The Commercial Break - The Goosefather Part II

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

Episode #610: Bryan and Krissy take a stroll down sequels lane, and somehow end up in goose territory. Prosthetic penises The Menendez Brothers Ryan Murphy Gina Gershon Dr. Odyssey Sex Sent Me T...o The ER The joker Sequels better than the original? Migration Peaches!!!! Canadian geese Fly Away Home (1996) or Spread Your Wings (2019)  Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:27 That's pretty much an awesome deal by today's standards. On this episode of the Commercial Break. Life is a crazy, delicate, but badass thing when you think about it. Yeah, it really is. It all works in symphony. It does. Like when you know you eat too much cheese and then your body starts eating its own bones. You know that kind of stuff. It all works great until it does. It all works great. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.
Starting point is 00:03:03 It's 30 in the morning! 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, Kris and Joy. Only best to you, Kris. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. I was going to say the lial to my Eric, but since you stopped watching the show, I can't
Starting point is 00:03:21 give you that kind of credit. How could you stop watching that show? Well, because I started, well, I've watched certain things over the years, and I think we all have. Yes. Yes, and? And? I mean, it's almost a 30 year, well, over 30 years, I guess. 1989, when they were murdered.
Starting point is 00:03:39 That's crazy to think about. I know. Because I remember watching every minute of the trial. Trial, that was the first court TV. TV, full access, America got hooked, and they were world famous. We're talking about the Menendez Brothers Monsters, the new show from Ryan Murphy on Netflix has dropped,
Starting point is 00:03:55 and I gobbled it up like a cum guzzling goblin. I was just, I loved it. I wanted more, more dick. And there are, and there is dick in the show. That's the part that you didn't get to, there is dick in the show. That's the part that you didn't get to. There is dick in the show. The actual penis is shown. That doesn't happen very often.
Starting point is 00:04:11 You don't often see the penises. You see a lot of tits, but no penises. So I give Ryan Murphy credit for going balls out. Full balls, Chrissy, full nuts and potatoes. But you saw prosthetic, prosthetic penis. No, they were real penises. No. No, I mean there were men in showers with real penises.
Starting point is 00:04:27 I don't know. You think those were prosthetics? Yeah, I've read a lot about that. I don't know, those look like real penises to me. Now maybe there was a shot of Eric in the shower where his penis was shown, and maybe that was a prosthetic because it looked like an awfully big penis to me. And so I will say, I think Eric, the actor who played Eric may have been wearing
Starting point is 00:04:47 a prosthesis, but there was a shower scene where a bunch of guys were in jail were taking a shower and there were a lot of penises. And to me, they look like real penises, but that's just my personal opinion. I haven't seen a whole bunch of penises in my life. I just, it looked convincing. If those were prosthetics, then that was awfully convincing. And why wear the prosthetics? I mean, why not just show your penis?
Starting point is 00:05:05 Who fucking cares? Honestly. Anyway, monsters on, I don't know how we got on penises. Anyway. You brought it up. Well, I wanted to share that Ryan Murphy is an equal opportunity nudist on his shows. And I like the freedom that he had on Netflix as opposed to FX to go the full Monty, first of all, to add a little
Starting point is 00:05:25 you know I don't know to sex it up a little bit and then there's a lot of cussing in the in it which I think is more illustrative of probably what was going on behind the scenes now of course no one fucking really knows what was going behind behind the scenes and I get that it was a little campy or that you thought it was a little camp too much too campy for your yeah it was just a little it was too much over the top and you know it's hard because that like I said I'd watch the documentary there's a documentary current documentary on HBO that's like an hour and a half long and they were
Starting point is 00:05:56 talking about the Menendez brothers yes they were talking about because there's been like a lot of renewed interest in it via tick-tock and you know social media about the brothers and how they think that they're not, it's not right that they're still in jail and what happened because of the sexual abuse and emotional and sexual abuse. So anyways, I watched the whole documentary on that. Then I went over to Monsters and I was like,
Starting point is 00:06:18 eh, it was too much. But I could, I'll try and work my way back through it. Revisit it because I do have to say, I thought it was a very good entertaining reenactment of what may have happened. And Ryan Murphy does a good job of showing it from multiple angles, multiple opinions. He doesn't really stick with one narrative.
