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Chapel Roan
My name is Chapel Roan. I'm your favorite artist. Favorite artist. I'm your dream girl's dream girl. And I'm gonna serve exactly what you are.
Brian Green
On this episode of the commercial break.
Rachel Feinstein
One place I played, they would announce on the website of the. Of the hot. Of the comedy club. We put our comics in, you know.
Brian Green
This hotel, like Hinta.
Joanna Hausman
Yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
And I'm like, it's like, that's just when you haven't. It's like, there's no way a woman would ever have done that. I'm like, no. You know, and they have some deal with the local place, which means, like, here's where you can murder Rachel.
Kyle Kinane
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. This is my dear friend and the co host of this incredibly dumb podcast, Chris and Joy Hoadly. Best to you, Chrissy.
Chrissy Hoadly
Best you, Brian.
Brian Green
Best you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial day. We're doing a best of today, Chrissy. Yes.
Chrissy Hoadly
I like it.
Brian Green
We thought we'd take a. We take a little breather. We take a beat for one week. And while we have a little. A little break in the interviews, we thought, what we do is we put together some clips from some of our favorite guests over the last. I don't know what, have we been doing this for like eight months now? Seven months. Eight months. When? October. November. December. January. February. Wow. March, April, May. Add the three, carry the one plus two.
Christina
Yeah.
Brian Green
It's about 17 years we've been doing it. So start it all off with our good friend Veer Das. Yes. Who was on the show, followed up by Heather McMahon.
Chrissy Hoadly
Bless our hearts.
Brian Green
Yeah, bless our hearts. Bless his heart. Bless our hearts. Bless everyone's heart. You got to start somewhere. And unfortunately, Veer was the one we started with. Not unfortunately for him or us. Unfortunately for him.
Chrissy Hoadly
Yes.
Brian Green
Yes. That was when we started with we love Veer and he'll never be back again. But thanks, Veer, for putting up with us for 40. Putting up with us.
Chrissy Hoadly
Nervously asking our cherry, basically.
Brian Green
Oh, yeah, we did pop our cherry in the beer. I'm sure he'd love to hear that. So then we went quickly to miss Heather McMahon.
Chrissy Hoadly
Oh, that. I mean, and I didn't know that much about her before we did the interview. And I read up on her, decided I loved her from the get go.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chrissy Hoadly
So then when we interviewed her, I was so excited. And then she blew up after that.
Brian Green
Absolutely blew up everywhere after we had her.
Chrissy Hoadly
Everywhere.
Brian Green
She was everywhere.
Chrissy Hoadly
Not because of us, let's be clear of that. But. But she.
Brian Green
I think we can.
Chrissy Hoadly
Things in the works.
Brian Green
Yes. I think it'd be relatively assured. No one has blown up because of the commercial break. Except for maybe the commercial break, and that's debatable. Some people debating in our reviews right now. And then we went to Steve O. Steve O. Was. While you were out of town.
Chrissy Hoadly
I was out.
Brian Green
You were out. So Tina and I did the Steve O. Interview. Portina had never been on a microphone, let alone interviewed anybody.
Chrissy Hoadly
It took us three years to get there.
Brian Green
It took us three years to get there. And I just said, hey, can you come help me interview Steve O? And she's like, Steve O, you want me to come with you? And she did a great job.
Joanna Hausman
She did.
Brian Green
By making sure that she didn't say anything that would stop the interview from being a train wreck. Anyway, so. But Steve was great. He was very forthcoming. Told us about Mike Tyson and his couple hours in a bathroom locked in a cocaine induced haze with Mike Tyson. I still say of all the stupid shit that Steve O. Has done, of all the ball stapling and, you know, anus related tricks and being dumped inside of a porta potty, concussions and broken shoulders and nut related accidents. Being in a room with Mike Tyson in a bathroom, locked in a bathroom in Vegas with Mike Tyson and an eight ball of cocaine is still the wildest stunt Steve O. Has ever done. Unfortunately, it's the only one that wasn't taped. But then if you recall, we, I think, hit our stride a little bit with Felicia Day, who was just so easy to talk to and so wonderful. And while I knew of Felicia Day before she came on the show, I had no idea what a big deal she really is. She. She's a huge deal. Like, people are wild about Felicia Day. Felicia Day.
Chrissy Hoadly
As are we now.
Brian Green
As are we. She's a gamer girl. She's been in a lot of sci fi related content. She's made her own sci fi related content. She is huge. She's one of the people I would really. I mean, I think they have a lot of these people back. Yes, they'll probably never come, but I'd like to have a lot of them back. They probably said once is enough to their agent. I would imagine a few agents have gotten fired after coming on our show. I'm just taking a guess, but I bet I'm right. So we enjoyed our time with Felicia. Then we went right into Blair Saki.
Chrissy Hoadly
Love Blair.
Brian Green
I think her listen, she's got a unique voice and there's a lot. She always gets a lot of commentary about.
Chrissy Hoadly
She's a California girl.
Brian Green
Yeah, she's a California Valley girl. She got a very high voice. It makes her unique in the sense that her voice stands out, but I'm. It doesn't bother me one bit. And she came on and she was hilarious and her shit is really funny and now she's doing very well for herself. Also loved Blair. Another one that I'd love to have back. And then we, we moved into Rosebud with her incredibly dark sense of humor, which just tickles me in the right places. Yeah, I watch her Instagram constantly because she puts clips up and I know it's going to be something twisted, fucked up and funny. So Rosebud. Also one of the head writers on snl, in case you were wondering. Then we took a chance on a young lady. Took a chance. We took a chance on a young lady named Joanna Housman who is in writer, a producer and a well known Latin American.
Chrissy Hoadly
Instagram is hilarious too.
Brian Green
Oh my gosh, she is so funny. She talks a lot about the differences. The differences and the co mingling of Caucasians and Venezuelans and how we all, you know, kind of interact with each other. This was an interview where I really feel like I resonated a lot. A lot of the stuff that we talked about resonated with me because I am married to a Venezuelan, like an actual Venezuelan.
Chrissy Hoadly
Astrid was really excited about us having her on too.
Brian Green
Astrid and all her family were like, Joanna Houseman. Oh my God. And I'll say this on the back of that Joanna Houseman interview. Listen, here's a little secret in case you don't know. Probably you probably don't because you've never been there. Because we would have more people following us if you did. But our Instagram is miserable. No one follows us. I mean, no one. We have a few people that are following us of note. But I really, I don't care about. I mean, I care about those people, but I care more about the listeners following. But no one follows us. No one. Please go follow us on Instagram, please. You know, we've got like just under 5,000 and we got to that five, almost 5,000. You know how we got there? Joanna Hausman. Joanna hausman brought like 2,000 new followers to our Instagram just by showing up. That was amazing. Love, Joanna. We've been trying to get her on ever since and she just well, she's.
Chrissy Hoadly
Busy at Disney, right?
Brian Green
Yeah, she's busy doing that Disney cartoon Hamster and Gretel. Brad Williams came on. Brad, also very popular. He is selling out like arenas and, you know, theaters at small arenas, but arenas and theaters all over the place. He's on like a 300 night tour or something like that. Go check out Brad Williams. Reggie Watts came in. Talk Reggie about ayahuasca and everything. You know, I got to be honest, Reggie was like one of those. I got a little nervous about because I really like Reggie and he's a very brainy, cerebral and cerebral and well thought out human being. He does not answer questions quickly. He takes a beat to think about.
Chrissy Hoadly
When in doubt, talk drugs.
Brian Green
When in doubt, ask him about lsd. And then we went off. Yeah, and then he wanted us to try some opium related. I don't know, some kind. Which by the way, is at the local head store. I should get some. We should follow up on that. And next, unbelievably, Hannah Burner decided she would join us with her massive social media following. She's also an incredibly famous comic now and she does a. Yeah, she really segued, right?
Chrissy Hoadly
Because she was on the. She was on a TV show and.
Brian Green
Then TV show and then she went into Segway, into comedy, into online.
Chrissy Hoadly
Like she was a tennis star first.
Brian Green
Yeah, that's right. Was she almost went pro or. She was pro for like a couple years, wasn't she? I just saw. I think this is correct. Don't, don't. Don't ever think that anything that I say is 100% true, because it probably isn't. But I think she did a man like a girl on the street interview with Oprah, if I'm not mistaken. This girl is on fire. She's all over the place. Love, Hannah. Hannah gave us a lot of love back. She's wonderful. Tom. Papa came in to talk us. Talk to us about bread baking. Tom.
Chrissy Hoadly
I've loved him for long for. I've loved him long time.
