
Episode #580: You gnome what they say, the little man in your bedroom at night is just an alien here to protect you and also maybe to have sex with you. Aliens! The old ITV crew Thank you to Gina Gershon Now that Bryan has Peacock, I petition to force him to watch Below Deck A pole vault punch 90’s ITV alien show Out of this world orgasm Smells like team spirit… Is she going to outer space or just dreaming? Work it out on the gang bang Who is Ian The Octopus Man? It’s lovely to imagine Cat Gran? Bryan’s sleep paralysis experience Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com...
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Brian Green
I don't know what to say. So I'm hoping that the tone of my voice makes you think that I do. Okay, sweetie. Thanks, Tess. On this episode of the commercial break, a little dark gnome keeping you from bad things or keeping you from good things? I'm not really sure, but it was keeping me from. Raphael is right. Yes. Maybe I was having a moment of interlockery sexual whatever they call it. Maybe he's like, don't go out there. Be filled with sperm. Your life will be changed forever. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is the pence to my Harris, Kristen Joy Ho. Best of you, Kristen Best. Brian Besty you out there in the podcast universe. I think an appropriate opening for the show today is the Aliens Aliens clip or the aliens drop. Because we will be talking about aliens most of the episode.
Harris
Yay.
Brian Green
You know, one of our most popular episodes by views and by downloads is the guy from itv. Remember the, remember the morning show itv? What was that guy's name? Holly and whatever his name were. Yeah. Until he got. Until he started dating a 17 year old intern and forgot failed to tell anybody about it. But anyway, so one of the morning show clips that we did from ITV was a guy who had sex with aliens and then claimed he had millions of space babies and he was visiting them all on a regular basis.
Kristen Joy Ho
They were in pods.
Brian Green
Yeah. And we wondered, you know, what is he saving for college?
Kristen Joy Ho
He better, he better have started early.
Brian Green
That's right. Anyway, he enjoyed going to the trees, going to the wacking tree down by the creek and space alien, he just.
Kristen Joy Ho
Never happened to grab a picture.
Brian Green
Yeah, he never went asked if he had ever gotten a picture. He said, well, I never really thought about it, to be honest with you. I'm like, you never thought, you never thought in the two decades you've been space aliens, you never thought for one second to take a picture of, you know, the tits of a space alien? Like, come on. Yeah. Why would you.
Kristen Joy Ho
Why would. That's not like.
Brian Green
It's not like cameras are readily available.
Kristen Joy Ho
You gotta go down, you gotta run.
Brian Green
To your local Walgreens and get rolls of film, put it in that canon 350. Anyway, we're gonna. Later on we're gonna review lest we think that we're being sexist about it, that only guys have sex with aliens. That's not true. Women apparently do also. And we have found one with Holly and what's his name, which I can't. Why can't I remember his name anyway? The morning show, the original crew.
Kristen Joy Ho
He's so funny.
Brian Green
I know he is.
Kristen Joy Ho
Because he gets so serious.
Brian Green
Well, they both do.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, they both do.
Brian Green
They both take it way too seriously. But I guess that's the joke, right? The joke is, we think it's serious. Or we want you to think we're serious. But they're always giving Sly on the side. They're really good at what they do, actually. I'm sad to see them go. But I guess at some point you got to bring in the new blood. And I've watched the new blood. It's not.
Stephanie Cohen
It's not.
Brian Green
But listen, maybe it just takes time. Like, you know, you and I, it only took us 500 episodes to figure out what was funny and what was not. And I think some people would argue that we still haven't gotten it.
Kristen Joy Ho
That's right.
Brian Green
But when you listen, you do six to seven hours of content a week, and then you tell me how easy it is to be funny. That's my favorite thing. When people are like, oh, you do a comedy podcast. So, yeah, we're gonna comedy. You tell a joke and I'm like, yeah, I can tell a joke. I'm Grandp. I'm Grandpa Joke master. Shaving a haircut.
Kristen Joy Ho
Like, it's not a stand up comedy podcast. No improv. We're just riffing off each other.
Brian Green
Well, we'll see when we stand up to do our show live.
Kristen Joy Ho
True.
Brian Green
Danya beach improv.
Kristen Joy Ho
But we're gonna have a lot of crowd.
Brian Green
Orlando Funny bone. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we're gonna have crowd interact. I'm actually gonna ask the crowd to do the show on our behalf.
Kristen Joy Ho
Exactly.
Brian Green
I get why people do crowd interaction. It kills time. It just kills time. All you gotta do is talk to people. Listen, love or hate, Matt Rife. And I stand on the fence about it. I've seen a lot of stuff where I do laugh out loud. I think he's pretty funny. He's obviously got a great sense of humor and very quick at it, too. And then I've seen some stuff where I'm like, you're. You're just trying a little bit too hard. But he's a young kid and he's trying to make his way in the comedy world and whatever. Anyway, I did see, like, a crowd interaction that he did. It's like a five minute TikTok video where he did. And it had me laughing so fucking hard. Two people in the front of the crowd. Let me just Give you, like, the specs on it. Two people right in the front. He's. You jump into the video, and he's already asking them questions. And he's like, so is this your wife? And they said, yeah, we're recently married. And he goes, oh, they're recently married. The whole crowd goes crazy. How long you guys been married? And he said, this time, 10 days. And he goes, this time, 10 days? What do you mean, this time? And they're like, oh, we used to be married then, blah, blah, blah. You know, I've got divorced, like your parents, you know, and now we got remarried. We've been together, you know, again for two years. Just got recently married. And then he says, well, what broke you up the first time? And the lady goes, ask him. And he goes, well, we went to a high school. I went to a high school reunion, and I end up one of my old flames. And then he's like, you, the old flame? And everyone goes crazy. And then he goes, yeah, but ask her what she did.
Stephanie Cohen
She goes, I.
Brian Green
My divorce attorney. And he goes, that happened. He goes, that's one way to get the house in the divorce. Yeah, it was pretty funny. It was good, but it made me feel like it was. It had to have been a plant. Like, right up front, really, that.
Kristen Joy Ho
That story.
