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I'm Brian Green.

This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris Joy.

I hope you, Chris. Best to you, Ryan.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. I came in there a little hot.
I'm sad. I'm getting used to it.
I'm just getting used to things. It's new in here, and I'm getting used to it.
I looked last night. I was sitting in this chair and I was doing like some tech checks.

Tech checks.

Figuring out how many things were going to go wrong today.

Fusing wires together.

Oh my God.

Look at the amount of wires.

I know.

And then it's just a whole mess.

It's a whole thing.

We really need like, we need Odyssey to come in here and clean this shit up for us.

That should be in our next contract negotiation. Help us figure out wires in our studio.
Because you know that at least half of these don't do anything. No.
They're just hanging down, hoping at some day to be useful to somebody. And that's probably never going to happen.
Sorry, guys. It's probably never going to happen.
You're always going to be hanging there doing nothing. I'll take a five-hour energy and come in here and get to work Oh my god, we have more five hour energies than we know what to do with.
If you want a five hour energy, let us know. We'll send you a few.
Thank you to Five Hour Energy, by the way, a sponsor of the show. Love me some five hour energy, but we have a lot of five hour energy in here.
You know, that's one of the, I mean, we don't get a lot of perks for being a middling comedy podcast. It's not like, you know, we get red carpet invitations or anything like that.
Huge gift bags. Huge gift bag.
No, no, no. None of that stuff.
I wish. But what we do get on occasion is our sponsors are nice enough to send us some stuff.
Like Dollar Shave Club. I got a really nice shaving kit from them with a bunch of stuff in it.
It was a really nice gift, actually. It was very well presented, very nice gift.
But that's one of the very few things that you can say, oh, that's a perk of being a comedy podcast in the middle of the pack. But 5-Hour Energy was nice enough to send us a bunch of 5-Hour Energy.
I mean, we might need to be talking to them about the sponsorship for the 12 hours. Well, that's true.
We haven't really talked about this yet, but we'll get to it. But we are planning something big for our five years.
Yeah, it's unannounced. But for our fifth year anniversary as a podcast, as a middling comedy podcast, we are planning something really big, so stay tuned.
Well, we'll throw the name out there and then you guys can kind of figure out what it is. The 12 Hours of TCB.
And then I'll let you chew on that until we have all of the details nailed down and we are 100% sure that this is actually happening. It's probably best that we just leave it.
Probably. Probably.
A lot can happen in between now and then. We're also working on a merch drop and all this other stuff, but I'm reluctant to say any of it, because how many times in our history have we mentioned something that never happened? The lots, the lots.
I mean, we had live shows until hours before we were supposed to be on stage. Until hours before we were supposed to be on stage.
That came down to the very last minute. And anyway, I don't want to talk about all the things we haven't done.
Let's talk about all the great things we are going to do. I'll tell you one thing we're not going to do.
We will not likely be attending the Fyre Fest 2. Oh, God.
Because Fyre Fest 2, I don't think it's even happening. I'm going to give you weekly updates on this until it just falls all apart.
And right now, so last week I mentioned that FireFest 2 had been announced. They were selling tickets.
The lowest price ticket is $1,400. They're doing it a little differently this time.
You cannot actually, I mean, I would hope. You would hope.
Yeah, they needed to change. Billy McFarland, who of course spent time in jail for defrauding a bunch of people regarding Fyre Fest 1, got out of jail.
He owes millions of dollars in restitution to the people who were left high and dry at the last festival. I don't need to tell you about Fyre Festival.
You remember 2020, the whole shit show. There's been documentaries.
Yeah, there's been multiple documentaries made about this. And if you don't know what Fyre Fest is, then I don't even know why.
How did you find a podcast? How did you press play on a podcast? But Billy is at it again. He has announced Fyre Fest 2.
It has long been brewing. I know because I told the story about how someone in his organization supposedly, and I think it was true that they were in the organization.
I think I even talked to Billy on email a few times, but they had been asking for a long time if Billy could come on the show and talk about Fyre Fest 2 or some derivative thereof. And I just decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
I didn't want a platform. It wasn't worth the trouble.
So Fyre Fest, I know, I'm so glad that I never agreed to that. This was back when we weren't doing interviews either.
And I'm really glad because the commercial break is not 60 minutes. I mean, we're not even Dave Letterman.
We're just like, you know, two buffoons asking people questions. And I think Billy really deserves a treatment, if you know what I mean.
A fully vetted interview where all of the tough questions are asked and you hold his feet to the fire. And that's not us because we're too nice for that.
Despite what you might hear on air, we're actually pretty nice people and we're not interested in like de-skinning someone here on the air. Although if we, de-skinning, although if we were going to de-skin somebody, it might be Billy McFarlane.
So he announces. Isn't it just skinning? I don't know.
What do I know? That's another reason why I'm probably not best suited for this job. I don't even know the English language all that well.
Anyway, Billy has announced Fyre Fest 2. Last week he announced it or the week before.
They put a website up. It's in Flash.
Did you see it? Yes. I've been reading different things about it, too.
And, I mean, he's saying it's on, everybody else is saying it's not. Let me share.
So he announces this. I go to the website, like I'm sure millions and millions of other people did, including people who still owed money by him.

And the lowest price ticket is $1,400.

The highest price is $1 million.

