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Noel Miller
Sorry, I'm just getting a text now that I guess someone hit our garage.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Oh, someone hit your garage with a car.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Let's see, let's see what the damage.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
No, if you need to go we can like, we can call you back and write another time.
Noel Miller
Just give me like two minutes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Take your time.
Noel Miller
I'm gonna beat em up. I'll be right back.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay, Sounds good.
Noel Miller
On this episode of the commercial break.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And these people are doing it down in the villages. There's all kind of crazy shit happening down there.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
They're definitely doing psychedelics.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Definitely. They're doing a lot of mushrooms, a lot of weed. And coke apparently is a thing too.
Noel Miller
So it must be, you know because when you think about when you're younger and you take multiple substances it takes a certain amount of focus.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Noel Miller
Like manage that mind state. I mean they must be living multiple days in a single night.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
High. And then they take Cialis and do a little. Yeah, something else.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Little toot.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
They must almost wake up feeling like am I dead?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I might be.
Noel Miller
The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Oh yeah. Cats and kittens.
Brian Green
Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Co host of this show Chrissy Joy Hoadley.
Brian Green
Best to you Chrissy.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Best to you Brian.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Best you out there.
Brian Green
In the podcast universe, aliens is appropriate.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
As we bring on the very popular and extraordinarily twisted minded Noel Miller. He is incredibly popular online personality. He's been doing YouTube and all the socials for I don't know, 10, 11 years. We'll get into it with him. This is our second time with Noel. You will recall or those sharp eared listeners will recall that Noel couldn't finish his last interview because some lady drove into his garage.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
While we're doing the interview While we were doing the interview, he's like, I what? His wife was running up and saying, you know, this just happened. And he's like, apparently somebody just hit our house.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's right.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Can we reschedule this?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Absolutely. So we got like 25, 30 minutes into the interview. It had to be cut short, obviously, you know, he had other things to it. Intent to. I wanted to say no, we got another 30 minutes. What are you doing? But he's kind enough and nice enough to reschedule. And so here we are, part due with Noel Miller. Noel is an online, like, as mentioned, an online personality who has a smorgasbord of creativity out there on the Internet. The Tiny Meat Gang. The Tiny Meat Gang podcast. Noel's own podcast. I don't think the Tiny Meeking. I don't know if they're around anymore. But anyway, you can go read about it if that's what you choose to do.
Brian Green
Um, but we're linking everything down in the show notes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
His YouTube channel, his podcast, his podcast network, his Instagram and his TikTok and his Live performances, which is, I believe, what he is focusing on right now. That's right. He's on the road. He's got a lot of performances coming up, so he likely is coming to a place near you. Please go get tickets@noelmillerlive.com Again, all of the links are in the show notes. I don't want to delay on this one, Chrissy, because I would like to get into it with Noel and. And enjoy, spread our wings a little bit and talk about some stuff, maybe even get a giggle or two out of him. What do you think?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, let's do it.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay, so short intro so that we can get to Noel.
Brian Green
Do you understand what I'm saying to.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You, Kristen Joy Hoadley.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I'm on board.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay, let's do this. Let's take a break. And through the magic of telepodcasting, Noel Miller will again join us for the conclusion of our interview that got interrupted by. By some crazy old person who drove into his garage door.
Brian Green
Does that sound good to you?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That sounds good.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay, I was just waiting for your permission.
Brian Green
All right, Chrissy gave us.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I'm just thinking about the door being backed into you.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Me too. Yeah, we'll see if it was backed into. Who knew? All right, we'll be back with Noel.
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Noel Miller
We're really doing this, huh?
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Noel Miller
Goodbye, truck.
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Brian Green
And Noelle is here for part two.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Chrissy, thank you very much. Noel, where were we? Where were we?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I know. I was trying to think about what we talked about.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Noel.
Noel Miller
It took me this long to pick up all the pieces from my garage being driven into.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's crazy. I was telling Brian. I think we will never have that happen again.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that's a once in a lifetime.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Talking to somebody while somebody hits their house.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah, no, that was. I hope to never have that again. I hope that was a one of one.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I've backed into my own garage. I've never had anybody back into my garage. Did she just back into your garage or did a person back into your garage? If you can't tell, if you can't give all the details, that's okay. But I don't know. I don't know if there's litigation or carrying.
Noel Miller
No, no, there's no litigation.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay, that's good.
Noel Miller
Yes. She went nose first into the garage.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Oh, wow.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah. Yeah.
Noel Miller
I think she thought she Was in reverse.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh, classic mistake.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Was she. Was she apologetic?
Noel Miller
Of course.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Very scary.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Or did she come out and say, where did that. Why'd you put that fucking garage in my way?
Noel Miller
No, no, she was. She stood there. She was really shaken up. She apologized profusely.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
But now the new garage door is probably three times as heavy, so it definitely won't happen again.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You steered away from the aluminum door. Yeah. Give me something real.
Noel Miller
Well, we use the car parts from, like, 1950s Chryslers. So you're actually going to fold the front half.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Are you. Are you a car guy? Are you into cars?
Noel Miller
Yeah. I mean, you know. Yes. I would say these days I'm more casual, but. Yeah, like in my college days and I found a Honda, I'd work on it when I could and whatever little crummy parts I could afford.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, you'd soup up your Honda.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah, yeah. In quotes.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I had. As best you could, I had a Honda Accord.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I did not quote, unquote, soup it up. I got into a car accident after. Directly after I paid it off, and it took off a good chunk of the front half of the car. Basically. I drove it around another two years. I would.
Noel Miller
Nice.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
But you couldn't see it from one side. When I would go, like, pick somebody up for a date, I just park on the other. Like, I'd park facing the other way and see it. Yeah, I was. I wasn't good with cars, so that was it. But, yeah. Listen, congratulations on a new car, new garage, and your growing baby, who is nine months old now. You just told us. And so you are in the thick of it. How are you sleeping? How is the family doing? How was, like, the tempo of the house? I'm always interested with new, New age parents. Yeah.
Noel Miller
No, I mean, it's.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's good.
Noel Miller
He's actually a really good sleeper.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Not fuck you lately.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
I think he's starting to get his teeth, though, so that's been waking him up.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that's a time.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Right now he kind of pops up at like, midnight for a short cry. And 6am is when he's, like, really feeling it.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's when he gets up and. And starts running around. Do you co. Sleep or is he sleeping on his own?
