The Commercial Break - The Great Wolf Mayhem!
Episode Date: March 6, 2025Episode 708: Listener Betty calls in to share her experience working at The Great Wolf Lodge! From dropping a deuce behind the ski-ball machine to teenage hotel mayhem, Betty brings the Tea. Plus, Ask... TCB anything and John Mayer is a wonderland, wonder-man. Is listener appreciation day! Catching up on Ask TCB Listeners have questions for Bryan & Krissy John Mayer is from Atlanta (Don't ask how we ended up on this topic!) A new TCB milestone: a listener calls in! Great Wolf Lodge insider info Cleaning standards for AFRs The christian boys There is faith in humanity Best to you Betty!!! Watch episode #708 on Youtube Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram: @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath 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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On this episode of the Commercial Break.
But now.
Exactly.
And I'm trying not to pass this germaphobia onto my kids, but now when they take their
shoes off in a hotel room, I'm kind of like, put your shoes back on, put a socks on or
something.
Socks.
Socks.
Socks.
I know just like every other adult knows that that carpet, if that hotel is more than a
year old, has seen all kinds of DNA on it.
All kinds of DNA and I don't want to even deal with it.
It's a crime scene.
So it's a crime scene.
I bet.
I bet.
The next episode of the Commercial break starts now. Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break.
I'm Brian Green.
This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Chris and Joy Holdley.
Best to you, Chris and...
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe.
Thanks for joining us on yet another episode of the commercial break.
Hey, listen, I want to make today all about listeners.
Listeners, listeners, listeners, you the listeners.
I wanna waste no time.
It's listener appreciation day.
It's listener appreciation day, that's right.
We're gonna be having a listener call in later,
one of our first listeners that's ever called in.
I know, I am excited too.
We've been texting, interacting for a while.
Interested to find out how long she's been listening
to the show, but she texted us for the first time
after she heard my story about the Great Wolf Lodge, because she is
an employee or was employed by the Great Wolf Lodge. Not the same one that I went to, but
there's a series of them throughout the country.
Yeah, it's a chain.
Yeah, and she was throwing a bunch of stories out there, and between me, Astrid, and Christina,
who I think interacted with her once or twice, it kind of bubbled up to the top for me, Astrid, and Christina, who I think interacted with her once or twice. I think interacted with her once or twice.
It kind of bubbled up to the top for me,
and I was like, oh yeah, I would like to hear,
I'd like to hear straight from the horse's ass
exactly the kind of shenanigans that are going on.
Oh, you know she's got some good stories.
I know she does.
So that later on in the show.
But first, it's been a minute since we did an Ask TCB.
So I thought now was a great time to do an Ask TCB.
In the meantime, look at how cute one of my daughters is.
Oh, mine.
You don't get to see a listener.
Mine.
That's mine.
We're going to keep my kids out of it for right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's the best idea, actually.
Well, you tell enough stories about him, but.
I do.
But I try to.
I don't think I've maybe once or twice I've said a name.
I don't give the ages.
You don't even know how many children I really have.
And I'd prefer to stay that way.
Thank you very much.
I think I'm one of them.
You gotta gaggle.
I do.
I just say that.
I do.
I have a gaggle.
Okay.
So let's give some shout outs to some listeners and let's answer their questions.
What I have done is I have put together a series of questions that are specific to you
and I, like about the minutia of the show, about the actual commercial break. And I thought, oh, that's a good one. So I put a couple of
them together that have come over the years.
Yeah, after five years, we're catching on.
Yeah, after five years, we're finally catching on. First and foremost, it's kind of cold
in here. So let me turn off the air conditioning.
Thank you. I was going to say, have you jacked up that air?
I can feel it on my feet now, and that's always pretty annoying when my feet get cold, you
know?
Well, no, here's a fun fact, if your feet are warm, it really does warm the rest of
your body.
Same with being cold.
Do you know that my mom did this when we were a kid and I have done this for friends, family,
and my children now.
All of your blood moves through your body, I think it's in about, I think it's 36 seconds,
so your blood goes from your heart and back to your heart in like 36 seconds. Very fast,
right? That your blood flows through your body. I think that.
Yeah, check that fact.
Yeah, let me check that fact right now.
But I mean, it sounds good.
This is when we need somebody. Okay. How long does it take for the blood to flow through
your body? About a minute. Okay. About a minute. It moves at three feet per second.
Wow. Your blood's really going, right? That heart's really going.
Your body is a wonderland.
Your body is a wonderland. Touch my hand. Kind of creepy, John Mayer. But you play guitar really
good. But then you dated some teenagers and that wasn't so hot. And then you were here in Atlanta singing songs
with another guy and you forgot to give him credit
on the album.
Sorry about that John Mayer.
But now you're with the Grateful Dead.
So I guess everything's okay.
Your body is a wonderland.
Take my hand.
Why Georgia?
Why?
That's why he is from Georgia.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
So John, and now totally, totally different tangent, just real quick.
John Mayer was a local singer-songwriter here in Atlanta, and he had another writing, singing,
songwriting, writing partner that he would go and do gigs with here in Atlanta.
And the scuttlebutt was from people around that other guy and that other guy was that John went
and took some of the songs, some of the tunes that they had created together and he made it into that very first, very famous, very popular album with
Wonderland and Georgia, Why Georgia Why, that was unlike a lot of what John had done here in Atlanta,
which was very bluesy, rocky kind of thing. Now he's come back to his roots. He is an excellent
guitar player by the way. Excellent guitar player. I really enjoyed the way he plays guitar.
But the scuttlebutt was is, oops, forgot to mention that guy.
Yeah, forgot to mention that guy.
But who knows if that's true or not true.
And I would imagine that if it was true,
they've settled that score long since.
Like there's been some lawsuit that got settled
or something.
Or John just did the right thing.
Because he does seem like a nice guy.
Yeah, he really does.
He dated some young girls, but who hasn't?
Apparently everybody on Love is Blind has.
So there you go.
And I'll follow up on that in the next episode.
We'll talk about Love is Blind.
Yeah, you got to get caught up.
I know.
I was saying, you know, this other guy was so emotionally mature and such a good guy.
And then I read some stuff online that maybe indicated he wasn't.
So the blood in your body moves at one at all through your body in one minute.
And your wrists have these major arteries that go through them.
You know, we all know that.
And so if you put a cool damp cloth or coal or ice on your wrists when you're extremely
hot or warm water when you're extremely cold, in about a minute, your body will be warmed
up because the blood is moving through there.
So you warm up your blood.
So there you go. Little tip from Brian. Now you know.
Also socks.
Now you, yeah, also socks and turn off the air conditioning, Brian. Okay. All right.
So Dave from Chicago asked, Hey Dave, thanks for listening. What is the wildest or most
unexpected thing that has happened while recording an episode? Well, I know this.
I think I know this one.
I thought one right off the bat.
