The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Kelsey Cook Returns!
Episode Date: March 4, 2025Episode#706: Kelsey Cook is back! Love is Blind: Season 8 is full of dirt! Checking off bucket list items Taylor Tomlison & Nikki Glaser Figuring out a balance between being a comedian and havi...ng a normal life Life in Minnesota The jealousy switch Youtube and its cesspool of comments The place Kelsey won't go back with her tour A shift in the nature of comedy specials The social media impact A true Justin Timberlake fan Watch episode #706 on Youtube KELSEY'S LINKS: Follow Kelsey on Instagram Kelsey's Tour dates Watch “Mark Your Territory” on Youtube Listen to “Pretend Problems Podcast” with Kelsey Cook & Chad Daniels Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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And making a triumphant return to the show is Kelsey Kelsey.
Welcome back.
Kelsey!
Yay!
Hi guys!
Thanks for having me back.
Well, we couldn't be happier that you agreed to come back on the show.
Not something that happens very often.
We're surprised.
We're surprised.
You guys are great.
I love it.
Well, you know, we often say on the show that there's only two reasons why someone comes
on the show.
They're on their way up or on their way down.
You are definitely on the way up.
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Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian green This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show Chris enjoy holy best to you Chris
That's you Brian best you out there in the podcast universe
TCB infomercial Tuesday with yet another repeat customer, Kelsey Cook.
I can't believe it. Someone's agreed.
She's seeing her moment. She's having her moment. She's coming on the show even though
she's much more popular than she was even just six months ago, which I find hard to
believe. Thank you, Kelsey.
Obviously our show helped catapult her.
There is no doubt.
Into the realm of superstardom.
No doubt that we played a huge role in her success and I'd like to take credit for that and I'd like her to admit that
Here on the show that if it wasn't for the commercial break
She wouldn't in fact have a new special out on Hulu and YouTube
If it wasn't for the fact that she came on the commercial break
She would not be as popular and making as much money as she is right now
And when she admits that I'll be happy as long as she gives us tickets to her next appearance here in Atlanta.
That's one thing we need to ask all our guests.
If you come to Atlanta, backstage passes, drink tickets for the kids,
and a bucket of popcorn.
That's what I would like.
Yes.
Those are our demands.
Yes. Those are our demands.
That's our rider, Kelsey Cook.
And I'll have you know that I will take no shit.
I will take nothing less than free popcorn at your next event
Kelsey cook comm is where you can find more information about Kelsey all of her tour dates
She's on an extensive tour right now, so I'm sure she's coming somewhere close to you
So go to Kelsey cook comm to buy those tickets and the brand new special on hulu and YouTube
Which I'd like to ask her about because it's so
funny I have to say it's from beginning to end it's really funny everybody here
has watched the special everybody has given it they've given it a Michelin
star well I think we were talking about this earlier I think what makes it even
funnier is because she does not look like the person that is saying the
stories that she's saying no No, it's true.
No, it's true.
You're right.
She, yeah, I mean, I don't know what else to say.
I mean, Kelsey is, she very much looks like a innocent,
Midwestern girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's no knock.
I mean, no knock on the way that she looks.
She's beautiful.
But I'm just saying, there's certain, like when you look at Madison from Love is Blind,
Right.
She looks like a troublemaker.
Yeah.
Right? In those eyes, there are years of experience and she looks like a troublemaker.
But when you look at someone like Kelsey, she seems like she could do no wrong.
Right? She just seems like a very innocent, nice human being.
But when you watch her special, you realize that there's some dirt behind those eyes.
I'd like to talk to her about that too.
Of course, she's got the podcast also that-
That she does with her boyfriend, Chad.
Yeah, she does with her boyfriend, Chad, who's also a very famous, very popular comedian.
Hold on one second, because I'm looking at Hulu here.
She's got a link on her website
and I am trying to watch on YouTube. Hold on one second. Let me see if I can pull this
up. The Hustler is the one that she did a couple of years ago was the Hustler. And then
Mark Your Territory is the new one. I wanted to mistakenly call it the Hustler, but it's
Mark Your Territory is the new special. I wanted to mistakenly call it The Hustler, but it's Mark Your Territory is the new special.
800-pound gorilla who is supporting great comedy.
800-pound gorilla.
I do a lot.
As a ton of comedy specials.
And I don't know who those people are, but they're doing great work to support good
comedians.
And I say, yay, sir, yay to you.
So Kelsey, you'll be on in just a few minutes while we're at it.
We'll talk more extensively about
this later on in the week, but I wanted to share that on last week's show, we were talking about
Love is Blind. I was talking about Madison and I was talking about how Madison was having a
conversation with one of the guys in the pods and one of the guys in the pods started to catch on
to her shenanigans a little bit, right? And he pushed back. He said, hey, listen, I don't think
I could deal with
the way that you handle things.
Or that's not the way that I would handle it.
That's not the way I would prefer it to be handled.
And so while I don't-
Like conflicts, I think it was conflicts or something.
Attachment style conflicts.
Then there was another question about sex.
There was another question about the way that you deal with
the way that you run away when someone does something.
Avoidance.
Avoidance.
The way that you don't want your partner to be involved in fixing you.
And he just, all these little hints that she was dropping, he kind of picked up on and
said that wouldn't be good for me, actually.
I don't like that.
Kudos to him.
And kudos to him.
He probably wouldn't have said it if he had been seeing her, if he had looked at her.
I agree with you there.
I agree.
If she was at the bar
and they were having that conversation face to face,
I said it before, I'll say it again,
he would have rolled like a puppy dog
because those eyes are like, I don't know,
like the Cheshire cat little swirling eyes
that hypnotize you.
You're like, oh, mad, mad.
swirling eyes that hypnotize you. You're like, oh, man. But now, because we're talking about it here, my phone's listening, I'm getting all of these reels about Love is Blind. And
I come to find out that this guy, and I don't want to give the name away because I want,
if you haven't watched Love is Blind, I want you to be able to watch it without interference from Brian. But this guy, apparently,
is not the dorky, nerdy kid who he claimed to be, number one. And number two, he's not
the nice guy that he claimed to be, according to some people in Minnesota.
