The Commercial Break - Let's Be Nosy!

Episode Date: February 28, 2024

Things get silly as Christina joins Bryan for a discussion about the Hinge lawsuit and a few Ask TCBs. The Hinge (Match Group) lawsuit False advertising & the gamification of dating apps Meeting people irl Being too slow for the run club Toe shoes Christina is a chatty runner Christina is a liar she has dated people she met in person lol Be more nosy! Asshole bleaching ads Krissy’s drinking on a beach in Jamaica An Ask TCB (& Christina) We are concerned! Communication is key! Get your nut Does Bryan believe in ghosts? Do we actually have listeners? Listen to Christina’s show here Bryan got slutty Our favorite sponsors & guests Live shows? Roe v Wade LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  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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times I say well this can't be and then to my shock and dismay, it continues being. And I've just been wondering when something is going to be done about that. On this episode of The Commercial Break... I'm thinking in my later 20s, have I, like, met someone out and then gone on a few dates with them? I don't think so. Here is, this is, I was explaining this to somebody a couple days ago.

I think the world needs more nosy ant matchmakers. Do you know what I'm saying? Absolutely, I said this the other day, Ryan. Nosey matchmakers, yes. We are one woman, I love that one. Go Queen. I, Slequeen, go Queen. Slequeen, go Queen. Sleigh Queen, go Queen.

Get off on it. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Yeah, boy! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green and this is our editor-in-chief, Christina. Christina, best of you. Best of you, Brian. Best best you are there in the podcast universe i was wondering if it was editor and she or editor in chief and then you just

gotta read the actual and read it on the senate vc editor in chief and i know that means but you know i'll roll with it because they say it's official she's the chief editor she's a chief editor in charge she's a cheap bitch in charge. Oh, you're damn right. I am. Oh, yes. Christina was just reading me of very and telling me about a very interesting story. Now, maybe not relevant to those of us who are old and married, but maybe more relevant to those of us who are young and

single. Christina, do tell about the hinge lawsuit because I'm very interested. I have a lot to say about this. There's a little lawsuit flying around against the match group, which is like tindermatch.com and hinge. I didn't realize that they owned so many of them until you started telling me this story. I mean, I think I did know that match owned Tinder, but I didn't realize they owned hingematch.com.

I know. It's, I don't know. It's crazy. There. So basically I'm reading from the Washington post just so you guys know, but it says, there's a class action lawsuit filed February 14th, six dating app users, accused match group of having a predatory business model and deliberately employing psychologically manipulative features to ensure they remain on the app

perpetually as paying subscribers. No shit. And they're saying it violates consumer protection laws because it intentionally designs the platforms with addictive game-like design features which lock users into a perpetual pay-to-play loop that prioritizes corporate profits over its marketing promises and customers' relationship goals. And further, later on on it goes to say, one sec.

To say something about like false advertising. That's, yeah, it's just further down in the article. So it says the lawsuit also accused match of violating laws on false advertising and defective design, saying it's apps are trying to entrench users on the app and prioritizing profits over marketing promises because their entire thing, especially Hinge's slogan is designed to be deleted, but they accuse the app of inspiring users to do the opposite.

Which I would say is true. In my experience, that's true. Well, your experience says a lot because you came on and told us about this. You said that Hinge puts people in rose jail quote unquote. Rose jail. Let me repeat for those who don't know what Christina was talking about. I don't know, 40 episodes ago.

This was 700 episodes ago. Yeah, she's on Hinge and in order to communicate with some people or to let them know that you're thinking about them, I guess to get ahead of the line, you would send them a rose, of which you're allowed one per week, correct? And then that rose indicates that you're the cream of the crop, you're the best of the bunch,

you've given your rose to somebody. It's like a special item you give to them to let them know you're at the top of their list, right? I assume. It's also like socially embarrassing. Totally, completely. Like you have to give a rose to somebody to get their attention or is it that you get the roses

and that's that you get the roses by paying. And it's like, oh, if you're paying for this. It's yeah, if you're paying for this, then the indication would be or maybe the stereotype would be what a loser. Why are you paying for it? It's kind of embarrassing. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. You know, I've shared this and I'll share it now, is that I believe that there is not legally a lot of water to hold here. Like, I think that this

happens, the gamification of everything is happening. This is essentially a social media company. And even though dating is their game, that's, it's a social media. And social media has been gamified for ever and ever. Likes, hearts, dislikes, when that was a thing. You know, you don't pay for those things, but they are social currency in a way. And I don't think that Hinge is doing anything illegal,

immoral maybe, but an embarrassing probably, and absolutely, you know, making dating tough on everybody, yes. But is it illegal? Probably not, because when you think about it, like I was giving this example, you go to Disney World, in every commercial that you see for Disney World, these people are running around the park

without anybody around them. There's like 30 people in the entirety of Magic Kingdom, and they're getting on every ride, and they're having a magical day, and they're looking at the fireworks right from the front of the castle. And no one's crying. And no one is crying. And if you have ever been to Disney World or any Disney related park or any theme park for that matter, then you know that is horse shit. They are going to charge you $700 to get in, you and your family $700 just to get in the park and then they're going to make you pay additional money

to get to the front of the line and Everybody who's standing in line looks at those assholes and goes what what huh? What happened there and then everybody who is in the line the fast-pass line may feel one of two things either Fools for not paying. We know where's your pocketbook or number two I'm embarrassed that I'm getting in front of all these people who have been standing in line for four hours the gamification Of everything is happening and There is a price to be paid. So is it illegal? No false advertising. Maybe that's what I'm gonna say I was gonna say I think the false advertising thing is really where they actually have a shot because I

I mean, I've been complaining about this for years that their slogan is designed to be deleted And I think they're full of shit Yeah, because they literally like they won't show you the people who you are most likely to connect with I've been complaining about this for years that their slogan is designed to be deleted and I think they're full of shit. Yeah. Because they literally like, they won't show you the people who you are most likely to connect with based on their algorithm. Wow. They will not show them to you unless you pay for it. Well, now that is false advertising.

You have one chance to send a rose, but like the thing is, I mean, sending a rose is embarrassing anyway, but like, at least in my view, that's not as a personal thing. I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way. But that's personal to me, but like if you have to pay to see the people in your standouts in Rose Jail, who are your most compatible

or you're most likely to be in your league to like people to like you or whatever, if you have to pay to see them, then it's not designed to be deleted. It's designed for you to pay for it. Yeah, well. Which is like bullshit. So don't be a dating out.

It is bullshit. And now listen, okay. So this is like, this is consumerism at its finest, right? It is essentially I give you. Late stage capitalism. Yeah, I give you the teat, but the milk will not come until you pay or until you bite off on putting your credit card down

And this is what always happens with everything, right? We all got on Facebook and then Facebook inundated us with advertisements and misinformation and you know propaganda from the nation states Third World nation states. I mean that, and that's the way it always happens. You get hooked on the free, you pay for the better. And this is the way consumerism has been working forever and ever and ever. And especially in the age of the internet, when essentially their game is showing you who you could potentially be matched with, they're in their minds and their shareholders minds, why wouldn't we charge you extra to be then, okay.

So, but when you're telling people that this is what's going to happen, regardless if you pay or not, paying gives you some additional perks, but regardless, we're gonna make sure that you get the people that you're intended to be hooked up with. And they purposely behind the scenes with hold

until you do pay. And then when you do pay, it's a much better experience. And you're like, well, fuck, I guess I have to pay next month too. Then fuck, I guess I have to pay next month too. Then you're like, I have to pay next month too. So also like the chart, the actual money is ridiculous. 49.99 a month?

