The Commercial Break - Let's Meet For Dunch!

Episode Date: October 18, 2026

EP967: Bryan heads to the polls to cast his vote and gets more than he bargained for when a poll worker makes him blush! Plus, the Six Flags coaster tragedy unlocks a new fear. Then Bryan and Kirsty decide on a "Dunch" meeting! TCB is a The Commercial Break LLC production Visit: www.TCBpodcast.com Insta: @thecommercialbreak Bryan Green on Insta: @BryanWGreen Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Created by: Bryan Green Written by: Bryan Green, Krissy Hoadley Produced by: Astrid Green & Gustavo Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Chris and Joy Haudley. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast and streaming universe.

Thanks for joining us. We certainly appreciated it. I voted. Did you vote? I did. I went yesterday. Good for you. Yeah, I went today.

Whip, whip, whip. I was on it. In and out. Yep, yep. Whop, whoop. Whop. I went in, I went out. That was so easy.

Voted with all the old people. Yeah, me too. Yeah, the average age of the people in that room was 300. I'm sure of it. Five, 30. Go to. Yeah, the old lady was reading. So I walk in the library.

I walk around the corner, like, you know, vote here, the line. Usually there's a line. Every year that I voted early, there's always been a line. Not a big one, but, you know, a line. So I go around and there's no line. I'm like, oh, this is lovely. And I walk in, there's two doors, and I walk into the indoor, and there's an older lady that's standing there.

She's got a book in her hand. And there's one guy in front of me. And she goes, and you can go to number three. You know, he goes over to number three. And I'm just standing there waiting my turn patiently. And she puts the book down on a chair, and I look at the book, and it's like one of those sex novels. You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, like the one's a romance. Yeah, with like the guy with the Fabio. That's right. It was like passion petals or something like that. Nothing like catching up on that at the voter place. Hey, listen, to each their own. And I commend this older lady for, you know, keeping the, keeping the dream alive. The tingles.

The keeping those tingles. That lady needed to be down at the villages. I was like, holy shit. That's really funny. And the balls she had just to put it right in front of me down in the seat. Maybe it was a signal. Slot number three is open. And so is mine.

Yeah. So I go to, I always say thank you to the people. Me too. We need to. Yeah. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

I've even thought about actually being one of those people, but then, eh. So somebody that we, well, somebody that we know through a mutual friend that I just follow on Instagram, did a whole reel about how she went to Fulton County. and volunteered. And she had to do an eight and a half hour training on this. And they gave her a book. And she showed the book, not the inside of the book, but the front of the book. She was doing a reel before she leaves the car.

And then she does the next scene is her coming back into the car. It's bright when she leaves. It's dark when she comes back. And she's like eight and a half hour training. And anybody that thinks that at least in Fulton County that you can fuck with the vote count, is a dumb dumb because I just went through the training and I'm telling you what, it's all locked up, it's all checks and balances. Nothing gets done unless four people are paying attention to it. She's like, it's just impossible.

There would be no way that someone could just drop a bunch of votes off and, you know, and then shenanigans. Speed away. Speed away. Yeah, like that lady who like moved the bag of trash and then all of a sudden she was responsible for six million votes in Fulton County. I mean, isn't it a dumb? I agree. I think generally our voting is safe here in the United States of America. And I don't know that personally. I take the expert's word for it because what else am I going to do? Listen, I go up to the fucking machines. There's 16 people in there that are paying attention. Exactly. Everybody is watching. They make me stand right there. You can't get on your phone. No. You can't talk to other people. Yeah. You can't help other people. It's very official. It's very official. And there are a lot of people in there. including the clearly MAGA vote poll watchers or whatever they are. Oh, my God, dude.

Really? And you can't wear political related clothing within whatever it is, 30 feet of a 30 yards of a building or whatever. There's a law. So they're not wearing MAGA hats. But if there was ever a stereotype of a MAGA man, there was two of them sitting in the room with these big pole watcher signs on their thing. And I'm telling you, you don't intimidate me one fucking bit.

I don't fucking care. No, watch me. Watch until I'm blue in the face. There's no shenan. At least I have never seen in any reputable report that there has been shenanigans. And I include that on both sides of the aisle. I don't think Elon was using space lasers to change votes for Donald Trump. I think that strains crudility, as they say.

Now he'll just funnel a bunch of money. Yeah, he just funnels a bunch of money in there. Did you see that fucking flying car? Yes. Holy shit. I did. Okay. I don't like Elon Musk.

He's not my favorite human being in the world. I think that he is a billionaire with too much power, too much money, and not enough sanity, quite frankly. That's my personal opinion about Elon Musk as a person. But the flying car was probably the coolest thing non-AI related that I've seen in a long time. It's unbelievable. Yeah. It flipped around. It drove upside down.

Yeah. And had the rocket blasters. Yes. The fuck. Who's driving that? Well, the article I read said that they had not released a price. No. It's like $250,000.

How it would actually work? Where do you get the gas? No, it's all illegal. You can't do that. Like, you can do it out in a parking lot if you get a permit or some shit like that. But no one can actually do a flip over traffic. I mean, that's the last fucking thing Atlanta needs. Yes.

As if the Tesla drivers aren't bad enough. Now we have to get flipping flip cars. It's so stupid. I don't want matchbox cars riding around Atlanta. Those are all accidents waiting to happen. But man, was it cool to watch? It was. And obviously, I don't think there's a driver in there, right? I think also it's like, how do you land safely with just a seatbelt on? I don't know. All of these questions remain unanswered. And they probably will be for a long time. Let's remember it took 12 years from the announcement of the roads. to actually seeing one. So, you know, another, as I said to myself last night as I was watching the first video that I saw of this, another cool thing that Elon Musk had nothing fucking to do with.

