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Episode Date: November 21, 2024

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It is crazy, but you know, I can't take all the drama right now in the news. So I'm just taking a break, just a little bit of a break. I like have a little bit of an eye on it. I, I'll look at the headlines, but then I don't dig any deeper. Uh, but yeah, but I have a, we just watched a scene from before the 90 days, I think is what it is, and I'll get to that in a second. But I wanted to ask you if you had seen that over the weekend, I know it's, we're now at Thursday,

but over the weekend that Nika and Joe from Morning Joe had gone down to Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump, sat down with him for dinner. Yes, after all that shit talking between two of them, going down to Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump, sat down with him for dinner. Yes, after all that shit talking between two of them. And then like, supposedly someone in Trump's circle was threatening to have them arrested after the election because of all the lies they told on Morning Joe.

And so now people are up in arms going, how could you possibly go and meet Trump after all the things that have been said and done after this? I'm taking the opposite look at this. And this is the only reason why I'm bringing this up. I think it's a good thing that you open up lines of communication. Right now, I don't think that anybody should be pandering to any particular politician on one side of the aisle to curry favor or to milk toast the real news. Facts are facts. That's what it is.

But why is it a bad thing that there are open lines of communication between media that may not necessarily see eye to eye with the political candidate or president or whatever? I don't think this is a bad thing, I think this is a good thing. And I think it's a new approach that may be needed that we've gotta start talking to each other

or none of this shit's ever gonna get solved and people are just gonna end up in civil war quite frankly and who fucking wants that? I cannot be inconvenienced with that right now. I have contractually obligated to put out episodes of the commercial break and if there is a you know a landmine in uh in my front yard then I I won't be able to go to the grocery store and get milk. So leave it alone. All right I like it. I'm all about it. I think it's a good thing. I agree yeah. Maybe settle down some it. I think it's a good thing Maybe settle down some of the rhetoric on both sides would be not a bad thing Whatsoever. Okay, that said Matt gates we can all agree the terrible pick for the Department of Justice

I mean if you have been even a whiff that you were in an underage drug-filled orgy then you should probably never ever have your name and the head of the DOJ in the same sentence ever, except unless the head of the DOJ put the handcuffs on you. That's it. I mean, period, end of sentence. There is no way this guy gets through. I can't imagine the Senate will appoint this guy, but if they do, then we are in a real shit show.

Yeah, it seems like enough people on both sides of the aisle are up in arms. This isn't going to happen and now a new report comes out that maybe he was up at up to 10 of these drug-filled underage orgies. So, wow. Yeah, it's crazy. Sounds like a stand-up guy to me, the kind of guy that we really need to be the sheriff in town. You know what I'm saying? Come on, Trump. Come on. I'd like to think this is just a Trojan horse. He's just putting it out there so that he can throw somebody in there that's like equally as bad, but not a criminal in. You know what I'm saying? Oh, well, that guy's not as bad. You know what I'm saying? Right. No, there is that strategy. There is a theory going around that that might be it. I have to agree. So we're watching the

90 Day Before the 90 Days here. On to more important things. We're watching 90 Day Before the Night After the 90, but whatever it is. Yes. Before the 90, which for those of you who don't know, there's a show, 90 Day Fiancé, which I'm sure you've heard of, and that's where they get a visa. And for 90 days... The Fian fiance visa. The fiance visa, so the person from another country can come to the US and live. And they try it out for 90 days to see if it's gonna work.

So this show chronicles a relationships that are leading up to an engagement. Yeah, so this is like before they actually get engaged, they're meeting, they live in different countries, they're meeting for the first time or continuing a relationship they've been continuing. And who doesn't want a camera crew in your middle of your relationship? So we've been talking over the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about one, a couple of the relationships, but one in particular about a guy who's in a wheelchair,

who's a quadriplegic, he's in a wheelchair, he's down in Brazil meeting a beautiful young woman, and then they had a little drama because they were gonna have sex, he didn't have a condom, he went down on her, tried to go down on her, and she said, no, I don't want that because she felt it was more intimate than actually having sex, and he didn't ask her, he just assumed that that was okay,

and he tried to go for it. He rolled out of there all upset and, and so onward and upward. So now they've made up. They did. They made up. They're on some kind of vacation. Chrissy told me this last time we were talking about this, but it just was in this little clip and I have to ask the question, how many divorces are too many divorces? Four, he's been married and divorced four times. Now, you know, I suppose there is a chance that you just, your pickers off and you really get terrible relationships

four times. I've been in four terrible, not terrible, but I've been in four relationships serious. In my life, I've been in four serious, I would consider serious relationships and Astrid being one of them. But we're currently married and so far, at least not this week, we're not getting a divorce. And so, you know, but marriage is a certain type of serious. Like when you decide to get married, I can understand like when you're young and you get married because you think it's the next thing to do when the next thing to do is probably break up and then you quickly realize this you're in way over your head and this is never going to work out never was going to work

out and a divorce. I understand a practice marriage. I get that because I did it, right? But for practice marriages, isn't that a little much? Isn't that a little much? I don't know. Yeah. That's why I'm asking the question. And like, I guess the original marriage was to someone here in the US, but I think that the other three have all been the women from Brazil. Yeah, now aren't you just have a fetish for Brazilian women at that point, don't you think? Astrid has Astrid has said that, like, I told Astrid, it's something that I, after I got a divorce, I would say almost immediately to anybody I was interested in, or if we were interested in each other, I would say it immediately.

There was no hiding it. I just said, I'm divorced. That's it. Let's get it out there. If you don't, and not one time did I ever get any flack about it. Not one time. I've had a few people ask follow-up questions. what happened, how did it go down, who divorced who, you know, as the restraining order expired, stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? But normal questions, but I never got someone said, I'm sorry, it's not for me, I don't date divorced men. Because I think divorce is a rather common thing, but like a divorce, not like four divorces, maybe even two. Like, okay, all right, I got it, all right. You had to practice one and then you had one,

yeah, maybe it didn't work out so great. You're trying to go for your third serious relationship or marriage, but your fifth serious relationship or marriage, would that turn you off? Yeah, I think it would at least give me pause. Oh, for sure. I mean, at the very least give me pause as to why there has, because, I mean, this isn't a man in his 80s. No!