Brian Green
Right up front. You just happen to talk to those people. Anyway, Matt Rife. Rather funny. I want to thank very much Gina Gershon for coming in earlier this week. I said it on the show when we were talking to her to her face, which I'm sure she didn't appreciate. I said, you're a living legend, and asked her go, does that mean you think she's old? And I go, no, but it might sound like I think she's old. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say it like that, but Gina's.
Kristen Joy Ho
I thought it was a compliment.
Brian Green
It was a compliment. It was the highest compliment that I could pay. I really do.
Kristen Joy Ho
I mean, it's not like she can get away from her age. It's all over the place. And she's been in so many movies, so many great movies. And that was part of the legend part.
Brian Green
Yeah, that was part of the legend part, is that she's been. Her body of work is literally her body, and her body of work have literally been in so many movies. And she's not only, to me, physically gorgeous, but then she is whip smart. And I really enjoyed the conversation.
Kristen Joy Ho
She got a lot of substance.
Brian Green
Gina is one of those people where I, you know, we've done not a lot of interviews, but we're getting there. We're, you know, we're building up a nice little rapport of interviews and I'm feeling more. More comfortable talking to whoever comes on the screen. But you still get a little nerves around individual personalities because we've had a few people come in and what you saw was what you got, but not necessarily like in a surprising way, like, oh, okay, that's where they're gonna go with this. The stick. It's not either. It's not a shtick or the shticked continues. One of the two. But Gina was like. And. And I built up a little bit of nerves feeling like every single. Not every single, but 90 of her characters are sultry, sassy, smart, but like, you know, smart assy also. So I felt like, oh, is that like the. Could that be her personality in real life? It was not. She was very pleasant and really easy to talk to. So thanks, Gina, for coming out. And I just wanted to mention that because Borderlands comes out today. Borderlands, based on the best selling video game series Borderlands. Kevin Hart.
Kristen Joy Ho
There's so many people.
Brian Green
Gina Kershawn.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah.
Brian Green
Jamie Lee Curtis, Cate Blanchette, Jack Black and so many others are in there. There's a lot of. There's a lot of folks in that movie. So if you're interested in that kind of thing, go watch it too. It's up in your movie theaters. Thank you very much. So we're coming to the end of the Olympics, sad to say, because I've really been enjoying all of this.
Kristen Joy Ho
Oh, God. I know.
Brian Green
And I'll probably be watching this for months to come. I'll probably be turning on that peacock since now I'm paying for it and watching all of the replays. I watched the other day, the mo. Did you see that guy who did the. I think. I think he's. Is he Canadian or is he. No, he's Swedish. The Swedish pole vaulter who got the world record at like 6 meter, 6.25 meters.
Kristen Joy Ho
I did. I saw a replay of that.
Brian Green
Un. Fucking believable. I remember people doing pole vaulting in high school and it looked like a real fucking shit show to me. And there were broken arms and broken limbs and shoulders and knees wrapped up in ice because no one seemed to know how to do it very well. They all just kind of fell back.
Kristen Joy Ho
Here's a stick. Now go.
Doctor/Professor
Yeah, exactly.
Brian Green
And they were doing like six meters. They were doing like a meter and a half, like three and a half feet. And they would try and plant the stick and it would break or they would fall backwards. Yeah, I thought to myself, I'm never. Fuck that. That just looks like an accident waiting to happen. So when I can see somebody doing it at that level, it's unbelievable. The reaction to me after he did it was unbelievable. It's obviously just like testosterone filled, screaming and yelling, bouncing around. Let's fucking go. Runs up, gives his teammate, who is his girlfriend, but that wasn't known until like days ago when some investigative reporter uncovered it or whatever, runs up, gives her a big fat smack on the lips. And you know, everybody in the stadium is going bananas. It's so fucking loud in there. And then one of his teammates comes up to give him a hug and gives him kind of like one of those punches in the chest that guys do that would probably break my ribs, but okay, that's a thing, I guess, you know, gives him kind of a punch in the chest and is like, yeah, man, you fucking dead ass. You fucking dead end. And then the pole vaulter, filled with adrenaline, testosterone and whatever else courses through your body after you go 18,000ft in the air on some skinny little toothpick, he punches him back and the guy falls backwards and then like runs up the stage. He, like walks away from him like, oh, man, that really hurt. Really hurt. You started it, you badge. He was. That's amazing.
Kristen Joy Ho
Congratulations to him. There's so much good stuff.
Brian Green
So much good stuff. Swimmers are doing well. The divers, well, we're not doing all that great in diving, but there are divers that are doing well.
Kristen Joy Ho
No, I know. I saw this one this morning actually, and she was doing her own diving, which I was watching synchronized diving the other day. And that was amazing. I mean, you have to practice with that person for so long to be able to even think about being in sync. But this was a person on their own. And she got up on her hands and. And did the dot. Like she stood on her hands.
Brian Green
Yeah, that's the thing.
Kristen Joy Ho
Other people were just doing it where they were just, you know, standing and then diving. But this girl, I mean, she just got on her hands on this little ledge.
Brian Green
Yes.
Kristen Joy Ho
And put her feet directly.
Brian Green
They like body walk their hands and then stand on it. And then you. So the commentator was saying, and I've.
Kristen Joy Ho
Seen, I mean, people who do yoga can't do that.
Brian Green
I know. And this is the thing that, like they do to add a degree of difficulty, obviously try and try to jump off a 3 meter diving board, because you say to yourself, oh, that's not. No, you can't do that. Go up to a 3 meter diving board, especially if you have any kind of fear of heights. Go up on a 3 meter diving board and tell me it doesn't look scary looking down at that water. I have dove off of 3 meter diving boards and it took like minutes for me to get up the courage. I was just scared shitless. I have been up to the top of a 10 meter diving board because I, you know, again, Brian, someone challenged is Brian's fear of heights. And I have to show everybody that my balls are bigger than my fear. I didn't even get halfway out to the ledge and I, I turned back, I was like, no, because if you.
Kristen Joy Ho
In your head, you know, if you hit the water the wrong way, it's like cement.
Brian Green
Yes. And controlling your body all the way down to the bottom is not as.
