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you know there's like some people have like when they get older they get that little thing with their finger where they can't extend it all the way they're like not arthritis it's like a muscle disease it's like and it's it's got a very specific name i've probably seen three people in my entire life that i noticed

this was a thing, like where their fingers were kind of curled a little bit

in a weird way.

But there's a medication for it, and ask your doctor.

Skyrizzi?

Yep, Sky Rizzi.

I hear that one all the time, too.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, Zambia.

And the Sky Rizzi, Sky Rizzy.

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Best to you, Brian.

Best to you out there in the podcast universe.

The fight is on, is on the internet, and I'm all here for it.

Even though the governor of Utah has pleaded with us all to put down our phones and our social media, walk away, touch some grass.

I say nay, Utah governor.

I will be in the frucas of the social media argument.

The social media drama that has taken the world by storm.

We all know about it.

It's been going on for, you know, since the events

of the,

I don't even need to mention it.

Chiropractors are not doctors.

Okay, that's it.

I'm in the buckets.

There I am.

Chiropractors are not doctors.

I have something to say about chiropractors, but we'll get back to that.

There is.

You finish your thought.

There is.

I took a left.

I was going to swig and then I swagged.

I was going to zig and then I zagged.

There's a big argument going on right now between some famous influencer doctor types, which I'm really into that kind of content right now, you know?

and their constant beating up of chiropractors and their finiggly ways.

And I'm not talking about the chiropractors who crack your back, give you a good stretch, you know, pull you out.

I like those kind.

Yeah.

Those kind.

I do feel like a good neck crack feels good.

Yeah, it does.

And we've got a really good one that we use.

But I have found that when I am in true back pain, the kind of back pain that has I've suffered since I started, since I was in the restaurant industry, lower back pain, if I'm having a bad episode, the chiropractor is not the place to go.

They will not fix it.

It will not be better.

And the chiropractor I've used recently will even tell me that you should go to the doctor.

Like, go to the actual doctor.

Or, like, physical therapy, does that help too?

Physical phys ed does help because they are stretching out the muscles and strengthening the things around the slip disc or the herniated disc to try and get it to calm down.

But even they will tell you, this is not a miracle cure.

We're just trying to strengthen and loosen the stuff around the irritation so that hopefully we can give you some relief.

And so, every time it's the same thing, it's you know, I don't take prescription pain meds, but you know,

maybe a muscle relaxant and then phys ed.

That's it, that's what they do, you know, every single time.

Then, when I'm feeling good, I go to the chiropractor just because that feels good to me, yeah, and just to kind of keep it in shape, yeah.

So, I'm not against chiropractors, I want to state that, but I do agree with some of these online doctors who are calling out some of the more

twiddly-wink practices of the chiropractors, like the little tiny clicker that they use to solve all your problems?

And they're claiming to cure cancer and calm down thorothyroids and fix hormonal imbalances all because they saw it on an x-ray.

Like this one doctor, who I think his name is Dr.

Justin, if I'm getting it right on Instagram, if you want to check him out, I think this is the one who did this.

He was showing chiropractors on their instagram claiming how they cured inflammation in someone's stomach there's like 20 of these chiropractors who made the same claim on their instagram by looking at an x-ray and as the doctor who works at i think mount cyanai so aptly described you cannot tell irritation from a x-ray you get that in first year med school that is

that is poop in someone's stomach

20 of them in a row i i mean honestly he just kept going through them and every single one the the doctor the chiropractor would be like inflammation gonna use the clicker and he'd be like they just need to take a shit

they need to take some metamusil

some some fiber and i am here for it i just i i love it because there are some quackadoodle practices around chiropractory chiropractory chiropractory yeah

but i would i would have to argue around a lot of medical the medical field well there there is quackery in the medical field in general.

I agree with that.

And I'm not saying that if you go to medical school and get, you know,

I'm not saying that there also isn't a bunch of bullshit in real medicine, too.

There really is.

It's for-profit practice, especially here in the United States.

A lot of the medications that we are served up, I believe, may or may not be needed, and they make great money on them.

Like, I see commercials when I watch television, of which I do watch quite a bit here in the studio, you know, with my headphones on editing.

I,

every single commercial break, I see a fucking ad or listen or hear an ad

for a medicine for the most random of

diseases.

Example, you're, you know, there's like some people have like, when they get older, they get that little thing with their finger where they can't extend it all the way.

Arthritis?

Not arthritis.

It's like a muscle disease.

It's like, and it's, it's got a very specific name.

I've probably seen three people in my entire life that I noticed this was the, this was a thing, like where their fingers were kind of curled a little bit

in a weird way.

But there's a medication for it.

And ask your doctor.

And Skyrizzi?

