Wedding and A Wetting!

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There's nothing that I remember, what you never knew On this episode of the Commercial Break Brian is dripping down wet, full suit on So what do I do? I take off my jacket and I put it over the child's head. So now I've covered my little baby with a jacket in the store.
Yes, the wet jacket in the store. The baby's crying because now she's got a jacket over her head.
She can't see what's going on. I'm standing at the front of the store.
Why did you put the jacket over her head place? I don't know. I thought I don't want anybody to see her wet.
I want to take myself. I have video of this.
I swear to God it's true. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
The 30 in the morning! Ah, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break.
I'm Brian Green. This is my best friend and the co-host of this incredibly dumb podcast, Kristen Joy Hoadley.
Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian.
And best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us.
She's about to tell the girls here in studio that I avoided yet another plumbing disaster here at the house. The tub was not draining in my house.
And I was getting concerned about this. It was like draining slower and slower.
I know what the reason is. Yeah.
Okay. All right.
But maybe you don't. It's probably adjunct, but I don't think you know the exact reason.
So the girls like to take baths. They're smaller and the girls love the bath time.
I mean, the boys do too, but I tell the boys, I say, you really got to take a shower because you're sitting in your own stink in a bath, essentially. And kids get really dirty.
So my germaphobic nature, I'm passing it along to my children. I'm passing all my anxieties along to my children.
I'm keeping therapists in business. Okay.
So I tell my guys, I say, hey, get in the shower, wash that dirty ass of yours wash your ping pang and your ching ching and let's get it all

done and then the girls

they take baths because they refuse to get in the shower

unless I drag them in there

so I think to myself

well there must be a clog down in the drain

because when I'm going to wash their hair

and you know I start the water again

it just fills up

it's draining slower than it fills up

and so I'm getting concerned that you know something's going on

down there but now I'm very concerned about

All right. hair and you know i start the water again it just fills up so it's it's draining slower than it fills up and so i'm getting concerned that you know something's going on down there but now i'm very concerned about all the plumbing so i do what i know to do and that is take a hammer and screw to things and you know see if i can get that little plug up yeah i don't know i was just fooling around in there and uh it's got one of those like um the kind you twist like the plug that you it's attached and you twist it and push it down and you twist it and pull it up.
Okay. Okay.
Not like a plug, like an independent plug. It's actually attached to the, whatever the drain, whatever the fuck that's called.
So I unscrew, unscrew, unscrew. I unscrew the drain and I look down there and I can see like something purple down there, but it's a little dark.
So I take a screwdriver and I can't even get the screwdriver down there, but it feels spongy. So I take the screwdriver and I kind of scrape along the sides.
And what do I pull up? A hundred and fifty thousand hair ties is what I pull up. I pulled up an entire ball and I'm talking like a ball that was like six inches big of hair ties hair ties i was going to say hair and you were right it was adjacent your hair is everywhere remember that dashboard conventional song your hair is everywhere yeah hair is everywhere between astrid the girls and that fucking dog that hair is everywhere because of course we got to give blue a bath every 15 seconds because she's a mess too that dog we so i've decided people have written in people wrote in and they said hey listen go to the vet there are medications that can help with this and i responded to some of them listen i think we've been through the all of the medications but i certainly will go back to the vet and i'll have a conversation with them.
The dog is on Prozac, doggy Prozac, low dose Prozac. And we have it on a pharmacy, like an automated online pharmacy that sends it.
So the other day, I go to give Blue her medication like I do every night and there's no more medication. So I tell Astrid, I said, hey, you know, there's no more medicine.
She's like, oh, no, we buy it from the pharmacy. I'm like, listen, it's not there.
Astrid goes and does a little investigation to find out that the online pharmacy and many pharmacies locally are out of Prozac. There's a Prozac shortage.
Remember how all the prices were going to go down and everything was going to be available for us? The eggs are $5,000 a dozen, and there's no more Prozac for my dog. So things are going really well.
So no more Prozac for the dog. So I say, okay, this is it.
This is the jumping off point. Let's take blue off of Prozac, right? Yeah, let's go cold turkey.
Let's go cold turkey, which I know can be dangerous. I understand we're keeping a close eye on blue.
And here's how I know things are not going so well for blue. Because every third step in this house, I am stepping and pee.
Blue is peeing, literally walking and peeing around the house. And I am absolutely done with it.
I don't know what to do anymore. I'm throwing my hands in the air.
I'm making a plea to the gods. Please find me a solution to the craziness that is Blue.
I can't do it anymore. I know what to do there is doggy xanax but that makes me feel a little bit bad like i know prozac also has an effect on her brain but prozac is like an antidepressant xanax is a depressant on your brain yeah maybe you need xanax yeah i think that might be the i think that might be the solution zanax i'll take the zanax and we'll let her continue to be crazy maybe i'm the one who needs to chill out i am irritated so much by all the barking but now now chrissy is irritated by the barking too tina's only been here for two days and she's already irritated by blue even noemi who is like the most calm, kind, gentle person you have ever met in your entire life.

Like when I say sweet lady, I mean sweet lady. She came to me last week and she goes, but I don't know about Blue.
I heard her say that. I think there's something really wrong with her.
And I'm like, oh, you just noticed? You've been with us for eight years and you're just noticing now that something's wrong with blue and she's like no but seriously i really feel bad because she's really crazy and i'm like i know that's her on prozac that is her on medication what do we do i don't know i mean i throw my hands up in the air at this point i have no idea what to do. There's an imbalance somewhere.

Yeah, Chrissy, there's an imbalance.

I grew up with a dog exactly like that, and it will. It will drive you insane.
And there's, you know, it's the dog, and you love the dog. Of course.
So, you know, you want to help the dog. The dog seems agitated.
The dog seems anxious. Anxious, yes.
Extraordinarily anxious. and anytime there's any movement of any kind,

any talking of any kind,

any anticipation that food might be coming, anything, anything a dog would normally not get so upset about, she just goes on a barking spree or she twists and turns or she jumps on the couch or she runs out in the mud or she shits on the floor. It's like she is so anxious.

And so we use these pads around the house because, of course,

Blue is so crazy that she won't even go outside to go to the bathroom.

