TCB Fall Classic: Live from Shady Oaks

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Commercial Break

Episode: TCB Fall Classic: Live from Shady Oaks

Release Date: September 26, 2025
Hosts: Bryan Green, Krissy Hoadley

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Brief Overview

In this “TCB Classic” episode, Bryan and Krissy revisit a notorious moment from their podcast’s history: the infamous live recording of Bryan’s teenage band, 33 Willie (a.k.a. "33 Penis"), performed at Shady Oaks. Embracing self-deprecating humor, the duo navigates feedback (mostly negative) the episode received when first aired, serve up doses of nostalgia and cringe, riff on pop culture—especially '90s TV and reality shows—and banter about the trials and joys of embarrassing youth. The vibe is irreverent, chaotic, and conversational, making listeners feel like they’re listening in on a friends’ brutally honest catch-up.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fall Break & TCB Classic Introduction

• [04:31–06:21]
  • The hosts announce they're on a break for fall, so they're revisiting episode #102—"the most ear-wrecking music you will ever hear."
  • Bryan recounts the decade-long inside joke with Krissy about his stint as lead singer in two rock bands: 33 Willie ("33 Penis") and Chopper Johnson.
  • “One of the members…called me up to tell me he had old tapes from one of the three concerts that we played. That’s right. We lasted all of three live shows.” (Bryan, 05:04)

Memorable Moment

• The concert being at a “house party at noon, while parents were out”—the antithesis of rock-star glamour.

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2. Pop Culture Tangents: Binge-Watching & Reality TV

• [06:28–21:45]
  • Bryan confesses to being hooked on old '80s and '90s TV via Roku, especially 21 Jump Street:
    • “...on the 21 Jump Street channel. It’s dedicated to nothing but the first four seasons of 21 Jump Street.” (Bryan, 07:15)
  • Observations about how old shows ran for 25 episodes a season and recycled actors for different roles.
  • Segues into 90 Day Fiance: The Single Life and the sad, awkward saga of “Big Ed”:
    • “On date number three, under no circumstances should you bring your date back to meet your mother…None. Zero.” (Bryan, 13:49)
    • The group reflects on age gaps, dating on reality TV, and the myth that “age is just a number.”

Notable Quote

• “You can’t be a four looking for a 12... You’ve got to swim in your own pool.” (Bryan, 18:45–19:15)

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3. Listener Shout–outs & Call-in Promos

• [20:42–21:45]
  • Rachel (recurring voice) encourages listeners to leave voicemails, share stories, or interact on social media.
  • Lighthearted plug for the TCB phone line and free sticker giveaway.

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4. The Dean Bode Show Shout-out

• [27:19–30:55]
  • Nostalgic return to a podcast mini-obsession: Dean Bode, who has done “two podcasts a day for like a year.”
  • Reflection on small-scale podcaster perseverance; “a testament to human perseverance and attitude.” (Bryan, 29:32)
  • Dean’s “sing-songy” style is playfully lauded, and he’s described as the “complete opposite of The Commercial Break…even keel, talking, telling stories.”

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5. Nervous Build-up to the 33 Willie Tape

• [31:35–36:10]
  • Bryan admits stalling because he’s embarrassed to share the band’s music:
    • “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.” (Bryan, 31:53)
  • He sets the scene: 15 years old, practicing in an attic, writing “horrible, horrible songs,” playing at a midday house party.

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6. The Infamous TCB Classic: Live from Shady Oaks

• [36:10–54:30]
  • Bryan plays portions of 33 Willie’s live set. Krissy gamely reacts with reassurances and snark.
    • Tuning up goes on for minutes (“No wonder people left. They were like, who are these guys tuning their instruments?” – Bryan, 35:50)
    • Multiple breakdowns of song structure and embarrassing attempts at grunge/alt-rock vocals.
  • Hilarious commentary on adolescent fashion (“I can afford a Fender Stratocaster, but I can’t get a pair of shoes, clean underwear, or a chain that works.” – Bryan, 40:28)
  • Band histories: the Penises, Chopper Johnson, and the ill-advised name “Slow Head.”

Notable Quote

• “We also were playing behind the porta potties at this particular party. Not one person clapped.” (Bryan, 54:42–54:53)

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7. Self-Reflection & Recovery from Teenage Cringe

• [54:30–61:14]
  • Krissy teases Bryan about VH1’s “Behind the Music: 33 Penis” and the tragic arc of never becoming "Goo Goo Dolls famous."
  • Bryan muses on what could have been (“I don’t want to be running the, you know, Boys II Men, what’s left of NSYNC, and 33p… what is that, a Time Life music collection?” – Bryan, 54:53)
  • Final listens to "Slide" and more adolescent originals, more commentary about band member nicknames and mishaps.

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8. Meta Commentary on Listener Reactions

• [61:19–end]
  • Bryan pokes fun at the “death threats” received when the episode originally aired due to the horrendous music.
    • “My feelings are still hurt. You guys really didn’t like 33p live at Shady Oaks?” (Bryan, 61:21)
  • Joking appeals for downloads, following on social media, and a plug for leftover merch.
  • Hints at next week’s episode featuring Sal Vulcano of Impractical Jokers.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the cringe of past dreams:
  “Sometimes…people meditate to their former self, they believe…you can talk to your younger self. I just keep telling my younger self: you’re eventually behind a microphone. You’re not much better at that either, but at least you’re not screaming…” (Bryan, 41:08)

• On band name evolution:
  “Slow Head. Make up your own interpretation of that one. Yes. 15 year old boys’ show: Slow Head.” (Bryan, 49:32)

• On the challenges of growing up:
  “Meaning we had to do porn to pay the bills. I don’t know.” (Bryan, 51:05 - reflecting on the supposed ‘maturity’ of Chopper Johnson)

