The Commercial Break - The (Jonas) Brothers Grim!

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

EP956: Bryan is fighting for his economic life! Meanwhile, the Jonas Brothers are fighting for his last dime....Who will win?? Bryan's wife will win.  TCB is a The Commercial Break LLC production Visit: www.TCBpodcast.com Insta: @thecommercialbreakBryan Green on Insta: @BryanWGreen Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Created by: Bryan Green Written by: Bryan Green, Krissy Hoadley Produced by: Astrid Green & Gustavo  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. Kristen Joy, Haudly. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian.

Best to you out there in the podcast and streaming audience. While my yams are not out today, my cans are out. So yams out, cans out. Here we go. We're back in the studio. Someone said, when the fuck do you guys exactly go live? And I said, it's a witch's brew. It's a witch's brew.

The potlock. I'll tell you when we're going to go live. No. It's not going to happen. It's going to be Wednesday, Thursday. Nope. Monday, Tuesday. Nope.

No, just Tuesday. Friday afternoon. Yeah. Nope. Thursday night. Nope. Sumter Day. What's Sumter Day?

On the leap year, we promised to go live on the 29th. Yes. Until we don't go live on the 29th. You'll figure it out. Just stay tuned. Hit that YouTube subscribe bell. I was talking with someone about the, I was talking with someone at, not me. I should be clear about this.

I wasn't talking. I was eavesdropping on a conversation that someone else was having with a huge. I love eavesdropping. I know. Ease dropping is the best. It is. And then I imagined in my head I was part of the conversation. Right.

I was imagining then that I was part of the conversation. I was like retorting in my head. A big, big, a muckety muck from YouTube was having a meeting inside of the office. and he had an interesting factoid that I think as people in the know would know, I-K-Y-T-D-K-N-Y. If you know you know, you know, bitches. That subscriber counts are now a vanity metric. They don't matter anymore.

It doesn't matter how many subscribers you have. Now, when you own the subscriber, what do I mean by that? If you have a substack channel and someone's paying you money and you have their email, address. That's an owned subscriber. An earned subscriber would be someone on YouTube that doesn't pay you money necessarily directly, but they subscribe to you. But he was explaining that the algorithm largely drives viewing now has nothing to do with subscribers. So while your subscribers may be the may be the first to see your stuff, it's not 100% guarantee that they're going to see your stuff. And depending on what that YouTube watcher is interested in in that moment, then everything

could change. So another words, we're all fucked. Oh, fucked. Creator economy is in its widely teenage years. I also read a very depressing stat here. Chrissy, I'll let you know this. Someone in the, another muckety-muck in the podcast industry said, no longer can most podcasters make enough money to support their lifestyle.

We've known that for a while. Just advertising. Yeah, we've known that for a while. It's not going to get better, kids. It's not going to get better. Support your local podcaster. Buy our merch. We don't have any merch.

Yes, we do. Actually, we've got some extra merch. So if you want a piece of merch, and you didn't get one the first time, the only time we dropped to merch, then let me know. So Astrid and I are here at the house last night and we're chitting and chatting away as a couple does sometimes when the kids go to bed. And I said, honey, if you could do one thing in October, what would that one thing be? Because you know I'm a good husband like that. And Astrid said, Jonas Brothers.

And I said, she loves her Jonas Brothers. She loves her Jonas brothers. A lot of people do. Oh, they're very popular. They have not fallen out of favor. Nope. At all. They're just as popular now. I mean, maybe not as popular as the screaming teenage girl phase or the, you know, the 12-year-olds.

No, but those girls have not grown up. They grow up. Yeah. And now there's my wife right there screaming like a little teenager over the Jonas brothers. Now, those keen-eyed observers of the show will know that I have not shied away from going. to a Jonas Brothers concert with my wife. And those who remember the story will remember that I, in fact, liked the show. I thought it was good. And I don't know a fucking thing about the Jonas Brothers, except what Astrid tells me. And it's all, you know, Castle drama, essentially. You know,

this guy cheated on this girl. And this brother hates that brother. And there's the fourth brother. The fourth brother. I didn't know there was a fourth brother. He plays like the saxophone or something in the band. They're paying him a little jump change to get up there. But he's clearly not as talented as the rest of them. Yeah, throw the kid a bone. Why not? You're all rich and famous with hot wives. You can throw the ugly one a bone, can't you?

And so there's the fourth brother, just a little bit frumpy. Yeah, balding. Yeah, I don't even think he really plays the saxophone. I think there's someone else who's playing the saxophone. Actually, he doesn't play the saxophone. He plays the bass. I should be clear about that. Oh, okay.

A very attractive woman plays the saxophone in that band, and she is fucking. smoking. And I don't mean looks-a-wife. She is that also. She knows how to play the saxophone. I was super impressed. They had like a horn section. And that horn section was jamming. It was like a good, rocky. I love horns. Awesome. Horn section, I'm a sucker for horn second. I went to Taylor Swift. I didn't see one horn. I went to Jonas Brothers. There was five of them. Okay. That's all I got to say. If I had to pick to go to another concert, I wouldn't pick Taylor. I would pick the Jonas

brothers all day long. So there's the fourth brother. I'm in luck. Here they come for the fourth time in two years. And of course we got go. There's only one problem. We already have tickets to another show the exact same night. And that show is another set of brothers that are Venezuela popular. They're Venezuela famous, very famous in Venezuela. Here, all about them. It's like this singing group of brothers. And they broke up a long time. And there's four, three brothers and then two not brothers that are there. And they broke up a long time ago. And everyone was really upset. The name of the band is Vasves, if you know. Oh, you know, K-Y-D-K anyway. Okay.

So, Astrid goes, oh, my God, they're coming to our local, regional public theater. Wow. The one in our town, the town that I live in, which is like 100 seats, right? Now, the last time I saw them, keen-eyed observers of the commercial break will know, I went to a Venezuelan restaurant where they moved all the tables out of the way and put chairs. They're back. They're back. Okay.

This place was packed, and now they're back, and they're doing just a little bit of a bigger venue. And when I say a little bit, I mean a little bit, not much bigger. This is where, like, my daughter goes and does dance recitals. You know what I'm saying? So it's not like they're playing, you know, the dome or something like that. But Aster got really excited when we got these tickets to go see the Vos Vez brothers. Okay, great, wonderful, fantastic. But now there's Jonas Brothers and Vos Bays.

