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Episode Date: September 24, 2021

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And welcome back to WSHIT's Dandelion the Movies, I'm Entertainment reporter Dandy Danderson. Each week we take a look at a new movie voted on by the audience here in Crabapple Township. This week we asked viewers to vote on your favorite drama, and resoundingly 98% of you said the venerable Jack and Jill, so wonderfully acted by Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler, and resoundingly 98% of you said the venerable Jack and Jill. So wonderfully acted by Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler and also Adam Sandler and Al Pacino and also some of Adam Sandler's friends and Jared from Subway who took a nice little turn in this movie and then took a nice little turn outside the movie. But anyway, that's a different story for a different time, let's focus on the movie.

Here I want to show you an important scene in the movie when Jack played by Adam Sandler and Jill played by Adam Sandler discussed their twin superpowers together. Let's listen to that now. Why are you so brave to admit that we are connected? Face it! We shared moms, woo, we were roommates. Oh, that is just disgusting.

I have an idea. On the show there were these twins and they finished each other sentences Jack maybe you could start a sentence and Jill you could finish it. No, no. Come on Daddy please, please. Ready to receive mental images. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b- Okay, ready? Yeah. I'm very tired. So I'm going to... Oh, to the supermarket! No, I'm going to sleep.

Why would I go to a supermarket if I was tired? That's what I would do. The cold air always wakes you up. Isn't it nice when it's just you go over the frozen food texture? Just listening to this incredible performance by Adam Sandler and also by Adam Sandler, this reporter has to wonder, where was the Academy on this one? Anyway, we'll be back after this commercial break.

So with that in mind, last night we had a little dinner together, all of us, and I ran into one of your content creators. His name's Brian Green. Brian, are you here today? No, maybe not. OK, who cares? Brian was drinking a lot. But I was drinking a lot. We've been together all of us and I ran into one of your content creators. His name is Brian Green. Brian, are you here today? No, maybe not. Okay, who cares? Brian was drinking a lot.

Brian was drinking a lot. There he is. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great.

Brian was drinking a lot. Brian was drinking a lot. Thank you podcast movement. One more time for Mark Cuban, Fallon Fudhemi. I'm Mosul Ronnie, have a great day you guys! On this episode of the commercial break. So now I've learned through my meditation that rather than get upset, I never chase anyone

like I'm not stupid enough to like do any of that shit I'm not gonna get killed. You're hearing Atlanta people shoot you for less, right? I mean you don't you don't even have to do anything. There are certain literally certain sections of highways in Atlanta Where you just drive the speed limit and don't look at it. Don't look at it It's gonna get shot me looking to suit and it happens all the time here in Atlanta But what I now do is when someone cuts me off or they do something stupid or whatever, I give him the old, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

I pretend like I'm sucking a dick. I don't know why, but I find it hilarious that it calms me down, right? And Astro's always like, what are you doing? I'm like nothing. Me, well, I'm just praying that the person is looking in the rear view mirror and seeing this guy go, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, I'm a sexist. The pun is who wants to see me in concert. Actually, the guy was really good, but he produced one concert film and you're a movie

producer. That doesn't make any sense. You're a restaurant tour. Where are the restaurants? They're all closed, like they're nowhere. You're an oil man. You sell oil. No, you don't.

There's no oil. If you're selling oil, you're the worst oil salesman that ever happened because you can't even get a tanker from here to there. I know. Well, how can you even fact check that? You know, like I'm just gonna start going on me and like I'm an oil. Yeah, I'm an oil man. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, it's another episode of the commercial break. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I do it every time. What is going on out there in the world? It's like you it's like you're entitled to my despot in front of me. You know I just you know what I say when that happens? What? Best to you. Yeah, best to you. I would know what I say.

Fuck you! I can't believe you could alter and say best to fucking you. I know. I so Astro'd always like make you fun of me because you know, I have kids now. So I can't be the 20. I do. I do know this. I do. You do?

You do? They're so quiet. I never noticed. It's like they're not even here. So I learned through meditation that I just got to keep it calm. Keep it cool, right? Because I have a touch of the rage,

touch of the road rage, I'll just tell you that about myself. I drive fast, not dangerously, but I like to drive fast and I don't suffer fools very easily. Like my least favorite thing would people do when you're driving is, you're driving down the road, two lane road, right? I'm going this way, you're going that way and then people are about to take a right or a left out in front of you You're the only car

There's seven miles of clear traffic. Yes, and they pull out last minute They're sitting there for 55 seconds waiting for you to get close and then they pull out and then they drive 15 miles under the speed limit right it drives me fucking crazy The fuck man just wait until I out and then they drive 15 miles under the speed limit. It drags me fucking crazy. The fuck man, just wait until I go and then go. That's what I do. Then go as slow as you want. Do your own fucking fiddle, ditto on your own. Don't get miles, shit all crammed up and jammed up.

I feel like I sound like Dean Boaty now. You crippled, you crippled, you crippled, you crippled. A little dab of ditto. So my friend asked me to pick up the drop to the sun off at school the other day. It's private school, it's a nice place. But no one ever planned for that many cars to be in this particular space. So there are just people all over the place

and they're trying their best to direct traffic. But it's really relying on the goodness of the people that are driving the cars to get this traffic moving in the right direction, right? There's a lot of places where you have to let people in and all this other shit. So, I don't, I've never been to the, you know, I don't normally do this, so I'm like, I'm gonna just play a good citizen. It's early in the morning and I'm fucking cranky, but I'm gonna play the good citizen, right?

And I'm just gonna let people in. Four people I let in in different places in the parking lot, and now one fucking person waved to me. Really? One. They're all just like, eww. Just going, if you had let me in in traffic, I would be kind enough to waved to you. Exactly. I would say best to me. That's one. They're all just like, ooh, just going. If you had let me in in traffic,

I would be kind enough to wave to you. Exactly. And it's just a short wave. It's just a hand. Or you even give me like a wink. Yeah, I'm not of the head. I'm not of the head. Yeah.