And for that, you get a private flight from Miami to Cancun, which is, by the way, like an hour and a half flight. It's not even like you're flying over to Europe.
It's an hour and a half flight on a private plane that you could probably rent for $100,000 or less. You could probably rent it for $50,000.
It's eight tickets, and then you get to stay on a yacht, quote unquote, or a villa. So a couple things that Billy has done differently this time is he has decided no one can stay actually on the property overnight.
There's no camping. You have to go to one of the hotels that are close.
There's a couple problems with all of this that people, you know, it didn't take long to figure out. Number one, he didn't put the actual location of the festival.
He put latitude, longitude like he did on the last festival that ended up being a private island once owned by, I don't know, Chapo Guzman or something like that. El Chapo.
This time he puts the Latitude Longitude. It is literally in the Gulf of Mexico.
Like when you put in the Latitude Longitude, it's in the Gulf of Mexico. It's not even on land.
It's somewhere in the middle of the ocean. So not really specific about where this is going to be.
He named some hotels that he has relationships with that are going to give discounted, you know, fare or whatever. I mean, $1,400, nothing is discounted.
I'm promising you this. You don't even get a hotel room for $1,400.
That's just showing up to the actual festival. He has not announced one person that's going to be there except for a couple of sports stars that are going to show up.
And I'm not going to name them because they probably will change their mind. And I don't know.
I don't have anything against them. So some athletes are going to show up.
Do you want to go to a festival to see some athletes? Is this the NBA finals or what's going on? Doesn't make any sense to me. It's incongruent.
There's no musicians that I know of that have been slated to play or announced formally. Billy keeps on putting on his stories, pictures of these athletes and then just their name.
And everyone's assuming that's who's going to show up, but he doesn't really say it out loud because he probably doesn't have a contract with them yet. He knows he can't do that.
So let's say this. There's no one yet playing.
There's no location. The people of Cancun, Mexico, the government there has said no one has asked us to get a permit for this and they will need one.
So as far as we're concerned, it's not happening. It's not going to happen.
So unless Billy gets his shit together really quick, this is happening in like two months, by the way. This is so messy.
It's so weird. It's so messy.
You don't do any of this like this. You just don't.
Unless you're Jam Land Productions, you do not put Fyre Fest together like this. You're asking for trouble.
And why is this your comeback? Like, wouldn't you be sure everything was locked in?

Everything was above and beyond.

First of all, I'd have investors that have cash in an escrow account.

I'd have a probably more than one accounting firm that was managing the money.

Like, you know, Goldman's, I don't know.

I don't know who, but somebody that was announced along with it. Somebody else is managing the money, like, you know, Goldman's, I don't know, I don't know who, but somebody that was announced along with it, somebody else is managing the money.
We are a year out from the festival. This is two months away.
He's announcing this two months away, no acts, no permits, no nothing. So I would have an accounting firm, maybe two that were handling the money, all of the money.
It never touches my hands. I'm not in charge of it.
I cannot get anything paid for unless they sign off on it and it's going to the intended purposes. I would have all of the acts booked and paid for so that you know they're showing up.
And I would make sure that I had every permit that I ever needed in place. And I would try and sell reasonably priced tickets and forget about all this luxury bullshit that is just going to appeal to a few people.
But those people, if they have any sense in their head, are not going to be spending a million dollars on a private flight in a hotel room that could cost you a total of $100,000 if you did it the best way possible. And sign up on the website.
Yeah. And give me your credit card information on Billy's website.
That's in Flash, by the way. Flash! Who does Flash? So, the government says this is not happening.
There is no actual location. There are no actual artists that have been announced.
And no one is coming forward to say, I'm playing Fyre Fest 2, which you would think they would two months out. But here's the kicker.
Billy goes on Good Morning America. What? Don't ask me why they invited him on there.
But okay. Because it's a story.
It's a story. And just like us, they have to kill content.
He goes on Good Morning America. He does an interview.
But the interviewers are prepped. They are ready.
They have done their homework. They have called the hotels and the government and they have called the hotels to ask them, are you in fact accepting patrons of this festival? Do you have deals with Billy? And two of the three hotels that were named on the website as sister hotels, people that are doing business with Billy say, I have no clue what you're talking about.
None. This is a shit show.
History is repeating itself. I think Billy is trying to get the money first and put it together backwards.
You cannot put together a festival for a hundred people in two months, let alone a hundred thousand or whatever Billy's aim is. It is crazy, Billy.
Everybody loves a comeback story. You did the crime.
You did the time. I don't argue that everybody deserves a second chance, but you can't then just do the same shit you were doing before and telegraphing it.
You need to, I just, I can't believe the balls on this guy. Me too.
So he goes and he does this reel where he's like walking around the streets of Miami or something, addressing all of the things that he that people have now figured out about this. Right.
And he combats them point by point. Do you want to listen to that? Yeah.
But what did he say on Good Morning America? I don't. I only watched a clip of it.
OK. But he claims that, you know, they, I think the way that the interview was framed is kind of one of these cutaway interviews where they're interviewing him not live, but they're interviewing him.
It's a canned interview. And he's saying one thing, then they're flashing to the reporter saying something else.
Right? Would you like to hear what he had to say? It's just terrible. It's just so terrible.
Billy. So weird.
McFarland. Peter.
Okay. You ready for this? Yeah.
All right, listen to this. I'm going to put this up to the speaker here.
Hey, buddy. I have a really important fire update.
Last week, I did in the today show today's show i'm sorry since then the story has been shared this is why i don't put together festivals because i can't even remember which television show i've been on twisted and covered by journalists from all over the world i figured it would be best to hear directly from me what's actually happening. First, Fire 2 is real.
Second, we have incredible partners leading the festival. They're in charge of all the logistics, productions, and operations.
Who? Some production company. That they don't name.
That they do name. But that production company has not come forward to confirm that they're part of the festival yet.
They don't have it on their website. They don't have it on their social media.
And apparently this production company is legitimate in some people's eyes. But this production company is not owning up to the fact that they are partnering with Billy.
Now, I think there's Silence Speaks volumes. They probably do.
They probably have said to Billy,

if you get your shit together, we will

produce this festival, but you need to pay us

and you need to get your shit together. And Billy just

went ahead and put their name on the website

hoping that things worked out.

Production team in Mexico who does not

mess around.

There is no way they would ever

take on a fake festival.

Said the people who took on

the face festival.

