Date Night In Atl: The ITP BP & Magic City!

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Speaker 10 Debbie DuBlas walks away victorious with 122 of the 133 votes.

Speaker 10 While Debbie has many Crab Applians' support, some citizens found her a controversial choice after she was accused of starting a gonorrhea outbreak on her block.

Speaker 10 Debbie wasted no time celebrating her victory. She had this to say to her supporters on her social media this morning.

Speaker 11 I am fucking horny, goddammit. I am trying to wear some slutty man, like a combination butt plug and backpack.

Speaker 11 Like, just shove that boner up my butthole and jump on my back because we got chores to do and you're buying me lunch, bitch.

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Speaker 10 This is the third time Debbie has run for president of Crab Apple's Education Department.

Speaker 10 While she won last election cycle, a judge ruled she would be unable to serve in that position after she admitted being in a thrupple with two high school students.

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Speaker 13 On this episode of the Commercial Break.

Speaker 13 But it's just weird. I just don't know that I would go to the VP for dinner.
I kind of want to go now. You go and you tell me what it's like.
I got kids. I can't afford to go.

Speaker 13 I've got downtown covered on the downtown course. Yeah, you go downtown.
I'll stay OTP. I'll do the OTP stuff.
I'll go to like, you know, the pumpkin patch.

Speaker 13 The fall festivals. I'll do that.
How's that? You monitor the

Speaker 13 next door. I'll do the cherry blossom festival.
You do the VP dinner and Magic City. You do Magic City.
They've done a documentary about Magic City.

Speaker 13 It's famous. Have you ever been to Magic City? I have.
Yes. You have to go to Magic City.
Yes. Magic City.

Speaker 13 It's magic. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 Listen, it is not for the faint of heart. The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah, Cats and Kittens. Welcome back to the Commercial Break.
I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of the show, Kristen Joy Hoadley.
Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian.

Speaker 13 Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on this

Speaker 13 beautiful, lovely day here in Atlanta, Georgia. Let us talk about the weather for 30 minutes to make sure

Speaker 13 that piss everybody else off in the rest of the country. It's cold up north.
It's warm down here. So we're up for a good weekend.
Anyway, I was watching

Speaker 13 John Mulaney's show on Netflix.

Speaker 13 It's LA or LA Live or whatever. What are they calling that? John Mulaney Live? I don't know what they, what do they call that show? Yeah, I think it is.
Everybody's live with John Mulaney.

Speaker 13 Oh, everybody's live. And

Speaker 13 I saw two of our good friends on there. I saw Lunel

Speaker 13 and Pete Davidson. Okay.
And we've never talked to Pete Davidson, but I one time was in the same room with him. And so I feel like we're friends.

Speaker 13 I feel like we're friends.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I was right there. I was there with him right before he went to rehab.
So I feel like we have this special connection, he and I. And even though he has no idea who I am, I was in the room, Pete.

Speaker 13 I saw it all go down. He was explaining.

Speaker 13 Lunel was busting his chops about Kim Kardashian, busting his balls about dating Kim Kardashian. And he was hilariously explaining that, yes, I dated Kim Kardashian, and now I laugh about it.

Speaker 13 Like, now I realize just how ridiculous that was. I laugh about it.
And I'm glad. That shows some self-awareness on Pete's behalf.

Speaker 13 I think he went on a run there where he was like dating people for PR. You know what I'm saying? Like, maybe not on purpose.
Maybe he liked Kim, but like also.

Speaker 13 And there was Ariana Grande, but he was engaged to, I believe. I think so.
Yeah. Yeah.
And Kim, obviously. I can imagine, though, it's hard not to get swept up.

Speaker 13 You know, they met on Saturday Night Live. Yeah.
She was a guest. And I can imagine if she's showing interest to him, it would be hard not to get swept up on that.
Like, oh, my God. Hey, listen,

Speaker 13 yeah, when one of the most

Speaker 13 famous people in the world figures in the world, and I mean that literally and figuratively, one of the most famous figures in the world is paying you some attention, you know, if you're into that kind of thing, of course, it's going to be there.

Speaker 13 Kim Kardashian, not my thing. I'd much rather go with

Speaker 13 it's Chloe, Kim. Who's the third sister?

Speaker 13 Chloe, Kim, and Courtney. Courtney.
I think Courtney is the prettiest of the group. Courtney's the oldest, yeah.
Yeah, I think she's the prettiest of the group. That's just my opinion.

Speaker 13 I mean, there's the younger Kardashians or whoever they are, but it's a little too young for me. I got daughters.

Speaker 13 But I was never really into Kim Kardashian. It was never my thing.
It was never my style.

Speaker 13 But that's okay. She's a beautiful woman.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 So Pete, being kind of this goofball stoner character, all of a sudden dating this string of incredibly beautiful women, was quite the run. Epic.

Speaker 13 If I don't mind saying so myself, that is

Speaker 13 Warren Beatty level,

Speaker 13 a Warren Beatty level run there. He went on for a little while.
But now he's realizing just how silly it all looked. And I'm glad.

Speaker 13 He was really in the crosshairs, too, with Kanye, because that was right when she... They were devoted to the business.
Yeah, they were sending voicemails back and forth.

Speaker 13 I'd be scared to send Kanye that kind of voicemail.

Speaker 13 Like, I really, maybe not. Maybe if I was in it, I would be like, okay, Kanye, you got to settle the fuck down.
What's going on? But I just think that Kanye is so unhinged.

Speaker 13 And I realize most of it is like this troll character he's playing. But there are also a lot of people.

Speaker 13 But then the people who follow Kanye are, not all of them, but some of them probably have some, you know, like tinker toys in their head. And I'd be nervous.
I'd be nervous that

Speaker 13 those people would want me

Speaker 13 hurt for some reason because you know you just never know what people are thinking i get nervous about that here on the commercial break i really do like sometimes we'll get a loose cannon that starts texting us and i'm like

Speaker 13 i'm gonna not respond to that guy i'm not gonna i'm gonna not respond to that guy most of our listeners 99.9 of them it's harmless good fun and we're all having a laugh but then there are one or two who take it to the extreme and you're like okay

Speaker 13 like you gotta settle down just a little bit take a deep breath i'm just a podcast you know i go and have my coffee like everybody else, which, by the way, there is no sanctity in my coffee anymore.

Speaker 13 I'm out. I'm done.
I'm outed. And

Speaker 13 I strongly am suggesting to myself that I go find a new Starbucks because it's just, I'm not safe there anymore. I'm not safe, Chrissy.
I'm not safe anywhere I go. I'm too famous at this point.

Speaker 13 I'm too famous. You don't know the struggles.
You don't know the struggles because you're not famous like I am.

Speaker 13 You hide there over in the shadows, making your laughs and your little jokes, and people love you, and everyone loves Chrissy, and Chrissy's the best, and Astrid's lovely, and Tina and Christina, and all this other stuff.

