TCB's Endless Day #5

Summary

The Commercial Break – TCB’s Endless Day #5

Release Date: May 31, 2025
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Summary by AI

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Episode Overview

This improv-comedy episode, part of “TCB’s Endless Day” marathon, rejoins hosts Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley as they dive headlong into their favorite recurring theme: reviewing the bizarre, chaotic, and highly entertaining world of vintage dating game shows—particularly the classic “Love Connection.” The episode is a nostalgic, irreverent tribute to their show's history and the cringey magic of unscripted TV, punctuated by off-the-cuff humor, rambling tangents, and lively recaps of iconic podcast moments and listener interactions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Endless Day & TCB’s Evolution

• The episode is deep into a marathon (“Endless Day”), with the duo reflecting on the high energy at the start and their current loopy state.

• Krissy notes her snack of choice (“a little Chick-fil-A”—[01:13]), sparking a brief debate on best fast food (waffle fries are a win for both).

• Shout-outs go to an ever-growing roster of listeners who are texting in support ([01:44]), with promises to call out more and accept calls during the live Twitch broadcast later in the day.

• Bryan recognizes how seasons 3 and 4 of TCB became defined by video reviews, particularly on the themes of “dating game shows, Mountain Monsters, Frankie B., and Teresa Caputo” ([04:00]).

• The hosts offer self-deprecating takes on how their own segment ideas sometimes spiral:

  • “Chrissy’s working like ChatGPT today. She’s got a little PT head.” ([03:26])
  • “ChatGPT was supposed to be the miracle cure for everything, and it can’t even create a Google Drive.” – Bryan ([03:39])

The Rise and Fall of Brian’s Dating Show Idea

• Discussion turns to their ill-fated plan to launch a TCB dating show ([08:29]):
  • Bryan recalls, “I had the bright idea: let’s do a dating show... Text me or call me at this phone number if you’d like to be a part...” ([10:09]).
  • Only “four or five” people texted in; most responses were from “two guys” whose expectations ranged from the superficial (“I never dated anybody minus a D cup... so make sure she’s got grand Tetons.” [11:33]) to the awkward (one was “67 years old,” still living with his mom, and “not looking for someone my age” [12:07]).
  • The hosts quickly abandoned the project for “legal ramifications and creepy vibes,” sparking another TCB running joke about constantly changing phone numbers ([12:21]).

The “Love Connection” Legacy

• Nostalgia reigns supreme as the hosts lay out the premise and enduring weirdness of “Love Connection”—the 1980s/1990s dating gameshow ([16:44]):
  • “The Love Connection is the one that is closest to our heart. It’s the king of dating shows.” – Bryan ([16:44])
  • The show’s structure: one contestant, videotapes from three potential dates, audience votes, money to go out, all the freedoms and risks of 80s TV.
  • Bryans’s summary of audience reactions and cultural context:
    • “If a whiff of sex would be in the air... People would pass out.” ([18:54])
    • “Any kid who stayed home from school sick in the 90s or early 2000s…knows what Love Connection is…” ([19:01])
  • Krissy piles on with memories of other classic daytime TV that set the mood:
    • “Young and the Restless for me.” ([19:28])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Opening Banter & TCB in-Jokes

• “The next six episodes are like that song [no one cares about at a concert]. Go ahead and excuse yourself. You won’t miss a thing. I’ll text you when it gets good again.” – Narrator ([00:11])
• “Best to you, Chrissy.” / “Best to you, Brian.” – TCB catchphrase ([00:51])
• “Season three and season four were really marred by video reviews... but we loved every minute.” – Bryan ([04:00])

Dating Show Misadventure

• “You’re texting a podcast that has three listeners to find a girlfriend and you’re gonna be choosy? Really?” – Bryan ([11:36])
• “I never really left home.” – The 67-year-old dating show respondant ([12:01])

Love Connection Recap – The Ray Bennett Saga

(Highly Memorable Segment: 25:00–48:20)

• Introducing Ray Bennett—“He’s a lighting technician. Never been married. Go figure. Age 30, looks 80.” – Bryan ([25:37])
• “He does look like Eddie Van Halen.” – Krissy ([25:45])
• Recapping Ray’s “great” job:
  • “I hand out pamphlets on the street.” ([27:23])
  • “Promoting rock and roll bands on the Sunset Strip. I just have the option of meeting women all day long.” – Ray ([27:26])
• On Ray’s storied love life: “If I’ve had like 40 or 50 one-night stands just meeting these women on the Strip.” – Ray ([29:39])
  • Bryan riffs: “You are a rock star… I’m not a rock star, but I live like one, Chuck.” ([29:51])
• Date details get increasingly absurd:
  • Met at 7-Eleven (“Meet me at the 7-Eleven at 7. Go out from there, see how things go.” – Krissy [26:25])
  • “I looked her over…she was wearing some nice sunglasses. Driving gloves, which was kind of neat.” – Ray ([36:56])
  • “What is going on in Hollywood? You’re at the 7-Eleven. Ray pulls up, checks you out, you’re wearing driving gloves. Hey, you want to race?” – Bryan ([37:09])
  • “She brought out this whip, and as it’s in there she starts twirling around and twirling around.” – Ray ([39:52])
  • The infamous date ending: “Dropped me off at the freeway on-ramp.” ([44:44])
    • “Drop me off at the freeway on-ramp. Wait, stop here.” – Chuck ([45:05])
    • “He didn’t want you to see his van.” – Bryan ([45:59])
• Wrap-up: The pair seem curiously matched, and Darcy agrees to another date—with the ever-weird Ray.
  • “Once you drop someone off on the highway, you’re kind of bonded for life…” – Bryan ([47:52])
• On the “Love Connection” aesthetic:
  • “Kevin, show that on video so we know what we’re talking about here. The TCB’s endless trucks on with our cowboy boots on the outside of our pants.” – Bryan ([48:48])

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Listener Interaction and Meta-Humor

• Ongoing engagement with listener texts, shout-outs to Marissa and others listening at work ([24:27–25:00]).
• Mock confusion about the episode’s timeline: “I don’t want to confuse anybody that we are not live. We are recording this an hour ahead of time.” – Bryan ([25:01])
• Callbacks and jokes about broken phone line schemes, lost phone numbers, and running gags about technological ineptitude.