Naturally, this is a huge

Thank you. There is no way they would ever take on a fake festival.
Said the people who took on the face festival. Yeah.
Naturally, this is a huge point of emphasis given the issues surrounding fire one. Our accommodations include contracts, the number of villas, yachts, and hotels.
This also includes two hotels who are contacted by the media. Hotels tells statements saying they never heard a fire and they aren't working with us after hearing this i asked my team to terminate those contracts and to focus on the hotels and other partners were eager to work with and support fire so let me get this straight billy yeah you.
You had hotels that were, you put on the website that people could go stay at. Somebody called them.
They said, we have no idea what you're talking about. First, we're hearing of it.
So you terminated your relationship with them. Oh, okay.
Sounds like the relationship, I think the relationship was terminated before it started. Four.

We have talent.

Artists, athletes, and other performers are on board and scheduled for

fire, too. Other performers?

Restitution is being

paid. I'm picturing like a guy out there

in a unicycle. Yeah.

Going down the beach. You know that

guy at the fish show who's

outside twirling flames?

Yeah.

Can't seem to get it right. He's one step

I'm not going to be such a shit show. Such a shit show, performers.
What are you going to have, a girl with like a, you know those girls who wear the metal boobs and then they take a drill to it and make sparks? Woo, I paid a million dollars. I paid a million dollars for a private plane all the way down.
I imagine the private plane is like the TCB plane. It's like got one wing, one propeller that works.
You're not going to get down there in one piece. What are you thinking? Don't do it.
Oh, sorry. Hey, sorry.
Also, he said, artist. I've also made it my mission to do more than legally required.
Artis has been giving a large percentage of fire to his budget and profits directly to restitution. How do you give part of the budget of the festival to restitution? Yeah, you can't.
So you're taking investors' money and you're paying the other people back? It doesn't make any sense. That's a Ponzi scheme.
It's a total Ponzi scheme. This guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.
If you, listen, in the festival community, Billy's name is Mud, and it's never going to be any better until he partners with a legitimate festival organizer, and he sits in the background and learns how to do it a couple of times, and then maybe he can do his own festival. Am I right? Yeah, it's crazy.
I mean, you know, Jeff's in the festival world, and this is a sham this is a total shame yeah memfo produced by billy mcfarland good evening everybody okay all right you get the gist of it he goes on and on he addresses every point and it's all bullshit i have a team down there that doesn't f F around. Well, I'm convinced.
I'm convinced. Where's that website so I can sign up? Yeah.
Where are those people and why aren't they talking? Where are those people and why aren't they saying something? And why hasn't anyone knocked on the door of the Cancun mayor's office and said, hey, I'd like to bring 50,000 people down here to have a festival. And here's what it's going to do for the community.
And here's how's how we're going to work with you if they are saying out loud the government of cancun is saying we have no idea what this guy is talking about and it's not happening unless we do this is mexico this ain't northeast arkansas where you can just get buddies together and throw up a stage and have a couple beers. This isn't Muddenfest part two.
You know what I'm saying? This is like a major festival. I know.
But we don't know who's playing. We don't know where we could stay and we have no idea what location it's at.
Yeah. I mean, he said artists, not what kind of artists.
Athletes, artists, and musicians. And other performers.
And other performers. He didn't even really say musicians.
He didn't. No.
So what are you going to do? Steph Curry is going to show up and bounce a basketball? What's happening? I'm not paying $1,400 for that. I'm sure Steph is a nice guy.
I'm sure he's really talented in basketball. He is, obviously.
But I'm not going to pay to watch him bounce a basketball. And unless Steph Curry is spending the night in my hotel room, I'm paying fourteen hundred dollars yeah it's march you cannot not be announcing who's coming you should have done this seven months ago eight months ago nine a year ago i mean we talked about this bonnaroo is yes the gold standard of three-day festivals you can do blind tickets early on sale go.
Pre-sale discounts. Trust it.
Yeah. And people will buy those for established stuff.
Mempho's the same way. They don't announce the seats yet, but you can't.
Billy can't do that. No, he can't do that.
Not with what just happened. Yes, because he just screwed like 10,000 people.
And it was so bad that the bands didn't even make the flight to go down there. It was so bad there were two documentaries.
Two. About it.
Two. About how bad it was.
One of the producers gave a blowjob for water. Or he was going to.
Yeah, that's right. Where's that guy? If that guy's involved, I'll trust it.
Maybe, maybe. Because at least he seemed like he was willing to get shit done.

Billy, meanwhile, was with Ja Rule on some pig island or something.

International, you know, Kylie Jenner swimming in a bikini.

I don't know what was going on.

It was awful.

It was terrible.

It was all hype, no substance.

And this time, Billy, you got to be all substance and no hype. You just have to put it like every other festival in the world, put a website together, a really clean website where you don't have to use half of your fucking

Thank you. Philly, you got to be all substance and no hype.
You just have to put it like every other festival in the world, put a website together, a really clean website where you don't have to use half of your fucking phone's memory to get it loaded. A really clean website that says these three nights, these three musicians are headlining.
Here's some supporting acts. It's a reasonable ticket amount.
Come have fun down in Cancun. I promise this time it's going off.
And and these are the people that are handling the money and these are the people that are going to keep you safe and here's the local government that we're working with to make sure that everyone gets in and out in an orderly way all of this other shit is just noise and billy is trying to pull the wool over whose eyes i don't know i don't know who's believing it he claims that he's already sold a whatever, a Phoenix ticket or a Phoenix fire ticket or whatever it is.

