The Commercial Break - St. James the Trainer

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

EP889: Bryan returns fro his 2nd visit to the gym in 2026. James the trainer is right there ready for him! Bryan shows the gym his excellent technique  and physique!Plus, teh winter weather bears down on the entire east as Krissy & Bryan decide how many more episodes per week they need!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this episode of the commercial break. Hi, Brian. I go, oh. Did your stomach come a little bit? Yes, it did. I go. Were you like, I thought, to yourself, were you like, I thought I had eyes on him?

I thought I did. He was over there, and then all of a sudden he's right behind me. He's like, here, because I have my earphones in. Hi, Brian. No, he goes, hi, Ryan. And I go, excuse me? And he goes, Ryan, we met the other day. No, my name is Brian.

Oh, Brian, that's right. Good to see you. But I'd stop by and talk to you about your 2026 goals. Oh, God. I go, yeah. Uh, now not a great time. I'm in the middle of 300 reps. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

Gittins, welcome back to the commercial. break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Kristen, Joy, Haudley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Almost 100 million people under a winter storm advisory. Whatever will we do? I don't know. For us in Georgia, it's like waiting to see if you get hit over the head with a pan. Exactly. Yeah. So I bought all the essentials, hot dogs. Buns? Smarties.

I'm all smartied up. Yeah. You gave me some of those. Yeah, I'll have five of these a day. I'll ration them out. And I'll have one of my children now. No, ma'am. No, sir.

Yeah, the smarties weren't the ones that did it to my tooth. It was the sweet tarts. The sweet tarts. Yes, the sweet tarts, which I had to give up because my dentist did not approve. No. You get old. You can't have hard candy anymore. It's just the way that's the way.

way of the world kids it's the way of the world i'm always jealous of you know sometimes i see like i don't know who it is one of my friends but he's older than i am and he's always chewing on like a mint like you know hard mince and i'm like how do you do that without killing years that's right so yep so we're all waiting to see exactly what happens with this winter storm i think for some people it's clearly obvious but those people are prepared those people live in places where nothing is going to surprise them. They will be just fine. Tennessee.

Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas up in through New York and Virginia. What are those other states? New Hampshire. The place that we forget about, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont. They can handle it. Oh, yeah. They can't. Yeah, we will not handle it.

It will be Armageddon here, I'm sure of it. I'm just praying I don't go without power for more than a couple of hours. Powers or burst pipes. That's the other thing. Don't forget about that. I don't worry about that so much because I have PVX and PVX is the new. It's PVC, but it's the new stuff. Oh, okay.

And most houses, if you get your house replomed or if you've just built a house, you have PVX and it's meant to expand and contract. It's got flexibility in it. So they will not burst. I also have a circulator, a water heater circulator. Oh, wow. We know all about your water heater. Yes, my water heater working fantastic. Thank God that all happened before this.

Yeah, amen. Thank God it happened. while Daniel was here. Exactly. But I did. You think I would have been able to fix that shit by myself? Fuck no. No, you had guys giving you cards in Home Depot.

They were, they saw a sucker a mile away. They were ready to charge me $1,000 just to diagnose the problem. And I know I would have needed it. I know they would have recommended any plumber come in here that would have come in here would not have fixed the problem. They would have been like, new water heater, that's what you need. And it's only five years old. Yeah.

You should buy a new water heater. every 30 years. Well, our house is 100 years old, and so I don't really... What do you got down there? I don't know. There's like steam pipes. I don't know, yeah. It's like, you have to go downstairs?

Would Jeff have to go downstairs and release the whistle? I ignore Jeff have really fully investigated any of that situation. You have a damper in your house or you turn up or down the moisture? Yeah. You got to go feed it, coal. We're shoveling, coal. Jeff, what's the bar? Cold and hot water boiling.

You got a boiler down there? It's like the Titanic on land. I don't know. There could be little men living down there that we don't even know about. I mean, I... Down there, but just to quickly change out the air filter and run back out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, here's the other thing.

So the same day that my water heater went out, I noticed that this other side of the house was cold. It was like set at 68 or 69, but it was 65. And I was like, that's weird, you know? And then it said auxiliary heat. Oh, ox. Yeah, ox heat. Now, I have a heat pump and it does do this.

It will turn itself like pumping heat. And then it spins the other way and pumps in some cool air to cool itself down, right? So that's what auxiliary heat is. So I know enough that it's not totally strange that it's auxiliary heat. But I also know enough that it shouldn't be struggling to make the house 68 degrees. Yeah. So I go outside the condenser, the thundexer, the thursday. the thing that's outside your house, the fan that's outside your house, completely frozen.

Solid block of ice. But it's 58 degrees outside. So I'm like, oh, that's not good. That can't be good. So I go downstairs. My crawl space is a very scary nightmare of a place. I don't like the crawl space at all. Hate it.

There could be little things that's going. I've never seen. I've never actually seen anything down there. And, I mean, I've been down there, I don't know, 10 times, three years. But, you know, there could be. There is. They're there. I've seen webs, and I've seen different things.

I don't see webs. What I see are little scratch marks. I can see poop in the corners. Ah, dropping. Yeah, I know that there's some things that are living down there. And I have an agreement with the things that are living down there. You stay there. I stay here.

Don't come up in the walls. Right. Stay down here. And whatever trickling of water is somewhere that you can get, I'm cool with that. And if you can find any food in this crawl space after 100 years. Because my house also is, yeah, about 80, 80 years old, the original, frame of the house was built. Did I tell you what we used to have this garage. I don't know if you remember, but there was this huge. Here? Yeah, before we renovated this house, where my bedroom is

now was just a big open garage. We're talking 30 foot ceilings. It was 40 feet deep. And it was just this open garage. There was no garage door. There was no door to it. What did the people before have? Like some big caddy? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what they were parking in there. Maybe that's where the boiler was originally, I guess. I don't know. So this big open garage that was literally taking up 500 square feet, and we would just put shit in there. That's where Daniel's workbench was.

Yeah, vaguely remember this. Okay. So when we started demoing the house, my friend Scott and I started demoing the garage first, there was this paneling, like this faux wood paneling, right? That was all around. And this paneling was huge. It was like, you know, 20 feet high. And then, of course, then like the brick wall at the bottom of the house, the foundation.

So Scott and I started ripping it down, right? And we were ripping it down one way to the other. I'm picturing, like, those shows I watch on HDTV. Yes. You've got the sledgehammer out and let's do it. Yes. Demo. Demo Day is fun. Isn't Demo Day fun?

