TCB Infomercial: Noel Miller

Summary

The Commercial Break — TCB Infomercial: Noel Miller

Release Date: May 6, 2025
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Guest: Noel Miller

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Episode Overview

This TCB Infomercial episode welcomes comedian, actor, and viral content creator Noel Miller for a lively, wide-ranging conversation blending parenting tales, comedic philosophy, navigating internet fame, and life's unpredictable moments—all served up with sharp, irreverent TCB humor. The chat is charmingly derailed by real life when Noel discovers someone has driven into his garage, prompting an abrupt but good-natured wrap to the interview. Despite the interruption, the gang covers parenting, stand-up, creativity, social media, relationships, and plenty of bits that showcase why TCB is the "Cheesecake Factory of comedy podcasts."

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Major Discussion Points & Segments

1. Ferris Bueller Roll Call Opener & TCB Vibes

Timestamps: 00:00–02:00

• The episode kicks off with a Ferris Bueller-style attendance call, immediately setting a playful, nostalgic tone.
• The hosts introduce the show’s chaotic, unpolished energy and heap praise on guest Noel Miller’s comedic talent and digital reach.
• Quote:

  "He’s got like four and a half million people following him on... social medias, and we have four and a half people following us."
  —Bryan (01:32)

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2. Social Media Woes & "Mewing" Tangent

Timestamps: 02:00–11:00

• Bryan and Chrissy lament the analytics black hole: lots of podcast listeners, but few social media followers.
• Unexpected tangent on "mewing"—a viral tongue posture to chisel your jawline—leads to tongue-tying tests and self-deprecating humor.
• Notable Exchange:

  "Eventually we’re all getting gobblers, guys. The gobblers are coming for everybody."
  —Bryan (05:07)

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3. Parenthood, Standup, and Comedy Meta

Timestamps: 12:13–21:00

• Noel shares newborn parenting realities—“Six months is new”—and the odd changes it provokes in maturity and priorities.
• Jokes about adopting older children and comparisons of raising kids to being a “new head coach.”
• Both dads discuss how parenting builds responsibility and fundamentally alters worldview.
• Notable Quotes:

  "I think I needed a child to accomplish a certain amount of maturity that other people reach on their own."
  —Noel (15:15)
  "The kids are raising me, so to speak."
  —Bryan (14:14)

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4. Scary Parenting Moments & Childhood Health Paranoia

Timestamps: 15:44–20:00

• Bryan recounts his most terrifying dad moment: saving his son from choking on a cherry pit.
• Noel admits to anxious new parent habits, germ paranoia, and keeping “the baby in the dark.”
• The duo joke about daughters and parental karma.
• Notable Quote:

  "We keep him in the dark. We don’t let him outside. So that’s how we avoid danger."
  —Noel (17:50)

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5. Standup, Comedy Process & “Making the Wheel”

Timestamps: 20:30–33:42

• Bryan probes Noel about how becoming a dad impacts his material; Noel shares that it prompts more existential and “meta” thinking.
• Deep dive into the evolution of fatherhood and the effects of capitalism on parenting.
• Discussion on his standup style: a preference for big ideas, tension, and a less sentimental, more meta approach to comedy.
• Quotable Bit:

  "The birthing process surprised me because I was standing in the delivery room and I was thinking, this should smell worse."
  —Noel (22:32)
  “I have a pretty disconnected way of looking at the world. So my material isn’t really like, ‘my kid is special.’ In fact, I would say it’s the opposite... but I love my son.”
  —Noel (20:40)

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6. Career Journey: From Vine to Podcast Network

Timestamps: 25:06–38:56

• Noel recounts his rise from web developer to Vine creator to YouTube star and podcaster.
• Explains how viral success online became the key to club bookings—and how it’s now the comedy industry norm.
• Describes his process as rooted in instinct and a drive to process life's oddities and deep questions onstage, often pushing the line between discomfort and laughter.
• Notable Quote:

  "I was doing standup for a bit and then I got into vine as like... a bargaining chip so a club might want to help me develop. Little did I know that was going to become the model way later."
  —Noel (26:31)

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7. Content Creation Burnout & Personal Focus

Timestamps: 33:42–39:44

• Bryan and Noel commiserate about “jobbing” in content creation—the need for renewal, authenticity, and balancing fresh ideas with audience expectations.
• Noel credits his wife Alina for helping him focus and evolve creatively; she’s both his toughest critic and most encouraging supporter.
• Running a podcast network brings new challenges and motivation; “I feel for the first time in my life… I actually feel like I have direction.”
• Notable Quotes:

  “As a partner, she observes the things that make me feel bad and… go, ‘Hey… this type of work seems to give you the best... you should go that direction.’"
  —Noel (35:05)
  "Big spouse guy."
  —Noel (35:04)

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8. Business Owner Life & Team Management

Timestamps: 39:44–40:24

• Noel describes the new reality of managing a crew of 20 while keeping up a personal brand.
• Bryan jokes about switching email signatures for ego.

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9. Rodeo Clowns, Edibles & Wild Friends

Timestamps: 40:24–44:12

• Hilarious sidebar on a friend’s legendary THC tolerance and the perils (and feats) of extreme cannabis consumption.
• Discussion of polyamory, cucking, and relationship dynamics—all with classic TCB irreverence.
• Quote:

  "Polyamory is French for ‘my marriage is failing.’"
  —Bryan (43:09)

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10. Garage Catastrophe! Real Life Interrupts

Timestamps: 44:12–46:46

• The show is derailed when Noel receives news that someone drove into his garage.
• Throughout, he remains gracious and good-humored, riffing on the incident:

  “You know, they say in life, one garage door gets drove into, another one opens…”
  —Noel (45:27)

• The hosts understand and joke about it being the most original podcast exit to date.

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11. Aftermath & Tease for a Part 2

Timestamps: 47:46–49:56

• Bryan and Chrissy debrief, recapping Noel’s calmness and promising a Part 2 follow-up.
• Reflections on parenting chaos, home ownership disasters, and the inevitability of interruptions.

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12. Bonus Segment: Polyamory on TLC

Timestamps: 51:00–56:53

• TCB returns to riffing on a new TLC poly-family reality show—bemoaning the logistics, emotions, and chaos of multi-partner living.
• More observational comedy and friendly marital banter.
• Quote:

  "Put that down. And then put it in the trash while you’re at it."
  —Bryan, on third-child standards (50:49)

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Noteworthy Quotes

• Noel, on parenting:

  "It’s a very extreme way of growing as a person, being responsible for something that can’t even walk. But it’s been great… it does teach you a lot about yourself." (15:25)

• Noel, on comedy:

  "I have, like, this weird inclination… to pose questions and talk about things onstage that objectively are not funny… and I’m kind of figuring out the tension there… like, what I find interesting about life, figuring out how to make that funny." (32:07)

• Bryan, on content creation burnout:

  "Sometimes it’s a job, right? I’m jobbing. Right. I’m here. Doing it. It’s rinse and repeat… But sometimes it does feel like work." (33:43)

• On the sudden garage mishap:

  "If you plan on hitting a garage door, just go all the way through it. Make it worth it."
  —Noel (46:28)

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Episode Highlights & Memorable Moments

• Meta-vulnerability from Noel on fatherhood and creativity—a blend of stand-up detachment and earnest reflection.
• Recurring TCB motif of life’s chaos: Babies, social media, and literal car crashes in the middle of interviews.
• The “Ferris Bueller” cold open and ongoing school/marriage/mascot analogies.
• Noel’s anti-sentimental, existential comedy approach—birthing room “should smell worse” punchline.
• Unexpected TLC polyamory commentary and Bryan’s rant on garbage-dwelling children.
• Strong chemistry among hosts and guest, even as real life intervenes.

