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Speaker 2 Crab Apple's community college spring break starts this week, so we here at WSHIT's College Corner asked Crab Apple Community Professor Amanda Hungebuckle for some tips on keeping this annual rite of passage safe and fun for everyone.

Speaker 2 She gave us this tip when we caught up with her at the Hard Sword of the Lord Church, where she leads Bible study every Sunday morning.

Speaker 3 Ask him if he wants to finishing your mouth.

Speaker 4 Ask him.

Speaker 3 Okay? A lot of men do not get to be fully empowered and have that full, wonderful feeling being asked. It's a question they want.

Speaker 2 Okay, they don't want to ask.

Speaker 3 They want to be asked. Do you want to finish in my mouth? Very simple question.
Very straightforward. Great way to set the tone.
Let him know up front. You are not here to play games.

Speaker 3 You want to get down to business. You want to be a rock star.
Okay. If you want to go the next level up is finish in my mouth, please.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 3 Finish in my mouth, please. It's polite, direct to the point, and also sets the tone that you're going to be on top, okay? Or you're topping from the bottom, whatever your vibe is, whatever it is.

Speaker 3 I personally like topping from the bottom, okay? I like being in power, but I also like being dominated.

Speaker 3 So I like to do, please finish my mouth, please finish hair, or where do you want to finish, okay? Basic questions, beautiful ones.

Speaker 2 The professor went on to add that reapplying sunscreen every four hours, drinking plenty of water throughout the day, and always traveling in groups are important tips to keep in mind.

Speaker 2 Age-old wisdom, all of it. I cannot disagree with anything she has said today.

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Speaker 2 at 52 years old

Speaker 2 with a dad bod and a micro penis running around talking about how much they hate women and they've got like 50 000 followers and we have like 7,000 followers. And I'm like, how is this possible?

Speaker 2 How is this possible? How is it that that content is better than this content? But I'm starting to understand, I think, a little bit why.

Speaker 2 Part of it is because we're just putting clips of our show out there. And that may not always be,

Speaker 2 we're not all that funny. So maybe that's

Speaker 2 why.

Speaker 2 We're not all that good at what we do.

Speaker 2 In plain terms, we're not all that good at what we do.

Speaker 2 The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 boys. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens.
Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green.
This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy. Holy best to you, Chris.

Speaker 2 Holy best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us.
We appreciate it. I'm getting to this weird age.

Speaker 2 I mean, I've been at this weird age for as long as I can remember. Maybe I was just born weird.

Speaker 2 Maybe I was, maybe the age doesn't matter. You were born this way.
I was born this way.

Speaker 2 I mean by Navage. Navage.

Speaker 2 Nivage, that thing that takes snot out of your brain.

Speaker 2 I'm getting to this weird age where,

Speaker 2 let me explain. I just looked at a Facebook post of a girl that I met when I was a teenager, when I was like 15 or 16 years old, and we had a dalliance, like a moment, right? Right.

Speaker 2 Like you do when you're 15 or 16. And nothing of it.
It wasn't the love of my life,

Speaker 2 but it's just something I remember. But we've been on, we've been Facebook friends since I've been on Facebook.
And she has a daughter that she had at a relatively young age.

Speaker 2 I would say like late teens, early 20s. And now that daughter is like in her early 20s.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that daughter's in her early 20s and looks exactly like her mother did when she was a teenager.

Speaker 2 So I'm at this weird age where I'm looking at these Facebook posts and I'm like, holy fuck, am I getting old? I mean, holy fuck, am I old? I'm old.

Speaker 2 We used to look like that. That used to be us.
We used to look like that. And now we're saggy and old and gray.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 now they rule the world and we don't have anything to do with it anymore. There's going to be no more late nights at McDonald's making movies and smoking pot in the walk-in cooler.

Speaker 2 It's never going to happen anymore.

Speaker 2 Speak for yourself. Are you intending to go to McDonald's and smoke pot in the fucking

Speaker 2 cooler?

Speaker 2 Well, I thought we already decided that when we get older and we're at the villages, we're taking drugs again. Yeah, but it's going to be totally different.

Speaker 2 Then our bodies are going to react different. I mean, listen, I agree with you.
Yes, when you get to a certain age, you should give no shits about it.

Speaker 2 Head like driving that train high on cocaine, Casey Jones. Let's go.
What does it matter anymore? It doesn't matter. It's like those old ladies at that Romanian

Speaker 2 traveler party, right?

Speaker 2 I'm going to say it at the gypsy party. And they were all doing blow, huge plates of blow, and they were in their 80s.
I agree. We should be like that.
But it's not going to be the same.

Speaker 2 We're not going to be as fresh-faced, as young, as wild, as willing, as flexible. And I mean physically flexible, like our ability to, you know, have sex without breaking a hip.
Like all these things.

Speaker 2 They're back then, not now. And that's a little weird.
But I know that we experience this at every age, right? It's not just at this age where you experience it.

Speaker 2 It happens to everybody it's the wheel keeps on turning um youth is wasted on the young all the all the old uh adages we can put in there but i look i looked at this specific picture and i thought to myself that was us that was us just a minute ago like where did we go where did we go we were all young and fun and somewhat good looking back then.

Speaker 2 Now we're just, now I'm just...

Speaker 2 I have a fear that I'm not the George Clooney I thought I might be. Like, you know, Clooney gets better looking with age.
What did he was on the ER? Was he on ER? He was in ER? Yes. He was on ER.

Speaker 2 I think he started when he was on ER when he's like 57 years old. And now he's like 92, and the guy just keeps getting better looking.
He's like Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 They're all aging very gracefully, I must say. Tequila and money.

Speaker 2 That'll do it. Tequila and money.
But I don't drink and I don't have any money. Maybe you should take it up.
So I just fear that I'm not going to be that Clooney I thought I was going to be.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm holding out hope with all of this new, you know, AI medical stuff that's supposed to happen. True.
You know, there'll just be some kind of huge breakthrough. Listen between

Speaker 2 editing genes. Yeah, between puffy pussy and Botox in your dick.
There's something there. There's some combination of fountain of youth that is brewing.
I think brewing right around the corner.

Speaker 2 We're learning more. We're figuring it out.

Speaker 2 And while I'm not like, I'm not against plastic surgery or fillers or Botox or any of that stuff, I've decided decided it's not for me personally right now in my life. Like,

Speaker 2 I don't know. Just there's some things that I've seen.

Speaker 2 It makes me a little bit nervous that these types of electoral procedures, should they go wrong, and they will go wrong with me because that's not my luck in life, right?

Speaker 2 I'm going to end up having one eye that's just shut like permanently, like a pirate.

Speaker 2 You can wear a fashionable patch. I'm going to have big lips and I'm big.

Speaker 2 I got puffy pussy of the eye.

Speaker 2 I got puffin' pussy. That'll probably be the new trend.
Yeah. He's going to do Botox to get rid of some of the wrinkles in my head, and I'm going to end up with a camel toe.

Speaker 2 That's how it's going to happen. That's how it's going to end.
I was thinking about the camel toe thing

Speaker 2 today. I'm like, I think, first of all, I think a camel toe is hilarious.
So I'm all about it. I'm going to

Speaker 2 test it out. Yeah.
You're going to test it out. You're going to go for it.
You're going to go for some fillers and the badge? No, no, I'm not going that far.

Speaker 2 You're going to get some tight pants and pull them hard. Why not?

Speaker 2 Hey, listen. All I ask is that you do it for Instagram so we can get a few more followers.
And maybe if we start showing your camel toe, we'll get above 10,000.

