The Commercial Break - A Change Is Gonna Come!

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

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We will broadcast live So the episodes that are not Tuesday infomercials We will be sharing the recording of those live and you can get involved in the conversation and maybe at some point phone calls. And then we are going to tailor the show just a little bit more because while we certainly enjoy the ability to use our ADHD to our benefit here,

and I think... Squirrel. Squirrel, what? Let me tell you about the 1988 Braves. We just bought a Freddie Freeman. Freddie Freeman. And then all of a sudden, we're talking about a phone line. I don't know how it all of it happened, but we went through it.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. The 30 at the morning! Oh, yeah, Cass 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 Odley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe.

My best was really loud. Yeah, I know. What's going on to your microphone? Best to you. Happy Halloween. I can't hear you, Goutrude. hear you speaking to my ogaphone what is that thing remember the oh yeah the gramophone the grandma phone what was that thing that was the thing that on the vitrola the vitrola the vitrola wasn't that the first

record player uh the dictaphone is that what it was the dictaphone uh the funnel the ear horn yeah the ear horn that's right like a shoehorn but it's an ear horn uh that's right in the old Well, yes, that's right. It's an ear horn. An ear horn? It's an ear horn. Okay. Yes, back in the day.

Just like it looked. To really get our audience age level down a little bit, back in the day. The first hearing aids. Speaking of getting audience members engaged. Yes. We're talking about earphones. Earhorns, earphones. The old ear horn was something you'd see in like a cartoon or old movies where an old person would put an actual horn.

Like it looked like a horn. into their ear it was like the first hearing aid ever it was just basically a big funnel that would hopefully get noise into somebody's ear you know it worked I bet because a lot of times

if I'm at a concert or something and I can't if somebody's trying to talk to me I'll do the ear thing and it works it does I was watching the world series where Freddie Freeman

the first bass player for the Dodgers used to play for the Braves he would cup his ear I know fuck the Braves why do you always fucking trade away everybody we want all the good guys you don't not willing to pay for but you know put a

billion dollar real estate complex in the middle of cobb county and call it the alanta braves god bless you i mean honestly i know listen liberty i love the fact that you bought the braves i think it's great that you kind of make some investments into the community and all that but you took it away from atlanta you put it north of the fucking city and then you know and now i get i get it we have an okay team but not really do we we didn't make the playoffs this year no we didn't I did not. It was very disappointing. It's a first time in many.

I mean, this happened before in the last 30 years. But when I was a kid. We at least usually make the playoffs. At least make the playoffs, if not division champions. And a lot of time, league champions. Because we are known to be a team that invests heavily in young talent and then gets them out there on the field, puts together a good baseball team. But I don't know what the fuck has happened the last couple of years. But, you know, they're making so much money off the fucking Taco Mac next door that they don't worry.

about the team anymore. They're selling out regardless. They're selling out regardless because now it's a fun day for the whole family if you just go down anywhere near the stadium. Same thing with Wrigley. It's really a model that's now being followed all across the world. But I recall when it was back at the, not Ted Turner, but when it was back at Fulton County Stadium before the Olympics. And I went to school with one of the, there were two ball boys, ball boys. boys, ball boys, whatever you call them, for the Braves. And both of them, an older brother and a younger brother, went to school at my school at the high school that I went to. That's fun. And when I was, I don't, wasn't my high school or grade school? I can't remember, but they went to our school. And everyone in the school, they would let us watch the baseball day games on TV in that worst to first run. Yeah.

Because the guys that went to the school were the bat boys. And those bad boys were there for the next five or six years as the Braves went on an epic fucking run. They were the worst team in baseball. I mean, the worst. You couldn't put two, you couldn't give away tickets to the Fulton County Stadium. And then one magical season, it all came together. And they won the fucking World Series with the same team, basically, they had the year before. Yeah.

They just got really fucking motivated or good or magic happened. I don't know. But it was, when I say magic, it was magical in this city. It really was. I remember just the air. I begged my mom, please let me out of school so I could go to that parade. Yes. And she wouldn't let me.

Dang it. I won't forget. It's in middle school. Let me see. Worst to first Braves call Sid Bream. All right. You're ready for this. Anybody who grew up in Atlanta will remember this.

And I'm going to put it. Cobra comes to the plate to bat for the pitchers. He hacked at the 2-0, now the 2-1. Lane drive to make him. Just as the score of a time run, free to the plane. And he is safe. Safe in the place. The Braves go to the world series.

The unlikliest of heroes. That was so exciting. And Chip Carrey, Skip Carrey, Skip or Chip, one of the two, called that on the radio. And I was listening. I worked at McDonald's. I listened. It was a late game.

