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There's a lot of scoop going on right now and people are not getting along. So guess what? Then after I Google several people, I go on Instagram and I Insta Snoop and I see who's following each other, who's not following each other.
Then I have a little breakfast and I eat it really quickly so that I can get back. So then I hit tools and I go, what did I miss in the last hour? And that's how I do it.
I keep up on everything. On this episode of the commercial break.
You know that plane, that old 70s. Oh yeah, that old TCB.
Let's get that thing out and send people to the Great Wolf Lodge just to talk about it. Hey, listen, this is not a bad idea.
Let's send a hillbilly horror stories, guys. Tripping with TCB.
Sending you to the Great Wolf Lodge. But you're not getting no rawr package.
You're going to be in a bunk bed. Depending on the level of influencer.
Depending on the level of influencer, you might or might not get a discount on the ropes course. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.
Kizzy and kittens Welcome back to the commercial break I'm Brian Green This is the Robbie Williams To my Graham Norton Kristen Joy Hoadley Best to you Chris Best to you Brian And best to you out there in the podcast universe You probably know neither of those names that I just mentioned Graham Norton or Robbie Williams You know Graham N you know graham norton um i've heard graham the very famous he's like our uh dave letterman over there in uh in the uk that's right and robbie williams of course the yes famous not so famous pop star signed one of the biggest recording contracts in history it seems like no one in america's ever heard of him because that movie that he did better Better Man, just failed miserably at the box offices, raking in $580,000 this last weekend, which is not a killer start to a movie. I saw the preview for that, actually, in a movie theater when I went to go see the Dylan movie.
Okay. And I was just kind of confused.
I'm all confused about why we need the monkey, but apparently the monkey was supposed to be the thing. Yeah, but it's supposed to be the thing that drew people in if they didn't know Robbie Williams.
It's like, oh, there's a monkey. Let's go see the monkey.
But I have no interest in seeing movies of monkeys. I didn't like Smokey and the Bandit, or what was that movie? The one that Burt Reynolds did with the monkey.
Do you remember that? Yeah, I don't think it was Smokey and the Bandit, though. Or at least not the first one.
Jim Jim and the

Bing Bang Boys.

There was a time in the 80s

when everybody had a chimpanzee in their movie.

They did. Yeah, it was like, we all went

Jim crazy. Until they started ripping people's

faces off. Yeah.
Yeah, Tatanka.

Tay in the wind.

Tay in the wind.

You remember that? Nell?

Nell. I do.
Tay in the wind. You remember that? No.
No. I do.
Tay in the wind. Yeah, that was Joey Foster.
But actually, Tatanka is from Dancing with Wolves, so I have my movies mixed up. But that's not unusual for me, so there you go.
Tatanka, it was the name of the buffalo in Dancing with Wolves. This monkey's name was just Tonka.
Okay. Well, I like to call him Tatanka, because that makes me feel better.
Okay. He was born in a peach tree dish.
Yes. Peach tree dish.
Here's the reason why I even got started on this. I was reading Rotten Tomatoes, best movies of 2024 as we head into the Oscar season here.
And yeah, don't know that I've seen any of these. These are the ones that Rotten Tomatoes picked out.
Enora, which is apparently one of the best movies ever made, according to some people. Wow.
This is the movie where the girl meets the Russian oligarch's kid, and they have one wild night, and they get married. I read about that.
And apparently, it's one of the funniest movies in the world, until the last 30 minutes, when it's one of the most heartbreaking movies in the world. Geez.
I don't know much more besides that. I do want to see it.
I would see it. Chasing Amy.
Have you seen Chasing Amy? I remember Chasing Amy, but I don't think I've seen it. This is the movie.
Okay. Okay.
Hundreds of Beavers. What is Hundreds of Beavers? I don't know.
Is it a National Geographic? A joyous movie theater experience. A live-action cartoon reminiscent of Looney Tunes and silent movie slapstick comedies about a drunken Applejack salesman at war with some beavers.
Oh, I did see the trailer for this. Yes, I do want to see this.
I do want to see this movie. Check out the trailer.
I think you'll probably want to see it too. What's an Applejack salesman? I don't know.
Sells Applejacks? You know, the cereal that everyone liked back in the 90s? I loved Applejacks. So good.
There's, now in the TV section, Mr. and Mrs.
Smith season one. I have to say, I just watched that.
Jeff and I just watched that this weekend. And...
I don't know why everybody's... I watched the first episode and I don't know why everybody's going so crazy over this television show.
Yeah, I mean, it was good. Sure.
But it wasn't... There were some parts of the story that kind of didn't congeal to me.
It's like Jack Ryan. Yeah.
Which I desperately want to be such a fantastic television show. And moments there are.
And I can finally believe that guy does something else besides The Office. Do you know what I'm saying? Krasinski? Yeah.
But it doesn't all come together in a way that I think is pleasing. And I thought Mrs.
and Mr. Smith was that way.
Same for me. Nosferatu, of course, is another one.
Oh, I want to see that. Speaking of people dating high school girls, isn't Nosferatu about an old vampire that comes and makes some young girl orgasmic or something like that? Like the actual story? I think it is.
And so that's a little weird. It is from 1922 or something.
The story is. Yeah, the erasome movie.
It's probably sus. Superman, the Christopher Reeve story was pointed out.
Oh, I wanted to say that. This is a movie you must watch.
And if you ugly cry, don't do it around ones you love. Because this is a movie that will make you ugly cry.
What a story. I watched this a couple weeks ago when we were on the break it's giving me chills just to think about it christopher reeve was by all accounts not only a very intelligent man uh but a very wrapped up in himself man who was worried about all outside appearances and a ladies man and a coswain and a guy who maybe didn't treat his first wife very well and they had a child.
And he just kind of was trying to, he was sorting his wild oats as a guy who was becoming very famous doing Superman. And also struggling with the fact that he was Superman and that he didn't feel like a Superman because he didn't feel like he was being a very good person, but everyone was looking at him like he was Superman.
Not to say he was a bad guy. He was just an actor.
He was an actor of great physical appearances. And he, by accounts of people who loved him and his own words, didn't really know what to make of it all and was really having a hard time with that.
Well, because he was like the first, right, to play? No, he wasn't the first to play Superman, but he was the first. Did they have them back in like the 50s? Yeah, they had them back in like the 50s.
Was that a movie? There was a movie and a television show, I think. Okay.
And that television show was very popular, it was played by a kind of a portly man. I mean, I guess he would have been considered like a strong man back then.
That typical kind of strong man look of back in the 40s and 50s, you know, has a little extra weight on him and big and burly. But Christopher Reeves was chiseled out of a stone.
I mean, the guy was like, it was a beautiful man, right? There's no other way to put it. And when they approached him to play Superman, the director of Superman was trying to make a serious comic book movie and everyone laughed at the idea.
They all thought this was going to be absolutely ridiculous. Many people advised Christopher not to do this movie.

