The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Noel Miller

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

TCB Infomercial: Noel Miller - Episode #742: Comedian, podcaster, and former Vine king Noel Miller joins Bryan and Krissy for a chaotic, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt convo about fatherhood, ...content creation, and the time someone literally hit his garage mid-interview ( that was THIS interview!) . From choking hazards and stand-up evolution to 2,000mg edibles and garage door disasters, it’s 30+ minutes of high-wire comedy, soft parenting, and deep laughs. Noel’s new hour is inspired by dad life—but don’t expect sappy lullabies. This is stand-up with sharp edges, existential thoughts, and one very confused Chihuahua. Oh, and shout-out to Tyler Walsh—let’s get that guy on the show too. NOEL'S LINKS: ⁠Follow Noel on Instagram⁠ ⁠See Noel Miller Live Listen to "The Tiny Meat Gang" Podcast Watch EP #742 on YouTube! 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 TCBits: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:50 On this episode of the Commercial Break. So what do you do when you go out on tour? How is the like the wife and the kid? I mean, how's that part of it? It's good. Sorry, I'm just getting a text now that I guess someone hit our garage. Oh. Someone hit your garage with a car? Yeah, let's see.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Let's see what the damage is. No, if you need to go, we can like, we can call you back in right another time. Yeah. Wait, just give me like, just give me like two minutes. Take your time. I'm gonna beat them up. I'll be right back. Yeah. Okay, sounds good.
Starting point is 00:01:29 The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, boy! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Hoadley. Best of you, Chris and... Yes, I'm Brian. Best of you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you?
Starting point is 00:01:43 Thanks for joining us. It's a TCB Infomercial Tuesday with mr. Noel Miller actor comedian director viral video Superstar podcaster podcast network owner everything he does it all he's a man of many talents content creator I think is probably the best way to lay it down and he's gonna be joining us here in just a few minutes He's really funny. I've been digging into Noel Miller's long, long list of content creations.
Starting point is 00:02:14 And I got to say, he's like naturally funny. You know, he's like one of those guys who just has this natural way about him. It's funny. He's very laid back. I think you're going to like Noel Miller if you are not aware of him, but probably many of you are because he is four and a half million people following him on the collective social medias and we have four and a half people following us on our, I think one of them is a bot, but I keep them on there because I don't want to bring
Starting point is 00:02:37 that countdown by 25%. Oh man, we have been talking about this and talking about this and talking about this for years on this show. How we can have X amount of people listening to the commercial break every single day and month and every episode that we put out and then only have X amount of people following us. I think it has to do with the fact that we just put out clips of the show and I think people are kind of like, hey, we're going to have to bite the bullet. Yeah. Maybe we can get some tips from Noah because he seems to be going to get out there and doing it, but he's really
Starting point is 00:03:08 creative. He does like parody music, you know, all kinds of stuff. So we'll talk to Noel about that. Noelle Miller live.com. I believe is where you can go buy tickets to his upcoming tour. He's got like 20 cities on there. I think if you live in a place, he will be near that place. So go to your, go on the map and find your place and then find a place that's close there. That's right. So we'll talk to him in just a couple of minutes. But I wanted to know if you had heard about the brand new sensation that's rocking the internet right now, Chrissy Mewing.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Do you know what a Mewing is? Mewing, I've heard of Mewing. It's like a supercomputer. And if... Wham! Mew, mew! Not meow, meow, meow, meow. Mewing, not a supercomputer.
Starting point is 00:03:54 The mewing is when you do this, right? That's right! With your tongue. Yeah. It's a thing you do with your tongue. And rest it on the back of your... And then you get your cheekbones and you, like, raise your head, yeah, to chisel and make you look...
Starting point is 00:04:09 Like, more like a duck than you already look like. Yeah. So, Astrid texted me the other day, and she goes, you gotta talk about mewing on the show, because it's, like, really hip and cool and all the kids are talking about it. And I'm like, what the fuck is mewing? I had heard it.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Do you remember that girl who, like, fell in love with Morgan Whalen because Morgan Whalen's mom started DMing her and it turned out go figure in the least surprising thing that's happened in 2025, Morgan Whalen's mom was not DMing her, but she gave Morgan Whalen's mom $18,000 worth of gold-dot gift cards. She was talking about mewing, and I thought it had something to do with like puckering your lips and making your chin stand out or something. Well, you were close.
Starting point is 00:04:54 But there's a chiropractor that I watched a video, and the chiropractor was explaining that mewing really is a thing, and it really can, in some people, improve the jawline, the turkey neck, and the general structure of your, the bottom half of your face. And Chrissy and I were talking about this. Eventually we're all getting gobblers, guys. The gobblers are coming for everybody no matter how skinny you are, no matter how many fit you are, you're getting a gobbler.
Starting point is 00:05:18 And a gobbler is that little turkey thing that hangs down on your neck. It's coming. People try and avoid it. They do all kinds of things to get out of it. Plastic surgery, I think, is one of the things that can kind of take care of it. It does, yeah, it does. But so, I'm watching this video on mewing at Starbucks.
Starting point is 00:05:35 And then I look around, and there's like, I don't know, 50 people at the Starbucks. And so as I'm watching this video on mewing, and the chiropractorors explaining that he can tell when people are mewing just based on their posture and the way that they hold their mouth when they're not talking. And he was giving example. Here's what I see when I see people who are mewing as a thing. And here's what I see who people who have not mewed and are a little bit older and they get that turkey.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Yeah, they're not mewing. Anti-mewing and mewing. No mew, mew plus, right? Okay, all right. So I start looking around and I'm like, let me see if this guy's onto something here. Let me see if I can figure it out. And no shit, Chrissy.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Four or five tables have older folks. Some of them maybe a third advanced ages, 60, 70 years old, gobblers, face slouching down, holding their mouth breathers. Muers, face up, chin up, sturdy jawline. I saw one guy, you could crack walnuts on that jaw. His jaw was so fucking chiseled. You could see every muscle rippling in his jaw.
Starting point is 00:06:47 And I thought to myself, I don't want a blowjob from that guy because he's got teeth that are strong. But you could tell. I think it does kind of mess up your teeth though, is what I read. The chiropractor was saying that some people do not have the physical natural structure to Mew
Starting point is 00:07:03 because you have to hold your tongue right between, like he explained it, open your mouth, take your tongue, stick it to the top, stick it to right where your teeth meet the top of your mouth. If your jaw moves when you do that, you are tongue tied, the official term for it, tongue tied. That means your tongue is tied to your bottom of your mouth, and the only way to fix it is getting laser surgery.
