The Commercial Break - Ari's Ass

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

Ep895: Bryan and Krissy discuss the one guest they would never ask to return. He may not have even been a guest? In any case, no one will be surprised to hear the name! Also, John Candy was a sweet be...ar of man (get it? candy / sweet). Finally, BitCoin is going to zero and so is your retirement fund! So...yay!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:09 On this episode of the commercial break. Wisdom of the crowd. Was it like a talk show? No. Or were you involved the crowd? It's probably a Seinfeld-like show where he, you know, he does stand on. He was on an episode of Seinfeld. He was.
Starting point is 00:00:24 He was. And he was good. He was good. Yeah. Listen. Early days. Yes. Oh, Wisdom of the crowd is a CBS crime job that's aired in 2017 and 18.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Jeremy Piven is a tech innovator who creates crowd source. platform called Sophie to solve crimes. Sounds absolutely like a shit show. I really want to watch crowdsourcing. Okay, all right. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break.
Starting point is 00:01:01 I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Haudley. Best to you, Chris is. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Back at it. Up on the horse, feeling good. How you feeling?
Starting point is 00:01:11 Gitty up. Gitty up. We got zero. We got a carton of cigarettes. No gas in the tank. It's 100 miles to Chicago. Wee. Hit it.
Starting point is 00:01:23 Let's go. It's the blues brother. He goes, we got a carton of cigarettes, a full tank of gas. It's nighttime and we're wearing dark sunglasses. It's 100 miles to Chicago. Hit it. Hit it. It's a great movie.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Orange whip? Three orange whip. It's a great movie. It's a great movie. I've got to rewatch that. I haven't seen it in forever. John Candy is in about three minutes of it. It is the best three minutes of the movie
Starting point is 00:01:46 because they're doing the big show to raise money at the end, you know? And they have the guy who's Cab Calloway sings, You and the Van de Mila de Mucci, she was a low down hoochickoocha. Cab Calloway singing Milly the Muccher. It's fantastic. I know.
Starting point is 00:02:06 I love that movie. That's great. And anyway, so the crowd. Crowds going wild. They're waiting for the Blues Brothers. The Blues brothers are trying to get themselves in trouble and out of trouble to get on stage to raise the money to save the orphanage. It's a ridiculous, ridiculous premise. But John Candy's there with 5,000, you know, Chicago State Troopers, and he's the detective and the waitress comes up.
Starting point is 00:02:30 And John Candy goes to the other police officer, you want anything? And he goes, Orange Whip. Orange Whip, Orange Whip, Orange Whip. Three orange, orange. Orange Whips. Yes. Three orange wips. John Candy.
Starting point is 00:02:42 The best. It's the best. I know. But my favorite, my favorite John Candy movie of all time. I mean, there's the great outdoors. There's the great outdoors. There's Uncle Buck. Which is also fantastic.
Starting point is 00:02:55 But the best movie that he ever made showing his full range of incredible talent has to have been planes, trains, and automobiles. Oh, it's so good. Those two together, Steve Martin and John Candy, are an undeniable. It's like a great love. story. It really is. And when that song plays at the end of the movie, you know, every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you. You take a piece of meat with you. And you realize that John Candy's, the character that he plays, the shower curtain salesman. That's right. He's a shower curtain salesman. You realize that his wife, that he's been lovingly talking about the whole time that he's
Starting point is 00:03:35 trying to get back to is actually died. And he's carrying that, they're carrying that big luggy fucking thing. It makes me cry every time. It really does. I don't know. I'm a sucker for a good ending and a nice song at the end of the movie. But John Candy is lovely. Fantastic. Did you watch any of that that came out? Was it on Amazon? I didn't. It's on my list. My little brother did. It's good. It's really good. Being John, or I am John Candy. Or being John Candy, something like that. Yeah. I mean, There isn't a person, I've seen so many interviews about John Candy. There isn't a person who had a negative thing to say about John Candy.
Starting point is 00:04:15 He was like the real deal, super fucking cool dude, who was also incredibly talented, who was also incredibly funny, who was also incredibly giving and loving to the people around him. Yeah, it's a great doc. There's like a very famous, I don't know if it's famous, but I saw it and there was a couple hundred thousand views on it. interview that he did when he was filming, I think it was Uncle Buck. He was in Minnesota, I believe. He was doing a local news report, like the local news reporter managed to get some time with him. So the local news reporter is in his dressing room, right? And then they go somewhere else, like out to a store or something. I don't know, like in a mall or they're somewhere. And the news reporter is following him around. And there are some children there. And they're looking at toys. for Christmas, I believe, right? And so John strikes up a conversation, big, tall, hunkin' man, right? Talking to these kids and the one kid says something about his dad died. He's not around it.
Starting point is 00:05:19 And I just, I wish I could have my daddy back for Christmas. And then John is like, I don't know if I can bring your dad back for Christmas. But what if I make sure that you get the gift that you want with the thing that he's looking for? And then like the next shot is him. Oh my God. Buying like an entire toy store for these kids. It was just, you just knew. You knew in your heart, you could tell that John was the real deal.
Starting point is 00:05:44 He's just one of those guys. They don't make them like that anymore. They really don't. I wish they did, but they don't. He was one of a kind, really. He really was. We need a John Candy of our time is what we need. You know, Astrid and I watched, we watched the, the Cuban,
Starting point is 00:06:01 Marcello's, you know Marcello from Saturday Night Live? The Cuban guy. Okay. What's his name? I wish, I'm sorry, his last name. I shouldn't remember this. Marcello, S&L. My wife loves him.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Hernandez. Marcello Hernandez. He's in a movie? He's doing a stand-up special on Netflix. Yeah. Really focused on like, American Latino culture. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:06:33 It's, it's, I will give it an honest review. Marcello someday will be a brilliant stand-up comedian, but he needs to do more of it to learn when pacing and pause makes sense because he fills the air every moment. And that sometimes is a little disconcerting to me. I think a good comedian knows one to just pause. I am not a good comedian because I never know when to pause, but he is a good comedian. He is a good comedian. It's there.