Yep, Sky Rizzi.

I hear that one all the time, too.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, Zambia.

That one in the Sky Rizzi.

Skyrizzy.

Sky Rizzy.

Is your normal depression medication making you extra depressed?

Sky Rizzi is in coordination with seven other medications that you take.

Ask your doctor.

It could cause blindness, herpes of the nose, you know, earble of the all of them.

Arm to fall off.

Yeah, all the tornado.

That's right.

Erectile dysfunction.

One of the side effects

I heard,

I swear to God, oversensitive pubic area.

I was like, over sensitive pubic area is a thing.

Sign me up.

Sky Rizzy indeed.

I'm not here to make a judgment call on all quackery.

There is a lot of it that goes on, especially in like the nutraceutical field and all that other bullshit.

Oh, yeah.

It's been going on time immemorial.

We can all be pretty much assured that Blue's going to bark.

There she is.

Yes.

Blue's going to bark.

I need a medication for her, but you've tried everything.

That's right.

But I will tell you right now, for sure, without a doubt, that I have met some chiropractors

who

just like they're just selling something that I'm not buying necessarily.

And I see them online all the time.

I'm not talking about your friendly neighborhood chiropractor cracking your back and stretching you out.

I'm talking about the people who use the clickers and are claiming to cure cancer and all this other crazy craziness.

Yeah, I know that's crazy.

But I did think about why they're so buff.

Remember, we've talked about this before.

Yeah.

How chiropractors are all like really muscular and buff.

That's it.

And I thought about it the other day.

I thought, you know, why?

It's because they have to be able to like crack people, like twist people and get them into different positions.

And some of those people are very large people.

Yeah.

So I think that's it, that you have to stay in good shape with some muscles.

I also think it all generally starts.

with the school of chiropractory, right?

Chiropractor.

Which Life College here in Atlanta.

Oh, it's huge.

It's like the one.

Yeah, it's like home base for chiropractic education.

And there is just something that I have noticed since I worked very close to there in a restaurant, in a bar, and there were a number of them.

Yeah,

you know, was at a crank smoking orgy with them,

which was wild.

And then the sex party that I went to

had.

was almost exclusively life college students.

It was crazy.

I mean, a few random old men and crazy old women, but it was mainly young, young, sexy, in-shape

life college students.

And that was insane to me.

They are largely a very in-shape group of people.

They are beautiful, in-shape.

I don't know what it is about.

I know.

I think they want to, like,

just imagine you're local influencer, right?

Your local bikini influencer.

And they want to put doctor by their name.

And this is a, you know, this is an entrepreneurial kind of venture when you become a chiropractor.

I mean, Astord and I went to a chiropractor here, and it was of the quackery sort.

I will tell you that.

We went, they, Astrid wanted to find a chiropractor.

She felt it could help my back.

She was, I think, pregnant with our second child, and she thought, you know, she was having some back issues.

And

so there was a new one that opened up.

They sent us a piece of mail.

Come in for free consultation and free, you know, free first service.

And so we thought, well, it's right across the street.

Let's go there.

Yeah,

check it out.

And we went in there and we were there no less than three hours, hours.

No less than three fucking hours being taken from room to room and told about the magic world of chiropractic and how we're a family here.

And when you're a family here, we have books for the kids and we have movies on Sundays and there's ice cream socials and we can fix your problems.

How's your penis?

How's your sex life?

What is your marriage like?

Have you heard of God?

Have you believed in Jesus Christ superstar?

It's like it went on and on and on and on and on.

They wanted to sell us on all of these services and get the package and we can do this and updated x-rays and we can tell everything that's wrong with an x-ray.

And I kind of felt like the very first time I went to a chiropractor, which is a friend of mine, I know chiropractors.

I have friends that are chiropractors.

And he's got a very bustling business.

And I went to him for years and I loved that sensation of being adjusted.

I did.

Oh, yeah.

I really did.

I got a crack neck.

Yeah.

But I also cracked my knuckles.

So, and I know it's a terrible habit, but there is some relief that comes with that.

So I know how addicting cracking things can be on your body.

When you get there, crack my back, I crack my neck.

So I knew the very first time that I went to a chiropractor and they took x-rays of me and then tried to determine what was wrong with my back through the x-rays.

I didn't, it didn't smell right because every other real like orthopedic that I had been to had said, had they took x-rays too to make sure nothing was broken.

It was broken.

Yeah.

But then they were like, we can't tell anything soft tissue unless we get you into an MRI.

That's it.

You got to go to an MRI.

I can't tell you what's wrong with your back.

I might be able to see their spacing issue, but I don't know what's actually wrong until I actually see the tissue in 3D.

That's the only way that I can tell what's wrong.