You know, he's in his early 40s or 50s or something. Early 50s, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it would definitely be a red flag. A red flag! But here is the thing that I do have to say about this that makes it even more kind of, it's going to be more of a shit show on this next episode. He didn't say that to her. He didn't tell her.

Beth Dombkowski And his excuse is that she never asked. Jared Sussman What? Do you have to ask if you're on your fourth marriage? Are you divorced? Yes, I am. Oh, okay, how was that? Yeah, you know, didn't work out. Are you divorced the second time? Well, now that you asked, yes. And a third?

Yeah, I also had one of those. What about a fourth? You? Well, now that you ask, I'm on my fourth. I'm done with my fourth. Yeah, you would be the fifth. That is a huge red flag. That is a huge red flag.

Tomorrow's episode, we're going to talk all about relationship red flags, but that's just an example of one huge red flag for divorces. You got to do it. I'm going to need to know a lot more information. All of it. All of it. I'm going to want to know. I'm going to want Instagram addresses.

I'm going to want to look at Facebook pages. I need to see all wedding albums. Any videos or audio in your phone. I wanna see text messages. I might even speak to the women. Oh, definitely. From my country. Yes. That have married this man. Yes. Well, I wanna speak to at least, at the very least, the first and the last wife. I wanna speak to the first one you got married to and the last one. Have you learned anything in the four divorces is what I want to know. And because on your fourth divorce, it might be you that's the problem. Do you know what I'm saying? First one, okay, chalk it up. Everyone was silly and stupid and young and you had, you decided to have a big party. It didn't

work out. Second one, okay, maybe, maybe your picker's just off, right? Maybe you just happen to fall into the same trap twice. Third one, it's definitely your fault. Fourth one, you're a problem. You're the problem. That's it. There's no other way to explain that, none. And even if it is that your picker's off,

then you're still the problem. It takes you a long time to learn stuff. So I'm just saying, I'm just throwing it out there, Chrissy. Fourth divorce, you gotta put that, and I understand why you don't want to lead with that. Right. It's hard enough to lead with a divorce, let alone four divorces. A, I've been married and divorced four times. Times four.

But you got to say it. You got to weed those people out right away. You got to allow somebody the opportunity to bow out if they in fact don't want to be with a divorcee X4, you know what I'm saying? Divorce X4, the new movie by whatever his name is. M. Night Shyamalan? M. Night Shyamalan. DX4, divorce times four, all four terrible relationships ending disaster. It's a horror movie. But now, could we, oh, there's a Miley Cyrus commercial for perfume. I just thought I'd throw that out there. Miley Cyrus is really a beautiful woman.

She really is. I do have to say that if you are in a relationship with someone who is quadriplegic, then maybe we could chalk this up to the women who got married to this young man. Thought that they could. Thought that they could be a support vehicle and a support system for a person in a wheelchair who needs a lot of daily attention and then decided it was a little bit too much. Maybe it might not be him, maybe it might be them. But I want to

have that conversation with somebody. What really happened? Like, how did that go down? And especially when you get- And how long were the marriages? They couldn't have been that long. The guy's not 70. I know, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. I mean, he's like, I don't know, three years apiece or something. I don't know. Maybe he's just a hopeless romantic. You know those people?

Yeah. I don't know, three years apiece or something? Maybe it's just a hopeless romantic. You know those people? I've known two ladies in my life who were engaged multiple times, like three or four times apiece. Yeah, and I think it was just a fetish if I'm being real, not a fetish, but a fantasy, right? It was like they fell in love so quick,

it got so hot and heavy, and then the guys, you know, I don't know, like a whirling dervish. They came in, they quick, it got so hot and heavy, and then the guys, you know, I don't know, like a whirling dervish. They came in, they spun up their lives, they decided they wanted to put a ring on it, and all of the sudden, no one's getting married. That's even a red flag to me. Like, if you've been engaged four or five times, three or four, two or three times, and it didn't happen, that's a red flag to me too. How did you not make it down to the aisle? I don't know, just to me, like you put a ring on it, you're going down the aisle.

You're serious, yeah. Yeah, I went through it, even though I know I shouldn't go through it, I just said, hey, I gotta do it no matter what. I'm going all the way to the distance. Yes, for sure. So 90 day fiance before the 90 days, turning into, I started slow, but now I'm getting into it. Now I'm getting excited.

Yeah. I mean, there's the other girl with the, bringing her ex boyfriend to be the new boyfriend. Yeah, that's a red flag also. And hiding it. And hiding it to begin with. Yeah, and hiding it for the first 10 days. Yeah. So there's a girl who's going to meet a guy in South Africa for the first time.

And she decides that since she met this guy in the internet, even though they've been dating for over like a year and a half online and phone calls and all this other stuff, that she is going to bring her ex, her recent ex boyfriend along on the trip for security and safety purposes. Now I don't disagree with the reasoning here. Okay. There's a lot of nightmare stories about catfishing and people getting hurt and in trouble in strange places. They don't know where they are.

And said you're traveling with a production crew. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. You have TLC there with you. What I mean, I don't think they're I don't think they travel. They actually I bet they do travel with security. They must have some person on staff who's in charge of making sure no one steals the cameras, gets in, you know, wants to start drama on a camera, down a TV show, so they just get, you know, froggy around people. I can imagine that they probably at least have one security person. And they always, I think, travel with local camera crews, also people who are, who know the environment, who are their local, who know-

Speak the language. Yeah, don't go to that neighborhood, right? Or don't stop at this restaurant or whatever the deal is. That must be the case because TLC can't have some huge liability on their hands. And they go to some far off, far flung locations. I mean, one of the first seasons, they were like in the, like in the swamps of the Amazon.