Speaker 13 I take the heavy hits, and I get noticed the most. Of all the people here at the podcast, I have been noticed twice.
And that's all I got to say. All right, twice.

Speaker 13 And it makes me just a little bit nervous.

Speaker 13 The cat's out of the bag, and how do I put it back in? I think you just act like a regular person getting your coffee. No, I know.
Now I go in with sunglasses and a hoodie.

Speaker 13 I take an Uber,

Speaker 13 I take an Uber XL.

Speaker 13 You change your name. Yes, I have a, you know, a towel that I, that I have someone behind me going like this with a towel, and I walk in and I say, there's not enough cream in my coffee.

Speaker 13 I act like a dick. That's what I do.
That's how famous people act, right? I think so. I don't think so.

Speaker 13 Speaking of famous people acting a certain way, Bad Baby, you know, Bad Baby, the Cash Me Outside girl? Yes. Of Dr.
Phil fame? Dr.

Speaker 13 Phil has really brought upon this earth a string of awesome, hasn't he?

Speaker 13 Dr. Phil, what a shith.

Speaker 13 Anyway, Bad Baby, who is

Speaker 13 honestly

Speaker 13 rose to prominence because of an appearance on Dr. Phil, is now a musician and not a bad one by most accounts.
People like her music. She was in Atlanta celebrating her 22nd birthday.
So she's 22.

Speaker 13 We've been hearing about the Cash Me Outside girl for like 10 years. Then she was like 13 years old.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 And she went to Magic City

Speaker 13 for her birthday.

Speaker 13 She went to a restaurant called

Speaker 13 X1XV LX. Do you know what I'm talking about? Let me explain to the listeners, and this is the point I want to make.
Bad Baby went and had dinner at a BP gas station. A BP gas station.

Speaker 13 The hottest restaurant in Atlanta in some circles, depending on how you like your food and your flavor, in some circles is a BP gas station where there is a restaurant on top of it.

Speaker 13 The owners of the BP built a, what was originally. That's right there on 10th Street.
Right 10th Street. Yep, that's it.
Right down there in 10th Street. That BP has been there forever and a day.

Speaker 13 There was a time when that was not the gas station I would stop at after midnight. No way.

Speaker 13 But then all of a sudden, like bikers and trikers and, you know, casts of characters, they would all meet up because it had a large parking lot. They would all meet up.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 And I think there used to be like a Chinese restaurant or something there. Right next to it.

Speaker 13 Like, you know, it was almost like a strip mall, like a BP, a rather large kind of BP convenience store, and then a Chinese restaurant next to it that did to-go food for the Georgia Tech campus, which is right across the highway.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's right across the bridge. The Cheetah is right there.
The cheetah is behind that. Yeah, so it's about a block down the street.
So

Speaker 13 it's in the heart of the city. Like if you put a dot on Atlanta, you'll probably put it right on top of that BP.

Speaker 13 But so when I lived down down there, it kind of went from this creepy, weird BP to all of a sudden you would see gangs of people just hanging out there in the middle of the night, two, three, four in the morning.

Speaker 13 There'd be a hundred motorcycles parked in the parking lot and everyone just having a good time. That then parlayed into some hip-hop stars and rap stars doing like impromptu performances there

Speaker 13 and large crowds showing up for parties and this and that and the other thing. The BP took on a life of its own.
It did. It just all of a sudden became like folk, like legendary folklore.

Speaker 13 You had to go to. If you were going to stop in Atlanta, you had to go to the 10th BP.

Speaker 13 Well, the owners of this BP, being entrepreneurial as they are, decided, well, let's take advantage of this and we'll build an event space.

Speaker 13 But we have no more room because we're in the middle of downtown Atlanta that almost looks like downtown Manhattan now. I swear to God.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 So many buildings and more of them being built every single day. Tall buildings, like 40, 50 stories in the air.
It lines the highway now, and it's just like there's no room anymore.

Speaker 13 So these guys, this family decides, let's go up. We'll put on top of our BP, our BP convenience store, an entire event space that then turned into a restaurant that now everybody is going to.

Speaker 13 They like, it's a thing. You go to the BP to have dinner.
And I forget what it's called, Louis V or X, Y. I'm getting the name all.
I'm murdering the name. But anyway, it's the BP gas station.

Speaker 13 That's all you need to know.

Speaker 13 And they are serving food and liquor up there. And people are having a good time.

Speaker 13 And people, and celebrities and all types, B-list, A-list, real housewives, they're all now posting about their trip to go have dinner at the BP. At the BP, at the BP.

Speaker 13 I mean, I realize that maybe in some places in this country, downtown New York, like New York, New York.

Speaker 13 Chicago, that there may be like convenience stores like 7-Elevens on top of taller buildings that then have restaurants in them, but this is not that.

Speaker 13 This is a standalone BP convenience store that someone put a restaurant on top of, and now everyone likes to go to dinner there. It's crazy.
I hey, listen, I ain't hating on the game. I don't at all.

Speaker 13 I think it's great. I think they're really,

Speaker 13 they really took the moment and parlayed it into something cool and trendy.

Speaker 13 But it's just weird. I just don't know that I would go to the BP for dinner.
I kind of want to go now.

Speaker 13 You go and you tell me what it's like. I got kids.
I can't afford it.

Speaker 13 I've got downtown covered. I'm the downtown course.
Yeah, you go downtown. I'll stay OTP.
I'll do the OTP stuff. I'll go to like, you know, the pumpkin patch.
Yes.

Speaker 13 The fall festivals. I'll do that.
How's that? You monitor the

Speaker 13 next door. I'll do the cherry blossom festival.
You do the BP dinner and Magic City.

Speaker 13 They're doing a documentary about Magic City, yes, it's famous. Have you ever been been to Magic City? I have.
Yes. You have to go to Magic City.
Yes. Magic City.

Speaker 13 It is magic. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 13 Listen, it is not for the faint of heart. And when I first went to Magic City, way back when, I was one of two

Speaker 13 lighter-skinned human beings, let's put it that way. Me too.
In the building, and one of them was on stage. The other one was on stage.
Yeah. And so, but I was,

Speaker 13 I did not feel out of place one bit. I mean, I never did.
Like, I, you know, I'm literally colorblind and then figured it'll be colorblind. I don't care.

Speaker 13 And some of my friends decided they wanted to go and, and, for a party and took me. I was like, yeah, fuck yeah, I want to go to this place you guys keep talking about.

Speaker 13 Magic City is magic. It's magic.
And they should do a documentary about it.

Speaker 13 It is an amazing strip club where you have a ton of fucking fun and you will see the wildest shit you've ever seen in your entire life there. I mean, those dancers are very talented.

Speaker 13 They clapping cheeks. Yes.
This is where it all started

Speaker 13 at Magic City. And I promise you, that's not hyperbole.
These girls at this club started that.

Speaker 13 And I think, if I'm not mistaken, some of the most famous hip-hop stars in the world have danced at Magic City also, right?

