The Commercial Break - Date Night In Atl: The ITP BP & Magic City!

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Episode #724: Bryan & Krissy discuss the BP that has become the hottest dining spot in the Atl! NO joke...it's a gas station. Then, they recall a few nights at Magic City, the venerable strip club staple of the city. Plus, 23 & Me is selling your DNA to the highest bidder and an update on Fyre Fest 2 (or is it Fyre Fest One? Can you have Fyre Fest 2 if 1 never happened?) TCBit: Debbie Dublass wins the Crabapple Education Board election and has some thoughts to share with her supporters. Watch EP #724 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We'll be back after this commercial break. Lincoln Bio! On this episode of the commercial break. But it's just weird. I just don't know that I would go to the BP for dinner. I kind of want to go now. You go and you tell me what it's like. I got kids. I can't afford to get. I've got downtown covered.

I'm the downtown correspondent. Yeah, you go downtown. I'll stay OTP. Yeah. I'll do the OTP stuff. I'll go to like, you know, the pumpkin patch. Yes. The fall festivals.

I'll do that. How's that? You monitor the next door. I'll do the cherry blossom festival. You do the BP dinner and Magic City strip club. They're doing a documentary about Magic City. It's famous. Have you ever been to Magic City?

I have. Yes. You have to go to Magic City. I have. Yes. Magic City is magic. Oh yeah. Listen, it is not for the faint of heart.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh yeah, cats and kittens. welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of the show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on this beautiful, lovely day here in Atlanta, Georgia. Let us talk about the weather for 30 minutes to make This everybody else off and the rest of the country. It's cold up north. It's warm down here So and we're up for a good weekend. Anyway, I was watching John Mulaney show on Netflix

It's LA or LA live or whatever. What are they calling that? John Mulaney live? I don't know what they what do they call that show? Yeah, I think everybody's live with John Mulaney. Oh, everybody's live. And I saw two of our good friends on there. I saw Lunel and Pete Davidson. Okay. And we've never talked to Pete Davidson, but I one time was in the same room with him,

and so I feel like we're friends. You are. I feel like we're friends. You are. Yeah, I was there with him right before he went to rehab, so I feel like we have this special connection, he and I, and even though he has no idea who I am, I was in the him right before he went to rehab. So I feel like we have this special connection, he and I. And even though he has no idea who I am,

I was in the room, Pete. I saw it all go down. He was explaining, Lunel was busting his chops about Kim Kardashian, busting his balls about dating Kim Kardashian. And he was hilariously explaining that, yes, I dated Kim Kardashian and now I laugh about, like now I realize just how ridiculous that was.

I laugh about it. And I'm glad that shows some self-awareness on Pete's behalf. I think he went on a run there where he was like dating people for PR, you know what I'm saying? Like maybe not on purpose, maybe he liked Kim, but like also- Well there was Ariana Grande,

where he was engaged to, I believe. I think so. Yeah. And Kim, obviously, I can imagine though, it's hard not to get swept up. They met on Saturday Night Live. She was a guest, and I can imagine if she's showing interest to him,

it would be hard not to get swept up on that. Oh my God. Hey, listen, when one of the most famous people in the world, really. Famous figures in the world, and I mean that literally and figuratively, one of the most famous figures in the world, and I mean that literally and figuratively, one of the most famous figures in the world

is paying you some attention. You know, if you're into that kind of thing, of course it's gonna be there. Kim Kardashian, not my thing. I'd much rather go with, it's Khloe, Kim, who's the third sister? Khloe, Kim, and? Courtney. Courtney.

I think Courtney is the prettiest of the group. Courtney's the oldest, yeah? Yeah, I think she's the prettiest of the group. Courtney's the oldest, yeah? Yeah, I think she's the prettiest of the group. That's just my opinion. I mean, there's the younger Kardashians or whoever they are, but it's a little too young for me. I got daughters. Uh, but I was never really into Kim Kardashian.

It was never my thing. It was never my style. Um, but that's okay. She's a beautiful woman. Yeah. So Pete, being kind of this goofball stoner character, all of a sudden dating this string of incredibly beautiful women, was quite the run.

Epic, if I don't mind saying so myself, that is a Warren Beatty level, a Warren Beatty level run there, he went on for a little while. But now he's realizing just how silly it all looked. And I'm glad. I'm happy. He was really in the crosshairs too with Kanye because that was right when she, they were

divorcing. Yeah, they were sending voicemails back and forth. I'd be scared to send Kanye that kind of voicemail. Like I, maybe not. Maybe if I was in it, I would be like, okay, Kanye, you got to settle the fuck down. What's going on? But I just think that Kanye is so unhinged. And I realize most of it is like this troll character he's playing. But there are also a lot of people, but then the people who follow Kanye are not all of

them. But some of them probably have some, you know, like Tinker toys in their head. And I'd be nervous. I'd be nervous that those people would want me hurt for some reason because you just never know what people are thinking. I get nervous about that here on the commercial break. I really do.

Like sometimes we'll get a loose cannon that starts texting us and I'm like, I'm gonna not respond to that guy. I'm not gonna respond to that guy. Most of our listeners, 99.9% of them, it's harmless, good fun and we're all having a laugh. But then there are one or two who take I'm gonna not respond to that guy. Most of our listeners, 99.9% of them, it's harmless good fun and we're all having a laugh. But then there are one or two who take it to the extreme

and you're like, okay, like you gotta settle down just a little bit, take a deep breath. I'm just a pod cat. Like, you know, I go and have my coffee like everybody else, which by the way, there is no sanctity in my coffee anymore. I'm out, I'm done. I'm outed. And I strongly am suggesting to myself that I go find a new Starbucks,

because it's just, I'm not safe there anymore. I'm not safe, Chrissy. I'm not safe anywhere I go. I'm too famous at this point. I'm too famous. You don't know the struggles. You don't know the struggles, because you're not famous like I am. You hide there over in the shadows,

making your laughs and your little jokes and people love you and everyone loves Chrissy and Chrissy's the best and Astrid's lovely and Tina and Christina and all this other stuff. I take the heavy hits and I get noticed the most. Of all the people here at the podcast, I have been noticed twice. And that's all I gotta say, all right, twice.