So much money. So much money. I wouldn't even pay not to go to a gym, babe. No. And I could meet people there. No, this is like 49.90 a month is that's... It's like, I could meet people there. No, this is this is it's like 49 90 month is that's like girl Get a grip sister. I could pay for all the streaming apps Whack off and never have another date and I would be happy for 49 99 a month. That's a lot of money

That's a lot of money. Can you imagine if TV tried to charge somebody? You guys wouldn't even get $5 a month on Patreon. We couldn't get $1.99 a month when we did it. We couldn't get $1.99 a month. I mean, come on, $49.99. In what world? Like, are they fucking crazy? They are fucking crazy.

That's the thing is that they have this product that everybody's hooked on and they know that you're not gonna tear yourself away from it because it's one of the only ways that people meet each other in romantic or potentially romantic situations these days. The bars are scary, the world is a big bad, ugly place. After COVID, I'm not sure anybody has left their house.

That's why we're trying run clubs. Run club, are you in a run club? Oh, I'm in two run clubs. Oh, cool. I like the idea of a run club actually. I think that's cool. I saw. Yeah, I've been two run clubs. Oh, cool. I like the idea of a run club, actually. I think that's cool. I saw. Yeah, I've been so many clubs right now.

You should be, that's a good thing. Well, I'm trying to be very social. I'm trying to expand my circle, if you will. I met a couple yesterday and they were, if I've been married for, I don't know, a decade or something, they met on one of the online, match.com, eHarmony, one of those.

I forgot which one it was, but one of the ones that's been around for a while. I have friends, I have family members who've met on those and are married still to this day. There are love stories to be had inside of these applications and there are people who meet and then really fall in love. They're not trying to race gouge you. That's right.

If you have the 49.99 to pay. That's insane. That's insane. I'm just like really paying for dates. That's not something I'm in the business of doing. Yeah, okay, fair enough. But like match.com and eHarmony.com and those other ones, they've always been paid services, I believe.

It's just Tinder and Hinge and OKCupid and some of those. So match.com eHarmony, you know what you're getting into. Yeah, yeah. But with Hinge and Tinder and Bumble, they did not start that way. And like we all have been using them since they started. And the people who like actually who I know who have like been married or been in relationships

that started on those apps started before their algorithms started getting predatory. They're all people who met like before COVID on the apps. Where this... Go ahead. Go ahead. No, go ahead. Please finish your sentence. Oh, I was just going to say anyone who's met after it or anyone who's been using it like post COVID is like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. Was it better pre-COVID or during COVID? Why? Because it was absolutely free.

There was no roses, you just did your thing. There was probably like some cost, but it wasn't, it wasn't like it is now. It was like you had a lot more, like 2018, 2019, it was way more just like regular dating app. Like you were just swiping through people, seeing what you liked, you're the people who would like you were in your purview.

So like there was no issue in getting to the people. The problem is now you go on hinge and you can't even get to people who you like. Because they're hiding them behind a paywall essentially. Yeah. Yeah, like I do understand, like I'm not, you know, I'm not on the side of corporate entities every time,

but I do understand that this, the AI technology that they use, the huge amount of data and servers that they use, the complicated machinery that is connecting someone with other people they like based on their preferences and who they've chosen in the past, that's expensive stuff. And so you gotta pay for it somehow. And okay. Girl get ads. pay for it somehow. And okay.

I'll get ads. That's it. That's what I- I'm like, do advertisements. Well, you know, you say do advertisements and I agree with you, do advertisements, right? Every third swipe or every fifth swipe or every 10th swipe, you have to watch

a 30 second commercial, right? You do get ads on Bumble sometimes. Oh, you do? I think it's ads. Sometimes I swipe through and I'm like, what? And it comes up with something else. Yeah. And then I'm like, oh, and then I just kind of swipe past it.

But you see it. Just do it like Instagram and allow the users to pay to have their, their shit shown more like an ad, but it says sponsored, right? Yeah, exactly. Or it says paid for, you know. Yeah, that's what I wanna see. Listen, when I was a young man, many decades ago,

many hundreds of decades ago, I do remember. I was a young man. It was 1944. 1942, long before the wheel was invented in 1777. Back when Aunt Artica was green. Which is weird, I watched this. Anyway, I'm not gonna get into it. But I do remember that there were often,

and I say often, probably twice a year, when you would listen to the local radio stations, news stories about a gentleman who would put his advertisement, his classified ad for himself, right? His essentially dating profile, up on a billboard somewhere in Atlanta or around. I'm not even kidding.

And they would do this, usually around Valentine's Day, it was like a Valentine's Day Christmas type thing. And they would always have these like, human interest stories where guys would be putting their selves up on a billboard and saying, you know, I'm single, ready to mingle. I'm six foot two, I'm 110 pounds, whatever it was,

110 pounds, six foot two, that's a really skinny man. 110 pounds, incredible, incredible work. It is tiny, tiny, you're just tiny. You can't get a date because you look like a boner. No, no, but I mean 49.99 a month times five years, right? Okay, you could probably get a billboard for 3000 bucks. So here's what I'm saying is that like, it's just like, and I don't know if you've noticed this

about Instagram and we are as guilty of this as anybody. When we have a good clip, sometimes we boost it, but now I'm noticing that the most ridiculous of things are getting boosted. Like, hi, I'm Dave and I play guitar for the last three weeks and here's my music. It's like good for you, Dave. You should put yourself out there. I agree with that.

Go for it. You got $10 to waste, go do it dude. Shoot your shot, get it. But can the apps also work this way? Where like if you really want to get in front of additional people, just have an ad. Let someone pay for it individually on a one-off basis. Like, okay, I'm going to put my profile out there for the next three weeks.

It's going to cost me $100. And then I'm going to get shown to not just people that I like, but everybody in my area, right? Or at least as many people as $100 pays. That's a more, I think, transparent way to do this, is allow somebody to boost themselves. And then let the marketplace decide whether or not that's something interesting. And in my opinion, if you tell people

that you're gonna connect them, no matter what, for free, we're gonna get you, we got you covered. And then, but if you really want us to get your back, if you really want the full service experience, go ahead and pay $49.99 a month. That's bringing you in and then it's just by hook or by crook. And I understand the position that match.com is in, they have to make money.

They can't do this for free. But at the same time, I do agree that like switch bait and switching all of a sudden is probably a shitty thing to do. This is not going to be, this is not going to hold weight legally. I guarantee you unless they have false advertising and that can be broken. I think the false advertising thing might, but we'll see.

But here's where it's really going to hurt. I think there's two things that are going to happen. Number one, a larger conversation about what it is to find a romantic partner in the year 2024. And number two, more conversation and scrutiny around these dating apps, which can leave a lot of people miserable, a lot of people miserable. I mean, isn't it just fucking suck to be single in 2024?

I mean, no. Okay, very. And maybe I'm wrong. But like that's part of the reason I feel like why I don't really use the apps anymore is because I'm like, my life is fabulous. Yeah, and you get the run club. Can't they're like you guys at the run club?

A girls, you guys are girls. You're in two run clubs, your ads are for you. The problem right now, here's the problem. Coming back from a knee surgery, right? I have been humbled. I've been humbled, I am not fast. I am, in fact, very slow. And the last time I went to the run club. Are you like the slowest motherfucker out there?