Noel Miller
He sleeps on his own. I mean, we kind of split it. Like, we, you know, it's kind of like whatever we can convince him to do.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Noel Miller
But at night he'll sleep in his crib. No problem to just kind of rock away and then Just pass out. We're lucky, though, you know, We've had plenty of nights where he just goes for a full 10 or 12. Just conked.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, they do that on occasion because I think they just zip themselves up so much. And just like us, you know, we sleep well. Sometimes you, like, lay down and all of a sudden you wake back up. You wake up in the morning and you're like, wow, I got that night of sleep I'm looking for. Even though it's more or less and less these, but it seems like you're doing everything right. Can you come over and teach my children? Can you come over and teach my children?
Tour Manager / Friend
Because.
Noel Miller
Yeah, you know. You know, we're. We're early. We're early phases. You know, who knows what he'll be like in a year?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that's. That's true. So you're now doing more live shows. You just mentioned to us, right before the interview that you're getting. You're doing more theater shows. How many do you have in front of you? What are you looking at? What's the run? I.
Noel Miller
God, I'm doing at least like, two or three every weekend.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Whoa.
Noel Miller
All of September, October, so. Something like that.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Two or three every weekend in September and in October.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
And then I have a few in November, so.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Nice.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You know, you've been so incredibly popular on the Internet. You've really built a brand, a couple brands. Right. So you've got. I mean, you've done all right for yourself.
Noel Miller
Yeah, it's been good.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's been good to you. But the live show is a whole different animal. Now, I know you've been doing this for a while, but the live show is a whole different animal. It's a whole. It's a different creature, it's a different beast. And I think where we left off, because I looked at this last night, was you. Do you enjoy the art of the stage, or do you enjoy sitting down, thinking up a skit or a bit or breaking down videos or whatever it is you're doing online? Which one scratches that itch for you more or just different ways?
Noel Miller
No, definitely stand up. I think stand up has always been my first love. I've just. I've never. Not never. But I think I wish I could commit more time to it than I could. But the problem with me is I like to do a lot of things.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
But, yeah, no, I think stand up and performing live is where I. I think that's where I'm at my best, you know, making videos online. Like, it's fun, and it. It's something I think that comes mostly natural, but I think live is where I'm the most natural.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
You get that interaction element.
Noel Miller
It's that. But also kind of like, the pressure of a lot of people being. I. That's why I think I do a lot, is because I just function well under pressure. So I like to cook my mind and be as stressed out as possible.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
A lot of people are like that.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I'm like, yeah, seems to be the.
Noel Miller
Best version of me.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah. Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
There's something about anxiety that I think that anxiety, that stress, but it's not in a. It doesn't tear me up. Like, I've seen it tear up other people. It motivates me. And when my mind is in a corner, I fight out of the corner. Right. And I like that challenge.
Tour Manager / Friend
It.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It makes me feel. I don't know. It's almost like I have a purpose. Like, okay, here we go.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Makes you feel alive.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
I need a goal, but, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Performing live is my favorite thing to do.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And when you're up on these. When you're up on stage and you're doing these theater shows, do you. I'd like to ask this of anybody who does stand up. Do you read the crowd and move in the direction that the crowd is going? Like, I know from night to night, place to place. Some crowds may interact with some material different than they interact with other material. Right. It just might be a hot crowd that loves everything you're doing, everything gets a laugh. And then other crowds, you might need to work up a little bit. Right?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Do you play with that energy?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
It's interesting. I think, as I've. You know, I've been very fortunate to just, like, keep logging time on stage and just go to different places. And I think now, more or less, I have a vibe of what the city is. So sometimes I just use that to give myself, like, halfway expectations, because you never know.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Sure.
Noel Miller
Like, you can. It's always. It's always variable. So.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
But to answer your question, I definitely try to tailor what the crowd is feeling. You know, like, if. If they kind of want a lot of material, kind of dial up the tempo and try to give more. If the crowd is maybe a bit more chilled out, like, sometimes you get that, you know, go to a place like Denver, and sometimes they're all just, like, baked out of their mind.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, exactly.
Noel Miller
It's just a bit more chill.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And you kind of got a.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Roll it.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
You're just kind of rolling with it and just letting the. Letting the material cook a little bit, so. But, yeah, definitely. I think that's part of what makes it fun is when you can connect with a lot of people at the same time.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Where is your. Where is your favorite place to. Where's the. Where's the Noel Miller crowd? Like, where is it? Like, oh, my God, I can't wait to go play this show.
Noel Miller
I mean, I. I love playing Midwest. I have so much fun in the Midwest, really. Time.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
We've heard that from other people.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, we've heard that from other people also. They say that the Midwest. It's not only. There's a Midwest vibe. Right. It's very friendly, but they're. It's a working. It's working class. A lot of it. And so when they. When they're out having fun, they're out having fun.
Noel Miller
They're not bad.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's like Miami, where they're partying for a living.
Tour Manager / Friend
Right.
Noel Miller
There's that. And then also, you know, the Midwest, I love them. Sometimes you can bully them, too, because depending where you go, they have sort of cultural niceties baked in.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Noel Miller
So they, you know, they might hate what you're saying, but they might think it's rude if they don't laugh. You can kind of with them a little bit. My humor skews a bit darker, and sometimes I like poking fun at that.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
You don't laugh. You're going to hell. And you know that. You better enjoy this right here. Some of that religious repression is fun to lean on.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I can see that. I can see that. Yeah. They still like to go to their church. Sunday's church day, and so is the south, but the South, I think there's just a different vibe in some places in the south, anyway.