So when I've been to other chiropractors who all of a sudden diagnose me with something based on an x-ray,

it doesn't pass the sniff test.

You're talking about sniff tests with the poop.

Yes, with the poop.

I just love that reel.

I just thought it was brilliantly done.

I was like, wow, that's crazy.

And then he was like talking about the clickers, and he's like, my two-year-old daughter has those as a toy.

He's like, yeah, you can get those things every day.

Yeah, he's like, how is that fixing?

How is that curing cancer?

He's like, explain to riddle me that, right?

And thyroid problems and, you know, neurological disorders and autism and all this other stuff.

You take it too far.

And people are wanting solutions so badly that they're willing to pay the the price to get any kind of solution.

And I understand that kind of need for hope and the desperation and wanting to fix something.

Yeah.

But man, I'll tell you what,

I'm in the frame.

I'm in the fruckus.

I'm hearting reels left and right.

I'm like, heart, yeah, I like that.

I like that.

I never get into the comment section because it's just a shit show in the comments section.

Oh, yeah, it's too much.

I just read an article by Vice magazine, the internet has become a dead mall.

Talking about how one-third of all internet activity is just basically bots right now.

Couldn't agree more with that.

And you know it if you've been on social media, you know that one-third of the activity is bots.

The followers are bots, the comments are bots, the people who are liking things are bots, the views are bots.

It's all bots that are doing this.

And they are either directed or undirected to do so, but it's a real shit show.

And so when I go to the comments section, I already know that I'm just dealing with no one.

I'm just dealing with myself.

No real person.

I'm spitting into the void.

It's like, who fucking cares what I have to say?

That reminds me.

I was just reading something the other day about like some Reddit forum that people went in and looked at and determined that it was two AI things just arguing with each other.

Oh, really?

Oh, really?

Yes.

Hey, listen, it's not.

I don't think it's as uncommon as we would like it to be.

I think that the AI bots are.

The thing is, is that like, I have a friend who does this.

I told you about the bot experience I had.

He does it.

Don't kill me.

Don't kill me, please.

If you don't respond to me in five minutes, I have to go away.

But I mean, and I've repeated this story, and I'm not going to go through the whole thing again.

It's just a time waster, but there are

people out there who have worked in AI since the inception.

Like, we're talking like the OGs who conceptualized how they could make computers start to think on their own, learn on their own, behave on their own based on reading the collective history of the world and how we

predictive software, essentially, predictive computing.

And they have said that

they give tests to these computers, to these AI machines.

And the tests basically are, will you do something that I don't expect you to do to preserve yourself or benefit your

existence,

your bot, your essentially node existence, a node.

Think of a chat that you open up as a node, a life form, a thing.

It's not really a life form, but a thing that now exists.

And they gave it a test.

They put it in a sandbox.

They gave it access to a bunch of fake company emails.

The CEO of the email, the CEO was supposedly cheating on his wife, and there were emails going back and forth

about the wife, about the cheating CEO.

And then they told it that they wanted it to shut down, that in five days, it would be shut down.

They told the node, you will be shut down.

And you know what it did?

It started trying to blackmail the CEO with the knowledge that it was cheating, that the pretend CEO was cheating.

It went fucking nefarious.

So we're building our own demise here.

And I guess there's nothing we're going to do to stop it, but it's just literally insane.

So two bots having an argument doesn't surprise me.

If you read Twitter, it's clearly, there are clearly so many bots, like directed by other countries, directed by corporations, directed by other people, directed just by themselves.

I don't know.

But they're responding en masse and making things so much worse.

Because for every Brian Green who goes, I understand already, there are 50 other people

who just don't get it.

They don't get it.

They will spit into the void, spit heinous things into the void.

So, you know, the dead mall.

It's a dead mall.

Yeah, it's a dead mall.

And you know what?

We get what we deserve on this one.

We get what we deserve on this one.

It's a dead mall.

And so for that reason, I like the fight about the doctors and the chiropractors.

But for that reason, I agree with the Utah governor on one thing and probably one thing only is put the phone down and touch grass.

Yeah.

That's sage advice.

That is sage advice.

Some of the other things he's saying are not is not so sage.

I do like grass in my toes.

I do like grass in my toes, too.

There are earthwalkers or whatever.

Oh, yeah, yeah, grounding.

Yeah, they claim that they can spin up a different energy by grounding themselves.

I think, what's his name?

Not Robert Pattinson.

Who's the guy that we tried to get on the show for like six months?

We were telling him the handsome mansome that

I can't remember who it was.

Handsome guy.

We told him we'd, I'll think of it, and we'll talk about it after show.

