The Commercial Break - It's Raining Tip Money!

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

Episode #652: First, Bryan saves Peaches, and now we find out he tipped well one time. What a man! A Hero! Our savior!  Teen Mom A 4 million dollar tip Buy Bryan’s shower water! Sophie Rain Ga...mbling A basement roulette wheel Letting podcasters into White House press briefings Matt Gaetz doing cameos Foot Finder Big Ed Saturday Night (2024) Saturday Night Live TCB Gone Wild I'm a friend of the gays, what can I say! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:59 How do they celebrate Christmas in the Harry Potter movies? Wouldn't Jesus just be a normal guy there? On this episode of The Commercial Break. I felt so good about myself. And I'm feeling so good about myself that I get to announce that right here on air. Don't you think I'm a good person now?
Starting point is 00:01:21 Don't you realize what kind of human being I am after I've shared that story in such a humble way? I am a good person now. Don't you realize what kind of human being I am after I've shared that story in such a humble way? I am a big tipper and I have a huge dick. Let it be known worldwide. That was very sweet. From the valleys to the hollows. Let it be known that Brian tipped good one time. Let it be known that Brian tipped good one time. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Best to you, Chris and. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. Sophia Rain, does the name ring a bell? Sophia Rain. No, it does not. Sophia Rain is apparently the highest paid
Starting point is 00:02:14 OnlyFans actress, I guess, sex worker. I'm not sure what the appropriate term is. But let's just say- Content creator. Content creator, there you go, that's a good one. As we are here, but no one's paying to see me naked Nothing in my butthole Sophia rain is being called out by her fellow only fans stars such as Farah Abram of
Starting point is 00:02:35 Teen mom face. Yes, that's right Of course she did all she did the porn movie then claims She didn't do the porn movie then the porn movie came out and everyone knew that it clearly she did the porn movie Farah who is completely unhinged in my opinion, but that's a, that's a story for another day. Yeah. That's you used to love that show. Oh God. Teen mom was, I can't keep up with it anymore.
Starting point is 00:02:55 We were working together at clear channel. I'm just getting to know each other. I know. And you were like, I love mom. I was like, There's something so fascinating about watching those young ladies try and navigate life with children. Then once I got children, I was like,
Starting point is 00:03:09 not so fascinating anymore. I totally understand where they're coming from. And it's very difficult work. I mean, listen, I always thought it was difficult work. I was never under depression. It wasn't. But I don't know, the way their lives unfolded became like of interest to me.
Starting point is 00:03:24 And Farrah in particular was a real hot cat. I mean, she was just like always screaming and yelling about something and everybody did her wrong song. And it was like one big country song was Farrah's life. But then she went on, then they kicked her off the show because she was so difficult. And then she went on to porn fame. I guess is the best way to say it. That's the next step. Yeah, now she's on OnlyFans after protesting that she was so difficult, and then she went on to porn fame, I guess is the best way to say it.
Starting point is 00:03:45 And now she's on OnlyFans after protesting that she was not in fact. That's the next step after that. That's right. Well, OnlyFans makes it easy for people to be in the sex work business and make good money doing it if you can amass a following.
Starting point is 00:03:59 I guess if you're good at what you do, then just like anything, just like the commercial break has 5,000 almost Instagram followers, Farrah Abram has, I guess, millions of people that are out there watching her OnlyFans. Good for her. Sophia Raine went on Twitter, I think it was,
Starting point is 00:04:16 and put a screenshot of her OnlyFans revenue for 2024. She claimed she made $43 million in 2024, including a $4 million tip from one happy customer, one very happy customer indeed. $4 million. I mean, who's got that kind of jingle jangle? Obviously, this is somebody who's trying to get her attention. Yeah, that would get your attention. Listen, if someone tipped me $4 million, I would be gaping anus everywhere. I'd be like, hey, no problem. $4 million. I'm ready.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Whatever you want, I got. But other stars on OnlyFans are calling her out saying that's clearly bullshit. You did not make $43 million on OnlyFans. It's very hard to make that kind of money on OnlyFans. And from what I understand, I mean, listen, we're content creators, so we get it. We know how much content creators make.
Starting point is 00:05:14 It's very difficult to get into the millions of dollars unless you have hundreds of millions of downloads or views or whatever. I know OnlyFans is different because I guess you can tip. And I don't really know because I've actually never paid for an OnlyFans subscription. Yeah, and I think you can sell things too, like sell like a package of photos or something.
Starting point is 00:05:33 Or your urine, like that one girl from 90 Day Fiance. Or your urine or your farts. Or your farts in a jar, like that one girl did. Or the bath water. Remember the lady was selling the bath water and she was making good money doing that. I think someone paid her like a hundred grand for some of her bath water. Remember the lady was selling the bath water and she was making good money doing that. I think someone paid her like a hundred grand for some of her bath water. I wish that anybody was that interested in me because I would not be too proud to do that. I'm not sure the
Starting point is 00:05:53 parents at my kids' school would appreciate it. Your shower water. My shower, well- Because you take like three showers a day. There's plenty of shower water to give them. That would be gallons and gallons every time. I got plenty of it. But $43 million seems like it, like, let's put it this way. Joe Rogan makes about that much for about a half a year worth of work. And by all accounts, he's getting, you know, I don't know, 20, 30, 40 million downloads on episodes of his, uh, show. That's a lot.
Starting point is 00:06:26 You have to have a lot of people engaged in your content. And I just, I might agree with Farrah on this one. While I don't agree with her on a lot, I might agree that that seems like a very large amount of money to make for such a, like, kind of niche platform. And Sophia Rain, while very beautiful, uh, you know, is she going to be... That's like a very specific thing.
Starting point is 00:06:47 You have to be really... I guess it's a niche, right? You have to be... That's a niche. And then to gain $43 million doing that niche. I don't know. So then she posted a screenshot of her revenue. So is it bullshit? Will OnlyFans come out and confirm or deny? The drama drop continues. I will keep you posted.
Starting point is 00:07:06 Thinking about getting a subscription. Who owns OnlyFans? OnlyFans. Okay. OnlyFans.com. I don't know who owns OnlyFans. I'm just curious, is it like a big company or is it a person? One person, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:19 No, no, it's gotta be, there's gotta be employees. Well, no, I know there's employees, but I wonder how it got started or if it was even in this country. Uh, who started? I've Googled it over here. You're a fact checker. Oh, wait, please. Christina.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Inform me, Christina. It is Leonid, I don't know how to say that name, but it looks like Leo with NID on the end. Leonid Rodvinsky. Okay. It was one person. UK based Ukrainian American billionaire businessman and computer programmer.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Oh. He's a billionaire now, that's for sure. That is for sure. He's also, he's the majority owner of OnlyFans, and he also is the founder of a campsite called MyFreeCams. All right. Oh, MyFreeCams. Good for him.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Yes, I'm a frequent customer on MyFreeCams. The founders are Guy and Tim Stokely. Okay. Oh, Guy and Tim. Guy and Tim, two just regular guys on the street paying their neighbors to get naked. Yeah. They said, hey, let's make this into a business. God damn, I wish I had one really good idea like that and could actually put it to the test. The, you know, I knew there was a guy that was, when we were in our clubhouse days, there
Starting point is 00:08:23 was a guy who approached me. He had a very similar I got you approach me. What about what? I don't know he thought that I was gonna add some value to this conversation. We're talking about rolling fans and then you're talking about a guy who approached you. He did approach me in a very similar he said listen I've got this subscription based website that I'm starting to kind of compete with places like Patreon and OnlyFans. And it's only gonna be for the elite of the elite,
Starting point is 00:08:47 like, you know, stars and athletes and, you know, people who wanted to, you know, porn stars and stuff like that. I thought, I said, oh, okay. So he said, can we, can we get on a, I know you have a background in internet marketing. Can we get on a phone call? Will you talk me through your content creation
Starting point is 00:09:01 and internet marketing background? So I did. And then I thought to myself, well, if this takes off, this guy, you know, maybe I'll hitch a ride on this guy's back, right? Maybe I'll ditch that commercial break and clubhouse and get on this guy's coattails. And then I saw the kind of stars he was getting. And it was like a friend of a friend of the Real Housewives of New Jersey with four followers. And it just, there was absolutely no steam behind that engine. So not, the thing about what makes OnlyFans, I think, such a success story is not only is it a,
Starting point is 00:09:34 is it a good idea and put to, not only is it a good idea that also has a good interface that's easy to use, but then it caught the imagination of the collective consciousness at the right time during the pandemic. Yeah, for sure. When everybody was looking to whack off. Take a dick and keep on licking. Exactly. When everybody was looking to get off without getting COVID.
