The Commercial Break - See Ya Later Alligator!

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Episode #739: Bryan and Krissy are back with another jam-packed episode filled with gators, grifters, and giggles. Bryan recounts a harrowing—and hilarious—trip to a Florida gator farm, where the alligator Lucy may or may not be plotting a full-blown escape. Meanwhile, Jake Paul buys 5,600 acres in the swampy backwoods of Georgia (what could go wrong?), and Billy McFarland continues his delusional Fire Fest 2 journey, which now involves theater productions, ad-supported TV, and possibly marshmallow-fed reptiles. Also on the docket The Everglades: great for airboat rides, not great for your blood pressure Fire Fest: now accepting offers via Craigslist (probably) Mempho Festival 2025 lineup revealed—hello, Widespread Panic Vintage TCB stickers and the finger-dip Molly days A shoutout to Wendy the gator—official mascot of chaos TCBit: Andy Dandy has a report on which terms the kids are using online. Watch EP #737 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  ⁠@thecommercialbreak⁠ Youtube: ⁠youtube.com/thecommercialbreak⁠ TikTok: ⁠@tcbpodcast⁠ Website: ⁠www.tcbpodcast.com⁠ CREDITS: Hosts: ⁠Bryan Green⁠ &⁠ Krissy Hoadley⁠ Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits Written, Voiced and Produced by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

And welcome back to WSHIT, it's 8.02 on the studio clock. I'm Andy Dandy, your man on the streets. In a continuing effort to keep parents in the loop about teenage behaviors in the age of the internet, WSHIT continues its series on teenage verbiage. You never know what those teenagers might be talking about in their AOL chat rooms or through their Yahoo email accounts. Our reporter Jim Swagger got to the bottom of some of the more notable phrases being used by the teens today.

Let's take a listen. Here are some other phrases you want to know if you want to be sure to sound hip. Yo, a greeting. Yo, Curb, what's up? Clutch the pearls. Said in amazement or disbelief. Well, you know he's married. Clutch the pearls. Bucked. I don't know how many I had but boy did I get bucked. I sure felt that the next

morning that was really the worst thing I've ever done. I hope you didn't drive home. No way. MacGyver is in the TV show where the impossible is often accomplished. I can't believe you got off that speeding ticket. What a MacGyver! Norville, to secretly undermine. What? I can't believe she saw your job. You've really been Norville. Black and Decker, or a real tough assignment. You get the analogy, right? This job is a real grind. It's just a Black and Decker.

Some phrases may be around forever. Highly informative piece turned in by Jim there, it's the year 2025, and technology's moving faster than ever. I know I came away just a little bit more informed, and possibly a little bit more hip. As a matter of fact, I MacGyvered my way out of the bar last night because I was bucked, and man was it a black and decker to get a taxi home. We'll be back after this commercial break. On this episode of the commercial break. Oh yeah, we got a crocodile farm, you know, alligator farm. We done raised them from the babies,

and then we make them into meat and clothing and stuff like that. We sell them all. And we're like, oh, and then Bob make them into meat and clothing and stuff like that. We sell them all and we're like oh and then Bob's like yeah see that's Lucy and Lucy called trouble all kind of time. You see one time I done left the place unlocked and Lucy done crawled up used her paw and opened up the door and I and then closed the door behind her and then we came in one morning Lucy stuck and stuck, and I opened the door, and there's Lucy. That two hours, we tried to get Lucy out of there. Finally, I had to go get a chicken, a live chicken down the road,

crack its neck and get Lucy out with the chicken. So now we got a different door knob, because Lucy knew how to open the other one. I'm like, oh my God, where the fuck are we? I'm like, oh my God, where the fuck are we? The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, boy! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green, this is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Holey.

Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. Jake Paul is going to be our neighbor. I'm just reading here in Georgia. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not technically our neighbor. It's going to be way down South Georgia near Lake Seminole. You know where Lake Seminole, Lake Seminole, like Seminole fluids, Lake Seminole.

He just bought 5,600 acres for $42 million overlooking Lake Seminole, which is in the far southern west corner, southwest corner of Georgia. Now, I happen to know Lake Seminole because I visited there for a couple of real estate related deals that of course I did not follow through on. I actually went south. It went south. It never even went anywhere. And so now Jake has bought

all this land that probably was the land I was looking at. Probably. Yes. So again, I failed to make any money off anything. 5600 acres. That's one big spread. That is a huge spread. But that's where you find that kind of land way down in southwest Georgia. That's true. Close to Florida. Yeah, right there. right there in next foot. You're probably 35, 45 minutes drive away. If you, I mean, as the crow flies and the crow doesn't fly here anywhere in south Georgia, because there's no roads going anywhere. But as a crow flies 30, 45 minutes right to the armpit of the Gulf of Mexico. Have you watched any of his show?

Don't they have a show on Max? They have a show on Max where they've tried to normalize their behaviors. Yes, they have. Listen, there's part of me that really dislikes the Paul brothers, kind of what they stand for in the world. But there was part of me that dislikikes the Paul brothers, kind of what they stand for in the world. But there was part of me that disliked Jerry Springer too. And there was part of me that disliked Judge Judy and part of me that disliked Dr. Phil and part of me. But then once you kind of pull back the obnoxiousness a little bit, you find out that they're just human.

And in some ways they have done, like, I don't, I'm not saying they've done a bunch of good for the earth. That's not what I'm saying. Like, I don't think they're Jesus Christ superstar or anything like that. But they are human beings who have made their own way in the world and they have, they found a talent that people attach themselves to and really struck a chord at the right time. They were at the right place at the right time. Made a lot of money. Yeah. I said this the other day on the show

when I was on some kind of rant that, you know, fortune favors the bold. It doesn't luck favors the bold. But they were bold at the right time in the right place. And they rode that YouTube wave all the way to billionaires, essentially. And so you can't fault them for that. No.

You can't. And while I think they've made some really dumb moves in their career, I think that they've harmed some people along the way. I don't think you get that rich unless you harm people along the way. That's how you know Brian and Chrissy are not millionaires or billionaires, because we have harmed nobody, because nobody is paying attention. It's hard to harm anybody when there's nobody around. Just the snake that got on your house.

Yeah, just that snake got in my house. But that would have been there regardless of the commercial break was around. And the bird that I killed by slamming the door too hard. But that's okay. Well, you didn't know there were eggs in there. I had no idea. Now they're in the pool house. Oh, they are.