That call happened at like 1130, 1115, 1130. And we were listening to it on the radio. And Chip Carey screams, Braves win, Braves win, braves win, braves win. So exciting. Like 10 times. And there were like six of us in that McDonald's. It was pandemonium. People were honking their horn outside, flashing their lights.

There were literally people that got out of their car in front of the McDonald's jumping and screaming. It was magical. And now... Now not. Yeah, you get a good cheese steak and you think you've had a good day at the ballpark. It's like we have no, there's no magic anymore in it. We just take for granted that we have a baseball team that plays in a beautiful stadium with nice restaurants around it.

And we go and we sit. And I understand that if when I went to the World Series game a couple of years ago with Kevin, Kevin, who has had season tickets, my twin brother, for many years, he got the most incredible seats right behind home plate one level. up right behind home plate one level of the perfect seats the best seats in the house because you can see every pitch you can see where it's going on the plate and then you can watch the entire it's the best seats better than sitting right behind home plate i argue right it's sitting up a little bit so you can see the field without obstruction when we went to those playoff games and we won the playoff game and then we won that world series game the stadium the energy in the stadium was outrageous because We knew that the Braves were having a magical run.

It wasn't like other seasons where we had a loaded team and everyone. We knew that it was unlikely that they were here, but they were here. And so I will tell you now, fucking Atlanta people with your Cobb County Braves, do not ever take this for granted again because we could be one of these teams like the Cubs who just don't go to the World Series for 50, 60, 80 years. When your team goes to whatever championship it is, when the stakes are high, when the stakes are raised. I don't care if you've won one or seven championships.

You need to support your team. That's what you need to do. This is coming from a guy who barely understands a sport. We need to get magical in this place again. Get magical in Atlanta. Who cares about the Taco Mac? Yeah, okay, it's great. 58,000 beers on tap.

Who cares? Go to the stadium. Rout for your team. That's what I'm saying. That's right. And that's why I was rooting for the Canadian Toronto Blue Jays. I think a lot of people were, we were. Listen, a lot of people say, a lot of people have said, hey, why don't you root for the Dodgers?

You know, and I say, listen, they, why would you? Why would I? I'm not from L.A. I have nothing against L.A., but I'm not from L.A. I wouldn't root for the Blue Jays either. But, and some people will also argue, why pay, you know, have a roster with $436 million. You've paid for the best of the best. Every good player is playing.

listen, you're getting a chance to see all of the best players in baseball play on one team at one time and do their thing. But the Blue Jays, unlike the L.A. Dodgers, paid their catcher. They picked their catcher out of like a Mexican farm team. And they gave him a contract, his first contract, for $4,000 a year. He hit like six home runs in the playoffs, six home runs. chunky little 5-2 guy running around. One of the best guys out there. I was rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays because of that Kirk guy.

Yeah, we were too. And it came down. It was great. I mean, my God, that came down to the seven games and then the overtime, all that. Some of the best World Series baseball I've ever seen in my entire life. And that includes besides Sid Bream sliding into home plate. Listen, I have to tell you right now. I got to tell you right now.

This was exciting baseball. Congratulations to the MLB. I don't disagree with the Dodgers being able to put together all of these top-tier talent, pay them a dickload of money, and put them on the same team. You know, most of the time, what you see is you see a bunch of, you know, one team, each team has like one or two or three top-tier talent players, and some teams have six or seven. We've never seen a team that's, like, fully loaded, like every, yeah, every single person. That's what pisses me off a little bit, is that the Braves can do this. They can do this. They can spend that kind of money.

They can get that kind of team. They can put it together. But what do they do? They pick the good guys out of the farm system. They pay them $38,000 a year and hope that they can all have a magical run together. Get it together. Liberty Mutual or whatever the fuck. Liberty, same company that owns a bunch of porno sites.

Liberty, Liberty Media. Do they? Yeah, they own like some of the biggest points. Okay. Well, yeah, they got the money. They got the money. They got the money. They're owned by like a really Christian.

conservative i thought so but i think they own a bunch of porn sites hey don't let a good don't let god get in the way of making some money uh liberty uh media porn sites just want to make sure i'm getting my i know they have yeah um um okay they they did they did yeah they diversified i guess they diversified okay well good for you guys. That just means like somebody, one of the owners like a weird brother now owns it. Yeah. Calling it something different.

That's right. It's now like in some hidden trust somewhere or something. It's unbelievable. Listen, I don't even think it's porn sites. As long as it's ethical, as long as you're doing it ethical, I'd like to think that my porn is ethical, but I don't know that to be the case. I don't have any problem with that, but don't say one thing and then do another. That's just like the craziest of business.

