TCB Infomercial: Gianmarco Soresi

Summary

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The Commercial Break – TCB Infomercial: Gianmarco Soresi

Air Date: May 24, 2024
Hosts: Brian Greene, Chrissy Hoadley
Guest: Gianmarco Soresi

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Episode Overview

On this edition of the TCB Infomercial, comedian Gianmarco Soresi joins Brian and Chrissy for an irreverent, wide-ranging conversation that effortlessly blends improv, personal confession, and observational comedy. Broadcasting from the "frozen tundra of Canada," Gianmarco riffs on life as a touring comic, therapy for men, mall seals, and the underwhelming state of Super Bowl commercials. Interlaced with stories of family weirdness, weed mishaps, and podcasting oddities, this episode perfectly captures the Commercial Break’s signature blend of chaotic, hilarious, and unfiltered banter.

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Key Points, Discussions, and Memorable Moments

1. Touring in (Very) Cold Canada & Mall Seals

• [04:43] Gianmarco calls in from Edmonton, performing at a comedy club inside North America’s second-biggest mall.
  • “They have seals. They have a seal show. …I don’t think any of these seals grew up next to a Spencer’s Gifts and that’s going to be tough for them.” – Gianmarco Soresi [05:02, 21:43]
• The crew speculates on the existence of indoor tunnels in Canadian cities, leading to a detour about urban legends and the Hasidic community in NYC.

2. Dental Hygienist Dilemmas

• [06:28] Chrissy and Brian complain about chatty hygienists who show dog photos during cleanings, while Gianmarco shares his experience at a Chinatown dental office:
  • “When they lecture me about, you know, what I should be doing, I don't follow. So, you know, I don't feel bad.” – Gianmarco Soresi [07:23]
  • “My hygienist likes to show me pictures of her dog while she’s cleaning my teeth and then wants me to react. …Honestly, I don’t care.” – Brian Greene [08:08]

3. Men and Therapy, and Societal Hang-Ups

• [09:33] Gianmarco expands on his comedic take that men often substitute therapy with activities like running:
  • “You wouldn’t tell someone with diabetes to run it off, because you need both feet.” – Gianmarco Soresi [00:36, callback at 09:44]
  • Culturally, therapy is stigmatized, and suppression may be harnessed for nefarious purposes:
    • “I really do believe that some of the propaganda against therapy is simply that, no, we need you to be pent up so we can direct that frustration towards a very specific cause…like storming the Capitol.” – Gianmarco Soresi [10:25]

4. Prostate Health & Masturbation Jokes

• TCB’s signature “21 EPM” (ejaculations per month) bit:
  • “For a second, I thought it was per minute, and I was like, whoa, I gotta go, guys, I’m behind.” – Gianmarco Soresi [12:01]

5. Family Fables: Italian-Jewish Identity, Divorce & Absurdity

• Gianmarco riffs on his Italian-sounding name, revealing he’s “much more Jewish,” and recounts being deceived about his ancestry and learning Italian (just “rosetta”):
  • “My name feels like a lie sometimes.” – Gianmarco Soresi [12:15]
• [13:31] Discusses his parents’ various marriages, therapy paid for by parents, and the relatable absurdity of childhood myths and family chaos:
  • “It was very funny in the beginning when my parents would pay for me to go tell a stranger what pieces of shit they were, 24/7.” – Gianmarco Soresi [17:13]

6. Weed Culture: Dispensaries, Gummies & Gym Felons

• [21:50] The group discusses legal weed in Canada and New York’s messy dispensary rollout, including the phenomenon of ex-con-run fitness studios branching into weed commerce:
  • “If my fitness instructor killed somebody, I’ll pay extra. That’s the kind of motivation that I need.” – Gianmarco Soresi [22:50]
• The dangers of unevenly mixed edibles:
  • “Sometimes I be like...I eat half, I don’t feel anything, and then I have the other half and I’m fucking dead.” – Gianmarco Soresi [24:14]

7. Podcasting, Press, and Bizarre Encounters

• Gianmarco and the hosts trade Podcast Magazine war stories, with Brian & Chrissy revealing their experience with a would-be journalist who attempted to arrange a threesome during their interview:
  • “If anyone wants to feature your podcast in anything, you should go...They probably want to fuck. There’s no way this is anything to do with the podcast.” – Gianmarco Soresi [28:59]
• On "the downside" of being featured in Podcast Magazine:
  • “No, no, the joke was, I fucked for it. That was the joke.” – Gianmarco Soresi [31:01]

8. The Pressure and Toll of Stand-Up Touring

• [31:42] Gianmarco honestly details the grind of touring—delays, exhaustion, and the emotional burden of not disappointing fans:
  • “You really get the intensity of how many people’s nights you’re going to fuck up if you’re not good...You have to meet this moment.” – Gianmarco Soresi [31:42]
  • “I get why comedians die on the road, because...You just gotta push through feeling like shit and you’re in a shitty hotel." – Gianmarco Soresi [34:29]

9. The Joy in Creation and Feedback

• [35:36] Touching on why stand-up is “noble,” Gianmarco shares:
  • “The feeling that brings me the most joy is like, you do a new joke and it kind of works...I need a real back and forth for me to make art…That’s the best part.” – Gianmarco Soresi [35:36]

10. Super Bowl Commercials: Celeb Overload & Lack of Creativity

• The trio bemoans Super Bowl ad decline:
  • "So many of these commercials, the turn was new celebrity, and then the second turn was a third celebrity." – Gianmarco Soresi [40:25]
  • “We’ve gotten rid of the shame of doing commercials that we need to bring back.” – Gianmarco Soresi [41:20]
  • "If you are in a trailer that is airing, then I don't want to see you in a commercial right next to it." – Gianmarco Soresi [41:41]