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• Ferris Bueller Opening: 00:00–01:00
• Mewing, Aging, Jawlines: 03:40–08:25
• Parenting Philosophy: 12:13–15:22
• Scary Baby Moments: 15:44–17:56
• Standup & How Fatherhood Shapes Material: 20:39–22:42
• Vine/YouTube/Podcast Backstory: 25:06–28:29
• Personal Motivation & Wife as Creative Guide: 35:02–36:26
• Managing Network, Staying Creative: 38:05–39:44
• Garage-Hit Interruption: 44:12–46:46
• TLC Polyamory Riff: 51:00–56:53

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The Vibe and Why Listen

This episode captures the loose, improv-heavy authenticity that defines TCB: it’s rambling, witty, personal, and sometimes unhinged, feeling like you dropped in on a group of old friends. Noel Miller brings understated, “meta”-smart humor, sharing both career insights and personal takes on life’s absurdities. Even disaster (his garage) is fodder for jokes. Listen if you like your comedy with a side of real life, unpredictable as ever.

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For More on Noel Miller

• Tour dates: noelmillerlive.com
• Podcasts: Tiny Meat Gang, solo podcast
• YouTube & socials: Search “Noel Miller”

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Closing Note

Stay tuned for Part 2 with Noel Miller—if Bryan and Chrissy can avoid any more household emergencies.
“Here’s to Noel Miller and his garage!” (55:57)

Transcript

[Noel Miller]

Adams.

[Brian Green]

Here.

[Noel Miller]

Adam Lee.

[Chrissy]

Here.

[Brian Green]

Adamowski.

[Noel Miller]

Adamson.

[Chrissy]

Here.

[Brian Green]

Adler.

[Chrissy]

Here.

[Brian Green]

Anderson. Anderson. Here. Bueller. Bueller. Bueller, Bueller.

[Chrissy]

Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid is going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

[Brian Green]

Thank you, Simone.

[Chrissy]

No problem whatsoever.

[Brian Green]

Bueller. Bueller. Bueller. On this episode of the Commercial Break. So what do you do when you go out on tour? How is the, like the wife or the kid? I mean, how's that part of it? It's good.

[Noel Miller]

Sorry, I'm just getting a text now that I guess someone hit our garage.

[Brian Green]

Oh, someone hit your garage with a car?

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. Let's see, let's see. What the. Damn.

[Brian Green]

Noel, if you need to go we can like, we can call you back and wrap another time.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, wait, just give me like, just give me like two minutes.

[Brian Green]

Take your time.

[Noel Miller]

I'll beat him up. I'll be right back.

[Brian Green]

Okay, sounds good. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh yeah. Cows and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris. Enjoy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris Best, you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. It's a TCB infomercial Tuesday with Mr. Noel Miller. Actor, comedian, director, viral video superstar, podcaster, podcast network owner, Everything, he does it all. He's a man of many talents and content creator I think is probably the best way to lay it down. And he's going to be joining us here in just a few minutes. He's really funny. I've been digging into Noel Miller's long, long list of content creations and I got to say he's like naturally funny. You know, he's like one of those guys who just has his natural way about him that's funny. He's very laid back. I think you're going to like Noel Miller if you are not aware of him but probably many of you are because he is four and a half million people following him on the collective social medias and we have four and a half people following us on our. I think one of them is a bot, but I keep them on there because I don't want to bring that count down by 25%. Oh man. We have been talking about this and talking about this and talking about this for years on this show. How we can have X amount of People listening to the commercial break every single day and month and every episode that we put out and then only have X amount of people following us. I think it has to do with the fact that we just put out clips of the show. And I think people are kind of.

[Chrissy]

Like, we're going to have to take the. Bite the bullet.

[Brian Green]

We're going to have to bite the bullet. Yeah. Maybe we can get some tips from Noel because he seems to be good at getting out there and doing it, but he's really creative. He does like parody music, you know, all kind of stuff. So we'll talk to Noel about that. Noelmiller live.com I believe is where you can go buy tickets to his upcoming tour. He's got like 20 cities on there. I think if you live in a place, he will be near that place. So go to your. Go on the map and find your place and then find a place that's close there. That's right. So we'll talk to him in just a couple of minutes. But I wanted to know if you had heard about the brand new sensation that's rocking the Internet right now, Chrissy Mewing. Do you know what a mewing is?

[Chrissy]

Mewing. I've heard of mewing as like a supercomputer.

[Brian Green]

And if. Mew, mew. Not meow, meow, meow, meow, mewing. Not a supercomputer.

[Chrissy]

Mewing is with. Is when you do this.

[Brian Green]

That's right. When you. When with your tongue.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's a thing you do with your tongue and rest it on the back of your. And then you get your cheekbones and you like, raise your head. Yeah. To chisel and make you look like more like a duck than you already look like.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So Astrid, text me the other day because you got talking about mewing on the show because it's like, really hip and cool and all the kids are talking about it and I'm like, what the fuck is mewing? I had heard it. Do you remember that girl who, like, fell in love with Morgan Whelan because Morgan whelan's mom started DMing her.

[Chrissy]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Brian Green]

And it turned out, go figure. In the least surprising thing that's happened in 2025, Morgan Whelan's mom was not DMing her, but she gave Morgan Whelan's mom $18,000 worth of gold dot gift cards. She was talking about mewing. And I thought it had something to do with like puckering your lips and making your chin stand out or something.

[Chrissy]

You were close.

[Brian Green]

But there was A chiropractor that. I watched a video, and the chiropractor was explaining that mewing really is a thing, and it really can, in some people, improve the jawline, the turkey neck, and the general structure of your. The bottom half of your face. And Chrissy and I were talking about this. Eventually we're all getting gobblers, guys. The gobblers are coming for everybody. No matter how skinny you are, no matter how many fit you are, you're getting a gobbler. And a gobbler is that little turkey thing that hangs down on your neck. It's coming. People try and avoid it. They do all kind of things to get out of it. The plastic surgery, I think, is one of the things that can kind of take care of it.

[Chrissy]

It does, but.

[Brian Green]

So I'm watching this video on mewing at Starbucks, and then I look around, and there's like, you know, I don't know, 50 people at the Starbucks. And so as I'm watching this video on mewing, and the chiropractor is explaining that he can you. He can tell when people are mewing just based on their posture and the way that they hold their mouth when they're not talking.

[Noel Miller]

And I.

[Brian Green]

And he was giving example. Here's what I see when I see people who are mewing as. As a thing. And here's what I see who. People who have not mewed and are a little bit older, and they get that turkey. Yeah, they're not mewing. Anti mewing and mewing. No mew. Mew plus. Right. Okay. All right. So I start looking around, and I'm like, let me see if this guy's onto something here. Let me see if I can figure it out. And no shit, Chrissy. Four or five tables have older folks, some of them maybe at their advanced ages, 60, 70 years old. Gobblers, face slouching down, you know, holding their mouth. Breathers, right? Mirrors, face up, chin up, sturdy jawline. I saw one guy, you could crack walnuts on that jaw. His jaw was so fucking chiseled, you could see every muscle rippling in his jaw. And I thought to myself, I don't want a blow job from that guy because he's got teeth that are strong. But you could tell.