Starting point is 00:07:29 I can do it without moving my jaw. Can you do it without moving your jaw? Open your mouth. Stick your tongue at the top of your mouth. Yeah, you did it without moving your jaw. OK. So I'm a mewer? You can mew.
Starting point is 00:07:41 I can mew? You can mew. But you have to do this all the time. Every time your mouth is closed and you're resting But you have to do this all the time. Every time your mouth is closed and you're resting, you have to stick your tongue right there. And if your tongue overlaps your teeth when you do that, if your tongue is bigger than your teeth, then there's certainly a semicircle of your mouth, you're out.
Starting point is 00:07:57 You can't do mewing. Because if you do mewing, you can cause yourself a whole litany of health problems according to the chiropractor. Mine fits snugly in there. According to the chiropractor. So I can mew. So here's my promise to the commercial break and to our budding Instagram account with almost 7,000
Starting point is 00:08:14 people. And then we got Noel Miller. He's got 80 million people in there. I'm going to mew for a month. I'm going to mew. And we're going gonna see if it changes the physical structure of my job. You gotta take a before and after shot.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Oh, I'm taking lots of before and afters. You know that speaking of before and after, when Astrid and I first got together, I felt like I could probably lose a few pounds. So I took a couple screenshots, I took a couple shots in the mirror of myself, you know, in underwear, so I could before and after it, as was the trend back then.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Okay. Fast forward a couple years later, and iPhone now has this thing where you can make your screensaver a picture, and it can rotate in your photo album. So I do this neat little trick, because now I got children and I figure, hey, listen, a couple of happy photographs of my children when I open up my phone, 7,000 times a day, might make me a little less stressed. Well, one day that photo, those photos popped up
Starting point is 00:09:17 and Astrid was like, who the fuck are you sending those photos to? And I'm like, fat Brian? Who am I sending fat Brian photos to? I go, no, I swear to God, I took these like right when we first started dating. Look at the timestamp. Yeah, look at the timestamp. There is no timestamp. Anyway, I'll take some before and afters. We'll mew it out and we'll see.
Starting point is 00:09:38 We'll mew. We'll mew. I'll mew. I'll see if it does anything. And we'll all be the judge. We'll all decide. Did, when Brian Mewed, did it change the facial strut? Did it change his facial structure? Most people don't like looking at my face, but for this, we're gonna, I'm gonna ask you just to dart your eyes over once. You know, a lot of people say that they watch for Chrissy. You can dart your eyes over once or twice for this one.
Starting point is 00:10:03 All right, Mr. Noel Miller. We're super excited about this one. Like I said, Viral Sensation started on Vine, went over to YouTube. I loved Vine. He's got the tiny meat gang. He's got a podcast network. He's got his own podcast.
Starting point is 00:10:15 He's got his own YouTube channel. He's got, I mean, the guy is a content creator and he's got a web of content out there. And a lot of it is very funny. Some of it very off beat and, you know, kind of content out there, and a lot of it is very funny, some of it very offbeat, and you know, I think the sensibilities of the sense of humor are very much the same. He just happens to be funny.
Starting point is 00:10:33 When he does his, we are desperately grasping at straws. So hopefully we'll get a few laughs from Noel. And so let's do this. Why don't we take a break and then through the magic of telepodcasting, when we get back, Mr. Noel Miller. Do you or don't you agree, Chrissy? I agree and I'm sprinkling the fairy dust. Chrissy is sprinkling the magic Miller dust all over the studio.
Starting point is 00:11:02 We will be back. After this. You make this rather snappy, won't you? I have some really heavy thinking to do before 10 o'clock. Hi, cats and kittens. Rachel here. Do you ever get the urge to speak endlessly into the void, like Brian? Well, I've got just the place for you to do that. 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3822. Feel free to call and yell all you want. Tell Brian I need a race. Compliment Chrissy's innate ability to put up with all his shenanigans. Or tell us a little story. The juicier, the better, by the way. We'd love to hear your voice, because Lord knows we're done listening to ourselves. Also, give us a follow on your favorite socials, at The Commercial Break on Insta, TCB Podcast on TikTok. And for those of you who like to watch —
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Starting point is 00:14:15 Thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. Hello. Hello. How are you sleeping? I am sleeping okay. Noah's a brand new dad. I mean, I'm brand new, but new.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Six months is new. Yeah, it's new. Yeah. You're about to get into it. Percy, do you have children? I do not have. No, I have two stepchildren, but they were already past the six month stage. They were past the 18th.
Starting point is 00:14:40 They were seven and 10. They were seven and 10. That's fair enough. Fair enough. Listen, for a long time, I entertained adopting because at that point, their past, you could get them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Yeah. At 10. Yes, exactly. Yeah. You can get, it's like adopting a dog, you get them. Not that children are dogs, but you get them when they learn how to pee and poop. Piss and shit. Can I say that? Yes. Of course you can.
Starting point is 00:15:07 Yeah. Exactly. Explicit learning on every episode. They're formed. Yeah, they're formed. They're hatched. They're not little, they're not little chicklets. They're hatched. They know how to do it. But you know, the old adage is small children, small problems, big children, big problems. Well.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Yes, of course. Of course. So she has two girls that she adopts by marriage and then they're right into puberty, which is gonna be a nightmare. I think that's great, because Chrissy has just shown up to the franchise as a new head coach. That's right.
Starting point is 00:15:38 That's stuff done. And you know. It's true. Listen, listen. I took it all on including the ex. Yeah. She's the consultant, new head coach. She's here to clean up the organization, you know, get their star players on track. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:57 She's more like the mascot, like the zany mascot that you can't get rid of. Hey, I'm your cool wine a martini. That's annex, that's right. Hey, I'm your cool wine mom head coach, how's that? That's right, exactly. I'm a cool aunt and a cool stepmom. It takes all kinds. And being parent is like, I'm sure it had to have changed everything.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Cause it did for me, like I found that not only am I raising the kids, the kids are raising me, so to speak. Oh yeah. I often say this, am I raising the kids, the kids are raising me, so to speak. I often say this, if I had kids in my 20s, like when most of my friends had had their kids, those kids would have not been with me. Defects would have had them for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure.