Noel Miller
South, I think over the years, I've learned South has the same. It's like when the alcohols in, they're turned up. But if they're just sitting and listening, I find I could say maybe the most, you know, just like, by my definition. Right. I could say something that's, like, really awful as far as, like, a concept or, like, what's funny to me? And they'll sit there and go. They just take it in.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And no pushback. And they're like, all right. You know, that's how you feel.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's like they're being polite.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Polite to your incredibly twisted mind.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
I market myself. It's not that crazy. Especially this new set. I think it's. I found it to be very relatable up and down the board. You know, I've had, I was just in Milwaukee and that was a great experience because I think that was my most, I think widespread audience where I had people with X's on their hands that were like 18 and then I had like 50 year old cornbread dudes, like big burly boys.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And then big guys with their wives. And my stuff I've been working on lately, like everyone was connecting with it and so I don't, I think some of my earlier shows, there's a bit more of those like kind of stale, awkward moments where I say something really up and I just look at the room and smile. You think that's funny, right?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You're with me on this, right?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
People are like, I don't know if I should agree with you.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
I realized like some of my material was a lot like, I describe it like, I don't know, just like taking a picture of like a dead body and like holding it to a person and be like, isn't that hilarious? Not really like that at all.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, but they're, they, they don't know what to do because they're like, am I, yeah, am I supposed to laugh at this or does he actually think that's funny? Because if he does, he's probably more dangerous than we might have.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
So, ye know, I think this new stuff I'm working on and not. And I, I say that like, you know, anyone who maybe enjoys me on stage because I, I tend to be darker. It's not lighter by any means. There's definitely some, there, there's definitely some strains in there where I force the laughter.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You haven't turned into Jeff Foxworthy.
Noel Miller
No, no, no, no. If I was doing, you know, I'd be doing arenas, you know, I'd be, I'd be retiring next year.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that's true. Well, so it's, it's interesting because there are, there's variations in comedy of what people find funny. I tend to, I tend to go to the darker places also. I find when you push the envelope and maybe you recognize that pain can be funny or darkness can be funny, that there's some comfort in that for me. But there's also a twistedness that I enjoy. Like my mind can go there and be okay with laughing at it, but then there's lots of comedians. We just had a conversation with a guy named Dusty Slay.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And, but I know of him.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And Dusty's done very well for himself along with Nate and All these other guys who have done very well for themselves, really keeping a very broad and safe kind of comedy. And you know, we ask him like, hey, is that a choice, you know, or it's just your brand of humor. Is it a choice to keep it wide open, you know, to bring more people to the front door? And he said it's kind of both. It's like it's not, doesn't come natural to me to go to those places. Right. And so that's cool. And he says, and you know, I do enjoy the fact that you can bring your grandpa to my show and it's okay that that happens.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I would imagine that your audiences tend to, you said, hey, I got people in there with 18 and X's on their hands. And then I got the 50 year olds that are the big, you know, big boys, you know, like down home, down Southern boys. I would imagine your audiences tend to skew a little bit younger. Like seeing a 50 or 60 year old in your audience might be like, oh, okay, I'm getting some new, I'm getting, I'm reaching new people.
Noel Miller
Definitely, definitely. I think the audiences are starting to. I first started, you know, you know, I do five shows at a club and all five were just die hard fans and you know, probably, you know, 18 to 23.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah. Ish.
Noel Miller
And then these days it's, it's much more broad and our audience is just grown up. So it's kind of nice because, you know, now they're all, I don't know, I'd say like 23 to 29. Somewhere in their 30s.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And then, yeah, I get way more like random walk ups and just older people. And I kind of like when it's like, I kind of prefer when it's a big mix like that because then I get to use these strangers as a litmus test because you know, the people that have known me for a while, they trust what I'm saying. And so I could say, I don't know, some dark or whatever and they know that I'm just fucking around. And so when I get strangers learning how to kind of like get them on my side and see what I see, I think that challenges, I prefer it sometimes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Very interesting way of looking at. But the other thing about like the audience is growing up with you. Right. It's not unlike a musician starts off young and then, you know, hey, my material changes over the years and I think about different things. And the audience who's known you that whole time, like you said, they, they trust you. They know you're funny, and they. And they can go with you to those dark places because that's where they've been with you before. But then you gain this new audience, maybe older folks or people who haven't been there, you know, you. I think that's really exciting. Like, that's probably the exciting part. Hey, I am reaching new people. I'm still growing as an artist, and I've got new people coming in the door. I have an opportunity to get them on my side.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
You know, and, and, or, you know, you get like a group of random 30 dudes on a bachelor party. You get like, you know, just random, random groups in there. But I think what ends up being fun is then in those moments when someone maybe is hating it, then I get to look at my audience and, like, the people that have known me for a while, and I get to kind of like, wink and go, yeah, yeah, we know.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, we know what he's up to.
Noel Miller
So I always feel like I got backup so I can terrorize people.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Are you on tour with other people, too? Do you have some openers?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
You know, I got. I got friends that open up for me. Just, like, they live in different spots, and lately I've been working with, like, local guys and just trying to give some younger dudes a shout.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Nice.
Noel Miller
Put them on a little bit. And. Yeah, so it's kind of all across the board.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
But I got a lot of. Got a lot of guys that I got working the rotation.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Look at you. You're becoming a mentor of sorts.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I know.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Younger generation.
Noel Miller
I still, honestly, I still feel young and stand up, I think all in. Maybe I'm at, like seven, maybe eight years, depending where you put the start point. And I feel like you got to do a lot more time, like, really, really mentor. But, yeah, no, it's. It's cool that I at least have the ability to kind of look at somebody and say, hey, I think you're doing good stuff. And, yeah, just put them on a little bit.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's cool.
Brian Green
I think.
Tour Manager / Friend
Age.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, yeah, of course. You know the old saying, 10,000 hours, right? 10,000 reps. That's when someone becomes an expert at what they do. 10,000 reps is someone wrote a book about it. But, you know, at the same time, you've been entertaining people for a long time in some form or another, for most of, if not all of your adult life. Right. And.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And so you have the experience, you have the 10, 000 hours of making people smile. At your work or at least thought, you know, think they're creatively. You've put it out there.
Noel Miller
Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty crazy when I think about it. I think I'm coming up on like 11 years.
Tour Manager / Friend
Jeez.