The house finches are in the pool house. They nested in there. Yeah, me and my daughters were watching them fly all around and grab food and the papa bird was protecting the nest. she dove, she dive bombed Blue, the male one did, because I think it's the male that actually protects the nest and sits on the eggs and all that. Dive bomb Blue. Blue, I let Blue out the back and Blue went walking over there and she dive bombed Blue and Blue was like, it's kind of funny actually. But listen, the Paul brothers are who they are and they've done what they've done and they've made a killing doing that.

If I had to pick one, I would say Jake is probably the one that I like a little bit better than the other one. The one that just did the fight with Mike Tyson. The one that just did the fight with Mike Tyson. Is it Aaron? Jake and Aaron? Jake and Aaron. Because at least it seems like Jake is like, I had a little bit self-aware. Well, he did that ayahuasca, so. Yeah, you do ayahuasca and he did a lot.

And I mean, I think it's different to do ayahuasca when you don't have to worry about what's in your bank account. Do you know what I'm saying? Like I think that there's so much stress and strife and emotional drama in life that comes from struggling financially and watching other people succeed financially, that just causes a lot of this drama internally in our

egos. And so when you go down in ayahuasca, all that stuff melts away. But the fakeness of it, the falseness of it, the appearance of it, it's all there, you can see, causing a lot of drama in your ego. But it must be different to have a billion dollars in your bank account, never go to sleep worrying about how you're gonna pay a bill, if you have to work hard the next day, if your children are gonna eat, survive, succeed, whatever. It must feel different to do ayahuasca.

You know, a vision came to him that he was gonna fight Mike Tyson. A vision came to me that my car wouldn't get repoed. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is just two different things. This is just two different things. But anyway, Jake just bought 5,600 acres down in South Georgia. And so welcome to Georgia.

Welcome to Georgia, Jake. Yeah, welcome to Georgia. Invite us down anytime. We'd love to come down there and hang out at Lake Seminole. I mean, Lake Seminole is more like a swampy lake because it's so far south. Definitely gators living in that lake. Definitely gators living in that lake.

This is not like one of those North Georgia mountain lakes. Mountain, those are so pretty. They're beautiful because they're all manmade and they're really well taken care of by Georgia power, the Tennessee Valley authority, depending on where you are, which lake it is, or Duke Energy is another one that has a couple up here. But, you know, those lakes down in Florida that are not man-made, they're just swampy swamps. That's what they are. Those are the kind you get yourself in trouble because there's pythons and anacondas and

gators. And those pythons and anacondas and gators and those pythons and anacondas aren't native to that part of the country. People just bought them as pets and then dumped them there when they got too big bunch of shitheads. Don't get a snake or a dog or a cat or anything that you can't take care of. Please, please. Because then, then Jake Paul is going to have to deal with it. Right. If you don't care about Mother Earth and the actual creature, think about Jake Paul and how terrible it must be to have billions of dollars in your bank account and have to deal with pythons. Well, yeah, and where, like, because the Okefenokee Swamp is down. Okefenoke.

Is down what? It's South Georgia, but on the east. South Georgia, right in the center, actually Georgia, right in the center, actually. Oh, in the center. Right there in the center, right on 75. Boom, when you go down there. Well, yeah, a little more east, you're right. A little more east, a little more going toward the east,

but that Oak Finoke Swamp is pretty big. It's got a lot of stuff, it's big, it's a big one. Not as big as the one down near Miami, which is the... Exactly, Brian, what is that? What is that big one? I don't know. Now I'm going to sound like a dumbass. I'm so sorry, everybody. I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid, everybody. We apologize in advance. But it's bigger than the Okefenokee?

Way bigger than the Okefenokee. It's like the biggest national park there is. Let me see here. Hold on. and I'll get it right. I've driven through it a million times and now just for some reason I can't remember what it is. It is the, it's Big Cypress, but what is the swamp called? The Big Cypress National Preserve is the, what is the, oh fuck, I don't know. Okay, all right, once again, Brian can't remember what it's called.

The Everglades National Force, the Everglades. Oh, the Everglades, yeah. The Everglades and the National and Big Cypress, they kind of butt up against each other. That is huge. And that is where some people say is the most, like the survival people say is the most dangerous place in the world to try and survive, is down in that.

I've heard that. I've seen like little nature documentaries about it. Because no shit Florida Panthers, and those Panthers are huge, and they will eat people, and they will attack people, and then you've got the gators, and then you've got the snakesators and then you've got the snakes and then you got every kind of like, you know,

fish in the world that can kill you. Like the snaggletooth, snaggletooth. The snaggletooth catfish. Yeah, the snaggletooth catfish. You got all kinds of shit down there that could kill you. You don't want any part of that. We went, I think maybe I told this story. We went to Naples, back before the podcast

wasn't making any money. We went to Naples, maybe this is before the actual podcast started. Was it 2022? Didn't you honeymoon there? We honeymooned in Naples. We've been to Naples a number of times. Yeah, me too. I like it down there.

Oh no. Yeah, I think this was 2019. We go down to Naples and we rent a house for a week and we go with my in-laws and I think Gustavo was there with us too. So it's Gustavo, Gustavo, who's coming back? Love you. Come on, come on Gustavo, come on down. Maybe he'll do another episode with us. Gustavo and LA, my in-laws, we rent this place, a block and a half from the beach,

beautiful place with a pool out back, lovely. My kid is, my first kid is about a year old. And we decide, Astrid and I decide, let's go do something cool, like a gator run. Let's go take one of those air boats and go on a gator run. Let's go take one of those airboats and go on a gator run. And we had on our honeymoon, we had driven past one, but we thought this would be a really cool thing to do with the in-laws and everybody. And then can we take the kid? Can we take a one-year-old? We call them.

They say, yes, of course we'll figure it out. And I'm thinking to myself, kid on an airboat, one years old, I don't know. In the Everglades. I don't know, but okay, let's go. And if we don't think it's safe, we just, one of us won't go. We drove 45 minutes. There was nothing, a dead straight road, middle of the Everglades, dead straight road, nothing but mangroves and swamp. That's it. And this goes all the way over to Miami. Yeah, it's a road. Yeah, it's one road. It's like a big Seminole Highway, I think.

Something like that, yeah. And we get to the middle, basically, and there are a couple of these along the way, but we get to the middle and there is this whatever, gate, gate, you know, Bob's Gator Shack or whatever it is. Bob's Gatoring Bay. Handwritten on the sign outside. whatever, you know, Bob's Gator Shack or whatever it is. Bob's Gator Invade. Handwritten on the sign outside. Exactly, yes. Best gator seen in all of the gator country.