Show me your scrottle. I mean, I don't know what the fuck, but ask for the hint. It's an acknowledgement. So now I've learned through my meditation that rather than get upset, I never chase anyone. Like I'm not stupid enough to like do any of that shit.

I'm not gonna get killed. You're hearing Atlanta people shun you for less, right? I mean, you don't, you gotta do anything. You don't even have to do anything. There are certain, literally, certain sections of highways in Atlanta where you just drive the speed limit and don't look at anybody.

Don't look at anybody. Yeah, just gonna get shot. Be looking to shoot. It happens all the time here in Atlanta. But what I now do is when someone cuts me off or they do something stupid or whatever, I give him the old, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

I pretend like I'm sucking a dick. I don't know why, but I find it hilarious that it calms me down, right? And Astrid's always like, what are you doing? I'm like nothing. Me, well, I'm just, I'm just praying that the person is looking in the rear view mirror and seeing this guy go, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah there's a lot of red things. Getting it shot and it's still very racist out there.

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Now maybe they've got another job again and they're looking to kind of pay things down and those interest rates make it so hard to do, really make any headway at 19, 20, 22%. It's crazy. Some of my credit card rates start at like 13 or 14%. And I mean, I'm not, I don't have 900 credit score, but I also don't have a bad credit score.

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.com slash TCB for your special rate discount. We'd like to say thank you to Lightstream. Thanks, thank you. I came across the craziest thing the other day. You did. Well, actually, a friend of mine sent me a text message. Do you know this show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta? Well, of course I do. I think you'd have to have your head in a fucking hole.

I was a long time watcher. I haven't watched the last couple of seasons. Oh, Real Housewives of Atlanta or some other version. All of them really, but Atlanta, I watched pretty regularly until the last couple seasons. How many are there? Are there like five or six different cities they do this in now?

New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles? No, I mean, yeah, it's like Orange County, Beverly Hills, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City? Salt Lake City, that's going on right now. It's got to be a snooze fest. Not. It's not?

Oh, really? Oh, the Mormons are just as dramatic as snooze fast. It's not. It's not. Oh, really? Oh, the Mormons are just as dramatic as the rest of us. Oh, they're a vile. Yeah, I got a few friends. Oh, yes, they are. Like, at least not be fooled by any kind of pretense. Those Mormons, they get down.

They know how to party. They do. What do they call room-springer? Oh, no, that's not, no, that's not the, that's room-springer. Room-springer. He's springing someone from the room. No Pinch springer Felt alone H springer. Uh, no, it's the the um, Amish they have room springer

Which is basically a year when you're a teenager like I think it's at 17 you can go do room springer Which means go fucking get down get why okay give you a year to go drink and drug yourself fucking silly and then they hope that you come back they hope that that sleeping in the gutter for a couple weeks with a bad arrow and have it brings you back there are many documentaries we should do one we should do a an episode on room springer and I think I actually might be able to get a hold of of a next Amish guy who might be able to tell us more about room springer So, but I think the Mormons have something. Oh, no, you know what they ride their bikes and they teach you teach people

They do, they go on the mission. They go on the mission. Yeah, which is much different than doing heroin in a gutter. Yeah Anyway, back to the real housewives of Atlanta So the real housewives of Atlanta has had a cat rotating cast of characters if you don't know what the show is I mean, I don't know how it's played here. She's probably one of the most famous. Neenie Leaks. Yeah. And so I think that real housewives of Atlanta

was that the first one or was it in New York? No, it was New York. It was the first one. No, I think it was actually Orange County. Oh, Orange County, that's true. I mean, New York, they're kind of neck and neck. But yeah. Orange County, New York, and then came Atlanta.

Atlanta became a very popular version of this show. Very. Based on some of the personalities that are there. And it's a rotating cast of characters. It's been going on for like 10 years now. So all the old, I don't even know on some of the personalities that are there, and it's a rotating cast of characters, been going on for like 10 years now. So all the old, I don't even know if some of the old characters were involved in it. I don't know the first thing about Real Hospital

Atlanta anymore. I watched like the first 12 episodes, and then I was like, this is really making our city the very floor. First of all, none of them live in Atlanta. They're all outside of Atlanta. Second of all, I'm pretty sure none of them are rich, they're just pretending to be rich.

But I don't know. A lot of the homes are rented. A lot of the homes are rented. It's all just for show. Right. I think the people in North County and New York are the only ones that actually have money. Right. Pretending to have money.

Well, Beverly Hills, they have those bitches got some money. But listen, you got to give it to Andy Cohen, who is this? Oh, he's a mastermind. Mastermind behind all this. He knows what people want to watch. And it's just trash I can produce it. Oh, he's a mastermind. Mastermind behind all this. He knows what people want to watch, and it's just trashy television. Yep.

And he's done a great job. Great. Yeah, putting this all, he's right. And he's done a great job putting it all together, and I gotta give the guy, Krezzi, he also did, he's done a lot of shows that you would know. He's like an executive guy at Bravo.

Anyway, Real Housewives of Atlanta starts, and I have not kept up with the seasons, but the other day I get a text message from a friend with a picture of a guy named Simon Guabadia. And Simon Guabadia, it's talking about the real Housewives of Atlanta, and how this guy Simon Guabadia went from one housewife married to one housewife

to married to another housewife named Portia Williams, who you may or may not know, she's like semi-damous, okay. She's got some famous radio show or something. Yeah, but that came I think after the housewives. Well her grandfather was Hosea Williams. Her grandfather was Hosea Williams. Is that true? Oh really?

I did not know that. So she's from that family. Yeah, so she's like an old Atlanta family. That's weird. I used to serve Hosea Williams in a restaurant that I worked on. He's a very nice guy. Anyway, he's like, Jose Williams is like a legendary in Atlanta. Yeah, he's a civil rights guy.

