The Commercial Break - The Boy George Bachelor Party!

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

EP899: Bryan heads to his Brother's big bachelor party for a bit of fun, gambling and Boy George?? It's stranger than fiction!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for infor...mation about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:03 On this episode of the commercial break. I got to skip a lot of it because, of course, you don't kiss and tell at a bachelor's part, right? But there wasn't any, like, dancing girls or anything like that. We're all too old for that bullshit. And plus, in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, the options are limited. Yes. Let's put it that way. He settled for seeing some elk.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Yes, we saw some elk. And to a bunch of old guys, that was just as exciting as seeing tits. I mean, we're of a certain age we've seen tits. You know what I'm saying? It's like, and the groom doesn't want it, we don't want it. And then just to have some strange girl and probably a guy sitting outside in a car, you know, the security guard or whatever. It's just a weird.
Starting point is 00:00:50 It wasn't that kind of party. Let's put it that way. Which is fine with me because I've been to, I've seen enough dancing girls in my life. I've dated enough dancing girls in my life. Yes, you have. I'm over it. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens.
Starting point is 00:01:09 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 Haudley. Best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. And happy birthday to you, Chrissy. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:01:18 We didn't get a chance to say happy birthday because we didn't have a chance to jump in the studio last week. But happy birthday. Thank you, thank you. What is he, 29 now? Yeah, holding. Holding. Thanks, sick, steady. Yes.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Stay on target. Stay on target. Yes. You don't look at day over. 30, Chrissy. Oh, thank you. Thank you. How do you keep that magnificent skin and that taught body of yours?
Starting point is 00:01:46 Tell the world. Lots of oils and lotions and potions. Does Jeff help you with the oils? He does sometimes. Let's get into it. Yeah. AIDS. We like our lotions and potions and oils.
Starting point is 00:01:58 I do love me some crazy only. My God, that guy. What was that guy's name? I can't remember after all those years. What was his name? Mary? No. No.
Starting point is 00:02:10 What was his name? Hey, it's me from Podcast Universe. What was his name? Oh, God, I can't remember it. Yeah. All right, we'll remember. I'll go back to episode three and figure it out. Yeah, I think that's when he made him.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Yeah, I'm hearing. First season, for sure. Anyway, thanks for joining us in the streaming universe and the podcast universe. Hey, Candle Cain. Candle Cain's always in there. Yes, she is. He or she? We don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:37 We don't know. Is it he or she? Or they or them? I don't know. I don't want to be offensive. So anyway, happy birthday to you. Congratulations. I'm yet another. You know, I got the world's kindest compliment today. I was in the Starbucks, meeting my Starbucks boyfriend. As I do. Okay, I have a boyfriend. His name is Lance, and I love him. And we love each other. And South Georgia Sean is in the house. Let me stop for a second and say, I did read that it was South Georgia Sean's birthday. He was on the phone. I didn't get back to him because I had a long weekend. It was his birthday too. Well, happy birthday. It was his birthday also. I don't know when it was sometime last week, but happy birthday South Georgia Sean. I was in the Starbucks today doing my coffee boyfriend date as I do. And one of the girls said it was her birthday last week. And I said, oh, well, congratulations. She said, I turned 35. I said, that's wonderful. And she goes, I've never asked, how old are you? And I go, oh, how old do you think I am? She goes, my age, 35, 36. I was like, yeah. That's it. There you go. Done.
Starting point is 00:03:42 It's the best compliment I can receive all day. Right. Mic drop. All right. I'm out. Thank you. It really put me in a good fucking mood this morning. I was like, hot duty, hot dog.
Starting point is 00:03:50 It's that tan skin. Yeah. Yeah, it's that tan skin. It's going to make me look 80 when I'm 55. But that's okay. Stay on target. Yes. Stay on target.
Starting point is 00:04:03 You need to catch up with your gym membership too. Oh, my gym membership. I've been to the gym a few times. And they continue to. to bug me and it's really starting to irritate the piss out of me if I'm being honest. What's that? Still? Yeah, they don't fucking let it go.
Starting point is 00:04:16 I mean, I'll talk about it in a few minutes. But the guy, he just doesn't, he just doesn't leave it alone. He doesn't leave it alone because I've now either avoided or ghosted him on three separate appointments. And now I think he sees it as a personal affront. And he wants, it's a challenge. It's a challenge to try and get a personal fitness assessment with Brian. But my personal fitness assessment is just to show up at the gym.
Starting point is 00:04:39 That is my personal goal for 2026. I am winning by simply stepping in. By checking in, I have accomplished everything that I wanted to accomplish. I have no goals. I don't want to add a pound of strength. I don't want to make my biceps. I don't care. I just don't want to look like an old flabby man.
Starting point is 00:04:56 That's it. That's all I want to do. There you go. That's the assessment. Tighten and tone it just a little bit. I have no ass. I have flabby arms. You see me on those machines.
Starting point is 00:05:03 I should be wearing long sleeves and long pants because you see me on those machines. I'm just a flab master. I'm like, my arms are all. Lily, lily, lily. It looks like Popeye. It looked like Popeye lost all his gumption. He may need some spinach. Maybe I do need some spinach.
Starting point is 00:05:20 Listen, I saw the most interesting video the other day that said the, it hypothesized. And then it backed that up with fact that the creators of the cartoon Popeye used spinach as a metaphorical as a metaphor. metaphorically, meth. What? That spinach was meth. Yes, because he was in the, he was what? He was a Navyman, right?
Starting point is 00:05:50 He was in the Navy. Okay, that's what Popeye had that big tattoo of that anchor. He was in the Navy. And this cartoon was written, we all remember Popeye and, you know, olive oil and Pluto and all that other stuff. They were doing a bunch of meth in the Navy? They were giving meth to the Navy. to the sailors and to the pilots as far back as World War I.
Starting point is 00:06:15 And in World War II, the Japanese, it was like their secret weapon. They would dope those kamikaze pilots up so fucking much and then tell them to go fly the plane right into the aircraft carriers. So this is not a secret. It is well documented as the Germans were doing. And the Americans were doing it too. It's just not as well documented. But it is documented that they were doing this. And so I believe that Popeye is a World War I.