Speaker 13 And so it's like a place to be seen, a place to see. And a lot of people parlay their...
fame at Magic City, especially a lot of women parlay their fame at Magic City into further careers.

Speaker 13 And I think that is great. That is does not happen at the cheetah, right? But the cheetah is a different flavor of

Speaker 13 the cheetah's huge, too, and like Magic City's small, yo, it's much more cozy. Yeah, much more cozy.
It's, I don't even know, I don't want to know what it is in square feet, but it's like one room.

Speaker 13 The cheetah is like multiple rooms. Oh, yeah.
50-foot ceilings. I mean, why do you need ceilings that high? Yeah, why do you need ceilings that high at a strip club? I'm just wondering, like,

Speaker 13 I mean, I guess if you like came down from a chandelier or something, but it's not anyway.

Speaker 13 I don't want to get into the, I don't want to get into the architecture architecture about strip clubs, but Magic City is much more cozy and the experience is so wild that you're likely to never forget that.

Speaker 13 If you walk into the cheetah, you're going to see beautiful dancers and have a good time. They're professional.
For sure. Buttoned up.
Buttoned up. It's a little more corporate.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you have to go into a private room to get a hand shandy there, where you can probably get off at Magic City if you're just don't touch the dancers. You know what I'm saying? Or I don't know.

Speaker 13 Maybe you touch the dancers at Magic City. I don't know.
But yeah, Cheetah's the kind of of place where you'll get thrown directly out for doing any for any kind of rude behavior.

Speaker 13 I mean, they took the doors off of the men's stalls because they knew that cocaine use was going on in there. That did not happen in Magic City, Magic City is like, What? All right, cool.

Speaker 13 They put more doors on the stalls, they put two doors. It's like there's a security door.
Um, it's just a different flavor, and I love it. I'm, I think it's great that Atlanta has Magic City, yeah,

Speaker 13 and uh, there used to be some place called the Fantasy Factory. Do you remember the Fantasy Factory on

Speaker 13 Northside Drive, the Howl Mill area? No. Nah, you wouldn't have gone there.
That's the kind of place where you walk in. Was that that same place that would change names like every year?

Speaker 13 The one that our I.T. guy from

Speaker 13 the radio station was going to. Yeah, there was another dance hall.

Speaker 13 on in that same area that would often change names, but this was Fantasy Factory for a long time. And it was like this warehouse building back when it's all warehouses.

Speaker 13 So it was like a really kind of weird part of town. Yeah, kind of industrial.
Yeah, very industrial. Train tracks right behind it.
You could literally hear the train.

Speaker 13 And you would walk in and they would hand you a menu. And then there would be the girls would be in this room.

Speaker 13 And you would pick the girl and you would pick the menu. And it would be like, you know, I told you this story, I think, once.
It would be like, you know, jacuzzi experience, massage experience,

Speaker 13 you know, leather experience, feather experience, whatever it was. Oh, this is kind of more like a brothel.

Speaker 13 It is like a brothel, but obviously you can't, it's not legal to pay for sex unless you just don't say it out loud. You know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, unless you just don't say it out loud.
Okay.

Speaker 13 Yeah. And one of my friends was really hell-bent on getting there.
We had been fucked up for hours and hours and hours. And so we went there.

Speaker 13 I reluctantly went there because I'm not interested in using

Speaker 13 sex workers. That's just not my thing.
It's not my thing. But I went there because I was so fucked up and my friend was so hell-bent on going there that I just didn't want want to leave him alone.

Speaker 13 Like, I was like, okay, I'll go there and we'll see. And I had no idea what to expect.
And he instantaneously, he took to like, like a duck in water, he took to it right away.

Speaker 13 He was like, pick his girl, pick his experience. And he's out the door.
And then I'm just standing there, fucked up, tweaked out of my mind, drunk as a skunk. And I'm like, jacuzzi experience.

Speaker 13 And I go upstairs. A jacuzzi experience, you, sure.
And I go upstairs. And we are all of a sudden outside on the roof of the building.
and there is a jacuzzi.

Speaker 13 And she's like, All right, darling, you know, you get changed, and I'll be back in a minute. And get in the jacuzzi.

Speaker 13 And I'm like looking at that jacuzzi, and I'm like, I have, I don't want to go in there. No, I don't want to touch that water.
Yeah, I don't want to touch that water with your dick, let alone my dick.

Speaker 13 So I got in the jacuzzi. I was wearing shorts and underwear at the time, and I took off my shirt and went in the jacuzzi with my shorts and my underwear.

Speaker 13 So, needless to say, no action happening on behalf of Brian. I think I talked to the very lovely naked girl across from me for an hour.
That's what I did.

Speaker 13 A beautiful view of the city. The beautiful view of the city, beautiful view of her boobs, and then I just left.
I left. And I was like, and he's like, I wasn't that awesome.
How was it?

Speaker 13 And I was like,

Speaker 13 yeah, I just sat in a jacuzzi. What did you do? I got laid.

Speaker 13 I got laid. That's what I did.
And I thought, well, I guess. And he paid for it too.
So I felt bad because

Speaker 13 like, well, sorry.

Speaker 13 No, this is not me. It's not for me.
But anyway, you know, listen to each their own. It doesn't bother me a bit.

Speaker 13 I think I'm not that prudish. I'm not that prudish to believe or to think that there aren't plenty of guys and girls that are out there paying for the girlfriend, boyfriend experience, so to speak.

Speaker 13 Oh, absolutely. And I'm okay with it.
As a matter of fact, I think take it out into the light. I think sex work is work.
Take it out into the light. You're providing a service.

Speaker 13 We have had friends that have been involved with with sex work, and I loved them dearly. And I thought nothing less of them.

Speaker 13 No, I thought, what a smart way to use your energy, your time, and your abilities to help someone else. And, you know, it's like under the guys of like sexual healing, right? Sexual massage healing.

Speaker 13 Yes. Essentially, teaching guys how to be better lovers was the tagline.

Speaker 13 I don't know. That was the ad in the back.
Yeah, there's the ad. That's right.
It was the marketing line. It was on the uh, it was on the pitch deck.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 But I'll say that, you know, I never once thought less of her, the person I'm speaking of. Oh, I know.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And I thought that that was a perfect thing for her to do because she really was a magic healer. Yeah.

Speaker 13 She was a great person to talk to. She gave a hell of a massage.

Speaker 13 She had magic hands and she knew, I think, how to energetically handle certain types of, like, just I'm just going to to say this masculine energy.

Speaker 13 And so I think she probably would have been really good at that, really good at that. I asked her one time if I could use her service and she told me no outright.

Speaker 13 But, you know, that's, say, listen, it's not for everybody, right? I'm not for everybody. She probably didn't want to mix

Speaker 13 friends in business. I would never ask her.
Can I get a freebie? No.

Speaker 13 I know you didn't. No, of course not.
Of course not. I did one time, though, after a concert, go home.
Like we were like, everyone got pretty smashed except for me.

Speaker 13 Unbelievably, I stayed relatively sober. I drove her home one night.
She was smashed.