The conflict of interest. Now Astrid explains to me, I really want to go see Vos Vase because that's my childhood. Those are my people. Like, I'd like to go. And I said, we should go to. of that because it's been a decade since we saw them last and they're not touring around every third day like the fucking Jonas brothers in the back of my head what I'm really thinking is I don't want to spend $6,000 to see the fucking Jonas brothers again but it's my wife you got to make her happy

kind of an asshole and I'm a little bit forgetful and she's like you know already pissed because she has to be the family calendar so that Brian can remember anything so I'm like well babe just make a decision and I support that decision will lady's choice as just Jeff says to me. Ladies' choice. Yes. Jeff knows. He's a gentleman.

You know which. Side track here, as the show often does. When you go to the airport, you all of the sudden know who was raised in a good household. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes. Because you go through those fucking security lines and you'll be an asshole. You'll be an asshole. If you just leave your bucket sitting there for everybody else to pick up, come on.

Just take it and put it at the end. Just do the thing. I see people do that. I'm always like, wow. Does that seem right? You just picked up your shit and walked off. Yeah. And now they're all backing up and we have to wait and we have to do it for you.

It says it automatically does it, but we all know that's not true. It doesn't happen. Never happens. The other day I was at the airport. And it's like late at night. It's like I'm taking a nine o'clock flight or something. And there's 12 empty trays. Yeah.

And no more trays can come down because all the trays are there. I mean, I'll just whatever and just pick them up and stack them and take them down. So me and this lovely woman, this lovely woman, start collecting. Uh-huh. And I say the exact same thing to him. You go to the airport, you know who is raised right. Right? And I'm saying that in the earshot of a guy that's standing right in front of me watching us pick these things up.

And his shit comes down the thing and he just picks up his bags and he leaves. Law walks off. Staring at me. And I'm like, do you not get the, fuck you. All right. Ladies' choice, we're going to go to Jonas Brothers because Vas Vaz Vase is, we're looking at the ticket sales in Vos Vase. And it might be canceled anyway because we might be the only two people to show up to. go to Vaugh Space. It's really specific kind of thing, right? And it's a small town theater.

It's not a small town theater. It's not like downtown. Okay. All right. So we're going to go to Jonas Brothers. And I said, don't worry, babe, I'll take care of it. I got it covered. And she's like, no, no, you don't. No, I don't trust that. And I was like, you don't trust that. I got us like basically front row tickets to Taylor Swift. I paid to $78,000 for it. But I basically got front row tickets to Taylor Swift. How can you not trust me? I've gotten us pearl jam tickets. She'd give a shit less. I took you to fish give a shit less. I can do this, babe. I got this covered. And she goes, no, you don't have this covered. I've got artist, pre-sale, venue approved, Citibank, first right of refusal, special access card code. And I'm like, this is how they fuck you, Astrid. This is how they fuck you. They get 75

different pre-sales, and then they charge extra money. And that's how they fuck you. What I was thinking in my mind is, we'll wait till two days before the concert and find some cheap tickets online. She did not like that. She did not like that. No, the pre-sale is actually good. I got some presale stuff a little while back and it seemed like it didn't even have as many fees and whatever in it. I don't know. I don't know. So Astrid calls me to text me this morning. Hey, babe, please, let me give you the code. Go and get in, get online, in line, online for the ticket master fucking bullshit. I still have PTSD from trying to get fucking Oasis tickets. So I'm like, remember that whole drama? God, we spent a day, a whole day going around the world trying to get tickets to Dublin.

England, Dubai, San Francisco. I think you got tickets and didn't go. Yeah, we got tickets to we didn't go.

That's right. We got tickets to Chicago and we didn't go. We just, we couldn't make it happen. So I think we sold those, yeah, we sold those tickets.

I think we paid like $400 a piece for the tickets and we got $700 a piece for the tickets. So, you know, not a bad day at the office. So as for this, please, so a 10, so at 9.55,

I log on. I'm in the waiting fucking line. So I'm thinking to myself, Jesus, I'm going to sit here all day, waiting for these tickets. But actually, it was the 600th person in line. So, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, three minutes later. It moved quick. Yeah, I mean, there's probably thousands of people online at the same time. It takes a couple minutes for them to check out and then you move on. All those ticket brokers are on there waiting to scalp your ticket. So I get two tickets. I put them in the bucket. And I'm like, okay, here's two relatively good tickets. Astrid had already told me which section she wanted to sit in. She already knew. Yeah. Same section we were in last time for the Jonas Brothers tickets. So I, boop, poop. So. So. So I pop them in there and $772. And I'm like, $772 fucking dollars.

You got to be goddamn kidding me. You go see the fucking Disney twins. What? What? $772. I could have a robot that skims my pool of all the leaves and debris and saves me the rest of my fucking life out in that backyard for $772. I can get two of them. And I'm going to pay that to go see the goddamn Jonas brothers.

So in my head, I'm like, I can probably get a better deal if I just wait until two days before the... And I know I can't. I know I will. That's how this shit works. Their highest at first, and then they go higher two months before the concert. True. And then two days before the concert, all those brokers start panicking that they're going to lose their asses and they just start selling the tickets. And it's not like Taylor Swift. And it's not fucking a brand new Pokemon card set. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, these are the Jonas brothers. They've been here four times in two years. I think we're okay. Like, you know, we're going to figure this out. But as I'm sitting there debating that. It's a gamble, though. It's a thing. It's a gamble.

It always is. You know, I think I'll win because I usually win. I've always won in this particular way, except for the Taylor Swift tickets, which I lost terribly on that. I also didn't realize it was her last show of the leg of the tour. So, and being recorded by for Disney Plus, like everybody knew. And it was just like, anyway. So they got that little timer.

That little fucking timer. You have six minutes to check out. Yep, five minutes to check out. Beep, beep, beep. Countdown. Yeah. And so I spent, if it was seven minutes left on the timer, I spent six minutes and 37 seconds debating in my head what to do here. Because I kept looking at that number and I'm like, just get, I got angrier and angry at the Jonas brothers.

And how those three, talented as they may be, have managed to weather every fucking storm and come out on the end to now be charging Brian fucking Green. co-host of the commercial break, $772 for the pleasure of bringing his wife to a concert we have already seen now for the third time in two years. Riddle me that. Oh, God. It was really. Of course I did. Yes. Because I would tell Astrid I got the tickets even if I didn't.