Yeah. It's fun for a minute. And then you're like, it's hot outside. Let's Scott do it. I got to go to Home Depot for. something. I'm not sure. And when I go to Home Depot, I'm not there for a few minutes. I don't know what I'm looking for and I don't know where it is. So I'll be there forever. Hey, everybody in the chat. So lots of people excited, including the guy who still wants to get us a million views. Listen, I'll

talk to you later about that. So, so we start one way and we're going to go around. And I, halfway, I make an excuse. I got to go. I'll see a little bit. I come back the next day. And this is, a non-exaggerated story. There are lined up on the floor of the garage, the cement floor of the garage. There are 60 squirrel skeletons that have been pieced together by Scott.

Well, first of all, Scott, what are you doing? Why are we piecing together squirrel skeletons? Second of all, what had happened was one of the squirrels got up into the top of the wood panel. And maybe there was food or... The whole family. Or maybe they wanted to make a, like, a nest. Yes. And so he chewed through the wood and then he fell down to the bottom.

Thinking, the squirrel was probably thinking, I can make a nest in here. But he fell down to the bottom. Then many other squirrels tried the same thing or went to go help their buddy. And it was like, we ended up with like 60, but it was like, Scott took a picture of it. It was like skeleton. Oh my God. It was crazy. That sounds like a little duff.

Yeah. So I have an agreement with the creatures that live down under the house. The it, that the clown that I think is down there ready to eat my children. You stay down here and we are all good. Yeah. There's been a little spider in my bathroom for like two weeks and it's just crawling around the wall and doing stuff and I'm like, cool, dude, do your thing. I'm not touching you, you don't touch me. As long as I can see you and you can see me, we're good. I'm good. But I know there are creatures down there. So I go down there. I crawl the further you get into the house the smaller it gets. Why is that? Because of the, like, the way that the foundations were built back then, they essentially just built a brick wall. Okay. Around the house. And then

they would put, you know, rafters. Like now, the, usually, a foundation is encased in cement, right? There's a cement floor. And then they put cement walls up to hold up the house. Even if you don't have a basement. Okay. It's, you're sitting on cement. And it's, flat. Now, but back then, crawl spaces, they would just build brick walls around the edges of the house. So an outline of the house, and then they would strap, you know. Because I can walk in to ours, I'm ducking a little bit also because I'm scared. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can walk in and crouch, but then, yeah, all the way back on the other side, I see, you would have to get on your belly. Like, and I'm not, I'm never doing that. I don't want to.

I'm not volunteering. I'm never doing that. I'm not volunteering to do that, but that's, is where they, I felt bad for the guys who had when we did the renovation who had to completely redo the HVA C system down there. Or Scott, who did all of the plumbing down there, he had to get to the very corner of the house where the kitchen is. And he said he was like pulling himself by the rafters and he was hitting his nose on the rafters. No, I don't have to go that far, but I have to be on, I have to be on my belly to get there to the HVAC unit, the new one on this side of the house that's giving us trouble that's frozen, like a fucking ice block. So I'm like, filter.

It's always the fucking filter. The filter. But I just changed the filter like five months ago. You should be able to go like eight months with a filter and not have it. I say every like three months. I know, but they, who are they? What are they now? The experts.

The experts. That's right. The HVAC guys. Probably. Who have to come replace the HVAC unit. So I crawl all the way down there. I pull out the filter. And it's completely clean on one side, completely like not.

dirty but just like full of like micro dust on the other side and i'm like that's weird usually they're like dirty on both sides right and i think that's weird so i take a picture of everything just so when i get to home depot i don't forget and i can tell the guy what i'm looking right so i'm like hey dude you know i'm looking for this filter but the last filter didn't really look all that dirty and he's like it doesn't look all that dirty because you put it in backwards and then he goes let me ask you a question are you having problems with your hvacc and i go yeah actually it's a block of ice. He goes, that's because it's pulling no air because you put it in backwards. He's like, you're looking. You didn't blow that thing up. And I'm like, really? Is that being

dramatic? And he's like, no. There's a reason why there's an arrow on the filter and an arrow inside of the machine that says put filter this way. Dumbass. Someone says they had the same issue with a possum in their house. The possum fell down and got in the, yeah, that's not good. Well, when we first moved into our house, there was this awful smell in this one closet. Dead animal. Yes. It was like a chipmunk or something. And in order to get into it and get it out of there, we would have had to like completely ripped through the wall and do all this. So what did you do? We had to just leave it and kind of let the stink go. Put the air it out. We had, we bought all this industrial smell stuff. And are you ready for the most horrific story you've ever heard? Do you want to hear it? Yeah. Go for it. Okay. If you're eating lunch, I forgive you if you're gone. I forgive you if you're gone. If you're eating lunch, if you're queasy, don't listen to the next seven minutes of the show. Fast forward through the next commercial, through the first commercial break. I worked at Old Vining's End. Oh, right. Yeah. Old Vining's Inn is an old inn. That's what it is. It's an old inn. And it was built

in like the 1800s back during the civil, like survived the Civil War. It's in a place called Vining's. It is a house essentially. So they turned it into a restaurant. Right. And the upstairs, what they called the addict bar was the place where I would, you know, I've talked a lot. There's a lot of stories about the old attic bar, right, right, right. A lot of shenanigans going on in that attic bar. I can only imagine. But the upstairs had a low ceiling. It was like eight foot ceiling, seven foot ceilings.

It was not high. It was a couple feet above your head. And the attic bar was probably a little bit bigger than this room, maybe twice the size of this room. Okay, so we're talking like 20 by 20, not very big. And we would put a band in the corner. It was crazy. And then we would have like, you know, 100 people and then standing room only.

It got crazy in there on Friday and Saturday nights until two or three in the morning. Anyway, it had a whole house fan like a lot of them do. But we didn't use the whole house fan because we actually had air conditioning units. So we never used the whole house fan. The whole house fan that had survived some version of the 100, 200 years that had been around. So we are up there on a very sweltering summer hour. What is the whole house fan? A whole house fan is a fan that you turn on that sucks air through the house.

Oh, okay. We actually had one in this house. Yeah, it's just a big fan that's in the ceiling. It's huge, though. It's probably like three feet by three feet. A lot of houses have them. You can turn them on. You can open the windows and it just sucks air through.

Cools off the attic, first of all, second of all, on a nice day. It can pull the air into your house. God, it's circulation. Yeah, so it feels good. So there were tables at all the other. tiny, little tiny, like two-person tables. And we had like 12 of, six, 12 of them inside of this little room. And we started to notice that there was stuff dripping from the, from the whole house fan, water dripping from the whole house fan. Condensation. And, okay, you know,

it was falling on the table. We'd swipe it up. Some people had complained. Like, there's water dripping on my table, you know, at night, blah, blah, blah. This went on for a couple of days. And then after about a week of 90 plus degree weather, the water started turning into liquid, like some kind of liquid. They were like, oh, that's weird. And it was kind of coming down out of the fan. And we're like, oh, that's weird. And then we noticed a smell. And we were like, that's really not good. And after a couple of more days, that smell was overwhelming. Yes, a dead animal smell. Yeah. Overwhelming. It smelled like, you know what a dead animal smells like. And so there were guys that were doing construct we were doing a renovation downstairs.