The last time I went to the run club, I lost them. Yeah, they all ran faster than you. Everyone ran away. See, the first time I went to the Run Club, there was someone, they were like sending people back to us to like check on us and like make sure that we'll see. How nice of them. And it was so sweet.

It was honestly like, it was a little bit patronizing but I personally loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, sleigh, like coach me. Yeah. And they were being so encouraging and like I just want to chat when I run. So it was great to have someone to like,

you know chat with whatever. And my friend, she was struggling a little bit more and so she couldn't chat as much as I wanted to obviously. So then this time we go and there was a different, like it was mostly a pretty different group of people and it was a different like leader. And there was no one coming back to check that we were still with them.

No, they were like, fuck that. So we were on our own little ride. But when you say we, was it like you were with a slower group? I had a friend come with me. Oh, that was nice of her to stay with you. We're both slow. And so it was just two of us basically running the whole time.

But then we got back to the coffee shop after, like where we were, like the run club is sponsored by. And we all get like free coffee. And so then we hung out with the group a little bit there, but it's a little bit of a shame for me right now because I'm just not fast. I get it, I get it. But look, if you guys want to join us,

slow runners run club, I'm a girl. Let me ask you a question. If you could pay $49.99 a month and get someone to push you in a wheelchair with the fast people, would you do that? No. No. I guess that defeats the purpose of run club.

Yeah, well we'll see. I'm joining a trail running club. So we'll see what happens there. Cause you kind of have to go. So they said there's a slow group there. And I was like, cool. Trail running, you gotta take it easy. You have to take it easy.

Yeah, you have to go slow. You can't go fast. No, no, no, no. You can trip. And I'm delicate. You're like, I see a delicate flower over there. I'm a delicate flower. You know me.

If I'm an enterprising single young man and I'm attracted to somebody, you know what I'm doing? I'm keeping up pace with them slower, faster, whatever. I mean, I'm not a fast runner either. I like to run, but I don't run at any pace. I mean, I'm really, really slow, but I'm old. I want to take it easy. I'm not looking for new hips.

You don't want to hurt your joints. No, I'm not looking for a new hip at 50. Which one of my uncles had, my uncle had like, he had to get his hip replaced at 50 because he was running all the time. Like every morning, every night he would be out running and the doctor was like, you gotta stop it, you're killing your hips.

And it's a terrible, terrible, running is eventually a terrible thing on your body unless you're from one of those tribes somewhere who ran across the desert for days on end. They're so good at running. Yeah, they're so good at running. But that's like, they say like you are supposed to run, like that's like ideal running form,

like what the people, those people would do. So it's like very like small steps. Like you're not doing this. That's what I do. So people when they're like super fast, like you can bouncing up and down a lot when they're running, I'm sitting there, judging going, they are expending way too much energy.

You know what? I could do this for 25 miles. It's crazy. So I had been running for like, when I first started running a decade ago, let's say, I couldn't run a quarter of a mile without completely being out of air. But I was also just head quit smoking cigarettes.

So I think that had something to do with it. Oh, okay, okay, that's part of it. I had never conditioned my body to do this. And so then I started gaining some stamina and I was up to a mile and then two miles and then I was doing 5K every single day. And that didn't take long to do that. It was like maybe like a six month period, right?

Where I finally was like. When you build, I mean, when you truly work on it, it comes. But I had been running at the same particular place almost every morning or when I ran. And I would run around the same time and I noticed that there was a gentleman older. Okay, dangerous.

I know, but I liked it. So yeah, but you get addicted to it. Same route, same time every day, a woman, whatever. Well, listen, I don't think, no offense to myself, but I don't think this is the guy anybody's looking to sex traffic. I'm just saying, I think there are better options out there. Maybe you're the scary one on the trail.

Maybe, you never know. What does a bad guy look like? I'm not sure. So, just a guy. I had no, yeah, just a dude, thanks. I loved it. I'm a delicate flower. You are a delicate flower.

So I had noticed this guy was running, he was a little bit older than me and he was running too, but he was running different than I was running. I was running the American way you learn in school where you're just clod hopping around as bouncing up and down and fast as you can. Yeah, but I had noticed this guy and he was running almost like he was walking really fast, very smooth, very small steps, arms not swinging all over the place wildly. Ideal form. Or ideal form.

And so I started fashioning my run after this guy because I noticed that what he was doing. So then my friend goes, one of my friends who also runs, says you got to read this book on running, right? He started running barefoot, like in these barefoot shoes. Do you know what I'm talking about? Those ridiculous things that people wear. Yeah, that's what I like to call a red flag.

Totally. Why are you wearing foot gloves to run? This little like, Yes, the foot gloves. They actually have socks also that are like toe socks or running or like the Eninge or something. Yeah, okay. But I imagine that that's actually pretty good for your toes.

It probably is, but I just can't do it. I feel like I have too much self-respect to try it. Yeah, okay. But I imagine that that's actually pretty good for your toes. It probably is, but I just can't do it. I feel like I have too much self-respect to try it. Yeah, me too. I'm just like, I don't care. I'm married, no one's looking. I'm not looking for anybody, no one's looking for me. But I'm embarrassed by the foot sock. Like I just don't want to do that.

Anyway, so he says, you gotta read this book. Like he sends it to me on Amazon. I start reading it, you know what they got? It's one of these runners who ran across the desert from this particular drive. Like he wrote this book and he said, it's not about extending effort. It's about being in the pocket.

You get comfortable with a small, steady pace and you just sit there. Your breathing is comfortable. Your arms are comfortable. Your legs are moving like almost gliding across the, you know, don't pull your knees up toward your chest. That's what I'm doing in my own little slow runner style. Good for you.

And I wanna be able to run where I can talk the entire time. Well. I want to talk at you for the two and a half hours we are running this half-year run. I want to be chatting the entire time. You know what it says in the book? I have a podcast. You know what it says in the book?

It says you should run at a pace where you can talk the entire time. That's it. It's really good for your cardiovascular health. Yeah, listen, you're not gonna get an argument from me. But here's the question, bringing it back around, here's the question, do you less rely on the apps and more rely on social interactions

in order to find romantic partners or potential romantic partners? I think that's my goal this year. Good, I like it. I think that's my goal this year. Good. I like it. I think I wanna not use the apps and I want to try and meet people in real life. I don't think I've ever been out on a date

from like meeting someone organically. No. I'm trying to think. I don't know. You never been like a... Oh, no, that's not true. That's not true. You had to have met somebody in school or something.

Like, yeah. Well, I was thinking like after school, but then again, I did meet someone like after college who, like, I went out with like a few years later or whatever, but, you know, like I'm thinking in my later 20s, have I like met someone out and then gone on a few dates with them? I don't think so. Here is, this is, I was explaining this to somebody a couple of days ago. I think the world needs more nosy ant matchmakers.

Do you know what I'm saying? Absolutely, I said this the other day, Brian. Nosey matchmakers, yes. We are one woman, I love that. Go queen. I, Slequeen, go queen. Slequeen, go queen, get Queen. Slay Queen, go Queen. Get off on it.

No, I literally said this the other day. I was like, the best way to go on dates is to have people set you up with their friends. Totally agree? Or like other people they know. That's it. Our friends need to be more nosy in our lives. We can't let them get succumb to the hinge trap of consumerism dating What we need to do is just have more nosy fucking friends. That's what we need

Hey, I notice you haven't gotten laid in a while. There's this cute girl that I know and she's probably crazy But so are you so the two of you ought to go out on a date and hey, maybe you can get a hand job out of it Maybe she gets off to everybody's having a good time, go for it. And that's it. Do you wanna know something awful? About hand jobs? Just I heard someone the other day refer to a hand job as a handy J.