I cannot believe that somebody on reality television is lying.
Do you know what?
I mean, it seems unfathomable.
It seems unreal that we would get a twisted story
from the producers of such hits as Baby Reindeer.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Love is blind.
Did you cheat on me lately?
Well, what's the other show they did that Nick
and Vanessa do?
Oh, are you the one? Ultimatum. Oh, are you the one?
Ultimatum.
Yeah, which is a terrible show.
It really is.
Put your loved one in with another attractive human being
and see if they have sex.
Of course I watch it, but it's a terrible idea.
It's a terrible idea.
It's a-
But great for TV.
Yeah, it's a cheating factory.
And by the way, no one that walks into those,
the Ultimatum, which is couples,
go in together and they get to like peruse around the other couples
to see if there's someone they like better.
No one who's secure in their relationship would ever go on that show.
No.
You think I would bring Astrid into a room full of hot 30-something guys?
No, because I don't stand a chance.
I don't stand a chance.
I try and keep her, actually,
I try and keep Astrid out of all rooms with hot 30-something guys. That's it. That's my rules.
Those are my rules. But anyway, these women in Minnesota, in Minneapolis, are a talking.
They're a yapping.
That's what I've heard.
And there's a through line here because Kelsey Cook is living in Minneapolis.
Am I right about this?
Yes, she is.
Okay. She's living in Minneapolis. She moved in with Chad? Yes, she is. Okay, she's living in Minneapolis.
She moved in with Chad. Or they bought a house together.
They bought a house together. I won't waste her time on Love Is Blind, but just know that
there's a through line here. Apparently, a lot of the guys that are on Love Is Blind
this season have a lot of dirt, and there's a lot of people around them that are willing
to spill that tea on social media, because there's not one guy who was featured on this
show, doesn't have some drama about him right now out there on the internet. So while I said this was
the slowest season of Love is Blind, it is on the show, but outside the show on social media,
things are just heating up. KelseyCook.com, go get tour tickets, check her special out on Hulu or
YouTube. There are links on her website. We have links in the show notes. And please check out her and Chad's podcast, which is
available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Wherever you're listening to us now, you can
listen to their podcasts. I think that drops weekly. Am I right? I think so. I listened
to a couple of episodes. I actually thought it was pretty good.
Yeah.
So yeah, they have like a little factory, a little comedy factory going on up there
in Minneapolis.
And I think they're going on tour together.
Well let's see.
We'll ask her all about it when we get back.
I'll tell you what, let's do this.
Let's take a short break.
Through the magic.
And then when we get back through the magic of tele-podcasting, we'll bring Kelsey Cook
in and we'll have a conversation.
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Let's do it.
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And making a triumphant return to the show is Kelsey Kelsey. Welcome back.
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Yeah.
Congratulations on all your success
since we talked to you last.
Thanks so much, guys.
You guys are so nice.
We were talking just before we started recording.
We were sharing that you did a couple of big shows
or a big show at the Wilbur in Boston in just the last,
how long ago was it when we talked to you just like six
months ago, right?
I feel like it's six, six to eight months.
Yeah. In six or eight months, you have gone on quite the run
and all credit to you and the comedy that you're putting
together, which is resonating with people. And let me ask you
this, when you're in this moment, does it feel like things
are heating up? Do you get this sense like, oh my gosh, I have a special coming out.
I'm selling out shows. I'm doing theaters. Does it feel like that? Or is,
is it too fast and furious to take a breath and recognize?
That's a good question.
I'm trying to stop and smell the roses and all of that because
this business is really that way where if you don't, it's like once you get there,
there disappears, right?
It's like you get to where you're trying to get to and then you're like, okay, now what?
And you're always just looking for the next thing.
But it's just that such a slippery slope into not being happy because there is kind of no
limit in this career.
It's like you see the people at the top of the mountain
and stand up and it's like, oh my God,
it's such a different thing now.
It's like you become a full rock star, essentially.
And so I think it's really easy to feel like
you're never doing enough and I have really been trying hard
to be like, okay, this is so cool.
Like, especially if there are bucket list things happening,
I'm like, I need to really stop and appreciate this
because this is a really great feeling.
Was the Wilbur or selling out of theater like that
was this a storied history?
Was that like one of those bucket list things?
Like, oh my gosh, I can,
I'm standing here in a place where so many other comedians have absolutely. Yeah. Um, I have to, just cause
I'll feel like gross if I don't correct you, we didn't sell it out, but a lot of people
came and it was great. But I, I can't just make, yeah, we saw that we didn't sell that
one out, but, uh, there have been a lot of sold out shows on tour so far, which has felt great.
But yeah, getting to do the Wilbur was, I mean, that's just such like an iconic venue.
And the last time I was in Boston was at the comedy club and we had sold out that whole
weekend.
And so I think that was a really great feeling of like, okay, I did kind of the best I could do at the club
and now because of that,
I'm getting to do this bucket list thing.
And that like, when you can see those changes
in your career,
like getting to do theaters has been the coolest feeling.
I am so happy for you.
I think that that's really cool.
I've just enjoyed so much watching nice people succeed, good people succeed.
I take great pleasure in it.
It gives me zero hope that the commercial break will ever get to that level because
I'm not a good person.
Oh my gosh.
Hey, there's plenty of shitty people who succeed in this business.
Don't you worry about it.
Thank you.
Don't worry.
There's a lot worse people.
Shitty people deserve love too.
You're so nice. in this business, don't you worry about it. Thank you. Don't worry. There's a lot worse people. Shitty people deserve love too.
It's true, you're so nice, what are you talking about?
Yeah, thank you.
So who are the people at the top of the,
who do you, whose career do you admire right now?
Like who do you look at and you go,
oh my gosh, they're doing such a great job
and I, you know, I aspire to that,
or maybe not even aspire, but you, you can,
I guess you look at them and you go, they've, they're at the top of the hill. They're really crushing it. I mean, a couple people that come to mind right away are obviously
like Taylor Tomlinson, who's one of my best friends and Nikki Glaser, also one of my friends having this massive moment right now.
