The Commercial Break - For Your Consideration: Nextdoor & Ask TCB

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

Episode #716: Bryan & Krissy discuss the process of marketing a movie for an Academy Award. Does it include lavish gifts, trips and cash? It just might! Then Bryan reads some his saved Nextdoor posts as the world goes crazy. Finally, Ask TCB is on deck and only 3 years late. You heard it hear last. TCBit: DOGI is turning off the traffic lights and pulling the stop signs. But one the officials has a message to the ladies! Watch EP #716 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 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

And welcome back to WSHIT's evening news, it's news you can use before you snooze. I'm Karen Doubletree with today's headlines. Controversy today in Crabapple as the newly unelected head of DOGIE, the Department of Gross Incompetence, sent officials to the Department of Transportation to cut the power to all the traffic signals and remove all stop signs from the Crabapple Main Street. Director Xanadu Susque told WSHIT in a statement, these moves were made in an effort to cripple the town's traffic and make parking lots more accessible for his helicopter.

One of the officials charged with the responsibility of turning off all the traffic lights and removing the stop signs, calling himself Reaper the Sleeper, was targeted with negative feedback and comments on his Instagram page. In a press conference earlier this afternoon, he had this to say. Oh, good morning, everybody. Hello, this is Reaper and I am back with another announcement. All right, all you bitches, all you females, all you women, if you are coming to my page,

go fuck yourself because I am not leaving my video games for no bitch. I'm sorry. Video games are my priority. Women are nothing but total discreet to this fucking society. I'm sorry, but you girls are not of interest to me. I don't know how many times I can say that without actually going blue in the face, but I'm being factual.

So please find another man to bother. Please go fuck yourself. Live your games for life." Beeper then went on to add that while he understands the anger around the decisions being made, part of his compensation package includes being in a room with a real-life female and the ability to access an AI sex robot whenever he wanted. But he assured GrabApleans that all of the stop signs are safely tucked away in his mom's basement. And now with the check of traffic, everything's a mess and the whole town's falling apart.

We'll be back after this commercial break. On this episode of the commercial break. And the special effects don't look like special effects. They don't give it away. The guy rides a big giant worm, and you don't know. You're like, oh, where did they get a big giant worm from? Because it's so realistic. Like Arturo in the Neverending Story?

Yeah, Atreyu. Atreyu. Aturo. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha. He's Italian. He's from the planet of Adilion! Arturo!

Arturo! Arturo! Arturo! Atreyu! The next episode of the Commercial Break starts now! Oh yeah, guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green this is my dear friend and the co-host of this show Chris and Joy Odley. Best of you Chris Ed.

Best of you Brian. Best of you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us. We are smack dab in the middle or the beginning of March Madness Chrissy. Yes we are. Yes we are. I filled out a bracket.

Jeff and I just do it for fun. Yeah, you know, and have you ever won a bracket? No. No, either of us. I came really close in like 1999, and I got very excited. And then sometime in the last couple of years, I stopped filling out the brackets

because I don't know the fuck I'm talking about. No me either. I have no fucking clue. I tried to actually ask AI, and it was jumbled all up. It couldn't figure it out either. Yeah, well, you know, yeah, it's like... Because the thing is, is that every year... It's wild.

Every year, there are these Cinderella teams that just go on a run and they fuck your bracket all up, and I don't like that. Like, I'm with the best... Like, I'm the guy who goes, oh, number one versus number three. Right.'m with the best, like I'm the guy who goes, oh, number one versus number three. Right.

Number one. Oh, number 10 versus number four, number four. I'm that guy every year because I'm a fucking lug nut and I know nothing about sports. And I think to myself, I'm being smart about this. And then I'll like randomly choose one. It'll be like number 13 against number 12. And I'll be like, number 13.

Just cause you like that stamp. Yes, I like that one. I like those like number 13 against number 12 and I'll be like number 13. Just because you like that stamp. Yes, I like that one. I like those guys. I like that. And inevitably I'm done after the first round. I mean, I think a couple of years ago I like did okay until they got to like the sweet 16 and then I just got blown. I had one team. I had X'd out in the first round. They ended up winning the whole thing. I forgot who it was, but whatever. I do enjoy watching. I remember our first, I think it was our first year working together at Clear Channel at the radio station. We, I mean, everybody was just out at the bar.

Yeah. Watching the games on like the Thursday. Yes. Yes. Because, you know, radio. That's why. Because radio. Yeah, we actually didn't need March Madness for an excuse to be at the bar in the middle

of the day. No, I will never forget US Open, Tiger Woods, Monday, a Monday extra extra rounds because they were tied, right? So they, you know, you go into playoff and it was, I forget the guy's name, the Japanese guy, he was so good and Tiger Woods with a broken leg and they had to play 18 holes. And from the, it started like 8.30 in the morning

and they put that on in the, in one of the conference rooms and no one got a fucking thing done the entire day. It was six hours of watching Tiger Woods. Someone went and got some beer and it was just like, I don't know, it was like playing hooky. Meanwhile, you know, there's no ads running in the radio shows. That's like, yeah, there's a tornado warnings just running back to back to back on these major radio stations here in Atlanta. We're all

watching Tiger Woods. The entire world was watching Tiger Woods. Any excuse, any excuse. I saw he just died of Achilles heel. Yeah, he's done. He's done. Did you see that he's dating Don Jr's ex-wife? Hey, listen, why not? Why not?

Why not? I mean, you know, it all goes back to Trump, I guess, at the end of the day. I mean, Tiger's no fool. He's one of those billionaires that's gonna, you know, benefit from tax cuts. He's like, let me get in this family. Let me get in this family.

Listen, I have my thoughts about Tiger Woods as a human being, neither here nor there, his private life is his private life. But his private life became so public for so long that it was, it's hard to ignore some of the drama around Tiger, but he has just had accident and incident after accident and incident. He abused the shit out of his body with that golf swing

and he's done. He's not going to play competitive golf at any kind of level ever again. I'm convinced of that. And that's sad to know because Tiger Woods really was one of sports most interesting things. I mean, he, he's just a different, it's like Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods. Uh, I don't know, uh, you know, Tom Cruise, Michael Jordan, these people,

they just defy gravity in a way that's really hard to understand. They capture the world's attention and they have the goods to back it up. And then every time there was a time there when almost every time Tiger Woods teed it up, he was in contention or winning. He went like 12 tournaments one season or something. I mean, just like unbelievable. He was so much fun to watch and you could count on him winning. So it was, you know, it was great. I used to love watching. You and I would watch golf all the time with Mickelson.