And she would go show them to me. And I would be like, well, they'll. get delivered soon. And I'll show, the Ticketmaster has a new security feature where they don't actually send you the tickets till two days ahead of time. Right. So I'll show them to you then.

Just take comfort in the knowledge that we are going for sure. Now, sell those Voss Base tickets for $22.50 a piece so I can make a little bit of our money back. Oh, my God, $772. That's a lot of money. That's insane. That's insane. It's insane. It is a lot of money. Despite the notion that you may have in your head, listener of TCB, Chrissy and I are not making a ton of money with this show. Some months we are making money on this show. Don't even get into it.

But, you know, this is a tough slog being in a crater. Yeah, that was a splurge for sure. For sure. But for Astrid's happiness, I mean, you can't put a price on it. What are you going to do? I mean, you can't, but you can't. Happy wife, happy life. Someone who said that really knew what they were talking about. You know, Astridanize anniversary was a couple weeks ago, 10-year anniversary. Yes, I said congratulations on the socials, but I didn't say it to you in person. Congratulations, 10 years. I can't live.

It's been 10 years since I was at your wedding. You and Jeff were eight years? Yes. We've been together 14. Right. Eight years married. Okay. Yeah, we're coming up next week.

Oh, congratulations. On which wedding do you celebrate? The one in Italy or the one? The Italian one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We celebrate not the legal one. We celebrate the, I mean, we celebrate them both a little bit, but the big one is the actual wedding wedding that happened here in Atlanta. Yes. So I put a little. Oh my God. That was a party. That was really a party. It was a party until then I went to two weddings in Spain and realized that our wedding kind of paled in comparison to those two. I do have to say Gustavo has probably put the best wedding that I've ever been to on. But how do you beat Lama farm, ostrich farm in Madrid and all of the things that come with it? I mean, it really was. They really outdid themselves, I mean, on that one. But you also had a fun wedding, too. Yeah, it was just the two of us. Well, I mean, the wedding. Oh, when we celebrated in here in the U.S. Yeah, that was fun too. Yeah. And I do remember the reception at your place and getting a little frothy. at that, I think I was a little drunk, actually.

I think we're all a little drunk. Anyway. We were. So I put this little thing together on Instagram, as I like to do. Yesor doesn't love me showing her face on my Instagram because of the tens of thousands of people that I don't know, the strangers that follow me. And they're all seemed to be very lovely. I've never really, I've had one or two that I've had to, like I don't respond to because

they seem like they may not. Yeah, but I've never, I've only blocked one person. And I've had like 50,000 followers. So I put this little thing together. and I just wanted to express my little bit. It was beautiful. I saw it. Yeah.

And I wrote a little scribe. And part of that scribe said, you know, till death do us part, you know, sickness and in health, rich and poor, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I mentioned in that in parentheses that whoever wrote those really knew what the fuck they were talking about. Rich or poor, sickness, health, till death do us part. If you do the do, if you're actually married and you actually do it, not like my first marriage has lasted three months.

But if you actually go through a period of time with somebody, I guess you don't even have to be married to do this. But you go through a relationship and you really commit to it and you figure it out and you try and walk the path and you do the whole thing. It is like the wildest fucking ride. It really is. It's an adventure. It's an Odysseus type of adventure trying to get back home.

You see the monsters. You celebrate in the glory. You drink some booze. You get kicked in the nuts by a cyclops. You run out of money. You're drowning in the water. It's a whole fucking thing. It's just an adventure.

Ups and downs, thick and thins. Thicks and thins. I'm going to have AI write me a book about my marriage, and I'm going to sell it online. And I'm going to pretend that it's not. But so I will say this. Happy wife, happy life, never a truer statement, Ben said. And this doesn't have to be wife. Whoever wears the pants in the family, that person needs to be happy most of the time. And make no mistake, most marriages I've seen, it's the woman. It's the woman. The man might make the money. The man might have the bigger muscles. The man might puff up his chest and peacock around. But close those doors. And we all know who's controlling the situation. It is not the man. Because it's just how we're built. We're dumb-dums. And we need to be let around like a little puppy dog. And that's what Astrid has done. So that's

$772. Yes. That seems like a bargain now. Yes. Yeah, that's right. That I will crow about. And from here, probably until the end of the year. And I will bitch and complain about how much money I spent go see the fucking Jonas Brothers. I will see my wife happy for two hours out of six months.

Two hours out of the six months at the end of the year. I will see her happy and singing her songs and dancing along. And I will gladly say to myself, it's all been worth it, Brian. It's all been worth it. Fuck you, Jonas Brothers. Give a little back. You can't give a brother some free tickets? I am really excited to have here on this show the Jonas Brothers.

We could invite them. We did invite them, actually, one time. No response. No, they didn't. Which I should mention, you know, Chrissy, as I'm talking to you, we're having a meeting right now about this, I may bring back the occasional guest. Yes.

As I think there are some people. people who would like to come back on the show. Des Bishop, who is our boy that I just went and saw? Zoltan wants to come back on the show. I always love Reggie, too. In fact, I popped into Instagram the other day and saw a whole little video with Reggie and Jack White. Yes.

Hanging out doing something by, it looked like by Reggie's pool. I saw that. I saw the same thing. Yeah. Reggie has written me an email and has said that he would come back on the show when and if the time is appropriate. So we'll get back in. If we can figure out when we record between Chrissy and I, then we can start agreeing to other people and they record. Okay, it's a two for Tuesday on Wednesday. So stay tuned, everybody. Let's do this. Let's take a short, but not too short break. So Brian can go peepee. And then go peepee and ask Ticketmaster if I can get my money back. You're having regrets. Now I'm like, ah, Astrid's happiness. Pires remorse.

Astrid's happiness. Yeah, but pool robot. pool robot I begged her for the pool robot yesterday I'm like babe the pool robot it's on sale right now I can get it right now it's a solar powered leave collecting skimmer and that's what I do with most of my life

I'm out there fucking I was just out there right before you walked in the door and I still have work to do out in that pool and by the way the chlorine level is at 100 it's like it's basically bleach at this point it's you're swimming in bleach and I don't give a shit

because you know what there's not one green stain on that goddamn floor. And that's all I care about. All right, let's take a break. And we'll be back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears, and I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail. Speak in a mail, get your free TCB sticker in the mail by going to TCB Podcast.com and visiting the contact us page. You can also find the entire commercial break library, audio and video, just in case you want to look. at Chrissy at TCB Podcasts.com.