Rachel Feinstein
Long.
Brian Green
I love you a long time. He was amazing.
Chrissy Hoadly
He was amazing and a true professional in the sense that he didn't really show that he could hear Blue barking the entire interview.
Brian Green
This instated a new policy here at the house where the studio is, which is anytime a guest is on Blue has to go somewhere else.
Chrissy Hoadly
In the dark corner of your closet on the way other side of the.
Brian Green
House, by the way. The closet is big. We give her water. Okay. I just want to make sure because people always give me a hard time about on blue, but blue shits on us all the time, so. And that's literally shits on us all the time. So there you go. Next, Lunel came in, very famous.
Chrissy Hoadly
Loved her and her just her unique style since she had those sunglasses on. And she just. I loved her.
Rachel Feinstein
Her whole.
Brian Green
She was no holds barred. No holds barred. Lunel was. She told us that she didn't appreciate that Madonna came on late. She then went to the Madonna concert.
Chrissy Hoadly
That night and she went with like Paris Hilton, Kathy Griffin and like the most eclectic group of people it is. I didn't think she would hang out together.
Brian Green
She is always with like very famous people. Like, so Lunel is a big deal. She's also, by the way, if you follow her on Instagram, you'll get a notification every 13 minutes that she's going live. She lives her entire life. The legendary Margaret Cho came in and spoke with us. I loved Margaret. Here's the crazy.
Chrissy Hoadly
I was nervous about that one.
Brian Green
Can I. I. Yeah. Because it's Margaret. She was named one of the top 50 stand up comics of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. And you know what? She's broken a lot of molds for a lot of different reasons. But she would. Could not have been more. She was one that ignored the fact that she was talking to two fucking buffoons in Atlanta, Georgia and just decided to be sweet about it.
Heather McMahon
Yeah.
Brian Green
You know what I'm saying? And I have to say something. You and I did a bit with. We did a bit. It's not a bit, but a segment with Margaret and she told a story and it sounded like that story that she had told was because of the line of conversation that we were having, like an off the cuff story. That story then ended up recently in a Netflix special. Now it, you know, it could have been something she had already been planning and she just decided to break it out while she was here on the commercial break. But I thought it was very interesting. Like word for word, almost what she had said.
Chrissy Hoadly
So what, which, what part was it?
Brian Green
I love to go back and look, but Astrid and I were, we're watching it. We're like, wow, she told that same story right on the corner. Like, like we have anything to do with it. Paul Shear came in to promote his.
Chrissy Hoadly
New book at which I just downloaded and listened to on audio because it just came out.
Brian Green
It did just come out and now it's like a number one bestseller.
Chrissy Hoadly
So good.
Brian Green
He's all over the place.
Chrissy Hoadly
It's really funny.
Brian Green
I think Vogue did like something about it.
Chrissy Hoadly
It's really funny.
Brian Green
Yeah, he's. He is amazing. If you don't know Paul Sheer, just Google the name and you'll know, you know. Oh, yeah, Paul Sheer. And so I just want to shout out one more time, what's the name of the book? Lessons from a sunny day or something like that.
Chrissy Hoadly
No, no, no. Recollection. Like, hold on one second.
Brian Green
I've got it. Painful, Painful recollection. Joyful recollections of trauma. Painful recollection. Painful recollection.
Chrissy Hoadly
It sounds like a real funny bone.
Brian Green
I'm so sorry, Paul. Sounds like a real uplifting noir that you can read lazily on your summer vacation.
Chrissy Hoadly
It's a peach read.
Brian Green
Joyful, joyful, quick fun read. You're gonna love it. Yeah, absolutely. Painful recollections of your childhood by Paul Scheer. I actually downloaded the book, too. I'm going to listen to it on my summer vacation. Neil Brennan came in and talked with us. Of course, Neil is one of the. One of the two brains behind the Dave Chappelle show and his stand up.
Chrissy Hoadly
On Netflix is hilarious. I really haven't laughed out loud at most everything on a special in a while, and I did with his.
Brian Green
And I will say this about Neil. I will say this about Neil. Neil is very much the same. Like, yeah, he has a Persona on stage. That's not a Persona. That is Neil. He is through and through. What you see on the stage is what we got here in the studio. And so we loved having Neil in here. Preacher Lawson, one of my favorites. I loved Preacher. Preacher came in. Preacher is taking the world by storm. He is also all over. Kyle Kanane, one of my favorite comics of all times. He is a store. He's an epic storyteller. He's a comic who does not tell punchline jokes. I mean, he does. There's a punchline somewhere, but he takes like 10 minutes to get there with many intermingling stories and. And words. And I love it. I love his brand of humor. Yeah. And Kyle is going to come back in. Also. Leslie Liao, the former HR manager at Netflix now has a Netflix special.
Chrissy Hoadly
I love her story so much.
Brian Green
I just saw her on Was it Heather's podcast? I think maybe then we had Henry hall and Daniel Thrasher from the right. If you remember the Friday night dinner remake that they did. Yeah. On free V. Now available on free V. Watch dinner with parents. That's free with Amazon, by the way. Free with commercials with Amazon. Yeah. Freebie. Well, I mean, nothing's really free. You gotta watch commercials. But you listen to Our commercials anyway, too. Which we're gonna take it here in just a minute. Mo Gilligan showed up.
Chrissy Hoadly
He's a. Oh, he's from England.
Brian Green
Yeah, he's from England. He's a comic. And he's.
Chrissy Hoadly
He was really fun.
Brian Green
He did, like, he parlayed a little bit of viral fame into a long and sustained career. He's does multiple shows over on BBC. He's really funny. So we have a chance. Check him out. Rachel Feinstein. Leg. Legendary Rachel Feinstein.
Chrissy Hoadly
I mean, she's got a huge special right now on. On comedies on Netflix, too.
Brian Green
That's right. So we had. So we had her and then we also had her aunt came on also.
Chrissy Hoadly
She popped in. Dude, that was fun.
Brian Green
That was fun. So. And. And thank you, Rachel. Listen, I want to say this, and I totally understand the game here, and I don't expect anyone with a million followers to follow the commercial break for any reason, share our content. That's not how it goes. You don't do some tit for tat. You just do it because they come on, they promote something. We have an interesting conversation. We. And we get to meet cool people that we admire in some way, shape or form. But Rachel was quick to follow us back on Instagram, and I thought that was very nice of her. Gian Marco Sorosi, who. It only took six months for us to get his episode. Poor Gian Marco. By the way, Astro came in yesterday and we were talking about this, how we're going to do this special episode and trying to figure out who exactly we would take segments from. And she goes, brian, ever since Gian Marco came on the show, I followed him on my personal Instagram. And she goes, I find myself lost in his Instagram sometimes because I find him so fucking funny. So my wife, a huge Gian Marco sorority fan. Wendy McLendon Covey, the legendary Sergeant Clementine from.
Chrissy Hoadly
She's in Brian 91 1. She's got a new thing coming in the fall. She's just hilarious.
Brian Green
Yes, she does have a new show. And I will. St. Denis Medical. I will say it correctly this time. Not. It's not St. Patrick's Hospital. Whatever. I called it.
Chrissy Hoadly
Painful Hospital.
Brian Green
Yes. And then most recently, the painful hospital of St. Denis. And then most recently, of course, we had on Joe Dumb browser.
Chrissy Hoadly
Oh, Joe, lovely.
Brian Green
Him and his boy are getting married.
Joanna Hausman
Yeah.
Brian Green
A week and a half from now, they're getting married. I thought about getting him something from the. From his registry. But then, number one, I don't have any money. And then number two, Astrid thought that might be creepy. So I'm sure if Joe's listening to this, he'd be like, no, no, go ahead.
Chrissy Hoadly
Yeah, please.
Brian Green
Give me more stuff. So say congratulations to Joe. Joe was hilarious. And also the person who brought it to our attention, the great division in the commercial break audience right now, the possum. So we're gonna leave the possum alone for now. I don't want to rub in salt. And there's only so much you can say about a possum. I mean, it's not like we have them in the studio talking with us.
Chrissy Hoadly
I need to send you my picture of the pot, the baby. Maybe you could put that on something.
Brian Green
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it on there. It's gonna be our new cover art. It's gonna do a cover up. So here's what we're gonna do. Our intrepid producer and wonderful human being, Christina is going to pick some segments from some of these that we thought were. That she thought and we agreed were good. We're gonna let her kind of take the reins here, and then we're gonna mash those together. And a super best of infomercial for you. So we'll take a break and then when we get back, Christina will take over. She'll give you some best of content from our infomercials. We'll be back.