And seeing the level of work that those two put in is truly mind blowing.
It's like, you know, I look at Taylor who's hosting after midnight during the day, right?
And then touring on the weekends.
And it's like, she actually does not have free time.
It is like-
She doesn't have a life.
She is constantly grinding and it's just so impressive
and I'm so proud of her because it does,
I don't know, it just makes you go,
oh wow, like that is possible to be
excelling at that level.
So, and I think that's what I mean before like that is possible to be excelling at that level.
And I think that's what I mean before,
where the sky's the limit now in standup,
like people are doing so much beyond just like touring.
And I think I've had to maybe like recalibrate my goals
a little bit and be like, okay,
what is actually important to me?
Like, do I want the biggest amount of fame,
the whatever, all that stuff,
and knowing that with that can also come a lifestyle
that I also don't really want.
So kind of trying to find that balance of like,
I of course want to just keep getting better and better
at standup and growing my fan base,
but knowing that I like, I mean, I love living in Minnesota and having this very normal life
when I'm not on tour and like playing pickleball with my boyfriend during the day.
I like the balance I have in my life.
And so yeah, just trying to figure out like what I ultimately want, I guess. We have these conversations all the time.
We have these delulu conversations all the time, Chrissy and I do.
There are steps you can take to move outside of the RSS feed, so to speak.
We live very much in this RSS bubble.
We do this show here in a local studio, and we live regular lives outside of this,
but there are lots of podcasters,
mainly comedians who do this out there,
who have this level of fame and success
where I think that their lives are altered
because they are outside the RSS feed, outside of that bubble.
And so Chrissy and I often say,
what would it be like to live outside that bubble,
or if we took steps to live outside of that bubble?
And I can see what you're saying
because maybe your life changes in a way
that doesn't feel like it sounds great,
but then when it happens, maybe it's not.
Like when you can't go to the grocery store
without people asking for an autograph or take a picture,
or can you do a reel with me or whatever,
people start to get this sense of,
they wanna encroach on a universe
that's been exclusively yours or you and your boyfriends.
And that feels good to you.
It feels good to go out, get the adoration,
do what you do, kill it, and then come home
and be a normal person.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it's funny because I had looked up to my boyfriend
for so long in comedy because I just so admired
that he had achieved the goals he wanted to and stand up without having to
like live a life that he didn't want to.
You know, he, he didn't come up in LA, didn't come up in New York.
He has stayed in Minnesota.
This is the whole time where he's from originally and had his Netflix special come out last
year.
Like he is, and now he's like selling out all his shows.
And I just was like, wow, that's such a cool life.
And I was like, well, no, I'm with him forever.
So it's great.
It's like the best.
They're like a little incubator over there in Minnesota.
Oh, I know, I have family up there in Minneapolis.
My husband's brother and his family live up there.
And I love it whenever I go visit up there.
It's fantastic.
It's great. I've been in
the winter and yes it's freezing but there's also times when it's not and it's just a beautiful city
and I love the people there. Yeah it I mean it's exactly what you said the winters are insane and
like make you feel like I can't be alive right now. This is like minus 18 feels like minus 26.
You can't even step outside.
Yeah, your eyelashes just like snap.
I mean, it's like not normal living conditions for a human being.
Our poor dog, when he has to go outside to shit and not whether it's like a power poop.
It's like you've never seen a dog poop so fast.
It's like sprints, poops, sprints back in.
It's just insanity.
So, but yeah, and it's like also such a great city
to tour out of.
If like touring is your primary thing in your career,
it's like Minneapolis is very central.
It's a lot of nonstop flights.
The time zone change isn't crazy either way.
And so yeah, I never thought that that would be like a smart move. You
don't think like you go to Minneapolis and your career flourishes. But, um, LA is like
a very hard city to tour out of. It's, you're so far in the corner. Going to New York is
like a five hour flight.
It's miserable. Yeah, it's a miserable flight.
Yeah. Three hour time change. It's just a lot.
So it's weird that you don't think of Minneapolis
as being this like glitzy place for a career,
but it actually like,
Hey, the prince.
That's all I gotta say.
That's all I gotta say.
Prince never moved out of Minneapolis.
That's all, that's all you gotta say.
He literally made Minneapolis like ground zero for.
I know I've got to get up to Paisley Park.
Have you been to Paisley Park?
I haven't been, but I've been told I need to go, especially living here, so yeah.
It's on my list.
Okay, so your new special, fantastic, everybody here has watched it.
It's like required reading around here.
It's so funny from beginning to end.
Solid.
Thank you.
And I'll say this, the ladies, including Astrid, Tina, Chrissy, all just raved about this special.
I think it really resonates.
And I thought it was very funny also.
I don't see you as the jealous type.
That surprised me.
That's like the biggest surprise eye opener of the entire special was like, she's not
jealous.
Is she a jealous type?
She seems so mild mannered.
Yeah, you know, I am mild mannered. But it's kind of like
what I said in the joke that it wasn't until my 30s, that that
switch kind of flipped. And I don't know if it's like a primal
caveman thing. Where once I was with Chad, and you know, it's
like you get a little bit older. And think you you can tell that like death is not
This is dark to say but like death is not. It's not this like
Thing that you're just like, oh, yes
It's like you get a little older and you meet the person that you're like, oh, this is this is my forever person
and then there is at least for me something set in of like, I need to, like
again, mark my territory, like guard this person. And of course, because he's also like
a touring comedian, he has tons of fans, women love him. I, you know, talked on the special
about how I had that crowd-wreck clip go viral of this woman who was like, oh my, he's, your
boyfriend's my favorite comedian.
He's insane to me.
He's so hot and all this stuff.
And it's hard.
You want your boyfriend to be desirable, right?
Because that's a nice feeling when other women find him
so attractive.
But yeah.
But not too much.
Yeah, I get it.
Which I think is a very good sign that I'm like, no, like this is, I love him so much.
I care so much about us and him that I, yeah.
Don't want anything getting in the middle of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just, yeah, it's like a good, I think it comes from a place of passion. I mean,
it's not like a psycho place. It's just more of a like, oh, this is a feeling
I like didn't know that I was going to feel so strongly.