Speaker 13 I drove her home one night and we ended up doing whatever, like, you know, waking ourselves up a little bit with some, you know, some, that's a little tasty teener and then sleeping in the same, in the same bed.

Speaker 13 Yeah. And, um, and when I woke up, she's like, you want a massage? And I thought to myself, is this the question you asked before the sexual healing? I was like a little bit nervous.

Speaker 13 And she's like, thanks for taking me home. I owe you something.
You want a massage? And then I said, yes. And it was a magic massage.
Yes, she was a really good music.

Speaker 13 Yes. I felt so good.
I need a massage. That's what I need.
Somebody send me a gift certificate for massage. I'm just going to start asking our listeners to pay for stuff.

Speaker 13 Send me a massage gift certificate. And if you text me, I'll tell you which massage place to get.
It's not massage envy or whatever. That place that I went to that one time with the sheets.

Speaker 13 Oh, God, that's right.

Speaker 13 What a terrible, terrible place. I don't even think that place is still open.
Anyway, okay, so let's do this. Let's take a break.
I got some fun stuff I want to talk to.

Speaker 13 I was right about something, and now I'm going to explain to you all the bad things that are going to happen to you because of something I told you not to do after you had already done it. So I

Speaker 13 found how the math works on that. But I told you not to do something after you had already.
No, you had already done it. But then I told you not to do it.
You said, I did it.

Speaker 13 And I go, oh, well, you shouldn't have.

Speaker 13 I can't wait to hear about this. Okay.
All right. So let's take a break.
And when we get back,

Speaker 13 we'll talk about 23andMe. Oh, I know.
Yes. Okay.
We'll be back.

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Speaker 13 Okay, before we get to 23 and me and me,

Speaker 13 I'm certainly going to read you the riot act here, but I wanted to say that it is April now. So I'm going to let this cat out of the bag and we're going to just kind of slowly build up into this.

Speaker 13 Chrissy and I will be celebrating doing five years of this show very shortly. I think the actual day is like April 19th or something like that along the way.
That sounds right.

Speaker 13 That'll mark five years of this silly fucking show. I can't believe it.
And probably close to 800 episodes at that point.

Speaker 13 I mean, it's just like, it's ridiculous how much content we have put out there, but we are kind of proud of it.

Speaker 13 We are trying to learn to live with it. We're getting therapy to be proud of what we're doing.

Speaker 13 And other people like it, apparently, from what we hear.

Speaker 13 And in conjunction with Central Talent Booking, Covert Creative, and our network Odyssey, we will in May be celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month

Speaker 13 by doing drum roll please

Speaker 13 12 episodes of of the commercial break in one day.

Speaker 13 That's right. Everybody loves a good

Speaker 13 endurance feat. Every human

Speaker 13 since time immemorial, we have celebrated those who have gone the distance, who have done things further, faster, and longer than everyone else.

Speaker 13 So to my knowledge, there has never been another podcast that has put out 12 episodes in one day. Now, that's to my knowledge.

Speaker 13 I haven't really checked, but I'm just making the assumption that no one is going to. We're going to at least attempt this.
We're going going to attempt it.

Speaker 13 I don't know if we're going to get through it, but we're going to attempt it. It will likely be on Saturday, May 31st, the last day of the month.

Speaker 13 That way, Chrissy and I can go directly to bed and not wake up till Monday. And I can put my children somewhere for the afternoon.

Speaker 13 But we will be doing this to raise awareness about the importance of mental health. We will have celebrity guests on board to help us get through the day.

Speaker 13 And Chrissy and I will be releasing an episode that we are recording that day every hour for you to listen to uh from 10 a.m until 10 p.m now details subject to change but details all of it yeah i'm i'm glad i told you the details because they'll probably change it'll probably be like 11 30 to 1245 or some bullshit like that um but right now that's where we're going with it uh and it's very much going to happen now because now we've roped celebrities into doing it so i don't think we have much of a choice at this point but i just wanted to let everyone know that there's the opening salvo.

Speaker 13 May 31st, mark your calendars, 12 episodes of TCB. If you can keep up with all 12, you're going to get something.
And that is, and we're likely to give away something on that day. So stay tuned.

Speaker 13 You'll probably want to tune in. Mark your calendars, kids.
12 hours of TCB is coming your way to celebrate five years of the commercial break and mental health awareness month. That is May.
Okay.

Speaker 13 Now, speaking of your mental health. We're going to need mental health afterwards.
No shit. We should get a therapist.
I can't believe you roped me into this.

Speaker 13 The original idea was 24 hours of TCB.

Speaker 13 Yeah. So, oh, I didn't say it wasn't happening.
I said it's not happening this time. We've got to work our way into it.
What are we going to do at 10 years? I don't know. We'll see.

Speaker 13 We're coming up with some ways. I think we're definitely doing the 12 days of TCB again, which is going to be 23 episodes.
We know that.

Speaker 13 But we'll prepare better for that. We'll space it out a little more evenly last time.
But this one, there's no spacing out. We're going in.
We're staying the day.

Speaker 13 We're considering Twitch, but that's not.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we're considering throwing out a live episode on Twitch. Like you guys, the thing is, is that podcasts are recorded by nature.
There is no functionality on the RSS feed to do live.

Speaker 13 So we would have to do that on YouTube and or Twitch.

Speaker 13 But we will record the episode and then flip it back out on the hour. So essentially, while you're listening to one episode, we'll be recording the next episode.
So that's the minutiae of it.

Speaker 13 We'll talk a lot more about that. But, you know, we're going to have a lot of time to talk about lots of stuff.

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Speaker 13 Obviously, most people will not be listening to 12 hours of the commercial break, but you'll have a whole three days, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to catch up on those 12 hours before we start putting out more episodes the following week.

Speaker 13 That's stupid. What was I thinking? I was thinking something, and I opened my mouth, and everyone was like, Yeah, let's do that.
And I'm like, well, you don't actually have to do it. Ah, that's great.

Speaker 13 I love it.

Speaker 13 Anyway, okay, 23andMe

Speaker 13 is bankrupt. They went bankrupt.
Unsustainable business model. Lots of competitive.

Speaker 13 It's a competitive industry where there are lots of companies doing the exact same thing. DNA technology is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Speaker 13 and so therefore, the 23andMe model is not sustainable because it's not a subscription service for most people, it's just a one and done.

Speaker 13 And 23andMe is that company that claimed that they could tell you why you liked coffee because you were from the Aribica,

Speaker 13 you know, your family, your clan was from the Aribica

Speaker 13 zone of Columbia or whatever. It was kind of silly, if you ask me, but the thing that I have always been warning people about since these services started coming in fashion probably 10 years ago

Speaker 13 was what happens when the government or private industry that does not mean well wants to buy that information from that company.

Speaker 13 Because I promise you, in the terms of service, you're not going to have the right to say no. They're going to have the ability to take that data and sell it.
And they probably will.