Christina
Well, thank the baby Jesus. Brian took a breath. And now I will use this opportunity to let you know that we've got a brand new phone number. That's right. It's 212-4333, TCB. And you can text us anytime you want. Or you can call and leave us a voicemail and we might just use your message on the show once Brian gets through all the messages he missed last year, of course. Anyway, you can also find and DM us on Instagram, hecommercial break and on TikTok CBpodcast. And of course, all of our audio and video is easily found on tcbpodcast.com now I'm going to thank G one more time that we have sponsors, so thank G. And here they are. Hello, my pretty little princesses. I know you simply cannot get enough of me in the liners. Duh. So I'm here to guide you through this best of our guests journey. Cue Brian's little noise. Yep. So our first clip for this episode is gonna be Ms. Heather McMahon. My queen. Your queen. We know her. We love her. She's a star. Tiramisu bitch. Here we go.
Brian Green
So you come home you play your hometown crowd here at the Fox Theater, which, when I know that your other special was filmed in Kentucky, I was like, why didn't she do that? This at the Fox Theater? Like, this would have been perfect. But of course, you know, sometimes you got to do what you got to do before you head to the Fox Theater and sell out for two nights. You have an after party, someone shows up. Pains. We were just listening to your podcast, and I swear, this funny. This story is true.
Chrissy Hoadly
It is a trend, but with. Only with people that look like, you know, Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner. Not the. Not everybody.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Heather McMahon
I'll tell you right now, not my fat ass. Not me.
Chrissy Hoadly
Not me.
Heather McMahon
So the trend became popular to buy. I think it was like Prada or Miu Miu, one of those fabulous Italian brands, had this, like, look where everybody just kind of wore essentially a Speedo with tights, and that became a look.
Rachel Feinstein
Yeah.
Heather McMahon
Very few people, like you said, can pull that off. Well, a young woman somehow snuck into my after party, and we thought that that was a look she was going for. She ended up emailing my team on Monday, and I read it aloud on my podcast. She's like, by the way, I was not going for that look. I just lost my pants somehow at the Fox Theater.
Brian Green
How did she fucking lose her pants at the Fox Theater?
Heather McMahon
She said she. I think she took like, an edible and had drank way too much, and then it just went pantless. And I said, that is concerning.
Brian Green
Was this at the Terrace? Was this across the street of the Terrace?
Heather McMahon
Yes, yes.
Rachel Feinstein
And she.
Heather McMahon
She had on, like, a bodysuit. So, you know, a lot of women wear, like, these, you know, tight bodysuits underneath. Underneath a great outfit, but it was a thong bodysuit. So when you walked into the party, I just thought, oh, she's got, like, a leotard on. And then when she turned around, I said, that's that ass.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Heather McMahon
Yeah.
Brian Green
You got some wild fans. I love it.
Christina
I do.
Heather McMahon
So they never cease to surprise me. I am always on my toes. I'm like, what's gonna happen today? Women don't get out of the house.
Joanna Hausman
Enough is what I've learned.
Heather McMahon
And they're all getting crazy.
Brian Green
You gotta go check out Heather's podcast, which is hilarious. I know how hard it is to do a show by, like, a podcast by yourself. I did exactly two of them at the very beginning of this program. Now we're like 600,000 episodes in or something, but I did two of them by myself, and it was terribly unfunny. I started talking about I was a father, I'm a son, I'm a pragmatic pragmatist. I just. I don't even know what I was talking about. I was so nervous.
Heather McMahon
You, like, jumped the Matrix. Another dimension.
Brian Green
Totally. And the funny thing is, I won't get into it, but that's probably one of our more popular episodes at first. Yeah. But is it difficult to do that podcast on your own, or is it just because you're. You're used to kind of musing into the camera by yourself? Do you feel like you can carry it on your own? I'm just curious from, like, I don't know, like, just a minutia question. Is that difficult to carry the podcast on your own?
Heather McMahon
I'll tell you what. Every week I surprise myself. I'm like, I can't do it today. I will. And I've had the podcast for four years. We only recently started doing video elements to it. And it was such a safe space for me to sit in this basement office and literally just let it rip for an hour. And it was just so cathartic. But now I have to be on camera and kind of like, pay attention to whether or not, like, you know, my bronzer isn't smudged.
Chrissy Hoadly
Right.
Brian Green
And that takes it a little bit.
Heather McMahon
Out of it for me. But I know if, again, I need to see some sort of like, medical professional, but for some reason, for an hour, I can just let it rip. And it's very fun and cathartic for me. What the fuck did I just talk about?
Brian Green
You know, we did the same thing.
Heather McMahon
Yeah, we did the same thing.
Brian Green
Yeah, they do. They listen. We cannot believe it. We are beside ourselves that anybody chooses to listen, let alone the amount of people that listen. It's. It's just insane to me. The podcast is really fucking hilarious. You have to go check it out. Absolutely not. But my. Here, here's another question I have. You were. And it makes me laugh to even think about this. You were telling a story about how you had to record two nights for your special because of course, that's what you do. You got to do pickups and you got to make sure that you get hit the lines and you don't want, you know, flub ups and stuff like that. But you recorded the first night.
Chrissy Hoadly
One night is different.
Brian Green
You had the other reprimand the crowd the second night.
Chrissy Hoadly
I love it.
Brian Green
Get into this a little bit because I think it's too funny.
Heather McMahon
So it is a little different when you go to see a Taping for a special because there's cameras everywhere. So I always, like, you know, I tried to warn my audience, hey, just so you know, like, if you're talking about some. Something illegal, the camera can pick it up.
Joanna Hausman
Right.
Heather McMahon
I didn't think this would be a problem. I still had a great time. Like, I still perform. Like, I'm doing my regular stage show, but at the end, then I'll have to do pickups, which is. You just come out. You might, you know, if you flubbed a line or, you know, kind of chewed on your words, you'll resay stuff just to get a clean take on camera.
Brian Green
Sure.
Heather McMahon
Well, Thursday night, we're going back, and we're, you know, we're replaying some of the video, and I can literally hear a woman turning to her friend at.
Brian Green
Some point, just being like, you want.
Heather McMahon
To do ketamine in the bathroom? What is happening? What is happening?
Brian Green
Who goes into a K hole on a comedy show Thursday night?
Heather McMahon
I mean, I can understand taking mushrooms. Being on an edible ketamine is probably the last thing I'd want to take. And then I have to sit quietly for two hours.
Chrissy Hoadly
Exactly.
Heather McMahon
But it was wild. And so then Friday, we came out. My director, Jen Zabrowski, she directed my first special. She came out and gave, like, you know, it's like a packed house. It's like 5,000 people. I think she put the fear of God in them. She was like. Like, do not mess this up. We have one shot. Hilarious. I came out, everybody was sitting like, crisscross applesauce, like, perfect children.
Brian Green
And I'm like, all right, you don't.
Heather McMahon
Know how to handle this.
Joanna Hausman
So it was.
Rachel Feinstein
It was wild.
Brian Green
Where are you picking that up? These. Is it because you have microphones in the crowd to catch the crowd noise, and then they're just, like, super sensitive, so they're picking up conversations.
Rachel Feinstein
Yeah.
Heather McMahon
It just so happened that this. These two rambunctious ladies were sitting right next to one of the cameras.
Brian Green
So, you know, thousand bucks, it's the two people I knew that went to the show. Thousand bucks, it's the two people I know they are.
Heather McMahon
I would have thought it was the lady who didn't have pants.
Chrissy Hoadly
Right.
Heather McMahon
She came on Friday night.
Brian Green
So, you know, I only do ketamine under therapeutic circumstances. Heather. I'll have everyone know that under duress. A K hole is not where I want to be during a comedy show or any other public event for that matter.
Heather McMahon
I try to tell people it's really different. Like, if you're going to See Harry Styles. If you're going to go see Drake at State Farm arena, like, get as messed up as you want. But coming to see comedy, it's so wild to me. I'm like, I. You're paying, you know, a premium for a good ticket. I would want to hear what people have to say.
Brian Green
Yeah, you would want to make sure that you actually understand the material that's coming at you. You're there to laugh.
Joanna Hausman
Yeah.
Brian Green
Chrissy and I reviewed this video, Heather. It's so funny. I don't know if you've seen this on Tick Tock or Instagram. There's a guy, he's at the Raiders game, and there's not much context to the video. It comes on. You literally see a guy, he's kind of laughing and giggling, and then the camera pans down toward his lap, and he is taking a fucking bump of cocaine in the stadium, in the end zone. Packed house, Sunday Night Football. He is just sitting there doing blow. And I'm like, you're ruining it for the rest of us. Stop it now. What are you doing?