Starting point is 00:09:55 So OnlyFans really exploded. And you know, I've said this- Best to you. About lonely fans many times. Sonia or Sophia? Matthew 10 Matthew 11 Matthew 11 Matthew 11 Sophia Rain.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Beth Dombkowski Sophia Rain. Matthew 11 Matthew 11 Sophia Rain. I'm going to ask Astrid if I can get a subscription for show research purposes. That's right. Remember I was talking about that website, that sponsor that was going to come on that was teaching women and men how to give women an orgasm? Beth Dombkowski Yes. Matthew 11 Matthew 11 So, for research purposes,
Starting point is 00:10:22 and I swear to God it was, I was on that site this morning looking at something so I could communicate about the sponsorship and Astrid walked in and she's like, what in the fuck? I said, honey, the kids are at school. I'm just doing a little show research. It's your time. Yeah. So when it says OnlyFans Sofia Ray and $4 million tip. Show research. What?
Starting point is 00:10:45 Who gives a $4 million tip? Saudi Arabian Prince? I was gonna say, yeah. That's what I would think. Big oil. Big baby oil. Big baby oil. Big corporate baby oil, that's right.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Bitcoin enthusiast, early investor in Bitcoin, I would say. I told you about this guy that I know in Seattle who was buying Bitcoin way back when it just first started. He just, he liked it, he thought it was cool, he thought it was interesting to have Bitcoin, right? that I know that in Seattle who was buying Bitcoin way back when it just first started, he liked it, he thought it was cool, he thought it was interesting to have Bitcoin, right? Even though at the beginning there was absolutely no use for it whatsoever. And the guy had like 500 Bitcoin. Bitcoin went over $100,000 yesterday.
Starting point is 00:11:18 I saw that. So he's got, according to sources that I have on the inside, he's got like 350 of those Bitcoin. The guy is like a verified millionaire. Cash out. I know. Cash out. Take the, take the, take, no. I'm of the mind like if I go to Vegas or something and I win, then I leave.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Yeah, you're smart. Yeah, that's why they, that's why you're not a friend of any casino. That's true. Yeah. They hate people like you and, because I'm the exact same way. I go to Vegas, I get $500 out of the ATM. Right, and that's to play with. I say to myself, that's it, right? $500.
Starting point is 00:11:53 You can lose it, or if you start winning, then cash out. If I win, I don't always cash out, but I know I've got that $500 to play with. Like Astrid and I went to this place in the Dominican Republic, the hard rock in the Dominican Republic. I stay there. Yeah, that's right. There's like bands that play there all the time and stuff like that. So we went there. Beautiful resort, lovely people, great experience, but they have a casino there. And you know, it's a casino in the Dominican Republic. It's not Las Vegas, but it's pretty big for, I would say, a hotel or casino in the Dominican Republic. Yeah, we walk through there.
Starting point is 00:12:25 And we were walking by the slots every day. You have to kind of walk through the casino to get into this little food and beverage area, you know. And so, we would walk by and walk by. And then like the third day, I'm like, ah, let's get out 50 bucks and we'll see what happens. We'll throw in the slot machines. And we won like $125. Nice. And so, I was like, that's it. Okay, great, wonderful. But then every time we walked in or out of the casino, we found ourselves at the ATM really excited
Starting point is 00:12:50 that in fact we could win more than 125 bucks. So we were down like 700 by the time we left and I was like, that's it, I'm done. I've given them enough of my money. But that's why I will never have a frequent flyer card at any of those casinos is because I just I know instinctively that the house always wins and I also know instinctively that I'm really dumb with money. So it's of course I can be done with money and a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:13:14 I just don't want to lose it. Yeah, I agree. Unless you just really love the game you're playing like you just really love to play poker or you really love to play the game Itself then I guess then you're paying to play it's what's your favorite game to play at a casino? Uh, I guess blackjack. Yeah me too. Yeah blackjack, but right behind it very closely is the roulette wheel Oh, I like some roulette. That is my dad big money big big money big That is my downfall.- Big money, big money. Yeah, big money, big, that is my downfall. There was a guy online, I was watching this, like I follow a few gambling people,
Starting point is 00:13:50 and how they teach you how to like play cards and gamble instead of give you tips. And it was a guy who specializes in table games, and he was showing you how you can pretty much, over the course of some period of time, beat the casino every time by betting in a certain pattern on the roulette wheel. But you have to put like 30 chips down in a different place.
Starting point is 00:14:11 In different places, every single time the exact same way every single time. And so he had a... This guy is so into creating content about table games, he has the tables at his house. And he like hires dealers to show you how to do it, right? So he's got a little casino in his basement or whatever. So he was showing I'd love to have a roulette reel in my basement. Yes, I'd love to. One time I found like online gambling. I was in Costa Rica and I found like online gambling, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:38 because it was legal there at the time. Yeah. And I found this pop-up ad for like online roulette. I must have sat there. I mean, a hundredlette. I must have sat there. I mean $100 I must have sat there for like four hours just gambling on roulette online and then I thought to myself what a dumb fucking idea Brian You know, it's rigged inside of the casino. It's clearly rigged on a computer Yes, they're not gonna let you win. That's never gonna happen. Why are you doing? I give you a little snippet of winning and you get excited and then you lose Why are you doing this? No, they give you a little snippet of winning and so you get excited and then you lose. But let's say that I am a single guy with a lot of Bitcoin or I'm very good at gambling
Starting point is 00:15:11 and I have amassed a fortune. I don't know, I have a hundred million dollars to my name. There is no way under any circumstances that someone on OnlyFans will get four million of my dollars. Like a $50,000 tip, I think would be enough to... I think the intended purpose is probably to get the attention of Sophia Reign. And hopefully he did, because that's a huge fucking tip, if indeed it happened. But there's just no way that I would waste that kind of...
Starting point is 00:15:38 You must have no concept of money if you're spending $4 million on one OnlyFans content creator. And then what are you getting out of that? Like, I don't really wanna, I don't know if I don't wanna know the answer to that. I know, Christina's students, sex, yes, sex, a blowjob. That's what he's getting out of it. I just also wanted to tell you it's Sophie Rain. Oh, Sophie Rain, why do I keep on saying Sophia?