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Best to you. Best to you. Best to you. Oh, hey. I was muted. Sorry. There you go. I just saw something

come across my news here. It says in Queens, New York, there was a 3,000 gallon fuel spill. Oh, good. I'm sure that'll help my travels later on this evening. Exactly. I thought I'd let you know. Fucker.

Yeah, this was a rain next three days in a row. And you know what I've decided. If I have delays that are like just getting outrageous, I'm going to take the fucking Amtrak. Why not? I just sit there and let them do the driving. It takes 12 hours. It's not the shortest thing in the world. But I could get like a sleeper car and just like chill and just do work and fuck it, fuck it.

Yeah. And get home, you know, the next morning. Yeah, it is something to think about. Have you been keeping up, let's take a little dive here into the world of Donald Trump. Have you been keeping up with this whole Natalie Harp situation? Yes. Yes. I've been reading about that. I didn't even know that that was a thing. She was the thing, but I guess she's been around for a while. This is insane. This lady is really, I think, unhinged. And he's unhinged. So now we have two unhinged people. And we have one of them that is essentially guiding the access to the president of the United States with her fucking physical body. I was. following this story on CNN last night, which I don't love CNN. It's not my favorite news channel in the

world, but they had a wild story that they was sourced and double reported and, you know, people on the inside. And, you know, CNN, I can say this about CNN. 99% of the time, I think they do cover their butts. Like if they're going to put something on air, they're going to make sure at least more than one person is saying it. It's not going to be a bunch of hearsay, unless it's the opinion shows. So they're, they put out this investigative report that Donald Trump was going to a court appearance right before he became president. He was going to a court appearance. And the Secret Service and others put him in a car to go to that court appearance. And Natalie was trying to get into the vehicle. And they kept saying, no, the president rides in this vehicle and only the

president with his security. And she got so obsessed with the idea that she needed to be in the vehicle that she opened the trunk of the car and sat there like a small child, huddled in the of this SUV. Like, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. I'm going everywhere the president goes. And I don't give a shit. He's my guy.

And I'm not going to leave his side. Yeah. Where the fuck is Melania, Trump? Where is she? Oh, she gave up a long time ago. I think so, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I also saw something, and I think that they have, like, her brother on.

Her brother is like, she's sick. We need to get her away from the president. Yeah, he was like, let's just say that Trump isn't the first. president that she's been obsessed with. Oh, really? She's written letters, too. Oh, really? Yes.

I guess George W. Bush. Wow. He was one before that. No shit. Yeah, it's kind of, it's really weird. It's wild. We're not getting these letters from two, these letters that she's writing him. Like, I, you're my everything.

I love you so much. I know. All my heart, Natalie. You're my world. No one cares about you like I care about you. I love you. we where are the people like where is susie wiles where is don junior where is evanka show your face besides in you know whatever far flung location you're trying to you know rape and pillage the land

over there for your beach resort where are these people to step in and say this is a little weird and i think we got to slow our role before someone gets a hold of the nuclear codes that is so unhinged she has to jump in the back of a car and pout like a little child to get her way. That seems crazy to me. And now she is being filmed and photographed every single where he goes. And that concerns me. He is the president in the fucking United States. And let's all just be real honest about it. He is not well. And that is no blame on anything having to do with Donald Trump. We can get into his own ego and his narcissistic personality disorder and all that stuff that's clearly going on. He is

81 years old, almost. The guy is just old. He's just old. And this is what happens to old people. I know because I'm dealing with it right now with my parents and not my mom specifically. But, you know, they start to like the reality starts to bleed a little bit. And when you've got like a 39 year old assistant who's just running around with your diapers in a backpack and a printer, like a physical printer, she's carrying around a physical printer. They were calling her the printer girl. The human printer. Yes. And then I saw yesterday that, you know, unbelievable. I know. There was something about her running alongside trying to keep up with his. golf card as he was in like in Scotland. She's like got a printer. The Scotland golf course. I mean. It's wild. This is wild. We are living in an alternate universe. Yeah. Listen, every president, every president has trusted aides that follow them probably most places they go. It's just what happens when you're the president of the United States. People are up on you 24 hours a day. If it's not security or secret service, it's the people who are helping you make these decisions. You have to run a

fucking country and you clearly cannot do that on your own. Donald Trump's giving it is a valiant effort, but you cannot do that on your own. And but you, you know, I think we as a country who have now voted this guy in, the people of the country, should be able to determine who exactly is biting his ear off because those people are the people that are influencing the decisions he's making. And she is always up on him. What is she saying? What is the nature of the relationship? How does she She's like, apparently she's spouting the conspiracy theories that are, you know, coming across on her social media stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she was like a news reporter for the. Newsmax? Yeah. Newsmax. Yeah. God, we are so fucked. We are so fucked. Somebody needs to get Natalie. Someone needs to get Natalie and just check on her. And, and let's get her a nice vacation somewhere for a couple months. You know what I'm saying? Like, send her to Hawaii. There might need to be some kind of evaluation at least.

an evaluation, an intervention, something. I mean, honestly, I will be surprised if we don't go the next two and a half years without someone trying to invoke the 25th Amendment. I really will. I think that God bless America. I think Donald Trump has really lost his marvels. You can see it. There are so many, my favorite thing on Instagram right now are the people who take the transcripts of Donald Trump just talking and then they repeat the words. It's crazy. It's crazy. When it comes out of his mouth, everybody's like, It's gospel. Right, but when you see it written, you're like, what?

Or you hear somebody else say it. It's like, did someone actually speak those words physically out of their mouth? It is so fucking confusing. I don't understand what he's saying. I'm not following it. 80% someone did like an actual graph, like 80% of the time that he's talking. He's talking about the ballroom, the arch, the plane. I was listening to the New York Times thing this morning and it was saying, I mean, I guess people

are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to try and get it done. And, you know, it's been held up in court. Yeah. Supposedly. But now Trump's team and everybody is taking the Supreme Court to say, hey, look, it's already, we're too far in. We're too far in. Yeah. I mean, that's not, you can't do that. No, you can't. But he will. And it's likely the Supreme Court will either not hear the case. I mean, we're too far in. We're too far in. You know what are to some degree, I agree. You're like you're too far. What are you going to leave a hole in the White House lawn? Like at this point, finish the fucking job, I guess. But still, that's not right. I mean, honestly, it's like a billion dollars. We were never going to pay for it. All these corporations were going to pay for it, which is bad enough. But then all of a sudden, now we're paying for it out of our tax dollars.

