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Episode Date: May 14, 2026

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On this episode of the commercial break. All right, so if I could find the commercials, let's take a break, and then we'll be back very shortly. Oh, my gosh. You guys can't hear us out there in the streaming world because we have decided not to turn on the microphone. Hey, everybody. Hi. Okay. All right.

Well, luckily on the podcast version, you can hear us, but I'm so sorry. I bet the chat is all we can. I can't hear you. Brian can get a side job as a mime. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Podcast 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 Joy.

Only best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast, Universe. Uni- Universe. Like the Uni-Tart. Yes, I love a good Uni-Tard. Have you worn a Uni-Tart? Not in a while.

Yeah. Well, you were a cheerleader. Okay, body suit. Yeah, I've seen those body suits. Yeah. Yeah. It's going on with you and Jeff in that house lately. Still keeping the love alive over there? Yes, we are. You're getting dressed up and tickling his tape. I love a good dress up. I love it. I love to think about it. What would Henry Fonda have to say about that? Oh, Henry Fonda would be. Oh, crazy. Loving it. Oh, crazy. Send me pictures. I love pictures. Send me pictures and I'll give you downloads.

Chaps weren't a Unitart, in fact. Oh. I'm kidding. But that would be funny. I just got a picture of my mind. Speaking of freaky sex lives, have you seen the new Richard Gadd show? No. I have two shows to talk to you about.

Both of them are HBO. Both of them are now must watch. Really? Because I'm on HBO flipping around there all the time. What do you got? Dark Wizard. The gardening show was good with Zach Gallic Banachas. Okay, I want to get into that.

I'm watching that. It's really cute, by the way. Have you seen the dark wizard about Dean? What's his name? I haven't saved. Okay. I'm just going to tell you this. If you want to watch the show, then tune out just for a second.

I'm not going to give it all away. Listen, there's nothing to give away. His story is very public. Dean died. Dean dies. It's the story of Dean. Dean is one of the guys who kind of pioneered the wingsuit flying. Oh, right.

But before that, he was very much a famous. climber. He was one of the first free solo climbers. He was one of the guys who tried. At least he free soloed part of L. Cap. He also was one of these highline guys that you would start highlining without a rope attached to him. Just the craziest fucking shit you could ever imagine. Now this is the part where if you want to watch, maybe you just tune out. Like fast forward two minutes. Okay. I'll stop and I'll make sure this is done in two minutes. If Brian can ever finish a sentence in two minutes. No, that's not possible. Dean always had, he had a very sparkling personality that many people were attracted to, but he also had a very dark side.

He was very depressed. He had suffered since he was a child with a lot of anxiety and really terrible nightmares. And he notoriously kept journals and voice notes. He was filmed doing everything since he was like 20 years old. He always had a camera crew around because he was making documentaries and movies that he would then sell, right? or that his sponsors would want or whatever. That's the way these guys make money. They go out there, they film these crazy, you know, climbing a rock,

and then they make it into a movie or it's part of movie, whatever. Sure. That's how they live. And there's a very well-defined network of people in Yosemite that are climbers that are attached to the REIs of the world. Oh, right. That makes sense. Yeah, this is like it's one big family out there.

And Dean always had these like very dark visions of, about flying. It always haunted him. But it was clear that what haunted him also made him feel alive. So he would go out there and he would do this crazy shit. He's certainly not like me afraid of heights. This guy was the opposite of afraid of heights. I think he was afraid of it, but it made him feel alive. Testing those limits. Well, not even afraid of death, I guess. I think he was very much afraid of death, right? But I think he wanted to see how far he could push it. It made him feel alive. And I believe, even though this is implied and not said by any of the friends or family that's interviewed, that Dean felt

most alive and normal when he was jacked up on adrenaline and close to death, right? But he also felt close to these wicked nightmares that he was having that always included ravens and they always included him falling or flying and then he would wake up right before he hit the ground. Wow. A nightmare we all had, right? We've all had this nightmare. But Dean had it frequently. It was a repeating nightmare. Mm-hmm. The last, so there's four episodes, and I watched the last episode while I was in New York, the last five minutes of this show.

First of all, the entire four hours is fantastic. Okay. But the last five minutes is quite simply the most beautiful, incredible, jaw-dropping five minutes of any television show I have ever seen. Wow. Ever. Okay. Ever seen.

And it is 100% real. Like I went and read up on this last five minutes because I was like, there's no way that this is real. And it is real. And wait until you see it. You will be, your dick will be in the dirt. God. It's fucking crazy. Okay.

You have sold it. Okay. But in the last five minutes also includes the footage that has never been shown of Dean's last flight. But you don't worry, doesn't get gory. It's because he had the camera. He usually was flying with a camera attached to his helmet. He was filming the other guy. He was flying with two people died in the same accident.

They were both flying together. And they were trying to shoot this thing called the Gap, the V Gap, right? And so they were in like a flying suit. Flying suit. Okay. So they jump off and they were trying to get in. They were doing what's called proximity flying, which we've all seen on fucking Instagram, which is where they go way too close.

to the rocks, way too close to trees, way too close to the ground. And that's just that. Some people do that apparently in this sport. And some people are 100% opposed to it because it's so fucking dangerous. You're going 180 miles per hour. Any one inch off and you're dead. And one out of five of those wingsuit climbers that do proximity diving, those wingsuit flyers, they die. They're dead. Right? It's like the most dangerous sport in the world. And Dean was opposed to it, opposed to it, opposed to it. And then one guy that he really liked jumping was started getting into it. And he was just like notoriously, he had this dark competitive side to him. He didn't want anybody to outshine him. He wanted to do it first. He wanted to be the best. He didn't want to be old. He didn't want to be,

you know, out of his prime. And just one night doing nothing in particular, they said, let's go jump this jump. We've done a million times. They could go left, normal flying. They could go right, proximity flying. And they went right. And he tried to hit, he tried to go through the V. and obviously that did not work out for him, nor did it work out for the guy he was flying with. They both died in the same accident. Okay, so everybody knows that part about Dean's life, or you do if you've ever paid attention to Dean's life. And I've seen the 60 Minutes special. I didn't know anything about Dean.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So now you must be convinced to go watch this, but you have to watch it from the beginning. Promise me that, okay? You little fuckers who want to cheat, don't go to the last episode and watch the last five minutes. Watch the entire thing, because it's a beautiful story about how life is complicated, and it's not easy. and sometimes you're a hero and sometimes you're a zero and sometimes you don't have chance that you miss chances to mend fences Dean was also because he was such a dark person sometimes he

excommunicated people's firm his life he made uh he had problems with people in his life that he never came back and like it never came full circle and those people are now tormented by the fact that they love Dean so much but he could be such a fucking prick and he never said he was sorry and they never said they're sorry this is a story about fucking living And this guy was doing it so incredibly dangerously, but so beautifully, that I only wish I had half a fucking, I wish I had one quarter of a testicle of Dean. I swear to God, I do. But I'm not going to do that. No. No. No. I'm just going to continue to wonder what would have happened had I get my Dick Tracy collection. That's as close to flying near the sun as I got. Okay, watch it. Okay, the dark wizard.