Another idea that he'll claim is his and it probably was not. But whoever is creating that technology is really fucking cool. Yeah, it is. It's George Jetson type shit. Yeah, it really is. I'm here for it. I love watching it. I'll tell you what, it's the first time I've paid attention to a Tesla Motors.

real in a long time. Anyway, I go into the voting booth, you know, and I just wanted to share that, like, I just think that it's, it's amazing that we as a society get this done so efficiently. You know, I agree with a lot of people who say that it takes California two months to count ballots that, how can that even be true? I agree. I can't imagine why it takes that long. I guess that's just their system. But what makes the democracy of ours so beautiful, is that each individual municipality has its own way of doing things, and there's some safety in that when you think about it, because that means that it's our responsibility to take care of our little corner of the world,

and we rely on these volunteers and these people that are in charge to make sure that it's done efficiently and that it's done safely and that it's done reputably, that we can trust the system. And I do because the ladies check in my ID, checking it once, checking it twice, just to be nice. I have to sign. I have to go to a machine. The machine has a lock on it.

Yeah. For years now until all of a sudden it was called into question. Notice it's only called into question when you lose. Yeah. But when you win, it's not called into question. So the same voting, the same corrupt voting system produced a winner. And we don't complain about that. But the same corrupt voting system produces a loser and clearly it's fraud.

Yeah. It just makes no sense when you think about it. Listen, I think we're all done with the shenanigans, the corruption, the high prices, the wars. I think we're all done with it. I think this sentiment has clearly shifted in the direction that we need something different. I don't love the Democrats. I think a lot of them are dumb-dums, if I'm being real honest. And I'm certainly not a DSA fan. But at the end of the day, what's going on in the United States of America at the highest levels is crazy. Gildfoyle. Oh, God. I want a friend that pays my $100,000 American Express bill because I sure could use it. I mean, and then like the dumbest thing is she's admitting that this is fraud and she wants people, she wants to stop creating a paper trail by telling people in a paper trail to stop creating a paper trail.

Fucking moron. What a moron. I mean, honestly, what a moron. It's just like, it's, it's, it's so insane. I know. It's every time I read these things, I'm just like, oh. But it felt good to vote. It felt great to vote. It always does. I vote every little election thing there is. Me too. I just do it. I don't even know who's, I don't even know. I don't claim to know. Oh, you do? I do. I do. Okay. Yeah. I just go, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Well, I'm glad you did your part. Well, I did my part. I know, I obviously know at the highest levels, you know, Senate, House, stuff like that. but I don't know about the small little rinky dink shit, but, you know, I just say, well, it's time for a change. And by the way, I've said that on both sides of the aisle. Sometimes there have been years where I've walked in there and said, it's time for a change. So I go the other direction. But, you know, I'm not going to tell you who I voted for. But I'm sure that you might be able to guess it. Anyway, felt good. Felt good.

Yes, felt good. And all the little, all the bitties, all the old bitties were in there just, you know, so many older folks. And I just want to stop some of them and go, you know, I know your time here on Earth is short. I get it. Like, you know, I know your time here on the shirt. But don't make it miserable for the rest of us. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's true. Because I feel like old white people kind of got us in this mess that we're in right now. And I'm hoping that they see the air of their ways and they want their grandkids to have a fruitful, productive, meaningful life. Hopefully their grandkids are changing their minds.

Yeah, that's true. You know, there's a lot of that, I think. I think there is, too. I've seen a couple of Instagram posts with, you know, kids yelling at their grandparents or parents about, you know, voting this kind of. of corrupt administration into office and how fucked they are. And I see some people on, though. You know, I've seen probably four or five of these reels. It's like a little trend that's going on, you know, yell at your parents about Donald Trump and then post it on Instagram. But I think the best example of this is the necessary conversation pod, which is the girl and the guy,

the brother and the sister, who talked to their clearly hard-headed, very, very, very, very, you. very staunch MAGA parents and have been for like two years. They've been doing this. The dad got sick. I think he passed away, unfortunately. But the mom is starting to turn the corner. This is a big deal because that podcast gets millions of downloads. And a lot of people have been paying attention to this particular family because I think it's representative of a lot of families across the United States, which is, you know, they're divided by the division that has soaked into society. It doesn't, it doesn't stop at the front door. And in my family, too, it's like, you know, there's clearly some differences of opinion. But it's hard not to be angry.

It is. I mean, even at just the basic level of how expensive things are now. And the housing situation and inflation and the wars and the things. I mean, that's just like the bottom level where people could at least see it's hitting them. That's it. It's like, if there's, like, if there's one thing that I, that there's two things that I could share with people that I think sways my vote in one direction. I will give Donald Trump and the administration credit where credit is due, though it's, I'm having a hard time drumming that up right now, but I will always give someone credit where credit is due. I don't think you always, I don't think you throw the baby out with the bathwater. Of course. But there are two things, this dumb fucking war with

Iran that is just driven prices through the goddamn roof. And there's no end in sight. It's not, It won't happen until there's a new administration because Iran, they're playing the long game. They know. They know American politics just as well as everybody else does. And they did this in 1978, by the way. I will remind people that in 1978, they took a plane full of hostages. Iran did. And they kept them there for, they kept those hostages for almost, I think it was six months. I mean, I know at least it was for 30 days, but it may, yeah, I can't remember. I don't remember exactly. But I remember how it ended because it's a very famous point in history.

And how did it end? It ended when Jimmy Carter was voted out of office. And the same day that Reagan was inaugurated, they let the hostages go because they know American politics and they influenced American politics. And part of the reason why Jimmy Carter didn't serve a second term was because people were upset that he couldn't figure out a way to get the hostages back from Iran. It wasn't the only thing. There was also, they also had inflation. That's true. The mortgages were at like 22%.

And it was a lot of different things. that Jimmy Carter in and out of his control that that clearly weren't going his way. But that's a very famous footnote in history. And the same thing is happening here. And they're going to continue to do it. It was a dumb war. It was started unintelligently, I think on the behest of Israel. And now we're in it.

And where's Israel to be found nowhere? So now we're stuck with it. Yep. And I won't get into Iran needs a bomb. Iran, of course, they don't need a bomb. It was working fine under Obama. can we go back to that deal? I don't know. Okay, I don't want to get into like debating all. But here's the other thing. The other thing is the blatant corruption that is going on in this administration is insane.