Which is what?
It was when we first started out
and we were recording in the other room.
And while we were recording,
like a part of the wall came down.
Oh yes.
Oh, that was pretty wild too.
Yes.
We had some soundproof panels on the wall,
taped on the wall, and a couple of them fell at one time,
and it scared the holy shit out of both of us.
And I think it's still in the episode.
It might be like episode number six or seven.
I mean, or maybe not six or seven,
but 30 or something like that.
I thought about the time, I gotta say this carefully
because I wanna make sure I don't say too much, but I thought of the time, I gotta say this carefully because I want to make sure I don't
say too much, but I thought of the time when all of the sudden the microphone was smoking
and we thought the studio was on fire and we were freaking out.
Smoke was just pouring out of the microphone.
And I stood up and I was like, we gotta get out of here.
We're gonna die like a white snake concert.
Great white, sorry, like a great snake concert. Great white, sorry.
Like a great white concert.
I think that would be it.
I mean, you know, there's.
There's always the lawnmower outside or blue parking.
Yeah.
Your gaggle of kids running around,
but that's not too crazy.
Couple times when I've literally stopped recording
because I was supposed to have been on a conference call
or something like that.
Yeah, like, oh, hey, everybody stop.
I'll be back in an hour.
And then there's the times we've recorded without actually hitting the record button.
Yeah.
I mean, besides that, there's been not like anything too, too, too crazy.
Jennifer asks, no indication of where Jennifer is, if you had to describe the show to someone
that has never heard it before, using only
a couple of words, what would they be?
TCB!
It's about friendship.
I've been trying to figure that out for five years, Jennifer.
It's two friends talking.
Like we're at a bar, we're telling stories.
It's not for everyone.
It's not for everyone, I think is a good one.
But somehow we have a listener base.
I think it's relatable, ridiculous,
and at times redundant.
I mean, I think those are the three words I would use.
It's like, you know, you're a fly on the wall
and a friendship that's existed for a very long time.
And we're always, it's like you and your friend getting together.
It is a non-linear conversation that goes all over the place.
Right. One person says one thing, it takes you off in a whole different direction.
I.E.
John Mayer.
John Mayer, putting ice on your wrist, and now listener questions.
That all happened in the first seven minutes of the show.
Okay. Oh, hold on one second. Give me one
second. I want to make sure I credit this one, but it's on a different app. Terry. Terry
says, has there ever been a topic or a joke that was too outrageous to talk about or make
in an episode? Would you be willing to share it here?" Well, no,
because it was too outrageous to say then. It's not going to be okay to say it now. I
think there have been times when we have not aired episodes or parts of episodes because
upon further review, they felt insensitive or maybe it cut too close to the bone. Like,
we were talking about a topic that maybe we
should have waited a little while to talk about it, I guess would be the best way to put it.
Yeah, I can remember that. Yeah.
But you know, I mean, it's so funny because I was talking to somebody about this and
they said, you know, is there anything like it's too embarrassing or whatever
you want to talk about? I was like, I used to feel that way, but not now. It's all out there. I'm numb to it.
Yeah. I don't think there's anything that we personally feel is off limits. I mean,
obviously there are some things about our family members that we want to try and protect the
people who didn't volunteer to be on this stupid fucking show. But as far as our own personal
inner workings or inner thoughts are concerned, go back and listen to 700 episodes of The Commercial Break.
There isn't too much in my life you haven't heard about.
Yes.
And there might be a few stories, but it's just for reasons to protect other people who are involved in them who may not want those conversations to add.
But there are topics that we have talked about where we felt afterward.
I can, I'll think of one and I'll just, I'll just share the topic, and then you'll know, is that we frequently,
especially in season two and three,
we would do videos, a lot of videos.
And one of our favorite kind of videos to do
was My Strange Addiction, or something along those lines.
And we found one about a guy who liked to be a baby,
and he wanted to be a baby.
And, but it was a sexual fetish.
Yeah.
And we felt after-
That was very uncomfortable.
Yeah, it was very uncomfortable.
We did the entire episode and then we felt afterwards
that fetishizing, you know, sexual behavior in this manner.
Evolving babies.
Yeah, it didn't-
Even if that's the guy dressing up.
It didn't sit well with us.
Yeah, it wasn't a very funny episode
because Chrissy and I were kind of like,
hey.
We thought it would be funny,
goo goo gaga, pee pee poo poo,
but it didn't turn funny when he was like,
hand job, hand job, you know what I'm saying?
It was like, it got a little weird.
Suck on your tits, hand job kind of thing.
I was like, ah, oh, ooh, oh, I don't know.
There was another one that we just recently did
where Mirica, the world's most advanced robot, Oh, I don't know. There's another one that we just recently did where America, the world's most advanced
robot was on.
And we may run part of this in the future.
It wasn't that it was too outrageous.
It was so depressing.
It was so depressing.
That it didn't end up being a very funny episode.
No.
Chrissy and I were kind of like, oh, this.
It was a robot infused with AI and it was frightening.
Certain do.
It was literally frightening. I mean and it was frightening. It was literally frightening.
I mean, I was still thinking about it.
I think it took me an hour to get home that day and I was still thinking about it after
I got home.
Oh, I was thinking about it for a week.
I was, yeah.
The same guy asks, what's a moment from the podcast that made you laugh so hard you had
to stop recording?
We've never stopped recording because we're laughing too hard.
That's also a trademark of the commercial break,
is that we laugh a lot on this show.
I think COVID Christmas Castle.
The COVID Christmas Castle.
Waffle house.
I think I peed a little bit.
Did you really?
Yeah, and then the Waffle House.
Waffle house was pretty funny. Was really funny.
Waffle House.
And there's been some other, there's definitely, what was God?
Well, I think Carl.
Oh, Carl was really funny.
Carl, when you first started talking about Carl.
Yeah, when I was doing the voice.
Yes.
Hey, girl.
Hey, girl.
I can't go preaching on a full dick.
That was pretty funny. Yeah. Yeah, and there's, even recently there was one, I can't go preaching on a full dick. That was pretty funny. Yeah, and
there's even recently there was one I can't remember. We were laughing about. It
happens all the time. We're always laughing hard. Even on or off the
microphone. That's right, on or off the microphone. A lot of times we don't even
catch the funniest stuff because we're just talking about it here in the studio.
And Jane asks, if you could bring any bizarre, obscure, or internet personality on as a guest,
who might it be and why?
Well, I find these all the time.
I would love to bring a lot of these people on, but I think at the end of the day, Frankie
B is like the gold ring of getting in.
But we've said we don't want to have him in the in here because it's like, don't meet
your heroes.
That's right.
Don't meet your heroes. That's right. Don't meet your heroes.
I have asked a guy to come on who made the rounds over the summer.
I think the popularity has faded because I don't see as many of his reels out there now.
But he's a guy who makes music and he sings songs about his ex-girlfriend, but his voice
is not good.