Kristen Joy Ho
Easy as it seems. Yeah, these look very seamless with the. Yeah, just a tiny little splash.
Brian Green
They're getting like deducted points because there's a little tiny splash. And those Chinese divers, they make the water disappear. Like you're going into like, one of the commentators said you're going into quicks. Yeah, it's weird, dude. It's just weird. But then add on top of that that you're doing it upside down while you're doing a handstand and add three double twists in a turn or whatever the it is. It's. And on top of that you're in a thong and all the camera people are taking a picture of your ass. It's like, it's all the fears together, all of them just like jumbled up into one. And these girls, some of them are only like 17, 18, 19, 20 years old. They're incredibly young to be doing that. I guess you have to do it when you're young.
Kristen Joy Ho
So you just, you just made the point.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Kristen Joy Ho
You're young. You have something to prove and no fear.
Brian Green
Yeah. You also have knees and, you know, joints that aren't yet broken. Yeah. As you see, some of those divers are all taped up. There's a lot of tape going on. Yeah, man. God bless. God bless. I really am enjoying the Paris Olympics, I got to say. Paris is putting on a show and the Olympic, the athletes are putting on a show. And thank God for it. It's kind of occupied most of the summer. I can otherwise not be depressed about everything else in my life because I.
Kristen Joy Ho
Know I thought the same thing the other day. I was like feeling kind of a little melancholy about something and then I was like, wait, let me turn on the Olympics.
Brian Green
Turn on those Olympics. Get to get in a good mood, see what the best. See what it's like to actually have a body that works, not a body that fails me after, you know, 15 minutes of sleep and I wake up and I'm like, oh, my back. Oh, my hip. Oh, I gotta pee for the 15th time. Oh, one of my kids needs is in my balls. Oh, these people are like highly finely tuned machines.
Kristen Joy Ho
Even if they hurt something, they get right back.
Brian Green
That's right. Yeah. The doctor shoots them up with something and they're right back out there.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah.
Brian Green
Dr.
Kristen Joy Ho
Tape and a shot in there.
Brian Green
Dr. Shoots me up with cortisone. The other week, I feel like I have to take a nap for five days. I know it's crazy, but you were saying about the synchronized diving, and I think I said this on an episode you may or may not ever hear, but those synchronized divers are insane. Astrid and I cannot hold hands together walking down the street without changing position four times because we can't figure it out. How are they doing that? And you know, they talk to each other under their breath. They're like, ready?
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah.
Brian Green
They do the count, 1, 2, 3. But it never starts on three. Then they take a beat and then there's like four bounces and then they do it. It's like, what clock are they using? Because on mine if you go 1, 2, 3, you just bounce on 3. Yeah, but no, it's like a song going on in their head that only they understand. It's really quite. It's really quite fascinating and amazing and I'll sad to see it come to an end, but at least I got it. Forever and ever. I haven't watched. I haven't watched half the sports I want to watch. And when does that breaking come on?
Kristen Joy Ho
Oh, it's this weekend.
Brian Green
Oh, it's this weekend?
Kristen Joy Ho
Yes.
Brian Green
Okay. A short competition. Yeah, it's like a test trial.
Kristen Joy Ho
And apparently they're not going to have break dancing in la. I didn't know you could choose. I thought like, once something's in, it's in.
Brian Green
I thought so too.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah. Not, not so.
Brian Green
Why wouldn't the Olympic committee be the ones who choose that?
Kristen Joy Ho
I don't know. I guess it's per city and I did not know this, but they were doing a whole thing on the breakdancing this morning while I was watching one of the news things and they said, yeah, LA is not gonna have it. And I thought, well, that sucks.
Brian Green
So you just pick and choose which ones you Want to have?
Kristen Joy Ho
Yes.
Brian Green
This doesn't sound like very much fun. And why wouldn't LA choose to have break dancing?
Kristen Joy Ho
LA's got a great street scene.
Brian Green
Isn't LA like, kind of where break dancing started?
Kristen Joy Ho
New York, Louisiana? Yeah.
Brian Green
Yeah. What the fuck? Come on, LA, get it. You're already disappointed. Come on, get it together. I better see a horse riding down that rain channel you got down there where the Terminator was from. I better see a silver horse with a big eagle riding down that for 58 minutes before you like that thing, or I'm gonna fall asleep on you. It better be as crazy as Paris. It better be twice as crazy as Paris.
Kristen Joy Ho
And I know crazy.
Brian Green
And I don't want you to just fill it with a bunch of celebrities saying things and doing, you know, doing acting pieces or rap video, whatever. I want true, batshit crazy bullshit.
Kristen Joy Ho
That's what I want from Paris has up the ante.
Brian Green
Yes, they have. You know, when China did theirs in Beijing, we all went, oh, shit. Right. But then Paris blew it out of the water. It's like, you know, China did the precision. They had like a precision show with thousands of drummers and flag waivers and fireworks and all this. But then Paris just, like, took some acid.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah.
Brian Green
To go crazy. And I'm here for it. I love it, too. I think it's great. Yeah. And I know a lot of other people are loving it, too, from our audience, because we're getting a lot feedback on the Olympic content. It's not my Olympic content. There are the ones actually doing it. I'm just talking about it. It's the Olympic of the mouth here at the commercial break. All right, when we get back, we're going to be introduced to a lady who claims that she has been having sex with aliens for many years, giving her incredible orgasms. And Holly and whatever his name is, will bring us. Will bring. I can't remember his name.
Kristen Joy Ho
Alex or something.
Brian Green
Mike? Paul, John.
Kristen Joy Ho
We'll find out.
Brian Green
We'll find out.
Kristen Joy Ho
Let's all find out together.
Brian Green
We'll all find out together when we come back.
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Brian Green
All right, so let's just get right into it. Here is ITV morning show. This is a one. I think this is from the 90s, if I'm not mistaken.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, they don't have the beautiful view of the city.
Brian Green
No, it's like a weird ET tents behind them. Remember an ET when they covered everything in plastic? That's what it looks like. I think that's for effect. Either that or they're really literally doing renovations on the set and just decided to leave it alone. All right, here they are. Let's listen. Let's listen in and see what's going on.
