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Episode Date: April 15, 2026

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On this episode of the commercial break. They probably can't go to a restaurant without, you know, people being like, oh, look, it's the Seven Little Johnson. Are they from Georgia? They are in Georgia. Oh, okay. Yeah, they're in Georgia. Yep. That's why I'm...

You're close. I just want to hang out with the Johnsons. I really do. I just want to hang out with the Johnson. I don't know. I think they look cool to me. I don't know. Yeah, you wanted to be a part of the show.

I did. I thought, let me in, you know. We're all famous to assertions. degree, why not me? I mean, I know I'm a bit on the taller side, but you've got average-sized people on your show too, let me, and I'm not that tall,

let me come in and we'll do an episode. I don't know. I like a little cross-promotion. Yeah. At the commercial break. I'm sure that's exactly what they're looking to do, is be on the commercial break.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, guys and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Kristen Joy Haudley. Best to you, Chrisette.

Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us on the RSS feed and on the live stream and on the YouTube and on the Twitch. And on-on-on-na-on-na-on-na-on-na-on. You ever been to J-Jew? What did you think? I liked it.

For those you, you're not. don't. Jayju is a Korean spa here in Atlanta. Huge. It's been here forever. It takes up like the entire half of a strip mall. Yeah. It's the size of a Walmart, basically. Many different rooms, many different. There's the salt, you know, the cold, the steam, the saunas, the massage tables, the exfoliation places, the place to stretch. And then of course the locker room where there's more swinging dicks and hot tits than you've seen in an entire lifetime, all hanging out all ready for you there. And it's separated by male and then there's also the female area. Yes.

So that everyone can feel safe to be in any state of undress that they wish and most people are. I mean, you wear a frock around sometimes, but then in certain places like the pools and stuff like that, most people are nude. I would say 70% of people are completely and totally nude. In the locker rooms. Oh, in the locker rooms for sure. Yeah. But no, out in the common areas, you can't be nude. Yeah, well, in the guys, some of the guys' areas, there's nudity.

Oh, well, yeah, no, I'm saying that's, aren't the locker rooms where they separated by men's and women's? It's been a while since I've been. There are men's and women's areas. Pools and areas. And pools and areas and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There are common ones also. Yes, you have a, they give you a uniform, essentially.

It's like, um, scratch. They're like scrubs. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's like scrubs. Yeah. And so, but J-JU is the type of place that you go to and you can, it's open 24 hours. A lot of people go there overnight. Some people sleep there. They have like these warm, heated floors. They'll give you a bamboo mat. You can take a nap there. It's great place to go after a hangover. It's great place to go after a long night. It's a good place to go. You can even get some work done there. They have a cafe. You can get internet. There's lots of people who do work there. Like a Starbucks with hairy balls in your face. It's a, it's a day. You make a day of it sometimes. or maybe just go for a couple of hours. But this is not a, this is not like a secret underground place in Atlanta. Many, many famous people have been there. Many, many rap stars and singers and entertainers have talked about this in interviews and songs and stuff like that.

Jay Jew is a well-known place. And it's been there for years. I have been going, I think the first time I went was maybe getting close to 30 years ago, 28 years ago, something like that. Long time ago was the first. time I heard about it. I went. But now there's a lady who has been raising, she made a post about a rather disconcerting interaction she had. Her and her friend went at midnight. They laid down on the heated floors,

bamboo mat, they fell asleep like they had intended to do. And then they were going to get up, have a cup of coffee, get some massages, and head home. And basically the way it works now is you get a bracelet when you walk in. And then you can go to the different rooms, get the different services. is they scan you like they would at a cruise ship and then you get charged at the end. So her and her friend had just paid the entry fee, taken a nap. They woke up around five in the morning. They got there at midnight, woke up around five in the morning. And there was a guy that was walking in, like, in, I don't know if this was specifically

a female area or a common area, but he was walking around trying to convince one of the women that they needed to go into the sauna with him, into the sauna hut. Oh, right. Yeah, they've got those igloo. Yeah, it's like an igloo and it's in their saunas. Yeah, there's many of them, right? And I say many of them. There's a number of them.

And so he was trying to convince one of these women to go into this with him. And he became really aggressive about it. He's like, no, you need to come in the sauna with me. I can't go alone. You need to come with me. It's weird. And the friend started to try and kind of like defend her friend. And then he got all irritated with her.