[Chrissy]

I think it does kind of mess up your teeth, though, is what I read.

[Brian Green]

So the chiropractor was saying that some people do not have the physical natural structure to mew because you have to hold your tongue. Right. Like he explained it. Open your mouth, take your tongue, stick it to the top Stick it to right where your teeth meet the top of your mouth. If your jaw moves when you do that, you are tongue tied. The official term for it, tongue tied. That means your tongue is tied to your bottom of your mouth. And the only way to fix it is getting laser surgery. I can do it without moving my jaw. Can you do it without moving your jaw? Open your mouth. Stick your tongue at the top of your mouth. Yeah, you did it without moving your jaw.

[Chrissy]

Okay, so I'm a mewer.

[Brian Green]

You can mew.

[Chrissy]

I can mew.

[Brian Green]

You can mew now. But you have to do this all the time. Every time your mouth is closed and you're resting, you have to stick your tongue right there. And if your tongue overlaps your teeth when you do that, if your tongue is bigger than your teeth, than the circle, you know, the semicircle of your mouth, you're out. You can't do mewing, because if you do mewing, you can cause yourself a whole litany of health problems, according to the chiropractor. Mine fits snugly in there, so I can mew. So here's my promise to the commercial break and to our budding Instagram account with almost 7,000 people. And then we got Noel Miller. He's got 80 million people on there. I'm going to mute for a month. I'm going to mute, and we're going to see if it changes the physical.

[Chrissy]

Structure of my take a before and after shot.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I'm taking lots of before and after. You know that. Speaking of before and after, when Astrid and I first got together, I felt like I could probably lose a few pounds. So I took a couple of screenshots. I took a couple shots in the mirror of myself, you know, in underwear, just so I could before and after it, as was the trend back then. Okay, fast forward, couple years later, and iPhone now has this thing where you can make your screensaver a picture.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And it can rotate in your photo album. So I do this neat little trick. Cause now I got children, and I figure, hey, listen, I have a couple happy photographs of my children. When I open up my phone, 7,000 times a day might make me a little less stressed. Well, one day that photo that. Those photos popped up, and Astrid was like, who the fuck are you sending those photos to? And I'm like, fat Brian. Who am I sending Fat Brian photos to? I go, no, I swear to God, I took these, like, right when we first started dating.

[Chrissy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Look at the timestamp. There is no timestamp. Anyway, I'll take some before and afters. We'll mew it out and we'll see. We'll mew, I'll mew, I'll see if it does anything. And we'll all be the judge. We'll all decide. When Brian mewed, did it change the facial structure? Did it change his facial structure? Most people don't like looking at my face, but for this we're gonna. I'm gonna ask you just to dart your eyes over once. You know, a lot of people say that they watch for Chrissy. You can dart your eyes over once or twice for this one. All right, Mr. Noel Miller, we're super excited about this one. Like I said, viral sensation started on vine, went over to YouTube. He's got the Tiny Meat Gang. He's got a podcast network, he's got his own podcast, he's got his own YouTube channel. He's got. I mean, the guy is a content creator and he's got a web of content out there. And a lot of it is very funny, some of it very offbeat and, you know, kind of. I think the sensibilities of the sense of humor are very much the same. He just happens to be funny when he does his. And, uh, we are desperately grasping at straws, so hopefully we'll get a few laughs. I'm excited from Noel and so let's do this. Why don't we take a break and then through the magic of telepodcasting when we get back, Mr. Noel Miller. Do you or don't you agree, Chrissy?

[Chrissy]

I agree. And I'm sprinkling the magic dust.

[Brian Green]

Chrissy is sprinkling the magic Miller dust all over the studio. We will be back after this. 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 212-433-3822. Feel free to call and yell all you want. Tell Brian I need a raise. 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 gotta go now. I've got a date with my dog. No, seriously, Axel needs food. Today is pork chop day.

[Brian Green]

And Noel's here with us now. Thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it.

[Chrissy]

Hello.

[Noel Miller]

Hello.

[Brian Green]

How are you sleeping?

[Noel Miller]

I am sleeping.

[Brian Green]

Okay. Noel's a brand new dad, so. I mean, brand new, but new. New.

[Noel Miller]

Six months is new.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's new.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

You're about to do children.

[Noel Miller]

I didn't ask.

[Chrissy]

I do not have. No, I have two stepchildren, but they were already past the six month stage.

[Brian Green]

Hey, they were past the 18 stage.

[Chrissy]

They were 7 and 10. They were 7 and 10.

[Brian Green]

That's fair enough. Fair enough.

[Noel Miller]

Listen, for a long time I entertained adopting because, you know, at that point they're past, you know, you could get them.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah.

[Noel Miller]

At 10.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

Yes, exactly.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

You know, you can get like. It's like adopting a dog. You get them. Not that children are dogs, but you get them when they learn how to, you know, pee and poop, piss and shit. Can I say that?

[Brian Green]

Of course you can. Whatever the hell you want. Exactly. Explicit warning on every episode.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

They're formed, they're hatched. They're not little. They're not little Chiclets. They're hatched. They know how to do it. But you know, the old adage is small children, small problems, big children, big problems.

[Noel Miller]

Yes, of course, of course.

[Brian Green]

So she has two girls that she adopts by marriage and into puberty, which has gotta be a nightmare.

[Noel Miller]

I think that's great. Cause Chrissy has just shown up to the franchise as a new head coach. You know, she's a stepdad.

[Brian Green]

That's true. You know, listen, listen, I took it.

[Chrissy]

All on, including the exact.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, she's the consultant new head coach. She's here to clean up the organization.

[Chrissy]

Yep, that's right.

[Noel Miller]

You know, get their star players on track.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, she's more like the mascot. Like the zany mascot that you can't.

[Chrissy]

Get rid of or the martini.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, with a martini. The Xanax. That's right.

[Noel Miller]

Hey, I'm your cool wine mom. Head coach.

[Chrissy]

How's that exactly? Of a cool aunt and a cool stepmom.

[Brian Green]

It takes all kinds and sweet. Being parent is like. I'm sure it had to have changed Everything. Because it did for me. Like, I found that not only am I raising the kids, the kids are raising me, so to speak.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

If I had had kids. I often say this. If I had kids in my 20s, like, when most of my friends had had their kids, I. They would have not. Bet those kids would have not been with me. Defects. Would have had them for sure. For sure. Yeah, sure, for sure. But they raised me like I got, you know, I got a little more sober, I got a little more pragmatic, I got a little more level headed. Uh, oh, I can't live paycheck to paycheck anymore. So often I gotta try and do. That's good.

[Chrissy]

Let's start a podcast.

[Brian Green]

Let's start a podcast. Because that's where all the money's at.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Did you feel that way when you had your kid? Did it, like, did you have that same kind of awakening that I did? Just, holy shit, it's not just about me anymore.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, every day, you know, every day I'm like, wow, I could be out playing billiards right now, but I'm here with you, buddy. No, I. No, it's definitely changed everything. I think it gave me. It is a funny thing. Like, I think I needed a child to accomplish a certain amount of maturity that other people reach on their own.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

You know, and I'm with you on that.

