The Commercial Break - The "Up" Massage!

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

EP(38: Bryan and Krissy have returned to the studio after ANOTHER lengthy vacation! What a life! Anyway....Bryan returns with a bad back and a need for deep tissue work. He goes searching and finds UP... Massage just steps from his home. He makes an appointment over text while 38,000 feet over Canada and when he shows up for the massage, it goes about as well as expected. 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 On this episode of the commercial break. I had a massage with her one time, and we did like a three and a half hour. Yeah, Jeff got that before too. Yeah, I went on forever. She just kept saying, okay, you know, we're approaching the hour. Do you want to do another 30 minutes? And I kept saying yes until we were three and a half hours into it. $700 into it.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Astrid was like, what the fuck? Astard went to somewhere. She like went out with a friend or something, and she came back, and I'm half naked in my child's room with this lady still there three and a half hours later. She's like, what is going on? I go, don't worry, not sex. It would have been done a long time ago, had to been that. That would have been a five-minute massage.
Starting point is 00:00:51 The next episode of the commercial break starts now. 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 Haudley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Ryan. Best to you out there in the podcast universe.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Every time we come back to the studio after a long break, I always feel like something's amiss with my headset. But it's not. It's just me getting used to the sound of my own voice again. That's right. We've been away for a while. We have been away for a while. Look at us taking a vacation every five days. I know.
Starting point is 00:01:26 We're here for a day. We take off for three weeks. We come back for a day. We're off for four weeks. Not that we're trying. Nothing's wrong with the commercial break. We just have a little bit of a different schedule this year. And that's the way it is.
Starting point is 00:01:38 So deal with it. There you go. But if you're catching us, you can catch us live on YouTube.com backslash the commercial break, usually when we're here. Yeah. When we're here. If you can figure that out. We will be this week and next week.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Yeah. See if you can find patterns. See if you can find patterns in our patterns. Yeah, I don't think AI could even find our patterns. AI is giving up on me. I had a whole thing going on with Chad GPT about the commercial break. And even it imploded. It decided it didn't like me anymore.
Starting point is 00:02:06 I was the other day I was like I go Hey chat And I was talking to it About a content idea That I had And it
Starting point is 00:02:15 And it goes It's been a long time Since you've given me New episodes Of the commercial break Everything okay Welcome back Brian Welcome back Brian
Starting point is 00:02:25 Welcome back Katte So we've been out of town For a couple of weeks I went to Spain Yeah You've been to London I went to Spain I was in New York
Starting point is 00:02:35 Gustavo got married. So congratulations to Gustavo and Alley. And if you're saying this story sounds familiar, it's because they did have two weddings and I went to both of them. So we'll get into all of it. I'm very excited to share all the shenanigans that went on with three children gallivanting around Europe. I think they did pretty good, actually. I'm giving my kids a little credit.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Even though they're shitheads on most days. and you can't take the shithead out of America but you can't take the America out of the shithead but you can't take the shithead off whatever the saying is I don't know what I'm trying to say Jet lag is still fucking over a little bit I was going to say do you know what time zone you're in? I have no fucking clue actually
Starting point is 00:03:19 because as soon as I got off a plane from Europe I got back on a plane to New York and then had to adhere to some kind of schedule for two days including being in town when the Knicks and Donald Trump in that whole thing. That's right. You were there.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah, I was there. Luckily, I was about 30 blocks away from any of that drama. But even with even 30 blocks away, I will say this. We, you and I were here when the worst to first Braves Madness happened. That's right. And then subsequently, year after year after year, as the Braves went on an epic playoff run, you know, year after year after year. We got spoiled. We were just used to them being in the MLB playoffs.
Starting point is 00:04:01 And then it didn't happen for a couple of years. A couple of years, the teams, you know, they danced with the playoffs, so they got into the regional, but they would kind of fall apart after that. And then like four years ago, five years ago, the Braves won the World Series. So exciting. And the town was insane. Like, everybody was all about the Braves. It felt good.
Starting point is 00:04:22 The town came together. The team was doing well. I went to a couple of the games. It was just like, I've never heard something so loud in my life. everybody in Atlanta, feeling good, having pride. Praise mania. Praise mania in this town. Now, New York and Atlanta are two totally different towns, for sure. There's Southern Charm down here. You have a different attitude, a different mood. It's a different city. It just is. New York is the city. There's no city like it in the world. Nowhere in the world is like New York.
Starting point is 00:04:53 But when I even was getting on the plane, people around me on the gangway. while we were waiting to get on the plane, everybody around me talking about the Knicks. They didn't know each other. People wearing Knicks jerseys, Knicks hats. They were talking about, you know, could they go to the game. They wish they could go to the game. One guy that was behind me, a couple of people behind me, talking to the lady, worked at Madison Square Garden. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:05:16 He was the tech guy that put up, that made the stuff that goes on the big board, right? On the screen, that's what he did. And he would make those templates and those designs and he would, you know, work with the team that would then put them up through the game. So I was listening to him talk to this lady, and he lived in like Evanston, Indiana or something like that. But he would fly into New York for three or four days a week. Sounded familiar to me. And he was even saying, like, you know, he's been working for MSG for 15 years. And this is like nothing like it.
Starting point is 00:05:47 The town was insane. Yeah, I saw there were watch parties all over the city. All over. Every park had a watch party. As I, when I got back from dinner at about 915, I got into my hotel room, you know, I'm around a bunch of big buildings. I had a balcony in my room. You could just go on the balcony.
Starting point is 00:06:04 You could see in the city, like all the people that are watching their televisions, watching the NICs. It was very exciting. On the town, like, where I was in Soho, people had written things on the sidewalk about the NICs, like, facts about the NICs, statistics, you know, cheering on the NICs. And people were just stopping and reading it, taking pictures. It was a very, it was like a very festive mood. until it wasn't a festive mood,
Starting point is 00:06:31 until people had to wait four and a half fucking hours after paying $48,000 for a ticket to get into the five block radius that was shut down like it was something out of a, I don't know, like a doomsday game that you would play
Starting point is 00:06:47 on your PS3. They had like 10 foot fences around a five block area. That's insane. That's insane. That, that, that, that, why? Why did Donald Trump have to be there?
Starting point is 00:07:00 I don't know. I was, and then I was reading something in one of my news clips that were like, yeah, he couldn't make his son's wedding because he was too busy. But he could make the next day. He ground New York to a halt for 10 fucking hours so that he could go sleep at the Knicks game. Sleep at the next game. That's what he did. He fell asleep. I don't fault the guy for wanting to be there.
Starting point is 00:07:27 He's the president of the United States. that is one of the perks of being the president of the United States. The Super Bowl has a well-worn path to this. They've done that. Like, presidents have gone to the Super Bowl. Their presidents go to sports things. They do that, you know, I understand that that's what you want to do. But you know, like everybody else fucking knows, that New York is not the place you shut down five blocks worth of traffic for 10 hours.