And then she took her concerns to the management. The management didn't seem to take it with a degree of sense. seriousness. And then the guy walked into the female locker rooms where clearly he shouldn't have been, right? Everybody is naked in the locker rooms. Almost everybody's naked in the locker rooms, unless you're leaving. And he got rather, like, he was trying to accost women. I don't know if he was assaulting women, but he was accosting them verbally. And she said, and she took her concerns to the management and the management did the management was there on site did really nothing about it they kind of called security security couldn't find the guy the guy came back up front eventually and the person who

was on staff gave him his license back gave him his ID back he had to give your ID gave his ID back and he headed out the door and that was it that was the end of it to me it would have seemed like that's a situation where maybe the police should be called and the guy should be talked to at the very least and at the very worst escorted out of the building and and trespassed not to come back but it didn't But here's, okay, no one was physically harmed in that situation that I understand, that I know of. But what I saw in the comments section really surprised me as many women, many women shared their discomfort with J-Jew because they had some, they had experienced similar things. Guys walking into women's locker rooms, guys in certain parts of the building, maybe they shouldn't have been, you know, guys being uncomfortable. Then there were some guys that were like, I had guys propositioning me here in the pools or in the cold plunge or whatever.

Then girls saying girls were accosting them. You know, one girl kept on repeating to some woman. She was following her around the building basically saying, I'm going to eat you. I want to eat you. Open your legs. I want to eat you. What? Yeah, like weird stuff like that. And I thought to myself, huh, bringing up a point that I never thought about with Jeju. It's a very casual. I mean, it's not casual. Like the first time you go, they're going to have a little bit of discomfort around all the nudity and all the it's big and there's a lot of different rooms you can go into and services you can get and um but there is kind of this

casual nature of like you know walking in and out of jes ju and all of these different rooms and people in states of undress and all as it takes is one fucking whack ball you know to make the whole experience kind of unpleasant for everybody involved and i'm not saying that's the majority of jesuit people. It's not. I've been there. I've never been across it. I never had a problem. But I'm not good looking. So, you know, people just ignore me. I have, I'm a hairy small dick human being. Like, no one's bothering me about anything. But it does bring up the point that, like, you know, when you're at that J-JU, who's protecting you? Like, one security guard paying $20 an hour? Yeah, I don't remember. I mean, I think I've only been with Jeff.

One security guard paying $20 an hour? Yeah. I think I've only been with Jeff. We went a couple times, but I never felt weird. I don't know. It is, it's, it is strange if you've never been to one of these. But I mean, apparently these are everywhere in Asia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're everywhere. We, Astro and I went to a Greek bathhouse type place in Spain. Yeah. When we went to the wedding a couple years ago. And it was literally on the inside of a building. It was like nondescript building. And then you had to know the address. And it was down one of these. cobblestone streets, you know, this wide, and when you took a turn, all of a sudden you're in a hallway, and then you open up the doors, it's this small entryway, and then when

they take you up an elevator, and when they take, get you out, it's this huge bathhouse, like, you know, cold, hot, warm, all this other stuff. This is where the, the ice was coming down the shoot when Astrid and I were in the... Yes, I remember this. But one of the more, I guess, uncomfortable moments was when they took us up to the locker rooms. And, the guy took us into the locker rooms. There was like, they took us up in a group in an elevator. It was like there were specific times you would come in, you know, and we got the 12 o'clock or whatever. There was literally a line of people waiting to get in this place. We had the 12 o'clock is so we just got escorted right in. And there was like a group of people, a couple girls,

couple guys, you know, so it was like three other guys, four other guys. And we all got taken into this very small locker room. I'm talking like the size of this studio right now. It is very small locker and giving these, given this clothing, this frock to wear, essentially, like a robe, right? And the guy was like, take all your clothes off. Yeah. Take all your clothes off and with the frock. And we were like, oh, okay.

And I just... Europe's very free. Very free. Yeah. But I think two of us were American. I think one guy was from Africa just because of his, the way that he was talking, his accent. And then I think it was a German guy who spoke no English whatsoever. And he didn't understand.

And he was like this. But then, you know, the African guy got. right down to it. And I was like, I guess here we got, I guess, God gave you what he gave you. Time to just row. Time to size everybody up. Let's see what's going on. You try to hide yourself in the corner, like, you know, so you're not looking at anybody. Yeah. But, you know, it's, you know, everyone's curious here. But then we get into those, you know, you're in those pools. I was where you, you're naked for this, like, first part where they like, you know, shower you off and clean. They don't shower you off. You shower off. Like to spray you off like a L.