11. Pop Culture: Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby—How Fandoms Shift

• On the size and ferocity of the Swiftie fanbase:
  • “Taylor Swift is more famous than Michael Jackson ever was. And I was like, well, to find that out, she’s going to have to molest some kids...There’s loving someone and then there’s loving someone despite the allegations. Let’s see Taylor shake that one off.” – Gianmarco Soresi [37:54]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Topic | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------| | 04:43 | Gianmarco’s Edmonton mall gig & indoor seals | | 06:28 | Dental hygienist banter | | 09:33 | Men & therapy, stigma, and society’s motives | | 12:01 | Prostate health & masturbation jokes | | 13:31 | Family myths, Italian-Jewish identity | | 21:50 | Canada/NYC weed, ex-con fitness/weed hybrids | | 24:14 | Uneven weed edibles, accidental panic attacks | | 28:59 | Podcast Magazine’s weird side | | 31:42 | The grind & pressure of touring comedians | | 35:36 | Why live feedback drives stand-up | | 39:19 | Super Bowl ads: celebrity overload | | 37:54 | Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, and fandoms |

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Notable Quotes

• On therapy for men:
  “You wouldn’t tell someone with diabetes to run it off, because you need both feet.” – Gianmarco Soresi [00:36]
  “I really do believe that...the propaganda against therapy is simply that, no, we need you to be pent up so we can direct that frustration towards a very specific cause.” – Gianmarco Soresi [10:25]

• On the reality of showbiz touring:
  “You really get the intensity of how many people’s nights you’re going to fuck up if you’re not good...You have to meet this moment.” – Gianmarco Soresi [31:42]
  “I get why comedians die on the road...You just gotta push through feeling like shit and you’re in a shitty hotel.” – Gianmarco Soresi [34:29]

• On weed gummies:
  “I eat half, I don’t feel anything, and then I have the other half and I’m fucking dead.” – Gianmarco Soresi [24:14]

• On Podcast Magazine:
  “If anyone wants to feature your podcast in anything...They probably want to fuck. There’s no way this is anything to do with the podcast.” – Gianmarco Soresi [28:59]

• On Super Bowl commercials:
  “So many of these commercials, the turn was new celebrity, and then the second turn was a third celebrity.” – Gianmarco Soresi [40:25]

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Episode Tone & Structure

Authentically irreverent, chaotic, and self-aware, mirroring the hosts’ comedic banter with their guest. The conversation jumps rapidly between topics—therapy, weed, podcasting, pop culture—embracing the “variety” vibe while remaining insightful and sharply funny. Gianmarco Soresi’s quick wit and storytelling mesh perfectly with TCB’s offbeat and reactive style.

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Additional Resources

• Gianmarco Soresi Tour Dates & Podcast:
  gianmarcosoresi.com
  Podcast: The Downside

• The Commercial Break Podcast:
  tcbpodcast.com
  @thecommercialbreak (Instagram), @cbpodcast (TikTok)

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Summary prepared in the spirit of TCB: Chaotic, hilarious, and “just FINE” for everyone who loves an off-the-rails deep dive into comedy, culture, and the human condition. Wah-bam!!

Transcript

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I think everyone should be in therapy, especially more men need to be in therapy. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But they're very reluctant. Men are very reluctant. My best friend, his name is Josh. He's my age, he just went through a second divorce. He's been very depressed. And I told him I was like, you should go to therapy. And he was like, nah, running.

[Brian Greene]

Running.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

That's my therapy. And I was like, oh, that's so interesting, because Sushi, that's my hair cut. What the fuck are you.

[Brian Greene]

We.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

We need. We need to treat depression like the disease that it is, right? Yes, yes. You know, you wouldn't tell someone with diabetes to run it off. Cause you need both feet.

[Brian Greene]

On this episode of the Commercial Break.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

We're gonna get pretty stoned and go to the mall tomorrow and see the seals. And, you know, it's these poor seals because, you know, at least at a zoo, they recreate a natural habitat. But, like, I don't. I don't think any of these seals grew up next to a Spencer's Gifts. And that's gonna be tough for them. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, guys and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Greene. This is not my missing best friend, Kristen Joy Hoadley. She is away in Memphis seeing yet another concert, being at yet another festival, as her husband plows through May with a concert or festival every single weekend. So best to you out there in the podcast universe. I'm going to be your only host today, Brian. And as you're listening to this, I'm probably getting a tooth cracked out of my head while my eyes are still open. It's literally my living nightmare. But why listen to my drama when you can listen to today's TCB infomercial with one of the funniest touring comics out there, Gian Marco Sorosi. We actually interviewed Gian Marco a while ago, but because he is in the frozen tundra of Canada when we interview him, his Internet was really spotty and he dropped off a few times. No fault of his own. We love this conversation with Gian Marco. It took me a while to edit it in a way that is listenable. And so I think I've got a good one on deck for you today. Gian Marco is on a forever tour. He's touring forever. You can go to his website, gianmarcosaurus.com don't worry, you don't have to know how to spell it. I'll put a link in the show notes and you can See if he's coming to your town. He probably is coming to your town because he's got dates through December 31st. You know, a comic is good when they are touring 160 nights in just the last six months of the year. I mean, this guy is everywhere all the time. He's also got a hilarious podcast that I have started to listen to and it's called the Downside with Giano Gian Marco Sorisi and tune into the latest episode where decide whether or not he's actually turning into Jeff Goldblum. It's a weird conversation on alternate universe theories. I think you're going to laugh a lot and I think you're going to like it. So let us not delay, let us not waste a lot of time listening to me drabble on because I have to go and, you know, get X rays of my jaws. They know where to put the bone graft in my head. Brush your teeth, kids. Brush your teeth. That's all I got to say. So Gian Marco Sororisi. Here's our interview with him. Why don't we do this? Normally I ask Chrissy about this, but I'm going to ask you, the podcast listener, why don't we take a break and then when we come back, through the magic of tele podcasting, I will have Gian Marco right here in the studio a couple of months ago, a while ago, recording an interview with our dear friend Gian Marco Sorocy. And enjoy this special Friday TCB infomercial. I know you're going to love it, so let's take a break. We'll be back with Gian Marko.

[Christina]

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 212-4333, TCB. 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 are.

[Brian Greene]

Thanks, Gian Marco for coming on. How are you?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

[Brian Greene]

You're in very cold Edmonton.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yes. I'm performing in. It's a mall. It's one of the biggest malls. It's a comedy club in a mall. It's the second biggest mall in North America.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, really?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yes. They have seals. They have a seal show.

[Chrissy]

Wow.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, because that's why. Because these colder places, they have to have indoors make it all.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, we were talking about that.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Not the seals. We weren't talking about the seals. We had no idea about the seals. But we were wondering. We had heard. Maybe this is just like, you know, one of those rumors you hear legends, like urban legends.

