The Commercial Break - We Didn't Start The Fyre!

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

Episode #735: Bryan & Krissy discuss the (completely surprising) announcement that Fyre Fest 2 has been postponed...probably until never. then, Krissy takes a left turn when remembering that Mick Jagger had a restaurant in Atlanta called Micks (but he really didn't). Then, Bryan takes another left turn remembering when Justin Bieber took over a small neighborhood in Atlanta. Finally, the show comes right off the rails when the duo learns Heaven is just another NFT you can buy for $100. Try to keep up! TCBit: Newly appointed President of The Crabapple Women's Club makes waves when he gives advice to the women of Crabapple. Watch EP #735 on YouTube! Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  @thecommercialbreak Youtube: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast Website: www.tcbpodcast.com CREDITS: Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits Written, Voiced and Produced by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this episode of the Commercial Break You could have done this tongue in cheek. There's so many different ways you could have done this and probably just like healed yourself and your reputation along the way, but you chose to pretend like you knew what you were talking about the second time and you failed. This part of me feels a little tiny little bit empathetic toward Billy because I think he's just a big lug nut I think he's just a big dumb dumb who's hoping that something works out in life and I I have been there. I'm that guy

I'm a big lug nut who hopes this all works out I'm just like Plotting through life hoping the commercial break, you know becomes Conan O'Brien overnight. It's not gonna happen, but I hope it does 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 the dear friend of mine and co-host of this show, Kurt the Childly. Best to you, Kurt the Childly.

Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. I lost my mind there for a second. I don't know where it went. She's our best friend, she's the co-host. Yeah. My mount is not working correctly. Yeah, welcome back. Hey, thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it.

Well, Chrissy, this will be way old news by the time it broadcasts here. By the time it's getting to your ears, you'll already have heard about it. But breaking news, now, as we're recording this, FireFest 2 is not happening. It is not happening. In the least surprising news of the year, Billy has managed to fuck it all up.

He is such a dumb-dumb. What's the latest? I saw that a DJ had come out and talked about how she had turned it down. Yeah, there's a couple of people who are out there say a couple of people have a very similar story to the story that I have, which is they had been contacted by representatives of FireFest over the years to participate in some shenanigans. And all you had to do was pay to be a part of it. Yeah, you can cover it if you pay for it, which is the pitch to me.

This guy literally called me out of the blue, said, I love your show, Billy loves your show, we want you to have, you know, exclusive rights to interview him on your show for this and that and the other thing. And then we went down the rabbit hole for, I don't know, two or three or four weeks, a month or something like that. And at the end, it was a pitch to get me to pay to go to New York to some exclusive FireFest 2 announcement event where I would pay $3,000. But he could get me tickets for $1,500, half price, because I was such a nice guy. And they liked the show so much.

And while I never spoke to Billy directly on the phone, I was CC'd on emails. And Billy responded to those emails from an email that seemingly was Billy's. I did some homework and it seemed like it was Billy's. So Billy was in on this. This is just like one big scam-arama. I mean, Billy, I'm not saying that Billy was trying to scam me out of money. I don't wanna misspeak or make a mountain out of a molehill.

It appeared that they were trying to get me interested in a press event where you had to pay to be at the press event, which is unlike any press event I've ever heard of. Which was going to be announcing a fest that now is not happening. That's right. It was a festival to announce a festival that is now not a festival. There you go. Just like the first festival. Yeah.

But Deadmau5 responded to the news that this has been postponed indefinitely. Oh my God. By saying, well, that sucks. So people are trying to determine whether Deadmau5 has said this kind of jokingly, or if he was actually involved in this. Here's how it all went down. Billy had a pre- Billy was supposed to do it in some- So he was supposed to announce the lineup, right? He was supposed to- Well, here's how it goes.

Let me give you a timeline of events. He announces that the FireFest 2 is happening. He has a team on the ground in Mexico because he can't attend because he has a, He's on probation. He's on probation because he's got an ankle monitor. That in itself is pretty, It is pretty funny, but he says, don't worry. I've got professionals involved.

He named some of those professionals, which people find out they are semi-professional. They're professional in the way that Jam Land Productions was professional. You know what I'm saying? We did do festivals. They had a website. They had a website and they occasionally did an event, like an event inside of a club, you know what I'm saying? Like not really an event.

It's kind of like the venue was already there. They just made promoted it. Yeah. They just made those glossy postcards you hand out on the street. That's what they did. Yeah, they just made those glossy postcards you hand out on the street. That's what they did. So next thing that comes is there is a location given. People buy east, west, like latitude, longitude.

People put that in their old search machine and find out that that's in the middle of the ocean. There's no land there. So that's the first indication that something has gone wrong. But it's going to be in this general area. But people can't, no one can figure out exactly what, who's playing, where are the stages, where do you stay? Billy puts a bunch of hotels on the website, says these are our partners.

You're going to have a great time. You're going to be hobnobbing with the best in the world and the brightest and the people, creatives, and all this. Also buy this $1 million package. Yes, $1 million. Yes, from $1,500, $1 million. Please. Yes, from $1,500 to $1 million. That's the ticket prices.

And that quickly falls apart when the town where he claimed this was going to be, and the hotels who he had said were his partners, literally said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have no idea. Yo no se. Yo no se.

They had never been contacted. No one had ever talked to them, which is like an epic clusterfuck, given that the first fire fest fell on its face because there was no place to stay, to sleep, to eat. So you would think those bases would be covered first, but hence no, it's Billy McFarland and nothing happened. So then a couple of weeks later, so Billy, then the township comes out and says, we don't

have any idea what he's talking about. Never had anybody file for any permits, give us any money. Yeah, this has not been arranged. Yeah, you got to go down there and you got to grease the wheels and give a couple of people a hundred pesos and figure things out. Like, this is the way this universe works, not only in Mexico, everywhere. I don't, you know, get Jeff on. I'm sure he can tell us a few stories if he didn't want to do the festival again next year. I get it. I've been there. I've done it. So in a very small way, but I've been there and I've done it. So he moves the festival without announcing the festival has

been moved. It just magically appears about a hundred miles down the coast. All of a sudden it's a hundred miles down the coast. He puts this big press event together in which no press shows up and he doesn't either because Well nobody paid for it. He has an ankle monitor. That's right. He has an ankle monitor so he zooms in and there's a bunch of like official looking people from Mexico but none of them are actually Mexican officials.