Noel Miller
Yeah, it's wild.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It is wild. And it's, it. And you've had such a, a phenomenal run. I mean, by any stretch of the imagination in the age of new media. Right. In the age of the Internet, in the age of new media and YouTube and Instagram, tick tock, all this other stuff. You have been one who has not only had success, but it's not a one off success. It's not a. I managed to grow my Instagram to, you know, half a million people or whatever. It's that you've built brands, you've built companies, you've branched off. That's, that's mogulesque. Right. It's like you think about things differently, but you should, you should really applaud yourself or at least recognize that that's not something everybody does. You know, there are a lot of personalities on the Internet. Not all of them know what to do with it. Right.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
No, thank you, man. It's, yeah, it's something that I struggle to acknowledge within myself.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
But yeah, I take, you know, many endeavors and.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
I mean, these days I like, you know, I, you know, I have my podcast network, so I'm running that a lot of the time. And then, you know, I've, I've, the past year I've been back on YouTube just trying to figure out what I kind of want to be making there. And I think I've started to find like, kind of the, the new direction I want to go. That kind of came way with like, I started a, like a dystopian commentary podcast called the Company Lot.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And from that I've kind of, yeah. Birthed like, like a new inspiration for YouTube. And then.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Just working stand up, you know, in between all that and then, you know, trying to be a dad and it's.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It'S like, yeah, what else can you fit in there?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I know, I know.
Noel Miller
Placard has been the most like, intense.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You know, period of period of my life.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I mean, listen, running a podcast network in and of itself.
Tour Manager / Friend
Right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And I know because I, I worked for one at a high level and, and it consumed a good chunk of my day. That's not easy. And then all of these other things, what did you, what is the, what do you find is the new inspiration for your YouTube, just kind of this like, commentary on.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Culture sort of.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
I think I would say for a majority of my career, you know, I've, I've just kind of been just like a. I don't know, like, like a dude just like talks shit.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Fucks around.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Not that I'm trying to be more serious, but I think off camera, like with friends and stuff, I, I tend to naturally just joke more about, I don't know, just like trending news. And it's not too dissimilar from what I was doing before, but I think I was always kind of afraid to make that jump to just talking about like trending things on my own.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And so I, I've kind of forced myself to do that and it's, it's worked out well and people are supportive and they, they seem to like what I'm bringing to the table there. So I don't, I don't think I'm fully at where I want to be with that. But you know, I'm like easing your way into it. Hammering.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah. Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
When you say trending news, are you specifically talking about state of the type stuff?
Noel Miller
Not, not always. Like, I think actually sometimes I take a weird interest in stuff that's like actually kind of boring.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And fair enough, so do we.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
There's like this whole. So you might have seen it. There are all these posts about this lawsuit with Ozempic and how they're going through like, like the creators of Ozempic are going through like a two billion dollar lawsuit.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
People are just kind of like saying that. That on Tick Tock and they're just regurgitating that.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And the numbers completely made up and it's like a total mischaracterization of something that's actually happening.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And I think like when you look at things like that, it, there's like funny or things to read between the lines on. Like, people are just more excited to tell anyone who's skinny that their eyeballs might fall out.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Right.
Noel Miller
You know, and, and it's funny like when you, to me, when you look at the last two years of people talking about Ozempic, I'm gonna take a risk here, but a lot of like fitness guys have taken Ozempic correct as like for content and, and to just, you know, spread awareness. But what's really funny is they talk about Ozempic the same way people talk about a racist. Like they're like, well, you know. Yeah, it's got these negative qualities, but you have to look at, like, what it came through, you know, and like, the larger problem is obesity. So it's like, it's not the racist fault, it's that. It's the structure.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's where it came from. Right.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
So I think it's like these. Sometimes I take interest in these really, like, nuanced things that when you bring it up, there's so much context ahead of it where you, like, lose people in. But, yeah, so I think I'm just, like, figuring out how I can talk about these things that are otherwise pretty uninteresting to a lot of people and.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Put a new spin on it and make it interesting, like, from the mind of Noel Miller. I think that. I like that. Yeah, I like that it's not dissimilar to the. You know, just to, like, relate it to what we do for a long time in like 850 episodes in. But for a long time, we kind of made it a point not to talk about things that were timely or topical. Number one, like, you know, you're. You don't know how that's going to come across when you spark on something that can be controversial.
Tour Manager / Friend
Right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's not to stay away from controversy. It's just like, also, it spoils really easily in the can. Like, you can leave it there for two days and all of a sudden it's not news anymore and you're talking about something old. But then I think satire is so much easier than hitting stuff nose on. Like, I'm not the Daily show, right. I'm not going to be the Daily Show. But an example that you just gave, we were talking about the lawsuit against the tequila company that's going on right now, claiming that the tequila agave is not, not, not the agave. Right. There's no agave in the tequila. And people are not at the level.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That they're saying it.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And I. I use that as a platform to spin the angle that everyone's trying to get everyone one over on everybody, and that just seems permissible. That's the way we do business these days. And then also, does anyone that's drinking Jose Cuervo even fucking care how much a guy is in their tequila? I mean, why are people so angry about that? They seem just fine drinking their margaritas regardless, right?
Noel Miller
So, yeah, no, I. That's what's kept me from being an alcoholic is that I just don't trust the agave, the ingredients, man.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, people die drinking that. Remember those people in Mexico were dying, were dying because they were drinking like the, the bottles of liquor inside of the resorts. Do you remember that?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Noel Miller
That's awesome.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Congratulations to you.
Noel Miller
Yeah. New timeshare is available. I don't know.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, Buy now.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
The unit on the bottom floor by the beach is opened up.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I'm just thinking of the time I went to the Hard Rock resort in Dominican Republic and they did have those bottles of liquor in the room. You just like press the button and out would come the liquor.
Noel Miller
That's crazy.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
How glad I am that I wasn't drinking alcohol at that time.
Noel Miller
The Hard Rock brand is the modern conquistador. I mean, that brand is everywhere. It you want to talk about American imperialism, it's the Hard Rock Cafe. That thing could. I think the only places left, I think they have everywhere. I think they're in all 180 countries.
Tour Manager / Friend
That's it.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
They are everywhere. They're here in Atlanta. Atlanta's thinking about. Has always been thinking about whether or not they open up a gambling zone like they have in New Orleans. Like a 10 squat square mile area where that you can put casinos to get in on, you know, the, the. The cast crippling addiction that's going around the United States of America.
Noel Miller
Might as well add another one.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's right. So, yeah, Hard Rock, in their infinite wisdom and business acumen, bought some of the most expensive property in downtown Atlanta to build a hotel with a big empty lot next to it, just in case. And it just.
Noel Miller
Nice.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, it just shows. You're right. It's about Imperial. It's about taking over. Right.
