The Commercial Break - All The Dating Apps, All The Dating Happs!

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

Krissy is taking some time off to be with family. But Christina joins Bryan in studio to discuss dating in 2023! Stay tuned for more unreleased content from "The TCB Can".   Krissy will be back soon....she did not run away Bryan dispells some of the rumors around the show It is Christina's birthday! Christina gets a good deal on a locksmith Getting locked out of the car is a whole scene We miss KRISSY! Christina is on ALL the dating apps Hinge has "Hot People Jail"? Love is not Blind Bryan has to get a cat out of a tree Christina requests her dates be able to hold a conversation...she is demnading! LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us at: 1.855.TCB.8383 Want to be on air? Call 626.ASK.TCB3 and leave us a voicemail! Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Written By: Bryan Green Exec Producers: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Content Production & Research: Tina Khano YouTube Producer & Editor: Morgan Please Producer & Audio Editor: Christina A. Executive Director: Astrid B. Associate Producer: Gustavo

Regularly scheduled programming will not be seen at this time, so that we may bring you an ABC after school special. Stone! On this episode of the Commercial Break Hey you out there in the podcast universe, it's Brian. I thought I'd drop by to let you know that Chrissy has had to take some unplanned time off to be with family. We miss her dearly, but the show must go on, am I right? Or am I right? So with Chrissy's blessing this week and maybe next, we're gonna have a series of special

guest hosts here in studio with me to chat up some new content and we'll deliver some unreleased material from season 3 and season 4. It's gonna be a wild ride. If after four years Chrissy and I haven't gotten it right, I'm sure it's gonna be an absolute shit show with someone else sitting in that chair. And I just wanted to say something. We love you. Best to you, Papa Joe, and many happy podcasts on your journey.

Here's our executive editor, Christina, on her birthday, talking about all the dating apps and all the dating apps in 2023. You single people are fucking crazy and to you, Chrissy Holi can't wait to have you back. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. I get assholes. Yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. Fuck around and find out. I'm Brian Green.

This is the executive producer, my friend and the very temporary guest here to the commercial break. Fuck around and find out. I'm Brian Green. This is the executive producer, my friend in the very temporary guest here off in the commercial break. Christina, best of you, Christina. Best of you, Brian. And best of you out there on the podcast universe. Thank you for joining us. So appreciated.

Happy birthday. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm just a little old lady now. 29. Old, you are a baby. You're the youngest person to come through these studio doors, I think. That's so true. I love that for me. You, I love that for us. We're freshing it up. Maybe now we'll get the non-retired crowd to listen to the commercial break. We have a

lady that keeps on texting us and emailing us. And she is 84 years old. I love her. She is awesome. And I wish I could remember her name. I want to say that it's Betty, but I just think I'm calling all old people Betty because, you know, old white lady Betty. But she is the sweetest lady, and she keeps talking about how much she loves the show. And she loves when we take down the preachers.

I love her. And she loves when we talk about sex. And she's like, I'm sure I'm not the typical age of your listener. And I'm like, no, I'm sure you are. The typical age of our listener, and I'm like, no, I'm sure you are. The typical age of our listener. I love that she knows how to use podcasts. She knows how to use podcasts.

Something my mom hasn't figured out, and she's 15 years younger than this lady is. That's amazing. Isn't it cool? Yeah. I want to dress right off the top, some of the rumors that probably are flying around out there on the internet.

I mean, if anybody's actually talking about us in my head, just flying around the internet, around the tabloids, and I just wanna make clear, and I wanna make sure that we state this right at the beginning of the show, so no one's confused. I am not dating Doa Lepa, and I don't understand why everyone thinks that I am. No one believes that.

If only Doa Lepa believed that I was dating Doa Lepa, then we'd be in a good place. I want Doa leap up a date Me not you hey listen keep your scroungy hands off my do a leap up scroungy like I was here first I was talking about do a leap up first. She is a beautiful character. I love do a leap up Do you know? Yeah, she's so gorgeous. Chrissy and I were talking about this a couple episodes ago. She is gorgeous Yeah, she's fab now this gorgeous is my wife, but she is gorgeous in a different way, gorgeous. God damn it.

Her little outfits, everything. The way she gets that booty. She just bucks amazing. I know. Just like go off girl. And then she's got this swing that she does when she's singing. That just, I don't know. Well, she famously was really bad at dancing for a while.

Oh really? Yeah, but like you know. Well, I don't know. She didn't mean it to be her thing. Of course not. I don't think. It's not. It wants to be a bad dancer. But like people would put together these really funny compilations on the internet of her just like being really bad at dancing at her concerts. And it was so funny. But now she's so much better. Like she clearly was like, we're not doing this anymore. We're not doing this. Yeah. And so she got so much better and she's obviously

killing it. I feel like T Swift probably is going through some of the this anymore. And so she got so much better and she's obviously killing it. It's amazing. I feel like T-Swift probably is going through some of the same stuff. And she know it also is kind of a bad dancer. I don't know. She's just got a lot of limbs. She, I have never said this out loud on the commercial break. I guess now is a good time as any. Sure.

My wife cajoled me into going to a Taylor Swift show and I did go see Taylor Swift. I think you did talk about that already. Well, I think I talked about that I was out in Los Angeles, but I didn't talk about why we were in Los Angeles. So we went and saw Taylor Swift show was a birthday present to my wife, and I got to be honest, that girl could shake her ass.