Speaker 2 Camel toe is camel toe. It is what it is.
It is what it is. It is what it is.
Yeah, I think it's funny. Listen, I mean,

Speaker 2 they're all different. They're all beautiful.
And there's some camel toe out there. I don't know.
Free the toe.

Speaker 2 I agree with you. Free the toe.
Who cares? Honestly, at the end of the day, who gives a shit? It's a vagina. It's not gonna.
We all came from one. It's not gonna kill you.

Speaker 2 And, you know, listen, I think there are appropriate places to have like sexualized camel toe, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 And then there, but you know, okay, if you're walking around the mall with jeans that are a little tight and you've shown a little crack,

Speaker 2 yeah, why not? Yeah, who cares? Get that puffy pussy out.

Speaker 2 I like your puffy pussy.

Speaker 2 What's wrong with your eye?

Speaker 2 It's my puffy puffy pushy feathers.

Speaker 2 They migrated to my eye.

Speaker 2 What if I have camel toe of the eye? She's got a little crack in the middle of my eye.

Speaker 2 It'll just be a camel toe the other way. Yeah, it'd just be alpha.
That's right. That's a slit.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 yeah. I mean, listen, there's a fountain of youth brewing somewhere.
We got people out there that are spending, you know, millions of dollars trying to, that one guy. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, our friend Allison did a whole podcast episode about that guy and that movie. Yeah.
There's a documentary that now has been made about the.

Speaker 2 You probably see it. I've seen it.
I've almost watched it. And then I'm like, no, I don't care.
No, I don't care. I care about the science and the technology.
Yes. But I don't care that much about one

Speaker 2 egomaniac trying to.

Speaker 2 But they say biologically that his body is the body of like a late 20-year-old, right? And he is in in his mid-40s. So he has managed to beat.
I think your phone's ringing.

Speaker 2 He has managed to beat back

Speaker 2 some of time. It's the dentist.
Do you need to take it? Can we listen?

Speaker 2 No, they call incessantly trying to confirm. I'm like, yes, I will be there.
They call me incessantly trying to sell me something. I have decided.
I'm a dentist who has to sell you a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I get it. Like, you know, you're trying to make a business out of it.
It's dentists are like doctors with used cars out front. Do you know know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Like, there's something to be sold there. Like, a doctor's always pushing some kind of, you know, the medical reps come.

Speaker 2 Speaking of medicine and trying to beat the clock, you walk into a doctor's office, you tell them what's wrong, they diagnose you, and then they likely give you some kind of medication.

Speaker 2 That medication could be the best fit for the job, or it could be the medication that they just got pitched that's supposedly doing new and wonderful things. That's the way it works.

Speaker 2 Everything's about money. It's all driven by revenue.
We know this.

Speaker 2 But what what I have noticed about dentist office specifically is that there are a lot of ancillary services to be added on to a dental visit. And

Speaker 2 some of the dentists we've been to are really good at figuring out how to make it sound like you really need to get that done when the truth is you probably do not. Yes.

Speaker 2 And I've been to those dentists before and I have switched because, yeah, I don't like all that. I love my dentist.
But me too, the one that I go to, they don't try to pitch me anything.

Speaker 2 I love my dentist. I can't say that they don't try and pitch me anything, but I can say that it's not a hard sell.
They're not like if I say no, then it's dropped.

Speaker 2 But they do, you know, and they text me and, you know, $1,000 off your, you know, whitening or your intense whitening services. I can go to the fucking Kroger and get pressed whitening.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 I use a whitening toothpaste. I think my teeth are pretty white.

Speaker 2 I don't smoke anymore, so I don't get those yellow stains anymore. So I think my teeth are pretty white, and I don't think I need a $1,000 cleaning service, but should I? I'll let you know.
Right.

Speaker 2 But there's like,

Speaker 2 I want to be careful about how I say this because I really do like my dentist. I'm a, I'm a fan of the dental office.
I'm a fan of the people that work there. I think they're kind.
But me too.

Speaker 2 It just seems like there's a lot of suggested dental work that needs to get done, but it didn't, but I'm not feeling like it. Like, I don't feel it.
So do I really need to get it done?

Speaker 2 Like, there's something back there, and we better spend $1,000

Speaker 2 preemptively making sure that it's okay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But the preventative work doesn't always seem necessary. So I just push it off and push it off and push it off.
But then again, then I'll end up in a dental chair.

Speaker 2 Yeah, then I had a root canal that was seven months long.

Speaker 2 And that's the other thing is that I'm also reading and seeing a lot of Instagram reels.

Speaker 2 Now, I don't know if this is, this seems to be one guy pushing this narrative, but there also seem to be a lot of dentists who are latching onto this narrative that root canals are 100% ineffective.

Speaker 2 Ineffective. They cause nothing but

Speaker 2 infections and bacteria in your mouth.

Speaker 2 And there's one dentist specifically who's got a lot of traction on Instagram who says, if you're being told you need a root canal, you are being told that you need to have a lifelong infection in your tooth.

Speaker 2 And forget about it. But I have yet to see what the alternative to the root canal is.
Like just let it rot out of your head, pull it. I don't know.

Speaker 2 I've never had one and I don't really, you know, had anybody close that's had one besides you. God bless.
I've had three of them. I've had three of them and none of them went to plan.
None of them.

Speaker 2 Not one of them. Now I get it.
I'm Irish. I got those Irish, you know, I don't know, potato eating teeth.
I'm not even sure

Speaker 2 what the thing is. But the roots of my teeth are very long.
And I had the first dentist who did a root canal on me, who was Dr. Feelgood.
He had a...

Speaker 2 And don't come calling to me because I think he's long since been out of business. I don't even think he lives in the state anymore.
But he was my bar. I was a bartender.
He sat at my bar. Dr.

Speaker 2 Feelgood. Dr.
Fieldgood. He's no longer in the state.
Yeah, I don't even think he's in the state anymore.

Speaker 2 I don't know, but just don't ask me. I don't want anyone trying to follow up with me because, you know, listen, this was the go-go 2000s, and we were all just a little bit crazier back then.

Speaker 2 And everybody was hooked on pain pills. Let's just admit it, okay? Everybody.

Speaker 2 He

Speaker 2 had in his office

Speaker 2 a candy jar. But that candy jar had Demerol in it.
What? Demerol.

Speaker 2 And he would would give it to you. I know.
And then forget about the amount of pain medication that he would prescribe you for one tooth procedure. It was silly.
Wow. It was silly.

Speaker 2 But that was the norm back then. There were a lot of people prescribing a lot of pain medication.
I'd go and

Speaker 2 listen. In that sense, the root canal wasn't that bad.
I mean, it wasn't that bad because I was so fucking doped up before, during, and after.

Speaker 2 But he said to me,

Speaker 2 When I got my first root canal, it had to be done in three separate parts.

Speaker 2 Because the first time he went into the mouth and he opened it up he said i don't have drills that are long enough to get to the bottom of your root

Speaker 2 he's like i have to special order them and i'm like what and he's like so i'm gonna have to close you up clean you out close you up put a temporary uh filling in there and then you got to come back when i get these back in a week and he goes here's the good news the good news is you will never lose a tooth on its own you you like you just won't lose a tooth on its own those roots are so far up into your head he's like but the bad news is you may go through this anytime you need a root canal.

Speaker 2 And he was right. Every time I get a root canal, those doctors, they gotta bring out the extra long, whatever they call it.
And it's not a drill, it's like a poker.

Speaker 2 Those extra long pokers to get up into the roots. And so I've always had multi-part root canals.
They're always messy and they never stop the pain 100%.

Speaker 2 And it's

Speaker 2 really obnoxious. So I'm starting to kind of, you know, conspiracy thinking.

