The Commercial Break - Bears, Chicken, & Flava Flav...Oh My!

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

We got bears in Pigeon Forge, sad chicken for Bryan, and Flava Flav singing the national anthem at an NBA game…we always keep it interesting here at TCB! Bryan’s Father-in-Law is “Ay, Bryan”-ing again Gettin’ shocked Pigeon Forge Bears! Fool's gold! Bryans in charge of picking the restaurant… A life size Paula Deen cut out Ah, the old “meat n four” Bryan’s sugar daddy shirt Marlon is alive Sugar momma sites don't work for everyone Rose jail Vanilla Ice is doing Twisted Tea FLAAAAAVA FLAAAAAV Flava Flav singing the national anthem?! Or vs o’er More fried chicken! LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us at: 1.855.TCB.8383 Call 626.ASK.TCB3 and leave us a voicemail Speak to TCB LIVE by calling 775.TCB.LIVE (1.775.822.5483) Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-5pm EST 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 Episodic Contribution: Marianne, Diane, Natalie, Will The Champ, Will D**  

Okay, like, say the time, it's a bitch boy! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! For real. On this episode of the commercial break, they bring out 22 pieces of chicken and 21 of them are gone before the lazy Susan gets back around to me. And I'm like, a bitch. And then I'm left with like a little tiny leg You know from like the the bird. Yeah, I One of those roosters that got run over by huh. Yeah

Swing flew off and I got that way The next episode of the commercial break starts now Commercial break starts now. Ah! Yeah, I can't take it and it's my back to the commercial break. I'm Ryan Griech. This is the director of Big Clots. Chris and Joy Holt, it best you, Chris. That's you, Brian.

Best you, although the podcast universe. You get an episode, and you get an episode, and you get an episode, and something just exploded in my house. What was that? I don't know. Did you hear that? Something just exploded. Boom.

It's my father and law playing around with the electricity again. So we have this, we have a pantry in the back of our kitchen, that pantry, and then we have a refrigerator. The refrigerator is a typical size refrigerator for a typical household, right? But for some reason, we can never fit the amount of food that we need to fit into this enormous refrigerator and freezer, side by side, uh, refrigerator and freezer. So Astrid has the ingenious idea, let's get an extra refrigerator and we can put in the pantry. Well, the pantry is full of shelving, there is no where to put it, there is no, there's

no outlet as most pantries. Don't have outlet. But my father and a lot of the rescue, I'm Brian. Hi, Brian, I'm Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, but I'm real man-star. He's doing stuff that takes testicles and Brian just doesn't have a pair. So, you know, everything he does, he's got to ask me, which is like super nice of him.

But basically today, I took my daughter was dressed up as Princess Peach from Mario Brothers, one of my daughters. And so I took her little princess wand and I waved it over on my Yes, you're no good night of the pantry feel free to do whatever So so he goes and he goes and rewires the entire house so that he can get this refrigerator. Oh my god. He starts slicing up the metal racks that we have in there

so we can fit it in. He does it perfectly. It's all like, he's the best contractor in the world but he's just one guy. He literally built a pool house in my backyard with his own hands. I remember him doing that. When he didn't have a ladder that suited his needs,

he built a ladder. He built a ladder. Guys, he built a ladder, he built a ladder. Guys, he built a fucking ladder. This is my father-in-law. Tim, the tool-time Taylor Rigo. Taylor Rigo! Hey! And so this morning I come in and I go,

like I always do to the pantry out of, you know, muscle memory, I go to turn the light on. But the light's not there because he has taken the switch and put it outside the pantry as I have always wanted it to be. So I just love it. I'm so happy about it, but I go to tap the, you know, I go to hit the light and I hit a piece of paper and I'm like, oh, what's that? And then in Spanish, it says no tockar, which is don't touch.

And I was like, oh, that's very polite of him. He's actually following code or something. I don't know why he put that there. But he explained to me that no Emmy came in this morning I was like, oh, that's very polite of him. He's actually following code or something. I don't know why he put that there. But he explained to me that noemi came in this morning and she went for the whole life. She got fried. Oh wow.

And I was like, oh, yeah, please, we don't need to kill anybody here at the household. But you can just imagine that there's been a lot of, aiii, Brian's going on in of my house because I'm an idiot. And of course that's what happened. I love it when I come to visit. No, there's so much fun. I actually if I've realized at great relationship with my mother-in-law, my former mother-in-law, my ex-mother-in-law, my ex-wife's mother-in-law, maybe a better relationship with the mother-in-law, my former mother-in-law, my ex-mother-in-law, my ex-wife's mother-in-law, maybe a better relationship with a mother-in-law than he did with my actual life.

And I have not a bad word to say about my ex-wife or her mother, but I had a great relationship with them, but her father was no longer living and some of her other family members, is not so much. I was kind of like, I don't know, I put this Chrissy without sounding like a total dick. I guess I'm just gonna sound like a total dick.

I was a lower middle class guy. Citizen. Citizen, plebe, idiots, liberal, you know, all this other stuff that they'd find every way to slice me down. And it was like death by a thousand paper cuts. They were all so nice at first. They was like French aristocracy.

And these people literally had a bloodline that came from like, you know, Marie-Anne, Twine, whatever. So they found a way to make fun of me at every turn. And what was funny at first became biting in the end. Sure. Yeah, of course, every little, not have a bit of truth to it. Okay, you've seen, you've studied your piece. Yeah.

And now how you feel? He said, one time. One of the uncles said one time at dinner, he goes, I don't forget what was being talked about at the table. It's like 30 people at this huge table, this nice restaurant in Atlanta, and I'm sitting across from him. And he is the guy who dislikes me the most. So of course I should be saddened right across from him.

So we can make fun of me all night long. And one of the things that he says, he says something about, I don't know, let's say immigration, right? And everyone's talking about, you know, they're extraordinarily conservative positions, fine. Whatever, that's your thought, that's your line of thinking, that's your line of thinking.

But as evidenced by my family, I, you know, I just take a different stance on things like that and I said something, just kind of, I tried to sound smart And I jumped in and he goes, yeah, that's what most poor people think. Oh my god. Wow. Well So the my point is I got along with one at least one of the family members, but not all of them However, it with Astrid's family, it is just a delight. It's a delight. I love them so much. He can eye-brie and me to death and I don't give a shit,

because I know it's coming from a place of love and extraordinary dislike of me and my personality, of me and my womanly ways. Well, it's two cultures, you know, getting to know each other. That's right, we're doing a dance. We're doing the mating dance, you know, we're trying to dance around each other. After 10 years, we think we've got it down, but, you know, I would think that one of those wires could probably put you on the ground if you touched it the right way for long enough.

