The Commercial Break - TCB Spring Breakin: The Rwar Package!
Episode Date: March 25, 2026EP911: Bryan and Krissy are STILL on Spring Break...a planned break, for those asking...and will be back March 31st with new episodes. But until then, Bryan replays one of his personal favorites: The ...Rawr Package! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Hey, it's the captain of this rusty ship, Brian.
And despite all of your musings, concerns, and text messages,
and probably the wishes and desires of some of the audience,
Chrissy and I are just fine.
It's our spring break, and we deserve it.
We're almost a thousand episodes into this son of a bitch,
and I swear on all the tolly, we've earned our break.
So in the meantime, we're running some of our favorite recent episodes
to get new listeners up to speed and to irritate the old listeners.
Anywho, Chrissy and I will be back next week.
Bigger and better than ever as we return to three new episodes each and every week for the absolute foreseeable future.
I need to pay my car off.
You can see Chrissy and I back at it live, March 31st, YouTube.com slash the commercial break at about 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Until then, enjoy this TCB, spring break classic.
I did try to jog once, but it makes the wine just jump right out of your glass.
On this episode of the commercial break.
Two for the ropes course.
Great. I see you have the blue wristband.
That means it's only $2,99 per minute for you to do the ropes course.
And I'm like, I have the roar back.
I'm raring.
I'm supposed to have the rar here.
And he's like, you just get a fucking discount.
And I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
And he's like, well, the activities that are included are putt putt putt.
And putt putt putt.
And I'm like, I don't want to play putt up.
Put-putt putt putt's everywhere.
No one likes putt putt putt.
The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
Ah, 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 Joy Hoadley, best of you, Chris.
Best of you, Brian.
Best of you out there in the podcast universe.
Thanks for listening.
We'll get back to Great Wolf Lodge just here in a short, hot second.
But I picked up the studio phone, and I wanted to make it a habit of checking in
more often with our listeners and like talking about them on air because they really are a great
group of people.
We don't get too much hate, at least not here on the text message line.
That is saved for the reviews where everybody can see them.
Yes, thanks for that.
Our good friend Brandon hitting us up from Knoxville, Bristol-Johnson City area.
That is called the Tri-Cities in East Tennessee.
I do love Johnson City.
Johnson City is a beautiful little town up there.
Have you ever been to Johnson City?
I have. I lived in Knoxville for...
So did you go down to Johnson City and hang out down there?
Maybe once or twice.
Yeah, did I...
You know that Raphael, my best friend, his cousin,
owns a string of restaurants,
liquor stores, bars down there.
That guy is fucking killing it.
Houses, rental houses, taxi cabs.
Good for him.
Best to you, Raphael's cousin.
Sex workers.
I mean, that guy's into everything over there.
He is really, like, he's just into everything.
A man about town.
How is it that one guy, in the same circle of people, one guy can miserably fail at every business opportunity that comes his way.
And another guy can literally turn shit into gold.
He turned a string of restaurants, bars, and liquor stores in Johnson City, fucking Tennessee into a huge success.
I'm down here in Atlanta where literally money's growing on trees.
and I can't plan to plumb to save my life.
I mean, I swear to God.
Good for you, Fosse, good for you.
He does have a great set of restaurants.
And Fossi, if you want to call and tell me the names of those, I'll shout them out here on air.
Yeah, so I love that Johnson City area.
It's lovely.
And congratulations to my kind of cousin who did it well.
Also, I wanted to say that one of our friends, do you remember about a year ago somebody wrote in and they said that they had
heard about us on a podcast called the Hillbilly Horror Stories. So for the second time in a year,
somebody has written in to tell us that they heard about us on Hill of Hillbilly Horror Stories,
who we shouted out at the time because we had no idea who the Hillbilly Horror Stories were,
never communicated with them. We certainly hadn't like purchased any ads or done any cross-promotion
with them. And apparently Jerry and Tracy were the host of this show and Jerry passed away.
So they wanted to let us know that, and he was apparently loved by a lot of people, according to this listener who also wrote in to tell us about this. And so sorry to sorry to hear about Jerry. Yeah, not Garcia. That one passed a long time ago, this other one. But sorry to hear about Jerry and thanks to Hillbilly Horror Stories. I don't know if they continued to do episodes or.
I wonder if it was something to do with the Mountain Monsters type stuff. Probably. I have to imagine. Yes. And then after we started doing, and I'm not claiming this was done because of, but I have.
I have also noticed there is a semi-popular podcast that is now just exclusively reviewing mountain monsters.
That's all they do.
But I have to imagine that maybe it has something to do with me.
Because I always imagine that.
Yeah, that's right.
One of our good friends says, wow, a whole show about naked penises and an in-depth conversation about billionaire politics.
At this rate, you're going to make me a life.
flong T-CB listener.
I think that's Sean.
With our naked attraction?
Yeah, our naked attraction episode.
So, you know, sorry to hit you over
the head with a bunch of balls start the year off.
But, I mean, what else are you doing?
You know what I'm saying?
Well, bam.
Our favorite trucker says, can never do too much Frankie B.
I'd listen to a podcast if they strictly
did only Frankie B content.
That's almost us.
Well, just go back, listen to season number two and three of the commercial
break.
And you'll get what you want.
We talked about Sydney a couple of months ago.
Sidney had written in.
He had written us a letter.
I asked for some advice, talked about some things.
And we didn't know whether or not to refer to Sydney as a girl or a boy.
I have found out that Sydney is a boy.
Sid is a boy.
Okay.
Sid, listen to the 12 days of TCB.
He says we're crushing it.
And he just wanted us to let us know that he and his girlfriend give each other gifts.
him and his lady give each other gifts.
How do you keep it a secret?
Remember we talked about that?
And we said, you don't keep it a secret because we just talked about it on the commercial break.
Tage says, happy holidays.
This is back from the holidays.
We're just getting to some of these now.
But that's better than we used to be, where we would get to it six months later.
That's right.
She volunteers with the local SPCA.
They foster cats and dogs throughout the year.
And this Christmas, she'll be alone.
But she's got TCB in the 13 days.
She thanks us for putting together the 13 days.
By the way, everybody on the text messages referred to it as the 13 days of TCB because that's actually what it was.
And someone says, where of all the PUA's gone?
Can we do some more Frankie B?
Then we did some more Frankie B.
She says, you read my mind.
Love you.
Love TCB.
Keep it going forever.
You're welcome, of course.
So just a small snapshot of some of our listeners out there writing in and saying wonderful things about us.
Thank you for writing.
I do, do, do love our listeners.
They are.
Absolutely.
Absolutely. I mean, listen, I've said this before. We'll say it again. Podcasting can be a lonely venture because part of the reason, let me share this. We have Gustavo coming up on a special episode on Saturday in celebration of the USA versus Venezuela international soccer match that will take place here in Miami.
I was thinking about that. Hopefully there won't be anymore. What was that that happened a year or two ago?
That was Colombia. I think that was the- People were storming?
it? Yeah, that was the...
Crawling through great, like, air ducts.