I've seen it. It has been saved. So I will... You and Jeff should both watch it together. Yeah. Smoke a little weed, watch it. You'll all make sense to you, right? All right.

Number two. Everything is making sense now. Everything is making Dean. You're making sense to me now. Eyes like a Cheshire cat. Yeah. Talk to me, Dean, the Dark Wizard. And do your sui-tweily twirley high wine stunt.

There's just scenes in this movie, too, where they, I mean, they take footage from when he was doing these things. And they have, because he was filmed so often by so many people, they have moments that are unseen being told in ways that have a lot of contacts now because the people who are actually filming it or they're with him can talk about it. And he just pushed the limit so much. And he escaped death so much that the ending is not a surprise. It's just a surprise to nobody, right? Even if you didn't. It's a numbers game. And he cheated death a lot. And watch this movie and you're going to find out at least about five of them. Every episode, there's some nail-biting shit where you're like, oh, Dean, don't do it.

Okay, okay. I can't wait to see it now. Okay. Number two, HBO thing that I just started watching, I'm almost through episode number two, is Richard Gad's new show, Half Man. Oh, Half Man. I saw that on the Q. as well, but what is that?

Holy shit. Richard Gad is one fucked up motherfucker. I mean, we all saw Baby Reindeer, right? Yes. We talked about it when it was out. Oh, that's him? That's him. That's Richard Gad.

Okay. Okay. So he runs right from Baby Reindeer, arguably one of the most fucked up television shows in a very long time. Yeah. But so good. So good.

So well done. And most of it is true. It's the weirdest part about it. Yes. He goes right from that to writing this show half man about two half brothers or at least that's at least that's that's where we're at right now two half brothers and it's kind of uh here and now back then kind of story so there's two separate sets of actors playing um these the kids and then the adults okay um and so far all i know is it's the wedding day

for one of the for and there's this there's a there's a line in the movie and i think this describes the movie perfectly and there's a great girl, there's two girls and they're, you know, they're younger and they're trying to have sex with these two girls or get with these two girls. And they beat each other up and each girl is now taking care of their respective other one, you know, dab, giving them ice and dabbing their noses, they're all bloody. And the one girl says to the kind of more dorky guy, I guess is the best way say it. She says, you guys are so different. One of you needs a head and the other one needs a body. Right?

Yeah. Okay. So that's like the story of this move. Is it set like in modern times? Set in the, what I imagine is the 80s, 90s. Okay. And then set in modern times. Set today and then back when they were teenagers and in their 20s.

And wow, just the first, like hour and 45 minutes. Richard Gad has done it again. He has managed to put something together totally fucking twisted, so twisted that it's hard imagine what's going through this guy's head on the daily basis. I thought he was a comedian. Not anymore. Isn't that the baby ranger? Isn't he a comedian?

Yes, but now he's the world's most depressing human being with weird, dark thoughts about murder and sex with everybody. I mean, man, woman, animal, it doesn't matter. It's a weird combination of things that are going on in this television show. And we're only an hour and a half into what I think is an eight, eight hour show. It's like, what can come next? Wow. Now, I just don't understand. And I'm already engrossed at it.

I'm like, oh, my God, this is so good. So good. Are they all the episodes out or you have to wait? No, fuck HBO in that way. I mean, fuck HBO in that way, but then part of me thinks they're doing the right thing because it's slowing us all down a little bit. It's allowing us to take a breath in between each episode. But now I'm hacking that because I'm like, well, I'll just wait until it all comes out. Yeah, I don't think you're abnormal in that way.

I think a lot of people do look at television that way now. Let me record it all. I'll watch it in one sitting. But I'm trying to follow along with the appointment television. Yeah, some things. I end up watching one each week. Like I went to New York four weeks in a row. So I watched The Dark Wizard each night.

I mean, each time I would fly into New York and get to my hotel, I would say, okay, let me pop on another episode of the Dark Wizard. And so that worked out well for me. So now it's half, half man, which is, I don't know, I don't know. It's just a weird. Now I look at people on the street in a different way. I'm like, are you a half man? My half man. I often think about the fact that there's a lot of people that are, there's a lot of

people in this world and a lot of them are unwell. A lot of them. And we're walking amongst them. All of us are all mixed together in this big smorgasbordage board called Life. And I'm a little, I also get concerned. Like there's some people when I'm going, you know, New York is so many. people. Oh, yeah, it's a melting pot. I was walking the other day. It's 3 p.m. in Soho, New York, okay? Probably the least intimidating place you could be in New York, right? There's always a lot of

people everywhere in that damn city. But Soho is not the South Bronx. Do you know what I'm saying? It's not that. It's a different vibe. Yeah. It's not what you see in movies of the gritty New York and people on the street that want to kill you. And, you know, this is not a place where you typically have to turn around and pay attention to what's going on behind you. You can just walk down the street with your earphones in listening to music. Generally, people are there. I mean, I've seen Drew Barrymore and Alec Baldwin on the street. I don't think they're walking around the street, famous as they are if they felt their lives were threatened or they were going to get their wallets beat up or something like that. It's just a non-to me, it's a non-intimidating place to be. So I'm walking down the

street and you're always walking behind somebody, always walking behind somebody. That's New York. and I'm walking and sometimes you're walking faster than somebody. And sometimes you're walking slower than somebody and they pass you. And then sometimes you're just walking at the same pace as somebody. So there's a girl in front of me, she's probably 20 feet in front of me. And I'm walking the same pace as her. That just happens to be what's happening, right? And I'm not paying any attention to this girl.

But then I notice she starts looking back at me, like looking back, looking back, looking back. She must have done five takes. And then all of a sudden she starts running across the street. Wow. And then she continues to walk the same way. There's only one way to interpret that. Yeah. She wasn't looking for cars.