Chrissy Hoadly
I mean, it was Vegas.
Brian Green
It was. Yeah, it was Vegas. Fair enough.
Heather McMahon
Was he picked up on, like. Like, the main broadcast or just somebody on TikTok picked him up?
Brian Green
His shithead friend recorded it and then posted it to Instagram. First of all, he's probably divorced without children right now. Sid has no job, and he's also.
Heather McMahon
The NFL has banned him from everything.
Brian Green
But my only thought was not about the poor bastard who just got videotaped and put up there or breaking all rules of drug etiquette, is that I don't want to be stuck somewhere sitting with thousands of people, and I'm high. I just don't. I want to be at home like normal people do. Normal paranoid people.
Heather McMahon
I'm right there with you. I really. I mean, I'm. I'm only 36, but I now have, like, in my little clutch. You know, when I go to a concert, I've got, like, electrolyte tablets. Yes. You know, I think it's nice as I have a couple of drinks and I love, like, a vacation cigarette, you know, I'm like, only live once. It's got a menthol. We were at a party in the Hamptons. My best friend Ray and I were at this place called Surf Lodge in the Hamptons this summer, and I already felt like I was too old. I was like, it was a day party. I'm like, it's loud. Oh, my God.
Rachel Feinstein
We're going to sit my theater and.
Heather McMahon
We asked for a cigarette from somebody. So somebody passes over a cigarette, and this young girl. And this shows how different the generations are. This young girl is like, how are you gonna light that? And I said, what do you mean? And she said, well, like, what? Where does it plug in? And I said, you mean a cigarette? I said, we're gonna use fire. We're gonna use a mat. Or like, you know, somebody else has a lighter. And I was like, these kids just plug everything in and they hit the vapes. They don't even know how to light a real cigarette.
Chapel Roan
Yes.
Brian Green
Have they never seen a movie? You gotta light a cigarette to be cool and only do it when you're drunk, because that's the only time it really matters.
Chrissy Hoadly
Yes.
Heather McMahon
That is the only time to smoke a cigarette is when you've had 45 dirty martinis, because that's the only thing that's gonna keep you from throwing up.
Chrissy Hoadly
This is so jealous.
Brian Green
I feel like cigarettes and alcohol just. They're made. They were made in some kind of heaven together. It's like milk and cereal out of peanut butter and jelly.
Heather McMahon
I agree.
Christina
You just know in that moment, Brian was absolutely desperate to say cream and cereal. But then he remembered, heather doesn't know that I'm weird.
Rachel Feinstein
Heather doesn't know that I'm a crazy.
Christina
Person who has cream in his cereal. But he was desperate to say it, and you and I both know it. Anyway, we are moving on. We are moving in a chronological manner. That's just the kind of girl I am. You know how it is. Next up, I have our little Venezuelan angel, Joanna House. This is a very cute and fun convo, so enjoy.
Brian Green
Was your brand of humor, like, spurred on by kind of this. I don't say identity crisis, but this weird lumping in. Everybody thinks everything about the same, about Central Americans and South Americans are all the same. And, you know, they just kind of lump everybody together. So many misconceptions. And it must feel uncomfortable sometimes to be in those situations where you could derive a lot of humor.
Joanna Hausman
Yes. And I mean, I need to be fully honest here. I do know Paco from our little awkward. But having said that, I owe him 60 bucks.
Brian Green
I'm not going to tell you what for, but just tell Paco to calm down.
Joanna Hausman
Okay? Okay, I'll talk to Paco. I'll text him on my WhatsApp chat after this. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think what sort of shocked me as I was making comedy was how many people felt represented in someone like me being like, hey, like, I'M also. I'm from Venezuela, and I am also Latina in my own way. Like, you don't know how many people were like, yeah, man, I am an Afro Nicaraguan. And I totally get you. I'm a. You know, I'm an a Korean Peruvian. And I. And I totally understand. It's like, I didn't. I didn't realize that me being, like, almost so unapologetic on how specific my identity is actually would make people feel, like, relieved.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Joanna Hausman
Like, oh, my God, someone's doing it. Someone's telling these people that we're not all Sophia Vergara copy paste. We are. We are. You know, we're very different. And I do think it's changed. I think that when I started doing Internet comedy, dude, that was like. I hate saying this. I was 10 years ago.
Rachel Feinstein
Okay.
Joanna Hausman
I couldn't even say it. It was 10 years ago. And that era of the Internet was really different.
Chrissy Hoadly
Totally.
Joanna Hausman
And even the barriers to entry, to make content on the Internet was very different. Now you have, like, editing software on your freaking phone. I see Venezuelans in the middle of, like, the Amazon uploading videos with their A capivaras.
Brian Green
Yes.
Joanna Hausman
And they're two witness. Yes. And so, like, there was a time where it wasn't that easy to access the Internet and. And publish and edit. And now I think there's, like, more variety out there. But right when I began these big companies like Buzzfeed and CollegeHumor, they were making all these really funny sketches and sort of, like, no one was talking about, like, oh, there's, like, other types of people that could be doing this and be very specific about their content. And I remember I made a video called the Venezuelan Birthday Song. And if you had told me a year before, like, you're gonna make an Internet video.
Brian Green
Hold on one. Hold on one second. Because my kid was born in July, and Astrid's just finishing up the birthday song now. She just. Oh. Oh.
Joanna Hausman
Now if you only can wait for her, it might be another two hours.
Brian Green
Unbelievable, dude.
Joanna Hausman
The Venezuela. Okay. I'm so glad you know this, Brian. Okay, okay. The Venezuelan. Chrissy, I don't know if you know this.
Chrissy Hoadly
I do not know about the Venezuelan birthday song.
Joanna Hausman
It is. I'm not. I'm not with you. It is, I think, nine minutes long.
Brian Green
It's crazy.
Rachel Feinstein
Can you imagine?
Brian Green
It's insane.
Joanna Hausman
You sit there. You sit there.
Brian Green
There's no candle that can outlast it. So don't light the candles till you're halfway through. Yes.
Joanna Hausman
You sit there for nine minutes. And people are screaming and clapping. It's not even like, happy birthday. It's like. It's like you're being exercised.
Chrissy Hoadly
I love it.
Joanna Hausman
So if you had told me a year before, like, you're gonna make a video, you're gonna hire opera singers, you're gonna hire a cast and crew, and you're gonna shoot a video called the Eternal Venezuelan Birthday. So I would have been like, who would watch that, though? Yeah, no one's gonna watch that.
Brian Green
That.
Joanna Hausman
It had 8 million views in 24 hours. Because. Because they're. When you're on the Internet, you do have your audience. The more specific you get, the better. The better results you have.
Brian Green
Yeah, so.
Joanna Hausman
So it sort of showed. I think a lot of. And. And many other Latino creators that came out in that era did the same, but I think it showed people like, oh, you don't have to be general market. You don't have to be. Hi, I am. Actually, the first Internet video I did was called Middle Class White Chick that I made with my friend, because I was like, I guess I can make fun of what I look like.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Joanna Hausman
And it didn't do well. And then, you know, obviously, because I didn't know what I was, I was like, uggs. What rhymes with Uggs? Let's make a song about. But I feel like that showed people that, you know, the audience is out there. It's very diverse. You can get really granular.
Brian Green
So there's riches and niches. That's what they say. And there's riches and niches.
Chrissy Hoadly
Did you just come up with that?
Brian Green
I. I did. Well, I. I've been saying it for a long time, but I just said it out loud.
Joanna Hausman
Wow.
Chrissy Hoadly
I love that.
Brian Green
So I. I also believe that while a lot of people probably identify very much with what you're saying, like, they say, like, you know, hey, I'm Afro Nicaraguan, and, you know, thank you for sharing your complicated story, because mine's complicated, you know, seems complicated once you get out there in the wild. But I also think that there genuinely is a thirst by people to learn more about other cultures. Like, hey, I'm just kind of dumb about this stuff. And now that I see it, comedy is the unify. It's the unify. Yeah. It's a. It's a thread. It's an ability to. When people are laughing and learning, there's something really cool about that mix, I think. And that's why I really appreciate satirical humor and people who do it well. And I. I think you do it really well. And then There is Tacoma fd. I want to ask you about Tacoma fd. Let me tell you a story. I went to Astro to Spanish, like, a lot has. You know, her dad is Spanish. Like, a lot of Venezuelans are partly Spanish. So we go to Spain often because that's where we have some extended family also. So we went to Spain for, I don't know, a long time. A month in the last year, in the summer. And we went to a series of Airbnbs that seemed like the world's most terrible. Airbnbs. That looks really pretty. You know what I'm saying? Like, you show up, there's no Internet, but they have an indoor pool. And you're like, great, but I can't fucking call anybody like that kind of shit.