Speaker 13 And they probably were anyway. But now it's on the auction block.
And who's going to get it? Elon Musk?

Speaker 13 That Bezos guy?

Speaker 13 I don't know. Dennis Dennis Rodman.
I mean, anybody could get that information.

Speaker 13 And then they could have their own database of DNA sitting there ready for use in what way they see fit, creating new human beings,

Speaker 13 splattering blood in the scene of the OJ crimes. I don't know, but you never know.
And that's the challenge. The challenge is you don't know what they're going to do with it.

Speaker 13 And you have no say in what they do with it anymore. And now the judge is going to sell it to the highest bidder, or they're going to sell it to the highest bidder.

Speaker 13 And it's likely that the investors in that company are not going to give a shit about where that information goes because they just want their money back. And that is the challenge.

Speaker 13 And that's why I've never used one of those services. Now, to be fair, my twin brother has, and we're twins, so I'm kind of fucked anyway.
But I mean, we're fraternal twins at least.

Speaker 13 There's a little twist in the DNA somewhere there. But, you know, this seems dangerous to me.
Anytime we give this kind of extraordinarily, all of our personal information is out there anyway.

Speaker 13 Our social security numbers, our addresses, our phone numbers, anybody can be found at any time just knowing how to Google. And now with Chat GTG.

Speaker 13 Brian has broken. Powering down.

Speaker 13 With ChatGPT.

Speaker 13 It's so much easier than it was before to find out loads of information on people. I asked ChatGPT to give me a biography on myself.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 and you, and you should have seen the amount of information that it got just reading the internet. It got a lot of information.
Information.

Speaker 13 Stuff I didn't even know about myself was in there. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 13 No, I needed a biography for purposes. And I said, okay, can you create a biography on the two hosts of the commercial break? And it came up with a

Speaker 13 like a whole four

Speaker 13 pages on me, less on you, because I don't think as much information is out there about you. But some of that information, I was like, wow, that is pretty spot on.

Speaker 13 And there's a couple of things that I didn't understand, or I thought were just wrong altogether. But mostly, the right information, and there's a lot of it.

Speaker 13 And I don't put a lot of personal information out there. Like, at least it didn't say that you had murdered your children, like that one guy that's suing from like over in Europe or something.

Speaker 13 Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.
Well,

Speaker 13 you want to know the craziest thing? And this is all just leading, this will lead to a point, I promise. Most of my speeches do.
You just might have to listen for a couple episodes again to the point.

Speaker 13 I

Speaker 13 asked ChatGPT something about the commercial break. They had like a new model that came out.
And I said, and it was like a deep research model. And I got access to it.

Speaker 13 They're like, you get, we're giving you access to test it out. You know, go ahead, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's like 4.5 or whatever.

Speaker 13 So I said, like I always do, because I'm just obsessed with hearing about myself. I'm like, okay, tell me about the commercial break.

Speaker 13 And the commercial, and at this time, you and I have recorded our interview with Rory Scovell, but we have not released our episode with Rory Scovelle.

Speaker 13 And it goes, gives me a biography of the dissertation on the commercial break. And then it tells me the commercial break also has celebrity guests in a segment they call TCB Infomercial.

Speaker 13 Here's some of the examples. You know, Lunel, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada, yada.
Do you want more information on the commercial break and their guests?

Speaker 13 I said, yeah, tell me which celebrity guests have been on the commercial break.

Speaker 13 And it says, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and Rory Scovell. And I was like,

Speaker 13 how does it know that we had Rory? What's that? Your phone. My phone.
That's right. It took the information from my phone.
Yeah, the phones are listening to us.

Speaker 13 It's known. Well,

Speaker 13 it had made the assumption. It now knows that I'm the host of the commercial break.

Speaker 13 It made the assumption because I asked it a question about Rory's background before we asked, before we got him here on an interview. It made the assumption that I had interviewed him.

Speaker 13 And that's what it told me. Because I said, how did you know that I had interviewed? How did you know that the commercial bike had interviewed Rory? I don't find that episode publicly.

Speaker 13 And it said, that information is not available publicly. It's based on previous conversations.
I made the assumption you had interviewed Rory. And I was like, holy fucking dick shit.
That's crazy.

Speaker 13 That is crazy. Like, that's crazy scary.
Yeah. That it's like thinking and reasoning like that.
That's insane. My six-year-old can't think and reason like that.

Speaker 13 Meanwhile, I'm using it for gardening too. Yeah, meanwhile,

Speaker 13 Chrissy's like, tell me something nice.

Speaker 13 And I'm like, give me the war plans to destroy the

Speaker 13 Kazmerkistan. You know, it's like,

Speaker 13 how do you build a bomb at home?

Speaker 13 So it's just scary. And this amount of information already available about us, leaving the only thing that we don't have readily available at our disposal is generally our bio information.

Speaker 13 the information about us biologically. And now it is going to be out there because it's going to be on sale.
And we have no say, no say in who gets it.

Speaker 13 And the government, as it stands right now in this administration, is unlikely to put their finger on the scale to, you know, sue the, to get an injunction or whatever to stop this from happening.

Speaker 13 They don't give a shit. Probably some of those people in the administration will be some of the bidders because they will see value in having that bioinformation out there.
That's scary to me.

Speaker 13 It's really scary to me. And yeah, so shame on you for using 23 and me.
I didn't. Oh, I thought you used 23andMe.
Nope. What would you use? Ancestry.
Oh, Ancestry.com. Okay.

Speaker 13 But I think the point remains the same is that Ancestry.com is another business that at some point may or may not close the doors.

Speaker 13 And if 23andMe couldn't hack it, Ancestry probably is living and breathing in the same industry. And as these services become cheaper, more widely available, then Ancestry and me might go,

Speaker 13 you know, we can't do it anyway. And then that information is on the chopping block getting sold too.
So I just want you to be cautious.

Speaker 13 already, your cat's already out of the bag for you.

Speaker 13 I can't have you here.

Speaker 13 I guess I could go and delete because I mean, I was listening to a podcast about this, the story, the 23andMe story, and they were saying, you know, it's, I guess there's not going to be a sale until later this year.

Speaker 13 So if you do use that, you can go in and delete your information now, whether that's deleted, deleted, it's not.

Speaker 13 Yeah. Just you think it's deleted? I don't know.
You can go and delete that.

Speaker 13 But they were saying, too, that these services aren't going to go away, really, because people are always going to want to know like where they came from and

Speaker 13 why they're, if they're predispositioned for certain illnesses and food allergies, that kind of thing. I mean, there's going to, I think there's always going to be people that want to know.

Speaker 13 I don't disagree that that information is important. It should be used for the purposes of bettering our health or bettering our life.

Speaker 13 But I think that should be done through channels that are more protective of your information, like under the HIPAA laws, right? So a doctor. So the doctor says, I'm, you know, like

Speaker 13 prostate cancer is in my family. And so the doctor goes in and does a biopsy when my brother gets cancer.