Well, I think they're trying to, you know, make sure there's a limited fecal matter inside of the facility. So they tell you to get into a shower and then, you know, you come out. And then you can go in these pools. Yeah. Huge pools. Like the kind you've seen in movies. Huge pool, stone, old stone all around it, stone pool, heated. And then they have these big chandeliers of candles, like real candles that are all lit 30 feet above your head, right?

And you're swimming in these pools. and then there's multiple pools that you can like jump into, one pool to the next pool. Yeah. And one of those pools I quickly found out was the cold plunge. Oh, the cold one. Yeah, because literally blocks of ice were being shot through this shoot. It was like, just the ice coming down into it. It was cold.

It was chilly. But, you know, there is this sense of sensuality, I guess, about a massage place, a spa. Do you know what I'm saying? It's dark. It's romantic. The scent, there's blowing scents through the place, you know, candles and everyone's in some state of disrobe. You know, it's... I feel like it's more relaxing, but yeah.

I like, I get a boner every time, you know. That's like my least favorite part about massage is worrying about a boner. And I've had so many masseuses like, I know. They're like, what are you? Don't even, don't even worry about it. But I think they're trained to say that because I think it's probably, it is uncomfortable if you're a female and you're massages. a guy and then all of a sudden, you know, they, pitching a flag. You turn them over and it's just like, ping. Yeah. You got to imagine, right? Yeah, but I mean, again, I think they're trained to

ignore it. Yeah, with mine, it would be easy to ignore, but I'm sure there's some people who it's not easy to ignore. I, that's, listen, you know, I get all in my head about this stuff. I love a good massage, but I always say, just do my back, just do my, don't roll me over. Because you roll me over, and then you start rubbing on my thighs. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, reaction. It's just a reaction to being touched. That's it. It's like, it's not, I'm not, you know, I'm not going for it. This doesn't mean I'm, I'm ready to rock. This just means your body. Your body is reacting to a touch. That's it. That's how it is. And so, you know, but at the same time, I don't even want to be put in that position. Just lay me down, face first. Okay. Well, that's

you. Do my back the whole way. And, you know, if you want to get into my, you know, my glutis maximus, I'm okay with that. Like, do a little butt rub. Uh-huh. I'm good with that. But, you know, then you go to... You could always just say you could turn over and just don't go below the waist. Just only do, like, the shoulders and chest. Don't touch my dick! Don't touch my dick! Yeah, but, you know, when you...

And then feet. You could also say just do the feet. Feet. Feet are good. I like, I'm very ticklish, but if you use pressure, I'm okay with it. That's what I always tell them. I say, I don't want to kick you. So if you're going to do my feet, do pressure. Like a donkey kick back. Yeah, I have come close sometimes. But the difference I've noticed between some of... of the American spas, it is unlikely anyone's going to get anywhere close to any area that you need to be concerned about. My experience, right? And I go to like the legitimate spas. I'm not going to like,

you know, the HO spa down the street, right? One open 24 hours a day. Now, I'm sure it happens all the time. I know it does. We know that it does. We know that there are spas of impropriety and spas of sexuality. But in the, with the European spas and the Korean spas, another place like that. They don't give a shit. It's part of the body. They're rubbing it. You know what I'm saying? They just go for it. They're like, well, I'm going to get all up in your balls. That's what's going to happen. I got the boob massage in Italy. Yeah, you got the boob massage in Italy. I mean, yeah. I told that story about someone I was dating who got full on happy ending. Yeah, I've never gotten that. Came home and told me about it. And I was like,

didn't you think this day stop? Yeah. And she was like, no. No. But, you know, she was weird anyway. You know, listen, these, these, Jeju, this lady swears up and down, never go there again, as did many people in the comments. But I liked Jeju, and it's likely I will be back to Jeju. I forget about Jiu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You do. It's actually right up here right up of the street. It's not that far away off from, I mean, it's 15, 20 minutes from Oregon.

Yeah. But, you know, you do have to just kind of keep your eyes open, though, because, of course, you're with a bunch of other people and you're in a compromising position. Yeah, and it's like $25 to get in for the whole 24 hours, right? $20, $30, something like that. Yeah, you can, you... Just to have access to everything. $30, I think, last time I won. It was like $30 and you could stay there up to 24 hours.