Chrissy Hoadly
So weren't you out with the chickens, like, trying to get in?
Brian Green
Yes. Then there was. I was on some Spanish hillside, and I was trying. It was the middle of the night, trying to get Internet from the neighbor, and there were chickens chasing me. I didn't even know they. I didn't even know chickens were nocturnal, but there you go. So in a. In a mad dash to get anything familiar that I could watch at night when we had Internet service, I downloaded one of the only things that was available to me, which was Tacoma.
Christina
And.
Brian Green
I watched all of it, and I loved it. It was so stupid and fun. I just loved every minute of it. I thought it was great. How did you. You. You write. You have Hamster and Gretel on Disney. You've written for Stephen Colbert, you've written for Tacoma fd. How did you get mixed up with those guys? Is it because you were part of Upright Citizens Brigade or.
Joanna Hausman
Dude, I don't. I still don't understand, because, I mean, I love those guys. So the Broken Lizard guys, you know, they. They've been around for forever. They're, you know, icons in. In comedy. But, like, you know, they're very different than. Than me, obviously. Like, they're. They're. They're dude comedy, and they're. They're shows about a bunch of firefighters in the rainiest city in America, Tacoma. And it's. And, you know, there's. It. There's a bunch of dudes called Mike in the writers room. I think there's more mics than women.
Rachel Feinstein
And.
Joanna Hausman
But, like, Steve Lemmy, who is one of those show creators, is actually from Argentina, and they were looking for a new writer. I think they were specifically looking for a female writer. And in the interview, I guess they read my sample. Then in the interview, I started like, making fun of Steve Lemmy because he's Argentine. I was like, oh, what now, Steve? You think you're like all this, right, because you're from Argentina? And he was like, wait, why, why, why are you tagging me? I'm interviewing.
Brian Green
I'm actually gonna be your boss. You realize that, don't you?
Joanna Hausman
Yeah, I was like, dude, Argentinians. And I started, you know, I started razzing him a little bit and I, I, I don't know if that's the reason. I'd like to believe it is, but I, it ironically, it's actually, I think a lot of it was this sort of connection to Latin culture. A lot of people don't know that he, his dad is from Argentina. And we talked about it and we still to this day sort of like, you know, when we text, I call him Bolulo. So that, that is sort of, that is sort of like a secret in. I think I had Tacoma.
Brian Green
Yeah, I, what a, what a fun show to watch. I mean, it is certainly white guy down the middle, working class comedy, right? Yes, it is also pretty funny at times. I've, I found myself laughing.
Joanna Hausman
They're such nice people. Like, it's, I got, I was like overwhelmed because, like, I, that was out of my comfort zone in many ways and, and they were just so nice and sweet and, and I had a really great time working on that show and I learned a lot. They, they really taught me a lot about structure and how to work in a writer's room. And, you know, we did this during the pandemic.
Chrissy Hoadly
Oh, wow.
Joanna Hausman
It was like, you know, it was all remote and, and we were able to, to make a show and obviously they bore the brunt of it as the creators and executive producers, but they were able to make a show in the middle of a pandemic.
Brian Green
Crazy. Following the rules.
Joanna Hausman
Yeah, they're badass. Yeah.
Brian Green
And not to get too deep about Tacoma fd, but I do have to say this. It's very funny, but there's a, it's very sweet also, like, at the end of the day, I don't feel like anything is like, you know, there's like mean spirited comedy out there, which can be good in and of itself. You know, that can be a great deal of fun. Also that dark, you know, kind of mean pokey and the pokey in the belly kind of thing. But there's something very sweet about Tacoma fd and I just found it to be, to be great.
Christina
Apologies for the abrupt cutoff there, but you know what? Those two Literally could have yapped all day long, and someone had to stop them. So let it be me today. Anyway, now we are moving on to Hannah Burner, our little giggling girly. If you know, you know I'm a giggler. Brian's clearly not because he's a senior citizen, so enjoy this convo about dating old men.
Brian Green
I have to tell you something that I has been on my mind for the. The last couple of days. I. Or. Or the last day or so. I completely agree with you.
Chapel Roan
Five minutes.
Brian Green
Yeah. Since I just checked your Instagram sound way more important than I am, I have to agree with you about something, because I. I do this. I think more men should cry in the shower. I think that should just be a thing. We should be allowed to just let it out, whack off, cry. The shower should be our place of solace, and then we can meet up with our bros. As your Instagram does say, what's up, dude? Just jacked off and got a good cry in.
Chapel Roan
No, I definitely have been thinking a lot about, like, the male emotions, the woman emotions. And my husband will joke with me because he's like, men are hormonal. As hormonal as women, just in such different ways. And I'm like. And we don't talk about that. Like, sometimes men are just having a PMS moment and they need to deal with it differently, and we should just talk about it or, like, they just channel it all into anger because it's more socially acceptable.
Joanna Hausman
Yep.
Chapel Roan
So I'm out here, like, trying to figure stuff out for everyone because we're all coping with emotions we don't want to deal with. And, yeah, jerk off and cry at the same time. And, like, maybe that's how you become like, Gandhi.
Brian Green
Been there, done that. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid.
Chapel Roan
I'm just a different kind of boy that's iconic.
Brian Green
I'm built different. I'm built different than those boys.
Chrissy Hoadly
And you love your shower.
Brian Green
Most people think I'm on the down low. I'm really not. But most people think I'm on the down low. Let's just be real about it. I love it. I think. I think it's a great idea here. Are you into the Crown? If you watch the Crown, this. This little show. Reed Hastings did some of it I haven't watched.
Chapel Roan
Oh, he did?
Brian Green
Okay, so the other night, Astrid, my wife, and I are watching the Crown, and there's a. There's a gentle scene between William and Prince Philip, and they're, like, talking about the. Of Charles or whatever. This scene that's about five minutes long, my wife fell asleep during. And I literally wept like a baby for 15 minutes after the episode had concluded. And so Astrid wakes up and she's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, prince Philip, it was so great in that moment. And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? And I'm like, great. And my wife was like, you're such a girl. You are like, such a girl. What are you doing? Crying over the crown. And I'm like, it was just a moment. It was a touching moment. I had to do it. I gotta be honest. Crying makes me feel better. It's a thing.
Chapel Roan
I love that. I love that so much. My husband is not a crier. Except, like, we can't watch Love on the Spectrum without him sobbing the entire time.
Chrissy Hoadly
That's a great show.
Chapel Roan
When he sees the parents be like, I never thought my kid would be able to, like, find a connection with someone. And the kid's hugging, you know, the guy down the D. He. His body starts shaking. I'm like, what are you shaking for?
Joanna Hausman
And he's sobbing.
Chapel Roan
And I find it hot.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chapel Roan
Not. Not the personal, necessarily.
Joanna Hausman
It's him just like.
Brian Green
Yeah, yeah.
Chapel Roan
Like, being in touch with his emotions. I find it so fucking hot. Because then a second later, you know, he's jacking off.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chapel Roan
I like a full spectrum. I love all that. No pun intended.
Brian Green
Yeah. No, no. So your. Your husband is. Is quite the thing, too, I have to say. I am an admirer of your husband's. I think he's really funny. Moment right now. He is also having a moment. Yeah.
Christina
He.
Chapel Roan
He's a huge comedian in Ireland who. When we met during COVID it was because he, like, wanted to spend Covid in Long island where he has a place. And he. We met, we fell in love, and then he's like, I guess I'll, like, stay in America and build a comedy career here.
Brian Green
I love that.
Chapel Roan
And he's like, I guess I'll just. He plays at the Cellar all the time. I guess I'll put out a special on YouTube. And it's kind of popping off right now.
Brian Green
And, yeah, I love him. I just think he's great. I think he's so funny. I think his comedy is so up. It's like, observe. He always has an angle on something. There's, like, always an observation there that makes me laugh. And he is from across the. The pond. And I just am jealous of everybody from across the pond. I don't Know why I'm into British comedies and not into their food. But I think he's.
Chapel Roan
I think he, like, men from the UK make me cry. He. So he's actually from Queens, New York.
Brian Green
I know. I read this. And then he moved. Yeah.
Chapel Roan
When he was. Look at me. Just like, I'm his spokesperson.
Brian Green
Go for it.
Chapel Roan
He was really naughty when he was 14, so his parents just sent him abroad to go. Go to, like, a school in Ireland.
Brian Green
You're an asshole.