She was looking at me. I think she felt like I was following her. Right. I just wanted to pull her over. I wanted to run over and grab her and be like, I'm not following you. But I felt like that was probably not the right idea. That would make it worse. That's right.

Grabbing her. I felt like grabbing her was not the right idea. Yeah. Maybe you're just more hyper-aware being a woman trying to, you know. Hey, listen. I don't falter. I'm a little weird. I look a little weird. When I'm in New York, I clearly look out a place. I was walking down the street the other day. And there's a table set up and there's three gregarious young people collecting money for whatever, autism awareness or whatever. And so I'm walking.

I have my headset in, but I can see the big sign in the table. And they're on a very busy intersection. And all of the sudden, some young girl just jumps in front of me. She's like, all of a sudden, she's just there. And she's like, hey you, Mr. Hansom, look at you. You look swab. And I was like, well, thank you. I appreciate that. She's like, no, seriously, you're a good looking, you're a good looking guy. You dress well. And I was like, well, thank you. What do you want? Yes. What are you selling? What do you want? And immediately, she was hitting me up for money for autism awareness. So I gave her some money. But then she's like, she's like, you know, great. And I go, but listen, I do not have a lot of time.

True story. I do not have a lot of time. So let me tap my credit card. Yes. Let's go ahead and skip to the end. Yeah, let's skip to the end. I don't need the whole sales pitch. I don't want to put my email in four places.

I don't want to do that. And she's like, okay, great, no problem. She's like, I just have to get your signature here that, you know, and she's like, do you want to read some information about this and see, you want to see her 501c3? Like she's trying to like make me feel better. Yeah. I said, no, I don't. At this point, I don't care if you're collecting money for dinner. You complimented me.

Right. in, let me go. Let's not make this any more miserable than it has to be, right? I wanted to end on a high note, like, hey, handsome, and then I could just go, well, yeah, thanks. Here's the bunny. Yeah, that's not what happened. That's right. So I said, okay, you know, plus I believe that it was for a good cause, the way she was explaining it. They help get kids who have severe autism into schools that are private that can handle these children in a way, like the worst of cases, right? And there's private schools, but they cost money. And so this is what they do. They help them. Okay, so she's doing this, and then she's like, okay, great.

There's three packages. You tell me which one you want. She's like, there's the $100 package, the $250 package, and the $1,000 package. Wow. And I was like, is there a $10 package? Really? You're starting at $100? I said, listen, I go, love the autism awareness thing.

I think $50 is as high as I'm willing to go. And she's like, nope, totally understand. Especially for like an on the spot. I know. And I don't know you and you don't know me and I'm not like I'm not, this isn't a gala. I'm not, I don't win anything. There's no chance of me getting a trip somewhere. Like this is, you know, it's not an auction.

So I said, how about 50 bucks? Okay, okay, okay. You know, and then she types it in and she goes, why don't we edge that up to 75? And I go, I go, why don't you back it down to 50? Yes. Now I'm going to fight with a girl. I'm like, okay. Can we leave it alone there? Can we do 50 and be grateful? You know, you have three people

costing every person in this entire town about raising money. I'm sure they must have raised a lot. Because as I was listening to the other two people, a guy and another girl, they were, they were all doing the same thing. Right. Hey, handsome. Hey beautiful. Hey, honey. What's going on sunshine? Wow, you look good today. Nice sunglasses. I love your purse. Right. They were all just like. Oh, yeah. They've all got the tactics. They've all got the tactics. Yeah. I've got to settle the belt line. Yes. There's a lot of people. that are doing that down on the belt line. Oh, really?

Mm-hmm. They got me. They got you? They got me for something like five years ago and I'm still donating. Aye, aye, y'i. Don't you hate it? But it's for a good cause. Yeah, okay, it's for a good cause.

But, you know, you're still donating. I know. They're still taking five bucks a month. Yeah. Yeah. I did that once for elephants in Africa. Right. I must have got, I must have lost like $30,000 to the elephants.

I swear to God, I have. I have. And I did it with, like, St. Jude's, which I 100% believe in. But there was a couple months or years there when I probably could use the $25 a month, do you know what I'm saying? But for the life of me, could not figure out how to get out of it. I just couldn't. And every year, they send me a stamp book, and I'm like, okay, whatever. Yes. You know, that's the way it is. The little address thing. That's right. Yeah. That's right. All right. Lots of more fun and shenanigans coming up. Chrissy and I are going to do two episodes today. So if you're, you know, If you're, if you're strap in and spend the afternoon with us.

And then I don't know if we'll get to it today or we'll get to it tomorrow. And we won't get to it on this episode. What I'm saying is today's streaming or tomorrow. There is a new Frankie TV video. I mean, wow. I mean, pennies from heaven. Christmas and May. Pennies from heaven.

Christmas and May, that's right. All right. So if I could find the commercials, let's take a break. And then we'll be back very shortly. Oh, my gosh. You guys can't hear us out there in the streaming world because we have decided not to turn on the microphones. Hey everybody. Hi.

Okay. All right. Well, luckily on the podcast version, you can hear us. But I'm so sorry. I bet the chat is all we can't hear you. We didn't even have the... Brian can get a side job as a mime. You guys miss my whole rant about Dark Wizard.

Watch Dark Wizard on HBO. That's the hilarious. That is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I'm so sorry, guys. I'm so sorry. You've been watching for 20 minutes with no sound? Oh, that's dedication. I love you, God.

I love every one of you. God bless you. You're beautiful. All right, well, right in time for us to take a break. Yeah. At least you'll see You'll be able to hear the next two seconds Oh my God, that is the funniest shit

I'm sorry Probably get a job as a mind I know Probably not funny to the 12 people have been sitting there Watching us go Were they try

I would love it if they were trying To interpret what we were saying I don't know Just making up what we were maybe saying I'll tell you what We'll read through it when we'll get back We'll go backwards to go forward All right stay with us

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Yeah, one says video today, audio tomorrow. That's the way we operate. I have my headphones all the way up. Did that work? Am I that loud? We probably blast it out. A lot of people's speakers or something. I was wondering, the numbers kept going up and down and up and down and up and down, which is not usually how it is. Usually it's just one person who's listening. I was like, what's going on here? Thank you. Everybody. Slab that base. Sean knew us well enough to know. He'll catch it during the first break. Yeah. He'll catch it after 30 minutes.

Oh, my God. I just think that's so funny. What's funny is y'all stayed. I know. Thank you. I don't think that's a credit to us. I think it's a credit to them having fun in the chat. They're like, well, at least there's some other interesting people. We haven't made it to the talkies yet here on the podcast. We're still in our silent film days. We're going to do black and white tomorrow.