And it makes me just a little bit nervous. The cat's out of the bag and how do I put it back in? I think you just act like a regular person getting your coffee. No, I know. Now I go in with sunglasses and a hoodie. I take an Uber. I take an Uber XL.

You change your name. Yes, I have a towel. I have someone behind me going like this with a towel, and I walk in and I say, there's not enough cream in my coffee. I act like a dick. That's what I do. That's how famous people act, right? I think so.

I don't think so. Speaking of famous people acting a certain way, Bad Baby, you know, Bad Baby, the cash me outside girl of Dr. Phil fame. Dr. Phil has really brought upon this earth a string of awesome, hasn't he? Dr. Phil, what a shithead. Anyway, Bad Baby, who is honestly, rose to prominence because of an appearance on Dr. Phil is now a musician and not a bad one by most accounts, people like her music. She was in Atlanta celebrating her 22nd birthday.

So she's 22. We've been hearing about the Cash Me Outside Girl for like 10 years. And she was like 13 years old. Yeah. And she went to Magic City for her birthday. She went to a restaurant called X1, XVLX. Do you know what I'm talking about? Let me explain to the listeners, and this is the point I want to make.

Bad baby went and had dinner at a BP gas station, a BP gas station. The hottest restaurant in Atlanta in some circles, depending on how you like your food and your flavor in some circles, depending on how you like your food and your flavor, in some circles is a BP gas station where there is a restaurant on top of it. The owners of the BP built a, what was originally- That's right there on 10th Street. I can picture it. Right, 10th Street.

Yep, that's it. Right down there on 10th Street, that BP has been there forever in a day. There was a time when that was not the gas station I would stop at after midnight. No way. But then all of a sudden, like bikers and trikers and, you know, casts of characters,

they would all meet up because it had a large parking lot. They would all meet up. Yeah, and I think there used to be like a Chinese restaurant or something there. Right next to it. Like, you know, like it was almost like a strip mall, like a BP, a rather large kind of BP convenience store, and then a Chinese restaurant next to it that did to-go food for the Georgia Tech campus, which is right

across the highway. Yeah, it's right across the bridge. Also the cheetah is right there. The cheetah is behind that, yeah, so a block down the street. So it's in the, it's in the heart of the city, like if you put a dot on Atlanta, you'll probably put it right on top of that BP. But so when I lived down there, it kind of went from this creepy weird BP to all of the sudden you would see gangs of people just hanging out there in the middle of the night, two, three, four in the morning, there'd be a hundred motorcycles parked in the parking lot and everyone just having a good time that then parlayed into some hip hop stars and rap stars doing like impromptu performances there, um, and large crowds showing up for parties

and this and that and the other thing that BP took on a life of its own. It did. It just all of a sudden became like folk, like, like legendary folklore. Which you had to go to. You had to go to, if you were going to stop in Atlanta, you had to go to the 10th BP. Which you had to go to. You had to go to. If you were gonna stop in Atlanta,

you had to go to the 10th BP. Well, the owners of this BP, being entrepreneurial as they are, decided, well, let's take advantage of this and we'll build an event space. But we have no more room because we're in the middle of downtown Atlanta that almost looks like downtown Manhattan now.

Swear to God. Oh yeah. So many buildings and more of them being built every single day. Tall buildings, like 40, 50 stories in the air. It lines the highway now, and it's just like there's no room anymore. So these guys, this family, decides, let's go up. We'll put on top of our BP, our BP convenience store, an entire event space that then turned into a restaurant that now everybody is going to.

They like, it's a thing. You go to the BP to have dinner. And I forget what it's called, Louis the Fifth or XY. I'm getting the name all, I'm murdering the name. But anyway, it's the BP gas station. That's all you need to know. And they are serving food and liquor up there and people are having a good time

and celebrities in all types, B-list, A- list, real housewives, they're all now posting about their trip to go have dinner at the BP. At the BP. At the BP. I mean, I realize that maybe in some places in this country, downtown New York, like New York, New York, Chicago, that there may be like convenience stores like 7-Elevens on top of taller buildings

that then have restaurants in them. But this is not that. This is a standalone BP convenience store that someone put a restaurant on top of and now everyone likes to go to dinner there. It's crazy. I, hey, listen, I ain't hating on the game. I don't at all. I think it's great. I think they're, they're really, they really took the moment and parlayed it into something

cool and trendy. But it's just weird. I just don't know that I would go to the BP for dinner. I kind of want to go now. You go and you tell me what it's like. I got kids. I can't afford to go. I've got downtown covered on the downtown correspondent. Yeah. You go downtown. I'll stay OTP. I'll do the OTP stuff.

I'll go to like, you know, the pumpkin patch. Yes. The fall festivals. I'll do that. How's that? You monitor the next door. I'll do the cherry blossom festival. You do the BP dinner and Magic City strip club.

They're doing a documentary about Magic City. It's famous. Have the BP dinner and Magic City strip club. They're doing a documentary about Magic City, yes. It's famous. Have you ever been to Magic City? I have. Yes, you have to go to Magic City. Yes, it was quite the experience. Magic City is magic.

Oh yeah, listen, it is not for the faint of heart. And when I first went to Magic City, way back when, I was one of two lighter skinned human beings, let's put it that way, in the building. And one of them was on stage, the other one was on stage. And so, but I was, I did not feel out of place one bit. I mean, I never did, like, I, you know, I'm literally colorblind and then figuratively colorblind.

I don't care. And some of my friends decided they wanted to go and, and for a party and took me, I was like, yeah, fuck yeah, I wanna go to this place you guys keep talking about. Oh yeah, everybody's having fun. Magic City is magic, it's magic. And they should do a documentary about it.

It is an amazing strip club where you have a ton of fucking fun and you will see the wildest shit you've ever seen in your entire life there. I mean. Those dancers are very talented. They, clapping cheeks. Yes. This is where. I mean. Those dancers are very talented. Clapping cheeks.