And so we said, let's turn on the whole house fan. Let's turn it on. And we turned on the whole house fan. And when we turned it on, it ran for about half a second. And then a bunch of liquid fell out of the bottom, including what we assumed was coagulated blood. And we all scream. We were all out of there. We're like, that's enough.

and we convinced for $100 some of the construction workers to go up there to figure out what was going on and clean it out and figure it out and what they pulled out of there was a cat that's what they pulled out of there a cat had gotten into the top of the old vining's in and had found its way into somehow

got stuck into the fan and died probably from the heat right from its 90 degree weather being so hot up there it probably died but I will tell you that I will never seen anything like that until I started watching the pit and I have never smelled anything like that until you reminded me

of the terribleness of a dead animal. We had a dead possum out here in front of our house and I could smell it in the house I swear to God I could. I was like that is over fucking overwhelming. How do you work in a morgue?

Now I never, I always used to think it was dramatic when you'd like, you know, silence of the lambs. They were like, they had that scene where it was like putting the stuff under the nose. Yeah, the noxema, whatever it is. The vix vapor.

rub under your nose. And I always thought that was dramatic until you smell a day and animal. And then you know. So I hope you all enjoyed your lunch. Yeah. On that happy note. On that happy note. I also do have to tell you, and we'll be talking about this, that I did find a way to make it back to the gym.

And I did get accosted by our friend the train. James? James. James, the trainer. I can't wait. Which is his real name, so I hope he's listening. as I wear a commercial break sweater to the gym. I'm proud of me for going back.

I did. I said, okay, well, I'm paying for it. And actually, I didn't feel good. I got this damn cough cold thing that's been going on forever and ever. And now I'm, like, not feeling good, too, you know? It's like, first it was just a cough and I was fine. What is it, that special K? What is it going around?

EK2 or something? I don't know. There's like the cold flu, EK2. Why in the world? Am I wasting my time getting a flu shot when it never seems to be right flu shot. You know what I'm saying? Why am I doing that? I know. I don't know. I got mine, though, and I haven't been sick. Knock on wood. Someone says they work in vascular, and we have smells like that. Okay, what is vascular? And it was going to take a couple.

Vains? Like you work with, you're the phlebotomist? Is that what you do? Someone on our stream. Share more about with. I will get back to James. I will talk about James. I will talk about that. We'll talk about that. By the way, join us on the streams every Tuesday and Thursday. we started a little later than we normally do, because I had to move furniture in the rain. Because of my wife, I have to move furniture in the rain. Furniture we owned a long time ago and sold it. Now somehow we became possessed with it again. Full of cat hair and dust.

It's driving me crazy. Oh, God. Yeah, I guess vascular, that would be blood. You're working with blood? Oh, vascular surgery. Ah, yeah. I guess when you cut somebody open, it probably doesn't smell good, huh? Well, I have been in births and I have been in C-sections, and I will tell you there are smells.

It's just part of the deal. Part of the body. Part of the deal. When they take your wife's guts out and put them on a table, hand them over there. We were looking at one of my daughters had a birthday party. And we were looking at pictures. Oh, veins and arteries. So decaying flesh due to no blood flow.

Got it. Yeah. Okay. 10-4. Like in the legs. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.

God bless you. You're a saint. I don't know how y'all do that. I mean, I don't get queasy with blood, but I wouldn't want to work around it every day. So we're looking at these pictures. It's my daughter's birthday. So you want to see pictures of the lead? Like, you know, we take a lot of pictures before all the bursts, like during the pregnancy

and then the day of, and then at the hospital, and then getting ready and kissing the baby and the whole nine yards. And we, I found my, I guess I got brave on the third one, and I looked, I took some pictures over the guard. Oh, oh, oh. And I was freaked out by the pictures I took. I didn't even know I had taken these pictures. I was freaked out.

I was like, oh, so I take the phone away from her real quick. Like, you know, oh, you don't need to see that. And she goes, no, I want to see. And I'm like, no, you don't. She was fascinated by the pictures. And I'm like, mm-hmm, early signs of a psychopath right there. Gotta watch that one. Yeah.

Got to watch that one. I will be keeping an eye on that one. She's a little devilish. She is. She's so cute, though. She is the cutest thing you have ever seen in your entire life. But she is a mix of my boy and my girl. My boy who's incredibly intelligent and extremely sweet, very innocent, very sweet.

My girl who's already a, she's not three, but she's a three-nager. She's already a three-nager and wants dresses and makeup and all this other stuff. And then we have a third one that is like a mix of the two with the worst impulses of Brian. Already. She's ready to sneak out of the house and start snorting cocaine. That is the kind of person she is. And so I got my eye directly on her, and I don't take no shit from her. Yeah, she wants me 24 hours a day because I think she knows I'm the only one who's going to keep her in check.

Right. Because I know, I've been there. You can't outsmart the Joker. You just can't do it. That's true. They're not going to be able to get anything past you. No, no, you're not. Sorry. I mean, you might slip one by the goalie here or there, but generally, I'm going to be pretty in tune with what's going on.

I always gave in to my worst impulses. Always. I was extremely impulsive. I didn't care what anybody else said. I had an extreme distaste for authority. I would never like spit in a police officer's face. No, no, no, no. I wouldn't do that.

I'm too smart for that. I would go around the back of the police officer. There you come. You just want to do what you wanted to do. I wanted to do what I wanted to do. Be a leader, just not of a person. prison gang. We did just start Shannon. I think that's Shannon. I can't read very well, but I think we did just start. It's the first segment. And we're doing like hour and a half

long shows now that we're going live. So you guys keep talking and we just keep talking also. All right. So let's do this. Let's take our first break. What you didn't miss is that I have been back to the gym for a second time and I got accosted by James. I will share with you all of that. I can't wait. And then kisses and hugs to everybody out. Yes. Thanks for joining. Thanks for joining it. We'll be back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears,

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Now, I'm going to go check the mailbox for payment while you check out our sponsors, and then we'll return to this episode of the commercial break. I've been working out hard. I've been trying my best to make it this far. So tough, I've been waxing my balls. Will it ever be enough? Why won't you look at my butt?