[Chrissy]

Canada legend.

[Brian Greene]

Does Canada. Do they have tunnels where they can like walk from place?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

No, you're. You're thinking of the Hasidic Jews in New York City, I think. I don't, I mean, I haven't seen any. I don't, I don't know.

[Chrissy]

Certainly maybe covered walkways. I don't know. Maybe just. They have huge malls. That's.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I think so. Like, there's definitely like tunnel like things that I walked through to get to the comedy club.

[Chrissy]

There you go.

[Brian Greene]

Minus one, bro. That's what, that's what. Minus one. But feels like what? Minus one feels like minus 10. I grew up in Chicago and minus one is. That's even cold for a guy from Chicago.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Sure. I mean, I, I don't know how you grew up in Chicago. I can't even imagine.

[Brian Greene]

I didn't have a choice in the matter. But sure, now I'm down here in Atlanta and I'll never go back because I don't know how people live in that terribly windy and cold city. In the summer it's lovely and hot, but in the winter it's not. John, I have. Gian Marco. I have more important things to talk.

[Chrissy]

To you and it's a pressing question.

[Brian Greene]

It's a pressing question. Inquiring minds want to know. Chrissy and I. Do you like your dental hygienist?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

You know, I, I am. I'm glad you brought that up. I, I appreciate that. I, I, you know, I used to be on the actors union insurance many years ago, and then I did not make enough money to qualify, so I had to like downgrade all my doctor. I had to lose. I lost my whole team. And so the doctor I see now, they're, they're in Chinatown and they. No one at the office speaks English, which, honestly. Okay, it's, it's, it's fine. It's. There's nothing, there's nothing wrong with that. It can be. You know, I think when they Lecture me about, you know, what I should be doing. I don't follow. So, you know, I don't feel bad.

[Chrissy]

They're just saying, floss more, floss more.

[Brian Greene]

That's what they.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, yeah. So it's, it's going, it's going okay. You know, I, I, I don't seem to have a lot of cavities, and I think that's just genetics.

[Brian Greene]

You know, that's really good news because Chrissy and I were just talking off air about this pressing problem we have with our hygienists. Just to fill you in on why we would even ask the question, please. As ridiculous is that, is that Chrissy?

[Chrissy]

I like to talk.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, we have chatty hygienists. And when we, you know, when you got somebody sticking things mouth.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Well, then you, you should see my guy. We have no conversations at all.

[Chrissy]

See, that's perfect.

[Brian Greene]

I want the name and phone number because my hygienist.

[Chrissy]

You're gonna go to Chinatown.

[Brian Greene]

I'm gonna go to Chinatown for cleaning. I wish we had a Chinatown. My hygienist likes to show me pictures of her dog while she's cleaning my teeth and then wants me to react to the dog. And I'm like, honestly, I don't care. I mean, I could care, but I really don't. Now's not the time to talk about your dog. That's. God, let's get this going.

[Chrissy]

They're holding you captive.

[Brian Greene]

Yes.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah. I think you always. People, people need to understand when they have a captive audience and go, like, if in this situation, I should be. And think about, she's showing her dog to everybody. Yeah. She doesn't get tired of showing this dog.

[Brian Greene]

Well, she doesn't, because no one can tell her that we really don't want to talk to her about her dog.

[Chrissy]

Everybody seems enthusiastic.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I guess I wonder if she's ever, like, on a date and, you know, the date's not paying attention to her, so she just puts her hands in the mouth just to be like, you know, let me talk a little.

[Brian Greene]

I don't know if I could even look at another human being the same way. If I was a gynecologist or a hygienist or a proctologist, I'd be like, ah, no, I'm good with humans. They're all good. You have a really funny bit that I was watching about men going to therapy and how when, when you ask, when you tell your friends, you're like, hey, man, you know, you should go see a therapist. You should do Some therapy. And your friends will respond with something like, no running, jogging. It's my therapy. I feel, I go to therapy and I love it, but I feel like I get this response from a lot of my friends too. They'll be like, no running is my therapy. No, you know, you know, I do things on Saturday, I'm going cut the grass. It's, you know, a meditative state of mind. Or you know, drugs and alcohol. That's my therapy. But I totally agree with you. Are you, are you a long time therapy guy?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah. I think I was skeptical for a little bit because both of my parents were deeply in therapy and it didn't seem to do shit for them. But, but you know, I went through, I went through a, like a bad breakup. More, more like someone I dated for five years and then they got married to someone else. And, and so I, I finally, I finally went to therapy. And you know, it's tough because it's twofold. One, I think we need to reframe therapy as like, it's just getting advice from someone outside who isn't, who doesn't have an investment or, you know, their own motivations.

[Brian Greene]

Totally.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

But, but I also think like, there is kind of a, a more conservative angle of like, don't go to therapy. And I think the reason is if you really pent up your problems, that gives you the kind of energy to do things like storm the capitol and go to war. And I really, I really do believe that like some of the propaganda against therapy is simply that, no, we need you to be pent up so we can direct that frustration towards a very specific cause.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, I like this line of thinking right here because I've always said I don't, you know, I think we have a loneliness problem in this country. Like, like people are extraordinarily lonely, grasping at straws, hoping for meaning in their life. And a therapist could probably tell them, you know, hey, there's, listen, there's no hope or meaning. You just kind of gotta trudge through from one to the next, but you'll be okay, bro. But I kind of, I think I might agree with you for this. People aren't as angry and fearful if they're a little bit self aware. So it's like, you know, then they don't, you know, go so crazy.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

It's, it's the same thing with like masturbation. You know, I think religions go, you know, don't jerk off. Because then if you don't, you get so mad, you're like, you're like we all need to go to church on Sunday, and you need to give the money. And it's, you know, it's. It's that. That's the real impetus, I think, for that kind of thinking.

[Brian Greene]

We have a. We've given bumper stickers out. We support men's prostate health.

[Chrissy]

Yes, we do.

[Brian Greene]

And our. We need to stay healthy with our masturbation. We have 21 EPM stickers, which means 21 ejaculations per month. That'll bring your chances. Yeah, we're doing our part.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

For a second, I thought it was per minute, and I was like, whoa, I gotta. I gotta go, guys. I'm behind.