They're just people that Billy is buddied up to that are talking smack because that township Quintana Roo says, no, no, no, no, no. You know, say, you know, say, I don't know. I have no idea. This takes months to get these permits and we have no idea to which Billy response, bullshit. We have the permits. I'll show them to you. So Billy smartly, in the way only Billy could do, puts them on Instagram, expecting that

no one on Instagram has ever spoken Spanish before. Because when people start reading the permits, including myself, and I'm not that great of a Spanish speaker, but I can read pretty well. They are permits from the local venues, like a beach club. Yeah. We're talking like a beach club, like Panama City beach club. Like Club La Vila type place, but much smaller. Not a festival grounds, like a tiny little club that allows them to have a 12 hour event for 250 people.

Billy has already said up to 1,800 people are coming. that allows them to have a 12 hour event for 250 people. Billy has already said up to 1800 people are coming. So what are the other 1450 people gonna do? What are they, 1650 people, what are they gonna do? I don't know, I guess they're just not going to that particular event. Billy's- Well, right, wouldn't it gonna be at like different ones

around the town or something? Yes, yes, he had one permit. Like a bar crawl but a festival crawl? Yes, it's the most expensive night out in Mexico of your life. That's what it is. You might as well go to South Beach and just get drunk. At least the DJs will be good. I mean, at least you'll know who's playing.

Billy messed this up from the beginning in so many ways that is like laughable. It is. And the fact that he didn't have his ducks in a row before he even made the announcement said everything you needed to know about what was going to go down. You, this was not, this is no surprise that this was coming. And when he put those permits online, claiming that this festival was happening. And when he put the permits on the line and people were like, dude, you have a permit for recorded music

to be played to 250 people for a total of 12 hours. And it's a four day festival. What is going on? Who is playing? What are you planning to do? He says, well, we're gonna have lots of different entertainment. You might get an MMA tutorial

from a real live MMA martial artist. You might get a skateboarding tutorial from a real-life pro skateboarder. Dude, go on YouTube. No one cares. Go on YouTube. I'm not paying a million dollars to hobnob with the 138th, with the most popular MMA artist. Do you know what I'm saying?

Retired NBA stars. I'm sure that some people want to buddy up to those people. Some people want to rub elbows with those folks. And people did buy tickets. How do we know this? Because the reason why we know the festival is postponed is because a ticket holder put out on Instagram or social media. I mean somebody who literally just had money to burn.

Yes, had money to burn or was going to be one of the few people who had the best story ever. They were going to sell it to Netflix. They were going to make a, they were going to have a book. They put out the email that they received. Now here's what I will give credit to Billy for and legally I think he had no other choice. This person received a refund. Oh. And it said, if when we announce the new dates, if you're able to attend, you'll have the first bite

at getting a new ticket. Oh, OK. So they did actually get a refund, because I thought that was part of the paperwork. That was. That he put out too, which had the legal jargon. The legalese, yeah. Of no refunds, no exchanges, whatever.

No refunds, absolutely no refunds, rain or shine. Mm-hmm. Even if the event doesn't happen, you, yeah. Of no refunds, no exchanges, whatever. Absolutely, no refunds, rain or shine. Even if the event doesn't happen, you're gonna get no refunds. But they did refund at least this one person that's online, admitting that they actually bought a ticket to Fire Fest, dude. That does take balls. It does take balls.

But I can see, like I could see if we had the money to burn. Like if this show ever made money, I could see if we had the money to burn. Like if this show ever made money, I could see if we had the money to burn just for the entertainment. Just for the, to go down the rabbit hole. Just to be at some wild event that's gonna really blow up. And I don't mean in the good way, like not glow up, blow up.

And I could see wanting to be there to kind of like document it, to see what goes down. Watch the train wreck? Yeah, watch the train wreck. You know, none of us wanna to be in a car wreck, but we all turn our heads when we see them. And so that's, I think, the reason to go down there. And I'm going to make the assumption that this person

who has come out and shared this email, it went, that was going to go down there for the same, a content creator of some sort or, you know, press or whatever. So Billy has now failed twice, but probably many more times that we don't know about, including this New York announcement show and all this. Some other people have claimed that he tried to get them to buy tickets to an underwater rave.

Like they were gonna go down with scuba gear and they were gonna have headphones on where someone was gonna be spinning. I mean, honestly what a dumb dumb yeah Billy Buddy the funny thing is about all of this to me is that okay you made a mistake the first time you got in way over your head And Ja Rule went for the ride. Ja Rule. I noticed Ja Rule didn't poke his head out for Fire Fest 2. No, he did not.

No. None of the Jenner's did either, whoever was involved in the beginning. No, Smartly, right? Ja Rule is not. I don't think Ja Rule's made a public appearance sense. I think Smartly has not. He came this close to spending six years in jail.

But after Ja Rule, I just can't still get over Ja Rule. Ja Rule. I don't know. He was good in the 90s. Yeah, he had a thing. He had a vibe. I don't hate on Ja Rule. I don't see how Ja Rule managed to get himself involved in this, but then didn't Ja Rule have a restaurant- Well, he's a good talker, I guess.

Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. He talked himself right into a big paycheck from Billy and their investors. Didn't Ja Rule have a restaurant like Jabahamas or something? Probably. I think he did. And I think people were like online giving it a, you know, one star or something.