We should. That's right. I'm going to have Looney Tunes play us out. I put cartoon music to tomorrow's episode. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. All right. Well, you'll hear it tomorrow. It's fine.

You didn't really miss anything. I was talking about the Dark Wizard, and then I was talking about a show called Half Man on HBO, which is a must-watch, and then a little bit about my shenanigans in New York. And how scared people are of me. Yeah. The other day I was, you know, in hotel rooms,

around the rest of the universe. It's not, you, let me see if I can describe this hotel, this hotel that I'm staying in. So it's a boutique hotel. And when I say boutique, you just mean small. That's really what I mean. Right. It's a small, independently owned, not one of the major flags. I love those boutique hotels.

Sometimes they're good. And sometimes they're terrible. I mean, I told you the first time that my A.E, my executive, or my EA, who's just wonderful. The first time that I went to New York, I didn't have a corporate card. So I'm working with a company, by the way. I don't think we've explained this yet. I'm working with a podcast with a studio based in New York. And I'm helping them kind of coalesce their operations up there because of all the experience I have keeping us on mute.

I hope the board of directors is watching. I don't think anybody from that company's watching. I think they would prefer to just forget that I do this all together. Fair enough. Because of all your expertise. Because of my sharp sense of digital media. Of what needs to happen during a podcast. Like pressing the mute button.

I can't stop laughing. Well, you can look at this one or two ways. I really don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I know we're bad enough. I should just keep it off. That I could get just as many watchers, viewers with no sound. I don't know what that says about this. I really don't. So I'm up in New York and my EA, I say the first time I went up there starting the job, new at the company, I'm going to be up there a couple days a week.

So I say to the EA, I don't have my corporate card yet, but she does have a corporate card. And I say, can you make me a place to stay? Because I don't know, I don't know anything about where this, you know, can you find me a place that's within walking distance. Yeah, I mean, there's only a million options. Well, in Soho, it's weird because in Soho there are a million options, but there's two versions. There's two flavors of options. And none of them include like a Marriott or a Hilton flag. You either got to go up into Midtown, like near Times Square or the park or something like that to get like a branded hotel. There's one residence. Residents by Marriott and there's one Renaissance. And both of those are well over $700 a night, most nights. Which, you know, when you're trying to show the board of directors of the guys, started the company, you know, personally funding it out of his own pocket, that you're not going to tax every operation. You don't want to spend $1,000 a night. This is not a wise idea. And plus, I'm not a hotel snob. I like nice hotels, but I don't, I can stay at a perfectly fine hotel. I have 12 children. Do you think I'd show up at the Ritz Carlton everywhere ago? You've been to the Great Wolf Lodge. But you've stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge. That's right.

That's all I got to say. Man, I see so many horror stories on Instagram about Great Wolf Lodge. people just love sharing their horror stories about it's a whole subgenre and subculture that's going on so i'm so i i i ask her and god bless her she's super smart super sharp super capable she's also young so i don't think that like hotel knowledge she's not staying at a hotel in the city where she lives so how the fuck does she's supposed to know so she finds a hotel that's suitable price-wise and is in within walking distance. And I say, okay, but I look at it

and I don't feel great about the pictures. So I Google around and I find some other photographs of a different hotel that look just like two scoches nicer. And actually not nicer is the world? More spacious.

Because in New York, just like Europe, you can really get tiny hotel rooms. Oh, yeah. And I don't like to feel boxed in. I like a little bit of breathing room. And the first picture she sent me, the hotel looked fine, but the beds were up against the closet. Like, you would have to

open the closet door from the bed. Do you know what I'm saying? That's how small the rooms were. And Astrid and I stayed in a place like that in Germany one time. And I just did not care. It made me like a little. Closterphobic. Yeah. I had to open the windows and I, it was, I didn't feel good about it. Pacing around the room. No, pacing around the bed. Because you can't, there's no space in the room. So I said, I go, hey, listen, can, are you okay? Can we look at. Can we look at. this place. It's like, you know, a couple bucks more a night, but can we look at this place? Oh, no, excuse me, it was a couple bucks less a night. So I said, can we look at this place? Cup of bucks less a night. But it looks like, you know, I, let's try it. She looks to me there.

I go there. It's the first day. I'm, I walk right off a plane into the office. I'm there for five hours. And then I finally get a break. And I'm like, okay, let me take my bags and I'll go check into the hotel. And I check into this hotel. And it is nothing short. of the worst hotel I have ever been in, and that is saying something. Wow. I lived at a motel six for like 26 days that's directly off the highway in the worst part of the nicest part of Atlanta. Marietta is a very rich area of town, but there are some parts of Marietta that you wouldn't be called dead in, right? Just like every big city has this.

And I stayed at the motel six off the fucking highway for 26 days. and I had more faith in those accommodations than I did this hotel that I chose over the person who lives there giving me the information. No, no, no, no, no. Let's choose my hotel. I go there. And the downstairs is okay. But I should have known that this was not the greatest place. When I looked on the maps, it was fine. You know, they have the front of the hotel looks fine. You know, great, wonderful, looks fine. But even in the pictures on the maps, the dumpsters are sitting right outside of the front door. Like they're right to the left when you walk outside, right?

And I thought to myself, oh, that's construction or something. That's construction or something. When I walked up to the hotel, they were right in the same place they had been in Google Maps. So I was like, okay, not great trash management here, but let's see how it goes. I walk in. They're perfectly lovely, tiny little lobby, everyone's lovely. and the guy says to me there's like loud German pop music

and videos playing on televisions downstairs right and there's like this string lighting you would buy on Amazon do you know what I'm talking the colored string lighting is on the elevator doors and so it's like this weird string lighting loud pop German music going on

and I think to myself what the fuck is the vibe in this hotel what is it? Can't figure it out Is it sex dungeon or is it well? Germany does. Yeah. Or is it like brothel meets hostile? Couldn't figure it out.

Certainly was cheap enough to be hostile. Yeah. Certainly looked weird enough to be brothel, right? But I couldn't figure it out. And so I'm the only one there. I check in. And the guy says to me, I'm Mr. Green. I got you on the 12th floor.

Nice high floor. Yeah. And he points over there and there's like a bunch of Desani waters, not in a cooler, just like on. on the table all discombobulated, and he's like, take as many waters as you want. And I'm like, those bottles. The tiny ones. Yeah, the tiny ones.