Starting point is 00:16:38 But they raised me. Like I got a little more sober, I got a little more pragmatic, I got a little more level-headed. Uh-oh, I can't live paycheck to paycheck anymore so often. I got to try and figure that out. Let's start a podcast. Let's start a podcast because that's where all the money's at. Did you feel that way when you had your kid? Did it like, did you have that same kind of awakening that I did?
Starting point is 00:16:59 Just, holy shit, it's not just about me anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, every day, you know, every day I'm like, wow, I could be out playing billiards right now, but I'm here with you, buddy. No, I, no, it definitely changed everything. I think it gave me a, it is a funny thing. Like, I think I needed a child to accomplish
Starting point is 00:17:17 a certain amount of maturity that other people reach on their own. Yeah, yeah. You know, and, and. I'm with you on that. That's a good way. It's a very, it's a very extreme way of, uh, growing as a person, uh, being
Starting point is 00:17:30 responsible for something that can't even walk, but it, uh, it's been great. Like I, I do, I love every minute of it, even the tough moment so far. Uh, cause yeah, it just, it does teach you a lot about yourself. It's a fun ride. Scariest moment so far with because yeah, it just, it does teach you a lot about yourself. It's a fun ride. Okay, so let me ask you this.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Scariest moment so far with your child? Like let me give you an example. So I remember at least so far with my children, scariest moment hands down was the time my son walked out of the closet with a pit, a cherry pit in his throat that he couldn't get out, but he was already discolored when he walked out of the closet, like he had already been in the closet, choking and we didn't know because we were standing, it was in the pantry, so we didn't know.
Starting point is 00:18:12 So I will never forget that moment. When I talk about it now, it still makes me wanna like cry, like a fear cry, like, oh my God, I almost just lost my child. That was a serious moment. Luckily, brain kicked in, told me, remember the basics, do the thing, and it all worked out. But what, any like holy shit moments with your kids so far?
Starting point is 00:18:30 Sorry, I'm just thinking about that moment and that's a- Yeah, get your chance, huh? Yeah, but I mean, you could sell that scene to any like horror film producer, you know? I mean, what a, like I'm just imagining the creepy just imagining the creepy, and then here comes this blue baby. Yeah, just waddling out of the pantry. And he's like, that's what he's doing. That's exactly him.
Starting point is 00:18:57 And then what if your hands are tied behind your back or something, you can't do anything about it. You just gotta sit, well, that's a little dark. But anyway, I think, you know, we haven't had any of those yet. I'm also a freak, so, you know, I conjure up some of those fears, like, you know, oh, my hand went near the trash can and then I just touched his hand,
Starting point is 00:19:19 now is he, you know, munching on whatever. And, you know, it's a, I freak myself out often. So, you know, I'm hopefully won't experience any of that just yet. Yeah. Uh, we do have the Heimlich tools. Yes. You know, we got, we got the, the pump and all that. So God forbid.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Yeah, that's, yeah, that's it. But no, no scary, no super scary moments as of yet. He's very chill. We keep him in the dark. We don't let him outside. So, that's how we avoid danger. That's what I do with my daughters. Yeah. That's what I do with my daughters. Yeah. You want a real joke? Have daughters. Have beautiful daughters. That's when God says,
Starting point is 00:20:01 I'm getting back at all. I'm getting you back for everything. Everything has a way of coming back around. And now you're going to have to watch Brian Green show up to your front door and take your dollar out on a date. And I'm going to go, no fucked in the basement. No fucked in the basement. Jared Slauson I see. I see. Jared Slauson That's how it rolls. And is he crawling yet? Jared Slauson
Starting point is 00:20:23 He, his mind is definitely ahead of his body. So also it's like the biggest part of his body, but. The heads are big with him. Physically, no, but I mean, statistically, his head is bigger. The rest of his body is to catch up to his head, but he is crawling already. He's six months and he, that kid, uh, he already understands how to like, use his body to get over the top of the crib.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Oh, he's a, yeah, he's a, uh, he's like a little, uh, he's like a little toy almost. Like you just put them on his back and he flips over and he gets going. He comes back again and he flips over again. So he will be running, I think sooner He comes back again, he flips over again. So he will be running, I think, sooner than most. He already tries to walk. Man, this is such a great time. These are the moments, Noah.
Starting point is 00:21:14 These are the moments where you just take mental images because these are the moments. Now my youngest is two. And when I see young kids, like six months, five months, nine months old, I go for like a brief second. I go, oh, I missed that. I wish I could have that one more time. And then I smack myself from the inside and go, what the fuck are you thinking? I don't have another goddamn kid. No more fucking kids. No more fucking dogs.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Do you guys have pets around the house? We do. We got a little mixed breed Chihuahua. He's, you know, he wasn't a, He's like a Chowinny, we think. Then that's a Chowinny. My parents had one. So cute. Yeah. He's an adorable little guy. The baby showed up and the baby's getting a lot of attention, so he wasn't too stoked about that, but he's coming around. Right. It'll be okay. Yeah, the small dogs, they have a problem with it.
Starting point is 00:22:05 I got a Yorkie and it took a good three or four months, but once that some thing kicked in, like this shit, this thing ain't going away, I better play nice with it. The only reason that Yorkie is still around the house is because she's very good with the children. Like she protects them, she plays with them. They pull her ears and drag her around by the tail. Yeah, she eats their crackers.
Starting point is 00:22:26 But this has given you, I'm sure this has given you, we were just talking before you came on, this has given you a bunch of like breathing new life into material that then you can use on stage. This is... Yeah, yeah, definitely. I talk about being a father, but I don't, I mean, my kid is so brand new, but I think I kind of have a pretty disconnected way of looking at the world.
Starting point is 00:22:55 So my material isn't really like, my kid is special. In fact, I would say it's the opposite. But, and make no mistake, I love my son, but I think I don't speak about being a father maybe the same way others would. Because being a father just makes me think very meta about like how you know, humans came to be what they are and you know, I think about like the evolution of what a father is and weirdly like makes me think of Like certain books I've read and how There's this like Opinion that some people have about how fatherhood changed As like I guess this is like a really deep thing, but like no capitalism grew. Yeah, and fathers began to work more and more what took place of like fatherhood
Starting point is 00:23:49 and where people get their sort of adult messaging from. And there are people who say like, in a weird way, there are certain adolescents where the messaging may be from fathers, where it's like, do your best and this and that started to be less from their father and be more in the form of like posters in a school, you know, and like sort of those phrases being echoed by teachers and other adults and sometimes positive sometimes negative. But yeah, so it makes me think about that stuff. So by the time I get down to like, granted the set is not this meta,
Starting point is 00:24:27 by the time I get to writing, like I think one of my favorite bits right now is the birthing process surprised me because I was standing in the delivery room and I was thinking, this should smell worse. You know what I mean? Like, I'm- That's something to consider.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Yeah. You know, I gotta tell you, Noel about fatherhood. I don't look at my children in a way that some people really feel like very singular about their children and their children or they almost like the world was blessed because they had children and now here the kingdom comes And I look at it more like this is Evolution, baby, right? I like this is evolution, baby, and I look at these things a little less Precious I guess yeah, I mean my children are precious don't get me wrong and I think they're precious and I love them and in my eyes They're precious, I love them. And in my eyes, they're precious.