[Brian Green]

That's a good way to do that.

[Noel Miller]

It's a very extreme way of growing as a person, being responsible for something that can't even walk. But it's been great. Like, I do, I love every minute of it. Even the tough moments so far. Cause, yeah, it just, it does teach you a lot about yourself.

[Brian Green]

Okay, so let me ask you. Scariest moment so far with your child. Like, let me give you an example. So I remember at least so far with my children. Scariest moment, hands down, was the time my son walked out of the closet with a pit, a cherry pit in his throat that he couldn't get out. But he was already discolored when he walked out of the closet. Like he had already been in the closet choking. And we didn't know because we were standing. It was in the pantry, so we didn't.

[Noel Miller]

Wow.

[Brian Green]

So I will never forget that moment when I talk about it now. Still makes me want to, like, cry. Like a fear cry. Like, oh, my God, I almost just lost my child. That was the scariest moment. Luckily, brain kicked in, told me, remember to remember the basics, do the thing, and it all worked out. But what Any. Any like, holy shit. Moments with your kids so far?

[Noel Miller]

Sorry, I'm just like, just thinking about that moment and.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

But I mean, you could sell that scene to any, like, horror film producer, you know, I mean, what a. Would have. Like, I'm just imagining the creepy.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

And then here comes this blue baby.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Just waddling out of the pantry and he's like. And that's what he's doing. That's exactly him. And then what if your hands are tied behind your back or something? You can't do anything about it. You just got to sit. Well, that's a little.

[Noel Miller]

Anyway, I think, you know, we haven't had any of those yet. I'm also a freak, so, you know, I conjure up some of those fears. Like, you know, oh, my hand went near the trash can and then I just touched his hand. Now is he, you know, munching on whatever and, you know, it's. I freak myself out often, so, you know, I'm. Hopefully won't experience any of that just yet.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

We do have the Heimlich tools.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Noel Miller]

You know, we. We got the. The pump and all that. So. God forbid.

[Brian Green]

That's. Yeah, that's it.

[Noel Miller]

But no, no scary. No super scary moments as of yet. He's. He's very chill. We keep him in the dark. We don't let him outside. So that's how we avoid danger.

[Brian Green]

That's what I do with my daughters. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I do with my daughters.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You want a real joke? Have daughters, have beautiful d. That's when God says, I'm getting back at all. I'm getting you back for everything. Everything has a way of coming back around. And now you're going to have to watch Brian Greene show up to your front door and take your daughter out on a date. And I'm going to go in the basement. Locked in the basement.

[Noel Miller]

I see. I see.

[Brian Green]

That's how it rolls. And is he crawling yet?

[Noel Miller]

He. His mind is definitely ahead of his body. So, yeah, also, it's like the biggest part of his body, but physically, no. But I mean, statistically, his brain, his head is bigger. The rest of his body is to catch it to his head. But he is crawling already. He's six months and that kid, he already understands how to, like, use his body to get over the top of the crib. He's. Yeah, he's. He's like a little. He's like a little toy, almost like you just put him on his back and he flips over and he Gets going. He put him on his back again. He floats over again. So he will be running, I think, sooner than most. He already tries to walk.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man, this is such a great time. These are the moments. These are the moments. We just take, Take mental images because these are the moments. Now my youngest is too, and when I see young kids, like six months, five months, you know, nine months old, I go for like a brief second, I go, oh, I miss that. I wish I could have that one more time. And then I smack myself from the inside and what the fuck are you thinking? I don't have another goddamn kid. No more kids. No more fucking dogs.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You guys have pets around the house?

[Noel Miller]

We do. We got a. We got a little mixed breed Chihuahua.

[Brian Green]

He's.

[Noel Miller]

You know, he wasn't. He's like a chiweenie.

[Chrissy]

We think my parents had one.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

So cute.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah, he's adorable little guy. He, you know, the baby showed up and baby's getting a lot of attention.

[Brian Green]

So.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, he wasn't too stoked about that, but he's. He's coming around.

[Brian Green]

It'll be okay. Yeah, the small dogs, they have a problem with it. I got a Yorkie and it took. It took a good three or four months, but once that some. Some thing kicked in, like this shit, this thing ain't going away. I better play nice with it. The only reason that Yorkie is still around the house is because it's very. She's very good with the children. Like, she protects them, she plays with them. They pull her ears and drag her around by the tail. Yeah, she eats their crackers. But this is giving you. I'm sure this is giving you. We were just talking before you came on. This is giving you a bunch of, like, breathing new life into material that then you can use on. On stage. This is.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah, definitely. I talk about being a father, um, and. But I don't. I mean, my. My kid is so brand new, but I think I kind of a. I have a pretty disconnected way of looking at the world. So my material isn't really like, my kid is special. In fact, I would say it's the opposite. But. And make no mistake, I love my. I love my son.

[Brian Green]

I'm with you.

[Noel Miller]

I think I don't speak about being a father maybe the same way others would, because being a father just makes me think very meta about, like, how, you know, humans came to be what they are. And, you know, I think about, like, the evolution of what a father is and weirdly, like, makes me think of like, certain books I've read and how there's this, like, opinion that some people have about how fatherhood changed as, like, I guess this is like a really deep thing. But, like, as capitalism grew.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

And fathers began to work more and more. What took place of, like, fatherhood and where people get their sort of adult messaging from. And there are people who say, like, in a weird way, there are certain adolescents where the messaging maybe from fathers, where it's like, do your best and this and that started to be less from their father and be more in the form of, like, posters in a school. You know, and like, sort of those phrases being echoed by teachers and other adults and sometimes positive, sometimes negative. But yeah. So it makes me think about that stuff. So by the time I get down to, like, granted, the set is not this meta.

[Brian Green]

Right.

[Noel Miller]

You know, by the time I get to writing, like, I think one of my favorite bits right now is.

[Brian Green]

The.

[Noel Miller]

Birthing process surprised me because I was standing in the delivery room and I was thinking, this should smell worse.

[Chrissy]

That's something to consider.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know, I gotta tell you, Noel, this is what you just said. I think I wanna just, like, step back just for one second. I think I agree with you about something about fatherhood. I don't look at my children in a way that some people really feel, like, very singular about their children and their children are they almost like the world was blessed because they had children and now here the kingdom comes. And I look at it more like, this is evolution, baby. Right. Like, this is evolution, baby. And I look at these things a little less precious, I guess. I mean, my children are precious, don't get me wrong. And I think they're precious, and I love them, and in my eyes, they're precious. But I also understand this is just a. A cog in the wheel. And here we go. And I got to make. Do my best to kind of put the guardrails and get them through their childhood. But the. Also, the one thing that you just said that that was weird is I also thought the exact same thing.

[Chrissy]

Smell.

[Brian Green]

Yes. During my wife's natural birth, she had a natural birth that was rough. So then she had two C sections. And in all three occasions, I thought, where are the smells that should come with opening up a body like this? Where are the th. Where. I'm just not getting that. Thankfully, I'm not getting that. I thought we. I had a mask on. I thought we would all go in like, Silence of the Lambs and put some weird stuff under our nose. Like some Menthol under our nose. It didn't happen, but I didn't smell anything either.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, I had no mask. I was raw. I was just sitting there holding a leg.

[Chrissy]

Holding a leg.

[Brian Green]

You were holding the legs. Oh, you were right in there, huh?