And I'm like, okay, thanks. And I do. I take like four of them. I put them in my bag. And I go, I like to have tea at night. And I, like, right before I go to sleep. So I go, hey, is there a tea kettle in the room? And he goes, a what?

And I go, a tea kettle? And he goes, no, but we got coffee brewing 24 hours a day down here in the lobby. And I go, oh, can I get some hot water down here? And he's like, I don't know. And I go, don't you use hot water to make the coffee? And he's like, I don't know. I don't make it. The janitor makes it when they come in in the morning.

And I'm like, the janitor makes the coffee when it comes in the morning. It's there 24 hours a day. Okay. I look over. It's literally like an office coffee pot. You've seen the office coffee pots, the ones with the orange handle on them. You know, the same kind that they used to use at McDonald's. And it's just sitting there.

And I can see it's bubbling like tar. Yeah. Blu-blop. And I'm like, all right. Well, okay. I guess I won't have any tea. or I'll get some at the office or whatever. I go up that elevator that smells heavily, heavily like marijuana.

I mean, like, someone had been smoking. Someone was on top of the elevator that I was riding in, flowing it in there. But, you know, Pot's legal in New York, so you smell it a lot when you go. There's a lot of people smoking weed on the streets. Yeah, it's everywhere. I get up to the, whatever it is, 12 floor.

The 12 floor, the high floor. The hotel's like 20 stories, so I don't know what the 12th. Okay, all right, whatever. I get up there and all of a sudden we go from like these 20 foot ceilings down in the lobby to like six and a half foot ceilings upstairs. Do you know what I'm talking about? Okay.

She's completely disoriented. I was like this. I was like hunched out. I'm not tall and I was hunched down. And the corridors were tiny and I could hear everybody's TV on down in the hallway and I'm way at the end. And at the end there's like a door where you can walk out into a fire escape. and the door is half cocked and I can look through the window and I can see people smoking pot or cigarettes or whatever down down on the fire escape. Yeah, on the fire escape and I'm like, okay, well, there's a vibe going on here.

I'm in New York. I'm in New York. There's a thing going on here. Carpet is pitch black carpet. Walls are dark gray, right? Doors are like some kind of orange. It's like a weird non-sequiting vibe. but I hit my key, I open up the door, and the room is worse than I could have ever expected. I even name this place. Maybe you'll end up there sometime, but I'm not going to. It's worse than I could have expected. It has carpet on the floor that is not the dark black, but some kind of brownish carpet. But it's clear there had been a stain there at some point. And they cut it out with a knife or scissors and then cut another piece to ill fit that. And not even in like a square or a circle, like one might try and do this. But like they tried to cut out the exact stain. And they just put a piece of carpet down there.

No padding on the carpet. Hard as a rock. So now I can't take off my shoes because I don't know what the fuck's on that floor. There are stains, other stains on the ground. I can't do that. There's like an old wooden chest in the corner. You open it up. There's like a flat screen TV.

I turn it on. And it's like, welcome Mr. Intergra and I'm like, Mr. Intergra. It's got three channels, all of them on air, like none of them cable. Right. You can open the window one inch. It's like, dink. You know what I'm saying?

I can't even get fresh air in there. Yeah. Yeah. Dink. You know, it's got that lock on it. What happens if there's a fire? Where do I go then? Well, you, the fire escape was right outside your door.

People were out there. Yeah, there's people blocking it. They're too high. to know there's a fire. I'm fucked if I have to go out there. I mean, I'm fucked if I have to jump out the 12-story window, too. But I want the opportunity to give myself a shot, right? So I'm like, okay, I'm trying to make myself as comfortable as possible. I'm just like, I'm like, okay, I have to eat my own crow here because my EA had a place for me to stay. She probably knew better than this. And I decided to go kicking off on my own because I want an extra three feet of space in my

room. Well, it's an extra three feet of space. But by the way, this looks nothing like the pictures. Nothing. Oh, no. Not even close to the pictures. The pictures look like new furniture, beautiful beds, you know, floor to ceiling windows. I have a picture window in there. It's not even close to Florida ceiling. And I can't, and what, so I'm just like walking around this hotel room in my shoes, right? I don't really want to sit on the bed because I don't know what's going on in Right. I go into the bathroom. It's got one of those sinks that's just like attached to the wall, right?

And I look in the sink and it's got like permanent stains on the sink for Micah counter that's like jutting out from the wall, bathroom that's got water stains on it and a showerhead from 19 fucking 22. So I make a decision immediately. I'm like, no. Not going to work. Not going to work. I don't want to waste the company's money. So now I got to figure out what I got to tell the guy downstairs to get my money. I go and I sit in the chair, just for a second, just to relax, I sit in the chair.

And as I'm sitting in the chair... A big spring pops up. Boing, o'o, yo, yo, yo, yo. Can you hear us now? I'm just checking. So I'm sitting there watching one of the three channels that comes in all squeeally. Welcome, Mr. Integra. Welcome, Mr. Integra.

And I look down and a roach crawling across my shoe. Oh, across your shoe. Cross my shoe. That's it. Roll them up. Roll them up. I go downstairs. I take everything out.

I had taken some stuff out, you know, the bag and stuff, trying to get comfortable, trying to make, trying to, like, settle in for the long haul. Okay, I just got to make it two nights and then I can come back next week in a different hotel. Now, pack it all up. I leave, right? I go. And as I'm walking out of the hotel, just because I'm, I looked at the pictures again. just to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating on this, and the pictures really did have floor to ceiling windows.

And I look at the entire building, all 20 floors of it. And all I see is picture windows. There's no floor to ceiling windows anywhere. I look at every picture on that fucking hotel.com or whatever it was. There, clearly, they had manufactured the pictures or taken the pictures from somewhere else. It was like A-I-I-I-I-I-W-T-N-Switch of what it was. So I leave the hotel. Don't say a word.

Out the door. Because there were like- I'm keeping the waters. Yes, I'm keeping the waters. There's a fucking men I'm keeping the waters. Actually, I think I threw the waters away. I didn't trust that at that point. I got a hanta virus from the rats crawling across the oil. Yeah. Okay. All right. When I was leaving, there were like young foreign people checking into the hotel, like a big group of them, right? So I knew. Yeah, this is for like people who don't know better. People who are coming from across the universe. And they just need a $189 place. Oh, it was hostile like. Yeah, it was very hostile like. So I leave. And at about six. I find another hotel, the one that I'm staying at now, the one that I love. I call the hotel and I say, hey, listen, is Brian Green? I'm staying on 12-0-60.

