Vince Neil from Motley Crue and how terribly out of shape and out of form he was. And we broke down a couple of live performances that we happened to catch on camera in what was then the new studio because most of the episode was crap. I just put out that 17 minute clip on YouTube and that 17 minutes still gets a ton of views on a daily basis, ignoring the other 800 plus hours of content we have out there on YouTube. The algorithm has shined on the horse's ass of this 17 minutes. And the only time that this 17 minutes has played on the audio feed was that episode number 203, the Best of the worst of the commercial break. And that episode is the least downloaded episode in commercial break history to this day. So now that you know a little commercial break trivia, welcome to a brand new version of the commercial break that I'm referring to as TCB Classic. So while Chrissy, Christina and I lick our collective wounds from 28 days of non Stop recording for December, I'm going to put out the very first TCB classic, episode number 203. 203 revolves all around singing from first, my bad singing from a Long time ago. Then Vince Neil's bad singing from not so long Ago. And then bad singing by Wes Scantlin from Puddle of Mud from any given time in their catalog. That guy's a national treasure. Someone ought to protect him. I know I promised you a TCB infomercial with Felipe Esparza and we'll get to it. It's a good one. But here's a TCB treat on a Friday. Our very first TCB classic, Shining light on episode 203 titled Puddle of Dud.

I guess I'm gonna have to.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

No more songs.

[Brian]

So nervous about this.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

I know. It's just. The time has come.

[Brian]

Here's the story.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

You're a good man, A big man. I'm a big man for doing this.

[Brian]

I'm a man of my word. I don't want anyone to say that I didn't do this because I did do this. This may be the first and last time this ever gets played on the commercial break. And who knows how long this episode stays out there. I'm just going to put that out there.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

To be brief, here's the deal.

[Brian]

I'm 15 years old and I start a band with a couple friends of mine, Dan and Mike. I won't give away their last names in case they don't want to be heard. Yeah, Dan is an incredibly talented, like an idiot savant type musician. He can play multiple instruments extraordinarily well. He's such a great technical musician. And he is the lead guitarist and or the bassist of our band. And then there's Mike, who is a drummer, soft, self taught drummer and he's very good himself. And then there is me and I am playing guitar and I am singing and I'm writing the songs.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Oh, okay.

[Brian]

To the band that we named 33 Will.

[Chrissy]

So bad.

[Brian]

@ one point we got asked to go. I think this is actually our first show. We got asked to go and play a house party. We had been practicing in Dan's attic for like a year and making up these horrible, horrible songs that you're about to hear. And at one point we got asked to play a house party. Somebody that Dan knew was having a house party. Their parents are out of town. It's like a Saturday afternoon at like 11:15 in the.

[Chrissy]

After. I mean it was like totally.

[Brian]

Not conducive to this.

[Chrissy]

Music. I'm not saying this is gonna make any of the music any better.

[Brian]

If it was at.

[Chrissy]

Night. But I'm trying to give myself some.

[Brian]

Excuse. It's like 11:15 in the afternoon. We're playing in someone's living room. We've moved all the furniture mainly out of the way, so now it's circling the room and people are sitting on couches. Well, a person is sitting on a.

[Chrissy]

Couch. And we're playing in front of.

[Brian]

A fireplace in someone's pedestrian.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

House.

[Brian]

Okay. In north. North of Atlanta. Okay, here we go.

[Chrissy]

Ready?

[Brian]

Yep. Here is how. This is the CD covers from the beginning until the end of the concert. Now I don't have the time to play all of it, so I've got to be.

Choosy.

Every. Every. So they. Oh, my God. Okay, so let's just start. This is the.

[Chrissy]

Be. Getting warmed up. Yeah, it's a little.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Mute. I can hear a little twinge of, like a Pearl Jammy.

[Chrissy]

Thing. Oh, yeah, there's a. There's a Pearl Jammy thing going on. Oh, my.

[Brian]

God. Tuning up the instruments, getting ready. You know, you.

[Chrissy]

Gotta. You gotta prepare.

[Brian]

Properly. You want to make.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Sure. You gotta be sure everything's in.

[Brian]

Tune. It's like when fish does a jam and they're.

[Chrissy]

Like. You know, they're in between.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Jams.

[Brian]

Exactly. They're transitioning.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. You started with the.

[Chrissy]

Transition. Yeah, we ended the transition. It's like starting this sentence with and ending it with a preposition. This is the 26 minute intro. Well, we're just so scared. If we just keep twanging around, eventually a song will come out. We don't have to play the ones we wrote. We're already five minutes in. We haven't even played a song. No wonder people left. They were like, who are these guys tuning their.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Instruments? Call me when they're.

[Chrissy]

Done. You guys should have taken care of that outside or.

[Brian]

Something. Let's do a sunny side.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Up. Sunny side.

[Chrissy]

Up. Sunny side.

[Brian]

Up. Okay. All.

[Chrissy]

Right. Now I'm gonna go hide the corner while you listen. This is so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Bad. It's probably not that.

[Chrissy]

Bad. Totally. It's that bad. It's that bad. It's so bad. I'm so embarrassed.

[Brian]

Okay. All.

[Chrissy]

Right. Oh, my.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

God. Okay.

[Chrissy]

Nice. There's the only talented musician in.

[Brian]

The group playing the bass.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Line. Yeah, that sounds.

[Chrissy]

Good. Yeah, we should have it like.

[Brian]

That. It should have been the whole.

[Chrissy]

Song. You just keep on going.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Man. It's all.

[Chrissy]

You. Mike and I are heading. Mike and I are heading. We're going to go upstairs and smoke a cigarette. We'll be back when the important part.

[Brian]

Starts. I think there's another guitarist. I don't know who he is. It's very. It's very Doors.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Ish. Yeah, it.

[Brian]

Is. Oh, very.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Moody. This is the.

[Chrissy]

End. This is the end of your musical career, my friend. This is perfect for 11:15 on a Saturday.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Afternoon. Going to bring things down a.

[Chrissy]

Bit. Let me bring it so far down you can't hear me.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Singing. Yeah, I'm.

[Brian]

Picturing. Oh.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. With all the drugs I'm taking.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Ah, Nice. Well, you kicked it up a.

[Chrissy]

Notch. We're at like, a 13. The party's at, like, a.