On all those dancers can. They are so fucking good. I mean, they're probably the best dancers on the planet. But you gotta imagine, if you're rolling with T-Swift, Taylor Swift, yeah, probably. She gave him like a $100,000 tip for doing, you know, she didn't give everybody like a $100,000 tip. You might work for the commercial break.

You're lucky to be getting it. What the fuck? You make more than I do, I'm sure of it. Taylor, please hire me. If only Taylor would come in studio. God. Okay, so now let's mention the real rumors that are probably going on.

The white people have been writing in. I just want to say this. Chrissy is out dealing with a family issue. Her grandfather has been sick. He's an older gentleman. We love Papa Joe. We're sending all the love in the care out there into the world. And Christina and maybe some other people will come and help while Chrissy is taking care of her grandfather. The seat will be warm. Chrissy's going nowhere. She didn't leave the show. She's not sick.

No one heard her. I'm not keeping her in some little cage. Yeah, I checked the basement, don't worry. Yeah. There's no basement. It's a crawl space. If you don't want to go down there. I checked it.

You did? Yes, I checked it earlier. You weren't looking around. Can you change my air conditioning filter while you're down there? Absolutely not. That is the one thing I really fear doing you should you should do it Live a little live a little yeah, you go down under that crawl space. No, that's two and a half feet tall

You cannot stand you can barely kneel crawl around the dry floor. What's that? I went for Chrissy and that's it Not down there. I told you I explained that she was not down there We'd love you Papa Joe and whatever the outcome is here, we're praying for and meditating and sending good energy to Chrissy and all of the family members right now. So we'll keep some new stuff coming and keep her seat warm for her. And then she will return hopefully soon or rather than later,

but with these type of things, it's there are some, believe it or not, there are some things more important than the fucking commercial break. Weird. And that's what I told Chrissy. She actually was really egging to get back in here and I was like, I could just sense that,

when you need to take time, you need to take time. You need to do your thing, you need to do your thing. Absolutely. So that's it. So it's your birthday, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna do today? Just going out, going out for dinner with my parents, I already locked myself out of my car this morning.

So it's been a little bit of a stressful day, but you know, the locksmith, he had me, he had me going. Did he? I've always wondered about the locksmith. Did he make you prove that you own the car once he opened the door? He literally just rolled up in a random ass car, like not like a truck or anything.

I don't know, I was assuming that there would be like a business logo on the side. No, rolls up in a random ass car. So think you know like Tommy's locksmith services. Let me break into your car for you. Yeah. I was literally sitting there and telling my sister, I'm like, what's cheaper getting a new window

or calling a locksmith? Honestly, I thought window. I thought window two. Okay, that was my plan. I was like, I'm gonna break my own window. Sure. Luckily, I didn't have to. You could break your own window, then tell the insurance,

I'm not saying you should commit insurance to fraud, but just say it accidentally happened while I was not around. I mean, look, I like to say my rules in this world, scammer be scammed. That's right. Hey, listen, you gotta do what you gotta do to survive. Absolutely, scammer be scammed. That's right. Hey, listen, you got to do what you got to do to survive. Absolutely, scam or be scammed.

How much did the guy charge you? Only $95. That is amazing. Just to get in the car. It was through my insurance. They didn't give me a key. They didn't give you a key? Because I thought I had one in the car,

it turns out it did not. So how did you get the car started? I had to go find my other key, which I thought I had lost, and I found it. I just tore some things apart. It was a dramatic way to start my 29th year. Isn't that the most stressful thing in the world to be locked out of your car? I was crying. It's fine. But then I had to, Momosa, as in now I'm here. Why is this the place everybody comes to get drunk? I'm the only sober one on the commercial

break. Yeah. Chrissy learned long ago that the way to deal with Brian is just to have a good buzz on. And then just ignore most of what he says. I think Tunei, Chrissy just has learned really, like she's got a keen sense for when to tune in and then respond. Absolutely.

And then she just tunes me out for the rest of the show. Chrissy is a vibe, man. I'm like, I wanna be you. Look at me in her seat. She is like the Buddha on her on high isn't she? She just kind of lives with Brian's bullshit. The moment I met her I was like you're an angel. She is such a sweet woman. I don't know what I do without her because I look like a real asshole if I was just doing the show by myself. Yeah 100 percent. I mean I'm Chrissy. You do not have the street cred for that.

New street cred please. I don't got any street cred. Unless you put me in a restaurant bar, like as a bartender, then I got cred. I can make a gin at both a gin and a tonic and a kid's margarita for those of you that don't know, fuck around and find out. All right, so dinner with the family, are you gonna go as a significant other out there?

I don't really know. No, no, no, there is no significant other. My sister's visiting, so she's coming with me. No, she's not the kind of girl you want to sleep't really know. No, no, no, there's no significant other. My sister's visiting, so she's coming with me. She's not the kind of girl you want to sleep with. No, no, no. Nothing kind of girl you bring home to the parent. Your sister's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents. No, I don't think so. No, there's no S.O. in my life. So, are you, would you consider yourself single-ready-domingo or just not even looking, don't give a shit? I guess at this point I I'm single ready to mingle. Okay.