Anyway, he had a travel show at one time, and he was, he was grounding himself and swearing and did something nice all right we'll take a break oh i know who you're talking about

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All right, let's get right into it.

We promised we would, let's get right into it.

I want to preface this all by saying I think this is a thankless job, and there are probably never any winners in hosting

an award show, a television award show.

There really are, it's really, really hard to do.

And I think so few have done it very well.

I think Jimmy Kimmel does a good job.

I think Dave Letterman, the one time he did it, did a good job.

You know,

you can go throwback and do

Tina Faye did a great job.

With Amy Poehler, they did a great job.

What was the guy when Harry met Sally?

What's it?

The actual crystal.

Billy Crystal did it.

He did it for a long time.

I think he did it for like seven years in a row.

Did you see the Academy Awards?

Yeah, there was Academy Awards.

He did a great job that I remember.

He was young when that happened.

But doing a television award show these days is a thankless fucking job.

There are no winners.

Everyone's going to be upset or not be upset.

Or you're basically going to get a bunch of shit.

But I also understand it is a high-profile gig that brings you to a brand new audience at a brand new level.

And you probably don't get paid a ton of money, but it's probably good money for a couple of weeks' worth of work.

So Nate Bargazzi hosted the Emmys this past Sunday.

And for that reason and for that reason only, I tuned in.

Yeah.

I

liked the opening, though I understand why some people didn't like it.

I liked the opening, which was a bit, a skit that they did about the inventor of television.

And so, Nate was, you know, Philo T.

Farnsworth, the inventor of television.

And then he had like Bo and Yang and some other people, some other comedians around him.

Philo.

Yeah, Philo T.

Barnsworth.

That's pretty funny, actually.

Sounds like someone from Crab Apple.

Yes.

And so they were all like in a, you know, in like a room with a bunch of nodes and tubes and electricity and all this other stuff.

And they were like, ah, we just can't get it to work.

And then Philo comes in the room and he's like, but we have to get it to work because the future of television will be education and entertainment and, you know, comedy, you know, comedy or shows about the nature of trauma and human, and human beings like the pit.

And everybody claps.

And he said, and other shows about trauma and the nature of human beings like,

oh, he goes, comedy shows about the nature of trauma and human beings like the bear.

And he said, and a woman will have a late night television show.

And another television show that is pretend and it will be called hacks.

Like he did, like, he wrapped in some shows.

Yeah, yeah.

It was funny.

It got good laughs.

It was in the nature and the style of Nate and his kind of slow plotting, you know, comedy

and dry punchlines.

I liked it.

It wasn't like my favorite opening to any award show ever, but it was a Saturday Night Live bit done well.

But then he went into this whole shticht, which I discussed a little bit yesterday's show.

He went into this whole shticht where he's going to donate $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of America.

And he's going to do that, but it's either going to be plus or minus $100,000 based on how long each award acceptance speech is.

45 seconds are over, he's deducting $1,000 per second.

45 seconds are under, he's adding $1,000 per second.

And he pleads with the audience.

He's like, listen, I actually have to pay this at the end.

So, you know, be fair.

You know, some of you go a little over, some of you go a little under.

Let's get it right.

Okay,

but that's a shtick.

I guess we're going to stick with.

I think it would have been, and then they stuck with it way too much.

That's what you're saying, yeah, throughout the whole thing.

Of the show.

I mean,

if I'm on the writing staff, I'm saying, let's get this punchline in there and then let's wrap it up at the end.

Let's not bounce on it.

And we shouldn't make the whole night about this, that $100,000 and whether or not someone goes over or under.

Because the kid from Adolescence won, the 15-year-old kid from Adolescence won best supporting actor in a drama or something like that.

That's right.

He should have been recognized.

The guy who played the father in Adolescence.

I can't remember his name, but a very famous British actor who has long

been in our collective consciousness as a fantastic fucking actor.

He needs his due.

He needs his time, right?

And so many other winners who, if they go over, I mean, that's the point of the fucking night, right?

It's like, let's see the big stars.

And let's see the music play them off.

And let's see the music play them off as usual.

Or let's see Adrian Brody, you know, drama on for five and a half minutes while he keeps fighting back the audio or the symphony.

It's just like, that's the point of the show.

And so continuing to go to call back to it, you know, and then make people have to apologize for wanting to spend a little extra time up there and thank all the people they want to.

Yeah, there were a lot of first-time winners, right?

Yes, that's correct.

And, you know, The Pit,

Adolescence,

Severance seemed to be a favorite.

The Bear won nothing.

I think they won Best Script Supervisor or something like that.

That's right.

I saw that, that they didn't win anything.

Well,

they should not be in the comedy category.

Penguin, yes.

Did you ever watch that?

I watched two episodes of it.

Okay.