Speaker 2 This is as far as Brian's conspiracy thinking goes. The root canals are a grand conspiracy by, I don't know,

Speaker 2 big filling.

Speaker 2 By big fillers.

Speaker 2 Big tooth drill. Yeah, I was about to say the instruments that get in there.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 God bless dentists, man. God bless them.
That's a tough job. No wonder a lot of them jump off a roof.
It's like, who wants to be in somebody's mouth all day long?

Speaker 2 It's such a weird profession, and it's so important.

Speaker 2 And at the end of the day, you should kiss your dentist on the mouth after the cleaning that you were,

Speaker 2 uh, that they were kind enough to go inside your nasty ass mouth and clean it out. And, you know, I talked to that, I talk, that hygienist that I have,

Speaker 2 you know, she likes to talk. And even though my mouth is wide open, I like, I enjoy hearing her talk.
But she told some stories about some nasty ass mouse.

Speaker 2 I mean, there's some nasty ass mouse out there. I can only do that.
What are you people doing? You got the breath of a thousand asses. That's all I got to say.
The breath of a thousand asses.

Speaker 2 Do you remember that Chris Rock bit? No. You've got the breath of a thousand asses.
No, you don't remember that?

Speaker 2 No, no, but it made me think about my nephews I was with this weekend, you know, and they, you know how kids don't want to brush their teeth. Oh, man.
I mean, it's such a thing.

Speaker 2 And finally, I said, look, I go, it's no joke.

Speaker 2 Let me just look up the pictures right now of tooth rots and children.

Speaker 2 And I gave them the, I mean, I showed it. Yeah.
And they were like, ah,

Speaker 2 you don't want that. And and they ran and brushed their teeth i have scared

Speaker 2 you got no joke it could happen one of my kids has already had two cavities filled now they're tiny little cavities we got them filled just they weren't hurting them but just as a precautionary measure but after that i scared the holy out of my kids and i don't care they brush those teeth in the morning and in the night and sometimes in between because they are literally worried about the repercussions of getting a cavity and i don't care if i'm being a weird dad by by scaring them with the cavity monster, but the cavity monster is coming for them.

Speaker 2 Oh, I was scaring my nephews with the rot monster saying, look, you, I mean, and then I was like, then it's irreparable.

Speaker 2 You're going to have to have surgery to remove your teeth, and then you'll have fake teeth. Uh-huh.
They're like, what?

Speaker 2 Show them a picture of.

Speaker 2 People who are getting veneers and what happens right before you get the veneers.

Speaker 2 Have you ever seen? That is disturbing. Astrid has a picture of hers because she has veneers.
Yeah. And I refuse to look at that picture.

Speaker 2 I'm like, I don't want my opinion of you to change forever. I don't want us to be, you know, mid-coitus.
And then I had to come into my head, all those little nubbies. Like, I just don't want it.

Speaker 2 It scares the children. Yeah, they droll them down.
Yeah, that's why I won't get veneers. I won't do it.
I like my teeth. They're a little crooked on the bottom, but I like them in general.
I think

Speaker 2 it gives character. You know, my kids have started to notice that I have fangs.
And they're like, how do I get fanged? Have you noticed that I have fangs? Now that you say it,

Speaker 2 I got pretty pretty big fangs and they're really sharp too.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's from that girl who bit me the first time we had sex, made me bleed. That's right.
The vampire chick.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I know you're out there. What's that? You got bitten.
I did get bitten and it was bloody and it was, it was the, that hurt. That hurt bad.

Speaker 2 So anyway. Girl I dated on Facebook is now has a daughter that looks like the girl I dated on Facebook.
So there you go. It's a weird time to be alive, kids.
It's a weird time to be

Speaker 2 And we're happy that you're here for the ride. I'd like to remind you that Kathleen Madigan was on Tuesday.
Kathleen was a dollface, and we had a lot of great feedback about Kathleen.

Speaker 2 A lot of people really are into Kathleen, and she is just as fantastic as she sounds. She is just as wonderful as she could be.
Like, she was a really, really nice person and very funny.

Speaker 2 Go listen to that episode.

Speaker 2 It's Tuesday's TCB infomercial and links to her tour tickets, links to her specials, of which she's got a million of them she's got just so much material out there when i was doing the episode you know when we have people on if they're comics especially oh i love the intro yeah yeah yeah i listened to it i like to cut the intro i went down such a rabbit hole yeah with kathleen i just wanted to cut a quick clip and 58 minutes later i'm still watching like her special it was like this uh super cut of a bunch of her specials put together like the best parts of her super specials or a super cut of her specials specials.

Speaker 2 And I just could not get out of there. I was like, oh my God.
Okay, let me listen to the next. Okay.
Let me get the next bit. Okay,

Speaker 2 yeah, I'll wait for the payoff. And then 58 minutes later, I was still watching.
And I'm like, I got to get out of here.

Speaker 2 I got kids. I don't have time for all this.
I got kids and a podcast that's, you know, in the bottom half of the, the top of the bottom half of the charts. And a Facebook page to check.

Speaker 2 And a Facebook page to check. It's first time I've been on Facebook in a long time.
And I'm telling you what, nothing's changed over there. It's still a hot mess.
And I've done it.

Speaker 2 I think, and I've called most of the idiots, but somehow the idiotic thinking just finds it has a way of finding itself in front of my face. Instagram, you know how they're connected.

Speaker 2 Oh, man, that those two fuckers. And okay, I'll tell you about Instagram Verified.

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Speaker 2 All right, so the commercial break is now verified on Instagram.

Speaker 2 You know, the commercial, Instagram, like, I don't know, maybe two years ago, three years ago, during the pandemic at some point, them and Twitter, Twitter and Instagram decided that they could, since they weren't making any money directly off people,

Speaker 2 that they could get a few bucks off you if they did this program called Verified, which basically means that you probably are the person you say you are. It doesn't even mean that you really are.

Speaker 2 I mean, the amount of checking, I don't know what the amount of checking is. I don't know that Lexis and Exis or they connect to someone or they verify you through email or whatever they do.

Speaker 2 I know you have to have like two

Speaker 2 factor authentication 2FA put on. So I guess they're doing the best they can to figure out if you're the actual person or company that you say you are.

Speaker 2 And so, we've been talking to various AI platforms about growing the social media, which has been a pain point of ours for years.

Speaker 2 And it turns out that if you don't put any effort into growing, then you're likely not going to grow. That's what it turns out.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yes. I mean, I see people

Speaker 2 literally dressed up like Pokemon at 52 years old with a dad mod and a micro penis running around talking about how much they hate women.

Speaker 2 And they've got like 50,000 followers, and we have like 7,000 followers. And I'm like, how is this possible? How is this possible? How is it that that content is better than this content?

Speaker 2 But I'm starting to understand, I think, a little bit why. Part of it is because we're just putting clips of our show out there, and that may not always be.

Speaker 2 We're not all that funny. So maybe that's

Speaker 2 why

Speaker 2 we're not all that good at what we do. Yeah.

Speaker 2 In plain terms, we're not all that good at what we do, and we're not really capturing people's attention, and therefore, Instagram doesn't really push us out there.

Speaker 2 We certainly have had a lot more traffic recently than we ever have, and a few of those reels have gone viral, but those reels are like mainly about Venezuela.

Speaker 2 So it's like anytime we talk about Venezuela, we get a ton of new followers.

Speaker 2 And media and personalities, and soccer players, and professional baseball players, and and you know all kind of like superstars in the Venezuelan community like our stuff follow us all that but and I love it too I love it and there's nothing about it that I wish I could change not a thing I love having a Venezuelan audience

Speaker 2 but let's all be real about it the Venezuelans are great we also need some other people too right we need some because I don't know that the Venezuelans are always listening to the show.