Anyway, Jot Rule, nowhere to be found. The thing about this is, and speaking with a little bit of seriousness, you made a mistake, a big mistake, and you screwed a lot of people over, and you almost killed some people. And now granted, these people had money to burn also. Like they're not the most sympathetic characters in the world. But okay, some people went down there with the best of intentions. You were famous enough after this whole debacle

to really clean it up. Yes. And call some... We've said that. Yeah. I mean, do it right. Do it right. Like change, do right by people. Yes. It is the year of our Lord 2025. There are literally billionaires burning money on space dicks. Yes. You could have gotten someone to give you a million bucks to like seed this whole thing. Got called in some real professionals. Not some guys who will put some club events on, but some like real professionals, and put this all together, taking your time, put it all together and done this the right way,

where you never touch the money, but you're kind of- Paid up front. Yeah, you're kind of the puppet master. Yes, everyone paid up front, tents on the ground long ahead of time, and you're kind of the puppet master pulling the strings, learning as you go along, having some other professionals that have done this 12, 15,

300 times so that you really get an idea for what's going on. I think part of what got Billy in trouble in the first place is he had never done anything like this and they tried to do it themselves. Yeah, because he just was doing like local stuff in New York, right? Doing stuff at clubs in New York. Yeah, he was like a special event, like exclusive. Yeah, he's a weekend warrior, you know, he was like a- Special event, like exclusive. Yeah, he's a weekend warrior, you know?

He was like, yeah, special, exclusive. He had like an exclusive club that he would throw parties at and that never made money either. They was like, you had a card, you had to get in the- Yeah, it's so stupid. A card. Yeah. So if you had taken the time, the energy and the effort

to get this done correctly, and you had stayed on the straight and narrow and the effort to get this done correctly, and you had stayed on the straight and narrow and not tried to be a ticket broker on the side and put all these ham-hawk events together. If you had just focused in on this and had a day job in the meantime, like where you were trying to pay people back, and a day job in the meantime, you probably, probably could have pulled this off. Could have pulled off the greatest comeback in music history, music festival history,

and people would have applauded the whole effort. You would have had a lot of haters along the way, but you would have put them to bed when you did it the right way. But you really did this, I mean, how more poorly could this have gone? Yeah, and every step of the way too, him just saying, no, it's happening.

No, it's happening. Yes, we're doing it. I mean, I'm just thinking about the reel where Billy made this announcement, where he's like walking down some New York Street, like a three-year-old screaming, you know, it's happening. My team is on the ground in Mexico. Fire Fest 2 is going to happen. Mark my words.

Yeah, mark your words. Yeah, well, he put that on Instagram, right? He put it on Instagram. And I've noticed Billy's been absent from Instagram since the permits went online. Because the comment section, I mean, I came there for the comments. It was so funny. People are like, they're like, 100, the permit said 100 decibels up to 12 hours of only recorded music for only 250 people. That's, so for four years or three years since you've been out of

jail, you've been working on this and that's what you came up with? 250 people. Renting a club out. Yes! In Mexico. I could rent Chuck E. Cheese quicker than that for 300 people. And probably, and I got a live band playing. It's Chuck E. and his little band. And honestly, terrible. You could have done an event at Chuck E. Cheese and people would have been excited about it. You would have said Fire Fest 2.

You could have done this tongue in cheek. There's so many different ways you could have done this and probably just like healed yourself and your reputation along the way, but you chose to pretend like you knew what you were talking about the second time, and you failed. This part of me feels a little tiny little bit empathetic toward Billy, because I think he's just a big lug nut. I think he's just a big dumb dumb who's hoping that something works out in life. And I have been there.

I'm that guy. I'm a big lug nut who hopes this all works out. That's kind of, I'm just like plotting through life, hoping the commercial break becomes Conan O'Brien overnight. It's not gonna happen, but I hope it does. But here's the difference between me and Billy. I don't make Instagram announcements about how I'm gonna be Conan O'Brien,

how I'm gonna be on the Conan O'Brien show tomorrow. So, yeah. He's just bad. He is, he's bad, it's bad, it's all bad, but now it's over and we all get to go back to our normal lives. Exactly. But I do have to say, and I didn't wanna cut in and cut you off earlier, cause I know how we tend to go schizophrenic here

sometimes with our talking. It made me think about, you said Ja Rule had a restaurant, it made me think, I don't know why this popped to my head all of a sudden, but I was thinking about musicians who have restaurants. Do you remember Mix? Mix. Mick Jaggers. No.

Mix here in Atlanta? Oh my God, it was like at Lenox Mall and it was, it had like quite a few different locations around here in Atlanta. I don't remember this. And it was like the fun place to go. Oh, okay. And the only place that I remember at, it was at Lenox Mall or Phipps? Yeah, I think so. The only place that, the only notable restaurant that I remember from that part of town or

that I like made an impression on me was that the tavern at Phipps Plaza. Oh yeah. Where the girls were dressed like really nice Hooters girls. Are they still dressing like Hooters girls? I'm sure they are. Yeah. I don't remember mix, but we'll do a little research and we'll maybe we'll dredge up some stories. I don't, I just, I don't know why. It's like a good spot to go at quite a few locations. And it was here in Atlanta?

It was here in Atlanta and I think across the country. Oh really? Yeah. Oh, you know, I once got told by a, when I was working at one of the restaurants, I can't remember, I think it might have been listed out. And I was talking like I was going to open my own restaurant.

Because, you know, I was probably high on something, making all these plans that never came to fruition. But I was talking with someone else, like a financial advisor, a guy who was rich, something like that. And he said, anybody who walks into my, oh, he was a guy who like dealt with sports players money. He was a financial advisor for sports players

and he would hang out at the bar at the end sometimes. And so I'm sure it was at the end of the night and I'm fucking jizzy jazzed on something. And he, we were talking about opening a restaurant. He said, if someone comes in, if one of these guys comes in and starts talking about opening a restaurant, I said, you someone comes in, if one of these guys comes in and starts talking about opening a restaurant, I said, you might as well take that money

and throw it in the fireplace. If you want a place to go drink and have fun, then, and you're willing to pay a million dollars to do that? To do it, right. Cool. You'll have two years, it'll be great, and then you're gonna close the place. Otherwise, for fucking get about it, because restaurant business is the hardest business to return on investment and it really is and so

Yeah, and Chipper Jones have a restaurant for a while there everybody's my helmet buddy Well, and it reminded me to you remember that spot close to where we used to work at the radio station It was right there on Peachtree. I feel like I want to say like Frank ski from Oh Frank skis Yeah, Frank skis. Yeah yeah but I think it was Sean Combs it was it was Diddy's yeah it was Diddy's it was like holy shit it was like it was Diddy's it was Diddy's it was Frank Ski's yes Combs it was Whitney Houston had something to do with it at one point that's why they call it like the Whitney Houston's, the Houston's down there, because she had something to do with the restaurant and then Bobby Brown was involved. Every famous

person from Atlanta at some point had something to do with this restaurant space and it never worked. Yes, it was this one spot prime location. But you couldn't park. Yes, there was no parking. There was no parking. that's the problem. Yeah, and I think there's a couple shootings down there too. That might add something to do with it. But you know, hey listen, it was prime location. There was no doubt about it. That is a tough, tough fucking business.

