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Speaker 1 I got puppy arms, bro.

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Speaker 3 You know, these stupid blood thinners make my blood too fucking thin. I don't like that.

Speaker 2 I don't think your blood should be this thin, right?

Speaker 3 Don't you want your blood thicker?

Speaker 3 I don't even know.

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Speaker 1 He always was from the first time that I met him. He was my everything.

Speaker 1 Eric's full name was Eric Vargo, and everybody called him Vargo. We dated on and off since I was 19.
He was loving

Speaker 1 and just a goofball, and I miss him every time.

Speaker 1 That's really sad.

Speaker 5 He was a bit of a romantic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was the ladies' man.

Speaker 5 He's nibbling on my ear. I'm like,

Speaker 1 oh, my God.

Speaker 1 He's nibbling on your ear? He's nibbling on your ear, Teresa.

Speaker 1 You fucking asshole. Honestly.

Speaker 1 The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now.

Speaker 1 Ew, boy.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, cats and kittens.

Speaker 1 welcome back to the commercial break i'm brian green this is my dear friend and the co-host of this show chris joy hoadley best to you chris best to you brian best you out there in the podcast universe a slew of news to talk about as well as a video to get to and an apology by brian so that's all coming up in the next hour of the commercial break

Speaker 1 i am just reading that the tomorrow land festival organizers are probably wishing they were living in yesterday country right now because at least they still had a stage the multi-day fest in belgium was set to kick off in just a few short days, which would have been the last weekend as this, as you're listening to this, this would have been last weekend.

Speaker 1 A fire broke out Wednesday and took the entire stage with it, burning it down to scaffolding from one end to the other.

Speaker 1 Tons of videos are circulating online right now, capturing massive plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky and flames quickly burning across the intricate stage.

Speaker 1 We've all seen that Tomorrowland stage. That huge, complicated.
Have you ever seen that? Yeah, I think so. Okay.

Speaker 1 Here, let me see if I can pull up one of the videos for you so you can look at it, maybe.

Speaker 1 Jeez. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Completely on fire. This is one of the bigger stages in here.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, it's huge. One of the bigger stages in all of stage productions is the Tomorrowland Festival.
If you haven't seen it, you should go take a look at past Tomorrowland Festivals.

Speaker 1 It's very intricate. It's extraordinarily large, especially given the fact that what they're going to do is put a picnic table with two fucking CD players on it and play music all weekend long.

Speaker 1 I mean, honestly.

Speaker 1 I got nothing against DJs. I think a lot of them are very good, and I like some of the music.
I like the gay Raj, if you will, Chrissy. Gay Raj was my thing.

Speaker 1 But I mean, it's kind of a little silly to put a stage together that big, and then you're going to have a small little dude up in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 Spinning tunes. Yeah, but there's always fire and a lot of visuals.
You know, you're, you know, there's.

Speaker 1 You're tripping out. You're tripping out, dude.
You're tripping out, man.

Speaker 1 Fucked up, dude.

Speaker 1 So, so it doesn't look like there will be a Tomorrowland, at least not with a stage, which is unfortunate for the probably 150,000 people that show up every year.

Speaker 1 That is one of the more, that is one of the larger festivals out there, Tomorrowland. So here's hoping insurance pays all the premiums.
Okay. Also, Pete Davidson is going to be a dad.

Speaker 1 We were just wondering the other day

Speaker 1 where Pete had gone. I've been ruminating on his whereabouts.
Pete's Prager's, and I love it. He's married to a, or he's seeing another

Speaker 1 incredibly beautiful woman named Elise Hewitt.

Speaker 1 Uh, Pete's gearing up for his biggest role yet, as he announced. Congratulations to Pete.

Speaker 1 As reported, Pete and Elise were first linked back together in March. They took the relationship to the next step quickly, obviously.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And now they are expecting their first baby.

Speaker 1 Gosh, after like four months. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, she's a she's a model. Of course she is.
Yeah. Yeah, she's not bad looking.
No. No.

Speaker 1 You wouldn't kick her out of bed. I mean, maybe you'd kick her out of bed.
You know, I used to have a friend, Paul, that guy used to say, you're scared of pussy.

Speaker 1 He used to say, show me a hot girl and I'll show you a guy you're sick of fucking her. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I was like, oh, I don't believe that, Paul. But now I believe it.
Now I believe it.

Speaker 1 Pete's been through a few of them. Pete's been through all of them, actually.
Congratulations to you, Pete. He has made the rounds.
Yes. But now, thank God you are settling down, Pete.

Speaker 1 For the love of all that is holy, let us all settle down just a little bit. All right.
So that's that. That's like timely topical news that's only a week old at this point.
So there you go.

Speaker 1 That's the newest and newest. Yeah, that's the newest, latest, and greatest.
From us. The best you're going to get.
We're on vacation, so fuck you.

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Speaker 1 Here's commercial break news. Let's break it down for you.

Speaker 1 In case you haven't been in tune with the last couple of weeks and like little bits and bops that we've been dropping, we're not very good at this. So I'm going to try and put it all in one shot.

Speaker 1 In the next month, and we'll give you an exact date here very shortly. In the next month, we are going to be doing our very first merch drop.

Speaker 1 We've worked long and hard on this. And by long and hard, I mean someone else worked long and hard on this.

Speaker 1 And Astrid

Speaker 1 and showed us the proofs. That's right.
And now we have some coming so we can put it on. Check it out.
But it's good quality. It is.
It's very... It's really tough.

Speaker 1 tough yeah it's really good like we've been through a lot of iterations of a merch drop thinking we're going to do it trying to do it working with different companies and different designers this is the best of the breed no doubt about it the quality is great the designs are fantastic and we are going to do our very first merch drop limited so it's like a two-week window You can either buy it then or you don't buy it.

Speaker 1 You buy it or you don't buy it. And then we will never have that particular merch again.
It's going to be five.

Speaker 1 Limited edition. I agree.
Five or six items. It is likely we will do an exclusive sticker that goes along with that item.
So you buy the item, you get the sticker only if you do it.