Probably. I was down at the pool. It was just open wires. Yeah, well, that wasn't open wires, but, you know, they're like, I don't know what he did, actually, because I don't see it, because it says no, Taukar with a piece of paper on it, because he knew I was coming next. He knew I was going to touch it. You know, one time in that pool house, we got all kind of wires for pumps and shit like

that. And the pool was literally built in the 60s or 70s. And the equipment had been upgraded in the 80s or 90s, then I upgraded it again, but I never upgraded the actual electric, the electronics. So there are a couple of exposed wires in this box where you turn on and off the pool pump. Last year, I went in there to go turn off the pool pump. My hand was wet because I had no cleaning out the thing. And I accidentally touched the wire and Chrissy,

I, like, getting shocked from one of those fake buzzers or a battery or whatever. Like, little shocks here and there is nothing compared to what it's like to get juiced by an actual wire carrying a lot of electricity. Oh my god, Chrissy, I was, I thought I was going to die, I really did, I got frozen like you see in the movies, you know, you see the cartoons and like bugs bunny, you'll get shocked, he's just like touching the wire. That was me, you get frozen to the wire. And after it happened, I was like, holy shit. I just got shot. It went all up and down my body.

It was insane. I can't imagine what those people go through when they get struck by lightning. Oh no. How they survive that stuff? Yeah, that seems scary. If you're seeing, if you're metting somebody's gotten struck by lightning.

No, but I mean, I've seen people on TV and that have talked about it. Yeah, they've got like, they'll be standing next to a tree and then it'll go through their hand or in their head, they've got like, they'll be standing next to a tree and then it'll go through their hand or in their head and out their hand or whatever. It's crazy. We were kids, we were in one of these soccer leagues

in Chicago and there was a storm that came by in the springtime and there were some people that were standing by an oak tree taking shelter from this like afternoon thundershower. Sure, I wish blue would stand next to that tree. If I'm being honest, there's blue making her 426 the parents on the commercial break. And someone did get the tree got struck by lightning

and it went through one of the people and they ended up with black marks on their hands. Yeah, they just find the path of least resistance. It's like the commercial break. What's the path of least resistance? half of least resistance. It's like the commercial break. What's the fat of least resistance? Ah! Uh.

I, so I wanted to share with you about my weekend because I decided to go up to Pigeon Forge with the family. That's right. Yes. I'm an old semi-somping ground because I, you know, went to school in Knoxville. I. It's right there. So we go up there with the town. What is the name of the town that's in Saraville? Severeville.

Severeville? Is that where the University of Tennessee is? No. No, that's a Knoxville. Okay. Severeville is going up into like Pigeon Force. That's the county. Okay, but there, is there a college there like the University of Mary and Mother Joseph

or something like that? That's a high level. I don't know. There were. There were. There were. There were some campus or something that we drove through. I thought it was pretty.

But anyway, so we all... It's very pretty up there. Yeah. There was like 12 of us. It's my mother-in-law's birthday. We decided that we're going to go rent a cabin, like a, you know, just a cabin. A cabin up on one of those mountains in the city. Yeah, we would call them chalets.

Chalets. This was a chalets for sure. This was a house that was not even a year old. I mean, I told you my stance on Airbnb. Airbnb is not my favorite place to rent for the evening. I would rather go to a hotel, but I do have to give big props to this particular place. It was in a year old. It had three levels, six bedrooms, a huge showers, almost in every bedroom, lovely king size, brand new mattresses, and a downstairs with a movie theater, a huge showers almost in every bedroom, lovely king size, brand new mattresses, and a downstairs with a movie theater, a pool table, one of those video game machines that

had every video game under the sun that the kids have no idea how to play, but just want to leave on loudly all night long. I had to get up in the middle of the night. The fuck is, and this was called, I forgot it was called, but it wasn't the actual games. Okay, so it had like 7,000 video games from Donkey Kong to Super Mario Brothers, Pac-Man, all the Sega's, you know, mine, all of it. But it wasn't actually the video games,

it was knock off video games. So replica's of those video games. So the Super Mario one, which I put on for my very small children, because I figured, oh, they can do that. I think they just moved the wand back and forth and whatever and let the guy run, right? Well, it also had knock off Super Mario brother music. So you know, the music is, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,

dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun so I can barely hear this. There goes those thumbs up again. Thanks guys, thumbs up to you too. I think that this is a, here we go again, and let me explain this, because I don't want to let this derail yet another episode of the commercial break, but we have been having this issue with OBS where all the sudden balloons are thumbs up or something keeps popping up

and we cannot figure out for the life of us why it does this. And I don't know, well, you know what? It's the ghost in the machine and I'm glad you like our videos. Congratulations. Exactly, no, it's it's it's positive things. And things just thumbs up and the balloons. Yeah, not like a dick pic showing up like a bigger wrecked penis just floating up. Everyone knows someone was faking with this. What about if it's um, Fakey B? Maybe what it had what if he has infiltrated the AI has infiltrated

or what if it's therated the AI has infiltrated? Or what if it's the real Frankie B? He has infiltrated. He has decided he's had enough of our bullshit or he's saying, keep making videos in mind. I've got next to 100 views. So we go up to this cabinet. It's absolutely spectacular on every,

and then they have this, like they have three patios out the back, right? And they are way off the ground. Yeah, like it's, we're literally on the top of a mountain and one of those decks has got to be 90 feet in the air. I mean, it's very tall. So, but on every single door, it says, be bear aware, lock the doors.

Oh, bears. Be bear aware, lock the door, close and lock the doors when you're not in there. I thought to myself, lock the door. I didn't know that bears had imposible thumbs. Like, they're gonna go opening it up. You never know. Never, never know.

Because I went and Googled this, because I was like, is this a real thing or they just tried to tell us to lock the doors so that things don't get stolen or whatever. And I go and I Google it, I Google pigeon forged smokey mountain bear unlocking door. And there it is bears using their little paws to literally unlock doors. They'll get it open them up there when there's food on the table. Oh yeah. And we might have. Are they kind of hibernated by now? I don't know.