And so, you know, what can you do? Listen, I love the restaurant business, but after having worked in every position in the entire restaurant, up to and including, you know Being of like a managing partner. The reality is it's a very very difficult Stressful business. I am like headlong into Top Chef rewatch right now. I'm watching up I'm watching seasons I didn't watch and I used to love that show and every time I watch those people just like sweating their balls off

to try and impress Tom Colicchio, I'm like, I like Tom Colicchio, but you couldn't pay me enough money to go back and do that. You couldn't. Now, if I was like in an emergency situation, I would run away tables or bartend for a couple bucks, which I thought about doing at one point during this commercial break run. Just FYI. Yes, me too.

Yeah. There's a cute little spot down the street I thought about working at. Stay tuned, still might happen. 12 hours of TCB is now turning into like the 14 hours of TCB and I haven't even told Chrissy about it. So let me explain to her and then we'll be back with more fun and shenanigans right after I load the commercial. we'll be back with more fun and shenanigans right after I load the commercial.

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I think we found Mick's, not a hundred percent sure it was associated with Mick Jagger, but I could see why you might think that. I could see why you might think that. But I do remember it now that I've seen a picture of the old overhang, the old awning that used to sit there. And that was really close to where we worked. And then Mr. Diddy's. Mr. Diddy's.

Mr. Diddy, if you don't mind. Who not? Creepy Diddy's. Mr. Diddy's. Mr. Diddy, if you don't mind. Who not? Oh, God. Creepy Diddy on the block. Yeah. To think, there are probably freak-offs that happened here in Atlanta. He owned a house here for a long time. Yeah.

Yeah, he owned a big house here for a long time. Justin Bieber also stayed here for a period of time. Well, he had a house here. He had a house. He actually was renting that house from another famous person. Can't remember. It might have been Ja Rule, I don't know. It might've been, I'm not sure.

It all goes back to Ja Rule. Yes, but I was at the time in the real estate business and I was building a house that was closer to where Justin Bieber was staying. And this is the craziest story that I wanna tell you. Search your mind and see if you remember like a restaurant related celebrity story, I'm to tell you. See if search your mind and see if you remember like a restaurant related celebrity story. I'm going to tell one.

So I would drive by this particular house. It's shaped like a spaceship. That's the only way to describe it. And if you live in Atlanta, you know, the spaceship house in it in Sandy Springs, you'll know it. It's on a corner. It's back in the woods. It's up off a very, you know, Ponzi part of town.

And it literally looks like a spaceship landed, but it's beautiful. It's got glass windows. It's got this big gate all the way around it. Nice piece of land on the corner of this quiet street. And I would drive by this house all the time to go to this place that we were, to this house that we were building. And then I started to notice that like occasionally there'd be a, like a, a private security guard in the, in like the driveway of this house. And then a couple of days later, I noticed that there was like a police

officer and a security guard. And I thought to myself, wow, that's strange. Never seen that before. I didn't ever knew who owned the house, but I, it had to been someone rich, but I was thinking to myself, well, maybe there's some trouble and they, that's why they're keeping the security guards out there. Or maybe because Atlanta is a hub for all things television and film, someone is renting the house and they've asked for some additional security. Couple days later, week later, whatever it is, I am driving up that street and there are five or six women who have poster boards on sticks out.

And it's like, paparazzi go away, paparazzi go home, Justin go home, whatever it's said. And I'm reading this and I'm like, what in the good fuck? Why are they, why are they picketing in the middle of this quiet suburban street in a very rich part of town? Could not imagine why this was happening until I read that Justin was renting a house in Atlanta and this was likely the house that he was renting. And eventually it was a scene. There was a lot of people standing out in front of the house. There were people parked up and down the side of the street. Yeah. It became a big clusterfuck and the neighbors were pissed because these other neighbors, they're very rich and probably some of them famous and they're not interested

in having anybody film or photog around where they are. And so Justin, I think eventually kind of got ran out of town or ran out of this house, at least because of all the press that he was driving to this very quiet neighborhood. And I always thought to me to be a little bit unfair, it's like, you're rich and you got a gate and like, leave poor Justin alone. First of all, paparazzi leave poor Justin alone. At that time, leave poor Justin alone.

Now I don't know what's going on with Justin. He's all over the place. Yeah, he's kind of all over the place. Yeah, I think that whole Diddy situation blowing up so publicly and him being so associated with P. Diddy. I mean, P. Diddy basically made him, made his career, uh, along with a couple other famous R&B and hip hop stars. I think something went down there.

And also I think he's got child star PTSD. Yeah, which happens. He never grew up. He never ever, he never had an opportunity to grow up. And now he's got that Haley Bieber, and she is gorgeous and well put together. And I think she's desperately trying to keep his head directly on his shoulders.

Meanwhile, he's in a fur coat and underwear, running around screaming at paparazzi. And you can hardly blame the guy, because he really hasn't had a normal life. Yeah. And I think at some point you just cry out for some normalcy, some stability, some privacy, and none of that is afforded to him. And that's the deal with the devil that you make when you get that famous. That sure is.

It really is. And, you know, who knows what happened with that diddy. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like there was a lot of years, a lot of opportunities, a lot of parties, a lot of parties, a lot of creepy, weird interviews and videos that came out afterwards that now take on a whole different context. I'm not one to jump to a bunch of conclusions, but some of those interactions

between P Diddy and Justin that are on video are very strange. They're very like, we're're gonna have a sleepover. I own you now for 48 hours. Your mom, your mom let me keep you for 48 hours. I'm now your daddy. Like just weird shit. Like how did we not know? How did we not know?

