The Goosefather Part II

Summary

THE COMMERCIAL BREAK
Episode: "The Goosefather Part II"
Date: October 2, 2024
Hosts: Bryan Green, Krissy Hoadley

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Commercial Break continues the show’s trademark blend of irreverent banter, pop culture commentary, and bizarre tangents. Bryan and Krissy dive into a surprisingly wide-ranging set of topics, from Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series about the Menendez brothers to medical drama TV tropes, the art of sequels, animal migration stories (including geese flown south by plane), and much more. As always, it’s a chaotic mix of nostalgia, dark comedy, unfiltered opinions, and affectionate roasting—a true showcase of their unscripted chemistry.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recent Streaming Obsessions: “Monsters: The Menendez Brothers”

• Bryan shares his fascination with the new Netflix series by Ryan Murphy about the Menendez brothers and jokes ("I gobbled it up like a come guzzling goblin. I loved it. I want more dick." – [01:41])
• The hosts discuss the show’s explicit content and how rarely male nudity is shown compared to female ("There were a lot of penises. And to me, they look like real penises, but that's just my personal opinion." – Bryan, [02:22])
• Krissy finds the show too campy and prefers a recent HBO doc on the case ([03:44])
• Renewed social-media-driven interest in the Menendez case is raised, particularly debates over the validity of their abuse claims ([03:58])

Notable Quote:

• “Ryan Murphy is an equal opportunity nudist on his shows.” – Bryan ([03:13])
• “If those boys were even a tenth of what they said was true... they should go to jail. But I don't know about...for the rest of their lives.” – Bryan ([08:12])

2. Ryan Murphy’s Storytelling Style & Other True Crime Series

• Bryan praises Murphy for presenting multiple perspectives rather than a single narrative ([04:23], [07:19])
• They recall the influence of journalist Dominick Dunne in shaping public opinion during high-profile murder trials ([04:52])
• Happy tangents into related Murphy shows: OJ Simpson, Versace, Swans, and musings on crime as entertainment

3. Literary Tangents: Capote & Hunter S. Thompson

• Krissy brings up Truman Capote’s 100th birthday and intentions to read In Cold Blood ([10:38])
• Bryan prefers Hunter S. Thompson’s surreal, drug-addled style and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ([11:36])

Notable Quote:

• “That’s my jam. I like the weird disconnected...It’s very interpretive. There’s a lot of drug abuse. He’s very interesting.” – Bryan on Thompson ([11:41])

4. The Machine of Pop TV: Medical Dramas, Agents, & Oops Moments

• Ryan Murphy’s output is compared to Dick Wolf (of Law & Order), with jokes about endless franchising ("Law and Order, Rape, Law and Order, DUI...") – Bryan ([13:59])
• Anecdote about an unintentional leak: Bryan and Krissy left in a podcast segment that Gina Gershon’s agent had asked them to cut, about her upcoming Murphy project ([15:08])
• Dr. Odyssey is spoofed for its over-the-top premise: “Love Boat with Cancer. Love Boat with Broken Arms.” – Bryan ([18:00]–[18:08])
• Krissy admits she didn’t connect to Dr. Odyssey’s tone but found the TLC show Sex Sent Me to the ER hilarious ([18:18]–[18:27])

5. Movie Tangents: The Joker, Megalopolis, The Anxiety of Cinemas

• The upcoming film Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola) and Adam Driver’s audience-interactive scene—discussed with skepticism and hilarity ([19:43]–[21:08])
• Post-movie-theater-shooting anxieties: Bryan never feels comfortable in crowded theaters, especially outside kids’ films ([21:27])
• Debate over Joker (2019): Chris liked it, Bryan felt detached; discuss new sequel with Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, rumored to be a musical ([23:22]–[25:17])

6. Sequels: When Is Part II Better?

• Playfully heated pro/con reviews of classic and cult sequels: Godfather II, Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith, Die Hard 2, Terminator 2, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Sing 2 ([25:17]–[32:12])
• Bryan wants listener input: “Write in and tell me which sequels were better than the first one.” ([31:39])
• “Sing two might beat out the original just by a hair, because...those Sing movies are really good.” – Bryan ([32:04])

7. Feral Cats, Backyard Wildlife & The Goosefather True Story

• Updates on Peaches the squirrel—rescued, now surrogate mom to other squirrels, soon to be released ([35:46]–[37:40])
• Discussion of animal migration: geese, hummingbirds, whales. Bryan shares the tale of his ex-in-law’s land becoming a “Canadian Goose Stop” for a real-life “goose father” pilot who helped lost geese migrate by gliding alongside them ([34:25], [37:40]–[44:50])
• “I mean, you are a moron. All it takes is one bad fart from the cloud, and then you’re just done for.” – Bryan on extreme flying YouTubers ([44:24])
• Krissy questions why geese need human help to migrate at all ([45:12])

8. Personal Updates: Bryan’s Parathyroid Saga

• Bryan discusses his upcoming parathyroid surgery, including the advanced diagnostic and surgical procedure developed by the “Norman” team in Florida ([46:34]–[51:44])
• He recounts stumbling upon a surgical video as “highly disturbing and nervous” (“if you have one nightmare in life, it's that someone, like, cuts your throat, right?” – Bryan [49:18])
• The conversation closes with jokes about whether geese have parathyroids, announcements about postponed live shows, and the usual self-deprecating outro ([51:55]–[54:13])

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Memorable Quotes

• On pop culture obsessions:
  “This is a fascinating story. And it caught America by the dick.” – Bryan ([06:26])

• On wild TV premises:
  “Love Boat with Cancer. Love Boat with Broken Arms.” – Bryan ([18:00]–[18:08])

• On movie theater anxiety:
  “If someone starts calling and responding in a movie, I'm freaked out that they also have, like, an AK47 under their frock.” – Bryan ([21:27])

• On sequels:
  “Sequels can be tough. Sequels are always tough. I mean, think of a sequel that was better than the original. Godfather 2. Yeah, Godfather 2.” – Bryan ([25:17])

• On animal migration:
  “Life is a crazy, delicate but badass thing. Yeah, it really is.” – Bryan ([45:57])

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters: The Menendez Brothers” deep-dive: [01:41]–[08:34]
• True crime & literary tangents: [09:11]–[12:10]
• Medical drama send-up & TV contracts: [15:08]–[18:18]
• Movie theater anxieties, Joker 2, and sequel debates: [19:43]–[31:39]
• Animal migration, geese, and the “Goosefather” glider story: [33:45]–[44:50]
• Parathyroid surgery woes and “medical oddities”: [46:34]–[51:44]

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode features classic TCB interplay: quick pivots between comedy and darkness, affectionate mockery, and occasional earnestness about medical issues and animal rescue. Expect a high tolerance for the absurd, pop-culture tangents, and zero reverence for anything sacred—except maybe the odd squirrel.