How much money I got out of my fucking paycheck goes to taxes? It's goddamn, goddamn dickulous. And it's hard to afford $772 Jonas Brothers tickets when you're getting so many taxes taken out. This guy's got a hole in the white. House lawn, we're now going to pay a billion dollars for. And so he can have a five-story, you know, bunker that he can hide out in when he loses the election. I mean, this is just like, this is all just like fantastical, magical thinking that this is how they do, they just bowl everything over, they break everything. And then everybody tries to put it back together. And it doesn't work

because it's already broken. And it's not like you just snap these things and make them happen. The democracy is fragile, unless we protect it. It breaks. And it's broken in so many different places. I could get over the ideological differences. That is the way the cookie crumbles when you live in a democracy. Always has been. Somebody comes in power. They do things you don't like.

Your guy comes in power. They do things you like, but then some things you don't like. We make negotiations and, you know, there's mediation that goes on. The pendulum swings one way. I could get over all of that, all of it. And just understand that's the way that this works. It's the rampant corruption. that is insane to me, like insane to me.

That plane was a gift to the United States of America. But now, all of a sudden, they're singing a different tune. It's Donald Trump's plane. It was a gift to Donald Trump, and he's going to take it with him when he leaves. Yeah, that sounds about right. But the point that I really wanted to make at the beginning of this is we as the Americans need to understand exactly who has got Donald Trump's ear. And it looks like Natalie Harp is A number one. and somebody needs to check on that relationship, somebody that's impartial.

Like, isn't there like, there should be somebody in the, I don't know, the, the attorney for the president. He's just surrounded himself, though, with all of these. Yeah. Sick of fans who refuse to say no to him and just blow smoke up his ass. And we're in a big, we're in a big muck. And I don't know how we get out of it. It's kind of a hot mess. And I don't want to just hate Trump to hate Trump.

I'm not that guy. I mean, I don't like Trump. But I don't want to be that guy. He's just like, you know, resistance media. No, and I remember when he first got elected, you and I talked about it. Look, no, we didn't vote for him. It's not what we wanted. But, hey, maybe.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. We'll just survive it. Maybe. Like, maybe he will do some good things. Agreed. Once again.

He hasn't. He hasn't. He hasn't. Name one thing that has been beneficial. I mean, the straight of Hormuz. You know, God. Oh, man, it's terrible. We're taxing Canada.

Never mind, we're not. No. We're taxing the doing this. We don't. We don't agree. Greenland. No, we don't. Sorry. Red corn. Ballroom. Natalie, where are you? diapers need diapers but i i will say this of all the things that donald trump you know okay he hasn't

raised our taxes i'll give him that much right he hasn't raised our taxes okay at least not yet uh and i'll give him one other thing you remember like a couple years ago you called me and you were like oh our accountant says if we don't fill out this piece of paper we'll get two thousand dollar fine like about how this reporting piece of paper that we had to put well Donald trump took that all away so now we don't need to do that anymore so there you go one less piece of paper that i didn't fill out anyway. So there you go. I did feed about that. It's like, it's to protect from money laundering essentially is what it is so that you can't have like, you know, buried LLCs inside of buried LLC. No one knows who owns them and all this other stuff. Well, that was the good gravy

days of moving your money to Aruba tax free and they're back, baby. They're back. Woohoo. So next time I think about buying Jonas Brothers tickets, I can just move it into my shell corporation. Yeah. Go from there. Yeah. It's all legal. I don't even know what a shell corporation is, so don't come after me. I don't even understand what that term is. I think it means a corporation that owns a corporation that owns a corporation, and it's all hidden under like a muck of paperwork. Yeah, I think the shell is like the umbrella. Oh, okay.

There's all the other deceit, nefarious things that are going on underneath the umbrella. Jonas Brothers. I paid for it with my shell corporation. Ooh, it's a witch's brew. Unbelievable. Well, you know, here's to hope and the democracy survives the next couple of years. Yeah, and I mean, and listen,

we got a lot of problems in this country and this world. Oh, I also read that they're now going to open up 40 million acres of national forest land to loggers. So, you know, just mortgaging my children's future. Through the rainforests. As if AI wasn't a big enough concern for the actual existential threat that my children will survive to 18 years old. You know, now they won't have any trees. So there's that.

It reminds me of the Lorax. You ever seen the movie The Lorax? It's a great movie, great kids movie. The Lorax. And I will tell you what, it's coming true. And if you've never read The Lorax or you haven't seen the movie The Lorax, which stars Taylor Swift, by the way. It's a cartoon. Ed Helms is in it.

He plays the guy who's looking at the Lorax. Oh, and who's the Jimmy, no, Danny DeVito is in it, too. Oh, yeah. He plays the Lorax. It's a movie about a kid who lives in a fake plastic world, fake plastic trees everywhere, everything. Everything is manufactured. They have to blow in fresh air because, you know, everything is nasty outside. But they live in this bubble, and then this kid finds a way out of the bubble, and he sees that the entire world, all the trees, everything's gone.

It's all been destroyed, except for the. Lorax, who is living in a very dark and nasty house, and the Lorax knows how to bring it all back. He understands the value of nature and the value of the things around him. But someone long ago mortgaged the future of these people and now they're living in this weird plastic world. I think of that when I read stories like that. I'm like, are we going to be the Lorax? Are we the Lorax? Did we just mortgage our children's futures away?

Listen, there's no debating climate change is how. You can debate the reasons why, but you can't debate that it's happening. If we don't at least pay attention to the clip at which we are destroying the things that the universe gave us, you know, AI is going to quickly decide that we're ants and that we're no longer needed. That's the concern. Wee. So everything is great. Natalie Harps fantastic. Donald Trump's doing great things with this brand new ballroom. We're living in the Lorax.