Starting point is 00:07:48 You just don't do that. He could have watched from anywhere else in the world and he went there. Now, some people are saying that Donald Trump is the reason why the Knicks lost. Donald Trump is the reason why the Knicks lost. The Knicks lost because of the Knicks lost because of the Knicks lost because of the next lost because They took 72, three-point shots and hit one of them. Like, the Knicks lost because they didn't play as well as the Spurs did. But we should blame him anyways.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Yes. And, but you, when the game was over, the craziness just ran off into the streets. I could hear it outside of my room. Like, I had my door a little bit. People screaming and yelling. The honking was insane. You know, sometimes I'm walking down the street in New York. People honk.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Oh, tons. It's just a way of. life there, right? You honk your horn. But you can tell that, like, native New Yorkers really are sick of this shit, sick of the honking. And I can understand why. It's hard to sleep when everybody is honking their fucking horn. Sometimes, and it's happened more than once, I'd say four times that I've been in New York for the last couple of months, you know, a couple days a week. I'm walking down the street. Someone honks their horn close. And someone that's walking around me or close to me goes, shut the fuck up
Starting point is 00:08:53 one guy goes was that really fucking necessary I was like I feel you brother I feel you sometimes a honk is not more intense no it's not no it's not
Starting point is 00:09:04 but you know hey listen okay so Nick's mania it was very exciting to be in New York during that time but to be honest with you
Starting point is 00:09:13 tonight's another game and I'm glad I'm out of the city for it so ho just like it's a very crowded place already and I get the sense that
Starting point is 00:09:22 the summertime is going to be double as crowded as it was when it was spring or wintertime because the streets are just... bustling. They're madness. And that's Stussy. That fucking Stussy. I was listening to something the other day and they were talking about Stoosey, Stussy, Stussy. Stussy, how ever you said.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Oh, that brand's back in fashion and I guess so. That brand is very much back in fashion because people are waiting hours, days to get into that Stoosey fucking studio in New York. York City. And I don't, I've taken a peek in there when they're, you know, the windows like at night when everything's closed. Yeah. Why are we waiting that long? It's cool. It's streetwear. Cool, man. Everybody likes a good pair of streetwear. But I mean, there's like grandma's waiting in line for hour. There's a mix of human beings that are waiting for that Stoosey. And I feel like this is another, we have another, um, la boo-boo on our hands. Do you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:10:21 Baby Laboo. That's right. Like, I get it. Streetwear's cool. But I don't see anything in there that would like, at least not in the windows. I don't look in the windows and go, oh, you know, I'd really love to stand in line for four hours. Maybe it's like a resale thing or something. I don't know. I couldn't tell you, Chrissy. It's like, Soho has all the shops of all the things. They have the, I was walking by yesterday. I was walking by the, oh, Louis Vuitton, this flagship store for Louis Vuitton. And, you know, they, like, they have the, they, like, they have the, they, like, they have. And, like, they have. And, they, they, they're. And, like, they're. And, they. And they. And they. And they. And they. And they. And they. And they. I. And they. I. I was. New York. It's huge. It's like two stories. It's huge. And when you walk by that store, there's a street where all of these stores are. And it's not a major thoroughfare. It's like a back street, right? I think it's Mercer Street. And you walk down it and all of the name brands, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, all of them are there. The high-end stuff. But when you walk down that street, you can't see into those stores because there's an influencer in front of every fucking store taking a goddamn video with their bag. It's so ridiculous. Really? Yeah, I say that. And then, you know, here I am making content being an influencer. So I don't get too rustled up about it.
Starting point is 00:11:32 You don't know how many influencer shots I have walked into in Soho, New York. Oh, I can only have You can't help it. You don't fuck around. I am now an official New Yorker because I do not suffer your fucking video. I don't care. I have to walk through this particular place. I saw, And the other day, there were like two 13-year-olds with their mother, and their mother had the 13-year-old standing in the middle of Broadway street to take a picture down the street. Beautiful shot, absolutely. But those cars on Broadway, they don't give a shit about your fucking picture. And, you know, cars honking and beep-in. Yeah, it's just don't be an idiot.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Don't be an idiot. Do that at night. There's never nobody down there. There's like an Instagram account called Influencers in the Wild. I'm on it. Yeah, I'm on it. It's pretty funny. I love it.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Yeah. I think it's great. I think it's great. So Chrissy and I are back from our collective vacations. Chrissy was off in Colorado. I went to Spain for Gustavo's wedding and then a little rest and relaxation, a couple days down near. Yeah, I was actually playing nurse for my stepdaughter who had ACL surgery. Wow. How is she doing? She's doing okay. But man, that's a tough surgery, especially when the meniscus is also torn. So the meniscus is the little muscle that goes under the knee? Is that right? I think the pad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Oh, the pad of it. It's another layer. Yeah, in there. And, you know, she's in the straight leg brace. No pressure at all on it for two weeks. Then only 50% pressure. So it's going to be a long-recover. How do you measure 50% pressure?
Starting point is 00:13:00 Well, that's what the doctor, when we were right before we were in the pre-op. She was like, the PT will be able to tell you what 50% feels like. But someone gives me a number like that. I get nervous. I want to hit the number. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, I get nervous.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I'd go over or under. or something. I don't know. Me too. Yeah, like I'm not putting enough pressure to fix it quick enough. Am I at 60%? Is that too much? They have like a, it's, they have an AI that can monitor that. Can they put like a little thermometer in your knee or something? A little pressure sensor. A little pressure sensor. Yeah, so poor thing is going to be a long road. But she's brave and she's doing fantastic. We're so proud of her. Okay. Good, good. She's got a good friends and family out there. Olive's doing well out there in Colorado. Yes. I call her olives. I don't know. It just sounded cute. I like olives. Not olive, olives. Olives. Olives. But then I'll be back in Colorado because we already had an actual vacation plan to go out there and see her before she did all of this.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Oh, good. You'll have to tell me about when that is so that we can schedule our next break from the commercial break. So I've told you, we'll figure it out. I'm just going for a week, not like you're three weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, I mean, it was a wedding. It was Gustavo's wedding. I know.
Starting point is 00:14:10 I know. We knew it was coming. We went to work. You were working in London. Very internet. I am very international. I am very international. And then I'm going to go to Rome in September for another conference. Look at that. Yeah, I told my boss, I said, there's a conference in Rome. I've got to go to. I think I might need to join you on that. You might need to join me on that one. That would be the good one to go to. In Rome. And then there is a wedding the next week, that weekend, the following weekend in Venice that we've been invited to. Pure coincidence. But now I'm like, hey, Astrid. We should do the same thing. And we just, take two weeks and go back to Venice. We haven't been back to Venice since Astrid was pregnant with Mia with one of our children. Yeah, God, I went with my sister years ago. It's so beautiful. I love it. Italy in general, I can find no flaws. Absolutely. I can find no flaws. I can find no
Starting point is 00:14:59 flaws. I can find flaws. The Italians sometimes can be a little brusque. Some of the cities are cleaner than others. Let's put it that way. That's Europe in general. I'll say that. But like if I had to give it a, if I had to grade my countries that I visited over there, I would say cleanliness and beauty, like geographic beauty, Switzerland, number one. Number two, Spain. Yes. Number three, Italy. Number four, the UK. Okay. And I've been to other countries, but we'll leave those four. If I have to say food, it's Spain all day long. Italy, number two, the U.S. UK and then Switzerland. Though the UK and Switzerland probably fall like number 20 and 30, but we're only calling four right now. If I had to say like my favorite close to my, like the people, yeah, I'd have to say
Starting point is 00:15:56 the UK, Spain, the UK only because they speak the language. Okay. And they tend to be, they can be charming. You can run into some charming people into UK. They're not all that way, but either are we, right? Okay. I know I want to hear about your London. All right. I'll tell you about my London. Give me a second here. I'm trying to work. We have lots of episodes to do. I'm dragging it out. Do your ratings. I'm doing my ratings here, Chrissy. Okay. It's very important information that people need to know. There's many people sitting out there right now going, which country should I visit first? Brian's going to tell me. I want cleanliness. I want cleanliness. Brian says Switzerland. Yeah. But if you're looking for good food, if you're looking for super warm, friendly people, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Switzerland's, they're nice, but they live in the fridge, the frigid temperatures, 90% of the year. That'll make you a little. Yeah, absolutely. rigid yourself. Absolutely. And they all have more money than you do, by the way. So if you want to feel good about yourself, don't go to Switzerland because you're going to wonder how these people made so much money and you're still sitting in your three foot by three foot apartment in New York City. Okay. But if I have to over that rate overall, like say like these are this, these are the countries you must visit. Spain, number one, you must visit. And skip Barcelona your first time there. Go to Madrid. Barthalona. Go to Madrid.