Oh God. Mickelson in woods, that masters, and Mickelson hit that shot off the pine straw. That was great. It turns out he's a creep too. I know. off the pine straw. That was great. It turns out he's a creep too. Wouldn't date me. It wouldn't surprise me if he's dating one of the trumps also. I mean, he's just, now he's in bed with the Saudi Arabians. It's whatever, you know, don't meet your heroes. That's all I got to say. Don't meet your heroes. But the, the, the March Madness gets me every year. I love it. I love to watch. I'll start paying attention here over the weekend. Um, but one of the things that I was paying attention to was the story about,

uh, the university of West Virginia, not getting into the tournament. You know, they have a selection committee that essentially selects all of the teams. And there are some that's just obvious. They're going to be in the tournament, Duke, right? They're going to be in the tournament. They're like the number one team or whatever. They're going to be in the tournament. Duke, right? They're going to be in the tournament. They're like the number one team or whatever. They're going to be in the tournament, no doubt. But then there's these on the bubble teams.

They call them on the bubble teams and the selection community selects those teams. And this year they selected UNC, the University of North Carolina over the University of West Virginia, I think it is. And everyone was like, huh? Like UNC didn't have a better record than University of West Virginia. University of West Virginia certainly should have had more consideration than UNC. And everybody was calling it a big scandal.

And I was reading about it and it does kind of feel like there's some weight to the conspiracy theories, I guess, as the athletic director for the UNC, for the UNC sports division, you know, the athletics is on the selection committee and he got paid some money and he paid some money. Like there's this, it's all just follow the fucking money, which is unbelievable to me. I mean, listen, it's not the fault of the kids at UNC. They're just trying to play some basketball and they're excited about getting into the

tournament and they won their game last night on this, like call it the first four which is like a wild card. They won I guess silencing some of the critics but it just goes to show that everything these days is bought and paid for every fucking thing. Capitalism is taking its final dying breaths. I think we're realizing that it only works for a few. It doesn't work for the many and it it's just like, it's so incredibly transparent what's going on here. And no one seems to give a shit, I guess.

No one stops it, no one cares. I don't know. Again, no knock on the kids from UNC, they playing basketball and they're excited to be in the tournament. But so were the kids at the University of West Virginia. They deserve their shot too. And I don't know, there's gotta be a way

that they can level the playing field or something. Having a selection committee with athletic directors on it doesn't sound like the most. Yeah, that doesn't sound very fair and balanced, does it? No, it doesn't. And fair and balanced. It's the Fox News of basketball. Selection committees.

NCAA. Yes, for sure. And this kind of parlays into another point that I wanted to make about bought and paid for. Anora, this movie that took the world by storm. And you saw it. I did. You said, hey, listen, this wasn't life changing for me.

It was a great movie. But yeah, no, I wasn't like, oh my god, this is the best movie ever. I know. I have seen very few of those movies that like changed my life, but I have seen them. I do know what you're talking about. Right, you know when you know.

Yes, Pink Floyd, The Wall, High on Acid, changed my life in so many ways. I still can't watch that movie without seeing Trails. I mean, it's like weird. I tried to watch that a couple of months ago. You did? Yeah, it was on one of the streamers or Pluto TV or something. I tried to watch it and I was like, oh my God, I feel like I's like weird. I tried to watch that a couple of months ago. Yeah, I was on one of the streamers or Pluto TV or something.

I tried to watch it and I was like, oh my God, I feel like I'm tripping. I feel like my face is melting. Oh no, wait, that's just a tanning bed. So I'm reading about Onora and get this. Okay, so Onora wins all of these Academy Awards. And the Academy Awards are voted on by the Academy. The Academy is made up of I think 12 or 1300 people.

Actors- It's the Academy. Yeah, wabam, wabam! Give me more money and you win. Ha ha, wabam! The Academy is this mysterious group of human beings, actors, actresses, producers, directors, technical people. I don't know how they pick the people.

And the biz. Yes, and the biz bullshit. Some in the biz bullshit. And they, I think, have up to a couple weeks ahead of the show to cast their votes? Well listen, Enora was made like two years ago, it came out a year ago, it didn't change. Enora's not changing from month number three to two weeks before the Oscars. You have to, it's got to be in the calendar year, so we have at least a month to watch

this movie. Why do they wait until the very last minute to submit their votes? Well, here is why. And you may have seen this on a website like Variety or Hollywood Reporter. You may have seen For Your Consideration. Oh yeah, I've seen that.

There's a movie named For Your Consider, A Christopher Guest. A Christopher Guest, that's right. That's funny. For Your Consideration is someone buying a $10,000 banner ad to target one of the two separate Academy members who will visit that website on any given day? Why is that?

Well, because there are big marketing campaigns that the studio heads put on to, first of all, get their movies nominated, and then second of all, once nominated, get them to win an award. Because winning an Academy Award has a very lovely, what they call, Academy bump. And that means, even if you're nominated, but certainly if you win, even if you win like best technical blowjob fluffer on set, you're going to see more people watching your movie

because that is a notable effect that happens. It's a rise in viewership based on winning an Academy, just nominated, but then if you win, then you get a big bump. Of course. And if you win one of the big awards, you get a huge bump. This movie cost three, four, five million dollars to make. It was a very small budget.

Low budget. Yes, and everyone went around talking about how small a budget, and we made it, you know, gonzo style, and here and there, and on set, and on location, and in these places in New Jersey. So, this movie doesn't cost much, and then it doesn't make much. I think it made like 40 million dollars worldwide.

So yes, it's a success in the sense that they spent a little bit and they made more. But guess how much they spent on marketing this movie to the Academy? I don't know. Almost $20 million. Oh my God. Dollars.

Wow. X, X, the amount of money that it took to make the movie is what they spent gifting the Academy Award members, I guess, wining and dining them, maybe sending them elaborate gifts and taking them on trips. I don't even know, but they're allowed to do it. They're allowed to do it.