[Brian]

1. Oh, back.

[Chrissy]

Down. Get moody.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Again.

[Brian]

Yeah. If you notice there, I started.

[Chrissy]

Singing way before I was supposed.

[Brian]

To. I'm 15. Give me a.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Break. Yeah, I am, I am. I mean, good for you to.

[Brian]

Try. Thanks.

[Chrissy]

Ho. I appreciate.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

That. I mean, everybody's got to start.

[Chrissy]

Somewhere. This is where we started, and the podcast is where we.

[Brian]

Ended. Listen to my.

[Chrissy]

Voice. I sound like Scott Stamp from.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Green Light.

[Chrissy]

Up. I mean, the bass line is good. I think, at least again, we're.

[Brian]

Gonna give it up to.

[Chrissy]

Dan. Yeah, no, Mike's.

[Brian]

Good. Mike's a good, solid.

[Chrissy]

Drummer. What am I making breakfast? This is my heavy metal song about Waffle.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

House. You've always had a love for.

[Chrissy]

Waffles. I never.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Stop. Oh, yeah. Take it back.

[Brian]

Down. Oh, yeah. Guitar.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Solo. Is that.

[Brian]

You? I don't know, actually. I don't know if this is me, if there's someone else, because we had a second guitarist.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Sometimes.

[Brian]

Yeah. And I don't know if that guy is with us or not. Sounds like.

[Chrissy]

Me. Sounds pretty.

[Brian]

Bad. By the way. This is the same talentless guitar playing that.

[Chrissy]

I. That I impressed Astra's parents.

[Brian]

With. Also my singing.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Voice. Well, in fairness, it was like a time when there was a lot of, you know, angst and screaming and grunge. Right. Was kind of, you know, if.

[Brian]

I'm 15, this is.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

1991.

[Brian]

Yeah. So, I mean, this is like. This is just when Pearl Jam and Nirvana have come out. I mean, not.

Even.

Yeah. I don't even think some of these albums had even been.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Out. Like Alice in.

[Brian]

Chinese. Yeah. All that stuff.

Yeah. And we are just channeling that energy is what we.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Are. Oh.

[Brian]

Yeah. The crowd is really responding to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Us by walking out the door wearing your dog.

[Chrissy]

Martin. I was same Doc Martens. I was wearing a 22 with the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Fish. Like, with.

[Brian]

The. Oh, you know I.

[Chrissy]

Did. Oh, you know I.

[Brian]

Did. And not a small.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Chain.

[Chrissy]

Right. A long chain, like down below my knee. And not a real chain either. The kind that gets wet and it starts peeling because I'm 15 and I can't order.

[Announcer/Producer]

It.

[Chrissy]

Right. I can afford a Fender Stratocaster, but I can't get a pair of shoes, clean underwear, or a chain that works. But Sunny.

[Brian]

Night oh, it's so, so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Bad. Don't be too hard on.

[Brian]

Yourself. You know, sometimes, like, people, they, like, meditate to their former self. You know what I'm.

[Chrissy]

Saying? They.

[Brian]

Like. They believe in, like, you know, the string theory and multiple universes, and time is just a dilation, and you can talk to your younger.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Self.

[Brian]

Okay. I just keep telling my younger self you're eventually behind a.

[Chrissy]

Microphone. You're not much better at that either, but at least you're not screaming. And where are these lyrics coming from? I'm talking about all the drugs I'm.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Taking. Oh.

[Brian]

Man. I bet I have the lyrics somewhere in one of these lyric books. I should.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Bet.

[Brian]

Yeah. There's, like, there's 22 songs in here, folks, so there will be another episode of this, and I will try and get out the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Window. You're like a season of 21 Jump.

[Brian]

Street. I was. Well, a couple of them are cover tunes. We actually do the End, I think, by the Doors, and we do. And Killing in the Name of by Rage against the Machine, which is a song that, like. It just come out. So this must be 1992, actually.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Probably. Here we go.

[Chrissy]

Now. Here we go now. Channeling my inner Anthony Kiedis. Here we go now. All three of the notes we're playing sound really.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Good. I do want to know what the rest of the song says. I've only heard Sunny side.

[Chrissy]

Up. Well, you can't hear me because I'm not.

[Brian]

Talking. I'm not actually singing. The microphone, this is the thing that I remember doing. I.

[Chrissy]

Was. This.

[Brian]

Is. By the way, it's.

[Chrissy]

Just. Can you imagine being at, like, an afternoon brunch house party? This is what's coming at.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

You. No one was brunching. Let's be.

[Chrissy]

Real. No, they were doing cake stands in the.

[Brian]

Back.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Smoking.

[Brian]

Pot. Just trying to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Chill. Parents are out. You take advantage. What time of the day? It doesn't.

[Brian]

Matter. Yeah, that's correct. All these guys were hoping, like.

[Chrissy]

Widespread Part two was walking in the.

[Brian]

Door. And.

[Chrissy]

They. They got Creed. Five years before Creed was a.

[Brian]

Thing, they're like, wow, that's a really bad impression of Eddie.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Vedder. Well, you couldn't get any better, so you got 33.

[Brian]

Willie. You couldn't get Eddie Vedder or any.

[Chrissy]

Better. So there you go. Hey, we paid Inside the budget, which was.

[Brian]

$00. I don't even think we got free.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Beer. Anyway, you just needed the.

[Chrissy]

Experience. Oh, we got plenty of.

[Brian]

Experience. I remember a thing that I.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Did. I want the one where you fell off the.

[Chrissy]

Stage. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian]

Yeah. I think my music, I think my singing got a little less like in like imitative, like. I wasn't trying to imitate somebody here. Clearly what I'm doing is I'm trying to imitate a bunch of different singers of the time. And I'm not using my own voice. Not that my own voice was any much, that much better. I'm not. I was not a great singer in any stretch of the imagination. But what I've noticed about some of these old recordings, I have a habit of moving away from the microphone because I think I'm scared of being heard right. It's scary. But then when I get loud I'm like, okay, well I might as well just scream at this.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Point. Shake it in Sunny side up.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, I like my eggs and suddenly.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Sign up here we go now covered in.

[Chrissy]

Smothered. Thanks. Jamaican cream with my coffee the Am.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

I. What were some of the other names of your.

[Brian]

Songs? Oh God, I've got them. I've got them right here. Slide. Here's one called.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Slide.