Speaker 2 I think they like to follow us on Instagram because we put out reels on occasion that

Speaker 2 this green goes talking about Venezuela and he actually might know what he's talking about, right? Or he doesn't know what he's talking about. Depends on who you are.

Speaker 2 It depends on which comment you read. But okay, you get what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 But I'm not always sure that they ended up being listeners of the show because there are some really great Venezuelan podcasts and we are not one of them. And so

Speaker 2 I'm talking to the AI platforms and I'm like, okay, tell me about how we can grow this Instagram.

Speaker 2 And one of the things that keeps getting repeated is that those who are verified tend to get more views than those who aren't verified. Yeah, that kind of makes sense.

Speaker 2 Yeah, of course, because you're paying Instagram. So you're juicing, you're asking them to juice your views, essentially, by being verified.
They know who you are.

Speaker 2 They can, I guess there's some kind of,

Speaker 2 let's just put it, they put their thumb on the scale a little bit for those who are verified. But now.

Speaker 2 Over the years, as I've been watching this verified thing, like let's take, for example, we had a reel that went viral about

Speaker 2 the New Year's Eve Venezuelan traditions. Right.
Okay. I remember that.
That reel went nuts. On January 1st, Astrid cut, our video editor cut it up.
Astrid put it on Instagram.

Speaker 2 Within hours, we had tens of thousands of views. Within days, we had hundreds of thousands of views,

Speaker 2 tens of thousands of shares, comments, likes, all this other stuff. It went crazy in the Venezuelan community.
Like, this is it. This is it.
This is our moment. This is our moment.
We're going viral.

Speaker 2 Then, like, Lady Gaga burps and she gets 17 million views in an hour.

Speaker 2 We're happy about it. 10,000.
He got 10,000 views.

Speaker 2 I'm like running through the house. This is it, babe.
Batting down the hatches. I remember.
GMZ is going to be at our front door pretty soon.

Speaker 2 It was crazy. Do I look tan enough? Yeah, am I tanned? I got to go to the tanning bed.

Speaker 2 How's my parathyroid look? Extra bumpy? Okay, good.

Speaker 2 Put it on my eye. That That was my puppy, pushy eye.

Speaker 2 Quick, take shots of my eye toe.

Speaker 2 Getting my toe signed.

Speaker 2 Quick, Astrid, put your camel toe out there. Let's go.
We got to hop on this. Go, go, go.

Speaker 2 Astronaut, put your camel toe.

Speaker 2 Get your camel toe. Get your camel toe out.
Get your camel toe pants on.

Speaker 2 I need five of your best camel toe shots now. Stat.

Speaker 2 It was just like, it was a couple days of madness because it really, it really was that I had to turn off notifications because

Speaker 2 I would get off Instagram and two minutes later I would get back and it'd be like 100 more likes, 100 more comments. It was nuts.
You know, 100 more followers. So anyway, that's not even the point.

Speaker 2 The point is, is that when these people were coming through and I was like watching who was liking the reel and who was commenting on the reel,

Speaker 2 anytime that I would see a verified check mark, I'd be like, oh, this is someone fantastic. I must go check out and see who they are.

Speaker 2 And you'd go and it was, you know, likely someone with like a thousand

Speaker 2 followers, right? Anybody can get verified and anybody is getting verified. Well, right.
No, I know it pulled up the other day for me to like get verified.

Speaker 2 And I was like, well, okay, maybe, you know, my TCB account, but then it was like, well, you had to do all these steps and then pay something and I was like

Speaker 2 just because you had to do something I was like I'll come back to that later

Speaker 2 haven't I haven't even finished this bottle of wine and they want me to do things

Speaker 2 let me get through this second bottle of wine and then I'll make a decision yes uh yeah you should get verified but anyway and the

Speaker 2 so it doesn't really hold a lot of weight the verification because we don't have all that

Speaker 2 why should I get verified because it can juice the it can juice the engine.

Speaker 2 And then, because there could be people that want to make an account with your pictures and your stuff, and you got to know who the real.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Bastard goes well.
We would be so lucky. Yeah, we could be so lucky.
Go ahead. Feel free.
Please. The TCB fan account.
Christian Ronaldo has.

Speaker 2 312 million. I don't know what it is.
300 million plus, I think, 300 million plus followers followers on Instagram. But when you search for Cristiano Ronaldo, the

Speaker 2 first account that will come up is like, you know, Cristiano Ronaldo is like, you know, the name. Yes.
That guy has like 58 million followers and he is simply a Finsta. That's it.

Speaker 2 It's just a fan account.

Speaker 2 And he's got 58 million followers.

Speaker 2 Now, I don't believe that he can monetize that account because I think the Instagram Instagram has some rules around monetizing other people's likenesses and stuff like that. I think.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 Who knows?

Speaker 2 But I'll tell you right now, it's like for a while, I thought about calling the commercial break Instagram account Cristiano Ronaldo break because anything having to do with these super famous human beings, they have gravity and they come along.

Speaker 2 So there's so many like different derivatives and fake accounts and Finsta and all this. So I made the decision to go ahead and get verified, but it's such

Speaker 2 it's it's I don't say it's a ripoff. I'm going to say it's a lot of money.
And then for just a few extra views, I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 But I guess at some point you do have to go ahead and take the steps that people take when they're in the public eye.

Speaker 2 And since we're definitely in the public eye, and by the public eye, I mean, all three of you.

Speaker 2 Both of you know who we are. Or one eye.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe I should have waited until we actually

Speaker 2 got.

Speaker 2 I guess my point was like when I go to a verified account, when I look at a verified account, I'm always expecting that they're going to be some heavy hitter, so hundreds of thousands, millions of followers, you know, somebody that we should know, that should be in the know.

Speaker 2 And when I look at most verified accounts, it's like people with 300 followers. Yeah.
And I guess they're thinking the same thing I am, which is maybe this will do the trick.

Speaker 2 Maybe this will do the trick.

Speaker 2 Maybe this will be it. Maybe we'll get it now.

Speaker 2 Maybe my puffy eye won't pronounce. Maybe I'll get puffy followers.
Maybe my follower count will get puffy.

Speaker 2 So we're verified, and that's all there is to it, Chrissy. We're not going to get unverified unless we get unverified.
Actually, we tried to get verified on the commercial break.

Speaker 2 We tried to do that multiple times over the years, and for some reason, they didn't think we were who we were. They thought we might have been a Finsta, and they declined to verify us.

Speaker 2 And then finally, it happened. We got it.
We did it. Congratulations.
Did you have to show like

Speaker 2 no when you do

Speaker 2 well listen you don't have a lot of interaction on and on your account so you might have to go through an extra step or two I don't know I really don't I don't know what the the protocol is but when I went to go get my personal account verified so the chatty GPT or whatever AI we were using Was like get verified and then anybody associated with the show get verified Okay, make sure those accounts are interacting with each other, right?

