Yappie Yappie Yorkie!

Summary

The Commercial Break — "Yappie Yappie Yorkie!"

Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley
Date: February 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode captures the signature chaotic, conversational humor that makes The Commercial Break feel like eavesdropping on two friends at brunch. Bryan and Krissy riff on stories about eccentric pets, Catholic Church scandals, cartel violence in Mexico, viral internet drama, football contracts, the state of the American economy, Pokemon scalping, the Olympics, and more—moving seamlessly from dark comedy to heartfelt moments with a bantering, self-aware tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Eccentric Pet Problems: Blue the Barking Yorkie

• Bryan laments his dog's endless, inexplicable barking (“Blue just like incessantly, just bark, bark, bark... It's crazy. It's crazy. What do we do? Does anybody have like a Yorkie rescue they can recommend for me?” [00:38])
• Krissy relates back to her pet Nico, drawing parallels with aging, neurotic dogs.
• Bryan jokes about simply being unable to rehome Blue: “I don't know how I get rid of Blue, and then two days later, I'd be crying about giving away Blue. So I know myself.” [15:05]

2. Catholic Church Scandal: Bishop at a Brothel

• Main Story: A Catholic bishop was caught making dozens of late-night trips to the infamous Hong Kong Gentleman's Club in Tijuana, Mexico ([02:31]).
  • Bryan: “He made more than a dozen late night trips to the brothel in one single month... the bishop was spotted parking his car in the lot... then he'd board a shuttle exclusive to visitors of the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club.” [03:50–04:21]
• The hosts discuss the Vatican’s immense wealth and ability to weather scandals.
  • Bryan: “If you don't think the Vatican is one of the most powerful organizations in the world, you are fooling yourself... they are the largest real estate holder in the world.” [04:23–05:29]
• Krissy: “At least he's doing something about his sexual urges in a legal way down in Mexico... with consenting people.” [05:29–05:41]
• Bryan highlights ongoing issues of trafficking at the club, but concedes: “At least the priest is not taking it out on unsuspecting young victims... At least he's trying to do it in a way that everyone is consenting, though...that remains to be seen.” [06:43]
• Critique of Catholic celibacy rules:
  • “Let the priests...get married...let them do what they want to do with their sexual urges. It's obviously a pain point for the Catholic Church and has been forever and ever.” [07:28]

3. Cartel Violence & Looting in Mexico

• Bryan details recent cartel violence after a leader was killed—towns like Puerto Vallarta went up in flames, prompting chaos and looting ([11:12–13:52]).
  • “It took nine hours for the police or the military to get into Puerto Vallarta to even begin to assess the situation. Nine hours...while the cartels running around pulling people out of their cars and then setting their cars on fire.” [13:53]
• Bryan posted a hot take criticizing tourists for looting during chaos, then got backlash online:
  • “I went hot on Threads. And people had all different kind of opinions. They were like, 'well, you forget that people loot in America too.' No, I didn't forget...” [12:53]
  • “Can you imagine the uproar if immigrants or tourists were here looting in our time of need?” [13:26]

4. Yorkie Barking Tangent Returns

• The running gag of Bryan’s dog Blue “going crazy” recurs several times ([14:30, 00:00]).
• Krissy: “Yeah, I think you've been trying to figure that out for the whole time we've been doing this.” [14:59]

5. Catholic Tech & DJ Priests

• Krissy mentions seeing “Catholic raves,” with priests DJing electronic music at the Vatican.
  • Bryan: “There's a very famous Catholic priest DJ, I guess... it's real. I mean, as far as I can tell.” [15:25–15:32]

6. Frankie Update: Parody Song Interlude

• Parody, “Starbucks Boyfriend” sung by “Frankie” (hilariously platonic love song parody) [17:41–19:35].
  • Krissy: "That's catchy." [19:35]
  • Bryan recognizes repetition: “So we won't be revisiting Frankie for a second time...” [19:35]

7. Atlanta Falcons & Sports Contracts Rant

• Bryan explains the Atlanta Falcons' puzzling move to hire Kirk Cousins for $100M+ just before drafting another QB ([21:36–25:19]).
  • “$100 million dollars for coming in, playing 12 starts, and then just being let go.” [24:25]
  • Discussion highlights the jaw-dropping salaries in pro sports contrasted with “the rest of us just trying to pay for milk.” [26:19]
• Krissy: “It really is...it's incomprehensible.” [25:50]

8. Socio-Economic Inequality, Collectibles, and the Economy

• Discussion of how people are making small fortunes with collectibles (Pokemon cards, baseball cards, Trump coins), while many Americans struggle.
  • “When you can make more buying Pokemon cards than you can working a 9 to 5 job, something is askew, something is amiss.” [27:13]
  • “The wealthy continue to get wealthier...the poor keep on getting poorer...it's just literally insane.” [27:49–28:21]
• Bryan recaps the Pokemon resale/scalper scene in grocery stores:
  • “These Pokemon vending machines have become a hotbed for scammers and scalpers... to jury rig the machines to give them the box of cards that everybody else wants.” [28:43–29:02]

9. State of the Union, Trump, and Dementia Theories

• Joking speculation if Trump can survive the State of the Union address without “sundowning” (a dementia-related phenomenon).
  • “A lot of people, the betting markets actually said that Trump would not do the State of the Union tonight. And the reason...some people think he has dementia...he'd be sundowning at 9pm.” [31:10]

10. Internet Drama: The Guthrie Story

• Listeners DM Bryan about the strange, ongoing Guthrie family mystery ("People asking my opinion. First of all, why are you asking my opinion?” [33:20]).
  • Wild rumors abound: fake ransom notes, debate over backpack/no backpack, theories about a botched robbery or mistaken house.
  • “This is out of a movie. And who would be doing this? Who would be kidnapping Savannah Guthrie's mom?” [34:33]
• Frustration with law enforcement’s confusion and fake ransom attempts.
  • “This is an unserious country. ...Someone just jumped over the Mar-a-Lago walls with a gun and a bomb...but [the FBI chief] is at the Olympics.” [36:36]

11. Olympics Recap & Insights

• Bryan and Krissy share praise for both U.S. Women's and Men's hockey victories; note the women’s “12 games undefeated, only let two goals by the entire 12 games.” [37:54]
• Entertaining deep dive into Olympic events, especially:
  • Curling, biathlon, group speed-skating (“Is this a sport or is this like American Gladiators? I don't know.” [39:48])
  • Their favorite moments and the insanity of events like luge and skeleton ("They should get their heads checked... head first or feet first, either way, very scary.” [40:53])
  • Bryan’s “skate night” childhood fame (jokingly compared to Olympians).