He would be laughed out of Hollywood.

And man, could they not have been more mistaken about that?

It was huge success.

Superman, the original movie to this day, to me, is a great movie.

So is Superman 2.

Superman 3 and 4 get kind of silly.

Have you seen Superman, the original Superman movie?

I don't think so.

Maybe.

Yeah, I mean, it was back from the late 70s, early 80s.

It was the 80s, yeah.

But you should watch it. I mean,

I know you might not be into it, but it's a good story,

and it's interesting. Yeah, I would watch that.
I would watch it.

I'm not watching Marvel, but I'd watch

that. Yeah.
Don't expect

CGI miracles

out of this movie, but they did a pretty

good job, given the circumstances. I remember...

And who was the actress that played Lois Lane?

She was good. Always loved her yeah and margo somebody was it margo robbie margo robbie she's a current oh yeah yeah yeah uh margo kidder margo margo kidder that's right you were on it.
So anyway, so Christopher Reeves goes on to do Four Superman.

He really has a hard time breaking away from Superman, and he never does.

He imbibes in his life of women and wine and partying and being very famous,

and he also loves horses and always has loved horses,

and he falls off a horse and has a one-in-a-million accident falling off a horse and is paralyzed. Which I always thought was such terrible irony for him to play Superman and then to be paralyzed.
I think the irony is the story. The irony is the great story of Christopher Reeves.
He had his new wife. They had young children.
And apparently they were having a hard time keeping him alive at first he had a lot of problems and the doctors said you know we can this can go either way and there was i don't know if it was presented as a choice but there was some indication that you know if you didn't fight then you could give up and that would be that. You could pull the plug, essentially.
And his wife came in and said, you know, I didn't fall in love with you for your body. I fell in love with you for who you are.
And in that moment, he made a choice to stay alive. And that starts the great journey of Christopher Reeve, changing not only his life and many around him, but then many people, he becomes a Superman to many people who desperately needed a Superman.
And that's the beauty of his story, is that he fought valiantly to make sure life was better for people he otherwise would have looked over and looked down on in his previous life. And only Superman could have done that.
Only Superman could have done. Only Superman could have imparted that kind of power and wisdom and imagery.
What a story. Is it on HBO? It's on HBO Max.
Yeah. And so you must watch it.
I mean, again, this is an ugly cry. An ugly cry is coming at least twice in the movie.

And at the end of the movie, it's just a gut punch.

All of his kids are in it.

Both of his wives are in it.

Apparently, his ex-wife became a great friend of the family, and they all parented together.