Speaker 2 This is part of the social media game so i'm like okay uh i'll get verified and when i went through the process of getting verified

Speaker 2 it

Speaker 2 i think because my facebook is connected to it i'm sure that it ran checks like ai checks on the pictures that were there and the pictures that are here are they the same person do they have the same you know eye measurements or i don't know how all that works but what they the one thing that they did make me do is you must turn on 2fa on your account you must have 2fa on your account if you don't you can't get verified in some cases they do they will will ask you for identification like a state id or a passport but the commercial break all i had to do was just ask to be verified yeah and i'm assuming that because i just got verified so now i'm verified i'm someone on the show i own the account that all of that stuff kind of came together and they said hey yeah yeah so it's a process I'll look into it when I'm drinking wine again tonight yeah get get into it and it's not cheap either that's the thing is it's like 15 bucks a month 15 bucks a month i'm now paying mark zuckerberg which it is i i hate it i really do i don't like the thought of giving that guy any more money i'm done giving all of these oligarchs money i'm done with it i'm done giving all of these these boneheads money i'm not buying a tesla couldn't afford one if i wanted to i'm not giving mark any more money unless i click on one of his ads because i want to go to that concert and uh who's the other billionaire that i'm not gonna

Speaker 2 and i'm not uh i'm not subscribing to the washington post anymore that's it those three things i'm done i'm

Speaker 2 You made your stance. I'd like to really take a stance and not use Amazon anymore, but let's be real about it.
They kind of got us by the balls there.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Who's not going to use Amazon?

Speaker 2 Amazon is amazing. Party City is going on a business.
Oh, I know. Did you see that? It's been dying a slow death, actually.

Speaker 2 Well, listen, there's now all kinds of layoffs going on everywhere, including people at our own network, Odyssey. Now, radio has been shrinking since 2008.
It's just been shrinking. It saw its heyday.

Speaker 2 It's been shrinking. It's, you know, we all, we don't have to go through the, we don't have to like rake people over the coals, rake the radio industry over the coals.
It's just a dying industry.

Speaker 2 That's it. Because less and less people are listening to actual on-air radio.
It'll always be around,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 it's not going to see the 90s again. That's not going to happen, the early 90s again.

Speaker 2 So even our network Odyssey laid some people off, but there are layoffs happening all over the place.

Speaker 2 And then you add in all of the craziness that's going on with Elon's chainsaw or whatever's going on. And we're likely going to have a dramatic economic downturn.
I would say that it's happening too.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's happening. It's already happening.
And that's why these companies are laying people off is because it's like 2008 all over again, but this time they can see it coming.

Speaker 2 So they are not going to be caught flat-footed. They're preemptively cutting labor.
And, you know,

Speaker 2 that's just the way, that's what you do when you're in one of those boardrooms and you start getting nervous.

Speaker 2 You don't know, just like everybody doesn't know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

Speaker 2 They're not fortune tellers, but they can sense on the streets that things are not going to be easy and no one's making it easier. It's just like destroying a very healthy economy for what reason?

Speaker 2 I don't know. I mean, I know there are reasons, but I'm not here to talk about all those.
But here's my point.

Speaker 2 So, you know, all of these things that are, you know, kind of happening at one time, like there's all of these layoffs and all this other shit going. What was my point? What was I talking about?

Speaker 2 Here's my point. Here's my point.

Speaker 2 I had a point. I took a sip.
Yeah, I was talking about Amazon, and then all of a sudden, I forgot what I was talking about.

Speaker 2 You're not giving any more money.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, I'm not giving out any more money to

Speaker 2 leading him from being verified and $15 a month. There you go.
$15 a month. Now I'm giving these oligarchs money.
I'm done giving all of these oligarchs money. That's it.

Speaker 2 That is my point. My point is, I am done giving the oligarchs money.

Speaker 2 There you go. How's that? Except for Amazon and Facebook and occasionally everybody else.
Every month. They have us all wrapped by the balls.
I know. They really do.

Speaker 2 It's all integrated into our lives. They have seeped their way into every inch of our lives, and we cannot unfuck this fuckery.

Speaker 2 And that makes me upset to some degree, but I certainly enjoy the perks of it. So it's hard.
It's a hard. Same with the streaming services for me because I'm like, well,

Speaker 2 can I just go back to one bill a month? Like whatever, which I guess Amazon, once again, is also coming in on that, where you can subscribe through them. And then Apple TV is the same way.

Speaker 2 Apple TV is doing the same thing. And now Disney Plus and HBO Max.
I'm like, because I like a little something on each one of them. I don't want to give any of them up.
Yeah. I mean, I.
But I do.

Speaker 2 And I know this is like, this is a totally ADHD segment, but let me share this. As far as the streaming services are concerned, I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again.

Speaker 2 I really think we broke something that wasn't broken. if you think about it.

Speaker 2 Netflix is a channel. It's a channel.
And yeah, there's lots of content on that channel, and you can pick and choose what you want to watch when you want to watch it. But it is a television channel.

Speaker 2 That's what it is. And it is a big television channel, and they have billions and billions of dollars they throw at creating content.
Apple TV is a channel. It is a television channel.

Speaker 2 You watch it on your television or on your phone, maybe, but it's a screen. And all of these cable providers, AT ⁇ T, Comcast, Charter,

Speaker 2 Charter,

Speaker 2 I see you out there, Charter. I used to work for Charter.
Pretending that you're an actual cable program.

Speaker 2 I know. The Main Street.
I know. There used to be a time when you'd look at Charter and you'd go, Yeah, Charter.
Go Charter, right? And they were all over the place

Speaker 2 sponsoring the Braves. And I'd be like, Yeah, Charter.
And then I got Charter, and I now realize why you don't hear about them anymore.

Speaker 2 Anyway, Cox Communications, all of those people, they provided a service. They essentially

Speaker 2 were the people who carried those channels into your house. and they still do that, but just via

Speaker 2 a different band on the wire, which is internet. And so it's the exact same thing.
Only now, every one of these channels has found a way to squeeze an immense amount of money out of us.

Speaker 2 If we would have all let the cable companies just negotiate all of these carriage fees and all that other shit, yeah, maybe Netflix wouldn't have $100 billion a year to spend on content, but they could have still created really great content.

Speaker 2 It still could have all been on demand, and we just would have had a little tiny little box sitting on our television that would have allowed us to flip through. And we would have paid one bill.

Speaker 2 One bill. I know.
I am paying $300 a month for content.

Speaker 2 $300 a month for content between the cable that I still want. Cable, internet, and streaming service.
That's it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, add the internet.
Forget about it. I've got like 10 gig internet or whatever it is.
I'm paying like $150. I mean, because we need it.

Speaker 2 There's so much shit going in and out of this fucking room right here. But, you know, the truth is, is that I'm paying $300, $400 for all of that every single month.

Speaker 2 I would have rather paid $250 every month, get all of it. Get the gold package.
Get the gold package, have it all on demand, and have a little box sitting there and just flip through the channels.

Speaker 2 And then when I want to watch,

Speaker 2 I don't know, Kath and Kim or

Speaker 2 The Crown or whatever it is, I just go to the Netflix channel like I would on, like I do on DirecTV. On demand, The Crown, let me watch it.
That's it. I can do that.

Speaker 2 And then Netflix can put television commercials in there and I'll feel like it's okay that they do so. But now I got to watch fucking television commercials anyway on Amazon.
Oh, Amazon does it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Come on, Bezos. Really? You're charging me all of this money.
You're getting me seven ways to Sunday on every single thing that I buy. Hey, here was the point.

Speaker 2 Now I remember. I got it.
I full circle.

Speaker 2 Party City is going out of business. And my Astrid took the kids to Party City and they went to the going out of business sale.
They got like two more weeks left or a week left or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 And she cleaned up. She bought like a thousand dollars worth of stuff, $780 worth of stuff for like less than $200.

Speaker 2 All this stuff that you can use at parties, birthdays, you know, and we just put it in the corner and we use it when we want it.

Speaker 2 Party City was never the cheapest place in the world to buy stuff, but it was nice to go walk in there and look at stuff. It was.
Yeah, that's the end of an era that's gone. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 I used to go to party. My Grammy, remember when I told you about the New Year's Eve parties down in the bar basement that my grandma had? We used to walk us up to Party City.