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• [01:13] – Chick-fil-A snack banter and fast food rankings
• [04:00] – Recap of TCB’s recurring episode themes
• [08:29] – Genesis of TCB’s failed dating show idea
• [11:33]–[12:07] – Creepier entries from show applicants
• [16:44] – Deep dive into “Love Connection” and its cultural cachet
• [25:23]–[48:33] – Ray Bennett’s “Love Connection” date, with running commentary
• [44:44]–[46:10] – Freeway on-ramp drop-off debacle
• [47:52] – Bittersweet conclusion: “Once you drop someone off on the highway, you’re bonded for life…”

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Tone & Style

• The vibe is “gleefully chaotic, loosely structured, self-aware.” Bryan and Krissy lean hard into banter, digression, and meta-comedy. They riff on podcasting, old TV, and their own mishaps, all with infectious irreverence.
• Language is informal, often punchy and quick with callbacks ("Best to you," "What the fuck, Chuck?").
• A running thread is affectionate mockery—of themselves, of their listeners, and above all of the wonderfully weird characters lurking in dating show archives.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is quintessential The Commercial Break: a fever dream for fans of retro reality TV, podcast in-jokes, and improv comedy. Listeners are treated to both affectionate nostalgia and biting commentary, with Bryan and Krissy demonstrating their signature chemistry through deconstruction of television’s most awkward courtship rituals—and their own podcast’s many, many “endless” days.

Recommended for: Fans of offbeat comedy, retro pop culture, TV nostalgia, and listeners who don’t mind a little chaos with their laughs.

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Best To You! (And if you ever need a friend, call 988—a mental health resource Bryan earnestly plugs at [21:12]. “It’s just a season. And seasons change. They always do…We love you.”)

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Notable Quotes At-a-Glance:

• “You’re texting a podcast that has three listeners to find a girlfriend and you’re gonna be choosy? Really?” – Bryan ([11:36])
• “Age 30, looks 80.” – Bryan on Ray Bennett ([25:37])
• “Once you drop someone off on the highway, you’re kind of bonded for life.” – Bryan ([47:52])
• “Best to you, Chrissy.” “Best to you, Brian.” – TCB’s signature ([00:51] and throughout)

Transcript

[Brian Green]

On this episode of the commercial break.

[Narrator/Announcer]

You know how at a concert the band will play a song they know everyone isn't in love with just to give the audience a pee break?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Well, the next six episodes are like that song. Go ahead and excuse yourself. You won't miss a thing. I'll text you when it gets good again. Or if it ever gets good. TCD's endless day is in the fifth hour. The next episode starts now.

[Brian Green]

The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, boy.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to tcb's Endless Day. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley.

[Chuck]

Best to you, Chris.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. And we know you're listening because we're seeing the text messages. Thanks for joining us. TCB's endless day rolls. What is this episode 17? I don't know. It feels like episode 17. Yeah, the first two were great, and then I kind of crashed after the third one. Here I am trying to keep the boat steady. I changed my pants, I threw some water.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I got a little Chick Fil A.

[Brian Green]

Did you get a little Chick Fil A?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I did. I Chick Fil A.

[Brian Green]

Best fast food in the biz.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And I just don't think about it until I'm 30 minutes or more outside of my house.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Chick Fil A, man. You gotta give it to Chick Fil A. They are the best fast food in the business. There's a reason why. It's because they smile and the chicken's good. That's the reason why.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Those waffle fries are damn good too.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man, those waffle fries, just salty enough. Put a little barbecue sauce on them. Maybe some Chick Fil A sauce. Anyway, I'm getting hungry. I'll have to eat after this. Oh, the buffalo sauce is good too.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's really good.

[Brian Green]

Hey, shout out. Marianne, Chad, South Georgia, Sean, Jenny, our new friend who's a post a mail carrier just texted. I don't know what the name is. I asked for the name. Uh, and so many more. Postal executive. That's right. Erica, Dana, and all these people. If you. If you're listening, text in and we'll shout you out. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Too many to name. Uh, but we'll try and get to some of them as we go on throughout the day and maybe some phone calls a little bit later on. Looks like around 4pm Eastern Time. Around 4pm Eastern Time.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Around that Time.

[Brian Green]

We're going to go live on Twitch, at least for one episode, maybe on TikTok. TCB podcast is the Twitch account, so go follow it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hit the notification, not the commercial break.

[Brian Green]

Don't even say that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Don't even say it because we. We made it and we forgot how to get into it.

[Brian Green]

I don't even think it's ours. I don't know. We. No one knows how that got made. But let's not even say that. TCB podcast is. TCB podcast is the Twitch handle. Go there, subscribe, hit the notifications so that you get notified when we go live. All right, so it's episode number five. Are we on five now? I think we're on five. Episode number five of tcb's Endless Day, brought to you with a limited commercial interruption by our friends at Five Hour Energy. Thank you very much, Five Our Energy.com for all the flavors, the hot sauces, the merch, everything. You can get it all there or anywhere in the world. Five Hour Energy is everywhere, literally. And thank you very much for. For sponsoring this whole day. We really appreciate it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Fifth episode, five Five Hour Energy and five years.

[Brian Green]

Five hours in five Hour Energy. That's right. Hey, I didn't even think about that. Look at you making all those connections. Chrissy's working like ChatGPT today. That's. She's got a little PT head.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hopefully I don't explode like yours did.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, mine's totally off the rails. I don't even know. It keeps on telling me it's going to do stuff and then it doesn't happen. And then I'm like, what happened? And it's like, I'm sorry, I can't do that. And I'm like, but you told me you could do it. You're right. That's my fault. And I'm like, you're the worst employee I have ever had. ChatGPT was supposed to be the miracle cure for everything, and it can't even create a Google Drive.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, you overloaded it.

[Brian Green]

I did. I asked it to. I sucked it, whatever fucking cares about my chat GPT. Season three. Season three is what we're on right now. So season three here at the commercial break was marked by kind of a turn in tone and texture for a little while. And that is, I think, toward the middle of the season. And then season four kind of lump these two together a little bit. Season three and season four were really marred by video reviews. It was almost every episode of the commercial break another video review we're having so Much fun. We were. It was a lot of fun, to be honest with you. We had a great time and we got really good at what we were doing. But there seemed to be a couple of themes that we kept repeating over and over again. Dating game shows, mountain monsters, Frankie B. And occasionally a Teresa Caputo here and there. And we loved it. We loved every minute.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Piggy fronting happened.

[Brian Green]

Yes, piggy fronting. I think aliens happened in season two or season three. The old. Let's see if I can pull up that noise here. Many of you who have been listening for a while will remember.

[Chuck]

That, of course, came from the guy.

[Brian Green]

Who claimed to have sex 3000 aliens and he got to visit his children up in the space. Space capsule. And he was on our favorite morning show, our favorite ITV morning show called Morning Show. I think that's what it's called, itv. This Morning. This Morning or whatever. And the morning show had this guy on. They always had these wacky characters that would come on and try. They would try and take him seriously. This guy came on, he had drawn his interactions with these magical creatures, of which he had tens of thousands of interactions with aliens, most of them sexual. Like he was having sex with a lot of alien chicks, you know what I'm saying? As one does when they have no teeth. And our boy, I just never forget when he was like, well, have you ever taken a photograph of it? And he goes, well, it's kind of hard to bring a camera. And I thought to myself, yeah, it's kind of hard to bring a camera. On every device that ever has been since the year 2001, there's a camera. This guy was such a nude Nick. Anyway, we thought to ourselves, well, if there's going to be aliens, let this guy be the aliens guy. If there's one human being that they would choose to give to deliver the message to, it's the hornbag from South Georgia who just came down.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, he was like, from a farm or something.