Speaker 1 And that sticker will only be available to this merch drop also. So you either buy it or you don't.
Either get it or you don't.

Speaker 1 That's not to say, I'm not trying to like poke you in the eye and say, nanny, nani boo-boo, you have to buy it. I am telling you, nani, nani boo-boo, you have to buy it.

Speaker 1 Nani, nani boo-boo. I haven't heard that in a while.
Nani, nani boo-boo. I like that.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 we would love it if you would buy the merch. I'd love to say this goes to some good cause.
We're helping somebody out. It's feeding some children somewhere, but it's not.

Speaker 1 It's likely going to make us no money either. But what it does do is it gives us the ability to do future merch drops because

Speaker 1 that's how everything works these days. It's all transactional.
You do a test run. If it works, it works.
If it doesn't, it's going to be a long time before anybody's going to ask you to do it again.

Speaker 1 So it's going to be limited merch. It's going to be for a limited time.
And we would love it if you're so inclined to buy some commercial break. I'm going to be wearing it for some time.

Speaker 1 I'm definitely buying some.

Speaker 1 There's going to be some Christmas presents. There's going to be a lot of Christmas presents for people who don't even like the commercial break.
Yeah, people who've never heard it.

Speaker 1 They're going to get commercial break stuff. I'm going to get my dad a piggy fronting.
A good t-shirt's a good t-shirt. A good hat is a good hat, no matter what.

Speaker 1 Some hoodies, some sweaters, t-shirts, long sleeve and short, hats.

Speaker 1 And then, if that all goes well, the big plan is that the 12 days of TCB will include a new piece of merch every day that you can buy during that 14-day window.

Speaker 1 That is really exciting to me because that we're already getting pretty creative. It's a 14-day window.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's going to be, well, yes, because by the time it's all said and done, I've actually counted the amount of days this time. It'll be 14 episodes in a row.

Speaker 1 So even though we call it the 12 days of TCB, it was 23 days last month, 23 days in a row of commercial break episodes. Yeah, last year.

Speaker 1 This year it'll be 14 days in a row of commercial break episodes. So there'll be a two-week window.
You can buy that stuff. So stay tuned.
Secondly, but not any less important to you, the listener,

Speaker 1 Chrissy and I have thought long and hard about our new our next stunt. The last one being TCB's Endless Day.
We will not be repeating that this year. At least not.
Yes, we will.

Speaker 1 It'll be called the 12 Days of TCB.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll just be in days, not in hours. Days, not in hours.
We love when we break down videos around here. It's a lot of fun for us.

Speaker 1 And we thought, why not take that to the next level and do a long video, a movie? Okay, what movie are we going to do? Well, there's lots of people that do this out there on the internet.

Speaker 1 There's how, you know, how was this made?

Speaker 1 Mystery Science Theater 3000, which they haven't had a new season in a while, but you get it. There's a lot of people who do this.
We want to do something original.

Speaker 1 So we have picked probably the least known,

Speaker 1 worst actor, actress,

Speaker 1 director, producer, writer combination you could find. We've probably found the worst movie ever made, and we are going to watch it beginning to end.

Speaker 1 And I'm only going to give you one hint about this because I haven't decided on which one of these movies we're going to do yet. But Kenny Copeland is the writer, director.

Speaker 1 Kenny Copeland, the preacher, the pastor, the televangelist that we have made fun of for so long here, he has made a series of movies. He made one 20 years ago.

Speaker 1 He made a couple of in the last 10 years. We reviewed the one with Eric Roberts, right? We talked about it.
A clip of it. We reviewed a clip of it.

Speaker 1 And that's on the table. I think that might end up being the one that we do.
Let's see how it all goes. But you can't stream that one.
You have to buy it on used DVD.

Speaker 1 I have to go find it on used DVD, which I did, by the way. And so I'm going to get it.
We'll see if it still works. And that might be the one, maybe, if I can manage to make it all work.

Speaker 1 Where the fuck do you get a DVD? I mean, who's going to? Somebody's going to loan us a DVD player. I have a DVD player.
Oh, you do? Okay. Does it have a good remote? It does.

Speaker 1 You can press stop and start pretty quickly. Yeah.
Okay. I mean, I haven't used it in a while.
Yeah, we might have to use yours. Let's make sure it works.
Okay. Okay.
Sounds good. So TCB-

Speaker 1 The long ballyhood dream of Chrissy and I to have a streaming service is going to come to life on a day in August, a very special day, when we are going to stream Chrissy and I talking about the movie while the movie is playing.

Speaker 1 We're going to stream it on Twitch and

Speaker 1 YouTube, if we can make that work.

Speaker 1 And we're going to break it down. And we hope that you join us.
We're really excited about this. If it works out, maybe we'll do this again.

Speaker 1 So TCB minus and the merch drop, both coming in August. Stay tuned.
I just wanted wanted to let you know. What about Bop, or what was the other service that we were going to use? Twitching and Boppin?

Speaker 1 Or what? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kick.

Speaker 1 K-I-K. Kick.
Yes, we might do KIK too. We'll see.
Let's see how it all works out. Bop.
Bop.

Speaker 1 We're using Bop.

Speaker 1 T C B Bop.

Speaker 1 T C Bop.

Speaker 1 Oh, T C Bop Bop. T C B B.

Speaker 1 Did it, did, little, dee-de-de-scooty-did-daddle.

Speaker 1 She's my cherry pie.

Speaker 1 Sweet little lady with a sweet surprise.

Speaker 1 I read her uh audiobiography. Tony ga Tony Kataine? No, that's not Tony Kataine.
It's in Cherry Pie, the Cherry Pie video. Wait.
It's Bobby Brown, I think is her name. I read her biography.

Speaker 1 The girl from the Cherry Pie video

Speaker 1 had an entire autobiography. Uh-huh.
It's pretty fascinating. She dated her

Speaker 1 was with a lot of rockers from that area. Well, give me the cliff notes.
Oh,

Speaker 1 I read it like six years ago.

Speaker 1 One thing you can remember that was kind of outrageous and crazy.

