TCB Season Roulette: Season 4

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Commercial Break — “TCB Season Roulette: Season 4” (May 29, 2026)

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Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break, hosted by longtime friends Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley, is part of the “TCB Season Lottery”—a special run in which Bryan randomly selects a classic episode from each past season for listeners to catch up while the hosts take a short break. The show retains its hallmark chaotic, off-the-wall energy, blending improv comedy with commentary on pop culture oddities, real-life awkwardness, and vintage television.

The bulk of this episode is a group watch and hilarious takedown of a classic 1980s episode of the “Love Connection” dating show. The hosts riff on the awkwardness and outmoded attitudes on display, compare dating shows of the past and present, and spin off into signature TCB tangents about dogs, dreams, and bad dates.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting Up the “Season Lottery” and Episode Format

• Hosts on break: Bryan and Krissy are off this week (Bryan at a conference, Krissy on break), so episodes are picked roulette-style from previous seasons. (00:00–01:37)
• Meta self-roasting: "If a good episode of The Commercial Break actually exists, I might be picking them literally, blindly." (Bryan, 01:27)
• Embrace of chaos: The random episode picks are intentionally low-effort: “I'm opening up a file, I'm dragging it in, and that's it.” (Bryan, 01:31)
• Running joke about Bryan’s hypothetical 12 children (“I have 12 to 13 children and therefore I can't drink…Who wants to parent hungover?” - Bryan, 00:28).

2. Welcome Back Banter & Dog Stories

• Krissy is back in the studio. Audience and cast members play along (“She's back!” – various, 02:47).
• “Frogging” chat: The hosts riff on the urban legend of people secretly living in others’ homes (02:54–03:07).
• Dog tales: Fond stories about dogs past and present, including a Labrador who chewed through a door due to separation anxiety (03:44) and Blue, Krissy's expensive, injury-prone dog who recently had knee surgery (07:23).
  • Memorable moment: “I just paid $20,000 to get that knee replaced. Well, I didn't pay it, the insurance did. Thank you, insurance.” (Chrissy, 07:29)
  • “She has literally had her head run over by a stroller…she's a tough, tough chick.” (Bryan, 09:33)

3. Dreams and Absurd Anecdotes

• Steve-O on the show: Discussion of missing a Steve-O interview, with Bryan recounting Steve-O’s “clown school” escapades and near-mutiny on a cruise ship. (12:00–14:53)
  • Bryan’s surreal dream: Steve-O walks on stilts, sets himself on fire, and then is pushed off a cruise ship by Bryan’s child (14:23–14:53).
  • “Can you imagine? Steve-O is like, walking on stilts outside on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. And…I had this dream that…my child pushes him off the cruise ship.” (Bryan, 14:53)
• Sex dream tangent: Krissy confesses about a vivid, lingering dream about Lisa Kudrow (“the Kudrow Days”), playfully psychoanalyzing why certain dreams have staying power (15:12–16:39).
  • “Anytime I thought about Lisa Kudrow…all I could see was Lisa Kudrow and having sex with Lisa Kudrow. I called [them] the Kudrow Days.” (Krissy, 15:37)
  • The banter keeps the tone irreverent and self-aware.

4. Vintage vs. Modern Dating Shows

• Transition to “Love Connection”: The hosts introduce the classic dating show format, then compare it to today’s hyper-judgmental, instant-elimination options like “The Cut” or “Naked Attraction.” (19:26–21:22)
  • “[Now] you can…press the button and they have to leave. It's so shitty. I don't understand…spend an hour with me!” (Chrissy, 20:01)
  • “On the other side stream, there's Naked Attraction. You just straight up are naked.” (Astrid, 20:41)
• Mock the old-fashioned “modern technology” claim in “Love Connection’s” intro—“I'm pretty sure television had been around for about 60 years at that point.” (Chrissy, 21:36)
• “People use the word technology like [they use] AI now. Well, infused with AI…is that really a selling point?” (Bryan & Chrissy riff, 21:42–21:53)

5. “Love Connection” Watch-Along & Critique

• The contestant: Randy, 34-year-old car salesman (“looks 62”) who complains women dwell on “insignificant things” (25:25–25:56).
  • Instant red flags: “No one pays attention to their hair that much unless they're ready to kill somebody.” (Chrissy, 25:34)
• Randy’s sexist, dismissive attitude: He lists women’s “work, private lives, relationships” as “insignificant things.” Group repeatedly calls him out as a “chauvinist” and “dick.” (26:01–27:08)
  • “I want head while we're driving down the 101 and that's it, quite frankly.” (Bryan, 26:11)
• Disastrous date recap: Randy disparages the woman’s perfume (reminds him of his ex-mother-in-law), expects her to plan, criticizes her for “problems” and being “ditzy.” (29:43–32:09)
  • Chrissy: “Can you imagine being married to someone like this?” (26:20)
  • Sharon (the date) gets a dig: “Randy was about as much fun as watching paint dry.” (Sharon, 33:25)
• Randy doesn’t take the hint: Even after the date and woman try to arrange fake emergencies to get rid of him, he sticks around (“planted himself on her couch and didn’t leave”—Bryan, 36:13).
• Audience and hosts aghast: Hosts riff on the awkwardness and inappropriateness of the 1980s format of sending strangers on unchaperoned home visits (“Imagine in 2023, a dating show saying, go to someone’s house and pick them up on a blind date. You’d have to have three or four security guys with you.” – Chrissy, 42:00).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On classic TCB chaos:
  “If a good episode of The Commercial Break actually exists, I might be picking them literally, blindly.” (Bryan, 01:27)
• On parenting and drinking:
  “I have 12 to 13 children and therefore I can't drink…Who wants to parent hungover?” (Bryan, 00:28)
• Pet insurance flex:
  “I just paid $20,000 to get that knee replaced. Well, I didn't pay it, the insurance did. Thank you, insurance.” (Chrissy, 07:29)
• Dream absurdity:
  “Can you imagine? Steve O. is like, walking on stilts outside on a Royal Caribbean Cruise…and my child pushes him off the cruise ship.” (Bryan, 14:53)
• Lisa Kudrow dream confession:
  “I called [them] the Kudrow Days.” (Krissy, 15:37)
• 80s Dating Woes:
  “No one pays attention to their hair that much unless they're ready to kill somebody.” (Chrissy on Randy, 25:34) “I want head while we're driving down the 101 and that's it, quite frankly.” (Bryan, 26:11) “Can you imagine being married to someone like this?” (Chrissy, 26:20)
• Modern dating cynicism:
  “Now all you have to do is just look at them or get one word out of their mouth and you can decide to press the button and they have to leave. It's so shitty.” (Chrissy, 20:01)
• On men of “Love Connection”:
  “They're all chauvinistic pigs who just think the world of themselves and can't stand the fact that the girl has a personality.” (Chrissy, 42:20)