Yes. This is where it all started. It's working. At Magic City. And I promise you that's not hyperbole. These girls at this club started that. And I think if I'm not mistaken, some of the most famous hip hop stars in the world

have danced at Magic City also, right? And so it's like a place to be seen, a place to see, and a lot of people parlay their fame at Magic City, especially a lot of women parlay their fame at Magic City in to further careers. And I think that is great. That is, does not happen at the Cheetah, right? But the Cheetah is a different flavor of strip clubs. The Cheetah is huge too. And like Magic City is smaller. It's, you know, it's much right? But the Cheetah is a different flavor of strip clubs. It is, but the Cheetah's huge too,

and Magic City's small. Yeah, it's much more cozy. Yeah, much more cozy. I don't even know, I don't wanna know what it is in square feet, but it's like one room. The Cheetah's like multiple rooms, 50-foot ceilings. I mean, why do you need ceilings that high? Yeah, why do you need ceilings that high to strip clubs?

I'm just wondering. Like, I mean, I guess if you came down from a chandelier or something, but it's not anyway,, I don't want to get into the architecture about strip clubs, but Magic City is much more cozy and the experience is so wild that you're likely to never forget that. If you walk into the cheetah, you're going to see beautiful dancers and have a good time. Cheetahs are more professional. For sure, buttoned up, buttoned up. A little more corporate.

Yeah. You have to go into a private room to get a hand shandy there where you can probably get off at magic city. If you're just don't touch the dancers, you know what I'm saying? Or I don't know. Maybe you touch the dancers in magic city. I don't know. But yeah, cheat is the kind of place where you'll get thrown directly out for

doing any, for any kind of rude behavior. I mean, they took the doors off of the men's stalls because they knew that cocaine use was going on in there. That did not happen in Magic City. Magic City is like, what? All right, cool. They put more doors on the stalls. They put two doors.

It's like, there's a security door. It's just a different flavor. And I love it. I think it's great that Atlanta has Magic City. And there used to be some place called the Fantasy Factory. Do you remember the Fantasy Factory on North Side Drive, the Howell Mill area? No.

Nah, you wouldn't have gone there. That's the kind of place where you walk in. Was that that same place that would change names like every year? The one that our IT guy from the radio station was going to. Yeah, there was another dance hall in that same area that would often change names,

but this was Fantasy Factory for a long time. And it was like this warehouse building, back when it's all warehouses. So it was like a really kind of weird part of town. Yeah, kind of industrial. Yeah, very industrial. Train tracks right behind it. You could literally hear the train. And you would walk in and they would hand you

a menu and then there would be the girls would be in this room and you would pick the girl and you would pick the menu and it would be like, you know, I told you the story I think once, it would be like, you know, jacuzzi experience, massage experience, you know, leather experience, feather experience, whatever it was. Oh, that's kind of more like a brothel. It is like a brothel, but obviously you can't, it's not legal to pay for sex unless you just don't say it out loud. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I mean, unless you just don't say it out loud. Yeah, and one of my friends was really hell bent on getting there. We had been fucked up for hours and hours and hours. And so we went there. I reluctantly went there because I'm not interested in using sex workers. That's just not my thing. It's not my thing.

But I went there because I was so fucked up and my friend was so hell bent on going there that I just didn't wanna leave him alone. Like I was like, okay, I'll go there and we'll see. I had no idea what to expect. And he took to like a duck in water, he took to it right away. He was like, pick his girl, pick his experience

and he's out the door. And then I'm just standing there, fucked up, tweaked out of my mind, drunk as a skunk. And I'm like, jacuzzi experience? And I go upstairs, a jacuzzi experience, you, sure. And I go upstairs and we are all of a sudden outside on the roof of the building and there is a jacuzzi and she's like, all right, darling, you know, you get changed and I'll be back in a minute and get in the jacuzzi.

And I'm like looking at that jacuzzi and I'm like, I have, I, I don't want to go in there. I don't want to touch that water. I don't want to touch that water with your dick, let alone my dick. So I got in the jacuzzi. I was wearing shorts and underwear at the time, and I took off my shirt and went in the jacuzzi with my shorts and my underwear. So needless to say, no action happening on behalf of Brian. I think I talked to the very lovely naked girl across from me for an hour.

That's what I did. You had a beautiful view of the city. A beautiful view of the city, beautiful view of her boobs, and then I just left. I left and I was like, and he's like, how was it, wasn't that awesome, how was it? And I was like, ah, yeah, I just sat in a jacuzzi. What did you do?

I got laid. I got laid. That's what I did. And I thought, well, I guess, and he paid for it too. So I felt bad because I was like, well, sorry. No, this is not me. It's not for me. But anyway, listen to each their own.

It doesn't bother me at all. I think I'm not that prudish. I'm not that prudish to believe or to think that there aren't plenty of guys and girls that are out there paying for the girlfriend boyfriend experience so to speak Oh, absolutely, and I'm okay with it as a matter of fact, I think take it out into the light I think sex work is work take it out into the light. You're providing a service We have had friends that have been involved with sex work and I loved them dearly and I thought nothing less of them

No, I thought what a smart way to use your energy, your time and your abilities to help someone else and you know, there's like under the guise of like sexual healing, right? Sexual massage healing. Essentially teaching guys how to be better lovers was the tagline? I can't, I don't know. It was the ad in the back of the paper. That's right.

It was the marketing line. It was on the in the back of the paper. That's right, it was the marketing line. It was on the pitch deck. Yeah. But I'll say that, you know, I never once thought less of her, the person I'm speaking of specifically. No, I know her too, yeah. And I thought that that was a perfect thing for her to do

because she really was a magic healer. She enjoyed it. She was a great person to talk to. She gave a hell of a massage. She had magic hands and she knew, I think, how to energetically handle certain types of, like I'm just gonna say this, masculine energy. And so I think she probably would have been really good at that, really good at that.

I asked her one time if I could use her service and she told me no outright. But you know, that's, say, listen, it's not for everybody, right? I'm not for everybody. She probably would have been really good at that. Really good at that. I asked her one time if I could use her service and she told me no outright. But you know, that's, say, listen, it's not for everybody, right? I'm not for everybody. She probably didn't want to mix friends and business. I would never ask her. Can I get a freebie? No.