We don't have to worry about it. Everyone's going to be piping in fresh, fresh clean air and we'll have plastic trees that light up and dance when you play on your Spotify, which is 2999 a month now. So there you go. My fucking Spotify drives me goddamn crazy. If I could take down one company that affects me in some direct way, Spotify would be that company. I'll just let you know that. Spotify. So I guess we're not getting that Spotify contract anytime, Sam. That Rogan money's not coming our way, Chrissy. Okay, all right. Okay, let's take a break. And when we get back, there is something that I want to talk about, children's television programming. Oh, okay.

Don't ask me why. I just thought about it, decided I want to talk about it. Okay. We'll be back. Okay, you're probably wondering why I, Rachel, have taken over the voice duties at TCB. It's pretty simple. Astrid asked me to shut Brian up. even for a minute. Well, lovely Astrid, your wish is my command. Do you want to help Astrid, too? You know you do.

Leave a message for her, or me, or Chrissy, at 212-4333-3-TCB. That's 212 433-3822. You can be on the show, too. Mm-hmm. Just call and say something. Anything. Or text us, and we'll text you're right back. Promise. Then head over to TCB Podcast.com and get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker. we must abide. You get the point. Follow us on Instagram at the commercial break and watch all the episodes on video at YouTube.com slash the commercial break. Best to you and Astrid, especially Astrid. All right. So the question here is, how many bluey episodes have you watched? I would say probably about 50. 50? Yeah. Oh, okay. Throughout the years, yeah, I mean, my nephews.

Oh, yeah, that's true, that's true. I didn't think about that. Okay. And your impression, so cute. So cute. Love the show. So poignant. So real.

In every way, right? It is a, I mean, besides the dad just being spectacular in all ways, shapes or forms, and the mom really being kind of the glue that holds it all together, this show is so impactful on so many different levels that I would venture to say. It is one of the most impressive. meaningful and popular shows that has ever been and ever will be. And all based on this one, the creator's kind of vision of his daughter growing up. Right. And that was what sparked this all. He was an animator and a storyteller. And he said, as he watched his daughter grow up, he wanted to remember her at a certain age, in a certain way. And he wanted to wish that he could take,

he could go back and do these certain things in these certain moments. It's a very, it's, besides them being dogs that can talk, which is, you know, dogs that can talk, it's a very heartwarming, touching and beautiful show. It is the only child's television program that has ever made me cry, and it's done that on a couple of occasions. It's done that on the house episodes. It did that on the John Lewee, John Pierre episode, where, where Bluey makes a, blue he goes to, this is based in Australia in case you don't know. And there are these dogs, these shepherds. that essentially are bluey, bingo, the two sisters. And then you have the dad, uh, bandit and, um, what's the mom's name?

I can't remember. Bandit and I can't remember her name. Anyway, this family. And they live in Australia and they have other dog friends and they have these adventures and misadventures. And the dad is, uses his imagination to help the kids like fully form these ideas. And you get into this universe. They're 14 minute episodes.

They're very short. and they don't overly pontificate. They don't tell you the moral of the story. You have to observe the moral of the story. It's not speaking down to you, but it's very beautifully written. It's funny. It's interesting. The music is fucking fantastic.

I do have to give it that. So there's an episode where Bluey goes to vacation. And the vacation is they bring their little trailer home, their trailer, to a camp ground, and they camp. Bluey meets a French dog that cannot speak English. Oh, that's right. And they have these adventures for like three days, just playing. That's what they do.

They just play, the language of play. And at the end of the third day, oh, God, this is going to get me choked up. Bluie and Jean-Pierre, I think that's the dog name of the episode. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. They plant a tree. Yeah. playing pretend they find a seed they plant a tree near the stream and at the end of the day and by the way john pierre when he

speaks which is not a lot of the episode is mostly just them playing going through all these like make-believe adventures but john pierre at the end of the day as the sun's going down and they're about to say good night to each other he says you know it's been really good to play with you i'm leaving tonight i'm leaving tomorrow in the morning so I won't see you again. And they give each other a hug and Bluie walks back to the, to her camp, her little trailer, not understanding what the French dog just said because she doesn't speak French. She wakes up the next morning and she wants to go play with Jean-Pierre, but Jean-Pierre is not there. He's gone. And Bluey becomes very sad by this. And he goes back to his mom and she goes back to her mom and she says, you know, I'm really sad because Jean-Pierre's not here. I can't find him.

and the mom realizes what has happened and says, this is life. Sometimes we have the people that we care about there, and sometimes it's the memories that we make with them that survives the physical moment that we had with them. God damn, this makes me choke up. Me too. And later on in the episode,

it's a fast forward vision to years later, when the two are grown up, and they come back to this place and they see that the tree has grown. And the mom says the tree can be a representation of the memories that you made together. What a beautiful way to explain a very complicated thing to a child, which is that loss happens. And when it happens, it's not easy. But you can take the memories that you made with that person. That is what's important.

That is, we only have this moment and that's it. And everything else is just ether. And what a beautiful way to describe. And I told my therapist, I said, when our dog died, Nico, when I put the dog down. Yeah, Nico. I used this. I have the book of this episode. There's a book that was made of this episode.

I used this book to try and explain to my children how we should think about Nico and other people that are no longer in our lives, children that have moved away that they were friends with or loss that has happened. happened in our own personal experience, they just nail it. Bluey just gets it. They nail it. And Bluey is coming out with a movie in 2009. And at D23, they put out the first trailer for this. It is... In 29? Oh, 28. I'm sorry. In 2020. I was like, they're really hyping it. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. And, you know, the difference is, is like, Bluey is hand-drawn. This will be

CGI. So the characters look a little bit different. But I say all this to say that I was watching like the D23 coverage like of all the Disney things that are coming up and blah blah blah blah and blah and that the trailer was like a teaser. It's like 30 seconds long. It's not even it's not even telling you anything about the movie. It's just Bluey and his sister playing a game called Keepy Upy, which is a famous like it's the balloon. Keepy Upy. Keep the balloon up. It's a famous episode, right? Of it.

and they show this trailer and the crowd at first goes crazy and then goes silent. And then they do some crowd shots. And there are people that are crying. Like adults, full grown adults. Now, Disney adults, a little bit of a strange bunch. I know because I might be considered one. You're on the fringe. I'm on the fray.