Speaker 13 And then he says, I'd like to have this genetically tested to see if you are predisposed to genes that we know. Other people who've had the similar genes have prostate cancer too.

Speaker 13 So that we can see if it's more or less aggressive, if they're, if we need to do something with your other brothers or whatever. Exactly.
And so that. felt right to me, right?

Speaker 13 That's like, yes, that's an easy decision to make. It's just like these private companies, you know, that have no vested interest in any of that.
They don't give a shit whether you're healthy or not.

Speaker 13 They don't, you know, they might give you that information, but they're not going to protect that information when it comes down to brass tax.

Speaker 13 They're going to sell to the highest bidder because their purpose here in this ether

Speaker 13 is not to make sure you're healthy or wealthy or wise. It's to make sure they have money in their pocket.
And so therefore, anything that they can do to make revenue is fair game.

Speaker 13 And yeah, they can say, make sure you go in and delete the information before the sale. It's already being housed a million different places.
There's multiple copies of it.

Speaker 13 You know, and even if it's blind DNA, that DNA, even being blind, meaning there's no name attached to it, it's in your body. So it's like, it would be hard to unwind that.

Speaker 13 It's like, it's so connected. So I'm giving this advice to all of my friends because I've been saying this for 10 years.
Don't do these services.

Speaker 13 If you need DNA testing, go to your doctor and explain why you might want DNA testing. I'd like to know how many children I have in foreign countries.
Please do a DNA test, doctor.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but I think they caught some serial killers by the DNA tests. Yes.
Those same services.

Speaker 13 And listen, that's great when you get one, but DNA is not a perfect science. And so many people who are scientists in this universe will tell you, I have a friend and works for the CDC and explains.

Speaker 13 Still working for the CDC.

Speaker 13 According to our last text message, Shane, yes, and that was a couple of days ago, but he was

Speaker 13 very nervous about it. Very nervous.
He said everybody was very nervous about it. But the point is, is that DNA is an imperfect science and it has been for a long time.

Speaker 13 And mistakes are made and things happen. And when people have your DNA, it can be used for good.
It can be used nefariously. And that's the thing is that not everybody has great intent.

Speaker 13 We can see that it's like playing out in every newscast that we've seen for the last 200 days, right? It's not everybody, you'd like to think that people are like, yeah,

Speaker 13 I want to do good and I want to be best and all that other stuff, but not everybody thinks that way. And some people are just quite frankly, they're like, you know, from the land of broken toys.

Speaker 13 I don't even know what they're thinking. 23andMe, while I'm sure the intention was to make some money and help people find information, that was probably the original mission of 23andMe.

Speaker 13 It's now some big conglomeration that's going to get sold. And and so is all of your information.
So I don't know.

Speaker 13 Change your DNA. Go get a blood transfusion or something like that.
I don't know what to tell you. Well, it's out there now.
So it's kind of exciting to think about a robot, Chrissy.

Speaker 13 No.

Speaker 13 I don't know. What's the worst they could do? I guess I'm not thinking in terms of like what, like I'm being like, I could be framed for a murder.
Is that what you're thinking?

Speaker 13 I don't think that that would happen, but stranger things have happened.

Speaker 13 There are people that are sitting in jail right now that are innocent as the day is long, and they were convicted on DNA evidence. There are whole documentaries about it, right?

Speaker 13 The DNA evidence was wrong. It was wrong.
It was interpreted wrong. It was done wrong.
It was whatever wrong.

Speaker 13 But the other thing is, is I think more importantly is your information or DNA would be used

Speaker 13 in some way to, I don't know, create designer children or, you know, oh, we like these desirable traits about this person.

Speaker 13 So we're going to put this in a string of sequences that then we can sell to people who want designer babies and we can infuse the DNA or whatever.

Speaker 13 And then all of a sudden, not real Chrissy children running around here, but like part of Chrissy children, like, you know, they got your eyes or whatever.

Speaker 13 I mean, it's a little weird and it's happening. It's all happening.
Telling you. You got to start using ChatGPT to look up all the weird negative shit.

Speaker 13 I'm going to keep continuing down my gardening, Ralph. You are turning into an old lady right in front of me.

Speaker 13 In some ways, ways, you're still a young buck

Speaker 13 wilding out there on the streets night after night. But in other ways, I'm like, are you going to get into crocheting any day now? Crochet is making a big comeback.

Speaker 13 I actually did try to get into crocheting, but I can't.

Speaker 13 No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't see you as a crocheter.
I mean, if you do crochet, it's all over.

Speaker 13 I can see you in here, like, and while I'm talking doing crochet.

Speaker 13 It seems old, but there's a whole new section. Our Jeff's daughter is huge into crocheting.
We have listeners that want to crochet this stuff. Yeah, I listen.

Speaker 13 When I was growing up, it was hot. There was a lot of people that did it, like, you know, younger ladies that were doing it.
Wow. Fell out of favor, at least where I lived, right?

Speaker 13 I remember seeing women who had. I just remember seeing old people doing it.

Speaker 13 No, it was like. It's become new.
Yeah, it was like the things the moms, like the young moms were doing. Cause I remember being young and going over to friends' houses and seeing the moms

Speaker 13 talking on the phone, crocheting or whatever.

Speaker 13 And that's back when you had to hold the phone. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 13 like it had it up to your ear like that we were on the phone yeah you were on the phone and whatever uh but you know and there we have listeners that crochet too we have listeners that have offered to crochet us things oh yeah i love crochet things and i'm like yeah i've got hats bags all kinds of stuff from yeah our daughter send it along so i can scrape your dna off of it and put it in a database that i'm gonna sell to the most nefarious winner

Speaker 13 your mind goes to the worst things and mine goes to the best it doesn't go to the worst things it goes to things that i think are feasible. And that makes me cautious, right?

Speaker 13 I'm like, oh, I don't know about that. I just, I don't know.
I just like, I think everything with a healthy dose, I generally am an optimist.

Speaker 13 I'm really optimistic about most things, but I have a general sense of,

Speaker 13 look out for that. Like, look out for that.

Speaker 13 You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's like, ah, ah, I don't know about that.
You know, I have a healthy dose of street smart, I think, that is in my brain. All right.
So let's do this.

Speaker 13 Let's take a break and we get back. More to talk about.

Speaker 13 Let me do something Brian has never done. Be brief.

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Speaker 13 Oh, I do love watching the Fire Fest 2 fall apart. This is a lot of fun.
This is the latest. Well, they had a press conference in that at that.
They had a press conference.

Speaker 13 They had a press conference where Billy was like not there because he can't physically leave the United States. He can't even leave New York because he is under, he's on parole.

Speaker 13 So he cannot leave New York.

Speaker 13 So he is zooming in to a press conference in Playa del Carmen in Quintana Roo, where there are some other people from a production company, like a police officer, I guess, from the local, and then like 10 reporters.

Speaker 13 I mean, it was like sparsely attended, right? And they're in like a thatched hut on the beach or whatever.