Starting point is 00:06:59 And he, the way that he uses his. body is really fucking funny. It's worth the watch because he's really funny. But you may find that sometimes you wish he would just slow down a little bit or take a breath or whatever. But it was really super, super funny. And it reminded me that S&L has a pretty good cast right now. It's not the best cast I've ever seen yet. But sometimes they grow into it. Yeah, you have to. It's always growing and changing. Yes. But John Candy, um, was not on SNL. He was on what kids? What? He was on SCTV. That's right. Second City television. All those Canadian guys, Martin Short. Catherine O'Hara. Catherine O'Hara, who just passed away. Yes, God. I just watched Beston's show the other day.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Oh, my God. And I swear that has to be one of the funniest movies ever. It really is so funny. Like, every scene. Every scene is so funny. I have a hard time determining whether or not spinal tap or Best in Show is my favorite improv comedy movie of all time. They're both really good. But I mean. Yes. So good. With Best and Show, it's a little bit more, you know, updated with like how they met. The couple met at the Starbucks across the street from each other.
Starting point is 00:08:18 You were looking at an L.L. Bean catalog and so was I. There's so many little things that make it hilarious. Is Best in Show where they're out to eat? And the guy is trying to show his dick to Eugene Levy, the size of, is that not? Oh, no, that's waiting for Guffman. Waiting for Guffman. Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are out to eat with this other couple, another improv movie, and they start talking about the other couple.
Starting point is 00:08:45 I can't remember the name of the actor, but the other guy starts talking about how he had to have a dick reduction. And he says, let me show you. Let me show you what it looks like. The doctor did a great job. And Eugene Levely is also playing a doctor in the movie. And he's like, you're a doctor, take a look at him. She and love was like, oh, no, no. Catherine O'Hara's face is the greatest three minutes, an improv movie.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Catherine O'Hara, what a great. Yes, what a loss. Catherine O'Hara had mirrored disease. Did you know that? No. Oh, yes, I did where it's like inverted, like your organs are inverted. Your organs are inverted. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:24 So where your heart is on the left, hers was on the right. Right. When your liver's on the right, hers was on the left. It was like this weird thing that, but apparently is not extraordinarily uncommon. Like one out of every 180,000 people have this. And that's just strange to me. Why? I didn't even know that was a thing.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Yeah. I didn't either. But apparently it can lead the complications, but that's not what killed her. What was it? They just said that something about. Well, it was cancer, but then there was like, I think a blood clot or something that happened. Oh, man. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Shits Creek, all of it, all the stuff that Catherine O'Hara did. So funny. Over the years. I believe that Catherine O'Hara was actually on Saturday Night Live for one season, but only made two episodes, then left to go back to be on SCTV, and then hosted in the 90s twice, Catherine O'Hara. A great talent. One of the best comedic talents. Certainly, if we're talking about male-female, Catherine O'Hara is up there, along with Rosanna and Rosanna, Disana. of course.
Starting point is 00:10:32 And I mean, just all the things that she did. Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner. Yeah. I call her Rosanna, Rosanna, Rana, Danna. Because that's how I was introduced to her as a small child. My dad would bust out laughing every time. Rosanna, Rosanna, Rana, Danna.
Starting point is 00:10:44 And Rosanna, Rana, Dana. Have you ever seen those skits? Oh, yeah. Rosanna-Danna Stits? Yeah, she's funny. Gilda Radner, who also died very young and way too soon. How old was Catherine O'Hara? Like, 61.
Starting point is 00:10:56 71. Yeah, that's not old of these. No. No. We got the guy, our president is like 83, isn't he? How old is that guy? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to say. I'll just leave it there. Just leave it there. He's old. He's way older than Catherine O'Hara was. That's for sure. That I know. Yeah, Catherine O'Hara goes, but listen, all of these great improv comedians and these people that were on SETV and S&L, and then you think about all the great casts that have been on SET. TV and SNL and in living color and mad TV. Yep. And, you know, you wait. Kids in the hall.
Starting point is 00:11:36 It was super fantastic. The whitest people we know. Oh, we had Michael Ian Black, who was upright citizens per grade. Yeah, and many people think he's in kids in the hall. That's right. They think he's in kids in the hall, but he's not. I subscribe to his substack, and it's actually really good. I enjoy it.
Starting point is 00:11:57 I just wait for the Daily Beast article to come out. I can't afford. an extra substack. No, it's free. It's a free situation. Oh, it is? Oh, okay. Let me go. You can subscribe to stuff for free on there, too. Yeah. Michael Ian Black, one of the more interesting conversations we've ever had. And I heard him on a friend's podcast. I won't mention that podcast. But I think we got off easy, if I'm being honest, I think we got off easy. I think he liked us. He can be sharp. I think he liked us. Because if he didn't like us, and I don't know what happened with my friends podcast, but it didn't go over all that Well. Okay, yeah. I can see how he could be very snarky. Oh, man. It was a train wreck from beginning
Starting point is 00:12:34 to end. And I don't think my friend did anything necessarily wrong. I think he maybe like throughout questions that Michael had answered a whole bunch before. And I think Michael felt like he was getting the, you know, kind of the like roll call type interview. Yeah, this is your life type interview. And he didn't like it for a moment one. And it went from bad to worse. He was very strong opinions. Yes, he does. If you have someone like Mike Leon Black on, you got to know what you're dealing with. And we didn't. So I think we just got lucky.
Starting point is 00:13:05 I mean, we don't do any homework. So I think we just got lucky. I think we just also have learned to take a really open approach to every conversation. Because when you prepare too much, you end up sounding like an idiot. Yeah, it's too scripted. Yes. If you prepare not at all, you end up sounding like an idiot. There's a sweet spot there where you review the bullet points.
Starting point is 00:13:25 You have something to rely on if you need to. you, but then you literally let it flow. Let it flow. Talk to him about whatever. Like you had met them at the bar and they were just another schmere. Yeah. Yeah, because he ended up talking about his like time in Vegas. He was out there because he was in Vegas when we interviewed him. And so he was out there like doing some gambling, but he had just gone to the daughter's
Starting point is 00:13:43 graduation. And yeah, it just flowed. It wasn't. So you did this and then that. Yeah. What did you? But we got there. We also did talk about upright Citizens Brigade.
Starting point is 00:13:52 We also did talk about some of the things that he had done in his career. and as a Daily Beast opinion writer and all that of their stuff. Listen, he's brilliant. He's one of the brilliant minds out there in media today. Oh, he's also doing that CNN show too, isn't it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:08 This just happened? It just happened? Yeah, and they're doing a podcast with it now, too. And also Roy Jodin Jr. is on there too, right? Yeah, Roy was another guest that we had that I really liked. There aren't too many guests that I didn't like, actually. True.