I don't know, something like that. And you're like, okay, so we go, we park, the ride is at 10 a.m., they told us to get there a few minutes early, we were there like a half hour, 40 minutes early, we just got there early. We get out of the car and just imagine, we're in this dusty parking lot,

there's a little shack, like a house. I can imagine it, yeah. And then they have this like deck that's built out onto into the, a little clearing in the swamp. So like a little lake or a pond. And then that deck goes back to where the boats are. And then the shack is like the place where you check in and you buy merch or whatever. Get your bait.

Exactly. Get your bait. Your bait is you. The bait is you. So we are there early. There's a couple other stragglers that are like standing out in the parking lot, and I decide to go walk up on this deck where the house is. And then I'm just going to go take my boy on his, in his stroller over up and down this little boardwalk and see what there is to see.

And I go walking down that boardwalk and what do I see? A 15 foot fucking alligator. I'm sure. On the boardwalk. Oh, on the deck. With its mouth wide open. a 15-foot fucking alligator. I'm sure. On the boardwalk. Oh, on the deck. With its mouth wide open. Oh, my God.

Ready to take my son into its clutchy hands and take it down for a swim. And this wouldn't be the first time a child in Florida has been eaten by an alligator. Happened at fucking Disney World. Which is a terrible thing. I mean, terrible, crazy thing to happen. But they've always had gators there and they always knew they had gators there

and it just was a wrong place, wrong time, terrible, terrible thing. This gator was so fucking big. I've never seen anything so big and so intimidating in my life. And here I am, 20 feet from it. So I back up. Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle.

Right? Turn around. It doesn't move. Yeah, it doesn't move. And they're not particularly fast on land. You can probably outrun one if you, unless it's coming out of the water, right? Unless it's like jumping out of the water.

Unless it can use its tail to propel itself, it's probably not going to be faster than you, but still, you don't wanna try. Like you're not looking to get in a, you know, this isn't a race. You don't wanna do the Boston Marathon with a bunch of gators. Chasing you.

Chasing you. So I back up and I get out and then I'm like, holy shit. And then here's Ranger Bob or whatever his name is, coming in with the keys and he's like, hey, hey, yo, how you doing? Oh, that's Lucy. Get away Lucy. He grabs a stick, I swear to God,

he grabs a stick that's sitting next to the door and he goes and he whap, whap, whap, and that gator's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, and like slithers away. Oh my God. And he's, get away Lucy. No chicken for you Lucy.

You're scaring the kids. Scaring the kids, scaring me. I'm rethinking my life. I'm like, what are we doing here? Let's go the fuck out. I didn't realize we'd be here, here. I thought we'd have to go out there. And then they'd like some kind of safety rail that keeps us in. Bob the ranger wouldn't have a stick to keep the gators

away. We'd just be away from them. We'd see them, but we wouldn't be near them. You know, it's like those African safaris that always look safe until you see the video of the elephant overturning the car and eating the people or whatever. It doesn't work like that. The wild animals. And I'm like, holy shit. So he opens it and then, you know, Betty Lou's there and Jimmy John and I don't know, a bunch of people with two names and they're all, and I mean, they are country. They live in the fucking swamp. They're like something out of Waterboy, that movie. But that's Louisiana Swamp. This is Florida Swamp. But you get the point. Same thing. And they're like, oh yeah, that's Lucy. Lucy's a troublemaker of the group. She's probably the biggest. She's been around here, I guess. When do we raise

her? And I'm like, raise her? Oh yeah, we got a crocodile farm, alligator farm. We've done raised them from the babies. And then we make them into meat and clothing and stuff like that. We sell them all. And we're like, oh, and then Bob's like, yeah, see, that's Lucy. Lucy called trouble all kind of time. You see, one time I done left the place unlocked and Lucy done crawled up, used her paw and opened up the door and then closed the door behind her. And then we came in one morning and Lucy's stuck and, and I opened the door, and there's Lucy. At two hours, we tried to get Lucy out of there.

Finally, I had to go get a chicken, a live chicken down the road, crack its neck and get Lucy out with the chicken. So now we got a different door knob, because Lucy knew how to open the other one. I'm like, oh my God, where the fuck are we? Ask Astrid, this is all true. And we're all like, oh my God, where the fuck are we? Ask Astrid, this is all true. And we're all like, oh my God.

Whoa. And then, you know, Billy Bob Thornton or whatever his name is, this guy's son is going to take us on this boat ride. And, you know, so we all put life jackets on or whatever it is and in this shack in the back. And I'm just, all I can do is turn around and turn around because I'm just thinking they are on a first name basis with the alligator.

With the alligator, yeah. I am not on a first name basis with the alligator and neither is my one year old who probably looks much like that chicken did to a gator with bad, to a dinosaur with bad eyesight and huge teeth. So we get on that damn airboat. I'm really nervous about my kid on this airboat

because there are no guardrails. And they want to sit in right up front. And that guy's slinging that airboat around at 100 miles per hour through the mangroves. And those mangroves are inches from your head. But he's driving it blind. He knows exactly where he's going, in and out and in and out and in and out of these mangroves.

It looks like you're in a tunnel. That's what it looks like in those mangroves. It looks like you're in a tunnel until you get to a little clearing and then we get to the clearing and he's like, shh, shh, shh, shh. Wendy? Shh, shh, shh, shh.

Wendy? And I'mh, shh, shh. Wendy? And I'm like, what the fuck? Is he asking for a cheeseburger? Who's he calling? What's going on here? Wendy? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

And I'm like, oh my God, what's going on here? We're gonna get eaten by a crocodile. Keep moving, keep moving. He's got the boat off now, and I'm like, go, go, go, go. If we're moving, they can't get us. But if we're there, it's gonna like crawl up and we're on the bottom row. It's like four rows tall.

Oh really? And then he's sitting on the very top. Yeah, it's one, two, three, four, and he's sitting on the very top with a stick driving this thing like a fucking Nintendo from outer space, I don't know, at 100 miles per hour. And now he's getting on the front of the boat and he's like, shh, now about 10 years ago,

Florida Department of Natural Resources decided to try and clamp down on our family business, told us we could not feed the gators no more. But if you allow me a point of privilege, and I'm like, wow, that was pretty fancy for you, I think, or maybe you're educated, I just don't know. If you allow me a moment of privilege, I done got some marshmallows in my pocket and oops, I accidentally threw one out there. And he reaches in his pocket and a marshmallow goes flying out and all of a sudden, right

there. Wendy. Wendy. That's Wendy. Way, Wendy, what you doing, girl? And she's like... And here he's got that stick. Wabap!

