The Commercial Break - Ine-Bryan-ated

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Bryan throws stones from a glass house...so this is just a regular episode of TCB! Bryan’s algorithm persists Waiting for Moby’s moment The DMB tour bus poop incident The white man dance The Sphere Justin Timberlake’s eyes Krissy Weighs In! Inebriated performers Candlebox Bryan famously only performed while inebriated Bum Sunning 16 & Pregnant Young plastic surgery/filler Eyebrow tattooing (microblading) Little people big problems LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  Download & Listen on the Audacy app 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

God, everything is possible. With God, everything is possible. Nathaniel Czernyk, Nathaniel Czernyk, With God, everything is possible. On this episode of the commercial break. I remember feeling this way about one of the bands that I was in. Like when we started getting gigs, I was like, this is it. This is the moment.

Yeah. I probably shouldn't even be talking about this because I never went on stage unless I was totally inebriated. He fell off. I fell off the stage. I was so inebriated. He thought they were going to catch you, but they didn't. I fell off the stage. I was so inebriated. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

Zany side up. He thought they were gonna catch you, but they didn't. Dying on the phone. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break.

I'm Brian Gray and this is my alien friend, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you, aliens out there in the podcast universe. How are you doing? Thank you for joining us. We are here yet again. And the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, and Brian and

Chrissy never shut the fuck up. And till they fall off, until the bills fall off. Until the contract comes to an end. Yeah. I'm gonna renegotiate that contract of one day a week. But if we're not making money now, we certainly won't be making money if we go one day a week. Anyway, thanks for being here. Certainly appreciate it.

I was just on the Instas and I do have to let you know that the 90s, like we were talking about the 90s, early 2000s resurgence of new metal and prog rock or whatever you call it, you know, hard rock or whatever, continues on my Instagram algorithm, as I just saw a reel with Limp Biscuit and Ed Sheeran singing a song together. Because little known fact, Ed Sheeran has a Limp Biscuit tattoo. That is how much Ed Sheeran loves Limp Biscuit. And Limp Biscuit is back. I mean, they are playing, I saw this video where they were playing down in Rio or something, Brazil or some South American venue, and there were no shit, tens of thousands of people bouncing up and down like it was Woodstock 99.

It was insane how many people were getting into Limp Bizkit. I mean, and listen, I ain't hating, whatever, cool. You like Limp Bizkit, you like Limp Bizkit. Was never my thing, but if you like it, you like it. But whatever. That Woodstock 99 thing too, did not cast them in a good light, that documentary. No, well, I mean, okay, so let's get into it.

So the producers of the show, in their infinite wisdom, this asshat who was a part of the, Michael whatever his name is, he was a part of the original Woodstock, then Woodstock 94, then Woodstock 99, always looking to make a dollar. And listen, he was always about that even back in 1969. He was the same way from day one. It wasn't like the guy changed or sold out or anything.

He wanted to make a billion dollars off of Woodstock 69. People just came and they broke down the fences and then he had a problem on his hands and him and other people made it safe enough that people survived the weekend, I guess. And a lot of people were born from that weekend too. But in Woodstock 99, it was just a terrible event, terribly set up, terribly staffed, terrible planning, and then they put a really weird mix of music up there. Limp Bizkit was toward the end of, I think Saturday or whatever it was, they were toward the end of Saturday, and one of the producers of the show, sensing smartly that things were getting out of control, said, you gotta calm them down, Fred, right? You gotta like, you

know, talk to them, stop. People are getting hurt out there. It's getting a little bit crazy. And Fred Durst, right? And he did the exact opposite. He got them riled up. And I mean, in a way that is clear when you watch the video footage of, from MTV of that day. That's really when shit got sideways, is after the Limp Bizkit.

According to Fred Durst in one of the documentaries, he says, hey, listen, they told me to go on there and put on a show and I put on a show. That's what I did. You know, you can't fault me for putting on a show, but you know, that things definitely went sideways. Moby emergency exited Woodstock 99. That's all you got to know about Woodstock 99. He literally shut closed his set early and said we got to get out of here. That was it. He was like there was too many guys touching too many boobs and people were just out of control and he was like I don't want to be any part of it. I don't

want to be a part of the scene. That was Moby. When is Moby gonna get his moment? It's coming. Yeah we're gonna have to hear that 26 minute song he did over and over and over again. It'll be remixed. That's right. Dave Matthews Band also with DMB, one of the, and the reason why I bring this up is because I got a weird phone call from a text message from a friend I had not seen in a long time. And he's a bartender and some of my family members, brothers go up there and they see

him on occasion, but I haven't seen him in a while. And he says, Hey, DMB in town, two miles down the street from my house, literally as the crow flies two miles down the street from my house. And you know what I would like to do? I would like to drive to your house and park my car on your driveway. And then I will come back, take an Uber to the event, and then I will Uber back and grab my car. And I thought to myself, you are a brother forever. You're welcome to do whatever it is you need to do.

It ain't bothering me by leaving your car on my driveway. However, what is the thinking behind leaving your car two miles from the venue and then driving home anyway? Yeah, like I'm gonna leave my car there overnight, come pick it back up the next day because I know I'm gonna get loaded. Yes. So weird, it was so weird. Like, I'm going to leave my car there overnight, come pick it back up the next day because I know I'm going to get loaded. Yes.

So weird. It was so weird. Yeah, they were just in town. Did he do it? He did it. Yeah, he did it. I saw the car out there. He actually texted me when he got here.