And I don't mind the Liberty Media owning the Braves. I say, go, Braves, go. You know, the corporate overlords, but just make the, give us a chance. And I know every team, everybody who has a team, loves a team saying the same thing to their ownership group. You know, get it together. Let it happen. Let's do it. But the Braves are a magical team.

And they should, we should be spending some money to make them magical. Same with the Chicago Cubs. And if somebody needs to use an ear horn. If you need to use an ear horn to hear the game, listen. At that World Series game, you didn't need an ear horn. You needed the opposite, an earmuff. Yes. Yes.

That was one of two times when my body was vibrating because of how loud it was. Like, my head was vibe. I couldn't see straight. It was, like, blurry because the noise was shaking my eardrums so bad. It was that and the Taylor Swift concert, those two things. You need to. I have some ear plug things that come in a little case and stuff. Yeah, I should have got them.

Yeah, they're great. Actually, I think the girls in front of us, like when we got to the Taylor Swift show, We were lucky enough to have very nice seats, like right next to the stage. But there were a couple rows in front of us, and there were some girls, younger girls, 20s, early 20s, late teens, early 20s. And they had made a dickload of bracelets. And they had these pink, you know, ear, foaming ear things. And when we got there, they were so hyped up.

They were putting wristbands on us, you know, bracelets, you know, giving us all this stuff. They were so excited. But once Taylor got out and started singing, I couldn't hear Taylor for most of it because all I could hear was everybody else singing every fucking song. As a, you know, listen, it's better than a phone. It's a thing. It's better than the phone. Yes, I agree. Yeah.

If you're going to do one of two things, if you're going to sing loudly in my ear, or you're going to put a phone in front of me, so I have to watch it through your screen. I'd rather you sing loudly in my ear. Yes, absolutely. Okay, let's take a break. Big change is coming to the commercial break. Chrissy and I have just decided this two seconds ago. So let's talk a little.

We just brainstorming. So let's talk a little bit about the, The big change is coming to the commercial break in just the next couple of weeks. We'll get to some of them. We'll brainstorm life here on air. Chrissy, why not? Yeah, let's take some callers. Yeah, where are the callers?

I had a phone line installed. I think I still pay for it. That's right. There is literally a phone line right there. That's right. I could never get the goddamn thing to work. I had a guy here for two days trying to figure out how to wire a phone into this house. Even the people who own the phone lines don't know how to

install phone lines anymore. That's how old this system is. I mean, into an office building, yeah, fiber optic and all that shit, yeah. But into a house, they're like, what's that? Yeah, what's that? I could put a cell phone tower right in your office here, and then I could make a wire, run it to a phone. I mean, those are the kind of ideas he was coming up. He's like, well, why don't I just run it to your internet box? And I, and you can have, like, voice over IP, and I'm like, that's not what I want. I want the ability to, like, press hold. and, you know, take phone calls and all that stuff. And he's like, well, shit.

I need to train us on that one. I know right. Yeah. I'm going to have to call this guy that retired about 10 years ago. He might know. Let me give him a ring. All right. We'll take a break.

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I'm not sure the content inside of that number is impressive. I think maybe some episodes are. And we have an immense amount of fun doing the show. It's been one of the highlights of my life, for sure. Job-wise, for sure. Yeah, but it is a job, and we have made it a job, and it's become our livelihood. And, you know, when you're a content creator, as any content creator will tell you, as many comics have told us, You're always chasing the next thing.

You're chasing the next algorithm change or chasing the next way that advertisers sell into your show. And right now, we run ads in the show. And we don't, I don't want to get into all the minutia because that's not for, that's just boring and I'm not going to get into it. But Chrissy and I feel like it's time for a big change, a little shake up here at the commercial break, a change that's meaningful, substantive, and actually we do. So that's what that's thing. or we were going to do it. Yes, we are going to do it. So starting either next week or the week after,

we are going to, I can promise you a few things are going to happen. Chrissy and I will now be broadcasting every recording of the commercial break live. That will change from day to day, week to week. We don't always do it on the same day, the same time, or the same week. Everything except for guest interviews, we will broadcast live. So the episodes that are not Tuesday infomercials, we will be sharing the recording of those. live and you can get involved in the conversation and maybe at some point phone calls and then

we are going to tailor the show just a little bit more because while we certainly enjoy the ability to use our ADHD to our benefit here um and i think squirrel squirrel what let me tell you about the 1988 braves i do we just brought up freddie freeman and then all the sudden we're talking about a phone line. I don't know how it all of it happened, but we went through it, right? But that is the nature of friendship. That is the nature of anybody you go sit and talk to, unless you have one point of conversation. That is the way that you talk also.