Some... I don't know.
Who's believing it? He claims that he's already sold whatever, a Phoenix ticket or, you know, Phoenix fire ticket or whatever it is. Some weird name that, Prometheus.
Oh, yeah, Prometheus. And Prometheus, isn't he the guy who, like, set the world on fire? I think Prometheus, the god that set the world on fire.
Anyway, don't buy Fire Fest 2 tickets. That's a little piece of advice from your friends here at the commercial break.
And if you have, well, shame on you. Well, if you have, please report in.
Tell us. Yeah, no.
What's happening? I don't think anybody's bought tickets. I really don't.
I believe that Billy is in a panic now because this bad press has come out and everyone is saying, no way am I putting $1,400 down. I don't care if you're elon fucking musk 1400 is 1400 and you don't just piss that away because if you buy that there is zero chance that you will get your money back if shit goes sideways because he doesn't have it he is desperately trying to collect money so he can put it together it's unbelievable it really unbelievable.
And shame on anybody who's part, any of these artists or whoever they are, and athletes. And listen, I understand everyone's got to make money and maybe Billy's paying you under the table or whatever's going on.
Whatever your deal is personally, or maybe you like Billy as a friend. I'm not sure.
But shame on you. You should also be doing your homework and saying, if this is not really happening, Billy, I cannot have my name on it.
Period. End of sentence.
Because the thing is, he gets a few famous people involved. Now, all of a sudden, everybody thinks it's legit.
And they're buying tickets. But that's what happened last time.
That's what happened last time. All of those models went and started swimming in the water.
They blew all their budget on the promotion, on the, you know, videos. Influencers.
Yeah. And all the stuff.
and those people got paid and then the people had cheese sandwiches cheese sandwiches muddy tents they didn't even have tents they weren't even set up they were trying to set them up themselves glamping it was like a porta toilet a portalette and a blow-up mattress that's not glamping that is regular camping as far. All right, well, you get the point.
Don't go to Billy's Festival. But I am very interested to see how this plays out now.
Oh, me too. I mean, he's doubling down.
Yeah. He's digging his heels into the sand.
You know what? If I... Absolutely.
Well, this reel was put out over a week ago as we're recording this, and my suspicion is, it's like radio silence now, because now he's really fucked. Because now, the Today Show has de-skinned him, or skinned him, or whatever, and there's nothing else to do.
You can't recover from that in two months. If you had a year, maybe, but in two months, it's just not gonna happen.
Alright, okay, let's Let's take a break and then I don't know what we're going to talk about. We'll figure it out.
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Hey, I wanted to let you, I'm going to remind you that Kathleen Madigan was on the show this week.

Her fall tour tickets are now available.

They're on sale at her website, KathleenMadigan.com.

I will put a link in the show notes.

You can go listen to Tuesday's episode with her.

What a great guest.

Kathleen Madigan is like, it's just so familiar that her whole personality is so familiar to me. And it felt like being a family function.
It really did. She was great.

Yeah, she was great. And I hope that she comes back on again.
I'm still having a hard time

wrapping my head around Nate Borgazzi, Ron White, Kathleen Madigan. Who else did she say? She said

some other famous person all playing golf behind her house, like, you know, teeing it up during the pandemic. And fishing.
Yeah, and fishing. I think that's great.
I think it's great. And I went back and looked at her Instagram.
You could see pictures of her and Ron and stuff like that. So anyway, KathleenMadigan.com.
Go check out her tickets. Hey, it was- Lewis Black.
Oh, Lewis Black. That's right.
Yeah, he came in from New York. He came in from New York and he was yelling at the TV she had to turn it off.
Yes. That's so Lewis Black.
That's so on brand for Lewis Black. And I also wanted to give a big shout out to Ari Shafir.
Ari, of course, is on his farewell tour, which just means he's taking some time off, probably some well-deserved time. He's taking some time off.
He's going away for a year or two, and then he'll come back. But he's on his farewell tour right now.
He's swinging through Atlanta this weekend. We're going to go see him.
We're really excited about this. I want to thank him very much.
He was kind enough to send us some tickets and then encourage you to go buy some tickets. I can't send you free tickets.
I'm sorry. You don't have the kind of clout that TCB has.
Huh? All right? Okay. Yeah.
You're're not bringing in pot brownies okay that's what i'm saying that's what i'm trying to say um anyway ari shafir uh at ari shafir.com you can go and check out his tour tickets are available go see ari and listen to his podcast also so kathleen madigan ari go check that out um there's a very interesting trend that's going on and i'd like to your thoughts on it uh puffy pussy have you heard of puffy pussy you haven't heard of puffy pussy i think this is seems to me to be a very dangerous thing to do but what the fuck do i know i'm not a medical professional though i did spend the night at a Holiday Inn last night. And I do,

I am a Google doctor.

I will say that.

I do know how to Google the shit

out of some shit.

Yeah.

I know how to go down

a rabbit hole medically.

Oh, we all do now.

I know all the places to go.

I know all the things to look for.

All the Reddit.

Yeah, chatty,

chatty GPT knows all my conditions.

It actually knows I'm a hypochondriac.

It's like, settle down.

You're not sick.

Settle down.

This is nothing to worry about. A couple of, I'll share this.
A couple of, when I went through the whole thing with the parathyroid and my calcium levels were through the roof and my parathyroid hormone was through the roof for many, many years. And it kind of went unnoticed when I finally got diagnosed that some of the things that I was experiencing, some of the symptoms I was having were due to this high calcium level and the high parathyroid level and the tumor in my throat, the rather large one.
One of the follow-up items was you got to go see a cardiologist because of course having that much calcium in your blood for that long could cause damage to your heart. It could collect in your arteries or whatever.
You got to go get it checked out just to make sure. So I go and they do an echocardiogram and an EKG and all this.
And they say, hey, listen, your heart looks healthy. Everything looks good.
Your blood pressure's a little high, but all right, everything else looking good. Thank God.
But then a couple of months later, I start feeling like my heart is skipping a beat, like a palpitation. And while I've always had this sensation, like sometimes when I'm laying in bed at night, you know, when everything's quiet, I'll feel my heart skip a beat.
I don't know if you've ever felt this. Yeah, no, I have.
I think it's pretty common. It's extraordinarily common, but that doesn't stop Brian from completely freaking out about it, freaking out.
Because I usually experience it at night, but then all of a sudden I'm experiencing it during the day. It's happening much more frequently and it's noticeable.
And if you've ever felt your heart skip a beat, the thing is it happens to everybody. It's called a PVC, a premature, you know, I don't know, vasectomy coming.
I don't know what it's called. It's called something, PVC.
And it happens to everybody. It's just when your heart just, it pumps one extra and it gives you the sensation that your heart has skipped a beat.
But that's really not what's happening. It's got an extra beat.
So this happens to everybody. It usually represents much less than two or 3% of your total heartbeats over the course of a given period of time.
But Brian is freaking out about this so much. I run to the cardiologist, and he says, okay, no problem.
We know exactly what to do here. We're going to fit you with a heart monitor for seven days.
And I thought to myself, oh, okay, how do you do that? What's that? Like you put on a ring? We're all so used to these gadgets these gadgets i'm like wearables yeah do i have a wearable are you going to take my data from and he's like well we actually don't there we have so many of these tests going on that we don't have one available you got to wait your turn so come back in a couple weeks and we'll fit you with and i'm thinking fit me with it he's like yeah it's a little thing that goes around your chest don Don't worry. It's fine.
You'll be. So I go a couple of weeks ago and I'm like, okay, it's my appointment day.
And it's been a month since I've been to the doctor. You know, it's, I've been waiting a month for