And then I just think you get a little-
Said every girl to the judge.
Yeah.
A bloody knife.
Yeah. I just, I do think you get older and it changes.
I get it.
Like I am not at all.
I mean, I think I was more of a jealous type in my 20s, but I just was never,
I just never really like, okay, if you don't like me or if you're with someone else, then I guess
that's not, I think it's laziness is actually what it is. It's not too lazy to get involved in my own
emotions about any of that stuff. But I do see what you're saying is that, you know, I love my wife
passionately and she's my one and I don't ever, I don't wanna do this again, right?
I want, I like what we have and this is the best
relationship I've ever been in and all those things.
And I do see what you're saying is I think
it's maybe not jealousy, it's protection.
It's protection.
Over protection.
I wanna protect me, my feelings, her, our relationship
and the family that, or the life that we've built. I wanna protect me, my feelings, her, our relationship, and the family that, or the life that we've built.
I wanna protect that.
So it's more like a-
Well, and travel too, I think has something to do with it.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, you could be the most secure couple in the world,
but if you're constantly away from each other
and in different cities, you can't help,
but kind of be like, well, what's maybe happening?
You know, you got at the bar for drinks one night
or something, you know.
Yes, I think that that has that can play into it too. By the way, you can have all the trust in
the world. That doesn't mean you're not human. That doesn't mean that like the mind abhors a
vacuum. So sometimes, and who is this bitch who's literally telling you to your face,
your boyfriend is hot. You know, here's the thing. I learned.
Don't apologize for her.
No, no, no. I'm not apologizing.
It was a bad thing.
I learned more about her afterward because, you know, when I had posted that clip and
it has like 15 million views, it's like insane.
Oh my God.
Wow.
And she had commented being like, I truly meant no disrespect.
What she had meant by all of that was that she went to one of Chad's shows and her mom
had passed away shortly before she went to one of his shows.
And in the merch line afterwards, she had told Chad how much that show meant to her.
It might have been the first time she had laughed
since something like that had happened.
And that he was just like,
oh, I'm so sorry that you've gone through that.
Thank you for telling me that.
And so that was like,
I think a lot of where her love for him was coming from.
But she, you know,
I think had probably had some drinks at that, at my show and just was
like getting pretty excited.
But again, it's like, it's like that old Patrice O'Neill joke where it's like, you don't want
to be with somebody who you like could send down the back alley in the middle of the night
and like not worry about anybody like hitting on her.
There is part of you that wants your partner.
Yes, of course, of course.
But yeah, she.
And he touched her in a moment of vulnerability.
And I'm sure that she felt like that was,
I'm putting words in her mouth, of course,
but I suppose that what she felt was some sort of connection
because in that moment, she felt like he reached out to her
and said something nice.
And you know, when you're,
when there's a famous comic standing up there
and then you admire their work
and then they connect with you, it's like, oh, okay.
I'm sure she meant it.
Like, I love your husband in a way that he was very nice
and I made a special connection with him.
There was zero ill intent.
I mean, her husband sitting right there.
Also, like, I don't know what it's like
to be an audience member and have a comic talking to,
I mean, it's like a lot of adrenaline, I'm sure,
and it's not planned and you're just kind of like going with,
I'm sure if I was in the reverse situation,
I might at some time in my life say
something where I put my foot in my mouth. It's hard to be on the other end of it.
All those factors.
Yeah.
We were talking to Ari Shafir about this, about the people in the first couple of rows,
and how they go to a comedy show, wherever it may be. They go to a comedy show and there's
this sense that they understand, depending on who the comic is, that they could be a target of the comedy, right?
And like, some people may enjoy that, other people may not, but how they react in the moment,
who knows, right? It's like a big X factor.
Right. Yeah.
But yeah, I think also part of like feeling more protective of him and us is like I moved to Minnesota in the month of January
I tried with this man like yes, like we have life insurance. We bought a house together. It's like taxes
It attacks. Oh my god, it's a tax. It's like there is it's just a different level of
Seriousness I guess and like yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Is there any interest, has there been any discussion?
This is a question, you know,
that I probably shouldn't ask, but I'm gonna ask.
Is there any conversation around getting married?
Or is this just like, we're here, we're doing it,
we don't need to put it on paper?
No, we do wanna get married.
We've just done everything so backwards that it's,
I mean, which we've like loved and it's been fun and great. But you know, we like bought a house, then we
got life insurance and, and it's like, it's kind of fun to know that this is it forever
and know that we do want to get married. But like, there's still some fun things left that
haven't happened yet. Right? Like, I am excited for us to get engaged and get married, but like, there's still some fun things left that haven't happened yet,
right? Like, I am excited for us to get engaged and get married because we have already checked
off like some of the big things. And once you do them, it's kind of like you checked
it off. Like buying a house together is such a fun, cool thing to do. And, you know, once
you do it, you're like, okay, we did it. And I think having those things to look forward to
is kind of like a fun, healthy thing.
All right, I was just wondering if I needed to call Chad
and have a conversation about the benefits
of locking it up, Chad.
No, we're locked up, but yeah,
it is exciting to think about that happening.
Where did you film the special?
I shot it in Madison, Wisconsin at Comedy on State.
Yes, and so did you do this over,
I mean, I don't wanna give away all the magic,
but was this a couple of nights
that then you strung together?
Or did you just do one night
and then you had callbacks or?
Yeah, we did one night and two shows in that night.
And two shows in that night. And two shows in that night.
So answer me this, I noticed that it's on two platforms.
Is that right?
Yes.
It's on Hulu and YouTube.
Okay, so why is that?
I'm very curious as to why this is.
I don't recall at least seeing this.
This 800-pound gorilla, right?
Yeah.
We've had a lot of comics on who've had specials on 800 Pound Gorilla.
Good for them supporting good comedy.
Yeah.
So why is it double platformed?
So I have also never done this before, and I think it's something pretty new that Hulu's
trying.
There are pros and cons to it, right?
If you have something come out on one platform, every audience member that's watching it is
going to that one place, right?