[Chrissy]

Slide. I think the Goo Goo Dolls then stole our.

[Brian]

Song. Remember that why don't you.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Slide? I don't think it.

[Chrissy]

Was. Yeah, that was.

[Brian]

It. Why don't you.

[Announcer/Producer]

Slide? That was.

[Brian]

It. It was most.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Definitely. I think it was called.

[Brian]

Smile. No, no, Slide. Okay, yeah, it's like, why don't you slide? Remember the Goo Goo Dolls? They were like a hardcore punk band that turned into like, you.

[Chrissy]

Know. Go, go, Why don't you.

[Brian]

Slide? What other songs did they.

[Chrissy]

Sing?

[Brian]

Uhhuh. God, I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, they were bad. It was bad. We all sang their songs back then, but it was bad. Yeah, you don't hear those songs on the radio anymore. Okay, this is by 33 willie. Before they were known as 33 willie, we were known as Slow Head. That was the name of the band. Slow.

[Chrissy]

Head. Make up your own interpretation of that.

[Brian]

One.

[Chrissy]

Yes. 15 year old boys. Slow.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Head. Slow.

[Chrissy]

Head. Slow.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Head. Oh my.

[Chrissy]

God. So bad. It's so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Cringeworthy. 33.

[Brian]

Willie. Slow.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Head. Chopper Johnson. I don't think I have references to.

[Brian]

Penis. I just wanna, I wanna say this. I don't think Slow Head was my.

[Chrissy]

Idea. I don't know whose it was, but it wasn't.

[Brian]

Mine. I would have never named. My bad slow head. 33 Willie was a much better.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Name. Was this the same band too? Where you showed up and Tina dropped you off and you.

[Brian]

Were. That's Chopper.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Johnson. That's Chopper.

[Chrissy]

Johnson. That's the.

[Brian]

Act. Like, this is my teen. This is a teenage band. Right. This is a high school band. Right. We're doing this thinking that we're gonna be famous. Yeah. Obviously, the talent.

[Chrissy]

Is. I don't know where the form. I don't know where the talent scouts were.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Clearly. I mean, you were still.

[Brian]

Developing.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. In many.

[Brian]

Ways. Puberty, basically, was how we were.

[Chrissy]

Developing. I still wait for my balls to drop. I just can't get over how bad that.

[Brian]

Is. This is my teenage band. But then in my. In my early 20s, I joined a band called Chop that I. That I affectionately named, at some point, Chopper Johnson. We named Chopper Johnson. Right. At some point, Chopper Johnson was a more adult band. They.

[Chrissy]

Were. I don't even know what that.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Means. Meaning you were adults in.

[Chrissy]

It. Meaning we had to do porn to save. Pay the bills. I don't know. I think we played at a strip club.

[Brian]

Once. I'm not sure. I don't.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Remember. Oh, my.

[Brian]

God. Meaning they were older than I.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Was. It was a more.

[Brian]

Mature. And they had recorded albums. They were like. And they had the same. Their manager was the touring manager for Rush, so their band manager was the touring manager for.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Rush. I mean, that's.

[Brian]

Big. They were going places until I showed.

[Chrissy]

Up. They were well on their.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Way. And then he.

[Chrissy]

Joined. I came and took a hammer to the.

[Brian]

Track.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna change the name to.

[Chrissy]

Charlie. That's.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Right. I'm gonna sing. And we're gonna really take.

[Chrissy]

Off. Have you guys ever guys ever heard of 33p? No. Let me play you one of our classics. Listen to the cheers. Listen to the crowd. Not one person. Not one person clapping. Not one fucking person said anything. They were all like.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Wow. Okay, I.

[Chrissy]

Guess. I guess we should come back later. What time you say your parents get.

[Brian]

Home?

[Chrissy]

7. Can we come back around 6? Will these guys still be here? Oh, my God. I'm laughing so hard. I'm crying. I don't know if I'm laughing because I'm.

[Brian]

Embarrassed. This.

[Chrissy]

Was. Yeah.

[Brian]

Yeah. So when I knocked on that. When I knocked on that.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Door. You did this last week.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Then.

[Chrissy]

I couldn't have done this years.

[Brian]

Ago. Imagine. Imagine that a little record label had picked us up. You know what I would.

[Chrissy]

Be? I would be like Puddle of Mud. That's what I would be like. I would be like that Wes.

[Brian]

Scantlin guy running around drunk and high.

[Chrissy]

On heroin, trying to explain my music. And people would say, yeah, people would say, don't worry, Everything old comes new again. Not for some people. I don't see the Goo Goo.

[Brian]

Dolls running around with a farewell.

[Chrissy]

Tour. You know what I'm saying? It just doesn't work that way for some people. I don't want to be running the, you know, boys to Men, what's left of NSync and 33p. What is that? What is.

[Brian]

That? Music compilation. Time Life Music Collection presents the best of.

[Chrissy]

33P. Enjoy all the old classics like Sunny, Sign up and Slide. You can only find this collection exclusively on.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Time. I'd love to see a VH1 behind the Music with.

[Chrissy]

33. I'd like to see any of us survive 50 years.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Old. I'm picturing you in, like, a stool. You know, y' all are all kind of hanging out. There's a black curtain behind Picturing.

[Chrissy]

Stool is about right for 33ft. We also were playing behind the Porta Potties at this particular party. Not one person.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Clapped. Well, tough.

[Chrissy]

Crowd. Yeah, tough crowd. Tough crowd. A crowd insinuates that there were.

[Brian]

More than one person.

[Chrissy]

Listening. That's.

[Brian]

Enough. So to get back to the story, when I showed up with Tina, I answered a personal, like, not a personal ad, but an ad in, like, a. Yeah, the Creative Loafing, a local alternative trader. Singer looking for singer. You know, band with whatever, you know, album looking for singer. And so that's when I showed up at the door. Tina dropped me off, and the.

[Chrissy]

Guy was like, yeah, here, take these.

[Brian]

Songs and call us back in a week with some.

[Chrissy]

Ideas. And I was like, I don't.

[Brian]

Have a car or a phone, but.

[Chrissy]

I still have my Blue dog Martens from.

[Brian]

33B. You want to listen to.

Slide? Why.

Not? Why not? We're in it.

[Chrissy]

Now. Yeah, I heard. I heard a.