12. Olympics Broadcast Shocker

• Bryan reveals that most NBC Olympic coverage is actually done from a studio in New Hampshire—not onsite at the Games, an amazing technical feat ([42:14]).
  • Krissy: “That is interesting.” [42:36]
  • Bryan: “They have 38 different studios at any given time that are live doing the calling.” [43:12]

13. Rant on Olympic Facilities and Abandoned Venues

• Krissy & Bryan discuss how the Olympics can be both a boon and a burden for host cities; Atlanta benefitted, but many cities are left with “empty buildings and empty facilities and it becomes an eyesore.” [41:35]

14. Meta Jokes & Podcast Self-Awareness

• The hosts joke about how many episodes they’ve done and their fading memory: “We have done a thousand of these episodes. Yes. And this is what happens when you get up into your old age and into your thousands on the episodes.” [16:12]
• Parody radio call-ins and references to their podcast’s "just fine" status.
• Habitual reminders about their sticker giveaway and various ways to follow/DM (with plenty of riffing and meta humor about their “ill-conceived” hotline).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Let priests get married... It's obviously a pain point for the Catholic Church and has been forever.” — Bryan [07:28]
• “Can you imagine the uproar if immigrants or tourists were here looting in our time of need? ...Don't give me that fucking bullshit.” — Bryan [13:26]
• “It takes us about four episodes to make $100 on this show. $100 million for coming in, playing 12 starts...” — Bryan [24:25]
• “When Kirk Cousins can walk away with $100 million and we have doctors and teachers that can't even...buy pencils for their classrooms—something is upside down.” — Bryan [29:29]
• “Olympics every year—that's what I say. And the Summer Olympics too, while we're at it.” — Bryan [41:14]
• “We have done a thousand of these episodes...this is what happens when you get up into your old age...” — Bryan [16:12]

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Memorable Segments with Timestamps

• Yorkie Barking & Pet Woes: [00:00–00:58], [14:30]
• Catholic Brothel Scandal: [02:17–07:15]
• Cartel Violence & Social Media Reaction: [09:08–13:52]
• Frankie 'Starbucks Boyfriend' Parody Song: [17:41–19:35]
• Falcons/Kirk Cousins Sports Rant: [21:36–25:19]
• Economy & Pokemon Cards: [27:13–30:45]
• Guthrie Internet Drama: [33:12–36:52]
• Olympics Recap: [37:51–44:32]
• Olympics Broadcasting Revealed: [42:14–43:46]

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Tone & Style

Highly conversational, sarcastic, and irreverent—Bryan and Krissy deftly balance dark humor and real talk, with frequent self-deprecation and riffs acknowledging their show's “just fine” charm. They meander through current events, personal anecdotes, and absurd tangents, echoing the improvised chaos that loyal listeners love.

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Takeaways for New Listeners

• Expect fast shifts from major world events to inside jokes about yappy Yorkies.
• The show offers both pointed (if comedic) social commentary and escapist improv.
• No topic is off-limits, and serious stories may quickly turn into gags.

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Best to you!

Transcript

[Brian Green]

Foreign. While the cartel's running around pulling people out of their cars and then setting their cars on fire. Even Blue's upset about it out here, out there. Swear on all the tollies. Why can't I have a normal life with a normal dog? Why can't I have Chipper? I need Chipper. I actually think Blue is going crazy in her old age. I really do. I think she's lost whatever marbles she's got left in that head of hers. She's just running around barking at nothing now.

[Chris Hoadley]

She's just like, oh, that's what happened with Nico.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's what happened with Nico. And. But Blue, Nico would bark like, you know, couple times an hour. Blue just like incessantly, just bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark. It's crazy. It's crazy. What do we do? Does anybody have like a Yorkie rescue they can, they can recommend for me? The next episode of the commercial break starts now. 30 in the morning. Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris.

[Chris Hoadley]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. I think I just kicked off all of our streamers, but they'll find our way back. They'll find their way back. I had to restart it, but anyway, news out of San Diego, which is very.

[Chris Hoadley]

Do tell.

[Brian Green]

It's, it's very on brand for the Catholic Church. I'll just put it that way. I will say this about the Catholic Church. I, I often don't give a lot of props to the Catholic Church because of a lot of different reasons, but I'll give a little bit of props to the Catholic Church as the Catholic Church is currently up in the northern. In New York, in New Jersey and New Hampshire and Minnesota, Minnesota in Chicago. The Catholic Church seems to be on the front lines of the immigration debate in a good way, at least as far as I'm concerned. Going into the immigration concentration camps they have right now, making sure that these people are fed, well housed, well, in good conditions. And a lot of the reports are they aren't. So the Catholic priests have, have a dictate they're going to put their bodies in front of the situation. And that's good.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, I mean, I think the Pope has come out and said some things against it.

[Brian Green]

The Pope, the archbishops, a lot of them, not all of them, but a lot of them anyway. But the Catholic Church is still The Catholic Church. So you got to expect a scandal every once in a while. And here's one, here's a doozy. You ready?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

A Catholic bishop. Bishop in California was allegedly a regular visitor to a notorious Mexican brothel. A new bombshell report has claimed Bishop Emmanuel Shaletta, 69 years old, has been accused of repeatedly traveling across the border from San Diego into Tijuana to visit the world famous Hong Kong Gentleman's Club.

[Chris Hoadley]

The Hong Kong Gentleman's Club in Mexico?

[Brian Green]

In Tijuana. If you've ever been to Tijuana, you know. Yeah, I have.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know. I remember that story.

[Brian Green]

You know the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club, it is a huge brothel. Huge. Hundreds and hundreds of girls working at any given time. It's world famous. A lot of people go down there just for the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club. I've actually never been into it. I've seen the outside of it and it can only be described as Walmart sized facility.

[Chris Hoadley]

Really?

[Brian Green]

Yes. And you can go online.