Starting point is 00:15:59 I know why I keep on saying Sophia, but I won't say it here, but I'll share it with the ladies of the studio after we get done with this. There's just no way under the sun I'm giving anybody $4 million. No, I can't imagine doing that. When you live under a porch for some period of your life, you will never give $4 million as a tip to anybody.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Largest tip you've ever given anybody? Largest tip? The largest tip you've ever given anybody? I mean, I'm trying to think about where I've tipped. I've certainly never. Like out of proportion tip. Now I'm not talking about you go to dinner, you have a $500 bill and you give them $100 or $110.
Starting point is 00:16:33 That's probably about what I've done. 20%? No, I mean, I've done like 50%. Oh, you've done 50%? Yeah. On like a large bill? Yeah. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:16:43 If it was a great service and it was on the company card. Astrid, bring it. On the company card, that's right. Do you remember one time that our boss, that the boss of like Clear Channel pulled me aside and started bitching about you and me going to the restaurant on the company card? Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:02 I think one time I went to Waffle House, it was the holidays, we were in Orlando, we were with the family, we were going to the parks and stuff like that, it was like for New Year's Eve and for New Year's Day. So everybody went out somewhere, they went shopping. And I went to Waffle House, I took a nap and then I went to Waffle House to get something to eat for dinner and The bill was like $17. Is it family vacation? You took a nap and went to Waffle House by yourself. Welcome to being a gringo in a Venezuelan family. Yes, that's me, that's what I do. I avoid all communication outside of the studio.
Starting point is 00:17:45 You know, we took a big family vacation. Everybody else went out. I took a nap and went to Waffle House. Chrissy, that's my kind of vacation. When you have 13 to 15 children, Yola, you can understand that. You just need a break sometimes from all the drama. And I gave the lady who was there was, we got into a conversation and she communicated that she had small children and she was a single mother. And this was not like, she wasn't giving me an oh me, poor me story. I was just curious.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Yeah, you were making conversation. Yeah, I was like the only one in the Waffle House. It was like New Year's Day. I was the only one at night and I was the only one at the Waffle House. And I was just communicating, just talking with her, having a little chitty-chatty. And I left her a $250 tip on like a 17th.
Starting point is 00:18:23 That was very nice. I felt so good about myself and I'm feeling so good about myself that I get to announce that live here on air. Don't you think I'm a good person now? Don't you realize what kind of human being I am after I've shared that story in such a humble way? I am a big tipper and I have a huge dick. Let it be known worldwide. That was very sweet. From the valleys to the Hollis, let it be known that Brian tipped good one time while avoiding his family on a family vacation. While avoiding all responsibility, Brian was at
Starting point is 00:19:01 Waffle House getting close to the waitress. Congratulations to me. I am incredible. Yeah, $4 million. I mean, that's not a proportion tip. I just felt extremely generous in that moment. Her story struck me and I was like, oh, this lady, you know, she probably has to wait on 55 tables just to make, you know, $70 a day
Starting point is 00:19:26 or something like that. She's got a really, really hustle. She was good at what she did. She was very kind. I felt for her circumstances. Those servers at the Waffle House are good. That you have to be. You really do. You have to be. There's no slackers at Waffle House. No, no. I've never seen...
Starting point is 00:19:42 The cooks, the servers, the cleaners, the dishwashers, everybody, I mean, they've got it down. Say what you will about Waffle House, but it is a Southern institution. It is never closed. Very rarely is it closed. I mean, I've heard they've closed for hurricanes and stuff like that, but it is never closed. Why they have locks on the door? I don't know. Probably to keep the crazies out when it gets a little nutty sometimes.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Waffle House. Waffle House. We'll keepty sometimes. Waffle house. Waffle house. We'll keep you out. Waffle house. When you get kicked out, you know you're a shithead. Waffle house. Put your pants back on. You can come inside.
Starting point is 00:20:19 So that waffle house is a Southern institution. It is always on. It is always there for you. You will always be greeted with a somewhat friendly face. You will get the same food every single time. It's a greasy spoon and man, is it goddamn good. Especially after a long night of drinking or drugging. I love the Waffle House.
Starting point is 00:20:38 And those people work extraordinarily hard, probably for not a lot of money. And they, I don't know if they're passionate about their jobs, but they don't seem, they don't seem dispassionate about their jobs. I'm sure not everybody is happy to be working at the Waffle House, but they seem to take us, there's a pride in getting it done, getting it done efficiently and quickly and cleanly. And I just, I don't have enough praise for a Waffle House. As a matter of fact, I want Waffle House right now. That's what I want.
Starting point is 00:21:04 I know, I want it too. Scattered, smothered, covered in dice. Get us lunch, Brian. Go on. Hey, listen, what do you think? I made a money around here? That was back then. Now, I'd be lucky to tip at a Waffle House. I'd be lucky to be at a Waffle House, let alone tip at a Waffle House. All right. Well, listen, we'll call Sophie Reign and see if she can lend us some money. She seems to be in it. Let's take a break and yeah, we'll call Sophie Rain and see if she can lend us some money. She seems to be in it. Let's take a break and yeah, we'll be back.
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Starting point is 00:24:55 allowing podcasters like ourselves to be at White House, I mean, not ourselves, we're not going to get invited to anything, but you know, like other people who have cache and importance in that Trump circle, like Rogan, Theo Vaughan, and others, to be in the White House press briefing rooms, they're essentially getting credentialed to be White House press. And there's a lot of conversation going on about this. And some people have confirmed that in fact they may allow podcasters to be in the in the press room. Okay. I wanted to get your take on this. What are your thoughts on allowing podcasters like Theo Vaughn or Joe Rogan into the White House press room? Why not? Why not? See how it goes. Okay you take a
Starting point is 00:25:41 very interesting angle on that. Why not see how it goes? Well, I mean, they reach a lot of people. And it is kind of like the new media in a lot of ways. I guess it depends on how they present it. I don't know. I mean, what do you just go in there and you're just recording it and then broadcasting it to your people? I think this is like letting the Hock to a girl do our hurricane reporting because she knows about wet things. And so let me, let me share my opinion. Okay. Well, please. My opinion is this, nothing against Rogan or Theo von. They're powerful podcasters who do a lot for the industry.
Starting point is 00:26:16 And what I, how, you know, how you feel about their show personally is, is whatever, but they are not news reporters. They don't report the news. They report opinions. And kind of knowing about things and talking about things are two different things. Like, I don't know about things. I just talk about things. It's clear that I don't know about things if you listen to the fucking show. I have no idea about anything. But I'm also not giving anybody the impression that I do. Like, I'm not trying to report the news here,
Starting point is 00:26:42 right? So Rogan and Theo are the same way. They're not newscasters. They don't report on the news. So, they go to the White House press briefing room and they listen to something, and then they go back to their followers, listeners, and then they have a conversation with their followers about their opinion about what was said. That's not reporting the news. That's just being opinionated. Well, what's the difference between just reading what was said in a news or watching what was said, that's not reporting the news, that's just being opinionated. Well, what's the difference between just reading what was said in a news or watching what was said in a news and then giving your opinion on that? So someone, well, I mean, I don't-
Starting point is 00:27:13 A news briefing. Right, you can read or watch it, right? So the people that are in the press room typically are news reporters, right? I don't even know what that means. I have no idea, right? I don't think you need any special kind of magic to be a news reporter. But I think their job is to listen to what's being said, report back on the facts. This is what they said.
Starting point is 00:27:31 This is how it was said. This is the context in which this particular situation is being discussed. And just report the facts, ma'am. I totally realize that that doesn't happen a lot in 2024. Yeah, Fox News doesn't do that. CNN doesn't do that, but they're in the room too. They're in the room also, but their reporters are not there to be opinionated.