Yeah. I don't know. I imagine. But I don't know. I'm not a? Mm, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I imagine, but I don't know. I'm not a bear, so I don't know with a hibernating specialist. It has been warm. Yeah, and when it's 92 degrees, like it was up there in the middle of October, it's crazy.

So I go Google this, then I'll, so and I'm like, okay, I tell the kids, hey, kids, come here. Sit down and have a chit chat with Uncle Brian. I don't wanna scare the shit out of you, but I'm gonna scare the shit out of you. but I'm going to scare the shit out of you. There's a couple things you need to know about being in the mountains. There are bears. One of my daughters is like, bears?

And I'm like bears. And she's like, like teddy bears. And I'm like, not like teddy bears. Like bears that can kill you. They'll literally swipe and take your head off. Well, I want them to be appropriately scared of them. Because I'm scared. Of course, I didn't say that. But I'm having this scared of them, because I'm scared.

Of course I didn't say that, but I'm having this talk with them, right? Right. Be bear aware. Let's be bear aware. No one outside by themselves. Now, I need to be, I need to make clarification on one thing. On the first level, this, this patio, there is no stairs to the patio. It is completely enclosed 90 feet in the air. There's no bear that's getting up there.

My wife thinks the bear can climb the pole, but I explain to her that's probably not true. But now my kids are absolutely terrified of going anywhere near the door or near or outside. And I'm like, guys, come out, take a look, look at the mountains. And my daughter's like, no, daddy, no, there's bears out there.

There's bears. So I've appropriately scarred my children for like, and then to top it all off. Uncle Brian, he notices that there's a lock box for the garbage. Do you know what I'm talking about? A box outside. No, those are needed, those right-cunes get in there, and yeah, bears can, so yeah, animals for sure

can get into those trash cans. So my daughters, like now scared shitless, right? And so I have to sit her down and have another conversation. And I say, listen honey, the bears won't bother us if we don't bother them. But you gotta have a daddy or a mommy outside or one of the adults just to make sure,

you know, and I mainly don't want you to go out the front door. It's the front door that I don't want you to go out. So my daughter says, okay, a couple hours later, I noticed the lock box, I go to go outside, my kids come trailing after me, they're like, I want to go outside and see me. And I'm like, okay, okay, okay, let's go. If I'm going outside, we can't do. Exactly. No one can move without us moving also. Is there movement, additional movement? They're like cats.

You know what I'm saying? So when something moves, they're like blue. Something moves, it's got to follow us. So I go outside and I'm looking at this lock box and it's got a chain and a clip and the whole nine yards and I go, oh, that's interesting. See, this is where we put our trash. So the bears can't get any of the trash.

Why can't the bears eat the trash? Because our food is generally the worst kind of food for anything to eat at all. I'm like, you know, the bears eat the trash? Because our food is generally the worst kind of food for anything to eat at all. I'm like, you know, the bears need honey buns, you know what I'm saying? So I look, I'm looking at this thing and I'm like, oh, that's interesting. They've got it all locked,

but I look at it, Chrissy, and remember, this house is less than a year old. This lock box is brand new, it's polished, it's black, it's got a lacquer coating on it, it's black, it's brand new, it's silver, right? I mean, it's like sparkling. Okay. Go to sleep. 1030 a night, Super Mario, or super, I don't know what you call it, super T-no, yeah, super T-no brothers or whatever is playing downstairs, gotta get up, gotta close it. And I get up the next morning and I'm just hanging out with the kids and I go to get up, got to close it. And I get up the next morning and just hanging out

with the kids and I go to get something out of the car and the black box is next to the car. And what I notice is that there is snot, snot marks and claw marks all over this black box. So I guess the answer is the bear have not hard-bearnated yet because they were definitely getting dragged out outside. And so I'm like, God, damn that's, wow, there's a bear here. You'll come out here. I caught the bear with my hand and I threw it off the back of the chair of that. You don't know what you're talking about, Ryan. You'll me, you'll think in the me go.

You'll be in cheaping guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Bear, bear. Bear. I'm wrestling a condo with my bare hands. So I'm like, hey, Daniel, come out here. Well, when I say Daniel, come out there, then all the kids come running.

Yeah. And then my daughter, who I've now scared, shitless, then back down from the scared. And now, and I'm telling Daniel, I'm like, hey, Daniel, come out here. Well, when I say Daniel, come out there, then all the kids come running. And then my daughter, who I've now scared, shitless, then back down from the scared. And now, and I'm telling Daniel, I'm like, look at that, you see the bear marks, the claw marks, that guy must have been going at it. I turn around, I notice one of my daughter is like, she has like a pacifier that she sucks on,

like Lisa from the Simpsons all the time. Right? And the pacifier just drops out of her mouth. She's like, whoa. A bear. And I'm like, no, it was, it was like a small bear, honey. Don't worry about it. It came a long time ago. And she's like, I'm going to go inside.

And now we're having trouble getting out of the front door. I'm like, come on honey, come on. We got to go into town. We got to go into the Panama City of Tennessee. It is the Panama City of Tennessee for sure. It is just trashy and shrily. I know. It's got the stroke.

It really does. If you put... Pop-up, there's racing cars, there's, yeah. And we did it all. So I was telling our friend Allison this over the weekend, when we were talking on the phone, I said, listen, this is the armpit of the south. This is, there's more thumbs up, thumbs up to you too.

That's what you're talking about. It's like the armpit of this stuff. Well, there's that little stretch there that is, yeah. Six miles long. There's the stretch. But the mountains are beautiful and there's the whole, you know, I think the Cherokee trailway goes up there. The National Forest. The Cherokee National Forest. Yeah. There's a lot of really beautiful hiking spots and that kind of thing up there. And Dollywood's

pretty cool. I was, I've met a Dollywood, but I had my brother went there. He said it was awesome. He said it was a great theme park. Yeah. I, I, people could not have been nicer. It was absolutely packed because it was a beautiful weekend in the, in the fall colors and all that other stuff. They could not have been nicer. And even though it is the Panama City of Tennessee, it's got a lot of like, you know, go carts and arcades and give shops and spray painted t-shirts.

Country peddler, all the good stuff, all the stuff that you would want. All the stuff that you wouldn't want, but you'll get because your kids are there with you. Toeristy. Toeristy shit, including a bear cage where you can see actual bears. I mean, it's every kind of crap that you could want.