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Segments & Timestamps

• Season Roulette & Opening Banter: 00:00–02:29
• Dog Stories & “Frogging”: 02:29–09:45
• Pet Insurance & Dog Surgery Rant: 07:10–09:45
• Steve-O Cruise Ship Story: 11:40–14:53
• Lisa Kudrow Dream: 15:11–16:46
• Dating Shows Old vs. New Setup: 19:26–21:22
• “Love Connection” Watch-Along: 25:08–42:00
• Closing Comments on Podcast World: 43:25–44:17

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, fast-paced, tangential.
• Cheerfully self-deprecating ("We're here for you. We love you, you guys. You do what you got to do, girl. We'll be right here, slaving away, making 600 episodes a week for five listeners…")
• Off-color (but self-aware) humor, especially regarding outdated dating attitudes.
• Long, easygoing digressions — “Cheesecake Factory of comedy podcasts” is apt.

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For New Listeners

This episode is quintessential TCB: It’s a hilarious blend of roast, nostalgia, and offbeat personal stories, making fun of both themselves and the cultural relics they dissect. The “Love Connection” segment is a highlight for anyone interested in how much dating culture—and TV—has changed… and how little some types of bad dates ever change.

Transcript

[Brian Green]

Foreign.

The TCB Season Lottery TCB Classic. Brian and Chrissy are on vacation, so why not throw together a couple of random episodes that you can listen to to catch up? In case you just started joining the show, TCB Marathon Marathon continues. We're rolling right into season number four. Now, if you ask me what I remember about season number four, not much. I was drunk for most of it.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Nah, that's just a joke.

[Brian Green]

I really don't drink anymore. I have 12 to 13 children and therefore I can't drink. It's impossible. They won't give me five freaking minutes alone. And who wants to parent hungover? I don't know how parents do it. I see all these parents on Instagram drinking wine and having beers and going to the bar and hanging out at country music festivals. I just can't even imagine. I much prefer to lay vertical, take. Take Melatonin and pretend my life is

[Chrissy Aldi]

a lot less complicated than it actually is.

[Brian Green]

So in case you're just getting up to speed on why we're doing the TCB Season Lottery TCB Season Classic Marathon Marathon. Chrissy and I are not in the studio this week. I'm at a conference. She's taking a little time off, and I decided to play a little lottery. A completely random drawing of one episode from each of the seasons one through six.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And.

[Brian Green]

And then we all get to be surprised together about what episode pops up. Now, because I've been paying attention, I think I've actually randomly picked a couple of good ones. If a good episode of the commercial

[Chrissy Aldi]

break actually exists, I might be picking them literally, blindly.

[Brian Green]

I'm opening up a file, I'm dragging it in, and that's it. That's all I'm doing.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Let's be honest, it's a lot less work for me.

[Brian Green]

Okay, here we go. Season number four. Spin the wheel, pick a card, slang the slot, whatever your expression is. Here comes your next episode of the TCB season Lottery.

[Chrissy Aldi]

TCB Classic Chow Chow.

[Chuck Woolery]

We are not a middle aged lesbian couple and we're not gay for each other. Yes, we kissed one time and yes, it was awesome.

[Chrissy Aldi]

But that's in the past. Now on this episode of the commercial break. Oh, that's a really nice thing for you to do on a first date.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you pick it, you figure it out.

[Astrid]

I don't want to do any work.

[Brian Green]

I don't want to deal with all the personal details. You figure it out and I'll show up with my dick hard and ready to go.

[Chrissy Aldi]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. And the queen retakes her rightful place on the throne. Kristen Joy Hly, my best friend, my co host. Best of you, Chrissy.

[Astrid]

Bestie.

[Brian Green]

And best of you out there in the podcast universe. She's back. You don't have to text anymore. She's back.

[Randy Blanchard]

She's back.

[Josh W]

Back.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Nothing has happened. You don't have to call a Hollywood

[Astrid]

reporter or look in your crawl space.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

You're doing what.

[Chrissy Aldi]

What is that?

[Brian Green]

What was that called?

[Astrid]

What?

[Brian Green]

What were they?

[Chrissy Aldi]

The people who were, like, living in people's houses.

[Astrid]

Oh, yeah. Frogging.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Frogging. You weren't frogging, Chris. She was just frogging in my crawl space.

[Astrid]

Sneaking around when everybody's asleep.

[Brian Green]

Well, you did that back when.

[Chrissy Aldi]

When we were single and ready to mingle. You were creeping around my house in

[Brian Green]

the middle of the night.

[Chrissy Aldi]

You and my dog snacks.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you and boss.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I was eating a meal.

[Brian Green]

She was like, oh, oh, the Griston's back. Oh, that means I'm gonna get a late night dinner.

[Astrid]

My parents dogs did the same thing.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I think that box was the dopiest dog. She had, like, those big droopy eyes and jowls. And she would just follow you around, like. And she was just a sweetheart.

[Astrid]

She was.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She was a sweetheart because I think

[Brian Green]

someone beat her into submission.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Not my ex wife. She said, here's the story. So Bots, which was a dog that my ex wife brought into the relationship she had. The dog was like a year old when I met Julia. You're a year and a half old?

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So the dog was so well behaved. And from the first moment that I met the dog, the dog was absolutely attached to me. It wouldn't leave my side almost ever. And so she lived in this condo building. And I'll never forget the first night I spent the night there. Her trash was full. So I took her trash out like a gentleman. I go down to the trash chute and I. As I get to the trash chute, which is like all the way at the other end of the hallway, I turn around and there's Bots just right behind me. I didn't even realize. And I was like, oh, my God, you're not supposed to be out of here. You know, blah, blah, blah.

[Astrid]

Slipped out the door.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So I'm like, wow, this dog is so well behaved. And she's like, well, that's because she. That's because she went away to a training camp. And I'm like, what's A training camp. And she's like, I don't really know. But my mom sent her off for three weeks to a training camp.

[Brian Green]

She came back so well behaved.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And I'm like, she probably beat the

[Brian Green]

out of that dog.

[Chrissy Aldi]

But the story was the reason why the dog went to the training camp is because Julia left for work one day and she would leave Bots it locked in the bedroom or otherwise. The dog would get into the couch cushions and knock stuff over. And she had an apartment with some nice stuff in it. So she was just trying to keep the dog safe in the house. She came home one day and the dog, she had. She had closed the bedroom door and the dog met her at the door when she got home. And she's like, what the fuck?