[Brian Green]

Oh, he was. Yeah, he was from another planet because he is from. So the aliens. Teresa Caputo, Mountain monsters, dating shows. Man, did we do a lot of Love Connection. Man, did we do a lot of mountain monsters in season three and season four. So beggars can't be choosers. I think we should talk about both of these things, but we might not get it done in one episode. We might have to roll it over into the seventh episode. But I think we should start off by talking about one of our first Love Connection videos, which is, what the fuck Chuck is the name of the episode.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I must have been back from season one. Well, I remember being in the other studio for that one.

[Brian Green]

I don't. I don't recall exactly what season it was. I'm just talking about, like, our first love connection was, what the fuck, Chuck?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Because that was so funny.

[Brian Green]

That was so funny. But in season three, if I'm not mistaken, and I looked last night, the problem is that they don't carry season numbers anymore on any of the podcast platforms. So I don't even know. I have to go, like, in the server to take a look at it. And let's be honest about it, Brian, we're lazy. Yeah. You think I want it?

[Chuck]

That's why I want chat GPT to.

[Brian Green]

Do all of this shit for me. In season three, we did an episode where we found a guy on the love connection who was like, not a bouncer, but a guy who, like, handed out pamphlets for the whiskey a go go.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The little postcard things on the street.

[Brian Green]

I get chicks all day long. Yeah. I want to do that video again because I think it bears repeating. And we'll do it in the second segment of the show, but, man, did we have some fun with the love connection. And for a minute there, I had the bright idea. This is like. I'm just recalling this because I think it's interesting to discuss. I had the bright idea. Let's do a dating show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yep. I remember this.

[Brian Green]

This is like 12 phone numbers ago. I also. I also remember that season number three or two, we got our first phone number and then we changed it every three months. That's right. For two years.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

We had so many different phone numbers. 1, 8, 8, 8, call TCB 12, TCB 456. Who knows?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Was season three also the season where you did the really long intros?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You want me to repeat it here? Okay, ready? It would be like the next episode of the commercial break starts now. This same noise every time. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian. Is my dear friend Chrissy Hoadley. Best to you, Chrissy bestie Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Welcome back to yet. Oh, what? Wait. Welcome back to yet another episode of this, the commercial break. The only one you'll ever need.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hey, it's not for everyone.

[Brian Green]

It's not for everyone, but at least it's free. Get your money back, guaranteed. Go to tcbpodcast.com la la la la.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

La la la la.

[Brian Green]

It was ridiculous. I would go. I would Drone on for days. The good news, the intro was 17 minutes long. So we had already. So we knew every episode was going to be at least 17 minute long. The bad news, we had like this symposium one time. We invited some listeners to like, tell us what they like and what they don't like about the show. And the number one thing they don't like about the show is Brian doing a 17 minute intro every fucking episode. It was ridiculous. So I have this bright idea. Let's do a dating show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Text me or call me at this phone number if you would like to be a part of this dating show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We wrote it in the notebook.

[Brian Green]

Wrote it in the notebook. So you knew it was never gonna happen. So I start getting text messages from two people in. In particular. I think we got like four or five people. I think we had like four or five people text us that entire season.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And three of them were regarding the dating show with these two people in particular. And I'm not gonna use their names, of course not, but they were guys. And they started texting me. And I said, okay, great. Well, here's my idea. You know, we'll put the girl behind a screen. You can ask some questions if you guys get along. Like, if, you know, kind of like a is it hotter? Is it not? Type of thing. You ask a question, see how she answers. We'll have your answers ahead of time. If those answers are similar, you guys are connected. And then we'll. We'll send you off into the world to do a zoom date or something like that. Because I think this we still. The lockdowns were going on. Right? That was my bright idea.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

But. But then we thought about legal ramifications.

[Brian Green]

Not only did I think about legal ramifications, I started getting some text messages that I just weren't. I wasn't comfortable with. So I knew that the girl on the other end wasn't going to be comfortable with. It was like, you know, well, I'll tell you what, I never dated anybody minus a B cup, so I'm. Or minus a D cup, so. So make sure she's got grand tetons.

[Chuck]

And I'm like, dude, you're texting a.

[Brian Green]

Podcast that has three listeners to find a girlfriend and you're gonna be choosy. Really? And the other guy was like, well, I gotta be honest, I'm still living with my mom. And I was like, oh, that's okay. You know, lots of people live with their mom.

[Chuck]

It's the pandemic.

[Brian Green]

Like, I'm sure lots of people went home. Now I never really left home. And I'm like, oh, that's okay. Sometimes it takes a while to get out of the house. He's like, 67 years. I was like, 67 years old. You're 67? Probably should have been the first question I asked, but.

[Chris Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. But then I was like, well, maybe we can find someone your age, you know? He's like, I'm not looking for someone my age. And I thought, well, I can think of all the ways this could go wrong. And I can think of none of the ways.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Let's change our phone number.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, let's change our phone number.

[Chuck]

And we did. We did.

[Brian Green]

I still have access to one of those old phone numbers. Like the. You know, it's like an online. The phone number is not actually a phone number. It's a system that we use. And then, you know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, because we started off with that Gmail version. Right. Too.

[Brian Green]

That I had every cheap thing. I have free phone number, dot com.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, didn't one of them. They go out of business?

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And you couldn't get the number?

[Brian Green]

I couldn't get the number. I had 1-888-call-TCB or whatever, had the best phone number ever. And we had it for, like, three weeks. And then all of a sudden, it stopped working. And I was like, oh, okay, let me get in there. And then nothing. It was like, I'm sorry, this account doesn't exist. And I'm like, yes, it does. I paid, like, $600 for the lifetime use of 888. They call TCB. And now, I'm sorry, this doesn't exist. So then I call another phone company, and I'm like, hey, I want to port this over. And they're like, well, you don't own that. And I'm like, well, yes, I do. And they said, no, you don't. This guy, you know, John Smith in Idaho, owns it. And I'm like, no, I own it. Here's the receipt I have. And they said, well, yeah, that receipt's no good anymore because that company went bankrupt, and we bought all their phone numbers and we sold it to someone else. And I'm like, well, how much to get it back? And they're like, well, we don't know. We'll call John and ask him.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

It's like, yeah, and John wanted, like, $6,000 for it. And I'm like, fuck John. Fuck John in Idaho. And John's probably a listener, too. John is probably the guy living in the basement 67 years old, wants a double D hot blonde that's 28 years old come flying in his mom's barn house door. Swear to God. John, give us our phone number back, because I'll never change this phone number again unless I get one. Eight, eight, eight, call TCB back, then I'll get the phone number back. So our dating shows, you know, we. I think we're better just reviewing them rather than trying to do that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I agree.