Why do you cheat on me? Don't you love my? I'm such a lonely, Frankie Bay. Action I've been around the world, but I just can't find a lady who wants to be my girl. I've been getting it so tan. I'm living with my daughter eating tuna from a can. Why won't you look at my boss?

your lonely Frankie Bess. Well, good old Frankie B. Frankie. I love Frankie! I think Frankie put out a new video. Maybe we'll have to do that. I got to figure out how to put it up on the live screen, though. That's the... Well, I think I could do it.

I think we did it one time, didn't we? Did we? Put a video? I don't know. I don't know about anything anymore. I know. Do you think I remember anything? Look at me.

I think we did do it one time. I fried myself today. My brain is like eggs. I put myself in a microwave. I do have to say, There is a distinct advantage to going to, I'm going to Crunch Fitness. And I like Crunch Fitness for two reasons. Number one is highly entertaining.

Highly entertaining. Yes, I bet. The gyms are huge. And for the most part, it is not beefcakes and beauty pageants. Like when I went to L.A. Fitness, many years ago. When I went to L.A. Fitness, it was a lot of that. It was a lot. Pearting. Peacocking.

Peacocking. Peacocking and piggy fronting. Yes. These guys. do some reps with me. No, I don't want to do any reps with you. What are you talking about? Remember, there was that guy.

There was a guy that when I went to the LA Fitness, I told these stories early in the podcast history. There was a guy, and he was, like, so weird. He'd, like, stopped by, and he was the puniest, scorniest little dude. He was wearing a MAGA hat and the Make America Great Again shirt. Whatever, okay, cool. But he would walk around and he'd be talking to people, like,

so I got a brand new 45. And you'd be like, oh, cool. Nice. Yeah, he would just say random things. Yeah, he would say random things to you while he was walking by. And I thought to myself, okay, dude, cool. All right. You got a new 45.

And he never worked out. He was never working out. He was there to socialize. He was there to socialize. This was his place. The only place on Earth that allowed him to actually go. I thought you go to a bar, but he's probably one of those dry drunks, you know, sobered up years ago and she just decided to bother people. So I go to the crunch fitness.

I check in, but I don't have the app. So I'm like, oh shit, like, I didn't know I needed the app. I just thought I could say my name or whatever, you know, so I go up to the front. There's 30 people up there. It's like a Tuesday afternoon. There's 30 people up there. They're all salespeople. Oh, okay.

Okay, got it. Yeah, they've called in extra reinforcement for January. That's right. Half those people won't be working there on February 1st. They didn't make their quota. They won't be there. So I'm like, fuck. So I go up and the girl...

Welcome new member! Brian Green! Brian Green! Welcome new member, Brian Green! Currently weighing in it 210 pounds as to lose some... Look at this picture. I don't have my glasses on. I look at a total idiot.

So I go up, I go, hey, and she's like, hey! And she does one of those with the machine, you know, little scanners. And she's like, like this. And I go, are you supposed to scan something? Because I just signed up a couple of weeks ago. I did a couple days ago. So I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. And she goes, do you have the app?

And I go, I don't have the app, but I bet I could get the app. And she's like, great. Why don't you go ahead and download the app? Have you talked to James yet? Here we go. Here we go. The guy. And I go, hey, listen, I actually did talk to James the other day.

but I don't have time. And she goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Great. Why don't you download the app? I'll check you in. Download the app. Go ahead, get your workout started. I'll send James over to you.

Yes, there you go. He's busy right now. And I go, hey, listen, I'm just trying to get a quick workout in. I don't know if I have time for James today. I'm trying to get her to commiserate with me, you know? Yeah. She knows what you're doing, though. Let's cut the bullshit.

But she is so trained to not lose. her edge when it comes to selling me something that she doesn't let it fucking go. She's like, no, no, no, no, cool. What do you think? You're going to be here for like 20 or 30 minutes? And now I got to be like, yeah. I was thinking five. Yeah, I was thinking it was a couple quick crunches.

I was thinking it was an accomplishment just to walk in. Yes, and it is. Yeah, I just wanted to know how you check in. Right. Now that I know I need the app. That was the first step. Can I use the tanning bed real quick where no one else can come in? So she goes, what are you thinking?

You're here for 20, 30 minutes? And I have to now be honest with her. I go, maybe a little bit longer. You've got plenty of times. James just needs five minutes of your time. Want to talk to you about your 2026 goals. There it is again. They're like trained to say this.

And I go, I think I already mentioned my goals to James. There are none. Yeah. I have zero goals. I have 12 children, a podcast that makes no money, and two cars that are in the shop. My goals are to survive the next couple of weeks. Right. So I tell you what, why don't I do this?

Why don't I work out? And then when I see James, if I get a chance, I'll have a conversation with him. And then she goes, great, I'll send him over. Right, exactly. And I'm like, fuckety, fuck. So I go straight to the treadmill. I figure he can't bother me on the treadmill. Too much.

Yeah. You know, you're running. Yeah. You're running. I put my headphones in. I stare at the ceiling. Yeah, I don't look at anybody else. Plus, now in 2026, you don't know who to look at or who not to.

Like, you don't, like, it's entertaining, but you have to be careful because looking at someone is like an offense. Like you, like, I've seen these videos of the gym and some of these girls and guys, like, you're looking at them while they're working out. That's a problem. They are upset by that. So I'm real careful. Yeah, you're staying in your lane.

Yes. So instead of me just staring straight ahead, I have darty, shifty eyes. I'm like... Quick. Look over there. Yeah, I must look like I have Tourette's syndrome or something. I'm like looking all over the place. But, you know, and of course, every single television is on Fox News.

And it's just like... Oh, God. I wish they would just, like, put some sports on. Like, let's put some sports on. Yeah, something neutral. Like, something neutral that all of us can enjoy. Anyway, so my eyes are darting all over the place. and then I could see James over in the corner.

Him and another trainer are talking to each other. And I'm like, I can do this. Let me get off the treadmill. I'll find my way to a machine. I'll put my head down. I know what I can do. I'll put my iPhone on one of the machines with a movie playing. And that way, no one's going to bother you.

Like, who the fuck is going to bother? Right? Okay. So I'm sitting there doing the curls. Right. First of all, with like 10 pounds on it. It's clear that I need help. It's clear that I need help.

I don't even know how to work the machine. I'm just like, so I start going and I'm like, oh, this is really light. But they have these new fangled machines, and I don't know how to work them. Yeah, I haven't been to do a gym in so long. But because I don't want to look like I don't know what I'm doing, because that's an immediate reason to talk to Brian. Yeah. I just keep on going with the 10. I'm like 10 pounds.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I want to do. Just 100 of these. 700, 10 pounds curls. I have no weight on it. And I'm just, I'm doing this number. Woo! Watching Jack Ryan on Amazon. You should have gone like really slow.