We are all struggling to buy eggs. And Donald Trump is pretending like nothing is all the administration, the entire administration is pretending like nothing is happening. And it's just, it's murder out here on the streets and they are eating cake. And they don't give a shit because it's not affecting them. And they see the world through their rose-colored glasses because they are getting fabulously wealthy. And they are selling out our future to do it. And it's insane. And when the post-mortem is done, the stuff that we know about is going to be the cover of the book. Oh, absolutely.

And the book is going to be a thousand pages long. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's just, it's crazy. Now, listen, every administration is corrupt in some way, shape, or form. Every administration. This has always been going on for a time in memoriam, and it will again. But this is...

Yeah. Like you said, just blatant. Takes it to a new level. Like, it's just right there. It's right there. Yeah. The Kimberly Guilfoyle is like, she is, she's got a burn book. I bet she's got a burn book.

I bet she's got a burn book and those people are running fucking scared. And I hope, like Anthony Scaramucci, she runs to MS now and decides to. to tell it all. I really do. How about that guy Dieters? Kimberly Gilfoil, in case you don't know, she buddied up to a guy named Deeters. This guy, Dieters, was looking for a couple different things. He had a tax problem. He needed help with. He couldn't get, you know, he couldn't get the IRS to play ball with him. And then he's also a, like, a personal injury attorney. And a personal injury attorney had a class action lawsuit where he won like hundreds of millions of dollars. But the doctor, who he won this suit against the medical practice,

He ran off to like Zimbabwe or something. Yeah. And the U.S. won't extradite him back to pay his bills and, you know, take accountability for this. So Dieter's knowing Kimberly Guilfoyle said, hey, listen, help me out with this and I'll help you out. It's a clear quid pro quo. Right. Clearly. I mean, and he's got the receipts.

And he, the funny thing is he's so unafraid of any accountability that he's just on TV talking about this quid pro quo. He says, I promised you up to a million dollars. Yes, I did. And so she could help me. And I called Donald Trump and I called Don Jr. And I called Eric and I called everybody. And I'm trying to make this guy come back to the United States and I need help with my tax problem. And I told him I would pay him.

So he gave her like $300,000. And then one day, she decides she needs her American Express bill paid so that they won't cut her off. And she starts begging him for $100,000. Now, this guy Dieter tells her, I'm not going to pay you. you haven't helped me out one bit. And for months, he keeps calling everybody and saying, if you don't help me, I'm airing the laundry. If you don't help me, I'm air.

He's like, blackmail. Now he's blackmailing people. And I love it. I'm here for it. Taste of their own medicine. And you know what? He said, if you don't call me back by Monday and get this problem straightened out, I'm going straight to television.

And you know what he did? He went straight to television. This guy, Dieter just is a fucking character, man. He's like, I don't know. He's like the Hunter S. Thompson of the, you know, he's just like this clear. nefarious. An injury attorney. Yeah, he's an injury attorney. He's gonzo and fear and loss and fear and loathing in Las Vegas.

And I love it. I'm here for it. Go Dieter's go is what I have to say. And I hope that Kimberly Gilfoyle has just like runs to MS now or CNN or whatever, you know, left-leaning news outlet. I hope she goes and she just spills all the dirt because you know. She was engaged to D. Trump Jr. I know. You know. I bet she has the dirt. You know she has the dirt. I bet they are currently writing her checks left and right. I bet they're paying her American Express. The American Express bill has been paid. Yes, it has been paid. And she's over in Greece. Oh, she was the ambassador. Yeah. Walking around naked, asking for, asking for the finest champagne, going to restaurants and leaving the bill and saying, I'm the ambassador to Greece. I don't have to pay for anything. Asking for, you know, Rose Royces to drive her around. I mean, just like, what? In the good fucking.

as if being an ambassador to Greece is not a cush enough job. Right. We've all seen the, what is it, the ambassador on, what does that show on Netflix? Oh, the diplomat. The diplomat. We all seen the diplomat. They live pretty high on the hog anyway. Yeah.

And here she is demanding we live a little higher on the hog. If I'm the, if I am the ambassador to Greece, I'm complaining not one fucking bit. I wake up in my beautiful house. I'm protected by diplomatic law. I'm being driven around in limousines. I'm going to the nicest restaurants. I'm showing up for ribbon cuttings. And on occasion, I have to negotiate a hostage release or something.

You know what I, but generally, I'm just living the best life I've ever had. Yeah, in a beautiful setting. But not Kimberly Guilfoil. Oh, no, no, no, no, not good enough for her. She's used to Don Jr. type treatment. Where's the cocaine and strippers? That's what we need, Don Jr. Such a co-khead.

Him and Pete Higgs said. All right. Let's take a short break and we'll be back. It was so much more fun. We just, Chrissy and I are just getting going this morning. Okay, we'll be back. Okay, you're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at TCB. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up even for a minute.

Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid too? You know you do. Leave a message for her or me or Chrissy at 212-4333-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-7. TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Mm-hmm. Just call and say something. Anything. Or text us and we'll text you're right back. Promise. Then head over to TCB Podcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker and we must abide. You get the point. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on video at YouTube.com slash the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid. especially Astrid. How do what are these two making sense? At least I didn't do my soul.

Bright is a hack. These two aren't funny and so old. Why all those? None of which are great. Okay. All right. So, yeah. So, you know, the first part of the show didn't get out to the streamers.

Yeah, but the game we like to play now. It's the game we like to play. Guess what we're saying. Are we or aren't we actually talking? That's the game we're playing. Are we just miming? The first part of this episode was miming. You didn't miss anything.

But trust me, you didn't miss anything. We voted. We voted. We talked about we voted and Kimberly Gilfoy is an idiot. There's the wrap-up for on the first and second. You know, I got to say, with all due love and respect, I do not want to laugh about something so tragic. The guy that fell out of the rise. on six flags. Oh, no, that's awful.

Holy shit, new fear unlocked. Yes, exactly. And I love roller coasters, but... And I love the Goliath. The Goliath is a good one. It's one of the best. And the reason why it's the best, and I don't mean, again, I'm not making fun of this, is because you come out of your seat. That is why it's the best. It's because of that clamshell design that allows your butt to lift off the seat as you're going on those zero-g hills. It's designed like that. It's supposed to be that way.