Starting point is 00:06:37 It's kind of every episode has a different narrative or some of the episodes toward the end have a different narrative. Yeah, you got Dominic Dunn, who was a famous, he's like an author and he wrote for Vanity Fair, he also wrote a million books, his daughter was the girl from Poltergeist and she was strangled on her front lawn by a former boyfriend and he got off with like three years and that really put a, you know, obviously he's a father and that really stuck with him for his entire life and made him very much a prosecutor's best friend as far as turning
Starting point is 00:07:12 public opinion one way or the other. And I think he had a lot to do with the turning of the public opinion. So the Menendez brothers killed their parents. They got away with it for like six months. And then after six months, they had been talking to a therapist. Right, Eric broke down. Yeah, Eric broke down. He started telling the therapist that they did kill their parents. And the narrative was they killed their parents because they just didn't like them. But then when after they got caught, the narrative turned.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Well, the narrative originally was that they killed their parents for the money. For the money. They didn't like them. They killed them for the money. They were getting cut out of the will. The father was notoriously tough on them. Very tough on them. Cuban American, who was part of the, who had helped Menudo become successful. He ran Hertz for a while. He was like the COO of Hertz for a while. These kids were rich. Everybody hated him. Everybody hated him. Everybody hated this guy. Family members hated this guy. And they hated the way that he treated the children in front
Starting point is 00:08:09 of them out in public. So, Eric starts talking to this psychiatrist, therapist. The therapist is unlicensed. He is not even really a therapist. He is basically a schmuck. He's having an affair with one of his patients. Yes. And they start recording the Menendez brothers, and there is no talk of sexual assault, sexual abuse, any of that, in any of these hours and hours of tapes. But after they get arrested, after the tapes get leaked to the police, they can't use them as evidence. But that allows them to then form a narrative, they arrest the brothers, the brothers admit to killing the parents because these tapes are out there, and then all of a sudden they start discussing how they were sexually abused, but mainly by the
Starting point is 00:08:52 father, but by the mother sometimes also, by Jose Menendez and Kitty Menendez. This is a fascinating story, and it caught America by the dick. And I'm saying- And it's still that way. It's still that way. Years later, 30 years later, people are still wondering whether or not the Menendez brothers should have gone to jail and whether or not the narrative about them being abused was true or not. Ryan Murphy takes every fucking angle in this monster. And I'm not going to give it all away, but he takes every angle. Okay. Well, now I know that there's different angles. I'll get back.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Yes. There's a lot of talk about how the fact that Ryan Murphy included that they may have been incestuous, the two brothers, and they may have been caught. There was that. And that's why they killed their brothers. Yes. And well, I mean, there was a, Eric called it abuse. Lyle called it love. I mean, I don't know. Well, because that's what the father was calling it too. Yeah, that's what the father was calling it too. And he was modeling the dad.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Listen, toward the end of this, I think Ryan Murphy does a really good job of kind of tugging at your heartstrings a little bit about these boys. And I have to be honest, I watched the entire trial as a young kid, like, I mean, as, you know, a teenager, essentially, I watched the entire trial and it was confusing as fuck just because of the way that the trials go down and how, you know, I overruled, objection overruled. It's hard to really get the whole narrative, but you understood that these boys were abused, at least that was being put out. Ryan Murphy does a great job of kind of funneling all that information into a couple of different narratives and allows you to choose which one. It's like, pick your own adventure. Which one do you think happened?
Starting point is 00:10:17 And I do have to say, if those boys were, maybe a tenth of what they said was true, even if there was some exaggeration that went on in the stand to try and, you know, for defense purposes. Even if a tenth of that was true, they should go to jail. But I don't know about for the rest of their lives. Yeah, they should be punished for the murders. Certainly. Yeah, that's not an excuse to kill people, but it is a reason, like a reason that they broke. And I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:46 What do they call it? They call it non-direct self-defense or something like that. Non-direct self-defense, meaning you believed in your head that there was a threat to your life, even though someone wasn't holding a gun to your head. You believed that at some point you could be killed. So you preempted that.
Starting point is 00:11:00 And, but in the second, so the first trial is hung, this hung jury, we're not talking about dicks again, the first trial is a hung jury. And of course they get- They were tried separately too. And then for the first trial, both were hung jury trials. Then retried. And this is right after two, there's so many factors that go into it. Because right after two, OJ had been let out. Also to the judge was the judge and the Rodney King. I mean, there was so much egg on the LA DA's office. On the DA's office.
Starting point is 00:11:32 They were going to go for it and they went for it. And the judge wasn't playing around with this, what's her name? Leslie. Yeah. What's her name? Leslie. It starts with an S. Leslie, I just watched it two seconds ago.
Starting point is 00:11:44 Thanks, high calcium in my brain. I can't remember it. Anyway, the prosecutor or the defense attorney was super, super famous, became super famous because of this, this trial. I wonder what happened to her. Did she die? Did she die? I don't know, but like lung cancer or something. I feel like she came out with a book though about it all back And they were quoting her a lot in the other documentaries. I was watching Fassa fucking nading television show I do have to say Ryan Murphy put together a good one. I love the one on OJ. I love the one on the murder of Not Gucci. Who was the guy? Versace I love that one and sw... And Swans, which just came out a little while back too. Yeah, that was about this whole
Starting point is 00:12:26 Truman Capote and these high society women. Oh, the catty little girls, the catty ladies. Yeah, in New York. Truman Capote was a fascinating character too. He is very fascinating. In fact, I just was reading something today, he's about, he would have been turning 100. 100 years old. Uh-huh. Yeah. Have you read In Cold Blood? I have read In Cold Blood. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Yes. I don't think I've ever actually read it, so I think I'm going to go back and read it. It's good. I would say that Truman Capote is not my favorite author ever, but it is good. And I understand why it's a classic, why people like it, why Truman Capote got so much notoriety and fame, because I might be mistaken here, but isn't In Cold Blood like the only famous one? Isn't that the one that pretty much made his career, Truman Capote? Hey, it did make him really famous.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Didn't he do some like movie or something too? Wasn't he like a director or some shit? He did a movie later on in life. Yeah. But he was an author. So yeah, he wrote a lot. And he would put it out in, God, what was the magazine? Cause it would come out in- Vanity Fair? I don't think- Vogue? It was, no. Rolling Stone? The New Yorker?
Starting point is 00:13:28 No, Rolling- I'm just going to start naming magazines until I get it right. Rolling Stone, Hunter S. Thompson. Oh yeah, Hunter S. Thompson is probably my favorite author of all time, Hunter S. Thompson. That's your jam. That's my jam. I like the weird disconnected,, like you have to try and figure it out as you go along. It's very interpretive. There's a lot of drug abuse.
Starting point is 00:13:48 He's very interesting. Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail, I would say is probably my favorite of the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a fucked up novel. Have you seen that movie? Oh yeah, of course. Oh man. It's like a rite of passage, right?
Starting point is 00:14:00 When you're a kid. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it should be a rite of passage. You should have to watch that. And what's that 70s? I think it's the New Yorker. Back to the Truman movie. The New Yorker.
Starting point is 00:14:13 That's right up Truman Capote's alley, I would say. Wasn't that girl who's sleeping with RFK, she was also writing for the New Yorker. Yes. No, she's just sending demure nudes. Don't forget it. Demure nudes. Demure. You know what really gets the shit under the stick here?