They would change the color of the wristbands at midnight or whatever it was, so you could be there until the next color change. So you can go there basically as long as you wanted and stay there, and then you just add on the services. So if you go and you lay down and you take a sleepies, you know, you go sleepy time, and then you wake up and decide I want a back massage, someone's there. They'll help you out. You know, if you want to get exfoliated, they will take these really incredibly rough sandpaper and scrape your back till it's bleeding.

That's what they do. If you want to get... Jeff got lit on fire. He did? He got the fire treatment? He got the small Asian man wrapped him up and then doused him and lit him on fire. What? Some kind of special treatment.

Really? Which has made me laugh so hard. What is that the sunburn treatment? What is that weird? Like to get toxins out or something, I don't know. Okay. All right. Cool.

I want to hear that whole story. Yeah, he tells it. It's pretty funny. I think I got cupped once there. I think there was some kind of cupping. Oh, the cupping on the back? Yeah. I don't like the cupping.

I don't either. It was for me. It leaves those big marks and I've never really felt a big difference. It's just suction. And it can be a little uncomfortable too. It is. Yeah. And then the, but that one, they did light on fire.

Like, that's how they got the cup on. I've seen that. I've seen the kind where they have a machine that will do it. And I've seen the kind where they have. light the, I've done the kind of re-lighted on fire. And then put it on there. The atmospheric pressure between the difference. Yes.

It makes it latch on like a fucking octopus. Yeah, I'm good on the cupping. Yeah, and then I think I was with Raphael one time. And he's like, oh, you got to get this treatment, the bamboo bullshit treatment. And I told the lady, and I said, give me the bamboo bullshit treatment. And she comes out with literally, like, leaves. Yeah, sticks of bamboo and whacking me. Yes.

Down my thighs. at the back of my thighs, I was like, ow, ow, ow, ow. And she was like, you shot out. Yes. Ow, ow, ow. Yeah, they don't mess around. No, they don't care. At least when I went, most of the people who work there are ladies.

They are older. They have been doing this since they were born. I mean, they're like, they're really good at what they do. Yes. But they don't care if you're hurting. That's part of the experience, right? Right. And so it was just like, she was whacking my ass, yeah, down my legs.

And I was like, ow, ow, ow. And she was like, you shout out. I think that's not what she said. She goes, it doesn't hurt. And I was like, it does. I'm doing it lightly. The man move bullshit treatment. It was terrible.

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I forgot to turn off the camera. Oh, we're just sitting here talking. Who cares? Wow. Cool. Hey, hey, everybody. That's what happens on a break. We do nothing.

We stare at our phones instead of each other. We're like every other person in the world. I was going to, we were talking. I don't know. Some of the, oh, my 600 pound life. Oh, I thought about that. I thought about you with that.

Yeah. She was only like 30. Congestive heart failure in a Fort Worth hospital. She's been sick for a while. She had fluid on her heart and her lungs. She would put into a coma. She weighed 593 pounds. She only lost about 40 pounds after the surgery.

That's what they do not tell you. What they do tell you, actually, at the beginning of the show, is that, you know, this show, my 600 pound life, Dr. Niles Arden is one of the few, I guess, gastro-surgeons that will do this surgery on people who are or have been more than 600 pounds. I guess that's kind of like the line of demarcation for having surgery. It's extraordinarily dangerous when you're that big to do surgery, if anything, because of all the layers that you have to cut through, all the blood vessels.

Yeah, just like, you know, in general, it's just a dangerous surgery to do anyway. You're making your stomach a third of the size. So that's how kind of doctor now, if you've watched the show, got and came into prominence. He was the guy who would do the surgeries based out of Houston. People would travel from all around the world to see him do this. And now, of course, he's just way famous. And so he does this surgery and they follow some of the, a few of these people around. What they will tell you, though, is that out of the hundreds that get this surgery every year that are that big, that are, have that much weight on them, very few of them maintain the weight

levels. They go right back to where they were, even with the surgery. So you're having one of these incredibly dangerous surgeries. Yeah, it's not a quick fix. I mean, if you don't change your lifestyle and how you think about food, you're just going to do the same things you were doing. That's why doctor now every time those people come in there, he's always bitching and complaining. He's like, you've got to lose 100 pounds before I'm going to do the surgery. I don't think it's really about the 100 pounds. I think it's about, you got to show me that you can change your diet and change your eating habits and change your compulsion to eat these particular foods all the time. And I mean, you get to six or seven hundred pounds. I mean, God bless. You're still a human

being and you deserve every dignity in the world. But you are clearly have a problem with food. And you are ingesting tens of thousands of calories worth of food every single day. And they show it on my 600 pound life. Now, some people will say this is just the, like, what we're really doing is we're taking advantage of these people and watching their suffering and getting joy out of it. I never got joy out of my 600 pound life. I like the show. But I clearly see it for what it is. It's a very sad situation every single time that show comes on. It's sad.