Wabap! He's just like wabappin' her. And I'm like, oh my God, what in the good fantasy fuck is going on here? And so the ride continued. That's the way it went. We'd drive for five minutes in this crazy way where my son was flinging all, there's no seat belts either. It's like, we're all sliding across these things.

I'm trying to keep, and he's, my kid is a lovely human, but since the day that he was born, he's not the kind of kid who likes to sit still. He wants to jump all around. He has no interest in the alligators. He has interest in- And the boat and what's happening. And the boat and what's happening, and who, you know, telephone,

like who's got a cell phone even watch? I mean, for God sakes. And this went on for like an hour. And when we got back, it was just like more stories about the gators they raised. They have a whole, it's like they have a little family of gators. Oh yeah, probably been there for years, and years, generationally. And then we got to actually go and look at the gator farm, where they raise them, you know, they hatch them, they raise them, and we got to touch a couple of

gators and like, like baby gators. The baby. Yeah, we got to hold a couple of baby gators that had their like, mouse taped shots. I mean, cause even the baby gators, a bite your finger off. Yeah, they have like, even as babies, they got really, really strong jaws and they'll snap, you know, they can really get at you. Sharp little razor teeth. They do, yeah.

And one guy I think was holding a little bit, you know, you could feel his teeth. It was like, quite frankly, it was cruel, but at that moment you're just fascinated by everything. And then there's another guy who gets in the pit with all the alligators and throws raw meat at him. You know, like, I've been training gators my entire, he's only got one arm.

I've been training gators my entire life. This is Susie Lou. Susie Lou has my arm. We're waiting for her to shit it out so I can reattach it. And you're like, oh, okay, great. The tips are welcome. I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are.

Well, here's a tip. Don't feed Susie Lou. Yeah. Yeah, here's a tip. Get Wendy out of your front yard. There's a tip. It's not a friendly, it's not a friendly welcome. That gator, I've never seen anything like that

in my entire life. I have on the golf course. I was going to say the golf course, I've seen videos. Yeah, I've got on one of my little brother's bachelor parties, we went golfing. Well, first part was Temptation Island, right? Yeah. Temptation Resort. Then we went golfing.

Temptation Resort. Then we went golfing. That's right. And when we went golfing, we were down in Amelia Island and we were like on one of the courses, like one of the public courses where it says clearly, be careful, gators, snakes, all kinds of animals, you know, killer bees, everything that can kill you is down here. And no shit, we got to whatever it was, the fourth or the fifth green or the fourth or the fifth tee, and there was a gator, probably about 20 feet off the tee box.

It was, it was not a 15-foot gator, but it was a seven or eight-foot gator. Yeah. And he was sunning himself, or she was sunning herself, or whatever it was. And we all just decided to go ahead and tee off and get over real quick. And she didn't move, not an inch,

but we have, all of us have pictures. Somebody else took a picture of us with the gator right behind, not right behind us, but you know, 20 feet is not far away when you're staring down the eyes of a killer dinosaur. It was, it was a lot. Speaking of killer dinosaurs, in the one day since we talked about Billy McFarland and Firefest. Speaking of killer dinosaurs. Speaking of killer dinosaurs. Back to Billy. Back to Billy and Chris Hansen and all the other scam artists who are pumping money into

this pump and dump scheme. He licensed his IP out to become a streaming music service. Well, it gets curiouser and curiouser as just an hour after we recorded that episode last Friday, Billy put out a big announcement and I'd like to read it to you and tell you what's going on now. He's just he's good at generating press. I'll give him that. Good at generating interest with Brian, at least. That's for sure. All right. Let's take a break and when we get back, the commercial break, which is now the fire break because we talk about this so much. Well, it is fascinating.

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I mean, even, it's got a lot of PR. Yes. A defunct name. Yeah, It's a defunct name. Yeah, it's a defunct name. It's like, I don't know, buying Enron. I mean, what could it possibly be worth, right? But somebody, a guy named Rausch, somebody Rausch, Craig Rausch, somebody like that,

and Chris Hansen, formerly of Dateline NBC's to Catch a Predator, who's now doing some like cheap knockoff version of that online, they have an app, a true crime app, where they run terrible old true crime shows and Chris Hansen's new bullshit to Catch a Predator bullshit. Anyway, whatever, you get it. For $3.99 a month, you can be bored. So they licensed his IP so that they could add music and streaming on-demand music services to that app. Why?

I don't so they could pump and dump that too probably likely so that they can inflate the numbers Get someone else to buy them and then it all falls apart after this after somebody dumps an inevitable Stupid amount of money into it. I can take a few guesses as to who that might be There's lots of dumb-dumbs right now with a lot of money. So but anyway Not but an hour after we got done talking about this, Chrissy, another development in this story takes a left-hand turn at Albuquerque. It just doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. Albuquerque.

No, it's just an expression. Oh. One that I made up. Byline, FireFest, Billy McFarland for immediate press release. As opposed to wait a couple hours to talk about it. I mean, I guess they have those kind too. When my team and I launched FireFestival 2, it was about two things, finishing what I started and making things right. Both of what you accomplished. Making money.

Yeah, making money, that's right. Number three, making money. Number four, getting me laid. Over the past two years, we've poured everything, bringing fire back with honesty, transparency, relentless effort and creativity. It sure is creative to rent out a shitty beach club in Mexico so you can have.

Deadmau5 played 100 people. We've taken the long road to rebuilding trust. We rebuilt momentum and we proved one thing without a doubt. Fire is the most powerful attention engine in the world. Fuck you, shithead. Since 2017, FIRE has dominated headlines, documentaries, and conversations as one of the world's most talked about music festivals for all the wrong reasons. You are so blind, Billy, but I know that this is just the game you're playing you're trolling everybody and I get it

I understand I mean on the joke here We knew that fire was big but we didn't realize just how massive the wave would become you didn't You mean after two documentaries were made about the disaster That was fire fest that fire fest to the inevitable failure wouldn't be paid attention to by everybody to watch you fall directly on your ass. That's exactly why we're all watching. Don't get it twisted, Billy. None of us are hoping that you have a comeback here.

Not the way you did it anyway. You could have done it a different way. Maybe some people would have rooted for you. That wave has brought us here, to a point where we know it's time to call for assistance. Maybe you should have done that before you announced the festival, you cock knocker. The brand is bigger than any one person and bigger than what I'm able to lead on my own. You don't say.