And his current wife, or the wife that he had when he died, also became a great advocate in a lot of ways for the disabled community and still continues that work. And his kids are in varying degrees of still grieving.
And that's evident on the screen. But the way that this movie is put together is like a Superman movie.
And the imagery of Superman and some of the imagery from those movies is used to great effect and great sadness at moments and great power at other moments. So I know we shouldn't get this serious on the show, but I really wanted to talk about it.
And now that we're reviewing these movies, I thought I would share that I was really, really impacted by this movie. I was one of these things where I was like sitting here doing editing or whatever i was doing and then i put it on in the background in about 20 minutes and i turned around and i didn't stop i couldn't look away yeah and then astrid walked in on me crying and i said i have something in my eye speaking of movies though you recommended that one that fire of love that i watched i watched Very interesting movie.
Fire of Love is another one that got me. It's very interesting.
It was so... I have never seen imagery in a movie like this before in my entire life.
Fire of Love. Yeah.
Available on... It's about these two Vulcan...
Vulcanologists. Vulcanologists.
Yeah. They found each other.
I mean, out of all the people in the world, we were just talking about this on another episode.

Yeah, they both happen to just have this obsession, really, with volcanoes and any and all types of explosions and rocks and things that happen with volcanoes.

And they go to the ends of the earth together doing all of these experiments and documenting everything and then, you know, selling books about it and going on lecture tours in order to fund their next expeditions to different volcanoes around the world. I mean, it was wow.
At a time when volcanology was not even a thing, these two kind of became rock stars of the volcanologists, probably some of the most famous volcanologists that ever lived. By other volcanologist account the most famous that lived they became personalities inside of that world and brought volcanoes to the masses in a lot of ways that people hadn't seen and the reason the way that they did that and the reasons why they did that are unveiled in this documentary that is using their own footage that is absolutely insane.
How these people were literally standing in the middle of volcanoes. Not so close.
They're there. They're in it.
They're wrapped in fire and lava and they're stepping in it and swimming in it. And I don't even know how to explain it.
You have to watch this movie. I just told all the uh people that work up at starbucks we were all talking about some getting excited about severance season two they were somebody mentioned a documentary i said you have to watch fire of love and how it's on hulu you know i think we all have that one thing or i hope we all find that one thing podcasting may be it for or the microphone may be it for me.
That one passion in life that despite all odds and despite some circumstances, you keep going back to because it feels like the thing that you were here to do. You have to keep exploring it, unveiling it, unfolding it, unwrapping it, even though it's beating you upside the head sometimes, you just keep going into it.
These two found volcanoes to be that thing. They said, we're crazy.
We're crazy. We're crazy to do this, but we can't stop it.
Yes. And the beginning of the movie shows the end, but the end of the movie is quite sad and surprising.
But you'll figure it out. I don't think it's surprising.
I mean... Well, I do in the sense that...
Well, I mean, they show it as a very... They die doing what they love to do.
But what's surprising to me is that they found themselves so close to something they knew so well that was going to be explosive. And then yet they continued to walk toward it.
It was just like, guys, you've done this before. Don't do that.
And then they go over some of the volcano explosions that have happened in the last 40 years that you may not have even heard about, some that you will have heard about, but just how insanely destructive and beautiful volcanoes are. And you learn, too, because I didn't realize there's two types, the gray volcano and the red volcano, and the red one is where probably most of us think of a volcano kind of spilling out with the red molten lava.
And that's when the two tectonic plates are pulling apart. And the gray ones, which are very explosive with gray, you know, mushroom cloud type things and spread ash everywhere.
Those are when the tectonic plates go together. Yes, Mount St.
Helens was a gray one. Literally, the tectonic plates come together and they burp, essentially.
And when they burp, the mountain explodes, the volcano explodes. And that's what happened to Mount St.
Helens, like apparently, you know, 17 Hiroshima's worth of power. And that was crazy.
I do remember, I mean, it was 1981, so I was just a baby, but I remember hearing about that very young in news stories. And, you know, that's the earth.
That's the earth that we live on. So you must go watch Fire of Love.
You must watch the Christopher Reeves documentary. And you must watch TCB on YouTube.com slash the commercial break.
Now every available, every episode available on YouTube. That's a whole kind of different documentary.
Just in case you were wondering.