But I also understand that that may not lead always to the most interesting or followable conversation. Yeah, engaging. So Chrissy and I are going to tailor the show just a little bit more, and we are going to start thematically running the show. Now, we'll share those with you more down the line, but, you know, there may be days when we just decide to focus on reviews. There may be days when we just decide to focus on dating. Yeah, sex and dating. There may be shows where we just decide to focus on a video breakdown of a PUA, a pickup artist, as we do sometimes on Fridays,

to be fair. Yeah, we might even throw in a little true crime. We might throw in true crime, our comedic version of true crime, as both of us are interested in. but we don't talk about it. We're going to start thematically working on... Selling my feet pictures. Yes, and selling... And we might do some fundraisers for the commercial break. And you can get involved.

But then along with that, there is the possibility that we may decide to gate some of the content. I just want to give you fair warning as probably someone who is a dedicated hardcore listener of the show. We won't gate all the content. But we may decide to gate some of the content. And there are multiple reasons behind that. But one of them is we need money. So there is... Well, and there's changes happening in the podcast industry.

There's changes, always happening in the podcast industry. And, you know, so if you can share our show, if you can share our content, if you encourage people to press play, that's, that is the thing that helps us out the most is when we actually have advertisers that get listened to. But, you know, I also understand that that's sometimes just not. habitually what podcast listeners do. So I want to make this, we want to make this show as engaging as possible so you choose to listen every time we put out an episode. And if you're one of those people who really love the commercial break, and I know there's plenty of you out there, who love your commercial break and can't get enough of it, we don't want to deter you from getting more commercial break. But at the same time, we do put out a lot of content. I mean, it's not a little

content we put out. It's a lot. And so we may choose to diversify just a little bit. Yeah, we have four days to work with. Yeah, four days to work with. So if one of those becomes gated content or whatever, or your, one of the ideas was we do all of these live shows when we record them. And then maybe some of those you get early access to if we gate some of that content. In other words, you get to be in the live recording, interacting with us, engaging with the conversation. This is a long time coming. This is not something that, that means something we've been talking about just recently, but we've had a lot of these ideas over the years. It's just now, We understand that changes are going to come to the podcast industry, and we want to make sure we're still already behind the curve. But we want to make sure we're riding the curve. Yes, exactly. Right in the way. Yeah. So we love the you.

We love the show. We don't anticipate it's going anywhere. I think we'll be here for the long haul. But we want to make it more engaging for you. And we want to make it more engaging for us. How's that? There's also the reality that after 850 episodes, you do have to make things different sometimes. and we really haven't made things different.

We've said we're going to make things different. We thought about making things different, but we never actually did make things different. Right. I remember we were going to, I remember in season three, two or three, we did videos almost every single episode. We would break down videos. I think that's where we lost most of our other.

Yeah, we did. We had this idea that maybe that would be the linchpin of the show. is that we would, because we loved doing it, and we thought it was fun and funny, that we would break down those videos. Now, even that, after a while, got like, okay. Well, you know, some things just lose steam. Yeah, they lose steam, and you don't feel them inside the room, so when you don't feel them. So all of this to say that I think it's time for the commercial break to grow up a little bit. Reve up.

Get more diversified. So we are definitely going to be streaming on Twitch, probably on YouTube, maybe on TikTok. talk in Instagram if we can figure that part out. And if you guys have ideas too, let us know. Please. Yeah. Send us your ideas. 212-4333-3-T-CB. We want you to stick with us. We realize all changes won't be great for everybody. But we hope that it'll be good for most people, but mainly for the two people sitting here. Because there is the reality that we have to love what we do. And I still love it, but there are times when kind of the ADHD nature of the show does wear a little thin even on me. So that is the state of the state with the commercial break. We're here. We think

we're going to be doing this for a while, but we got to shake it up so that you're more engaged and we're more engaged. And, you know, we want to do that cruise. We want to do that cruise. Well, Chrissy wants to do a resort, but we want to do something along those lines. Yeah. And the reality is, you know, we need more people to be more engaged to get to that level. And so we're going to set our site's high, and we're going to fall just a little bit below that, and then hopefully we land in a good place. I mean, also, you know, I was telling Chrissy this. The podcast industry in general is seeing some changes, especially in the comedy podcast world. And that is that this kind of chat cast, which is what technically, I mean, what the technical term for it is

inside the industry, this chat cast is also seeing like a little bit of a slump. And why is it? Because most comedy podcasts are exactly that. They're chatcasts. Yeah, there are people hanging out, shooting the shit. Yeah, there are two people shooting the shit without, you know, without direction. Some of them have directions. Some of them don't. Like I did Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet. I did an episode with Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet, and then you'll hear an episode that they will do with us also. But I did that, and they have one point of view. Read Bad Reviews. That's it. That's the whole gig. and it's funny and it's engaging and people love it. They love the two people who do it and they love it. Now, because they have an angle, their audience may be smaller, but their audience is

super highly engaged with that content, right? They love it. They love to hear those bad reviews. They love to send in the bad reviews. They love to talk about the bad reviews. And then there's some ancillary comedy that happens in between that. It's a really pretty simple but engaging idea. And I think because we have amassed this huge catalog of just us talking, mainly about friendship and shit that we think about, it is so diversified that it's not engaging in one way or the other. Like we've always said with the Cheesecake Factory. We are. Yes. Podcasting.