[Chris Hoadley]

Warehouse.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, warehouse full of bedrooms, neon lit up bedrooms with mirrors on the walls and all kind of shenanigans going on in there. So, I mean, that's what Tijuana is known for, right? Sex, drugs and rock and roll. That's the whole, that's the whole shtick there. She, Letta was a leader of the Chedalian Catholic, a Parki of St Peter of the Apostle of San Diego. They always give the weirdest fucking names to those churches.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's true.

[Brian Green]

He made more than a dozen late night trips to the brothel in one single month. According to the report, Shilletta's salacious excursions reportedly slowed down to just a couple times a week after he was questioned about them. The report ordered by the Vatican said the bishop was spotted parking his car in the lot specifically reserved for people going to the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club. And from there he would board a shuttle exclusive to visitors of the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's a shuttle?

[Brian Green]

Yeah, there's a shuttle.

[Chris Hoadley]

Okay.

[Brian Green]

Yes, that's how big this place is. You can actually go park in a parking lot near the border and then they'll shuttle you to the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club. This report was ordered by the Vatican. Let me repeat that part. It was ordered by the Vatican. If you don't think the Vatican is one of the most powerful organizations in the world, you are fooling yourself. If you've ever been to the Vatican, then you know that it's got vast amounts of wealth and there is almost nothing on Earth that rivals it. Not the Egyptians who have, you know, the mummies, nothing. It's.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, that's true.

[Brian Green]

I've been unbelievable. They have. Just the part that you can see is priceless, worth maybe trillions of dollars. But that's the part you see, not the part you don't see. The stuff that's hidden in, you know, a bunker a mile down under earth, all that. They are vastly wealthy. They are the largest real estate holder in the world. The Catholic Church ain't going nowhere, and they have the money to sustain any kind of scandal, including Bishop Emmanuel's little trips to the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, I mean, I have to say, at least he's doing something about his sexual urges in a, I guess, a legal way down in Mexico.

[Brian Green]

Here's.

[Chris Hoadley]

Here's the deal with consenting people.

[Brian Green]

That's it. With consenting adults. Now, the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club has been skewered by human rights organizations who say it is a hotbed of human trafficking. As I would imagine most brothels, maybe, with the exception of some in Amsterdam or other places where prostitution is legalized. But even that guy who owned the Bunny Ranch out in Vegas, some of that documentary. Yeah. Had been accused of holding people against their will at the facility. And when your product is a body, then you might get upset if they're. If your product is running out the door. Do you know what I'm saying? So, you know, I have nothing against sex work. As a matter of fact, I think it's a. It can be a positive occupation for both the giver and the receiver of the services and the money. It just depends on how it's gone about. I've had friends who've been involved in sex work, and they were completely autonomous. They did their own thing on their own time with the people they wanted to do it with, and they got paid well to do it. You can't do that forever. Or maybe you can't, I don't know, but it doesn't seem like you can do that forever. But this kind of place where there are hundreds of women working at any given time. Yeah, okay, maybe there's some nefarious going on there, but I do agree with you on one point. At least the priest is not taking it out on unsuspecting young victims. At least he's trying to do it in a way that everyone is consenting, though, you know, we. I don't know. That remains to be seen. Look at the size of that place.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, my God.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's Huge. It's huge. It's like six stories tall.

[Rachel]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And that HK reminds me of the Hell's Kitchen logo on. On Fox. Is this owned by Gordon Ramsay also?

[Chris Hoadley]

Maybe Guy.

[Brian Green]

A food hall of tail. Let's put it that way. It is also reported that the bishop stole almost a million dollars worth of funds from a fundraising organization that he led to feed his habits and to pay a mistress that he had. This is why the Catholic Church desperately needs reform in one major way. Let the priests, let them. Let them get married, let them have children. Just let them do what they want to do with their sexual urges. It's obviously a pain point for the Catholic Church and has been forever and ever. Let them do that. It's not going to solve every problem, but I guarantee it'll solve a lot of the problems.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Because if you don't have to run around and hide and, you know, repressed. Be repressed, then you are able to explore what you want to explore without harming anybody. Or mostly without harming anybody. Again, the humans are humans. There's always going to be a problem child. But this is the way to solve most of those problems. The Catholic Church can't get over themselves. They just believe that celibacy is the way to godliness. And I. I can't see why isn't part of human nature. If God made us, if. If that's your deal, if God made us, shouldn't we all be able to go out and do our thing? The body of Christ indeed.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah. I don't get it.

[Brian Green]

The body of Christ indeed.

[Chris Hoadley]

But I didn't grow up Catholic either.

[Brian Green]

And also. And also. This is crazy. Look at this guy. Happy as a clam.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, my God. He really is.

[Brian Green]

Priest Emmanuel is happy as a clam. He just loves it. He's loving life. He's going down to the. He's going down to the Rikki Tiki Room, to Hong Kong, to the Hong Kong. Get down to the Hong Kong. Get yourself.

[Chris Hoadley]

I guess there's been a lot of unrest right now in Mexico with all the cartel.

[Brian Green]

You know, I'll tell you an interesting factoid because it always comes back to me.

[Chris Hoadley]

Please do tell.

[Brian Green]

Last night I was on my way out the door to go somewhere and I had been fed on my personal Instagram. The one where I do a lot of talking about the Latino culture and Venezuelans. I had been fed a number of reels where Mexican nationals were filming gringos, white people, European people, Americans, Canadians looting stores. And Puerto Vallarta now. Puerto Vallarta is a well known second home or first home for the lgbt. The, the expats in the LGBT community. As a matter of fact, there's a huge LGBT community down there. I actually know someone who is gay who lives down there and it's heaven for him because he lives on the beach and, oh yeah, beautiful, surrounded by like minded people. And he, he, he's found his home is beautiful. It's a nice little town and relatively safe. Why is it safe? Because even the cartels know that you with tourism, you got a problem. Right? So it's a no go zone for the most part. Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, the Mexican Riviera, all that stuff. It's a no go zone for violent activity until they killed Cervantes. Cervantes was the head of the Caloa cartel after they arrested Chapo Guzman. And then Chapo's son went down also about a year and a half ago. So Cervantes, who had been in the, in the gang for, or the cartel for a long time, became the head of the organization. And then he brought together a couple of the smaller organizations under him. So he really had a vast empire of all kind of craziness going on, from gambling to meth, to heroin, to cocaine, to prostitution to all this other stuff. And in a very surprise attack, they found him in a cabin in the woods with his mistress.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