Starting point is 00:06:39 one character. I think he was around like back in the 30s or 40s. But there's this whole video. I get fucking caught up in these fucking videos. Who fucking cares? I'm watching how Popeye might have been taking meth instead of spinach. And I'm so fascinated by it. It's information that is completely fucking useless as if there's nothing better to do with my time than to figure out whether Popeye spinach was a metaphor for fucking meth. It is interesting though. It is interesting. I'll tell you what is a metaphor for meth. Harris Cherokee Casino is a metaphor for Matt. That's what it is. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I had my brother's bachelor party this weekend. Um, and it was a fascinating series of events, most of which I can't get into.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Yeah, I've been very excited about hearing some of these stories. It is a bunch of high school friends that had a moment in the sun. There was a hot tub outside. And at one moment, at one moment in time, I firmly believe we were inside the movie Hot Tub Time Machine that we had all. all traveled back to 16-year-old selves. And we were in this, we were having a moment in a moment in the sun. That's fun. We regaled ourselves with stories about the old days, how we used to do this, how we used to do that, how we used to make out with this girl, how that guy did this and how those kids did that, right? It was like, everybody, I think, will have those moments as you get older in life when you get taken back to a moment. The same music, the same substances, the same amount
Starting point is 00:08:06 of inebriation, the same people are trying, the same people around. You even had a, uh, a former member of 33P there with you. 33P, Mike Skirski, which I'll give him a shout out. We called him Scooter. Scooter was his name. Scooter was a phenomenal drummer, and he was our drummer in 33P. So Mike and I spent hours going back over all of the moments, which were like three, about 33 penis. And it was fun.
Starting point is 00:08:32 It was good to know. So, but I got to skip a lot of it because, of course, you don't kiss and tell at a bachelor part, right? But there wasn't any like dancing girls or anything like that. We're all too old for that bullshit. And plus in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, the options are limited. Yes. Let's put it that way.
Starting point is 00:08:49 He settled for seeing some elk. Yes, we saw some elk. And to a bunch of old guys, that was just as exciting as seeing tits. I mean, we're of a certain age we've seen tits. You know what I'm saying? It's like, and the groom doesn't want it, we don't want it. And then just to have some strange girl and probably a guy sitting outside in a car, the security guard or whatever.
Starting point is 00:09:09 It's just a weird. It wasn't that kind of party. Let's put it that way. Which is fine with me because I've been to, I've seen enough dancing girls in my life. I've dated enough dancing girls in my life. Yes, you have. I'm over it. Yeah, it was just a big get-together.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Yeah, strippers were never really my thing anyway, unless I was dating them. But it wasn't really my thing like to, anyway, whatever cares. Okay, so we go to Harrah's Cherokee Casino in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, which is a huge facility that rises up out of the ground in the valley of a mountain. It is unbelievable. There is nothing anywhere. And then all of this, you were riding on these mountain roads that are crazy, windy, twisty, turny, and then all of a sudden, boom, this building rises up. Yeah, it's like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. It is amazing. It is huge, not as big as the Vegas casinos, but not small by any stretch of the imagination. It's a really large facility. And it was packed. I'll explain why. World
Starting point is 00:10:04 series of poker. Oh, okay. Boy George was playing live at Harris. Wow, he's on the Casino Circuit. That's right. Unbelievable. He's on the casino circuit. Yeah. God bless him. And as, as, and in the middle of dinner, oh, okay, let me tell you. So we get to, I'm driving, you know, I'm not, I don't usually, at least not at this part of my life. I'll get back to it in my 60s or 70s. I don't partake in a lot of substances. So I said, hey, guys, I'll, I'll drive. That'll be my contribution to the group. I'll drive as many as I can get in there. There's about 10 of us, five of us get in my car. I drive down these crazy roads. Thank God I wasn't drinking because this was an insane road to drive up and down.
Starting point is 00:10:46 Those mountain roads can be crazy. It was intense. And had you not really been paying attention, I could see how you could get in trouble real quick. And gosh, you guys were going to be, I mean, there was all that blizzard and storm stuff going on. But I guess it didn't reach there. Not when we were there. It might have snowed up there. It was snowing actually when I left on Sunday morning. But it was snowing. It wasn't like sticking on the ground.
Starting point is 00:11:05 It was just snow. Anyway, so we get to Harrah's dinner at 9 o'clock. We get there at about 7.30. This is on Saturday night. Friday night, everyone hit it really fucking hard. I mean, really fucking hard. That's what you do on that first night when you're all back together again. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:11:20 You just, everyone's going golfing at 11, but no one seems to understand that there's a clock and it keeps moving. And no matter what you do, you're going to have to show up. And these guys are like, they're hell bent on going golfing. Me... I'm a take it or leave a kind of guy. If I'm hungover and I don't want to golf, I don't go golf. Some people in the group, it doesn't matter how hungover they are.
Starting point is 00:11:40 They want to go golf. Yeah, they're making it. It's like the cure for hangover, but there's nothing about being out in the cold, wet, damp, in middle of nowhere for four and a half fucking hours, driving on a golf cart that makes it even colder than it already is. That seems interesting to me when I'm hungover. Yeah, and you guys had a big group, too. Ten. Ten of us. That's a lot of people to get through.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Three of us stayed back at the... Right. Okay. I stayed in the wharf. That was good with that. In the hot tub. Yeah. And I wasn't even hung over, but I wasn't planning on golfing anyway. So anyway, okay. So we get to Harris, 9 o'clock dinner. We leave at 7.
Starting point is 00:12:14 We get there at 7.30. So we have an hour and a half to kill. Harrah's Cherokee Casino. No offense to anybody involved in Harris. It is the Walmart of casinos. That's the best way to explain it. It is the every man, every day, super discount. Go get your gambling on.
Starting point is 00:12:32 Go get your gambling on. No matter your fit or fashion, you're welcome at Harris, and man, does it take all kinds? I will explain to you. That's why they're making so much money. They are killing it. Oh, yeah. It was absolutely packed. They have a 12-story, 10-story, 12-story parking deck.
Starting point is 00:12:50 I had to park on the very top. Oh, my God. On the very top. That's where I had to park. All Saturday night of the casino. Saturday night. And boy George. Boy George in the World Series of poker.
Starting point is 00:12:58 They're both going on there, right? Okay. So we get there. We park. We walk seven. miles to go to find the casino. We'd go through the hotel and through the food court and the restaurant and the retail district and all this and we get we get there and we go to the middle bar and the middle bar is exactly what it sounds like. Middle of the casino. There it is. Huge round bar.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And when I say huge, I mean huge. I show Chrissy pictures of it. It did look huge. It's just a big circle. And in the middle of the circle, about 15 feet in the air is this stage. I can't believe that part I was surprised out. Unbelievable. Right. Okay. Now, There's no vibe at Harris Cherokee Casino. There are many vibes. There are Chinese dragons hanging from the ceiling. There are... It was just Lunar New Year.