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Important Timestamps

• [04:31] – Introduction to the TCB classic episode and its infamous reputation
• [07:09] – Bryan’s addiction to vintage TV & 21 Jump Street recap
• [12:26] – “Big Ed” and reality show relationship commentary
• [18:45] – “You can’t be a four looking for a 12” discussion
• [27:19] – Dean Bode Show debrief and podcaster shout-out
• [31:35] – Build-up to sharing the 33 Willie tapes
• [36:10–43:00] – Hearing 33 Willie’s “Sunny Side Up” live (cringe & banter throughout)
• [54:30] – Follow-up songs & more self-mockery
• [61:19] – Self-aware recap and prep for next week

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Overall Tone and Language

The episode is pure, unfiltered improv-comedy that thrives on self-mockery, casual profanity, pop-culture riffs, and mutual ribbing. The hosts are seasoned at turning their own vulnerabilities—especially Bryan’s musical misadventures—into comedy gold. Music-nerd nostalgia, affectionate sidebars, and a relentless refusal to take themselves seriously set the tone.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a comedic time-capsule, perfect for anyone who’s ever cringed at their own teenage ambitions. Come for the schadenfreude of Bryan’s adolescent alt-rock nightmare, stay for the witty, meandering banter, meta-media commentary, and friendship on full display. Don’t expect structure—expect laughs, inside jokes, and the immortal lesson: “You’ve got to swim in your own pool.”

Transcript

[Brian]

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[Host 2]

Welcome back to wshit. With the arrival of fall, WSHIT is so excited to bring back its annual Wedding Expo. This show focuses on all the wonderful vendors available here in Crabapple to use when exchanging your noomtuals. Now we'd like to focus our attention on little Drappy Anderson. Drappy Anderson is of course a wedding singer locally known for his increasingly interesting renditions of popular songs. He's willing to sing at your wedding for the low, low price of $50. He would like a plate of food. Additionally, let's listen to Drappy's interpretation of this classic song by Madonna.

[Brian]

I made it through the wilderness Somehow I made it through Ooh didn't know how lost I was Until I found you I was beat incomplete I've been hide outside blue but you made me feel yeah you made me feel shiny.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And new.

[Brian]

Like a virgin, Like a vagine.

[Host 2]

You've got to admire little Drappy's perseverance and creativity. Drappy wanted me to pass along that he's also available for bar Mitzvahs and quinceaneros. We'll be back after this commercial break.

[Brian]

Hello Brian Grissy, Want to say thank.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You make me laugh so much with your show. I listened for your show from very beginning time. Please keep making episode Love to listen.

[Brian]

Best to you.

[Announcer]

On this episode of the commercial break.

[Brian]

It's fall break for the kids and mempho time for Chrissy. So we're taking a little break this week and throwing you some TCB classic entertainment. In the now long and illustrious history of the commercial break, no single episode has gotten more negative feedback than this TCB classic. It clocks in at episode number 102 and includes of the most ear wrecking music you will probably hear until the next Justin Bieber album comes out. For almost 100 episodes and the 10 or 12 years previous to us getting on a microphone our friendship, I had been telling Chrissy about my time as a lead singer in one of two rock and roll bands in my late teens and twenties. The first one, of course is 33 Willie, which we now affectionately refer to as 33 Penis and the other one was Chopper Johnson, which we now affectionately refer to as well, Chopper Johnson. No funn title needed. Those jokes tell themselves. After I got on this big megaphone note as the commercial break and started talking about it, one of the members of the first band I was ever in, 33 Penis, called me up to tell me that he had some old tapes from one of the three concerts that we played. That's right. We lasted all of three live shows. One of them was in the living room of a friend of a friend's house during a house party he was throwing at noon on a Saturday while his parents were out of town. That rock and roll lifestyle, you got to be careful. Those noon house parties, you know how that shit gets out of control real quick. Anywho, I'm sure I blab out about it on this episode. This is apparently long before Chrissy and I learn how to actually use our microphones. So Chrissy sounds like she's underwater three miles away. But because you know, I love to troll, you guys, I thought I'd dig deep and give you this TCB classic. Live from Shady Oaks. I'll be back at the end to wrap it all up. Bye.

[Announcer]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian]

Oh, yes, another episode of commercial Break. Good afternoon, or whatever time it is when you're listening to this. I'm Brian, this is Kristen Hoadley and happy holidays. Best of you, Kristin.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thank you for joining us on yet another episode of the Comers week. I am headlong into a bad addiction of falling off of the wagon. I am no longer a teetotaling TLC reality show watcher. I found myself dripped steeped deep in the land of scripted dramatic television.

[Kristin Hoadley]

From the 80s.

[Brian]

From the 80s on free air TV. I get through my Roku.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Also known as the 21 Jump street channel.

[Kristin Hoadley]

There's a whole channel?

[Brian]

There's a whole channel. It's a whole thing. It's dedicated to nothing but the first four seasons of 21 Jump Street.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And what happens when they play all of them? They just repeat it.

[Brian]

I that takes days. They're unlike here in the year 2021. Fast forward to the future when Johnny Depp is old and wine soaked, can't get a job to save his life. Right. They actually make like 42 episodes a season back then.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, right.

[Brian]

Now they make five and they call it a season. Right.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It's like I was watching Melrose Place. I saw the Same thing. I'm like, dang, there's 25 episodes.

[Brian]

Check out episode season of the Love boat. It's like 69 episodes of the Love Boat in a season. And they had like 32 seasons, 312 shows. There were four, five seasons of 21 Jump Street. I've now gone through the entire Wikipedia page just to make sure that we understand what we're working with. How addicted I really am. There are five seasons and 127 episodes in those five seasons. Okay, so there's a lot. I mean, it's like 25 episodes per season. That's a lot, right? You watch an episode. You watch a season of Better Call Saul, it's like two and a half episodes. I mean, that's it. And then you're done. You gotta wait another three years to watch Better Call Saul. But 21 Jump street just goes on and on forever. So I'm. And you know, it just plays 24 hours a day. So I'm catching it like kind of randomly on the television. I'll catch one episode of season one and two episodes of season two. I just watched it, mixing it up. Mixing up horrible story lines. I was watching one where I'm sure.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You don't need to know the backstory anyways.