Speaker 2 Anyway, my kids are asking, why? Why is it closing? Why is it closing? Why is it closing? And I literally had to explain to them that Amazon sells this stuff

Speaker 2 for 50% cheaper. And they get it to your front door the next day.
And there is, it's unlikely.

Speaker 2 that most people are going to get in their car, dress up, get in their car, go pay double, walk through a store, spend an hour fisting and fucking around when they could lay on their couch, press the button, and have it there the next day.

Speaker 2 And this is happening all over the place. Now, with Party City, there might be other factors.
They might be owned by a hedge fund or ran them into the ground.

Speaker 2 I'm not sure what it is, but I can understand that Party Cities must be hard to make a living doing that when you sell streamers for $5 and you can buy them on Amazon for two and get them here tomorrow or tonight.

Speaker 2 It's just a whole fucking cluster fuck. Amazon is so wonderful, and the convenience of it is so lovely.
And those people that work so hard to bring those packages to your door so quickly.

Speaker 2 I just bought another random wire. That random wire got here in a day, and it's a random wire.
You wouldn't be able to find this anywhere else. It's a random wire.
I got it.

Speaker 2 They're going to come in here one day and just organize it. I know.
And the wire didn't work, so it goes in the wire box. And Astrona's going to get upset at me.

Speaker 2 I know we're going to have to have a whole conversation about how there's thousands of dollars of wires that I never used in that box. And I'm going to say, yeah, but maybe someday we'll need it.

Speaker 2 And she'll go, yeah, maybe someday you will, but you will buy a new one, the exact same wire again. You will.
I know you. And I'll say, yeah, okay, babe.

Speaker 2 And, you know, more marital strife because of this commercial break.

Speaker 2 Anyway, my point was, I'm giving all my money to the oligarchs. Amazon's coming in here.
And then they're killing local business.

Speaker 2 I mean, not the party said he was a local business, but you know, they're

Speaker 2 killing these other businesses. And

Speaker 2 yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Happy days.

Speaker 2 Happy days.

Speaker 2 Happy days are here, I guess. I know, I know.

Speaker 2 Do you remember when Party City was here?

Speaker 2 And everyone would cheer because you had a job.

Speaker 2 I'm going to miss Party City for the balloons for one. Oh, yeah, the balloons can't get those.

Speaker 2 That's true. But there is a Halloween.
Now there's that other store thing that pops up. Whatever that is.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they take over like high school gymnasiums or whatever.

Speaker 2 They take over empty party cities. They empty party cities and pet smarts.
That's what they do.

Speaker 2 Old Kohl's. And, you know, they have a smart business model.
They know they're seasonal.

Speaker 2 And so they go in and they look for people who are desperate to make a couple bucks with that empty shit that they got sitting there.

Speaker 2 And they just go in there for a couple of months, pay them cheap rent, get in, get out. I guess they have a warehouse somewhere where they keep all that stuff.
And that's it.

Speaker 2 It's really quite amazing. logistically.
Of course it is. Of course it is.

Speaker 2 Where do you think they get their stuff from? It's Amazon. Yes.

Speaker 2 Oh Amazon. I have a love-hate relationship with you.
I really really do. I know.
And then on top of that, you got Britbox and BBC. So, you know, I turn on that front.

Speaker 2 I've seen some good stuff coming out on Britbox. I might have to look into it, although I'm just like taking my heels and not subscribing to any more stuff.

Speaker 2 But I've seen some good stuff, it looks like, coming on Britbox. There is such good television coming out of Britbox.
They are also having their moment.

Speaker 2 I mean, like everybody else in the world, that Prestige TV has also hit BBC and

Speaker 2 I don't know what the other channels are, but the other channels, the other channels out there.

Speaker 2 But I do love some British television. I love it dearly.

Speaker 2 And it's almost like now, if after a certain time of night, like 11 o'clock, I only want to hear a British accent or maybe an Australian accent. That's it.
That's all I want to hear. It soothes me.

Speaker 2 I'm like a little baby. I'm like, oh, my British accent.
I go to sleep. I'm re-watching Kath and Kim.

Speaker 2 Oh, you talked about it. Oh, my God.
What a fucking hilarious show. It's an Australian show.
What a hilarious show about a mother and a daughter, Kath and Kim.

Speaker 2 If you haven't seen the show and you're into kind of like absurdist humor, which of course you must be because you're listening to the commercial break.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is the absurd of the absurd.

Speaker 2 This 15, 20 minute segment has been a perfect encapsulation of what the commercial break has always been about. Nothing.

Speaker 2 Nothing. Brian being ADHD.
That's it. All right.
And speaking of the ADHD, we got to take a break. Speaking of oligarchs, we got to take a break and we can pay some bills.

Speaker 2 Let's listen to this Amazon commercial and we'll be right back.

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Speaker 2 Oh, I should turn on my.

Speaker 2 I have noticed, and you can call me out on this, listener, I want you to call me out on a few things. First of all, we're going to start doing a segment on this show called Brian Was Wrong.

Speaker 2 So, when you hear me say something that is wrong, text in, and we're going to keep a running list.

Speaker 2 And then, every couple of weeks, we're going to just get it out of our system and make fun of Brian about how long, how wrong Brian is, and for how long he has been wrong.

Speaker 2 Number one,

Speaker 2 number two, I am noticing that I often start

Speaker 2 the next segment with this.

Speaker 2 uh

Speaker 2 uh

Speaker 2 it's kind of like uh do you remember this?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 It's kind of like the smoke alarm, the smoke alarm. I'm like a smoke alarm every time we come back from a break.
I'm like, ah, ah.

Speaker 2 I asked chat GPT, what's the thing that Brian says the most on the show? Like, what's the word he uses? I want to know what my crutch word was. And it was uh and like.

Speaker 2 So those two words. As there are a lot of people's, I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I'm not, you know, but I want to clean it up.
We're professional broadcasters now, Chrissy.

Speaker 2 We have to clean this shit up. We got to get better.
We got to get better.

Speaker 2 I'm noticing that there are a lot of Teslas on sale on Facebook. I just saw another one.
This is probably the fifth one that I've seen in like, I don't know, two weeks.

Speaker 2 People are selling their Teslas. They want to get rid of it.

Speaker 2 $24,000, 2020 Tesla, less than 50,000 miles. It's a pretty good deal.
It's a Tesla Model Y. That's a pretty good deal.
$24,000 and a $4,000 tax credit. So essentially, it's just $20,000, right?

Speaker 2 That's like you most, you can't buy a lot of used cars for $20,000. No, that's a lot.
And I was reading that people are putting like Toyota stickers on the back of their Teslas.

Speaker 2 So that, and, or

Speaker 2 there's a sticker that you can buy now from a guy that's that is creating them. And it says, yes, I bought the Tesla, but I do not like Elon, right? I don't support it.
I've seen a similar one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so, yeah, it's never before has a brand and a person been so closely aligned since Walt Disney, I think, right? Has a brand and a person been so closely aligned.

Speaker 2 And the fate of the brand is going with the fate of the sentiment around that person. It's,

Speaker 2 that's all I got to say. I mean, I don't know how you feel about Elon or whatever, but I think it's very interesting that there is such blowback.
Listen, I mean, I'm not surprised.

Speaker 2 Well, when Tesla came on the market, I got to be honest, I was with everybody else. I'm like, finally, we're going to solve this problem.

Speaker 2 Everybody and every liberal in California bought a Tesla and there were lines for them and waiting lists.

Speaker 2 And we all, and I went and looked at them multiple times, and I almost pulled the trigger, but I just felt like it was a very expensive car.

Speaker 2 And it was also going to be hard for the way that my particular living situation is, it was going to be hard for me to find a place to put the outlet.