Starting point is 00:13:42 It was Lunar New Year. There are like lit up Rubik's cubes and Tetrises on the stage. There are, there's like an old pirate theme in the background. It's all a mishmash of shit. I guess whatever you want they have. Yes. They're the cheesecake factory. They are the cheesecake factory.
Starting point is 00:13:59 That's it. Better than the Walmart to the cheesecake factory. A big, large menu. whatever you want. The casino is huge. The bar is big. The stage is large. And as we get there, there is a group of guys that are setting up getting ready to play. And I got to tell you, if any of them were under the age of 60, I would have been surprised. And I'm sitting there talking to Scooter. And we are, again, regaling about the old days of 33 penis and how. Wondering if you can sit in. Wondering if we could do it one more time, right? I mean,
Starting point is 00:14:29 there's some, like, honest talk, like, I think, some earnest talk. organically about could we do it one more time could we mount one more comeback one more show could we all get to get the old guys together play the old songs you know mike was saying these songs were good they were like immature a little bit but they were good like we just didn't have enough time to to really you know polish them yeah and i thought you could polish a piece of shit all day long it's still going to be a piece of shit you're saying i mean listen okay maybe we could make you could do a farewell tour because you never really did a fairer A first farewell tour. We never did a tour.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Yeah. It's hard to do a farewell tour when you never did a tour. It would be the inaugural and the farewell tour at the same time. Anyway, we're talking about this. And we're watching these guys get set up on there. And these guys are dressed like spandex, long hair. I mean, these are straight out of the 80s. And Mike is looking to me and he's like, these guys, think about this.
Starting point is 00:15:24 They are probably retired. They come up here every fucking Saturday night and they play these cover tunes. And they probably each get. You know, $600, $500, $500, $500,000. And he goes, wouldn't you do that? And I was like, yeah, I guess. Yeah, look, they have a crowd. There are people that love them, obviously.
Starting point is 00:15:42 They're doing what they love. A huge crowd playing the same fucking tunes you play at a wedding, you know. Don't stop. I will find her. It's a love in sighter. You know, the same fucking shitty tunes everyone plays. You know, the foreigner and, you know, Def Leopard and Van Halen and all that shit. and this kind of stuff that people love to rock to, and these guys were doing it.
Starting point is 00:16:04 And they were doing it terribly, but they were doing it. And I said to myself, you're right, Mike. That is the dream. Like, the dream is, maybe the dream never really goes away. Maybe it just comes back in a different form. True. Maybe 33 penis wasn't meant to be the Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains of its time. Obviously, it wasn't.
Starting point is 00:16:26 We played one show, two shows. He's so close. Mike thinks we played three shows, but I say two shows. We were so close. If anybody had attended those shows, I think we really could have taken off. If we had an audience, I think we could have taken off. He says, but look at this. I mean, these guys are doing what they want to do, and they're probably just like us when they were kids.
Starting point is 00:16:47 And I was like, yeah, minus the talent, minus the ability to actually play our instruments, we could be these guys. And I thought to myself, yeah, maybe, maybe this is it. Maybe you go down to the villages and you play every Friday and Saturday night and you get your 500 bucks and there's your dream. It's just a different form. Yeah, you're doing what you love and meeting people, staying social, you know, making a little extra cash. And getting the gratitude and appreciation for the art that you love to do, you know, you're going to play somebody else's songs, but that's it. Anyway, these guys started playing and they were terrible, but whatever I mean, it doesn't matter. Were they like the openers for Boy George?
Starting point is 00:17:25 No, they were, this was just. Boy George is probably in the theater. Boy George was in the theater. I forgot they've got those theaters. So everyone is like, we all meet at the middle bar and everyone is kind of, everyone's a little distracted. Let's put it that way. They're distractible.
Starting point is 00:17:43 How's that? That's a better word to put it. Everyone's kind of doing their own things. And again, casinos are just like, you know, sensory overload. Bright lights, big city, a lot of people, a lot of dinging machines. A lot of people yelling and screaming because they're making money. And everyone wants to go gamble. So everyone's kind of off in their own little world.
Starting point is 00:18:01 You know, little pairs doing whatever. And me and Mike are sitting there at the bar waiting for the, patiently waiting for our appointment at guess whose restaurant? Oh, God. Guy Fierry. I just guessed that. Oh, my God. Guy fucking Fierry.
Starting point is 00:18:16 Listen, there are not a lot of options that you or I would pick. Yeah. There is Gordon Ramsey's Food Hall, which is exactly what you expected to be, Gordon Ramsey's Food Hall. It's like, you know, Burger. And fries, fish and chips, pizza, big, big Gordon Ramsey face right there. It's this huge food hall. Gordon Ramsey's face 10 feet tall right there.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Well, that adds a little class to it. Yeah, you got to class up the joint when you're at Harris. But, you know, it's a food hall. So we're not going to go eat there. Roos-Christ Steakhouse, I would think, is probably the best option that is available. Ramsey, they also have Ramsey's, which is a Ramsey's. Yeah, you put an A at the end of his name and all of a sudden it's fancy. I don't know how.
Starting point is 00:18:58 But there's Ramsey's, but, you know, it's hard to get a reservation on a Saturday night. And I don't think, I don't know if everybody wanted Ramsey's. Ruse Chris was the original choice. But again, they couldn't accommodate us at a time when we wanted, which was 7 o'clock initially, but I got pushed back to 9 o'clock. I think because of what happened on Friday night. Yes, exactly. I wanted to go to dinner early. Everyone wanted to get a nap in between golf and dinner.
Starting point is 00:19:20 You've got to. Of course. Yes. That's what I did while they were golfing. I went and took a nap. And I wasn't even drinking. And I needed a nap. So we go to Guy Fierry's restaurant.
Starting point is 00:19:32 This huge, I mean, the ceilings are 40 foot tall. It's huge. It's open. There is no descript style going on at all. It's nothing. It's modern minimalist, right? Tables scattered throughout a couple of boots. I would think it would be some kind of like diners, drive-ins kind of theme.
Starting point is 00:19:52 You would think they would give it some kind of fucking theme. But the only theme that was available were the 16. televisions inside of the restaurant that were playing Guy Fieri's television shows. Diner's drive-ins and dives, Triple D, guys grocery games, and then a guy's Fantastic America or whatever it's called. This is on a loop. They're playing clips of the shows. It was so weird.
Starting point is 00:20:17 And listen, we all talked about it. Like, if you got to watch a television show, Triple D is not the worst thing that you could watch. It's mindless. It's mindless entertainment. he's entertaining enough to bounce it along. He always interrupts the chefs. He never lets them cook. He never lets anybody do anything.