But I want to be the Los Strata of podcasting. I want to be the Italian restaurant where we do soft shell crabs and Kianti Classico. Pianti Classico. I want to do a Guantaclassico. Maybe every once in a while we'll throw in a Venezuelan episode with my wife or Gustavo or somebody that comes in

because that seems to be the thing against the needle moves. We might have some characters coming on. Yeah. I think, Chrissy and I talked about this. Don't hang your hat on it. But Chrissy and I talked about

maybe weekly or every other week that we would do handbone and hoadling. Yes. We would just come in and just do an episode. episode of Hambone and Haudley in the universe of WSHIT and Crab Apple and see how that flies because, man, do I love that crab apple. I love Crab Apple too. I do love Crab Apple. It's the best little universe. It's a wild universe. I don't know what's going on there. Sometimes I do those crab apple bits. And my mind goes to this fictitious place of Crab Apple. It's kind of like the Zim's time. Yeah, it really is. It's crab apple. And I see myself walking through Crab Apple. I'll do a commercial, like a fake commercial.

I see myself inside the building and where it's positioned as opposed to, like, the mayor's office or whatever. I put faces to the names that I give them. I love that little town that has been, like, bred in the world of the commercial break. And we just get snippets of it. So why not like— And I love to dress up. Yes. And I have a whole wardrobe of different characters that we can do.

That's right. I love it. I love it. I love the idea of being, having ideation and making it come to life as opposed to just turning on the microphone. Really, do you want to know what the prep? I'll give you like a little idea. You know what the prep for the commercial break is? Brian writes down three ideas.

Right. And I only use one of them. But somehow we talk about 10 other things. That's it. That is largely how the commercial break has been born and bred and washed and repeated this entire time. I'm sure this is no secret to a lot of you. No, they figured it out. I'm sure. A lot of you.

They figured it out. But it's been five years. And so, yeah, I think it's time to kind of, like we said, shake it up. Try some different things. You tell us. We'll be looking for feedback. Yeah, you tell us. We'll start with our ideas, but you tell us.

And then we won't feedback on what we're doing. That's right. But at the very least, we will be going live with the show. This is the first big change that's going to happen is Chrissy and I will allow the world into our little recording studio here while we're doing it live. We might even let Blue come in. Fuck Blue. No, we might.

Hey. I think Blue could make an appearance. Listen, I am so fucking bummed out. Do you know I am bummed out? Why? Listen to this. We had Zoltan on. Zoltan the comedian.

Zoltan the comedian. Go Google or look at Instagram or TikTok for Zoltan the comedian. He's one of the hottest. social media comic I mean he's his stand-up comic but on social media he's one of the hottest comics today and I went back and listened

to a little bit of that episode the good news is we really got along well with him the second he got we got off air the agent was like how many tickets do you need to the show like when can we set up the lot he wants to come in and sit down

so when can we set that up she was like right on it immediately after we ended the show. So I might have to say, remember that first one we did? Yeah. That was a good practice. So let's get the second one in. Blue is in every empty space in that episode.

Oh, my God. And once I level it out, it's just going to be loud and I'm not. It's going to amplify. So either I'm going to have to go cut out every bark, which will be like a thousand. Blue, we're doing this interview and Blue has, because of her bad hip, she has enough bravery to jump onto a bed, but she won't jump off of the bed. And the chair that she usually uses to get on this particular bed had been pulled away by somebody in the house. And so she decided that our interview with Zoltan was the best time to let us know that she was stranded. It was like

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Mayor of Kingstown, new season now streaming on Paramount Plus. Trump and his agenda roundly defeated yesterday. I thought we just touch on that really quickly. What do you think about having a Democratic socialist as a mayor for New York? I'm not sure. I'm not sure either. Yeah. It doesn't affect me because I don't live in New York.

Well, exactly. But I understand the implications. Well, and I mean, I think that's also in another universe how Trump got elected, right? Shake things up, make it totally different. Yes. You know, just go against the grain. As my father-in-law says, extremes on both ends end up in the same place. Now, I know I've heard Mondani speak a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot.