Whether debating prosthetic penises on Netflix, bemoaning lackluster sequels, or recounting animal tales straight out of a family legend, Bryan and Krissy keep it loose, self-deprecating, and deeply weird.

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Transcript

[Brian Green]

Just want to give an update that I did find some decently priced chicken strips. If you go to Hardee's after 2pm they give you, I think, 10, 10 strips for 7.99. That's pretty much an awesome deal by today's standards. On this episode of the Commercial Break, Life is a crazy, delicate but badass thing when you're. Yeah, it really is.

[Chris]

It all works in symphony.

[Brian Green]

It does. Like when, you know, you eat too much cheese and then your body starts eating its own bones. You know, that kind of stuff.

[Chris]

It all works great until it doesn't.

[Brian Green]

It works great until it doesn't. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. 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 show, Chris and Joy. Only best you, Chris, and best you out there in the podcast universe. I was gonna say delisle to my Eric, but since you stopped watching the show, I can't give you that kind of credit. How could you stop watching that show?

[Chris]

Well, because I started. Well, I've watched certain things over the years. I think we all have.

[Brian Green]

Yes, yes.

[Chris]

And, and I mean, it's almost a 30 year. Well over 30 years.

[Brian Green]

1989, when they were murdered.

[Chris]

Right.

[Brian Green]

That's crazy to think about.

[Chris]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Like, because I remember watching every minute of the trial. That was the first Court TV full access. America got hooked and they were world famous. We're talking about the Menendez brothers Monsters. The new show from Ryan Murphy on Netflix has dropped and I gobbled it up like a come guzzling goblin. I was just. I loved it. I want more dick. And there are. There is dick in the show. That's the part that you didn't get to. There is dick in the show.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Actual penis is shown. And that, that doesn't happen very often. You don't often see the penises. You see a lot of tits but no penises. So I give Ryan Murphy credit for going, balls out. Full balls, Chrissy, full.

[Chris]

You saw potato.

[Brian Green]

They were real penises. No, no, no. I mean, there were men in showers with real penises.

[Chris]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

You know. You think those were prosthetics?

[Chris]

Yeah, I've read a lot about that.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. Those look like real penises to me. Now maybe there was a shot of Eric in the shower where his penis was shown and maybe that was a prosthetic because it looked like an awfully big penis to me. And so I will say I think Eric the actor who played Eric may have been wearing a prosthesis, but there was a shower scene where a bunch of guys were in jail, were taking a shower, and there were a lot of penises. And to me, they look like real penises, but that's just my personal opinion. I haven't seen a whole bunch of penises in my life. I just. It looks convincing. If those were prosthetics, then that was awfully convincing. And why wear the prosthetics? I mean, why not just show your penis? Who fucking cares, Honestly? Any. Anyway, Monsters on. I don't know how we got on penises anyway.

[Chris]

You brought it up.

[Brian Green]

Well, I wanted to share that Ryan Murphy is an equal opportunity nudist on his shows.

[Christina]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And I like the freedom that he had on Netflix as opposed to fx, to go the Full Monty, first of all, to add a little, you know, I don't know, to sex it up a little bit. And then there's a lot of cussing in the. In it, which I think is more illustrative of probably what was going on behind the scenes. Now, of course, no one fucking really knows what was going behind the scenes. And I get that it was a little campy or that you thought it was a little camp too. Too campy for your.

[Chris]

Yeah, it was just a little. It was too much over the top. And, you know, it's hard because like I said, I'd watched the documentary. There's a documentary, current documentary on HBO that's like an hour and a half long.

[Brian Green]

And they were talking about the Menendez brothers.

[Chris]

Yes, they were talking about. Because there's been like a lot of renewed interest in it via Tik Tok and you know, social media about the brothers and how they think that they're not. It's not right that they're still in jail and what happened because of the sexual abuse and emotional. And sexual abuse. So anyways, I watched a whole documentary on that. Then I went over to Monsters and I was like, eh, it was too much. But I could, you know, I'll try.

[Brian Green]

And work my way, revisit it. Because I do have to say I thought it was. I thought it was a very good, entertaining reenactment of what may have happened. And Ryan Murphy does a good job of showing it from multiple angles, multiple opinions. He doesn't really stick with one narrative. It's kind of. Every episode has a different narrative, or some of the episodes toward the end have a different narrative. Yeah, you got Dominic Dunn, who was a famous. He was a. He's like a. An author. And he wrote for Vanity Fair. He also wrote a million books. His daughter was the girl from Poltergeist, and she was strangled on her front lawn by a former boyfriend. And he got off with, like, three years. And that really put a. You know, obviously, he's a father, and that really stuck with him for his entire life and made him very much prosecutor's best friend as far as turning public opinion one way or the other. And I think he had a lot to do with the turning of the public opinion. So that the Menendez brothers killed their parents.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And they got away with it for, like, six months. And then after six months, they went. They had been talking to a therapist, Right. Eric broke down. He started telling the therapist that they did kill their parents. And the narrative was they killed their parents because they just didn't like them. But then when, after they got caught.

[Chris]

Well, the narrative originally was that they killed their parents for the money.

[Brian Green]

For the money. They didn't like them. They killed them for the money. They were getting cut out of the will. The father was notoriously tough on them. Very tough on them. Cuban American, who was part of the. Who had helped Menudo become successful. He ran Hertz for a while. He was like the COO of Hertz for a while. He's these.

[Chris]

Everybody hated him.

[Brian Green]

Everybody hated him. Everybody hated this guy. Family members hated this guy. And they hated the way that he treated the children in front of them out in public. So the. So Eric starts talking to this psychiatrist, therapist. The therapist is unlicensed. He is not even really a therapist. He is basically a schmuck. He's having an affair with one of his patients.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And they start recording the Menendez brothers, and there is no talk of sexual assault, sexual abuse, any of that in any of these hours and hours of tapes. But after they get arrested, after the tapes get leaked to the police, they can't use them as evidence. But that allows them to then form a narrative. They arrest the brothers, the brothers admit to killing the parents because these tapes are out there. And then all of a sudden, they start discussing how they were sexually abused, but mainly by the father, but by the mother sometimes also by Jose Menendez and Katie Menendez. This is a fascinating story. And it caught America by the dick. And I'm saying still that way, still that way. Years later, 30 years later, people are still wondering whether or not the Menendez brothers should have gone to jail and whether or not the narrative about them being abused was true or not. Ryan Murphy takes every Fucking angle in this monsters. And I'm not going to give it all away, but he takes every.

[Chris]

Okay, well, now I know that there's different angles.

[Brian Green]

Yes. There's a lot of talk about how the fact that Ryan Murphy included that they may have been incestuous, the two brothers, and they may have been caught. That's why they killed their brothers. Yes. And. Well, I mean, there was a. Eric called it abuse. Lyle called it love. I mean, I don't know.

[Chris]

That's what the father was calling it. Yeah, that's what the father was calling the dad.