But I would say. I can paint a pan for gold. I can paint a two. I can paint a two. I can paint a two. Come on in, pan for gold. You found gold right next to the go card in between two go card centers?

I sure did. And I used my gold to make those two go card centers. And this here gold panting machine. Now, you might become a millionaire right here in Sack. Come on, son, $5 for a busket. Take you a busket and run it around the water. Take it, run it around the water. It's mud. It's nothing. Oh, you got yourself a bit of a blank a bit of fools gold

I got a fulls gold you got fools gold the second I gave you five dollars for this fucking band That's because this place should be called fools gold But I Even though it's a little trashy, not authentic, it is for the kids, it's the best thing that ever happened. And so I have to give Pigeon Forge a thumbs up because my family really enjoyed it. And because my family really enjoyed it, I really enjoyed being with my family by favor and joining me.

Oh, that's freedom. Glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you got that. I'm glad you guys had a good time. I'm just giving shit about downloads and my family having a good time in that order. All right. My download, well, downloads, money from those downloads. Sex and then my family having a good time.

Those three things, my four things in that order. And so you don't have to put, you don't have to rank them. It can just be a pie. Oh, baby. So you're right, you're right, Chrissy. It goes pie downloads. Pied downloads sex, family happy, freshly painted bathroom, and then family happy.

In that order. There you go. Don't give me wrong All right, let's take our first short break and we'll be back to talk more about pigeon forge because man Have I got a story for you Chrissy wait until you hear this one. All right. We'll be back Yeah, yeah, yeah Brian we get it but back to me. I mean this TCB promo Leave us a voicemail at 626, ask T-C-B3, and you might just hear yourself on the show. Want a text us instead? Lucky for you, we also have a number just for that.

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I mean, we've been on a lot of trips to Spain. And it pretty much, the same thing happens over and over again, which is my father-in-law, who I love very much, by the way. But he- How long goes back to Daniel? It all goes back to Daniel. I feel like me and Daniel are, Carmichael and her twine for the rest of our lives.

Daniel, he, oh, explain this, when we go to have lunch somewhere, Daniel is used to the Spanish way of doing things, which is you walk into any establishment and there are no choices of food, they have a lunch menu. Yeah, that's it. That's it, you get the lunch menu,

which is usually the food they didn't sell last night, so now they're putting it out in lunch. I mean, I can sue them. It's an all restaurant, not just in Spain, but in all restaurants. So, but Daniel likes to find the best deal or the best meal that he can. He likes to pop-rooze the choices before eating. And there was one time when my brothers were with me in Spain. And Daniel took us through a village in northern Spain.

We must have walked, and by the way, in Spain, you have two hours for lunch. You have from one PM to three PM. And if you don't eat in those two hours, you will not get lunch because the restaurant's gonna close, and it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter where you go.

If you don't, unless there's some McDonald's in that town, which there isn't in every town, then you're not going to eat because everyone goes to take it out. That's right, right? Yes, yes, that's right. So... I love that philosophy, by the way.

Me too, why don't we do that here? I want more naps, more naps in the body. Naps are good. Before I get off on that tangent. So one time, Daniel took us through this village, and we must have gone up and down the same street 12 times while Daniel read every menu, walked in and talked to every purveyor, he had to see if people were eating because if

people weren't eating in there, then it wasn't good. And he didn't want to go there. Yeah, that's right. So we have to go to the most crowded restaurant where we wait the longest for the least amount of food in the, you know, who knows, but it got us, it drove me and my brothers so crazy that at one point, we just walked into a restaurant and sat down and if you guys are going to eat with us,

we're going to eat with us, right? Yeah, we're hungry. Okay, so this is his thing. So it's lunchtime. It's pigeon forge and Astrid's like we got to feed the kids honey. We got to get the kids some food. Make a decision real quick so that my father doesn't get involved because my father gets involved and we're gonna end up at shonies, right?

Which is a big deal in pigeon forge. We're gonna end up at shonies and we don't want a big deal in pigeon four. We're gonna end up at shonies, and we don't want to go to shonies. That's just not our thing. It's like, shonies is like the, it's like a shittier version of crack or a parapel. It's like, you can't get much worse. So I'm like, okay, I'll make a decision.

So I fly onto the Google, I look at the food. Leave it to me. Yes, and I- Leave it to me, Astrid. Yes, leave it to me. I got this covered. No problem. Wait until you hear this. So I say, Oh, look here. They have a new place called the pigeon forge island. Whatever that is. It's a half a mile down the street, five minute walk.

And they got this place called the family eatery or whatever it's called. You know, a famous family eatery. It's brand new. It's called, you know, Famous Family Eater, it's brand new, it's got five star reviews and I'm like, we can go there, let's go there. Okay, let's do that. So we go, we walk to this place called the island. It's like a shopping mall with a shitty T-shirt shops. You know what I'm saying?

Like an outdoor shopping mall with a theme park, it's brand new, sparkling clean, everyone is lovely. It's got all these chotch keep, all these tours, tours. They're the lot of the Chachki stuff up there. Yeah. Okay. Well, this is like a new island with new Chachki stuff,

higher rents and a theme park. It's the same Chachki stuff. Same exact store. Yes, exactly. But now you're shopping in a really nice place. It's like the, this is like the rodeo drive, a pigeon for it. So I'm like, okay, here we go.

So we start walking, we see the restaurant, it's big, it looks new, it looks clean, there's a lot of people walking in there, and I'm like, see, see, I did a good job, right? I don't often pick restaurants, but I did a good job. But why do? Great, but when I do, I fuck up royally. So we walk in, it's a two story restaurant.

They have escalators right near the front door, one going up, one going down. They have a lady at a host stand. That's waiting, a bunch of people at a host stand that are trying to manage the traffic and the flow. And there's this huge store downstairs. And I think to myself, oh, this is just lovely. It looks lovely on the inside.

It really does. And I'm like, oh, this is lovely. See, babe, it looks lovely. Food smells good. And I'm like, hey, there's 12 of us. Can you sit us? And they say, yes, we can sit you right now, actually. No, wait. And I was like, oh, this is lovely. See, babe, it looks lovely. Food smells good. And I'm like, hey, there's 12 of us. Can you sit us? And they say, yes, we can sit you right now, actually. No, wait.

And I was like, oh, this is lovely. You can go upstairs now. And you go upstairs, wait in the hallway, and the host is on the island. Yeah, wait in the island. Someone won't be right with you. Someone will be with you, right with you. Promise.