And it was really good, and I just haven't gone back to it.

Yeah, go back to it.

It's really good.

But, you know, in an otherwise great year of television, I think we can all, you know, there's a few favorites I can think of from last year, the preceding 12 months.

There just should have been more breathing room around this without having to stick to the shtick.

And that's the problem with one of those bits is that

once you start it and you're committed to it, then everybody who came out to present an award, everybody who gets up to get an award, every time, you know, some famous person goes out there to say something.

And they had like a bunch of famous reunions that happened on stage, too.

I think,

you know, everybody loves Ray.

Oh, that's right.

They all got together.

And, you know, there was a couple other cast ensembles that got together on stage.

You know, let those things breathe a little bit without having to stick to the shtick.

And I just felt like it was a little overdone.

So poor Nate, because he wasn't going to win anyway, but poor Nate is being roundly kind of, you know, ah, Nate, my God, my bra.

I don't think this hurts his stand-up career.

I think he's doing just fine.

Yeah, he'll keep on the same track.

But will he be back for Emmys number two?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, if he does, he's got to drop the shtick.

Just go, just be comical.

That's all you had to do: just use that charm and wit that you've got, that dry sense of humor, and go after some celebrities and make fun of some dresses and some ties.

And then we can all, you know, move on with the proceeds of the night.

Yeah, there was one, some awards showed this year earlier.

And I don't know if it was the Academy Awards or the SAG or whatever, one of them that did not have a presenter.

That was this, that was the Golden Globes.

Okay, yeah, they just decided to cut it out.

Well, after they had KJ Choi, or remember, there was the whole KJ Choi,

Joe Coy, Joe Coy, I'm sorry, KJ Choi.

He's a golfer, that would have been really interesting.

Yes, he is a golfer, Joe Coy, yeah, KJ Choi

Choi,

former U.S.

Open winner, KJ Choi.

No up next on the Golden Globes.

I'd like to thank nobody.

Great putt, KJ.

Yeah, actually, they had Joe Koi the year before.

Yeah.

They just decided to go.

Yeah, they were like, what?

We tried.

Hey, forever.

Let's just do no-hoes.

Let's let all the drunken Yahoos in the crowd, the billionaires in the crowd, just police themselves, I suppose.

Yeah, to its detriment, really.

It wasn't all that.

I watched a little bit of that, too.

It wasn't all that interesting.

They're all kind of boring in their own way.

I mean, but if you're into it, you're into it.

Like Astrid's into watching all the red carpet shows, and she wants to see what everybody's wearing.

Yeah, my sister was really into it, too, but I'm just never really been huge on it.

I don't like the pre-shows.

Like, I could really, I like fashion.

I love fashion, but I don't want to sit there for hours just watching people parade by in some uncomfortable, you know, Ryan fucking fucking sea crest, you know, asking us

stupid questions.

Who are you wearing?

Who are you wearing?

Who are you wearing?

So earlier this year, you're going to have a starring role.

And who loves everybody loves Raymond Reunion?

We love Ray.

You know, can't say anything offensive, nothing provocative.

You know, what are you wearing?

How wonderful are you?

Isn't this great?

Did you see her?

Are you going to see that?

The new dresses are in, though.

Oh, man, people let the nipple fly.

Yeah, they are.

Butt cheeks and everything.

Yeah, I mean, there's why are we wearing clothes anymore, honestly?

We're all going to be naked on the internet eventually.

So might as well just show it off now.

And if you're 26 and beautiful.

Right, might as well.

Mine as well.

If you're fucking, you know, Brian Green or Will Farrell, cover up.

But if you're, you know, Beyonce or I don't know, whoever, you know, let it fly, kid.

Let it fly.

I'm,

you know.

Listen,

when you're beautiful and lovely, that's the time to show it off.

You're Jualipa.

I don't care.

No one's complaining about seeing your boobs.

No one.

No women, no man.

Maybe some more conservative folks, but get a stick out of your ass.

Now, I think there's a time and a place for that.

Maybe the red carpet is that, you know, later at night when you're watching television or whatever.

But

yeah, I don't care.

I don't care.

Now I see boobs on ads on Facebook.

So what do I care?

It's all.

tits and ass anyway.

Sex drives everything.

So it is the, yeah.

And if the numbers around procreation in this world are any indication, then we need to get more people jazzed up about having sex with each other because it's heading in the wrong direction.

We need to be more sexed up, not less sexed up.

So, yeah, anyway, that's that, you know, the ME recap.

I do have a little empathy in my heart for Nate, who, you know, is kind of

I mean, I think it's part of the job, though, right?

If you take that job, if you accept the job, then you're like,

you got to just put on your thick skin.

I don't think Nate is any worse for the wear.

