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Speaker 2 Brian, can can you fix the stroke and me?

Speaker 2 Aye, aye, aye, Brian.

Speaker 2 You're not a man.

Speaker 2 You're just a guy who talks incessantly.

Speaker 2 A guy with soft, smooth hands.

Speaker 2 Aye, Brian.

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Speaker 2 why can't you sit still?

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Speaker 2 Brian, do you only drink like beer?

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Speaker 2 Brian, what will you do when I'm not here?

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Speaker 2 You're not a real man.

Speaker 2 You're just a guy who puts on lotion with clean ale and I'll faint and

Speaker 2 Brian, can you take care of my daughter?

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Speaker 2 Brian, can you fix the leaking water?

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Speaker 2 Hey, you in the podcast universe coming on really quickly to tell you three things. Number one, our merch line is available to pre-order right now at shoptcbpodcast.com.

Speaker 2 Number two, if you're listening to this on August 8th of 2025, at 5 p.m., Chrissy and I will be going live on YouTube and Twitch to break down the movie Rally LA. It's TCB minus.
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Speaker 2 And you can watch us do it live. Go to Instagram to get more information and links to join in.

Speaker 2 Number three, and maybe more importantly, in this episode, Chrissy and I will try to break down a Polly couch cushions video.

Speaker 2 And as you will see, what starts off as funny turns into something a little bit different.

Speaker 2 While Chrissy and I do not know Polly and we have no understanding of whether or not Pauli is actually struggling with addiction, it becomes clear to us that he may be.

Speaker 2 It takes one to know one, and Chrissy and I have been around enough narcotics in our life to understand that Pauli may be struggling.

Speaker 2 While we love to have fun on the show, eventually Chrissy and I do not find this funny and we bail on the video. Why am I telling you this when you're just gonna listen to it in a second anyway?

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Speaker 2 Listen, Chrissy and I have partied enough in our lifetime to kill an elephant and a narwhal and a couple baby seals. And we've never been shy about sharing that on the show.

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Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the Commercial Break.
I'm Brian Gray. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley.
Best to you, Chris. Best T, Brian.

Speaker 1 Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us on a merch drop Friday.
That's right, merge drop Friday.

Speaker 1 Now, you'll incessantly hear about it for only two more weeks, and then again in three more months.

Speaker 1 I'm wearing my Commercial Break University sweater, which is very comfortable. Indeed.
Yes, it is. Chrissy.
It's very comfortable. It's good looking.
Sexy, if you will.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't want to call myself sexy, but other people have in the past. At in the throes of passion.

Speaker 1 I can't remember her name, but lovely girl. It's a very sexy sweatshirt.
It is. It makes me look good.
It fits in all the right places, as they would say. Mainly up here and not down around here.

Speaker 1 Stay with the chest away from the belly and you'll be good. I'm lucky I don't have those like ever-growing man boobs, but I mean, I don't like,

Speaker 1 you know, I don't have a ton of extra weight. I got extra weight, but not a ton of it.
But I don't have those man boobs.

Speaker 1 But if I did, this would be the sweater that I would wear because it covers you nicely. It's a nice

Speaker 1 thick material. Nice, thick material.
It

Speaker 1 hangs nicely. Anyway, shop tcbpodcast.com, shop tcbpodcast.com is open right now for you to pre-order your merch.
Please go do that and we would be happy to automatically, no charge, at our expense,

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Speaker 1 We would love to do that, but we can't do that. So we won't do that.
What we will do is we will give you a free TCB sticker, a best-to-use sticker that we designed ourselves.

Speaker 1 And by ourselves, I mean, other people outside the company designed and they were lovely about it. We picked it.
And we picked it. We went like that one.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 And thank you to AKT, Odyssey, and Astrid for putting all of this together on our very first merch drop.

Speaker 1 I can imagine right now, AKT is probably having a hard time keeping up with all the orders, Chrissy. There's demand is high.
The demand is high.

Speaker 1 They're probably like... You know, like on Google, when you see like the

Speaker 1 nine to five of the business and it has the huge yellow spike. Yes.
Like very busy. Yes.
Right now, whatever hour you're listening to, it's very busy.

Speaker 1 I can see the people at AKT probably have like a probably like a mission control room. Yes.
Like some of those

Speaker 1 technology-based businesses do. Like a mission control room.
And it's probably like zero,

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Speaker 1 one. Yes!

Speaker 1 Quick to the printing room.

Speaker 1 I used to work.

Speaker 1 You know, I was an internet marketer in the days of the MLM known as search engine optimization. And I would go and I would sell search engine optimized, search engine optimizes to people.
And I...

Speaker 1 You want to be first on Google? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You want to be first on google you got to be on the first page of google if you're not on the first page of google no one's going to find you which by the way was true back then it wasn't like it was i i was selling fanciful well i was selling magic because in the sense that we would never tell anybody that it was probably pretty easy to do yourself but we didn't want to let you know that but for fifty thousand dollars a month you can be like number three and then for a hundred thousand dollars a month you can be number two And for $150,000 a month, still can't guarantee you're going to be number one.

Speaker 1 But I walked into this. We had this client and the the client, what they did, they were kind of like Iron Mountain.

Speaker 1 They would take all your records, they would scan them in for you, and then they would either store them securely or

Speaker 1 files.

Speaker 1 Your paper files. Your paper files, yeah.
Yeah. So they would take your documents, scan them in.
And they, so they were a big, at the end of the day, like technology business.

Speaker 1 They were putting everything in the cloud, then they were actually physically storing them or making sure that they got they were gotten rid of securely. How they did that, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Put them in the back of an unmarked vehicle vehicle and send them to Venezuela. I'm not sure.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 But they had this big control room in their office and it was like badass.

Speaker 1 They had like hundreds of computer screens and they were monitoring all the things all around the world and their certain server. Data, data, data, data.
Data, data, data.

Speaker 1 It was like five guys in there always look very busy. And I never understood any of it, but I always thought it was very cool.