The America's Cup Final at the Hard Rock down there, which is the same place they're going to play this.
People were literally creating stampedes to get in without tickets.
And, like, it's just beyond me.
There are families there.
There are children there.
There are people who paid good money.
And I understand that ticket prices are out of control.
But that doesn't mean that then you can go put everybody else's life in danger.
You're fucking moron.
Don't do that.
That's just ridiculous.
Go watch it on TV.
Go watch it on TV like the rest of us, poor people.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Listen, I can't go see Chris Rockin concert anymore either.
It's too expensive.
So you know what I do?
I wait till it comes out on Netflix.
That's what you do.
It is, in my opinion, sometimes sporting matches are better when you're watching it on TV,
especially when there are stampedes running through the fucking hallways.
I couldn't imagine.
I put myself, you know, we had a lot of friends that were down there because, you know, Miami
and the Latin connection.
And so we had friends that were down there.
And the videos that they were showing and through WhatsApp were insane.
It was like a life or death situation for some people.
Now, luckily, I think only one person passed away from a heart attack or something like that.
But that could have been a really sticky situation.
Anyway, it's Venezuela versus America.
The Americans are too lazy to do anything.
You know, they're too lazy to stampede.
And, you know, God love the Venezuelans will probably be a little bit late.
So there you go.
It's not going to turn out just fine.
But that's going to be a good match.
I can't wait.
Anyway, Gustavo is coming on on Saturday.
Here's the reason why I bring up Gustavo, special episode with Gustavo coming in as a guest.
Here's why I bring it up, because Gustavo has this fear of the microphone.
He has a real fear of getting on the microphone.
And the way that I talked to him off the ledge was to explain to him that podcasting is an extremely lonely venture.
There's literally no one on the other side.
It's a camera, a microphone, and no one else in the room.
There's nothing to be scared of.
No one's going to give you instant feedback.
You're not going to feel embarrassed by being in front of a bunch of people.
You'll feel that way later.
You'll feel that way after the episode comes out.
You'll beg me to take it off the RSS feed.
And I'll say, ah, ah, ah, nah, nanyan, no.
But podcasting can be a lonely venture.
And when you guys text in and you let us know about your lives and, you know,
how TCB interacts with that life, it really is something special.
And it's something that I'm grateful for.
I think that this would be, I think it would be a.
different vibe for me if I didn't know that there were people on the other end and some of them.
Loving us and hating us. Yeah, loving us and hating us. Listen, it's hard sometimes not to take the
criticisms and internalize them. And that is why I never, ever read the reviews anymore. I don't
Google the commercial Blake. I don't, Blake, I don't do any of that because I just don't, you know,
whatever. But when on the odd, live in our happy little bubble. That's right. On the odd and off chance
that we get like somebody writes in and it's not so nice, I just ignore it. You know, I'm like,
whatever, or I say thanks for listening. What am I going to do? I can't make everybody happy.
No, you can't. Speaking of not making everybody happy, do you remember the podcaster Bobby Altof,
the Atloff, is it atzatloff, Bobby Atloff? You remember Christina? This young girl who was like
a homemaker, she was doing like videos about cooking food.
food in her house and stuff like that. And then one day, all of the sudden, she gets an interview
with a celebrity. I think it was a celebrity rapper. And this interview goes viral because her way
of interviewing people was extraordinarily weird, dry, maybe even a little bit off-putting.
She was very quiet. She was very confrontational. But she wasn't like loud about it. She would,
she would be like, you're kind of ugly.
She would say stuff like that.
And I'm not even kidding.
It was like really weird.
So she went super viral, millions and millions of views in just a couple of months.
So Bobby then has this runaway train of a successful podcast.
And she gets all of these celebrities to come on the podcast.
A lot of rappers, a lot of R&B stars, Drake.
She does a famous interview with Drake in a bed.
Yeah, I'm remembering that now.
Okay.
In a bed.
She starts kind of hitting on him.
she is married with a child that husband soon files for divorce.
Oh, God.
For a long time, people had been like whispering, like a whisper campaign, that WME, the agency
who represented her, the William Morris Endeavor Agency, who are very big players in the podcast space,
that WME, that she was an industry plant, that WME had essentially taken their other clients,
their famous clients, and strategized, constructed this out of kind of whole cloth because Drake was
their client, this other rapper was their client, lots of her guests were their clients.
Reality wasn't real.
Reality wasn't real.
I can't believe that.
It's hard to believe.
And early on, a very well-placed source in the podcast industry had told me that she was an
industry plant.
Now, I don't even know what that means, really.
because at the end of the day, you know, you could say that like, are views manufactured,
our downloads manufactured, whatever.
I don't know.
Who cares?
It doesn't really matter.
If people like the content, is she really an industry plant or is she just someone that
kind of struck while the iron was hot?
But people have been kind of, you know, eulogizing her over the last couple of weeks
or month because her views have plummeted.
She's like not the hot or it thing anymore.
As time went on, people started.
started to understand that Bobby was not the person that was on the podcast. She had a much different
personality in real life. And that a lot of this stuff was just kind of for the cameras.
She also made a few comments. Like, I heard that somebody else was making half a million
dollars podcasting. So I'm going to, that's what I need to do so I can make half a million dollars.
In other words, people felt like she wasn't doing it for the love of the podcast.
Listen, let me explain something to you. There are no millions of dollars in this type of
podcasting. I mean, you can certainly reach those successes in those heights. But for every Joe Rogan, Conan O'Brien,
and Theo Vaughn, Dax Shepherd, Smartless, there are 50 of us who are just paying the bills. That's it.
And barely. And some months not even. Bobby was not that kind of podcast. She was not the smartless kind of podcaster.
She had a lot of YouTube views, but YouTube monetizes much differently than podcasts do. And so,
Here's the reason why I say this while we're talking about this,
and then we'll get on to Great Wolf Lodge.
I feel a little bit bad for Bobby, if I'm being honest.
Because, yeah, maybe she's an industry plant,
and WME helped her get those guests on her show.
But people had to find her genuinely interesting
in order for those views to happen.
It wasn't, and that's the name of the business.
If you have an agency, you fully expect they're going to help you make connections.
That's why you have an agency to make those kind of connections.
Bobby was playing a character on a podcast.
Everybody's playing a character when the camera turns on.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter who you are.
Yes, of course, to some degree to all degrees.
I can promise you, when I am not here looking like a stud, high fade, done to the nines,
I am literally in my pajama pants farting and eating cereal and cream,
yelling at my children, kicking my dog around the house, dating high schoolers.
Yeah.
This is a difficult endeavor to go out there and to put yourself out there and to create in any way, shape, or form.
And when you create for a long time, you know, yeah, maybe you find some, like, maybe you find something organically that works.
Maybe you become more natural to your own, like, creative style.
You have to find that.
It only happens over time.
I don't fault Bobby for doing her thing, right?
No.
I don't find that particular schick interesting.
It's not interesting to me, but I think it's a little mean-spirited to go stomp on her grave
because she's no longer getting the views when Bobby was just trying to create like the rest of us.
That's my personal opinion.