Starting point is 00:14:31 Cheryl Hines, yes, she gets the shit under the stick. But Cheryl Hines, I don't want to take anything away from the fact that getting cheated on sucks no matter who you are, no matter how famous you are. But Cheryl Hines will continue to be rich and famous. She will, everything, that part of her life will be fine. Who really gets the shit end of the stick is that fucking author fiance of that, of the girl. Yes, I was reading about him. Because now he can't write about politics anymore. I know, that was his thing. He can't write about the election. Yeah, because it was his thing. He was like a political writer.
Starting point is 00:15:03 I know. And now they won't allow him to. He actually took, he actually recused himself from writing about politics this election season because he now has a dog in that fight. Because, you know, his fiance is sleeping with one of the major candidates. Or was one of the major candidates. Anyway, what a fucking shit show that whole thing is. I know. It is. That, Ryan Murphy needs to do a show about that. He will. You know that? Well, he's got do a show about that. He will you know that well he's got 300 shows a year to fill with that FX Hulu whatever Netflix whatever contract he has. I mean that guy he is there is never been a TV writer so on fire since I would say Aaron Sorkin but he only did a couple you know good television good television shows. Who is Dick Wolf? Since Dick Wolf,
Starting point is 00:15:45 no one has been on fire. That Dick Wolf and Ryan Murphy, those two ought to get together and do a series. Dick, Dick Wolf, for those of you who don't know, did all the law and order, law and order SVU, law and order LA, law and order rape, law and order murder, law and order DUI, law and order Hawaii, law and order Stockbridge, Georgia. I know. There's so many. There's so many. And people eat that shit up. Oh, there's the show you were talking about, Dr. Odyssey, right there. So, we had, so go to another Ryan Murphy television show. Chrissy and I had on Gina Gershon, who we love. We just fell in love with Gina Gershon. She was incredible. Go back and listen to the episode. It was a couple months ago. We loved her. And at the time, there was a big kerfuffle because
Starting point is 00:16:29 she had mentioned she was starring in a Ryan Murphy television show, or she was working on a Ryan Murphy television show. And so, as we got close to releasing that episode, we recorded it about a month before we released it. As we got close to releasing the episode, her agent was on fire about us making sure that we cut out that portion of the interview because Ryan Murphy had yet to announce that that show was going to be broadcast at a certain time. And I don't understand why, because we just released this like two months ago. I know. I don't make it anyway.
Starting point is 00:16:59 Agents do what agents do. I'm not saying she was wrong to do that. The agent was pleasant about it. She wasn't like up our ass. She was just kindly asking, please, repeatedly, that we cut this part out. And we didn't. Not because we were trying to be, you know, assholes, but because we forgot to do it. It was just one of those things that slipped our mind, even though she had asked repeatedly. So, so there was a big kerfuffle. We had to like, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:23 recut the episode and redistribute it and all this other stuff. Anyway, so this show ends up being Doctor Odyssey. Yeah, Don Johnson's the captain. And then there's, you know, the doctor himself. He was in the show, Doctor Death. So I thought he looked really familiar. And so I looked him up and he, you know, he's like this good looking guy that comes on board and he looked really familiar. And so I looked him up and he's like this good looking guy
Starting point is 00:17:45 that comes on board and he's the doctor. And then it just did not catch me, I have to say, in the first episode. I was like, is this real? Really? So yeah, I watched the trailer for it, like just the ABC trailer for it, Doctor Odyssey. America loves, and I just was thinking about this
Starting point is 00:18:06 just this morning, having nothing to do with Doctor Odyssey, there's another show called Doctor Miracle or Doctor Wonder or something like this. America loves a good medical drama. Oh yeah. And I think it's because we are all so sick in this country, we all eventually end up at the hospital and we just love to see other people doing worse than we are. And we love to see a doctor who can miraculously fix everything. Yes, by taking us to our, you know, the grave site of our parents and yet reconnecting us. And then our cancer goes away or some bullshit like that. We love a fucking medical drama in this country and they are constantly turning these things out and they're constant. Only a few of them ever stuck. ER, Santa, something elsewhere. What was the other one?
Starting point is 00:18:50 Oh, I thought, I'm sorry. I thought you had one that you were thinking about. No, I said that one was huge, obviously. And that, did that show, I think that show like just went off the air. House, which one? ER? Oh, I think ER got signed for another season. Oh, they did. Yeah. Oh, that thing's been going on forever. Yeah. House was on. Oh, you know, just went off air. Is that one about the autistic doctor? Okay. Yeah. With the guy, I don't know, one of Toby from the West Wing guy who played Toby, Robert Shift was in that movie. Toby from the West Wing. Toby. Toby is a weird name, isn't it? Toby. Come here, Toby.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Little Toby. Little Toby. Come here, Tobes. So anyway, Ryan Murphy has this new show, Dr. Odyssey, and this one is the most ridiculous premise. I give Ryan Murphy credit for something, but then I was telling Chrissy, he's got to fulfill that contract. Like he's got to keep on turning out ideas. And ABC must have been like, wait, We gotta keep on turning out ideas. And ABC must have been like, wait, you did Menendez Brothers for Netflix and then you're giving us Doctor Odyssey? A fucking doctor on our yacht?
Starting point is 00:19:54 It's like some guy owns a yacht and then he brings all his friends on board. No, it's like a cruise ship. Oh, it's a cruise ship? Oh, I thought it was like a yacht. It's a cruise ship. Oh, well, it's, yeah. It's Love Boat with cancer. It's Love Boat. It's a cruise ship. Oh, well, it's, yeah. It's love boat with cancer.
Starting point is 00:20:05 It's love boat with broken arms. It's, yeah. It's, I can't even describe it. It was just so, so over the top. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's not for me. I'm not gonna say it's not for me.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Medical dramas aren't my thing. I just don't get into it. You know what I do like though, is that TLC has sex sent me to the ER. Have you seen that show? Oh, I have. Oh man, that's a good, that is good. That is really good. Because the reenactments are so ridiculous. They're like, they use the real doctors and then real doctors have to act out what they did. Right? I got my penis stuck in my, in my air conditioning vent.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Speaking of, that's one of the first things that he treats on the Dr. Odyssey is a broken penis. A broken penis? Yes. I told you, you can break that penis. You got to be careful. Remember we had that guy with the downward curve? Yeah, I haven't heard back from him.