Speaker 1 And now, who knew that just a short 10 years later, I would also have a very similar situation, still don't understand what's going on, Still have no clue what our mission control is all about.

Speaker 1 I have no idea what any of these things do.

Speaker 1 But what I do know is that someone down at AKT right now is probably scrambling to figure out how they handle all the traffic on shoptcbpodcast.com.

Speaker 1 So go buy your merch. There it is.
You've been asking for it. We gave it to you.
And free sticker with every single purchase.

Speaker 1 One of the things that I wanted to follow up on was a lady named Lauren and her daughter, Bella.

Speaker 1 I think I mentioned that Bella had texted and said that my mom and I listened to the commercial break in the car. So we listened to it together, essentially.

Speaker 1 And I was like, wow, that's really cool. And she's a younger lady, you know, a teenager.

Speaker 1 And I thought, wow, that's really cool. And we've had a number of teenagers actually who've texted us over the years and said, I'm listening to the show.
I listen to the show for various reasons.

Speaker 1 I like it. Good life advice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Don't take any advice from me. Listen to Chrissy.
Don't listen to me. If I say it, discount it automatically as either bullshit or the exact opposite of whatever you think you should be doing.

Speaker 1 Okay, my life. When I write the book, you will understand just what a dum-dum I am.

Speaker 1 One day I'm going to put it into like 150 pages rather than 800 episodes of the commercial break. But I thought it was very nice that they wrote in and that they were listening together.

Speaker 1 I thought, you know, Mother of the Year award right there, listening to the commercial break with your daughter.

Speaker 1 But hey, you know, Astron listens to the commercial break in the car with my kids, and they're eventually going to figure it all out too. And yeah, you tune it out after a while.
Yeah, you do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I even tune myself out sometimes. I swear to God, this happened to me, Chrissy.
I had to do a commercial read. So I did a commercial read.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say who it was, but I did a commercial read. And then I, you know, you, and when you do a commercial read, I'll give you a little,

Speaker 1 I guess a little like bird's eye view, a little fly-in-the-wall perspective of what happens. So I'll get copy.

Speaker 1 Let's look at. Come on down to Joe's Crab Shack.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Speaker 1 It's Tuesday night. Come on down to Joe's Crab.

Speaker 1 And that's what happens, right? And then I have to do it again. Check, check, check.
Come on down to Joe's Crab Shack. It's Tuesday night.
And what do you want?

Speaker 1 All you can eat, buttery crab legs to drip all over your gin, make you get fat and shit out the morning.

Speaker 1 Joe's Crab Shack now offering free tetanus shots with every basket of raw oysters.

Speaker 1 Joe's Crab Shack actually has crabs.

Speaker 1 No, not that kind. Yes, that kind.

Speaker 1 Mention Joe's Crab Shack for $10 off your penicillin shot.

Speaker 1 At Joe's Crab Shaf and Medical Group, we want to take care of you.

Speaker 1 Oh, you can eat hush puppies.

Speaker 1 Oh, you can eat hush puppies. Cooked in the same oil that we cook our crabs in.

Speaker 1 You'll be smelling like fish for days.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 You want to turn on the lady? Put on a bib and crack some butter and crab legs.

Speaker 1 I don't want a vib.

Speaker 1 Nothing says fuck me.

Speaker 1 Like garlic butter dripping down your beard.

Speaker 1 You want her dog to like you?

Speaker 1 Smell like crabs.

Speaker 1 He'll be licking you till Tuesday.

Speaker 1 Next Tuesday. He'll be licking your ass while she gets at the front.

Speaker 1 It'll be a a good time had by all.

Speaker 1 So, but you stop and you start. You stop and you start.
You read a sentence and you fuck up a sentence and then you read it again. And then you got to cut it all up and put it together nicely.

Speaker 1 So it sounds like one long thing that you've said.

Speaker 1 But unbelievably, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to actually read a script because you've got to get like the connotation and all that other stuff.

Speaker 1 So I read this. ad.
It's a little long. It's like a minute and a half long.
And then I cut it up and I edit it and I put it all together to one nice, neat little package.

Speaker 1 And then I got to listen to it just to make sure that it's all correct, right? That's a good practice. You don't know how many, it's like, that is good practice.
Make sure I get it out.

Speaker 1 Make sure I'm saying Joe's crab shack and not Bo's Crab Shack.

Speaker 1 It's best practices, if you will. Yes, best practices.
We'll circle back on that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You don't know how many times I had to stop and restart that one single audio file because I tuned myself out like a hundred different times.

Speaker 1 It's like reading a book and you got to go back and read the page because you forgot what you didn't, you weren't even really paying attention. Your mind went to something else.

Speaker 1 Your mind went to something else. I did it like a hundred times.
And finally I was like, okay, I know I have to get out of the studio for a minute, get some fresh air and come back to it.

Speaker 1 And even when I came back to it, I still was having a hard time concentrating on my own voice because I find it to be kind of... Boring, actually.
I don't know. But I listen to a lot of my voice.

Speaker 1 You do. You have to listen to a lot.

Speaker 1 Speaking of Joe's Crab Shack, side note before we get to something for Bella and Lauren, which is the whole reason why I did this, is that Bella and Lauren, Bella had said that she really liked Paulie couch cushions.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And that

Speaker 1 one. She said, we'll take all of that you got.
And I said, I'll get to one this next week. And then Blue had her whole incident.
And so I had to run a best of Polly couch cushions.

Speaker 1 Well, I have a new video from Polly. Just dropped a couple days ago.
Really? And we'll get to it. Yeah, it's a part of a series that he's doing.
So it's like episode number five is what he's saying.

Speaker 1 But I didn't see one one through four. So I'm not sure if maybe he just, he didn't even know.
He didn't record the first four.

Speaker 1 He's really out there. He's really out there.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And now he's also on Instagram. And now a lot of people have cut, like, they're sharing his.
When you have more shares than you do likes, that probably means that people don't like the real.