I know you can't. No, of course not. Of course not. I did one time though, after a concert, go home, like everyone got pretty smashed, except for me, unbelievably, I stayed relatively sober. I drove her home one night, she was smashed. I drove her home one night and we ended up doing whatever, like waking ourselves up a little bit with some,

a little tasty teener and then sleeping in the same bed. And when I woke up, she's like, you want a massage? And I thought to myself, is this the question you asked before the sexual healing? I was like a little bit nervous. And she's like, thanks for taking me home. I owe you something. You want a massage?

And then I said, yes. And it was a magic massage. Yeah, she was a really good masseuse. Yes, I felt so good. I need a massage. That's what I need. Somebody send me a gift certificate for massage. I'm just gonna start asking our listeners to pay for stuff. I need a massage. That's what I need. Somebody send me a gift certificate for massage I'm just gonna start asking our listeners to pay for stuff

Send me a massage gift certificate and I'll if you text me I'll tell you which massage place to get It's not massage envy or whatever that place that I went to that one time with the sheets What a terrible terrible place I don't even think that place is still open. Anyway, okay, so let's do this. Let's take a break. I got some fun stuff I wanna talk to. I was right about something, and now I'm gonna explain to you

all the bad things that are gonna happen to you because of something I told you not to do after you had already done it. So I told you how the math works on that, but I told you not to do something after you had already done it. But then I told you not to do it. You said, I did it. And I go, oh, well, you shouldn't have.

I can't wait to hear about this. OK, all right. So let's take a break. And when we get back, we'll talk about 23 and Me. Oh, I know. Yes. OK, we'll be back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how

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I'm certainly gonna redo the riot act here, but I wanted to say that it is April now. So I'm gonna let this cat out of the bag and we're gonna just kind of slowly build up into this. Chrissy and I will be celebrating doing five years of this show very shortly. I think the actual day is like April 19th or something like that along the lines.

That sounds right. That'll mark five years of this silly fucking show. I can't believe it. And probably close to 800 episodes at that point. I mean, it's just like, it's ridiculous how much content we have put out there, but we are kind of proud of it. We are trying to learn to live with it. We're getting therapy to be proud of what we're doing. And other people like it, apparently, from what we hear. And in conjunction with Central Talent Booking, Covert Creative, and our network, Odyssey, we will in May be celebrating Mental Health

Awareness Month by doing drum roll, please. 12 episodes of the commercial break in one day. That's right. Everybody loves a good, a good endurance feat. Every human since, since time in memoriam, we have celebrated those who have gone the distance, who have done things further, faster, and longer than everyone else. So to my knowledge, there has never been another podcast

that has put out 12 episodes in one day. Now that's to my knowledge, I haven't really checked, but I'm just making the assumption that no one has ever done. We're gonna at least attempt this. We're gonna attempt it. I don't know if we're gonna get through it, but we're gonna attempt it.

It will likely be on Saturday, May 31st, the last day of the month. That way, Chrissy and I can go directly to bed and not wake up till Monday. But we're gonna attempt it. It will likely be on Saturday, May 31st, the last day of the month. That way, Chrissy and I can go directly to bed and not wake up till Monday. And I can put my children somewhere for the afternoon. But we will be doing this to raise awareness about the importance of mental health.

We will have celebrity guests on board to help us get through the day. And Chrissy and I will be releasing an episode that we are recording that day every hour for you to listen to from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Now, details subject to change, but details, all of it. Yeah, I'm glad I told you the details because they'll probably change. It'll probably be like 1130 to 1245

or some bullshit like that. But right now, that's where we're going with it. And it's very much going to happen now because now we've roped celebrities into doing it. I don't think we have much of a choice at this point. But I just wanted to let everyone know that there's the opening salvo. May 31st, mark your calendars. 12 episodes of TCB. If you can keep up with all 12, you're going to get something.

And that is, and we're likely to give away something on that day. So stay tuned. You'll probably want to tune in. Mark your calendars, kids. 12 hours of TCB is coming your way to celebrate five years of the commercial break and mental health awareness month. That is May. Okay.

Now, speaking of your mental health, we're gonna need mental health after we're done. No shit, we should get a therapist. I can't believe you wrote me into this. The original idea was 24 hours of TCB. I just put my foot down on that. Oh, I didn't say it wasn't happening. I said it's not happening this time. We gotta work our way into it.

What are we gonna do at 10 years? I don't know, we'll see. Coming up is the wait. I think we're definitely doing the 12 days of TCB again, which is going to be 23 episodes. We know that. But we'll prepare better for that. We'll space it out a little more evenly last time. But this one, there's no spacing out.

We're going in. We're staying the day. We're considering Twitch, but that's not... Yeah, we're considering throwing out a live episode on Twitch. Like you guys... And the thing is, is that the podcasts are recorded by nature. There is no functionality on the podcasts are recorded by nature. There is no functionality on the RSS feed to do live.

So we would have to do that on YouTube and or Twitch. But we, we will record the episode and then flip it back out on the hour. So essentially while you're listening to one episode, we'll be recording the next episode. So that's the minutia of it. We'll talk a lot more about that, but you know, we're going to have a lot of time to talk about lots of stuff. So if you have any ideas, anything you've heard us do over the last five years that you would like us to touch on during this 12 hours of TCB, text in, let us know. We'd love to hear from you. And of course, you know, please tune in, set your podcast player to auto download so you get all the episodes.

Obviously most people will not be listening to 12 hours of the commercial break, but you'll have a whole three days, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to catch up on those 12 hours before we start putting out more episodes the following week. This is so stupid. What was I thinking? I was thinking something and I opened my mouth and everyone was like, yeah, let's do that and I'm like, yeah, let's do that. And I'm like, well, you don't actually have to do it.

That's great. I love it. Anyway, okay. 23andMe is bankrupt. They went bankrupt, unsustainable business model, lots of competitive, it's a competitive industry where there are lots of companies doing the exact same thing. DNA technology is getting cheaper and cheaper.