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, I was in there. I was. I was participating in the bird.

[Brian Green]

Good for you.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah, in there, baby.

[Brian Green]

The doctor asked me, she said, do you want to take a look? And I looked in my wife's eyes and Astrid's eyes. She almost begged me through those eyeballs not to do that. But curiosity killed the cat. And I looked and I thought, wow. I mean, I knew what to look for. I had seen birthing videos before. I knew what I would see, but I didn't really. Wasn't really prepared for it. But it. Listen, it was beautiful. It's birth. That's it. It's all natural. Yeah. What else you're gonna do you enjoy on the road? So you know, those who don't know Noel, we have talked about him in the intro here, but you're really kind of like a. You started on vine, right?

[Noel Miller]

I did, yes.

[Brian Green]

I started Twitter.

[Chrissy]

I love Vine.

[Brian Green]

Video platform.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, I joined vine pretty late. Basically, I got into vine because simultaneously I was working as a web developer, just like, you know, writing code for weird web apps and stuff.

[Brian Green]

Code monkey.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah. And one of my co workers, he was longtime stand up comedian and he just kind of said like, hey, you have like a stand up comics vibe. Have you ever thought about doing stand up? I said, yeah, you know, but I don't even know how to get started in that. And he goes, well, why don't you come see me at a show? Fast forward. The show is actually an open mic and he kind of. He threw me off a cliff. So he was just like, he just threw me off and.

[Brian Green]

What a friend.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was, honestly, it was a great way to.

[Brian Green]

It's the best thing that ever happened to you.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Break me into it. So I was doing stand up for a bit and then I got into vine as like. My thought was there's always popular people on vine. And I thought, oh, maybe if I gain a following online, maybe I can start to get around. Because in LA it's just impossible to get stage time. So I thought like, maybe this could be a bargaining chips that a club, like might want to help me develop. Whether it's like, all right, you know, come do the show and you'll get five minutes on the show or you.

[Brian Green]

Get a seven minute set, a Little leverage. You figured if you have a community of people that enjoy your comedy online, then you have some leverage inside the clubs.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. And I legitimately was thinking, like, okay, if I have x many thousand followers, maybe that gets me an extra 10 tickets sold, and then that's incentive for the club, you know, whatever. And little did I know that that was going to become the model way later.

[Rachel]

Right.

[Brian Green]

That's what I'm just thinking this while you're saying it. It's like, this is early. And now every comedian who comes in the door, experienced or not, selling stadiums or small clubs, says the same thing. You. It's the videos first, right? It's the.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah. And so I. I kind of gained a following there. And then fast forward, I end up getting on YouTube. YouTube starts to work really well for me. That kind of leads me into the world of podcasting and all. While this is all developing, I'm touring podcasts live. And in that way, I was kind of like, still doing standup to these crowds. And then Covid happened, and obviously that slowed things down. Um, but then that kind of fired me up to really get back to stand up. Because I did stand up for about two or three years. The timeline's always so gray. I can't remember if it's two or three, but. But this was all before the Internet stuff, like, kind of blew up. So then when the Internet work I was doing, like, really took off. That. That really took my focus. But I always wanted to get back to stand up. And so when. When Covid ended, or I would say 2021, you know. Cause Covid never started for some people. Jesus Christ. But so in 2021, I was like, back on the road and fully doing standup again. And so I've been just doing it for the last four years. And it's the thing I love above everything. It's the thing that just makes me the most excited. I just. I like. I love writing. Love writing ideas and sharing them.

[Brian Green]

You're. I mean, and you're like, I don't know you that well. Right. And yeah, yeah, obviously. And I'm admittedly, like, have not followed your career since the beginning.

[Noel Miller]

No, no.

[Brian Green]

See, the vibe that I get is that your personality and your comedy just comes from, like, this instinctual place. I think there are comedians who are observant and then they go and they write it down, and then they work it out and they knock it out. It's like a practice for them. Right. But from observing you, it feels like this just comes from, like, an instinctual place, like a place that you've always had. You just naturally find humor in places.

[Noel Miller]

I appreciate that, man. Yeah, yeah, It's a gift.

[Brian Green]

Right? But then to actually go and do it is another thing altogether.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Is it. Is it that feedback that feels good to you? Is it like that? I can riff on the energy that's in the room and feel that.

[Noel Miller]

That, yes. Because my mother did not love me. And so it's nice to get acceptance from others. No. Join club. Yeah, No, I think, like, and it's funny because it's evolved over time. And I think first getting back into standup, a lot of my approach was, oh, maybe people will find this funny, or maybe people feel this way and they're kind of really, maybe eccentric ideas. And then it evolved into me, I think, just trying to give a window into how I grew up. And then from there I think I put out a second hour called Death is fomo. And that was more about just things I was seeing and things I thought were funny just a bit more generally. And then, yeah, this set that I'm working on is like kind of a nice hybrid of the two where I think it feels personal to me, but it's still. Yes. Sort of these like. Yeah, I guess instinct based things. Because you're right. I think not much of my stand up is sort of. I'll give an example of like, this is. I think I would maybe put this in the vein of like Larry David. And this is something that genuinely pisses me off. There's a parking structure that is connected to, like a place where me and my wife and my son will, like, who go eat and hang out. Okay. And you go in there and they give you the ticket. You park and then you leave and they. They charge you a dollar. And then after they charge you the dollar, they make you keep the parking ticket. And this, like, fucking infuriates me. It fucking pisses me off so much. And every time, like, it just makes me irate. And I guess the only way I could, like, equate this in my mind, I was like, imagine like going to the red light district and you go get a hand job from a lady and then she pulls the condom off. She's like, all right, take that with you. Congratulations. You know, now I'm just walking around with my fucking used condom. I'm like, oh, parking structure. I'm like, fuck you. You know, but. And I was. So I think that's more like, you know, maybe traditional stand up. Like, I don't say formula but like, that's maybe like a more traditional, like, stand up observation. Sure, yeah. And yeah, I think my natural inclination are, like, in my last hour, I would actually just terrorize audiences. Like, we'd have a lot of fun for the first 30 minutes. And then I would come around to this part of the set where I'd be pointing at people and they're like hammered on Friday at 11:30. And I'd be going, are you afraid to die, man? And then they're going, yeah, kind of.

[Brian Green]

Of course.

[Noel Miller]

I'm like, this guy's a pussy. And I would wonder why I'm bombing. But yeah.

[Brian Green]

All right.

[Noel Miller]

But yeah, so I think, like, I have, like this weird, like, inclination to, I don't know, like, pose questions and talk about things on stage that I think objectively are not funny. Yeah. And I'm kind of figuring out how you figure out the tension there. Like where. What I find interesting, I guess maybe about life, figuring out how to make that funny. I think I enjoy that part. Like, I think I enjoy when the room is kind of like, ugh.

[Brian Green]

And also laughing.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Giggling going on.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. And I kind of like living in that world a little bit. Yeah. So, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Ari Surfere we had on it, he said that going to a comedy show sometimes is like a high wire act for the audience. They don't want to sit in the middle, want to sit in the front because they're afraid of who's going to point at them and say something. But I think that that's why Great. In my opinion, that's why live comedy is so great, because it is a high wire act and you're doing this dance. You know, it's like this balance between offending and opening minds, between observing and just shitting the bed. I mean, and it's like the comic who's really doing the high wire act. But when the audience gets involved, it can get really, really gnarly. Do you still enjoy. Do you still enjoy the video aspect of it? Do you still enjoy going out there content creating or. I know, I just want to, like, admit this. Like, sometimes it's a. It's a job. Right. I'm jobbing. Right. I'm here.