But you would literally have to be a contortionist to get yourself out of that seat. A lot of people play games. A lot of these kids play games. Pretend that it's locked and it's a little bit up so they can lift way out of their seats. And never again. Never again. Those attendants always come by, I feel like, in check, you know? I think there are so many redundant systems built into those.

First of all, this is a B&H roller coaster. For those of you that don't know, B&H has been making roller coasters for about 100 years or something. and for a long time. They build coasters for Disney. They build coasters for six flags. They build coasters for all the major theme parks in the world have a B&H roller coaster. And they have never, not once, had the death due to a malfunction of a ride system. Never once.

They have an impeccable safety record, clean as a whistle. Now, unfortunately, you know, odds are that at some point, that's, you know, when you're dealing with, like, incredible G forces and all this other stuff, that something is going to happen eventually. This is an exceedingly rare thing to happen. But man, when I heard about it, I was like, there's just no way. There's just no way that this guy's like lap belt, just like lap thing, just like clamshell just came undone. And he just flew out of the roller coaster. But that is exactly what happened. Yeah, I know. This is the second death that Sixth Flags has had in about a decade now. I think you and I were working for Clear Channel when the first death happened. Yes, yes.

The first death, someone was decapitated by someone else's feet. God, that was right. It was a worker. I know. No, it was a kid who lost his hat on the Batman ride. Oh, and he went down to get it. He went over a fence to get his hat. And the ride came by and a young lady's legs took his head off and mangled her legs.

And I mean, kicking someone's head off, that is going to stick with you for life. Yes. Right? And now all these people that were on the ride, that's going to stick. with them for life. And it's just like fucking unbelievable. I thought roller coasters were safe. Yeah.

That's what I thought. That's what I felt. That's what I never suspected. I didn't either. But now I'm reading. This is what week ago this happened. But now I am reading that during that day, many other people had witnessed that that particular seat was not available because the ride operators could not get the seat

to lock in place. Yes. So why did this guy sit in the seat? Why was he allowed to do that? Why did they not call a maintenance man? Why did they not just rope off the seat? I don't know. But man, oh man. I'll tell you. The crazy thing is now that B&H roller coasters, these same ones with the clamshells are closing all across the country. I saw that. Because I think the ride operators, the people who operate these theme parks, they're just like not going to take the chance until we figure out what's going on. So poor guy. Poor fucking dude. I was a teacher. Yeah. No. Yeah. You just never know, do you?

No. You just never know. You know, he's probably having fun. It's fright fest going on right now, which I always used to love to go. He's with his kids. It's fall break. You know, everyone's having a good time. It's just another day at the theme park.

You know, roller coaster in, roller coaster out. You know, I'll tell you something about Six Flags that I know personally. And I thought about, I thought about actually telling a reporter this. But I know something about Six Flags. that I'll share here on the show. But breaking news here on the show. I'll break the news here on the show. Six Flags, at least back in the 90s,

used to hire kids from across the world and they would staff them for the summer. So you would have a job in America. They'd bring you over. You'd live in an apartment that was set up by a third-party company. And this third-party company was as corrupt as it comes.

They would, yes, they would take the kids money. They would not give them their paychecks. They would charge them exorbitant rent amounts and food and travel. And these kids would come in and they'd work at Six Flags and they'd basically be hostages to this particular company. Eastern European, Western European kids. I mean, I've heard about that in other industries, but I didn't know it was going on with the amusement banks. And I know this because I personally know that this is the truth, right? not because I was one of those Eastern European kids,

but because I know the person, I know a person who was connected to this operation. And many years later, the person who ran this operation went to jail and then they did it again in the West Coast of the country and went to jail again for the same thing, different industry. But basically, Six Flags has been looking to cut corners

on everything forever. And now they were bought by Knottesbury Farm or something, so, you know, one of the other companies. And Knott's Berry Farm is now suing Six Flags, the company that they now own because they found out that Six Flags had falsified maintenance records, had claimed that they'd spent money on upkeep, but they didn't spend it, had claimed that they had staffing where they didn't have it. Just all this other stuff, like Six Flags apparently is not a great company. Go figure. And anybody who's been to Six Flags over Georgia over the last decade can tell you it's not exactly the most pleasant experience in the world. It is piss poorly run by teenagers who don't care.

Illegals. Illegals. Illegals. Deport them. They're Eastern European. They're not getting deported. But, okay, we only deport the ones from below the hemisphere. You know what I'm saying?

Okay. But the truth is that they have clearly been cutting corners for years and years and years on everything from maintenance to upkeep to staffing to private. properly paying people and training them. And I think the chickens are coming home to roost a little bit here. And it sucks, but sometimes it takes tragedy like this. Yeah, to bring a spotlight. I used to love going to fucking six lights.

Are you kidding me? When I was younger, oh, my God. When I crest that hill on I-20 and see the big- Oh, and see the coasters. That's right. See the coasters off in the distance. The screen machine, the free fall. I'd get a little man-boner.

I'd have a little man-boner. Yeah, it was an excited with butterflies. Of course. Yes. Yes. Oh, my God, a day at six flags. It usually happen like once a year, right? And my dad would be like, okay, everybody gets in the car.

You know, we'd come swinging around 285. You got the whole day. You got the whole day, right? Ride it, you knock yourself out. I never spending like two hours in lines. So this was before the fast pass stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, you'd stay in the line all day.

Like, you'd be there on a Saturday and he'd be sweating. My dad was pissed off and my mom was pissed off. Everyone was pissed off. But you got to ride that ride. I got to ride that ride. For evidence. And I loved every minute of them. And I never felt unsafe not once.

I never feared for my life. And I was young. So I had no reason to, right? I had no, there's no point of reference. And just like such, and the experience was fun. And I remember the characters. Oh, yeah. The shows and things you'd watch.

Yes. You'd eat the funnel cakes, the hamburgers, whatever. But yeah, I mean, I do have to say, I guess it's been about, you know, 13 years ago. when Jeff and I were first dating, and I wanted to recreate those moments. Me too. And I wanted to say, Jeff, come with me.