That's right. I literally. And remember when they did have somebody that like stole a phone. Yes, stole a phone, ran off while they were on TV and like the camera thing. There was like a gang swarming around. A gang swarmed the camera crew, stole one of the,

I can say contestant, that's kind of what it is. One of the contestant's phones ran off and the security guard ended up running after the guy into the Amazon river. It was insane. This is a good TV show. I mean, I've soured on it a little bit over the last couple of seasons,

but I do have to say, when you think back on all the great moments of 90 Day Fiancé, it really is, can produce some fantastic television, including the one where the girl brings her ex-boyfriend along to meet the dude. And then she's surprised that the guy she met is so upset. She's like, I just brought him along for safety. It's like, we've known each other for a year and a half. What am I going to do? Safety. I'm supposed to be that guy. I'm supposed to keep you safe, not him keeping you safe

from me being safe. What the fuck? Yeah, that's a red flag too. And I think personally, I just think she likes the drama. I think she grew up in a lot of chaos and this to her feels familiar to have guys fighting over her. She wants attention and like all of us do. And so, but some of us go to great lengths to get it, like flying your ex-boyfriend 6,000 miles across the world to be on a television show where you're meeting a stranger in South Africa for the first time. I mean, honestly, it is crazy. But you know, hey, listen.

It takes away from the other real life crazy. Yes, this is what we have to do for ourselves right now. We need all new little- I'm calling it self care. Me too. I was talking to our friend Allison and I was just saying, hey, listen, you know, and you know, there's all this talk about, you know,

CNN's ratings went down 50% day after election, MSNBC's ratings went down 50% after election. Well, of course, nobody wanted to see it anymore. No one wants to see it. We need a break. Everyone has to lick their wounds. And I don't think it's just the people who voted for Kamala Harris.

I think everybody is kind of like, okay, done. Like, okay, can we all just like get back to regularly scheduled programming now? Because it's really been a lot for the last 10 years. And we can just let it go. At least until January, whatever it is, we can all just like kind of let it go, let it be and tune into 90 Day Fiancé, because that's where the action is. That's where the real action is. That's what the most meaningful stuff is happening on TLC, I swear to God.

Nicole Soule- It always has been. Brian Soule- It always has been. Brian's been right the entire time. It's a 90 Day Fiancé, and now that fucking Sister Wives, which I, how did this guy, meanwhile, the four divorces with the guy in the wheelchair, Cody's had four divorces in a day, in like six months. This guy Cody, and what is going on with that hair? I know, it is quite the head of hair. Give it up, Cody. What are you trying to prove, dude?

That hair. When you keep your hair like that, it really says something about your personality, doesn't it? It does. Doesn't it? When you have like long curly locks and they're like flying off the back of your head and you're wearing some kind of headband half the time. A little wispy. Yeah, wispy and then your salt and pepper beard, it says something. He's so manicured for a guy

who has four wives. He's really manicured. He must spend a lot of time in the mirror. I gotta be honest. I think so too. Well, he doesn't have four wives anymore. He's only got one now. Yeah. One's left.

Yeah, and that's a red flag. By the way, if you meet Cody from Sister Wives and he's looking to buckle up with you, just know that there's red flags all over that place. I mean, when you wanna have four wives at one time, at one time, that is definitely a red flag. For sure, without a doubt. And this show, the way it's played out,

there are 20 seasons into this. And I could have told you, season one. Now, I only really watched, like, when it first came out, I watched a couple of episodes, wasn't all that interested, decided that this is just something like, you know, I don't know. This is some, like, wiki fan page for, you know, weird religions, essentially, right? And this is just TLC whitewashing a certain type of abuse almost, right? And then you get into season four or five, I started watching another couple of episodes when the women now TV stars are like, well, now they start realizing

they're a Wiki fan page for this certain type of bullshit and they go, no, not involved. So I like that part of it where they're like, okay, you know what? Corey's an asshole or Cody's an asshole and we're out of here. And so now since I don't know, since whatever season, 20 seasons in, at least half of it has been the drama around these women extricating themselves from kind of this shitty situation. And Cody pissing and moaning that, oh me, poor me, oh me, poor me. Dude, oh you, poor you when you were married to four women. How did he do it? And the kids, he's got like 37 children

and 112 grandchildren. He's like trying to populate the world. What was that show? My sperm, high sperm count or something? Yeah. Where those three guys were trying to populate the world with their sperm. Unbelievable.

So now all of these women who were married to this guy, Cody, on season one, most of them, all but one are now divorced. That one is hanging on by like a piece of dental floss. I mean, she dislikes him too. And it just has become a show about how these women are getting independent, getting their own lives moving on and how Cody is still wondering what happened. What happened? What happened? He's like that coach who gets a tar beat out of him in a football game and he has like a three hour long press conference wondering what happened, reviewing every play, making excuses. That's what Sister Rises become. But I got to be honest, I like this version much better

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Miss Universe pageant was held over the weekend and I saw some of that online, saw some of the clips online. I mean, are we, are Pagent's a little bit outdated? I don't know. What do you think? You were in Pagent's, weren't you? Beth Dombkowski Well, I did too when I was in high school. Yeah. Jared Sifton What kind of Pagent's were they? Beth Dombkowski They were just like local.

Jared Sifton Like local. Beth Dombkowski Yeah. Jared Sifton Yeah. Beth Dombkowski The school. Jared Sifton Yeah. Miss Honeycrisp Apple or something. Beth Dombkowski Yeah. Jared Sifton Yeah. Okay. Did you win? I did.

Wow. Look at you. Fagin' queen right here with me on the commercial break. I feel honored, Chrissy, to be with Miss Honeycrisp. I'll wear my crown. You are definitely a Honeycrisp in my heart. You'll always be Miss Honeycrisp to me. Please. I love it. You'll always be Miss Dewdrop Sunshine to me. So, um, yeah, I do think they're a little outdated though. It seems like, but that being said, I guess they provide scholarships and things and

the winners do good things in the world. I don't know. But yeah, I'm not saying they're outdated. I'm taking anything away from the women who work very, very hard to get up on stage and present themselves or represent their countries or regions or whatever it is. I don't want to take anything away from that. And I'm not saying that it's like, I don't hate it. I just, I don't watch it. I'm not interested in it. But then again, it used to be a really big thing. Like Miss USA and Miss Universe, it used to be

in Miss America, it used to be a really big deal, like everybody would watch it, but that was back in the 80s. And then I never was into it in the first place. It was never my thing. Like I didn't like it, which is surprising because I am very interested in the female form. But, you know, I can be interested in the female form and not be interested in all the parading and Lottie Dollas and all that other stuff. But the, okay, but taking on faith value, here it is, the Miss Universe pageant and a very lovely girl from, I think it's, she's Denmark, I think she's Danish, yes, Victoria Thielvig of Denmark won the 73rd annual pageant on Saturday, beating out 120 other contestants. She is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, very lovely girl. Congratulations.