The music is not great.
It's very nonlinear.
But the problem is, all of that stuff,
I think you could auto tune your way into something.
The lyrics that he writes are not really lyrics.
They're like conversations that he's had with his ex-girl,
he'd be like, you know,
I broke up with you or you broke up with me
because you said we didn't do fun stuff.
But that one night I was on the couch with you.
We were watching Netflix and it was really great because Love is Blind is our favorite show.
Not a bit of irony. The guy was not joking. This wasn't a joke.
This was like he was singing these songs, but he was just talking the like the lyrics or just him talking and
everybody went crazy.
I mean he had hundreds of thousands of views on
these videos and these songs. And I tried desperately to get him on, but I think at the
end of the day, he probably listened to the show and was like, yeah, I'm not going on to be made
fun of. That's not going to happen. There's lots of internet. I mean, I think Hockatooa Girl would
be someone that I would bring on the show, though she's not obscure, she's pretty popular,
she's pretty famous, let's put it that way.
But I would love to get in her head,
because, hock to a girl, let's,
or who's the girl who does the, what's her name?
The girl that does the crazy dancing and drinking that I,
I don't know, anyway, you get it.
There's plenty of them out there. Yeah, but there's one specifically we've been talking about a lot, but now I can't remember her name.
Because we haven't talked about her in a while.
Huck to a Girl, I think, would be an interesting internet celebrity to...
I feel like I've seen so much about her, though. I don't know what else we could uncover.
Well, I'd just like to dig into not only what a shit show Huck to a coin was and all the things that she is hacking as Huck to a girl from you know
Beats on a beats website like she literally has her own beats. Oh really? Yeah, she makes her own beats like drops
To the alt coin to the meme coin to the t-shirt
You may not be legally able to talk about the coins. Well, she has been talking about it. She showed back up and she did a podcast, her own podcast,
where she brought on some people to grill her about this. And there was no, nothing else was
answered. She didn't, she just kind of dodged all the questions. But even the people who were there
as crypto experts were like, dude, this was a total rug job.
You really screwed a lot of people here.
But what I think is more interesting, the angle that is more interesting is what it's
like to get so famous so fast and how you handle that.
She got a dozen agents at WME and then they sign her to a big podcast deal.
This all happens basically overnight.
She goes from complete obscurity to someone that everybody knows.
And that's gotta be a hard thing to do.
Okay, so that's all the listener questions
about the commercial break.
But now here, let me give you one.
That is a relationship question.
This is Brad, I guess is his name.
My girlfriend talks in her sleep.
And a couple of nights ago, she had a full blown romantic conversation.
Oh no, his name isn't Brad.
Excuse me.
He doesn't give his name.
He, she had a full blown romantic conversation with a guy named Brad.
I don't know who Brad is.
She swears she has no idea who he is, but now I am stuck wondering. Do I confront her
about the dream boyfriend or just accept that I am in a weird love triangle with her subconsciousness?"
That is an interesting question.
It is because, I mean, you can't really be jealous because she's talking in her sleep. Brad could be
somebody from a show she watched earlier.
Yeah, true.
First of all, I'm going hunting on all of her social media
for Brad connections, right?
That is happening.
Once is one thing too, but if it's like every night?
Every single night?
Yeah, if it's happening more than once.
If Brad's making a repeat appearance.
Yeah, if there is a guy making a repeat appearance,
then he definitely is in her head,
and for some reason, you might wanna dig in.
And listen, you can't control your subconsciousness.
As much as I'd like to say that I have never dreamed
about another woman since I met Astrid,
that's not true, right?
And I can't control it.
I had one last fight about Jack White.
About Jack White?
Oh, was Jack White giving you the slinky seven?
Well, we weren't like, you know, doing anything. Yeah, but I was like at a concert and I was
meeting him and talking to him. We were friends. He was like getting me backstage and it was
a whole thing.
And then he was touching your boobs.
I think because we were talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Oh yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah, well, listen.
Again, stuff can slip into the subconscious. Yes. When I first met Asher, when Asher first came here to live with me, when we got married,
I had a series of dreams over the course of a month about Lisa Kudrow from Friends.
Oh, you did. You told me about that.
And I was so-
Yes.
It was as if Lisa Kudrow and I had actually had sex.
I remember you telling me about that.
Yes. And I was so weirded out. I could not get her out of my head. And I gotta be honest,
I wasn't a huge Friends Watcher when it came out. I have not done the rewatch. I've probably seen a
lot of episodes by default because it's been everywhere forever. But Lisa Kudrow is the last of the girls.
Yeah, it was not the one. It was Jennifer Aniston every time. I mean, and I wasn't even
all that attracted to Courtney Cox, but she might be the second. It's not that Lisa wasn't
attractive. Of course she was, but something in my brain turned Lisa Kudrow into the world's
sexiest woman. But not Lisa Kudrow now or Lisa Kududrow the actress, the girl from Friends, Phoebe,
right? She was Phoebe. It was Phoebe and that smelly cat, and we were having sex like multiple
times in my dreams, and it was really weird, and I could not get it out of my head. I remember that.
For a couple of weeks this went on. So you can't control your subconscious. Obviously I'm not
sleeping with Lisa Kudrow, but, you know, or Phoebe, either of them. I wish I could. I will tell you right now that I don't think you can
control your subconscious. So if she's telling you that I don't know who Brad is and I have no idea
why I'm saying his name, I'd take that on face value and just, you know, run with that, right?
Unless you go to an office Christmas party and you meet Brad, your boss.
Yeah, that's right. Unless she brings home some of her coworkers and Brad shows up at the front door.
Hey, I'm Brad.
I work in the office next to your wife.
Then you might have some problems.
But okay.
All right, listen, we got to get Betty on the phone.
Betty works for or worked for, we'll get some clarity on that, for the Great Wolf Lodge.
She's got a few stories to share with us.
These may be cautionary tales, I'm telling you what.
I'm not trying, by the way, I'm not trying to poo poo on the Great Wolf Lodge.
It's a great place to take the kids and kill a day or two or whatever it is.
But we all know what goes on.
And let's not try and pretend Great Wolf Lodge is something that it's not.
And I've told you about my story.
I like to hear about other people's experiences.
And one of them Especially an insider.
An insider, someone that works there. So let's take a break. And when we get back, we'll
talk more about it.
Let me do something Brian has never done. Be brief. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial
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And taking a listener phone call now,
Betty from the Midwest is here with us because...
Hello, Betty.
Hi, Betty.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
Well, thanks for calling in.
We certainly do appreciate it.
Betty was texting us because Betty was explaining
that at one time she actually worked for Great Wolf Lodge.
Oh, inside knowledge.
Inside the inside scoop on the Great Wolf Lodge.
And I said, you have to call in because I have to hear more about the inner workings of the Great Wolf Lodge.