Speaker 2 But we have a Tesla charging station near our house, and there's like 30 of those stations sitting in a parking lot.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, they're everywhere. And they're always full.
And there's always someone waiting to go. I guess, I guess you make a reservation.
There's always extra cars sitting there.

Speaker 2 So there's a lot of them on the road here in Atlanta, especially. Yeah, there are.

Speaker 2 They had some kind of agreement, too, I think, with Uber where, because I, for a while there, I was getting in a lot of Uber Teslas and I

Speaker 2 talked to a driver and they said that there was some kind of deal. Yeah, I saw one.

Speaker 2 I went in one in Denver.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Denver.

Speaker 2 I did it in Denver, too. I was coming.
I was going back to the airport. It's about a 30, 40-minute ride.
I asked for an Uber X or whatever. I was traveling for business.

Speaker 2 So I was like, Uber X or Uber Comfort or something. One of those things, you know, one of the many things that Uber now offers.
I know there's like 10. Yeah.
And so what showed up?

Speaker 2 A brand new, spanking new, smelling, like it just came off the lot. Uber,

Speaker 2 Tesla, and the guy

Speaker 2 said to me, he said, I just got this car a couple weeks ago. I said, oh, that's great.
You got a Tesla and now you're driving for Uber that, you know, it must pay well. And he said, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 I get this from the company.

Speaker 2 Like, there was some kind of deal where they were getting it through the company and they could take it home at night and they were paying a certain amount of the money that they had. So I don't know.

Speaker 2 But now that the sentiment is changing, you know, Tesla feels like a different company.

Speaker 2 It's like, feels like a different company. And that's the thing.
It feels like a different company. It's not a different company, but it feels like a different company to a lot of people.

Speaker 2 And people are, there's a big backlash. And I find it fascinating how the human brain works, that there's hard to compartmentalize those two things.

Speaker 2 But I guess then again, you don't see the CEO of Chevrolet, you know, running up and

Speaker 2 doing a salute

Speaker 2 that hasn't been used in 80 years.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's advertising has known the psychology around that for years.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true.
Associate something with the brand. What do you associate with the commercial break?

Speaker 2 Laughter, love, laughter, friendship.

Speaker 2 Friendship.

Speaker 2 Drinking. It's about friendship.
Drinking. Drugs.

Speaker 2 General scallywagging. Erg.

Speaker 2 Puffy pushy eyes out of control. I can't get it to open.
Crab apple. Crab apple.
Crab apple. That's true.
I'm going to make a whole series. I'm going to make a series called Crab Apple.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 The town of Crab. Oh, I just love making characters for Crab Apple.
I really do.

Speaker 2 And people have said,

Speaker 2 and I've said this before. I'm not tuning my own home, but people have said, I really like the fact that the bits are back.

Speaker 2 And there was one of our listeners said, I actually went back and listened to your first 15 or 20 episodes.

Speaker 2 And he said, I think you guys, this is a very kind compliment. He said, I think you've been funny since the beginning.
And so congratulations congratulations to you.

Speaker 2 You know, it's not every episode is hilarious. We understand that.
But he said, I think you guys have been funny from the beginning.

Speaker 2 And then someone else commented, I went back and listened to the bits at the beginning of the show since you've been starting doing them again. And, you know, they're really hilarious.

Speaker 2 Here's the thing about the bits. They do take a lot of time, and you got to script them out.
And I do all the voices and all the production, and it's a little bit of a pain in the ass.

Speaker 2 The noise things on the one you did recently with the Tina Tan and Twees. Well, that one and

Speaker 2 the guy that was getting the injections or the energy drink. Oh, TCB

Speaker 2 colloidal colada coolers.

Speaker 2 Triple C.

Speaker 2 The noise, the sound effects. Yeah, the

Speaker 2 Y Brian 3000, the woodpecker.

Speaker 2 I loved it.

Speaker 2 I had so much fun. And that's the point.
It brings me so much joy. I love creating these characters.
Like, I just have this, I have this vision in my head of what Crab Apple is. Yes.

Speaker 2 And it's just a small town full of nudniks. Like all the worst people that I see over the course of a day, I just imagine they all go to Crab Apple at the end of the night.

Speaker 2 They're dim-witted. You know, they're po-dunky.
They're small town. They get excited about the stupidest shit.

Speaker 2 And WSHIT is their community radio station. And Yuckles.
Yuckles.

Speaker 2 Local Clowns. Clown Show and dating school.
Or know. Clown school and dating.
Dating.

Speaker 2 I'll have to bring Yuckles back.

Speaker 2 For sure.

Speaker 2 But here's what I really wanted to talk about. Not Elon, not Tesla, not Crybupple.
I wanted to talk about the couple.

Speaker 2 Two things. Number one, the couple who is now suing, is it Emirates Airline, I think, because Emirates put a dead body next to them in first class.
Did you see that?

Speaker 2 Man, they had to fly like 12 hours next to a dead body. What do you mean? And they were in first class.
Like strapped in in a seatbelt. Yes.
Someone passed away on the plane.

Speaker 2 They had a heart attack or a stroke or something. Oh, my God.
An older woman, which is sad, of course. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But she died of natural causes, and it was just an event that happens on a plane. Probably happens.

Speaker 2 Listen, there have been pilots that have died, like co-pilots that have died, and the other pilot has to fly the plane home, you know, it's or make a landing.

Speaker 2 But they were over the ocean, and there was nothing they could do. So the pilots made the decision, which is the right decision to make, that let's get to where we're going.

Speaker 2 And maybe this person has family that's waiting there or whatever, they're going home. Let's get to where we're going, and then we'll deal with it when we get there.

Speaker 2 And this couple is very upset. They have pictures and video of them sitting next to

Speaker 2 a sheet, essentially a woman, and there's a sheet and she's buckled in, and that's it, right? Oh my God.

Speaker 2 And it's in first class, so there's a little bit of separation, but there's still a dead body next to you.

Speaker 2 I understand just how disconcerting this must have been. but where in the fuck did they expect them to put the dead body

Speaker 2 other people were saying put them in put her in the bathroom and i'm like yeah but then you take up a whole restroom and you've seen those plane restrooms at the end of a flight of especially an international flight there's a lot of people have to travel in and out of those bathrooms

Speaker 2 there's only so many places you can put them yeah and there's no like uh seat belt in the bathroom

Speaker 2 right exactly banging around that's right so you end up with a woman just flying everywhere. Oh, my God.
You got to secure her. I mean, you can't have her flying all over the place.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 2 There's not many options. And I understand you want to sue because you didn't have a nice flight, but you're in first class

Speaker 2 on your way. Yeah.
Come on, guys. Really, honestly.

Speaker 2 Think about the poor lady's family. Yeah.
It's the right thing to do to make sure that she gets at least in one piece back to wherever it is she's going so that the people that love her,

Speaker 2 you know, can do whatever they need to do to get some closure and not have you know I don't know if you bruise after you die or whatever but not have you know open wounds or something because you're flying around the bathroom Yeah, or flying around the floor or whatever you can't put her in the overhead bin We've all seen that it's really hard to get big stuff into an overhead bin

Speaker 2 Definitely not the overhead bin you can't put her in the overhead bin yeah and you can't put her in the crew's sleeping quarters. How do you get her?

Speaker 2 I think a sheet over it was the best that you could do. They did the right thing.
In my opinion, they did the right thing.

Speaker 2 It probably happens all the time, but you know, rare enough that you'll probably never experience it. But you are sitting in the open seat.