this. And of course now I'm not experiencing the things that I was experiencing before.
So it's

just like taking your dog to the vet. Everything's wrong with your, or your tooth hurts and you get

there and it's no longer hurting or whatever you get. So I show up and I, this nice

young lady, and she's got this black box. It looks like a small suitcase.
And she's like, okay, I'm fitting you today with a, whatever, a heart monitor X220. And I'm like, okay, great.
How do we do this? It is a full EKG machine that you wear on your body, wires and all.

So she... it is a full ekg machine that you wear on your body wires and all so she is explaining to me this thing as she's taking unboxing it and i am thinking to myself holy shit that's like 50 feet worth of wires that's those stickers you got to put on your body it's the things you got to clip into the stickers it's a little suction cups that that go in.
Your energy is just attracted to wires. Oh my God.
It's wired, clunky, scary shit. On your body.
Yes. Yes.
I can't get away from the wires. I'm like a walking telephone pole, you know, but not the kind here in America, like the kind down in, you know, Argentina where they're all the wires are coming out of the box.
Like people hook up directly to the transformer. You know what I'm saying? They plug stuff in into the transformer.
It's like, you know, you go to some of those places like the favelas and stuff, and people literally run an extension cord, and then they cut the extension cord off, and they plug it into the transformer themselves. So this lady's taking out all these wires and these suction cups and these stickers, and I'm thinking to myself, holy shit.
And she's like, don't work. It's really quite cool.
They're very small. And I'm thinking about nothing is small about what you're showing me.
But okay. It's a machine.
I would say the size of my cell phone. But it's heavier and it's bigger.
It's thicker. And it's got one big button in the front of it.
And it's got a little small screen. And that big button you're supposed to press anytime you feel that sensation or any sensation, aching, dizziness, confusion, whatever it is.
I mean, I don't know how if you're confused, you're pressing the button, but okay, you know, you're supposed to press the button and let them know which symptom you're feeling. Meanwhile, 24 hours a day, unless you are showering, you've got to be hooked up to this monitor that then hooks up to this larger clunky thing.
Or you can wear a small, I would say it's like the size of a key chain. You can put that key chain into one of the suction cups and that acts as like a sixth suction cup.
So it's like this confusing mass of wires and machines that you've got to carry around with you at all times. You can't be more than 50 feet from the base station.
You have to charge the base station while you're wearing it. It's a whole thing.
I could do this for at least seven days is what she says. The doctor may want more information, but at least seven days.
Chrissy. Were you like, I'm not feeling it anymore.
Yeah, I know. That's what I said to her.
I said, I've got a ring. Yeah.
I've got an aura ring. Do want that data because apple yeah because my aura ring is this small and it can tell me whether or not i'm having a good day or a bad day based on every it can tell me my cardio age how i slept whether or not i'm sick and you're giving me this clunky piece of wiry shit that i gotta wear around for seven days oh and by the way it's being monitored 24 hours a day.
It has a cell phone signal. And she says, so if anything goes wrong, they're going to call you.
And I was like, like, wrong, like what? And she's like, if they see anything weird, they're going to give you a call to make sure you're okay. And I thought to myself, that's kind of big brother-ish, but okay, let's get this over with.
I'm in this far. I'm in this far.

So I've got all of these wires that are big and bulky sitting under my shirt. Oh, and by the way, because I have the world's largest amount of chest hair that I have to manage on a daily basis, she can't get the suction cups on.
So she's got to take her own razor and shave my chest. Nothing like having a 24 year old beautiful nurse shave your hairy fat chest.
So she can get the suction cups on. Okay.
I get all the suction cups on and I'm walking out of the place. And I noticed that under my shirt, it just looks like I, I I'm sorry.
It looks like I have a bomb. That's what it looks like.
It looks like I'm in Ireland during the troubles. And look out.
I look like an IRA member. Thank God I didn't have to go to the airport.
Thank God. Thank God.
But okay, here I am. I'm running around with all these wires sticking under my shirt.

So now I got to pick bulky clothing so it doesn't look like I'm about to kill everybody in the place.

And I'm walking around.

Well, just my luck, on the third day of wearing this, we have to go to a kid's birthday party.

With all of the people that I know from the school already hate me because of the commercial break.

Now I got to go in there and try and explain away all the wires sticking out of my chest.

I'm doing the show right now.

Yeah.

You're on.

You're all.

Hey, you're on candid camera.