I mean, sometimes she does.

But we tried to housebreak her.

And I know that small dogs are hard to housebreak.

I also understand that that's just part of the nature of having a small dog.

So we put these pads around the house.

Sometimes we'll go through 15 in a day. In a day.
In a day. A day! We don't even go through that many diapers in a day.
It's insane. How do you go through, how do you pee 15 times in a day? And so then I thought, oh, you know, sometimes we think, oh, maybe she has a urinary tract infection.
Yeah, we've gone down that road before too. Yeah, we've gone down that road before too.
Nope, no urinary tract infection. It's just a function.
It's just a, like, the causation must be anxiety. It must be some form of anxiety.
So what do we do? I don't know. I don't know anymore.
I officially throw my hands up in the air to the gods and I say,

let what happened may happen.

I'm going to leave the front door open and hope that nothing bad.

I still think you need to investigate the Xanax part,

the doggy Xanax.

They've got to have it.

They do.

Yeah, they do.

And it's a controlled substance and it's a big deal to get it from.

The doctor told me a long time ago when she,

when he put her on Prozac,

he said, listen, this is one step before we have to get into like super controlled substances like Xanax. And he goes, that is certainly a solution.
But just understand that is a depressant. It is going to change the dog's personality, no doubt about it.
But I think you might be right at this point. It's either the humans or the dog.
One of us has got to be sane. One of us has got to be calm and sane.
Like I went and meditated today for the first time in, I don't know, three months. I felt so good after I got back.
I come in, I pull up to the house. I'm happy, go lucky.
I'm listening to our podcast and I'm like, yeah, we can be funny at times. I'm so excited about life in general.
Yeah, we can be funny at times. Yeah, hey, we are funny sometimes.
I'm feeling kind of optimistic about life, you know. Ah, yeah, maybe eventually we will have listeners.
I feel good about myself. I'm like, it's not so bad.
700 episodes in, we can crack a few jokes. We're getting the hang of this.
I know how it goes. And then I open the door and I'm met with chaos, absolute chaos.
And there's nobody home but me. It's just me and Blue barking incessantly at me about what I don't know.
I'm like, Blue, what? What do you want? What's going on? What's in your head? The other day, she was in here and she was laying down and she was being so sweet and so calm. Yeah, she can be.
As she can be. And so I got down on the floor and I pleaded with her.
I said, Blue, I love you. You know I love you.
I brought you home in my little arms. You tiny little thing fit in one hand.
You didn't speak for the first 10 days that we owned you. I did not hear a peep out of that dog.
Not one thing. And I said, can we just agree to be friends and to be quiet? Like, I'll be quiet if you could be quiet.
I will stop yelling at you if you stop yelling at me. Not but two minutes later, she walked out of the room after we had this little moment.
After you had the moment. After I had a moment.
I have a Disney moment. I'm not projecting a human personality onto this dog.
I know. And so I go, oh, well, yeah, you know, I felt good about that.

I was like, okay, you know, Blue knows I love her.

She heard me.

I walk out of the room.

I smell shit.

She's shit in the hallway.

She's shit in the hallway.

We had a conversation.

Oh, my God.

She went and shit in the hallway.

She was like, fuck you, dude. Fuck you.
Fuck you. Fuck you, Brian.
What are we going to do? Life is chaotic. I'll show you what good friends we are.
I can't watch TV. Everything's just chaotic right now.
The whole situation is chaotic. But anyway, because she gets so messy, we often have to give her baths too.
There's a lot of baths. And while she doesn't shed, she's a Yorkie, so she doesn't shed.
If you put her into a bath, hair will fall off of her. She gets that winter coat.
That winter coat. But now she's shedding because it's 75 degrees in Atlanta.
Two hey listen after it snows fake spring is here and it's in full effect i was talking to somebody else about this i mean weather is the lowest form of conversation but we got seven hours to fill this week so let's give ourselves a break uh well you know i was talking to somebody who was in philadelphia i think Boston or Philadelphia, and I was emailing with them. And they were explaining to me that it was a balmy 36 degrees up there after they had experienced incredibly cold temperatures for a long time.
So he was sharing with me that it's not that bad. Like 36 feels pretty good.
And I walked outside with a short-sleeved shirt on. I could have been wearing shorts.
One of my kids went to school in shorts the other day. It's fucking February 3rd.
I mean, or it was February 3rd. What's that? It's that warm.
It's that warm. We call this fake spring in Atlanta, and it'll happen probably two or three weeks before we get to April.
We'll have fake spring where it gets really warm. It feels good.
You can almost smell the flowers blooming, you know? Well, I know they start to bud. Yeah, they start to bud.
You get that smell. Like the grass starts to wake up a little bit.
So you get that springy smell. And it feels really good.
You start to think about which beach you're going to go to. Exactly.
Planting a garden. You get fever.
Brian's skin starts to turn darker instantaneously. I'm like, ah, I could get in.
I don't have to go to the tanning bed. I can just stand out here.
I'm feeling good. I look at that pool, which is incredibly clean because I'm not the one cleaning it.
I look at that pool and I go, ah, a few more weeks, we'll be out in that pool. And then next week, negative two.
It's going to be negative two. Two more snow days before it's all over.
But it is really, this is what I enjoy about Atlanta. Some people like to say, they say, hey, listen, you don't like the weather.
Wait a couple of hours and it'll change. It's an old joke.
And they say it about San Francisco. They say it about Seattle.
They say it about almost anywhere that you can say that because the weather is unpredictable by nature. Not even the weathermen get it right.
So it's unpredictable by nature. But in Atlanta, it really is true that at this time of year, like during that, like the hardcore winter, winter swings in Atlanta.
And when it swings in the warm direction, it feels really nice. It's some of the best weather that Atlanta has.
I know. Our fake spring.
Yeah. Everybody gets giddy.
The tops are down. I went to the park the other day, sat under a tree, read a book.
You did? Yes. Who are you? With the sun shining down on me.
God, you have so much time on your hands. Fuck you.
That was my little meditation moment. Okay.
All right. Fuck you.
You have too much time on your hands. I can't even think about going to a park and reading a book.
I'm meditating and I'm doing it quickly so I can get back to my children. You know what I'm saying? Quick.
Quick. Meditate.
Quick. Think of nothing.
Clear your mind. Be still.
Quick. It is what it is.
Yeah. Quick.
Hold space for that. Hold space for yourself.
Quick.