One of my least favorite vacations that I've ever taken, but it wasn't the worst vacation I've ever taken, that's for sure.
But you got to understand as an adult with small children, it was a little strange to see full
grown adults sitting at the bar, boozing themselves greatly to great effect while everybody else ran
around, you know, peeing in the pool. So tell us, Betty, first of all, thanks for being a commercial break listen, one of the
few commercial break listeners out there willing to say that they actually listen to a commercial
break.
Yes.
Hey, you know, I was, I advertise your stickers on my water bottle.
Whoa.
So, yeah, I gotta get, no, I actually, you know, I don't actually have the stickers.
Oh, you don't?
I don't know what happened to them.
I requested them.
We'll send you some more.
We'll send you some more.
Please do.
We will.
Please do, because I'll text you my address.
Okay, text us your address and then Astrid will be happy to send you some pictures, I
mean, some stickers and pictures.
Astrid likes to send listeners pictures, but maybe you're not her
flavor. I don't know. How long have you been listening to the show?
Ah, since the great pandemic. Oh, a long time listener.
Very long time. I think I started when you guys were maybe 15 episodes in.
Oh, when we were 15 episodes in?
You're kidding me.
Thank you for sticking with us.
Wow, Betty, I had no idea that you were listening for that.
I had no idea anybody was listening for that long.
No, we thought those people had all gone.
Yeah, we figured people had turned over many times.
Wow.
No, I stick around.
Okay, so how long did you work with the Great Wolf Lodge?
I mean, how long have you been work with the Great Wolf Lodge? I mean, how long have you been associated
with the Great Wolf Lodge?
I am on my sixth year.
You're on your sixth year. Wow.
And let's start with this question.
Do you think people are absolutely the worst
after working for the Great Wolf Lodge for six years?
Let me just say people, well, people, a person, a person is good.
People are bad.
Yeah, I can see that.
So in other words, when you're interacting with just one person, they tend to be nice.
And, but when a group of people is together, they're dismissive and the group think mentality
takes over and people start becoming real shitheads.
Is what I experienced at the Great Wolf Lodge also.
Yeah, that was it.
Is that everyone just kind of went wild.
Like they went wild when they couldn't get their pizza
in five minutes, but it was everybody working
everybody else up is really what was going on.
What is, so-
Yeah, it's a kind of peer pressure type thing.
Yeah, I think it's, you know, I think it's well documented group think mentality takes over and
one person gets irritated, that energy can literally pass on to the next person.
Yeah.
It does.
So tell me, give me like a little slice of some of the experiences that you've seen
from the Great Wolf Lodge that would make us all turn
our stomachs.
Well, I've got three categories for you.
Okay.
Okay, so it can be like Jeopardy.
You can do Karen stories.
Okay.
We can do really, really gross stories.
I like those too.
Or a really wholesome story.
Okay.
Why don't you do this?
Why don't you give us one, let's start in, let's do it in this order and we'll see if
we have enough time to get through three.
Why don't you go gross, Karen will end it on a high note with wholesome.
Okay.
All right.
So I have permission from my coworkers to tell you their stories too.
Okay, great.
Oh, we've got a-
Oh, yes.
Juicy.
This goes deep.
It's a conspiracy.
I've been collecting them.
Oh my God, I love this.
So one of my coworkers got a call on the radio that somebody had pooped behind the ski ball
machine in the arcade.
What?
Oh no.
Yeah.
How do you get behind the ski ball machine?
So this is the thing.
So you're going to imagine that it's downpour rate.
Okay.
Okay.
We've got water coming in underneath the doors. So they had
moved one of the little block in the screens that block the view of the mate of one of
the emergency exits. Okay. So there's like a little passageway behind the skee-ball machines for maintenance for emergency exits.
Yeah.
So there's a group of about four boys,
and they have this on camera.
There's a group and they're playing skee-ball and they're doing
the basketball thing in the arcade and suddenly they disappear from the screen.
They found a way to get behind the Skee-Ball machine.
And it's dark back there.
And dusty and whatever else.
And you have no, yeah, it's probably full of trash.
So he just apparently just pulls his pants down and just poops on the floor.
Just shits right there?
How old is this kid?
Are these like 10 year olds?
Yeah.
Oh fuck, 10 year olds.
Yeah, give or take.
Yeah, that's the worst.
I was the worst at telling you.
They're not little.
They're just too involved and they can't go across the park.
The hallway to poop.
To get, yeah.
Oh my god.
Okay, so.
So, worse on worse, okay?
Yeah.
The four of them back there are apparently all together.
They're all involved in this.
They're all encouraging this kid to shit on the floor, essentially.
Yes. Yes. Essentially.
Yes, exactly.
And you know, it's loud in there. You can hear a damn thing.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Lights, noises, bells, whistling, loud music, you know, splashing.
It's yeah, it's very loud in that place.
It is.
So one of the kids apparently throws up during the pooping.
kids apparently throws up during the pooping. Oh, my God.
So now you've got water coming in from the emergency exit.
You've got kids in there playing in the park, in the arcade.
And then suddenly it's poop and pee.
Oh, God. arcade and then suddenly it's poop and pee.
Oh, God.
This sounds like, you know, Venice after flooding.
This is like, this sounds really fucking gross.
So Betty.
It's like, you thought the pool was bad?
Oh, the carpets are terrible.
Oh no, I said this the second that I walked into that place.
It had carpeting, which in general,
in hotel rooms, I have learned, you know, it used to be that when I was a kid and we got to a hotel
room, it was the best thing in the world. The smell of chlorine and bleach and the pool,
like something about a hotel just got all of us brothers so excited. We loved to stay at a hotel.
We take our shoes off and run around the hotel room like every kid would.
But now, and I'm trying not to pass this germaphobia onto my kids, but now when they take their
shoes off in a hotel room, I'm kind of like, put your shoes back on, put a socks on or
something.
Socks.
Socks.
Socks.
I know just like every other adult knows that that carpet, if that hotel is more than a
year old, has
seen all kinds of DNA on it. All kinds of DNA and I don't want to do with it.
It's a crime scene.
So did was it's a crime scene.
So did it was management alerted quickly? Was this situation taken care of quickly or
did it take some time to figure out what had happened or was the security keeping an eye on these boys?
She told me it took her three hours to get it cleaned up completely.
To standard.
Oh my God.
Your poor coworker.
Your poor coworker.
These are the people. She, so we do have like a little hand held carpet cleaner.
Okay.
Kind of like your little bissel, your spot up type of thing.
It's loud.
Okay, because it has to be.
Yeah, yeah.
But she said she had to refill it like six times.
Oh my God.
I just can't even think of the minutiae.
Those little shitheads.
Those little fucking twats.
And she said she had to wipe it off the walls.