Starting point is 00:27:51 They don't have four hours of conversation. I mean, that's not what they're supposed to be there for. I just think it's kind of a little bit of a bastardization of what the White House press briefing is even four in the first place. It's like you're there to report your the White House is the rep the White House press briefing is the We're updating you on what's going on inside of the West Wing and that's not always factual either There's lots of bullshit coming out of their mouths I'm not saying that Joe Rogan or Theo von mean anything would mean anything malicious by going back and talking to their audience about what? They heard inside of the press briefing room.
Starting point is 00:28:25 I just think that, you know, I don't know, just to me, it feels like it's opening up a can of worms. It is the new media. It is where most people are getting their information. YouTube and podcasting has all officially seeing its day in the sun for sure, without a doubt. But I just don't know about like letting anybody in the press room just because we happen to like them. Feels a little bit, I don't know about like letting anybody in the press room just because we happen to like them,
Starting point is 00:28:46 feels a little bit, I don't know, it feels a little too loosey goosey to me. And maybe I'm a bit of a traditionalist and I would prefer that news come from news reporters, news sources. Like when you read the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or even when you get a report from a newscaster on Fox or on CNN, typically you're not watching for them. You're not there for the personality. You're listening to what they're saying, how they're communicating what's going on inside of the West Wing as per the White House press briefing.
Starting point is 00:29:19 You're not there for the personality. You're not there for their opinion. People have been opinionating on that for a long time. And I hear you, like, what's the danger of just letting them in the room? Yeah. I guess my difference is that, you know, like Anderson Cooper, I really like him. So I am watching for him and maybe like his take on what happened that day. And I know Fox News has got their people that they like, whatever.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Different outlets have personalities, I feel like, that do give their opinions on what was said in the press briefing. I don't think Anderson is inside the press briefing room. I think he communicates his opinion on what was said inside of the White House press briefing room, right? Because he clearly has an opinion show, right? Just like Tucker Carlson does or whoever is on Fox News and just like, I don't know, Rachel Maddow and that Jose Diaz-Ballard.
Starting point is 00:30:13 Your favorite guy. Aye, Dio Mio, Jose. And up next. And up next, Joe Rogan. Should he or should he not talk? We'll get more on that later. Thanks, Jose. Again, this is just my opinion because this is what we do.
Starting point is 00:30:35 We opinionate on things. We don't necessarily know all the facts. We don't necessarily have a clear understanding of any of the issues, but it'd be honestly like letting me in the press briefing room to then come back and report to the world on what's going on inside understanding of any of the issues. But you know, it'd be honestly like letting me in the press briefing room to then come back and report to the world on what's going on inside of the press briefing room would be a dumb fucking idea. It just would. I would be, I wouldn't remember, I'd pretend like I knew.
Starting point is 00:30:56 Well, maybe I'm thinking about this differently, but isn't it open? Like, it's not like it's a closed room, right? No, you can't just walk in there. No, but I mean, it's not like it's not open to the public to view it. Don't they always, isn't it on C-SPAN or on something or I don't know? Yeah, but in here's another-
Starting point is 00:31:16 It's not like in a back dark room. No, well, I mean it is in a back dark room. And then people are coming out of there and reporting. C-SPAN oftentimes covers all, I think they do actually cover all of the White House press briefings as they do all of the congressional sessions and all of the things that go on that they can, you know, report on in the government. However, no one watches C-SPAN ever for any of that information. And that's, I guess, another, I guess, another point, and maybe this could go either way, is that no, like, I don't think, I don't think the typical commercial break listener or the typical Theo
Starting point is 00:31:56 Vaughan listener or the typical Joe Rogan listener or Call Her Daddy or whatever, I don't think any of us are sitting around watching C-SPAN White House press briefings. So if you, if the only source of information you have is Brian Greene telling you what happened, then you are fucked as a human being as far as knowing and understanding what's going on in our government because I am just going to give you my opinion. I'm not a trained reporter. I didn't go to school for that. I don't know how to report basic facts. I think the cat's out of the bag on that though. I think at this point, it's all people looking to hear other people's opinions.
Starting point is 00:32:32 Social media, that's where a lot of people are getting their news from too. We are so screwed. Yeah, it really is. I think we just have to accept that it's a whole new world. And if you do really want straight facts, you go to Reuters or, you know, the Associated Press or C-SPAN. Otherwise you're going to your favorite podcaster or your person on influencer on social media or whatever.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I think that's what people are seeking out. Yeah, I hear you. You know, I know that it's like, you know, you're swimming upstream with a lot of these things, but it just seems like you had another move toward the movie Idiocracy. That's as far as I'm concerned. It's just how I feel about it.
Starting point is 00:33:12 I mean, you know, it's like, can, you know, the press is the, what do they call it? The fourth, what, the fourth estate, right? The press is supposed to be the fourth estate. And what the press means these days is very, it's very nebulous. Does it mean Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn and the commercial break? I'm not putting myself with Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn. Thank you. We are in a different class. Thank you very much. A class that gets much less money and many fuelers. But at the end of the day, it feels like we're one step away from putting a neon sign in front of the White House.
Starting point is 00:33:45 Vacancy. You know what I'm saying? Oh, we are. Oh, I know it. I've just come to accept it. Oh, I know it. And I'm just like, I'm trying to, I'm trying to decide in my head, you know, is there, are we going to do any splitting of hairs or it's just like the baby is directly going
Starting point is 00:34:02 to go out with the bath water? I don't know. It feels... Sad. Doomed. No, I know. It feels like we're doomed. It feels like we're doomed. Yeah. And to be clear, it's not because I, you know, it's not because Joe Rogan specifically or Theo
Starting point is 00:34:20 Vaughn specifically, I'm mentioning them because they are the most mentioned in these news stories that are coming out where Don Jr. is saying, they've talked about this, it's going to happen, they're going to let these people in the press room and all this other stuff. But then again, you know, Trump's saying a lot of stuff and, you know, some of it's just not, he's finding a lot of headwinds. Like, what was that guy's name? Matt Gaetz? Oh, God. That guy's awful. Oh, he's terrible. Now he's doing, you know what I saw?
Starting point is 00:34:47 He's doing cameos. I saw that. Cameos. I saw that. It's $550 to get a cameo. It's $25 from Big Ed at 90 Day Fiancé and he's 10 times more entertaining and less creepy and that's saying something because Big Ed's fucking creepy. So I'm telling you right now.
Starting point is 00:35:05 I know, who is paying that? I don't know. Well, when I went that, when I saw it, I immediately went into his cameo page and I was like, I gotta see how much this guy's charging. $550, there was four- Well, he doesn't have a job now. He quit his job.
Starting point is 00:35:18 He doesn't. That was crazy. He quit because he was gonna be the attorney general and then all of a sudden he's like, wow, this is not going to work out clearly. And so he just, you know, jumped ship, which I would have too, if I was directly in his position. I wouldn't want that. That's even more scrutiny than he already had on him. And he's not exactly been the, you know, brightest star student in the classroom. So $550. So then when I went and I looked to see like, you know,
Starting point is 00:35:46 you have to give a review, I think every time you do a cameo, you have to like give them some kind of star or something. I think that's how it works. So you look at someone like Big Ed or something, 90, some of these stars out there, reality stars, they have thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of stars, ratings, right? And Matt Gates had been on for three days and he had four ratings. It was like, oh, okay, well, at least he's not getting a ton of traffic on that website. I can imagine why. You got to do a lot of cameos to make money. At $550, you know, at $550, you have to hope
Starting point is 00:36:20 that 10,000 people come and pay $550. I would do them at, if I was on Cameo, which I could be, I know some people who are on Cameo who have like, you know, 2000 Instagram followers and they have a Cameo page. I don't know who's paying for that Cameo, but okay, good for you. I guess we could have Cameo pages. We could, we could do it. What kind of Cameo would we do? Well, I mean, don't you read things that you want people to say? Or that people want you to say?