Now, you want to get me on the Hawk toa girl.
That's a different story altogether.
I will dance on the Hawk toa grave because that was a shitty thing that she did.
That was super shitty.
And Hawk, too, is nowhere to be found.
Did you hear about, I told you about HART Tua.
Oh, yeah, no, I read a whole.
And her Hock coin, her Tua coin, Tua.
Yeah, I think, I mean, I kind of think in that instance, she got involved with some bad players.
Of course she did.
Yeah, she seemed pretty innocent.
Yeah.
But that, in and of it, so listen, this girl got management three days after that video went viral, somebody in that, on that management team, a father, a friend, a somebody should have said,
slow your role, girl.
You want to make money.
And you should be making money
if everybody else is making money
on this Hock Tua thing.
But you got to slow down a little bit
and not get yourself involved
in every, you know, Dick, Harry Come Lately
is fucking bullshit.
And for that, she has to take a little responsibility.
To be fair to Haktua,
she did put out like an Instagram post
that said anybody that's been affected
by the Tua coin disaster,
please contact the Tua Coy disaster.
The great Tua CooCoy.
Coin disaster, 2012.
Anybody who bought into Tua coin, you also got to take some personal responsibility.
You bought Tua coin.
Tua coin!
It's a coin based on a gross and Hock Tua.
It started a podcast.
It wasn't particularly great.
But anyway, I will say, I will give Hawk, whatever her name is, Haley.
I will give Haley a little bit of credit because at least it seems like she's trying to figure out how
we, how she undoes this cluster fuck, but I got to be honest, I mean, I think there's big trouble
around the corner for, I noticed she hasn't put out a podcast episode since that all happened.
That's a disaster. Yeah, that's, well, the only other thing that's on her Instagram, besides this
apology letter, is a video of her, like at a private island of the Caribbean on a boat sailing
around the ocean blue seas. Really? Yeah, that's a little tone deaf. Like, you know, let's,
let's be real about it. If you get into something like that and everyone's blaming you for
spending their life savings in a terrible way, you probably shouldn't be on a private, you probably
shouldn't be publicizing that you're on a private island. That's just bad. Life savings. People put their
lives savings. Chrissy, there's like one dude. One dude was like, oh, it's $450,000 in who a coin? And I'm like,
where did you, who gave you $450,000 in the first place? And how did you lose it on who a coin?
What did you think who a coin was going to do?
Did you really think there were that many people interested in this young lady's longevity
or success that they would keep whoa coin afloat?
And by the way, had you been in on it, you would have understood like kind of the economics
of it.
Like now, it's easy for me to say this because I'm just looking at videos pointing it out.
Yeah.
But if you did a little bit of homework about this meme coin, only 90% of the supply was
controlled by like 10 different wallets, which means that 10 people, 10 wallets, controlled the price of
the coin. They could sell and just wipe everybody else out. And that's exactly what they did.
So, okay, anyway, Buick coin, Bobby Atloff, Gustavo, and what else did I talk about? A little bit of
everything. A little bit of everything. Johnson City, Tennessee. All right. We'll take a break and we'll
talk about great. Well, I'll get back to Great Wolf Lodge. We'll be back.
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All right.
Last you left me, I was somewhere in the Great Wolf Lodge, stuck in the middle of a piss-soaked, lazy river with my young children somewhere south of Atlanta.
For those of you didn't catch the first episode, you might want to go listen to that.
and it'll catch you up on what's going on.
So after about, Chrissy, we're in this freezing cold pool.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
The wave pool.
Yeah, the wave pool.
Meanwhile, I asked one of your children who came out of that episode the other day.
And I said, did you have fun at the Great Wolf Lodge?
What was your favorite thing?
And she said, the wave pool.
Of course.
Of course.
They had never seen a wave pool.
I mean, you know, they're very young.
Of course they've never seen a wave pool.
The waves weren't particularly large.
Listen, under.
circumstances like this, there's no one else in the wave pool, I saw it personally get cleaned,
there was a lot of bleach poured into the pool, I would have felt great. And it was actually 87 degrees
as advertised, but that was not at all. It was barely 80 degrees, if that, maybe 78, 77 degrees.
I'm just taking a random guess. The things that I saw in there, it would have been like,
I don't know, going to Dunkin' Donuts,
watching some lady lick all the donuts and then having to buy one. Do you know what I'm saying?
And then having to buy one because your children were hungry. This is how I felt about walking into
the Great Wolf Lodge wave pool. Someone lick the donuts, but my kids are hungry, and so I'm going to
have to buy them and I'm going to have to put it in my mouth. And I'm sorry, no matter who you are,
no matter how tall you are, you could be Gustavo, and he was there with us, by the way, you could,
you're going to get that water in your mouth. It's coming in your mouth. It's waving right in.
It's waving right in because your small children are flailing around as the waves are smacking.
I mean, my kids were getting hit so hard by these rather small ways, three feet tall.
But my kids, some of them are only three feet tall.
And so it was just, bam, they didn't know what to do.
And so they're just getting pushed and pushed further and hitting their heads on the cement and knocking into everybody else.
And then there's, like, adults who can't seem to control themselves in a child's wave pool.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, is it their first time at the wave pool?
like lick the donuts be damned I need another bear crawler you know what I'm like they need another
fucking bear claw in my mouth these adults they're fucking ridiculous to me can you and I control yourself
for two seconds there are small children around that you're acting the fool though by the way at the
great wolf lodge I've said this and I'll say it again it appears that everyone there has is very
nice and well trained but there was one count them one lifeguard guarding this wave pool
Now, it wasn't very big, so maybe that they have determined that that's enough, and I'll take that on face value.
But when I go to Six Flags Whitewater, there's like 30 lifeguards around that wave pool.
Now, Six Flags Whitewater has a bigger wave pool, bigger waves, and much more rowdy children.
Yeah, it's a huge.
It's like, isn't that one of the largest water parks in the country or something?
I remember it being really, but I haven't been in years.
Yeah, it is huge.
And they have big waves that come there, so that I can understand.
And it gets deep.
I think it's like 10 feet deep at one end.
This is only five feet deep.
Max. But that one lifeguard, here's a weird thing that lifeguards are doing. Let me, let me stop for a
second. Here's a weird thing I've noticed all lifeguards are doing now. Do you remember telling me,
I tell me telling you the story about how we went to that Margaritaville? Yes. And the lifeguards
were doing, like one lifeguard was like moving their head back and forth with their hand. And I thought
maybe there was, they had a touch of autism or something, because that's all they were doing for like
30 minutes and then somebody else would come in. I've noticed that all lifeguards are now doing this.
Why? It's a technique, I guess, to make sure that they are still paying attention and scanning.
Okay. But they're actually moving their heads back and forth with their hands. It's a little
weird. I don't know. Maybe somebody who has a kid that's a lifeguard or has been a lifeguard or is a
lifeguard can write in. Is it your next door neighbor? She's a different kind of lifeguard.
She's a kind of lifeguard that you pay $10. Well, actually it was her friend that came in.