That's the worst. You know, I don't like sometimes when you're on a road trip and you stop at
the rest stop, you know, generally if most if the rest stops are maintained, generally
there's like a 24 hour maintenance person that there, that's cleaning. God bless those human beings who are doing that because that is the worst of the
worst. But what gets me every time I go to a truck stop or rest stop or whatever it is, what gets me
is not that people shit, that it smells bad or whatever, that's everybody's shit.
It's the shit on the walls.
It's the shit on the walls. And I'm like, how did you, how possibly could you have gotten it up there?
How did that happen? You have to purposefully be aiming in that direction or something. I don't know.
Because I have never been one that has ever thought about shooting shit on a wall.
It's fucking disgusting. That is crazy.
Little monkeys.
Yeah, they're like little monkeys.
They are little monkeys, 10 year olds.
So did those kids get kicked out of the Great Wolf
Log? Did someone, was there any conversation with the boy? Because I mean, I imagine if security has it on camera, then you
can, you have an idea of who did it, right? You see their picture.
That depends because I mean, you're all on wristbands. So identifying somebody, if they don't give a proper name, we can't know what room they're
in unless you have wristbands.
And plus I wonder how long it was until it was discovered.
I'm sure they didn't come out right away.
Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't like one minute.
And they're not going to tell anybody.
Of course not.
No.
Yeah, but this is the best story they've ever told as a 10-year-old.
They're all running around school telling this story about the time little Timmy shit
on the wall of the skee ball machine in Great Wolf Lodge.
Can I ask you a question while we're on pee pee poo poo?
Yes.
How clean are those pools?
Is it like, the people who work there, do they have a general understanding that, I
mean, I understand there's a ton of chlorine
in those pools, like a ton.
You can smell it.
It burns your nose, right?
And I'm sure they keep those chlorine levels
at such high levels that no bacteria could survive
more than a couple seconds.
But is it just, how many times a day
do little kids shit in the pool?
We actually have a code for it.
Yeah, of course you do.
What's the code?
So we have an AFR, which is Accidental Fecal Release.
And they'll do it all call on the radio.
And so whoever here has the radio will hear pools.
This certain pool is closed for an AFR.
Oh my gosh.
We will be, we will radio you when we're back open.
Yeah.
So they'll take, they'll do that.
They'll do like a full half an hour treatment.
Oh, everybody's out of the pool.
Everybody gets out of the pool.
There's nobody allowed.
They have to do the chemicals. Everybody gets out of the pool. There's nobody allowed. They have to do the chemicals.
They have to get the nets.
They have to get the biohazard bags.
And they have a specific place for all that.
Wow, yeah, I was gonna say,
cause you can't really drain the pool.
You gotta just get it out of there.
And then cycle it. Yeah, to put chemicals in a pool. You've got to just get it out of there and then- No, you can't drain a pool. You've got to just get it out of there and then-
Cycle it.
Yeah, just put chemicals in it and cycle.
And nobody's going to touch that, so not with their hands.
No.
Of course not.
This isn't caddy, Shag.
Right.
When you have an AFR, an accidental fecal release, it's-
I'm just like, Tina's laughing so hard.
When you have an accidental fecal release in one,
so the Great Wolf Lodge that I came to here, or went to here in Georgia, there is the wave pool,
there is the kid pool, there is the, you know, water slides. I'm sure they're all very similar
in that sense. When you have a AFR in one pool, does everybody have to get out to the
entire Great Wolf Lodge water park? Does everybody just have to leave?
No.
Or just that pool?
No.
It's just that pool?
Just that pool.
Okay. And they all have their separate filtration systems. So, okay. Okay, good. Okay. That's
all right. All right. Somebody's working on it. Listen, you know, it wasn't the most,
and I think I mentioned
this on the show where I talked about my experience with Great Wolf Lodge. It wasn't the messy place.
It was well-kept. It was just seeing some of the people that were running around in there,
one 10-year-old boy running around literally with his ass hanging out in the water. I was like,
I'm in ass water right now. That's what I was like, I'm in ass water right
now. That's what I mean. I'm in ass water. I'm in somebody else's asshole water right
now. And that kind of skeeves me out a little bit. Has Great Wolf Lodge ever considered
putting that chemical in the pool that turns pee a different color? Like that place you
have to see?
I don't know.
That would be a good idea.
I don't know.
Is that real or is that a myth?
It's real. You can get that. You can get it at the pool store. But there's like, it doesn't work in all circumstances,
and it has to be at high levels of concentration.
You can put it in the pool and it'll stay there for like 30
minutes, but then it eventually gets filled.
The chlorine overtakes it and whatever.
I don't know.
There's some technical shit.
OK.
That is a pretty disgusting story.
I'm thoroughly grossed out.
I hate pee-pee-poo-poo, and I definitely dislike puke. And God bless the people who have...
Could I have to clean that up?
Do you hear me, listener?
I don't imagine anybody at TCB who's listening to TCB.
I like to think of our listeners as a very pragmatic,
common sense, kind people who don't,
who aren't adding to the drama of the universe.
But if there's one of you out there, or you have little shitheads that are, you
have little yous that are running out there acting like you, can you please put
a cap on the bullshit because somebody out there in the universe has to clean up
after your little chitlins and no one wants to clean pee pee poo poo off of the
skee ball machine.
No one, but that's somebody's job. That is somebody's job.
Fuck them.
We're not making much.
Right. I was going to say, God, if there's those situations,
you almost need like an instant bonus.
Yeah, I would think so. It always gets me that like the people who do the most
amount of work for us in the service industry are the people who are likely to get paid the least.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I'm not complaining because I was a bartender,
but bartenders can bring home 100, 200, $300,
maybe more in a night, depending on what restaurant you're on.
And we're just talking to hot chicks
and making cocktails all night long, right?
But the guy who's cleaning, the bus boy,
who's cleaning up all the tables and the bathrooms
and all that other stuff,
is making like 10% of our tips, right?
It always seemed a little bit, I guess that's just the way of the world. Okay, so tell us,
I don't want to go on a tangent, not while you're here, Betty. I'm trying to be nice while you're here.
Okay, so now-
Oh, that's a change.
That's right. There she goes, she's got it.
I get no respect on my own show. No respect. But I guess I have no one to blame but myself.
No, you're good.
Okay, so now tell us a Karen story because, God, do I love Karen stories.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so I texted you these two and I'm gonna have you choose because we'll do a part two if you want.
Okay.
You can, I can do the birthday cake, Karen.
Okay.
Or the Christian boys.
Oh God, I wanna do both of them.
Okay, do the Christian boys first.
Let's do Christian boys first.
Okay.
So you're talking a group of at least 10 boys.
They're ranging in that same 10 to 13 age.
Okay.
So apparently they were awarded this Great Wolf trip
for something in their youth group.
They're all wearing matching shirts.
They're just, you know.
Yeah.
You know where they're from.
Yeah, little Hitler youth.
Yeah, okay, go ahead.
Yeah.