It's actually frowned upon if you don't. So the reason why they wait till the very last minute to submit their votes is because they want to see how many hand jobs they're gonna get before the show. Things they can get out of it, wow. Unbelievable, nothing is sacred anymore, nothing. Yeah, it's not that surprising, unfortunately. It doesn't, it shocked me, but then for like half a second.

And then I was like, oh yeah, that makes sense. They spent more money than any other film this year, marketing to the Academy, any other film. And $20 million is a lot of cash. When you're talking about a thousand people that you're trying to target, that's what, I do a quick math in my head, that's $4 million per Academy member.

If I do that, minus the one Carrie, $3.5 million per Academy member that you're spending marketing your film for an Academy Award. And guess what? It worked. There you go. I did not see one of those movies, that one.

Dune II, Wicked. Which I haven't seen either one of those, but then I saw Enora and I saw Conclave. And there's another one. I want to watch The Brutalists, but it's three and a half hours. It's as long as Adrian Brody's speech, first of all. Second of all, I got to like, I got to take vacation days to watch The Brutalists. Walk out half a day. Yeah, I gotta find babysitters to watch that movie. There's very few movies I want to get that invested in. Wicked was two hours and something odd long.

I enjoyed it, it kept bouncing along, so I thought, oh, okay, there you go. Dune II was a lengthy movie. You like the dunes. You could give me more of that all day long. I do like the dunes. I'm a dune kind of guy. I need to watch a dune. You gotta watch it. of that all day long. I do like the dunes. I'm a dune kind of guy. I need to watch a dune. You gotta watch it. You have to watch it.

It's so fucking good. And it's so beautifully shot. And the special effects don't look like special effects. They don't give it away. The guy rides a big giant worm and you don't know. You're like, oh, where did they get a big giant worm from? Because it's so realistic. Like Arturo in the Neverending Story?

Yeah, Atreyu. Atreyu. Aturo. Yeah. He's Italian. He's from the planet of Atelion. Atreyu. Arturo.

Atreyu. So funny. Atreyu! You're at the big giant dog. Fly away. I brought you the thing, the statue. I know. I thought the dog. What was the dog's name?

It was a treu and a falcor. Oh, falcor. Falcor, that's right. Well, Neverending Story 2 was my favorite. I did not see that. Oh, what a piece of trash. What a piece of trash. That was clearly people trying to make a couple bucks

off the popularity of that movie. I saw that movie in the theater, scared the shit out of me, because there's some pretty heavy moments in that film. But it had boobs, so I liked the boobs. The laser boobs. Laser tits. I loved the laser tits. I was all about, wham!

It was the first time, I think my mom tried to cover our eyes and I was like, oh no, no, no. But my mom got me those nachos. They give you a plate of stale chips and then they had them, they used to have this. They don't have this anymore, because I think they realized it was causing dysentery around the world.

Yeah, it was very messy. You would press, you would take that plate of chips, like a little basket of chips, and then you would put it under like, almost like a soda machine, but press the button and cheese would come out, like cheese whiz or whatever, hot cheese. And I, you know, my mom was like, what do you want? I'm like, Oh, give me the nachos. And she gave me the nachos. And halfway through the movie, I ended up puking all over the back of a seat.

Oh, no. Yes. And so I still cannot have that kind of cheese because it reminds me of the bad taste coming out of my mouth. Well, that's not a bad thing, that cheese I don't think is good for you. Yeah, that's not cheese.

It's not. They call it cheese, but it's not really cheese. Yeah. But anyway, back to Dune Two is so beautifully shot, so well done cheese. They call it cheese, but it's not really cheese. Yeah. But anyway, back to Dune 2 is so beautifully shot, so well done. I'll watch it. You could give me more of that all day long. That could be four hours long, and I would like it,

because it's just so good. It's so well acted. Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, who could be in anything. She could literally stand still, and I'd enjoy watching her, because first of all, she's physically, she's beautiful. She's really appeasing to the of all, physically she's beautiful. She's really appeasing to the eye, but then she's versatile.

She's a really good actress and that combination, she has all the things. She can do anything and I love it. I love her in Euphoria. I love her in all the movies. She's been just a great actress and I can't wait to see what she does in the future. And Timothy is no slouch himself. He's really good.

And he's very versatile himself. And then you add in all the other, Javier Bourdain and all the other people who are in the movie, it's really well done. And they have that HBO television show, the one based on the- You talked about that. I haven't seen it.

The mother hens, the chicken hens. I don't know what they call them, the illuminati. I'm not, the illuminations, the mothers who go, you know, the women who go around that planet, you know, whispering in people's ears and making them do things. They made a whole television show about that clan of women and how they got to be so powerful

and all this other stuff. But because it's not directed by the same person, acted by the same people, and they have the same budget to make those kind of visual effects, and they don't have the sand worms running around that you can ride, it doesn't feel as weighty or as urgent or as present or prescient. Totally different.

Totally different. Completely different. So I tried to get into it, but, you know, I was like, I got Seven Little Johnstons to watch. Yes, you do. You need to get back to that. If I'm gonna be on Max, let me watch Seven Little Johnstons to watch. Yes you do. You need to get back to that. If I'm going to be on Max, let me watch Seven Little Johnston. But you know, it's two and a half hours for the brutalist is too much brutalist as far as I'm concerned.

Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours? I think it is. Holy shit. Look it up. I'm pretty sure it's three and a half. Yeah, look it up. That's why I was saying it's like half a day.

Oh no, I'm not doing that. Yeah, that's not something you drop in before bed's three hours. Yeah, look it up. That's why I was saying it took half a day. Oh, no. I'm not doing that. Yeah, that's not something you hop in before bed. Do they have an intermission? I think they do have an intermission. Well, you must at three and a half hours long. Dances with Wolves had an intermission in the theaters, if I'm not mistaken.

They took like a 10 minute intermission because it's four hours long. So I mean, how can you, how can one person sit for four hours, having to pee or throw up or get more nacho sauce or whatever? Where does it say the length? Just ask Chatty GPT, say how long is The Brutalist? How long is the movie The Brutalist? Three hours and 35 minutes long. No fucking shit. I thought it was two and a half hours long. No, three and a half. Oh my God.

No wonder Adrienne Brody took so much time. I mean, geez, seven minute, you know, congratulations speech is nothing compared to three, almost four hours. That is dance, that is Dances with Wolves. Let me see here real quick. I wanna, I just wanna see something. Let me, let's open up another page here. Yeah, I mean you gotta block out four hours of your day.