[Brian]

You don't need to know.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Brand new episode every time.

[Brian]

Yeah, this is so here. I don't know if you know this, but there were three big television networks that pretty much controlled all of TV for the longest time until cable came along. And then came the fourth network in 1986, known as Fox. So now there are three big. They call them four big networks. That's Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian]

And this was the first bonafide hit for Fox. Beat out a lot of the other. Other things that were running at the same time. Played on Sunday nights, you know, prime time, 8 to 9pm when it first came out for the first three seasons. And Johnny Depp absolutely fucking hated the show. He hated being. He hated being an idol. He hated being on, you know, Teen Magazine. Too cool for fucking school, this guy. Yeah, but I guess the money kept him coming back because that show is atrocious. I mean, the storylines are fucking ridiculous. There's not a black person to be found in the entirety of the show. Except for the captain on season two and then Holly Robinson.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

And every other black person is character. Just a caricature of, you know, bad stereotypes all around.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

But let me just give you an example of a couple of the plots that go on on 21 Jump Street. Recently I watched an episode where Johnny Depp is sent in to take down a teacher who is teaching creationism instead of evolution. Like, because that's a thing that the police do. They're like, you under arrest for teaching the Bible. I guess the 80s was a different time.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

There's another one where a guy is recruiting models from the local high school, but they actually turn into porn stars. I could see how that would be problematic. You just really want to take care of that. Yeah, there is. The Holly Robinson is set in. Set in to fall in love with the world's biggest weed dealer. He's dealing 40 tons of weed a week and we gotta stop him. But Holly falls in love. What? 2.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And is she part of the crew? The undercover crew?

[Brian]

Oh, yeah, she's part of the undercover crew. Then there's Joey Deluza who plays in seasons one, two and three. He plays Robert somebody.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

But then in seasons four and five, his name changes and he plays a different character altogether. What the fuck? And the bad guys just, they recycle him. Like there's, you know, there's a character actor who plays a bad guy in season one. He comes back and plays a different bad guy in season number two. It's brilliant.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It's just so popular.

[Brian]

Funny. Yes. I just, I love it. I'm deep into it. I can't stop watching it. What do I do? Somebody help me. I just. I should get back to big Ed on 90 Day Fiance. That's what I should do. Which I watched the other day, by the way. So. So 90 Day Fiance now has a show called 90 Day the Single Life.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh.

[Brian]

All these people whose relationships didn't work out, they put them on a show called 90 Day Fiance, the single Life. So it's basically like if you got rejected or you just had shit luck on the first version of your season, then they put, then they, then they follow you around as you're a loser, single, trying to make it out there in the world. And Big Ed. Remember I talked about Big Ed? Remember Big Ed with the big neck? Yeah. Poor little guy. I mean, just poor, poor little guy. I used to think he's funny, and now I just think he's really just a sad character who I'm. Who I feel for. Like, I want to give Ed a hug. He falls in love with yet another 28 year old waitress around his town. Right. He asks her out on the date. She says yes, obviously, because the TV cameras are with her. She seems like a nice girl, but why else are you Going out with ed when you're 28 years old. The guy's 57 years old.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

You have no interest in a 3 foot 2 guy with. I mean, he's just a. He's. His neck is as wide as he is tall. I mean, if you sit him down sideways, his neck goes higher than he does. I mean, that's just the reality. Poor guy.

[Kristin Hoadley]

He's working out.

[Brian]

No, it's because he has some kind of like a birth defect. Right? And it just happened that way. It's like his neck, his shoulders and his chin merged together and he's like this. It's just bad, you know, he walks like this. We've seen people like this. Right. And listen, I'm not making fun. I can only imagine how difficult life must have been. But he seems to have weathered it pretty well. He's got a great sense of humor. He's not afraid to talk about his big neck. Right. Big Ed and the big small head and the big neck or whatever he calls himself. But last night I'm watching just like I only have 15 minutes in between 21 jump streets to watch 90 day the single Life. Quick. I just got. I got to scroll through to the good parts, which is Ed, basically. Right?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian]

So Ed's on date number three. He's talking to this girl and he's like, you know, he really wants to find out if he's in the friend zone because they're on date number three and he can't tell whether or not she likes her. The rest of us watching clearly understand that this girl has no romantic interest in him. What's really going on here is A, she wants to be on television, B, she needs a friend very badly, or C, a combination of the both. Right, but she's not going to be romantically involved with Ed. We already know this from the beginning. She's a cute 28 year old waitress who, by the way, has been married and divorced twice at the age of 28 years old. Okay, all right. So just, I mean, I'm not making assumptions. I'm just saying I'm a divorcee, too. I'm not saying we're all, you know, filled with baggage. We're just mostly filled with baggage. So. So date number three. Ed decides he's going to bring this girl back to his house to meet his mother.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

Which is a horrible idea. On day number three, under no circumstances should you bring your date back to meet your mother on date number three. No, there's no reason to do this. None. Zero. Yeah, but he does, and he sets them. He's cooking in the kitchen. Mom's out on the patio with a drink. And he says, listen, I'd love to sit here. And she, you know, the little girl. The girl, I don't know what her name is. Let's call her Andrea. Andrea comes in and says, you know, oh, hey, you know, the welcomes. I'd love to talk to you, he says, but I want to make sure I'm cooking. I'm cooking a really good special meal for you. And I can't do both. You're too distracting. You're too beautiful. He's laying it on thick and he's like, I want you to go and talk to Mom. So he's setting them up for a little conversation.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

Because he wants mom's approval and he wants to make sure she. Yeah. So they go out there.