Think cult, I guess, Trayton.
So they are a myth to society.
They're running around screaming. They're throwing an actual football
in the building across the golf course.
Oh my god. I'd be mad. I'd be so mad if this was happening.
Yeah. Because like if it hits you.
Yeah. Or a child or whatever. It's just rude behavior.
Or it could break something.
Of course. Yeah. So there's there this is also video evidence. So they get their food, okay?
Okay.
And proceed to have a food fight.
Oh.
Little fuckers.
We had to go up there and clean those table areas. Yeah. And it took hours because
there's just pizza ground into the floor. There's salad, there's ranch dressing, there's
soda. It looked like somebody had just literally flipped the table. There's chairs knocked down. There is only one chaperone visible and he's on his phone.
Oh, God.
Of course.
I bet this happens every day at Grateful Wolf Lodge, that there is a group of shitty children
and the parents are just as shitty.
Not watching them.
Yeah, they're just as shitty.
They're just not, they're not paying attention.
If my son is throwing food in a public area,
if one of my kids is doing that,
I'm gonna yank a knot,
I'm gonna jerk that knot right out of their tail.
And they're gonna be up in the room
for the rest of the vacation.
We only wish that had happened at these points.
Exactly.
I'm sure they continued to terrorize the place.
They're running down the hallways. They're screaming. It sounds like somebody's being murdered in the building. So we have that long hallway we call Main Street, where you have your
building there, your Dunkin' Donuts, stuff like that. They're running down there. We're thinking
they're going to slip, they're going to fall. We're going to have a big, you know, code three.
Code three is a medical emergency?
Yes, of like serious nature where you have to call an ambulance.
Yeah, there'd be a code three.
Fist up one of these kid's asses.
Busted nose, you know, broken bones.
Blood everywhere.
That's what we're thinking.
Right. So they head into the lobby and we've got that revolving door, right? Yeah. And
this is also middle of winter. So the door is not revolving very fast. Um, it's pretty
slow and people will complain because that's what people do. But these boys are in there, maybe four of them on each
side of the doors, and they're pushing it. They're pushing the doors. Now, our revolving door,
when you touch it, it will automatically stop. Fair enough. Safety feature. Yeah, so you got people pushing on it,
trying to get it to open, and it's not gonna do that.
If it can't see you, the motion detector,
if it can't see you, it doesn't care if you're in there.
Yeah.
You know?
Okay.
You have to stay in view of that motion sensor
in order for the doors to not stop.
Wow. Simple comments.
So now they have four of them on each one of the, you know, there's whatever, 10 or
12 kids.
Yeah.
And four kids in each section?
Yes.
Oh.
So I can only imagine the doors are just stuck because these shitheads keep, you know, there's
four of them in there and they can't not.
They're trying to push it.
They're stopping it on purpose and then letting
it go and then pushing on the door to make it go faster. So they're just screaming in there.
They're pounding on the glass. They're going to break something. So the manager of the day or manager on duty the modi He's done. He's finished. It's these kids are I
Swear they've gone too far. They've gone too far. It's enough. Yes. Where are the parents?
Where where are your parents and I know exactly where the where's the chaperone and now they're causing drama and
Exactly. Where's the chaperone? And now they're causing drama and inconveniencing and making other people upset because no one is there to tell them how to act like fucking human beings.
And here they're from a church group.
Yeah, they're from a church group.
Yeah, exactly. So the MOD goes over and does the perfect thing. So he waits until the doors are in that exact spot
where you can't get out, can't get in, and he hits the emergency stop.
Yes.
Sweet.
Now the thing is about this is the emergency stops, there's one on the inside and one on the
outside. So you've got the two side doors
that you can use to get access to the outside.
Yep.
If the emergency, if the revolving doors are not working.
So he gives them about five minutes
and they're just kind of like, they're like,
you can see them start to panic a little bit.
Yeah.
You know, they're like, why isn't,
what's going on, What's going on?
And then you got security.
You've got security there.
You've got MOD and they just got their arms crossed
and they're looking like freaking the rock, you know?
Wow.
They got their eyebrows up.
They're just looking mean.
So he gives them a few minutes and he has security go out
and push the emergency stop on the outside so they can release the kids.
And he's like, wait, still they get out there.
He pulls one their button and then it's reached the security comes back in until he pulls
the inside button.
So he's given them a little, you know,
like little few minutes of like pure fear.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I love it.
So he finally gets it to go again.
They come out and they're looking like a hang dog.
They're like, you know, oh, we screwed up.
Oh man, sorry.
Yeah.
We know you don't mean it.
Yeah, of course.
But he's manager of the day has the power to ban people from the property.
Oh, yes.
Ban, ban, ban, ban, ban, ban, ban, ban, ban, ban.
He's like, he's like, it's 10 o'clock at night.
You know, we're getting ready to pack up and go home.
They want to go home.
They're like, you guys, I don't care what you do.
I don't care who you are.
Go to your rooms and stay there.
Yes.
I'm going to get your, I'm going to get whoever is in charge of you.
And we're good.
You guys are going to go scram, get out of here.
Right thing to do.
The thing is security says they were down there at three o'clock in the morning.
No way.
Of course they were.
Of course they were.
Because they have no rules.
They are lawless little children.
I don't know how you feel about this, Betty, but I think that when kids get sheltered in
one way, they have to act out, they don't know how to behave. They don't have the place, the time,
the appropriate venue to get that kind of energy out.
So they don't know how to act when they get out in public
because they're so sheltered in other parts of their life.
I can only imagine, right?
Or they're indulged, they're encouraged.
Exactly.
Oh yeah, that too.
Yeah, you have the right to do this.
They're not told no.
They're not told no. Do you get this being here. Oh yeah, that too. Yeah, you have the right to do this. They're not told no. They're not told no.
Do you get this?
Yeah.
I can't, first of all, you're an angel.
You're an angel.
I mean, I know you're doing this for money
and you're doing this to feed your family
or feed yourself or whatever,
but at the end of the day,
I can't even imagine what it's like to work
at one of those places in a time when there's such
entitlement and there's so little pushback on some types of behavior. As a matter of fact,
people at the highest levels of our society are acting like these children are acting.
True.
No rules, no guardrails, no law, nothing. And so everybody, when you can't even point to anybody in our
society and say, behave like that, then where are the examples? It's certainly not here
on the commercial break, that's for sure.
I would think you have to have a sense of humor.
You do have to have a sense of humor. That's for sure.
I mean, that's what you guys are in my Bluetooth, in my ears, and you're just associating me
from everything else going on.
Oh, good.
Good.
Okay, hold on.
Betty, we're going to take a short break.
And then when we come back, then we will, I want to hear the wholesome story.
We're going to pull this onto another.
Well, now we've got the other Karen story.
Well, we got the other Karen story.
We got a wholesome story.
I don't know if we'll have time for both, but give us one second.