See that door that says exit? Go there. Stand outside. We'll be with you soon right with you. Promise. See that door that says exit, go there, stand outside. We'll be with you soon. Aren't you Brian Green from the commercial break? You're making fun of my favorite man. Hook from Mountain Monster. So we go up this escalator and as we're riding up the escalator

as soon as we get to the top of the escalator, guess what I see? A real life-size cutout of Paula Dean. Paula Dean. Paula Dean. Oh, okay. The famous racist. Yeah. From Savannah. So instantaneously my in-laws, my parents, my in-law parents, are like standing next to the cardboard, cut out an ass or just taking pictures. They don't even know this lady is.

And I'm like, assured, assured. You may not want to post that anywhere because Paul Dees got a racist. And I'm like, why do they have a cardboard cut out of Paul Adin? I don't know. Was she affiliated with the restaurant? Oh, it's only Paul Adin's family chicken restaurant or whatever it is. Oh. I'm at Paul Adin's restaurant. I won't believe it. But the island. Oh, it's only Paula Deans family chicken restaurant or whatever it is. Oh. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant.

I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant.

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I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'm at Paula Deans restaurant. I'll tell you what, they got these big lazy Susan's on the table, right? So they sit at this huge round table and it's a big lazy Susan in the middle. So the guy whose first day it is waiting on tables, I know. And a 12 top. At a 12 top, nonetheless, with children. Right, with children. With children.

I'm about to make life super complicated. Some of which have allergies, like I'm about to make life super complicated for you. And he doesn't have any big width. I'm sharing coloring things. I'm covering books. Cups with tops on there. Packers from. My life doesn't like mayonnaise.

Daniel doesn't like anything that's not on a bone. So you can just bring us anything that's on a bone. We appreciate it. And so, guy comes over, couldn't be that nicer. He was like, okay, what can I get for you? And I'm like, all right, I need, you ready? You got this? I'll be the main order.

You just listen to me and that'll be it, right? I'll translate all this stuff for you. So I tell you, I give him my order. And then he explains to me that the way that this restaurant works is for 1999, everyone at the table, you order two meats, four sides, everyone at the table. Okay.

Order's everything, right? Like a meat and three. A meat and four. If you want to. Meat and four. Yes. Everything you must over serve food. Yes.

Up in this particular place in the country. Let me tell you, let me tell you, this is a beautiful restaurant, by the way. By the way, I do not agree with anything Paul Adin has ever said about peop minorities at all dear to descendants. So I get there. I mean, so the food comes out. So we order chicken, the fried chicken, pork roast, four sides. The food gets there. There's 12 people at the table. It says if, I don't know. It says if we were feeding a starving pack of wolves. They bring out 22 pieces of chicken, and 21 of them are gone

before the lazy Susan gets back around to me. And I'm like, a bitch. And then I'm left with like a little tiny leg. You know, from like the bird. Small, thigh. Like the wing. Yeah. One of those roosters that got run over by Huck. You know from like the the bird that small yeah, I Yeah, yeah, one of those roosters that got run over by hug. Yeah It's wing flew off and I got that wing

Tiny we would know me don't yeah, and I'm like oh guy. I feel like feel like sorry for myself I realize what a child I am when I feel sorry for myself I'm like everybody you can chicken to do and give you to chicken. Astrid knows what's going on in my head too. She's like, what's wrong? Can you show your chicken? Yeah, she's like, what's wrong? No, you want some more chicken? I'll order some more chicken.

I don't know, I'm not hungry anymore. I don't want to eat this. I don't want to eat this run to a litter chicken leg. Poor guy probably died in some non-free range way. And as I was like, it's okay, well, this gets you some more chicken. I'm no hungry. I'm just pick off the teasus plate.

I'm just being a baby. And I'm like, I'll share with him. I'll share with my six year old. I'll share with him. So we order some more chicken, right? We ordered more chicken and the guy leans down and he says, hey, just to let you know, I'm actually not allowed to give to go boxes

with this all you can eat thing. And I was like, oh, okay, I wasn't planning on taking your shitty run chicken leg out of this restaurant anyway. And he's like, well, sometimes people ask for seconds, they're just what they just want to put in to go back. Yeah, I can see how that people are trying to game the system that way. Yes, because then the lady behind me was they were wrapping up their meal and she was arguing with the guy about it to go box for whatever. And I think I thought to myself, don't be an asshole, don't, don't, don't do that. That's what ruins it for everybody. You know, everybody just wants chicken for 1999.

But you know, meat and some shitty sides for 1999. Don't rule for everybody by giving them a go box. Don't do that. Don't ask for it to go box. I told you you didn't have to go back. Why do you need it to go box? You're already, it doesn't look like you're going starved. You know what I'm saying?

That's all I got to say. It doesn't, it didn't look like you missed a meal. So I'm not too worried about you. And it was just like, Chrissy. I don't know what's going on in some people's brains. It says, Meanwhile, Jeff and I were out for a nice intimate dinner

Friday night, having a dull cocktail. So, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I remember those days, the kids, and it's just making me appreciate so much as you're telling me to do an asshole. Such an asshole. I'm sorry. It makes you appreciate the fact that you don't have another 22 years left of changing shitty diapers. Going to school Halloween events. Fuck you.

Well, you know, my sister growing up, what my youngest sister was almost eight years younger than me. So I remember being, you know, in the midst of her being a young child, and me being kind of, you know, like middle school or something, and it just being embarrassing. There's a lot of stuff that goes on with kids at restaurants and large parties. It's so obnoxious.

I gotta tip 10% more now, because I know that they gotta- Stuff's all over the floor. Yeah, they gotta take the fried chicken skin that my son is now drilled into the brand new carpet, uh, you know, racist deans, a family eatery or whatever. I need for God's sake.

I should have given a negative tip for being associated with quality. But, you know, I get it. I get it. It's just the way it is with kids. This is the kind of place you have to go to with it. It's just the way it is with kids. This is the kind of place you have to go to with children because there's no other place to go.

No. Not to mention it's Pigeon 4. And I know I have some nice restaurants up there, but this was not. Even far between. Yeah, few and far between. You gotta call on the outskirts of town. Yeah.