Chapel Roan
Like, I don't want to deal with you. The mom had, like, three boys and she was like, you're, like, voted off the island.
Joanna Hausman
Ireland.
Chapel Roan
And he just stayed there and then became, like an incredible comedian in Ireland. Speaking of kind of that, like, fish out of water type thing. And now he's like. Has a thick queen's accent, which not a lot of people still have. But then he'll say words like bloody and quite and like, lovely, which I wish guys don't say lovely in America. He's just like, yeah, he's very fascinating. He's an interesting person.
Brian Green
He's a very. He's. He's very interesting. Go check him out. We actually wanted him and we got Hannah instead, but she's his spokesperson. You, my wife and Chrissy all have something in common. Common. You're all attracted to senior citizens. So I'd like to apply a. Senior citizens would like to applaud you.
Chrissy Hoadly
I'm an older gentleman.
Brian Green
He's a silver hair fox. Yeah.
Chapel Roan
But it's funny because I never was, like, into older guys growing up. I wasn't. I never had, like a crush on a teacher, but he was a random. Actually had a psychic tell me I was gonna fall for someone who wasn't my type.
Brian Green
No way.
Chapel Roan
And I met this case older and I. At first I wasn't sure.
Brian Green
Sure.
Chapel Roan
But then I. I now, like, have all these comedy bits about just how I love an older man. Because they're tired and like. Yeah, they're just like. They're not even gonna fight with you. They're, like, exhausted. They're just like, yeah, whatever you want. I'm gonna take a nap and can you hand me my Advil? And I'm like, yes, babe. And it's like a simple, beautiful life that we live.
Brian Green
You are so right about this. You know, I'm too exhausted to fight with my wife about anything. If there's. I'm glad that my wife and I met as I got a little older and I had children as I got older because I think that I now know which Hills not to die on, which is almost everything. Anything that my wife could possibly be upset about. I'm like, no problem, babe. I got you. I'm an asshole. Gonna go hide in the corner. Gonna take the kids out for a couple hours. Go do your thing. Manicure, pedicure. What do you need?
Chapel Roan
Because you've been pre trained, you've had previous relationships that just fucking pummeled you to the ground to be like, I've done this fight and it doesn't end well, and I. I don't care. So it's like, I don't know if we're even compatible. Just, like, tired. I'm the person who's decided to rest his tired head on my shoulder.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chapel Roan
But I also, like, I learned things from him, which is cool. And I just feel like young guys, like, they have so much. I always compare them to like a young puppy. Like, they're cute, but they're just like, untrained. Peeing on everything. Every time you touch them, their little red wiener pops out. It's a Tuesday at like 2:00pm like, what are we doing?
Christina
Yeah.
Chapel Roan
So I, I love an older man. And I. And I think, like, older men are like, yeah, they're just. They know who they are.
Brian Green
Yeah, they're trained.
Chapel Roan
That's nice.
Brian Green
Yeah, they're. We're trained. You're. And you're so right about this. We've been not, I would say beat into submission, but probably beat into submission. And then also. And then also, we've just learned our lessons that time and time again, knocking our heads in a wall. Our wieners don't work like they used to. Like, I'm not getting a fourth grade boner at the chalkboard. You know what I'm saying? Like, I have some measure of control over my own body parts.
Chapel Roan
Poked all the time. And also, like, he's seen enough boobs. He's like, I get it.
Brian Green
Yeah, I know.
Chrissy Hoadly
Exactly.
Brian Green
I don't attack my life.
Chapel Roan
I personally am not a caretaker. Like, you know some girls who are like, well, he basically went from his mom to me.
Rachel Feinstein
Yes.
Chapel Roan
That's not me. Like, I was never that person. I'm not doing your laundry. I don't. I don't do my own laundry. Like, I don't know what's going on. So I think I had to find someone who was really, like, independent on his own. And I think when two people live two independent lives, it's like, it's. It's healthy. Unless you find, like, your perfect fudgeing match and you, you grow together. From, like, childhood and just like more one human, which we're not. We're just two people who happen to both be, like, messy and enjoy similar things.
Brian Green
I think that's such. I think you're. I think you found the one. One. I think you found the one. And you can tell him I said.
Chapel Roan
So pretty early on.
Brian Green
It's early on. You guys only been married for what, a year and a half? Call me in six years when you're finding us nursing homes.
Joanna Hausman
Well, that's the thing.
Chapel Roan
We don't have that much longer to last.
Brian Green
No, you don't.
Chapel Roan
I think I could do it.
Brian Green
I think I can outlive him. I think I can outlive him.
Chapel Roan
Also, he's 48. I'm not talking about like a 72.
Brian Green
No, no, no, no.
Chapel Roan
He's young, 32. And I really think anytime you're like over 26 and your brain is fully formed and you're like, independent in your own way, it could be fun to like.
Joanna Hausman
I recommend an older man, maybe.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chapel Roan
Like when you're younger, I think there is a weirder power dynamic because you don't know what's going on.
Rachel Feinstein
Right.
Chapel Roan
Like, he has money.
Rachel Feinstein
You don't.
Chapel Roan
You're like 22, so that could be weird. But I. Dating in your 30s. I'm like, let's see, you guys in their 40s?
Brian Green
Yeah.
Christina
Oh, man. You can always count on Brian to have someone on the show who loves an age gap relationship. Moving on. We're okay. Sorry. Was Moira Rose in the building? Excuse me. Moving on to Kyle Kinane, who had me slapping my kidney. Sorry about that joke, but I had to do it. I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop myself. Anyway, like Kyle will say, you got to have someone who keeps you in check. And sometimes that's me. And sometimes that is our reviewer, possumlover54, who I have a lot of deep respect for. And I don't appreciate possum awesome slander either. That's. This is beside the point.
Brian Green
But here's Kyle, the special I did before.
Kyle Kinane
I talk about how my mom will just say these, like, these things that seemingly come out of nowhere. But then two weeks ago, I woke up, my girlfriend woke up. I was already up, and apparently the first thing I said is like, so I've been putting a lot of thought into these barrel saunas. And that's. That's the first thing she didn't know that I'd been laying awake for an hour and a half looking up barrel saunas on my Phone just waiting for her eyes to open so I can be like. Anyway, I've come to a conclusion on the barrel saunas.
Chrissy Hoadly
I was looking into those things too. They look pretty cool.
Kyle Kinane
Yeah, that's not necessarily what you want to hear about when it's the first time you open your eyes to greet.
Chrissy Hoadly
The day good morning.
Kyle Kinane
Yeah, I know this is what you were dreaming about. I wonder if Kyle's come up with a decision about barrels.
Brian Green
How does she call you out? Like, what is like, is she just like, hey, honey, honey, listen, it's too early for the rambling. Can we just like put it away? Let me get a cup coffee, we'll get back to it.
Kyle Kinane
Yeah, or if. If it's, you know, if I've been on the phone with my mom or something, like, ah. She just says stuff and she'll just be like, well, yeah, barrel saunas, like, all right, touche. Appreciate it. Keeping me in check. And I value that.
Chrissy Hoadly
Exactly.
Brian Green
Well, now I have a question. What is a barrel sauna? Because I like the actual barrel that you just like heat up it.
Kyle Kinane
Look, it's, it's. It looks like a giant wine cask on its side.
Brian Green
Oh.
Kyle Kinane
It'S a little door on the end and you just sit in there and. Yep, it's a sauna.
Heather McMahon
Yeah.
Kyle Kinane
I got real into them being in Portland and we had a gym membership ship or they're in a nice sauna and the winters here are pretty gloomy.
Brian Green
I can imagine.
Kyle Kinane
So it's like some sort of body warming effort. Hot tub or sauna? Probably going hot tub. Even though the other week I was. I was pretty stoked. Hot tubs, just more. It just lends itself to that polycule lifestyle so much.
Chrissy Hoadly
I fix her people with wine, but.
Brian Green
I've drinks, I've taken a stance. Yeah, I've taken a stance as of late. And that is, I only want to go into a hot tub where I understand the chain of ownership. Right. It's like kind of. I don't know, it's like DNA evidence inside of a courtroom. I want to know the chain of ownership, who owns it.
Kyle Kinane
It's like a. It's like a bitcoin validation.
Brian Green
I want to see your ether ledger. Do you get into bitcoin? No, no, no.
Kyle Kinane
By the time somebody explained it to me, it was up and down and gone already. My buddy, who knew about it 14 years ago or 12 years ago or whatever. I wish I would have listened to him, but.
Chrissy Hoadly
Yeah, I know. It just seems too late now to figure it out.