Guest/Interviewer
Stephanie Cohen. Stephanie claims that she is often visited by aliens who help to guide her through life. Not only does she claim aliens sneak into her room at night, she also says that she has sex with them and has out of this world orgasms.
Brian Green
Professor Chris out of this world orgasms.
Kristen Joy Ho
I always see what you did there.
Brian Green
He says it so politely. Out of this world orgasms. And he made a joke there. He slid it in. You see it. Out of this world orgasms. By the way, the woman that they're showing is lovely.
Stephanie Cohen
Yeah.
Kristen Joy Ho
And she just laughed.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Kristen Joy Ho
While he was saying she's heard it all.
Brian Green
If you're claiming you're having sex with aliens and you're willing to go on TV about it, you've probably heard it.
Harris
All, believes there is a rational explanation, and welcome to you.
Brian Green
Oh, good. We brought a doctor on set to talk about the aliens.
Kristen Joy Ho
What set? I do have to say, this is wild. It looks like a video. I don't know, like one from the 80s video.
Brian Green
This looks like a Liberace sex room or something.
Kristen Joy Ho
Mirrors.
Brian Green
Weird. Yeah, there's like a bunch of clear plastic around them like Saran Wrap. And I don't even know. You gotta go to the YouTube.com the commercial break, and check this one out.
Harris
It's utterly fascinating and we should say, Stephanie, we're glad to have you here this morning because as you've been in this morning talking to us, last night, did you.
Brian Green
You got boned by a big fat alien.
Kristen Joy Ho
Just like.
Brian Green
Just last night. They came, I came we all came.
Harris
Traveled out to the solar system. Where did you go?
Kristen Joy Ho
And she travels out.
Brian Green
Oh, she goes there. Well, yeah, it makes sense.
Kristen Joy Ho
You know, they come and scoop. They pick her up for the date.
Brian Green
Yeah. When you're making the booty call, you got to do the drive. You know what I'm saying? That's what I've learned in my life. If you pick up the phone to make the booty call, you better be ready to get into a cab and Uber or drive yourself over there.
Stephanie Cohen
Well, we the. My group, I call them Team Spirit.
Brian Green
And, oh, what a cute name. Smells like team spirits been jizzing all over me.
Stephanie Cohen
We have a ufo flying saucer.
Kristen Joy Ho
And we've got a photo.
Stephanie Cohen
No, it's not a photo. It's a picture I drew.
Kristen Joy Ho
This is a drawing I was about to say.
Stephanie Cohen
What?
Kristen Joy Ho
We have a photo.
Brian Green
I was kind of excited.
Kristen Joy Ho
I know. It was a picture I drew.
Brian Green
Yeah. You know that if there was an actual photo of this, this lady would be way more famous than itv. It's a picture I drew. My kids draw pictures of UFOs all the time. They draw pictures of something. I just. Them UFOs.
Harris
This is the UFO that you went in?
Stephanie Cohen
Yeah, sure.
Kristen Joy Ho
That looks like a big mar. Like marshmallows.
Brian Green
It looks like a cake. Looks like it's about to be on.
Kristen Joy Ho
A cake contest with rainbow lights coming down.
Brian Green
Yeah, Rainbow fire.
Kristen Joy Ho
They've got some French double doors there.
Brian Green
Yeah, well, you got to, you know, make it nice. Couple windows designed by Joanna and Chip.
Kristen Joy Ho
That's really funny.
Brian Green
I didn't know.
Kristen Joy Ho
That does look like your kid could draw that.
Brian Green
Yeah, that looks like Disney World fireworks to me. And you remember, you know, when they could do those cake competitions, they always draw what they're going to do first, but they're not artists in that way. So it always looks very childlike. That's what this seems like to me. Why not the photo? That's what I asked.
Stephanie Cohen
And we go off to planets within our own solar system, but also to way out into the solar system.
Guest/Interviewer
You go in mind or do you go in body?
Brian Green
Are you crazy? Are you crazy? Or are you on some kind of absolutely spectacular narcotic in mind?
Stephanie Cohen
Because it happens when I'm. When my physical body is asleep, but my spirit will then.
Brian Green
Oh, that's called a dream.
Guest/Interviewer
Exactly.
Brian Green
It's called a 990A dream.
Harris
I mean, would that be what most people.
Stephanie Cohen
A dream is a friendly way of letting you know what you've been doing without scaring you. Or that's what Dreams really are.
Brian Green
Oh, that's interesting way to look at dreams. An interesting friendly way of showing you what a murderous you are.
Stephanie Cohen
Because people would be afraid to. Actually.
Brian Green
Yes, I would be afraid to travel to other planets in or outside of our solar system to have sex with large slimy like creatures. That would be, would be a definite fear of mine.
Stephanie Cohen
Be afraid if they were face to face with say an alien.
Guest/Interviewer
So the different species.
Brian Green
Let's talk about different species. Yes, more than one kind of alien.
Guest/Interviewer
These different beings. You say that there are cat people, there are reptilians. They're not part of the same race. So these are separate.
Stephanie Cohen
No, they're very separate. But. But they do come from the same.
Kristen Joy Ho
They work together on the gang bang.
Brian Green
That's right Chrissy. We have a. If you will, an intra web dating site where we can all swing around with cats or they work together. Yes, stick figure. Whatever kind of alien you're into. Oh, do I love the reptilians for they have multiple penises to hit you in all the right spots. Chrissy.
Stephanie Cohen
The solar system that they come from, which is within the Canis Major, the Cannabis Major.
Brian Green
Oh, I go to that solar system a couple times a week.
Guest/Interviewer
So that's where they, that's where they originate.
Stephanie Cohen
They're. They're different planets within the Canis Major system.
Guest/Interviewer
So you I assume have seen.
Brian Green
Wow. She takes this very seriously. She looks like she's fully convinced of.
Guest/Interviewer
Her own story in life and other civilizations on other planets.
Stephanie Cohen
Yeah.
Guest/Interviewer
And how, and how prolific is life in the universe?