[Brian Green]

In the history of the commercial break, we reviewed all kinds. We've reviewed the Dating Game, it, Attraction, Naked Attraction, which I have never gotten a response like I've gotten. Naked response. Naked attraction response. Never. People all over the place. I love that show. I hate that show. I was eating breakfast. I was trying to eat breakfast. You know, I can't hear you talk about penises for another episode. I think we almost lost an employee over it. We had Christina here. You remember Christina? She was our producer for a while. I hope she's doing well. Love, Christina.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, we were just talking about her.

[Brian Green]

I do miss Christina a lot. I do. I miss someone that does the hard work. Yeah, that does the work. But Christina was here, and we did that episode, and I thought to myself, let's do penises that way. You know, it's a touchy thing. It's like an HR problem. Right? I mean, she signed a contract, and it said in that contract specifically, we talk about all kinds of shit. So if you're bothered by that. And to be fair to her, she was never bothered by any. She was right in there with us in the mix. But that episode, when we recorded the episode of Naked Attraction, when we just looked at penises for an hour, the look on her face told me all I needed to know. I was like, I'm either getting sued or she's quitting after this because we just looked at a bunch of penises for an hour.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, that was something.

[Brian Green]

We've done all kinds of dating shows, and I've loved them all. It's one of my favorite types of television programming, to be honest, because there's always a train wreck right around the corner.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What was the one that we did recently?

[Brian Green]

That was the Celia Black.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, there was Celia, but there were the two, like, wrestlers. The women wrestlers.

[Brian Green]

Oh, that was.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What show was. That was that they'd have their hearts on their pants.

[Brian Green]

Studs. Studs. Studs. Studs was good. Studs was good. Every. There's Studs was on for, like, six seasons, but you can't find it anywhere because it's like lost in that, you know, IP rights, you know, universe, that black hole. Because really, is Jeff Bezos going, hey, can we get the rights to Studs, where the chauvinistic host talks to chauvinistic guys who just dress down girls with their words in their eyes? Like, it's the most awkward thing you've ever seen. But we found a couple episodes, and we did it and we. And we loved it. It was really fun. It's a snapshot in time.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It is.

[Brian Green]

Um. But the Love Connection is the one that is closest to our heart. It's the king of dating shows. You're right about that. Because get this. In case you haven't. In case you don't know, and I think a lot of you do, but in case you don't. Case you're young and you're listening. The Love Connection would get one person on the couch, and then they would make videotapes of three of the opposite sex. So one guy, three girls would put together these videotapes, answering questions and talking about themselves. And, you know, just from the shoulders up, you know, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. And the guy would choose a girl to go on a date with, or he would let the audience choose somebody to go with.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Both really happened. He chose. And the audience.

[Brian Green]

Well, I'm talking about, like, at first, you can either let the audience choose or you can choose. And then at the end, you can let the audience choose and you can go on a date with them. But get this. Then they give him a bunch of money. They say, hey, here's a thousand bucks or whatever it is. Five. Probably back then. 500 bucks. Here's 500 bucks. Go have a date. Here's their address. Yeah. And their phone number.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Pick them up.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. People would show up other people's doors.

[Brian Green]

And by the way, we can't afford to send a camera crew or security out there, so you're on your own.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Chuck]

Good luck, Chuck.

[Brian Green]

What the fuck, Chuck?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Let loose on Newport?

[Brian Green]

Yes. Let loose on. You know, they're always like, newport, Rancho Cuncamonger, California.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Southern California. California, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And all kind of shit happened. Some. Some guys spent the money before they even got to the date. So they took him to, like, you know, a porta potty. One guy, Brad. Brad, van. Bus station. Took his date to a bus station to get candy bars out of the candy machine. Good job, Brad. A lot of times they would end up back at the house, and they would end up doing it. A lot of times they would end up back.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're showing Knee.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, people.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The audience.

[Brian Green]

You get it. It was a different time. The audience would go crazy when these, like, a whiff of sex would be in the air.

[Chuck]

He got a hand job. People would pass out.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They would go crazy.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And they never even talked even close to explicit. It was an amazing time to be alive in America. Amazing. And this ran. Any kid who stayed home from school sick in the 90s or early 2000s. Early 90s through the early 2000s knows what love connection is because it ran endlessly in syndication. And that's what you would watch when you were sick. Price Is Right.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yep.

[Brian Green]

Let's Make a Deal. Fucking love Connection.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Young and the Restless for me.

[Brian Green]

Young and the Restless and the Love Connection. And maybe Judge Wapner, if you were lucky. You got Judge Wapner. The People's Court. That's right. All right, so let's do this. Everyone settle down. We're all getting too excited.

[Chuck]

I saw her toe. She's got tears. There's nipples under that sweater. I swear to God. Oh, my God.

[Chris Hoadley]

Imagine how farts are wonderful things.

[Chuck]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You just let fly. I love her.

[Chuck]

So Johansson is the best in the West.

[Brian Green]

She really is. Remember that guy?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, the Scaramucci, too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. No, that's Dean. John Dean. Dean. Yeah. Scaramuchi. Scaramuchi.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I don't know where that came from.

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

We're feeling loopy.

[Brian Green]

The guy who was a press secretary for Trump for one afternoon and then became anti Trump the next afternoon. Thanks, Scaramucci. You did us all a favor. I appreciate it. Could you at least stuck in there and then become anti Trump? Could you have been the press secretary that hates the president? That would have been so much more interesting. Now Theo Vaughn's in the front row, and we're all trying to figure out who Carolyn Levitt or whatever her name is saying. She's screaming half the time like I am.

[Chuck]

These tariffs are working. Since no one ever.

[Brian Green]

All right, we're already loopy. It's only episode number three that we're recording today. All right, we're going to take a break now to totally turn the tables. 180 degrees. 988. If you or anyone you know is in mental distress or in crises, 988 is a free, free telephone line that you can call or text 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They never sleep. They never take time off. And they know. And in English and in Spanish, and they know how to get you the resources and the help that you need. Or if you just need someone to talk to, they are there, and they're there for a reason. Because everybody. Everybody. Rachel, we'll talk about this later. Oh, I want to say thank you to Rachel, by the way, for. For being the narrator for this entire dumb idea. I mean, she really.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And our best friend.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, and our best friend. She's so great with the show, and we love her to death, and she's narrating all the intros to the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Rachel, for all that. And she'll talk about this later. But we have all been through this, all of us. If you live long enough, you're gonna have a mental health crisis of some sort. If it lasts a day, a month, or a year, you're gonna go through it. Don't do it alone. Call a friend. Call a family member. Call 988. Call TCB. I don't know. We're not professionals. We can't help you out. A mental health crisis, but we can say hello. And sometimes that's all it takes. It's just someone to say hello and know you're not alone. And I know that there are people out there in the commercial break audience who have been through this because you have texted us and told us so and so. Whatever it takes. An episode of the commercial break. Throwing the commercial. Unfollowing the commercial break. Yeah, unfollowing the commercial break. Blocking the commercial break on Instagram. Whatever it takes, you can get through this. It's just a season. And seasons change. They always do. So take care of yourself. Take care of your head, take care of those around you. We love you. Everyone loves you. You know, I'm talking to whoever it is out there that needs this message today. Alien light language. Receiving transmission. $39.30. All right, okay, we're going to take a break so we don't get off track. We'll be back with Love Connection.