I'm thinking about it quickly.

I'm thinking about nothing quickly because I know I got something else to do.

That's the problem with having kids is there's never not something to do.

There's never an empty space.

There's never a dead moment.

It's always filled by some activity. So when you do get a chance to do things like go meditate, you really do have a stack of things behind your mind.
It's like, which bill didn't I pay? What time am I to pick the kids up from school? Who's going to be sick tomorrow? Where did blue shit in the house, which I know I'm going to come home to. But I do agree with you.
It is one of the nicer weeks that we've seen in Atlanta. I know.
In a long time. It was very cold.
Yeah, I just, I've said this a lot. I just don't care for the cold weather.
I did my time. I put it, I served my time in Chicago for the first 12 years of my life.
And 12 winters in Chicago is enough for anybody. I'm done with it.
I didn't grow up in the cold, and I'm good with not being in it either.

Yeah, I took to the warm weather

like a person who had been born in Florida, honestly.

Yeah.

I wish I could live in Florida,

but it's not a great state to live in.

And that's that.

I'll be here all week.

Catch us at the Daniel Point Improv tomorrow oh whatever happened to that I don't know just another idea we wrote it in the notebook we wrote it in the notebook and that's what happened more information to follow in the fall in the fall somebody wrote it the other day when are you coming down to Florida? And I said, for vacation? Because I'm not going for those live shows. Okay, I'll give an explanation.
While we have just a minute here, I'll give an explanation. We have chosen to press pause on the live shows just for right now.
It was a lot when we were planning to do the other shows. And because I don't need to get into like, I don't want to get into everything.
I had my surgery. I'm feeling better.
And I think it's okay just to take a beat here for a second and not go back into a ton of stress and extra work. We just got done with the 38 days of TCB.
We're planning the next 38 days of TCB. Yeah.
And yeah, more information on that. It's our fifth year anniversary.
There's a lot going on and it doesn't feel like it's a good idea to throw additional live shows on top of that. Though we are planning them, we're not going to do them in spring.
So that's what if you're looking for that conversation there it is we are not going to do them in spring um we told the promoter we're just going to press pause take a beat regroup and we'll get back to him in 2027 2027 dania point 2027 if our democracy is still around when you know, we're functioning as a society, Chrissy and I will think about Daniel Point in 2027.

All right.