Starting point is 00:25:25 But I also understand this is just a cog in the wheel and here we go. And I got to make, do my best to kind of put the guard rails and get them through their childhood. But the also, the one thing that you just said that was weird is I also thought the exact same thing. About the smell. Yes. During my wife's natural birth.
Starting point is 00:25:45 She had a natural birth that was rougher than she had two C-sections. And in all three occasions, I thought, where are the smells that should come with opening up a body like this? Where are the, where, I'm just not getting that, thankfully, I'm not getting that. Did you have a mask on?
Starting point is 00:26:02 I had a mask on. I thought we would all go in like silence of the lambs and put some weird stuff under our nose, like some menthol under our nose. It didn't happen, but I didn't smell anything either. I had no mask. I was raw. I was just sitting there holding a leg.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Oh, yeah. Holding a leg. You were holding a leg. Oh, you were right in there, huh? Yeah, I was in there. I was participating in the birth. Good for you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:23 In there, baby. The doctor asked me, she said, do you want to take a look? And I looked in my wife's eyes and Astrid's eyes, she almost begged me through those eyeballs not to do that, but curiosity killed the cat. And I looked and I thought, wow. I mean, I knew what to look for.
Starting point is 00:26:39 I had seen birthing videos before, I knew what I would see, but I didn't really, wasn't really prepared for it. But listen, it was beautiful. It's birth, that's it. It's all natural. In your life. What else?
Starting point is 00:26:50 You got it. Do you enjoy being out on the road? So those who don't know, Noel, we have talked about him in the intro here, but you're really kind of like a fight. You started on Vine, right? I did, yes. I started on Twitter. We have talked about him in the intro here, but you're really kind of like a fight. You started on Vine, right? I did. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:08 I started Twitter video platform. Yeah. I joined Vine pretty late. Basically I got into Vine because simultaneously I was working as a web developer, just like, you know, writing code for weird web apps and stuff. Code monkey, yeah. Yeah, and one of my coworkers, he was a long time stand-up comedian, and he just kind of said like, hey, you have like a stand-up comics vibe, have you ever thought about doing stand-up?
Starting point is 00:27:38 I said, yeah, you know, but I don't even know how to get started in that. And he goes, well, why don't you come see me at a show? I don't even know how to get started in that. And he goes, well, why don't you come see me at a show? Fast forward, the show is actually an open mic and he kind of, he threw me off a cliff. So he was just like, he just threw me off. What a friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:54 And it was honestly, it was a great way to just- It was the best thing that ever happened to you. Yeah, break me into it. So I was doing standup for a bit and then I got into Vine as like, uh, my thought was, there's always popular people on Vine and I thought, oh, maybe if I, um, gain a following online, maybe I can start to get around, uh, cause in LA it's just impossible to get stage time.
Starting point is 00:28:20 So I thought like, maybe this could be a bargaining chips that a club like might want to help me develop where that's like, all right, you know, come to the show and you'll get five minutes on the show or, or you get seven, a seven minute set. It's a little leverage. You figured if you, if you have a community of people that enjoy your comedy online, then you have some leverage inside the clubs. Yeah. And I legitimately was thinking like, okay, if I have X many thousand
Starting point is 00:28:44 followers, maybe that gets me an extra 10 tickets sold and then that's incentive for, okay, if I have X many thousand followers, maybe that gets me an extra 10 tickets sold and then that's incentive for the club, you know, whatever. And yeah, little did I know that that was going to become the model way later. I'm just thinking this while you're saying it. It's like this is early and now every comedian who comes in the door experienced or not selling stadiums or small clubs says the same thing. You can it's the videos first, right?
Starting point is 00:29:06 Yeah, yeah. And so I kind of gain a following there and then fast forward, I end up getting on YouTube. YouTube starts to work really well for me. That kind of leads me into the world of podcasting. And all while this is all developing, you know, I'm touring podcasts live. And in that way, I was kind of like still doing stand-up to these crowds. And then COVID happened, and obviously that slowed things down. But then that kind of fired me up to really get back to stand up
Starting point is 00:29:46 because it did stand up for about two or three years. The timeline's always so gray. I can't remember if it's two or three, but this was all before the internet stuff like kind of blew up. So then when the internet work I was doing like really took off, that really took my focus, but I always wanted to get back to stand up.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And so when COVID ended, or I would say 2021, you know, because COVID never started for some people. Right. But so in 2021, I was like back on the road and fully doing stand up again. And so I've been just doing it for the last four years. And it's the thing I love above everything. It's the thing that just makes me the most excited. I just, I like, I love writing,
Starting point is 00:30:27 love writing ideas and sharing them. You're, I mean, and you're like, I don't know you that well, right? And- Yeah, yeah, yeah, no worries. And I'm admittedly like, have not followed your career since the beginning. No, no, it's all good. But the vibe that I get is that your personality and your comedy just comes from like this
Starting point is 00:30:49 instinctual place. I think there are comedians who are observant and then they go and they write it down and then they work it out and they knock it out. It's like a practice for them, right? But from observing you, it feels like this just comes from like an instinctual place, like a place that you've always had. You just naturally find humor in places. Wow, appreciate that, man.