Starting point is 00:36:46 Yeah, you have to write a little something. So, hey, Jason, it's Brian and Chrissy here on Cameo from the commercial break. And we're so happy it's your birthday. We have no fucking clue who you are. We've never met you before in our life. For all we know, you could be a criminal shithead. But thanks for paying us. Happy birthday!
Starting point is 00:37:03 You're our new best friend. We love you. Call us anytime. Things are great. We love best to you and your Harry tees. We hope everything's going lovely. And remember, 21 EPMs, check your prostate each year. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:37:17 That's right. Look at that. $50. We could do that for $50. And instead of doing an episode of the commercial break, we could just sit here all day long and do cameos. We'd probably make a lot more money. We probably would.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Of course, that's not saying much either. I say we start it, that and feet finder. Foot finder, still haven't gotten, I had like, I've checked my foot finder, I don't know, like four weeks ago and I had six views. No requests, no payments, no requests for more feet photos. Did you actually put your feet up, Karen? I did, I put a couple of pictures of my feet.
Starting point is 00:37:52 I started- Can you see the pictures? Yeah, I'll show them to you. Yeah, it's not, I mean, listen, it's, you know, they're feet, it is what it is. I don't have like stubby toes or anything. I mean, I've been told I have pretty feet, but I was told by the cashier in public. I was gonna say.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Well, I was told by a guy at the DMV that I have pretty toes. There you go. Oh, really? Well. It's not true, but he told me. Well, it's because he's a creep. It's because he wants to suck your toes. Which, by the way, is like my nightmare fetish. Like the last thing I want to be sucking on is toes. Yeah. And I'm glad that Astrid and I share that in common.
Starting point is 00:38:31 It's our anti-fetish. We're like, toes, we would keep socks on if we could. I don't keep socks on during the summer. I wear sandals. But what I'm saying is I don't have any interest in getting toes involved. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, a lot of people feel that way. And then other people really love feet and toes.
Starting point is 00:38:46 You're into toes, right? No. Oh, I thought you were into toes. I mean, I get a regular pedicure. I like to have nice toes. But you're not like, toes aren't a thing for you. No. It's not like a fetish for you.
Starting point is 00:38:57 Was it Tina? I'm sorry, Tina, if I'm bastard. Someone was here and said they liked feet, and I'm sure it wasn't my wife, and I'm sure it wasn't me. It's a major thing out there. It's a big thing. People are really into toes. Someone was here and said they liked feet. And I'm sure it wasn't my wife and I'm sure it wasn't me. So now it's not you. It's a major thing out there. It's a big thing. It's that people are really into toes.
Starting point is 00:39:09 I wonder if for $550 we could get Matt Gaetz to talk to our toes. You know what I'm saying? Gross. I don't know. I don't want anything to do with him. Oh my God, they were pointing out like they were doing a side by side of him with when he started in Congress and now and how much plastic surgery has been done on his face.
Starting point is 00:39:29 They were doing this with a lot of, listen, I think this could be said, this is representative of an entire population. I'm not trying to point anything out, but they were doing that. Someone was saying there is a trend on TikTok right now to show what's called MAGA face, right? People who are in Trump's orbit, who have gotten a lot of plastic surgery done to their face. And so it's like all these side by sides. And there's like, tons of reels out there showing different people, Laura Loomer and whoever. And so they were showing Matt Gaetz and I was like, wow,
Starting point is 00:40:00 he really like dolled up his face. He went from looking like a rat to being a rat, like being officially a mouse. It was incredible. And like, what did he have done? He got his eyebrows lifted. He had clearly had something like a lot of Botox in his forehead and eyes.
Starting point is 00:40:18 He had his nose. Yeah, I think he had like- People can really go overboard with that eyebrow lift. I swear, I watched enough, well, we watched reality TV and I think I watched even more of The Housewives and that kind of thing. And it is, just, it can be really weird looking. It is really weird looking. You know, I get it, like, you know, as you grow older, those muscles start to fade until your eyebrows start to droop
Starting point is 00:40:40 a little bit. But then when you get them and you're like, the wicked witch of the West. I mean, honestly, it looks so weird. And he had this huge, like, you know, just almost like angular lines. Like someone had literally taken fishhooks and pulled his eyebrows up. And it does look a little disconcerting. And I've seen people out in like, in the grocery store. And then there's this like new trend
Starting point is 00:41:03 for women to get like six inch eyebrows. Have you seen this too? Some people they're like painting on eyebrows like that are six inches thick. I mean, I swear to God they're like halfway up their forehead. And I think to myself, there are a lot of people in this world and some of them are not well, because what makes you think that looks good? I have no idea. You can always get back to that saying.
Starting point is 00:41:24 Yeah. I basically run through life thinking that to myself. When I get behind an old lady that's driving slow, there are so many people in this world and most of them are not well. When I see the eyebrow lift, so many people in this world, most of them are not well. When I see that four people have actually paid
Starting point is 00:41:39 Matt Gaetz for a cameo, there are so many people in this world and four of them are not well. I know, that's what I think. I know. It all true. I know. I really wanted to get somebody like Big Ed or somebody on Cameo. I wanted to send them a request, like almost ridiculous request to do a Cameo, pay the hundred dollars or whatever it was, and then run it on the commercial break as a joke.
Starting point is 00:42:01 It would be if it wasn't against their terms of service to do that. You can't actually do that. Who I really wanted to get. It's for private use only? You can only use it for private use. You can't redistribute it. So, Dr. Now's argument- Is that like a cameo policy or is that Big Ed's policy?
Starting point is 00:42:17 Well, no, it's a cameo policy. Big Ed should open it up. Yeah, Big Ed should open it up because if he could do cameos on the commercial break, I'd be paying every episode to get a new Big Ed. You might just sort of message him independently. Slide into his DMs. I tried to. I did.
Starting point is 00:42:30 I slid into his DMs and I asked him to come on the show. Of course, that's when we had six listeners and no interviews. Now we have 10 listeners and a couple of interviews, so maybe I'll try again. Yeah, you should try again. I mean, we did have some luck doing that. The first person ever that we asked to be on the show through Instagram DM immediately responded to us as if they were up waiting for us to call them. It was like, wow, okay, all right. But I tried to get big on the show and you know, on Instagram, you have a limit as to
Starting point is 00:42:55 how many private messages you can only get send like, I don't know what it is, two messages. Oh, I didn't realize that. If they don't accept your instant, if you don't accept your message request, and if they don't allow you to instant message them when they're verified or whatever, then you can't send them any more messages. So I've reached my limit with Big Ed, but Big Ed, I implore you, you're welcome on the show anytime. I know there's some downtime for you right now, bud.