[Chrissy]

That's our time.

[Brian Greene]

And that's our time with Gian Marco today. Thank you very much. I love your name. Obviously Italian, right?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I'm much more Jewish. But they. They, you know, I'm probably like, God. God knows it. A tenth, an eighth Italian. It's humiliating. But that's the name they gave me. Yeah. It just feels like a lie. My name feels like a lie sometimes. I love.

[Brian Greene]

I love the name because I used to work at a trattoria, like a place called La Strada Trattoria, you know, an Italian restaurant owned by a. Like a real. It's like an Italian off the boat, Italian, wonderful restaurant, made great food, neighborhood restaurant. And. But one of the managers, his name is Gian Marco. And so Gian. He would sit at the corner of the bar smoking cigarettes at the. At the corner of the bar. This is how long ago it was. He'd be on there smoking cigarettes, and, you know, people would come in and he'd be like, brian, send them a bottle of Chianti Classico. And I. It's this cheap swill that we had boxes and boxes in the back. And so he'd be like, go get them two bottles of Gigante Classico. Give them Chiante Classico. And then inevitably, I'd go, yeah, Gian Marco, what do you want me to do with the bill? You want me to, you know, void it, comp it, whatever. He'd be like, what are you talking about? Put it on the bill. And I'd be like, what? You just told me to bring them two bottles of Chianti Classico. And you charge $50 for this fucking swill, and now you want them to pay for it? They drank it because they thought it was free. Sure, yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I mean, he sounds like me, an Italian Jew. I. I wish, you know, I. I did Rosetta Stone for Italian twice, and the only word I remember is rosetta. So it's. It's been. It's. It's my dad. He pretended like when I was a kid, he. You know, he's my dad. He's probably a quarter Italian. But he told me growing up that I was, like, 100% Italian. And I. I believed him because that's.

[Brian Greene]

What it sounds like.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I know. I. Yeah, I hadn't learned about fractions yet. And I was like, okay, that makes sense. Jewish, Mom. It's iron, dad. And he would. He would. He. Like, we watched the Godfather, like, it was like a home movie. He would. He would tell us.

[Chrissy]

In my family, he.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

There's this. There's this symbol. It's like a Sicilian or Italian symbol. It's like three legs around a head or something. And he would tell me. Be like, son, that's our family crest. And I don't know. It's like he never. He thought I would never grow up. He thought I'd never, like, Google, what is this image? So. So it's. It's just my. My life has been a lie.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And I. I wish there were more. Like, because with the Jews, you know, when I was younger, I did. I did the birthright trip, and I wish Italians had a thing for, like, the Vatican or something. I think that would be fun.

[Brian Greene]

Yes. So, I don't know.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I think if the Vatican was like, oh, yeah, we give a free trip to little boys. I'd be like, ah, that's okay. We're gonna slide on that one.

[Chrissy]

Let's.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, you got to get to the Vatican when you're young to dissuade you from believing that the Vatican is just really a holy. It's like a bank for the richest human being in the world. I mean, I don't know if you've been to the Vatican, but I have.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

No idea when I. When I got older.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, me too.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And every. Every piece of artwork, they're like, this one's priceless. This one's priceless. Remember? To help the poor. Yeah. And you're like, exactly.

[Brian Greene]

Then they have the collection plate outside, and it's like, I want you to. For what fucking reason do you want.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

The collection plate is like a Michelangelo plate that costs $10 billion. Like, sell the.

[Brian Greene]

Exactly. I was in the Sistine Chapel, and there was a guy walking around with a basket, and I was like, you got to be kidding me. You got the Sistine Chapel above you. Sell a piece of that, you'll be fine.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Saying this as a good Catholic, of course. So, Gian Marco, you have this Podcast that I think is really funny. How long have you had. The downside. How long have you had the. The podcast for?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh, boy. Maybe like two and a half years. It's crazy to think you guys have been.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, that's a. That's a long time in the podcast industry to have that.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

In 2020.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. We've been like everybody else, but oh, so smart.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I wish I had started in 2020. That was. That was the time to do it.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, I did. It looks like you've had a little bit of success.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Listen, your studio's prettier than mine, I'll tell you that. Well, it's a beautiful studio.

[Chrissy]

You just can't. That's just what you see on tv.

[Brian Greene]

That's just what you see on tv.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

The other half is chaos.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Wires hanging everywhere, taped stuff.

[Brian Greene]

Don't worry, Gian Marco. It won't look this good forever, as one of my children will eventually need their room back, so.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Sure, sure. This stuff down, that's going to be something. A whole generation of kids who had to sleep in a podcast studio.

[Chrissy]

Right.

[Brian Greene]

I keep on telling Chrissy that this podcast, you know, most parents are going to give their children reason to go to therapy. As a matter of fact, I think parents have been keeping therapists in business for a very long time. But Chrissy and I are just loading the gun full of. In ammunition for my children. They're going to be years in therapy just to try and unravel. Unravel what's going on for their friends. That's right.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I, you know, I pay for my own therapy now. But it was very funny in the beginning when my parents would pay for me to go tell a stranger what pieces of shit they were. 24. 7.

[Brian Greene]

Wow. So your parents were paying for your therapy when you first got into therapy?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, yeah. And they felt, I think in the beginning, they felt responsible. You know, my parents are divorced multiple times, and I. I felt justified in being like, you know, you owe me this. You owe me this.

[Chrissy]

To each other, or. Two separate people divorced and remarried.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah. So they got divorced. No, never. There was no parent trap situation with.

[Chrissy]

Them because that happened to me.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

So really, Three times.

[Brian Greene]

Three times they got married to each other.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Three ceremonies.

[Chrissy]

Yes, three ceremonies.

[Brian Greene]

Three.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

How many people were at the third ceremony?

[Chrissy]

There was, you know, the courthouse.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Wow, that is. That is pretty incredible. Yeah, no, definitely not. My mom married my dad's former lawyer. It was. It was part of the divorce settlement and part of the. And then. But they got divorced and then my. My dad got married and then lots of girlfriends, lots of long term girlfriends. But he's single now. Single? Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Is he on Hinge? Is he on him.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

No, he's more on like kind of the Russian mail order type sites. Like he's. He's doing a lot of Google translating for his. For his messages.