He was like, hey man, come out here and say hello. And I was full on in the middle of crazy town here in the house. So I thought to myself, it was the witching hour or maybe I wasn't, I can't remember what it was, but I think it was the witching hour. And I was like, listen, I can't, but have a good time at DMV. Be safe driving home. Be safe driving. All those little ants marching your ass home. Yes. I mean, DMV never really my thing. Like it was, I never got into it as much as a lot of the people in my circle of friends did.

I was huge into them when they first came out. Oh, you were? Oh yeah. Hans Martin? Ding-a-ding, ding-a-ding, ding-a-ding, ding-a-ding. It was hot. You were hot? It was hot.

Oh, you were, it was hot. Yes. I think here in the Southeast especially, they had like some grip over people. Widespread panic, fish to a certain degree. Fish wasn't like the Southeast thing necessarily. Widespread panic, fish to a certain degree. Fish wasn't like the Southeast thing necessarily. Widespread panic, Dave Matthews band. Yeah, I was in high school. So, and it was all my friends loved him. We all went to the shows.

Yeah. I remember there was like this cheerleader that I was dating in high school and she loved Dave Matthews band. And so I think that turned me off to it. You know what I'm saying? It was too. Yeah, it was too poppy. Yeah, poppy commercially. I wanted to, yeah. I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit. Oh, I got into all that too.

Oh man, that was great, dude. I love that. Yeah. I'm going to snuff the rooster. Oh yeah. My parents were like, what? I remember my dad one time. What? Yeah. On the few occasions, which was like once a year that we got to choose the radio station

on the drive to school. Oh, yeah. Once a year. I mean, it happened so rarely, right? And I put it on the station here, 99X, and, you know, famous, go down in history kind of station. One of the first stations to ever play the song, Never Mind by Nirvana. And so he let us pick it. I'll never forget, like, Man on the Box came on, or no, not Man on the Box box rooster. It was like, oh, he's come to snuff the rooster.

Oh yeah. And my dad was like, what? And we're all singing along. My brother and I are singing along and he's like, why are they killing the rooster? I was like, I don't know, dad. I think it has something to do with Vietnam. And he's like, we didn't kill roosters. And I go, did you go to Vietnam? No, but I thought about it. Yeah, it was kind of a weird time, but DMB's still around, still kicking. They are, they are. They just filled a big, well, your friend was going. Yeah, they filled it. They filled it, they do, they fill it.

I think at one time Dave Matthews Band was one of the highest grossing concert tours for like years. And then that's when they dumped the shit over the bridge. That's when they pooped on Chicago. That's the craziest fucking story. I love it so much. I know it probably wasn't pleasant to the people who experienced it, but to me it's pretty funny and probably to the rest of the world.

It's almost like a joke that couldn't be true, right? The tour bus driver- Yeah, it was like national news at the time too. The bridge where this happened is in downtown Chicago, a well-trafficked, very congested bridge. People driving back in the fourth, middle of the day, tour driver not only stops on the bridge, but then dumps the shit over the side of the bridge into the Chicago River, where just so happens, just so happens, pure luck, there's a tour boat driving right under the bridge and shit flies everywhere. But at least you got Dave Matthews.

You got close to Dave. You got a DMV dump. I'd save that shit, get it signed. I'd save that, literally, that shit, get it signed. Oh, I'm sure somebody did. Oh, somebody's out there. But I showed Chrissy a reel the other day, probably because I was texting about Dave Matthews' band, then I got served up a bunch of Dave Matthews' band content on Instagram. And there was a reel where, I think it may have been from the show here in Atlanta. Dave Matthews, all in black, long sleeve shirt, full, you know, jeans or whatever

he's wearing. And he's got, he's full on dad bod, no, throwing no shade. I am full on dad bod too. I'm just giving you a description. Full on dad bod, sticky shirt, like shirt sticking to him, drenched in sweat. I mean- Yeah, he was getting down. He was dancing and even that dad bod, that belly bouncing up and down, sweat flying off him in the lights. And if people were going fucking nuts, they were like, we're not dead yet. Yeah.

Somebody in our age group can actually still dance. Hard. Hard. Yeah. I do the DMV dance too. I think the DMV dance is my favorite. I've been doing DMV. You do like your feet.

Yeah, you shuffle your feet. You just shuffle them back and forth or maybe you spin around once and then you do this with your hand, like make little wavy motions like this. That's the white man's dance. Any widespread panic, Grateful Dead, any of those jammy bands,

you're gonna see that white man dance. And it's a sight to behold. It really is a sight to behold. It's an art. I was watching, so the dead has been at the sphere, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Out there in Vegas. And apparently it's... It looks amazing. It does look amazing. Have you seen any of those videos that people are showing of just the visual stuff inside? There's incredible. I know, I saw the one. So imagine this. So the sphere, for those of you that have been living underground, the sphere is that big half circle in the middle of Las Vegas. It's the most advanced state of the art theater ever built, like 4,000 independent speakers,

screen that fills half- The whole thing. Yeah. Almost the entirety of this half dome. And then some of these bands like Phish, U2, now Grateful Dead or The Dead, they have put these huge productions on, made videos just for this screen because you can't use just a regular video.