[Brian]

Woo. I think that was.

[Chrissy]

Us. I think that was.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Me. Maybe it was the.

[Brian]

Dog. It was Mike. It was Scoot. Yeah, his name was Scoot. We called a Scooter. We called him Scooter.

[Chrissy]

Scooter. It was the.

[Brian]

Dog. Hey, Mike's drumming pretty good.

[Chrissy]

Here. Yeah, he's getting.

[Brian]

Going.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but Mike's.

[Brian]

Going, I'm sure I'm gonna come in and ruin the song at any.

[Chrissy]

Moment. Yep, there I.

[Brian]

Am. Remember Rob.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Zombie? He's got a.

[Chrissy]

Metallica.

[Brian]

Yeah. Remember White.

Zombie?

Yes. I sound like the guy from White Zombie. Why am I trying to emulate the guy from White.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Zombie. Oh, he was.

[Brian]

Successful. Was it White Zombie? Yeah, it was. White Zombie was. No, not White Zombie.

Wasn'T. White Zombie was.

With. Oh, that was the Cranberries. Never.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Mind. You seem like you're getting more confident.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Or drunk. One of the two. I'm not sure. Well, I'm getting more confident because I realize no one's.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Listening. You are getting.

[Chrissy]

Drunk. Yeah, I realize no one's listening at this.

[Brian]

Point. There's no one in the crowd, so I'm like, oh, I'm playing to nobody. Just like when we're playing in the attic.

Yeah. I think I've.

Been. I think I've been disarmed by the fact that there is no one.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

There.

[Brian]

Yeah. And we're just kind of treating it now like band.

[Chrissy]

Practice.

[Brian]

Right. And at band practice, we can be as bad as we want to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Be.

[Brian]

Right. And it.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Shows. Never. Tell me.

[Chrissy]

Something. What you looking for? To be fair to those of.

[Brian]

You who were not born or around in the 90s, there was much worse music than this. It was playing on the.

[Chrissy]

Radio.

[Brian]

Yeah. Not the singing, but the actual music part. I just want to let you know.

[Chrissy]

That. What? This is Dan slapping on the bas. He's had plenty of practice at home. There's some comic relief. Hey, I'm Brian. Over here at Chuckles Laugh Factory all weekend.

[Brian]

Long.

[Chrissy]

Wow. What witty banter, Brian. It's Jim.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Morrison. It is. It.

[Chrissy]

Is. Astrid heard this Seven Miles as Astra. No, she is not. This will be the first.

[Brian]

Time. I'm praying this is one of.

[Chrissy]

Those episodes she won't listen all the way.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Through. I'm.

[Chrissy]

Brian. I'm Brian, in case anyone's listening. I'm Brian, in case you're taking pictures for some.

[Brian]

Magazine.

[Chrissy]

Okay. I'm Brian. Like, I'm introducing myself to people. Like, I'm Brian. Nice to meet you. People are like, dude, enough. I thought Dave's parents were gone.

[Brian]

And we're gonna get.

[Chrissy]

Hammered. I was gonna French kiss my girlfriend. Instead I gotta listen to this shit. You're blocking the stairway. I can't even get to the.

[Brian]

Bedrooms.

[Chrissy]

Man, I shouldn't have taken that lsd. Slow head is killing me. The guitar's ripping into me like a million.

[Announcer/Producer]

Knives. Brian might have just said it's time to take a break, but some of us have to work right now. And by work, I mean gently nudge you, nay, beg you to follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTokCV podcast. Because, listen, the more followers we get, the more clout I get with Chrissy and Brian, if you've got something to say, give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 212-4333, TCB or shoot us a text. One more thing. Check out our website, tcbpodcast.com, where you can find all of our audio and video and even request a new sticker from the Contact Us.

[Chrissy]

Form.

[Brian]

Bye. I feel like you deserve a.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Prize just for making it this far. In this particular episode, you had.

[Brian]

To suffer through 33P, just like the two people who happened to show up at that house party. So you deserve a prize. A prize you shall.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Get. Chrissy and I one time did an entire episode on Vince Neil and Motley Crue. I started finding all these really funny videos focusing on Vince Neil's vocal performances. This guy is a hot mess. I'm never sure he was a really great singer, but as of late, he's drunk out of shape, and it appears he just doesn't give a shit. He doesn't know his own lyrics. He gets exhausted just walking on stage, and he's trying to convince everybody in the audience that whatever he's doing to that microphone is actual singing. But it's not. For a couple of different reasons, we never ran that episode. And now for your prize, the gift at the bottom of the cereal box. I am going to play Chrissy and I reviewing Vince Neil live from who fucking cares? Singing the song Kickstart My Heart. Honestly, this is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. I hope you feel the same way, but don't go anywhere after this. I'll be back to present one more segment of this episode of the Best of the Worst of the Commercial Break.

[Brian]

Podcast. Enjoy. Go Google Motley Crue Rock and Roll rio on. On YouTube. Search.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

It. Okay. What year was this.

[Brian]

From? 2015, I.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Think.

[Brian]

Okay. So many smarter and funnier guys than me have actually put the. So we're about to listen to him sing Kickstart My Heart. Vince Neil and the band play Kickstart My Heart. Vince is obviously drunk, fat, out of shape, out of breath, but he barely sings the lyrics. They're like. It's like mumble rap. You can't even fucking understand it. So what people have done is they have gone.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Oh. And made their.

[Brian]

Own. Made their own lyrics and put them on the bot. Now, I don't want to show those because that's somebody else's video. I mean, you get it. I don't want to, like, take credit for somebody else's video, but wait until you hear the trash coming out of this guy's mouth. You don't even need to be watching this video to. To hear how bad this is. Okay? This is going to come on in one.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Second. Oh, is that.

[Brian]

Nikki? That's Nikki. No, no, that's not Nikki. That's the other guy. The guy who's dead. Nothing like sliding your hand across a guitar for three minutes. I can already hear in the comment section, you.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Man. All.

[Brian]

Right, Just.

[Chrissy]

Listen. This is so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Good.

[Chrissy]

Whoa. Drive through pudding Gonna cover me. He's so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Bad. Being.

[Chrissy]

Back. 103, 1, 2, 6, 4, 3, 2, 3. I think the real lyric.

[Brian]

Is. What is.