At this point, but it's been a journey. It's been a little bit of a moment. Yeah, it's been a journey. Like, I think for a really long time in my 20s, I was just like, not interested. Not having it with anybody. No, they're idiots. Have you seen them? Yes, I have.

The dating scene? Yes. It's so bad. I mean, I haven't been in the dating scene? It's so bad. I haven't been in the dating scene for a long time, but yeah. You guys reviewed a little while ago, where that guy was like, yo, I'm low-key illiterate.

Yes. That's real. Is it really? Like, people are act like that. Why? I don't know. Why is it? I don't know, and it's really hard.

I don't like it. I wouldn't like it either, poor baby. It sucks. Let me ask you a hard. I don't like it. I wouldn't like it either poor baby. It sucks. Let me ask you a question. Oh, I tried to do this. Kiss me. Kiss me. Kiss me. That was like this one guy I went on a date with.

Okay. When you, so how would you find a date typically? I do use the apps. You do? I don't like them, but I use them. Yeah, I typically use hinge. Okay. There's obviously their Tinder Bumble hinge.

His coffee meets Bego. Coffee meets Bego. There's so many apps out there. So many apps. Yeah, there's millions. And I just typically use hinge. I can't handle more than one. I just don't have that kind of attention. Can you handle more than one conversation at a time?

Does that happen often? Yes, but they never last. The conversation's never last. They don't? They drop off eventually or you drop off eventually. Both. Yeah, it's a little mixture. It seems so when Astrid and I met,

I'll just give this to some perspective in my own life. When Astrid and I met, obviously I had been single for a while. I mean, it was a girl that I dated before, I asked her and then there was like this, I would say two year period, where I was just single ready to mingle, but not necessarily looking.

Not looking just vibing. Exactly, just vibing. If I happened to be out in a bar and someone was cute and we talked, whatever. If there was a friend of a friend and we found each other attractive, whatever. But I wasn't like, and I had the dating apps. But I would only check, honestly,

after like the first couple of weeks of being on the dating apps, I only checked them every once in a while. And I found the conversations to be really strained. They often didn't last very long. Maybe that's because my opening line was, here's my dick, I'm kidding. Bars.

But then I just found it to be so stressful. It didn't feel, it's not my natural environment. I'd rather have someone sitting in front of me and talking to me, even a phone call maybe would be so much better than just these like short, truncated conversations where you're trying to get someone's attention so quickly. But I just never felt that,

I don't wanna say desperate as the word, but I never felt that interested in playing that game. So many of my friends used it as a way just to hook up with women or men. That's the vibe right now is like, it feels like people, so hinge, obviously, their tagline has always been like the app that's made to be deleted or something.

But, and like, I do know people have been, like, God married from that or whatever, but now their algorithm is so fucking and so messed up that they keep all the hot people in jail. And you have, so you have Rose jail, which is, Rose, you know what I'm calling it. Yeah, and they make you be really embarrassing and send a rose because that's where all the hot people are.

What? Yes, so like you're writing, okay. Okay, so you have, you pull up your little hinge. Okay. And then there's just like regular people you'd swipe through. Okay. Yeah. That just pull up. Yeah. Like Brian.

Yeah. Five point two out of ten. Yeah. Okay. Got. All right. So let's have the fours to four through seven. Four to six. Four to six. Four to six. Well, it's a pretty tightly controlled area. It's not good.

Yeah. That's not good. Maybe we're right. Maybe some stuff is controlled area. It's not good. Yeah, it's not good. Maybe where I might be in there. I guess Yeah, so they're all in they're all in the regular pool They're nothing good. Okay, every so often you find someone good But then they don't respond or they or you don't respond or whatever Miscommunication. Yeah, and then there are people who like you that you can go through. People who have gone and liked you already. That is the most depressing group of people I've ever seen. And like not to be me. I agree. But let me be mean for a second. It's horrible. Yeah. It is so insulting. I'm like, God am I in what world? Am I, is this guy, does this

guy think he's going to be with me or this girl think she's gonna be with me? Sometimes send screenshots over to my best friend, Brian, not you, but the other Brian. Other Brian. Go figure. I send screenshots over to him and I'm like, in what world would me in this twerp get together? I'm like, look at me, I'm a five foot nine goddess. Yes. And you, Mr. five foot six twerp, want to get with me? No, absolutely not.

And then so there's that depressing list. And also it's always like over a hundred people. And so- I was about to ask that question, how many do you have? So like when I first got on there, obviously it was fresh meat. Yeah.

So it was like immediately hit me to like 200 probably. Just really quickly it was a ton of likes. And then I've never been able to keep up with it. And so I just like, deny, deny, deny, deny. And then also I'm a little bit too nice. When I say no, I'm like, well, what if they're really funny? What if they're really nice? Guilty.

Guilty is charged. I know that feeling. So my sister will come in and just get rid of a ton. Good for her. And then they just come back. And it's just, it's never a good group of people. And so then the hot people are in the Rose's category where if you want to like them, you have to send a rose which is embarrassing. And because you have to pay for Rose's.

No! You have to pay for Rose's. So they put the hot people in Rose's jail so that you can't get to them. But that's not Rose'sail, that's what. It is Rose Jail. Okay, so it's Rose Jail, but Rose Jail, where you have to pay to meet these people?