I mean, lots of people knew, but how did we not know? How did we not go, isn't it weird that P. Diddy wants a 12 year old boy to hang out in his house for 48 hours? Yeah, he had such an image though, of just, I mean, being somebody that people wanted to be associated with and make fun music. And kind of a threatening image too.

So I think people were, I think it was difficult for people to come out and say something because they were afraid. Well, that's for sure. Yeah. But anyway, that was the time Justin Bieber lived near my house I was building. I remember a night, do you remember a night? I was living out in the porch and there were many nights. I didn't know you during your porch years.

Yeah, no, I'm saying, do you remember that? Trying to bring the porch years. That I did, yeah, the porch years, the porch month. The porch years. Yeah, no, I'm saying, do you remember that I did? The porch years. The porch month. The porch month. I couldn't even hack it. Porch weeks. Yeah, the porch days.

The porch night. It was more than a night. Oh, it was probably a couple months. Yeah. We had two roommates who actually lived in rooms in the apartment. They actually had the rooms in the apartment, they actually had the rooms in the apartment. And me and my friend, Eduardo, would be out on the, we were out on a back screened in porch. I've told many stories about this, but we lived literally on a-

Sometimes you'd be let in. Yes. And that's when you guys would stay up all night. Yes. Well, if the door, if they had locked the door on us, that meant we were allowed to be in. And we would be up all night, high on Colombian marching powder and Bud Light, or whatever we could get our hands on. Whiteboarding things.

There was a huge whiteboard in this dining room and Eduardo and I would write music lyrics and play guitar till 7 a.m. and then we'd go somewhere else like the river yeah why not let's go do our drugs down at the river now that the Sun is up and we feel miserable let's go do that and it was one night when we were doing our thing both of our roommates were out working one worked at a really nice at the time we all thought it was a kind of a nice restaurant, Papa Dough. Oh yeah, Papa Dough. Famous Texas restaurant.

It's still around. It is still around, so is Papa Citos. It's actually delicious. Yeah, Papa Dough, Papa Citos, you know, great food, consistent. If you live in Texas or Atlanta or anywhere where there's a Papa Dough or Papa Citos, then you know it's a chain of restaurants,

these huge restaurants. They're huge. They're just like food factories, but they have really good food and high standards. And that's why people keep on coming time and time again. And so one of them was a manager at Papa Do's and one of them had been fired from his management position at Papa Do's because he was a straight up alcoholic. And this is like no joke alcoholic. I need alcohol all the time. And he had like five DUIs, like five. And one night he got caught drinking while he was driving, drinking while he was driving.

And the officer drove him home. Like he gave him a break, drove him home. But this, this is long before these laws where, you know, your license gets taken away forever because you had your third DUI or fourth DUI or whatever it is. So he was a bad alcoholic and he ended up getting a job as a general manager of a very large sports bar here north of the city. I'm not going to name the bar because it's still around. But David and I are juiced to the hilt one night and I mean soaked in Bud Light and cocaine.

I'm just going to be real frank about it. And the phone rings. Which both of us that jump directly out of our chairs and throw the, you know, like, ah, it's the police! Get down! Because when that house phone rang, it rang loudly. Do you know what I'm saying? It broke the air.

It broke the tension. It made it more tense. And who's calling it two o'clock in the morning? It can only be one of the roommates. So, Eduardo picks up the phone. He says, I can hear him talking, but I'm not really listening. I'm more thinking to myself, do we have any more cocaine? Should we get some more cocaine? Or should I play another chord? I think I have a lyric in my head. Let's write it on the whiteboard.

And he hangs up the phone and he says, get dressed. think I have a lyric in my head. Let's write it on the whiteboard. And he hangs up the phone and he says, get dressed. And I'm like, I am dressed. And he's like, okay, we're going to go. And I'm like, where are we going? We can't go anywhere. We're fucked. We're fucked. We're so sauced right now.

Where do you want to go? And we have to go to this bar. And I go, it's close. It's too dirty in the morning. It's closed. What do we do? It's too, what are we going to go to that bar for? He's closing it down.

Do you know who's at the end of the bar? No, Greg Almond. And I'm like, Greg Almond is at the end of the bar. He's been there for most of the night. He, uh, this guy. Also another noted alcoholic. Also another noted alcoholic and drug addict. And let's call this guy Mike.

Yeah. Let's call Mike, uh, the roommate's name, Mike. Mike is closed down to the bar and they're still sitting there drinking. And he called me and he said, if you want to come and meet Greg Allman, come on down. And we did. We took this like half hour long journey, driving 10 miles per hour, all the way to this back roads, every back road we could find, you know, turn down this suburban street, turn down that suburban street because the police won't be there and we have less chance of getting caught. We drove all the way to this suburban bar to get there as Greg Allman and his security, his bodyguard, are wrapping things up. Now, Greg Alman had like on and off sobriety for many years.

His autobiography is really good, by the way. He had struggles. I think this is an off time. Now, I never saw Greg directly drinking because he was leaving when he left. But when he left, he actually had two guys with him. So one looked like a body man, like a guy who was there, either to try and keep him sober and out of trouble

or whatever. And the other guy looked like maybe the guy who was off duty, but he was drinking. And so we said hello. He was very nice. I fawned over him for a minute. He did the kind of the famous thing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good to meet you, blah, blah, blah. And out the door and into a limousine and off they drove. And we sat with the second guy who had been with Greg for a number of years and told some wild fucking stories about Greg Allmond. And I'll share one. This is all hearsay.

I don't know that this actually happened. I heard this from a guy who, who claims he was there when this happened. I heard this from a guy who claims he was there when this happened, that Greg Almond was one night missing in Atlanta, down in Atlanta, and somehow had escaped the body man who was supposed to keep him out of trouble. The Wrangler. Yes, the Wrangler. And they found him on a street getting head, smoking crack. Oh my God. on a street getting head, smoking crack.