And they shot him and they mortally wounded him on a helicopter ride back to the hospital. He died along with his two personal security guards. This upset the cartel so much that, and I'm sure you've seen this on tv, that they went around some of the tourist hotspots setting buses, cars.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, it was a lot of vehicle

[Brian Green]

fires, a lot of vehicle fires. Fires, gas stations, pharmacies. They set them on fire. And so the entire town shut down. And because I follow a lot of creators that are Mexican and because I get fed a lot of that, I got to see a lot of them firsthand videotaping what they saw going outside on, on their windows, as well as a lot of the tourists there that were like, you know, on rooftop hotels filming the entire city as it was up in flames, Essentially this beautiful town. But they also filmed Americans, Canadians, Europeans looting the fucking stores, pharmacies, not for supplies, but for shit like liquor and cigarettes. And I put out a reel yesterday, like real quick, I put together a reel in the car. I put together a reel saying, I hope this gets to. Who needs to see it, you know, stop it like that. Put, put down the. And Help. The reason the stores are closed is because they don't want their employees to get killed. Stop being a. You're the problem. Put the back and help the locals. And if the stores are closed for a day or two, you'll survive. You got water, you'll be okay with not eating for one day. And then I put it up on my Instagram and after an hour or two I decided and that's just a hot headed post. Let me take it down. And I took it down, but it got posted to threads. Like, like some of my posts, they get posted to threads to automatically. I don't do it, it just gets posted over to threads. And it went crazy on threads.

[Chris Hoadley]

You went hot on threads?

[Brian Green]

I went hot on threads. And people had all different kind of opinions. They were like, well, you forget that people loot in America too. No, I didn't forget people loot in America. And by the way, it's mainly the Americans that are looting in America when problems like this happen, number one. And can you imagine the uproar if immigrants or tourists were here looting in our time of need? 9, 11, Boston park bombing, Olympic park bombing. Can you imagine the absolute insanity that would be going on if tourists or immigrants were here looting our shit after in our time of need? It would be a total nightmare. So don't give me that fucking bullshit. Another guy was like, you're just fear mongering. Fear mongering. Fear mongering me is telling you something is going to happen or is, or I'm exaggerating what's happening. I'm not. If there's reals of people videos of people looting fucking stores. I saw it with my own two eyes. So then a couple of my followers came to my defense and started posting those reels in the comments section. Like hey dude, this is actually happening.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I just can't believe it. I just can't believe what morons they are. I mean it's got to be very scary to be down there right now. The cartel is 100% in charge of what goes on in Mexico. If you don't believe that, just watch what happened. It took nine hours for the police or the military to get into Puerto Vallarta to even begin to assess the situation. Nine hours. Nine hours defenseless while the cartels running around pulling people out of their cars and then setting their cars on fire. Even Blue's upset about it. I hear dog swear on all the toll. Why can't I have a normal life with a normal dog? Why can't I Have chipper. I need chipper. I actually.

[Chris Hoadley]

Chipper.

[Brian Green]

I actually think Blue is going crazy in her old age. I really do. I think she's lost whatever marbles she's got left in that head of hers. She's just running around barking at nothing now.

[Chris Hoadley]

She's just like, oh, that's what happened with Nico.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's what happened with Nico. But Nico would bark, like, you know, a couple times an hour. Blue just, like, incessantly. Just bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark. It's crazy. It's crazy. What do we do? Does anybody have, like, a Yorkie rescue they can. They can recommend for me?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, I think you've been trying to figure that out for the whole time we've been doing this.

[Brian Green]

Here's the thing. I'm not going to give someone else a problem. Yeah, Right. And I don't know how I get rid of Blue. And then two days later, I'd be crying about giving away Blue. So I know myself. Have I seen the Catholic raves? I have seen the Catholic raves. I've seen the raves where the Catholic priests are in the Vatican doing the EDM music to thousands of people.

[Chris Hoadley]

Something about that, too.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. There's a very famous Catholic priest dj, I guess. Okay, that's out there.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know if that was real or if that was. AI.

[Brian Green]

It's real. It's real. I mean, as far as I can tell.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. So hard to tell these days. So much AI shit out there. It's really. Our children are. I don't know what I'm gonna do with my kids. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't think about it right now.

[Brian Green]

No, I'm not gonna think about it right now. I'll think about it later. All right. Do you want. Did we do Frankie?

[Chris Hoadley]

No, we haven't done. Did we.

[Brian Green]

Did we.

[Chris Hoadley]

No.

[Brian Green]

Did we do Frankie? Guys,

[Chris Hoadley]

we put something up on there.

[Brian Green]

We put something up on there, But I don't remember us actually talking about Frankie.

[Chris Hoadley]

Are we losing our marbles?

[Brian Green]

All right, let's take a break and we'll figure it all back. We'll be back in two and two, and we'll. Chrissy and I. Chrissy and I will huddle over here and see if, between the two of us, we have enough brain cells to figure out what we talked about. To be. To be completely fair to us. We have done a thousand of these episodes. Yes. And this is what happens when you get up into your old age and into your thousands on the episodes. All right. We'll be back into it, too. Okay.

[Rachel]

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[Frankie]

I walked in the door to grab a latte? I paid $10 heard Ariana Grande? But then I saw him and his big dog? I felt my knees weak here came the brain fog and though I'm not gay? You make me feel that way? I hope it never ends? My new Starbucks boyfriend? All my toes curl all the feels come my world of gold? You are my shining sun? We love to talk sports and swimming pools you like the patio I like the bar stools? And we spill tea and we crochet the other tables might think we're gay I don't really care I hope it never ends? You're my best Starbucks boyfriend? And though we're still straight? You make me feel a certain way? I hope it never ends? My new Starbucks boyfriend? And though I'm not gay? You make me feel that way? I hope it never ends? My new Starbucks boy boyfriend. And though I'm not gay you make me feel away? I hope it never ends? My new Starbucks, my new Starbucks boyfriend.

[Chris Hoadley]

That's catchy.

[Brian Green]

It is catchy. Oh, I think we did do Frankie, now that I'm thinking about it. So we won't be revisiting Frankie forever a second time because we'll get three minutes into it and go, we already did this. We already did this one. But, hey, listen, there's no new Frankie to talk about, so, you know, I wish I had a new Frankie video to to do, but Frankie is mia. He's mia.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, that means he's got a girlfriend.

[Brian Green]

He does. But this is even extended break. This Is an extended time for. Even for Frankie.