[Brian Green]

Listen, I. Toward the end of this, I think Ryan Murphy does a really good job of kind of tugging at your heartstrings a little bit about these boys. And I have to be honest, I watched the entire trial as a young kid, like, I mean, as, you know, a teenager, essentially. I watched the entire trial and it was confusing as just because of the way that the trials go down and how, you know, I. Overruled. Objection. Overruled. It's hard to really get the whole narrative. But you understood that these boys were abused. At least that was being put out. Ryan Murphy does a great job of kind of funneling all that information into a couple different narratives and allows you to choose which one. It's like pick your own adventure. Which one do you think happened? And I do have to say, if those boys were even a tenth of what they said was true, even if there was some exaggeration that went on in the stand to try and, you know, for defense purposes, even if a tenth of that was true, they should go to jail. But I don't know about. For the rest of their lives.

[Chris]

I agree. Yeah, they should be punished for the murder, certainly. Yeah. That. That's not an excuse to kill people. But it is a reason. Like a reason that they broke and.

[Brian Green]

I don't know, what do they call it? They call it non direct self defense or something like that. Non direct self defense, meaning you believed in your head that there was a threat to your life. Even though someone wasn't holding a gun to your head. You believed that at some point you could be killed. So you preempted that. And. But in the second. So the first trial is hung, this hung jury. We're not talking about dicks. Again, this. The first trial's a hung jury.

[Chris]

And of course they were tried separately too. And then for the first trial. And both were hung jury trials.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chris]

Then retried. And this is right after. See, there's so many factors that go into it. Because right after two, OJ had been let out. Also to the judge was the judge and the Rodney King. I mean, there was so much egg. There was so much egg on the LA DA, on the DA's office.

[Brian Green]

They were gonna go for it and they went for it. And the judge wasn't playing around with this. What's her name? Leslie. Yeah, what's her name? Leslie. Starts with a S. Leslie. I just watched it two seconds ago.

[Chris]

No, thanks.

[Brian Green]

High calcium in my brain.

[Chris]

I can't remember it either.

[Brian Green]

Anyway, the prosecutor or the defense attorney was super, super famous. Became super famous because of this. This trial. I wonder what happened to her. Did she die? Did she die?

[Chris]

I don't know, but she's like lung cancer or something. She came out with a book, though, about it all back and they were quoting her a lot in the other documentaries.

[Brian Green]

I was watching Fasa fucking Nading television show. I do have to say Ryan Murphy put together a good one. I love the one on oj. I love the one on the murder of Not Gucci. Who was the guy? Versace. I love that one. And.

[Chris]

And Swans, which just came out a little while back too. Yeah. That was about this whole Truman Capote and these high schools.

[Brian Green]

Oh, the cat. The catty little girls, the catty ladies.

[Chris]

Yeah. In New York.

[Brian Green]

Chuba Capote is a fascinating character.

[Chris]

Very fascinating.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I just was reading something today. He's about. He would have been turning 100, 100 years old.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Have you read In Cold Blood?

[Brian Green]

I have read In Cold Blood. Okay. Yes.

[Chris]

I don't think I've ever actually read it. I think I'm going to go back and read it.

[Brian Green]

It's good. I would say that Truman Capote is not my favorite author ever. But it is good and I understand why it's a classic, why people like it, why Truman Capote got so much notoriety and fam. Because I. I might be mistaken here, but isn't In Cold Blood like the only famous. But like, isn't that the one that pretty much made his career? Truman Capote.

[Chris]

And he makes him really famous.

[Brian Green]

Didn't he do some, like, movie or something too? Wasn't he like. Yeah, yeah, he.

[Chris]

But he wrote. He was an author, so, yeah, he wrote a lot. And he. He would put it out in. God, what was the. The magazine.

[Brian Green]

Because it would come out Vanity Fair. I don't Vogue.

[Chris]

It was. No, I'll.

[Brian Green]

Rolling Stone, the New Yorker. I'm just gonna start naming magazines until I get it right.

[Chris]

Rolling Stone and Hunter S. Thompson.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Hunter S. Thompson is probably my favorite author of all time. Hunter S. Thompson.

[Chris]

That's your jam?

[Brian Green]

That's my jam. I like the weird disconnected, like you have to try and figure it out as you go along. It's very interpretive. There's a lot of drug abuse. He's very interesting. Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail, I would say is probably my. My favorite of the. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a fucked up novel. You've seen that movie?

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, of course.

[Chris]

I think like a rite of passage, right?

[Brian Green]

When you're Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it should be a rite of passage. You should have to watch that. And what's that seven.

[Chris]

It's a New Yorker.

[Brian Green]

The New Yorker. Okay. Yeah, the New Yorker. That. That's. That's right up Truman Capote. Capote's alley, I would say. Isn't. Wasn't that girl who's sleeping with RFK Didn't. She was also writing for the.

[Chris]

No, she's just sending demure nudes.

[Brian Green]

Demure nudes. Demure. You know, the. You know, really gets a end of the stick here. Cheryl Hines. Yes, she gets the end of the stick. But Cheryl Hines, even I don't want to take anything away from the fact that getting cheated on sucks. No matter who you are, no matter how famous you are. But Cheryl Hines, it will continue to be rich and famous. She will. Everything. That part of her life will be fine. Who really gets the shit end of the stick is that fucking author fiance of that. Of the girl.

[Chris]

Yes, I was reading about him because.

[Brian Green]

Now he can't write about politics anymore. He can't write about the election. Yeah, because it was his thing. He was like a political writer.

[Chris]

I know.

[Brian Green]

And now they won't allow him to. He actually took. He actually recused himself from writing about politics this election season because he now has a dog in that fight because, you know, his fiance is sleeping with one of the major candidates or was one of the major candidates anyway. What a fucking shit show it is.

[Chris]

That Ryan Murphy needs to do a show about that.

[Brian Green]

He will. You know that. Well, he's got 300 shows a year to fulfill with that FX, Hulu, whatever, Netflix, whatever contract he has. I mean, that guy. He is. There has never been a TV writer so on fire since, I would say Aaron Sorkin, but he only did a couple, you know, good television shows. Who is Dick Wolf? Since Dick Wolf, no one has been on fire that Dick Wolf and Ryan Murphy, those two ought to get together and do a series. Dick, Dick Wolf, for those who don't know, did all the Law and Order, Law and Order, svu, Law and Order, la, Law and Order, Rape, Law and Order, Murder, Law and Order, dui. Yeah. Law and Order, Hawaii, Law and Order, Stockbridge, Georgia.

[Chris]

I know, there's so many.