It's gotta be a video that fills the screen in high definition. And apparently when you're there, it feels like one of the things, one of the scenes that I saw was, imagine that you walk into this sphere and all you see is like rigging and rafters as if the metal, the screen had been pulled back and it was just the metal behind the screen. So, when they, you walk into the sphere, that's all it is. So it appears as if the screen has been taken down. It just looks like rafters, right? Rafters and speakers and stuff like that. Well, at some point when

they start playing, it splits open in that lightning way, you know, that lightning symbol they have. It splits open with a lightning crack in the middle and you're at Heydashburg. That's so cool. Near the house where the Grateful Dead originally formed. And then you fly up into outer space over the course of a couple minutes. You go through Haight-Ashbury, then you fly up. And even watching the video that's being taken

by somebody that's inside of the sphere felt like you were actually flying on my tiny little screen. Really wild. Yeah, I should probably stop taking so many gummies at night. But anyway, that was so fascinating. I think the Eagles, I mean, that makes sense for bands to me, like Fish and Grateful Dead, to do all of these cool visual stuff.

But I think the Eagles are next. I wonder what they're gonna do. I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm sorry. I wonder how they're gonna do it. Not buying into it. Like, I like the Eagles, Fine. They have a couple of great songs. They're going to go down in history as one of the most popular rock bands of their

generation, maybe any generation, right? The Eagles were superstars through and through, but still are today. And Don Henley, I like a lot. I think he's a great songwriter. But, I don't. But. But. There's always a but with Ryan. But. I blow it up your ass and then I punch you in the balls. They've had so many goodbye tours now. I know. They're on like their 30th goodbye tour. Why do people even do that anymore?

Don't know. This farewell tour, just don't say it. I know. I got to imagine just don't say it. I know. I got to imagine somewhere. At least half come back. At least half, if not all of them. I just read an article the other day. Fleetwood Mac, we will never tour again now that McVie has passed away.

We're never going to tour again. Can't do it without her, wouldn't do it without her. I guarantee you that the this fear or somebody is going to put a bunch of money on the table and they're going to be back playing together. And not that I wouldn't, I probably would. If Chrissy and I had been off air for a number of years and someone said, do another year of the commercial break and here's $10. I would be like, yeah, all right, that tracks. That's about what we were making. We can't turn that down.

We can't turn that down. But I get it, like when you have a juicy pile of money and you love what you do. Right? Right. Right? And you say- It makes sense, just don't say it's goodbye. Don't say goodbye. Yeah, don't say it's goodbye. So anyway, Eagles are on their like 50th farewell tour. I swear to God they've been doing this forever. And the thing is that they call it the farewell tour, but they just never stop touring. So they tour and then they tour again under the

same name and then they tour again. So they've been on the farewell tour for like 15 years. And as much as I can appreciate that people like the Eagles, I don't get this fear. I don't get playing at this fear. Like, are those songs going to lend themselves to all of that drama? I don't know. Because when you go to this fear, my opinion is, it's brand new and there's only a few bands that have played there, but when you go to this fear, my opinion is, it's brand new, there's only a few bands that have played there, but when you go to the Sphere, my opinion is, you're going there for the spectacle and the music, but the band may not be the focus, right? Like if you go to the Grateful Dead, okay, we know there's John Mayer and Bob Weir and

they're doing their thing, yeah, I'm going to look at them, great, wonderful, but usually you're staring at a screen where you see the band. But in this case, the visuals are so large and make the band look so small, that it's really about the music plus the visuals. And I just wonder. Yeah, the whole experience. Yeah. And so, The Grateful Dead makes absolute sense.

Everyone's out of their fucking minds, right? Fish makes sense. Most people are out of their fucking minds. You know, you too don't get it, but apparently it was a good show. Everyone went and saw it. I guess if you have a good audio visual guy, like you got a good team behind you. Oh yeah, you have to.

And you know the Eagles are probably, or the Sphere, whoever handles that, is going to spend some money making sure that they, at least people have a good time. Do you think there'll be a visual of the Hotel California? Chrissy, I was just thinking the same thing. Are Don Henley and a Mustang convertible? I saw a deadhead on a sphere today. Yes, you know all that stuff. It's going to be all tropey bullshit. You know it's coming. But I guess they're playing to a certain crowd that will enjoy it. There's Eagles fans out there, aren't they? Oh, absolutely. You know they're gonna sell out.

And my guess is, you know, Grateful Dead said last year, final show, love y'all, we may come back to do special events, but we're not touring anymore. That's it. And they did 15 nights at the Sphere. Oh, they're doing more than that. Oh yeah, 21 or something. Now they added like December shows, didn't they?

Oh, well now I think they added August shows. Jared Sussman Oh, they added August shows? Okay. So, they're just going to keep on doing it. This is going to be the farewell tour that never ends. And I guess as long as you still got fans that enjoy it, why not? Danielle Pletka Yeah, people love it still. Jared Sussman And hey, listen, again, I'm not throwing shade. I like The Grateful Dead. I went and saw them when they came. I liked it. I thought it was good. I thought John Mayer did a great job. Danielle Pletka He does.

Jared Sussman I can appreciate it. And so, I'm watching the reels of, you know, everybody dancing, but here's what I have to say. There is no white man dance, like a Grateful Dead white man dance, or white woman dance should probably be the right term for that. All the spinning that goes on and all the, you know, all the hand waving and the head bopping and all that, it's just... Oh, everybody's dancing to their own beat. Yeah. I mean, there's a video of me out there somewhere at some shitty show. I was going to say. Yeah, listen, I do it too. You can't help it's infectious, actually.