I actually don't watch it as much as I used to because I do find it to be a little bit depressed. Astrid. Yeah, I couldn't watch it. Astrid used to like to watch it for like a season. And then she's like, it's just such a sad show. Yeah. And they put all that sad music on top of it. It's like,

wh-re-w-w-w-w-l. Listen, I was talking to somebody the other day. Guy lost 100 pounds on Manjaro, I guess, it was. Monjaro, low doses of Manjaro. Yeah. But he said to me, I had to also. change everything about the way that I was eating and change my diet and exercise. He did.

He said, because the doctor gave me a heads up. And this guy's in the medical community, so he knows. He said, listen, if I didn't, then the body doesn't know the difference between fat and muscle. It doesn't know the difference. Your cholesterol level doesn't know that you've lost weight. It's still there. Your body can still be sick even though you're skinnier. I would think that with these type of drugs that doctor now is,

Arden's, that Dr. Nozardin, I would imagine is putting some of these things into play now. Yeah. That he's like, hey, we're going to put you on Manjaro for, or whatever, we go over you, Osempic, we're going to put you on this for a couple of months. We're going to let you drop some weight, and then we'll get to the surgery, just so you get the idea of what it's like to do this. And one of the things I always give the Dr. Narzadden, too, is he always, not always, but 90% of the time, he'll send these people to a therapist or a psychiatrist, too.

Yeah, that's part of it. You got to fix what's going on inside your head, right? He gives those people no shit. I mean, he suffers. Have you ever watched that show? Only when I've been in here. And you've had it all. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like for a while there, the whole TLC network was my 600 pound life. And then it became my 90-day fiancé. Yes. And now it's, you know, a mix between seven little Johnstons and still 90-day fiancé. I can't watch that at all anymore. I can't do that. Uh-uh.

No, I'm out. I'm out, guys. I'm sorry. I'm out. same storyline, now just crazier people because everyone wants to get famous. They see that this is their gravy train, their one shot at success. And so it's like every failed actor and actress in the world gets hooked up with some, you know, a person from far-flung locations and they decide that they're going to apply to be on TLC

and they just make it as crazy as possible. Not every storyline is like that, but 90% of them are. And now they're all just these, like, these D-list celebrities. I don't have anything against it. Cool. I like some of the personalities involved. But now it's just. like this D-Less Celebrity Fest

with this little universe of, I bet they have like TLCCon. They must have TLCCon, right? Where you can meet these people? Probably. I mean, they do BravoCon. TLCCon Meet.

You'd want to meet Ed. I would. I would. 90 days. And the Johnson's. Yeah, the thing is, I don't think the Johnston's do anything except for record their show. I think that they are, I don't know how, but, you know,

the Johnstons, for all of their bullshit, do seem to be pretty well-adjusted human beings. And here's what I mean by that. They don't seem to be fame seekers. Like, I don't see them online. I don't see them at red carpet events. I don't see them, you know, selling, I don't know, reticular bikes. Like, I don't see them out there, like, you know, blenders and I don't see them out there doing that. I think those two parents, because they're so damn helicopter-y, I think they've managed to keep a lid on that situation as much as possible. That's good. Yeah. And, you know, like, I think what happens with the Seven Little Johnson's, my imagination tells me this, is that the camera crew comes in once every three, six months, records for a couple weeks, then they're out,

and the Johnsons say, we are now again a normal family. but when you are physically different, when it's easy to point you out in a crowd, and you've been on TV for now 10 years or something like that, I got to imagine they're the most famous people in Grace and Georgia, wherever they're, right? I mean, like, they probably can't go to a restaurant without, you know, people being like, oh, look, it's the Seven Little Johnston. Are they from Georgia? They are in Georgia.