It was a lifeguard for the pool party. Yeah. She did not do that.
she was very attentive. She stood up and was watching the pool. I think I paid her way too much
money to do nothing, to be honest with you. There were a bunch of parents in the pool, but whatever.
So this lifeguard was consistently blowing the whistle, you know, and making some hand gesture
basically like, you know, stop fooling around. And every time the whistle blew and I looked over,
they were not calling attention to children. They were calling attention to the adults, who had been
sitting at the bar over there, getting fucking sloshed with their yard.
Bloody Mary's or whatever it is. Let's settle down, guys. Come on. This is generally for children.
I understand adults can have fun there too. But really? Give an instance, give it for instance of what
was one of the adults doing. One of the adults had a child, like, I'm going to guess 10 or 11 years
old. They were down in the deep end and every time a wave came, they were throwing them up in the air,
right, to hit the wave. Which is like, okay,
Maybe you and your kid have this understanding that that's a fun game.
But the pool is crowded.
He could land on other people.
He could land the wrong way.
Like the lifeguard is doing the right thing.
You don't throw children at the wave when it's coming their way, right?
That's like some form of child abuse.
Another example, there's a rope at the end so you don't get sucked into the wave-making machine.
There's a full-grown-ass man, Harry back and all, with his, you know, oversized board shorts hanging half off his ass.
and he's hanging on to the rope as the waves come by.
Oh, my God.
And this lady had to blow the whistle 50 times.
Poo!
Poo!
Poo!
Poo!
Poo!
And this guy's, you know, doing the waves like this.
And she's looking right at her.
And she's going like this, stop, stop.
Stop.
And he's just hanging on for dear life.
And I thought to myself, do you really, really,
did someone not give you a kiss as a child?
Because this is like, this is terrible.
You're terrible.
Stop it.
Stop it.
So, okay, so all of this is going on, and the wave pool eventually gets too cold.
We jump on the lazy river so that we can go.
Asher, it has now gotten some food with LA.
I think I told you that the towels were stolen.
So here we are stuck in these two chairs, not the kind of chairs that sit up above the ground,
the kind that sit way down at the bottom.
Oh, those low ones.
Yes.
In a sloped angle cement floor that is going to be.
down into the kiddie pool with just a splash park, which means they have lots of things where you
press the button and it sprays water or dumps water everywhere. The only seats that we could get were
actually like halfway in to the splash pool. So here we are cheeseburgers and all. And there are
little shits running around spraying us with, you know, just spraying water in your general direction.
So I'm eating a soggy, sloppy hamburger that's been pissed on by a Dunkin' Donuts-filled child.
It was ick all over, but my kids are loving it.
They are la, la, la, la, loving it.
So even though some of my kids are a little bit older in this little splash park here is probably meant for three and under, you know, I've got kids that are double that age, but they can still go in there and they can still play.
So these little splash park, so now we're done eating.
Our stomach's full.
The best thing to do at the best time to go swimming is right after you've had food, according to all medical,
experts. So now my kids' stomachs are full, and what are we going to do? We're going to go in the
kiddie splash park where they have four little slides. You go, you walk up to the top. There are
four slides pouring down water, like little waterfalls, and you just go down. Those slides,
they're not even 10 feet long. They're tiny little slides. There's no tunnel. There's nothing.
It's just a slide down into the pool, slide down into the pool. Slide down into the pool.
There's another lifeguard over there. There's more. Grown-ass adults.
that are riding these 10 slides.
What?
You know, literally landing on small children as they splash down, pulling up their pants and being like,
they was awesome.
If you get that one on the Instagram, I can put that one on my Instagrams and TikToks and my Facebooks.
I just wanted to kill some of these people because, guys, this is, there's no human being on Earth that would look at this pool and say,
this is made for me as an adult.
This is made for a 380-pound, you know, 42-year-old man in board shorts and a T-shirt.
You know what I'm saying?
No.
No, that should not be allowed.
But this couple of guys, these couple of guys, they took it upon themselves, wearing their hats and all, that they needed to slide down these slides more than the children did.
As at one time, my son was up there, and one of these guys came, my son was like trying to position himself.
on the thing and one of these guys came and just got around him and slid down.
What?
Yes.
And then he gets, he splashes into the water like a three-year-old gets up, you know,
hats all disheveled and he's like, woo!
Like that.
And I thought to myself, yeah.
One of two things here.
One of two things.
Either you are challenged in some kind of way.
And in that case, I give you a pass because, you know, there you go.
And number two, you are in desperate need of a blow job.
Do you know what I'm saying?
You are in desperate need.
of some sexual affection to mature your ass a little bit because this is terrible.
Like, you are just acting like a terrible human being.
Did you say anything?
I didn't.
No.
Well, what am I going to do?
I'm going to get into a, you know, then I'm going to be the guy on Instagram.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
His wife was already videotaping him.
Had a phone was videotaping him going down the slide.
So I can only imagine he's one of these guys that I'm really jealous of because they have
58,000 followers on Instagram and we have three.
Yeah.
Not thousand, three followers on Instagram.
This is one of those cases.
You know, I travel Instagram a lot.
And I wonder exactly how people get these many followers.
This is how.
The kitty pool slide at Great Wolf Lodge.
And by the way, there's a whole niche out there in Instagram, Great Wolf Lodge.
Oh, I can only imagine.
If you want to see what it's really like, you feel free to hashtag Great Wolf Lodge because you will see everything that I'm talking about and probably more.
It is a thing because there are many of them throughout the country.
So after we get done with that and we go on the big water slide a couple of times, it was like a couple of big water slides.
Yeah.
My kids can't get on all of them because some of them require you to be a certain height.
And a few of my children are not that height.
And so I didn't want to leave them alone.
My wife had already decided she had Astrid was already done with this.
By the way, Astrid was done with it as soon as we got started with it.
Yes.
this is one of those things where I knew going in, likely I was going to end up being the sole
survivor here at the Astrid.
She's too much of a germphobe to be in there.
And it was her idea, by the way, to go to this.
But we were there and the baby was getting cold and I knew exactly what was going to happen.
And that's okay.
So I took the kids on the big rides that they could go on.
And by the way, those slides, perfectly fun.
They really were.
They were fun.
They were fast.
They were long.
you know, all the things you would want in the bed or at a Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park.
There you go.
But after we did this a couple of times, everybody was starting to shiver.
And I made the adult call that, you know, I was going to be one of the few adults at the Great Wolf Lodge to say, hey, listen.
I know this, the wave pool is lovely and now filled with, you know, tomatoes and American sliced cheese from the cheese burgers that people are eating inside of the pool.
But let's go get dried off and then we can find something to do.
Yeah, because there are other things to do there.
You were saying that.
There's a mini bowling alley.
That sounds fun.
A mini bowling alley.
Have you seen these?
They're like all electronically controlled.
So you go in, you have a reservation, you go in, you type in your name.
And the lane is half the length, half the width, and the ball is much smaller.
And so are the pins.
So you can just basically throw it down.
If you're a grown person, you can just like throw overhand it down.
It's just like baseball pitch it down there.