You really do. To watch that or evening. Oh yeah, you have to prepare for that. I know. How long is Dances with Wolves? I think it's three and a half hours long too. Great movie. Fantastic movies.'s three and a half hours long too. Great movie. Fantastic movies. Three hours and one minute long. This is an ex- what?

It's an extra 34 minutes long. They're telling an entire lifetime of a guy that went out west and danced with the wolves in three hours and one minute? And you can't get the Brutalist in in under three hours? It's four hours long? Oh no, I don't know. I can't do that. That's no thank you. That's at least a two parter. Yeah, make it wicked. Brutalist and Brutalist and ouch.

More brutal. And ouch. Brutalist and ouch, part two. I don't know, I mean, I just like, there's no way. I'm not in it. I'm not in for three and a half hours. That's three separate nights of watching television for me. I can maybe get 45 minutes in a day

of straight watching television, and there's just no way. Three hours and 35 minutes. I thought it was two hours and 35 minutes, and I was convinced I'm not gonna watch it at that. Yeah, that was already too long for me. Yeah, that was already way too long for me. The problem, the challenge for directors and writers

and producers these days is that prestige television is so good and you have to compete for those eyeballs. And you can tell an entire story in eight, 10, 12 hours of television in a way that used to be done on a big screen in two hours. And there has been a trend lately to make movies shorter and shorter. Uh, so, but now I'm seeing it's moving in the other direction because I do think in their mind, like, okay, I wrote The Brutalist, this could be a really good

prestige television show, or I can try and fit the story in, in one movie, but even Wicked, two and a half hours long or two hours and some change. And it's still, there's still a part two. So really they filmed, you know, five hours of content because they filmed it all at one time. So there's going to be another part two. So that's the challenge is you're trying to take a movie and have it compete with

these streamers and these streamers have endless hours that they can dedicate to a storyline. And so I think that's why, it's my opinion why anyway. And the studios are probably more willing to do it because they say, well, okay, it may take extra money, but if we can get it on the big screen, that's where we really can make a lot of cash. When the streamers, it just gets lost in a sea of other content.

And no one really knows, you know, what's a sea of other content and no one really knows, you know, what's going on. So anyway, no one really knows what's going on anyway. It's welcome to 2020. I am in the biz. I'm a big TV guy now, making moves. I got a treatment out there. Anybody want a treatment?

I got a treatment. Not for your oozy penis. I got a treatment, like a television treatment. And if you work in television and you want a treatment, give me a text me up there, whatever that phone number is. All right, let's do this. Let's take a break. And when we get back, I have not only do I have next door

posts that I've been collecting, I have plenty of Ask TCB's relationship style. So we'll let you take your pick or maybe we'll get to both. Maybe we'll just mix them up together. And so why don't we take a break and when we get back, we'll do it. All right. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears, and I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail.

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And I like, I like to have them in here. You know, my dad was one of those guys that like went in, his office was his office and he never let us in. It was all off limits, but he had all the twinkly winkly sparkly things in there. And that's of course, that's what I wanted to play with. He had the computer long before computers were in, they had generally in homes. And so we liked that office, but's what I wanted to play with. He had a computer long before computers were in, you know, generally in homes.

And so we liked that office, but he was a no-go zone, no-no zone for us, for the kids. But I'm telling you what, I don't want to be that dad, so I invite my children in here. But every time, I end up spending an hour and a half reconfiguring the studio because the one rule is don't touch the equipment, and the one thing they do is touch the equipment.

Even when I'm here, I'll be like, I'll turn my back for two seconds and they're over here pressing all the buttons. Well, what else is there to do in here without the equipment? Well, they do gymnastics. They make movies. Sometimes I let them talk in the microphones

to make their own show that'll never get hurt. You know, this whatever. They're taking after daddy. They like, they see daddy doing something and they take after it. All right, so your choice, Ask TCB, Nextdoor. What do you want to do this segment? Hmm.

Let's sprinkle in a little Nextdoor. All right. Let's do Nextdoor. Wabam! Wabam! People are idiots where I live. All right. This is Nextdoor.

I have now taken the Nextdoor app. So I don't have to scroll through Nextdoor. Saving them doesn't make any sense because I still have to scroll through all of them. So I wrote them down here and through next door. Saving them doesn't make any sense because I still have to scroll through all of them. So I wrote them down here. And I also found on the internet a place where some people are posting their favorite next doors. So I'm kind of, I'm taking it to some from there

and some from local. And I've been collecting them over the last, I don't know, since the last time we did this a month ago or a month and a half ago. And here we go, you ready? I'm ready. Could everyone please be quiet for a couple of days? I'm trying to catch up on sleep and it's very loud outside.

Sure. Sure, Grandma Greta, no problem. Shut up. Hey, by the way, Grandma Greta, I feel ya. I wish everyone would shut up too. I got those fucking landscapers out here. Now they're here at 6 in the morning It's crazy For the past three weeks a cat has been following me on my daily walks

I'm worried the owner may have trained the cat to follow people and now he's lost his way Picture of cat not included, by the way, not included. You can't train a cat. No, you can't train a cat. No, those creatures are weird. Yeah, they're, it's like having a wild squirrel in your ass. You just hope that they don't attack. I was watching this video the other day,

this YouTube video, and it was like, there's two cats and a dog in the house, and a kid is getting a snack in the kitchen. It's like one of those in-home cameras, right? So the kid's getting a snack in the kitchen and one of the cats is at his feet, turns around, knocks into the cat on accident. The cat freaks out, screams, you know,

meh, and runs away. And the other cat, and he hits the other cat. Well, the other cat attacks the first cat and then runs and attacks the kid. He's like, you know, biting and scratching the kid. And then the dog comes and knocks the kid over, attacking the cat. It's chaos.

I love watching those. Yeah, and I was like, oh no, no cats for me, no thanks. On my 2.5 mile walk with my dog, I saw a total of 13 American flags. I was hoping to see more. What's wrong with this country? I was hoping to see more. This is from my sign of town, by the way.

You saw 13 in 2.5 miles, you were hoping to see more? I'm out of butter. Can someone please help me and call Walmart to deliver to this corner, naming the streets? I will be around all day. I'll be here all day. I'll be all day. Can someone please call Walmart for me?