[Brian Green]

How did you get out?

[Chrissy Aldi]

Like, no one was in the house. She walks to the bedroom door and this dog, Bots had chewed a hole in the door and let herself out. Literally chewed a hole in the door. Got so anxious that. That Julia had left that she.

[Brian Green]

She chewed a hole and walked out the door.

[Astrid]

I haven't heard of the chewing. I have heard of like, the, you know, scratching.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I think that's probably what she did. Yeah, she probably scratched.

[Astrid]

Gotta go in that way.

[Chrissy Aldi]

You gotta go that way. And then just used her mouth. She was a lab. And you know those labs, they have the worst kind of energy when they're little because it's so cute to watch them kind of fumble around themselves. But they will destroy the shit out of your house.

[Astrid]

Yes. And shoes. We used to have labs too. And I remember.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Did they eat your shoes?

[Astrid]

Yes, all of them.

[Chrissy Aldi]

The wood on the high heels was just too much.

[Brian Green]

They had to take it.

[Chrissy Aldi]

But the dog ended up being the sweetest dog in the world. I mean, really, by the time I knew it, she was just fine.

[Brian Green]

Probably because she had ptsd.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I don't know what they do at those training. We tried to send Blue to a training camp, but the guy was like, I remember that.

[Astrid]

Yeah, he was like, so excited too. We were, this is it. We're gonna solve all our problems. We're sending her away.

[Brian Green]

We're sending Blue away.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She's gonna come back and reformed up.

[Brian Green]

That was all I heard.

[Chrissy Aldi]

That's all that ever happened. Because the guy refused to take her.

[Brian Green]

He asked for a few videos of the behavior.

[Astrid]

There's nothing to be done.

[Chrissy Aldi]

He said, listen, bro, first of all, I got all big dogs here. And I'm a little nervous about that small dog running around the big dogs. Second of all, the little Dogs, no matter how hard you try and train them, oftentimes they just don't take to it because they're little. They're awful. That's right. You know, we're playing with the dog the other day on the floor and like we're playing like a little push and pull. The dog's old now. It's like. And she's not really old, but she's like eight years old.

[Rachel]

Eight.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So we're playing a little push and pull with her, like this ring and. And then they love doing that. I know. They love it.

[Astrid]

And then they shake it around.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah. So she's got this. She's being like a puppy again. Right. And ever she had since she had that knee replacement surgery, she's.

[Brian Green]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever said. The twenty thousand dollar knee replacement surgery

[Chrissy Aldi]

for my dumb dog. So we're playing with her and then she's like playing with the baby and she's being real sweet about it. And then 15 minutes later, she's just walking around the house with that hind leg up in the air and I'm like, I just paid $20,000 to get that knee replaced. Well, I didn't pay it, the insurance did. Thank you. Insurance.

[Astrid]

Pet insurance.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yes, all pets insurance. Thank you very much. This episode sponsored I should be pitching them for the rest of my life, right?

[Astrid]

Was it the same leg?

[Chrissy Aldi]

No, it wasn't. But I had to actually go to the surgery center and bring her in there to determine whether or not it was the other leg because I could fucking remember anything after it. And so I take her to this place. It's like Saturday afternoon, so of course I got to go to the emergency vet, which is where she got the surgery done. So I go in there and they say, oh no, it's the other leg. Okay. But they great. It's, yeah, great. So you mean there's no coverage here? And she's like, nope, they guarantee the knee for a year.

[Astrid]

Oh, wow.

[Chrissy Aldi]

They guarantee the need for a year as long as you take care of her in the first six weeks of recovery, then you're good. Like after that, it's on them. It's their work. It's, you know, parts and labor parts.

[I]

Right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So I take her there and as soon as the doctor vet walks into the room, Blue is perfectly fine. She's running, she's jumping, she's not putting her leg up whatsoever. It's like you call the doctor because you're super sick and you walk in the door and you feel Great, right? You're like, ah, I feel so much better. Or you take your car in because of that noise, and it refuses to make that noise.

[Astrid]

It doesn't do the same thing.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So I'm like, God Damn, it blows 200 wasted there. And then I bring her back home. And then Monday, my regular vet calls. Hey, I heard you went to the emergency vet. You want to bring Blue in here? We'll check her out. And she's got her leg way up in the air, so I'm like, yeah, you know what? Actually, it's not fixed, so let me bring you in there. That was supposed to be this morning.

[Brian Green]

I wake up and Blue's bouncing all over the place. She's fine. And Chrissy walks in the door. She got that leg up again. I'm like, fuck,

[Chrissy Aldi]

Blue.

[Brian Green]

Stay consistent.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I will say this about Blue. She is not a. She is. She will not complain. She has literally had her head run over by a stroller.

[Brian Green]

And she didn't. She didn't win. She's a tough, tough chick.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She is a tough chick.

[Randy Blanchard]

She is.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I could use a little bit of that in me because I get the flu and I cry for three days.

[Brian Green]

I want my mommy. Actually, I don't want my mommy. I want Astrid.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, poor dog. When you had labs, would they.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Chrissy Aldi]

You had dogs all your life?

[Astrid]

Oh, yeah, growing up. Well, my. My grandparents had labs. Had a bunch of labs, like two at one time, and then one died and they got another one and, you know, kind of continued on. And then we had a labs. My mom was a big animal lover, so we had cats, dogs, fish. What? We didn't do birds, but, yeah, birds are tough. They're a different. Yeah, they're different.

[Chrissy Aldi]

If I think I hate Blue for all her barking. Get a macaw in here or whatever those fucking things are.

[Astrid]

So, yes, I grew up with dogs, all kinds of cocker spaniels, labs, little dog shih tzus.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Did she, like, foster them or she, like, bring them in? And you owned them?

[Astrid]

Yep, we owned them.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, okay.

[Astrid]

It was a little surprise for my dad whenever he would get home.

[Brian Green]

Well, your mom and your dad got

[Chrissy Aldi]

married, like, seven times.

[Brian Green]

Surprise. We're divorced.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Surprise.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I want to marry you again.

[Brian Green]

Surprise. We're divorced.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I can't imagine.

[Astrid]

Would be like, oh, my God, another one.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Another?

[Astrid]

Really? Please. I mean, he had to spend as much food or a lot of money on, like, food and vets and all of that as he was doing on those three kids.