No, that's not a heart monitor. That's seven microphones hooked up to my body.
I'm recording you in Pink Floyd Dolby Audio for my new movie. You heard it here last.
Every fart, every movement, every burp and palpitation recorded in hi-fi so you can hear it so i go into this place this is actually a pretty cool birthday party here's the thing uh the cheese i didn't go to the cheese i wish i had gone to the cheese because the food was really good there but this was this was a idea that did on paper sounded terrible but in theory in in reality ended up being fantastic here's the invitation so i never know about any of this stuff until like minutes before we're leaving. You know what I'm saying? I'm never, I just can't remember.
I don't keep up with it or what. It's on the family calendar.
I can see it, but whatever. I'll look at it.
Yeah, I'll look at it that day. So Astrid says to me, yeah, we're going to a place that sells swing sets and play sets for backyards, trampolines, big jungle gyms and tree houses and all this.
We're going to this place that sells it. And I thought to myself, one of two things, either these people are friends with the people who own it and they're allowing us to go in there and hang out, or this is the cheapest way to do a birthday party ever.
Just have everybody show up at the place. Meet me there.
Meet me there. And, you know, hey, we're thinking about buying.
Do you mind if I eat my birthday cake here? I was so like, I thought to myself, oh, okay, that's interesting. I've never seen this.
Yeah, that's new to me. But we show up.
It's like in a strip, like an industrial strip mall or something like that. And I thought this is like really weird.
But we walk in and this place is a wonderland of these huge swing sets, jungle gyms, tree houses. Oh.
In the ground trampolines, above the ground trampolines, all of this stuff indoors. It's kind of cold outside, a little muggy and a little rainy.
So we go there and it's perfect. And you can go on any of them.
All the kids just go and they play on all of these beautiful swing sets and play places and all this other stuff. That's wild.
And they rent the place out for a couple hundred dollars an hour on weekends, and you can just go and hang out. Makes sense, I guess.
Use some extra money for your models. That's right.
And you don't have the place to yourself.

There can be people in that are coming to look at the swing sets, but they're bringing their children too.

So there was a couple of people that walked in during that time.

But this was the most brilliant idea.

At the end of the day, it was really fun for everybody, including me, who's wearing a heart monitor, jumping on the trampoline with the kids.

Of course.

I'm double bouncing these small children, and the parents are like, does he have a bomb in his shirt or what's going on there? I'm sweating profusely because I have a sweater on because I'm trying to cover up the wires. But the entire time, like I know some of these people, the entire time I'm talking to them, all I can see them doing is staring at the wires under my shirt.
That's it. That's it.
Yes, I would be. You would be.
I was like, oh, all right. And I didn't tell anybody.
I just said, you know what? If they're not asking, I'm not saying. Because you sound old when you say, yeah, I'm wearing a heart monitor.
I'm wearing a heart monitor. I mean, it was an interesting afternoon.
It was an interesting seven days. And now I have these, like, the skin has been ripped off the places where I had these things because I had to change the stickers every day.
And it was just a lot. I'm pressing that button left and right.
Anyway, so I go, you know, I get all that done. And the doctor says, well, you had 1,685 PVCs while we were doing this, while we were having this.
But that represents much less than 1% of the total beats of your heart. So you're in good shape.
You're good. Yeah.
And I'm like, oh, okay, I guess I'll just have this weird sensation that my heart is stopping every five seconds. No problem, doc.
Is something you could do about that? And I've that there is a procedure. When your heart gets out of whack, when you got like more than 10 or 15% of your beats are like that, there's a couple of procedures they can do.
One of them is literally shocking it back into rhythm. Yes.
Stop your heart, start it again, so it gets into rhythm, like into a sinus rhythm. And I thought to myself, oh Lord, don't let that be me.
Yeah. Because knowing me and my,

you know,

wire propensity,

it's going to be hooked up the wrong way

and it's just going to stop

and not start again.

Anyway,

was going to talk about Puffy Pussy.

So let's do that.

Yeah.

So let's talk about Puffy Pussy

on the next segment.

I'll make you listen to some commercials.

I'll make you wait for Puffy Pussy.

Okay.

You're not getting your Puffy Pussy here. No Puffy Tacos here, kids.
We'll have to talk

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That's what we're talking about, puffy tacos. So I saw this reel a couple weeks ago.
Saw a reel, two ladies talking about their friends had been discussing how they had injectables, like in plumpers, like lip plumpers, butt plumpers, you know, plumpers around your eyes or whatever. There are now doctors, plastic surgeons types that are injecting that into women's labias to increase the size of their labia and make it look more full, more plump, more inviting, I guess would be the right word to put it.
And these ladies were explaining that as you get older, the labia loses some elasticity. It loses some of that plumpiness.
And when you have children, sometimes they can do damage to the actual labia, not damage, but it just, it can stretch it and make it look different and all that other stuff. And so they're, so they're like, I guess the bottom line was some women are getting these so they can encourage a camel toe because it's not like the inner labia, it's the outer labia.
So they're getting these injectables into their outer labia so that they can enhance the camel toe, so to speak, which is really interesting to me. And I don't know.
I mean, I don't love the idea of putting something like that so close to something so sensitive, but I don't have one, so I don't know. And if someone could tell me that I could actually see my penis if I plumped it up with something, I might do that.
I might do that. I might inject something.
And I know that there are guys who do procedures like this to enhance the look of their penis. And isn't the guy that's doing, you know that he's doing like that billionaire guy that's trying to live forever.
Yes. Whatever.
Isn't he injecting like Botox in his penis? Yes. He's injecting Botox into his penis.
And if I'm not mistaken, he has had some kind of filler in there to keep it rigid and firm and all that. Listen, I mean, yeah.
Okay.

Here's the thing.

If you're doing it for you

and it's something that you really,

you like the look of your vagina better

when it's fuller

and it gives that camel toe appearance,

God bless you, child.

Do what you're going to do.

Yeah, I mean.

To each their own.

Exactly.