[Chris Hoadley]

Maybe it's serious.

[Brian Green]

Maybe it is. He's gone three, four, five. I think one time he went six months without posting. We're going on almost a year now. He hasn't posted anything so serious. Maybe he's getting married, remember? Yet we found an Instagram that he had. We should probably look. Frank Benado. Because we kept on saying Bernardo. And then Christina corrected us one time.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

And said, hey, it's Frank Bernardo. Frank Bernardo.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, we saw the Instagram. We saw his family or his kids.

[Brian Green]

That's right, his kids. Where he's living with his.

[Chris Hoadley]

We think he's living with his. Yeah, the last video, I think that we talked that was newer, was him cooking.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah, that's right. That was like. That was the last one we saw. That was new from her. Yeah, yeah, he was cooking. There was a short one, I think he did in the car one time. Let's do salon suite. Salon suites. Frank Bonado, salon suites. No, it's. I just don't. Oh, no, that's not him.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, we. It was hard to find him.

[Brian Green]

It was really hard to find it, but Christina did it. She found him. And I think she found it because it was like a link, like a link on his thing. Anyway, whatever, it doesn't matter.

[Chris Hoadley]

We'll check in on him.

[Brian Green]

All right, we'll check in on him. But what I did want to say is that I was just reading this morning, even though I'm not into sports ball, you know, which is a word that probably should have died 10 years ago, but anyway, even though I'm not into football, professional football, I did see where the Atlanta Falcons have released Kirk Cousins. Did you see this?

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, I didn't see that.

[Brian Green]

So for those of you that don't keep up with football, let me just explain in a nutshell. About two years ago, our gm, our high flying GM of the Atlanta Falcons, which is owned by Arthur Blank, the multi billionaire that is a started Home Depot. Started Home Depot. And I think he's still a major shareholder in Home Depot. He bought the Falcons, he bought the professional soccer team. He's part of the group that owns the Hawks. And he's a very invested owner. He's got his hands in everything. And then he hired this GM that some people like and some people don't. The general manager. Some people like him, some people don't. But two years ago during the draft, about three days before the draft, if I'm not mistaken, the Falcons in desperate need of a new quarterback after Years of Matt Ryan not taking. Taking us once to the super bowl and then not doing much of anything in the playoffs, decided that he needed a strong veteran quarterback to lead the team into the new era. They got a new head coach, and the tides were changing. And so they went out and they hired Kirk Cousins, who had been. Is kind of a journeyman. He's kind of been all over the NFL, but he's known as good quarterback. He's a veteran. They felt like they could do something with him. He's in his 30s, so he still had a couple more years left in him. And so they paid him $118 million contract for four years, 100 million of it guaranteed. 100 million out of 118 guarantees. Four year contract. $100 million. $25 million a year, essentially guaranteed. $18 million. Whatever. Not a good deal. Not a great deal. But for a veteran quarterback, okay, it's the Atlanta Falcons. Blanks, got money. They figure it out three days later during the draft. They draft in the first round, One of the more notable quarterbacks in the draft. And everyone's going, what, what did you just do? Why did you hire Kirk Cousins and then get this first round draft quarterback? I thought we already had a quarterback. And the person who's really pissed about this is Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins is like, what the fuck is going on? Well, Kirk Cousins comes out of the gate last year and he has a hot start. I think that they, you know, four, zero or whatever, they're doing great. Everything's great. Wonderful. Kirk Cousins turned out well. His star faded, as did the Falcons record. And so in the end, I think his name is Plexigo or something like that. They put in this guy, and he doesn't do much better. So now everybody is wondering exactly what the Falcons are going to do about their quarterback situation. They've got this young kid who has a long list of injuries, and now they just let. After two years, they have let Cousins. Cousins go and owe him a hundred million dollars. Unbelievable how money flows like water amongst these sports players and these billionaires. It is just beyond comprehension.

[Chris Hoadley]

It really is.

[Brian Green]

A hundred million dollars. A hundred dollars right now to me, is beyond comprehension, but a hundred million dollars. It takes us about four episodes to make $100 on this show. $100 million for coming in, playing 12 starts, and then just being let go. And. And Kirk Cousins there is. There are no good quarterbacks on the market right now. Kirk Cousins will find a new home there. About six teams that need a veteran quarterback. And Kirk Cousins will Find a new home. He will get another fat contract and he will walk off into the sunset an extraordinarily rich man. He fell upwards every step of the way. I'm not saying Kirk Cousins isn't a good quarterback. I don't know. I don't watch enough professional football, but the word on the streets is Kirk Cousins is a quarterback. He's a quarterback. I don't know if he's a good quarterback. He's got a hundred fucking million dollars in his pocket and about 12 games to show for it. Unbelievable. What are we doing with our lives? Why wasn't I a quarterback?

[Chris Hoadley]

I know.

[Brian Green]

Why weren't you? I don't know. I think I could have thrown the ball. I could throw the ball.

[Chris Hoadley]

You were chasing your music dreams.

[Brian Green]

I was chasing my music dreams. And I'm, I'm averse to pain. I'm not really good, I'm not really good at getting hurt.

[Chris Hoadley]

So, yeah, there's some of that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. So while the quarter quarterback, you know, he's a target. So, you know, if they get to you, you're going to get hurt. You don't get hurt as much as like, say, alignment. It just takes a hit every time. But wow, what an amazing amount of money that these sports players are, are making.

[Chris Hoadley]

They really are. It's, it's incredible. Like you said, it's incomprehensible. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

It is incomprehensible how these altcoin traders, the bitcoin traders, the trump coin traders about the bitcoin. Bitcoin is doing terrible right now. It's taking a shit right on the floor. It's going to walk out the door. We're taking a shit on the floor. What's his name? Logan Paul just sold a Pokemon card for like $12.4 million or something.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah,

[Brian Green]

somebody else, this guy Golden. Remember we had a friend with the last name Golden? Not the same, but he was into baseball cards also. But a Hornus Wagner was sold like a Hornus Wagner baseball card was sold for like three and a half million dollars. All these kids with these collectibles, all these Pokemon card guys, all these bitcoin traders, all they're, all the, all the guys on the stock market, they're all making billions and billions of dollars. Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to pay for milk for my kids. It's just really unbelievable. Joe Rogan'. $100 million a year. I, you know, I'm not claiming to be Joe Rogan. Joe. Joe's done a 4,000 episodes. He's done a lot more episodes. Maybe that's what happens. Maybe at 4,000.