Starting point is 00:14:20 I can just think of one in particular. I can think of one specifically. Oh, you can think of two. Oh, yeah. Okay, I'm going to mute the microphone. Who's the second one? Oh, well, he never even came on the show. Yeah, and he didn't make it onto the show.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Yeah. Well, we nipped that once we saw the way he was acting. Jeremy Piven. Yes, it was. There you go. I'll say it out loud. I don't give a shit. I don't know that guy a goddamn thing.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Let's tell the Jeremy Piven story because I don't think we've ever told it on air. Now I don't think so either. Let's tell the Jeremy Piven story. And you be the judge. How's that? You be the judge. And I will tell it as honestly, and as accurately as I can possibly remember.
Starting point is 00:15:00 And at my age, it might be not 100%, but I will do my best, no exaggeration. And then we will see maybe someday there will be a Maya Copa from Jeremy or to Jeremy. I doubt it. Depending on, no, I don't think I would ever accept. I think it's just in his personality to be a dick. I agree with you.
Starting point is 00:15:16 I think the rumors are true. Yeah. And unlike John Candy, there are plenty of people who have said shitty things about Jeremy Piven. And we therefore, we were reluctant to have him on the show. We were. He was booked once, and for some reason it didn't happen.
Starting point is 00:15:32 And we said, okay, that's fine. I said, okay, that's fine. Because I don't know if I really want to have Jeremy Piven on the show. Anyway, was not the world's biggest fan of entourage. I liked it. I didn't love it. I watched episodes with a friend who was really into it. And I thought, okay, it's serviceable television.
Starting point is 00:15:47 I thought there was some good acting in there. But Jeremy Piven's character, it didn't feel like a character to me, right? And so many people have said that out loud. There are a lot of people that you can find. Remember, too, even like the sheet that we got before the interview and stuff, it was like, do not ask about. Oh, yeah. And like, don't ask about this and don't ask about that.
Starting point is 00:16:08 And da-da-da-da-da. I was like, okay. In the hundreds of interviews that we did in two and a half, three years of doing interviews, we only four times got a prep sheet or a note where it said, please do not. And two of those, one was because of. of a relationship and they didn't feel like they weren't ready to talk about it. They didn't want to make it public about the breakup. Cool.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Not even ever going to mention who that was. And number two was his mother recently died. Please don't bring up his childhood. Fair enough. That's right. Right. And by the way, he brought up his childhood and we went there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:49 So, you know, fair game is fair game. And I think we had a lovely conversation with him. Actually, we had him on twice. I'll let you guess who that was. All right. So why don't we do this? Let's take a break because I know I'll run into it and then people are going to be pissed. They've got to listen to the commercial break in order to get to it. And let us talk about the TCB Jeremy Piven's story from beginning to end. We'll give you the straight shit. And then I want you to tell us what you think. What do you think about that? I think we should do it. That's a good way to kill 20 minutes right now. I can stretch it out to 20 minutes. It felt like forever. It felt like in the moment. It is. Oh, my God. It's crazy. Okay. Yeah, let's take a break. If I can find, why don't I always have to find my commercial? Well, now that I'm live producing it, it's just a little bit, it's, I don't like to do all the post-production. So I try my best just to make it all clean and tidy. And people are streaming. So when they're streaming, they don't want to hear all the spaces and places. Oh, there we go. She's here for the, hey, okay. We have, hey, everybody in the streaming universe, we have some people they say they're here for the tea. We'll give it to you. We'll be right back. Hey, listen. All that time we spent interviewing people, and we really only got two good stories, two, like, groundbreaking stories out of it.
Starting point is 00:18:02 One is the Jeremy Piven story, and the other one was Bad Bunny's producer. Jimmy Jam, whatever his name was. And neither of those. Nikki Jam. Nikki Jam's story came out. He told Today Show before he told us. He told us first, but then we couldn't put it out until after he had told us a show. We got an embargo.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Please embargo this story for 90 days. 90 days. And then he told The Today Show and then every other podcast in the world and then whatever. Okay. And then the second story, the really good story that we got is Jeremy Piven. There is a third celebrity, which I will not go into. I've said it before on the show that he was my least favorite interview. But I won't go into why.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Because I think that may have just been him and I not getting along. Like we just didn't rub each other the right way. I think he also was just, I think it was just his personality. He had sharp elbows also. That's what he's known for, right? But he is a world-class writer and producer and stand-up comedian, and we were glad to have him on the show. But he and I did not rub each other the right way. And that was clear from almost the beginning.
Starting point is 00:19:12 Well, actually, the beginning was great. And then it went sideways all of a sudden when I tried to retell one of his jokes. Right. Okay. But then it never recovered. It just like the plane crashed. And we were all like, ah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Well, I guess we got to go. I'll talk to you later. Bye-bye. Okay. All right. So anyway, everyone wants to hear about Jeremy Piven. So let's hear a commercial and then we'll be back in two and two. Okay, you're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at TCB. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her, or me or Chrissy, at 212-4333-3-T-CCC. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Just call and say something.
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Starting point is 00:20:24 Best to you. And Astrid, especially out. Mustard. All right. I love me some Jackie Baines. The Pearl Jam Show. That's a weird way that he says it.
Starting point is 00:21:44 The AI singer. Okay, so let's be clear about something first. First, let's be clear about something. This is the straight shit from Google, which is always right. Jeremy, and when I put Jeremy Piven is a dick, this is what I get. Jeremy Piven has faced public professional and personal scrutiny regarding his behavior,
Starting point is 00:22:06 acknowledging in 2015 during an interview that he has moments where he needs to calm down and check his own behavior. Additionally, he was accused of sexual misconduct or appropriate behavior from multiple women in 2017 and 18. The public perception is that he can be a jerk at times, and he agrees that he often has to check his own behavior. The allegations started early in 2013, and they have gone on ever since. And he had a show, if you remember, and I don't remember this. Wisdom of the crowd. No. Don't even remember this, right?
Starting point is 00:22:44 But he had a show, and there was a lot of shit flying out of there about him. What was the show about? I don't need. Wisdom of the crowd. Was it like a talk show? No. Or he involved the crowd? It was a sitcom?