Stephanie Cohen
When you look up at the stars at night, that's how prolific it is.
Guest/Interviewer
Who is Ian the Octopus Man?
Kristen Joy Ho
He just jumped right in.
Brian Green
He's a new cartoon character on Disney Junior. Ian the Octopus Man.
Stephanie Cohen
He's an octopus man.
Brian Green
He, he's an eight peen eyed reptilian.
Kristen Joy Ho
It's what he sounds like. He's an octopus man.
Brian Green
That's right. No, what do you mean? It's, it's pretty self explanatory.
Kristen Joy Ho
His name's Ian.
Stephanie Cohen
Yeah, he stays quite close to me. Sort of like a spirit kind of boyfriend, but not really boyfriend. I don't call it boyfriend. Just.
Brian Green
I don't want to be tied down like that. I mean there are also cat penises. Cat alien penises. I like to have sex with.
Stephanie Cohen
Good spirit friend. And he happens to be from the octopus race. I mean all of them indulge in.
Brian Green
Insects, but particularly the cat incest or incest insects.
Kristen Joy Ho
I think she said insect but we might want to reply that.
Brian Green
I Mean, let's. Let's see if we can hear what she's saying and maybe we'll get some clarification from Holly, but probably not.
Stephanie Cohen
Octopus race. I mean, all of them indulge in insects.
Brian Green
Insects, insects, insects.
Kristen Joy Ho
They all have sex with each other.
Brian Green
Oh, okay.
Kristen Joy Ho
I think, yeah.
Brian Green
Incest, insects or. Yeah, or maybe that's just like you. Like, instead of having a phallus, you're going inward. I don't know. Let's find out more particularly, the cat.
Stephanie Cohen
People are extremely highly charged sexually.
Brian Green
Cats. I knew it. They could kill me. And they're highly charged sex creatures, you.
Stephanie Cohen
Know, and it's part of our culture, the cat people culture.
Kristen Joy Ho
This guy.
Brian Green
There's a doctor on set, by the way, who hasn't said anything yet, but he's very much calculating in his head how crazy his client is.
Harris
What do you make of this? You're not convinced, are you?
Doctor/Professor
I'm not convinced, no. I mean, I think the viewers at home will make their own mind up about what they think about what we've just heard.
Brian Green
Do you think the viewers are going to make their own mind up? Thanks, Doc.
Doctor/Professor
The obvious question is, was there any kind of external proof for any of this? I mean, there's lots of claims being made about.
Brian Green
I think Doc wants to see her undressed. That's what I think. Doc, is there any extra. Any external proof? Come to my office.
Kristen Joy Ho
She already said it. It just happens in her mind.
Brian Green
Well, she said it happens in her mind, but that is her spirit. Yeah. The dream is just an indicator of what's going on with her body.
Doctor/Professor
Various kind of expeditions to the solar system and elsewhere in the universe. But it's all happening in Stephanie's head, basically, as she. As she admits herself.
Brian Green
Professor Chalmers, supernatural skeptic, Professor Elf.
Doctor/Professor
Now, I mean, there is this thing about the. The orgasms. That's clearly a very physical event, which, you know, we wouldn't choose to, but one could actually observe that.
Brian Green
Doctor, professor, you're such a naughty man.
Kristen Joy Ho
I see what he's suggesting, by the way.
Brian Green
The professor looks like right straight out of casting for an English professor at, like, Cambridge or something. He's got glasses on, the gray, you know, fading sides, the. Yeah, he's. He looks like he's never actually seen an orgasm in person.
Kristen Joy Ho
It's been a long time.
Brian Green
It's been a while.
Doctor/Professor
Again, there are alternative explanat. There is a. There is a disorder known as persistent genital arousal disorder. It's quite.
Brian Green
Oh, I've got that interview.
Guest/Interviewer
Someone on here With Absolutely.
Doctor/Professor
And very often, usually people kind of don't find it very enjoyable. Good luck to Stephanie that she actually seems to enjoy the whole experience.
Brian Green
But good luck. Cheers to you. We've got a little trophy for you behind stage.
Doctor/Professor
Alternative explanations for absolutely everything that Stephanie's mentioned.
Guest/Interviewer
But it's a lovely thing to imagine, though, isn't it?
Brian Green
No, it's not. What are you talking about? Getting abducted by aliens and having sex with cat people?
Guest/Interviewer
That we are all. We happen to have a sort of flesh aspect, that there's a spiritual side to us that could travel the universe.
Doctor/Professor
It's not a new claim by any means. I mean, claims like this for centuries.
Brian Green
She's getting irritated because she's like, no, this shit is real. If my Froot Loops color hair doesn't say. Doesn't tell you how serious I am. By the way, the woman has dreadlocks. And the dreadlocks are really Fruit loops. They're wraps with different rainbow colors or dyed or something. Yeah.
Doctor/Professor
There were claims, you know, back in previous centuries that people had gone to other planets and observed things. But of course, now we've actually been there ourselves and we can see what is actually there. We know that all those claims were wrong.
Harris
So are they with you all the time? I mean, are they. Are they here now, for example?
Stephanie Cohen
Yes.
Guest/Interviewer
And what is the reason for them being.
Brian Green
I've got one under my dress.
Guest/Interviewer
Yeah.
Kristen Joy Ho
Very matter of fact said yes.
Guest/Interviewer
Why are they here? Why did they choose to come in today?
Brian Green
Well, they want to be on tv. Everyone wants to be famous. Hello.
Kristen Joy Ho
Ian the Octopus.
Brian Green
I want to bring out Ian. What if she just lifted her dress and out came an octopus started talking and he was like, let's see, what would. What would he sound like if he.
Kristen Joy Ho
I mean, I think he'd be British.
Brian Green
Hello, my name is Ian the Octopus. I am a multi penis, multiorgasmic giving. Chrissy. What are you doing for the next 10 to 15 minutes? Would you like to travel to Jupiter?
Announcer
Yes.
Brian Green
And I'll give you eight boners at a time.
Kristen Joy Ho
Let's go.
Brian Green
Okay.
Stephanie Cohen
Hey, now, because I'm here.