Just the scenery in this brand new, in this brand new, lovely restaurant, overlooking the island, whatever the fuck that is. Yeah, it's lovely, but then you look around at some of the people that are in there, and I'm not saying, listen, everybody is their own person, and I'm not like, I'm not being, I'm trying not to be judgmental,

based on looks itself, but sometimes you just gotta go, what is going on in that person's head? Right. Honestly, what is going on in that first and then? Right. Honestly, what is going on in that person said? I saw someone, you know that pepper sauce where they put the actual peppers in the sauce? I love that.

That green stuff. Well, the green peppers. Yeah, the vinegar pepper sauce. Yeah, but yeah, what is that for what? Like, collard greens, right? I do. Yeah, okay. So collard greens, I have them.

Black eyed peas. Okay, black eyed peas, I understand. Would you put that all over your mashed potatoes? I saw some lady just going at mashed potatoes in every scoop she took. She was just pouring pepper sauce right now. Yeah, that was a little bit of pepper sauce. Oh my gosh. Interesting.

And then a lot of people had those spray painted t-shirts. I know, they have their hairbrush. Yeah, airbrush with their face on it. And it says, I'm in love with him. He's in love with me. And then we saw a couple of brides walking around, which is very interesting. Oh, yeah, people get married up there.

Oh, yeah. It's a big marriage destination. Oh, yeah, they had a t-shirt to say, I got married in the island. I got married at the island. Specifically there. Yeah. Well, they just said, though, island,

I guess you could get a, where'd you get married? Turks and Bay, Cabecos or whatever. Turks and Cabecos. No, they do a lot of weddings up in that area in general. Oh, yeah, I bet it's a very popular place to get married. We got married on a roly coaster in Valley. That's where I first rode a helicopter. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, when I was younger, we went on a helicopter ride up there. Yeah, you got to be careful with those helicopters. Mm-hmm. And so you guys were like taking a sightseeing tour on the helicopters? Yeah, we went up and drove around for a while, did a little couple turns, and then back down. There's got to be places like Pigeon Forge.

And again, I want to repeat this. Pigeon Forge was perfectly loved. I actually give it a thumbs up by plan on going back. The place where we stayed was spectacular, overlooking the smokey mountains. I got some pictures, wait until you see it, it's amazing, maybe I'll put some on Instagram,

I probably won't, because we don't do that. But it was just beautiful, and everyone we came in contact with could not have been nicer. They were just, people are just lovely. There is something about the south, and the way that we interact with other people that is just like, I'm really proud of it. It's, and I realize that there can be a lot.

Very friendly. There's a lot of ugly everywhere, in the United States, everywhere in the world right now, but at least on the surface, at least when we're acting fake towards each other, it's really nice fake. Bless your heart. Bless your heart.

God bless you. Have a blessed day. I will not have a blessed day. Shut up. But this is where I got my sugar daddy t-shirt. It's a good one. It's a good one. You like the sugar daddy? I thought asked her I want to get asked for one that said pop tart and we go around to sugar daddy and pop. I like it. Send one of these to Marlon. That's what I need to do. Oh God have you heard from him?

No. No. Nothing. He won't follow up. Oh, I don't want. I just want to be careful because I think I got I think I got a little too much. Took on a life at that time. I think the commercial break has lost yet another listener slash friend.

No, I'm kidding. He gave this is all been talked about. Like I didn't share anything that he, he wouldn't have given me express written consent, but let's just put it this way. Marlon is alive and fine, but I think we need to leave the relationship alone because I don't wanna,

I just don't wanna get an e-mail additional trouble. Let's just put it that way. But Marlon is alive and well, and possibly or possibly not, still dating his 38-year-older girlfriend. We don't know. We'll get for him. Yeah, if that's the case and we wish him well I would love to have him on the show to share this on his own because it's funny as I tell it voice Thing that oh the voice the skies are yes

Yeah, you got a quite a few. I've got quite a few of them actually here. Let's see Or we could do this one I'm up for it. Yeah listen anytime Marlin has an open invitation to come on this show and Anytime that he wants to he's welcome here because he has one of the most interesting stories that I've ever heard of. We've journeyed with him. We have journeyed with him. Yeah, he's journeyed with us and we with him. Wow, that was really profound. He's we weed with us and we weed with him. He's we weed with us and we we weed with him. We weed, weed, weed.

We weed around stories and we're all grown together. Marlin. Marlin come back. Marlin come back. In a kind of fool. Good see. T.C. It needs you.

We're running out of content. Marlin Monica back. Brian's just talking. Did he actually pay for somebody too? At some point to join this, the sugar daddy side. I did, but he did not have any. I showed a mom a side. Any kind of luck.

Yeah, but he did not have any of the luck that Marlon had. Well, yeah, you know, but I don't know, maybe, you know, each person is different and maybe you just, maybe it just wasn't. He didn't catch any fish. I told this guy, I said, hey, go on there. And then he reported back pretty immediately that he had had zero contacts. And I was like, well, that's sorry. As if he probably didn't feel bad about himself enough.

I think four guys singled Brian tells him, you can get a ton of pussy here on this sugar mama site Rich women everywhere that's blocking to you Let me check my inbox oh It's day two certainly someone oh It's been two weeks since I checked it last. I've been kicked off the site for what reason. I'm in Rose jail now. Oh my God.

Curse Venus said she was going to explain that to me too. Oh my God. Well, Curse Venus explained it, tried to explain it a little bit better on the second episode where she said that it wasn't actually Rose, like it wasn't named Rose Jail, which I kind of assumed it was in the first place. I didn't think a major dating site would have Rose Jail. But that's what users have coined it, right? Yes, there's like a certain amount of whatever credits

that you get every day where you can contact someone directly. And then if you wanna go above and beyond, then certain people, if you don't connect with someone, like if you two don't match, you can go and ask to speak to them, but you have to give them a rose, which then costs money. And these decisions are arbitrarily made by the app, which seems to me like.

Why do you go to jail? What, they put you behind this paywall. Oh. You don't go to jail. You're just behind a paywall now. All right. But apparently that only happens to good looking people according to Kristina.

Which seems like we don't have enough problems in life and we got to start separating people by how they look. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I don't know. I don't, I just don't get it. It's a weird wacky world out there.

It really is. I think we're in a kind of like a transition between old style and new style and AI and filters where you have no idea really what somebody looks like. I mean, it's an avatars. It's so inauthentic. Yeah, it's just there's something that's happening.