Oh, okay. Yeah, they're in Georgia. Yep. That's why I'm, you're close. I just want to hang out with the Johnsons. I really do. I just want to hang out with the Johnson. I don't know.

I think they look cool to me. I don't know. Yeah, you wanted to be a part of the show. I did. I thought, let me in, you know. We're all famous to a certain degree. Why not me? I mean, I know I'm a bit on the taller side, but you've got average-sized people on your show, too.

And I'm not that tall. Let me come in and we'll do an episode. I don't know. I like a little cross-promotion. Yeah. at the commercial break. I'm sure that's exactly what they're looking to do is beyond the commercial break. To keep, you know, keep that level-headedness about them.

I'm trying to see, is there a, I'm trying to see, let me see here. Is there a place where I can meet the stars of TLC? Question mark. The stars of TLC. Oh, it's saying TLC is playing the tabernacle next one day. That's right. They are. TLC's back. Oh, RosterCon.

Rostercon? What the fuck is RosterCon? Huh. Huh. Okay. Yeah, there's got to be. Like, those people are going to make money the rest of their life. I know a lot of them do that.

What is that the thing where you can go online and tell them to say something to one of your friends? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cameo. Cameo. Camio. Yeah, cameo. I know Ed was, like, one of the most popular.

cameo personalities out there for like a year. Yeah, but now he's not on any more 90-day fiancé shows. I don't see him on any of the rosters anymore. Well, he was on for a long time. Yeah, I mean, I think he did like the follow-up shows and then we broke up, now we're back together shows. Yeah, isn't it a decade a pretty long run for a 90-day fiance star who never really got buried to anybody? It's like three failed relationships. Yeah. Yeah. He's kind of I mean, I like Ed. I think he's funny, but he's kind of a miserable sack of shit. He's, you know, he's a little bit, he's a little bit rowdy. So they got a, they got the new fresh batch, you know, it's like from season 10. Oh yeah. Following them around, you know, this girl and that

guy. But the reality about the reality shows is, if you're not directly involved in the personalities of these particular people, you could give a shit less what happens after the 90 days. The 90 days I get. But the problem I have with 90 day fiancé, now is that 90-day fiancé now is just a star search for future D-list celebrities. No one gives a shit, no one. And they almost always end up in some kind of disaster. I don't see many of these people actually getting married. Are any of them even married anymore?

Do we have any, do we have one 90-day fiancé couple? Let's see here. 90-day fiancé couples still together. Let's see here. I can't imagine very many. Kyle and Noon from season three are still together. Don't even remember them. Russ and Paola.

I do remember Russ and Paola. I do remember Russ and Paola. And now I remember Russ because Russ follows me on Instagram and said something to me the other day. Alan and Kiriam from season one are still married. They have children. Lauren and Alexi, okay, we know that. first few seasons were real. Yes, exactly.

Kenny and Armando, love them. They're still there from 90 Day the other way, the two guys. Robert and Annie, okay, the big guy and the, was she Korean, I think, she was Korean? They're still together. So there's a late season one. Josh and Alex, they're still together. They're season three. Melanie and Devar?

Melanie and Devar. Who are they? Patrick and Tyos are still together. Emily and Kobe are still. together. I know that. Statler and Dempsey are still together. Misha and Nicola are still together. But there's, but okay, so I just named 10. And there must be a hundred and sixty thousand 90-day fiance couples between all of the shows now. And so it just runs its course. It's like the Bachelor of the Bachelorette. It's run its course. Love is blind. Love is blind. That that jumped the

shark season three. Yeah. In my opinion, that jumped the shark season three. There's very few shows that can live in a space for that long and get it right. Be authentic. I mean, be real. Yeah, that's why some of our favorite shows in the world, the Seinfelds and Friends.

How many seasons are there are friends, 12? Sounds right. Yeah. What Seinfeld was like eight or nine? Yeah, seasons. Cheers was like seven seasons. Golden Girls was like six seasons.

There's a reason why. It's because breaking back. was six seasons. Better Call Saul was four seasons, five seasons. There's a reason why, and reality shows, it raised the stakes even higher. It's because eventually the storyline gets old. There's only so many ways to rehash the same thing over and over again.

And Seven Little Johnsons is an example of a show. Seven Little Johnsons, I can tell you what's going to happen on an episode before I even press play on the episode. I can tell you what's going to happen. There are very few reality shows that can do this well and reinvent themselves season after season. Top Chef. Um, and Top Chef.