Sure, no problem. Random question. Does anyone have a dash hound I might be able to take a picture with? That's creepy. That's creepy. Something's going on there we need to know about. Hey, out of curiosity, does anyone know what day COVID ended?

Sure, January 14th, kid. You're all good. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My son visited and blocked Fox News on my TV. I don't trust digital or anything iTunes. Fox is all that should be allowed in my household. How can I unblock Fox? I love that the son did that. I told my son that I'm taking him out of the will and he needs to put Fox back on my TV. Please help immediately.

Oh my God, did anybody respond? Well, I didn't put any of the responses unless I thought they were really funny. I don't think actually this had any, I think this was like fresh when I saw it, but I'm sure this is coming from my mom's retirement home. I'm sure of it. I found a can of beans.

They are Bush's brand, Bush's best to be exact. They were found on this street last night. If you lost a can of beans, tell me Bush's brand, Bush's best to be exact. They were found on this street last night. If you lost a can of beans, tell me what kind of flavor they are and you can pick them up. Just for security's sake. Wow. Just to make sure that you're the actual bean owner. Yes, please show me a receipt and I'll be happy to give them back to you. I really can't keep them. I have too many beans already.

To which someone said, do you have a picture? Do you have a picture? I don't know if they're trolling or not, but that's a pretty funny comment. Anyone have anything new to argue about? I'm sick of politics and pandemic. Anyone have some strong opinions on the best actor or who should play the next Batman or which band is better than the Beatles?

Anything? I'd like to have a conversation. I think you're just lonely, bro. Talk to Chad GPT, he'll have an argument with you. She, he, it, the, they. Uh, hi y'all. Now we all use devices connected to the internet and whatnot, and my grandkids come over and they use their phones and their iPads too. Well, the other day, my grandson went to connect to the Wi-Fi and our neighbor's router is

named All the Cops are Buttholes. Now my wife is very upset. She started crying. She was upset that our neighbors are rude and using words like buttholes. Any idea, any thoughts on how I should approach the situation? Well, first of all, you can't, you can see that, but you don't know where it's coming from, like which house or apartment it's coming from. It's probably some dude in a van stealing your credit card information.

He doesn't have a, he definitely doesn't have a flag, American flag. Yes. Is it possible to sue the networks for harassment, TV networks? Some commercials, Southwest Airlines, Progressive Insurance, Geico, and medicine commercials appear over and over again and I'm starting to feel harassed. Please don't tell me to mute or change the channels. I am asking specifically about the logistics of suing the networks. You're asking for legal advice on Nextdoor?

Hey, listen, I don't know. People have won money for stupid or shit. Trust me. That's true. Yeah have won money for stupider shit. Trust me. That's true. Yeah. An arrow just landed in my backyard. I'm very concerned. My dog was barking.

An arrow? Where do you live? Sherwood forest? I mean, what are you doing over there? My dog was barking his head off in the backyard and my husband went out to try and figure out what was going on. And this woman was standing on something in the neighbor's yard. Her head was peeking above our fence, telling us the arrow had accidentally shot into my yard. It was a 2.5 foot arrow. Wow, that's a big one. And she was trying to tell my husband, yeah, it's not dangerous.

Don't worry. I have my own kids and animals in the backyard. What would you do? Tell your neighbor to stop shooting arrows in your backyard. Yeah, she's probably practicing her archery. Yeah, she's bad at it, but she's practicing. You know what I would do? Stay out of the yard for a few days. Yeah, that's best. To the person who assumes my cat is homeless.

Oh, I think this might be related to the other one. Ready? Okay. To the person who assumes my cat is homeless. He's not. Recently, he has been coming in looking especially groomed and he is a rough and tumble cat from lives outside. His fur feels luxurious, but I'm salty because he doesn't let me brush him. I saved him from the needle and adopted him about six years ago.

So please leave my cat alone. Stop taking care of him. The one that was following. The one that was walking. Please stop taking care of him. Suspicious driver. The last few nights, my husband has had a reason to be driving around the city at two or three a.m. Three of the nights he has seen cars, one on each night, all different. They come from major streets in and out of our neighborhoods. They drive slowly around

houses. One stopped in front of a house, but he didn't see anyone get out while he was there. He followed the car, and after it took a left into our neighborhood, it sped up and ran the light. Does anybody see these suspicious cars also? Should we pursue? Should we pursue? Yeah. They do not pursue. Everything turns out great when you pursue

random strange cars at three in the morning. That's exactly the advice the cops would give you. Yeah. Have you heard my story about chasing my own stolen car down into the East side of Atlanta. That's right. Oh yeah. Yes, but I had the cops with me, so that was a little bit different.

I work for Lyft as a driver and I usually work late night hours to get people right at home from the bars. The last few nights I've noticed the same old man following me around in his car at two or three a.m. I think he's stalking me. I tried to switch to my wife's car the next night, but he found me and he still followed me to customers' houses and through other neighborhoods. I finally got scared and ran a red light to get away from him." Is this the same car that the other people were talking about?

Yeah, right, exactly. Who knows? I don't know. These are two. No, this is not connected. But then he says, can anyone help me find this man? Not pictured. Sure. You don't give any description about your car, his car, the neighborhood that you were in. Why would you need that? Yeah, exactly.

I was at this restaurant and I saw two kids, one of which had a trench coat on and the other, and standing on another one's shoulders. I think they were trying to pass as adults to get alcohol. That's gotta be a joke. That's gotta be a joke. Yeah, that's like out of a movie. That's a good one.

I like that one. Cheers to you, sir. That's a good one. To the neighbor who mows their lawn every single day, please stop. It's grass, not back hair. I agree with you, bro. I got a guy who blows leaves in the middle of summer. There's no leaves. Stop it. Does anyone else hear that humming noise at 3 a.m. or is it just in my head? The comment is, do you have your TV on at night?" He responds, yes. Goes unplug the TV.

Lost Roomba. My Roomba was- A rogue Roomba? A rogue Roomba. I had my rogue, I had my Roomba cleaning an area rug that's outside of my porch escaped under the fence. If anyone sees it, please reject it. What are you doing to that Roomba, dude? You fucking it? That Roomba had to get away from you. The squirrels in my yard have been acting awfully suspicious lately. Anybody else notice this? What is suspicious? What are they doing? What are they doing?