[Chrissy Aldi]

No, it's expensive to own animals. And they are children. But there's one big difference that I've noticed between the 12 children I have running around here and the one dog I have. The children actually get to a point where they can tell you what's wrong and share with you what they're upset. And you can manage occasionally to calm them down with a soothing tone of voice. However, the exact opposite of true is true of the dog because she can't tell you what's wrong. So when her hind leg's up in the air, I can't tell you. She can't say, ah, it hurts here, it hurts there.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And she just barks incessantly when she wants something. She can't actually say words. So in some sense, the dogs become more difficult to raise than the children and they're just as fucking expensive.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Luckily, the kids live a lot longer than the dogs do. Or at least you hope that they do. Yes. So while you were gone, we interviewed Steve O.

[Astrid]

That is incredible. I'm so excited. I hated to miss it, but I know that you guys did a great job in my absence.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I really wished that you were here, but Tina did a great job sitting in the seat and I wanted to share with you that. Did you hear? Have you heard the episode yet? It just came out a couple days ago.

[Astrid]

No, I have not.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So Steve O shares this story about how he goes to the Ringling Brothers Circus Clown School. Okay. With the intention of getting a job. Of course he did, because it's Steve Fuckado. He goes to get a job at Ringling Brothers. That's why he went to the clown school. But they refused to hire him because not many people like him. So he's just kind of acted like an idiot. So he manages to get a job in a new fledgling division of the Royal Caribbean Cruises called, like, Guest Activation, which means that they're going to bring clowns and other magicians and people and they're just going to walk around and make people happy.

[Astrid]

Oh, okay.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Essentially. So. But Steve, while he may be good at his job of activating guests, whatever that means, he is not a well liked person amongst the other clowns. So the clowns get together and they vote him off the island. They say if Steve O. Continues to work for Royal Caribbean, we are leaving. But Steve O's agent gets word from the management at Royal Caribbean Caribbean. They're just trying to give him a heads up, like, hey, we're not going to renew his contract. It's not working out. But we will let him live out the rest of his contract, which includes going to train on the brand new Royal Caribbean. What A Princess of the Seas, the largest cruise ship at the time in the world. So he has to go for two weeks and train with these people on all of these activations. But he knows he's getting fired. And he also knows who fired him. Like, who got him fired. These three.

[Brian Green]

Steve is like, these clowns.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I'm never gonna. I'm never gonna be on this ship again. These clowns. So as his last hurrah, he calls Jeff Tremaine, the producer of. He calls the guy from Big Brother, which is Escape magazine, otherwise Hooligan magazine back in the 90s, right? He calls him and he says, listen, I'm not gonna have this job anymore. I've already been voted off the island. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get on a cruise ship and I'm gonna start walking around on stilts. And then I'm gonna set myself on fire and do a pratfall. And I was like, oh, my God, can you imagine? He didn't. They didn't end up doing it on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. But I was just thinking to myself, can you imagine? Steve O. Is like, walking on stilts outside on a Royal Caribbean Cruise. And I had this. Last night, I had this dream that Steve O. And I were on a cruise ship and we were like, I don't know, having a beer at the bar or something like that. And Steve O. Goes, hey, Brian, watch what I can do. And he gets up on these stilts and he's on fire. His legs are on fire, the stilts are on fire. And he's walking around the cruise ship. And then out of nowhere, one of my children comes and pushes him off the cruise ship.

[Brian Green]

His unfortunate demise. And I was crying and yelling at my kid, like, why did you kill Steve O? What do you have against Steve O. And Steve I'll ever do to you? But I don't know why my brain works this way. Why was so funny about.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Dreams are funny.

[Astrid]

You know what they really are.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I have the weirdest, strangest dreams. Sometimes.

[Astrid]

I do, too.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Did I tell you, I think we talked about this one day, 10 years ago, 12 years ago, I have this dream about Lisa Kudrow, but like the Friends version of Lisa Kudrow, right? So I have this dream that Lisa Kudrow and I have a night of hot, passionate sex.

[Astrid]

Wow.

[Chrissy Aldi]

It was so all encompassing, so deep, so intense that it took me three days to shake the dream. Anytime I thought about Lisa Kudrow. Anytime, Anytime I looked at another attractive woman, all I could see was Lisa Kudrow and having sex with Lisa Kudrow. It was this weird three day period of my life I called the Kudrow Days, where I was just like.

[Brian Green]

My Kudrow era.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And I could not shake this dream. Chris, if you've ever had a dream you just can't shake. Like, if you've ever had a sex dream you cannot shake. Yes, yes. And it's usually about someone that's way unattainable, like Lisa Kudrow.

[Astrid]

Yeah. Something that's really bizarre.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Listen, Steve O's management made the poor decision of allowing him to come on the commercial break. But if Lisa Kudrow's management ever makes the decision of having her on the commercial break, I'm telling her about the Kudrow Days. Because I must tell her about the Kudrow days.

[Astrid]

Oh, God.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I think I went around.

[Astrid]

She'd be flattered.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I know. I think I was dry humping couches thinking about Lisa Kudrow, like a week and a half.

[Astrid]

I mean, does it. Do you get a little hot now when you see that? Because I noticed on HBO now has, like, the whole, you know, library of all of the friends.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh.

[Astrid]

Really shows up in, like, my featured thing. So I'm going to think about that. I'm going to think about your Kudrow Day.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Think about me fucking Lisa Kudrow. Like an app. Absolute porn star champion. That was one of those dreams, you know, where I had her up against the shower wall and I was like,

[Astrid]

you were able to lift her?

[Chrissy Aldi]

I was able to lift her. Now I just have to ask Astrid to stand up on the step that we have inside there.

[Brian Green]

Can you stand up there? Can you do all the work? Because I'm a little bit older than

[Chrissy Aldi]

you and I'm not feeling so sharp right now.

[Brian Green]

Is that at all possible?

[Chrissy Aldi]

No. Okay, well, then let's just have regular sex like normal married couples do. Let's take a short break. I got a fun one for us today. You're back. I want to ease you into it.

[Brian Green]

Back for the second time in two months. I want to.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I know. And so happy to have you back, by the way. And I know the listeners are, too. We got a lot.

[Astrid]

I know. Thanks for all the love and support. It was a sad, sad reason I was gone. But we'll tell that story.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, we'll get back. Whenever you're ready, you can tell that story. But for now, let's keep it light and Fluffy. Yeah, let's talk about dating back then versus dating now. And what I want to more specifically talk about is dating shows back then versus dating shows now. So we'll look at the cut. We'll look at Love Connection. Today we'll do Love Connection. Tomorrow we'll do the cut. All right, let's take our first short break and then we'll be back with more fun here on tcb.

[Brian Green]

My Chrissy Aldi's back, everybody.

[Josh W]

Woo hoo.

[Chuck Woolery]

You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some very heavy thinking to do before 10 o'.

[Brian Green]

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. Hecommercial 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 thecommercialbreak 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.