Speaker 1 They just think you're funny. And that's happened to us a couple of times.

Speaker 1 When we went down to Naples, we went to old Naples. We went to Tin City.

Speaker 1 Tin City is the first port that Naples ever had where all of the fishermen would come in and then they'd co-opt their fish and they'd sell it to the locals or the restaurants or whatever.

Speaker 1 They would put up tin roofs.

Speaker 1 You know, they'd have these boat docks and then they'd put up tin roofs. Well, in 1970 something,

Speaker 1 an artist started to go down there and paint all the comings and goings of the fishermen back when they were like on dinghies. This is not like actual fishing, you know, like way back when.
Right.

Speaker 1 So he would watch these local fishermen. Independent.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like independent little, you know, a guy would go out Throwing that out, catch some fish, come back, sell it to the locals, have it for dinner, whatever. So this guy started painting back in the 60s.

Speaker 1 He started painting them. This is an interesting story.
I think it's an interesting story. He started painting them as they would come in.

Speaker 1 And he had a dream that one day he would put up a tin shack and he would sell his art down there like they were selling their fish down there.

Speaker 1 Well, he did. And he bought.
a lot of the as people went would go out of business or move or change he would buy a lot of these old tin shacks

Speaker 1 yes tins and so then he started like an indoor outdoor mall with restaurants and ice cream shops and art, little art galleries, something called Tin City. It's rustic.
It's on the water.

Speaker 1 It's in a port. So it's not like the beach.
It's in a port. You know, there's traffic.
There's boats. There's all this other stuff.
And they have a fish restaurant there.

Speaker 1 And I'm not going to give the name away, but it's right on the water. Like we walk in.
It's a restaurant. They have a bar.

Speaker 1 And then you look out the back and you're, there's like a little boardwalk where the, where the boats come in and park.

Speaker 1 And then five feet from it, you're sitting on an elevated deck with a railing, and they have tables against that railing.

Speaker 1 So you're watching as all of the ship to the boat traffic comes in and out of the port of Naples. That's fun.

Speaker 1 And so you walk in and you are, we were instantly hit with an overwhelming smell of fresh fish, like fish. You know the smell.
Saltwater, fish, blood, saltwater, and blood, essentially.

Speaker 1 And we say, oh, hey, you know, eight of us or whatever. They put us at a table right next to this boardwalk where,

Speaker 1 and as we start walking to the table with my young children, there is a couple of teenagers that are parked on a, that are cleaning a boat right in front of the table where the table is.

Speaker 1 And then there are a couple of teenagers that are on the boardwalk, and they have a fish probably four feet long. Wow.

Speaker 1 And it is sliced from stip to stern with its eyeballs bloodied and its mouth a gap.

Speaker 1 They were gutting the fish

Speaker 1 right there on the boardwalk. Like they had a gutting station right there where you were sitting and eating.

Speaker 1 Chrissy. Ugh.

Speaker 1 Like, so, you know, then it's a fish restaurant. So,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm going through the menu. It was a lot.
It was a lot. And I'm going through the menu.
And the last thing I could think about eating was fish. One of my daughters found it fascinating.

Speaker 1 The other one was like, it's a monster, you know, and it did look like a monster. And mainly because it's had its fucking intestines hanging out on the boardwalk.
And

Speaker 1 I just couldn't think of eating fish in that moment. I was like, no, I think I'm going to go for a burger.
And actually, that wasn't a great choice either.

Speaker 1 You got a burger at the time. I did.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did. I know.
I'm that idiot. I'm that asshole.
And why would you? But I just could not stomach fish right in that moment. Couldn't stomach it whatsoever.

Speaker 1 But everybody else who had fish, liked it. And then one of, and then one of my daughters wanted to order oysters.
Oh. And her grandma and grandpa are like, okay, order oysters.
And I'm like, no.

Speaker 1 That's really

Speaker 1 adventurous for a young child. It's adventurous as dangerous.

Speaker 1 You're really not supposed to eat oysters before you're 12 years old because your gut doesn't have the bacteria to fight other bacteria that the oysters are.

Speaker 1 Did other people at the table have oysters?

Speaker 1 They ordered the oysters. Okay, so she had seen the oysters being ordered and eaten.
I was thinking she just out of the blue said, I want some oysters. Well, she had seen them.

Speaker 1 And then one of the grandparents decided to order them. Then they came to the table.
Only then did I become like aware of the conversation that was going on in Spanish.

Speaker 1 And I was like, no, I told Astrid, I'm like, uh-uh-uh. And she's like, why not? And I'm like, because it's a raw oyster.
People die from eating raw oysters. They die all the time.

Speaker 1 It happens from eating raw oysters. If you don't have the flora and fauna in your fucking dut to take care of royal oyster juice, you could easily get very sick.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I don't want to take the chance. And then Astrid's like, that's not true.
And so I Google it instantaneously. Google's like, no, children this young are not supposed to have raw oysters.

Speaker 1 Don't do it. Now, I'm sure there are children that have raw oysters,

Speaker 1 but even in a fresh fish place, you don't necessarily know, you know. And then the raw oysters are from cold water.
They're cold water oysters.

Speaker 1 So it's like, so wait, you're a fish restaurant in the port of Naples and you have cold water oysters. How far do they have to travel? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Ever since I heard about that couple that died of the oyster poisoning,

Speaker 1 oysters make me nervous, even though I love them.

Speaker 1 I do not. I've never been a big oyster.
I like the Rockefeller kind with the cheese and the sushi. Oh, those are delicious.

Speaker 1 Delicious.

Speaker 1 No raw for me. I'm not oysters.

Speaker 1 I think at this point I'm done with it. You know, we had raw oysters and sushi at our wedding.
Yes. You know, nine years ago today.
Yes.

Speaker 1 As we're recording this, nine years ago today. And

Speaker 1 my dad had to go to the hospital

Speaker 1 the next day. They actually had to wheel him out and take him to a hospital because he got an incredible case of food poisoning.