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Last we left off with my conversation about the wedding in Spain, I think I was walking my child through an incredibly rainy night. Remember, I told you that we went to this.
So for those of you that don't know, I ended up going to a family, Astrid's family wedding in Spain, which was just incredible. Like the whole scene was incredible.
It was in Sevilla. So it was in the South of Spain, in the Southwest of Spain.
Like literally you can take a boat over to Africa from close to Sevilla, right? So we go to this, I would call it a rehearsal dinner. I don't think it was really the rehearsal dinner, more like a rehearsal party.
And it was in this huge facility sitting on the main river that runs through town. This huge event, facility, restaurant, whatever had been cleared out.
Absolutely beautiful. So the kids were just having a great time as kids do in situations like this.
It's way past their bedtime. We're in a completely different time zone.
Kids are running all over the place and there's lots of kids. And my kids were just tearing up the place.
I mean, literally running from one end to the other, driving themselves insane. But the baby, the youngest of them is just a baby.
That's what she is. She's less than two years old.
She has a schedule. That schedule has now been all kind of confucked.
We've had a long plane flight. We've had a long drive from Madrid.
It's a whole thing in a small car. You know, there's nothing big in Spain.
There's nothing, there's no vehicle that's big in Spain. No.
So to get as many kids as I have. Yes.
And then I had to park. In a tunnel.
I had to park in a tunnel, but I didn't park in that tunnel. The guy who owned the parking lot, it's like a family owned business.
In Sevilla, if you have ever been, when I say cobblestone streets, I mean cobblestone streets. And when I say built for horses, I mean one horse, the body length of the body width of one horse.
These buildings are so close to each other, but yet cab drivers go up those streets all the time. The local cab drivers.
You know the difference between a local cab driver and a tourist in Sevilla? The tourists get stuck in between two houses and the cab drivers skillfully maneuver around. They know which way the streets go.
They know which streets they can go up and down. Sure, yeah.
We stayed at an Airbnb, like a rent-a-condo, right? Which was absolutely beautiful, right downtown, courtyard in the middle, just a lovely place. We rented a couple of these for some of the family members.
But it was in a Y, like a street that was a Y. It was two streets that came together, and then two streets went apart.
The building building was in the middle those streets were so thin that on four not one four different occasions i had to look out the window because i heard the sound of it's like out of the european vacation movie oh chrissy it was crazy there were there was this one lady and i don't know uh we didn't talk to her, so I have no idea where she was from. But she was driving like a Volkswagen something, and she was scraping both sides of her car along the brick of the buildings, and she just kept going.
She was just determined. You're in it now.
The crazy thing is, she opened her window to pull in the mirror. She was doing tens of thousands of dollars of damage to the side of the car, but she had to make sure that the mirror didn't get messed up.
Didn't the car that you rent too have a scrape on it? Oh, this car, yes. I had to take 50 pictures because when I rented the car, it was a whole thing.
I already told the story, but when I rented the car, it didn't work and we needed a bigger car and the girl got the bigger car and she was so sweet about it. But then when she pulled the car up, I got out of the car to put one of my children in the car and noticed on the passenger side, there was a scrape.
I don't mean a scrape. I mean a scratch, probably six inches high along the entire side of the car.
And now I know why, because they were in Sevilla trying to navigate around apartment buildings. And in Spain, if you have a scratch that is bigger than a nickel, you will be charged for the damage, period, and descent.
It's not like here in America, you can get scrapes. I think you can total a car here in America.
And as long as you opted for insurance, they don't give a shit. It's just part of the game here.
But there they take it very seriously. They have rulers.
They will come out and measure to see how big the scratch is. I know because my first time in Spain, I got charged like $3,000 for scrapes on the car that I didn't realize were there and probably were there when i rented the car but i had no i you know in america you don't think about anything like that you get in the car and you go yeah don't fucking worry about scrapes and all that shit the car is scraped you just make you just take it for granted that the car is fucked up and if you fuck it up more it's not really going to matter to the guy at the lot anyway when i get to seville we had uh pre-arranged parking astrid smartly pre prearranged parking two blocks from the condo.
So, of course, I got to lug all the luggage up this hill on cobblestone streets. But when I pulled into that parking lot, it was down underneath a building in a tunnel.
And when I say a tunnel, I mean, think of like, picture Gladiator the movie, where they keep the fighters. Yeah, they keep the tigers waiting.
waiting yes that's what it looked like and honestly it's probably worse but this was a family owned place how do we know that because we talked to the owner the second that i pull into this tiny little place there's like 50 cars in this basement i don't see any place to park and even if i did see a place to park, I wasn't going to be the one. I already knew that I could not maneuver around this parking lot.
I understood it. And so did the guy who owned the parking lot.
Because when I pulled in, he got out, he got out of his little cubby, and he came around and gave me this number. And he said, I'll do it in English, because he knew I was a gringo.
He already knew. He said, I'll do it for you.
I said, thanks, man, because I have no fucking clue. So we go to this rehearsal dinner.
Everybody's getting kind of tired. Everything's wrapping up and some people are going to go off and they're going to party, but not me because we have kids and they got to get to sleep.
And I'm not going to take these kids out to a club. It doesn't matter where they are.
The kids are an excuse for me to go home and be in my underwear. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm going to go back to that condo and I'm going to watch the rest of Shogun or whatever I'm watching.
Yes. So everyone's standing in a taxi line waiting for the cabs outside this place and it's starting to drizzle just a little bit, just a little drizzle.
I look at the weather. I see that, you know, it's just a little passing rain shower.
There's some rain behind it, but it's just a passing rain shower. And I say, don't, there's like, everybody's getting into these Ubers and these taxi cabs, but there they don't have like children's seats.
They don't have child seats and you don't put them on your lap or whatever. Even though there's some laws around it, when you have an Uber or cab, you don't necessarily need to do that.
astrid's like oh i'll take these kids you take that because you take the baby i'll take the baby whatever i said you know what it's only a 15 20 minute walk i'm just gonna walk yeah just let me walk on the way home i'll pick up some food uh at a local mercado how's that for your spanish right there stick that in your fucking wagnalls and so i say let me go just i'll just take the kid on a walk. It's the middle of the night.
It's drizzling. I really have no idea where I am.
The cobblestone streets are really confusing. I have to go over this bridge over the river.
And so the first thing I do, I start walking. I take a left.
I'm going over this very large bridge. A lot of people out walking.
And within five minutes of starting that walk it starts to pour the sky opens up and now i'm pushing a one and a half year old in the middle of the night in sevilla spain it's a little chilly and now it's pouring down rain and brian is ultra prepared because i have no umbrella and the stroller has no cover on great so i and you're going over the cobblestone streets wearing a three-piece suit i'm wearing a fucking suit so in nice shoes like now i'm like fuck and in in there's aster drives by bb exactly exactly no really aster is texting me she's like are you sure you don't want us to come pick you up but brian because brian refuses to be wrong about anything it's like nope it'll pass i'm just gonna stop in that grocery store and stay there well my baby and i stop in that grocery store to which everybody in the grocery store looks at me like i'm a fucking moron i got a child in a stroller everything is so. There's literally a puddle in the stroller.
The baby is swimming in the stroller now. Brian is dripping down wet, full suit on.
So what do I do? I take off my jacket and I put it over the child's head. So now I've covered my little baby with a jacket in the store.
Yes, the wet jacket in the store. The baby's crying because now she's got a jacket over her head.
She can't see what's going on. I'm standing at the front of the store.
Why did you put the jacket over her head? I don't know. I thought, eh, I don't want anybody to see her wet.
I want to stay myself. I have video of this.
I swear to God it's true. I have the jacket over.
Well, I thought, I'm going to make a run. I look on the weather app.
I can see. It doesn't look like there's much rain, but it's pouring down rain.
So there's like five or six of us that are standing in the store, in the opening of the store, you know, just waiting. And so one of the ladies at the store comes over with a towel.
It's like, do you want this for your baby? And I go, yeah, sure. I take the jacket.
I thought she meant to put it over her head. So I took the jacket off and threw the towel over her.
You just replaced the towel with the jacket? Yes. And the lady is like, no, no.
And she starts wiping. Wiping.
Yeah, she starts wetting. She starts drying the baby off.
And I was like, oh, yeah, okay. Or I could do that.
Yes, for sure. So I'm standing there.
It's pouring down rain. Five minutes goes by.
Ten minutes goes by. And now, by the way, now I'm in a square.
Like, you know, a square. There are no cars around because we're in a square.
It's a pedestrian square me and these people are just standing there and there is a um i'm drenched i'm drenched i'm cold i'm shivering the baby is like looking at me she's like what are we doing and i go i don't know i'm sorry kid i got you in this i'll get you out of it somehow so uh it's it somehow. So there's a guy.
I'm assuming he was Chinese. He was standing next to me.
And he starts speaking to me in like broken Spanish, right? And I start speaking to him in broken Spanish. And he says, I think he's saying to me, where are you going? I have an umbrella.
I can help you get where you're going. Okay.
That was nice. Yeah, it was very nice.
And I said, sure, I'm going, you know, North Day. I'm going North.
I'm going up this way. I don't know where I'm going.
Yeah, I really don't, by the way. And when you're in Sevilla, Google Maps cannot be counted on.
Not when you're walking. It's too difficult.
No, no, it is. It already took us three hours to find the parking lot because Google Maps couldn't tell us.
We had to keep on going down one-way streets. We couldn't figure out how to get there.
So I say to the guy, I say, yeah, yeah, I'm going this way. I kind of point.
I'm going north. I'm going norte.
And he says, okay, you know, me too is what he said to me. At least that's what I thought he said to me.
So he pops open his umbrella and i and we're like vamos all right let's go and he's like holding the umbrella over himself and over the baby and i'm pushing from behind and as soon as we get out of the store he turns right and i turn left he goes walking down the other i was like uh bye thanks thanks for walking me out

i'm back in it now i'm back in it and now i'm committed so back to the coat i throw it over the baby and now i'm running through the square on the cobblestone that poor baby is just like Shaken and stirred.