I know. Yeah. Once you see people just being free and spinning around and waving their hands in the air like they don't care. Yeah, you get into it too. And then you realize everyone is just as fucked up as I am, so no embarrassment here. No. It's like when I went to that Billy Joel concert at Churus Park, places packed, and there is some ladies just in the-

People get crazy at Billy Joel. Crazy. Crazy. Like way too much pre-partying. Way too much. And these people are in like their late 60s. These white women in their late 60s that came from,

you know, the poshiest parts of Atlanta. And they are slathered in drugs and alcohol. And they're like. Oh, my sister went to a show and somebody fell off like the balcony. Oh, really? Yes, they were. Ah!

Billy! Oh my God. New York State of mind! I mean, God bless. I hope the person was okay. Yeah, they were okay, but yeah, it was a whole thing. It was, I bet it was. I bet it was. That's a show stopper.

Somebody fell from the fifth floor. I guess we ought to stop. But Billy is good. He is good at what he does. He sold out Madison Garden, Madison Square Garden, what, like 500 times in a row or something? Yes, farewell, I think he's done, right? With Madison Square Garden, what, like 500 times in a row or something? Yes, you know, farewell, I think he's done, right? With Madison Square Garden.

Okay, just that. Yeah, because he had a contract with them that he couldn't play anywhere else in the area for whatever it was a decade. He was doing a residency. Yeah, he did it for like a decade. Yeah, he did. He was like, 100 shows a year or something,

50 shows a year or something like that, sold out every single one of them. Every time. That's insane, That's insane. That's insane. We'll be lucky if we can sell out 500 seats in Tampa. Nicole Zichal-Bendis I don't even think it's 500, I think it's 50. Jared Ranere I hope so. This is a situation where I hope the venue is literally like a closet with two chairs. Yes. I'll be doing this show to Christina and Tina.

All right, let's take a break and then we'll be back with more fun and shenanigans here at the commercial. More DMV talk right after this. People are like, what the fuck is he talking about? Because Dave Matthews may not be, whatever. Anyway, we'll be back. Hi. No, you're not dreaming. And yes, this is a new promo. See, I made you wait and now I will be back. Seriously, please, it's getting hard for me to listen to Brian and Chrissy Begg. So just follow us on Instagram again, that's at the commercial break. You can also follow us on TikTok at TCB podcast. And of course, you know where to go for all things TCB. That is TCB podcast.com baby. And of course, you can always text us or call us and leave us a voicemail at 212-433-3TCB. Yep, that phone number is no longer new,

but it is still around, and that's a win. 212-433-3TCB. Love you, bye. It's Sophia Franklin, and if you don't already know, listen up. My mini series is live now each and every Monday and the only person missing is you. We're dating, we're dumping, we're learning,

and we're tapping into all the feels that originally brought us together. Listen and follow Sophia with an F on the Odyssey app or wherever you got your podcasts. All right. I'm going to take a look at this video. Hold on one second. It was sent in our group. Hold on.

Justin Timberlake. Yeah. Wow. The eyes. Yeah. Yeah, wow. The eyes. Yeah. That is pretty insane. Okay, so we're talking about this video that's going around TikTok and Instagram, but Justin Timberlake, and there's a larger plot here, I think, so follow me.

Justin Timberlake, of course, arrested in the Hamptons for DWI. He claims he wasn't drinking, he wasn't drunk, he just didn't want to take the sobriety test. The police officer, who didn't even know who Justin Timberlake was, he was like a 21-year-old police officer, apparently is notorious around town for being a stickler for the rules of the road. So Justin rolled through a stop sign, he pulled him over, he asked him to do a few field sobriety tests. Based on those field sobriety tests, he made the assumption or the conclusion that Justin was inebriated in some way. And he said, will you take a breathalyzer test? No, I won't. Will you submit to blood tests? No, I won't. Which is a pretty

classic. Yeah, I was going to say that's what they always... Yeah, the lawyers will always tell you don't do it, but what you don't know, and that I learned at the hard way is that... They take you directly to jail. They take you directly to jail and you are assumed to be guilty at that point. So in the court of law, if you ref... At least in the state of Georgia, if you refuse to take the sobriety test, the breathalyzer or the blood test,

if you refuse to submit to those, then you will be assumed guilty. Okay, so now everybody comes out and now there's all kinds of stories resurfacing about how Justin may or may not have a problem with alcohol. I'm not here to make that judgment, I don't know. God bless him if he has a problem with alcohol, if he gets help. But everyone has jumped on the bandwagon now and they are all pulling out old videos and old clips of Justin when what they think is some version of inebriated. And for the most part,

I think a lot of it is just a bunch of hubblu. But this particular video that's going around, he looks pretty fucked up in that video. And I don't know, actually I do know, as a guy who's has been there many times, has been in that state of mind many times, it appears that he is fucked up. Now that's just my own personal take on this issue.

And I got nothing against Justin except a bunch of things that we'll talk about later. But normally I would say, okay, how could you ever know that, right, for real? How could you ever make the firm conclusion on a video from six months ago where Justin may or may not be inebriated? People are just this is just a bunch of conjecture until I Saw two days ago on TMZ what I call a water hose piece put out the fire clearly a PR Paid for peace on TMZ didn't say sponsored, but we can all make an assumption about how this goes

TMZ put out a piece addressing the video specifically where they say, sources close to Justin, say that there's sources, quote unquote, close to Justin, claim that he never drinks or drugs before a concert, that he takes his responsibility to the audience very seriously. He's there to put on the best show. And what you're seeing is just Justin mid-concert, you know, having his moment or, you know, the bloodshot eyes are because he's been, and he's on tour and he's tired or whatever. I did go to a show years ago of his and it was really good. That's the only thing I have to say.