Starting point is 00:31:08 Yeah, yeah. It's a gift, right? But then to actually go and do it is another thing altogether. Is it that feedback that feels good to you? Is it like that I can riff on the energy that's in the room and feel that? Yes, because my mother did not love me
Starting point is 00:31:23 and so it's nice to get acceptance from others. No. A joint that. Yes, because my mother did not love me. And so it's nice to get acceptance from others. No, uh, yes. Yeah. Nah, I think like, and it's funny cause it's evolved over time. And I think get first getting back in a standup. A lot of my approach was, was, you know, Oh, maybe people will find this funny or maybe people feel this way. And they're kind of like really maybe like eccentric ideas and then it evolved into me I think just
Starting point is 00:31:50 trying to give a window into like how I grew up and then from there I think I put out a second hour called death is FOMO and that was like more about just like things I was seeing and things I thought were funny just a bit more generally and then yeah this set that I'm working on is like kind of a nice more about just like things I was seeing and things I thought were funny just a bit more generally. And then yeah this set that I'm working on is like kind of a nice hybrid of the two where I think it feels personal to me but it's still yeah sort of these like yeah I guess instinct based things because you're right I think not much of my stand-up is sort of much of my stand-up is sort of I'll give an example of like this is I think I would maybe put this in the vein of like Larry David and this is something that genuinely pisses me off there's a parking structure that is connected to
Starting point is 00:32:36 like a place for me and my wife and my son will like we'll go eat and hang out okay and you go in there and they give you the ticket, you park, and then you leave. And, uh, they, they charge you a dollar. And then after they charge you the dollar, they make you keep the parking ticket. And this like fucking infuriates me. It fucking pisses me off so much. And every time, like it just makes me irate. And, uh, I guess the only way I could like it just makes me irate and I guess
Starting point is 00:33:05 the only way I could like equate this in my mind I was like imagine like going to the red light district and you go get a handjob from a lady and then she pulls the condom off she's like all right take that with you congratulations you know then I'm just walking around my fucking used condom I'm like the parking structure I'm like fuck you you know but. I'm like, fuck you, you know, but. And I was so, I think that's more like, you know, maybe traditional standup, like, I don't want to say formula, but like, that's maybe like a more traditional
Starting point is 00:33:35 standup, like standup observation. Sure. Yeah. And yeah, I think my natural inclination are, like in my last hour, I would actually just terrorize audiences. Like we'd have a lot of fun for the first 30 minutes. And then I would come around to this part of the set where I'd be pointing at people and they're like hammered
Starting point is 00:33:52 on Friday at 1130. And I'd be going, are you afraid to die, man? And then they're going, yeah, kind of. Of course. I'm like, man, this guy's a pussy. And I would wonder why I'm bombing. But yeah. Of course. I'm like, this guy's a pussy,
Starting point is 00:34:01 and I would wonder why I'm bombing. But, yeah. Uh. Uh. Uh. All right. But, yeah, so I think like I have like this weird, like inclination to, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:34:15 like pose questions and talk about things on stage that I think objectively are not funny. Yeah. And I'm kind of figuring out how you figure out the tension there, like where what I find interesting, I guess maybe about life, figuring out how to make that funny. I think I enjoy that part. Like I think I enjoy when the room is kind of like, ugh. Also laughing. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And I like- And there's awful giggling going on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:42 Yeah. And I kind of like living in that world a little bit. Yeah, so. Yeah, Ari Sufir, we had on it, he said that going to a comedy show sometimes is like a high wire act for the audience. They don't want to sit in the middle, they don't want to sit in the front because they're afraid of who's going to point at them and say something. But I think that that's why, great, in my opinion, that's why live comedy is so great, because it is a high wire act and you're doing this dance.
Starting point is 00:35:09 You know, it's like this balance between offending and opening minds, between observing and just shitting the bed. I mean, and it's like the comic who's really doing the high wire act, but when the audience gets involved, it can get really, really gnarly. Do you still enjoy, high wire act, but when the audience gets involved, it can get really, really gnarly. Do you still enjoy,
Starting point is 00:35:30 do you still enjoy the video aspect of it? Do you still enjoy going out there content creating? Or I know, I just want to like admit this, like sometimes it's a job, right? I'm jobbing, right? I'm here doing it. It's rinse and repeat. I always find that sitting with my friend is fun,
Starting point is 00:35:48 but sometimes it does feel like work. How do you feel about content creating so many years later after having been online for a long time? Yeah, actually, you know, it's funny. I was reflecting on this the other day. I've been putting out just like, I guess, media since for almost like 11 years now. I've been putting out just like, I guess, media since, for almost like 11 years now. So I think, yeah, I think the way I've tried to,
Starting point is 00:36:14 I guess like keep it fresh, and it's something that people who know me and have watched me for a while, who like, they don't criticize me for it, but they always make a point to say like, Noelle, you're always doing something new. And it's like almost a pain in the ass to keep up. You know, and it's, I'm not doing anything like genre bending or whatever. I just kind of like to mix it up. But yeah, I think now I finally,
Starting point is 00:36:40 because when I was younger, I was really kind of, you know, like undiagnosed and all over the place and like making way too many kinds of things. And right now I think I'm actually the most excited about what I'm doing because I feel for the first time in my life, you know, credit to my son, like I actually feel like I have direction and a big credit to my wife too. She's put up with my shenanigans for a long time. Amen to the lives. God damn dude. That spouses really. Yes. Amen. Big spouse guy.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Yeah, my wife, Alina, she's been really great as just an instrumental in helping me kind of like zone in on things because as a partner, she observes the things that make me feel bad and make me feel good. And she's always helpful as like a voice of reason to go like, hey, you know, I notice of all the work you do, like this type of work seems to give you the best. And I notice you're the best when doing this. And I think you should go that direction.
Starting point is 00:37:31 And she helps turn my neck because I think sometimes when you're focused on the performance aspect of it, you're just thinking about all these kind of dumb little nuances that really don't matter. And you miss the point sometimes. So yeah, I think. Isn't that the best, isn't that the best thing in the world to have a partner who will guide you softly, gently, sometimes firmly to your best self. And as a content creator, it's so hard to see the forest through the trees.
Starting point is 00:38:02 Sometimes you do get stuck. I, I, there's something wrong with the sound. It doesn't matter about the sound, but it goes on for five minutes and it should be two, right? And it's like, okay, all right, got it. Or you guys are your best when you're talking about this. And my wife does this to me all the time too. And sometimes I get a little bit upset
Starting point is 00:38:19 because I feel like I'm being criticized. But then if I step back for a minute, I always take a breath and I go, thank God she's here. Oh yeah. To tell me, to yell in the void, like to say something in the void and not afraid to say something.