Speaker 1 Well, she dated

Speaker 1 she was dating Tommy Lee. Okay.
And then huge cock. And then he met Pamela Anderson and stitched her.
Yeah. That's how it kind of starts off.
I remember that. She dated like Dave Navarro.

Speaker 1 She had a drug problem.

Speaker 1 As most of the people who were rock and rollers in the 80s. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I'll go back. It's on my Kindle.
I'll go back and take a look. There's a series of movies called like How to Ruin Civilization or something like that.
I forget that. Yes.
No.

Speaker 1 Do you know what I'm talking about? About the punk.

Speaker 1 Well, it was first about the punk, and then they do this part two about the 80s hairbands. Yes.
And I think there might even be a part two of the decline of Western Civilization.

Speaker 1 And so there's a service that you can subscribe to, and maybe I'll put a link to it if I can. Let me, let me see.

Speaker 1 If there's a, check in the show notes, if you want to check this out, I'll, I'll put the link up there.

Speaker 1 You can get an app, connect your library card to it, and then you have access to tens of thousands of movies streaming. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you rent it, and it gives you like 48 hours to watch it, and then you can't watch it again for a month. And it's free.
It's just because libraries all across the country have sites.

Speaker 1 Library cards, right? Yeah. So I watched the Decline of Civilization 1 in part two.
Part two is more fascinating than part one, though. Part one is really good.
Why is it fascinating?

Speaker 1 It's fascinating because it focuses on the 80s hairban scene scene in like 1985. In California.
It's wild. In LA.

Speaker 1 All over the, yeah, in LA, but they go all over the, they talk to a lot of different bands.

Speaker 1 You do not know how many teenagers of that era were convinced, thoroughly convinced, that they were the next hairband.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm sure this is not any different in any other age. I thought I was going to be the next edge veteran.
Right, right.

Speaker 1 You know, and if you would have asked me back then, I would have had blind faith that that would have happened.

Speaker 1 I mean, if you really would have gotten inside of my head, blind faith that would have happened. But these kids are delusional.
I mean, delusional and high, right? I've seen parts of it.

Speaker 1 Some of the stories that are told are just fucking wild. That was such a wild time.
I know. And there's like that one guy that died of alcoholism.
Yeah. There's a few of them, maybe.
Well,

Speaker 1 the.

Speaker 1 Who's the dude?

Speaker 1 There's like a pool scene. Yeah.
Yeah. A raft.
Yeah. With a bottle of booze and just just nuts.
I mean, Nikki Six was fucking pumping the shit. I read his biography too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and who's the guy from Poison? Who's the dude from Poison?

Speaker 1 Ricky... not Ricky.
Oh. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The short guy with the spiky hair. Yeah.
He was... I read a story one time about

Speaker 1 that somebody

Speaker 1 or no, maybe it was a video. Yeah, it was a video that somebody put together.

Speaker 1 It was a kid who lived with him for a period of time right after Poison was like they saw their heyday and then they were kind of splitting up and going their separate ways because they were creatively having differences.

Speaker 1 And he was explaining that that guy, who is, I want to make, we should say his name. Yeah, Brett Michaels was kind of going his own way, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Poison band members.

Speaker 1 Ricky Rocket. Ricky Rocket.
No, no, Cece Deville. Cecil.
Cee Deville. Ricky Rocket was another one, but Cece Deville.
Cece Deville is the guitar player.

Speaker 1 Him and Brett Michaels, you know, they were really the kind of brothers in arms. But then they started to go their separate ways.
Things were kind of taking a turn for the scene altogether.

Speaker 1 They really only had two or three years of like super fame, and then things were falling off. So everyone was telling them, Go take a break, do your own thing.

Speaker 1 And he was trying to get his own band together. So he hired this kid, the kid, 18 years old.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Told him that he like the kid lived in Iowa and he had seen him play one day at a show at a local place. And he said, Come on, I'm starting a band.

Speaker 1 And I, you know, you're great on guitar and I love your vibe.

Speaker 1 And he essentially went to Cece's house and lived there for like six months while Cece did nothing but get fucked up on cocaine, grab burritos from the place down the street, and become increasingly paranoid and weird.

Speaker 1 Yikes. Right.
And

Speaker 1 the way that this kid told this story, you really, it painted a picture. It painted a picture

Speaker 1 of like just a like things just falling apart, debauchery. People were like coming to Cece's house and taking the paintings off the wall, like stealing it right under his nose, taking his cars.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 never returned. He's just so fucked up he couldn't even see straight, right?

Speaker 1 And that was the go-go 80s 80s for you, Chrissy. It was.
And the go-go 90s and the go-go 2000s for Brian.

Speaker 1 And if you've been there, then you can kind of under like. There's a show on, I just watched it a little while back.
It might be on Paramount about like the 80s bands of that time. Oh, really?

Speaker 1 It was like a three-part or something. I'll look at it.
I'll send it to you. It was very fascinating.
And it shows, yeah, at the very end, how, yeah, literally everybody thought they were.

Speaker 1 And then things changed. Then grunge happened.

Speaker 1 Well, no, what happened? What happened was Guns N' Roses' appetite for destruction. That is what happened.

Speaker 1 That is the moment in my mind as a kid who was like just becoming really musically aware at the time, super tuned into MTV and the local radio and all that other stuff, and had been for a long time.

Speaker 1 What happened to me was I instantaneously, I'd never really loved hair rock, but I would listen to the poison songs and Motley Crew. Mottle crew, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, Aerosmith wasn't a hair band, but they kind of went that way for a moment. Yeah.
And they had some great albums, and some of that music still holds up today.

Speaker 1 But the rest of those hair bands, I just never really liked them. They wasn't my thing.
I would much rather listen to like third bass or public enemy or something like that.

Speaker 1 I was getting into that too. Yeah.
And run DMC, Beastie Boys. But then Guns N' Roses put out Appetite for Destruction in 88.
Incredible. Fucking A.
I didn't want to listen to anything else.

Speaker 1 That album, I had to buy three of those cassettes because I wore them out. I was listening to them so much.
Yeah. Yeah.
So

Speaker 1 this coming from a kid who bought Huey Lewis and the news as one of his first CDs. There you go.
Well, Huey Lewis.