It's so inauthentic. And then on top of, like the world doesn't have enough problems as it is, but then you got to separate the good-looking people from the bad-looking people. Like we do that well enough on our own. You know what I'm saying? You're like, that's something that we do from school.

Like our brains just work that way anyway. There's no reason to then pronounce that even additional. It's like putting, I don't know, it's like writing an email and bold. You just don't need to do it, you know what I'm saying? You don't need bold. Yeah. Don't put bold letters.

I get it, you hate me, I owe you money, pass do, I understand. This invoice do in 22, not 23. I get it, you don't have to remind me all the time and bold. Like bold's gonna do anything. Take me to court like the rest of them. What the fuck? Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

All right, we're gonna take a short break and then we're gonna be back with Flav-a-flav. Not the actual flavor, Flav. But we're gonna talk about Flav-a-flav. Great. We'll be back. Okay podcast besties, time for one more quick break and then it's back to the drama. Check out tcbpodcast.com for all of our episodes and youtube.com slash the commercial break

for fully edited video episodes. Find us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at tcbpodcast. And of course if you want to get in touch with us, which like, of course, you do, leave us a voicemail at 626, ask TCB3 or text us at 855, TCB 8383. Now, let's listen to some sponsors and get this show going. All right, and we're back. Chrissy, did you, you may not have seen this, but like a week ago, flavor, flavor, flavor, flavor, flavor, flavor of love, public enemy. Yeah, like, just for as long as I can remember. Man, I'll tell you what, as a white kid grown up in the suburbs, and I'm sure a lot of

people who were growing up at this time will understand this or they'll, I don't know, this may resonate with you. Public enemy was one of the first musical acts, like musical groups that really shook my brain. Guns and roses, public enemy, third base, third base, you remember third base? Pop pop goes the weasel, the weasel. Pop pop goes the weasel the weasel pop up goes the weasel weasel were those like three Jewish guys from New York or something I don't know but they were great beastie boys yeah you know run DMC like these were some

of the first ones that kind of just shook my brain out of that you know white suburban kind of life that I had lived that when I Noah I. Eh. I didn't like him from the beginning. I just did not like that song. And now he's doing twisted T commercials. And I'm thinking to myself, I want that twisted T money. You don't want a commercial break guy? Like, come on. He's so 1992.

And I'm so 1982. You guys don't want me? No. You're not looking for an old white bald guy to do your twisted D commercials But flavor slave like Public enemy just rocked me in a way that I don't know it's hard to explain it kind of shook my psyche and it made me appreciate a whole different Culture perspective perspective. Yeah, and it really started me down this road where I you know you were big car became a famous rapper yeah yeah the club called Africa Bumbada however we talked after after I started listening public enemy I wanted to wear that day-loss sole, but Africa vumbana, shit. It was on every store in the mall, was the colorful cutout of Africa around with a, you know, a hampnaclister

or whatever, and I had four of them. One of the kaisat school was like, oh no man, no. Yeah, that ain't for you man, you're, that ain't for you, man. You're not shit ain't for you. And I was like, what? African bubana. I do love African bubana. I know. He's like, you even know what that means? And I'm like, no, but you know, flavor, flavor.

Yeah, boy. Fuck the police. Yeah. And yeah, you're just 11 year old white boy, a Catholic school going, fuck the police. Right. But flavor, flavor, you're just 11 year old white boy, a Catholic school, go ahead and fuck the police. Right. But flavor, flavor, and flavor of love, is just a masterpiece of reality.

It really is. That was right around the same time as rock of love with Brett Michaels. Yeah, boy. Yeah. Yeah. It was, well, I think flavor was the first and then rock of love came after that. But flavor had that show was fucking wild VH one put out some reality show

They did that will back in the day will never be touched. I don't think so either gold I just want to remember like two years ago I rewatch the entire rock of love And I just fell in love with it all over the day. The day. The day's he got her show And I just fell in love with it all over again. The dayby, Daisy got her show. Daisy. That was a good one too, Daisy. Everyone got a shit. You get a dating show and you get a dating show

and you get a dating show. We no longer play shitty, soft rock music. They would intertwine like rehab, the rehab shows. Oh yeah, Dr. Drew. Yeah, the rehab house or whatever. I think my replay was in there. He did. And that's where he met Bridget, right?

Bridget, Neilson. Neilson and they got married. They got married. They were married for a little bit of time. Yeah. Flavor Flabe's had a wild life. I mean, he really did. Didn't he have like flavorflaves, flavorful chicken

or something? He had that for a minute. He's had all kinds of stuff. Anyway, the guy is an icon. He is an icon. And there's probably few things that he hasn't done in his life that he's wanted to do. But he told somebody somewhere at the Milwaukee Bucks

or whatever that the one thing he had never done that he really wanted to do was sing the national anthem. Oh. Before an NBA game. Well, his dream came true about a week ago. And I bet you want to hear it. Don't you? Of course I do. This is flavor, flavor, singing the national anthem at the Atlanta Hawks slash Milwaukee Bucks. It's actually in Milwaukee. Yeah. And the sounds a little funky. I don't know what's going on with this particular video,

but it's a little funky at first, but it'll get better. The rocket's red glare. Blair. It's a rocket's red glare. Thank you, my glare. The fire, the bomb burst, Stinging in the... Flavor, flavor gasping for air. Air, Yeah! I know! I know! I know! I know!

I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know!

I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know!

I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! Oh, they look at the boy scout. They're terrified. I don't know if they're terrified of flavor or they're scout masters, but one of the two that's terrified. We're watching this.

They're doing crowd shots. The players have no idea what's going on. The kids are even more clueless. Does that star spangle banner yet wave? Okay. You had to do the trail. Yeah, you had brave of the brave of the brave of the brave. Wow. I got to give him a little bit of credit.

He did that. He went out there and he tried. He did, really tried. He did try. He did try. Yeah, yeah, you have to. This is certainly not the worst version of Star Spangled Banner that I've ever heard.

And I've heard quite a few versions of Star Spangled Banner. And the thing about this is, you know, so many people do this and so many people fuck it up. Because I think it's, first of all, I think it's hard to remember the words. Yeah.

Unless you're singing along with other people in a crowd where you can sing the wrong words and no one's gonna care because everyone's singing the wrong words anyway. Or number two, and number two is like trying to get the notes correct, especially when you're singing a capella like this. That's kind of in like an arena.