A handy J? A handy J. Well, that's just, that's new lows. You gotta call it. I was like, I'm gonna barf, I think. Yeah, it's called a hand shandy, thank you very much. Let's all settle down. You know where I heard that?

Run Club. Run Club! That's where all the bullshit is happening at. Run Club. There was a story about someone who feels like a hateful. I feel like now I'm missing out. I need to join the Run Club.

You need to join a Run Club, Brian. I wish, I wish. But I don't have time. I have a Run Club. It's called 18 Children of the House. The commercial break is a Run Club too. That's a gerbil run club. We're just spinning on a hamster wheel,

spinning around. Absolutely nowhere. All right, we've over talked, but that's what two podcasters will do. So let's take a break and then we'll be back. Well, thank the baby Jesus. Brian took a breath and now I will use this opportunity to let you know that we've got a brand new phone number.

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with prescription skincare formulated by dermatologists. Oh, is that for bleaching your ass or is that for taking care of something like scars from like HS or something? No, this says, what is the private cream? It's a prescription cream formulated to treat dark spots in the anus, underarms and genital area. So- But is dark spots, like is that like hyperpigmentation

or is that actually just- I don't know. Like your butthole? Listen, and I only know this because I've had 72 children in the last six years. I only know that assholes are generally different colors. I don't, not like I'm looking at my own, right? But when you wipe a baby's butt,

it's generally a different color than the rest of their skin. But I think that's pretty fucking normal and I'm not really sure why we would need to bleach our assholes unless, unless you're spending a lot of time down there. But out here watching too much porn. Listen, I don't know who these kids are

that think that bleaching the asshole is gonna make you any more attractive. If you are willing to go into an asshole, you are willing to deal with what is around and in the asshole. I don't think you're worried about what it looks like. Not at all. Turn the lights off like the rest of us.

Please, no one wants to see that. I just happen to be down there. I think as long as it's a clean asshole, then I think you're good to go. I don't disagree with you. Okay, but beyond the assholes in my Instagram musings, let's get to some Ask TCBs that have been filling up the inbox for a very long time because I didn't know

how to check the inbox properly. And so now I'm just getting to them after months and months of them being out there. Hence why I roast you on the liners, Brian. That's it. She is good at one thing and that is roasting me on my own show. All right, so by the way,

lots of great feedback about Astrid being on the show. The other day, thanks to everyone who wrote in, most people said they enjoyed Astrid busting my balls. So there you go. I liked it. I feel like I'm the villain on my own show. I thought it was really cute. You are.

I know. That's like a song from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. It's like, I'm the villain in my own story. I definitely am. I definitely am. I definitely am. And that's okay. Vince McMahon was the heel in his own WWF and look how things turned out for him.

Just fine. You're just bringing awareness to being the villain. Yes. Somebody's gotta be the villain, let it be me. You know what I do? I preempt the villainous, I preempt all of the negativity I'm going to get anyway, so I hurt myself

before someone else can hurt me. Okay, but onward and upward, let's get to some asked TCBs that have just been compiling, or piling up for, I don't know, probably six months. Okay, we're getting to them now, that's all that matters. Yeah, and you get my opinion and not Chrissy's. There you go. No complaints left.

Chrissy will be back, by the way, anybody who's wondering, Chrissy's just taking a little vacay, she'll be back, Chrissy's. There you go. No complaints left. Chrissy will be back by the way. Anybody who's wondering, Chrissy's just taking a little vacay. She'll be back. Chrissy's on a little vacay. She's literally like drinking on a beach. She was drinking on a beach. I think she has now back in the general

continental United States area. More to follow. I'm not really sure what's going on there, but we'll catch up with her one this time. Okay, so first let's go to, you know, the reason why I saved some of these questions too is because they're more direct about the podcast, like bring down the veil a little bit,

tell us what's going on behind the scenes, Brian, please. And I feel like we do a good job of that anyway, breaking the fourth wall on the show. We're not too precious about the commercial break because there's nothing to be precious about. But here's one that is More of a story slash question, which we get a lot of these also. Okay, so towel in Sioux City I am assuming I am assuming that is Sioux City

South Dakota and not Sioux City, Iowa, but I don't know because she didn't say I've been dating a guy for six months He's such a great dude, I've fallen for him. But we're in our late 20s and the dating scene has been tough on both of us, this is just exactly what we were talking about. We've both been cheated on multiple times and both of us have had what we consider shitty toxic relationships, joined the club tall.

But the last three months are slow, oh, so we decided to take it slow, both emotionally and sexually. But the last three months are slow. Oh, so we decided to take it slow, both emotionally and sexually. But the last three months or so, we've been getting pretty close, spending the night together almost four or five nights a week, going to friends and family events together, and even meeting the parents.

Honestly, I am not so sold on the idea of marriage in general, but he is making me think twice. All that said, I have one big concern. We have never had sex of any kind except for oral. And he went down on me, but he didn't allow me to go down on him. I am totally respectful of his space and comfort level with sex, but I'm a bit worried at this point.

He has had sex before, like with his last girlfriend just a year ago. So he does have sex. He's not a virgin. He's not religious, so this is not a religious thing. He has a penis. I've seen it and felt it. It seems to work just fine, she says. Okay. Thanks for the update. But he just won't go there. Every time I think we are close, he shuts it down. He just keeps saying, let's slow down and make sure this is both what we want before we make a mistake. So I'm like, really dude?

It's just sex. I mean, it's sex between two caring people who have been taking it really slow in the first place. And anytime I ask him about it, he shuts down the conversation with a joke or he changes the subject. Brian, Chrissy, what the fuck, Brian? Christina, what the fuck?

What would you all do? Horny and helpless in Sioux City, love the show. Oh, bless your heart and soul. Bless your heart and soul. Well, this is a conundrum and I can see why. It's not based on religious reasons. It's not based on the fact that he doesn't wanna have sex because he considers himself a virgin,

whether that's really, you know, some people are newly anointed virgins. They say, now I'm not having sex until the right person comes along or ever again. And it certainly is, I think you're taking the right tact here, like it's sort, you're being respectful and of his comfort level and his space. Six months is a long time, I think, for two consenting adults. It's a long time to withhold sex.

And I would also be concerned at this point, and if he shuts you down when you're trying to talk about it, I would be doubly concerned that not only are you not having sex, but he won't allow communication about your comfort. Yeah, that's my thing is like he's at the end of the day, he's just not communicating, like he's not giving you a reason why.

And like his reason could be like, I just, I don't wanna do it until this point. I don't wanna do it until I'm in love with you or something. For me, couldn't fall in love with someone without, you know, making sure. New way. No way. No way.

Well, I fell in love with Astrid, I'm sure of it, before I even ever physically met her in person. Wow. But it did not, we did not abstain for long after we had met in person. And when I say long, I mean days, right? And that was just so that we were in a place And when I say long, I mean days, right? And that was just so that we were in a place

where her family wasn't around. Like there were like mitigating factors. You know, her mom was in town, and I was staying at a hotel, whatever the deal was. But once we had the chance, once we had the comfort level and the space to do it, it happened. And that is because I will not be in a long-term relationship with somebody unless

I understand that we're compatible on multiple levels. It doesn't have to be a perfect fit on all levels, but it has to be some feeling. And it sounds like they get it on. So there is some like something going on down there. And they're clearly like they fancy each other. It's just a matter of like, why does he not wanna go there? Like he just doesn't want to blow job. He doesn't even wanna blow job. Really. He doesn't even wanna blow job.