Speaker 1 Please tell me Huey Lewis ain't one of the

Speaker 1 greatest

Speaker 1 pop RE. I know.
Yeah, he's a picture of his hearing, right? What an affliction to have if you're like, you know.

Speaker 1 Huey Lewis live at the Palladium. I think it's live at the Palladium, which is one of the only live concerts shot professionally of Huey Lewis in the news with the full horn section behind him.

Speaker 1 Oh, it was so good. Fuck, man.
That's like, if you don't bop your head to that, then you're just not alive. I mean,

Speaker 1 didn't he and Gwyneth Paltrow do a movie together?

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Maybe.
I think so. Maybe.
I think I'm right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But he's also, you know, the soundtrack for Back to the Future. Soundtrack for Back to the Future.
Soundtrack for

Speaker 1 what's the movie with Christian Bale, the murder movie? Oh, oh, oh, oh. American Psycho.
Psycho. American Psycho.

Speaker 1 Huey Lewis in the news. That's the soundtrack for that movie.
Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 He loves American. The psycho

Speaker 1 loves Huey Lewis. He murders to Huey Lewis.
And he talks about how Huey Lewis is the greatest American rock band of all time. I haven't seen that movie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it takes on a whole different connotation. Like when it, you know, Back to the Future, American Psycho.
But either way, the music is fantastic.

Speaker 1 His music was great. Yeah, I had a wild musical taste.
It varied greatly. Me too.
When Appetite for Destruction came out, fucking a right.

Speaker 1 Appetite for Destruction came out and then Master of Puppets from Metallica and just forget about it. It was a one-two punch.
And then shortly after that, 91, you know, they're playing Nevermind.

Speaker 1 And when Nevermind comes out,

Speaker 1 I didn't see a hairband since until Brett Michaels showed up on Rock of Love. Which for my sister and I watching that.
Everybody watched Rock of Love. It was so good.
It was so good. It was so good.

Speaker 1 What's the name? What was the girl's name? Oh, I don't even know. She had her own spin-off.
Yeah, she had her own spin-off.

Speaker 1 She was great, too. We actually watched two episodes of her Daisy of Love.

Speaker 1 Daisy.

Speaker 1 Not Daisy Fuentes.

Speaker 1 Who was another

Speaker 1 MTV house of fashion? Oh, my God. Daisy Fuentes.
Daisy Fuentes. She's still doing really well.

Speaker 1 I was watching one of my real estate shows where they're, you know, buy this, all that, whatever. Oh, she's a real estate girl? No, it was her house.
Oh, it was?

Speaker 1 They were selling her house or selling her house, something. if you would ask she looks great for a seven-year period there who who for me was the most beautiful woman on earth it was daisy

Speaker 1 yeah she was amazing yeah she still looks great and she's latina isn't she yeah it's all starting to make sense now kids that's right think about it it's all starting to make sense your formative years my formative years i was formulating all over daisy

Speaker 1 Let's just put it this way.

Speaker 1 A lot of 21, a lot of EPMs over Daisy Fuentes.

Speaker 1 You got in your 21? Oh, just

Speaker 1 21. Like in two days.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was a kid.

Speaker 1 That's the thing that I look forward to least about raising boys is that like 10-year period of let's have sex with the, you know, the door jam.

Speaker 1 Let's fuck anything that moves.

Speaker 1 It's just boys. It's what we go through.
I'm sorry. You know, you like women or you like men or you like whatever.
It's just one of those things.

Speaker 1 God blesses you with hormones or are with a raging case of hormones. All right, let's take a break.

Speaker 1 When we get back, I'm going to apologize and we're going to fix something made wrong by Brian just a short week ago. All right, we'll be back.

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Speaker 1 Yeah, Chrissy found it. It's nothing but a good time.
Yep. Paramount plus three-part docu-series.
Three-part docuseries about the hairbands.

Speaker 1 80s. Okay, I'm going to watch it while I'm editing tonight.
All right. Apologies from Brian.

Speaker 1 If you don't mind, Chrissy, a mea copa from me. A couple of weeks ago, we did a video on Teresa Caputo because we believe, we think there's going to be a piece of merch with piggy fronting on it.

Speaker 1 Right. We don't know 100%.
We'll know when the, like you will, when the merch drops. We think we know, but we don't know for sure.

Speaker 1 But piggy fronting will be one of the options, we believe, on some of the merch that you you can get piggyfronting on.

Speaker 1 So I said, let's go back and review a Teresa Caputo video because we hadn't done one in a while. And I thought that I got a video where Dr.

Speaker 1 Oz spent an episode talking about Teresa Caputo's powers and testing them through brain imaging. Now, what we reviewed, it was that episode was referred to, but it was not the actual episode.

Speaker 1 Well, I found the episode where they did the brain imaging. And I'd like to say, I'm sorry I didn't have it available back then and make it available to ourselves now.

Speaker 1 I should probably

Speaker 1 apologize, accept it. Thank you.
I appreciate it, Chrissy.

Speaker 1 So, here it is:

Speaker 1 Teresa Caputo getting scanned. And let's see what kind of wordsmithing they do here to make this make sense.
So, what do we want to accomplish today?

Speaker 5 You know, I'm not that kind of person that I need to know how things work. She's nervous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she's nervous. I'm not that kind of person where I actually need to understand whether or not I'm full of shit.
Oh, my God. If I had these powers, I would have done this years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But now she's just coming up.
She didn't come up with this idea, by the way. I think Dr.
Oz came up with this idea.

Speaker 5 But I know that my brain just doesn't work like everyone else is.

Speaker 1 Oh, we know too. Oh, we're well aware.

Speaker 5 The things that I say and the things that I do is prompted by spirit. And I think it's hard for people to tell me.

Speaker 1 The doctor is looking at her like, mm-hmm. What's the guy's name? Michael Summer? He's like Anon or Amon.
Michael Aman or Michael Anon. He's a world-renowned man.
He is.