Okay, there you go. Chrissy has weighed in. really good. That's the only thing I have to say. Okay, there you go. Chrissy has weighed in. Really good. It was really good. Timbaland spun at halftime or set break. We had a great time, but I was not in the front. So these people were taking a video from the front and it really showed clearly that his eyes were very red. Oh, really? Oh, this video. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. His eyes are way red and they're huge.

They're bulging out of his head. Okay. I don't know every bit of Justin. I don't know him all that well as an artist. I didn't pay attention to his career. I only know that he dated Brittany. He was in, in sync and he's been in the spotlight. But I got to tell you, by putting out this piece in TMZ, where clearly Harvey or whoever at TMZ was asked by somebody to say this out loud, whether or not they paid for it, I don't know how all that works. I don't know. But it appears that TMZ is putting this piece out as some kind of affirmation, some kind of, you know, counterpoint to the drunk narrative. And that makes me believe, no doubt, Justin may be drinking or drugging. Before shows, people have called him out, and now they're trying to cut it at the root by putting out this piece. Why else would you put out that piece?

Why else would you say that? It seemed like a very weird and out of place story to just be there, but this is not unusual for some of these rags, right? They do this. They play the game. They play footsie with PR agents so that they get stories and treatment and all this other stuff. And so that made me really suspicious about this. I was like, I can't believe you're suspicious of TMZ. Such a bastion of free press. Yeah. NPR, TMZ. Yeah. They go hand in hand. It is really a very...

Associated press. They're up there. Associated press, TMZ. Very interesting tact to take for this particular story. If I was Justin's PR team and he really wasn't inebriated and he really nothing to worry about, there's nothing at the bottom of that story, I'm just letting it ride. Who fucking cares? Okay, you think I'm drunk, whatever.

I was gonna say the same thing because it's gonna be another scandal tomorrow with somebody else. Yeah, lay low, do your concerts. Have you ever been to a concert where you... Was it devirated? Have you ever not been to a concert where you were devirated, Chrissy?

Have you ever been to a concert where you felt like the artist may have been in an altered state of mind affecting their performance in some way, shape or form? That's a good question. I'm sure along the way, I've been to enough concerts. I can't think of one specifically. Do you? Yes.

Oh, you do. Of course, you wouldn't have asked. I wouldn't have asked if I didn't have a great story about it. I just ask you questions so I can just feed my own bullshit back to you. There's a pattern here, guys. Pay attention. No, I was really interested to know if you'd actually see it. My own bullshit, back to you. There's a pattern here, guys. Pay attention. No, I was really interested to know if you'd actually see it.

I know what I have before, but I can't. There's nothing that stands out. Do you think any of those jam bands, like back in their early days, I'm sure? You know one time, Sonny, who is the Congo player for widespread panic, you know, I saw him at like an Athens bottle shop one time, and he was stacking up. The guy had like a grocery cart, he was pushing around full of alcohol. Now, I didn't, I don't think he was inebriated at that moment, but he was there. Nicole Soule-Nicholson-Miyazaki

Could have been having a party. Yeah. The person I was with identified him because, you know, I wasn't all that into Weissford Panic, identified him and stopped and talked. But he he was man, was he loading up, he was having a party of some nature. I do believe, and I'm almost reluctant to say the name because I hope I'm not disparaging somebody where it's just not true, but I do remember going to a Candlebox concert. Nicole Soule-Blaire Oh, Candlebox. Jared Slauson At like the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which is a weird place to see a concert like this.

Nicole Soule-Blaire Yeah, it is. I've seen a few there. Jared Slauson It's not the place you a weird place to see a concert like this. Yeah, it is, I've seen a few there. Yeah, it's not the place you wanna go to see a concert. It's very stodgy and it's for the symphony. It's not for a candle box. And it feels like you should be at the symphony. Yes, the seats are very nice, there's very nice carpeting, the lighting on the wall,

there's drapery, I mean, when there's drapery and candle box, it just doesn't mix. But my, and I just remember the place being very half empty and me not feeling, like me getting a sense of disappointment about the fact that there weren't a lot of people at the show, and I only knew one of their songs or two of their songs maybe, and I'd gotten the ticket from this girl that I was dating, we went together, but I do remember that not only

was the singer of Candlebox in some state of mind, and it was, in my opinion, altering the show's, altering his performance. I've now seen many live videos from Candlebox and maybe he, maybe it didn't alter his performance, maybe he just wasn't that great of a live singer. But also one of the guitar players was literally stumbling around the stage. I mean, stumbling around the stage. Oh, yeah. It was obvious, right? It was that something was going on. I don't know what that was, but something was going on. And I thought to myself, wow, you know.