Like the views aren't getting divided up.
So that is one downside is like, you know,
the Hulu views aren't public.
Like even I don't know what the views are yet
now that it's been out for a couple weeks.
Yeah, that's gotta be tough.
But the upside is if you are putting a special out
exclusively on YouTube, there are a lot of bigger press outlets
that wouldn't have you on to promote it
if it's just a YouTube special.
But as soon as a streamer's involved,
then people go, oh, okay, well, now we'll have you on.
And so-
In case you point the commercial break.
Commercial break, you guys were like,
look, we like you, we can't have you
do this YouTube thing again, We gotta spice it up.
If we had every Yahoo with a YouTube special on,
we'd do nothing but YAHOOs.
You gotta bring that Hulu in here.
Yeah, that's what we told Kyle Kanane.
I said, hey, I'll have you on when you get on a streamer.
OK?
Yeah, we can't have this.
Not yet.
So it's been a little bit of a learning process of seeing, OK, this is something I like about doing't have this. Not yet, yeah. So like it's been a little bit of a learning process
of seeing, okay, like this is something I like
about doing it like this, this is something
I kind of don't like, but I can't say yet
what I'm about to do, but I'm about to do a big press thing
in like a week and a half that wouldn't,
it wouldn't have been possible if we didn't also have it
come out on Hulu the same day. So, yeah.
Cool. Well, I actually think it's a good idea, right?
We talk about this a lot,
is like being multi-platformed is so important.
And I think the more opportunity you have
to get in front of eyeballs or ears or whatever it is
to share your work, your creativity,
that you're taking a lot of time, energy and effort.
This is what you do.
It comes from, I'm sure, a lot of like, a lot of internal strife and struggle and hard work, and you
want as many people to see that as possible.
Not everybody has access to Hulu.
Not everybody can either afford it or has it or whatever the reason may be.
And YouTube is such a jurgenaut.
I mean, they are, you know, there's more watching going on on YouTube right now for the first
time ever
than all the television platforms put together.
So YouTube is a player in the market.
And so, yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense
that you would put this out.
Both has there been like generally positive feedback
about this special?
I saw some, I was reading through the comments on YouTube,
which is where I watched it.
I was reading some of the comments and unbelievably, like most of them are so very good toward the
special and that's not like YouTube is the cesspool in the comments section. I don't usually read it,
but I saw a bunch of people were just raving about your special.
S1 05.00 Oh, thank you. Yeah, I feel very, very fortunate that that's been the case. It's just really nice to read such nice things.
And yeah, that's, again, put that in the column of upsides
for putting it on YouTube is that you do get to see
positive feedback and you do get to interact
with the people who are watching it.
And that means a lot to me.
So yeah, it's like, it's ultimately,
you just want as many eyeballs on it as possible.
Cause I think most of us comics,
the thing we want at the end of the day
is for people to come see us on tour.
So it's like, whether you watched it on a Hulu or YouTube,
if you watched it and you were like,
oh, I want to see her live, then we're like, great.
That's, that's a win.
Yeah. Because I would imagine, I want to see her live, then we're like, great, that's a win. Yeah.
Because I would imagine, I don't know,
but I would imagine,
and after having talked to a lot of comics,
that the money that you make, the living that you make,
is by and large done through live shows.
Yes.
It's not like Hulu's paying you a million dollars
for the rights to stream your special.
Right, right.
You may get some money out of them, or you,
and I would imagine that if I were in a comic
and I was up and coming and, you know,
or trying to make a break, I would might even say,
you can have this special, just put it on your platform.
Like just put it on your platform.
Right.
And then if it does well,
then we can talk about it in a year or whatever,
maybe we can do another special.
So I can see how this is really a driver to get more people to show up where you really
make your bread and butter, which is at the live shows.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So it's, like I said, better learning.
What a weird world we're living in.
Yeah.
It all works together.
Yeah, exactly.
Because again, it's not like a Netflix deal where you're getting this like big paycheck up front or even like a Hulu
exclusive deal where you're getting a big paycheck it is like a you know a
situation where they are licensing it they're putting it up there but you're
also putting it on YouTube so you you're mostly in this particular situation like
okay how do we get it seen by a lot of people and then drive ticket sales? But
You know my last special the hustler on YouTube
It only went on YouTube to start and it has almost 4 million views now It's like crazy what that's YouTube easy and I had like no expectations, you know, it's my first specials like well
We're putting on YouTube. Let's see. It's that changed my life. It completely changed my touring
It it's just nuts what what the power of YouTube is now.
Yeah, if you have four million views, you're not only putting some butts in seats, but then at the
same time, you have some leverage to have those conversations with, you know, Disney executives.
If I'm you and I'm trying to get on Hulu... I want to be your manager. Yeah, I want to be your manager.
And I'm trying to get on Hulu. Brian wants to be your manager now.
Yeah, I want to be your manager.
I'm so fascinated by the inner workings of all this.
If I'm you, or if I'm managing you,
here's what I'm saying.
Kelsey will do the special for free,
but I need an all expenses paid vacation
to Disney World once a year,
which is the equivalent of about a million dollars
worth of net revenue.
Yeah, corn dogs are $42, you know.
Those fucking pretzel heads, those Mickey pretzel heads,
they're like $15 a piece.
I believe it.
It's insane.
It's insane.
So you're out on tour currently.
Where are you looking?
Tell me about the places that you,
I mean, I know you're not gonna tell me that you don't like any places to go. I get the politics of that,? Tell me about the places that you, I mean, I know you're not gonna tell me
that you don't like any places to go.
I get the politics of that, but tell me about the places.
I'll tell you some places.
Oh, tell me some places.
I would maybe tell you a couple, but.
Yeah.
Do you really want to know places
I don't like to be or?
Tell me, yes, of course I do.
That's the more interesting conversation,
but I'm trying to get my way
in the back door here a little bit.
Well, I will say one place that I truly was like,
you know what, I don't think I could go back here.
This was just a very tough experience,
but I think understandably
that I wouldn't wanna go back.