Brian Green
My little brother had this kid that we grew up with, he was like, darling. Licked would be a nice word to say, but he's a very nice human being. I think he means well, but I'm not sure all the cylinders fire. And so he would do stupid, like, you know, take a pound of heroin from one state to another with a gun because someone told him to do it and make a thousand dollars.
Kyle Kinane
You're like, he would do stupid. I'm like, oh, yeah. Wacky hijinks.
Brian Green
I know.
Chrissy Hoadly
I didn't expect that.
Kyle Kinane
Yeah, Felony trafficking, okay.
Brian Green
Crazy murder.
Kyle Kinane
Crazy. This crazy ragam muffin and his hijinks.
Joanna Hausman
I know.
Kyle Kinane
When you said he'll dispose of a.
Heather McMahon
Body, I was like, what?
Brian Green
He's spying for the Iranian government? That's silly. Little guy, he's always up to something. But he would just get himself in these, like, okay, criminal situations, whatever you want to call them what they are, criminal situations. But, you know, he was dumb. He was just like. And I don't say dumb. I want to. I don't want to make the guy feel bad if he's listening, but he was just a little like. Yeah, he couldn't really put all the things together sometimes. So he. Yeah, he moves out to California. And then, because he had a warrant in California, he runs down to one of the islands. I can't remember, one of the Virgin Islands. And in the Virgin Islands, he meets a guy who is setting up a server farm inside of one of the houses in this location where he lives, in this neighborhood where he lives. So they're at the pool or at the bar or whatever, and he says, hey, what are you doing? I see all those, you know, big boxes showing up at your house with all the electronics. He says, I'm mining bitcoin. And he goes. He's like, what the is bitcoin? This is years ago. He goes, what the is bitcoin? So he explains it. And then this guy, on the advice of his next door neighbor, whoever lives wherever he lives, he says, you know, get yourself some of these servers and start mining, and I'll even front you the money for. You can give me whatever 30% or whatever it is. So the guy is now. Now, he sold a lot of that bitcoin. He got in very early. He sold a lot of that bitcoin. And he now never has to work another day in his life. I swear, if you would have looked at him 25 years ago, you would have been like, I just pray he makes it. I just pray he makes it. He's. He's not doing. He's doing stupid in the castle. Yeah, he's got a house there, and he's got a house here. And he's got.
Chrissy Hoadly
What happened to the warrant?
Brian Green
He paid an attorney to go take care of it. He got Mike out of turn. Barney cash, money, money.
Kyle Kinane
Took care of the war.
Brian Green
Money, money, money.
Kyle Kinane
But that's kind of odd. But you think about like it is the people that gamble or would take a risk on some wilder ideas that, you know, nine out of 10 of them are foolish and don't work. But it's the fortune favors the bold kind of scenario where, yeah, everybody else just doing what you're supposed to do and not taking any risks. I wanted a piece of it way too late.
Brian Green
But I unfortunately am not bold. So I take a lot of risks, but it's on the dumb side.
Chrissy Hoadly
Low.
Brian Green
It's fine. That's right.
Kyle Kinane
Buy low. Lose proof that you own the shares in the first place. Forget about it. Call it a wash. That's. I think that's how I go.
Christina
Yeah.
Brian Green
You know, I used to have Disney stock. My grandparents, my grandma would buy Disney stock for us for our birthdays and for our Christmases for, like, I don't. The first 12 years of my life. They would buy Disney stock. Buy Disney stock. And back then you would get like, a piece of paper in the mail. It be like, hey, Disney stock. Yeah, shares. Can't for the life of me find that paper. Can't for the life of me find that paper. But I am almost sure that I would not be four episodes a week on this.
Kyle Kinane
I was gonna say, man, I don't know how much does. It might pay off like a new Nissan Sentra.
Brian Green
I don't know.
Kyle Kinane
What you got? How much you got?
Brian Green
Yeah, that's kind of what I got. All right. That's the level of podcast. We are Nissan. Damn.
Kyle Kinane
Y' all can afford Nissan Sentras.
Brian Green
It's tough out here for a podcaster. I know you're not.
Kyle Kinane
I only go once a week. I'm not buying Nissans. Not getting Japanese made off of it.
Christina
Dear Brian, if we have a Nissan Sentra for use, I would like to use it. Thank you. Love, Christina. Now on to Rachel Feinstein. I loved this interview. I'm sure you guys did, too. She is so wonderful. And honestly, the story she's about to tell is absolutely nutso. So if you did not catch this interview, you should absolutely go back and listen. But give this little preview a go first and see how it is. And this is our last clip. So have fun, enjoy.
Brian Green
What is the. If you, back when you went out and you hung out with the other comics or just went out on the town, I'm sure there was at first at least a level of excitement about getting to travel around the country and seeing new places. Tell me about the most dangerous situation that you've been in while traveling. So you've got to have one of those stories.
Rachel Feinstein
Oh, a bunch of those stories. I mean, which one should I pick? There was one time I would stay when I was opening for comics when I was still like a nanny and bartending. I was staying at like $46 hotels. Like I was like, oh, look, this one, I could get this for 46.
Heather McMahon
Yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
You can get a cocktail of diseases for 46.
Joanna Hausman
Yeah.
Brian Green
It comes with free syphilis.
Rachel Feinstein
Like actively dangerous hotels. But one of the times I know that somebody from the audience, one place I played, they would announce on the website of the, of the hotel, of the comedy club we put our comics in. You know, this hotel, like Hinta. Yeah. And I'm like, it's like that's just when you haven't. It's like there's no way a woman would ever have done that. I'm like, no. You know, and they have some deal with the local place, which means like, here's where you can murder Rachel.
Brian Green
That's true. I didn't think about that. They're like announcing where all of the comics are going to be.
Chrissy Hoadly
Right.
Rachel Feinstein
And they have like a deal with them that here, if we give you the information so that you can finish your. Whatever your criminal aims are in a more organized fashion, your stalking will be less laborious for you. So one time I was in, I was in. Where was I? It was in California. I can't remember. I don't want to say the name of the comedy club, but it was probably about an hour or two out from la.
Brian Green
Okay.
Rachel Feinstein
And I was, look, I'm still protecting them even though they didn't protect me.
Brian Green
Yeah, that's true.
Rachel Feinstein
But I had a room with an outside entrance and I just like my friend, another funny comic, Kelly Price, she was over spending the night and I, she came and opened for me and she lives nearby, but she came in and she was like, oh. I was like, you could just stay here at my hotel if you want to like get away. She has five kids, so if you want to get away from your massive family. So she came over and all of a sudden there's just this like drunk guy from the audience outside the door. We use the Machine or something. And I was like, that's the guy. We came back in and we shut the door. We were just like sitting there trying to plan, and then she's like, just come to my house. I think we just have. Yeah. So we called downstairs and he was just kind of sort of swaying in the hallway as we like ran by with our suitcases, you know. And then I just went to go live with Kelly and her. I think I slept in like her son's bunk bed.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
And I told that and I told the club the next day. They just kind of watched my story like it was an amusing night for us. And I'm like, so again, the guy from the audience was outside. They're like, oh, that's crazy. It was not a wacky fun too.
Brian Green
Right.
Heather McMahon
I was almost murdered.
Brian Green
They're like, oh, that's Ed. He murders all of the comics that open up for the big names. Don't worry about it.
Rachel Feinstein
Like swaying and pointing and we were like fleeing in the night.
Brian Green
Wow, that's scary.
Rachel Feinstein
I think that's another time a guy came into my room. That was in Vegas.
Brian Green
Oh, into.
Rachel Feinstein
Well, a halfway in, cuz he opened up at the top. That was in Vegas when I was staying at one of the towers for. I think it was Harris Casino. So then he. He follows me. So he worked for the casino.
Chrissy Hoadly
I think it was Harris, pretty sure.
Rachel Feinstein
So he worked for the casinos. This comedy club is no longer in this specific casino. But he worked for the casino. So he was. Worked in maintenance. And so my room key thing didn't work. Like, it wasn't. Yeah. So he was trying to fix not the key, but the thing itself, the apparatus on the door, whatever it's called.
Brian Green
Yeah, yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
So that. So he came over and I just flown across country. You know, the fatigue you have where you're just like, you.
Brian Green
Absolutely. You're swollen, you're tired. All you want to do is just lay down and take an uncomfortable nap.
Rachel Feinstein
Yeah, yeah. And I was just like resting on my suitcase, which I have a name for. That's not a good sign if you're.
Brian Green
If you don't have a name. Like, I was the name. What is the name?