And so therefore the 23andMe model is not sustainable because it's not a subscription service for most people. It's just a one and done. And 23andMe is that company that claimed that they could tell you why you liked coffee because you were from the Arribica, you know, your family, your clan was from the Arribica zone of Columbia or whatever. It was kind of silly if you ask me, but the thing that I have always been warning people about since these services started

coming in fashion, probably 10 years ago, was what happens when the government or private industry that does not mean well, wants to buy that information from that company. Because I promise you in the terms of service, you're not going to have the right to say no. They're going to have the ability to take that data and sell it. And they probably will.

And they probably were anyway, but now it's on the auction block. And who's going to get it? Elon Musk, that Bezos guy? Uh, I don't know. Dennis Rodman? I mean, anybody could get that information and then they could have their own database of DNA sitting there ready for use in what way they see fit. Creating new human beings, the splattering blood and the scene of the OJ crimes. I don't know, but you never know.

And that's the challenge. The challenge is I don't know, but you never know. And that's the challenge. The challenge is you don't know what they're gonna do with it and you have no say in what they do with it anymore. And now the judge is gonna sell it to the highest bidder or they're gonna sell it to the highest bidder. And it's likely that the investors in that company are not gonna give a shit about where that information goes

because they just want their money back. And that is the challenge. And that's why I've never used one of those services. Now, to be fair, my twin brother has, and we're twins, so I'm kind of fucked anyway. But I mean, we're fraternal twins at least. There's a little twist in the DNA somewhere there. But, you know, this seems dangerous to me.

Anytime we give this kind of extraordinarily, all of our personal information is out there anyway. Our social security numbers, our addresses, our phone numbers, anybody can be found at any time just knowing how to Google. And now with chat gg... Ryan has broken. Powering down. With chat g... It's so much easier than it was before to find out loads of information on people. I asked ChatGPT to give me a biography on myself and you, and you should have seen the amount of information that it got just reading the internet.

It got a lot of information. Stuff I didn't even know about myself was in there. It's unbelievable. No, I needed a biography for purposes. And I said, okay, can you create a biography on the two hosts of the commercial break? And it came up with a, like a whole four pages on me, less on you, because I don't think as much information

is out there about you. But some of that information, I was like, wow, that is pretty spot on. And there's a couple things that I didn't understand or I thought were just wrong altogether. But mostly the right information. And there's a lot of it. And I don't put a lot of personal information out there. Well, at least it didn't say that you had murdered your children, like that one guy that's suing from like over in

Europe or something? Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you want to know the craziest thing? And this is all just leading, this will lead to a point, I promise. Most of my speeches do. You just might have to listen for a couple episodes to get to that point.

I asked chat GPT something about the commercial break. They had like a new model that came out. And I said, and it was like a deep research model and I got access to it. They're like, you get, we're giving you access to test it out, you know, go ahead, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like 4.5 or whatever. So I said, like I always do,

because I'm just obsessed with hearing about myself. I'm like, okay, tell me about the commercial break. And the commercial,, at this time, you and I have recorded our interview with Rory Scovell, but we have not released our episode with Rory Scovell. And it goes, gives me a biography of the, you know, the dissertation on the commercial break. And then it tells me the commercial break also has celebrity guests in a segment they call TCB Infomercial.

Here's some of the examples, you know, Lunel, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada, yada. Do you want more information on the commercial break and their guests? I said, yeah, tell me which celebrity guests have been on the commercial break. And it says, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, and Rory Scoville. And I was like, how does it know that we had Rory? What's that? Your phone. My phone. That's right. It took the information from my phone. The phones are listening to us. It's known. Well, it

had made the assumption, it now knows that I'm the host of the commercial break. It made the assumption because I asked it a question about Rory's background before we got him here on an interview. It made the assumption that I had interviewed him and that's what it told me. Because I interview, it made the assumption that I had interviewed him. And that's what it told me. Cause I said, how did you know that I had interviewed, how did you know that the commercial break had interviewed Rory?

I don't find that episode publicly. And it said, that information is not available publicly. It's based on previous conversations. I made the assumption you had interviewed Rory. And I was like, holy fucking dick shit. That's crazy. That is crazy. Like that's crazy scary. That it's like thinking and reasoning like that. That's crazy. That is crazy. Like that's crazy scary. Yeah. That it's like

thinking and reasoning like that. That's insane. My six year old can't think and reason like that. You know what I'm saying? Meanwhile I'm using it for gardening too. Yeah. Meanwhile, Chrissy's like, tell me something nice. And I'm like, give me the war plans to destroy It's like, how do you build a bomb at home? So it's just scary. And this amount of information already available about us, leaving the only thing that we don't have readily available at our disposal is generally our bio information, the information about us biologically. And now it is going to be out there because it's going to be on sale.

And we have no say. Now, we have no say. We have no say. information, the information about us biologically. And now it is going to be out there because it's going to be on sale. And we have no say, no say in who gets it. And the government, as it stands right now in this administration, it's unlikely to put their finger on the scale to, you know, sue the, to get an injunction or whatever to stop this from happening. They don't give a shit. Probably some of those people in the administration

will be want some of the bidders because they will see value and having that bio information out there. That's scary to me. It's really scary to me. And yeah, so shame on you for using 23andMe. I didn't. Oh, I thought you used 23andMe.

Nope. What'd you use? Ancestry. Oh, ancestry.com. Okay, but I think the point remains the same is that ancestry.com. Okay, but I think the point remains the same, is that ancestry.com is another business that at some point may or may not close the doors. And if 23andMe couldn't hack it,

Ancestry probably is living and breathing in the same industry. And as these services become cheaper, more widely available than Ancestry and Me might go, meh, you know, we can't do it anyway. And then that information is on the chopping block getting sold too. So I just want you to be cautious. Now it's already, And then that information is on the chopping block getting sold too. So I just want you to be cautious.

Now it's already, your cat's already out of the bag for you. You're, I can't have you here anymore. I guess I could go and delete, because I mean, I was listening to a podcast about this, the story, the 23andMe story, and they were saying, you know, it's, I guess there's not going to be a sale until later this year. So if you do use that, you could go in and delete your information now.