Starting point is 00:38:34 Your wife's name's Alina? Alina, yeah. She, yeah, she is definitely not softball sometimes. But I've always like, I've always trusted that aspect of her like, yeah, creative opinions and stuff. And, uh, I've always appreciated that about her is from day one, I mean, she used to sit and watch me do open mics. And when I bomb, I get off stage and I get in
Starting point is 00:38:53 the car and I try to make myself feel better. And she'd go, I don't think anything you said made sense up there. Like she would be very, like, I get, basically being like, you, you should have bombed what you said up there was wildly stupid or like, you very, like I get, she's basically being like, you, you should have bombed. What you said up there was wildly stupid or like. You took your shit on the floor, Noel. It just didn't work out.
Starting point is 00:39:13 We need somebody like that in our lives. Yes. I think. I mean, I, as I. Oh, there's nothing, there's nothing that feels worse than doing standup and then getting in the car with your then girlfriend and she goes, you embarrassed me. Oh, geez. Not like that, she's not like me like that,
Starting point is 00:39:31 but like the message I'm getting is like, oh, you don't wanna be in this car right now cause I'm a moron. You know, like. Yeah. Yeah, but it's always been from the position of like, you know, to help me get better. And yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:48 She's always, always, always believed in me, always. And you feel like that kind of that focus and that direction and your ability to play out your ideas keeps you fresh. Like, hey, I want to wake up in the morning. I want to do this. I have an idea. I want to create it. I want to get it done.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Yeah, definitely. You know, not every day is like that. I wish, you know, every day it was like, yeah, pure creativity, but yeah, now it's like a weird, weirdly the most busy I've ever been, but the most motivated I've ever been, um, cause now I run a podcast network and, uh, that takes a lot of, you know, just time and things to think through. And we've got a pretty sizable crew.
Starting point is 00:40:29 I mean, we've got like 20 people that work for the company. And so splitting that with like some of the work that I'm doing on my YouTube channel, it does get tough at times, but I think I'm managing it super well. And obviously I'm in a lot of different places, but yeah, I think right now, I feel the most creative I've been because I've kind of given my YouTube channel like a big overhaul.
Starting point is 00:40:51 I started like a new solo podcast late last year. Um, that's called the company a lot. It's good. Yeah. Oh, thanks. Thank you. You're welcome. Do you run that podcast network like day to day?
Starting point is 00:41:02 Are you the day to day operations guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. CEO of the business? Wow. Essentially, yeah, like, you know, business owner. CEO is like, I think you gotta have like 150 employees for that type of thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's the great thing about having less than 20 employees
Starting point is 00:41:16 or less is that you just get to change, you get to put whatever title you want. Title you want. Suits the particular email. So, you know, if I'm writing someone and I'm like, executive producer, CEO, manager, co-host, creator. Yeah, I just change names all the time.
Starting point is 00:41:30 Assistant to Chrissy. Assistant to Chrissy, that's right. Yeah. I'm waiting to get more staff before I claim that title. Also, you know, I don't need my employees gunning for the back of my head. Oh, that's true. There you go. JK, JK, JK. I don't need my employees gunning for the back of my head. Oh, that's true. There you go.
Starting point is 00:41:45 JK, JK, JK. I'm gonna be kidding. I don't sell insurance. But yeah, so I have, I mean, within the organization, there are people that do more nuanced day-to-day work and I'm not in the weeds on everything. But as far as guiding where we're going, what our next steps are, oh yeah, like I'm definitely managing the weeds on everything. But as far as like guiding where we're going, what our next steps are, oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:42:05 like I'm definitely managing that stuff very directly. Like day to day. It is, yeah, it's very exciting. It's very challenging at times too, because there are days I wake up and I'm like, I just want to focus on like stupid observations about the world and get high when my son goes to sleep, but no such luck.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Can I ask you a question when you're talking about getting high? I saw one of your videos, and there was a guy on, and I wish I could remember his name, he talked about taking a 2000 milligram edible. Do you know what I'm talking about? He's like bass fishing, Tyler Walsh, that's it.
Starting point is 00:42:40 He's talked about taking a 2000 milligram edible. I like my five grams. Yeah, go for 10, 15, maybe 20, like that's insanity. You should talk to my buddy Tyler. He is one of the most interesting guys I've ever met. Tell him to call me. I'll have him on the show. I want to talk to him about that. That's insane. 100%. I don't want to tell his story
Starting point is 00:42:58 because he's like a super interesting guy, but he grew up in like rural Iowa and he got into like rodeo clowning and then that led him to stand up. And he's a very physically imposing guy when he needs to be. Like he's a big sweetheart, but when I met him, I think he was like 6'3", you know, I don't know, 280, just big boy. And he would, he's just, he is that classic American build.
Starting point is 00:43:26 He is built different. That guy can do 2000 milligram edibles. Like he could, you know, he could take an entire pack of joints and probably take them to the face. And, um, he jokes that he has the, um, tolerance, the mental specialness, to participate in one of those, uh, those competitions where you leave your hand on a car. He's like, I think I have the, uh, to do that in the car. So yeah. Um, but yeah, he, uh, he's such a interesting dude. Um, uh, A guy who like, I don't know, he just feels like he's always been in these really quirky life scenarios
Starting point is 00:44:12 and he's just observing and he's just there for the ride. And I always take inspiration from that. We always know, you know, we have a friend like this too. He's like the forest gump of our friends, right? He finds himself in the craziest situations, high on the most incredible amounts of narcotics, and he's always standing straight up for some reason. And he finds a friend in any situation.
Starting point is 00:44:32 This guy could be dropped in the middle of the Ukrainian war. And I think that he would find the shrooms and the weed and there'd be a drum circle going on by the end of it. He's just that guy. I don't know how to explain it any better. He's got a different view on life and he pulls everybody into it. But his tolerance is incredible.
Starting point is 00:44:53 I mean, it's incredible. The amount of- Well, not me. No, not me either. Me neither. I drink a beer and a five milligram and I will go, I wanna be at home. Watching some TLC show about polyamory.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Some shit like that. Trying to sell your wife on it? Yeah, well, listen. Polyamory is French for my marriage is failing. Just saying. It's good. Just saying. Good.
Starting point is 00:45:19 Yeah, that's a tough one. Listen, it's not that I, we know people who have been in open marriages and like seriously done the do. So they dating other people, screwing other people, but inevitably, inevitably, humanity is humanity and your ability to overlook the fact that someone else is pounding your significant other, there's something about that.
Starting point is 00:45:42 It just twitches the back of your, I don't know, there's like a little trigger in the back of your head and it goes crazy at some point. Makes you wanna watch. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Cucking is a whole different animal. I think those people are also built differently.