Rachel Feinstein
The Red Dragon. And so I was resting on the dragon and so waiting for him to fix the thing. And. And we were just having a chat, you know, Like, I was talking about being on the road and he was asking me questions and. And so like, I was like, oh, what a lovely man. And then the next night I was fast asleep, and then my boyfriend at the time, thank God, flew out and stayed with me the next day. And, like. And, like, finished out the week with me in Vegas. But he'd been working before. I never had locked the top lock because I just wouldn't think about it. I was like, oh, they have security. It's a casino.
Brian Green
Whatever. Yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
So he locked it, but then. And then in the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, three in the morning, he tries to open the door to the room.
Joanna Hausman
Oh, my God. And I was like, oh, my God.
Rachel Feinstein
So. So my boyfriend jumps up, and then.
Brian Green
And.
Rachel Feinstein
And then he's like, what are you doing, dude? And he's like, oh, sorry. I thought there was a call for this room. It's like, even if there was a call, wouldn't you have called the. Like, this doesn't make any sense. So then. So it's like, even if somebody called and said that their toilet was broken or whatever, like, you would knock first.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chrissy Hoadly
You just walk in.
Brian Green
Did you report this to Harris?
Rachel Feinstein
Yes, I reported. I kept explaining and talking about it, and again, they looked at me with the same expression, like I was telling a crazy tale. They're like, well, I'm sure it was an accident. I'm like, nah, it's not an accident.
Brian Green
Oh, wow. He's like, that's. They were kind of looking at me with the vibe.
Rachel Feinstein
Yeah, they were looking at me with a vibe of like. Don't flatter yourself. He wasn't trying to tell you. Like, I was giving myself a compliment or something, you know?
Brian Green
That's insane.
Rachel Feinstein
That's insane. I. I tried and tried and talked to everybody at the hotel, the comedy club. I feel like a lot of times, like, I don't know, they just. They didn't. I did report it, I hope. Eventually, I finally got a woman to give me the call logs of the other of who called, who did call then, you know.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Rachel Feinstein
And it wasn't even in the same tower. She said she was gonna. She's like. She was the one who just looked at me in the eyes. Like, I can't say everything right now, but I'm gonna do something about this, you know? So.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Chrissy Hoadly
Okay, good.
Rachel Feinstein
So she, I think, was the one person that was, like, gonna follow up on it and make sure that he didn't kill others.
Heather McMahon
Anyway, Netflix.
Joanna Hausman
Netflix.
Brian Green
May 21st Big Guy out now.
Christina
Alas, my darlings, we've reached the end of our journey. Thank you for join joining me. Cue the sound. Yep. Wonderful. Anyway, I'm gonna pass you off now to a little another Liner from me, me, myself and I. And then back to Brian and Chrissy. Have a lovely, wonderful, fabulous day.
Brian Green
Bye.
Christina
What? Oh, hi, it's Christina again here to remind you to go to tcvpodcast.com for all things audio, video and TCBDO. Give us a follow on Instagram at the commercial break and on tiktokcbpodcast. And guess what? We have a new phone number. I know what you're thinking, but I promise this is the last TCB phone number you will ever have to remember. So call us and leave us a voicemail or text us at 212-4333, TCB. Once more for the people in the back. That's 2124-438. Oh, and check out our YouTube channel at YouTube.com the commercial break. That's all for now. Let's listen to our sponsors and get back to the show.
Brian Green
All right, so there you go. There's some of the best of from Christina, taking some input from the audience and of course, us. Thank you to Christina for putting this all together for for us. I hope you enjoyed our little reminisce about reminiscing about the good old days past. Reminiscing about our one chance to have 45 minutes with each of those particular people, never again to come on the commercial break. But they were here while they were here.
Chrissy Hoadly
Exactly.
Brian Green
Yeah. And wait until you see the guest lineup coming up.
Chrissy Hoadly
I've seen a little bit of it.
Brian Green
Yeah. You know, you got it on the calendar. Y yeah. So we are about. We're about to go hot and heavy with guests. We're about to do like, like a three week run of just guest, guest, guest, guest, guest, guest, guest. We'll release them each Tuesday. Don't worry, I won't smash you over the head with a bunch of guest interviews. But thank you very much to all the guests so far who have come on the commercial break. All their information is located in the show notes on those particular episodes. How do you know those particular episodes? How do you know the guest episodes? Tuesdays, that's when they came out on Tuesdays. They have special cover art, so it's easy to help. It's easy to tell who they are and when they came on. So go ahead and take a listen. If you found any of those interesting and you haven't heard the interview, please do us a favor, go back and listen. We could use the download. We could use the support here at the commercial break. We use the 13.5 cents we make on each episode. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right, do us a favor. Go to tcbpodcast.com that's where you go. You find out more information about Chrissy and I. All the show notes, guest links, advertiser promo codes, all that stuff is located on the show notes. Notes of each episode which you can find on the website. You can also get your free TCB sticker by going to the contact us button. Drop down menu says I want my free sticker. Send us your address and away it will go.
Chrissy Hoadly
Like making that sound.
Brian Green
Thank you. That was a good one. Now I lost my train of thought. 1-2-12-4333. TCV 1-2-433-8822. That is the text message and phone line dials right here into the studio. Someone close to us will answer you back questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. You want to be on the show? Ask TCB for advice. Talk to Brian's mom. You have a question for my mom? She'll be back on the show soon, so please text us, let us know. Also, we would love it, I mean, just love it if you would be one of the five people to follow us on Instagram. Make it six at the commercial break on Instagram, TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break. All right, there you go. Okay, Chrissy, I think that's all I can do for today.
Chrissy Hoadly
I think so.
Brian Green
But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you and best you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say goodbye. Sam, If you got a softy in your brain, you're gonna have a softy in your pants, you know what I'm saying?
Air Date: June 11, 2024
Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Producer/Narrator: Christina
This episode of The Commercial Break celebrates a year of the podcast’s celebrated, irreverent guest interviews. Bryan and Krissy reminisce about standout moments from their “TCB Infomercials” Tuesday series, with producer Christina presenting a “best of” compilation of clips from some of their favorite comic interviews. The hosts blend their offbeat, self-deprecating humor with genuine appreciation for their diverse array of guests, recapping everything from wild personal stories to the unexpected impact some guests have had on their show (and even their Instagram follower count).
“We thought we'd take a little breather... put together some clips from some of our favorite guests over the last... seventeen years we've been doing it!” (Bryan, 01:21)
“Our Instagram is miserable... Joanna Hausman brought like 2,000 new followers to our Instagram just by showing up. That was amazing.” (Bryan, 06:00)
“She ended up emailing my team... I was not going for that look, I just lost my pants somehow at the Fox Theater.” (Heather McMahon, 19:56) “Women don’t get out of the house enough is what I’ve learned. And they’re all getting crazy.” (Heather McMahon, 20:42)
"I didn't realize that me being... unapologetic on how specific my identity is actually would make people feel relieved." (Joanna Hausman, 29:39) "[The Venezuelan birthday song] is, I think, nine minutes long... It's like you're being exorcised." (Joanna Hausman, 31:19)
“I think more men should cry in the shower. We should be allowed to just let it out, whack off, cry…” (Bryan, 38:47)
“I love an older man… they’re tired… They’re not even gonna fight with you. They’re just like, ‘Yeah, whatever you want. I’m gonna take a nap and can you hand me my Advil?’” (Hannah Berner, 44:30)
“Hot tubs just lend themselves to that polycule lifestyle so much…” (Kyle Kinane, 50:25) “It’s like a Bitcoin validation… I want to see your Ether ledger before I get in your hot tub.” (Bryan & Kyle, 51:03)
“That’s just when you haven’t… There’s no way a woman would ever have done that... here’s where you can murder Rachel.” (Rachel Feinstein, 04:38/56:59)
“He tries to open the door to the room... My boyfriend jumps up, and he’s like, ‘What are you doing, dude?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh sorry, thought there was a call for this room.’” (Rachel Feinstein, 61:05)
On “TCB’s” Influence:
On Bucket List Guests & Their Legends:
On Internet Fame & Follower Jokes:
Whether reliving your favorite Tuesday TCB guest appearances or jumping in for the first time, this highlight reel is a rapid-fire dose of the podcast’s “chaotic cheesecake factory” vibe. There’s warmth, dirtbag comedy, and a surprising amount of life and showbiz insight, all delivered with a shrug and a smile. The episode is packed with stories you’ll remember, even if you never catch the full interviews—and it proves why these “just fine” hosts keep attracting big comedic names.
Follow-up: Get details, guests’ links, and promo codes at tcbpodcast.com, and, as Bryan jokes throughout, please—help them break that 5,000-follower Instagram barrier.