They were drowning their sorrows for being at a half empty symphony hall. You can't blame them. You really can't blame them. I mean, honestly, it's got to be kind of miserable if you go on, if you got that one hit that everybody knows and you're hot to trot, you know, and you think this is your moment, this is it, this is happening, I'm all here. I remember feeling this way about one of the bands that I was in. Like when we started getting gigs,

I was like, this is it, this is the moment. Yeah. I probably shouldn't even be talking about this because I never went on stage unless I was totally in the parade. You fell off the moment. Yeah. I probably shouldn't even be talking about this because I never went on stage unless I was totally inebriated. He fell off. I fell off a stage. I was so inebriated. He thought they were going to catch you, but they didn't. Dying on the floor. But you got to put yourself in the head of somebody who probably thinks, this is the moment. We had our, we did it. We got a song

on MTV, all over the radio, we're the it band of the moment, and then in that moment, you can't even put a thousand people into the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It's got to be a little bit defeating, like you got to feel a sense of deflating and sadness around that. Oh, shit, man. I guess we're not making it. I guess we did do it. There's always time, Candlebox, because there's a whole resurgence. Where is Candlebox? That's the question. Is Candlebox even still on? Is Candlebox, that's the question. Is Candlebox even still on, is Candlebox on a farewell tour? There's the question. Let me see.

Let me do this Candlebox band tour. Oh, are they on tour? They are on tour. No way. Coming to Atlanta, no way. To the Symphony Orchestra? To Chastain. Oh? To Chastain. Oh, to Chastain.

Go figure. Okay. Limited seats available as they always are. They always say that. They're always limited available. Wow, well, you know what? I put my foot directly into my mouth candle box. I mean, Chastain is better than the Symphony Orchestra.

It is. That's for sure. It is. Chastain's fun. Chastain is fun. That's like, Chastain, for those of you who don't live here, Chastain Park is in Buckhead, like one of the ritziest parts of Atlanta. It's a very nice park. It's got a golf course and a pool and it's kind of like a country club. Like a horse stables.

Yeah, horse stables. It's a public country club, basically is what it is. It's very well manicured, it's very well taken care of. And all the, you know, it's a fancy place to go take a walk, basically. It's a place, it's like, I don't know what the comparison is in LA or New York, but the nice part of Central Park, it's a show. Everyone goes there, they're all dressed in their workout, Lululemons and all that, and you know, carrying their Stanley cups. There's little cafes and things, and they've got the amphitheater. Amphitheater? tiny little amphitheater,

probably sits 3000 people, maybe 3000, maybe 2500. And that's where they put like the softer side of the rock thing. But bands like Widespread Panic had played Chastain before, but that's not a typical band for Chastain. Chastain is like the low key, low brow, Indigo Girls, Counting Crows, who else? Paul Simon. That's like the type of person that would play Chastain, right? So to see Candle Box there. It's out, people can bring in like picnics and things like that.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. All the little food and drink, your bottle of wine and tea sandwiches. Hummus. Jared Sussman Yeah, here's the weirdest thing about Chastain is that there are certain places in Atlanta where you can go and they will literally have your picnic ready for you when you show up. They have picnic tables in the front, and I mean, picnic tables, like tables you sit at during the show and you sit and they will come and they will put a tablecloth, they will have real silverware, they will have like an actual picnic basket

right there full of whatever. And I won't forget, soon forget, one of the first concerts I guess I went to was a 4th of July like symphony orchestra plus fireworks down in Chastain. And my dad got some local establishment to bring stuff to Chastain and set it up for us. And I thought that was just the cats and me out. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I was like, wow, we get to sit, we get to eat. My dad decided to spend some actual money on this catered. That's crazy. Maybe you and I should go see Candlebox. I think we should. Should we go see Candlebox? Like, just that one song that they sing? We can figure it out.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they gotta have... Let's get the picnic. Let's get a table. Let's get a picnic. And let's do like a double date at Candle Box. Yes. Candle Box with our picnic box. Let's get some good food, some wine, and then... Hey, yeah, yeah, hey, yeah. Me, and you left me far behind, far behind.

I do love it too. I think I like this idea. I can promise you, we'll probably be one of the few people in the amphitheater. Do you think there's a demand for like, in Atlanta? There must be. You can't just rent out Chastain for shits and giggles, right? There's got to be a vetting process there. And who let Candle Box in the door? Wouldn't Candle Box be better? I don't know, somewhere like the 40 watt club in Athens,

Somewhere? Like, the 40 watt club in Athens? Yeah. Underground Atlanta or something like that? Yeah. Hell and the Masquerade? That's right. Somewhere? Right? I don't know. Chat stained.

It just goes to show you, everyone, everything old is new again in some way, shape or form. All right, let's do this. Let's take a break and then we'll be back and I'll think of more Candlebox songs I can sing to you. We'll be back. What's up haters? Now let's get down to business. If you've got something to say, say it to our faces. And by that I mean, text us to call us at 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can and should also find us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at TCBpodcast unless you want to fight me, in which case don't. And if you're just desperate to see our shining faces in person, keep your ears peeled for ticketing information about TCB Live. As always, don't forget that you can find everything you could possibly need to find

on our beautiful website, tcvpodcast.com. Bye. Okay. Listen. I'm listening. Bush, Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains, the guitarist from Alice in Chains, and Candle Box. That's the combination. I figured they were going to combo it.

Yeah. It's on my birthday. Well, day before my birthday, excuse me. It's on my birthday, day before my birthday. Tickets are, as expected, pretty cheap, actually. We can get a little table for like $175 a piece. No, that's not one of those ticket broker sites. We can probably go get them at the, you know, evil ticket master for last month.

But that's insane. Who knew? It's an idea. Who knew that Bush was still around? I know. What a, I'm just having all these revelations. They're having their moment in the sun. They are. Every old dog has, you know, sunshine. What is that? A new ass in the sun or something

like that? I don't know. What was that thing where you bleach, you know, well, you don't bleach your ass, but... You do, you bleach your ass. Well, there's that, but then there's also where you sun it, naked, you know, pointing to the sun. Oh, yes. Oh, that's right. Paranial sunning is what they call that?