Yes, to which a certain segment of the internet is taking credit for wokeness being dead because a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman won Miss Universe. Ha! What? You're taking credit for that? Of course. You keyboard warriors in your basements with your mommies doing your laundry. You're taking credit for Miss Thielvig winning. Congratulations. It's so fucking silly. But the whole, I guess, issue that this corner of the internet had with

Miss Universe is that they have allowed contestants last year, there was a married woman, multiple married women, which is typically not, there aren't a lot of married women. There was also transgender women, one of them, whom who placed in the top 20. I think there was a pregnant woman, if I'm not mistaken. Am I mistaken about that? I just want to make sure. Who cares? I get everything wrong. But yeah, I believe there was a pregnant woman last year in the competition. Now that takes some balls to be pregnant and go up there on stage and parade around in various states of dress and undress. But I don't, like Astrid gets excited about Miss Universe because Venezuela

has typically done very well. That is true. And it's a sense, it's a source of pride for Venezuela that they're on an international stage, they get some credit for something because Venezuela often is the butt of jokes about a lot of different things because of their political drama that goes on down there. But they get very excited about Miss Universe and that Miss Venezuela oftentimes is doing very well in those competitions, if not winning. Yes, that's true.

I think like six times in a row, or six times in the last 20 years or something, Miss Venezuela has been Miss Universe. But I just don't get into it anymore. You know what else is back is the Victoria's Secret. Yeah, I saw that. And now, Miss Victoria's Secret or the Victoria's Secret fashion show was a cultural phenomenon when it first came out and everybody, and I mean everybody, every supermodel, some people weren't supermodels. Now they have like influencers and stuff like that that walk and they still have supermodels.

I get that. It's one big commercial, right? And it's of interest and sex sells. And so I almost understand that more than I understand Miss Universe. But okay, whatever. The things that we all used to gather around these big like marquee events, the MTV Music Awards, Victoria's Secret catalog of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Miss Universe, Miss America. What else am I? The Grammys, the VMAs, the CMAs. Yeah, for sure the award shows. The award shows, the Emmys, the Academy Awards.

I leave out the Academy Awards because I still think that holds some cachet, but all this other stuff, it seems to be kind of washed out in like the universe. Like, I used to think of the Grammys, like I had to watch the Grammys and the VMAs. It was the two award shows of the year that I, because I love music so much, I just had to watch those things. And I felt like, wow, when you got a Grammy, that was a big fucking deal. If you won a VMA, it wasn't as big of a deal as getting a Grammy, but it was still a pretty big fucking deal.

Now I don't think of any of these award shows, pageants, you know, fashion shows, whatever. I don't think of them as having the kind of cultural cachet that they used to, besides a few Instagram clips of beautiful women walking down the stage in lingerie. I didn't see anything about the Victoria's Secret fashion show. Has it even, did it even play on any of the networks? Yeah. I don't know.

Do you make it a point of watching any of these awards shows? Like I know the CMAs is this week. Do you watch any of that stuff? Not really. No, I don't watch it anymore. But you're right, it used to be a big event. Everybody, it was like on a Sunday night and you got your popcorn and your drinks, whatever.

It was an event you watched. So now not. No, not, no. Maybe we should. Maybe we should. Maybe we're just old and we're not paying attention to it. Maybe we should go back to watching. Well, this all, I say all of this to bring up a point, the Grammys have released their

nominations for 2024. I mean, still it's a big deal to win a Grammy. Of course. Yes, it can mean millions of dollars in album sales or song sales overnight, essentially. So it's a big deal because you want that nomination leads to a lot of additional progress. And recognition. Yes, of course. So I thought let's go through some of the Grammy nominations.

I want to ask, I want to know if you have heard of any of these, right? Music is so disparate and so like, it's all channelized. Like, if you are not paying attention, where in the world do you hear this music besides maybe Sirius XM, which I think almost everybody has in their car now, but no one listens to the radio anymore. Do you listen to the radio anymore? No. There is no music, there is no video television, video music television anymore. Where does this stuff get pushed down besides TikTok videos, Instagram videos,

and maybe like television shows? Spotify. Spotify. Ah, they have channels on Spotify. Does anybody have Pandora anymore? What happened to Pandora? Do you have Pandora? I used to listen to Pandora all the time. It's still around, I think. Of course, I think Raphael still uses it, I think. Somebody bought it, I think, anyways. SiriusXM bought it. So SiriusXM owns it. But Pandora used to be the jam. I mean,

everybody was listening to Pandora. Sirius, Spotify, who had heard of that, right? Okay, here we go. Album of the Year. You ready for this? Cowboy Carter by Beyonce. I've heard a few songs. New Blue Sun by Andre 3000, Carlos Ninos and a couple other people. De Jessie, Volume 4, Jacob Collier, Emily Lazar, Chris Allgood. Short and Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff, Julia Michaels. The Tortured Poets Department, of course, is Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff production. The Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess by Chappell Rhone.

Brat, Charlie XEX. Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish. I've heard of all of those. I've heard of every one of those except for DeJesse, volume four. I don't think I've actually heard that. So who's winning this? I think it's the year of Taylor Swift. I think it's the year of Taylor as well.

I think it's been the year of Taylor Swift for a long time, for like 10 years. And so I think that's it. Song of the Year, ready? Fortnite, Taylor Swift, Birds of a Feather, Billie Eilish, Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar, Good Luck Babe, Chapel Roan, Please, Please, Please by Sabrina Carpenter, a bar song by Shaboosie, Die With a Smile by Lady Gaga, and Texas Hold'em by Beyonce.