[Chrissy]

It? Look out my.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Heart. My.

[Chrissy]

Heart. Kickstart my heart. Right? But he's like, look out. His every inch of his diaphragm is straining to make that noise. He's like. He takes a huge breath in, walk.

[Announcer/Producer]

Out. You know.

[Chrissy]

That. You know the old Batman where they had the. The pow, pow, bam. Yeah. There was one that was like, wa.

[Brian]

Pow. Right? Oh, more, more.

[Chrissy]

More. He's like making cat noises up.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

There and then just pumping his fist in the.

[Brian]

Air.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. He can't move because he's so big. So he just bumps his big fat arm up in the air. I love.

[Brian]

This.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

What?

[Brian]

What?

[Chrissy]

Yeah. He sounds like. Sounds like a dead.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Cat. Oh, my.

[Chrissy]

God. Oh, my God. This is what a heart attack looks like.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Live. Geez. I know. I feel worried for him.

[Chrissy]

Actually. Looking for another good.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Time. Looking for another good time. I was just able to decipher.

[Chrissy]

That came up with lyrics. He's.

[Brian]

Like. He's.

[Chrissy]

Like, good, good time. Look at his pants. He's wearing the same pants I wore for 12 years. The bell bottoms. Yeah.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. Playing girls. Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. You can't remember the.

[Brian]

Lyric?

[Chrissy]

No. And they're, by the way, they're pasted all over the stage. He's got lyric sheets all over the.

[Brian]

Stage. Look.

[Chrissy]

Down. Next time they do a stage.

[Brian]

Shut. A lot of musicians do this now, right? Or they have an actual.

[Chrissy]

Teleprompter.

[Brian]

Yeah. I mean, when.

[Chrissy]

You. Right. You know, I don't.

[Brian]

Know. Rolling Stones or the Grateful Dead. I mean, I don't know the Grateful Dead does this, but, you know.

I know there's some bands who do that. They have such deep.

Catalogs. It's like I can't remember every single lyric to every single song, even though I wrote it. I mean, I can.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Barely. Pretty good. A pretty big hit for them, though. I bet he's sung that a ton of.

[Chrissy]

Times. There weren't too.

[Brian]

Many. It's like, Dr. Feel Good. Girls, girls, girls. And this one, right. All the other ones are like, I could.

[Chrissy]

Understand.

[Brian]

Wow. I don't know how he makes it through a whole.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Set.

[Brian]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Yay. This reminds me. This honestly reminds me of me in that.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Band.

[Chrissy]

33B. Oh.

[Brian]

Bad.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Yeah. Instead of going like, yeah. He's like, yeah. Can't.

[Brian]

Breathe. Look at.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Him. He's drenched, already.

[Brian]

Sweating. He's been out there for five minutes.

[Chrissy]

Whispering. Needed was years.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Whoa. Okay, well, you have to have the girls on there on stage to take away from the.

[Brian]

Distraction. You better have something up.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

There. Yeah. From remembering.

[Chrissy]

This. If it's me and you, this.

[Brian]

Is the best thing that ever happened at a.

[Chrissy]

Concert. We're like, this is.

[Brian]

Incredible. I hope someone's videotaping.

[Chrissy]

This. If this is people who actually.

[Brian]

Came to see Motley Crue because they enjoy Motley.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Crue.

[Brian]

Yeah. They're like, what in the world? He's not even singing words. He's just.

[Chrissy]

Like. It's a weird series of honking.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Noises. Oh, he looks really out of.

[Brian]

Breath. Yeah, he's out of.

[Chrissy]

Shape.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Wow. Let's do fire and have.

[Brian]

Girls. He's giving up.

[Chrissy]

Now. He's just like, I'm just gonna point to the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Crowd.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Have them sing. Oh, yeah. Scatter diddly. Do that, dude. He's.

[Brian]

Giving.

[Chrissy]

He's.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

He's.

[Chrissy]

He's. Now he's scatting. He's like, scatter. Kick start my.

[Brian]

Skin. It's bad, it's bad, it's.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Bad. I could honestly listen to Vince Neil slaughter his own music all day long. It is one of the most humorous things to me on the Internet right now. Vince Neil making a mess of his own.

[Brian]

Songs. Okay, I got one more segment for you. Music.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Related. Unlike Motley Crue, Puddle of Mudd never saw any kind of sustained success. In this segment, you'll hear that Chrissy and I struggle to even remember one name of one song from Puddle of Mud. And I don't think anybody would remember Puddle of Mud if it wasn't for their singer Wes Scantlin's interesting and rather bizarre behavior on and off stage in this clip from Sirius xm, where the band manages to get in the studio early in the morning, but it's obvious Wes is worse for the wear. And what does he choose to sing? One of Nirvana's most beloved songs. I have a feeling from the the moment that Wes Scantlin woke up, or maybe he was just still up that morning, shit was gonna hit the fan no matter what. Lucky for us, it hit the fan directly in front of the cameras. Here's Chrissy and I reviewing Puddle of Mud singing Nirvana during this most infamous of live performances. I'll be back after this nightmare of a performance to wrap up this episode of the Best of the Worst of the Commercial Break.

[Brian]

Podcast.

Enjoy. And I'm talking, of course, about one of the greatest bands that has ever lived. Really. I mean, you think.

Of. When you think of artists, famous.

Artists, like the best rock bands in the world, who do you think.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Of? Led Zeppelin. Rolling Stones, Certainly Beatles. Beatles, yeah, yeah.

[Brian]

Nirvana.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Nirvana. Pearl.

[Brian]

Jam. Pearl Jam. Maybe you throw in a Grateful.

[Chrissy]

Dead.

[Brian]

Yes. In.

[Announcer/Producer]

There.

[Brian]

Absolutely. There's lots of emo bands that were My Chemical Romance. There's like. You can go on and on and.

[Chrissy]

On. I think of all.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

These. Morning.

[Brian]

Jacket. My Morning Jacket. Willow Smith, who I think is just excellent. She's. I'm all. I'm all about her right.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Now. You're a willowing.

[Brian]

Willow.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Six.

[Brian]

Dimension. But I think of one band. One band stands out to me. Tanima amongst the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Rest.

[Brian]

Okay. All the rest are small little minions compared to one huge behemoth juggernaut of a band that came out in the late 90s. Kind of had a run through the early.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Juggernaut. I think it's.