Starting point is 00:20:35 He's the guy. He has to tell you what's in it. You know, the chef will be making something. It'll be like half a spoon of garlic. And the chef will be like, yeah, how did you know that? You know, because he already got the recipe. So he keeps on interrupting. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:20:47 Anyway, you can watch it. It's a mindless entertainment. Guy Fieri had a series of burger joints before he joined food network. Oh, he did? Yes. And apparently they were well liked by it on the West Coast. And then I think he had one in New York. But he had like four of these restaurants, guys, big burgers or something like that.
Starting point is 00:21:06 And people liked them. If you go back and you read those reviews, if you look in any early magazine articles or articles about Guy Fieri, people really liked those burgers. They thought they were good, smash burgers. They thought they were really good. I do like a good smash burger. I do too. So what do we have on the menu? We got smash burgers.
Starting point is 00:21:23 That's what we got. Smash burgers, hot chicken, fried chicken. and a couple knick-knacks, right? But then it takes about five, ten minutes for the waiter to come up. That's not good. The waiter, it takes about another 10 or 15 minutes for the waiter to get the drinks to the table. That's not great. It takes about another five, ten minutes for him to get an appetizer order.
Starting point is 00:21:44 And somebody orders lobster popsicles, cried lobster popsicles. And if you call something a popsicle, I don't want it. Lamb popsicle, lobster popsicle. No. I don't want anything that I'm supposed to eat. with protein in it to be called fucking popsicle. I agree. That's 1992 bullshit.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Leave it alone. But anyway, Sky Fieris, what are we going to do? And then there's like these. What are we going to do? And what are we going to do? Sky Fierreys. I'm here. You got the lobster pops.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Lobster pops. Lobster pops. Lobster on a stick. Yes. And then guys amazing cheesy pretzel bites or something like that. Those lobster popsicles show up. I didn't have one. Everyone said they were good.
Starting point is 00:22:24 But they came in like a basket full of fries. on these sticks, it just looked terrible. I mean, it just looked terrible. It didn't look appetizing to me. The slop that came out with the pretzel bites, I don't even know how to explain it. It was drowning in some kind of liquid cheese with bacon and guys, donkey sauce all over it. There's fucking donkey sauce on everything.
Starting point is 00:22:46 Is that his thing? That's his thing, the donkey sauce, which is essentially garlic aoli, which is terrible. Yeah. Yeah, don't put that on anything I'm eating. Please, I don't like garlic aiole. It could fight mayonnaise and garlic together. It's just not for me. It's too overpowering.
Starting point is 00:22:58 It's way overpowering. I want a burger to taste like a burger, not like a garlic manny. Like a donkey. Donkey sauce. I don't want any donkey punch sauce on my thing, okay? So these cheese bites were beyond description. I had one and I was like, wow, that that's all I need. That's all I needed.
Starting point is 00:23:16 But I was optimistic because I ordered guys famous smash mac and cheeseburger. Oh, you went mac and cheeseburger? Double patty, double smash burger, mac and cheese, bacon. All on the same bun? Yes. And then flot or lopped or whatever they call it. Lettuce, onion, tomato pickle, plot. I don't know what they call it.
Starting point is 00:23:39 And then guy's donkey sauce, right? So I say to the guy, I say, hey, listen, give me everything that is meat and cheese and everything else leave off of it, right? Bacon, cheese, mac and cheese, that's it. That's all I want. And the guy says, okay. And a lot of other people order this because it's like the thing that he's known for. Sure, it's his famous thing.
Starting point is 00:23:59 It shows up, and I'm telling you what, Chrissy, I was so fucking hungry. I could have eaten my own hand. It was not good. It was not fucking good. I was so disappointed. Yeah, because especially when you're hungry, too. And this is supposed to be his famous thing. This is his famous thing?
Starting point is 00:24:15 It's a fucking smash burger. You take a fucking gritty. You take a fucking spatula and you smash it. That's it. That's all you do. You put a bunch of cheese on it. Mac and cheese. have been mac and cheese out of a box and that's all you had to do two strips of bacon don't i would
Starting point is 00:24:28 have loved it this wasn't it and plus i asked for no donkey sauce i got extra donkey sauce and i'm telling you what that donkey sauce was like a donkey punch to my mouth that was like fucking disgusting yeah i've had like fries with that covered all over it and it's too much guy fieries uh not the best review no i i'd give it um one and a half willies out of five one and a half willies out of five that's what i give it. I really wished it was better, but it just didn't turn out to be good. And I don't know. Well, you got it. You were at a casino. You gambled. You lost. We took our chances. We rolled the dice on Guy Fierre's and we lost. But the most entertaining part of dinner did not happen in the restaurant. It happened outside the restaurant. Everybody went and smoked. I had my one cigarette a year.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Oh, yeah. You did it. At the bachelor party. Ah, yeah. And I just get so excited about that one cigarette a year and it's a disappointment every fucking time. It tastes like I'm chewing on a cigar. Do you know what? I'm saying? It was not good. I don't know. I feel like I get so excited about having a cigarette, but then it never works out in my favor. Do you understand what I'm saying? I do because we both used to be smokers. Yeah. And we've both quit now. And ever since then, which I've quit now, I guess, like 10 years ago. Yeah, 10 years, I've been no cigarettes. Yeah. And so I did the same thing for a little while where I was like, oh, I'll just have a cigarette. And every time it just wasn't, it's gross.
Starting point is 00:25:51 It's gross. So I've stopped. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'd still do it once here. Yeah. Whatever. I'd rather smoke a cigarette than a cigar, if I'm being honest, because cigar is overpowering. Even though I do have a cigar every once in a while. Okay. So we all go outside to smoke a cigarette. And what we found out there was the most entertaining part of the entire night. Let's take a break. And when we get back, I'll tell you all about it. Oh, yeah, I've got to give you the cliffhanger. Because we're already an hour into the episode. I know. Because Brian can't shut his mouth.
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Starting point is 00:27:29 And then we'll return to this episode of the commercial break. Okay, so we get to the, so we go outside, we go to smoke a cigarette. And who walks up on us? Chrisie. Guy Fierry? No. Boy George. Boy George.