Oh my God. In like, in the middle of downtown Atlanta, like in an alley, like somewhere in, you know, the Centennial Olympic Park area before Centennial Olympic Park, like back in the, you know, early nineties or whatever it was, in the really seedy part of town, they, you know, fanned out and found him completely shit hammered,

getting satisfied with a crack pipe in his hand. Wow. And had to literally carry him and put him in a car and carry him back up to the hotel room where he eventually settled down and they had like locked the door and stand outside all night long. And he told us, now never forget this, he told us that that was their job, was to essentially stand by him. Now, to be clear about Greg Allman, he eventually was very sober to the point,

correct me if I'm wrong, because Chrissy's been around them backstage, they don't even allow alcohol backstage. You can't even be drinking a beer. If you get a backstage pass, you can't even bring a beer around you. Greg has passed. But the later years of his life, he took his sobriety very seriously. He had to.

I mean, God, he was dying. He was dying. And if I'm not mistaken, he did get arrested a couple of times with cocaine and crack and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. his autobiography, he tells it all. Yeah, I mean, it's just like this wild-ass story. He didn't mention that story, but I can see it happening. Listen, again, it's all hearsay, and so don't take any of this as fact. No, well, I mean, when I was living in Nashville, Keith Urban, and it was a big story because he had married Nicole Kidman,

and, you know know living in Nashville but she was off somewhere doing a movie or whatever. He it was like 4 a.m. and he's driving down the street and he sees this guy running down the street pulls over and asks him for crack and the guy was just running because he was like a trainer and he was up early and running. Keith Urban asked him for crack? And Nicole Kidman swept in, like, I mean, it was a whole huge hole of blue in Nashville

because this happened and then he got like arrested or something, he was bad on crack. Whoa. And Nicole Kidman swept in, he went off to rehab and yeah. Jeez. It was a big deal. Yeah, that crack, that'll get you. So yeah. Crack'll get you.

I can see shit goes down on crack. Shit goes down on crack. Yeah, I can see not really caring that you're getting head in the middle of a street. I don't even see how you get head in the middle of a street while you're high on cocaine, but oh, whatever. That's neither here nor there. I mean, you know.

Keith Urban's sober now, I would think. Oh yeah, he's gotta be. Yeah. He's too old for all that, Jess. Yeah, I mean, this was like 2005. You know, the funny thing is, is you're- 20 years ago. 20 years ago.

That's crazy. I know. Yeah, I really had no idea that Keith Urban was a crackhead. Is this like public information? Back in the day. Did he go to rehab and stuff like that? Yeah, he went to rehab. Okay.

I remember that you're a friend of ours, a mutual friend of ours, you're gonna know who I'm talking about, worked on movie sets and television sets, told me about a girl who was on one of the most famous television shows at the time going on, network television show. And I'm not gonna say the name

because I don't want our friend to, you know, whatever. And she explained to me while the show was still on air that this person was a terrible alcoholic. Yes, I know who you're talking about. Yes, to the point where they had to sometimes delay shooting or they had to sober her up enough to get her lines out or they had to change complete scenes so she was not in them or so that she didn't have to talk in them

because she was a mumblefuck. Like, so badly alcoholic that she couldn't go, you know, an hour without having some kind of drink, and that it was well known all around town that this was going on, and she was making a mess of herself all over the place. And I thought that the story was interesting when it was told to me,

but there was no public information that would indicate that that was the truth. I believe you're- People keep it under wraps. Like hundreds of people on this television set and you didn't hear anything about it until one time you did, there was a video that came out and video showed her publicly drunk out in the streets of Nashville, out on the streets of Nashville, drunk and a boob hanging out and all this other stuff.

And everybody chalked it up to, oh, she's having a good time. You know, she's having a good time. Yeah, because that's commonplace in Nashville. Yeah, of course. That's like Nashville 101. Yeah, get drunk and throw your boob out. Yeah. Hey, why not?

But now, years later, like five years ago, this actress comes out and says publicly, I really had a problem with alcohol. And especially during the time that I was filming this television show, I've now been to rehab and I'm sober and thank God for it. So it was funny how those like it all came full circle. Drugs and alcohol, no joke. And drugs and alcohol in moderation and experimentation in the, uh, in the pursuit of pleasure momentarily and understanding that there's always a price

to pay even for experimentation and moderation, I don't have any problem with. But obviously there are people who have real challenges with substances and it's no joke. And as someone who could have just as easily gone down that Greg Alman route, now thank God I've never gotten a blowjob in an alley with a crack pipe in my hand, but it could have happened to me, it could have happened to me. Oh yeah, well I could have had the money. If I had more money, that's right, if I had had more money, then it would have happened to me. And then had more money, that's right. If I had more money, then it would have happened to me.

And then people procuring these things for you. Yes, that's exactly right. Like the time that the guy from Bare Naked Ladies, the bodyguard from Bare Naked Ladies, told me how he would go to the bad side of Washington DC and get briefcases full of cocaine for Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Oh, yeah.

And I never believed, I always thought he was just bloviating to try and impress the girl that was with us, you know, I was like, oh, that's just, he's just full of shit. Until it all came smashing out and I was like, yeah, no shit, that guy was getting briefcases full of cocaine for Whitney Houston. And Whitney Houston, another one who suffered greatly because of drugs and alcohol. Time, money, an addict's worst enemy. And when you got both of those, adding a little fame and some paparazzi, it's a time is, a tale is old as time.

Tale is old as time, strange as it can be. Yeah. I mean, you hear too, even going back into like the original movie days. Yeah. I mean, Judy Garland, bad, you know, she had bad addictions. A lot of those early movie stars had bad addictions to pills. Betty Boop. Pills and alcohol.

Yes. All of them, most of them. That's how they got through. And back then, people would keep your secrets for you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think even JFK was like, he was on back pills and all kinds of amphetamines and all kinds of stuff. Elvis, I mean, Elvis is like the, he's like the grand, you know, poobah of stories of drugs and alcohol. The guy was literally a narcotic machine.

Yeah, uppers, downers. Uppers, downers, more uppers, more downers, throw in some booze. Shots. Yeah, smack his butt and get out there and play another show in your velvet Elvis outfit and let's hope everything works out okay. It's the way it is, banana and peanut butter sandwiches.

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I've got a date with my dog. No, seriously Axel needs food. Today is pork chop day Speaking of people who have passed away Chrissy I know how to do a segue. I'm good at that. Okay. Speaking of. Speaking of people who have passed away, do you believe in heaven? I mean, yes.