But the kids have fun because they can actually pick up the ball and roll it down there.
Yeah.
And there's no gutters.
So it's all just, it's bumper ball essentially is what it is.
And they have a ton of those.
They have a big rock climbing wall.
They have a ropes course.
They have aforementioned restaurants.
A huge arcade, also known as a money pit for adults, for people with children.
So we go upstairs to our room, which is strategically.
strategically located as the last room in the entire building. So from one place, so from one side of
Great Wolf Lodge to the other side of Great Wolf Lodge, I would say it's probably about 16 miles.
So you have to walk 16 miles in your wet, you know, bathing suit and T-shirt. I put on a T-shirt,
and I wrapped a towel around myself. I put my shoes on because that's what adults do after they get out of a pool.
that most adults didn't do that so now I want you to imagine riding up in an elevator to the fourth floor not particularly fast elevator riding up in the elevator in the fourth floor with various size shapes colors and others of people who are in various states of undress
yeah just bathing wet bathing suits oh chrissey one guy one guy he had a family with him right and he was short and he was stout he was just he looked like I don't even know how to explain it he was
short, he was stout, you know, put a teacup and pour him out. I don't know. He looked like a teapot.
That's all I can describe it. They had gotten a pizza from downstairs, but he couldn't wait the elevator ride to eat the pizza. So he would literally had the box in his hand and he was like, without a shirt on or shoes.
Where do we find these people? Where do we find these? They're all living amongst us. They're your neighbors. They're your friends. They're the people you're passing on the highway.
These are the people in your neighborhood
And they're all fucked up
Go and figure that
Not all people in the world are well
Yeah, not
Chrissy
If you go to Great Wolf Lodge
There's a lot of people in the world
And a lot of them aren't well
And a lot of them showed up a Great Wolf Lodge
That we can't after the new year
We, it took us an hour to get back to our room
I swear to God it did
Now I have tired, cold
exhausted children
But the day's not over yet
It's only like 3.30 p.m.
And I can.
I can't put my kids to bed at 3.30 p.m. As much as you want to. As much as I want to. I've learned over time that putting your kids to bed at 3.30 p.m. means they're going to wake up at 3.30 a.m. and not want to go back to sleep. So we got upstairs. Everybody gets dried off. I tell the kids, I'd say I want you to go straight into the room. The shower. The shower. Go to the shower. Why, Danny? I just got out of the pool.
I don't want to. I don't want to.
No, you're not going back downstairs unless you take a shower.
One of my kids who's really smart and very contextual was like,
it doesn't make much sense why we have to get into the shower after we've been in the pool.
I said, would you want to take a shower if you had just peed on your own leg?
Yes.
I said, that's why we're taking a shower after we got out of the pool.
Because we just peed on our own leg.
But it wasn't our pee.
It was someone else's pee.
And it was more than our leg.
Get in the fucking shit.
shower. God damn it. And you better, don't use that soap in that container. People are probably
jizzing in. Use the soap that mommy brought. We are such germ phoms. Oh, I bring my own stuff,
too. I think I've realized that we, and I think this is warranted, especially after coronavirus.
I think we're like full on germ folks. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. We bring our own,
we have those little bottles and we fill up our own soaps. I will bring a bar of soap when I come.
Sometimes we put towels down in the shower. We don't allow for baths anymore. I mean, we did with
the baby up until recently don't allow for baths anymore because who knows what's going on in
those bathtubs this is the great wolf lodge this ain't the ritz fucking carlton do you know what i'm saying
and listen i don't want to sound elitist i'm not i'm germophobic it's there's a big difference
i don't mind i was i was fully surprised when you said you were going i know yeah it's like
because it does take a lot for me to get over both astrid and i to get over the fact listen we know from
raising our own children just how disgusting they are. And they are disgusting. Children are
disgusting. They're snot filled throw up shit rags. That's what they are. And they run around doing
all of these things at all times. I will share this story. My youngest, over the weekend,
now we put her in the shower, you know, and I let her go for, yeah, just let her sit there. It's a way
to wait, kill 15, 20 minutes. Put in the shower, she loves it. We give her a couple of toys. She plays. She
sings, she dances. She pretends like she's washing herself off. You know, it's a whole,
thing. I was in the room, whatever I was doing talking on the phone, I can hear, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Pu-Poo.
Daddy-poo. I turned the corner. Daddy-pooh was right.
She's just there doing her thing. And she's like, oh, Daddy, Pooh, Daddy, Pooh. I, have you ever seen,
remember E.T? where they like put the big cover over the house? Yes, that's what I.
did with my shower. I hazmed it. I went and got Drano. I got liquid pipe cleaner. We soaked the floor
and bleach. We took towels. We threw them out. We did the whole thing because I understand that
that's how the kids get sick and it's a never-ending cycle once they do and we're trying to protect
us and them. I mean, getting sick is part of building defenses, but we don't need to be sick every
single week of the winter. So when we go to Great Wolf Lodge, imagine this. It's a fucking, yes, of
Of course, it's a norovirus peach tree dish is what it is in the middle of winter.
That's what I told you.
And there's no guarantees that the poor people who are cleaning these rooms can get them as clean as they need to be in order.
You can't.
It's an impossible.
It's not their fault.
They're all that time schedule too.
You've got people downstairs.
Yes.
I think we're lucky if they change the sheets.
Do you know what I'm saying?
I really do.
And that's why they put these bottles of soap now that are sitting in every hotel room, every place, everywhere, except for the finest of hotels.
and I can only imagine what some sick fucks are out there doing to those bottles of soap.
I don't even want to know.
People are weird, and men especially.
I could even listen, guys.
I was a boy too once.
Like, you know, I don't know what's going on with those bottles of soap.
I don't want to know.
So I take these kids in there and I wash them off as thoroughly as I can.
And then I'm like, okay, well, let's go downstairs and try and kill some more time.
We go down there.
We have now paid like $180 for this all-adventure pack.
They are, Ra, Adventure Pack, which is supposed to get us all kinds of everything for free.
We don't have to worry about it.
No must, no fuss.
We're just supposed to go there.
Well, the place is crowded.
So we go up to this little stand where you can check into all these different activities.
And I'd say, you know, okay, two for the ropes course.
Great.
I see you have the blue wristband.
That means it's only $2,99 per minute for you to do the ropes course.
And I'm like, I have the RAR pack.
I'm roaring.
I'm supposed to have the rar here.
And he's like, you just get a fucking discount.
And I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
And he's like, well, the activities that are included are putt putt putt.
And putt putt putt and putt putt.
And I'm like, I don't want to play putt putt putt putt.
Putt putt's everywhere.
No one likes putt putt putt.
No one likes regular putt putt putt.
Let's be honest.
It's played out a little bit.
Okay.
But guess what we do?
We play putt putt putt putt.
And all else fails.
Yes.
And Alley and Gustavo
decide to do the ropes course, and then Astrid, for some reason, one of my daughters in Astrid
are eyeing the climbing wall, a very huge climbing wall, four stories in the air, climbing wall
on the back of the thing. And they start looking at that climbing wall, and I'm like, oh, my God,
my young girl is going to go up there and try and climb four stories. I will tell you the
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Astrid and one of my girls.