He was a mayor for a long time. I think he was the reason why, part of the reason why the Hartz Field Jackson Airport got built so big as big as it did. But anyway, so his daughter is on this program. And this guy, Simon Gawadi, is talking about how he went from one housewife to then married married to one housewife, married into forced to another housewife. scandalous scandalous.

And now this Portia Williams, they actually married or they engaged they're engaged right now, but they're putting on a big show. Yeah, you know, apparently there's like a three part special that's coming about Portia Williams and I don't know. Sam and Mary may or may not of course there is. What's interesting about this is, do you remember a little streaming or radio streaming television station,

Rysosho radio station called, Sim Cole FM? I do, Brian. Legendary and song in history. I was a guest on there. You were up at times. You're a guest and then you were up there drinking with me, maybe.

Yeah. So let me give you this story for those of you that don't know. I'll go back a little bit and Brian history. In 2000 and something, probably about tech going on a decade now, I got invited by a coworker friend of ours to a meeting with a rich, oil person that wanted to start a streaming radio station. And because of my experience at Clear Channel

with streaming radio, she felt like I was going to be the man for the job. Well, thanks a lot for that. Thanks for going right into the lion's den. I appreciate it. I didn't, at the time I already had the job, I was doing well with the company that I owned, and I refused the meeting a number of times. For months, until she's like, listen, he really, he'll pay you to do this. And I'm like, he'll pay me to do this. Like, street, there's no money in streaming radio. Yeah, that's right.

I mean, before there was, my... Yeah, there was a, I mean, podcast that just come along. Yeah, it was just like a, it seemed weird, right? It seemed odd, but at that point, I was like, well, if someone's gonna offer me a pile of cash to do something, I might as well go take a... And it was like a brand new studio. He was building out everything.

Well, we haven't gotten there yet, right? So I take this meeting at a restaurant that he supposedly owns. I take this meeting, he shows up. He is this larger than life, like literally Nigerian oil guy. Yes. He sits down, he shows up in a Rolls-A-Royce,

he sits down, he's smoking a cigar. He's got an axon. He's got an axon, you know. He's always lendsce, he sits down, he's smoking a cigar. He's got an accent. He's got an accent, you know. He's always lensed to the credibility. Yeah, he's got affectation. Well, lens to the credibility or the non credibility, depending on which way you're looking at it. Right.

When you hear Nigerian oil man, you probably think of many emails that you've deleted or go straight to your fan box, right? So I'm like, wow, okay. Take the meeting, the guy says, I wanna do this, right? You know, you do it. I give you the money, you do it. And I'm like, you give me the money, I do it.

Put together a budget, I do that, you know, tell me what you need, I'll take care of it. And I'm like, this sounds too good to be, I've been in a lot of these meetings. This sounds too good to be true. Let me explain it a little bit for those of you that do not live here. Everybody.

And I mean everybody is a producer, a rapper, an executive producer, a director, a famous photographer, a musician, they're soon gonna be selling out Madison Square Garden. They've been at the Fox, they've sold out two nights at the Fox Theater, everybody. I'm on Real Housewives of Atlanta. I know somebody who's on real housewives of Atlanta.

I've been in two reality shows. I'm about to do a third. Well, think about it. Is it half of it is true? Well, that's true. You don't know who really is. That's right. What is real and is not? What has happened is because there is a lot of legitimate, legit, fame going around Atlanta and money going around Atlanta that the people who are really doing it when they talk about it, you don't know the difference between the people who are really doing it, when they talk about it, you don't know the difference between the people who are telling you a fucking fish tail and people who, but everybody claims to be doing the same thing. Everybody is famous, just like us here at TCB.

I'm a fun guy. I'm a fun guy. I'm a fun guy. That's true, you are a funny. We're now saying it around town. One person noticed me one time. Are you Brian Greene? you I owe you money? Are you serving me papers? Right. So it's hard to tell sometimes what's real and what's not.

And I took, I took this meeting with a grain of salt. But at the advice of the friend, quote unquote, that we have quote unquote, she says he's, he's real. He's the real deal put together a budget, a plan, and he'll write the check, which is exactly what I did. And what I thought to myself was, I don't know the first thing about starting a streaming radio station. No one did at the time, like a streaming radio television station, put some cameras, do this whole thing. But I know it's going to cost a lot of money if you really want to do it the right way.

Like not just a couple of guys doing it on their off hours, but if you wanna, he literally was like, I want this like the best that's ever been, right? I'm gonna put billboards, I'm gonna have a plane flying, you're gonna be on MTV. I mean like the whole nine yards. So I put a budget together that's rather that would have shocked me.

Like it was expensive because I put it together the right way as asked to do. And he literally rubber stamped it one night at his restaurant, like, you know, nine o'clock at night. You get a radio station and we get a radio station and we get a radio station together. And he already had a cast of characters. He kind of assumed would be good for the streaming radio station

to have shows on the streaming radio station. He asked me to kind of lead the chart. He didn't, he asked me to lead the chart, right? And I said, I said, you were running things. I said, if I'm gonna do this, you gotta pay me. This is a full time job. Like I'm not gonna go and manage a radio station

to try and sell ads and put it all together. I'm like, I can't do that on my off hours. I already, I'm already running a business over here. You have to pay me to do this, right? And he literally rubber stamped payment for me and everybody else at the radio station. I put it together and I followed that budget to a tee. We got a studio.

A very nice studio. It was very nice I remember coming over when you get it all set up. It was unbelievable. Like he literally was like, Here's your space. And a cool part of town. Lovely, right?

Yeah, I have a mile from my house. Did you watch Anchorman being filmed there? believable like he literally was like here's your here's your cool part of town lovely right now I have a mile from my my house. Did you do you what you watched Anchorman being filmed there? I watch Anchorman to being like what are part of it being filmed right down the street so I so he A week later were in this studio and he's blank and he's like this is yours What do you tell me what you need you put it through through my lady and she'll buy all of it, right? She'll get it all set up.