Whether that's deleted, deleted, or just you think it's deleted, I don't know. You can go and delete it. But they were saying too that these services aren't going to go away really because people are always going to want to know like where they came from and why they're, if they're predispositioned for certain illnesses and food allergies, that kind of thing. I mean, there's gonna, I think there's always gonna be people that wanna know. I don't disagree that that information is important and it should be used for our, for

the purposes of bettering our health or bettering our life. But I think that should be done through channels that are more protective of your information, like under the HIPAA laws, right? So a doctor, so the doctor says, I'm, you know, like prostate cancer is in my family. And so the doctor goes in and does a biopsy when my brother gets cancer. And then he says, I'd like to have this genetically tested to see if you are predisposed to genes that we know. Other people who've had the similar genes have prostate cancer too, so that we can see if it's more or less aggressive, if they're, if we need to do something with your other brothers or whatever.

Exactly. And so that felt right to me, right? That's like, yes, that's an easy decision to make. It's just like these private companies that have no vested interest in any of that. They don't give a shit whether you're healthy or not. They might give you that information, but they're not going to protect that information when it comes down to brass tacks. They're going to sell to the highest bidder because their purpose here in

this ether is not to make sure you're healthy or wealthy or wise. It's to make sure they have money in their pocket. And so therefore anything that they can do to make revenue is fair game. And yeah, they can say, make sure you go in and delete the information before the sale. It's already being housed a million different places. There's multiple copies of it. You know, and even if it's blind DNA, that DNA even being blind, meaning there's no name attached to it, it's in your body. So it's like, it would be hard to unwind that. It's like, it's so connected.

So I'm giving this advice to all of my friends, because I've been saying this for 10 years. Don't do these services. If you need DNA testing, go to your doctor and explain why you might want DNA testing. I'd like to know how many children I have in foreign countries. Please do a DNA test, doctor.

Yeah, but I think they caught some serial killers by the DNA tests. Yes. Those same services. And listen, that's great when you get one, but DNA is not a perfect science. And so many people who are scientists in this universe will tell you, I have a friend,

and it works for the CDC and explain. Still working for the CDC? According to our last text message, Shane, yes. And that was a couple of days ago, but he was, there's a lot of cuts. He was very nervous about it. Very nervous, he said everybody was very nervous about it. But the point is, is that DNA is an imperfect science

and it has been for a long time and mistakes are made and things happen. And when people have your DNA, it can be used for good. It can be used nefariously. And that's the thing is that not everybody has great intent. We can see that as it's like playing out in every newscast that we've seen for the last 200 days, right? It's not everybody, you'd like to think that people are like,

yeah, I wanna do good and I wanna be best and all that other stuff, but not everybody thinks that way. And some people are just quite frankly, they're like, you know, from the land of broken toys. I don't even know what they're thinking. 23andMe, while I'm sure the intention was to make some money and help people find information, that was probably the original mission of 23andMe.

It's now some big conglomeration that's gonna get sold and so is all of your information. So, I don't know. Change your DNA. Go get a blood transfusion or something like that. I don't know what to tell you. Well, it's out there now. So it's kind of exciting to think about a robot, Chrissy.

No. No. I don't know what's the worst they could do. I guess I'm not thinking in terms of like, like I could be framed for murder. Is that what you're thinking? I don't think that that would happen, but stranger things have happened. There are people that are sitting in jail right now that are innocent as the day is long and they were convicted on DNA evidence. There are whole documentaries about it, right? The DNA evidence was wrong.

It was wrong. It was interpreted wrong. It was done wrong. It was whatever wrong. But the other thing is, is I think more importantly is your information or DNA would be used in some way to, I don't know, create designer children or, you know, oh, we like these desirable traits about this person, so we're going to put this in a string of sequences that then we can sell to people who want designer babies and we can infuse the DNA or whatever.

And then all of a sudden, not real Chrissy children running around here, but like part of Chrissy children, like, you know, they got your eyes or whatever. I mean, it's a little weird and it's happening. It's all happening. I'm telling you. You got to start using Chad happening. It's all happening. Telling you. You gotta start using Chad GPT to look up all the weird negative shit. I'm gonna keep continuing down my gardening route.

You are turning into an old lady right in front of me. In some ways, you're still a young buck wilding out there on the streets night after night. But then other ways I'm like, are you gonna get into crochet any day now? I have crochet's making a big comeback. I actually did try to get into crochet, but I can't.

No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't see you as a crocheter. I mean, if you do crochet, it's all over. I can see you in here, like, while I'm talking doing crochet. It seems old, but there's a whole new section. Our Jeff's daughter is huge into crochet. We have listeners that wanna crochet and stuff. Yeah, listen, when I was growing up, it was hot. There was a lot of people that did it,

like younger ladies that were doing it, fell out of favor, at least where I lived, right? I remember seeing women who had- I just remember seeing old people doing it. No, it was like a- It's become new. Yeah, it was like a thing the moms, like the young moms were doing.

So I remember being young and going over to friends' houses and seeing the moms and talking on the phone, crocheting or whatever. And that's back when you had to hold the phone. You know what I'm saying? Like I had it up to the ear like that. Yes, you were on the phone. Yeah, you were on the phone and whatever.

But you know, we have listeners that crochet too. We have listeners that have offered to crochet us things. Oh, yeah, I love crochet stuff. And I'm like, yeah. I've got hats, bags, all kinds of stuff from our daughter. Send it along so I can scrape your DNA off of it and put it in a database that I'm going to sell to the most nefarious winner. Your mind goes to the worst things and mine goes to the best.

It doesn't go to the worst things. It goes to things that I think are feasible and that makes me cautious, right? I'm like, oh, I don't know about that. I just, I don't know. I just like, I think everything with a healthy dose, I generally am an optimist. I'm really optimistic about most things,

but I have a general sense of, look out for that. Like look out for that. Like, look out for that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, ah, ah, I don't know about that. You know, I have a, I have a healthy dose of street smart. I think that is in my brain. All right.