They're filming X-rated squirrel porn. They're whacking each other off in the backyard. Offering a free couch, slightly used, may contain my cat. You should put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm not going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard.

I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard.

I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. I'm going to put up one that's not in the backyard. Offering a free couch, slightly used, may contain my cat. You should put up one that says that one's blue. I thought the same exact thing. Did anyone else see that guy dressed like Victorian times at the grocery store? I know this is a weird question, but do you believe in time travel? Because I think he might have been a time travel. Somehow I want to think this is a troll, but I think it's probably not. Probably it's real.

Yeah. To the person who keeps putting their mail in my mailbox, I know where you live. My dog keeps escaping despite the invisible fence. Does anyone know of any invisible fence recommendations? And the other guy goes, well, I'd help you, but it's kind of hard to see. It's good to know there's some friends out there. You know what I'm saying? That there are all these crazy people. There's some friends out there. You know what I'm saying? That there are all these crazy people,

there's some friends out there. To the person who took my lawn gnome during my garage sale, that wasn't for sale and I want it back. Okay, we'll get it right back to you. Found a pineapple on my porch this morning. Does anyone know what this means? Is anyone missing a pineapple?

Yes, I do know what that means. That means someone wants to fuck your wife. Whoever decorated the stop sign with the googly eyes, please stop. It's confusing drivers. Is it really? As if, as if your entire life, that sign shape and color has not been embedded

into your brain. Someone keeps ringing my doorbell at 2 a.m. and leaving a rubber ducky on the porch. What does this mean? I don't know, dude. That actually sounds kind of scary. Yeah, that is. Who's playing the bagpipes? It's very beautiful, but it's very early.

That was you, Brian. I know. Practicing for Lord of the Acid. That's right. Lord of the Acid. Live. Philip Sevilla. Lord of the Acid. Watch Brian have a complete anxiety meltdown on the stage. While playing the bagpipes backed by Mike Gordon from Fish. I found found one shoe on this street if you're hopping around looking for it let me know. Someone keeps stealing my cat's toys from the porch.

I guess we have a cat burglar in the neighborhood. And that that that that. Does anyone have a unicycle I can borrow? Asking for a friend. There's one more here. Okay. Oh no, that was it. Okay.

All right. So that was it. That was all the ones I got. Those were good. Yes. That's good. Thank you, internet. You win every time, internet. You win every single time.

All right, let's do this. We'll take a short break, and when we come back, we'll do some Ask TCB's relationship style. So if you've been waiting to get this question answered for a year, I'm gonna get to it now. We're here. Yeah, we're here for you. Yeah, we're here for you.

I wanna leave enough time. I don't We're here for you. Yeah, we're here for you. We're on it. I want to leave enough time. I don't want to be responsible for anyone's shitty relationship, so I just wait a long time until I'm sure it's already worked itself out. Yeah, and then give the advice. And then give the advice. And hopefully you'll have taken it by then. All right, we'll be back. Let me do something Brian has never done.

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And finally, share the show. It's the best gift you could give a few aging podcasters. See, Brian, that really wasn't that difficult, now was it? You're welcome. All right, so I have a bunch of Ask TCBs, relationship related, that I have had forever. I mean, some of them are, I know guys, I'm sorry.

But honestly, sometimes it just takes me a while to get to it and you have to, I have to compile them. The TCB hotline is a great idea. If we actually had a way of managing all the text messages that come through and like one neat nice little package, and I know they have apps that do this for us, but honestly, sometimes they get buried, you know, buried, buried, buried, buried, buried. And then I have to go back to it and I have to go, oh, that's right, that person asked a question and whatever, blah, blah, blah.

You get it, we're unorganized here, okay? One idiot running the ship. It's two ding-a-lings and a ying-a-ling. All right, so as you see... Two ding-a-lings drinking. Yeah, well, that's the name of the last episode. I put a ying-a-ling. Wait, ying-a-lings, wait, ying-a-lings, twins, ying-a-lings,

Darcy sings and two ding-a-lings. Or something like that. Okay, all right, so you want funny ones or you want more serious ones? You want me to mix them up? Yeah, you gotta mix them up. Start off funny. Okay, here's one.

Now, I think this is serious, but I'm not 100% sure. And so you can tell us, Thomas, you can tell us, Now, I think this is serious, but I'm not 100% sure. And so you can tell us, Thomas, you can tell us, text me and let me know if this was a serious question. But we got this a long time ago, when we reviewed about the lady who thought she was a cat and the guy who was dating her. Remember, the girl was like 20 years old

and he was like 56 years old. And she was like super slinky and sexy. And he had her running around the house like she was a cat. Laughing milk. Yeah, pissing in a litter box and all kinds of crazy shit. Hey guys, I just love the show, but I have a quick question. My girlfriend of two years has recently decided that she in fact is a cat.

Now I think this might be one of those people who like they think they're an animal. Do you know what I'm talking about? This is like hot right now. It's a trend for these kids people who like, they think they're an animal. Do you know what I'm talking about? This is like hot right now. It's a trend for these kids to believe, truly believe that they are an animal. They can morph into an animal.

They can do this. Not for me to say whether or not you're an actual cat, but okay. She's now hissing when she's mad. She naps in weird places, curled up like a ball. And last week, she wanted to drink milk straight from a bowl on the floor. I saw you guys do this episode and believe me, this is true, people do do this. Do I need to

call a therapist or do I just lean into it and buy her a scratching post? Well, first of all, do you like cats? Are you a cat person? Yeah, first of all, do you have a litter box? If you have a litter box, it's all good. Don't worry about it. Listen, milk is a lot less expensive than a fancy restaurant. So I'd say lean into the things that are positive about this. If she's hissing at, I don't know,

you like your back scratched? You like someone making muffins on your chest in the morning? Hey, listen, there you go. You got it all, right? And I guess it's cool, dude. Don't worry about it. Go with it for a little while.

But if all of a sudden she woke up and started acting like a cat, you probably want to get a therapist involved, but I let it roll for a few days, you know, see if there's some kind of weird sex you can have that feels good. Spice it up. Yeah, it feels good.