I was at his office one day and this penthouse suite at the top of this fancy office tower and he was calling lawyers like, sin call FM, setting up, you know, Brian Green, pay it, yeah, get him what he needs. Pop up, you know, da da da da da da da, me why? The entire office was empty.

X, I mean, it was like 10,000 square feet of which 1,000 square feet was being used and one lady sitting outside the door who looked quite frankly scared of everything. She was like, and he was like, paper-ung green. And she's like, which account? We don't have any money. Yeah.

Paper. We need furniture first. Can I get a chair? Can I get a stapler? If I pay Brian, can I get a stapler? Also, something was off, but I didn't know what at the time. And the things were just moving fast and furious. People can be like that.

I mean, that is exactly why there's tons and tons of examples of people getting hoodwinked. Hoodwinked, that's right. Hoodwinked is the right word, that's good one. So the next couple of weeks or months, we set a target date and then we go to work building this studio.

Nights, weekends, 24 hours a day. I am literally living at this studio, getting it right, getting it set up. Yeah, I would come visit you and bring you food. That's right, you would. I remember that, like, and we had a bunch of lovely people that were helping us to such like people that just... Oh, there were some cool people.

Oh, everybody was cool. Everybody was cool. And I have a bad thing to say about anybody that I've worked with. I'm not sure that that's the same thing. I'm not sure that they feel the same way. But listen, I had nothing bad to say about any of those people that worked with us. I mean, the guy named John was in there like we were literally ripping this old carpeting

out and you know, building new studio equipment and running wires every which way to Sunday setting up the computers and networking them. And it took a lot of a lot of a lot of time and a lot of effort to make this thing go because it was a professional streaming radio station. We wanted it to sound and look like a radio station that you were just getting offline. Meanwhile, there were so many promises being made. We're going to have billboards and we need photo shoots and we're going to do, you know, I don't know. You're going to have, we're going to do a super bowl ad. Don't worry about it. It's on its way. Super bowl ad. So, around that, so, and now I have hired all of these people to come and work for us.

Me, with the promise they would get paid from this man. So, right around, like, right as we start getting going, right, he also had a furniture store, he sent over a bunch of furniture, like new age furniture, right about the time we started getting going. Something happened that kind of freaked me out a little bit, right? I'm like, we need two TVs or three TVs or whatever it was. I forget what the equipment

was, but we need this, right? So I call the lady who I call and she says, well, can I get back to you on that? She never said that before, right? Can I get back to you on that? Do you really need it like today? Can I get back to you on it? And I was like, no, I like it, but I guess it's not, I guess it's whatever, we'll make it work without it, right? And she goes, okay, because you know, we're like, we're waiting for a payment, right? And I was like, oh, you're waiting for a payment. Like, that's what I do. That's not what he does. Like, I wait for payment. He doesn't wait for payments. I'm waiting for payment. He is the payment. And it starts to snowball a little as we ramp up to get the station going. The string starts to get in pole, right?

And I'm paying ever so close attention, but now I'm so baked into the situation. Well, you're into it at that point. I'm like so excited about it now. And you don't want to even admit to everybody and be like, cause you've announced it to everyone. Hey, the guy who's paying us, he doesn't have any money. He's waiting on a payment. Remember this whole thing we put together

outside of you got new quit your jobs and all that shit? We're waiting on a payment. But it gets worse. Oh. So we start the radio station. It starts and you know, you had guests, I was in a moment with the rappers. For like, I would say for about four months.

It is. Kimmy was in co-hosts. Oh my God. Okay. So we start, I'm doing the morning show and then we have a number of people that are filling out the day. Lovely people, really talented,

doing what they do, right? Now, the station starts off strong. There's a lot of people, I think, because there's a lot of general interest. And like I expected to, kind of like kind of plateau is a little bit. I didn't know all the things that I know about, podcasting or how to get an audience

or all that at the time. I was just kind of relying on the fact that there was a marketing person who was the friend who introduced me to the situation that was going to be helping out with this. Thanks for the help. Nothing fucking happened. There's no billboards or no ads. Super bowl ad. There's nothing. Nothing. You know, okay, so we get started and month number one, there's just so much excitement about all of this. The stations going, people are coming in and working. They're literally clocking out nine to five. They're staying late hours.

They're everyone's excited about putting this together. And now we have it humming. We have a control room, we're setting up clips, we're storing all the information, we're running commercials, we're doing, I mean, we're just doing everything, right? I think I got it, I'm going. Like there's a lot of stuff that we need to clean up, but we got this thing going.

There's guests, there's celebrities that are coming up there, I'm like, wow, this is the real deal. Like we really did this. We pulled this shit off and man, maybe we only have a couple thousand people listening, but yeah, give it some time and it'll, it'll keep going, right? So I'm doing a four, and on top of running everything, I'm doing a four hour radio show starting at six in the morning. Like, it's crazy.

I'm getting up early, I'm staying late. Ba, ba, ba, payday comes. First, first payroll is delivered a couple days late, but as promised, everyone's excited. Second payroll comes. Couldn't pay it every two weeks. Couple days late, but as promised, but one of the checks bounces, one of the checks to someone bounces. And now I'm like, you meanwhile, I still need some extra equipment and I need things, right? Yeah. So the lovely lady that's sitting outside of the desk

with no chair, no stapler, and no furniture, who's my now, my contacts to get all this stuff is like, do you think you could maybe you can buy it and then like submit it to me and then I'll do my best to get it paid. I'm like, do your best to get it paid. And yeah. But at that time, I'm in.

I'm all in. I'm 100% in the deep end. So I'm like, I guess, yeah, I'll like, do your best to get a paid. Yeah. But at that time, I'm in. I'm all in. I'm 100% in the deep end. So I'm like, I guess, yeah, I'll take, you know, I'll go get some stuff. And that's exactly what happened. Yes. That's the how the scam happens. That's how it happens.