[Brian]

Juggernaut. It's a juggernaut. I thought it was a juggernaut. It's not a.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Juggernaut.

[Brian]

Juggernaut. Juggernaut. There's no R in there. There's no R. And Jurgonut for me, they had a lot of songs on the radio. They toured relentlessly. They made fans of every person that ever heard them. I'm talking, of course, about Puddle of.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Mud. I mean, that. That.

[Brian]

Was. Name one of their.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Songs. I didn't even have to name one of their.

[Brian]

Songs. Isn't it.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Superman?

[Chrissy]

Muddy.

[Brian]

Muddy. I just make.

It. Shut.

Up. Is it Superman like I'll be your Superman or.

[Chrissy]

Whatever? Wait, hold.

[Brian]

On. We should know this. Hold on. Look at. Look at Puddle of Mud real.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Quick. We should look at Puddle.

[Brian]

Model. You look up Juggernaut.

Yeah. Okay. Puddle of. I know. The audience loves it when we.

[Chrissy]

Stop.

[Brian]

Yes. This is the high quality kind of entertainment you get here at the commercial break. Okay. Puddle of Mud with band members Juggernaut, Jurgenaut, Juggernaut. Juggernaut.

[Chrissy]

Okay.

[Brian]

Yeah. So they had. Okay, here is their discography. I know, but what is their famous Songs Come Clean, Life on Display. Famous. Yeah, but what are the songs? I really want to know the songs that. That they had that Were famous. And then I'm gonna get.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Into. Let's see.

[Brian]

Here. Well, Puddle of Mud, she Hates Me is one that I think we could all.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Know.

[Brian]

Yeah, I know I'm not doing his voice justice. I know there's a lot of Wes Scantlin fans out there. So excuse me if I just. You know, I have to. Because anytime I hear that song, I just. It's so catchy. She Hates.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Me. Good old.

[Brian]

Puddle. Wes Scantlin and his Puddle of Mud crew came into a what I believe is a clear channel or iHeartradio studio one morning, one early morning, and decided to do one of their Live at five bullshits or whatever the fuck they were doing. And they decided to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Cover. Was I.

[Brian]

There? Were you.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

There? We used to have live performances that we.

[Brian]

Were. I don't think we had anybody that famous. Yeah, I think we had that guy from Hootie and the Blowfish one.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Time and we had Lady.

[Brian]

A. Lady Antebellum. Well, they don't call themselves Lady A. Yeah, they got. People got upset about that. They came into the studio. I think this is in New.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

York. This is. Okay, this.

[Brian]

Is. Decided to do a Nirvana cover. Highfalutin. Yes. This is super fancy shit right.

[Announcer/Producer]

Here. Okay, well, thank the baby Jesus. Brian took a breath. And now I will use this opportunity to let you know that we've got a brand new phone number. That's right, it's 213. And you can text us anytime you want, or you can call and leave us a voicemail. And we might just use your message on the show once Brian gets through all the messages he missed last year. Of course. Anyway, you can also find and DM us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok, CBpodcast. And of course, all of our audio and video is easily found on tcbpodcast.com now I'm going to thank G one more time that we have sponsors. So thank G. And here they.

[Brian]

Are. Are you ready for one of the greatest vocal performances that you have ever.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Heard? I'm always ready for.

[Brian]

That. Are your ears.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Prepared? I think.

[Brian]

So. Are they powdered and.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Nursed? They're.

[Brian]

Fluffed. Okay. Are you.

[Chrissy]

Ready?

[Brian]

Okay. I want you to listen to Puddle of Mud covering Nirvanas about a girl. I'm let this run for a minute, then we'll play back the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Tape. Okay. He's really getting into.

[Chrissy]

It. Does it look like Wes Cantlin's.

[Brian]

About to take a shit on.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

The. It.

[Chrissy]

Does. On the Iheart floor or.

[Brian]

What?

Just. Okay. I'll Let it run. I'm.

[Chrissy]

Sorry. I'm.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Sorry. That guy next to him, like.

[Chrissy]

Everybody in the band is like, holy shit, we're dying a slow death live on radio, first of all. Second of all, I want you.

[Brian]

To notice that half of the band.

[Chrissy]

Members, of which there are four, are wearing.

[Brian]

Pajamas. They.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Are. They're wearing pajama.

[Brian]

Pants. So I. I'm not here to beat up Wes Scantlin. 100%. I'm just 80%. Because I will say this in first thing in the morning. If you're a singer, like I was in.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

33P. That's.

[Brian]

Right. You know, those early morning radio events are difficult to do because I never did one, but I imagined that if I had to wake up early. We tried early morning band practice. Like, we were having a couple shows. So we tried to go like, you know, and I say early morning. I mean, like 11:30 in the morning. Yeah, we'd all just, like, be so drunk, hungover, and. And we tried the early morning, and it never worked because it's really hard to get your gears.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Going. Yeah.

[Brian]

Yeah. That's a nighttime thing.

Right? For.

Sure. But, you know, Wes.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Is. It's like us trying to record at 10am when we tried this a.

[Brian]

Few weeks ago, I said, come at 10 to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

2. I saw come at.

[Brian]

10. 2.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

2. You didn't.

[Chrissy]

Say. That's getting.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Worse. What year was this? Like, was Nirvana still.

[Brian]

Alive? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is like five.

Years.

Yeah. When did he died? In 97, I think. Was it 96 or 97? Yeah, 96 or 97. No, this is like five years ago. Poor Wes, man. He's just trying his little heart.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Out. He's.

[Brian]

Really. Nothing's working. He's got this look on his face where he's, like, taking a dump. He's.

[Chrissy]

Like, I do hope a number. I do keep a day with you.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. The other guy's, like.

[Brian]

Laughing. Yeah, he's laughing. He's.

[Chrissy]

Like. He's like, oh, there goes my regular.

[Brian]

Paycheck. I mean, this is well past Bottle of Mud's prime. I think this is Serious accent, by the way. Not Clear Channel, but. So I think. I think Clear Channel or serious.

[Chrissy]

Was just like, puddle of Mud's gonna.

[Brian]

Be in town tomorrow playing the Rinky.

[Chrissy]

Dink arena in front of the circus. You guys, what do you.

[Brian]

Think? Want to bring him in, have him do a.