Well actually I have had a partner who are not interested in oral. Which I understand. I have been with women who I am not interested in oral from. But that was just- Oh, what does that mean? Well, it just means that like, not to shit on anybody else's abilities,

but sometimes it was like a little toothy. It wasn't my favorite experience with that particular person. So I chose to do something else. It wasn't because I was like, you're a fucking bad head giver and I'm never getting ahead from you. It was just like, it's not that enjoyable that way.

So it's okay, let's do something else. Yeah. I was like, what the fuck is he gonna say? Well, she had a crack pipe in her mouth and it burned the tip of my dick, so I couldn't do it. Oh God, I was like, what? No, it was just, you know, some people- Okay, no, that makes sense.

Okay, some people fit and some people don't. Yeah, fine, okay. I had a partner who like, was just like, I just don't really like it. It doesn't really do that much for me. It's just not really for me. So I can understand like this guy if he's not really into it, that's fine. But it's also like then how is, like, what is,

where is he driving his pleasure? And like the playing field doesn't feel super even right now. And it feels like he's making it that way. And it kind of feels like him withholding sex is like maybe for a way to like a power play. Yeah. Well, maybe you might be right. Don't know. It's hard to tell because we don't hear his side of the story, right?

And we don't know enough of the details because that's literally all she wrote. Yeah, told her what was up or like, I'm just not feeling emotionally ready for that. the details because that's literally on shit. Well, and he just fucking told her. If he told her what was up, or like I'm just not feeling emotionally ready for that. And that's okay. Or listen, I've had some really bad sexual experiences and it gives me PTSD or whatever the case is. There's lots of different reasons. But you have to communicate. Absolutely.

And so now I would say this, this is ultimatum time and not in the most gentle of ways. And I'll say ultimatum in a bad way, but this is the time when you say to your friend, your boyfriend, it sounds like you guys are serious, you've met the parents, you're sleeping together four or five nights a week. She said she's falling for him.

She's falling for him. She says she's reconsidering the idea of marriage for him. Like that's a pretty big fucking deal. Don't do it girl, don't do it. Well, hey. We're not interested in the shackles of marriage. Okay. I'm just saying, I get where she's coming from.

Okay, fair enough. And I understand the idea of marriage is not for everybody. And marriage, you probably, I would say that 50% of people as proven by statistics should not get married. Yeah, they should not get married. Take your time on that one. You don't have to rest in the marriage or get married at all. You can live a perfectly wonderful life together

without ever having a piece of paperwork saying. Number one piece of advice is don't get married in your 20s. No, I agree with that. Just wait until you're in your 30s. Yeah, 30s, 40s, 80s. Figure it out later on down the road. But here's the thing, ultimatum time. This is when you say, okay, listen,

I don't know what his name is, but let's say it's Bob. Hey, Bob, because he sounds like a Bob. Let's say, hey, Bob, hey, Bob, hey, Bob. Say, Bob, we're either gonna talk about it or we're gonna do it, but there's no more getting around it. So you either have to tell me what's up and not that we're taking it slow because I no longer am comfortable taking it slow

because it's also about your comfort level too. If you wanna have sex with Bob Get it girl. You have to not force yourself on him But you have to be the one to press the issue to a conclusion that is satisfying to you and be ready for the conclusion is I don't want to have sex with you So it's time to break up because that might be the conclusion But it's better that he tell you that now than a year and a half from now when you've been Absolutely.

Frustrated to know, you have no outlet to have your big O. This is a critical moment for you to. Well, she's getting her big O. Apparently so. Well, I mean, we don't know. She's getting her nut, which I must respect. That's crazy. That's just crazy to me.

Getting your nut is one of the grossest things that I say, but I say it a lot. I must respect. That's crazy. That's just crazy to me. Getting your nut is one of the grossest things that I say, but I say it a lot. Yeah, get your nut. I say, girl, get your nut. She could be talking about a squirrel. Get your nut, squirrel. Get your nut. I say it all the time to the kids.

I'm like, look at this squirrel, it's getting his nut. It's got his nut. He's digging it in the ground. But yeah, so she's obviously getting her nut, but it feels like a weird little power play. So I think the bottom line is you gotta, you know, break down that barrier, you gotta get the communication flowing.

And if that means that you're gonna break up, then you have to be okay with that. I agree. I think we're all on the same page here. Is that it is a little strange that Bob has withheld this long, not even getting any, he's not even apparently, I don't know, but it sounds like he's not even getting off.

That's another thing that would have me like, if I'm 90% worried, yeah, I'm 90% worried about communication issues, but I'm 10% worried about where is he getting his nut? Where is he getting his nut? Where is his nut? Where is his nut? Is he jizzing?

And with whom is he jizzing? This is, these are my concerns. I'm concerned for Bob. He's a whizzen. He got her, but he's not jizzing. Yeah, well. And as we know, 21 EPM's a month, critical. Well, EPM's obviously.

That's right, 21 EPM's. So if you guys are four or five nights a week together, that means you're spending 20 nights together with there is no jizzing. What is going on? I need Bob on the show immediately. I'd like to talk to Bob privately. At two, one, two, four, three, three, three, T-C-B.

Okay, so let's get through some of these other ones. Suzie from Massachusetts says, Brian, you talk a lot of shit about tea caputo. I mostly agree with you about Teresa, but do you believe in ghosts or the afterlife? Cause it sounds like you're shitting on the whole thing. No, I'm not shitting on the whole thing. And I've never said that.

What I've said was, if there are ghosts, if there are ghosts or spirits, energies, afterlife, if there's any of that that's visiting us, I don't think they're choosing Teresa caputo to be the vehicle upon which they give their message. That's what I said Do I believe in ghosts? I've never seen one. So it's hard to believe in them. You've never had a paranormal experience Yes, I have had a paranormal experience. Yes, I have I've had sleep paralysis. I've seen things in the night

I've had oh, yeah. Yeah, you did. Yeah, I know that story. I did have energetic communications That I would consider telepathy in weird ways. I've had all kind of unexplainable things happen to me and I am open to the idea that anything can happen. Anything. What I do know to be true for myself, for myself only, is that Teresa Caputo is not the person that's getting these messages and delivering them to anybody. She is a huckster who is doing a circus trick. She is a scammer and she getting her money and congratulations, but I think she does it to the detriment of other human beings

and that I don't care for. So I don't care. She's spraying on people's pain and so we will roast her until, you know, she's off the air. Yes. So do I, do I, which should be soon. I hope she's not like the 18th iteration of her show. She's on another show It's crazy. She just keeps on rehashing the same show. I don't know. She is booking this like honestly her manager is incredible Her manager is incredible. My guess Christina my guess is she's getting very little money for the show

Like the production costs are paid for and she makes like maybe $15,000 an episode which in the grand scheme of things is not that much or she makes like maybe $15,000, $20,000 an episode, which in the grand scheme of things is not that much. But what she is doing is she's filling the seats in the auditorium, which is what really makes her money. So this is essentially a big promo tool for her to were. Well, just so you know, I'm gonna start charging you $15,000 per episode

that I'm on. I don't think we made $15,000 on the last six months. Just so you know. That's my rate. Yes. Okay. Here we go. So let me cap that by saying, do I believe in ghosts?