[Chris Hoadley]

You said that's what it is, that we can just have that goal.

[Brian Green]

But at this pace, we'll be there when we're in our 60s, but we'll get there.

[Chris Hoadley]

Good things come.

[Brian Green]

But all of this, like the whole Kirk Cousins thing, not that I care about football, what it made me realize is tonight's the State of the Union address. And Trump, if he has any chance of salvaging this presidency, you know, and I know it's always, you know, what is you, what have you done for me lately kind of thing. He. He's really got to start pointing out that there's a growing. There's a vast bridge between the haves and the have nots. A vast bridge between the haves and the have nots. And it grows every fucking day. And when you can make more buying Pokemon cards than you can working a 9 to 5 job, something is askew, something is amiss.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And I don't know what you do about it. I'm no expert, but you got to start pumping investment dollars, money and attention into the middle class in America because a lot of people are in trouble. And the wealthy continue to get wealthier. And I don't mind people getting wealthy. I'd like to be wealthy someday too. But the poor keep on getting poorer. And it's really getting tough for people out here like me, who have three kids and you know that everything costs the 70% more than it did 10 years ago. It's. It's just literally insane. I was at the Kroger the other day and I follow this account.

[Chris Hoadley]

Casino Kroger.

[Brian Green]

The Casino Kroger. That's right. And just on brand for the Casino Kroger, I follow this account called like Pokemon Streets, Pokey Streets or something like that. And I follow it because it is the. It is a guy that's trading in videos about all of the con artists and grifters that are attached to the Pokemon business.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And they have these Pokemon vending machines throughout Walmarts and Kroger's and all this other stuff throughout the world. And these Pokemon vending machines have become a hotbed for scammers and scalpers and all these people to jury rig the machines to give them the box of cards that everybody else wants. Essentially. It's.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh yeah, you were talking about that.

[Brian Green]

Okay. So I'm not going to get into all the details, but here, here's one thing I go up to the self checkout, and it's hard to miss the big Pokemon machine sitting in the front of the fucking Kroger. There's a Pokemon machine there, and there's a guy that's standing there. He keeps putting his card in. He keeps clicking the box, keeps putting his card in, clicking the box, put in his card and clicking the box. Meanwhile, there's two guys standing behind him, and they start to get a little. The guys behind him start getting a little itchy, right? They're like, hey, man, come on, you know, whatever.

[Chris Hoadley]

I need my Pokemon.

[Brian Green]

I need my Pokemon, too. And I think to myself, you know, what in the fuck are these kids doing with their lives sitting there just spending every dime they have on these Pokemon boxes of cards, right, that are like $119 a box. But then I keep thinking to myself, what the fuck am I doing, right? These kids are making more money in a day that I'm making in a year. Finding, you know, Pokemon 3306, you know, the fucking. Whatever they are, the energy cards or whatever it is, it's like there's just something is upside down in society. When Kirk Cousins can walk away with $100 million and we have doctors and teachers that can't even fucking, you know, buy pencils for their classrooms. Something is upside down. I mean, to sound like a bleeding heart liberal, because I'm really not. But I just wonder what's going on in this world. Trump. Trump. If I'm Trump and I'm going up there tonight, while I'm sundowning with dementia at 9pm and I'm getting ready to talk for two hours about big Arm.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

That if I' his advisors, I'm telling him, stay on the economy, bud. Stay on the economy. Talk about what? Talk about the problems that people are having, paying their bills. Talk about those and how you're going to fix them. And if he doesn't have big plans for that, I. I fear that that's going to be a real show for the next three years.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, yeah.

[Brian Green]

I will say this, though. It probably is going to be the most entertaining television we watch this week. Are you gonna watch?

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know. I haven't decided yet.

[Brian Green]

Okay, well, we, you know, we should do. We should get on and we should watch it together and we'll go live and we'll just. I'll put it up here and we can watch and we can talk it through. We can pause it, see what Trump says.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

There's a lot of people that think he. He He. A lot of people, the betting markets actually said that Trump would not do the State of the Union tonight. And the reason why is because some people think he has dementia, and some people who think he has dementia think that he would be sundowning at 9pm Sundowning is a phenomenon where people with dementia start to get super confused right around the Twilight and bedtime, because their brains are all kind of. And they're having a hard time. Me, my mom's got some dementia. So I understand this. She'll start calling people repeatedly saying the same thing, like between 6 and 9pm because they're sundowning. And so some people said that his advisors wouldn't let him go out there at 9pm but we'll see. I mean, you know, supposed to. Supposed to. If we're not at war with Iran at night tonight. Right? That's. That's the next move. Anyway, listen, kids, here's a piece of advice from Brian to you. Pokemon cards.

[Chris Hoadley]

Invest.

[Brian Green]

Invest in Pokemon cards and baseball cards and Dick Tracy cards and Bitcoin, all that stuff. Because apparently, that's the wave of the future.

[Chris Hoadley]

God.

[Brian Green]

All right, we'll be back in two and two. Okay.

[Rachel]

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[Brian Green]

I have been getting so much conversation in my DMs about this whole fucking Guthrie story.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, God.

[Brian Green]

People asking my opinion. First of all, why are you asking my opinion? Yeah, I'm not an investigator. I don't know, but this is all just very weird to me.

[Chris Hoadley]

So weird. It's very bizarre and so sad. I mean, that's their mother, and she's just gone.

[Brian Green]

And there are.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's the videos of the guy and stuff. He's got a Backpack on. He doesn't have a backpack on. I don't know what's going on.

[Brian Green]

There are so many wacky theories out there. And the mind abhors a vacuum, so it's just filling it with all kind of noise. Right. But my twin brother started talking to me about this when we were on our way up to Maggie Valley, and I. And I just. I really hadn't thought about it all that much besides the small amount of conversation we've had. And then they started investigating, and people are blaming the sheriff, they're blaming her brother. They're. They're the guy. There's pictures of the guy with a backpack. And without a backpack.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't get that.

[Brian Green]

There's ransom notes for a million dollars. There's guys who say they know where she is. For $50,000, they'll get. You know, it's like there's a million dollar ransom. Why don't you just give. Give it up and get the million dollars? It seems so strange. This is out of a movie. This is out of a movie. And who would be doing this? Who would be kidnapping Savannah Guthrie's mom? For what reason?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Untowards. Sexual fantasies.