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He can't even leave New York because he is under, he's on parole. So he cannot leave New York. So he is zooming in to a press conference in Playa del Carmen in Quintana Roo, where there are some other people from a production company, like a police officer I guess, from the local, and then like 10 reporters. I mean it was like sparsely attended, right? And they're in like a thatched hut on the beach or whatever. And he's just putting this on for show to tell people, you know, I do have some connection

down there and you know, it is happening. But this is, only 1800 people are coming. Only 1800, there's only 1800 tickets. He wants, he's encouraging people to buy the $1.1 million ticket. Of course he is. Of course he is. Where they will live quote unquote like Jack Sparrow or Laura Croft for the weekend.

It's like for $1.1 million, I better be living like Elon fucking Musk for the weekend. I mean, honestly, I should be, I should have a, the nicest Lear jet, the biggest yacht, the best service and blow jobs whenever I want. I mean, that's just a kid. I'm just making a joke there. Don't get all upset. But I mean, honestly, maybe I should have blow jobs.

I mean, that's like an insane amount of money to spend on three days for a festival that is so. I don't know if you can call it a festival at 1,800 people. It's not a festival. It's more like a big party is really what it is. And it's disparate. It's all over the place.

It's not even in one location. It's like a venue here and a venue there. And they're supposedly dropping a list of artists sometime in the next two weeks. Oh, great. But that gives me zero confidence. Well, yeah, right as things are approaching. Yes.

Because the date is approaching. This is going, yeah. And oh, and by the way, one enterprising reporter pointed out that on the website's terms of service, when you purchase a ticket, it says that FireFest 2 and its organizers have the right to change the date, time, locations, and artists without notice. And there are absolutely zero exchanges or refunds.

So riddle me that, Riddler. How are you going to buy a ticket for starting at $1,400 and there is no guarantee you will ever see that money again. None, zero. I guarantee they don't have event insurance because you can't have event insurance unless you have an actual event at a location where there's plans for things that are happening.

No insurance company in the world is gonna insure an event that's happening in No insurance company in the world is going to ensure an event that's happening in 17 different places. It's just not, it's just not, this is so backwards from everything that I understand that goes on in the event industry, especially the festival industry, that Chrissy's right. It's not a festival. It's a party in multiple locations.

They have loosely cobbled together some people who may or may not be involved. And then they're hoping, hoping that they get enough people down there to break even at 1800 people, you wouldn't have to sell. You'd have to sell every ticket to even get any artist of note down there. Now I'll eat my shoe if they announce like, you know, Green Day or Adele or, you know, I don't know, whoever. Travis Scott is going to show up, but I guarantee it's not going to be that caliber of artist. It's going to be like JoJo Siwa. It's going to show up. It's going to be like JoJo Siwa and I don't know, like some, you know, D-list celebrities that you might or might not get to hang out with.

But how's he going to pay for all of this? It's all weird. It's so weird. And he's desperately trying to put on, you know, a happy face for everybody. But I know he's got to be freaking out inside that he announced this. This is his big comeback. He's trying to make it all happen. And it's clear that no one believes him.

No one with good reason, because he hasn't done this the right way. He should have announced a festival for 2026 and then said, more infor- here's where, and he should have had all his ducks in a row. Here's where it's going to be. Here's who's playing. Here's how you buy tickets. If it doesn't happen, I've got a protection program. I've got an insurance company like Allianz or somebody

that is going to pay you back. Don't worry about it. And the tickets are reasonably priced. They're $500 for the weekend, right? Or something along those lines. And then if you want to spend $10,000 to get a crazy suite, then that's it. But there's like loosely associated hotels

that are gonna charge you in addition to the tickets that you're buying. Yeah, it's cobbled together. It really is cobbled together. It's not the right way to do it. It really isn't. It just shows a lack of professionalism in any organization whatsoever.

He had this idea in his head, he announced it, and now he has no idea how it's all gonna go down. And so you, therefore, shouldn't even think about going down there, unless you're like one of those people who really loves to stop at a car crash and take a look at it, you know what I'm saying? That's why I would go down there.

I would go down there and not buy a ticket. I just wanna be in the town to see what happens. In the vicinity. Yeah, and there's gonna be so much press just crawling all over the place for that. You know that every reporter that works for every magazine in the entire world is begging their editor for this assignment. Please send me down to Quintana Roo for this particular event so that I can watch the shit show and get a tan while I'm at it. There you go.

Exactly. Wow. So unbelievable. What date is it supposed to happen? I think it's May 31st. I think the same day as the 12 hours of TCB. And I have no fear that it's gonna, that we're gonna, that's gonna be problematic for May 30th, 31st and June 1st. Wow, what a shit show this is gonna be. I just can't wait.

I can't wait to see how it all goes down. Take lots of video. If you're going, take lots of video. I know that no one to listen to the commercial break is going because they believe me on this one. They may not believe me on everything, but they believe me on this one. They believe me that this is not a good thing

to do with your money. I don't think it's a hard convince. I mean, I think you have to have your head directly stuck in your ass to think that it's a good idea to go down to the Fire Fest, don't you? Oh, of course. Or just a lot of extra money, or you're already on your way down to Quintana Roo,

and hey, why not? Let me, you know, and you got $1,400 to blow. Let me see what it's all about. But I don't want to see some fucking shitty DJ that played at Abisa last summer. That's the kind of, that's the kind of shit they're going to, you're going to get, you know, DJ breaker balls coming from straight from his, you know, straight from his five day set at Ibiza's, you know. Ibiza.

Ibiza's hottest outdoor beach club. Yeah, it's like, oh, okay, congratulations. You know, the brand new YouTube artist, Dave. Dave, acoustic set from Dave. Yeah, I mean, the fact that he's announced no one yet is definitely just concerning in itself, so. It means there is no one to announce. That's what it means, because you know

that if Billy had anybody of note, he would be screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs how great it is that this artist is coming. Even just one, one A-list legacy act that you could hang your hat on, you would be saying that. And then also, if you had that one A-list legacy act, then you could get other people to attach themselves to the show. They would be like,

well, you know, okay, Rihanna's playing, so I guess I'm gonna play too. Of course. But the fact is, there is nobody to talk about because there is no festival happening It is totally and literally a shit show again. I can't believe it. I can't I'm just I know I'm I'm stunned that he's doing this. I've never seen a train wreck so clearly coming down the tracks never In the press release too, like I, again, this would be the part where you would announce things.