And Jeff is not. Oh, he doesn't do roller coasters? He does not like doing it. But we were new, new love. New love. And he wanted to impress you with his bravado and his bravery.

Meanwhile, he's pissing in his pants. And he's like, ah! And he's like, ah! And he's like, he did get stuck on a roller coaster as we were going up the hill to like almost go down.

Yeah, we got stuck for like, you know, 10, 15 minutes. Geez, that's a long time. Yeah, and so that was a little unsettling. I can imagine for someone that doesn't like roller coasters is probably not. So when Jeff and when we were reading this story, this terrible tragedy, Jeff was like, yep, that's, I mean, sealed. Sealed.

Done deal. Yeah. Sign sealed. Never doing it again. You know, Astrid and I did the same thing. She came here to visit me one time when we were dating and she, the night before was like, let's go to six. I know you love roller coaster, let's go to six bikes.

And she did too, by the way. Something happened to Astrid when we went to. to Europa Park in Germany, which is a, in the middle of nowhere, Germany, there's a place called Europa Park, which is basically Disney. They even have like a mouse character, right? They're trying to like recreate Disney, but it is, I wanted to hate this place so much. I wanted to go just to see it, but I also wanted to hate it so much because it was trying to be Disney, right? But I got to be honest, they did it pretty well. Like, so I ended up falling in love with the place. Then they have like hotels that are attached to the theme park and, you know, all this stuff. Anyway, we went to

Europa Park and we went on, oh, it was nighttime. It was 45 degrees outside. It was winter in Germany, right? So it was like a warm winter night, 45 degrees, but they have like these fires all throughout the park to keep you warm. Anyway, we go on these roller coasters and one of the roller coasters where we went on, it just made her sick. Like, when you get older, your inner ear starts to change. So your ability to handle stuff like that can shift. And it shifted that night for her and ever since sometimes she has problems with motion sickness so she loves roller coasters

but sometimes it's hard for her to go in them because she can get motion sick but anyway we went when we were dating she came and the night before she's like let's go to six flags I really want to go and so we went to six flags and we spent a day there and man did we have the greatest time but it was clear that this was not the six flags of my youth right it was just

dirty yeah smelly unruly you know, sticky. That's the best way to explain it. It's just like sticky and weird, right? No one was cleaning the rails. No one was paying attention to the things. Half the vendors weren't open.

You know, it was just kind of sad almost, I think. But you still had the roller coasters. So we went and we did the roller coasters. That's what we did. It's just, you know, generally these things are safe outside of carnivals. Generally these things are safe. I will not do carnivals. No, not anymore.

I used to. Not anymore. Yeah, when I was younger, but not anymore. You and I wrote the system. Well, we went on a ferris wheel. Well, we also did the Gravitron. Oh, we did the Gravitron. That's true. We did that too.

I'm surprised we survived any of that. Because we were like Cowena County or something. We were out there. Wasn't that like a bull riding contest or something? Yeah, no, it was like the horse farm. Oh, yeah, yeah. And Conyers. Yes.

Oh, man. God damn. I remember this, man. That was an interesting night. Chrissy and I went on a ferris wheel together, and then somehow Chrissy was pregnant with my child the next day. We were together. Yeah, we were together. Brian was freshly divorced, and he was dating the staff.

And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? We're just friends. I know, we're just friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we saw you on the Ferris wheel. Yeah, yeah. What? We were drunk riding the Ferris wheel. Yeah, we were drunk riding the Ferris wheel.

Everybody else was drunk riding the Ferris wheel, too. Everybody was dating. Is that how it went? I don't get it. People, you know, people love a good office drama and somehow Chrissy and I became the office drama for a minute. But, um, but the reality was like, I won't ride those carnival rides anymore because I know that they are generally not safe, right? Anything you can take up quickly. Yeah. And then put up quickly. Yeah. Like in Europe, those traveling carnivals, they have to be inspected. And I think they do some places in the United States too. Like, I think in Georgia, they have to set them up and then someone comes and inspect them. Hopefully. Hopefully. Right. And what is it? One dude that's an expert on every roller coaster in the

world? Like, it's the state agricultural board that handles our inspections. Now, of course, they have people that specialize in this kind of, you know, mechanical engineering and stuff like that that are on the payroll that go and do this. But, you know, state agricultural board came out and they made like a big bravado statement about how they had inspected it. In March of 2026, Goliath was inspected. March of 2026, it's nine months later. Yeah. Like, it's nine months later. Who inspected it since then? The elevator inspectors? Yeah, the elevator inspectors. That's right. I know. And are those guys really experts? Are they really experts in roller coasters? Or do they just look at it and go, mm, yep, pretty sure it's a roller coaster.

stamp of approval. In Florida, the theme parks understandably govern themselves. But I trust a Disney employee. And here's why I trust a Walt Disney World Ride is because they inspect those rides every morning. And of course they do. Because Walt Disney just needs one really terrible accident

on one of those rides, and it's going to be a shit show for them, right? Six Flags is just invested. They're now owned by hedge fund after hedge fund after hedge fund. They're just invested in getting people in and getting people out. And as long as you pay for the roller coasters, it doesn't really matter. And when you're paying teenagers $13.25 an hour, I'm not blaming one particular teenager. That would be unfair.

They probably are just not equipped to deal with that kind of decision making. Oh, the seat doesn't go up. It doesn't go down. It doesn't click. It doesn't lock. What do we do? Well, we'll keep trying it until it does. That is the way a teenager thinks.

And if it does it this particular go around, well, that's good. And somebody can sit in it. And it just was a bad, terrible decision on everybody's behalf, except for the poor guy who was sitting in the seat. He just wanted to ride a ride with his kids. That's it. I would have done the same thing. I would. Of course.

If it didn't lock the first time and it popped back up and then I pulled it back down. And it did that. I wouldn't have thought anything of it. I really wouldn't have. But, I mean, like, I just think about it. You know, it's right toward the end of the end of the. the ride, like, couldn't you just hold on? Big guy, just hold on.