I don't not believe in ghosts. That's all I'm going to put it. I am open to the idea that anything is possible, anything at all. Okay. One more, then we're going to take a break and then we'll go back, get back to more of these. Okay. Todd from Spokane says, I like that you pull the curtain back behind the podcast biz,

and you're always saying that TCB has no listeners. I assume this is in jest, but I am a listener, and I have a few friends that listen to you also. So here's the question, is it true that you have no listeners? And how many people do listen to the show? Well, we actually, yeah, Todd, Todd, Todd.

Do you think we could do 500 episodes of the commercial break for a week? If we had no listeners, of course we have listeners. It's Christina, my wife, and my father. Those are our three listeners. You don't even get downloads from me. No, I know. Actually, that's not true. don't even get downloads from me. No, I know. Actually, that's not true.

I am subscribed, it's okay. Yeah, I am subscribed too. You gotta keep on re-engaging that subscription now because Apple changed the way they do things. But Todd, of course we have listeners. Yes, we have listeners, there are listeners. You wrote in, you are a listener, you have friends that listen,

you know that they're our listeners. But I'm not gonna share how many listeners, it's not important, it's a vanity metric anyway. I don't care. I enjoy doing the show and we on occasion get a paycheck from some companies who we have worked with in the past. There you go. Also, I will say every time I tell people who I work for, they are like, what?

I've never heard of that show. And I'm like, yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You don't even have to look into it. It's not important. It's probably not your demographic. No one knows the show, the commercial break. That's how we like it.

Yeah. But honestly, you have to think about this. We aren't on TV. I'm not Jimmy Kimmel or Fallon or, you know, a host on a late night television show. We're not a celebrity podcast. We're not celebrity podcasts. So we have a very limited scope upon which people would know us.

And you could, with the amount of people that listen to us, you could literally go through life and probably never meet another commercial break listener. But that doesn't mean we have no listeners. It just means we don't have a lot of listeners. Comparatively speaking. Let me tell you this, Joe Rogan has 157 million people million downloads. Sorry not people million downloads Every single month. We have somewhere south of that. How does that does that narrow it down for you Todd?

There you go. Conan has 28 million or something along those lines. I think we have somewhere south of that. Yes Uh, Christina's podcast We probably have somewhere south of that. Yes. Christina's podcast. We probably have somewhere south of that. No, not true. You should go listen to my podcast. What's the name of that podcast? We've loved before.

What's the name of that podcast? It's called To All The Rom-Coms We've Loved Before. And we talk about rom-coms and we're very cute and fun. It is a pretty funny show. So go listen. All right, so let's take another break and then we'll be back. We'll answer a few more questions.

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and get back to the commercial break. Okay, back here with Christina doing some ask a TCBs. So I love your let's get back to the show voice. I'm sorry. I just have to say it every time. Like, and we're back to the show. And we're back. Yeah. I know.

And you know what I realized? I'm back here with Christina. Do you know what I used to say? I used to go like, and we're back talking the show. And we're back. Yeah, I know. And you know what I realized? And we're back. I'm back here with Christina. Do you know what I used to say? I used to go like, and we're back, talking about this or that, and we're back in case you missed it, and I'm like, no, how would anybody have gotten to this point in the show unless they were listening to this point in the show? It's such a ridiculous thing to say.

Why don't I have to re-tell? You're just blowing through it. I know. And we're back. It's my 19th. It just makes me giggle every time I'm editing the show. I'm like, it's his and we're back voice. And we're back.

Anyway, sorry. No, I agree with you totally. And so go back and listen to something when I was, we do what's called live editing. So I actually pull, I actually run the commercials during the show. I run the breaks and then Christina edits it afterwards to make sure it's nice and tight and listenable.

But when I do that, I don't know why. It's like I go into 90s game show host mode. I'm like, and we're back. Who cares? We really do. We care so far back. You kind of do it on your ads too though, which is a little bit funny.

You got your ad voice. Yeah, but that's, you know, we call it the commercial break. So I figure I give it a little commercial flavor. I'm also pulling the curtains back. I also really don't care for most. Some people do it really well, but most podcasters start running their ads

in the middle of the show, they just start mouthing off about, you know, whatever mattress they're doing, and it lasts for three and a half minutes, and they try and wrap it into the content poorly. Yeah, the content poorly. And so I decided from the beginning not to patronize my listeners and put music beds

and make it like a commercial so that they know that it's a commercial and they can choose to go there if they want to and not do that. To the dissatisfaction of some of my sponsors, I am not Mr. Let's roll it into the content for 48 minutes. Let's make a whole episode about mattresses that you get in a box. It's like, okay, dude. All right, bro. All right. Okay. So Laquita in from Chicago, Illinois, home state, hometown says, how do you prep for the shows? I love how many different topics you all cover on each episode. How do you come up with the ideas? This is a question I get a lot off air actually, because no one actually listens to the show. So they just ask me how I come up with the ideas

for the show. It's a mishmash of a lot of different things. You got to trust me that there's not, it doesn't, there's not as much work as you might think going into content ideas. And if you really listen to the show, you probably understand that. Is that literally, since we do four shows a week, I put my finger on whatever magazine, news online magazine I'm reading,

I go, oh, that's an interesting story. And then we talk about it. Or if I have a story to tell, usually based around something that's happened in my life, it's not as difficult as people think it is, but it does consume a lot of time to come up with content ideas. But once you get the content ideas, you just roll with it.

It's not that difficult. We don't script the show. When you're absolutely full of shit like you or like me, it's really easy to just talk. Mouth off for an hour. And if you listen to some episodes, Christina, and I know you know this because we have done it ourselves, the recording episodes, is that one idea

will literally go for an hour, but we lose that idea in the first five minutes and then we end up somewhere completely different. So imagine. I think that's fun. I think it's fun too. Imagine Laquita that you're at a bar talking with your best friend. You guys, guys, girls, whatever have had a few beers. You're talking with your best friends and all of a sudden two hours

has passed and you forgot what you were talking, what you started talking about. But now you're ending on whatever. My boyfriend hates me or I hate my boyfriend or whatever. It's like a circular conversation that just never connects back to the beginning. It's not all that difficult. Thank God that, you know, Christina and I and Chrissy, you know, we could talk all day long if we wanted to. Shane, not Shane Gillis, by the way. Shane in Indianapolis asks, I've noticed you guys don't run as many commercials as you used to.

That's a good thing, but why? How do you all decide to reduce the ads? Do sponsors give you free shit? And who is your favorite sponsor? You have answers to that? I have answers to this. We don't always choose to run less ads. See, here's how it goes.

Sorry. Yeah, I know. This is like, I got to be delicate about this one. Yeah. Yeah, I just know some of the answers. So let's put it this way. The show used to, we, you put an electronic ad marker in the show where you want the ads to go usually always coinciding with the break. So Christina does meet Little L liner and then you hear ads. Most of them are producer red, meaning somebody else reads the commercials and we run them,

just like a radio ad would. Those commercials are injected into the show by a hosting company, our hosting platform. That hosting company has 100% control over whether or not an ad goes into an ad slot based on the inventory they have available or where you're listening from or maybe if you're male or female or whatever. It's targeting just like every other online advertising. But we also, I think, got a little crazy with the ad markers for a second there and we had a few too many. So we paired them back when we moved to Odyssey, who is our new network. We paired them back a little bit,

make the listening experience just a little bit better, makes also our revenue a little bit lower. I got a little slutty and that's okay. I got a little slutty. We all get a little slutty sometimes. I gotta admit it. I do say, I got a little slutty. Well, we weren't getting any other kind of ads. So I was like, well, why the fuck?