Especially from probation. I'm calling it assistance. My name is Billy McFarland. It's a movement and it deserves a team with scale, experience, and the infrastructure to realize its potential. See how many buzzwords you can fit in a sentence. We've decided the best way to accomplish our goals is to sell the FIRE Festival brand, including its trademarks, IP, digital assets, media reach, and cultural capital. What? Digital assets? Cultural capital.

I have never heard so much bullshit, ever. To operate, to an operator that can fully realize its vision. What's who its vision like fire has its own thinking it's its own human it's its own entity living and breathing. Dip shit. There is a clear path for operators and entrepreneurs with strong domain expertise to build fire into a global force in entertainment, media, fashion, CPG, and more. CPG, you're getting into consumer packaged goods now? What are we going to do?

Fire Festival the cookie? For example, in the two years since we relaunched Fire Festival, Hollywood and entertainment executives have already licensed the brand. Because they wanted to be able to see the downfall of it again. That's right, dude. They desperately wanted to be in on the action, and the documentary is coming. I know it is.

There's a reason why Billy hasn't been posting on Instagram like he probably would have otherwise. It's because he has already licensed this content, this moment in time, to probably at least one, if not two, different film companies who are making a movie about this. And trust me, it will be here soon enough, because the ending is already here. It's already ended. Some people thought we'd at least get through May, but no, you're an idiot, so it didn't.

Hollywood and entertainment executives have already licensed the brand to develop properties specifically in theater, music streaming, and free ad-supported TV. Free ad-supported TV. Think about that one. Do the math on that one, guys. Okay, here's how it works. All of these companies who have these free TV apps, Pluto. Free V. Free V. We can think of a million more. Let's just take Pluto for example, which I like.

I like Pluto by the way. Because Pluto has, you know, the hills running 24 hours a day. They take old brands, they license them, and they stick ads in them to make their money back. But there's another way that they do this. And I told you this was gonna happen and it's happening. It's just a cable network, that's all it is.

But they have a different way of making money. Cable networks charge money to the television channels like ABC, they charge them a carrier fee. And then they take a cut of the revenue that they make on ads. That's how it works. And in some cases- And then they charge you for the service. And they charge you cut of the revenue that they make on ads. That's how it works. And in some cases, they charge you for the service. And they charge you for the service.

They make money two ways, right? Now, Pluto makes money by making you watch the advertisements. So it's free to you. You can download it. It's free. You can on-demand content, all this. They put in advertisements. That's how they make money.

But there's another type of channel. There's the type of content that they license or they produce themselves, even though Pluto doesn't do a lot of original programming, it does some. But you can find some of the most terrible movies, home movies basically, movies made at people's houses basically, on demand on Pluto. Well why? Why would you be able to just like take your home movie and put it up there? Because if you can sell advertising and Pluto can get a cut of it,

they're happy to put your content on their platform. Even if only two people watch it, if they're getting a cut of the revenue from that, they're okay doing that. And that's why, in some cases, people who do like video game streaming, they have their own channels on Pluto now where they're streaming live because they're selling advertisements into that live channel. And Pluto, or whoever is doing this, I don't think, I don't know if Pluto is doing this yet, but I know, I think Freevy or some of them are doing it. It's called OTT or FAST, ad-supported television. But the thing is, is that the

person creating the content, like let's say the commercial break, has to sell the advertisement in order to get carriage on Pluto. So Billy makes it sound like he's on like some big TV network has come to him and put him on, you know, A&E or Bravo or some shit. No, he's got some shitty channel on fucking Pluto, on Chris Hansen's application where he's selling boner pill ads. That's what's going on. In addition, following the challenges we faced in Mexico, we were approached by several quote unquote challenges. Challenges. Meaning you lied. You didn't tell anyone you were coming. Several Caribbean destinations

are eager to host Fire Fest too. Oh, I bet they are. There's 172 different nations in the Caribbean. I'm sure one of them is willing to host you. We dove into the process, meeting with national officials and conducting site visits. You didn't, but somebody else did. And we're confident we found the ideal location for the festival. Why didn't you do that like two years ago? While I'm incredibly excited, I can't risk a repeat of what happened in Playa

del Carmen where support- You mean a three-peat? That's right. You're going for the three feet. Who are you, Michael Jordan of bad festival planning? Yes. I can't risk a repeat of what happened where support quickly turned into public distancing once media attention intensified. You didn't do the right thing, Billy. They didn't distance themselves for any other reason except for you didn't follow the proper protocols to get this done. It's clear that I need to step back and allow a new team to move forward independently.

That is clear. Bringing the vision to life on this incredible island. Which incredible island? You're not going to tell us that because you never do. I've stood by my team, our partners, and my fans since day one of Fyre Festival 2. And Shackles. That's right, with an ankle monitor. Giving control of the brand to a new group is the most responsible way to follow through

on what we set out to do. Build a global entertainment brand, host a safe and legendary event, and continue to pay restitution to those that are owed from the first festival. Well, okay. Give you credit for at least mentioning that. You do owe money to all of those people.

Like by some estimates, $47 million. No one's buying FireFest for $47 million. That's not happening to the supporters, believers and builders who stuck with my team. Thank you. We'll pick, we will pick the new group based on their ability to execute. We'll pick, you mean they'll pick. Yeah. Wait a minute. Well also too. Thanks for everybody. He's standing by me. Now we're picking a whole new group. Yeah. Now we're picking a whole nother group. Thanks for standing by me, but the next group is ready to come in and pay me more money. So fuck you.

We'll pick the new group. He's acting as if a bunch of people are going to jump in on this. You know who's going to jump in on this? Grant Cardo. I guarantee, I guarantee that's what's going to happen. One of these wonky real estate seminar weekend warrior dudes is going to come in and try and do this. We'll pick the new group based on their ability to execute the vision of fire in a transparent,

grand, and expeditious manner. The next chapter of fire will be bigger, better, and build to last without me at the helm. Well, that's the best sentence in this entire fire fight. Exactly. Without me at the helm. So then he goes on to add a bunch of things about what you'll get. Fyre Festival has been the most talked about

US based music festival in the world since 2017. Because of bad, bad stuff. For all the bad reasons. An ideal Caribbean location. You act as if like you bought the land and it's ready for these people to just set up and go. The Caribbean location will be there. They don't have to use the FireFest name.

No one wants to be associated with FireFest 3, I guarantee. Deal disclosure, the Fire brand is currently licensed to third party specifically for developing TV projects, theater, music streaming, and free ad-supported television, theater. Fire Fest the musical. I know, I was thinking the same thing, like you're gonna go to the Fox. I've got a little cheesy bread I can't eat.