[Brian Green]

There's so many. And people eat that shit up. Oh, there's the show you were talking about, Dr. Odyssey. Yeah, right there. So we had so go to another Ryan Murphy television show Chrissy and I had on Gina Gar Sean, who we love. We just fel in love with Gina Gershon. She was incredible. Go back and listen to the episode. It was a couple months ago. We loved her. And at the time we. There was a big kerfuffle because she had mentioned she was starring in a Ryan Murphy television show or she was working on a Ryan Murphy television show. And so as we got close to releasing that episode, we recorded it about a month before we released it. As we got close to releasing the episode, her agent, like, was on fire about us making sure that we cut out that portion of the interview because Ryan Murphy had yet to announce that that show was going to be broadcast at a certain time. And I don't understand why, because we just released this like two months. I know agents do what agents do. I'm not saying she was wrong to do that. The agent was pleasant about it. She wasn't like up our ass. She was just kindly asking, please, repeatedly that we cut this part out. And we didn't. Not because we were trying to be, you know, assholes, but because we forgot to do it. It was just one of those things that slipped our mind. Even though she had asked Repe.

[Christina]

So.

[Brian Green]

So there was a big kerfuffle. We had to like, you know, recut the episode and redistribute it and all this other stuff. Anyway, so this show ends up being Dr. Odyssey.

[Chris]

Yeah, Don Johnson's the captain. And then there's, you know, the Doctor himself. He was in the show Dr. Death, because I thought he looked really familiar. And so I looked him up and he, you know, he's like this good looking guy that comes on board and he's a doctor. And then it just. It did not catch me. I have to. In the first episode, I was like, is this real?

[Brian Green]

Really?

[Chris]

Really?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So, yeah, I watched the. Just the trailer for it, like just the ABC trailer for it. Dr. Odyssey, America loves. And I just was thinking about this just this morning, having nothing to do with Dr. Odyssey. There's another show called Dr. Miracle or Dr. Wonder or something like this. America loves a good medical drama.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I think it's because we are all so sick in this country. We all eventually end up at the hospital, and we just love to see other people doing worse than we are. And we love to see a doctor who can miracle fix everything. Yes. By taking us to our, you know, the gravesite of our parents and, you know, reconnecting us, and then our cancer goes away or some like that. We love a medical drama in this country. And they are constantly turning these things out, and they're constant. Only a few of them ever stuck. ER say that selling elsewhere. What was the other one? Oh, I thought. I'm sorry. I thought you had one.

[Chris]

No.

[Brian Green]

That you were thinking about.

[Chris]

No, I said that one was huge. Oh, yeah, obviously. And that did. That show. I think that showed, like, just went off the air.

[Brian Green]

House. Which one? Er. Yeah. Oh, I think ER got signed for another season.

[Chris]

Oh, they did?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Oh, that thing's been going on forever. Yeah, House was on. Oh, you know, just went off air. Is that one about the autistic doctor?

[Chris]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, with the guy. I don't know, one of Toby from the West Wing. Guy who played Toby. Robert Shift was in that movie. Toby from the West. Toby's a weird name, isn't it? Toby. Come here, Toby. Little Tobe. Come here, Tobes. So anyway, Ryan Murphy has this new show, Dr. Odyssey, and this one is the most ridiculous premise. I. I give Ryan Murphy credit for something, but then I was telling Chrissy he's got to fulfill that contract. Like, he's got to keep on turning out ideas. And ABC must have been like, wait, you did Menendez Brothers for Netflix? You're giving us Dr. Odyssey? A Dr. On our yacht? Yeah, it's like some guy owns a yacht and then he brings all his friends on.

[Chris]

No, it's like a cruise ship.

[Brian Green]

Oh, it's a cruise ship.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I thought it was like, yeah.

[Chris]

It'S a cruise ship.

[Brian Green]

Oh, well, it's. Yeah, it's Love Boat with Cancer. Love Boat with Broken Arms.

[Chris]

It's. Yeah, it's. I can't even describe it. It was just so. So over the top. Yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's not for me. I'm not gonna say it's not. Medical dramas aren't my thing. I just don't get into it. You know what I do like, though, is that TLC has sex sent me to the er. Have you seen that show?

[Chris]

Oh, I have.

[Brian Green]

Oh, man, that's a good. That is good. That is really Good, because the reenactments are so ridiculous. They're like, they use the real doctors, and the real doctors have to act out what they did. Right. I got my penis stuck in my. In my air conditioning vent.

[Chris]

Speaking of, that's one of the first things that he treats on the doctor Odyssey is a broken penis.

[Brian Green]

A broken penis, Yes. I told you, you can break that penis. You got to be careful. Remember we had that guy who had the downward curve? Yeah. I haven't heard back from him. He probably is like, thanks a lot, guys. All right, let's take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina]

My darlings, my angels, my sweet little cherubs. It's that time again, where I try to convince you to follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok @TCB podcast. We really don't post that much, so it's no skin off your nose. If you'd like to get in touch with us directly, you can text us or call us and leave us a voicemail at 212-4333, TCV. You know, we are just sitting by the phone waiting with bated breath for you to call. So please leave us an ask TCB and we'll give you some mildly concerning advice. Peace and blessings.

[Brian Green]

That Megalopolis movie is coming out. Yes, and so I read somewhere that there is a scene in the movie where, and I can't remember the name of the actor, but there is a scene in the movie where the actor does a dialogue. Just him, a dialogue, but he just is talking to someone. The idea of the director was to have an actor in the movie theater in every single screening to respond, to play the part. The call and response of this dialogue back and forth to add air of, I don't know, 3D ism. Like you're. You're actually in the movie. You're a part of Megalopolis. You're doing it. But apparently they have not found actors to do every screening. So there is like a long part of the movie where the guy's just talking to no one. I mean, it's like the silly ever. So there's a lot. Apparently there are places where the actors have shown up or there has they paid actors to come. I mean, how much do you have to pay in 100 bucks, you think, to do like 15 minutes of dialogue in a theater full of probably.

[Chris]

I don't know what the going rate is.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. This is probably going to go down as one of those movies, like an epic failure at the box office. But then people are going to go, oh, exactly.

[Chris]

That's what Adam Driver said, because I saw an interview with him.

[Brian Green]

Oh, Adam Driver. That's who does the. That's. Who does the. The dialogue. Adam Driver is doing this dialogue. And there's supposed to be a call and response with an actual actor in the audience. I would love to hear if anybody. I mean, I don't think anybody's actually seen Megalopolis, but if you have seen Megalopolis and you've seen an actor in the theater, I would love to know how that goes down.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because if it was me, I would immediately head for the emergency exits. Because if someone starts calling and responding in a movie, I'm freaked out that they also have, like, an AK47 under their frock. I mean, I don't know about you, but ever since that Colorado movie theater incident, the Batman incident where the guy walked in and started shooting people up.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I don't ever go to a movie theater without thinking about that for some reason. I know that's a bit of paranoia, but I never feel very comfortable unless it's, like, a kids movie. If it's a kids movie, I'm. I'm okay. Because, you know, I just don't. I'd like to think anyway, you know, people have some kind of head on their shoulders. Many times I go see an adult movie. Like, we went to go see 50 Shades of Gray on Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, for, like, five years in a row. I don't know how many of those movies I have, but it felt like five years in a row. I had to go see 50 Shades of Gray with Astrid. Being a good husband. Just being a good husband. I'll go with you, babe. Don't worry about it. And for how many thousands of years in a row, however many years I had to watch those movies in a row. It felt like torture. But it was so crowded. And I kept turning behind me, like, just looking around. Yeah. But then I noticed that the only other guys in the movie theater were either guys like me who are like, you know, this is some kind of punishment that we're receiving.