Speaker 1 And the doctor said it was likely a fish-based food sickness because it came on so quickly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's usually when you know. Yeah.
And then in the middle of the night, they were taking him to the hospital. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, my dad also had a broken leg at my wedding, too.

Speaker 1 Did he? Yeah, I think he did. I had to go look.
Yeah, I think he was in a wheelchair.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was. I think he was.
I think he was in a wheelchair at my wedding. One of my weddings.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't think it was your wedding to Astrid. Oh, you don't think so? I don't think so.
No. Well, listen, all the weddings are blending together at this point.
I've had four weddings. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Who knows? Four weddings with two people. By the way, there you go.
So stop it. Stop all the shit.
Stop all your shit.

Speaker 1 All right. So let's take a break.
And when we get back, I will put on some poly couch cushions for Lauren and Bella. Go to shoptcbpodcast.com right now to pre-order your merch.

Speaker 1 If that's what you choose to do, I've had a lot of interactions with people on the phone over the last couple of weeks about merch.

Speaker 1 And I know that we're hitting you over the head with it, but you have to understand when you broadcast this frequently, we don't know how often you listen.

Speaker 1 We have no idea how many people tune in on a daily basis. And you have to get the word out.
So that's why you're hearing so much about our merch.

Speaker 1 We'd like you to know, and then you can make the choice. So just bear with us.
It won't last long.

Speaker 1 It's not like the live shows where for six months I told you three times an episode about our live shows. And we never knew it.
And it never even showed up. This time, the merch actually is live.

Speaker 1 You can actually purchase it. So stick with me.
I know it's not everybody's cup of tea to listen to us talk about our own merch, but

Speaker 1 it's our first time doing it. So we're all learning.

Speaker 1 We're learning as we go along, Chrissy. All right, let's take a break.
And something about we'll be back. Okay.

Speaker 1 Hey, you, something about a TCB logo on a university sweater gets me hot in the pocket, if you know what I mean. Who do you say we finish our drinks? Go find a computer.

Speaker 1 Go to shop tcbpodcast.com because i know they're selling some slinky gear but only until august 22nd and hey a little vibrating rabbit told me that you get a free tcb sticker with every single purchase there's nothing slinkier than a body draped in commercial break gear piggy frontend indeed hey one more idea when that gear gets dropped off at your front door let's take everything else off We'll put our smoking hot merch on.

Speaker 1 We'll take a picture. And tag at the commercial break.
Cause daddy loves a a free thing or two and I hear they might give away some additional merch.

Speaker 1 Well, this is a game of ball in the pocket that I've been wanting to play all night long. ShopTCBPodcast.com, but only till August 22nd.

Speaker 1 Now, do me a favor, put your credit card down for the bar tab, because they don't take Dogecoin here. Then I'm a little short on the long scratch.
Bye now.

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Speaker 1 Excuse me. I'm on a little sweet tart kick.
Yes, you are. I like sweet tarts.

Speaker 1 And the smarties. They're so good.
Yeah, the smarties are good too.

Speaker 1 Okay, Pauly Couch Cushions. Back for episode number five of a series that I can only find one episode of.

Speaker 1 He's back with the dollar bill couch cushions, the $100 bill couch cushions, big bottle of water, and a pair of glasses this time. Yeah, studious look.
Hat backwards. He's got his beard.
He's

Speaker 1 the pants he's about to bust out of. Jeez, look at those thighs.
Yeah, they're big. He's a big boy.
No doubt about it. I don't want to fight you.
I just want to let you know that.

Speaker 1 We're just having fun with you, Paul.

Speaker 1 And then Jerry Lee Lewis on one of his arms, I think. or is that Al Capone

Speaker 1 is that Bugsy I don't know I thought maybe it was Walt Disney

Speaker 1 yeah no it's definitely not Walt Disney I think it might be Bugsy Bugsy Malone I don't know who knows okay let's listen to what Polly has to say back to episode five that's a one two three four five

Speaker 1 Polly can count right off the bat

Speaker 1 you're coming out hot Polly teaching us how to count to five I love it

Speaker 5 Of lead her.

Speaker 5 And, you know, I want to have sex, so let's make this quick.

Speaker 1 So with that. What? What? I want to have sex, so let's make this quick.
Episode number five of Lida. I think lead her.
Lead her. Hmm.
I want to have sex, so let's make this quick. Yeah.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 As quick as you want to do, Polly. Let's go.

Speaker 1 I bet you're going to make it quick. I bet you are going to make it quick.
Ted.

Speaker 5 Today we're going to talk about how discipline as a man, refraining from things, an angel of scarcity an angel of resistance right as a better word an angel of resistance

Speaker 1 is he blinking no he hasn't blinked yet that's what i'm saying like yeah it's really weird because he just doesn't blink there's some chemical running through his body i i get you it's got to be i don't know you tell me i don't i i'm not an expert i'm not saying he is for sure but it There's just a weird pattern of either super sleepiness or way awake.

Speaker 5 Favorite child and discipline bleeds into your relationship. So today we're going to break down a discipline as freedom in dating and in business and in life.

Speaker 1 So most men do not. Let me adjust my wife meter.

Speaker 1 It can't be adjusted. It's literally pasted onto your chest.
It's crazy.

Speaker 5 Understand that. So I'm just going to answer three questions for my girl.
We're going to titty pat. Yeah.
Pity pat.

Speaker 1 Pitty pat, titty pat. We're going to...
Putty pat, titty pat.

Speaker 1 Listen, I'm going to stay here. Patty wax, patty, wax.
That's right. I got a naked set of tits behind the camera, so we're going to pity pet, putty pat.

Speaker 1 I'm going to show you my testicles through my DACA's,

Speaker 1 my gap jeans.

Speaker 5 You know, that's what we do. We go back and forth with questions on the live call so you guys can see what this thing is.