Yes, that's a whole different kind of documentary. We're documenting the silly stuff we talk about, like other people's television shows and movies.
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I want to talk about a couple of things. Number one, do you know what tripping with Tarte is? Tripping with Tarte? Tripping with Tarte? You know what this is? I do not.
Okay. Tarte.
Tarte, the cosmetic brand. It's got neon, so I thought it might have been French.
Tarte. I think I heard one of of the girls say Tarte.
Tarte. So Tripping with Tarte is apparently a cosmetics line, and that cosmetics line has become quite famous because what they do is they send influencers, makeup influencers or other influencers, a bunch of free shit, and then those influencers talk about Tarte and how wonderful it is, and I like to use it for this, and it works.
And here's how you can use it and all this other stuff. Brilliant marketing strategy to great effect.
They have done this and now they're a very popular brand. According to my own research that started about 24 hours ago.
Because I had never heard of the brand before this. But here's the reason why I got on this.
There's an influencer, semi-influencer. She doesn't have a lot of followers, but I find her to be very interesting and she talks about hollywood type stuff and she's talked a lot about the chicken fry situation which is why i followed her originally okay so she starts talking about how jealous she is and she wishes that she would get an invite to go on tripping with tart which is apparently a biannual trip that they do where they rent like a private 747 take you to a private island, go down to private beaches and do private things and gift bags and boxes and Prada and all this other stuff.
I want to declare here on the commercial break that we are now a makeup influencer podcast. And all I'm going to do is allow my daughters to come in here and put Tarte makeup on me for the rest of the year in the hopes that I get an invite to Tripping with Tarte.
Now, I'm sure it's a policy not to invite, you know, straight, white, 40-something-year-old men on Tripping with Tarte. But I'm happy to stay in a different resort altogether, different island if you want me to.
I'm happy to do that as long as I can get a trip. This looks fantastic.
and the benefits that these young ladies are experiencing for you know doing some makeup reviews is amazing it's amazing this is the is it what a time to be alive what a time to be alive can i give you a little extra context with that yes um this is just from my own personal knowledge there is a lot of drama around thein' with Tarte stuff these days because it's gotten to a point like when they first started doing this trip, it was like a really great thing. But now it's been taken so far that people are just like, I don't want to see it.
I don't want to buy your stuff. Like, people are upset about it.
Yeah. They're rebelling.

Yeah, because it's gone so far to, like, the consumerism, the capitalism. All of it has just gone so far that they're like, how much do I really need to see this content vacation that you guys put together?

Like, do I need another tube of Tarte Shape Tape concealer?

No.

Oh.

Like, yeah, so there's a lot of, like—

Backlash. Yeah, backlash from a certain side of the internet.
My side. Yeah, so just interesting context.
I've heard of the brand Tarte, so I didn't realize about this tripping. Yeah, listen.
Here's like just to get in the fray a little bit. Here's how I feel about it.
I thought you were going to say they were using it at raves and tripping. It's the makeup for tripping.
It's the makeup for tripping your balls off, tripping with tart. That's a whole other angle.
Maybe that would make everybody happy. That's right.
Maybe they could satisfy the other side of the internet by sending it over to, I don't know, Bonnaroo or something. It's a tripping makeup.
Listen, you know, marketing strategies are marketing strategies. If you have a product, you have to market it.
You have to figure a way to get it in people's hands. And I understand that excesses can seem frivolous a lot of times.
It feels very hurtful to those who don't have to watch everybody else get what they get. And that's, yeah.
They're on their way to tripping with tar they're not getting what they want that's right they're very upset about the whole tart situation they're throwing a fit this is and i don't know anything about this brand so maybe you know i'm gonna i'm uninformed about this but i think i do remember like a couple of years ago hearing about some influencers kind of talking shit about this because they felt like it got out of hand and now blah blah blah blah blah it's a brilliant marketing strategy that worked for probably a small brand that's now a big brand you're not going to make it's not who they were already really big oh they were already really big it's it's like the marketing is the marketing with them but like they've already been doing like the PR packages, like yada, y been doing the PR packages for so long. They've been doing tripping for a while now.
Yeah, I think now that I'm putting two and two together, I feel like there were a couple of girls that were complaining about this on the internet. Yeah, and then there's also been a lot of drama.
There's always drama on the trip around what level of influencer and how they're getting treated on the trip. It's like level of influencer and like how they're getting treated

on the trip and like it's just fucking stupid yeah well i don't disagree with you though i know and yeah so it's just sort of a weird weird thing that i feel like is so 2025 like it's just a weird symptom of our time that we're still doing this yeah i agree i don't disagree with you that it's fucking stupid. That I agree with,

right? Is that we're sending

people with 30,000 followers on elaborate, expensive vacations so that they can specifically stick their head directly up the ass of a very large brand, according to Christina, a very large brand of cosmetics. But on the flip side, marketing, there is no winners.

It's like when we market our own podcast.

People will say,

fuck you, you have to put your...

Why are you putting ads on Instagram

or putting ads out there?

Because we have to.

We sell a product.

The product is our content.

We have to get our content out there.

We're never going to be pleasing to everybody.

If I could get every listener organically,

I would love to do that. But good luck finding, good luck getting a podcast discovered in 2025 amongst 75 million others.
Same with anything else that you sell in the world. You have to be better, faster, stronger.
This is a symptom of the universe that we live in, right? Yeah. Well, I just thought of something though.
Ding, ding, ding. You know, that plane, That old 70s rolling stone plane.
Oh, yeah, that old TCB.