I did the Syracuse Funny Bone,
gosh, this is maybe two, three years ago,
and it's in a mall,
and right before the show was about to start,
there was a shooting in the mall,
and the manager came back to the green room
and was like, okay, there's an active shooter in the mall.
And when you hear the words active shooter,
you picture trench coat like that,
like there's no in particular target that like is just,
you know what I mean?
And so I start crying in there, I'm terrified.
I'm like, ooh, these are the things you read the news in
and you go, I just hope I'm never in that situation.
And there's somebody telling you like,
you're in the situation right now.
Like there is a, you're in the mall,
there's an active shooter.
And so the mall got evacuated, show got canceled.
We found out later that it was like a gang shooting. It was targeted.
It wasn't like active shooter was a little bit of a scary.
It was a little dramatic, but it's a fog of war. They don't know. Yeah.
And I was just like the place where the shooting happened. I was just walking in that area
of the mall like 30 minutes before that. And so it's, this is not like a dig to the people of Syracuse
because I am sure like the crowds there would be fun.
I think I had done like maybe two shows the night before
that and I think I had a fine time.
But I looked online after the shooting and turns out
like there are shootings in that mall like every month.
And I just was like, yeah, you know.
Yeah, exactly.
I just.
I can go to Twin Falls.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
It's like.
Buffalo.
Maybe I could go back and do a different venue,
but that was when I was like, that, I just.
Not going back.
Too much to worry about anyway.
I don't want to go to a place where there's like,
there's like, shootings all the time.
You have PTSD.
Yeah, and I think it doesn't matter whether or not it was a targeted shooting. To me,
it wouldn't matter or not. I don't care. A gun where someone's, if someone's pointing
a gun in an open mall, I'm like, fuck all that. I just don't want anything to do with
it. And we do hear about this so often that it's a trigger word, I think for everybody,
you know, it's a real trigger word for?
It's for me as a parent.
That every time I hear the word school and gun,
and it happens frequently, right?
Every time I hear that, I just go in sheer panic.
Not because I think it's happening
at the school my kids go to,
but because it's happened so often.
Someday it could be the school that my kid goes to.
It seems like it can happen to everywhere. Okay, so- Of course, horrifying. but because it's happened so often someday it could be the school that my kid goes to.
It seems like it can happen to everywhere.
Okay, so.
Of course, horrifying.
During the winter, I'm sure that you must enjoy getting down to warmer places when you're
traveling.
Do you like a range or have your manager arrange your tour schedule to get you to a few warm
places during?
You know, I could be, I could probably be a little more strategic about that with my
agent.
Yeah, come on, let's get that manager to work.
I, like, this was my first winter in Minnesota that it really felt like what people describe
as a true Minnesota winter.
Like, those temperatures, I just didn't believe that that was happening, like, in the U.S.
Wasn't it like minus 20 or something?
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I listened to this local station up there, the NPR station up there, the
Current. It's a great radio station if you're ever looking. Okay. Not that anybody's
listening to the radio anymore. No. You can also listen, we listen online. Yeah.
But I hear the temperature up there frequently. Okay. And it was like, yeah,
negative 30 one day. Yeah. Chad is from Fergus Falls, which is this town.
I love the name Fergus Falls.
Fergus Falls, so cute.
It is very cute.
Chad from Fergus Falls.
It sounds like something from Schitt's Creek, right?
It's very wholesome sounding.
So it's in northern Minnesota and I guess a while ago there was a polar vortex there
where it was like minus 50.
It's like something crazy.
And he said that if you touch the doorknob of your house but from the inside that it
would burn your hand.
Oh my god.
From the inside.
What?
Oh my god.
That's how cold metal, I mean.
Oh yeah, no thanks.
No thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
I just have an allergy to the cold weather, I really do.
I mean, we live in Atlanta and it got cold down here too,
but you know, for me, it's, I grew up in Chicago
and I think I've done my penance, I've done my time,
I would rather stay down where it's just a little bit warmer.
If I can avoid, like I'm not interested
in going on a ski vacation.
People call me and you know, people like texting,
hey, we're gonna go skiing, wherever. And I'm like, fuck that, you're going on a ski vacation. People call me and you know, people like texting,
hey, we're gonna go skiing wherever.
And I'm like, fuck that.
You're gonna go to be cold?
You're gonna go somewhere to be cold?
No, thank you.
I'll take my chances down here.
I think you have to grow up with it to be used to it.
Well, she moved there.
I mean.
Yeah.
I'm from Washington.
Yeah, I'm from Spokane.
It's not that warm.
It's, yeah, Spokane is very seasonal.
It gets cold in the winter.
We have snow, but not, feels like minus 26.
No, it is.
No, Minneapolis has its own thing.
Something else.
Up there, yeah.
Okay, so you've got-
It's probably the lakes that are up there.
Mm-hmm.
It's the land of lakes.
It's the land of lakes.
I see it on my cream box every day
when I make coffee and eat cereal.
Land of lakes?
Land of lakes.
That's us. I think that's where my cream comes from. I'd make coffee and eat cereal. Land O'Lakes. That's us.
I think that's where my cream comes from.
I'd like to think so anyway.
When I'm looking at my cream box,
I just imagine a rolling field with snow.
Beautiful place.
Cows.
Butters being turned.
Beautifully turning butter.
Yes.
Here's a funny, like a little funny side note.
I watched a couple of days ago, like a National Geographic
special on Antwerp, the coldest place on earth where people inhabit, which is up in like,
I don't know, somewhere in Russia or one of the former USSR states.
And it regularly is like minus 75 degrees Fahrenheit there for like seven months a year.
And the kids can go to school if it's minus 53 or warmer,
but they cannot go to school if it's minus 53 or colder.
They eat for breakfast, strawberries and churned whipped cream.
That's like their meal because it's got so much fat in it.
That's what they need to eat.
They need, there are constant,
and that's the only thing they can eat because it's
the only thing that can stay fresh is the actual dairy that comes from.
The cows that I guess are able to survive in minus 75 degree fucking weather.
That sounds insane to me.
Like the way these people live is like, they might as well be on a spaceship
somewhere near Uranus.