Yeah. And then. Hi, brad. I go, oh. Did your stomach come a little bit? Yes, it did. I go. Were you like, I thought, to yourself, were you like, I thought I had eyes on him?

I thought I did. He was over there. And then all of a sudden he's right behind me. He's like, here, because I have my earphones in. Hi, Brian. No, he goes, Hi, Ryan. And I go, excuse me?

And he goes, Ryan, we met the other day. No, my name is Brian. Oh, Brian, that's right. Good to see you. But I'd stop by and talk to you about your 2026 goals. Oh, God. I go, yeah. Now not a great time.

I'm in the middle of 300. reps. It's going to take me a long time to do all of these reps, so if you don't mind. Listen, have you thought about straightening your back a little bit, putting your arms into it? Actually working out the muscle you're trying to improve? I had thought about that, James, but I figure if I just keep twisting my legs like. this, everything will work out. Come up roses for me.

I just wanted to talk to you about your technique a little bit, because I noticed, we all noticed. We all that. Things weren't really. I don't know. We've never seen that kind of technique here. I think you said you did the 666. What does that mean? Well, it means I'm not.

the devil stay away from me that's what it means i'm here that inflict evil on all of you well i was talking with my colleagues over there and we thought we could offer you some help i go hey james listen i really appreciate the offer i really do but i'm just trying to zip in zip out do these things wrong yeah do these 700 do these 700 things like this what's the next what's the next muscle group you're going to work

and now I don't know my fingers I'm going to dial my wife and tell her to call me back with an emergency I'm present emergency I go I you know I was going to do

some biceps and then maybe some triceps well you realize you actually got to put weight on it for it to work I'm not trying to offend. I'm here to help. I go, I hear it.

While you're here, how do you put weight on this? Yeah. Well, you see where the numbers are? You just flip that switch. It's pretty easy. They actually built it for pretty dumb people. I go, hey, thank you. James, I really appreciate you.

Listen. I know we have something on the calendar, years from now, that you put on my calendar, logged into my computer and put on your calendar. But I promise I'll get to you sometime, James. I promise you. Looks like you got a few minutes now. Why don't we go show you how to do the triceps? I go, really, honestly, James, let me just finish this set.

And, you know, I'll, I'm trying to hit the tanning bed. And then I'm going to go. All right. Well, we got that. the calendar, so if I see you before then, you know, I can offer some help any time. You got one free session. And so just let me know. Oh, they get to that one free session.

Yeah, one free session where they teach you nothing. They just hard sell you on more self-pack. That's right. It's an hour-long session where 45 minutes we're sitting at a table and I take your license so you can't leave. It's a great deal for everyone. It's $165 an hour after that. Minimum 10 classes.

Come on, side up now. So I'm like, hey, good, great, all right, I'll see you, James. I got to get, listen, on to the next one. You know what they say? No rest for weary. You got to keep in motion. Look at these legs. You think you get legs like these just twiddling around?

my James, I've done this before. How do you put weight on that? I did it. He's like, you flip the switch. I was like, oh. I do remember seeing those at one point. Yeah, you take out the pen and put the fins, right? That was too hard for most people, so now you just flip the switch.

That was too hard for even me. So now they figured, oh, Brian can do this one. I think he can do that. But the real problem was not that I didn't know that is that I had flipped all of the switches, like 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, which then just, then none of them work. Yeah. It's just, okay, all right, got it. So I go over to the triceps. You were at the limit, she had that one where you go back.

Yeah, the one where you do this whole number. Yeah. Well, actually, it's like you put your arms up like this. Yes. And then you go like this. It's hard. It's really hard. Right.

Your triceps are hard. Triceps are hard. And I am obviously struggling. And here's my fat, flabby arms on the thing like that. Smushed down. Yeah. And so, yes, all smushed. Yeah.

Meanwhile, you know, this is in front of all the free weight guys, like the freeweight guys and girls, you know, immensely in shape human beings who are doing like, you know, three hundred. Deadlifts, 700. Ra! And I'm like, you know, and I'm like, you know. 350, 351, 552. 680, 681, 682. So I'm doing this.

And then guess who comes over? James, the other guy. Oh, he's brought his other guy. He's training somebody else how to be a trainer. Okay. And so now they're doing like, you know, some free. weight something or other right in front of me and I'm like and I can't put a phone down right there so I'm doing this whole number and then and James and this other guy they're talking right

there and I can see James like this is held not to do hey Brian want to introduce you to Sam Sam's gonna be a new trainer around here you're gonna see him around the gym a lot he can also help with your technique if you did you know I don't I don't know what's going on here, but if you wanted to actually make a difference, if you actually wanted to make best use of your time here, it might help if you knew how to do the things, right, Sam? No judgment of crunch. We're a judge for you. But this is a little bit, I mean, we have rules. People get hurt.

We have to tell you if we see you doing things where you can actually be worse off when you get the hole. So you want to put some weight on there? Can I make a video real quick for what not to do? Oh, James and I, who take you. making some pictures. Yeah. We're getting, instead of Fox News, we're just going to scroll pictures of Brian doing things incorrectly. How not to do it.

Hey, thanks, Brian. Can we put this up on our Instagram? Local Crunch Fitness 600,000 members. Appreciate it. Oh, when you sign the agreement that says we can. use your likeness and image, so it doesn't matter if you agree. We're going to do it anyway. All right, well, Sam and I got to get back to actually improving our physique.

I'm going to let you do whatever it is you're doing. Oh, James. I'm totally picturing this interaction. Driving me crazy. Yeah, James, listen, some people are saying I, I get a restraining order on James. I chose to go there. Yeah.

It's his pow. So I'm just visiting, right? I mean, honestly. You really want access to that tanning bed. I really want access to the tanning bed for under $180 a month. So, no, there's no. Listen, it's, it, there's a given ticket. You're just going to be dancing around this.

I'm just going to be jumping around. That's right. Absolutely. But I noticed there was like, I, you know, I, Maybe I don't have the best technique in the world. Maybe the guy's right. I don't have the best technique in the world. But it feels good to me whatever I'm doing.

So I'm just going to keep on doing it. There you go. I remember when I was 12 years old, I got a wait set for Christmas or for my birthday, one of the two. I got a wait set. And my dad, well, I didn't want a wait set, but I got a weight set. And my dad was like, I figured you could do a little working out. And I'm like, why did you? figure that. And I go back and I look at pictures. Like Kevin, my twin brother, he was the sports guy.