Speaker 1 On the live call, even though this is not live, it's on YouTube. It's recorded, but this is a live call in my brain.
Okay. All right.
I don't. Hey, Chrissy, listen.
Don't blame me. Put it on God.

Speaker 1 God said it, not me. All right.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Shut up. Can't hear hear myself think.

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Speaker 5 On dating relationships, advice, everything A to Z, and or just go to the newsletter, get free advice. Why would you not want it?

Speaker 5 If you can't even go to the newsletter, subscribe, and get free dating, fitness, diet advice, then I wouldn't want to work with you in coaching or just be even friends with you.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't even want to I don't want to if you don't subscribe to my newsletter send me a screenshot DM me subscribe follow me link hit the smash smash the subscribe bell I don't want to know you I don't want to be friends with you Chrissy that's it by the way

Speaker 1 I can't close my eyes can you call an ambulance

Speaker 1 Well, did you see a minute ago? It was almost like he relaxed them

Speaker 1 and then they shot. Yeah, they shut like his eyes rolled in the back of his head.
Yeah. Hmm.

Speaker 5 Interesting. You gave me free game and I was struggling.

Speaker 1 There it is.

Speaker 5 I would take it. I'd sign up twice.
I'd put my email, my friend's email, and I'd make another email.

Speaker 1 I'd sign up everybody I know.

Speaker 1 I'd sign up.

Speaker 1 I'd sign up. I'd sign my friend up and I'd make up another email.
He's telling you to spam him.

Speaker 1 Flipped.

Speaker 5 Put that email because it's such good information. With that being said, on a more serious note, let's jump into it, guys.
I'm going to introduce my girl right here. We're going to get into

Speaker 5 episode six and seven. She's going to be on a face value right here.

Speaker 5 And you're going to see her in the video because she's not going to right here on either side.

Speaker 1 Right here. Two sides.
One leg here, one leg here.

Speaker 1 But not this episode. Six and seven, which, by the way, doesn't exist.
I looked and it's not there.

Speaker 5 We're going to get after it tonight. All right, so let's rock.
So let's get into it, man. Discipline is your freedom in life.
So ask me the first question, baby. Please, thank you.

Speaker 1 How?

Speaker 1 What? What? What happened? Hard cut, hat turned forward, eyes half closed. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Some girl talking. What's going on? I have no idea.
Wow, this is worse than an episode of the commercial break.

Speaker 6 Does discipline in your body bleed into your dating life?

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm sure that was a question sent in.

Speaker 1 I'm sure. Go ahead and answer it.

Speaker 1 Go ahead and answer it. Go ahead and answer it.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take a nap.

Speaker 6 I feel like when you show discipline for yourself, that could only transpire into, I feel like any kind of relationship you have in your life.

Speaker 1 How does it transpire into a relationship? Now, I'm not really good with words either, but I'm sure, pretty sure you don't transpire into a relationship. No.

Speaker 6 You know, with the significant other, because it just shows how determined you are.

Speaker 1 He fell asleep. He fell asleep.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. His eyes are closed.
Oh, my God. And he had her ask the question and answer it.
And she's not in front of us. We can't see her.
We can't see her.

Speaker 1 She's behind the camera. He's in front on his pleather couch.
Falling asleep. With a rug behind his head for what reason, I don't know.
And then the two $100 bill couch cushions on there.

Speaker 1 Paulie, couch cushions. I'm going to stop for just one second and be dead fucking serious for a minute.

Speaker 1 Paulie, if you for some reason stumble across this video or Google alerts you that you've been tagged in a video or whatever it is, that you know the deal.

Speaker 1 Buddy, if you've got a problem, get help for it. This doesn't seem normal.
Either you have narcolepsy, like an actual serious problem, or there's some chemical that's making this happen.

Speaker 1 Because this seems like nodding out to me, nodding out like from opiate based medications. I could be wrong.
I might be 100% off base, but I've seen this in my lifetime and it's very familiar to me.

Speaker 1 It's this behavior is very familiar to me.

Speaker 6 And you know how to handle situations properly.

Speaker 1 So therefore he just fell asleep. His head just nodded down.
Yeah, his head is literally falling down. Oh my Christ have mercy.

Speaker 6 That person takes you seriously for those reasons. It's happening.

Speaker 1 Guys, you have to watch this video, youtube.com/slash the commercial break. This makes me concerned for Pauli.
He just, his eyes just wouldn't close for the first part of this video. Snap when

Speaker 1 his girlfriend or whoever she is, starts talking, and within one second of her starting to talk, his eyes rolled in the back of his head. They closed, and now his chin is on his chest.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 5 So there's two reasons why. So number one, why did you ask me the question again?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 All right, just two reasons.

Speaker 1 What were we talking about? Shut up.

Speaker 1 I didn't say it. God said it.

Speaker 6 Does discipline in your body bleed into your dating relationship?

Speaker 5 Whether she's talking about fitness, business, whatever. She says body, but I don't know if she's actually correlating to fitness.

Speaker 5 Why discipline in your body bleeds into your relationship is because the things that you do for yourself is what you'll do for her.

Speaker 5 The things that you lead for yourself is how you're going to lead her. But more importantly, discipline creates freedom through the universal law.

Speaker 1 So fuck any of the.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 discipline creates law of the universe in the things that we would and fuck

Speaker 1 i mean it's unbelievable wow yeah wow why you would put this out here i'd think that that looks good yeah who's editing this i mean are you you're editing this listen I can't, I cannot tell you with any certainty, with any confidence, that I have never felt a little sleepy on the commercial date.

Speaker 1 But I can guarantee I've never fully closed my eyes and gone to sleep. Never.
So there's been a few interviews. Okay.

Speaker 1 Sometimes when the other people are doing the talking, when other people are doing talking, Brian takes a cat nap.

Speaker 1 That's why I talk so much.

Speaker 5 Reason other than the universal law rewards. daily habits over and over again.

Speaker 5 And every time you set up a neural pathway and a chemical process of doing the same thing again, you become a better human.