Noel Miller
Where can we be?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Where can we get it? Where can we take one over on people?
Noel Miller
I just think it's hilarious because you could, you could go to like rural Phuket, get in Thailand.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Noel Miller
And it's all hostels, but you'll round a corner, 72 palm tree superstructures and they. And they're there, you know, that's it.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's wild. They are everywhere.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
They are everywhere. Woody's. You ever had an interaction with somebody, like when you go out on these live shows, you're doing material that's edgy or dark, you know, edgy to some people. Or dark or whatever it is. You ever have interactions that are. Or not pleasant? Ever had any wild interactions out there?
Noel Miller
Oh, yeah. You know, people just, you know, following me to my hotel, hiding in my closet. What? Wake up in the middle of the night to my neck? Oh, yeah, dude.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
What? Yeah, a blade to the neck.
Noel Miller
That's why as a comedian you have to do Navy SEALs training.
Tour Manager / Friend
There's a special.
Noel Miller
I'm opening a special school for comedians. It's actually. We mimic buds. We mimic the beginning stages of a seal's journey. And I mean, we do it all, you know, like, we do the whole like, hoorah. Where you put 20 comedians on the beach in a tent and you wake them up with bombs, Biggest loser style.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
It's all hecklers and armed with real ammunition. We're doing real Alec Balding, you know, so. So, you know. Yeah. Have I said jokes and have people try to slice my throne in the middle of the night? Yeah, but I'm equipped for things like that.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Okay, good.
Noel Miller
I've studied counterterrorism techniques.
Tour Manager / Friend
I.
Noel Miller
Yeah, with a 3D printed gun, you know, I can assemble it. It's like the Golden Gun from goldeneye. I can just, you know, I pull out a pencil, a lighter and a small flashlight and, you know. Yeah, so, yeah, no, I mean, I've had. I've had some weird interactions. I had a. I had a guy. This is like my favorite story to tell because he completely owned me. And it was so funny. I was at a bar shooting pool and in Charlotte. And he walks up to me. He's objectively a funny looking guy. He's kind of short and round, really, really big eyes, quadrifocals. I mean, a straight cartoon character. And he looks up at me with like his, you know, hubble telescope eyeballs. And he goes, oh, you're the comedian guy. I go, yeah, what's up, man? He's like, I was just at your show. I said, oh, cool. He's like, I walked. And then he started telling me one of my jokes was offensive. And I said, which one? And then we started to explain it. I was like, well, you're not, you're not really saying it right. And then I started going into my act in front of him. I'm like, no, actually, what I said was. And then my tour manager, God bless him, I love him, you know, he's from Philly.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay.
Noel Miller
And he didn't tolerate even one more minute of this. He just stepped in and he goes, he goes, what the fuck are you on about? And then the guy just starts, you know, repeating himself. I think me and this guy are a little bit, you know, we're undiagnosed. Like we both have special interests. So, yeah, he and I were actually podcast with each other. We were just, you know, talking at each other and my tour manager would not tolerate a second of it. So he, he just starts going in on this guy and he's like, hey, man, man. When you watch a movie you don't like, do you. Do you message the director that you didn't like the movie? The guy's like, well, no. He's like, exactly.
Tour Manager / Friend
So shut the.
Noel Miller
And then, then he starts yelling at him. He's like, you walked out. You didn't see the ending of the movie. How can you say hey to move? And then it got really funny because then I'm like, what is this metaphor?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's not. It's not good.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah. And then, and then, then his wife showed up.
Tour Manager / Friend
Up.
Noel Miller
And then it. Then we rehashed the whole thing. So now it's just like some Three Stooges charge happen. And then. And then, unfortunately, this devolved into the two of them having a fight on the patio.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh, no.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Oh, like a fist fight on the patio?
Noel Miller
No, no, no.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Just like yelling at each other.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
At which point I felt like I won.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
Take that home.
Tour Manager / Friend
Right?
Noel Miller
Take that home.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
So, you know, I. I've. I've definitely had, you know, I've had guys walk out and tell me, you and whatever.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I think it's part of it.
Noel Miller
Who cares?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Part and parcel of you learn, I think, early on. I think we learned early on, you know, because it would. The podcast was just objectively bad. And people will tell you that they love. I mean, that's just the truth. Right? The podcast is a bit. I'm not sure it's much better, but. But some people have jumped on board and they talked to us.
Noel Miller
I've watched all 852 episodes. Nice.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Thank you, Noel Miller.
Noel Miller
That's my entrepreneurial spirit. I watch talent and I watch it develop. And let me tell you, 852 hours later, it has sharpened up.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
We are a pencil.
Brian Green
That's what chat.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's what chat. TCB tells me, says you guys have gotten much better. Congratulations. When ChatGPT even tells you you're mediocre, you've got something wrong. It's designed to tell you you're good.
Noel Miller
You can't really trust chat GPT, Right?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
It's like consciousness. It's saying it's not very good. In fact, you should do more. But you should do practice episodes with me.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Do practice episodes.
Noel Miller
Wanting to scan your bodies. And it's like, thank you.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Doing these practice episodes, it sucked up the entire podcast. And then it just said, yeah, you guys are okay. You guys are all right. Congratulations on that.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Which is tracked with what we thought.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
So, yeah, you have to.
Tour Manager / Friend
You have to get.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You have to have a bit of a thick skin. I think when you do stuff and people. You put it out there, there's going to be plenty of people that don't like it. And I'm sure you have your fair share of people that haven't. Like, have you ever done like a. I was thinking about this earlier today. If you're done like a skit or put something in the can or had an idea and then you think better of it or someone goes, no, you should not put that out there. And you go, okay, okay. Maybe think about it.
Noel Miller
Yeah, no, I've. I've got plenty of those. I got plenty of bombs. You know, that's. It's kind of why I chose my wife. I tell her jokes and she just look at me like Darren Headlights. She'll go, I don't get it.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, yeah.
Noel Miller
Just that dry. And I'm like, so I gotta go figure out how I make her get it.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
You know, know there's nothing worse than when I say something and my wife is putting on lotion and she's like, ah, that's funny.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You're like, it's the ultimate insult. I know that feeling. My wife is my compass. And if I get a giggle out of her, I know it's likely very funny with other people because I know that there's funny stuff that I say to her, but she on purpose doesn't laugh. Doesn't laugh. She downplays it.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And then sometimes she just tells me straight up, you should not say that. It should not be a thing you should do.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Brian Green.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Brian Green. That's how she says it. She goes, brian Green. And I'll go, okay, maybe not that one.