[Chrissy]

That fits right in with Married at first sight.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

90 Day Fiance. We love those shows.

[Brian Greene]

Maybe your dad has a chance to become a B list celebrity on tlc. You just keep prodding him along and. And there'll be a happy ending to this. I know it.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I don't think so. I think. I think he would. He'd be a great reality TV character, but I think I would be canceled by association.

[Chrissy]

Do you watch certain shows on tour or when you're traveling? Do you go. You have a couple go to.

[Brian Greene]

Do you have any like comfort food for your eyeballs?

[Chrissy]

Trash tv, if you will.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, I try. I have more like comfort podcasts.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I'm more like. I'm more into like, you know, if Succession is. Was when that was playing White Lotus. I save it for like the really good. I can talk about with friends. I'll watch Curb youb Enthusiasm now and then Seinfeld now and then. Those are my, my comforts.

[Chrissy]

Those are good ones.

[Brian Greene]

Do you enjoy being like you're on an epic tour right now? I mean, just a scan of your website and by the way, you can get tickets on Marco's website. We'll put a link in the, in the show notes. But. But the. It's. It's. I feel exhausted just looking at your schedule. You're like five nights here, four nights there, three nights there.

[Chrissy]

It seems like exciting places though.

[Christina]

Yeah.

[Brian Greene]

At least they're nice places to visit.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah. I mean, it's, it's tough. It's. It's a constant navigation of like keeping healthy and my sanity and my sleep and trying to have fun.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And sometimes I'm alone and now I. I go with. Now I'm able luckily to, to bring an opener with me who's like a friend and a pal and you know, like tomorrow, you know, I've been. I've been doing this. This is my third weekend I've done in Edmonton in my life. And the first two were, were tough. Going to a SEAL show by yourself is just. It's brutal.

[Brian Greene]

Okay, so we lost John Marco there for a second. But I want to tell you that we usually wouldn't like tell you that we lost you on Marco. We just like piece it back together. But here's the craziest thing. So John Marco, while you were gone on your little break, Chrissy was, I said that's what happens when you, with the seals in Canada. They cut your Internet. And Chrissy goes, oh, you mean like the God, the singer? And I go, no, the animals were.

[Chrissy]

Saying when you went to a seal show by yourself, like a seal concert.

[Brian Greene]

She thought, she wouldn't say, I see.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, no seal, seal would rather seals not performing in Edmonton anytime soon.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, I don't know who is open. No, there is speaking about having it open there.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh sure, sure. He's actually from Atlanta originally. Liam Nelson is his name. Okay. Very good, very good comedian. And we're gonna get, we're gonna get pretty stoned and go to the mall tomorrow and see the seals. And you know, it's, it's these poor seals because you know, at least at a zoo they recreate a natural habitat. But like I don't, I don't think any of these seals grew up next to a Spencer's Gifts and that's going to be tough for them.

[Brian Greene]

When you, you say you're going to go get Ridley Stone is I'm assuming weeds legal in Edmonton?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I mean weed was legal in Canada way before, way before us. So I, I mean I just.

[Brian Greene]

I.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Remember the day, I remember coming to Canada like I don't know, 17 and being like getting weed. It was like, whoa. And now in New York there's weed stores everywhere. It's everywhere.

[Chrissy]

Reading about the debacle going on in New York.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Which debacle? What did you read?

[Chrissy]

Well, I guess there's a lot of political, you know, mess, I guess kind of of who gets a dispensary, who's allowed to, who's not. There's stuff on every corner, people doing stuff under the table. I don't know, I just read a little article about it this morning.

[Brian Greene]

Weren't they.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, they were sure.

[Brian Greene]

It's the weed dispensary licenses to family members. People had been convicted of non violent marijuana.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Well, there's, there, there's one, there's. This first was just a workout studio. It's called Con Body. And the, the instructors are all. Yeah, the instructors are all former inmates. They, they never specify of what because, you know, if my fitness instructor, if my fitness instructor, you know, killed somebody, I'll pay extra. That's the kind of motivation that I need. You know, just pull out a knife, be like squat lower than this. That'll get me down. And it's, it's a Little bit, it's, it's a little bit hokey. It's, it feels a little weird. Like they're like, you know, the doors, prison bars and. But then they just opened a weed element to this company. So now it's like, it's this whole like, hey, be a criminal. It's, it's very surreal. But good. If it helps the people who went to jail for pot. Good. Give them the money. Give them the money, please.

[Brian Greene]

Yes, I couldn't agree more. Actually. I think it's a fantastic.

[Chrissy]

I guess there's not enough of that happening.

[Brian Greene]

Well, I think it's just a slow process. It's like everywhere, you know, you start putting in red tape and I understand there needs to be red tape and you need to be monitored and carefully, whatever calculated and all that stuff. But I just want them to start making the weed gummies with an even amount of weed, you know what I'm saying? Because if I eat one corner, I don't get, I'm fine and I eat the other corner.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh my God. I've been talking to this, I've been talking about this recently because I do that too. I do the, I'll sometimes be like, oh, 10, I just want five. I eat half. I don't feel anything. And I'm like, oh, I'm guessing getting, I guess I'm getting like immune to fives. And then I have the other half and I'm like fucking dead. That's such a good point.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, because this is like a couple of months ago and my, one of my friends brought back from California like these extremely potent, it says right on there, extremely potent caution, 50 milligrams per gummy, 50, whatever it is, micrograms, milligrams of THC. And I was like, he goes, dude, you gotta nibble, bro. Nibble a little bit here, a little bit there. Like don't try and pack that power punch right into one bad boy. And I go, no, you don't have to convince me. Like I, I, I'm full of anxiety. I know, I know we, most weed is going to send me into a tailspin. So one night, just having fun and I took a little nibble. Nothing, not a thing. I didn't feel a damn thing. I was walking around the house just fine. So a couple of weeks later, then I nibble on the other side of it. And Gian Margo, I had a six hour long panic attack in the middle of the night, questioning my existence, wondering if my children were okay. And they were right there laying in the bed with me. And I'm like, are they okay? Should I go check out? Oh, there they are. It was insane. They need to, like, even that out.

[Chrissy]

They.