I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.
Again, it has to be just generational that you grow up.
That's the only thing.
Yeah, they have this, they has to be just generational that you grow up. That's the only way. Well, yeah, they have this.
Nobody's going there.
The body tolerance for that.
Yeah.
No one's visiting this town.
Yeah.
OK, so you get out your.
I'm cold now.
I know.
So you get out your special.
And now, do you find it, I'm sure in some ways,
it feels good creatively to go out there back on the road and are you knocking around the new material?
Planning the next special essentially. Yeah, the timing of this actually worked out really well where
Once mark your territory came out a couple weeks ago
It had been ten months since I shot it and so it gave me that amount of time to get a new hour
Put together and so the hour I'm touring with right now
is all completely different from the special,
which is nice to be able to tell people when they comment,
like, oh, I want to watch the special,
but I have tickets to see you.
Can I watch the special?
And I'm like, yes, you can watch it and you can see me.
It's totally different.
So that's, it's hard sometimes when you shoot a special
and you're like, oh my God, I want it out right now. But
then you, you probably would not have a new hour ready. So it's
kind of like finding that perfect spot.
Strategy. Yeah, I think I don't know who we were we were talking
to a company Sam Morrill and he was explaining that like, you
know, Led Zeppelin can have one hit and go to around that for
like, five years. Yeah, yeah, constantly. But he was
explaining that, you know, once the hour's out,
I can no longer do that material.
He's like, I can do some of the best,
I can do some of the greatest hits.
I can repurpose a joke here and there,
or the thing that people like to hear,
the favorite joke, quote unquote.
He said, but by and large, I got to come up with a new hour
because no one's going to pay 50 bucks to see me
if they know they can watch it on Netflix.
It's just not gonna happen.
And that must be tough.
Yeah.
It's really, yeah.
And I don't think it was always like this.
I feel like this has been a really big shift
in maybe the last 10 years where it became this expectation
that you're putting out a new hour
every like one to two years.
And it's like-
You're right. I feel like that's been a change from the days of Eddie Murphy or
different other, you know,
from back in the seventies eighties could do the same thing.
A lot.
I know like some of our favorite artists like Rihanna has been talking about
putting an album out now. And I think it's been like eight years, maybe longer,
like a decade.
You're so right.
Yeah. Like Justin Timberlake put his album out last year, and that had been, I think, almost a
decade or something.
It's just crazy.
Like, that's what is expected, that they get this time to like be inspired and live life.
And comics are just like desperately trying to like scrounge up material where we can
find it.
And, but you know, it's kind of,
I think it's like a muscle that if you have that pressure
and expectation in your mind,
you do kind of somehow come up with it.
And I don't know, we're all just doing our best, I guess.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I don't know.
You know, I think that would be incredibly difficult to do.
You look at Chris Rock, I mean, he would bring the pain,
was like, killed us all, right?
Oh my god, Chris Rock's stalking the stage like that
over and over.
He didn't come out with a new special
until like a decade later.
It was like 10 years in between those specials.
And he was afforded that opportunity.
And what did he do in between? I don't know if you may reason of a television appearance here and
there and he really paid off of that for a long time but now I think that age of
the internet because we're all so used to seeing new content every single
minute social media yeah that we can't just settle down and enjoy you can't
just enjoy what you want listener you know it's a demand that Kelsey come out
with a new hour every 15 minutes. It's not a reasonable expectation. Watch her special
and then go buy her tickets. See her do Stairway to Heaven. Yes, my Stairway to Heaven, my vlog dog.
You're so right that it's social media too, where our specials, we end up like kind of cannibalizing
them and turning them into clips immediately
because we're trying to get people to watch the special
and we're trying to get into the algorithm
and push tour tickets.
And so you can take like an hour special
and essentially turn it into 60 clips.
You know, that would be kind of a lot,
but once you run out, you're like,
oh, I need to shoot another special
because I don't have new clips.
That's also a really big part of it is unless you're relying heavily on like crowd work
clips or podcast clips, having new special clips really like infuses your channels with
like new life blood.
Like, oh my God, yes yes I have something new to post
yeah it's I mean it's a sickness it's like it's horrible but well if you ever
need any mediocre comedy to distribute on your social media platform feel free
to knock us up we do like 60 of these shows a week we're turning like
speaking of turning butter this this commercial break down itself. That's for sure. That's amazing though. Kelsey Cook, brand new special out on YouTube and on Hulu.
Yeah.
And we would highly encourage all of our listeners
to go listen to the special and then regardless
of whether or not Kelsey's gonna do old material
or new material, we encourage,
and she'll do new material.
It's all funny. It's all really funny.
It's all funny.
You'll laugh harder in person
because that's the way that it is.
And listen to her podcast with Chad.
Yes, Pretend Problems.
Pretend Problems.
Chad and I, oh sorry, go ahead.
No, go ahead, you please.
Oh, I just say Chad and I have a few tour dates together
in April. Oh, fun.
That we're doing for the first time.
So we'll be in Long Island, Montclair, New Jersey,
and Philly doing a couple theaters
in the casino, so yeah, please come see us there.
We're really excited for that.
Okay, now tell Chad to settle down.
There's room for both of you at the top.
This could be Desi and Arnaz, right?
You know what I'm saying?
You guys could be the next power couple out there.
Speaking of Justin Timberlake.
That'll be fun.
You could be Brit Lake.
I saw you were at the Justin Timberlake concert. Was that you?
Yes.
Look at you. She's a JT fan.
I mean, aren't we all? I am.
Huge JT fan. Lifelong instant fan, all of it.
I do bop my head to his music when the kids play it or Astrid plays it. I do. I can't
say I'm the biggest fan, but there are a couple songs. Is it the In the Mirror? Looking in the Mirror?
Oh, Mirror, yeah.
Oh yeah. He played that on Saturday Night Live once with like a full horn section.
He was really funny on Saturday Night Live too.
Yes, he was really funny on Saturday Night Live. And then he ran that stop sign in Montauk
and then the Hamptons.
I know.
The Hamptons. Yeah. And then we all turned on Justin.