[Chrissy Aldi]

All right, so we have reviewed both the Love Connection and the Cut. A version of a Dating Game, televised dating game or video dating Game back in the 80s. The love connection with Chuck Woolery some of you may or may not be aware of. And then a very Right now in the now, the cool thing is to watch the cut, okay? On the Dating Game, you actually had to go on a date with someone before you judged whether or not they were one for you. You had to spend time with them. Right now all you have to do is just look at them or get one word out of their mouth and you can decide to press the button and they have to leave. It's so shitty. I don't understand. And this tomorrow we'll review the cut and when we do that, you're going to see just how quickly judgmental these Folks are. And it amazes me, like, how do you survive the dating world when literally you can say hello and somebody goes, nope, not for me. Yeah, see you later. Like spend a little time with me. Right? Just spend an hour with me. Now on the other hand, at the Love Connection, you had to meet some stranger at their front door and then go spend a night with them. I don't know, there's some kind of middle there.

[Brian Green]

That makes sense.

[Chrissy Aldi]

It's like a coffee date we have to go on, isn't it?

[Astrid]

On the other side Stream, there's Naked Attraction.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, Naked Attraction.

[Astrid]

You just straight up are naked.

[Brian Green]

I'm thinking that's the best one of them all.

[Astrid]

Maybe.

[Brian Green]

Let me show you my dick. Is it good? You like it? All right, I got no ass, but

[Chrissy Aldi]

my balls are fine.

[Brian Green]

Cool. Let's go on a date.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I really want to know how those things work out. I wish they had follow up episode. Maybe they do. Of Naked Attraction. I just never seen it. But today, let's review how dating was back then. And then tomorrow we'll get into dating how it is now. Okay, here's Chuck Waller with another episode of Love Connection. I was strolling on the Internet as you do. Oh man, do I like to. And here we go. Another fantastic episode of what the Chuck. Let's see what Chuck has to say.

[Josh W]

Welcome to Love Connection. Where old fashioned romance meets modern day technology.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh W]

Where you hear all the intimate.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, modern day technology.

[Astrid]

I guess it was just video.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure television had been around for about 60 years at that point.

[Brian Green]

So I'm not sure what he talking about.

[Chrissy Aldi]

But just like today, people use the word technology. It's like people use the word AI now.

[Brian Green]

Right. Well, infused with AI.

[Astrid]

Right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Really? Is that really a selling point?

[Brian Green]

You don't have AI.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Don't lie to me, Sprite. You don't have AI in your cans. That's not true of a first date.

[Josh W]

Sometimes our dates have a happy ending and some other times there's just an ending.

[Chrissy Aldi]

You know how you know the is from 1980. There's literally a minute and a half long intro. Anybody watching this today is already bailed. They're already like, I'm not interested. Like many people are bailing on the show right now. There you go.

[Josh W]

But it's always unpredictable when two strangers meet trying to make that love connection.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh W]

And now here's our host, Josh W.

[Astrid]

You got to love the set design too. That looks like it's like. Like Valentine's Day. Yeah, it has Big, huge hearts and

[Chrissy Aldi]

two, like, sectional couches. And it looks like your typical 70s sunken in family room.

[Astrid]

Right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Did you ever go into a house? Yeah, back in the day when they had the sunken in family room. They had like a big circle in the middle of the family room, which might maybe the kid.

[Astrid]

Which when the kids went to bed, the adults played.

[Brian Green]

That's right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Everybody threw their keys in a bowl and started giving each other hand jobs.

[Astrid]

Yeah. Lay out the drugs table.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Hey, Steve, great job coaching the kids on soccer. Kids are asleep. Can I give you a hand job, Steve?

[Brian Green]

I guess so. Let's go to the sunken family room and get it on. My wife's gonna put a bunch of blow in the kitchen.

[Astrid]

Right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And pillows in the sunken family room while they're showing a crowd shot. And two guys got really excited. They, like, stood up and clapped for Chuck

[Astrid]

fans.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Maybe Chuck's been to a couple sunken Ben dreams. Oh, yeah, I bet Chuck was wild back in these days.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Like, gotta be. Or nationally so famous when the Love Connection was on that, you know, you probably have to assume that Chuck was, you know, a lot of people Chuck. That's just probably what happened.

[Astrid]

Or did he do. Did he get the. The questions like we were discussing the day that people get that are in the industry. You know, like, I'm really trying to get into podcasting. Brian, what do I do? Or our friend Rachel voiceover. People really want get into that. Jeff, my husband, people come to him with the music industry stuff.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I still can't get.

[Astrid]

I wonder if Chuck got, you know, like, hey, can you match me?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Hey, I really need to meet a woman because I've never had one.

[Brian Green]

Hey, after all those criminal convictions, I'm

[Chrissy Aldi]

having a really hard time meeting ladies. And since the Internet's not around and

[Brian Green]

no one will find out, you might set me up on a blind date. Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Or I want to be a TV show host. How do I do that? I won't get over this. We met at Chrissy's house the other day and in the morning, and Jeff was telling the story. He runs this huge music festival called Mempho in Memphis. And every year, the artists get bigger and bigger and bigger. It's like a bona fide big festival now. And some people will call Jeff and

[Brian Green]

be like, hey, my kids got a band.

[Chrissy Aldi]

You think you can play men foe? Yeah, sure, no problem. We'll have to get into that. Yeah, he could sing for Dinosaur junior Maybe he can come up and play a couple solos.

[Chuck Woolery]

Nice to see you all. Let's get started by meeting our first guest. Now, he's into scuba diving, skiing, dancing. He dates at least twice a week. And he says that most of the women he meets are always complaining about their problems.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Randy Blanchard is in car sales. He's 34 years old, looks 62 years

[Astrid]

old, as they all do.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yes, they all do. And also looks like a mass murderer, if I don't mind saying myself.

[Chuck Woolery]

Welcome, Randy Bland.

[Chrissy Aldi]

No one pays attention to their hair that much unless they're ready to kill somebody.

[Chuck Woolery]

Well, everybody's got problems, I guess. What. What kind of problems do these women?

[Randy Blanchard]

Well, basically, you name it, they've got it. I mean, insignificant things. Work, private lives, relationships.

[Brian Green]

I mean, work, private life.

[Astrid]

Insignificant things.

[Brian Green]

Vaginal discharge. I mean, these ladies got it all, Chuck. I don't want to deal with it. I want head while we're driving down the 101 and that's it, quite frankly.

[Astrid]

Problems.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Listen, clean my laundry, do my cooking, give me head on the 101. What else do I need to know? I don't want to hear about your private life.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Can you imagine being married to someone like this?