And definitely go to a trained professional. This is what I'm thinking is we are gonna have these knockoff yahoos because it happened with the bbls the butt lifts it's happened with the bbls people have died oh yeah people have died they have had all kind of sicknesses and illnesses because people are taking like common household they're taking siliconeable, like the stuff you would put on a crack in your tile and they are filling people's butts with that stuff.
I read an article about a lady who went to one of these knockoff whatever's down in, I think it was Jamaica. She was a medical tourist.
She went down there. She wanted the big, you know, beautiful butt has ushered in this world of big, beautiful butts.
And she went down there to get that full look. And the guy was taking silicone he bought at Home Depot for tiles.
Oh, my God. And sticking it in her ass.
And you know what? It did not end up well for her. Go fucking figure.
She ended up in the hospital, all kind of sick, years of treatments. It was really quite this thing because it's not like they can just suck it back out.
It floats around your body and your body sucks it up. So that's the only like and I know that there are medical grade silicone that obviously they've tested and must be approved by if there is an FDA, the FDA.
If there's an FDA left, the FDA. You know, it's just so, but it's so foreign to me that you would want to like stick that in such a sensitive area.
But God bless you. People are doing everything.
I haven't met a vagina that I don't like yet. Haven't met one.
There's not one vagina that I've looked at, been around, seen myself where I thought to myself, oh, I don't want to have anything to do with that. Right.
I think they're all beautiful in their own way. But, you know, it's a trend to get it all freshened up down there.
Right. To get it high in sight.
The rejuvenation has been going on for years. Right.
Yes. Yes.
That's where you have like a spa. Remember those girls? Didn't we do like an episode? Yeah, no, that's separate.
Like the vaginal rejuvenation. Oh, like the medical procedure.
Yes, yeah. Yeah.
But didn't we do a— We did. And that's like a whole steaming thing.
A steam your vagina. Yeah.
Sage it and clean it with wax. Yeah.
Ugh. It sounds painful.
It sounds painful to steam your vagina. But this is the new trend.
Puffy pussy is the new trend. And, you know, I think we're going to be hearing a lot more about this in the future.
And I'll get it done to mine and I'll let you know what happens. But basically camel toes are in.
Camel toes are in. Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Like nipples are seeing their moment right now.
Yeah. I think you see that in a lot of fashion.
Many, many. There's even bras with nipples in them.
Yeah, that's Kim Kardashian ushered that in too. And listen, I'm not bothered by a nipple.
I don't think there's any reason to be ashamed of a nipple. It's a nipple.
There's no reason to be ashamed. It's not going to kill anybody.
And guys have their shirts off all the time. We see nipples all the time we have hyper sexualized women's breasts and so and there's like this fantasy fetish and of course breasts are awesome also i haven't met a boob i don't like either right um so i understand there's certain connotations and there's a lot of people who may not who may feel more shy about sharing that that nipple with the world yeah each each to their own.
But I was looking at Chappelle Rhone with a couple of her girlfriends at one of the fashion houses in Milan Fashion Week or whatever. And without exception, there was like four of them sitting in a row.
And without exception, each one of them had at least one of their nipples out, like in showing. But I thought it was all taste i thought oh okay all right you know there there's the nipple you got it there it is yeah and i think camel toe just like the nipple is the next we talked about it we said hey listen going 100 naked to the grammys not a fantastic idea in my opinion it's all just clickbait bullshit.
But after the nipple's out, there's only one other place to go, and that's down south. Penises are seeing their moment.
We're seeing a lot of full frontal penises on television and prestige TV and movies, and camel toes are seeing their moment also. And if my Instagram is any indication, camel toes are a hot trend right now.
I think they have been. Yeah.
And there's so much camel toe content out there. You would be surprised, Chrissy.
I bet I would. I am a man.
So Instagram has instantaneously served me up every camel toe and nipple that is available on there. And for a platform that says it stays away from sexual content, there sure is a lot of hyper-sexual content on Instagram.
And that's why I say, uh-uh, uh-uh. Well, my kids, they pick up my phone, they want to play a song on Spotify or whatever.
And then the other day I found the youngest of them flipping through Instagram. And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
My algorithm is not for children. My algorithm is not for children.
Whether it's a crazy person talking to themselves about whatever conspiracy theory or Chappelle Rohn's nipples out, it's just not for children. And not that I care.
I don't want my children also to have hangups like I did, like a Catholic, like about every body part that you ever have should be hidden away from the world forever. But there's a time and a place where that's appropriate.
And there's a time and a place. And especially my daughters.
I just want to keep them down in the basement. I just want to keep them down in the basement, Chrissy.
That's all I want to do. And I say this about plastic surgery and rejuvenation and all that.
I think there is taking it too far. I definitely think that's there.
And I think we're now seeing that some of the injectables that people put into their faces are not working out long term, especially if they're overdoing it. The lip fillers, the cheek fillers, the eyebrow fillers, the forehead fillers.
Oh, people have been overdoing it for years. Yeah, but it's like moving all over their faces.
I mean, I guess some people like that look, including men like that look on women, I guess. I mean, we watch those TLC shows, the twins.
Yes. Those girls, Stacey and Darcy or whatever.
Oh, yeah. Wow.
They are. I mean, it's unbelievable just how much is in there.
But I guess that's the look, and I guess some people like it, and I guess each to their own. Listen, you got to.
You're an adult. Make your own decisions.
Make your own decisions. And if it's for you and you love it.
Yeah. Great.
I'm all about it. Right.
And as long as it and it's not harming anyone else around you. Right.
You don't do harm to yourself. I don't love the idea, but that's your choice, not mine.
And those two girls are a prime example of how it can be overdone real quick. They don't look human anymore.
To me, they don't look human. But obviously, there are people who are attracted to them.
There's lots of men that are attracted to those two girls. To me, it's way overkill.
Those lips are like big hot air balloons and their cheeks are out to hear. You can't even see their eyes anymore because they're between the fillers in their forehead and the fillers in their cheeks.
They're like, ah, it's just too much. And then the boobs and the butt and everything else that's been done.
It looks so plastic fantastic. But even the cat woman, the lady who had so much plastic surgery to make herself look like a cat, even she was attracting men at her advanced age looking like a weird cat.
Honestly, she was somebody was attracted to that look. Somebody felt it.
I guess that's a good thing, too. Like it goes to show that no matter what you look like and what you do to yourself and what your personal preferences are with makeup and clothing and styling your hair or whatever, somebody is going to be into you.
Somebody is going to love that look. 100%.
Yeah. Might not be my thing, but who fucking cares? You know, I'm only one guy.
I can only have so many wives. That's it.
Okay. 12.
That's how many wives. According to Job.
J-O-B Job. I just want to make this quick mention and then I'll move on.
I promise I'll move on from it. 90 Day Fiancé, brand new season.
I'm not watching it with any intent. It's on in the background.
When I was like fixing the studio, it was on in the background. 90 Day Fiancé, they have their first thruple.
Their first thruple. So they have two girls, one guy.
The wife that he currently has is Brazilian, I believe. The third person they are bringing into the marriage, the woman is a stripper from Tijuana.
From Tijuana. They're all beautiful.
They're all good looking human beings. They're all beautiful.
And I am so this is the one storyline where I'm like, okay, I'll pay attention to this story. That's interesting.
Yeah. Hey, listen, throuples are interesting.
They're interesting. Because you know, it's going to blow up.
In the second episode, the lady from Tijuana, the dancer from Tijuana, she meets up with them down in Tijuana. They're all together.
They're excited. It's been a long time, all this other stuff.
They're in a hot tub and all of them are talking. And the dancer who has just met up with them again for the first time in a long time says, Oh, while you were taking a nap on me and him had sex.
And the wife is like, Huh? Huh? It never works. It never works.
It takes a lot of work to make it work. You got to be so, like, you got to be like the most enlightened human being in the world.
The most self-aware human being in the world. You got to work on yourself 24 hours a day for that to work out.
Because here's the reality. That's really tough.
To watch your loved one have sex with someone else, the person that you love. I mean, listen, even after years of marriage, I am still madly in love with my wife and I just kindly request she doesn't sleep with other men.
That's it. That's I have one request.
Just don't sleep with other men. And if you are going to sleep with another man, let me know first so I can figure out a way out of here.
Don't leave me. I've got too many children.