Song? Yeah.

Sure. We'll throw it on the Internet. This is like 380 million views. Because it's the worst Vocal performance that's ever been recorded by a professional.

Musician. Well, at least the guitarist has got it.

[Chrissy]

Together. Yeah. You know what I'm.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Saying?

[Brian]

Yeah. At least. There you go. A little guitar.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Solo. Is that the bass? No, he's doing the.

[Brian]

Guitar. Yeah, he's doing the guitar. And I mean, he is.

Struggling. He's struggling to put it all.

[Chrissy]

Together.

[Brian]

Yeah. And when you're playing and singing at the same time, it's not an easy thing to.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Do.

[Brian]

Really.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian]

No. Well, imagine your mind's working on one tempo here and one tempo here, so it's. It's difficult to do. I give. I give him credit for.

[Chrissy]

That. I do.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Hope. Number two. He said number.

[Chrissy]

Two. He did. He goes. I take it, number.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Two. You said.

[Brian]

It. SiriusXM Studio number three, this is CEO.

[Chrissy]

SiriusXM. What in the good is going down downstairs? It sounds like there are rats dying right below.

[Brian]

Me. Oh, no, no.

No. That's just wet scantlin from Puddle of.

[Chrissy]

Mud. Oh, what? Get him off our radio before he kills the whole.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Satellite. Yeah, he's really.

[Brian]

Trying. I.

[Chrissy]

Know. It sounds like if Diarrhea had.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

A voice, that would be it. That would be it. Lord, it's painful. Cover flop. I love Asylum. This is cover flop. The musical instruments sound.

[Brian]

Great. Listen. Not a particularly difficult song to play, but all the rest of the band came and they. They brought their A game. Now Wes. I think Wes is high. That's my personal.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Opinion.

[Brian]

I. Because no one makes this kind of face unless there are narcotics involved maybe in the situation. I love it. The west. You're so good. Well, that was three minutes of my life I'll never get back. Okay, now just listen to the beginning of the song for a second. Watch his face. Right before he goes into.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

It. He's gearing.

[Brian]

Up. He's like, I hope they don't know I'm fucked.

[Chrissy]

Up. That's a face I've.

[Brian]

Seen. That's a face I've brought to the gas station. Many a six o' clock in.

[Chrissy]

The morning to get beer. When that six o' clock beer unopened. I do use my credit card to buy some more beer from you. Sorry, man. Can't open my mouth. My teeth are wired.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Shut. Exactly. I've ground them.

[Chrissy]

Down. That's why I need the beer to unlock my mouth. It's been three hours since we had beer. Do you.

[Brian]

Remember. Do you remember the days when you would walk into the gas station? I remember. I'll say.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Me.

[Brian]

Okay. I remember when I walked into the gas.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Station.

[Brian]

Yeah. I'll never forget this, that there was one time when I was living downtown and there was a couple of gas stations. They were like half a mile away. You could take the back roads to them, right. So I felt it was safe. I remember after a long, one particularly long night, I needed beer because that was the only thing that was going to cure my.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Woes.

[Brian]

Yeah. And it had been about four hours since I had had a beer. So first of all, watching the clock was a painful event, right. I just was waiting for 6 o' clock to roll around. And when 5:58 finally came around, I just, I just never forget this. I decided that it was now appropriate to get in the car, start making my ways. Beer o' clock and I get in the car, which I was driving this big old like hefty truck at the time. Like, I don't even know what you call like a Ford. It was, yeah, it was a.

[Chrissy]

Ford. Like a, like a, like a.

[Brian]

Bronco. Like a.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Bronco. That's what it.

[Brian]

Was. It was like a Bronco, you know, it was a four door Bronco. And I just.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Remember. Jacked up.

[Brian]

Wheels. No, jacked up.

[Chrissy]

Brian. Jacked up.

[Brian]

Wheels. Jacked up.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Brian.

[Brian]

Yeah. And I never, I'll never forget like backing down that driveway in the neighborhood, driving like six and a half inches per hour because I didn't want to get pulled over, right? And I only had to make it half a mile to the gas station. Every side street that there was, I decided to turn into to make.

[Chrissy]

Sure that I wasn't being followed by a police officer. By the time I got to the gas station, it was 6:45. I was like, it's just such a.

[Brian]

Mess. I stood out. I sat in the car for like 15 minutes deciding whether or not I really wanted to go into the gas station. Drugs are a hell of a thing.

[Chrissy]

Kids. Stay away from the.

[Brian]

Drugs. That's all I gotta say. Wes Scantlin obviously did not stay away from the drugs because he is a hot mess. Now let's review this in more detail.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Chrissy. Okay? I mean, again, my cue is from the guy to the left of him, stage.

[Brian]

Right. Stage.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Right. Stage.

[Brian]

Right. Wow, look at.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

You. Stage right. He's laughing and he has pajama pants.

[Brian]

On. He has pajama pants on. He's laughing. Probably because he knows how fucked up his singer is.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. He's like, God damn it. When I left him at 11:30, last thing I said was, no more cocaine. Go to sleep. We gotta be at Sirius XM at 5:15 in the morning. And Wes said, yeah, no problem, bro. I ain't got any more blow. Meanwhile, in West's brain, He's just trying so.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Hard. I mean, his facial expressions, painful.

[Brian]

Looking. Just imagine, you know, when people stick their head out the window at 100 miles per hour. Like the dog is going down the street with the.

[Chrissy]

Big. It's like his.

[Brian]

His. Like his face is all pulled back and floppy. That's how Wes looks every time before he opens his.

[Chrissy]

Mouth. Oh my.

[Brian]

God. What do you think the serious executives are saying at this moment? If there are any serious executives that attended this particular.

[Chrissy]

Event?

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. They're like, this was a.

[Guest or Additional Commentator]

Mistake.

[Brian]

Yeah. They're thinking we should have left Puddle of Mud.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Alone. They were fine where they were doing instrumental.

[Brian]

Yeah. Maybe they're thinking somebody made a bad call on. I wonder if anybody lost their job over this. Probably.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Not. Like they are the ones that decided to cover this. Or it was somebody that suggested.

[Brian]

It. Here's my guess, because this is how. Because just knowing being in a band for so long, being a.

[Announcer/Producer]

Yeah. You've.

[Brian]

Got. Singer of a prominent rock band.