[Kristin Hoadley]

A little awkward.

[Brian]

Way off. Yeah. The whole situation is just totally up. Right? So Ed and Ed's the girl and the mom are talking and it's, you know, she. The mom starts digging in and it's clear she's not ready for any relationship. She just got divorced. She's not. She has a kid. Like, I don't want anything. You know, I'm just whatever it is, having fun, having fun. If it's friends, it's friends. If it's more, it's more. But right now, I'm not looking for anything special. At the end of the night, when Ed and this girl are alone, they have the same conversation where she says the same thing to him. I'm not ready for anything. I'm just take. Let's just take it slow. Let's be friends. I love the way that we're communicating right now. I like that you check in on me and all that stuff, but I am not ready for anything romantic. That's what she says to him. He's walking her to the car, that she goes to give him a hug and he grabs her head to kiss her.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh.

[Brian]

And she puts her head down and he ends up kissing, like, her eyeball.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian]

Right? And this is her response. No, no, you can't do that. And I'm like, oh, my God. Like, it's so cringe worthy. She said, no, you can't do that. And she walks out the door. Ed is then sitting there, left with a bottle of vodka, crying to himself that when I. I'm giving up hope, that I'm supposed to be with anybody. And when. When I. When there's nobody to have, there's nothing left. In life. He's crying. So now I'm crying. So now everybody's crying, right? We're all crying thread. Meanwhile, the cut to the girl that's outside, outside her car. The producers are like getting this extra feedback, right? They're like, did you expect that? And she's like, no, I thought we were on the same page. I told him, right now she starts crying because she's upset that she made him feel bad, right? So she goes back in the door like a wonderful young lady, a wonderful human actually goes back in the door and sits down with him. He's crying, she's crying. And she says, listen, I'm so, I. I'm more worried about how you feel than I'm worried about what just happened. I want to make sure you're okay. But I thought I made it clear. I thought we were on the same page. Ed can't cut a break is how I initially reacted to this. I'm like, ed can't catch a fucking break. The guy can't get a girl to save his life. He fell in love with some Philip, 19 year old Filipino. That was never gonna work out. She didn't even speak any lick of English. He doesn't speak a lick of Filipino, right?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian]

Now he comes back to America, he's. He's extraordinarily famous because of this single life show, this 90 Day Fiance show. And he can't for the life. Extraordinarily famous. In my mind, I Wish I was 90 Day Fiance famous. I wish. Who is the smartass who sent us in? A question you guys should talk about. 90 Day Fiance. Fuck you, man. So Ed, so now Ed decides that I'm gonna use all of this free publicity for myself. I'm gonna use it to hit on the local bartender who's 28 fucking years old.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh yeah, why not?

[Brian]

So at first I think, poor Ed. But then I think to myself, ed, there's someone out there for you. It's just not the 28 year old hot fucking bartender at your local fucking watering hole. That's not where you're going to find a girlfriend, Ed. You're 57 years old. I have friends that are in this position. This is what they do. There are four. They're looking for a 12, you know what I'm saying? They're looking for. They're looking. And then they look at me and they go, well, you did it. And I'm like, what? Well, I'm a different story. Yes, I'm on the commercial break, right?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian]

There's a Lot of, you know, people kind of roll out the red carpet for me.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian]

My balls hang low and they swing to and fro, you know what I'm saying? I'm just a different kind of guy. I've got a scrundle sack that people like. Do you know what I'm saying? You getting what I'm coming from? I am like the luckiest man in the world. I have fallen upward all my entire adult life and I continue to do so. I'm surprised. I have children that have all four arms. With all the drugs I did, I'm surprised they didn't come out with scales and a tail like, hey, dad, it's from all the mdma, the ayahuasca. It was great for your sperm count. Okay.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You're doing a great job.

[Brian]

So thank you. So I tell, I tell these people, I say, hey, listen, you can't be a four looking for a 12.

[Kristin Hoadley]

No.

[Brian]

You can't be 49 years old looking for a 19 year old swimsuit model.

[Nancy Cartwright]

Right.

[Brian]

You can't be 52 years old spending most of your adult life watching college football and drinking Jagermeister and then expect that some 22 year old CO ed who's about to be in med school is going to love you for who you are. No, doesn't work like that. Yeah, that's not how life works. Sometimes, sometimes we get a little lucky and we find a Venezuelan friend who's beautiful and attractive and happens to be blind as a bad idea. I'm not really sure. But most of the time we need to swim in our own pool. That's just the way it is. Ed says to this girl at one point in the night, he says, he goes, you know what? Age is just a number. And you know what her immediate response is? I don't think that's correct. I actually don't believe in that. Yeah, he should have taken all the signs. And she's right about that. Age is just a number sometimes, but not all the time. Right? And so I say to my dear friend Ed, if you're listening, and I know you are, Ed, swim in your own pool. But that's what you got to do. There are plenty of girls out there who probably find you very attractive and are ready to rock. Right? They're ready to take that neck for a ride. I mean, I'm serious. But you got to swim in your own pool. You got to start thinking a little bit more logically about this. The 28 year old waitress who's smoking, you know, smoke show is not going to date Ed, no matter what television show you're on.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And you also have to take into account there's the television show factor. Right. You got to kind of figure out a way to suss that out a little bit.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I don't think I'd be able to date somebody that was on a TV show.

[Brian]

I don't think I'd be able to date somebody who was on 90 Day Fiance.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Well, definitely.

[Brian]

Yeah. Because they only. They only showcase train wrecks. That's it. You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some very heavy thinking to do before 10 o'. Clock.