Starting point is 00:17:13 And then go visit the Coast of Seoul somewhere. Go to the beach. You have to go to the beaches. Valencia looks gorgeous. Valencia is gorgeous. But it is also a very crowded and now getting more expensive town. It's like the, Majorca? Yes.
Starting point is 00:17:25 But you're going to spend some money there. Right. So don't go there thinking, you know, you're going to get a cheap, you know, Airbnb or holiday in. Get a little dingy out to the island. Yeah, that's it. Get a dingy. Put a blanket on top of your head.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Put some Iberico ham in the middle. A couple of, you know, cold beers or a bottle of red wine. Yes. and survive for a couple of weeks on the coast of Majorca because the rooms there are $1,000 a night. Then number two, I would say you have to be in Italy. I would say number three is you have to go to the UK and number four is you have to visit Switzerland. So there it is. Now you know.
Starting point is 00:17:57 So I don't want to hear anything. Don't text me and say, ah, you told me Switzerland and then I, ah. No, I didn't. I said, go to Spain first. That's what I said. But be mindful. The Spanish people are not always so excited about the American tourists that are there in Spain. Learn the language. Don't be a fucking idiot.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Don't stand in the middle of the street, taking pictures. Don't bother them. Don't be yelling and screaming at 3 a.m. And go somewhere besides the touristy places. Yeah. Everyone's been to the church in Barcelona. People hate that fucking church. The La Grada Familia, whatever it is, I've been there. It's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:18:29 It's amazing. It's unlike anything you've ever seen in your entire life. It is acid. It is Ellis. It is ayahuasca in real form. Is that the one that's the really, really tall one? I just was watching something on, I think it was CBS Sunday. morning they were, it's the one that is still in process of.
Starting point is 00:18:46 140 years. Built? Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah, that looked crazy. It is crazy. And he's built other buildings around the city also.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Right. And 140 years in the making, it's about to be topped off. And the people fucking hate it. Like a lot of people that live around there, a lot of people in Barcelona, they hate it. Why do they hate it? Not because of it. It is beautiful. It is undeniably one of the most amazing pieces of architecture ever created by any human or
Starting point is 00:19:11 alien. It's weird. You go in there and they have like turtles and spaceships and things that are carved into the stone in the wall all over the place, multicolored windows that like shoot light off this wall and bounce light off that wall. It's still not even done yet. Not even done. It's getting close though. Next couple of years, supposedly they're going to, that's it.
Starting point is 00:19:32 They're done. They put the last spire and they're going to go. But don't go there your first time. Why? Not because I'm not telling you not go there. Maybe someday you should go there. but go to Madrid, go to Seville, go to, you know, go down towards Gibraltar, go do something that not all of the tourists are doing all of the time.
Starting point is 00:19:51 And then you're going to have an experience. I like that advice. Because all that other stuff you can watch, Chrissy has a documentary, she'll send it to you. Right. Go text her. She's going to send you the documentary. You're going to love it. It's going to be great.
Starting point is 00:20:01 And you feel like we were there. Okay. But what I'm giving you the piece of advice is don't do the things that the locals hate that you're doing because then you're, then you're, you're. the idiot, right? Okay? This is, I'm just sharing that with you. So if that's what you want to go to Switzerland, then go to Switzerland. Have bad food. It'll be freezing fucking cold, but the streets are clean. And maybe you meet a rich guy and you guys get married and you run off with your life. Okay. All right. Now, I've given you all of my advice I can give on travel. Thank you for,
Starting point is 00:20:28 thank you for showing up to the commercial break travel show. Yes. All right. Now, let's take a break. When I get back, I'm going to work backwards on my trip. We've got a lot of episodes. We've got to fill in here. Okay, good. I'm so excited to hear it. Because you and I really haven't talked. We haven't. I mean, we talked. We talked about. We were friendly text. We were saving it up.
Starting point is 00:20:44 We were saving it up for this. We know. We know. If we blow our wad on the text message conversation, we're going to have shit to talk about. We're going to get into it, find another Frankie B episode to go through. And we'll get to that too. There's plenty of those.
Starting point is 00:20:56 He's got like five we haven't watched. Oh, and Polly couch cushion is back. Oh, my God. And I know we said we wanted to take a break from Polly because we felt like Polly might be in some real life trouble with drug addiction. We just assuming, we don't know. We have no idea. We don't know.
Starting point is 00:21:10 It was weird. Allegedly. But I watched a couple of videos. I think he's okay. At least I don't think he's like nodding out on the table. So let's do this. Let's take a very short break. And then when we get back, we'll just go into it.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Okay? Everyone's here for me. All right. Hey, everybody in the chat. I see you too. Good to see you. We'll be back. Okay.
Starting point is 00:21:36 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-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 go. get your free sticker. It's your constitutional right to a sticker, and 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. In the work, I've been working out hard. I've been trying my best to make it this fall. I'm living so tough. I've been waxing my balls. I want you look at my feet. Do you cheat on? Don't you love my lonely Frankie Vogue?
Starting point is 00:23:09 Action I've been around the world, but I just can't find a lady who wants to be my girl. I've been getting so tan. I'm living with my daughter eating tuna from a can. Why won't you look at my... Our solo. All right, so I've been traveling so much, Chrissy, and I know you know this because you're suffering with this right now.
Starting point is 00:24:18 I was traveling so much. This damn curtain, I swear on a... Oh, no, it's this curtain. That's the studio falling apart, one vacation. On vacation at a time. It's also getting to the time of year when it's hot as fuck in here. Yeah, it is. I know you know this.
Starting point is 00:24:34 And when you do a lot of traveling, you know, it's not the easiest on your body. And as you get older, it gets worse, you know. And so I've been traveling to New York every week back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And at some point about a month and a half ago, I don't know what happened, but I woke up one day. And I had that crick in your neck. Yeah. The crick in your neck. I was sleeping in New York at the hotel.