Where's my mood, where's my camp, I can't find it. Where's Blink-182? They don't come to you. Mama Mia, Mama Mia, Fire Fest never happened. 109, I got a, but that guy who almost got a blowjob for water, they got to put him in the musical. Oh, that's right. I love him.

I wish he would, he should buy it. If he was the one running this, I would have, I might've even thought about buying tickets. 40, 422,000 unique visitors to Fire Fest, Fire.mx in the last 60 days. Yes, because everybody was trying to get there and see, is it happening? Is it happening? Is it happening? Nope, it's not. You dumb shit.

Oh, and here, make us an offer. What's your name? What company do you rest in? What's your name? What company do you represent? What's your offer? What do you- We might pick you. Should we? Should we?

Ooh. Brian and Chrissy. What company do you represent? The commercial break. TCB Live. Wait, what was it? TCB plus minus. TCB minus. TCB minus. Wait, what was it? TCB plus minus. TCB minus.

TCB minus. What is your offer? One trillion dollars! I'm going to put, let me put. Do you take diners club? Here, let's do this. Okay. What's your name? Wendy, the alligator. What company do you represent? Need to know, only on a need to know basis. Wendy, the alligator. What company do you represent? Only on a need to know basis, need to know basis. And then I'm gonna put in quotations,

it's a secret for now, it's a secret. What's your offer? $1 trillion billion. And then I'm gonna put it says what do you want to use the complete brand or a license for a specific use case cookies say I don't understand the question I don't understand and then put also I will only pay if I can borrow the money. What is your email address? Wouldn't you like to know?

Wouldn't you like to know? Let me see here. I'm doing this for real by the way. Wouldn't you like to know? What's your phone number? Five, five, five. Five, five, five, five, five, five, five. One extra five in there. Oh, I'll put a six in there just for good. Okay, submit, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five,

one extra five in there. Oh, I'll put a six in there just for good. Okay. Submit. Done. All right. Let's see what happens. If they get back to us, guys, I will let you know and we will be on top of this every step

of the way. Because if there's one thing that we want here at the commercial break, it's Billy to get FireFest sold immediately so he can realize the vision of a global entertainment brand with CPG consumer packaged goods and the musical. We're doing good in this world. We'll own FireFest by the end of the day. I promise. Wendy! Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip! Alright, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. All right, 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 212-433-3TCB. 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 right back. Promise. Then head over to tcbpodcast.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. Yeah, I mean, you do got to give the guy credit. He's got some gumption. He at least keeps going.

You know what I'm saying? He's like that, what's that game that you can play at different arcades where the whack-a-mole? Whack-a-mole. Yeah, that's what it's called. Whack-a-mole. Up down one big and it pops up over here. That's right.

It's, uh, yeah. Listen, I don't argue anybody's ability to get a second chance in life. I think that that's the greatest thing about life is that you get a lot of- 100%. If you're lucky, you get a lot of second chances. We all fuck up a lot. I fucked up a lot in my life, a lot, a lot. I've made some mistakes.

I've done people wrong, song, the whole nine yards. And I'm not always proud of what I've done and I regret Oh, you know, I don't regret anything because I always tend to learn a lesson from it It may take me seven times, but I'll learn a lesson eventually so I wouldn't call it regret, but I definitely Sometimes I'm embarrassed about my past actions and luckily people have given me a second chance But the thing is that despite all indications that this is clearly, you're clearly out of your league, you're not doing the right thing, you have no intention of following through with honesty and transparency, as has been said, it just makes you seem like a really big dum-dum who just doesn't get it.

Like you're not getting it, Billy. But I do agree with two things. Number one, you should, if you're going to, if the FireFest brand is going to live on in any way, you should be no part of it. Number one. And number two is you should try your best to make some restitution to the people who did find themselves in a shitty and compromising situation. Yeah. So, okay. So anyway, bad festival, good festival, Mempho, bad festival, bad festival, good festival, Mempho. I did want to have a chance to talk about this. We do talk about this every year, it comes around.

Mempho has announced their lineup for 2025. And I know I'm throwing this on you, October. The first of October. The first of October? Mm-hmm. The first weekend or the first? The first weekend, which is like the second, let's see. I think I had it open right here. I have to. Uh, that's Riverbeat.

October 3rd, 4th and 5th. There you go. Okay, so big announcement, drum roll please. The third, headlining the third Friday, October 3rd will be Widespread Panic. Yes it will. With Father John Misty, Leftover Salmon, Galactic, Kevin Kinney and Bloodkin all doing a stretch

before Widespread Panic does their big closeout for the night. And then on Saturday, October 4th, drum roll please. Rrrr. Widespread Panic plays two nights in a row with the Flaming Lips, Lucas Nelson, Mavis Staples, the Fariside. The Fariside. The Fariside, Puddles Pity Party, which is

crazy. If you've never seen Puddles Pity Party, that might be worth the price of admission alone. It's a clown that sings and dances and does a lot of different stuff. Comedian, satirist, Puddles is crazy. And if you've never seen it, again, it might be worth the price of admission alone. And High Fade, All, it might be worth the price of emission alone. And High Fade, all open. These are just the people who are announced. I'm sure there'll be more to come down the road, I imagine. And then on Sunday the 5th, Tyler Childress with Sierra Pharrell, Charlie Crockett, Lucero,

John Miller, Annie and the Caldwells, Amy LaVere and Gioa Welch trio. So there you go, widespread panic two nights, Tyler Childers on night number three. Widespread panic for two nights. That's sure to get the crowd going. Oh yeah. For sure. If you're a spread head. To sell tickets. This is it.

And drink beer. Yeah, spread doesn't, they don't do tours too much anymore, do they? They do more like, festivals. Yeah, targeted dates. They actually don't do festivals anymore. So this is, it's special that they do this festival. But yeah, they do targeted weekends throughout the year. Okay. So in a cruise and I think, oh, not a cruise. I'm sorry. Whatever they call it. Dominican Republic. They go, They don't do that whole beach thing somewhere down in Mexico or Dominican Republic or something like that. Yeah.