Starting point is 00:27:45 What? I wish that I was kidding. And let me explain. I'll walk it through a little bit. Okay. Boy George had just gotten done with the concert. and we noticed that there were a lot of Boy George fans dressed in their 80s regalia with their T-shirts
Starting point is 00:27:58 and some of them even had like the makeup and the hair and they were all decked out. They were very excited about Boy George. You have to be a really big Boy George fan to make it to Harris Cherokee. Yes, you do. Maggie Valley to see Boy George. But this might be your only chance to ever see Boy George,
Starting point is 00:28:12 so who knows. I must say this. Not only was a World Series of poker going on, not only was Boy George concert going on, but then they had some kind of Dungeons and Dragon tournament, like unofficial tournament, going on in the lobbies they had these large groups of a lot of different types of people yeah and they were like they were some of them had coup d'et trays like they had brought themselves cut up vegetables
Starting point is 00:28:33 it was really weird anyway whatever okay so out walks coup d'et the coup d'et tray out walks what i can only describe as boy george i'm like full long hair with the braids long hair colored braids The hat, the makeup, the jacket. Okay. You know, a technicolor jacket, right? Straight out of karma chameleon video. Karma. Karma chameleon video.
Starting point is 00:29:05 Nice. That's fun. I'm like, holy shit. This is boy George. He's standing right where that television is right there. And I'm like, oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Oh, my God. It's Boy George. So after a few seconds of trying to wrap my head around, exactly what's going on, double-taking, and triple-taking, in quadruple-taking, why would Boy George be standing outside in the valet area of Harrah's Cherokee Casino? I go, excuse me, are you, buoy George? And this is what came out of his mouth. No, but I sure do look like him, don't I?
Starting point is 00:29:44 And I was like, fucking, eh, are you an impersonator? Now I'm the person they're just a real big fan, real big fan of Boy George. Oh, wow. Okay. Chrissy, you could have fucking fooled me. I mean, I'm no Boy George expert, right? I haven't. Right, but he's not on my playlist. You know what he looks like.
Starting point is 00:30:02 I know what he looks like because my mom was a huge fan of his, like every other mother in the world. They grew up in the 80s, right? Love Boy George and all that, you know, culture club and all that other stuff. This guy was like a spitting image of Boy George. And if he didn't open his fucking mouth, you would have never known the difference. He looked short. He had everything about him look like Boy George. He was just a guy who dressed up like fucking Boy George to go see Boy George.
Starting point is 00:30:30 It was Boy George, but he was, that was his disguise. You know, I don't know. He didn't want to be bothered. We started talking. He ended up being a real chatty motherfucker. And so I, and he started talking about how much the boy George had affected the music culture in the 80s and blah, blah, blah. None of it untrue. None of it really true.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Like, he was a big influence on, he was certainly one of the first video stars, let's put it that way. And he had a few big hits, right? Yeah. You know, what's that song? Do you really want to hurt me? Yeah, and then, comma, comma, comma, comma, comedian.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Okay, those two songs, You come and go. You come and go. And then I don't know any other songs. Yeah. But those two songs, okay, they were on rotation. No doubt about it. A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of times.
Starting point is 00:31:16 But this guy was a spitting image of Boy George. And what came out of his mouth was the only distinguishing factor. It did not match what I was seeing. It was hard to believe because I expected that fucking British accent to come out of his mouth. And I expected his voice to be a little higher. And have no offense to anybody in the crowd, a little bit of a lisp, right? We all heard Boy George talk. And that's not what came out.
Starting point is 00:31:39 It was full redneck accent. That's hilarious, actually. I go, hey, man, you really look like Boy George. I sure is shit do, don't I? Man, I'll tell you, when I heard Boy George coming up here, I got so fucking excited. I had to get ready, playing my outfit. And I'm like, do you do this? Like, you follow him?
Starting point is 00:31:56 I probably seen about 10 times. And I go, oh, wow, okay. So you've done this before. Yeah, do you dress like this on any day? Or is this just like for Boy George? He goes, you don't ask me twice. If there's a Boy George event, I'm there. And I like to dress up.
Starting point is 00:32:11 I oftentimes get mistaken for Boy George. I go, really. Because as a matter of fact, tonight I got mistaken for Boy George. I was walking into the venue. And they said, are you the artist? I said, well, damn, I wish I was. Well, you mistook him for him too. Yeah, I missed him.
Starting point is 00:32:26 I said, I see why you were mistaken for him. Anyway, so we're all out there smoking cigarettes. And I just, I didn't know that people went to the Boy George concert and dressed up like Boy George. But I saw more than a few. Oh, I can imagine. I mean, he had a definite cult following. And, you know, there's those types of people that really just, they make an impression on you. And then you have to, you know, it is a certain time of your life.
Starting point is 00:32:57 It really made an impression. And then you just, you want to follow them around. Yeah. It's a moment in time. It's a small moment in time. But I do remember how big boy George was for a moment in time. But now he's playing Harris Cherokee. Yeah, I bet it pays well, though.
Starting point is 00:33:17 Oh, they got to be paying them. Yeah. $100,000. There's a lot of people that do that casino. Yeah. Listen, comedians do it all the time. There's people that make good money going and doing those just the Indian casinos, just the Harris Cherokee, the Bargata and New Jersey or whatever. This is a thing, you know, there's been a lot of talk lately about Vegas and how Vegas is really hurting right now and all the different reasons why Vegas is hurting.
Starting point is 00:33:42 I'm not a huge Vegas guy. I've been there about 10 times. I go there for 48 hours maximum. Max. Max. Yes. Because there's no reason to be in Vegas more than 48 hours. There's nothing else to do except for gamble, drink, and be awake.
Starting point is 00:33:55 That's it. And so that gets exhausting after a minute. And it gets kind of boring, if I'm being honest. I'm not a huge gambler. So I do like to spend a little bit of money, but not a huge gambler. There's a lot of talk about why Vegas is seeing a real downturn right now. Is it the casinos that are charging you for every day? I saw a video where a guy ordered room service and he got charged $25, I think it was by the Bellagio, by the Bellagio for silverware, extra silverware.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Oh, wow. He ordered a plate and then he wanted an extra pair of silverware for whoever his guest was. And they charged him $25. And then they charged him $15 to bring it to the room. And then they charged him $12 to drink a bottle of water. Another guy got charged $10 just to open just because he opened the mini bar. The mini bar, right? He didn't take anything.
Starting point is 00:34:45 He just opened it. And they charged him in a resealing fee or something like that. Parking is no longer free. Parking was always free. You don't get free drinks at a lot of the places unless you're spending money at the high roller facilities. That was the deal for Vegas a long time. It was the free drinks. You could go and not spend a fucking dime on booze because you just walk in and out of those places.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Stand. I mean, you've been to Vegas. I think we're all old enough. You've been to Vegas. You would stand anywhere close to a table and someone would be right there taking your drink order. And they wouldn't charge you. You'd tip the lady a nice $5 and then you'd be on your way. You got the lady or the guy.