Let's get that thing out and send people to the Great Wolf Lodge just to talk about it. Hey, listen.
This is not a bad idea. I've been tripping with TCB.
Let's send the hillbilly horror stories, guys. Tripping with TCB.
Sending you to the Great Wolf Lodge. But you're not getting no raw package.
You're going to be in a bunk bed. Depending on the level of influencer.
Depending on the level of influencer, you might or might not get a discount on the ropes course. We will make that decision based on the kind of content you can create.
Yeah, let's do it. I think our first, we have to invite Frankie B.
We do. The Hillbilly Horror Story people, whoever they are.
And thank you very much for shouting on our podcast. Mountain monsters.
Mountain monsters. Yeah, but they're not good.
They're too big for us. They're too big for us.
Frankie B might be too big for us. Let's be honest about that.
But I get it. I mean, I understand how, also having worked with a lot of marketing people in the past, there are some real sharp ones that there are some people who just fell into marketing.
Like when they can't find anything else for you to do, they make you a marketing manager. And that means you have another three months of your job.
Marketing management means you at least here for another three months. but you know i can i can see this working in a corporate setting where people are like, dripping with tart.
What are we doing this year? Let's blow our balls even bigger. Let's rent out Disney World for seven days and send them all there.
And if it works, if the metrics make sense, it's going to keep going because that's the way that it is. This is how consumerism, how our capitalist society works.
You got to get your word out there and you got to do it. And listen, I don't know anything about Tartt.
I don't know the first thing about it. It might be a lot of controversy.
There might be levels of influencer. But if Chrissy and I, and Christina, I think you'd take the trip if they offered.
If you could get us like a small, dinky, we don't even need a plane. Get us uber to the local hojo and give us some free breakfast and we'll trip with tart all day long i'll take it i'll take a yellow taxi over to the holiday i don't quite get about and i mean maybe this is just my uh older brain thinking because i i did specialize in marketing and advertising in college and then

afterwards it's kind of how we met when i was in the advertising department but i don't quite get

like how because if they're influencers and they're being paid to use the products how i mean

i know endorsements have been around for forever obviously we get them yeah we get we get paid to

endorse yeah like how can you really trust that this is like the best thing ever if they're being

I'm going to go somebody just got paid to do that and go on this fabulous well listen and and i know not everybody's like this but we generally and we've been talking about this actually in the studio for the last couple of weeks. We generally, generally, I can't say this about 100% of the time, we've gotten some things wrong.
But generally, if someone asks us for a personal endorsement, I will not do it unless I try it, I know it, and I like it. That should be the general premise upon all personal endorsements but it's not this brings up an interesting um i'll talk about this in a second but if everybody did that like if people are connected with tcb and they like us and they think that we're funny and they like the brand that we have and i don't even know what that means for tcb the brand that we have no brand is some brand.
Then they hear us talking about, you know,

why Brian 3000, maybe they trust

that that'll make their dicks hard

and they go out and they try and use it.

Same with Tarte.

There's also just like a level of branding,

a consumer awareness about this.

And next time you go to the store

or you go to Alta or wherever,

and you see...

You think I'll try it. Yeah, you say, hey, I'll try it.
That girl tried it. I like her content.
Why not? Let's see. She looks pretty.
I like that color. She did a great job.
Let's do it. There's an interesting thing that's going on right now with influencers.
Two things converging at the same time. Number one, the SEC is saying you must not lie to the consumer.
If you do not know or use the product, you cannot say you know or use the product. And if you do, and we find out about it, you're in big trouble.
And they are coming down on influencers. There's a famous case right now running around the federal court system of an influencer who was sending people to use something, and he apparently had never tried it, and it made a bunch of people sick.
Sick, yeah. There's also the big honey scandal that's going on right now i don't know if you know of honey i do yeah honey the webs the oh the douche no no i'm so serious no no no no no okay it's it's honey pot honey pot honey love honey love the bras this is just honey just honey no tits no vaginas no douches or bras yeah this is a this is a chrome extension