You may know me as Mr. Integra. Yeah, you may know me as Mr. Integra. I'm calling on behalf of Mr. Integra. Mr. Integra wasn't satisfied with the accommodation. I sent my assistant, Brian. Yes. I sent my assistant to check it out. He wasn't happy.

Wasn't happy at all with these accommodations. He would prefer his carpet be cut out in actual shapes. A rectangle would have done. So I say that, hey, listen, someone in Atlanta's sick. I got to run home. Give me my money back. I didn't even want to make the bet. I'd check it down.

I wanted to say about the roaches and cut out carpet. Emergency. Yeah, emergency. That's the best way to say it. And so, you know what? He was like, yeah, no problem. That's what he said. And goes, yeah, no problem.

I'll do it. Because this is not the first time that this has happened. He probably gets this phone call twice a day. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, I'm in my late 60s. I'm not going to stay in the German brothel hostel. The brothel hostel.

I don't want to stay in the brothel. The hospital. It scares me. It makes me nervous. All right. Then I'll fit. I said all that to finish my story about my current hotel. Well, we're doing two shows today. Yeah, we're doing two shows. You got to track it out. You know how much people that at my office like working with me? I bet when I'm not there, the four days a week I'm not there, it's the best four days of their week. They get a lot time. They get a lot done. All right, we'll take a break. We'll be brief.

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Are these two making sense? At least I didn't. So none of which are great. Breaking news here. I just read that the Murdoch murder convictions are overturned. Yeah, that happened this morning. Yeah, that happened this morning. Whoa, I just heard that.

He won't get out of jail, though. That's not going to happen. Wow. Yeah. So the county clerk was apparently telling the jurors that Murdoch was guilty and that they needed to pay attention to the guilty look on his face

she unsealed stuff that was sealed by the judge like evidence that was sealed by the judge she unsealed it she talked to reporters this lady was fucking wackadoo she was hell bent on making sure this guy went to jail and she was willing to do anything she could to push it over the edge and that is just 1,000% illegal

yeah definitely the clerk says this be back at 4 p.m. Right. Be back at noon. It's time for lunch. Like, that's the only thing that the clerk can say. The clerk is just responsible for the minutia of what happens inside of the room. They're not, they cannot persuade jurors. They cannot say anything. So this is 100% correct. This is a correct decision on behalf of the Supreme Court. However, they will try this guy again. They have, they can use the court transcripts from the first case because it's not the prosecutors or the judge who was doing anything wrong. It was the court clerk. So they will be able to enter that. into evidence. They will try him again. He will go to jail. If this happened once, I can't imagine. And you can't use a new defense. You can't say, well, that didn't work. So let's try this. Because the court records are there. So the prosecution can say, that's not what you said last time. Right. So they got to stick to the same script again. Wow. And I think by any account,

yeah. Yeah, Alec was guilty. So there you go. There you have it. That's it. It's just a technicality and he'll have to go through this all again. Now, will the judge, I can't imagine this is going to happen because he then pled guilty to additional counts after he was convicted in order to, but that might get thrown out too and here's why. One could reasonably make the argument. He pled guilty to the other counts, the lesser charges, to run the sentences concurrent. And so, you know, it's a strategy essentially. There could be an argument made. Those could get thrown out too.

But at the end of the day, I mean, he's guilty. He's guilty. This is some weird, you know, mass man running around South Carolina, shooting people on there. I mean, this guy did a lot, a lot of crazy shit. I watched all the documentaries, all the things, God. Wasn't he the one that, like, shot himself in the head? Yes. To try and, like, make it look like he had been, like, someone was after him?

Yes. in order to further. And wasn't he also like taking 58,000 milligrams of Vicon in a day or something? Yes. All of it. Anyways. Listen, I can understand the addiction. I can understand the desperation.

I can understand that, you know, money was stolen and you felt cornered. But murdering someone, like, just take your medicine. Your mother and your son. Yeah. I mean, your wife, the mother of your child. Yes. Yeah. God.

Just take your medicine. Listen, you fucked up. Yeah. You got a bad addiction problem. You made some bad financial decisions. You stole some money. You would have gone to jail for five, ten years. And then life would have gone on, right?

And their lives would have gone on. And this just would have been, you know, another chapter and a long line of chapters about, you know, people who mismanaged money or stole it or whatever. Stealing money is not particularly unusual. Lots of people do it. It's, you know, people get desperate. They do desperate things. money, you can heal those wounds eventually, right? What you can't do is bring someone back from the dead. That's like, to me, that's the ultimate crime that's hard to overlook because it's like you take someone's life

and that's an undoable thing. Money comes and goes and washes over people's hands. You know, addictions happen. People get in bad situations. I understand there's a lot of pressure that you have this big family that's run the county for thousands of years or whatever. You know, you felt like a fuck up. You were a fuck up. But you would have gotten over that. People would have. would have gotten over it. It would have been, uh, it would have been a local drama. And then it just would have things, things would have eventually gotten back to normal. But she just blew up an entire generations of livelihoods and lives and all this over just some dumb bullshit. That's it. And then didn't his son kill some girl in a boating accident? Yeah. Well, that's kind of where the story starts is,

you know, the son, yeah, he was drunk and they went like, I think it was under this bridge. I remember watching a lot of like YouTube videos about, oh, you. He was going like, he was going like 30 miles per hour with no lights on. Yeah. And he hit a fucking, a bridge. A bridge. And a girl died. His girlfriend.

Right? Wasn't he dating that girl? Or was it the girlfriend of another guy? It was a girlfriend of his friend, like his best friend. He was fucking hammered. Yeah. It's 16 years old or whatever. I mean, just like, that's a different life.

Who gets a boat at 16 years old that they can just take out whenever they want? Yeah. These little towns, you know, that, you know, that's generations have run. They're used to getting away with. this, that, and the other. And you can do whatever they want. They feel like they can do whatever they want. That's right. Ay Dios meo. Anyway, I went to this hotel. Yes, back to the hotel. Back to the murder hotel. Back to the brothel hostel. So I set all that up to say that I found this other hotel. This boutique hotel, 22, 23 rooms. All of them have balconies. All of them

are a little bit more spacious than the murder hotel even, which is not spacious. Don't get me wrong. It's not big. But it's enough. It's enough that you don't feel cooped in. Found your little home. Yeah, I found my little home. It's kichi. It's cool. It's, you know, they have a cool vibe going on in there. The people are super friendly and you can't hear a fucking thing in any of the other rooms. You can certainly hear the noise outside. You never get away from that. You never get away from that.