[Chris]

Or instruction.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, or instruction. That's right, girls of that fantasy. But I don't know, it's just kind of weird. Like, I just felt weirded out about being in a really crowded movie theater. I felt a little skeeved out about it because I couldn't help but remember that Aurora thing. And now, was that during the Joker, did that happen? I think it was Was it during the original Joker? I think no. Aurora was during Batman. Well, yes, when Keith Ledger played. Heath Ledger played the joke.

[Chris]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

So now we have Joker number two coming.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Apparently it is a fully a fail.

[Chris]

Is it?

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's what I've read.

[Chris]

Another one was really good.

[Brian Green]

You like that movie?

[Chris]

I did.

[Brian Green]

You did. Okay. I. I had. I didn't. I felt no way about it. Do you want to know? I felt no way about it. I think that we have one of the best actors of our time playing an incredibly complicated, toxic Phoenix character, Joaquin, and. But I did not get super emotionally invested in the movie. When I watched it, it just. To me, I just didn't connect. So when I walked out, I was like. When I turned off the television, because I watched it here, when I turned off the television, I didn't feel one way or the other about the movie. I thought, man, okay.

[Chris]

I was like, we thought it was really good. We waited a while to watch it, too. There was so much, you know, hype over it, and we didn't make it to the theater either. So we ended up watching it kind of begrudgingly later, like, well, we should really kind of watch this. It's on. Whatever. And then we were like, ah, that was good. But that's true with a lot of things. You go in with a low expectation.

[Brian Green]

Yes. And then I'm being good. Yeah. I went and saw Migration, which is a kids movie about ducks that migrate. And I was like, the fuck is this shit? And I walked out and I was like, that was really fucking good. I like that movie. I like the movie. I did. But apparently now we've got Lady Gaga is in there, and Lady Gaga is with River Phoenix playing some kind of sycophant, Harley Quinn. Oh, she playing Harley Quinn?

[Chris]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Oh, I thought. I didn't know that. I thought it was just, like some sycophant chick that really falls in love with the Joker. It's hard. She's Harley Quinn and there's like, dance numbers and it's a musical, kids, in case you didn't know. So what do you think? Are you going to go see it?

[Chris]

I'm definitely going to see it if I'm going to go to the theater. But no, especially after you just remind me.

[Brian Green]

I don't know.

[Chris]

But, yeah, I'm going to watch it.

[Brian Green]

Okay. All right. I. I hear what I hear. And this is just, you know, I got my ear to the ground in Hollywood. What I hear was, good try, right? It was a good try. Pay for Effort. But sequels can be tough. Sequels are always tough. I mean, think of a sequel that was better than the original Godfather 2. Yeah, Godfather 2.

[Chris]

And I don't even know if that was better, per se. A lot of people think it's the best one, but I like them all.

[Brian Green]

I do like one a whole bunch. But I do think two edges it out just a little bit because it's. It's longer. It goes more in depth, it feels more. It feels like you're fully invested in this family and what's going on, and you get the backstory in the whole nine yards. Empire Strikes Back. Some people would say that Empire Strikes Back was better than Star Wars. I disagree, but that's just me. I think that Star wars was the best of any of the movies that have ever come out. A new hope, if you will. Chrissy.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Let me show my Star Wars. Nerd. Nerdism.

[Chris]

Revenge of the Sith. That's my favorite one.

[Brian Green]

Revenge of the Sith.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Oh, you are. Where did you. Which womb did you fall out of? I mean, come on. Revenge of the Sith.

[Chris]

I really like that one. That's the Darth Vader story.

[Brian Green]

That is. But you liked Revenge of the Sith better than any of the original three?

[Chris]

No, the original three are the original three to me.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chris]

Like, those are just the ones.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Chris]

That nothing could really measure up to. But out of the next batch that came out, which were supposedly the original 1, 2, 3.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Chris]

I like the third.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chris]

The sixth total.

[Brian Green]

Okay. I will give you that. I will say Revenge of the Sith is the best of the shitty three that came out right in the middle there.

[Chris]

The fourth one's awful.

[Brian Green]

The fourth one is terrible. I remember standing in line with all the. The wookies and the lightsabers and in the theater and that music comes on and everybody's screaming. I mean, it was packed the minute it came out. We were there at the 1201 screening. Me, my brothers, a couple other people. And this is back when you walked up to get your tickets. Ticketmaster. Yeah. And we stood in line. We did the whole thing, because we're like, this is the movies we grew up on. Yes, this is it. They're finally continuing the story. When they announced that movie, we were all so surprised and. And delighted.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah. Everybody was hyped.

[Brian Green]

This is going to be the best movie of them all. And. I want bing, bing, bing. Bob again.

[Chris]

There's another low expectation, high expectation difference. Everybody had the highest of expectations. And, yeah, it felt flat.

[Brian Green]

I mean, you could have literally been six feet underground with your expectations and still felt like that was a shitty movie. That was a terrible movie. Terrible. First of all, what the fuck is going on in that movie? Who's paying attention to the storyline? It's a. You're racing. I don't even know. There's a kid and he's all animated. This was. This, to me, was like the Willy Wonka of Star wars movies. You got a kid dancing around with it. He didn't even look like. I don't even fucking know what happened.

[Chris]

I don't know what happened.

[Brian Green]

And Jar Jar Binks, when he came on screen, I. The movie theater was dead silent.

[Chris]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it was.

[Chris]

Everybody's in shock.

[Brian Green]

And people were like, huh? What just happened? When we left that movie theater, people were screaming as loud as they were during the Taylor Swift concert that I saw it with 50,000 other people. There were 75 to 110 smelly teenagers all screaming and yelling with their lightsabers out, and it was loud as fuck. And when we. That movie closed. There was. I mean, that was it. It was nothing. Yeah, there was nothing. You want to know why? Because it was a terrible movie. Right, Terrible. So name another sequel that was better. I can't even. I can't even name an up. Rocky.

[Chris]

Well, I was gonna say Rocky.

[Brian Green]

Hold on. Rocky.

[Chris]

What about Die Hard? Is Die Hard.

[Brian Green]

No.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

I mean, Die Hard, the second one, Cop, is excellent. Die Hard 2 is excellent. It is an excellent movie. But is it better than the first? In my opinion, no way. Die Hard is an ultimate classic. And I don't care. I don't care if Bruce Willis himself. Well, I shouldn't say that about Bruce, but if Bruce Willis could turn back the clock 30 years and be, you know, that young, tough stud that he was back then. Actually, he's not. He's not really all that tough. That's what made this movie a classic, I think, is that he's just kind of like a normal dude. But if that badass Bruce Willis could show up and make another Die Hard with all. All dominoes falling in the right place, it still wouldn't beat out Die Hard 1. Because Die Hard 1 is an incredible movie. And every boy who watched that movie at the time wanted to walk across glass and help save people from an exploding tower. Of course, because he was so awesome. Yippee ki yay, motherfucker. What was the other one you said?