Speaker 1 I've read a couple of his books, actually. Yes.
They're interesting. He came up with this scanning.
Yeah, this type of scanning that checks which part of your brain is doing what when.

Speaker 1 And he's an older gentleman.

Speaker 1 When he was on the show last time, like with the last episode. With Oz.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All he said was that her prefrontal cortex was overactive when she was doing these readings.

Speaker 1 Chrissy and I did a little bit of chat GPTing to figure out that your brain does the same thing when it's lying. So he's not really, okay, let's just look at it.
He's just giving the facts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's giving the facts. He can't interpret exactly what's going on in someone's brain.

Speaker 5 Same what I do. It just happens.
I can't explain it. And, you know, everyone's like, well, there's no scientific proof.

Speaker 5 So, you know, I want to see some type of scientific proof to show that my brain does work a little differently.

Speaker 1 What we're going to do is we're

Speaker 1 just that her brain works different doesn't mean

Speaker 1 anything.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 People who are autistic or neurodivergent, their brains work differently.

Speaker 1 I guarantee if you scan my brain, it'd be working differently. There'd probably be like a big couple patches in the middle, dark matter, be like a magic mushroom growing from one side of it.

Speaker 1 Ayahuasca

Speaker 1 dripping out of my prefrontal cortex.

Speaker 1 I measure what goes on in your brain in sort of a normal state, and then when you're reading the quantitative EEG, that's sort of the primary one we're going to do today. It looks an electrocollect.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 Like she understands any of it.

Speaker 1 Gotcha. All right.
As long as you can figure out that I'm not lying. Okay.

Speaker 1 And I think it would be really interesting

Speaker 1 to do.

Speaker 5 Because I know something happens.

Speaker 1 She's trying to convince him. Like she tries to convince everybody else that something is magic about her.

Speaker 5 I know things are happening, but I always say it.

Speaker 1 I am dumb as he is not convinced.

Speaker 1 This is the look my dad used to give me when I was lying to him.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we've all seen that. Your brows are furrowed.
Yeah, your brows are furrowed. Your lips are pursed a little bit.
You squint your eyes. You don't smile.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you're like, are you really trying to get that one over on me? The Epstein files, what?

Speaker 1 They disappeared? What?

Speaker 1 The doorknob.

Speaker 5 My brain doesn't retain knowledge. I just know things.

Speaker 1 I don't know why I know. Daniel Ahmed is his name.
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
So let's go. He just shut her up.
He's like, oh, okay, okay. Let's say

Speaker 1 congratulations. Okay, great.
Check it out. With Teresa.

Speaker 1 He had a thing in the back of his office that said, wear a helmet. Exclamation point.

Speaker 1 And she is. She is wearing a helmet.
Yes.

Speaker 1 She's literally taking his advice minute by minute. Okay, so let's go.
Okay, great. Check it out.
With Teresa, we're actually measuring the moment-by-moment activity in her brain.

Speaker 1 So what I'm going to do today is read Teresa's brain while she reads spirit. Thanks, she reads.
While she reads spirit. How much did you get paid to do this, Daniel? Come on.

Speaker 5 We're going to put a cap on your head and insert some gel.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. Okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. Well, this isn't actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I better take the electrobes out of my brain. Ready? Ready? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So this is how we're going to measure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 It's like it's all very, it's a comedy from the 1940s. The electrical activity in your brain.
Okay. And in your cap, there's 20 electrodes.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 This is how Teresa should look all day, all night. So weird.

Speaker 5 I can't get electrocuted right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to put you on their electrocuter. Yeah, he's like, I don't hear that one every time.

Speaker 1 Now, what she's going to do is put gel in each of those holes. There are about 20 of them.

Speaker 5 Oh, oh my god. Oh my god, there's like all stuff in my hair.

Speaker 1 Oh my god. Oh my god.
What did you think was gonna happen? Yeah, I'm piggy-fronting. You're piggy-fronting gel all over me.

Speaker 1 I think, doesn't this interrupt the flow of her spiriting or whatever?

Speaker 1 There's a lot of gel in my hair.

Speaker 5 I don't mind putting on this cap, but this gel is disgusting.

Speaker 1 This is...

Speaker 5 Oh my god, that feels so weird.

Speaker 1 The metal has to get a good connection with your scalp. And the gel...

Speaker 1 Look at how much gel they're putting in there. Just to get through the hair.
Yes, that's exactly right. That's what happens when you have a helmet for hair.
Literally, Teresa.

Speaker 1 Connects the metal to your scalp. Jesus.
You're going to have a lot of goop in your hair. Goop in my hair?

Speaker 5 I mean, anything in the name of science.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're going to have somebody come. She's giving commentary.
So is this like on her show that she's showing this? I thought it was Dr. Oz because that's what I Googled.

Speaker 1 And you're going to do a reading. Okay.
It's all going to be good.

Speaker 5 Well, like, I don't know. I felt like.

Speaker 1 Look, she's got clips on her ears.

Speaker 1 It doesn't look funny. It looks like she had a traumatic brain injury.
No offense.

Speaker 5 What What if something happened to you? I felt like you were like a miracle. Like doctors feel that you should have died or you shouldn't be here.
And here you are.

Speaker 5 No disabilities, no ailments, and you're perfect.

Speaker 1 I did when I was younger. I had a febrile seizure and I had choked on something.

Speaker 5 Believe it. You died and then came back.

Speaker 5 How do you connect? Because I keep getting a pain on the left side of my brain, the left side of the front of my head. It's so strong right now.
This is crazy.

Speaker 1 My stepfather had a stroke.

Speaker 1 My stepfather had a stroke. Oh, my God.
Okay. I think that's making a little bit of a leap.
And by the way, I have to tell you this. I don't know what the exact statistic is.

Speaker 1 Let's see here.

Speaker 1 There is a statistic out there that a lot of natural births, a lot of them, don't go according to plan. It's not but a small number.
And having been through it, it's,

Speaker 1 it can happen. And it does happen all the time.
It's not particularly abnormal. A febral stroke, I think a febral stroke has to do with a fever, actually, not having to do with choking.