That's it. Top Chef and Top Chef. Those are the only ones that can reinvent themselves. Top Chef. Simpsons is still fucking does. Oh, it's still so funny. But the reason why the Simpsons, I think, does so well is because it's a parody show. And so they're taking real life events and parodying them, just like South Park.

And they can probably do that forever. As long as new. keep finding them and liking what they're doing, they can do that forever. You can't do that with 90-day fiancé. The whole shebang was that, oh my God, these people have 90 days to get married and they're having a long-distance relationship and will it or won't it work out. Now, we know it won't work out. We already know that 90 days is too short a time for anybody to fall in love with each other, and we already know that you've hired or you're following the most crazy human. We already know that your taping scenes three and four times to get the take that you want.

We already know that most of it is probably, if not, if not bullet pointed, scripted all together. And we already know that all these people are train wrecks and none of them are going to work out in the end. So, fool me once, shame on you. Full me nine seasons. Fool me 12 seasons, shame on me. The reason why I'm still into the Seven Little Johnson's is because, yeah, it's boring, it's formulaic, it's rinse and repeat every single week.

You've come in to have a love for them. It's my comfort food. I like the Seven Little Johns. So, Johnstins, whenever you're ready to do that TCB, Seven Little Johnston's crossover promotion, I'm here for you. That's what I have to say. All right, this time I'll turn off the cameras while we're taking a break. We'll be back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB.

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What's the world was going on with our... I don't know. We're having some technical issues. Technical difficulties here. Well, whatever. I'm careful. whatever whatever who cares that's time for these two old people to be rolled on out and go to bed it is about bedtime it's nap time what is it it's two past two 30 time time for chrissey and i have a

cocktail go to sleep yes uh i was going to um share with everybody that here's how it's going to go for the next couple of weeks chrissey and i will be batch recording so if you're used to watching this on stream, which I know at least three of you are. If you're used to watching this on stream, we will now be streaming live every other week just to accommodate some schedules. So the rest of this week, we will be out and then I'll be back next week to do some recording and then so on and so forth. We will give you a heads up. There is just some scheduling stuff that keeps us from going live streaming, but you will be getting new episodes at least two a week from the commercial break. So I thought that that was nice of me.

to tell you that. So nice. That was kind of me. To tell you that. Don't you think that was nice? Thank you. I really appreciate it. What else?

What else happened over the weekend? I think we need to update on the pool. I mean, we did spend an entire episode. We spent an entire week talking about the pool. Not an episode. I'm curious. When I first got here, I ran straight back to see what it looked like. The pool is blue.

That's all I got to say. It's blue. I'm not sure. It's blue. because the chlorine is currently eating as much organic material as possible. It's not as neon blue as the picture you sent me last week. Well, I sent it to you over the weekend. I shocked the pool again.

I gave it another 55,000 grams of chlorine. And it really, I mean, within an hour, that thing turned so bright blue. It was crazy. It's like unnatural blue. You know you wouldn't go in there. Like Gatorade blue. Yeah, Gatorade. Powerade blue.

That's what it was. I shocked it over the, the weekend. You know, what happened was. This is after you sent me the picture of the bird taking a little bath. Yes. There was a bird taking a bath in the pool. It's a bird bath. He was having a good old time. He was splishing and splashing. I love watching birds do that. Yeah. He was giving himself a bath. I've noticed the birds like to swoop. Not today. No. They can smell the danger. Well, it's got smoke coming off the top of it. It's burning the nostrils of all my neighbors. The, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, the first cleaning slash couple of shocks, it knocked down the green, most of the green.

Yeah. But there was still some algae clinging to the walls and clinging to the bottom. And so I know enough to know that if there's any algae in your pool, the chlorine level is too low. And what happens is when the chlorine eats the algae, I say it eats, when it's killing the algae, when chlorine is killing the algae. The algae is essentially putting the pH balance, it's knocking down the chlorine. So it's like a fight. You're doing this dance. It's like, you know, this back and forth, this push and pull. And so the more that the chlorine kills the algae, the more the chlorine itself is becoming ineffective. So. Right. It's using its powers. It's using its powers. Its powers are being denied. So I knew that it was going to take more than one shock to get the pool that was extraordinarily green to be blue. I knew it was going to take more than just a little bit of chlorine. So I put, I shocked it. I scraped all the walls. I managed to get the organic material, the algae, up into the middle of the pool, so it was mixing with the chlorine.