You would be paid to even send a like. That's insane. It's like if you have like hinge plus, or I don't know, I obviously don't have it. You can send like a few for free, I think. Yeah. But then you have to start paying. That is insane.

Yeah, it's like you have to pay like $10 a month for like 10 roses Or unlimited roses or whatever it is. I know the hot people get hinge premium. They put themselves on a pedestal No, they don't put themselves on it hinge hides them hinge hides hinge puts them in rose jail So he's just making a decision about who is hot and who is not? Yeah, who? Nah, who? Yes, many data nap on the block. And as far as I'm concerned, I'm hot and they're not. Well, I mean, like we don't

know each other all that well. You you work with us and you know, we communicate about the show mainly all the time. Christina, besides my wife and Chrissy are the people that have to suffer the worst through Brian's bullshit. But thank you for that. Anytime. So you get on hinge, hundreds of guys and girls I would imagine, guys or girls. Both. Both.

So guys, and you know, hey listen, it's, I'm open to everyone. I love it. I think it's great. I think it's fantastic. Just the kind of girl I am. You know, I was thinking about this the other day. When I was in my early 20s, mid 20s, I worked in the restaurant business, right?

The world was a whole different animal. Wild. Except for in the restaurant business. Where almost anything went. Because I think the restaurant business in a lot of ways, for some people, it's a professional career, they make their living doing that,

especially over in Europe and stuff like that. Here in America, I don't think it's as common, but there are a lot of people who do make their living for their entire lifetime, working in the restaurant business. The restaurant business is like a home for broken toys, in my opinion, that's why I ended up there for almost a decade.

I agree. While the rest of the world was contemplating social issues and social, like liberal social issues, like acceptance of people who didn't want, you know, man didn't want to sleep with a woman or a woman who didn't want to sleep with a man. In the restaurant business, I think I benefited from the kind of bubble

that was the restaurant business and everybody did everything with everybody. There were a lot of people that were like that. Yeah, I saw what you mean, total, in my experience there. We're all a version of David Bowie back in the restaurant business. Way too many drugs.

No one knew if you were male or female and no one cared to get stuff from her. No, that's not the best part. It's just, oh, you're hot. All right, so men and women, hundreds of them come, they say hello, and then hundreds of them. It is hundreds. That's insane.

It is insane. And it's overwhelming. And I like to just use it as a little dopamine hit whenever I'm seeing it. I just go and see who's up. I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to.

I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to. I like to.

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Yes. Okay. What did that look like? Not great. No. Someone will look like hot. They've got their little outfits in there, which is like, yum, they'll look hot. They have a good profile, good answers, whatever. And then you meet them and I'm like,

God, you are dry as a bone. Yeah. I'm like, there is not a lick of personality here. And I'm like, one of the things you have to do. And I know how this sounds, but whatever. This is just who I am. I have to be really careful. Like, am I having a good time on this date

because I am fun? Or am I having a good time because they're actually contributing to the conversation? Because I'm chatty. I'm like, I'll just talk to him. And like, have a little ball, make myself laugh. Oh, he's like to say, no one makes me laugh harder than I do. And then I'm like, I leave him.

I'm like, oh, that was kind of fun. And then I'm like, was that fun? Was that fun? Yeah. Was that really fun or did I just make it fun? Yeah. And then I'm like, they probably hate me. Because all I did was yammer.

But then sometimes you get someone who's just like so, like they're pro, them and their profile just do not match. Like they're a personality catfish. And then like, like this. A personality catfish, I love that. Yeah, well like this one, he had funny answers, like good outfits, whatever shows up in the state,

boring as fuck. Sleepy Joe. Yeah. And like, he also didn't really understand some of my funny answers. And I like, it was kind of awkward to have to explain it. And I, so like, I think he thought I was kind of a good time girl.

But then I was like, he thought he was going to get some ass. But you were just having fun with it. I was like, well, I'm trying to date. Yeah. And then like, he kissed me at with it. I was like, well, I'm trying to date. Yeah. And then like he kissed me at the end. It was horrible. It was literally like two little cold wet slimy anchovies. Oh!

It was horrible. They were coming at me. Every time that someone talks about a bad kiss now, all I can think about is that episode that Chrissy and I watched, where the guy was like in, like swallowing that girl's tongue, it was absolutely, that was hard to watch. It was hard to listen to. Yeah.

If you watch the latest episode, the latest season of Love is Blind, I have not. Okay, so I'll just share this with you. Guy won't ruin it for you, but there's a Love is Blind couple, who they get along from the beginning straight off the bat. Like they are, it's clear, they're matched.

And there's a couple of every season that just right off the bat, like they are, it's clear, they're matched. And there's a couple of every season that just right off the first date, they get along, and they never look at anybody else for the entire season. So there's one of these couples, he's really engaging, she's really cute and gives good, you know, they're bantering back and forth. It seems like a couple that could possibly work out. Yeah.

But when they meet, he almost instantly goes silent and does not contribute to any It's painful to watch on camera. It's painful You me asked her and I were just screaming at the television answer the fucking question like say something Do anything she would ask him a question and he'd be like mm-hmm I hate that and she kept on saying to the camera in these side moments, like, I don't know what's going on here, because the guy that I knew in the pods, he wouldn't, we never stopped talking.