That's how it gets you. Things happen at first. Yeah. There. There. Now it starts to unwind. A little problem over here. A little problem over here.

A little paycheck bounce over there. Yeah. But it's all just papered over with, you know, oh, it just came out of the wrong, oh, it's a da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da at this point. Not that I know it, but I'm suspecting something. But I am so excited about this that I keep going. Yes. Meanwhile, other people are starting to know this stuff too. Now we're on month number two, right? And month number two, all of a sudden,

the lady is like, I can't issue checks today. And I'm like, what do you mean you can't issue checks today? It's like, you know, it's the 20th, we're supposed to get them on the 15th. And she's like, yeah, we're waiting on a payment. And I'm like, waiting on a payment, she's like, we're literally waiting for a boat from Nigeria to come in, so sell the oil or something.

She's like that. And I'm like, there's no money in like a bank account somewhere. You don't have like a, there's not a savings account. You mean this guy signed off on all this money and he didn't have the money at the time? He told me to go have people quit their fucking jobs and he didn't have any money at the time. And she says, well, that's kind of

the way we operate around here. I'm fucked. I am fucked. So month number two or three, people start like, now I am putting on a show. I am like, guys, don't worry. The every once in a blue moon, this guy Simon shows up. He'll show up. He's smoking a cigar.

The don't do everything. Rolling up in the white rolls. Yeah, rolling up in the white rolls, Royce, or the fucking $300,000 my-box, right? He's rolling up to it and he'd show up and he'd walk around and everybody would kiss his ass and then he'd leave and he'd go, don't do it, we'll get that baby to you, don't worry.

Yeah. He'd give me the whole fucking spiel and then, because no one would dare ask him directly about the paychecks now I became the guy and everyone was like so when do you think it's gonna get paid? And I was like, you know, I'm confident that Simon's gonna come through any day now But now people vote is about to be here Coming on his way from Nigeria a little storm in the ocean. We got a little Rocky Rolly, really. Right?

But don't worry. Literally millions of dollars on the way from Nigeria. At any moment, it's going to show up. The FedEx man's our coming is right. It's exactly what I was waiting for. Nothing. The guy never had the money in the first place and he told me to go and do this.

Month number three, now many people, now people have left their pissed, now people are pissed pissed, now everyone's like loaning each other money just trying to get through because we're all doing this as a full time job now because that's what we were told to do. Promise that we would get a year worth of runway and we're now three months in and nothing. It's stopped after month number one and a half or something like that. So now I'm getting nervous and I am trying to not piss off anybody but communicate gently that things are really

falling apart over here. Like I cannot keep people happy and working and I cannot keep the station online if they're not getting paid. This lady would dull out a little bit of money here and there. You know, like us, like one check. I thought it was like the Ponzi stuff. Oh my God, I hope that it's like one tenth of a paycheck.

Pay a little bit here. One tenth of a paycheck. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here.

Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. Pay a little bit here. the Entrez. Month number four. Now you're hungry. Now I have had three different people sitting in the chair where in on my particular show, right, all promised to pay none of it coming. So now I've had, you know, Kimmy, I've had other people sitting in the chair. At one point

on my show, in my morning show, I literally got approval because that was the payment that he was getting. I literally got approval to bring somebody here from Denver every single week to do the show for three days and then fly back to Denver. That's right, I know who you mean. Yes. And it lasted for about a month and a half and then all the sudden the money stopped flowing and it was like, I don't know what to do, bro. I don't have any other options.

I'm not really sure. Simon, at one point, asked what to do, bro. I don't have any other options. I'm not really sure. Simon at one point asked me to reduce the payroll. I did that. I let people go and it was so fucking difficult to do that because it's like, I promised you this and now I gotta let you go. I was the bad guy. I was turning into the bad guy.

Now, I would have been willing to be, that's sometimes management is the bad guy, right? You have to play the bad guy. I would have been willing to do that. Had someone actually stepped up and decided to live up to their end of the agreement. I say this, I am only telling you my point of view, right? There are many sides to every single story.

But I think this is the clearest picture I have now a decade later. Yeah. That after four months, I finally called one day. I had been calling multiple times a day for like weeks and I just was not getting any response. I was calling our friend who was telling me whatever she needed to tell me to make me shut up

and go away, which was fucking bullshit. Yeah. Fucking bullshit. I think she was get hustled too. I am not 100% convinced about that, but I'll just say, you know, that's my point of you. That's the way that I saw it. Okay.

After four months, after multiple times of calling a day, I called and I was like, we need payment or this is all stopping right now. Yeah. Right? And he said, okay, I'll get it to you. I'll call you back in a couple of hours. And I was like, well, all right, there we go. Now we're getting somewhere.

Now we get it. Fantastic. Yeah. That's awesome. just in there. Now we got it. Fantastic. Yeah. That's awesome. Look at me. I'm all excited. I'm running around my apartment like, I can pay my rent. Yes.

Right? Uh, then I get a phone call an hour and a half later from one of the guys at the station. Simon was just up here. You're not allowed in the building anymore. I'll get your stuff and put it outside the door. Oh my God. Is that how it ended? That's how it ended. That's how it ended. And if you come up here, I'll have to call the police. That's what he told me to do. And I was

like, holy shit. So Simon walked in there and told them all the fish tail. He told them that I was the one who was problematic and that he would get them the money that was owed. Don't worry about it. Blah blah blah. Brian's not allowed up here anymore. Close and lock the door and call the police if he shows up. Geez, that's unbelievable. And so for the next and our friend quote unquote, went right along with this whole fucking song

and goddamn dance. It was really disappointing like at the end, I lost a friend because I believe that, I believe what I believe, right? Yeah. I lost a friend and then I got made to be shit on by this guy who pulled a scam basically and then made me look like the guy who made it all.