[Narrator/Announcer]

All right, all right, all right, cats and kittens, you're in the middle of another episode during TCV's endless day. Make sure you're following us. Hecommercial break on Instagram for more information on all of today's events and maybe even a live streaming recording. Wouldn't that be a miracle? You know, now would be a really good time to call in and give Brian and Chrissy some moral support. They've been at this for, like, what, 6 million hours? 212-4333 TCB. That's 212-433-3822. Be sure to catch all these episodes a second time on [e-mail] TheCommercialBreak and get your free exclusive Endless Day sticker by visiting tcbpodcast.com and dropping us a line on the Contact Us button. Okay, I'm gonna go or I'll run the risk of being the second person on this podcast to talk way too much. Looking right at you, Brian. Best to you.

[Brian Green]

Okay, Marissa is listening. And then who else is listening? Hey, Marissa, how are you doing? She's working today, I think.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

So a lot of people listen while they work.

[Brian Green]

A lot of people listen. Listen while you work. Anyway, hi, Marissa. Good to have you on board and I hope your day is going well. Someone just texted us halfway through episode number three. Well, you're listening to the minute. I mean, honestly listening to the minute. And in just a couple minutes, episode four will release. So there you go. Okay. As we're recording this, of course this is not live.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You're gonna confuse everybody.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I don't want to confuse anybody that you are not. We are not live. We are recording this an hour ahead of time. Okay? So. Love Connection. What the fuck, Chuck? Let's go back and let's revisit the guy who handed out pamphlets for a living and see how his date went. This is a short one, I think, because for liability reasons, I kept it short with him. Yeah, next guest.

[Love Connection Host]

He enjoys all types of music and loves the dance. Says that he's been.

[Brian Green]

Okay, hold on one second. Let me turn it up a little bit so the good folks at home can hear it. There we go.

[Love Connection Host]

Reading signals. And has had to slow down lately. And he claims that his part time.

[Brian Green]

Job is Ray Bennett is his name. He's a lighting technician. Never been married. Go figure. Age 30. Looks 80. Age 30, looks 60.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Kind of looks like Eddie Van Halen.

[Brian Green]

He does look like Eddie Van Halen. You're so right about that. And I think that's part of why this clip has gone so viral. You know, we're not the only ones who have noticed Ray Bennett. As a matter of fact, on TikTok, there's a whole account called where is Ray Bennett Now?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Really?

[Brian Green]

And he showed up and I saw him. What? He's an old gray man with a mustache and bald. And he looks like an old. He looks like your dad. I mean, not your dad, but your dad. Right? That's who he looks like.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Did he ever get married?

[Brian Green]

I don't know, because the only video is just slideshow pictures of him. But clearly he's still out there. And kicking. Hey, Ray. What's up, buddy? This is, this is the greatest Love Connection appearance in history.

[Love Connection Host]

Great way to meet women. Please welcome Ray Bennett.

[Brian Green]

Nothing like raising your eyebrows like that. Come hither. Raising your eyebrows.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It was up.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Like you're bidding on pigs at a livestock auction.

[Chuck]

Ding, ding, ding.

[Brian Green]

So yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, that's right. He's got the cowboy boots on over the jeans.

[Brian Green]

Cowboy boots over the jeans. That was a look for. It was. I also pinch rolled my jeans at times.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, me too.

[Brian Green]

And nothing like tucking your shirt into your acid wash jeans. He does not have the build to be wearing jeans, boots or that shirt. He has the build to be wearing an elfin costume.

[Love Connection Host]

So you have this great job that helps you meet women.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Love Connection Host]

Are you a bartender, a disc jockey or a.

[Brian Green]

What?

[Chris Hoadley]

Better.

[Chuck]

No, no, better.

[Brian Green]

Better.

[Chuck]

I hand out pamphlets on the street.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Better.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'm part time. I promote for rock and roll bands on the Sunset Strip. And I just have the option of just meeting women all.

[Brian Green]

Day long.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I do have to say the Sunset Strip back in his. This time.

[Chuck]

It'S all tits.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah. Hair, big hair, low cut shirts and short skirts.

[Brian Green]

Those of you who live in California and LA will know this and I know we got listeners out there will know that. Sunset Strip still to this day.

[Chuck]

Rocking at the Sunset Strip. Rocking at the Sunset Strip.

[Brian Green]

Let's see here. Hold on. Do I have a song for that? Probably. Give me a minute here. Yeah, that's the music that was het back then in the 80s. Big hair, big fake breast implants were just coming into fashion so everyone was getting them. Yeah. So here's Ray doing his best. He said he had the option of meeting ladies all day long. Didn't mean that he did that because sometimes he had other things to do. Chrissy. But let's go back and listen to that one more time.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

The option.

[Chris Hoadley]

And I just have the option of just meeting women all day long. I love it.

[Love Connection Host]

Promoting rock and roll bands on the Sunset Strip.

[Chuck]

Yeah, you know, like passing out flyers telling people that I'll be at the bar at 7pm if they want to come on by.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Chuck's trying to figure it out with him too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, Chuck with his coiffed hair is like, I don't understand. I get my escorts delivered to me.

[Chris Hoadley]

This is like, what are the Gazaris? The troubadour, the rocks? You know, passing out flyers all day long.

[Chuck]

Yeah, Gaza's, you know, famous Kazaris. You know what they say? They're not a Khazaris. So, so sorry. Sorry. It's not as gazaaris.

[Love Connection Host]

Have any of these women that you've met ever turned into a serious relationship?

[Chuck]

No, I'm not looking for that. I'm. I got more flyers to pass out, Chuck. I got a van to go back to.

[Brian Green]

I got a. And a hamster.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Or is it all just fan?

[Brian Green]

Oh, he had a van and a hamster. I can guarantee.

[Love Connection Host]

Superficial.

[Chris Hoadley]

It's superficial. But gotta tell you, if I've had like 40 or 50, like one night stands just meeting these women on a strip.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's nodding vigorously.

[Brian Green]

Wee, good for you. You are a rock star of. I'm not a rock star, but I live like one, chuck.

[Chuck]

I've had 40, 51 night stands. No sex. But, you know, they needed a place to stay. My van was parked right out front, so I let them hang out there.

[Love Connection Host]

Well, I won't ask you to define that. I just take your word and you say you had to slow down.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, usually because I'm with these women, I'm usually a very aggressive person. But I usually now, over the years, I'll let them do the initiating because, you know, I've been slapped like a.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Quibble because I've been under police because.

[Chuck]

The judge told me I got slapped, you know. You know, Chuck, I'm usually a very aggressive person.