We're going to take a break.
Okay.
And then we'll be back.
Sure thing.
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Okay, so, so Betty, so what I want you to do is I don't know if we have time for both
stories.
We may have to, we may have to follow up with Betty because you know what?
I'm sure that every week, we might be able to be a regular.
Let's update the great Wolf Lodge situation.
Let's see how shitty humans have gotten since
the last time we talked to Betty. Because you only really will understand just how the depravity
of some people in this, that are walking amongst us. If you talk to the people whose responsibility
is to go around cleaning up their fucking shit. That's it. Literally, their fucking shit.
Right? Yeah. And that's it.
Or work amongst that, you know, people at their worst, so to speak.
And my opinion is, and I've said this many times on the show before,
restaurants and people who work in the service industry
see people at their worst for a number of reasons.
At a hotel and a resort like Betty works at,
you see people 24 hours a day in a whole cycle, right? Most of the time you see people
you're gonna act with them for two or three minutes, so they're on their best behavior.
But when you see somebody at over the course of a day, then and on vacation, then you catch
them at their worst. Or when they're eating, because you have to do it three times a day,
everybody is picky about what they eat, everybody has to guzzle down food. And so when you work in a restaurant or cleaning up after people who are in a restaurant, then you see the
worst of people because people, for some reason, when it comes to food, they just, they're, we're
animals, we're absolute animals. And so, God bless you, first of all, Betty. Second of all,
let's end this on a high note and tell us a wholesome story.
Okay. So I've got two and they're quick. So this one is personal to me. And this one was a young
father with a little baby. and the baby is trying
and playing in the mining area
where the water's coming down.
And you see the kids, they're digging for rocks.
Okay, so hold on one second.
So let me explain to those who are listening
because my kids did this also.
Okay, yeah.
In the middle of what she's calling Mean Street
where all the retail and restaurant and-
Adventure park.
Yeah, and the adventure park is, they have
a place where you can pan for gems. They give you a bag, it's full of rocks, mud and sand,
and then you put it in a pan and you sift it like you were sifting for gold, so to speak.
But it's just like a little, it's a couple of wood canals that are made coming from a water
fountain down into a pool, right? Okay, so good
So you've got little baby playing in the water thinking like, you know splash park, right? Yeah, you know
So we did in the pool and
my kid
Yes
And she's got her sister's magic wand for magic quest. Okay
So if you if you saw the Magic Quest,
it's like a scavenger hunt.
Yes, I did see that.
With like magical items and the dragon and stuff like that.
That's how they get an extra $100 on you.
Yes, I saw it, yes.
I told my kids no.
I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
Wait till they're older.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So you know that they're battery operated and you don't want to get them wet.
Right.
So babies trying to put the magic wand in the water, see if it's going to float.
You know, it's a toy.
It's a toy.
Put things in water.
That's how things work.
It's what kids do.
Yeah.
So I'm seeing this and I'm like, oh, that's gonna, it's gonna ruin it.
You know, and then there goes like the 20 bucks,
their game, everything's gonna get lost.
And I walk over there and I'm like, I'm sorry, sir.
I really, I, you know,
wanna make sure that everything's okay with the baby.
That's not a good idea.
You know, he's like, I know she wants to play with it.
She sees her sister playing with it. She wants to do the same thing know, he's like, I know she wants to play with it. She sees her sister playing with it.
She wants to do the same thing.
And I'm like, I know.
All right, I'm thinking in my brain,
what can I do to make this better?
So I know, because this is what I do.
There is a Build-A-Bear shop,
and they have little stuffed magic wands for the build-a-bear.
Okay. So I go over there and I'm like, look, can I buy one of those stuffed wands?
Oh. It's not for me. It's for a guest. And they're like, take it. Take it. They cost,
what, 30 cents, right? They're not that expensive. You can. Good. They cost what? $0.30, right?
They're not that expensive.
You can have one.
I take it over to the dad, to the little baby, and I'm like, this is for the baby.
This is for the baby.
She can play with this.
She can get it wet.
She can chew on it, whatever she wants to do.
And it's got a little wrist strap, right?
Yeah. Yeah. on it, whatever she wants to do. And it's got a little wrist strap, right?
So I put it around her wrist and her face,
and this is what makes it all worthwhile,
was just the smile on her face.
Oh, that's so sweet.
Betty.
Betty.
The dad was like, I was gonna get her one,
you know, like he was gonna go get her one. But know, like, he was going to go get her one.
But I'm like, no, this makes me feel good, too. Absolutely. It's those little moments that keeps you at least coming,
getting up and going back to work.
This is what gives me the smallest, things like this give me the smallest amount of faith
in some of humanity. Because Betty, whose responsibility it is, is to literally clean up after you like
you're your mother, like she's your mother, right? And she cares so much about the people who are
coming in and out of the place where she works, that they have a good time, that they don't hurt
themselves, that it puts a smile on their face. So she's willing to take money out of her own
pocket to make sure that a father and a daughter have an experience that's not dangerous and that the
kid wants, I know this because I have the kids that are this age, like they want to
do this and if they can't do it, then to them the world is ending, right?
So lending to that experience, allowing it to happen is the best thing in the world to
the kid.
And then to the father, it's like,
oh, I don't have to deal with a total meltdown
because you can't put batteries in the water,
the fountain at Great Wolf Lodge. Wow.
And then imagine the little girl who's, like, got, you know,
high score or whatever of the day on that wand,
and then suddenly losing everything.
Yes.
Aw.
You saved the day, Betty.
Superhero.
Wow.
That's right.
Our listeners are much better humans than we are, Chrissy.
I just have to say that right now.
For sure.
All right, Betty, I want to end this on a high note.
We don't have a ton of time, but I will tell you this.
We will be calling you back.
Save the second wholesome story, save the second carotid story.
Maybe we check in with you in a month,
continue to collect stories.
Would you like, I would love to have you back.
You're really our first listener caller,
except for Will the champ who called in very early on.
And I can say, I think this one was a winner.
What a great experience.
Betty, you're the best.
I gotta tell you one thing before I go.
Yeah, please.
I will never ever look at the wolf again without calling him the swim wolf.
Swim, swim, ra ra, swim wolf.
They all have names, they all have a personality, but he is now wolf.
I love it. I love it.
I love it, Betty. Well, Betty, long time listener calling in to give us the skinny on just how
terrible all of you are out there.
Do better people.
Yeah, do better people. But we do have to say there is faith in humanity because for
every one of, for every shitty 10 to 13 year old boy that's out there making life miserable for people like Betty,
there's a Betty to make life better for all of us.
So Betty, thank you very much.
Best to you, Betty.
Best to you.
Best to you guys.
We will text you and we will check in shortly.
Absolutely.
Thanks again, Betty.
Well, I have to say, I think having a listener, you know, I've always been very fearful of
having listeners on and here's the reason why.