A version of it. I believe in some kind of version. Yeah, me too. I believe in like- I don't think of the white clouds. No, I don't know. No, no, no. No. No. No. Because if it's the white clouds and pearly gate, there's an opposite version of that. And I don't think it's the white clouds. No, I don't know. No, no, no, no. The pearly gate, but yeah.

Because if it's the white clouds and pearly gate, there's an opposite version of that. And I don't want to think about that. I think we're pretty close to that right now, 2025. That's right. Yeah, I don't think you can take a space stick up to heaven. But you know, a lot of people do believe in heaven and they do believe in that version of heaven, the pearly gates that let you in, what you do, you know, you're judged at the end.

There's a lot of people in this country, especially, who believe in that kind of. Afterlife. Yeah, that the afterlife where you are, there's maybe not a physical form, but for some reason, like you can see other people, like a Teresa Caputo kind of thing, right? And it's an opportunity, really, to make money. And one enterprising church in Mexico, Mexico, is making lots of money on heaven. Now you might ask, how does one do that? Well, they sell plots of land in heaven for $100 a pop. One square meter of heaven costs $100, and they have been making lots of money selling

land in heaven. Now this sounds about as interesting as buying real estate in the metaverse. Remember when Snoop Dogg bought like a million dollar property in the metaverse? That's right. We don't hear much about that anymore. No, the metaverse. Listen, I don't want to put my foot in my mouth, but I think NFT's and the metaverse, I don't think they've worked out how anybody would expect it.

No, I mean, they changed, Facebook changed their name to Meta. To Meta, yes. And they were so sure. And how many people are in the metaverse right now? I'm sure there's lots, actually. I'm sure there's lots of people. But remember they were having like concerts and raves and all this other stuff? You tried to go. I did.

I tried to go and they would not let me in. They got scared of me, honestly. I'm like, hey, where's the party? They're like, take that boat over there. But there was no boat. I just went into the water and I couldn't get out. I drowned in the metaverse. They literally killed me.

I'm like, hey bro. He was like, get away from me. Literally. You know, you can like type, you know, you type or you talk, right? And I typed, hey brother. And he was like, I don't wanna talk to you. Get away from me.

Mommy told me not to talk to people like you. Okay, all right. I get the picture. Mommy told me not to talk to people like you. Okay, all right. I get the picture. I was not quite cool enough to be accepted into the metaverse, but I don't feel so bad about it now because I think it was kind of a, I'm sure that it will take off in some form or fashion eventually when this version of reality gets miserable enough. And we're getting pretty close. So, you know,

once democracy is totally gone, I'm sure the metaverse is going to be fine. Here's the story. Byline medium, the online magazine medium, the online magazine medium, not the people who talk to people in heaven. I have a confession to make. After I walked away from the church, I struggled for a long time with the nagging feeling that God wouldn't welcome me into heaven. After all, I left the church feeling like I had abandoned a part of my life and my faith, as if I was turning my back on something sacred. But it turns out, I needn't have worry.

There's a church in Mexico selling land in heaven for only $100 per square meter, which to me seems like quite a bargain. Who knew that getting into heaven would be as easy as forking out a few $50 bills? Let me tell you about it. The real estate deal of the century, a Mexican church called the Iglesia del Final Dos Los Tiempo, or the Church of the End of Times, is offering people the chance to secure their place in heaven by selling a plot of land for $100 per square meter. Don't have $100?

Don't despair, there are payment plans available! I was going to say lay away. All right, I'm not going to read the whole article. Go check it out on Medium. But that is one enterprising young church people. Listen. Why not? That is one enterprising young church people that, listen. Why not? Again, this is like NFTs,

this is gonna go to the way of the dodo bird, but I'm sure there are lots of people who are buying plots in heaven, because for $100, you say, well, if it works out, great, I've secured my space. If it doesn't work out, what did I lose? A hundred bucks, who cares, right? It's just like those people who bought the NFTs.

Well, I got a pixelated dick. If it works out, I'll be a millionaire. If it doesn't, I have a pixelated dick. I guess. I don't know. Whatever happened to all that? I mean, what was the monkey thing that was like so... Board ape.

Yes. Board ape is still a thing. And they do trade at pretty high values, even still today, but it's really one of the few collections that does. And there is an underground and I say more like an underbelly of people who are trading these NFTs, but I think mainly because they, they went in on the, the big hype of it and now they're just trying to figure out a way. And like anything that has to do with market manipulation, there are probably a lot of algorithms

that are just juicing, buying and selling them quickly, or buying them here and selling them there, whatever it is. It's just like all this altcoin bullshit. The altcoins, 99% of them, they're meme coins and they have absolutely no value, they never will. They're hock-to-a-coins. They're trump coins. They're Melania coins. They're, you know, wrestling coins or whatever. If you have the money and it's a cool thing for you to have, cool. But a lot of people lose their life savings trying to trade these

things and beat the algorithms or the people who are on the inside trading them at the highest value because they are pumping and dumping those coins. Never works out. Bitcoin, Ripple, Ether, all that stuff may have some value down the line. Who knows? It's hard to say, right? And I'm not, we're not here to give financial advice. We're the last people you want to take it financially. But the NFTs seem like a ham-hawk idea to me from the beginning.

Now, as digital rights management tool, it does seem cool. Another words, selling the IP of something, passing it onto a person and managing that rights chain, it's just a little bit more of a high brow concept than what an NFT is, which essentially is a JPEG that you're, do you remember Charlie bit my finger? The Charlie bit my finger video sold for like a million and a half dollars. The rights to the Charlie bit my finger as an NFT. Do you think the people who bought the Charlie bit my finger are make, have made a million and a half dollars back on people watching that video on YouTube

or any other place? The answer is most likely no. Will they over time? Who knows? It's a very famous video. But there's other things like totally random pieces of art. I told you, I knew this person who literally pixelated some dicks,

like drew some dicks on an old Atari system. Just think about it like that. Pixelated dicks. Made 300 of them and put them out in the universe, expecting, I think, that this would be the next big thing in NFTs. And last time I checked, which was like years ago, because I was, maybe not friendly, but I knew this person at the time. Last time I checked, which was like years ago, because I was maybe not friendly, but I knew this person at the time, last time I checked, they were trading at like an average value of like 15 cents.