Speaker 1 But I don't know, maybe I'm a febral seizure, excuse me. I think it's what they say when your temperature raises really high and then you have a, and that's not unusual for a child, by the way.

Speaker 1 On the left side of his brain and had a portion of his brain taken out.

Speaker 1 Had a portion of his brain taken out. How does that happen? I didn't know they still did lopotomies.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 5 How do you connect with the V name?

Speaker 1 Virgo.

Speaker 5 He says he was your everything.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 I don't believe this. I don't believe this.
Yeah, I would prefer that it would just be a random person instead of this all set up. Yeah, this is all set up, and there's a lot of editing going on here.

Speaker 1 They're not showing the entire conversation. He was, um,

Speaker 1 love of my life passed away.

Speaker 1 He always was from the first time that I met him. He was my everything.

Speaker 1 Eric's full name was Eric Vargo, and everybody called him Vargo. We dated on and off since I was 19.
He was loving

Speaker 1 and just a goofball, and I miss him every time.

Speaker 1 That's really sad.

Speaker 5 He was a bit of a romantic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was the ladies' man.

Speaker 5 He just started nibbling on my ear. I'm like,

Speaker 1 oh my God.

Speaker 1 He's nibbling on your ear?

Speaker 1 He's nibbling on your ear, Teresa.

Speaker 1 You fucking asshole. Honestly.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 The love of her life is dead. And you're making shit up.

Speaker 1 The love of her life is nibbling on your ear. I thought you said you don't feel physical things.

Speaker 1 So would he do that? I'm like, what is that? Who does that? What is that? Who does that? Look at the doctor. The doctor's like, you're taking it way too far, Teresa.

Speaker 5 And he's like, she'll know it's me.

Speaker 1 Eric and I had a great physical chemistry. So him nibbling on her ear was a huge validation.
So him fucking some other chicks was perfectly acceptable.

Speaker 1 We had a great physical chemistry. He was with a lot of other women.

Speaker 1 I was like, he's here. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 he asked me for you to close your eyes because he wanted you to feel him.

Speaker 5 So I don't know if you saw him or if you saw colors.

Speaker 1 I saw colors in the beginning, but

Speaker 1 it was hard for me to close my eyes at first, but as it went on, and I just, all the good memories.

Speaker 5 That was him.

Speaker 1 He gave you a piece of him.

Speaker 5 And did you actually feel your heartbeat? Yes. Know that that was his soul that was helping your heart to beat.
And I saw.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. He took a break from nibbling the ear.
Yeah, he's not nibbling the ear. Now he's helping your heart beat.
Yeah, knowing that. No, that's him.
Helping your heart beat.

Speaker 5 Boy, his thumbprint on your heart.

Speaker 5 So know that through everything that you do.

Speaker 1 She is literally making shit up as she goes along.

Speaker 5 His memories will live on within your heart.

Speaker 5 So know that when you are.

Speaker 1 And I have to say, you know, through all of this, she,

Speaker 1 you know, these people are looking for something and she's providing that. Of course.
And she's saying, she always makes everybody feel better,

Speaker 1 I guess. You know what I mean? Like,

Speaker 1 there's never an instance where she's like, yeah, you really fucked up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The spirit's pissed at you.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, no, that's true. She never, yeah, she never goes to a place where it's like, you know, you.
It's more like everything's okay. You murdered your mom.
I love you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Obviously. But that to me lends less credibility to what's going on because, you know,

Speaker 1 real life is not like that. But

Speaker 1 yes, but that is what Teresa Caputo is, I think, at her base nature, is a woman who fabricates things in an effort to manipulate other people's feelings to be more optimistic, positive.

Speaker 1 I don't know, gentle

Speaker 1 about a great loss in their lives.

Speaker 1 And I I bet that's how she justifies what she does to herself. She probably justifies it at night when she goes to sleep, saying, at least I'm helping people out.

Speaker 1 But I have to imagine that there is some kind of damage that this causes long term to a believer who really, really, really wants to believe that someone, I am not saying.

Speaker 1 Well, again, as we've said, there's a lot of people out there and a lot of them aren't well. Yes.

Speaker 1 And I can't imagine that through all the years, all the readings, all the things that she has done for people, that there wouldn't be somebody along the way that was like, no, no, no, no, wait.

Speaker 1 Wait, yes. I can't keep all of them.
Yes, every single one of them. I want to talk to them again.
Yes. If somebody I had.
If you have the connection. Correct.

Speaker 1 And that's the part where I think this is like, that's one of the things I think could be really detrimental about this is if Teresa is the person, if Teresa is the cell phone, which gets you connected again to the one that you care about so much that you just won't answer your phone call, aren't you doing everything you can to get back, to get that cell phone in your hands again?

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
Do I believe that there are dimensions and planes and energies outside of our understanding? A thousand percent. I believe it in my core.
I just don't believe it.

Speaker 1 It's not ones that are nibbling ears. Yes.
That's it. I don't believe that Teresa's getting her ear nibbled by

Speaker 1 spirit.

Speaker 1 So weird.

Speaker 5 A heartbeat. Yes.
Know that that was his soul,

Speaker 5 why it became stronger. And I felt him wrap himself around you.
So if you felt warm or you felt a chill, you felt something warm. Warm or a chill.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Warm

Speaker 1 or a chill. Either you were cold or you were hot, somewhere in between.
Maybe you didn't feel anything at all. That was him.
That was him wrapping himself around you. I felt it.
You don't have to.

Speaker 1 I felt it for you. Oh, there he is, sticking his finger in my ass.

Speaker 1 He's spicy. He's playing with my labia.

Speaker 1 He He is frisky.

Speaker 1 He's romantic. He's romantic.
Oh, one of the big two in the state. Look out.

Speaker 1 I feel someone nibbling on my nipples. What that is that was that him? Was he like that?

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, oh, I don't dork on them all.

Speaker 1 I just imagine this ghost, like full

Speaker 1 pumping Teresa from behind. Oh,

Speaker 1 it's crazy. Finally,

Speaker 1 someone who gets me.

Speaker 1 Closed.

Speaker 5 Know that that was his soul entering and leaving your physical body. Do you know someone that had the miscarriage or the termination?