Sirens every 15 seconds. But, okay, that's a little bit of cold comfort if you have ever been in a big city or like that kind of noise. And I do. So I go to this hotel and it is floor to ceiling windows and then the balcony door, right? Okay. So now imagine this. the windows are split up into two foot by two foot slices. Mm, all right?

And then at the end, on the opposite side of the door, is like a four foot by 10 foot clear pain, and the other ones are frosted. Oh, okay. So you've got a window for privacy, but it's frosted. Mm-hmm. Okay, all right. Okay, all right.

Then in the middle of the room is your shower, to glass panes, a curtain you can pull in front of the thing if you want some additional privacy from the room. But let's just say that you were to stand in that shower and take a shower in the middle of the night and the window and the big curtain was open, then that clear pane of window, you would just see right into someone's shower. Yeah. But I'm on the ninth floor of this hotel, right?

So I get in late on Sunday and I'm just not even thinking about anything. I don't do anything. I put my bags down. I'm off the plane. I've been playing all day with the kids. I feel grubby and nasty. I'm like, let me jump into a show. So I jump in.

You see where this is going, right? Yeah. You see where this is going, right? I'm in there. I'm doing my thing. I'm watching TV. I'm having a 50-minute shower. I'm doing this whole show.

thing and then I look over and I see oh shit I forgot to close the curtain because it's I don't know I was thinking about the I looked at the frosted wind I just didn't even think about it to be honest with you but I'm like I can see me up here yeah everybody because it's fucking New York and one ninth of New York lives on the ninth floor of their buildings and their buildings are right across the street from my building so I look at the window And I can see clear across into somebody else as a condo in their bedroom. And there's a dude I can see laying in his bed looking out his window like this. So no, I'm in the shower looking at him and he's in his bed looking at me.

I think. I mean, it's pretty far away, but I can see clearly the man laying in the bed. I know that my eyes will make out, right? but the curtain for the shower is on the outside of the shower. You have to get out and walk around to pull the curtain on the shower. Did you wave? I didn't. I watched off.

Now, 52 minutes into my shower, I'm like, the guy's laying on the bed because he's just whacked off. And now he's taking a nap. Yeah. I love that hotel. I know. I'm going to say. He's probably like, I love that hotel. Everyone does the same thing.

He could be looking at me or he could be looking at one of the other 22 rooms, right? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I can't see his eyeballs. I mean, you know, I can't see where his head's pointed, but it just, I can see the man in the, in the bed. So I'm like, well, fuck, Brian. God damn it. So I just, I take a shower, I dry off, I run over, I pull the curtain on the thing closed and like get in some appropriate clothing. You know, long socks and. Here are long johns. Three-inch seam running shorts. Ill-fitting t-shirt. And then I open the balcony door and I just pop out for a second. Yeah.

Assess the situation. Let me see. And there's the guy. He's like this. He gave you a head nod? I don't know if he did. But it looked like it. My mind might have been making it up, but it looked like it.

It looked like I got the head nod. Thanks. Well, at least he wasn't running screaming or anything. You know, take it as a compliment. That's true. He was cool. He was cool to watch the shower. Why not?

Good guys show, whatever. Listen, I got to imagine it is probably a hobby to a lot of these people who have been living in New York for a long time. You live in a very dense city. That you have a pair of binoculars. And all you're doing all night long is checking out what everybody else is doing. It's got to be. Isn't there a whole friend's episode about this? There's a friend's episode about this, Naked Man or something.

And they have the monoculars and like, oh, naked man's back, right? Isn't that it? I think so. I think so, too. I've only watched a few Friends episodes, but I think Naked Man was one of them. And they lived in New York too, didn't they? Wasn't that their thing? They lived in New York?

Yeah, I wonder if they were on the ninth floor. You know, the craziest thing is that, I want to say this without saying it, show that it. The building, one of the buildings that I work close to, the building and the building in the row of buildings that I'm on. Now, I've told this story a lot on, I don't know a lot, but a few times on the show, that when I was a young pup, I sent in a couple of audition tapes for the real world. Right. That's right. Yes. Still waiting for that call back. I think they're going to reboot it. You also stayed in a car, right? In the mall? I stayed in a car. No, I, that's not true. I got, I tried to get on to that show. I auditioned for it. Incredibly.

intoxicated. And then like some AV people from Georgia Tech where they were filming it. And they interviewed me when I got off stage. It was Barnes, Leslie, and Jimmy. And they were like this 99x morning crew. And you had to be at a, they were going to do three separate bars, three separate nights. And you had to get up and you had to audition. And then they would wield it down to like nine people who were going to stay in this car. And the last one in the car got the car. Right. This whole shit was going down in the 90s. 90s were. a wild time. Right? You could have a smoke, you could like have a smoke break every like three hours or whatever it was. Go to the bathroom if you needed to. But anyway, you had to live in this car and the person

who outlived the rest of them. And the guy, I think one time here in Atlanta, somebody lived in there two people living there for like two months. It went on forever. Eventually they just had to say tie. Yeah, right. You drive on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and you drive on Thursdays and Fridays. So I went up. So I was, you know, I was just like a hell. bent on being somebody. I didn't know. I just wanted to be in the limelight in some way, shape, or form. This is a call it like I see it. I have a big ego, and I wanted to be in the limelight. And so I went there, but the bar was so crowded. It was so big. It was so crowded. And I took a number and I was waiting my, or I filled out the form or whatever it was. And I was waiting for my name to be called.

And in the meantime, I decided to heavily drink draft beer. I mean, I think we were on like our fourth And when I say, I think we, I mean me and another person who are with me, a like five foot one Asian woman who I was dating at the time, who didn't drink really. I think she was sipping her beer and I think I was on my third pitcher. Do you know what I'm saying? I was trying to like calm my nerves down a little bit and it completely backfired. I got so intoxicated that when they called my name, I don't even remember what happened. But all I recall is how short of a time I was on stage

compared to the other people. So I don't think it went well. I think they asked me like two questions. And I was like, yeah, whatever. Fuck you. And then when I got off stage, I was pulled aside by the filming crew at Georgia Tech for an interview about why I wanted to do this

and what I was doing. And I don't remember what happened. But I don't think it went well because the girl who was with me was kind of like, we better get you home. We better get you home. Anyway, I put in a bunch of tapes for, not a bunch of tapes, I put in some tapes for the real world. I convinced my dad to let me use the video camcorder that we had and I made some audition tapes.