I mean, and only a third of them bought. Because the market was flooded by- By pixelated dicks. That's right, everybody had the same idea. And what can you do with that pixelated dick? Show it to your friends, look what I bought. Well, I can go on the same trading platform and take a picture of that pixelated Dick and show it to my friends too.

There's absolutely no value. Now, some of those NFTs have these, you know, they're built in perks, right? Like the board ape, you can get it to board eight parties and they, uh, they have a conference every year, whatever it is, but honestly, then there wasn't like a thing that we bought up being stolen. But honestly. Was it board ape stolen? Then there wasn't like a thing that about it being stolen? Yeah, like Seth Green or something. Had a board ape was stolen and then someone bought it

like legitimately from two people who had stolen it. And then they sold it back to Seth Green for like a million dollars or something. I mean, honestly, honestly for a board ape, I get it. You wanna be part of the cool kids club. You want to go to the conference. You want to get in on the action. I don't understand the allure of the NFTs unless I really wanted to go to that

party and be a part of that club. But I have noticed as a guy who kind of pays attention to this, that the hype around these things has really gone away. I mean, I don't see too many people hyping NFTs anymore. Those, all those Twitter spaces and clubhouses and all this other stuff about NFT, they really don't exist except for in a very small circle on the internet now.

If you have an NFT and you find some value in it, I'd love to hear from you. Text us. Yeah, we really would. Yeah, because maybe I am completely wrong about this and I'm open to being wrong because I am most of the time. We could be completely out of touch. I am, I am completely wrong about this, and I'm open to being wrong, because I am most of the time. We could be completely out of touch.

I am, I am completely out of touch. Even though I'm trolling the internet constantly, I'm generally out of touch with what's going on. So maybe there's a burgeoning NFT scene that is just like super hot, and I don't know about it, because I haven't been invited, just like the metaverse. I've been kicked out of the NFT scene. Maybe they said, don't show Brian anymore NFT concept

because he talks shit. I don't know. But if you are into NFTs and that's your thing, let me know. And I'd love to hear why you're into NFTs and what you think the value is so that I can better understand from someone who actually got in on it,

why this was. And I'm sure that there are people who made millions of dollars on those NFTs. Yeah, so. There were. There were lots of people who made millions of dollars on NFTs. Those are the people who got out right before the crash.

That's right. And the crash happened like three or four years ago. And I just haven't seen, I haven't seen much about it since. There were like every article had the word NFT in it. It was everywhere. Everywhere. And I haven't seen an article about NFTs in two years. I just haven't seen it. But the selling heaven is an NFT. That's essentially what it is.

There's almost no value in it except for your own perceived value. And the fact that you get to get into an exclusive party, maybe eventually down the line. And that's Firefest. The next Firefest 3. Oh, poor Billy McFarlane. It does tug at the heartstrings just for a second, and then I realized, hey, he's a shithead anyway. Yeah, so $100 for a piece of heaven. Would I buy it?

Probably not, but it's like, you know, as a grand romantic gesture, I one time bought Astrid a star. Yes you did, and that's sweet. It was sweet. But they gave us this whole package and this poster showing you where you- I've seen theirs, advertised. Yeah, where you can see them,

where you could find it, and if you got a telescope, maybe you could see it. You know what I'm saying? It's right there. Yeah, right there. So it's up in that general direction. So when I talked to Astrid about it, we got all this material, and we were moving from house

to house, and I'm like, oh, here's our star stuff. And she's like, yeah. Yeah. And I was like, wait, you don't want to keep the star stuff? And she's like, listen, it's a really nice idea. But I don't think we need to junk up our house with it. I'm like, junk up our house? We own a star! And she was like, yeah, but do we? But do we? Do we own a star? Do we own a star and do we need a star? And what can we do with a star?

I don't know. Excuse me, Brian. Hi, Brian. I don't know. Excuse me, Brian. Ay, Brian. Ay, Brian. Yeah. And I realized at that moment, my grand romantic gesture was like buying an NFT. It was just as dumb. Just as dumb.

Why don't I just point to it and say, that's your star, babe. Yeah. Between you and me, that's your star. That's our star. That's our star. That's the sun. Okay. Well, it's Brian and Astrid's sun.

How's that? Yes. When it's shining on us, right in. Well, it's Brian and Astrid Sun. When it's shining on us right in this moment, it's shining on us kid. It's shining on us All right, never would settle down I thought it was good. I thought it was a good one It's it's it is good when you're in love you do lots of stupid shit Yeah, you buy shit like the in case rose didn't you do that too? I did I did the forever rose which didn't last forever It just magically disappeared one day and I was like where did they go? I don't know. I did the forever rose, I did the dozen whatever I did the gold rose I did I did a lot of like grand romantic gestures

but the grandest of them all was getting married and giving her a bunch of children. That shh to irritate the shit out of her. You can't throw those away. Take that. How's that Ferbro magic gesture? These swimmers are strong baby okay all right May 31st 12 hours or 13 or 14 who knows there's gonna be a lot of hours of TCB on May 31st celebrating five years of the commercial break we are doing 12 episodes at least

in one day just for you so tune in and so many people have texted in and said can't wait to see if you guys survive. Yeah if you're able to do it. We'll do it. We'll get it done. I believe in us. We'll be tired. Box is a five hour energy that says we are going to do this. Yeah that's right. We will be tired and it will not be easy but it's better than digging ditches for a living so lots of people work 12 hours and they don't complain about it. I'm bringing wine. Okay, but you gotta wait till like the ninth hour.

Okay. I can't have you passing out hour number three. So anyway, May 31st, mark your calendars. 212-433-3TCB, 212-433-3822. Text us or leave us a message, questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas at the commercial break on Instagram, Tcbpodcast on TikTok, youtube.com slash the commercial break

and tcbpodcast.com for all the audio, video and your free Tcb swag at the contact us button. Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for now. I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. I love you. Best to you. Best to you.

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say and we must say, Goodbye. Goodbye. I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy I'm gonna be a good boy

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