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 1 All right. I think this is a good place to take a break and then we can all gather ourselves.
I mean, there's nothing funny about that. I don't need to say that.
It's just a way that

Speaker 1 Teresa. And I don't love how this is edited.
I really don't. And I think...
Well, and they're sitting down like across from each other at a desk. Yes.
I think this is a little too on point.

Speaker 1 I would, and we, we, no, at least not in this video, we, no one is told how this lady showed up, why she showed up, where she's from. Does Teresa's

Speaker 1 I bet Teresa's people have an understanding of who's coming in the door because that's probably an agreement for the television production.

Speaker 1 You don't have never aired it. Never.

Speaker 1 Never. This is a television production.

Speaker 1 That's the thing that's so great about the cold readings when we watch those is because she makes things fit. Yes.
And then, oh, I see something. Oh, wait, that's not.
Oh, it's not you. It's you.

Speaker 1 It's you. Yeah.
Yeah. That's the thing about cold readings is they go much worse for her.
It's obvious that she's stretching. She's doing broad questions and trying to zero in.

Speaker 1 When she does these personal readings on her television show, they always seem to be 100% spot on, but they're highly edited.

Speaker 1 You don't know how she found the people, and you have you have to make the assumption that the production team knows who's going to be there ahead of time.

Speaker 1 They understand who they're dealing with, and it's likely they have information that they have fed to Teresa or are feeding to Teresa because it just seems so.

Speaker 1 Don't you think Teresa would be the most scientifically studied human being in the course of history if any of this was even a little bit true?

Speaker 1 This doctor, who while well respected,

Speaker 1 at least in any of the videos I've seen, has never said this is proof of something happening. Extra.
Spirit. Spirit.
Yeah, that's like spiritual.

Speaker 1 He has just said something happens different to her brain, but that could be because she's lying, because she puts herself in a meditative state, because she's overthinking, overworking, trying to figure out what the next thing to say is.

Speaker 1 It's not particularly unusual what her brain is doing. It's just doing it in a way that the doctor can now read.
So, but again, think about this.

Speaker 1 If Teresa was actually talking to spirit and she, in fact, cared this much about science and people having scientific proof, would she not be the most studied person in history?

Speaker 1 The CIA, by the way, has

Speaker 1 does research on this all the time. It's well documented.

Speaker 1 And they have found proof that people can remote view and send conversation from one person to another without saying into psychic abilities. But those people aren't on fucking TV with big hair.
Yeah.

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Speaker 1 All right, we're back here with Teresa Caputo doing a reading.

Speaker 1 I don't, I'm not going to call this a cold reading, probably a very warm reading of a girl while her brain is attached to a suction device.

Speaker 1 All right. And she just asked if she spot on with everything so far.
Yeah, so far it's 100% accurate, but also highly edited. So here we go.

Speaker 5 No regrets.

Speaker 5 And whose birthday is it?

Speaker 5 Is it your birthday? Whose birthday?

Speaker 1 Our birthdays are very close together. He's April 15th and I'm April 16th.
And he also passed away on our birthday.

Speaker 5 And he says that I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 Was he far when he died?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he was about an hour.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 He brought me through the departure. I didn't feel I was at a hour.

Speaker 1 Okay, how did he die? Tell us. High rate of speed.

Speaker 5 I felt that I was driving. And then all of a sudden, my car just kind of veered off and slowly crashed into a tree.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 There's just no way.

Speaker 1 Passed away five years ago in a car accident on his way home from his birthday. I wish that I was with him that night.
I do.

Speaker 1 It was my birthday as well.

Speaker 1 And I was out with my friends, and I feel like I was having fun that night when.

Speaker 1 When it happened.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a very sad story. It is a terrible story, and I feel terrible for this young lady.
It gives me a sense of big regret. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Her ears are sticky.

Speaker 1 She's got clips on her ears. That's why she feels like someone's nibbling on her ears.
They have electrobes attached to her earlobes.

Speaker 5 He also showed me that

Speaker 5 when he died, you felt his soul after he left?

Speaker 1 because he says i did come and say goodbye to you there was a moment where i felt something was off like i felt you were out having fun with your friends at the party yeah like

Speaker 1 maybe okay

Speaker 5 so no his soul i don't want to make fun of her misery no no no to say goodbye

Speaker 5 he says i want her to know that i because i said to why do you keep making me feel the blow

Speaker 1 yeah when did you say that she's so bullish

Speaker 5 to the front of my head and he said because i want her to know that I died instantly.

Speaker 1 See, here's the thing that's interesting about Teresa, too. And if you've just tuning into the commercial break, we've done lots of these videos.

Speaker 1 So we kind of get the rhythm of Teresa and what she's all about. We've heard her talk about her special little powers before.

Speaker 1 And one of the things that she says is that she doesn't hear people talking to her directly. She gets a feeling.
But she often says, he says, he's telling me. He's telling me.
He says.

Speaker 1 She also says she doesn't get physical touch. She can't physically be contacted.
But she just said that someone was nibbling on her ear.

Speaker 1 So the rules bend and break according to the moment when she needs to pull somebody in further.

Speaker 1 It's an old parlor trick. It's what it is.

Speaker 5 And he says, you feel if you were with him, you would have been able to protect him and maybe he wouldn't have died?

Speaker 5 Is that correct? Yeah,

Speaker 1 he fell asleep at the wheel.

Speaker 1 So where are you going to see, Phil?

Speaker 5 He wants you to know that even if you were there, doesn't mean that you could have prevented his departure. Our destiny in life is set.
Unfortunately, this accident still would have happened.

Speaker 5 He says, but what if you did drive

Speaker 5 and there was still an accident and I departed? Where would have guilt lie then?

Speaker 5 He says, no regrets. He wants you to know that you were his last thought when he departed.

Speaker 5 He says, because I always thought of you. You are very special.

Speaker 5 And he said, please tell her, don't cry for my soul. He says, his soul is with you, always.

Speaker 5 He actually said to me, close your eyes. I want to show you something.

Speaker 1 It's my dick.