Yeah, we needed to be slutty. We wanted to be slutty. That's what we wanted. We had to be slutty then. Actually, yes. Like I'm sure a lot of people who do jobs, you know, they're like, well, while we're doing it, we might as well make some money doing it. But I think we're good,

we're now at a good manageable, you know, five, six ads per show over the course of an hour, hour and 15 minutes, which is five or six minutes. So it's not that big of a deal. I don't think. If you have a problem with this, Shane, then you're certainly welcome to write back in. Shane.

Yeah, do we get free shit? Shane, fucking Shane. Thanks for opening up the can of worms, Shane. Do we get free shit on occasion? Doesn't happen as often as you would think it would, but of course some sponsors would like you to know their product very well so they send stuff ahead of time. 99.9% of the time when I read an ad or Christina reads an ad or on the rare occasion that Holy reads an ad on those occasions these are

products that we like, we use or would use. And in the occasion that we don't yet use the product, oftentimes we will be asked if we need the product to try or to test. So that's how that works. And if we say yes, then they will send us some. So some, I would say it's probably a good 60, like maybe 60, 40, 60% of the time we already used the product and then 40% of the time

we use the product before we read the Commercial so that we know what the you know so we can say good things about the sponsor. That's how it works That's how it all works influencers everybody. That's how it all works. Who's my favorite sponsor so far That's a great question. Who is my favorite sponsor? Okay, go I Well, I have to say I use rocket money and I really like them rocket money is great. Yes I have rocket money. I use Rocket Money and I really like them. Rocket Money is great. Yes. I have used them for a long time. I love Rocket Money. I used to use my own personal spreadsheet to track all my finances.

And I really liked it because I love spreadsheets, but it is a lot of work. And the nice thing about Rocket Money is that it does take a lot of the work out. And I like looking at my month to month, what I spent on this, what I spent on this, especially like I have a lot of medical expenses last year, so it's really helpful for me to like,

look through all of that and like doing my taxes and deducting all that. This episode sponsored by Rocket Money. I'm just saying. I know, I like Rocket Money too. And yeah. I like Rocket Money too. Magic Spoon has been a favorite

because we do like their food. I actually like Magic Spoon cereal. So I eat it. Cereal and cream. Cereal and cream, it defeats the purpose of Magic Spoon. But when I'm after, I'm healthier cereal. It totally defeats the purpose. It does help a little.

I like Magic Spoon. And then there we did one for, who did we do one for? I don't know know there was like a There was a big travel company that we did one for one time. I can't I want I don't want to say it wrong I think it was travel OCD and I do use travel OCD or you've talked about that on the show. So yeah, so there you go Okay, that's you know, we all of our sponsors are favorite sponsors while they're sponsoring the show All right dab dab his name is Dab. I'm assuming this is a he, Dab, D-A-B in California.

I'm really enjoying your guest episodes. So far, Joanna has been my favorite. Who has been your favorite on the show and why? Who is your dream guest and who would you, and not who's your dream guest and who would you love to have on the show? I'm assuming that's one question. Who's your favorite guest so far?

Me? Yeah. I think I'm gonna go Felicia Day. Yeah. You know she's my queen, or no, Heather McMahon, sorry. Heather McMahon, yeah. She's my icon. Well, I've loved her for a really long time, but I would say Felicia Day and Heather McMahon

up at the top. I think there's a three-way tie here. With one, with one moving a little bit higher than the others, just because, you know, it's weird. When you have a guest and they're just, they're people like the rest of us, and you never know how they're going to react or behave. We're meeting for the first time.

It's like literally we're meeting them for the first time and they don't know who the commercial break is. Just like most of the people out in the world don't know who the commercial break is. So most of the people out in the world Don't know who the commercial break is so peep sometimes people take a while to get warmed up and in those cases But then there's like people that you meet outside in your normal course of Activities they're like really friendly and right off the bat you hit it off and you're like wow This is a great guest. I would say Heather Felicia and Joanna have both been have all three been Wonderful guests on the show.

Blair has been a wonderful guest. Oh yeah. Rosebud was awesome. Yeah. Everyone's been really great. Everyone's been really great. Steve-O was fantastic. I love talking to Steve-O and he really got into it. And he was.

It was so interesting, every different person. But I think like as far as like connecting with somebody, like feeling great about the interview while it's happening, I do think Joanna takes a little bit of the slice of cake just because, and I don't wanna say that any of the other people were bad, they weren't, but Joanna and I share something, and that is the love of Venezuelan culture.

She's Venezuelan, I'm just a guy who like, wants to be Venezuelan, but I really enjoyed Joanna. I thought she was great. Okay, so that's it. Who would I like to have on the show? There's lots of people that I would like to have on the show. I think Conan O'Brien. Who's a genuine guest?

I think Conan O'Brien would be a good guest. I think that, you know, you know who I think that I would love to have on the show. Well, I'm gonna be careful about this one. Okay. Yeah, I just wanna be careful about this one. I'm trying to think about whether I should say this out loud

as I think we probably could get her as a guest in the fee. I'll tell you all fair, how's that? Let me not jinx myself. But Conan comes to mind just because I think he is kind of, he's been through a wacky journey as a late night talk show host. And now is like one of the most respected or famous podcasters out there.

Just from like a, we do the same thing. You are obviously much better and much richer than I am. I would like to pick your brain about it. I think Conan would be a great person to sit down with and talk to. I've also heard interviews where he really opens up and he's a very tender and pathetic, interesting human being.

And I think I'd like to have him on the show. There is a female equivalent that I would like just as much, but I will tell you all fair because I think we may actually try and get her to guess. So I don't and get it as a guest. So I don't want to jinx it. Yeah. I don't want to jinx it. I don't want to say anything where she's like, they're talking about me already. I don't want to go in the shop, but stay tuned. Um, okay.

Steven Atlanta says, why don't you all do a live show here in Atlanta? That's where you're based. Why wouldn't you do just do a live show here in Atlanta? I'm sure you could help a theater. I could bring my t-shirt. I think that's fun. I have a t-shirt cannon. I could bring it and make Frankie B shirts and shoot it into the audience. Yeah, Steve.

Okay, Steve is a real one. Steve is on fire. Steve, I'll tell you what, you win. Steve's gonna join my run club. Steve's probably in your run club. He's one of those guys up front, not sending people back. Yeah, Steve was like, leave her behind. Steve's too worried about lubing up his T-shirt gun

when he gets home. Make sure he doesn't chafe. That's right. Steve, we're working on it. Like we're working on it. Just know this, I do believe there will be, I do believe there will be commercial break live shows. And I do believe that 2024 might be the year

when a few of those at least happen. So stay tuned. And of course, if we do a live show, we will of course do one in our home city because it's probably the only one I can be assured will fill the audience. And you could be one of those people, Steve, right there. And we're not talking about theaters.

I think we're talking about clubs. That's where we're gonna play. You can't- Dive bars. Yeah, dive bars. Like imagine that I rent out the Fox Theater. And then- That would be great.

I know, but then only 100 people show up out of 5,000, what am I gonna do? I'll never work in this town again. People will be like, well, there it goes. That Brian Greene, big loser. That's right. All those listeners hate listeners apparently. Yeah.

Or I feel like I know I'm going to get tick-tocked like that. Like Trump did that one time where all the young kids just buy up the tickets and no one shows up. Yes. I love that. That was the ultimate rug poll and I loved it. I'm sorry, whatever you think of whoever. I loved watching Trump get a rug poll on him. I just thought it was brilliant.