Starting point is 00:35:19 It's not like that anymore. It's everything is being charged. And you're being the regular gamblers being priced out of Vegas because the hedge funds are in there. And people believe they're trying to make it that way. A lot like Disney World. They're pricing the middle tier consumer out of it so that they get the high rollers in spending the kind of money they want to make. They figure if they can't get your dollar, they'll make it up with the rich dollar. that doesn't care about being charged $25 for silverware.
Starting point is 00:35:46 But I got news for you, Vegas. Everyone cares about getting charged $25 for fucking silverware. That's insane. Anyway, you don't need to go to Vegas anymore. You can go to Harris. And that's where these people are. That place on Saturday night was fucking packed. Packed.
Starting point is 00:36:05 Every table. Every fucking machine. Not every machine, but most of the machines. And hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of other people, walking around the floor, spending money in the food hall, seeing the show at the World Series of Poker. This is like, these people are making money hand over fist. Oh, yeah, they've got to.
Starting point is 00:36:23 And how quickly you can lose money at those places is amazing to me. One of my brothers took, I don't know, $1,000 or whatever, and he was playing Blackjack, right? And I just stood and watched him play Blackjack, and he played it well. It wasn't like he was, you know, being an idiot. But he played it well, doubled down when he needs to double down, you know, hit when he should hit. Yeah. And he, you know, he'd go up a few chips. It'd go down. It'd go up a few chips and he'd go down. It took about an hour. And he, I think he lost total. He bet a thousand. He lost $400. Right. So he walked away with $600. Yeah. I mean, I think that's the thing. You're paying just for the act of playing. There's this guy at the table. So I'm standing back and I'm watching my brother play. And there's a couple other people at the table. And one of the guys is there with a very beautiful young woman who's dressed very nicely. And then there's four seats. So it's my brother, this guy and this girl, and then there's an open seat.
Starting point is 00:37:18 And up walks a jelly roll-looking motherfucker. He looks like jelly roll. That's the best way to put it, right? He's got sunglasses on, fake leather jacket, young guy. And you can see a whole deal go down with him and the guy that was with the girl. Okay. Let's call him baseball cap guy. So there's a deal that goes down.
Starting point is 00:37:39 I watched it all. Like a drug deal? A drug deal. I've seen enough of these go down. I know what happened, right? The guy comes and whispers in his ear. The guy stands up. They walk away from the table for a second.
Starting point is 00:37:49 There's a handshake. There's a thing. There's a pocket. You know, the whole thing. Baggy. Yes. And the guy, the jelly roll looking motherfucker, he was desperately tweaking.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I mean, he was just like fidgety all over the place. I could see what was going. So the jelly roll guy sits down at the table after this whole deal goes down. And he goes into his wallet. And he pulls out money and it's like 20. bucks. Well, he loses it immediately, right? Yeah. And so then he goes and whispers to the guy he just did this deal with. And the guy he did the deal with then pulls out however much money and gives them money on the table. I was like, holy shit. Okay. This like, I guess they don't care. I mean, you know, there's enough security and there's a camera, seven cameras on every table. Yeah. I guess they don't care. I don't know. But this is like the slice of Americana. Everyone's doing their own thing. There is no better entertainment. In my opinion, I had such a good time just people watching, including the people I was with,
Starting point is 00:38:47 just people watching everything that was going on at the Harris Cherokee Casino. Oh, it had to be entertaining. And like I said, too, for all of those, the World Series of Poker. So was the World Series of Poker? It was like there. They weren't just airing it? No. It was there. Well, it's a circuit. So the World Series of Poker, the big one is in Vegas, where they have like a $20 million pot or something. This was a $2 million pot. So the winner would. walk away with about $650,000. Yeah. But it's a three-day tournament. So my brother Kevin had a friend that met us up there. I'd never met the guy, but him and Kevin have been friends for a couple of years.
Starting point is 00:39:22 And he is like, plays professional poker. Now, he didn't enter this particular tournament, but he was there to gamble for the weekend. Okay. And he said, listen, I would, but I have to be somewhere on Monday. And he said, and if you are due well, you could be sitting at those tables for three days. Oh, I can imagine. He said, so when we were there, it was Saturday. And we were like, can you just go watch it? And he's like, yeah, it's in the event center. You can just walk in and watch it if you want to. Hundreds of tables, hundreds of tables, all their own little universe.
Starting point is 00:39:54 And there are these girls that were in these bright green vests. And they were massaging certain players. So the players were getting massages. I'm assuming they were paid to do this. They were getting massages. There was a girl every third table like massaging somebody, right? And they'd be playing poker and the girl be working on their arms. or their back or their neck.
Starting point is 00:40:13 Because they've just been sitting there. They've been sitting there for so long. And when I walked in there probably about midnight on Saturday night, there were maybe of the hundreds of tables that were probably 50 still playing. So it was largely empty, but there were 50 still playing. And so I just stood there for a minute. It was another guy that was standing there. And he goes, it's pretty amazing.
Starting point is 00:40:31 I said, it really is. Like all these people just playing poker. I said, how long will they play into the night? And he goes, you play until you play. He goes, you know, eventually they'll stop for the night. He goes, could go to three or four in the morning. and I was like, holy shit. He goes, they'll be back at at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:40:45 Wow. I thought to myself, wow, I can't concentrate on anything for that long. I really can't. Let alone when there's, like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake, but a $1,700 buy-in, then you can walk away with $6.50 if you win. But there are thousands of players. You know, but this guy was explaining that this goes on regionally every month. There's another World Series of poker somewhere.
Starting point is 00:41:07 This one was not televised, but some of them are. But the one at Vegas is like a $15, $20 million dollar. The winner walks away with $5 million or something like that. That is a big deal. Yeah, that is a big deal. I went to do a casino once in Aruba where they were having a high stakes poker tournament, like a regional high stakes poker tournament. And the buy-in was $175,000.
Starting point is 00:41:29 And the pot, the winner. Some high rollers. Yeah, the winner would walk away with like $10 million, which is like, that's a crazy amount of money, $10 million to win. But in that case, there were only like 100 players, total. Sure. So yeah, I mean, that's what you do. Yeah, up the interest. Yeah, do the math. Yeah, do the math. And there it is. All right, let's do this. Let's stay on track. Let's get a short break. And then I'm going to hear your story. You just said. Oh, well, I just had a dream about blue. So. What's a dream? Tell us. Do tell. Okay. So the dream was that I came over to record and you had a couple of puppies running around. And I was like, oh my gosh, puppies. Those are so cute. And you. And the kids were playing with them. And there are a couple. They're like these little cute little black lab puppies or something running around.
Starting point is 00:42:16 And they were so cute. And then after a while, I was like, what? Wait, hold on. And you go, yeah, you go, I got rid of blue. And this is to distract the kids from knowing that I got rid of blue. And I was like, you did, you did it. I was like, God, you got fed up. I remember I was talking to like, Astrid about it.