They're looking at the climbing wall.
climbing wall that is three and a half four stories in the year. It's very tall. And it's like a real
climbing wall. And there's a bunch of children that are manning this climbing wall. But I can see
that they have some kind of, I don't know if you, I don't know if you ever been climbing
climbing. Did I tell you this story that? I tried one time and I failed miserably. I never went back.
It's hard. I wouldn't even try because of my fear of heights. I would get, I've been on children's
climbing wall. Yes. That's like seven feet. Yeah. Like there's a place, a play place that we go. Yeah.
My son wanted me to help him climb up, so I did that.
You know, whatever.
Yeah, you can do that.
But the real one with, like, the rope and the thing.
And, yeah.
And the rope is one of those belay ropes, like an auto belay.
So you climb up, and then if you fall off, it automatically catches you and lowers you down slowly.
It's an auto belay.
So it's not someone actually doing it.
It makes me feel a little bit better.
Okay.
At least there's not some, you know, jackoff teenager trying to make sure that my daughter doesn't come crashing down or, God forbid, my wife.
So I was like, okay, you know, all.
I'll watch the baby while you do this, I guess. You know, be careful up there.
Well, my daughter, there's three sections of the wall. There's very difficult, difficult, and easy.
So they put my daughter on easy. She can barely fit into the harness.
Right. She's just tall enough to get into the harness. But I give her credit. She's fucking brave. She did it. Listen, you had, she has never seen. I know. She's never seen any of her parents exhibit that kind of courage because we don't have that kind of courage. But Astrid gets up there too. This is going on.
over the course of an hour. It's like my daughter first and then we come back to it and then
Astrid and my daughter are doing it. And then Gustavo, who's just finished the ropes course,
which of course I'll never do because that thing's three stories in the air. You've got to like walk
on a tight rope and all this. I was like, fuck that. I literally cannot get on a ladder without feeling
afraid of heights. But Astrid goes on it and then she gets down. She probably gets halfway up
the wall and she goes down and then Gustavo and Alley are getting in their gear to go next.
And Gustavo goes, hey, brother, you're going to go? Come on, brother. Let's go. And Astrid turns
him and she goes, he's not going to do that, like that. Something about that, those words.
Yeah, it was like a challenge. Compelled my balls to release a high dose of testosterone. And my brain
went into auto shutoff mode. And I, and after they did it, I just didn't say a word. And after they did it, and I got braver and braver.
and after Gustavo got down, I think he made it almost all the way up the difficult wall.
After he did it, I jumped over there and I said, loop me up, coach.
Arnest me in.
I'm ready to go up. I am ready to go up.
Chrissy, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know why I'm doing it.
I have never been in a harness. I don't know how to climb a wall. I don't even know what you're supposed to do.
But instinct takes over and I quickly, quickly, and not looking down once.
climbed right up that wall and rang that bell all the way up to the top.
Difficult range.
Three and a half stories in the air.
To which then my poor hands and body, my old frail body just gave out.
And I knew it was coming.
But I was like, okay, I can't hold on any longer.
I did it.
And I let go.
And the belay released like 10 of the 30 feet just like, who.
And then it slowed down.
But it slowed down in a way that I couldn't catch my body.
so I literally landed on the ground flat
to which the young teenager
who I think is there to help you in some way, shape or form,
nice guy, was like, whoa, dude.
And I was like, oh man.
And then I was like having trouble getting myself back up.
I was like, and he's just standing on top of me like,
yo, all right, bro?
And I was like, yeah, can you help me up?
And he's like, wow, bro, you took a hit there.
And I was like, yeah, can you help me up?
I'm picturing you climbing the wall
I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it with me, and then
onto the floor.
I think Aster has this on video, and if she does, I will put it on, I will put it on our
Instagram at the commercial break.
Chrissy, this was like, I really felt very proud of myself when I hit that bell,
but like most of my life, most accomplishments are then superseded by some
embarrassment.
I can't win for losing.
I must have looked like an idiot. I don't even think I've watched the video. I haven't watched
a video. I must have looked like an idiot just falling non-gracefully three stories down and falling
directly on my back. I mean, it's hard. That's great for your back to. Yeah, it's, you know,
that'll make you sleep well at night. And then I wonder why my back's hurt for the last couple of days.
Actually, now I think I'm putting two and two together. That's it. That's why. I landed directly on my back.
But I was just, I don't know what made me, it's like the time that I'd,
jumped out of an airplane. I don't know what made me do it, but some kind of weird thing happens
sometimes, even though I'm terrified of heights, and you probably on any other day.
We did a whole zip line. Zipline situation.
Mile in the air. Didn't we do like the world's longest zip line? Yeah. Or the world's highest or
something. Yeah, it was very, very long. It was like 15 different stops. Yes, very long, very high up in
the air. And there again, something in my brain takes over where I can manage to get over the fear.
You weren't just going to have me do it.
No, no, no, no, no.
You had to jump it.
Well, yeah, when you decided you were going to come, I think you said, let's, we got to do the zip lines.
I've read about the zip lines.
And what was I going to do?
Have you do it by yourself?
No, let's both get in a harness, smoke cigarettes all the way through the tree canopy of Costa Rica.
I think I might have taken a few shots of tequila.
Oh, my.
Rum.
Rum.
Beforehand.
I think so.
I think it's pretty safe assumption.
If we're talking about that trip to Costa Rica, one.
One or both of us was fucked up at any given hour of the day or all given hours of the day.
That was a wild trip.
Yeah, so I fly planes.
I jump out of them.
I randomly climb up walls.
But if you tried to get me on a ladder to change a light bulb in my own house, my knees would shake, literally.
I don't know what it is.
It was crazy.
So anyway, so now I've had my adventure for the day, right?
I've decided like I'm a man.
And I was so proud of myself.
Astrid looks at Gustav.
at Gustavo and she goes, he still got it. And I was like, got what? I don't know. I probably
looked like a... He still got it. It's a bad problem. I probably look like a one-legged spider-man
crawling up that. I'm dying to see it. I don't even think I used my feet. I was just
pulling my hands up. Just adrenaline strength. Yeah, I just wanted to get to the next thing so I
could prove to myself that I could do it. But it was hard. I went on the difficult one. It was hard.
So, okay, so all right, now we're done.
Everyone's done.
Oh, if we get at that arcade and Chrissy, I give those kids, I give them $25, like, I tell them no, no, no, no, no about the arcade because they started asking the second they saw it.
And I'm like, no, no, no, no, money pit, money pit, money pit.
And what do you get at the end?
You get a rubbery ball and a pack of three sweet tarts for the $38 you've spent.
It doesn't make any sense.
But of course, I give in because I'm like...
Talk about germs, too.
Oh, God.
Those games.
But you know, Mike.
They're not going in and cleaning after all of those kids.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'll tell you the surprising thing.
One second, I'll tell you about cleaning that surprised me a little bit.