Speaker 13 And he's just putting this on for show to tell people, you know, I do have some connection down there and, you know, it is happening. But this is only 1,800 people are coming.

Speaker 13 Only 18, there's only 1,800 tickets.

Speaker 13 He's encouraging people to buy the $1.1 million ticket. Of course, he is.
Of course he is. Where they will live, quote-unquote, like Jack Sparrow or Laura Croft for the weekend.

Speaker 13 It's like, for $1.1 million, I better be living like Elon fucking Musk for the weekend. I mean, honestly,

Speaker 13 I should have a...

Speaker 13 the nicest Lear jet, the biggest yacht, the best service, and blowjobs whenever I want. I mean, that's just a kid.
I'm just making a joke there. Don't get all upset.

Speaker 13 But I mean, honestly, maybe I should have blowjobs. I mean, that's like an insane amount of money to spend on three days for a festival that is so.

Speaker 13 I don't know if you can call it a festival at 1800 people. It's not a festival.
It's more like a big party, is really what it is. And it's disparate.
It's all over the place.

Speaker 13 It's not even in one location. It's like a venue here and a venue there.
And they're supposedly dropping a list of artists sometime in the next two weeks. Oh, great.
But that gives me zero confidence.

Speaker 13 Well, yeah, right as things are approaching. Yes.

Speaker 13 This is going, yeah.

Speaker 13 And oh, and by the way, one enterprising reporter pointed out that on the website's terms of service, when you purchase a ticket, it says that Firefest 2 and its organizers have the right to change the date, time, locations, and artists without notice.

Speaker 13 And there are absolutely zero exchanges or refunds. So, riddle me that, Riddler.
How are you?

Speaker 13 You're going to buy a ticket for starting at $1,400, and there is no guarantee you will ever see that money again. None, zero.
I guarantee they don't have

Speaker 13 event insurance because you can't have event insurance unless you have an actual event at a location where there's plans for things that are happening.

Speaker 13 No insurance company in the world is going to insure an event that's happening in 17 different places.

Speaker 13 It's just not, it's just not, this is so backwards from everything that I understand that goes on in the event industry, especially the festival industry, that Chrissy's right.

Speaker 13 It's not a festival, it's a party in multiple locations.

Speaker 13 They have loosely cobbled together some people who may or may not be involved, and then they're hoping, hoping that they get enough people down there to break even.

Speaker 13 At 1800 people, you would have to sell,

Speaker 13 you'd have to sell every ticket to even get any artist of note down there.

Speaker 13 Now, I'll eat my shoe if they announce, like, you know, Green Day or Adele or, you know, I don't know, whoever, Travis Scott is going to show up.

Speaker 13 But I guarantee it's not going to be that caliber of artist. It's going to be like Jojo Siwa.

Speaker 13 It's going to be like Jojo Siwa and I don't know, like some, you know, D-list celebrities that you might or might not get to hang out with.

Speaker 13 It's so weird. How's he going to pay for all of this?

Speaker 13 It's all weird.

Speaker 13 It's so weird. And he's desperately trying to put on

Speaker 13 a happy face for everybody. But I know he's got to be freaking out inside that he announced this.
This is his big comeback. He's trying to make it all happen.
And it's clear that no one believes him.

Speaker 13 No one. With good reason, because he hasn't done this the right way.
He should have announced a festival for 2026 and then said more information.

Speaker 13 Here's where, and he should have had all his ducks in a row. Here's where it's going to be.
Here's who's playing. Here's how you buy tickets.
If it doesn't happen, I've got a protection program.

Speaker 13 I've got an insurance company like Allianz or somebody that is going to pay you back. Don't worry about it.
And the tickets are reasonably priced. They're $500 for the weekend, right?

Speaker 13 Or something along those lines. And then if you want to spend $10,000 to get a crazy, you know, suite, then that's it.

Speaker 13 But there's like loosely associated hotels that are going to charge you in addition to the tickets that you're buying. It really is cobbled together.
It really is cobbled together.

Speaker 13 It's not the right way to do it. It really isn't.
It just shows a lack of professionalism in any organization whatsoever. He had this idea in his head.
He announced it.

Speaker 13 And now he has no idea how it's all going to go down.

Speaker 13 And so you, therefore, shouldn't even think about going down there unless you're like one of those people who really loves to stop at a car crash and take a look at it. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 13 That's why I would go down there. I would go down there and not buy a ticket.
I just want to be in the town to see what happens.

Speaker 13 Yeah. And there's going to be so much press just crawling all over the place for that.

Speaker 13 You know that every reporter that works for every magazine in the entire world is begging their editor for this assignment.

Speaker 13 Please send me down to Quintana Roo for this particular event so that I can watch the shit show and get a tan while I'm at it. There you go.
Exactly. Wow.
So unbelievable.

Speaker 13 What date is it supposed to be? I think it's May 31st. I think it's the same day as the 12 hours of TCB.

Speaker 13 And I have no no fear that it's going to, that we're going to, that's going to be problematic for us.

Speaker 13 The Fire Fest.

Speaker 13 When is the Fire Fest? I don't know when the Fire Fest is. Yeah, I think it's May 31st.
May 30th. Yep.
May 30th, 31st, and June 1st. Wow.
What a shit show this is going to be. I just.

Speaker 13 I'm just can't wait. I can't wait to see how it all goes down.
Take lots of video. If you're going, take lots of video.

Speaker 13 I I know that no one that listens to the commercial break is going because they believe me on this one. They may not believe me on everything, but they believe me on this one.

Speaker 13 They believe me that this is not a good thing to do with your money. I don't think it's a hard convince.

Speaker 13 I mean, I think you have to have your head directly stuck in your ass to think that it's a good idea to go down to the Fire Fest. Don't you? Oh, of course.

Speaker 13 Or just a lot of extra money, or you're already on your way down to Quintana Rue. And hey, why not? Let me, you know, and you got $1,400 to blow.
Let me see what it's all about.

Speaker 13 But I don't want to see some fucking shitty DJ that played at Ibiza last summer. That's the kind of, that's the kind of shit they're going to, you're going to get.

Speaker 13 You know, DJ breaker balls coming from straight from his, you know,

Speaker 13 straight from his five-day set at Ibiza's, you know,

Speaker 13 Abiza's hottest outdoor beach club.

Speaker 13 It's like, oh, okay. Congratulations.
You know, the brand new YouTube artist, Dave.

Speaker 13 Dave, acoustic set from Dave. Yeah, I mean, the fact that he's announced no one yet is definitely just concerning in itself.

Speaker 13 It means there is no one to announce. That's what it means.

Speaker 13 Because you know that if Billy had anybody of note, he would be screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs how great it is that this artist is coming. Even just one, one

Speaker 13 A-list legacy act that you could hang your hat on, you would be saying that. And then, also, if you had that one A-list legacy act, then you could get other people to attach themselves to the show.

Speaker 13 They would be like, Well, you know, okay,

Speaker 13 Rihanna's playing, so I guess I'm going to play too. Of course.
But the fact is, there is nobody to talk about because there is no festival happening. It is totally and literally a shit show.