Breezing cold.

Sopping wet.

Everything's wet.

I can feel my socks are squishy.

Squish, squish, squish. cobblestone that poor baby is just like shaken and stirred freezing cold sopping wet everything's wet my i can feel my stocks are squishy oh yeah we get up through the square we get about halfway home and i'm like okay all right i submit i submit i surrender so i flag down a taxi cab and the guy goes where are you going and I give him the address and he goes I'm sorry I can't drive up there because the streets are so small and I'm like well alright so I look at my baby and I said we're in it now kid we gotta go in for a penny in Here we go.
It took us another 20 minutes to get home. It did not stop raining.
Get back to the house. It did not stop raining the entire time.
By the way, we stopped for groceries at the store that was very close. Very small store.
And I just brought in this sopping wet stroller. I'm sopping wet.
I'm making a mess through the entire store. I'm buying some bread and some mead and, you know, some stuff for the kids to have for breakfast.
And I go to put it under the stroller. It's got like one of those, you know, carriers under the stroller, like every stroller does.
I go to put it in the stroller, and it is just a pool of water. I kind of like kick the water out.
The bread is sopping wet by the time we get home. Oh, that poor baby.
I put her right in a warm bath. So the next night is the next day is the wedding.
The wedding is in the main cathedral in downtown Sevilla, which is it's a famous cathedral. World famous cathedral.
People just, they go to Sevilla just to see the cathedral. It really is beautiful.
It's huge. It is like something out of a movie.
That's the way it is a lot of places in Europe. A lot of places have very beautiful churches.
Yeah, it's a place that, the first time I ever went to Spain, my future in-laws at that time, they, and my mother-in-laws, or my, excuse me, my father-in-law's sister and her husband, they took us on like a 10-day journey around Spain and into the Pyrenees Mountains. And that's where I was at the ski chalet playing, you know, Home Sweet Home.
Yes. But when they did, we went and we stayed at decommissioned castles that were sold to a private hotel company in a public-private partnership with the government, and the hotel company made these castles into hotels.
There's so many castles, and so many of them were in bad shape because they didn't get taken care of because the families had long since left them. They don't live there anymore.
All the taxes. Yeah, the taxes.
The upkeep. Yeah, all the upkeep and stuff like that.
So this is a really good idea that the Spanish government had, and I think it's done throughout Europe now, but we stayed at this series. But anyway, every town that we went to, small and large, almost without fail, we went to a cathedral in every one of those towns.
And this would normally, if you told me 10 years ago, Brian, you're going to go to Spain. You're going to take a tour of the cathedrals.

I would have been like, the fuck are you talking about?

I don't care about the cathedrals.

You care about the cathedrals when you get there.

They're very beautiful.

They're beautiful.

The art in them.

The history.

Yeah, and the history.

Forget the religion and all the bad stuff that religion has done.

They're just beautiful places.

And they're older than dirt.

I mean, some of them.

So this cathedral is huge.

Very famous.

I want you to

picture three football fields by three football fields. This is how big this cathedral complex is.
And the inside of the cathedral is almost just as big. But the main cathedral is like, you know, 100 feet in the air, stained glass windows, light coming in.
It's just, it's something out of a novel.

It's unbelievably amazing.

But then they have a street trolley that rides outside one side of the cathedral, the main entrance. There's a street trolley that goes up and down with a road, like the main road through the middle of Sevilla.
So, we get to the cathedral. Some of my children are going to participate in the wedding.
I am really hoping they're going to be on their best behavior. I am hoping this is not the reason that everybody talks about my, you know, I'm hoping they're young.
So I'm just praying. It's a wild card.
It's a wild card. Are they going to behave? Are they going to make noise? Am I going to get them to sit still? Is this baby going to be quiet? You know, I don't know.
Well, the answer was no. The baby was not going to be quiet.
The baby went apeshit the second that we got there. So rather than interrupt everybody's very beautiful wedding, which it was, I, as soon as the bride walked down, I took the baby.
I went outside. I put her in the wet stroller, and we walked around the cathedral.
That's what we did for, like, the end part of the wedding. As the wedding is wrapping up and people are walking outside, I noticed that there's like a little bit of a crowd that's gathering outside of the main entrance.
There's like a, I don't know how to explain it. There's a door that the cathedral is raised off the streets.
So there's like five or six steps that you have to go down to get to the street level, where then there's this trolley that goes up and down. Yeah, I can picture that.
Okay. So, there's people coming outside.
They're waiting for the bride and groom. Bride and groom taking pictures, all that good stuff.
They're standing outside of the main entrance, and all of a sudden, all of these tourists are now taking pictures of everybody dressed to the nines in their three-piece suits and their beautiful dresses. And the kids that are coming, the flower girls and some of my kids, people are now starting to take photographs because this is becoming quite a picturesque scene.
It's the main cathedral. It's a beautiful place.
And now you have a wedding with everyone dressed to the nines right outside the front door. So people are taking pictures.
So I'm walking the baby back and forth on this elevated platform. This is probably a football field long.
Watching everybody come out. Watching a little bit of a crowd gather.
Watching more and more of a crowd gather. Watching more and more of a crowd gather.
By the time the bride and groom came out, there may have been 500 or 600 people standing in a big group outside down on the street level, taking pictures of everybody that was taking pictures for the wedding. The bride was beautiful.
The groom was beautiful. It was like something straight out of a television show, and everybody wanted to take a picture of it.
It got so congested with people that the traffic had to stop and the trolley had to stop. The trolley in town, the train in town had to stop because people were so excited about someone coming out that had just gotten married in this cathedral that the entire town had to stop.
It was so... That's wild.
Such a big deal that the local news stations showed up at some point, and this was on the news the very next morning. It was crazy to me, like how, you know, kind of cool and, you know, exciting that everybody got about this.
So, okay, so we take some pictures, you know, we're kind of like extended family members. So, you know how you are when you're an extended family member.
You're not really that important. They invited you because, you know, they like you.
Yeah, they want you there to celebrate. But not in the pictures.
Well, they did take a couple pictures with us. No, I know, but not the main ones.
I know my place. I'm not like inner circle, inner circle.
I'm just like a kind of a moron. I'm just a gringo that's married to someone they care about, right? So they take a sympathy picture.
It'll never be in the wedding album, but it's there. They'll send it to you digitally and let you know that you were part of the wedding.
After all the pictures are done, the bride's father says, okay, everybody, we're going to the next place. By the way, the wedding is at 3 p.m.
It's now 4 or 4.30 p.m. There's going to be cocktails served at 5 p.m.
And then there's going to be dinner at 7 p.m., right? This is an all-day affair. This is a Venezuelan wedding.
There's going to be no stop to it. We are in part one of the seven-part wedding.
And I understand I'm in for the long day. So he says, we're moving on to the next place.
Follow me. And I thought to myself, oh, great.
We're just going to walk to wherever the reception is. That sounds wonderful.
And it's not raining. And it's not raining.
Beautiful day. Sunny.
I was dry. I had managed to get my shoes polished.
The baby did not catch pneumonia as I assumed that she would. So he says, follow me and I'm a following.
I'm like, all right, here we go. We're going to get some food.
We're going to get some drink. I'm going to get these kids squared away.
And, you know, we're going to have a fun night tonight. But that wasn't the way it all went down.
No, it was not to be. And I'll explain why after we get back from these messages, because of course,