[Brian Green]

I can see this guy in this day. I don't know about. I don't know about Ray now, but I can see Ray back in the day being the kind of guy who, if you got within 10ft of him at a bar, like, let's say you, Chrissy went. Let's transport you back to 1982. You're at Gazaari's. So sorry, Gaza's Atari Gazaris. You're there and Ray like, you get in his. Yeah, you get in his tractor beam and he just like a magnet, sucks to you. And he never stops talking to you. Cockblocks. Every other guy your girlfriends leave, they go home and he's like guarding the door.

[Chuck]

Hey, I'm handing out flyers. You want to see my flyers? I almost own kazaris.

[Chris Hoadley]

It's like whammo, whammo. And they're sitting there going, I go, what'd you do that for? He goes, I'm not ready for it. So I was just like, I let them do the initiating.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Was he just saying that they. He had gotten slapped a few times?

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Girls.

[Brian Green]

He said he. No, he actually said guy. If you listen. If you listen, he says guy. Now that's cool. Whatever. Listen.

[Chris Hoadley]

I was just like. And they're sitting there going. I go, what'd you do that for? He goes, I'm not ready for it. So I just, like. I let them do the initiating.

[Brian Green]

He said, I'm not ready for it. I'm not ready to do the initiating. Listen, whatever, you know, it's a wild time. It's the 80s. Listen, this is before you know anything. I mean, at the 80s, we didn't know anything. You just had sex with anybody you wanted to. That's the way it was. It was like a Roman bath house back in the 80s in the sunset Strip. Chuck's like, well, how did this get past legal?

[Chuck]

How did he get past legal?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Oh, yeah.

[Love Connection Host]

Well, okay, let's take a look at the women that Ray had to choose from. Now, remember, you're gonna pick the woman that you.

[Brian Green]

I think Ray's high on cocaine. Just the way he's holding himself, it looks like he's on something.

[Love Connection Host]

Things best for him. First, there's Maria. She enjoys dancing and miniature golf. She thinks that there are some great places to meet men, like bars, beaches, Navy bases. She usually dates once a week.

[Brian Green]

Navy bases.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I guess.

[Brian Green]

I mean, okay, I can imagine that's one of the best places to meet guys.

[Love Connection Host]

And she says that good looks are not a priority for her. And here's what.

[Brian Green]

Well, thank God with Ray, that's a.

[Chuck]

That's good.

[Love Connection Host]

She's looking for instead.

[Maria (Love Connection contestant)]

An honest, sincere person. Someone that can talk to me, doesn't have to yell at me, can tell me whatever he wants to tell me, because I'm gonna either take it and deal with it as I can, or the door's right there if he don't like it.

[Brian Green]

Maria, you seem sweet. Run.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Love Connection Host]

Next, Dawn. She works out regularly.

[Brian Green]

Ooh.

[Chuck]

She stood up for herself. I told you, Bob.

[Brian Green]

I told you.

[Chuck]

Women are standing up for themselves.

[Love Connection Host]

Loves music. She'd like to meet a man who is talkative and considerate, with a firm chin and larger hands. We asked dawn if she usually kisses on a firm chin.

[Chuck]

Firm chin and larger hands.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Hopefully, the hand is bigger than the chin.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I mean, Dawn's looking for a meat wagon. She's looking for a baby arm.

[Chris Hoadley]

What you say.

[Maria (Love Connection contestant)]

If I felt it was right, you know, I really like the guy and I felt he really liked me, I would kiss him. I wouldn't do anything else. Just like a little peck or something. I don't think it's too good to, you know, just go all out and start making it out on the first date. You don't even really know the Person.

[Brian Green]

Ray says, not into it. No, thank you.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Yeah, no, he was.

[Chuck]

I got standards to uphold. What would the guys at Grizzares think if I didn't make out with a chick?

[Love Connection Host]

Finally, Darcy says that sometimes she goes to nightclubs by herself. She describes herself as, quote, wild at times. She says that lately she's been losing interest in the men that she's been meeting after two weeks. Or the men that she's been meeting after. I suppose she's been with them for two weeks. It seems that a lot of guys approach her at work. And here's more on that.

[Brian Green]

I love that noise.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, she does work at an auto parts store.

[Brian Green]

This is perfect for Ray. And I think this is who he picks, if I'm not mistaken.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

Unfortunately, you have to sift through those, too. You know, once in a while, you'll get someone who will just be completely covered with oil and grease, and he'll just look at you. Ooh, baby, you know, will you go out with me? And I'm like, I don't think so. 1 900, get real.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

You know, 1900 get real.

[Love Connection Host]

Those are the three women Ray had a choice.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

John in Idaho owns that, too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, John, probably. Yeah, that's right. John owns 888. Call TCB and 1-900-get-REAL.

[Love Connection Host]

Time for you to decide who you would match him up with.

[Brian Green]

If you'll do that.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Now.

[Chris Hoadley]

Run.

[Chuck]

I know best one.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I mean, the audience participation part of this was really fun. That was such a huge part of the show.

[Brian Green]

That's what everyone got excited about.

[Love Connection Host]

We come back, we'll meet the woman the Ray selected here. Everything that happened on their date, we'll do it two and two.

[Brian Green]

Be right back at you. Two and two, baby.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Coined that term.

[Brian Green]

Can you imagine back then, Commercial breaks were only 2 minutes and 2 seconds long. We can't even get Rachel to do a liner in less than a minute and a half. And that's not because of Rachel. That's because of Brian.

[Love Connection Host]

All right, we're back. Ray's gonna tell us who he selected.

[Chris Hoadley]

I picked Darcy.

[Love Connection Host]

Haven't seen each other since their date. We always hear both sides.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What?

[Brian Green]

Wiggle wiggles, wiggle wiggly, wiggle wiggy. Yeah. What are you angling?

[Chuck]

Chuck.

[Brian Green]

What the.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Chuck, what the.

[Brian Green]

Darcy. I'll get it out.

[Love Connection Host]

It's wiggy, right?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes, it's a wiggy, yeah.

[Love Connection Host]

Nice to have you here. Darcy. Make yourself at home back there. And Ray, start us off.

[Chris Hoadley]

We went on. We went to. What was it? Actually, we met up at the 7:11.

[Chuck]

Nothing like meeting up at the 7:11.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Meet me at the 7:11 at 7. Hey, go out from there. See how things go.

[Chuck]

Hey, it's Ray. I picked you in Love Connection. They gave me your phone number, your address, your dress size, your Social Security number. What do you say we meet up at the 711 for a big Gulp and some Slurpees all day long?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, she came over at the 711 because if you live in Hawthorn, there's.

[Brian Green]

Only Mr. Hollywood, you know, why not?

[Chris Hoadley]

So we met at the 7:11 and I. I looked her over. She was wearing some nice, you know, Looked her over. She came up in the car, looked her over and had some really nice sunglasses on, Driving gloves, which was kind of neat. And I go, okay.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Driving glasses.