I can take a pot shot at Disney when I don't like what they do. But I am also a fan of the company and of their storytelling and their theme parks. But I'll tell you what, there was like. people in the audience that were tearing up, or at least that's the shot that they were showing. And I was like, wow, Bluey has affected other, I mean, of course it's affected other people. There's another famous episode about them almost selling their house that everyone online will tell you is a tear jerking episode. And it's for sure as fuck is a tear jerking episode. And they get it right there too.

But, you know, I think this show has just affected so many adults who have been watching this through their, like, they're watching their children. And then they look at the dad and they go, oh, I want to be that parent. Like, can I be a little bit more like bandit? Can I be a little bit more playful? Can I get down on the floor and use my imagination with my children? It's just like if there's an – I think our parents probably looked at Bill Cosby and said, oh, if I could be a dad like that, right? Maybe not so much anymore, but back then, you know what I'm saying? There were like examples that they had where they could look and they could say, oh, that's their.

I think a generation now has looked at Bluey, of parents has looked at Bluey and gone, oh, that is childhood. That is what we should do. And I just applaud the whole thing. And so I was watching this D23 thing, looking at the tears going, oh, yeah, I've had that reaction to Bluey too. And then this spiel of reels comes out of famous podcasters like Bill Simmons and other people talking about the Bluey show and the Bluey trailer that came out. and how they have been affected by Bluey in their lives. And I see that this is not an isolated situation. I am not an isolated case. No, no. Many adults think Bluey is one of the best shows on television and certainly one of the best shows

that we will let our kids watch that has, you know, they don't get it. Not at this age. They don't get it. They're not going to pull abstract concept out of a Bluey episode. But man, Bluey made this show for fucking, this guy made this show for fucking adults. and the children love it. I think that is how we should look at this. It's a beautiful show about parenthood and family,

and the kids happen to like it too. It's not the other way around. Because usually you go when you watch a movie for kids and you're like, oh, there are some adult references and they made it interesting for adults, like the Minions movie or whatever. But this one, I think, is a reverse. I think it was a show made for adults

that children happen to like. That's my opinion. It's a fantastic show. I encourage you to go watch it. If you do one thing this weekend, if you're an adult without children, or you're not at that point in your life yet, or you never will be at that point in your life, go watch a Bluey episode. Watch the Jean-Pierre episode. Watch the house-moving episode. Just watch a couple episodes. Any of them, really. I mean, they're great. I promise you, your life will improve if you watch Bluey. Remember that second segment of the show where we talked about all depressing stuff?

Here's some good news. There is Bluey out there. There is. So if you have a chance to watch either Breaking Bad or Bluey this weekend, watch them both, but watch Bluey first. Or last, depending on how you feel about your life. I want to get back into Breaking Bad. I've been seeing a lot of clips online lately and I'm thinking, wow, that was such a fucking good show. Yeah, Jeff and I started it again. Oh, you did? Yeah, because I was like, I really want to go back and watch it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't watched it. I watched every episode as it came on live, right? every episode. I was into it from the very first episode, the very first time it came on television. It really did. I was into it. I was into Brian Cranston. I loved him and Malcolm in the middle. And I was just so into it. And I watched every episode live until the very finale and held out hope for a long time that Walt wasn't dead. But I think I should go back through it because that's the good, feel good kind of show that I need in my life right now. Where the man gets blown up halfway.

Oh my God. What a brilliant. Yeah. What a brilliant episode of television. Wow. Yeah, that was stunning the first time I saw it. I was like, that's half a man. He just falls over. That's crazy. What a wild, wild show that is. And how well did Brian Cranston nailed that character? He nailed it, and I read his autobiography not too long ago, and it's fascinating.

I bet it is. I would recommend it. Yeah, he, you know, he was the Malcolm in the middle. He had that big show first. Huge. And he did a lot of independent stuff and really kind of struggled throughout his career until there was the Malcolm in the middle. And then he got the, you know, Walter White. I will say that I think Malcolm in the middle is a very underrated show.

I cannot believe that it's not playing in syndication somewhere at any given time all the time. I actually don't know if it's in syndicate. Like, I don't know where to watch. Malcolm in the middle. Maybe it's on Netflixers. That's a show I should want to watch. Yeah, exactly. So funny. And Brian Cranston is so, he's such a physical actor. He's so physical. Like, he knows how to use his body to get a point across or to make things funnier. He's like, he's a true physical comedic actor. And he took all of that physicality and put it into Walter White and literally transformed physically. And he just nailed it. I mean, every word, everything. He's so fucking good

in that show. He sells the unbelievable. he makes you feel for the darkest of, like he makes you root for the bad guy. For the darkest of human beings, the guy who doesn't give a shit, the guy who just is willing to do anything at all cost to make a little extra money or save his family. But I think, you know, you can throw that premonition away about episode number 12 when he starts like manufacturing blue meth and selling it to children. But at the end of the day, he sells it. Like Brian Cranston makes that show.

And Aaron Paul, too, of course. But when is Aaron Paul going to do something else? He's done some other things. Has he? Yeah. I can't think of it. I can't remember exactly off the top of my head. He did the follow-up movie.

Well, he did the movie. Yeah. But he's done, I feel like a couple other things where he played a different character. Yeah. I wish he would just like, I know. I always wish they would do another reboot of the West Wing. I wish they would do a lot of stuff. But I really wish they would just do one more.

I know they ended it, and I know it's clear that Walter died. It wasn't clear, but that's kind of what Vince Gillian has said. I wish they would just do one more episode of Breaking Bad. Just pull it all together. What happened to everybody? Where did they go? What happened? There was the whole better call Saul than which kind of.

Yeah, kind of. Kind of. Like. Overlapped into that. He's, God, Bob Odenkirk. He is in a wild movie that we just watched the other night called Normal. Oh, normal. I've seen that.

You watched it? I've watched it, but I put it on my watch list. You got to watch the movie. It's wild. Yeah. And he does a great job. He's another really great actor. Bob Odenkirk was such a great addition to that cast of Breaking Bad.

And then Better Call Saul, in my opinion, was just as good as Breaking Bad, just as good. It's slower. It's more methodical. It's less action, more character development. But, man, can you get into Saul? Like, I just got into Saul. I could see where Saul was coming from. I felt for this kind of like low-level con artist

that just turned into this heroic criminal of a human being. And I just felt for it the entire way. I felt I rooted for another criminal. I guess that's the point. That's what we're supposed to do. The anti-hero. Right? Oh, and then let's not forget the security guard in the movie.