And then I noticed something interesting last week. I noticed that while it was still a little bit green, I could see some algae on the floors and other places. What I noticed was it maintained its same color for like three days in a row. And so this is what that told me, that there was some kind of leveling in the pool. And I decided, that's not good. We need to put more chemicals in my pool. So I ran with what little money I have to Home Depot and I bought another box of murderous chlorine and I poured it all in the pool and then I just started scraping the pool essentially

pulling up any algae that's on them stirring it up, just stirring up the pool. I cleaned those filters again. That is the fourth time in one month that I have cleaned those filters. You're supposed to do it on average every six to nine months. I've done it four times in one month. It's unbelievable. dirty that pool was. And then it just turned this super bright blue. I sent Chrissy a picture of the power-aid blue. And now today there is some semblance of calm going on in that pool.

It does look like it. Like I said, I ran right back to go look at it when I first got in. I thought, oh, okay. It's calming down. That's right. I don't see a lot of organic material in there anymore. There is still, or actual like pollen, polyps, I guess is the best way to explain it. God, those things. Those things are obnoxious and they're everywhere. And when they get wet, they turn soggy and gross in this dark color. It's weird. But if they get on the top of the pool, they will manage eventually to float down to the bottom

of the pool. They'll get wet and they'll die and they'll go down to the bottom of the pool. And so there is still some of that on the floor of the pool. I don't have a vacuum that works effectively enough. So I'm waiting for the robot motor to get here. And so for right now, there is some level of balance in the universe in that pool. And I can't promise it's going to be that way when I return home. But at least today, at least today, it's okay.

Yes. You know, I took one of my kids to a birthday party over the weekend. And that birthday party is supposed to be like a backyard movie viewing party. And they were going to put a big screen in the backyard. It's really nice house. And the kids, popcorn. and pizza and candy and the whole nine yards. And they were going to sit there and they were going to watch a movie.

But these people had a pool in their backyard. So we were the, I think, the first or second to arrive, and we arrived. The birthday girl and some of a couple of her, I guess, local friends, they were in the pool. And the mom was like, I'm sorry. Like five minutes ago, this turned into a pool party. And my kid didn't bring a bathing suit. But he had shorts on. So I said, you know what, buddy?

Go for it. Go for it. How can I deny you? How can I deny you the fun? and we were there all night long as those kids swamps in that pool, got in, got out, ran around the yard, had pizzas, you know, a cake, all that whole nine yards. And so I thought to myself, this guy's doing it right. His pool looks good.

How do you do it? So I said, hey, how do you keep your pool? So it looks good. It looks like, you know, it's blue. It's clear. I can see to the bottom. How do you do that? And he said, pool guy.

Pull guy. And I said, I said what I said to you. And we said to each other. Do you ever wonder who trains? Yeah, who trains the pool guys? Like, is that like a magic, a science, an art? I'm not really sure. But in any case, someone is doing it right, and I'm going to hire that person.

I promise I will. Yes. But before I pay $3,000 to have them turn the pool blue, I figure I can do it for $90 and just have a little chemical soup going on back there for a while. Yeah, you'll give a professional in here to make sure you're not killing anybody. Yes. A burning people. Burning people. That's right.

Absolutely. And by the way, my neighbor's yard still wet from as I drained half the apple. Half. The rice field is back there. Oh, my gosh, Chrissy. It's still soppy back there. He hasn't said anything to me. Yeah, I think he's out of town.

He's going to come home and half his, because the other thing is that's chlorinated salt water back there. So whatever it touches, it's going to die. Any organic material is going to die. So it's likely. you know, he's going to come home to half his grass dead, and I'm going to be like, I don't know. The emoji. Acid rain.

Climate change. Climate change. It has to do with the Straits of Harmouth. Oh, what was that? It's going to run a commercial. It's time to pay some bills. We're now running commercials while we're talking to get you to pay attention. All right.

Okay. This episode's my story. sponsored by PowerA. Yeah, Powering. I have a pool full of it. Take a sip. It's delicious. Oh, my gosh.

Woo! Wee. So much fun. Everyone's having a good time. Yeah. All right. So the rest of this week, we won't be here, but next week we will be here. We will be running episodes you haven't heard because we couldn't figure out how to stream them this morning.

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