Starting point is 00:22:56 It's probably a Seinfeld-like show where he, you know, he does. He was on an episode of Seinfeld. Wisdom of the Crowd show. He was. I do remember that. And he was good. He was good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Listen. Early days. Yes. Oh, wisdom of the crowd is a CBS crime genre that's aired in 2017 and 18. Jeremy Piven is a tech innovator who creates crowd sourcing platform called Sophie to solve crimes. Sounds absolutely like a shit show. I really want to watch crowdsourcing. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:25 All right. Okay. So Jeremy Piven has a well-understander. understood reputation for rubbing people the wrong way. Now, I have never, I gave him a chance because I also saw during the pandemic, I saw Jeremy Piven give a rather lengthy, unedited Maya Copa about his behavior, saying that he was trying to do better, that he understood that he rubbed people the wrong way, that sometimes it was hard for him to separate his own persona from the one that he played on entourage. Ari.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Ari. And that's what people expected and sometimes that's what he gave them and that there was a lot of him in Ari. There was this whole thing. And I thought, well, at least he's self-aware. He still came across like a dick, even on that interview. But okay, whatever. And then I've watched a lot of other places where Jeremy seems to just have sharp elbows. That's it. He can be a little bit braddy. I guess it's the best way to put it. Okay. We got asked early last year, 2025, if we could if we could, if we could, if we could, if we could, if we can be a little bit braddy. I guess it's the best way to put it. I guess. I guess it. I guess it's the best way. Okay. Okay. Okay. We got. We got. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay could have Jeremy on the show in support of his new tour. We said after weeks of being asked, the same question over and over again, which is how it happened sometimes. And I was just delaying. I said, okay, we'll have him on. He canceled. He canceled because the tour got canceled.
Starting point is 00:24:44 His mom passed away, right? Okay. This is another situation. This is one of the things we weren't supposed to talk to Jeremy about. Well, we weren't supposed to talk about his mom. It was well-known knowledge that his mom passed away. His mom passed away. Date had to move.
Starting point is 00:24:57 He was canceling his tour. He was going to do it again. Okay. Late summer of last year, we get asked again, will you do Jeremy? He's getting ready. He's gearing up to do that tour that he had to cancel. Is it okay if he comes on now? We said, okay.
Starting point is 00:25:12 The time, which I don't remember exactly, but let's just say, was 1 p.m. Eastern standard time. And Chrissy and I, as we often did, got in the studio early to record a regular episode of TCB, which is what we were doing at 12 o'clock. Yep. When at 1215, we get frantic text messages and phone calls from not only our booking agency, but his agent and Astrid. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Who always helps. It was like our clock. She's our schedule. She will tell us when we need to be somewhere. She's like the executive producer. She hustles us up and says, you got that interview today. And I'm like, oh, an interview in 10 minutes? I should research that.
Starting point is 00:25:55 So we're recording and all of a sudden the phone started buzzing because I have my phone off, but if one of those people calls it, it will ring. Yes. And I stopped the show. I answered. We were like, what's going on? What's going on? And Astrid says, Jeremy is on the platform. Riverside.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Yeah, Riverside. The ISDN platform. He's on the ISDN platform right now. Yeah. And we said, well, he's not until 1 o'clock. And she says, I know. But for some reason he's on there. He's been waiting for 15 minutes.
Starting point is 00:26:25 And we say, okay, well, we'll do our best to shift gears and get in there as quickly as possible. Now, listen to this. Astrid comes flying in the door, and she's like, his producer is texting me right now. His agent is texting me right now. What do I say? And I said, well, you got to tell them we need a few minutes to shift gears. Yeah, we'll stop the show that we were doing. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:51 And now try and get in, get logged into the platform, get everything set up. Yeah. That's right. And so the producer says, well, I'll do my best to get a hold of Jeremy. And we're like, what do you mean do your best to get a hold of Jeremy? If he's in the thing, don't you know how to get a hold of him? Isn't this the guy who said, well, I don't know his phone number. No, she didn't have his number.
Starting point is 00:27:13 He did not have his own client's cell phone number. He didn't know where to find him. Yeah. But he knew enough that he was inside the Riverside platform. Because I think the other guy had logged in, too, as a lot of the times the agents do the log-in. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's true. He was logging in. Sometimes the agents are watching from afar, from a, like a waiting room that they can watch and not talk. Yeah. How do you have an agent that doesn't know where the fuck to get a hold of you? Yeah, it was just by email only.
Starting point is 00:27:42 We were like, what? Okay. Go ahead. Email your client who needs us to do an emergency stop on all other things to be an hour early for an interview that has clients. clearly been marked on our calendar for 1 p.m. It's not our mistake. I even went back and checked the confirmation email, which said 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And I said, okay, well, we're going to deal with it. And we're going to, so we switch gears. It takes about five minutes to switch gears.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Change this, do that, hook up, get in the thing, do the thing. And we get there. And Jeremy Piven is on a flip phone from 1922 with his flip phone camera. Stay outside on a patio. Yeah, he's in like some hope. hotel and patio. In Colorado, where he has a terrible internet reception. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:28 And he's smoking whatever, a cigar or a cigarette or whatever he's smoking. The smoke is everywhere. And there's this terrible picture. And we cannot, we go. Well, he's like, hey, oh, hey, yeah, hold on, guys. Yeah. And then so he has us then hold. Well, he.
Starting point is 00:28:46 I go, hey, Jeremy, man, really sorry. Hey. Hey. Hey, guys. Hey Jeremy, really sorry about the miscommunication. We thought this was supposed to be at 1 p.m. Yeah, yeah. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:29:02 Okay, yeah, we can hold that. Take your time. Yeah, hold on. And then this is what we hear. Well, he puts his phone down, and we're just looking at, like, the patio ceiling. The ceiling fan. The ceiling fan on a patio. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:17 And this is what we hear. He's on a speaker phone call in the other room. Yeah. Where I think he's talking about us, what jerks we are that we left him waiting like this. And we sit there for a good 10 fucking minutes. Yes. And Chrissy and I are looking at each other? Oh.
Starting point is 00:29:43 What? What is going on? Yeah, because I was like, and we turned off our microphone, so we're talking. Brian and I are talking to each other. I'm like, I think he's like talking to somebody else in the other room. And like, what is going up? What is he doing? What is he talking about?
Starting point is 00:29:54 Who is he talking to? Yeah. It was very confusing. Very confusing. So then Jeremy, so after 10 fucking minutes, which is an entire lifetime when you are, when you live and die on the clock of the podcast universe, right? It is eating into everything else we need to do, including his intro outro, his actual interview, which now if the schedule is correct and we have an hour with them, we've, we've
Starting point is 00:30:21 got like 17 minutes left. It's like, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't even know how I'm going to talk to the guy in 17 minutes. You've heard me talk. It takes me 17 minutes just to say hello. Yes. Come on. It's frying green. Jeremy comes back and here's Jeremy. The police are with him. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Jeremy, everything okay over there? We're just, we're just waiting. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I can't see you guys. You're right. And meanwhile, the internet's cutting in and out too. His internet.