All right, let's go to a serious one. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about this too much, and you're not giving us a bunch of details, but if she like literally didn't just flip a switch and become crazy cat lady overnight, then I just say it's a mo- she's having a moment, she's into a fetish or whatever it is and let her roll with it for a little while. If it's not harming anybody, then who cares? Although it is a little strange when your girlfriend goes, can you pour me some milk into a bowl?

And laughing it up. That's what my kids do. My kids are weird though. Children are strange. All right. My partner never apologizes even when they are clearly wrong. Okay, so Tammy says she loves the show. I've been with my partner for three years

and I'm starting to notice a pattern They never apologize Even when it's obvious they have messed something up to leave their double down change the subject or somehow make it my fault I'm exhausted from having the same argument over and over it never gets through There's never an apology even though there are situations where she has clearly been wrong all this time. Is this a red flag or am I being sensitive as she's telling me that I am? Well, Tammy.

So she's gaslighting too. Yes, she's gaslighting, she's never apologizing. Listen, I have said this before on this show, the number one lesson I have learned about relationships and life in general, know which hills to die on and which ones not to. Even when I'm right sometimes, or I feel that I'm strongly right, I let it go.

I let it go and I say, okay, that's fine. Because I'm not gonna be a right fighter. Right fighting leads to so many fucking arguments, it's not even funny. And so if it's a small- Makes life harder. Yeah, it makes life harder. So if it's small shit, just leave it alone.

Who fucking cares? If it's big shit, Makes life harder. Yeah, it makes life harder. So if it's small shit, just leave it alone. Who fucking cares? If it's big shit, like, like she's really in the wrong. Yeah, that's, that's a problem. And that is that, you know, you might have to go to therapy for that one, and this is not the place to get therapy. That's for sure. Chrissy and I don't know shit from Shinola. But I would say that, like, if she really never apologizes

and she's doing things or saying things or arguing things that are clearly in the wrong, like in like black and white reality, everyone would go, oh yeah, you're in the right, she's in the wrong. And she just refuses to apologize. That's a certain kind of illness. It's called right fighting and it drives me up a wall. Anybody who's a right fighter drives me up a wall.

Um, so, you know, you, should got to just decide whether or not this is a big enough deal to you. You could live with something you can live with or something you can't. Um, Oh, this is Janice. Janice says every single night, my husband is for the last two years, my husband starts their dinner conversation with, so today I was on cryptocurrency trader.com. My husband has become a crypto bro and I cannot take it. I haven't, I won't and yet he won't stop.

Last night I caught him. I caught him trying to make NFTs out of some of our wedding photos. What? What? And he has become the person I despise the most, an uninformed moron. What would you do? Oh. So Astrid and I have had this conversation.

You have? No, not about the NFTs. No, not about crypto. No, this is the argument that we have had. Given the whole situation with Love is Blind, and then Unmarried at First Sight, and then a couple of other television shows that we either have in the background or we've watched together, there have been breakups due to political differences.

Like, I don't think I could be with this person because this is what they believe. And the question that's always gone on in our mind is, how in 2025, and then there's like specifically some people in our inner circle who have divided households and they're like recently divided Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, like in this last election one went one way one went the other way and now it's causing a bunch of drama at least that's what I hear it's causing a bunch of drama and Some people are really struggling how they wrapped their heads around

How this supposed idiot is living in our house? Well, no matter what you think the other other side, clearly everyone is very tribalistic right now. And how do you ignore what one side of the fence is doing supposedly to our country, no matter what side of the fence you are on? You probably demonize the other side for what they supposedly are doing to our country. And how do you have a marriage with that person where you've got to interact with them every day and they clearly don't think the same way that you do? Can you do that? And I think the intention of the question is this is where she's going with it. Like he's become

this dude that I just dislike altogether. Like kind of this amalgamation of all these, you know, kind of a lug nut, so to speak, right? How do I deal with that? Get a divorce. That's what I got to say. That's my advice to you. Get a divorce, that's what I gotta say. That's my advice to you. Get a divorce, call a divorce attorney. That's it, I don't know. I don't know how you do that in 2025. If it was me, I don't know that I could deal with

having someone so diametrically opposed to everything that I think is right and good and live with them. I don't know. I don't know how you do that. You're a better woman than I am. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this how you do that. You're a better woman than I am. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, this is, we're talking about like getting into crypto. So, I mean, I guess if you really love this person and you want to make this work,

I guess you could maybe dip your toe into crypto a little bit. Yeah. Maybe kind of try to see it from their point of view, see what they find so intriguing about it. But if you don't really care for this person, there's a good way, there's a good out. This is a good out. This is a great out. He wasted my money on crypto. Yes. But I'll share with you that I stripped some of the politics from this, but this

goes deeper than just crypto. Crypto is like just kind of an example, okay? So that's why I kind of went off on a rant there. I probably should have added that at the beginning and not at the end. But you know, you get what I'm saying is like, you know, you understand. Yeah, it would be really, really hard to. Listen, is the dick good? Cause if the dick is good, maybe you just ignore some of it.

Yeah. Yeah. But you guys have been together for a long time. The dick can't be that good. You know what I'm saying? Like eventually we all get used to the dick. I had a friend who's had, same guy who said, you're at that age where you're scared of pussy.

Used to say the following, show me a hot girl and I'll show you a guy who said, you're at that age where you're scared of pussy, used to say the following. Show me a hot girl and I'll show you a guy who's sick of fucking her. Right? And never truer words have been said. And it replaced the girl with he, they, them, whatever it is. It's true.

Show me a hot guy, I'll show you a girl who's sick of fucking him. Right? It's just the way that it goes eventually. And so I don't know, you gotta just kind of- For a woman, even it's very emotional too. So tied to that person, it's not even just so physical. So I can see how that would be affecting

many other parts of- Many. Yeah, it's in your head, it's in your living room, it's at your dinner table, I don't know. And especially if you won't shut up about it. Maybe you just say, listen, we don't believe the same thing. So let's just talk about the bills. Yeah, so let's not talk about it.