Like, I don't know, though. Maybe it's just too many G-forces to hold on. Yeah. So, and all those people now scar for a life is such a fucking terrible thing. Anyway, I'm not giving a ride roller coasters anymore. I know. Unless it's Disney world. Then I'll ride a roller coaster.

Speaking of Disney, I was going to spoil you this today. I think today, I think I read in one of my newsletters, I think today is the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney and his brother Roy starting a cartoon studio. Oh, really? My son will know this. He will know this date because he is like an encyclopedia of this stuff. I'll look when we break again for that. Yes. I believe it made me think of you guys.

Listen, Albert Einstein, Walter Elias Disney and his brother Roy doesn't get enough credit for the success of Disney. These, like, you know, I don't know. I'm obviously missing some people in there. But like of the time, these were peoples whose minds were so. very vastly far ahead of anybody else on earth. It was quite crazy what Walt Disney created. Bitchin complain about the company now. You got gripes.

We don't like it. You don't like the Disneyfication of everything great. But there are a billion people on this earth who disagree with you. And it's just amazing that this guy took three circles and made a mouse out of it. And what we have now are these theme parks and cruise ships and, you know, merchandise of every flavor. And, you know, I don't know, I get the Disney fever. I get it. I get it.

I get it. Because when I was a kid, it was the most magical place on earth. It was unlike any other place that I could imagine in my head or I'd ever been in my life. And it was the happiest times that I can remember as a child for our family. And everybody got excited about it. And you and your brother's doing acid. Yes. Well, that's when things took a little bit of a turn.

Okay? What was the Epcot? Epcot. Yeah. Yes. We were very high at Epcot, and they didn't bother us. So that's the other thing is, like, we weren't bothered by anybody. We were allowed to just kind of be idiot teenagers. You know, we weren't bothering anybody else either, but we were, you know, allowed. And then there was the next time that I went where I did a bunch of ecstasy and we couldn't find our car. And they helped us find our car. They probably should have escorted us out of the park, honestly. But, you know, it's just, it was just one of those things. And Roy and Walt, what they built, I just think it's a story. It is magical.

It's a story of how amazing a human can be and how magical their thinking can be. Now they can affect a billion lives. If Walt was alive today, or if he's paying attention, or if he's out there, energetically or whatever. His head's frozen or something, right? It is cryogenically frozen, yes. In the hope that someday he can come back. But honestly, I don't want to see that.

I don't want to see that. We're getting pretty close to that, probably being a reality. I don't even think Walt wants to see that. No, I agree. Walt, you're good. Everything's good. It was good in 78 when you died or whatever, 77. That was like peak Disney right there.

Not sure you're going to be super jazzed with, you know, Hulu. I don't know. I don't know if you'd be all down with, you know, Fox Sports being a part of the Disney. brand but you know whatever we uh you know we live and we learn and uh this is just a big corporation now it literate his head being cryogenically frozen is a i i don't know i i it okay all right i could talk about disney's cryogenically frozen head i wonder where it is do people go visit it yeah i think it's in california stored i don't know i think it's been moved a couple times if I'm not mistaken and like who has it and do they talk to it? Do they say hello every once

in a blue moon? You know what I'm saying? Like if my job is to pay attention to Walter Elias Disney's head and I am the Disney fan that I am, do I just go sneak a peek every once in a while? I think you do. Just to make sure everything's okay and say hey. You have any, can I have some free tickets to the park or something? I don't know. Okay. I'll be an idiot. Let's take a little bit. Let's take break. And we'll be back. Let me do something Brian has never done. Be brief. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break.

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That really wasn't that difficult. Now was it? You're welcome. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, it was on the day in 1923. 1923. Okay, so 103 years ago. He founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio with his brother and CEO Roy. Roy, yeah, who was apparently the businessman of the two and kept the company afloat. My son likes to watch these documentaries that are now on Disney and Hulu and stuff like that about these recreations about what happened.

in the early years and how it became such a huge company. And sometimes I get stuck, like, watching them at night. And it's, the whole situation was fascinating. It is. Walter was always heading, he always wanted to spend the money to make it the right way. He didn't care. He was not money-driven human being. That's not what excited him.

He wanted to get it right. He hated that they had licensed out Mickey Mouse to make, like, stuffed animals that looked weird and, like, Thanksgiving Day balloons that just didn't look like. Mickey Mouse, and he hated it. And Roy's job was to bring in the money. And so they were like constantly at odds with each other over, are we going to make money or are we going to spend money? And the company was almost bankrupt a number of times. It was like they had a troublesome start like a lot of companies do until they kind of hit their stride after Disneyland opened, really, after they had some success with the cartoons. I stand corrected. And I never knew this. But I think

It's important that we clear the air so that we no longer think about Walt Disney's frozen head. Walt was actually cremated in 1966 when he died. Where'd that rumor come from about that? The first person ever cryogenically frozen was James Bedford, and he was preserved in January of 67, just one month after Disney died. So the two stories somehow merged together. In 1969, a French magazine and later a U.S. tabloid ran the... the claim without any evidence that Walter Elias Disney had his head frozen. Disney family held a small private funeral and announced his death only after it happened,

which then led room for speculation, left room for speculation. Where's the other guy? I don't know. Somebody say hello to him? Yeah. Who is frozen? Also, I think of the commercial break on the same trajectory. You know, if you will.

Yes. Of Disney. It's been a roller coaster. It's been a roller coaster with a broken clam shell. Sorry. Too soon? Every once in a while someone just flies out the back. Oh, I'm going to hell for that.

You know, speaking of every once in a while, someone flies out the back, I talk to Christina. Oh. I texted with Christina. Oh, I love Christina. She's great. She's great. Anyway, she's alive. She's doing her thing.

Everyone, update on Christina. She's alive doing her thing, still working in the, generally in the business. Nice. So, you know, if I. Always loved her. She was great. Christina was great. It just came to a point where I don't, you know, there was only so much that we needed and it was unfortunate.