People used to be like, yeah, Kevin, he's just soccer, basketball, all this other stuff. And I always thought I was a sports guy until I went back and watched videos of me doing sports or pictures of me doing sports. And what I realized is that my parents were gently trying to explain to me that you should, you should probably work on your sports. Your technique. That's right. Little did they know I would be the singer. Right. of the ever popular, 33 penis. Showing them. I showed them, fuckers.

I outwitted you all. I am now the co-host and creator of the commercial break with over nine people currently streaming. That's right. It's okay. The Venezuelans love me. I don't care. Whatever. The Venezuelans love me.

Is Sean in here? Some of the people are looking for Sean. Oh, yeah. He was the moderator last time. Oh, someone says they tell their daughter who stares at people, use sprinkler eyes, like dark back and forth. That's a good one. Yeah, I got a kid who stares too. But, you know, okay, stare.

You know, just don't stare. Like, don't stare inappropriately. You know, don't stare when someone's bending over. Well, right. Yes. But if you're just curious. Yeah, you're looking at the world. I always smile and say hi.

Of course. Of course. Yeah, you know, it's 2026. People love to be friendly in 2026. As a matter of fact, I'll tell you about a rather strange night at Kroger last night as everyone's getting ready for the crazies. Yeah, you were telling me about your dad. I'd share that story. Oh, your dad went to Costco.

Yeah, I went to the Kroger. And I always go to the Kroger. I go to the Kroger so much after the kids are sleeping. Astrid's starting to wonder if there's someone at the Kroger. And I said, no, it's just James. Well, also just the stock guy that knew you, right? From the stock boy. Oh, yeah, there's a stock guy that, yeah.

That recognized me. That's right. He recognized me from the commercial break. He was listening to the commercial break as I came around the corner. So now that's your favorite grocery store. I don't see that guy very often. But I go there's... Wait, is this the gambling croaker?

This is the gambling croaker. Yeah, the only one that's open late at night. You know, the Publix closes at 515 or whatever. I'll do close up. Yeah, it's like the average age of someone at Publix is 90, but I go to Publix. But the thing is that Kroger really is the most affordable unless you want to go to Walmart and I do

not want to go to Walmart. It's too big, it's too bright, it's always a zoo, and I don't know. I feel like trouble awaits at a Walmart if you go there to grocery shop late at night. So I just, I leave it alone. I go to the Kroger. It's a good mix between Publix and Walmart.

Trouble probably awaits, but I think I could get out quickly. You know what I'm saying? And I feel safe. shopping there. Let's put it that way. But yeah, you know, it's just me and James at the grocery store. Well, if you wanted to meet any goals in 2026, I'm not sure that Nathan's famous cheddar-filled hot dogs are going to get you there. I'm not judging. I'm just saying, what is that? A bag of Doritos and some intimate chocolate donuts? Which are now loaded with protein. That's the thing. Everything's protein out.

Jake, out protein. Groger is the best. People agree with me. Yeah, Groger's a great. Yeah, Croker's a great place. I mean, you know. And I've got the gas and the loyalty and all of that that mixes in, so I like that. They do. They're also tracking every purchase you make, and they have been caught price fixing for certain people, which is not great.

So based on what you buy, if you shop online, they will change the price for you up or down. And that is like user-generated pricing, pricing demand. And it has been stopped by Aldi. It has been stopped by some of the people. Public said they stopped it. Yeah, public said they stopped it. Croger said they stopped it. Walmart has not said they stopped it.

But it mainly happens when you use the shopping apps. Instacart. Instacart was the one that got caught, yeah, doing this. And they did a huge study like this. Exposet across thousands of people. And they found that there could be up to. a $1.50 difference in what you buy and what I buy and we're buying the same thing. And that is insane because you like it more than I do or you have more money than I do. It is insane. It's crazy.

But real quick, before we take a break, price tags were an introduction in the late 1800s. Before that, there was absolutely a shopkeeper would judge how much they wanted to charge you or they would negotiate with you or you would make them an offer. even in a market with apples and, you know, corn or whatever, until the late 1800s when a very famous store on Broadway in New York, a grocery store, started advertising one price for all people. And they started using a price tag. And that price tag became the standard over the next couple of decades. But until then, it wasn't yet until now.

Now we're going back. Aldi is great. I do like Aldi too. I had to be convinced by my wife. Just like that commercial where the wife is trying to convince the husband to go to Aldi, it'll be okay, put the quarter in the thing to push the cart around or whatever. They had to convince, and Astrid had to convince me, but I do not mine Aldi. However, the options are limited at Aldi.

So if you want something, and Little is the same way. If you want something specific that they don't carry, you have to go somewhere else because they just small stores with limited stuff. But if you're just looking to save a buck, best place to go is to Aldi or. to little. Okay, way over. We're already an hour in. I guess this is going to be the new normal. I don't know. Whatever. You start talking, then we start talking and then we respond. Two of us were bloviating before. Now, add more people, we're really bloviating. 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 212-4333-3-T-CB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show too. Mm-hmm. Just call and say something. Anything. Or text us and we'll text you're right back. Promise. Then head over to TCB Podcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker, and we must abide. You get the point. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break And watch all the episodes on video At YouTube.com slash the commercial break Best to you And Astrid Especially Astrid

It's like the AI went crazy at the end Dilloo de lilly lily loo Yeah, well listen I am going to go to the gym to see more of James Because quite frankly he's comedy goal Yeah, he's just that guy If someone said in the chat Everybody knows that guy

Yeah everybody knows that guy Let me put the chat up here. Rachel dated that guy. Yeah, I remember. He was a real jerk off, actually. Let's show on the stream here. We'll show on the stream. You guys can now, you chat amongst yourselves.

And I know it cuts off the screen a little bit, but chat amongst yourself. Yeah, Rachel dated this guy. He absolutely, she absolutely dated a personal trainer. And I remember him being a real fucking nudnik, actually. Yeah. Yeah. Remember? He was like such an asshole.

He really was. Real douchebag. Well, we're all getting ready. You know, 100 million of us currently are under this storm watch right now. Except for Ted Cruz, he flew out. Ted Cruz is down in the Caribbean. You think Teddy's going to stay around? Teddy doesn't stay around for any of that stuff.

Hell no. Teddy's got the places to do and people to be. He's such an idiot. So Teddy's down in wherever Teddy is, and that's how you know it's probably going to be a bad ice storm. Plus, he also knows that the Texas Green. is terrible. So if things go haywire, it's not like there is a public service utility like there is here in America. I feel like this is cutting half of you off, so I'm going to not do that right now. We'll get our framing a little better next time, and then I'll put up the chat on this.