[Astrid]

Well, he's divorced.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, that's true.

[Brian Green]

I don't want to hear all about your private life. That's your life.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I can't imagine. I think I have a friend who acts like this still to this day.

[Randy Blanchard]

Some are nothing. I mean, there's something that you should just be able to throw off to the side and forget about. But they want to dwell on them. I don't know if they just, like,

[Chuck Woolery]

wallowing in, want you to help them.

[Brian Green]

Ah, those broads. They're always wallowing in their own personal problems. Let me get my problems out first, and then if we have time later on, maybe we'll talk about your private life. He's like Ron Burgundy. He's like Ron Burgundy. I think Will Ferrell may have studied this guy.

[Randy Blanchard]

I do. I just saw him snap out of it. Put one foot in front of the other and go,

[Brian Green]

shut your mouth.

[Astrid]

God, get over it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. For the third time in this conversation, do you have to talk so much? This guy is such a chauvinist. Oh, my God.

[Randy Blanchard]

Forever.

[Chuck Woolery]

Okay. Remind everybody what happened.

[Randy Blanchard]

Yes.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Chuck says okay. This is going over like a lead balloon.

[Brian Green]

Let's get on to something else, because

[Chrissy Aldi]

I don't want to ask tough questions. Chuck never asks tough questions.

[Astrid]

Oh, no.

[Chrissy Aldi]

He never pushes on. Well, there was that one episode where he kind of pushed back on the guy.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah.

[Chuck Woolery]

Studio audience saw Randy's three choices. They voted for one, we're gonna take a look at all three women and

[Randy Blanchard]

catch you up today.

[Chuck Woolery]

First it was Sharon. She prefers dating men with blue eyes and a college education. Nancy avoids men who wear gold.

[Astrid]

Blue eyes and a college education, huh?

[Brian Green]

So she wants a. She wants to hit her youth.

[Chrissy Aldi]

That's what she wants.

[Brian Green]

Blue eyes and a college education.

[Chrissy Aldi]

That's all right.

[Chuck Woolery]

Canes and use hairspray. Kristen describes herself as.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, wait, the second lady. Her name is Nancy. She's 29 years old and she works paging company sales.

[Astrid]

Yeah, the old pagers.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She's probably still at that job today.

[Chuck Woolery]

Self confident but gullible. Now, the audience vote was recorded yesterday. We'll get to that a little later. Right now, Randy's going to tell us who he chose.

[Randy Blanchard]

I chose Sharon.

[Chuck Woolery]

Chose Sharon. We got Sage.

[Josh W]

Say hello to Sharon.

[Astrid]

Looks nice.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, Sharon looks lovely.

[Astrid]

She does. Let's see if she's got any problems.

[Brian Green]

Let's see if she's. Personal life problems I don't want to deal with.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, she's already pissed. You can just tell by the way she said hi to Chuck.

[Brian Green]

Hi, Chuck.

[Chuck Woolery]

Okay. All right, tell me about the day.

[Randy Blanchard]

Well, I'm basically new down here from Northern California. Moved down a couple, couple months ago. So I called Sharon up. She lives all the way down in Costa Mesa and I'd never been there before.

[Brian Green]

All right, stop talking about your personal life and get to the date.

[Randy Blanchard]

So basically I told my. I told her, look, I'm putting myself in your hands. Just pick something for us to do, we'll have fun.

[Chuck Woolery]

That's about it.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, that's a really nice thing for you to do on a first date.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, you pick it, you figure it out.

[Astrid]

I don't want to do any work.

[Brian Green]

I don't want to deal with all the personal details. You figure it out and I'll show up with my dick hard and ready to go.

[Chuck Woolery]

Four and a half hour away, something like that.

[Randy Blanchard]

It's a little bit of a cruise. Yeah. So I hopped in the old Mobile, I drove down, came over to a house about 11.

[Brian Green]

Mobile, what's that? Two square wheels on a horse. Came all the way down from Northern California. Took me six years. I did the Oregon trail in four weeks.

[Randy Blanchard]

One of the biggest problems I was running into is she was wearing the same perfume that my ex mother in law wore. So there was, it was. I mean, I hate my ex mother in law. She hates me. So it started off on a real bad note to begin with, but I

[Brian Green]

figured what I instantaneously Said to myself, what am I doing here? I should be back selling cars and not worrying about her personal problems.

[Randy Blanchard]

Heck, let's go ahead and try and make the best out of this. So we hopped in the car.

[Chuck Woolery]

What the heck, let's try to make the best out of this.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Thank you, Chuck. Thank you for finally getting a pair of cojones and saying something relatively subversive but kind of passive aggressive to the absolute asshole who's sitting on the couch.

[Chuck Woolery]

The heck, let's see what happens.

[Randy Blanchard]

Yeah, let's see what happens. I figure I drove all the way down there. Let's give this poor girl every chance.

[Brian Green]

So what?

[Chrissy Aldi]

Give this poor girl a chance.

[Brian Green]

She's just.

[Astrid]

Just because she was wearing a weird perfume.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Perfume. By the way, she doesn't know your ex.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Mother in law.

[Brian Green]

They didn't. They didn't cooperate to make sure she

[Chrissy Aldi]

had the same perfume on you. What a dick.

[Astrid]

Yeah, we have.

[Randy Blanchard]

We have. We hopped in the car and she said, well, I've got this real nice restaurant picked out. And we drove down to Newport beach and. And we go to this restaurant. I knew we were in trouble the minute we arrived because we were like the only people there.

[Chuck Woolery]

Hang on just a minute. Let me come.

[Brian Green]

Hang on, hang on just one minute here.

[Astrid]

What is she gonna say?

[Brian Green]

Let's talk to her for a minute. Don't worry about her personal problems, Chuck.

[Chrissy Aldi]

There's nothing interesting over there.

[Chuck Woolery]

Stacey, remember any of the conversation in the car or was there anything that starts.

[I]

Yeah. Randy complimented me by saying, of the girls you chose, one was a beautiful blonde girl that looked like Elizabeth Montgomery. And the other was. Was no competition at all. And then he liked my personality. So between beauty and personality, he chose personality. So he started scoring points right away there.

[Brian Green]

That's how I do it, Chuck. I like to tell him how it is right off the bat. Listen, you're ugly, but you got some dick sucking lips. So I decided right off the bat to choose you. And here you come with all your personal problems. Your perfume, your vaginal discharge. Why do I have to deal with all of this?

[I]

Told me I looked hefty on the video, but scrawny in person.

[Randy Blanchard]

Well, I figured, you know, I'd tell her what's on my mind and what I'm thinking.

[Chuck Woolery]

Well, now, what happened next? So you get to the restaurant, only two there.