Not that scammer, but the guy who was the problem. Right. If you guys would have gotten paid, had Brian not been here. What's that? That's Brian not been here. Brian was the guy who put it all together. Right?

But I'm not looking for any credit. I'm just telling you what happened. By the way, those people never got paid. They got like, they got like, you know, $300 a piece the next week and then they never got paid. And then after another month and a half, I heard this from somebody. Guess what he had the audacity to do.

What? Charge people to do their radio show. He started to charge people to do their, so now not only was he not paying them, he was asking them for money. That's a really. So when he became into like rent for hire. It was a rent for free.

It was a yeah, a simcole FM, which was by the way. I mean, listen, let's be honest about it. Simcole FM was a really bad radio station. Even though there were some good programs on there, it was a really bad radio station. My idea was, we had a lot of people from a lot of different points of view in places. So I called it genre-free radio.

Black is not white, it's not yellow. Everybody's here, everybody's doing it. Whatever you like at some point during the day, it's gonna be tuned in. You want the goofy, you know, zoo crew, morning crew radio show in the morning. It was like a really bad version of the commercial break. Or maybe it just was the commercial break, much longer.

Yeah, it was like three hours. Oh my God, four hours. Four hours. And after I stopped getting paid, I would like flex on the hours. Like it was supposed to start at six, but sometimes I would start at eight and 30. Because I was just tired and hung over.

We got the brewery down the street to give us. Oh my god. I went down there and convinced them to give us a cake every week. Like after we started getting, we weren't paid. I was like, listen, I'll shout you out and you can be a cake every week. They literally rolled that thing up. We had to like get the go up a flight of stairs to get in the studio and just sit and get shit-based.

All morning, I was literally, I was, for like six weeks, I was just morning drunk all the time. I could go home and sleep away, but hoping that's a paycheck would show up in my account. So worst, it was the worst. It was such a stressful. I wanna bring this back around to say

there are a lot of people speculating online and I've heard the name SimCole FM a number of times. This is the reason why I'm addressing it here on the commercial break I've heard that what have people been saying about simcol people have been they've been saying that simcol fm is one of the things that Simon owns even though It's administratively dissolved the company is along with many other companies that he owns are administratively dissolved Okay, and that he's a TV producer and that he's a restaurant tour. All of his restaurants are closed. I only know of, this is just me.

I'm only sharing my information. I'm not saying that this is fact of your own research, you know, because I also know that this, whatever. Anyway, I do know for a fact that he did produce one video, one time, right? Because I remember doing promotion for it when we were over at SimCole FM. But people are digging through the history of his corporations and they're saying, oh, there's this SimCole FM. SimCole FM is no longer it was for a very short period of time.

And people did not get paid. That's what I know. People did not get paid. They got promised to be paid, but they never got paid. And in the end, he just Songed and danced it out of the out of the back door. Do do do do do do do do See I'm taking my my back and I'm going home Guys, I'm really sorry about all that payment. I didn't give you, but did you see my new my back out front? Fucking asshole.

Unbelievable. That's the part that really got my hide. And by the way, I think he was on wife number three when I knew I think he's been married and divorced six times. Six times. Five or six times. Isn't that crazy?

I think that that's what happens. I think it's just a repeating pattern. Oh yeah. Is that he pretends to be this, when he gets found out to be that, he literally distances himself. He pushes everybody away, he says, is there a fault, and he moves on to the next thing, right?

And I don't know what's that. That's the textbook definition of a scam artist. It is the textbook definition of a con artist, of a psychopath, of someone who just does not care about other people's feelings, they only care to get through the next thing, right? They want to look and listen, if this guy had come to me initially and said, I don't have this money, I don't have it, right? It's not in the budget.

Something fell through. But can we start off small? Do you think you guys could like put, can I pay you to put something together? And then we can just kind of do it on our time. See if it works and see if we can get viewers so we can get some advertising revenue. I made a budget for a year before dollar one came in the door because I knew that's what it would take.

Just like the podcast. I never had any expectation we would make dollar number one for at least one year after we got enough viewers to sell advertising because I'm smart enough to understand that businesses don't work like that. Most businesses, you don't open up the door and start generating a profit, especially when you're creating content

because people gotta find you, it doesn't, I don't know if they're gonna like it or they're not gonna like it. It's a process, yeah. Process, Chrissy, you're so right about this. I love that you're right next to me in this conversation. Because you know, I was tormented at this time. I hated that for you.

Yeah, I was, you're right, it was about 10 years ago. It was 10 years ago. I remember I was talking to you out for Margaret. You were taking me out for Margaret as you were paying for my, I think you loaned me $200 one time. One time one of the little producers who was much better at saving money than I was. A guy that we had known for a very long time saw that I was like, I was really struggling

because I paid for all this bullshit. I had given people money out of my own pocket to make sure that they didn't leave many months earlier. This guy came and he was like, I can like loan you $300. And I was like, 300. That's all I ever risk. I was a grown man. I should have been asking for 300.

I should have had to take $300 from the guy who was producing my show downstairs, but you know what? I took it because I didn't have any fucking money because someone kept promising me the payment is right on the corner. Should be in today, we're getting it tomorrow, couple of weeks, it just went on and on, should be in today. We're getting it tomorrow, a couple of weeks,

it just went on and on forever. It never ended. Oh, and in the meantime, I watched other businesses of his clothes, they just closed. And other people in those businesses say the same fucking thing. Same fucking thing. Well, I'm waiting on payment. He says he's gonna pay us.

After it's closed and he sells all the, he had a furniture business, went out of business, right? And he promised this person, I don't have permission to say their name, because I haven't talked to her in years. But, you know, she said, oh, they're gonna pay us once they sell all this extra furniture. I know, at least I was told, that never happened. No one ever got paid. And if he had come to me and said, I don't have the money to do this, but if we kind of put it, like I got a little bit of money.