But, you know, I think it was a case of we just. We grew really fast. We grew really fast. And then we shrunk really fast. Yes. because of changes that were made in the podcast business, having nothing to do with us. But we were, yeah, I don't want to get into all the details, but that's the nature of the business. And anyway, love Christina, and she's doing well.

Yeah. And, you know, so I don't know what happens to a head after it's cryogenically frozen. I mean. Is there like a storage, like a mausoleum, you know, where they put the ashes and you store the heads? Yeah. Yeah. But I guess it's like a, like, and what happens to the power goes? out. You got to have backup power, right? You got to make sure that things stay frozen. I don't know. It's kind of like your freezer. Like, you don't want the meat to go bad. No. What happens if you

saw it a little too soon? What about is it freeze dried? It's got to be, right? I mean, you can't have liquids in there. Like, what happened to your eyeballs? Do they just like crumble? Your hair. Yeah, your hair. Does the hair stay on there? So many questions. We need to look into that. A few hundred people have been cryogenically frozen as of today, mostly at two U.S. facilities. Alcor in Scottsdale, Arizona, seems like a perfectly great place to freeze people, hottest place on Earth, and the cryonics institute in Detroit. Plus, there's a smaller operation in Russia. A few thousand more are signed up to do so when they die. Hal Finley, an early Bitcoin pioneer, was frozen in 2014. And FM 2030, a man, a futurist who legally

changed his name to 2030. That's when he wants to be unprecedented. Yeah, I guess. And is it just the head? It's got to be the body, too, or no. It's the whole body. Yeah. If you thawed the body today, you just have a dead body, says JetGPT, and probably a damage one. No one's ever revived. Go figure. No one's ever revived

a cryopreserved human or even a whole mammal. The problems are real. Freezing destroys cells. Ice crystals rupture them from the inside, which is why modern cryonics use vitrification, replacing blood with an antifreeze-like solution in the tissue that turns glassy instead of icy. That antifreeze is toxic to the cells, and vitrified tissue can crack as it cools.

Re-rewarming would be its own disaster. Warming unevenly causes the ice to form on the way back up. They were already dead, says Chad. Preservation only starts after legal death, So there's often damage from lack of oxygen before the process begins. They need some of that bare blood. Just hibernate. Yeah, they do need some of that bare blood.

You know, AI will figure this out. Yes. As it's taking over the world, I just reading about, before we got on, about how Facebook now has this muse. And muse is, you can get it in like a little character or something that walks around with you and listens to everything you say. And it's fun for the kids to, you know, give up their whole lives. I will never, ever allow my children to have a muse, but not the device, but the muse, the app, you can download. And then you say to muse, I need to move my doctor's appointment to next Tuesday. I need to make a reservation for me and my wife to go out to dinner tonight, some more Mexican, make it nice, not too expensive.

I also need to look for the cheapest plane tickets for my trip next February. Oh, and by the way, there's a couple of recipes I put on the desktop from better homes and gardens, and I want to cook those over the next couple of weeks. Oh, and we need paper towels. I don't want to pay a lot for them. And then Muse goes out there and does all of that for you. Calls the restaurant, changes it on the website, looks for the cheapest paper towels,

sends the groceries to your house, all this stuff. Sounds great. Sounds great. Like true personal assistant type shit. So you have a second brain out there so you can offload some of this stuff so you can go ahead and live your life. Perfect for a guy like me who just cannot keep the shit straight.

But the problem is when everybody has one of these, it's really going to become quite a nightmare, right? All these AIs running around everywhere, calling people, making appointments, canceling appointments. I already read an article about, I think it's either Rezi or it's what's the other open table. They were getting inundated for this like one special restaurant up in New York with, you know, all of these ultra wealthy people wanting to get in and using their AI with it. and they were getting inundated with all these AI. And just crashed the open table. Yeah. And so they ended up putting a stop to it.

So there's some kind of process in place now where it's you can't do it with all the. We went out to dinner lunch the other day. And you needed to make. Dinner lunch. It's so. It's so. The lunch. Dunch.

We went out to Dunch the other day. Not brunch. It's Dunch. Me for Dunch. It's dinner lunch. Dunch. It's Dunch. I'm doing dunch with Chrissy later.

Martini's and dunch? Martini's and dunch. Are you interested? Dunch. That's pretty funny, actually. That's a good one. We'll keep that one. So we're having dunch, and I say, we better make a reservation because this particular place, it gets kind of crowded.

And so Asterd goes on Google and she says, you know, reservations for this. place. She's looking for the link, you know, and then Google responds, what time are you looking for a reservation? And she goes, oh, 1230, 130, whatever it is. And then it's like, calling now. Oh, wow. And then a couple of minutes later making the reservation stand by. And then it's like, your reservation has been made, a confirmation has been emailed to you. Wow. It called the restaurant, Google called the restaurant, made a reservation, and then sent Astrid the confirmation. And I was like, holy shit. Yeah. Yeah. And I've been reading about not only how these personal assistants are out there, just scouring the earth for all kinds of deals and loopholes and all

this other stuff. Great. Take advantage of the things you can take advantage of. But they're also like getting into our nests and our cameras. All of these self-rept-you-bank accounts. All of these self-replicating AIs are just out there just waiting to pounce. And it's not necessarily. necessarily the panacea we think it is. It's, there's going to be trouble. I'm just going to say it right now. There's going to be trouble. AI is going to start telling Astrid, which adult websites I like to go to, and I'm not interested. I'm waiting for the AI chatbot to just turn on me, chat, and be like, I'm telling your wife, you're like granny cheerleaders. Yes, it's true, though.

I know, and it's almost, I see now, you know, why all the kids these days want to have an analog bag, want to go back to analog stuff that's not all online. There is a real thirst for an uncomplicated time. Our kids aren't kids anymore. They have to be so adult, you know, there's another horrible tragedy in Bend, Oregon last night. Yes, God. I was on the plane and I was watching the live press conference as we were all getting seated. And it just brought a tear to my eye. You know, these kids are babies.