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Starting point is 00:23:54 Please gamble responsibly. Gambling problem? For free assistance, call the Connects Ontario Helpline at 1-866-531-2600. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating That Megalopolis movie is coming out. And so I read somewhere that there is a scene in the movie where, and I can't remember the name of the actor, but there is a scene in the movie where the actor does a dialogue, just him, a dialogue, but he just is talking to someone. The idea of the director was to have an actor in the movie theater in every single screening to respond, to play the part, the call and response of this dialogue back and forth to add an air of, I don't know, 3Dism, like you're actually in the movie, you're a part of Megalopolis, you're doing it. But apparently, they have not found actors to do every screening. So there is like a long part of the movie where the guy's just talking to no one.
Starting point is 00:25:08 I mean, it's like the silliest shit ever. So there's a lot, apparently there are places where the actors have showed up or they have paid actors to come. I mean, how much do you have to pay an actor, 100 bucks, you think, to do like 15 minutes of dialogue in a theater full of probably not a lot of people? I don't know what the going rate is. I don't know. This is probably gonna go down as one of those movies,
Starting point is 00:25:30 like an epic failure at the box office, but then people are gonna go, oh, I get it. Exactly, that's what Adam Driver said, because I saw an interview with him about it. Oh, Adam Driver, that's who does the dialogue. Adam Driver is doing this dialogue, and there's supposed to be a call and response with an actual actor in the audience.
Starting point is 00:25:48 I would love to hear if anybody, I mean, I don't think anybody's actually seen Megalopolis, but if you have seen Megalopolis and you've seen an actor in the theater, I would love to know how that goes down. Because if it was me, I would immediately head for the emergency exits. Because if someone starts calling and responding in a movie,
Starting point is 00:26:04 I'm freaked out that they also have like an AK-47 under their frock. I mean I don't know about you but ever since that Colorado movie theater incident, the Batman incident where the guy walked in and started shooting people up, I don't ever go to a movie theater without thinking about that for some reason. I know that's a bit of paranoia, but I never feel very comfortable unless it's like a kids movie. If it's a kids movie, I'm okay, because I just don't, I'd like to think anyway, people have some kind of head on their shoulders. Many times I go see an adult movie, like we went to go see Fifty Shades of Grey on Valentine's Day, on Valentine's Day for like five years in a row. I don't know how many of those movies they have,
Starting point is 00:26:43 but it felt like five years in a row. I had to go see Fifty Shades of Grey with Astorin, being a good husband, just being a good husband. I'll go with you, babe. Don't worry about it. And for thousands of years in a row, however many years I had to watch those movies in a row, it felt like torture, but it was so fucking crowded. And I kept turning behind me. Just looking around. Yeah, but then I noticed that the only other guys in the movie theater were either guys like me who were like, you know, this is some kind of punishment that we're receiving or guys...
Starting point is 00:27:13 Or instruction. Yeah, or instruction. That's right. Girls of that fantasy. But I don't know, just kind of weird. Like I just felt weirded out about being in a really crowded movie theater. I felt a little skeeved out about it because I couldn't help but remember that Aurora thing. And now, was that during the Joker? Did that happen during? I think it was.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Was it during the original Joker? I think so. No, Aurora was during Batman, well, yes, when Heath Ledger played the Joker. Oh, okay. So, now we have Joker number two coming up. Yeah, Follet et Doux? Follet et Doux? Apparently it is a Follet et Feuil.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Is it? Yes, that's what I've read. Oh no, the other one was really good. You liked that movie? I did. You did. Okay. I had, I didn't, I felt no way about it.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Do you want to know? I felt no way about it. Do you want to know? I felt no way about it. I think that we have one of the best actors of our time playing an incredibly complicated, toxic, intricate character, Joaquin. But I did not get super emotionally invested in the movie when I watched it. It's just to me, I just didn't connect. So when I walked out, I was like, or when I turned off the television, because I watch it here, when I turned off the television, I didn't feel one way or the other about the movie. I thought, okay.
Starting point is 00:28:37 We thought it was really good. We waited a while to watch it too. There was so much, you know, hype over it. and we didn't make it to the theater either. So we ended up watching it kind of begrudgingly later, like, well, we should really kind of watch this. It's on whatever. And then we were like, ah, that was good. But that's true with a lot of things. You go in with low expectations.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Yes. And then a lot of times you're surprised. Right, a lot of times you're surprised. Yeah. I went and saw Migration, which is a kids movie about ducks that migrate, and I was like, what the fuck is this shit? And I walked out and I was like, that was really fucking good.
Starting point is 00:29:10 I like that movie. I like the movie. I did. But apparently, now we've got Lady Gaga is in there and Lady Gaga is with River Phoenix playing some kind of sycophant. Harley Quinn. Oh, is she playing Harley Quinn? Yes. Oh, I thought, I didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:29:26 I thought it was just like some sycophant chick that really falls in love with the Joker. It's Harley, she's Harley Quinn. And there's like dance numbers and it's a musical, kids, in case you didn't know. So what do you think? Are you going to go see it? I'm definitely going to see it.
Starting point is 00:29:38 I don't know if I'm going to go to the theater, but... No. Especially after you just reminded me. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, I'm going to watch it. Okay, all right. I hear what I hear. And this is just, you know, I got my ear to the ground in Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:29:53 What I hear was good try, right? It was a good try. A for effort, but- Sequels can be tough. Sequels are always tough. I mean, think of a sequel that was better than the original. Godfather 2.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Yeah, Godfather 2. Yeah, Godfather 2. I don't even know if that was better per se. A lot of people think it's the best one, but I like them all. I do like one a whole bunch, but I do think too edges it out just a little bit because it's longer, it goes more in depth,
Starting point is 00:30:23 it feels more, it feels like you're fully invested in this family and what's going on, and you get the backstory in the whole nine yards. Empire Strikes Back, some people would say that Empire Strikes Back was better than Star Wars. I disagree, but that's just me. I think that Star Wars was the best of any of the movies
Starting point is 00:30:42 that have ever come out. A New Hope, if you will, Chrissy. Let me show my Star Wars nerdism. I love Revenge of the Sith. That's my favorite one. Revenge of the Sith? Yeah. Oh, you are...