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Make the switch to Boca for the whole family at BOKA.com. Yeah, so I made the assumption that we were just going to walk to like a local like restaurant or facility.
Right. I didn't, I didn't really know what the situation was.
I hadn't been told previously what we were going to do. You're just following along.
Yeah. But now, you know, after the chilly rainy night, the night before now it is 80 degrees.
I'm wearing a full suit. Kids are in their dresses and they're full suits.
Astrid's in her nice dress. And now we have to take a mile long walk, not to the facility, but to catch buses that take us to the facility.
This was, now listen, no complaining here. I understand that, you know, these buses couldn't pull into, if these buses had pulled into town, it really would have caused a commotion.
Yeah. Because these were, like, full-on tour buses, is what they were.
Not that tour buses like the bands have, but, you know, tour buses like you see on the road. Yeah, like you're going on a tour.
Yeah, like a Greyhound bus, but, you know, nice ones. Greyhound bus without the crackheads.
You know what I'm saying. So, we have to walk this mile to get to this street corner.
Then we have have to pass over this incredibly busy street then we all have to fit into these tour buses that then are going to take us to this location i have no idea where we're going i mean sevilla is a big town but it's not like the world it's not madrid it's not barcelona so i'm thinking to myself well if if we have to get we're right here in the middle of town if we have to get on a bus bus, where exactly are we going? So we stuff everybody in the bus, all the kids, you know, babies, nap times, and the baby's going crazy. You know, everyone's going crazy.
And we're on these buses. And as soon as, so I say to the kids before we leave the church, I say, you got to go pee? No.
You sure you don't want to go pee-pee? No. We got to walk.

No.

Okay.

I'm just telling you, there's not going to be a place to go pee-pee for a little while here.

We're going to have to walk somewhere.

So if you guys got to go pee-pee, let's go in the church.

Let's go right now.

No.

No.

No.

The second we get in that bus, the second those doors close, one of my daughters, who is notorious for that, Danny, Danny, yes, and I already know, I already know by the way she's saying it, Daddy, you gotta go pee-pee. You gotta go what? I didn't hear you.
Pee-pee. No, no, what? Pee-pee.
I gotta go pee-pee. I know.
I told you to go pee-pee before we left the church. Why didn't you go pee-pee when we'd go to the church? I didn't have to go then.
You didn't have to go three minutes ago. Now you have to go now.
I have to go now. Do you have pee-pee on the bus? No, they don't have pee-pee on the bus.
They don't have pee-pee on a bus, babe. There's nothing you can do.
Now you got to wait. Now we're in it.
I don't know. We could be gone for hours.
I don't know. I told you to go before we go.
So now I'm concerned that one of my daughters is going to have an accident. I think we have a change of clothes, but I think it's under the bus.
You know what I'm saying? So I'm worried now there's going to be dribble all over the bus, and I'm going to be responsible. By the way, I just want to let you know this.
Let me share this little piece of information and connect some TCB history with you. The same father of the bride.
The father of the bride is the same man who this child spilled grape juice all over his yacht. In Miami? In Miami.
So now I'm like, holy shit. Here we go again.
She's about to ruin more fabric. This is all going down.
I'm now going to be responsible for yet another vehicle. You're sweating even more.
Oh my God. Chrissy, I'm profusely sweating i'm a sweater i'm sweaty

i'm a spritzer yes i'm spritzing but not only that but now i'm like holding the baby trying

to get her to take a nap because if she doesn't take a nap the whole world's gonna fall apart

and i'm like please take a nap please take a nap well yes oh rock my baby on the tree

sweat is pouring down she's wet again it's raining again she's sweating again and all

I'm like, Oh, and she's looking at me and she's like, really sweet relief. And I'm like, Oh no.
Oh no. Cause I know she's not going to go to sleep with a shitty diaper i just know my daughter she's not going to sleep with a shitty diaper so i got a daughter that's doing the pee pee dance in the seat next to me i got my seven foot tall daughter in my arms legs sticking out in the aisle full of shit and i'm like oh god why me why me why can't i have a normal life why can't i be like all these other people on the bus that are drinking and having fun no not me i got a handful of shit celebration party bus yeah party bus exactly it's not a party bus for too long it's pretty soon i think people people around are like you know, you can say it's the baby,

but that's like blaming your fart on the dog.

It was the dog.

Yeah, sure.

Okay, got it.