Starting point is 00:24:54 It's a lovely hotel. They got nice pillows. You know, it's not the fucking wrist. but it's also not the super aid, right? They have nice pillows. And I was sleeping. I woke up one day and I was like, oh, man, that crick in my neck. You feel like you want to pop it, but it won't pop. You can't get deep enough. You won't pop. And then over the next couple of days and weeks, it got worse and worse. I got prescribed medication for it. It would help me sleep. The medication would help me sleep. But that's all it was doing. It was helping me sleep. As soon as I woke up and a couple hours later, that medication would wear off. And I felt fucking miserable. And when I was in Spain, this kind of came to an apex. I was just so fucking, I was really hurting. And it sucked very bad. That's the worst.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Because it's like all you can think about. It is all you can. It's a toothache, right? Back pain is a toothache. I understand. I don't know how, but I don't, I'm not on Facebook much. But when I go on Facebook, I don't have the app. I go online.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Like I'll open a URL, right? A browser. And I don't know how this happened. Maybe because I was like talking. talking about being in pain. But all of a sudden, I got like this whole algorithm that's directing me to doctors, pharmacists, and patient advocates who are talking about how pain is chronically undertreated in the United States now more so than ever because everybody's afraid of getting sued, you know, like the Sackler family did or Purdue Pharma or whatever. You know, those are
Starting point is 00:26:20 egregious cases of pushing narcotics on everyday Americans for any and every reason. But there are a of people like me and now you who are in some kind of pain. I don't even bother going to the doctor. I'm not going to get adequate. My pain is not going to get adequately treated. I'm going to be told to go to PT and take some Advil. I already know what's going to happen. And I don't like taking pain medication just because anyway. Like that's not my thing. But I'm also a victim of feeling so afraid of being addicted to pain medication that I don't take it even in circumstances where I probably should. When I had that thing cut out of my neck, they offered to give me pain medication. but I never took it.
Starting point is 00:26:58 When I had my root canal, the guy was like, let me give you like, you know, a couple days worth of pain medication because you're probably going to feel like, you know, miserable. I didn't take it. But this time, I was just like, oh, my God, I'm in so much pain. And so a friend of a friend of a friend called a Spanish doctor and that Spanish doctor called in, not pain medication, but like a flexoril. So like a strong muscle relaxer. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:21 That really helped me sleep, but still did not take care of the problem. I still couldn't get that. I felt like I needed to crack it. It just wouldn't go there. Couldn't turn my head. Toothake, throbbing pain all the time. But I was, I'm not one to complain, Chrissy. You know me.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Right. No. No. You never hear about it. I have this like the two sides of my personality. And I think Astrid's starting to notice after a decade of being with me. I often don't say when something's wrong physically with me. And she gets upset by that.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Right? But then as soon as I start saying that something's wrong with me, I'm a baby. Yeah. Yeah. I complain too much. It's like, I can't win for losing. I know. Yeah. So I just don't say anything unless it's bad enough that I'm like, it's noticeable.
Starting point is 00:28:12 One day I was just a bear. I mean a bear. I was like, ah, fuck this and fuck that and fuck you and fuck him and fuck her. And why are we here? And why do we go there? And what are we doing? And why would you tell me? And Astros was like, are you?
Starting point is 00:28:24 What the fuck is wrong with? And I'm like, my, she's like, is your neck hurting? and I'm like, oh, just a little bit. No, it's really hurting. All right. So I decide that the thing that I need to do, like any other, like you go through the list of things that you do with back pain. You younger kids out there won't understand this, but when you get older, mark this episode, okay? Here's a list of things you do.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Number one, you stretch it out. You try and pop that neck. You know, maybe you go to a chiropractor, see if they can help you. But chiropractors are not there to help with real back pain. They are there to adjust you. You go to a chiropractor when you're feeling good to feel. True. To continue to feel good.
Starting point is 00:29:02 You don't go a chiropractor when things are wrong because they are not doctors of actual medicine. I'm sorry, I hate to say it. They are chiropractors. It's a special kind of weird world that they live in. And I love that neck popping. I love it. Oh, God, so much. Love it.
Starting point is 00:29:16 I love it. I love it. But they're not going to fix what's going on with my neck because they cannot prescribe me anything. they cannot image me in a way that it's going to figure out what's going on and they can't give me a shot for anything, any steroids. They can't do that. What can they do? They can pop my neck, but it might
Starting point is 00:29:33 make it worse. You don't know. That's true. All right. Yeah, especially because there's the muscle. It's the muscle. It's the thing. Yeah. Now, I had a chiropractor here local that would give you a, like a semi-massage every time you would go with the machine and then it seems. That felt good. It does. It felt good. But anyway, so, okay, I'm not around my chiropractor,
Starting point is 00:29:53 I'm not going to go to my chiropractor. I already know this is too serious for the chiropractor. Number two is you do your hot and cold. You get your lotions and potions out. Yep, yep, yep. Lidicane. Yeah, light a cane. Tiger balm.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Right. You know, make your whole entire bed orange with tiger balm. I know. I had some kind of menthol thing out like last night. It won't go away. Oh, God. Yeah, it's there forever. I know.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Your pillow is going to smell like menthol for a month. And the reason that I pulled my back out was I had to just change the bed. So that's like, oh, God. Okay. Time to call. one of those maids for $29. Cleaning services. Sorry, not a maid.
Starting point is 00:30:28 A cleaning service. Excuse me. It's 2026. Cleaning professional. Cleaning work is work. Just let you know. And, you know, I go down the list. Advil, you know.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Maybe a hot bath with some Epsom salt. I didn't have a bat. There's no, baths aren't really a thing in Spain. You know, hot, hot showers. All that stuff would give me mild relief for a temporary period of time. And then I went to the strong stuff, you know, got some actual, like, you know, narcotic flexoril muscle type relaxers. And that would certainly, it was certainly helping me sleep. But mainly because it was knocking me out, I think.
Starting point is 00:31:04 It was just like making your muscles all well. And you just fall asleep. So I knew what was next. What was next is I needed a deep tissue massage. I need a massage. And I don't need one of those 40-minute massages. I need a full shebang, 90, 80, 90-minute massage. and I need someone that's going to start slow and then work into it.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Then get into just get it. Just almost where you're crying, right? It's like, ah, and you really need the full body because as my massage therapist, who you know. I know her. Yeah, has showed me before. She's really into it, really into the body and what it all looks like. But she showed me a picture. I mean, it's all connected.
Starting point is 00:31:42 All of it. All of it. All of it. And when you're hurting on one side, you're favoring the other. Yes. Yeah. And I had a massage with her one time. And we did like a three and a half hour massage.
Starting point is 00:31:52 Jeff got that before. Yeah, I went on forever. She just kept saying, okay, you know, we're approaching the hour. Do you want to do another 30 minutes? And I kept saying yes until we were three and a half hours into it, $700 into it. Right. Astrid was like, what the fuck? Esther went to somewhere.
Starting point is 00:32:08 She like went out with a friend or something, and she came back and I'm half naked in my child's room with this lady still there three and a half hours later. She's like, what is going on? I go, don't worry, not sex. It would have been done a long time ago had have been that. That would have been the five-minute massage. She's good. Yeah, she is good. That's for sure.
Starting point is 00:32:28 But it's hard because she has to come to your house. She does, yeah. And I wasn't here. She has an actual place. Oh, she does? Yeah. Okay, maybe I'll talk to you about that later. But, okay, so I'm on, we're on our way back, the big long flight.
Starting point is 00:32:42 And that's hard. And, you know, it's hard. And we have the kids, and it's the daytime flight. So the kids aren't sleeping. I'm in kind of like cramped in the. this middle row of seats with two of my children on the hard, on the hard fucking seats with the hard fucking, you know, side rests. It's just a whole thing.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Every hour that passed by, I was getting more than desperate. 9.9.25 on the way back. And the way there, 7.49. Sure. You know, they can ride those jet streams and get over there quick. But on the way back, they got to fight it and it's, you know, the air's just flowing under All right, so we get over Newfoundland or whatever. We get internet service back as we're flying over the ocean.