Starting point is 00:30:54 Where did you... Which womb did you fall out of? I mean, come on. Revenge of the Sith? I really like that one. That's the Darth Vader story. That is, but you liked Revenge of the Sith better than any of the original three? No, no, the original three are the original three to me.
Starting point is 00:31:09 Okay. Like those are just the ones that nothing could really measure up to. But out of the next batch that came out, which were supposedly the original one, two, three, I like the third, which is the sixth total. Okay, I will give you that. I will say Revenge of the Sith is the best of the shitty three that came out right in the middle there. The fourth one's awful.
Starting point is 00:31:30 The fourth one is terrible. I remember standing in line. Yeah, the Jar Jar Binks. With all the Wookiees and the fucking lightsabers and in the theater and that music comes on and everybody's screaming. I mean, it was packed. The minute it came out,
Starting point is 00:31:44 we were there at the 1201 screening. Me, my brothers, a couple other people. And this is back when you walked up to get your tickets. Fucking ticket master! Yeah, and we stood in line, we did the whole thing because we're like, this is the movies we grew up on. This is it. They're finally continuing the story. When they announced that movie, we were all so surprised and delighted. Oh yeah, everybody was hyped. This is going to be the best movie of them all. And I mean, I will walkie walkie walkie walkie.
Starting point is 00:32:13 I will be bim bim bim bim bim bim bim. There's another low expectation, high expectation difference. Everybody had the highest of expectations. And yeah, it felt flat. I mean, you could have literally been six feet underground with your expectations and still felt like that was a shitty movie. That was a terrible movie, terrible.
Starting point is 00:32:35 First of all, what the fuck is going on in that movie? Who's paying attention to the storyline? I don't even know, there's a kid and he's all animated. This was, this to me was like the Willy Wonka of Star Wars movies. You got a kid dancing around with it. He didn't even look like, fuck, I don't even fucking know what happened.
Starting point is 00:32:57 I don't know. What happened in Jar Jar Binks, when he came on screen, I, the movie theater was dead silent. I know. Yeah, it was like, theater was dead silent. I know. Yeah, it was like, I awoke awoke awoke awoke awoke awoke. And people were like, huh? What just happened? When we left that movie theater, people were screaming as loud as they were during the Taylor
Starting point is 00:33:17 Swift concert that I saw. It was 50,000 other people. There were 75 to 110 smelly teenagers all screaming and yelling with their lightsabers out and it was loud as fuck. And when we, that movie closed, there was, I mean, that was it. It was nothing. There was nothing. You wanna know why?
Starting point is 00:33:40 Because it was a terrible fucking movie, terrible. So name another sequel that was better. I can't even name another sequel. Rocky. Hold on. Hold on, Rocky. What about Die Hard? Is Die Hard good?
Starting point is 00:33:51 The second one? No way. I mean Die Hard, the second one, is excellent. Die Hard 2 is excellent. It is an excellent movie. But is it better than the first? In my opinion, no way. Die Hard is an ultimate classic and I don't care
Starting point is 00:34:06 I don't care if Bruce Willis himself. Well, I shouldn't say that about Bruce, but If Bruce Willis could turn back the clock 30 years and be you know that young tough stud that he was back then Actually, he's not he's not really all that tough. That's what made this movie a classic I think is that he's just kind of like a normal dude he's not really all that tough. That's what made this movie a classic, I think, is that he's just kind of like a normal dude. But if that badass Bruce Willis could show up and make another Die Hard with all dominoes falling in the right place, it still wouldn't beat out Die Hard 1, because Die Hard 1 is an incredible movie. And every boy who watched that movie at the time wanted to walk across glass and help save people from an exploding tower. Of course. Because it was so
Starting point is 00:34:46 awesome. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. What was the other one you said? Beverly Hills Cop. I don't even remember. I'm just throwing stuff out there to see what you say. I think they were good. You know, they made a new Beverly Hills Cop and I couldn't even get through an hour of it. I just couldn't. I was like, okay, all right, cool. Cool, dude. Eddie Murphy is great. Like he always is. But I don't know, the storyline is there. The 50, you know, 58 years later, however, however long it is. Yeah. What other? I can't even think of another sequel that might beat out. What are the other good movies? Predator, Robocop, Terminator. Okay, Terminator might be one, but Blue disagrees.
Starting point is 00:35:29 I might agree that Terminator, the one with him on the motorcycle in the back, is that Terminator 2? Is that Terminator 2? I think that's Terminator 2. Yeah, that's T2. I think that's T2. T2 was much better than T1, I do have to say. And
Starting point is 00:35:46 I remember watching that as a young teenager and that blew my mind. I was like, holy shit, Terminator is a badass movie. What other movies? I can't, that's it? Didn't they make a Wizard of Oz 2? Like a return to Oz? That farted all over the carpet. I mean, that was awful too. Yeah. I, here's my question to the audience. Write in and tell me which sequels were better than the first one and we'll discuss further on an additional episode of the commercial break because I'd really like to know if you think there's a sequel out there that was better than the original and give me a hot take. Give me a hot take. If you say like, I don't wanna hear any shit like Trolls 2,
Starting point is 00:36:26 because that, no, Trolls 1 is the best of them. However, Sing To, Sing To is good. I was gonna say Sing To. Sing To might beat out the original just by a hair, because that, you know, those Sing movies are really fucking good. They're really good, really good. I don't care if you have kids or not, you should check out the Sing movies. They are really fucking good. They're really good, really good. I don't care if you have kids or not, you should check out the sing movies.