Yeah, let me, somebody was there. I'll read the byline. Oh, here, yes. Yeah. Fire Festival founder Billy McFarland has reassured revelers that the proper permits are in place for the rapidly approaching multi-day event in Mexico.

McFarland proclaimed that the second installment of Firefest will be an opportunity for him to amend the disastrous 2017 event, which left attendees stranded on an island in the Bahamas that lacked any food, water, or accommodations. And this shows a picture and it says, I have a second chance to do right by the people around me and against all odds to turn this nightmare into real dreams. McFarlane said via video at Thursday's press conference.

For the attendees, for the partners sitting on stage, Fire Fest 2 is about being a dreamer. You are so full of shit. Being a traveler and being an adventure seeker around the world, converging on Playa del Carmen to live like Jack Sparrow or live like Laura Croft for three whole days. The festival will host 1,800 guests and feature 40 musical performances. Event associate producer Daniel Martin said, poor Daniel, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. However, the Fyre Fest organizers stopped short of revealing any of the artists despite

the event slated to kick off on May 30th. Partner Mike Phelbe vowed to unveil the first list of artists on the Fyre Festivals social media platforms in the next few weeks. The intention of this press conference is to set the basis of the festival, the foundation of it, the security, the locations, the infrastructure, the hotels. So this is the intention for today. The artist, the first release of the artist will come in the next couple of weeks. So please be attentive to it.

What in the world does that even mean? That's a weird way of talking. Another partner named Fernando said the organizers have already secured Fernando. Fernando. Another partner named Fernando. Hey, my name's Fernando. Don't worry, dude. Everything's cool.

Everything's cool. Come on down. Buy the Prometheus package. He said that the organizers have already secured the permits to make the festival successful. Well, permits don't make it successful. They just allow it to happen. But thank you.

Manuel Rada, the head of artists and commercial relations for the Mexican event organizer Lost Nights said that the fire team has found a home for the festival in Playa del Carmen. Reddit expressed confidence in the Fyre team's ability to make a festival a success. The reality is, of all those, doubts and concerns are fixed with a very simple thing. We are in Mexico.

What? What? Hey, about the Fyre Fest one, don't worry man. We are in Mexico. Yeah, and the whole Jack Sp. Don't worry, man, we are in Mexico. Yeah, and the whole Jack Sparrow, Laura Croft thing leads me to believe that it's, you know, there's, because there's a lot of jungle there. Especially when you're flying in,

because we just flew in there. Of course. It's all jungle, so this could turn out to be even worse. Well, no, they're doing it in Playa del Carmen, which is a major city down there, but I agree with you. Like, why are you giving us the Jack Sparrow? I don't want to live like Jack Sparrow. He was a drunk living in like the time of the scourge. We are in the Riviera Maya.

We're in Playa del Carmen. There's no lack of five-star hotels, five-star culinary experiences, and since founding the new partners. Now that you go down there and pay for it. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's true. There's no lack of five-star hotels, five-star culinary experiences, and since founding the new partners... Now that you go down there and pay for it, yeah, I mean, that's true. You don't have to have Firefest. That's just a vacation.

Yeah. And since founding the new partners, the new team here for Firefest 2 is about building long-term and deep relationships with both the partners of the company, the attendees of the event, and the local supporters in the region, which FireFest will, where FireFest will be held. I don't even understand what any of this doublespeak is. They're just talking out their ass. The press conference comes a day after the US Sun exclusively revealed FireFestival countergoers will not get a refund if the event is canceled.

The top tier Prometheus ticket is valued for a staggering $1.1 million. The U.S. Sun revealed that the second iteration of the initially doomed festival has some unusual stipulations in the terms of service for the multi-day Seroir A, which has already changed its location twice in the last month. It's an astonishingly long terms of service. Fire attempts to avoid accountability should anything go wrong this time. In the lengthy agreement for ticket holders, there are a slew

of serious warnings about what one might expect. One such warning reads, in a section titled Refund and Exchanges, all ticket sales are final. absolutely no refunds or exchanges. General emissions start to $1400, next step is $5000, then $25000, and finally $1.1 million. On Tuesday, McFarland claimed on Instagram that they had sold their second Prometheus ticket. Don't believe it. In 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty. He agreed to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, you get it.

Yeah, we'll just keep our eye on things. In the terms of service, it says, you agree that no fire party will be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the service or event. We may cancel any event at any time in our sole discretion. Further, event date, time, location, and talent are subject to change. And any change will not be considered a cancellation of the event. And you will bear all risks of inclement weather in connection with the event. Events may take place despite inclement weather. In the event of cancellation due to a natural disaster, tickets will not be refunded.

All costs associated with the cancellation, such as travel, will be your responsibility. Well, that should make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks Billy for putting on the second most interesting thing that's ever happened in the festival industry. Menfoe being the first, of course, go to men, go to a real festival. Go to Memphis. Yeah. They won't be glamping. There won't be no glamping there, but you know, there's lots of hotels to stay at. And Memphis. God, it's really, it is just so crazy.

I can't. No. I don't know how to explain it. I don't know what to say. I don't know where to go with it. I don't know how to think about it. He's determined to make something happen. He sure is.

We'll see. What that thing is, I have no idea. But hey, listen. Okay. God bless you. We'll see. What that thing is, I have no idea. But hey, listen, okay, God bless you. You know what, Billy? I do wish you the best. I hope that you are-

I wish the ticket, people that have bought tickets the best. Well, I hope they have a rousing good time. I hope they sell every ticket. I hope there's great bands and I hope Billy pays back every dollar for the first people he fucked before he decides to fuck the second people. But I don't know.

I have no faith. I have no faith. I have no faith in humanity anymore, Chrissy. I'm done. All right. TCBpodcast.com. That's where you go to find out more information about the show. All the show notes, information about our show, all the show notes, information

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