I do think Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar had such a cultural impact at the time when he did those two concerts. It's such a cultural impact that I don't think that Kendrick can be ignored. I agree. Chapel Roan's having a big year though too. She is. I think she deserves her due. I think Chapel Roan decided she's finally going to show up to concerts too, which there you go. Best new artist. Oh, okay. Cure-a-bon. Is it Cure-a-bon? How do we decide?

Crog-a-bin? Crog-a-bin. Crog-a-bin. Cron-a-bin. I love these guys too, man. I love this. They're so good. I love this band, man. They're so good.

Hold on one second. We had this right. How do you spell it? It's like K-H-R-O-U-G. K-H-R-U. K-H-R-U. Krogo-bin. How do you say? Please help me here, Shigri.

I think it's krung-bin. How do you say krung-bin? I think you're right. Let's hear it. If you're looking to learn how to pronounce this word correctly in American English, keep watching this video. This word is pronounced as croang bin. Croang bin. Let's practice together. Croang bin.

Croang bin. Croang bin. Croang bin. Croang bin. Croang bin. Okay, got it. Crowing Bin. Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboosie, Deitchie, Teddy Swims, Chappell Rhone, Benson Boone, and Ray. I mean, I know who I would go for.

I'm voting for Crowing Bin. Hands down. Crowing Bin. Yes. Crowing Bin. Karagin Bin. Karagin Bin. I think we gotta find a nickname for these guys because they're so fucking good, we

need to learn how to say their name correctly. They're not new either. No, no, no, no. They've been around for a while, but they are so fascinating. If you haven't seen, Christina, maybe you can put a link to Spotify to their homepage. They are so fucking good and fascinating. You have to watch these people play live. It's unbelievable.

And the music is hypnotizing. I've people play live. It's unbelievable. And the music is hypnotizing. Okay, let's see. Pop vocal album. There you go. Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande, Short and Sweet Sabrina Carpenter, The Tortured Poets, Department Taylor Swift, The Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess, and Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish. That's Chapel Rowan, The Rise and Fall of Midwest Princess. I say the the Chapel Row probably has to win one of these. And which category is that? Pop album. Pop album, okay. So that's my guess.

Music video is Taylor Swift's Fortnite, Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar, 360, Charlie XCX, Houdini by Eminem, and Taylor Swift by ASAP Rocky. I don't know. I've only seen two of these. I was going to say, I don't think I've seen the videos. I've seen Houdini and Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar. So I'm going to go Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar. Rap song, Carnival Kanye West, Like That Kendrick Lamar, not like us, Kendrick Lamar, Asteroids by Rapsody, and Ya-Glo by Little Ronnie. I can't imagine. Kendrick Lamar? Yeah, Kendrick Lamar. That's right. Kendrick Lamar. Because I don't know, I think Kanye,

I think Kanye's just done himself such a disservice by trying to be so fucking controversial to keep himself in the spotlight. And I get his game. I know what it's all about. Like, Kanye's just done himself such a disservice by trying to be so fucking controversial to keep himself in the spotlight. And I get his game. I know what it's all about. I don't actually think Kanye believes half the stuff he says. I think he says it because he knows and he said this before because he can, right? You can either be a hero. like when you become a cultural zeitgeist, like a Taylor Swift or Kendrick Lamar or Kanye or whoever, the Kardashians, you can either be a hero, right? You can try and walk the straight and narrow, you can try and walk the clean path and do everything right, but eventually people will find fault with you and they will knock you

down 10 pegs and then they will wait for you to get back up because America loves a good hit them hard Knock them down, get back up again story. That's just that's the story of America. It's in our blood We love an underdog and we dislike and we take down people at the top. That's what we do Check out what happened during the election. That's what we do, right? That's how we do it. That's what we do. Kanye, I think has made a conch or the other thing you can be is you can be a heel and everybody fucking hates you until some people start to like you. And then some people like you because you're a heel. They like you because you go against, you swim against rising waters. You

were an asshole from the beginning, and then some people say, yeah, that guy, because he's an asshole just like me, right? It appeals to our darker side, to our worst senses, and I think Kanye has decided to be the heel. It's like wrestling. You can either be Hulk Hogan, or you can be Andre the Giant, or you can be the whatever the Undertaker, I don't even know who these people are, but you can be one of two things, right? But the hero eventually becomes the heel, but the heel can eventually become the hero. And I think in some cases, people love that story. They love the heel becoming the hero eventually. And I think Kanye knows that. Yeah, I don't wish him ill will, but it's not really my thing.

I don't wish anybody ill will. But at the same time, I just don't like what he's selling. I'm not buying what he's selling. You know what I'm saying? It's like Scott Disick, that guy from, you know what I'm talking about? That guy from the Kardashians. What a fucking douche. But there are so many people that really like Scott Disick.

And I don't know why. He sells hotel air fresheners for a living. That's what the guy does. I mean, do you know this? No, I do not know. Have you seen the commercials? No. There's like a couple of like B-list celebrities

who are out there selling an air like freshener system that the- I think I did see something. The Waldorf Astoria uses and that's the whole catch. And you too can smell like a fancy hotel for $1,500 plus $500 refills. Did you see that? I've just seen it online. When you're selling NFTs, hotel air fresheners, and meme coin for a living, you're a heel.

That's what you are. That's what you're doing. But Scott Disick has a bunch of people that just, he's become legitimized in a lot of people's eyes as a bona fide star because he just, and I don't think Scott, I think Scott Disick is probably a nice guy somewhere down, somewhere, right? I don't know where that is, but somewhere down somewhere, you peel off all those layers of skin. You can use some of my cream if you want to. If you peel off all those layers of skin. You can use some of my cream if you want to. If you peel off all those layers of skin, at the end of the day, I don't think Scott's a bad guy, but he plays one on TV, and eventually people came around to it,

and they were like, oh yeah, that's Scott guy. Because now expectations are low that he's gonna do anything nice, humane, or interesting. And when he does, people go, oh, maybe Scott's not that bad of a guy. He's my hero. Kanye's the same way. I's not that bad of a guy. He's my hero. Kanye's the same way. I think that's what he's doing.