And now he said like 10 words in the entire four days of the honeymoon. And were they like, like, uh, did they look like a match? I thought that he was handsome in kind of like cavemanish type way, right? Hard jaw. He was a, he's a fireman. So like hard jaw, hard face.

Yeah, I don't know. You, I'll show you a picture on the break. But my estimation was that the moment they met, he wasn't into her. And I will say this out loud that Astrid thought it was the opposite. She wasn't into him. But my opinion is that he is so,

like he's such a fireman, he's such a dude, he's such like a, I don't know, like farm fresh to table. You know what I'm saying? He didn't like the fact she had long eyelashes. He didn't like the fact that she had makeup on. He didn't like the fact that she dolled herself up. And that to me seemed like an excuse

for I just don't like you all together. Like I just don't like the way you look. Love is not blind. I'm gonna tell you that right now. I don't think for a second it's blind. It's blind until you see the person. Or it's blind when you're not blind. I'm gonna tell you that right now. I don't think for a second it's blind. It's blind until you see the person. Or it's blind when you're actually blind, but that's the only two ways that love is blind.

But you have to have some level of attraction. Absolutely. Like physical attraction. Like for me being pansexual, it's definitely more like about the vibe and about the person, but there has to obviously be like, I don't look at someone and be like, oh my god, like I'm so attracted to them. Like that does not happen very often. But like even it's like you're attracted to someone's energy, someone's vibe, whatever it is about them

that you're just like, oh yeah, there has to be something. You can't just like, I don't know, not be attracted at all physically. So you as a pansexual, do you, you don't get those lightning bolt moments very often, where you like look at someone across the room and you're like, oh, I'm really physically attracted to them, you have to be very often. it doesn't happen very often. It's happened recently and I was just like, we're at home. I was like, whoa. I was like, I need to calm down. Oh, really?

And did you get to talk to this special someone? Yeah, yeah, building a friendship at the moment. Built a friendship, my ass. Well, I'm trying to weasel my way in there, Brian. So, is it here or she? She. It's a she? Okay, I need to follow up on this.

Now the whole TCB universe need to follow up on this. Now the whole TCB universe needs to follow up on Christina. I'll let you know. And her love life, when I bring up the example of the love is blind example because I went on a few tender dates and each of them a shit show in their own right. Naturally. I did not have the problem of someone not being responsive during the conversation or cold or standoffish or however you want to say it I had the opposite which was these the women that I went out with like they were they seemed perfectly normal

Via text message and everything was going well Yeah, but the three of them that I met in person I don't know all three of them drunk drink a lot of alcohol Really quickly? Oh, so they were way drunk now to be fair I can also drink a lot of alcohol really quickly. So they were way drunk now. To be fair, I can also drink a lot of alcohol really quickly. Of course. And that's probably nerves and you want to get the best of you and you meet somebody they're having a good time, you're having a good time.

But I like physically how to get one of them out of the tree. She was like a camp. Do you remember this story? I had literally. How did that happen? How did that get to that point? Okay, so her and I have this series of conversations that are going on for, let's call it two months.

Okay. When we finally agree to meet, she's a little bit older than I am, she's two years older than I am. Okay. Beautiful woman. I was attracted to her like the moment that I saw her face or her Tinder profile, I was attracted to her. We connect, we start talking for a couple of months

and then we decide that we're going to meet. When we meet, I didn't realize it on the Tinder app, but when I saw her in person, I recognized her. Like, I recognized her from a former life. I knew who she was. It took us a few minutes to place it, but we actually went to the same school, to the same high school. That's kind of fun. She was a couple years older than me. It was interesting. We shared friends in common. I wasn't friends with her when I was in high school, but there were friends of mine that were friends with her.

So we now we have some commonality. And I'm like, okay, this is kind of starting off well. We have a lot to talk about. Talk about the conversation never lagged. We are out on a patio. It's a beautiful fall day. We're drinking a couple margaritas, but I notice she's starting to get ahead of me on the margaritas.

Okay, so I'm scared. Yeah, so let's say we're three margaritas in, and maybe I'm a margarita and a couple of bud lights in, then she, so I'm drinking bud light now, and she orders a picture of margaritas on her own. For herself. Yeah, for herself. She's like, well, you just have a little bit,

so it doesn't look like I'm an alcoholic, and I'm like, oh shit, here we go. You're like, we're just gonna say it. You're just gonna say it out loud. I know how this night's gonna end. I gotta get some cocaine. I'm gonna be crazy. I know exactly how this night's gonna end.

Not great. Not great. So we travel on to the next place. We sit there for a couple of hours, we travel on to the next place. We sit there for a couple of hours. We travel on to the next place. We walk down the street. I know that she's inebriated, but I'm also got a pretty good buzz on.