Speaker 5 So if you stick stick to something for seven days, you're more likely to stick to it for 21. It takes 28 days to build a habit.

Speaker 5 At day 28 of working out, eating better food, and creating a better self, you're now.

Speaker 1 Chrissy, on day one,

Speaker 1 on day one,

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 1 on day one.

Speaker 1 What was the question again? What was the question again? I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 Who said it? God said it. I'm sorry.
What happened? Shut up.

Speaker 1 You're on half contact. He's doing some kind of like

Speaker 1 memorized script or something. I don't know.
No, this is stream of consciousness talking. It's just stream of consciousness talking.
That's why it makes absolutely no sense.

Speaker 1 I can think of somebody else in our

Speaker 1 universe that we all pay attention to that also does this same kind of talking. Sounds like it's a script, but it's too stupid to be a script.

Speaker 5 Better shape. Now you're doing social media leads every day.
Now you're making more money. So in turn, the disciplines are going to create.

Speaker 1 Wait, hold on. You're leading her, but then you're making social media scripts?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think this relates back to the original question of like how discipline, something to do with discipline.
How does

Speaker 1 discipline with your body translate to discipline? Take your body.

Speaker 1 You make a Facebook ad.

Speaker 1 You post it on Instagram. By day 21, you take your body.
I'm trying to make sense of this.

Speaker 1 And then you. What was the question?

Speaker 1 The body just. You answer it.
Yeah, that was so weird.

Speaker 1 You answer it. I know.
I know. It's because I'm going to take a nap.

Speaker 5 The woman. And then, in turn, with the better woman that you have, you're going to make more money, more energy, create a better life for that woman.

Speaker 5 You're going to do better experiences and memories. You're going to show leadership.
She's going to want to live her life the way you live your life because it's inspiring.

Speaker 5 And then, just in general, outside of her following your lead, your universal laws are just going to reward you in a way that you're doing good for yourself. So good things are bound to happen to you.

Speaker 5 So now great things are going to happen.

Speaker 1 Does he enjoy himself?

Speaker 1 We've only done like five or six of these videos, maybe even four of these videos, but this is some fabbly-ass bullshit. It's really bizarre.
So bizarre, it's fascinating. I know.

Speaker 5 Anything. This is about the universal law, which is

Speaker 5 the unspoken word of God rewarding you with successful behaviors. And then

Speaker 1 all the things that you're going to be doing. Rewarding you with successful behaviors.
And then, and then, what's the next word? And then, and then, how do I pull it all together?

Speaker 1 He said, stick to landing, Polly. Stick to landing.

Speaker 5 Pump better in money, life, energy, your body is going to reward you the better woman.

Speaker 1 Next question, please.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 He's stuck to landing. Next question, please.

Speaker 6 What are the three most...

Speaker 1 He fell asleep again. Well, now it makes it seem like he's...
He's like thinking about

Speaker 1 what. He's laughing and thinking.
Yeah, he's thinking about the tooth fairy. He's having sugar plums dancing in his head.

Speaker 6 Beta behaviors. No, he's sleeping.

Speaker 6 Men do daily that ruin their success.

Speaker 1 They had to cut the video. I think probably because he fell asleep.
He was literally, this time he leaned his head backwards and his eyes were fluttering. So he was sleeping.

Speaker 6 Beta behaviors is a man that it doesn't do more than what he is already doing to get further in life. He's comfortable where he's at and that constantly has negative verbiage.

Speaker 1 What? What? Who wrote this?

Speaker 1 Who wrote this?

Speaker 1 Who wrote this? All right, let's go back to the beginning of this question. Hold on one second.
All right, ready? Look at his eyes when you fast forward. Ooh, that's so weird.

Speaker 1 They're rolling in the back of his head. That's weird.
And his chest muscles like

Speaker 1 there. He nods out.
Look at his eyes. Go right in the back of his head.

Speaker 6 Okay, let's watch. What are the the three most beta behaviors men do daily that ruin their success?

Speaker 1 That beta.

Speaker 1 And then a cut.

Speaker 1 She wakes him up. It seems like a totally different time of day because now the light changes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the light has changed. He just nodded out.

Speaker 6 It doesn't do more than what he is already doing to get further in life. He's comfortable where he's at.

Speaker 6 And that constantly has negative verbiage verbiage and does it really ever try to be a positive in a positive mind frame

Speaker 1 what hold on one second if you don't mind i gotta ask chat to do something for me here um

Speaker 1 hey chat dot dot dot can you write me a question to poly couch cushions that is rambling and stream of consciousness question mark make it about fitness and women

Speaker 1 okay i'm being able to let uh oh it's i put polly couch cushions

Speaker 1 hey polly like do you ever think about fitness culture i don't know like the ending loop of stretchy pants doing lunges the other day i swear your soul leaves for the dread of skin bikini season and i wondered if you play with big spandex to keep women in a constant state of glistening dissatisfaction like her name was brooke

Speaker 1 he did a good job good job it did a good job sorry okay but you have two?

Speaker 1 What? He has two? What did he say? You have two? I don't really know what's going on and why he would air this. I don't know.
Well, because it's part five of my part one series.

Speaker 1 It's part five of my one part series. It seems like evidence of something.
It's part five of my one-part series.

Speaker 6 Those are three different things.

Speaker 1 Those are three different things. Uh-oh, he's going to have trouble with this one.

Speaker 5 The negative and the verbiage are different.

Speaker 6 Negative, verbiage, and who's comfortable where he's at. He doesn't do more to get ahead.

Speaker 1 No one wrote that he's going to sleep again. Yeah, it's very strange.

Speaker 1 Listen, I find this fascinating.

Speaker 1 We will continue this, but I want to make a little asterisk here in this episode so that it doesn't appear that I'm totally stepping on someone when they are obviously in need of help.

Speaker 1 Polly Couch Cushions.