That's my opinion. But I don't think it wins him a Grammy Award. I think that Kendrick Lamar takes it all home. Oh, best metal performance. Oh, rock, let's do rock album. Best rock album. Saviors, Green Day, No Name, Jack White, Romance, Fontaine's DC, Tanked, The Idols, Dark Matter by Pearl Jam, Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones, and

Happiness Bastards, The Black Crows. And I've only, I haven't heard every single one of these. I'm voting for Jack White. I'm a huge fan. I'm going to say that surprisingly, and I think they've only won one other Grammy, but surprisingly, I think Pearl Jam takes it for Dark Matter because I do think a lot of people believe it's their best work since Vitology, which is a long time ago. But the Black Crows had a great album too.

They did too, yeah. Those were all good. Green Day was great too. Yes. And I wanted to see if we could throw, oh, I wanted to see if we could throw Country oh, I wanted to see if we could throw country in there, but I actually just X'd out of it. And I don't know too much about country.

Yeah, it's sad. Yeah, the CMAs have their own thing. Like country has become so mainstream. But to me, unless there's some country music that I really, really like. I'm just going to vote Dolly every time. Yeah, Dolly, there you go. Dolly, or who's that other guy? Jelly Roll. But Jelly Roll really isn't country either.

He's like rap rock almost, you know? And he's got a beautiful voice that guy does. But I will say this, country has become so mainstream that there's no difference to me between pop music and country. And a lot of it sounds very much the same. It's hard to decipher. But there is some country music that's still very country western that's still like, I don't know, I don't know how to explain it, but I love it.

You're you're just not new or old? New and old. Right? But I don't like that like twangy, like, you know, who done me wrong song kind of thing, right? And I don't love the pop, like, you know, who done me wrong song. I like the more ethereal, real country western music. Like a Johnny Cash type. Kind of like a Johnny Cash type. Or like the alt country, like, you know, rocky country, a little twang, where Wilco gets sometimes, you know, rocky country, little twang where Wilco gets sometimes, you know, Wilco gets into that sometimes. Or like a Chris Stapleton or something like that.

Maybe. Yeah. Uh huh. Yep. But, but country has just become so mainstream that them having their own awards just seems like another Grammys to me. It is. If I'm being honest. Yeah. It is. Remember Grammys to me, if I'm being honest. Yeah. It is. Remember, 94.9 the bowl had everything to do with that, Chrissy. You're responsible. Yeah. You're responsible. Oh my God, don't remind me. Oh my God. You know who really had to do something? Who's that fault here? Billy Ray Cyrus, that hoochie coochie woman or whatever it was. Yeah. The boot scootin' boogie? No. No, no, no. Koochie Koochie woman or whatever it was. Yeah, the boot scootin' boogie? No, no, no. No.

Yeah. What icky bricky heart. Icky bricky heart, that's right. But then right before him, well listen, there's a lot I think. Who's that guy? Who's now, his hairdresser is saying he, she, something like that.

Oh, Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks. I know. That is a big drama going on. That is a big drama. It says the hairdresser was, he was like attacking the hairdresser, he wears a wig.

Exposing himself. Exposing himself. Exposing himself. What is up with that? All these guys have to show their dicks. I know. The wee CK. I mean, everybody has to whack off in front of somebody and show their dicks.

What gets you off about that? Quite frankly, I want my dick to be the last thing a woman sees before we get intimate. Do you know what I'm saying? I actually would prefer that you see my dick to be the last thing a woman sees before we get intimate. Do you know what I'm saying? I actually would prefer that you see my dick after we have sex. After the lights are off. Yeah, well, after we have sex. Like long after it's done.

That's when I want you to see my penis. Not just running around the hotel room flashing it at you. I mean, come on, Garth, honestly, you're a multi-cadrillionaire. If you really want to do that, can't you legitimately pay someone in the sexual health industry, like a sex worker, someone who actually gets paid to do that, someone who knows that's their job? Do you have to go doing that to a hairdresser? It's very weird.

I know. You don't even have any fucking hair. What are we doing with your hairdressing, honestly? So stupid. And God bless, the woman seems like a lovely woman. I was reading about this story a couple of months ago. I meant to mention it, but that's just really weird. I mean-

It is, it's very weird to me. Yeah, you don't have to do that. Don't do it. All our heroes wanna show their dicks and that just makes me sad. That just makes me sad. That just makes me sad. All right. Well, enough with Garth Brooks. Anyway, Garth Brooks probably first, one of the first, Dolly Parton could be one of the first crossover artists. Kenny...

Chesney? No, Kenny... Rogers? Kenny Rogers. Yeah, Islands in the Stream. There's a lot of like crossover, but I think it was that way down yonder on the jet of hooch, you never knew what to do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, me. Alan Jackson. Alan Jackson. It's like back in the early 90s or late 80s and that fucking way down yonder on the jet

of hooch, you never knew what that river brought it to do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, knew what that river brought it dead to me. If I had a dollar for every time I wanted to slap one of my classmates for liking that song, it's like this dumb song about the fucking dirty river. What are you doing? All right, we'll take a break. We'll be back. Have you been missing something from your life? Of course you have.

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enough money to go parasailing. Have you ever been parasailing? No, I want to though. Well, no, yes, I have been parasailing. Off the back of a boat? Yes. Yeah? What'd you think? It was okay. I did it when I was young. I just, to get up that high over water, to know that there's probably a small chance, more than small chance that you're going to die, being dragged behind a boat, driven by some yahoos, paying no attention to you. See, it all just seems like a risk, unnecessary take. Now, this comes from a guy who jumped out of a plane with another guy strapped to my back who also probably didn't care about me much, but here's why. And I'll tell you this story, and this is not a funny story, it's just a story. When I was a kid, we had a friend, and we got into high school, and we used to go over to his house all the time, we hung out,

and his dad was very cool, kind of guy, you know, let you do whatever the fuck you wanted to do. But he was a very nice man. And we got into high school, we learned one day, like this, our friend was very upset, and we learned that his dad, on a vacation in Mexico, went parasailing. And the parasail snapped, the rope snapped, came right back at him and did incredible damage to him, like incredible damage. The guy was in the hospital for weeks and all kind, a little bit of disfigurement, all kind of scars, many, many, many months of rehab, and all just parasailing, just like a dude parasailing, right? But this is not the first time that I've heard about this happening. I've actually heard about this happening since this situation. And it just seems to me like an unnecessary

danger. Who was the moron who thought about tying a rope to the back of a boat and putting a parachute on it and zooming people around in circles. It seems like a dumb thing to do. Honestly, it just does. Am I saying that right? Is that a parasail? Is that a parasail? I think so. Yeah, I think it's parasailing. It just seems like an unnecessary risk to take. Like a parachute. Parachute that you're sailing. That you're strapped to.