And the way that it sounds and how it's on in your ear too, yeah, it's gotta be cool. It's gotta be. So I give flavorflave all the credit in the world. I would certainly never go out in front of 30,000 people in the national anthem, because no one's out in front of 30,000 people in the National Anthem, because no one's looking for the X-Singer of 33p to sing the National Anthem at the Hawks game.

But it feels to me like he's just out of breath the whole time. He's gotta do a better microphone management, I think is what's going on. It would have sounded okay. Had he taken the microphone away from it a little bit when he was trying to sing those high notes and then also when he's trying to take a breath. Can you remember the words to the national anthem?

I mean, it's a lot of them. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light? What's so proudly? What's so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming. And broad stripes and bright stars.aming and broad stripes and bright stars with broad stripes and bright stars with broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous through the perilous light Hail gave proof through the night that our flag was still there Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave?

Or the land of the free. And the home of the brave. The brave, the brave, the brave, the brave. Yeah, boy. We remembered it. That's amazing. What about the Pledge of Allegiance? Can you remember that one?

Oh, yeah. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, divisible. Liberty and justice for all. Amen. Amen. Yeah, I remember saying that every day in school, you know, he said, say it.

We said it. We said it. I got to imagine that they do, at least at public schools. Don't you think? I don't know. That's the one hope that America has of staying together. Is that the pledge allegiance? The pledge allegiance is gonna bring us all back together. That's the part that, that's the part I think trips

so many people up about the stars, Michael Banner, is that the words are not... The sentence is like, it's not the way that we speak in 2023. No, not or. So there's a lot of words. Yeah, we don't say, or the land. Yeah, because it means over. Oh, it does?

Yeah, it's like, oh, a prostrophy. Oh, or the land of the free. Yeah. Oh. I remember of the free. Yeah. Oh, I remember seeing this on a note sheet because I remember I would play keyboard and middle school. Keyboard or like the accordion. Cassio keyboard and middle school. And I learned how to play that.

Do you, uh, and some are seeing the words? Let me ask you this. Francis Scott Key, right? Francis Scott Key. And then the, and then Betsy. Betsy Ross missing the words. Let me ask you this. France has got key, right? France has got key. And then Betsy. Betsy Ross did the five. Betsy Ross. Oh, I thought they wrote that together.

No, she did the five. Oh, wasn't it duet? Ha-ha-ha. Halens in the stream. Or that's what we are. Ha-ha-ha. That's my favorite duet of all time. Island's in the stream.

Me too. Isn't that a good one? Yeah, that's a great one. Dolly Parton, Candy Rogers, at the height of their fame, how can you get me better than that? I saw a version of that when they were like singing at the Academy Awards whenever that was 1982 or whenever that song came in. Island's in the stream.

It's that is what we are. It's that we rely on each other. Ha ha. From one other to another. Ha ha. I'm friend and I did a rendition of this years ago. Oh, you did? I was dolly. She was kidding.

You guys were like a two-wording act, you went around. We toured the party that night. Yeah. Yeah. The house. The house party. The house party. We went from locked bathroom to locked bathroom, doing island night.

One night only. Islands in the lines in the stream. It is what we know. I'm in pigeon fold. I was going to say that, you know, if the over means over, is that when the who sings love, rain or me? That's what it means over. If the Oer means Over, is that when the Who sings, love, rain, or me? That's what it means.

Over. Love, rain, or me. I always thought he said, love, rain on me, until I read the lyrics on a, like a Pearl Jam cover that I saw, they were doing this, this, and it said, love, rain, or me. And I was like, oh, white, rain, or me., love, rain or me. And I was like, oh, why rain or me? Over.

Over me. Jesus Christy, see, learn something, and you learn something new every day. If you keep your mind open and expanding like mine. Yes. If you do, I will. It's definitely learning hour. Listen, I'm not afraid to learn new stuff.

No, I love learning stuff. Oh, you know what I did? I just turned our camera off for no reason. That's okay. Don't worry about it. No one was looking at us anyway. I'm pretty sure no one was looking at us anyway. And I just wanted to share one more thing about pigeon forge. I got us a nice sign. I got us a big foot sign. Says says hide and go seek world champion Yeah, it's a picture of big foot It's an outline of big foot and it says hide and seek world champion actually Astrid picked it out She was like oh my god. This is perfect for the commercial break and I was like you know what honey? Yes, it is she's so good to me because she gets me you get me babe you get me more fried chicken

because she gets me, you get me babe, you get me! More fried chicken! No! Oh! I had a good time! Oh, it's a blast! I thought it was a blast! No, you just have to kind of get in the mindset and get, this is where we're at and this is where we're working with and we're gonna have fun, the kids love it.

Yeah, it's so much fun for the kids. When Astor started planning the trip for her mom's birthday, she said, what about if we go up to Gatlinburg pigeon forge because you know I've read about some stuff on the drive too oh it's gorgeous you go up that Blue Ridge Parkway or whatever it is and I said to her hey listen this is not gonna be the kind of vacation you're used to it's not gonna be like we're not going to a town you know some ancient village on the coast of Spain where we're gonna walk in and out. There are the Appalachian mountains there, yeah, so this is kind of ancient.

Yeah, it's kind of ancient, but you know there are door knobs in Spain that are older than any building in Pitch and Forge. And I can promise you one thing. I have yet to be to an authentic village in Spain that has a theme park around every corner at the gas station. They have roller coasters. Yep. Yeah, the island had a whole theme park too. And remind me to tell you about that debacle. It's, it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. It's the old theme park. Not the old theme park for the kids rides that mostly don't work. Germs everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. The people looking, the people working the rides are scary. They're just scary.

My kids were scared of them. Fuck the bears. They were scared of the people taking the tickets. I know. And the tickets now are electronic and they don't know how to scan them and it was a whole nine yard. I was like, dude, can't you just let my daughter ride the worldly thing for one minute? Do you really need to worry about the ticket?

Yeah. I mean, honestly, he just went on and on about this whole ticket thing. It took us a half hour to figure out the ticket on my phone. Whatever. Anyway, he was a nice guy. He figured it out. All right. tcbpodcast.com. That's where you go. You find out more about Chrissy and I. Read all the show notes. You can get the entire library, audio and video, and you can get your picky fronting sticker to Risa Caputo. Number five in the series. Hit the drop down menu on the contact us button. Send us your address, we'll send you the sticker.

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