Yeah. Some people really are into it and more power to you, but it seems like it takes a lot

of work. There's a show on Showtime called Couples Therapy.
It's good. It's really good.

I mean, it's for real. Are those real people? Yes.
And real couples.

Those are real couples. And on one of the seasons, they do have a throuple.
And man,

and I want to watch that show. It's good.
Yeah, I want to watch it. It's really good.
I mean, it's for real. Are those real people? Yes, and real couples.
Those are real couples. And on one of the seasons, they do have a throuple.
And man, it just seems like a lot of work. It does seem like a lot of effort.
Yeah. That Gino and his wife, you know, whatever her name is.
All these rules and things and boundaries and stuff. I mean, long term, it just seems like it can devolve into a mess.
But more power to you. Yeah, more power to you.
To each their own. We've always said this to each their own.
I'm not knocking it. I know there's lots of people who try it and who are in it and who like it.
But I have had many friends, and I say probably more than five, couples, friends, or not couples anymore, who have tried this. And I just got this interpretation that, you know, menage a trois means your relationship is not working because it's always the fix for something and it never fixes anything.
It makes things so much more complicated that then it's really hard to unfuck once you start sleeping with other people. And I had one couple that couple that I know, and they're such a beautiful couple.
And I mean, physically beautiful and then really sweet with each other. It's like one of those you really hope you're like rooting for them because they're so sweet to each other.
And I will tell you what, they did this for a period of time and came this close to divorcing with children. And everyone was like, no.
Yeah. And guess what? They stopped all the open marriage bullshit.
And 10 years, nine years on from that, they seem very happy, very strong. And they will tell you right to your face.
It wasn't a great idea. We did it.
It was part of our relationship, but it wasn't a great idea. And it was really hard to navigate.
And it was extremely hard to navigate with the children. Like, how do you explain that? Yeah.
You're like, daddy's going on a date without your mom. Yeah.
Daddy's going to get a nut. Yeah.
Like a one night fling kind of thing is one thing, but when you're actually having a relationship with three people in a relationship or more, I mean, there's people that are doing more than that. And it seems very hard and complicated and I like a lot of work.
It really, really does. But if it's for you.
If it's for you. If you like that kind of work.
Yeah. Call us.
Tell us. And then, you know, there's, and then there's this like other version of like open.
There are these people. I don't know how to explain it.
they're not hippie-ish necessarily but they are so against any labels or anything yeah that they just float through the world having mild attachments that can be unattached and then reattached at any moment and i've never seen that work out either like you know oh you know all the free people and i sleep with this person then i sleep with that person and i love you and i don't love you And that never works out either? Like, you know, oh, you know, all the free people, and I sleep with this person, and I sleep with that person, and I love you, and I don't love you. And that never works out either, because then you're just running through life damaging people's emotions.
And that also feels not so great. But again, you know, there are people out there where it works, but they're French people, and they're much smarter than us.
They're French, they're much smarter than us, they have much more experience. And that's the way it works out.
They're French or Italian. Yeah.
Look at that show, Sister Wives. It's now Sister Wife.
Yeah. It's no longer Sister Wives.
It's Sister Wife. It all fell apart over the course of two short years.
Is that show still on, too, the one you were watching where they were looking for the third? Seeking Sister Wife? Well, there's that one. And then there's the other one.
Didn't you tell me? I don't know. There's a couple of them.
They're all on TLC. Yeah, they're all on TLC.
Turn on TLC. Yeah.
Seeking Sister Wife hasn't had a season in a while, but it was interesting while it was there. I think that's what it was, Seeking Sister Wife.
Yeah, I think a couple of episodes here. And then there was the seeking husband wife or brother.
Seeking brother husband or sister husband or whatever. Yeah.
That had one season. That had one season.
They didn't come back. And by the way, very rarely does someone come back for a second season of Seeking Sister Wives.
Yeah. Because it doesn't work out.
It just doesn't. I guess they move on or they don't want to be filmed.
It must be hard to be in that lifestyle, but then on top of that, to have a camera crew following you around, that's extra hard. But there were a few couples that kind of, you know, they seem to have figured it out, at least in front of the cameras.
Yeah. So, I don't know.
Here's the Seeking Sister Wives season four. All right.
Come on. Where is that? Oh.
All right. Oh, watch The Pit.
The Pit is just fantastic, by the way. It's so fucking good.
The Pit. The Pit on Max.
I'm telling you. I won't disappoint you with this one.
Yeah. Unless you don't like blood or bones or guts.
In that case, you probably don't watch The Pit, I guess. It's hyper-realistic.
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