If we kind of like, peace it together, yeah. Peace it together, yeah. Appreciate it. I'll give you a studio. I'll pay a little bit of money to put it together. I'll buy the equipment. Can you-

Let's do this together. Let's do this together. Yeah. Right, keep your day job. Right, right. But if you want to do this, and I can give you a little bit of money here and there for this isn't that, we can do this together.

If he had taken a collaborative, he said, let's do this together. You do the work, I'll pay you, and then he never lived up to his end of your agreement. So I can tell you right now, at least from this perspective, from Brian Green at Commercial Break, a decade later, which by the way, I might have a podcast five years earlier, had I not been through this experience, it really scarred me. I can tell you right now that this guy straight up told us he was going to pay us money and never did so,

and many, many, many conversations just blew smoke directly up our asses. That's what he did. So, I don't know, Portia Williams, I don't know who she is, never a matter. I'm sure she's a lovely lady. Hear me, hear what I'm saying. That's all I gotta say, hear what I'm saying.

So now she's on this real housewise of Atlanta. He's flying her around on private jets. He's got multi-billion dollar houses. I guess the boat came in. I guess that boat came in. I guess that little tiger finally hit show up. Just took a while. With like a billion dollars.

You didn't hold on. Yeah. Just held on for two. Some people say like he's a billionaire, a billionaire. He's got multiple houses around the world. I can guarantee you. My opinion is, I shouldn't say I guarantee you. My opinion is, all of those houses are extremely leveraged or rented for short periods of time. It's a matter of fact, it's a fact that when he got on real housewives of Atlanta with his first wife, he went and rented a huge mansion out in the suburbs of Atlanta. Like a 12,000 square foot mansion. But he bought it with a mortgage,

with a very large mortgage, right? And then he sold it as soon as Real Housewives of Atlanta stopped filming. I mean, this is what happens, right? So don't believe everything you see, it's the game. So I am sharing my own personal experience. I think a lot of other people online, now if you Google this guy's name, and then you put in, if you Google this guy's name and you go to YouTube, you will see that there are so many vloggers out there

who are already on the disguise. Like I'm not saying anything that anybody's not already caught onto, or at least people who are paying attention. He's trying to get his PR machine to send out a bunch of, you know, oh, he's a philanthropist or philanthropist. He's a philanthropist, is what he is.

Like a flappin' is my, I love that. Yeah. But there's like, there's a bunch of people out there who are onto this. They've uncovered much more than I have. I'm just sharing my little tiny piece of the world, but I thought it needed to be addressed from a guy because I imagine that my name somewhere out there

is still attached to SimColeFM. I don't think there's any more, I think there's a couple of YouTube videos out there because we weren't in the habit of putting them on YouTube. And I think I have some like, material on a CD or something, I'm not gonna play it here because I don't know, yeah, that's what I can play here. Best left unsaid.

Best left unsaid even though I just said it for 45 minutes. Do you still have it on your LinkedIn? Yeah. No, it was like a breakup when it happened. It was like a bad breakup. I just like deleted it all. Everything. Yeah, I deleted the Facebook page, which was under my name.

I just went and did it. I was just like, fuck that. I was so hurt, man. My feelings were so hurt. Because you put all your heart and your soul into something, and then it actually started. And it was exciting.

It was. It's like a dream to be funded and just have free reign, get paid, start your own thing, go for it. I did not. I knew I always wanted to be on radio or have some kind of behave behind the microphone, but I never even imagined that a streaming radio station

would be something until that opportunity was presented itself. I did not come to the opportunity, the opportunity asked for me. And then just to have it ripped out in such a manner where it's like, yeah, you know, we'll pay you and then we can't pay you. And then we you start paying for stuff. And then never come back. Lock the door. Don't come back. I'm calling the police. That was a balky fucking move on that guy's part of a balky fucking move, but I had no power because I had no money. Well, I was

gonna say if you had the money, then you could have sued him. I talked to attorneys and they were like, good fucking luck. We could fucking luck bleeding a rock. Basically, like, you know, good luck. Some some guys went into it and they were like, you're not gonna get anything out of this guy. You know, at the time, you know, there were other things out there in the universe with him that, you know, I don't know anything about, but the turn was like, good fucking luck there.

Good luck, you're gonna bleed a rock, you're gonna bang your head against the wall, you're not gonna make any money. So I know this is not a particularly funny episode of the commercial break, but I did wanna make sure that it got addressed from my standpoint because I hear the name Sim Cole F.M. out there, and I know at some point that my name will be attached to that in some way, shape, or form,

and I wanted my side of the story, my side of the story out there in the world. So take it or leave it for whatever is worth. That's it. I feel like we could turn this into a show. Like I just watched a show about scammers, scamming people. Well, they could be an episode of that.

He's like four episodes. Yeah, because he's done this, like this is good, he's like nine lives. The guy just keeps on going and keeps on reappearing. He keeps on reappearing. He is literally falling upward, right? He went from, you know, nobody who owned a kind of subpar fucked up restaurant, right?

To then, you know, oh, now I am a TV producer. You producer show about dogs. I mean, come on, man, a film producer. You've produced a live concert film from a saxophonist. A saxophonist. I'm a saxophonist. who wants to see me in concert. Actually, the guy was really good, but to produce one concert film and you're a movie producer, that doesn't make any sense. You're a restaurant tour. Where are the restaurants? They're all closed.

Like, they're nowhere. You're in an oil man. You sell oil. No, you don't. There's no oil. If you're selling oil, you're the worst oil salesman that ever ever happened because you can't even get a tanker from here to there I know well, how do you how can you even fact check that you know like I'm just gonna start going on me and like I'm an oil Yeah, I'm an oil man. I got tankers in the sea right now Listen the old tanker ran out of gas the oil tanker ran out of gas Listen, the old tanker ran out of gas. The oil tanker ran out of gas. How does that have? Can't you just like pour it back in the...