Yeah, you're not actually sunning your ass while you're sunning the... You know, your scrundle sack, your undercarriage. Chakra. Yes. And I see this on Instagram a lot, too, your undercarriage. It's chakra. Yes. And I see this on Instagram a lot too, these people doing this. It's gotta be a joke. You're really putting the sun in your asshole? Are you really putting sun in your asshole?

They are. Yes, I know. Okay. Do you, you're not going to remember this because of course you didn't, probably didn't watch this. Do you remember 16 and Pregnant the Show? No, I didn't watch that. I did.

I know you did. If itregnant, the show? No, I didn't watch that. I did. I know you did. If it's bad, I watched it. I know you did. If it's bad, I watched it. If it's bad, I watched it. The worse it is, the more I watched 16 and Pregnant. I remember we were working together and that was how you were like, did you see the latest episode of 16 and Pregnant?

I loved it. I was like, no, I refuse to watch that show. Jared Sussman I thought it was high class entertainment, high brow entertainment. And don't ask me why, but I got into it and now they're still doing 16 and Pregnant with the original cast members. So, we've all kind of grown up together in some sense. I don't know when it came out, but you know, now they're in their 30s and, you know, they have kids, multiple kids, some of them, some of those couples are still together. But the breakout train wreck of the show had to have been Farrah Abrams. Farrah Abrams.

I remember that name. Okay. Because we also talked about this when I was doing the scam call. Remember? Okay. Because Farrah Abrams at that time had done a series of pornography videos for Vivid Entertainment. And it was like, the whole world had their eyes on Farrah Abrams because she had this video where she did some highly explicit scenes with this guy and then she claimed that it was, she first tried to claim that she had sex and he videotaped her without her knowing. But then it came out that no, it was actually on set and they were all doing it together.

So Farrah is a very interesting character. She's kind of a train wreck of a human being, in my opinion. She had a daughter from a guy who passed away, I think in a motorcycle accident or a car accident. So she raised him as a single teenage mother with her mom and her dad by her side, and then her and her mom had a falling out.

It's a terrible, tragic, weird, lengthy, long story. But I had largely forgotten about Farrah. She hasn't been on that show in a long time. I haven't watched that show in a long time until my Instagram algorithm popped up, Farrah Abrams. And, you know, there is this, I see a lot of conversation about how 20-somethings and early 30-somethings are getting the impression

that they are aging much faster than other generations of people. So they are taking to plastic surgery much, much early. Plastic surgery, fillers, Botox. They're taking to this much earlier, like 19 years old getting Botox, 21 years old getting Botox. I am not here to judge whether or not you get Botox. That is completely a decision to make on your own. If you feel better about it, great. But there's some kind of weird fascination, like collective fascination with filling your face full of fillers and Botox because you think you're getting old fast. And to me,

it just looks like you're a young person who's got all the wonderful things I wish I had. I wish I had those things. Farrah, I believe, started doing plastic surgery very early also. As a matter of fact, I think some of that is documented way back when she was on the show when she was 17, 18, 19, 20 years old. A boob job, you know, Botox, all that other stuff. It has not aged well. And I'm not here to talk about, like, Farrah's a beautiful woman, but all of that filler in the plastic surgery, it looks a little disturbing to me.

Do you know what I'm saying? They can, yeah. Like the very big lips, she's got the eyebrows that are tattooed on. So she's got those eyebrows. What is up with the fucking eyebrows that are an inch big? Yeah.

Isn't that weird? I mean, I... Would you do that? No. Would you do eyebrow tattooing? Mm-mm. No? And it's a tattoo, so it stays forever, right? No. Would you do eyebrow tattooing? No. And it's a tattoo, so it stays forever, right?

So you can't ever get rid of it. Why would you make your eyebrows so very big? That seems a little insane to me. Now listen, there could be dysmorphia, there could be all kinds of reasons why someone thinks that looks good, but maybe it doesn't. But it was shocking to me to see her face after so many years of not seeing her face. Shocking. Well, that's when the big difference when you haven't seen them in a few years and then you see them.

Yeah, like how plumped up everything is and then like kind of moving around. So, here's my point. There's a lot of videos out there now, a lot of videos, a lot of content There's a lot of videos out there now, a lot of videos, a lot of content from people who started this very young, and now they're in their 40s and 50s, and they are bravely pointing out, don't do it. Look at me and don't do it. A lot of women out there bravely sharing their stories, saying plastic surgery and fillers and Botox and all this stuff ruined my life, it made me sick and it made me look like a monster and I just want to share with you that maybe it's not all it's cracked up to be. Now again, I think

everything in moderation, you know, cool, whatever, but I just like, Well, some people I think, you know, get addicted to it and then they see the slightest little wrinkle or the slightest deflating of the lips or whatever. Yeah, I think it definitely puts you in a different perspective. I mean, everybody's not going to be perfect forever. No one's going to be perfect forever. It looks weird that you're trying to look like that.

18 to 25 are your God given fucking awesome years as far as your body and your skin are concerned. You got it all. You got all the tightness. You got all the wonderful, all the shininess, all the glow. Leave it alone. Wait until you're like 35 and then make that decision. And listen, we have friends and people that we, Botox fillers, all that stuff. But I think they do it in moderation.