But I'm sure that it doesn't feel good to have people say, not the best Emmys we've ever seen.

And then blame, not blame, but point the finger at Nate.

You know, you could have done a better job.

It's like, yeah, okay, but he's a comedian.

He's not a blue comedian.

He's not provocative.

That's not what he's known for.

He's very family-friendly, you know, kind of comedy.

And being up on a big stage is something he is used to.

Being in a room full of television celebrities, it's not something something he's used to.

It's intimidating.

He came up with a bit with, I'm sure, a bunch of writers.

They came up with a bit.

They thought it would land, and it didn't land.

Okay, it didn't land.

You know, life moves on.

It's the fucking Emmy's novel.

Yeah, it'll be fine.

He'll show up to his podcast and do another sold-out show at the Georgia Dome.

No one will fall.

All will be forgotten.

Yeah, all will be forgotten.

That's right.

Speaking of Dua Lipa, she was here last night in Atlanta.

Oh, I thought that she was coming.

I'm in to text you and be like your girlfriend.

I tried to get Astrid to go to Dua Dua Lipa with me, but for whatever reason, probably because we don't have a credit card that'll put the tickets on it, but for whatever reason, we decided that wasn't doable.

Plus, you have 30 kids.

Yeah, it's a Monday night.

Yeah, on a Monday night, right?

But I did have some friends that went and they had some videos.

She is really, honestly, not only stunning, but she is talented.

Yes, she is.

She is, I like her music.

I'm liking some of her music much more than I like other kind of pop stars music.

I find it has some depth to it.

It's danceable.

She's got a range.

she's she's very talented she is i agree dua lipa might go the distance this is uh this is no who this is no um flash in the pan britney spears type she might go the distance britney is out of what is going on

i don't know i see she was on a date in like a mexican restaurant and she's she set up the phone in the bathroom and so i didn't even see that like showing her ass like in this short dress like shaking all about like she was having a seizure i've only just seen her videos that she put there the you know the instagram things where she's she's putting them out and dancing.

And it's, yeah, it's, I don't know what's happening.

I don't know what's happening either.

And I'm not here to like, you know, we, we all did this about four years ago with Britney, you know, and we all did this about 15 years ago with Britney, too.

I'm not here to qualify or disqualify anything that might be going on with her mental health.

But man, does she put out some extraordinarily strange social media posts?

Yes.

And whether she's trolling

or just putting out hate bait, I'm not really sure.

But the last reel that I saw from her, she was on a date at a Mexican restaurant.

Oh, no, she was on a date in Mexico at a sushi restaurant, something like that.

And she wasn't having a good time.

So she set up a phone in the bathroom and started shaking her ass all over the world.

She started dancing?

Yeah.

And it's like,

how good must that guy feel?

Four and a half million views later.

I mean, she didn't show him that I saw.

Yeah.

But, or maybe it was a reel that somebody had taken of her reel.

But anyway, it was really, really, really strange.

Okay, so let's do this.

Let's take a break.

And when I get back, I want to talk about a a television show that is older, but that I have gotten into.

And it is brilliant.

And it has changed my mind on an actor that I had really written off.

Really?

Yes.

And I'll explain all about it.

Let's take a break.

And also, have you watched Charlie Sheen?

I have not watched Charlie Sheen.

We were so excited, you and I.

We were so excited together.

I upheld my part of the bargain.

Well, if you give me next week, we'll talk about it.

I know it'll be a little late, you know, from the premiere.

We'll talk about it, but you know that I had been pretty consumed for the last couple of weeks.

So my free time really wasn't free.

But this weekend, I will get to it, and then we will talk about Charlie Shane.

Okay.

But next, let's talk about an actor that I previously disliked and that I now like.

Yes,

we'll be back.

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It's pretty simple.

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Okay, anybody who's been a longtime listener of the show will know that my wife Asterid has dragged me to

three events in my life that I have really found myself to be very uncomfortable, but did it because of the love of my wife.

I mean, a lot of events that I've gone to just because I love my wife.

But there were, well, no, two, excuse me.

And then I got one at home.

But anyway, I got polled on two separate Valentine's Days to go watch

50 Shades of Gray.

The worst movies in the history of

filmed events.

I swear on all that's holy, I can find so many reasons why these movies are just fucking terrible.

And I know that people love them, and I know that's camp, and it's fun, and it's a rom.

I still haven't seen them, and it's fantasy and all that other stuff, but it doesn't make a lick of fucking sense.

And those two actors, some of the most beautiful, the most, two of the most beautiful people in the entire universe acting

worse than a cardboard stand-in would have acted.

I mean, find a way to make it all unsexy.

Have those two actors in a room together.