for love. Honey love.
This is just honey. Just honey.
No tits. No vaginas.
No douches. Or bras.
This is a chrome extension for you. Oh, that one.
Okay, I do know that one. Where you get discounts.
Where you get discounts. Coupons.
Coupon cups. Yeah.
I heard Christina, you and I both thought two separate things. I'm like, not the bra.
This has been an interesting day here in the studios. Because I like the bra.
I did read or hear something about this. There was...
Many influencers, especially across YouTube, have gotten paid gobs of money from Honey to create custom segments, to do custom shows, to do custom ad reads. And apparently Honey was very easy to deal with.
They were not. Sponsors sometimes can be very difficult.
I'm not going to name the brand, but there was one brand. I was 17 ad reads in, and they were nitpicking single words.
This is a major brand who would have brought a lot of money to the show, and I said, no, thank you. Because if the first one's a nightmare, the fifth one's going to be even worse.
And I'm sorry i don't want your money um and let's be honest i've talked a lot of shit about their brand on here but anyway that's besides that's besides the point the thing is is that honey is to find an easy sponsor to deal with is kind of like the gold of sponsorships because if they say i trust you go do your thing run with it which most of our sponsors do to credit. They let me do my thing.
They let us do our thing. And then we run with it.
So Honey, this browser extension that has been around for a while, 300 million downloads or something like that. What they do is they go scan the internet for coupon codes.
There's a couple of those extensions out there. This one, Honey, was doing this.
So many influencers got caught up getting paid gobs of money from Honey, and now they have contractual obligations to keep those ads running. Well, guess what? Honey was making deals with the retailers to put in the least damaging coupon code to the retailer example.
I go to Target.com, I pick out 10 things, Honey goes out there and finds three coupon codes for 20% off. They had a backdoor deal with Target to insert a 5% off coupon, even though the 20% coupon was available out there.
Secondly, Honey was dropping in their own affiliate codes at the same time. So they were scrubbing the affiliate code of the influencer, and they were dropping in their own code.
That's messed up. That is fucked up.
It's a total scam. Unplug Honey if you have it plugged in.
Unplug it because it's not good. You're going to do it the old-fashioned way, cut out coupons like my mom did.
Like those people on Coupon King or whatever it is on TLC, like they do. You're going to just have to go do it the old-fashioned way.
But Honey is like a all-out, boldface, balls-out scam. People were getting scammed, and Honey was taking the money from the same influencers it was supposedly supporting.
It's insane. Marketing is hard.

Marketing is hard. Marketing is hard work, and it doesn't always work, and you got to keep going, and you can never stop spending, and you always have to try new things.
Take it from people who, quite frankly, have spent a lot of money on marketing the show. It's part of the reason of the success, and then the other part is organic or word of mouth or whatever it is but marketing is hard so i understand when you hit on something that seems like it's working you stick with it and you might get a little silly with the fucking shit like tart is but honey took it you know they were just running a scam and just paying influencers to do this didn't they get or they bought like another one of those extensions because there were a few of

them and i remember it was a big deal a few years ago they had bought another one believe if i'm not mistaken paypal bought honey or is that what it was a couple of years ago yeah so paypal again treating everybody with kindness and respect i mean i swear on all the totally like I want to be a billionaire

But not at the expense of everybody else. It's just like, I just don't want to do that.
And it seems like the more you look, and maybe I'm just opening my eyes to this now, because I've been blinded also by the American dream. The more you look, the more you understand, not many people have done that.
I mean, not many people, not many billionaires have done that. They all are just kind of stepping on the heads of everybody else around them in order to absorb that wealth.
I ain't mad at the wealth. I'd love it.
I don't believe in the redistribution of wealth at all. But I think that, you know, and we had that comment from our friend Sean at the expense of other people.
And I'm not going to get into a whole nother rant, but wow. And then I won't even get into it.
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All right, welcome back. I'm down off my high horse now, so I'm going to just move on from profiteering billionaires, from tarting and tripping and tarting and honey douching and all that other stuff.
The big douche is the reason why we're all in this together. Big bras and big douche.
That's why we're all in this together. Brian.
Brian. Now I've totally forgot what I wanted to talk about.
What was it I wanted to talk about? When in doubt, go back to chicken fry. What is the latest? I can't tell you any latest on the chicken fry because chicken fry is, you know, it's kind of, the whole drama has settled down.
I think What's Her Name did a good job of tampering it down a little bit, you know, fanning the flames. Oh, that's what I wanted to talk about was the wildfires in LA.
Let's take just one minute out of our day. Yeah, to recognize that.
There's a reason. Let me explain too.
Usually on Fridays, we would do some kind of video breakdown and review. I feel like after last week's ball fest, maybe we should give it a break.
We had a number of people write in about this, by the way, the ball fest. That it was too much.
No, I think everybody took it in good fun, but some people thought it was a little much. Hearing the descriptions were a little much.
They didn't have to watch it. That's true.
They did not have to see it in full glory. And directly after that, our TV went out here in the studio that plays those videos.
I think even the TV had too much. It said, you know what? It short-circuited.
I can die now in peace.

It short-circuited because of the

snowstorm here in Atlanta, which

came and went and did not cause a whole bunch of

drama. Some people had no power for

24. One of our friends

here near where I live was out.