Brian pee-pee-boo-boo?

Does Brian have to go pee-pee-boo-boo?

It's the baby.

Okay, all right.

That baby looks a little big to be wearing diapers. She's just big.'t know what to tell you she got it from her mother it takes us about 30 minutes to get to this 20 minutes 20 25 minutes to get to this to this facility we end up in like a residential area and i'm quite confused about what's going on and there's like this big big bush, like, you know, these huge bushes around this gate and, you know, you can't see anything.
But all I see is like apartment buildings and houses around. I'm thinking to myself, where are we going? I guess we're going to a house, like somebody's house.
And we walk through, you know, everybody's getting off the bus. Now I'm quickly getting off the bus because I got problems.
Yes, you do. Yes.
And you walk into this place and it is ivy covered walls and like a flower canopy, a beautiful sign with a waterfall. You have to walk through this little bit of a maze to get where you're going, but it's just stunning.
Stunning. You know from walking in the front gate that none of this was cheap.
None of this was cheap. This is whatever we're about to see is going to be beautiful.
And it was. It was a huge open courtyard with these big tents that have tables under them.
Gorgeous. It is two buildings, two older buildings.
One of them just an event facility, just a big glass-walled event facility. Inside, there's tables.
There's a van that's set up. There is a chocolate fountain.
I mean, there's food everywhere, drinks everywhere. To the nines.
It is opulent. The entire thing is opulent.
They have chandeliers in the tents. When you have chandeliers in the tents, I mean, beautiful.
This wedding was so beautifully done, so beautifully appointed, and I'm sure that the bride had a lot to do with this, and I congratulate the bride's father on just letting that Amex run. Because it could not have been cheap, but they treated everybody so well.
It was so tastefully done. And so we walk into the party, after I get everyone situated, after I get all the bathroom checks and all that other shit done, literally other shit done, we go and we walk into the event facility part of this.
Now there's another building next door. It looks like an old house.
You have to walk up like 10 steps and then it looks like an old house, but no one's going there. We're all going to the place next door that's got this big event facility.
The courtyard connects the two with all the tents. So we go into the event facility and we are just being served food after food, drink after drink.
I don't, I can't even tell you how much food we had. People were passing around plates of all different kinds of beautiful Spanish foods, like local cuisine.
It was all so good. Oh my God.
It was delicious. Iberico, ham, tecanyos, cheese plates, oysters, all, I mean, all of it, it everything anything you could ever want and the

kids this is just like astrid just did this so right she got together with some of the other moms in the group and they hired a group of babysitters so as soon as we got yeah oh it was a pro move as soon as we got there the kids were like literally whisked away to go play in color and play games.

Oh, that's key.

Yeah.

So Astrid and I had like

at least 15 minutes of adult time. Right.
We were like so happy. We partied.
The band was playing. Everybody's dancing.
You know, the bride is dancing with everybody. It was really wonderful.
I was really happy. I was having a good time.
We sat down for dinner. It was a multi-course dinner.
It was beautiful. It was lovely.
I forgot what I had. I think I had steak.
It was just delicious. And then after dinner, so now we're like, we're probably like four hours into the reception part after dinner is done.
Oh, and by the way, the dessert was epic. It was so delicious.
I asked for seconds. I didn't know some of the people at the table.
I stole their dessert when they didn't have it. I said, can I have that? I'm fat and old.
I'm American. We're not used to these sizes.
I need my belly full. I had a long, wet night last night.
Can you help me out? So after all of the dinner festivities are done, they ask everybody to go stand on the stairs to take a picture, stand on the stairs of this house to take a picture.

It's this huge stairwell.

I'm talking like 10, 15 steps up into this house.

And everybody, the entire wedding party,

everybody who's there goes and stands on those steps.

And so they have a photographer.

The photographer looks like she's about to take a picture.

And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Chrissy, a horse, like a huge horse with the braided hair, a Spanish horse, with the braided hair or Arabian horse, whatever you call them. Black, white? It was brown.
It was like beige almost with dark hooves and dark hair. The hair was braided.
The tail was braided.

There was a saddle on it.

There was a guy dressed like one of the three amigos.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Like full.

With the gear.

Yes.

Full Spanish regalia.

And that horse comes out and starts dancing flamenco.

Not the guy.

The horse.

The horse is dancing flamenco. And the guy is on top of him like...
Music's playing. There's like a speaker playing music.
And the horse is up on two legs dancing around. Clapping and clocking around.
And he's making the horse dance on two feet.

And I'm like, what?

And where in the fuck did I just get dropped?

What happened here?

We were at a wedding and now we're at a horse dancing?

What happened here?

But that wasn't the best part of it.