So Ted Cruz heads down to wherever he's going, so you know it's probably going to be bad. He's probably got the inside track from Noah. But all you need to do is listen to a weather report to know that many of us are underneath this same ice snow blizzard storm. It's supposed to be the big one. This is it. Once in a generation, once in a lifetime, whatever. They're always saying that. And so I take everything with a grain of salt. We have the guys that we trust here in Atlanta. One of the guys has been run off the internet. God, poor guy. Glenn Burns. I mean, I never just people. People are really negative. People are very negative. They're negative. Let the guy just do his forecast. And he's a trusted guy here in Atlanta for a really long time. And he's the guy.

Yeah, he's the guy. He's the guy. He's the guy you trust. He's the guy you trust. He's the guy you trust. He doesn't get too crazy. He usually gives you a straight shit. If he doesn't know, he tells you, we don't know. And so take precautions, but we don't know. And that's what he's been saying for the last week. We don't know. But here's the information, because if it happens, it could be bad, right? And so some of us, we could see a catastrophic ice storm, stuff that really cripples the whole power system, the roads and all of this. North Georgia is definitely going to get some stuff. North Georgia and the Carolina is Kentucky, Tennessee. I mean, there's a huge swath of the entire United States that is now under this winter storm advisory, including us. Here is the thing.

In Georgia, as we have described before, you know, everyone's seen the memes. Sorry, folks, Georgia's closed. Like, it really does get that bad here. People start going fucking bananas. Anytime the weather people start saying something about ice or snow, because we cannot drive in it, because we have explained, there's many curves and hills and it's just hard to drive in. People don't have the equipment to do so and it doesn't happen that often. It's not worth the investment. So I went, so Astrid, so I, speaking of the investment, I went and looked at those generators because we were talking about it the other day. I was like, well, wait, I want to spend like $1,000. The real generators? Yeah. Well, no, it was a portable. No, the real ones are like six,

eight, ten. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the other thing. I have said this for years. This ice and snowstorm brought to you by Home Depot, Kroger, and Walmart, because they make a fucking killing as everyone one goes crazy. This is the time when they raise prices too on salt, water, milk, eggs, bread, the essentials, the stuff that people say, if we get into some kind of trouble where we have to stay at home for a couple days, what do we really need? And we're no different. We got so many kids. We need to make sure that they're fed. So we ordered at Costco or Sam's or whatever, and I went and picked it up yesterday, just enough, just enough to get by for two or a few days. And stuff you could cook on a gas stove or pop a can and eat it, you know, pasta, stuff like that.

But last night, I decide, well, there's a couple other things that I would like. Yeah. You know, some snick snacks around the house as my grandma would say, you want some snick snacks. You know, Doritos are on sale, four for a dollar or whatever, four bags for a dollar. They're getting rid of everything in the store. So I usually, I go to Kroger a lot after the kids go to sleep because that's when I can go. And I like to go to the store and I'll get whatever I want to get or milk for the house or whatever. It's a nice break.

You know, just drive out of the house, get 15 minutes, put on my headset, see my friends. who are mainly people who work at Kroger over there. Who've become your friends. They've become my friends. It's the only friends I have with people at Kroger. And so I went into Kroger last night. Usually on any given night, maybe except for a Friday night or a Sunday night, when you be a little bit busier, people getting ready for the week or at the end of the week.

You will see 10 or 20 people in the store at 10 p.m. 10 or 20 people in the store, a couple people at the self-checkout. All the other lanes are closed. That's it. There's just a self-checkout. That's it. Right near the gambling. Yeah, right near the gambling.

That's right, right? And you shoot you out to the lotto and then through the gift shop. You could buy your Kroger T-shirts and a hat. So last night, I noticed that the parking lot was much more full than it had ever been this time of night. It would look like an afternoon in there. And I walked in and there were four cashiers there. And there were, every self-checkout was open on both sides of the store. And there were lines at all of them.

So it was definitely busy. Bread was, there was bread, but not a lot. There was milk, but not a lot. There was water, but only some. There were lots of snake snacks and stuff like that. You know, so I got some stuff that, you know, just comfort food that you could eat. But I noticed, what I noticed was how nice everybody was being to each other. Lady at the bread aisle was looking to grab the last, whatever, you know, a whole wheat.

Yeah, Dave's killer bread. Dave's killer bread. Uh-huh. And so was another guy. So they kind of were going for it at the same time. And the guy said, you know what, ma'am, you can have it. And she said, she goes, no, no, it's okay. I have some bread at home.

You can have it. And he said, no, honestly, I don't need it. That is so nice to hear. Then I was walking down the aisle. I saw another guy helping an older lady grab something off the shelf. People were being really nice to each other. And I thought, yep, there's still some humanity left. Not much, but there's still some humanity left in the world.

See, Greenland, everything will be okay. We're really nice people down here. Oh my God. I can't even keep up with that whole thing. Oh, that's too funny. That is too funny. I'm going to take Greenland anyway. I can't. Oh, no, never mind. I don't want Greenland. It's like, yeah. And then it was Iceland too. It was mixed in. Norway was mixed in. Yeah. I think we can all agree. It's whatever. Okay. So, but I really noticed how nice people were being. That is nice. But I also noticed that people are heating this warning. They are getting out there and they're getting their stuff. I'm waiting for the school to tell me that my kids are going to be home. for extra days. I say, slide them on down to school. That's what I say. Get that bus out and stick them on the bus and slide them on over to school. Listen, everybody else off the roads, let the buses do their work. Just let the buses slide all the way to school. Teachers have to spend the night there. That's your job. That's your job. I don't know why I have to take care of the kids. It's your job to take care of my kids. Not my job. What it's talking about. But your dad went to Costco and he saw

He did. He saw the different. Well, like I was telling you, I mean, he's he's an engineer by trade. And so He just, he has prepared stuff just always around anyways. Yeah. He just happened to be, he was going for a doctor's appointment. They happened to be in the area of the Costco. They just went because they like it. I think the older you get, the more you really like Costco. Yeah.

And so they were in there. And my dad was like, what's going on? I mean, all of a sudden there was just a flood of people coming in with the guards. Yeah. And he said in the back area, people were fighting over the water. Yeah. People are fighting over the water because why do you need water? Well, I guess if pipes first or something, I don't know.

I guess you could freeze the water and that could then help with the cooling of the refrigerator. But anyways, you don't need to go crazy. Okay. We have extra water. We bought it a couple years ago when there was going to be a hurricane or whatever. When there was a chance of flooding. And in that case, sometimes the water systems get overwhelmed and you get bacteria and they say don't drink the water for a while. But in this case, the ice storm, there's going to be plenty of water.