Starting point is 00:43:16 So if you'd like to, you're welcome to come on the show or just allow me to use a cameo and I'll pay you to be on the show. Maybe I should slide into the DMs. Oh, you know what? Knowing Big Ed the way that I know him from reality TV. Knowing Big Ed the way that I know him, I would bet you have a much better chance of getting Big Ed to respond to you than I do. And so maybe you should. On this break. Why don't you why don't you DM big Ed and say big would you come on? Say biggie, would you come on the show? Pretty please and then show them a picture your feet
Starting point is 00:43:54 Because if there's one person in this world that I am almost positive is in defeat. It's big Ed I did just get a pedicure. So why not Chrissy are hot to trot, babe. I just love you so much. Jeff, you're in for a rollicking good time tonight. Chrissy's got those feet shined and primed. All right. All right, why don't we do this? Let's take a short break, and when we get back, there is more fun and shenanigans
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Starting point is 00:44:54 Now please text us at 212-433-3TCB and tell Brian and Chrissy to let me out of the closet. out of the closet. Did you, have you seen the new, uh, not Ivan Reitman, but who's his son, Jason Reitman? Is it Jason Reitman? I think it's Jason Reitman. He made a movie about the very first night of the very, I mean, the night that Saturday night live went live. He made a movie about it and And there are a bunch of people
Starting point is 00:45:25 that play, you know, Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase and, you know, all these other characters, John Belushi, in this movie. And I saw like an extended trailer, it was like seven and a half minutes long. And it was absolutely to me fascinating because I am fascinating because I am fascinated by Saturday Night Live. The mechanics of it, how it works. Is Jason Reitman Christina? It's Jason Reitman. Good job, Brian. Thanks. Look, I can get a White House press credential too. You're not the only ones. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes.
Starting point is 00:45:57 Yeah, a broken clock is right twice a day. So this movie that he made. I think I heard about that. So this movie that he made, which- Yeah, I think I heard about that. Like I heard about it, but then until I saw the trailer, I didn't even remember that they had talked about making this movie. But now they've made it and it does look fascinating. And I would love to watch this movie. I don't know where-
Starting point is 00:46:20 Sure, I would too. It's like out in the independent theaters or something like that. I don't know what's going on. Can you tell me when that movie is coming out? It'll be streaming before no time. Okay. Yeah, I wanna see when it's gonna be on the streamers because that's when I'll really see it.
Starting point is 00:46:32 Because seeing Wicked the other day, it was literally an act of Congress to get out of this house. And that's never gonna happen again until Gustavo and Ale, congratulations to both of you, until they come back here and decide to watch The Kids for us. But, like, go ahead. Sorry, you can buy it on Apple TV, Amazon Prime,
Starting point is 00:46:54 et cetera, et cetera. How much is it? $20. Jesus, Jones, come on. I know, I know, I know. There's almost as much to go to the movie theater. Yeah, okay, all right, I'm not gonna buy it yet. I'll wait a couple years until it comes out on Netflix.
Starting point is 00:47:05 Can you rent it? Yeah, you can buy it, but I don't think you can rent it. No. They have a period where you can buy it and then they have the rental period too. Usually it's the other way around. Usually you can rent it first and then you get to buy it later. Go ahead. So you can buy it for $24.99 or rent it for $19.99.
Starting point is 00:47:24 Oh, well. Well, buy it. I know.99 or rent it for $19.99. Oh, well. Well, buy it. I know. Yeah. Why rent it? And then you got that two-day period where you have to watch it. And that to me is the killer. I always just decide to buy it because I'm like, I'm never going to get this done in two days.
Starting point is 00:47:36 Really? I'm the opposite because when I'm going to rent something, I'm like, yeah, I want to watch it right now. Yes, I am also like that. But no, my children do not allow me to do that. That is a complete farce. It's like, I think-
Starting point is 00:47:49 Okay, you can't follow through with that. No, I was thinking, you know, it's like getting five minutes of work done at any time of the day or night in a row, five minutes in a row is nearly impossible with the chaos that goes on in this house. And I love it, I wouldn't change it for the world, but there's just a certain rhythm to the way things go.
Starting point is 00:48:06 And I know it's gonna take me three to four days to watch two hours of anything in a row. So, but this Saturday Night Live, you know where we had Rosebud Baker on? Rosebud Baker is a writer, a senior staff writer, a senior writer for Saturday Night Live. And she kind of explained to us the chaos that goes into writing an episode of Saturday Night Live. And she kind of explained to us the chaos that goes into writing an episode of Saturday Night Live. They have one day off a week, and then the rest of the
Starting point is 00:48:32 week, they are there till midnight. One, two, three, four in the morning, trying to get this show ready to be broadcast to millions of people live every week. And they do two of those shows. They do one in the afternoon afternoon and they do one during the night when it's live. So it's a big lift to get all of that done, to try and make it funny. There's 12 to 15 skits that go into each show. There's musical acts. That's just got, there's got to be, it's got to be so frenetic and so incredible to watch that all come together to do it for the first time. Danielle Pletka Oh, yeah, I can only imagine. When Lorne Michaels put this together and pitched the network,
Starting point is 00:49:08 he didn't even tell them what the show was going to be about. He just said, listen, there's gonna be a comedy show live on Saturday night, I need an hour and a half after the news broadcasts. And the network said, okay, sure. And he knew the players that were involved, and I'm sure they had people at rehearsals. But I can almost imagine just how crazy that first night was,
Starting point is 00:49:28 especially with the personalities that were on board. Yeah, get your cocaine ready, boys. We're doing a show. Yes, Chevy Chase was a walking eight ball in the 70s and 80s, and he has admitted it as such. Isn't there a movie about like Chevy Chase being stuck in a room with somebody doing cocaine at a country club for days in a row? Does this sound familiar to you?
Starting point is 00:49:51 No. Can you Google Chevy Chase cocaine country or hotel movie? I don't know. There's something there's a… In Caddyshack? There's a documentary about this. Go ahead. Did you find it? No. Okay. I remember reading about this or hearing about it. I mean There's a documentary about this. Go ahead. Did you find it? Okay. I remember reading about this or hearing about it. I mean, we even talked about it. But like, yes, the lots of cocaine,
Starting point is 00:50:12 lots of liquor, you have John Belushi, who is by all accounts, a pretty hot mess, but also extraordinarily talented. And they're all trying to come together to put on a live television show on a broadcast network when broadcast networks were the only game in town. So there are probably millions, if not tens of millions of people that are tuning in to see this new television show on one of the three channels that they had after the network news. It just seems so exciting to me. And I would love to go up there and watch a Saturday Night Live taping. Oh, yeah. Rosebud, because I know you follow the commercial break,
Starting point is 00:50:48 Dear Rosebud, please send tickets ASAP, backstage passes if you would, all access, so that I can come back and report on that frenetic energy here at the commercial break. That would be to me, to me that is on the bucket list. Go see a taping of Saturday Night Live. And I've had friends who've gone and seen tapings. I've had friends that have gone too. And I've had friends who've gone to the rehearsals who were lucky enough to get the rehearsal tickets.
Starting point is 00:51:14 And they said it's just like, it's amazing, it's crazy how it all comes together. It's so fast, it's so whiz bang. And yeah, I wanna see the movie. Jason, put it on Netflix so that we can all watch it at our own time without having to pay extra money. Poor Jason, but here's the crazy thing is I never even heard about the movie coming out in the movie theaters, or maybe it didn't, maybe it went straight to video. Maybe Wicked and that goddamn Gladiators pushed it out, or probably twisters pushed it out of the movie
Starting point is 00:51:45 twisters twisters with glenn fry or whatever his name is what's his name glen uh glen powell glen powell like glen powell what's his next glen fry he was in the eagles no i know glen fry was in the eagles glen fry talking about a walking eight ball glen fry from the eagles he might still be a walking eight ball i don't that, I think he's actually been sober for many years, but Glenn Fry is so fucking talented. You know, I saw him on that, remember that day, for a while there in VH1, they had that live from Darrell's house?