[Chris]

Beverly Hills Cop?

[Brian Green]

No. I don't know.

[Chris]

I don't even remember. I don't even remember I'm just throwing stuff out there.

[Brian Green]

I think they were good. You know, they made a new Beverly Hills, and I couldn't even get through an hour of it. I just couldn't. I was like, okay, all right. Cool. Cool, dude. Eddie Murphy is great, like, he always is, but I don't know the storyline there. The 50, you know, 58 years later or however long it is.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

What other. I can't even think of another sequel that might beat out. What are the other good movies? Predator, RoboCop, Terminator. Okay. Terminator. Terminator might be one, but Blue disagrees. Yeah, I might agree that Terminator, the one with him on the motorcycle in the back. Is that Terminator 2? Is that Terminator 2? Yeah, that's T2. I think that's T2. T2 was much better than T1, I do have to say. And. And I remember watching that as a young teenager, and that blew my mind. I was like, holy, Terminator is a badass movie. What other movies? I can't. That's it. They didn't. They make a Wizard of Oz, too? Like a Return to Oz? I did that. Farted all over the carpet. I mean, that was awful, too. Yeah, I. Here's. Here's my question to the audience. Write in and tell me. Yes. Which sequels were better than the first one. And we'll discuss further on an additional episode of the commercial break. Because I'd really like to know if you think there's a sequel out there that was better than the original. And give me a hot take. Give me a hot take. If you say, like, I don't want to hear any, like, Trolls two, because that. No Trolls one is the best of them. However, Sing. To Sing two is good.

[Chris]

I was gonna say sing.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Sing two might beat out the original just by a hair, because that, you know, those Sing movies are really good.

[Chris]

Really good. Really good.

[Brian Green]

I don't care if you have kids or not. You should check out the Sing movies. They are really fucking good. And they have good music in them. Blue is barking, and I'll tell you why Blue is barking. Blue is barking because that cat who fell off my roof one night is now living at the house. Not in the house, but at the house. She is, I think, under the porch. And she is taunting Blue by constantly walking around the glass doors. Hi.

[Chris]

Hi.

[Brian Green]

Meow, meow, meow.

[Chris]

She can't get me, you see.

[Brian Green]

It's just a little scraggly little thing. I mean, she's got a belly, right? Like a hangy belly. But she has Thinned out and she doesn't look like, she looks like she needs a meal. And I think she's looking for a meal. And since the hurricane, I think a lot of the animals have either gone underground. What happens to, by the way, chipmunks when there's that much rain? They just go way, way underground.

[Chris]

I, I, that's a good question.

[Brian Green]

They hide under a tree. What happens to the squirrels? They just like kind of hide in their nest.

[Chris]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Brian Green]

I was, I was thinking about this. What happens to the birds, to the squirrels, to the chipmunks?

[Chris]

Yeah. Because we even had a few hummingbirds that were left. We have a hummingbird feeder. We had a few hummingbirds that were left before the storm, but after that I noticed they cleared out.

[Brian Green]

They did?

[Chris]

Yeah. Well, they migrate anyway.

[Brian Green]

Oh, they do. But yeah, hummingbirds migrate.

[Chris]

Yeah, they do.

[Brian Green]

I didn't know that. They go down to Florida.

[Chris]

They go south. Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Really? Very interesting. They like warm, warm weather, huh?

[Chris]

Yeah. I don't know if they go to Florida, but. Makes sense. I don't know. There's some of those things migrate, you know, like across continents. No, I know like butterflies and things like that. It's nuts.

[Brian Green]

No whales, the whales travel like 6,000 miles a year or something like that. That's insane. But you know, when we lived in Chicago, the thing was, you knew it was fall, you knew the winter was coming because you would watch the Canadian geese migrate, all right, and you would see flocks and flocks of them. I mean, it would happen once or twice every other day, something like that. You would see like geese, you know, in these V formations, flying south. And my dad would always point it out. He's like, oh, they're flying to Florida. And they do, they fly all the way to Florida from Canada all the way to Florida every fudgeing year and then back. That's amazing.

[Chris]

Yeah, it really is. And they have stops along the way. Like you were saying Chicago was maybe a stop.

[Brian Green]

That's right. Did I ever tell you the story about the Canadian goose stop? About my former uncle in law being the Canadian goose stop?

[Chris]

I did not know about.

[Brian Green]

I didn't tell you that one. All right, let's do this. I know we're taking, this is a short segment. Let's take a break and I will tell you this is a, this is a segue we didn't plan. But I will tell you about the Canadian goose stop. Would you like to know?

[Chris]

I would love to.

[Brian Green]

We'll talk a little. We'll talk A little animals. I'll give you an update on Peaches, too, who's become quite the popular. She's more popular than I am, apparently, on that commercial break. All right, take a break and we'll be back.

[Christina]

Coming at you live from my bedroom. It's your producer, Christina, here to ask you to follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and on tick tock@tcb podcast, because social media is hard. Got something to say? Text us or call us at 212-4333, TCB and leave us an unhinged voicemail because that is something I am personally a very big fan of and I, I can't wait to hear what you have to say. Check out our website, tcbpodcast.com because there is a very glorious back catalog of audio and video that lives on our website. Just waiting for you to watch it. Now let's hear from our sponsors and we will get back to Brian and Chrissy chatting about who knows what.

[Brian Green]

I'll tell you what we're going to chat about, Christina. Well, we shouldn't do that because people hear commercials after those liners. They probably are like, what is he talking about? We only hear the liners here inside the studio. So Christina is saying we'll get back to whatever Brian and Chrissy happen to be chatting about. And I'm like, I'll tell you what, we're chatting about Canadian geese here on the commercial break. Let me update you first on the zoo that is my house in my backyard. Peaches is doing wonderfully. As a matter of fact, there were three baby squirrels that this lady Cindy was taking care of as well as, you know, inviting me to bring Peaches to her house 612 miles away in the middle of a hurricane. Right. Which I did, by the way. So Peaches is doing so wonderfully. She gave the, she gave her steroids, she gave her pain medicine, and she gave her squirrel food, like squirrel formula, a specially made squirrel formula which she said is actually raw goat milk with some nutrients in it. She gave her that. And guess what? Those three little babies, which are younger than Peaches, have now nuzzled up. And Peaches has taken on the mother role for the three baby squirrels. So now Peaches is in a, like a little area contained little area. And the picture was the three nuzzled squirrels all sleeping like Peaches was curled around all three of the little babies. So she says they've made a little family together and they are playing. She will release them back in the wild to the Chattahoochee National Forest. And she says, they will do just fine. I said, well, what about. Should she come back here? Like, where her family is? And she said, well, after 10 weeks, you know, they do live in packs. But she said it's not like. It's not like. Like a wolf would be where it would be. Like, it might be super important to get them back with the actual pack that they. That they lived in. She said, it's not. It's not like that. So the squirrels can live independently and start their own brood and be a part of another.