Speaker 1 I don't know this guy, but Polly Couch Cushions seems to be in the throes of some kind of opiate addiction or Xanax, maybe. I don't know.
Have you ever taken Xanax?

Speaker 1 Have I ever taken a Xanax? Yes. Does it make you nod out? Not like no.

Speaker 1 No, it doesn't. It doesn't, but it could make you like fall asleep.
Yes. But not like nod out like this.
No, not when you're in front of a camera doing an interview. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's so weird that you're then broadcast on YouTube. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Three alpha things would be like, for instance,

Speaker 5 you know,

Speaker 5 when we go out to dinner, right

Speaker 5 I tell you where we're going. I do the research.
I would get the menu ready, right? So you don't have to think about anything. I still let you like kind of pick what you want, but not

Speaker 1 yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling really weird about watching this.
It's very no, I'm going to continue to watch it, but I think it's instructive. I think that

Speaker 1 you should know out there in the audience that I'm not going to kick someone while they're down. This is, this guy is in some trouble, I think.
This is not normal behavior.

Speaker 1 Yeah, his speech, his eyes closing, the whole thing. I have no idea why he's doing this interview right now.
I have no idea why he let this go out on the internet. I'm trying to put that up.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's almost like I feel like I want to touch base with him and be like, hey, man, you know, we're having some fun with your stuff, but I noticed some things and I'm just sharing with you.

Speaker 1 But then, you know, he's probably that he, I don't know,

Speaker 5 do you like that when we go out, I pick the place, the time, what you're eating, everything A to Z?

Speaker 6 I definitely do like that. You plan everything all the way from the place we're going, what time, where we're going to be sitting,

Speaker 1 what we'll be eating.

Speaker 5 We're drinking some water.

Speaker 1 He's trying to get freshened up here.

Speaker 6 We're just sitting there and enjoy ourselves more talking.

Speaker 1 That woke him up a little bit. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 The three things that are.

Speaker 1 All right, now it's changed. Okay, now he changed again.

Speaker 1 Now he changed. His hat's backwards.
He's sitting up a little bit. Eat a male.

Speaker 5 Doing what he wants opposed to what he must do. Doing what he wants to do opposed to what he's supposed to do.
Going to drink with the friends instead of going to bed.

Speaker 1 I mean, he could be really tired because of all the working out. You're right.
You're right.

Speaker 1 We have to accept that. We don't know, Polly.
And there could be a myriad of things. But here's what I'm going to do.
He just ate a big spaghetti and meatballs meal.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen, been there, done that. Yes, I do.
I do. I refuse to eat a meal

Speaker 1 here before we go on air because I do get that sensation that I want to like sleepy, want to fall asleep. But I'm able to.
He's been in the gym hard. He's got to come home and eat up

Speaker 1 for the protein, the carbs, all that stuff. And then he's trying to do these videos.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But then again, we may just be like a lot of people in his life making excuses for behavior that is so obvious. So this is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to let this run.

Speaker 1 I'm going to let it air, but I'm going to put a pin in Pauli couch cushions for now. We're going to take a break and then we'll come back.

Speaker 1 We'll talk about some other stuff because I actually, you know, addiction is terrible. And a lot of people will go through it in their lives.

Speaker 1 I'm sure there are people that are, I know there are people that are listening right now who have been through it. I have done a lot, a lot of drugs in my life.

Speaker 1 And I know that at some point I was in some stage of addiction. While I didn't end up in jail or dead, some people do.
And I don't want to kick someone while they're down.

Speaker 1 Why he let this go out, I'm not sure. It's certainly fair game.
But at the same time, it is so obvious to me just looking at this.

Speaker 1 This reminds me of so many people I've known who've had problems with opiates. This is how they behave.

Speaker 1 They fall out in in the middle of a conversation and he's falling out in the middle of a conversation. They're cutting the camera angles hours later and he's still falling out.
So

Speaker 1 Polly Couch Cushions, we'll find another video that's a little bit more

Speaker 1 less obvious. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Let's think about that. It's a little bit funnier.
I can't even understand half of what either one of them are saying, honestly. Yeah, that's true.
I mean, and we don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe there's something going on between the two of them. Maybe this is maybe we're getting like a bird's eye look into people that are in throes of addiction together.

Speaker 1 I can't imagine that she doesn't understand what's going on because she cut the video. And so,

Speaker 1 or he did or somebody did. I don't know what's happening.
I don't know. Anyway, sometimes it starts funny and it ends not so funny.
But

Speaker 1 yeah, if you need help,

Speaker 1 there's lots of resources out there. If you too are going through the throes of addiction, there's lots of resources out there.
And I hope that you get the help that you need.

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Speaker 1 Yeah, wow. I don't know what to say about that.
I just think that's like shocking to actually watch.

Speaker 1 Knowing that someone put it out on YouTube. Like, it's one thing to see it at your friend's house when you know they're dealing with something and, you know, you kind of understand what's going on.

Speaker 1 It's another thing to watch it actually happen. This reminds me of, you know, Fish,

Speaker 1 the band Fish.

Speaker 1 Right. By the way, Grateful Dead celebrated 50 years of Grateful Dead, I think.
60. 60 years of Grateful Dead, and it was John Mayer, Trey Anastasio, and Billy Strings.

Speaker 1 Billy Strings, and the remaining members of the dead, and whoever's traveling with the dead currently did three nights wherever, somewhere in San Francisco, they did three nights.

Speaker 1 It was a Golden Gate Park. Oh, yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I watched some of the John Mayer and Trey Anastasio trade licks.

Speaker 1 And that is the combination that I didn't know I needed. That was awesome.
It's really good. Those two very talented guitar players just trading licks.

Speaker 1 And then poor Bob Weir in there just trying to keep it. Yeah, trying to hold on.
Yeah, I mean, listen, Bob's 80-something. I think so.
I think so. Yeah.
Looks every bit of 80-something.

Speaker 1 And God bless him.

Speaker 1 Play until you fall out, Bob, for sure. You've earned it.

Speaker 1 But you could tell.