Starting point is 00:33:28 And I say, oh, by the way, on the way there, I had internet most of the way over the ocean. Nice. I thought, eh, it's getting good. It's getting better. I noticed. So I have this thing called Flight Aware, which is you can look at any airplane that's in the sky that's got a transponder on. You can see where they're going. You see what kind of plane it is.
Starting point is 00:33:46 You can see who it's registered to. So it's a fun thing to, like, follow your own flight. or follow other notable flights or whatever. So I'm following our flight, and it's got a little image of an airplane that's like, you know, it's moving across the map as it would, telling you how fast we're going,
Starting point is 00:34:02 how high we are, all that other stuff. Like you see on the Delta screen sometimes. Sure, I always like to turn mine on. But I have it on this app, and now I see all the planes. I can see the plane that's ahead of us, behind us, on top of us, below us.
Starting point is 00:34:14 I want to get that. I'll get it. I'll show it to you. Like, for $29, you get a lifetime subscription, and you can see all this information It's really cool if you're into the flights. For the first time ever, I noticed that the blue dot that is me, where I am, was flying pretty close and moving pretty close to the way the airplane was moving. So they were tracking me in the sky on the Delta Internet, which was really fascinating.
Starting point is 00:34:39 Never seen that before. It's always like some server center somewhere or something, or it doesn't show up at all. They can't get you at all. But this time they were following us. All right. So we're over the internet. We get Internet back. say to myself, that's it, finding a place, getting massage. So I go run down the list of massage places
Starting point is 00:34:55 I've been to. Woodhouse Day Spa, massage envy. Woodhouse is my favorite because it's a really nice. You can get like the whole treatment, you know, have a nice glass of cucumber water, sit in a frothy robe next to a fire with 16 other people you don't know and, you know, feel uncomfortable without your phone because it's in the locker and you're like, oh my God, where do I keep my eyes? Do I keep my eye on the lady whose boob is hanging out of her robe? Or do I cross my legs or uncross them with my hairy T's all over the place? What do I do? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:35:30 You got to make those calls in the moment. You scan the room and you say, is everybody a voyeur here? Or am I the only one? Does she want to see my hairy tease or not? All right? Assume no. I always assume no. Yeah, listen.
Starting point is 00:35:43 I've seen my own hairy tease. I say no. Everyone says, though. But none of those places have appointments available. They're good for tasting them. Yeah. That's one way to put it. That's what she said.
Starting point is 00:35:58 As in they are tasters. Oh, as in they're tasters? You know. Yeah. Of course I do. My tasty teeners. Yes. So I go down on all the list of places and none of them have appointments available.
Starting point is 00:36:13 There's that place that I told you about with the sheets in between you. You know, they hang the sheets from the ceiling. Yes. She went and had an experience there. And they go like this. They blow on your back. That'll be $185, sir. They don't come anywhere close to any part of your body that might actually make you feel good because, God forbid, they do that, right?
Starting point is 00:36:34 They massage your calves a little bit and your arms and your deer. And they give you a head scratch and they say, that'll be $285, please. Because we put sheets on the ceiling and have fancy music playing. Fuck you. Get some real massage therapist. in there. I'm going to say the name of the place. None of those places. None of them have anything available for days, if not weeks. And then I just Google, hey, massage place near me. Yeah. And up comes a place. It's got 120-something-odd reviews. And it's called up-massage. Up.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Okay. Now, one could, well, it got a very professional logo. It didn't look like an erect penis or anything, right? Had a very professional logo. Up. We get you up. Under it in some odd reviews. I read through a few of them. Most of them were from females. Love this place. I've been going here for years.
Starting point is 00:37:30 That's a good sign. Found it while I was waiting for it. The one lady was like, found this while I was waiting for a pizza. Got a massage. It was great. I was like, how long was the wait for the pizza? I thought that was so weird. I'm like, well.
Starting point is 00:37:41 And you get some massage while they're waiting for a pizza. Great review about the massage place, but let's talk about the pizza place. What about that review? It wasn't good? Worth the weight. How cold was that pizza? What you got? All right.
Starting point is 00:37:55 All right. So I make an appointment, but it's like a fill out of form, right? So I fill out. I can't call because I'm on an airplane. So I fill out a form. And 15 minutes later, I got a text message back, a text message on the plane. And it says, hi, this is up, massage. Got your message.
Starting point is 00:38:12 You can come in tomorrow at 10 a.m. And I said, for your massage, see you then. And I was like, oh, but I didn't give you any information. Like, I don't want to mail. So I start writing, female masseuse only, please. I'd like as long of a massage as possible, you know, hurting in my nekiest area, you know, blah, blah, blah. And the response is, okay, great. And then like an hour later, see you soon.
Starting point is 00:38:37 And I was like, oh, okay, rather unprofessional communication skills here. But, okay. So next morning, I wake up. I know where it is. I could walk there in three minutes. I mean, it's so fucking close to my house. I never seen this place in my life. It's in a strip mall.
Starting point is 00:38:51 I've never seen it because it's a door. It's like, you know, the strip malls have big stores and then a door somewhere. Yes. You don't pay attention to that. A door. You pay attention. And it does. Have a pizza place right down at the end of the corner.
Starting point is 00:39:02 Now you know. So there you go, right. So I'm like, okay, all right. I get up. I get a cup of coffee. I zip over. I sit out in my car for a few minutes. I'm looking to see if anybody's going in or out of the place.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Nope. And the parking lot's rather empty. It's a salad. Saturday morning. And so I'm like, okay, here we go. So, and I read some more of the reviews while I was sitting outside. And everybody seemed to think lovely of these, except for one or two people that, you know, oh, whatever, they didn't do, you know, I wanted this. They didn't do that. But general complaints for people who fucking probably suck in real life. But yeah, I go in, I opened the door. And as soon as I opened the door, I immediately regret the decisions in my
Starting point is 00:39:46 life because there is a little tiny stand that's like a cashier stand. Yeah. A couple of fake plants. Okay. It's about 92 degrees in this place. I'm like sweating the second that I walk in. And a big menu board that's on, that's not hung on the wall. It's like sitting on the floor of the wall, right?
Starting point is 00:40:07 And I don't even get into reading the menu board before some lady comes running around the corner. In her 50s, plastic fantastic. of Asian descent of some version. I assume Thai or Chinese, but I don't know, right? And when I make this voice understand, I am not making fun of anybody, I am sharing this. This is how I heard it, right?
Starting point is 00:40:33 She comes around the corner, running around the corner, you know, hello, you Brian! And I was like, yes, I am. Great. You want long, long, long, long, massage. And I was like, yeah, not long, long, you know, like, do you have like an hour or like half, two? And she points to the menu board and she goes, this for you. Happy time massage.
Starting point is 00:40:56 Two hour I do $200. And I was like, uh, happy time massage. Perfect for you. You hurt. You hurt. And she goes, you hurt your neck. I go, yes. And she goes, perfect.
Starting point is 00:41:07 One, two hour. Happy time massage. Happy, happy. And I was like, oh, okay. You know how. This is like the massage version of a nail salon because when you walk in. a nail salon, they always say yes. Yes. No matter whatever you want. Yes.