[Brian Greene]

Do you think it's 20, 24. They have some technology. It's. They have some technology to figure out.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, it's. It's called. It's called mixing. Mixing the batter. But that's kind of fun. That's like. That's what it. That's what it used to be. Like in. In high school, someone would make weed brownies with the butter and the melt, and you had no idea what kind of night you were gonna have. So it adds a little excitement into our life. Drugs are supposed to be a little bit risky. I think we forgot that. We're like, oh, this. This drug. It was a little surprising.

[Christina]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

That's the whole point.

[Brian Greene]

We were talking to Reggie Watts about drugs, and just a couple of weeks ago. You know Reggie Watts? You know Reggie Watts?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I did. I did cordon. He was. He was watching from the side.

[Chrissy]

Nice.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, he did. So he was telling us about new brew. Yeah, new brew. But then he was explaining to us about how he was experimenting with ketamine. He had gone through this ketamine phase where he's experimenting with ketamine, and the guy sounded like he had it down to an exact.

[Chrissy]

A little bit of this. And then there's that.

[Brian Greene]

A little bit of this.

[Chrissy]

Talk to that person.

[Brian Greene]

3 milligrams of this. I take 4 milligrams of that. And I thought to myself, I need this guy to help me dose my weed gummies so that I keep myself out of. Out of trouble. The. The podcast that you have, you were named one of the very funny people in podcasting by podcast magazine.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh, yeah. Big, big publication. I mean, everywhere every year, people go, what is podcast magazine saying these days?

[Chrissy]

Well, we. We share that distinction.

[Brian Greene]

Distinction of having no one look at our podcast magazine.

[Chrissy]

It's like, they have a magazine for podcasts.

[Brian Greene]

Wait, they have a magazine for podcasts? Where do you pick that up?

[Chrissy]

Like, we. We had a whole feature in it.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. Where do you pick one of those up? At the same gas station where you get that these people were arrested last week. Magazine talking about.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Greene]

Like, in Florida, you go to the gas station, you could pay A$50 to get mug shots of, like, it's a magazine full of mug shots of the locals that have been arrested. And I thought maybe that's where they give out podcast magazine, because I don't know where I could pick up My local copy, but I think it's. I think it was a funny concept. And Chrissy and I got invited to do, like, a. You know, like an expose, I guess is what you would call it. Just a couple of months after the.

[Chrissy]

Podcast started, we were excited.

[Brian Greene]

We were so excited. We thought, this is it. We've hit the big. They're finally taking notice. Everyone's there. Until the guy who did the interview just kept asking Chrissy to do a threesome with him and his wife. And I realized exactly why.

[Chrissy]

My wife, I think you're so beautiful, and blah, blah, blah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I was like, I want to know who made this threesome request. Was it Podcast magazine or someone else?

[Brian Greene]

It was someone writing or someone writing on behalf of Podcast Magazine. We met him in a clubhouse room, if you remember. That was a thing for three minutes. So we met him in a club.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I do.

[Brian Greene]

And then he started. And then Chrissy and I did a couple of live podcasts on Clubhouse. There were, like, 16 people in there. I mean, no one was in these rooms, but he was. And so Chrissy had her picture up on the thing. So then all of a sudden, the guy starts, you know, messaging me, Hey, I want to do a feature for you guys in Podcast Magazine. And I was like, oh, this is so exciting. Yeah, Podcast magazine finally taking notice. Finally. After a month of podcast.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I mean, to be fair, this is. This is like when someone at a mall is like, hey, you ever want to be a model kid, you should come back to my place. Let's take some pictures. You know, you should be skeptical. If anyone wants to feature your podcast in anything, you should go. They probably want to fuck. There's no way this is anything to do with the podcast.

[Brian Greene]

True story. But, you know, we were young and dumb and naive. Yeah. We were just as bad at podcasting as we are now. And we just thought, hey, listen, maybe this is our break. Maybe this is something. But then when we started thinking about it, we were like, wait, there's a magazine for fucking podcasting? Does anyone really pay attention to this podcast magazine? And what we found out was, clearly, no. Nobody listens to pot. No one reads or cares about what anybody has to say about Podcast Magazine. It was a ridiculous venture.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Such a. Such a weird thing to, like, try to, like, pick up people. Try to let you hook up with people in podcasting. A career notorious for people who have chosen to not be on camera. It's like. It's like, you know what? I'm not great at this. I'm gonna go for the People with the face for radio. That's who I'm gonna try to.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, the guy got on a zoom call.

[Chrissy]

It was interesting.

[Brian Greene]

Interesting. I'm telling you, you even got a.

[Chrissy]

Butt dial right from the guy later with his wife in the hot tub.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, they were in the hot tub. It was just a whole weird scene. I mean, I don't want to get.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Into, like, how do you get it? How do you get a butt dial in the hot tub?

[Brian Greene]

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. It was a But dialogue.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Oh, I. I sat on my phone. I'm in a hot tub. You want to join? That's insane.

[Brian Greene]

Sorry. My balls touched. Call. But while we're at it, let me FaceTime you. Let me dick time you. He was. He was a character.

[Chrissy]

Interesting.

[Brian Greene]

I later found out that none of them got paid for any of the work that they did. So I guess he. I guess we got what we paid for.

[Chrissy]

He might have picked up.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy]

Some ass.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, that's true. But I don't know who would sleep with that guy. But, you know, to each their own.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Well, let me tell you how I got in Podcast magazine.

[Brian Greene]

Go. Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

No, no. The joke was I fucked up. That was the joke.

[Brian Greene]

But now I really want to know. How did you get in Podcast magazine?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I guess I think it was my. My PR person must have partaken in a threesome. I got to give them a raise. They are really fantastic. They're really taking one for the team. Yeah, they are.