Noel Miller
Yeah, there's a. That is a. When you can get your longtime partner to say your name, you're like, that's right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's the one.
Noel Miller
The most up thing I've ever said.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Did you. I think I asked this to you last time, but I refresh my memory. Did you always have this kind of dark sense of humor? Was this. Is this just like the way your brain ticked or did this. I feel like some of my dark sense of humor came to me when I was with my, like, formative group of friends, Right. As like a young teenager. And all of a sudden we're all starting to laugh at stuff that is most people would find sick and disgusting.
Noel Miller
Yeah, I think. I don't know, I got. I think it got darker over time.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
You know, I think I went through some life experiences and that kind of turned me maybe the wrong way. But, yeah, I would say generally, yeah. Once I, like, figured out what was funny, to me, I think it started to, like, skew really dark. But, yeah, I actually don't think it was always super dark. Yeah, it got there.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It got there.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah. I think he gets. You go through. I think comedy is one of those things that some people use it in the darkest of moments. The funeral of their parents, the. The right after the car crash, I got cancer. Right. Stuff like that. And they use humor. And then some people feel much more comfortable in the solemnity of the moment. Right. They're like this. I'm not laughing at the. You know, I mean, I'm taking in what's going on at the funeral. So it just depends on how you choose to cope with life. And comedy is one of those things that lots of people use to cope with life, but some people are just really good at making that observation relatable and funny. And I think you're one of those people.
Noel Miller
Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, I think maybe. Maybe it comes from a little bit of, like, you know, that whole, you know, oh, you're not supposed to laugh right now.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, like.
Noel Miller
Yeah, so what? This guy just got ran over. He's naked, right?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
He's got a boner. He had an erection.
Noel Miller
Huge dong. Isn't that hilarious? Isn't that an awesome way to die? This guy's got a huge can. They gotta bring a second ambulance. Huge wiener. Isn't that hilarious?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's true. You get a boner when you die.
Noel Miller
Yeah. Is that true? I hope not.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I think it can be true. You get stiff. You get rigam mortis. I hope not to. It's the ultimate insult. It's the ultimate. I guess it's the ultimate.
Noel Miller
Well, don't you, Frank, as you get older?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah, you do. Yeah. Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I think.
Noel Miller
I don't know what'll be left depending on when I go.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I know. I'm with you on that one.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
If I. If I die at 80, and they. Someone says, like, be careful, he's up. Someone is going to be like, it's fine.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
But I think the doctors are saying that because of the prevalence of Cialis, these, you know, Cialis and Viagra and stuff like that, that men can be sexually active until they die, no matter how old they are. And then women are. Are going along the road. That's why you go down to a place like the villages in Florida and you got syphilis running rampant down there. It's a whole. And there's a whole swingers that's running.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Rampant swinger community we talked about.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
That's right.
Noel Miller
I mean, it is incredible. The. You know, this is funny because this is like, an idea that has just been in my head, you know, I don't know. I might use this show. But I was thinking, like, even with Cialis and WI Fi, like, the best we can do for marriages long term is 50%.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
You know, like, half of them still fail despite having these weapons. And, like, Cialis is crazy to me because you could take that and, like, hate your partner.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Noel Miller
But you can still show up if, you know, you get what I'm saying.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Absolutely.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You can still be miserable in every other way and biologically still available. Biologically still available.
Noel Miller
That's great. I didn't realize that old people were getting STDs.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh, yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Noel. It's like a. It really is running rampant. And doctors are having to.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
They're not using protection like teenagers, because they're like, whatever. We can't.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Noel Miller
I'll give you an example straight to Google. I'm sorry.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Keep going, keep going. Old. Yeah, old people, STDs.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
It's a thing.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's a thing.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
This is.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Check it out. So here's an example. My mom lives in a retirement community, you know, 65 and older, and they have a bowl of condoms that is in the office and available to people.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's true.
Tour Manager / Friend
True. Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
It's crazy. It's insane, because people are. With the availability of these drugs, people are sexually active much later in their life. I mean, like I said, till the day they die. And STDs are a problem. They had a lady come in and talk about it.
Noel Miller
A board of only fans is rubbing their grubby little hands together.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
They love this. They love grandma porn that. Only fans. Grandma porn.
Tour Manager / Friend
That is.
Noel Miller
Is absurd.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You.
Noel Miller
So you.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Have you heard of that place, the Villages, down in Florida?
Noel Miller
No.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Okay. The Villages is the largest retirement community besides Sun City, which is out in Phoenix. It's the largest retirement community in the world.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
It's huge.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Huge. It's like 72 square miles, and it's a Disney World for older folks. You can buy a house there.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Get a golf cart.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Get a golf cart. You just drink and. And there's drugs and sex and alcohol.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
There's a whole documentary.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
There's a whole documentary.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
And.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You got to check this out. So Chrissy and I have been keeping an eye on this because we figure we'll be there pretty soon and we.
Noel Miller
Swinging away.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, swinging away, Swinging away.
Noel Miller
Drugging children.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah, drugging, drinking, whatever.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Because here's my thought. If you're gonna like go hog wild on drugs, if you're gonna be a coke addict, smoke crack, do crystal meth, you don't dabble in it when you're a kid, just so you know what it's all about. But then you go hog wild. Hard, hard. When you retire, when you're all close to death. Because who cares at that point, right? If you're a, I don't know, crack addict? I mean, you know, I mean, besides your neighbors, who cares? Like, go ahead, do it. And these people are doing it down in the villages. There's all kind of crazy happening down there.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
They're definitely doing psychedelics.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Definitely. They're doing a lot of mushrooms, a lot of weed. And coke, apparently is the thing too.
Noel Miller
So you must be, you know, because when you think about when you're younger and you take multiple substances, it takes a certain amount of. Of focus.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Noel Miller
To like manage that mind state. I mean, they must be living multiple days in a single night, get high and then they take Calis and they do a little something else and a little toot. Yeah, they must, they almost wake up feeling like, am I dead?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Right?