So we walk into this arcade and the arcade has surprisingly few video games and a whole bunch of things with claws.
Claws are the money pit.
And ways to win tickets.
Ski ball, wheel of fortune.
those games of chance where you like something's like the there's these tickets wound in a big
circle like these big packs of tickets right thousand five thousand 50 thousand and you have to
drop a little arm in that they're all spinning around on this wheel real fast and you have to
drop an arm in there to try and shove them off and if you shove one of them off you get them
there was a kid this little shit every time
he dropped that arm, he was getting like 50,000 tickets. He was putting them on his arm. And he had a whole
sleeve of these tickets. And I, yes, ropes of tickets. And I'm like, I'm fascinated by this kid.
Pudgy little redhead just like mastering all of these games. And that wasn't the only time I saw
him getting tickets. Wheel of Fortune. He won 10,000 tickets. The kid had like 600,000 tickets.
And I'm like, so I ask him, I go, how are you managing to do this? And he goes, well, been here a lot. I get real
at it after a while. And I'm like, and where are your mommy and daddy? They're in the room.
Smoking math. They're at the bar doing coke. So these claws, these claws, they're 10 points each time.
And 10 points is like $3. Well, I've given my kids $25. Well, I managed to get a claw thing for each of
my children, but then fail at successful tips. So basically, they get four claw attempts,
and then they're done with their money. And then they're screaming and yelling because they didn't get the thing
that they wanted to really get.
So I said, that's enough.
That's it.
You know, you're getting shitty right now.
It's like 8 o'clock at night.
I'll just buy you what that prize is.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, one of the reasons why I say they were really,
everybody there was really nice is because we actually didn't have the tickets to get them
what they wanted and the people just let it.
They were like, I'll just have it.
That's nice.
Which was nice.
But then I thought about it.
I just spent $110 at your arcade.
Thanks for the bouncy ball that cost that scent.
That costs one red scent.
Yeah, you had one of the, on the RFIB bracelet.
You were alert.
They were alerted.
He's spent.
Yes.
That's right.
He's in $6,000 now.
Great Wolf Lodge.
Before his credit card doesn't go through.
That's right.
Give him the,
give it to it.
Checkouts at 11, but we got out at 7 before they ran the credit cards because I didn't
want them to lock me in the room.
So we go back upstairs and now everybody's fussy, everybody's tired, and everybody's
hungry.
That's it.
Hungry.
So we're trying to figure out what to do.
We've seen other people.
have other pizza box, like outside pizza places, boxes there. But we decide no, because that may take
a long time. Yeah. And we don't know what to trust out this far. Like, we don't know which pizza place.
What about the guy from the elevator? What did he have? He had the pizza from downstairs.
Yeah. The Wolfie's Pizza.
Bam! Everything is Wolfie something, right? Swim, Swim, Swim Wolfie's Dolphin or whatever it is. There's
the taco place, there's the burger place, there's the Dunkin Donuts, there's the ice cream
shop, there's the pizza place, and there's a cafeteria-like place where they just make
cafeteria-type food. Well, the cafeteria place, for one reason or the other, wasn't open. I'm imagining
dysentery, but, you know, who knows? It's like a cruise ship. The help department. The health department
shut them down. I don't know. The taco place is open, but I'm not sure I trust tacos from Great
Wolfie Lodge. The hamburger. The Wolfie Taco. Yeah, and by the way, no one seemed to be
getting the wolfie tacos, so it made me a little suspicious. It's like my father-in-law always says.
If the restaurant isn't crowded, there's a reason, right? It's not good, probably. So I thought to
myself, well, I'm not sure I want to get, you know, the shits before I leave, you know, Great Wolf Lodge
in 12 hours. And then the burger place, well, we've already had the burgers. So let's not have
burgers twice. So what's pizza? So Astrid finds a way that you can order online, you can order
the pizzas to be picked up down at this pizza place that's embedded in the inside.
of the adventure part. So it says, so Astrodot orders, whatever it is, four pizzas, wing,
a bunch of stuff. And she says, okay, be ready in 30 minutes. Okay. So one of my kids begging me,
can I go with, can I go with, can I go with? Can I go with? And I know what it's going to be is just
I want to buy the next thing. I want to buy the next thing. I want to buy the next thing. Yes.
But as a father, sometimes you actually do have to hang out with your children. So I was like,
all right, here, you know, these are the kind of moments they'll remember when they get older.
daddy told me no for an hour straight waiting for pizza as he got increasingly frustrated at humans
in general so i tell astrid after like 25 minutes all right it takes an hour to walk down there so
i'm going to go and it'll be ready by the time i get there well i go down there they got these big
screens it's it's not even a pizza place it's like a there's a counter and that counter they have a
they have a big glass refrigerator full of drinks they have a counter the counter has plastic plates bags
cups, and then it's got like some cookies behind a glass and some other stuff behind the glass,
and the little cash register over to the right where you can order stuff. Then it's got these
screen, it's probably got seven tables in this little area, and then a bunch of tables outside.
It's still inside the facility, but outside the actual enclosure that is the pizza place.
But then there's no ovens right behind that. There's just this big wolf sign. And then there's a door
where I imagine the kitchen is somewhere back there.
Okay, they probably make all the food at one place
and then just bring it to its respective restaurants.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yes, I would say so.
They freeze it.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Six months later.
Yeah, this is not fresh pizza.
Yeah.
This is Dejornos' afterthought pizza that's...
The Dejorno rejects.
Yes, that's right, jumped in en masse and cooked there in some weird oven.
So we've got four of these pizzas.
Big screens, and they've got names.
Order names.
so it's got your last name, ready.
And then they're just shoving him in this box.
And there's one poor kid whose responsibility is to yell out the names of the orders and try and get people their pizza.
Well, what I notice as soon as I walk in is that our name is, there's like four screens.
And our name is on the fourth screen.
And they're just getting to the people on the left-hand side of the screen.
And I'm like, I go, all right, son, take a seat.
We're going to be here for a minute.
I already know this.
there are people that are sitting there, all of them waiting for pizza, you can tell.
There are certain people who you can already understand are irritated by this whole situation.
You've walked in.
Yes.
Yes.
There is a story to this moment and you are walking in on that story and you don't know what's going on.
So my spidey senses are up.
I'm trying to figure out, is there going to be a fist fight over the Wolfie's Pizza or is someone going to lose their shit?
Because there are certain indicators that I won't get into right now for,
various reasons. There are certain indicators on certain people that tell me that it's likely
that someone could explode. Someone could explode or is in the process of exploding and I'm just
walking into it. So I find a table I sit my kid down right in front of the glass window.
There is a lady with her three children and she keeps walking back and forth trying to get
the guy behind there's attention. She keeps on every five seconds. He's that.
That's ours. Is that ours? Is that ours? And he keeps on saying, no, it's not. I know your name
as soon as, okay? The guy goes back to get more pizzas, comes back. I start realizing that every
time the guy went back to get pizzas, she takes a plastic bag from like one of those things you see
at Kroger, like a plastic bag hanger. She takes a plastic bag. She puts plates and napkins in it,
and she tells her kid to go get a drink. And the kid puts the drinks in another plastic bag. That
kid takes all of the accoutrements outside the restaurant and the kid comes back.