Myself. I know how this.

Goes. You go on tour, right? And you're touring. You know, nursing homes, 200. Yeah, nursing homes. House parties. Nursing home house parties. And you know, band number one out of 22 that will play on Monday night starting at 6:15 in the.

[Chrissy]

Afternoon.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Do. Right. You know the.

[Brian]

Drill. You're playing 200 nights a year. You don't want to play your own shit always. And so what usually happens is like during a sound check or when you're in the van or when you're just stopped somewhere or whatever, some guy goes, hey, let's play. You know, Nirvana's a bad girl, you know. And they start twiddling around and they play.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

It.

[Brian]

Yeah. Like I said, it's not a particularly hard song to cover. To sing it is because Kurt's original register is very high. Right. But Kurt had an open throat. There is nothing open about Wes right now. His teeth are clenched, his mouth looks like he's taking a turd. His vocal cords are absolutely closed. Like there's no air going through those vocal clothes. That's.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Why.

[Brian]

Yeah. You know, and so they just pick this as one of the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Songs. We have you to break this.

[Brian]

Down.

Yeah. What happens if Brian's not here? Then it's just another useless Wes Scantlin breakdown video. But when Brian's here, it's just another useless.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

West. You bring a breadth.

[Chrissy]

Of.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Of. Of.

[Brian]

Experience. I do just a. It's all. But, you know, at least I'm trying. Wes's throat is so closed where. Where Kurt's was not. He had this, like, very free scratchy, you know, a lot of air going through his.

[Chrissy]

Mouth that sounded actually.

[Brian]

Technical. So I think this just. They happened upon this song as one of those songs that they would play every once in a blue.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Moon.

[Brian]

Yeah. Probably like, the rest of us busted.

Out.

Yeah. When they were high on cocaine at the hotel room, they'd be like.

[Chrissy]

Let'S play about a girl again. We'll get this one down. The crowd will go.

[Brian]

Wild. And so they broke this out. They said, hey, we'll play about a girl if it's cool with you. Unfortunately, they didn't count on Wes being up for six days in a row before he showed up. But I think this is how his voice has always sounded, because I went back and. And listened to a couple of their live performances. Well, Wes Scantlin, more specifically, tours on his own. He does like the casino tours. You know what I'm saying? Casino and small clubs, okay? People show up, and the reason why they show up is because Wesley's inevitably up, and I mean way up. Like, sometimes he's fallen asleep on stage. Sometimes he just sits there and smokes cigarettes and yells at the crowd while the band is playing. Yeah, Chrissy, there are all.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Kinds. One way to do.

[Brian]

It. Incredible videos about West Gantt. No, he's got a bad drug or alcohol problem and probably some mental issues to go along with it. Yeah. So I don't want to make fun of that, but it's kind of funny, you know what I'm saying? He just, like, tips over on stage. One time, he's sitting on a chair, he's singing the Puddle of Mud songs, which are not meant to be sad. And you don't. If you're gonna have a band called Puddle of Mud, you don't sit on stage. That's not what you do. It's all about the cocky rocky dick.

[Chrissy]

Right? You're just like, she hates.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Me.

[Chrissy]

What?

[Brian]

What? So he falls over all over the place. Wes is a hot.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Mess. I didn't.

[Brian]

Realize. Wes is a hot mess. Oh, he's like, a notorious.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Mess. Although I've just never paid.

[Brian]

Attention. No, why would.

You? Unless you spend 57 hours in front of your computer every day staring at absurd YouTube videos. Then you would know. But just know this is not unusual for Wes, Okay. To phone in a horrible par for the courses. Exactly.

Right? Let's. Let's.

Listen. Just another.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Method. His head, like, Rose up further off of his.

[Brian]

Body. I.

Know. He went like 7 inches in the.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Air.

[Brian]

Turtle.

[Chrissy]

Yeah. Poor Wes.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Scanlon. Yeah. Number.

[Chrissy]

Two. He.

[Brian]

Does. He does say I do take a number two, didn't he? Is that the actual lyrics of the song? I think.

[Chrissy]

So.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Maybe.

[Brian]

Maybe. Maybe. Hold on one second, I'll go back to about.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Girl. I don't think it said I do take a number.

[Brian]

Two. I don't know. Let's.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

See. It could have. Kurt could have gone down that.

[Brian]

Road. I do pick a number two. I'm standing here in your line. I do hope you have the time. I do pick a number two Meaning T o o. I do pick a number two I do keep a date with you he says I do take a number.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Two. I'm pretty sure he's gonna take.

[Brian]

Just to bring it to that next.

[Chrissy]

Level of, you know, artistic authenticity, creativity. He made it so lyrics to.

[Brian]

About a girl that included I do take a number.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Two.

[Brian]

Yeah. Which is so apropos for his.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Face. It really.

[Brian]

Is.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Yeah. It goes with you. I mean, that guy is.

[Brian]

Laughing. That guy is. The guitar thinks this is way too funny. It thinks it's way too funny. Which makes me believe maybe that.

[Chrissy]

This is all a.

[Brian]

Joke. Like maybe Wes has always been singing this song badly. And he's a guitarist is like, I'm gonna get you.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Dude.

[Brian]

Yeah. I hate all your fucking drinking and drugging and boozing on the tours. I hate the small paychecks I get because you wrote the only song.

[Chrissy]

That ever mattered in the Puddle of Mud.

[Brian]

Category. So guess what? I'm gonna fuck you, dude. He said you go.

[Co-host (possibly a male friend or producer)]

Ahead. He encouraged.

[Brian]

It. We should do about a.

[Chrissy]

Girl. It's so good you did such.

[Brian]

A good job with that.

[Chrissy]

Wes. And you. Well, let me sing it here. Hey, guys, let's sing about a.

[Brian]

Girl. So.

[Chrissy]

Bad. Well, you know, I was never.

[Brian]

A big Puddle of the Mud fan in the first. Did you ever, like, puddle? Do you ever know any of.

The Puddle of Mud.

Songs? Do you ever care.

About? Well, there you go. Wasn't that fun? It's two days after Christmas. The post holiday depression is slowly setting in. The holiday channels on satellite radio are soon to go away. You're disgusted with yourself about how much you ate during the holiday feast. And you have no idea how to tell your spouse, that was a.

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[Chrissy]

Goodbye.