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know. I mean, I did read something. I guess another one of these theories was that it was the wrong house. That maybe, like, the guy was going to rob the house or something, and it was the wrong house.

[Brian Green]

Okay.

[Chris Hoadley]

And maybe he killed her. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

I don't know. I feel really bad for Savannah Guthrie because. Not that I. I don't know Savannah Guthrie. I very rarely have watched her on anywhere except for the Olympics, maybe when she's on the Olympics. But I feel bad for her because.

[Chris Hoadley]

Absolutely. And the other. The brother and sister.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Everybody involved. Because it's clear now that the investigators are stumped. They're stumped. They're kind of like the gang who couldn't shoot straight. There's gloves all over the desert. Half of them are from the investigators. The other half, they don't know where they came from. You know, they're releasing pictures and saying it came from the night of the. The. The kidnapping. But maybe not. I mean, you know, but maybe not. They're saying that the nest or the doorbell was unplugged, but they managed to get pictures out of it. How does that happen?

[Chris Hoadley]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

If it's unplugged, how do you manage to get pictures out of it? And tell me that's not creepy in and of itself. Like, if I disconnect my Ring. I don't want pictures being taken. I'm asking for the pictures not to be taken. Now, I can't understand why you would do that, but. Okay, number one. Number two, it's like, you know, who are the nudniks out there who are sending fake ransom letters to a family that clearly is in distress? That is the worst about of it all. And if you are sending ransom letters, then why not accept the ransom? Like you know what I'm saying? Why not accept the. The. The relief? And at this point, with the pacemaker that hasn't been plugged in or monitored for medication. Medication for a month now. It's just terrible. I really, really do feel for the entire family. I feel for the family. I feel for. I don't feel for the investigator. I mean, who's running the FBI?

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, the same guy that was partying with.

[Frankie]

Oh, that's right.

[Brian Green]

Cash Patel. Old crash out Cash. I mean, what in the good fuck. Nancy, Guthrie is missing. Someone just jumped over the, you know, Mar a Lago walls with a gun and a bomb and.

[Chris Hoadley]

But he's at the Olympics.

[Brian Green]

He's at the Olympics. He's at the fucking Olympics. What? This is an unserious country. Do you realize that? That this is an unserious country. Meanwhile, our. Our Kristi Noem is buying an airplane for $180 million with a bed in the back of it. A bed. Did you see the pictures of that airplane she's buying? $180 million, 737 Max, with a bedroom in the back. A bedroom that is far nicer than anyone I've ever slept in, I can guarantee you that. With a queen bed in the back. Because apparently she's screwing Corey Lewandowski, who's not even her husband. Degrissi. This is an unserious country. We got problems. And someone financing Guthrie, for God's sake.

[Chris Hoadley]

I know, I know, I know. I just feel like it's not going

[Brian Green]

to be good now. Maybe she's at the Hong Kong club. She could be at the Hong Kong Gentleman's Club. I don't mean to make light of the situation, but people are into some weird shit. Do you know what I'm saying, Chrissy? Some weird shit. Speaking of the Olympics. The Olympics are now over. This. What a win.

[Chris Hoadley]

A win. Both women's and men's gold.

[Brian Green]

The women, I think, have the more impressive feat because they went 12 games undefeated. Only let two goals by the entire 12 games. I mean, the guy. Listen, both of them deserve the equal amount of accolades, but the girls really fucking killed it. What a win by the guys. I mean, just an amazing, amazing feat to beat the Canadians, who quite frankly are probably better at hockey than we are. But then all of the. Just the great storylines that were. This was one of the more interesting Winter Olympics as far as I'm concerned.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was.

[Brian Green]

I loved it. I loved it. I usually don't pay too close of attention to the Winter Olympics except for the curling and I just loved it. The curling was exciting.

[Chris Hoadley]

The biathlon.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Sit down, lay down, stand up, shoot. Yeah, that thing that, whatever that was. Never been so excited about people shooting and skiing in my entire life. The speed skating was amazing.

[Chris Hoadley]

Oh, God. I watched those guys thighs. Oh my gosh, they're on. It's massive.

[Brian Green]

They're abnormal. Yeah, Yeah. I watched for the first time, I watched the group speed skating. The group speed skating is wacky. It's wacky because here it is, it's 12 laps around. Everybody starts at the same time. But then you can collect points on lap four and lap eight if you're the first one by. So here's how it goes. Everyone starts off right.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

And for 400 meters you can't. No one can cut in front of anybody. So everyone just kind of skates pretty slow. Then you start going at like kind of a normal speed. But some people slow down because they want to save their energy for that lap four and that lap. But then some people speed up because if you lap somebody, they are out. So some people are trying to lap. It's a wacky this. Is this a sport or is this like American Gladiators? I don't know.

[Chris Hoadley]

But yeah, it was really interesting.

[Brian Green]

It was wild. But I got. You're right, the thighs are abnormal on all those human beings. They. People shouldn't have thighs like that.

[Chris Hoadley]

Guess that's what you get when you speed skate.

[Brian Green]

You know that when I was in. When I did my skate night at yes. School. Yeah. And they used to have speed skate. Remember when everyone would get out there and fat races as fast as you could go. I would win a lot of those because I was really fast on my roller skates. I like to. I. That's my claim to fame. My glory years when I was fast and seven years old on my skate.

[Chris Hoadley]

Those were fun.

[Brian Green]

Every time I see those speed skaters, I think I could do that. I got that. I could do that. Those guys are going fast, man, they're going fast. Doesn't look like they're going fast, but they're going fast.

[Chris Hoadley]

They're Going real fast.

[Brian Green]

And then of course, we had the extreme downhill slalom, which so many people crashed. And that was entertaining. They don't like to see people get hurt.

[Chris Hoadley]

It was snowboarding.

[Brian Green]

Snowboarding's okay. It's not my favorite, but I like watching it. Ski jumping, of course, is always an entertaining one. And then you got the. All different things. The toboggan, the skeleton.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yes.

[Brian Green]

The losing. All those people are insane. They should get their heads checked for sure for going down head first or feet first. Either way, it's very scary and you shouldn't be doing it. It was just an in. Very entertaining Olympics. I recorded every bit of it. So I'm going to keep on watching the ones that I haven't watched. Even though I know the results. I'm going to keep on watching.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, no, it's. It's fun to watch.