Listen, Brian, payments coming. We just had a little bit of an issue. I had to return the rental tanker back to next year. Didn't get here in time. So now I'm renting a new oil tanker and then I'm sending it over, right? Please, you know, I understand there are people who do trade oil like they actually say.

Yes. Yeah, that happens. It's whatever, a commodity strainer that actually takes hold of the commodity and then sends it from here to there. I mean, I think I never got to the bottom of exactly what the oil business was, but I will tell you this, it's, yeah.

I think I knew more about the oil business than this guy did. He was like, it's on its way. What's on its way? The tankers for to wear, not sure. Lake linear. Lake Michigan, got no oil tanker coming right to Michigan. Un, but leave it. Well, there you go.

There's the saga of Sim Cola family. I thought we had a looped to it before, but I thought it was best that I say it out loud. And there you go. If you have any questions you can comment directly to me, I'll be happy to answer anything that I can. Now, I'm sure there's going to be a retort to this. I'm sure there is.

Yeah. I just think that's the way it is. I'll probably get served papers. First slander. Only, it can't be slander. Then you could count or sue for your back pay. Oh yeah. Well, I mean, it's many years later.

I don't think I can count or sue for my back pay. But it was a lot of money. I will tell you that. It was a lot of money back then when I was making this much money and it's a lot of money back then when I was making this much money, and it's a lot of money now, and I'm not making this much money. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. The commercial break is headed the same direction, I just want everyone to know. Only now I'm the oil guy, telling holdly, she's gonna get paid any day now. Only now I'm the oil guy telling holdy she's gonna get paid any day now Chrissy

Buddai it's gonna be our sponsor any day now I just talked to Thanks I appreciate and you help me out like so much during that time I just I want to say that I'm so grateful. I know, but you know, it was it. And you helped me out, like so much during that time. I just, I wanna say that, that I'm so grateful. I know, but, you know, it was a really tough time. That's a good friend, too. The post six months to that was a really tough time. Wow, that's true. And my friend Raphael really helped me out, too. I mean, that's what we do as friends, shit.

Let it. You have your ups and you have your downs. But I mean, at the time, I felt like such a fucking moron. I'm like, I left this fucking great job that I had, this company that I had. I left it in order to pursue Chase Paper Dragon. But hey, you're not the only one in history. This has happened.

Oh, no, no, no, no. By any means, and people much, much in different areas of society, this happens to. Yes, there are lots of people that this happens to, and I feel for all of you. And here's all I gotta say, if someone comes wanting to fund your dream, do your homework. And here's the one thing that I never did

that I should have done. Even though he signed at the bottom of the Excel spreadsheet, or the PowerPoint presentation that had all the budgets on it, I asked for a signature. I never got a contract. Contract. Never got a contract sign. Never got a contract sign. I took it on good faith that this would be enough

until the lawyer told me Excel spreadsheets are not contracts. Yeah. You dumbass. One lawyer said, how are you going to pay me? I said, I thought you could take it on contingency. It's like contingency. What do you want me to think? Is rented my box?

The least office space you'll be like the radio board worth $12 But for a month it was a fun time for a month it was a great time. I had a really good time. I was. I never forget. I'll never forget. I remember who I was dating at the time. I was dating a person at the time. And it was also what.

I think that contributed to the roughness of the situation. It was a rough, rough relationship. And I will never forget one time she called me. Then we got in a fight and she was screaming at me, she called me and the phone was left on air. Oh, it was a tough time. It was a tough time. Anyway, Sim Cole, if I'm checking out, nowhere.

Yeah. I think you can find a few videos and that's it. I'm not even sure. I think I have maybe. I've got some old pictures in the Facebook from us in the studio, me drunkenly taking pictures like the rappers. It's like, yeah.

I don't even know who they are. We had the reads, Antonio Reed and Ashley Reed. Okay. L-A-R-E-D. Yeah, who L-A-R-E-D's kids, who were great. And they did this show every Friday night. We had so much fun. We did have a lot of fun.

I was like the white boy in the make. I'm sure they hated me. They were probably like, we don't need you up here. But I'd be up there all drunk like, so what do you think about this? And they'd be like, so it's our show and you're white. So Jenna, but we would have like 30 people in the studio every Friday night. And who the fucking what was going on? Yeah, it was awesome.

We had such a great time. That was the first day in Jeff Tim. I know. I know. I know. And I was going on? Yeah. It was awesome. We had such a great time. That was the first day in Jeff, too, I'm just sending pictures. And I was like, look where I am. Look how I'm wearing these. Like, he's cool. Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, Jeff, who really knows what the,

what the business is all about was like. Yeah. I remember him talking to me one time, like when you guys first started dating and he was like, it's just on the sound right. Something about it that doesn't sound right. Do you have a license for that music you're playing? I'm pretty sure Simon got one.

Pretty sure, Askep, I'm gonna show up at the door any moment, shut you down. Then we had a pro wrestling show on us. It was so weird. I was doing nothing but talking about the girl I was dating. From six to 11. From 11 to two, there was some crazy man upstairs dancing in Christopher Martin, the fashion play.

Love that guy. The fashion play, I don't know. Then the reason would come on and we had Anvou talking about relationships. And it was just a total fucking cluster fuck. Listen, it was fun. You live, you learn, you move on. That's exactly what I did.

Yes. But be careful out there. That's my side of the story. And there you have it. And you're welcome to use clips from this. Any of these vloggers out there, you're welcome to use clips from this. Just make sure you contact me and let me know

that you're going to do so. OK, so I'll say this to you. What else can I talk about? I think we covered it. That's a pretty big chunk of my life right. I mean, a year of my life right there was rough that I shared with the world. Oh, no.

So there you go. It's being vulnerable. I love you. Best to you. Best to you. And best to you out there. Oh, let me say this, www.tcbpodcast.com, where you can go to find everything.

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