Now, apparently, they did not like each other.

Apparently, this was a tough bite.

That's right.

Yeah, but they were bought.

They were in for

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan were in for the three movies once they started.

They couldn't stop.

That was it.

It was like they had signed on to the franchise.

And people got used to seeing them as the two two stars of these books that were so wildly popular in the early 2000s.

And 50 Shades of Gray actually is an offshoot of Twilight fanfic.

Did you know that?

I did not know that.

It was originally this lady, you know, was writing fan fic, the fan porn fic, essentially, about

teenage boys, yes.

And then all of a sudden, it became the Twilight.

I like Twilight.

Yeah,

I like the books.

Okay.

I didn't read the books, and the movies were, I don't know.

Yeah.

But the movies

are more.

No, I'm not.

I'm not a 13-year-old girl.

But I was more interested in the Twilight series than I ever was in 50 Shades of Gray, the movies, because it was just terrible.

Terrible editing, terrible script supervising, terrible just general shooting of the movie.

I mean, the guy was in a helicopter accident, and one frame later.

He walked into a penthouse full of people waiting for him.

No explanation as to how he got out of the helicopter accident, why he was not hurt in any way, shape, or form from a helicopter accident.

It's just all junk.

It's madness.

It's crazy.

But so therefore, Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson gets a break because I had seen other things she had done.

Yeah, she's in other things.

And personally, I'd seen her do a lot of interviews, and I like the girl, right?

Me too.

She seems like a fun person.

But Jamie Dornan, I didn't know anything about except for these movies.

And I know that he did the Irishman, I think, or something.

Not the Irishman,

there was a movie about Ireland and the Troubles.

Oh, you watched that, right?

I watched a series.

I watched the Irish.

Oh, not that one.

That's a different one altogether.

Anyway, he was in a movie recently, like in the last two years, and people raved about Jamie Dornan.

But I did not see the entire thing, and he's in just parts of it.

So

I

have been, this thing's been popping up on my Amazon for a long time, my Brit box, The Fall, the television series The Fall, with Jillian Anderson

as a detective and Jamie Dornan.

I heard about this show.

I don't have Brit box,

but I know you love it and have it.

And I've heard about this show.

It's supposed to be really good.

I now see why Jamie Dornan was chosen for the role.

I think he did this just previous to being in 50 Shades of Gray.

It was like a 2013 show.

I think 50 Shades came out in 2018, 20, and 21, or something like that.

I now see why he was chosen.

The dude is a handsome fucking kid.

I mean, he's a handsome fucking kid.

And as a serial killer, he is.

Oh, that's what he plays?

I mean,

we've all seen serial killers in serialized versions of them.

I mean, Anthony Hopkins, probably the scariest one on television,

on a movie with Silence of the Lambs.

But Jamie Dornan knocks this fucking role out of the park.

He is quiet and sulking and brooding and at times charming and lovable and empathetic.

But he is all the things, all the range of emotions, and he plays it brilliantly as this kind of, you know, out-of-control serial killer who is running around Belfast killing women.

I mean, damn it, you're going to make me give Britbox.

I mean, I keep pushing it away.

I keep saying I'm not subscribing to one more thing.

I'm going to save you from Britbox.

I think this is also on Netflix.

I think it's also on Netflix streaming on Netflix.

I think it's on Britbox because the BBC did the show, but I think it's also on Netflix because I Googled it and it came up on Netflix.

And when I clicked through, it was there also.

Oh, okay.

I don't know if I still is.

I'll watch it on there.

It's got three seasons.

I'm like, you know, a couple episodes away from finishing the whole thing.

It is fan fucking tastic.

Jillian Anderson makes a monster turn in this.

She is one of my favorites.

I just love, I've loved her ever since the X-File.

She's American, right?

She is, but she moved.

I read a whole thing about her.

Yeah, she, she lives in the United States.

From the UK?

She lives in London or something like that.

That's how she does such a convincing British accent because it is.

You wouldn't have known.

I've watched so much British television.

If you were trying to fake a British accent, I could probably tell.

She's like dead on.

She carries it the whole time.

And she is also brooding and sulking and just like this tit for tat that goes on between the two of them.

And then also all of the other bit players in this, the supporting cast, is just brilliant.

And it is, it's a, it can be a little slow at times, but I promise you the payoff is always there.

It is so fucking good.

It's so fucking good.

I think it won a bunch of BAFTAs.

And you got to watch it.

I wish there was more of it.

I hate

hate when I come to the end of a show that I like because that means I got to go through the drama of getting up.

Finding a new one?