Go outside, break some ice and drink. drink some water. Boil it and drink some water. But in first place, second place, it doesn't matter if your power's out, your water's still going to work 90% of the time, 95% of the time, because they have their own power plants over there and generators. If you live in a municipality that's worth a shit, then they have a backup plan for stuff just like this, if you live. We've got a steam engine down under the house. Yeah, you got a steam engine. You have a boiler. Look at you. We just had to load up on coal.

Someone's got a, oh, you have a lawnmower with chains 30 minutes from the nearest store. Now, let me ask you this. Is it 30 minutes from the nearest store on the lawnmower or in a car? Because if you have to drive your lawnmower, but I guess you could drive your lawnmower down there. Sure. If I had to, I would. Yeah, that's all you could, that's what you had to work with. There is a gas station in Somerville.

I don't even know. I don't even know what state it is. Idaho, South Dakota, Notecord, Minnesota. I'm not sure. It's in the middle of fucking nowhere and it's a gas station. And there is a guy and they have a buffet for the locals to come in and eat buffet gas station food. As a place has been around forever. I did some moments.

Some of that food is good. The chef is exactly who you think would be cooking gas station food for a buffet. And he is famous on the internet because he is the nicest motherfucking guy you have ever seen. And his reels are gold. He talks about the meatloaf and the hamburgers and he's going to refresh the pizza every 20 minutes. And don't get, be careful. The weather's. Was it like a Buckees?

It's not a Buckees. No, no, no, no. This is like a family-owned gas station, been around for 100 years. This guy's, you know, wearing the hairnet and the whole thing. And he comes out and he does the reels. And he's like, I know everyone's going to be cold out there. So I made you chatter. Come on in and get your chowder.

Don't forget. Meatloaf Fridays. We know you love the meatloaf. And they get like 10,000 likes on this. 10,000 likes on this. And he is famous. There's like 250,000 people that are following him on Instagram. And I love it. It's the feel-good story of the year.

Yes, it is. The feel-good story of the year is the fact... The buffet chef. The buffet chef at the gas station in the middle of nowhere. It's the little things. It's always the little things. He's the best. I wish we had one of those. But no, no, we don't have... I don't think if any of the gas stations around here had a buffet, I don't think I'd trust them. Not one bit. No. No. The guys around here, they're all locked in cages. Like the independent gas stations, all the cashiers are locked in cages.

There is supposed to be some kind of famous pizza that I was just reading about in Atlanta. magazine that's inside of a gas station. They purposely did that. And it's very famous and apparently very delicious. There is a whole cadre, a contingent of the Internet, who swears that Chuck Echise pizza is the best pizza. You said that before. I don't think it's the best pizza, but I don't mind it. If you take me to a Chuckie cheese, I will be eating their pizza.

Yeah, it's not bad. Sure. Okay. Stay safe out there. We'll talk to you next week, hopefully. If we don't, we'll put something. out there. I don't know what we'll put out there. But we have interviews. We just interviewed. Yes, we did. We interviewed Billy Gardell from Mike and Molly. Let me tell you.

We didn't know what to think. We didn't know what to think. But he was amazing. Incredible. He was an incredible guest. He was wise. He was funny. He was sweet. He knew us. He took the time to get to know us before he jumped on. He knew who we were. He knew what the show was about. We pushed back on this a little bit when our booking agency said, you know, you want to talk to Billy Gardell. And I said, Billy Gardell, he hasn't been on a show since Mike and Molly. What do you want? Or I love Abishola. He was another show after that. I love Abishola. And I said, you know, he's back out there doing stand-up. And so finally we said, okay, you know, our booking agent really wanted us to take this guest. And so we said, okay, not that we have anything against

Billy, we just didn't really know what we would talk to him about. Yeah. And 90% of the time, When our agent says, do this guests, even though we don't want to do this guest. It's the truth. It turns out to be great. She was right. He was such a fucking good guy. So maybe I'll put that out if we're not here next Tuesday. And I do think we are probably going to go back to three episodes a week.

Yes. Just to let you know. Because I think two is too few. Two doesn't feel right. It doesn't. Four feels like too much. Right. We went from so many to so little.

Yeah. So I think we'll probably do three shows. I don't know if we'll do all of those live streaming. But I do think coming up very soon, you're going to get three episodes, three new episodes a week. We will not be doing guests for right now, though. I'll stand by that decision for right now. Tell us what you think. You can let us know.

Not right now. Think about it. Tell James. And then James and tell Brian. Yeah, call James. Call James. Call the Crunch Fitness. Tell James to tell me. I have a feeling James and I are going to be really good friends.

I think after he finds out that I'm the co-host of the commercial. break. Yeah. Yeah, we are going back to our roots. We did do three episodes a week for a long time. We did. Probably the most of the commercial break was three episodes a week. Season two, season three, most of season four.

And then at the end of season four is when we started doing four. And we'll figure out how to check in, too, with Frankie on the video. Yeah, I think we can do it. I think I can put it up in a box in between us. And then we can. Oh, that's right. Yeah, we did it before. Yeah.

When we used to have the TV. Yeah. Yeah. Right? Yeah. We did. We had a TV here. I actually like that setup.

If I'm being honest. Yeah. I know. I liked the desk. I like sitting at something. I don't know. I kind of like spinning in these and these are comfortable. I like spinning in these, but if there was a mix of spinning and desk, I think that would be good.

A spinning desk. A spinning desk? What have we spun the desk instead of the chairs? How about that? All right. Yeah, guys. you stay safe too. Love you all. Yes. Thank you for joining. You'll hear from us.

I'll be on, you know, even if we don't get a new episode out on Tuesday, you'll hear from me. I'll make sure you hear from me. Okay. At the commercial break on Instagram, if you're not already following us, please do follow us because Aster's starting to put up the information about when we're going live. That's the best way to know when we're going live. Although today she put live between one and two. And it's like, what I wanted her to say, was we'll go live sometime between one and two. We'll get it down. We'll get it down.

And then we'll change it. And then we'll change it because that's what we do. Also, YouTube.com slash the commercial break. All the episodes are there on video. You can also stream us live from there, live on Twitch, live on Kik, live on Instagram. We're trying to go live as many places as we can to make it as confusing as possible. But go to YouTube. That's the easy one.

And then there's a little up at top It says, you know, videos, shorts, live. If you go to that live page and we're live, that's where you'll see it. And then you can watch the videos when we're done. You can go and watch them so you don't have to see it live. Also, cbbpodcast.com is where you get your free sticker. You can send us a message. You can see all the video, listen to all the audio.

It's all right there, one location. Okay, Chris. See, hour and a half later, I guess that's all I can do today. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. I'll say best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there on the podcast and streaming audience.

Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say goodbye.