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I might be.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Not yet, I didn't. Wow. Old people. I mean, hey, yeah, look it up.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
You might have a. There's a whole. There's a routine there somewhere. And now they're doing. And now they've got loofahs that they put on their golf carts to indicate if they swing, what kind of swinger they are. So orange. Yellow is like I'm consciously optimistic.
Noel Miller
Dude, swinging at 70 sounds awful.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yes, it sounds awful. At 40 it sounds awful. It just.
Noel Miller
I don't know that I want to.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Watch my wife get pounded by her and listen to it or hear it, you know, if you're gonna have an affair with the pool boy, do it like everybody else does. And while I'm on a business trip, you know what I'm saying? Be respectful about it. I don't want to go to a party and then know you're gonna have sex with a 22 year old Latin man.
Noel Miller
The pre swing small talk must be graining. Yes, yes, you're on a double first date. So see, and this is where my like something like that just brings me existential dread. If I'm sitting there and probably, you know, if I was swinger, I probably am a lot Hornier than I am in my own body. But if I'm sitting there with my wife and we got to meet this weird couple that's like, we love your shirts.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I'm like, yeah, the. Yeah, no, you're gonna.
Noel Miller
My wife.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Leave me alone. Why are we talking about this? So he likes two hands on the shaft when you're mobbing the head. I mean, honestly, he's right. He's 100% right.
Noel Miller
That's crazy.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I think it is crazy. And listen. To each their own. And yeah, sure, that.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
More power to the ones that like it.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah, Whatever floats.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Orgy is listening to this podcast right now. Keep doing you.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yes.
Noel Miller
Keep doing your thing.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
But if swinging is the. Is an existential dread, then what causes me like, dead dread is cucking. That to me is like the thing that I go, what happened to you as a child?
Noel Miller
Outsourcing, man.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, outsourcing. And listen, if you're like, I can understand. I get terminally ill and then, you know, my wife, I'm sick for a long time. I can't perform. My waist doesn't work. Down below. My waist doesn't work. I can understand handing the keys to the car and saying, take her for a drive because her battery doesn't die. Right. But what feels really scary to me is the people who are like, fully capable, but I still want to sit in the closet and walk.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's right.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that's just weird.
Noel Miller
Yeah, that's weird.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Again, teach their own. But for me, it's dead dread. Dead dread.
Noel Miller
I think. I think that's like a deep self hatred.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I agree. I agree.
Noel Miller
I'm worthless and I need to experience it in real time.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Noel Miller
Now, someone, you know, someone who's an avid consumer of their wife having affairs might message me after this and be like, you don't understand. You're right, I don't.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I don't get it. You should just reply, stop there. I don't care.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Good for you. Noel Miller is on tour right now. Noelmillerlive.com is where you.
Noel Miller
And by the way, you know, if you come to see me on tour, we sell a unique merch line. You know, most. Most performers, they sell T shirts, hoodies. We actually sell our own cuck chair.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
There you go.
Noel Miller
It's folds in four pieces. It disassembles, it fits in a carry on. Extremely comfortable. You can take it to whatever weird hotel. And I know hotels typically equipped with cuck shares, but this one is sort of like a break in case it's.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Got an iPhone tripod.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
Oh, no, you're right. I mean, I didn't even get to go over the features. It's got a built in fan, so you know, like the little fan that you get at a theme park. Got that with a mister.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yep.
Noel Miller
It does have two USB C ports and you have a USB A port.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yeah.
Noel Miller
It's incredible. And it also doubles as a laptop cooler, so. And for the low, low price of 59.99.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah. And perfect. And a Fleshlight.
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes. Yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Fleshlight for all. So that you can get off. You can get off while she's getting off. Everyone's getting off.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah. Now. And this is just, you know, just so we're transparent. This is not standard size flashlight. This is a half light. So this is a mini all the way in there. This is, you know. Yeah, it's just for titillation. It.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
If you're looking for a word, my cheeks hurt.
Noel Miller
But we do have T shirts too. We have T shirts too.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Trucker hats available.
Noel Miller
Yeah, yeah. For the lot lizards.
Tour Manager / Friend
All right.
Noel Miller
Noel took it somewhere nasty. I apologize.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I love it. No, this is. This is just another episode of the commercial break. By the way, we've said nothing that we don't already normally say. Yeah. We just talked about explosive diarrhea on the last episode. So we're taking it to new heights.
Tour Manager / Friend
Here, here.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
More mediocre comedy for. Yeah, it's. It's not pleasant. Noel Miller, thank you so much. We really appreciate you coming back.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Part two.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Part two. Part two. Thank you very much for. For coming back. Congratulations on the new garage door and congratulations on the baby.
Noel Miller
Thank you guys.
Brian Green
All the link.
Noel Miller
Congratulations on 852 episodes.
Tour Manager / Friend
Thank you.
Noel Miller
Only 800 more.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Yeah, that. Well, we just signed for 800 more, so there we go.
Noel Miller
Okay. To infinity and beyond.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
To infinity.
Noel Miller
That should be our new tagline.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Thank you so much. Talk soon.
Noel Miller
Thank you, guys. All right, this is awesome.
Tour Manager / Friend
Bye. Bye.
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Tour Manager / Friend
Be.
Rachel (Voice of God)
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Brian Green
That went so many places, I don't.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Even know what to say. I think.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I think that was a lot of fun.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
If we were to have Noel here for a few episodes with us, I have a feeling he would fit Right in. I have a feeling he would fit right in with our twisted, sick sense of humor. He's really funny. My cheeks hurt. I was laughing so hard. That was good. That was good. I'm surprised he hasn't caught on to the Villages thing.
Brian Green
You think a guy like that would.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Have his finger on the pulse of the Villages? Well, he's closer to college than he is to the Villages, where we're closer to the Villages than we are in college. So I guess you can kind of understand where that one was going to go, but.
Brian Green
Noel Miller at Noel Miller live.com Tickets are available for all of his shows right now.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
He's on tour through November. It looks like he'll be here in Atlanta.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah. Thanks.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Thanksgiving week, though. Like the week leading up to Thanksgiving. Maybe we should.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I think we should do it.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Reaching out to people for tickets. A field trip to go see Noel at Center Stage.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Brian Green
Where I saw Pauly Shore.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
That's right.