Starting point is 00:42:35 And she's like, he just couldn't take it anymore. And so we had to do something to replace. So these are the new puppies. And we think that Blue has found a new home. In an alternate universe, are you dreaming when you're awake? Are you awake when you're dreaming? I've started to do lucid dreaming again. I did it when I was like in my 20s.
Starting point is 00:42:53 I've started to work back on lucid dreaming where you can identify that you're in the dream. And in some cases, you know, with dreams, a lot of times the behavior, the things you're doing, the things you're seeing, whatever. You know, it's all just kind of a watercolor. Right. And you can't control what you're doing. doing in the dream. With lucid dreaming, you can identify that you're in a dream and be the witness to what's going on so you can start to pick out things in a more realistic way. It's interesting, and I've done it before, not to great effect. Yeah, I've done that before too. But I've seen it,
Starting point is 00:43:24 and you can train yourself to do it. Like, there's like psychologists give you tips on how to do this. Anyway, maybe in an alternate universe, blue, I had to get rid of blue. You had to. Because she drives me fucking crazy. Yeah, I was like, I can't believe he did it. He finally did it. I go to that Starbucks and Lance has a dog named Chipper. And Chipper is a white, snow white, bullie, pit bull, right? And it is the most gentle, kindest, sweetest dog. And this dog is in love with me. When I walk into the Starbucks and Chipper is there, Lance has to let the leash go because she just comes up and...
Starting point is 00:44:05 She wants to have some of you, yes. And sits right by me while we're doing, you know, she just, I just love this dog. And I was telling Astor this, and she's like, what about Blue? And I'm like, what about Blue? It's Black. I know. I mean, I love Blue, too. But, you know, it's the candy you cannot have.
Starting point is 00:44:25 It's the candy everybody wants. Do you know what I'm saying? A little black puppy. Yeah, we're not getting another dog. That's it. Astor and I have talked about it. No more dogs. I just don't think, I just don't think I'm mentally in a position to have another dog after having three children and blue.
Starting point is 00:44:40 Yeah, it's a lot. Blue is a lot. Blue is a lot. And so are children, by the way. They're about the same amount of aggravation. But the kids are, to me, like, they take a priority. Of course. Poor Blue.
Starting point is 00:44:51 She was ruled to roost until we started having children. But say la vie. Say lovey, Blue. Say lovey. All right. Let's take a short break. We'll be back. Okay.
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Starting point is 00:46:00 I've found video Boy George at the Harrah's. Okay. Let's see what he's doing here. It looks like a fun show. Yeah. Well, now that I see the actual Boy George, that guy looked nothing like Boy George. Wow, that is a huge.
Starting point is 00:46:14 huge facility. Oh my God. That's huge. There must be 5,000 people in that facility. Yeah. Oh, and it's all this culture club. Not that I know the difference, but okay, there you go. The culture club was the rest of the band. Yeah, the rest of the band. But I don't know if he always tours with the culture club or he just, whatever. Anyway, we, sure, on all that was holy that we would not watch Love is Blind, and I have stuck to that. I have stuck to it. I am, I watched 15 minutes of it here because it started playing on Netflix. Right. No, I have, I have banned myself after last season, I was like, I cannot do it again. This is so dumb. They know what they're doing. And you have to keep watching. Yes. If you watch, then you have to keep watching. You get roped in.
Starting point is 00:46:53 You get sucked in. I mean, the claws just, the claws get in you. So I was like, I'm not, yeah. I was like, I can't do it. No, fuck it. I'm not doing it. And everyone who goes on the show wants to be famous or has a serious mental disorder. And the producers know it. And they have done all their homework. And they know exactly the buttons to press. So I have not watched it. But I have kept up online because they, there is quite the controversy going on about one of the contestants whose name is Chris, I guess. Oh, there's two guys that are apparently just shitheads and they're lying out their asses about everything and people are investigating. This is why I would never want to go on a love is blind. Not in season number 10 or 11.
Starting point is 00:47:31 Season one, maybe because everyone's like, wow, what's that? Yeah, it was a new concept. A new concept. And a couple of those people, at least I know that one couple is still together and had babies. And one couple just divorced. one of the... Well, and I think the last season, too, did not tell you that. No one got married.
Starting point is 00:47:47 No one. Yeah. Not one single couple got married. So love really isn't blind. I mean, I guess at the end of the day. But there is quite the controversy about these two guys and about how they went on and then they're saying things that are not true and that everyone's investigating them online. And I am not giving a bit of sympathy to you if you are going on and hurting feelings and
Starting point is 00:48:08 lying to people and being deceptive, not giving an ounce of empathy. What I am saying is, who wants to be put through that? Like, how shitty is it that your life? And I guess this is what happens when you decide to go on a show that's watched by millions of people in 2026. But your life is completely dissected by everybody. Every ex-girlfriend, this one guy Chris had, is now coming out of the woodwork, sharing voicemails, sharing text messages, sharing what a shitty guy he was. He didn't pay for dinner when we went on vacation. He didn't hold the door open.
Starting point is 00:48:44 He called me drunk and yelled at me. And all these behaviors, maybe not cool in and of themselves. But who amongst us hasn't had a relationship where maybe we made a few missteps? And every single one of these, it's just to me it feels so insanely Truman-esque, like Truman Show-esque. And I don't feel bad for the guys. I feel bad for our society. Yeah. And all, that there are so many problems in this world.
Starting point is 00:49:13 And there was a guy, I put out a reel the other day. And the real, or not a reel, but I shared a story. And the story was if people got upset about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, get ready for the World Cup when Latinos take over for like a month, right? It's because it's true. Like, you know, it's going to be crazy. And the point was, is that everyone got so fussy about Bad Bunny. And then now the World Cup's going to come.
Starting point is 00:49:38 And Latinos are having their moment. They really are. They're in the sun right now. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, me too. Hey, listen, you don't have to know me very well to know that I'm basically half Venezuelan. But it wasn't for my skin. I'd be Venezuelan and my language.