[Randy Blanchard]

Menu was real limited. She picked out the restaurant. You know, she's. She's a little ditzy, which is a lot like my ex mother in law too. And.

[Astrid]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Josh W]

Wow.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, he's just hitting on all cylinders right now.

[Astrid]

Isn't he crazy? Firing away.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I see this as a. If you were single, this is the kind of guy you would bring home.

[Brian Green]

Is this Jeff?

[Chrissy Aldi]

What a dick.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, what a dick.

[Chrissy Aldi]

God, guys were terrible in the 80s. I know every episode we do, it's some machismo chauvinistic jack hole who thinks he was born to service women.

[Randy Blanchard]

We go to this restaurant, it had about the world's best service. I mean, there's like one waiter there. We're the only people there. And he'd ask us silly questions like, would you like a four work? You know, something to eat with and what have you. So the service was really poor and it wasn't going very well.

[I]

But considering Randy had suggested we go on a picnic and shut up without a picnic basket or anything else in hand. It was what we were supposed to do on a moment's notice, so.

[Chuck Woolery]

But it was okay on a moment's notice, right?

[I]

Basically.

[Chuck Woolery]

How are you?

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, thank God he didn't bring the picnic basket. He probably would have left you tied to a tree somewhere.

[Astrid]

I would not go to a park with that guy. For sure.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I wouldn't get in the car with that guy. Especially if he told me that I don't like you because you're wearing the same perfume as my mother in law.

[Astrid]

And I'd be like on camera, but in person you're scrawny.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah. Is that a compliment? I guess it's kind of a compliment. You're a lot skinnier than you look in your pictures.

[Chuck Woolery]

Feeling about his personality at lunch now.

[I]

Well, let me tell you, Chuck, he's not the most exciting guy in the world. In fact, Randy's about as. Randy was about as much fun as watching paint dry.

[Chrissy Aldi]

There you go, girl. Get him, get him.

[Randy Blanchard]

But anyway, anyway, I thought, well, hell, let's try kissing her and see what that's like.

[Brian Green]

Let's try her and see what happens. What? Oh my God. This is classic. Well, I figured I drove all the way down here, bad service at the

[Chrissy Aldi]

restaurant, and she smells like my house.

[Brian Green]

Ex mother in law. You know what I'm gonna do? Have sex with her. That should solve all the problems. Let's put my dick in her mouth and shut her up. Oh, my God, Chrissy. This is crazy. This is awful. Now.

[Chuck Woolery]

Hey.

[I]

Well, I didn't know what to do. It was either swim or let him kiss me. So I let him kiss you did. Just a little one on the right here because I didn't know what else to do? I was a wuss. I should have just jumped in the water. I know, but anyway, you know.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, shame on you too then. Shame on both of you.

[Randy Blanchard]

I, I was getting really bored and I, I suggested, well, let's go back to your place and wait. Maybe we can go out dancing later and do something.

[Brian Green]

Let's go back to your place.

[Astrid]

I'm bored.

[Brian Green]

I'm bored.

[Astrid]

Let's get back to your place.

[Brian Green]

Can you get naked for me? No, not right here. What about place? Do you have any more of that perfume? I can throw it out the window for you.

[Randy Blanchard]

There's some kind of thrill somewhere. So we went back to her place and she checked the answering machine which was lit up like a Christmas tree. And she started making all these phone calls and you know, the epitome of the day was I was sitting on the couch watching afternoon game shows. You know, the typical of what was happening with the dates.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Afternoon game shows. What time did this date start? 9:00am you starting off on a bad

[Brian Green]

foot Anyway, you gotta do dates after

[Chrissy Aldi]

4pm Coffee, blind dates at 1pm you

[Brian Green]

know what I'm saying?

[Chrissy Aldi]

Okay, if you're gonna go on a date date, go after 7pm or if you have children after 4pm but here's the thing. You can't expect to have a fantastic date that starts at 9am and you're going to a restaurant where you get bad service. Yeah, it's the afternoon crew. Never go with the afternoon crew.

[Astrid]

It's probably like it, you know, switching. It was probably a switch out, you know, like 2:30 or 3. Yeah, right before the evening crew comes in. That's right, evening shift.

[Chrissy Aldi]

They're still selling last night's special. You don't ever go to a restaurant during the afternoon. During the afternoon. Never do it.

[I]

I must interject here that at this point Randy might have thought it a wise thing to perhaps leave if he was just sitting on the couch by himself. But no.

[Randy Blanchard]

Yeah, well, I

[Chrissy Aldi]

considered it.

[Randy Blanchard]

Brad figured I had driven an hour and a half.

[Chuck Woolery]

Half.

[Randy Blanchard]

You know, I figured try, try and make it work somehow. I mean, it was long drive, traffic was real bad and I didn't feel like going.

[Chuck Woolery]

Well, how did it end?

[Brian Green]

Oh wow.

She just planted himself on her couch and didn't leave. What the. Chuck.

[Astrid]

All right, she's totally ignoring him.

[Brian Green]

I know.

[Astrid]

Doing answering machine stuff, calling people back.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And he didn't pick up on it. Oh, he actually did pick up on it. He just made the, the actual in the moment decision that it doesn't matter. What this woman does. I'm not leaving this couch because the afternoon game shows are on. All right, let's take our second break. We'll be back in two and two with. With More Love Connection.

[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.

[Randy Blanchard]

And we.

[Rachel]

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]

All right, back with More Love Connection here on the commercial break.

[Astrid]

Or no Love.

[Brian Green]

Or no Love Connection.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, he's trying desperately by just planting himself on her couch and not leaving.

[Astrid]

But no else fails. Sit on the couch and watch tv.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Well, listen, I did that a couple times, but the only reason why is because I wasn't legally allowed to drive.

[Brian Green]

I had to wait for the taxi.

[Chrissy Aldi]

All right, let's hear more about this date.

[Randy Blanchard]

Well, how did it end? She had a. She. It ended basically the same way it went, just mediocre. And as I took her out to dinner, you know, figured, you know, let's take her out to dinner before I go. She had a phone call, was an emergency from work or what have you.

[Brian Green]

You.

[Astrid]

Yeah, I bet you. What? I've got an emergency.

[Brian Green]

You know what? Someone just shat on my desk at work. I gotta go clean it up before my boss comes in. I'll see you later. Feel free to watch the afternoon game shows.

[Randy Blanchard]

Phone call.

[Chuck Woolery]

It was an emergency.

[Randy Blanchard]

Oh, yeah. She had one of them emergency meetings.

[Chuck Woolery]

Is it really? What kind of.