[Brian Green]

Driving gloves is what she said. Driving gloves. What is going on in Hollywood? You're at the 7:11. Ray pulls up, checks you out, you're wearing driving gloves. Hey, you want to race? What? What is this, Fast and Furious?

[Chris Hoadley]

I liked it.

[Love Connection Host]

And what did you think of Ray when you saw him? Darcy?

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

He was dressed really casual, in shorts and, like, a tank top. He kind of looked pretty dorky.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Shorts and a tank.

[Chuck]

Shorts and a tank.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, that does fit to 7:11.

[Chuck]

Yes, it does.

[Brian Green]

You fit right in at 7:11 with shorts and a tank top. But, Ray, are we not. I thought you were the Casanova of Sunset Strip. I thought you were the Grizzares.

[Chuck]

I'm not.

[Brian Green]

Sorrys, Casanova. Oh, my gosh. Hey, hey.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

This.

[Chuck]

I come in cash.

[Brian Green]

I figure there's only one way to go if I'm half naked.

[Love Connection Host]

All right, so why not?

[Brian Green]

We don't want to get into any kind of legal proceedings, so can we move this along, Ray?

[Love Connection Host]

Yeah. So I saw you. What, do you jump in her car or your car?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, we jumped to the car and she did all the driving. She came down from Lancaster.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, she's got the gloves. Might as well do driving.

[Brian Green]

You don't expect not to drive if you're wearing gloves. Driving gloves, nonetheless. Driving gloves. Who wears those? Inspector Clouseau and the girl from Love Connection.

[Chris Hoadley]

We went down to Hermosa beach, then we found out.

[Love Connection Host]

Does this seem romantic to you at all, this whole procedure?

[Brian Green]

Procedure?

[Chuck]

Well, I really haven't laid on the charm yet, Chuck. I have to get a little warmed up.

[Chris Hoadley]

Kind of sort of. It was like more of a friend. It was more of a friendship kind of thing.

[Chuck]

More of a friendship kind of vibe, which is, you know, most of the vibes that I Get friendship kind of, you know, kind of the leave me alone vibe, you know, the I'm not talking to you, but you're talking to me kind of vibe, you know? You know, Chuck, one way conversation. You've been there.

[Love Connection Host]

You right, Formosa. And you're doing what?

[Chris Hoadley]

We went down to find a nice place to park. Then she goes, hey, you went down.

[Brian Green]

To find a nice place to park?

[Chuck]

Hey, you want to go find a nice place?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And also, did they just leave the car? The 7 11? I guess they did. They left his.

[Brian Green]

Why not? Hey, it's a different time, Chrissy. You can leave your car anywhere you want to. And I might point out that both you walk. Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And his tank.

[Brian Green]

Probably that's why he was wearing a tank and shirt. May I remind you, both of these young folks went to the same hairstylist.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They did their hair looks like whip.

[Chris Hoadley]

I go, did you bring it? I go, yeah, I brought the whip. So she lifted up the trunk and she brought out this whip. And as it's in there and she starts twirling around and twirling around.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What a date. 7:11 to the parking spot to whip.

[Chuck]

I wanna be a part of this so bad.

[Brian Green]

They needed cameras the whole time. That was one element they were missing.

[Chris Hoadley]

It set up a couple of coke cans out there and she just went whammo. And it snapped it right off.

[Brian Green]

It was great.

[Chuck]

Whammo.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

I set up a couple Coke cans.

[Brian Green]

Couple Coke cans. Now we're at a. What are we doing down? We're at a rodeo all of a sudden, I guess, I don't know.

[Chuck]

Yahoo.

[Love Connection Host]

So not just another pretty face.

[Chris Hoadley]

Just not a pretty face.

[Love Connection Host]

So is this like a bullwhip? Like One of those 12 foot bullwhips?

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

Yeah, it's a nine foot leather bullwhip. Exactly. You get it at a feed horse and feed shop.

[Brian Green]

You what?

[Love Connection Host]

A horse and feed shop? Yes.

[Chuck]

Yeah, one of those.

[Brian Green]

Right around every corner.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Especially in la, the horse and feed.

[Brian Green]

Shops are on every corner at Sunset Strip.

[Love Connection Host]

How does Handy Darcy? Are you snapping snakes as you walk down the road or what?

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

I use it for self protection mainly.

[Love Connection Host]

And self protection.

[Brian Green]

So let me get this straight. Bad guys come up. You're at the dark street, you pull down the wrong alley, bad guys come up. Semi automatic weapons. You say, can you excuse me for a minute while I open my trunk and get my nine foot bowhip? I got it at the horse and feed store.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It's kind of wonder Womanish.

[Brian Green]

It is. Hey, listen, I love it. I love the idea of a woman running around hit snapping guys with the bow whip. But I think this is a clear sign to Ray that he will not in fact be getting laid tonight.

[Love Connection Host]

Get within 9ft of you or their.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

Eyes, 18ft every which way. I don't really use it on anybody. I've hit myself several times. So.

[Love Connection Host]

So you've had the whip demonstration. Now what? Now what happened?

[Chris Hoadley]

Then we went down to Redondo and stuff. We had a couple of drinks down there. Then she wanted to do like shopping and stuff. So I go, I go, what do you want to shop for? She goes like skull earrings.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And she probably was trying to give him the hint that he needed to buy something to wear.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

On this date.

[Brian Green]

Maybe she was just trying to intimidate him out of the date. She's looking for handcuffs and skull earrings.

[Chuck]

Yeah.

[Chris Hoadley]

Kind of neat stuff like that. Yeah. So we went shopping around. She wanted to get this like bustier thing. I was like, like a Madonna. Black.

[Chuck]

Just the thought made me jizz.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yay thing and go. Her favorite color is black. So I go, perfect, perfect. So she would, you know, get ready.

[Love Connection Host]

For the presence of all color.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's it. That's just.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

No black roses. Sorry, no black roses. Every everything.

[Love Connection Host]

I can write that down. So do you go someplace after this?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, we went out dancing, a little place in Manhattan Beach. We got there early, so we just going. All right, what do you want to do now?

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Pictoried him in his shorts and tank top.

[Brian Green]

Shorts, tank top. And so far all we've heard is about all the townships they've been to. Redondo, Thomasville, Manhattan Beach. Manhattan beach, yeah. He's one of these guys that likes to name drop the places he knows.

[Chris Hoadley]

Let's have a couple of shooters. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Then that's what we're doing with five Hour Energy.

[Brian Green]

Oh yeah, two already.

[Chris Hoadley]

So we started dancing.

[Love Connection Host]

Literally described as a two fisted drinker.

[Chris Hoadley]

And so we went out dancing. We're four or five songs later, we were all sweaty, panning and sticky.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

His head like sweaty stuck to the.

[Brian Green]

Side of his head.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He's dancing hard.

[Brian Green]

His bald spot showing in the back.

[Chris Hoadley]

Dogs on the, on the dance floor.