I don't think it's like crazy. But that just, as a dad of kids in general, that makes me concerned. Like, are they going to come to me at 17 years old and say, I want fillers for my birthday? Kristin Bahls They might. Jared Saskar Oh, God, Chrissy. Why couldn't I have puppies as children? You know what I'm saying? Why couldn't I have Astrid Bird like a baby elephant or something? Like something that wouldn't come to me and ask me for a car and make a Swiftie out of them. We were just talking to Mo Welsh and she was sharing that her daughter is a

Swiftie, has to watch the Heiress tour every night before she goes to bed. And, you know, Mo was like, oh my God, you know, again. And I feel for this because I'm right there with them. I'm like, oh my God. I have Swifties that are under the age of six. They know every word, they watch the movies. And listen, Taylor Swift, great, wonderful role model for a four-year-old, right? She's a lovely human being, sings nice songs, a lot of people cheer for her, and rather tame as far as, you know, the music is concerned. It's not some like crazy lyrics or anything like that. And I think to myself, wow, this is going to turn monstrous by the time we're 13 years old. 13 years old, you're going to want a Corvette, you're going to be

dating the bad boy in high school. You're going to want to date some 20 year old because that's cool. You're going to want one on Instagram account and fillers, fillers at 18 years old, fillers, really? Oh man, makes me nervous, Chrissy. Chrissy Pahla Well, you're going to have to just roll with the flow. Chris No! I am turning into such an old man as a father. I'm not that old, but I'm turning it into an old man as the father of mainly daughters. Like my- The majority of your brood.

The majority of my brood. I'm getting gray hair every day from something they say or do that is the cutest fucking thing in the world, but it indicates so much trouble in the future. Well, they are your daughters. Yeah, they are my daughters, that's right. And one of my daughters is like a perfect combination of me and Astrid, spicy like a

Venezuelan and completely a talker. She can talk her way in and out of anything like me. And I'm like, Oh my God, we're fucked. And now they're going to have the show that has documented all of the things that you've done. That's true. They can reference. They would have heard about this from friends or family. Anyway, friends or family would have shared the story. They're too good not to share. I just, you know, I see Farrah and I remember back

in the show when there was talk of plastic surgery at such a young age and now I'm like, oh my god Please don't let me have to deal with that. I mean listen at the end of the day It's their bodies they can do what they want with it, right when they turn 18 years old They can do what they want with it, but it just stresses me out a little bit. I know I'm like god Don't just enjoy the time now. I know don't stress about it before you have to little people little problems big people big problems That's what they say Is that a new show?

What's that? On TLC? Yeah, Little People, Big Problems. That's what that show should be called. You know, a little update here on the Seven Little Johnstons. Seven Little Johnstons, I think I told you that one of the daughters got pregnant from her longtime boyfriend, and they waited six months, five months, six months into the pregnancy to tell their parents, which is insane to think about. Yeah.

Because they were so afraid of the reaction of the parents. And supposedly they were broken up when she got pregnant. So, surprise, surprise, surprise! I'm back with my boyfriend, surprise! I've been pregnant for six months. I'm six months pregnant. It's kind of insane. And you know, for a little person, apparently, I don't, I know this only from the show, apparently giving birth, and this makes sense, can be a life threatening situation for a little person. So, it's really important to get like good doctors right off the get, right? You got to make sure that everything's okay and that

the baby's growing. Now, thankfully, I think the baby is just fine. According to the show, the baby is just fine and everything's okay. But can you imagine waiting six months to tell your parents? And she's like, she's 21 years old, so she can do what she wants. But they're so involved in all the kids' lives, to be that involved and not know you're pregnant, that would be a real kick in the potatoes. If like one of my kids came to me and said, I got someone pregnant, she's six and a half months along, or I'm pregnant, I'm six and a half months along, I would be like, what? What? What? You're not living here. Don't bring that kid around here.

I just raised you. I just raised you. That's right. You just got out of the house. I don't want you back in the house. No, you're not getting Botox You just got out of the house. I don't want you back in the house. No, you're not getting Botox for your birthday. So stop asking. It's Elizabeth. Elizabeth is the girl who's pregnant. Oh, okay. And they were trying to figure out too, like what, if it was going to be a little person. A little person or a normal size. A normie. A normie as they call it. It's going to be a normie. And it's going to be a normie. And it's gonna be a normie. It's gonna be a normie.

So congratulations. I think it's Elizabeth and Bryce are their names. Congratulations. I know they've already had. Best to you. I know they've already had the baby. Oh, you keep up with it. Well, I found out about this at the beginning of the season

because I got served up a reel on Instagram that completely, spoiler alert, she had a baby and I was like, what? Oh, okay. That's crazy. And she had a baby and I was like, what? Okay. That's crazy. And she had it with her long time boyfriend. So well, whatever, good for them.

God bless, on your way. They live here in Georgia too. Do they? Yeah, they do. They live in like the south part of Georgia. Okay. Like south part of Atlanta, way south of Atlanta. The part of Atlanta.

Like where, what's her name? From 980. Angela? Angela, Angela, Angela. I thought you were about to say Marjorie Taylor Greene. No, no, she's North. Oh, she's North? Yeah, she's North West.

Oh, I don't know where she is. I don't know. My heart always aches a little bit. I know. When I remember that she is from Georgia. I know. Yeah, not quite as far as Angela, somewhere in between. But anyway, now you guys are bored, so here we go.

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