What?
Every time the guy leaves, this lady is stealing plates, plastic bags.
She literally took like 50 plastic bags off the thing and stuffed them in another plastic
bag, told her kid to go get more drinks and off a way that goes.
These people are stealing from the Great Wolf Lodge, drinks, waters, sodas, utensils,
napkins, it's like what level of desperate, you could afford to come to the Great Wolf Lodge,
you can afford paper plates and napkins, and other people may need them.
This is going to make it twice as expensive next time I decide to come to the Great Wolf Lodge
because you're shitting on the honor system.
She did have a scam going on.
And I don't know, I'm sure other people noticed it.
I couldn't have been the only one.
Meanwhile, my son is like, can I watch your phone?
Can I watch your phone?
Can I want your fun?
Did you bring an iPad for this excursion?
And I am engrossed in what is going up.
And so finally, I just, like, I make it a rule of not giving my phone to my kids anywhere,
but I just hand him the phone.
And I'm like, here you go.
Meanwhile, he's on like, you porn.
And I'm here watching ladies steal drinks.
I'm just going, should I say something or should I not say something?
Because, you know, this day and age, sometimes it's dangerous to say something.
And maybe, just maybe, I'm making the assumption that she's not paying for it.
But maybe it's possible that she's.
paid for it. Well, after like the fifth time of grabbing four or five different liters of like Gatorade and soda,
there's no way because, yes, there was an honor system in the sense that the guy would hand you your
pizza. He handed me my pizza. And then he said, you can get your drinks. I see you have this.
You can get your drinks from the thing. He was telling everybody that, right? But he wasn't really
paying attention to what you were getting. But, you know, my kid's watching. And so I feel like,
even if I wanted an extra soda, I don't think I would do it, even if he wasn't there,
but I'm certainly not going to do it with my kid there. No way.
Or involve your kid. Yes. And the theft of the Great Wolf Lodge Pizza Place.
So after this lady got her pizza, there were people behind me, and they were in slow motion
redneck explosion over how long this was taking their pizza. And I could hear them talking,
the parents talking amongst themselves, the children yelling at saying, you know,
Wednesday's fucking pizza going to be ready dad.
And the dad would be like, I don't know, son, but I'm getting real pissed off.
Yeah, I'm getting pissed off too.
You know, like a whole family of shitheads.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like they're breeding them in some kind of pastry dish for assholes.
And I can hear these kids, you know.
And my kid is like, Daddy, I think that guy said the word asshole.
And I'm like, he did and you don't repeat it.
Only Daddy can say that on his podcast because that's how we make money.
And you'll learn, you'll learn the hypocrisy of Daddy later on in life.
But for right now, you can't say the word asshole.
That's right.
So eventually, after like 40 minutes, our name comes up and the guy comes up with our pizza.
I know, we won the pizza lottery.
But when we stand up, the guy behind me is at the counter before I am.
He stands up right away and walks up.
right in front of me. And he goes, is that our pizza? And I go, I think he called my name. And he looks at
the guy and he goes, this guy was here after us. And he goes, it goes in order. And maybe you were,
yeah, they ordered it before you. Oh my God, did this guy blow up at this kid? And he was like,
this makes no sense. How do you fucking run an operation like this? When people are waiting and this
guy gets it before that guy, there's no making sense of this, blah, blah, blah. This poor teenager
is like, sure, I'll get my manager, but this is the way it is. You have to wait for your pizza.
It'll be up soon. You know, you told us. It sounds like the pizza shop is the worst job in the place.
It was just like a, it was just like the worst of humanity comes out. Yeah. And this is happening so
much. We see it on social media. And now it's just like unfolding in front of my eyes. It's not the
first time. It won't be the last time. But finally, I just couldn't take it. I admit.
Make it a point not to get involved because, you know, I got kids with me.
Like, I don't want to be the ire of anybody's displeasure, right?
But I finally looked at the guy and I go, hey, man, he's a kid.
He's just doing what he's told to do.
I know I waited a long time for the pizza too.
Like, you got to give him a break.
It's very busy in here.
He's just trying to do what he's going to do.
And the guy goes, man, fuck that.
We all been waiting here 40 minutes.
I go, I know I waited as long too.
But it'll be good once you get it.
Just give him a break, right?
Just give him a break.
He's not the one that's making this all.
Everybody in this whole place.
He's the face of the operation.
Yeah.
And the guy to his small credit after having a major meltdown on this 14-year-old teenager did go and sit down as I was leaving the restaurant.
Right.
But I was like, and then my kid is like this.
He goes, Daddy, what did you say to that guy?
And I go, I just told them it would probably be best that he didn't yell anymore in the restaurant.
And he goes, my kid goes, yeah, but we did wait a long time for the pizza.
And I thought to myself, I am also growing a shithead in a peach tree dish.
We are all fucked.
And you know what?
There's not much I can do about it.
Yeah.
Are you saying peach tree dish?
Peat tree.
Thank you, Chrissy.
It's peat tree.
What did I say?
Peachtree.
Did I say peach tree?
The entire episode.
I say peach tree dish?
Well, it's the Georgia thing.
Yeah.
We live in Atlanta.
It's okay.
It's also early in the week, so I'm still trying to get my sea legs under me.
So you have to peach tree dish.
It's a Lamborghini.
Lamborghini.
Lamborghini.
You do a lot of talking.
It's okay.
It's hard.
It is.
I know.
You don't know how many words I get wrong all the time.
I'm just a wordsmith that can't get the words right.
Well, I think you were a little flustered, too, thinking about the Great Wolf Lodge, which I venture to say you will never go back to.
No, that's not true.
We're planning our next visit to the Great Wolf Lodge.
Well, here's the thing.
I also don't really care for Disney World right now with small children,
and I think some things have just gotten out of control about Disney World.
Pricing, layoff, staff, over-commercialization,
even though that's funny, I'm saying that about Disney World,
but they've over-over-commercialized it.
But the children love it, and it's not about me.
For once in my goddamn life, I'm not going to be selfish.
we will at some point go back to the Great Wolf Lodge because the kids had so much fun
and no one ended up with their anus is falling out.
So there you go.
I guess we'll give it that.
No one threw up.
But what surprised me about the Great Welf Lodge as far as cleaning was concerned is we could
see inside of the glass walls of that place.
And when they pool closed at 9 p.m., I didn't see one.
Not one person in their cleaning.
Now, it's very possible that could have been.
done later on in the night. It could be done down under in the machinery. I don't know. But I thought
certainly a crew is going to go in there and just spray that place down. Fix the chairs, get everything
back in order. Listen, I'm sure somebody who works there can tell me differently, but I didn't see
anybody in there, and that made me a little bit surprised. So when we... So you didn't take advantage
of the next day. We did. We went there. Yeah, we got up and I took the kids to the pool and we
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Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now.
I think so.
But I'll say that I love you.
And I love you.
Best to you.
Best to you.
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.