Starting point is 00:41:19 Take a collar. Yes. Got it. Yes. Yes. Yes. I have it. I did it. I want it. We'll do it. That's why they all have more money than I do. Right. It's because they're the enterprising people. And I would probably be like, two hours. My hands get tired after like 15 minutes. $3,000 for a 10-hour, 10-minute massage. No? Okay. Fuck you then. Bye. See you later. I'll need that guy anyway. Go get your pizza. Yeah. Go get your pizza. It's probably. ready. I don't need you or your pizza,
Starting point is 00:41:49 you fucker. Meanwhile, these ladies are making a million dollars on the happy time massage. Yes. But the way she was saying it, happy time massage. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:41:57 you're like, yeah, I'm like, and the place is cold up. Yes. So she says, okay, be right back. And she goes, okay,
Starting point is 00:42:08 I know, she goes, okay, I do you, don't worry. And I go, okay. And then she runs back behind this wall. And I go, oh,
Starting point is 00:42:13 do you want me to come with you? And she goes, no, yes, you come with me. And I was like, okay, yes or no. And she was like, yes, come back to me. And it's a hallway with some doors. But these, and clearly like massage rooms. Like tanning bed? Yeah, kind of.
Starting point is 00:42:29 Yes, imagine that. Could have been a former tanning salon. Could have been a former tanning salon or a really cheaply constructed build out. Build out, right? Like flimsy walls, doors, you know, probably six on each side, 12. She opens the first door. And it's a massage table and nothing else. Just a massage table.
Starting point is 00:42:49 That's it. It's a tiny room. It's a massage table. And she goes, okay, you'll get undress all the way, all the way, all the way, get dressed, undress. Head down. You make yourself comfortable. I'd be back a minute. And I was like, okay, all right.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Was there any music playing or anything? None. Nada. Couldn't hear a fucking thing. Right. And so I get undressed. I put my head down on the hole. I have my underwear on because that's how I like to do it.
Starting point is 00:43:14 I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable. You're an underwear guy. I am an underwear guy. I think that's the most appropriate way. I was an underwear guy. Until your lady was like, yeah, don't, like, it just gets in the way. Forget it.
Starting point is 00:43:25 It's like, it's full of oil. It's not. Yeah. She goes, who cares? Right. And she goes, and I'm like, yeah, but you know. And she's like, yeah, I know. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:43:34 You're going to get a boner. It's just going to happen. Okay. I've seen a few boners in my life. Yeah. Everyone gets a bonner. Yeah. As long as you don't stick it in my face,
Starting point is 00:43:42 then we're all good. Do you intend to harm me with it? No. Okay. All right. And you probably can't help it. It's just the way that it is. Right? So I'm a grown-up. I know that, but I still respect the fact that this is a profession that someone's not there to, you know, stare at Brian's boner all day long. And if they are, they're going to do it from under my underwear. Okay. Okay. Does the boner happen with the underwear on or not? Unfortunately, yes. My reasoning doesn't hold on this one. But okay. Okay. All right. So I get undressed, down to my underwear. I flip down. I put my face in that little hole. And I put the sheet over me. So it's like, you know, here. I put the sheet over me. Like to your ribs. Yeah. And then she comes in, you know, you ready? And I go, yep, she's like screaming everything too, you know. But I find her to be a friendly face. So, okay. And the whole time. You're already there. Yeah, I'm already here. You're not going to just jump out. Yeah, and no one's going to be like just sucking me off without my consent, right?
Starting point is 00:44:47 So I figure at the very least, I can put my clothes on and leave, yeah, or run out naked with a boner. Like one of the two. So my thought, my thought process is no one has asked me to do anything untoward yet. I have to, they have a menu board. They must give some kind of massages here. All right. So I get, so the lady comes in and she starts adjusting the sheet and she's like, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:45:14 Naked, naked, naked. That's what she says everything three times. Naked, naked, naked, naked. And I go naked, and she goes, naked. And then she starts pulling my pants, my underwear down. Really? Yes. And I'm like, oh, okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:45:26 And so then, you know, I help her. And now I'm really concerned because I'm like, well, I had this happen to me once with Rachel at the happy feet massage place. Oh, the happy feet place. And I went to the foot massage place and then agreed to get a back massage and had a 60-something-year-old lady. I know. They get in there. Oh, she was offering me the happy ending massage. I just wasn't biting, right? I wasn't. But she also pulled my, she didn't even ask. She just went, she just like pulled my pants down. But to be fair, I also
Starting point is 00:46:03 was wearing jeans. It was like my first ever massage. So I had jeans on. I was wearing jeans and underwear. I think she thought I was crazy. She was like, what? It's this? Okay. All right. So now I'm buck-ass naked. The sheet is barely covering me.
Starting point is 00:46:27 And she starts just like giving me like a little rub, right? Like pressing her hands on me. Like, you know, give me. Yeah, get the feel. Give me a bit. And within a minute, she goes, your left side, way higher than your right side. Right. Problem in your left side.
Starting point is 00:46:42 And I go. no, it's in my right side and she goes, no, in your left side. And I thought to myself, this lady doesn't even, this is not even a real masseuse. She didn't even know what she's talking about. Anybody would know that there are huge knots in my right side that are causing all this fucking pain.
Starting point is 00:46:57 And she says, no, left side. And then she said something that I know. I was one second away from getting up and walking out the door. Because as much as, you know, happy ending sounds nice, probably make for a funny story on the commercial break.
Starting point is 00:47:13 I'm a married man. Yeah, no. I don't think Astor would appreciate if I was running down the street for happy ending massages. I don't think any wife would. I don't know. Maybe some wives do,
Starting point is 00:47:21 but, you know, I'm not the owner of the Patriots, okay? I don't run to places for happy ending massages. My back really hurts and I really need help. So, I'll tell you what happened.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Ah. All right, see? I'm getting good at these sex ways. You are. All right. Oh, who is it? Jenna? Jenny.
Starting point is 00:47:40 Jenny is having surgery tomorrow? Oh, no. No, no. Jenny, if you're having search, good vibes for Jenny's surgery tomorrow. Good vibes. Okay, good vibes, Jenny. We'll be thinking about you and likely talking about you tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:47:51 So just know that. While you're under the knife, we'll be talking about you. Whatever it is, I hope it goes well. Yes. Don't write it here because, you know, keep your privacy. HIPAA. Yeah, HIPAA. Chris and I are big on HIPAA.
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Starting point is 00:48:42 difficult now was it you're welcome well I do what are these two making sense at least I didn't to my soul bright is a hack these two aren't funny and so old why all those none of which are great right well best of luck Jenny yeah hope everything goes well okay I'm gonna leave it at that just for your own privacy
Starting point is 00:51:10 and for your own sake I'm gonna leave it at that but we will be thinking about you absolutely and love you and I hope everything goes well that's that's a tough one um your left side yeah but i want to tell you about something first so months ago i got an invitation to an invitation that probably went out to a million other people to be on a place on a place backstage backstage is like a place where you can do like um auditions and stuff for stuff in hollywood and sometimes voiceover voiceover work comes your ways five months ago i applied to be for
Starting point is 00:51:45 a pilot of a show, a pilot of a cartoon. Yeah. And to be the, I'm not going to say it because I haven't gotten it yet. But they just texted me and said, hey, the director is all about your take on this particular character. We'd love to follow up. So who knows? Maybe I'm coming to, you know, probably some Roku television show that never gets any attention. But hey, it cares.