[Brian Green]

So we came in cowboy boots with shorts and a tank top. She's got her bustier and handcuffs.

[Chris Hoadley]

And we sat down, we're just looking at each other and just started blowing each other off, cooling us down there and start, you know, getting towels and stuff. It was kind of neat.

[Brian Green]

It's kind of neat. I actually talked to her. I've touched her, touched a real live.

[Love Connection Host]

Woman, I've never had a date like.

[Chris Hoadley]

This on the show.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

No one has.

[Brian Green]

Chuck's dumped. Yeah, no one's had a date like this unless they've been with Ray.

[Love Connection Host]

These are things that I've never heard before. So how did this date end?

[Chris Hoadley]

It ended about like 12:30. You know, we were both on the tired side and she had to go see her dad. So when I did.

[Brian Green]

Does not sound like an excuse to get out of the end part of the date. I gotta go see my dad.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Dad.

[Chris Hoadley]

Have her drop me off on the freeway on ramp.

[Chuck]

I don't remember this.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't.

[Chuck]

It dropped me off the freeway on ramp. So he did walk.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

He did walk. 7:11.

[Chuck]

Drop me off at the freeway on ramp. Wait, stop here.

[Brian Green]

Here?

[Chuck]

I live under the under. I live on the overpass.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What street? No, just here on the on ramp.

[Chuck]

No, no, no, that's my house. The overpass under it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Really weird. It's. It's great because, you know, she doesn't know her way around at all. So I'm just like, here, just drop me here.

[Brian Green]

Sounds completely safe to drop you off on the side of the 101 in LA.

[Chris Hoadley]

A little tired. This is the way home.

[Love Connection Host]

And she drops you off on the freeway on ramp.

[Brian Green]

Right.

[Love Connection Host]

And you walk home.

[Chris Hoadley]

And I walk home. Yeah. The reason being because she doesn't.

[Chuck]

Yeah, it was.

[Brian Green]

The reason being. There's no explanation that makes sense here, Ray. I know you're gonna try, but there's no explanation.

[Chris Hoadley]

Five minutes away.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

I felt kind of strange about dropping him off at the freeway, but, you know, he insisted that I drop him off there. He didn't want me to get lost after dropping.

[Brian Green]

No, he didn't want you to go to his house.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Exactly.

[Brian Green]

He didn't want you to see his van, him off at home, and then.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

Coming back and getting lost trying to find the freeway. So it felt funny. I didn't really want to drop him off there, and I've never done that.

[Love Connection Host]

Before, but I've never heard of anyone ever doing that before.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

It makes perfect sense in the contest context of this date.

[Brian Green]

It really does.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, it was. It was fine. So just a hug and a kiss on a cheek. And, you know, I didn't want to.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

He sneaked that boom, boom, boom. I grabbed a hold of his face, turned it sideways and gave him.

[Brian Green]

Oh. He tried to go in for the kiss and she turned her head. She said, yeah, I understand.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Well, there's nothing that says, you know, how sexy I am. Like dropping somebody off at the. At the Freeway.

[Brian Green]

Listen, if you're so embarrassed of your house that you have to be dropped off in the most dangerous possible situation ever, that's bad news. I mean, listen. Take her to the good side of town with the house. You know, the houses with the fences and the gate. Yeah. And just pretend to be pressing buttons and go. It's not working. Code's not working. Don't worry about it. I'll get it.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Go on.

[Brian Green]

I'll get it. Go on. Can you call me a cab just in case I have to go to my other mansion?

[Chuck]

Have her drop you off at the nicest apartment building in Bel Air.

[Brian Green]

What's she gonna know? Go in the parking lot and then say bye. And then walk to your house under the overpass.

[Chuck]

You got shorts on.

[Brian Green]

It's not too hot.

[Love Connection Host]

Let's take a look and see who the audience pick for you. I guess this worked. We're gonna find out pretty soon. They picked Darcy. 252%, as a matter of fact. All the way from Lancaster. If you'd like to ask her out again, we'd be happy to pay for it.

[Chris Hoadley]

Darcy, would you like to get some more peach margaritas?

[Brian Green]

Is.

[Darcy (Love Connection contestant)]

I'd love to.

[Love Connection Host]

Come on out, Dar.

[Brian Green]

Oh, wow. She said yes.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

They almost seem like they go together.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I guess. And once you drop someone off on the highway, you're kind of bonded for life. I think you have to go for a second time just to find out where he lives. Oh, where? They're the same height. That's good news, because he is on the shorter side. Not that I'm hating on short guys. I'm just sharing that he's short.

[Love Connection Host]

I must pay you for all the. For all the verbal bravado going on here. I got a feeling that. Well, you all had a nice time anyway, so we're gonna come right back with our next guest.

[Brian Green]

Would you like to be on? Oh, I do like Chuck. And I did like Ray. And you know what? I gotta stop. Soft spot in my heart.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

What is this picture now?

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I don't know. It's the end of the episode. It's the end of the Love Connection episode. I guess they're gonna fill it in later.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Still in the face.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's literally cardboard. Look at it. It's got shadows. There's no AI. No AI technology there.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Chrissy, the face is cut off.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. All right. Kevin, show that on the video so we know what we're talking about here. All right? All right. The TCV's endless trucks on with our cowboy boots on the outside of our pants. We keep on moving along. Thanks. I see the phone's going off, it's blowing up. So thank you very much to everyone who is texting in and maybe we'll take some calls a little bit later. In a couple of hours, we'll go live on Twitch. Tcb, podcast. That is what you put inside of the screen search function on Twitch in order to pull up the feed. We'll do that probably between 4 and 4:30 east coast time.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

And you can do this too from your computer or your phone.

[Brian Green]

Thank you, Chrissy, our technology expert, because.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

Last night I thought maybe you have to have the app. You don't.

[Brian Green]

No, you don't have to have the app. It's amazing. Brand new technology from Twitch. I love you. I love you. You're like my old. You're like the grandpa. Technology comes along. You're like, all right, so 212-4333. TCB. 212-4333. TCB. When we go live on Twitch, if you want to call in, do it. Then maybe we'll take some phone calls. Maybe we'll see if we can complicate matters even more and take some phone calls. Maybe we won't. We're just gonna try and get through the day. Oh, okay. There you go. Hey, Jeff calls in. I'm answering at the commercial break on Instagram. Stay tuned. Astrid's posting stuff all day long. YouTube.com they commercial break for all of the episodes on video. The celebrity interview portion of today. All those videos will be out today. The rest will be rolling out over the next couple of days. Give us a break. We're trying to do as much as we can. And tcppodcast.com for your endless day sticker, which will come out over the next couple of weeks. Drop us your information. We'll get you one. Okay, Chrissy. Well, there you go. Another one in the can.

[Chrissy Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

I love you and I love you. Best to you. Best you out there in the podcast universe. Until the top of the hour, Chrissy and I will say. We do say, and we must say goodbye. I.