What's his name? Not the actor who played him, but who's the guy that was in. both Better Call Saul and Mike. Mike. Yeah. Fucking Mike. That guy. That guy. He is fantastic. He's scary. Just looking at that guy scares me, right? But he is so bone-chillingly scary. That's another one. And Better Call Saul, you start to uncover a little bit behind what's behind Mike. And man, it's just layer after layer. Vince just did it right. I watched a show one time about how Vince and the writing staff got into how. how they did this. They would get together

and they would like storyboard a season but they were just like brainstorming all these ideas and how the connective tissue came back and how do we wrap this up and just the amazing amount of talent that must have been in that room

to come up with the story and the plot points that really all come together in the end. There's not a fucking loose end besides what happened to the family you know, where do we go from here kind of thing. Everything just like zipped up

in a little nice neat little bag and almost every episode was left with a cliffhanger that led you to the next thing. So good. Brilliant. Peak television. Peak television. What do we have now?

Love Island. I mean, honestly, where do we have now? Love Island, a bachelor season number 82 or whatever. There's a lot of that for sure. Oh, it's all crap. It's all crap, but I watch it. Yeah, exactly. When I'm coming here in TLCs.

I know. Speaking of tearjerker, I was watching Baylon. Do you know Baylon? I remember talking about bailin. Yeah, the girl who has... Baylon out loud. The girl who has terrible Tourette's syndrome. I mean, like really affected by this terrible version of Tourette's syndrome.

They call it ticking. She ticks all the time. And TLC has now put this show out. It starts at 9 o'clock at night on Tuesdays. And they just let it fly. She says all kind of crazy shit. Like, put your dick in my mouth, bitch. Stiff it in my ass.

And she says all this stuff. And there's no bleeping whatsoever. None. I mean, sometimes they bleep out the fucks. But besides... And sets only sometimes. They just let it. that fly. And poor Baylon, I mean, she's like, this is a crippling disease for her. You can imagine. She can't

even make it through the grocery store without causing, without having ticks that people probably don't understand at first. And she got married. And so now they're doing like the big two-part wedding thing. Okay. So fuck this guy, Colin, her husband. Fuck him. And I'm going to tell you why fuck him. And fuck you, Colin. If you're watching this, fuck you. I'll tell you why. Colin takes the time to write a letter to every single

maid of honor bridesmaid and the maid of honor then takes the time to write letters to his parents then takes the time to write letters to her parents

and these letters are fucking beautiful they are every one of them is fucking beautiful fucking tear jerking fuck you Colin you made the rest of us

look terrible terrible you're setting the bar so high dude like who's Who's going to do that? There's 22 bridesmaids and you wrote every one of them a letter explaining how meaningful they were to the relationship and why they were important. And so that, you know,

these girls are reading these letters and the parents are reading the letters. Everybody's fucking crying because Colin nails it. Like fucking, you know, Cyrano de Bergeac or whatever that guy's name is. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. He nails every one of these and it's just like tears flying everywhere. So I'm watching this this morning when I'm taking a shower and I'm like, I'm crying. I'm like, fuck. It's bailing out loud. I'm not supposed to cry. I'm supposed to laugh at the girl who says funny things at inappropriate moments. And Collins making everybody cry and setting the bar so fuck, thank God I'm not getting married again. Thank God. Because after today, everyone has to write a letter to every bridesmaid. That's the way you have to do it now. Are you going to be an asshole? Thank you, Colin. AI helps with that. True. True. I was looking for signs of AI writing. Yes. Yes. And listen, I'm not putting it past the guy, but it did seem pretty heartfelt.

So, and I know AI can get that right too, but even if he went through the exercise of doing AI, it's still a cut above what most of us would have done. Yeah. I don't even think I wrote Astrid a note on our wedding day. Actually, I did. That's not true. I did. I also bought her a thousand roses. So top that, Colin. Top that. I filled the entire bridal suite with roses.

How romantic. You're such a romantic. From Costco. But hey, listen, whatever. I did it. I did it. I went through the drama. I actually put it all together.

So, you know, taunt et taunt, Colin. Throw the gauntlet down, buddy. No, cheers, Colin. Good job, buddy. Good job. And then the dad, you know, it must be hard to have that kind of problem growing up. Of course. And as it unravels and unfolds and all the drama.

And she said herself, she, you know, a couple of years ago, she was in a really bad suicidal mental place because of all of this stuff. The crushing weight of never having a normal moment. And the dad, it's clear the two of them are like, you know, she's a daddy's girl. And the dad is so emotional about all this. And all I can think about is my own daughters when I'm watching this show. And so it's like, I'm just like, think out of them in the shower, just all the tears, just washing down. Yeah.

I was like, I don't know why I'm doing. doing this? Why am I doing this? I love that you just watch shows in the shower. Yeah. It took me an hour to watch that episode. That's why my water bill is $772 a month. It's either water or Jonas Brothers. We'll figure it out. One of the two.

All right. Well, listen, thanks for joining us. We're going to do another episode. So if you're streaming, you know, and if you're not streaming, YouTube.com slash the commercial break, you'll be able to get notified. Hit that subscribe button. I know it's a vanity metric, but what it does help is it does help notify you when we go live. You can also follow us at the commercial break on Instagram TCB podcast on Tick, and what else? Yeah, that's it.

If you want to get a hold of us, DM us on Instagram, we got a couple of extra Ask TCBs. Ooh, I love those. So there you go. We'll check that out. We'll have lots more to talk about. You know, we'll take a short break, and then we'll be back. I'm going to go check and make sure the charge for the Jonas Brothers cleared. Yes.

And while I go get angry at the Jonas Brothers, I have to clean my own pool, I mean, honestly, like a solar-powered robot skimmer, it just solves all the problems. Yes, it's a big robot on the top of your pool. Well, I have a big robot in the bottom of my pool. But, you know, listen. You do have a birthday coming up. I told Astrid, that's what I wanted. And she was like, that's what you want. for your birthday?

And I'm like, honey, you don't understand. Yeah. If I got you a vacuum, wouldn't work. But if you get me a robot, it works. Yes. Okay, I guess that's all I can do for right this moment. I think so. Okay, but we'll be back shortly.

I'll tell you, I love you. And I love you. Best to you. Best to you. Best to you out there on the podcast universe and streaming universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say. Goodbye.