Starting point is 00:30:59 Yeah. He's like, I can't hear you guys. I can't hear you. Can you hear me? I can't hear you. And I'm like, yeah, Jeremy, we can hear you. But it's a little spotty. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:09 Yeah. Well, you'd think, you know, in the year 2025 that you'd actually be able to get a program that we'd be able to like talk to each other okay without all this interruption. And I was like, uh, yeah? And he's like, I mean, we might as well just do a phone call at this point. And I'm like, listen, Jeremy, it's okay. Do you want to just like go into another room and see if you can get internet? And he's like, I guess. I guess I can do that.
Starting point is 00:31:35 Yeah, I guess maybe I just send a carrier pigeon. Maybe I, that would be better write a letter and send a carrier pigeon. And I'm like, okay, all right, whatever you feel comfortable doing, Jeremy, now I'm getting sassy. Now I'm like, okay, whatever you feel comfortable doing, Jerry. Yeah, I guess I'll just find another room. So he's walking around with the phone in hand, going like, this, right? Walking all around, we're getting seasick over here because he's sending us all over the place. And I'm like, yeah, I can see you. And, you know, he's like, hey, can you hear me? And I'm like,
Starting point is 00:32:07 hey, listen, Jeremy, we can hear you just fine. So why don't you just put the phone down and let's do the best that we can and we'll get through this somehow, some way? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. this is going to work, guys. I don't know how we're going to do this. I mean, you have another system that's better than this? I mean, you'd think with the internet these days, this would be better. And I'm like, you'd think so, Jeremy, but I don't think it's really working. So I'll tell you what, we have one or two choices at this point. We can either reschedule the interview, or you can just put the phone down, and we can do the best that we can. And he goes, uh, hold on one second. And then he puts the fucking phone down again. Yep. And Chrissy and I are like,
Starting point is 00:32:54 left there waiting for another three or four minutes while he again is on the fucking phone with someone else in another goddamn room. At this point, Chrissy and I are like, what do we do here? Do we bail or should we stay or should we? How did this end? Because did we just hang up on him? I think we told him, well, it feels like we just hung up on him, but I think we told him, hey, let's all close out and come back in. Oh yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah, And then we decided to never come back in because of technical issues. Jeremy comes back at some point from his third phone call with someone else during our interview time, leaving us hanging and staring at a ceiling somewhere. He comes back.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Now we've wasted 40 minutes of our life on this, guys. 40 minutes of our life on this and we have no usable content. And Jeremy is just being a dick. For what reason? I don't know. Sorry your mom passed away. I can only imagine how difficult that must be. but you don't have to treat everybody else in the world like a complete asshole because of that. And you could just say, sorry about the scheduling issue.
Starting point is 00:34:03 Apologize first. I'm sorry that my manager scheduled at a time that I, whatever. Sorry about the snafu. And I'm not getting good reception here in this dark tunnel in Denver, Colorado. So I'm going to let you go and we'll reschedule. But that's not what he did. He left us hanging. He put the phone down for minutes on end. And then he had the audacity to take other phone calls while we were supposed to be interviewing him. It was very bizarre. Fucking bizarre behavior. So when he comes back and he's like, what about this? Is this better? I said, hey, Jeremy, listen, let's do this. Let's close out. And then we'll come back and we'll see if it works. Because I know exactly what we're going to do. We're not coming back. Right. I'll leave you hanging. How's that? You can stare at. my screensaver. And that's exactly what we did. And his agent starts calling and texting and
Starting point is 00:34:59 freaking out. Jeremy's back on. What's going on? And I said, oops, sorry. We're technical issues. We're going to have to reschedule at some point. And for a month, this agent desperately tried to get us to reschedule this interview because the agent knew that it was his fault that we were all in this kerfuffle in the first place. Yeah, this time change. Yes. Jeremy Piven. was a complete dick. He chose violence when he could have chose kindness. And that's all you have to say about somebody. He doesn't know us. We don't know him. When we learned that there was a problem, we did our best to quickly address the problem. Get on, even though it wasn't our fault. Even though we absolutely had the right to say, we're scheduled at one. We're in the middle of
Starting point is 00:35:40 something. But we didn't do that. We wanted Jeremy to, to, we wanted to respect Jeremy's time. We understood there was an issue. And by the way, it wasn't the first time in the commercial break history. Actually. With scheduling changes when people are on the West Coast, East Coast, whatever, yeah. They scheduled it at 2. It's really at 11. They scheduled it at 4. It's supposed to be at 3.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Whatever. And we always did our best to be accommodating. Because who the fuck are we? We're the commercial break. Thank you for coming on. We really appreciate it. We're not divas. We don't care.
Starting point is 00:36:11 We never felt like we were above anybody. And we never felt like we felt grateful to have people's time. And we got to talk to somebody else. Jeremy, we did our best to meet Jeremy with kindness and meet him where he was. And Jeremy did his best to swing his dick as far and wide as he could. And so you know what? Fuck you, Jeremy. Fuck you.
Starting point is 00:36:33 Yeah, it was a bad experience. And then it was a terrible experience. I mean, listen, it was 15, it was like 50 minutes of our lives total. And very rarely do I think about it ever. It doesn't like it's not going to keep me up in night. No, but when we think about interviews that didn't go well. That's one of the ones in top of my. That is definitely one of the top ones.
Starting point is 00:36:55 And I will say this also is that a couple weeks later, that fucking suit commercial that he did comes out. That 15-minute weird suit commercial where he like sets on fire and he's the devil or something. And I thought, that's perfect. That is Jeremy. He's not playing anybody else. He's playing himself. As he walking to the office, calling people, you know, ugly. Yeah, yeah, he's being a dick.
Starting point is 00:37:21 That is Jeremy. And there's lots of videos out there, by the way, of him out in the wild. There's like a guy that was trying to, like, videotape something with him while he was smoking a cigar on a patio. And Jeremy just was a total cock knocker. If you have an opportunity in your life, if you have the honor of being famous and rich and loved for a character that you do, even just one, you should really, really be great. for that, in my opinion. You did one thing that's stuck in people's craw. You did one thing that's
Starting point is 00:37:55 memorable to a lot of people. You should be grateful that that happened to you. But I think Jeremy is the opposite. I think he's a miserable prick who just cannot find a way to be happy about anybody or anything. And does he have a girlfriend? I was just thinking the same thing. I don't think so. Because we were doing some kind of prep too before that day looking at some of his stand-up. And he was talking about how he had just broken up with somebody or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, listen, he's stand-up is no great accomplishment either. Yeah, stand-up was not good.