[I]

No, that was actually a fake. And that was plan B of plan A. Plan A? Plan A was my girlfriend's car broke down and I had to go pick her up, but Randy loused it all up by offering to go with me, so that didn't work.

[Brian Green]

Oh, my God. This is classic. Good for her.

[Astrid]

She had to try, too.

[Brian Green]

She had to try, too. She had a car emergency. With her friend and then a work emergency and he's like, no problem, I'll go with you. You, Can I bring your color tv? Can we record these afternoon game shows on your VHS machine?

[I]

And I had plan B, which my boss, who was also a co worker, pretended that we had a meeting, so we went. So he came and picked me up to go to this meeting.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She had to get her boss to pick her up. And did he leave at that point?

[Brian Green]

I'm guessing not.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I mean, how much, much shittier can this situation be?

[Randy Blanchard]

Head up against the wall sometimes, you know? But anyway, it worked out pretty well anyway because I ended up going to a club pretty close to her house and I met a nice woman there and ended up.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I bet you did.

[Astrid]

Club and time. It's five o'.

[Brian Green]

Clock. Well, it's cocaine. It's out.

[Chrissy Aldi]

It's cocaine o'. Clock.

[Brian Green]

Let me, let me get in there. Oh my God. 2:30 in the morning and it was nice.

[Chuck Woolery]

Well, let's take a look and see who the audience.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, let's see.

[Chuck Woolery]

See what happens here. Kristen, 85%.

[Brian Green]

Wow, they picked that one girl by a bunch.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I wonder why. I, I did. I don't know. I didn't see the actual.

[I]

Should have picked the blonde.

[Chuck Woolery]

I think she was blond.

[Randy Blanchard]

That was the blonde.

[Brian Green]

See? How d. Elizabeth. Well, I just murdered four people.

[Astrid]

Look, he's got little chiclet teeth too.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I know. God, he's creepy. I bet I, No, I'm not going to say it. Never mind.

[Brian Green]

I bet I know what the current

[Chrissy Aldi]

version of this guy looks like. I bet I know if he's alive, what he's doing. If you want to take Iran, he's in the villages.

[Brian Green]

I promise you he's down at the villages.

[Randy Blanchard]

Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

And yeah, why not? It didn't work out with the first girl who kept talking. Let me go out with the second girl, probably keep talking.

[Chuck Woolery]

Sharon, we're sorry that things didn't work out. We do have a nice gift for you.

[I]

Thank you.

[Chuck Woolery]

And maybe we'll see you again.

[I]

All right.

[Astrid]

Thank you.

[Brian Green]

And Randy.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, Sher could have been nicer.

[Astrid]

Perfectly nice and sweet.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Aldi]

She just got it hooked up with a real. I hope they don't give him like a second show.

[Astrid]

I, I, I know. Well, they, you know, they're going to ask him to do the, the second date. He said he would, but I hope they revoke that.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, I hope they do too. I hope they give this girl a warning about what's coming down the pike.

[Chuck Woolery]

Let us know what happens with that, and we're going to come right back with another couple right after this.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Oh, my God. Okay, so that's the cur.

[Brian Green]

That is the.

[Chrissy Aldi]

The 80s version of a dating show. They sent you out on a date. You actually had to spend time. Good luck getting the guy off your couch. I mean, imagine in 2023, a dating show saying, go to someone's house and pick them up on a blind date. You'd have to have three or four security guys with you.

[Astrid]

Oh, yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

In 2023, no one in their right mind would do this.

[Rachel]

No.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I think. Didn't Andy Cohen try and revive this show, the Love Connection?

[Astrid]

Right. I think there was.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Or blind date or something like that. And I think I remember watching it and feeling like it was good, like it was. Oh, that's. That's funny. That's good. But it never came back, I'm probably sure. For security concerns.

[Astrid]

Right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

This is insane. And then to have such a douchebag. But we've reviewed so many of these episodes. I mean, probably six or seven to eight at this point, over the 400 episodes of Love Connection. And every guy seems like the same guy. They're all chauvinistic pigs who just think the world of themselves and can't stand the fact that the girl has a personality.

[Astrid]

Oh, right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, that girl had a personality. And that's what he didn't like. I guarantee it.

[Brian Green]

Oh, feelings. What are those? Put those back away. I don't like those. Big and scary like the dinosaurs. I want to see that. What is all that? All right.

[Chrissy Aldi]

So glad to have you back, my friend.

[Astrid]

I'm so happy to be back.

[Chrissy Aldi]

And I know I. I hope you're back the whole time, but if you have to take some additional time off, we're here for you. We love you, you guys. You do what you got to do, girl. We'll be right here, slaving away, making 600 episodes a week for five listeners. You know, that's how it goes.

[Brian Green]

That is.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I don't know if you've heard of the podcast industry not doing so hot right now. Spotify just laid off 18% of their workforce, 17% of their workforce force. That's insane. Yeah, that's insane. But of course, they paid all that money to all those podcasters.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I'm not sure all of them worked out.

[Astrid]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah. Because now I see them in different networks, and I'm like, oh, I guess it didn't work out with Spotify. All right. TCBpodcast. Dot com. That's where you go. You find out more about the show. Chrissy and I. You can watch all the video, you can listen to all the audio. The entire library is right there. One location. TCBpodcast.com you want your piggy fronting sticker? Go to the website, hit the contact us button, click that drop down menu, give us your physical address and we will be happy to send one to you or Astrid will be happy to send one to you if you want us to sign it or something like that. And a lot of people unbelievably do, why they think our signature is going to be worth anything in the future. Or maybe they just like the fact that we sign. Who knows?

[Astrid]

We do. We do sign them.

[Chrissy Aldi]

Yeah, we do. We do sign them. Stacks of them at a time actually, which is kind of crazy. So go get your free picky fronting sticker. Series number five. Our series Listen audio scavenger hunt postponed until January because I want Chrissy to be here while we do it. So that's postponed until January. Some people have texted and asked about that. We'll get back to that and I promise we'll let you know when that happens. 626 Ask TCB the number three. That's 626 Ask TCB the number 3. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas, ask Brian's mom, ask TCB. Send it all there via text message. It's toll free. Or leave a voicemail mail. You can go to our Instagram page. It's getting millions of views right now for reasons I are are I don't comprehend.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's right. The commercial break TCV podcast on Tik

[Chrissy Aldi]

[e-mail] the commercial break. Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all we'll do for right now.

[Astrid]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

But man do I love you.

[Chrissy Aldi]

I love you and best to you

[Brian Green]

and best to you and best you

[Chrissy Aldi]

out there in the podcast you universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I do say, we always say and we must say goodbye,

[Brian Green]

Sam.