And of course, then they do the big New Year's Eve. Do they do New Year's Eve? They do. Yeah, they do a big New Year's Eve. They used to do it here at the Fox. Yep. Yeah. And then they did it at-

Still do. Oh, they do it at the Fox? They didn't do it this past year because one of the members was sick, but they should be back. All right. So, widespread panic. I know so many people that are into Widespread Panic. Not my favorite band in the world, but I have no hate for them. I have no hate, it's just not my favorite band in the world, but I have seen them more times than a lot of the bands that I really really like. That's just, if you

live in Georgia and you grew up in the 90s, 2000s, you've seen widespread panic. Well, they're from Georgia, from Athens. And they are a legendary jam band who has been around for a very long time, huge, very loyal crew of human beings that either follow them around or go see them when they can. Yeah, good people. And if you're up for two nights of fantastic jam banding, and then Tyler Childers, who I don't think I've heard much of him.

What kind of music does he sing? He's got a little bit more of a country flair on that night. Okay. All right. So there you go. Well, that ties in nicely then, because, you know, Widespread gets a little twangy on occasion too. They're jam bandy, but they can get a little twangy on occasion.

They can, yeah. So, Widespread Panic, the third and the fourth, Tyler Childers on the fifth, menfofest.com to get your tickets now available. If you're going to be there, shout out. Chrissy will say hello to you. Maybe Brian will even show up. I'm sure some of my brothers are going to be there. I'm sure at least one of my brothers is going to be there. He's a spread head.

He's a spread head of epic proportions. He loves widespread panic. I do too. I mean, back in my college days, I would go on tour. I would go as much as I could, you know, going to school and that kind of thing. But yeah, you go out for the summer, especially go out for the summers. Yes. Go out for a week, two maybe even kind of traveled to just different cities? Yes. I went and saw widespread panic back in, well, I just had first met Astrid. So this had been 2015. In 2015, I went and saw widespread panic here in Atlanta. My brother, my twin brother, has had a friend forever and ever. Amen. Her name is Nicole. Nicole and Chrissy, I don't know that they know each other,

but I certainly never met through this circle of people. And I go to Nicole's house for a pre-spread party, which is the finger dip night. Finger dip, finger dip, finger dip, finger dip. Someone's running around with a tin of pure Molly saying, finger dip, finger dip, finger dip. Everyone is so fucked up. I mean, and just getting twisted.

As you might be inclined to do before a widespread panic show. Not keeping my head on my shoulders, I had a few Bud Lights and whatnot. But I'm in her kitchen, and she's got a wall of photographs. 92% of which are not her family or her children. It is her at widespread panic concerts,

her and her husband at widespread panic concert. And I'm staring at all these photographs and looking at them and thinking, oh, that's fun and then look at that and that's interesting and who are those people. And in one of those photographs, my eyes are scanning and it's like a crowd of people behind Nicole, like taking a picture together

as one group, you can see. And I look and then I like a crowd of people behind Nicole, like taking a picture together as one group, you can see. And I look, and then I do a double take, and then a triple take, and then I stare really closely, and I go, that's Chrissy Hodeley! It's Chrissy fucking Hodeley! And Chrissy was on this wall, and I couldn't believe it, so I had to grab Nicole, and I said, do you know that girl? Oh yeah, I can't remember her name,

but I see her a bunch at the concerts and we know each other and we've all, all, all, all, all, all, all. She's part of the group and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, that's my best friend, that's Christy. No way! Everybody knows everybody. A widespread panic.

Big family. You don't need to know anything about widespread panic to be welcome into the widespread family. If you can do a giggle or a wiggle, and if you can do a little jiggle, if you can do the white man's shuffle, then you can show up at a widespread panic concert and have fun too.

So Mempho- That's a good time. Pulling big names out of the hat to bring widespread panic for not one, but two nights. Is this harking back to one of the old Memphos? Wasn't there widespread panic play at the first Mempho? Well, no, it was the first one that came back after the pandemic. Okay, okay.

So 2021. And they played two nights then too, didn't they? I believe they did. I think they did. I can't remember. I want to feel, I feel like they did. But I, because I was there. I was the one.

Oh no, they didn't play two nights. They played one night. Yeah, I think you're right. It was Saturday night they played. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they played two sets. They played two sets. Yeah, like two, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were all, they didn't play two nights. They played one night. It was Saturday night they played. But they played two sets. They played two sets, yeah, like two... Yeah. They were all... I don't remember.

I was so fucked up, I don't remember. I don't remember any of it. But yeah, that's good. I'm proud of Jeff. He's pulled another rabbit out of his hat there. And I'm sure they're expecting good crowds and... Very much so. A lot of excitement. They've already sold a lot of tickets. I'm sure, right expecting good crowds and a lot of excitement. They've already sold a lot of tickets.

I'm sure, right? Once you say widespread panic, I'm sure the phone starts ringing off the hook. And does Jeff take those orders himself? They also do a blind sale. They've been doing that for the past two years. That's really nice because blind people need to see music too. Right, right. Exactly.

Their hearing is more advanced, actually. Yeah, it probably is. No, they do it where, you know, you don't know who's playing. You do a discount. You do a discount. And you say— And sell tickets. And they sell a lot that way too, because they've come to expect Memphis is a great festival. Yeah, well, that's good. Yeah, and there's a lot of festivals that are been around for

a while that do do it that way. Not like Billy McFarland selling blind tickets two days before the festival is supposed to happen and still no names have been announced. This is the eighth year. Does Jeff take those ticket orders himself? No. He answers the phone? No? Okay. I thought maybe you could call and talk to Jeff. It's the eighth year. That's amazing. Wow. He's been doing this just a little bit longer than we've been doing this stupid show. I will still never forget when Jeff,

when it kind of like all came together, Greenlight go funded, like they were, they had the money and they were like, okay, we're gonna go do this now. And we went out to eat, maybe that same day, I don't know, maybe the same day he got that information. And we went out to eat with one of the guys that was early in on the whole situation. But we went out to eat. I just never forget Jeff and I were outside and I

was like, yeah, I can help. I'll help. I'll do some stuff. And he was like, yeah, yeah. Well, I definitely get you tickets. Okay. All right. He goes, well, with your investment track record, I'd probably want to keep you on the crowd side of things. He's keeping you in his pocket. Yeah, he's keeping me in his pocket. He's going to pull me out. That's right. Right as the, when he needs the festival to blow up, he'll go, let's bring that commercial

break guy in and just... Brought to you by JMLan Productions. Brought to you by JMLan Productions. One year brought to you in part by the commercial break. Which I still have hours of audio from that Mempho Fest. But there's two problems with the audio. Number one is we didn't think so smart on our feet. That was our first year as a podcast. We didn't think so smart on our feet.