Starting point is 00:36:46 They are really fucking good and they have good music in them. Blue is barking, and I'll tell you why Blue is barking. Blue is barking because that cat who fell off my roof one night is now living at the house, not in the house, but at the house. She is, I think, under the porch. And she is taunting Blue by constantly walking around the glass doors in this house. Hi!
Starting point is 00:37:09 Hi! Meow, meow, meow! You can't get me. And she is just a little scraggly little thing. I mean, she's got a belly, right? Like a hangy belly. But she has thinned out and she doesn't look like, she looks like she needs a meal. And I think she's looking for a meal. And since the hurricane, I think a lot of the animals have either gone underground. What happens to, by the way, chipmunks when there's that much rain? They just go way, way underground? Beth Dombkowski That's a good question.
Starting point is 00:37:34 Jared Svelter They hide under a tree? What happens to the squirrels? They just like, kind of hide in their nest? Beth Dombkowski I was thinking the same thing. Jared Svelter I was thinking about this. What happens to the birds, to the squirrels, to the chipmunks? Beth Dombkowski Yeah, because we even had a few hummingbirds that were left. We have a hummingbird feeder. We had a few hummingbirds that were left before the storm, but after that, I noticed they cleared out. They did? Yeah, well, they migrate anyway.
Starting point is 00:37:54 Oh, they do? But yeah. Hummingbirds migrate? Yeah, they do. I didn't know that. They go down to Florida? They go south. Really? Very interesting. They like warm weather, huh? Yeah, I don't know if they go to Florida, but makes sense
Starting point is 00:38:06 I don't know there's some of those things migrate, you know, like across continents. No, I know like butterflies and things like that It's not no whales their whales travel like 6,000 miles a year or something like that is insane But you know when we lived in Chicago, the thing was, you knew it was fall, you knew the winter was coming, because you would watch the Canadian geese migrate. Oh, right. And you would see flocks and flocks of them. I mean, it would happen once or twice every other day, something like that. You would see like geese, you know, in these V formations flying south.
Starting point is 00:38:41 And my dad would always point it out. He's like, oh, they're flying to Florida. And they do, they fly all the way to Florida from Canada, all the way to Florida every fucking year and then back. That's amazing. Yeah, it really is. And they have stops along the way. Like you were saying, Chicago was maybe a stop.
Starting point is 00:38:52 That's right. Did I ever tell you the story about the Canadian goose stop about my former uncle-in-law being the Canadian goose stop? I did not know about that. I didn't tell you that one. All right, let's do this. I know we're taking, this is a short segment. Let's take a break and didn't tell you that one. All right, let's do this I know we're taking this is a short segment. Let's take a break and I will tell you this is a this is a segue
Starting point is 00:39:10 We didn't plan but I will tell you about the Canadian goose stop. Would you like to know? We'll talk a little we'll talk a little animal talk a little I'll give you an update on peaches to has become quite the popular She's more popular than I am apparently All right, take a break and we'll be back. Coming at you live from my bedroom, it's your producer, Christina, here to ask you to follow us on Instagram at The Commercial Break and on TikTok at TCB Podcast because social media is hard. Got something to say? Text us or call us at 212-433-3TCB and leave us an unhinged voicemail because that is something I am personally a very big fan of
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Starting point is 00:41:32 And I'm like, I'll tell you what we're chatting about. Canadian geese here on the commercial break. Let me update you first on the zoo that is my house in my backyard. Peaches is doing wonderfully. As a matter of fact, there were three baby squirrels that this lady Cindy was taking care of, as well as, you know, inviting me to bring peaches to her house 612 miles away in the middle of a hurricane, which I did, by the way. So, peaches, he's doing so wonderfully. She gave her steroids, she gave her pain medicine, and she gave her
Starting point is 00:42:03 squirrel food, like squirrel formula, especially made squirrel formula, which she said is actually raw goat milk with some nutrients in it. She gave her that. And guess what? Those three little babies, which are younger than Peaches, have now nuzzled up and Peaches has taken on the mother role for the three baby squirrels. So now, Peaches is in a little area, contained little area, and the picture was the three nuzzled squirrels all sleeping, like Peaches was curled around all three of the little baby squirrels. So she says they've made a little family together,
Starting point is 00:42:40 and they are playing and having fun. And then does she release them back into the wild? She will release them back into the wild to the Chattahoochee National Forest. And she says they will do just fine. I said, well, what about, should she come back here? Like where her family is? And she said, well, after 10 weeks, they do live in packs, but she said, it's not like a wolf would be,
Starting point is 00:42:59 where it might be super important to get them back with the actual pack that they lived in. She said, it's not like that. So the squirrels can live independently and start their own brood and be a part of another pack. They've got a good start. They've got a good start. Yeah. So Peach is doing well. She says, I think she just had a little traumatic brain injury and she fell and she hit her head and she got knocked out. And she said she certainly
Starting point is 00:43:21 would have died had you not warmed her up and brought her inside and at least gotten a little food in her. So, that's good. I felt good about that. She's probably just telling me that to make me feel better, like a squirrel savior. But as my Instagram post said, I am a hero, I will go to heaven. Okay, so, Canadian geese. I used to be married to a woman whose family owned a lot of land down in Valdosta, Georgia. Valdosta is South, it's probably the southernmost kind of city before Florida. And it's got a college there, it's got a couple of things.