Starting point is 00:38:28 I don't even think that tour happened. I don't even think that tour happened. I think he did like two dates and then he had to cancel the rest of the dates. Listen, I'm not calling the kettle black here. We also canceled some tour days. We did. Yeah. We had some last-minute curfuffle ourselves.
Starting point is 00:38:43 That was a medical emergency, though. Yeah, that's true. I had to get my neck taken out. Let's see if he's still, is he still on tour? Jeremy Piven Tour. Oh, he's got 2026 dates? No, that can't be true. Oh, Chris, he'll be here in the city winery on April 18th for a 630 and a 1030 show.
Starting point is 00:39:06 630 and he'll be at Zanies in Nashville. Yeah, listen. I also guess I have to think about life from his standpoint. he's an actor he has a couple of roles that are meaty roles and dramas and comedies he did all those comedy movies
Starting point is 00:39:25 back in the early 2000s remember he was part of like that zany crew of national lampoons whatever I mean Jeremy's done a number of things he has I mean he's obviously most famous for entourage but yeah
Starting point is 00:39:38 what else did Jeremy do I don't know we knew this he's ever ever ever as like a main character no he was always like the buddy. Oh, you know what? I will say this. Jeremy is in one of my favorite movies of all time. What is that? Favorite love stories of all time. Serendipity. He's the he's the sidekick in serendipity and he did a fucking fantastic job as the sidekick to John Cusack in that movie. He was so good. He was like practical and pragmatic and he played a straight, he played the, he played
Starting point is 00:40:11 the like the wing man perfectly in that movie. And I love it. And so now, every time I'm, like, I watched it over the Christmas holiday as I do, but it's hard to get out of my head that Jeremy left me on a phone call forever and ever. Entourage. Mr. Selfridge. What was that? I don't know. Primitive War.
Starting point is 00:40:32 Oh, primitive roar. Was that like Jurassic Park knockoff from last year? It was. Yeah, it was like really bad CGI that everyone is making fun of. Serendipity. Smoking Aces, which was a pretty good movie. old school. That's right.
Starting point is 00:40:47 He was in old school. He played like the dean, didn't he? Perfect for him. Spy kids. I can't say I saw that. He was in rush hour two. I'm just picking movies where I think you might gross point blank.
Starting point is 00:41:05 That's right. He was in the performance, which was okay. I saw that. He was in heat? He was in heat. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:16 I mean, he's had a career. He certainly has had a career. Larry Sanders shows. He was one of the writers in the Larry Sanders show. He was good in that. I'll have to give him that. Yeah. So, oh, Astrid's calling me now. But we don't have an interview. So anyway, that's the Jeremy Pivens story. Jeremy ended up being a real nudneck. And we were. Yeah, we had to get out of it. Yeah. I mean, I felt it was just, it was very bizarre. It was. And yeah, he was not nice. It was a super bizarre interview. It was a super bizarre 50 minutes of our life where we couldn't make heads or tails of why Jeremy was treating us the way he was treating us or what exactly was going on. I couldn't. Oh, I couldn't figure out what was going on. After a while I knew what was going on. He was giving us the pain that he felt waiting for us for 15 minutes. But that is an extraordinarily childish thing. Yes.
Starting point is 00:42:16 That's like Pam Bondi type shit. You know what I'm saying? Good old Pam. Oh, God. I've never seen a display like that, by the way, as I did yesterday with Pam Bondi. That was incredible. That's the person who leads the Justice Department, by the way. Leads our Justice Department, and she can't be bothered to act like an actual adult.
Starting point is 00:42:40 That was insane when she started talking about the Dow Jones. Did you see that part? You didn't? I'm going to show it to you on the break. I'm not going to show it to you here, but I'll show it to you on the break. Anyway, Jeremy, I welcome you to write us an official apology later. And then at some point in the future, Chrissy and I will consider talking nicely about you. And then if things go well from there, we'll think about taking you out of time out from the commercial break. Think about it. We'll think about it. Listen, I can be the bigger man. I can be the bigger man. But we're going to address that. first. That's the first thing we're going to talk about. And if you give me answers that I don't like, there's going to be another technical issue where we're all going to refresh. And you know what happens after that, Jeremy. You know, we're gone. We're gone. Ride like the wind. All right, we'll take a break. We'll be back. Okay, you're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at TCB. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up, even for a minute.
Starting point is 00:43:46 Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her, or me, or Chrissy, at 212-4333-TCB. That's 212 433-3822. You can be on the show too. Mm-hmm. Just call and say something. Anything. Or text us and we'll text you're right back. Promise. Then head over to TCB Podcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker. And we must have Bide. You get the point. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on video at YouTube.com slash the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid, especially Astrid. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Oh, sorry. I just, I accidentally just ended it. Sorry, if you're looking for the end of the song, I'm sorry. Yes, we'd love to buy more viewers. We're going to do that soon. It's funny how those bots just jump right in there. They just know immediately. Yeah, they know immediately that you're online and they're like, best viewers ever.
Starting point is 00:45:22 Best viewers call zambu.com. Zambu. Okay, I'll call you immediately zambu. I'm on my way. Bitcoin is crashing. Oh, again. Bitcoin is crashing. I think this time it feels a little different, actually, and I'll tell you why.
Starting point is 00:45:39 And smarter people than I told me this, and I'm repeating it just to let you know. So I'm not giving no financial advice. Do not buy yourself Bitcoin based on what you hear here. And I need to say that because there are people like me, other podcasters, who went in and talked all about how wonderful, you know, all the cryptocurrencies were. And then they have been caught up in cryptocurrency. Scam after scam, crash after crash, bullshit. And I am not one of those people. I'm not encouraging you to buy. I'm not encouraging you to sell. I'm telling you what I feel. And for the sake of transparency, I no longer have any, any alt coin whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:46:16 I have sold it all because at the low, I sold it yesterday. The old, the Brian Green method. Buy low, I mean, sell low, buy high. That's the way you do. Buy high, sell low. Cryptocurrency is actually the only thing I have ever, not only thing, but pretty close to the only thing I've ever gotten right business-wise. I don't know. I have a feel for these things.
Starting point is 00:46:42 And I actually sold my Bitcoin It was at $119,000. The high was $125. So I sold it pretty close to the high. Okay. Because I had to, because I was out of money. I need some cash. I bought a bunch of ripple,
Starting point is 00:46:58 which is what they call a stable coin. I bought that many years ago for three cents, and I sold it at $2.5. Okay. I bought a ton of it, like a lot of it. But this was years ago, and I was like, ooh, I'm rich, and then it all went away.