We never got releases from those people. Not that that would be that big of a deal. If you're talking into a microphone, expect it's going to go somewhere, right? I'm not too worried about that part. But the other part that didn't work out so well is that we were directly in front of one of the stages and it was so loud that all you can hear is that. But some of two listeners that we met at that show, still listen to this day, still contact us to this day, still say hello to this day, two people that we met, we gave away hundreds of stickers, most of them ended up on the floor of Mempho. I'm sure when clean up time came, it was like all commercial break bumper stickers.

Then there were those little ones with the guitar and stuff, I remember I still got them. enough time came, it was like all commercial break bumper stickers. Those little ones with the guitar and stuff. I remember the guitar pick. I still have a few Mempho guitar pick stickers. If you're interested in that, let me know. And maybe Astrid can send you one. I don't have a ton, but I still have those. Those are all fit. Those are the first official commercial break stickers. Those are vintage. Those are five years old now and they have little little Mempho thing on there and it's just the commercial break. That was fun.

We had a good time. Oh, that's fun. I'd do it differently next time in the sense that I wouldn't actually go as a podcaster to Mempho. I would just go to Mempho. Yeah, it's hard at a festival to get like live crowd stuff. You're going to have to like go in the back or do something in the back and interview people or something because yeah, the music's

constantly going. That's what I had kind of hoped would happen that first year, but it didn't really work out like that. It didn't really work out in our favor. Maybe now we would have a little bit more luck getting someone on the horn. But you know, widespread panic. I don't think they're interested in talking to the Comrades. Maybe schools would. Maybe schools would. He's the one who does a lot of the interviews. I did see that the brothers played five, four or five sold out nights at Madison Square Garden. The Old Ammon Brothers reincarnation.

Yeah, the thing, like anybody who was kind of in that universe. I saw Chuck, your friend, Chuck Lavelle was there. So it was Warren Haynes. Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, I mean, Derek Trucks, yeah, Derek Trucks was there, and a couple of the old drummer from Allman Brothers. There was like 16 people on stage. I mean, it was like huge. Yeah, it was a big deal.

Everybody's been talking about how great it was. What really surprised me was not only the amount of people that showed up, I mean, that sold out. Oh, sold out every night. Sold out every night. But then how many people streamed it, like half a million people over the course of five nights streamed it. And that may not sound like a lot,

but think about half a million people. That's a lot of human beings. But then the amazing light show, and I listened to a couple of the songs, and really the music was fantastic. Yeah, it really was. I've seen the Allman Brothers a lot, because again, you're here in Georgia, you grew up in a certain time. The Allman Brothers would come and play the Fox for like 10 nights in a row, right?

And you would go, and I saw the Allman Brothers would come and play the Fox for like 10 nights in a row, right? And you would go and I saw the Allman Brothers many times. And it was a hit or miss kind of band. Sometimes you would get it on a really good night. There was always professional, it always sounded okay. But sometimes they really flew and sometimes it's kind of an average night. But those, whatever I saw online over the weekend was so fantastic. So good. So good. So rockin'.

It was just great to see them all there. I love to see that. Where is Butch Trucks? Where is Butch Trucks? Yeah. Is he the one that died? He's the guitarist, but I don't think he died. Did he die?

Yeah, somebody just died. Sorry, gotta feel bad, I don't know. Yeah, me too. Oh, Butch Trucks did die. Mm-hmm. Oh, not, oh no. But Betz. Betz, Dicky Betz.

Dicky Betz just died. Dicky Betz just died, that's right. And his son was playing with them. Okay, okay, that's what it is. Dicky Betz was, in my opinion, I mean, I've liked all the guitarists, including Dwayne Allman, but Dickie Betts took it to another level. That guy was so fucking good.

Warren Haynes is incredible too, but Dickie Betts, the way that he played guitar, just like a little old country boy just playing that guitar like nothing. And so- Yeah, their story, their origin story is really amazing and tragic. Tragic. Mm-hmm. The Allman Brothers story is one you gotta look up if you've never heard it. The Allman Brothers are one of the great rock and roll bands of all time.

And... Yeah, his but... Well, uh, not DeWayne, because he died back in the... Greg. ...60s. But yeah, Greg had an autobiography, and I've actually read it twice. It was so fascinating to me. It's called My Cross to Bear.

Interesting. Highly recommend it. Yeah, he was good. He was married to Cher for a while. He was. Yeah, I told that story about him up at the bar one night. We just told that story like a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, he was fantastic.

All those guys really good. So if you get a chance, I think a lot of that is online. A lot of those songs are online. And then I think you can go to nugs.net and buy the entire run if you want to. I think they have like a special on the run. They're not sponsoring the show or anything like that. I'm just saying if you're into that. We got on widespread panic, and I thought about the Allman Brothers and the Brothers Band because it's in that kind of... J.M. Lehan Productions was really tuned into a lot of that stuff back in the day. A lot of those people I have met in person, I've been in the same room with, and they will never remember me or do business with me again.

So I thought I'd just mention it. Well, if they never, if they don't remember you, they might do business with you again. So I think they're, I think they have no need for me. No need for me. That's what I'm finding out in life. Sometimes you think, well, clearly they'll want to buddy up and then they're like, they don't have any need for me. It's like a lot of our guests. Why would they come on the commercial break?

Why would that be? On your way up or on your way down? One of the two, there you go. Speaking of guests, six, maybe seven, possibly eight celebrity guests. Listen, we put it out there and all of a sudden now people wanna be a part of it. And I couldn't be more happy and excited about that.

And so if we have a couple extra hours of TCB, it's good. And we'll tell you about the minutiae. Don't worry, we'll be okay. We're not actually gonna, we won't actually be here two extra hours I'll explain when the time comes the 12 hours of TCB at least 12 episodes on that Saturday May 31st celebrating five years of the commercial break six seasons and mental health awareness month which is May yeah we're super excited about it.

And so just mark your calendars, tune on in. We're also going to be doing live video on that day through YouTube and Twitch. So that'll be exciting. We need to test that out. Yeah. Yes. I was actually playing with it the other day.

I figured out how to do this. Okay, but I'm calling in a professional. Don't worry. I've got a, there's a guy. There's a guy. I know a guy. it the other day. I figured out how to do this. Okay, but I'm calling in a professional Don't worry. I've got him. There's a guy. There's a guy. I know a guy. I got a guy Yeah, I know a guy like I knew a bunch of guys in the real estate business Probably gonna make us fall flat on our own. Yeah, that's right. I'm calling in Grant Cardone genetics to Nixon So that's May 31st also America's next top mediocre comedy podcaster. If you want to be a part of that contest that will be running here at the commercial break,

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