Can you pay them with the crypto you just bought? That's it. OK, my family's girlfriend is treating me like an outsider. I'm summarizing these so that we get a little teaser beforehand. I've been dating my girlfriend for over a year, and her family still acts like I'm some guy she met yesterday. I try to be friendly, I offer my help at family events,

I step in when I can to be there in certain situations where I feel I need to be there, but they barely acknowledge me. Meanwhile, her sister's boyfriend, who she's been with for less than two months, is practically groomed for sainthood by the family. Should I say something to my girlfriend or just accept the fact that my family

isn't my biggest fan yet? Well, it's not starting off great, bro. It's not. No. You gotta find a new girlfriend. Sorry, gotta say it. You gotta find a new girlfriend. Well, I can't believe that she also has not brought it up.

Yeah, this is like, you guys have been together for a year and you haven't talked about this? Yeah, it seems like maybe she would even feel say it. You gotta find a new girlfriend. Well, I can't believe that she also has not brought it up. Yeah, this is like, you guys have been together for a year and you haven't talked about this? Yeah, it seems like maybe she would even feel like, I'd notice there's a big difference. Is she even your girlfriend? Or are you just showing up to your friend's random events and hoping that things turn out okay? Yeah, if that's the case.

Yeah, you gotta have conversation about stuff like this. Should you mention something? You should have mentioned something the first time it happened. Absolutely gotta communicate about these kinds of things. But if her family doesn't like you and she's involved with her family a lot,

there is zero chance it's going to work out well in the long run. I'm sure there are certainly exceptions to that rule, but not that I've seen. Yeah, not that I've seen. Listen, I was married. I've been married twice. And you know this if you listen to the show. My first wife, I loved her immediate family.

And I think for the most part, at least up until the very, very end when of course you have to pick a side, they liked me too, right? But it was just three members of the family, mother and the other two, the brother and the sister. And we seemed to all get along very well for a very long time. And then one side of her extended family, I really enjoyed their company. I felt like we also got along very well. I think they would, at least I would hope they would say the same thing about me. But there was the other side of the family, like, you know, the other

side of the extended family, it was clear. I was not the chosen one. They did not want some scrappy, you know, in their minds, Libtard, even though I wasn't, but that's what they assumed about me, libtard, poor, you know, wearing a chain around his wallet kind of guy. They wanted some French aristocracy. You know, they wanted some French aristocrat to come in and yeah, some preppy, went to the right schools,

did the right things, you know. Worked at the hedge fund kind of guy. And I just wasn't that dude. I was never gonna be that dude. But it was clear from the moment that I met them and they even made that known like out loud at family events. So I felt very uncomfortable around that side of the family.

I was never good enough for this lady in their eyes. It was my impression. And since they said it out loud, I'm pretty sure I was getting that one right on the nose and that never sat well with me. And I'm not sure that if we had stayed married 20 years in, that things would be great between us because I think I would feel very shitty about all of that, you know, just not fitting into their family. Like, I think I don't think it would have been comfortable.

No, it gave me a complex. And I still have that complex that thanks, thanks ex-wifey and your extended family. You know who you are. I don't need to tell you. Of course, I really hope that my ex-wife isn't listening to the show, but she probably is. She probably is. You know, if you've got an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend that does a podcast four days a week, you're probably going to tune in every once in a while too. Just to find out, just to say, yep, I made the right choice getting a divorce from that guy. I sure did. All right, let's do two more. One more. One more?

One more. I adore my girlfriend, but he eats like a literal trash panda. He's hunched over the coffee table the other night, gnawing on a rotisserie chicken like a caveman. He refuses to use napkins instead wiping his hands on his own shirt or worse, sometimes the kitchen towel. Do I stage an intervention or just start feeding him on the porch?

What? Okay, stop being silly. Your boyfriend doesn't have manners. Manners is something that gets taught to you as a child. How did he become your boyfriend? Yeah, how did he become your boyfriend? Did you not notice that he was slopping up his food like an idiot? I mean, listen, young lady, you, manners are something that get bred into you at a very

young age and you, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, trust me. And I am beating my children over the side of their head with the manners thing, because so many people in this day and age don't have any respect, manners, chivalry, none of it. And I'm sorry, I still believe in that kind of stuff. I think it makes you a well-rounded human being that can adjust in any situation. Manners matter. Manners do matter and if your guy doesn't have manners and he's over the age of 20, it's gonna be really hard for him to start picking them up now. Small things can change, Big, all of the stuff is not going to change at one time. So my advice to you, find a new boyfriend.

That's all you got to, that's all I got to say. Definitely don't feed him from a trough or whatever she said. Yeah, feed them outside. Okay. Just get a new boyfriend. Don't bother. Put them out on the porch. Don't put them out on the porch.

Just don't bother having them around. Okay. I do love their bath T.C.V. We got to do more of this segment. Oh, I got more. I got more so we can do more. I got lots more. Okay. Well, I'd like to thank, I'm trying to adjust my glasses here. They look good. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'd like to thank our guest this week Aaron Weber one more time He was great and on a second listen to the show I think he was really great on the show actually Aaron Weber's new 30-minute comedy special produced by Nate Varghese Is available on YouTube links in the show notes go listen to the episode on Tuesday. He's really funny, he's just a good guy.

He's also got some tour dates coming up, so you can go to AaronWeber.com and check him out. If he's coming to a town near you, go see him. He's one of these comics you're not gonna pay $500 to go see, it's probably 30 bucks for a ticket. You can sit in the front row. Yeah, he's funny. Get yourself a couple drinks and have a good day.

Or if you're in Nashville, maybe, look him up. Yeah, he's at Zany's a lot, is what I've noticed. He's the Zany's funny. Get yourself a couple drinks and have a good day. Or if you're in Nashville, maybe. Look him up. Yeah, he's at Zany's a lot is what I've noticed. He's the Zany's regular. So if you're there, go check him out. And the Nashville Comedy Fest is coming up here in a couple weeks as this is being released. So if you're up in Nashville, go see that. Go say hi to our good friend, Vir Das.

Tell him the commercial break said hello. He'll probably run from the stage. Yes. Who? Oh, those guys. Those two. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks. I got a therapy session in a couple minutes. I'll talk to my therapist about it. Hey, listen, we did the best that we could given the circumstances. We were newbies and we're still newbies, but we haven't gotten much better according to some people on YouTube. I'll share that on tomorrow's episode.

Oh yeah, remind me to tell you about Kathleen Madigan and her rabid fans who dislike me with a passion. Wow. Okay. I don't care. Whatever. I care, but I don't care. Whatever. I care, but I don't care. It's all too confusing.

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