I thought it was grand. Steve, we're going to do it. I, I think it's going to be this year and Atlanta will be on the list. I promise you. Um, Soledad in Arizona, I'm putting this in just to give my wife back a little bit from all the hell she gave me last week. Uh, Brian, her name is Soledad. That's a cool name.

Like the only other Soledad I know is Soledad O'Brien. Doesn't she work for CNN or something? Soledad O'Brien. She's a cool name. Like the only other Soledad I know is Soledad O'Brien. Doesn't she work for CNN or something? Soledad O'Brien. I don't know. She's a news reporter. Soledad says, Brian, I have a little crush on you. I love it when Astrid is on the show and I'm not a home wrecker.

I'm actually happily married for seven years but I have you on my freebie list. Freebie list. Oh my God. You know what the freebie list is. Who is on your freebie list? Who's on my freebie list. Freebie list. Oh my God. You know what the freebie list is. Who is on your freebie list? Who's on my freebie list? Well, now you, Solida, because you're apparently the only other person

in the world that wants to have sex with Brian Green. I think I've got Dua Lipa on there. I think I've got- Oh, you love Dua Lipa. I do love me some Dua Lipa. Who else was on there? I think Jennifer Aniston at one point was on there, but I do love me some Jennifer Aniston. You know, there's other women I certainly find it,

celebrity women that I find attractive. And I don't want to share that with everybody. That's my personal, I don't want to share with everybody because then I know it's going to happen. We're going to get one of these people like 12 years from now on as a guest and someone's gonna pull the tape and be like, yeah, he wants the fucker. Yeah, I know you exactly. That's what I gotta be careful. I'm gonna roast you on TikTok, Brian. All right, now I'm putting this one in here because I have strong feelings about this and I believe that Christina will also.

You know me. Now, preface this, we never talk about politics on the show. It's a purposeful choice that's made because I believe that we all need a break from it from time to time. And opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, they all stink. You can go listen to many places for a political opinions and punditry.

The commercial break is a free zone where you just don't have to worry about for the most part. You'll pick up on it. If you listen enough, you'll pick up on our leanings, but you get it. But this listener, sale, S-A-Y-L. I'm assuming this is a woman, but I really have no idea.

From New York, I know y'all stay out of politics, but I have to ask, what is your opinion of Roe versus, the recent decision on Roe versus Wade and the Alabama ruling that embryos are children? I think you are ruining ruining ruining a Woman's right to do anything with her own body. It's an ultimate power play and it's fucked up

And I will fucking stupid. Yeah, I say this, the moment that I get a vagina and a uterus, I will start having a strong opinion about this, but until then, it is a woman's right to do whatever it is she chooses with her own body. And I also know what the struggles are like for fertility issues and to shut the door on hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of women and men, men and men, women and women,

having children in this country is a goddamn shame. And I don't know who this judge is on the Supreme Court who's out there talking about God's plan and God's this and God's that, has no place in politics. And he should be immediately, immediately taken off the bench, in my opinion. Even the Republicans who brought this on themselves, Trump being number one.

They're in separation of church and state for a reason. Yeah. Even the Republicans realized exactly two and a half minutes after that happened that, holy shit, what have we done? And goddamn right, what have we done? You know what you've done? You've pissed off at least 52% of this country. And this will come back to bite you and they ask as it is in every election since Rose V. Wade was overturned and you're getting your common competence.

And I'm not, I'm not, I voted Republican. I have voted liberal Democrat in my life. I voted independent in my life, but I'll tell you what, not like this. I won't fuck. No. It's just crazy. It's insane. You're insane. You people are insane. What are you thinking?

At this point, it's just like we're too far past any sort of, like with the human rights, human rights violations and women's rights and health care in general. We're like way too far past to not vote Democrat in my opinion, because if you're voting Republican, you're truly just voting against people. You're voting against like letting people live and letting people like have their fucking life.

It's just insane. You're also voting like for guns and for killing children. Well, listen, this topic and this topic only, if you are going to be a right to life human being, if you're going to put life above all else, then do it from conception to grave, from conception to grave. You cannot sit there and be a pro-lifer and vote down.

Vote for the death penalty? Yeah, vote for the death penalty, You cannot sit there and be a pro-lifer and vote down. Vote for the death penalty? Yeah, vote for the death penalty. Deny people access to modern healthcare or any kind of healthcare whatsoever. Welfare? Welfare, you cannot do that. That is absolutely hypocritical,

but that doesn't serve their purposes right now. So that's why they vote yes on one thing and no on the other. And I say they, I mean, the very extreme people who have the idea that this is good policy, it never was, it never is. The country won't be the same after Roe v Wade. And I think the people who have brought this on

are going to see that the country is not going to stand for it. This is a losing issue. This is a losing issue. You should absolutely have the right to do whatever you want with your body. And if you want to vote about it, then you have to have a uterus to vote about it. How's that? That makes sense. If you're going to put policies in place, then have people with uteruses make those policies. That's it. Yeah, it's just the fact that like the people who are voting on this and who are voting on our rights

and our bodies are, you know, median age 58 year old men. Yeah. It's just that you don't, you just don't have the, sorry. Well, I agree with you. The only other thing I will say about it is about all the IVF stuff going on right now, because I mean, I think if you've heard me on any of these episodes, you know what I think.

But it was just the fact that all these Republicans then were kind of walking back their word trying to be like oh no we are strongly for IVF or all this stuff but then they had actively voted and worked for this bill that had no exclusions for IVF IVF in it when they were all about, you know, oh, we're pro-life, pro-life. It's all hypocrisy. It's fucking bullshit. It's all hypocrisy. I'm sick of their shit. Well, listen, I'm sick of all of it.

To be honest with you, this happens on all sides of the aisle, but this issue alone is one that I think, no, not this issue. This issue is going to Trump all, including Trump, when it comes time for people to vote for a president in 2024. And I think that this is just, this is crazy. Like there has to be some balance restored to the universe. We're living in a dystopian society. Well, we're getting there.

All right. That's the one political question I'll take for the entire year. It's on with it. Really end on a low note. I'm already upset. Now I'm gonna walk into my rest of my day just completely torn up and upset. Furious. So crazy. Everyone's crazy. Ah! Ah! Yeah, I hate this. I feel like being a woman in America. Well listen, I got daughters and this is what really makes me, I mean I have a wife, I have daughters, this makes me incensed, it just makes me incensed to think that you know other people are gonna have

Control over it should make everyone in well It doesn't but it does make most people in sense So that's a good news the good news is it does make most people in sense, but it doesn't make everybody in sense Apparently, I don't know. I don't know anyway. All right. Okay. There you go You got all your questions answered or not all of them, but you got some of your questions answered We'll get to more of them down the line Chrissy should be back shortly whenever that is she's gonna be back. I promise very soon and

Yeah, what else was I was gonna say I was gonna say one more thing, but I can't remember okay, so Go to the PCB podcast calm So you find out more about the show all the video all the audio right there at one location the the in your physical address and then away it will go straight to your hands in seven to twelve months. I'll be right around the corner. Don't worry. You'll get it. That's called efficiency.

It's called efficiency. We only have one staff member here. So, no. It's me. You can also dial us up. Two one two four three three three TCB. That's two one two four three three three tcb questions comments concerns content ideas s tcb ask brian's mom all that stuff goes into the bucket

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