[Noel Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Doing it. It's rinse and repeat. I always find that sitting with my friend is fun, but sometimes it does feel like work. Yeah. How do you feel about content creating so many years later after having been on the online for a long time? Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

I've actually, you know, it's funny, I was reflecting on this the Other day. I've been putting out just like, I guess, media since. For almost like 11 years now. So. Wow. I think. Yeah. I think the way I've tried to, I guess, like, keep it fresh. And it's something that people who know me and have watched me for a while, like, they don't criticize me for it, but they always make a point to say, like, Noel, you're always doing something new. And it's like, almost a pain in the ass to keep up, you know?

[Brian Green]

And it's.

[Noel Miller]

I'm not doing anything like genre bending or whatever. I just kind of like to mix it up. But, yeah, I think now I finally. Because when I was younger, I was really kind of, you know, like, undiagnosed and all over the place and, like, making way too many kinds of things. And right now, I think I'm actually the most excited about what I'm doing. Cause I feel for the first time in my life, you know, credit to my son. Like, I actually feel like I have direction. And big credit to my wife, too. She's put up with my shenanigans for.

[Brian Green]

Amen. Amen to the wives.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that Spouses, really.

[Noel Miller]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Amen.

[Noel Miller]

Big spouse guy. Yeah. My wife, Alina, she's been really great as just an instrumental in helping me kind of, like, zone in on things. Because as a partner, she observes the things that make me feel bad and make me feel good. And she's always helpful as, like, a voice of reason to go, like, hey, you know, I notice of all the work you do, like, this type of work seems to give you the best. And I notice you're the best when doing this, and I think you should go that direction. And she helps turn my neck because I think sometimes when you're focused on the performance aspect of it, you're just thinking about all these kind of dumb little nuances that really don't matter and you miss the point sometimes. So, yeah, I think.

[Brian Green]

Isn't that the best. Isn't that the best thing in the world to have a partner who will guide you softly, gently, sometimes firmly, to your best self? And as a content creator, it's so hard to see the forest through the trees sometimes. Yeah, you do get stuck. There's something wrong with this. It doesn't matter about the sound, but it goes on for five minutes and it should be too, right? And it's like, okay, all right, got it. Or you're. Do. You guys are your best when you're talking about this. And yeah, my wife does this to Me all the time, too. And sometimes I get a little bit upset because I feel like. Like I'm being criticized. But then if I step back for a minute, I always take a breath and I go, thank God she's here.

[Chrissy]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

To tell me to yell in the void. Like to say something in the void and not afraid to say something. Yeah. Your wife's name's Alina Elena.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

She. She. Yeah, she is definitely not softball sometimes and. But I've always, like, I've always trusted that aspect of her. Like, yeah. Creative opinions and stuff. And I've always appreciated that about her is from day one. I mean, she used to sit and watch me do open mics, and when I'd bomb, I'd get off stage and I get in the car and I try to make myself feel better. And she'd go, I don't think anything you said made sense up there. Like, she would be very like, I guess basically being like, you should have bombed what you just said up there was wildly stupid. Or like, you took a.

[Brian Green]

On the floor, Noel. Yeah, it just didn't work out. Yeah, we need somebody like that in our lives. Yes. I think, I mean, oh, there's nothing.

[Noel Miller]

There's nothing that feels worse than doing stand up and then getting in the car with your then girlfriend. And she goes, you embarrassed me.

[Brian Green]

Oh, geez.

[Noel Miller]

Not like that. She's not like, mean like that, but like, the message I'm getting is like, oh, you. You don't want to be in this car right now because I'm a moron, you know, Like. Yeah, but it's always been from the position of like, you know, to help me get better and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's always, always, always believed in me. Always.

[Brian Green]

And you feel like that, that kind of. That focus and that direction and your ability to play out your ideas keeps you. You fresh. Like, hey, I want to wake up in the morning. I want to do this. I have an idea. I want to create it, I want to get it done.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. Definitely not every day is like that. I wish absolutely every day was like, pure creativity. But yeah, now is like a weirdly the most busy I've ever been, but the most motivated I've ever been because now I run a podcast network and that takes a lot of just time and things to think through. And we got a pretty sizable crew. I mean, we got like 20 people that work for the company. Um, so splitting that with, like, some of the work that I'm doing on my YouTube channel does get tough at times. But I think I'm, I'm managing it super well and obviously I'm in a lot of different places, but yeah, I think right now I feel the most creative I've been because I've kind of given my YouTube channel, like a big overhaul. I started like a new solo podcast late last year that's called.

[Brian Green]

Which is great.

[Noel Miller]

A lot.

[Brian Green]

It's good.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. Oh, thanks.

[Brian Green]

Thank you. Welcome. Do you run that podcast network, like day to Day? Are you the day to day operations guy?

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

The business. Wow.

[Noel Miller]

Essentially, yeah. Like, you know, business owner, CEO is like, I think you got to have like 150 employees.

[Brian Green]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's the great thing about having less than 20, you know, 20 employees or less is that you just get to change. You get to put whatever title you want suits the particular email. So, you know, if I'm writing someone and I'm like executive producer, CEO, manager, co host, creator. Yeah, I just change names all the time.

[Chrissy]

Chrissy.

[Brian Green]

Assistant to Chrissy. That's right.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah, I, I'm waiting to get more staff before I claim that title. Also, you know, I, I don't need my employees gunning for the back of my head.

[Brian Green]

Oh, that's true.

[Noel Miller]

Jk, jk, jk, jk. I don't sell insurance, but yeah, I, Yeah, so I, I have. I mean, within the organization, there are people that do more nuanced day to day work. And, you know, I'm not in the weeds on everything. But as far as like guiding where we're going, what our next steps are. Oh, yeah. Like I'm. I'm definitely managing that stuff very directly. Like, that's exciting day to day. It is, yeah, it's very exciting. It's very challenging at times too, because there are days I wake up and I'm like, I just want to focus on like stupid observations about the world and get high when my son goes to sleep, but no such luck.

[Brian Green]

Can I ask you a question while you're talking about getting high? I saw one of your videos and there was a guy on, and I wish I could remember his name. He talked about taking a 2000 milligram edible. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[Noel Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Tyler Walshing. Tyler Walsh. That's it. He talked about taking a 2,000 milligram edible.

[Chrissy]

Like my five grams.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Go for 10, 15, maybe 20. Like, that's insanity.

[Noel Miller]

You should talk to my buddy Tyler. He is one of the most interesting guys I've ever met.

[Brian Green]

Tell him to call me I'll have him on the show. I want to talk to him about that. That's insane.

[Noel Miller]

I don't want to tell his story because he's, like, a super interesting guy, but he grew up in, like, rural Iowa, and he got into, like, rodeo clowning, and then that led him. Yeah, yeah. And that led him to stand up. Yeah. And he's a very physically imposing guy when he needs to be like, he. He's a big sweetheart. But when I met him, I think he was, like, six, three, you know, I don't know, 280. Just big boy. And he would.

[Brian Green]

He.