Starting point is 00:43:55 It's not the world's biggest, I would say there's maybe 50 or 60,000 people that live down there. I don't know, maybe more, maybe 100,000 people. But they owned a ton of land and a lot of what they call timber land. And so they owned thousands and thousands of acres of timber pine that every couple of years, they come in and they cull the herd, right? They cull that pine and that's how they make money,
Starting point is 00:44:17 essentially. They lived in this huge, old Southern house, right? I'm not gonna call it a plantation, although I'm sure it was at some point, which is terrible, but that's what it is. But this beautiful, huge house and then across the road, probably like a mile down, they own, it's the kind of place where like you could drive for a mile and a half down the state road and still be on their property, right? And so like a mile down the road, there is a big clearing in the middle of one of their pine forests. There's now a couple of airplane hangars there
Starting point is 00:44:52 and a dirt landing pad. It is an actual airport. It is recognized in the airport maps. It's been that way since about 20 years ago, 30 years ago, there was a famous movie about a guy in Canada. The guy in Canada would, he had a bunch of geese that lived on his property and he would just kind of like care for the geese. He would feed them and he would, you know, look after them. He wasn't like a carrot. He wasn't like a mama goose. He wasn't that kind of guy. He wasn't like saving the geese. He wasn't a daddy goose. He would just notice the of guy. He wasn't like saving the geese. He wasn't a daddy goose. He would just notice the geese on his property and near his house and he would just, you know, occasionally, you know, give him some food and hang out with them or whatever.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Well, he also noticed one year that the family would leave down for Florida and on occasion, a baby goose would get left behind. It would not be able to fly. Or alternately, that a family would lose the mother or father and the geese didn't know what to do because they had never flown south, right? So, there's a movie about this, like a Disney movie. Somebody came in, documented this guy. I love those nature shows. Built a plane, he was a pilot, he built a plane, a glider, but with an engine on it. He built a glider and he painted the wings to look like a goose. What? He then started, when someone would, when a ge-, when a goose would lose,
Starting point is 00:46:20 would lose their way, he would then feed them, get them used to and comfortable, he would make them believe that he was a father goose, and, he would then feed them, get them used to and comfortable, he would make them believe that he was a father goose, and then he would fly the geese south for the winter. Wow! I forget the name of the movie, but it is a true story. So, one year, my former in-laws are hanging out and they get a phone call and the phone call is, this guy is traveling with his geese, with his family of geese. And you can imagine the phone call, you know? It's, you know. Hey, Bob. Yeah? I got this guy, he's got some geese right behind
Starting point is 00:47:03 him. He's a father goose and he's looking to bring his baby geese down your yonder. Did you say you got, there's a goose that's calling you and wants to, he needs help? That's right, I got a big old goose and a couple little geese and they all got a, they're flying and they need some help. Okay, well you should probably stop drinking that moonshine, Joe. I'm telling you, he's a big goose and a little goose. I mean, can you imagine the phone call that the movie hasn't come out and it's like, this guy wants to fly, he's got geese he's flying.
Starting point is 00:47:35 What are you talking about? But true story that the, he got a phone call one day that this dude is flying and he needs a place to land. He needs a place to land, doesn't have a place to land. And it just so happens, you got a big patch of grass, can he please land with his geese over on this patch of land? And so, that's what happened. And so, the guy landed on this patch of grass that just so happened. How can you say no to that too? You don't say no to that. Yeah, no, fuck you and your geese. Crash. I mean, crash. Not on my property.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Not on my property. I don't want any dead geese on my property. But I mean, you can imagine, by the way, it's thousands and thousands of miles of woods down there. It's all pine. That's it. That's all that's down there.'s all pine. That's it. That's all that's down there. It's just timberland. That's it. And some of the richest people in this country live in that or have industry down there because they are making the wood that builds your houses and paper and all different kinds of
Starting point is 00:48:38 stuff. And so these geese land and then this guy and his geese stay at the house for a couple of days. And there's like pictures of this and everything, like video and pictures of this. And I thought to myself, wow, that is just amazing. First of all, that this guy convinced the geese to fly with him because he painted the wings to look like a goose. I mean, was he in a goose costume? Like, did he have to dress up with a goose head or something? I mean, I don't know. The collar, crack, crack. You know, I've never seen the movie.
Starting point is 00:49:06 I should probably watch the movie. Yeah, you should. Yeah, crack, crack, crack, crack. Just flying all the way down. But these geese would follow him. Every night they'd land and they'd hang out somewhere and then they'd fly back up. He took them down to the same place in Florida, years on end. This is what this guy did because he feared that they would be lost if he didn't at least follow them.
Starting point is 00:49:26 That was his mission in life. I guess. I mean, listen, I wouldn't fly in one of those gliders if you paid me money. There's just no way. I mean, those things, I think flying in a small plane is dangerous. Imagine flying out in the elements just, you know, on one of those little things. Like that's, I've seen these dipshits that go up with the big fans on their back, you know, parachute and the big fans and they go up
Starting point is 00:49:52 and they see how high they can go and then they swirl back down. Oh, I haven't seen that. Not with the fan. Oh, there's a couple of guys on YouTube that do this and they videotape everything and they talk you through it and all this other stuff. And I just keep on thinking to myself,
Starting point is 00:50:04 I love watching these videos. My hands get to myself, I love watching these videos. My hands get sweaty, but I love watching these videos, but you're a fucking moron. I mean, you are a fucking moron. All it takes is one bad fart from the cloud and then you're just done for. I mean, or a bad string or something breaks. What do you do?
Starting point is 00:50:18 There's nothing for you to do except fall. That is like my ultimate nightmare. But this guy's flying geese on one of those things. I mean, he's got a whole goose family that's going down there with this. And I thought that geese, like, you know, don't they have some kind of internal compass or something? Can't they? I always wanted to know. Couldn't they get there on their own for real? I mean, does this get a little dramatic after the first time? Do you have to do it every year? I mean, can't they remember? This is what they're born to do, right?