[Chris]

They've got a good start.

[Brian Green]

They got a good story. Yeah. So Peaches is doing well, she says. I think she just had a little traumatic brain injury and she fell and she hit her head and she got knocked out. And she said, she certainly would have died had you not warmed her up and brought her inside and at least gotten a little food in there. So that's good. I felt good about that. She's probably just telling me that to make me feel better, like a squirrel savior. But as my Instagram post said, I am a hero. I will go to heaven. Okay, so Canadian geese. I used to be married to a woman who. Whose family owned a lot of land down in Valdosta, Georgia. Valdosta is south. It's the. Probably the southernmost kind of city before Florida for Florida. And it's got a college there. It's got a couple of things. It's not the world's biggest. I would say there's maybe 50 or 60,000 people that live down there. I don't know, maybe. Maybe more. Maybe 100,000 people. But they owned a ton of land and a lot of what they call timber land. And so they own, you know, thousands and thousands of acres of timber pine that every couple of years they come in and they cull the herd, right? They call that pine. And that's how they make money, essentially. They lived in this huge Victoria old Southern house, right? I'm not going to call it a plantation, although I'm sure it was at some point, which is terrible, but that's. It is what it is. But this beautiful, huge house. And then across the road, probably like a mile, they own. It's the kind of place where, like, you could drive for a mile and a half down the state road and still be on their property, right? And so, like a mile down the road, there is a big clearing in the middle of one of their pine forests. There's now a couple of airplane hangars there and a dirt landing pad. It is an actual Airport. It is recognized in the airport maps. It's been that way since about 20 years ago. Thirty years ago, there was a famous movie about a guy in Canada. The guy in Canada would. He had a bunch of geese that lived on his property, and he would just kind of like, care for the geese. He would feed them and he would, you know, look after him. He wasn't like a character. He wasn't like a mama goose. He wasn't that kind of guy. He wasn't like saving the geese. Yeah, he wasn't a daddy goose. He would just notice the geese on his property and near his house and he would just, you know, occasionally, you know, give him some food and hang out with them or whatever. Well, he also noticed one year that. That the family would leave down for Florida and on occasion, a baby goose would get left behind. It would not be able to fly, or alternately, that a family would lose the mother or father and the geese didn't know what to do because they had never flown south. Right. So there's a movie about this, like a Disney movie. The. The document somebody came in documented. Yeah, this guy.

[Chris]

I love those nature shows.

[Brian Green]

Built a plane. He was a pilot. He builds a plane, a glider, but with an engine on it. He built a glider and he painted the wings to look like a goose. What he then started when someone would. When a. Gee. When a goose would lose. Would lose their way. He would then feed them, get them used to and comfortable. He would make them believe that he was a father goose. And then he would fly the geese south for the winter. Wow. I forget the name of the movie, but it is a true story. So one year, you know, the. The. My former in laws are hanging out and they get a phone call. And the phone call is this guy is traveling with his geese, with his family of geese. And you can imagine the phone call. You know, it's, you know. Hey, it's Bob. Yeah, I got. This guy's got some geese right behind him. He's a father goose, and he's looking to bring his baby geese down your yonder. Did you say you got. There's a goose that's calling you and wants to. It wants to you and he needs help. That's right. I got a big old goose and a couple of little geeses and they all got a. They're flying and they need some help. Okay, well, you should probably stop drinking that moonshine, Joe. Oh, I'm telling you, he's. It's a big goose and little goose. I mean, can you imagine this Phone call that the movie hasn't come out. And it's like, this guy wants to fly. He's got geese, he's flying. What are you talking about? But true story that the. He got a phone call one day that this dude is flying and he needs a place to land. He needs a place to land. Doesn't have a place to land. And it just so happens you got a big patch of grass. Can he please land with his geese over on this patch of land?

[Chris]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

And so that's what happened. And so the guy landed on this patch of grass that just so happened.

[Chris]

How can you say no to that, too?

[Brian Green]

You don't say no to that. Yeah, no. You and your geese, right? Yeah. Crash, crash.

[Chris]

Not on my property.

[Brian Green]

Not on my property. I don't want any dead geese on my property. But, I mean, you. You can imagine, by the way, it's thousands and thousands of miles of woods down there. It's all pine. It's. That's it. That's all that's down there. Just timberland. That's. That's. And some of the richest people in this country live in that or have industry down there because they are making the wood that builds your houses and paper and all different kind of stuff. And so these geese land, and then this guy and his geese stay at the house for a couple of days. And there's like pictures of this and everything, like video and pictures of this. And I thought to myself, wow, that is just amazing. First of all, that this guy convinced the geese to fly with him because he painted the wings to look like a goose. I mean, was he in a goose costume? Like dress up with a goose head or something? I mean, I. I don't know. The collar, you know, I've never seen the movie. I should probably watch the movie. Yeah. You know, just flying all the way down. But these geese would follow him. And then they, you know, every night they'd land and they'd hang out somewhere and then they'd fly back up and they'd. He. He took him down to the same place in Florida, years on end. This is what this guy did. Because he feared that they would be lost if he didn't at least follow.

[Chris]

That was his mission in life, I guess.

[Brian Green]

I mean, listen, I wouldn't fly in one of those gliders if you paid me money. There's just no way. I mean, those things. I think flying in a small plane is dangerous. Imagine flying out in the elements just, you know, on one of those little things, like, that's. I'VE seen these dipshits that go up with the big. The big fans on their back, you know, parachute, and the big fans, and they go up and they see how high they can go, and then they swirl back down.

[Chris]

Oh, I haven't seen that.

[Brian Green]

Oh, there's a couple of guys on YouTube that do this, and they videotape everything, and they talk you through it and all this other stuff. And I just keep on thinking to myself, I love watching these videos. My hands get sweaty, but I love watching these videos. But you're a. I mean, you are a moron. All it takes is one bad fart from the cloud, and then you're just done for. I mean, or a bad string or something breaks. What do you do? There's nothing for you to do except fall. That is like my ultimate.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

But this guy's flying geese on one of those things. I mean, he's got a whole goose family that's going down there with this. And I thought that geese, like, you know, don't they have some kind of internal compass or something?

[Christina]

Can't they.

[Brian Green]

I always wanted to know. Couldn't they get there on their own for real? I mean, is this get. Does it get a little dramatic after the first time? Do you have to do it every year? Is what they're born to do.

[Chris]

Right, Right. You would think there was that innate instinct.