The best part of it was behind the horse,

after the horse comes out with the guy on top and does a little number, a lady comes out in her full flamenco. Oh, yeah.
And she starts dancing with the horse with the guy on top of it. So now there's this coordinated dance going on with the lady and the horse.
They're like dancing around each other. And she's got the fan and the clackers and the...
You know, she's doing's doing this whole number and she's like you know seducing the horse with her things and the horse is bowing to her and then up on two legs and then back down and the guy is you know he's got his hands in the air incredible chrissy it was the craziest thing i've ever seen in my entire life i mean i've seen a lot of animal tricks because you know i'm just that kind of sick fuck but i have never in my life seen a dancing horse like this it was crazy he's dancing and spinning and the guy is on top of him and i don't even know how the guy stayed on top of the horse and the lady is running around the horse and under his leg and you know she's bowing to him and he's bowing to her and this it's this whole regalia that's going on right in front of us and there's like. There's like two hundred of us just mesmerized by what is going on.
Of course, yes. This is like, I don't know whether or not this is like we're being pranked or if this is just one of the coolest things I've seen.
Is this traditional wedding fair in Spain? I don't know. Clearly, this is not the first time these people have done this.
So this act is somewhere else. Like somewhere else they've been practicing this.
You know what I'm saying? And I was stunned, amazed, quite frankly. This went on for like 15 minutes.
They did this whole dance and the guy jumped off the horse and he did a thing with the sombrero. Did they take the pictures? The pictures were taken.
Because the lady was taking the pictures and then all of a sudden the horse came out of nowhere. Then all of a sudden you hear galloping, like click, click, click, click, click.
Because it's cobblestone, you know, it's brick on the floor. So by the time the horse gets there, you already knew that something big was coming out.
And so the lady and the guy, and they take some pictures, and away they go. And then the second part of the party, now all of a sudden they're cleaning up all of the area around the tent and they're setting up bars outside coffee bar, they're bringing out an espresso machine, they've got a bar outside and now the house part comes to life there is a DJ inside the house, the house goes dark neon lights everywhere dancing lights and the And the last part of the party has officially started, which is let's get crunk.
Let's get crazy. I love this wedding so much.
This wedding was incredible. This wedding was incredible.
Now look, I'm a man of a certain age. I'm not old, but I'm not young.
I'm somewhere in between those two. And I understand that the people who are getting married are young.
They're young people and they're going to party the night away. I'm not going to be at a younger age or had I not had children, I might've been right in the mix.
Oh, you would have. Oh yeah, for sure.
I would have been that drunk idiot. I would have been the guy they talked about the morning after.
Who was that bald guy? The bald white guy. Throwing up on everybody's shoes and hitting on everybody.
On the bartender. Hey, did you get his number too? He gave me his number too.
Hey, listen, it's all about odds. You got to sign it up.
Keep your funnel full. Yeah, exactly.
At this point, the kids, like now we're talking it's 10, 10, maybe 11 o'clock at night. You're just getting going.
They're just getting going. But my kids have had no sleep.
The baby's still up. All the kids are still up.
And the babysitters have a clock out time, right? So we already knew that about 11 o'clock, we were going to either have to bring the kids. But surprisingly, the kids went in and they were partying.
You know, they do the Hora de Loca, which is the crazy hour in Venezuela. And so in the crazy hour, they bring out all kinds of like props and costumes.
And so they have, you know, balloons and toys and hats. Oh, you know, you went to my wedding, all this different stuff.
So the kids got in on the crazy hour and they went crazy, literally. So cute.
Yes. It was very adorable.
So now they're in there dancing and partying. I'm in there dancing and partying.
Everybody's in there dancing and partying. But about 1130, Astrid and I look at each other, and this is like the most difficult part about being a parent, I think.
You'll appreciate this. You want them to enjoy everything that's going on.
But you also understand that as the parents in the room, there are consequences to your actions. And the consequences will be that by the time we get them back to the condo, all hell will be breaking loose.
Because they will be tired, they will be hungry again, and they are going to be fussy. No doubt about it.
So when do you call a night a night? And Astrid and I have this debate all the time. Astrid airs on the side of, let them party.
Let them just party until they fall. And I'm of the mind that we have done that before, and it never works out in our favor.
Ever. Ever.
Keep them on schedule. Or as close to the schedule as possible.
Special events like this, of course, you got to let them party a little bit. You got to let them have some fun.
You want them to remember these good times. But if you don't get them to bed at some kind of reasonable, like before one in the morning, you are going to be, they're still going to wake up at five in the morning and six in the morning.
They're still going to be up. But we are going to suffer the consequences because they're going to be up and fussy and hungry and we're going to be tired and fussy and hungry.
So we look at each other and she said, what do you want to do? And I said, I think we got to call it a night. I think we got to call it a night.
And then we have this little back and forth like we always do. I feel bad because I feel like I'm stepping on the fun.
I feel like I'm being the fun sponge and that's not necessarily my personality. And so I, but what do you think? But what do you think? But what do you think? I think we should let him stay up.
Okay, but I'm just reminding you that last time we did that, we ended up with a dirty diaper against the wall, you know, and kids pulling our hair out. And so we do this little dance back and forth to which we decided 30 more minutes.
Let's give it 30 more minutes. 30 more.
That 30 minutes made all the difference in the world. The 30 minutes cause sheer terror in the household.
Sheer terror. Because those kids on the way home went fucking bananas.
I rode in the car with my son. Astrid took some of the other kids with her.
By the time we all got back to the condo everybody was screaming bloody murder everybody was screaming bloody murder we were trying to get him into a bath they wouldn't go into the bed we're trying to get them to sleep they don't want to sleep we're trying to get them to you know get some food so their bellies are full nothing works out then and they still woke up at six in the morning that's the thing you gotta be be careful about keeping those kids up past the prescribed bedtime because you know that the pendulum is going to swing at some point and you better be a parent. It's the tough part about being a parent.
All right, listen, I'll talk more about this. That's my fluffy version of- Please invite me to the next Venezuelan wedding, please.
Yes, I do love a good Spanish wedding. I've got to go to the next one.
I think you might have an invite. You might have an invite.
Gustavo's wedding right around the corner. What are we going to do? Gustavo, Chrissy's angling for an invite to the wedding.
Hey, I gave you my seat, Gustavo. That's it.
And I do believe, I do believe, not to put any pressure on any situation. I do believe there is some conversation about doing that wedding in Spain.
So there you go. I'm going to start saving now.
Yeah, I know. That's the only thing.
It only costs $25,000 with a family of 12. What a story.
What a fun time. That's not the...
I don't have small kids. Yeah, you don't have small kids.
I'll be partying with everybody. Oh, yeah, you're going to be in there.
Oh, they would have loved you. They would have loved you.
Everybody loves you. You know how to party.
Yeah, and listen, that's not all the nitty gritty details. There's some stuff I'm not going to leave to the imagination.
I think there's some funnier stuff. But I really did have a good time.
And I don't want to seem ungrateful. It was a lot of fun.
A lot of fun. The hosts were wonderful.
We were taken care of every which way. And the place where we stayed was beautiful.
And Sevilla is gorgeous. Put it on the bucket list, kids.
Put it on the bucket list. Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Barcelona, Valencia, Mallorca.
There's my list. There you go.
Mallorca's number one. If Spain will have us.
If Spain will have us. I think Spain is one of the few places I haven't talked shit about, so there you go.
All right. 212-433-3TCB.
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I want to thank Rachel McGrath for being our new voice of God. Thank you for stepping in so quickly and helping us out with the liners.
I think we'll keep her. She's a keeper.
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