Uber.
Every famous person that has money should use Uber.
I know Uber.
Kelsey, we're gonna give you one piece of advice
because we've done so many of these stories
it's not even funny.
Uber, okay?
Yeah. Thank you.
Uber.
And then just get wasted.
Thank you.
Yes.
Tell that manager to get you a drive.
Yeah, you and Chad drink all the tequila you want.
Oh, thank you. We're boring now.
We've both been sober for like almost a year, but.
We talked about this the last time you were here.
Congratulations.
I bet you feel great.
Oh, we do.
I mean, it's just you get older and you're like, it's too much.
I can't.
I'm already just tired from like not sleeping right anyway.
It's hard to add hangovers to it.
Yeah. Pass passing out and sleeping
are two totally different things.
You only know that once you get sober
or once you kind of clean up for a while.
I haven't had, I don't drink.
I mean, I don't drink, like I'm not a tea totaler.
I would never ever not have another drink.
That's not, I don't go to AA meetings,
but I haven't, because I have children,
I haven't had drinks in a long time.
I haven't gotten drunk in a long time. And I will tell you what, there is something about it that
has been quite life altering in so many different ways that are easy to see now in hindsight,
but would have been difficult to understand when I was drunk.
Yes. I feel the exact same way. It's hard to actually be like, okay, am I really gonna stop doing this completely?
But it does feel so good that it's, I don't know.
It hasn't been as hard as I thought.
You don't even want, like it feels so good.
You don't wanna drink.
Like you're like, oh, do it.
Once you get out of the habit.
Yeah, do you really wanna wake up hungover tomorrow?
No, probably not. Right.
Cause that kid's gonna be bouncing on my face
at five in the morning and I don't wanna deal with it.
Thank you, Kathleen. Please tell Chad we said hello. Right. Because that kid's gonna be bouncing on my face at five in the morning and I don't wanna deal with it.
Please tell Chad we said hello.
You are welcome here.
I will thank you guys.
Anytime Kelsey.
And we appreciate you coming back.
You're one of the few who agreed to it.
And so.
You guys are so, it's always really nice
to talk to you truly.
Thank you for having me back.
Well, thank you Kelsey.
We hope to see you again soon.
Congratulations on all of this success.
From Chrissy and I and everybody here at TCB. It couldn't have happened to a better person. Oh, congratulations on everything. Well, thank you, Kelsey. We hope to see you again soon. Congratulations on all of this. Thanks for seeing us.
From Chrissy and I and everybody here at TCB.
It couldn't have happened to a better person.
And onward and upward.
This isn't the last stop.
We're giving a eulogy, but it isn't the last stop.
You're going to keep on going.
Oh, thanks guys.
Thank you.
Well, thanks again.
Yeah, have a good one, okay?
Bye.
You too.
All right, well, bye.
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Ah, good old Kelsey Cook. I do enjoy me some Kelsey Cook.
I do too.
Yeah, she's really, really sweet.
She's solid.
She's solid.
But don't let that fool you.
Go to watch her special with your kid's earmuffs on,
because she's good.
I think one of my favorite jokes was using a bidet
in the middle of Minneapolis in the wind.
It's like getting local anesthesia on your asshole.
I think one of my favorite ones was about her trying
to connect with the daughter, Chad's daughter.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the whole Instagram thing.
Oh.
The daughter said, I'm unfollowing your girlfriend,
by the way.
Well, she'll probably unfollow us too after this appearance, but we do like Kelsey Cook.
And kelseacook.com is where you get more information about her tour, about her specials, and about
her podcast that she shares with that boyfriend.
I think maybe in the future, according to her, might be a husband, but we don't care.
We like Kelsey either way.
And Chad.
And Chad.
But Chad hasn't come on the show yet.
No.
What's up with Chad?
Why didn't Chad, didn't we invite him on last time she was here?
We said, hey, tell Chad if he wants to come on, he can come on.
I don't know, but we have done the whole wife husband thing with Hannah and Dez.
That's right.
Yeah.
Dez Bishop, he's also got his own podcast.
He was a repeat too.
He was a repeat, Reggie Watts was a repeat.
I think there are a couple more repeats,
some of your favorite guests coming back up
because they can't get enough of the commercial break.
Listen, they all wanna be like Kelsey Cook.
They all want their careers to go skyrocketing to the moon.
Yes.
Des Bishop, Reggie Watts, Kelsey Cook, who will be next?
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned you.
More surprises to come.
Anyway, kelseycook.com.
We appreciate her coming in.
We really do.
And she's welcome any time.
She's one of those.
And Dez and Reggie are one of those too.
There's lots of them, but there's a couple of them where you're like, yeah, of course,
it's too easy to talk to you.
I know, we could do it for hours.
And then there's a couple that, you know, it's probably a mutual agreement that,
yeah, maybe not. Maybe the commercial break's not the place for me.
And I would say, maybe not. You're right. I never thought it'd get to the day where I'd say,
well, no thanks, celebrity. So come on the show.
I'd like to have Heather again, but she might be too big.
I don't think Heather McMahon is coming back on the show.
We got her. See, another one.
Another one.
She came on our podcast.
Heather McMahon.
Hannah Berner.
Explosion.
Kelsey Kirk.
Career explosion in a good way.
Yeah.
It seems like we have the Midas touch for everybody
but ourselves.
Exactly.
Yes.
The Midas touch for everybody but ourselves.
And then I saw Felipe Esparza on Joe Rogan. Now listen,
whatever you think about Joe Rogan, he is sometimes the king of the hill. And to be
on his podcast is a big deal. And I just saw him on Joe's podcast.
I saw that too. I saw that he was on there too. And I heard that Rosebud Baker was on
the Today Show.
Rosebud Baker on the Today Show, on the Tonight Show. Yeah.
Wow.
Maybe there is something to this commercial break.
Celebrities, pay attention.
And you're welcome on.
You have to go through our agent, though.
Talk to our people.
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We'll just call it.
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do for today. I think so. But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you.
Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe, including Kelsey. Until
next time, Chrissy and I will say we do say and we must say good bye The 30th of March! you