[Brian Green]

You would think that there was an innate instinct, like. Like some kind of something internally that told them, hey, fly in this direction. Because I think they have those compasses in their head. You know, one time a teacher told me we were, like, in fourth grade or something, and a teacher just was explaining to us how all of this worked. And they said they have a compass in their head, like in their brain. They can figure this out. And all I can think about now, when I think about Canadian geese is like an actual compass in their brain swirling around.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Go. Head that way. Go. Go this way. And it's just like those. Like those salmon that swim up river every night. I mean, that's. Life is a. Life is a crazy, delicate but badass thing. Yeah, it really is.

[Chris]

It all works in symphony.

[Brian Green]

It does. Like when, you know, you. You eat too much cheese, and then your body starts eating its own bones. You know, that kind of stuff.

[Chris]

It all works great until. It doesn't work until.

[Brian Green]

Does it? Speaking of, I want to thank everybody, and, man, have there been a lot of people who have contacted us, whether they were going to the shows or not going to the shows, giving me their well wishes, and I want to thank you very much. I will play this out for every last bit of sympathy that I can get. Now, everyone's been so kind and so nice, and I really appreciate it.

[Chris]

Yes, we 100% support you.

[Brian Green]

I will be okay. But I do have to tell you something. I got, like, an email from this place down in Florida, this surgery center down in Florida. Who does, like, the most amount of these surgeries anywhere in the world? They are by far probably the world's foremost experts.

[Chris]

They came up with it, right? The surgery.

[Brian Green]

They came up with this type of surgery? Yes. What they came up with was there's four different side. There's four different parathyroids. There's two. Two up, two down, behind, sitting behind your thyroid. And there's only one test where, because it's behind your thyroid, like even an ultrasound, it's hard to tell. They can see the parathyroid, but they can't see if it's sick or not. There's only one test in the world that does that, and it's a nuclear test. And they basically shoot you up with a small amount of radiation, a specific type of radiation. It's like Thermidian or something like that, the lady told me. And that Thermidian, let's call it. I'm just making stuff up now. I sound like, like Iron man magic. Thermidian will power my suit. That Thermidian, you shoot it up and then within 15 minutes, it lights up your PTH, your. Your parathyroid and all those hormones. It, like, basically gravitates toward that. And by the way, who figured that the out? This guy, I think Norman did this. Dr. Norman. Right. And then they take the image and they can see which one is sending out the most parathyroid hormone, the pth. But what they can't see is how much of it is being sent out. They can just tell if there's a large amount of it coming from one of them. And a lot of people get misdiagnosed because when they do this particular nuclear test, it'll come up negative. They won't. It won't show that one of them is sending out a lot of it. You're. It has to be sending out an immense amount of PTH for this. This test to be positive. And what this guy, Dr. Norman revolutionized was he decided to create an instrument that you can put the parathyroid. You can touch the parathyroid or a piece of the parathyroid, and it'll tell you how much of that parathyroid Hormone is coming out of it in a number, right? They've got a utensil inside the surgery room. They take a tiny little piece of the parathyroid. They put it up. They put it on this, like, metal pad. Up comes a number supposed to be somewhere between 50 and 70 is supposed to be, like, a healthy parathyroid. Well, so here's the point. They. They tell me to go to this website, go to this app, watch this video, right? And so no blood, we promise. Well, I watch. I start to watch the video, and I realize that what it is is them doing this surgery on somebody. Oh, a guy around my age, a guy who has a similar problem that I do.

[Chris]

Don't they have to take it out and look at it or something and then put it back in?

[Brian Green]

Well, they have to. They have to go behind. They have to open the thyroid. They have to pull the thyroid.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Go behind the thyroid. Yeah. So I'm watching this, and I am so highly disturbed and nervous about this surgery because it does not look like fun. I mean, that. You know, they have, like, a big. Whatever they call it, like a surgical gown over this guy's face and over his chest, and all you can see is just this neck. Like, if you have one nightmare in life, it's that someone, like, cuts your throat, right? It's like a bad one. And this. This video, I think, pokes at every one of those fears a little bit, because all you see is this guy's neck, and he's cutting it open, right? And it's like, yeah, Chrissy, I gotta be honest. It didn't help. It didn't. It made me feel confident about the people who are doing it, but it made me feel scared. Shit. Of course, I wasn't even thinking about it before. I was like, yeah, I'll go in. I'll go out. It'll be fine. Now I'm like, yeah, I don't. Please don't touch me. This is. Yeah, it's a disturbing thing to watch. And while they're right, it's not like there's not a bunch of blood just gushing out everywhere. There's very little blood, actually, to be honest with you. And I guess that's because this is not a particularly bloody part of your body, but it still doesn't. It doesn't.

[Chris]

Look, I want to think about it.

[Brian Green]

But, man, I'll tell you what. They take out that. They take out that sick Paris. Here's what he revolutionized. They take out the sick parathyroid that they saw on the Scan, and it's like 6012 or something. I mean, it's just out of control. But then they test the other three. They find them, and they test them, and they find a second sick parathyroid. So they say basically that anyone else who does these surgery. Most people that do these surgeries, they look for a positive scan, and then they take out that one parathyroid, but they don't check the other three to make sure that they're okay. And so what this guy revolutionized was the methodology of looking for the other three and then testing to make sure they're okay.

[Chris]

Good. I'm glad you're going to the source.

[Brian Green]

I am. I'm going straight to the source. And they're gonna. I mean, could you be more vulnerable on. I mean, I guess anytime you go on a surgical table, you're vulnerable. Yeah, but could you be more vulnerable when your neck is just, like, hanging out like that?

[Chris]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I wish I was a goose. All I had to worry about was flying south for the winter. You know what I'm saying? Following some guy on a glider. It's too complicated being a human being. But, you know, in other news, geese have much longer necks than we do, so that would be a. I wonder if they have a parathyroid, do you think?

[Chris]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Should I look that up? Do geese have parathyroid?

[Chris]

Do they have hormones? I guess they do.

[Brian Green]

They must.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Everything has a hormone, right?

[Chris]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I don't know. All right, anyway, thank you very much. Everyone was so kind about the shows. You should have received a refund. If you have not received. Received a refund, call the box office of the place where you bought the ticket. And I hope that's the venue, because I don't know about any of those other ticket websites. Also, we will be announcing the new dates for shows and new shows in just the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned. And we will go to those ones, we promise, Unless some other part of my body decides to fall apart.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Or some part of her body.

[Chris]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Why do I have to be the only one that gets sick?

[Chris]

Never know know.

[Brian Green]

You never do know. Okay. To tcbpodcast.com more information about the show, the audio and the video. It's all right there. One location. Excuse me.

[Chris]

Just thinking about the thr.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Just. I know. Honestly, seriously, it. It just skeeves me out. It really does. Anyway, I'm not gonna think about it. I'm gonna pretend not to think about it.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

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[Chris]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

Okay. But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Chris]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

I'll say best to you, best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say goodbye. Sa. If you got a softie in your brain, you're gonna have a softie in your pants. You know what I'm saying?