[Rachel]

Hi, cats and kittens. Rachel here. Do you ever get the urge to speak endlessly into the void like Brian? Well, I've got just the place for you to do that. 212-4333. TCB. That's 212-433-3322. Feel free to call and yell all you want. Tell Brian I need a race. Compliment Chrissy's innate ability to put up with all his shenanigans, or tell us a little story. The juicier the better. By the way, we love to hear your voice because Lord knows we're done listening to ourselves. Also, give us a follow on your favorite socials at the commercial break on Insta TCB podcast on TikTok. And for those of you who like to watch. Oh, that came out wrong. We put all the episodes out on video, YouTube.com the commercial break, and tcbpodcast.com for all the info on the show, your free sticker, or just to see how pretty we look. Okay, I got to go now. I've got a date with my dog. No, seriously. Axel needs food. Today is pork chop day.

[Brian]

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[Brian]

A couple of A couple of months ago I promised A couple of shows ago, I promised that when I finally got a hold of any 33pmaterial, the band that I was a singer in when I was 15, 16 years old, or any Chopper Johnson material, 33 Willie or Chopper Johnson material that we've been talking about since this show started. Yeah, pretty much that I would play it here on air as. As comeuppance, as fair game. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say. It was only right that I play. If I'm going to make fun of everybody else, it's only right that we make fun of me.

[Kristin Hoadley]

True, Right? True.

[Brian]

Okay. So the day has come. The day has come. As much as I tried to pull.

[Kristin Hoadley]

This out of a box, or did somebody give it to you?

[Brian]

I did not pull this out of a box. Someone sent this to me.

[Kristin Hoadley]

An old bandmate.

[Brian]

An old bandmate sent this to me. I actually. I actually knew that someone had a copy. And I reached out, okay, praying that they didn't actually have the copy, but knowing that in good faith, I had to make the effort, right? I figured if I emailed and it went, I went, nothing happened. That I would never play.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You're out of.

[Brian]

That's right. 33p would be buried forever. I just stopped talking about it. And people would. It'd be a joke. People were like, was he really in a band? Right? With few, if any people ever remembering the 33 Willie even existed, this guy being one of them. Well, I was shit out of luck that day because he's like, I sure do MP3.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I've been waiting.

[Brian]

You want that Dropbox? How do you want that Hard copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, Zuma? Tell me how you want it.

[Kristin Hoadley]

FedEx men.

[Brian]

Yeah, you want me to keep FedEx men's? You want me to come deliver, hand deliver that to you? You want me to start my own podcast called 33p and I'll play it, then you can re record it? How do you want that? So I knew that the cat was out of the box. I knew I would not be able to avoid it for much longer. And this over this last long holiday weekend, it arrived. And I feel it only fair that I have to play it.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Wow. The moment has come.

[Brian]

But before we do, I think we should make fun of other people. Stick with us. Well, you'll hear some 33p before the end of the show. And it's going to be the episode, if you remember the episode where I talked about a couple episodes where I talked about we played live from what I called a retirement home, where everyone was sitting around and we were in front of a fireplace and people were like, left the room. They were like, this is a house party, man. You stop screaming in my ear. Dying of the sea. You were about to hear how close to the truth this my story was.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

Okay, ready? But first, I Wanted to say a few things.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

At first, I'm gonna throw you way back in the wayback machine of the commercial break. We're gonna go back to episode number two or three. Oh, tell me if you remember this. Danny, Dan. Danny. Danny. Dean Bodhi show. It's the Dean Bode Show.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Absolutely.

[Brian]

Remember, I. I stumbled upon a guy named Dean Boddy who was doing two podcasts a day for like a year on end. Not one podcast, two podcasts a day. And he calls it the Dean Bode show because his name is Dean and the dog's name is Bode. And bode is apparently 112 years old and living on this, you know, in some studio somewhere in east Cobb or wherever they are. Right. And Dean Boddy, it was the most amazing thing to me because Dean would sing. He would sing songy through the entire podcast. It's like 15 or 20 minutes long.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

And he'd want to sing about, I don't know, the. The camera, you know, had the camera. Welcome to the camera. All the little cameras back. Right. He'd do this whole Sea Songy thing through the whole thing. And it became kind of like idiot savant material for me to listen to. I was listening. I was watching Dean Bode at one point, I was like religiously watching both episodes of Dean Bode because Dean would. I mean, he was the consummate entertainer to whom, I'm not really sure. To the dog, I think. Right, right. But he. The way that he opened the show was this. Dan it. Dan, Dan it. Danny. Dean bodie [e-mail] he was just like going off about this. Dean Surfaced. Okay, so now that's episode number two or three. And then 100 episodes later, Dean surfaced.

[Kristin Hoadley]

He's been following us.

[Brian]

He started. He started commenting on our YouTube channel. And I was like, look at that. Dean Bode still kicking. Still doing his thing.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Still doing a couple episodes a day. Still got the dog. Still Dean [e-mail] Good to know. He was. I really felt good about this because I was sure, you know, the statistic is that most podcasters die after episode number seven. Well, Dean was already on an episode number 100 by week number two, because he's doing seven of these day. Right. So I was like, I'm pretty sure Dean's going to just go. He's going to peter out at some point. Right. He did not. He continues to do these daily episodes with his dog.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Wow.

[Brian]

Is that not amazing? Yes. I wanted to shout out to Dean Bode Absolutely. Because it's not gonna be everybody's cup of tea. But go check it out. You have to check it out. It's like. It is a testament to human perseverance and attitude. And, I don't know, you know those guys, like, walk up Everest without oxygen or dudes who do the highlining across the Grand Canyon a mile up in the air, and you're like, wow, man, that's really ballsy. Like, I would never do that. That would never be my thing of choice. Good for them. I would never choose to do two podcast episodes a day.

[Kristin Hoadley]

That's a lot.