[Noel Miller]

He's just. He is that classic American build. He is built different. That Guy can do 2000 milligram edibles. Like, he could. You know, he could take an entire pack of joints and probably take them to the face and. Wow.

[Chrissy]

Some people can do that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Noel Miller]

He jokes that. He jokes that he has the tolerance, the mental specialness, we'll put it that way. To participate in one of those. Those competitions where you leave your hand on a car, he's like, I think I have the required focus to do that and win the car. So, yeah, he. He's such a interesting dude. A guy who, like, I don't know, he just feels like he's always been in these really quirky life scenarios, and he's just observing, and he's just there for the ride. And I always take inspiration from that.

[Brian Green]

We always know, you know, we have a friend like this, too. He's like the Forrest Gump of our friends. Right. He finds himself in the craziest situations, high on the most incredible amounts of narcotics, and he's always standing straight up for some reason, and he finds a friend in any situation. This guy could be dropped in the middle of the Ukraine, and I think that he would find the shrooms and the weed and there'd be a drum circle going on. By the end of it, he's just that guy. I don't know what to expect. I don't know how to explain it any better. He's got a different view on life, and he pulls everybody into it and then. But his tolerance is incredible. I mean. Yeah, Incredible the amount of me. No, not me. I drink a beer and a 5 milligram, and I will go. I want to be at home watching some TLC show about polyamory or some like that.

[Noel Miller]

Trying to sell your wife on it. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Well, listen, polyamory is French for my marriage is failing. Just saying. That's good. Just saying. Good. It's. Yeah, it's That's a tough one. Listen, I'm not. It's not that I. We know people who have been in open marriages and like, seriously done the do so they. Dating other people, screwing other people. But inevitably, inevitably, humanity is humanity and your ability to overlook the fact that someone else is pounding your significant. Your significant other. There's something about that. It twitches the back of your. I don't know, it's something. There's like a little trigger in the back of your head and it goes crazy at some point.

[Noel Miller]

Makes you want to watch.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's. Cucking is a whole different animal. I think those people are also built differently, you know, they also have weird mental fortitudes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure. So what do you do when you go out on tour? How is the. Like, the wife and the kid? I mean, how's that part of it? It's good.

[Noel Miller]

Sorry, I'm just getting a text now that I guess someone hit our garage.

[Brian Green]

Oh, someone hit your garage with a car?

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. Let's see. Let's see what the damage.

[Brian Green]

No, if you need to go, we can, like. We can call you back and write some other time.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah. Wait, just give me, like. Just give me, like, two minutes.

[Brian Green]

Take your time. I almost beat him up.

[Noel Miller]

I'll be right back.

[Brian Green]

Okay, Sounds good. Put this down as the oddest way an interview has ever ended on the commercial break. Noel, in fact, had someone hit his garage. As you'll hear in just a second, everyone is okay. It's just damage to the garage door. But life stops for no podcast and no podcast interview. TCB is not excluded from that. So here's how the rest of the conversation went down. When he got by the way, Noel was extraordinarily gracious, calm, and seemingly not stressed out during any of this. Take a listen, and then Chrissy and I will be back to wrap this all up. And NOEL MILLER, Part 2 Coming to your ears. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

[Noel Miller]

Is it.

[Brian Green]

Is everything okay?

[Noel Miller]

What a way to just completely derail a conversation. I.

[Brian Green]

Are you okay?

[Noel Miller]

Everyone's okay. You know, they say in life, yeah. One garage door gets drove into another, another one opens. Yeah. You know, your garage door gets driven into.

[Brian Green]

You get.

[Noel Miller]

Another door to your office opens.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Noel Miller]

And your wife is standing there with a baby going, what do we do? Yeah, what do we do? Unfortunately, I think I gotta jump.

[Brian Green]

Absolutely, you gotta jump. Listen, we'll. We'll finish the last half of this. Don't worry about it.

[Noel Miller]

This is okay. I'M so sorry. This is.

[Chrissy]

It's okay. We hope everything.

[Brian Green]

We'll email. Yeah, go take.

[Noel Miller]

What a great dry run. What a. What a great way to test our chemistry.

[Brian Green]

Listen, we got 30 minutes of good chemistry. We'll do another 30 minutes another time.

[Noel Miller]

I'm so sorry. So weird.

[Brian Green]

Please, please. It happens.

[Noel Miller]

Go in there. My, my. Yeah, my car's good. Hey, listen, if you're listening to this, folks, just advice. Hitting garage doors is not cheap. So you know.

[Brian Green]

Someone else, I would.

[Noel Miller]

Say if you plan on hitting a garage door, just go all the way through it. Make it worth it.

[Brian Green]

Did they just dent it?

[Noel Miller]

Yes. It's pretty bad. We're gonna be okay. Sorry, guys.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, well, thank you.

[Noel Miller]

Sorry. We'll chat soon. It's very nice to meet you guys.

[Brian Green]

All right.

[Noel Miller]

All right. See ya.

[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 at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on [e-mail] the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid. Especially Astrid.

[Brian Green]

Well, in all the different ways people have gotten out of interviews with a commercial break, I'll have to say that wasn't original.

[Chrissy]

That was.

[Brian Green]

No, no shit.

[Chrissy]

Spontaneous.

[Brian Green]

I did notice right toward the end of the interview, I did notice that Noel's focus just went completely away. Like, Noel. If you watch this on video, Noel was completely attentive during the entirety of. Of the 30 minutes that we were talking to him. And then for like, the last minute, he got, like, super unfocused. And I thought for a second, oh.

[Chrissy]

This is CEO stuff.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I thought.

[Chrissy]

That's what I thought.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I thought, yeah, okay, he's managing all this stuff. Or I thought, okay, this is a sign that maybe we need to move on from this particular part of the conversation. You know, you can tell when someone gets a little disinterested, but that was not it. At all. He actually was looking at his phone and he just interrupted the conversation, was like, guys, I. Someone just hit my garage. I think so you. I mean if you are listening, then you heard most of it. But okay, so we'll get back to Noel Miller a different time. Hopefully he'll agree to come back on and do a few more minutes with us. But I really enjoyed my conversation with him and he can be [e-mail] you can go and check all the dates out that he's going to be. Gonna be here in Atlanta on the 22nd of November. Christy. Maybe we'll go see him Center Stage Theater, which is not a. Not a typical comedy joint. It's a little bit bigger than most comedy places. Smaller than like State Farm or something like that. But that would be a good place to see live comedy. I think that's a round table kind of room. I would enjoy that and go check out all. I'll put links in the show notes. There's too much content to name here. I'll go put links in the show notes. Tiny Meat Gang. He's got his own channels on YouTube. Tiny meat gangs still around and doing it. And some of the interviews that he has are just fascinating. Like we were talking about before we got interrupted, somebody had a 2000 milligram gummy. And that story is really funny. I will not tell it here. Hopefully we'll get that guy on the show, but what else is there to say? His garage got hit by a car. What are you going to do when your house gets damaged and you're a house owner, you get very nervous and.