Guest/Interviewer
So they've been coming.
Stephanie Cohen
They've been coming all week. Yeah, actually, yeah, my grand's been sitting on the sofa over there doing her knitting. My cat, grand grandmother.
Brian Green
So your cat, Gran. Cat Gran is also having sex with you? It's getting a little weird for my taste.
Kristen Joy Ho
Wow, it's hard to keep up.
Brian Green
Hey, listen, I got an open mind about anything, but my grand is just right over there.
Kristen Joy Ho
My cat, my cat Gran.
Brian Green
Cat Grant forgot to mention you're related.
Stephanie Cohen
Well, she's. She takes on the human form. She has been in human incarnation.
Guest/Interviewer
Why don't they show themselves? If we are. If you. If they're.
Brian Green
If.
Guest/Interviewer
If they're here now. And one of the greatest things, one of the greatest revelations for mankind would be one of these beings to manifest themselves right behind me now. Why don't they show themselves?
Stephanie Cohen
Because then they don't really. They're not into showing off their genitalia, which is huge.
Brian Green
Rock on.
Kristen Joy Ho
I'm picturing like a little cat grandma.
Brian Green
Knitting, like knitting with a big boner. Like a big cat boner. Well, they do show themselves, actually. I don't know if you know of the Olympic pole vaulter, but he's. He's a cat gran also, and he's got a huge member.
Kristen Joy Ho
Very.
Stephanie Cohen
Quite reserved in themselves.
Guest/Interviewer
Well, they have sex with you at a bus stop. That's not very reserved.
Brian Green
Oh, my God.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah.
Brian Green
Well played, sir. Well played.
Stephanie Cohen
No, no, what I mean is they don't.
Brian Green
Philip. His name is Philip. Philip and Holly. I just thought of that. I don't know.
Stephanie Cohen
They don't show themselves to the world like that. They tend to deal on a personal level with individuals because they are. We all have guides, our own guides. And they are my guides. And so they interact with me, if you want.
Kristen Joy Ho
Did you see that?
Brian Green
I did.
Kristen Joy Ho
In the middle, they've got a TV set up, like wheeled out and they just had a alien face.
Brian Green
Yeah, like a kid drew, like the alien face, you know, and love. Yeah, the big eyes and the like weird like cone shaped head even.
Stephanie Cohen
They would do that through your guides or your guides would allow them to come through so that you can.
Brian Green
I do have to say this. I think this might be a time now to admit something to the audience here. There was a night and I. Maybe I've shared this with you. Maybe I haven't. There was a night many years ago when I lived in an apartment by myself and my friend, my best friend Rafael had come in from Costa Rica, where he was living at the time. And he was spending a couple of weeks with me. He was on the couch and I was in the bedroom. And we went to sleep. It was one of the nights we decided not to drink and drug ourselves to death. And so I was in the bedroom. We had fallen asleep and I got paralysis, sleep paralysis. And I had had this a number of times before. I haven't really had it since, but I had it a number of times before. And I really chalked it up to drugs and alcohol is what I chalked it up to. But I floated out of my body and saw myself sleeping, as some people do when they have sleep paralysis. But in the corner there was a strange alien, like short, tiny, little, dark skinned man I can only describe that was telling me that I couldn't go outside the door. He's like standing by my bedroom door and he was telling me, you can't go out this door, you can't go out the store. And I tried to scream for Raphael because I was getting scared that I was dying, right. I thought, I thought maybe this was it. And I was consciously aware of what was going on to the point where I can think about it right now and still remember that feeling. And I fought and I fought and I fought to either get myself out of the door or back in my body. And after what seemed like like minutes, 20 minutes, I finally fell back into my body. I woke up, I took a huge breath and I picked up the phone to call my mother to tell her that I thought I had just had a heart attack. It was one of the scariest things I have ever been through.
Guest/Interviewer
Wow.
Brian Green
And I know that sleep paralysis is very scary. There's lots of people who have it and lots of people who describe it.
Kristen Joy Ho
I've had it once or twice before. Yeah, it's terrifying. It is, yeah.
Brian Green
Terrifying. You can't move sometimes. It's described as an out of body experience. And oftentimes people will include small, dark skinned creatures in these sleep paralysis moments in these, these episodes.
Kristen Joy Ho
Just come back from the party in the woods. Were you on your way there?
Brian Green
I, you know, I actually reconsidered. That's what it was.
Kristen Joy Ho
Raphael came in town so you guys could head off.
Brian Green
I might have been at the party in the woods and just not remembered it. And that was, was. It just went like my memory of it was just that 15 minutes. But I do have to say this was a rather strange and odd experience. And it happened as if it was real. I swear on all that's holy, I am not hokey pokey in that manner. I don't think that, you know, I don't see ghosts and I don't have visions and all this other stuff, but I tend to be a very spiritual person. And this was one of the most intensely scary moments of my entire life. I remember it clearly and vividly to this day. And I afterwards did I learn about sleep paralysis and understood what I had gone through. But many people describe this same woodland light creature with fucking dark skin. Warding you off in some direction or the other. Lots of people describe that. And there's no conclusive, like, no, not that I've ever read, no psychologist, therapist, you know, sleep specialist, whatever has ever been able to conclude why so many people have seen the same type of creed, describe the same type of creature.
Kristen Joy Ho
Gnome.
Brian Green
A little dark gnome. Keeping you from bad things or keeping you from good things, I'm not really sure.
Kristen Joy Ho
But it was Raphael.
Brian Green
Weird. Keeping me from Raphael is right. Yes. Maybe I was having a moment of interlockery sexual, whatever they call it. Maybe he's like, don't go out there. You'll be filled with sperm. Your life will be changed forever. But it was weird. That is, I do have to say that, you know, ever since then, I thought that there might be something a little funky about sleeping and dreaming. But I don't know, because I'm not a scientist, I can't conclude that, nor am I going to go making some big grand claim that I don't really understand. So it's not that I 100% disbeliever, it's that I find it hard to believe that you're having sex night after night with aliens and they're sending you off in a spaceship that you never took a picture of, you know, with multicolored flames on the bottom. But hey, listen. To each their own.