[Brian Greene]

When you go out on the road and you do these long stretches like you're. Like you're doing right now, do you. I see that you're doing like four and five dates at a particular club when you do that. What is the worst part of it? Besides being away from home and not your. Your creature comforts, what is the worst part about being out on the road like you are right now? Because we like to keep it positive.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I mean, sure, sure. I mean, yes, like, yesterday was. Was like a super shitty day of just flight, Flight delayed, and there's no one who really gives a. And I almost missed the show. And you're like, you, You. You just have to. I. I think it's. It's the real pressure of, like, you. If you cancel. Some people, they traveled two hours to see you. They rented a hotel, they do all these things. And. And you. You really get like the intensity of how many people's nights you're gonna fuck up if you're not good. I mean, when. When. When I think of Like Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, when she cancels a gig, it affects 10,000 people. I mean, it's like. And also the thing that, you know, recently someone had a seizure at one of my shows in the middle of the show. And, and I believe they're okay. But then I had another show where someone had, like, they passed out. And I thought, like, I read a lot sometimes not to compare myself to Taylor Swift, but you start reading like, oh, this person, they died on the way to a Taylor Swift concert. Oh, this person, they died on the way home. And why didn't. And it's like, you think like, oh, the more people you involve, the more lives that you're involved with. And I just think there's probably Taylor Swift's getting to a point where someone's going to die at every one of her shows. Shows, statistically speaking.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, she's got.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And that's, that's a lot.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

So. So it's, it's just the, it's just the, the, the tough part is the feeling of you had a layover, flight was delayed, you barely get to the club. You feel like. And there's all these people who are so excited and you have to be like, I need to meet this moment. And I have never felt worse, right?

[Brian Greene]

I never thought about that. Because of course, we sit behind a microphone, right? So if we're having. We just don't do the show, right, that moment. Or we, you know, or we can delay it a couple hours or whatever. But I never thought about that is there's real pressure. And I think in that seven foot walk where you're like, man, I have to get it together because these people paid their hard earned money to come see me and I can't, I can't afford to have an off night. It'd be for them, for that pressure of other people. And I'm sure there's lots of people who just don't give a. They're like, whatever. You're gonna get what you get. And that's what it is, is. But you feel, you seem really professional in that manner. You're like, I really give a. Whether or not these people get what they, what they came for. And that, that must be a lot of, a lot, a lot of stress on days where you missed flights and shit's late and yeah, yeah, yeah, good. And maybe you're, you know, just having an off day or an off week or an off month. I mean, that's.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I, I mean, I tell my girlfriend, she, she, My girlfriend doesn't like when I talk like it. But I go like, I get why comedians die on the road, because it just is. You gotta push through so many things. You just gotta push through feeling like shit and you're in a shitty hotel, but you just. You're like, I gotta make it. And, you know, it's. It's a bleak thought.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

But I get it. I get why it happens in the motel room after the first show of a weekend.

[Brian Greene]

But do you also get this sense, like, I think we were talking with Hannah Berner about this, that, like, the creation, your creation, like, you get up, you create something that you know, a form of art. Right. And I. I actually think it's kind of a noble profession, but you get up there and you create something. But do you feel like when you create that, there's a great deal of satisfaction? You had a good night, the jokes came through you, you jived with the audience. Is there a great deal of satisfaction that. Do you feel like, wow, I might have just. I might have improved somebody else's shitty day?

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's. I. The feeling that brings me the most joy is like, you do a new joke and it kind of works. And so you get to, like, really. I think sometimes I'm mostly drawn to stand up because I need a lot of feedback. I need, like a real back and forth for me to make. Make art. And so. So, you know, even if I'm feeling tired, if I get that. That new thought I had on the plane and it gets a little bit of something, I'm just excited. Yeah. And I feel like I did something.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And that's why, you know, I like. I like to. I like to go long. I like to do an hour and a half, usually minutes.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

I think, you know, if I had my way, I'd get away with two hours sometimes. But I'm not quite big enough to get away with that yet.

[Chrissy]

That's right.

[Brian Greene]

But.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

But yeah, that's. That's the best part is like, making. There's, There's. There's very. There's very little room between me having the idea and me getting to literally share it. And I think I like, that's what I really love about the art form in general.

[Brian Greene]

I think you're a very intelligent comic who uses his body on stage in a way that adds punctuation to your jokes. And I think you have to think quickly sometimes to keep up with what you're saying. I said it's a very slow human being. You have to think Quickly to keep up with it. But I like your. Your brand of humor. I think you're really funny and. And you should get the credit that you deserve. And hopefully you will make it to Taylor Swift opening act at one moment. Because if there's anything that I wish for you, Gian Marco, it's that Taylor sends you a bottle of Chiante Classico and then pushes you onto stage in her closet. Roll around so that you two can feel like a celebrity.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Sure. I mean, I, I had one. I had a Taylor Swift joke recently that went viral and I was. I was nervous about it. I was nervous. Those guys are scary. Yeah, that's a scary fan base. But I'm still alive. I'm still alive.

[Brian Greene]

We have talked a little bit about Taylor Swift on the show and we get quick responses one way or the other on the text message line whenever we do something. Taylor Swift to the point, you know, it just like. There was like a little bit of oversaturation I think there for a moment when we were leading up to the super bowl, there's so much Taylor Swift talk. And that was a lot of the feedback we got most recently was like, okay, guys, enough with Taylor Swift. And I get it. You know, there's. We've talked a lot about it.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, I think I like to more. I think it's more fun to like, talk about her. Her fans. Because my little sister is. Is a Swifty. And she told me recently she was. She said, you know, Taylor Swift is more famous than Michael Jackson ever was. And I was like, well, you know, to find that out, she's going to have to molest some kids because, you know, there's. I. There's loving someone and there's loving someone. Despite the allegations, you know, let's see Taylor shake that one off.

[Brian Greene]

I just played my first Michael Jackson song, like a first Michael Jackson song to some of my kid children and they loved it. And then I was like, am I going down the wrong road here? Because at some point I'm gonna have to explain.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, you know, you should play him some. Some classic Bill Cosby records. They're very good. Still.

[Brian Greene]

My dad still has classic Bill Cosby records in his record collection. And I told him, I said, dad, you gotta throw that out. And he goes, goes, who the cares? And I was like, I think like four or five women might. Might give a.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Sure. Four or five, I think. I think it was 70. What was the last.

[Brian Greene]

Well, yeah, you know, I'm just. My dad, he doesn't throw away anything. Okay. Before we Let you go. I have one question. I have one comment for you. You recently on your podcast, said something that I think made a lot of sense, and Chrissy and I have talked about here on the show, and I want to get. I want to get your retake on it. Super bowl commercials suck these days.