And then I remember I got called or written back, make another one with this specific blah, blah, blah. And I did. And then still waiting to hear back on that. Still waiting. And this would have been like season four or five or something like that of the real, when I was old enough, maybe even six or seven. But I remember watching that show religiously from the get. Yeah, it was a great show in the beginning. Okay.

On the street where I work, on the block where I work, in the series of buildings, near the very building that I work at is the original real world building. That's right. Yeah. I remember that episode. I mean, that season for sure. It was groundbreaking. It's groundbreaking.

It was the first reality show. Yeah. I mean, not the like at first ever of this kind of, like there were documentaries and other things. There were a couple of shows that. did stuff in small, digestible chunks for the audience, but never a television show that just let people live together and figure it out. And then we'd just film it and we'd cut it and edit it and figure it out. First reality show.

Really, really defined the genre. I remember that place being cool. It was like a loft. It was a loft. Yeah, it was a loft. It was cool. You wanted to live there. It was New York.

Everything was hustle. Everything was bustle. Everyone was having fun. You know, they had some interesting characters in there. I think it ended up being a lot more interesting than even the people at MTV thought it was going to be. And everybody tuned in. The whole world tuned in. It was like a phenomenon that happened.

And I loved it from the moment. I loved it. I loved it. I loved watching it. And so I met an architect in the building where I worked and he said, hey, did you know that this is the place where they filmed the very first real world? And I said, no, I did not. And he said, I'll show you. And so I went to the empty floor that was the floor that they lived on.

And he kind of showed me where the things were that happened during the day. happened during the show. It's completely gutted now. They're doing something with it. Okay. But I was like, wow, that's fucking cool. Yeah. You had a history space. I got a little history lesson about the real world and, you know, in New York. And I remember how good. Full circle. Look at you. I know. I remember how gritty that part of New York was when they were filming that. It just felt gritty. It looked gritty, you know. It's not that anymore. It's not as all. Yeah. Alex Baldwin lives next door. So, you know, how gritty can it be?

He's got 42 children. I think he has two floors of a. a building. He must. I mean, that guy. Oh, he's got to. God damn, does he have a lot of kids? He has a lot of kids, doesn't he? Well, he does overall. And then even just recently with Hilaria, they had like five. Elijah. Yeah, I know you love her. It's watching an Instagram post she made the other day. It's fucking obnoxious. She's talking about how someone mistook her husband for Antonio Banderas. They're down in the Dominican Republic. They don't look alike.

No. Alec looks old. I mean, the guy looks old. Even when young, they didn't look alike. No, they've never looked alike. And the truth is that Alec has probably aged another 10 years in the last five years. Because anybody who's going to go through that, you know, when you accidentally kill somebody. Yes.

You know, that's got a way so heavy on your mind. And he looks, by the way, if I'm just being honest, he looks out of it. Like, I saw him in person, he looked out of it. I love Alec Baldwin. I think he's great. I think he's one of the great actors. He's got certainly some personality. He's Irish.

He's rough. He's gruff. He can be a little brusk. Movies and I've especially loved him in 30 Rock. 30 Rock was fantastic. 30 Rock was fantastic. But when I saw him, he just looked out of it. His eyes looked red and bloodshot and out of it.

I don't think that's because he's high. I think that's just because he's like maybe not sleeping or whatever. And then I watched him on this Instagram post where he could have been less interested in what Alaria was saying. Less interested. And they got those kids in tow with them, the young ones. And, you know, he's just like, get me to the fucking. he's sweating through his shirt. His shirt is just all drenched in sweat.

And they're walking in the Dominican Republic and she's all, and he's like, kill me. Yeah. He knows. He knows he's fucked. He's not getting another wife with 14 kids. He's not getting one of those. So he's fucked.

He's just got to live the rest of his 76-year-old life out with Alaria. And Alaria is waiting for him to die so she can make Instagram posts on her own. I'm not saying she doesn't love him. She probably does. But, I mean, let's be honest. She's a little bit obnoxious. She's a little bit of obnoxious. Well, the dancing with the stars thing that you showed me,

and I was like, ugh. I didn't even watch the reality thing they did. No one watches the reality thing they did. You did. I did. It's terrible. I don't even know why I watched it, if I'm being honest. I got hooked into the terablicity of it all.

All right, well, hey, thanks so much for sticking with us, even though you couldn't hear us. Yes. I really appreciate it. They made their own fun. That's what I love about you guys. You don't need us. When we're long gone, you guys can get together and do reunions.

Commercial break reunion. Who were the two people who did that show that this whole started because of what their name? Chrissy and I are the Alaria and Alec Baldwin of the podcast world. You're not really sure why you're watching, but you're stuck in it all? The old out of it, brusque guy and Chrissy Moosey. Moving in and out of a Spanish accent. All right. Well, listen, I just want to, I'm going to alert you to something.

Okay, we're going to come back on. You just, you get tune out. I got to refresh. I got to start a new show and all that. Yeah. I got to hit mute again. We will unmute it. And then we will be back for another episode of the commercial break.

But then I will also let you know that tomorrow, Christy and I will be on a very special episode of Alice and Harrison Harris. culture changers. Just confirmed. I just read it over the break. So what we're going to do is we're going to do a co-episode with Allison. And Allison is part of the reason why we're all here, if I'm being honest. So this should be interesting.

We're going to talk it through for an hour. That probably is going to happen around 2.30 tomorrow afternoon. And then we'll do another episode before that. So today, tomorrow, Friday, you get episodes on the stream. YouTube.com slash the commercial break. And tomorrow, for those of you listening on the podcast, podcast version. Tomorrow is today. Today will be yesterday. Okay? Yes. We got it. Okay. Okay. Hi. So the best thing to do is just to go to YouTube.com slash the commercial break and then follow us. Hit the notifications because then you'll be notified every time we go live, which is really a moving target right about now.

It is. We're trying. We're keeping everybody on the toes. Keep everybody on your toes. Okay. Even ourselves. I don't even want to tell you about our next vacation schedule because then everyone's going to go see you later, commercial break. But don't worry, we have episodes for you. YouTube.com slash the commercial break, add the commercial break on Instagram. Tcbpodcast.com for all the audio, all the video, and your free sticker. Okay, we'll see you back here in about 10 minutes on the stream. We'll see tomorrow on the podcast.

Chrissy, that's all I can do for now. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time.

Chrissy and I will say, we too say, and we must say. Good. Bye!