And then you're sailing because it's a boat, so you're parasailing. Yeah, we seem more smart, Christi, we figured this out. But that's just one thing that I will never do. I want to go hang gliding. I'm up for a lot of stuff. Yeah, that's another thing that I'll probably never do, because the hang gliding, fine, hang gliding sounds cool, looks wonderful. It does. Beautiful, but I hate heights, so I'm kind of out there. Yeah, you're out on a lot of stuff with the heights.

Yeah, I'm out on the heights. But also, Chrissy, there's no motor. If there's trouble, there's no one, you can't zoom yourself back to the airport. You got to find, hopefully, a small patch of grass where you can land. I think that's what you do anyway, right? I know, but yeah, but don't do it. What happens if the guy loses control of his facilities? He has a heart attack or a stroke or he's drunk or he just doesn't like- Or he's got the wings.

How are you going to fly it if the dude behind you is not like... I'm going to turn my wings. You just turn your wings? Okay, it's that easy, I guess. All right, no problem. Fly like a bird. I've seen so many of those videos where things just go wrong, like the one where they're just doing circles on the way down, and then last minute, like there was a famous video out there who had a stroke or something, like the pilot had a stroke or something and the guy was like trying to navigate it down. Don't do it. We don't have that kind of insurance here. Our insurance is good. We don't have good insurance. If we had good

insurance, then do it, but we don't have good insurance. They do it like two hours from here off in Chattanooga. So if I've wanted to do it for a long time, but I have not made the leap yet. So I don't know, I might. Don't do it, it's not necessary. Please, don't do parasailing, hang gliding, yeah, any of that other stuff. I'll stick to airplanes.

Stick to airplanes. Fly in an airplane, go from A to B, and just, you know, a zip line every once in a while I can understand. A zip line is a good thing. A massage on a tall cliff overlooking the ocean, fine. But anything where you have to like, there's no motor and you're in the air hoping things work out, parasailing included, just don't do that. We got to draw the line somewhere here because if you're gone, then who am I going to do the commercial break with? I mean, there's probably other people I can do it with, but you

know, I don't like people that much. And they don't like me. It's not going to work out well for anybody in this situation. All right. I'll think about it. I'll reconsider. All right. Good to call me before you do anything. Let's talk some fucking sense into that head of yours. I don't know what you're thinking, running around cooking, frying stuff up. See, I would never want to skydive and you've done that. So- I did that 20 years ago before we started doing the commercial break and needing my mouth to make revenue. I would never do it now. Never ever, ever, ever. I would never consider doing that again. Well, not until my

children are grown and the commercial break no longer needs me to make revenue. Would I ever consider doing that again? It's just dumb. I mean, it really is. There's a small, small, small chance. A lot of people will write in and they'll say, hey, Brian, it's a really safe thing to do. Like by the amount of people that do it, very few get hurt. But we have known of people getting hurt at the same place where I skydived. Where you did it? Really? Someone unfortunately bounced off the ground because her parachute didn't open and died just a couple of years ago. My little brother, one of my little brothers, I say

little brother like he's little, like I'm a grown man, my younger brother, thank you, my younger brother, he used to do this all the time. He wanted to be a skydiving instructor. So he started skydiving. He got a membership to the club. He was out there every weekend. Yeah, you got to get your amount of hours in or whatever. Yes, and he was skydiving three or four, sometimes five times in a day. He kept on going up and doing this. But with every time you do this, you increase the chances something's going to go wrong. And it's a parachute that you pack yourself.

I don't trust myself to get to the grocery store without an incident happening. Do you know what I'm saying? So I'm, at this age, I'm not sure. And I say this age, like I'm super old, but at this age, I'm not sure it's the wisest thing for me to be out there packing my own parachute and doing all that.

And I certainly don't trust anybody else to do it for me because you just never fucking know. I didn't realize you packed your own. You have to, of course, yes. Of course. Well, of course, who's gonna pack it for you? You think we got a parachute packer? I thought the expert would pack it.

Well, when the first time you do it, yes, and probably the first 10 times you do it, somebody is there, of course, like they're teaching you how to do it, right? Making sure that you got everything, they just not gonna let you fly up there. But after that, you know, you gotta do it, it's all you, you gotta do it on your own. That's the thing you do. So don't, I would never do that in my old age, older age. Like,

that's for 20 year olds, not for 30 and 40 year olds. Then you got to start thinking seriously about what you're going to do with yourself. It should, just think about, take yourself through the steps of what you would do in an emergency situation with a hang glider. Nothing! You just fall to the earth. That's it. That's all you do. It's just fall to the earth and hope that- Well, you glide to the earth. If you glide, if it's gliding. I'm talking emergency situation and there's no gliding happening on that hang glider. You see those people on those boards with the parachute,

you know, parabording, whatever they call it. Yeah. Is that parabording? They have the surfboard and they're holding onto the parachute. Okay. You've seen those videos of like them flying up and into a building because the wind just takes them away and they're on the ground. I mean, in the water, but they're on the ground kind of. Things can go haywire anywhere. You also are being fed video after video of these things happening. Yes, I am doom scrolling. I have a doom algorithm are being fed video after video of these things happening. Yes, I am doom scrolling. I have a doom algorithm on my personal.