[Chrissy]

Well, it was just all celebrity.

[Brian Greene]

It was all celebrities all the time. Chrissy and I mentioned this after the.

[Chrissy]

Super bowl, right afterwards.

[Brian Greene]

That's all. I. The reason why I watch is for the. The super bowl commercials. And now a version of entertainment, I guess, is just seeing your favorite celebrity star drinking, eating, or pushing product, driving. When. Where did the originality go? Where's the good ideas? Where's the actual great commercials that they used that I feel like they used to do? And I think you had a good take on this.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, I think, like. Like, listen, it can work. You know, it can be fun to see a celebrity in a. In a unique situation. I think recently, Snoop Dogg had a campaign where he said he was giving up smoke, and. And it ended up being this smoker, which, by the way, the campaign. The campaign did well, but sales did not go up, and they fired the president of that company.

[Brian Greene]

Oh, no way.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

But I think it's. Yeah, yeah. Even though the campaign was successful, but I just think these ad agencies, they've gotten lazy. They. What happens is they. They.

[Brian Greene]

They're. They're.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

They get that star, and then if you're writing a script, you know, traditionally with a sketch, you have beats of a sketch kind of where's the jokes, where's the turns? And so many of these commercials, the turn was new celebrity, and then the second turn was a third celebrity. And when you have that as a tool, it just becomes so easy to keep using that.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

And you don't even need to take that big of a risk because, you know, they're gonna like the commercial because Kanye west was in it. People are gonna talk about it just because of that. And so I. I just think we really have reached a saturation point of so many commercials relied on this that I think people have actually been talking and will hopefully get a shift in the direction. And I also think there's a twofold. I think movie stars in general, they're making less money than they used to. Still plenty.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

But so now that a lot of them are more willing to do a commercial, I think we've gotten rid of the shame of doing commercials that we need to bring back. And I also think these rich people, they're also, like, the world's coming to an end or certainly, like there's about to be a degree of class warfare. And I want to have a bigger bunker. I want to have a bunker that's big enough for company. And so Jeff Goldblum is like, sure, put me in a third commercial, even though I'm about to be in Wicked. I mean, if you are in a trailer that is airing, then I don't want to see you in a commercial right next to it. How can I buy. How can I buy that you're the. The wizard of Oz when you're also trying to show me. Give me this. Buy apartments. Like, get out of here.

[Brian Greene]

Yeah, get out of here. And exactly. You know, it used to be that a list celebrities are, you know, movie stars. They would do a commercial over in China or maybe they do one in India or whatever it was. You know, over in Germany, they would do one of those because. Because you. You probably wouldn't see it here in the United States. The Internet was not as.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Yeah, only. Only my. My dentist would know about it, you know, but other than that, nothing.

[Brian Greene]

But now they're all over the place. And I agree with you. I think it's oversaturation and unoriginal and I understand the need to make money, get it while it's hot. I get that totally. But, like, you know, save something for the. Save something for the bedroom, as my mom used to say. Save something for the bedroom.

[Chrissy]

It's a little more creative.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Save. Save something for the comedian that doesn't want to go to Edmonton a fourth time next year, bro.

[Brian Greene]

I. I just. I feel for your current situation. I hope the seals treat you well tomorrow. I hope you get as stoned as possible. Chrissy and I have been recommending Cypress Hill. Yes, Very stone days. So check out Cypress Hill. Small little band back in the 90s and 2000s. You might have heard of them. And thank you so much for spending time with us, Gian Marco. John Marco is now on. Is now on tour giving away bottles of Keante Classico at no tour stops he stops at. And then he's also very funny. You can Google Gian Marco and we'll put links to all of his pertinent details in our show notes. Thank you, Gian Marco. Hope you have a great weekend in Edmonton.

[Gian Marco Sorosi]

Thank you, guys.

[Brian Greene]

Thank you. Take care. You too.

[Christina]

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[Brian Greene]

Loved talking to Gian Marco. He is literally all over the place. He's going to be in a town near you. I just know him. And there you go from the ass crack of Canada. Gian Marcos Sorosi. I hope he enjoyed his day at the indoor mall. I, I swear that I've heard somewhere. Chrissy told me. Chrissy told me. And I haven't verified this fact that they have tunnels from one building to the other. So because it's too cold up there to walk outside, I don't know. But I do have friends who've said that Edmonton is lovely. I just don't know that I can go that far north without. I don't know. I don't like cold plunges so I don't think I'm going to like cold cold weather. But anyway, Gian Marcosaurus his podcast is the downside with Gian Marco Sorosi. His website is gianmarcosaurus.com I will leave a link in the show notes. Also check out his Instagram, his ever popular Instagram. And yeah, if he's close, go see a show. Okay. Chrissy and I will be back back Tuesday with the lovely Wendy McLendon Covey the TCB infomercial airing on Tuesday and then we'll be back with normal episodes next week. Me minus one tooth probably. And Chrissy still hungover from her Widespread Panic concert over the weekend. So we look forward to that. TCBpodcast.com is where you go you find out more information about Chrissy and I. You can read all the show notes, all the links to our guests guest stuff, all our sponsor codes. All of that stuff is on our website and in the show notes. But on the website you can get your free TCB sticker. Go to the website, hit the contact us button, drop down menu. I want my free sticker. Give us your address and then we'll send you a sticker and a special little note. Whatever you want, just name it in the email, whatever it is, name your price and we'll pay it. Just for you to keep listening to this. Just for you to keep listening to the show, Add the commercial break on Instagram Instagram TCB podcast on TikTok. Please dial us up 212-4333 TCB. That's 212-433-3822 questions, comments, concerns? Content? Ideas? If you want to be on the show, just let us know. Text us or leave us a voicemail. I see a lot of you calling but not leaving voicemails and that's highly disappointing to me. I wish you would leave me a funny voicemail so I could play it here on the show. Do it. Go do it. YouTube.com the commercial break for all of our guest interviews, selected interview, selected shows and clips. All right. Wish me luck on my oral surgery. I wish Chrissy luck on her big old festival weekend. Have a nice Memorial Day. Best to you Christian Joy. Holdy wherever you are. Best you in the podcast universe. Until next time, it's me and I'm saying I must say, I will say I do say say goodbye. Sam.