Starting point is 00:52:15 Did you ever see that? Yes, Darrell, yeah, I did. Yeah, it was the Darrell Hall, John Oates of Darrell. That's the Darrell. That's the Darrell. They're not exactly Hall and Oates anymore. They're having a little disagreement. Oates wants out and Hall won't let him go.
Starting point is 00:52:26 It's like crazy. But in that disagreement, I guess in that period of we're not hanging out together anymore, Hall got, what's that disease you get from lice, from deer lice? Lyme disease? Lyme disease. He got Lyme disease. It affected him terribly. From ticks. Oh, from deer lice. Beth Dombkowski Lime disease? Jared Lieb Lime disease. He got lime disease. It affected him terribly. Oh, from ticks. And he, yeah, not lice. What's the difference, really, at the end of the day? Ticks, lice. He got bit by a deer tick. He got that lime disease. It
Starting point is 00:52:58 affected him terribly. He was sick for many years, actually, I think is what he said. And then, as he started to get better, he couldn't play out in the public, so he was inviting people to come and play with him. I saw quite a few of those. It was cool. Well, at first, according to him, he was literally just inviting people over to come play. There was no cameras or anything. In his big barn where he had set up this music studio, people were coming to say, hey, hope you feel better helping him get better playing music. And then he put some cameras in there and did live from Darrell's house. And he had some really great talented
Starting point is 00:53:30 musicians come up there, play their songs, play Hall & Oates songs, and just have a good time. Eat some dinner and have a good time. And it was all taped. And I saw Glenn Frye do an episode and he is so fucking good at what he does. He's so talented. If I just had one inch of that talent, then maybe there's a chance Astrid stays with me till I pass away. Just one inch of that guitar talent.
Starting point is 00:53:52 That's all I want. But no, Brian can't even play home sweet home from Motley Crue. Keep practicing. Yeah. You know that Motley, that home sweet home song is now in a car commercial? And so every time I hear it, every time Astrid and I are in the same room and it comes out and Astrid
Starting point is 00:54:09 looks at me, is that the song you were trying to play? That's it. Yes, dear. That's the song that I was trying to play. It's the effort. Yeah. And, you know, have you read the Saturday Night Live book? Have you read the book about Saturday Night Live? I haven't, but I feel like I've seen quite a few documentaries from different perspectives of different people on it.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Yeah. And it's very fascinating. I love it. I love everything about it. What was your favorite, like, cast of Saturday Night Live? Oh, God. There's so many. There really are.
Starting point is 00:54:41 But what do you think was like the- I don't think everybody was there like at the same time. Yeah. That I truly love. Yeah. I mean, just off the top of the head, I mean, it's gotta be Chris Farley, Kristen Wiig. Yep. Will Ferrell, obviously.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Will Ferrell. I loved, I love whenever, although never actually a cast member, Steve Martin has been on quite a few times. He's like the person who's hosted the most or something? Yeah. God, Amy Poehler, the... Kristen Wiig? I said Kristen Wiig.
Starting point is 00:55:12 Oh, you said Kristen Wiig? Yep. Who's the other one? Gosh, Maya Rudolph. Maya Rudolph is so good. Yeah. She is so good. I mean, so many. I mean, think about Dana Carvey.
Starting point is 00:55:24 Oh, yeah. And Mike Myers. I mean, so many. I mean, think about Dana Carvey. Oh, yeah. And Mike Myers. Mike Myers. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy was fantastic. Yeah, there's so many. John Belushi, Jeffy Chase, Dan Aykroyd. Exactly. Over the years.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Garrett Morris. Yeah. What's her name? Lorraine Boozler. But who was the other one? Rosanna, Rosanna Dana. You know I'm talking about. She was married to... Yes, yes, Rita... I can't remember her name, but she was... Dang it, she died early. My dad used to watch set, my dad, everybody in my family, you know, my grandparents and everybody, used to watch Saturday Night Live. So when I was growing up, I would see not only would I see the
Starting point is 00:56:02 new episodes, but then they would rerun old episodes during when they were not live. So for them to be- Oh, I mean, it's literally been around for 50 years. 50 years. But I just remember as a kid, that Saturday Night Live kinda being the mainstay. You know, on Saturday Night Live, Saturday night I would be allowed to stay up,
Starting point is 00:56:18 watch TV, and you know, got a little extra slack. And it was one of the shows that was a little bit more adult that I was allowed to watch. And my dad just loved it. He loved seeing John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Steve Martin cut up. He thought it was the greatest thing when they did that.
Starting point is 00:56:34 Oh God, when they did the Blues Brothers, or when, who was that, the father that would come on, the smoking cigarettes, the father on the newscast, and all the newscasters over the years. I mean, we can think, just like so talented. And I think the guys who are doing the Saturday Night Live news right now are so incredibly talented. Oh, yeah. Who's the guy that's married? God, who's the guy that's married to Scarlett Johansson?
Starting point is 00:56:57 Colin Jost. Colin Jost. I love him. And Michael Che. And Michael Che. They may be the best that have ever done it. And there's been a lot of Dennis. Not better than Seth Meyers. I don't know. I might. I think he was the best that have ever done it. And there's been a lot of Dennis... Not better than Seth Meyers. I don't know. I might... Seth Meyers was great. Dennis Miller was great.
Starting point is 00:57:10 Dennis Miller. Colin... What's-his-name did it for a while. Colin Quinn did it for a while. Colin Quinn. Oh, my God. Yeah, Chevy Chase, I think, even did it for a few minutes. Just like... Well, he was only on it for one season. I know. Crazy to think about. Yeah, crazy to think about. I think even did it for a few minutes. Just like- Well, he was only on it for one season.
Starting point is 00:57:25 I know. That's crazy to think about. Yeah, crazy to think about, but then, you know, Chevy's never been one to get along with humans. I mean, Chevy's never been one to get along with humans. He is so fucking talented, but he apparently was so full of himself
Starting point is 00:57:38 that he was just very, full of himself and full of, you know, Brazil's finest, you know, that Columbia's marching powder, that it just became impossible to work with him. And people were, but I think he left the show because he wasn't being billed as the biggest star. I think he wanted to be- Well, he was getting into movies.
Starting point is 00:57:56 Yeah, and he did some great ones. Classics. Classic movies. So I really want to see this. There was a making of Caddyshack that I just watched recently and it's really good. A documentary? Yes. A making of Caddyshack? The making of Caddy Shack that I just watched recently and it's really good. A documentary? Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:06 A making of Caddy Shack? The making of Caddy Shack. Oh yeah. It's a really good one. Yeah, you know, Bill Murray wasn't even supposed to be in that movie. Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd, I mean, and Chevy Chase hated each other.
Starting point is 00:58:16 They did. By all accounts. I know. Didn't they get into a fist fight once or something? Yeah. And they hated each other so much that they are, I think they're only in one scene together in the entire movie. And then they had to be separated. They had to come in on set at different times because-
Starting point is 00:58:30 Yeah, they made it work for the movie, but they did hate each other. Hated each other. Because Bill Murray was kind of the anti-ego to Chevy Chase's ego. But Bill Murray's turn in Caddyshack is like star making. Yeah, he was only available for like two days or something that they had him. And so they talk about how he had to come in and of course he was only supposed to have one line or something like that. And then he kind of stole the whole thing. Everybody loved him. The set is like set at an actual country club down in Florida. I know. Didn't they buy like a country or rent a country club?