So now we're at that point in the day where you're just having fun. You're a little trashed. Everything's going, I guess, okay. Just wild in, you're just having fun. Friday night, we go to this crazy busy bar. We sit down, we find a couple bar stools, we sit down. And she starts physically, like, I wanna say attacking,

but she starts getting really physical and handsy very quickly. Like hand in the crotch type of handsy, right? Oh boy. Which, at the time I'm sure I was all excited about, but thinking back on it, it's a little cringe, right? Yeah, that's so aggressive. And she was like kissing my neck and then she was like pulling my face toward her face trying

to get me to kiss. So anyway, I say, listen, maybe we should call it a night because I can sense just how drunk she is. Maybe we should call it a night. We'll get together another night. Maybe we can hook up next weekend because I'm not feeling comfortable with the situation. Yeah. Well, she got upset by the fact that I wanted to end the date

and she walked outside to go smoke a cigarette. And the next thing I know, the bouncer's coming up to me and he's like, hey man, did you, were you with that girl, that tall girl, that girl with the blonde hair? And I'm like, I was and he's like, she was outside smoking a cigarette and she climbed the tree out front. And I'm like, what?

And he goes, she climbed the tree out front, now she won't come down. Can you come talk to her? And I'm like, she climbed a tree outside, out front, just to get away from you. Christina, I go outside and it is literally as if we're in a movie. There are maybe 15 people standing around this oak tree

that is easily climbable, like a young tree that's easily climbable and she is 20 feet in the air. It is insane. She's 20 feet in the air and I'm like, I can't remember the girl's name, thank God, probably the one in Paris support girl. But I'm like, hey, hey, come on down, we'll go to another bar, we'll have some fun,

we'll do some drinking. She is absolutely refusing to come from the tree. She's like, I'm staying here. No, I'm going to do that. No one can understand her. She's not making much sense. She's starting to cry. Oh, no.

So guess who shows up next? The fire department and the police officers. Boy, I thought you're going to say Chrissy. No, the craziest thing, not the crazy thing, but a funny fact about this night is that Chrissy lived within 30 steps of this bar that we were at, but Chrissy and I were in a disagreement. We were in a little lover's quarrel,

not a lover's quarrel, but a friend's quarrel, because I was dating another woman that Chrissy didn't approve of. Anyway, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, okay, I'll take her home. So I literally put her in a cab, she was like, you're coming home with me, I'm coming home with me. I'm gonna fuck you so that you're coming home with me. And I'm like, I'm not fucking no cat, okay? I just got you out of a tree.

What do you want me to do? This was embarrassing. There's literally a hundred people standing outside and all of them are wondering why I brought you to this bar to go out of a tree. I was so, I don't get embarrassed a lot in life, but I was feeling really happy. I'm feeling secondhand embarrassed

just hearing this story. So I asked her her address. I put it into my phone. We called the cab. When the cab came, she kept on saying, you gotta come home with me. I'm gonna fuck you. You gotta get in the seat.

He's like, you can't dick so hard. And I was like, I don't know. I don't want those claws to come out. You just climb the fucking tree. Yeah, I don't know what's your house is gonna claws to come out. You just climbed up fucking three. I don't know what your house is gonna be like. You just wanna lose my penis tonight. I know, you're gonna jump off your balcony. Are we gonna end up on the roof?

What are we gonna do? It sounds like a good time. It's fucking spider man. So I just kept playing Catinger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna go back to your house. We're gonna go back to your house. When the cab came, I gave him the address

and swipe my credit card. It was like, see ya, bye. Have a good day. I just never had much luck on those apps. And I think because it's so transactional in nature, it never really made me feel all that good. And there's no, like it's transactional, there's no responsibility to anyone,

and there's no consequences. If you stop. That's an interesting point. Yeah, and so it's like, there's no one making sure you respond or make sure you're nice to someone or whatever. And people, they just don't, you know how on the internet, I guess that's the same thing as

hiding behind your keyboard. Sure. Like you just, this person isn't real to you until you meet them. And that sucks. And so I find it much better to date friends of friends or people you work with. No, that's always a bad idea.

But never ends well. There's only two employees in this company. No, not this company. You could talk to Chrissy if you want to. Chris. There's only two employees in this company. No, not this company. You could talk to Chrissy if you want to. Chris. Chris. F***.

F***. Not what I meant, but okay. Anyway, friends of friends, anything like that, because then you do have a responsibility, at least to your friend, to be nice to this person. Yes. And like, free someone with respect. Maybe that's part of what's missing. Maybe you just hit on something that's very interesting

and maybe it's something that I never thought about when you, traditionally, before the dating apps came along, you could go out, you could call like a date line or you could get a, you know, like a matchmaker or somebody like that. But typically, you would find somebody through your social circle or through work, or friends of people that you work with, whatever. Nowadays, you're literally two strangers passing in the night, and so if someone goes to you, there's no teeth to it, because they just go to you and they figure,

I'll never see that person again. And what does it matter? And it's one of a thousand people that I've hooked up with on this dating app. Why does it really matter? But I think that is making life very difficult for a lot of young folks. It's lonely. Yeah. It's lonely too. It's hard. It's not fun. They just, I don't know. I feel like loneliness is a disease that is fueling a lot of the shit that's going on around the world right now. I think loneliness is a disease and I think it's pervasive. I think it's an epidemic.

It's like weirdly we're extremely connected to everyone but then through that everything is so niche that you're also really separated from everyone. And then you're social interaction suffers as well. I don't know, a lot of COVID or social interaction has suffered because we just don't have it in the same way. Like during COVID, I caught a retail job because I was like, I need to see people. Oh yeah, I need to be honest.

I need to talk to people. I need to stop being alone with only my sister all the time. It's just not working. Did you date anybody during the pandemic? I had like a situation ship for like a year of it. I guess it was like the latter part of the pandemic. And did they keep you company during some of that pandemic?