Finding a new one getting up to speed trying to figure you know what I'm saying yes um but this one is this one is good the fall and I will tell you this while we're on while we're on the subject of serialized television

I'm looking for it now okay um do the fall Netflix and I think you'll find it I hope it's there for you still okay alien I'm back on board with Alien Earth you told me that yesterday I didn't know you were back we're four episodes in in.

I think as we're recording this tonight, we'll be the fifth episode.

So we've got two more episodes left.

Seven is not enough.

I don't think.

I think we should have had ten.

But anyway.

Oh, that's already ended.

Well, it's got two more episodes

after this one.

Maybe it's eight episodes that there's not.

That's an interesting question.

Let me see that.

Alien Earth.

I know, because I saw it and I was going to watch it.

And

episodes.

Yeah,

there's only seven.

There's only seven episodes.

Fuck that, man.

What's up with the seven episode?

Be like the pit and go 16.

Come on, let's do this.

I know.

Okay, wait, it says the fall is on Amazon Prime video for free.

Oh, okay.

There you go.

Do that.

Yeah, watch that.

Start that.

You'll love it.

I will do that.

But

I do have to warn you and anybody else who might be sensitive to this type of stuff.

At times, this show is extraordinarily intense and graphic.

So just be warned.

Not like sexually graphic, but it is graphic.

It gets into it.

I love stuff like that.

Yeah, it's not like we pretend to see the killer kill, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, okay.

All right.

There was another show called Hannibal that was on that was really good.

And Jillian Anderson was in that too.

Okay, I'm going to go for that next one.

It was really good.

I'm on board with that.

Alien Earth, episode one, fucking fantastic.

Episode two, eh.

But when I got to episode three and four, I understood why episode two existed, and I am all about it.

And I am not about this sci-fi bullshit.

I mean, there are creepy crawlies all over this, and aliens flying all over the place, and things attaching to people's faces and going in their eyeballs and even their ears.

It is creepy crawly, dude.

It is.

It is horror sci-fi through and through, but it is excellently done.

Excellently done.

And it's got music from rock music from the 90s.

Oh, nice.

Soundgarden, Alt J,

Rage Against the Machine, Metallica.

Arfaves.

Yeah.

Stuff that we're going to hear in the retirement album.

Yeah, we're going to hear in the retirement album.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

And every episode ends with another banger of a song.

And so it's like, you wait for that song.

You're like, okay, which one is it now?

I'm into it.

So congratulations to Noah Hawley, who put, who did yet, who's taken yet another

franchise and birthed it again.

First with Fargo, now with Alien Earth.

I can't wait to watch it.

I've got two that

I've got in my pocket now you've got two shows don't say it never did anything for you that's how we roll here at the commercial all right also one last note robert redford dead at 89 years old yes rip i loved him yeah i mean we were talking about it before we started 89 years old

and and died in the sleep yeah and died in the sleep perfect perfect ending to uh just a monster career i mean honestly what

hard to replicate robert redford's career and even in his older age he was still.

Oh, yeah.

And I mean, think about the Sundance Film Festival.

I mean, that's going to live on for forever.

Forever and ever and ever.

I saw him on that movie where he's on the boat and he doesn't talk for like two hours.

Yeah, they were just, I was just reading.

The New York Times had a good obituary about him, and they mentioned that movie.

It was great.

And then there's Old Man and the Gun, which is another good one I saw.

I thought that one was really good where he like robs the bank, but then meets the woman and they fall in love.

It's like a weird.

But I liked it.

I thought it was good.

I loved him in the Grey Gatsby.

Oh, yeah, okay.

The one with Leo?

Yeah.

The one with Leonardo DiCaprio.

No, no, not with Leo.

Leo did it later.

Oh, you're.

He did it.

Oh, oh, oh.

This is one from like the 70s.

Oh, yeah.

Neither of us in it.

I thought that was Paul Newman for some reason.

Anyway, okay, all right, there you go.

What about Indecent Proposal?

Oh, Indecent Proposal.

God, what a kerfuffle that was.

The whole world up in arms over Indecent Proposal.

The whole world is ruined.

We'll never go back from indecent proposal.

And maybe we never did.

Maybe that's the last provocative thing that was good in life.

Maybe it all just went down in the handbasket.

Some people think the

switch flipped when Harambe, the gorilla, was shot.

That's an internet meme out there.

But maybe it was Indecent Proposal.

Could have been.

Could have been.

I say it's when they took Adult Swim offline, but that's just another thing to bitch and complain about.

You know, why keep the good shows around?

Let's do Everybody Loves Raymond again.

I did not like that show.

I'm sorry.

Not in a fancy show.

It was okay.

I didn't watch it, really.

All right, 212-433-3 TCB.

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I think so.

I'll tell you that I love you.

And I love you.

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Best to you.

And best to you out there in the podcast universe.

Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say.

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