Starting point is 00:47:13 As it does. As it does, as it tends to do. The altcoin market right now is evaporating right in front of our eyes. It was at $125,000 earlier last year. Like per coin? Per coin, per bit coin. Okay. Which is amaze balls when you think about it because there is nothing backing that Bitcoin.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Right. There's no actual product. There's no actual anything. It's a weird, unusual investment. It almost can't be used anywhere. It's an investment vehicle that simply, relies on supply and demand. That's it. But there is nothing to supply. There is nothing to demand. It is just a fictitious in your head. The currency is not accepted in most places. It mainly is not
Starting point is 00:47:55 used, you know, it can be used as a trading vehicle. I saw that they were starting to do some Bitcoin stuff on a real estate show that I was watching about New York. Yes. In New York, there are some real estate attorneys that will now take Bitcoin to buy and sell transactions. And there have been houses that have been bought and sold with Bitcoin. But think about how volatile that is. That'd be like buying a house with stocks, like Disney stock that you have. It could go up. One second later, it could go down. Yeah. Right? And then you have to bring more cash to the table. We have to bring more Bitcoin to the table. The person who's accepting the Bitcoin as a method of payment could be out 30. And it could
Starting point is 00:48:36 sell a million dollar house and be out $300,000 by the time you go to cash it the next day. Because that's just the way that the market is. It's really weird to buy a house with a stock, essentially, a very fluid, risky, volatile thing. The dollar is not. The dollar goes up and down. Yes, it does, but not like that. Doesn't ever go up down like that. Like 0.000,0001% over the course of a day, maybe, yeah. So we're seeing a crash and that crash is different. than the crash last year. Why is that? Because as soon as Trump came into office,
Starting point is 00:49:11 he started signing executive orders to loosen regulations around alt-coin. I remember saying all that. Bitcoin. I'm the Bitcoin president. By the way, the Trump coin, the Melania coin, the Eric Jr. coin, the whatever coin,
Starting point is 00:49:25 all of those have crashed also. But they crashed within days of them actually being out there on the market. Because that's what happens. People on the inside know what's going to happen. They buy the second it comes out or even previously or they're given that and then they sell it immediately because they understand that's the highest is probably ever going to be. It's a novelty coin. It's a meme coin. Literally based on a meme. Bitcoin is Bitcoin,
Starting point is 00:49:52 ripple, ether, um, excuse me, Ethereum. Some of these are like they're known to have some kind of functionality and they're like the big boys in the market. But the truth is it really still relies on people's brains and their excitement to drive value. The more people that are buying it, the higher that it goes. The more people that are selling it, the lower that it goes. Simple supply and demand, but there's nothing there. It's just, it's a digital transaction. That's all it is. It's a ledger. It's a digital ledger. And in very short order, it went from $1,000, $1,000 to now around $60,000 today. That's insane. Think about that. You put $10,000 in Bitcoin the summer of last year, toward the end of last year, and now you have less than $6,000. That's what happened. You lost
Starting point is 00:50:49 almost half of your money in a very short amount of time. And now you're trying to sell so you can stop the bleeding, get some of your cash back, and this is what happens in its compounding. there's also now ETFs and all kind of financial products that have Bitcoin wrapped into them. So now unlike before Trump came in office, now there are
Starting point is 00:51:11 legitimate financial products that have Bitcoin as a part of their portfolio. Yes, that's true. And so now many people who really weren't ready for the risk didn't like the risk, didn't want the risk, but they've been sold this and you get in on it and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:51:27 Now they're exposed. and this could be very, very problematic. AI and Bitcoin, too, very problematic things for our economy. Trust me on this. And Bitcoin is the first one that I think will take it on the chin, and I'm not sure if it'll, it might recover over some period of time. I don't prognosticate about these things. It might go back to 125,000, maybe a million, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:51:53 But the truth is, is that a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money over the next couple of months, weeks, days. I promise you, this is going to be start, people are going to start talking about this a lot. The news is going to start focusing on this a lot because a lot of people are losing a lot of money right now. And they're losing money when they were invested in what they thought were traditional financial products
Starting point is 00:52:12 sold to them by the big firms like, you know, Black Rock and Smith Barney and all this other stuff. This is going to be a problem, Chrissy. It's going to be a problem. Why is it different, you were saying? Because it is wrapped up now and a lot more of the traditional. Yeah, because they loosen the regulations. Before there were regulations that Bitcoin could not be traded like a security.
Starting point is 00:52:32 It couldn't be a part of it. It couldn't be securitized. It couldn't be split and diced and wrapped into portfolios this way or that way because it was an unregulated cryptocurrency, essentially. It was not part of, it wasn't allowed inside of those marketplaces. Trump broke those walls. And now he broke those walls, mainly to enrich himself with his Trump coin and his bullshit. And now it's all taken a shit in the floor.
Starting point is 00:52:56 And so people who would normally not be exposed to this type of things, companies like Black Rock and Smith Barney and J.P. Morgan Chase, who are now holding billions and billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin because they also, you know, got wrapped into the hype, right? They are exposed also. So pay attention here, kids. Pay attention here. This could be a big problem.
Starting point is 00:53:19 I told you that one of a guy that we know, a guy that I know, who I would not even have placed. $1 bet on him graduating eighth grade. Oh, you've talked about him. I think he can be a very nice human being, but he is a real fucking nudnik. I mean a real nudnik. Like the king of nidnicks, right?
Starting point is 00:53:43 And everybody knew it. And God bless his soul, but he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He started mining Bitcoin weeks after it came out, weeks after it came out. And for years, we all looked at him. I mean, I didn't know him back then, but I'm, but one of my, somebody I know very closely did know him back then. And every, he said everyone was like, the fuck are you doing. You're buying computer software and driving up your electricity bill to mine a coin that's worth six and a half cents. What are you doing? Well, he ended up mining like thousands of Bitcoin and he is now a multi, multi, multi millionaire because of that Bitcoin. But every time I look at that Bitcoin going,
Starting point is 00:54:26 wait down into the ground. I think about him. I'm like, oh my God, he's losing millions and millions and millions of dollars. Every $10,000 this knocks down. Now, I still think he's going to be okay. He got it at like six cents, right? I think he's going to be okay. But I'm just saying it's this is a sticky wicket.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Yeah, it's a roller coaster. Yes. I wonder what the Trump coin is at. Let's take a look at that. By the way, we didn't talk about the Melania doc. Do you have a chance to see that? I did not. Why not?