[Brian]

Yeah. I do two podcast episodes a week. Under duress. Under duress. But I wanted to say hello to Dean Bode.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Because he's been. He's been. He's been such a cheerleader of the show. He was back then. He just popped up out of nowhere again. And I just want to say, Dean, he's milquetoast. He is so nice. He is the complete opposite of the commercial break. Like, we are rowdy and stupid and opinionated. And Dean is just a nice guy who's out there. Yeah. Even keel talking, telling stories about his life. You know, he goes to the cvs. It's a half hour episode on the Dean Bode show on the Danny Dean Bode Show. And I just wanted to say hello to Dean. Dean, we love you, and we hope you're doing well, and congratulations on all the success. I think he's like 286 episodes in or something like that on. Okay.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

One additional thing I wanted to get to before.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Are you stalling?

[Brian]

I am stalling. Are you noticing? Are you noticing? Yeah, I'm pulling your. We're getting a little microphone trouble. I'm pulling. Okay. Yeah, I know that's covering your face kind of. Here, hold on.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Still figuring out the microphone.

[Brian]

We're still figuring out the microphone here. There you go. Okay. All right. Is that good?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian]

You feel good about that? I feel good about that. Yep. Right below your chin now. Right below your chin. Looks like the whole thing's connected. I'm framing myself. You gotta check this out. @YouTube.com TheCommercialBring we're trying to figure out how we work the microphone stands that they're not in our face. There you go.

[Kristin Hoadley]

There.

[Brian]

Yeah. Perfect. Look at you. You're good. Okay. I guess we're. I guess I'm gonna have to do this.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah. No more songs.

[Brian]

So nervous about this.

[Kristin Hoadley]

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

[Brian]

Here's the story.

[Kristin Hoadley]

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.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I'm just going to put that to be brief.

[Brian]

Here's the deal. 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.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, okay.

[Brian]

To the band that we named 33 Will. So bad. @ 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 after. I mean, it was like totally not conducive to this music. I'm not saying this is going to make any of the music any better if it was at night, but I'm trying to give myself some 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 couch and we're playing in front of a fireplace in someone's pedestrian house.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yep.

[Brian]

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 beginning. It's getting warmed Up.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I like.

[Brian]

Yeah, it's a little mute.

[Kristin Hoadley]

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

[Brian]

Oh, yeah, there's a. There's a Pearl Jamie thing going on. Oh, my God. Tuning up the instruments, getting ready. You know, you gotta. You gotta prepare properly. You want to make sure.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Gotta be sure everything's in tune.

[Brian]

It's like when Fish does a jam and they're like. You know, they're in between jams. They're transitioning.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah, you started with the transition.

[Brian]

We. 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 instruments?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Call me when they're done.

[Brian]

You guys should have taken care of that outside or something. Let's do a sunny side up.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Sunny side up.

[Brian]

Sunny side up. Okay. All right. Now I'm gonna go hide in the corner while you listen. This is so bad.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It's probably not that bad.

[Brian]

Totally. It's that bad. Bad. It's that bad. It's so bad. I'm so embarrassed. Okay. All right. Oh, my God.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay. Nice.

[Brian]

There's the only talented musician in the group playing the bass line.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah, that sounds good.

[Brian]

Yeah. We should have kept it like that. It should have been the whole song. Just keep on going, man.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It's all you.

[Brian]

Mike and I are heading for this. Mike and I are heading. We're going to go upstairs and smoke a cigarette. We'll be back when the important part starts. I think there's another guitarist. I don't know who he is. It's very. It's very Doors. Ish.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian]

Very moody.

[Kristin Hoadley]

This is the end.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

I'm gonna bring things down a bit.

[Brian]

Let me bring it so far down.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You can't hear me singing. Yeah. I'm picturing.

[Brian]

With all the drugs I'm taking.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Nice. Well, you kicked it up a notch.

[Brian]

We're at like, a 13. The party's at like, a 1. Oh, back down. Get moody again.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

If you notice there, I started singing way before I was supposed to. I'm 15. Give me a break.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah, I am. I am. I mean, good for you. To try.

[Brian]

Thanks, Hobie. I appreciate that.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I mean, everybody's got to start somewhere.

[Brian]

This is where we started, and the podcast is where we ended. Listen to my voice. I sound like Scott Stamp from Green. I mean, the bass line is good. I think, at least again, we're gonna give it up to Dan. Yeah, no, Mike's good. Mike's a good, solid drummer. What am I making breakfast? This is my heavy metal song about Waffle House.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You've always had a love for waffles.

[Brian]

I never stop.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, yeah. Take it back down.

[Brian]

Oh, yeah. Guitar solo.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Is that you?

[Brian]

I don't know, actually. I don't know if this is me, if there's someone else, because we had a second guitarist sometimes, and I don't know if that guy is with us or not. Sounds like me. Sounds pretty bad. By the way, this is the same talentless guitar playing that I. That I impressed Astra's parents with. Also, my singing voice.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Well, in fairness, it was like a time when there was a lot of, you know, angst and screaming and grunge was kind of, you know, if I'm.

[Brian]

15, this is 1991.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

So, I mean, this is like. This is just when Pearl Jam and Nirvana have come out. I mean, not even. I don't even think some of these albums had even been out.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Like Alice in Ch.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian]

The crowd is really responding to us by walking out the door.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You're wearing your Doc Martens.

[Brian]

I was. Same Doc Martens. I was wearing a 22 with a fish company.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Did you have a chain, like, with the.

[Brian]

Oh, you know I did. Oh, you know I did. And not a small chain, 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 it right. I can afford a Fender Stratocaster, but I can't get a pair of shoes, clean underwear, or a chain that works. But Sony's item. Oh, it's so, so bad.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Don't be too hard on yourself.