[Brian Green]

Bring back the Winter Olympics every year. That's what I say. And the Summer Olympics too, while we're at it. Why don't wait every four years. Can we do every two?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah, can we? There is something every two, but it's either.

[Brian Green]

I know, but can we do like one every one?

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

You know what I'm saying? Like next year? Yeah. And I get it. It's a big deal. And you got to put together a bunch of stuff. The immense amount of work that these cities go through just to have the Olympics. I watched.

[Chris Hoadley]

There's still some places around here in Atlanta that are abandoned.

[Brian Green]

Yes, many places. And listen, they do this every Olympics. People say it's going to be a boon. And it was a boon to our economy. Atlanta really benefited from the Olympics. It started a growth period that has not stopped. But for a lot of cities, they end up with, you know, like in China, they end up with just empty buildings and empty facilities and it becomes an eyesore and all this other stuff. I'm going to give you a piece of information that's about to shock your brain. Do you know where the Olympic. The Winter Olympics is called from? The broadcast is called from. No, New Hampshire.

[Chris Hoadley]

From New Hampshire.

[Brian Green]

From New Hampshire.

[Chris Hoadley]

Really?

[Brian Green]

By their own admission. Because I saw a tour of the facilities while they were doing this. The NBC Sports compound in New Hampshire is where 80% of the Olympics is called. They are watching it on TV just like you are watching it on tv. They are not there. They are not.

[Chris Hoadley]

That is interesting.

[Brian Green]

Now there are people that of course are on the ground. There's the people who do the wrap up show or they're in the. They're into doing the broadcast and they're, you know, in Cortina or in Milan or whatever it is. But the people who are calling the curling deluging the skeleton, they're in New Hampshire and they're in a studio, and they're watching it on tv. And they have, you know, they have multiple different views. They go. They put their cameras there. The Olympic committee put some cameras and microphones there. It all comes together in the NBC facility, and it's an amazing technical feat to make it all happen. But they have, wow, 38 different studios at any given time that are live doing the, you know, the calling of these. Yeah. Of these games for NBC. It. It shocked me. It shocked me. I wasn't under the. The impression that every single one of these things was right there in the studio. Right. But the way that they mix it, it just sounds so authentic and organic. And it really surprised me to know that most of it, they're not even on the same continent. They're somewhere else and without delay. That's the amazing thing.

[Chris Hoadley]

The delays would. I would be afraid for the feed to go out or something.

[Brian Green]

I mean, you'd think if you're, like, calling the curling, you'd want to be in there calling the curling. But then I guess you don't get the same kind of view that you do when you're. Yeah. So kudos to NBC. NBC has the Olympics to, like, you know, 2083 or something.

[Chris Hoadley]

They do.

[Brian Green]

They paid $75 billion for it or whatever. They're going to have it forever for a long time. And I think they do do a good job. I really do. Except for. I will say this. The one annoying thing about this particular Winter Olympics is a lot of times it would say on the channel, guide, men's curling. And I was recording everything. So you turn, you'd go to look for men's curling, and you'd get, like, men's, you know, figure skating and. And then they'd be in the middle of a curling match, and then they'd cut away to go to something else. At the good part, it'd be like, watch the rest of this on, you know, Peacock.

[Chris Hoadley]

Well, that's what I've got, Peacock. So I was able to do, like, three different screens of different stuff.

[Brian Green]

Fuck you. Fuck you. That's what we did for the Olympics, Summer Olympics last year. We got Peacock for a month. That's what we did. We got Peacock for a month. Yeah, it was a free month. So that's what we did. And I know that Peacock. That's what Peacock does. But anyway, so the Winter Olympics is over. If you're sad like I am, well, fuck you. Fuck you. All right. We'll all have to find something else to do with our time. It will not be love is blind.

[Chris Hoadley]

Now go. Hold strong. You better hold strong.

[Brian Green]

I will.

[Chris Hoadley]

Don't cave.

[Brian Green]

I won't. But I don't know.

[Chris Hoadley]

I'll be sorry you did.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, I know. I will. I'll be sorry I did. It's all going to end up in ruin. No one's going to care at the end. The reunion is going to be boring like it always is. Nick. Nick and Vanessa are going to show up for three seconds on camera. No one's going to care.

[Chris Hoadley]

They'll show up to the dress fittings and the.

[Brian Green]

Yes, the dress fittings. And they walk in and out of the, you know, the room on occasion.

[Chris Hoadley]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Hey. All right. I don't know what else to say. We haven't done two episodes in a long time.

[Chris Hoadley]

We haven't, no.

[Brian Green]

But we'll do it again on Thursday, 1pm Eastern Standard Time. Or actually 12pm Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, 12 and 1. 15. Yeah, we'll let you know. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and we'll let you know right before we go live. Do yourself a favor, get a free tcb [e-mail] you can go there. All the audio, all the video is right there also. But if you want your free sticker, go to the contact us button, drop down menu. I want my free sticker. Give us your physical address and away we will go. And what else? YouTube.com the commercial break. And a lot of you, not a lot of you, but some of you have wondered whether or not the phone line is still in action. It still is in action. I'm not giving it away anymore. I prefer that you hit us up on Instagram on that dm because I can take the Instagram anywhere I go. But the phone, I don't carry that around with me. And so it was an ill conceived idea in the first place.

[Chris Hoadley]

It sounded like a good idea at the time.

[Brian Green]

It did sound like a good idea. But what are we, a radio show or like in the studio answering phone calls?

[Chris Hoadley]

You're live.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. Ah, you're live. Hambone and holy. In the morning we should do a hambone and hopefully we should. Maybe we'll do that on Thursday. See if I get my voice up to speed. Yeah, it's still. I'm still. Got this. Schmucks.

[Chris Hoadley]

Me too.

[Brian Green]

I know. I can hear it. Yeah. So follow us. YouTube.com TheCommercial Break subscribe to the channel. You get notified every time we go live. That's the best way to watch us live. But we are live also on Twitch, in case you're wondering. Okay. Well, Chrissy, that's certainly all I can do for today.

[Chris Hoadley]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

I will say this, though. Happy birthday. Belated thank you. I love you.

[Chris Hoadley]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. Bye, everybody. Thanks for joining us. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say. And bye, Sam.