Yeah. On different news shows and speeches I've followed and stuff like that. And he puts on a good show, right? He says a lot of things that I can understand. A lot of people, probably many people in New York understand. There are like 400,000 millionaires now in New York. It's impossible to find a place to live. I remember that one of my friends worked in the modeling business, and she was on a contract where they paid for – and she was, like, worked in the business of modeling, not as a model.

I mean, she did at one point, but – and her and I were good friends, and she ended up getting a place overlooking the Hudson River in New York. But that was – it was paid for and leased by the company she worked for, so she had a place to stay. She would travel there, you know, three weeks at a time. And she would stay at this place. And this was 20 years ago. And the rent on this like 1,500 square foot townhouse, which was beautiful, by the way. And on the river was $12,000 a month, $12,000 a month, probably now $30,000 a month. So I get that there are very real concerns about affordability in New York, safety in New York, you know, and a lot of other stuff.

I don't understand it from my own personal perspective. But, you know, this is what happens when the pendulum swings so far one way. It's bound to swing further the other way. And so I don't have any particular opinions because I don't have a dog in the fight over whether or not, you know, he should or shouldn't be mayor. But wow, he won. Big time. But here's what I do know is Cuomo shouldn't have been mayor. Let's put it that way.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, no. That guy is such a douche. Honestly, he's such a douche. I just like, I like his brother so much better because at least his brother, like, you know, he seems to me to have some kind of levelhead. The CNN reporter. Yeah, yeah. Chris Cuomo seems to have a level. Wasn't Chris Cuomo sick during COVID?

Yeah, he was in his basement. Isn't that like how the morning show, like that Jennifer Anderson's character, remember when she got sick with COVID and went through it live on television, didn't she like take? Model it after him. Yeah, model it after him. He was sick in his basement, like working out. eating and snuggling up, watching TV and eating popcorn. I mean, that's likable, right? Andrew Cuomo?

Not so much. He seems like a little bit of a douche. But anyway, I'll say, I don't, go ahead. No, I was going to say, no, I'm interested to see. I'm interested to see, too. And what he's able to get done if, you know, there are forces that are not wanting him to get done. Oh, Trump's going to come after him. Yeah.

It's going to come after him. Now, he became the biggest target in the Trump administration here domestically, I think, period end a sentence. But what I did notice and what it doesn't take a genius to figure out is that the Democratic Party, whenever put up against someone who was espousing the agenda of Trump really seemed to, they lost. They're not really seemed to they lost. J.D. Vance's brother lost in a landslide by like 80% to 20%. That's insane. How did I not even know he was running? ran for the mayor of Cincinnati. Oh, okay.

The mayor of Cincinnati. Huh. And some people said he didn't even live there. I mean, it was just like this whole crazy thing. And, you know, his brother supported him, all this other stuff. But he lost almost every ticket. The Proposition 50 over there in California. That overwhelmingly won.

I say overwhelmingly, anytime you get above a six point, you know, difference in a state that big, you're winning overwhelmingly. We've got Spanberger. I wanted to be sure I got her name right. Yep. First woman, Virginia governor. God bless Virginia. Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations.

Every single New Jersey, New York, California, Cincinnati, here in Georgia, everywhere that Trump's agenda essentially, Trump or Trump's agenda or his endorsement was put up, was roundly defeated almost everywhere, not every single place, but almost. It was a landslide. And so I think this is an indication that his agenda. is extremely unpopular. You don't need a genius to figure that out. The polls show it. The feeling on the street shows it, how people feel about the economy and the country that they live in. It's very tone-deaf, too. I'm sorry for you to be building a huge ballroom and redoing the Lincoln

bathroom and all marble and gold while there's people are really hurting every day going to the grocery store or housing medical. I mean, that's a whole thing. All of it. Yeah, all of it. All of it. And then you're giving billions of dollars to Argentina to prop up your friend's investments. Yeah. Yeah. It's, and then Argentina turns around and sells all their soy beans to China so you don't give our farmers an opportunity. The farmers are hurting.

The people who work, you know, full time in lower paying jobs cannot make a living. 12% of people are on SNAP benefits. 25% of us use 95% of our paycheck for basics. And credit card bills continue to. to rise. The price of everything continues to rise. And I'm not saying Trump has 100% control over that. Obviously, he doesn't. And just like Biden didn't, right? Right. And so. Yeah, I mean, and he ran on, but he ran on that. Like, I'm going to change it. I'm going to fix it. Everything's going to be fine. He ran on a lot of stuff. And the things that seem the most