Speaker 13 Again, I can't believe it. I can't.
I'm just. I know.
I'm

Speaker 13 stunned that he's doing this i've never seen a train wreck so clearly coming down the tracks never and what did they say in the press release too like i mean again we're this would be the part where you would announce yeah let me somebody the somebody was there i'll read the byline oh here

Speaker 13 yes yeah

Speaker 13 uh fire festival founder billy mcfarland has reassured revelers that the proper permits are in place for the rapidly approaching multi-day event in Mexico.

Speaker 13 McFarlane proclaimed that the second installment of Firefest will be an an opportunity for him to amend the disastrous 2017 event, which left attendees stranded on an island in the Bahamas that lacked any food, water, or accommodations.

Speaker 13 And this shows a picture and it says, I have a second chance to do right by the people around me and against all odds to turn this nightmare into real dreams.

Speaker 13 McFarlane said via video at Thursday's press conference.

Speaker 13 For the attendees, for the partners sitting on stage, Firefest 2 is about being a dreamer. You are so full of shit.

Speaker 13 Being a traveler and being an adventure seeker around the world, converging on Playa del Carmen to live like Jack Sparrow or live like Laura Croft for three whole days.

Speaker 13 The festival will host 1,800 guests and feature 40 musical performances. Event associate producer Danielle Martin said, Poor Daniel, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into.

Speaker 13 However, the Fire Fest organizers stop short of revealing any of the artists despite the event slated to kick off on May 30th.

Speaker 13 Partner Mike Feld vowed to unveil the first list of artists on the Fire Festival's social media platforms in the next few weeks. The intention of this press conference,

Speaker 13 it's unbelievable. The intention of this press conference is to set the basis of the festival, the foundation of it, the security, the locations, the infrastructure, the hotels.

Speaker 13 So, this is the intention for today. The artist, the first release of the artist will come in the next couple of weeks.
So, please be attentive to it. What in the world does that even mean?

Speaker 13 That's a weird way of talking. Another partner named Fernando said the organizers have already secured Fernando.

Speaker 13 Ah, Fernando.

Speaker 13 Another partner named Fernando.

Speaker 13 Hey, my name's Fernando. Don't worry, dude.
Everything's cool.

Speaker 13 Everything's cool. Come on down.
Buy the Prometheus package.

Speaker 13 He said that the organizers have already secured the permits to make the festival successful. Well, permits don't make it successful, they just allow it to happen.
But thank you.

Speaker 13 Manuel Reda, the head of artists and commercial relations for the Mexican event organizer Lost Nights, said that the fire team has found a home for the festival in Playa del Carmen.

Speaker 13 Reda expressed confidence in the fire team's ability to make a festival a success. The reality is, of all those, doubts and concerns are fixed with a very simple thing: we are in Mexico.
What?

Speaker 13 What? Hey, about Firefest 1. Don't worry, man.
We are in Mexico.

Speaker 13 Yeah, and the whole Jack Sparrow Laura Croft thing leads me to believe that it's, you know, there's, because there's a lot of jungle there, especially when you're flying in, because we just flew in there.

Speaker 13 And of course, it's all jungle. So this could turn out to be even worse.
Well, no, I mean, they're in a, they're doing it a Playo de Carmen, which is a major city down there. But I agree with you.

Speaker 13 Like, why are you giving giving us the Jack Sparrow? I don't want to live like Jack Sparrow. He was a drunk living in like the time of the scourge.

Speaker 13 We are in the Riviera Maya. We're in Playa del Carmen.
There's no lack of five-star hotels, five-star culinary experiences.

Speaker 13 And since founding the new partners, now that you go down there and pay for it, yeah. I mean, that's that's true.
You don't have to have a lot of people. That's just a vacation.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And since founding the new partners, the new team here for Firefest 2 is about building long-term and deep relationships with both the partners of the company, the attendees of the event, and the local supporters in the region, which Firefest will, where Firefest will be held.

Speaker 13 I don't even understand what any of this doublespeak is.

Speaker 13 They're just talking out their ass.

Speaker 13 The press conference comes a day after the U.S. Sun exclusively revealed Fire Festival CouncilGoers will not get a refund if the event is canceled.

Speaker 13 The top-tier Prometheus ticket is valued for a staggering $1.1 million. The U.S.

Speaker 13 Sun revealed that the second iteration of the initially doomed festival has some unusual stipulations in the terms of service for the multi-day Sorora A, which has already changed its location twice in the last month.

Speaker 13 It's an astonishingly long terms of service. Fire attempts to avoid accountability should anything go wrong this time.

Speaker 13 In the lengthy agreement for ticket holders, there are a slew of serious warnings about what one might expect. One such warning reads in in a section titled Refund and Exchanges.

Speaker 13 All ticket sales are final. Absolutely no refunds are exchanges.
General emissions starts at $1,400. Next step is $5,000, then $25,000, and finally $1.1 million.
That's crazy. On Tuesday, McFarland

Speaker 13 claimed on Instagram that they had sold their second Prometheus ticket. Don't believe it.
In 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty. He agreed to.

Speaker 13 Okay, you get it.

Speaker 13 Yeah, we'll just

Speaker 13 keep our eye

Speaker 13 on things.

Speaker 13 In the terms of service, it says you agree that no fire party will be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the service or event.

Speaker 13 We may cancel any event at any time in our sole discretion. Further, event date, time, location, and talent are subject to change, and any change will not be considered a cancellation of the event.

Speaker 13 And you will bear all risks of inclement weather in connection with the event. Events may take place despite inclement weather.

Speaker 13 In the event of cancellation due to a natural disaster, tickets will not be refunded. All costs associated with the cancellation, such as travel, will be your responsibility.

Speaker 13 Well, that should make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Speaker 13 Thanks, Billy, for putting on the second most interesting thing that's ever happened in the festival industry.

Speaker 13 Mempho being the first, of course. Mempho.
Go to Mempho. Go to a real festival.
Go to Mempho.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 13 there There won't be no glamping there, but, you know, there's lots of hotels to stay at

Speaker 13 in Memphis.

Speaker 13 God, it's really, it is just so crazy. I can't

Speaker 13 let you know. I don't know how to explain it.
I don't know what to say. I don't know where to go with it.
I don't know how to think about it. He's going to make something happen.
He sure is.

Speaker 13 We'll see. What that thing is, I have no idea.
But hey, listen. Okay.
God bless you. You know what, Billy? I do wish you the best.
I hope that you are.

Speaker 13 I wish the ticket people that have bought tickets tickets the best. Well, I hope they have a rousing good time.
I hope they sell every ticket.

Speaker 13 I hope there's great bands, and I hope Billy pays back every dollar for the first people he fucked before he decides to fuck the second people.

Speaker 13 But I don't know. I have no faith.
I have no faith. I have no faith in humanity anymore, Chrissy.
I'm done.

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