Speaker 1 He's getting up there in age, as we all are. But

Speaker 1 Trey Anastasio,

Speaker 1 when fish was as hot as fish had ever been, you know, fish was a scene, is a scene, was a scene for a long time. And the people who like fish, I think, largely grew up with fish, like I did.

Speaker 1 They kind of came onto the scene.

Speaker 1 They started traveling around, touring like the dead, did not have a lot of radio hits, but people were passing along their C Ds and their tapes and going to live shows because it was a whole event.

Speaker 1 And that event, those events, those fish shows, I know because I was at some of them, at times

Speaker 1 were not always like the best energy in the world, right? There was a lot of drugs, like a lot of drugs going around.

Speaker 1 I guess it was what you made of it, but I would just notice that sometimes the fish lot scene or the fish scene would be very heavy. There was a lot of people doing a lot of heavy drugs.

Speaker 1 And I think that the band themselves

Speaker 1 fell victim to this, as more specifically, Trey did. And he became very addicted to opiates,

Speaker 1 heroin. And there's actually a very famous video of the last show that Fish played before they broke up in 2003, I think it was.

Speaker 1 The story goes that Paige McConnell, who plays keyboards for Fish,

Speaker 1 about three months before they broke up, went to Trey one day, knowing that Trey was dealing with a severe opiate addiction and said to him, I have always trusted since the day that this band started that you would lead us where we needed to go on stage, and I don't trust that anymore.

Speaker 1 And Trey, at that moment, decided, I don't know what I'm going to do, but I got to do something.

Speaker 1 And so they decided they were going to take a hiatus, break up. That's what they did.
They broke up. That's how they positioned it at the time.

Speaker 1 They would break up the last concert, obviously being an emotional thing for everyone. There is a famous video where Trey appears, appears to snort heroin on stage in the middle of a song.

Speaker 1 And it seemed, that's what it seems like to me. That's what a lot of people who were there say that happened.
I don't know. Who knows? I don't think it's ever been verified by Trey.

Speaker 1 But, you know, it's very obvious that Trey at times is nodding out while he's on stage. Yeah.

Speaker 1 During those last couple of years. And then about a year later, he was busted with like, you know, a thousand OxyContin driving up in Rhode Island or wherever he lives.

Speaker 1 And that caused him to go to an interdiction program where he got help. And then he went on some medication that allowed him to stay clean while not suffering the worst of the addictions.

Speaker 1 Rush Limbaugh went through the exact same thing. As a matter of fact, Rush claimed that some of his hearing loss was due to his severe opiate addiction.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, God, having there's been enough documentaries and things at this point to, I feel like I've watched them all. Yes.
It's a huge epidemic. It was a huge epidemic.

Speaker 1 And then people would turn when you couldn't get the, you know, you couldn't get the actual pharmaceuticals and you turned to heroin.

Speaker 1 You've turned to heroin and now you turn to fentanyl, a much cheaper, much more potent version of of this.

Speaker 1 And now there's a version called Trank, which is like a horse tranquilizer mixed with fentanyl that's going around up in the northeast and I mean, everywhere, but the northeast, there are a whole YouTube, I mean, Instagram channels.

Speaker 1 I saw people when we went to Seattle. People that were just like zombies, like hanging.

Speaker 1 You couldn't believe they're standing up. No.
And you can't believe they're standing up, but they're standing up. Their legs are frozen, but their body is folded in half.

Speaker 1 It's just a terrible, terrible thing. And I know people personally in my own life who

Speaker 1 got

Speaker 1 a broken shoulder, a surgery, a thing that happened to them, and it started a long, twisting, winding road into opiate addiction. It's very serious.
It's very powerful. And it feels good.

Speaker 1 And that's why people like opiates is because it's euphoric at times and it can make you forget about things. And not to mention, it takes away pain.

Speaker 1 So it's one of the few things that effectively takes away pain that we have found as human beings is opiate-based, morphine-based drugs. And so, you know,

Speaker 1 politicians, musicians, friends, family, everybody, it seems like, knows somebody who has been affected by this. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And so while I think Polly is very funny in a way, you know, where he's kind of a duh,

Speaker 1 I also don't. I also don't want to kick a guy while he's down if that, in fact, is what's happening.
And I hope that he gets the help that he needs. I really do.

Speaker 1 We'll keep an eye on things we'll keep an eye on his channel yeah i'll i'll take a look at this video just dropped a couple days ago so uh we'll we'll check up with him in a couple of weeks and um you know hopefully frankie will drop something in between keep us thirsty you know what i'm saying

Speaker 1 i know i do miss frankie He never fell asleep. I'll tell you that.
No, that guy never fell asleep. His body's a temple.
Yeah, his body is a temple.

Speaker 1 I know he drinks because we've seen him with some food.

Speaker 1 Until recently with the bolognese or whatever he was doing. Oh, my God.
he was hammered during that.

Speaker 1 But okay, one out of 30 videos where you're a little tipsy talking about your mom's goomba yaba, whatever it is he was talking about. Yes.

Speaker 1 That he holds the secret key to many generations of, you know, the goomba.

Speaker 1 Okay, Frankie.

Speaker 1 And I do love Frankie, but

Speaker 1 I don't want to see that. This is just bizarre.
It's bizarre. It's weird.
It's weird, weird, weird. Why you would think that that looks good to put out?

Speaker 1 How you look at that?

Speaker 1 You have to look at at least a little bit of it before you put it out. Somebody had to have edited it, and I don't imagine he's got a big team behind him.

Speaker 1 There's like 300 people that subscribe to his channel. Yeah.
So I don't imagine there's a team. How you look at that and go, yeah, that's the kind of thing I want to put out there in the world.

Speaker 1 As a coach, as a team poly coach or whatever. Yeah.
Poly couch cushions. You're poly couch cushions.
Yeah. And

Speaker 1 some videos are super energetic. This is the exact opposite of that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I just can't believe he put it out.
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