Speaker 2 What are you going to do? I mean, you got to do what you got to do. If it was me, I would have been gracious about it and I would have said, well,

Speaker 2 can I get a free bottle of champagne? Can I get some free booze? Because if you give me

Speaker 2 sure they did. I'm sure they did.
First of all, I'm first class anyway. Yeah, they didn't just go, oh, hey, I'm going to put this dead body.
I'm going to put some kind of credit to some.

Speaker 2 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 It was an inconvenient, probably the whole flight got something, right?

Speaker 2 Because it's a stressful thing to go through, but it does happen as part of life. And what are you going to do? And stop being such a dick.
Don't sue anybody. That's that's the ridiculous.

Speaker 2 It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
It was a circumstance, and you should have been gracious in the moment because it wasn't about you, it was about the lady and her family. Leave it alone.

Speaker 2 Number two thing that I'm upset about, as far as lawsuits are concerned,

Speaker 2 some Tool

Speaker 2 fans are suing Tool.

Speaker 2 Like, there's a class action lawsuit because Tool recently played their Tool in the Sand at the Hard Rock Dominican Republic. Oh, okay.
Which you and I. They got one of those.

Speaker 2 They got one of those. No, I mean, they've got one of those, like, island retreat things.
Yeah, everybody does. They do.
Everybody does. Or a cruise.
I think I saw one Candlebox.

Speaker 2 Candlebox in the sand or something. Candlebox in the sand or something.
I mean, everybody does. It's a cruise or it's an island retreat.
It's big business.

Speaker 2 And you can go to a place like the Hard Rock and the Dominican where they are literally set up for it. You go, you don't have to do anything as a band except for bring your gear and play a show.

Speaker 2 They're going to play two nights, Friday and Saturday. On those two nights, they are promising that two unique sets of tool,

Speaker 2 right?

Speaker 2 So. Everybody goes to the first show and they play six or seven songs, whatever it is.
And because Tool songs are 86 minutes long, they play two songs, right? Essentially.

Speaker 2 Then on Saturday, Maynard asks the crowd, who was here last night? Well, everybody was there last night because everybody's there for the entire weekend. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You don't have an opportunity just to go for one night. And Tule does not play in

Speaker 2 like the most unique set because they repeat some of the songs that they played from the night before, which upsets some fans to the point where they start booing

Speaker 2 Tewell. They start booing them during their set in the Dominican Republic on a beautiful beach.

Speaker 2 So I got to say,

Speaker 2 at what point do you just say to yourself, man, you're really fucking entitled here?

Speaker 2 Like, I get it. You're there for the weekend and you want to see all of your favorite Tool songs and you don't want to hear it twice.
I understand.

Speaker 2 But Tool is entitled to play whatever it is they want to play because they're the artists. And if they feel like repeating a couple of songs, it sucks for you, but that's what they're choosing to do.

Speaker 2 And who knows, production-wise, they might have to do that because they have the visuals for these songs or whatever the case may be. It doesn't really matter.
You're seeing Tool twice. Listen,

Speaker 2 if it was me and I was seeing whoever, I don't know, Pearl Jam. Let's say I was saying Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam also is in this.

Speaker 2 We don't do set lists except for 15 minutes before and we always try and change it up every single show and blah, blah, blah. If I heard,

Speaker 2 you know, three of the songs on Friday and then three of the same songs on Saturday, I wouldn't complain. I'd feel grateful to have been in the room to hear any of it.

Speaker 2 And it just seems like a shitty reaction to playing a couple of songs, repeating a couple of songs. Now, that all said,

Speaker 2 I do have to say this about Tool. They seem to really dislike their fans in general.
Maynard seems to be really like kind of a fussy character who doesn't really care for the fans. And I understand.

Speaker 2 I get it.

Speaker 2 He's making the music for him, not for you.

Speaker 2 But if that's the case, then don't go out there and play in the sand. I mean, you're playing in the Dominican.
It's clearly a money.

Speaker 2 It's a money thing, right? Yeah. If there's any band in the world that I don't think about when I'm on the beach, it's Tool.
I don't think about Tool when I'm drinking a fruity cocktail.

Speaker 2 I really don't. That's like the last thing that I would think about would be any kind of Tool album.
It's not beach music. It's just not.
But it's big business to each their own.

Speaker 2 It must be a fun time to get together with other Tool fans. Yeah, exactly.
And be at the beach in a beautiful resort.

Speaker 2 Get together with other Tool fans, meet the one or two women that decided brave enough to show up inside the crowd. Exactly.

Speaker 2 And, you know, have some fun for the weekend. That must have been the most male skewing weekend in hard rock history.
But apparently, they have been doing this for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 This wasn't even the first time. They've been doing it for a couple of years.
So, Tool fans, stop being so entitled.

Speaker 2 You don't have to sue the band because they played a couple of songs over again, night after night. That's a ridiculous thing.

Speaker 2 And Tool, if you really don't like the fans, then don't put out any more music and don't play. Do it in your basement for yourselves, to yourselves.
Make your own mixtapes or whatever.

Speaker 2 But stop treating the fans like they're a bunch of assholes when they're paying money to see you. They're flying down to the Dominican Republic.
The least you could do is be respectful of your fans.

Speaker 2 That's the least you could do. And listen, this has been going on time immemorial.

Speaker 2 Every rock and roll band at some point starts to argue with themselves and the fans.

Speaker 2 They're all the, it's all all the wall. Pinky and Floyd are arguing about the fans and they're slowly building a wall between them.

Speaker 2 But now I kind of understand why, because your fans want to sue you when all you do is play the music. That's it.

Speaker 2 That's crazy to me that now they're going to do a class action lawsuit simply because they played a couple extra songs over. I don't see that happening.
Going anywhere.

Speaker 2 I don't see them winning a fucking penny. I really don't.
Because they said two unique

Speaker 2 sets of music. Yes, two unique sets of music.
That could mean the same songs in a different order just remember that take that from a guy

Speaker 2 who was the front man for some of the world's most unknown music

Speaker 2 yeah i'm picturing tool down at the beach huh it just doesn't sound right yeah like i'm imagining guys with big black boots on and like long sleeve you know black tool shirts and

Speaker 2 maybe with a bunch of like black jean cutoffs yeah i'm imagining a lot of guys in the pool with with their t-shirts still on. Do you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm imagining.

Speaker 2 Like jorts and a long-sleeve t-shirt. So I don't get what.

Speaker 2 I'm a Tool fan. So there you go.

Speaker 2 I'm making fun of myself. What's that? I like some of it.
I don't love every single thing that Tool's ever done, but I am a Tool fan. And I think their music is technically beautiful.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I get it. It's kind of like Rush.
You know the band Rush?

Speaker 2 Like, I think you have to have a a certain mindset to be into rush and I was never I never had that mindset tool I think is the same way you gotta you gotta be into very technical music to get it

Speaker 2 But I was hooked from that video sober remember the video for sober with the little like acclamation character It was a very scary video and I was convinced from moment one I was like oh this band I like this band.

Speaker 2 So I'd probably go down there to the Dominican Republic and see tool. I've seen tool a couple times.

Speaker 2 I've seen Tool a couple times. It's a weird show.
Maynard is always like hiding in the corner in some weird getup. He's always behind the drums.
Like, he doesn't really show his face.

Speaker 2 It's not his thing. He's not like.
He's a performer, but not like... I don't know.
It's all weird.

Speaker 2 If you like Tool, then you know if you don't. Why am I talking about Tool? Who fucking cares?

Speaker 2 Don't sue Tool. Stop it.
Stop it.

Speaker 2 Big babies.

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Speaker 2 Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for today. I think so.
I'll tell you that I love you.

Speaker 2 Best to you. Best to you.
And best to you out there on the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say, goodbye.

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