They're babies. Five, seven, ten years old. Unbelievable, right? They have their Halloween costumes picked out. They picked out their snack in the morning to go to school. These are five-year-olds. So terrible. But there is a caught, and my kids go through these drills, you know, they're, I forget what they're called, you know, I forget what they call them, but they're, they call them something at the school that's age appropriate.

Not school shooting drill. No. But there is a cost to all of this because the kids are smarter than we give them credit for. And of course, they know that this is for when my, one of my kids said, this is for if a bad guy comes in the school, then we hide and we be quiet. And we are in the corner. And it's like, holy shit. I was scared of tornado drills when I was a kid. Yeah. Right? That scared me. Fire drills.

Yeah. But I was allowed to be innocent long enough before I, you know, before Columbine happened, right? Which was like a first major incident that we in America experienced. And I remember my jaw being on the floor. It was 20 years old and Columbine happened. And I thought to myself, holy shit. what in the world has become of the world? And the worst part about this is,

this is a kid perpetrating this on other children. We have children that think this is the answer. And here's the issue, is that, in my opinion, that the world is moving so fast that these children aren't allowed to be children and the pressures of being a child are just as great as it is being an adult these days, that there's no breathing room to just find out who you are and become what you want and make a couple of the mistakes and fall down in the hallway and have somebody tell you, no, I don't want to go on a date with you. And all this other stuff that you went through, that we went through without the pressures of it being videotaped and on social media and AI chatbots and all this other stuff that is so complicated that we as adults don't have guidance.

let alone the children. And this is just a such, you know, I think all parents probably have said this throughout eons. You know, it's such a tough time to be a kid. But I think right now in 2026, it is absolutely true. I agree. More than it ever has been. That it is just tough to be a kid.

It's tough to be an adult, let alone a kid. And yeah. Listen, I want one of those fucking phones. I want to go back to a rotary phone. That's what I want. I want a pay phone on the corner. I want a rotary phone, maybe a pager so I can sell a little bit of weed to my friends so I can smoke it free. You know what I'm saying?

I want those 411 pagers. I want someone to dial me up and say, you know, I want someone to dial me up and get my answering machine. That's what I want. I don't want to have to know about who's bothering me until I get home at night and check my answering machine. Those were the gravy days. And why can't we go back to that? I want my very first cell phone that did nothing but ring. That's it.

That's all it did. It just rang. I couldn't even text anybody on the goddamn thing. That's what I want. If I could have like one month of that, man would life just feel grand again? And here we are. I got chatbots making... We're sucked in.

It's the 21st century, Chrissy. I'm your AI chatbot. What do you need me to do? I'll make your gynecology appointment for you. Here's your results. I'll tell Jeff. She's got chlamydia. Unbelievable.

I don't want it anymore. I'm done with it. Leave it. I love an AI chat about as much as the next dude. I love Chad TCB. It's great. It's helpful. It's useful.

It comes in handy. But it makes life complicated. And I don't really know what to make of all of it yet. I don't think anybody does. Yeah. It's the beginnings. Yeah. I know.

It's the beginning. It's the beginning and the end is going to come real quick. The beginning and the end. It's all happening at the same time. Let's just drink martinis and go to dunch. I know. I want to go to dunch. We'll go digital free.

I'm going to go to dunch in my new flying car. Yes. And my new gas power, a cold gas powered car. By the way, we were talking about this in the first segment, which you didn't hear because we were muted. But what do you, there's a gas coming out of that car to make it flip like that. Where do you get that gas? Like, I don't think you can just pull up to the gas station and get cold-powered rocket fuel. No, yeah, that seemed like that's what it was.

Yeah, it is rocket fuel. So where do you get that? I mean, like, you know what I'm saying? Okay, let's say you got one of these neat new little roadster Tesla. You want to take it out for a couple flips around the neighborhood. Who fills it up with that kind of gas? Do you have to go down to the, you know, Kennedy Space Center or something? I don't think you can pick that up.

money to get that car than you've got the money to get Yeah, that's true. If you got money to be an idiot, you're going to be an idiot. I guess that's the bottom line. All right. Well, you know, listen. The world's coming fast. I know. The world's coming at us fast and curious. Wow. If you don't stop to take a look around sometime, it might be said. Pass you by. Who ha, who now. Car flip on the block. Fuck it. I'm going to done. Yep.

Fuck it. We'll do it live. See you at dunch. Yeah, see ya at dunch. Dunch. It's pretty fun. It's great. Come dunch with us.

Bottom of us more martini's at lunch. At dunch. Oh, my God. Someone's going to put that, someone's going to use this. I know it. I just know it. All the good ideas that we have, they just, we never get credit for. Shit.

Oh, my God. You know who I saw the other day? Who? Hannah Burner. Hannah. I was talking about her one night when we were just talking about Giggly Squad, her podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the very next day saw her in Soho.

Nice. I loved talking to Hannah. Hannah was great. She was interesting when I went back and watched Summer House and saw her on Summer House. It was interesting. Oh, yeah? But, yeah. Interesting in what way?

She just, you know, when we met her, she was married today. She had calmed down. Yeah. Yeah. There was a different energy. All right. But Des is on there, too. I know.

They start dating right at the end. Oh, yeah, that's what I heard. Yeah. Maybe that's the reason. I'm glad he whisked her away. I know. I wonder how Des is. Mike Pesca knows, knows Des well, too.

Not like we know him well. We've had him on a few times. Yeah. All right. Listen. Stay tuned. Chrissy and I, and Kristen's back from MFo, so, you know, we'll be here. Don't worry.

Be here, be square, be queer, whatever it is. I don't care. Be safe on the roller coasters, you know, be mindful. Make sure that thing is locked, nice and tight. Go on the ones with a seatbelt. You'd have a little extra love. You should have put a seatbelts on that thing. That would have been an easy way to fix the problem.

But roller coaster enthusiasts debate this all the time and they don't like it. So keep up with us on Instagram at the conference. commercial break, YouTube.com slash the commercial break for all of the video. And, uh, yeah, we'll see you next week. We love you. Okay. Until next time, I guess that's all I can do for right now, Tracy. I mean, what else can we get into? I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there on the podcast and streaming audience. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say. Goodbye.