They were out without power for like

20 hours. Really? It came back on

for three hours. It went out for another

12 hours, which was just terrible. I didn't have any of of that and they have small children and so i asked the asteroid i said well why don't they just go they have like friends that live close yeah because it didn't end up being some big ice event that all you know crowded us all in and we couldn't go anywhere it ended up being a relatively beautiful event where the kids got to play in the snow everybody in town had fun fun.
People skiing around the streets and sledding down the... Some of those Atlanta, you know, compilations.
Yeah, yeah, they're crazy. And I got to give it to the local news.
They had coverage live, you know, most of the day on Friday. I do have to give it to the news.
I think they did a good job of not making it as overly dramatic. They had people out at Piedmont piedmont park is the big like our central park here and there's a couple of big hills in piedmont park and there were hundreds of people out there yeah inner tubes and baking sheets and all kind of because we don't sell sleds here in atlanta there were people snowboarding and skiing they were having a good time out there and the news was having a good time with them not making it overly dramatic of course there were people who got sucked in and didn't have power and had to suffer through the cold a little bit and christina's neighbor who decided to try and get out and drive that was an incredible moment for me i was looking out my window watching some idiots bring their stuff to the car they were packing up the car friday morning it is so snowy yeah and they.
I mean, they've got two computer monitors with them. I was like, girl, where do you think you're going? Are you going to the office? Are you moving? And then they get in the car, and I'm like, they're not really going to try and leave, are they? My sister and I, we're like, honestly, such busybodies.
It's so bad. I love it.
And we're watching them. They reverse out in this big old car.
They start trying to go, and those wheels start spinning. Just keep sliding.
And I am cackling. I was like, idiots! You clearly haven't lived here! Yeah.
Like, what are you fools doing? They eventually parked back in. I saw them leave on Sunday.
Oh, yeah. With the monitors.
It dumped probably three inches in a short period of time.

We got like five.

Yeah, we got a lot.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know.

It could have been four or five years.

I didn't really know, but it covered the grass.

It was enough for us to go out.

Everything was white.

Everything was covered.

And it was enough for us to go out there and play for a little while.

Then it turned to sleet, then ice, then rain, and then back to ice.

But luckily, luckily, you know, we didn't have our power go go out and it didn't seem like there was much damage in the city anyway just a nice snow event but it was hard to for me to um like i wanted to post stuff about it but it was hard for me to do that knowing that some of our friends and family and people that work with the show because because LA is the entertainment capital of the world, and despite us being far from entertaining, we actually have people that work in the entertainment capital of the world. Our booking agency, our talent agent, our attorney, they all live out there, and they spent the weekend running scared, some of them, this, I have friends out there.
This last weekend, running scared.

What a terrible fucking situation out there. Apocalyptic, nightmarish.
We've already talked about this. So sad.
So sad. And here's what I want to say.
I think we'll have plenty of time to run blame around and say we could have done this and we could have done that. you know I really hope that the one thing

that happened in Hawaii

that they tried to stop from happening run blame around and say we could have done this and we could have done that uh you know i really

hope that the one thing that happened in hawaii that they tried to stop from happening but i don't know that it happened 100 i don't know they stopped 100 doesn't happen in la and that is that these people who lost their homes maybe some of all their net worth just tied up in these big homes yeah you might be rich on paper but if your home goes up in flames and the insurance company won't pay you out, you may be broke as I am. And I hope that the hedge funds and these money men don't come in and make this a total grab ass fest, land grab, because that's what happens when these events have that when these terrible, you know, it's a well-known phenomenon.
When a natural disaster happens, like down in West Palm or Miami or anywhere in Florida, these hurricanes come through or in New Orleans or in California when earthquakes come through or these fires come through, that the money men come in and they land grab. It's what they do.
You know, it's like, why did the snake bite me? Because that's what snakes do. The money man and the lend man, they'll come in and they'll do that.
I just really hope that these people in California, they see some justice, they don't get their insurance policies pulled, and that they find some, like, refuge in this, like, nightmarish situation. I don't know that we, maybe besides the earthquake of San Francisco, that we in our lifetimes have seen a disaster like this.
Not even the hurricanes. The hurricanes, at least you see them coming.
You know what I'm saying? At least you can say, holy shit, that's coming. I better get out of the way.
Whether you choose to or not, that's a different story altogether. But this is just like how fast these fires are engulfing entire neighborhoods.
On top of that, I want to say, I hope that the politics can stay out of it. You know, I read something today where a Republican is wanting to withhold aid.
Yeah, because it's mainly liberal. And that's just not right.
No, it's not. Let all of that go.
Help the people that are out there as best you can. Yeah, if you had a fire insurance policy, you should be paid out.
And I understand the insurance company's job is to make money, but you can't pull the insurance retroactively. That should be at least illegal under any circumstance.
And I hope that California, the regulation board holds their feet to the fire. They need to pay out.
That will also mean, I guarantee you, a bailout from the government because the insurance companies will go under because insurance companies don't plan on 100,000 structures going up at one time. That means the insurance companies will tilt and they will go under.
The government will have to come bail them out. I hope they do the right thing and bail the insurance companies out.
So the insurance companies continue to do what they do, and that's help people in desperate times. And if you're out in LA and for some incredibly strange reason are listening to the commercial break, we're going to put links up to 211 and Airbnb.org, two organizations that are helping people find long-term housing, shelter, food, all of that.
And in some cases, completely free. In some cases.
I say that you have to fill out some paperwork. Of course you do.
That's just the terrible part about this situation is indignity after indignity. But that's the way it's going to work.
But I looked into this and yes, Airbnb will provide you free housing if you qualify for that free housing. And then to all of our friends and family out there, if there's anything that we can do, please just let us know.
We love you very much. And I'm sure, even though this is coming out a couple of days after we record it, I'm sure this will be ongoing because here come the Santa Anta winds.
And as I talked about when we were off air, those Santa Anta winds are no joke. 100 miles per hour is not unusual.
And that's insane. Those are hurricane force winds.
Very strong. Fanning a fire the size of Brooklyn.
They've had like one inch of rain or a half an inch of rain or something like that since last summer. Yeah, but I think it's also, it can be very arid and dry out there.
Yeah. But between the dry and the winds and sparks.
Yeah, it's all just terrible. And idiots who are setting fires.
Yeah. And idiots who are setting fires.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there are videos going around of people getting arrested for starting fires. It's like, what are you, I mean, I don't know.
Who knows in the year 2025 the commercial break's about to reach 800 episodes and people are setting fires and Great Wolf Lodge is a thing where people go and pay good money. And Tarte.