Brian Green
I don't think I've seen a comedian.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
There since Pauly Shore, but I've been to that bar a few times. 10 high and gotten kicked out. We've been to that bar a few times. You got kicked out for playing the drums of the Rage against the Machine cover band. Do you remember that?
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh, yeah.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I do, too. The good old days when getting kicked out of a bar was fun.
Brian Green
Now I make it a point not.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
To get kicked out of the bars I go to.
Brian Green
Anyway, all of Noel's stuff is down in the show notes.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
All of the links to the pertinence, the social media, the podcast, the podcast network, YouTube. I don't know what else to say. He's got so much shit. I think this is going to be like four pages worth of links when it comes down to it.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Yeah.
Brian Green
But thank you very much, Noel, for.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Coming and wrapping it up with us. Proper gentlemen. Proper gentleman. And his baby was sleeping the whole time.
Brian Green
At first I was wondering how he.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Was talking so softly because I remember last time he wasn't. And then I figured it out. He doesn't want to wake up the fucking kid. Never wake up a sleeping baby. No, never.
Brian Green
All right. So, yeah, we'll be back tomorrow with.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
More fun and shenanigans. Got a good episode lined up for you, so do tune in. Download that. Follow us on your favorite podcast player. Leave a nice review if you're so inclined. Or you can go to our Instagram and follow us at the commercial break. You can try and follow us on Tick Tock if you can find us. Tcp, podcast I don't know if there's any contents up there, but feel free.
Brian Green
I think we have like a hundred.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
People that follow us, but we haven't posted anything in two years. So there you go. There's that too. Maybe we should do that.
Brian Green
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Brian Green
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Chrissy Joy Hoadley
Because I was talking about Russians.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
Oh really?
Tour Manager / Friend
Yes.
Brian Green
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Brian Green
Okay Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
I think so.
Chrissy Joy Hoadley
I'll tell you that I love you.
Podcast Co-host / Guest
And I love you.
Brian Green
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Chrissy Joy Hoadley
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Podcast: The Commercial Break
Hosts: Bryan Green, Krissy Joy Hoadley
Guest: Noel Miller (comedian, podcaster, creator)
Air Date: August 26, 2025
This "TCB Infomercial" episode reunites hosts Bryan and Krissy with wildly popular comedian and internet personality Noel Miller, in a follow-up to an earlier interview hilariously interrupted when a car crashed into Noel’s garage. They dive into the life of a modern stand-up comic, the evolution of Noel’s dark and edgy humor, the state of live comedy and audiences, generational shifts in fanbases, gigging through chaos, new media ventures, and the bizarre world of “retirement community debauchery.” Genuine laughs, insider comedy chat, and plenty of offbeat digressions—classic TCB.
“It took me this long to pick up all the pieces from my garage being driven into.” — Noel Miller
“She went nose first into the garage ... she was really shaken up. She apologized profusely, but now the new garage door is probably three times as heavy, so it definitely won't happen again.” — Noel Miller [11:32]
“He's actually a really good sleeper … but I think he's starting to get his teeth, though, so that's been waking him up.” — Noel Miller [13:45]
“Performing live is where I'm the most natural ... I just function well under pressure. So I like to cook my mind and be as stressed out as possible." — Noel Miller [16:39 / 16:56]
“In the Midwest … depending where you go, they have sort of cultural niceties baked in. They might hate what you’re saying, but think it’s rude if they don’t laugh.” — Noel Miller [19:57]
“Some of my earlier shows, there’s a bit more of those like kind of stale, awkward moments where I’d say something really f***ed up and just look at the room and smile like, ‘You think that’s funny, right?’” — Noel Miller [22:19]
“It’s kind of nice because … now they’re all, I don’t know, like 23 to 29 ... and I get way more random walk ups and older people. I kind of prefer when it’s a big mix.” — Noel Miller [25:11]
“I still feel young in stand-up … but, yeah, it’s cool that I have the ability to look at somebody and say, ‘Hey, I think you’re doing good stuff,’ and just put them on a little bit.” — Noel Miller [27:39]
“I’ve started a dystopian commentary podcast … and from that, I’ve birthed a new inspiration for YouTube.” — Noel Miller [30:17]
“People are just more excited to tell anyone who's skinny that their eyeballs might fall out.” — Noel Miller [32:45]
“You can still be miserable in every other way and biologically still available.” — Noel Miller [48:42]
“These people are doing it down in The Villages. There’s all kind of crazy sh*t happening down there. They’re definitely doing psychedelics. ... I mean, they must be living multiple days in a single night.” — Noel Miller [51:11]
“Swinging at 70 sounds awful.” — Noel Miller [52:02]
“Maybe it comes from a little bit of—‘Oh, you’re not supposed to laugh right now’ ... So what? This guy just got ran over. He’s naked, right?” — Noel Miller [46:45]
“I think me and this guy are a little bit, you know, we’re undiagnosed. Like we both have special interests. So, yeah, he and I were actually podcasting with each other.” — Noel Miller [39:58]
“You have to have a bit of a thick skin. You put it out there, there’s going to be plenty of people that don’t like it.” — Noel Miller [43:10]
“It folds in four pieces, it disassembles. ... It’s got a built-in fan ... It also doubles as a laptop cooler.” — Noel Miller [55:02–55:36]
“If swinging is an existential dread, then what causes me dead dread is cucking. That, to me, is like the thing that I go, what happened to you as a child?” — Krissy Joy Hoadley [53:28]
“I think that’s like a deep self-hatred. I’m worthless and I need to experience it in real time.” — Noel Miller [54:15]
The conversation is rapid-fire, delightfully meandering, self-deprecating, and consistently irreverent—leaning into taboo topics with the casual rapport of old friends. No subject is too weird or dark to touch, yet always in a spirit of affectionate, knowing laughter. Noel Miller is candid about both career highs and awkward lows, while Bryan and Krissy riff with him as equals, celebrating the “just FINE” absurdity of modern life, comedy, and the human experience.
A rollicking, full-tilt showcase of comedy-life real talk: from garage mayhem to generational shifts in stand-up, the loneliness of edgy material, retirement community countercultures, and the relentless weirdness of building a career online. Whether you’re a comedy nerd, a Noel Miller fan, or just love unfiltered conversations, this episode is a worthy, wild listen.