[Brian]

You know, sometimes, like, people, they, like, meditate to their former self, you know what I'm saying? 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 self. I just keep telling my younger self you're eventually behind a 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 taking.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, well.

[Brian]

Oh, man. I bet I have the lyrics somewhere in one of these lyric books. I should bet.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

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 link.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You're like a season of 21 Jump Street.

[Brian]

I was. Well, a couple of them are cover tunes. We actually do the End, I think, by the Doors, and we do 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. Probably.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Here we go now.

[Brian]

Here we go now. I'm channeling my innard. Anthony Kis. Here we go now. All three of the notes were playing. Sound really good.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I do want to know what the rest of the song says. I probably heard sh. Side up.

[Brian]

Well, you can't hear me because I'm not talking. I'm not actually singing. The microphone. This is the thing that I remember doing. I was. This is. By the way, it's just. Can you imagine being at, like, an afternoon brunch house party? This is what's coming at you.

[Kristin Hoadley]

No one was brunching. Let's be real.

[Brian]

No, they were doing cake stands in the back. Yeah. Smoking pot.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Just trying to chill out. You take advantage of what time of the day. It doesn't matter.

[Brian]

Yeah, that's correct. All these guys were hoping, like, Widespread part two was walking in the door, and they. They got Creed. Five years before Creed was a thing. They're like, wow, that's a really bad impression of Eddie Vedder.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Well, you couldn't get any better.

[Brian]

You couldn't get any better or any better. So there you go. Hey, we paid inside the budget, which was zero dollars and zero cents. I don't even think we got free beer at that point.

[Rachel]

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

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[Kristin Hoadley]

Anyway, you just needed the experience.

[Brian]

Oh, we got plenty of experience. But I remember a thing that I did.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I want the one where you fell off the stage. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian]

I think my music, I think my singing got a little less like in. 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 point. Sunny side up.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

I like my eggs and sunny side up.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Here we go now.

[Brian]

Covered its mother.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Thanks.

[Brian]

Jamaican creeping My coffee the Am I.

[Kristin Hoadley]

What were some of the other names of your songs?

[Brian]

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

[Rachel]

Slide.

[Brian]

Slide. I think the Goo Goo Dolls then stole our song. Remember that? Why don't you slide?

[Kristin Hoadley]

I don't think it was.

[Brian]

Yeah, that was it. Why don't you slide? Slide. That was it. Most definitely.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I think it was called Smile.

[Brian]

No, no. Slide. Okay, yeah, it's like, why don't you slide? Remember the Goo Dolls? They were like a hardcore punk band that turned into like, you know, Go, go. Why don't you slide? What other songs did they sing?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Uhhuh.

[Brian]

God, I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, they were bad. It was bad. We all sang their songs back then.

[Kristin Hoadley]

But they were bad.

[Brian]

Yeah, you don't hear those songs on the radio anymore. Okay, this is by 33 willie. Before we were known as 33 willie, we were known as Slow Head. That was the name of the band. Slow Head. Make up your own interpretation of that one. Yes. 15 year old boys show. Slow Head.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Slow Head, Slow Head.

[Brian]

Oh my God, it's so bad. It's so cringeworthy.

[Kristin Hoadley]

So 33 Willie.

[Brian]

Slow head, slow Head.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Chopper Johnson. They all have references to penis I just wanna.

[Brian]

I wanna say this. I don't think Slow Head was my idea. I don't know whose it was, but it wasn't mine. I would have never named. My bad. Slow head 33 Willie was a much better name.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Was this the same band, too, where you showed up and Tina dropped you off and you were.

[Brian]

That's Chopper Johnson.

[Kristin Hoadley]

That's Chopper Johnson.

[Brian]

That's the act. Like, this is my teen. This is a teenage band. Right. This is a high school band.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian]

We're doing this thinking that we're gonna be famous. Yeah. Obviously, the talent. I don't know where. I don't know where the talent scouts were. Clearly.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I mean, you were still developing.

[Brian]

Yeah, in many ways. Puberty, basically, was how we were developing. I still wait for my balls to drop. I just can't get over how bad that 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 were. I don't even know what that means.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Meaning you were adults in it.

[Brian]

Meaning we had to do porn to save. Pay the bills. I don't know. I think we played at a strip club once. I'm not sure. I don't remember.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, my God.

[Brian]

Meaning they were older than I was.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It was a more mature band.

[Brian]

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 Rush.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I mean, that's big.

[Brian]

They were going places until I showed up. They were well on their way.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And then he joined until I came.

[Brian]

And took a hammer to the track. Yeah.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Here'S what we're gonna do. We're gonna change the name to Charles.

[Brian]

That's right.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And I'm gonna sing, and we're gonna really take off.

[Brian]

Have you guys ever guys ever heard of 33p? No. Let me play you one of our classics. Sunday Sign Up. Sunday Sign Up. Build a Saddle. Listen to the cheers. Listen to the crowd. Not one person. Not one person. Click. Not one person said anything. They were all like, wow.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Okay, I guess.

[Brian]

I guess we should come back later. What time do you say your parents get home? 7. Can we come back around 6?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Will these guys still be here?

[Brian]

Oh, my God. I'm laughing so hard. I'm crying. I don't know if I'm laughing because I'm embarrassed. This was. Yeah. Yeah. So when I knocked on that years ago when I knocked on that door.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You did this last week.

[Brian]

I couldn't have done this years ago. Imagine. Imagine that a little record label had picked us up. You know what I would be? I would be like Puddle of Mud. That's what I would be like. I would be like that Wes Cantlin guy, running around drunk and high 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 Dolls running around with a farewell 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 that? Music compilation. Time Life Music Collection presents the best of 33p. Enjoy all the old classics like Sunny side Up and Slide. You can only find this collection exclusively on Time.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I'd love to see a VH1 behind the Music with 33.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

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

[Brian]

Picturing stool is about right for 33ft. We also were playing behind the porta Potties at this particular party. Not one person clapped. What?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Tough crowd.