Did you all go like back and forth to your house? Or was it mainly an online? At that point, a lot of us were working retail, so we were all... Vaxed in hacks. Yeah, and we were all in the same, we would see each other, so yeah, we did a lot of hanging out,

things were getting more normal, and we did a lot of outdoor activities, so yeah, that was fun. If you've been ghosted a lot on that app, on- app? On hands? Not like, I don't think like an intentional ghost. Do you know what I mean? Like the conversation dropped off.

Yeah, just. You just got the enemy in your first place. Fade away, because I think most of the time no one really cares for his mom. One annoying thing though was like, I was out one night and I was like, let's ball. Let's wild out. And I was like, okay, so I started messaging this one.

I was like, someone's actually cute. This is exciting. And so we like traded phone numbers, started talking, I was trying to basically convince him to come out to the bar to like hang out with me and my friends. And then he never did. And I was like, oh, that's so annoying

because now I know that you were only in it for the AS. And I was like, dang, that sucks. Like, get off, get off hinge if you're on it for AS. It's not supposed to be for you. But then I'm also like, now I'm just like, fuck it. Fuck you guys. Yeah, fuck it, fuck you guys. I will just find someone some other way.

You deserve everything that, first of all, you're a people please, or I can already tell, right? Number two. Called out, but okay. Okay, I am too guilty. And on my day of birth. On your birthday? Well, I mean, people pleaser,

you're just not a bad thing. It just means. Not a good thing. Well, in a relationship or when you're trying to date, maybe not. I am so guilty of this. Every, but I have an attorney and an agent and he will tell me all the time, you're too fucking nice. you're a people pleaser, you just want to say yes to everybody.

And it's true. I do. And like you, I could go and sit and have a great time with a fucking rock because I just entertain myself. I don't, I may not be entertaining anybody else, but to me, I'm entertaining. Yeah, I'm chatting away. So I have been guilty in my dating life of carrying things on for way too fucking long because I think that it's interesting but what it really is is that I'm interesting and someone else is just different than me. They're not supposed to be there, right?

They're not supposed to be my person. You deserve everything you should get and you need someone as entertaining as you. I agree. I need someone fun. You need someone fun. Someone who's ready agree. I need someone fun. You need someone fun. Someone who's ready to roll. So call 626, that's TCP3.

If you're interesting and ready to roll. And that's we gotta put a, okay, she's pansexual, so there's a male or female or elephant or donkey, whatever you want. Oh my God. But not the five I'm going for on the interweb. Oh my God. That's an inside joke.

So the other thing is we should put a, is there an age limit for guys or gals that you're looking for? I don't want anyone younger than 26 or 26 or younger than you think. I need your brain to be fully developed. And then age 45? That's so old no offense. No take it. I guess. I think my age limit on the apps is probably like 27 to 33. Geez. Which pretty pretty thing. But here's, you know, I guess I'm open. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't use a data 45 year old.

That just seems like a lot. It is a lot. That's 45 year olds. We're just children. I like, like, one of my best friends is like 35. And like, sometimes he just doesn't get my jokes. And I'm like, is it that deep? The rest of the team.

He's 35 and he doesn't get your jokes? Yeah. I get your jokes and I'm older than 35. Not all of them, Brian. No, I don't get all of them. Some of them just who doesn't get your jokes. Yeah, I get your jokes and I'm older than 35. Not all of them, Brian. No, I don't get all of them. Some of them just whoop right over your head. And I'm like, yeah, maybe it's supposed to be that way. Maybe that's how the generations end up not killing each other.

Is that we just don't get each other's jokes? There's a lot of difference in like slang generations and like the way we talk. Yes. And it's weird. I think that's one of the reasons why, well, I've always said this about age differences in relationships. As Astorini and I and Jeff and Chrissy both have pretty substantial age differences.

And the reason why I believe Astorini have worked out is because we never talk about the age difference we never have. It's never been something that's been no one. Asher and I don't talk about it. Other people have brought it up in conversation, but it's quickly dismissed. But number two is, Asher did not grow up in the United States of America, so she does not have that same kind of pop culture,

like point of reference. So when it comes to pop culture, music, movies, television shows, we like the same things. Yeah. And I don't think that Astrid has an extremely, like, American point of view on that. And I can see how that might be problematic. Yeah. Like, she's not going to come up to you and be like, Oh, Sla-Brian. No, she asked her to not say, Okay, go Sla-Brian. Yeah.! It's like, make some more money! You know I hate interrupting Brian when he's yammering, but he's always yammering, so it's kind of my only option. Anyway, it is about that time for me to remind you to go to TCPpodcast.com, text us at 855-TCB-8383

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and then we'll get back to this episode of the commercial break. Sometimes I like to pick and choose which generation I'm in, I'm obviously a millennial, but like I like to sometimes pretend I'm a little Gen Z. Oh yeah. And because I'm the youngest sister and like you know we just sometimes they just don't get me or wherever I relate more to the Gen Zs, within other times I relate more to millennials. But then like the oldest millennials are like, what,

over 40? Yes. And so I'm like, we're not the same. I'm like a millennial cut off. Like I'm a millennial cut off. I'm like, we're not the same. No. This is not the same generation.