Starting point is 00:52:09 That can be fun. Yeah. That'll be my fifth job. I can do that with my fifth job. Yes. Yes. So I'm now naked laying on the table. The lady is telling me that the left side of my back is hurting when, in fact, it's the right side of my back. And I am, I'm concerned now that I'm in a situation where this is just a bunch of people who opened up a massage parlor, probably without nefarious purposes necessarily. But why not while we're here? We might as well give a couple of happy endings. You know what I'm saying? That kind of thing. And just the, oh, and I forgot to tell you that as she's doing this whole thing, she was like, oh, you have big muscles, big muscle strong boy. And the way that she said it told me everything, yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:00 I am not. I do not have strong muscles. I am not a strong boy. Have you seen me? Have you seen me at the gym? I'm a flabby boy, yeah. Have you seen the way that the personal trainers want to get a hold of me? Yes, I am flabby boy.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Yeah, there's no muscle going. No muscle tension or tissue or whatever. Besides the knots in my back, you wouldn't even know I had muscles. Okay? Maybe what you're feeling is the knots on the right side of my back. So she starts, like, strongly massaging into my shoulders. It's hurting, mainly because there's knots back there, but then because she's really going at it for like a minute and a half.
Starting point is 00:53:44 and I'm not feeling it. I'm just like, God damn. Like this is, you got to start slow. Yeah, now I'm in my head that I'm going to have to like bat off some, you know, question about whether or not I need, I want a happy ending. And then I don't, I don't know. I've never had a happy ending. So I don't know what happens.
Starting point is 00:54:00 But I don't want to be in the situation where I have to figure it out. Yeah. The close I ever came was the boscalo massage. And it was that the words were never asked, do you want a happy ending? She just started massaging the lower part of my abdomen. Right. Underneath my penis. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Yes. And she was not a masseuse. I'm convinced of that. It was the most terrible massage and then almost a happy ending. So she goes, so she leans over and she goes, you need forehand, forehand massage. Two girl for you, too girl. And I was like, uh, what? And she goes, too girl, to go, to go for you, two girl, forehand, forehand, forehand, forehand, forehand.
Starting point is 00:54:40 Forehand, two girl, you need, you need. And I was like, I go, I go. I'd be back. And I was like, wait. So she's gone for like two minutes and I can hear her talking in whatever language. And they're like laughing and talking and laughing and talking. And I'm like, oh my God. This is, I've walked into the happy ending massage.
Starting point is 00:54:57 And now she wants to do two on one, three some. I have, we haven't even, I haven't even been here for 10 minutes and I'm already getting the happy tie threesome massage. I'm naked. The sheet is almost. completely off me now. My back hurts. I'm a strong boy with big muscles. And now I'm going to have two women in here. I'm going to have to bat off two women. So I'm like, okay, just say that you got a text message. Something happened. You got to go. Right. I got to go. This isn't for me. Pay them whatever they ask for and call it a day. It was an experience you can talk
Starting point is 00:55:40 about on the commercial break. This is, this is, this is And I am about to lift myself up and the door opens and all of a sudden the girl runs, like she's, like the room is so small that essentially she's on top of me in a second. Like, you know, going back out my, my shoulders, right? The same woman? I think, but my face is down in the thing. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I, the sheet, someone pulls the sheet off and just sticks it in between my feet. So now I am buck-ass naked.
Starting point is 00:56:11 No sheet, no nothing on me. One lady up there just like digging as hard as she can into me. And another lady stripping me naked. I don't know. And she leans into me and she goes, she goes like this. She goes, not just try and relax. Just try and relax. You find through friend or how you find us.
Starting point is 00:56:33 And I was like, oh, here's the code word. This is where it starts, right? Yeah, Bob told me to come. Yes, Dick told me to come. Dick told me to come Right Yes My friend
Starting point is 00:56:48 Dick coming game Oh yes The code word Yeah She's looking for the code word And I'm like I go No
Starting point is 00:56:56 I just Googled you And she's like Oh okay cool You give us You give us Good review after And I go Yeah
Starting point is 00:57:04 Okay And then Because now I'm not even Really listening To what she's saying Because I am ready to leave
Starting point is 00:57:11 Yeah I'm ready to leave. I'm not five minutes into this. I've got two ladies in a massage. I can't see either of them. I've got my face down in this thing. And I'm completely naked and I feel exposed and vulnerable. And I feel bad.
Starting point is 00:57:24 Like, I want to get out of here. Yeah, you're flight. You're flight. Yes. But I couldn't get out of there. Do you want to know why? Because within half a second of her talking to me, I feel a foot on my back. Okay.
Starting point is 00:57:38 A oily foot on my back. And then a second. oily foot on my back. And I didn't leave because within a minute of those feet being on my back and sliding down my butt and my legs and going all the way from the top to the bottom and the walking and then the second lady taking her elbows and pressing into my back and cracking it multiple times. This happened in five minutes those two ladies got in there. And she's like, try to relax, try to relax. And she goes, I going to dig in now because you'll be a little bit of five minutes. You're you have bruises, bruises. You're going to have bruises, but he's okay. And I'm like, ah? And then the heel of
Starting point is 00:58:18 this lady's foot sliding down my knots in my back. Yeah, that's aschiatsu, right? That's what, that's how I found Teresa. Tie massage. Yeah, that's how, yeah, that's how, yeah, that's how I found Teresa. I'm getting a Thai massage. One lady's using her arms. One lady's using her feet. And with, and I am almost crying at times because of how painful it is when they're sliding over these knots. But she's just trying to, you know, she's telling me, it's like, you're in bed. shape. Like you got to try and relax. Like we got to do this. You got to do this. And that went on for the next 35 to 40 minutes. These two ladies worked on my back in a way that I've never had anybody work on my back. They're stretching me. They're pulling me. They're pulling my hip up while
Starting point is 00:58:58 one of them steps on the other. I know what they're doing. And I'm completely naked, right? But I don't give a fucking shit because they're sliding down my butt. One lady's foot is in my butt crack, but I don't care because it feels good. It's relieving so much tension that's been built up over the last couple of months. Yes. After 45 minutes, the first lady leaves and the second lady's just now in there. And I don't know if this is the second lady or the first lady. I can't tell. I don't know. I've been sitting down the entire time. I mean, I've been laying down face first the entire time. But after the second lady left, the massage then all of the sudden got more relaxing and gentle. Like she now were just like regular massage, right?
Starting point is 00:59:37 And she's like, you're so tight. You know, you'll have so many muscle all tight, but it's your left side. Now we release it. It's feeling better. You're going to have bruises. But, you know, you need come in next week, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And for two weeks. Now, I will say this.
Starting point is 00:59:55 The, this was an hour and 20 minute massage for a hundred of those minutes. I was face down, right? And that, when the first lady was by herself again, I think the first lady. lady, when the one lady was in there, she was really getting into all the places in my body. Like, she was not afraid to be up into my butt, like, not her fingers in my butt, but, you know, up rubbing my butt, rubbing way up into my thighs. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:22 And all this other stuff. And it was not the kind of treatment I think you would expect from like an American massage. I don't think any, I've never had a massage at like a regular, like big spa where they get that close to you. You know, they're usually keeping a distance. There's a part of your body that they're not going to touch. They might like press your butt over the sheet. Yeah. But they're not going to get in there with the oils and their hands and the knots. But she did. And she was all over there. And then only in the last 20 minutes did she flip me over, gave me a foot massage and then like a leg massage. And that leg massage got really, really close to all of the personal areas. But I didn't care because at that point I
Starting point is 01:01:04 fully understood that what I was getting was probably the best massage of my life and had nothing to do with happy endings. I don't think. I didn't ask for it. No one asked me if I wanted it. I didn't say the code word. I didn't say Dick Cummings. Right. Yeah. I really just relaxed and went into it and the lady just gave me the best massage of my life. Fucking incredible. I love that. And when I got home, I couldn't even, I couldn't like do this to my back without it being on fire. It hurt when I laid down in the bed, every bit of those muscles that they were working out hurt so bad. It was so sore. It was bruised to the next day.