[Brian]

Yeah, tough crowd. Tough crowd. A crowd insinuates that there were more than one person listening. That didn't happen. 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 trade 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 guy was like, yeah, here, take these songs and call us back in a week with some ideas. And I was like, I don't have a car or a phone, but I still have my Blue dog Martens from 33B. You want to listen to Slide? Why not? Why not? Yeah, we're in it now. Yeah.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I heard. I heard a woo.

[Brian]

I think that was us. I think that was me.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Maybe it was the dog.

[Brian]

It was Mike. It was Scoot. Yeah, his name was Scoot. We called it Scooter. We called him Scooter. Scooter. It was the dog. Hey, Mike's drumming pretty good here. Yeah, he's getting going. Yeah, I'm not sure what I'm doing, but Mike's going. I'm sure I'm gonna come in and ruin the song at any moment. Yep, there I am. Remember Rob Zombie?

[Kristin Hoadley]

He's got a Metallica. Yeah.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

Oh, he was successful.

[Brian]

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 mind.

[Kristin Hoadley]

You seem like you're getting more confident.

[Brian]

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

[Kristin Hoadley]

You are getting drunk.

[Brian]

Yeah, I realize no one's listening at this 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 there. And we're just kind of treating it now like band practice. Right. And at band practice, we can be as bad as we want to be. And it goes never.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Tell me something.

[Brian]

What you looking for? To be fair to those of you who were not born or around the 90s, there was much worse music than this. It was playing on the radio.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian]

Not the singing, but the actual music part. I just want to let you know that to be slapping on Bas like he knows how to do.

[Kristin Hoadley]

What. This is.

[Brian]

This is Dan slapping on the bases. Had plenty of practice at home. There's some comic relief. Hey, I'm Brian. Over here at Chuckles Laugh Factory all weekend long. Wow. What witty banter, Brian. It's Jim Morrison.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It is.

[Brian]

It is. Astrid heard this seven miles as Astra. No, she is not. This will be the first time. I'm praying this is one of those episodes she won't listen all the way.

[Kristin Hoadley]

I'm Brian.

[Brian]

I'm Brian, in case anyone's listening. I'm Brian, in case you're taking pictures for some magazine. Who cares? 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 and we're gonna get hammered. I was gonna French kiss my girlfriend Instead I gotta listen to this. You're blocking the stairway. I can't even get to the bedrooms, man. I shouldn't have taken that lsd. Slow head is killing me. The guitar's Ripping into me like a million knives. What's. What's surprising to me that, that. That I didn't remember is exactly how hard the band is. Like where it's hard rock.

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah, it is.

[Brian]

I thought it was more like a little, like little more gentle. Gentle. Oh, it just cut out there. I don't know why I just cut out there. But anyway, it cut out there. Listen, you get them?

[Kristin Hoadley]

Yeah. Well, good job. That was tough. I know.

[Brian]

Well, there you go. If you even made it this far in the episode, kudos to you. As mentioned before, I literally got four or five emails that bordered on death threats regarding the terrible nature of the music being played on that particular episode. I never claimed it was good. I just claimed it happened. And what's good for the goose is good for the gander or whatever. The saying is, if I was given it, I figured I should be able to take it. My feelings are still hurt. You guys really didn't like 33p live at Shady Oaks? I mean, I mean, the recording quality is top notch. Who doesn't want to time Travel back to 1990, whatever, and see a young Brian Greene with a chain around his waist and his stinky Doc Martens kicking the shit out of some Rage against the Machine covers? Ah, to be young and young. It's all coming back. It's all coming back to me now. All right, as mentioned before, we took a little break this week. Thanks for bearing with us. We'll get back on our high horse next week. I had a chance to sit down and talk with impractical Joker and stand up comedian Sal Volcano. I've got some special guests lined up for next week. You are not going to want to miss this. Unless, of course, you do want to miss this, in which case I just ask that you give us a follow so we still get the download. I'm gross. I'm not above begging for downloads. Additionally, I hope and wish that you give us a shout at 212-433-TCB. That's 212-433-3822. Text us, call us. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. You know you can do it. I just hope you do. Please go ahead and give us a follow on Instagram at the commercial break. Extra credit if you hit us up at TCB podcast at TikTok. Since there's almost no content up there, I might just throw you an extra sticker if you show me a picture of you following us on TikTok. Go to the website. You can see all the video and all the audio video there. TCBpodcast.com and of course the infamous YouTube. YouTube.com the commercial break. All the episodes are up there. All every single one of them on video that we have that YouTube hasn't banned or that I forgot to hit record on. They're all up there. Go ahead, follow, subscribe, comment, you know, do all that stuff. One more little note. I do have a couple boxes of Extra merchant from our recent merch sale. Some of the pieces were sold out, but I have some university sweaters, hoodies and T shirts. I don't have all the sizes. I'm not gonna have everything everybody wants. But if you're interested in some merch and you missed out on the sale, well, you know, we'll see what we can do. We'll see. No promises. We'll see what we can do. Anyway, I love you. Best to you and until next time, I will say I do say I must say goodbye.

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[Kristin Hoadley]

Thanks for selling your car to Carvana. Here's your check.

[Brian]

Whoa. When did I get here? What do you mean? I swear it was just moments ago that I accepted a great offer from Carvana online. I must have time traveled to the future.

[Kristin Hoadley]

It was just moments ago. We do same day pickup. Here's your check for that.

[Rachel]

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[Brian]

It is the future.

[Rachel]

It's, it's the present.

[Kristin Hoadley]

And just the convenience of Carvana. Sorry to blow your mind.

[Brian]

It's all good. Happens all the time.

[Kristin Hoadley]

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