No, I don't know. I think there is like, my theory. My theory is. Okay, here it comes. Is that there is like, this theory brought you by's not a theory comes. Is that there is like, this theory brought to you by Christina. Yes, exactly. Well, my theory is that there's like little technological

generations, like many generations within. And so I think that's like where the big difference is. Like I don't relate to a 40 year old in the same way that I relate to like a 30 year old. A 30 year old. Yeah, because we grew up with totally different technology and our relationship to the internet is totally different. I couldn't agree more.

And you can tell sometimes when you're talking to people if they're very online or not. Yes, yes. I'm very online. If it wasn't for this job, I think I would be one of those people. If it wasn't for the fact that that's my job is to sit and troll around the internet, and I'm not one of those guys. Like if it wasn't for the fact that I, that's my job as to sit and troll around the internet,

I don't, and I'm not one of those guys who walks around saying, let's slay, right? Because it's just, I don't wanna sound stupid. I'm also not one of those guys who tries to, you know, dress up in GZ shoes and outerwear. Like, I'm not trying to be something I'm not. Fair enough. I don't wanna be old.

Like, I'm not looking to wear a suit and a tie or a polo shirt around every day. But at the same time, there is a difference in generations based on where you land and technology. There was internet when I was born, but it was not the internet we think of today. It was not in super information, highway, at every moment moment everything coming at you. It was only used very sporadically for business cases or for people who had a lot of money or for the Navy or the Army or the CIA or whatever it was. So weird.

So I watched this all happen as I grew up. The one thing that I think technology has done that has been detrimental to the generations behind me is dating. I think that it is so difficult. I think it saved a lot of lives during the pandemic, but it's made dating fucking miserable. It's like, what do they call it? The paradox of choice or something? The paradox of choice.

Something like that. It's called, I don't know. It's something like if you have a ton of choice. It's called analysis paralysis. And paralysis by analysis. Yeah, that's me. That's something like if you have a ton of choice. It's called analysis paralysis. And paralysis by analysis. Yeah, that's me. That's me in a nutshell. She's got hundreds of people on change. I hate them all.

Yes. Fine, Christina on him. See if I hate you too. Christina, she'll say no also. If you get denied by me, you're welcome. That's right. Christina, she goes faster than everybody else. I'm a nightmare. Christina, she's taking all comers, but accepting no one.

Literally. Literally. First thing my grandma said to me this morning when she called me for my birthday was, you've been single for far too long. Oh, that's got a sex. Like, Fee. She's got like an English accent, this one. But yeah, that's what's a little mixture in our family, but she's got a sexy. Like, Fee. She's got like an English accent this one.

But yeah, it's a little mixture in our family, but she's got a funny English accent though. It's like a New York English accent. Yeah, it's kind of like, it's a funny one. I don't really know how to describe it. I get it. I hear that. Yeah.

It comes out in your voice on a case too. She'll say like, you've forced me into it. When I got her drunk on gin and tonics. You've forced me into it, Christine. You've forced me into it. I'll be in the bathroom throwing up all over my 70 year old bones. She was laid out on the couch with her hand on her forehead, like a little damsel in distress going,

you've forced me into this. You know what you should have said to her? I gotta get some cocaine! Abstracted by grading! Ha! Ha! Ha! Sorry, Grandma.

I don't want you to do cocaine. It's a bad idea altogether. Yeah, great. Not. Don't do that. No, don't do cocaine. No one wants you to do cocaine. Definitely not me.

All right, so you know what I appreciate about you. No, what? Everything. That you absolutely take care of us here at the show. You're one of the utility players we could not live without. Oh, okay. Our life is better for having you around. Thank God it's your birthday.

Well, how much more can I compliment you? See? Yeah, let's do it tomorrow. I could be interesting on a date. I just keep complimenting people. That's my strategy a lot of times too. That's a good way to be. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Sure. Chivalry is not dead and it doesn't matter which sex you want I just keep complimenting people. That's my that was my strategy a lot of times too. Oh, yeah, yeah sure Chivalry is not dead and it doesn't matter which sex you want or you are or who you prefer or you sleep with everybody or sleep with nobody Chivalry is not dead and shouldn't be compliments are nice everybody likes them hold the goddamn door It's okay to pay for a meal every once in a while. What's the fucking problem? I don't. Just be nice. That's it. Just be nice. I keep telling my son that it's my wife is like, you know, we just keep on reminding, hold the door. You know, hold the door for everybody as they come in, right? And he said, walk.

And I said, because you just got to be fucking nice. Yeah. I didn't say fucking, but you got to be nice. That's what you got to do in life. In order to navigate, you want to be nice. That's what you want to do. I'm with you. All right.

OK, so we miss Chrissy, we love you Chrissy, and we hope everything's going okay, and we can't wait to have you back. I just wanted to say that Chrissy will be back. She didn't go anywhere. She's just taking care of Papa Joe, and we love you Papa Joe too. So, this is what I want you to do. Tcvpodcast.com, where you find out information about Chrissy and I,

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Thanks for being a part of our little universe here at TCB. So, Christina, love you. Thanks for coming by. Thanks for having me. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. I'll say this. I'll say best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Christina and I will say we do say and we must say goodbyeSingin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'Singin'SingSingin'SingSingin'Singin'SingSingin'Singin'SingSingSing

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