Speaker 5 And when I did that, I can see you holding his hand

Speaker 5 and just walking.

Speaker 1 No, that's a sweet thought. It's like,

Speaker 1 I don't know, kind of like one of those cards you would get at a grocery store.

Speaker 1 It's a very nice, very nice thought.

Speaker 5 He said, please tell her that I will walk with her for all the days of her life.

Speaker 6 I'm feeling relieved.

Speaker 1 Teresa validated the fact that I could not have changed him. If I was there, I could not have changed what happened.

Speaker 5 He said, I want you to be able to embrace life with happiness and joy. And when you do leave, his soul will be there to greet you.

Speaker 1 This reading has actually taken away the pain that that part is good.

Speaker 1 Sure. If she's a real and not an actor.
I have to agree with you there. I do not want to knock somebody's real grief, but I am a little bit suspicious about this whole thing.

Speaker 1 It feels to me to be a little cooked up. I was carrying around with me.
Very nice to meet you. Good luck to you.
And so my heart is lighter. And then that feels like boom, boom.
Talk to you.

Speaker 1 Good love of my life.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen, I'm going to keep your boyfriend tongue in my ear and I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 1 You're better. And I feel like I'll be able to

Speaker 1 love better.

Speaker 1 He's like, damn, your brain is crazy. I know.
He's like, she, this is the same thing we see with schizophrenics, but how do I make this sound good for television?

Speaker 1 All right. So, this is going to be the interesting one.
Uh-oh, the big reveal.

Speaker 5 Watch, there's nothing there.

Speaker 1 Oh, she's preparing. She's setting everybody up for nothing to happen.

Speaker 1 Did anything happen? The big thing we discovered is that her brain is clearly different.

Speaker 1 Okay, so we saw, yeah, I know, but we saw it go to TLC. It goes to TLC commercial.
This was her show. Oh, you're right about that.
This was her show.

Speaker 1 Okay, this is TLC, the sky version, the BBC version.

Speaker 1 But in any case, what we did hear last time, we now connect the dots, is that what he said was the prefrontal cortex of Teresa's brain works in overdrive as she's giving this reading.

Speaker 1 Chrissy, they didn't, he gave no additional context. He gave no additional context.
That's all he said. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was that here's a person that's talking normally to their friend, not a lot of, not a ton of prefrontal cortex. Here's Teresa while she's giving this reading, a lot of prefrontal cortex.

Speaker 1 And so Chrissy and I went and used Chat GPT to understand it a little bit deeper. And ChatGPT said that the prefrontal cortex is used when lying, when being creative, when making up, when having,

Speaker 1 like when you're doing critical analysis, when you're trying to think of something, when you're trying to reason through something.

Speaker 1 So it could be that Teresa is just storytelling in her own head, and that's why it goes into overdrive. Or it could be that she is trying to remember and reason through things that she knows

Speaker 1 she needs to, like the bullet points, the beats that she needs to hit when she is reading this particular person.

Speaker 1 If you ask me, and I don't know this for a fact, this particular reading seemed very set up to me. Very set up.

Speaker 1 Even the way the young lady was reacting to the way that Teresa was saying things seemed... Yeah, this is not a person off the street.
This was just, you know, already,

Speaker 1 the interview cuts to just this woman that's just sitting in this office ready. Yes.

Speaker 1 Now, I know from my own personal research online that there are tens of thousands, probably millions of people who think Teresa Caputo

Speaker 1 is real and everything she has to offer is true, and that there is definitely, she is definitely making connections. I don't know that to be true or not true.
I suspect it's not.

Speaker 1 My own eyes, ears, and

Speaker 1 amazing abilities of deduction tell me it's probably not.

Speaker 1 But if that's what you believe, that's what you believe. Hey, listen, you know.
Exactly. Each to their own.
I guess if it's helping somebody, I have some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.

Speaker 1 And some merch.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 God bless you, Teresa, wherever you may be.

Speaker 1 I don't like what you're doing, but, you know,

Speaker 1 if it's real,

Speaker 1 if that girl's

Speaker 1 story and her reactions and everything was real, well, at least she didn't walk away.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she's alleviated.

Speaker 1 She's alleviated. She's alleviated.

Speaker 1 She's been alleviated.

Speaker 1 She's been alleviated from pain. From pain.
There you go. From regret.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Do we all feel better now?

Speaker 1 Do we all feel like we got something out of this? It's science. It's science.

Speaker 1 What's that?

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I love it.
I do love me a good Teresa Caputo video. And this one is a bit more serious than most of the ones we do.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's like the mountain monsters thinking that they're actually catching monsters. That's right.
But here's the difference. I know that when the mountain monsters, when the cameras turn off,

Speaker 1 I totally know that the mountain monsters don't believe their own bullshit. Do you know what I'm saying? They know.
They're acting. They know.

Speaker 1 Teresa has to put this on all day and all night long. And I'm sure everyone she comes in contact with

Speaker 1 wants a reading, is asking her. But she's fabulously wealthy.
Well, again, I mean, it must be very crowded in her head and in her space of what she goes through the life with seeing and hearing.

Speaker 1 yeah bunch of feelings bunch of ghosts nibbling on her ear and piggy fronting her head and all that stuff

Speaker 1 all right uh

Speaker 1 merch drop and tcb minus pay attention it's coming and uh we'll let you know here very shortly save your ducats kid get your ducats in a row break open your piggy fronting banks

Speaker 1 We're gonna sell you some merch. 212-433-3 TCB.
212-433-3822. Get involved in the conversation.
Questions, comments, concerns, content ideas. We'd love to hear it.

Speaker 1 And we'd love you to be a part of the conversation. So send us a text message.
It's not like a spam text message line. It's in our studio.
We actually respond.

Speaker 1 Direct connection. Piggy fronting right to you at the commercial break on Instagram.
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Speaker 1 And tcbpodcast.com for all the audio, video, and your free sticker.

Speaker 1 Just Just go give us your address. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now.
I think so. I'll tell you that I love you.
I love you. Best to you.

Speaker 1 Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say.
We do say and we must say. Goodbye.

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