Starting point is 00:59:07 They didn't buy it, but yeah, they had to rent it out. And again, it was for a very short time too, because it was an actual working country club. Yeah, and they were staying at the country club, like the hotel inside of the country club. The hotel next to it. And yeah, they said it was a party, party, party all the time. Of course. And it's a very interesting documentary. It's on Amazon. We should rent a country club and do a couple episodes of The Commercial Break. See how things
Starting point is 00:59:28 go. We just get like stockpiled drugs and alcohol, leave our kids, hide your kids, hide your wife kind of thing, and just like, just make episodes of The Commercial Break at the highest level of craziness. TCB Gone Wild? Yes, TCB Gone Wild. I'll flash the camera. We'll put that TCB Gone Wild thing. People filming on OnlyFans. Oh man, if we could only make money on OnlyFans, we wouldn't be here. I do this because I have no choice. There is no OnlyFans option for me.
Starting point is 00:59:56 If you would just want to see my penis, then I wouldn't have to do this over and over again. What's up with you guys and girls? Mainly. Or guys, mainly. I don't know. I don't know. I'm a friend of the gays, what can I say? There's a drop for you, Christina. I'm a friend of the gays, what can I say? Yeah, so I'll watch that Saturday Night Live documentary or mockumentary, I guess, and I'll get back to you on- Please do report back. I will. And I am not watching a lot of Saturday Night Live right now. Astrid watches it, but I'm not watching a lot of Saturday Night Live right now because I just don't have a lot of extra time.
Starting point is 01:00:37 But I think Saturday... Because you're watching A Thousand Pounds on Sisters. A Thousand Pounds Sisters is a fantastic show. No replacement for Saturday Night Live, but it's also not on at midnight on Saturday when you have 13 to 15 children. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I do record it, but I just, I don't find myself getting around to it. Thousand Pound Sisters comes first. Tammy and whatever her name are, they come first. They always will. They're my friends on the TV. Yes, both of them have lost a ton of weight. There's no more thousand pounds about it. They have lost a ton of weight. And, you know, good,
Starting point is 01:01:14 they'll live a couple more years. Tammy, she was really, really sick for a while there. But how did I get on thousand pounds? Okay, because you said thousand pound sisters. And she said you're not watching Saturday Night Live. Do you disagree with my taste in television, Chrissy? Because every time I see a television show, it ends up somehow, you and Jeff are in there watching it, getting wrapped into it. Well, no. You talk about it so much that I feel like I should watch it to see for research purposes
Starting point is 01:01:42 what you're talking about. Then I get sucked in. Then I suck Jeff in and it's a whole cycle. A likely story from Chrissy. I think you need to start going to Saturday Night Live and then we can talk about that. Okay, you take the kids every Saturday Night Live from 1130 to 130. You know I say recordings, you record it. I record it. I just told you I can't even watch a movie in four days. How am I supposed to get an hour and a half of Saturday
Starting point is 01:02:05 and I live in every time? The H-Y Thousand Pound Sisters is great. 90 Day Fiancé is an hour and a half. Here's why it's great. I'll explain. There is no paying attention to it whatsoever. You can literally tune in and tune out with your brain. This is true, and that's why I like that too.
Starting point is 01:02:20 It's not, you don't have to hang on every word, but if you're gonna watch a comedy skit, you better pay attention because it's likely to be funny at some point and you want to laugh. There is going to be, it's all so formulaic, reality television is, it's all so formulaic, you know what's going to happen. And it's also written, it's like literally a written show. So you know there's going to be drama between the sisters, they're going to get into a fight,
Starting point is 01:02:44 then they're going to go on a big trip and everything's going to be fine. And then next season they're going to get into a fight again. And then everything's going to be fine. The production crew flies them to some far flung location. Right now the thousand pound sisters are about to go to London. They're going to go to London. They're going to get on a plane for the first time in their lives, apparently, and go to London. Do you think they came up with that idea? Fuck no, they didn't come up with the idea. They haven't left West Kentucky in their entire lives and now they're flying to London. Do you think they came up with that idea? Fuck no, they didn't come up with the idea. They haven't left West Kentucky in their entire lives and now they're flying to London. It's like, it's ridiculous. Two weeks ago, they met with a genealogy specialist to see if they were related to the Queen of England.
Starting point is 01:03:17 It's like the most ridiculous thing ever. But guess what? Were they? Now, we don't know. Maybe. We couldn't go back that far. Tune in next week. Tune in next week. Let's go to London because we have to find out if we're, it's so stupid. And guess what? Every single reality show on TLC and everywhere else
Starting point is 01:03:34 does the same fucking thing. I know. You get a hit on your hands, you tape some people and they're doing their lives and you piece it together, you edit it the right way. That's why I like the first season of any kind of reality show. First season, second season, third season's always good.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Four seasons jumps the shark. Yeah, because they don't know what they, they don't know, it is true reality, I think, to some degree. That's right. I can almost tell you what every, my seven little Johnstons will be every single week. Right. There's some kind of family dynamic drama,
Starting point is 01:04:02 then we play a game, we do something interesting, we go on a trip, and then the drama gets resolved at the end, and then there's a kind of family dynamic drama, then we play a game, we do something interesting, we go on a trip, and then the drama gets resolved at the end, and then there's a new drama. Stay tuned next week. Here it comes. That's how it goes, you know why? Because Brian knows how reality TV goes because I watch entirely too much of it.
Starting point is 01:04:17 Saturday Night Live, save me! Pfft! Ha ha ha ha! Yes, let's start watching Saturday Night Live. I will, okay, fine, fine. Just sprinkle, there's start watching Saturday Night Live. I will. Okay, fine. Fine. Just sprinkle it. There's just one a week.
Starting point is 01:04:28 Well, that's true. It's not that big of a lift. Sprinkle it in. Sprinkle it in amongst your reviewing habits. I will. I will. Well, I want to talk about that. I want to talk about your Yacht Rock.
Starting point is 01:04:40 Oh my God. It's so good. Speaking of Hall and Oates. Yeah. Yeah. Yacht Rock is making a comeback. Yeah, it's so good. Speaking of Hall and Oates, yeah. Yeah, Yacht Rock is making a comeback. Yeah, there's that documentary. It's been around here in Atlanta for a long time though. This is nothing new to us here in Atlanta.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Well, there's the band. Yeah, but they have made it very, they've made that style of music very popular. It's a whole event every time they play. Everybody gets together and does the whole ditty. And young people too, like, you know, 18, 19, 21 years old. So Christopher Cross is like, supposedly, according to this documentary, the king of yacht rock. He created yacht rock.
Starting point is 01:05:11 Sailin' takes me away to where I'm on a day. We've been singing this song since season two. I love some Christopher Cross. We are ahead of the trend for once. But don't ask me to what at or talk about White House press briefings. Yacht Rock I got. I can't go to the press briefing. All right. TCB podcast.com. That's where you get more information about the show. All the audio, all the video, every episode now is on videos available on the website. Also available at youtube.com slash the commercial break or
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Starting point is 01:06:37 You can also request your free sticker by the phone or your cameo. Or your cameo. Please, cameo. All right, Chrissy, well, I guess that's all I can do for now. I think so. But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you.
Starting point is 01:06:50 I'll say best to you. Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say. Good-bye. Bye. Bye. I'm gonna go. I get ass. Have no family to celebrate Christmas with this year?
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