unpopular are the things he's pushing the hardest on. And the things that seem most popular are the things that he decided, I just don't want to deal with, I guess. I'm not sure. But I'll I'll say this. You know, I was talking with someone, a neighbor, and we were kind of, I have a friend that lives close that works for the government that's currently out of work. Okay. And he told me yesterday, for the first time, I'm starting to feel really nervous about this whole thing, right? And we were talking with another person that lives close. And that person said, you know, I voted for Trump. I loved Trump. But I'm really upset about what's going on in the country right now. It feels very, uh, dark to me. And it's true. Because it is. Because it is because we're kidnapping people and all that stuff. So I say all this to say, right? It's obviously Chrissy and I are not the world's biggest fans of Trump. We never have been if you listen to the show. But I say all this to say that

be careful what you wish for because it will come true. Like if he would, him and everybody else that stood up there next to him, we're talking about this radical agenda that they were going to enact and they have done it, all the worst parts of it. to a T. Your vote matters. Get out there. Yes, the vote matters. And now... My dad and I were talking about it. I was like, I'm voting. He's like, did you vote? I was like, of course. I voted early. I'm voting in every single election. I don't care if it directly affects me or not. Anything that I can vote in. I'm doing my research on the candidates and voting. Yes. We had a local proposition election and I went and voted for it. Yesterday, I didn't vote for anybody that would at all be involved in the federal government. Not one person. It was all local elections. and I voted anyway. Why did I vote? Because that's what matters. Yeah, it starts from the ground up.

It does. And in some cases, it matters more who's down on the ground than who's up in the presidency or in Senate. And so, and vote them all out. They're all acting like fucking children now. So I don't care of Republican Democrat. They're all acting like children. Get people back to work. Figure out prices here in the United States.

Secure our place as a empathetic, strong, international leader and stop fucking around with people who are here to do us favors. They are here to help us. They are not here. Get the criminals. Take them to trial. And if they're guilty, they should be punished. Otherwise, figure out a way to either gently figure out where they need to be with respect and due process and stop kidnapping them on the streets with high school bullies that are too fat.

too old to do anything else with their lives, or, or figure out a path to citizenship if they're paying taxes and not, you know, causing harm in our communities, figure out a path to citizenship that's much easier than the current process that we have that makes years and years and decades and decades go by where they're just stuck in limbo. That's it. That's it. And please fix the medical system. There has got to be something that is. God damn, dude. Yeah. There's got to. to be a change with that. We can't just keep going along like it is. It's going to bankrupt everybody eventually.

Cancer rates are going up. Disease is going up. Now we have whole states like Florida that don't even require vaccinations anymore. This is a disaster waiting to happen. It's actually a disaster in slow motion speeding up because now we don't have anybody that has the balls to do something about it. Obamacare was the best thing that ever happened for a lot of people because they could get coverage and know that if something catastrophic happened, a disease, a sickness,

a whatever, they could walk in and they wouldn't be bankrupt by the time they walked out. Is it the best thing ever? No, it's not. Is it got problems all over the place? Is the medical system in America broken? It absolutely is. But there are smart minds out there who can figure out how to fix it. We're the richest country in America.

There are billionaires after, in the world, excuse me. We are the richest country in America. sure of it. The richest country in the world, there are a billionaire after billionaire after billionaire who are creating companies, some of which have no value or purpose whatsoever. And they continue to suck up all the cash. And I'm not against that. I believe in the free market. However, there are smart minds that can help us fix this broken system. Just be a better society. Yes. I mean, it's what helps one helps all. That's right. I firmly believe in that. A little empathy goes a long way. A little spreading of the love goes a long way. There are people that are

hurting 12% of Americans on SNAP benefits. 12%. And if you think this doesn't apply to you, you are one paycheck away from disaster. I can almost guarantee you. There are 10 of you listening. Eight of you are one paycheck away from disaster. Yeah. And you know, sure, there are people that are abusing the system. But when you're talking about children, I'm sorry. I said this in a real the other day. Yeah, There can be an argument made, but now is not the time to go searching for a needle in a haystack. It's just not. That's why you put rules and you have screenings in place and you figure it out and people are going to fall through the cracks. It is going to happen.

But I would rather give one undeserving person, 12, you know, I read somewhere that less than $10 a day is SNAP benefits is less than $10 a day per family. Try and feed a family on less than $10 a day. Wow. one undeserving person, less than $10 a day worth of SNAP benefits, than see one child go to bed hungry. One child go to bed hungry because it's not their fault. They didn't do this. They are not undeserving.

They have no control. They were born to someone who does not have economic means, and those people are doing their best. And at least they're doing their best. We can be thankful for that. They're trying to feed the child. I've seen the videos of people with carts and carts of cigarettes and whatever the fucking, you know, snap benefits and all that.

That is the exception and not the rule I can almost fucking guarantee it. Stop with, stop playing poverty for your political benefit. That goes to both sides of the aisle. Stop playing poverty to your political benefit because more and more people are going into poverty and this ain't fucking helping. Stop it. Get those snap benefits out to those kids. Let those kids eat. All right.