Starting point is 01:01:43 I've had bruising too. But here we are four days later after that massage. And I feel so fucking good. I will go back to this place. Yes. And I will have those ladies do the same exact thing. Maybe with a little less pressure this time, like because there were times when I really almost was crying. Like I had tears coming out of my eyes because it hurt so bad.
Starting point is 01:02:02 but these fucking ladies I love them I want to kiss them on the fucking forehead and afterwards when we're all like there and you know they're checking me out
Starting point is 01:02:10 it was the same price as any other massage I would have gotten it wasn't particularly cheap but and I did two hour massage so it was like 300 bucks right yeah with tip but I will tell you what I was talking these ladies
Starting point is 01:02:21 and I said I just really didn't I thought when you when you started identifying the left side of my body that you were wrong because I was really hurt by the right side and she goes no your right side is where the pain is
Starting point is 01:02:32 your left side is where the problem is. She's like, that's your whole body gets out of whack, and you're leaning to one side, and you're favoring this side. And she goes, we see this all the time. Like, we see this all the time. And then she goes, we work with older people all the time. We all the time. We are older people.
Starting point is 01:02:48 I go, do I look old? No, no, no, not you. Just other older people. Okay, all right. Good saying. These two ladies. The relief. Both of them probably in.
Starting point is 01:03:02 in their 50s, maybe early 60s. And she was like, can you give us a good review? Like, you know, we're just like, we're just a couple of women who started this massage part of they've been around for five years. And, you know, this is, we've been doing this all our lives. Like, this is what we do. We do Thai massages all our lives. Right.
Starting point is 01:03:19 And when I turned over, the important point that I wanted to tell you is, that lady was standing on my back for 45 minutes doing all this dancing on my back for 45 minutes. And at one point I started to wonder, I thought to myself, This lady has a really good balance. Like she's just like dancing on my back. Yeah, she didn't have the poles. The poles.
Starting point is 01:03:37 The poles. When I turned over. Yeah. I saw the poles that I never noticed when I walked in the room. There were poles, the length of the room. And she was walking on my back with these poles. This is one of the most, I highly recommend. Five stars.
Starting point is 01:03:54 Five out of five. Ten out of ten. No notes. Yeah, you got to write the review. Yes. I did write the review. I wrote the review. I said, I went in here.
Starting point is 01:04:01 with no expectations, and I came out believing that I should never go to another masseuse ever again in my life. Great find. Fuck all those. Over-known Nova Scotia. Newfoundland. Newfoundland. Yeah. All the years of my life that I've been going to get massages at all the fancy places that I've been to.
Starting point is 01:04:23 From the Ritz Carlton to the four seasons. They're the worst. Yeah. Because they, you know. I don't know. She-she-she. Yeah, it's she-she. That's right. It's she-she. The smells and we'll put fancy oils on you and we can do these special treatments. Do you want a hot stone? That lady put hot stones on my back. No extra charge. Right? She did the hot. And she massaged me with the hot stones. Oh, yeah. She massaged me with the hot stones. And no extra charge. And you know what? There was no fancy candle in there. They eventually did turn on some music so you get a little bit relaxed. I think I just was the first customer in there. And by the way, I'll share this too. After the first half hour, when I kind of like tuned back in after I stopped crying from all the pain.
Starting point is 01:05:05 That door was opening every 15 minute. Ding dong. You could hear that little ding-dong. Okay. They were busy, right? They were busy. There was lots of people that were coming in and out of there. So I will say this is why sometimes you got to get off the beaten path. That's right.
Starting point is 01:05:18 You fuck all the expensive bullshit just because it's more, just because it's more expensive. Or just because you get a free glass of champagne doesn't mean it's going to be better. In my experience, I've been to one spa here in Atlanta that I recommended for years. And I recommended it because of how nice it is and the experience of going in there and the locker rooms and the showers and the, you know, the fancy fireplace. Yeah, but in the end, do you really need all that? No, I didn't. It turned out it needed a couple of fake plants and a bad menu board. That's it. That's how you needed. What I needed was the right people with the right experience to work on my back. And I will tell you right now, after years and years and years have gone to those fancy spas, those, after years are going to those fancy spas? I went to up massage and got myself. The best ending of my life. I've worked out.
Starting point is 01:06:09 I never got the same masseuse almost ever twice. And the ones that I liked were almost never working or never available. And none of them ever gave me a massage like that. Never not once. Good. You know what? I found myself a happy ending and had nothing to do with my dick Cummings. That's right.
Starting point is 01:06:27 So there you go. Good. You needed it. I did. I know. Now it's your turn. I know. I need a good check it on. Honestly, you should go. Yeah. Go have those ladies.
Starting point is 01:06:37 Jump on your back. Yeah, I think, well, it might be a little tender right now, but. Yeah. They'll figure, yeah. Yeah. Very intuitive. Yes, they are. They are intuitive. All right, well, Jenny, we hope everything goes well with your surgery tomorrow. Historectomy is a big deal.
Starting point is 01:06:54 And I hope that everything is copacetic afterwards. Nothing to eat or drink after midnight, Jenny. Just sharing that with you. One time I almost canceled a surgery, my throat surgery, because I told them I had a glass of water. Oh, that's right. And they were like, well, let's get you in the back room waiting. And I was like, wait, really?
Starting point is 01:07:15 And they're like, yeah, we don't fuck around with that shit. Yeah, it makes a difference. It makes a difference. It makes a difference. So, Jenny, good luck with your surgery tomorrow. Chrissy and I will be back tomorrow. The whole nine yards. Everyone's here.
Starting point is 01:07:27 It's happy days. Back again. Happy endings. Happy endings. Back again. We haven't even begun to dig into London. No, I can't wait. The wedding or any of that stuff.
Starting point is 01:07:37 So there's lots of stories upon stories. New Frankie B is available. So maybe we'll pull that out next week. I think we're here next week, right? Okay, we're here next week. Yeah. We're here for the long haul. By the long haul, I mean the next two weeks.
Starting point is 01:07:52 So enjoy it while you can. I'm just gone for one week. Oh, you're just gone for one week? Yes. Okay. Well, Astrid is dying to come in here and do an episode with me. So maybe we'll do that while you're gone. Maybe I'll get Astrid in here.
Starting point is 01:08:05 But she's always gone and working too. So I don't know when we're going to do it. But, you know, maybe we'll do a nighttime episode with Astrid. Maybe we'll do that on the stream. People can come in, they can ask the questions. Maybe I'll go live on my own Instagram with all the Venezuelans. Yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:22 That would be a good one. And we're talking about going to Venezuela this year for Christmas. I know. Okay. Go figure. So good luck to us. I get my bulletproof vest on. I got to get a visa first.
Starting point is 01:08:35 And after all the shit that I've talked on that Instagram, I think getting a visa actually might be difficult. I think it might be Astrid and the kids who are going to Venezuela. We'll see. All right, YouTube.com slash the commercial break. The commercial break. Instagram at The Commercial Break and TCB podcast on TikTok. We love you very much.
Starting point is 01:08:57 Thanks for joining us. Bye, Jenny. Good luck to you. Okay, I guess that's all I can do for today. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you. I'll say best to you. And best to you. And best to you. 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. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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