And one of the things that now is constantly being fed up to me is there's a couple of, you know those, I don't even know what you call, slingshots, I guess is the best way to put it, the carnival rides that oftentimes you see near a beach town, well, at least here in the Southeast, you see in a lot of beach towns. they've got, it looks like a V, two huge poles sticking up in the air. And they're probably 100, 150 feet in the air, and it's two poles sticking like a V, and then down in the middle with two bungee cords attached to it is a contraption, a device you sit in, right? Oftentimes it looks like a ball almost, and you sit in it and they pull you down and they tighten those bungee cords and then they let it go and you fly up in the

air and just bounce around for a couple of minutes. So now the new thing I'm being served up on my YouTube, on my Instagram algorithm is videos of people doing that and passing out and throwing up and screaming and yelling. And oftentimes, girls flying out of their shirts, like, you know, like their boobs flying out of their shirts. How, who, how do you, is that legal to send that video out there to the world? That's what I'm curious about. Like when you're passing out, your boobs are flying out, you're throwing up all over yourself, are you signing, is someone signing permission for that to go

out on the YouTube page? Or is it just, are they- Maybe it's part of the general waiver before you even get in that thing. See, that's what I'm thinking. So I'm here to give a little public service announcement to everybody about this. Don't sign that waiver, read that waiver about the Instagram account, because I think there's a lot of, especially young ladies that would probably think twice about going on that ride or signing the waiver if they knew that the video is going to be posted on Instagram for purposes other than general entertainment. Like if you do it yourself because you thought you had a good time, great.

If you know, creepy fucking Uncle Joe is doing it, smoking camels and drinking a fucking monster energy drink, working the carnival ride in Panama City Beach, loves to watch you fly out of your little bikini. That is a different story altogether. And I'm wondering, I'm really saying this as a public service because now that I'm a father, I think like that. I'm like, who is allowing this? Like, would the woman whose boobs are flying out of that bikini, would she be the one that volunteered to have that rather unflattering in general video be thrown out there? Or is that some guy with a goatee and Cheeto dust on his fingers looking to get a few extra followers on his Instagram, that is rbanb.

I mean, come on, ladies. Watch those writers. That's the releases that you sign. That said, we have a release here at the commercial break that we sign. And it often causes much consternation amongst celebrities because they hate it. I don't know why we just don't change it. But anyway, we hate it. They have to sign why we just don't change it, but anyway, we hate it. They have to sign this release and they read that thing like a hawk. Like every sentence becomes a big deal for them, you know? And in some cases, it's warranted.

There's some celebrities who come in the door where we're like, okay, you know, you're a big deal. We're not. We get it. We'll change it. And then there's sometimes where it just, you know, I can Google a better form than this. Okay, Jack Hall, like anybody cares about you. You'd be honored if I put your face on a t-shirt. Stop it. That's enough.

Yeah, people do get hung up on those. Yeah. And so I remember, and I point to this, I remember a couple years back, maybe it was like six years ago, and my brother-in-law was going to be a pilot. He wanted to be a pilot. So we went and visited pilot schools and there's a famous one down in Destin that a lot of people who fly planes go down there and they get their flight license. For like commercial flying. And so we were there and we took a tour. I took him down there after a vacation. One time we shot over to Destin and we took him there.

So we were there for a couple of nights in Destin at this beach hotel. And then we're walking down the boardwalk one day, lo and behold, there's a slingshot. And I'm like, all right, let's do this. Like that looks like fun. You did the slingshot. I did the slingshot.

Okay. Well, I mean- I was not expecting you to say that. It's attached to something, right? I wasn't super scared about the slingshot. Okay. I did. Well, I mean. I was not expecting you to say that. It's attached to something, right? I wasn't super scared about the slingshot for some reason. Didn't make me nervous because I watched it a few times and it looked pretty secure. They had like three different bungees attached to it. So I figured if one snapped, there's another one to back up. And I've seen them snap also on videos online. It doesn't really do anything. You know, you still survive. Or at least I think you'll survive. Um, and so we did it, but I didn't pass out, but I, like...

Got light handed? I don't know, I like went out, I don't pass out, I didn't pass out fully, but I kind of like went in and then out for a second because of the G-forces, sometimes when you're going up, then you kind of, you know, it's like being in a fighter, you know, you see those videos of people like normal people in the back of a fighter pilot, in the back of a plane with a fighter pilot, and then they pass out when

they start doing the roles. That's kind of like the sensation. It's like so many G-forces, your body just kind of gives out. And I wonder where that video is and if it's going to come to light one day, because I signed a writer, I know I did. And I'm pretty sure that half the videos I see with these people passing out, puking, coming out of their tops is from that very same slingshot. Yes, because when I watch the videos, I see the same hotel that we stayed at is in the background.

And I'm like, that's the same fucking motherfucking place. Cheeto dude. Cheeto dust dude, I remember the guy. I remember. He was wearing like a corn shirt. Right. And I don't mean like the kind you eat. I mean like the band, Korn.

Oh yeah, that's another type of person. That is another type of, Korn fans are another type of person. But listen, I knew a lot of people that were into Korn when Korn was the thing. I knew another type of person. That is another type of, corn fans are another type of person. But listen, I knew a lot of people that were into corn when corn was a thing. I knew a lot of people who were into corn. And they're out touring again too, I think. I think so. Yeah.

I never really got into it. I say, speaking of videos of those types of things, I still have our video from when we went and did the simulated skydive. Oh, you do. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's about as much skydiving as I'll be doing. We went to indoor skydiving. We did, yeah. And that was a lot of fun, I do have to say. But I didn't get much air time because you got to like hold your body in a certain way. And But I didn't get much air time because you got to like hold your body in a certain way. And my body just doesn't, it's not all that responsive to my requests. I try sometimes. I'm a little uncoordinated.

But a couple of us did really well, but not all of us. I wasn't someone who got a lot of hang time, but that's okay. It was a lot of fun. And do you know what? We bought like seven additional hours of fly time that same day we went there, and I have never used those cards. I still haven't to this day. We should go and do it. We should go and do it, and then we should videotape it for the commercial break. For all of our new clips that we're going to make, we should have one of those. You want to go? Yeah. All right. Well,

Gustavo's coming in town. Gustavo's going to be here in the next couple of weeks. So maybe, I know he's the only young guy that we know that can hold his body correctly to fly up there in the air. So maybe we should do... I think we went... Did we go for your birthday or Rachel's birthday? I don't know. Somebody's birthday or maybe it was Gustavo's.

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