Starting point is 00:49:53 That's what you're trying to achieve with the tanning. That's right. I'm trying to go full vene. So anyway, this guy said, give them bread in circus. And that is a line from an old Roman poet and also from a natural. Adelaidele merchant song. Give them bread and circus means give them something else to digest while we are over here robbing the bank, essentially. Give them what they want. Yeah, give them what they want. Give them the candy they want, right? And so I think about love is blind. And all of these people
Starting point is 00:50:25 are spending endless amounts of hours investigating these guys, well, real shit is going on. And then I think about us doing the commercial break for endless amount of hours, well, real shit is going on. But that's we're providing the break. We are. We're providing the break. We're providing the break. We're providing a service. Those people are just, you know, investigating people on a reality show. Sounds like a noble cause. I'm not sure the commercial makes a noble cause. I just don't care that much. No, I don't give a shit. I mean, I might Google something, but other than that, what, I'm not going to delve deep. How about Prince Andrew going to jail? Oh, did you see that picture of him? He was shocked. For someone who doesn't sweat, he seemed to be sweating quite a bit. He was in quite the tizzy.
Starting point is 00:51:07 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. He looks shell-shot. That's huge news. To have a member of the royal family and not an insignificant member of the royal family. The brother of the king. Yeah. To have him go to jail, actually be arrested, handcuffed, put in a jail, investigated like this. First of all, God bless the United Kingdom, because they are certainly taking this Epstein thing a lot more seriously than anybody in the United States government is. First of all, second of all, that is a shocking revelation. It is. But if you see, if you're even just like a curious watcher of the Epstein files and this Epstein saga, then you know that Prince Andrew is one of the most notable offenders that was with Epstein doing a lot of shenanigans. Yeah, but I mean, I guess the real thing, too, is that he's not even getting arrested for what he did, you know, with the girls. It's the, he was giving secrets away or giving government information. But that's whatever it is, it is, right? Yeah, he was privy to government secrets and then he was handing them to Epstein.
Starting point is 00:52:17 And now you start to understand why Epstein was the... Yeah, he had so much power. The spoke, I mean, the wheel that had all these spokes because he had a lot of power, a lot of secrets, a lot of information. And some people say this is just the tip of the iceberg. And it very well may be. And I got to be... I want to see it all unravel. Wait, I want the truth.
Starting point is 00:52:39 I got to be honest, it's starting to look a lot like the Trump files where Epstein has mentioned. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's very interesting. And all of them go to jail. Trump, the Clintons, anybody who's involved in it. Let them all go to jail. Bill Gates, I don't give a shit. It's like, you know, you can't get away with that.
Starting point is 00:52:56 That is the, it's the abuse of power. But I guess when you are so wealthy and so famous and so powerful, you just feel untouchable. There are just, you can buy anybody off. And they're certainly doing a good job. of it now, at least in the United States. But in the United Kingdom, they don't fuck around. They decided, you know what, somebody needs to go to jail for this bullshit and we'll figure out how to make it work. Yeah, I mean, I guess he's going to have a trial. Let it happen. Oh, yeah. I know. I guess Charles was like, yeah, we'll support it. He has no choice. No, he does. He has no choice.
Starting point is 00:53:28 And it's, he said the right thing. Let the law take its course. And that's the right and only thing to say, right? Can you imagine Trump saying let the law take its course? That would never happen. No. Oh, my God. Yeah. Well, you remember I told you, I'll say this and then I'll leave it alone because I know this is about the commercial break, right? But do you remember what I told you the most fascinating podcast online right now is the one where the two children are grilling their parents about being Trump supporters?
Starting point is 00:53:56 Oh, yeah. Thank you. Tell me about this. Two children left leaning, two parents, hardcore, blind as a bat, Trump supporters. Anything he does they're all about. Okay. This podcast, it's called The Necessary Conversation. is the name of the podcast. You can find it on Instagram, YouTube podcast. I highly recommend you go listen to it. It will be studied. I guarantee for decades to come because it's a family torn apart by politics. Yeah. That's happened a lot. Yes. And these two parents are the epitome of what a blind Trump supporter is. Anything he does, it doesn't matter. They find excuses. They find a way. What aboutism? Listen, whether you like Trump or whether you don't, he did wrong things, just like Biden did, just like Obama did, just like Bush did. You know, you guys.
Starting point is 00:54:37 to be able to see the right and the wrong at the same time. No one can be a right 100% of the time. The mother has started to turn, and it is a fascinating, fascinating thing. She has started to say, I think Trump is covering up the Epstein files. She has started to say, I think Trump was wrong about ICE. She has started to say, and she's like turning a little bit. Yeah. And it's the whole internet is going crazy. These people get like millions of views on their Instagram posts, by the way. And the whole internet's going crazy. It's like, oh my God, the mother's turning. We get her. Nice. Okay. I need to check this out. I'm like, it's not about that. It's not about like winning or not winning.
Starting point is 00:55:13 No, it's not. It's about like seeing reality for the way that it is. And I hope that she does. So, and, you know, listen, we'll see what happens. We're going to need to welcome people back. Yes, that's very true. We're going to need to welcome people back at some point. And maybe this is a roadmap for how to do that. Maybe. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:55:33 All right. Chrissy and I are going to go back live in about 15 minutes. if you're streaming and you'd like to watch another episode, we're going to do two today. So we give you more of the commercial break. Back-to-back episodes. So in about 15 minutes, 215 Eastern Standard Time, we'll jump back on. For those of you listen to the podcast version, thanks so much. Press play. I guess you did.
Starting point is 00:55:55 You're listening to this. You have press play. Press play. And then we'll be back on Thursday, just to let you know. We'll be back on Thursday. And then the first TCV classic came out this week. So thank you very much to everyone who wrote in two weddings and a funeral. You can go listen to that.
Starting point is 00:56:13 One of our most sought after episodes. Oh, yeah. It's now the third time we've run it as a TCV classic. And then maybe on Thursday, too, we'll let you video call into the show and we can all talk together. More information on that on Thursday. We'll go live again for two episodes. on Thursday. Okay.
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Starting point is 00:57:01 Give us a week or two. we don't just sit around waiting for you to request stickers. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we let a few build up and get them all out. I'm watching Boy George at Harris. Yeah, yeah. I'm meeting Boy George in the smoking section of Harris.
Starting point is 00:57:18 Look alike. Yeah. By the way, when I look at that boy George. That doesn't look like the guy. No. Okay. I should have known. The guy maybe was what he used to look like at the 80s.
Starting point is 00:57:30 Boy George looks skinnier. More facial hair and more work done. Let's put it that way. He looks better. He looks good. Good for him. Good for him. That's all I'm going to say.
Starting point is 00:57:42 And he's still working. Listen, that's all you could want. Sitting in front of 5,000 adoring fans on a Saturday night. What else could you want? All right. We'll see you back here in 15 minutes or you'll hear us tomorrow. Either way, you got more than you can handle. Okay?
Starting point is 00:57:58 All right. Chrissy, that's all I can do for right now. I think so. But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until very soon. Yeah. We will say, we do say, we must say. Goodbye. Bye.

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