Kristen Joy Ho
Exactly. Everybody's got their. Their own experience, their own energy, their own mind.
Brian Green
That's right. Have you ever experienced sex with an alien? Call now. All right, let's take a short break and we'll be back.
Announcer
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Brian Green
All right, back with the ITV crew, Philip and Holly on the morning show talking to a lady who claims to have sex a lot of. Of different alien species.
Doctor/Professor
I mean, if these are actually here, I mean, that'd be A very easy way to test that. We could get. If we could get the spirits to go on into another room just outside the studio and tell us what's Come back in and tell you what's in there. And then you tell us.
Brian Green
By the way. By the way, the alien picture is back on the back of the tv, and all of a sudden he's a very handsome man with a weird shaped head.
Doctor/Professor
That would shut me up. That's all it would take.
Guest/Interviewer
Go tell them to go into my dressing room right now and tell me what's in my briefcase.
Brian Green
This poor lady.
Kristen Joy Ho
Tell me what's in my.
Brian Green
Tell me what's in my briefcase. Tell me what kind of color boxes in your briefcase? I don't know. Apparently a young intern.
Stephanie Cohen
I don't know myself. To look it. Look into a briefcase myself.
Kristen Joy Ho
I'm trying myself.
Brian Green
I'm trying myself. I've been looking at briefcases on Amazon for weeks. I'm trying to look into one.
Guest/Interviewer
What do you see?
Brian Green
I see papers, green sticky notes, pencils, lube. Oh, she's going into outer space.
Kristen Joy Ho
She is. Her eyes are fluttering.
Brian Green
She's got rapid eye movement. By the way, is there water running in the background? What is going on in this set? It's so weird. Or is it all the plastic crackling? This lady is.
Kristen Joy Ho
The professor is just looking over at.
Brian Green
Her like, I know. Yeah. You want to cut the now, or should we keep it going?
Kristen Joy Ho
I can stay here all day.
Brian Green
I think you've paused for effects. Do you think we should just keep going? Wow, she's taking up two and a half minutes of air time.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, well, I tried.
Brian Green
It didn't work this time. But if you invite me back, I'll do this weird eye thing again. And we could try. Oh, it's a staring contest.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, Everybody's looking at it.
Brian Green
I don't know.
Stephanie Cohen
I just see the briefcase, but I'm not.
Brian Green
What color is the briefcase? He's about to ask her.
Stephanie Cohen
Well, I'm seeing a briefcase. I'm seeing.
Brian Green
I'm seeing a briefcase. But it's colorless, has no properties whatsoever. Lady, I would not have even gone here.
Kristen Joy Ho
I just been like, oh, yeah, they can't do it.
Brian Green
Do what the other dude did. Been like, I'll. I'll try and get a picture next time.
Kristen Joy Ho
Exactly.
Brian Green
I'll let you know.
Stephanie Cohen
Well, it's dark in color with a silver strip. I'm seeing a briefcase. I'm not necessarily saying it's necessarily, but I'm not actually going into the briefcase.
Guest/Interviewer
I let you. You're allowed.
Stephanie Cohen
I.
Kristen Joy Ho
Give me permission.
Stephanie Cohen
I'm not actually. I. I don't know why. Maybe later on they will show that. Show that to me. I'm so. I'm not claiming that. I.
Brian Green
So give me your number and I'll send you a text message when I get that info. Okay, cool. Can we move on with the interview? Back to the sex with the cat people then?
Guest/Interviewer
Actually, again, again, we fall at the final hurdle where proof was possible right here on the telly.
Stephanie Cohen
I know.
Guest/Interviewer
Fail once more.
Stephanie Cohen
I know, but I mean, I. I am psychic and I am mediumistic, and yet I am actually saying it doesn't always work when you want it to work.
Brian Green
Yeah.
Harris
Who's that? Which one's that one?
Stephanie Cohen
No, it's. It's just a.
Brian Green
No, it's just a copy from a.
Kristen Joy Ho
Book about aliens showing that they've pointed now to the alien in the screen.
Brian Green
Yeah, they're pointing to pictures of the alien and they're asking her, who's this from? And that looks like.
Kristen Joy Ho
That doesn't look like Ian.
Brian Green
No, definitely doesn't.
Kristen Joy Ho
Octopus.
Brian Green
No, it's not Octopus, Ian. That's for sure.
Stephanie Cohen
Image.
Brian Green
It's not Octo. Orgasmian, that's for sure.
Stephanie Cohen
When I first. When the Grays first came to me, that was how they appeared, with the large dark.
Guest/Interviewer
Quite an established view of the way aliens have been visualized.
Stephanie Cohen
So this is. This is how Grays look.
Brian Green
Grays, as they call them, the Grays. There's different types of aliens, and I know about this because I spend way too much time on the Internet, is.
Stephanie Cohen
That we look slightly different in color or.
Doctor/Professor
When I was on. On Monday, actually, and you were saying, you know, why, why, why is it that they keep on abducting people and putting probes here, there and everywhere?
Brian Green
I mean, what they need here and there and everywhere. Is that a medical term? Sounds like a children's rhyme copy of Gray's Anatomy.
Guest/Interviewer
There you go.
Doctor/Professor
Been waiting since Monday to say, well, well done.
Brian Green
I'll be here all week.
Guest/Interviewer
Absolutely fascinating.
Harris
It is.
Brian Green
It is fascinating.
Harris
Thanks for coming in. Thank you very much.
Guest/Interviewer
Thank you.
Harris
Bring something back.
Guest/Interviewer
Yes, yes, I want to.
Stephanie Cohen
And I might actually tell you what's in the briefcase later, but for some reason they're not.
Guest/Interviewer
Yeah.
Brian Green
He's like, yeah, you won't be here later or I won't be here later. We're not going to be together later.
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, I'm not giving you my contact.
Brian Green
No way this moment.
Guest/Interviewer
Well, you can forget the briefcase if you can bring me a little bit of Saturn and that will be proof enough.
Harris
He just wants the Earth.