Even though I encourage people to call and leave a voicemail, there's a reason why I
encourage them to call and leave a voicemail is because then, you know, we can edit it.
We don't have to play it if it's not particularly interesting or good or whatever.
I always get a little fearful that we're going to get dragged into a conversation that maybe,
I don't know, you know, you never know.
It's like a wild card that you have no idea about.
But I have to say, I had a pleasant experience with Betty.
And Betty gets a gold star.
100% A+.
She brought the drama.
She brought the stories that were good.
I cannot, I'm still trying to get over how four 10 year olds, I couldn't imagine, listen,
I did a lot of shitty stuff as a 10 year old.
I put pixies, and I'm one of these kids. I am one of these kids. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna pretend like I wasn't imagine, listen, I did a lot of shitty stuff as a 10 year old. I put pixies, and I'm one of these kids.
I am one of these kids. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna pretend like I wasn't. I put pixie straw, pixie, what do they call them?
Pixie straws, yeah, pixie dust.
I put that, like 30 of those in an air conditioner in a hotel room on a field trip, and then I turned the air conditioner on.
Along with a number four, three other
10 year old boys. We did that kind of stuff.
Yeah, you're like wolves.
We were wolves.
At the Great Wolf Log.
Oh, and one of the kids threw a pizza up on the wall. Like we had a leftover pizza, you
know, they ordered a bunch of pizzas and we had an extra one. It was like, you know, the
vegetable pizza or whatever. And he took it and he threw it up onto the ceiling. It like
stuck on that ceiling. But I will tell you what, the adult, we, first of all,
we realized the error of our ways in the morning
and tried to clean up it, tried to clean up it.
We tried to clean up it.
Clean up it, I will.
Mm.
Clean up it, you will, yes.
Peter throw on what he did, mm.
But I will tell you what, the adults that were
around us were going to be god damned if they were going to allow us to leave that hotel
without every inch of it being cleaned up. The entire class had to wait for 90 minutes
while the maid came up or the person who was cleaning, the cleaning lady,
came up, brought her little cart,
and we had to take the cleaning solutions,
the vacuums and everything, and do it ourselves.
That's the way to do it.
And it was clean.
It was as if no one had ever even stepped foot in that room
when it was done, because the adults that were with us
made sure of it.
And had they been there or understood what we were doing at that moment, we would
have been fucked. We would have been fucked. We were fucked as it is. I got grounded. We
got demerits. We got all kinds of, we had to write a letter to the owner of the hotel.
It was a whole fucking thing. I was a shit head at 10 years old. I can say that, but
never once did I ever think about defecating anywhere except a toilet. That's just like a step
beyond. You can't walk across the way and go to the bathroom. Unbelievable.
No, the crazy thing is, is that adults do it too. So my dad for years was, you know,
like a facilities manager. Yeah, he was like head of the, you know, and part of what he did was he
was head of the maintenance department. And I mean, the things that he used to come home and say that we're done in the bathrooms,
yeah, it was bad.
What are we doing out there?
Goddamn.
I remember hearing, I was like, what?
Yeah, I don't mean to fuss at you, listener.
I don't mean to fuss at you.
But like I said, 99.999999% of the commercial break listeners, I think are like-minded.
I don't think you would listen to the show if you weren't like-minded. I think it would irritate you, right? But,
so at least that's what I like to think. And I interact with a lot of you on text message
and on email, but I know that there's one of you out there who has children that you
just like let them do what they want to do because that's the path of least resistance.
You are going to teach them by, but you are going to teach them by acting
and essentially by telling them what to do. They don't know any different until you tell
them what to do and shitting on the floor.
And that there's consequences. Yeah. There's consequences for doing bad things.
I wish they had caught those kids. I want their mugshot on every fucking Instagram reel
from here to Timbuktu. And I wanted to say, these kids, these kids shit on floors.
These kids shit on floors.
And then puked.
And then puked.
Well, I'd puke too if I saw someone shit right in front of me.
And you're behind a skee ball machine
where it's dark and cramped and blah.
Yeah, why?
I don't know.
Yeah, why are you going back there to poop?
That seems like more trouble than just going
to the bathroom.
Yeah, and why do you have to bring your friends with you?
Where did they even get the idea? Who conjured this up?
Kids are so strange.
Yeah, did one, were they playing skee-ball and one kid went, I got to take a hot dump.
And the other kid went, let's do it behind the skee-ball machine.
Yeah, it might've been like a dare.
Can I see your anus?
The old dare.
Yeah, the old dare. A dare to do it behind a skee-ball machine. And then I just imagine the
whole scene back there, a bunch of kids, just one's shitting, one's puking on the other one's back. I mean, it's a whole nightmare. Anyway, listen, I mean,
this must be like death by a thousand paper cuts when you work at a place like this, because you
must see just the wildest stuff day after day, night after night and have to deal with it. Oh,
God bless Betty.
But then you have the sweet little baby.
Well, you have the sweet Betty.
The sweet Betty and the little baby smile and happiness. And then the other sisters
games were saved too. I mean, Betty really saved the day.
There is a small amount of hope, a small amount of hope for our world. And her name is Betty.
If we can just get Betty, maybe Betty can be in charge of Doge.
I think so.
I think that's a good idea.
Yeah.
We'll put Betty in charge of Doge and maybe we'll get some better results.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Oh, the good old Dogey.
Well, thanks for calling in Betty again.
Yeah.
And I think we're going to have to continue. Yeah.
Check in with her.
So we've been communicating with a number of our listeners
and whoever is on the phones.
We have been talking to a few of them
about potentially coming on.
There's a guy named Sean who has been a huge fan of the show
for a long time.
Love our Sean.
And he's like a wildlife trapper.
But like a wildlife trapper who traps like alligators.
Oh. And snakes. Yeah. He's like a wildlife trapper, but like a wildlife trapper who traps like alligators and snakes
You know rabid raccoons and possums and all the things we hate. Is he in Florida? He is well, yeah
Maybe I'll let him tell us where he is. You know what I'm saying. I don't want to give him. I guess I'm thinking alligators
Yeah, it's in the southeast somewhere. Okay. Yeah, I'll let him decide whether or not. I just want to be careful about
Oh, yeah, maybe Louisiana. Well, I'll let him decide whether or not he's here. Oh, maybe Louisiana. Yeah, I just want to be careful about.
Oh yeah, maybe Louisiana.
Well, we'll ask him when he gets here.
So if you want to be on the show,
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Start a conversation with us.
Leave us a voicemail or text us.
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It's so nice.
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Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today.
I think so.
I will tell you that I love you.
And I love you.
Best to you.
Best to you.
And best to Betty out there
and best to you out there in the podcast universe.
Until next time, Chrissy and I will say,
we do say and we must say,
goodbye.
Goodbye. Until next time, Christy and I will say, we do say, and we must say, good-bye! Thanks for watching!