I just had to say that because, you know, fuck it. And I agree, and it's topical right now. It is topical. It is topical. And so it's encouraging to me. It's encouraging to me. And now I have a feeling that the Democrats are going to find a way to get the government back running again. And hopefully the health care is a part of that conversation.

It must be at some point. If the Republicans take away 12 million people's health care, they will lose every seat that is even within a mile. Yeah. And you know what? Fine. Republicans come up with something. good. Sure.

Propose something new. You keep telling us you have something great and new. Okay. What is it? Let's see it. Please. I would love it if they had a great idea. If they had a great idea to fix the American health care system, make it more affordable for everybody.

I'd be on board. I'd vote Republican just for that. On it. Oh, maybe not. But I'd vote Republican. I'd support Republicans on that measure. But Trump's been talking about this for nine years now, nine years. and we haven't heard one idea, not one idea, about how to fix the health care system.

So I have a feeling that that's just a lot of talk and they just want to take it away from people. And that's mean-spirited. It's just mean-spirited. Why? Because you don't like Obama? Okay, don't like Obama. Run some ads and, you know, call them names, all the things that you do now. But just because you don't like somebody doesn't give you the right to take away, it shouldn't give you the right to take away something.

that's so meaningful and powerful to so many millions of people. It's not fair. It's not right. It's not good. It's not a good look for you. It's not going to work out in your favor. If you're one of these people who celebrate and cheer other people's misery, fuck you.

It's not good. It's not good. You are the worst version of yourself. Look in the mirror and imagine the shoe is on the other foot. If you're sitting in your fancy home, down somewhere in Florida, you know, looking at all your your boat and all the fancy things you have and driving around your Mercedes. And you look down on people who don't have what you have as people who are not deserving and good enough for your attention, time, or taxes. You're the worst version of yourself right now. Get out of it. Get out

of that fog. And imagine the times when you didn't have anything, if that ever happened. Or imagine that someday, tomorrow, someone comes and takes it all away from you. What will you do? How will you survive? How will you figure it out? And the answer probably is some kind of assistance from someone else. And that's what a lot of people are doing right now just to get fucking by. Stop it. Stop with the no empathy. I mean just to be mean bullshit. It's not a good look anymore. And I can promise you, the tide is turning. You are getting, there are fewer and fewer of you. Listen to the podcasters. Listen to the sentiment on the streets. Listen to even Republicans. They're like, I'm not sure I should be on the side of evil.

Yeah. You are literally rooting for the evil queen in a Disney princess movie. And it's crazy. It's crazy, right? This ain't anti-hero bullshit. This is just straight up anti. And it's not cool.

It's not a good look. All right. I love you. Oh, well, I don't want to start the show over again. I want to end it. Yes. I think there's more people that feel like that. Then not, I hope. I like to think.

Well, listen, you know, social media has a way of being an echo chamber and a megaphone and a microphone. And so these people who, you know, are making fun of people on Snap Benefits or, you know, character, caricatures of people who need assistance and all this and they're, like, really being very mean-spirited. It's rage bait. It's clickbait. And then they get spread all over the Internet and you see them. And it just makes me sad. I know. Because, and then their name eventually goes, you know, then people find out their name and find out where they work. There was a nurse down in Florida who was, like, really ragging on people who have SNAP benefits and black people and, you know, Mexican people and all this stuff. And she was like, it was so mean-spirited.

It was unbelievable to think that she was even human, right? Yeah. Well, then her name got out there. Then her neighbors knew who she was. Then her job found out. And she fucked around and she found out. Right? And so, you know, I'm not about someone losing their job for a mistake they made, but this wasn't a mistake. She was just being evil. Evil. That's it. So that she could

look cool in front of all of her friends on social media. And guess what? Didn't work out in her favor. And I just wonder, like, is that how she really feels? Or has she just been whipped up into such a frenzy and living in such a bubble that she thinks that's what it is? do believe that most people, the majority of the people that live in this country, are on the side of, let's feed the children. Yeah. Let's make sure our elderly are taken care of. Yes.

Let's make sure that when people have times of health crisis, they are okay. Let's make sure those things. I think human dignity. Human rights. Yeah. Housing, food, shelter, is housing. Shelter, food, water, health care. Yeah.

I mean, those things. If we can help people get those things in the most. desperate times of their life, then we are good people, and I'm voting for that, whatever that is. Right? All right. That's right. 212-4333-3-TCB. Add the commercial break on Instagram.

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I love you. And I love you. Best to you. And best to you out there on the podcast. Podcast universe. Until next time, we will say. We do say, and we must say. Goodbye. Thank you.