Guest/Interviewer
No, I've got that. I want Saturn for 30 further information on our supernatural week or anything we've just discussed.
Brian Green
For further information on alien orgasms, give us a call. I don't, you know. Oh, oops, sorry. I just turned off the camera. I, I, I can understand that some people, you know, go there in their head. Yeah, here's here. I'm like Philip on this one. Show me any evidence whatsoever that you were probed, that there were scars, marks, you know, can you steal a piece of furniture or something? Like, isn't there anything that you can bring back from.
Kristen Joy Ho
And if you can't, then, then don't. Maybe, maybe don't broadcast.
Brian Green
Yeah, exactly. Well, I can understand that if this had happened to you, you'd want to get the information out to the world. Like you'd want to let people know this is happening, this happened to me. I really want you to know what's going on out there. But there has to be some sort, I mean, it doesn't have to be. Maybe the aliens are really good plastic surgeons and they can cover it all up, but it just seems unlikely. I believe in aliens. I, a thousand percent believe in aliens. And I believe that aliens have visited, visited Earth. And I believe maybe on one or two occasions it has been caught on camera. We all know the famous, you know, Navy video where the fucking, you know, spacecraft or whatever it is is flying a million miles per hour in multi different directions. And it's hard to explain how that happens with the physics that we understand.
Kristen Joy Ho
Right?
Brian Green
That's possibly, that's possibly one of them. So I believe in aliens and I believe that aliens probably are on Earth or have visited Earth, but if they are so advanced that they can get here undetected for the most part, don't you think that they can also probably blend in pretty well? Like, are aliens amoeba? Are aliens actually octopuses? Are aliens dolphins? I don't know, are we aliens that have landed here on Earth from some ancient ancestry, DNA or whatever the, I don't know. But these kind of really insane stories I just have a hard time wrapping my head around because, like, you don't have one bit of evidence. Like the guy who was multiple aliens had thousands of of alien babies. Could you not have honestly, he's, Philip was right on this one. Could you not have honestly taken a picture? We all have cameras on our cell phones. If you freely go back and forth to hot alien chicks, then can't you essentially just snap one Photograph. Have her text.
Kristen Joy Ho
Seems like there would be something. Yeah.
Brian Green
Sex message her or something. Like, could you get a Snapchat like that? Can daddy get a only fans account where I can go check out alien Patutang?
Kristen Joy Ho
I mean, honestly, maybe some people can just tap into another, like, dimension of their brain or their another universe type thing.
Brian Green
I believe that.
Kristen Joy Ho
You know, like I think you said earlier. I'm not saying it's not true.
Brian Green
I'm not saying it's not true, but.
Kristen Joy Ho
It would be helpful if.
Brian Green
Yeah. If you could prove to anybody. Yeah. That this might actually be going on. It would help us all. We would all feel better about it.
Kristen Joy Ho
But hey, if she's happy, then. Listen, sounds like she's got a great.
Brian Green
At least someone's giving her multiple orgasms.
Kristen Joy Ho
She's doing well.
Brian Green
That's more than some of us can say.
Kristen Joy Ho
She's got a gran.
Brian Green
She's got a cat gran that's got an innie. I guess it's over there. Knitting a dildo or. I don't know how it works in space.
Kristen Joy Ho
We didn't really get to the sex part.
Brian Green
Yeah, I bet if you're that advanced, you just have like an orgasm on command all the time. You're probably in a constant orgasmic state. Yeah, it's like the first time you took ecstasy. Feels really awesome all the time. I'd love to think there were aliens who would take me up and have their way.
Kristen Joy Ho
Have their way. Yeah, sure.
Brian Green
Especially if it was pleasurable, you know?
Kristen Joy Ho
Yeah, why not?
Brian Green
Yeah. They don't have like, you know, claws for vaginas or something?
Kristen Joy Ho
Every inch which way and that, this.
Brian Green
This, that, this way and that way and every other way. I do not like those aliens in my anus. I do not like those aliens on Uranus. I do not. I do not. All right. Please come to our comedy show. We'd love to see you. It would just be great. Grand Dania beach improv on the 24th. Orlando at the Funny Bone on the 25th of September. Tickets now available on those websites. You can Google the actual, you know, Dana beach improv or the Orlando Funny Bone. Go to those dates on the calendar and you can purchase the tickets there. Or Astrid should at this point have those links available on our website, website and Instagram. So we'd love to see you. And if you're gonna come, let us know. 212-4333. TCB. That's 212-433-3822. We'd love to hear from you. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas, we will take them all on voicemail or text message. Also tcbpodcast.com the aforementioned links should be on that website. More information about Chrissy and I. All the audio, all the video right there from one note location. Get your free sticker contact us button. I want my free sticker on the drop down menu. Give us your address, we'll send you a sticker. Please follow us on Instagram and Tick Tock at the commercial break on Instagram TCB podcast on tick tock and YouTube.com the commercial break for selected episodes and interviews. Chrissy, that's all I can do for right now.
Kristen Joy Ho
I think so.
Brian Green
But I love you.
Kristen Joy Ho
I love you.
Brian Green
Best to you and best to you out there on the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say goodbye. Ev I have it.
Bryan Green and Krissy Hoadley are back on The Commercial Break with an episode rooted in their signature improv banter, chaotic humor, and friendly irreverence. In “The Gnome Gnows,” the duo dives into tales of alien encounters—particularly the extraordinary claims of Earthlings who say they’ve had sex (and incredible orgasms) with extraterrestrials. Blending skepticism, laughter, and personal anecdotes—including Bryan’s experience with sleep paralysis—the episode swings between reviewing an outlandish ‘90s British TV interview and riffing on Olympic highlights, public skepticism, and the limits of open-mindedness.
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Professor Chalmers, skeptical but deadpan:
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“The Gnome Gnows” delivers a quintessential Commercial Break experience: a freewheeling, laughter-layered cruise through the most eccentric corners of internet and TV culture. Bryan and Krissy keep listeners hooked by oscillating between sharp-witted skepticism and playful acceptance of the unknown, ultimately balancing entertainment with the comforting message: It's okay not to take everything—or yourself—too seriously.