Starting point is 00:45:56 They also have weird mental fortitudes, you know what I'm saying? Each to their own. Each to their own. Yeah, for sure. So what do you do when you go out on tour? How is the wife and the kid? I mean, how's that part of it?
Starting point is 00:46:09 It's good. Sorry, I'm just getting a text now that I guess someone hit our garage. Oh. Someone hit your garage with a car? Yeah, let's see. Let's see what the damage is. No, if you need to go, we can like,
Starting point is 00:46:26 we can call you back and wrap this up another time. Yeah. Wait, just give me like, just give me like two minutes. Take your time. That's fine. I'm gonna beat them up, I'll be right back. Okay, sounds good. Put this down is the oddest way
Starting point is 00:46:41 an interview has ever ended on the commercial break. Noelle in fact had someone hit his garage. As you'll hear in just a second, everyone is okay. It's just damage to the garage door. But life stops for no podcast and no podcast interview. TCB is not excluded from that. So here's how the rest of the conversation went down when he got back.
Starting point is 00:47:01 By the way, Noel was extraordinarily gracious, calm, and seemingly not stressed out during any of this. Take a listen and then Chrissy and I will be back to wrap this all up. And Noel Miller Part 2 coming to your ears, hopefully sooner rather than later. Is everything okay? What a way to just completely derail a conversation. Are you, you know, Is everyone okay? What a way to just completely derail a conversation. Is everyone okay? Everyone's okay. You know what they say in life?
Starting point is 00:47:31 One garage door gets drove into, another one opens. Your garage door gets driven into, the door to your office opens. And your wife is standing there with the baby going, what do we do? What do we do? Unfortunately, I think I got to jump. No, absolutely. You got to jump. Listen, we'll finish the last half of this.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Don't worry about it. Okay. I'm so sorry. No, it's okay. We hope everything's okay. We'll email. Yeah, go take care of yourself. What a great dry run.
Starting point is 00:48:04 What a great way to test our chemistry. Listen, we got 30 minutes of good chemistry. We'll do another 30 minutes another time. I'm so sorry, guys. This is so weird. Please, man, please. It happens. Was your car in there?
Starting point is 00:48:17 Yeah, my car's good. Hey, listen, if you're listening to this, folks, just advice. Hitting garage doors is not cheap. So you know, I would say if you plan on hitting a garage door, just go all the way through it. Make it worth it. Did they just dent it?
Starting point is 00:48:37 Yeah, it's pretty bad. We're gonna be okay. All right guys. Well, thank you. Sorry, we'll chat soon. It's very nice to meet you guys. All right, guys. All right, go, yeah, go. Well, thank you. Sorry, we'll chat soon. Not even you. It's very nice to meet you guys. All right. All right, see ya.
Starting point is 00:48:49 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 wanna help Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid, too? You know you do. Leave a message for her, or me, or Chrissy, at 212-433-3TCB. That's 212-433-3822. You can be on the show, too. Mm-hmm. Just call and say something. Anything. Or text us,
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Starting point is 00:49:51 wasn't original. No, no shit. I did notice right toward the end of the interview, I did notice that Noel's focus just went completely away. Like Noel, if you watch this on video, Noel was completely attentive during the entirety of the 30 minutes that we were talking to him. And then for like the last minute, he got like super unfocused. And I thought for a second, uh-oh, this is- I thought that was CEO stuff. Yeah, I thought-
Starting point is 00:50:15 That's what I thought. Yeah, I thought, yeah, okay. He's managing all his stuff. He's managing all his stuff. Or I thought, okay, this is a sign that maybe we need to move on from this particular part of the conversation. You know, you can tell when someone gets a little disinterested, but that was not it at all. He actually was looking at his phone and he just interrupted the conversation and was like, guys, someone just hit my garage, I think. So you, I mean, if you are listening, then you heard most of it. But okay, so we'll get back to Noel
Starting point is 00:50:39 Miller a different time. Hopefully he'll agree to come back on and do a few more minutes with us. But I really enjoyed my conversation with him. And he can be found at noelmillerlive.com. You can go and check all the dates out that he's going to be. He's going to be here in Atlanta on the 22nd of November, Christy. Maybe we'll go see him. Center Stage Theater, which is not a typical comedy joint. It's a little bit bigger than most comedy places,
Starting point is 00:51:04 smaller than like State Farm or something like that. But that would's a little bit bigger than most comedy places, smaller than like State Farm or something like that. But that would be a good place to see live comedy, I think. That's a round table kind of room. I would enjoy that. And go check out all, I'll put links in the show notes. There's too much content to name here. I'll go put links in the show notes.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Tiny Meat Gang, he's got his own channels on YouTube. Tiny Meat Gang's still around and doing it, and some of the interviews that he has are just fascinating, like we were talking about before we got interrupted, somebody had a 2000 milligram gummy, and that story is really funny. I will not tell it here, hopefully we'll get that guy on the show, but what else is there to say?
Starting point is 00:51:44 His garage got hit by a car. What are you gonna do? When your house gets damaged and you're a house owner, you get very nervous. And you've got a baby and a wife saying, hey, can you come take care of this? Help. Yeah, I think if our, we don't have a garage,
Starting point is 00:51:59 but if we had a garage or if the house was hit by a car, it would be grounds for immediate dismissal of any episode of the commercial break, no matter who was on. And while you're here with the esteemed commercial break, I do understand the interruption, and I certainly accept that he had to go at that moment. There was no other choice, nothing else to do. Noel had to go take care of his baby six months old. He's in the thick of it.