That's right.

Tripping with Tarte is still happening.

And Honey, the douche and the browser extension are both bad for your health.

So just remember.

Not the bra.

No, I don't.

Yeah, not the bra.

And I don't know that the douche.

Please, don't write me.

It's not good for you.

Yeah, it can't be.

I'll tell you right here.

Hey, all right.

Christina does personal endorsements for Honey.

For not to do.

To not do.

I'm sorry. you yeah it can't be i'll tell you right here hey all right christina does personal endorsements for uh for not to do to not do anti-doucheing she's anti-douche well that's been around for a while of people saying just don't do it to begin with it's not good my sister's an ob-gyne so i'm informed she's an ob-gyne she's an ob-gyne i like that i'm gonna start using that word hey babe did you go to your ob-gyne do you not say that what do you say OB-GYN OB-GYN I've always said OB-GYN oh is that is that how they refer to themselves as OB-GYN well that's when my sister says oh really but it probably depends yeah I say OB-GYN but then I'm a man who doesn't want to get that part wrong do you know what I'm saying it's not like a casual thing for you to go to the OB-GYN no it's no I mean I will say this will say this, except when Astrid's been pregnant, when Astrid's been pregnant, I have been to every available appointment except during COVID when there was about three months where they just had a policy room.
You couldn't even go in. Yeah.
And that was absolutely miserable that I went to every appointment to the, to the point where the nurses were like, I think you've set a husband record for being at every appointment.

Yeah, I couldn't tell if they thought that was creepy or if they were giving me a pat on the back.

You know what I'm saying?

He's got an OB-GYN kink.

I got an OB-GYN kink.

I want to be there.

Well, you wanted to know.

Well, I also got along with the OB-GYNs. I got along with the obstetrician, the optometrist.

I also got along with her eye doctor.

That's good. In the Peachtree dist with the optometrist.
I also got along with her eye doctor, the optometrist. That's good.
In the Peachtree disc with the optometrist, going to Tarte. And the Santa Anta wins, as you said.
Santa Anta wins. I bet we could make a whole episode out of Brian just misspeaking.
We should do that. For sure.
All right. That's it.
Donate to those poor people out in California. Have yourself a great weekend.
Remember that Gustavo, I, and Chrissy are going to be here tomorrow for a very special episode of the commercial break. Celebrating Venezuela versus the United States down in Miami.
Game starts at 3 p.m. tomorrow.
Oh, wait. Is this a Thursday episode? No, it's Friday.
Is it? According to my notes, but you might have changed it. I don't know.
Anyway, if it's Thursday, it's Thursday. If it's Friday, it's Friday.
Have a good week. Either we'll be here tomorrow or we'll be here tomorrow.
One of those two things will happen. But Saturday, United States versus Venezuela playing at 3 p.m.
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That's going to be a good game. I'm looking forward to it.
And in celebration of Venezuela versus the United States, it'll be Gustavo versus Brian here in the studio. So tune in on a special Saturday episode of the commercial break, which we'll be doing from time to time in 2025 because we record enough.
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That's right. That's available on Disney's Hulu.
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It's all available on his website. Thank you so much for him coming in.
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