Starting point is 00:50:44 Right. You would think there was that innate instinct. You would think that there was an innate instinct, like some kind of something internally that told them, hey, fly in this direction, because I think they have those compasses in their head. Well, you know, one time a teacher told me, we were like in fourth grade or something, and a teacher just was explaining to us how all of this worked. And I said, they have a compass in their head, like in their brain, they can figure this
Starting point is 00:51:04 out. And all I can think about now when I think about Canadian geese is like an actual compass in their brain, swirling around. Yeah, swirling around. Go south. Yeah, go, head that way, go this way. And it's just like those salmon that swim up river every year. I mean, that's, life is a crazy, delicate, but badass thing when you think about it. Yeah, it really is. It all works in symphony.
Starting point is 00:51:31 It does. Like when, you know, you eat too much cheese and then your body starts eating its own bones, you know, that kind of stuff. It all works great until it doesn't. It all works great until it doesn't. Speaking of, I want to thank everybody and man, have there been a lot of people who have contacted us, whether they were going to the shows or not going to the shows, giving me their well wishes and I want to thank you very much. I will play this out for every
Starting point is 00:51:55 last bit of sympathy that I can get. Now, everyone's been so kind and so nice and I really appreciate it. Yes, we 100% support you. I will be okay. But I do have to tell you something. I got like an email from this place down in Florida, this surgery center down in Florida, who does like the most amount of these surgeries anywhere in the world. They are by far probably the world's foremost experts. They came up with it, right?
Starting point is 00:52:21 The surgery? They came up with this type of surgery, yes. What they came up with was there's four different was there's four different parathyroids. There's two up, two down, sitting behind your thyroid. And there's only one test where, because it's behind your thyroid, like even in ultrasound, it's hard to tell. They can see the parathyroid, but they can't see if it's sick or not. There's only one test in the world that does that, and it's a nuclear test.
Starting point is 00:52:48 And they basically shoot you up with a small amount of radiation, a specific type of radiation. It's like thermidion or something like that. The lady told me. And that thermidion, let's call it, I'm just making stuff up now. I sound like Iron Man. Magic thermidion!ion will power my suit. That Thermidion, you shoot it up, and then within 15 minutes, it lights up your PTH, your parathyroid, and all those hormones. It like basically gravitates toward that. And by the way, who figured that the fuck out? I know. This guy, I think Norman did, this Dr. Norman, right? And then they take the image,
Starting point is 00:53:23 and they can see which one is sending out the most parathyroid hormone, the PTH. But what they can't see is how much of it is being sent out. They can just tell if there's a large amount of it coming from one of them. And a lot of people get misdiagnosed because when they do this particular nuclear test, it'll come up negative. They won't, it won't show that one of them is sending out a lot of it. It has to be sending out an immense amount of PTH for this test to be positive. And what this guy, Dr. Norman, revolutionized was he decided to create an instrument that you can put the parathyroid, you can touch the parathyroid or a piece of the parathyroid, and it'll tell you how much of that parathyroid hormone is coming out
Starting point is 00:54:05 of it. In a number, right? They've got a utensil inside the surgery room. They take a tiny little piece of the parathyroid, they put it up, they put it on this like metal pad, up comes a number. Supposed to be somewhere between 50 and 70 is supposed to be like a healthy parathyroid. Well, so here's the point. They tell me to go to this website, go to this app, watch this video, right? And so, no blood, we promise. Well, I start to watch the video and I realize that what it is, is them doing this surgery on somebody. Oh. A guy around my age, a guy who has a similar problem that I do.
Starting point is 00:54:41 Don't they have to take it out and look at it or something and then put it back in? Well, they have to go behind, they have to open the thyroid, they have to pull the thyroid and go behind the thyroid. Yeah. So, I'm watching this and I am so highly disturbed and nervous about this surgery because it does not look like fun. I mean, they have like a big, whatever they call it, like a surgical gown over this guy's face and over his chest, and all you can see is just this neck. Like, if you have one nightmare in life,
Starting point is 00:55:10 it's that someone like cuts your throat, right? True. I mean, that's like a bad one. And this video, I think, pokes at every one of those fears a little bit, because all you see is this guy's neck, and he's cutting it open, right? And it's like, ee, ah! Yeah. Chrissy, I gotta be honest.
Starting point is 00:55:30 It didn't help. It didn't... It made me feel confident about the people who are doing it, but it made me feel scared shitless. Of course. I wasn't even thinking about it before. I was like, yeah, I'll go in, I'll go out, it'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:55:49 Now I'm like, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, ee, e Now I'm like, please don't touch me. This is, yeah, it's a disturbing thing to watch. And while they're right, it's not like there's not a bunch of blood just gushing out everywhere. There's very little blood actually, to be honest with you. And I guess that's because this is not a particularly bloody part of your body. But it still doesn't, it doesn't look pretty. You still want to think about it. No. But man, I'll tell you what, they take out that sick parathyroid. Here's what he revolutionized. They take out the sick parathyroid that they saw on the scan, and it's like 6,012 or something. I mean, it's just out of control. But then they test the other three. They find them
Starting point is 00:56:19 and they test them and they find a second sick parathyroid. So they say basically that anyone else who does these surgeries, most people that do these surgeries, they look for a positive scan, and then they take out that one parathyroid, but they don't check the other three to make sure that they're okay. And so what this guy revolutionized was the methodology of looking for the other three and then testing to make sure they're okay. Good. I'm glad you're going to the source. I am. I'm going straight to the source and they're gonna, I mean, could you be more vulnerable?
Starting point is 00:56:48 I mean, I guess anytime you go on a surgical table, you're vulnerable, but could you be more vulnerable when your neck is just like hanging out like that? I know. Yeah, I wish I was a goose. All I had to worry about was flying south for the winter. You know what I'm saying? Following some guy on a glider.
Starting point is 00:57:03 Wah, wah, wah, wah. Oh. It's too complicated being a human being. But you know, in other news, geese have much longer necks than we do, so that would be a… I wonder if they have a parathyroid. Do you think? I don't know. Should I look that up? Do geese have parathyroids?
Starting point is 00:57:19 Do they have hormones? I guess they do. They must. Yeah. Everything has a hormone. Right? I guess they do. They must! Everything has a hormone. Right? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
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