Starting point is 00:52:22 He's handling it pretty well. Like, he seems to be pretty zen about the whole thing. But when I had my first at six months old, it was absolutely nerve wrackingly chaotic. And I had no idea just how much more chaotic it could get. I know. And then by the time the third, and he was saying like, you know,
Starting point is 00:52:43 I get nervous about like touching the garbage can and then touching my kid and all that by the third one They're eating dog shit and you're like put that down and put it in the trash while you're at it You're like, can you clean that up and put it in the trash? Yeah, you get it you understand you're like, okay, that's it now you're on your 15th I know I'm on my 15th. So I really don't care. The 15th gets no attention. That poor 15th gets no attention. Speaking of, real quick, since we have a few extra minutes here, you and I had both watched that first episode.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Maybe now the second episode is out. That Polly family on TLC. Well, it popped up, and I was like, I might as well go ahead and start watching it, because Brian's going gonna watch it. Yeah. TLC never fails to amaze me. A year ago, some listeners will remember
Starting point is 00:53:34 that we reviewed a very small, brief video that was put out by a poly family, unlike most poly families that have children involved. Like it's two couples that are married and they're living together and they have children from each marriage, have brought it in two children from one of the marriages, brought them into the household and now they live as one very weird Brady Bunch like situation. And but the spouses aren't dead. They're very much alive and they're living with them and screwing them and all this other stuff. It's a really
Starting point is 00:54:10 strange setup. I got to be honest about it. I mean, I don't want to cast judgment. No, no, no. It's not for us. We've talked about it. Yeah, it's not for us. But do we enjoy watching other people? Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Am I into poly porn? Yes, I am. And I don't mean porn like pornographic. I mean like watching, you know, getting an insight into what it's like to live this lifestyle is really already fascinating just one episode in because it's clear it's not working out. They are having trouble.
Starting point is 00:54:42 The husbands are bickering at each other. They don't like each other one bit. One husband is having better sex or more sex than the other husband with the white one wife and the other one's having more sex with the other wife. There's a baby involved. They don't even know who the dad is. They don't want to know who the dad is. And things get interesting. It looks like later in the season, I saw something about the one who just had the baby now likes a girl outside of their closed cell.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Oh really? Their polys now. So there's a fifth coming into the mix or she's asking or she wants or she has? It looks like there's interest. Unbelievable. This is not the way to live in my opinion. It is hard enough to have one fucking spouse.
Starting point is 00:55:25 It is difficult to navigate the intricacies of human relationships. It really is. Anybody who's been in one, which is everybody, knows that sometimes other human beings around you are just kind of shit. It's like a shitty situation. Like you're in a bad mood, they're in a bad mood, everyone's, you know, we're having less sex now, we're having more sex then. It's like this whole diddly dance you do. And to walk that high wire takes a lot of patience
Starting point is 00:55:50 and love and care and concern, none of which I have a whole bunch of. And then you put in another one and her husband? Fuck that, dude. Fuck that. You and Jeff were living here? I'd be like, no. One of you's gotta go or both of you gotta go. That's it.
Starting point is 00:56:07 Can you imagine? I'm laughing about Jeff living here. Jeff would not live here. Jeff wouldn't live here. I'm sorry. I know Jeff had children. Jeff loves, loves everyone in this house. I know he does.
Starting point is 00:56:20 I'm not, listen, this is not, I've got casting disperses on Jeff. But if I was Jeff at Jeff's age, and my two girls had already flew the coop, and long since been out of diapers, and toys, and all that, and already been through puberty and dating and first kisses and all that shit, I would be like, thank God, that part of my life is behind me, and now everything in my life has a place. I went over to Chrissy's house the other day before the Pearl Jam concert as we discussed and the records were organized categorically.
Starting point is 00:56:52 Yes, alphabetically. Alphabetically, categorically, in a category, alphabetically. I have records and they are in beds, they are in closets, they are in refrigerators. I think one of my Pearl Jam records is in the freezer right now. Those kids have destroyed everything. But there is a certain amount of acceptance that comes with it.
Starting point is 00:57:13 That the chaos is coming along with it, and that's just the way it fucking is, and you're gonna have to deal with it. For now. But I live on the hope and the dream that someday I get over that hump, and everything calms the fuck down. Until then, I just throw my hands in the air. Yeah, you're just part of the process.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Yes. You know what I try and keep neat, Chrissy? This five square feet of the house. This five square feet. The five square feet with the microphone. You're doing a good job. Thank you. Thank you very much. I am always doing the best I can, but I believe that's most people. Most people are doing the best they can
Starting point is 00:57:50 with the information they have at the time. And if you're not, you're just a shithead. So anyway, all right, well, here's to Noel Miller in his garage. I can't wait for the follow-up. That really was like to know what happened. I hope we get to follow up. I think we will.
Starting point is 00:58:04 I think Noel will be back and hopefully it doesn't take too long. Yeah, that was that was weird, but life happens, you know, what are you gonna do? People drive into your garage. Roll with the punches. People do drive into garages. I have driven into a garage. I have built houses where people, contractors have driven into the garage and when it happens it's a big nightmare because the garage is a complicated piece of machinery that hasn't evolved in 200 fucking years. It's the same thing.
Starting point is 00:58:33 Track, door, motor, things hanging down from the roof of your garage. It's a whole complicated endeavor. And there's only one thing you can do. Call the garage guy and get a new garage door. It's not like when you run into a garage door, you can just fix it. You should go into the garage door business.
Starting point is 00:58:51 That must be a good business. I bet it is. Yeah, because you don't fix a broken garage door. No. You get a new one. Unless it's the motor and you got to replace the motor. But if you bend a piece of the garage like the actual door, you're getting a new
Starting point is 00:59:05 garage that's it a new garage garage and roofs and if i have another roof guy stop by my fucking house to tell me i can get a new roof for no money it's like door-to-door vacuum sales cleaners then the 2025 version of that are the roof guys who promise you they can get you a new roof through your insurance company. Fuck you! I'm eating! Don't come to my front door. Who knocks on a front door anymore? And then one guy stood there for like 10 minutes, swear to God he did. Kept ringing the doorbell. He knew someone was in there.
Starting point is 00:59:37 And you know my kids, the second they hear the doorbell they all go running to the door. They don't open it, they just want to see what's out there. So we can't hide. The second they hear the doorbell they all go running to the door. They don't open it. They just want to see what's out there So we can't hide Sometimes we scream at the kids when there's someone knocks on the door stop what you're doing don't go anywhere All right all the links to no else information is in the show notes go check them out I'm sure you already have he's got so many followers. You probably know who this guy is but Go check him out. I'm sure you already have. He's got so many followers.
Starting point is 01:00:02 You probably know who this guy is. But really funny, really nice. And we'll follow up with him just as soon as we can. 212-433-3TCB. 212-433-3822. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas. If you're listening to us on Apple, do us a favor. Go and rate us at The Commercial Break on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:00:20 YouTube.com slash The Commercial Break for all the episodes soon as they are here on the audio feed. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for today. I think so. Tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you.
Starting point is 01:00:30 And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say, Goodbye! I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be a star I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be a star I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be a star I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be a star I'm gonna be a star, I'm gonna be a star Thanks for watching!

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