Starting point is 00:55:00 I'm not interested. You're not? Okay. I think we're all going to be forced to watch it when it slides into our downloads on Amazon Prime. Like that U-2 album did that one time on Apple. Oh, right. Yeah. It's going to happen.
Starting point is 00:55:14 Mark my words. We're all going to find that it's in our library. Yeah. And we're going to be like, I didn't download that shit. And Jeff Bezos is going to be like, yes, you did. Right. The Trump mean coin is now down 96% from its high. What was the high and what's it now?
Starting point is 00:55:38 The high was, the crypto market has been volatile, Bitcoin. Trump coin this morning, or as of Monday, stood at $3.39. And the Melania coin, it stood at $3.99. The Melania coin, which once,
Starting point is 00:55:56 traded as high as $13.73 is now at $12. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And the Trump coin saw 96% slide over the last year. 96%. Great investment. Think about all of those people. All of those people who had like $5,000 sitting in the bank. Or our listeners of the YouTube album is still on. I have all music. I think it's still in mine too. It's probably still in mine too because there was no way to delete it. There was that time that you kept getting into your car and it kept playing over and over and over again. It was driving me up a fucking wall. This happened when I was with SimCol FM. This is years and years ago. And it kept playing and playing and I just wanted to throw that fucking thing out the window. I was like, goddamn, I do not want to hear this new U2 album.
Starting point is 00:56:45 I haven't listened to U2 since Rattle and Humb. That was the last time I liked U2. And I love them. I love it. Rattle and Humb, Joshua, two of the best albums ever made. hands down. But all this fucking new shit where he's got a globe in his penis and he's like Come on,
Starting point is 00:57:00 come on with your radio Shukabooki do. I don't care about all that shit. I like my Bono saving kids from starvation.
Starting point is 00:57:10 That's what I like. Go out there and do that Bono. But however, however, now that we're totally off subject,
Starting point is 00:57:15 I did see Bono over Christmas vacation was in an Irish pub singing with her
Starting point is 00:57:23 without you. Nice. And the karaoke bar. Like a live karaoke bar. There was a band behind a couple guitars and a drummer and they started singing with or without you and Bono starts, like someone in the crowd recognizes and Bono gets up on stage and starts singing and it was brilliant. It's snowing
Starting point is 00:57:41 in the background and it's like, you know, I don't... I've seen a couple of the musicians get on on karaoke. Yes. Like just randomly kind of slide in. Yeah. Anonymously. Anonymously. Anonymously.
Starting point is 00:57:55 Unanimously. Unanimously. Yes. They unanimously anonymously go up there and do their thing. Yeah, but I loved it. I was like, that's good. That's funno. That's good.
Starting point is 00:58:04 You're at that age where you just sit back and go do karaoke. I mean, they got the biggest music. They get the biggest contract in music history. R.E.M. did and then you surped them by like a $30 million. They got like. For their catalog? Yeah. Well, no, for like the next albums.
Starting point is 00:58:22 They did like a set. seven album deal, I think, with UMG or something like that. It was a big deal when it happened. And, you know, then they started putting out albums like, you know, Rocketcock or whatever. And it was like Rocketcock. They still do big tours. I mean, they did, you know, a number of years ago. They stood a big tours.
Starting point is 00:58:37 But they got paid like, I don't know, like $620 million for seven albums. They were the inaugural people at the sphere. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:58:47 Fish is going back to the sphere. I see. Fish. Fish will be there. that's good. You know, the sphere is also another one that's financially in trouble. It's not doing so well. Because it just can't make that Vegas in general. Vegas in general, another gambling facility that is just doing terribly, terribly. Vegas, the occupancy rate sits at like 67% right now. Well, I mean, I was reading that a lot of that is because of international travelers. I mean, the travel market here in the U.S., people don't want to come. No, I wouldn't want to either. I don't want to be here.
Starting point is 00:59:23 I want to go somewhere else. Yeah, just to get away from the news. I was talking to, I wasn't talking to, but I had a friend, I'm talking to social media. I had a friend who's on social media, and he's got a pretty big following, and he was stating that he's been over in Japan for like the last month or something. He's doing something over there, the last month. And he put out this reel where he said, hey, I just want to pop on here and let you know. I'm in Japan. I've been here for a month.
Starting point is 00:59:49 I really haven't been posting a lot because I realized that. that over here in Japan, I'm not being inundated. My social media isn't being inundated with all the divisive content. My news feed isn't inundated with all the divisive content. It's actually quite nice. That's nice. Yeah. He's like, I'm getting puppies, kittens, anime, and, you know, the occasional kid falling off his bike. He's like, that's really what I'm getting. He goes, maybe once every six days I've seen something about Trump or ICE or whatever. Not my feed. Fuck. Yeah. Unbelievable. What are we going to do, Chrissy? How are we going to save the world? That's my question. I need to come up with a plan. Okay. You put together a PowerPoint. Okay. I'll put together a proposal. I'll follow your lead.
Starting point is 01:00:35 I got other things to do. I got to go raise my children. Yes, and you were telling me you had the sweet father, sod, or dance on Friday. I love those. I did. We'll talk about it more on Valentine's Day. But, um, wait, when? Valentine's Day is on Saturday. Saturday? Saturday? Okay. But we had a lovely, lovely time. So we'll talk about it next week.
Starting point is 01:00:59 Yeah. It was just lovely. Yeah. So it's getting around that time for Valentine's Day. My wife back in July booked me. We've been waiting three years to do this because all three years it's sold out. And in July, she got online and she found some tickets to go to the daddy daughter dance at the local rec center. And it was, I'm so in love with my daughters.
Starting point is 01:01:21 I know. I remember Jeff going to those with our girls. And yeah. I showed up at the front door. Oh, yeah. You took them on a date. I took them on a date. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of creepy. I didn't say date. I said, can I, can I, can I accompany you to the dance? Yes. Yes. And we just, we had a, we had a grand old time. I bet you did. They were dancing and jumping and hugging and kissing. It was a lovely evening. And then, you know, they were crazy because they had out all this sugar. and I had to get him to sleep. And Astrid was going to a party that night. It was a big night.
Starting point is 01:01:55 It was a long night for daddy. I was like, God damn, I'm tired. But that's what you do when you're a girl, dad, right? That's right. Okay. All right. Okay. So, yeah, so now we're three days a week.
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