[Chrissy]

You'Ve got a baby and a wife saying, hey, can you come take care of this help?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I think if our. We don't have a garage, but if we had a garage or if the house was hit by a car, yeah, it would be grounds for immediate dismissal of any episode of the commercial break, no matter who was on. And while you're here with the esteemed commercial break, I do understand the interruption and I certainly accept that he had to go at that moment. There was no other choice. Nothing else to do. Noel had to go take care of his baby. Six months old. He's in the thick of it. He's handling it pretty well. Like he. He seems to be pretty Zen. Zen about the whole thing. But when I had my first at six months old, it was absolutely nerve wrackingly chaotic. And I had no idea just how more. How much more chaotic it could get just with one. I know. And Then by the time the third, and he was saying, like, you know, I get nervous about, like, touching the garbage can and then touching my kid and all that. By the third one, they're eating dog shit. And you're like, put that down. And then put it in the trash while you're at it. You're like, can you clean that up and put it in the trash while you're at it?

[Chrissy]

By the third.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you get it. You understand? You're like, okay, that's it.

[Chrissy]

And now you're on your 15th, and.

[Brian Green]

Now I'm on my 15th, so I really don't care. The 15th gets no attention. That 4:15 gets no attention. Speaking of, real quick, since we have a few extra minutes here, you and I had both watched that first episode. Maybe now the second episode is out. That poly family on tlc, well, it.

[Chrissy]

Popped up and I was like, I might as well go ahead and start watching it because Brian's gonna watch it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. TLC never fails to amaze me. A year ago, some listeners will remember that we reviewed a very small, brief video that was put out by a poly family. Unlike most poly families that have children involved. Like, it's two couples that are married and they're living together, and they have children from each marriage have brought it in. Two children from one of the marriages brought them into the household, and now they live as one very weird Brady Bunch like situation. And. But the spouses aren't dead. They're very much alive, and they're living with them and screwing them and all this other stuff. It's a really strange setup, I gotta be honest about it. I mean, I don't want to cast judgment.

[Chrissy]

No, no, no, it's not for us. We've talked about it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's not for us.

[Chrissy]

But do we enjoy watching other people.

[Brian Green]

Absolutely crash into the poly. Am I into poly porn? Yes, I am. And I don't mean porn like pornographic. I mean, like, watching, you know, getting an insight into what it's like to live this lifestyle is really already fascinating. Just one episode in because it's clear it's not working out. They are having trouble. The husbands are bickering at each other. They don't like each other one bit. One husband is having better sex or more sex than the other husband with the one wife, and the other one's having more sex with the other wife.

[Chrissy]

There's a baby involved, but they don't even know who the dad is.

[Brian Green]

They don't want to know who the dad is.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Chrissy]

And things get interesting. It looks like later in the season I saw something about the one. The one who just had the baby, now likes a girl outside of their. Their clothes.

[Brian Green]

Oh, really? So there's a fifth coming into the mix. Or she's asking, or she wants, or she has.

[Chrissy]

Looks like there's interest.

[Brian Green]

Unbelievable. This is not the way to live, in my opinion, you. It is hard enough to have one fucking spouse. It is difficult to navigate the intricacies of human relationships. It really is. Anybody who's been in one, which is everybody, knows that sometimes other human beings around you, they're just kind of shit. It's like a shitty situation. Like, you just. You. You're in a bad mood, they're in a bad mood. Everyone's. You know, we're having less sex now. We're having more sex. Then it's like this whole diddly dance you do. And to walk that high wire takes a lot of patience and love and care and concern, none of which I have a whole bunch of. And then you put in another one. And her husband. Fuck that, dude. Fuck that. You and Jeff were living here, I'd be like, no, one of you's gotta go, or both of you gotta go. That's it. Can you imagine?

[Chrissy]

I'm laughing about Jeff living here.

[Brian Green]

Jeff would not live here. Jeff wouldn't live here. I'm sorry. I know Jeff had children, but he loves.

[Chrissy]

Loves everyone in this house.

[Brian Green]

I know he does. I'm not. And listen, this is not. I'm not casting dispersions on Jeff, but if I was Jeff at Jeff's age, and my two girls had already flew the coop and long since been out of diapers and toys and all that and already been through puberty and dating and first kisses and all that shit, I would be like, thank God that part of my life is behind me. And now everything in my life has a place. I went over to Chrissy's house the other day before the Pearl Jam concert, as we discussed, and the records were organized categorically.

[Chrissy]

Yes. Alphabetically.

[Brian Green]

Alphabetically. Categorically in a category. Alphabetically.

[Chrissy]

Alphabetically.

[Brian Green]

I have records, and they are in beds, they are in closets, they are in refrigerators. I think there's. One of my Pearl Jam records is in the freezer right now. Those kids have destroyed everything. But there is a certain amount of acceptance that comes with it, that the chaos is coming along with it. And that's just the way it fucking is. And you're gonna have to deal with it for now. But I live on the hope and the Dream that someday I get over that hump and everything calms the fuck down. Until then I'm just, I just throw my hands in the air.

[Chrissy]

Yeah, you're just part of the, part of the process.

[Brian Green]

You know what I try and keep neat, Chrissy. This five square feet of the house.

[Chrissy]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

This five square feet. The five square feet with the microphone.

[Chrissy]

You're doing it.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy]

You're doing a good job.

[Brian Green]

Thank you. Thank you very much. I am always doing the best I can, but I believe that's most people. Most people are doing the best they can with the information they have at the time. And if you're not, you're just a shithead. So anyway. All right, well, here's to Noel Miller in his garage.

[Chrissy]

I. I can't wait for the follow up because I really would like to know what happens.

[Brian Green]

I hope we get to follow up. I think we will. I think Noel will be back and hopefully it doesn't take too long. Yeah. Yeah, that was, that was weird. But life happens, you know. What are you gonna do? People drive into your garage, Roll with the punches. People do drive into garages. I have driven into a garage. I have built houses where people or contractors have driven into the garage. And when it happens, it's a big nightmare because it's. The garage is a complicated piece of machinery that hasn't evolved in 200 fucking years. It's the same thing. Track door, motor things hanging down from the roof of your garage. It's a whole complicated endeavor. And there's only one thing you can do. Call the garage guy and get a new garage door. It's not like when you run into a garage door, you can just fix it. That must be a good business.

[Chrissy]

I bet it is.

[Noel Miller]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because you don't fix a broken garage door. No, you get a new one. Unless it's the motor and you got replace the motor. But if you bend a piece of the garage, like the actual door, you're getting a new garage. That's it. A new garage. Garage and roofs. And if I have another roof guy stop by my house to tell me I can get a new roof for no money. It's like door to door vacuum sales cleaners. The 2025 version of that. Are the roof guys who promise you they can get you a new roof through your insurance company. Fuck you, I'm eating. Don't come to my front door. Who knocks on a front door anymore? And then one guy stood there for like 10 minutes, swear to God he did. Really kept ringing the doorbell. He knew Someone was in there. And you know my. Yeah, and you know my kids. The second they hear the doorbell, they all go running to the door. They don't open it. They just want to see what's out there. So we can't hide. Sometimes we scream at the kids when someone knocks on the door. Stop what you're doing. Go anywhere. All right. All the links to Noel's information is in the show notes. Go check them out. I'm sure you already have. He's got so many followers. You probably know who this guy is, but really funny, really nice. And we'll follow up with him just as soon as we can. 212-4333 TCB 212-433-3822 questions? Comments, concerns, content, Ideas? If you're listening to us on Apple, do us a favor. Go and rate us at the commercial break on Instagram YouTube.com the commercial break for all the episodes soon as they are here on the audio feed. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for today, I think. So tell you that I love you.

[Chrissy]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you invest you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say we do say and we must say goodbye. Sam. Sa.